Arizona republican., 1915-09-26
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE
 THIS WEEK


 here before. playing to the greatest three nights business in the history of that theater The picture teaches a beautiful lesson. it tells the truth about the world. the flesh and the devil. Marguerite Edwards who is the naked truth girl is the most per feet formed woman in the world This picture will be shown for the first time in Arizona at regular prices.
 Beginning Tuesday for three nights John Barrymore will be seen in The Dictator John Barrymore whose every appearance on the screen in sures carnival of mirth. attains a genuine laugh triumph in Richard Harding Davis Celebrated stage sric- cess. The central character of this famous comedy drama is Brooke Travers, a young American, who is forced by existing and exciting cir cumstances to become temporarily the dictator of q small republic of South America, and who in doing so becomes the hero of many momentous situations, some comic, and some very serious indeed. from all of which he emerges the victor through the aid of his clever wit and never failing audacity, and is finally rescued from his predicament by a kindly fate in the substantial guise of an American battleship. Produced in Cuba, the film version of the Dictator" adheres in atmospheric detail to all the re- ouiremeEts of the unusual story. while John Barrymore's personal sue cess cannot be exaggerated
 On Friday and Saturday Manager Mace takes great pleasure in an- nouncing Wild Olive" Myrtle Sted- man and Forrest Stanley are the fea lures of splendid co-starring com bination which was specially assem- bled by the Oliver Morosco Photo play company for it's production of Wild Olive"
 The character of Miriam, "The Wild Olive" tenderhearted true blue mountain girl. has been pronounced by literary reviews as one of the most sympathetic and finely delin- eated in the fiction of the past 20 years.
 Opening with a mysterious murcer in the lumber camps of the Alleghany mountains, the story shifts to Buenos Ayres at the height nf the Grand Opera season. Profound sympathy for the young American exile under sentence of death for a murder he never committed. together with en- thusiastic admiration of the noun tain girl who hid her in her cabin studio, combine to move the heart into an unusually fervent little leap of joy when the second jury reverses the verdict of capital punishment and renders a sweeping acquittall.
 
 THE EMPRESS is starting the week. with one of the greatest fea- lures ever shown in Phoenix All week Manager Purvines has taken great pride in telling the patrons of the Empress that he has secured The Rosary for today and tomorrow. He regrets very much that he is only able 10 run it two days, as the de- mand for it has been so great throughout the country that 1t was impossible to secure it for a longer time. His chief worry is, how he is going to take care of the crowd and suggests to the theater goers to come early and in that way the crowd for the second show can be taken care of.
 The Rosary is a beautiful picture taken from the wonderful stage drama written by Edward F. Rose. IL is a Selig masterpiece in which the famous Selig star Kathlyn Will Hams has spent the greatest part of her career
 The story opens with Bruce Wilton who has amassed a fortune which he lavishes on his wife, Vera. Their household is happy one Uur into it creep note, a menace. No one hears it at first save Father Kelly, a priest. the former tutor of Bruce. Quietly he goes to work with his sharpened mental sense to find the person who is causing the adverse influence in the household. Almost on the verge of discovering the cause, calamity descends on Bruce Wilton. His for tune is swept away in such a man ner that he believes that his wife was the cause Of his ruin. Husband and wife are separated, the home is de- stroyed and yet the cause of all this disaster is unknown. But Father Kelly. with a faith that moves moun- tains, goes on quietly, serenely. con- fidently. with but one purpose in view, the happiness of those he loves. He solves the mystery and lets the white light of truth into the minds of those that have been darkened by evil. More than this, he finds the one who has caused all the misery and restores the nome.
 On Tuesday only the regular six reel program will be shown. The feature of this program will be the Edison four part drama, "On Dan- gerous Pathe featuring Viola Dana. SO we'll known by her fine work in | The Stoning' and The House of Lost Court" The rest of the pro- gram will be made up of. an Essanay cartoon comedy in one reel Dreamy | Dud Goes Bear Hunting and a Ka- lem comedy The Hypnotic Monkey"
 The Metro offering for Wednesday | and Thursday will be Ann Murdock | in The Royal Family This play was Charles Frohman's former great 1