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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-25

India has turned from silver to a
gold standard. For the first time on
record the shifting of an excess OF
merchandise exports to an excess of
imports, coupled with a changed ex-
change and currency system, has
caused the nation to export silve rto
get gold.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-25

Senator King, of Utah, is preparing
amendments to the Sherman Anti
Trust Law which he declares will in
crease the control of the Department
of Justice over combinations in re-
straint of trade.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-25

Attracted by the high rate of eX-
change counterfeiters are circulating
bogus American money in Germany.
One $40 bill was detected because
America" was spelled with a ok" in
tead of &C."
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-25

When President-elect Harding
announces his cabinet choices.
among the men selected will be
The name OF Colonel William
Boyce Thompson, Is the opinion OF
leaders In Republican ranks.
Colonel Thompson is a western.
er. Born In Montana. he went east
TO study and graduate at Colum-
bia School of Mines. Then he
returned to the west and became
rich in copper mining. He became
a colonel through service In the
Spanish-American War and In the
recent war headed the Red Cross
in Russia for Is months. He
gave one million Of his personal
funds to Red Cross.
1t was also Colonel Thompson
who conceived the idea and per-
sonally financed the idea of CIV
ing the hometown paper to the
boys in the trenches. Colonel
Thompson has resided in New
York for several years where he
Is one OF the financial leaders.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-25

The automobiles that smugge whisky
the Canadian line might be called modern ug-genaus
The present Administration hestates take strong measures
the of the murder of American naval officer by japanese
they do desire any complications down to the
coming administration 1t bad they didn think sooner
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-25
SUFFERED SEVEN
LONG YEARS
Finally Relieved by taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Ravenswood, W. Va" seven long
years l suffered from female trouble

ana Inflammation 30
that l was not able
| to do my housework.
l consulted several
doctors b tut non q
seemed to give me
relief. / read in q
paper about Lydia
3. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound SO
II decided to try it,
and before the first
bottle was gone /
n
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-25

The deflation of values has driven
a London concern, which is one of the
largest fur brokers' in the world, into
voluntary bankruptcy.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11

Theater here: Doris Kenyon, Diana
Allen. Norman Kerry, Billie Dove
and many others.
The story itself is of engrossing
interest. faultlessly developed and
brilliantly enacted. Sam Hardy and
Norman Kerry have the chief roles
of Wallingford and his partner.
Daw. respectively. The story con-
Germs their descent upon a Middle
West town with the idea of defraud-
ing the smugly complacent citizen
ry with bogus scheme to manu-
facture carpet tacks. In the mean
time, both fall in love with small
town girls and their plan to de-
camp with their crooked profits is
suddenly faced with an obstacle.
In the meantime, a sudden turn in
real estate values and the unex-
pected success of their carpet-tack
idea not only turn both into mil
lionaires but results In a complete
OF the sleepy little
Iowa city to which they first came.
Mr.. Borzage's screen version
of Get-Rich-Quick wallingford"
closely follows the stage adapta-
ton of the Wallingford stories as
adapted by George NJ. Conan, which
achieved such a remarkable sue
cess behind the footlights. A brill
liant array OF added features will
supplement the main attraction.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11

the tornado scene. They were COM
plimentary of the magnificent way
in which the spectacle was staged
and depicted, but each one deplored
the fact of its unfaithfulness to
nature.
MIR. Carewe selected one out of a
plIe on the subject from a fairly
Well-known citizen of Kansas:
Your Playthings of Destiny is
a grand picture and fine enterta in
zment but why didn't you use the
same care in finding out how wind
storms behave as you did in study
ing arctic billiards. as evidenced
by your Canadian woods storm? In
Kansas we know the way wind be-
haVes and anyone in the State
would have been glad to give you
Information about it if you couldn't
iearn 1t from books. While l don't
think the scene could have been
maze any more thrilling las a mat
ter OF fact l never noticed the ar
unhealthy of il until after l had
lett the theater) il could have been
MADE true to nature with no more
eHort than required to stage it the
way 1t was done"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
COLUMBIA.

