Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 19, 1921, Page 4

“THE OLD WEST” COMING TO REX ON SATURDAY, “Nothing like the old days, Tom, and now that I'm getting near the end of my rope, I'd give anything I'm worth to sce them again,” said| Judge Brand to his secretary, Tom Robbins. 4 Fraid there’s nothing like Nug- get Notch in the west nowadays, Judge,” answered Tom. “No, I don’t suppose there is. But they say that money will buy any- thing, and heaven knows I've got enough of the stuff. Suppose I send you out there with a letter of credit %o reconstruct Nugget Notch, gam- bling, saloon, general store, and ‘al for me. Think you could manage it “I could try- » and that was the beginning of Tom’s search for the{photoplay, based on the famous stage Old West of the Judge’s dream. After two months’ search, Tom dis-|a dramatic story and there’s not a| 4 ) covers “Castle’s *49 Camp,” which is moment’s drag in the telling o{“llw’ Mary at present penniless. Tom arranges with Castle and the “Camp” starts for Nugget Notch, abandoned ‘years ago when the gold petered out. Tom Robbins is attracted by Ann, and they become the best of friends, but “Gentleman Jim” Ray- ner always interrupts their conversa- tions and warns Pa Bobbett to keep Lady Ann away from the tenderfoot. Quarters are apportioned; the Bob- E NEWS OF THE THEATRES i P ittt bbb kbbb cd bt bbbl eeban adaptation of the story by Macolm Stuart Boylan, il 3 A furious man-hunt, a fight that dwarfs the famous battle of “The Brute Breaker™ for action, ana i love story that starts with a spark and developes into an inferno, are ad- ditional situations which will keep the specators in doubt as io the story’s outcome until the last scene. | Frank Mayo is said to be at his very best in the role of Victor R=oul. | the glant of the north woods, whose passions are elemental and whose code of honor is primitive. “THE WITCHING HOUR" IS SUNDAY ATTRACTION' AT:GRAND Beginning with Sunday muh'uee,‘,urk,s ball game crowds. and continuing two days the Grand theatre will display “The Witching Houn,” . a remarkable Pgramont success ‘Of Augustus Thomas; It is narrative. ~ Elliott Dexter, Alden, Ruth Renick, Wintef and Robert Cain have the prin roles. This iis one of the best attra all Lady |tions among recent releases of Para- ‘mont; Pictures. Foergers Use New Method. b Lucy Jeanne Price New York, August 19---Even cross lcountry motorists take time to, stop and go to a ball game. Making pools on the number of other state auto licenses to be picked out in the park- ing space near the Polo Grounds has become an active side-issue with New One aft Inocn recently when Eabe Ruth was !performing, a groupe of pool-makers |found 19 states represented, includ- ling California, Washington and Ari- i { Over in. Jersgy .there is an enter- {taining optimist who believes, that. forecasting the weather will be “as leasy as reading a calendar” if h |system is carried out. He has;sug- |gested that adt'New York s a good Ibig city to get started inithe Boax lof Education here give him the use" of a school hbuilding for a ‘“‘weather {demonstration.” Andrew Jackson De An original touch in forgery Is re- yoe, of Hackensack, it is, and hei ported by the Paris corre- |hopes before long to have everybe know in his Wailingford stories. Tt is given to us with the most dramatic most impressive achievemeni of di- rection and photography that we-ve ceen in a long time. The lake of burning oil, the hysteric mob bent on a lynching, the great pageant, with its.parade of clephants, camels, floats and all the other things that| belong to pageantry, these are some of the thirgs that made the produc- tion cost over three-quarters of\ a millien_dollars; "and through it all is the himan story of love and of bus- iness. *2Tonr ~Gallery plays “Jimmy ‘Wallingfordy*-the son whom J. Rufus Wallingford feared would take after him; self; able ‘Wilfred North is J. Rufus him- eorge (Webb, the always like- “Backie Daw” “Mary . Curtis”, the girl te”’ 'lcves and almost;loses he- cause of the business deals connected with the name of Wallingford. It's a fine story and a greéat picture. Is it the influx of “studios” into betts are to run the general store and | spondent of the London Daily Mail.'in Hackensack proficient in the art.’the lives that formerly knew only “Gentleman Jim” has charge of the| Making forged notes dirty in