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OH YOU DEVIL” '(
HEADLINES NEW ‘
ROYAL PROGRAM
It Is a Musical Comedy Tab*
loid With a Cast of
Fourteen People.
MEXICAN SINGERS GOOD
Remainder of Bill Includes
Two Fun Skits and Gym*
nastic Novelty.
“Oh You Devil” a musical come-
dy tabloid with a cast of fourteen
people will be the principal attrac-
tion on the Pantages Road Show
vaudeville bill for the week begin-
ning today at the Royal Theater. It
is the offering of Herman Rec\or.
and features ('lay Crouch who al - *
has an independent fun-making skit
on the same program.
Handsome costumes beautiful
scenery and many odd and unusual
features are included in the make-
up of “Oh You Devil.” In addition
to Crouch there are three other
principals and a chorus of four men
and eight women. The act abounds
in clever patter singing and dan ipg
and has enough plot to sustain inter-
est throughout.
Gymnastics and Aerial IVats.
Variety characterizes the remain-
der of the bill. The singing of Llera’s
Mexican Troupe is heralded as an
exceptional feature. The Dumitres-
cu-Dunham Company combine gym-
nastic and aerial ability in an act
full of surprises. These two men and
two women accomplish a startling
horizontal bar and trapeze feat.
Th^ir offering Is elaborately dressed
and the four work with great ra-
pidity.
Charles Mack and company pre-
sent an Irish sketch called “A
Friendly Cal!.’’ which is said to bub-
ble over with the jolliest wit imagin-
able. A friend visits an old tad who
is sick and their conversation has
much to do with his illness with
many a funny twist and odd saying.
During its course the Irish pipe is
introduced and the caller plays while
the old tad’s daughter dances. "The
a-t is lively” says an advance no-
tice. "It is well dressed and well
and carries many laughs.”
A Whirlwind Comedienne.
Maxine Pari is is said to be “a
whirlwind comedienne after the Eva
Tanguay type. She is a clever ’nut’
and has an original style that takes
with everybody. She makes a stun-
ning appearance and puts her ma-
terial over with a punch.”
"The American Widow” a feature
photoplay starring Ethel Barrymore
is the added attraction on this bill.
"Fatty.” a Monologist.
Roscoe "Fatty” Arbuckle chief
fun dispenser in the Paramount-Ar-
buckle comedies is becoming noted
ns a monologise The patter in which
the big comedian is indulging has
become a popular form of enter-
tainment these days in Southern
California. In the two months since
he arrived at Long Beach where he
has made "A Country Hero” and
has just about completed • “Out
(ROYAL
| Pantage’s Vaudeville and Feature Picture
I NEW BILL STARTING TODAY
C Big Pantages C
y Road Show Acts
Herman Becker presents Ned Dandy's Newest Offering
“OH YOU DEVIL”
Featuring Clay Crouch in His Travels all the Way From Hades
to Cabaret.
MAXINE CHAS. MACK BAXLEY and
PARRISH ... * CO. PORTER
“A Friendly Call.”
Little Miss The real gem of all Comedians Singing
Personality. Irish i*oinedy and Dancing.
playlets.
DUMITRESCUE-DUNHAM TROUPE
t Phenomenal Gymnasts and Aerial Artists.
WM. S. HART in “Fearless Egan”
ALSO A COMEDY
The Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra
EMIL OBERHOFFER Conductor.
Beethoven Hall
Saturday January 26th.
Matinee 2:30 P. M. • Prices $1.50 $l.OO 75c
Night 8:15 P. M. - - Prices $2 00 $1.50 $l.OO
Sale of reserved seats begins tomorrow morn-
ing January 21 at Thos. Goggan Bros. Miss
Rowley local manager.
SUNDAY
West” Arbuckle has made two per- I
sonal appearances in Los Angele* I
and Long Beach one at Pasadena*I
and will shortly appear in Riverside •
and Santa Anna.
Will Bo Shown in Jajmn.
