Mary Picklord
Regent Theatre
8 Shove—2:15, 7:15 and 9 '
Today
VIOLA DANA ‘
in a Heart Drama of Compelling
Sweetness
“Weaver of Dreams”
Latest Hearst Pathe News
and 3 Keystone Comedy
Tuesday
Leah Baird
Supported by James Morrison and
Violet Palmer, in.
“Life or Honor?”
A Drama of Mystery and Thrills
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Wednesday-~ Marguerite Clark in
the Paramtulmt. “Ball's Matinee
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THEATRE TODAY
in a Screen Drama of Heart interest,
“Weaver-of Dream.”
Viola Dana, the brilliant little star
at the Metro picturiaation of Myrtle
Reed's novel, "weaver’oi Dreams,” is
supported ,by a capable cast in this
All-Star Series picture. which was
produced at the Metro West Coast
studio at Hollywood, California. un-
, der the direction, of John H. Collins.
‘Bliftord, Bruce appears opposite the
‘ star as Dr. Cami Keith. Bruce was
Miss Dana's leading man in , “The
Winding- Trial." her first, California-
made production, in which he played
Zachary» Wando. ’
Miss Dana's picture, "Weaver of
Dreams," has a real significance. it
provides her with a role similar to the
ones that gave her first success. This
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Thursday—Mabel Normand in
the Goldwyn Feature, “The Floor
Today and Tomorrow
The Crowning Achievement of
‘ .‘AMERICA’S SWEETHEART"
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“Stella Maris”.
Also
James Montgomery Fla‘gg
LATEST FILM sums
“THE sreuoo"
and the ..
PALACE NEWS PICTORIAL —
Presenting
THE words in normal
Coming Wednesday
Enid Bennett
in
“Naughty-Naughty”
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PALACE TH EATRE
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America's Sweetheart, Mary Pickford
‘ at the Palace Today and Tomor-
row in Stella Maris."
Besides playing two roles herself,
: Mary Pickford has surrounded herseil‘
with a notable cast. in her latest pro-
duction . for Artcraft, which will be
shown at the Palace theatre today and
~«tomorrow. The photoplay is adapted
*, by Frances Marlon' from Wm. .l.
liocke’s novel, “Stella aMrls." and pro-
"; drilled by Marshall Neilan, whose mas-
. :torly direction of Miss, Plckford's
‘ Just two successes, “Rebeccn of Sunny-
Q; brook Farm" and “The Little Prin-
ctrss," caused much favorablecomment
Ills}; Pickford plays the role of Stella
Maris and 0f Unity Blake, two entirely
. different parts, each carrying a powar-
l'ul appeal . - .
.Thefcfdi-acters surrounding the Art-
craft star ln‘the production have been
especially well chosen, Conway Tearle.
who has maintained a notable reputa-
tion on the stage and in films for some
. V years, was engaged to go to the West
~ ' role of John Risca, English Journalist‘
. coast studio of Artcraft to play the
- and gentleman, who proves an ideal
selection for thr leading supporting
, ‘l'ole. Camille An‘. ‘wich, a member of
H5“ nobleman and uncle °f Stella’M” ,fi'ght,"a‘ud one explosion of a shell '
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7'ft1le Lasky stor'i ( )mpnny. is cast for
rat dirllcult pal of John Bracers wife.
rwoman whose liner sensibilities have
‘ been utterly lost through drink.
Herbert Standing, the eminent Eng-
. tar ”Miss lda Waterman is the distin-
guished, yet motherly, Lady Eleanor
Blount. while Josephine Crowell ap-
. heard as an aristocratls English
' opinster.
‘Enld Bennet. the charming Austra-
lian “find" of Thomas H. lnce, who re-
cently created a furore .inher Parn~
gmount debut in "The. Keys of the
lmighteous," will apepar again on“Wed-
nesday, at" the Palace Theatre in
f'blaught‘y Naughty.” This is not, as the
name would ‘indicate, a travesty on
light opera, but a whimsically funny,
true-tolife story of a gril in a small
mid-western town who struggles to
bring tothe narrow-minded natives, a.
realltntiou‘of their loss in refusing'to
admit the; newer forms of amusement.
incidentally liar old-time sweethéitrt,
editor of the local news sheet, is one ,
, ot thenarrourest of all—andit‘is to .his
regeneration especially’that she turns
» her attention—with Zwllat sunbeds will
} beseen at tho ,PalncefWeduesdllY. «
«Want. ads. lulusmnu.’
)t‘t'
story is taken from the book by that
gnome written by 'Mrytle Reed. It is a
‘touching tale of the life of a gril in a
1small country town and is particularly
Ifitted for Miss Dana's well-known
sympathetic interpretative powers.
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,_ REGENT THEATRE TOMORROW
lLeah Baird in a Drama of Mystery and
Thrills” Life or Honor?"
