Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 31, 1921, Page 4

%g, : 8 i THE BEMIDJI DAILY FIONEER i i [} ALASKAN CLASSIC COMING TO GRAND |ing Venus in’thestarring role. and Ken-| With Dorothy Dalton, neth Harlan in the leading roles, Thos. H..Ince’s motion picture classic | whese clothés-gho her crusading of the famous gold rush to the Yu- father. She is sdh;%‘:y two suitors, kon is to be shown ‘Wednesday and . Thursday at the Grand theatre. - titul women “staked “The Flame of the. Yukon” is a story of the frozen north when men braved the dangers and forces of na-|famous as a swimmer, known tp mil- trve to win fortunes and where beau- | lions' of playgoers for her work in greatest | “Neptune's Daughter,” “The Daught- The atmos- ! er of the Gods,” and “The Queen of phere ‘of Alaska-in the days of the|the Sea” is considered to be at ber famous gold rush when there wasbest in this modern comedy drama:’ their gut arainst- man’s gold. “no law '¢¢ God.'6F ‘man” in the min- * ing camps is depicted in dramatic fa- shion,- -~ ~-o - Chester ;Conklin, the famous Sen- nett comedian will also appear in his newest: two part comédy, “The Soft! Boiled Yegg," SPARKLING COMEDY FULL OF LAUGHS | There is lots of good fun on tap at the Grand theatre tonight. “The Snob” is the attraction. It is a rollicking story of college-Jife with all the “pep” and ‘“jazz” associated with those halcyon days. The production is Wanda Hawley's latest starring vehicie for Realart and in many ways it i3 her best. Cer- tainly the part of the reformed Snob fits her as if made to order. much interesting drama—and plenty. of fun in the scenes which change her from an ‘up-stage’ heiress tc the really human girl that's under- neath all her superciliousness. William (‘“Babe”) Lawrence .i8 convincing as the colley> football hero whose job as a waiter in the college commons starts ‘all the trouble. And of course fat Walter Hiers as a “trouble fixer” s a2 posi- tive scream. This plump and popular actor gets better with every appear- ance. This college boy role exceeds even his previous work in “Oh, Lady Lady” and “Miss Hobbs.” Hiers, however, is not the only fat fun maker. Sylvia Ashton is pre- sen't to give her usual delightful im- personation of a soclally climbing, newly-rich mother. Edwin Stevens, well-known character man, plays op- posite her in some very delicious do- mestic comedy business. The story will be recalled as a William J. Neidig Saturday Evening Post offering of September, 1918. Alice Eyton wrote the scenario, and Sam Wood directed. There are several “‘shots” of an ex- citing football game with ‘all the col- or and life therein acsociated. The college campus stuff is very true tc life, creating a splendidly accurate atmosphere. The college “prom’ is a clever.scene which will be relished by former college students. All of the vivacious, carefree life of such affal;s is splendidly depicted. “His First Tintype' a two part comedy completes the program. “LOVE. HONOR AND BEHAVE" REX. LAST TIMES TODAY It would seem that Mack Sennett is determined to help in neducing di- vorce in the world. His ‘“Married Life" it will be remembered, snowed the folly of most marital misunder- standings, Ben Turpin being the agent of reconciliation. “Love , Hon- or and Behave,’ 'a First National At- traction which we saw yesterday at the Rex theatre shows the folly of most cuspiefons. Charles Murray be- ing the agent in the reconciliation. In ‘‘Married Life"” it was Jjealousy on the part of the husband who wrongly suspected his wife. In *‘Love, Honor and Behave” it is jealousy on the part of the wife who wrongly suspects her husband. They are but bride and groom and this is their first quarrel. The bride, Marie Prevos! appeals to ‘Judge’ Murray, whom she interrupts while he is seated in his robes at Court. The suspected bride- groom i3 George O'Hara and this part of the Sennett production is portray- ed in high distinction, it being legiti- mately done, the roles being played straight and the whole affair carried off with dramatic power and convic- tion. Persuaded of the innocence of the bridegreom, ‘‘Judge” Murray pro- cecds to relate to the unhappy pair an experience of his own in order to prove that circumstantial evidence, such as that possessed by the bride is dangerous testimony, invalid, scan- dalous and false. The picture here takes up Murray's narrative and im- mediately the beholder is plun:e a sea of hilarious humor with every once in a while a “cut-back” to tL “Judge's” chanibers showing hin continuine his story to the rapidly melting bride. 