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TODAY—TOMORROW—FRIDAY
THE THRILLING STORY OF THE
PASSING OF THE CATTLE KINGS
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By E. J. Hudsoz‘ '
Theodore Roosevelt, in speaking of the historic passage of I
the powerful cattle barons from the west, said:
“This thing is bigger than any man or group of men. You
could stretch your cowboys from Mexico to Canada, and
bank them a mile deep—but you could not stop humanity’s
. advance on the road to civilization.” ‘ ‘
That is the theme of the tremendous story “Sundown." It
is the biggest theme conceived in the period and it is the
A story of romance, love and amazing
biggest picture.~
adventure.
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LAST TIMES TODAY '
The Gretest Railroad Romance Ever Screened!
It Surpasses “The Storm"
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'RO'KLIFFE FELLOWES
éifld Many Other Stars
In a pictureg-immed with Romance, Tingling Thrills,
Sweeping Adventure '
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~ Comedies News .. Other Short Subjects
Th y —- Friday —- Saturday
A_ pro-East '- audevilie bill of new specialties
, new screen sensation
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Virginia [Valli
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BEDDING. April 1.——A dispatch
from Cincinnati tells oftho produc-
tion of a mystery play "The Hand
of the Dead" produced there. which
was writtcn by Stephen Jennings
Sanford. son If Mr. and Mrs. Emory
P. Sanford 01 Reading. and \10w 0,
‘ treahman at Princeton university.
and Karl Barnes Knust of. Porto
Rico, a fellow student or Sanford at
the Bunion! piep school in Redding.
‘ ) linust and Saniord started their
Di SuvcnlLkll
bLuul-nlb' at. the Sanigrd school. After
writing neural mino; plays they
Completed lheLr big theme the
"Hand of the Dead." Just produced
in Cincinnati. After several untavor—
able criticisms from producers in
New )ork they sent their play to
Miss Elizabeth Murbury Vice-pics.—
dent oi the American Play company
in New i'ork who was very much
interested in it and who forwarded
it id Stuart \Yaiker who recently
directed and produced it at ,the Cox
theatre in t‘.nciniiaii under the title
0: “Dead Magic."
A press nipping from the Cincin-
11..., "thing “Len they won: the age
and when both werc‘
YOUTHFUL PIAYWRIGHT S OF
RIDDING MAKE BIG IHT
nail Post says “a new mystery. play
credited to Stephen Santord and
Karl Knust had. its prr‘zmicrc at the
Cox theatre on Monday night. The
opening audience “as very enthusi-
astic and the subsequent, audiences
have also been spontaneous. The
'Dead Magic' is weird and spooky
and intended to muse the ilcsh
creep. It is built mound the dis-
covery 0: King Tuts 'iomb in the
vaJey of lungs. 'l'h.s episode has
been the theme or many hits ox
current lictlon but none oi them
is more £auc'r.ul man the Sanzord-
Knust drama. Long bony arms mach
out. of closet: and grasp eagerly
the lily white throats ol the heroines
and muider and sudden disappear-
ancea rule supremo in the play."
'ihe part at the heroine in the
“Dead Magic" was tuner; by Ann UJ-
fis, making her debut wiih‘ the com-
pany. She has appeacd in smerui
big promktions and last month also
appeared in New York city in . the
“virgin ot‘ Bethulin" with McKay
Morris and Julia Hoyt, both being
Well-known on the muse-
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George “1 Hill has been grad~
daily building up n. reputation for
himself. in “Tho Midnight Ex-
press," coming to the Palace Thurs-
day. he hwexceeded himself. It
is a difficult matter to direct a
picture which shall have such excit-
ing action as this picture and still
. . keep it \silhln the range of good
plausnbli- dramatic material. Too
ottcn the thrills are well done and
the story is absent. 01’ course the
choice of a vehicle plays a. large
part in the success. Then too. Hill
had Elaine Hammerstein to work
with. They Were both ll‘i "The
Foolish Virgin."
