Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-06
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ORPHEUM
To-night-"Henpecke Henry"
MAJE ESTIC
High Grade of Vaude vfIIe.

COLONIAL
To-day and to-moI row d. w. Grif-
fith's THE Birth of a Nation"
Friday and Saturday - Mae Marsh in
Fields of Honor
REGENT
To-day double attraction Wallace
Reid in The Squaw Mans Son." and
Roscoe Arbuckle in "Out West"
Thursday. Friday and Saturday-Mary
Pickford in "Stella Maris."
To o-day-Theda Bara in The Rose Of
Blood" also a "Milk-fed Vamp.'
Thursday Miriam Cooper in BE
tyayed," Wa@dn ,. and vengeance and the
Friday and Saturday - Tom Mix in
"Cupid's Round Up
Monday and Wednesday-Enid Mark
ley in Cheating the Public
A pleasing variety show is appear
ing at the Majestic the first half of
this week. willard $
At the Temple of Music" an artis-
Majestic tic vocal and instrumental
musical offering, presented
by eight people, is the headliner, and
this act is surrounded by Rowley and
Young, two young men of pleasing
appearance, in lively dancing nov
city; The Shattucks, clever comedy
jugglers; Violet Besson and Company,
Offering an amusing little sketch en-
titled THE High Cost of Living, and
Morgan and Parker, young couple, in
a breezy song and patter skit:
The vaudeville bill for the last half
of this week is headed by The Dream
Garden" a spectacular musical offer
ing, presented by six charming girls.
Grouped around this attraction are:
Smith Austin and Company. comedy
variety entertainers; Gardner and
l.N 20, n IGf 90
Marie Russell, in singing Offering;
and Arnold and F1orenz, sensational
equilibrists.
No one who has seen The Birth OF
a Nation" one of the greatest of all
spectacles, which is
"The Birth of now being shown at
"A Nation" Mt the Colonial Theater,
the Colonial will say aught but
that d. w. Griffith
stage director of the world. The
Birth of a Nation is not a photoplay
in the accepted sense of that word. 1t
is a master creation, an epic story
presented with the realism OF actu-
ality by talented players who seem to
tried mems souls" There is no one
who is not moved and thrilled by the
clash of great armies on the field of
battle and that appeal is to all sorts
children, as is evidenced by every au-
dience that gathers to enjoy this
eighth wonder of the world. While
the fine artistic execution is truly
epoch making, probably the basic rea-
son for it's phenomenal success is to
be found in the theme. 1t is a big
historical romance, treating of the
most momentous period in the history
of the United States. period which
is not only highly important in the
story of this country, but one which is
still remembered by living men.
pecked Henry" is described by an en-
thusiastic re-
"Henpecked Henry" viewer as a
Mt the Orpheum perpetual sue
cession of side
splitting scenes piled one on the other
with such speed and gusto that the
giggles are doing the continuous The
producing managers make the claim
that it is the funniest show in the
world 1t is said in many towns the
laughter has been so loud and con-
tfnued that attaches of the theaters
have been compelled to caution the
will be presented at the Orpheum for
the last time tonight,
The peerless Theda Bara, of motion
picture fame, and the woman who has
scored hundreds OF
Thcdn Bara, in triumphs, never por-
'rrhe Rose trayed Detter
OF Blood" character than thar
Mt the Victoria of the young and
beautiful Russian
revolutionist, who is called upon ia
sIay her own husband, the Premier OF
the Empire, so that the cause may
nropress Inst what becomes of this