Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 21, 1921, Page 4

“DOWN ON THEFARM” | AT REX THE . MONDAY Mack Sennett's Mive-part’ comedy sensation, ‘‘Down ‘the Farm,” re- < Jeased by United Aftists' (the ‘‘Big ' ®our”) will-be the big’ featurevat the Rex theater Monday; (“Down On the Parm™ old Mack . Sennett's i king” at itg) hfl%e Teels he carries the! alternating sdénes of “com esty, hilarious satire, serious drama : ‘and thrifling episodes, never permit- ting theraction to langulsh'an instant but keeping um at a'gpeedityplcall ‘tempo. ¢ § n; “‘Sennett. Wi The story Telates the adventures i that Marshall wins the girl. Spestal music, and a comedy are other attraction at the Elko tonight. | +*BLACK BEAUTY” AT THE " ELKO THEATER TOMORROW A plcture that will excite more than passing comment will be shown v {at the Elko theater tomorrow, also| Monday and Tuesday. < It is a visuali- zation of Anna Sewell’s famous nov- el “Black Beauty.” f the most unique to be flashed up- On the screen. It marks a new era; ot story telling, that fo blending two narratives into one and at the eame | time keeping each story separate from | he other. This feat, wh.ch several The film is one |} snare drum and he delighter in smashing five of them before the pic- ture could be finished. According, to the producers those who see the pic- ture will note that he actually laughs in several of the scenes men- tioned, f Little Ida May McKenzie, who has won the title of “‘the sweetest child on tho screen,” has a big role in “Beat It,”” appearing as a singer in the dance hall. “HALF A CHANCE IS ! VIRILE OUTDOOR STOR Think of the grestest outdoor pic- tures you have ever seen; recall thie novels of Jack Wwondon and Rex ch; the poetry of Robert Service ‘Half a Chance'’ belongs in their lasu. It takes uts place in the rank and fije of gripping, virile and force- tul screen uramas. It's a story of disappointment, de- b?/) New York, May 21.—You can’t escape tests these days. Since Edi- son aroused ;the press .and the col- leges and the rest of the country with his 77. questions as'deciding a man’s intellectual standing, everybody else has been springing catches on any lit- 'Yor Letter Lucy Jearine Price their home. “Come‘on pop, Pl uh;:w you the way,” said Michacl. New York shops which furnish pretty .white: weighing machines for the use of the women customers are being forced to change the tables grandmother and ‘her father's auto- |7 Imcbile, all of Westfield, N. J., were | struck by a trolley car and all crashed lup together. They gued for dam- ages. ‘Miss Tremaint, who is a beau- tiful girl, got $10,000 because she will have a scar on her forehead; the father got $84 for his shattered wind- shield; ‘and the poor grandmother, -$1,000 for a badly broken leg. Modernity. , Caller—And have you any old mas- ters? * English Newrich—Old 'masters be anged! ‘Everything In this: ‘ouse is bloomin well up to date.—Boston Tran- seript. ‘REX Monday MACK SENNETT’S Five Reel Comedy Sensation “DOWN ON THE FARM” ENGLISH EVANG. LUTHERAN ; Eighth and Minnesota—May 22, at 3:00 O'Clock: feat, strife and hate; then attain- ment, suceess, victory and love. 1t pulsates with a sympathy attuned tu your heart throbs. Its action stretches from the depths to the heights of the social scale—from the dives and pr.ze rings ot the Ba.owary Coast to a shipwreck in mid-ocean, a lonely island and. back to civihization, the iaw and high lite. “Half a Chanee” is the special pro- gram which witl be showa tonight and Sunday at the Grand theater, ds ‘the most popular novel by the cele- brated author and; playwi.ght, Fred- eric S, Isliam. It could not fail to enjey popularity for it is the sort ot a story that appeals to the masses— the story of a man who, sunken to the depths, batters his way through almost insurmountable cbstacles with printed on the scales.” You know those tables—one column - giving heights and the other the number of pounds proparhfor ;ach one. ‘lisy tlfxem you learned that if you are.five feet i 1. six, you should weigh 145 pounds. YouYaor: gs;‘i{i::oth:cta;l:z coafnnd;zlrmfne the exact time of the second Fancy thatl_ It was ‘,’n ng}\; akffew advent of Christ. Come and hear your belief interpreted in t}]:e ‘ilg‘ht ze:ara;gzievl:: 2:%“1‘;%. toY 3:53‘;30 t;:: of Bible knowledge. Next Sunday’s Sermon w:}l be preached on " ’ public if you weigh a pound over 132| ‘CHRIST’'S SECOND COMING’ at that height. ‘“We certainly have _ERDMANN WILLIAM FRENK, Pastor heard enough about those tables,” ¥ said the manager of one Fifth-avenue shop the other