Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-16
lAEMMLE HAS TEXT
BOOK ON CELLULO|D
"CRUS0E" SERIAL
DeFoe Classic to Run in IL
Chapters With Myers
as Sailor.
By GEORGE c. WARREN


More than 200 years have passed
since Daniel Defoe, or De Foe. as the
name was sometimes spelled, his
grandfather, a gentleman who kept a
pack of hounds, wrote it Daniel Foe.
without the De, which probably signi-
fled a strain of French ~blood-more
than two centuries have rolled over us
since the greatest Of the name wrote
his immortal The Life and Strange
Surprising Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe." :.
The first volume was published April
25. 1919, and editions followed at the
rate Of one a month until August OF
the same year, when the second volume
came out. The tale was the first to
be published s~erially in a magazine.
coming out as q feuilleton in Heath
cote's I~ntelligencer.
Now it is to be done serially once
more. this time in the movies, for Carl
Laemmle has determined to include the
greatest boy book of all times in
his educational series of chapter pic
lures, Robert Hill having direction or
the production.
Yankee" to Play Crusoe
The ~resourceful hero of the tale is
played by Harry c. Myers, who made
q great name for himself as the mod
ern man in ancient days in Mark
Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court"
Defoe was a fighter. a prolific writer
and a scoffer at the regular order OF
things. Strongly religious. he was a
dissenter and many of his writings are
pamphlets scoring the established
church with its ceremonies and rites,
or the government. For n OF them,
The Shortest Way With the Dissent
ers.' an ~ironical fling at his enemies
he suffered the pillory, q fine n I'M
prisonm ent.
The thing was so c~leverly done it de-
ceived a number of clergymen OF me
Church of England into indorsing its
contents. which made them all the
more bitter when they discovered 1t
was yelled propaganda against them.
Defoe hid himself for a time after
it's publication and a reward was otter.
ed for his capture. a DESCRIPTION OF
him being sent broadcast over the land;,
He was said to be "a mlddle-sized
spare man about 40 years old. of a
brown complexion and dark brown
coloured hair. but wears a wig: a hook
ed nose, a sharp chin. gray eyes and a
large mole near his mouth"
Faces PilIory and Jail
He finally gave himself up, paid a
fine Of 200 marks, stood in the plllory
three times, July %, 80 and 81: 1902,
and went TO prison for an INDEFINITE
term-"during the queens pleasure.
the sentence read. As a matter OF
fact it was not until August. l1O4. ne
was released. He also had to Obtain
suret;es for his good conduct for seven
years.
pcne. whose Catholic tendencies
made him hate Defoe. ~lampooned him
in a line in The Dunciad:" 49,,
"Earless on high stands unaoasn q
Defoe." -.
of course Defoe did not lose his
ears. that penalty having been aool-
ished. but Pope wanted to add the ex-
ira insult. i
Defoe. who was born IN 1859, and
died in 1871, studied for the ministry
of the dissenting brethren, but gave IL
ND for business. and went to war with
William of Orange, travelling for a
long time over the continent afterward.
He wrote many books, but is chiefly
known by his 'Crusoe," The History
of Mol Flanders and his journal OF
Plague Year which latter is the au-
thority for the happenings of that ter
rible period of London history.
Tale Based on Sailor
II is 'Crusoe" that we know and
love. Dcfoe had his inspiration for
this book in a talk he had with Alex
snder Selkirk in the home Of a Mrs.
Daniel; from Selkirk's papers, which
he turned over to the author, and from
Voyage Around the World"
which was published in 1881
Alexander Selkirk. a Scotch sailor,
born in 1876, who died in 1923, at his
own request was put ashore on Juan
Fernandez island in 1104 n lived
there so far as food, shelter and cloth
ing were concerned.
His Life and Adventures" were
published by Howell in 1929, a century
after his death, and the gentle Cowper
wrote a poem of which he is the hero.
In the Laemmle production besides
Myers. the Crusoe, are Noble johnson
as Man Friday: Gertrude Olmstead,
the new Universal beauty, who came
pictures through an Eiks, contest
for the prettiest girl; Josef Swickard, /
who played the elder Desnoyers in
The Four Horsemen Of the Appeal
ypse," and who is Crusoe's father. to
the mother of pleasant faced Gertrude
Claire. one Of the permanent mothers
in pictures. and Percy Pembroke, who
plays Percy Gale.
The Adventures. of Robinson Cru
Soc the picture is called. 1t will be
in IS chapters.
This continued story is only one OF
already. made or projected by
Carl Iaemmle, pictures suitable for
in schools and universities as
well as motion picture theaters, pic
with an educational and cultural
purpose.
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