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is under the direction of Gertrude Nc
1T Nash end Walter Nash, organist
TO. The production. Bess Davis
Schreiner is general director of the
! drama.
Columbia Players,
WardmaL Park Theater Tuesday.
I'D AGS are royal raiment when worn
N for virtues sake" says the CLAM
curious Miss Ryan, heroine of Nellie,
| the Beautiful Cloak Model" which will
be revive by the Columbia Players at
I Wartman Park Theater next Tuesday
evening.
The production is promised with all
t. g = and seriousness with which
the author Owen Davis, now Pulitzer
prize winner, endowed it when it was
written Ind first produced in the early
nil.-tieS.
Mrs. : oston, director of this group
of players, also returns to the boards as
the lady villain to harass Nellie and put
the poor girls virtue to the test.
A brilliant array of patroneSSes has
promised atte.-d, and the function
is expected to equal the success Of
these pla RS gala performance Of Ten
Nights in a Barroom" two seasons ago.
Range"
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I'D ANGO," heralded as IAN amazing
n perturbation of mans and apes
eternal struggle for life in the jungleS
of Sumatra, comes to the Rialto Thea
ter Saturday. 1t is a tense, dramatic,
thrilling picture, produced for Para
mount by Ernest Schoedsack, maker Of
Chang" and Grass"
The idea behind Range" is an I'M
usual one. AS a matter of fact, it is
unique in the annals of motion picture
making SchoedSack went to Sumatra
not only to photograph a story of the
orang-outang called 'rango'O hut to
contrast the life of this man-like ami
NAL with man himself; that is, the ma
tive man o. Sumatra. So that the
action in the picture Range" is con-
C., ned with e lives of an ape and his
son and a native man and his son.
TIL r struggle for existence, their bitter
fight against their eternal enemy of the
] gle, the tiger. has been realistically
and imaginatively Transcribed to the
screen. The amazing parallel in the
lives of man and ape in the Sumatra
jungle is said to be astounding.
Selected short reels, Graham Mac
Nance with the Universal Newsreel and
Otto F. Beck at the organ round out
the program.
Beau Ideal"
At Earle Saturday.
"REAU IDEAL" Herbert Brenon's
sequel to Beau Geste," along
with the personal appearance of Lita
Grey Chaplin, whose grooming of popu-
lar songs in husky voice has brought
her fame as an entertainer. will be the
screen and stage attractions at War
ners Earle Theater for the week start
ing Saturday.
Once again John Geste is seen riding
under Morocco skies, bent on adven-
ture. romance and love. The story
shows how he joins the Foreign Legion
because of a stigma that besmirches
his brothers name and how he is de-
termincd to forget love and country.
Isabel. h. childhood sweetheart, pines
for him and johns best friend deter
mines to bring him back to her The
thrilling adventures that befall the
friends and their eventual success in
helping rout the Arabian hordes is said
to make a thoroughly dramatic photo
plav
Ralph Forbes, who appeared /. Beau
Ceste," has the leading role, while
Lorett-. Yo' is the sweetheart. Others
in the cast include Irene Rich, Lester
Vail and Myrtle Stedman.
Lita Grey Chaplin, who headlined at
the Palace Theater, New York City.
la week, is said to have blcssomed
into full-hedged entertainer. Her
voice. her owns and her style of sing
ing have met with approval from both
critics and public.
Charlie Chan"
At the Fox Friday.
SCOTLAND YARD. collective hero"
Of many a mystery, both in fact
and fiction. finds a problem too tangled
and mystifying oven for its resourceful
brains in Charlie Chan Carries On"
Which comes to the Fox screen Friday,
VIII Warner GLAND starred.
Adapted from Earl Dorr Biggers'
novel la-t year, the picture il said to
be packed WI dramatic action. From
the very early phases of the story, when