The Topeka state journal., 1921-11-11
OFFER REAL MONEY
One Dollar Bills To Be Dis
tributed at Grand.
Merchants VIII Give Trade
Checks During Movie Week.

Those who attend the afternoon
| performances given by the Kiwanis
club at the Grand theater this coming
| week will be the recipients of good
| spendabie one dollar bills. The bills
| Will be given out in envelopes to each
person who passes the doorman. Those
who do not find dollar bills in the
| envelopes they draw, will find instead
| trade checks good for from ten cents
to ten dollars at twenty of the stores
of the city.
The twenty merchants who are thus
| encouraging the attendance at the big
show being produced by the Kiwanis
club for the benefit of the Proyident
| association, have designated the week
| OF November Il as Movie Week" and
are by the issuing of trade checks,
| making a cash discount of over $25,-
600 to the movie fans of the city
The merchants who are giving these
trade checks are; PeIletiers the
Tully-McFarland Drug Co., Palace
Clothing Co, Thompson-Rauer-Au
Hardware Co., H. B. Howard, Keller
Dustin Sport Shop, G. w. Stansfield
Singer Sewing Machine Co., Fair Mer-
camille Co., The Booterie, Adds Jew
elry Co., Hall Stationery Co.. A. NJ.
Petro & Son, Bowen = Nuss, Western
Tire Co., Harris-Goar Co, John A.
Davis, J. L. Hersh, Earl E. Shell Cloth
ing Co.
Stores to Decorate.
All the stores are to be decorated
in honor of "Movie Week" AS an
added feature of the week, the window
decorators of Topeka will be in a con-
test over the display that best brings
out some motion picture idea. Two
classes of prizes are being offered by
the general committee of the Kiwanis
club. In class A, which is confined
to the stores where professional win
dow decorators are employed, the
prizes are to be $40 and $40 each. In
class B, which will be open to all other
stores of the city, the prizes are to
be S25 and SIS.
Director Charles LIE Witt, who is to
produce 1.-THE Girl From Toneka" in
the movies for the Kiwanfs club. re-
ceived | 5000 feet of raw film yester-
day. This is to be used in shooting the
scenes for the society drama he has
written for the occasion. Whether all
or the film Will be used in making To-
peka's first home talent movie de-
pends upon how readily the amateur
the silent drama, LIE Witt declares.
He is now planning on a three-reel
production, but in case some of his
cast show unusual ability, extra scenes
viii be shot giving the talented one
additional opportunity to display his
talents
Work at Grand Completed.
Work on the laboratory at the
Grand theater was finished Thursday
afternoon. At the same time the work
of setting up the giant studio light
ing plant was completed. Now every
thing is ready for the first cIose-ups to |
be shot" Monday afternoon at 2 |
o'clock. The work of making the film
will be divided up into three shifts.
The first scenes each day of the COM |
ing week will be shot after a five |
reel picture, Home Keeping Hearts, |
is shown. In the evening the picture /
will be shown at p. m. and after |
and until S:45 more scenes of the local |
movie will be made. As o'clock the
feature picture will be shown again. i
and then more movie scenes shown,
This program will be repeated every
day with the exception that there viii |
be new feature picture shown at |
zach performance.