5 “CRIMSON SHOALS” AT THE REX THEATRE THURSDA The romarkable spectacle of Fran cis Ford choking Francis Ford while Francis Ford lodks calmly on thru a open window i3 in store for the pai rons of the Rex theatre when “Crim son Sioals is shown as a special at- traction next Thursday. In this ex- traordinary film attraction Ford play three roles: father, son and grandf ther. He I8 shown- 8haking han’ with hipcelf and in one scene aj pedrd ‘il the threc chatacters at tl. same moment. ™" “WHAT WOMEN LOVE"—REX TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY A 150 foot dive from the mast of o PITMnE Behvoner.” Aghriling battle between a young SOCi! twenty feet below the surface of the sea. An uneven battle between a young socie ¥ man and a mutinous crew on a tramo fchooner. These are just a few of the tense g : Mtk . ‘mofaents in ¢ shield them from all harm.” The Ibos 1 0 Annette Kellerman's modern comedy ..o, 1 “What Women Love, drama which comes to the Rex thea- There is! y girl and a gorilla-like man | ;té;‘an\ Thursdhy as Sol $600,000:00. p ucgion with the div- As Annabel (dtton, the star de- picts the role of lan athletic girl vastly different im ¢ype, and marries i the one-that she herself teast expect- ed to marry. e Annette Kellerman, internationally Nate Watt, who was Lois Weber's: directorial associate before he wa commandeered by Lesser, directed the modern Venus in “What Women Love”,"a First Nation®1 Attraction. ‘Manyof the scenes were made in the “Sputh’ Pacific ‘and’ the dramatic worth of the story is enhanced by beautiful scenery and elaborate set- jtings. | ;"m BY THE ENEMY” | AT THE ELKO TONIGHT | An interesting drama of love, and | hate, in Civil War days, is “‘Held by i the-¥nemy,” the Paramount picturi- :zatlon ofk:William Gillette’s famous I play, which ‘wi n beé shown at |the Elko theatre to#ght, also Tues- {day rsatinee and evening. ™ 9 There is just enough of the CIVil’ ‘War flavor about ‘“Held by the Ene- my" to make it relishable. The story |has to do with Rachael Hayne, a i Southern girl, who is supposedly a ‘widow and who lives with ner family in an old manor, which is in posses- {slon of Federal troops commanded by Colonel Prescott. - That officer loves | Rachael and he is about to avow his reciprocated love when . Captain Hayne, the husband, turns up. A ras- cally surgeon is the.Colonel's rival and when Hayne is captured as a |spy, he accuses Prescott of having trumped up the charge against Hayne so as to rid himself of an encum- brance. There are many thrilling moments in the action. The cast is exception- ally fine and includes Agnes Ayres, Wanda Hawley, Lilllan Leighton, Jack Holt, Lewis Stone, Robert Cain, Walter Hiers, and others. The pic-| ture was directed by Donald Crisp. e, | Rulers Whose Ends Were Tragic. For high tragedy nothing can ap- proach the manner in which the Rom- an emperors quitted earth’s stage, Jul- ius Caeser was i ated on the ides of March, Tiberius was suffo- cated, Claudius was poisoned by his | wife, and Commodus by his favorite mistress. Galba was slain by the Practorian guard; Caligula, after hav- | Ing declared himself to be a god, was Lesser's | 3 |:bey amiably, “if you don’t wear it you HAT BOTHERED “UNCLE JDE” Veteran Legislator Objected to “Plug,” But Was Finally Persuaded to Don It Temporarily. Tn 1901 Representative Cannon was | living at the Cochran hotel, and the evening before the innuguration, L. White Busbey, now his private secre- tary, but at that time correspondent af the Chicago Inter Ocean, entered Mr. Capnon's roowm at the hotel and found the venerable legislator standing " betpre -2 mirror and swearing’ bver a plug hat with which he was practie- | ing. / “I tell you I won't wear the d—n thing,” ejaculated Uncle Joe explosive- ly. “I never wore one in my life and | 1 won’t begin now.” 5 “But, Mr. Cannon,” suggested Bus- Will attract more attention in the rade than the president, and you don’t want to do that.” t*How’s that?” snapped Uncle Joe. “Why,” exclaimed Busbey, “vou will he the ouly mau in ‘the carriage that | won't be wearing a silk hat, and you will be too conspicuous.” At that comment Miss Cannon, the daughter whose devotion to her father was so well known, entered the room. “Father w v the hat, Mr. Bus-| Cannon gently. “You | nee i Unele Joe dutifully wore that hat | the next day. Fe wore it again at | the funeral of McKinley. The said to be the only times in his life he-has worn a silk har.