SATURDAY, DEC EMBER 8, 1923. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG -- -- er -- -- CAPITOL REIGNS AT 8.15 SHARP OPERA HOUSE ATINOUS ATR]. | * COMES 10 CRAND | GRA aaa Sir John Martin H@rvey In « A| Cigarette Maker's: Romance," | for One Night. | - ------ | interest iz being manifested in the visit to Kingston next Wed nesday night, De¢. 12th "of Sir John Martin Haryey, the great F lish actor and his company of Eng lish players. Thef play to he present ed 18 "A Cigarette Maker's Ro- mance." / The visit of Sir John Martin Har- | vey and his gompany will be the stellar attraction of the entire sea- son at the Grand, and Kingston is] indeed fortunate in having a visit | from this distinguished actor ana his talented company | Bir Joann Martin Harvey played | for over eighteen years with Sir | Henry Irving, and an interesting story is told how Sir John made | Sir Henry Irving laugh. They were | playing Pickwith. Irving was Alfred Jingle, and young Harvey, eighteen years old, and a mere stripling, was the Fat Boy. It was neceasary for Martin to pad his body for the part, | but how about his face? AB old] stage hand gave him a tip. "Get a| couple of figs," he said. "Stick one fig inside each cheek. They will] stick there and make your face look big." He did so, and it worked well, { in fact better than he had anticipat- (land, ed, for the figs caused a free flow of (#1 @ boy and Maisie Wells a girl, saliva, which made the fat boy's both orphanw, playing together, They slotibery speech all the more real-|lOve each other. Years go by and istle, and as soon as Harvey went | Dick, now a man, is down and out on the stage and spoke, Irving | 80d dependent upon the kindness of laughed. an inn-keeper and his wife in Port Sir Martin Harvéy says that a Sald. Dick is in vary effective way to educate a pub- uprising in the Soudan gives him an lic taste for the drama is threugh |OPportunity to accompany the ardous labors of the individual |0f war correspondents as staff ar- actor, | tist, % --a------------ {make him famous, With fortune KIPLING'S STORY {favoring him he meets Malsle Wells, ONCE A FAILURE os worth while in art and he {chooses a walf of the London streeis Grea A a narrative and make it quite appeal ing and dramatic the seacoast of Eng Held- Opening on the picture shows Dick {and finds he still loves her She Bessie Broke, for his model. He finishes the picture and | becomes blind. In revenge Dick for interfering in her love af- fair with Torpenhow, an English And Now " The Light That Falled " Ranks With the Best Sellers. Difbbed a failure at first, Rud- yard Kipling's famous story, '"The Light That Failed," grew in popular favor until it became one of the best sellers bearing his name, When the story was chosen to be filmed by George Meiford, the suthor was communicated with and certain changes made which modernize the [the painting but {the truth. Maisies goes to Dick and cares for him. The picture closes with Mals- fe assuring the blinded Dick he: sight must do for each of them. The role of Dick Heldar is played by Percy Marmont, Jacqueline Logen is featured as Bessie Broke. despair when an | The sketches sent to Englana | | inspires bim to attempt something | suddenly | upon | Heating of his affliction Jacqueline Logan, Percy Marmont and David Torrence, in a scene "ailed." at the Capitol Theatre, Monday; Tuesday and Wednesday. rrr -- at David Torrence as Torpenhow and Sigrid Holmquist as Maisie are fea- tured in the cast. "The Light That Failed," will be shown at the Capl- |tol Theatre Monday, Tuesday and | Wednesday, MAY IAYOY STARS IN THRILLING FiL Noted Screen Favorite Is at Best in ' Her Reputation " at the Strand. a group | "Her Reputation," by Thomas H. Strand, commencing Monday. Correct in every detail, tense with dramatic situations----the plot of "Her Reputation" is refreshingly | new. f May McAvoy gives a remarkable war correspondent, Bessie destroys | portrayal of a young, girl who runs| the screen when a police raid, fol- | Dick never learns | away from home on her wedding | 10 day, the innocent victim of a