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PAGE SEVEN TW BANNER-HERALD. ATHENS, GEORGIA ■fiiNESPAY. MAY 9. 1923. New York is Still Rushing tc See “Safety Last” With Lloyd Breaks BoTbffice R«o-tlftBCWPC 1/11100 !Q ords for Receipts With rLUIltlllbL l/lu!Jli Id People Standing forj ■rr^.—hot stow i if Lloyd's latest picture, ‘Safety _______ . ss’ ^LT^for. k Tn!; o s: PPUFFQ l WTFRFK f sidewalk outside the theatre after- f |iUt LUi Hi I LULU I noon and night in an eftort to get inside and sec the comedian .10 nis - ‘ la :-■* and narrow hedge's MgiTiM “IdeMy* Married Movie “S&ite the fact that the picture Courte Separate After has been running for woks it is still | Wlfe s Tnp to Honolulu, the talk of Broadway and the main i —. . — money getter at the box office. | L0 g ANGELES. ’ Here is something of the picture:, . „ _ Tha f ^: a. ' The location is twelve stories; 7 - ° above the street. Clinging to the dove of pence no - Mti side of the building, two-tniids of longer perches or the way up, with a dozen pigeons sln![g lts , ay on J| ~ jb roosting on his held Is Harold _ ftr „ of HE B I ■ Lloyd. Tho crowd below, anmseil ho rooftroe of \ . n but frightened, watch breathlessly homo in Fairfax p , JW while tne spectacled comedian con- Avenue, Holly- pprv^ 0 s^j • tinues his upward climb, overcom- wood. ling the most difficult and hilarious Florence Vidor, ?' 5p j obstacles. one of the most I This is just one of the imprea- beautiful actresses In moving i-ic- jsions you get after viewing the ture3, and her husband, King" Vidor, picture. And what a comedy! a director, long kn*vn atf tho Never has ap audience shrieked ideally married couple of the fttjQg, with such uncontrollable Inughter. have como to t h e parting of tho There b»va been riototw two-reel W ay s . she and Suxanne Vidor, i- comedies produced in the past by year-old, now occupy tho liouso nnd master comedians, but never before the husband and father has gone has one been teen in seven reels elsewhere. His goioig wair-accei- bin erated b T the *®tuytf from Hpmdulu ♦KHU m it h U ° f h,a W,fe ' wh ° had bGf ‘ n v l Kin - curtain*tfhat he y^WnLlf, ^dnuVnjLfl^m^t 1 he y 1 e' , n?o V e^ fh.t .hn did no”much ft!, gMa *w.Tw n e r4 t d±y “w ■taita.TbU ,, SJ£ii t; building in the place of a real « h| W‘ ln Eleanor Boardtnan.. .'iiw “human fly,” and meet, bflarioua Eoardman la a good- king trouble every foot of the way up youngster, as the insert |m-mro the result is a continuous run of shows, who In Souls l or uproarious laughter, plays one of these Ingenious little *lrlo who looks as If ghf Still bo- TEE COMEDY lieves in Santa Claue. T1IBILL8 That tho-lntcrcat pcrslated while But the comedylsnot aU thrills Mrs. yidor was nl Honolulu was TVre is a r,al rtory-a dtMjBa} a story ahe heard upon hnr r.- a st0 7, w i l iL, n 0 vd <J turn ' Ht ' r discovery was followed th^raw*Wa Uy “Itimatunia. On receipt dr -aid don’t'uko raW'UTScYoMt ““re £L Quartern but Mildred is the cause of every- S " thing-as has been with Woman £’**2*JSSJ 1 !?. * through the Agea. t " e . r9 ' He psoteata his wifet ml|- The first scenes of the comedy V. n ,* lt ‘ r ^ tan ‘ I ” hl *. ,ri ? n,1 * h 'i> (l “' tako place in a department store in m. „"° ar ^ m ° n ' '? who “ &<> the Big City, where Harold hRS “■ interest la only profes donal. gone to make his fortune. His ittnRBAAdk nasSWSiteK iSjaKstess eawnstfua: sNXetsAeratis “swsautu-*«SKarts'fiKwl “If It’s Worth Seeting You’ll • Get it Jn Athens,” He Asserts Palace Dresses Up In New Spring Suit Most Thrilling Picture of the Century Is* Scheduled for Athens on Thursday and Friday of This Week; Harold Lloyd’s e< Safety First 1 we are never late in getting the best in the amusement line,* ’he continued. “For instance, I noticed adver tised in one of our large cltiea, neighbor city at that, a fow weeks ago a picture to bo shown at a top price of $1.10 that I had seen in Athens for 35 cents.” “If its baseball you want we have the best, if Its football where would you go for better? In the summertime there are lota of swimming places open, all the good road shows come here and every day in the week there are {ho best pictures.” “Think of these things,” said the booster, “before you knock our homo town of Athens." The Palace Theatre has put on ita spring dress of new paint and is all spic and span from lobby to screen now. Enjoying the reputation ol being the prettiest theatre in the south