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Show I MX LIB IN I FIRST JUHEniCAH I COMEDY CREATES I NEW Fl'N IDEA Famous European Mirth Maker Causes Innovation in Comedy With "Max Comes Across," New Film. Forrxnhinjr nw in motion pirturo; has come at last It is ihf first K.s-8anay K.s-8anay production presrnlins Max Lin-der. Lin-der. thf notod European comedian. I ' Max Comes Across." ihr famois Mon- Bieur I, inner has pictunzed his trip across iho Atlantic to America The psspI was the Espapne of the French line Newspapers carried thrilling ac-counts ac-counts of how the big liner was rammed amidships at sea on this oy-age. oy-age. and detailed the ludicrous, yet ef-feclive ef-feclive manner In which Max Linder had quelled what threatened to becomei a panic among the passens rs bv play-inc play-inc a Lively air on the piano In the "Max Comes Across" gives a differ-ent differ-ent version of this episode, however. Perhaps Max will not be a candidate for the Nobel prize for bravery, after all. l or accordins to the picture, while Other passengers men, women and children are stampeding for the lifeboats, life-boats, Max finds himself locked in the salon. He i terrified But a few mo-menis mo-menis later lie hears the captain outside out-side shouting that the danger Is over Then the inimitable Max calmly seats himself at the piano and begins rattling rat-tling off a mrry tune. Boat officials and pas--cnc;er cheered Max, pretty girls kissed him. and even one fat woman, little dreaminc that Max had been made a hero despite himself. The picture is crammed full of such fun-providing situations from 1m sinning sin-ning to end. There 1- a whole raft ot pretty girls all blondes to aid the comedian. There is also a fat woman, who weighs 285 pounds She tips over a lifeboat, precipitating the blondes into the ocean Ernest Maupain the prominent character actor, also has an important role in the comedy. Terhniralh . the production is perfect. per-fect. There are some thrilling scenic effects. The ramming of the liner, the great volumes of water pouring into the hold of the boat, the death struggles strug-gles of the captain and sailors to stop it these are but a few of the scenes which will make the spectator grip his seat; feelthe cold chills run up and down his spine. A king s ransom has been spent in the production "Max Comes Across" has a screen time of 30 minutes It is being re- used through the Kleine-Edison Sellg-Bssanay Sellg-Bssanay service. Advert isment I SUNDAY & MONDAY I 1 BETTY SCHADE and WEDGEW00D NOWELL in H I I " The Reward of I I the Faithless" I, A Bluebird Feature That Deals With a Woman I WHO GAVE HER SOUL that Others Might Live. SEE The Sin of Illicit Love. 1 SEE The Sequel to "Black Orchids." SEE The Defeat of a Sinful Conspiracy. ' SEE The Newest and Best Bluebird. j SEE The Reward of Constancy. I TONIGHT "Bloodhounds of the North," "Brute j Force," Good Comedy. Always a Good Program at the Oracle Always I the Same Price. "THE OTHER MI'S WIFE" GOOD SHOWIIT ORPHEUM TOMORROW TOMOR-ROW 101 "Should a woman's life and conduct con-duct be judged by a distinctly differ i ent code of ethics from a man .' Should not a woman have her chance ! for happiness the same as a man with- out being judged and condemned bv ! some act of indiscretion in her past that in a man would simply be winked at' I'pon this "motif" is woven the story of 'The Other Man's Wife," the play by Victor E lyambert, which conies to the Orpheum Theatre tomorrow tomor-row night for one performance This is that world old mute question that I has been back of more movements for woman's advancement than a! most any other. One thing sure the subjec t has been handled in a very clever and intensely interest in manner man-ner by Mr Lambert (iaskell and Mac-Vitty, Mac-Vitty, the producers, have given the play an exceptional cast and production. produc-tion. Advertisement. oo "THE BLUE PARADISE" COMING SOON The Messrs, Shuberl will offer al the Orpheum theatre for one night only, Monday. March 26th, the New ' ork Casino success, "The Blue Par-I Par-I adise." an operetta which ran on Broadway of last season. This is the latest of the musical plays to have ; conic from the Austrian capital It I was Americanized by Edgai Smith, j who perhaps writes better books than any other of our native liberettlsts. "The Blue Paradise" is divided into two acts and a prologue and a space of twentyfour years Is supposed to 'have lapsed between the prologue and the first act. Rudolph Steoger, a ' young man of Vienna, is sent awav j to American to make his fortune, in I the prolopue and returns to the scenes j of his youth after the twenty four rnrs. only to find that even there I thincs have chanced When he find that his former sweetheart, whom h expected to find waiting for him, is thp wife of another, he, in true Chl-cago Chl-cago Tashion. decides to marry the widow of his former pnrtner. all ends happily, as it should do in mu i) comedy. Advert isement i 'BIRTH OF A NATION' ! HERE NEXT WEEK j The Birth of a Nation." will be back again at the orpheum Theater j March 1 8 and 19. The demand for , this wonderful drama has been so urg- ent upon the management that a return re-turn enacenipnt was quickly arranged arrang-ed in order that many might see it Who could not Kain