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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26

talent available Thomas 'Meighan,
than whom there is no better present
day actor, was selected for the lead"
Opposite him was placed Miss Betty
Compson, a Salt Lake City girl whose
dramatic qualities have only recently
been discovered.
The story of The Miracle Man" con
Germs gang of crooks from New York
underworld, whose game is to prey on
the sick and afflicted. They discover
an aged Patriarch who has the I'M
canny power of healing the crippled.
They have in their gang a character
known as THE Frog who 10 able to
distort his body into the most weird
shapes imaginable. With him they
decide to use the Patriarch in their
mad desire to gain funds.
But"
But the tables are turned on them
Instead of them winning their point
the Patriarch works miracles on them
themselves. The result is inspiring. Ii
teaches a lesson of the soul to every
human being
The story is hardly tellable in words.
But the screen version Is indeed quite
wonderful Mr.. Tucker has taken
eight reels to properly portray the
drama.
HERE WEDNESDAY
The Miracle Man begins an en-
gagement a the Pinney theatre on
next Wednesday afternoon, which is
scheduled to run for five consecu-
tive days. The human side of this pic
ture seems to have fascinated the en-
tire country. Reports from nearly ev-
cry city show that The Miracle Man.
has broken all box office records at
theatres where peictures were con-
tinually a failure.
Boise theatre -goers will get their
chance to view this remarkable pic
ture next week when the Pinney the
atre presents it. 1t will be sort of
special engagement, causing the man
agement to deviate from its regular
road attractions, in order to capture
this prize of the photoplay world.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
PARAMOUNT ARTCRAFT'S 1878 SUCCESS
THE MIRACLE MAN, TO SH0WAT THE
P|NNEY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
Photopay of Regeneration of Gang Of Crooks by
Aged Patriarch Whom They Sought to Aid in Their
pades, Now Running Sixth Week San Francisco-orig-
inaly Dramatized by George M. Conan.

Some motion pictures are born SEN
sations while others are made sensa-
tlonal by much advertising. But mo-
ton picture patrons of the present day
are not easily deceived and many Of
them would make excellent critics.
But each year sees the presentation
of a photoplay that ranks far above
all others. This has been the case
since the inception of the sielnt drama
and indications are that the same will
prevail for all time.
1898 ONE BEST
For the year 1919, the Miracle Man"
seems to have the call. This is a Par
amount-Artcraft picture, produced by
George Loane Tucker. At the present
writing this immense photoplay is now
running in its sixth week in San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles. The same rec
ord Is being established in New York
and other eastern cities.
Just what this picture contains that
few other photoplays of the present
day can boast, is a story. A real fas-
cinating story that has the faculty of
holding an audience at bay until the
last inch of film is run through the
machine.
PACKARD STORY
The story of THE Miracle Man" is
one of unusual interest 1t first was
written by Frank l.. Packard and APP
peared in Munsey's magazine. Then
George NJ. Conan dramatized the story
and the result was one of the most
successful stage plays that New York
had ever known.
1t was an interesting play, interest
ing enough to remain in a Broadway
theatre for more than a solid year. II
caused much comment and was hailed
as the success of that year.
But it remained for George Loane
Tucker to bring out the latent ORA
matte qualities. To do this he resorted
to the unlimited field of the film. What
Mr. Tucker has done with his materia
is best told in the Miracle Man" pic
ture itself.
MEIGHAN IN LEAD
For his cast he has selected the hes
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
COUNTRY NOTWITHSTANDING TIME At
ARMY TRAININGS CAMP; HIS GIRL DID A
NAUGHTY DANCE He DIDN'T LIKE A-TALL
But All Turned Out ALI Right for Ulysses Grant Briggs
When the Girl Saved Him From Consequences of Court
martial for Whipping vilainous scamp-Whole Story
Being Shown at Empress Tomorrow and Tuesday

Charles Ray has an entirely new
character in his latest photoplay which
will be displayed at the Empress Mon
day and Tuesday.
In this story 'Hayfoot. Strawfoot,"
written by Julien Josephson, Mr.. Ray
appears as a country youth who UNI
derSoes the adversities of training at
q modern military camp.
Tho story has the atmosphere of
camp life and Mr., Ray portrays the
character of youth who bears the
name of Ulysses S. Grant Briggs and
is expected by his grandfather to live
vi to all the moral standards of the
great American general
"PITCHED RIGHT IN"
When Ulysses hits the camp, armed
with his grandfather's musket of 81
and all ready to go after the kaiser,
he is the butt of many jokes by his
more sophisticated comrades, and
when he let's drop the remark that he
once took a correspondence course in
sleieht of hand he is prevailed upon
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
NATIVE HAWANANS
FEATURE 2-DAY BILLS