—Washington Letter ‘In“Bogtyn Transcript. =P Burning Coal Dust. ~—~ ™~ The enterprises -of ong motorcar manufacturer extend even to the ov ership of mines in West Virgin from which he digs coal for his motor- | car factory. : | In the plant gt River.Rouge, Miclhy., “eight enormous boilers are- being in- slu!lcnl for furnaces which will burn | pulverized coal and gas simultanco! 1y. This will_be accomplished by fir- ing the coal vertically from the top and - injecting the gas horizontally through the side of the furnace, the coal flame and gas flame uniting at the proper point for greatest efliciency. These furnaces will burn 1,000 tons day, and from the time the coal le s the mines in West Vir- ginla until its residue is carried away as ashes, it will not be touched by hu- man hands. All requisite operations will be done mechanically—dumping, pulverizing, carrying to bins, stoking, and even trensportation of the a in small dummy cars. New Type of Oil-Burner. A’ recently developed heavy burning engine of only medium high compression, that s, a_semi-Diesel murdered ; while Nero committed sul- | cide to save himselt from the hands of the exccutioners, —_— | Finger-Rings Dangerous. { According to the Seattle representa- | tive of the shipping board, finger rings constitute a fruitful source of a dents to shipyard' workers. wish to avoid accldents,” authority, “leave them off when you go to work. Within thirty days two | wen have lost fingers as a result ur‘ accidents for which their rings were | responsible, and more than. twenty less serlous mishaps have been reported | i which were due to the spme cause.” | | Shock for the Exploger. ! The sable coat of 150 skins for which £10,000 was paid récently is not, as might be supposed, the wmost expensive fur coat in the world. Some years ago the czarina was presented with an ermine mautle valued ‘at £12.- | 000; and an explorer in eastern Green: Jund recently discovered a native girl weariug a dress of silver fox skins worth, at present prices, nearly £30,- 000.—London Tit-Bits. 13 Mu nstruments of Insects. Buzzing or humming is mainly due to rapid vibrations of the wings, which often strike the air more than a hun. dred times in a second, but there is sometimes a speclal quivering Instru- ment near the base of the wing. Chisping or trilling is due to some sort | of “stridulating” organ, onc hard port being scraped against another, as the | bow on the fiddle—it way be leg :lgulnst\ wing. ! IBOS MEDICINE MAN A medicine man of the 1bos tribes of | southern Nigeria, Africa, with his| stock-In-trade. ~ The Ibgs warriors) smear themselves with medicine “to | four million 1o number, are sewi-civ REX Theatre| Last Times Today WHAT'SIT TO BE— || Divorce, Bigamy, Blackmail or Alimony? | MACK SENNETT Presents his outing for Alimaniacs i LOVE HONOR and BEHAVE | Five Rippling Reels ] The big new idea in mirth-movies, with Charlie Murray, Ford Sterling, Phyllis Ha- ver and Marie Prevost spilling the smues. Billy Bevan, Kalla ‘Pasha, Eddie Gribbon, Fanny Kelly and oth- ers round out a veri- table all-star cast in an entertainment that like Mack Sennett's “Down on the Farm” will appeal with equal force to the old and voung. [tis a toniein five reels for the the- atre-goer. CHRISTIE COMEDY In Two Parts FOX NEWS Rex Union Orchestra Matinee: 2:30—10c-25¢ Evenings:- 7:10-9—10¢-30¢ L ) ¥ adapted (o dses 15 ol fields and localities where the water con- tains large quantities of gritty sub- stances, mwaking it unsafe to inject into the cylinders, says Popular Me- chanics Magazine. The Diesel desizn is adhered to in the new type with the exception that the ex ively high compression pressures of 400 to 500 pounds to the square inch are not used. To start the engine, the mer- cury s brought to a high heat with a blowtorch,. After starting, the heat of the compression and combustion maintaind the {empétature. Mercury is_used, for the reason that it Is a fairly zood heat insulator and keeps the bottom of the chamber hot, and that, ‘thongh It bolls, there is no loss, as the vapor condenses on the-inside wall of the water-jucketed top of the igniter and returns to the bottom. How “onuts Came to Florida. _The ¢ * 1s not a native of Flor- ida, as rally known, but there are mar nem alorg-the coast at Miami. stofy has been that they came T u boat wrecked on the coast L.qrs ago. Doctor Renshaw says that {his is correct, and gives nome of the son of the skipper, say- ing the loat was the Ocean Pearl old” when jone is asked to chaperon a party of g folks” when there are several : party older than the s Cl . DUBLIN PEOPLE ““JUMPY” UNDER LONG WAR STRAIN By Charles M. McCgnn, __ (United Press Staff Correspondent) Dublin, Jan. 15.