- --_---- jzvnoar, DECEMBER 29, 1023. WHAT KINGSTON THEATRES OFFER NEXT WEEK -- TURE [ AT GRAND OPERA Hos | "A Royal Divorce" to Be r-. i sonted for Three Days, With 'New Year's Matinee. | re Next week Kingston will see G. B. f§amuelson's tremendous English pie. ture, "A Royal Divorce," which is | the personal and intimate romance of | Napoleon Bonaparte, the greatest | figure in history. The story is bas- | ed on the famous play that toured England and Europe for the last 30 | «4 Years, and the picture catches all the | fascinating romance of the play. | At the same time, at an expense of | Two Million Dollars, the producer | has staged some of the greatest | spectacles in the world's history. | Audiences will see on the soreen the | famous Battle of 'Waterloo, where | this mighty man, Napoleon, who | humbled every country in Europe ex- cept one, staked &ll on his ability to | subdue the traditional unflagging | yee and courage of the English na- | « They will see the Burning of Moscow, the famous city of Czars; | they will' see Napoleon's famous Re. | treat from Moscow, with his army of | @ million soldiers that were soon to) . be annihilated by the ravages of win- © Russians, who laid waste to e ter and the merciless policy of the | very | growing thing in the fields of Russia. | They will see Napoleon's return from Biba, when the Little Corporal set | *\ foot ont France with a small personal | ~ away their guns, fell on their knees, i "bodyguard, knowing that the whole | French army would soon be sent out to bring Him to Paris in chains, and aware that \he whole civilized world Would 'soon be clamoring for his blood, but the little Frenchman stak- ed all on the power of his personality | and the affection that he had planted in his beloved soldiers of the French army, And all the marshalls and the grand army of France, who had or- ders to shoot on sight when they saw their beloved hero, the man who had led them In triumph through hun- dreds of glorious victories, threw and with one voice acclaimed, "Vive L'Empereur." The public will gee. the intimate side of Napoleon's life, the love story of this wonderful man who in an ill- | Scene from "A Royal Divorce" which comes to the Grand se on Monday for three days with a special New Opera Hou Year's Day matinee. advised moment decided that his des- tiny and France demanded that he cast off the woman he loved and ally himself to the reigning house of Aus tria by wedding Marie Louise, the proud daughter of the Caesars. Despite the fact that an unprece- dented amount of money was spent in staging the grand side of the pic- ture, the film is always dominated by the Intimate and personal note, due to the masterful directing of G. B. Samuelson, and the woliderful act- ing of the famous English actress, Gertrude McCoy, as the Empress Josephine; Gwilym Evans, the emin- ent Welsh actor, as Napoleon, and Lillian Paul Davis, one of the stars of "The Game of Life," in the role of the fascinating and pert Stephanie de Beauhardais, The tremendous success in the Bri- tish Isles of "A Royal Djvorce" was confidently expected and was there- fore no surprise, but when this pic- ture was released in Europe it was a revelation. In France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and practically every coun- try in Europe, the flim has taken bold like wildfire, and is pla 8. Lo unheard of, sensational rund Its appeal Is sweepingly universal,' and every class of every country, from the lowliest working mam: to the highest rank of the nobility, was drawn by the subject of this famous | GRAN OPERA HOUSE Last Tinie TO-DAY REX STOCK COMPANY Oliver Morosco's Great Long, Lingering Laugh PRICES: Evenings 10c., 20c., 80c., irs PRESENTING "OVER NIGHT" | ZANA 80c. . Bat. Mat. 10c. and 25c¢. | A ------ Capitol Theatre MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY who takes care and protects h's two younger brothers, "The Country Kid" is the name of the latest production scheduled to come to the Capitcl Theatre for three days beginning Monday. i In this picture 'Us Boys" are] there in full force. Where coula a better trio of boys be found than | Wesley Barry, "Spec." G'Donnell and little Bruce Guerin, who take the part of Ben Joe and Andy Apple | gate, respectively, | Ben Applegate, the oldest of the | three boys who are left alone in the! world, is thrown upon his youthful | resources to keep the old farm and homestead intact, to provide the | younger boys with food, and pay off! the remaining debts left by his fath- | er. Joe and Andy, the younger kids, little realize the gigantic problem that confronts their older brother, and romp and play arcund the fields and hills without a caré in the world. - | | | [Sm in | Napoleon's story, and on seeing the | { Picture was fascinated and enthral- | led, and spread around the merits of this wonderful cinema. The result is that "A Royal Divorce" is play-| ing for weeks and weeks in countries where other big pictures, such as| | "Robin Hood," "The Birth of a Na-| tion," and so forth, have never even been heard of. "A Royal Divorce" opens Monday at the Grand Opera House, under a| policy of popular prices which are aimed to fit every pocketbook, 25 and 50 cents for the matinees, and 26, 60, 75 and $1 at night. Music| will be rendered to suit the sceres! by the Grand Concert Orchestra. .. FILM FEATURES. WESLEY BAY "The Country Kid" Story of Three Orphaned Boys on a Farm, "One for all, and all for one," That was the motto of the famous Three Musketeers--but it was also he motte of Wesley Barry, port But they are rudely awakened | from childish dreams by their gra P| ing uncle, who looks covertly upon | the old farm, which he would fain | have as his own. He spends many | a day plotting and planning how he | might manage to get the boys out of the way, and secure the farm fo himself, 2 ! He finally hifs upon the scheme