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Show IHll Potash and Pcrlmutter Laughable Laugh-able When They Enter Movie Picture Making The diverting mixups which oe curred when Abe Potash and Morns Perlmutter left the cloak and suit business to take up the making of "fil-ums" "fil-ums" with vampires and everything wore presented to a large audience at 'ihe Orpheum theatei last night In con-Inectlon con-Inectlon wnh Ihlfl A. 11 Woods produt tlon of ''Business Befbre Pleasure." I Bud Schaffer as Potash and Sam Goldman as Perlumutter tilled the i roles of Montague Glass' famous partners part-ners in a mosl amusing manner, quar-, jrcling frequently but coming to one another's an-other's rescue in the most loyal man-j ner when there was need ti. .!,,., I,nin-fi l Ur, i ti-n i, ml-' Jllf UUUUSUV I... . .1 n- ... v , ' ners furnishes most of the comedy of the plttV and the audience laughed up-, rear! iu frequently when Potash and I'crliuuiter were on the stage. But when the iwo were Off it is no j secret to say ihat the play and act ion j fell flat. The supporting company was I not all that could be desired. ' Miss CeCilQ Elliott as Rita Sismondi.j the vampire, mack little out of a role I ! which had great possibilities becaus, She overacted the part oven in minor j j scenes and had one or two stage affec-i itations which were not pleasing. Among the others In the case were . Miss Peggy Watts who made a good, Mrs Potash. William Edwarda asj i Keith MacDonald tho scenario writer, l Ernest r; Kasi as Sam Pemberton, the director; Bell C. Thompson as Robert, IBlanchard, the banker who backs the movie business Marie Breshnnhan,! Claud. LerlS, Harry N. Hale and Miss; I Allie Bllsmore. ooo Molntrye and Heath Open Two-clays Show At Orpheum Tonight Melnlvre and Health, the oldest and mobably the best loved Of any comedv team the stajjo has known, .mil who recently celebrated the furty-' sixth anniversary of their theatrical partnership, are to present nt tho r- pheum tie itre tonleht and tomorrow nigln thrir latesi and umlnbutedly inoMt j successful work, to which the cheery I title, "Hello. Alexander," has been given. Presented by the Messrs Lee I .i I I t?Vi 1 1 h. i". r I Mi lnl vi r and I Heath come to the Orpheum direct I from the Pacific coast, where t hey j j hSVa been enjoying the most success-. ful and distinct!; profitable run in th- j I history of their association. The I Messrs. Shubert are declared to have given " Hello, Alexander" a partlcu-I partlcu-I larly massive and elaborate' produc-I produc-I tlon. and the big company numbering i Home one hundred people appears to j have been selected with unusual care and fine discrimination. Especial stress Is laid upon the fact that each of the two acts and six scenes are spectacular In character, and that tho I sartorial display Is the unusual brll-j i llancy. Edgar Smith and Emily M. Young wrote the book of " Hello. Alex-1 ander"; Alfred Bryan supplied the j I lyrlcr-, and Jean Schwartz composed' ! the music, of which there are more; fhnn twffitc mirntiArs fn thn liu-iro cast of principals perhaps those best i known here are Homer Dickinson and Grade Deagon. Vivian Holt. Lll-J lian llosedalo, Mabel Klalne. Betty 1 'Lewis; Dorothy Moore, Dan cjulnlan. lidwanl Si.mlon. Dan McNeil. Earl Richards. Phyllis Itay, Brazil and, Griffin. i"hle Hurryniore and others.: Tho members of the big chorus have been selected not only for their beauty, beau-ty, by for their ability as vocalists and dancers as well. Tho dance num-i hers have been staged by Allan K. Foster and are said to mark a new high standard In ensemble "stepping and hoofing." Mclntyre and Heath are provided with characters of thei type so successfully porlrayod by them. In "The Ham Tree," of which their present vehicle is admittedly a legitimate le-gitimate and worth) offspring. Seats now selling oo Extermination of eagles is urged in Alaska to stop their enormous de-strudtnin de-strudtnin offish and game; Lively Romance in Picture Showing At the Aihambra The reasons for P.obert W Cham-hers" Cham-hers" pppulahtt) at a writer ol brllllaiff socletv stories are demonstrated anew In the Picture version of "The Restless Si .'" which came to the Aihambra theatre last evening for a four day's run. Pretty Marlon Davies is the star. The lively romance and elaborately artistic ar-tistic backgrounds make the production produc-tion unusually pleasing! The Restless Sex' Is of course, the It minlne, and the story centers around Stephanie Oleland; a society gin with Sn Inborn i raving for excitement and nmbition to experience life to the full She Is the adopted daughter of John ('b land, a millionaire, and Ir er.ne 0 i shock to her at the letter's death to learn that his son, Jim, her lifelong companion, is not her real brother, following a midnight adventure at a roadhouse. Stephanie Is led Into an unfortunate un-fortunate marriage and subsequent unhapplness. from which her love for Jim finally extricates her Ralph Kollard and Carly lc Black -well are prominent In the cast supporting sup-porting Mls Davies. The picture wan made by Cosmopolitan Productions for Paramount release and was directed bj Itobert Z. Leonard. Frances Marion wrote the continuity Nightie Night Said to Be Best Farce in Years The attraction that comes to the Orpheum theatre Wednesday night Is said to bo tho best farce that has been produced In years ' N'lghtle Night' had lt premiere at tho Princess Prin-cess theatre in New York and although al-though the opening had to be postponed post-poned for a month on account of the actors' strike called on the very evening eve-ning that "Nightie Night" was originally orig-inally announced to open, this did not have any effect on the play for It ran at the Princess for the entire season sea-son to capacity audiences. "Nightie Night' has stamped Adnlph Klauber ns one of the leading producing produc-ing managers, so perfect was the pio-ductlon pio-ductlon that the critics failed to find a single flaw and the playgnlng public pub-lic at once put their seal of approval by making reservations for weeks in advnnce and "Nightie Night" became an Instantaneous surces with the New York theatre goers "Nightie Night is sUCh nn excellent excel-lent offering In every way that It would be difficult to pick out Its host points hut n notable feature of Mr. Kiauoeri proaacuon is to be round' In the ac-ttlngs, which are not onlyl exceptionally lovely in themselves, but! provide exactly the right background : for the story ond the characters of tho play. So much so In fact that most of tho first night reviewers de voted a great deal of space to mention men-tion the scenery', which Is unusual In these days where elaborate settings are taken as a matter of course. Tho company that will present "Nightie Night" here is an excellent one. tho CaSl has been carefullv selected bj Adolph Klauher and h- attended all th- rehearaals for weeks and weeks to see that there would not be a detail de-tail missing which assures you I ha' the same excellent performances will be given here as were given in New Yurk Seats now Kflllnfr To Show Extraordinary Pictures Pic-tures At Aihambra This Month Contrary to the uspal rule where! the theatres figure on slack business during the busy holiday rush, the Aihambra Ai-hambra has stopped on the gas and j booked Wm. S Hart In "The Cradle of Courage:'" Doug. Knlrhanka m the wonderful "It P. Trail;" Griffith's mammoth special. "The Iove Klower " Maurice Tourneur's "Deep Wttters" Mack Sennett's and Sunshine comedies, to round out the finest pleasure programs pro-grams one might wish for. You can aee photoplays In ciulet and comfort free from the usual bolsterousneSM In picture shows, as we have enforced discipline In this regard to the letter-you letter-you through the pictures that are free from a conflicting nature as a npeclal .irmnRpd score and special music ac- companies all the big productions at j the Aihambra. |