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MINNEAPOLIS DAILY STAR PAGE FIVE SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1926 MELODRAMA HOLDS BOARDS AT STATE AND GARRICK Noah Beery Hailed CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN 'GOLD RUSH' HOLDS OVER AGAIN AT STRAND THEATER 'That Roy le Girl' and 'Mike' Week's Principal Offerings W. C. Fields, New Type of Screen Comic, Introduced to Public in Picture at State Theater, Starring Carol Dempster; Sally O'Neill, New Lead, Featured in Garrick Cinema; Sigrist-Calvert Company Presents "Venetian Raymond Griffith and Minneapolis Girl, Marian Nixon, at New Lyric Today. By XGXES TAAFFE "'l TT'S hard to understand why the public will flock to melodramatio offerings and to the cheaper kind of comedies when they will fall to patronize many of the finer motion picture productions, but it is perhaps chiefly a matter of education. With melodrama holding: forth at two of the larger theaters, "That Roylo (Mil," at the State theater and "Mike" at the Garrick, the Chaplin com edy, "Tho Gold Rush," at the Strand theater, Raymond Griffith's new effort, "Hands at the Lyric, a Peter B.

Kyne story, "Tho Golden at the Now Aster and Thomas Meighan In "Irish Luck," at the New Grand, the motion picture houses should not lack for patronage for the week, beginning I 5 -f Ai a wrx Yr-hmnrrf U- Miff GLr BRANDS OP MlViy2C YIlmL? "W' Sil iSK ...1 iMf VT'YF tiuL 1 1x111 mm Uirectors should Stick to Knitting Specializing Necessary for Real Success, Says William Seiter "I never direct anything but com edy on the screen," said William A- Seiter, director of "What Happened to Jones," which comes to the State week of Feb. 6, in a recent interview. "The movies have become a specialized Industry, or art, if you prefer It, In the old days of pictures, one man would produce his pictures, direct them, often times act In them, too The cameraman, very likely, would help dress the set or collect the 'props' and the actors often were called upon to help build the sets when they weren't busy. All of which were very good reasons why the pictures made then weren't so good. "I have studied the business of mak ing comedy on the screen, and very probably would be disappointing if attempted to direct heavy drama, Which brings us to the argument that the making of successful comedy is a most difficult, and highly serious un dertaking.

"It Is my own personal opinion that film comedies are harder to make than drama. Comedy is judged by its abil ity to make people laugh. Drama isn't Judged on its ability to make the same people cry. "One may sit silently and watch a tragic story, and enjoy It without breaking into violent sobs. But if supposed comedy doesn't throw its audience into fits of merriment, it is a and the theater owners won' run it.

Thepublic will stand for poor drama much more readily than it will swallow a comedy lsn funny." New Grand Thomas Meighan comes to the New Grand theater for the week starting today in "Irish Luck," a romantic tale of a New York city traffic policeman who wins a trip to Europe in a popularity contest. On the way over he is taken for an Irish aristocrat by a gang of crooks who plan to fleece him. How he outwits them and saves the life of the man for whom he is taken, besides winning the hand of a lady of the gentry, Is told in a series of highly tensioned episodes. Mast of the picture is taken in Ireland and many of the historic landmarks of the Isle are employed as background for the picture. Lois Wilson, Charrles McDonald, Mary Foy, Ernest Lawford, Claude King and Cecil Humphreys have the principal parts in the picture.

An Our Gang comedy, "One Wild Ride," is included in the program. jit the Bijou Motion picture bills for the coming week Include an extra special show on Sunday and the following for the remainder of the week: Monday Glenn Tyron in "The Battling Orioles" and Johnny Walker and Ann Pennington in "The Mad Tuesday Priscilla Dean in'The Siren of Wednesday Jack London's "Adventure" witjh Tom Moore, Pauline Stark and Wallace Beery; Thursday Marguerite De La Motte, John Bowers, Wm. V. Mong, in "Oft the Friday Renee Adoree and Pedro De Cordoba in 'The Saturday Viola Dana, Raymond Griffith, Theodore Roberts, Anna May Wong in "Forty Winks." Reginald Denny 'Big White Chief9 by Navajo Indians Red Men Entertained Big Star Royally on Location TTnTH the exception of cttred missionaries and traders, Noah Beery, noted motion picture villain, possibly was the best known and best liked man on the Navajo Indian reservation, home of the largest, strongest and most intelligent remaining tribe of red men in North America, during the filming of scenes for the Paramount picture, "The Vanishing American," according to word received here. Ten thousand Navajo and other In- dians appear in this picture, which will be shown at the State theater that week of Feb.

