Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 4, 1922, Page 2

T oo U T AMATEUR NIGHT AT GRAND PROMISES ENTERTAINMENT, Tonight at the first show only at the Grand theater, amateur enter- taihers hold forth, and considerable entertainment is looked forward to from the: Jocal talent. At the time of going to press, some 2ix different acts have been signed up by Manager Harding, who announces Mthat the contest is still open to any person over 12°years of age, and it i8 expected that there will be some late additions to the program whieh now includes a cartoonist, an orient- al dancer, an elocutionist, several singers, and ““The Agony Quartette” who have arranged a new repertoire of harmony numbers. The first prize, $10 in cash, and the second prize a complimentary ticket good. for one month, will be awarded to the contestants.who win the great-: cst amount of applause from the| audience, and this will be decided by a committee selected from the su. ience. In conjunction with the amateurs appearance. Mrs. Bill Hart (Wini- fred Westover) supported by Dolores Cassenelli, Joe King and Frank Sheri- dan, will appear in a romantic story of the Kentucky Mountain Folk, en- titled *“An .Of Little Smoky.” “MOLLY Q" AT REX THREE DAYS, OPENING SUNDAY “Molly 0,” the Mack Sennett pro- duction distributed by Associated First National Pictures, lnc., which is announced as the attraction fortie Rex theater /beginning Sunday is probably the most costly production thiat has been produced ip tae world during the past yvear. Jir. Sennett has made no announcement of the actual outlay of money which the completion of ‘“Molly 0" has demund- ed, but the known costs of the fac- tors entéring muc it makes it ain.ost a taggering tolal, without the inci. dental expenses which no one Lut the producer caii know. Deéspite the huge cost there is nothing extravagant about the traction. The riere huzeness of it, " as it was planned oy Mr. Sennett called for a cost that is four or five * times greater than ih aal ouciey on advertised ‘“lavish’ roductions, Determined {» muke suc: e to “Mickey” that would eclipse that syeeess as a box office Sennett planned big {row tie start and kept to that program. " Thrée mionths is considered ample time for.the filming of a production, ‘Molly. 0" was actually in the proces of “shooting” for just six diays less'than ten months. In spite of this theré was not an idle day at the ‘studio "during the entive time. . Work was progressing on it all the time, but Mr.'Sennett’s insistence up- an “bigness” in even the smailest de- tails resulted in a carefulness of stu- dio work that has never been accord- ed {o another production. . Persons who have reviewed the pro- duction at the studio declare that the carefulness expended on it has béen worth while—that “Bigness” sticks out in' every scene—and that as whole no one can sec it without b irig” impressed with its magnitude. THOS. MEIGHAN IN BIG FILM AT GRAND SUNDAY Thomas Meighan, the popular Par- amount star, appears as a gangster and gunman in his latest Paramount picture, ‘“The Froutier of the Stars,” which will be shown at the Grand the- ater, Sunday and Monday, next. This is by far the “roughest" role in which the virile star has been seen. Mr. Meighan has the role of Buck Leslie, leader of the Forsyth Street Gang, which he holds because of his cleverness, utter disregard of dange! and two capable fists. When he is fleeing from Phil Hoyt, a Bowery de- tective, Buck hies to the rooftops, and there runs upon Hilda Sheu, sister-in- law of the detective, a cripple, who has spent most of her life in a wheel chair on the roof. From then on is unfolded an inter- esting study in two entirely different personalities, Hilda with her sweet philosophy of life and her belief that everything is good, and Buck with just as firm a conviction that there is no good. Faire Binney plays opposite the star. “‘Rolling Stones,” a new two part comedy featuring Lloyd “Ham” Iamilton, completes the program. VAUDEVILLE.PROGRAM AT REX THEATER TODAY ONLY Showing today ouly at the Rex theater are three big headline acts, the same acts that played at the Pal- ace theater, Minneapolis, last week, annoutices Mrsi- M, E. Brinkman, manager. . - Strassler, the Jap, with his trained seuls opens the bill. Boyd & 'King present a piano and singing act, the lady making seven changes of ward- robe. Golden & Harron, the - bil! vosters, in 3 singing and talking