The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-10
Romance of Great Outdoors Offered
'MoDie Fans at Rialto All Next Week
"Sagebrusher, "by Hough, and
"The Silver Horde" At
fractions Booked.
ORGAN READY SUNDAY
Added Attraction for Patrons
at Chattanooga Leading
Picture House.

of the Rialto attractions next week
No two works of Americas two
famous authors of great stories Of
the west and northwest are better
known than Emerson Hough's 1.-THE
Sagebrusher' and Rex Beach's 1.-THE
Silver Horde" oBth have beer
picturized in super production form
under the personal supervision Of
their respective authors. The"Sage-
brusher" will open three-d days run
tomorrow at the Rialto. ''The Sill
Yer Horde" follows next Wednesday
for four days engagement.
An added feature of the program
beginning Sunday will be the en-
ployment Of the big new organ which
has been installed at this house to be
operated in conjunction with the
orchestra. The organ will be used
for the overtures and intermissions.
Some very fine music is promised,
the company having imported an
artist from Chicago.
Another feature of the program the
first three days will be the latest
Harold Lloyd two-reel comedy. His
Royal Slyness." Much high-c class
fun is promised In the latest Lloyd
creation.
The story Of the "Sagebrusher"
should be familiar to most readers
of Americas best fiction. Emerson
Hough has written .forcibly and
most entertainingly since he sprang
into prominence many years ago
when "The Mississippi Bubble" was
published, and his novels are num-
bered among the six best sellers.
"The Sagebrusher" is heart"
story; story with pathos and great
human interest. Its characteres are
men and women with whom we are
familiar. They might be any spec
tator in the Rialto audience. 1t tells
Of a great love. a great sacrifice and
it chronicles the conflict of the op-
posing forces Of good and evil.
Critics have pronounced it "a
wonderful picture" from every angle
They say that It has all the elements
of the big, vibrant photoplay. Wher-
ever 1t has been shown, reports have
it that enthusiastic audiences have
wept and cheered.
Unlike many pictures of great
heart interest, 1t has tremendous
climaxes. The scene where the big
dam gives away and devastates the
fertile valleys below is piece of
realism seldom seen on the screen.
"The Sagebrusher" is a film treat,
one that movielovers should not
miss.
1.-THE Silver Horde" is another of
those red -blooded plays that is built
around the kind of stories that the
American public loves. 1t has big
moments. logical thrills and the tang
of the Alaskan-sn country. 'The
Silver Horde" under the personal
direction of Rex Beach-it's author,
has been wrought into super-spe-
cial that will stand among the bigger
productions of this year. 1t is pic
ture with punch plus. 1t starts with |
a fight and finishes with a fight, |
Ncrashing on with ever increasing
speed into dynamic climax. 1t Is a |
picture so vivid that it fairly leaps |
from the screen, holding the specta- |
tor GREATNESS with interest as 1t |
Unfolds one unexpected situation |
after another.
A brief synopsis of the story:
OF all Alaska treasures, none Is |
81 hot he col Reh
cries of the Kalvik district, and here |
remote from law two rival factions
struggle to control the silver horde |
of salmon.
Marsh, head Of a powerful cannery.
backed by a Wall Street syndicate,
is determined to monopolize the
KaIvik fisheries. He finds in Cherry
Malotte, a hardy and beautiful
daughter of Alaska, worthy OPP
ponent. She and big George" Holt
fight to hold their claims.
Out from the mining country to
the far north comes a discouraged
man, Boyd Emerson, a self confessed
failure. An alliance is formed be-
tween Holt, Emerson and Cherry
Malotte. They will fight for their
claim to a share of the silver horde.
Emerson goes to New York to get
the necessary capital and is success
full. The powerful Wall street syn
dictate calls into play every resource
at its command in an effort to
break" the three. Then the fight
begins in earnest With the action
sweeping forward at breath taking |
pace and winding up in a big sur
prise climax.
While painting in dig vivid strokes
the almost superhuman courage and
strength of the fighting men of the
Great North. Rex Beach has not neg
lected the romance that inspired the
stand of the three part
ners.
Under the able directoral guidance
of Frank Lloyd, THE Silver Horde"
maitnains in screen form the same
of spirit, power of dra-
matte action, and color and variety
* settings that characterized the
hook. To Mr.. Lloyd's credit in addi-
ton to The Silver Horde are such
brilliant achievements as lies Mis-
THE World and It's wom-
an" and many other elaborate spec
tacles.
The players selected to portray the
characters conceived by
the author. are remarkable proto-
types OF the originals. Myrtle Sted-
man as Cherry Malotte. the most
famous OF all Rex Beach's characters,
md who first appeared in THE
Spoilers" so completely answers to
he authors description Of the hero
ne. that she seems to have stepped
right out OF the book. Robert Nc
<em. dean OF motion picture "heav-
es." makes a sinister and convincing
Marsh. while Curtis Cooksey as
Emerson is a dominant and force
uI figure throughout. Other mem