Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 17, 1920, Page 4

NEWS OF TH E THEATRES _ _ _ __ ——— . REX—TODAY + A somewhat different picture will be the attraction at the Rex theatre today when Manager Brinkman will present Romany, “Where Love Runs Wild.” This is the first of the spe- cial feature photoplays that were anade abroad by American directors ‘of stories that could not be produced 4dnrthe United States because we did not have the scenic environment to give the picture the realism demand- ed by the author’s text. Its scenes are laid in Scotland and the story is a combination of Scottish and gyp- 8y life. For the first time in the his- ‘tory of picture production a band of yeal gypsies have been employed in actively important parts. The cathps of these wanderers have been faith- fully photographed. It took three months to complete the picture and the professional agtors had to live with the gypsies and travel with them as they wandered from place to place. The theme of the picture is ‘based on the oldest and sweetest of all stories—the love of a man for a woman—and like all romances of this kind it 1s not a road lined with beds of roses. However, everything comes out as it should and all are made happy in the end. REX WEDNESDAY - Monroe Salisbury, one of the most finished character actors on the screen, is said to have accomplished the finest work of his career in “The _ Phantom Melody,” the Universal pro- duction which will be shown at the Rex theatre Wednesday. - REX—THURSDAY “Rough and Ready” is certain to score the instantaneous success which greets every. photoplay in which the mastely Willlam Farnum appears. The picture also is notable for the splendid company of artists supporting Mr. Farnum; for the ad- mirable direction by Richard Stan- ton, one of the best directors in film- dom; for the beauty of the superb snowcap landscapes in the North- 1and? and for the extraordinary fine photography of the subject. Mr. Farnum enacts the part of the stouthearted Bill Stratton, a strict self-disciplinarian who 1is as straightforward in his dealings with others as he is with himself. Rather than tell an untruth, he ‘sacrifices himself to save the home .of a friend from disruption. De- spite, or, perhaps because of is heroic deed, his sweetheart, misunder standing and bitter, jilts him. She fancies that he has been unfaithful to her. . Stratton is stunned at first by the force of this terrible blow to his finest feelings. He decides to seek solace in " the long, long trail in the Northwest, where the keen, cold winds make one - forget all but the joy of living. The arrival of the girl, Evelyn, in the lit- tle village of Yellow Gulch, in which he stays, results in complications forming the basis of an absorbingly interesting story. Stratton has to fight as few have fought to clear his name and win the vindication due him. - “JUST A WIFE” ° EXCELLANT PICTURE The Grand theatre's current at- Araction is “Just a Wife,” which is showing for the last times tonight. The story is by Eugene Walter and GOOD ROADS ESSENTIALS OF GOOD ROADS Rules Outlined for Construction of Stone Thoroughfares—Drainage Is Important. The essential requirements of good €tone road construction may be con- densed Into the following rules: 1. Cut the high places down to a grade not exceeding 1 to 20; fill up flats or low places so as to have a minimum grade of 1 to 200. 2. Construct subdrains to carry away all seepage water; also make enough cross-drains to dispose of sur- face-water. Fig. 1 shows a subdrain of dratn-tile covered with stone. Fig. 2 shows a subdrain made of logs, and Fig. 8 shows one made of field stone. 3. Make the subgrade firm and solid and give it the same curvature as the surface of the finished road. 4. Spread the bottom course of stone evenly, then roll and add a little :Subdrains and Cross Section of Road. fine material for a binder, and con- tinue the rolling until the stones cease to sink and creep in front of the Toller. < 2. 