mon- ologue, complete- the' vaudeville hili. A ‘feature picture- program starring Buck Jones and a‘comique complete| gowe thie” program. “DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE"” AT ELKO THEATER TONIGHY | pesit, at the Royal Hortieuitarad Fred Stone comes again to . the | M/, London, has succeeded in scroen at the Elko theater tomight | ™taining the old cnrnatiorr frag- also" Sunday matinee and eveping, in [ ¥ance, which in many madern one of the most richly humoypous veh- | ~vavieties has icles on which ihis tamous comedian has ever bestowed his taents. It is called “The Duke of Chimney Butte™ dirested by Frank Borzage, who made the memorable production of *“Hum- oresque” and is based upon the novel of the-same title written by George Washington Ogden. “The Duke of ° Chimney Butte” is a clean-cut ro- mantic_adventure with delicious hu. mor. ~ While it is rich in the atnu*)‘;~ - phere of the western lands, it is hap . v }!‘? free ?rom (.hc'b!omluznrl—thun.'.v r NEWS OF THE THEATRES attraction Tr. | O UL LU T {mechanics of the cheaper sort of {western dramas. Instead of being n! | wild-eyed gun toter, Stone interprets |the character of “The Duke” with a | deft touch of humor which makes him ; altogether enjoyable. The story has {to do with the adventures of “Thg {Duke,” how he blunders into a cow- boy camp as a tenderfoot and be- comes one of their leaders through his conrage and daring. Then he gets {a.job on a ranch owned by a young woman and serves as her portector. This supplies the romantic interest, which Stone gets home with high skill. | IMiss Vola Vale, who was formerly leading woman for William S. Hart, T ithe cast are Josie Sedgewick, Chick {Morrison and Jim, Duncanson. It's} lan R-C picture FINE CAST IN LATEST MARY MILES MINTER FILM Mary Mile sMinter, supported by ta large and unusually well chosen cast will appear here next Mondey jand Tuesday at the Elko theater in |“Tillie,” an adaptation of Helen R. Martin’s famous story of the Mennoa- tite maid. Alan Forrest is leading man, and other roles are handled by {Noah Beery, Lucien Littlefield, Lil- \lian Leighton, Marie Treboal, Virginia | Adair, Robert Anderson and Ashley {Cooper. Frank Urson directed the i production, a Realart release. ‘;DEATH WARRANT OF JESUS? | Document of Wonderful Importance, i if Genuine, Is Hidden Some- where in y of Rome. Somewhere secreted n Rome Is 8 document that if genuine, Is to Caris- | tian people the most interesting and ! tmpressive legal document in ' the | worla. | It is the death warrant, served on Jesus Christ, and rendered by Pon- | tius Pilute, acting governor of Lower | Galllee, stating that Jesus of Naza- | reth shall suffer death on the cross. In 1810 workmen, while excavating 0 the ancient city of Amiternum (now {‘Oquila) in the kingdom of Nuples, | found an antique vise in which Iay | concealed n copper plate, bearing on | ene side a long inseription in the He- brew tongue—this,” when translated, was said to be the death warrant of | i Jesus, | Un the reverse side were these| | words, “A similar plate be sent to] | each tribe” Faithfully transeribed it read as| follows : “In the year seventeen of the Em-| peror Tihdrlus Caesar, aud, the twen- ty-seventh, day of March in the city of the Holy Jerusalem—Amins and Calphay, fielng priests snerififntors of the people ‘of God, I'ontius Pilyee, gov- iplays opposite Stone, while others in:}. SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER 1—Young Carlyle Wilburton Dale, or *Bill Dale,” as he elects tc be known, son of a wealthy coal operator, John K. Dale, arrives at the Halfway Switch, 'in_eastern Tennessee, abandon- ing u life of idle ease—and Incidentally a bride, Patricia Clavering, at the altai determined to make his own way in life. He meets “Babe” Littleford, typlical mountaineer girl. “By” Heck, & charac- ter of the hills, takes him to John More- land’s home. Moreland is chief of his “clan,” which has an old feud with the Littlefords. He tells Dale of the killing of his brother, David Moreland, years 2go, owner of rich coal deposits, by a man named Carlyle. Moreland's descrip- tion of “Cariyle” causes Dalp o belleve the man was his father. CHAPTER IL—Dale arranges to make his home with the Moreland family, for whom he entertains a deep rvespect. CHAPTER IT1.