order He has madc it known that a class of that they might look real Is said to SiX youns women are studying at his gambling hall. In spite of their ef- forts the Judge is deeply disappoint-| payve heen the method adopted by four ed when he alights from the decrepit stage, because they do mot shoot his| pino00q on a charge of counterfeiting | notes | silk hat off his head. The Judge be- gins to shoot things up and Rayner, in the confusion, accidently drops a nugget chain, which Robbins picks up and returns. Rayner is very angry over the incident. . Some time later the Judge nuhcgs the nugget chain around Lady Ann’s neck. Bobbett tells the Judge that the necklace belonged to his old part- ner, and that he has spent years look- daughter to men who have just been arrested at the small brown one-franc (nominally 10d.) which are in circu- lation in Paris owing to the shortage of silver ones. ° |home now perfecting themselves in | weather-propheting. The “green-roon.”. center of so; {many old traditions of the theatre,| {is to be restored. When the theatre builders, seeking to save space, proba- bly, abandbned.the custom of provid- After printing off bundles of nofes|ing-a central meeting place of the of a face value of £7,000, the, men, it 'scenes for the actors and their friends 'per cent within the last two years. is stated, burfed them in the ground |a great source of chat of the stage Has the The notes then had a |and the other arts often truly bril- East and its problems invaded our for a fortnight. crumoled and dirty appearance as If |liant a they had been a long time in use, and were readily accepted. In some nd’ worth encouraging, was \gone., For a good many years, the lactor and actress haye had no place at the theatre to’'recely residences and offices, or is it “vamp’ pictures, that have pushed the matter of incense into such a best-seller posi- | tipn. It used to be that an occasion- al boarding school girl owned her little incense burner and drew much satisfaction from the ‘“‘atmosphere” of it; and right there it stopped. But today, well, New York wholesalers s i nse has increased from 300 to 400 ring discussion of the Far souls in thig particular way? Or have we had so many real things to struggle with these last few years that the Amecrican demand for| WOMAN BEGAN:LONG DISPUTE; Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy Had Its Origin in Book Published by American Author, The long-drawn-out controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean | plays had its origin in a remrakable book written by an Ametican woman, Della Bacon, a native of Tallmadge, 0. with a preface written by her friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. She was | a woman of intense application and | capacity for esoteric study and her| book was the product of a lifetime | spent In the feverish pursuit of her| hobby. Her book was entitled “The | Philosophy of the Plays of Shake- | speare Unfolded,” copies of which are | | now rare, as it has long been out of ! | print. | The book is written In a very laborl- | ous style; diffieult to read. - Some of | the sentences are threg to four hun- | | dred words 'long, but the entire work | shows evidences of intense study of | the works of the poet and a mastery knowledge of the history of Shake- speare’s period. * The intense obsession with which she pursued her theorles brought her | life to a tragic end. Becoming con- kvlnced that ‘Shakespeare’s secret was | | hidder in his tomb at Stratford, she went to reside there to confirm her re- searches. She was found one mid- night at the tomb, muttering incoher- ently, and evidently making prepara- tions to open the tomb In search of concealed manuscripts which she be- lieved had been interred with the body | of the poet, beneath the cryptic in- scription, “Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear to dig the bones inclosed here.” She wasremoved to an asylum. | | i DAZZLED OLD LONDON TOWN | Becky Wells, Beautiful Madcap, Well- | Known Character During the | Reign of George |II.Y i | Becky Wells, heautiful English act. ress, journalist and author, was hors | in 1759, married at eighteen, and a Montreal,, Qu fibh ‘Ganadian’ bunks show ‘an’icreasc oy more than seven and a half million dollars for June, as compared Wwith the previpus month. Total liabilities in June as compared with May show- ed an