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“His Majesty, the American,” a Typical Fair
banks Production, Opens Fall Season With
Special Musical Features by Orchestra.
Douglas Fairbanks in “His Majesty
the American” the star's first inde
pendent motion pieture production
"rleased through the United Artists’
*srporation, the so<called “Big Four,”
Wil be the attraction at the Crite
%-n all this week, and in order to
take care of the bhig erowds that will
attend the management of the Crite
rion announces that the doors of the
sheater will open at 9 o'clock every
gyorning during the engagement,
n addition to this big feature, the
Criterion erchestra, under the able
direction of Dave Love, promises a
musical program of unusual inter
est. The overture lis expected to
Prove a big hit with patrons of the
theater, because it has been chosen
with especial tare and will be of
fered as a ‘“speclal’ marking the
opening of the fall season at the Cri
terion. An added feature on the pro
gram will be an amusing Mutt and
" Jeff comedy.
“His Majesty the American” is a
typical Fairbanks photoplay and of
fers the popular star abundant op
portunities for the display of his
well known athletic tendencies. The
story deals with the adventures of a
young New Yorker who simply lives
on excitement and his unquenchable
“™irst for new thrills leads him across
fwo continents and right into the
midst of a charming romance, Could
anything suit “Doug” better?”
The production demanded not only
very unusual and elaborate settings,
which were provided without reck
oning the cost, but also called for an
exceedingly strong cast to support
“Doug” in his journeyings through
the picture,
As in the case of the settings, Mr,
Fairbanks gave his director, Joseph
Henaberry, carte blanche to obtain
the best talent available, regardless
of expense.
The feminine lead is played by
Margery Daw, who has now appeared
opposite Mr. Fairbanks in six of his
best productions. When it is remem
bered that “Doug” uses rather heroic
measures to rescue damsels from dis
site him. In his new picture daunt
quires some experience to play oppo
cite him. In his new picture daunt
less “Doug™ performs numberless
miraculous stunts for the sake of the
girl, and so splendidly has she carried
owt her part in the picture that star
dom is shortly to be her reward.
Frank Campeau, probably the best
known and most oapably equipped of
all sereen and stage villaing, snu
again been intrusted with a very fin
portant role, which he varries off
with all the ability which has made
him so well and favorably known.
Great interest will attach likewise
to the appearance of ®am Sothern in
the production. Mr. Sothern is a
ounger brother of the famous E. H.
L)fl:«h. and this pleture marks his
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Scorched and humbled, she flees from the
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’\gonderful dramatic Pllofio” Production ' ~
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VINCENT KAY’S ORCHESTRA
Wil Hereafter Be Heard Regularly On the Tudor Program,
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+rirst venture in the “movies.” Mr,
| Sothern js known throughout Eng
;lamd as one of the foremost actors
| on the speaking stage, and it has
1 been sald that in this, his first scceen
{ @appearance, he has delivered himself
‘or a wonderful plece of character
work.
Lilllan Langdon, who appeared
A\ with Fairbanks in the first motion
'Mvture that he ever made, “The
| Lamb,” and who played with him in
| & number of his other productions,
| will be seen in his company again in
- “His Majesty, the American.”
Jay Dwiggins has a particularly
{ happy part in the new pioture. In
several of Mr. Fairbank's earlier pro
ductions Dwiggins, who is short and
fat and happy looking, made a very
delightful roly-poly foll for Douglas.
Albert MeQuarrie, who is likewise
not a newecomer to the Douglas Fair
banks Company, in addition to as
sisting Direetor Joseph Henaberry in
the produetion, has an important part
to play in the picture,
“Buall Montana,” Will Gillis and
Phil Gastrox, character men and dar
mg riders that they are, are also
prominent in this roundup of talent.
An jdea of the enormity of the pro
duction can be gathered from the fact
that Mr, Fairbanks spent $40,000 for
the erection of one “set” alone. This
is an entire section of a little French
town and was built complete to the
last detail, from palace to hovel,
from city hall to railroad station.
Every building was erected as per
{ manently as if it were designed as
the Hving quarters of the inhabit
ants of thé town. Even the streets
were paved, and the realism of the
buildings was 80 convinecing that
hundreds of swallows built their pe
culiar nests of mud in the copings
and cornices, : |
Another city of an entirely differ-.
ent character was built in the hills
surrounding the Douglas Fairbanks
studios, Here the action demanded
a Mexican village, and a Mexican vil
lage “Doug” built. . \
Still another episode derpanded a
New York tenement street, and
“Doug” built it. A
In addition to these and many
more, a complete European railway
line was built, 1,500 feet long and of
the standard continental design, the
carriages being &m “duplicate of
the type in use ip |
The interiors, ll;a e exteriors, are
said to be a revela o’!i.i‘a'both as to
magnitude and b?uty. Although the
new stage of the Fairbanks studios
is among the largest ever built, it
was not large enough for a tremen
dbus interior of a palace. So one
end of the gigantic stage was re
moved and sixty feet of flooring
added to give the proper proportion
~to this beautiful and imposing scene.
AEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, AUGUST 31. 1919
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Jim Corbett Appears
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In Big Alpha Serial
Every man and woman, boy and
girl in America knows James J. Cor
bett. He is a national hero. Be
cause of his fine bearing and his
clean living he js universally known
as "Gentleflmn Jim,”
This is the man who has eonsented
to appear in a new serial picture, the
most astounding that has ever been
seen in Atlanta. The title is “The
Midnight Man,” and the first epi
sode will be shown at the Alpha The
ater on Monday,
Jim may not have been acting
while he was pulling his history
making fights, but he surely demon
strates in the picture that he can
act along with the best of them.
