Halsey enterprise. (Halsey, Linn County, Or.) 19??-1924, December 02, 1920, Image 4

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    solicited and not a dollar of mon­
ey will be asked for.
Every man, w hether farm er
or business man, is urged to a t­
tend these assemblies, which
will be announced later, and fa­
miliarize himself with the work­
ings of this greatest of farm or­
ganizations.
The Devil’s Pass Key.
“ The Devil’s Pass K ey.” Una
Trevelyn, as his wife, Clyde Fill­
more as a wealthy young Am eri­
can army officer in Paris, Maude
George, Mae Busch, Ruth King,
Leo White, and Jack M atheisare
also in the cast. The plot is ta ­
ken from the story “ Clothes and
T reahery,” by Baroness De
Meyer.
A rich American officer helps
the wife out of an embarrassing
situation when an unscrupulous
modiste is pressing her for pay­
ment of bills. Ihe story circu­
lates. The husband has no idea
who the principals are and makes
it the basis of a »lay which
proves a great success.
The
w’ife, though innocent, becomes
the target for attacks by scan­
dal-mongers, and a catastrophe
is narrowly averted.
This is the story of an author
who wrote a successful play only
to tind on the night of its pre­
miere th at he has based the plot
on the indiscretions of his own
wife and has made her the sub­
ject of gossip, for all Paris is
artfully told in “ The Devil’s
Pass Key,’’ a Universal-Jewel
photoplay produced under the d i­
rection of E ric von Stroheim,
and which comes to the Rialto
theatre (in Halsey) on Thursday
Superb direction «nd artistic
Dec 2.
acting feature the production,
Mr von Stroheim was the au­ which also contains scenes at the
thor and director of “ Blind Hus­ famous Grand Prix, the Theatre
bands.” Sam de Grasse, who IFrancais and many other inci­
played the husband in that pro­ dents of Parisian life which have
duction. has a similar part in been accurately reproduced