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SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 25,' 1923
NOVEL PROGRAMS AT RYLANDER NEXT WEE
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Betty Compson Warmly Praises
“The Woman With Four
Faces
Betty Compson clasped her hands
and gazed ecstatically at Herbert
Brenon as he finished telling her
the story of "The Woman With
Four Faces,” his new Paramount
•production featuring Miss Comp
son and Richard Dix, which will be
shown at the Rylander Theatre
next Monday and Tuesday.
"I love it!” she cried” Itts so in
teresting, so thrilling. Why, as you
told it, I sat spellbound. I’m just
crazy to start work.”
Betty Compson as herself, as a
girl cook, as an old woman, as a
young girl—a waitress in a cheap
resturant. Thus the title!
Miss Compson is a mistress of
makeup, of expression. It is ad
mitted by photographers that she
never looks twice the same in still
portraits. She has but to alter her
smile, change the direction of her
gaze, twist her head this way or
that, let one penciled eyebrow
PROBRAM FOR.
THEWEEK
Monday and Tuesday—Betty
a- Compson in “Tb.r Woman With
Four aces;”. "The Pest,” comedy.
We dne sda y —Do a qiai P 4 a L <,< •a n
in “A Man of Action ” ‘ Cold
Chilli,” Mermaid com :dy.
Thursday and 'r dty the
Brass. Bottle, special production;
Aesop’s Fables.
Saturday—Tom Mix in “Three
Jumps Ahead;” “Smarty,” Cen
tury Comedy; Art Acord in “fne
Oregon Trail.”
COME ACROSS!
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hO'‘Woman Willi Four
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“The Pest,” /
Comedy
She was the most beautiful, most skilled, most daring crook the
police over had to cope with. And when she stole the District At
torney’s heart—here’s melodrama of the polished kind. Plenty of
thrills and heart-throb,s but no rough edges. Beautiful Betty in
four marvelous characterizations. Richard Dix as the District At
torney.
Monday and Tuesday
RYLANDER
move ever so slightly—and she is a
different person altogether.
“I love a story that carries you
along on the wings of thrills,” she
smiled. ‘‘Mystery rapid action, tense
moments, suspense, romance, a lit
tle comedy—that’s what I see in
this picture, and I am sure that
the public will love it as much as
I do. I shall enjoy every moment
of the picture in the making.”
Richard Dix, too, was enthusias
tic.. • “The public likes action
that teems with thrills,” he said,
“especially if the lo.e interest is
not overlooked. And in this story
the romance is natural, not forced,
developing logically?
Naturally, Mr. Brenon was de
lighted that his principals should
be so pleased, for this, ho believes,
augurs) success. Mr. Brenoij is a
director who ‘clicks” to over pos
sible dramatic sequence. Ho ha
the instinct of drama at his finger
tips.
“The Pest,” a Stan Laurel com
edy will be shown in addition to
“The Woman With Four Faces.”
GLORIA SWANSON COMING.
Gloria Swanson’s new Paramount
picture, “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,’
a coming attraction at the Rylan
.edr, is said to be one of the most
powerful screen dramas produced
j by Paramount this season.
Miss Swanson has the role of
■ Mona’de Briae, a T'i'eneh girl whose
. parents are in financial difficulties,
j Their last straw is to marry Mona
|to a rich man. John Brandon, an
1 American multi-inililonaire, played
! by Huntley Gordon, is chosen as the
i intended husband. The marriage
I takes place and many thrilling -in
| cidents follow.
COW MUMS
GET BIG LAUGHS
Douglas Mac Lean in Speedy
Mystery-Comedy “A Man
of Action”
Somp of the cleverest comedy
situations which have been screen
ed since "Officer 666” rocked the
country with laughter have been
worked out in Thomas H. Ince’s
latest production, “A Man of Ac
tion,” which critics declare to be
the fastest film since “The Hot
tentot.”
“A Man of Action,’ starring
Douglas Mac Lean, is Wednesday’s
attraction at the Rylander, and the
production is said to be a marvel
of mystifying mirth that keeps ev
ery one gasping and laughing—
laughing as they guesS— from start
to finish.
Money—too much of it—is the
root of the troubles of Bruce Mc-
Alister, the hero of the story, who
never in all his life has done any
thing that wasn’t proper. When
his sweetheart jolts hi mout of his
rut and the pugilistic nephew of
his ultra-proper butler makes him
realize that he’ll joon “be dead
from the feet” and probably knit
ting doilies in the bargain, he steps
out for a glimpse of San Francis
co’s night life.
