Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1921-06-03
NEW YORK A CITY OF SEN.
SATION.

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New York, as everybody knows, is .
city Of towering skyscrapers, noun
tains Of steel, Of millionaires, Of TO
nance, tragedy, crime and sensation.
Daily it provides new mysteries which
battle the keenest policemen and de-
tectives in the world and give the SEN
sation loving people of the world
through their daily newspapers some
thing to think about, wonder at and
discuss. Its mysterious murders make
interesting reading for mystery's sake.
/ Even now the New York police are
hard at work in their attempt to un-
ravel the .hreads Of mystery which
hold the murder Of q well-known
whist expert and turfman to the pub
lies interest. One could recall with
out muca mental effort case after
case Of blackmailing. involving men
of millions. One reads Of the gi-
gantic graft cases, the divorce trials,
the kidnapping affairs, among the
people Of the so-called Upper Four
Hundred. One learns the details Of
tragedies on the East Side. He fol-
lows the stories that involve vamps,
adventuresses, confidence men, gamb-
lers, crooks and gangsters, and Of the
efforts Of the police department to
suppress crime of all nature.
Although the great Metropolis also
has its decent people, because they
60 along by q wellregulated and
sensible plan Of existence nothing is
heard of them, 50 it is on the sensa-
tons and mysteries that our novels,
plays, stories and motion picture plays
are made. Probably no mystery or
crime has ever occurred in the city
of New York which has not imme-
dixtely been incorporated or re-
Elected in motion picture play.
Picture producing companies vie
constantly with one another to get
realistic portrayal Of conditions into
their product. Although there Is no
fiction as strange g the truth, the
truth does not always lend itself
perfectly to pictured representation.
hence the necessity for imagination,
by which. is meant simply the power
to pick this incident and that, and
put them together in interesting
form.
People who make . practice Of
following the. sensational affairs Of
New York viii find much to interest
than in q new picture made by the
/ Fox Film Corporation. Persons WHO
have seen the picture declare that
| It win set spectatMy Wondering i
it does not really present the trua
solution Of many Of the great city,
most interesting cases which IL %
lice have never been able to fathom
Incidents involving three classes d
New York's people have been com
bined into as many stories and thu
spectator is able to see the reflection
Of famous mystery cases in the I'M
folding of each story. The interest
ing phase Of their portrayal. how
ever, lies in the fact that the stories
begin almost at the moment whei
the complications are most tight.
drawn and carry them to Q conclu
sion. This makes very unique ant
enthrailing departure from the usua
picture.
Into the action come millionairea
blackmailers, crooks, thieves, run
amen, sweaSshop workers, gangster
and vamps. Incidentally, many Doirt
of interest for which New York 1
justly famous have been brought In
to tie picture, which is being re
LEASED under the title Of while Nes
York Sleeps" This picture has beel
secured by the st. Joseph Electri
Theatre for its attraction next Tues
day.