The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-29
RUMMY, AF|NE ARTS
FILM OF NEWSPAPER
LIFE At THE TRIANGLE
MILFORD Lucas and Pauline
Starke in Most Dramatic
Picture of the Season
PICTURES OF MERIT
& SHOWN AT TRIANGLE
"Plain Jane" With Bessie Barriscale,
Comedy Success Coming the
Latter Part of the Week.
An Artistic Film

Last week the film patrons OF Birming-
ham allowed themselves to be decoyed
into viewing the antiques of the past, and
to neglect the wonderful lessons of the
present but Manager Leftwich of the
Triangle theatre, which is the hall of
q ideas on movie row, announces film
programme for this week that should
arouse attention from even the polyglot
of elevated foreheads. a.
"RUMMY"
t'Rummy,'' a newspaper story directed
by newspaper man in the Fine Arts
Triangle production booked at the Tri-
angle theatre today, tomorrow and Tues
day, in conjunction with keystone COM
4 edy. Filfrid Lucas and Pauline Starke
are the leading players in this story Of
life behind the scenes on a metropolitan
newspaper.
Alarm clocks have started good many
people into good many lines Of activ-
ity in the course Of time, but was any
man ever before started into matrimony
merely by the sound of the winding of an
alarm clock-as is Wilfred Lucas, in
"Rummy?
Very likely not. How it befell is that
before "Rummy'' became a runmy, in
THE days when he was a police court re-
porter, he used to hear, through thin
partition, his unseen boarding house
neighbor, who he knew was a young lady,
nightly winding her alarm clock Every
night when he heard that sound he stood
and drank a silent toast to the girl of
the alarm clock. In the play she is just
the girl off the stage she is Pauline
Starke.
Then one day he met her face to face.
He did not know 1t, but she hadl just
been evicted for nonpayment of rent and
was leaving their rooming house for
the street.
The next time "Rummy was not
yet a rumlny--saw her was in the police
court She had been fshed out of the
river, after vain attempt to end her
life. Moved by pity for his little neigh
Dor, he pleaded with the magistrate for
her release, but without avail. He would
be responsible for her, he said The mag
istrate smiled, the bailiff smiled, the
whole court smiled.
Then Rummy did thing as big as his
big brave heart; he declared that. If
| she would have him, he would marry her
there and then. Frightened little Pauline
said that she would have him. So he
married her, then and there--and then
many other things happened, all of which
are seen in "Rummy," which will be at
the Triangle theatre today.
"PLAIN JANE
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
at the Triangle theatre the film comedy
triumph of the year is presented in
plain jane with Miss Bessie Barriscale
in the title role
plain Jane" the new Triangle re-
lease, co-starring Bessie Barriscale and
Charles Ray, is the story of romance
between John Adams, a young man who
!, is working his way through college, and
Jane, the little slavey in his boarding
house. John at first has no idea of fall
ing in love with Jane, but she is COM
pletely gone on him from the beginning
In fact, he has his eyes set on Ethelda
Rathbone, a young college girl,
There came a time when John wanted
to attend a ball at which Ethelda was
to present; but he hadn't dress suit
Jane CHANGED to become aware of this
and with her scanty saving rented him
one. OF course, she couldn't tell him she
did that, but she pretends that 1t was
left there by a former boarder. So he
goes to the ball. But, boys will be boys
and his classmates rip the poor old coat
up his back, and he is compelled to come
home without having seen Ethelda at all.
Jane takes the suit back to the dealer,
unaware that 1t Is ruined. When the
dealer discovers it, he demands payment.
There follows scene on the street in
which she Is terribly Inundated.
1t was then that old Frederick Verstner,
the town photographer and a man of
considerable means, came to the crowd.
Shortly after this, Jane went to Verst-
ner's to have her picture taken that she
might give it to John. A newspaper
in New York was offering a prize for
the most beautiful photograph of a col
lege girl. and Verstner's was crowded
with girls from the school. Verstner took
a picture of Jane, but, by loosening out
her tresses and placing something filmy
about her shoulders, he made her look
beautiful. Through a course of circum-
stances, and without James knowledge,
this photograph is sent along with the
others to the paper. And 1t wins the
prize.