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Constance Talmadge at Rylander in Great Comedy Hit
May McAvoy, Elliott Dexter J n ft SCCIIC f I'olll “ OtllV 38”
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Rylander Ushers
In New Fall Policy
With the approach of Fall the'
management of the Rylander an- '
noiinees a policy of entertainment
second to that of no theatre in the
South. Arrangements have been
mads„4or the booking of many big
pictures from Paramount, Metro,
First National, Warner Bros and
othpr companies. Some of the
stars and big productions to be
shown are Norma and Constance
Taljjiadge, Richard Barthelmess,
Jackie Coogan, Mae Murray, Wes
ley«®arry, Thomas Meighan, Gloria
Swjjnspn, Pola Negri, Jack Holt,
Busier Keaton, “Black Oxen,” |
“The Bird of Paradise,” “The Eter
nal City,” “Ponjola,” “Ruggles of
Reg Gap,” “North of 36,” “The
FiiXt «Xcat,” “The Virginian,”
“Maytime,” “The Breath of Scan
dal, Boomerang,” “Tiger
Rose,'” ’.‘The Gold Diggers,” “Dad
dies,” and many others.
In order that the picture prog
rams ! jiiay be properly presented
The Rylander has secured the serv
ices u£..Mr». Alfred A. Ganc as |
Musical Director, and he will havo |
charge of the splendid pipe organ
in the theatre. Mr. Gane arrived •
in Americus direct from the How
ard Theatre, Atlanta, and has had I
fifteen years experience playing |
pictures. Ke has delighted large ,
audiences at the Rylander the past ■
week and will arrange a number I
g! DEHIND her were twenty years of suppressed
K ' youth. Then at thirty-eight—the prime of life— uk
K she breaks the chains that held happiness a prisoner. 'M
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■/ quisite tenderness. May McAvoy, Lois Wilson, Elliott
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If you’re young and want to stay young—
ADDED ATTRACTION If you’re old and want to be young—
r> . 1>» *« . c z-. i ls vou ’ re voun", but don’t feel young—
“On Patrol”—Mack Sennett Comedy
You want to see this refreshing comedy
Al ruin a r- a Mr- t * ,at s * lows l^e wa *- And provides delicious
ALFRED A. GANE entertainment while it does so.
at the Organ
FALL PRICES Monday Tuesday
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Children 10c
"The Best in Entertainment"
’of novelty selections and pro
rogues for the near future.
The Rylander has also booked
big stage attractions for the com
ing months and will shortly make a j
complete announcement regarding
them.
BLUEBEIRDS MTHI
WIFE’ H PICTURE!
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Gloria to Appear at Rylander
Soon in Hit of the
Season
Gloria Swanson’s latest Para
mount picture, “Bluebeard’s Bth
Wife,” is a coming attraction at ;
the Rylander. It is said to afford '
Miss Swanson one of the strongest
'roles yf her career, and, what her
: women admirers will relish most
I perhaps, provides hhr with ample
opportunities for the display of
' amazing gowns.
The story is that of a beautiful |
i daughter of French nobility whose '
I father is impoverished and wishes
jto marry her off to a man of
wealth. His wish becomes reality
i when a rich American meets and
falls in love with her. She also
with him.
Then it is learned that the Amer
ican is a youthful Bluebeard” and
has been married seven times. One
wife, it is learned, died. The oth
er six he divorced. Miss Swanson
as the eighth wife is shocked by the
cold-blooded business arrangements
made of her marirage and deter
' mines she will not be like the other
i wives, divorced.
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So she becomes his wife in name
only and exasperates him to con
tinued outbursts of temper. But she
also awakens his love and the real
' manhood in him. As a final taunt,
| she causes herself to be found in a
| compromising position with anoth
ler man. Her husband is jealous
I and both realize he really loves her.
She agrees to give him a divorce
I but he, realizing what she means to
him, does not want it. Instead, he
goes to her humbly, her sweetheart.
