Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 24, 1922, Page 4

- PAGE FOUR @ ™ E “WAY DOWN EAST,” RETURN ENGAGEMENT, REX TONIGHT D. W. Griffith’s picturization “of “Way Down East,” based on the stage play by Lottie Blair Parker, which for the past twenty-two years was one of the rural classics of the American theatre, wili be presented atithe Rex theatre tonight' for last time, with the following cast; Lillian Gish , Richard Barthelmess, Mary Hay, Burr Mclntoshy iLowell Sherman, Creighton Hale, Mrs. Mor- Nelson, George Nevile, Vivia Ogden, Porter Strong, - Josephine {Bernard, Mrs. David Landau, Patricia Fruen, Florence Short, Emily Fitzroy and iMyrtle Sutch. Mr. Griffith’s production of “Way Down East” represent ten imonth’s ‘work of the most exacting’charac- ter, for in his screen version of the story he has endeavored to follow closely the narrative of the stage play, with here and there a digres- sion for the purpose of dramatic value or eladoration. “THE WOMAN'’S SIDE,” REX THURSDAY AND FRIDAY “The Woman’s Side,” a First Na- tional attraction, to be presented at the Rex theatre Thursday and Fri- day, is a picturization of one of the often-enacted dramas of human life which never gets into the papers and which are always carefully concealed by those Fate casts as the principals. The best stories seldom get into print and the best of life’s dramas seldom get to screen or stage, but “The Woman’s Side” is one of those exceptions which prove truth much stranger than fiction. There is mnothing improbable in this picture; it is a chain of events beautifully and logically woven in the most dramatic style and it will not fail to hold the interest of any audience, Miss MacDonald gives a fine in- terpretation of the heroine’s role and she is ably supported by one of the strongest casts that has cver been assembled for screen work. director, J. A, Barry, and sub- conciously points out a moral les- son picturegoers will not soon for- Edward Burns, Henry Barrows, Dwight Crittenden, Ora Devereaux and Wade Boteler. WHAT’S WORTH WHILE?” AT ELKO THEATRE TONIGHT Lois Weber, director-producer of “What's Worth While?”, her latest production for Paramount, in dis- cusing this picture immediately after the editing had been completed, stated that, taken as a whole, she considered this picture which will be shown at the Elko theatre tonight and Thursday, her greatest screen achievement. The story has all pa- thos and comedy of life as IT IS, which is faithfully portrayed in.a manner that will allow the exhibiting of thig production to a Sunday School class, without offense, and which at the same time has retained the “kick” which will satisfy the most rabid fan. Its a picture with a “kick” but no kickers, Claire Windsor has the leading woman’s role. LETTER WRITING WINS LOVE IN “DON'T WRITE LETTERS” A wholesome and thoroughly de- lightful comedy of the ambitions of a young man to appear brave to a girl whom he has never met is the theme of “Don’t Write Letters,” the new photoplay in _which Gareth Hughes is starred. 1t will be shown at the Grand theatre last time tonight. “Don't Write Letters” is a George D. Baker production for S-L (Ar- thur Sawyer and Herdert Lubin) and is distributed by Metro. The play is based on Blanche Brace” Saturday Evening Post story, “T! Adventure of a Ready Letter Writ- er.”” It was photographed by Ru- dolph Bergquist. This cast includes besides Mr, Hughes, Bartine Burkett, Herbert Hayes, Margaret Mann, Har- Lorraine, Lois Lee and Victor Potel. DIVERSIFIED PROGRAM AT GRAND AGAIN TONIGHT The diversified program at the Grand theatre last night, vaudeville with pictures, proved highly amusing and thoroughly entertaining. The singing and comedy talk act by Schaf- er & Co. is more pleasing than the ordinary acts of that kind. They also presented the thrilling act of “Sawilg a Woman in Half” in a more mystifying and amusing man- r than this act has yet appeared in city; in fact, the way the stunt lone by Schafer & Co. almost de- | fies one to know how it is done. This act is well worth seeing. The