Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-24

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Paraita Play zone Dollar Bid" and
Alma Reubens In THE Painted Lily
will be presented at the Ditmas for
the last times today. For tomorrow
and Thursday Douglas Fairbanks will
make his first local appearance In
that fast moving and highly enter
tanning patriotic comedy drama, The
Americana" in which Doug Is given
splendid opportunities to display all
his versatile talents and ability as a
fun maker. The added attraction to-
morrow and Thursday will be Roy
Steward in a thrilling drama
entitled THE Fly God" Friday and
Saturday bring a splendid bill that
embraces Kitty Gordon supported
George McQuarrie and Muriel Os-
triche in Merely Players" and Fran
els X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne
in "A Pair of Cupids." The Ditmas
management Is also pleased to an
nounce hat they have contracted for
the coming season, the new film pro-
auctions in which Geraldine Farrar
and Pauline Frederick appear In, also
the new Rex Beach series. the first
of which Laughing Bill HYDE" with
VIII Rogers in the title role is being
presented at the Rivoli theatre in New
York this week.
MAJESTIC.
Are rich widowers always destined
by. fate to fall victim TO the wiles OF
| INSCRIPTIONS adventuresses2
Judging BY the frequency of the
employment of this plot for some Of
the most successful stage and screen
dramas, there must be some founda-
ton in fact for this popular belief.
Never, however, has the circum-
| stance been SO cleverly and plausibly
worked out as in Moral Suicide" a
| big feature photoplay in which John
| Mason is the chief player n which
| will be shown at the Majestic theatre
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Moral Suicide" is the first independ-
emily made photoplay feature chosen
by Pathe to release throughout the
| world under a new system.
STRAND
Supporting Dorothy Dalton in her
latest Paramount p~hotoplay Of the
far north. "Tyrant Fear" are many
players who long since have become
favorites with motion picture theatre
goers all over the country.
In this delightful photoplay Miss
Dalton will be seen as Allaine Gram
Diet, a Canadian girl, daughter OF a
reckless Canadian whom she fears
and to whose stern will she is wholly
subservient. He sells. her to q brutal
trapper. a primitive beast who mis-
treats her shamefully. and to which
treatment she submits with the pa
thence born of her inherent fear of
men and things.
firing Of her docility, the trapper
CANDLES her away to the keeper of a
notorious den of vice and crime in a
gold settlement, where she is thrown
in contact with dissolute characters.
but without being contaminated. She
is befriended by a pianist who has
seen better days and they love each
other.
"Tyrant Fear" will be shown at the
Strand theatre tomorrow and Thurs
day.
"Batiste Latour-That Devil, 'Ba-
teese,'" came down the river on q
raft. On n side of his girdle hung
a flask Of white whiskey. On the
other side a knife cleaning evilly in
the yellow sun Of a French Canadian
morning.
On the moss shore "Bateese" saw
] the twigs wave violently as though a
struggle was going on in the thicket.
He jumped ashore in time to save
Kathleen st. John of Montreal from
being forcibly kissed by Courteau, a
bully OF the woods.
How "Bateese" loved Kathleen and
how she turned him away, and how
he sought death, is the theme of
That Devil, 'Bateese.'" a refreshing
ly good Bluebird photodrama with a
hurricane of action TO ruffle the
feathers of boredom.
AS "Bateese.' q lovable French
Canadian lumberman, Monroe Sails
bury does worthy dramatic work that
will add his current play to the HIST
Of successes In which he has starred.
See THAT Devil, 'Bateese,'" to-
night at the Royal theatre.