—(By Mail)—Dub- linites were “jumpy” today. After long months of tension their nerves reacted strangely to sudden sound or unusual sight. It was not fear that controlled them, but something like the nervousness that might attack a soldier” long under ‘five] with allow- ances, of course, for the superior schooling and discipline of the sol- dier. : The soldier, however, is playing a part in the game. He fights back. Here in Dublin, the trace of fear that may be found in some citizens is the danger, real or fancied, that they are menaced as the quarry in the grim game of hare and hounds govern- ment forces are playing with the re- publicans. After months of comparative free- dom from violence, Dublin again has been a center for Sinn Fein and gov- ernment activity and the result of the campaign is plain to be seen in the lives of the residents. Although the upper current of life flows almost as smoothly as in the old days, there is an undercurrent, strong and deadly. “There are daily shootings. Daily the -number of raids are increased. Citizens are stopped on the streets and searched for arms. Daily the violence and death are forgotten—apparently. Actually they are always before the public, The American can visualize Dublin with its busy waterfront, its brick and cobbled pavements, its two_and three story buciness houses risinig from nar row walks and the private homes spreading away from the business center. British uniforms. _ Or the soldiers may be rfiding wildly ~through the streets in their Jorries, tin hats slant- ed over their eyes, rifles pointed to- ward the sidewalks.. The newspapers, instead "of spread- ing the news of the world before their renders, devote entire pages to proc- lamations, ‘declarations of martial Jaw, reports of ambushes, attacls, un- explained shooting and raids. Gener- al news is dispensed with except for two or three short articles chroniclifig outstanding events. The’remainipg space is filled with apparently endless lists of killed and woundéd civilians, police and soldiers. A common sight in Dublin is a lor- ry lead of auxiliaries, green unirorm- ed and tam o’shantered, racing down. a street. Suddenly the emergency brake is jammed on. The lorry swer- ves and shoots at a right angle to the curb. The auxiliaries Teap over the cides before the machine has stopped. Some instantly take positions as sentries. Others fall to ‘searching passersby for weapons.” Or they en- ter a business house or residence in a raid. Five or ten minutes later the |raiders emerge, sometimes with piles of papers, at other times they nave @ prisoner or two. Some Dublinites flce at the sight of a raiding party. Others follow at safe distances and look on cautiously while the soldiers search a\gtoup of MOl‘iDAY EVE&ING. JANUARY 31, 1921 It is a city of homes with its| streets filled with strolling soldiers in| es a home. Gen- ally the nervousness inspireq by the sight of the soldiers, their ‘blunt en- fields leveled over the motor’s sides, is leavened by curiosity. Occas onally braver spirits walk past at a nor{nal gait or pause nearby for a good view of the proccedings. But at_the sound of is a general melting crowd. Dublin doesn’t a shot there away of the fear these things; the city ‘is_merely “jumpy.” REX Thursday “Crimson Shoals™ Frénéis Ford The Greatest Mystery Play \ - of the Year Coming — Neal Hart in—“SKYFIRE” chaperc The preseht'sté_g—t;éfidn of building activities is one " of the most tragic incidents in the commercial - history of this or any other country. _The nations largest industry is now at a complete standst‘ill“, with the result that thousands are now out of employment in almost every city. . Az ~ ~ K ; FPHERE never was a time when we needed’ buildings as badly as we need them now. " Rents are enormously high. Living quarters are unsanitary and congested to the point where it would seem impossible for human beings to