Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
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This Week
ALCAZAR

-e~y we 4SSPSSS Ahh
the story of NTen Nights in a Barroom'
which drew capacity audiences here
for four days at the Alcazar theater.
will be presented in this city beginning
today under. the same able manage
ment, production, projection and local
auspices as the great companion story.
Where Is My Wandering Boy"
presents a gripping, dynamic melo-
drama, with the superb cast composed
of Cullen Lands, Carl ~Stockdale, Vir-
ginia True Boardman, Ruth Patsy"
Miller, Kathleen Key, Ben Deeley and
Clarence Badger, Jr.,
Not only have the great metropoli-
tan newspapers given this play a place
with EAST Lynne" Way Down
East and "Shore Acres" but the su-
percritical motion picture trade jour
mails speak of it with %resounding praise,
following the knockout success or it's
initial presentation in the Criterion
theater, Times Square, New York city.
The comedy Fares and Fair Ones"
which is one of a series of particular
happy strips now showing at this
house, will round out this bill.
James Oliver Curwood's drama OF
the Hudson Bay country, Jan of the
Big Shows" will follow during the
week, presenting a typically northern
drama with the adventurous touches
only available to the Curwood pen,
built around the tale OF one woman Ia
a snow-swept trading post with IL
~,r I'll ~ lava with har
Milton Stills, Cleo Ridgely and Jack
Mulhall lead the forgotten Law"
which also appears at the Alcazar this
week. This splendid picture a drama
tization of Caroline Abbot Stanley's,
"a Modern Madonna" brings home the
long, silent powerful arm of the law.
1t is regarded as the most forceful
drama Of the decade.
CAPITOL.
One of the most delightful screen
offerings Of the year is THE Five
Dollar Baby" starring the charming
Viola Dana, which will be seen for the
last times today at the Capitol theater.
II is q screen version of Irwin S. Cobb's
short story, which appeared in the Sat
urday Evening Post. Miss Dana was
never more mirth-provoking than she
is in her newest role. As a rough and
ready child Of 13, brought up by a
Jewish pawnbroker, she is highly anus
ing in the earlier scenes of the play.
She is constantly involved in some live
" incidents or other with the people Of
the East Side, all Of whom are remark
ably fine types. The story is hat OF a
baby who is abandoned and picked up
by a hobo, who pawns her for five
dollars. The pawnbroker, who boasts
that he '1ends money on anything de-
cides to rear the child himself. When,
Is years later. he is asked to surrender
her to the man who pawned her, he
contrives a means of avoiding the per-
Torrance Of his obligation. !.
Getting mixed up with a family OF
eight Jewish children got little Jackie
Blair out of the confines Of Ellis Is
land-but that is all it did. Landing
on the island an orphan and scheduled
for deportation, Jackie started to play
with the eight children Of a Hebrew
woman who had arrived with her
brood to join her husband. Therefore,
when the family was allowed to leave
the island, Jackie followed. Owing to
the number of the juveniles, the official
in charge lost count and Jackie found
himself on the crowded streets of New
York. But when the head Of the fam
ily started to count noses he discovered
the presence of Jackie, and Indignantly
chased him out of the fold. Then be-
gan a thrilling series of adventures for
the little shaver. Jackie's adventure
can be seen in "My Boy" starring
Jackie Coogan. which will be shown
only on New Years day at the Capitol
theater.
IMPERIAL.
In his be-forgotten spec
tacle. 1.-THE Birth of a Nation" which
is scheduled for presentation at he
Imperial today and Monday, d. W.
Griffith, the worlds master-producer,
has painted the grim tragedy of war
in the livid color it deserves. 1t is a
thrilling and awe-inspiring revisitation
of war-war in all its cruelties; we
behold not only the tragedy on the field
of battle, where falls the dead and
diving, but in the home where wait
the aged parents and little brother and
sister, or daughter or son, for the
message that too often comes telling
that the dear one has died for the
flag-the Stars and Stripes, or the
Blue with the Single Star. On goes the
story. It pictures the departing of the
boy from home-gay, light hearted,
happy. 1t shows him dying under the
fire Of the enemy in the miles of flame