Title
"Checkers" and "Bumping Into Broadway" at Family Theatre [advertisement]
Date
1920
Description
An advertisement for the showing of "Bumping Into Broadway" at the family theatre mentions "Special Music By Big Family Orchestra".
Inscription: All Next Week | Two Big Attractions On One Programme | "Checkers" | Wm. Fox's Magnificent Screen Version of the Great Play | "Bumping Into Broadway" | The first of the Two-Part Comedies Made by the Screen's Most Versatile Comedian | You Know Him. | Harold Lloyd | Funnier Than Ever. | Thrills Galore In 'Checkers' | - most sensational horse-race ever screened. | -jump for life from speeding auto to train. | - spectacular drop into river below of burning box-car whose human and animal occupants are imprisoned. | - "knock-out" fights between Checkers and crooks | - Pert's leap from danger to tree below. | - thrilling rescue by seaplane of Checkers and his pals, adrift at sea. | Laugh and Tears in 'Checkers' | - for the great story of thoroughbreds and high life is more than a melodrama, tense with action and abounding in thrills. It makes the spectator experience all of the human emotions - it makes you laugh - it makes you want to cry. | As a play "Checkers" was a classic. As a photoplay, it has reached still greater heights. | [beneath illustration] "Come On Remorse," they shout. And you will feel like shouting when you see this greatest of all racing plays. | There's a Laugh in Every Foot of This Feature, Showing How Lloyd Bumps Into Broadway. | It's The Biggest Picture Harold Ever Made. | Harold! Lloyd! Girls! and Broadway! | Special Music By Big Family Orchestra. | Next: The Newest Novelty, Filmusical Comedy "Oh, Boy!" | 4 Shows Daily | 1.30 - 3.00 | 7.00 & 9.00 | Prices: Mat. 10c and 15c | Eve. 15c and 25c | Family
Source
Family advertisement. Ottawa Journal. January 10, 1920: 17.
Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library.