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Stirring Patriotic Picture at Pastime
Theatre Today.

Stirring Patriotic Picture at PaStime
Theatrs Today.
At the pastims theatre today, Pensa-
cola's only five cent motion picture
show. patrons Of this class OF enter
tainment In the Deep Water City will
be given an opportunity Of seeing one
of the greatest patriotic pictures that
has ever been produced in this country.
The picture is entitled, The Declare
ton Of Independence" and Is a finn
that should be seen by every boy, every
girl and every grown-up- It 10 inter
esting, vivid and Historically instruc-
tive.
If you are a student in school this Is
one of those fascinating pictures that
brings to your mind the lesson OF yes
terday II you have passed the school
boy days 1t VIII recall that most I'M
portant and interesting Of all American
social events, the Boston tea party.
You will see Paul Revere In his break
neck ride to warn the countryside of
the approach OF the British after his
warning from the man In the old
You will see and recall the advance Of
the British on Lexington. In fact. you
will see all of those old historical
stories in which you took such an In
tereSt when a student Of colonial his
tory flashed before your very eyes and
for nearly an hour you viii live with
your forefathers in old New England
and sympathias with them in their
struggle for freedom.
Throughout the picture you win see
John Hancock, the most ardent of
American patriots. A millionaire at
this strenuous time when a man with
$4,000 was regarded as wealthy, John
Hancock had more to lose in the cam
paign against the British than almost
- 80 b. -, l. a.
the cause that he believed to be right,
with the f1rmness that characterized
the men Of HIS day.
Hancock was really the cause Of the
first fighting. that of Lexington when
the British regulars were Fepulsed by
the farmers and minute-men- It will
be remembered that Gage dispatched
troops to seize munitions Of war at
Concord, but on the way they were or
dered to stop at Lexington where Han
cock and Adams were, and arrest both
men as traitors to the cause, Gage
planning to send them to England for
trial and execution. You all know how
the plan was fooled by Paul Revere in
his ride and the events that followed
leading UP to the signing Of the Decla-
ration Of Independence and to freedom
on the part Of the colonists. but to see
II flashed in picture form just as 1t
happened Is more interesting than the
reading of the story by the best writers
Of the day.
An Indian Feature Tomorrow.
The aboriginal American citizen-the
Tndfan-and his wild life upon a con-
tinent in which he is now rapidly be-
coming extinct-will always be inter
esting to the later day American, but
when this original savage man is
woven into a plot Of the twentieth cen
fury the story becomes interesting In
the extreme. Such. however, is the
situation in a great Bison picture that
will be featured at the Pasttme theatre
tim orrow.
The story opens with band Of hos
tile Indians in their defeat by the cow
boys and in which Golden Fawn, the
beautiful daughter of the chief, is left
for dead upon the field Of battle. She
meets the twentieth century Indian in
Little Eagle, a Carlisle graduate, who
has aided the whites in the fight and
afterwards finds the beautiful maiden.
Their love is mutual and they are
welded and In the course Of time the
union Is blessed by a chf1d. Kittie a
white girl tries to amuse herself by
flirting with the handsome Indian. and
Golden Fawn, intensely jealous, leaves
him and returns to her tribe, only to be
refused admfttance TO the camp.
In despair, she Is about to leap over
cliff when her husband, who has fol-
lowed her, forces her father to tell him
OF her whereabouts after a fierce strng-