Pictures of the Week
Feature Men'as Stars
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Fairbanks, Chaney, Gibson, O’Brien and Denny Fig
ure in the Bright Galaxy. Robin Hood Elaborate
Production. Real Kentucky Derby Shown..
Where ere the ladles? Once again
it seems to be men's week in the pic
tures, for here is “Robin Ilood" at
the Strand this week with Douglas
Fairbanks, in the role of the famous
outlaw and filling it inimitably. Maid
Marian never was as thrilling as Bold
Robin. And at the Rialto Ron Chaney,
eharaeter actor, Is walking away with
all the honors in “Shadows." The
star of “The Kentucky Derby" is
a strapping gentleman, Reginald
Denny, and there is nothing ef
feminate about Hoot Hibson, either.
Flame llamnierstein makes Conway
Tearle share the footaga(With her on
the Sun sereen, hut Conway holds his
own pretty well, while Herbert liaw
linson abthe World Is headlined alone
In “Aother Mann's Shoes.”
The array of choices is interesting
and it is difficult to decide which one
to see first.
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Robin Ilood Shows at Strand.
Rong heralded ami eagerly looked
forward to by the film publie, Doug
Inn Fairbanks In "Robin Hood" opens
a two weeks engagement at the
Strand today. The production has re
ceived the highest praise from critics
liolli east and west According to Fair
banks himself, this latest picture Is
a combination of fact and fancy, a
drama depicting (lie chivalrous and
romantic spirit of the Twentieth cen
tury, comprising an enchanting mix
lure of tho fairy tale and the val
orous deeds of eight hundred years
ago, so that the people of today cas
ily can grasp it. It is, in short, the
presentation of an impression inspired
by historical facts.
The settings, of mediaeval castles,
cavalcades of crusaders, and the pleas
ant fields and forests of Nottingham
are beautifully carried out. Enid Ben
net has Maid Marian's role, and the
part of Rohin Hood fits the dash
ing Douglas to perfection.
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Rialto Presents “Shadows. ’
“Shadows," Lon Chaney's new pic
ture, in which he essays a Chinese
role, comes with high recommenda
tions. It is pictured from “Chinn
riling Chinaman.” a story hy W. D.
Steele, and teaches a lesson ot tol
erance. Yen Sin comes to a Puritanical
little New Kngland village where the
townsfolk rise up against him be
cause of his faith. In the midst of
their tauntings and persecutions he
vet shapfs the destinies of some of
them.
In a surprise climax the tale gains
a tremendous dramatic force wherein
the soul of the heathen shines forth
as a symbol of Ooodness and Truth
to enlighten those who have hated
and reviled him.
Imagine trying to steal the pearls
of the fiercest man in the South Sea
islands, who suspects your purpose in
ndvatuM. That is what two human
derelicts attempt to do in “Kbb Tide,”
coming to the Rialto Thursday.
The chief interest centers about t’.ie
great struggle of a man on the hu
man ebb tide for regeneration through
i lie love of a woman, the roles being
played respectively by James Kirk
wood and Lila Lee.
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Muse Features of ^ eek.
n Fur Sunday only the Muse is show
ing "One Week of Love, ’ wherein
Klalne Hammerstein, as the flighty
society heroine, succumbs to the cave
man methods of a desperado of the
Mexican border.
Kugeno O'Brien as “John Smith
plays Monday and Tuesday.
, “John Smith” is the absorbing story
of a Jail bird who made good. It car
ries a mighty decent character
through a series of absorbing adven
tures and lands him on the top of
the heap, thg girl lie loves in his
arms.
Florence Vidor comes to the Muse
Wednesday and Thursday in “The
Real Adventure.” playing the role of
a young girl who finds romance be
fore marriage ideal, reality after mar
riage an ordeal and readjustment a
miss-deal.
The vivid, colorful, turbulent life
of the Canadian northwest forms the
background for the stilling action of
“Man From Hell's River,” coming
Friday and Saturday. It is the work
ot James Oliver Curwood, and Rin
Tin, the dog, has a leading part.
Racing; Classic at Empress.
"The Kentucky Derby” ts a photo
play bringing to the Empress this
week a story of Just what the title
Indicates—the racing atmosphere of
the Blue Crass state. Most of tlio
characters in the story are aristocratic
Kentuckians.
