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AFTERNOON. JUNE 16,1923 ?
Exceptional Programs At Americus Theatres Next Week
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A NOTION PUB
WITH SUPRENE THRILL
Down to the Sea in Ships” Last
ing Tribute to Romantic and
Adventurous History
Few motion pictures that have
ever found their way to success
ful completion have been attempt
ed on the scale of “Down to the
Sea in Ships,” playing at the Ry
lander on and Tuesday.
Formed by a group of the lead
ing business men of New Bed
ford, Maqs., this corporation >et
about to perpetuate for all time,
through the medium of the sdreen,
the wealth of tradition that sur
round* the whaling industry of
that New England city. It was
their purpose to picture to the
smallest detail the thrills, the ro
mance and the hardships experi
enced by New Bedford whalemen
who have gone “down to the sea
in ships” in pursuit of the biggest
game the world provides.”
The outstanding fact in con
junction with the filming of this
picture, which serves to make it
unique in its field, is that it is one
of the few productions in the his
tory of motion pictures that has
for its locale the tempestuous
waters of the high seas, and the
principal character in this breath
taking drama of the Atlantic is a
nine-ton whale. Nature has provid
ed not only a background utterly
impossible to imitate through any
trick of photography, but it plac
es in this setting an enraged
leviathan of the deep, stung to
fury by a deeply embeded harpoon.
Back of all this action, however
is a most appealing love story.
Raymon McKee, in the part of a
young engineer, returns to the
scene of his childhood and finds
Marguerite Courtot, his playmate
o£ earlier days, grown to charm
ing young womanhood. From that
begins a story intensely interesting
and there are included some of the
The Laughter Blast
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MANAGER’S NOTE:
Specially re-inforced seats with straps for hysterical patrons.
Doctor in attendance at all shows.
Take Our Word —Its the Best Comedy We Ever Saw
,?• y Thursday and Friday
RYLANDER
’’Where It’s Cool” *
i Orchestra 35c—Balcony 25c—Children 10c
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Scene from “Down to the Sea in Ships,’’ at the Rylander Mon-||«
day and Tuesday
The Week’s Program
Monday and Tuesday—“ Down
to the Sea in Ships,” Pathe
News.
Wednesday—Alice Brady in
“The Snow Bride.” Lloyd
Hamilton in “Uneasy Feet.”
Thursday and Friday—Harold
Lloyd in “Safety ' Last.”
Aesop’s Fables.
Saturday—Buck Jones in “The
Footlight Ranger.” Charlie
Chaplin in “Easy Street.”
most hair-raising scenes ever de
picted on the screen.
“Down to the Sea in Ships” is
so utterly different from what we
have eome to view as motion pic
ture entertainment that compari
son with great success in the past
wotfld be futile. It is unlike a nyr
pictures that has ever been screen
ed because neven before have the
forces of nature been pressed into
service so successfully to produce
effects wholly beyond the direc
tion o fany control the human in
genuity could devise.
BUCK JONES MKES
APPEARANCE AGAIN
Charlie Chaplin and Western
Star Comprise Double
* Program
He’s back in town. Who? Buck
Jones, the rapid fire star, in “The
Footlight Ranger,” and it will be
shown at the Rylander next Sat
ruday. It ig the sort of picture
that shakes hands and says “how
dy” in the first scene and at the
finish you sort of hate to say
goodbye.
There is comedy, a great deal of
it. The kind that tickles young
sters and pleases older folks. It is
the clean type of comedy that ev
eryone is better for haviiyj seen.
There is exciting adventure which
makes you sit forward and grip
the seat ahead of you. There is
romance, half-spoken words, shy
glances, tender caresses. Buck
surely knows how to say it with
flowers; but there is still more, a
surprise at the finish that will in
terest you.
The story-telling it here would
cheat you of an added delight that
goes with the surprise that has
been mentioned. In the cast with
Jones is Fritzi Brunette, a most
capable acrtess.
The best part of this story has
not been written, for with “The
Footlight Ranger” will be shown a
Charlie Chaplin comedy, “Easy
Street,” which is without a doubt
one of the best ever made by the
world’s foremost comedian. “Easy
Street” is one of the Chaplin Clas
sics which the Rylander is present
ing with an action feature picture
on Saturday, and this combination
has met with the most popular ap
proval. ,
The antics of Charlie as a po
liceman in “Easy Street” are too
ludicrous for description and you
wil laugh with joy throughout the
entire two reels.