admission during its recenl engagement of a few weeks Tears, pathos, passion, deep sentiment, senti-ment, mirth, laughter in fact, every emotion that stirs the human breast . ib shown with wonderful realism in this silent drama 't he story is known ,to all the average person knows it i as he knows 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' 1 Thre ig no need to go into detail regarding tre theme, it would onl be telling a- story that is deep rooted in the people's hearts. The one ral item of Interest that every one asks r is. "When is "The Birth of a Nation coming'.'" Advertisement. "FOR LOVE 10 GOLD" LYCEUM THEATRE SUNDAY A mine in Mexico plus a young engineer en-gineer plua a beautiful girl plas a scheming villain equals a two-reel Bison drama that thrills. Charles Massey Is scheminc to get possession of rich mining claims owned own-ed by Kingman Vane, and which adjoin ad-join Massey's in Mexico. Massev and Jack Wilson, a mining engineer, are suitors for the hand of Gladys Vane, daughter of Kingman Vane. Massov is assisted in his plotting by Ricardo, a Mexican, and his scheminc has succeeded suc-ceeded to a point where Vanes income in-come has been seriously affected. Gladys loves Jack but when he i asks her to marry him she is forced to put him off because she knows her father would object One day a tele-cram tele-cram comes from Vane's mine in Mexico, saying that the Mexicans have forced the superintendent to flee for his life. Vane is nonplussed until un-til Gladys suggest- that Jack lake charge of the mine. This Jack consents con-sents to do, and Bfassey is pleased, be rause he now ?ees an opportunity to rid himself of his rival. At Zuracca. Plcardo arranges lo have Jack lured into a new tunnel where a charge of dynamite is about to be evpioded The plot is foiled and one of the perpetrator, who is the Instigator, confesses. When Bob learns of the Mexican's confession he wires his father, mic-gesting mic-gesting he come to Zuracca. Massey insists on accompanying Vane anil Gladys and writes Ricardo to hold up the train capture Vane, Gladvs ancT himself and hold them for a big random, ran-dom, which would be the mine. The Mexican, whov.. child Jack i saved reveals this plot to Jack. The telegraph wires being down. Jack Starts to ride to Caspro, on the American Ameri-can side, to summon the rurales to prevent the kidnapping. He Is pur- sued by the Ricardo gang and his horse is shot from under him. He escapes to where Mexican laborers are operating a steam shovel. He throws the pursuers off his track by jump-inc jump-inc into the steam shovel bucket as I it bites into the embankment along ! side him. Jack notifies the rurales. They get I trace of the Mexicans and a running battle ensues Massey is wounded as Is Ricardo, and the latter with his dying breath brands Massey as the on.' who is behind the trouble. Ad-I Ad-I verlisement. I n The Story Quido Capanelh is an adventurer who lives by his wits, his good looks and courtly bearing helping him j through many successes. He has gained entrance to the best society,! incienlally making the acquaintance of Princess Dione, whose father.1 Prince Paul Ragosin, is in f. eble I health Prince RagOBin has expressed a wish that Princess Dione shall marrv Foedor Stroff and on his death bed cams the promise from Dione that his wish shall be gatlfled. Feodor I foolishly allows Guido Capanelli to be Dione's greatest source of sym ' palh in the hours of her crief, and j j in consequence, Guido so ingratiates himself vlith the Princess thai she 'marries the adventurer, regardless of ; her plerJces to wed Feodor Previous to Prince Ragosin's death Iione has become interested in Kaier-I I FAIR BANK 'S NEWEST A DRAMATIC THRILLER "The Americano," in which Douglas Fairhanks will be seen as the star at the Ogden thcator Tuesday, is a play of stirring adventure In a South American Am-erican country, upset by a revolution. Fairbanks, of course, is in the center of things lie nppears as Blaze lrr-ringer. lrr-ringer. the play having been made from the novel of that name by Eugene Eu-gene P. Lyle, Jr. Plar.e goes to the republic of Paraconia to represent some American mining interests The principal reason why he undertakes the commission is that he has had a glimpse in New Vork oi the beat! ti fill daughter of the president of Paragon la and Is exccedinglv desirous of her further acquaintance On his arrival in the country he finds the president in jail, the prime minister in hiding and the compan's offices demolished. There remains of the office staff only one survivor, a negro porter, who has spent most of his time since the political polit-ical upheaval in a cellar. Joining forces with this lone servitor. Blaze sets about establishing conditions of peace, righting the wrongs of the im-t im-t prisoned officials and generally bring-I bring-I ing about a state of affairs where he lean do business for his company anil marrv the girl of his choice. It is enough io say that in order to carry out this program he has to do more things ihan Douglas Fairbanks has ever done before in five iec'.s ot picture. A pitched battle with four Paragonian athletes who endeavor to ! squelch him is one of the interesting features of the picture "The Ameri cano" is said to be one of the best I plays, from the