Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 28, 1923, Page 21

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1 Theatricals : ‘ST, ELMO’ NOW [HISTORY OF POSTAGE | t MW STAMP IS ROMANTIC cic eo HERE INFILM Thrilling Scene in America Feature. He twirled the pistol, loaded with destiny. No compassion was ex- pressed on his grim face. The other man won the throw. He seized the pistol_and fired at the unprotected chest of the man, confronting’ him with unblinking eyes. The trigger clicked harmlessly. a panic, realized the other man would get a chance to fire, and without warning, he fired again. The trigger again clicked harmless: ly. Without a sound, the man leaped on his assailant. grappled, both trying to gain con- trol of the pistol. pastoral beauty of the countrysid>, stood a demure figure of a girl. } cult'e: Postmaster of Casper. . . Few persons who wil! s Fight With Love Pirate | xives:: “tie pnotoviay depicting the romance of the United States Mail read. Service, which will be shown at the demoralized, America Theater on Tuesday, Wed-| to the The coward, In| Toutly XIV Paris and other cities. Under the grant, th They | pelled to place a boxes” the mal!s twice daily. On the hillside, revelling in the} for a Jettgr was one sou and* was collectable from th in collecting postage on do. ™ethod made it possible of hand-etched]f Vaudeville é N ]!mail boxes was considered a great| were methods tried*to: prevent for-| 1 | Letters were chewed into bits geries. Rubbish soiled the let-| method now employed. ters, so that addresses could not be} Fogr. STS, As a result the service was) Vice in America. eccentric! alty, for unflinching devotion to duty | heen announced as the opening Dill:| osmedian with a bagful of tricks effort on the part of} Reviewing as it does many of the/ that are-entirely fresh, Mr. New. the. United States Mail] high points in recent Broadway suc: Re is: by vers who have been touring the United States this sea» distinction n | sereen play 4s one none can afford to} their work, there is nothing to pre-| treiand himsclt execute x Pree gy a AT WYOMING Stroying the village and sceneg of a H being 8 | hill tribe descending with beating and successfully presented joke. ee “Loyal| by the mice, Ins % an, 1 Ma: ply. y were com. | ‘goodly number of about Paris and to collect '" the London bank Jacob Perkins, 1 Bostonian, d'scoy: ered a method of softening steel ant. The charge piffi.| then hardening it receiver. Suddenly whe heard the sound of] livery, led the founders of this ser-/™®2y¥ impressions men’s bodies crashing to the ground] vice to end that practice by making and the sickening echo of blows] ‘he first stamp. ‘orm of a note which left room for | British st he date and year to be filled in. showed Britannia stand'ng dispatch ing messengers to the four corners striking home. Her head turned and, with a stifled gasp, she stood frozen, watching the struggle to the | These notes were purchased death. Suddenly—a shot. Only one. | office of the company. The other lay still,|targe and were wrapped etter mailed. A man rose. arms stretched on the ground, a curiously inert hulk. see their faces, but the man on his {eet turned and hurtled through the underbrush, And so takes place one of. the many highly dramatic scenes in t! Willam ‘ox screen version of gusta J. Evans's popular novel, Elmo,” which is now showin; the America theater, with John Gil bert in the starring title role. hundreds of thousands of readecs throughout the world who'have réad Augusta Evans's popular romance —and who hasn’t?— find in John Gilbert’an {a At the America, Sunday and Monday—The feature pigture-{s “St. Elmo," frem the “fw mous novel of t ih ring and Love. gram is a two re edy, "July " Muesday, Wednesday and ‘Thurs day—"Loyal Lives,” a smashing ro mance of il Seryice, is the . Uso La Semon he Gown Shop,” and Patlis News and Toples of the Day. Priday and Saturday—Tom Mix in chs est thriller, “A Mile a tome so n Laurel ei a ‘ “Roughest Africa,” and nturday Ghop Suey, and Thureday—jack Man Unconau e. Quick Mara nd Satu sands,” with Helene Ch Harold Lloyd comedy, * thon.” é Rialto—Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, Zane Grey’ he Last Ma with | Lois Wilson and Richard Dix. Hal Roach com ody, K am News. Thurs and Friday—Dorothy | Dalton in “Dark Secret! Fun From the Press. Saturday—Starting of Pola in ‘The Cheat." Wyoming—Today and Monday~ Priscila Dean in “Drifting,” and comedy, “Round Fingers.” Tuesday and Wednesday—Regin- ald Denny in “Kentucky Derby,” algo comed; Phursday, Friday and Saturday— “Wanderers cf the Sea," also comedy and “The Oregon Tri wie nie ‘veka Bb FINE HORSEWOMAN 13 DOROTHY DALTON IN PICTURE COMING SOON Dorothy Dalton, athletic Para- mount star, has had many hard rid. ing roles in her screen career, but neyer has one taxed her horseman: ship like the one she has in her latest picture, “Dark Secret which will be shown at the Rialto theater next Thursday and Friday. Miss Dalton has ridden down moun- tain slopes in western pictures, she as plunged through streams on prseback, she has galloped along country roads and has dashed along t the head of a wild-riding band of cowboys in pursuit of bandits, but in her present picture she {s called upon to do horse-show riding and hurdle jumping. The horse which Miss Dalton rides in “Dark Secrets” is a Bedouin steed named “Untamable,” and with a disposition which justifies the name, She is thrown and injured while trying to tame the horse, From this accident the plot of the picture develops. In the picture Miss Dalton rides both side-saddle and army style. Sho * given the opportunity to show I her skill as a hersewoman, which 1¢ does to excellent advantage. Atobert Ellis is her leading man. The clerk would can- She couldn't} opel these stamps by tear’ng them off. System Short Lived jing The postal system in France was|method made it possible Pub'ic ridicule kicked |steam presses in place of the hand the system into nothingness. Thraw-| presses short-lived. Arizona in the late '80’s, ilies and their sympathiezers fought lite-r ally ‘to the last man.’ ” This was in the | €F8 for envelopes, the They of the earth. These dies were ordinary rubbish into the A smashing, crashing melodrama of the postal service —with— BRANNON TYNAN MARY CARR FAIRE BINNEY WM. COLLIER, JR. A story of pathos, of drama, of human interest that will thrill you through and through. BUY A TICKET FROM YOUR MAIL MAN The Casper postal employees will get a liberal percentage of all char sold for their local welfare ‘und, Postal employees perform the world’s greatest public service. SEE THIS GREAT FILM SENSATION A Bishop-Cass Theater STARTS TUESDAY (Signed) ZANE GREY On February | {est tribute to letter carriers and wash’ | would become sticky “by the use of |™** a bit ef moisture’ be used. 34 Henry Archer, an, ed means to sheets of stamps, enabling the pro-| an of stamps more quickly and aga'n. “This tale is based on the ‘Pleasant Valley War, which ravaged the Tonto Basin of In its two fam- | Sir Rowland Hill of England, is for untirin nesday, and Thursday, and dedicated | credited with the making of the first | the men workers, of Casper, | adhesive stamp, despite will realize that the postage stamp, now the symbol of the untiring de yotion to duty and unflinching cour-/13, 15 age portrayed @ romance of its own. The first known stamp was en- trely dissimilar to those in use. It! method was adopted. appearance in the reign of France In- 1635, 1840, granted a vy monopoly to Comte de Sleur de & number | of counter-claimants by descendants) of men of, the period. H he proposed that a stamp in the picture holds /with “a glutinous A uniferm! benny post followed this nove'ty in| ited States come from Asiatic Turkey ‘oshua Bacon, engraver, emp'oyed note firm of to P'ates for printing stamps and cov. The earlier mp made by this process New Method Found used until 1880 when a method was devised for us typography to tise ESM 8 IRENE Che Casper Sunday Cribune | their discovery, ‘The first stamps were printed in were almed to prevent forgery and reuse, Watermarks, silk threads |in the paper, and a chalked surface The watermark is the on!y Tt stands for loy-| this afternoon, “Oh Mable” Service, portrayed in “Loyal And all these things are] cesses, and interpreted as it Lives,” the] a cast ef pla nen in the postal service. This/ son and achieving which vent cleverly program. Yh Mable” from ——— This Most dates iinported into the Un- te en Mable. Miss y miss and Is ag Shingles that are crimped by wet] tajent of no mean ord weather may be made straight again] have an excellent a recently perfected process, ——— Turner is a show what she can do in the Golf, with mannikin players, tees,| Celestine O' greens and bunkers, can be played| na, Miss 0' In doors with a newly devised game.! gorgeous gowns and This make Everybody's Theatre NOW PLAYING This Mystery! Adventure! Romance! By John Colton and Daisy H, Andrews CARL LAEMMLE PRESENTS Priscilla DEAN In a screen ver n of Wm. A. Brady’s famous stage play —With— WONG AND A BIG CAST. Also Comedy “ROUND FIGURES” 10c and 40c HALLOWE’EN MASKED BALL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 4 CASH PRIZES 4 1st—$5.00 Neatest Couple; 