Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 10, 1920, Page 4

PICTURE AT THE REX TODAY It ‘you haven’t been to the Rex treto see “From Now On” today your last chance to view this big apectacular Fox productiron. This Dicture is one of the most dramatic and tense in which George Wialsh has ‘Deen'seen. This story of the under- world, by Frank L. Packard, author “The Miracle Man,” is a triple . masterpiece of star, story and direc- . If you haven't seen it, don’t fail'to do so. .’ \ At the first: announcement that Shirley Mason was to the starred in ‘the William Fox.film version of Israel Zangwill's famous play, ‘‘Merely Mary Ann,” critics sald: “Why, of ‘vourse. . This is the inevitable role for. this dainty girl. The wornder is that she hasn’t done it before.” The first showing of the picture in this city will take place at the Rex thea- tre on Armistice Day. /" Sweet and dainty, with a quaint- ness-of gesture that is as charming a8 her face, Mis3 Mason seems made for the role of Mary Ann, the little London ' “slavey” who falls in love, .with a musician, struggles hard against misfortune but smiles thru it all and then finds before the end that she good cause to smile. The pi was made under the direction ‘of'Bdward J. Le Saint. The, part of Lanpgélci; the yourlg musician who turns outfto be a lord’s son in e capable hands of Other players are eorgia Woodthorpe, JKewpie” Morgan. Casson Ferr ® Harry Spir .e? “ Babe Lon. 2 “NOMAD. E THE NORTH” A" E THEATRE SUNDAY Jame~ ilver/ Curwood, has mo) than rej .ted—whe has passed the mastery he hal achievéd in “Bac to God’s Country” and has given:t i Iovers of the cingpd art perhaps tlie greatest animal and guma interest story it has ever had in the latest As- soclated First Natlomaliteatire, ““No- mads of the North”.) The)extra- ordinary spectacles -projected picture certainly beggar’descéiption —the remarkable perforthance of a Jbear. and dog, acting . more human ! than brute, and the reilistic forest ! fire constitutiong two- high spots which one couia never forget. An- other outstanding feature of this pro- duction {8 the quite unusual photog- raphy, many of the scenes being un- doubtedly the zenith of pictorial per- this | |HOW “THE WONDER MAN” WAS “FATTY” ARBUCKLE APPEARS " \WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10, 1020 JEVENING, Admirers of Roscoe Arbuckle, the pertly comedian, enjoyed a rare treat when he was presented in his first feature play, “The Round YUp” a Paramount ~ picture produced: by George Melford, at the Elko theatre yesterday. “The Round Up” which again ap- pecrs at the Elko tonight and tomor- row, is a capital story of the south- west and there are thrills aplenty in the_action. The scenes dre laid in Apache land and in the development of-the plot, Indians, renegades, fron- tiersmen and young women are em- ployed in vast variety. - The theme is one of self-sacrifice and as a result the climaxes are highly dramatic. It is safe to say that Mr. Arbuckle as the sheriff does some of the most ef- fective work of his screen career, and his complaint that “nobody loves a'’ fat mah,” insofar as he is personally | concerned, is a fallacy. i The production leaves little to be desired. The piec- | turization of Tom Forman who has a | strong role in the picture, s unus-| ually clever. The support is more | than adequate, the portrayal of the hercine by Mabel Julienne Scott be- | ing artistically satisfying. RESCUING WOMAN FROM FIRE IS A SURE HAIR-REMOVER During the filming of Benjamin B. Hampton’s big Zane ‘Grey production, “Riders of the Dawn’” a W."W. Hod- kinson release, Roy Stewart had occa- sion to bare his muscular forearms. Exclamations went around. Those forearms, which had won for him box- ing and rowing championshivs.and were kept constantly in trim were worth seeing. “But they're so hairy!’ protested a lady visitor to the studio. *“Why doesn’t he use some good remover. Five minutes later Mr. Stewart dia the scene where he rescues Claire Adams from a burning hayloft, in which she lies helpless, bound and gagged. In this dangerous stunt his arms were badly singed, and as he re- marked while holding them out for first aid: 3 “I don’t need any hair, remover on them now!” 2 “Riders of the Dawn" comes to the Grand Saturday and Sunday. CHOSEN FOR SHOWING HERE ‘When ‘the Georges Cnrpenfier pic- ture “The Wonder Man’ was first put on the market, it was regarded with deep suspicion by the various tection. : -, .. As was the case in “Back to God’s Country” the locale of “Nomads of the North’ 'is in the Far North, where one man’s intense love and an- other man's hot hate combine