13, and almost everyone of them counts himself a friend of the giant white man, Beery. The friendship is mutual. The In dians instinctively like Beery and in turn likes them. He has two of them working on his email ranch in the San Fernando Valley, a few miles from Hollywood, "Chief Harris, a huge Ute, and Sokis, a 23-year-old Navajo who asked to be taken to California while Beery was in Arizona during the making of 'The Vanishing American." Beery had so many invitations to dine in various hogans while on the reservation with Richard Dlx, Lois Wilson, Malcolm McGregor and the other players that if he had accepted one-tenth of them he would have died of overeating long since. He raced his horses against their fleet ponies.

He traded with them, ate with them, wrestled with their most skilled athletes, and his little boy, Noah, became a fast friend of Nasja, the wild 11-year-old Navajo brave who plays one of the most important roles in 'The Vanishing American." Beery may be a bad man to the millions who see him on the screen but he is a hero to the Indians. 'The Vanishing American" was directed by George B. Seitz," Lucien Hubbard, supervisor of all Zane Grey productions for Paramount, made the adaptation. Gayety Midnight Show Is Planned Late Saturday Perform ance to Open Weekly Attractions A Saturday night midnight performance, instead of the regular Sunday afternoon performance, will usher the in coming attraction into the Gay-ety theater hereafter, as a result of arrangements made by Harry Hirsch, manager of the Gayety theater. The usual Sunday shows matinee and night will be given, but for those eager to take in an earner perrormance of the week's attraction, a full show, commencing at 11:30 o'clock Saturday night, will be given.

To fill in the period between closing of the regular outgoing attraction and the opening nf the new show, which lays over in Minneapolis from Monday to the mid night opening on Saturday, tun view nf the staee. during the scenery re- mnvfll and striking, will Be given, with the Gayety orchestra furnishing a musical program. Conversion of Des Moines from a week to a one-night stand has made possible the Saturday night midnight performance, according to Manager Hirsch of the Gayety who explains that in many cities on the Mutual' Bur lesque circuit, particularly the east whnrn Rnndavs are layoffs, the Satur day midnight performance plan has proved highly popular ana in rne opening show last Saturday night at the Gayety, the attendance was exception ally large. Special night attractions announced by Manageri Hirsch for the month of B'ebruary include amateur boxing bouts on Tuesday night, following the regular performance; professional wrestling on Thursday night; Charleston contest on Friday night and the midnight show' on Saturday night. Famous Woman Swimmer Coming Annette KeHerman headlines the Auto Show week bill at the Hennepin beginning Sunday, Feb.

7. Other acts are the Marvelous Lockfords with Paul Tisen's orchestra; Eddie Nelson, the "sunkist" comedian; Bob Hall, the extemporaneous chap; Billy Hallen, "It's All Covan and Ruffln in "Poetry and Motion." 'King Cole Revue' Soon "The King Cole Revue" is scheduled for the State theater the week of Feb. 6, in conjunction with Reginald Denny in "What Happened to Jones." The revue is said to be unusually pretentious in scenery, costuming and diversified in song, dance and novelty specialties. Among the principals in the production are Jimmie Bush and his jazz orchestra; Ethel Warren, prima donna; Johnny Herman, well known blackface comedian, and Eddie Mathews, eccentric dancer of last season's "Ziegfeld Follies," who is known as "The Bluestreak of Danceland." Local Girls Featured Margery Quimby and Marion Nixon, who appear in the principal feminine roles in "What Happened to Jones," which brings Reginald Denny to State theater week of Feb. 6, are Minneapolis girls, having made their first professional stage appearance at the State theater under the direction of C.

P. Murphy. Fashion Show Feature An elaborate fashion show in which Ziegfeld chorines take part is a feature of 'The American Venus" which brings Fay Lamphier (Miss to the State week of Feb. 13. The style sequencje of the picture is done In technicolor and is said to reveal a $100,000 exhibition of Milady's apparel.

'Irene Coming Soon Colleen Moore will come to the State theater the week of March 20 in the cinema version of the musical comedy success, "Irene." Jewelry Is Held Index to Taste Must Harmonize With Each Costume, Says Esther Ralston Nothing is more indicative of a woman's taste than the jewelry she wears says Esther Ralston 'of the featured players in 'The American Venus," coming to the State the week of March 16. "Notice that I say 'wear' for every woman possesses pieces that she treasures for their sentiment, but which are out of date or too childish and which she-knows would ruin the effect of the smartest Paris dress," she says. "For jewelry is just as much a part of style as clothes. Proof of this is found in the vogue for platinum in place of gold. Almost all brides of today have platinum wedding rings and many brides of yesteryear are having thedr old wide gold bands cut down and covered with a platinum shell.