Some of the stunts he pulls in the
film are better than any of the thrill.
ers that appear regularly in the
screen’s continued stories.
And he does some fighting, too-—the
kind that won him the world cham
‘pionship in the fistic arena. He
shows that the old art has not left
him. Scene follows scene in which
he does death-defying deeds that will
make the audiences hang on to their
seats with both hands.
With the first episodr will be
shown a Fatty Arbuckle,
Paramount Stars on
Big Savoy Program
Once before has Mary Pickford
played a Scotch role—in “The Pride
of the Clan,” one of her most popu
lar Artcraft pictures. lln “Captain
Kidd Jr.,” her new photoplay, which
will be the opening attraction of the
Paramount-Artcraft week at the
Savoy Monday, she is a‘zain Scotch,
but transplanted from the heather to
somewhere in America, as the grand
daughter of Angus MacTavish, keeper
of a curio and book shop where the
buried treasure, which is the basic
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idea of the story, is first noised about.
And Mary is said to be the most
winsome, close-fisted, lovable, and
at ‘the same time irritating, little
person you would find from one
coast to the other. 'She keeps Jim
Gleason, éngaged in writing a novel,
dangling till the very,end. And she
is a demon at a trade—so that when
the Hook 'with the secret plan of the
buried treasure- appears, she is one
of the foremost in arranging for the
search, which takes them to Cabbage
Center—and thercafter the tale is
one of the most engrossing, amusing
and whimsical character.
Fairbanks, Hart, Marguerite Clark,
Dorothy Dalton and Charles Ray also
have fine features 'during the week.
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“Strictly Confidential,” Her New
Play Is From Story
by Jerome,
Sau~cy Madge Kennedy appears at
the Strand this week in “Striétly
Confidential” The subtitle of this
uproarious farce is “The story of a
saucy maid and seven saucy serv
ants”—which is true to the very dot.
Those who come to see it may pre
pare to laugh. If they do not havv;
a muffler convenient they may break
into howlis of glee; but, since every
body else will be making similar
spectacles of themselves, this is not
a cause for serious worry.
There is much spice in the stbry,
and also in the scenes. There are
beautiful artists’ models in fetching
poses! ravishing chorus girls in be
witching :situations, and, altogether,
there is a dash and a sparkle to the
whole picture that’' will make it one
of the most popular that has ever
been at the Strand.
Jerome K. Jerome wrote the story.
In printed form it was known as
| "Fanny and the Servant Problem,”
When it first appeared all England
and America shook their sides. over
it. *ln "screen ‘veérsion “the fun is
doubly. intensified.
Madge Kennedy in “Strictly Con
fidential” offers the liveliest, fastest
gliding comedy-drama that the dainty
artiste has yvet made. It'’s crammed
full of original situations, heart in
terest and that refreshing romance
for. whiech Miss Kennedy has sole
rights.
Fannie, the musical comedy queen,
suddenly finds herself in love with
the scion of a great and noble fam
ily. You know the type—their an
cestry dates back to the good old
days of Sir Walter Raleigh.
| They wed and everything is lovely
till Ilittle wifie discovers that the
seven saucy servants are none other
than her blood relations.
Fine state of affairs.
Imagine what papa and mamma
and a flock of aunties say when they
find that darling sonnie has married
a—servant.,
Of course, a- servant never kept a
secret in the world. That's not what
Joe Marentette, one of the veteran
film men of Atlanta's photoplay col
ony, has been appdinted Southern
manager of the Realart photopiays,
v hich have opened a Southern dis
tributing office in Atlanta, and is
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servants are for. And what poor
Fannie has to contend with would
make a 6-year-old into an old woman.
But {4t's funny, and you’ll howl when
vou see how it all comes out.
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MONDAY AND TUESDAY '
Irene Castle |
In the Best Picture She Ever Made
“THE FIRING LINE?”
(Paramount)
ALSO
“TRYING TO GET ALONG”
Mack Sennett Comedy
Wednesday and Thursday
VIVIAN MARTIN
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‘You Never Saw Such a Girl’
(Paramount)
Also Christie Comedy
And Burton Holmes
Travelogue
now located temporarily in the
Hirsch Building gat~ 14¢ Marietta
street, pending the erection of a big
Fuilding in AValton street, which is
to house the new concern, .
The Realart Company controls the
services of Alice’ Brady, Mary Mlles’
Minter, Constance Binney and sev
eral noted directors, including Allan
Dwan, The territory assigned to the
Atlanta branch includes the States
of North and South Carolina, Geor=-
gia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee,
The new structure to be erected in
Walton street will cost $50,000. Work
will begin on it as soon as the neces
gary plans can be drawn and con
tracts completed.
Mr. Marentette, who has been rep
resenting the Frank Hall pictures in
this territory, was formerly manager
of the Goldwyn Film Corporation’s
Atlanta office. Prior to the opening
of the Goldwyn office, he represented
the World and several of the older
companies. He is one of the most
popular film men in the South, and
is known from Washington to Texas
by motion picture exhibitors.
Friday and Saturday
BRYANT WASHBURN
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‘‘A Very Good Young Man’’
(Paramount)
Also
“The Kitchen Lady””
Mack Sennett Comedy