Things happen with startling
rapidity, one hilariously startling
situation developing into another
even funnier, until to cap the cli
nax he finds himself mistaken for
a crook, black-jacked into joining
a bunch of diamond robbers and
locked up in his own house for
wenty four hours w.ith the crowd
hat are trying to rob him of a
half million dollars worth of 1 dia
. -mils. The solid foundation on
vhich his feet have always been
Ranted is thoroughly rocked when
his own sweetheart fails to reco
gnize him in his new guise of “A
Man of Action” and he is on his
”a' T to jail when he is saved.
The remainder of Wednesday’s
Program consist of a Mermaid com
edy, “Cold Chills.”
\RT SECONDARY
IN MOTION PICTURES
By CECIL B -DE MH-LE
One of the greatest pitfalls into
which those of us who make pic
cures are apt to fall is the ten
dency to think too largely of mo
aou pictures as .a pictorial art.
Motion pictures, successful mo
lion pictures, have always been
and always will be 90 per cent
drama.
Motion -pictures must have dra
matic action intensified far be
yond that of the’ stage because of
thg lack of the speaking voice, j
It is a pity that so many of our i
younger directors become so en- ■
grossed in creating individual !
charming pictures on the screen
that they foj-get Li create
clash of characters, that proces
sion of situations, which is the
sole and only thing that can 'hold
the attention of an audience
through a feature photoplay.
I would like to see in motion pic
tures a return to that intensive
study of pure dramatic technique
which was so essential part of the |
training of those who wrote for,
the stage in the .days before my
brother and myself left legitimate
drama for the streen.
Technique is far more impor
tant than soul. What does it count j
if an individual scene is very, very I
beautiful if it fails to fit in tempo |
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Douglas Mac Lean appear
ing in “A Man of Action.”
with those that precede or follow
it? It would be right to tell a
player to let himself go, to forget
everything but Rhe character—if
it weren’t for the fact that the
camera works just at a certain
speed and that on the screen
movements beyond a certain point
seems jerky and graceless.
In my present production of
“The Ten Commandments” it
would be quite easy to forget
drama in favor of the purely pic
torial. I hrn preceding a modern
story with a Bibical prologue which
reproduces practically the entire
Book of Exodus. It would he a
simple thing to throw everything
to the winds but a desire to place
on the screen a series of groat in
dividual reproductions of famous
bibical paintings.
But if I did that the bibical pro
rogue would mean nothing to you
who will see it in the theaters
of America.
The great value of motion pic
tures is that they permit the hold
ing of a mirror to life. It is more
important to show the actual clash
of Moses and Fharaoh for the
liberation of the Children of Isreal
in its entirety, in all the little hu
man details that would cover the
meeting of two strong men, than
to concentrate on one or two
scenes just because of their special
pictorial beauty.
j We can reach a happy medium.
It is ouite possible to gain individ-
; uni artistic groupings and at the
same time pay full attention.
REBUILDING 2. 000 CARS
IN SOUTHERN RY. SHOPS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 25
Two thousand rebuilt box cars with
steel underframes will be turned
out of Southern Railway System
Shops during the next few' months.
I The underframes will be fabricated
; in' Birmingham and the wofk of ap
plying them and of rebuilding the
■ cars will be done in the Southern’s
own shops throughout the South.
'J he rebu'T cars will be in addition
to 9.000 new box cars purchased
bv the Southern during 1922 and
1923, of which over 6,000 are al
ready in service end the remainder
are contracted for delivery in time
for the movement of fall business.
The Southern will also soon receive
6(5 locomotives, 4,865 coal cars and
200 stock cars were purchased in
the spring.
CORDELE PASTOR IN
BOLL WEEVIL SERIES
CORDELE, August 25. Rev.
E. O. Heath, pastor of the First
Methodist church here, for the past
several Sundays has been preaching
a series of sermons <ff particular
ion MB HI?
WILLING W
I Star and Horse “Tony” in
“Three Jumps Ahead,”
New Picture
Every Tom Mix picture provides
at least one new and distinct thrill
for the entertainment and amuse
ment of movie fans. The resource
ful and ever original “stunt-artist”
of the screen never fails to pro
vide his admirers with a breezy
thrilling narrative. Without any
exceptions the sunts performed by
Tom Mix in his latest picture.
