Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 18, 1920, Page 4

IN PARIS” AT GRAND hero 8 a'new joy under the sun < 1n store for.t & t:eatre tunlg%t when the successful musical comedy treat’The Million Dolar Doll in-Paris’”: plays here. ‘It is billed as'the biggest novelty and dance show of the year and the aristocrat of ‘modern ? ;lmbcomedy, a8 Mr. Orr has-outdon vious efforts in making th ‘third edition of the “Doll" ];m any of its predecessors, saying a'lot:when:a person stops hink that the ‘Million Dollar Doll has played to more people in the Unilad States and Canada than any other musical comedy on the road today. So there must be a reason, " afd-that reason is, Mr. Orr ‘has al- ways-kept- the “Doll Show’’ up-to a high standard of excellence, SO that peoplg know. before, hand that: they are going to gét more than full value for their money in the way of amuse- ment, haunting melodies, wonderful scenic effects, novelty dancing and pretty girls. The plot of “The Million" Dollar Doll -in Paris” is a tuneful tale.of youth; beauty and- nughter Jack Dale, a young dociety. man, ig in love with “Dolly” but . Col. Barrington, her guardian, thinks that Jack is too much for suclety and not_enébugh for ‘buginess,- 50 hefore he will consent to the marriage-he insists that Jack something in a business way.' .An: agreement is reached in which the ‘eolonelis to give Jack ten thousand dollars and, f he doubles it withina 1 consent to his marrfagé » How Jack -tries to oney -on horse races, | stock markets and diamond mines:is all told in the three big acts starting in New York-and Ending in Parls. “A;larger company than. usual is cagried by Mr. Orr this season and is ‘made up eof some well known musi-] ell/cm dy - favorites. assisted by a leoro nf pretty. in: - gorgeous ns. - Twenty, big song hité are intersperséd”thruout the action of the play,, EXCELLENT COMEDY AT - .. GRAND “ARE YOU A MASON” e patrons of the Grand t Fdramatic. appeal. liun pictures, has sufferec.a change of heart and .avill be tec1’ ai the Rx theatre onh Tucsday as tha heronie »f the 'sweu'g,t Irich ‘lov2story ever d.“Phis is “Kathleen Mavourneen a ‘big: William - Fox special \;rme. Land’ dirceted: by «Charles J, who was.inspired.by the 0ld: poem of: the same name b; “Julla, Craw~j ford, the Irish poetess.” Misg ‘Bara’s new Yole’ ‘eet slmplicl_ty. most efféctive thing - shi done—and her past performances in- clude a long’ list of courtesans such as, ‘“Cleopatra,” “DuBarry,” “Car-| men” “Camille,” “The.Darling of Pa- rls " “The She»Devil" and “'Salome.” | EDGAR I.EWIS’S “LAHOMA” . FILM THAT WILL LIVE . Once every 80 often a producer suc- ceeds in creating a photoplay that excells in historic value; as well as in,| Of such ‘quality is E invued. ; 1t is said to be the|- i damp atwosphe ENGI.ISH EVANGEL LU Servncea at Town of 'thn, 10 a. m. ) ‘Sunday ‘school nt 11 5 a. m.’ Services in Bemidji at~2i45 p. m. at_the First Scandinavian Lutheran. The pastor ‘will discuss‘at length ithe quesuon of “Religious Eduéa- .tion.” The sermon Wwill be:based:on Psalms - 78:5-7.. All most: cordially Erdman W.'Frenk,‘pastur:. ] 2 A ST 10: 30——Sunday school. 11: so—Morning servic a ! 8:00p.” m.—Evening service. Evnngells', Robert ‘L. Moyer! preach ‘morning and ‘evening, Blble conference during the week of Sep- tember 19 to 26. Afternoo; at 3o’clock and evening s vlcés as 8 o’clock. ‘Bveryone lnvited to. lattend all these services. George WxKehoe, pastor. the feature, “Lahoma,” which, in the|- lore of the frontier, is an ‘abbrevia- tion of Oklahoma. Edgar Lewis, who-has a long list of remarkable films to his credit, took his entire company to the plains of Oklnhoma and succeeded ip reprodue- ing a viyid and. graphic picture of pioneer "days on the wegern plains. The hazards and hardships of the “Boomers;” their feuds and fighting; their simple pleasures and lonely sor- rows—in fact, their very lives are complelely re-lived, re-born in “La- homa.” ~“We wish every school child and a ‘good many grown-ups couldf see this. interesting, ~entertaining photoplay, which remains at the Rex theatre until Monday. = ~ The plot is distinctly thrilling. It