.. it CTS VAUDEVELLE .zml l'y & Norton 3', FEBRUARY 13,1925. .—- V-..“- J eWS And Notes~ For . NorWalk EGENT David Ester-son. Managing Director LAST m Toner A star in a class by himself .OMAS MEIGHAN . A novel that ranks among the best ONGUES OF FLAME” The director of many successes JOSEPH HENABERY - .1“) m be. couldn't help buflie and IS a GREAT picture. supporting cast includes Eileen Percy, John liiliern, Bessie Love and many others. PALACE THEATRE Today and Tomorrow A 32 show at the popular Palace prices — Featuring —— Baby Edna Keir ' --and— ' is: GILBERT, NORMA SHEARER, CONRAD '1 American Picture! \‘.\GEL, PHYLLIS HAVER and NEDDA HOPPER In Manta Bell's “T H E s N OB” n...“ lie-J J!‘ , ‘ r ‘3‘.“ Jill“; _‘ A The Great Paul Leicester Ford’s thrill- ing love story of the Revo- lution. The In“ of ro- mance end the thrill of pa.- triotism. A M to 1“, Americans to the depths of their being. Mat. 2130—Adm- 30c E‘C'mng at 7:30 Only ALiana/tainted Orchestra Admission 50c WHAT JOHNNIE SEES ATTHE ' PICTURE snow Patten . Beard Tells About It to Get Chil- dren Interested in Better Films Norwalk. Connecticut. February 11th. 1925. Editor of THE SENTINEL. Dear Sin—Can you give the en- closed prominence before Saturday as it calls attention to the children's interest in motion pictures and we are anxious to bring to the atten- tion of the public in South Nor-walk the fact that we are going to give Johnnie something good in the mov ics on Saturday morning. February 14 at ten o'clock at The Rialto. Perhaps you will print this letter with the verses. With thanks. Sincerely. Patten Beard. “'hat Johnnie Has to Say on Pictures. Beard. Better Films By Patten Association. I used to think I'd like to live in days of Long-Ago— There "Vere such heaps of magic things. books tell about, you know: You bet I'd like to own a Lamp that brought a ngii-Slave— Gee whiz! ~Some sport to find a thing that was a Treasure Cave: But say—l‘m glad that I live now ,_ because it's up to me To and New Magic. if I can—where- ever it may he! sayi—l found the Picture- showt That is my palace fair And I don't need no carpet-thing to whisk me to it there! And I pay a dime I got because I swept and cleared off snow: The princtzss at the ticket-booth. she says it‘s some swell shOW; I walk inside the palace fair. as glad as I can be— Thc music-man goes up the aisle-— Ain't I Just happy! Gee! Say! I don't need no carpet-thing to take me far away! Magic Carpet is right here in that there picture play! I cross the ocean with l’athe—to fer Japan I go— M y Or. maybe that it's 'way up North “ith polar hours an' snow! An' \lllCll Ll “atiirc picture starts, perhaps it's ROBIN HOOD An' I can feel I was right Ahero a-i-unnin' through his wood! Ain't it a magic to have met real Robin Hum] today—— If that ain't niacin. “.‘l'll I guess I got no more to say! An“ gee! There's lots of other things like Pll‘alt's and “'ild \Vest— You got mo corkvd: i just can’t say which (mos i like the best! I set there. like i “as some prince an' all liq-lonzcd- to me— wonders that are near an' far that muvivs makes you see! The You don't tell me. that i ain‘t rich: I own ill“ lilomnin’ show-— An' there ain‘t ni place at all where I can‘t rrally go; To India—an“ Africa—(l seen the South Seas too)— An' one: i saw in. in animals all in the Bronx Park Zoo! There ain't no Prince in story-books can lw as rich as me. A-sittin' in the movie house cnjoyin' what 'I soc? Them vamps—lhcy makes me sick. they rio—dollud up with their liolihcd hair— Thcy ain't no princess at all—wished they was new or thus! I like to see the “'orld. I do—en' learn how things is done! I like to see the President! I like what all is fun! Ari“ say) It's great to set an' think just what ten cents will do To make you mind a Treasure Cave that all belongs to you! “THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS” WINS PRAISE ‘Newest picture shows him once more at his best." Under this heading. Edwin Schal- lert. considered the severest motion picture critic on the West Coast. pays the following high tribute to the James Cruze-Paramount production. “The City That Never Sleeps." in the Los Angeles Daily Times: “The picture should be the thing and this time it is. This is a regular picture and if you feel urged to be entertained and to behold the ‘un- foldment of a story that is bright with interest at all times. you won't. want to be absent. “Cruze hasn’t done anythiny late— ly that quite compares. The picture is so genuinely above the average. "Ricardo Cortez makes you like him as a. villain immensely. His is. in some respects. the cleverest work in the picture." Take Mr. Schallert's word for it— he should know—and take in the