to make a piece-de-resistance all the most confirmed lover of thrilling sus- pense could possibly ask. The whole atory concerns a villainous opposition first to the marriage and then to the happiness of that married life of a virile northern trapper and a beau- tiful orphan of a wild trading post. Indescribable hardships are placed.in the way by the hand of Fate and it is . not until the very last that the dark cloud of punishment for murder .is litted from the hero’s life thru the manly sacrifice of a dashing and alto- gether interesting member of the Canadian Mounted Police. Lon Chaney and Betty Blythe, in the two leading characters, share honors and each gives a performance in which high silentjart dominates. Lewis Stone runs the leading duo a close second race by giving one of the best character studies of the real | “Canadian minion of the law in re- gions where it is difficult for the law to reach. The animal actors in the plcture deserve profuse praise and| 4t is a foregone conclusion they make this play one of the foremost matinee hits of the season since its appeal to ‘women and children is so great. ) “BRIDE 13” LAST TIME AT THE REX THEATRE TODAY .Directors of motion pictures are apt to find themselves in need at a moment’s notice of some of the most extraordinary object. The men who write the scenarios have very active dbrains, and frequently incorporate in t:ulr manuscripts places and things that tax the resourcefulness of the director. Richard , Stanton, who staged “Bride 13", William Fox's great se- rial, had a few things to say about Edward Sedgwick, the man who wrote the scenario, when he came to the' sixth episode. That . particu- 1ar “chapter places the heroine, shackled and helpless, on the rack in, a torture chamber with a vicious tar-' @nlula climbing over her body pre-| yaring to strike. ! > The serial company was at work in New York, and everyone knows that tarantulas don’t grow there. “‘Where : willl we get one of those confounded : jnsects?” Stanton asked his company. No one could suggest a solution un- . tl}. Sedgwick came into the ‘‘set.” v:;uwlck had an idea and he piped " “I'Hl.tell you what to do. 1 come from Texas, where the tarantulas grow along the Rio,Grande. The Texas Rangers are all friends of nd I'll send to the command- ’fl‘ cer to get a tarantula up here Pprento.” .~ (Sedgwick sent the wire and, sure enough, within a week a cardboard box with -airholes pierced in it reach: ed the studios of the Fox Film Cor- % ation In New York. Inside was as ly & ‘speciman of tarantula as a Mexan ever saw. The scene was aved for Director Stanton. * great insect was kept on. a I in the technical director’s office 'ween acts, and everyone kept at a p ul. distance from it with the ot Sedgwick, who knew dHe the prize. 3 scene will iy theatre managers thruout the coun- try, on account of the unknown star, and the possibility of the producers’ probable use of the great popular- ity of the “Gentleman Boxer,” as Carpentier ‘has been called, to sell a poor picture to the pubiic. Heedful of this suspicion, and still on the alert for first class pictures, Manager Harding of the Grand The- atre, made arrangements to Have the ftlmed shipped to*Bemidji for screen- irg. This was done several weeks ago. Some twenty. local people saw the picture on the trial run, with the result that the picture was immedi- ately contracted for at an almost pro- hibitive rental. In reviewing ““The Wonder Man”, Carpentier’'s handsome clean-cut manliness, his ‘ready smile, and his magnetic personality were the out- —_— == [P , by Mr. Melford |- |the speed with which {travels, fans that interest to a white _sions. Prices are be-" THE BAZAAR STORE EXTRAVAGANCE LEADS TO 'BANKRUPTCY * By Hox. Hevay H. SIBLEY, P 7 “We have before us the lgssons of-the past to warn us against thé tendency of extravagant ex- penditures which has been the bain of some of the old as well as some of the new states, which Governor, Minnesota, 1858. has crippled their resources, in-. jured their financial credit, bur-’ dened them with taxation and brought them in some instances to the verge of bankruptcy.’