THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C.,' SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1921.
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MEET MONDAY TO
PLAN EXPOSITION
Chairman Craver to Call
Theatre and Exchange
Managers Together.
First definite action preliminary to
preparing a tentative program for the
proposed grant exposition showing the.
importance of the motion picture in
dustry, which will be held in Charlotte
next December, will be taken, here
probably tomorrow night, it was an
nounced yesterday by R. D. Craver,
chairman of the central committee.
This exposition will be held under aus
pices of the North Carolina Theatre
Owners Association, this decision hav
ing been reached at the convention at
Wilmington, which adjourned Friday
afternoon.
Mr. Craver said he expected to issue
early tomorrow the call for this con
ference, which would include all
theatre owners and managers and ex
change manageis of Charlotte.
When asked regarding the likelihood
of the managers of the exchanges at
Charlotte influencing their respective
producing organizations to prevail up
on the stars to come to the exposition,
Mr. Craver replied that "no doubt ex
ists that each exchange will be able to
have several of its stars here as special
guests of the exposition."
Mr. Craver. who suggested this pro
pocal to the theatre owners convention,
admits he is "mighty enthusiastic"
about the plan and declares he knows
of no good reason why such an expo
sition should not be a ''tremendous suc
cess, as well as a "wonderful adver
tisement" of Charlotte. He spoke of
the important position among the in
dustries represented here that the mo
;tJon picture exhibiting and distributing
industry has attained, and added that
probably other exchanges will come
here before many months.
Already there are eight film ex
changes here, including the First Na
tional, Paramount, Universal. Pathe,
Selznick and Select, Eltabran, Hygrade
and Premier, the latter three being dis
Itributers of state right productions.
While definite figures were not avail
able, estimates that the total of
'rentals paid on films from Charlotte ex
changes exceeds $70,000 weekly were
declared "probably not excessive."
MASTER DRAMA
AT BROADWAY
which required repeated efforts to se
cure, is declared to be a photographic
triumph.
BEAUTY OF ENGLAND FILMED.
Canada and England are the other
subjects which Ince has selected to
glorify with the camera. The Domin
ion offers a spectacular thunder storm,
with driving sheets of rain, blinding
flashes of lightning and a swirling,
sweeping gale of wind, as well as im
pressive landscapes of towering Pines
anid firs, of rushing rivers, and the
endless expanse of the wheat prairies.
The English scenes of "Lying Lips
depict the quiet lanes of meadows of
Surrey, the immaculately trimmed
hedges and the neat stone fences which
have been so for centuries.
Not only is the straight, artistic
photographic panorama and landscape
which may be registered on celluloid
one the features of the big Ince special
but innumerable minor, although equal
ly impressive scenic novelties contrib
ute materially to the artistry of the pro
duction. . , 4
ince lias -ne uccn
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leiUIlg CLI unco v. - - - , . .
which have added to the "punch which
ins creations cuwa.va --
touche of artistry equaled only by Grif
fith to the foremost of his screen pro
ductions. In "Lying: T.ips." he has sur-
passed his lormer enwia u
unusually novel and original photic
graph effects. . . .
Nance Abbott, and English aristo
crat, is engaged to a man of her own
set, but twice her age. She visits Can
ada and there meets Blair Cornwall,
a young ranchman. She falls in love
with him, but cannot reconcile herself
to living a life of hardshipas his wife.
Nance returns to England and Bia.
sails on the same boat, determined to
win her in spite of her devotion to
luxury. and wealth. The ship is wreck
ed and the two left together on the
floating hulk. Nance swears her love
for him but retracts when a rescue shiy
is sighted, and asks him to hide so.
that she may be found alone. xne
wreckage is destroyed and Cornwall, so
Nance believes, with it.
Conscience stricken, she returns to
London and prepares to marry the
man to whom she Is engaged. Corn
wall, who has survived the wreck, ap
pears under an assumed name, deter
mined to make her repent her act of
condemning him to death.
The concluding scenes of the story
embrace a climax so powerful and un
expected as to place. "Lying Lips
among the monumental screen dramas
of the year.
KIPLING NOW
IS ON SCREEN
Presentation of "Lying Lips," Built on
Theme of Life and I-iove, is Big
Accomplishment for This Theatre.
Every succeeding year of motion pic
ture progress offers something superior
in scenic effects. "Lying Lips," which
through its enterprise, the Broadway
Theater has brought to Charlotte at
great expense for a four-day presenta
tion opening Monday, seems to have
reached the zenith of artistic achieve
ment, for Thomas H. Ince has trans
fered" to the silver sheet such master
pieces of nature as Corot and Consta
ble have immortalized with paint and
canvas.
From the opening sequence to the
final curtain, the scenic effects of "Ly
ing Lips" beggar description. Nature
is depicted in its every mood with such
.force and color that any one of a hun
dred different panoramas might be
lifted from the screen and assigned a
place of honor in a famous art gallery.
