Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 17, 1925 Page: 4 of 50
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WICHITA DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 19251
PART TWO
AMUSEMENT CAL END Ai
OR WEEK AT LOCAL THEATERS
$ trand Features
- Alma Rubens and
|. James Kirkwood
I The diligence and acumen with
B hich William Fox searches to pro.
9 1 ire high-class material for his
1 reen productions could not be bet.
1 r exemplified than by the an-
.1 uncement of the Strand Theater
1 at it has booked for a four day
a 1 n beginning Sunday "Gerald
a 1 anston’s Lady," an adaptation
- J om the current season’s popular
J st seller of the same name, by
1 i Ibert Fraskau, the celebrated
English novelist. - -
No longer la It necessary to wait
t ara for the best modern literary
' orks to be'brought to ua on the
y 4 Iver sheet. The all-seeing eyes
■ i men like William Fox would
1 1 nd the fabled needle in the hay-
% i ack. Authors these days do not
K i a unknown. No sooner have they
i mpleted a good story than their
i I ime, through the medium of the
1 1 otion picture adaptation, la known
1 1 herever people have eyes that see
James Kirkwood plays the part
. Gerald Cranston, self-made
| 1 oney king who marries for social
, estige, in the screen version of
j ankau's noted story...................
Alma Rubens has the role of
Wady Hermione, the "purchased
I woman.” Playing the parts of the
) sacrificed lovers of these two are
1 Walter McGail and Marguerite De
TA Motte. Others in the cast in:
" clude J. Farrell MacDonald. Lucien
i Littlefield. Spottiswood Aitkin,
1 ' mplar Saxe. Richard Headrick.
1 I ’le Mayne and Lydia Knott.
The central character, Gerald,
" i fanston, is a veritable giant in
1 1 e industrial world of, London
th fortune and power, an ambi-
, I in to possess more hut lacking the
, < a thing that he feels necessary to
< mplete his ultimate happiness-
i rial recognition.
In a peculiar way he is afraid nf
1 omen, net timidity or a genuine
whysical fear but rather a terror of.
1 1 e power of love, believing it to
■ I a force that might -prevent his
I ncentration on commerce, inter-
I I re with his freedom of action and *
1 - nit the aweep of his ruthless and
1 i owing power.
Still a certain social position is
■ l cessary and with this object in
OLYMPIC SPECIAL ATTRACTION STARTING ON SUNDAY
ALICE JOYCE, NEC HAMILTON AND MARY BRIAN IN' THE PARAM OUNT PICTURE
THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL” A HERBERT BRENON PRODUCTION
MISSION THEATER ALL THIS WEEK
OLYMPIC NEXT THURSDAY
little French
Girl" Featured
1 Olympic Sunday
“The Little French Girl,” a Para- I
mount picturization of 'the bensa-
tionally successful novel of the
same name by Anne Douglas Seds-
wick, cornea to the Olympic theater
Sunday for a four day’s run. Alice
Joyce, Neil Hamilton, Mary Brian
and Esther Ralston are featured In
the leading roles of the production,
directed by Herbert Brenon, who
made "Peter Pan," and written for
the screen by John Russell, author
of "Where the Pavement Ends.”
Mary Brian, who played Wendy
In the Barria classic, has the title
role in "The Little French Girl."
As Alix Vervier, she invades a
fashionable English home with the
idea of making a good marriage-
a marriage which her mother’s in-
discretions have made impossible
for her In France.
Allan Joyce pleye Madame Ver-
vier, who, as Alix says, ‘cannot
help it if she is loved." Anthony
1 Jowitt, new to the screen, is Ma-
dame’s latest flame,' an English
army officer who neglects hie fian-
cee (Esther Ralston) to epend his
leaves with the little French girl's
mother. Neil Hamilton: Is Owen
Bradley’s (Jowitt) younger brother,
who also loves Miss Ralston, play-
ing Topple -
The mother, a complex creature,
ever attractive to men, is a brilliant
contrast to her hardly matured,
simple natured daughter, whose
flrat end strongest instinct le the
protection of this mother of whose
“affairs" she becomes cognisant.
