The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-01-31
son OF DEMOCRACY"
Master Production Showing the Life OF
Lincoln VIII Feature Program - A
Galaxy of Favorites-s'T
Sawyer Is Opener.

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Rhode. After little day of wander
ing the Paramount-Artcraft pictures
have "come back home" and hereafter
will flash their tragedy, their comedy,
and tender sentiment, from the "eye-
comfort screen" of the cold Reliable
Playhouse, the Rhode. The contract
is all signed and as a consequence the
popular theater will celebrate Thrift
Week, February 3rd to 10th, with pie
lures that offer the best for the least,
Jack Pickford in "'Tom Sawyer and
Douglas Fairbanks in Reaching for
the Moon. !"
"I couldn It forget them any longer,
said Manager Joseph Rhode this morn
ing in explaining his |change of pro-
gram. "For years have tried to give
my patrons the best of what they want
ed at a price within the reach of all
Last spring I decided they wanted legi-
innate shows and feature pictures and
accordingly relinquished my contract
with the Paramount-Artcraft people.
But failed to consider the changes
created by the war. With actors vol
unteering for service, passenger trains
reduced at least twenty-five per cent,
and coal famine threatening the clos
ing of the theaters at any moment, it
has been impossible to book the kind
of road-shows that I insist on giving to
my patrons.
elm view of these facts'', he con-
cluded, 'FI have reserved Sundays for
good vaudeville, which is still avail
able, Mondays for high class musical
comedy and drama, when they can be
secured, as we'll as for local lectures and
entertainments of every sort, and the
rest of the week for the Paramount
Aircraft pictures, which present all
the stars of reel fame in photoplays
that are wholesome, enjoyable, and in
every way artistic
The announcement IS highly interest
ing to local film-fans. 1t means that
the patrons of the Rhode rheater will
once more pout with "little Mary,
smile with Douglas Fairbanks, trip
lightly down the ways Of life with
dainty, dancing Marguerite Clark, be
good bad men with "Bill" Hart and
bad good women with Pauline Freder-
lex, cry with George Beban along the
shores of Italy, OF laugh with ''Fatty
Arbucl1le" as he slapsticks his foot
into every trap set for him by shrewd
but kindly conspirators. Other stars
on the Paramount-Artcraft programs
include Billie Burke, Nine Petrova, Lima
Cavaliera, Elsie Ferguson, Ann Penning-
ton, Enid Bennett, Louise Huff, Julian
Eltinge, George M. Cohan, Jack Pick
ford, Wallace Ried, and the marvellous
interpreter of japanese tragedy, Ses-
sue Hayakawa;
Conspicuous among the early offer
master production dealing with the life
of Abraham Lincoln and appropriately
named GA Son of Democracy. The
picture presents the story Of the great
American in ten two reel episodes each
complete in itself yes advancing the
biography Of the man who resolved that
" government of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people, should not per-
ish from the earth - and ''made good "
in one of the bloodieat but most right
eous wars the world has ever seen.
Lincoln s part in the plays will be
interpreted by the great Chaplin, man
who has given his life to the study
of Lincolnic character and who is con-
sidered a veritabIe marvel in his re-
Election of the appearance and spirit
of the famous Emaneipator.
Other programs viii present the
gigantic productions of David War.
wick Griffin, who directed "The Britt
Of Nation, Thomas H. Ince, noted
for his achievements in Civilization
Ceciel B. DeMille, who produced "Joan
the Woman" and "The Little Amer.
ican", and J. Stuart Blaekton, whose
Battle Cry of Peace" did much to
awake the United States to the menace
of militarism and prepare Americans
for the great war in which the country
is now giving its brain, its Drawn, its
very heart and soul, in a tremendous
effort to protect the weak against the
eneroaehments Of tie strong and make
the world "safe for democracy"