Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-30

and Jean Hersholt, Bodil Rosing,
Arthur Stone, Dorothy Seastrom,
Cleve Moore, Mary O'Brien, and Ray
Hallor were in the supporting cast.
The Miracle Dog of the Movies"
otherwise. Peter the Great" is the
bright shining star in the new Goth
am Production, The Sign of the
Claw" which will balance the sec
ond day program.
This picture IS stated to be one Of
the greatest novelties of the season
owing to the fact that it is the first
photodrama ever made featuring a
dog star in which every scene is laid
in a big city-all previous dog pic
lures having had a country atmos-
phere.
Peter is supported by an all-star
cast with Ethel Shannon, Edward
Hearn, Lee Subway and Joe Ben
nett in important roles.
The action of the plot revolves
around a detective who is assigned
the dangerous task of capturing
some international crooks. He is as
sisted by his dog Peter, who plays
a most important part in the track
ing to earth of the criminals. Peter
matches both brain and Drawn
against the desperadoes-and wins.
The Amateur Gentleman" Rich
ard Barthelmess' latest Inspiration
First National release, to be screen
ed Wednesday, is q romantic and
adventurous cinema tale teeming
with spectacular situations and Of
fering the star great opportunities
for heroic buccaneering and intense
love making.
One of the highlights of the pic
ture is great steeplechase. for
which a genuine course was built
and professional riders employed.
Many hundreds Of people take part
in this scene, and in it Dick himself
rides a reckless race that is said to
make the traditional hair stand on
end. 1t Is in this situation that
Barnabas Beverly Barty (played by
Dick) proves his right to gentle
manhood in London society.
THE Amateur Gentleman" was
directed by Sidney Olcott and pho
with cast including Gardner
James. Dorothy Dunbar, Dicks new
leading lady; Nigel Barrie, John
MILAN. Herbert Grimwood, Sidney
de Gray, Billie Bennett, John S
Peters, Gino Corrado, Brandon
Hurst and numerous others of equal
note.
CASTOR Glass. one Of the most pop
ular of the younger contingent Of
male stars on the screen, has the
male lead in THE Midnight Limit
ed" a melodrama special produced
by Gerson Pitures for Rayart re-
lease, which will be the other We'd
nesday feature.
In "The Midnight Limited" young
Glass has the part of q vagrant
crook who becomes an honest and
worth while citizen through his love
for a beautiful girl whom he meets
under romantic circumstances.
Introducing a technic that is en-
tirely new to the American photo
play, James Young has made an un-
usual photoplay in the Chadwick
Pictures Corporation production OF
the Sir Henry Irving classic, "The
Bells" to be screened at the Opera
House, Thursday. While this produc-
ton is totally unlike anything that
has even been seen before, it suggests
in its lighting and settings treat
ment similar to that which proved so
effective in Many of the German
films. Lionel Barrymore, portraying
the celebrated Irving role, is the star
Of the picture.
With its locale ranging from the
torrid sands Of the Mojave Desert to
the Yukon's icy waters, THE Call of
the Klondike," one of Rayart's Su-
perior Melodramas, which next
Thursday will be shown at the Opera
House, tells story as unusual as 1t
is gripping. Many sterling artists
are in the cast, among whom may be
bentioned CASTOR Glass, Dorothy
Dwan, Eahl Metcalfe, Jimmy Aubrey
and Lightning Girl, the canine mar
vel.
1.-THE New Champion" IS the title
OF the new Perfection feature re-
leased by Columbia which will be one
OF the Friday features. William Fair
banks and Edith Roberts head a cast
OF popular favorites which includes
Lotus Thompson, Lloyd Whitlock,
Frank Hagney, Al Kaufman, Marion
Court and Bert Appling. Reeves
Eason directed.
The bitter fstic battles which the
hero of "The Courageous Coward"
Which wild be shown as the second