of { sending Joe and Andy to the pcor- house, making Ben work for nim, | and then buying the farm for a Song. This he succeeds in doing, | thanks to his influence with the | lecal judge, { Th ngs look indeed black to the | Applegate boys. But they say that | every dark cloud has a sliver lining. | And so it came to pass that the boys | find a friend who interests himself | in their pl.ght. | The rest of the picture goes on to tell how the old uncle was foiled | just when - he thought he had the farm, How the Applegate boys were! liberated and their friend hetpes | them to self-support--and through it all runs a delightful Little love | story. The story was written by Julien Josephson and the direction is by William Beaudine. Besides the three boys;-the cast includes. Kate Toncray, Helen Jerome Eddy, George Nichol:, Edward Burns and George C. Pearce, It is a Warner raying the role of Ben Applegate Brothers Classic of the screen. | | | { __--_ eee wien Wesley Barry, "Spec" O'Donnell and Bruce Guerin in "The Country Kid" at the Capitol Theatre Monday, Tuesday and OPERA FOR THREE DAYS] HOUSE Commencing Mot , Dec. 31 GRAND FG come The Greatest Picture 2 of All Times Napoleon, my master, my emperor, my lover. you outrage God's laws and cast me off as sure- ly ag 1 die, so will your star of fortune set. MADAME, FOR ME NO LAWS EXIST | 1A ROYAL DIVO > - NAPOLEON--In Vienna, Moscow, Berlin, Rome and Ma- 5: drid, all the erowned heads of Europe, with hatred and fear, bowed to the Wednesday. 10° FREEE OR MOT, WHAT SWALL I Be The water in your radiator must ' the tem be made proof against frost before perature drops to a danger. ous point, After you have allowed the cool ing system to freeze and probably crack the cylinders or waterjacket on your engine, you will have proof of this necessity. But, why wait un, til then? Why not be prepared for Jack Frost when he arrives? Naturally, the first question that ayes to your mind ls, "How can 1 best protect my cooling system against freezing?" This, of course, can be done while the car is resting overnight providing the garage is kept heated. There are various means of keeping the garage heated, Some of which are risky. A warm garage, however, is of no avail where the car must be parked in the open. Radiator protectors, covers, blanket- For these two reasons it is a mest Jdeal method of protecting the Water in your radiator from freezing. A mixture of Denatured Alcohol and water in various proportions, accord- ing to the degree of freezing tem- perature that you expect to encoun ter, is the best insurance against burst radiators, sheared pump shafts and cracked waterjackets. There is another very satisfactory feature when Denatured Alcohol! and water are used, in the fact that the ing point of the solution can be as- certained at almost any time. freezing point of other methods of Anti-Freese protection cannot be readily determined after the salution has been in the car for any length of time; and to keep it up to strength by remewing at intervals without knowing the exact freezing point, is not an economical proposition. A mixture of half water and half Den. Alcohol will protect the Bg system against freesing tem. perature as low as 30 degrees to 35 degrees below sero: and, as stated before, aft~r it has been in the cool- ing for a time, it can be test- ed to n the exact freezing point, regardless of the temperature of the solution itself. Should the freezing point be found insuMcient for the prevailing tempersture, it ie only a matter of adding some more ly | Denatured Alcohol! and testing until water in the radiator | 0 protecting element. the desired protection is arrived at. The' that have been popular in the past, name. Brienne, to the final of: all beholders. will of the Little Corporal. In France thirty million people worshi Little Corporal stakes all en his ho : the invincible British squares--it fascinates and casts a spell over the minds pped his "fs "A ROYAL DIVORCE tells the fascinating intimate story of Napoleon, based on the famous play that toured England for thirty years. "A ROYAL DIVORCE," portrays the greatest spectacles in the world's his- tory: The Battle of Waterloo, the Burning of Moscow, the Retreat from Mos~-- | cow, and all the brilliant Im Two Million Dollars. "A ROYAL DIVORCE' has an intense human appeal, the like of which has never been seen in motion it scene of Napoleon, as the friendless, perial courts of Europe, staged at an expense of pictures. From the o jnknown youth in the Military School ai dramatic moment in the Battle of Waterloo, where the pe, the Imperial Guard, to try and break = nm, ---- -- rr ------------ temperature and the gravity point can be ascertained at the same time, and the freezing point arrived at by the use of an egudlization scale, thereby making the testing of the solution a very simple matter. Automobile and radiator masufae- turers, for some time past, have in- cluded recommendations in their in- struction books in regard to the best methdd df protecting the ling sys- tem during winter driving, and Rt would be well for each car owner to, consult his instruction book when freezing time comes. There are other freezing solutions t each. has a certain drawback that would be well to know. also soméwhat difficult to gét it out of the radiator when cleaning out the system after the winter is over. Kerosene is used by some as an auli-freeze, replacing the water en- tirely. This will, however, not only rot the rubber and pump packing very rapidly, but it gives off an of fensive odor when heated; it boils at a high and uncertain temperature and is apt to get so hot as to melt the solder in the radiator and is con- sidered dangerous when heated. Calclum ehloride would be an ideal anti-freeze if the automobile manu- facturers would refrain from using solder, copper, brads or alu. inom in 'their cooling system. Un