fhe title "Green Stockings" leads to belleve that the play that ths Company ls offering for Thurs- jy, Friday and Saturday of the 1 week might be,--well, a lt- } "you know"--but you lose if you k that way for it is really depriv- from an old English family cua- that requires an elder unmar- daughter to wear green stock- at the wedding of her younger this case, Zana Vaughn, as Ce- has had to wear them twice for nger sisters, and is in danger of ng to do so again. It is the old of the really helpful daughter home giving herself all to the Ia fly until she becomes rather old md dowdy by self-neglect as Is apt #0 be overlooked. The play is ra- her funny and truly English. In the first act Zana is the dowdy jest daughter, who, realizing wha! x happening to her, transforms he:- into a butterfly of fashion in tha @bcond act, Rex has one of those fet parts, rich In subtle humor, as onel Smith, hero of recent Near 'ar with natives in some unheard- spot. Green Stockings" pughout Canada with pglin in the leading was playad Margarat role, same ago, and, of course, at high! es. In Kingston the Dramallc Hub of Queen's University put It on th great success a few years ago. iis a matter of conjecture who wlil | e the different parts and Rex has ot given it out yet, but here is how Po expect at leagt some of them to he up: Bill Yule would "Admiral Grice," or perhaps Sustine McCarthy will be slated for Bis part. "Col. Smith" will be Rex, f course, and "Celia" will playail Zana. There Is no doubt that orence Winters will be hooked for unt Ida," ay the irresponsible "Tarver". Bil ily Seymour could do the part of Fa~- day to perfection. Gloria Machan 111 be the other unmarried Farra- day girl, we should guess, and Haz] Villlams one of those already mar- fed off. There remain several oti- | or parts, Charles Hannah as "Steele" probably, but remember this is on'y esswork. = "FOOLS FIRST" be. ---- Ee The Cast, Mommy Fraser .. Richard Dix Miller ...... George Selgman @ Wop ....... George Dromgold "Ann Whittaker .... Claire Windsor die Clarke ... Helen Lyaid | op Drew .. Claude Gillingwaler fhe Butler ....... Robert Brower 'Adapted from a story by Hugh MeNair Kabler in the Saturday Ev- ening Post. Directed .by Marshal arshall Nellan has scored again. dven to screen literature Be By to It's a story that picks ong up, carries him along it gripped in a & iy flowing , hounding from one dramatic 8, will and probably is at this i § our boards of cen- ous moments. For- tely the pleture can be edited in arly p inating & few kill- id there, without spofl. 1ty uity. Onge we get out the "'gaghouse t" atmos. we can find nothing to which most hard boiled gensor can ob- has been' suggested Evening Post story RO make a | nor that Joe Kelly will | THE DAI from the pen of Hugh McNair Kah- Jer. Marshall Neilan has given his usual excellent direction and Mar- fon Fairfax has transferred the tals into screen form in admirable man- mer. In a Neilan picturg one ex- pects to see something different, Ona {s 'not disappointed In this Instance. 'Never has the underworld been pat on the screen In more realistic style. {There is a thrilling bit, when the | gang props a corpse, one of thelr number who has been killed, in a chair. One man holds his head up by the ear. Another gits beside him and holds a deck of cards In front of him. When the policé open the door, they see the man evidently alive. It's a sure fire situation. The} bank robbery scenes grip. The meo- ments when we are with Claude Gil- lingwater and our old friend Robert Brower are delightful ones. He is character portrayal at its best. Some of the exteriors are gems 6 of the photographic art. The robbery nf the bank by the hero and subse quently by the gang, who carry tholy safe blowing tools: to the job in musical Instruménts provides a series of scenes that start the heart { beating faster. { Richard Dix as Tommy Fraser ee- | lipses his former work, while Claire | Windsor was never more appealing than in the role of Ann Whittaker, the girl who reclaims Tommy from the life of a crook. | To meet the censor laws of the va- {rious states, "Fools First" is un- | doubtedly going te be manhandled iand in many cases utterly spoiled. In its entirety the production is 100 {per cent. entertainment and will he | the feature attraction at the Allen theatre commencing Monday. v LY BRITISH W RODOLPH VALENTINO AND GLORIA SWANSON. | Who will be seen Monday, j next week in Elinor Glyn's great love { Rocks," at .the Strand Theatre, \ Tuesday and Wednesday of story "Beyond the the general public has been fermit- 'ted a view of the Famous Players Lasky studios In full operation. Among the stars you will see will BEVOND THE ROCKS. "Beyond the Rocks" is a Para-| mount feature citizens