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Daily British Whig (1850), 29 May 1920, p. 16

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7 4!l the sorrow and suffering that has | 4" Ale ils Ppp ee AUC by (ryote erp Ulive Thomas' New Home -- 0ld Clothes Movement In Film Colony -- Seventeen Year Old Star. LIVE THOMAS has just fur- nished a little apartment which | all her friends call the "Doll's House." = It is situated in the 'heart of New York, overlooking Cen- tral Park. She designed the scheme of decoration and all the furniture dierself. "And I had everything made small te scale with me," she an- nounced. "I did my living room in purple-- it's such a nice warm, glowing color. I did my boudoir {n a combination of pink and blue that runs into orchid-- it's marvelously restful and feminine after the ugly studio. "Of all my possessions, I like best a little writing desk that I picked up in an antique shop. It is so low that I have to sit on the floor on a pillow when I write. But it has nice roomy - are. Z Boman v. THE D AILY BRITISH WHIG Ea IE = compartments--so large that I can get all, well nearly all, my bllls in them. Isn't that fine?" "Having Their Pictures Took" Left to right, Robert Warwick, Nor- man Selby, ("Kid McCoy"), Roscoe Spreads To Movie Colony "Fatty" Arbuckle, George Melford,| The "back te old ¢lothes" movemen Donald Crisp. { which is spreading all over the coun Elsie Ferguson | try has hit the California motion pic Girl In Number 29." "Back To Old Clothes" Movement | your shoes and stockings for a cl Forget re. | Go 'bare-footy' like you used t io t | when you were a kid. Stop buying - | expensive shirtwaists, skirts, hats, cor- - | sets, shoes, coats, etc. Summer is near iat the high cost of clothing. Between scenes in photo play "The | ture colony, where movie stars are at hand and you don't need a lot of Witness for the Defense," Elsie Fergu- strong for the idea particularly Iniclething for comfort, son going over the play with Wynd- | view of the large amount of clothin ham and their director, George Fitz | screen folk are compelled to buy. Maurice. | A Pair Of Stars Clair Anderson and FElinore Faire [film star, and one of the importan POWERFUL FILM PICTURE It Comes to the Grand Opera House Next Week-- Privately Shown to Local Social Workers and a Few Citizens on Friday. The way of the transgresior is] ways to meet vital problems that en- hard--hard not only for tne sinner | ter into the lives of 'all. Others again but for Tetons, relatives and more |-believe in all kinds of methods except for parents. Stich was the message of | Lhe right ones. That ignorance is the the powerful film, "Enlighten Thy | major cause for disaster and for pre- Daughter," .which was privately | valence of the social evil is generally shown in the Grand Opera House on | recognized. It is questionable how Friday to members of the local coun-| far books and such pictures as the ell of women, social workers and|¢ne which will be shown at the members of the press. Grand Opera House will be success- The film is a fearless depiction of | ful in bringing about newer ahd bet- the dangers that lurk in the highways | ter conditions but they can and and byways of every city and town, | should certainly be supplementary to and from beginning to end it grips| the instruction of fond parents. Such | the imagination as the terrible signt- | methods of instruction are not meant ficance and dire, possibilities of the| to replace the duty" devolving upon sithations are realized, Without a| Mothers and fathers but they can be trace of the unclean or salacious the| Of tremendous value when they im- actualities of a tremendous social | Press roblem are shown and throughout | clean and pure. fae story--which is by no means im-| That is the means that has been | probable--the twistings in the course | 28dopted in "Enlighten Thy Daugh- of the lives of two girl friends are ter." It is the first of a series of films shown. One, enlightened concerning | that will be shown in order that a the origin and problems of life, walks | better tone may be secured on the paths of purity while her dear- | moral life of every community. The est friend falls to the depths of |inaugurators of the movement to shame," degradation and death. The | br g these impressive pictures be- | responsibilities of parents to acquaint | fof'e the public are men who are im- their children with the pitfalls that| Pued with a sense of duty to raise beset tham is urged as one of the | mora] standards and the film has highest moral duties of parenthood | een endorsed by the press and pub- und the dangers of indiscriminate ac- | lic, by the Social Service Council for .quaintances