Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 16, 1921, Page 4

A S o st o e } i . | 1 i | ) H b | £ . i Bo: H 1 =t ! ‘ [ . ' BT e 2 - RO B 0 e . ( magician entertain 8 S o "NEWS' OF THE THEATRES WW “TORCHY'S PROMOTION” AT REX THEATRE TODAY Johnny Hines *brings home the bacon’ in two ways -in his latest Torchy Comedy, called “Torchy’s Pro- motion,” which is to be seen today at the Rex Theatre. As the lovable oftice boy,. just promoted to be the big hoga's private’ secretary, Torchy gets, the big contract, when hig tor- aneptoy: the.new gex}ernl manager, thinks he is, sending him on a heart- reaking wild goose chase = after! a lctitions “‘Jolin Brown.” ‘As an - ‘tor, the populat Johwny Hines is|' moré a wtn"er than’ever hetpre. & 14pUPPETS OF FATE" AT+ 1+ | REX TmTEE TOEAY Viold Dafd! Who “Has played | s 't;Hremlly wondrously ' in many " ]flfiutr!s ‘of distinetion; comesrup to “éxpectations!’in “Punpetsi.of Fate,” the Metro special which opened yes- terday at the Rex Theatre, and which will play for one more day. So convincing is the pictue that it é‘ powerful dramatic story of conflict between right and wrong. Its prin- cipal character, played by Mr. Salis- bury, is, s clean, unsophisticated boy. of the woodg Knowing no phase of life except his own, ‘he s uncouth and unused tc the refinements of metropolitan civil-| ization. He meets a society girl from the city ‘with whom he falls in love This forms the basis of one of the most beautiful romances of sgreem, a story that will linger long Iy meniory b cnusc of its svee(mss and beaty. Al bl nnouwumno oar | ELKO LA§T TIME TONIGHT Eu ene, O'Brien as Michael Strar in: the new Selznick Picture, *Br way and Hgome,” goes through m:ily, mentahy lmr;o\vlug experiences his_desires to set life. He teturns L his boyhood" home a_ saddér but ind finjtely wiser man. What Lrdnspires in’ the interim between the start and return forms an intensely interesting and dramaiic photoplay. is not exaggeration to remark that the audience lives through the scenes portrayed; the vivid, colorful life of Venice, the Italijan who forgot his wife, became a gambler in New York and married a hardened creature; the forlorn little woman who blazed her way to success, and eventually found happiness. The story is from the pen of the well-known novelist and short-story writer, Donn Byron, and has the nmwnelu ice, leads to the life of gambling cabarét life in New York, and.on-to:the marvel- ous unfolding in,a court-rgom. The able supporting cast includes Francis McDonald, Jackje Sannders. Fred Kelgey, TRomas_ Rigkerts and BdwardVKeRabet. SDallss ) -.‘Pltzger- ald direy ed the prodution yith his i he utopln 18 by rigk! moydmenk characteristi¢ of his work. *Thé .I:.iure s withr thed; Melly Parro adnpted the story for the screen. : £ ANTONIO MORENO IN - SPLENDID PRODUCTION A photoplay that maintains an ele- ment of*‘mystery. throughout. the en- tire productio; nd one 'that holds the spectator. in suspense,. will be shown tonight and Saturday at the Grand theater. It presents Antonio Moreno in a role to which he is ex- ceptionally well suited. His hand- some features and’ fiery ‘Latin tem- perament blend well with the story of London and the highlands of Scot- land. i There are many thrilling incidents in the story and the action moves rapidly through a series of startling| events and includes such incidents as the finding of a murdered man, the discovery of a counterfeiters’ den, and a buried treasure in the hills of Scotland, placed there by James III, king of Scotland. His opening scenes are H«cptmna)lv picturesque. They| take place in a Chinese restaurant in| London in whichi ' the Oriental at-| mosphere is well maintained. A Mon-| .golian orchestra of six pieces and a the guests and| l@'gdrk by sm‘ ¢ m A!ln ald win nnd'u,ave'wu’ : Alternate scenes of the rugged New”England sea coast and the busy streets-of-Maahattan form the locale of