news. paper scandal. When she falls in | love with the son of the editor ot | the paper which has ruined her life, -the plot develcps in rapid strides. | Mise McAvoy's Spanish da is are exceptionally fine while the opening scenes on an old Spanish planta ---- Ince, opens a three days' run at the| | Kingston's "Favorite House Changes Name Over Sunday. Wherever you travel, north, south and _wed., "Capitol Entertain- |ment is a slogan you will find in |nearly every city of Canada where {there ¥s' a motion picture theatre. {Apd wherever you see phe sigh | "Capitol Entertainment' you may {be assured that it means the be:( motion picture presentatioms. {¥heatre-goers of Kingston it will be {good news to know that recentiy il thais been decided by he Famous | Players Canadian Corporation, Ltd., | with headquamn.ers in Toronto, [ make the Kingston Capitol a "Caps tol Entertainment' house wijh Kr |nte Smithies as local manager. Tht |peatre will be opened under the [new policy December 10th and pat {rons, new and old, will be assurca ithat the class of entertainment, h {grade of pictures to be shown «here, will be the same that will be founu The Light That [in the other de luxe houses of the {big 'theatre chain which stretches ar |from coast to coast. . . | The ushers and the doormen of tian of New Orleans have becn de- ihe Capitol will wear the samo kina Plated With unysual anm, {of uniforms used at the Big Hippo- { Lloyd Hughes plays the part ot! 4 rome theatre in Toronto, one oi | the cynical son of the newspaper edi-| ihe company's - most pretentious tor who. starts investigations con- le} catres, and pictures piesented ai | cerning the girl. The unusual WaY ithat theatre also will clothe the in which the two young people meer, lscreen 'at the Capitol, the local Jase parted amd brought together [theatre often playing them before again, how each is the embodiment ! n | of what the other hates, RL larger house. | The opesing: al. | through it all . their great Jove | traction will be '"The Light That | sweeps away everything else--make Failed, a marvelous seyeen adap- | each successive scene in "Her Repu- {tation of Rudyard Kipling's grea. tation" more absorbing than the |®5t Story. This picture comes to | last. Kingston immediately after it closes | One of the most beautiful touch-|® TD at the Toronto Hippodrome. [es in the picture is the wedding |Other sreat film productions booked flesta scene where Spanish beaut- | [OT the local theatre, and which will | les, handsome cabaileros, gay old |be shown Hers "thls season Include negroes and frolicsome plekinin. [Suck atisastions as Maw Dioion nes bring back the warm hospit- [In ""Roita"; Norma Talmadge in | ality ay the luxurious life Pot | "Ashes of Vengeance'; The Kternai | New Orleans of the old days. Struggle"; "The Midnight Alarm'; "Her Reputation" is one {ong | "Ruggles of Red Gap" and other | series of thrills. Two pistol hoty ible first run productions, / | precipitate the action. The waters -- | of a flood are scarcely dried Hom | n iv from * How He Knew. Clergyman--There was a stranger wed by a wild dash in a' machine, | in church today. Wife--What did he look like? Clergyman--I did not see him, but 1 found a dollar in the contri- bution box. ----------------A One cannot have in stock term | a wreck on a mountain road--keep | the action moving until the climax [ 1s reached In & gigantic forest fire. By: our. extravagance we some- times shorten both ends of the rope until it is Impossible to make much of what we them meet. : v sense, too common "a house divided against itself can- not stand." Mr. King, in his concluding re- marks, said: . "May I recall that eloquent phrase used by Sir Wilfrid Laurier at the time of Queen Victoria's jubilee when he spoke of the British Em- | pire as a galaxy of nations. For MONTREAL'S WELCOME 10 CAMOK' PRENER Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King Tells Liberals Lesson of Halifax. ~ Montreal, Dec. 8.