Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07

five attractive models. Jansen pro-
ceeds to drape evening gowns that
are, indeed. beautiful. 1t Is the type
of act that holds out a strong appeal
to the feminine portion of the audi
| ence, and keeps the male portion
| figuring just, what one of the gowns
suddenly take the notion into her
pretty head to have q duplicate made.
The big comedy feature of the bill
is "The Broken Mirror" a screaming
Schwartz Brothers. its original crea-
tors. Briefly, the story Is that of
valet. who breaks q full-length mir
ror in his masters house, and in order
player he makes up as his master and
gets behind the frame of the glass.
The master appears, and from then
on the audience is kept in uproarious
every movement reflected in, the
"glass." Other acts on the bill are
Holmes and Buchanan, in Songs of
To-day and Yesterday" very pleas
ing singing offering; Lewis and
Chaplin, in breezy song and patter
skit of the Irritation variety. and Boil
linger and Reynolds, novelty comedy
wirewalkers.
Piquant Mae Marsh, star of Grif-
fiith's Birth of a Nation" will be
seen at the Colonial
Mae Marsh mt Theater tonight and
the Colonial tomorrow in Sun
shine Alley" her sec
ond picture under the Goldwyn ban
ner. Robert Harron, who co-starred
with Miss Marsh way back in Bio
graph days, is featured with the fam
Gus little celebrity in this picture. 1t
is said to be a play of smiles and
tears with a story that is clean and
wholesome. Both in her comedy mo-
IT, har arin MI nte
Marsh is delightful. She possesses
striking personality and it is claimed
that no star on the screen to-day has
a more expressive face than she. a
for this production.
To-day and tomorrow Nine. Pc
trova appears at the, Regent in "EX-
Mime. Petrova, does not not mean that
in "ExIIe," she has been sent in
Mt Regent to exile. the best
see the film and enjoy the showing.
The story deals briefly with n little
colony in far-away Asia. and the prin-
cipai characters are the Lord Chief
Justice of the colony, and his wife,
and when the former turns out to be
crook and attempts to inveigle the
American engineer into his plans,
matters come to a climax. This story
is unusual, inasmuch as the love ele-
ment apparently works backward in
stead of forward, but the love story
is there just the same, and we are
sure that you will enjoy the produc-
tion from beginning to end.
The trite saying that "everbdoy
loves a lover" has been paraphrased
into the assertion that every lover of
motion pictures loves a William S.
Hart picture. william S. Hart photo
plays of the. sort Thomas H. 1nce is
WNNgN LII "a
upon to provide an entertainment in
which the elements of romance and
adventure are foremost. In his new
est screen effort The Silent Man"
next Monday. Tuesday and Wednes-
day. admirers of this foremost de-
lineator of western characters no
doubt will find him in a setting af-
fording rich opportunity for the dis
play of his exceptional talent.
Any person who has read Robert w.
Services great poem MY Madonna"
will appreciate to-
Sonia MnrkOva days and tomorrow s
Mt Victoria Offering at the Vic
toria Theater, entitled
The Painted Madonna" in which
Sonia Markova is featured. 1t is the
story of girl who was betrayed and
then went out to the big city to for
get. When the artist asked her to
pose for a picture of the Madonna,
she welcomed the work. But the fin4
ished picture, a truly wonderful piece
of work, held nothing but horror be-
fore her eyes ,as it only served to re-
mind her of her great disgrace. For
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, for
the first time in Harrisburg, THE
Warrior" featuring Maciste, the
worlds strongest man, who will be
remembered for his wonderful feats
of strength in "Cabiria." One of the
recent war reports announced that
Maciste had been killed in Italy, his
native country.