of Kingston be Wallace Reld, Marion Davies, have been waiting for. Rodolph, Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson, | Valenting and Gloria Swanson, two May McAvoy, Gloria Swanson, Bebe of the greatest lovers on the screen Daniels, Conrad Nagel, George Faw- today play the leading roles in Elin- cétt,' Wanda Hawley, Mary Miles or Glyn's specially written love story| Minter, Alice Brady, Julia Faye, Ro- for them commencing at the Strand doliph Valentino, Lila Lee, Nita Nal- theatre on Monday. Three shows! di, Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt, Cecil will be given each day, including! RB. De Mille, Leatrice Joy, Theodore Wednesday so that everybody will Roberts, T. Roy Barnes, Milton Sills, have an opportunity of seeing this! Tom Moore, Bert Lytell and Elsie gical Paramount production. The! Ferguson. performances will be at 2.30, 7 and It is well to remember that at the §.10 p.m, {matinee more good seats are avail- It fs not necessary to tell King-|able than at night. For the first stonians what a wonderful picture! three days the seats at night will be "Beyond the Rocks" is because they at a premium only to those who are know It already. While the picture early. The first performance in the had Toronto all agog enquiries were |cvenings will commence at 7 o'clock beiug® received at the Strand about and the second one a few minutes it. At last It Is here. It would have after nine, when there will be a lot of been here long before this but the!people waiting to get fn. theatre was closed. | - Now. is your chance to see Rodolph! and the Glorious Gloria playing in| the same picture, amid scenes of bean, with dresses that are hard to * beat, that will make every woman; wish she was in the movies just for|* 6 (Faces to wear such raiment. The greatest love story that has been | ¥ placed an the screen, acted by the! ¥ areen's recognized leaders, and writ-| * ten by America's most fluent novel-| Ist, Lllpor Glyn; there aré the re- commendations for "Beyond the Rocke.' : IN PARAMOUNT TOWN It is very seldom a moving picture theatre today offers in one week two such outstanding features @s the Strand theatre offers for your enter- talnment next week. On Monday, Tuesday end Wednesday, Rodolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson sp- pear in "Beyond the Rocks'--the biggest Paramount success placed on the market for a long time. For the last three days of the week you will be given an opportun: ity to see how such features as "Be- yond the Rocks" are produced. In conjunction with Ethel Clayton in "For the Defence," an intensely in- teresting drama, will be shown a two-reel feature," "A Trip to Para- mount Town." This is the first time de PERE ERP ROR RSS S RS COMING ATTRACTIONS. * Mon., Tues, Wed. Strand "Beyond the Rocks," Gloria Swanson and dolph Valentino. Comedies News Pictorials. Allen-- "Fools First," Neilan, with cast. Vaudeville, * * with # Ro- by Marshal an all-star Thurs, Fri, Sat. Grand Opera House-- "Green Stockings," by Rex Stock Company. 8 - "For the Defense,' Ethel Clayton. "A Trip to Town." Comedies. Allen "Pligrims of the Night," with All-Star cast. Vaudeville. *er0eesrs0se0 es What prosperity conceals, advers- ity reveals. ; with Paramount PPT EPIRPPPOIEPRC OPP PI Ee CHPIA PEEP PP E4044 4 PPG een IH * , "AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER" Many years ago--in an old south- ern. city, a lady appeared, whose business it was to produce amateur plays. On this occasion she pro- duced one of those sing-song affairs, in which mal; of the young ladies of the high school appeared. 'The lady's name was Mrs. Vaughn, On the day of the performance, her daughter, Evelyn Vaughn, appeared on the scene. She was a very sty- lish young woman, and honest to goodness, she had been on the sure- enough stage. later in life Miss Evelyn, became the wife of one of our biggest screen favourites--Bert Lytell. Among the cast of amateurs Was a certain quite<young Miss Zana Vaughn, who, while nb relation whatever to the producer and her daughter, was the cause of the YOuUng Miss Vaughn immediately deciding that she wags destined to a career, that would witheut question of a » doubt, make "The Divine Sarah' look like a piker. The scene changes to Memphis, | Tenn, fame years later. In this (city of magnolias, is a very sedate lund highly exclusive college for young ladies. Also thers was an "Opery House." The jate Mr. | Nankeyille was touring with 14 then famous play "Human Hearts" and was billed to play Memphis. As the play was well recommended, a fow of the young ladies were allowed to attend. In the cast of the play, there 18 a tramp--an old time "Rough Diamond," who, though he hag six months growth of whiskers, and has used