I The most vivid pictures of the en
tire production are probably those of
a sunrise in the North Atlantic. From
a rippling sea, upon which floats the
;battered hulk of " a wrecked liner,
,tthrough curling wisps of morning mist
creeps the red ball of fire. First a thin
sliver of light, then a half circle, and
finally a globe of orange which tints
the clouds, dissolves the fog, and
throws a path of gold across the water.
The filming of the sunrise scenes,
and if the director has made his pic
tures more beautiful tnan me reansi
might, who is. there to blame him for
that? The lyric love of his theme de
manded beauty for its setting and got
it.
"The story of Ameera and Holden, or
the perfect union of East and West,
that ended in bitter loss, is too famil
iar to need repeatinng. Those who
do not know it can go to this film
assured that they will get Kipling and
not a garbled version of him. It is so
truly his that it may be said with
confidence that those who do not like
this film do not like Kipling. All of
it has distinct pictorial quality; it is
simply and naturally told without the
grimace of action that obtrudes in most
films; and the acting is uniformly ex
cellent. Virginia Faire is the Ameera,
a lovely, gracious figure. Thomas
Holding as Holden, Evelyn Selbie as
Ameera's mother, and Nigel de Brulier
as the old gatekeper are particularly
fine, and not the least member of the
cast is out of the picture.
FINDING RUBBER IN
RABBIT BUSH SHRUB
NEW BILL OFFERED
BY LEWIS PLAYERS
"Sleeping Partners" French Comedy
Drama Will be the Attraction at the
Academy Monday, Tuesday
Wednesday.
and
Alamosa, Col., June 25. San Luis
Valley residents are keenly interested
in reports reaching here that crude
rubber is contained in an indigenous
shrub that grows quite promiscuously
in this region, known as "rabbit
brush."
E. C. McCarty, professor of botany
at the Colorado Agricultural College,
in Fort Collins, is expected here soon
to gather several hundred pounds of
the shrub to ship to Eastern rubber
companies for further experimental, pur
poses.
That the shrub has a large percent
age of crude rubber has already been
established, according to Professor Mc
Carty, who says that, after extricating
considerable of this material from the
shrrub, he sent it to a bi-rubber com
pany for tests. Chemical analysis dis
closed, acording to Professor McCarty,
that the rubber in the shrub was of a
high grade and that it vulcanized readily.
For the first three days of the week
Mr. Lewis will offer a classy little
Comedy-Drama, adapted from the
French and like all French plays it is
highly romantic and sensational. Mon
day the Jack X. Lewis Players will
present . "Sleeping Partners," and we
opine that it will not need any intro
duction to Charlotte Theater Patrons.
This is the play marde famous by the
beautiful and talented Edna Goodrich,
who starred in it for two consecutive
seasons. Those who aQmlre the work
of Miss Grandin will see her in one of
her very best roles and the gowns she
wears will be worth the price of admis
sion alone to see. This has been con-
r.anrla tn io nno f thfi TTlOSt beautiful
interior stage settings ever produced
and Mr. Lewis will give as near auupu
cate as is oossible with material at
hand. "Sleeoine Partners" is entirely
ri nf a nint which makes it dif
foront fmm 5i nv nther Tjlay. Every
thing just happens from the evening
to the next morning. A young married
woman goes to the apartment of a
friend, innocently of course and com
plaining of a headache, the friend gives
her a sleeping powder by mistake and
is unable to awake her. In sitting up
waiting for her to regain consciousness
he falls asleep. The next morning early
the husband who has been out all night
with some friends comes to the apart
ment to get the friend to tell his wife
he has been there. The friend gives
him a sleeping powder and the wife
makes her escape. She then accuses
her hubby of infidelity. A pretty situa
tion, husband and wife under the same
roof of a friend. "Sleeping Partners
is an intensely interesting play and full
of pep from start to finish. The Jack
X. Lewis Jlayers, Academy Theater.
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Pathe Presents "Without Benefit of
Clergy," Which Wins High Trib
ute rom critics.
I
Pathe's success in bringing to the
screen, ' "Without Benefit of Clergy, '
just as it was written by Rudyard Kip
ling is attested by the criticisms ap
pearing in the New York Dailies follow
ing the premiere at the Capitol.
Acting, direction and production all
came in for a goodly portion of enthus
isastic praise. . .
P. F. Reniers of the Evening fosx,
whose judgment of pictures is accepted
as expert, was particularly energetu;
in his praise of the picture. He said:
"It is so seldom that one may sat that
a written masterpiece transferred to the
screen still remains a masterpiece that
it is almost an honor to say it. Rud
yard Kipling's "Without Benefit of
Clergy, as produced by Robert Brunton
or-. Viifor-ttxl hiv .Tames Younsr.is the
best example of a purely lyric film that
has come out ot an American siutuo.