picture. beginning next Monday at the Palace Theatre. Featured with Cox-tea in the prin- cipal roles of ~the production are Louise Dresser. Kathiyn Williams gnu Virginia Lee Corbin. “The American Pole Negri." The: is what the German movie industry cells Carmel Myers. American film star. who recently completed an en- gagement in "Garragon." a big film production made in Berlin. ‘ "We lost a. great artist when Ne- gri entered American motion pic- tux-es." sold Dr. Mu Feinmenn. one of Berlin's leading critics. recently. “But we found her successor when Carmel Myers became identified with a picture in our father-land." Carmel's success in Germany has brought her many offers from mo- vie and theatrical enterprises there. but her contract with Goldwyn pre- vents her acceptance of any of them. Carmel is still abroad playing the part of Iris in the picturiza- tion of "Ben Bur." in Italy. We are told that f‘Ben Hur" is almost completed now so our Carmel will soon be sailing home. She was born in California and her father is Rabbi Isadore Myers. religious leader and author. She had a brief stage career in Shubert's "Magic Melody." her first noted work being opposite the much loved Harold Lockwood. "Sirens of the Sea." "In Folly‘s Trail." “The Mad Marriage." “The Dangerous Moment." “The Heart of a. Jew- ess." "My Dream Lady.” "The Famous Mrs. Mair." and "The Little Girl Next Door." are some of her older photoplays. Lately she has been conscien— tiously vamping her way in “Pois- oned Paradise" and "Beau Brum- mel." and continues the good i?) The Silent Drama By George Mitchell Editor of“Film Fun” George Mitchell, Editor of “Film Fun" is a resident of West- port. He has promised to write a column or so every once in a while for The Evening Sentincl‘s movie page, telling about the new pictures he sees in the big city- "The Lost \Vorid." Which opened at the Astor Theatre in New York last Sunday night. may not be the best picture of the year. It may not even rate as the worst picture of the year and thus win the pearl bowler for that distinction but. if there is a prize offering for the most un- usual, picture. "The Lost World" has a good running start. You may hav'e read the original story written by our old friend Arthur Conan Sherlock Holmes' Doyle or then again you may not. In any event the yarn concerns the adventures of Wallace Beet-y a great-game hunter and scientist who has run into a strange and hitherto unexplored bit of landscape through which the mighty Amazon trickles. He has come back to England where he is conducting a series of lectures telling the Britishers of the prehistoric animals that may still be found there. Of course. they do not believe that ' ilicsc' dinosauri can have survived something like lei: million years. He‘s a hot headed gent. is this Wallace. just to prove that he is in- capable of doing anything so un- \\'asliingtonian as to tamper with the truth. he organizes an expedi- tion to go back. bring the evidence and lay it at the, doors of Bucking- ham Palace. Gin Carriers, Too So one line day accompanied by Lewis Stone. Bt-selc Love (whose father was lost on the previous ox- pedition) Lloyd Hughes and a flock of water and gin carriers. recruited from the various American rum- runners of these prohibitionary days he sets out and in due course of time meets the Amazon face to face. \V‘lint follows is the most extraor- dinary footage of fillum that it has been my astonished optics to see. Droves of animals such as you have read about flock all over the screen. They fight and gambol and pull up trees and push over rocks and de- light in the kind of playfulness that makes you thank the gods you are safely seated in a plush chair out of harm's way. I have no idea as to how this film was made. Double exposure of course and very cleverly done ac- counts for most of it. but the actual manufacture of the animals and how they wero'mauoeuvered is to me. at least. a. secret. .My one con- jecture being that they are animal crackers enlarged and animated. The Story as a whole lacks in hu- man interest. There is a love theme of course. but it waits so long on the actions and antics of the anim- als that you 'don’t care a whoop whether Lloyd Hughes marries Bessie Love or not. ' A Pretty Problem Socially. here is a. nice problem. as it collects the screen-and those who perform thereon. I mean: the socialposltion of .hese’ dinosauri in relation to _the other actors of the fillums. What Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson and Polo Negri are going to say,to the management is a pretty'problem. That-s. pro-hys— teric dinosanric'dapper should walk away with a picture is cinematic treason. It should