Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-11

J. A. Racllford. OF the Odeon, VINO VIII
begin next week making preparations
! for the showing of the most elaborate
motion picture ever yet produced. Inc
picture will DE shown at the Oueon
for an entire week beginning SUNDAY
March &c. o.
! Altho no advertising has been done
as yet, mail orders for seats have peen
arriving at the box office for Week
One request from an outside town mas
/ been made for forty seats for single
party for night performances. rhe
women Of the party are coming to the
, city on the morning train to spend
! day shopping, and are to be joined oy
their husbands and men friends IN
! the evening. 81
Decorate Stores; Put on Sales.
In other Iowa cities where the pic
ture has been shown merchants nave
imbibed the spirit of the play by dec
Grating their stores with flags ana
bunting. muskets, and other relics of
civil war days. In addition. merchants
have offered special inducements to
shoppers by putting on sales during
the week the picture was shown. That
this same plan is being considered in
Marshalltown is evidenced by the fact
that already two merchants have sig
nifled their intention OF using special
advertising matter for sales during
Birth of Nation week
Town People Should Go Early.
One of the most important sugges-
tons that the management would Of
fer to patrons is that residents of this
city who want to see the picture go
early in the week. The history in
other week-stand towns has been,
without exception. that during the last
three days of the week people: We're
turned away. while during the first Few
days the theater Is not filed for any
performance Taking advantage OF this
experience, the management oelieFes
that by the people of this city making
it a point to go during the early part
of the week, there will not likely be so
many people disappointed during the
latter half.
Two Performances Daily.
Two performances of the great war
drama will be given daily. afternoon
and evening. The pictures are shown |
in twelve reels, and occupy about twol
hours and forty-five minutes. Two !
machines are used. 80 that there is no
wait between reels. One five minute
inteTmission Is given at the close of
the seventh reel.
In producing the, picture an orches-t
ira of twenty FIVE, pieces is used. and
working crew of twelve men is USED
on the stage to produce the mocha nical I
effects. say I
Bill Towns in Every Direction.
An extensive advertising campaign
for the play VIII be begun next week.
Towns within a radius OF fifty miles
or more in every, direction, will bel
billed. and the newspapers in all OF
the towns where there are papers will
be used in the publicity campaign.
Story of the Stricken South.
The story Of the play deals with the
stricken south. busIttere Is something
more than human interest to 1t. There
is a pretty and intensely interesting
ones mind OF the |btood and the traS-
edy occasionally -.
The play opens in the south-at
Piedmont, s, Et-whsre a northern boy
and a southern girl fall in love just
as they did before the war and just al
they have been doing ever since. There
is the typical southern mansion people
by the Camerons who are blood and
bone of the south. Even tho they know
dark days are at hand they treat their
northern guests with the hospitality
that is characteristic of that land and
that people. One day newspaper
comes and tells Of the black clouds OF
war lowering over the horizon, and the
prediction that the south VIII secede IL
the north wins the election. The north
wins. the south secedes, and Lincoln
issues his first call for 10000 voiun-
reers.
Then follows the price of peace-the
awful carnage Of war. Sons are torn
from Inc arms % Ilvta5c.s, lovers f-c-r!
the embrace Of sweethearts, husbands
from their mates. War claims Its toll
and death smiles grimly as its NAV Is
filled with the innocents. Sherman be-
gins that terrible march from Atlantis.
to the sea. Atlanta is burned, and In
the wake Of the victorious army ruin
and tiesoiatiu,l stalk The Cameron
family is seen to give up it's all for
the dying cause. Its home Is wrecked
by the northern troops. One OF the
sons is shot down on the battlefield
and the other is an inmate OF north
ern hospital where he is to be shot as
snv as soon az he RECEIVERS. His
northern sweetheart, nurse In the
hospital, discovers him and with his
mother makes an appeal to Lincoln Tor
the life Of her lover and 1t Is spared 4
Then comes Appomattox and Grant
and Lee and the surrender, and the
olive branch of peace and the per- g
Torrance at the theater in which was
enacted the greatest tragedy OF the
civil war-the shooting down OF Lin
co,n-the best friend of the stricken
southland. <s
Tolls Of Reconstruction.
Austin Sstoneman comes on the scene.
He is the leader of the radicals In the
congress and he would crush utterly
the south and build on her smoking
ruins a black republic, with the blacks
in office, the rulers Of their former
ma STEERS and their equals.
sy:.!as Lynch in the negro whom ne u
selects to build this new south. Both
go to South Carolina, where this new
government is to be set up. we ma
SLOVENIAN in the home of the Gamer
ons. who havsrecetved him as asfrieno.
We next find him at midnight meet
ing of the blacks, wiIeTe &c tells tsiis!'
that each one of them shall have forty
acres of land and a mule and snail Do
franchised. We see the election
triu1nphant!y carried by the blacks,
and we see the Legislature dominated
by this race. Negro soldiers patrol HI
the streets and offer insults TO the
whites who do not recognize in them
.h.;r z.,,1e prha% ar,frft of lust and