Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-06
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Ar the Ditmas.

At the Ditmas.
Pauline Frederick-hers is a name
to conjure with. The screen idol OF
millions all over the world, her tlrst
appearance in Goldwyn Pictures takes
on the eclat Of an international event.
Samuel Goldwyn, president OF Cold
wyn, ful1lls his promise to exhibit
ors TO add this famous artistic TO his
brilliant roster. Furthermore, IN "Ihe
Woman on the Index" to be e at
the Ditmas tomorrow and Thursday,
he restores her to the medium OF ex-
preston in which she has won hei
greatest triumph, modern dramas surg
ing with emotion. But never before
has Pauline Frederick appeared in a
play like The Woman on the Index"
1t outdistances them all.
Adapted by Willard Mack from
George Broadhurst's stage success OF
the current season. 1t affords Miss
Frederick magnificent opportunities.
A wonderful story with a plot so oat-
fling that the climax is TO
keep the most sophisticated spectator
guessing until the very last scene, the
stars progress through 1T demands
test after test of her histrionic pow
ers. Every scene pulsates with sus-
pense. Almost every scene shows Miss
! Frederick in a different costume. Each
seems more wonderful than its prede-
| cessors. =
cast, direction. technical skill-aIl
are expended lavishly in striving to
make 1.-THE Woman on the Index" a
whirlwind success. Miss Frederick
herself is effulgent as the star.
At The Strand.
An expose of the methods and prac-
tees by which crimina intelligence
seeks. frames and lands its prey
among the social set. and the part that
hotel employees often ~innocently play
in the plans of the ultra-crooks for
landing big game. is made in "A Mid
night Romance" the second of the
series of special feature starring We
hicles for Anita Stewart, at the
Strand Theatre.
Lois Weber, who directed the pro-
duction from the story by Marion
Ortiz, has concentrated one of the
| contrasts in her fast moving situations
of action and mystery in a typical
pair of BIRDS" Blinkey Deal and
Blondie Maize. In their scheme to
| compromise Roger Sloan. n young and
| wealthy guest of an exclusive sea side
| hotel, preparatory to matchmaking
| him. they find a convenient and mo-
| mentarily helpless accomplice in Ma
| RE. O hotel maid and q girl of bystery,
| played by Miss Stewart.
At The Liberty.
"Your Wife and Mine" sounds like
a problem play. But it Is nothing so
banal. Instead 1t is an old-fashioned
thriller" filled with as many stunts
as O serial.
The picture was made in Italy. But
after viewing it, no n can accuse the
Italian producers of not having any
pep" For this feature is full of that
quality that is supposed to be evclu-
sively American. =
The story makes no ~pretentlons. 1t
is SIMPLY q ~recounting of h various
| nefarious means employed by the Hon.
Lenox Morton n his sister, Lady
Sarah, to cheat Lord and Lady Greg
ory out of their rightful inheritance.
Fortunately, the Gregorys have the as
sistaHce of two acrobats and q smart
little dog. Kim, the giant OF the
troup, represents strength; Kip Sup
plies the agility. while Kop, n dog,
furnishes the intelligence.
Eve bennington is h only menu
Der of the cast whose name is given
screen credit. h is an Englishwo-
man and she looks startlingly like
Lima Cavalieri and rather like Gan
Kane. And. of course, that makes her
very beautiful.
This picture is o being SHOWN at
the Liberty.
- CoT6Gss TO M..Jarsic
David Belasco, who is admittedly
the greatest of stage producers, VINO
has made stars of unknown talent
ana has trained scores of the best
American players, was not above de-
voting his time and attention to per-
+sonally seeing to the training OF the
animals used in the big spectacular
production, The Wanderer," which
will be seen at the Majestic theatre,
Monday, Maye ~. Belasco devised
ways and means for making them
perform their actor functions IN a
Eiifelike and convincing manner
AS an instance of his ingenuity ne
showed the stage manager how to In
lduce the bellwether sheep to follow
la shepherd across the stage by the
simple device of hanging to the tunic.
of the laborer in the Palestine fields
a bunch of carrots and onions; he
Instructed the shepherd in the hand
ling of the fiocks SO the sheep would
climb single-file VI a giant runway.
thirty-fve feet above the stage, and
then come own another runway In
view of the audience. so that 1t ap-
peared as if the sheep We're descend
ing the hills near Jerusalem, n he
Ibid many other wonderful Things
which proved that he is just as great
a wizard at training animals as he Is
in training human beings. i
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