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Great Production Costs a Quarter of a Million
to Reproduce Chinese Secnes of Unbelievable
» Beauty and Gorgeous Costumes.
Nazimova, the distinguished Rus-«
sian star, is featured in “The Red
lantern,” a super-feature picture
which will be the offering all this
week at the Critemion. |
The expenditure of a guarter of a
million dollars, costumes. worth a
huge sum and the services of 1,200
persons, from diréctor, scenarig
writers and art designegs to an en
semble that embodied a small army
in size, represent but a part of the
great outlay in money, time and effort
that went into the production of this
gorgeous spectacle.
“The Red Lantern”™ is truly colos
sal when it is judged by the combi
nation of the supreme artistry of its
brilliant star and by the sumptuous
environment provided for her and her
stinguished cast. It has the added
lué¢ of being based upon one of the
most talked-of novels of the decade,
“The Red Lantern,” a romance of
the ancient city of Pekin, from the
pen of Edith Wherry.
The total cost of producing this
Bicture was, in round figures, $250,-
000, The time required to make it
was three months; eight weeks in ac
tual production and four weeks de
voted to elaporate research work car
ried out by June Mathis and Albert
Capellani—who made the screen
adaptation and scenario—in order to
insure absolute accuracy in the mat
ter of Chinese life and customs.
Nazimova's gowns alone—the splen
did robeg of state worn in the impe
rial court @f the Manchus and the
fantastic h%.biltznents of the God
dess of the Red Lantern among them
—were worth $75,000, and the cos
tumes worn by supporting principals
in the large cast and those of the
fhundreds of “extras” figuring in the
palace scenes and in the street fight
ing scenes reproducing the Boxer up
rising in Pekin at the time of the
siege of the Allied legations in 1900,
wx worth §50,000. Real Chinese
rugs used in the production repre
sented a huge outlay.
Nazimova is generally regarded as
one of the screen’s greatest emotion
al artists, and she will be remem
bered for her wonderful portrayal in
‘The Blinding Trail’ and Jake’s
Jazz Band Are Tudor Features
A gripping tale of the North W
s unfolded in that big production,
. *“The Blinding Tralil,” which has Mon
roe Salisbury for its star, and which
1 be seen at the Tudor all week.
picture opens Monday.
Jake's Jazz Band, which appeared
at the Tudor all last week, will be
bheard again this week, and will play
regular programs daily. This band
.h& great outfit, and its work last
’o& was received with the greatest
/enthusiasm. Jake Matthessen is the
head of this band, and his musicians
are of the highest order. The Jazzers
have a new set of pieces this week,
and the added attractions is expected
to draw record crowds to the Tudor.
There will also be a Lyons-Moran
comedy, a comedy that promises to
be one of the very best laugh-provok
ers these comedians have yet given.
The Lyons-Moran comedies are
' rapidly pushing themselves to thg
forefront of things ‘a:at are funny in
this world, and have achieved quite
a vogue in A‘(a.nta. There is no
denying the fa¥t that they are skill
fully made and cleverly acted,
Monroe Salisbury has another of his
fqreeful characterizations in “The
IMnding Trail” a Universal special
traction.
Salisbury has become noted for his
virile impersonationg of men of the
open places—so much so that an oc
casional relapse into “society” drama
is resented by his admirers. These
will have no cause for complaint in
the present instance, for “The Blind
ing Trail” is a story of the North
Woods, with Salisbury enacting the
;ole of “Big Jim” McKenzie, a lumber
08S.
McKenzie is blinded ta saving from
death the daughter of his employer,
whom he later marries. FHis blind
ness is thought to be only temporary,
and he does recover his sight for a
time, but with the birth of his first
rn, blindness sets in again,
“¥s wife, a fickle, pleasure loving
inan, becomes infatuated with Du
Brey, McKenzle's assistant and the
climax of the story is a thrilling fight
P Topz Fine Bill
Jazz musie, eublnt‘nn and all the
strenuous pastimes of modern life
play a conspleuous part In Thomas
H. Ince's latest photoplay, “The
Homebreaker,” in wq'l:h charming
Dorothy Dalton will be featured at
the Vaudette Theater for two days,
commencing Monday next,
It is the story of Row a clever
young girl, who had learned to
know life because of her experi
vEnces as a traveling saleswoman,
undertakes to cure her erstwhlle
lover of pleasure madness that has
estranged im from her,
To do this she enlists his aged
father in her services, and the old
man steps out to the musie of
youth, even though it costs him
sore feet and an achingback, Miss
Marbury, played by Dolothy Dal
ton, succeeds in uncovering a plot
by designing crooks to rob the man
she loves and his father. Shrewdly
she turns the plans of the crooks
to her own use so that she brings
them into the hands of the police,
and her lover to her own feet.
