The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-07
lat THE THEATRES ARE OFFERING IN SEPTEN1BE

cartoon, I'm Switzerland" Smiling
Billy Parsons in He Did and He
Didn't" Bryant Washburn in Loves
Insurance." and Harold Lloyd com.
edy. BE My Wife,"
Checkers" the William Fox version
OF the great racing melodrama, is
still at the Central Theatre. Check
ers" has just completed two weeks
and will continue indefinitely.
Helen Keller in "Deliverance" is al
the Lyric.
The two William Fox productions
Evangeline," Henry w. Longfellow,s
tale OF Acadia, and Kathleen Mavour-
neen," the beautiful love story of rural
Ireland, featuring Theda Bara, will
continue at the Forty-fourtb Street
Theatre. Arrangements for a showing
OF "Evangeline" to various educational
organizations will be made during the
week.
THE Right to Happiness, is still
at the Park. Houdini and THE Grim
Game" are at the Broadway.
Hugo Riesenfeld announces that be-
ginning on Sunday. September z, there
will be slight advance in the prices
OF admission to the Rivoli and Rialto
theatres. He has been compelled to
take this step by the increase of the
rentals demanded by the producers of
feature pictures and short subjects,
In addition to this the musicians of
the Rivoli and Rialto theatres have
had their salaries augmented 20 per
cent. A similar increase has been
given to the motion picture operators
stage hands and electricians, as well
as to all the other employees of both
theatres. The new scale of prices al
the Rivoli and Rialto for the after
noon performances will be forty cents
for the orchestra and twenty five
cents for the balcony. In the evening
the prices of the orchestra seats will
be seventy-five cents and the balcony
seats forty cents. The prices of the
loges will be 81 at the Rivoli and sew
enty-five cents at the Rialto.
Betty Compson, whose wonderful
work as Rose" in the George Loane
Tucker Production, THE Miracle
Man." has caused such favorable COM
ment from critics and audience alike
started her stage career in vaudeville
several years ago. Her screen debut
was in Christie Comedies" as a fea-
tured comedienne and bathing girl
Some of the pictures in which she
played are Those Wedding Bells,
Cray by Proxy and others.
Miss Compton's appearance in "The
Miracle Man" is her first attempt at
the serious drama upon the screen
She plays the role of a girl Of the
slums, who is one of band of crooks
who decide to capitalize the uncanny
powers of a patriarch in a small town.
whose powers of healing by faith have
stirred the whole country. Miss
Compson's wonderful delineations as
the girl of the underworld and then a
sweet country maiden have stamped
her as one of the best emotional &C
tresses of the screen.
What is said to be the most costly
shipwreck ever attempted for a mo-
ton picture was staged for the Will
lam Farnum picture, wings of the
Morning." off the reef fringed coast of
Southern California. By order OF
William Fox, producer, a special ship
was built for the purpose in order to
give the public lifelike representa-
ton of a wreck. Mr.. Fox declared
himself ready to spend $4,000 on the
scene, If necessary, and have it per-
feet.
Tom Mix. the Fox cowboy star, has
new sensation in store for motion
picture fans as we'll as sporting fans.
This will be in the form of a feat per-
formed In the latest Tom Mix picture,
1.-The Feud." now being made in the
West. The feat will be the bull
logging" of a buffalo-which undoubt-
edly is the most dangerous perform
ence ever attempted by daredevil
cowpuncher, to say nothing of a mo-
ton picture actor. In doing this stunt
Mix, 1t is said. took chance with
death in which he had nothing better
than an even break
Jonathan and Frank Daniels. sons
of the Secretary OF the Navy, accom-
PANIED by twenty-six officers from the
Pacific fleet, recently made a visit to
the william Fox studios in Hollywood
California, where all were introduced
to the Fox stars present.
The two sons of Secretary Daniels
posed for the camera with Madame
Traverse, the statuesque Fox beauty
and later viewed the Fox Sunshine
Comedy Beauty Brigade.