--Fresh from | part of our dominion Sir Wilfrid {in spite of a steady downpour of | Premier Taschereau of Quebec, de- 4 Mayor Mederic Martin of Montreal, the Imperial Conference in London, | was bitterly denounced by the Tory Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, | party of his day. Years have Prime Minister of Canada, in usso- | passed; the British Empire has been ciation with his two colleagues, Sir | put to tests unforseen and greater Lomer Gouin and Hon. George P.| than any man could have conceived. Graham, on the second anniversary | With what result? With the result of the advent to power of his Gov- | that in matters of Empire develop- ernment, received a great ovation | ment, of national autonomy and here last night from the Province of | Imperial unity Laurier stands today Quebec. Prolonged applause greet-| ed him when he rose to speak in the | | Picture truth of the scriptural saying that! his assertion of nationhood on the { REX STOCK CO. In Somerset Maughn's Comedy 1 Too Many Husbands' A Scenic Vroduction With VAUDEVILLE NEXT THURS, FRI, SAT. "TWIN BEDS. Seats now selling. Same old prices, | . « B0c., 30c., 20c., 10¢. Saturday Matinee 10c. and 25¢. Lo BETWEEN ACTS : Evenings ------ GRAND "uy ENGLAND'S FOREMOST ACTOR SIR JOHN MARTIN HARVEY Supported by MISS N. DE SILVA and hs en- tire London Company--direct from a sensa- tionally successful season at the Century Theatre, New York. PRESENTING "A Cigarette Maker's Romance" Adapted from the Novel by F. Marion Crawford By Charles Hannan Prices 50c, $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 A Ly as a great political prophet whose | vision has brought light and leading to every part of the great Empire to which we are so proud to belong. "In membership in the great com- munity of free British nations there is not only glory. There is increase of strength and power, and oppor- tunity of useful service to mank®nd. There is a guarantee of freedom, of | liberty and of justice unparalleled elsewhere throughout. the globe. There is even more. There is the | one real hope of peace in these trou- blous and trying times -- peace which can come only through co- operation between individuals, com- munities and nations; co-operation | in an effort fo maintain the rights | of each and the common good of all AENEAN ENN EARNER. Seat Sale Monday Mother, father and Willie were in midchannel. It was rather rough. Father did net feel too well, neither did. mother, and mother was also | driven to distraction by the mis- chievous anties of ¢he boy. Finally she appealed to her hus- band, saying: "Father, do speak to Willie!" | | { Greetings! | Craig street armory, whers over | 10,000 people had assembled to do him honor. Redoubled cheers came when after being presented with a hand- some bouquet by little Helene Cas- grain, daughter of Pierre Casgrain, | M.P., he lifted her high, responded with a kiss and then addressed a few words in French to the great audience. On his arrival here the 'prime minister was met at Bonaventure Station by a committee headed by Mayor Mederic Martin. One of «the first to greet the Prime Minister 'at the station was 8ir Henry Thornton, president of the Canadian National Railways. Following the reception at the station, a procession was formed, and traversed many of the streets in the central part of the city, where, rain, large numbers of people were gathered to do honor to the minis ters returned from Europe. A warm veception was extended In the Armor, 0 Sir Lomer Gouin and Hon. George P. Graham, who, with, livered stirring addresses. Seated in the front row on the platform were all the Federal Cabingt Ministers ex- cept Rt. Hon. W. 8. Fielding, still confined to his home as the result of overwork, and Hon. Dr. J. H King. Minister of Public Works; Premier Taschereau of- Quebec, Hon. Walter Mitchell and Senator Casgrain, as well st a large number of federal and Liberals of the pio- vines. TE AT Fo a ER pu GRAND OPENING ATTRACTION MONDAY -- TUESDAY -- WEDNESDAY -- Theatre Millions of Kipling lovers have been wait- ing to see "THE LIGHT THAT FAILED" gw the Soraot. Worth while waiting for! tal de unforgettable § 9ince beui te - pr pie ATE, ASAT Fy ST ooiltony: EE ey . [As SL A "THE BL the Te