Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-11
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This has been a successful season for
the Girard Avenue Theatre. largely due
to the securing of their attractions through
the Stanley Booking Company. ON Tues.
day the amateur stage contests are well
attended, as are the ballroom dancing
contests on Thursdays. The SATURDAY.
afternoon contests for children have met
with ready response. The main feature
picture for next week will be the prima
donna, Geraldine Farrar. in Carmen. +"
Other pictures for the week are announced
! on Monday.
One hundred and Rfty-three cartridges.
more than he has ever used In one produc-
tlon since he became a photoplay star
have been, shot by William S Hart of the
1nce forces, i'm the current Triangle Kay
| Bee feature, "Itells Hinges" which will be
at the Victoria on Monday and Tuesday.
A motion picture event OF unusual in
| terest is scheduled for the Liberty on Mon
day, when the Equitable Motion Pictures
| Corporation will present the prominent
! film version of Samuel Hopkins Adams
noted American novel THE Clarion" with
Carlyle Blackwell as star.
Among the features introduced in con-
nection with the showing of Peggy" at
the Logan Auditorium on Friday and Sat
urday, will be the singing Of the song
Peggy" which Ince and Victor L.
Schertzinger, the producers musical COM
poser, have written and dedicated to Miss
Burke.
The Fine Arts studios is doing lions
share in presenting to theatregoers the
better class Of screen stories They dem
onstrated this by their selection of Ger.
vantes' renowned classic, Don Quixote."
which is as well known in Spain, COM
paratively speaking. as Washington Irv-
ings RIP Van Winkle' in America "Old
Heidelberg" the most popular of German
dramas. and Jordan Is a Hard FOad"
which Sir Gilbert Parker claims as his
best work The Orpheum will show Don
Quixote" on Monday and Tuesday.
Edwin August, who directed "The Vel
low Passport" in which the World Film
Corporation will present Clara Kimball
Young at the Grand on Monday, also plays
the role opposite the famous star, and his
work both as director and actor has so
impressed the World Film heads that
Mr. August has been given a long-term
contract at one of the biggest salaries
ever paid director
Louise Lovely, who plays the role of
Virginia Grant in the Bluebird photoplay
THE Grip of Jealousy" which will be
seen at the Overbrook Theatre on Friday
is one of the most recent of all picture |
stars in her rapid rise to prominence or
rather the instant recognition of her abil- |
ity and adaptability to the screen call
attention anew to the possibilities which
the screen opens to those who are fortu- |
nate enough to fulfill its requirements.
On Tuesday the Century will present as |
its principal feature George Beban in
"The Pawn of Fate" World Film pro-
ducton affording the famous character |
actor role in which he has every OPP |
portunty to eclipse his success achieved in |
IAN Alien" |
Mary Boland, former Frohman star, will |
be seen on the screen of the Plaza Theatre |
on Tuesday in the new Equitable feature, |
1.-The Price of Happiness" picture deal |
ing in a novel and dramatic manner with |
the folly of covetousness.
Constance Collier the Morosco-Para-
mount film star, will be at the Fairmount |
on Thursday in "The Tongues of Men"
Notwithstanding the many attractive |
programs offered at the Ruby Theatre, the
one for the coming week surpasses all,
On Monday and Tuesday, Mary Picllford,
supported by n cast including well-known
Italian actors appears in her latest and
most versatile creation, Poor Little Pep
pima" On Wednesday and Thursday
Billie Burke. the charming stage favorite
will appear in a dainty screen play en-
titled peggy" Friday, Kitty Gordon, the
English Lillian Russell will appear in a
screen version of b. F. Phillips noted
noveh las In Looking Glass" Miss
Gordons beauty and inimltable grace
have been admired all along the footlights.
Olga Petrova in THE Soul Market" is
the attraction the last day of the week.
Monday and Tuesday next will bring
william s. Hart, in "Hell's Hinges" TO
the Great Northern Theatre.
Varied feature films will be shown
In addition to shorter picture plays at the
Regent. The subjects serve to introduce
OH the screen many of the most noted
nown on the Legitimate stage on Mon
lay and Tuesday Pauline Shay appears
in the first local presentation of "A
Fools Paradise" On Wednesday and
Thursday Julius Stegar, with George Le-
fuere and Grace Valentine, appears in
he latest Metro production, THE Blind
ness of Love" Friday and Saturday The
Sin," featuring IIolbrook
Blinn will be the principal attraction
Kitty Gordon makes her appearance on
he screen of the Rialto Theatre on Monday
md Tuesday next in "As In Looking
flass" one of the best known novels of
ecent years and which became so popular
n London that when II was dramatized
I was played at two different theatres
as written by f. C. Phil
ips.
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