the story, which is by John Lynch. “Broadway and Home” will be the feature‘attractigh at the Elko theatre tonight. last tiles. “Porchy, -Sewell Ford’s red-headegd office boy, is a.wonder at accomplish- ing things for others and generally with the humot'at their expensg, but} in “Crowning Torchy,” the latest o the series starring Jobhunny Hined, als at.the Klkg tonight, the laugh fis on’ him. | Sduite fittypdifferent New:York typés Turnish the background mr t’xe fun. “THE CITY OF SILENT MEN"| | AT THE ELKO qukDAY Do’ yod recall Hgmas Meighan's su perb work in “The Miracle Man' 27§ U mber; the FhTHS N iho, Su me m eqfom er jerook ane ngl has: adother crook rofe 1n his latcst Paramount photoplay, *TheiGity: of Silent Men,” which he will shéw at the Elko thei- ter toinorrow, also next Sunday, and Monday,, with, this difierence—he is an inrotent conviet! Mr. Meighan’s interpretation "in this sterling | plume adds another vir-| ile screen yortr it to his gallery of charaggers. ;“Th v of Silent Men”” | will be classe mong the finest| pictures of the year and that is say- ing a great deal. Many of the scenes were filmed 'in Sing Sing, the most famous penitentiary in the “world, while otlers weré photographed in the Criminal Courts bujlding, with its celdbrated Hridge of Slgh;, and the Tombs itself; ; . Pretty Lofs’ JWilspn is Mr. Me.gh- an’s leadidg wonian and she heads an unusually capable supporting, cast. The picture js based .on John Moros- co’s novel,;*The Quarry,” and- ll. was (lnthCl] by Tom Forman. 1 Late In” the dry séason, wifeny the rivers ‘are low’ in'the heart of:Africa, the Gwarl, Who. inhabit ‘the lcentral Soudan, set out' on prolonged flslllng expeditions, The nativeswho live on the banks of the rivers are proficient | the ! interest the spcctatcrs as well. | fishermen, taking great pride m thelr Great credit is due Director Ches-| work, but the viliage Gwarl are not ter Bennett for the English.effect he [i ¢oiy sporting In their methods,- They L Monroe Silisbury is cothing; to the SAME M pleture 'notress, ‘and ‘including Bax produced in representing a London| v«fog. " These ‘s¢enes. might -have been't .taknn in London, so well is the fog{ .produced. S i Siecel The cast is composed of many wcll’ known players, each selected because of his or her particular fitness for the| role. Lillian, Hall plays opposite Mo~ | reno and does an exceptionally fine! bit ef acting. Especially good are her scenes in the lonely farm house where | she is held a pri | “HOME TALENT” AT GRAND | SUNDAY AND MONDAYy Mack Senuett's latest muitiple-reel | photo-fantasy, 'is a_five-reel Associ-| atted Producers’ masterpiece reveal-| .. ing all the qualities with whi¢h the| célebrity of its creator has beer iden- tified as master. | It comes zu the | Grand theater' Sunday and Ménday. | In q spirit. of hilarious comedy the | plot opens, introducing a"quartet of stranded vaudeville performers in a| country hotel, “heru th¢y can feither “rémain no They owe thd land- lTord (Cl Imrx 5 v) loomuch mones.- e - stranded ,on Duy are Ben The fvm‘ unfot(un the shoals ¢f the Thre Turpin, James Finlayson, Edd dig (.nb-r bon and Kalla Pasha. Their acts are| a score of years behind the time— almost as old as their board bill and| the exhibition of their “stunts” sup- plics mueh of the early and ingenious| comedy. After a furious quarrel be- tween the two “tean reconcilia- tion is effected and t decide under Ben Turpin’s leade: to pool their talents and put forth a great show. At once they enter into rehearsals, calling in the help of the hotel-man’s daughter (Phyllis Haver), who, it turns out, is more beautiful than she . looks in hnr scullery clothes. .- “THE BARBARIAN " AT THE REX THEATER SUNDAY Rex theater in “The Barbarlan” a v Ploneer cattraction, adapted tor the by E. P. Heath from Theodore 15 Solonten's story, and directed .a by Donald Crisp,, | | Mr. Salisbury is supported Yy a se_- ledted cast ‘of |1|fiyl‘r‘\' headed By Jane| Novak, who s salil to poss the .