increase of approximately nine |=nd a half millions as shown by the June bank statement issued by the acpurtinent or-nnance. of Canadian banks at the end of June were $2,879,608,888, as compared with May _tofal at $2,871,816,298 The total liabilities in June were $2,- 594.597.901, as against $2,548,9564,- 982 in May. v the first the Society of will hold its au- Montreal, Quebec time in its histor Chemical Industr; nual meeting in C a, convening here on the last three daysof August. In recognition of the talent which has (LN FRIDAY EV! The iassets of | Total" assets! ENING; Aue.ufi’il:“ml developed on this side of the water, the presidency wiil, (this year, be ipagsed to Canada, in theél person of Protesor R. F. Ruttan, M. D., F. R. , of MeGill University. _REX SUNDAY— You Will Feel the Thrill of Your Life. THAT'S WHY | EVERYBODY WILL SEE “OUT of the DUST” The Great Remingtcn Drama REX Theatre Today William Fox presents ~ . And His Best Pal, TONY, in— (13 o o 3 Pl Prairie Trails All the Dash and Daring of Tom Mix is in this Photoplay. Educational Comedy in Two Parts ing for Hugh Adams’ give her her share of his fortune. ‘their callers|that we like to have something lan-| few months later saw her husband de- cases the forged notes were gceepted |gyeent in their dressing rooms, no|guld and luxurious seeming about! sert her for her bridesmaid. She -father from a lynching at the hands| That night Lady Ann comes cry- ing to the house and asks the Judge to advance her $50,000. She says Jim Rayner is threatening Pa Bob- bett and that the latter was about to kill himself when Ma Bobbett stop- ped him. The Judge promises to pay the money to Jim if it is necessary. On their way home Tom pushes Jim out of the way and continues on with Lady Ann. Later Tom is suddenly grabbed and dragged away. In 1 morning he finds himself in the bot- tom of a pocket in the hills. The rest of the story is best told by the picture, which comes to the Rex theater Saturday. EDYTHE STERLING IN “THE GIRL WHO DARED” COMING T0 REX Beautiful Edythe Sterling, star- ring in *“The Girl Who Dared,” a new | photoplay of the Old West will be the attraction at the Rex theater Sat- urday. ) As a girl sheriff, whose busin2ss is to round up cattle rustlers and Mexi- can cut-throats, Edythe Sterling pov- trays another rve which Jdisplay: her fascinatingly a wonderiul horse- woman and lariat expert. The story has a unique plot, which concerns the machinations of an unscrupulous! clique -which has he:n dlaying & | double game. As the newly-elected -girl sheriff, Edythe Sterling succeeds, by dint of tireless perserverance, ln; running them down. | “There are several dramatic mo- ments when the girl sheriff saves her| of an infuriated mob and arrests him | until charges against him can be dis- proved. In the end Right asserts gelf, and the truth is revealed. Then Romancd takes a hand---or both ufl them. “LOVE'S OUTCAST” IS TURPIN A. P. SPECIAL Ben Turpin’s first starring vehicle, “Love's Outcast,” a two-reel comedy | of hilarious appeals, comes from the Mack Sennett studios td the Grand theatre tonight and Saturday through the releasing hands of iAssociated | Producers. | Turpin’s security at the head of the| sereen’s comedy performers is suffi-| cient to justify every expectation of |y o gjge cave 1000 yards from the — a huge suce in this t.{m Ihw! of&n | opening, evidences of ik uccu]m-‘ They go out shopping—and is there | a very poor conductor of electricity in tnrth-coxplng series of “Ben Turpin! anything so delightful as to shop al-| the dark and a fairly good conductor Plant Care. Specia Love's ©uteast” invades the do-| mestic life of the hero (Turpin) whose misguided wife (Dot Farley) | has reason to believe him to be an| incurable flirt, a Romeo without re-| morse, and 0 Daun Jaun without con punctions of conscience. So shel brings suit for divorce and marshalls into court an army of what she be-| lieves to be feminine ‘‘vamps.” l[nw; a man can be an innocent victim of so much circumstantial but utterly false | cvidence is told in one of the livliest | plots Mr. Sennett has ever concocted, it He claimed. An excellent all-star comedy cast is| cleverly cisposed in the leading roles and includes, besides Ben Turpin, the | star as “a ladies’ man;” “Dot” Farley | as his wife; James Finlayson as an in-, nocent detective; Kathryn McGuire. | Phyllis Haver, Mildred