5. Spread the second course and roll it with the addition of binder and water until the whole surface is hard and smooth, carefully filling with , ‘Stone any depressious thut may ap- _there were a number' of other things made known in advance of the pic-|- ture’s coming which contributed to making the opening day’s crowds un- usually large. Local theatregoers were pleased with the screen telling of the story of “Just a Wife” by such well known photoplay artists as Roy Stewart, Kathlyn Williams and Leatrice Joy and are also discussing the partic- ularly artistic touches which have been given the presentation under the direction of Harry Rapf, man- ager of productions for National The- atres, Inc., in Los Angeles where the picture was made. Particularly, effective are the art titles made by Frank Jamison,-a young chap, who is said to have been added to the National staff after his work in an entirely different line. The backgrounds for the titles are models in clay, which would do credit to the average art exhibit. Each one of them seems to have been worked out with an attention to de- tails which must have taken days of time and in their entirety the titles| alone offer a splendid example of the intelligence, money and care which is being expended these day$ in the production of motion pictures. The woman especially will like the Marguerite Clark picture, “Easy to Get,” which is again occupying the screen at the Flko theatre tonight, and Tuesday, matinee and evening. It is a sparkling comedy done in Miss Clark’s best light romantic vein. Moreover, it is a salutary lesson for cocky young men who think they are d‘eniltons. among the ladies—and boast of it. ® Miss Clark has the role of a win- some little bride just starting out on her honeymoon. In the smoking car her husband meets an old friend and incautiously makes the remark that all women are ‘‘easy to get.” Of course, the bride overhears the re- mark and resolves to administer a lesson. Slipping off the train at the next station, she steps into an excit- ing and humorous series of edvent- ures, with Friend Husband pursuing madly. ’ _ Droll and handsome Harrison Ford as the husband has much to do with making the picture all sunshine.. The inimitable Larry Semon also appears in his latest feature comedy, ‘“The Fly Cop,” at the. Elko tonight and tomorrow. 5 DEMILLE. FINE DIRECTOR Cecil B. DeMille, famous for his long string of artistic motion picture successes, is declared to have excelled all previous efforts in ‘“Male and Fe- male,” his latest Paramount-Artcraft picture, which will come to the Elko| theatre on Wednesday for a four days run. The story was adapted for the screen by Jeanie MacPherson from Sir James M. Barrie’s great play, “The Admirable Crichton.” No effort was spared by Mr. De Mille to make it a faithful reproduction in every respect. The story centers around Crichton, the butler in an BEnglish lord’s family. He is extremely intel- ligent, and, when the lord’s yachting party is wrecked on a tropical island, Crichton takes command. After the party is rescued and returns to Eng- land, Crichton is forgotten by all but the lord’s daughter, who has fallen in love with him. Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Lila Lee, Bebe Dan- jels, Theodore Roberts, and other prominent’ players:are in the cast. pear; then finish .the whole with a course of three-quarter-inch stone and screenings. This must be soaked with water and rolled until the surface is hard and unyielding. Always be care- ful to commence the rolling at the sides and gradually work toward the center; by so doing the crown of the road will be preserved. If this work is well and thoroughly done the result will be a road that is smooth, hard and convenlent for travel at all seasons of the year. Fig. 4 shows a cross-section of a macadam road, with layers of stone compacted in place. For a fnrfhlnz community the width of macadam need not be greater than 10 or 12 feet. The width of stone sur- face should be sufficient to take care of all the travel on the road; but on the other hand it should not be so great as to require unneceSsary ex- pense in the construction or main- . tenance of the road. When wateG has to be conveyed from one side of a road to the other it should be taken under the road by means of a culvert. A stone culvert 1s, of course, the best, but a vitrified tile pipe or a corrugated metal culvert may be used. Lastly, give the road a good coat of suitable road oil to prevent dust and retard much damage to automobliles. PROBLEM OF GOOD HIGHWAYS Becoming One of Increasing Impor- tance Because.of Changes in Methods of Travel. The road probkm of ‘the country is becoming one of ever-increasing impor- tance, largely because of the changes in methods of travel which enable the city man'to ‘reach farther and farther into the country district. He does this first from a business or economic standpoint, and, second, from a pleas- ure-seeking standpoint. In an exactly similar manner, the farmer is getting fully aroused to the importance of better and better roads. They enable him to get to the city