A gripping drama presented in a no‘
vel way. What is to be done? The ques-
tion conCerna a Man's Life or a Wo-
man's Honor. if the one is to be saved,
the other is bound to be besmirched.
In both cases the parties involved are
absolutely innocent. Yet incidents are
so clear, beyond dispute, and 'to all up-
7' mot ’DAIM, AT THE kisser" “933- the‘ mat ambitious even-killed and 3,000 wounded. War-ions”
‘ :undertaken. Never before was parts ofthe'town, 11.1%!“de entire
*there such a continual volley of 8999,“ and the P951311 bazaar, are
‘fil'lllg from the British anti-air~ burntng.
leraft batteries.
Thousands of people had their
first experience ill a raid. They
were persons from many points of
England. Scotland and Wales, who
took advantage offliell’hitsuutide
holidays, which run from Saturday
until Tuesday, to visit the metropo—
lis. 0n the other hand. thousands
of Londoners had gone to the
c ultrysidc and seashire “resorts
fo brief vacations. They cut short
these visits and hurried back to
London to learn the fate of their
‘homes and relatives. '
Except for a few brief pauses.
the gunners blazed away with a
terrific concentration of tire. I'l‘he
raiding (iotllas flew at ii great
height, the majority of them keep
illg well up to 12.000 feet in a Very
clear sky.
LONDON, May filth—Fourteen
persons were killed and more than
forty others were injured when
Eutcntc allied airplanes raided (.‘o-
logllc on Saturday, according to a
dispatch from Amsterdam,“to the
(‘Q‘llil‘ill News Agency. Six allied
aviators participated ill the at-
tack. Much damage was done ill-
the center of (‘ologntn especially in
the market. place.
MOSCOW, May filth—Mussul-
mulls and Bolshcvik forces are on-
gngcrl ill a deadly conflict at Buku,
on the ("aspirin Sea."
in Wilton.
' pearances so conclusive are the facts
, yhe dare do so. it positively means thol
, icall gunners have brought down
dispatches to the Moscow
papers -“
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in the case. that a life is to be snuiled
lout lf~if the one person who can rec-
ftify things will not come forth; yet il'
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i sure death of a woman's honor. What’s 1, .l
‘to be done? Well then. it you must
eknow. see “Life or Honor." and after
you have been hem in suspense that;
[has gripped you as in a vise, you will
’be‘pleasantly after having been kept
lwoundering as you followed the ire;
lmendous action of the drama Nonmwlll l
ever know how many expiated the,
crime of others, being convicted until
'perlured on circumstantial evidence. In
this respect “Life or Honor" nlay well
be used as an argument against capital
punishment. l
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ALLIED ARMIES AWAIT
CONFIDENTLY RE-
1' SUMPTION BY THE
GERMANS 0F OFFEN- . p [E
SIVE STARTED TWO . , ._ _
MONTHS AGO .. VIOLA. DANA .. .. “mg”.
(Continued-From. in. one in A WEAVER 0E DREAMS iiiv‘ic'égri‘htfl’
Acol'lling to 13ng force of deputy sheriffs. kept
"ows' back the curious crowds which throng-
000 persons have llt‘l‘ll'ed
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l PITTSBURGH. 9a., May 20.—Sixtl"
three charred" and: blackened bodies
lay today in the temporary morgue at
Oakdale. near here, where on Saturdayl
the high explosions. plant of the Aetna
Chemical Cornnany.was destroyed by
a series of explosions. Ninety-four in-
jured were being cal-reg for in Pitts»
burgh hospitals, and officials of the
company said that 212 of the total
working force of the factory had not
yet been accounted for. Many of these,
it was expected would register during
the day at the cities which the com-
pany oper'i'od in the stricken town on’
Saturday night.
Investigation of the disaster by‘ fed-
eral, state, county and village author-
lities was in progress while the search
lot the ruins went on methodically un-
,der the direction of Coroner Samuel
‘Jamleson. A heavy detail of troopers
lfronl the state constabulary add a
the hillsides overlooking the ruins.
Noxious gases from the explosion
still hung in the valley and, early to
da ‘it was decided to clear away the
Julius of building with dynamite
in the hope of more quickly exploring
Showing at the Regent Theatre Today
. , , ‘-
Euulnnd since April f2, and the
'first- on London since March 7.
lwhcll eleven Were killed llll(l forty—
'si.\' injured ill the British capital.
‘ Anti-German dclnoustrutious ill.
Prague by (‘zcchs and Jugoslnvs
htvc resulted in H state of since be-
ing proclaimed in the Bohemian
oupitnl. The garrison has been re-
inforccd and the Jugoslnrs ordered
out of the city.
