Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-26
TRIANGLE BILL BEST
SHOWN AT CHESTNUT
All Three Producing Companies
Outshine Their Previous
Work-Other Bills.

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Yesterday the Chestnut Street Opera
House showed the best bill OF Triangle
photopiays since the theatres reopening.
II was well balanced In subject and treat
ment; the films were extremely well taken
ard the acting was all excellent.
Even the two keystone contributions
were varied and balanced One. "Fickle
Fntty's Fall" handled the old trough
stun perfectly. The falls. knockdowns,
accidents and byplay were all ingenious
and generally original II TITLES recre-
alton pier cropped up again. Il introduced
the new automobile wheel chair as nov
city. His Fathers Footsteps" the other
keystone. was positively polite up to the
last few hundred feet Nobody lost his
balance. Nobody decorated anybody else
with batter And them! Oh, fire hose of
Charley Chapllnl oh, Hazards OF
Heien!''
Mr. Ince's company astonished a good
many OF the audience by an embryonic
thesis play. The sociologist and the sex
philosopher are abroad in the movies.
And, 10 and behold the movies take TO
them remarkably well ''Matrimony"
asked the very pertinent question. why
should the wife be expected to hold the
husband9" II asked II with a lot Of Incl
dents that are more or less the conven-
tions of the stage-jealousies and coun-
ter-iealousles and wives who try to be as
CAV as their rivals and end by being as
indlUefent as tnelr nuSDhndS. but tne
whole thing was so admirably handled as
10 be real novelty A remarkably real
and elaborate setting-so real and elab-
crate that Il probably Is an ordinary
house-was backed up by acting on the
part OF Howard Hickman and Julia Dean
which was constraint itself. Some very
fine lighting added to the finish of the
whole.
The Griffith supervised film yesterday
afternoon was a thriller called THE
Sable Lorcha." In which Tully Marshall
played diabolical "chink' in his best
diabollcal manner and Thomas Jefferson
did much prosecuted cross between
John ID. and Henry Ford To tell what
II was all about is to ruin the future
patrons pleasure. But It thrills very
ingeniouslv and verv effectively. And
II gives the Board OF Censors one more
chance to blunder about.
This week the Metropolitan is relying
on THE Family Cupboard" as its principal
photoplay. with Holbrook Bllnn as the
featured player. There are other short
films. The chief novelty in the musical
part of the entertainment is Mr.. Lip
schultz. who sings at the reorganized
Metropolitan for the first time. In ad-
dition there are the Shubert Quintet
and singing ensemble In a costume musi-
Gale composed OF waltz gems from BLUE
Danube" Pirates OF Penzance," The
Merry Widow and Others and a grand
opera finale in which selections from
Faust" and Tales of Hoffman" are
sung by Arthur Aldridge and Harry
Luckstone.
The Arcadia shows the first half OF
the week "a Girl of Yesterday" with
Mary Picl1ford and Glenn Martin. the
aviator. Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day II exhibits THE Family Stain" with
Frederick Perry. There is also a so
ciety film." "Melodramatic Movies"
made under the auspices and direction of
the Charlotte Cushman Club.
Tonight. as yesterday, the Regent is
showing 1.-The Better Woman" with
Leonore Ulrich. fve-part feature:
Wednesday and Thursday, THE Yankee
Girl" with Blanche Ring, Paramount
feature; Friday and Saturday, "Esmer-
aldaS' with Mary Pickford.
The FIRST half Of the week the Palace
shows "Zaza," with Pauline Frederick
a Paramount production. Thursday. Fri
day and Saturday comes "A Girl OF Yes
terday." with Mary Pickford. Jack Pick
ford and Glenn Martin, the aviator; also
from the Paramount.
The Stanley continues Geraldine Far
rar's Carmen" and the Forrest, THE
Birth of a Nation"