the management is de termined to keep this reputation spotless and thp paint brushes have i been called Into use in brightening up the appearance of the place. “I have been all over tho east just looking around and I didn’t find any place I like so well as Athens.” > Thus spoke a man Wednesday night who has just returned from I New York and several points be tween here and there. Of course New York is different but most ■ of the other places, especially the ones the size of Athens, simply are not li^, the class witlh this lit tle city. “Why, I actually saw moving pictures ad verified as “first runs” . in lots of the places larger than Athens that I had soon here weeks and weeks ago. We may havo i been late in getting a whiteway but i “Look at That New Fangled Flag ole Decoration,” Its Just Lloyd “Witin the Law” Will Offer Miss Talmadge, Palace 1 Athens theatre-goers remember Clara Joel, that colorful actresa who first presented “Within the Law” here. She seemed to be of the type juat suited for the part.] Nothing Has Ever Been Produced For the Screen That Equals Lloyd’s Feats in Picture. - “Safety first” Is tho slogan that has become gen- .■* Vj orally adopted by > 9 societies, and ' H rrmrnnlrn desir- ;i 'i tag to prevent •fir-n Y . * accidents but \IS*** N “Safety Last” Is the motto of the v Human Flies and •: other daring birds *2^ /\ who see id to care about as much for iWWm tlieir lives as .. - jithev do for an Harold Lined unripe fig. One of the many thrilling scenes from “Safety Last,’ with Harold Lloyd at the Palace , Thursday and Friday. Theda Barra ha* arrived on the Pacific coast. She has everybody all astir as to whether she is going to re-vamp pictures with her re entry after a fling on the legiti mate stage. bloodshed but that’s about all lie fails to do. Hanging by the bands of a clock over the surging traffic of a street up about the ’steenth story is mere play for him while cornices and window' coping he eats alive, yea, thrives onj ’em while you laugh and plica of the one he employes while perched high* above the ground with his rimmed specks.. Now' when are we going to see this picture? This very week, Thursday and Friday at the Palace Theatre. It’s the prelude, tho interlude and tho main show; it’s enough all of itself. Of course you don’t have to go to see it; city council hasn’t pass ed that needed ordinalnce yet re quiring -people to see such smllo producing productions but If you want to continue blue and grouchy just stay: away and be tho same old joy killer you aro If you don’t like such things as Harold Lloyd' and his horn rimmed glasses. Jobyna Ralston, new leading lady for Harold Lloyd since he and Mildred Davis have married. Miss Rals ton is being starred with him now. * Norma Talmadge is Said to be charming in “Within the Law-’’ Allco Joyce played the same role when the story was first‘screened five years ago. Madge Bellamy is coming star and Is becoming popular here- 1 ^ * Walter Heirs, Phyllis Haver, star mermaid at from South O Sennett'a beauties, has deserted , omc heav y lea the bathing suit for tho make-up |„ e rPtont | y nia tho greatest picture this comedian gasp, who now heads nil of those of Ills type of the country has even made ami no ono can stjo it without *aspinfc at his'daring or laughing fiercely at his comedy. Ho stO|is at nothing short of ac tually doing w'hat you aro afraid ho wiH do utile in tho, act I* open that If he doesn’t do a nf seeing him perform. Ho falls to dozen things everyone in tho audl- fall to tho sidewalk and break his \ enco would -balk at lio will present tortoise •shell glasses on the hard anyone duplicating tho stunts with pavement and thereby prevent* china glass life preserver, a ro- Rotarians Will Take' in Harold • Lloyd’s Stunts LAUGHS AT 8AFETV A GEORGIA BOY tho portly boy lorgla, Is taking As a special feature for tho In ter-city liotary meet here Friday will bo tho extremely tntercstng picture, "Safety Last" with Harold Lloyd at tho Palace Theatre. The Hotee will cortalnly find time to 1 we this picture while In the dty. Harold Lloyd was last woo) voted the most popular of alt con, edians by the student body a Princeton! Positively Dedicated to the You’ll Hol< Cause of Laughter and Thrills Harold’s T /CONTAINING all the Thrills . ^ Thrilldom and as many Roars; the Atlantic Ocean, but Louder. f ? -j t . t ' - ; , j • i „ . Practice "Safety First” by Seeing PALACE—THURSDAYMND FRIDAY