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Show Sparkling Humor In Charles Ray's New Photoplay Laugh and the world laughs with 1 you. This is a saying as old as the hills, but it is applicable to A Nine o'clock Town." the latest Paramount picture starring Charles Ray, which is to be shown at the Alahmbra theater Saturday This is a comedy drama of unusual merit ;ind Is aid to be one of the finest turned out hv the Thomas H. lnce producing staff in many months. The story, deals with a young man v, ho is the son of a merchant in an Inland In-land city. He has advanced ideas regarding re-garding the management of the "Emporium" "Em-porium" which do not meet with the approval of his father, and the result is a disagreement. The young man goes to New York, meets with sundry adventures and loses his position just as his father wires him to come home and look after the store. He readily compiles with this command com-mand and the ' Emporium 1 is trans formed. He employs a corset model and things realh happen after that He is threatened by a woman and her alleged husband who seek to blackmail black-mail him and Is providentially saved from disgrace, though innocent of any wrongdoing. There is comedy in ever foot of the picture comedy that will make you scream with laughter and thrill with anticipation as each new scene is unfolded on the screen. Mr Ray is finely supported, his lead irjg woman being Jane Novak, dainty and charming Dorcas Matthews appears ap-pears as the corset model. Others in the support are Otto Hoffman. Gertrude Ger-trude Claire, and Catherine Young. The photography and direction are unusually un-usually fine. |