That Benjamin Chapin's “The Son
of Democracy” scries soon to be re-
leased by Paramount is good en-
tertainment for every class is proved
by the fact that Sakao & Co. of To-
kio Japan have made an offer for
the Japanese rights to these stories
of early American life.
WEEK’S PANTAGES LINE-UP AT THE ROYAL
> Motion Picture Actors Are Drawn From Every Corner of i
the World and Most of Them Rose to Fame From Ob- £
scurity—Some Examples.
A big motion picture studio is
about as cosmopolitan a place as
one will find anywhere in the world.
A glance at the biographies of a few
of the stars appearing on the screens
these days is sufficient to establish
this fact. It will also throw a num-
ber of interesting sidelights on these
luminaries who almost without ex-
ception came up to fame from ob-
scurity.
Of them all probably Mary Pick-
ford and Charlie Chaplin are the
best known'. It is no news to say
that Mary was born in Toronto and
that her stage career began when
she was scarcely old enough to walk
alone but very few of her tMmirers
know that her real name was Gladys
Smith. She is the wife of Owen
Moore who was born in Ireland and
is in the draft age and who began
playing juvenile leads only five or
six years ago. Charlie Chaplin's
birthplace is London. He got hi^
first recognition as an eccentric rol-
ler skater playing the music halls
of Europe. He was developed as a
screen comedian by Mack Sennett.
As everyone knows he is now run-
ning his own producing company
and is “rolling in money.”
Fast mid West.
Douglas Fairbanks was born in
Denver. Colo. and educated to bo a
mining engineer but he wanted to be
an actor and had a deuce of a time
breaking in. He appeared in the
“legit” in vaudeville and in many
films but has never only lately at-
tempted anything “wild west.” He
has however many times taken tho
role of an effete Easterner.
William S. Hart known to all
“movie” fans as the stone-faced out-
law or cowboy was born in New-
burgh N Y. He spent several years
of his youth however in North Da-
kota. His stag' career started in
London when ho was but 19 years
old. Though he rides shoots and
rolls a cigarette like a cowboy he
has never ben one off the screen.
Geraldine Farrar's father was a
professional baseball player and he
First walked the floor with her in
Melrose. Mass. She deserted grand
opera to win new laurels in tne
Films. She was at one time the only
American prima donna. Her talent
was manifested when she was but 12
rears old. when her musical educa-
tion was begun.
Marguerite Clark is a native of
Cincinnati where her father was a
prominent merchant. She was or-
phanec however when she was 11
rears old. went to school in a con-
rent and appeared on the stage at
in early age. following success in
in amateur theatricals. She is only
Four feet ter Inches tall but is for-
nidable in athletics.
Arc Out of-Doors Women.
Pauline Frederick. Billie Burk**
md Ann Pennington also are out-of-
loors women as. indeed are most ac-
resses; they must be to keep fit
Miss Frederic k is six inches taller
Jian Miss Clark and is a crack shot
md linguist. w: s horn in Bos-
on and is remembered for her emo-
ion al acting on the stage. Miss
Burke is an accomplished horse- I
rnman and i” a fas* and clever ten- j
lis player. She first saw the light 1
n Washington D. C. but was edu- I
’ated in French convents and speaks
French better than most Frenchmen.
She began her career by singing in
he music halls of France. Russia
md other European countries. She Is
amous for her extravagance in
•lothes. Ann Pennington of Cam-
!en. N. J. unlike most of her sis- :
ers who began on the stage and j
mded In the “movies.” Is making |
'ilms hand over hand and is still the
Where They Were Bom.
s premiere danseusp of the “Zicgfield
s | Follii -
Lou-Tellegen husband of Gerald-
' (ine Farrar is a young Greek who
v 'won international renown as a mvm-
s । ber of the organization of Madame
I Sarah Bernhardt.