Reginald Denny, former star of
"The Leatherpushers.” Is the lead. It
Js due to the southern Instinct of
hospitality that two strangers, osten
sibly brother and sister, are able to
come into the borne of one of the
Kentucky colonels In the story and
form their way Into his heart—merely
for a similarity in their names. The
result Is the temporary breaking down
of an old horn®—but hospitality IS
the first duty of a Kentucky gentle
man!
"Burning Sands." featuring Milton
Sills and Wanda Hawley will be at
the Empress from Thursday to Sun
day. As the title suggests It Is a
picture of the desert.
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Dual Personality at Worltl.
Herbert Rawlinson Is the attrac
tive leading man In "Another Man’s
Shoes," at the World.
Stuart Grange, a wealthy young
business man In fear of assassination
at tho hands of a foreign secret so
ciety, induces a cousin, who bears a
remarkable resemblance to him. to aa
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sume his Identity. Thu cousin, little
realizing the danger, accepts. That
same night the girl leader of the
death band climbs In through his bed
room window and attempts to shoot
him, but ho is too quick for her.
Granger's double, with his ready smile
and gallant manner, wins over his
would-be assassin and bit by bit
learns what it is all about.
There are sundry other complica
tions before the commotion subsides.
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Moon Brings “Rillin’ Wild.”
The story of a boy who loved his
mother with all his heart, but wlio was
restrained by this very fact and by
her whims from "being like the other
fellows," In any way, is told in "Rld
in' Wild,” the photoplay of a common
human problem, coming to the Moon
for four days.
He breaks loose in time, but it re
quires a greater cause than the satis
faction of ills mother's whims to make
i him do it. »
Iloost Gibson Is the hero of this
western.
Frank Mayo, supported by a well
balanced east, in a dramatic story,
| comes to the Moon beginning Thurs
day.
The picture is "Fires of Hate,”
For tlie role of the French heroine
a girl was selected who is pretty and
talented, but beyond that even, she
is half French in blood and wholly
French Is manner; Louise Lorraine.
Dagniar Oodowsky plays the fem
inine “heavy."
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Sun lias Love Drama.
The Sun offers this week "One
Week of I.ove,” starring Klaine Ham
nierstein and Conway Tearle.
The story concerns a society girl
who suddenly tires of the earth and
worldly pleasures and decides to take
a jaunt in an aeroplane. Unfortunate
ly. she flies in the same spirit that
she dances; and when her plane acci
dentally comes down to earth, a lot
of her high falutin' notions come down
with her. She lands right in a nest
of outlaws, the chief of ^hom is a
sort of Captain Kidd of the moun
tains.
From this point on the story is
conclusively and totally absorbing so
that one wishes for an extra eye to
view all the goings-on, so it is sajd.
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Film Flashes
Under the supervision of Thomas
Geraghty ‘‘Darlc Secrets,” Dorothy
Dalton's latest picture, and "The
Leopardess.” with Alif-e Brady as the
star, are being finally edited ' and
prepared for the public.
Antonio Moreno, who appears as
leading man with Gloria Swanson in
''My American Wife” and is featured
in support of Mary Miles Minter in
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” is
to be costurred with Bebe Daniels in
"The Kxeiters.”
Cecil Be DeMille had an embarrass
ing experience at (lie studio pecently.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of
the prince of Wales and his bride
arrived during the making of "Adam's
Rib” at just about the time he was
staging a revolution which treated
royalty very roughly. The visitors
wanted to see the picture made and
he wanted to show them, but he did
not want to display anything un
pleasant from their viewpoint.
The Week's Attractions
Strand—"Robin Hood."
Sun—"One Week of Love,"
Rialto—"Shadows."
Kuipress—"Kentucky Derby."
World—"Another Man's Shoes.”
Moon—Sunday to Thursday,
"Ridin' Wild;” Thursday to Satur
day, “Fires of Hate."
Muse—Sunday, "One Week of
Love;" Monday and Tuesday, "John
Smith;” Wednesday and Thursday,
"The Real Adventure;" Friday and
Saturday, "Man From Hell's
River.”
New Pictures Planned.
