The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-22

The title will be changed to "A Trip
| to Paradise" Needless to say other
things will be done to it,
1t has been suggested that maybe
Lilliom will not die on the screen AT
all, but will just dream that he did,
and awake with switch back" to
love, honor and obey Julie for the rest
OK long life! Speaking of the films
| L think at this time of the year. when
the production of the spoken drama is at
low ebb, we always note with some
trepidatlon, perhaps, the onward march
OF the moving picture. The film mag
mates are willing to pay enormous prices
for what they desire and are, at thu
season, more than at other times, moving
into legitimate theatres. Still the legitl-
mate drama remains a constant force
no matter how the popular currents Of
the movies eddy and swirl! Says Henry
Miller, speaking in this connection: 1--WE
must remember Tiffany does not go out
of business because 5 and Decent stores
succeed" But true as this is must con-
fess it was with a genuine pang of regret
that 1 recently read that the Tabor
Grand opera house Of Denver, recognized
nationally as theatre of unusual inter-
est. will on September be converted into
a movie theatre, to be known as The
OOACA
was erected by Horace A. NJ. Tabor. AT
the time 1t was indeed temple in the
Wilderness" being a sort of halfway
house between the effete east and the
Golden Gate country. Tabor was lieu
tenant governor and also the richest man
in the west. Indeed, for while 1t seemed
everything he touched turned to gold.
Then came reverses and later he died, a
poor man.
Someone might write play using as
test the story of Horace Tabors lifel
Make him likeable sort, for such he was
said to be generous to fault, unlearned,
except in the school of the "Get-Rich-
Quick" One of the thrills Of my young
girlhood was visit to Denver and seve-
'ral evenings spent at the Tabor Grand
recall one occasion when the drama on
the stage was less interesting than the
one in the audience. At least so it SEEM
ed to my (then) young eyes!
In foremost box with a gay party,
and very conspicuous sat Mr.. Tabor and
his new wife who was known in Denver
as Mrs Tabor, Number two" She was
youngish looking. 1 remember, and he
gray haired! In an opposite box, sat Mrs.
Tabor, Number one," the wife of his
youth and mother of his children, but
now a discard! Reconciled somewhat to
the situation it was said, by the fact
that he had decided her a generous
slice of the Tabor millions. Sensible wom-
an, you say? She, in half defiant way.
had a group of friends about her also.
She was older than Number two" near
er the age, I should say of Mr.. Tabor
himself
/ Be sure to put all of this in the play!
However, what l am trying to say Is
this. 1t seems to be an illustration of the
very irony of fate. that this monument
Horace Tabor built to himself the old
Tabor Grand" should pass finally into
the possession of the ubiquitous moving
picture interests. The theatre at the
time it was built, cost $4,000. That was
Psome price 40 years ago.
Winchell Smith, 1t develops, has spent
the last two years writing play called
The Wheel" and which John Golden
produced last week at Atlantic City. The
story has to do with the lure of the gam
ing table, the spin of the roulette wheel
and the battle of courageous wife to
save her young husband from plunging
into moral abyss. We connect Win