They do not wish to be 'dated' by their jewelry. "If you have ever seen a large middle-aged woman wearing some delicate little 'La Valllere' which she probably received when she graduated from school you will agree with me that Jewelry can be childish and inappropriate as well as out of date. "Nothing is more attractive than costume jewelry nor need It be very expensive. It only requires good taste and careful shopping to have some Jeweled accessory that just carries out the color note of one's costume and which is really more' effective than the most- expensive piece if the latter is not so harmonious. "Clever imitations are quite permissible when there is a reason for their being worn.

In fact, many woman of wealth seldom wear their real jewels. They leave them in the safety deposit box and wear a duplicate which looks exactly like the real thing, but which would grieve them very little should it be stolen. "Every woman should regard her jewelry critically, in respect to its be-comingness and most important its style." New Aster Peter B. Kyne's "The Oolden Strain," holds the New Aster screen for the week starting today with Madge Bellamy, Kenneth Harlan and a galaxy of film notables enacting the story. The picture deals with a young man who thought himself a coward.

De spised by his father, who takes pride in his fighting ancestry, the youth Is befriended by his foster-brother who determines to make. a man of him. A series of highly tensioned episodes in which the coward's real manhood is aroused by his half-brother and he fights his- way out of military dis grace to a glorious triumph brings the picture to a satisfactory ending. Hobart Bosworth, Ann Pennington, Frank Beal, Frank McGlynn, Robert Frazer and Crawford Davidson have prominent parts. Harold Llyod dn his late laugh-pro-voker, "I Do," is included on the Outlying Theaters SOLD RUSR'" today.

'That Royle Girl" Is Interesting for4 two reasons, the fact that it is a D. W. I Griffith production and the fact that it Introduces W. C. Melds, a new type of comedian, to tho public.

While his work "Is low comedy, it has a finish about It that is unusual, showing that Mr. Fields has acrobatic proclivities uncommon to the average screen comedian. He would score in a certain time of equllibristic act on the vaudeville stage. Sally O'Neill Is another new screen find and Bhe Is featured at the' Garrick theater In the melodrama, "Mike." Taken from Edwin Balmer's magazine story, "That Royle Girl" is a vivid melodrama of the Chicago underworld in which Miss Carol Dempster, capable cinema artist, is assisted by James Kirkwood, Harrison Ford, Marie Cham bers, Dorothea Love, ilorence A.uer and Frank Allworth. Miss Dempster has a wistfulness about her and a good comedy-sense that help to put her acting over.

She looks quite like Mary Astor in certain of her scenes though she is a more fragilo type even than Miss Astor. This picture Is a sensational, whirlwind melodrama finishing up with a cyclone that is not at all necessary to bring the story to its logical conclu sion. Its chief character is an attractive young girl, a flapper, who is a strange blend of child-like faith and worldly cynicism. Handicapped by a worthless father and craving the jazzy excitement of her surroundings, she becomes the storm center in an under world drama of tragedy and intrigue. The State concert orchestra under dl- rection of William Warvelle Nelson and Eddie Dunstedter and Wesley Bar low in a piano duo are included in the program, which also offers news reels and other shor subjects.

In support of Sajly O'Neill In "Mike" are William Charles Murray, Ford Sterling, Ifrankie Darro, Junior C'oglan and Sam De Grasse. Sally herself appears as a spirited girl who, with her two younger brothers, her sister, and her father, a section boss, lives in a boxcar that has been re-modeled into comfortable domestic quarters. With the aid of several elephants, "Mike" scares her father Into becoming a prohibitionist. She falls in love with a former telegrapher who had been unjustly sent to prison and as a result she has been forced to go without a job. She finally is instrumental in bringing about the spectacular arrest5 of a bandit gang.

The stage show for the week fea-lures tho Sigrist-Calvert company in a musical offering, "Venetian Nights," while Jack Malerick at the organ and the Garrick concert orchestra under Fred Heiseke's direction are included on the program. Strand Charlie Chaplin will continue to show for another week at the Stranfi 1 healer in his screen release, "The Gold Rush." Surrounded by a notable cast of film farceurs, including Mack Swain, Georgia Hale, Malcolm Waite, Tom Murray and Henry Bergman, Mr. Chaplin is seen in the role of a lone prospector of the Alaskan gold fields. How he succeeds in obtaining a fortune and wins the girl of his desire, despite hunger, a mankiller and a gambler, is told in a most subtle and humorous manner that is not pathos and melodrama. 'New Lyric Raymond Griffith comes to the New Lyric theater for the week starting Saturday in "Hands a rip-roaring comedy of Civil war days.

