The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-10-28
A GOOD Showing
At THE AMERICAN
Moving Pictures Entertain a Good
Crowd and Candidates for State
Jobs Put Forth Their Best
Efforts to Please

Efforts to Please
Manager Oastler, believe you,
me, is an artist in the blending of
the congruous and the incongruous,
comedy and tragedy, burlesque and
opera bouffe, oratory~ and soap-box
exhortation, giving vivid illustra
ton. of his versatility Thursday
night, when he presented to a large
audience, at the American theatre,
a diversified bill, running the gamut
from beautiful pictures screened, to
living figures under the spell of
auto-hypnosis, who labored under
the delusion that they were in
spired statesmen, commissioned by
some high authority to serve as
saviors and deliver messages of
good tidings to the multitudes that
would lift them from the slough of
despond in which they are almost
submerged.
Preliminary to the opening ex-
ercises Managed Oastler had been
apprised of the fact that the living
figures would make their appear
ance, to the number of six, i'm
mediately following the finish of
the first film, and with that in mind
he placed eight chairs on the stage,
all in row, for the living ex-
hibits. First thought was, there
is superfluity of chairs, but Mana
ger Oastler was governed in his
actions by experience from which
he had acquired a full knowledge
of some of the pecularities of poll
ticians-would-be, eanut, an d
otherwise-and that experience had
taught him that, occasionally, the
politician slops over, and the extra
chairs were provided for an emerg-
ency of that sort.
After the chairs had been placed
in decorative order, down an aisle,
up on the stage and into the seats,
the following gentlemen pumped
themselves:
J. G. Scrugham, Democratic
candidate for governor; Maurice J.
Sullivan, candidate for lieutenant
governor; w. G. Greathouse, candi-
date for secretary of state; Charles
L. Richards, candidate for congress
Frank E. McCafferty, candidate for
mines inspector; G. Thatcher, a
lawyer of Reno, who was favored
by the honorable Mr.. Scrugham
with an appointment as a special at
torney, at cost of $4,000 to the
taxpayers, sometime ago; and At
torney L. o. Hawkins, who served
as chairman of the meeting in a
most pleasing manner and acquitted
himself in a style that was particu-
larly pleasing in that it was at
complete variance with the per-
formances of most political meeting
chairman, because he devoted no
time to perfervid declamations ac-
claiming the wonderful attributes
of the men whom it devolved upon
him to introduce to the audience,
but contented himself with the
enunciation only of those words
that common courtesy required.
The writer doesn't know Hawkins,
but he does know that Hawkins cor
responds to his ideal in the way
of a chairman of a political meet
ing, as he went for the express
purpose of hearing those pictures
and seeing the candidates, as there
is nothing that he enjoys more than
listening to the hum of the moving
picture reel and looking at the mugs
run their hands into his pockets,
that are obsessed with a desire to
and there let them fidget around to
his discomfort and, quite often,
embarrassment.
The first speaker, following intro
duction by the chairman, proved to
be the now lieutenant-governo of
the state, Mr.. Maurice J. Sullivan,
who gravely told the audience how
great is his love for the boys who
served in the world war. Mr.. Sui
livan made an unique play upon the
heart-strings of those fathers and
mothers who are yet grieving over
the loss of loved ones; and he made
it very clear that he thinks that a
book should be written setting forth
the bravery and splendors of the
boys of Nevada who participated in
that gruesome adventure. And that
is a matter, it occurs to us, to
which none can register protest. 1t
is commendable idea; but it does
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