AH-Sfdr Cast in 7Don't Tell Epcyy-
thing"
Don't Tell Everything" Sam
Woods compelling and brilliant
Paramount super-production. in
which the stellar roles are played
by Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson
and Elliott Dexter. will be pre-
scented at Loew's Columbia begin
ming this afternoon. The produc-
ton is based on the story of the
same name by Lorna Moon. The
spirit of out-of- doors is markedly
in evidence throughout the picture,
which satirizes the engagement
period with a wealth of dramatic
power. gorgeous settings and TO
maBtic interest. 1t has to do with
two women who love the same man
and, a self-sacrificing friend who
loves one of the women, but who
helps his friend to win her against
his own chances of happiness. The
great triumvirate of stars which
enact the chief roles in this great
production are ably supported by a
powerful cost OF players, which in
cludss Dorothy Cumming Genevieve
Blinn, the Briac Twins, Gloria
Wood and many others.
Manager Stutz of Loew's Column
hia has arranged to give the pic
ture a splendid program back
ground with a new comedy success.
Country Chickens" featuring
Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin.
John Henry. Jr.. and others: the
Loew news events. Screen Snap
shots and a splendid overture by
the Columbia Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Mr.. Leon
Erusilof, William Tell Overture"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
KNICKERBOCKER.
Katherine Macdonald aud Harold
Lloyd.

hdtherire Macdonald aud Harold
Lloyd.
katherine Macdonald in First
Nationals new production. Her
Social Value" and Harold Lloyd in
his latest three-reel super-comedy,
Never Weaken" are the chief
features of the double bill to be
presented the first two days of the
current week at Crandalrs .Knicker-
booker Theater, beginning this
afternoon at 3. Roy Stewart, Ber-
tram Grassby, Winter Hall, Betty
Ross Clarke and many others Of
note support Miss Macdonald.
On Tuesday and Wednesday the
knickerbocker will offer Lon
CLANCY, Leatrice Joy and John
Bowers, in Goldwyn's production Of
The Ace of Hearts," Mack Sen
netts Sweetheart Days" a comedy
OF many unique qualities, will also
be presented.
Mack Sennett's comedians and
beauties. including Ben Turpin,
Charlie Murray. James Finlayson.
Phyllis Haver and others of equal
fame, will occupy the Knicker-
booker screen in Home Talent" a
multiple-reel burlesque rich in keen
travesty. shown on Thursday and
Friday with Lewis s. Stones mimi
AZURE drama, The Northern Trail"
On Saturday only Shirley Mason
Will be screened as star of the new
Fox production, "Queenie." with
Christie's farce. Failing for Fan
ny"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
Carewe's Regular Tornado
Fails to Please Kansas
After Studying and Filming the Real Jamaica
Article, Director Learns that 1t Looks
False.

While the fact that truth is
stranger than fiction has been as
serted so many times that it has
become a bromide. it remained for
Edwin Carewe, a motion picture di-
rector, to find out that an arti-
ficial dramatic spectacle is more
acceptable to some people than is
actual reality. The discovery came
to him after he had completed the
direction of "Playthings of Des-
tiny" starring Anita Stewart,
which will open weeks engage
ment at Moore's Rialto Theater, be-
ginning today, and which shows a
tornado on a rampage in Jamaica.
Mr.. Carewe had a general i'm
preston as to what a tornado was
like, but he sought more expert adj
vice by going to one of the islands
near Jamaica, which has been
swept clean time and again by tor
nados, to learn about them. He
discovered that they were different
from cyclones or typhoons-that
all the wind pressure seemed to be
directly downward. In other words
tornado. according to the natives
who had been through many of
Them fattened objects instead of
tearing them up as cyclone does.
Not even satisfied that the Ma
tives knew the meaning of the
word ''f1atten," Carewe got two of
the Oldest of them to make the
journey to the island where the
village was to be destroyed by the
tornado in "Playthings of Destiny"
Here the wind machines were
turned on and adjusted until the
natives nodded approNl of the ef-
feet. Then Miss Stewart and Her.
bert Rawlinson, with the other
members of the cast who are In
the tornado, were sent for and the
scene was taken,
+ Hardly had the, production been
shown anywhere before -the Louis
b. Mayer studios, the home of the
Anita Stewart productions, became
flooded with letters. in regard to
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
Films for the Prince.

