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SUNDAY, JANUARY 4
TWO BIG ALL-STAR KEITH BILLS TO BE OFFERED
THIS WEEK AT IMPERIAL
Management Announces Two Extraordinary Keith Attractions
This Week Each and Every Act Big Time Headliners.
It seems that each hill of Keith’s bis
time vaudeville at the Imperial Improves,
over the last and from all indications the
two to be offered here this week will
surpass anything offered tu the past.
«*arl & Mullen, a clean*cut clever eou-
Pje. will usher in the new bill Monday,
a miniature production entitled.
‘A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit
?. and here you will see a little
of everything from grand opera to
comedy acrobatics. Dunbar and Caslar,
»n “Hound a Musical Circle,” will bring
J “ lu » of tlie latest song hits written by
Irving; Berlin and Mr. Caslar's numbers
written by himself. It is fourteen min
utes of music and jazz delivered in an
unusual way. Miss Dimoan has a pleas
ing voice and wonderful personality. Mr.
easier is an exceptional musician and in
this act he presides at the piano.
r * en and Havel in ''Some Afent/*
which has something to do with a the
atrical agent whose business is to secure
ambitious amateurs who are stage
CECIL B. DeMILLE'S BIG FEATURE “MALE AND
FEMALE" AT THE STRAND WEDNESDAY
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The Biggest Picture Sensation of Years—To Show for Four
Days Only, Beginning Wednesday.
Genuineness and absolute realism are
two factors in the enormous success
which Cecil B. DcMllle has attained as
a, motion picture director. These quali
fies are present in “Male and Female.”
Mr. PeMille’s latest Paramount-Artcraft
picture, which was adaptel from Sir
James M. Barrie’s lamous play, “The
Admiral Crichton.’’ and will be on veiw
at the Strand Theatre. It is Mr. De-
Milles desire that every property or
furnishing used in his production be the
best that can he bought. Properties used
in his latest picture total thousands of
dollars in value. One toilet set alone
Enid Bennett at Strand Monday and Tuesday
in “What Every Woman Learns"
Every Girl Has a Problem and if She Does Not Decide Upon
the Right Man She Has a Lifetime to Repent.
KpicJ Bennett in “What JSvery Wftman
Learns’’ is the F’wramount-Artcraft pic
ture produced by Thomas H. luce that
ornes to the Strand Theatre for 21 two
clays’ engagement beginning Monday.
This is heralded ais a dramatic story
of a disillusioned bride who happens to
choose the par.lor cut-up in preference to
the staid youth who was practicing law.
When |he girl’s grandfather died ho
admonish’d her to get. all the joys pos
sible out of life and thus xhe refuses to
weft r» younsj man who haiTjust been ad
mitted to the bar. He was too staid and
was continually talking about his first
case instead .of trying to amuse, her.
B*it she marries a young breezy sort
ofVhap who is funny, it seems, all the
time; a regular parlor clown. He begs
her to allow him to amuse her ail
AUGUSTUS THOMAS BIG DRAMA, ‘THE VOLCANO’
AT MODJESKA MONDAY ONLY
There are irOilie plgys that *-xerf extra
ordinary fascinations over the human
senses without revealing to the un
skilled analyst how their results are at
tained
Augustus Thomas, In hie groat n 4 v
Four-Star drama, “The Volcano,” star
ring Leah Baird, which comes to tha
Modieska Theatre Monday, has succeed
ed in conveying the irfiiression that a
hideous menace to human society exists
in the hydra-headed monster. Radicalism,
arid there is no doubt that he carries
conviction L. the minor of all Ameri
cans with i—gard *o the dangers of per
mitting sinister forces acting under the
BLANCHE SWEET AT RIALTO MON. AND TUES. IN
“FIGHTING CRESSY"
Blanche Sweet essays a’ role widely dif
fering from anyjhing she has previously
attempted in '•Fighting Cressy,” the
Jesse D. Hampton Paths feature,
coming Monday and Tuesday to the
Rialto TheatVe.