The unusual relation between
mother and daughter, the contrast
between the strict English middle-
class moral standards and the freer
French codes, are graphically and
logically portrayed." and the poet-
war life of an English country fam-
ily in contraat with French society
settings is shown in an effective
manner.
SUNDAY ATTRACTION STRAND THEATER
Norma Talmadge
‘Saucy Soubrette’
. In Latest Picture w
.. AL MA RUBENS &JAMESKIRKWOOD sa)
GERALD CRANSTONSLADYCa wilaniron-lseecond.
STRAND NEXT WEDNESDAY
THEATER CALENDAR
r MISSION
Sunday and all week: Norma
Talmadge in "The Lady."
OLYMPIC
Sunday for four days: Alice
Joyce, Mary Brian and Neil Ham.
Don in “The Little French
Girl.”
Thursday, Friday and Satur'-
lay: Richard Dix in "The Shock
Punch.”
The part of 'the mother has great
possibilities, and that of the daugh-
ter la equally as good. The ro-
mance between ‘the daughter and a
young Englishman who assumes
the role of her protector, end with
whose family she is visiting, is
strong and beautiful.
Other big names in the cast of
the production are Mario Majeroni.
Jane Jennings, Maurice Cannon.
Paul Doucet and Julia Hurley.
' Wressler acted as announcer and
other stage favorites participated.
Get the Pletoria! Review picture
framed. It’s beautiful. Decorators.
— Adv. .1 <
“The Lady," Norma Talmadge’s
latest photoplay, reveals her In a
guise—that of a pert, pretty and
vivacious soubrette of a musical
show of the Gibson Girl period.
Norma wears’the typical ‘sou-
brette costume, short fluffy skirts
tlghte. bare back a le Kitty Gordon
and a huge feather hat.
Like eo many soubrettes of old.
she struts saucily across the stage,
does a buck 'and wing, jauntily
sings a song as she tosses flowers
to the Johnnies In the first row and
takes her exit “cartwheel" fasKlon
into ths wings.
It’s a new Norma the world will 8
see in “The Lady," a Norma who
plumbs the heights and the depths
of human happiness and despair.
From being the toast of the the-
atrical world. Norina plunged from
the heights of gay Monte Carlo so-
clety into the toughest dives in Eu-
rope, becomes a half-demented, be-
draggled flower "girl" in the streets,
of London after she has lost both
husband end baby and finally elid-
es the head of a cate just back of
the world war front, where the
soldiers of all nations’ call her "the
little mother of all the world."
The picture will be shown at the
Mission theater all this week.
The special cast appearing.In sup-
port of Norma Talmadge irdludes
Wallace MacDonald. Norma’s 100.
Ing man; AIR Goulding, Brandon
Hurst, Emily Fitzroy, George
Hackathrne, Walter Long. Main
McDermott. Dorris Lloyd. John
Fox Jr.. Paulette Duval, Edwin
Hubbell. Loro Bara. John Herdman,
Margaret Seddon, Miles MeCarthay
and Charles O'Malley.
Every broadcasting station in Chi-
cago has to split ita broadcasting
time with another station of the
same wavelength. This la due to
the large number of stations in that
district.
Richard Dix
‘THE LONE WOLF’ COMES .
novel, “The Lone Wolf," as she was
always accompained on her tripe to
the butcher, the baker and drug-
= stores in particular by a tali chap
she called "Al" during her holdups.
_______She and Al invaribly made their
Tobey Gem Theater
LESTER CUNEO
“HEARTS OF THE WEST”
$ ( A Mighty Romance of the nlder of the Platas
First Time Shown la Wichita Falla
Estra-Stan Laurel in “Mother’s Joy”
TODAY -
STRAND
Sunday, Monday end Tuesday
Alma Rubens and James Kirk-
rood. In "Gerald Cranston’s
Wednesday and Thursday:
Marguerite de la Motte and Al-
an Forrest in In Love With
level
, Friday and Saturday: “It Is
he Law."
•* GEN , - -
Sunday: Lester Cuneo in
Hearts of the West" and com-
Monday: Gloria Swanson In
Society Scandal.”
