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SATURD-AY AF-TERNOON. FEBRUARY 16. 1924 “BLACK "OXEN”' IS “BLACK OXEN” STARTLING REVELATION OF SECRET OF.YOUTH AND BEAUTY CORINNE GRIFFITH AND CONWAY ‘ < • / TEARLE IN “BLACK OXEN” ' <L? f ’ jßSSffljr a . Os ? ‘ ' 'VB » dIMRr * WT’drlaaF fIORMA TALMA D'GE RIVAL TO SHEIK Norma Talmad’ge has stolen a march on the makers of sheik pho toplays by introidueing the Ouled Nail dancing girl to Hollywood. And those who have seen the fiery scenes between Joseph Schild kraut, in his Arabia nrole, and Nor ma Tahnadge, as the Ouled Nailed dancing predict that the sheik will go down to ignominous oblivion when both feminine and masculine theatre patrons see Norma in the sensuous dance of the mysterious orient in “THe Song of Love,” her very latest picture which comes to the Rylander soon. When Norma made her first ap pearance as an Ouled Nail dancer at the United Studios, there was such a demand to see her in her dancing costume that' the director, Chester Franklin, was forced to put tip three sets of excluding • flats” to keep out visiting* actors and actresses. < But they got in somehow anCT ANNOUNCEMENT Our place will be open Saturday, Feb ruary 16th, doing general . HAT CLEANING, BLOCKING and RE-TRIMMING / by factory method. .Workmanship and material guaranteed. A Our Prices' Are Reasonable ' Suits Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. AMERICUS HAf WORKS Allison Building Opposite Windsor Hotel Americus, Georgia r Are You Pleasure . Mad? At Night: the bubbling wine and jazz— At Dawn: spark- „ • ling water and peace. z “PLEASURE W MAD” . > -"2L ■X screen version of Blanche Upright’s sensationally successful novel, 'The Vai- ' ' ley of Content." Huntley Gordon Mary Alden <) Wednesday - Thursday RYLANDER ‘IgBgB - J ] ; J ’ looked through the angles of the canvas screens, climbed up on par allels, craned around cornrs and pecked through knot holes just the same. It’s a new Nogina the world will see in “The (rang. of -Love,” a Norma Who tfispftiys all the fiery emotion of which she is- capable. IHEllANlifr PASSES BY’i I Coining- to the Rylander next! Friday is “The Man Life Passed I By,” written »nd directed by Vic-i tor Schertzinger, the man respon-j sible for Jackie , Coogan's “Leng I Live the King.” For this produc- £ tion, which is said to contain many * thrills, there has been assembled 1 a cast of favorites including Percy [ Mannont, Jane and Eva Novak; Cul len Landis, George Seigman, Hob-1 Gertrude Atherton’s Novel With Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle Here Monday It has been said that there is nothing new under the sun and much of the criticism of motion pictures has been due to the great similarity in most photoplays which have been offered. However, in the case of Frank Lloyd’s produc tion of “Black Oxen” by Gertrude Atherton, whifh is the special at traction at the Rylander on Monday and Tuesday, it is said that one motion picture at least can have a decidedly original background and <n climax which is unique and satis fying. “Black Oxen” deals with rejuven ation, a subject little touched upon heretofore, but on,e that merits siderable thought and consideration, and, from the first title to the final fade-out there is a compelling some thing behind all of the action, the odd romance and tjie flapperism of the dynamic Janet, that compels one’s interest and' enthusiastic ad miration. Corinne Griffith, more beautiful than ever, plays the dual character of Madame Zatianny, a woman of 58 who appears 30, and of Mary jOgden, who in her younger years was the most charming member of New York’s social set. The flashes of Miss Griffith as an old woman, whjch recall the period just prior to her rejuvenation, prove a delightful contrast for the regal beauty that is hws in the other scenes and, her make-up is a remarkable achievc i ment. Conway Tearle, as the cynical i newspaper columnist who falls in j love with Zatianny but is deprived . of the right to marry her. when she ! decides thajt she is too old to marry ■ him, gives a splendid performance. I Clara Bow, a newcomer to the i screen, plays the part of Janet I Oglethorpe, a flippant flapper, art Bosworth. enemy. But this happens only af ter the girl’s young sister barely | escapes the penalty of her father’s I wrong against foe man whose in- I vention he stqlo. “The Man Life Passed By,” is said to be a swift-moving drama, loaded with action, and with skill ful comedy touches. Tear-moving and thrilling, with fun and fight and punch and passion, it shows scenes of rich luxury, and gay reck less parties. It is the story of a man whose bitterness in heart against life is changed by a- woman to love, and the woman i s the daughter of his PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK. Monday and Tuesday— ‘‘Black Oxen” with. Corihne Griffith and Conway Tearle; “Kidding Katie,” Comedy. Wednesday and Thursday “Pleasure Mad,’’ special pro duction; Aesop’s Fables. Friday—“ The Man Life’ Pass ed By” with' Cullen Landis and Eva Novak; and a comedy. Saturday—William S. Hart in “Breed of Men;” “Obey ■ the Law,” Century comedy; William Duncan in the l<jst chapter of “The Steel Trail.” THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER ‘ NOVEL AT RYLANDER THEATRE - . " \ •' / , f JI I « A VIVIDJSTORY OF THE AGE S«*OF f JAZZTIMEAND DIVORCE Y'*'® k■ jl Bl ■■ < -k 1 few i ■ A Wilm T •f ■“ ftvlp “Pleasure Mad" Popular Story at Rylander Wednesday and Thursday One of the most promising pic tures of the year is said to be “Pleasure Mad,” a Reginald Barker production, which comes' to the Ry land'er next