Next Week’s
Program
Monday and Tuesday—“ Only
38,” Paramount Special Pro
duction; “On Patrol,” Mack
Sennnett Comedy.
Wednesday—Walter Hiers in
“Sixty Cents an Hours;” “Split
ting Hairs,” Sunshine comedy.
Thursday and Friday—Con
stance Talmadge in “Dulcy;”
Aesop’s Fables.
Saturday—Hoot Gibson in
“Shootin’ For Love;” Art Acord
in' “The OregoiJ Trail,” No. 10;
“Oh, Nursie,” Century comedy.
' THE AMERICUS TIMES- RECORDER
CONSTANCETJ.LNHDGE
PLEASING DUMB-BELL
“Dulcy” Brings Star to Americus
First Time in Many
Months
There is a flash of growing sub
tlety and maturity in the personal
ity which Constance Talmadge,
favorite comedienne of the films
stamps upon her portrayal of
“Dulcy” her latest picture which
plays at the Rylander next Thurs
day and Friday.
Perhaps it is due to Connie’s
marriage almost at the start of the
play—a reversal of the routine of
drama in which marriage is the
happy end of the trail—and to an
intentionally mature air with which
she carries off the role. It is more
agreable, however, to believe that
this growth portends a natural
broadening of her histrionic tal->
ents.
“Dulcy” is a distinct step from
comedy into the more consequen
tial filed of serio-comedy. The
part of the giddy wife who engulfs
her husband in embarrassment
through misguided desire to help
in his business affairs has a touch
of tragedy in it that is ideal for
Connie. It is a step in the transi
tion of her career toward the deep
er side of comedy.
“Dulcy” is a dumb-bell. Connie
makes her the very personifica
tion of a bone-head—with enthus
iasm. She plays the role of a
young wife whose forte is to spill
the beans. She is imbued with a
desire to help and only succeeds
in hindering. The climax of her
stupidity comes when she thinks a
woman’s wit and intuition would be
a powerful ally in her husband’s
affairs, and seeks to interject hers
into them, almost ruining hubby.
Just how the situation is retrieved
is one of the best laughs of the
picture.
“Dulcy” marks the first ap
pearance of Constance Talmadge
on an/ Americus screen for many
months and in the, picture she is
supported by a capable cast includ
ing Claude Gillingwater, May Wil
son and Johnny Harron.
SIXTY CENTS JN H9UR'
STJPS WALTER M?
Slav’s Second Feature Picture at
the Rylander
Wednesday
Sixty laughs a minuts with Jolly
Walter Hiers as a small-town soda
clerk in love with a bank presi
dent’s daughter is “Sixty Cents
An Hour,’’ the Paramount picture
to be shown at the Rylander next
Wednesday. This is Walter Hiers’
second feature production and has
a remarkable cast including Jac
queline Logan, Ricardo Cortez,
Charles Ogle, Clarence Burton and
Guy Oliver. '
The comedy in “Sixty Cents An
Hour” is bright throughout and
scampers along merrily to Un uni
que finish. The story is that of p.
soda jerker, a fat young man work
ing for a slim salary. One of
Jimmy Kirk’s ambitions is to take
Mamie Smith, daughter of the
Bank President of Zavina, out for
an automobile ride. When he hires
a touring car at the rate of sixty
cents an hour, the whole family
pile in and Jimmy’s day is spoiled. '
His setond attempt, however is
much more successful for this time
he gets a roadster and rides off in
triumph.
But a dark plot is ■ brewing;
crooks are on his trail, for under
the seat of the roadster is a goodly
quantity of silver coin, loot from
the raided Zavina bank, and they
are determined to get it. But this
is a far harder task than they an
ticipated, and soon they find them
selves bound securely and deposit
ed safely in the bottom of the car.
Then the fun begins.
On the program with Sixty Cents
An Hour,” is being shown “Split
ting Hairs,” a Sunshine comedy.
'‘BONEHEAD” PASSE;
NOW IT’S “DULCY”
“Dumb-bell” has gone into the
discard in Hollywood.