Tuesday: Ora Carew in “Three
Days to Live.and comedy,
Wednesday: Jack Holt in “The
one Wolf" and Go Getter com-
dv. 1
Thursday: Thomas Meighan
n “The Confidence Man," and
omedy.
Friday: Dick Hatton In "The
Cowboy Prince.’ and comedy.
. Saturday: Jack Hoxie in “A
tearing Adventure" and comedy.
TO GEM ON WEDNESDAY
Norma Talmadge in The Lady
view he marries a woman of beauty I
and pride of ancestry and estab
lishes her In his. luxurious home
His social position, through this al-
Gerald Cranston’s life will not run
according to his carefully thought
out schedule, but runs along more
tremendously exciting than he had
• xpected. th a destination, a catas-
Fiance is assured and he prepares to
go forward and conquer new worlds trophe that is unlooked for.
1 of wealth. Gerald Cranston and his When the wheels of fate crush,
Hady understand that their marriage hinr and hla fortune, he finds love
is simply a barter—his wealth for a thing he once believed only, fit
her position. for fools. ,
1 A NTT OPENING
- AIL TODAY
WILLIAM FOX
presents
The story of a Purchased Womm
with 1.
JAMES KIRKWOOO
ALMA RUBENS
WALTER.M°GRA 1 L.
M ARGUERITEDE LA MOTTE
1 EMMETT FLYNI
production
Also Comedy
and
News Events
and Goulding
Novel by
lifkart Feni
- For weeks and weeks the bobbed
hair girl bandit of Brooklyn had
scores of detectives and uniformed
police and even private sleuths on
the lookout day and night to effect
her, capture. Thia girl’s activities
became so pronounced that the New
York police sent out word to every
man on the force to get her "dead
or alive." This bobbed bandit in
getaway in a Ford coupe. * ■
In "The Lone Wolf,” Lanyard
amazed not only the greatest
sleuths of all time but he was-ad-l
mired by the most notorious of alli
underworld societies, "The Peek,"
for hie daring and success. In the
picturization of the Vance novel,
Dorothy Dalton and Jack Holt are
co-starred. Miss Dalton portraying I
the role of a female bandit who is
.-----—-----cusmil
ALLAN FORREST 6 MARGUERITE DE LA MOT ra
in-AULO WITH LOVE’S wneunss.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Miss Rob-
her banditry was unlike
Lanyard. the famous
Louts Joseph Vance’s
Michael
robber of
sensational
Wednesday—Dorothy Dalton and dark Holt in “The Lone Well”
One of the Meat Amazing, Thrilling and Sensational Pictures Ever
Filmed
ALL
WEEK
later revealed as a secret servieeinson Smith, Mrs. Newcomb Carlton
operative of Uncle Sam’s Holt is | and ... Morean made thslr
Lanyard. “The Lone Wolf." These land Miss Anne Morgan made their
are some of the moat thrilling radio debut through station WAHG
at Richmond Hill. L T. In the in-
“The Lone Wolf" comes to the tereet of the American Woman’s As:
Gem Wednesday for one day only, sociation of Club House. Marie
enes ever screened.
Today at the
MISSION
So Speaks
the Lady!
--revealing vital moments
in a film you’ll never for-
set:
MA woman like me only
knows one instinct — to
fight for her man—when
. ebb loves him!"
“I’m generous minded. 1
am—but I got to draw the
fine somewheres!”
“Somehow you’re meant to
Mya -- even when your
heart is busted!”
era have eared and loved
him as much if he'd been
mething but a bes eendue-
tor—but be left me.”
The Tenderest Love
Story Ever Told
Qke
The girl who wanted to
be nice — talk nice-
read books like y alee
people did: 3
The girl who dreamed
of going a Ladys but.
instend, swayed royal
‘ hearts, with her dame- I
A rt National Picture.
Added VIRGIN, worcusise - *-- “JUNE BROUGHT Cady C. Kenney
Attraction VIRGINIA HOTCHKISS Singing THE ROSES" at the Organ
PALACE
THEATER WEEK
JOLLY FLAPPERS
MUSICAL COMEDY
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