The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-20
The Theatres
M MURRAY

For all who love Western stories
end who DO not 1.-THE Murray theater
offers Buck Jones, the daring Fox
star, in a picture called "Sunsie
Sprague" beginning Monday.
Jones' pictures are always impress
sive and unusual. There is no finer
rider on the screen, or off, and he
makes one feel that the real joy of
living is not to be found in the big
cities, but on horseback in the not
densely populated West
Sunset Sprague" is lively story
of cowboy who Unexpectedly en-
counters the biggest job of his life.
Sunset Buck Jones) does this Job in
fine style, and after he scatters a
band of range-crooks he returns a val
liable mine to plucky girl from whom
it had been stolen.
MURRETTE
Among the actor daredevils con-
stantly associated with Tom Mix, the
Fox star, both in and out of pictures
is Sid Jordan, an honest-to-goodness
cowbody. whose face nature kindly
designed so that he could be an ideal
motion picture william of the western
type.
Jordan IS cast as Jack Purdy. the
bad man in THE Texan" the latest
Mix starring photodrama, which is
now showing at the Murrette theatre.
He says he has no quarrel with his
face. but is perfectly content to pro-
coed along the even tenor of screen
villainy. He shoots Mix up a-plenty
in some pictures. Then he calmly
sticks his smoking pistol into his hol-
ster, while the camera is turned off,
Mix RECEIVERS from his wound, and the
two hunt up the rest of the gang and
are off for some leafs" or for a ride
around the neighborhood.
Jordan is a dyed-in-the-wool cow
puncher. was born in Muskogee, Okla,
and educated at the Cherokee Indian
school at Vanita, Okla. Then he join
ed the "101 Ranch that famous old
outfit which proved to be an employ.
.ment bureau for cowboy actors. Jor-
dan has had rather an extended screen
career and has appeared in several re.
cent Mix pictures.
WASHINGTON
George Melford, the veteran produc-
er, has scored another ten-strike in
his production of Behold My Wife,"
from Sir Gilbert Parkers famous nov.
ell. The picture, which was shown at
the Washington theatre yesterday, is
the story of the transformation of an
iiitlldu uldiueH Ol lno Sdndu1dn NOTIn'
west. married in fit of drunken rage
by an aristocratic young EnglishmaD
to spite his family, into a beautiful and
cultured young woman. Milton Stills
Elliott Dexter, and Ann Forrest are
also in the cast.
Mr.. Melford is responsible for some
of the most notable photoplays of re-
cent years. Conspicuous among them
are Told in the Hills" with Robert
Warwick; the famous morality play
"Everywoman;" Jack London's THE
Sea Wolf and "The Round Up star
ring Roscoe Arbuckle.
RICHMOND
The Benjamin B. Hampton super
production, THE U. P. TRAIL" Hod
kinson release, opened at the Rich
mond Theatre Sunday for three day
engagement. Adapted from the we'll
known book Of the same name by
Zane Grey, this splendid, virile story
of pioneer days of adventure along
the Union Pacific railroad, where men
from all over the world came to try
their luck at gold-getting and gold
making, has lent itself remarkably
well to the screen.
In a great dance run by Beauty
Stanton" is found the very epitome OF
, life in the West as it was lived in
those days. Rough boots treadins
measures on a board floor beside
dainty satin slippers, perfumes ming
led with the pungent odors OF burnt
gunpowder, gowns of Partisan design