The original and far famedKulolia's
native Hawaiians will be the feature
of the bill at the Majestic Monday and
Tuesday. together with the vaudeville
acts and a picture, Fighting for Gold"
Then Hawaiians are declared to be
the most clever of all the entertainers
coming from the Paradise Of the Pa
cific
Tom Mix is the star in Fighting for
Gold" This picture has a story that
contains a manifold appeal. There Is
adventure in it--heaps Of adventure.
For 1t Is story OF the untamed west,
where men We're more dangerous than
wild beasts. The west of bullets and
bowie knives. and shadows where
death was lurking.
There Is romance in 1t too, and the
girl concerned IL wonder. She IL .
sort of feminine Tom Mix herself. and
does not mind rislking her bones a
dozen times to add thrillss to the love
AFFAIR. There are laughs In the pic
ture--the kind of laughs for which
Tom Mix is famous. And when MIX is
! not supplying laughs. grizzly bear
steps in to keep mirth at high pitch.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
.SCKEMER THREATENS
. WIFE WITH EXPOSURE

Given every opportunity to display
her dramatic gifts, Geraldine Farrar in
Shadows" will be at the Majestic to-
day only.
The story is simple in it's fundamen-
tails and therefore strong in its appeal.
Miss Farrar is Muriel Barnes, happily
married to a New York financier. De-
voted to their child life seems to lack
nothing When Craftley, a stranger,
seeks to gain her husbands support
in a mining scheme she feels that the
first cloud-or shadow-has appeared
on her horizon. And the man senses
that Muriel is familiar to him. He
asks his partner, Jack McGoff, about
the Alaskan girl he is always looking
for and in her photograph Craftley
sees the present Mrs. Barnes.
Acting on his wife's warning Barnes
declines to invest in Craftley's scheme.
Then the fellow telephones Muriel,
calling her a name which reveals his
knowledge of her past-and Alaska
She is ordered to persuade her hus-
band to go into the deal at the peril
of having him know of her now for
gotten life. How Muriel extricates
herself from this heartbreaking COM
plication is developed in the play.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
WAR CORRESPONDENT
Continued from Page Two)

But in wrestling, it Is purely an indi-
vidual affair, the best man wins. In
team games, such as baseball for in
stance, the best team may lose, at
least according to Kid Gleason of the
Sox. For this reason the Kid and ev-
cry one like him, would make poor
wrestlers, because that old alibi would
be worthless.
While weight and size are valuable
assets to a wrestler, because superior
strength will win, yet skill plays an
even more important role. This was
proven by Frank Gotch, the greatest
of wrestlers. While Gotch was large,
he was nevertheless one of the few
wrestlers of the past, that was in
every sense an athlete.
MUST BE ALL AROUND MAN
Wrestlers today realize the necessity
of all-around athletic ability and pres
ent day wrestlers are not of the type
of the wrestler of the past. The bull
necked, barrel-chested grappler of the
past, who relied upon brute strength
has been eliminated from the game by
the athletic type of wrestler.
Gotch possessed all the strength of
the great man he was, but he threw
men much larger and stronger than
himself, by the use of his athletic
agility. He was. without a doubt, the
greatest all-around wrestler Of all time
an athlete in every respect.
S. Zbysko is another wrestler of
great fame and Is at present q states
man in Poland. Can you imagine a guy
with collar size equal to my chest
measurement, acting in the capacity of
Statesman? At that he'd make a good
bouncer for the U. s. Senate. Zbysko
came to this country in 1908 and took
on all corners. He trimmed all his OPP
ponents save Yusiff Mahmout. "the
terrible Turk" and Gotch the champ.
MAHMouT ONLY EXCEPTION
Mahmout was the only wrestler that
Gotch failed to throw by using his
famous toe hold. This is probably due
Turks foot. 1t was difficult to tell
where Mahmout's foot began and his
leg ended; the entire limb being about
the same size from hip to foot. New
ertheless ,Gotch took she turk into
camp and when the wrestler retired a
few years before his untimely end, he
did so absolutely undefeated.
Hackenschmidt, the Russian mat
tussler. stayed with Gotch for one hour
lion. Chicago, in 1908. the wrestlers
probably quitting because they were
members of the Rassler's union. How
ever, in 1910, at Comiskey Park, Chi
cago the great Gotch again took on
the Russian and this time threw him
twice with toe-hold and body scissors.
The Russian practically quit before
the terrible toe-hold took effect on the
second fall. Other wrestlers of fame
are Doc Roller, Stranger Lewis. Pies
tina and Cutler.
The wrestling season opens here In
Boise soon and the rasslin' bugs will
get their moneys worth in some good
/ shows, put on by such grapplers as
Draak, Santel DeCourt. Romonoff,
Plestina and others. The state Ath-
| letic commission will supervise the ras-
slim and their job is about as enviable
as a ruler In Mexico, cause when you've
superytsed an outfit OF rasslers you've
done something.
| So when the grappiers maui each
| other all about the mat,
| You begin to root and then you know
rasslin's not so bad at that
| KIPLING.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
Suspicious AROUSED.