Twvinns it will not orove meat for the
groundlings. There is nothing sensa
tional in it, ono triangles, no duelling,
nothing in fact, that is not in Kipling's
story. Nor is it sucn a nteai transia.
nrwn that the HnemR has been pre
11V11 V-. -w .
vented from contributing something of
its own by way or pictorial interpre
tation. India and the city of Lahore,
are there, both in atmosphere and form,
The
Week's
Attractions
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PRICES
Adults .... 30c
Children . . . 10c
THREE DAYS Commencing Tomorrow
AcademY TheatrE
5?
Present
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
The Sensational Comedy-Drama
' ''SLEEPING
PA R TNERS
Adapted From the French.
Made Famous by Edna Goodrich
THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
A Play of the Out Doors
"THE CALL OF
THE HEART"
A Drama of Life
Night 8:30 P. M. Matinee 3 P. M. Sharp
Box Office Opens 1P.M.
All Furniture used on stage furnished by the Banner Fur
niture Co. "Out of the High Rent District."
I I AOOLPH ZUKOR
X I II I I PRESENTS
W j Elsie V
FBRGUSON
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mcred and Profane
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The play that created a Broadway sensation. And
inred Elsie Ferguson back to the stage for the greatest
dramatic triumph of her career.
A drama of life's master emotion its daring, its pain,
its ecstasy. Its terrible power to drag down. Its sacred
power to glorify. i
A romance of love and music, youth and fame. Dressed
in silks, basking in luxury, but touching at times the
underworld haunts of those who have lost the fight.
Now brought direct from stage to screen to mark thev
beautiful star's return to motion pictures. Yet far more
pretentious and varied than any stage production could
be.
A beauty-picture that carries straight to the heart.
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From the Noted
Novel and Play by
Arnold Bennett
Added
International News and Topics of the Day
. THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
rJesse L.tasky'presents
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CRAVER'S
The Broadway likes to do things in a big way, in the interests of the photoplay en
thusiasts who call this theatre their theatre. Oftentimes it takes 4icrve" to under
take some of these big things The Broadway does, but the management always is con
fident of success because of the loyalty of this theatre's patrons and their frequently
demonstrated confidence in this institution. That public confidence in a very great
measure has made possible the continuation of this record of big accomplishment
The appreciation the management feels offers stimulus to still greater endeavor in this
task of providing wholesome entertainment for discriminating people.
FOUR DAYS- STARTING MONDAY
THE
EVENT
OF
THE PICTURE SEASOH
Oh, the Light That Lies In Woman's Eyes
And Lies, and Lies, aud Lies!
THROUGH THE AGES,
from days Primitive to
days Modern, from the
quaint, quiet lassies of
the Colonial fireside to
the dazzling elite of ths
1920 ballroom, the light
that lies, in woman's
eyes, has showered its
mystery rays into the
very Heart of Mankind.
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THE'ClftEMA
SPECTACLE
that "will set the city a-talkinnf 1 1 noma
H. Ince' second palatial production for,
the Associated Producers, vnth the most
brilliant . all-star i cast assembled for the
1920-1921Phoio$layJieason.r
at.
Great Drama
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i te a : jr inn i
Stop! Look! Listen! She's j
I ?y w V av" bound for the Land of
I Iv r j) U If I Tu Heart's Desire! Her only l
jyt43-? D ls,0-Mk sop s coa" up wtn 3 -
xlhk' 'iy hOr' i-ts. thrills in blizzard and
SOV iVCv flood in the wild sierras- I :
iXy fk v A railroad romance that (
Twfr irHt VrOi stands for good time. i
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j With Agnes Ayres and Theodore Roberts
All. starlcast with House Peters and Florence Vidor
STORY! BYi MAY&EDINGTON
AlwasiKe, Woman!
THAT'S diecryof the" WorU-AbWAYS, me Woman!
From dawn to dusk, tkrougK Declining valleys of Romance
j to tKe final hour of mortal judgment, Woman is placed
on the auction block to bear the burdens of Destiny designed by
. the mind of man
But there is a Reckoning, as inetable as the law 'of IifeTas sure
es the bonds which brought Nancy Abbott and BlairCbrnWl
triumphant to the gates of eternal Life and Love n
(ln .this story of women of flw world, ou will penltne'mnermos't
chapters of Humani;you will see things that you have never
seen before. You'll Jbe mrilled. and, amazed oOerJthe,-swiftly
moOing events which include spectacular scenes seldom equaled
even by Jhe prowess of the magic screen. .
It 'si Thomas- H.Ince's. Greatest . Production.
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ADDED ATTRACTION
MUTT & JEFF In , a Comedy Cartoon
Adults, 50c.
PRICES
Children, 25c
A CAREFULLY ARRANGED MUSICAL PROGRAM
Reflecting in Music the ever changing sentiments of the scenes will be rendered eirh dav bv the
way's Organists. This feature of the program should appeal to: cMtrKSver
Broad-
THE BROADWAY
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