Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 14, 1921, Page 2

“LADYFINGERS" AT THE GRAND THEATER LQST TIMES TONIGHT There are a wealth of thrills, sand- wicheg'in with the adventurous love! story presented in “Lgdyflngers," a Bayard Veiller production for Metro starring Bert Lytell, which is showing for the last time at the Grand theater tonight. to stand out prominently. | 3 the sort of dramatic story_which Di stage productions, in his perilous profession. Tadyfingers the police. of respectability, trayal of TR Lenore J. Coffee Freuderman art director. “ALARM CLOCK ANDY” AT e geréen at the Blko tonight in return showing. Charlie’s motto is “He wha Tigsitates is lost,” and he keeps the cracked miirror in his cheap boarding house room pasted with such guide posts to success as “Do It Now” and “Don’t Be in Doubt.” But he is bash- ful and he stutters and somehow he doesn’t seem to be getting there, even though he patterns after the firm's Beau Brummel and crack salesman, Wiliam Blinker. Then a pretty girl injects herself into Charlie’s life and Ly chance he meets a big business man who is favorably impressed with his ‘ambitions. $ “Alarm Clock Andy” was directed by Jerome Storm. -‘Mack . Sennett’s = comedy “You Waouldn't - Believe It,” will also be ‘shown at the Elko tonight. ¢ I | i | { i g L “EVERYTHING FOR SALE” AT " ELKO THEATER TOMORROW - 'Why Marry? For love or for a liv- i,.g“z' ’;}mt is the theme of May M’«; ‘Avoy's picture “Everything For Sale’ ch will open a two-day run in this city tomorrow and Friday at the Elko heater. l.he:w story is announced as full of that sympathetic appeal at mteyprqtu- tion of which May McAvoy is such a” consummate mistress. The story is of a girl, fresh from finishing gchool who finds herself confronted with the old ‘problem of marringe for money or }!{or love.v er reactions al situations are handled in a deft and entértaining manner, not ‘the least enthralling being scenes where the girl. rescues her .childhood playmate from the wa.cs which are battering him against the rocks. -The herojne also has a tense scene in which she accidentally locked in a closet and is slowly overcome by gas, until she falls agains the door and thus attracts help. Included in the supporting cast are Edward Sutherland, Richard Tucker, Kathlyn Williams, ,Edwin Stevens, Dana Todd, Jane Keckiey and Betty Schade. the consequent ot i e BAND BOX REVUE CLOSES BIG RUN HERE TONIGHT | The Band Box Revue will conluda its present engagement at the Rex theater today with the best show they have put on since the beginning of their engagement here, entitled “A Million Dollap Doll in Paris.” There will be lots of fun, many new songs, and Mr. Russell will be at his best in the comedy role. I addition there will be what is termed a singing contest but it will be more of an amateur night, as all the contestants will not be limited to singing, but will be allowed to re- | cite, dance, in fact do anything of | entertainment that their talents may | be suited to. There will be a boxing conhtest, some little girls will sing, cite. Ten dollars in prizes will be award- cd. This will be paid in cash and not worthless prizes, and the kiddie who wing the ¥irst prize will have a nice little nest egg for Christmas. The contestants will be awarded the prizes according to the judgment of the jaudience. The one who gets ‘the greatest amount of applause will ‘be awarded the first prize, the next second prize, and so on. This will iake ‘place immediately after the first show tonight. All contestants are rpquested to get their names in at the box office by matinee today. There will be lots of fun, and everybody is invited to applaud for their favorite. VAUDEVILLE THURSDAY AS ‘USUAL AT GRAND THEATER .With each week’s vaudeville pro- gram proving to be better entertain- ment, this week’s bill at the Grand theater on Thursday only, as usual, promises ‘to be an excellent lot of acts. Bert Ford, “The Musical Dough- boy” appears as a fully equipped sol- dier with rifle, pistol, saber and pack- sack, all of which are musical instru- ments, Mr. Ford is an artist on all and will render selections on the pic- colo, flute, bellaphone, saxaphone and the U. S. army bugle. Morgan and Lewis present an up- ‘to-the-minute skit entitled “What Next?” that is a laugh from start to finish. Foster and Foster, in “The Volunteer Pianist,” offer a novel act during which Mr. Foster, who is a pianist' of international reputation, will introduce his remarkable trick playing besides furnishing a musical { CALLED NATION’S MODEL CITY High Distinction