day. “We had five letters in one month from customers protesting that we owed it to them to keep up to date on such things. Final- ly we got new tables made out and I hope we'll have peace.” The theory that health demanded all those pounds tle group of people they could corral bogethgr. The other night they caught Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- dent of Columbia university, and sub- jected him to a smelling test. The Engineering society of the university fathered the test and submitted all their dinner guests to.it. Poor Dec- tor Butler! ~He batted .100; one hit in ten chances. Evidently kitchens, drug store and barrooms are alien places to the educator; only the bar- ber shop means familiar ground. Suc- cessively, cloves, wintergreen, car- bolic acid, turpentine, alcohol—yes, alcohol, and other definitely ordored liquids were offered him. He failed to identify any of them. And then the last, “bay rum,” cried Dr. But- ler, and so it was. “Oh, well, gentie- ave attempted and failed has been | achieved by Lillian and George Ran-| dolph Chester, authors of internation- | al repute. ! Anna Sewell’s story was that seen | Dy the horse. It hinted at things that | were going on: in the big house, but which Black Beauty could not know. ! Mr. and s. Chester have supplied | the inside story after carefully ana- lyzing Anna Sewell's narrative. They | made this coinclde with the orignal tale in every instance so that the two blended into one and the reason for the Squire going to town on the| rainy day in which the bridge was| swept away is made clear. It also| shows why the family went to the ho- tel the night the stables took fire and |' Black Beauty had-a thrilling escape. thgh 2 finance of ‘‘a rustl) corn-fed beauty,” n Yy uise.!? ' ‘zenda. The’rom “iner lite 15 provided by the "Hired:help” whose fists are as big as his heart.” Finance 18 brought to the plot by the village banker—a Kkind of a cross between Shylock and Don Juan or a mixture of Tark and “shark.” The farm hand loves her for herself alone. The vil- lage house broker and home-wrecker. Sennett comedy experts to be seen dn'this pretqntious spectacle and mas- terpiece of humor are Louise Fazen- da, Marie Prevost, Ben Turpin, James Finlayson, Billy . Armstrong John Henry, Jr., Bert Roach, Harry Grib- bon and, (not to be overlooked), Ted- dy, Mr. Sennett's Great Dane, and Pepper, ithe latter’s inherited enemy “IS THERE A HELL ?” “You believe in the millenium. You, are invited- and expert inspector of cream. The entire Sennett menagerie of feathered and four-footed folks is also graphi- cally involved in the plot of “Down on the Farm.” “SEWING THE WIND” AT REX TODAY AND SUNDAY The next attraction at this theater ‘will be Anita Stewart in “Sowing the Wind.” The ever-increasing popu- darity of Miss Stewart and the assu- Tance that this is one of the best starring vehicles provdied for her would indicate that our patrons are due for a full measure of diversified entértainment. In “Sowing ‘the ‘Wiind” an' unusual story is unfolded —it concerns an innocent convent girl who goes' out into the bleak world only to discover that her mother is the keeper of a notorious gambling house. Her struggles to “ get away from the possibility of emulating her mother, her subsequent meeting with the man she:loves and finally the locating of her father, combine 4o make a story of unusual thrills. The romance is of the most exalting variety. ~ A cast of unusual importance supports Miss Stewart, Ralph Lew(s, James Morrison, Myrtle Stedman and. William V. Mong are especially worthy of commendation | for their finished performance in this meriforious picture. The management does not he:l'tate to recommend “Sow- ing the Wind" as one of the season’s best “photoplays. "THIIZ KENTUCKIANS” AT THE ELKO LAST TIMES TONIGHT +Monter Blue, in the big western- er who made a distinet success re- cently in the Cecil DeMille produc- tion of “‘Something to Think About,"” thas probably the strongest role in his screen carcer in the Charles Maigne production of ‘“The Kentuckians,” the known John Fox, Jr., novel, whiich appears, last times, at the Elko theater tonight. He enacts the Tole of Boone Stallard, a Kentucky moun- taineer, who goes to the legislature with the ambition of winning eman- cipation for his fellowmen. No =ooner does he attend a ses- sion of the legislature than he has a clash with Randolph Marshall, a Kentucky ariistocrat, who vows that the only way to get order into the mountainous regions is to disrupt the mountaineers’ country. A feud in the