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when the girls of the show will
auction their costumes to the
highest bidders in the audience.
Thursday night there will be an
amateur contest. Friday night
will be visiting stars night, and
visiting stars in the city are in
vited. Saturday, the last night
Of the season q Big Jamboree
will be held; members Of the
company will switch parts, and
surprises are promised for all
attending y a,hss
Bert Bertrand 10 the featured
comedian, appearing as a Hebrew
delineator. Nate Busby, blackface
comedian;, Kenneth Christy and
Otto johnson, assist Bertrand in
comedy work, while included in
the cast will be Betty Burroughs,
Viola. Spaeth. soubrette, and Miss
Ralston, with chorus of twenty
pretty and talented girls.
STRAND - Another promising
bill OF vaudeville and picture at
fractions il announced for the
Strand, beginning tomorrow.
Patsy Shelly and Erny Holmgren
and their entertainers, consisting
OF a poppy jazz band win head.
line.
Others include AL Rome and
Harry Bolton, in a comical offer
ing, 1.-THE Extremes" Glen Mason
and Fay Cole, in q comedy skit,
entitled "Rain and Sunshine" the
Guilliani Trio, offering a high.
class song revue and pianoIogue,
and Howard Nichols, the "Ace Of
Hoops"
The much-heralded preferred
picture, Poisoned Paradise" will
be given its first local showing.
The cast includes Carmel Myers,
Clara Bow, Kenneth Harlan, Ray
mond Griffith, josef Swickard,
Barbara Tenant. and Andre de
Beranger..
NATIONAL The success
achieved at the National with
Mary Pickford's latest and great
est picture, Dorothy Vernon Of
Haddon Hail." duplicates the sue
cesses accorded to this photoplay
in New York city, Boston and Los
Angeles, and it will remain a Sec
0nd week, beginning tomorrow.
In this charming adaptation Of
Charles Majors novel. the ever
lovely and ebullient Mary Pick
ford surpasSes anything that she
has heretofore done upon the
screen and in addition reveals
her ability as a horsewoman in
O ride-for-life that excels any feat
Of equestrianisn1 recorded in ami
mated photography; as a work Of
histrionic reflection and photo.
graphic coupled with the eQuisite
artistry Of Miss Pickford and her
confreres,- places Dorothy Vernon
Of Haddon Hall" as one OF the
best pictures ever shown upon the
local screen.
TIVOLI-rNext week, beginning
Sunday, at Crandall's new Tivoli
Theater will be notable for pre-.
fniere presentations of one Of the
most entertaining bills of the sea.
son.
The supplementary film fea.
lures VIII COHSlSC OF news, scenic
and comedy SUBJECTS short
reel comedy not yet having been
presented at the Tivoli-and the
major screen attraction will be
Jack Piickford's camera adapta.
ton Of John Fox jr.'s story of
"The Hill Billy"
The, stage offerings will include
musical and serio-comic turns of
a nature not heretofore presented
as units Of the Tivoli's balanced
programs.
In 1.-THE Hill Billy" Jack Pick.
ford assumes the role of a youth
OF the Southern hill country
where culture is not an apprecia.
bic element Of the social scheme OF
things, and is supported by an ex.
cellent cast led by, Lucille Hickson.
Il n
RIALTo. - Rupert Hughes has
followed several of his other
stories touching on problems OF
modern life, with one more equally
Interesting discussion. This time