The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1920-03-13
ELKS HELPING BOYS
WHO WERE INJURED
THE "WAYBACK" TO BE ExHIB-
TIED HERE UNDER AUsPI-
cES OF LOCAL LODGE
TO PROMOTE EDUCATION
All ''BiIIies" Boosting Big Army Film
Production, and Large Crowd
Is Being Expected for Show

The Way Back" film production
in the interest of disabled soldiers,
which is being fathered throughout
the United States by the Elks, will be
shown here on Wednesday, April 7,
under the auspices of the Orelousas
lodge, B. P. o. Elks.
A committee, of which Des Mizzi,
who will be installed exalted ruler Of
the local lodge on April 6, is in charge
of the production here, and consid-
cradle publicity work is contemplated
as it is the intention of the Elks to
give everybody in Opelousas and sur
rounding country an opportunity of
seeing a picture that has proven Of
great popularity throughout the
Union.
The entertainment will be given at
the Princess theatre, the first show
beginning promptly at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon, and continuing every
two hours until 10 O'Clock that night.
/ Prices will be moderate, considering
the expense of handling this very
costly film production.
All Eiks will be boosting the pic
ture within the next few days, and
unique plans of publicity will be
adopted. The proceeds of the enter
tainment will go to the fund being
fostered by the national body Of
Elks to assist the government in
giving its disabled soldiers a voea-
tional education.
Wherever the ''Wayback" has been
exhibited crowds witnessed it and re-.
ports state that the movie goers win
enjoy this production as it is interes-
ting from start to finish.
''The Way Back" is a five-reel spe-
cial feature picture which tells the
story Of two professional baseball
players who enlist for the war and
return home disabled crippled for
life; one has an arm gone and the
other has a shattered knee. They
are confronted with the problem Of
choosing new vocations as baseball
lis the only thing they know for earn
4 ing living.
1t is in no sense of the world war
picture. On the contrary, it is. an in-
teresting and thrilling presentation Of
one of the greatest and most impor-
Etant peace problems in the world to-
day, arising from the return to civil
life Of millions Of worthy, crippled
war heroes, for the most part young
men in the prime Of life, who are
1 mentally better fitted for usefulness
4 than before they were disabled.
The two boys, taking different.
courses, are carried through many
fascinating and thrilling scenes and
situations, these including what is
perhaps the best baseball picture ever
presented on any screen One Of the
boys becomes an idler and finally 3
panhandler-a menace to himself
and to society.
While his pal is pursuing his course
in mechanics and becoming an ex-
pert in spite Of a missing right arm,
the idler drifts from bad to worse un-
til he is finally seen in court Of
justice on trial for his life on q
charge of killing a roustabout who
had tried to pick his pocket in pool
room hangout.
In the closing scenes Of the picture
complete reformation Of this idler
/ is brought about when he realizes he
still holds the love of good young
woman. In the final scenes there is
happy and gripping climax never
surpassed in any screen production,
bringing those in the audience to the
edge Of thier seats and sending them
home talking about a picture that
will never be effaced from their mem
ory. It is one Of the occasional pic
lures that viii live for years. The
lesson it teaches is SO deftly inter-
woven into the theme or story that il
adds to the interest Of the picture
and the Importance Of it grows upon
those in the audience more and more
until they realize that this is pic.
ture Of supreme value to the social
and Industrial welfare Of the nation