That, by General Con. It is a crook play, but so different from the usual run of crook plays as It is just rector Veiller showed by his famous that he knows how to get the most out of it. It dea}s -with the career of a youth who is trained by a notorious safe cracker Because of his delicate fingers he is known as and is eagerly sought by He is also sought by his grandmother, a rich and eccentric womgn, and is brought face to face with her when on a visit of burglary to hey home, in_ignorance that he is her grandson. Though the old lady wishes to acknowledge and forgive him he refuses to accept the mantle and proceeds to work out his salvation in his own way. Mr. Lytell gave an admirable por- the youthful crook, whose conscience, once awakened, proved more effective than all the skill of the police. Ora Carew, as the girl whose Jove for the safe cracker never fal- tared, played the part with rare un- derstanding. Others in the cast were Prank Elliott, Edythe Chapman, De | Witte Jennings and Stanley Goethals. | adapted it from Jackson Gregory’s story. Arthur Mar- ‘tinelli was photographer and A. E. AT ELKO THEATER TONIGHT Charles Ray is a youthful salesman of motor trucks in his picture, “Algrm Cloek Andy,” which will occupy ‘the another will dance, and one will re- | treat. A Kennedy and Williams work. PATHE NEWS HAS MUCH This week’s Pathe News ' wh shows regularly on Tuesday and Wed- views of currentievents that are more interesting than usual. Remarkable parley at Washington, and Italy’s honoring of their unknown soldier, all appear in the weekly showing to- night for the last time at the Grand. WHERE APPEAL IS USELESS Ancients Seeni to Have Had the Right Idea in Their Attitude Toward Inevitable Death. What does it feel like to pass out of thjs earthly life and enter the un- Loown beyond? . An interesting answer comes from a group of physlologists. Their observa- tions are that, in the dying hour, the sense of smell is the first to fail Then, in order, the dying person loses taste, sight, touch, hearing. . Thus the five senses pass. Outward- 1y, death seems to have taken place. But how about the sixth sense—con- sclousness? Many medical men be- lfeve the brain is conscious, sometimes, as long as 20 minutes after the five senses are gone, had “vistons of angels, music and & flood of bright light, in the moment of passing from the material world. Why fear death? Life is only a journey, death only a change. aacients contemplated death without fear, and met it with indifference. | They accepted it as fnevitable, hence things that might change—misfortune, af rain. - They recognized that there was no use in appealing .to. death, the Gresat Adventure.—Cincinnati Post. As It Sounded to Him. Shitley Brooks, one of the most brild Hant Englishmen of his time, assocl- ated with Thackeray and the famous Mark lLemon in the editorial manage- ment of Punch, had a mind filled with poetry und he often wrote admirable verses himself. But he had no knowl- edge of or love for musie, ,Nevertheless, in his role as reporter for some Lon- don newspaper Brooks one time had eritically. He wondered how he was “going to get away with it,” and thig is how he did it “Over the déep abyss of ‘bass thera floated, like a poised lark, a silvery “elond of treble, amid which the shrill tremolo of the higher strings: seemed quiveringly to glitter like the arrowy of a sunshaft through the mist of early morning. | Meeting Expectations. { The old negress who washed Mrs, Worth, says Everybody’s, came one day with n tale of woe calculated to awaken pity in the hardest heart. “Cheer up, auntie,” said Mrs, Worth consolingly. “There's no use worty- tng." | But auntie held other views. “How come dere’s no use worryin'?” she de- manded. “When de good Lawd send me tribdlations He done ’spect me to tribulate, ain't He?” Sweets for Christmas B You cannot think of anyone who will not be delighted to recelve a gift dozen glasses filled with- jelly, pre< serves and marmalade, very attrac- tively .arranged In a wicker basket. The tin covers of the glasses are ac- quered with black lacquer and a white gummed letter is placed in the center of eachone. A spray of fruit or blos- sows painted on the lid with sealing wax, together with the letter, tells the kind of Jelly or preserves the glass contains, as apple, with m spray of i apple blossoms and ‘the letter “A,” or | currant with a cluster of currants and | follage and the letter “C.” Sealing | wax in several colors simulates shirred i ribbon on the center glass which con- | tains marmalade. in' ‘clean .