Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-13
ORPHEUM
k-"Tarzan of the Apes"


High Grade of Vaudeville.
COLONIAL
To-day and tomorrow - Madge Ken
nedy in THE Danger Game"
wednesday and Thursday = Arnold
DAILY. Americas foremost actor, in
My own United States"
rfiday and Saturday = May Allison
in Social Hypocrites."
REGENT
To-day, tomorrow and Wednesday,
William S. Hart in Selfish Yates
and His Smothered Love-"
Thursday, Friday and Saturday -
Mary Mary Miles Minter in "M'Liss," and
The Son of Democracy"
VICTORIA
To-day and tomorrow - Theda Bara
in The Forbidden Path"
wednesday and Thursday - Walker
Mhiteside and Valentine Grant in
Wednesday = THE Plot Against Or
ganized Labor" the sixth chapter of
THE Eagles Eye"
Thursday = The fifth episode of "The
Woman in the Web"
| Friday - Jane and Katherine Lee in
american Buds"
Theda Bara, the incompatible vam-
tomorrow at
Theda Barn In "The the popular Vic
Forbidden PATH" toria Theater. in
at the Victoria her latest and
| drama. "The Forbidden Path" 1t is
said to be another super production
| but differs from "Du Barry" and
| Cleopatra" in that it is not cos
| tune play.
Miss Bara takes the part of Mary
| Lynde, who first sees a glimmer of
| hope come into her bedraggled life
when an artist asks her to pose as
model for painting of the Madonna
At his studio she meets Robert Sin
clair, wealthy man about town, who
Immediately sees a new field of con-
quest in the pretty girl.
Mary goes out with Sinclair. 1t is
the story of so many working girls
! He promises to marry her. But he
does not. She seeks refuge among
the very dregs of the populace.
There. the artist finds her once
| more. Again he asks her to pose fol-
entitled Sin" She meets again the
man who had caused her downfall.
Sinclair is about to be married
Mary threatened blackmail, and he
! pays her money. Then Mary tells the
whole story to Barbara, and the be-
trothed, sympathetic, plans with hei
| to get revenge on Sinclair.
| The denouement gives Miss Bara
some of the finest opportunities fol-
| acting.
Darwin was right all right. But
he never graded the degrees of de-
scent. Edgar Rice Bur.
"Tnrzan of roughs made some at
the Apes" tempt at grading in his
| "TarZan of the Apes,
which is now in motion pic.
Ths f9re form at IT,, the orpheum IN
| holding the boards the entire week
with two performances daily. He runs
| the gamut this way - drunken sail
ors. brutal ship officers, slave traders
and finally ,aristocrats; The apes
really rank highest. Even the boy
brought up by the apes ranks heac
| and shoulders above his aristocrat
| relative. There are no class lines, nC
national lines, no mutual exploitation
| among our ancestors.
"Tarzan of the Apes is said to be
bully adventure. Wild beasts roam
| through the scenes; a kindly elephant
| takes the wild man upon his back; ir
short. mix Stevenson's Treasure Is
! land" with Captain Bakers African
stories and the happy combination is
| struck. The joy if the film lies in its
kindly wild life rather than its civiliZ-
| ed brutality. And in putting Bur
rough's story into the film the Ma
| tional Film Corporation is said tc
have shown good sense of Snowman
ship. "Tarzan" is. critics declare
better than most films which have
lbeen concocted for the screen, ano
credit must be given Scott Sidney, whC
staged it, and Isidor Bernstein, who
edited it, nature. beauties, imagina'
ton and clean, free spirit make the
film a delight.
The film follows the magazine stor!
with enough faithfulness to satisfy
readers of the Burroughs story.
"The Danger Game" is the title o.
| Madge Kennedy's latest picture
which will b'
MndEe Kennedy in shown at tn,
."Ine Danger Game" Colonial Thea
ter to-day anC
tomorrow. Miss Kennedy's screeI
vehicles. up to the present time, have
| been farces, but in THE Danger
| Game" the piquant little star is giver
| an opportunity to play part that Il
more or less dramatic. She is seen al
Clytie Rogers, a wealthy society girl
who writes a novel which is severel!
criticised by Jimmie Gilpin, a bool
critic, who says that the incidents de
vised for such a heroine as the otheI
has created are entirely improbable
Clytie, to prove that they are not i'm
| probable. decides to enact her owl
story. Her first adventure is her en-