Her father is amazed. For the first
time he realizes that his daughter is
not the kind of a girl she ought to be.
Wetona's mother was a white woman
and in accordance with her dying wish
Wetona has been brought up as a
white girl. She tells her father that
her lover is white man but will not
tell him his name. Quannah decides
to find out who he is and then kill
him. Wetona goes TO John Hardin,
agent of the reservation, to beg him to
save the life of her Iover
While they are talking. Quannah en-
tiers and thinks that Hardin is his
daughters lover. Hardin, who really
loves Wetona but has never told her
so, decides to marry her in order to
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
San Juan Capistrano Institution
Shown in Moving Pictures
the First Time by Special
Arrangement.
GIVES SCENIC EFFECT
Used as Background for Some
of Action in "A Mans Fight"
at the Strand Theatre Four
Days This Week. :.

ut is one of the best dramas have
ever starred in" says Dustin Farnum
of his latest super picture, in express
ing his satisfaction with all the de-
tails of "A Mans Fight" which comes
TO the Strand for four days beginning
today. In this new offering, Mr.. Far
mum enacts the role of the son of an
aristocratic family who, through cir
cumstances, pays the penalty for a
deed of which he Is innocent.
These earlier scenes are laid in and
around New York, then come scenes
at Sing Sing, and the later part of
the play has its location in the west
with Dustin Farnum in the role of a
successful mine manager. Here adj
verse fate again takes a hand and love
also enters into the plot.
SCENIC EFFECTS.
Some wonderful scenic effects taken
in lower California, are said to give
a beautiful and spectacular touch to
the production. This Mission Is re-
ported never before to have been
filmed, it's inclusion now in "a Mans
Fight" being by grace of special dis
pensation granted to United Picture
Theatres, Inc.
A cast of well-known players sup
ports Mr.. Farnum in his latest offer
important role of the butler, has won
much praise for his conception Of the
part. Mr.. Farnum personally is said
to have pronounced Mr.. Van Meters
acting as specially talented. This
player was formerly a member of the
Belasco Stock company and is an a9tor
of many years experience.
EVANS AS SOCIETY RAKE.
Norman Evans, a society rake, will
be remembered for his clever concep-
ton of the heavy role in adele" Ag-
gle Herring has the comedy role OF
the cook in "A Mans Fight" and is
the player who appeared as the One
Legged Woman with this star in "A
Man in the Open" Lois Wilson as
Farnum's leading woman, and J. Bar
ney Sherry. Dorothy Wallace, Miles
Mccarthy, Betty Bouton, Dick La Reno
and Bert Appling are especially prom
inent in important roles. After his
many pictures i'm the habiliments of a
cowboy. Mr.. Farnum's admirers will
be curious to see him in his present
modern evening dress role.
Other features of the Strand bill will
be the Prizma color pictures and q
Lloyd comedy.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
NEW MOVIE STAR TO
Be PRESENTED THIS
WEEK At THE STRAND
John Sunderland, Who Posed
With President Wilson,
Makes Debut in "The Silver
King"

