Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-27
aMerely Mary Ann

Merely Mary Ann" , | Lively interest has been aroused by | Shirley Mason's latest picture to be presented here, not only because of ! the success recently attained by this young Fox star in Her Elephant Man." Loves Harvest" and ''The i Little Wanderer,,,' but also because of the world renown of the play in which she is to appear. This is Merely Mary Ann,' the great stage success by Israel Zangwill., It has been made into a motion picture by Fox. Film Corporation. and will be shown at the Central theatre Tuesday and Eagle theatre Thursday. Merely Mary Ann tells the story | of poor little maid-of-all-work in a | cheap London boarding house, who | fell in love with one of the boarders, musician who had given up for | tune and ease for his art. Later on l Mary Ann showed that, she was will ing to give up a fortune for his love. Miss Mason, it is said, never has had a better fitting or more appealing part. i The leading man is Casson Fergu- son, and the cast also contains the well known names of Harry Sping- ] Ter, Georgia Woodthorpe, Babe London and 'sKewpie" Morgan. The \ direction is by Edward J. Le Saint. "Prairie Traiisv.
 The presentation of new Tom Mix picture is always an important thea trical event. Tom Mix by this time has become so popular a favorite that each picture he makes arouses 1 a great deal of interest in advance. His latest film, Prairie Trails,'' d l William Fox production, announced as l the attraction at the Eagle theatre ' Friday and Saturday and Central the atre Sunday, is from the popular novel by James B. HendryX, author of 'The Texan" which also was filmed re- gently with Mix as the star.
 iL Booksellers report that the novel of western life always pleasing to large classes of readers, is gaining in pop ularity by leaps and bounds. It has long passed all other kinds of noveIs. President Harding and Vice President Coolidge, it is well known, prefer western novels to any other brand, just as ex-President Wilson prefers detective stories. And the western motion picture is keeping pace in popularity with the western novel. Prairie Trails" continues the ad- ventures of Tex Benton, whose love story was told in .'The Texan Curtain
 Is it the actress herself or the glam our Of the footlights that is the mag net that attracts the men to the
 stage idol like moths 10 candle! Statistics would seem to prove thai it is the theatres halo Of romance
 and not the woman herself Take
 tor an example a chorus girl. Be fore she begins her theatrical career
 graduating rom the ranks of thu
 shop girl, stenographer or factor. . employee, her circle of male friend: IS generally confined to the men ol
 boys of her own class. But th'
 minute she flashes her smile acros:
 the footlights she is sought by mel
 of wealth and culture. Staid bust ness men compete with each othe
 for her smile and men of affairs ar'
 delighted to be seen in her compan.
 in the smart restaurants and caoaretS
 And when she becomes a star O iprima donna the doors of our ''Des fsociety are thrown open to her. bu
 woe unto her if she delay making
 matrimonial alliance until too late iHer fair weather friends melt ava
 Bke the dew before Summer sur
 This would seem to prove that 1t
 the stage and not the woman tha
 attracts.
 And when man marrics a
 actress-and she gives up the stag & for the finer duties of the home
 how many times do we find thl husband after a few years-hauntin
 the stage door and basking in in
 smiles of one of her former sister
 uf the footlights?
 In "Curtaini" Katherine MacDol aids latest picture, this subject most convincingIy handled by the al
 thor. Miss Macdonald. as d footllgf
 fayorite and the toast or the town, D married to man of wealth after Y whirlwind courtship. But after fe N years absence from the stage, n
 grows tired of her and seeks romano at the hands of her successor in tn N limeIight. An entirely satisfactory |
 raIb occurs. but not until some m
 pressyc truisms on this great que
 tjon have been presented.
 .'Curtaini" will be the First Natlol
 aI attraction at the Lyric thealr
 Tuesday.