A new word now reigns su
preme.
It’s “dulcy” now when somebody
pulls a “boner," or in politer par
lance, a faux pas. It’s “dulcy” when
sombeody “spills the beans” by
talking out of turn. It’s “dulcy”
when some “green pea” asks you
in the presence of your wife if
you’re going to, sit in at the poker
game that night after you’ve told
your better hall you’re going to a
i lodge meeting.
“Dulcy” was derived from Con
stance Talmadge’s new film pro
duction of that name. In this
screen adaptation of one of New
York’s biggest comedy successes,
Constance Talmadge finds herself
in a new type of role.
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Hoot Gibson is expressive of one
of the most tragic incidents of
ante-war history in his latest fea
ture, “Shootin’ for Love,” to be
shown at the Rylander next Sat
urday.
He appears in the role of a Texas
youth who returned from many
months of fierce fighting with the
A. E. F., unscratched, but a vic
tim of the dread malady, shell- I
shock. The youth has always been '
known as a ‘fighting fool’ and when
he shows such abject fear at every
She had a tomorrow ticket
for a today berth—
and told the conductor it was per
fectly simple. All he had to do was
to hold her ticket for some person
who was leaving tomorrow, ami
she’d use the berth today. You
~ guessed it! She was a dumb-bell.
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Here’s Connie’s best comedy—one you can’t afford to
miss. Romance in good measure, exciting romance of the
Thursday home, house parties and big business— with Constance
P • i romping through, pulling bonehead plays that will keep
r riuay you , n an U p roar>
£ “ RYLANDER
Children 10c If you miss a single program you are missing a real
treat..
SATURDAY AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER 3, 192 3
report of a gun, which was fre
| quent in his country, his action
j was misconstrued by his father, an
I old time cattleman, who knew noth
! ing of his son’s illness, because
that youth did not see fit to con
fess it.
“Shootin’ for Love” is a story of
much human interest appeal and
dramatic action and the horseman
ship and nerve that have won for
Gibson the distinction of being the
world’s greatest cowboy are well
displayed in the production.
In addition to the Hoot Gibson
feature Saturday’s program will
I comprise Art Acord in the latest
chapter of “The= Oregon .Trail”
and i a Century comedy, “Oh,
Nursie.”
MANY STARS PLAY IN
'ONLY THIRTY-EIGHT'
Lois Wilson, Elliott Dexter, May
McAvoy, George Fawcett, in
Paramount Picture
One of life’s deepest problems—
Shall a widow of thirty-eight or
forty years renounce all hope of
another love romance in order to
obey the wishes of .her children?
forms the basis of William de
Mille’s Paramount production
“Only 38,’ playing at the Rylander
on Monday and Tuesday. Lois Wil
son, one of the four featured play
ers, enacts the role of such a moth
er. May McAvoy is the gruwn-up
daughter and is also featured as
are Elliott Dexter and George
Fawcett. , ,
“A woman’s right to love and to
be loved never ends,” declares
Miss Wilson. “When her first hus
band passes away, that ough'K not
to mean that his widow live the
rest of her life alone and unhappy.
She should be able' to again seek
romance and cheer. In ‘Only 38’ I
play the role of a voman ,lisi
than two-score years old, a widow
who finds love again but whose sec
ond romane'e is opposed by her chil
dren. I feel certain that I would
not spurn happiness were I faced
with the same issue in real life.”
"Although, as the daughter in
“Only 38,” I suppose my mother’s
romance following the death of my
father, I would never think of such
a thing actually,” says Miss Mc-
Avoy. “A mother has the same
right to romance as her children,
if she thinks it wrong to marry,
believing it a disrespect to her dead
husband, then she should act as
she thinks best. At most, it should
not be the business of her children
to, judge for her. On the other
hand,, the children would soon
marry themselves, automatically
leaving the mother alone. Unsel
fish children naturally think of this
beforehand.”
■On the, program with “Only 38”
is being shown a Max Sennett
comedy, “On Patrol.”
