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Show r THEATRES ! 'I Am the Law' and Keaton Comedy Entertains at Orpheum Theatre Intensely absorbing, with thrilling pictures of the boundless snuvva. "I Am the Law" opened for four las' showing show-ing at the Orpheum theatre last night. Brimful of action, sparkling with i scenes of wondrous splendor, and en-larled en-larled by an all-star cast, the pii tUT tells s story Of the north where ths vv astelands have a law of their own; where weaklings die and strong men fight a continuous battle to exist. The film deals principally with two (brothers, both members of the Royal Northwest Mounted l'olice. One, a I Waster, plays with fate und the srr-jgeanfs srr-jgeanfs wife. lie Kills his superior 'when caught in a compromising sceue. 1 11 is then that the other brother, second sec-ond In command at the post, sets out jto hunt the murderer, who is no long-ei long-ei his brother, but a criminal. Then ensues a gripping story of the flight through the arctic blasts; the I confession of the Innocent brother on la. supposedly death bed to save the slayer; and the return to the post of I jthe murderer with the story of his .brother's confession and death. The story is brought to a climax with the threatened lynching of the innocent brother; bis rescue by the' pretty .school teacher, whose life he. hud saved, and the self-destruction by poison of the slayer. I The love interest is furnished by! 'the school ma'am and the man she i saved from the hangman's 'noose, Featured In this story of stories are! Kenneth Harlan as Corporal Bob Fitz-j gerald, the same Harlan, who for th-3 past year was leading man for Con-j stance Talmadge; Alice Lake, tho brilliant bril-liant little star of over a -dozen Metro productions; Rosemary Thehy, diminutive dimin-utive female lead of "A Connecticut; Yankee.': Noah Beery, the fighting man In Bob Hampton oi placer" an-.i lately with Douglas Fairbanks in "Tho Mark of Zorro"; his brother Wallace Beery', the famous villain of over one hundred pictures, and Gaston Glas. who made an instantii neb US hit in ' Humoresque" and more recently fea-j tured In 'Cameron of the Royal Mounted." Buster Keaton, the lad th;it never lnughs, arouses the 1 isibles of the theatre thea-tre patrons with a comedy, "The Blacksmith " |