REEL ROMANCE
This picture is a story 0! railroad
life with a. tender love story in it
and it gives the widest poasible
scope (or the director and actors
alike. The male lead is played by
\\'illlnm Ilnlncs. lie and Elaine
Hammerstein are most admirably
supported by a strong cast which
includes George Nichols. Lloyd
\Vhitlock. Edwin Booth Tilton. >nt
Harmon. Bertram Grassby. l'hyllls
Hover. Roscoe Karns. Jack Rich-
ardson. Dan Crlmmins and George
Meadows.
There will be a. Pro-Easter vaude-
lville bill of new specialties at the
Palace beginning Thursday.
BASED ON FACTS .
OF OUR HISTORY
“Sundown” New West-
ern Drama Weaves
Plot About Cattle
and Pioneer Days
The passing of the Old West. the
cattle barons. and the tremendous
herds of cattle which roan-ed the
plains. has been immortalized in
‘fiundown" to be shown at the Re.
gent Theatre beginning today.
The new feature or the announce-
ment is that the picture will be tact
rather than fiction- Thc bit Deepen
in the photoplay Were taken during
the movement or the largest herd in
the history at the West.
This tremendous movement, oi
cattle hem to Flat National earn-
eras ground. This castle. more than
100,000, converged from the north
rim or the Grand Canyon. trom
r'lmtau. Aria" commons. N. M-
and Texas. and were driven south to
Mexico. .
A battery at ten cameraman rode
with the 'cowpunebers.
The newsroom. of the cattle was
made necessary by use encroachment
of the smaller tanner-tho "aster"
in' the vernacular o! the cattlemen—
whose small {arms and holdinu year
by year are slowly driving the big
range into comparatively small
ranches. - .
This epic ot‘todxy. the passing of
the his not!) With adventure and
romance. is the theme at “Sun-
dm‘ (or which scenes of the bi;
oattlerunweroukemuaahlssorieu
background forum romantic love
awry told by the mollu- canto! which
Hobart Boaw Bessie We. Roy
Stewart. . , Ills-ray. 1 Arthur
Hon. Charles Selim Charla B.
creche"; Batu"! Randall. W
Netti, Hal Wilson and {on A“:
OPERA STAR TO
SHOW HERE IN
PERSON SOON
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Geraldine Farrur coming to
Norwalk in person.
engaging smile will charm at the
Regent. Friday. April 17.
A New York reporter once wrote
that "Farrar’s smile was'somcthin:
She and her.
estnesa and full of her subject. Miss
l’arrar is a fine linguist. She Spcaks
French like a Frenchwoman. (this
statement is made on cxpert testi-
mony.) German like a German and
Italian like an lmllan. llcr enuncia-
tlon in opera has long been praised
and there is never any difficulty in
following the text of an opera in
which she sings.
Her singing is the spccch of the
character she is playing and she
:makes her voice express the char-
acteristics and emotions 01’ that
character.
Geraldine Farrar’s creed is "Give
your best always. take Sincerlty.for
your guide and Work for your Mas-
ter." ,
Miss arrar brings her own com-
pany to he Regent Theatre on Fri-
day. April 17th when she will ap-
pear in "Carmen." the role which
has won her supremo laurcls.
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Those who enjoyed the stage ver-
sion or Ziegfeld's noted musical
success ”Bally." in which Mar-lily!
must made her permanent mcceu.
will and added joy in First Nation-
al's screen version o! the same
piece. starring Colleen Moore. which
codes to the Rialto\ theatre next
week.
Colleen Moore bring to the role
hit 9! her lo!!!
“Bally“ coils for much human in-
that she is intense, nglow with earn. »
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reassures:
Tinie Making Up for
Role
Most women complain that wrinkl-
es and apparent old ago creep upon
then: too soon. but during the litm-
lng'ot Frank Lloyd's "Her Hus-
band's Secret." in which she shares
‘ honors with Antonio Moreno. l'atsy
Ruth Miller and maud 'lorrcnce.
Rims Clino'rd iouud the ageing pro-
cess a rather tiresome. slow eyolu~
Lion. .