Marion Nixon, a Minneapolis girl; Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain, Montague Love, George Billings, Noble Johnson and Charles IC French are In the picture. "Hands Up" offers Raymond Griffith unusual opportunity to display his singular kind of comedy. As a Confederate spy, he is dispatched by General Lee to Nevada to divert to the south the supply of gold from the fabulously rich "Molly" mine which lias been the source of the Union's financial strength. Arriving at his destination, he meets the Union agent and the owner of the mine and the. lattera two beautiful daughters with whom he falls in love.

He gains the confidence of the mine owner and is Boon made superintendent. A spectacular sequence in which his duplicity is discovered and he is sentenced to be hanged, leads to a humorous climax. Ben Turpin in "A Raspberrg Romance" heads the supplementary units of the program. Leading Vocalists Booked Marie Calvert and Carl Sigfrist, vocalists, head the Garrick stage show this week in "Venetian Nights, a musical offering that includes artistic settings and colorful costumes. Marie Calvert is a Minnesota girl and has appeared in recitals, major vaudeville and deluxe picture theaters for the past five years.

Carl Sigfrist is an Italian tenor, having appeared with several opera companies including the Bostonians and the De Koven. Sigfrist and Calvert come to the Garrick theater direct from an extended motion picture theater tour of the country. They have appaared for 36 consecutive weeks in the Balaban Katz theaters of Chicago. C2VfrP tlHE Siamese Twins Differ in Tastes Daisy Likes to Sew, Violet Prefers to Cook Being born joined together does not prevent Daisy and Violet Hilton, "San Antonio's Siamese Twins," from being individual and distinct hi all the habits, likes and dislikes common to other 17-year-old girls. The life-long companionship of each other, which nature gave them in inseparably linking their bodies together a physical phenomena that attract a wide interest to their early appearance at the Or-pheum gave them a community of taste in everything that affects their welfare and happiness.

Yet each finds much happiness in things that are of little interest to the other. Both are "home" girls and proud of thoir ability to perform those household duties in which proficiency and skill are always the source of pride to women. Daisy sews. She delights In designing and making all thoso delicate little pieces of needlecraft that give the "feminine touch" to a is not particularly fond of sewing; rather she, likes to concern herself with the arrangement of things furniture, bric-a-brac, pictures and furnishings which is an art in Itself. Violet, however, likes to cook.

Her skill in the culinary art Is very diversified and genuine. Carrying out their inviolable rule of always giving in to the other, Daisy helps Violet cook which she doesn't enjoy to any great She would rather sew. But when Daisy wants to sew, Violet helps her. Naturally, perfect harmony re-siflts. 'Very Good Eddie Coming to Palace The McCall-Bridge Players' Stock company has secured the stock rights for "Very Good Eddie," a high ranking New York musical comedy production, fbr offering at the Palace theater the week of Feb.

7. "Very Good Eddie" was the musical play in which Ernest Truex was first starred, and in which he gained wide recognition. The production will be given its complete presentation by the Palace 'company. It was written by Philip Bartholmue. Daughter of Screen Favorite in Movies Beautiful Dolores Costello, who plays the heroine in James Cruze's new Paramount picture, "Mannequin," eally broke into the movies before she ever appeared before a camera.

Miss Costello, who is a daughter of that old film favorite, Maurice Costello, was playing in 'The Vanities" in Chicago, when James Montgomery Flagg was preparing to do some magazine illustrations for a story of the movies Mr. Flagg saw Miss Costello on the stage. She struck him as a good movie type. He asked her to pose for a number of line drawings to go with the story. It was while she was doing this that she was seen by a Hollywood producer, who was so struck by her beauty and personality that he signed her up.

In four months she appeared in two pictures. Then James Cruze saw her and chose her to play one of the featured roles in "Mannequin," which is an adaptation by Walter Woods of Fannie Hurst's $50,000 prize-winning storry. "Mannequin" comes to the State week of Feb. 20. Robbery Inspired Play Edward Hammond says that the Gerald Chapman mail robbery that netted a haul of over a million dollars inspired the story of "Badges," ensiling Shubert offering, in which a similar theft is committed.

