The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-11-24
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FIR ont ROW
tiEApLINERs TONIGHT
Stock Production,

5EA0LiNEHS TONIGHT
Stock Productions
ipp9drone. Long Way to Tipperary
l Pictures
VL<les s............G loria's Romance
||4lgo1, s.......... Green Eyes
ELluceeg. ................ Mister ~
L1eeE Edge OF the Aquaduct
Hrnrd ..............A Woman's Way
fFHH Hippodrome Players are hay
ing three rehearsals daily for
= the coming presentation OF The
pftnne Hunter" which will be the
opening bill at the Hippodrome the.
ETe next Monday matinee. This de
jightfnl Conan & Harris comedy tells
history Of young man who is down
md out" q failure at every under.
liking and Just about ready to give
aifpf the ghost. But luck, like the pro.
ferbial worm. has habit OF turning.
Ind Nat Duncan suddenly finds him.
geIf with o new lease on life. He is
bfaked by a friond on condition that
ne goes to small inland town and
4 fet,s fresh start. Duncan does this.
IND there's where the fun begins. All
Hnced-the town druggist. the banker.
he 1fyeryman's son. the oldest inhabi-
6eut the village tailor. the prettIest
Hiri, the richest girl and everybody
who ID somebody or nearly so. Sam
3 Graham's drug store is the scene of
action. Graham's medicine emporium
has suffered from the ravaecs OF times
and neglect-principally neglect. Nat
enters with set OF new ideas and
transforms the drug store. Graham
realizes heavily on an invention and
Ibis daughter Betty then becomes Il
prize "devoutly TO he wi.ned for
Patti Mckinley. dainty. charming anu
Htyacious all in one. plays the part of
Betty, and Walter King is the For.
time Hunter" But the pleasing
Climax Of the pretty little plot is I'm
folded when Nat Duncan beats him TO
IT for. the part Of Duncan has been
20 captivating all through the perform.
Shnce that the audience is willing to
vote him everything In sIght-girl,
money and his social rehabilitation. OF
! course, there Is little rivalry for
sNats affections too. The bankers
daughter had set her eyes on him. and
placed her heart in convenient posi-.
lion 30 that the former "down.and.
outer" could have "copped" it with.
ont the slightest commotion. But her
love isn't the same quality as Betty
;end after being engaged TO him re-
5ects him because the finger OF sus.
picion is pointed at him for suppos.
I'd shady transaction of the past and
OF which he was not guilty. Every
Indication points to all elaborate pro.
duction by company OF high class
0erformers.
One would hardly believe Il possible
Tor anyone to decapitate chicken and
Se duck; to place their bodies aud heads
into. a box, and then to have the chick.
en- appear proudly wearing the ducks
head and the duck. the chickens head.
yet this is seemingly accomplished by
! Leroy, Talma and Bosco. the triple
alliance of illusionists. magicians and
Hindu wonder workers. who will bring
their big company Of European ar.
lists to the Grand theatre on Monday
shext. This Is but one Of many strange
Ind mysterious performances. present
I'D by these world travelled tricks.
fers.
'It Pays to Advertise" played to n
GOOD house at the Grand last night.
Ehe upper floors were completely fill.
~, but some vacant chairs in the low.
or part Of the house were in contra.
Htction Of the preachment of the title
~ the play. II for any other purpose
MAN to merely give a name to a de.
4 pghtful farce comedy we should add
20 the title the simple little word
fright" As sermon on advertis.
ing II drives home a lot of proven
tacts, chief among which was the need
for sticktoitiveness and that not all
Forms of advertising are fortune build.
Srs. "The power of suggestion and
the psychology of print"-therc's the
Tub. Old Cyrus Martin. with odles
ut coin, and a master of the soap bust
hess, thought he knew 1t all-and the
business world is full OF Cyrus Mar
Inns. Even Ambrose Peale. who dream.
~, ate, drank and lived advertising.
MAS less firm in his expressed convic-
lions, but he possessed an abiding
Eatth in the psychology and with
4 Rodney Martins determination TO pur.
kues TO the end what he believed was a
rood thing, brought the elder Martin to
b new way Of looking at the problem.
The company was OF high rank
and the play moved with a precision
and snap that are the life Of play
be its Character.
4 ITS q Long Way to Tipperary" was
kyodnced to Hipp audience last night
ind made hit. There's good lot
q H finn In Il and alSn n nrnit,. stnr,.