Playing the part of Godfrey Ware,
In support of William Faversham in
1.-THE Silver King which will he
shown at the Strand Friday and Sat
urday, is a young actor who has a
unique claim to distinction.
The name which he has chosen for
his motion picture advent is John
Sunderland, and he is a veteran of the
great war, having served nearly three
years in the aviation service of the
Belgian army.
LOSE $4,000, 900.
After receiving no fewer than 10
wounds he was honorably discharged.
He could not go back to his former
occupat ton for he had no business left
to go to. Both he and his father lost
all they had in worldly goods to help
save Belgium from destruction, and
that was nearly IL million dollars.
Their business was freight transporta-
ton between East African ports.
Their ships We're sunk and their bust
ness entirely wiped out.
Mr.. Sunderland, came to this coun-
try and soon was attracted by the ap-
peal offered by a career in motion
pictures.
GOOD LOOKING CHAP.
Because he is exceptionally good
looking and has demonstrated that he
can act, and because he can fly, he
was chosen as leading man for Clara
Kimball Young in Shirley Kaye" and
other prominent parts followed.
He has the distinction of being the
only actor who ever posed in a photo
play with President Wilson. This was
in a propaganda film on coal conser-
walton.
In 1.-The Silver King" Mr.. Sunder-
land plays the part of a scoundrel who
ruins his best friend in revenge for
winning a girl whom he loved in vain
Mr. Sunderland proves that he is an
actor as well as aviator and fighter
for world freedom.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
POPULAR WRITER'S
DEFEND MOV|ESAS
ARTISTIC MEDIUM

Some authors are bitter about their
experiences with the motion picture,
both as writer's and as audience. They
murmur something about a primitive
entertainment for simple minds.
On the other hand writer's like Rex
Beach, Gertrude Atherton and Rupert
Hughes scorn the high brow attitude
of these intellectulas. They look to the
future of motion pictures with imag
ination and optimism and find things
today to praise.
Rex Beach says that the screen Of
fers even less satisfaction than the
stage or the page to the writer who
deals exclusively in verbiage, but to
the author with moving, living story
it offers field as wide or wider than
the printed page: To quote him ex-
actly; This whirling globe of ours Is
tangled up in celluloid like a dancing
darby in the serpentine paper of a
carnival"
INTELLIGENCE INCREASING
Mr. Beach does not phrophesy. He
speaks of existent conditions when he
declares: The day has come when an
author can tell his tales to black and
white and brown and yellow men the
world around, provided he has tale
to tell. Could anything slim
ulate more inspiration, arouse more
interest, awake more enthusiasm In a
writer than a worldwide audience.
daily growing in size and advancing
In intelligence?''
Gertrude Atherton is rated as the
kcenest of intellectuais, and she can't
see why an author should feel II be-
meath his dignity to have his books
made into motion pictures. Tt seems
to me-" Mrs. Atherton writes, 1T Is
an inspiration to know that ones books
are to be made into motion pictures,
For one person who sits down to read
a book there are hundreds who go to
the movies. There are some things
of course, which a book has and which
a motion picture cannot have, and they
are valuable things. But good stories
can be told in other ways than by the
use Of type.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
Thrilling STORY IS
LAID IN THE YUKON
Girls Love for Arctic Explorer
Leads Her on Expedition to
Find Him When He Is Re-
ported Perished.

In Vengeance of the Yukon which
comes to the Empress Wednesday only,
Margaret and Godfrey Sherwood
wealthy orphans, while visiting Ian
Thomas, famous Arctic explorer, meet
Eric Hedon. Margaret's interest In
Hedon ripens into love and they be-
come engaged. But Eric has promised
Thomas to go with him on a trip North
and he leaves with Margarets promise
to wait for him. Two years pass and
it is thought that Erick has persisted.
GETS QUEER NOTE
However, Margaret insists that he
Is alive, and her belief is strengthened
upon the receipt OF wild goose,
which had been shot on a Southern
plantation. On the goose's leg is
note addressed to her stating that Eric
and Thomas are safe. After much
persuasion Margaret induces her
guardian, Price Latham, who loves her,
to charter a ship, so that search Tor
the missing ones may be begun. with
her brother, Latham and several former
comrades of Eric's, the expedition sails.
Margaret promises to wed Price II the
mission fails. When they find no trace
of the lost men and after their ship
has been destroyed by fire, Latham
finds in a cairn note from Eric which
he tears up and buries beneath the
snow.
WALKED LIKE A MAN.
While out hunting, one of the men
shoots what he thinks Is bear. II
is Eric. He is cared for and RECEIVERS
Latham's suggestion that the party
take part of the Eskimos' food and seek
relief ship is met by expressions OF
contempt. But one night he drives
off with the dogs and some of the food
He is pursued and killed by an en-
ragged Eskimo.
A party from the relief ship finally
reaches the wanderers, and they are
safely brought back to home and hap
piness.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
WALKED LIKE A MAN.

