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Three other pictures have been secured: An "Aesop Fable" in animated cartoons; another action picture of "Broncho Busting"; and a Ben Turpin comedy "Three Foolish Wives", a burlesque of Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks". No pictures will be shown until about 8 o'clock, but the returns will start coming in over the special wire at 6 o'clock and will be continued as late as the audience desires. The Crimson Ramblers Orchestra will play during the program, which will be open only to Union members...
...announced by-the Union. The pictures will consist of "Gridiron Glory", a football picture in fast and slow motion; "Taking a Chance", hazardous moments from all forms of sport both in fast and slow motion; "Three Foolish Weeks", a burlesque on Eleanor Glynn's famous story, with Ben Turpin as the fair-haired hero; and an "Aesop Fable", an animated cartoon by Paul Terry...
There's a moral somewhere. But it is fairly difficult to worry about plots and morals when Agnes Ayres, Mary Astor, Leatrice Joy and Ben Turpin are thrown in simply for atmosphere...
Burdened souls whom Turpin cannot make to laugh...
...Shriek of Araby. Although it ill becomes profound commentary to point with pride to the centripetal optics of Mr. Ben Turpin, it must be said that his present opus is sniffing at the heels of true Art. Mr. Turpin's burlesque places a permanent tombstone over the twin-Bedouin story of the desert...