SOME NEW PICTURES
COMING TO RYLANDER
Upon assuming charge of the
Rylander Theatre the new manage
ment promised to give Americus
only the best pictures released,
and ip. keeping with that policy has
secured bookings on the following
big attraction of early showings:
“The Rustle of Silk” with Betty
Compson and Conway Tearel,
“You Can’t Fool Your Wife” with
Beatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel,
Gloria Swanson in “Prodigal
Daughters,” “Grumpy” with The
odore Roberts and May MacAvoy,
“The World’s A Stage with Doro
thy Phillips, Pola Negri in “Bella
Donna,” “Slander the Woman”
with Dorothy Phillips, D. W. Grif
fith’s “Dream Street, “Thomas
Meighan in “The Ne’er Do Well,”
Jackie Coogan in “Daddy,” Mary
Pickford in “Tess of the Storm
Country,” Tom Mix in “Arabia”
and many others.
In addition to the super-fea
tures, the Rylander will of course
shoy the latest news reels . com
edies and novelty subjects.
Her photograph in fireworks!
That’s one of the specular effects
in Gloria Swanson’s new picture,
“Proidgal Daughters.” In a big
Fourth of July celebration in Lang
Island, where much of the action
of the picture transpires, a set.
piece shows a girl outlined in fire
and beneath it the name,
“Swiftie.”
Have you heard “The Parade of
the Wooden Soldiers” lately?
Well, you will soon have the
chance to see it in “The Rule of
Silk,” a Paramount picture which
stars Betty Compson and Conway
Tearle.
WHAT OTHERS THINK OF
DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS
N. Y. Evening Mail: “One of the
most realistic photoplays ever
produced.”
N. Y. Evening Globe: “The
greatest picture of its type ever
made.”
Baltimore Evening Sun: “This
film is a masterpiece.’
N. Y. Tribune: “An extraordin
arily fine piece of work.”
N. Y. World: “We are willing to
say that this picture will please
you and thrill you.”
N. Y. Evening Journal: “In a
nutshell, ‘Down to the Sea in
Ships’ is the finest film of the sea
that this writer has even seen.”
Motion Picture News: “A mas
terpiece of its kind; one of the
sensations of the year.”
Moving Picture World: ‘One of
the most marvelously amazing at
tractions ever offered at any
theatre.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
WSiPMO
1 Di HILLE TRIUMPH
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Big Film to Be Shown at Opera
House Monday and
Tuesday
One of the most absorbing pic
ture productions of the current
season, “The World’s Applause,” a
William de Mille production for
Paramount featuring Bebe Daniels
and Lewis Stone and a real all
star cast. “The World’s Applause”
will be shown Monday and Tuesday
at the Opera House.
This is a photoplay of the Wil
liam de Mille type—strong, mas
sive, timely, elevating, instructive
and entertaining. It has a power
ful theme, one that proves for
those moving constantly in ; the
public eye often brngs disaster to
those whose passion lor publicity
outweighs their good judgment. The
heroine is an actress, charmingly
portrayed by Bebe Daniels, whose
love of publicity involves her in a
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BEBE DANIELS
starring in PARAMOUNT PICTURES
tragedy which all but wrecks her
career. Mr. Stone as John Elliott,
a theatrical producer and her
sweetheart, is admirably cast.
There are many scenes of great
dramatic force in “The World’s
Applause,” all of which hold the
spectator as by a spell. The sup
porting cast which includes such
well known players as Kathlyn
Williams, Adolphe Menjou, Bran
don Hurst and Maym Kelso con
tributes in no small degree to the
success of the production.
ROMANTIC STORY
OF THE NORTH
A story of the Northland, with
all its trials and hardships, plots
and romances, is “The Snow Bride’
in which Alice Brady appears at
the Rylander on Wednesday.
The story brings Miss Brady to
the screen in a role for which she
is especially suited, that of An
nette Leroux, idol of the village of
La Paix. Annette loves Andre Po
rel, the young sheriff, played hy
Maurice B. Flynn. But circum
stantial evidence points to An
nette as the murderer of a certain
Paul Gerard and she is sentenced
to death. The' girl believes (that
something will happen before her
execution that will prove her in
nocence, and something does hap
pen—a most thrilling and inspir
ing scene.
In the cast with Miss Brady, are
Maurice B. Flynn and Jack Bas
ton.
