The Republican journal., 1918-04-25
COLONIAL THEAIEk.
Paramount, Aircraft. Metro, World M ana
Fox Studios Contribute Their MOS.
Notable Productions for Projection AZ
this Popular Playhouse.

Ecx S,.,a;c. Contribute Their Most
Notable Productions for ProJection AZ
this Popular Playhouse.
An unusally fine cast, charac IsIlseG
of Metro wonderplays, supports .i1
Lockwood the star in Metros product
ton Of ssThe Avenging Trail, drama
of the timberlands based on Henry Oyen's
novel "Gaston Olaf" to be seen lhurs-
day. ,s h.,
The role of CASTOR Olaf is played by
Mr. Tockwood and in this he IS SAID TO
have the most vigorous character ne mas
enacted before the camera in long time.
His leadina woman IN this picture IN
SALLY Crute. remembered as an Edison
featured player for several seasons ana
for her prominent part In nunipei VI
Metro subjects.
/ True Boardman in the popular series
''The Further Adventures OF Stlngaree
and Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Drew IN Metro
comedy round out bill of the same ex-
cellent quality, characteristic Oh the
Colonial.
Even the many admirers OF Douglas
Fairbanks who are familiar with ms care
devil stunts, will gasp at his new thfliiers
disclosed in "Wild and Woolly," MS new
est Aircraft picture to be shown rrlaay.
Leaping from porch OF house on 10
moving train that is averaging forty
miles an hour is but one OF the many
thrills performed by the athletic star In
his latest film Another startling scene
is presented in fight on horseback IN
| which Douglas proves the victor. inns
| is undoubtedly one of the most remark, :.
able bits of it's kind ever staged and
from
eallopine pony to struggle with the rider of
another horse going at break-neck speed.
Starting in New York and ending in Cali
fornia. the picture discloses a variety of
METROPOLITAN and western scenes present.
ing the proper backgrounds to the story.
AS the youth of metropolitan birth who
finally realizes his ambition to ride the
| plains of the west astride bucking bron-
cho, Douglas offers wonderfully effective
picturizatlon in the role of jeff Killing
ton. ,Jeff's visions of life in the west are
based entirely upon the gaudy covers of
| ten-cent weeklies which he has been
reading since early boyhood. He pictures
I the west today exactly as photographs
show it to have been in the early eighties.
Friends in Arizona plan to live up to his
| expectations and to their own surprise
| things turn out more seriously than they
Anticipated The story ends, after many
amusing as well as thrilling situations,
with jeff as the man of the hour.
| Special permission was obtained from
the United States Government authorities
| to photograph some scenes IN Some
where in America" the Metro wonder
play in which Mary Miles Minter will ap-
pear on Saturday. The pictures Of the
aeroplanes and motorboats being assem-
bled and prepared for service in France
and on our coasts were taken at College
Point, where Director Dowlan and his
assistant, MI kutler, were at one time
threatened with arrest for taking certain
scenes which were not in their permit
The patriotic appeal of Somewhere in
America is general. 1t tells convinc-
ing story and shows that when the test
comes the American man and woman will
not be found Sinking. The Brooklyn
Navy Yard, the scene where many of our
greatest sea fighters were constructed, is
pictured in this wonderfully of today.
The workings of foreign spies and the
ends to which they will 60 to obtain plans
of value to them is also shown, Uncle
Sam awake ends truly timely story.
Beautiful Dorothy Dalton in the five
part Paramount play "The Price Mark
heads the program for Monday, OF this
play The New York Tribune had the fol-
lowing:
Anyone who likes to speculate on the
Observation-Disclosures problem will en-
Joy 'The Price Mark" and it is interest
ingly presented Dorothy Dalton has
some excellent moments as Paula Lee, the
heroine who was more sinned against than
shining, and she looks handsomer than
we have ever seen her look before. The
picture is beautifully staged and the
Eastern scenes are particularly attractive.
Benjamin Chaplin in ''My Native State"
will also be shown Monday.
Self-sacrifice is the dominant theme of
''The Lie," the Aircraft picture starring
Elsie Ferguson offered Tuesday. In this
success of several years ago, Miss Fergu-
son has role which affords her ample
scope for the display of her brilliant dra-
matte powers. The elder of two sisters,
daughter of dissipated Englshman, de-
liberately sacrifices the love of her sweet
heart to save her sister from disastrous
consequences To the end that the honor
of her family may not be furnished she
allows her sister to wed the man she her.
self loves. Later, however, she finds her
own happiness. In the role of the self
sacrificing sister, Miss Ferguson does
come wonderful emotional acting and in
cidentally wears some striking gowns.
| In the part which Margaret Ellington
played on the speaking stage Miss Fergu-
son will win new laurels for herself.
On Wednesday, Ethel Clayton in the
world feature, ''The Whims of Society, "
Fatty Arbuckle in ooh Doctor" and the
Hearst News will be shown.
| OAK HILL, Swanvile.