Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-12
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ORPHEUM
Tomorrow, matinee and night -
"Peck's Bad Boy"
MAJESTIC
High Grade Of Vaudeville.
Tomorrow and Thursday - Earle
Williams in I'm the Balance"
Friday and Saturday - Effie shannon
in Her Boy"
REGENT
Tomorrow Pauline Frederick in
Madame Jealousy" by George V.
Hobart
Thursday, Friday and Saturday -
Lima Cavalieri in "The Eternal
Temptress."
VICTORIA
Tomorrow Enid Markey and an
all-star cast in Cheating the Pub
lie" Also "A Hungry Lion in a Hos
pital."
Thursday and Friday - Bessie Bar
riscale in Madame Who"
Thursday - Vengeance and the Wo-
man."
Saturday Sonia Markova in
Hearts Revenge"
The new "Peck's Bad Boy" that
ever-popular play which the children
love so well, and which has
"Peck's not been seen in Harris
Bad burg for several seasons,
Boy" has been entirely rewrit-
ten by Irving Berlin, the
writer of popular songs, and the new
version will be at the orpheum to-
morrow, matinee and night. BY spec
Ial request, that there will be no dis
appointment among the many school
hildren. the matinee performance will
begin at $3.50 instead of the usual
time. The cast of funmakers will be
headed by the popular comedian.
mounting is carried and sixteen
catchy song numbers are introduced
during the action of the comedy.
Seats are now on sale.
Capacity audiences greeted the
opening performances of vaudeville 5
scenic sensation, The
"The Forest Forest Fire at the
Fire" at Majestic yesterday. 1t
the Majestic is a drama of the tim
berlands. presented in
three scenes, and was written and
staged by the well-known author,
Lansdon Mccormick. who was also
a Minute" vaudeville sensation OF
a few years ago. "The Forest Fire"
is realism realistically realized.
Through several scenes. the progress
dramatic story is being unfolded.
Starting with preliminary light
smoke clouds, while the fire is sup
posedly several miles away, the vari-
Gus stages of the blaze are effectively
shown. 1t gradually grows until, to
the spectator, it looks as if miles of
forests were being eaten up by the
fire king. While the spectator feels
awed by the immensely of the conlla :
grafton, and the seeming danger or
the actors. the method of production
is probably one of the simplest ever
attempted. "The Forest Fire" is a
drama founded on fact. Twelve peo-
pie are involved in the working out
of the story, which chooses for its
locale the far silent places of the
Northwest, with a BACKGROUND OF
giant trees. Its story possesses all
of the rugged heart appeal of people
who live in the open. This produc-
tion will be presented the entire
week.
Three choice Keith attractions are
grouped around this attraction, in
cluding Alexander and Fields, clever
tramp comedians; Nora Alden and
Company, in novel singing Offering,
and Louis Leo, comedy acrobat
The attraction for tomorrow and
Thursday at the Colonial Theatel
Earle Williams in graph feature
"In the balance" in the Balance,
cf E. Phillips oppenheims famous
novel, "The Hillman." Earle Will
liams whose forceful personality has
made him one of the most popular oi
male stars on the screen to-day, is
seen in the role of John Strange
way, and is ably supported by Grace
Darmond and Miriam Miles, whose
beauty and charm have won them a
place in the film world that few
Players could fill. Others included