Five women are included in the
membership of the municipal council
of Amsterdam.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26

New freight cars are being placed
In service BY the railroad administra-
ton At the rate Of 50 day.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26
INDIAN GIRL GIVES
AWAY WHITE LOVER

Norma Talmadge will be seen at the
Majestic Wednesday and Thursday in
The Heart of Wetona," in which she
is presented in the role of half In
dian girl.
Wetona, the daughter of Quannah,
chief of a tribe of the Comanches. is
chosen to act as vestal virgin at
Corn Dance to be given in connection
with some ancient rites that the tribe
is contemplating holding. She refuses
to accept the offer, saying that she is
not fit to bring food to the Holy Spir-
1t. She tells her father that no girl
that has loved the way she has is
worthy of such an honor
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-26

save her. Later it is learned that An
thony Wells is the man that wronged
Wetona. Wetona has since learned
what kind of a man Tony really is and
with her fathers forgiveness and Har-
dins love. she is again made happy
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-02
Declares Invention
VIII R~eUOLutiOnize
P~LumbingI Industry

WEST POINT, Miss, Jan. 2. (SpI)-
p. p. BroGan, a prominent travelling
salesman OF This city, has just received
his natent papers for n patented water
works pipe that can not freeze Up in
the winter.
A corporation is being organized by
prominent business men Of tilts and
other cities in Mississippi, with head
quarters in Chicago, to exploit the in
vention.
The invention will reyolutioni2e the
plumbing, heating and cold storage
business, the patentee claims. II works
on the same principle as the vacuum
bottle and Is slmpl5 and very effective.
A h~ousekeepCr who has his house
rlumbed with these pipes may go 10
sleep, even on the coolest nights, and
rest assured thai the pipes will not
be frozen or burst the next morning,
Began asserts.
< heating and cooling company,
equipped with these pipes, win be or
ganiZed in Chicago TO pipe steam heat
over the city from q centralized sta
ton to the different office buildings,
department stores, the3ters, residences,
etc. in winter. During the summer cold
air will be forced through the pipes
by compressed air TO cool off the office
buildings, department, stores, theatcrs,
factories, residences. etc.
The pipes from the heating and cool.
ing plant will also he Competed witt
| refrigerators in stores and homes anC
thus do away with insanitary ice. Per
ishahlA will keep indefinitely in a re.
frigerutor thus equipped. as the colt
air will be dry, while the air in a re.
frigerator in which Ice is used is damp
thus making perishables mold quickly
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-02
INSPECTOR or WEIGHTS ,
AND MEASURES SOUGHT

MERIDIAN, Miss, jan Q. (Spl)-
Calling attention to the fact hat it Is
impossible to carry out the law OF
weights and measures without some
successful way Of obtaining evidence Of
violations to secure proper prosecution.
The Meridian Trades Council has asked
the city council to create the office of
inspector OF weights and measures and
eas and electric meters. s.
the attention of the city council In
called to section 5o67 of the state code
OF 1906 and other sections pertaining
to weights and measures and the re-
quest made that some means be devised
tho law and secure for Meridian the
enforcement OF the law that 1t should
have.
\ The letter has been placed on the file
! Of the city council for future refer
eNCe.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-02
YACHT IS LOST;
.270 7 DROWN
Sailors on Holiday Leave Go
Down to Deaths Off
Scotch Coast.

LONDON. Jan. 1.-Two hundred and
seventy sailors were drowned yester-
day as the result of the loss OF the
British steam yacht iolaire, off Stor'
noway, Scotland.
The yacht had 800 sailors on board.
They were on New Years holiday
leave.
The vessel struck on the dangerous
rocks known as the beasts OF Helm, y
near Stornoway harbor, and only
about 30 OF them on board were saved.
Many Of these we're terribly injured in
their efforts to reach the shore.
All the officers ard crew Of the
Iolaire were lost.
the Iolaire was formerly the Anal
ithaca, and was taken over by the
British navy at the beginning of the
war. The crew was made up OF naval
re5ervists, and al we're residents Of
Lewis Island, OF the west coast OF
Australia.
The yacht served in the operations
In the Mediterranean, and the crew
was returning from its first leave
since the armistice was signed when
the disaster occurred.
The lolRire was Il vessel of 362 tons.
SHE was built in 1902, and before the
war belonged to the estate Of the late
Sir Donald Culrie.