Wednesday and Thurs day. Much is expected of the pic iture when if is recalled that Mr. ill K, ii Some of the Novelties Great Bandmaster will Bring Here Here are some of the stunts that the Sousa Band of 100 pieces, led by its famous direc tor, will give in the Rylander theater Monday, February 25, matinee at 2:30 only. “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean,” with 50 Mr. Gallagh ers and 50 Mr. Sheans. The echo of the Gallaghers and Sheans .will persist in a series of instrumental duets while the band plays “Three O’clock in the Morning.” A saxophone octet. Saxo phones playing with xylo phones. “Yes, We Have No Bahanas,” as only Sousa’s brasses and winds can play it, with some startling innovations. “The Victory Ball,” a remark •able playing of Schelling’s weird composition which nas held some Sousa audiences rapt. “On With the Dance,” a med ley of famous dance songs of the Nineteen Hundred, Nine teen Tens and Nineteen Twen ties, which will bring back memories and moonlight thrill ingly. A new Sousa Humoresque, “Look for the Silver Lining,” from the great musical comedy success, “Sally.” A solo by George Carey on the largest xylophone in the world. Solos by Rachael Senior, vio linist, and Miss Fuuchald, so prano, Sousa’s band playing “The Stars and Stripes For ever.” The list of features fill a book. San Franiisco was car ried off its feet a few weeks ago by "The flue Danube,” as Sousa plays it, according to the critics, while th e “March of the Wooden Sodiers” proved a sensation. Baker was responsible for “The Old Nest,” “Hearts Aflame” and “The Storm.”' Mary Alden will again appear in her favorite role of a mother, tho kind that won her fame in "The Old Nest.” Huntley Gordon, fam ous for his sterling characteriza tion in “The Famous Mrs. Fair,” will play opposite her. Others in the cast are William Collier, Jr., Norma Shearer and Frederick Truesdell. “Pleasure Mad” wdf adapted from Blanche Upright’s novel,” “The Valley of Content.” Dealing with the fortunes—and misfortunes —of a happy family of moderate which is split up by the af fections and indulgences which fol low sddden acquisitions of wealth, this book has proven a most-popu lar novel of last year. On the program with “Pleasure Mad” will be shown the latest is sue of popular Aesop’s Fables. \wHrPMhaKmiiSiF • SbwA Sop- MP?*?! Ss&sSg EA Startling Revelation of the ? Secret of I outh and Beauty, GQSW The story of a woman’s rejuvenation—a woman, who, passing the prime of life, regains youth and beauty and the power to love—a brilliant, expert- » . <3, - enced mind embodied with the bloom of twenty— nf a combination that brings every man to her feet— a picture, bold, vivid, masterly, one that makes the. ... ’ 3Mb*? heart leap to its pulsating revelation. ‘BLACK OXEN’ , Gertrude Athertons Sensational Novel CORINNE GRIFFITH and CONWAY TEARLE RYLANDER TUESDAY ÜBn * Orchestra, 35c Balcony, 25c; Children, ,10c ' JOHN PHILIP SOUSA MARCH KING BRINGS NEW “FANTASIA OF THE FAMOUS" Sousa’s Band to Give Matinee Performance at Rylander Monday, February 25 What would you reply if you were asked, from all the lunes which time has tried and found not wanting in inspiration and vi tality, to name the ten best? In what quality, for example would you regard Handel.’s “Largo,” say, as the “best” of three, the two oth ers being, for example, Bizet’s great bolero in “Carmen,” known «s the song of toreador, or the Song to the Evening Star in “Tan haeuser”? Would you regard “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” as a great tune? Or “A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”; How wou d you choose as between the great waltz in the Kirmess scene of Gounod’s “Faust” and Musetta’s lovely waltz in Puccini’s “La Bo heme”? How about Miserere in Ver di’s “II Trovatore” and the bolero in the same composer’s Sici lian Vespers”? which tune do you think will “live” the ' longer as between, says Sousa’s own 'THe Stars and Stripes Forever” and the well-known Serenade by Rich ard Strauss? What would you do if asked to make- a preference be tween Strauss’ waltz of ‘The Blue Danube” and Oscar Strauss' waltz of ‘My Hero in ‘The Choclate Soldier?” How about the chorus of pirates in the second act of ‘The Pirates o f Penzance” and ‘He’s Go ing to *Marry Yum-Yum,” in ‘The Mikado,” both operettas being by PAGE THREE the same composer, Sullivan? These, doubtless, are among the million problems in tune which ’ John Philip Sousa faced when he undertook his new fantasia, called “A Boquet of Beautiful Inspira tions.” It is his medley and characteristic instrumentational ar rangement of what he regards as the world’s “ten best tunes.” You will hear his list of ten when, on Monday, Feb. 25, he and his famous band comes for a matinee only concert in the Rylander Theater. The new fantasia is but one of a number of novelties in the program he has arranged for the visit. “THE HUNCHBACK” COMING Announcement has just been made by the Rylander Theatre cf the booking of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” for a one day engage ment in Martjh. This is considered one of the greatest picture produc tion of the year and is being pre sented on a lavish scale as was “The Covered Wagon.” A fifteen-piece symphony orchestra is being carr’ed and there will be reserved seats at the performances of the picture here. TODAY’S PROGRAM -Today at the Rylander. is 'being shown Harry Carey in a feature pic ture of the west, “Desert Driven,” “Baby Pfeggy in one of her famous two reel •comedies, “Hansel and Gretel,” and William Duncan i t next-to-dhe-last chapter of “The Steel Trail.”