June nml, other beautiesas plot participants and | witnesses; Kalla Pasha as a jolly tar} and Albert Cooke as a “‘dry" court-| room attache. | “THE MAGNIFICENT BRUTE" AT | . GRAND TODAY AND SATURDAY | A thrilling drama of human emo- tions presented against a background of primeval scenery in the majestic| Yosemite is seen in “The Magnificent Brute” which will be shown at the| Grand theatre tonight and tomorrow. | Saturday. | Frank Mayo, the hero of “The Brute Breuker” and other Universal| dramas with strong themes, is the| Vasie tlme. What does he want with star of this production which was filmed from Lucien Hubbard’s screen ! chose for the most part to be Mary | in bundles of 50 at local banks, People Generous With Tips. ‘place to- have them leould be wvigible. jending the situation and bringing |back vait until they Earl Carroll. ¥ the green-rcom: in-. hig jnew New York ‘likes to refer: to its theatre, to-be- opened this fall} | spendthrift millionaires. The head | waiter of o magniticent eatery told me | What ¥ joy it is_to find one of that for the bountiful gratuity he pre- |those tremendous motion picture pro- ferred the visiting so i son of a millionaire. The young man | from Hohokus having his annual fiing | has read so much abuvut huge tips that he think: buster to the {ductions which tells a human story and is filled with the things we love in a story or a play. scale has been used for spectacular <1y and symbolic subj ansthing under a 810 yere ig the sort of thing that inspires The elaborate cts many times but | bill will be tossed back at him. The |, response from everyone of us, “The tnformation volunteered by the head Son of Wallingford.” Nothing could waiter came after a well-known svend- {be®more real, more appealing in its thrift had departed with two young |characters and their story than this ladies. His dinner check came to $25 |play by George Randolph Chester, and he gave.the waiter $2 walter, nothing. “And,” continued the | bend walter, “see that young fellow | over there in the green suit with a | large Adam’s apple. He has been! shucking oft $5 bills to ‘every walter | n the place. Apd he gave me a half | century. note. I'm afraid his keeper will be along soon and make us give it back."—Exchange. | See Eve as Idealistic Woman, Most Italian won.en-H- they had their choice to be anvihing they wished in | their sex, would rather be Eve, ac- cording to results of a vote recently aken Dy one of the Roman papérs. | Tbe argument advanced for leng‘ Yve was that she, of all women, had | no competition. Her husband was | never away from home and there was | no other woman on whom he might | cast an alluring glance. | Those who did not choose to be Eve Magdalen, because, after being al- lowed to enjoy all the sins of .the world, she was forgiven and after- ward became 1 saint, thereby enjoying | ull joys of heaven. \ Unearth Home of Cave Men. | One of the most comprehensive of many finds of relics of prehistoric man in Austrin has been discovered in a cave near Mixnitx, The eavern known as “Dragon’s Den,” is belng excavat- ed for enorm leposits of phosphate, tion in anelent times were uncovered. Great quantit of quartz Implements and other utensils and human boned have been taken out. Few Regions Really Rainless. No part of the earth's surface is ab- solutely rainless except the interiors of Antarctica and Greevland, where the molsture that falls is always in the form of snow, China to Have Large Mint, One of’ the ‘gest mints in the wotid, with a possible daily output of | 500,000 silver dollars, is to be erected at Shanghal, China, at a cost of about $2,0(0,000, under the dirgction of an American expert. When completed, in ghoyt two years, it will absorh some 14 tons of silver a day. in its task of | estublishing a standardized currency | in C€hina, where the present utit of | valuo, the Mexiean dollari, competes | | with as many varieties of coin as there | are provinces. The Chinese tael, now used for reckoning, is not a coin at all, lut n measured slug of silver, the ; value of which vares In different parts | of the country—Popular Mechanies | Maguzine, Disappointed Hopes, “Hiram,”’ said Mrs. Corntossel, “our boy Josh has learned to play a vegular tune on his vew violin.” mat boy Wow't de nothin’ but a regular tune? I was educatin him for lender of a jazz orchestra.” | Strasbourg. | garinns, Szombathely: which he hoped to receive the ai —the Hend. |concerned with people we learned to| us? - T'he Oriental dealers woerrying much about the reason for it. . Mararet Anglin has hécome some- thing of an institution these ast few years like Mrs. Fiske and Sarah Bern- hardt. The hard work she did last season in giving New York her spec- ial performances of difficult and masterly productions strenghthened wonderfully the hold she already had on our decp respegt. looking forward with particulanly keen interest to seeing *‘The Open Fire,” a new play by Hubert Footner, which is now being tried out in a nearby community and will be hrought to Manhattan before many weeks. FRENCH PLAYHOUSE ON .BOAT Actors” In Remarkable ‘Thedtre ;Are Said to Find Their Occupa- ! tion a Pleasant One. France has a playhouse, built on a barge, which travels from Tours to It is & gorgeous! affair painted In white and silver and; called the “bateau-theatre,” It wanders along the canals and wherever it stops the French, who have few enterfain- ments, crowd into the Fulminant to see a dramatle representation. It is ngreeable life to move leisurely by ! canal and river, to stop where one pleases, to play to a crowded house in | a salle, which is always ready, to give pleasure to a whole community' “and profit to oneself. The room where the performances take place is spac- fous enough. It holds five hundred persons, and every one of thé Faut- eunils ‘covered in red velvet [ this blue and gold decorated hallji$ oc- easts anchor in an out-of-the-way town. The actors are thelr. own mariners. There is much work to be done on board any kind of boat, as all who have ever helped to sail a yacht will agree. They all lend a hand.. They scrub the decks and they make’ the preparations which are constantly called for. What do they not do? ways in strange towns? They pre- pare their play Dbills and announce their advent. The mere business of acting is only an incident in this va- ried life. LINKED WITH GLORIOUS PAST Town of Stui;mmanqer Within Terri- tory Once Important Part of the Old Roman Empire. Perhaps it was not without degp sen- timental reasons that former Eipperor. Charles of Austria-Hungry choSe the town of Steinamanger—to (Iwil]un- a placé from claim of his.former subjects as their returned ruler, says & -bulletin from the Wash- fagton headquarters of the National Geographic society. Tt has been the cherished policy of the Hapsburg rulers of Austrig-Hun- gary to rejuvenate the old “Holy | Roman Empire,” the Frankish and .lat- er the German union which claimed to be the heir to the power and over- lordship_of Rome. The afiiliations of . / what was Austro-Hungarian territory before the World war, with the old Roman empire, were perhaps closer through« Steinamanger than through any other town. The present town is in the site of the Roman Sabria, which | was the capital of one of the chief divisions of Pannonia—the name given by the Romans to the province which covered the heart of wmodern Austria: Ty, e A “Sana-sow The unusual optical phenomenon of a rainbow’ produced by the'sun shin- ing not on rain-drops, but on particles of sand suspended in the.air by -wind, was witnessed over a part of the Great Salt Lake by some surveying parties. The'" colors wére ‘ver§ ‘brilliant, and there was n secondarybow visible. The main bow was fully double the width of an.ordinary, rainbow. . Only a segment of it was seen. The sand was colitic, consisting of calcareous spherules of fairly uniform size, rang- ing betwegn the limits of No. 8 and No. 10 shot, dvhich are polished and exhibit a pearly luster. It is pointed out that the production of the bow must have been due to reflection from the outer surfaces of the spherules, and cannot be explained on the rule of refraction and total reflection, gener- ally applied in the explanation of the rainbow. Selenium a Rare E!ement.: | cupied thenever the floating theatret Selenium is a rare and little-used element described by * the United States Geological sury Department of the Interior, as having its greatest use in giving a red color to glass, such as that used in railroads for slgnal lights, and in. coloring enameled ware red. It is also used to overcome the natural green colot "of ordinary glass. Selenfum is peculiar in being in the light and Is used in several electric devices whose utility depends on this peculiarity. It has been used in teiephoning along a ray of light and in transmitting sounds and photo- geaphs from one place to another over A wice, And He Meant So Well, 1 was escorting two girl friends home from a dance one night, when we noticed’a wide-open window in a house we were P ng. Thinking to avert a possiblé burglary, T stuck my head in- side and shouted, “Say, good people—" But that was as far as 1 got, for a bucketful of water; struck me full in the face and a furious female voice shotted, “I told you what you'd get if you didn't get home before ten !"