Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-26
Casino.

The MIN INSTALLATION OF Twilight
Sleep will continue as the attraction
at the Casino Theater this week The
management, realizing the interest of
the women in this remarkable clinical
picture. gave special presentation at
1880 O'Clock last Thursday evening for
women only. This was in response TO
many letters suggesting an evening
showing. which might be attended by
workers In the departments who could
not attend the advertised afternoon ex-
hibitions. During the coming week the
schedule of showings of the picture. ac-
companied by DIR. Rollnick's lecture.
! will be an follows, For women only, at
2:3O and 7:30 O'Clock pm; for men only,
| at $50 in the evening. This picture is
| not disclosed to mixed audiences.
Mark Twain's Birthplace to Live in
the ENTHUSIASTICALLY years ago a
barefoot boy used to play hooky from
| school and spend his time wandering
about big cave near Hannibal. No
He had a lot of hooky companions to
| wander with him. To them the hiding
! place was just a cave. a huge under
ground maze Of dark passageways and
| darker rooms. leading to terrible myster-
les in so many curving directions they
didn't dare TO penetrate far beyond the
entrance.
To the particular barefoot boy. how
| ever, ii was a scene of boy romance
Its mysteries became the inspiration OF
the boys imagination and never left
| him. Twenty-eight years later he i'm.
mortalized the big cave in a book called
| tom Sawyer"
Today. seventy years after Marx
| Twain wandered as boy through the
| Hannibal cave. the scene has changed
The cave still exists. little more ex-
| plored, but its whole depths are still an
impenetrable mystery. few more
gallons of water have dripped from
stalagmite to staiactite or vice versa-
which-and the tallow from visitors
candles now lines the floors and walls
| of those parts of the cavern through
| which the guides may safely go. Blu,
Tom Sawyer" today will find some
| thing there that Mark Twain never
| dreamed of in the farthest flights of his
| imagination. something that will take
up the immortalizing OF the famous
cave where he left of and preserve i,
| for posterity in direct visible form
That something is a motion picture
camera.
Jack Pickford, Louise Hum and their
Paramount company are now in the
village where Mark Twain spent his
! boyhood. 1t isn't much of a town
There is one hotel. the Mark Twain, =
and there is chamber of commerce
| that will tell You all the attractions
looked But the main attraction for
most folks ia the fact that Tom Saw
| yers cave is close by, the place where
he and Becky were lost for SO many
days. Thousands of people visit the
cave every year. IL is a huge cavern.
said by some to connect with the Nam
moth Cave in Kentucky. Not all of il
! has been explored.
Tom Sawyer and the cave are to APP
pear in a Paramount picture to be re-
| leased this winter. Jack Pickford is
to be Tom and Louise Hun is to be
Becky, and when IL comes time for
them to get lost in the cave the cam
eras will be moved inside. long wires
Will be stretched inside for lighting
and the very cave that knew Mark
Twain seventy years ago will come to
life for all time through the medium
of the motion picture. The picture Is
now being taken at Hannibal where
Tom Sawyer began life. Down below
the BLUFFS the Mississippi flows along
as it did in the days of Huck Finn. but
its charm of romance went out with
the incoming of the railroads.