not be. There should be a law.agulnst,.lt." - , But that is beyond my Jurisdic- tion. I am here to tell-you only that. "The Lost’Wor-ld" is a. very interest- ing picture. You may not like it. You may. But you'll agree with me I am sure in that it‘is one of the most interesting nllums of the year. I O O I-dropped in on "Charley's Aunt" the other‘day when in a state of. mental-blues. Here‘ls a picture. I thought. that will make, me laugh a coupleribr loose. I don'twant loose ribs. .1 can‘t stand anything loose phoneme. But also; 1 een‘fi‘stcgd SCI'GED ‘ work in "Ben Tlur." She has been married but is divorced. Dimitri Buhowetski. director. is in Hollywood doing some prelimi- nary work on “Gt-austark." the new picture he is to direct for Norma Talmadge. Pat. O'Malley recently finished a role in a Metro-Goldwyn produc- tion entitled "Proud Flesh." and will be co-storred with the dimpled Laura. LaPlante in Universal’s "The Teaser." adapted from the stage play of the same name. Jack London's novel. "Adventure." is being lmed. Tom Moore. Pau~ line Starke. Wallace Beery. Ray- mond Button and Walter McGrall are featured and they tell us the picture will be made on a tropical island in the Pacific and a. big canni- bal head hunt in which hundreds of native blacks will take part: Will be one of the most thrilling scenes ever filmed. Orville Caldwell was injured re- cently while filming a scene for “Sackcloth and Scarlet." with Alice Terry. His horse shied. the actor's leg was caught in the stirrup. wrenching the knee so badly that he had to wear a plaster cast. "Every known instrument but Jews harp and harmonica." Creigh- ton Hale says. is in his newly organ- ized jazz band. the members of which are all movie players. He hastens to add that at present they play only for their own amuse- mont. being blue. I‘ll pop in on Charley's .‘tunt I thought. laugh myselt sick and feel tho better for it. And so I did. And I did laugh myself sick though not. to speak the truth (and I‘ always do that) at the picture so much as at the gyrations of Mr. Charlie Chaplin's brother Syd. The story. a lot of people are not old enough to have seen the play when it was done some twenty-live years ago. briefly. is that of a. young English colleglan who is pressed in- to_ playing the Aunt of one of his chums that a tea party may be pro~ pcrly pulled off with the respect- atllly necessary chaperon. The situations that follow are so trite. so obvious that you are always three or four feet ahead of the plot Which lumber: up behind you only to find you gone ahead again to wait patiently til it catches up to you. Not unlike. the inch worm of which you are the head and the plot is the tail. ~ I O 0 Let us lea-re the worms for a moment and get on with Charley. Well. Charley is played by Syd Chap- lin. Maybe you saw him in "The Ga‘i- loping l-‘isli"—anyhow he's so much better than the story and so much better than the rest of the cast that he alone is worth your admission money. Don‘t. get the impression that "Charley's Aunt isn‘t a good picture. It is. “'hat I'm driving at is that Syd Chaplin is a real fine comedian and that he's wcll worth your time and monvy—unviime you've got the lllC'il“)'. O U C The one big surprise of the week to meat least was the perfection of l’ullllllC Stark's performance in “Devil's Cargo." a picture which has for i'ls theme the morthrowing of vice by \‘igilanlcs in the days of forty nine in California. when the then vice committees were taking themselves as seriously as the men of today who are smearing the na- tion with a coat of blue paint. William Collier Junior goes altcr the saloon and its owners and. fall- ing in love with Pauline. discovered that she is the daughter of the pro- prietor of one of these sinks of ini- quity. Pauline is a revelation of loxlic ness. Rentarkablc also is her likeness to Gloria Swanson. She is worth the price of two tickets per person. If i you blunt the necessary gate money lay off on one of your payments on the sewing machine and go see her when the plcwre comes to town. YOU'U be able to sew with nimblcr fingers the next day. Also in the picture is Wallace Becry in a character study that rat- es as one of the best things he has ever done. Raymond Hutton, too is in it. Not very much in it to be sure- but.lic makes a deep impression while he's there. He's a fine artist. So is Mr. Beery. None better. 0 O 0 Speaking of fine artists and fine pictures reminds me to say that I saw a German importation the other day. called "The Last Laugh." than which there is no better picture. Uni- que also in that it employs Mr. Emil Jennings, the man who was starred with P013. Negri in ”Passion" and “Deception.’