The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-02
ALBERT ARMSTRONG.

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ALBERT ARMSTRONG.
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 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
it is of course out Of the question to
ask everybody to go to theater, so
the management of the Redpath Sys-
TEN 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 Nheir titles are IA
miliar to every one who pays any at.
tention whatever to theatrical news.
Seven years ago Albert Armstrong,
a 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 'rA9? 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 Mi. Armstrong alone and the
various scenes and characters of the
story are represented by pictures
thrown on the screen by a stereopti.
con.
Mr.. Armstrong plays each of the diff
ferent characters, and we'll equipped
by both college and professional train.
ing and natural gift for his line of
work, he is enabled to make the PIC
tlre Play an attraction of the highest
order. The scenes are true to life,
being taken from the places in which
the characters in the play are sup
posed to have lived. The pictures are
beautiful in the extreme, all are col
Ored in manner that is absolutely
true to life and the different scenes
and characters in the play are depict
ed in manner so realistic that it is
startling.
Presents at chautauquas His Master
Pieces.
Mr.. Armstrong Offers the choice OF
several plays, such as THE Bonnie
Briar Bush,' The Little Minister
Lorna Done," and for Sunday The
Sky Pilot
One of the plays produced by Mr.
Armstrong that has delighted thou
sands is The Sky Pilot" a western
drama by Ralph Conner. The Sky
Pilot" (the ranchman's name for the
minister) is a story of the people Of
the fooskfils country; of those men Of
adventurous spirit who left homes OF
comfort, often OF luxury, because OF
the stirring In them to be and to dc
some wocshy thing, and how a mar
came amsng them with a firm purpose
to play tho brothers part, and by
sheer love of them and some rather
Unusual methods, win them to believe
that life is priceless, and that it is
good to be man. There is not q
man nar woman but that is the bette,
for having seen THE Sky Pilot" 1t il
a strong. r1g4a story, dealing with 6
strong, rugge6ass of peonIe who are
rough on the d1ssrisr. bat who hay.
hearts of geld.
Prospects.
"Come over ana look at my new
gown toMgtt, Clan.''
'I'd like 70 very mach, but it will be
impossible"
"Have You an engagement"
well, not exactly, but l hope to
have one before the evening is over.
Charley has the measure of my fD-
ger"