mountains caused Stallard to flee fto_his wpeople and he demonstrates successfully that he can rule them. iWhen he returns to Frankfort, plan- ning to ask the hand of the gover- mor’s daughter in marrlage, he is ibrought to a sudden realization of the difference between the mountaineers and ithe Blue Grass people and re- Arains from anl such step and the Every incident in Anna Sewell's story is illustrated in the picture and is in no way subordinated to the narra-) tive, The film 'was directed by David iSmith, famed as the director of big pictures ‘in which animals have im- pértant roles. He is one of the best animal ‘directors sin the business. A large and expensive cast was engaged Paige. sidered far more difficult than a dual role, as she must portray the charac- teen years. James Morrson, who playp opposite Miss Paige, has an equally difficult role. The cast in- George Webb, Bobby Mack, John Steppling, Adele Farrington and Charles Morrison. 9 “A MAN FROM NOWHERE" " AT REX THEATER TUESDAY seen at the Red as a star of ‘a five-reel feature. ‘his work in ©enials the last of which was ‘“Thunderbelt Jack” which prov- | ed ‘to /e a veritable sensation. So great’ was his popuiarity and so in- tense were the demands of photoplay | fans from all over the world that he appear in features, that Ben Wilson, | the producer, contracted to make a se- red. by the Arrow Film Corporation. Jack Hoxie in “A' Man From No- in the west. Ford and Sam Polo. SNOOKY HAD GREAT TIME MAKING LATEST COMEDY €nooky, the Hnmanzee, had the; “Beat It.” latest of the two-reel Chester Comedies at the Grand thea- ter ‘tonight -and Sunday, according to stories that come from the studio. One scene calls for him to steal ‘“hot doge’ and Snooky inwsted on eating €ix of them before he would go on with the *‘acting.” In anether scene where he is a waiter in a prohibition | dance hall he has to drink a bottle of near beer and he consumed four be- fore he would do it properly. Real | beer '‘was 'a portion of Snooky's diet before the Volstead days. Still an- ploture closes with the assumption cther scene calls for hlgn to play a G It 1s a privilege to see a picture of the caliber of “Black Beauty.' It s a big production with all the spectacular scenes that go to make ‘up an unusual ‘film,. It has been staged’ In magnificent style with ¢ ;rare wealth of scenic beauty In the background. This picture is really ‘sworth while and aside from its Intensé fiction-interest it has a historical end educational value seldom found in pictures of today, i s SEE IT AT THE ELKO SUN.-MON.=TUES. Special Matinee for Children—Monday 4:15—10c photoplay fans who have been follow-|is, he is B human being. ‘ing ‘the famous Jack Hoxie, the cele- | Taylor and William Lion ‘West con- ‘brated serial star, will have an op-|tibute a few dastardly deeds in the portunity to see him for the first time |approved manner Mr. West being Mr. Mr. |Hamilton’s opponent-in a couple of Iloxie gained fame and fortune thru|smashing fights. capable cast, chief among whom are | the ‘conductor’s name. T Panzy Porter, Fred Mocore, Francis|wants to “injéct a little-human in- terest in transportation.” ‘the sheer force of physical dominance, determination and will power. The role of the'man who asked only half a chance to make good was one that made many demands on the play- er. Isi called for an acto rof powerful physique and refinement who could portray both the Barbary Coast prize fighter and ithe cultured and refined for the producton and headed by Jean |[man of society and a brilliant law- ver. There could have been m The leading feminine role requires sele(ftlon than M;'x'hlon Hamilton, star much of ‘the young star and is con-|of “Earthbound. been his'screen career, his portrayal of ter from the age of thirteen to nine- |Steele, is a classic. men and children he will be admired. better Splendid as has and later John Among men, wWo- “Sailor” Burke, ‘Lillian; Rich, whose delightful act- ing opposite H. B. Warner in “Felix cludes such well known names as|O’Day, stamped her as a star of the future, gives a beautiful sympathetic interpretation to her role of Jocelyn Wray, played at the age of ten by little Mary ‘McAllister, one of screen’s best loved child actresses. the S.dney Ainsworth, who began his career ‘in villainy many years ago ‘When “A Man From Nowhere” is|with Essany, plays the leading heavy theater on Tuesday role as villains act in real life—that Wilton REAL NAMES OF STREET CAR CONDUCTORS ARE DISPLAYED ° (By United Press) Camden, N. J., May :21;—Car rid- ries of four