The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-17
WASHINGTON

Moving picture patrons Of this city
will be accorded rare treat on Fri
day and Saturday, when Clara kim
ball Young and her own company are.
seen In her latest Select picture.
Cheating Cheaters," at the Washing
ton theatre. This is, screen adao-
ton Of Max MARGINS famous stage
success of the same name, and con-
Germs the adventures Of q clever girl
who knows how 70 mix love and bust
ness without any serious consequent
ces to either.
The story concerns the activities Of
two famous bands OF crooks. Nan
Carey, played by Miss Young, Is the
leader of asband which poses as the
Brocton family. They reside in
fashionable section of the city for the
purpose of becoming acquainted with
the wealthy Palmer family, after
which they plan to make on with the
Palmer jewels. One night Nan Is IN
vited to stay at the Palmer home, but
instead OF making the haul that the
Brocton gang had expected, she learns
that the Palmer jewels are paste, and
that their owners are also crooks, who
in turn were planning to rob the Broc-
tons.
When the identity of the rival gangs
is known to their respective leaders,
they plan a meeting for the purpose
of forming joint syndicate. although
they are fearful of the reported pres
ence in the neighborhood of the re-
nowned detective, Ferris. However,
the meeting is held, but true to ex.
pectations, the police arrive and ar
rest all present.
throughout the story there is a
growing romance that eliminates
when Nan reveals herself as Ferris,
the detective. She obtains the release
of the leader of the Palmer gang and
there is discovered a real love story
which has already progressed to an
advanced stage.
In the Essanay-Chaplin comedy
"Shanghaied," there are enough hair
breadth escapes and rough and tum
Lle action to satisfy the most avid
seeker for thrills In fact, it is vio-
lent slapstick action almost through
out.
Men are hurled from dock to ship,
deck and from the deck into the hold
without regard to bones or flesh, and
one wonders how the feats are accom-
plished without sudden and violent
death. However, all come up, not al
Wavs smiling, but at least whole.
Men are hurled into the ocean, for
II is a real ship on the Pacific where
the action takes place, at some dan
ger OF drowning. However, Chaplin
took no one on board who had not
mastered the art of swimming. III
the work of rescue more men are tum-
bIed overheard until practically the
entire crew get a ducking. At the
Washington Sunday only.
The Frivolous Frolickers is mighty
fine burlesque troupe, judging from
the posters and billboards that Lean
der Potts, manager of the outfit, pias-
tered all over Pikeville. But Pikeyille
never gets chance to see whether
the show is all Potts said OF it, for the
purity league orders the constable to
do his duty. and the curtain Is rung
down on Potts first performance.
Leander Potts is the role assumed
by Smiling Bill Parsons, the Capitol
Comedies star, in "The New Break
fast Food" the first adventure in his
"Go-Get-'Em Potts" series distributed
by Goldwyn, which comes to the
Washington theatre, beginning Mon
day.
While strolling down the main street
of Pikeville, Hiram Crabbe and Jeru-
sha Pepper. ruling lights of the purity
league, see a billposter decorating a
big board with pictures announcing
the presence of the Frivolous Frolick-
ers. The pair order him to stop but
they are directed by him to lodge their
complaint with the manager, whom he
points out as an individual standing
close by, with cigar in his mouth and
his hat cooked at rakish angle.
Potts denounces the Puritanical pair
and they leave, threatening to have
the show stopped. They succeed in