— Governor Henry H. Sibley, Jan. 3, 1858. Experiments in legislation along” Socialistic lines is ex- travagance in the extreme. HENRY H. SIBLEY s S 2 standing features of the picture, and contrary to expectations, his natural demeanor before the camera, gives his work the appearance of & finished actor. The story opens with. a superb scene at a faghionable reception in Washington, D. C., whil the spectator’s interest ai the , story heat ‘when two smashing climaxes, one in which “the affair of honor” is scitled with padded gloves in ' the fachionable club, and the disclosure cf who the ‘“‘mysterious = stranger” really wae. It is a.great picture. Marguerite Moores Marshall says, in the New York Evening World: It is impossible to 'imagine anything unlike the conventional conception:of a low-browed eats-em-alive, *‘brutal” ring hero than this tall, slender, ur- bane and debonair young exquisite, with his Beau Brummel wardrobe, his ilower-filled six-room suite at -the Biltmore, his fondness for grand op- ert, his membership in all the best clubs in London and Paris, his culti- vated taste in music, art and liter- ature, and last—although, of course, she, comes firstz—his wellbred, well educated] attractive, girlishly charm- ing wite. The “Wonder Man” is the special attraction for today and Arm- ictice Day at the Grand theatre. Famous Conservatory Gone. The celebrated horticultural conserv atory on the ducal estates at Chats- worth hall, near Manchester, England, collapsed recently—as surely destroyed by the World war 8s any , French or Belglum structure on. the * western front, ‘says Popular Mechanics ‘Maga- zine. The glass house was erected in 188640, and served as a model for the great Crystal palace still to be seen pear London. It was itself of no mean size, medsuring, as it did, 277 feet long, 123 feet wide and 67 feet high. For- ty thousand panes of glass formed the arching walls and-roof, e Ready-fo-Wear Sale ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12 We put on sale every £ ladies’ and misses Coat Suit and Waist at Cost Never before have we made such, sweeping reductions: in prices ‘on up-to- date merchandise so early in the season, but in order té make a thorough clean-up in record breaking time we offer you these price conces- ing lowered on sta- ple merchandise- daily to meet chang- ing conditions. A OO OO RO CR RO RSOOSR R RO :) compels once, and | SPIDER REALLY HAS BRAINS Is Possessed of Degree -of Inteliigence That Has Been Recognized by Scientists. Spiders are commonly spoken of as insects, but they aren’t. They belong to a very different order of animals, | being “arachnids.” They get this name, by the way, from_a mythologicnl maiden named ‘Arachne, who was so proud of her weaving: that she challenged Minerva to a trial of skifl. The goddess ac- cepted the challenge, but finding her- self in danger of defeat, lost her tem- per, struck her presumptuous rival and turned her into a gpider. The spider 19 -incomparably more Intelligent than any insect, and its cleverness as a maker of nets obtain- ed for it a well-warranted admiration. It Is the female that does this work, the male being only a fraction of her size and of no account except for con- tinuing the specles. . A spider has what may be called & recognizable brain. But so, for the matter of ‘that, has a_. caterpillar, though less well developed. 'The nerv- ous system of the latter 13 a mere string intervals H“m‘ it with knots of nerve stuff (ganglia) at |SHRINE'S MEANING NOT PLAIN: Erected to the Memory of Japanese 4~ Maid, But Its Precise Idea i , Hardly Apparent, One of| the pretty shrines of Japar 18 based on the story of a beautiful gir,, and to this day occidentals can not figure out if the shripe was to .| perpetuate a tragedy or an honor. The story is that Yamatodake, one 'of the greatest warriors in the history of the country, halted for a -night at: the village of Shimodaira, He'was weau; of battle and strie, and sent out-word to the village'that he ‘wished. to be entertained by the prettiest girl there. Kemachiya. was selected; and it is.told how" she spent the evening’ slnging | and dancing for the warrior. He went || on his masterful way the next morning \| leaving the little maiden to mourn his passing, and to give birth to his cbild in due time. Now, the child dled, as did its moth- er, and the village erected the shrine, and every few years it is rebuilt and made, more beautiful. But what no occidéntal can discover s whether the shrine was bullt to remind the citizens | of the. militarism of the old days that trod with .relentless heels on beggar and ‘wealthy alike; and thus to pay ' tribute -to o tragedy, or whether It was built to show that the great war- r honored the humble village by .'zgilng one of its membership into his “arms. Y ———————————— L g .YOU WANT TO' GET . THE WANT YOU WANT TO GET YOU WANT TO GET IT IN THE GREAT WANT GETTER, THE BEMIDJI PIONEER b — THE PIONEER WANT ADS " BRING RESULTS. — __._____________-J—_—:;; YOU GOING TO LEAVE THEM OUT IN THE SNOW ? ARE T when not in use. 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