—Chi- 0 golll'mll“ % English Poetry and, Prose. If there isianything in literature as wonderful ‘as*Eughsh poetry It is Eng- lish prose. Like the twin pillars of a mighty temple stand those two great the Bible of 1611, the Shake- of 1623, and no other country can show their equal.—George Samp- so1). o % \The missing racior, “What has become of cubist art?” “It Incked the true essential of suc- cess.” Lat is that?” aren’t | So now we are | went to London and won success by her beauty.when she went on the stage. She took up with Edward Top- ham, an eccentric, and they estab- ! | lished a newspaper that thrived on | scandal. | Becky took to wearing furs in sum- mer aud muslins in winter, which per- haps stamps her as a woman in ad- | vance of her age. She hired hackney | | coaches to drive her to Oxford or Cambridge for her health, and her | vagaries were the talk of the town. She imagined that she was irresisti- ble and took it into her head to in- | fatuate George III, the dull king! i whose only redeeming virtue was his | apparent faithfulness to his wife. She ! was thrown into jail by her creditors, and there she infatuated a Moor, son of the prime)minister of Morocco, who had been sent to prison for contempt of court. They -were wedded in jail with festlvities that lasted a week and | whieh cost the byidegroom $2,500. ¥ler husband, Joseph Sumbel, then secured his release by paying his brother $30,: 000 and he also paid Becky's creditors and took her with him, Tricking Fate. Every Hindoo must have a son to | perform the proper rites in his behalf | so that he may be released from pur- gatory after deatd, says Asia Maga- zine. Especially cursed, therefore, is he whose fate it is to Le sonless. - One such, a Brahmin, propltiated the god Vishu and obtained a toon. He asked for a son, but, since a son was not in the man's fate, Vishu refused. Twice this happened, but the third time the Brahmin asked that his merriments wight be shared by gods and men alike. This was grafited. He then went home, locked his door and, with his wife) began to sing and dance. Thereupdn, all the. gods and men, by I the terms of the boon, were compelled to sing and dance with him, and the business of the univetse was brought to a stondstill. “Step,” begged the, gods. “Only when you grant me a son,” answered the Brahmin, An( he had his way. The room in which palms and gera- niums are kept should not be allowed to get cooler than 40 or 45 degrees. The palm should be placed in a part- Iy shaded spot, but never where it may come In contact with gas or cold ! draughts. It should ncver be placed in the direct rays of the sun. The leaves should occasionaily” be sponged | with fishoil soap and warm water, It/ should not be too weli watered, nndi perfect drainage s necessary to suc-| cessful culture. "The gernnium requires | plenty of sunlight and its roots should | be kept moist. It should be sprayed with tepid water occaslonally. to keep | ‘the foliage bright and green apd pre- | vent dust from lodging on the.leaves, | Seeking a Paragon. ’ “Here's an advertisement’ for a wife.” ! “She must be young, rich and beau- tiful, I suppose?” | “No, -but the requirements are al-. most as hard to meet. -The advertise- ment: specifies that. she must be ‘un- der forty, immufnie from' the movies | and house broken.””:— Birmingham | " Age-Herald. Divergent Views. Girl (watching aeronvaut)—Oh, TI'd hate to be coming down with that parachute. | Mere Man—I'd hate to be coming| down without it.—Chaparral. H Bubseribe for Ths Daily Ploneer.; FOX NEWS Rex Orchestra Matinee: 2:30—7:10-9:00 P o A e e T Y Palace Saturday Specials Prompt Service and ‘Choice Eatables in Good Variety — at Reascnable Prices. Meats Are Down! Lamb Shoulder, 1b Lamb Stew, 1b- ... 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