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SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 25,' 1923 NOVEL PROGRAMS AT RYLANDER NEXT WEE Woman With Four Faces v Y ‘ i iWK few Jr* ***£.:..' 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! /C'jkx Hand over your trou- j.. - x x ,bles and cares to the hO'‘Woman Willi Four 1 She steals • careaway paramount | .C /7>z ‘’ Zi -' n> / I ■ 4 hlcS / “Sny Added Attraction j “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 | tE-D-G-E W O-R-T-H ■ The New Gorham Patterns in Sterling Silver ’’ TT 9I We have it in the flat-ware and ; I hollow-ware. We also have the i I newest patterns in Pickard China and a complete line of everything suitable ae a wed ding gift or for home use. i'll 1 I Americus Jewelry Co. B B • Wallis Mott, Manager 1 I vt JB Phone 229 I ' THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER | ja !. . * EM A W ‘.W" ’ 1 r? 6 MN#* •' f• 1 1 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 Series. I gMeet the Jazz-Genie —he grants any wish everything that nev jh’ er happened hap 8m g pens in this picture- wMk n | In ’n&l /■mU 1 ra / W'4'B * If i omedy, romance and dventuri mintded in " ne of the seasons jKggWxteSff sk j', V Harry Movers, Ernei lost delightful corned / Torrence, Tully Ma,i enbations. ' J tL ' shall, Ford Sterlin; ' '' Barbara La Marr. y. ■•y'--:.: .a. X ... -k—. 4DDED ATTRACTION—AESOP’S FABLES RYLANDER W . Regular Admission “Where All Americus Meets - —————i ■. ■ f •’ J •■'ife' silt z-■■ • ? . WlWkWill I - a ■ ■- ■ , M J \ OR®, wz 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 PAGE THREE 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.