Twelve novels and stage plays
j have been secured by the Warner
Brothers for production during the
1 season of 1922-23. They include
. ‘'Babbitt," by Sinclair Lewis, "Being
I Respectable,” by Grace II. Flandrau,
] "Beau Brummell,” and "Lovers'
Lane,” both by Clyde Fitch, “David
i Copperfield,” by Charles Dickens,
“How to Educate a Wife,” by Elinor
Glyn, "Shadowed Lives,” by Justin
Adams, “Tlie Age of Innocence," a
novel by Edith Wharton, "Broadway
After Dark,” by Owen Davis, "George
j Washington Jr.," and - "Little John
I ny Jones,” two George M. Cohan
plays, and "Cornered,” the Broadway
success of last season with Madge
j Kennedy.
Animal Stars Suffer ' |
From Too Much Temperament
“Sometimes animals go cuckoo!”
Curley Stecker. the famous trainer of
wild animals for the movies, slood in
tho middle of the University City
menagerie and rubbed his chin
thoughtfully. In the distance tho ner
vous clank, clankety clank of the
extra chains tied to Charley, the ele
phant, could he heard as that tem
peramental animal restlessly swung
himself from side to side.
”Yep, the old bull’s been on a bat
again,” commented Stecker. "We'll
have to put In a new ’stone floor in
bis stable, because he’s ripped most
of It out when lie set on his heels
and Jerked up the half dozen stakes
and chains that kept him anchored.
He took what the French call “the
key to the fields," which means that
he ran very much A. W. O. L., I'll
tell the world. We nearly had a
couple of funerals. Must be the rest
of the temperament left over from
the actors and actresses that floats in
the air, and the animals get It that
way; sort of sniff it in. This here
Charley is getting toward the foolish
age for elephants—about 50. No. 1
said elephants. But, anyway, it's
all the siime. They're apt to go bad
around that age, and tills bore
Charley, why ho headed right straight
through his stable door as if it was
paper. And then Fred McFarland—
you know McFarland, the blacksmith.
Well, he woke up from a nightmare
and found it was the real thing.
Charley chewing o(T the front of his
house. Yell? You could have heard j
him ’way down to the Amabaasador
hotel In Los Angeles—McFarland, I
mean. Then Charley trumpets his
way toward the administration build
ings in Universal City and the stars'
bungalow, and believe me they would
have been toothpicks, hut Just then
they got me on the spot and I looked
him in the eye.”
“Looked him In the eye?"
“Sure. You don't think I could
handle him do you? Only he knows
me and I know him. An elephant Is
a one-man guy, and that's all right i
too, as’ long as that one man is
around. It he isn't—well, anyway, i
1 said to him: ’That’ll do, Charley.
You've had yours. Now we'll pi
home before there's any real trouble.
And he did. Oh. that's all there is to
it. You see, 1 was raised in the cir
cus business, right among the cats
and bulls, and they know when I say
a thing l.mean'it.”
"A-a-r-r-rumph!” agreed Charley
from his pen.
Nita Naldi, the statuesque screen
l amp, is leading a strenuous life those
days. She is working in two pictures.
While finishing her role in Allan
Dawn’s production of "The Glimpses
of the Moon,” she began work in j
George Melford’s production, “You
Can't Fool'Your Wife," in which she
will he featured with Leatrlce Joy and i
Lewis Stone.
Marilynn Keeps
Jack Travelling
When Jack Plckford. stepped off
the train yesterday to start work In
his next picture, tie calculated that
he ha*l broken the world’s amateur
travel record for a man of his age. He
admitted that possibly a few railroad
conductors, steamship pursers and ad
venturers who plied back and forth
on the Atlantic might have covered
a larger mileage, hut these people fell
into the professional class and were
therefore disqualified. Jack has Just
leturned from another visit with his
newly married wife, Marrilynn Mil
ler, whose performance In the title
role of “Sally,” is now winning new
laurels in Chicago.
Since Mr. Piekford's marriage last
summer to this popular musical
comedy star, Ills life has been just one
transcontinental journey after an
other. The problem of attending to
Ids work in Hollywood and getting
occasional glimpses of his wife has
been answerable In only one way, ami
that has been by making his home In
a Pullman car.
“The only way out I can see,” re
marked Jack on his arrival In Los
Angeles. “Is either for me to go Into
musical ' omedy with Marilynn or for
her to go into the picture business
with me. Then we can be together."
The latter alternative, it is known,
has been seriously considered, and it
would occasion very little surprise it
sometime in the not too distant future
Miss Miller joined Jack Plckford pro.
ductions and they worked together on
the screen.
Announcing a worthy addition to the
“Sun Book ot Wonder Pictures”
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From the Book by
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