STAGE AND CINEMA.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15886, 26 July 1923, Page 7

STAGE AND CINEMA.

The following programmes will be shown at. the King’s Theatre: Saturday, July 2S: Double-star programme. Vivian Martin in “Song of the Soul,” and Dorothy Gish in “The Country Flapper.” Monday, uly 30: The final screening of “Song of the Soul.” Tuesday and Wednesday, July 31 and August 1: William Russel in “Mixed Faces”; also a special 2-reel Sunshine comedy, “The Reporters.” Thursday and Friday, August 2 and 3: House Peters in the big 7-reel special. “Rich Men’s Wives”; also a 2reel Lloyd Hamilton comedy, “For Land’s Sake.”

Coming, August 7 and 8: John Gilbert in the big William Fox special, “Monte Cristo.”

Original comedy touches are an outstanding feature of “Suds,” Mary Pickford’s latest film. It is based on the play “Op o’ Me Thumb,” and is set in the London slums. The story deals with Amanda Afflick, a pugnosed little slavey in a,Freneh laundry in London. Amanda is the most woebegone character imaginable and as all the girls in the laundry have sweethearts, and no man has deigned to notice her, she weaves a wonderful romance for herself and bluffs the other girls.

The principal members of the cast of “'Captain Applejack,” Fred Niblo’s second production for release by Metro Pictures Corporation, have already been selected, and actual studio work on the film version of this famous stage play by Walter Hackett will soon begin. Matt. Moore, Enid Bennett, Barbara La Marr, Robert McKinn and Thomas Ricketts are the players who have already been ,signed to appear in the production.

Wesley Barry ('Freckles) will present as his next offering “Rags to Riches.” Never before has the freckle-faced star so excelled himself as here. He plays the role of a boy who is brought up among wealthy people, but his heart is bursting to be a “real” boy. He loves to read “Deadwood Dick,” and to get out and mix with the other ragamuffins of the town, and his one great desire for adventure is satiated when he gets in tow with a gang of crooks who are being hunted by the American Federal Secret Service. The Fox Film Corporation (Sydney) has awaiting release a cinema of Lord Carnarvon’s research in the Valley of the Kings, culminating in the discovery of the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen. The picture gives a vivid impression of Thebes and its marvels; and affords a visit to Egypt to those who are not fortunate enough ever to go actually to Luxor. Ancient Egypt’s temples, tombs and colonnades come under the eye in a magnificent series of living pictures, in which the photography is perfect. The pictures are full of action and energy; and present in most strik ing fashion the excitement of re search among the majestic intiqui ties of Thebes. “Theodora,” founded on Victor Sardou’s drama of ancient Byzantium, later called .Constantinople, contains some fascinating and dazzling scenes of the various buildings of that luxurious capital of the late v Imperial Rome. Worthy of special note is the gorgeous palace, with its broad corridors, its courtyards and a magnificent throne-room, decorated in the richly ornate style of that period. It would arouse the envy of any Balkan king. Then there is that stupendous building, the Hippodrome, with its numerous tiers, where the Empress Theodora turns loose the lions on the multitude to save her lover from death.

Milton Sills, together with many other popular players of to-day, claims Chicago, Illinois as his birthplace. Mr. Sills spent his boyhood in Chicago and also went to the Chicago University. It was after be graduated that he came to New York to secure a position on the stage. He was very success ful and spent eight years playing leadipg roles for such producers as ’•’’elasco, Shubert, Brady and Frohman. His screen career he started with the Goldwyn Pictures Company and has at various times appeared in the fading roles for several other weill-known producers but be is now a permanent member of the Paramount Stock Company and has appeared m many popular roles under this banner. Included among the most re ceric pictures in which he has distinguished himself are “Behold My Wife” “The Faith Healer,” “The Great Moment,” “Borderland,” and “Burning Sands.”

Rumor is playing persistently round the names of Constance Talmadge and William Rhinelander Stewart, junr. This charming and likeable youth is a regular escort for the heartsmashing comediane, and possesses a charming and likeable income.

Tony Moreno plays Rudolph Valentino’s scheduled rcile of the Spanish Cavalier in “Don Caeser de Bazan,” which stars Pol a Negri.

“The Old Nest,” when reviewed, was announced to be a perfect piece of artistry. The scenes are intensely natural, and Mary Alden, playing the part of the mother surpasses even her former records.

The engagement of Colleen Ivlooi’e and John McCormick, the western manager of the First National Pictures, has been announced. Miss Moore wears a beautiful engagement ring, a large diamond with two exquisite shamrocks of emeralds holding it on either side.

W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw,” a gruesome but thrilling story, has been bought for picturisation by Edward L. Klein Com pany. for Selznick. It is one of the very few serious stoives written bv Jacobs, another famous one being “The Well.”

Sam Blair, American representative of United Artists (Australia), Ltd., was recently confined to his bed, at the: Hotel Australia with a severe attack of influenza, from which he has now almost recovered. Mr Blair is traversing the whole of Australasia! in the interests of that film realising firm, and for Douglas Fairbanks in particular.