Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

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hen are these coming ? Use the ’phone! lnUUVLUjU erence zr / few years ago any picture that moved on a screen fascinated people. Remember your excitement the first time you saw a man actually walking in a picture, moving about! Today, it is not bodies alone that you want to see moved, but hearts. Here is Paramount’s magic difference — the magic of the world’s best picture-making that has made the Paramount mark a treasuretrove to find in any theatre lobby any day of the week when you are seeking entertainment.* Paramount stories, Paramount stars, Paramount directors, and all the sumptuous riches of Paramount equipment — this is the eternal name that makes a theatre a good place to go, and a reluctant one to leave! * Millions of dollars and months of concentrated artistic labor have been expended in making the Paramount Pictures released in October, as listed alongside. Each one of them is a treasure mine of wonderful entertainment, of thrills, of romance, of warm, human heart-interest, of spirited action, of the last word in luxurious setting. Find out when they will be shown at your theatre. £ Paramount ^Picturers If it’s a Paramount Picture it's the best show in town The Old Homestead" i with Theodore Roberts George Fawcett Absolutely one of the great T. Roy Barnes est Motion pictures ever Harrison Ford made. Don’t miss it. Fritzi Rjdgway Adapted from Denman Thompson’s play by Perley Poore Sheehan and Frank Woods. Scenario by Julien Joseplison. Directed by James Cruse. mm The scene is Old Kentucky. Wallace Reid is the last of an ancient family. Over in Spain there’s a girl who possesses nothing but intoxicating beauty and a haunted castle. How and why she and he meet is the beginning of the plot, and thereafter it thickens into great adventure. By Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. Adaptation by jack Cunningham. Directed by Alfred Green. Wallace Reid in “7 he ' , Ghost Breaker supported by Lila Lee a nd Walter Hiers FAMOUS PLAYERS -LASKY CORPORATION ADOLPH Z\jyOR .President £! ntw YORK CITY’ A new and strik ^;^n5ta^sproduct,on ing type of melo rink UOQS drama set in the with Bebe Daniels, South African /"fj* , . Anna Q Jills son diamond mines. and Raymond Hatton By Cynthia Stockley Adaptation by J. E. Nash and Sonya Levien A George Melford production ^ Burning Sands with Wanda Hawley, Milton Sills The man who directed Robert Cain “The Sheik’’ directed this jaqueline Logan picture. Burning Sands ’ ° is a man’s answer to “The Sheik.” The lovers are Milton Sills and Wanda Hawley, and they dare everything for each other’s sake. By Arthur Weigall. Adaptation by Olga Printzlau. Scenario by Julien Josephson. A George Fitzmaurice production ‘ ToJiaVe and Toroid Wl™ Betty Compsonand BertLytell supported by Theodore nosloff, W.J Ferguson Raymond Hatton and Walter Long Action, love, suspense, fights, blowing up a ship, beauty, bloodshed, comedy, marvelous sets, a battle between a man-o’-war and a pirate ship ; great swordsmanship, gowns that it took sixty dressmakers a month to prepare, startling photography, mere romance, more suspense, more action — By Mary Johnston Scenario By Ouida Bergere "The Cowboy and the Cady WITH Mary Miles Mi nter AHO Tom Moore Jfve 3aoe inthe Tbq” by Jack. Boyle ** Directed by Alan Crosland Created by Cosmopolitan The cast is the best indication of what to expect from this picture: It includes Lionel Barrymore as Blackie Dawson, the gentlemanly safe cracker. T.ouis Wolheim, Lowell Sherman. Seena Owen. Mary MacLarcn, Geo. Nash, Gustave von Seyfertitz, and Marcy Harlan. ‘Above You may have seen all the great spectacle pic _ _ _ _ tures made so>far, but you A 11 ¥ still have something com L) ClW ing to you. 50,000 Indian J ’ . HAMILTON THEATRICAL natives in the cast. „„„„„„ CORPORATION PRODUCTION To set a new standard of thrills in a Western picture is a considerable achievement and that is exactly what you have here. From the play by Clyde Fitch Directed by Charles Maigne (Four)