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O’Dowd Theatre i Program TODAY and TOMORROW WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS Marks Twain’s Greatest Classic Comedy A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court We are advertising this as the grestest comedy classic ever seen on the screen and after seeing it we know you will agree with us. Do not miss this treat. SATURDAY, JUNE 24th LOOK AT THIS SATURDAY PROGRAM Tom Mix in the “Fighting Streak” A really wild and wooly western with a romance that will please anyone. A TREAT FOR THE GROWN UP AS WELL AS THE CHILDREN Robinson Crusoe THE LAST CHAPTER OF Stanley in Africa and Mutt & Jeff LOOK FREE ' LOOK MONDAY and TUESDAY You remember Rupert Hughes “Old Nest” and “Dangerous Curve Ahead” well we have his latest and said to be just as good as either of the above. Come on Over Just the kind of picture for the family. It will delight anyone from first childhood to second childhood. Get up a party and come. Five adults for $1.00. 3 10c children for 25c; 4 15c children for 50c. Father, mother and four children under 15 years 75c. AH born in dear old Ireland admitted free. WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY D. W. Griffith Made “The Birth of a Nation and “Way Down East” and you paid $1.00 and $2.00 to see them and was delighted and now we have his latest picture that is said to be just as thrilling and entertaining as either of the above and we are one of the first in the State to present this picture and at the low ad mission of Children 25c; Adults 50c. Orphans of the Storm Based on the novel “The Two Orphans” “Connecticut Yankee” Finely Produced By Fox (Review from Moving Picture . World.) It is a pity that Mark Twain died before the aumiraoie screen versions of his immortal Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer and “A Connecticut Yan kee in King Arthur’s Court” were given to the public. The famous writer’s comments upon the film adaptations of these three celebrated novels of his would be well worth hearing. “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” the latest of the Mark Twain stories to reach the screen, has been given a sumptuous production by William Fox and will be known as one of the most divert ing pictures of this or any other sea son. One thing should be made clear: The picture is one huge laugh and the human being who can resist its collossal humor and light-hearted satire should immediately consult a doctor as to the state of his health, [ts rollicking fun and its good na- tured drive at the once highly re spected trade of knighthood are the best kind of medicine for a sluggish liver. On its pictorial side “A Connecti cut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” is a succession of early English ex feriors and interiors which will com pare favorably with the irtost ambi tious settings of the screen. There are long shots of English landscapes with fiftH century castles in the dis tance that are beautifully impressive. The director has kept the entire pro duction at a fine artistic level. See it today. Hughes Once More Sets Laugh Record in “Come On Over” Monday and Tuesday. Rupert Hughes has duplicated the feat of writing another comedy, as fine and entertaining, in a different style, as was his “Scratch My Back” the comedy hit of two seasons ago. The new comedy from his pen is called “Come On Over.” It was pro duced by Goldwyn, the corporation which films all of the eminent novel ist’s scenarios. Mr. Hughes has taken as his hero ine a young Irish girl, Moyna Killiea, who is left behind by Shane O’Mealia when he goes to America, with the promise that he will soon send for her. But Shane has ill luck in New York, included in which is the fact that Judy Grady falls in love with him, because he has helped her to get a job for her father and induced him to promise to let liquor alone. Also he’s out of a job so much that he can’t save up enough money to send for Moyna. The girl is brought over by friends and she finds Judy and Shane plan ning to go to the priest’s because Judy’s father has consented to take the temperance pledge. Moyna thinks they are going to be married and the tantrum into which she flies keep the comedy hitting the high Spots of fun till the very end. It is in this role that Miss Moore emerges a comedienne of parts. Her triump is as great as it was in the role of the ungainly girl who de velops into a beauty in Mr. Hughes’ photoplay “The Wall Flower.” She never misses a laugh nor does she ever broaden a comedy situation into farce. ft iMWimiM I 4 Emotions DeLuxe In Griffith Filml The difference between bald enter tainment with genius is a matter of scientific embellishment. The embel lishment without genius would de tract from entertainment. How they are scientifically combined is best it lustrated in the world’s best moton pictures. An example is “Orphans of the Storm,” which United Artists re lease will have its premiere in this city Wednesday and Thursday. ' The theme of “Orphans of the Storm” is in the emotional ordeals of Henrietta and Louise Girard, or “The Two Orphans” of old dramatic tradi tion. On the stage the story is an ele vation in its realism to three or four obvious stage sets and the cramped action of a few square feet. Interpreted by D. W. Griffith on the screen, all this gives way to vast spaces, fairyland vistas, hordes of people in picturesque rags, colorful silks or martial uniforms, and in numerable art combinations of place and atmosphere. The vital germ of the whole situation is echoed and ex panded in gorgeous fashion, becom ing virtually “emotion deluxe.” One critic describes it thus: “Emotional, throbbing and sustained, telling a definite story of a fine love that runs ike a gold cord through the wonder ful fabric of the spectacle drama. 1 The “wonderful fabric” in this case is the grandeur of “Ophans of the Storm,” embellished as it is by the parallel action of the French Revo lution shown with the genius of Grif fith. Today and Tomorrow \ UOiLLLam presents MARK TWAIN’S Greatest Comedy j j Sf£ MX [Wednesday and Thursday, June 28-29 Two Performance Daily 3:30 ancf 8:30 YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COU RT Cjne greatest satire in V history oP literature Staged by Smmett /. J-lunti j jL (“Orphans of the Storm” Is Great In making the most costly and painstaking motion picture effort of his entire career, “Orphans of the Storm,” an elaborated development of D’Ennery’s famous play, “The Two Orphans,” and which, under a United Artists Corporation release, will be given its first showing next Wednesday and Thursday, D. W Griffith worked night and day for more than one year, and gave the most painstaking care that costumes, settings, incidents, and characetriza- tions should be historically correct While many of the costumes may appear strange to modern eyes, they all are authentic and absolutely cor rect duplications of the costumes of the period. In this connection, Mr. Griffith wishes to express his thanks for invaluable assistance to M. Louis Allard, professor of French at Har vard University, and also to the Mar quis de Tolignac, of Paris. For his authorities as to the major historical details, Mr. Griffith de pended upon Taine, Guizot, Abbott and particularly Thomas Carlyle in his “-History of the French Revolu tion.” The scenes in the main were all taken at Mr. Griffith’s great estate, “Orienfea Point,” at Mamaroneck, N Y., which he purchased from the late Henry M. Flagler several yeas ago and which is just outside New York city. A number of noted country seats were used in the filming of the scenes, among them that of the late Commodore E. C. Benedict, at Green wich, Conn. The scenes of old Paris were reproduced by Mr. Griffith on one broad sweep of his place and this section alone required twenty acres of space. 0* / We Have A Wonderful - New Organist J. 0. HAM ' YOU WILL LIKE HIS PLAY AS WELL AS YOU LIKE Ham and Eggs 1 r \ . for breakfast. As he always plays appropriate music to fit every scene in the picture. Come and Hear Him BE WISE KEEP COOL AT — O’DOWDS X rypHooi MAKE THIS © b-