Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-10
Newsy Jottings of Theater and Screen

High class vaudeville. Walter weems.
premier baritone player with COM
edy and wonderful music: The
Love Race" high class musical
comedy Offering and three other
standard Keith acts. also another
episode of the famous stunt serial
The Great Gamhle."
VICTORIA
To-day and tomorrow positively last
showings OF Olive Thomas in up
stairs and Down." also Billie West
in Our Tender Feet"
COLONIAL
To-day and tomorrow positively last
showings of THE Red Lantern"
the famous feature production fea-
turing Nazimova.
ORPHEUM
Tonight only - John Cort offers
Listen Lester
Tomorrow, matinee and night =
Monday. matinee and night. Oct. IS
-"Parlor. Bedroom and Bath"
Tuesday and Wednesday matinee,
The Marquis de Priola" and The
Matinee Hero"
Two days. starting Friday. Oct. IT,
with daily matinees Lyman H.
Howe Travel Festival.
REGENT
To-day and tomorrow - Douglas
Fairbanks in His Majesty, the
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday -
MILAN, VILLAIN s. Hart in Wagon
THURSDAY, Friday and Saturday -
ile."
Walter Weeks. the versatile COM
VNIn
At the Majestic days. Scored a Won
derful hit at the Ma
lestic theater yesterday. Weeks has
Travelled extensively and is a real
headliner. AS a baritone player he
can't lie beaten. and as a comedian. he
makes others look as though they
were playing the role of william.
weeks is born actor and takes great
Joy In making an audience laugh. His
baritone solos won him a host of ad-
mirers. Four other standard Keith
acts complete the bill.
Olive Thomas. the Victoria theater's
new screen star has been playing to
enormous audiences
Al the Victoria at that theater in her
latest starring success
upstairs and Down" an unusual pro-
duction wherein she appears as a
baby vamp. This star has attracted
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time she appeared at the Victoria.
Americas leading artists hail
her as the prettiest woman in the
world. and when you see her as a
baby vamp you will say that a valn-
pire Is one of the greatest things that
ever happened.
Billie West will also be shown in his
latest comedy success Our Tender
Feet"
Particular interest attaches to the
presentation of His Majesty. the
American" the Doug
At the Regent las Fairbanks picture
which is now running
at the Regent Theater. because it is
the first, offering of United Artists
Gorpo,ration-the so-called big
Four" Mary Pickford, Charlie
Chaplin. Douglas Fairbanks and d.
w: Griffith. in January of 1919, de-
cided to enter the motion picture field
as independent producers and dis
tributors. releasing their pictures di-
rect to the theaterS of the country.
Fairbanks was the first to complete
picture on the new basis and thus,
what will undoubtedly become the
biggest combination of screen artists,
was actually in operation less than a
year after its inception.
JOHN CORTs "LIsTEN LESTER,
Coming to the Orpheum tonight is
Lhsten Lester" a musical comedy
which John Cort is presenting. BY
and Harold orleb. this production
forms happy combination of a roll
licking kind calculated to catch the
public fancy. That it will also hold
this fancy is proved by the fact that
this play ran for an entire year at the
theater in New York,
where it turned away throngs nightly
The action takes place at Palm
Beach, whittier Colonel Dodge has
gone accompanied by his daughter,
he has been counting in New York
and who now threatens him with a
breach Of promise suit il he does not
pay her heart balm. At the same
hotel is a Mrs. Mumm awaiting the |
arrival of Jack, her young fiance, and
while waiting she falls in love with
Colonel Dodge, who reciprocates her
Affection.
There is a flip hotel clerk, a decid-
edly fresh porter named Lester. a fe- |
and all sorts of complications that
the real story and which are |
out finally in a salts |
factory manner.
Mr.. Cort has collected an excellent
cast of funmakers for this attrac-
ion, the personnel of which includes |
Henrietta Byron. Lester Adams, OFT
<erner, r. Harrison Garrett. Jack |
Sriffin. June Roberts. Walter Coon, |
Selma Marion. Francis Donegan and
Dorothy Beldwin, all adding to the |
general gaiety.
"TLL SAY so"
Laugh and the world laughs with
'cu. weep and you weep alone;" thus
| wise poet once wrote. This fact Is
never better eXemplified than in the
musical comedy Offering, I'll Say So,"
which is seen at the Orpheum theater
o-morrow. matinee and night. Muir
'ay and Mack. two comedians. who
ave jumped into instant fame. are
he stars of this entertaining and
original humorous concoction. Their
work Is infinitely better than in "A
light on Broadway" in which they !
starred for years. IL public APPROX
Il is any criterion. ''Pll Say So," is
'aid to be bedlam of song, fun, COM
dY, music and mirth.
An exceptionally fine chorus is to |
,e found whit this company. which Is
inder the management of Quality !
Amusement Co, Inc. iii Say So" is
he combined work of George H.
limerick and Seymour Furth.
Josephus Daniels. himself. never re- |
,eived such a royal welcome as was |
accorded Jocko. mascot of the de- |
sttoyer Radford. Gloom spread over |
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