The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-07-08
ALBERT ARMSTRONG.

popular form or 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 bes. 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 a 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 hat
immense runs at the principal theater:
of the country and their 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 play? Well, above
all, understand this above all other
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 pu
on by Mr.. Armstrong alone and the
various scenes and characters of the
story are represented by picture.
thrown on the screen by 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 O
work, he is enabled to make the PIC
ture Play an attraction of the highes
order. The scenes are tru> TO life
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
ed in manner so realistic that it i
startling.
Presents at chautauquas His Maste
Pieces.
Mr.. Armstrong offers the choice O
several plays, such as "The Bonnl
Briar Bush,' The Little Minister,
Lorna Doone,'' and for Sunday 9Th,
Sky Pilot"
One of the plays produced by MI
Armstrong that has delighted thou
sands is "The Sky Pilot" a western
drama by Ralph Conner. 1.-The SIX.
Pilot" (the ranchman's name for tn
minister) is a story of the people o
the foothills country; of those men o
adventurous spirit who left homes o
comfort, often OF luxury, because o
the stirring in them to be and to d.
some worthy thing, and how a mai
came among them with a firm purpos
to play the brothers part, and b,
sheer love of them and some rattle
unusual methods, win them to believ'
that life is priceless, and that it i
good to be a man. There is not
man nor woman but that is the bette
for having seen "The Sky Pilot" 1t i
q strong, rugged story, dealing with
strong, rugged class of people who ar
rough on the exterior, but who hav
hearts of gold.