« most beautiful eyes of any ‘motion ney Sherry, Alan Hale, Lillian' Leigh-| ton, Elinor Hancock, Anne Cudahy, “The Barbarian,” which has beel © Michael Cudah Milton George Burrell, Sydney Marcel Daly. Dean and| declared by- erttics ©5 be one of thel Conud. parficulary well adapted for, s docks and cassious. | gunacribe for Tha Daily Floneor.i noslonitable films of the year, is a Markwell, | hey _go_out for the final results-‘rather than“ ot (ke pleasure ‘ot the: sport.’ They pour the juice of locust’tree porisy« into- the - pools,«to. which! the streams have shiunk, and this u\!lfles the flsh to leap out.of the ‘wWater. Wihdly théy leap,’ flopp{ng out on the diy ‘viver ‘hottom ns often as not, but the excited natives do not wait for the | fish to viteh themselves. They lean over the shallow water, finding great (lrllzhr in snatching the leaping fish as they flash from the river, ‘I'his custow of using the “jump Juice” seems to have been handed down from time immemorial among these strange Africans. Safety Firct, 3 “Howiy, Gap!” saluted an nmn;nlnt- ance, halting his team in the big road. “Hop tnand gd to'Pumlinye file I hear tell that the women of the Civil- ity league, or whatever they ‘calb it, have norated that they are goihg to begin cleaning up the town! today. Mought as well see what comes. off. “Much obleeged, ‘Zeke, but I reckon not,” veplied Gap Johnson of Rumpus Itidge., “Some fellers from l‘u%um [ et v in one'duy whien T was ‘there a couple.of weeks ago and stavted to clean up the town. I'm sorter getting along in years and hain't as soople as I once was, and in the course of . the anecdote 1 got my back sprained and my nose skinned right sharply. If the women start any trouble the Lord only knows what would happen to me. Nope !—if I was' to'go any place today I'd go to Mount Zy, whur nuth'n’ never comes oft.’—Kansas City Star. Con| italy. Some yes v there was, first broached (i ||m tion of uwuu con- crete for shipbullding, and sineg that time there have' heen many siccess- ful and peacitent applieations; of this | idea. Indeed, the inventor (;illu‘llinl has sueccede inducing the! Ralltan goverment to adept, it for - dertain purposes connected with the 'navy. These: ! cdouble, NS and wale Lot wiments, and, } being | ernit of ahout 100 tons each, qve able | to withsnnd-shocks by {'om\lu\) to a rising extent, Their denféiis little muie than it of wadden \q,woh of the same size. A special m!\nm.u,p | 15 that they neither rot nor rust; and | are eaglly, kept clean. Many canal barges of the same material ave in use in Italy ; aud concrete has been constr me. | ¢— The — Scrap Book {FOUND OUT ALL ABOUT IT | Passer.By’s Curiosity as to the Ac- |, tions .of ~Unfortunate Glazier ;' should Hlv- Beon Satisfied. Glnzcd nnd glassy were the glazier's | eyes. Before hind; i ‘the ‘sidewalk. in a thousand | piees,’ Tay! what ; had-<been a' sheet | b fine L glas dgstined “for”thé’ drawing- ‘fooin “wiidow of 1110 Swell street. Byt that draw- _Ing-room window to go nge peel !y "he. began . to.gather together the debris, “Helloa, my man!” inquired a pa | er-by, cheerily. “Dropped your glas The glazler glanced at the speaker with a lpok of proud contempt. fFuvinor”. he drawled out. “Fact fs, I've got the jig-sxW craze. What you see before you is a jig-saw puzzle, an’ I'm jest a-trying to fit in the pieces!” -—Londpn Lt pl(s. 33! | Offended at Restriction of Its Lnberty, Bifd: Rétaliated With Trick That Jn,qk oBrlau- A ‘big ,green parrot, lon the Booth liner Justin during o ipafroin. Manags, sB#izifi 100 miles P, n,e Ampmn,q\h, ender) .at this Fpbrtoyasterday, Says the New York World. - Jack was made n pet by those .on board, and he accumulated ‘a whole bagful of tricks. Oue day when the vessel had headed northk | from Barbados, her last port of call, { nflicers shooed him out of his room | when the bird interfered with the mak- Hng out of a report. For a day Jack brooded, spending ‘hls time with the chief engineer. Early the next morning the parrot went to the eages of the other birds and liberated at least a score of them. This caused consternation among the negroes of the crew, for parrots kept popping out at them from dark places and screeching in theéir ears when not expected. Finally all the birds were recaptured. The ofticers were responsible for the story that Jack at 11:45 o’clock every night, when the watch was changed, tvould mount the bridge and shout out: “Change watch!” | ... United After. Many. Years; ,Many years dgo a Wesleyun Method- |ist minister living in the north of !I‘nzhmd had ameng his congregation | two' young people who were engaged o be married. Differences arose and the engagement was broken off and edach married some one else. The min- ister left the district three years later and heard no more of the couple for nearly’ 25 years, He was returning { home then from a journey and met another minister who told him he had Just ofliciated at a wedding of the lov- (ers that the first minister had known in’ Cumberland. They had both be- i ivomp widowed ; /the woman had be- |come the mother of 21 children and the man the father of 10. Every one iof the 40 children were present at the ‘u‘x'enmuy and reception of yllulr par- Golf-Ball Insurance Now. The beginner at golf, although he may not be nble to drive his ball very far,. generally gets it into the rough sooner or later, and manages to lose a good many of the !‘)pcllb[\e little spheres. At one of the. country. élubs near New York, says the Sun of that city, |the eaddie master is doing a nice lit- tle business insuring balls, For 50 | cents he ngrees to replace. with balls in good condition any that are los | His caddies are well trained and in most cases he comes out ahead, for he glves his patrons second-hand balls which have been found on the links and Pepainted. | practically nothing. | i Greed Brought About Fish’s peath, | While walking along the north shore of Horse lake, British Columbia, a read- er found {wo dead fish under curfous circumstances, a ling ‘about three feet loag and a sucker about 13 inches long. The ling had tried to swallow the sucker head foremost, but the body of the latter was too thick for | his throat and the stiff fin on the back of the sucker, acting like the barb of a fish-hook, made it luum::!ble for the ling to free himself. e Mood of Skepticism. - | “A boy with a bent pin is Tikely to enteh more fish than you will avith that expensive’ tackle,” |~ “\lebbe so,” replied the patignt an- {y!(‘l‘ “Anyhow, the small boy 'would be willing to tinde evén any time T | made the proposition. “And. besides, {now ‘do yow know that isn't one of | those, entertaining fish storie§ llml can't be verified?” e | | Ancient Will Discovered. | The will of a centenarian who died in | | England in 1836 has just been found | {In the roof of an outhouse, It was dated 1780, BT nlate;| il the Emas| ‘fragments. rlone were. left'to tell the tnle. Slow- “Does it look as if I'd dropped it, | mm;mue of a wmlnmnem of 100 birds | Jack took offense because one of the | Their cost to him is | i (] Tantalus. According -t Grecian mythology, Tantalus was a' son of Zeus, or the Jupliter of the Romuns. All traditions agree in stating that he was a wealthy | king, but some call him king of Lydia, | In Asia Minor, while others king of | Corinth in Greece. IHe is celebrated | In ancient traditions for the terrible bunishment intlicted upon him after death. It was related that he divulged | the secrets intrusted to him by Zeus, | and was punished in the lower world by being inflicted with a raging thirst, and_at the ‘same time placed in the midst of a lake, the waters of which always receded from his us soon as he | attempted to drink. From this tradi- tion the English lunguage has bors rowed. the wverb-to tantalize, that is, to hold outhopies or prospects that canuot be realized.’ Kongo Diamonds. There are dimpond Gelds m the Bele: - Konzo which ) produced 0,000 carats, and it is esitmated that ! the field” williyidil :ibout this quantity ennually in the future. BU[U'IH WOMAN HAD 10ST HEART | Mrs. Sleith Tells of Wonderful Chanze in Her Condition Brought By Tanlac “I just thought I never could enjoy ‘| good health any more, but Tanlac has made me a well and happy woman and T want to tell everybody about it,” said Mrs. James Sleith, 93 A. Sec- ond St., Morgan Park, Duiuth, Minn. “After my breakdown three years ago it seums that I just tried every- thing, but notmng helped me until I} got Tanlac. My stomach was my principle trouble, and oh, how I dnll suffer. .All this time I was just full| of - gas, and the pain was so bad T cculdn’t even do the lightest of my housework. My nights were sleep- less, and I £ot up with a dull, sicl |feeling and just could not stay up the day through. I got to where 1 was afraid to cat and was so thin and weak that my friends were un- easy about me. “Well, I hardly knew, what to do, for I had lost all hope, and I guess 1 would still be in g dreadful, discour- aged condition if it hadn’t been for Tanlac. I certainly am strong and healthy now, however, for my stom- ach seems just like new and I am ecat- ing three good meals every day and gleeping just fine‘at night. I can do all my housework without a bit of trouble. I think-Tanlac is the grand- est. medicine ingthe world, and I be- lieve it will help anyone suffering {from troubles like miné.” I‘.mLu_ and Tanlac Vegetables Pills by the City Drug Stcre, and leading druggists every- True Wealth and. Happiness. Omar had ' the right idea of what- constitutes ‘wealth and happiness. A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou -~under the bough, meaning food and drink and shelter and congenfal com- pantonship. Another poet expressed the same belief In slightly different language: “Give me neither poverty nor rfches; feed me with food cou- venlent for me."—Exchange. Figsh Choked Water Main. James Littletield of Dover, N, H., blamed the deereased. pie water main to the droughty but. dis- covered the real reason wihen the hose with whilchibe was \Wivering ht lawn vt ligtle: fishes, The ihe outlets in the Wl _disuppenred, allowing the creatures. the {reedom of the arvoir tinny, iy, H-rlav.D-ndmn Motorcycles Bicycles and Supplies GENFERAL REPAIR: SHOP 311 Sixth St.—Bemidji L 'IHllIflllIIIII|Ii!IlllllIIIIHHIIIllIIIIIlIIIlI!Il ‘ AT OUR MACHINE SHOP you can have every kind of machi; repairing done expertly, prompfly and at a reasonable cost. Our equip- ment is adequate for any kind of | work from drilling small holes to overhauling a big machine. use machinery of~any kind ‘better have our address handy. need us in a hurry. BEMIDJI MACHINE WORKS REAR OF 319 BELTRAMI AVE. TELEPHONE 6] W. O where.—Advertjsement. LE P b in John EUGENE 0 BRIEN "Broc iway and Home Picturized ; by The R.Cecil Smithe Directed ln,.Alan Crosland - ELZNICK. N TS, L‘y-nclls A\ Sore—he came Home. LAST ELK A fling at:“LIFE”, and then—Disllusioned and What happened between? JOHNNY HINES In Comedy—*“CROWNING TORCHY” TIME Heart Tonight VIOLA “Puppets | A Torchy Come I all the fun and laughter t two reels. REX ORCHESTRA REX Theatre - Today DANA in DONN BYRNE’S of Fate” “TORCHY’S PROMOTION” dy, featuring— “ JOHNNY HINES, as “TORCHY” Ffom the Famous Stories by Sewell Ford. Sewell Ford’s read-headed super office boy, with hat can be crammed into ; MUTT & JEFF j; Matinee | oo e e ————— e S S ! " COMING SATURDAY— “THE GREAT WHITE TRAIL” 0—7:10-9:00 If you| You may T MW IVENINU‘ SMMDB&", 1921 A HUMAN STORY Q That will sirike a responsive cord in every heart. ONE OF THE STRONGEST Blows ever dirccted at convie- ticn on circumstantial evidence. 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