measures up satistactorfly ‘with the 'best ‘current offerings.” But the im- lportant point and'chief jnterest in the picture is just what - the - title 'states— - “‘Lahoma”—pklahoma - be- fore the days of oil booms and cattle; the story of homsteading pioneers, of 'roving .Indians, of sun<blazing .days and starlit nights. Mr, ‘Lewls has assembled an-excel- lent cast, with the work of Russell Simpson, little Peaches Jackson and Louise Burnham standing out prom- inently. - Mr. Simpson’s protrayal of the tender. hearted outlaw touches PRESBYTERIAN Sunday morning at the Presbyter- famr church at 11 o’clock; the pastor will. speak on the subject; ‘‘Strange Fire.” (Luke 1 0).:Sunday evening at 8 o’clock the' sermon will be: on the theme, “An Empty Purse and its Results,” (Luke 15:14). . Sunday school will meet at 10 a. m., and Chrisifan’ Endeavor.at 7 p. m. All are most cordially welcome. ' SWEDISH LUTHERAN Sunday school at 9:45. ‘Evening service 'in English lan- guage at 8 o'clock. ¥ T. B: Nordale, pastor ST. PAUL'S EVANG:—LUTHERAN Sixth street and- America ayenue. Sunday school meets at .9:30;a. m. There will ‘be no morning wership Sunday morning at 10:30. the(pas- tor will preach atythe Missionary Fe: tival at Little Fa}l ——Confirmation _classes will be ‘held every Tuesday and Fuday at Young neoyle s leagne will me t at {7 p. m. Sunday evening. s g Wminm F. Kamphenkel, METHODIST Cothmended Servant,” o doesn’t enjoy a good laugh—| deep. . Peaches Jackson 1s adorable as|the ‘theme at the Sunday. morning _the mere polite - “ha-ha” " that sounds flat and superficial, but a real| Burnham is vivacious and pretty as|Christ,’'at 8 p. m. genuine spasm of mirth, deep seated the child ' “Lahoma” ' and :Louise| the young girl. ' Others excellently service’at 10:30, and “The Colliplete Sunday school at 12 and Ej and irrepressible, that brings tears|fulfilling the requirements of.their|League'at:7 p. m. to;the eyes, and makes you sldes che for a day afterward. - That.is what is.coming Wednendny and Thursday, Sept. 29 and. 30, when the American Legfion boys ' will-pre- gent their excellent company of plny- ers and, merriment provokers, in the, side splitting comedy ‘“Are You a Mason,” or “How Father Joined the Lodge.” 1t is likely you will begin to- giggle :as soon @s you. buy. your ticket if not before, -and it will grow on youruntil the’show starts and then you: ean, go to it right, for if any thing is funnier than ‘“Are You A ‘Mason’ ’it.-hasn’t been discovered yet. And the men should not be selfish but should let the women folks en~| joy the fun; too, for the women en- joy first' class _amusement just as fauch as {he ‘mén do. And ladies, don’t fail”to’make the men take you to the one play which proves that a! mman should neyer lie to his wife. This world famous comedy will be present- ed at the grand theatre. THRILLING COMEDY DRAMA Billle Burke’s latest starring vehi- cle. “Away Goes Prduence,” which will be shown at the Elko theatre Siinday, ‘Monday and Tuesday. 1s a thrliing comedy drama which should prove delightlul entertainment for patrons of Mamager ‘Whaley’s play-" .house. ‘This 'Paramount Arteraft: photovlay affords Miss Burke one of the best roles of her screen career and with many successes to her-cred- it, that is saying a good deal. Percy Marmont is her leading man. The story was written especially . for the | stsr by Josephine Lovett St. John | . Comedy. “Cleaning Up” which .also comes to the Elko theatre next Sun-- day, Monday and Tuesday is replete - with actfon. thrills and unusual cli maxed. which make it a melndramn‘ ‘respective -roles: 'are~ :Jack Perrin, ‘Wade Boteéler, ' Will Jeflrtes, Lurllne Lyons, S. B.Phillips, H. M. Lifidley, John Carlyle and Yvetco Mltchell FAMOUS 0. HEREY STORY WITH JACK PICKFORD. STAR No writer-has ever gaine, | widespread popularity with tHe:Am- erican public thain-O. Henry hedause his stories have a distinct human ap=] peal. “A. Double-Dyed - Degeiver”, which is to be shown Sunday- and Monday at the Grand theatre’ of his.best stories, with Jack Pick ford in the star part. The ‘Llando Kid was tough was hard. "~ He was tremendously vain about