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The STAIRWAY to the STARS
The Highway to Happiness The Pathway to Paradise
FROM ‘■^THE BIRTH OF A NATION" TO ‘■•■ANNIE LAURIE,'’ MISS GISH HAS EVER GRACED THE BOARDS AS AN ATTRACTION OF HIGH QUALITY AND AN ENTERTAINMENT NAME WORTHY OF DOUBLE OR TREBLE THE CUSTOMAR Y ADMISSION CHARGE.
1927-1928
LILLIAN GISH
ANNIE LAURIE — Lillian Gish has never, in all
her glorious career had a \ ehicle to equal the sure-fire, down-to-earth audience qualities of “Annie Laurie” — qualities that make quiet folk cheer out loud! It’s an original story conceived bv Josephine Lovett, that smart screen writer, and she has put into the picture the throbs, the thrills, the tendernesses that Miss Gish’s admiring thousands demand of her. A new setting for a picture, too. The hills of rugged Scotland in the days when strong, brutish men fought for power and the love of women. Action, action all the wav, showing the intrigues and battles of two warring clans. The melody of “Annie Laurie”, whose origin dates from that time, brings together the leader of one clan (Norman Kerry) and the beauty of the other (Tjillian Gish). John S. Robertson is director.
LON CHANEY
IT WAS M-G-M WHO DEVELOPED EON CHANEY INTO THE GREAT LON CHANEY. “HE WHO GETS SLAPPED," “THE UNHOLY THREE," “THE BLACKBIRD," “THE ROAD TO MANDALAY," “TELL IT TO THE MARINES," “MR. WU," “THE UNKNOWN." EVERYONE OUTSTANDINg, ALL MONEY PICTURES.
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THE HYPNOTIST ln ..TheUnWy
Three” Lon Chaney’s performance as a ventriloquist will be remembered for many years and once again a fragment from the side show of life is thrown on the shadow stage with an insidious but insistent melodrama in which magic plays an important part. Chaney, the man of a thousand faces and a thousand arts once again will delight audiences with a role that has within its range all the curious and the novel, the fiendishness and the sacrificial redemption that has gone with his greatest efforts. M-C^-M is banking heavily on the power in “The Hypnotist.” Just as in all Chaney stories the surprise elements make the plot, and it is difficult to divulge them in a cold brief paragraph.
HATE — Based on “The Four Stragglers” by Frank Packard, the author of “The Miracle Man,” which gave Lon Chaney his first big part, “Hate” will be one of the sensational pictures of 1927-1928. Lon Chaney has a tremendous part in this one. As the feared and brutal leader of a band of Apaches he roams and dominates the underworld of Paris, and woe to the foe who sees a flash of his quickly-drawn knife. The fortunes of war throw Chaney and his enemies into an intimate entente, and finding themselves comrades in the same regiment, there is a war within a war that leads to drama of a most intense order. Count on this one.
A third Lon Chaney Pi:ture will be Seven Seas." 3 LON CHANEY PICTURES