|comedy in “‘Rube” makeup, close the bill with some sensational athletic The regular shows begin 2:30 in the afternoon and at 7:15 and 9 at, night. OF INTEREST THIS WEEK Y nesday at the Grand theater, contains scenes of the Princeton-Yale foot-| ball game, first pictures of the arms | What happens to us when we dle? | . Everyone has heard of people who | The ' never raised altars to it as they did to | fever, volcanie eruptions or the god | been called upon to write of a concert | [ for | | like thut ilustrated here. It is a half:, sent, Seems ta Have Been Won by. Marysville, Mich. Thirty miles north of Detrolt les what s known as the “model city of America,” says a Detroit telegram to the St. Louls Post-Dispatch.. It Ia Marysville, owned entirely by a devel- opment company. "he model. city 18 marked by clean private homes, well- paved streets, little wealth and a con- tented community, where strikes are unknown. Marysville was & struggling: com- munity of some few hundred souls when the Marysville Land Develep- ment company was formed. The com- pany proceeded to buy up the entire town. Iactory sites were then sold to other concerns and homes were sold to the workers at “a -reasonnble price.” To those who did not care to buy, suit- able hotel and boarding-house accom- modations were provided. . There is no politics in this little city of 30,000 population. The principal property holders each year hire a city manager to run the place on the com mission form of government. The city’s school systém 1s not surpassed by any in Amerlca. Educators were brought from some of the largest cities.in the country and told to provide the best. Dance halls, movie theaters and steam- boat companies were granted conces- glons under the city government: Taxes are low, as the upkeep of the town Is practically paid for largely by the manufacturers, MAKE THE PARK. PRACTICAL Care and Thought Bestowed on Recre ation Ground Will Be Found ‘Thoroughly Worth While. The recreational value of our public parks is, of course, u scientifically practical value. Play Is essential to the lhealth and success of a nation, Any form of play is beneficial. Any recreation which calls into use brain centers which are not “used in - out serious routine work - is imptfoving. Even the least healthful forms of play, recreations which do not tend to hélp our physical well-being, have a certain value'in that they rest the over-worked part of our brains ‘and .thus tend-to save us from neuroses and nervous breakdowns. The best form: of recrea. tion, however, is that which:takes us intg the open air, provides wholesome _exefeise, and alds brain and pody at the same time. For clity residents tha parks supply an ample field for ‘recrea- tion of this kind. S ' HANDSOME STREET SIGNS The proprietor of a store 'in China. town, San Francisco, was given per- mission to erect a strectt sign in keeping with the atmosphsere of the locality. Large balls of heavy, in- laid brown glass surmouist the usu- al. iron posts.—Popular Mechanics Magazine, ‘The “City Practical.” “Never use the word ‘city beautiful” when you are trying to sell.a clty plan | to your city or community,” advises n real estate expert. “Use ‘city practle cal and city efficient,! for out of the practleal city will come the beautiful city. There has been a wrong impres- sion that city planning Is nothing more | or less than the embelitshment and | beautification of the city, whereas It is the lopping off of the unnecessary: things; it is cutting down to the prac- tical things that makes it responsive to every call that is put 'upon it; and out of that order, out of that very rhythm of movement, out of the ability to do the things placed upon it, will come ‘the city beautiful’” How Town “Grows.” A town thrives the bestl and accom- plishes the most when it grows. It grows when Its citizens grow. Its cit- 1zens grow when they have mind-pow- er and soul-power. Trué growth means making today better than yesterday, tomorrow better than %oday. Growth means changing oursekves to canform to outward circumstances. Growth Is fin@ing ourselves, getting rid of short- comings and utillzing what is really worth the effort. Hedge for the Corner Lot. For a corner lot o hedge is excellent. Replant it when the leaves fall. Cut the top growth back one-half. l'SUBS‘CRIBE FOR THE PIONEER N ' legders of _of the BLIND"T0" GREAT "INVENTION When He “Turned Down" Ericsson’s Offer to Build Monitors. March 8, 1862; August, 1921. These dates comprise the history of ironclad monitors, the first of which, invented by John Ericsson, met and defeated the’ Merrimac at Hampton Roads on the date first named. . The last of the British monitors, after seeing minor service’ hi”the 'World war, was con- signed to the scrap heap by the ad- miralty last Auvgist. The Dhistory of the monitors goes back to the:days of Napoleon III, when Great Britain was in a ferment, appre- lending invasion . from. 