Arizona republican., 1920-07-30
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Mrs. Vernon Castle at the Strand.

Mrs. Vernon Castle at the Strand.
 At the Strand today and tomorrow the management is offering "The Am ateur wife" a Paramount picture with Mrs Vernon Castle in the role of the wife.
 The story opens with the return of the girl after years in a convent where her chorus girl mother has had her kept to avoid the day when she has to acknowledge her as her daughter For mother is still batting around 300 in the vamp class herself and has a train of admirers who help keep her "den" a place of revelry.
 Into this unhealthy atmosphere comes this girl fresh from the convent, with her narrow views of life and her dowdy clothes. Of course, mother is so shocked at the ugly duckling that she nearly throws fit, and things are go- ing to a break when a jealous john who has been piling up another na- tional debt sending mother flowers and fur collarets gets real peeved and shoots the chorus vamp. Exit vamp and enter heart broken daughter. Mo ther's dearest gentleman friend shows up at the opportune time and ducSling mistaking his kiss of pity for the real thing, does a flop ipto his arms and leads him to a justice of the peace and another war story Is born. He regrets the moment he leaves the altar that he fell for the innocent stuff and
  the world. That is. until he has to tell her that he married her out of sym pathy and then she comes up like a real thoroughbred and chases him to Egypt, while she learns the way of the cafeite and becomes the fastest nov ing thing on Broadway to wear skirts. Hubby pro tenn returns and discovers his ugly duckling transformed into a bird of paradise, and he falls for her in earnest. But she has a lot of pride and some sense and she makes him do a box of tricks when he tries to pick up the married threads where he had snapped them. It's a smart show with smart women in smart clothes. With the feature is seen the comedy "Moonshine and Jail Birds" The Strand with it's big cool auditorium and the orchestra playing afternoons is the mecca for the afternoon shop per. It is the coolest spot in the valley and the show is the class of the state. Mabel Normand at the Hip. Mabel Normand is a comedienne When they take her out of comedy and try to make her sentimental, or try to make her act, she falls flat but i give her plenty of comedy and you have the ide2l fun maker in skirts. | Mabel is at the Hip today and tomor- row in "Jinx," her best picture since | Mickey" Born in a circus, she was | indeed the "Jinx'' of the travelling troupe, for she grew up to never know a pay day, despite the fact that she l worked all the time, and the circus with which she travelled grew to think that she was the "Jinx' which follow ed it all the time. 'The Jinx" gets the chance she has been waiting for all her career, and she makes the most awful fizzle of the dance she hopes to | put over that she falls into the audi ence in her tangled-up skirts and Is chased out of the city by the irate manager. She finds refuge in a barn at the orphan asylum. How she final | ly extricates herself from the title of 'Jinx" and gets a husband is told in five reels of laughs-a tonic for this hot spell. Mabel Normand is to remain ] Saturday and with her will be seen | the good western picture, "The Red 1 Hot Trail" a strong dramatic story Of the long ago. A Burton Holmes trav- 1 elogue augments.
 l Riverside Park.
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