standpoint of dramatic action, that Fairbanks has yet had, besides be-sides offering him a full opportunity for the exercise of his unique talents Advertisement. ma Vlasoff. a girl who has been a ! street vendor of crude Images and daughter of Peter Vlasoff. a drunken beast who makes Katerina supply him I with funds which he dissipates in buv-ing buv-ing cheap wine When the girl re turns home one evening without having hav-ing made a sale all day, the drunken Vlasoff sends her into the streets, threatening her with bodily harm if she does not return with money to buy him wine. Katerina is accosted by Guido f'apa-nelli, f'apa-nelli, and submits to his advances that she mav have money io take home. She is so humiliated that she is glad to lake her brother's advice to visit Princess Dione, the friend ot everybody who is poor and in distress. Touched by Katerina's story Princess Dione sends the girl to a convent, having gained Prince Paul Ragnsm a consent to thus befriend the outcast. After Dione and Guido are married, Katerina returns from the convent to make her home with her benefactress. benefact-ress. Guido, under threat of exposing Katerina Ka-terina demands a renewal of their relations re-lations and the deceitful couple start! at once to intrigue against Princes! Dione. When the Princess falls ill. they appoint themselves her nurses and in neglecting to administer medl cities properly create a comatose con-, dltion that closely resembles death The Princess is buried and Guido and I Katerina establish themselves in con ! trol of her lands and fortune When Dione had married Guido she! received a book from Feodor Stiorti with an inscription in effect thai he v. ould always stand ready to befriend the woman he loved but had discard-! ed him for another After the Princess is entombed, Feodor visits the sepul-rher sepul-rher and discoers that Dione is alive, having simply been in a trance. Con- j vinced by what she had herself witnessed wit-nessed of the treatchery of her hus-J band and Katerina, the Princess goes ;. with Feodor to Rome, for the pur-' pur-' pose of biding their time for ven-i ven-i geancc. Guido and Katerina visit Rome and Guido becomes enamored of a famous 1 beauty who has become the toast or the town The woman is slow to ae-I ae-I cept Guide s advances, but finallv tella him that a famous ring that has been buried with the Princess Dione will ' be the price of her affection. When ! Guido returns to the sepulcher to rob his wife's corpse, he finds the coffin empty. As he turns away from the tomb, he sees what he believes to be :the chosf of the Princess. The appartion drives him insane ' and he runs to a nearby cliff and throws himself into the ocean Kater. ! ina returns to the street from whence she came and Princess Dione and Feodor find eventual happiness in marriage. This is the story of "The Reward of the Faithless," to be exhibited ex-hibited in Bluebird photoplays at tho Ogden theatre on Sunday and Monday with Wedgewood Nowell and Betty Schade featured in the leading characters char-acters Advertisement. oo ENID BENNETT IN 'THE LITTLE BROTHER' Enid Bennett, hailed a the most genuine screen "discovery" of the day, makes her second appearance on the Triangle program under the supervision supervi-sion of Thomas II Ince in "The Little Lit-tle Brother." which will be seen at the Ogden theater Sundaj . Miss Benneti, in the title role of this production, takes the part of a little girl of the slums, who. thinking to add to the family income, dons boys' clothes, buys some newspapers and plunges into the maelstrom of the city's busiest life with surprising results. re-sults. The play teems with interest inc characterization and rapid action. There are two novel fights that take place in the heart of the business district dis-trict and in a chemist's laboratory respectively. re-spectively. As the hero of both of these encounters. Enid Bennett emerges triumphant. As a box offic (attraction this young Australian girl lis said lo be already in the class ol I screen stars with far greater e-pe ence. Advertisement. I ALHAMBRA TODAY DOORS OPEN 1:45 TIME TABLE li I Shadows and Sunshine. .2:15 H Fairy Dance 3:20 fi Contest ... 3:35 BSC Alice in Wonderland ... .4:00 I Shadows and Sunshine . 5: 15 I Alice in Wonderland . 6:25 I Fairy Dance ... 8:00 I Shadows and Sunshine 8:15 Bl Alice in Wonderland ...9.20 PRICES. SAT. ONLY EB Adults, Balcony 10c j Adults, Mam Floor 20c H Children, Any Seat 10c J ALHAMBRA, Theatre Beautiful j "THE LIBERTINE" J THE GREATEST MORAL LESSON EVER TOLD IN FILM TWO HOURS OF GRIPPING REALITIES j If OF PRESENT DAY LIFE j I DOORS OPEN SUNDAY 5 P. M. 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Admission 5r and I Or I I Super attractions thai are now playing Kew y,,ii I , 'S !'h,:" SflJl.l;rUins"0- Pt' ,,r"u-1" "lt" "' The Theatre will close at 4 15 Alma Uan, on territory, and this company wishes to announce thai . 1 1 1U6e 411 f J i other massive productions will be forthcoming The p m' 0Penm aSain at 4 -30 t JL THE LIBERTINE! s"l"-''""; Photoplays Corp. Btanda for the bes1 and With "The Libertine " j If ALMA HANLON blggest '" m0tl0D picture entertammenl i I dTtflklk yffTffTWr""1 Next Thursday, Friday, Saturday, HENRY WALTHAL m "Tiftl. a.. n n , COMING iTr smj" comedy-m sy t I Jl |