Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-24
ADJUSTMENTS
HOLMAN DAYS
COMPANY PAY
ROLL $4,000

Five thousand dollars is the
amount of the weekly payroll of the
Holman Day Productions, Inc, when
pictures are being made. Practically
all of that is spent in Augusta, too,
for the members of the company
carry but little with them and they
have found the stores of the Capital
City SO we'll stocked and the prices
SO attractive that they have preferred
to do their shopping here than so to
some other city.
In watching the production of The
Rider Of the King Log" the great
est of all screen plays from Holman
Days pen. one may well understand
why $4,000 payroll is necessary.
Many extras and the best leading
people who can be secured have been
used in the production. Then, too,
the play was nearly a whole year in
the making and was only finally re-
leased on Labor Day.
That Augusta people are enabled
to see this big Maine picture so soon
is due to the enterprise and interest
OF William p. Williamson, manager
If the Holman Day Productions, who
has booked The Rider of the King
Log" as regular road show with
Wings of the Border" another sue
cessful Holman Day picture and a
Harold Lloyd comedy. This big
program will be shown al the Au-
cWsta Opera house twice daily next
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Because Of the great interest on the
~ ST kfD loIN
of the Augusta theatres is going to
charge only the regular Opera house
prices, in spite of the great cost of
securing the bill
There isn't n scene in either The
Rider of the King Log" which takes
seven reels and Wings of the For
der" q tWo-recicr, in which the peo-
pie of this section are not interested,
for all the shots" We're taken in
Augusta or in the Kennehec valley.
Some Of the views Of the Dead River
region are especially attractive and
the whole photography is such that it
has made people forget California
where most of the pictures are taken.
1t is the theme of the big outdoors,
the great Maine woods. the roaring
cataracts. The INTERVIEWING OF these
great emotional, though inanimate.
actors with human beings strong in
courage, or weak in cowardice, pre-
sents story tense and gripping in
its majesty
The action Of the story revolves
about the efforts. by fair means or
foul, of a powerful corporation to
rob old "X. K" THE Rider Of the
King Log" OF his river rights. Old
* *" is a mighty. rugged son of
the forest with a tender spot in his
heart as big as all outdoors for his
motherless daughter.
Death overcones *. K" and he
faces it as coura geously as he faced
life. hut his dauntless spirit lives on
in his daughter. who fights to the
finish and wins through love.
Frank Sheridan. Richard Travers
Irene Boyle. Carleton Brickert, Ar
thur Donaldson, Charles Slattery.
and many others were chosen by
Holman Day, himself, to portray the
characters he knows so we'll.
Wings of the Border will have
as much appeal as the bigger and
longer feature. IL teiiS IuSSeU
story of Maine. of the fight Of back
country folks to protect their rights
and of the intercession Of the Gov
ernor in their behalf. Governor Bax-
ter himself takes this role and Gilbert
F. Chadhourne. his private score
tary. is also seen as we'll as many
other people well known in the city.
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