The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-28

spondent in the Balkans, philander of
the hearts of royalty and; in the end,
the husband of a princess, will be
shown at the Orpheum a la Triangle
super-feature Friday and Saturday,
next week. William Desmond, as
Paddy O'Hara" plays the lead.
The most of the scenes are laid in
the Balkans where a gay, reckless
Irishman representing a London news
paper plunges into twisted affairs and
straightens them out to suit himself.
Sure, you can get out on my pass
ports as Mrs Paddy O'Hara," he says
to a princess, Mary Mclvor, who has
been forced to flee from her fathers
castle to escape vandals. The mar
riage takes place with the stipulation
that there is to be a divorce imme
diately after the princess gets away
but in the end she is the first to sug
gest that the stipulation be stricken
from the agreement.
A part of the film shows the work
ingS of a London newspaper office.
The extra players, before being en-
gagged, were required to pass severe
/ physical tests.
| The long bearded little gnomes in the
gnome village scene of "A Daughter
/ of the Gods" which appears at the
/ Grand the week of May I, cost William
| Fox more than $4,000 for the little
/ item of their false whiskerage. The
little black boys of Jamaica, appearing
! in the spectacle, make everybody
laugh by reason of their flowing white
| boards that serve to disguise them as
/ "gnomes."
When the Fox expedition reached
/ Kingston, it was found that somebody
/ had forgotten about the boards. No
! titled by cable, the producer called in
wigmakers. He found that yard and
a-half whiskerage, such as was needed,
/ could only be manufactured from the
hair of the yak, a species of wild OK
that lives in Thibet. The total amount
of it in the New York market was just
3715 pounds, which would provide
boards for but 800 of the pickaninnies.
The price of that was boosted from
S12 to s24 pound.
Every Snowman in the country was
hastily queried. Yaks reached an al
! most prohibitiVe price, but three were
| finally. secured: one from a western
zoo, another from the Ringing broth
ers, and a third from a man who play
ed the county fair circuits. Total cost
of yaks, S2.S46.
Then came the following expenses:
To clipping yaks, S12; distributed to
populace for holding yaks while clip
ping was in progress, SIPS; to settle
ment of incidental damages done tC
populace, $35: to expressage to New
York, $1469. The boards were made
up for the sum of $1,000. Add $735.45
$3.50 for insured parcel post to de-
liver the boards by the quickest
method to Jamaica; add all these items
and you have the grand total OF
$5,O53.93.
Monday and Tuesday, THE Purple
Mask" with Grace Cunard and Fran
els Ford, will be shown at the Crystal.
In addition a L-Ko comedy, HLove and
( Blazes," is booked.
For Lack of Evidence" a three
part film: Follow the Tracks," a
Nestor comedy and THE Sorceress
are booked for Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Friday and Saturday, the manage
ment has booked to run THE Telltale
Clue a two reel Bison; THE Blazing
Secret and a comedy.
Lewis S. Stone, Marguerite Clayton
Florence Oberle. E. H Calvert and
Sydney Ainsworth all star. with the
former in the lead. in According to