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NAZIMOVASUPRENE N THE
0 LINTERY AT CATERD
Nawimova, the distinguished Rus
mdnn star, is featured t-.? “The Red
tern,” a - ure ture
which will bo.mrofiwnu afleufla
weeck at the Criterioa.
The expenditure of a quarter of a
million dollars, costumes worth a
huge sum and the services of 1,200
persons, from director, scenariq
writers and art designegs to am en
semble that embodied a smal] army
in size, represent but a pari of the
great outlay in money, time and effort
that went into the production of tha‘
Sorgeous 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 sum.ptuous‘
environment provided for her and her
#.distinguished cast. It has the added
value 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
picture 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 elaborate research work ca.r~{
ried out by Jume Mathis and Albert
Capellani—who made the screen
adaptation and scenario—in order to'
insure absolute accuracy t the mat»‘
ter of Chinese life and customs. |
Nazimova's gowns alone—the splen- |
did robeg of state worn in the impe
rial court of the Manchus and the
fantastic habiliments of the God
dess of the Red Lantern among them
-—were worth $75000, and the cos
tumes worn by sapporting principals
in the large ecast and those of the
hundreds of “extras” figuring in the
palace scenes and im the street fight
ing scenes reproducing the Béxer up
rising in Pekin at the time of the
wficge of the Allied legations in 1900,
were 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 bher wonderfwl portrayal in
‘The Blinding Trail’ and Jake’s
Jazz Band Are Tudor Features
A gripping tale of the North W
¥ onfolded in that big production,
“The Blinding Trafl,” which has Mon
roe Salisbury for its star, and which
will be seen at the Tudor all week.
The picture opens Monday.
Jake's Jazz Band, which appeared
at the Tudor afl last week, will Nl
heard again this week, and will play
regular programs daity. This band
‘is a great outfit, and its work last
week 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 erowds to the Tuder.
There will also be a Lyons-Moran
eomedy, 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 the
forefront of things that are funny in
this world, and have achieved quite
a vogue in Atlanta. There is no
denying the fact that they are skill
fully made and cleverly acted.
Monroe Salisbury has another of his
.‘aorceful charaeterizations in *The
linding Trail,® a Universal special
attraction.
Salisbury has become noted for his
virile impersonationg of men of the
open places—so much so that an oe
ecasional 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
role of “Big Jun*® McKenzie, a lumber
boss.
McKenzie is btinded n saving from
death the danghter of his employer,
whom he later marries. His blind
nesg is thought to be only temporary,
and he does recover his sight for a
time, but with the birth of his first
born, blindness sets in again,
4 His wife, a fickle, pleasure loving
woman, becomes infatuated with Du
Brey, McKenzie's assistant }nd the
climax of the story is a thrilling fight
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“Dorothy Dal
“Dorothy Dalton
Tops Fine Bill
Jazz musie, cubist art and all the
strenuous pastimes of modern life
play a conuplc.oua part in Thomas
H. Ince's latest photoplay, “The
Homebreaker,” in which charming
Dorothy Dalton will be featured at
the Vaudette Theater for two days,
ecommencing Monday next,
It is the story of how a clever
young girl, who had learned to
)knuw life because of her experi
ences as a traveling saleswoman,
undertakes to cure her erstwhile
Wver of pleasure madness that has
estranged him rrom her,
To do this she eniists 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 aching back. Miss
Marbury, played by Dolothy Dal
ton, succeeds in uncovering a plat
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 pieture Miss Dalton has
becn surrounded by an exception
a'ly strong cast. It includes Don
ald MaclLean, Edwin Stevens, Frank
leigh, Mollle MceConnell, Beverly
#¢ Trayis and Nora Johnson
Clsle Ferguson, in “The Eyes of
the Soul” on Wednesday and
Thursday, and Charles Ray, in
“Greased Lightning,” on Friday and
Suturday. gomplete the program.