“Three Jumps Ahead,” are said to
; be among the most daring ever at
tempted before the camera.
In this picture, which will be
| shown at the Rylander next Satur
day, Mix mounted, leaps a canyon
twenty feet wide and ninety feet
deep. The story is built around a
bunch of cattle rustlers, with Mix
pursuing a stage coach in which
the leader of the band is riding. To
throw off pursuit the rustler has a
bridge over a deep canyon destroy
ed after the coach has passed over
safely. Mix rides up to the can
yon and after taking a short run
back for a good start, successfully
forces his horse over the chasm ami
continues the chase.
This scene, which flashes on the j
screen for but a few minutes, had
to be carefully planned because of.
n former experience Tom Mix had!
with his favoiiLc: m »unt. During
a personal appearance tour of New;
York City last fall “Toney” suffer-!
ed a had fall in a theatre. A run-1
way had been built from the stage |
to the center aisle and Mix rode '
swiftly down the aisle and guided!
Tony up the plank runway. But the
horse’s feet slipped and the animal
slid across the “apron” of the
stage. While no injuries were
caused by the fall, Tony was very ■
nervous during the time Ife re
mained in the theatre.
The r nainder of the program
consists of another of those funny
Century comedies, “Smarty” and
the la'est chapter of Art Acord’J
“The Oregon Tran.--
inteiest to farmers. He has desig- '
natc-d the sermons the “boll weevil” i
series. They have been filled with'
apt agricultural allusions and illus-
I lotions and have also conveyed a
strong spiritual message. The large
congregations have borne mute '
testimony to the popularity of the I
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Tournevr Sets Milestone in Prog
ress of Motion Picture
Art
With ‘The Brass Bottle,” to be
presented at the Rylander Theatre
■ next Thursday and Friday, Maurice
I Tourneur has set up another mile
i stone on the path of motion pic
' ture progress. A farce comedy, it
,is unique in that it does not de
| pend on action or slapstick for its
laughs, but on its situations. Fan
tastic and with many intensely
i dramatic moments, it neverthles* Is
; primarily a farce.
Tourneur, with' Marshal] Neilan,
Rex Ingram, I). W. Griffith, Eric
von Stroheim and Ernest Lu
bitsch, is one of the men who have
brought the motion picture direc
tor in the spotlight of public es
teem during the last year or two.
Tourneur's forte is the fantastic
the mysterious, the complexities of
life rattier than the socalled “hu
man-interest' theme. Individuals,
not types, ho seeks. Ho shuns the
stenciled plot, the obviqus so
ouencc. He steers the course of
his plots close to life itself and
away from the stereotyped beauty
< f the old days of the screen. Life
has another side as well as the
beautiful, ho believes.
In “The Brass Bottle” Mr. Tour
neur has turned fiis talent for the
mysttcrious, the fantastic, the
weird, to unusual channels. He
has made the weird provoke laughs,
the eerie to bring forth chuckles.
And through it all runs a note of
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I seriousness that ends in an, intense
i dramatic climax.
Mr. Tourneur spared nothing in
selecting for this latest produc
tion a cast that would interpret the
j Abstey story with fidelty to its
j magic mirth and mystery. Harry
I Meyers, Ernest Torrence, Tully
Marshall, Barbara La Marr, Char
lotte Mermiam and Otis Harlan
were the people picked to enact
j the* leading roles. The • remainder
j of the program for Thursday and
Friday will consist of Aesop’s
Fables.
MEIGHAN S NEW FILM
FINISHED.
Thomas Meig'han and a company
of Paramount players have return
ed to the company’s Long Island
Studio last week hnd finished
“Homeward Bound,” a sea st6ry by
Peter B. Kyne, after spending a
week at the Morse dry dock ii)
Brooklyn, where boat scene.; were
filmed.
The scenes picture the arrival of
a disabled freighter, which Mcigh
an, as “Jim Bedford,” the ' first
mate, has successfully brought to
port after the captain had ordered
the ship abandoned.
Mr, Meighan is now preparing
to depart for 'Hollywood, wherfel
he will make his next picture,
“All Must Marry,” by George Ade.
Lila Lee, who was leading wariian
in “Homeward Bound,” will haVe
a similar role in the. next picture.