As everybody knows Roscoe
' (“Fatty’ • Arbuckle was born in
Smith Center. Kans. and has a
’ mania tor collecting high-priced li-
mousines. He is also a public
speaker of note. Be was brought
’ ! out by Mack Sennett. As the fans
recall he is- a remarkable swimmer
j lie holds a few records for neck-
l threatening “stunts.”
IYhtuLs Cali Him "Bill.”
! Julian Eltingc. whose real name
. lis William Dalton and who his real
friends call “Bill” was born in
i Butte. Mont. but his parents took
: him at an early age to Boston where
_ he was educated. He was one of
. the first vaudeville actors ever to get
’•a "grand”—slooo a week. He got
_ $l5OO even following his first big
• success as a member of Cohan and
' 'Harris’ Minstrels. Though he makes
up as a beautiful woman "Bill”
’I smokes big black cigars and is a
’’clever and dangerous boxer. He de-
ni.u.stru'.d that on an insulting jaw
in San Antonio some years ago.
One of th© most touching stories
1 of the stage is that of Lina Cavalieri.
It is too well known for more than
' 'sketching here. She was born in
Home ot humble parents and be-
. came a celebrity the whole world
knew before she was 30. She lost
’ her father when she was 13. Her
’ only talent was singing and for the
sake of her mother and the smaller
'children she went to singing ro-
' manzas in Trastevere for 00 cents
ja night. Her fame grew and spread
' and in a few years she was the
I reigning’beauty of Paris.
I Louise Huff who co-stars with
(Jack Pickford comes from Colum-
bus Ga Vivian Martin's birthplace
jis Grand Rapids. Mich. When she
' ■ was six years old she appeared with
I Richard’ Mansfield in "Cyrano de
। Bergerac." Her rise to success was
I meteoric.
KEENAN IS HUNTSMAN
iCocs Out. Bags Five Big Geese and
Returns to Work.
People who think ot actors solely
as creatures of Broadway should
follow Frank Keenan around for a
iuay or so. Mr. Keenan screen star
; who is also famous on the stage is
jan outdoor man. first last and all
the time. Just before .he latest home
wrecking blizzard that tied New York
lup so complete.y. he took out his
• gun at.d journeyed down to grea.
.South Bay where le bagged fi’o
big Canada geese in little less than
no time.
Returning to the Fathe Studio
where he is now starring he put the
finishing touches on a big featurJ
film "Loaded Dice." by Hillary A.
Clark and Gilson Willets and still
I fit for more informe i Ernest Warde
1 just engaged as his ircctor that he
j was leady to begin on another
'Simeon's ShacTow" by Elizabeth Lee
(and Gilson Willets. After a twelve-
। hour day. he received numerous call-
ers and otherwise failed to "register''
fatigue.
Century Company Is Bankrupt.
Following a suit brought by Flora
RevaUes. singer and dancer who has
been appearing at the Century Thea-
ter. New York the Century Amuse-
ment Company lias gone into bank-
। ruptcy with liabilities of more than
41V0.000
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
BILLIE BURKE IS
ON BILL TODAY
AT THE EMPIRE
Stars in Paramount Photo-
play of Popular “Arms
and the Girl.”
OTHER BIG FEATURES
Clara Kimball Young’s’Mag-
da’ and Arbuckle’s ’Out
West’ Run Friday.
Billie Burko today Monday and
Tuesday in “Arms and the Girl”;
Dorothy Dalton Wednesday and
Thursday in “Love Letter”; Clara
Kimball Young in “Magda.” and
“Fatty” Arbuckle in "Out West”
Friday and Saturday are the photo-
play stars featured on the program
for the week at the Empire Theater.
Added attractions with "Arms and
the Girl” will be a "Mutt and Jeff”
comic and a Pathe News film and
with “Love Letters.” William S Hart
in "His Last Haul.”
"Arms ami the Girl.”
“Arms and the Girl” follows close-
ly the stage version which met with
such success a few years ago. Brief-
ly th© plot is as follows: An Ameri-
can girl (Billie Burke) stranded in
Belgium at the opening of the pres-
ent war innocently exchanges her
passport with a Russian girl—a spy.