Schafers will again perform at the Grand theatre tonight, where the mietro pic.ure “Don’t Write Let- ters”, a comedy drama starring Gar- cth Hughes, and Pathe News Weekly will ‘appear as the picture program. “CONCEIT” AT THE ELKO' 'FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ‘"Another special screen production isldnnounced for the Elko theatre on Friday and Saturday when the latest Selznick picture, “Conceit”. will be shown. “Conceit is heralded as an- other all-star production from the Selznick studios and if it measures up the least bit favorably with its predecessor “A Man’s Home”, local photoplay fans are assured of another splendid evening's entertainment. 0dd Place to Find Watch, While some wharfmen were dress- ing fsh at a wharf i» Rockport, Mass., recently, a watch was found in the poke of a codfish. A year ngo while a 60-pound codtish was being dressed at the sume wharf an alarm clock was taken from the fish, THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS e stunning possibilities of thisscarf, w of the men—and the scarf promises to REFUSED TO HURT BABIES Two Stories That Prove Gentleness of Horses Where Little Children Were Concerned. Are horses peculiarly gentle with babies? It seems a fair question. Cer- tainly the horses in this account, which a contributor sends us, were almost humanly solicitous of the wel- fare of the two young children who came into contact with them. Our neighbor, says our contributor, had a field one corner of which came up to his dooryard. One day while he was plowing he stopped when he reached the corner and, leaving the horses standing in the furrow, went to the pump for a drink. As soon as he returned he took up the plow handles and spoke to the horses. They did not move. He spoke again, sharply. Still they did not .move. Astonished and~vexed; he struck them with the whip. Still they stood immovable; and then he realized that something must be wrong. He went to their heads, and there in the furrow in front of them he saw his toddling baby bby ! The two-year-old daughter of a friend of mine in Denver had an ex- perience a good deal more astonishing than that of the baby boy The little girl managed to stray away 'from in front of the house where she had beep playing. There was a long search in which the police and the fire depart- ment joined; but it was unsuccessful. Finally, in a livery stable two miles away some men.who were working there thought they heard a little coo- Ing voice. They were horrified, for it seemed to come from the stall of an exceedingly vielous horse that even | the grooms approached cautiously ang with dread. The men looked Inte the stall and saw the baby patting the horse’s hind leg and ealling him “nice horsie,” while he, with his head turned, watched her benignantly, not moving a muscle lest he should hurt her I—Youth's Companion. : FEAST CHANGED IN MEANING | Jewish Passover Originally Agricul- | tural Festiva|—Now Refers Di- | rectly to Escape From Egypt. The Jewish festival of Passover com- memorates the release of the Hebrews from Egyptian bondage. The festival opens with a household ceremony, called the Seder, at which a collation Is served and varlous religous rites performed, Including a recital of the events of the Exodus, from a special ritunl service compiled for this occi- sion., Originally Passover was an agricul- tural feast. At a later perlod it be- came dissociated in part from its pri itive nature and came to refer divec 1y to the escape from Egypt, which in- vested the festival with the new..and highly significant spiritual message:of Hberty for all wankind. A In the synagogue the note b g Is reflected in assigned scriptoral rending wherein the worshiper is re- winged that the winter Is ‘over. This' 18 In hariody with the purpuse of tha’ Passover, which is to recall to mind! the muny miracles which were wrought in behnlf of the House of Jacob by the | never-slumbering guardian and keeper | of Israel. Israel is bidden, through the annual message of Passover, to work for the eventual triumph of hu- | manity over the tyranny of injustice and Iniquity.