2nd—$3.00 Second Best MASKED DANCES ONLY UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK Admission 85c TODAY, TOMORROW TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY You Know the World Famous Novel ZANE GREY’S GRAPHIC STORY OF A BITTER FEUD “To the Last Man” WITH A PERFECT CAST RICHARD DIX LOIS WILSON NOAH BEERY, FRANK CAMPEAU, ROBT. EDESON Personally Supervised by Mr. Grey Himself Filmed in the Wild Ionto Basin of Arizona —Also— HAL ROACH COMEDY and KINOGRAMS Shows at: 1, 2:40, 4:20, 6, 7:40, 9:20 News of Local Offerings [Setgecrerens wen sor BILLIE IRELAND AND “FOLLIES OF 1920° OPEN TODAY AT COLUMBIA THEATER FOR LONG AUN si: 8, sess3e Billie Ireland and his ‘“Tollies of arrived in Casper this. morn-| ing, all set to put on their first! The stamp {snow the seal of ser-| big show at the Columbia theator| of great merit, has for Helen Turner assumes the role ot) word, very} mance this afternoon is expected to} id to possess! succeed in drawing a good deal of| the extra players are not we + She will] attention to him opportunity bart} A travesty on “Who's Wife” is} may which has been selected for her. 1 ia the prima don as a collection of] season that has been drawing the} wears them| Utmost attention from Broadway: |liko the real Chinese there will be a A GREAT STAGE PLAY,—A GREATER PICTURE! “DRIFTING” | MATT MOORE, WALLACE BEERY, ANNA MAE North Washington Hall 3rd—$2.00 Best Comic 4th—$2.00 Second Best Ladies’ Free PAGE SEVEN. : Notes of Filmdom In the way of vocal work, the! conspicuous even in the eyes of the Boston Harmony Four will be, average fa present with some late and peppy| * produced at Universal songs, This quartet is composed of| City starring Priscilla Dean, is velous voices, ac-| laid in China—Shanghai and the heart of the Mongojian empire, the What is known as the Ameriean) hi!l country where scarlet poppy Beauty chorus will be a big part of | fields are the bed of the opium isi arapa deh atinantivene the show. Real voices, plenty of! Vice. The comedienne is Maudina Dun-| dancing ability, and attractive fig-} It is said that the use of several bar, Miss Dunbar is also a musi-| Ures and faces make this chorus) hundred real orlegtals adds much cian and appears in some specialties | the best eve! PA Re abtractivencen of “Oritting, — and it ig certain that the ‘mob’ scenes ought to represent, the real China better than dressed-up Ameri- can extras. Seme of the scenes in which the Chinese people take part ‘are ordi- nary day and night scenes of a small country village inland, thrilling acenes of m massaciy and fire de Lew Newman is an man never permits his fun to rust but is always replenishing his sup. ply with new things while he elimi- nates the old. Jimmy “Tiney” Brennan and Mr. IN FILM NOW | the onening bill that is sure to re ceive approval. Without so drums upon the town, Miss Dean is supportel in “Drife- play in the! ing” by some of the most popular n pictures? | players of the day “atmosph Tf} lace ! chosen! of I much as saying a| What part do‘ Barry Dunbar in the perfor. making of good They are the of * ‘fas a funny man! and well handled, the atmosphere s = pal Lag lin a j™may seom all wrong. The picture! Wong, William Vv, Mong, J } Chinese locale, as in| McDonald, NX 08 3 one of the features: of the show.| tha case of “Drifting,” showing at| Guerin Pr et reat oe , Frank Li ; ha. “Who's Wife" is a-euecess of this| the Wyomin cass oO: 8 w today and Monday,| dozen other celebrities o if the extras don't look and act| jai ahi a 08 the porees Moo to/ in a funny role. oor goers. fault in the atmosphere that will bel Tribune W: ‘ant Ads bring results. A Bishop-Cass Theater | TODAY AND MONDAY The book Made into sensation read and loved by three generations & motion picture just as absorbing as the novel. | ST. ELMO BY AUGUSTA EVANS —WITH— JOHN GILBERT BARBARA LAMARR AND BESSIE LOVE A vampire is not humanity's lability, St. Elmo proves it, —ALSO— | OUR GANG Hal Roache Cases Rascals “JULY DAYS” Shows at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10c and 40¢ DUSTIN FARNUM atNag _ “BUCKING THE BARRIER” —ALSO— OUR GANG COMEDY “Saturday Morning” Always 10c and 20c A Bishop-Cass Theater TODAY ONLY FOUR DAYS STARTING TODAY |COLUMBIA | BILLIE IRELAND'S FOLLIES oF 1923 OPENING WITH A BUNCH OF AMERICAN BEAUTIES IN THE CHORUS IN THE BIG MUSICAL HIT “Oh Mable” CLEVER COMEDIANS SINGERS DANCERS —AND— THE BOSTON HARMONY FOUR JACK FLYNN and CELESTAL O'NEILL in a travesty on “WHOSE WIFE” HARRY DUNBAR JIMMIE BRENNEN Also a Great Feature Picture BEN TURPIN in “THE SHRIEK OF ARABY” MATINEE 2:30—4:45 10ce—40c EVENING 7—9 o’Clock