paramount pictures will entertain
the Prince of Wales on his trip to
India on H. NJ. S. "Renown." ac-
cording TO cable advices received by
the Famous Players-Lasky Corpora
ton from its London office.
twenty complete programs were
requested for the "Renown" so that
the prince. would be provided with
ample motion picture entertainment
on ms long voyage from Ports
mouthft to Bombay. The films were
supplied by the Famous Players
Film Company Ltd. 1.-The London
subsidiary OF the Famous Players
Lasky Corporation
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
No Flounces or Furbelows
For Katherine Macdonald
!"The American Beauty" Is Fast Becoming
Known as Screendom's Tailored
- Beauty"

/ The American Besuty"Ns the ap-
pellation by which Miss Katherine
Macdonald is known TO the millions
comprising motion picture fandom.
There 10 4 secondary term. how
ever, which is being applied to her
and which 10 becoming as wide
spread as the first. and that is:
The tailored beauty"
Now. Miss Macdonald is as
charming and as feminine as any
other woman. but she prefers the
tailored gowns and suits TO the
flounces. laces and furbelows so
popular with her sex Nearly all
Of the pictures taken Of her outside
of the studio show her CARRIED with
a simplicity that is as marked as II
is becoming, and they are char
acteristic OF her.
+ Il spend an awful lot Of money
on imported tweeds and knitted
jumpers and so forth" she said re-
Gently ct wear the same kind Of
a sailor hat I wore six years ago.
although I pay six times as much
for IL now"
As Miss Macdonald favors sim
plicity in dress. so she is simple in
Olner tdtCee. Sne is beautiful out.
unlike the average woman. she does
not spend hours in front OF her
dressing table. surrounded by my
Rad bottles and boxes Of cosmetics.
toilet waters and the like. She has
been told SO often that she is beau
tiful that she cannot help but know
IL by this time. but she is too sen
sible TO allow Il 10 affect her
naturalness
An interviewer learned this at
tribute OF the star recently when
he innocently inquired:
And what is the secret OF your
beauty. Miss Macdonald"
He received a shock when she re-
piled:
"A nickel cake Of csrbolic soap
rubbed in with a worn-down finger
nail brush. Never use cold cream,
at night get enough grease in
the daytime. believe the pores
should have union hours"
And when the interviewer po-
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
CRANDALL'S.
Mack Sennett's Stars in Home
Talent"

Mack SennetfS Stars in "Home
Talent"
Reverting to its usual custom.
Crandalrs Theater this week will
present three photodramatic Offer
ings OF more than ordinary merit.
Beginning today and continuing
through Tuesday will be shown
Mack Sennett's latest multiple-reel
travesty, Home Talent" in which
the full roster OF Sennett comedians
and beauties are prominently cast.
including Ben Turpin, Charlie Muir
ray. James Finlayson. Phyllis
Haver. Eddie Gribbon and a host of
others. The supplementary feature
will be Lewis 8. Stone in THE
Northern Trail"
On Wednesday and Thursday
Harry T. Morey. Kathlyn williams,
Faire Binney Roland Bottomley,
Matt Moore and Grace Valentine
will be pictured in the leading roles
Of Ralph Ince's production, "A
Mans Home" As comedy COM
plement will be shown Mack SEN
nett's Love and Doughnuts," star
rins Ben Turpin.
May McAvoy will be the pictured
star Of the bill arranged for Fri
day and Saturday. in Morals" a
splendid perturbation of william j..
Locke's famous novel and play.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne."
The comedy element will be sup
piled by Mack Sennett's new re-
lease, "On Summers Day"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
SER SILVERSHEET AND IT'S LATEST POTOPAY ATTRACTIONS
Galaxy of Famous Stars
In Weeks New Photoplays
Columbia, Rialto, Metropolitan and Palace An
nounce New Screen Offerings on
Programs.

HE lover Of photoPay entertainment has much be grateful
i Washington To begin with the an
triple combination Of Wallace Reid
Elliott Don't Tell Everything"
Rato a
with Elias Breeskn the artist and the Metropolitan
called H Social Value with Harold Lloyd in Never Weaken"
the added attraction.
At the Palace combination of four will be in
of George Randolph Chee Quick Wang-
ford" NJ
Cohan The Knckerboker simultaneously
Katherine Macdonald Harold Lloyd
bic BILL while Cranda for the day and
following will be Ben Turpn Mack Sennet Home Talent" The
detailed follows:
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
Acting Better In London,
George M. Cohan Asserts\