pictures during the com-|ers on lines in this city, instead of ing year in which he was to be star-|dropping their fares in the box and These produciions are released |ignoring the guardian of the said box, now greet him with ‘“how-do-you-do, Mr. Smith,” or whatever his name. where” has a part for which he is|How do they know the cohductor’s ideally suited, that of a young min-|name? ing_engineer who secks his fortune|company has placéd neat signs in the He is supported by. a|rear of cars here, telling car riders The Public. Service ‘Railway The company Subscribe. for The. Daily Ploneer. || time of his life during the making of | REX Tues. & WEDNESDAY - Ben Wilson presents— JACK HOXIE ““AMAN From NOWHERE” An Arrow Attraction HOE Bppesingl br n fethads’ Men’ls £ Ladies” Boys® .. Misses’ - Children’s - . RUBBER HEELS Men's Ladies”, BEMIDJI SHOE STORE 315 MINNESOTA AVENUE == men,” said he, “the sense of smell is the least intellectual of the senses.” Two hundred thousand men, wom- en and children spent last Sunday at Coney Island. Straw hats and hot dogs were also present to make it a real old-time summer day. Getting lost 43 times between the ages of 3 and 6 is a fairly undisputed record, 1 believe. It is held by:Michael Clementi, of this city, where anything can happen. But it's a technical rec- ord, only, according to his father. “Lost! That boy couldn’t get lost anywhere in this wide world,” he ex- claimed the other day when the police’ called him: and told him that Michael was lost but was safe at the 89th pre- cinet station. “I'll come and get him, but he isn’t ‘lost’ any more than you are.” When he arrived and they had told him how the child was found weeping at 96th street and 5th ave- nue, he shook his head. :‘The police have called me from Bridgeport, Conn., Plainfield, N. J., and half doz- en other nearby cities, notifying me that Mike is safely with them—that he was ‘lost.’ Forty-three times he’s been supposed to be lost, but he al- ways knew where he was and how to get there.” Then the father took his precocious son’s hand to lead him home once more. Hg started to ask the policemen the’ shortest route to has been exploded, too. - “Women are healthier today than their plumper mothers and grandmothers were,” in- sists Dr, Newman, 286 Fifth avenue, who is a-specialist in the matter of, making his patients willowy and well simultaneously. . “The five foot 'six woman who weighs 132 is undoubted- 1y in better shape physically than the 145 pound one of the day before yes- terday.” ¥ P ‘ A ‘debate is bezing arranged to be' held at our big town hall be.ween: the Rev. John Roach Straton, of Calvary Baptist ciurch; and some members of the Actors’ Equity association, on the questions of the moral influence of the theater today. ~ The ' Rev. Mr. Straton has been attacking the pres- enti day stage for several Sundays from the pulpit and Francis Wilson and various other members of the act- ing professions have expressed their disagreement and resentment. So the clérgyman came. forward with a challenge for a free and open and‘ public discussion; and plans are be-I ing completed. Whether this incident gives a true scale for measuring the relative val- us of beauty, and broken limbs, T don’t 'know. At east it’s the scale pre- vailing in and about this city of dis- cerning values. Miss ‘Elizabeth M. Tremaint, aged 17, her ‘father, her. CARLOAD “CHAMPION” POTATO MACHINERY CONSISTING OF ‘" PLANTERS—SPRAYERS—DIGGERS SEED POTATO CUTTERS Complete Stock of Extras STdUGHTON WAGONS and 'MANURE SPREADERS—AUTO TRUCKS _ Plows, Drags, Discs n;é Cultivators ) Auto Accessories, Auto Oil, Tires, Tubes and etc. F. M. PENDERGAST Telephone 17-F-4—or People’s Co-operative Store Bemidji, ‘Minn. Wh' ‘cared’, for _the shadowsithe bright lights throw? One girl in how many? thirtieth day. REX ORCHESTRA could be no marriage. HENRY LEH REX Theatre Todas 'Louis:B. Mayer presents . o ': nita Stewart in the play by Sydney Grundy Directed by John M. Starl “SOWING | he WIND" - and Chinatown. = Success had brought her Love had told her if she wanted love there the wind. = “If at the end of thirty days you ited the whirlwind she would reap on the Life has taken Rosamond through gambling dives tumultuously to the stage on glittering. Broadway. 3 Heedlessly, she had sown still want me, then I am yours.” And now she awail RN WOULD HIS LOVE LAST 30 DAYS? R. A. AMADON, DIRECTOR MATINEE 2:30—10c-30c A story of gnmialed souls—the winning —and the losing. RMAN PRESENTS—“THE PUNCH OF THE IRISH” With AL RAY & CHAS. CONKLIN . EVENINGS—15c-30c