The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-03
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| At the Novelty. 3D.
| It's a good bill at the Novelty. for the
children. There were plenty of them there
yesterday dfternoen aHdd they enjoyed 1t.
me older patrons OF the the9ter did not
| on on the stage after the movie thriller
Booth and Leander occupied the first
| fifteen minutes of the program; Booth with
| some bicycle stunts and Leander with
comedy and a few steps. 1t is a rather
with the rough corners knocked off it
shows promise of developing into some
advertise themselves as personality girls
| They may have It but they left that person
atty thing behind the scenes yesterday
afternoon. If they would cut the comedy
and dc some real singing it would be bet
Standing out from the rest of the bin Is
right with GeIsha impersonation. Not unit
he actually drops his character, does tn
The Xanderkoors, start out like a real act
but finishes weak. 1t is another of those
fGe Ior children 9 only as is the Four
I nastie stunts and a strong woman feature
The latter failed to get across right. Th
big fellow sitting Shst behind, beloved
fake" Well maybe 1t was and again
maybe It was the fault of the scene shifte.
sSn,1 failed to get the front drip up high
at the Orpheum.
Lets Be Fashionable is light eomedy
1t has TO do with pair of newly weds
who move into a suburb, where every nus
band is interested in some other wife thar
his own and vice versa for every wife
The newly weds are too newly wed to TAX
70 THIS sart OF thing and their efforts to
| keep the pace, despite their newly wed.
dedness, is the. basis for one of those
American stage for the past few seasons.
the principal scene OF which Is always laid
in a bedroom. Yes, Lets Be Fashionable
has bedroom scene, too.
| Doris May and Douglas MacLean are in
the. leads and the latter is well cast for
the too innocent husband He is really the
star of the piece and his predicaments
| brought many laugh last night The
best laugh, tho, was a solo by the gink
| car Mac was driving, baked. The gink who
| does this job for The State Journal has
exactly the same stunt for him many a
| time
The first of the week program was filled
| out with reel Of the Pathe news and a
| reel of the Mutt and Jeff cartoons wish
the Pathe stuff could come oftener. Would
m E s1atbsr to 4 F t up P the Mutt and Jeff
( the children would have some kick com
| At the Cozy.
Has the day of the big feature de-
parted, or has the big feature thing Just
| been overworked? It's question and the
| popularity or unpopularfty Of The Virgin
of Stamboul,' showing at the Cozy this
| week may give the answer. The picture
shows elaborate staging and great pains
4 IN uetd4ls o. ulEGCllur. Out l0e an effort
| to make a big feature" the producers
| seem to have forgotten they had a story
| and the plot is lost several times during
the progress Of the action, in order that
| some scenic effects maybe worked IN
/ It is a romance rather fmprobable-of the
| Near East. which we have heard so much
and for which we have been asked to give
| so much Miss Priscilla Dean plays the part
| of a beggar girl OF the Stamboul streets,
| who wins the heart of the English adyen-
| tursr. The story tells Of the intrigue and
l.pisadventure the lovers meet before they
| finally are united for the ''fadeaway
clfnch." wt9out which. the present day
| picture seems impossible of conclusion.
| As remarked before the staging is elabor-
| ate. Some Of the oriental stuff is really
| great and the settings are beautiful, too
beautiful TO be real. II all we read and
hear about the conditions in the Near East
/ are only part true The director who
handled the production was generous with
jobs for the extras" and filled his stage