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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1922)
4- c:.. r 4 THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM; OREGON SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER t; 1922" 5 4 13! I! n i-4 4 .' 4. " 4 4 MOVIE AT THE LIBERTY TODAY it,-, fi :1: , ;! -1 '-L I . A t - j' ' - ' - v ' 1 I I k. I ' . - t I ? v IS M v 1 ''.:-. 'Hi- Pauline Frederick in Her Greatest Succe3s, Madame X, one of - v . the best iwms; i - p Pauline Frederick, Ooldwyji star, as "Madajtie X" in Alexin dre ' Bison' famous French, play of tnat nftme, which cornea to the Liberty theater today one of Inc xreateat emotiAial roies ever T Today torn LAZELLA and CAROLYNE z'yj:v --4;-:-Whirlwnd 'Ajertalistfl; -y,'! - E (:;.fawn de'mari y , ; ; '''I'ri - Character Songs ; "' )' 11 -' ii ii i i" ' i i ' : i Am GLADYS WALTON In ,h THE TROOPER" : TOM SANTSCH1 In a Snappy Western Drama . 4t, TWO MEN Comedy and Scenic D 5 I ' -j J James Oliver VALLEY w- SILENT i i - witn A m mm a ALMA A ReaV Red-BIooded Canadian KockiesBeautiful Scenes 'XV LARRY a r Fore 1 I !-: GOLF Iffl li'i. GOSSIP ever proauced pi ren ; to fan actress. Mlsa Frede rick is presehting a new and won derful Interpretation of this char acter ; around whose stormy and Bad life th4 action f the play moves. or row ii - . . r I tP : ! O 1 i : i -. : ' I TOMORROW Curwdod's OF F-.P - nffmmiA' Romance Filmed infthc '1 SEMON Laughs n l .v mm ju j tit f 'mm:: o BLIGH Gladys Walton on "The Trou&er, and Vaudeville, j OKKGO.V datnes Oliver Curwood'ai "Thei Valley of Silent Men.' LIBERTY Madame X" with Pauline Frederick and a good com4 edy. ! GRAND Harold Lloyd in "Grand? ma's Boy," and Katherlne McDonald in "The Beantlful Liar." ' In the first part of the play ehe is the young wife of Florlot. a deputy 'attorney of Paris, who, believing her unfaithful, has driv en her from his home! She re turns becaure she has learned that her young son is ill, and getrt Into the house. Floriot. representing the love for her that has been one of the big things; n his life, will not permit her to see her son. He tells her that the by believes her dead. He hears her explanation of an episode with an other man which caused him: drive her away, but will not be lieve her story." He forces her into the streets again. ' ! Twenty years later, after sae has gone down to the lowest depths of degredation to which woman con go, she returns 18 to 5. I to France from Ouenos Aires which place-she had' drifted. Slid kills a man who seeks to use her In a scheme to blackmail Floript and is sent to prison.. Refusing to reveal her identity she is reg istered as ''Madame X." Her sob, now a lawyer, is assigned to die fend her at her trial. Floribt sits onj the Judge's bench duriig the trial to hear his son plead his first case and Noel., who lot fed her before her marriage. Is among the spectators. . The dramatic Intensity of the trial scene has seldom been equal ed in nay play, particularly wlien "Madame X" recognized her son In the young lawyer defending her. and her husband In the man sitting beside the judge. j The entire play is filled with ... ..... j dramatic situations that call for the best' that an actress can gife. Miss Frederick, who is one of the greatest emotional actresses in motion pictures, is doing the best work of her sereen. career pictar ing "Madame X." v Noah, Beery, who enacts the rol of Marty Harkln in "Belle of Alaska," In support of Jane No vak, has been acclaimed by mo tion picture critics and screen authorities as the greatest "healvy of the screen.". Beery was born in Kansas Ci Mo.,' in 1884. His career on tjhe egitlmate stage includes engaie- LmenU with Richard Mansfie Cohan and Harris productions Henry B. Harris, Klawf&' Erlan f,er, and other well known theatB cai producers. - 1 Some of his former rcreen tti- umphs were in "Go and Get It," "Bob Hampton of Placer," "Bts of Life," for Marshal Neiln. With Dooglas Fairbanks in "ithe Mark of Zorro