Daily British Whig (1850), 23 Sep 1922, p. 17

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~ Baservevestevey) ' * |] *| uw ia + ATTRACTIONS, MOST BEAUTIFUL. } Tuesday COMING GRAND--M0N, SEPT. 25 EVERYGIRI, » A FASCINATING FESTIVAL o¢ FLAPPERS =< FRIVOLITIES With Little Dorothy MacKay; Pauline Harvey; Pat Raf- fegty; Hudy Davis; Tom McKnight and Many Girls, Pric®-$1.50, £1.00, 75¢. Gallery 25... Seats now selling Monday, and Wed- nesday. Grand Opera House Monday, "Everygirl," a with music. Wednesday, 'Bird of Parad- , Ise," with Ann Reader. Strand-- "The Ordeal," Ayres. "Shoulder Chaplin. Allen 'Orphans of the Storm," D W. Griffith's latest achieve- ment. Beauty fs not a question of meas- 4 | arements, but of pleasing the eye, { This in direct opposition to the stand- ard of beauty main'ained since the first stone-man measured the waist of the lady of his choice with a stone " | tape-measure, Along in 1800 Words- worth put it in words, and those words, up 'o now have been the Tule for beauty; "Beauty is produced by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts > [ unfting in a consistent whole." %| But this age old acceptance of # [beauty has been des'royed, causing # |to spring up a new "most beautiful 4 | Canadian girl." Her name 8 Pauline + | Harvey and is coming here with the s | "Everygirl'" Company. Pauline is fair. Pauline is beauti- day. ; auline nmeas- Grand Opera House-- ji. And, so far, Pauline is unme "The Gamblers," by Rex Stock + | . : Company | - Miss Harvey does not claim to be a Strand-- | perfect woman, but all her friends In " , rife © « |8i5t that she is a perfect beauty. She Dogs Pesby pl Wire says rather non-chalantly when dis- | Y 2 aire, ns episode cussing Venus'de Milo: "Is it not re- The Secret Four." Beginning jmarkable that we never hear about "Robinson Crusoe." | her hair or her complexion?" Allen : Miss Harvey's hair and creamy | Orphans. of the Stor, white skin are her strong points. And | latest Griffith masterpiece. {Judging from this remark, she has Ann Reader and Native Hawaians in the "Bird of Paradise" ® ('hrown down the gauntlet, and in CREE 200942220449% dlyiew of her hair and that on Wednesday, Sept. 27th. * ---- reaches and cream complexion, it ig | "rn \ a voting contest | snowed under by the ballots for Pau- [smile would be | ne Harvey. moet wonderful "I don like the idea of being a I be ut pin, and any old thing for batt-- professional beauty," she declares, |and Boy--you should have seen "It makes me feel that every moment | "Dead Man's Hole" that's where I I am before an audience I am being |lcarnt to swim,--Me and my gang. measured up and found fault with by { The water was jus' about dead, and critical members of the audience. As | {he bottom was about six feet deep in allowed to £0 to IndianapoMs to see no two people agree in thelr ideas of | mud, but me, it was the most won- {the Minstrel show. It happened to beauty, you see how difficult i would |derful sw mming hole in the world. [be the then king of all mins'rels-- be to please all." | There was Ed. Sharpe. He's way up |Lew Dockstader, Joe went back to There is absolutely no standard, [in iron now, and Skinny Smith----I [the Stage to eee Mr. Dockstader, and she adds, and then calls attention to [don't know where he is, and Joe [admitted he had the finest high pitch the varied types of Mexine Elliot', | Kelly, he's acting 'on the stage some | voice in America. Being amused at Lillian Russell and Jane Cowl. The |where unless he is playing a piano [the freshness of the youngster, Mr, fleet Indian maiden with high cheek | somewhere, and several others whose | Dockstader asked him to sing for bones smeared with paint, or the [names I have forgotten . . . . {him. After a trial Joe was engaged, Egyptian houri who sits cross-legged | All of which means that another (to do what perhaps you have heard before the tent of her lord, her face teat, on the family tree of the Rex |done, it was quite popular then, to concealed by a veil--all represen* to | Stock Company is about to be un- |sing from the highest building in hundreds of thousands of souls mav- |furled, and expose the hidden secrets town. Joe sang from the top of tha Hohing forms of beauty. {of the life of one Joe Kelly, who is | singer Building in New York, and For centuries Cleopatra represent- | appearing as "Bobby Wheeler" in | could be plainly heard for several ed the ideal form of beauty. Is it not | Clarence this week at the Grand. { blocks. At fifteen his voice "broke" possible that if she were to come back | Tike the rest of the bunch, Joe was jor changed or whatever you call it to earth today and walk down the |born--we don't know why, said he [when a boy's voice becomes a man's, street with the afternoon shoppers, doesn't seem to be able to explain 4 he went home and father at onee in corset and high-heeled boots she {any reason for it, but mever-the-loss I packed him off to college, where he would be absolutely un-noticed? | be wasand not so very long ago. His | Stayed three years. His desire for the Nell Owynne was another répre- | fether, a wealthy Indiana farmer, | stage was #till upon him, so he land- sentative beauly. Stand before her | parked himself and his family on the led a job "acting." His second season portrait as painted by the great Loly [banks of a creek known as Pogue's Ite landed with the Rex Stock