water "for drinking Durposes only" has a heart of gold, and foils the villen in hig "Df-poret-y W-0-r-r-k." The only remark that one of the fair and somewhat haughty damsels made was--'"What a frightfully dirty individual." The haughty young besuty was Zana Vaughn, and the dirty individusl, Was none other thap Rex Snelgrove. In this manner she had the opport- unity of seeing Rex, several years before he first saw her. Little afd the romantic young girl, with her head perhaps filled with visions of titles and Europe--which 1 believe iy the correct line of thought at that ge, think that she woul! have to | eat her breakfast for the rest of her ite, looking into: the face of * Dirty Individuel." - The Again the scene moves, this time |¢ to another part of the south, ana we ot young manager, in fact In the om Ral J of a struggle to HIG. fenced leading lady. big theatrical centres sends him one, whom they edmit has not had a great deal of experience, and a con- tract arrives for one Zana Vaughn. When the young woman arrives it is evident it is about her first engage- ment, but she Is just awfully clever, she admits it--doesn't have to prove it. However the manager is not setting the world on fire with his then rather ability, so she manages to get along very nicely, as far as the acting is concerned, but simply cannot get along with the manager. She hates him, for an overbearing slave-driving brute, and doesn't hesi- tate to tell. him so. He, on his part, simply wants to téar his hair out at the sight of his aggravating, though wholly delightful, little tyrant. He tells her at every opportunity what a rotten actress she Is, and how he wishes he had the nerve to "fire" her, and wishes she'd gquit--which she refuses to do. So the seapon goes on and eventually ends with ths | Lattle st! raging and the compar; | closes and all the members go to their respective homes. | After a few months the young manager begins to get very fed up with continual, peace, and longs a bit | fo hear again some of those sweet (?) remarks, and hieg himself to! the home nest of his former leading ' lady. In the meantime, perhaps she Lad been rather coddled and fussed over at home, and maybe yearned a | bit for barking of her former slave- drivar--anyway she welcomed him | with open arms, and they both found | out that they had nothing to fight about, and that ¥f there were any | | fighting to do jt, it simply could not | | be dome with any one else, and how | in the world they could possibly go through life without each dther-- well it simply couldn't be done that's | all, and so--Thej lived happily ever after, - Some t. At the time that "Monte Cristo" was being filmed at the WilTam Fox Studios et Hollywood, Captain Uyt- terhove was vigiting friends on the Facific Coast. The @¢aptain was formerly a fencing master in the Bol- {gap army and had drifted towards {Hollywood tq observe John Gilbert, ithe star in the big spectacle, who 1s quite a fencer, bringing with him his friend Max Linder, the famous Freach comedian. The captain was oftered the pesttion of fencipg teach- er to the casi and accepted. After this the captalp and Linder donned masks and took up the foils. | The pair crossed weapons, made a few strokes, and the, holding thetr positions, started tn discuss their re- spective advances and defences in l'ghtning-like Frem¢h. They would | make a few more thrusts, hold their | weapons, and again argue the merits | or demerits of 'their positions. An old etudio carpenter came plong and was interested. For hail an hour he watched. Another me chanic asked him how the fight ha come out. "The professor was 2,000 words! shead when I left," he said. i About "Peewee." Gilbert Holmes is his name, but he isso has to stand on a cigar otto box to look over a snake's back. call him STE TERE 0" at Mixville, where Tom Mix holds forth. He has made euch a hit with Mix thet he hes been selected as featured player in Fox = Mon. OPERA GRAND oi: 3 DAYS, COMMENCING Thursday, Sept, 14 OUR OWN . Rex Stock Company In a delightful English Comedy R "Green Stockings" ZANA PRICES . ... 20c., 30¢c., 50c. Gallery, 10c. SATURDAY MATINEE: CHILDREN, 10c.; ADULTS, 20e. 7) > a -- -- - -- Here He Comes With Another Winner ! MARSHALL NEILAN Presents His Super-Production "FOOLS FIRST" FEATURING CLAIR WINDSOR and RICHARD DIX! | | | | The Picture Is Unique and Most Unusual, Depicting Charpctors Strange, Fascinating, Compelling. VAUDEVILLE DEWOLF DUO IN AN UNUSUAL BINGING AND MUSICAL ACT STARTING MONDAY | To-day RODOLPH VALENTINO GLORIA SWANSON "BEYOND THE ROCKS" "= i Prices . . Matinee, 15¢-25¢, Evening, 25¢-35¢ { r----r-- THURS,, FRL, SATURDAY ETHEL CLAYTON in - an DEFENSE? "A TRIP TO PARAMOUNT TOWN" JACKIE COOGAN IN TROUBLE # TUES. Fred a