'across the channel, Triesson, «/ Swedish engi~ neer, urged the French emperor in 1854 to build, according to his design, armored vessels of low freeboard, with big guns fn revolving shot-proof cupolas, placed centrally on the decks. Such a type of armor-clad ship, he de- claved, would revolutionize naval war- fare. The .idea was not carried out, and _ Great Britain’s wooden ships never had to facé the ordeal of the Merrimac. But Ericsson prevailed on.the Unlon the American Civil war to give his idea a trial. In 100 days his, ship ~ was built, armed. and equipped, and it soon fulfilled the in- ventor’s hope that it would serve as a “monitor,” or lesson, to the Confed- eracy, Even hefore this, however, the Brit- ish admiralty had taken up the idea und had built a vessel of a similar type. At the time of the armistice the British navy had 37 of them. LAST FATALITY IN DISPUTE When Determined, Monument Wiil Be Erected on Spot Where Unfortu- nate Soldier Died. When: was the last man killed In the war? 'This is the latest question asked by the Kvench literary journal, Renaissance. It promises to be taken up serlously by the allied nations, each of which has hitherto considered that the honor belonged to it. ,The British declare that a few minutes before eleven o'clock on the morning of the armistice a colonel of machine gunners in the British-army recelved a stray bullet, but it is doubtful whether this hullet came from a German sniper or from a party of moppers up. At any rate, the British case is considered outelassed. Veterans’ associations in allied countries -are being asked' to send in corrohorated. detalls of inci: dents likely-to ajd in solving the prob- lem, which the Renaissance assures its readersis just as important as is the identity of the first. man killed in the war, the latter honor, of course, be- longlng to the Trench soldier who crossed the German frontier without knowihg war bad been declared.and was shot during an altercation with} a German customs agent and a squad of German. infantry. Once the ideh- tity of the last man killed in the war is established, a- monument will be raised to commemorate’ the fatality and the soldiér” who: lost his life at the -moment’ of’ victory. Sapphire With a History. The big sapphire on the top of the cross on the state crown of the kingj of England once was belleved to have thé power of curlng rheumatism, sci- atica and various other diseases which | afflicted men a thousand or so years ago. It Is not believed that this stone | has lost any of the powers with which | it began life, perhaps a million years | ago, but a large part of the British | public seems to have lost faith in its curative properties. This sapphire was | once the setting of the coronation ring | of Edward burled in Westminster abbey, and was the Confessor, who was taken out of his casket in the year 1101, since which time it has been one English crown jewels. To whom 1t belonged before it became the property of the pious Tdward his- torlans do not tell.—Washington Star. e Couldn't Spare. Him. Janet's mother entered the nursery and, as she surveyed the child's collec- tlon of dolls, said: . “Now, denr, you have had this sol- dier doll a long time and the poor little girl- next door is ill and has nd doll at all. Dop't you want to send her your soldier boy?” - - “No, mother,” sald Janet, “I would rather send her any one but that. Ycu see, that's the only man we have in the family, and Le's marrled to all the other dolls.” i e Our Plan. Fhe young married couple had just returned from a lioneymoon and the wife went to her next door’ neigh- bor. .