his ability to handle a six-gun, Anti¥ gosh? -how he hated Mexicans! But was he really bad cléan thru— or .was.it only the boasted talent for: wickedness of a youth Whoehad neves known a home or a mother’s love? In i "A Double-Dyed Deceiver’’—O0. Hen- Tv's most: popular:book—Jack . Pick- ford portrays a’ tough, young cow- ' puncher from Texas -who suddenly runs up against an influencé that had been lacking in ‘his life. - Without sentimentality or gush this picture tells a tale that will bring a lump to your throat. Jack Pickford has: a .role ‘thiat gives hm every chance to display his unusual talents, and: Ma- rie.Dunn plays the sweet little Span- j<h' girl who taught him the meaning ‘of love. H. B. WARNER IN “THE GRAY WOLF’S. GHOST When old Koorotora put th& “In- dian curse” on the Guitierrez family he started something that furnished a lot of excltem nt ghree centuries ater. 2 Harry Weat didn't knuw anylhing as well as comeédy. Mr. St. .ohnm, al-; ways on the lookout. for something different. decided that a melodram- atlc comedy wonld be: just the thing for his second starring vehicle and “Cleaning Up.” is the result. For ad- vance showings, i3 said to be.one of the funnjiest comedies produceu this season. L - e BX“OW F""‘?T) SFEN’ ON SCRFEN IN NEW MTX i FEATIRE “THE FEUD” ‘mhepessing pf the morarch of the| . plaine—the \mrxricwn bison—gener- v ¢alled the bufs: Yn—ijs recalled hy e Feud,” Tom Mix feature which William I-‘M will present tonight at the Rex {theatre. A herd of bison and a bison. hunt @re shown on the screen in this feat- ure. Tom Mix and his company went from Los Angeles, Cal., to Pon- ca: City, Okla.. to get the animals to be protographed. than 5,000 bison left in the whole United States according to the most recent estimate; and the famous 101 Ranch, owned Col. Joe Miller, con- tains the: largest single herd. = Per- mission to photograph the herd was obtained thru the personal friendship # between Tom Mix and Col. Miller— who_ even permitted the. daredevil star to slioot down one of his bison ii;‘ur!ng the hunt now recorded in Ims. " “THEDA BARA COMING ’ AS AN IRISH COLLEEN After the way comes peace. After the storm comes sunshine. After the winter cqmes spring. After 200 miles of sin in fllm, comes ‘‘Kathleen Mayourneen.” Theda Bara, who has vampired her way thra two hundred miles of mo- (valley. There are fewer|. about the prophecy when he' made love to Maruja, the Spanish beauty. Pereo, superstitious major-domo of the Guitierrez family, started out.to get the “Gringoes’’ life-blood. . After murdering Harry’s father, he {naug- urated a lynching bee with Harry as the main attraction, but just as they were about to swing Harry into another world, the “demon-god of the big wolf” came shrieking thru the Harry éscaped,.while Pereo fell a victim téo “The ~“Fay Wolf's Ghost.”” A thrm!ng dram'xt{zntmn of “(Mar- " Bret Harte's great story of ear- ly: California’ days, starring- H. ' B. Warner, famous actor of two con- tinents, is the feature picture at‘the Elko theatre,.last showings tonight. “He Laughs Last” keeps those who see the picture laughing all'tne time. It is a Big “V” c¢omedy, starring Jimmy Aubrey,,and. will, ralso. be Shown at the Blko tonight. The fights ir 'the cemetery and in the sheriff's omce and the burial of the:“bad man’ while still very much alive, are screamingly funny. The ac- tion is fast from start to finish. Now for Tree Planting. Trees for city street planting may be of the same kind for 3 dozen blocks. and must. be evenly spaced, says the American Forestry association of Washington, which will send a free tree planting gulde to any one. When treés are planted along a country road- side 1t 1s better to have them in groups of a few kinds and Informally lo- cated. Well to Remember. ‘Well-kept back yards pay better atv- idends than well-kept cemeteries. Hell *The ‘Joy .of the Lord strength.”. Blaine Lambert, minister. English langna,ge Sunday sl 12 o’clock. An advlt Bihle be organlzed next Sunday T firmation cha eets on Fires ernoon. at- 4 0'clock. . %’ % J. mass at 10 o’clock al m. sechool, followed by benediction of | WPlessed sacrament, at.'11:30 ‘Baptisms at- 2 1 benediction at'4.0 "elock. 