—Talking with *Babe" Littleford next day, Dale is ordered by +Black Ad: bully of the district, to leave “his girl” alone. Dale replies spiritedly, and they fight. “ale whips the bully, though badly used ap. He ar- ranges with John Moreland to develo) David's coal deposits, Ben Littlefor: sends a challenge to John Moreland to mect him “battle. Moreland agrees, CHAPTER IV.—During the night all the guns belonging to the Littlefords and the elauds_mysteriously disappear. (Continued from last issue) & CHAPTER IV The Mystery of the Rifles. An hour: after John Moreland had sent his ten vifle bullets whining over the lhead of Ben Littleford, every Moreland and every Littleford. In the valley knew of the declaration of war. | And each man of them oifed his weap- ons and put them in better working orde When Dale went to bed, there was too much on his mind to render sleep- ing casy for him. Tomorrow he would have to belp in the fight against the Lit- | tlefords, kinsmen of the younyg woman | who ‘had saved him, without doubt, | from death by the murderous. rifle of | the mountaineer Golinth—or break his | word flatly. It was a poor return for ernor of) Lower Galilee, sitting in the | such a favor! The longer he thought presidewtial chair of the praetary, con- | over the dilemma, the more perplexed demns (Jesus of Nazareth to ‘die onj he became. the crpss between two thieves, the| e thought, too, of the everlasting great mnd notorious evidence of the people saying: | egsus is - sedgeer, 2k © Is seditions, ! He I8 the enemy of the law. “He calls himself fa¥sely the Son of | God. | “He calls Mmselt falsly the king | of Tsrael, | “He entgred Into the temples fol lowed by a multitmle bearing palm branches in their hands, | “Ordered the first centurlon Quilius | Corneliws to lead Him to the pluce of | exccutign. Forbids any person whom- | soever, either rich or poor, to oppose the denth of Jesus Chris The witnessas who signed the fone demnntion were: Danlel Robanfa, o Pharisee; Raphael Robanka, Joannuws Robaula, Capen, a citizen, ! It was also stuted that Jesus should K0 wuL ot the ity of Jerusulem by the gute of Strucuus,—Los Angzeles Times, | | | Many Had Idea of Vellocipede. The velocipede was the . father of the bicyele. The list of* those who clalmed to have wmade tiwe invention would fill a coluran, and « page would hardly accommodate all t'hase who de- vised the jmprovements which made the velocipede a really ‘as¢ful means of locometion. | Blanchard, the aeronaut, who de- | scribed fhe Innovation fn detafl o ! 1779, is pelicved entitled 1o first hon- | ors. appears as a good, second fn 1S1& Baron ven Dirais, a ' Germany takes | third money with his “dandy horse,” or “dvaisenn,” whicl. he pateited in the sawme year, sy Breeds Nev, White Carnatilon, Crossing Ve American’ camnation known as ‘Mrs, T. IV. Lawson® with English plants has produced, after twenty-fof i years of selective bweed- Ing, a a7 zzling white varlety, the first | of a Yiew race of disease-resis¥ing | 175, which Is dessribed Jas a tri- | WAl of horticulture. 2 ! I8 breeder, Stuart Low, who s} shoging his novelty, named WHite'| almost vanished. Tt | Is stated that the new pedigree earma- | tion has gone: throwggh all digease | tests and hag come out unseathed. | Not in Thoss Days. Mrs. Nexflare—Your hoy threy a Tupap of coal at our cat. \ Mr. Nhyhor—TIL attensd to the young rascal. | Nt that .we ' care anything about yveur cat, but no boy of mine is going to waste coal In that wapnes, | —~BOILOH Transeript. Fod The $renchman, Nigepliore Niepce, | cold. wonder, the tail of Jehn Moreland's bedtime prayer. How a man could,go down on his knees and ask the bless- ings of the Almighty upon men whom he meant to fight the next day was a thing that.Bill Dale could not under- stand. It was after midnight before he glept. lle woke at the break of day, arose and dressed himself, and went out. Going toward the flower-filled front yard, he found himself facing a very angry John Moreland. “What's the matter?’ be asked. “Matter enough,” clipped the moun- talneer, “Bill Dale, I'm a-goln’ to ax you a question, and I want the truth. Will T git it?” f “You'll get the truth If you get any- thing. Shoot the question.” 11 right. What do you know about my gun?’ “About as much as you know of the left hind wheel of Ben Hur's chariot. What's wrong with 1t?” Moreland’s eyes were stendy and Moreland’s Eyes Were Steady and | Cold. He thrust his hands into the pockets' of his cordurey trousers, Then his face softened a trifle. T reckon I ought to ax don,” he sald In a low voice. my gun's plumb gone!” “You lad it only last night,” Dale said. . “Did 't disappear—" . *“Whilst 1 slept.” cut in the hillnman, h Teivin Myers Copyright by Doubleday.Page & o, repeater Is gone, and so is Cale’s, and we -hain’t got nothin® at all to fight them d—d Littlefords with!” “Gone!” Dale exclaimed wondering- ly and—Iit seemed to him—asininely. “It must ha’ been the Littlefords, 1 guess,” frowned Moreland. '“Fo’ be- cause who else would ha’ done it? But to save the life o’ me I cain’t see how they got in and took my rifle without wakin’ me up, Bill Dale. 1 slept twicet | Las light as a sick mouse, % Witiiin ten nore minutes, every man of the Mcrelands was gathered there at the house of thelr chief—and every man of them had lost their weidpons during the night! Johu Moreland and said to bim: “You're high on the good side o them thar triflin’ Hecks, and, so fer as they know, you ain’t int'rested in the fend. I wisht you'd go down thar and see By and his mother, and see | ef ye ean find out whar our rifles went.” When Dale had gone off ‘down the dusty oxwagon road, Caleb Moreland climbed a tall ash that grew behind his father's.ezbin; and kept a watch toward the Littleford side of the river. He saw a group of men standing in Ben Littleford's enbin yard, and noth- Ing el A little more’ than a quarter of an hour after’ Dale left John Moreland he entered by the gateless gateway at the cabin of the Hecks. It was a di- Iapidated place, and it stood not far from the river. By sat in the front doorway ; he was lazily cutting a new midday sun mark in the place of the worn old onesgdehind him sat his who was busily knitting a rn stocking. noonshiner looked up and start- ed quickly to his feet. “HI, thar, Bill, old boy!” he greeted cordially. “My_gosh, but ye've come at the right time, shore. We're a-goin' to have young squirrels fo" dinner, and a biled hamshank with string beaus, and cawnbresd made with the yeller| o hen aigs. Live whilst ye do live, s 1. Cowme right in, Bill, old boy, ‘La, la, Ia!” cried Granny Heck, looking over the - brass rims of her spectacles. “How glad L am to see ye, M Billt | Come right in and tell us the news.” 5 Bill Dale crogsed the threshold and accepted a crefiking chair. His eyes took in at a sweeping glance the home- made dining table with its éover of red oilcloth, the broken cast-iron stove, the strings of dried. peppers hanging on the log walls, the broken stillworm lying in the corner. “rhe Littlefords,” sald Dale, “have declared war.” “Sakes!” laughed the old woman. “We knowed that last night when we heered them ten shots.” “And all the Moreland rifles are missing.” Dale watched the effect ot mis words. “What !" voice. Their surprise seemed = genuloe, Dale pressed the subject further and learned only that if they knew any- thing “oncerning the disappearance of the ritles they were not going to tell. Theu he started homeward by way of the pool above the blown-down sy amore. There was a chance that Ben Little- ford’s daughter would be there fishing, Dale told himself, and it was barely possible that she could throw some light on the mystery of the ritles. He crogsed tlie river by means of the prostrate tree, Bube was there; she sat on the stone on which she had been sitting the morning before; her back was to him, and her’ bave feet were In the water to her ankl Dale went up close, stopped and gathered a handful of violets and dropped them over her shoulder and into her lap. Babe looked around and smiled. “What luck, Miss Littleford®” “Nothiw’.” I don’t much want to ketch aonything,” she said slowly, a spirit of sadness.in her musical voice. “I—I Jest come oft down here to be whar {t's quiet. You ought to hear the noise 'at pap and the rest of 'em: 18 a-makin!” Dale narrowed his eyes. “Are they- er, making a nolse? And what about?”: “My goodness gracious alive! You'd think so ef ye could hear 'em! Y'ought to hear pap cuss John Moreland!” She shrugged -her. pretty shoulders, lifted the small end of her rod to its proper place, and went on, “l never did see pap halt as mad as he was when he got home last night from a-follerin’ me. “Mad at you?” asked Dale. “No; but he would ha' been ef he badn't ha’ had all his madness turned aglin them Morelands. - You knowed p's trouble on yan side o’ the t night?” called ' Dale aside the Hecks erled in one “Yes, swered slowly. “But John Moreland thought yoyr father was my autago- ! what did them Morelands say about | 1 knew abeut that,” Dale an- nquirin “1 mean Adam Ball, y’kno “Oh. That's what I told pap. But | pap lie wouldn’t helieve it, and he won't never believe it—'cause he don’t want to believe it.. I told him *at John | Moreland wasn't a-shootin’ to hit, and | he wouldn’t believe that, neither. Fap’s | as hard-headed as a brindle cow, when he gits a fool notion on him. What— their guns, a-bein’ gone?” Dale straightened: “How did you find that out?” “Don’t matter -how!” She smiled almost saucily. * “1_knowed about it atore you did, Mr. Bill Dale. Don’t you think whoever done it done a kind thing?” & N “To disarm’ the Morelands so that when the enemy comes they will have nothing with which' to- defend them- selves?” Dale -didn’t Kknow much about these hill feuds. “No. Miss Lit- tlgford, I can’t say that I think it was a kind thing to do.” s | Miss Littleford arose and Dale. Her cheeks were flushed. “Has the inemy come?” she de-} manded feily. “N6, but—" | i *All right,” the young woman broke in sharply. “If the inemy hain’t come, what're yow:a-kickin’ about?” Her brown eyes were full of fire, They defled, and they withered, and Bill Dale suddenly felt that he was smaller and of less ‘account -in. thé - scheme of things than that uneducat- ed, wildly superb creature that stood before him. “1 beg pardor,” Dale said evenly. “1 didw’'t mean to oftend, y'know.” His quick contrition struek the zirl. Her' mouth quivered. Shé . dropped her fishing-rod, ‘and "began to toy ‘ab- sently with the end of her long, thiek plait of brown hair. “I've seed so much.o’ this fightin’,” she murmured : tremulously, “that. it makes me go to pieces. 1 ought to beg yore pardou, mebbe, and 1 d-do. . I've seed- a good many fine, strou men brought home dead or a-dyin’ from the. Moreland bullets, And the Littlefords has killed Morelands, too. One side about as many-as tother, 1 reckon. I'd be glad to give my life to stop it!” . “I'll help you, if I can,” Dale told her. “Perhaps we can make {riends of the Morelands and your people.” “You don’t know what a hard thing it'd be,” she replied tearfully. “The ‘two sets has hated each other ever sence I can rickollect. And you won't be here very long, I reckon.” “1 may be here for the rest of my life,” said Dale. “Is it the coal?” inquired Babe. “pPartly—yes, it’s the coal: L'm go- ing to develop it for the Morelands.” Babe looked at hlm with a tiny her- ald of hope in her eyes. Defore she could speak again there came from somewhere back fn the meadow the gound of her father’s voice— “Babe! O-oh, Babe!” | “Comin’!” cried the girl, half turn- fng. “We'll try to make 'em friends; we'll try. Old Major Bradley, he'll be up here afore long to spend the sum- mer, and he'll help us, He's a mighty good man; yowre shore to lke him. He genally stays with us when he’s here. You go eusy with John More- land! But when ye git him, ye'll have e all. Il work on pap. The’ ain’t no danger o' trouble right now, any- wa, Goodby, Bill Dale!” “One moment, Miss Littleford,” and he took a step after her. “Are you §ure there’s no danger Eght now?” Babe; halted, faced about nervously, and smiled a little. *Don’t call me ‘Miss’ no more,” said she. “It makes me feel old. Call 1ie-) what everybody else calls me, ef ‘Ye- dow’t mind. - Why, every one o' the ‘Littlefords lost their rifles last night the same ag the Morelands did ! Mcet me- hiere it sundown, and I'il tell ye about It. - Goodby, Bill Dale!™ iz, “@oodby, Babe!” he smiled. faced (Continued in Next Issue) Wonderful ‘Alpine Piant. One of the most wonderful little plants ‘to be found in the Alps is a little Alpine Soldanella. = This - plant i can melt fce with its own bodily heat. | Parttidge Paid for Dinner. When dressing a partridge for din- ner a hunter in Victorla, county, N. B., found a gold nugget in the bird's gia An Expression of Appreciation---- ' We desire to take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation to our patrons and friends for their loyal support during our blusi- ness career in Bemidji. We desire also to recommend their continued patronage to our successors, The Snyder Com- pany; I ment and quality merchandise. ' 0% A REX--SHOWING - TODAY ONLY VAUDEVILLE :— BIG HEAD-LINE ACTS :—: STRASSLER, THE JAP With His Trained Seals—Animal Act BOYD & KING Called the Chamelon Girl— This is a Piano and Singing Act; the Lady Makin, Scven Changes of Wardrobe. . 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