Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-06-22

popular form of amusement and that
more people attend the theaters than
any other place of amusement, but at
the same time there are people, and
lots of them, who do not go to the
aters because they know that there
are plays that are salacious and de-
grading and that an opera house is
not the best place for one to go who
Is seeking a moral uplift.
There are, however. plays that
should be witnessed by every man,
woman and child, ministers deacons
and Sunday school teachers included,
in the country, not only because of
the evening of absolutely clean enter
tainment they furnish, but also be-
cause of the lesson they teach. But
1t Is Of course out of the question to
ask everybody to go to theater, so
the management of the Redpath Sys-
tenn have made arrangements to have
same of the very best plays produced
on the Chautauqua platform so that
people who are not classed as theater-
goers may have an opportunity of wit
Messing some of the very best plays of
modern times. Do not understand by
this that the plays are 'mollycoddle"
affairs that are too weak to be pro-
duced on the stage, as on the contrary
they are all productions that have had
immense runs at the principal theaters
of the country and their titles are ia
miliar to every one who pays any at
trinn
Seven years ago Albert Armstrong,
man who has an unlimited amount
of dramatic ability, placed before the
American public an entirely new type
of entertainment-the picture play.
What is picture play? Well, above
all, understand this above all other
things about tit is not an illustrated
lecture. 1t is play in every sense
that the word implies, and the only
difference between it and the big the
atrical productions is that it is put
on by Mr.. Armstrong alone and the
. various scenes and characters OF the
story are represented by pictures
thrown on the screen by stereopti
con.
Mr.. Armstrong plays each of the dit
ferent characters, and well equipped
by both college and professional train
, ing and a natural gift for his line Of
. work, he is enabled to make the PIC
ture Play an attraction Of the highes
order. The scenes are true to life
l being taken from the places in which
> the characters in the play are sup
{ posed to have lived. The pictures arr
: beautiful in the extreme, all are col
ored in manner that is absolutel.
true to life and the different scenes
! and characters in the play are depict
4 ed in manner SO realistic that it i
3 startling
), Presents at chautauquas His Maste
Pieces.
; Mr.. Armstrong offers the choice o
' several plays, such as THE Bonnl
: Briar Bush" 1.-The Little Minister,
, Lorna Doone," and for Sunday "Th
q Sky Pilot
One Of the plays produced by MI
, Armstrong that has delighted thol
r sands is 1.-The Sky Pilot" wester
3 drama by Ralph Conner. THE SIX
Pilot" (the ranchman's name for tn
i MINISTRY is story. Of the people c
3 the foothills country; Of those men {
adventurous spirit who left homes {
: comfort. often of luxury, because {
the stirring in them to be and to
8 some worthy thing, and how a ma
b came among them with firm purpos
!, to play the brothers part. and b
sheer love of them and some rattle
d unusual methods, win them to beliey
y that life IL priceless, and that it
good to be man. There is not
Q man nor woman but that Is the bette
, for having seen 1.-The Sky Pilot" 1t
I strong, rugged story, dealing with
:. strong, rugged class Of people who al
rough on the exterior, but who ha,
l. hearts Of gold: