The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-05
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At the orpheum.


1t takes a lot to make a blase news
paPerman rise up in his chair fighting an
insane desire to yell, but that Is just what
the Lost Battalion" did yesterday after
some mighty vivid remembering was partly
responsible but there were others present
who did not even restrain the yelling part
The producers of this film are probably
not willing to tell where they got all their
stuff. but it. Is safe bet that they have
cleyeriy pieeed together bits of the official
movies taken by army service men. So
cleYerly have they amalgamated the actual
with the mimic that the entire production
lieve what the producers tell US when they
say, that every scene is done by men whc
were there and who are re-enaeting their
1t is one of those don't you remember"
pictures and brings back as wildly as a
flash of lightning to every one. whether
scenes of 191 and 1919. 1t is bit of
real history interestingly written and not
mangled so that the tale may be told
but it needs no plot 1t is real historical
drama accurately told and acted. Thrill
Flowers will get their fill of real thrills not
reel thrills
At the Novelty.
It's a sprightly little bill which started
a three-day run at the Novelty yesterday
afternoon. The real beauty of practically
that they know when to stop. Emmetts'
CANNES are somewhat out of the ordinary
in the way of trained animal act and II
WINS staged so as to make it a real novelty.
| Smith & Robbins have everything in the
way of singing and musical stunts neces-
sary to MAKE complete act. If they wouio
| 1t would improve the act. fney are follow
ed by the five Cameo Giris who manage
Ito mix costumes, violins, dance steps ami a
song or two into a really entertaining little
melange-
1t seems the vaudeville stage just mus:
| hang on to prohibition jokes tho they are
getting drieE>every day. (The actors as
| well as the jokes) Cleveland x Dowry
drink patter but it is the real comedy by
Cleveland that brings the laughs. Prob
ably one of the best aerial athletic acts
| Falcons, who finish the bill All three OF
the boys keep moving every minute they
are on the stage Their stunts are finished
and graceful, a few of them being COM
| paratiyely new.
At The Cozy.
F, Did you ever read ri incorporated
French novel? Well, the Devils Passkey
/ Is a French novel in de luxe edition. If
you want to see Paris and especially the
| "demi- monde" part of 1T, then take an even
ing or an afternoon off any day this week
and get an eye full of this.
! As a screen production. this picture is Il
| wonder. That man Won Stroheim was ceIc
tainly spending other peoples money vines
he staged this story. No man in his senses
| whether in the movie game or out of ii
would spend his own money the way Won
Stroheim lavished cash = on the feature
beauty. gripping the eye and holding one
attention even in spite of himself.
De Maupassant. In it woman thru her
| own extravaganza finds herself in the
clutches of n circle of unscrupuious women
of the half world. She is saved from hef
self by a young American officer only &c
find her rescue has given her a reputation
in the evil mind of the Partisan public
| Her story minus names comes to her hus-
| bands ears and he seeing In it a bit Oh
real life makes a play of it. One, of the
| plot comes when the wife finds herself sit
| ting by her husbands side. the man whom
| allI Paris thinks her Illicit lover nearby
4 while her story is acted the stage fol
'sfhe Devils Pass key is full Of action
ae5e Is s aSd IN
| forward with a blase frankness truly
Partisan, especially In the scene wheri
caller during her bath. Oh yes, the story
and the picture turnout is French. Oo-la-;a
Ana then some.
] s At The Isis.
| MADAM X" which opened a. weeks run
at the Isis theater Monday afternoon is one
of those productions, which refute the rule
| to the effect that the film will never take
| the place of the stage. This super produc-
story in every department and If the stage
| exhibition was masterpiece then the
screen version is more than that. if there is
such thing as a superlative of the woro
Not only is the work of Pauline Frederick
! III the title role equal to if not better than
| that of any of the actresses VINO made rep
utations for themselves in the original buI
practically every character on the screen
outdoes his CT her counterpart OF former
| presentations. The director for this film
| showed rare judgment in picking his cast
and the producers were no less careful IN
| staging every scene in true French style
| Even the court room scene is handled soar
| tistically and SO wildly that despite the
fact that French and American court pro
cedure Is widely different, an American
audience can get every bit of the action
| and meaning.
| The story is well known as the greatest
| mother-love piece written in recent years
There is need repeating 1t. 1t might Ds
well to add while raving over this show
that even the comedy in this screen revival
is far and above that of the stage version
I 1t is seldom that the critic Stops over. hui
having waded- thru all this, don't yor