To complete the program the
A TERRIFIC SENSATION I!!
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I ' / whelms the spectator in the manner of “Down to
V 111 A AWA g J the Sea in Ships.” Here is nature at her mightiest;
fei* \ ’•• • '‘ jv a spells death, and events well nigh unbelieva-
W’DOWi 1 ble in their terror-inspiring results take place.
\// to the - { It Contains the Supreme
7/ SEA ' Ajr Thrill of Picture History.
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1 i Back of the sweetest love story is picturized one
’W / V ° f lhe nlOSt thrillin K ''“’•dents ever photographed
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JL JL. AL 1 hand of chance directing as fierce a battle between
\ 7" I ,uan an<l mammal as the long history of whaling
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v * Monday and Tuesday •
J?YLANDEI?
Typhoon Cooled
See It and You will agree that
It is the Astounding Sensation > Regular Admission—lOc-25c
of the Century.
LLOYD’S ‘SAFETY
LAST’ IS BEST YET
Famous Comedian Produces a
Seven-Reel Laugh-a-Second
Cyclone
The location is twelve stories
above the street. Clinging to the
side of the building, two-thirds of
the way up, with a dozen pigeons
roosting on his head is Harold
Lloyd. The crowd below, amused
but frightened watch breathlessly
while the spectacled comedian con
tinues his upward climb, overcom
ing the most difficult and hilar
ious obstacles.
This is only one of the impres
sions to be gained from seeing
Harold Lloyd’s new seven-reel
comedy, “Safety Last” to be shown
at the Ryalnder on Thursday
and Friday. And what a comedy!
There have been riotous two reel
comedies produced in the past by
master comedians, but never be
fore has one been seen in seven
reels that moved at such fast
■ pace.
How Lloyd performs his thrill
stunts is a mystery. It is almost
certain that he did them himself,
for his face is seen plainly jn ev
ery hazardous predicament *he en
counters. When a young amn at
tempts to climb the side of a
twelve story building in the place
of a real “human fly” and meets
hilarious trouble every foot of the
way up the results is a continuous
run of uproaring laughter.
But the comedy is not all thrills.
There •is a real story—a delight
ful story with pretty little Mildred
Davis—now Mrs. Harold Lloyd—
the young lady in the case. It is
not well to tell too much ’of the
story, but Milded is the cause of
everything—as has been with wo
man through the ages.
The first scenes of the comedy
take place in a department store
in the Big City, where Harold has
gone to make his fortune. His
trouble commences when the girl
thinking he has acquired a for
tune already, comes to town to
marry him. And what a time Har
old has. The haughty floor walk;
er in he store glared while Har
old tries to get his lady love out
of the building and at the same
time pretend to her that he is the
General Manager.
“Safety Last” is generally con
ceded to be. the best comedy that
Lloyd has ever made and Thursday
and Friday will be gala days at the
Rylander when it is shown.
MIMI PALMERI LEAPS
INTO STARDOM EARLY
NEW YORK, June 16—Mimi Pal
meri takes a running jump from
comparative obscurity to the rank of
i leading lady in her first motion
picture, “The Ragged Edge.” She
was a photographer’s fashion model
immediately before becoming a lead
ing lady of the cinema.
Having reached such an envied
place in a sensational dash like that
she must hear the brunt of very
close scrutiny; she becomes the cen
ter of interest in the picture.
In appearance Miss Palmeri is not
unlike Bebe Daniels and Helen Fer
guson; probably a bit more beautiful
than either of those.
Her willingness to register as the
director tells her, to appear piquant,
peeved or pretty as the occasion de
mands, is quite apparent in the pic
ture.
Rylander will have Llyod Hamil
ton’s latest comedy, “Uneasy
Feet.” Lloyd Hamilton has been
making great strides in pictures
until now he is one of the screen’s
leading comedians and is gaining
in popularity each day.
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Harold Lloyd, who appears in his latest comedy, ‘Safety Last,”
a t the Rylander Thursday and Friday
DUDLEY S QPERA HOOSE
Monday and Tuesday
William De Mille Production
“The World’s Applause”
w.dh
Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Kathlyn Williams and a real all ;
star cast. Dazzling gowns, Gripping Climaxes.
Don t miss the most gorgeous Paramount Picture ever pro- .
duced.
Summer Prices lOc-2Oc ;
Cameo Comedy. j
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