Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-21

To-night-"Very Good Eddie"
FRIDAY. night only, January 25--Jacob
ss1ni,eekowitz s1,eS in "Gee' My Wife
Saturday, night only. January &c -
John Drew and Margaret Ellington
in The Gay Lord Quex."
MAJESTIC
High Grade of Vaudeville.
COLONIAL
Io-day-Emily Stevens in "Daybreak."
Wednesday and Thursday = Peggy
Hyland in Persuasive Peggy"
Friday and Saturday Eva Tanguay
in The Wild Girl"
Coming. soon - Mary Garden in
That's"
REGENT
ro-day-George Beban in Cook
Canyon Camp"
Wednesday and Thursday - THE
Italian Battlefront" official war
tlms of Italian Government.
Friday and Saturday : Pauline Fred
erick in Mrs. Danes Defense"
To-day and Wednesday - Thedal Bara
in Camille"
Thursday and Friday-Mme. Petrova
in The Daughter of Destiny"
Saturday-Gladys Brockwell in For
I LIBERTY
! Emily Stevens, the talented screen
star, VINO eNcels III strong roles de-
manding great char
Emily stevens a c er / u tions and
In "Dnybreal<" emotional acting, is
the star of Day
preak, perturbation of the Broad
way success by Jane Cowl. which ap-
pears at the Colonial Theater to-mor-
| row. Far removed from the stories
or unusual adventure that could hap
pen to few; comes this gripping drama
| or home life, carrying its message
straight to the hearts OF many. Wives
/ everywhere have found themselves in
! the same predicament as Edith
! trome.. the heroine of "Daybreak." !"
whose husband, through drink, has be-
come dead to all thought of honor.
Men everywhere have found them
selves apparently powerless in the
grip of habit that robbed them of
their true manhood and of all real in
terest in life. To these. to their fami-
lies. friends and acquaintance, the
theme found in "Daybreak" will have
It's appeal. Furthermore. the story of
! this great human problem and its So
| luton VIII interest even those who
have never met any such experience
| in their own lives.
Bewitching Peggy Hyland will be
starred in a delightful comedy-dra
entitled Persuasive Peggy" Wednes-
day and Thursday.
| Friday and Saturday-Eva Tan
suay. the cyclonic vaudeville star, in
The Wild Girl"
..,C, Coming soon-Mary Garden in
| Very few musical comedies present
ed In New York received such gener-
GUS praise at the hands of
very the newspaper reviewers as
Good was bestowed on Very
Eddie" Good Eddie" and the same
III, was the case in Philadel-
phia. Boston and Chicago. That the
public agreed with the critics is evil
dent from the fact that its run in
| these three metropolitan cities totaled
| Two entire seasons. AS an example of
the sort of reference made to this
show by the New York press. the Sun
said 1t was "A delight from start to
hnish, while the Philadelphia Ledger
said 1t was "The gem of all musical
comedies of a dozen years"
The No. l company OF VERY Good
Eddie" has been kept almost intact,
as between runs in the metropolitan
! cities it was brought back to New
YORK for an occasional return engage
ment. In fact, ii is even now playing
in New York. where it is duplicating
its original success, and it is coming
here direct from that city, with all its
! Broadway favorites, including: Dem
man Maley' George Mack. Harry Mey-
! srs, Helen Raymond. Florence Earle,
| Theodore Warfield, Lavinia Winn,
Harry Linkey. Jean DeBriac. Elaine
Ford, Ralph O'Brien and the famous
swagger fashion chorus.
Very Good Eddie" is said to be in
! a class by itself, representing an en-
tirely new type of musical entertain
ment. thoroughly American, thor
oughly modern and decidedly different
from any other production of its style.
Aside from Its abundant comedy,
pretty girls and novel features, VERY
Good Eddie" has the most tuneful
music in years. such as Babes in the
| Woods" "On the Beach at lie Lei Wi"
IF Find the Girl" Some Sort of
/ Somebody" "Old Boy Neutral and a
/ dozen others.
Very Good Eddie" comes to the Or
pheum tonight.
The announcement that Theda Bara
would be shown in the famous world
old love story. writ
Theda Bara ten by Alexandra
in "CamiIIe," Dumas entitled Ca
at the Victoria MILE" met with in
slant favor through
out the entire country, and. in fact,
wherever motion pictures are shown,
Manager James George, ever alert to
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