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i WITH THE AMERICAN'ARMY
IN FRANCE; Sunday, May 19
(Associated Press).—-Mlljor Raoul
Llll’berry, of'the Alllericull Flying
Corps, has been killed in an aerial
bllttle. He will be buried to-
morrow with full military honors
,in which both Alnccl'ica'n and
{French troops ,will participate.
llllfberry’s home was ill Walling-
ford, Corin’. _
The German machine which
bouht ’Lufbcry down, which was
armed with two machine guns
with an operator for each piece, ap-
parently escaped. '
Lufbery’s ' only wound, aside
from those received when he. crash-
ed to earth, was a bullet. hole
through the thumb. Apparently
the same bullet punctured one of
the gasoline tanks of his machine.
The German machine was under
heavy anti-aircraft. fire ‘several
times bOth before and after the air
ent heatre tomorrow.
‘ ‘t
upset the enemy plane, but it. man—
laged to straighten out again.
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, PARIS, Sunday'May 19.~Amcr-
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a German airplane, it was an;
uounced officially tonight.
LON)ON,. May 20,-The latest.
aerial attack‘of the Germans on
Londouaud its environs probably.“
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Dan’t stay headachy, constipated. nick, ‘
with breath bad and stomach your.
LEAH sAlqur EDWARD MACKAY' I
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. .A Photodrama of Mystery and hrills. "Life or Honorl". oh
on.
owing at the Reg-
, a” ‘ in ‘ told:
, BBT'THE FlBlE ill
lanes in the but Ages of new
More, before the‘ Much Accent had
found item's; to the Farm, and when
the Cabbage corners in our rural
Districts still pronounced Vaudeville
“ruwdavil” instead of “Vodeviel,”
there lived a Showman whose chief
Antwan a performing Mule. The.
Nine of the Showman was Wage;
Payer and the Source or hisjncomo
was dubbed Industry.
Now it so happened that Wage-
Payer had spent a number of tedious
year- teaching industry to perform
certain {deter Tricks such as would
tend to stimulate tlle.Consumption of
chewing gum and Peanuts among the
gaming Audiences, and had burned
i alumni lltlllllll Merrill: 2
Tilt PillFilBlllllB Milli
than of a Ford Runabout in I Field
of messages. 7 1‘ .
E‘Where doypu come in on, the gate
Receipts 'i" asked the cunning Agitator.
To which the Muleteers responded:
“He gets the Dough and we get the
Crumbs."
And so a Delegation of Wage-Earn-
.ers was sent to interview Wage-Payer, ,
“Such a Man an ll Known as In Agita-
‘ tor.”
and at tbol'vurzent suggestion of Agi-
_ cal application.‘ There was but
" slon occurred. The number known “po-
. cn'in thiil‘clty llat 1000|o in the present
. ifled the local Red Cross committal
7 part in the. Red
tutor each Delegate carried a knotted
cudgel to help along the pencefln Proc-
ess of_ Arbitration. When they pro-
posed that they be given a larger Pro-
portion of the Gross Receipts, Wage
Payer, who had become settled by tile
“Cumin Clover Tricks Tending to
Itimuloto tho Solo of Chewing
gum and Rasput- Among the
unplug Audiences."
countless gallons ot Midnight Oil
studying the Disease: that Mules nrg‘j
Belt to so that He might keep Indus-
try in the boot otfiealth and Spirits; ,
for Industry. like all other Stage Arl-
tats. possessed a Temperament, which
varied with the condition of his Liver. ,
In return for the‘l'lffort He had er
pended in the Education of the little.
WagePayer figured that He was en-
titled to n Fair Share of the income
derived from industry's Performances,
but it appears that his arithmetical
“Ho Gets the Doughand We Get the
Crumbs."
increasing Expenses. threw up hls
hands and cried in Classic English:
“I'm sick of this Job. anyway. Take
the old Mule and do what you want
with him. Good-bye, Good Luck, God
Bless You i"
Whereupon Wage-Payer tied a wet
Towel about his/fevered Brow. tele-
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.‘Tbe Muleteero Were Known as Wage:
timers."
rnlcullltlolls were at variance wlth the
Gpmputntlons made by the Squad of
Husky Mule Tenders whom Waxe-
Payer had hired to minister to tho ,
material Needs 0! Indlls'ry, Now.
these Mule'Teuders, who "are known
as WugeEu-nen. had always been
content with the Wages they were get: '
ting until there appeared in their
Midst n- Mun named Agitator. who
‘llel‘el' did my Work himself but spent
his valuable Time in spreading the
Doctrine that the Laborer is Worthy
of his “Higher."