—Detroit News. 8Sing Deeds of Light Tenders. The hardships endured by Iight- keepers have inspired the pens of some of our best writers. Robert Louis Stevenson, in sketching the life | of his grandfather, Robert Stevenson, a distinguished Scotch lighthouse en- gineer, gives some eutertaining pen | pictures of their lot. Worthylake, at Bos- The first lighthousekeeper in this | ‘mun 'y, (Geo [y . GLADYS WALTON IN NOVEL KNITTED OUTERWEAR ' ‘Th lar Universal film star created 'quite a rippleof admiration, when she aopehratat her Country Club in a new knitted scarf of black and white checks. hen worn with a black orwhite sweate, were too obvious to pass unnoticed by theother lady members—tosay nothing be a regular Country Clubfeature. ton ligl first 'year's” salary was 50 pounds, was drowned with his wife and daughter on November 3, 1718, and this incident was the in- ion for a ballad, the “Lighthouse Tragedy,” written by Benjamin Frank- lin, then a boy of thirtcen. " In his autobiography he tells us that his brother induced him to print and sell copies of this ballad on the streets of Boston, and that it “sold wonder- fully,” the event being recent and “having made a great noise.” No copy of this ballad seems to have been ved, but the author admits it retched stuff.” PARIS PIG IN SECOND PLACE New England Annals of 1775 Show French Animal Can Only Be Classed as a “Piler.” - A Paris dispatch related recently that a pig fled”. from the Halles and ran down the Rue de Rivoli, upsetting two gendarmes. . She then went to a department store, was carried up one scalator, down another and found réfuge in the dress-goods department in the basement, ere she sank into a calm slumber, This is well enough in its way and for a European pig, but it has too many signs of accident. It may have amused the Parisians to hear about this, Perhaps it may have deepened their conviction that the ville lumiere is the mother of novel- ties. But If so, they sadly mistake. The New Iampshire Gazette of Junu- ary 6, 1775, contains the following ad- vertisement: “A Plg Came to the House of Mork Loud in Portsmouth about a fortnight ngo—the Owner may have him again by applying to the suld Loud.” The conscientious Loud, though feeling the greatest respect and friendship for the pig that had made him a fortnight's visit, evidently felt that he ought to go home, Noth- Ing is said about reward; that is left to the delicacy of the pi owner and it must have been an exceptionally In- telligent pig, even for New England, to 2 2 'l“ . flower is perceptible to an ordi- Fi ‘A--peculiarity of4¥he fig is that it produces’ its froit first ‘and blossoms ‘Insidé the fruit, or so mearly so that ndry observer.t Because of the pecaliar structure of the fig fruit the process of pollina- tion cunnot be accomplished either by the wind or by ordinary insects. A peculiai hymen-opterous insect is an inhabitant of the wild figs in their native._countries and also visits the ’culu);m’gr[ varicties. It is to this in- ot ne ‘that the pollination of the cultivatelf sorts Is due. . Smyfna fig culture’svould be an'impossibility with- out this' fnsect. ' b —_— _..Difficult to Comprehand; 4. Father was trying-to explain “stand- Lard time”, to little Harry, but Harry was not sure that he understovd. {“After ‘all, it is no great nitter,” sald fither. tihins < “You, are mow only in the fourth grade. When you have gone to school longer you w1 learn all about it.” “Maybe so," said Harry, with a 1e- gssuring smjte. “The teacher says that even lots of eighth-grade boys and girls don’t understand longtitude and gratitude."