Show V 91 TONIGHT TO NIGHT lady fan the ernst lubitsch production tor for warner bros which Is coming to the american theatre tonight to night friday Is regarded by lubitsch as on one 0 of tie the most perfect plays ever written in liis his direction ot of this alu s film version of 0 the famous oscar wilde play he has of necessity discarded the brilliant epigrams of wilde and substituted action the audible wit of wilde will be seen chan changed gei to the visible wit of lubitsch when the picture let u re opens with one of the most sparkling ing casts assembled tor for irene rich plays mrs airs erlynne the sophisticated sophisticate d charmer who returns to Loul londom lont after many in discretions determined to enter may mcavoy plays lady windermere and bert lytell lord windermere whose marital marital happiness is threatened because he Is kincid to the fascinating mrs erlynne ronald colman aby by arrangement with samuel gold goldwyn will be seen as lord darlington whose love f tor or lady windermere and whose schemes to separate her from her husband are frustrated by the fascinating mrs erlynne edward martindel plays lord augustus and helen dunbar carrie daumery and billie dennett bennett are seen as three lu chesses I 1 0 4 ar SATURDAY SATUR DAr As thunderous as a summer storm filled with flashing crashing melodrama nicely balanced comedy touches and breathing a freshness of subject unusual in a picture of this type Is wild to go tom tylers eylers latest F B 0 picture coming to the american theatre saturday bathing beauties are something of a novelty in western productions and a particularly sparkling novelty in this they are woven oven logically into the story and add immeasurably to the interest toni tom lands in the covey of beach pulchritude via a long swim from the cattle boat on which he has been he leaches beaches his two hundred pounds ot of muscle and proceeds to pulverize a husky lite life guana who has attacked him tor for landing on this private strand much botre delight of the boarding school misses who gather excitedly around the fighters from this point on the story returns to the range where it started and leaps from one tense si situation to another with the agility of t the h mountain chamois i it is action ae ac tion action all the way with plenty for little frankie darrow to do tha parts trat have been written in for or flash toms fined fine horse an and d tor for that eminent canine thespian sitting bull buil also give these charter members of the gang called tom tyler and his pals plenty of scope in which to display their histrionic abilities SUNDAY I 1 the simple stupidity ot of a comedy character to whose mind water Is the only means ot of fighting fire land and who promptly lots lets loose tre hood flood of a reservoir in aw am ati empi 10 extinguish a roaring inferno of oil gives elves rise to one of the most impressive and dramatic thrills ever filmed in flaming waters a dr drama am a of 0 the oil fields which roars I 1 with lu intensity in its sensational climax the result of opening op eiling the flood gates Is that a sea of the flam ing fluid surrounds a house in which I 1 the smother mother and sweetheart ol of the diero are imprisoned andi and gives him I 1 I 1 a chance to effect a rescue which is 4 I 1 brilliantly and marvelously bously shot ile he is forced to swim i under the seething surface of 0 the b burning u ning i oil to the bank and then by means of 0 a rope to the root ot of the house he carries the two women nomen to safety hand over hand this pro vides the finish of a bruiy truly se al film which will be seen for the first time in this locality at the american theatre sunday F harmon weight who will be kemem remembered be for his direction of dr drusilla r T alii 21 with A million also mo made d this oil field epic for F B 0 I 1 L CD MONDAY AND TUESDAY night shift marinco Sta tinco tuesday at an old phrase soon destined to come into popularity again is the well kno known op its it the t J old army game why the title ot of W C fields fi first starr ins picture for paramount which plays at the american monday andrues day I 1 old timers will will testify testify that the phrase has nothing to do with the army fields himself says it means never give a sucker an even break and that just about explains it remember the old circus find and medicine sideshows side shows that used to arrive riveau ini town there was always a red faced chap mounted on a platform who called out step up la a adies and gents see it if you tou can tell under which shell is the pea then he moved the shells around rapidly and guess usually wrong well the old army game the old army gamed game has haa been practiced practice cl as long as humans have I 1 I 1 c d they say prehistoric cavemen used to play it definite records stow that it had a part in early chinese history and the romans at the height of their glory were experts in kidding the suckers the exact origin ot of the phase la Is a little indefinite indi finite why the army was iwas brought in is problematical some say that it refers to the buck private and his lot A buck private is popularly it humorously supposed to 0 do all the work y however the phrase has gone beyond ond the limits of the army and now refers to any phase 0 of life in which suckers appear according to many experts that Is in just about every strata ot or existence existence this humorous side of american life Is the basis ot of W C fields first picture a characterization he has made flip raimous lacus on tho the musical comedy stage louise brooks is featured edward sutherland directed WEDNESDAY scandal proof which will play at the american theatre wednesday with shirley mason as the star Is a picture filled with emotional drama ot of the finest sort it gives the little william fox star a great opportunity to display her screen talents talen ls with john roche as her leading mani man miss aliss mason rises from her natural whimsical charm to a tremell tremendous dramatic climax filled with a power it is hard to believe could be possessed by such a little actress the story is that of a girl accused wrongly of murder who descends from high social position to ta that of 0 nursemaid through her love tor for a child she places herself in a compromising position with the lover of 0 her mistress herbert wyckoff Wyc kott the man she really loves appears in ini time to prevent her sacrifice and the end is hap happy py I 1 I 1 everyone in the cast ot of scandal i proof does fine dwork but there Is one ne little fellow who is deserving of special mention it is billy ray fay three years old who plays the child billy Dilly in ln some ot of his scenes with miss aliss li mason lason displays a dramatic understanding that is nothing less than le tor for a child of 0 his years 40 0 aw THURSDAY thrills comedy and rare manship are promised those who attend hoot gibbons gibsons Gib sons latest western comedy drama spook ranch at the american theatre thursday Thus day the story is built around a texas cowboy who wanders into a desert town and into trouble action coni edy thrills and love first comes trouble bill bangs the character hoot portrays is arrested in awalter cation with a proprietor of a chini ese lunch cart the sheriff knows that he ilias no right to arrest bill he promises to tree free him it if he will investigate vesti gate the strange happenings at a haunted ranch outside ot of town with bill is his negro bodyguard who Is exceedingly superstitious and afraid of ghosts As they ai approach the ranch he balks and no amount of persuasion will tempt him to enter the grounds he does finally with the result that some unusually good comedy scenes were taken there is a lot of rapid fire action and all the necessary ingredients for a real western picture the sa saving irville of the girl and her father ra r fro from the plotters platters calls for unusual ability on dills bills part he climbs the face of a sheer cliff does some extraordinary good riding and emerge si triumphant from a fight with tho the entire band and of law breakers |