Ah the prologue to the picture
Miss Clii'tord appears as Mrs. Ruth
rearcc lxcnt. a young wno and oth-
er. whose husband is tired 0 his
home and wine and departs sudden-
ly. taking with him the three you
old son. in the main theme of tin
play miss L'ligord appears as the
middle-aged Mrs. Ruth Bearce. who
lived only with the hope that some
day he. 10\ ed ones will return to her.
To show Miss Cutrord as the young
“’er and moths-r was little trouble,
lur Miss Ciiiiord has always been re-
gardcd as due or; t‘ilmdom‘s most
ocuuiliul players. but to make hei
laco show the passing or twenty-
in‘c ycais oi worry, cosmetically. was
no easy tux.
Each day. when she appeared in
her old “make up," Muss Clilloru
sane herself Over to two Costner.-
Clans tor an hour. While one dress-
ed her hair and powdered it. th.
other 111.6(1 her eyes and accentuat-
ed the 110110“? in he: cheeks “ilh
dark mane-up powder and the high
choei. bones wiin llblllei powdei. to.
Lllrec \ekth.‘ the u.d was: up ha-
to be appiicd eac-I molulus am.
checked W's-n puitogmpus so that
it might be accurate. lor the ins.
scehes in the pitluxe were (timed
belore those WulCh appear in 111'.
continuity tire: and me details at
ones lacial make-up are most im-
portant. Miss Clillord also registered
a. dummy» oi mo inches in height
in he. late scenes ior [ho heels oi
her snocs 'ue.e thll much shorter
than those worn in the prolugue.
"Bolime mt,” Miss Clinord en-
tusinstlcally says. "1 was glad when
1 found the wrinkles and hollow
cheeks couid be rubbed oi! in a few
minutes."
The picture, will b»- shown at the
Rinlto Theatre beginning today.
2 “MIDNIGHT EXPRBS” IS TO BE ~
,~ AT PALACE WITH VAUDEVILLEPm RAILROAD
TRADITION IN
“SIGNAL TOWER”
Sensational Film Star-
ring Virginia Valli
Has Two Spectacular
Railroad Wrecks
railroad play is a matter of inton-
sive study The laws of the men
of the road. lmmumfile us those of
the Modes and the Persians. are ‘ao
buried under the cloak of tradition
that they are inbred in the rail-
xroad man. but seldom spoken of.
{Tho result causcd many complica-
tions during the filming of “The
{Signal TO\\’('F." starring Virginia
1\a.lli. which closes at the Palace
Thcalre tonight.
‘ Clarence L. Broun. who directed
the picture and who is noted for
[his production of "The Acqulltal."
one of the sensational successes of
1ihe past season. is himself an elec-
to know something of railroad life.
“But I didn‘t know how little I
know until we went to Noyo. to
take the railroad scenes with real
crews and real trains." he asserts.
"For instance. we wanted a draw-
bar doctored so that it would
break. No railroad man would
touch the task. It is an ingrained
tradition never to do anything to
cause a wreck. It‘s a. sort of sup-
erstition—like an actor whistling in
a. dressing room: only it's founded
on the underlying maxim of ‘satety
first.‘ “'e ran against dozcnu of
these incidents. Well—we let them
have their way! that's how to make
a railroad picture natural. And we
all learned a lot."
The picture. a sensational story
of railroad life. is marked by two
spectacular railroad wreck: But
these are incidental to a gripping
dramatic story laid about two men
and a woman living in a lonely di-
vision point on a. mountain railroad.
Rockclin‘e Fellowes plays the hus-
band. “The other man" is enacted
by Wallace Beery.
are all there. But Mia Mathi- has
gone further. She has looked be.
bind the scenes. so to speak. taken
the piaywrixht's stony and utiliz-
ing the ’plot thread. embroidered it
in a manner that undoubtedly will
win her the praise of the staunch-
eut of the admirer. at the at...
version.
Putting railroad tradition into a!
”arrival-k . Theatre— Goers
; ‘ mos seven
The man who made “The Sea
Hawk” now gives a strong
marriage drama that shows
what makes or break: a happy
home.
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Antonio Moreno—Patsy Ruth Miller
Ruth Clifford—David Terrence
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