The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-27

freshly; and, at each fresh request,
he did it again, until he felt like a
jumping jack 81. @
At this chaos ragged in thai loge,
for the French gentleman and the
French lady held an animated confer
ence, while monsieur and madame
agitatedly discussed the impossible
point at issue. Some half minute OF
this-it seemed an eternity nile
the sorely tried audience was saying
"Sh!" "Sh!" "Shn-when madame
happened to catch one Ineligible
word in all the rapid;fire speech, and
that word was 'ici.' =
ooh, ici!" she repeated eagerly. It
means here"
."Oui, ici," vigorously repeated the
French lady and gentleman and they
both stood up.
Monsieur stood up. Madame stood
up. Whereupon, the French lady and
gentleman, politely but firmly, insert
ed monsieur into the front seat by
the side of madame, while they hap.
PLY took the two rear seats, and the
audience hooted; then the heaven
sent lights were turned on, and our
pleasant companions, a very nice poilu
and his girl, explained in most CATS
factory pantomine, that they wished
to sit side by side so they might hold
hands, and that we, now sitting side
by side, might have the same priv.
lege
The wild thought flashed across
monsieurs mind that, since he and
madame were the late-comers, they
would feel it their duty, and pleasure,
to take the rear seats, but any at
tempt at another shift would have
brought on a riot from the surround
ing sufferers, SO it was allowed to
go at that, with everybody contented.
All, those movies! y
The first treat to unreel before Oul
astonished eyes was a Comedie!C Com
ique Americana.
Two of our best known and justly
infamous acrobatic screen comedians
| INDUCED in a mad knock-about, which
had no head nor tail as to plot OF
even incident, which left the intellect
Supplied and the reason insulted. j.
| The four of us, when the lights
went up and We could see to talk, ex
'eeeed Cur unanimous condemnation
! of that picture; we protesting tina
IL was not representatively American
and they protesting that they believed
it, although we could see, from Ger
tain glisten in the poilu's eyes, thai
he thought he "had it on u.s. 4
| All, but wait! The next picture was
a French one, where we knew immed
lately the heroines appalling virtue
by the fact that she was totally unin
teresting, and that all the lramatics
would 60 to the wicked young woman
in the beautiful gowns, who, in he
death-bed repentance, would be eve
so much more sympathetic than any
body who had ever been good.
For five long reels that inane mer
ry-go-round of temptation and fal
and repentance dragged its wear,
way, with nine sobbing points to thu
reel; but, before it was over, on
eyes having become used to thu
gloom, we turned triumphantly, ant
saw, in our poilu's shifting gaze, tina
we had it on him!" =
We are happy to be able to repor
to the anxiously waiting American
public that the movies in France arr
just as CHASTITY as they average a
home, although, like at home, the!
are not bad.
But the music! 1t was a treat t.
such starved souls as ours.
1t was good music, and they weren'
! stingy with it; they see-sawed RICH
alon8 and shifted the well know
classical and popular bits instantan
4 eously to fit the varying phases of tn,
picture, even playing "The Death o
4 Asa" for the final scene of the re
4 pentant young woman, when, thanl
heavens, she died at last!
4 The movies have their place. If 20,
4 never thought. 1t before, you woult
4 II you could look at the faces O
4 those poilus as they filed out, hum
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