The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-15
THE DAILY GATE CITY

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Abner Parsons >. Robert Waters
john Goldman. Edward Howard
Griggs .......... C. Harrison Carter
Judy Abbott. !. 80. Renee Kelly
Mrs. Pendleton. Josephine Bernard
Julia Pendqetoa. Ruth Tomlinson
Sallie Mcbride. -. Grace Morr1ssey
Carrie Marian Coakley
Maid Clara Willis
Mrs. Lippett, matron OF the John
Grier home. Julia Varney
ORPHAN CHILDREN
Sadie Kate. .Caddie Carroll
Ola diola. .....,. 49,. Rita Coakley
Loretta ............ Helen Mcdonald
Mamie .................. lneZ Coyne
Freddie Perkins. Clarence Johnson
SYNOPSIS
Act Dining room Of the John
Grier home.
Act II-(one year elapses.) The
girls study at college.
Act III-( Three years elapses) At
Lock Willow farm.
Act IV-(Two months later.) Jervis
Pendleton's library.
"a Pair Of Skies"
This evening at the Grand opera
house, the management will pre-
sent another of those splendid
comedy dramas and "a Pair Of Skies"
will give you as much pleasure as
Daddy Long-Legs" The seat sale Is
large and it Is wise to make arrange
ments for your tickets early. The
company that comes to the Grand
this evening will, April 4th. begin
an engagement In Chicago. There Is
more comedy in "a Pair Of Skies"
than most any comedy that has been
produced and for that reason the
play has proven its popularity in the
cities where it has had long runs.
Make your reservations for this at
traction without further delay.-Ad-
vertisement.
At the Grand Wednesday, Clara Kim
ball Young in "The Deep Purple"
CAST.
Doris Moore ;. Clara Kimball Young
Rev. Moore, her father. ~.
...... Edward NJ. Kinda l
William Lake ........... Milton Sills
Harry Leland ......... Clauford Kent
Gordon Laylock -. Dewitt Jennings
Pat Connolly ........ Walter Craven
Pop Clark ........ w. ]. Ferguson
Mrs. Lake $500. Mrs. E. M. Kimbali
Ruth Lake ............ May Hopkins
Kate Fallon ...... Grace Aylesworth
The World Film Corporation offers
Clara Kimball Young as the star IN
the five part photoplay. "The Deep
Purple founded on the successful
drama Of that name by Paul Arm
strong and Wilson Miner, which
achieved a remarkable success when
offered in the legitimate theatres Of
the country by Liebler and Co., four
years ago. The authors were facile
princeps with their story. They knew
| land know New York tenderloin life.
The simple girl from the country; the
suave and treacherous badger" the
oily old chief of the gang Of crooks,
i"Pop" Clark; the repentant gunman
! from the west; the rich and manly
young mining engineer: Frisco Kate" :
/ the reformed keeper OF Gust on
Broadway boarding house; the po-
: lice; the gamblers; the hangers-on
and nondescripts; such are the types.
! You may meet them any afternoon or
evening in and around Broadway.
/ They appear in this vivid photoplay
and they act with naturalness and con-
viction: so much SO that the offering
gets over easily and smoothly. The
/ film play starts in peaceful country
scenes, and 1t ends there. Doris, the
decoy. innocent, unsuspecting, trust
full, is craftily lured from her home
and the side of her gentle clergyman.
father to undergo a narrowing series
of adventures in the great city; but at
length she finds her way back nome
to peace and happiness, and the play
therefore ends as it began, in de-
lliShtfully poetical environment. But
between the beginning and the end,
the drama and tragedy of the intensest
most lurid kind punctuated by some
Idiverting comedy. are concentrated.
THE Deep Purple" is Of nature to
ho.d all or any audiences deeply in
terested by the power Of its story, the
strength of its acting and the excel
tlence of its Observation-Disclosures
ment.
Coming to Hippodrome March u.
y To gather together from San Fran
cisco to London, England, the long
dismembered cast that made 'Du
Barry, famous as stage play. and
to send these units to a remote point
in the foothills of the Alps to re-enact
for motion pictures the beautiful
tragedy which delighted millions and
made them severally famous, is some
thing of a feat even in these days of
expensive picture making.
Yet that is what George kleine did
to immortalize the story of "Du Bar
ry.t In the mar ufacture of this film
upwards of S125.00O was consumed.