Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-13
Contentious openiaE Todar.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
At the strAna.

The olL superstition about sefs4 years bad iask resulting from 2 smash Cd mirror, has no meaning fer Thomas Aeighan, "good luck" Paramount star.
 In I fight staged recently for his new picture, If You Believe Il, It's So, the star threw a naIiet through . mirror of a back bar in saloon set an6 smashed the glass to smithereeus. The incident made some shudder. but Ar MeiEhan regarded il as a sign of good iuck.
 He also had one Of the lireIiest ngaes of his screen career, his opponent beinI Tom Kennedy, a former boxer and powerful man. Not only was the scsrs of the fight divided into three sections but it vas rehearsed several times be- fore being shot" The men were pret- ty well windsd by the time they had finished.
 in the role of ChickH Harris, defsnds an old man who is being brutaily trszt- ed by a bartender. This is only oas occasion when the star has had to bat tie big men and experts. In Cappy Kicks he was pitted against Ivan L- now, a wrestler, in thriller mixup. Mir. Meighan Is himself powerful man and clever boxer and wrestler. While he had his hands full in both these com bats, he was able to make 2 fine shoE- ing.
 \ fuI. story of underworld life and tells Of | the reformatiop of a city crook vae | goes to the country and finds love in ;. new environment It will be shown st | the Strand theatre today. Pauline 1 Stark, Joseph J. Bowling and Theodore Roberts have the principal supporting roles.
 The second feature is comedy
 drama, Oh, Mabel, Behave. Imagine seeing Mack Sennett in burleycde togsl I Imagine seeing him make merry and l otherwise get himself into all sorts ef comieal situations. Imagine. too, seeing f this old hoakum king pull stunts thar Il won both laughs and fortune for hirr. | Well, he's the old Mack Sennetti fampus II screen comedian gf other days, m Oh I Mabel, Behayer and to say that he Is rot is putting it mildly. He is called upon to perform all kinds of Tiai- euieusly funny stunts and he pestorp5s | them creditably. AS the burlesops y1s- lain he Is a complete success h spite ef the fact that he gets, into every brand Of mischief in trying. unsuceessfuny. te win the hand of Mabel Nornand, whom
 he, Is DO EstsrF!ng in produceoefe he
 supervtses, produces, directs sa4 D. nznees
 And Aabeli How cute and sweet she
 does look in her Red Riding Hoos
 makeup. She's as mischisycus and AasS' netic as ever. Ford Sterling, however,
 Is the works" in this fve-feeIer, faf
 his characterization of the squire va
 the best outstanding feature of the pie
 tu-e. Ford certainly works hard, Ars
 with Mack Sennett az his man Gridas
 he pulls on a number of stunts thai makes ones side uneonseiously do 2
 mean shimmy. Owen Moore is bl
 leading man, brave, perAstsrt but fun ny.
 It was T treat fer the reviewer to se, this stellar combination Ia one pictWe
 Getting enough laughs out Of i've reeIer to keep an audience in q happJ
 frame of mind is no easy accomplish,
 nent, yet this quartet worked hard a1l
 their fame today is so established thsl
 one finds in it an interesting study. m
 locale may be America of Revolutionar, days, or Ireland. but regardless of thii
 uncertainty. 1t is a scenic treat
 If you want stars read Mabel Nor
 mand, Owen Moore, Mack SeInstt srt
 Ford Sterling.