1 TOWH LIVES WITH|N |TSELF dllh on the Tsland of Santo Entirely Without Accomm: 4 for Travelers. mingo, tion "“The town of Seibo, on the lsiand’ of { Santo Domingo, notorious for its ban- dit tribes, 1s one of the - few communi~ commodltmna. .. -the. stranger finding nothlng but thatched ‘huts with nests:on tltm legs for Yeds, and a nwd old. negro crone- for a servant. _Seibo the-way, dstonished'at-strangers, un- equn!n slze bandit- thmtoncd» door. show ‘unbounded surpfise to see Amer- fcen civillans: Groups of almost fop- pishly - dressed ‘men .lounge in the | streets, yet the town 1tselt s um. “short of fiithy. A curlous old church, a part of it Jbullt 400 years ago, ‘on ‘the' top of | which is the marine. wireless ‘station; 16" the -only bullding “of ‘importance. From the iop of this church Setbo is seen to be ‘surrcunded by low hills, everywher# wooded, without a hut out- side its compact mass, described by Harry A. Franck in the Oentury Mag- azine, as having “its’ mru drawn Tike those of a nervous old mlfd constant. dregil. of mire.” also has the proverblal garrlm hohlo that seems like a fort of the medieva) The highest. wind ve]odty ever. ob- served below ten kilometers’ altitude was 83 meters a_second or 186 miles an hour, observed from a pilot balloon over . Lansing, Mich,, at a teight of i| ‘about: four and a half miles, on Dec. 17, 1919. Travels of the Potato. It is believed that potatoes were first grown in South America and that the Spaniards took them back to Eu- rope when they overran Peru. Pota- toes were later “introduced to Italy, France, England, Ireland and to North America, in the order named. D m—Yomig people’s meeting, 4 Splders hide;themselves in threnten- ing weather, “THIs 18 because ‘they know insects-dg not. Ay about In the J pmeflhg raln, and .'rhe most sensitive {pstrument yet made ‘18 the bolometer,” orfginally’ in- |- vented by Langley,’ which is*used for measuring varlations in the radiation of -heat. It registers: to a millionth of a degree.; The heart of itiis:a plat- inum wire: o -thin‘ that it cannot be seen except when a ray-of brlght light 18 reflected from fit. ' by washing forks and spoons that have Eyo 6' thc Ostrlch. : ine ostrich's eye Is‘as large as am. ofdinary marble. He' has microwopie vision and can see.-thie’ most mlnuta‘ particle. The eyelid «does not move'; over the eye. Instead there 1s,a film which flashes across It from time to, time, Aomewhnl llkl thethttcr ot Whe - Sugar, s Not For. 8 Sugar,..as such, It .not 10 be pur- chased in .a Central. African village, but the people do not rfeed it, for they. have. fruit all the year round,-and the children have sugar cane. to. suck.dr the sweet. stalks of the sweet malu plantsito chew. ~ ; B oo lnlécflen on ‘Tableware. ' Experlmenm by Dr..J. Cumming prove that fnfectious diseases of the throat and lungs are transmitted easily A teacher -of English colleges ‘describes & money lender. ¢ follows: “He serves you the, ent_ tense,\lends_:in the condi ,mooJ keeps you in the mbmflvo ‘and \'ulns you ln flxe futur 2 ! been. used by the sick’ in the same water as tableware for the rest ot the household s Prices 75¢, -‘l and ' $1.50, - plul war ‘tax; Seats‘ now || selling at box office. Cllrhin " rises n*‘S:lE lhi-p. 2 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER "HARVEY D.ORR Offers ' THE NEW THIRD EDITION, OF THE EVERLASTING SUCCESS - WITH THE INCOMPARABLE BIA HAROLD S. ORR 20 Soxe Hirs 40PEoPLE - BeW1tcb1173 Broad way 00]]5 CAST OF CHARAC',I'ERS Peaches Jackson Louise Burnham © Mrs. Gledware. Will Compton.. i “Brick” Wmock Red Kimball.. ...Jack Perrin : Russell Simpson ’ .S. B. Phillips Will: Jefferis Yvette, Mitchell .....H.-M. Lindley Kansas Kimbal .John Carlyle: Produced and directed by. Edgar - " Lewis. Ellis, _ Story. by. John Breckenridge. | Photography by Edward C. Earle. e There s Heatt Appeal in Every Flash——It’s Western Drama. . DONT MISS “LAHOMA” Matm’ee 2:30—10c and 30c ’ Superbly Enacbed : : T’S A GREAT PICTURE - Nights 7:10 and 9:00—30c TEN NIGHTS COMEDY—IN BARR ROOM ¢ Remember Rex Union Orchestra Matinee and Evening