"Fighting Cressy” is a picturixaUon of
Bret Harte's story of California, "Cree
sy.” Bret Harte stands supreme as the
best story teller of the West that ever
lived. The picturing of his stories has
done a gTeat deal for pictures, for he has
brought the present into intimate con
trast with a pfeople who have passed, but
who will never fade from memory—a
CLIFFORD DURANT IS THE
FIRST TO ENTER FOR
500 MILE RACE
Indianapolis, I nd.——Clifford Daraatj
millionaire eon of W. C fnirant. head
the General Motore Company. registered
ihe first entry for the eighth interna
tional 500- sweaps takes race on the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Monday,
May 31st. . , _ ...
Durant wired his entry from Califor
nia, where, in the Chevrolet factory at
Oakland, a special 183 cubic inch flier
Is being built to the new specifications
of the Hoosier contest.
Durant was also the first to enter the
race last year, showing a decided par
tiality for the coveted No. 1 position on
the entry list. Like ail knights of the
wheel, Durant has his pet superatltutlon,
hi* particular brand being that No. 1
carries luck for him.
Durant Is the direct descendant of a
generation of mll'ionalre racing enthusi
asts that formerly boasted such illustri
ous names as Caleb Bragg, Krwln Berg
doll. Art Orelner, and the late David
Bruce-Brown and Spencer Wlshart.
He loves to dtlve racing cars, not fm
•he financial reward, but for the thrill
ai d glory of a victory well won A mil
lionaire In lilt own right many times
over, by virtue of his holdings In the
■ 'hevrolet Motor Car Company of Cali
fornia. of which he is vice-president, he
i.dii- the dangers of the speed sport and
Jeopardises his millions for the sake of
the Intense stimulus of high speed com
petition.
Durant has figured prominently in ths
-asoilne scented sport for several years,
bearing the title of Pacific Coast cham
pion by \ irtuc of his victories In the 191*
Montamarathon and Potlatch contests at
Tacoma, and his sweeping triumph in the
19t» Manta Monica road race, which h»
won at the highest speed ever recorded
for thet event, S 3 28 M P. 11.
In a'l his speed encounters. Durant lias
been characterised by sn absolute fear
lessness and a display of reckless dar
ing that borders on the verge of fool
haidlne; From the time Ihe starter's
bomb exploder. his foot is heavy on the
throttle, with no let-up until' he either
wins or his Iron steed goes to pieces un
der the strain. t
In the last Indianapolis engagement
he was well up among ths leaders until
at ihe ISh-mile post his steering gear
gave way and he was forced to retire
He was deeply chagrined at this loss of
opportunity to duplicate In the East the
racing triumph he had already garnered
in the Meat and Immediately upon his
return to the coasl, began preparations
for Ua coming Uootler contest.
Htruck. Everybody that knows anything
about big time vaudeville knows of this
nair as funmakers among the nest. It is.
therefore, unnecessary to say that their
offering is well worthy of their abdUv.
Arthur Pago and Ktbpl Gray in “Odds
and Ends of Vaudeville" will provide the
riot. This pair arc nothing mut class and
they have a line of songs, comedy and
steps that are the kind that makes
vaudeville worth while. The Petet Troupe
composed of three men and one lady in a
clean-cut and near rlsley act, will fur
nis the thrills. They are a ruartet or
gymnasts as well as expert tumblers.
Among their many difficult feats they do
a somersault from a sitting position
On Thursday there will be a complete
change of program, with the Sterling
Rose Trio. novelty aerial gymnasts; Cedi
and Bernice, in songs, dances and com
eriv McCormack and W ’nee. clever
coniedv ventri'onulsts; Lor* «. nd Fuller,
versatile
Trio, novelty comedy entertainers*.
cost $500,000 and the gorgeous gowns
worn by Gloria Swanson, Lila Lee. and
Bebe Daniels, who are in the cast, arc
worth a handsome price.