Another American —a young man—-
also helps the Russian girl by the
loan of his automobile. When the
Germans seize the town the two
Americans who have not been able
to escape are held for complicity
especially the man who is ordered
to be shot. “The Girl” saves him by
declaring him to be the fiance she
has been waiting for. and as if to
prove her statement the German
general orders the two to be married
at once.
This is done and the two young
people find themselves in a most em-
barrassing situation. The husband
escapes however while in the mean-
time the real fiance appears. The
hatter proves himself to be rather a
cad so the newly married couple
who are becoming very fond of each
other resolve to do nothing about
annulling the ceremony as they had
planned. Altogether “Arms and the
Girl” is one of the most charmingly
humorous and vivid photoplays of
the season.
Start* Ruthless Rumor.
Moreover it has had as a photo-
play purely and simply an exciting
career.
Ever since It became apparent
that America would be forced into
the war by German ruthlessness
there have been rumors that bodies
of Germans in this country were
drilling clandestinely. Minute inves-
tigation of these reports have been
made. Ono of them was traced down
after it had leaked out that a man
named Kaufman had purchased sev-
eral hundred German uniforms. The
trail led to the office of Albert Kauf-
man. manager of tho Famous Play-
ers studio in New York City who
had bought them for the "extra” men
in the picture.
As Eileen Harland young wife of
a district attorney Dorothy Dalton
in “Love Letters" makes a deter-
mined struggle for her husband's
confidence. In her girlhood she had
written indiscreet letters to Raymond
Moreland who poses .IS a teacher of
erotic eastern creeds. How she sac-
rifices herself to obtain these letters
only to fail and be accused of More-
land’s murder and how her hus-
band's assistant clears her makes a
gripping photoplay.
Miss Young in “Magda.”
The action of “Magda” starring
1 Clara Kimball Young is built about
the clash of wills between a doml-
' neering father and his high-strung
independent daughter. It is a strik-
ing exposition of the stupidity of a
certain class of parents and Mir
Young in her portrayal of the mis-
understood and driven daughter
makes a strong appeal to the sym-
pathies. Compelled else to make an
undesirable marriage she flees front
her home and becomes an opera sitt-
er. When she again flashes on her
home town in the personality of Mag-
dalene Dall' Orto her father pom-
pously agrees to forgive her but he
insists that she leave her hotel and
dwell under his own roof. She agrees
and there meets the man who be-
trayed her.
How the tangled snarl of Magda's
life is finally straightened by the
removal of the domestic tyrant and
the way made dear for a continu-
ance of her career makes one of Miss
Young’s strongest vehicles.
|E 191 DI DE TODAY—Monday
lEIvII 111 E and Tuesday
9 Pathe News —Mint and Jeff Comedy
9 ADOLPH ZUKOR presents
| Billie Burke
By arrangement with F. ZIEGFELD JR.
| in “Arms and the Giri”
9 American Pluck and Wit Triumphs
When the clouds burst and the Huns made I »/
CT their futJe dash for the gates of Paris “the
^9 Girl” was there with as pretty a romance
ja as piquant dainty Billie Burke has ever I
uL played. There’s love laughs adventure and L*\
aJ intrigue aplenty in this thrilling story of
Fj life “over there.”
Wednesday and Thursday Friday and Saturday
| Dorothy Dalton Cla ™ Kimball
—in— Young
£ “LOVE LETTERS’’ “MAGDA”
—AND— _AND—-
WM. S. HART in FATTY ARBUCKLE
g “HIS LAST HAUL” in “OUT WEST”
X PATHE NEWS. Paramount Comedy.
SOME OF THE EMPIRE’S NEW FEATURES
EMPIRE IS TO SHOW
NEW CHAPLIN FILMS
Announce** Securing of Frum'liisc
for Forthcoming Productions.
Coined in ii Builds Studio.