And so Agitator took the Muleteol's.
or Wage-Esmers, to the Box cities and
aroused If“: Jealousy by pointing out
to them the cladsome Spectacle of
anePayer raking in the Jar Simeol-.
eon with his rght Hand. They lost
inlah‘lof the fact that his South paw
was equally busy rolling out the silver
clinker: to a hungry crowd of credi-
tors. They only had eyes for the In-
take, and their hitherto substantial
Wage- begnu to assume the propor-
“l'm Sick of This Job Anyway."
phoned for a. nerve Specialist1 and
‘went to Bed fora Rest. Meantime,,the
Wage-Euroers, somewhat l‘unlcstrlck-
en by the‘unexpected turn or Events,
set about putting Industry through his
Paces tor the ~Matlnee Performance.
but never having. studied mule Peda-
, advice. Bear
“mallow
, service-Judah _
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’ plain that" . .nce comes ‘tomo
W‘
coup, manual count'l‘enfi. ,
pitting the Age 1 3 Romania l; '
Minnie udience.‘ ,-, ..
thallium! :- toBooverlulo ',
unto! In! and rumbled '
But that didn "conclude the
bloc of the Mule; indent. The .-
tlonen began tollm-tve with their
com Due and anable and (M ‘
Butlers in tbelr‘Ellorts to” ....
cit‘down onindt try's Diet. ,-
begmtogetgrq gyonhlsBinI, ,
after two or (bi performances ..
lapsed altogetherl‘ Whereupontbe ,
Mindoro held a cl nference and . ._. ,,
that Agitator wa, the only man >
bled! handling 1 o Situation. no -
sent for Him not asked his advico.
, “The Mule‘s idklpg.‘ responded
tutor. “He ueedl a good Beating.“
The Wage- crs applied Ax! - ~
cure until their iceps ached, and -
came to the Conclusion that n1 m ~
Agitator was a inncy-lemmer in
Sea of Theories, he needed a Pair
Water Wings wl en it came to -
Alternative left tor the Wage-
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"My roast. chenille euro
‘ my uteltpn." .
to if '
Either they must persuade Wage- _ . ,
to_colno back at the Job. or starve b
death. so they pocketed their ‘
and sent a hurry call for the t'
Chletot Myster-es. \
' ‘lly Friedds,‘ announced Wager .
er. with his Hand on industry's . 4*
"the Mole antlers from Malnutrl ';
He II in n cert useondltlon, but
can pull him till null if you follow . ;
ode Tblugln mind it ‘
would was udustry so as to
the Best out otl rm: You ain't
on his Food." ’
“But we don‘l not to manage m i
any longer." ch used the..Wo,so-ljonp
eat" “That's what we got, you but i .
for. We can wt him and curry . .
and feed him, when we have the loci
to feed him with. but we need coins - ,
to put him mm In his Paces and -
care of the Fill noes." , -
Moral: You n’t shill: Scenes
run the Show it the same Time.
dustrlal Connery ation. New York. .
wan to H3 nurtovsnr
Manufactured . contractors or am
who undertokolthe production of ' .
thin; that the t arket demands on - ‘
most Invarlnbly considered the on t ‘ '
era. This is erroneous; they cry ~ '
ply thopdirectol s of the industry
nro themselves} mployeea of those
desire the prod ct. ' '
These directtrs engage the
of other empla ees—lnnnunl w»
etc.-—ln behnltl of the purcbn
the product. l'l‘be purchasers"
therefore. the i at employers; .
rectory-ad till workers are us.
\ciflsmel, engaged l,
UNDERsTANulNG E'Acnftrrlt'g' -
War surely , pulls people; tog
and ltn»elfects,,in better underatn".
among businets men are already
the new cooperative measures ad _ _
ed by many our industries].
trades 'ulefg loll ,HK months "would
far' townni mi 1; for the end
not outlay to , - .. x
All the co—lperntion now, ex]
and planned on ween manufacturofl'
recognised by ‘tnbor to be load'
without its while Midi-tell suppo
of it new spirit among American?
York.
gogy. they‘got‘thclr Signals mixed and
the ruins and ascertaining just how
many bodies‘remalned? ‘
An official statement from the Aetna
Shemical Company said that about 275
men were in the plant when the explo
-.: more from
,‘Wr, Dress, :5 on {to
“some“ t
W J‘ _ ’ ASN'T
~~ sou Suntan?
sltively to be dead" is‘forty. theplant
is “approximately 80 per cont. destroy-
ed." and the stocks of Tuluol and the
shipments of wet T. N. T. which were
on cars ready" to"go out, were lost in
the explosion. » *
"No plan has been formulathd," the
statement continues, “regarding the
continuance of operations at Onkdale
or elsewhere of the manufacture of T.
'N. T., formerly conducted’ltt Oakdalc.
The plans for the future will depend
in large measure on the attitude of the
United States Government, for whom p
the T. N. 'l‘. was being manufactured," .
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Postal Telegraph Company has‘ 'ex- y
pressed the wish that Pustal employs }
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Red Cross campaign and he has not-
thnt the Postal Telegraph will take
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