The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-04
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MuRRETTE
There is a brief glimpse of a box
ing match in "Out For the Night"
third of the new two-reel Christie
Comedies, which comes to the Muir
rette theatre Sunday, but sensitive
patrons are assured that they will
see nothing of the prize fight charac-
ter. One of the strictest rules of the
Christie Studios is that there must
be nothing that approaches the brutal
character in any of the comedies, and
though there are generally some very
strenuous scenes in these pictures, the
Christie brand of humor does not call
for the injury of character as basis
for laughs.
81 believe in comedy of situations"
says AL Christie. THAT offers suffl-
cient room for all the laughs. Speed
helps keep up the fun, but the mau.ing
Of characters is not needed to stir the
finer sense of humor. I'd rather miss
Il few roars and leave the people with
ID thoroughly pleasant feeling after
the picture is over
"Out For the Night" is the story Of
the hen-pecked head of a girls school
who loves a boxing match.
Eddie Barry is the featured player,
the cast including Neal Burns, Char
lotte Merriam and the Follies Girls.
/. MURRETTE
Carter DeHaven, who so success
fully registers intoxication as the
temperam mental Signor Month, in his
own film version of Twin Beds" has
had the benefit of vast experience in
depicting gentlemen who have i'm
bibed not wisely but well. In one of
his first starring vehicles of the speak
ing stage, The Girl in the Taxi" Mr..
DeHaven staggered cOnvincily about
the stage for four hundred and fifty
nights, until he began to feel that he
had been an inebriate from birth. Fol
lowed then several vaudeville sketches
and a number of screen comedies, in
all of which Mr.. DeHaven was at
one time or another discovered in a
reeling condition.
Report has it that in Twin Beds"
Mr.. DeHayen has eclipsed all his pre-
vious comedy successes and has made
Signor Monti one of the most laugh
prov oking characters that was ever
flashed upon the silver sheet. Great
things We're prophesied for Mr.. De
Haven's production, and from all &C
counts it has justified every predic-
ton that it would be one of the sea
sons great successes. Twin Beds
will be the Associated First National
attraction at the Murrette next week.
MURRAY
A comedy playet entitled "Pinched,"
presented by three men and one girl
will hold the headline position at The
Murray opening Monday matinee for
the first half The scene is in a Chi
Cago court room, and the playlet is
shaded with sufficient sentiment to
occasionally relieve the wholesome
humor. The parts of the tender-heart-
ed Judge, the county Justice of the
Peace, and the hayward girl are all
we'll enacted, making the act one of
dramatic entertainment and one that
is thoroughly relished by discriminate
ing theatre-goers.
Another feature act is The Casting
Campbells, four sturdy athletes who
perform miraculous and thrilling feats
at dizzy heights, interfering some
comedy to offset the thrills. This
act has been featured with all the
leading circuses and enjoys an envi-
able reputation Also an interesting
feature will be Harry Kahn. The In
comparable Mentalist' featuring a
demonstration in quintuple mind con-
rentration, doing five different and dis
tinct feats consisting of reading, writ
ing, spelling. talking, and adding a
column of figures all at the same time,
the only person in the world known
to science doing this feat successfully.
He writes the alphabet upside down
at the same time computing answers
from inquiries hurled at him from the
audience. His act has been a revela-
ton to the vaudeville world this sea-
son. attracting the scientific minds as
we'll as those who seek amusement.
Concluding the. bill are Davis and