Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-01
An THE Majestic

Cal Dean and bevy of pretty cho-
rusters start three day engagement
at the Majestic Theater to-day, offer
ing their unusual and catchy musical
comedy farce. Four other Keith acts
and another episode of "The Fatal
II r EorI une'' featuring daring Helen
Holmes' completes the bill. Thurs
1ay ly the first epissde of the new Pearl
White serial entitled The Black So
cret' viii be shown. This is the last
serial Miss White expects to make. as
sne Is to he featured in short pic
Harrisburg the picture showing
81 local businessmen, starts a one-
week showing.
~ THE COLONIAL.
The Vengeance of Durand." Rex
Reach's celebrated novel. which has
been adapted to the screen, starts a
,r,! 1,rn,!Iee-day showing at the Colonial
Theater to-day. featurino the versa
Tue young star, Alice force. This at
traction is now being shown in
Philadelphia and New York. where it
ls> being proclaimed loudly by critics
ana the press. 1t is a story dealing
OF Jealousy and points out why jeal-
ouSy IL the wrong thing.
THURSDAY. Friday and Saturday of
ihis week charming Alice Brady Will
photoplay. which is also playing a
very successful engagement i'm New
York and Philadelphia.
Ar THE VICTORIA
Despite the fact that the worlds
EronteSt detectives were secured by
n Frenchman to solve "The Mystery
of the yellow Room" hailed as the
greatest murder case of all times. il
fell to the Tot of newspaper re-
porter to solve the problem Mucn
can be said about the uncanny sense
the reporter carries, with him and
clusions taken in this film which il
Laying at the Victoria Theater all
this week is the actual truth. as seen
ly n n"wsDaperman.
Thr Victoria management is also
offering another unusual aud attrac-
tive presentation along with this fas-
6 mating picture IT is Harold
iIoyds first two-roel comedy aEl
'RumpinG into Broadway" New York
Critics "lain th,s is cne of the biggest
laughing scnsatichs of the season
HOW JAP ARTISTS work
rev PEOPLE know that the jap
anese artists do not use an easel. nor
do they fasten their canvas to q
screen or a wall. Instead. they paint
on on the floor kneeling at their work,
madness. for the art of the japanese
IS usual wrought in water colors.
There fore. to keep the colors from
running down the surface the paper
W 'HiN Is Dlt'tu on lne moor. AS
Water-color painting constitutes the
greater part of Japanese art the
craftsmen have become accustomed
TO working i'm this position. even
when the colors used are of thicker =
consistency.
The methods of corps of Japanese Sc
artists who have recently been added
10 III" art forces at Universal city.
never cease to he Il source of Won
dermtnt to the. master decorators at
the western film capital. 1t is some
times pl city hard to conyince an ar
tlsan in any craft that his own meth
sood work can he accomplished by
the other fellows methods. but the
motion picture people are nothing if
not open minded. and the artists at
UNIVERSAL City are no exception.
CorleN Ito, an authority on Jap
ancse art and one of its foremost eX-
ponents in America, has been en-
gagged to create the interior decora-
tions and supervise the technical
phase Of the settings for the forth
coming feature productions in which
Tsuri Aoki. the recently engaged
Japanese player. is to be starred.
Aokis photoplays are laid in the
Orient, the star insisted that persons
whose knowledge of Oriental art was
absolutely correct be placed in charge
of the creative phase of her stage
4ettings. MIR. Ito was selected as
man who could fill the requirements
Despite his high status in the realm
of art the Nipponese painter does not
allow any artistic temperament to
manifest itself in his garb. He works
in cap and overalls.