II you ever have anything you
want to ask George NJ. Conan, and
you hope TO get a reply without m
terruption, don't catch him in the
lobby of a hotel on Broadway.
Because he knows just about ev-
erybody that passes through the
place. and those he doesn't know
try to make him think he knows
them, and so thirty minutes pass
rather quickly. considering the
fact that he has to shake hands
with fifteen. be patted on the back
by FIVE. give a cigarette to three
and make appointments with six.
before he answers your questions.
The Astor, where Mr.. Cohan is
living. of all places in New York
would not be chosen as the least
patronized by his friends, and this
is where he was found on We'd
nesday at noon. Wearing a black
fedora hat with rather wide brim.
pulIed down on one side a la col
'lege boy. standing in the center OF
a group composed Of John Meehan,
Eddie Dunn and a few of his for
mer employees. Mr.. Cohan was talk
ing shop" against time. When he
learned he would be expected to
tell something Of theatrical condt-
lions as he had found them in Lon
don, he grinned and said: We'll.
they're free over there, anyway.
There's no closed shop. Actors can
work for whom they wish. No die
tating for them
This wasn't exactly the angle,
but II is difficult to find Mr.. Conan
when he doesn't feel like paying
the EQUITY his compliments. This
is one organization OF which he
isn't particularly fond. 1t is. he
saws, the reason why he has TO
leave New York and go across the
ocean to make a little money.
well" he said. Il saw twenty
Ave plays when / was in London,
and I didn't see an empty seat IN
any thcatcr there That's one very
decided difference between condi-
lions there and here. think ]
can say the acting is of a higher
grade, too. because there are fewer
plays and. necessarily. better parts
to be played. The reason you think
you have a great many mediocre
actors on the New York stage is
that We have so many plays of low
grade that the players can't really
show what they can do"
He was particularly Impressed
with the production OF Sally" in
London. ITS a wonderful cast
he said. as good as the one here
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
| ANITA STEaARI
| R1ALTO
What's What in
New York
BY WALTER f. EBERHARDT.

NEW YORK, Dec. lO.-"The
Wife With a Smile" and "Bou-
bouroche," in which the Theater
Guild again justifies its exist
ence in the production of two
playlets that might otherwise
have been lost to the drama.
Under the influence Of the vol
uble French temperament one
lives again with Blanche Yurke
the impressive sameness in the
endless routine of the wife who
smiles but never laughs. And
what acting-c'est magnifque!
Even the occasional squirms
of a too literal translation from
the French original cannot
eclipse the humanness of Nine
Beaudet, surfeited by the emo
lions of humdrum existence and
a husband engrossed in COM
mercialism until the screaming
echoes of revolver shot mag
Nifty the tragedy into a realiza-
ton that life is more than SIM
ply routine. And the revolver
shot is real. Its anticipation
sent several feminine members
OF The audience at the Carrier
Theater into squeals before II
materialized in a totally unex-
pected manner. The Theater
Guild has brought Arnold DAILY,
the Man of Destiny" back to
the stage in an artistic offering
to which "Boubouroche" is a 2.75
appetizer.
In THE Varying Shore" Elsie
Ferguson goes forward looking
backward, for her latest play,
the most recent advance in her
career embodies prologue,
three acts and an epiloEue in
which she recounts backward
the emotional incidents of a
varied and always sensational
of "Declassee," and Miss Fergu-
son have combined talents. One
recognizes the formula for the
mechanical arrangement in "On
Trial." The Voice in the Dark"
and Kindred other plays of the
last year; but it remained for
Zoe Atkins to go these dramas
one better by introducing her
character as a voice from the
past. One must have the thirty
second degree sympathy with
Elsie Ferguson's emotional role
for a full appreciation of jules
chapters from life. Among the
secondary parts Geraldine
O'Brien contributes a discrimi-
mating role.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
Sam Hardy Heads a Cast
Of Noted Screen Players