live in them. ¥ Rents charged for ordinary babitation; drain the purses of the tenants until only the the bare necessities of life are obtainable. * ‘" School houses are crowded to the point where efficiency is no longer possible. In many cities hundreds of children are prac- deprived of school facilities and thus iandicapped for the rest of their lives. Pub- ic health is in danger because of the con- gestion. There is much discomfort and sickness. . AND ALL BECAUSE OF THE %’{‘ggls’lNG OF BUILDING OPERA- It might at first be assumed, that building operations are now at a standstill because of the money shortage, but this is not exactly true. There is a surprisingly large amount of money now available for the financing of buildings, if buildings did not cost so much. ) With LUMBER now selling, at normal prices it might appear buildings should cost much less than they do, until it is disclosed \that LUMBER represents only about 30 per ‘cent of the total cost of the average building. The reason for the continued high cost of building is due to the fact that the elements entering into the remaining 70 per cent have not returned to normal. - 4 g ] ') Forexamplé, a $10,000 house (peak prices) “would now cost $8,800, as lumber has de- .clined in price approximately 40 per cent _(average). If the items representing the 70 “per cent had declined at the same rate, the .«cost would be only $6,000!! This is the NORMAL value of the house, and built on , this basis it immediately becomes a safe financing proposition for the man who now has money to loan for such purposes. Since the items representing the 70 per cent have NOT returned to normal, the t cost is about $8,300 and the prospec- tive home builder absolutely refuses to ahead with the project. ) . ‘The 70 per cent in question is made up of plumbing, heating, lighting, painting, i 1abor, etc. ) The cost of labor is a large item and until it gets onto a mormal basis (together with {the material men supplying the commodities L named) the BUILDING INDUSTRY WILL) REMAIN AT A COMPLETE AND DIS- ASTROUS STANDSTILL. i } Labor is unemployed by the thousands in many cities since construction work has been abandoned. It will not be resumed until prices return to a normal basis on the items repreSented by the 70 per cent. ] "~ Not only is LUMBER down, but farm products have fallen in the same proportion. . Wheat, oats, corn, flax, cotton, wool, qatt.le, hogs, hides, and any number of_snch items are back to normal. These !mslg products form the foundation upon which is built the purchasing power of the general public. . 'The buying public finally discovered that it, after all, controlled the situation as re- gards prices. It has found out that material now on hand was probably bought at peak prices and that the man who bopght itis try- ing to sell it at a profit on his high cost. The public has®decided not to buy mer- chandise which is abnormally priced. It knows that most of the stock now on hand ‘was purchased ona basis of high costs. Buy- ing will not become active until normal prices prevail in all lines. The readjustment of values does not represent a loss since the stocks on hand are in reality only worth what it costs to replace them.” The publicis waiting for normal values and this waiting is one of the chief causes for the complete stagnation of all building activities. Instead of the housing situation improving, it is gradually becoming worse. Schools are becoming more and more congested and living conditions are becom- ing more intolerable every day. { The solution of the problem is not at all difficult. It is simply a question of the will- ingness of everybody to get back to no- nal and of their willingness to give up their am- bition to cash in “both going up and coming down.” 8 The condition will not remedy itself. It is up to everybody! LUMBER has done its share. It is back to mormal. Labor, too,' must get onto a norual basis, for the time' has passed when the buying public will pay’ abnormal wages for normal work on build-' ing projects to function in normal times. An abandonment of the inclination to keep prices up to an abnormal level will im- mediately start a gradual loosening up of the situation and hasten the return to normal times. ) = y \mmwmmedmdinpubumwmmbyamwof business men who are interested, not only in the lumber business, but in Momfinuhmqflwwmtcommwnmm Mmmml]wdbb,amflmlofmmum:»