“0Of course I'm horribly green,” she confessed, “and I want to learn. So you'll help me won't you, please? First, I want to Lknow how to man- age our finances.. Do you budget yours?” “Not yet,” the older woman smiled. wyye're not that far yet. We still belong to the, ‘stretch it rank of families.” % —_— S 1 . Cop Is Linguist. ! Lynn, Mass., has a policeman who has mastered seven different lan- guages In the last seven years. He is Anthony Dychius, a twenty-seven- year old Kithuanian, who came to America seven years ago. Since he has been here he served in the army aod on the Lynn police force. He speaks ~ Russlan, . Jewish, Polish, Czechoslovak, Serbian, English, an¢ Lithuanian. i e — Subscribe for The Dally Plonee. French Emperor Missed Opbortunuy} Average Man Weds at Thirty. More than 1,600,000 men and women more than forty-five years old ave eking out a miserable existence in sin- gle Dblessedness, the census reports. More than 100,000 men about seventy- six years of age are listed as hachelors | and nearly an equal number of wom- en, sixty-four years or more, also are unmarried, besides a still larger num- | ber of men and women fifty years old who are without mates as a result of diyorce or death. :The. average man' now marries at thirty and the average woman at twenty-five. While 98 per cent of the revenues of ‘thé:govern- ment are spent,on.war, a majority ‘of. the funds raised by clty; state and country levies 13 expended on schools. Cold Be Bought Off. Allce ‘was staying with, her fathe¥ one evening while her mother was eway. The father, while reading, was wiggling the floor lamp and Alice spoke up: “You know mamma does not want you to play with that lamp.” 8he waited a minute, then added: “If you will give me a nickel I won't tell _her.” | — RE THUR. | - FRL Clara Kimball Young “IN Hl:}R LATEST PICTURE “Straight From - Paris”| CHARLES RAY ‘In Retfirn Engagement “Alarm . Clock A]mdlv” A Paramount-Artcraft - Picture |I!llll|||IIIIIIIIIlIIIIlIIIIIIIllllllllilllllllll|llIlllllllllllllllllllllIIIIlIIlllIllll"lllll!llllllllllllI|IIIIIII The smashing tale of a stuttering salesman who _starts to work like thirty cents and arrives in love like a million dollars. Also Mack Sennett"s “You Wouldn’t Believe It” —TONIGHT ONLY— § 000000000067 E e e T T T T T TP LT \ifng an up-state univer old ‘Knickers and Golf Sult. The home folks were mystified the other day when: Harold, who is attend- sity, wrote & Jetter to his sister, Elsle, asking her to dig into his old trunk up in the at- tic and send him the knickerbocker Norfolk sult he wore during his juntor year in high school, Remembering with what joyous abandon - Harold stepped out of short pants into his first suit of long trousers, mother could not figure out why. he should want to backslide, { - A postscript cleared up the mys- tery, says the New York Sun. “All ithe fellows are wearing golt sgits on tlie campus,” Harold wrote, | “especially on Saturdays'and Sundays. I 'khow dad cap't afford to stake e ‘to $65 worth of n@w clothes, so I'll try to bluff the thing through with my old'high school: knickers and abeut 2 worth of regulation golf stockings.” WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1921 DUKE OF YORK CELEBRATES BIRTH ANNIVERSARY TODAY (By United Press) London, De. 14.—The D}lke of York, second son of King George, {celebrates his 26th birthday today, {and flags were flown on government ' buildings, @nd salutes fired at naval !and military stations, in honor of the anniversary. The duke, likg his brothers, first entered the navy, and bt}t for the wartime development of * aviation might have remained in that ‘service, in which he holds the rank of com- mander. But on tle Jormation of the royal air force he entered that arm, and proving himself a capable and enthusiastic aviatory ‘he deécided to remain with the flying men. He was recently promoted to the.zank of group captain in the royal air force e p—————E e ] WWHWW i = SEVERYTLING FOR SALE What Really Counts in E ' Life? True love in a cottage—or rich jewels and palaces and love that is'purchased as a chattle? Sometimes a young girl finds it hard to choose. “EVERYTHING FOR SALE” starring . MAY McAVOY Realart’s Wonder Girl Here is a story that no man or woman in this commu- nity should fail to see. THURSDAY & FRIDAY at the N ELKO THEATRE e e e e e e e s iy 3 ~ DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS T T ORD “The Musical Doughboy"” FOSTER & FOSTER in “The Voluntcer P OO T T T T LT PATHE NEWS and A COMEDY ITonight--Grand VAUDEVILLE THIRSIAY ONLY Illlllli|ll IlllIIlllllIlIIIIIllIIIlllIilIIIIIlllIIIlllIllllIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIlIllIIlIIIIIl A His Latest Picture and His Best R P R T LR TR T THT R TT S THE L B L MORGAN & LEWIS in “What Next?"” KENNEY & WILLIAMS Noveity Comedians HHTTRHHT R G VT a THE PIONEER WANT ADS | RRING RESULTS ! DAILY PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS BAND BOX REVUE The Laughing Hit of the Season Singing Contest with Bemidji Home Talent also—— Boxing Contest—Two Bemidji Boys : $10.00—CASH PRIZES AWARDED—$10.00 Picture Program 25¢-50¢ REX Theatre Presenté 7:10-9:00 BNt - AR -, P ORI 2. Sonay &