Com- and try to - picture her in modern | Run. It was here that Joe first saw pany, only to leave them again at the dress. Somehow one feels that Nell {the light of day. Joe was rather a end of a year, and organize a "Jazz would create no sensation on Broad- [trial to father, he didn't like to work, | Band." His band, "Kelly's Clowns," way today. and that was Dad's middlename. Joe | was the feature attraction at tho Miss Harvey does not use cosmetics | would rather be down at the swim- | Municipal Park of Indianapolis this and no "nature's aid to beauty" is | ming hole or playing the Melodian. |last summer. Father, instead of be- needed by her. Nature conferred all | He couldn't read a word of music, |ing made, at a gon that simply would- her favors at birth, and has added | hut the way he could hear a tune and {n't work, and was the worst milker {uterest each year and compounded it | then play it was un-canny. When [of the festive cow onthe farm--had the last several years. No, she is no* | quite small Joe had a very fine con- [to change his views! He got real afraid of the time when she will have to "bant." And she well knows that beauty does not last forever. Only on ome point is she insistent, and that is that she is a blonde, Everygirl comes to the Grand on Monday, Sept. 25th. "The Ordeal." Agnes Ayres, Conrad Nagel and play Se with Agnes Rede toro Arms," Charlie Thursday, Friday and Satur- a i the at the Grand Opera House CPI 000000 0000000000 , and say--""We used to get uh¢ firaita voice, and when he was big catfish there, on a enough he was an altar boy. In his | white surplice, he looked in the choir like a young, but promising angel. (We admit that appearances are de- |ceitful.) One day, quite by aceident, {Joe had been a good boy, and was A good many people are relentless safe to say that in in thelr use of censure. today, the famous Milo NA A A Any WALTON TULLY Presents (vas. G.peeve "ny 00, $1.50, $1.00. GALLERY .. ALE MONDAY GRAND oi 8 DAYS, COMMENCING Thursday,Sept.28 OUR OWN Rex Stock Company IN A COMEDY DRAMA REX IN FOUR ACTS "THE GAMBLERS" BY CHARLES KLEINE PRICES 20c., 80c., 50c. GALLERY .... 10c. SATURDAY MATINEE: CHILDREN, 10c.; ADULTS, 25¢: this we don't want to be too personal, ---- Classic dance episode from "Everygirl," at the Grand, Monday, September 25th. : Charlie Chaplin will be the stars at the Strand theatre for the first three days of next week. Isn't that a good | collection of favorites? Agnes and | Conrad will be starred in '"The Or- deal," a picture from the work of It is just the proud of Joe this summer and gave lim a Sedan. Joe may still have fit, we haven't been.able to discover what happened to it, he always evades the question, Perhaps some sweet little Indianapolis "Flapper" is driving it and then again, it may be in some Anyway he is glad to be back home with the Rex Co., at least he says so, 80 we believe him, so I will close, as the rest of the things I know about him, wouldn't be fit to print. I will try and do better next week. So long Somerset Maugham. --your old pal, Rex. ARALLLALALLLLLALMLLSALS kind of picture ninety per cent. of | E : \ junk yard. But, of course, after all the people delight to see. : ; 4 we "The Ordeal" deals with a story naa that grips, holds and most important of all entertains you. Would you ra- ther have great riches than pure, aweet love? There Is the whole thing in a nutshell. Perhaps just that does not appeal to you but you can depend upon it that Paul Powell, the director, has brought out this well known story in such a fashion that it will please everybody. Rich toilettes, all of the latest styles form a big attraction in the feature. The whole story is set In surroundings that only great wealth can buy. Miss Ayres wears a pheas- ant blue gown with opalescent sa- quins and crystal beads, finished with velvet to match. Specially striking are slippers and a fan of blue pheasant feathers, motoring and" street wear, Miss Ayres has a moleskin suit and gorgeous ermina wrap with white toque feathers. Simple and striking in its line is a diner gown of taupe chiffon em- bossed in velvet flowers of the same tone. A pleasing walking dress is of navy blue faille brocaded in black satin. : | And then there will be Charlie Chaplin in a return engagement of | "Shoulder Arms." In this pleture Chaplin really established himself as {the king of comedians. On Thurs ~ |day, Friday and Saturday, Leah Baird will be featured in "Don't Doubt Your Wife" 'The Secret | Four will be finished and the first installment of "Robinson Crusoe" Would you take riches | or pure, sweet love? A powerful drama a -- A dramatic moment in D. W. Grifith's achievement, 'Orphans of the Storm" at the Allen next week. Y, WEDNESDAY MONDAY, TUESDA | CHARLIE CHAPLIN pp Ee. "SHOULDER ARMS" COMING ! THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY LEAH BAIRD "Don't Doubt Your Wife" IT STILL HAPPENS! '* by "Rex" Ne. » 3 "4 - ; '1 1t you were 0 ask suyoie whers x - op ar here Charlie Chaplin, who plays a return engagement "Orphans of "Shoulder Arms" at the Strand Theatre Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday on a'double bill with Agnes Ayres in "The Ordeal." - : : » STRAND STRAND Scene from D. W. Griffith's great spectacle Sean ey lat tua o Storm," at the Allen next week. a foe ae ld a LE : : X

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