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Show Theatres AT THE ORPHEUM. Red haired girls make a whole story In "Empty Pockets." It seemed as though Perry Merrithew, "Merry Perry" Per-ry" as he was known, had a particular fancy for them. The film is being shown at the Orpheum and last night drew a crowded house. It Is undoubtedly undoubted-ly interesting. Red heads 'are thrown about in the film in great confusion. Perry sees a "copper haired beauty" every time he turns around and he gets the same itch for conquest in each case. On his last, however, apoplexy cut short his passion but left his hand clinched in the grip of death about the tresses of a famous copper-heared beauty, daughter of Schuyler, a multimillionaire. multi-millionaire. How 6he evades the scandal ordinarily consequent on such action and how the mystery in cleared up is a rattling good story. As a depiction of New York life, from tho upper ten to the lower five this film Is splendid. It shows the polyglot, struggling, larvae of humanity human-ity of a big city tenement, from tho roof down to the beer hall, and even In the dark basement And then It mixes one with the elite. Perry Morrilhew's habit of keeping up a respectable appearance ap-pearance with a lawful wedded wife and keeping down a disrespectable life with a series of notorious and just plain misled women, it is feared, Is too realistic an account to pass without comment. It shows quite faithfully tho moral duplicity of many of tho big society so-ciety leaders. Perry got his however, quite justly, and Murial Schuyler, the girl whom ho almost ruined with his scurrilous behavior, was saved to her real lover by a clever turn of affairs. oo |