Max Marcin collaborated with Mr. Hammond in writing the play which was a big hit in New York last season and never has been seen before in Minneapolis. to Loring "Irish Luck," Sunday, Monday and Tuesday; "Bright Lights," Wednesday and Thursday; "Clothes Malta the Pirate," Friday and Saturday. Rialto "Irish Luck," Sunday, Monday and Tuesday; "Best People," Wednesday and Thursday; "Go West," Friday an Saturday. Lyndale The Pony Express," Sunday and Monday; "Flower of Night," Tuesday and Wednesday; "Confessions of a Queen," Thursday and Friday; "The Bandolero," Saturday.

Lagoon "Stage Struck," Sunday, Monday and Tuesday; "Why Women Wednesday and Thursday; "Bright Lights," Friday and Saturday. Hamline Sunday and Monday Monday Country Store Night; Anna Nilsson in "The Tuesday Amateur Vaudeville Acts; Eugene O'Brien in "Simon, the Wednesday and Thursday Leatrice Joy in "The Wedding Friday and Saturday Ben Lyon and Mary Astor in "Pace That Thrills." New Lake Sunday and Monday Madge Bellamy in "Thunder Mondav County Store Night; Tuesday Amateur Vaudeville Acts; Lorraine Estes in "Three In Wednesday and Thursday Lewis Stone and Shirley Mason in "What Fools Friday and Saturday Buck Jones in "Desert's Price." Lake Sunday and Monday Norma Tal-madge in Monday Country Store Night; Tuesday-Amateur Vaudeville Acts; Marie Prevost in "The Dark Wednesday and ThursdayClara Bow in "The Scarlet Friday and Saturday George O'Brien in "The Fighting Heart." East Lake Sunday and Monday Corrlnne Griffith in Monday Country Store Night; Tuesday Amateur Vaudeville Prevost in "The Lover of Wednesday and ThursdayDorothy Phillips in "Without Friday and Saturday Gladys Brockwell in "The Ancient Mariner." Movies Next Week Bookings the week of Feb. 6 at the F. R. downtown theaters include the following: State, Reginald Denny in "What Happened to Garrick, Rex Beach's 'The Auction Strand.

Mary Pickford in "Little Annie New Lyric, Betty Bronson in "A Kiss for New Aster, Thunder (the wonder dog) in "Black New Grand, Rudolph Valentino in "The Eagle." and Mary Pickford Are Futurities The Week's Screenbills STATE "That Royle Girl." W. Griffith's first Paramount picture, with Carol Deinpster. W. C. Fields, latest screen comedian of importance, Harrison Ford and Frank Allworth; Eddie Dunstedter and Wesley Barlow in piano duo, stage show.

GAKKJCK "Mike," Marshall Neilan's latest screen production, with Sally O'Neill, William Haines, Charles Murray, Ford Sterling, Frankle Darro, Junior Coglan and Sam De Grasse; Sigrist-Calvert company in musical offering, "Venetian Nights" STHAXU Third week of Charlie Chaplin In "The Gold Rush," with Mack Swain, Georgia Hale, Malcolm Waite, Tom Murray and Henry Bergman. NEW LYRIC Raymond Griffith In "Hands Up," with Marion Nixon, Minneapolis girl, in feminine lead; Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain, Montague Love, George Billings, Noble Johnson and Charles K. French. NEW ASTER Peter B. Kyne's "The Golden Strain," with Madge Bellamy, Kenneth Harlan, Hobart Bosworth, Ann Pennington, Frank Beal, Robert Frazer and Crawford Davidson; Harold Lloyd In "I Do." NEW GRAND Thomas Meighan in "Irish Luck," with Lois Wilson, Charles McDonald, Mary Foy, Ernest Lawford, Claude King and Cecil Humphreys; an Our Gang comedy.

"One Wild Ride." HENNEPIX-ORPIIKI SI Tom Moore and Eileen Percy in "Under the Rouge," with William B. Mong," Chester Conklin, Mary Alden, Eddie Phillips, James Mason and Claire De Lorez. PANTAGES "Flaming Waters," oil field romance with Malcolm Mac-Gregor, Pauline Garon, Mary Carr, Mayme Kelso, Johnny Gough, John Miljan and George Lott. SEVENTH STREET Evelyn Brent in "Three Wise Crooks," with Fannie Midgely, John Gough, Bruce Gordon, William Humphrey, Carroll Nye and Dodo Newton. PAIaACE "The Unknown Lover," Vitagraph production, with Elsie Ferguson, Frank Mayo, Mildred Harris, Leslie Austin, Peggy Kelly, Count Costa Morner and Arthur Donaldson.

Mr. Denny will be seen at the State theater a we from today in the cinema version of "What Happened Miss Pickford will be starred at the Strand theater in "Little Annie Rooney.".