The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-01
News and Gossip of
Screen and Stage


selwyn and Company viii present
their enormously successful farce-hit
Of last season, Fair and Warmer
BY Avery Hopwood, October at the
Robinson Grand. Fair and Warm
err" during the year OF its run at
the Eltinge theater. won considerable
fame by making more money there
than within the Law" had done,
though the WELLER meiodrama had,
up till then, held the New York rec
ord for money-maker. The seats
for Fair and Warmer" were often
on sale ten and twelve weeks in adj
vance, and the crowds who saw il
we're so valuable in their praise of
1t that It was never necessary. during
the New York run of the piece to do
any advertising The priceless
''word-of-mouth" advertising carried
the fame of Fair and Warmer" all
over the country before the end of its
first six months
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Robert Warwick will be seen Mon
day at the Orpheum in the World
Film presentation Of Friday. the
Thirteenth" the Thomas W Lawson
story which appeared serially in
'Eyerybody's Magazine" a few years
ago. 1t viii be remembered that
when Mr.. Lawson was contributing
TO this magazine. its sales reached the
million mark, and was never as pop
ular as when this noted stock broker
was contributor In the film play,
made under the direction of Emile
Chautard. William a. Brady and Mr..
Lawson collaborate in making a film
masterpiece. II has already created
quite furore wherever shown.
The Desert Rat" two part Uni
versal drama. will be the added at
traction.
The feature offering Monday at the
Bijou theater will be five-part
Metro-Drew comedy drama called
Playing Dead" with Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Drew featured In this COM
ical Offering Sidney has a warm
time trying to pull the wool over
the eyes of his better half. The
usual added features will be on the
program.
The feature at the Grand Monday
will be Famous PLAYERS release,
Little Lady Eileen" starring dainty
Marguerite Clark. This is one of the
prettiest stories Miss Clark has ever
appeared in and is the latest release
Of that charming little woman. The
added attraction will be "The Grip OF
Evil" starring Jackie Saunders and
Roland Bottomley The Paramount
Photograph will also be on this bill.
A man is expected to SOW his wild
oats and then become a useful and
respected member OF society. WIN
society let woman live down mis-
take? Can a woman unjustly i'm
prisoned be blamed for using her
only weapon to escape? Is any pun
ishment too great for a man who
blackmails very repentent and now
thoroughly good women for what
she has done in the past? These are
questions asked and answered in the
Pathe Gold Rooster play, "a Wom-
ans Flight" which the management
Of the odeon theater will present on
Monday and Tuesday.
The pohotoplay written by Aaron
HOFFMAN was produced by Popular
plays and Players under the personal
direction of Herbert Blache and ii
features Geraldine O'Brien, the cele-
fbrated Broadway favorite. supported
by superior cast including Thurlow
Bergen, the well-known legitimate
star, and that sterling actor. Charles
Hutchinson.
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Sweeney's "Komedy Kids" will ne
at the Palace theater the coming
week, The Kids" are musical
comedy tabloid organization Of seven
winsome girls and three men that is
considered one of the best on the
circuit of which the Palace is al
member. Sweeney himself takes a
comedy part and pulls down the
house. Three different bills will be
presented during the week
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'The Fall of Nation" is to be
shown in Petrograd.
Rose Stahl will soon appear as the
heroine in Our Mrs. McChesncy"
Harry Lauder is toannear in Lon
don in musical comedy revue
Leah Baird has returned to the Uni
.versal Film Manufacturing Company.
Pretty Ruth Clifford has been added
to general stock at Universal City
The famous Mission Play" in Cali
fornia, is to be brought East.
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