—Wayside Tales. LIVE IN FEAR OF SPIRITS Copper Eskimos Believe Themselves Constantly Surrounded by Mys- terious and Hostile. Powzrs. The Copper Eskimos believe that many strange and only semi-human races surround their land. The In~ dians, they feel, may be human, but the peoples far from them are alto-. gether strange. Birds and animals, think the Copper Eskimos, can be offended by scornful words, and the hunter who mocks the caribou or seal ‘will be suddenly stricken down by illness or dogged by constant ill luck. Not only must the Eskimo propitiate the shades of his human dead, but also the spirits of the animals he kills. Mysterious and hostile powers, in- visible and incalculable, hem them in, as they believe, on every side, so that they never know from day to duy whether a fatal illness or mis- fortune will not sirike them or their families—from no apparent cause, and for no reason, save the ill will of those unseen foes. The main distractions of the Cop- per Eskimos are singing and. danc- ing. Practically all their songs are dancing songs. They have fashions in clothing. iEvery man and woman of fashion. should possess two suits of everyday working clothes, one for summer and one for winter, a thick set of heavy winter clothing for travel und visiting, and a lighter set of short- haired suiifiner skins ornamented with colored hlilids and’ insertions, fringes and appendiges ‘'of varlous kinds, to wear In tHg dahce house on ceremonial occasions,: e - - .- To help jobless ex-soldlers, a Legion post’ ‘comthandée @&t Charleston, W. Vai, took!!'ever: the construction of eight apartments; the work to be done from start'to finish by former service men, George Bortow's Dialogue, Circumstantial as Defoe, rich in combinatfons as Lesage, and with such an instinct’ of the picturesque, both personal and local, us none of them possessed, this strange wild man holds on his strange wild way, and leads you captive to the end. Moreover, that his dialogue should be set down in racy, nervous, idiomatic English, with a kind of language at once primitive and scholarly, forceful but homely—the speech of the artist in sods and turfs, —it ot first it surprise and charm, yet 1t ends by seeming so natural and just that you go on to forget all about it, and accept the whole fthing as the genuiue outcome of a man's expert ence, which it purports to be.—Henley, Tenioht GRAND Three Features —VAUDEVILLE A_CTS— JAS. S. SHAFER & CO. In Harmony Singing, Comedy Talk and presenting that AMUSING and MYSTIFYING Act that has thrilled audiences in ten thousand: theatres— “Sawing a Woman - Mr. Shafer will invite a how ‘ig was done. A comedy of missives and . InHalf” ;v inspegt his performance, and defys them to learm: THE PICTURE PROGRAM:=— GARETH HUGES Star of “Sentimental Tommy,” “Truth,” in— “DON’T WRITE LETTERS” it’s safer to “Say It With Flowers.” PATHE WEEKLY NEWS committee on the stage to misadventures, proving that Shows at 7:30-9:00—Admission 10c & 30c its.Own Fruit. |4 15 REX 1 or, Mopa Lisa— Efiafld“;}:‘ites. r;fie the world began! : i LAST SHOWING TONIGHT! D. W. Griffith Presents Way Down East Based on Wm. 'A. Brady’s famous play By Lotite Blair Parker and Jos, R. Grismer A simple, old-fashioned story of plain people, embrac- ing the four seasons. A story of loves—Man and Woman—Mother and Baby. A great bell tolling Humanity. A story of laughter—Rabelaisian horseplay. Quaint absurdities—spring, gay barn dances—sleigh, bells ajingling. Love’s voice—sweet and low—strong and tender— across fragrant fields and twilight streams. In the end, amazing scenes, March storm, ice break-up, Anna and David carried with blinding mass of ice down the roaring river. Educational Comedy REX ORCHESTRA Mat. 2:30—Eve. 7:10-9:00 PRE-WAR PRICES—10c & 25¢ e T T T T T —THURSDAY & FRIDAY— Every Woman' .. Great Drama. = KATHERINE MacDONALD “TheWoman'sSide” The story of a girl who chose man’s weapons to battle out a woman’s problems. A FIRST NATIONAL ATTRACTION i ’s Picture—Everybody’s Picture— O \ B. W. LAKIN, President C. L. ISTED, Secretary-Treasurer BEMIDJI LUMBER & FUEL CO0. OPPOSITE GREAT NORTHERN DEPOT BUILDING MATERIAL and' FUEL COMPLETE STOCK ——TELEPHONE 100—— " Hard and Soft Coal, Briquetts, Blacksmith Coal JUST ARRIVED—A full line of Building Papers, D.ud-ninu Felt and Composition Roofing.—GET OUR PRICES FIRST! ——GET OUR PRICES FIRST— E. R. EVANS, Manager PROMPT DELIVERIES At graduation time your friends expect : your photog?aph. 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