Along with the announcement
that Charlie Chaplin who recently
won his suit to enjoin other film
comedians from imitating his man-
norisms and make-ups had started
work on a new half million dollar
studio at Hollywood Cal. for the
production of his “signature pro-
tected” specials for which he is
under $i000000 contract W. J. Ly-
tle* of the Empire Theater an-
nounces that he has secured the San
| Antonio franchise for all the new
Chaplin pictures.
The first of these releases is ex-
pected to be shown here early in
February.
Charlie Chaplin formally started
work on his motion picture plant
when in the presence of a few mem-
bers of his company he plunged a
shovel deep into the earth of his
$30000 plot of ground in the beau-
tiful Hollywood district of Southern
California and later watched a gang
of workmen go at things for all they
were worth.
Within four weeks the one-time
exquisite McClelan estate of tower-
ing pepper trees. stately palms
abundance of flowers and unending
fruit groves will have taken on quite
a different appearance. It will be
even more beautiful than it was to
the gazing throngs of tourists.
From every outward appearance
there will stand a quaint English
village. The architecture of the new
Chaydin plant is an innovation in
motion picture studio construction
modeled after the suggestions ot I
Chaplin himself.
Chaplin plans to spend more than
a half million dollars improving the
property. Everything used in the
construction work and all of the ।
equipment will he the very best ob*
tainable and no expense will be
spard in putting in innovations
unique in studio construction.
The entire plant will not be com-
pleted for at least two months but
there will be enough completed with-
in the next week to enable the star
to start on his initial production for
the First National Exhibitors’ Cir-
cuit for which organization he will
make eight pictures and ecceive ono
million dollars for his services.
Re-open Ilrotoplny's Mine.
While filming "Rimrock Jones”
th© Paramount photoplay which is
Wallace’s Reid’s latest starring ve-
hicle the players under the direc-
tion of Donald (’risp visited what
was once the Gold Mountain mine
above Baldwin Lake in Bear Valley
California to find locations for “The
Big Top Mine” of the “Rimrock
Jones’’ story. The incident in the
play was tho re-location of the min-
ing claim by Wallace Reid as Rim-
rock Jones. While the Paramount
players were engaged in taking
these scenes a party of mining men
and surveyors arrived on the same
spot So re-open the Gohl Mountain
properties.
ir9l n house
IunANU opera
I 4 DAYS STARTING TODAY
GERMAN CURSE IN RUSSIA
18000 FEET OF ACTUAL FIGHTING
9 3 Years to Make at a Cost of a Billion Dollars and
w a Million Lives.
See the Brave Women of Russia in
9 Action Going Over the Top
| EXTRA FEATURE—3OOO FEET
[THE WAKE OF THE HUNS
Ja Official British War Picture.
!■
Tg DPIITTC. LOWER FLOOR 25c
1 IXIVILO. BALCONY 15c
I WAR TAX IS INCLUDED
GRAND —January 27 28 29 30 and 31
Julius Ste^ei*
JANUARY 20 1918.
USES THOUSAND ACTORS
.Maeterlinck's “Blue Bild” Is to Be
Stupendous FiLnx
Maurice Maeterlinck’s “The Blue
Bird.” which has international fame
as a classic of the s.age is now be-
ing produced for the screen by Art-
craft pictures under the direction ot
Maurice Tourneur. Ail o’her work al
th© big Fort I^ee stu lios has bee:*
set aside in order to handle this pro-
duction which it is promised will
present a stupendous fum disclosing
a more effective visualization than
was possible on the stege. Over a
thousand real actors appear in thi^
picture exclusive of the extras and
gigantic sets occupying the entire
stage of the big glass studio in New
Jersey are being filmed for this pro-
duction.
A Valet Mlth WiU.
Valet —One of your crudltore withes to
see you. «lr.
Toll hi n I'm out.
Valet—Yes. sir And T’i! lust light eno
of your b«'st clsarw sir. he'll be more like-
ly to believe me then.
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