Thestergoers who recall the bril-
liant performance Of Sam Hardy as
the leading man for Lenore Uric IN
David Belasco's production Of XXX
at the National Theater here will
probably be pleased TO hear that Mr..
screen production Of "Get-Rich-Quick
Wsllingford" at Loew's Palace today
Mr.. Hardy has been seen in many
musical comedies. including The
Princess Pat" The Riviera Girl.
School" He has appeared in several
pictures. including Judy Forgot"
'Over Night and "A Wonderful
World" In ''Get-Rich-Quick Wall
inford" he does a wonderful char
scterization OF the smooth sharper.
Norman Kerry plays "Blsckie"
Daw. Kerry is well known TO mo-
ton picture audiences. having been
seen in Buried Treasure" and
Proxies"
Doris Keynon assumes the role OF
Fannie Jasper. the girl wallingford
marTies. Miss Kenyon is a popular
actress. She made her stage debut
in The Princess Pat" and was the
leading woman in the stage play,
The Girl in the Limousine" She
co-starred with George Beban in The
Pawn Of Fate" with Holbrook Blinn
in THE Empress" with Lew Fields
in The Man Who Stood Still" and
starred in The Street OF Seven
Stars" The Bandbox" and The
Harvest Moon
Billie Dove plays Dorothy Wells
the sweetheart OF Daw. She appeared
in Ziegfeld's "Follies." Mine O'Clock
Revue" and Midnight Frolic."
Diana Allen is Gertrude Dempsey
in the picture. She is Swedish
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11

girl who also was admire6 IN the
Probes" She made her motion pic
ture debut In Maurice Tourneurs
Woman" and also had parts IN
Three Black Eyes" The Red vir-
gin" and Another Chance"
Have you. as picture fan ever
come across these lines
What a tangled web we weay-.
When first we practice 10 deceive /
This might be the text OF Don
Tell Everything" which comes 20
Loew's Columbia today. II is Para
mount picture with wallace Reid.
Gloria Swanson and Elliott Dexter in
the feature roles.
In the story the handsome cullen
Dale, played by Mr.. Reid, Is ensnared
in trap Of his own making when he
tries 10 deceive the girl he Is engaged
TO. in some cases. and tells her the
truth in others. The result is that
she doesn't believe him at all and
when the other woman comes into
the story. is jealous. There q, a
battle Of women's wits and a self
sacrificing friend Cplsyed BY Elliott
Dexter who tries to help Marion
miss Swanson) to win out against
the intrigante, played by Dorothy
Cumming.
There is a polo game, scene in
luxurious mountain lodge some
love scenes thst are most entrs ncinrly
real. a lot OF good wholesome comedy
and withal the spirit of the out OF
doors. The climax is a complete sur
prise
This is the type of picture thai
makes YOU want 70 hunt and golf and
play polo and he an outdoor type. I
YOU can't or II YOU can-you'l onjn,
the picture Sam Wood was the
] director.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
METROPOLITAN.
Katherine Macdonald and Harold
LlOVd

NHlOtFlNt VI DUHQfl ava f1QTOlQ
Lloyd.
katherine Macdonald and Harold
Lloyd will be pictured at CrandalIs
Metropolitan Theater this week, be-
ginning this afternoon at 3. Miss
NacDOnald's vehicle. Her Social
Value" depicts the experiences of a
beautiful young woman who finds
herself transported by marriage
from the glove counter in a large
department store to a position of
social pre-eminence, where character
s. appraised upon bases totally for
CiEn to her sense of fairness and
Justice. The problem with which
she Is confronted finally resolves
itself. into the simple question:
(which shall be broken. a mans
life or woman's heart?" The So
tuition reached by Marion Hoyte
furnishes the climax of a picture
that is handsomely mounted. beau
tfully acted and consistently en-
tertaining throughout its length.
The cast pictured in Miss Mac
0onald's support is genuinely
notable one and includes among
others such gifted players as Roy
stewart. Bertram Grassby, Betty
E0ss- Clarke. Winter Hall. Joseph
Girard, Helen Raymond and Lillian
Rich. Something of the merit Of
the story from a purely dramatic
standpoint may be gathered from
the need OF so many distinguished
actors to portray its principal char
aCters.
In Never Weaken" his latest
fhrce-reel super-comedy. Harold
Lloyd introduces an entirely new
brand of humor. Departing from
the usual environs of pictured farce,
the screens foremost laughmaker
S"ts the action of his comedy on
tie twelfth story steel framework
of a skyscraper in course Of con-
Struction. At this dizzy height he
encounters a great variety of ad-
ventures In his unremitting effort
10 get back on the solid footing of
terra 1rma.