are pointed out. : film also shows the futility of at-| 'vomen, by prominent social workers tempting to obviate the results of | if the United States and Canada and sin. In a word, the picture deals with | by such prominent Canadians as Sir | a delicate subject in a way that js| JuSh John Macdonald, chief magis- without suggestion or offensiveness. | (rate of Winnipeg, Rev. Charles G. Could all the illustrations favoring | Patterson, of St, Stephen's church, the enlightenment of the rising gene-| VV IRRIDeg, and C. F. Plewman, boys, rations be gathered together, could | work secretary of the 'Winnipeg Y. been endured through ignorance be! . Ihe backward moral reaction from visualized, how many are there who | the WAr is evinced by observation and would consciously walk right into the | PF®SS reports, and it is to be hoped condition? Many believe that ordin-| (Dat such films as "Enlighten Thy ary home training will accomplish ! Daughter", May do something to the results and secure knowledge of bring people to a realization that the | new world of today demands the cul- tivation and devepment of higher | moral ideals if nations and indivi- duals are to be saved from the insidi- ous perils that always lie in wait. . The film is to be shown at the Grand Opera House on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week and no one need have any hesitancy about seeing it. It presents an essen- tially delicate problem in a way that is above reproach considering the na- ture of the moral that has to be im- bressed. It is a picture which should bear the seal of Kingston's approval because it is a sincere attempt to ac- Quaint those who are different about accepting responsibilities and duties devolving upon them of the &wful re- sults of procrastinatjon. nn ' Shock-Absorbers For False Teeth Mar. 8--Non-Skid Shock The V of Stamboul. : "The Virgin of Stamboul," a master-feature dy Universal-Jewel, with Priscilla Dean as the star and directed by Tod Browning, is the aa. nouncement for the first three days of next 'week at the Grand Opera ec! "Dig up your old clothes" sald | | Marjorie Daw, the Marshall Neilan be afraid of what people might say. | e people will register their (the Ckristie Comedy stars is the | boarding school! was spent at various | Universal and was given an important | suited to comedies. the message in a way that is | in the | The | Ontario, by the National Council of | "Go through the attic and 'the old- clothes press. You'll find enough clothes to last you all summer. Don't t All sensibl House, which has aroused such un- {usua interest among the theatre- goer pity. | "The Virgin of Stamboul" alded as one of the importa productions of the year in a big way. It unfolds the life of, the mysterious Edst and reveals 'the customs of the Turk and the Arab, from the mosque at Constantinople to the great Arabian desert. It lays open the heart of Stamboul with its | tilth and wretchedness, its sin and in- | {iquity. It leads through' the door | |of the sacred temple, through the | | forbidden portals of the harem, | {through the vast stretches of the arid { | waste. { It shows what happened when a | | beautiful beggar girl, Sari, turned | | her footsteps towards the mosque, there to lift her voice in supplica- | tion to a God she had never known | before. What she saw as she knelt | there, her eyes lifted to 'Allah, will | | make the blood of the bravsst man | boil, and is the beginning of a fusi- | lade of tense situations following | |eAch other with machine "gun ra- | | pidity. | | Whole streets and sections of | | Stamboul, "the wickedest city in the { East," have been reproduced for this | | production, and many weeks were | | spent on the desert for certain scenes | in this photodrama. | The role of Sari is one which gives | Priscilla .Dean greater opportunity | | than she has ever had before, having | | beent written especially for her by H. H. Van Loan, Wheeler Oakman as | the captain of the Black Horse] Troop, Wallace Beery as the sheik, | |E. A, Warfrén ag Yusef Bey, Edward | Burns as the young American tour- | | ist, Nigel de Brullier as the Arabian | , chief. Eugenie Forde as the mother, | | Ethel Ritchie as the favorite of thg | harem and thousands of others con- | tribute to the success of this master- | feature. --Advt. { A ct Pt JR RE ENLIGHTEN At the Grand Opera House > SIT ve Low. LH ; LPoyre SFr | and bright, elaborately staged by F. son Crusoe' and the | of pantomine artists who have been ond NA Ki €E in & FE Ay CDAUGHTE Thursday, June 3rd, err Joaf pT still like to play with dolls. They are | factors in the movement. "The time protest. If you have no oid clothes, | shown here between scenes in "The | has come when we have to take a rap: buy a pair of over-alls. Men and i women can wear 'em. Just at present | " expensive clothes are out of date. Re- | . member its fashionable to wear bld | Lore LATyas clothes." If we,all do our bit, prices -- - Te----r-- will soon tumble down." | daughter of Colonel Henry Clay Mer- From Army Post To Film Studio {riam, who recently returned from Life at an army post is net particu- | France to be assigned te the General larly monotonous especially since the staff at Washington; and she is only United States got on a military bavis, | Seventeen. but it proved so for pretty Charlotte| Miss Merriam was born at Fort Merriam 20 she went into the movies. | Sheridan, Chicago's military post and Miss Merriam, who is the newest of all her life outside of a few years at "Red Riding Hood." ] HAGENBECK-WALLACE CIRCUS R's for Red Riding Hood, gorgeous | - Will Be Here on June 10th--Will be Stuart-Whyte, and returning to | | Kingston next Tuesday night, for an engagement of two nights, with a matinee on Wednesday. In answer to the dominion demand, which has been created by "Alladin," '"Robin- and "Cinderella," Mr. Whyte is offering, as his fourth an- nual English pantomine, 'Little Red Riding Hood." This, his latest ef- fort, surpasses in every way all of his previous productions, both by the manner in which it hag been staged wonderful cast and chorus brought here direct from the leading London theatres. In addition to | Miss Zara) Clinton, J. V. Barrett-Len- nard and! Miss Pauline Harvey, all favorites of former years, he is bringing Johnny Osborne, the star of \'Zig-Zag,"" from the Hippodrome; Will Hallett, the famous animal im- | personator from the. Drury Lane; Miss Dorothy Mackay, the eleven- ! year-old leading lady, who will play | the role of Red . Riding Hood; | Charles Cardel and Miss Harriet | One of the scenes Fawn, international . stars; 'Miss | "3 10 Cirtus 3 : { A huge Madge Locke, Scotch comedienne, |, ;¢ there and a host of others who are destined | .- other than "tent" applied to it, filled to become as great favorites in this |; 5 ¢ with thous: 5 B 863 com= country as they now are in England. | : ousands of people seated con Zo Advi | fortably Shout the big Sena in tis rt 5 arena quick ashes of color, flyin (Continued On Page 20) | forms of birds, beasts, and Baas LAT Aa | beings; clowns, equestrians, trapeze performemrs, tumblers, all perform- ing wonders; elephants going {through their grotesque antics, dogs, | horses, monkeys, lions, tigers' and bears displaying almost human in- telligence, and---- There you have the big. Hagen- beck-Wallace circus, stated as con- | cisely as it is possible for the English | language to describe it. Much might | be written about it, but, to be appre- |ciated, it must be seen For years | this show has been known as stand- {ing in a class by itself. This year it |is not only bigger, but is infinitel; better than ever before, and, to any body who knows anything abou! the reputation of the Hagenbeck- Wallace circus, that is saying a great deal. A thrill every minute is the pro- mise held out to citizens of Kingston when this = big show comes on Thursday, June 10th, for two per- formances, afternoon and evening, at the Fair Grounds. There are 200 acts on the pro- gramme, and every performer is a .istar in his or her particular line There will be plenty of comedy--the fifty clowns attend to that part of It --and there is the beautiful---much of it, as well as the daring. ¢ A big street parade will be given in the morning at as near 10.30 o'- clock as circumstances will permit. The afternoon show will start at two o'clock. That of the evening will start at eight o'clock. The doors will be thrown open an hour before each performance. > at Hagenbeck- tent---so large it seéms should be some name In a new electrical instrument the fading effect of sunlight is standard- ized and reproduced for testing the permanency of colors in textiles, wall papers and other articles. Electric power will be sold by the | year at a nominal figure to indus- tries that locate in a new Oregon town. Of English invention is a vest pocket liguor flask, about the size of and resembling a cigarette case. tl No Inconvenience There. A word of "comfort" to those who cannot get houses has been spoken by Bishop Taylor Smith, chaplain-gen- eral to the forces; when unveiling a war memorial at Guilford. "The housing question," he said, "has always been a difficulty; it was so on the first Christmas morning when Joseph could not find a room in the inn. "But it will fiaish in Heaven. 'Ia ' scene, from eyes for three days commencing 3 | y/. 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