*“The Revelationy™ which was shown
at the Criterion some months ago. In
“I'he Red Lantern” she will be seen
in a dual role, which gives her op
portunity for the most powerful char
acterizations of her brilliant career.
The two roles which she enacts are
ag widely different as the poles—one
is that of the Eurasian girl, Mahlee,
anfd the other Blanche, her English
The story tells of the life of this
half-cast girl, whe, born in a coffin
shop in the Chimese quarter of Pekin,
is at the death of her grandmother,
taken to the Christian Mission and
brought up amidst European sur
roundings. The conflicting blood
which surges in her veins causes her
passionate restlessness—she feels the
lmre 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 is like
a ball in the hands of Fate—flung
from one extreme to the other, |
How she becomes the powerful
War Maiden of China—the Goddess
of the Red Lantern—is shown tn this.
play of remarkable and startling hap
penings where all the mysticisms and
gorgeousness of the vivid Bast is
woven into a powerful and fascinat
ing drama. The lure of the Pn::l;(
Forbidden City—the customs
superstitions of secret China—the
gorgeous pageantry and pomp which
surrounds fthe Orient with golden}
glamour 8 shown with a/touch of
magic which brings romance to Hfe.
The produetiom s one of cbver{
artistry with a star of rare genius
who is ably sapported by such moted
piayers as Darrell FPoss, Noah Beery,‘
Frank Currier, Winter Hal, Mrs.
McWade, Virginia Ross, Edward J.
Commelly, Amy Van Ness, Harry
Mamn, William Fagle Eye, Yukio Ao
Yameo. The production was directed
by Alvert Capellani.
The Criterion orchestra has pre
pared a special program of musie to
be im keepimgz with the atmosphere
of this picture and the presentation
promises 0 be amtistic in every u-‘
spect.
which McKenzie, blinded, faces his
wnhandicapped opponent,
“The Blinding Trail” is based on a
| story by John B. Clymer and Stuart
| Paton. Tt was directed by Paul in-l
|en, and was produced with the aid of
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ledTl;?lnm' at the Criterion. Below, Monroe Salisbury, at
the or.
an excellent cast. A word of praise
must be said for the photography,
which ig superb. Some of the finest
snow scenes ewer filmed form the
-bagl;fint)’und a-;m the action. -
sbury’s ation “Big
Jim” is fit to ran?r:e(:de his “Hugon
the Mighty” and “The Eagle” as a bit
of forceful characterization,
There are two leading women—
Chaire Anderson and Helen Jerome
Eddy. The former has the rather
thamkless 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. 1
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 op the bench, told
his friend, District Attorney Dexter,
that there is some sood to be found
in even the worst of us, Dexter dis
agreed and volced the opinion that
“Once a erook, always a erook.”
From a friendly debate over the
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The Man Who Turned White
ESERT Bandits Ralding 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 Sahara Outlaws—A Battle of Three Against
Fifty on the Sands of the Desert—
Also Gaumont Weekly and Christie Comedy.
chessboard their controversy is sud
denly and tragically transformed into
a story of real life, for the judge is
shot by thugs, 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 underworld by a
modern “Fagin.” :
Such is the theme of this vitally
interesting photoplay which will be
shown at the Alamo 2 the first two
days of the week.
Lilllan Walker, in “The Lusgt of the
Ages,” comes on Wednesday and,
Thursday. |
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Dorothy Dalton
“The Home Breaker”
(Paramount)
“THE LITTLE WIDOW™ :
WEDNESDAY,THURSDAY
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“Eyes of the Soul”
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doors where a North Woods Samson
is betrayed by a fur-clad Delilah.
A refreshing, pleasing and true
to-life picture that strikes straight
to the heart.
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| ANTHRAX ATTACKS CATTLE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, ARK. June 14--=&
disense resembling anthrax has broken
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(ered by fermers,
FRIDAY-SATURDAY 4
CHARLES RAY ~
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FATTY ARBUCKLE in
“The Butcher Boy”