The story of Chrichton, the butler in
the family of English nobles, who was
wrecked with master’s yachting par
ty at sea and became their leader, has
long delighted thousands. Under the
master hand of Cecil De Mille It is a
screen masterpiece Thomas Meighan
plays the leading role, and Theodore Rob
erts, Raymond Hatton anrl Guy Oliver
are included in the cast.
through life; and she marries him.
The girl is disillusioned a few months
after, but bravely bears up. She finds
that her husband’s comedy was a thin
veneer and that he was ready a worth
less fellow. And he loved to gloat over
♦he attorney because he had won the
girl x
In a drunken spell one day lie tricks
♦be young gtttorney into his home nnd
shoots him. Then comes the dramatic
situation that the young bride took such
n prominent part in. The husband was
telephoning tne police to tell thorn that
he had discovered the attorney with hie
wife and had shot him.
Rut a bullet from the direction of his
wife cut short his speech. This is de
scribed as being one of the most dra
matic productions that Knid Bennett has
npppeared in for some time.
definite orders from Lenine and Trostky.
et al., to swarm into cities of the TTnlted
States from every human dump
on the European continent.
Mr. Thomas forces his story home
without too much reliance on knives,
pistols, bludgeons or any of the usual
melodramatic claptrap, but he makes one
shudder when he displays the calm case
with which these foreign bomb tossera
saunter about carrying enough explosive
material Jn their coat pockets to blow
up a city street, yet choosing crowded
subway trains, street cars, elevated
trains and commuter routes as thdir fa
vorite media of transportation.
people who lived and loved and, fought
in the days when that wondrous land of
California was young.
As “Cressy” the high-spirited daugh
ter of the most turbulent man In Tou
lumne County, Cal., Blanche Sweet is
the Central figure of a vivid and vital
tale. Evety character figuring in the
story Is a delightful and distinctive
study. The plot is woven around the ro
mance of Cressy and a cousin of the
clan >ppos;nt' her father. The dispute
la over a boundary line and Cressy very
neatlv se'lles the matter and culminates
her |ov« affair by buying the land in her
own .light.
YALE’S BASKETBALL
TEAM DEFEATS PITT
Pittsburgh.—Vale University's basket
ball team defeated the University of
Pittsburgh five, 38 to 25. in « thrilling
game here Friday night, while Ihe
Princeton quintette look the measure of
the-Carnegie Tech five, 35 to 17. The
Yale and Princeton fives will clash on
a local floor Saturday night.
• C. LA,-.a V ENTS Ttei!
T ' si:7 cE£ii.3.3t nines super-ipkiai FRODucnonvife
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"THE ROSELAND MAIDS" MUSICAL COMEDY THIS
WEEK AT THE NEW MODJESKA
SUN DA Y
THE ROSELAND
The offering this week at the New
Modjeska will be another big miniature
musical comedy, presented by Yirg
Dow mini's Roseliiul Maids, one* of the
Ingest class attractions on the. road to
day. On Monday they will offer a side
splitting musical coni-ds, ent't’.ed “Tho
Tango Teacher, ’ tilled with tuiVful
tum\s, pretty girls, clever steps and elah
orate wardrobe. They carry a special car
of scenery, electrical effects and props.
In o'her words n big sll production to bn
offered for popular prices. They will of
fer besides tho big bill five specialties,
yhich alone are well worth ten times the
admission prices asked. The Rosolnnd
Quartette harmony singers and comedi
ans Mill introduce a line of the latest
.IftJta numbers. Downard and Downnra.
[lie comedy entertainers, will disperse n
iu.e of chatter will make a mule laugh.
Jack Minnis. an old Augusta bo>, noted
for his sweet voice, will be with us again
offering sweet ballads in his own pecu
liar mhv which is always a rare treat.
