Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-30
Harrington s
The Conquest of
Canaan Billed
Wesley Barry, Dorothy Dali
ton and Babe Ruth on VieJC
in Other Films.
COMEDY PREDOMINATES

Next week viii be an important
week on the local screen.
The first showing Of Booth Tark-
ington's 1.-The Conquest of Canaan"
as a movie in this city will take
place Sunday at the Ohio.
Wesley Barry, known as "Freckles, {"
win have an important as well as an
exciting time Of it in Stranger Than
Fiction" After an absence Of five years.
Max Under returns to the local screen
IN a comedy called "Seven Years Bad
Luck"
The movie lineup for next week is as
follows:
Ohio-A movie version OF Tarkington's
1.-THE Conquest Of Canaan"
Circle-Katherine Macdonald and Yves
ley Barry in Stranger Than Fiction"
Loew's State-Max Under in Seven
Years Bad Luck"
Automatically Dalton in Behind
Masks"
ColoniaLBert Lyten in "a Message
From Mars"
Isis-Babe Ruth in ''Headin' Home"
Mister Smith's-Lionel Barrymore in
"The Devils Garden"
Regent-Neal Hart in BLACK Sheep"
The movie bills next week will be
along the comedy or homespun humor
type.
Special music is announced also by
most Of the movie theaters.
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HoosIER's FAMOUS STORY
IS NOW A MOVIE FOR AIEIGHAN.
Opening Sunday at the Ohio will be a
movie version OF Booth Tarkingto
The Conquest Of Canaan" with Thomas
Msighan in the chief role.
In the town Of Canaan and its suburbs
lived two factions-one eminently respec-
table led by Judge Martin Pike, the
other quite the opposite.-rSpresented By
Joe Louden. Brought up with the cor
rupt political ring of Beaver Beach, Joe
defed the conventions Of Canaan and
was regarded as an irreclaimable outcast
Ariel Tabor, the village tomboy. shared
Joe's fate and like him she is the laugh
Ing stock Of the town.
Mamie Pike, daughter Of the stern
judge, would have liked to play with
Ariel and Joe, but the rules Of her set
forbade this. Gene Louden, Joe's half
brother. loves Mamie, but makes little
progress with her. Joe's manly figure
has impressed Ariel and she fingers in
thought over him One day her uncle
dies. leaving her an ample fortune. She
goes to Paris to study and her last word
to Joe was ito make good In spite Of
them" Joe decides to make good and
going 70 the next town. he begins the
study Of the law when necessity does not
compel him to work in a restaurant.
Years pass. Joe has been admitted to
the bar and opened an office in Canaan
where he protects his ignorant friends
at the Beach who are constantly in litiga-
ton. One day Ariel returns from abroad,
beautiful and fashionabIy dressed. Joe
watches the public reception in her honor,
and his hesitation to speak TO her
prompts her to go to him and press some
flowers in his hand. About this time
Happy Farley, driven to desperation by
his fiirtstious wife, slays Nashville Cory.
joe undertakes Far1ey's defense, but the
case seems hopeless
Joe's principal witness IS the manager
Of Beaver Beach, and the prosecution OBJ
jects to his appearance in court In
censed at this, the witness reveals the
fact that Judge Pike himself IS the own
er Of Beaver Beach The Judge frankly
admits the truth, whereupon the mob
rush for him He is protected by Joe.
In return. the judge announces that
while he has been beaten, it took the
biggest man in Canaan to do it-Joe
Louden-" The judge added that If the
Canaanites knew what was good for
them. they would elect Joe their next
mayor.
The leaders Of the respectable element
turned to Joe, but presto he had turned
to Ariel and saw them not! They stood
hand in hand together. happy in their
live the ~1nh r-oaTafr,ad t. 49,.
Ing mayor Of Canaan.