markets with his produce, whether that produce ‘may be something requiring frequent trips, such as milk to'a creamery, gar- den truck to market, or staple prod- ucts to be hauled in their proper sem: son. The better the roads, the cheap- ' er he can haul his produce and_the THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ‘Republican Congress Saves ‘Over a Billion Dollars Republican Leader. Mondell of the House of Representa- tives has made the following statement in regard to the vast sum of money saved ‘to the American people through the action of the present Congress in cutting the extravagant demands of the administration: “With the reporting of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill to the House today the last of the thirteen grenlpmmusl ' appropriation bills providing for all of the goverament. ser- vices for the year beginning July 1st next is on its way to enactment and we are able to report that the total savings represented by these bills below the original estimates sub- mitted estimates is $1,399,085,112.13. _“The total savings below estimates is $1,528,994,402.13. “At the beginning e ‘of the present, the hope that we would reduce our appropriations by the administration for these services in the boox of the original and s'uppleme.nfir session of Congress 1 carried in the regular appropriation billsia billion and a qua:- ter below the estimates and I think-we are, justified in point- ing with pride to the fact that not only ha s the hope then ex- pressed been fully realized but the saving has been a, quarter of a billion more than was promised and aggregates a totai savings of more than a billion and a half.” Y G 2 quicker he can do 0, resuiting In A saving of time, and the better choice he has of market conditions. ESSENTIAL POINTS OF ROADS Concrete -Highways Reduce Pull, In- crease the Load and Shorten Time of Delivery. Ooncrete roads reduce the pull, in crease the load and shorten the time —three essentlal points in modern road construction. With the” quality of permanence added, the price paid becomes an investment -instead of a loss. S BEST FOR MARKETING CROPS Farmers Enabled to Haul - Produce When Prices Are Highest If High- ways Are Improved. . Good roads give a. wider choice of time for marketing crops. If roads were kept in condition to permit travel and hauling at all times and in all kinds of weather, farmers would not’ bave to rush their produce to marker in seasons of good roads. but conld baul it when prices were highest and when their crops did not demsnd ati¢ntion A - B ; RIGHT . STOCK . FOR..BREEDING Fowls Should Be Healthy ahd Vigor- ous: for Best Success—Yearling Hens Preferred. . For success in raising chickens it is necessary to have healthy and vigor- ous breeding stock, for the lack of vig- or in the newly hatched chicks is often ‘traceable to weak parents. Only the most - vigorous and the best grown birds should be put in the breeding yards. ,Each bird should be full of life and energy and free from any serious deformity. - s Yearling hens are usually bétted than pullets for breeders, because hens are more mature and do not lay so many egge during the early winter, and con- sequently o not reduce their ,.yitnuty { SR Select Only Most Vigorous and Best- Grown Birds for Breeding Pens. 80 much before the breeding season. Vigorous hens two to four years old can often be advantageously retained in*the breeding yard. 2 The male bird chosen should be: young and active. An early hatched, well-developed cockerel is usually sat- isfactory, poultry specialists of the United -States department of agricul- ture affirm, or a good, vigorous year- ling or two-year-old eock may be c¢hos- en. The hens used for breeding pur- poses should be given the best care possible; they should be provided with large runs and should not be forced for heavy egg production during the early winter. HIGHWAYS IN SOUTH DAKOTA || State Has 6,000 Miles of Improved Roade—Only Ten Other States- Exqud in Mileage. South Dakota has 6,000 miles of main highways, out of a total of 203, 523 in the United States.. Definite Hubby Must Pay $12 i and Sleep in Shed Los Angeles, Cal.— Patrick Corrigan, being sued for divorce by Annie Corrigan, may sleep in the woodshed pending trial of the suit, but not in the house, according to an order by Judge Crail. He must also pay his wife $12 per week alimony -for the support of the couple’s three sets of twins. 3 Mrs, Corrigan objected to his - coming into.the house at all. “May I sleep in one of the woodsheds, judge?’ asked Cor- rigan. - “That’s about the only place you can eleep—not the house,” @aid the judge. PPPPPPPPPO PP PPOPO 000000000000 SEEK BIGGER GLASS OUTPU Manufacturers May D_cc\da to Increase Operating Time for ' Factories. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Pronounced Sscar- city of window glass was given as the cause of a special meeting of the’ American Window. Glass Manufac- turers’ association for the purpose of declding whether factories operating he 4 . \ Complete line of Tires and Sup- plies. -Furniture Repairing 'and, Upholstering. % GENERAL REPAIR SHOP STAHL & JACOBS 811 Sixth St., Bemidji Phone 488 fluffy,tender cakes, biscuits and " doughnuts that just keep you hanging *round the pantry— all made with CALUMET BAKING POWDER. the sgfest, most economical kind. Try it—driveawaybake-day failures.” - You save when 3 Calumet contains onlysuch ingredients as luveb’% fl.s. Food road systems have been established | in 44 states, either through legisla- tive action or through state and local officials. North Dakota has 4,000 : miles and Minnesota 12,700. Only tea states exceed South Dakota in mile. age, while several of them have less ‘than 1,000 milés of main highway. Subscribe for the Ploneer. time of their fire and whether it would ‘be advisable to- advance the time of ‘factorles operating in the second period. t . Owing to the scarcity of labor, the assoclation several years ago decided to operate one.group of factories until some convenient date in May, while the other group was idle, and to start the second group in September, allow- ing the first to be shut down. This proved satisfactory at the time. “Moly Ghost” Cuit Starving. Durham, Me.—Deserted by their leaders, who have moved to a land bt plenty, 500. members- of the “Holy Ghost and Us” religious cult were re; ported to be on the verge of starvation in their colony on the bleak, snow- bound sand hill of Shiloh, just outside Lisbon Falls, An Expensive Luxury. Neverwed—Doesn't a daughter ' in your family. add greatly to your ex- penses? ° Longwed—It didn’t amount to so much until she went into business th erder to become self-supporting. ! The Superior Alr. “Is your boy Josh settling down te work?” < ) “Not 80’s you can notice it,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I'm willin' to bet that after the prodigal son got settled back in the old home he soon had the old folks kindo' worried an’ shamefaced: because they didn’t smoke his brand o :cigarettes an’ couldn't same the really pi'cher stars.” g Subscribe for ‘The Piloueer MONDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1920 MEAT CAUSE OF KIDNEY TROUBLE Take Salts to Flush Kidneys If Back Hurts or Blad- der Bothrers If you must have your meat every day, eat it, but flush your Kkidmeys with salts occasionally, says a noted authority who tells us .that meat torms uric acid which almost paraly- zes the kidneys”in their efforts to ex- pel it from the blood: They hecome sluggish and weaken, then you suf- fer with a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back pr sick headaches, dizziness, your stom- - act fine. This famous salts is mdde . the weather is bad you have rieuma-~ tic twinges: The urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the channels often get sore and irritated, obliging you to seek reliefztwo or three time during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids, to cleanse the kidneys and flush off the body’s urinous waste get four ounces of Jad Salts from any phar- macy here; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a. few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made frogn the acid of .grapes .and lemon juice, combined with lithia,-and has been used for generations to flush and' stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to. neutralize the acids in urine, so it no longer irritates, thus ending blad- der weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot injure, and makes a delightful effer- vescent lithia-water drink. . 'REX-Wednesday ‘Presenting the Mansfield of the Screen - Monroe Salisbury In a Drama That Vibrates the Chords of Love and Hate “The Phantom Melody” With a hardly suppressed cry she started from her seat—forgetful of the audience—of her escort—of all the world. Again she heard the Phantom Melody— and the artjst at the piano was—the man she loved! THURSDAY William Fox presents America’s Most Popular Actor —in— ROUGH AND READY By Richard Stanton and Ed. Sedgwick. Directed by Richard Stanton e ot Standard Pictures, Fox Film Corporation ' Dafactive