Kitty Pownard, the little girl with tho
DENIKINE GOV’T
IS OVERTHROWN
London,—General Denlkine’s govern
ment in southern Russia haa been over
thrown and General Romanovskv has
been chosen to replace General Dcnikine
as anti-Bolshevik chief, according to a
w ! roless dispatch received here from
Moscow quoting advices from Tagonrog.
The report indicates that owing to de-*
feat» along the front a coup d’Etat oc
curred at General Denikinc’s headquar
ters and that his government has been
replaced by a group known as the
“Yozsozhdenye Roasie,” meaning the
“Regeneration of Russia.’*
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Thoi H Ince presents ENID BENNETT,n.*Vha.tEvery VomaflLearns*
Cj>aramounljdrtcrafl Q>iclur«
At Strand Mo.tday and t ucaday.
At Strand Be ginning Wednesday
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
big voice, will be heard in ballads de
luxe. Above all, a big beauty chorus to
dance their way into your hearts.' A
comulete change of program every Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday, and don’t
miss anyone of these bills, for there is
a big treat in store for you.
sill ■ iaJdfe
‘FATTY "AR-BUCK.LE Hayeeed*
{./tawi -QtuckLa.
At Rialto Fr.day and Saturday.
THOSH INCE presents
HOBART BOSWORTH and JANE NOVAkL
In. a Scene from/BEHIND THE DOOR-*
C/>aranioun(J?Jrtcra/t Qpidure
At Riaito Wednesday.
INDIANAPOLIS GETS
BOWLING CONVENTION
Cincinnati.—lndianapolis was selected
as the 1920 tournament city at the annua,
meeting of the Central States Bowlers'
Association here today. The territory
covered hy the association was Increased
from a 175 to 200-mile radius, which
takes in Toledo and Huntlnaton, *, V«.
Merman Menter. Sr., and Harry Yock
ey, both of Cincinnati, were elected p-es-
Ident and secretary, respectively.
THE
IMPERIAL
B. F. KEITH’S
VAUDEVILLE
DUNCAN & CASLAR
“Round a Musical
Circle."
ARTHUR PAGE AND ETHEL GRAY
“Odds and Ends cf Vaudeville.”
O’BRIEN & HAVEL
"Some Agent.”
Sterling Rose Trio
Unique Novelty
Acrobats.
ED LORD AND MARGIE FULLER
“Bits of This and That.”
McCORMICK &
WALLACE
* “At The Seashore.”
THREE TIMES DAILY—3:OO, 7:45 and 9:15 P. M.
THE BEST FOR IT’S “KEITH’S.”
I ULJ.
FIGHTING
CRESSY'
. JByßref Harte
She was a Fighting Maid
cf a Fighting Family
She waa a spirited last—
as wild as the wild rose—
with the heart of a girl
child—
and how the boys did love
her!
You’ll enjoy this drama
of rugged folks.
A Sweet-Harte Play of
Rugged California.
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THQ/. H.INCE
Presents
tnidi
Bennett
"WHAT every j
WOMAN LEARN/
By r.uoane B.Lewis
Directed By Fred Nlblo
Photographed fee Bamee
A Thomas M.fnce Production
A Btory that teaches a
powerful sermon that
every man and woman
should see. Don't miss it.
EARL & MULLEN
“A Little Bit of This and
a Little 'o That.”
4—Pete Troupe—-4
Risley and Tumbling
Experts.
LAST HALF
CECIL & BERNICE
The Little Dandy and the
Girl in Sengs and Dances.
VEIDE TRIO
Novelty Comedy
Entertainers.
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NEWMODJESKA
MUSICAL RCVUC
VIRG DOWNARD’S
“ROSELAND
MAIDS”
Offer Mon. and Tues.
“The
Tango Teacher*”
Also
“Roseland
Quartette
Harmony Comedy
Singers.
Joe J. Bennett
The Dancing Wonder.
Kitty Downard
In Ballads de Luxe.
Downard &
Downard
Comedy Entertainers.
Big Beauty Chorus
Those Singing and
Dancing Girls.
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