and other lc- tures. "The 3ea Wolf" for Jesse Lasky. Other pictures' in which he trfumphed extraordinary af:: Believe Me Xantippe," , "The Whispering Chorus," "The Red Lantern." "The Fighting Sh4p- herdera,"'Dinty," etc. His leading role in support of Jano Novak in "Belle pf Alaska" is that of a Kansas farmer who gets the Klondike gold fefver, dis poses of his farm and is a par ticipant in the stampede of .1899 to the north. . Making a strike. he portrays all .the changes that sudden and accidental wealth bring about in a man ; portrays the excesses of the argonaut and engages, incidentally, in the great est phypleal encounter evershojwn on the .screen. . The role of Marty Harkln will be ranked as one of the finest bits of character ppr traval and development seen j in any motion picture in months. "Darktown Follies" a real col ored minstrel show with ten peo ple with their Jazzy singing, danc ing. Comedy and music, the kjngj that, we have not heard for manyl moons will be the attraction! at the Bligh theatre next Wednesday and Thursday, This show comes to Salem after playing a big sum mer season at the Oaks Park; inj Portland. Lazella and Carolyne. whirl-; wind aeriallsts. These young peo4 pie, full of pep and ginger, give you - more actiono in the air i in six minutes than most people can do in twice that time. Speedj is their . middle name. See 4hemj On the Hippodrome vaudeville bill at the Bligh theatre today and tomorrow. i , FAWN DEMAR Is a real singer Of the Blues and Character songs, her ' Italian number Is especially clever and, her costumes pretty. Miss DeMar wears some beautiful gowns and making her changes oa -the stage adds a novelty to her act- On the Hippodrome vaude ville show at the Bligh today and tomorrow. Charles Meredith, formerly mat ir.e idol, with the Oliver MorOsco dramatic enterprises, plays a mas culine lead with Katherlne Mac- Donald in "The Beautiful Liar.'; wh'ch is coming to the Grand theater. The picture is one of the best in which this talented f2L T-Zr J- c-'F GLADYS V THE UNISCQSAL ATT&ACTtQitf 'THE TCOUPEE At the Bligh Today and Tomorrow actress has ever appeared, and Meredith 1 has been assigned one of the best roles in his successful career. . On the same bill is Har old Lloyd in "Grandma's Boy." Mamie Judd was the most popu lar person inthe Penniless troupo at times, when she pressed their clothes ub hielped the ladies dress and she earned the magni ficent sum Of twolollars a wek, If the manager had it. See "Troup er" at the Blighloda.T. From sterling necklaces j to dancing a mean step in a swell cafe! That Is -the jump in oocu- patioon of the hero) of "Don't Shoot!" the Universal picture at the Bligh theatre next "Sunday. Herbert Rawlinson is the star-of a story good enough 4To be worth filmiDg a second time.-' Jack Ccn way directed and Edna Murphy U the leading woman. ' I No one ever thought Charfesl Raywas superstitious. " Everyo""ne at the Thomas . H. Ince studios looked surprised when the popu lar young star asked to have a horseshoe soldered to the water tank cap on a racing automobile he was to drive in "Greased Light ning," his new Paramount photo- Play. - . She was a wardrobd Slajvey and she loved the villain in the road troupe, probably the worst actor In the world but to her eyes a combination of Apollo and Frank Mayo. See Gladys Walton. Trouper." at the Bligh today. Thousands did not get a chance to see Harold Lloyd In "Grand ma's Boy", a picture which has more laughs, than any comedy ever made. A special return en gagement has been arranged foi today only at the Grand. You've, heard the old saying that because the mountain would not-come to Mahomet, Mahomet went to the mountain? The pa- trcn? of the Oregon theater who could not go to the "Rocky Moun: tains in Canada, had' thm brought to them last night when "The Valley of Silent Men," a Cosnidpolitan creation for Para mount featuring Almr Rubens. was shown with much success. WEDS AL JOLSON. i v . - v : i ( : :.r I - ; ; ...... " mr Miss Ethel Delmar marries Jolson, the noted comedian. Miss Delmar is abbut 21' years of age and met Jolson when she was appearing in "Scandals of 1920." Previous to that she appeared in vaudeville act, . ; .... t j--- - '- i ' . , : - , . - . WALTON . The picture has realism, thrills and punch from, the opening to jthe closing scenes. The work of Miss Rubens in the trying role of a Canadian girl who is the central figure of a tremendous dramatic story, was adurirable. Lew Codjr was artistic as leading man and the work of "Joe King. George Nash, Mario Majeroni and J. W. Johnston' was highly effective. Directed by Frank Bortage, who created "Humoresque," "The Good Provider" and other creen successes, "The Valley of Sjilent Men" doubtless will be hailed as I X 1 4 V Another Pauline "MA From the Book of the . Same Name Our Film is a brand new print... A wonder ful cast headed by Wil-, Ham Court leigh, a fa mous legitimate and screen actor. I A better dramatic feature we will back Words fail to describe ing, don't miss this. Always " a Good Show at Popular Prices ; WILL RIDE OVER POLE WITH ilL Captain Amundsen to Make Delivery Flying Over j T6p of' the World SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 30. One of the most spectacular chap ters In the annals of world wide postal delivery! mar be written when Cabtain' Ronald Amundsen, famous Norwegian explorer, wings Lis way across the top, of the world 'in ibis proposed attempt to fly an airplane from the tip of Alaska -to Northernmost Europe via the North Pole. With him M his monoplane will rids a mall sack containing letters written by Nome residents for delivery to friends jn Europe.: If Weather conditions had not forced a postponment of the flight until next year, three letters might have reached their desti- nation a week ahead of the time required to make the delivery by the established , routes. . As It is. arrlvlag perhaps mare than a year later, f; they will have priceless historical .value to their recipi ents who will doubtless follow the affairs- Of their explorer-post man wth intensified interest. According to a report by Post-- master Walsh of Nome, Amund sen as about to depart from" the mining camp on his way lo Wain- wright,' 100 miles southwest of Point Barrow, where be will win ter awaiting favorable Conditions tor his proposed flight. - o one of 'the outstanding dramas of the current season. GRUNERT AUTO TOPS 256 State St 3 Starting Liberty DAME f . - f - - "' ' ' " " ll J - " ' f - " t' - ? f . s - - . - - ' 'JjL11L1-A' r'' " 1 1 - " ii Tii i - - irfl.i.v - j i production has nerer graced the screen and the statements we make about this npf; Hi! it I If iu like a dramatic production and are a lover of It'll thf ill you. A Two-Reel Kid and Dog 3 I I ! 1. 'f' -V 1 : Ij : i' i i j ; i , . . 1 II SPECIAL1 ADDED HITS - i: ' j i I i i . - . ' - . j-..- ' - i- :.;.! " - : I SSI . .. ( .-II. I ;.: i J- . LIBERTY TMEATRE Says Plain Living and Pipe Brings Long Life SHEFFIELD. Eng., ?. 11. tHy rnaiL) Mr. Ann HaySins has Just ' ceelratel her 103rd s Today Only Special Return "Grandma's Boy" Thousands did not tet a chance to see this Comedy when rs shown at the Liberty. Best Comedy Erer ALSO KATHER1NE MACDONALD In . 'The r Beautiful Supported by an sub stantial cast of well known stars. Today ' better Theatre redefiel Comedy and a News Weekly b'rthday by ridln? in a motor car tor the first time: She attributes her longevity to plain living. She hhlnks that smoking tobacco also Jhas'someth g to do with It., S3 'has nuoked a pipe tor years, rand 2 P. M, 7 P.M. 9 P. Engagement - r Don't miss it this time " Shown in Salem k : m - !. 7J ; . - . . . .ai;.- ii.im i'miii nn i ! J Scoop (OTi: V " S. A sensational stage' success and as a silenrlraina .ts Pan line Frederick's : . - . .. t t. - '".'ft-- : ' . - greatest Kit' and she " 2 . 'I ranks as one of the fi nest emotional ' ac tresses .on stage or screen. 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