Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-03
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To-night-"Mrs. Wigs of the Cab
. bage Patch"
Monday, night only. April s-selwyn
and Company offer "Fair and
Warmer"
Wednesday, matinee and night. April
! 1O-Richard Carle in "Furs and
Frills."
Saturday, matinee and night, April 1S
! David Belasco presents The
| Boomerang" with the original New
York company.
MAJESTIC
High Grade of Vaudeville.
/ COLONIAL
Last times to-day - Clara kimball
/ Young in THE House of Glass
tomorrow, Friday and Saturday =
Norma Talmadge in by Right of
| Purchase"
REGENT
To-day = Mary Pickford in "Amarilly,
of Clotheslne Alley"
Tomorrow and Friday - Dorothy
Dalton in Love Me-"
Tomorrow, Friday and Saturday =
Benjamin Chaplin in THE Son of
Democracy.
To-day = William $. Hart in The
Cold Deck"
Tomorrow - Sessue Hayakawa in
The Wrath of the Gods"
Friday and Saturday - Florence Reed
in To-day"
THE Cold Deck" a typical Ameri-
can play, dealing with the lives of the
pioneers of 40.
''The Cold Deck" who Travelled, to
At the Victoria California | n
/ quest of gold and
adventure, the plot of which is laid
poker, is the latest starring vehicle
of William $. Hart, and is now show
ing at the Victoria Theater.
Hart has long been regarded as one
OF the best actors to portray the char
acter of the men associated with the
life along our western frontiers, but
| his work in this, his latest produce
ton, stamps him not as one of the
/ Never has he been called upon to en-
] act more difficult part and never has
he responded so nobly to his task. In
other productions he has played the
part of the typical bad man of the
west. morose, sullen. always fighting,
but in this picture he plays the role
of different type of man.
Here we find him as a gambler. an
honest one, who believes that il he
cannot win fairly he will not win at
all, but a gentleman at all times and
a man who holds the honor of any
woman and his own as the most valu-
able thing in the world. When either
| of these is assailed he becomes q dam
gerous man, quick on the draw and
a dead sure shot. absolutely fearless
and man who will take the law into
his own hands.
With a brand new and complete
scenic equipment, and with one of the
best casts the play
"Mrs. Wigs has had since its
of the original production
Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch" one of the most fas-
cinating American comedies ever
written, will close three days en-
gage9ment at the orpheum to-day
Mrs. wiggs and "Lovey Mary" as
| everybody knows. were two separate
stories by Alice Hogan Rice. About
Flexner dramatized both tales into a
| footlight version that instantly en-
ttoyed a tremendous success, and, after
a short season on the road the play
was brought into New York, where
It remained for two solid years. By
: this time, Mrs. Wiggs. Miss Hazy.
Lovey Mary, Mr. Stubbins, and the
various other characters in the COM
pany became as wellknown footlight
and fiction figures as Old Scrooge,
y
| berry Finn
1t is claimed the success of Fair
and warmer" the Avery Hopwood
"Fair Temperament, which Sell
and wyn and Company will
Warmer" present at the Orpheum
Theater. Monday. April
that before it had reached it's first
| hundredth performance at the Harris
Theater, in New York. there was de-
mand for it from every quarter of the
/ ried from coast to coast and from the
Gulf to Canada by the out of-town
members of its capacity audiences
Its success was so instantaneous
and so uncea ing. during its year in
| New York and the following eight
months in Chicag go, that a nationwide
! interest was created. 1t will come
| here with typical Selwyn and Com
pany cast of excellent farceurs, who
will give the fullest flavor to the
! IIopwood lines and situations. includ-
| ing: John Arthur, Zaina CuFzon. Maud
! Andrew, Florence Ryerson. William
H. Sullivan. Chester Ford, John Nor
ris and Ralph Simone.
To-day marks the closing engage
ment of THE House of Glass" at the
Colonial Theater. 1t
Clara KimbaII is screen adapta-
House of Glass" Marcinrs famous
! stage success of
the same name in which beautiful
Clara Kimball Young is starred. and
is one of the most absorbing photo
dramas seen in many a day. The
supporting cast is exceptionally
strong. and Corliss Giles. who has
| been seen on several different occa-
sions in support of Miss Young, is
given prominent part in this picture.
Tomorrow, Friday and Saturday
Norma Talmadge. vivacious and cap
tivating. makes her temperance on
the screen in a modern drama entitl-
| ed "By Right of Purchase" The story
is not new in its fundamentals of
| plot. being a story of the eternal tri-
angle. with husband, wife and lover
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