ARCADIA PICTURES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 26 June 1926, Page 4

ARCADIA PICTURES.

TONIGHT LAST TIME “CLOTHES MAKE THE PIRATE.” The disdain that divides humanity in the different branches of artistic endeavour extends even to the culinary art. Tully Marshall found a rare example 6f this while playing the role of the cook in an old ship in “Clothes Make the Pirate,” the Pirate,” the Sam T. Rork First National comedy starring Leon Errol with Dorothy Gish, at the Arcadia on Friday and Saturday. The company spent a week at sea in an old pirate sailing ship. The ship’s real cook was an interested spectator and complimented Marshall on the realistic manner in which he booted the cook’s helper out of the galley in one of the scenes. With a confidence engendered by this display of skill, the old salt did not hesitate to sample one of the biscuits Marshall baked for Errol, James Rennie and the other pirates. Ten minutes later he was applying to Marion Fairfax production supervisor, for Marshall’s role. “But Tully Marshall is a famous actor—we couldn’t give you his job” Miss Fairfax objected. “Him an actor!” scornfully. ‘ Him! Why, he can’t even bake biscuits.”

Marshall is one of a distinguished cast supporting Errol with Miss Gish in “Clothes Make the Pirate”—a story of comedy, pirate adventure and romance adapted from the novel by Holman Day. Others are Nita Naldi, James Rennie, George Marion, Edna Murphy, Reginald Barlow and Walter Law. Maurice Tourneur directed.

MONDAY & TUESDAY. “THE CALL OF COURAGE.” STARRING ART ACORD. Art Acord, who is being starred by Universal in “The Call of Courage,” Blue Streak Western coming to the Arcadia Theatre on Monday and Tuesday, is a Western screen star who has lived in reality much of the life he is Sow portraying on the screen. Acord was born in' Stillwater, Oklahoma, and in his early days was a cowboy and then later a ranch owner in his own name. In 1911 he received an offer from the famous Buffalo Bill Wild West Show to join that organization, which he accepted and for several seasons appeared with that tionally famous body of cow-punch-ers. Leaving the Buffalo Bill outfit, Acord went into vaudeville and then into moving pictures. In the latter he was a success almost from the start until today he has an army of admirers who eagerly look forward to the pictures in which he is being starred. In “The Call of Courage,” which was directed by Cliff Smith, who has directed numerous successful Western picture plays, Acord plays the role of Steve Caldwell, a clean young Westerner who is a fugitive from justice, made so bv a charge o* theft lodged against him by his cousin Caldwell has many thrilling adventures while eluding the sheriff’s posse that has taken the trail against him, none the less thrilling being the manner in which he meets June Hazelton, the character played by Olive, Hasbrouck. From that with romance and comedy filling in time there is action in plenty between the thrills.