The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-14
MOVING PICTURES.
Grand.

The new Paramount-Artcraft pic
ture, His House in Order" in which
Elsie Ferguson will appear at the
!, Grand tonight and tomorrow, was
adapted from the play Of the Famous
English playwright, Sir Arthur Wing
Pinero. The screen version retains
all of the dramatic flavor that made
the play famous.
"His House in Order" has for its
theme the marital difficulties of Nina
Graham (Elsie Ferguson) and filmer
lesson. Filmer. believing that Nina
cannot keep his house in order, senus
| for the sister of his former wife TO
live with them. The sister-ln-laW
makes all sorts of trouble for Nina,
and relations between husband ana
| wife become much estranged. Nina
finds letters of the first wife to her
sweetheart which reveals the fact
! that lesson is not the father OF the
! boy Filmer learns the truth OF MS
second wife's worth and all ends
I.happily.
! Also Larry Semen in another one
of his famous twoact comedies, Dew
Drop In" Here is a double feature
| program offered at regular prices.
! Come early.
! Hippodrome.
| There's not dull moment in Ihe
] Blood Barrier the J. Stuart Black
| ton Pathe feature on the program at
the Hippodrome which began it's two
day engagement yesterday. 1t opens
on girl-beautiful, dark-eyed Sylvia
Breamer-strugg with a man and
| then falling down an embankment.
The man turns out to be the glrfs
| husband He's SO jealous he might
! be the green-eyed monster himself.
! From that opening scene to the bang
up surprise climax the picture keeps
YOU on pins and needles. Also Jack
| Dempsey serial.
Thousands OF dollars and several
/ weeks of busy preparation were re-
quired for the staging of the fancy
tdress ball which is a feature of Dan
| gerous Days" Reginald Barker pro-
/! duetion, which comes to the Hippo
drome tomorrow. The brilliant So
cial event is one Of the high lights OF
the story, and no effort was spared
to make everything perfect and con-
! yincing in the smallest detail. Also
Pathe news.
Colonial.
For tense interest and dramatic in
tensity of situation, the new pictorial
Idrama starring Henry B. Walthall
may be considered one of the fore
most of recent picture offerings. The
title OF the piece, "And Still Small
Voice." which comes to the Colonial
tonight, suggests something of the
inf h1
Randolph. young man of family
fallen into evil ways, from t. fate
that awaits followers of the primrose
path. Randolph is saved by an alb
sent influence. In fact, the prayers
of pretty Mary Singleton, married to
another man, but true to her first
love, are potent to influence the life
Of the latter. When he pauses with
his hand on the money in the SAFE
he intends to rob, and leave the cash
intact, he doesn't know why But
the spectator of the picture knows
what has happened. Mary Single
tons prayers have had their effect
If you like those wriggly snake like
movements that chara cterize the
Egyptian dances and the gauzelike
dresses of bygone day then you
will find much of interest in "The
iGarter Girl" with Corinne Griffith
which comes to the Colonial tomor
row for two DAYS. Aside from an IN
tensely interesting story of theatrica
and small town life there is an at
mosphere of the spectacular ant
bizarre that will please the mos
lexacting. 1t is a story of life as j
lis with clever little twist and man!
's~c-cs +c1o-, hohi,d the foofliGhtT