For this pleture Miss Dalton has
been surrounded by an exception
ally strong cpst. It includes Done
ald Mac Lean, Edwin Stevens, Frank
Leigh, Mollie MoConnell, HReverly
+Wravis and Nora Johnson,
Elsle Ferguson, in "The Eyes of
the Soul” on Wednesday and
Thursday, and Charles Ray, In
“Greased Lightning.” on Friday and
Baturday, complete the program.
**The Revelation,” which was shown
at the Criterion some months ago. In
“The Red Lantern” she will be seen
in a dual role, which gives her op
portunity for the most powerful char
acterizations of her brilliant eareer.
The two roles which she enacts are
ag widely different as the poles—one
is that of the Eurasian girl, Mahlee,
and the other Blanche, her English
balf-sister.
The story tells of the life of this
half-cast girl, who, born in a coffin
shop in the Chinese quarter of Pekin,
is at the death of her grandmother,
taken to the Christian Mission and
brought up amidst Ruropean sur
roundings. The conflicting blood
which surges in her veins causes her
passéonate restlessness—she feels the
lure of China, the mysterious and
passionate land of her mother, but
the inheritance of her English father,
the ideals and intellect of the West,
are strong within her and she ig like
4 ball in the hands of Fate—flung
from one extreme to the other.
How she becomes the powerful
War Maiden of China-—the Goddass
of the Red Lanterns—is shown in this
play of remarkable and startling hap
penings where all the mysticisms and
gorgeousness of the vivid East |is
woven into a powerful and fascinat
ing drama. The lure of the Purple
Forbidden City-—~the customs and
superstitions of wsecret China—the
gorgeous pageantry and pomp which
surrounds the Orient with golden
glamour s shown with a touch of
m:'arzic which brings romance to life.
he production is one of clever
artistry with a star of rare genius
who is ably supported by such noted
players as Darrell Foss, Noah Beery,
Frank Currier, Winter Hall, Mrs,
McWade, Virginia Ross, Edward J.
Connelly, Amy Van Ness, Harry
Mann, William Ragle Bye, Yukio Ao
Yamo. The production was directed
by Albert Capellani. |
The Criterion orchestra has pre
ed a special program of music to
g:.rm keeping with the atmosphere
of this picture and the presentation
promises to be artistic in every re
spect. I
which McKenzie, blinded, faces his
unhandicapped opponent.
“The Blinding Trail” is based on a
story by John B. Clymer and Stuart
| Paton. It was directed by Paul Pow
|ell, and was produced with the aid of
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Red Lantern,’”’ at the Criterion. Below, Monroe Salisbury, at
the Tudor.
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an excellent cast. A word of praise
must be said for the photography,
which ig superb. Some of the finest
snow scenes ever filmed form the
background for the action.
Salisbury’'s impersonation of “Big
Jim” is fit to rank begide his “Hugon
the Mighty” and “The Eagle” as a bit
of forceful characterization,
There are two leading womnen—
Claire Anderson and Helen Jerome
Eddy. The former has the rather
thankless role of the fickle wife. Miss
Eddy plays the part of Adele Grey,
who waits patiently, watching the
outcome of Claire’s flirtation, and who
is rewarded in the end.
Others in the cast are Arthur
Maude, Johnnie Cooke, Alfred Allen.‘
Fannie Ward Has New
Drama at Alamo No. 2
Kindly old Judge Creighton, with 30
years' experience on the bench, told
his friend, District Attorney Dexter,
that there is some good to be found
in even the worst of us, Dexter dis
agreed and voiced the opinion that
“Once a crook, always a crook.”
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The Man Who Turned White
ESERT Bandits Raiding a Caravan—A Beautiful Woman Kid.
D napped by the Merciless Outlaw Chief—Scenes in the Oriental
Dance Hall at Mzab—The Camp of the Arabian Raiders at
Night—The White Quarter of an Arabian Hamlet—The Foreign
Legion in Pursuit of SBahara Outlaws—A Battle of Three Against
Fifty on the Sands of the Desert—
Also Gaumont Weekly and Christie Comedy.
chessboard their controversy s sud
denly and tragically transformed into
a story of real life, for the judge is
shot by th&l, Dexter's wife is dis~
covered shielding and hiding one of
the desperadoes, and Dexter's whole
theory of life is overturned when his
wife confesses that she had been
dragged up in the underworid by a
modern “Fagin.”
Such is the theme of this, vitally
interesting photoplay which will be
shown at the Alamo 2 the flrst two
days of the week,
Lilllan Walker, in ““The Lust of the
Ages,” comes on Wednesday and
Thursday.
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Dorothy Dalton
“The Home Breaker”
“THE LITTLE WIDOW”
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“Eyes of the Soul” .
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where a North Woods Samson is betrayed
by a fur-clad Delilah.
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ANTHRAX ATTACKS CATTLE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, ARK., June 14.-——A
digease resembling anthrax has brokem
out among the cattle in the Herple c:sc‘
munity., Somae severe losses have been sufe
sored by farmers,
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
CHARLES RAY
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“Greased Lightning”
(Paramount)
FATTY ARBUCKLE in
“The Butcher Boy”