.' the pictures that made the French Revolution and Henry the Eighth famous. You remember them of course Well. Jennings in "The Last Laugh." plays almost a. solo role. The story is of an old duffer in a resplendent uniform who officiates at the door of a ve was- ger restaurant in a European pita]. He is the guintesence of pomposity. ut there comes a. day when he 18 00 old to go on with hisvduties and he is relegated to the men's wash room. This. of course. breaks his spirit and his family and friends' who were once his admirers walk out on him. Here the picture natur- ally ends. But the authors in a. sub- title explain that their affection for the old man 'in so strong that they have prepared a. happy ending for him. What follows is one of the choicest bits of humor they. has ever come to the screen. If you'don't see "The but Laush" when it comes to your theatre. you ‘will have missed the subtlest thing in the movies. . Other pictures of the week in New York are ornu Meighan. in “Coming Timon;l i in which. the PALACE. ‘ Vaudeville-Plow. A splendid vaudeville show de- lighted the audience at the Palace yesterday afternoon and last night. The evening'uudience taxed the cap- acity of the theatre to its limit and there was much enthusiasm. The DeMaroff Sisters. clever dancers. opened the show with novelty steps that were especially well received. Lew. Charlotte and Billy. dance. song'and comedy artists offered a program that was original and bright. Caverly and Wald kept the audience in tears of laughter with the riot or bright comedy and Miss Caverly's song numbers were parti- cularly good. Baby Edna. Keir was the hit of the show and she won her way directly to the hearts of Nor- walk theatregoers. This little Miss gave a program of dance steps and rendered songs that immediately made her a favorite. The Sentry Ncroton band With three specialists closed the show and kept every sear in the house filled until the final curtain. Norma Shearer. John Gil- bert and other stars appeared in the new Goldwyn feature "The Snob." one of the best pictures offered in Norwalk this year. W10. Frivolous Sal. "Frivolous Sal," completes its on- gagement at the Rialto theatre to- day. This plcture offers a splendid entertainment. " Tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock another children's matinee will be given. The program for this per- formance was selected with great care. Tomorrow afternoon and evening. "Blood and Steel," one of the ten- tcst thrill dramas of the year with Helen Holmes and William Des- mond will be offered. it is an un- usual story ncwly told and delight- fully protraycd with scores of real thrills and thousands of spectacular icenes. . REGENT "Tongues of Flame" Thomas Meighan's new picture “Tongues of Flame." concludes its engagement at the Regent Theatre today. This picture has been one of the most popular Meighan releases ever shown in Norwalk and it goes without saying that the Regent will be filled to capacity again today as it. has' been during the past. two days. New Lyric, Bridgeport . "One reason nor the popularity of Columbia Burlesque apart from its innate wholesomeness is its capacity for absorbing all sorts of entertain- ers and all styles of acts." Charles Only. one of the principal funsters with "Fast Stoppers" at the New Lyric theatre. today and to- morrow. "No act is too big and nothing too small—even to trained fleas if there was such an act—to be absorbed with the regular perform. ance of Columbia Burlesque. handsome Thomas flashes the usual mouthful of ivory smiles and does the regular manly virtuous stuff to fill the hearts of his feminine fol- lowing with the usual feminine thrills. "The Great Dixidc" is a good “‘cstcrn employing the schices of the darling Conway 'l‘carle and the blue-eyed. yellow-haired Alice Ter- ry against the very grand grandeur of the Grand Canyon, The story is says PAGE Titans ., Oers l -., " an me us'r rams alone! . Mae Busch and Eugene O’Brien . “FRIVOLOUS SAL” — in SATURDAY William Desmond and Helen ‘Holntes » __ m .— “BLOOD AND STEEL" An exciting railroad drama Aesop’s Fables and another chapter of Galloping Hoots SPECIAL CHILDREN’S MATINEE j..." TOMORROW MORNING AT 10 O'OLOOK Under the direction of Better Films Association Special Features Including: - “The King of The Wild Horses,” Bray Cartoons and Pathe News SUNDAY EVENING _ Percy Marmont ..... m .— “THE LEGEND 0F ? ‘ 'HOLLYWOOD” ' - and —-a .:. “The Going of 0nmmings":-~_ One of the Go-Getter Scriel ADMISSION TEN CENTS - fl Dance to These Brunswick Prince of Wells Lazy Waters Jimtown Blues When the Shadows Fall I'll See You in My Dreams Hot Stuff 4.. 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