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BIG OIL MERGER PENDING WITH
ASSURANCE Of ANOTHER PIPELINE
Prospects Of New Refinery Also Raised in Consoi.
dalton Of Independent Interests, Details
VIII Be Available Soon

Ar oil deal of probably the greatest magnitude that has
been proposed for some time is now under way and the Gull
mination of the plans which are expected to be perfected be-
fore the emf of the week will be of vast Importance to all in
dependent operators of the Salt Creek field, particularly
, 1922-08-22

NEW YORK. Aug. 22.-Great Bri
tain demand 4.47A: cables 4.47E: 80
day bills on banks AS.
France demand l.e2k; cables 7.ss
Italy demand 4.51; cables 4.51h.
Belgium demand 7.53h; cables 7.54
Germany demand. o7%; cables OH
Holland demand $3.50: cables 3s.s5
Norway emsn 1884.
Sween eman 26.47.
Denmark oman 21.5T.
Switzerland deman 1906.
Spain demand 1888.
Greece demand Sis.
Poland demand .o1&.
Czecho-Slovakia demand 5.47.
Argentine demand 1851.
Brazil demand 1880.
Montreal 1914.
, 1922-08-22
Rnftr and Eggs.

CHICAGO. Aug. 2e.-Butter lower:
creamery extras s3hc; firsts 2s9
soHc: extra fir2ts $40 32Hc; seconds
2797sc; standards 80.
Eggs unchanged; receipts 1889
cases.
, 1922-08-22

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Sugar.

Sugar.
NEW YORK. Aug. e2.-sugar flu
lures closed weak; approximate sales
64.s00 tons. Refined market dull and
about steady at ss.75@7 for fine
granulated.
, 1922-08-22
Omaha Quotations.

OMAHA. Neo.. Aug. a2.-Unned
States Department of Asricuiture.)-
Hog receipts 1900; market average 70
about steady: spots 30 to loo lower on
packing grades: bulk mixed and pack.
ing grades s7.109s; bulk 200 to 500.
pound butchers ss9s.s5; top 80.
Cattle - Receipts 10000; better
grades cornfed steors steady; top
ycarlings $1,000; other grades OF beef
steers slow. mostly loo to $50 lower;
h stock slow TO Ito lower; bulls and
veais generally steady; stockers and
feeders steady to easier; spots lower.
Sheep receipts $500: lambs strong
to ESQ higher: bulk S12.5o@12.75; top
us; feeders 25c higher; feeding lambs
s12.25; feed clipped lambs s1s; sheep
about steady; weathers $3.50.
DENVER Colo. Aug. a2.-cattle
receipts 1928; market steady; beet
steers 7.oo@1o.oo; cows and hsifers
4oo9s.5o; calves s.oo9s.5o: bulls a.25
94.oo; stocisers 6.oo@s.a5; feeders
s.oo97.25.
Hogs RECEIPTS 1884; market steady
to 1oc higher; top 1856: bulk s.Goae.oo.
Sheep RECEIPTS S1s; market steady
to strong; ewes 5.oo@7.oo; spring
lambs 11.oo@12.26.
, 1922-08-22

sure. the sustained demand for these
shares eventually turning the course
OF the market upward again before
noon American Car and Foundry
made n sensational advance of TX
points to a new high with gains OF ?
points being registered by Western
Union. Allied Chemical and Pacific
Gas and Electric. all a or near the
years best prices Call money opened
at 81 per cent.
An increased Investment demand
and vigorous pool buying caused
striking advances IN a number OF
shares during the afternoon. Many
new high prices for the year were
again established American Car
gained s points. Liggett and Myers
Otis Elevator s; Westinghouse
Air Brake sk and United Fruit 5.
The coppers United Retail Stores
and h a issues continued to DO
actively bought
, 1922-08-22

Classified ads In the Tribune ars
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Meet me at tho smokebouss-
, 1922-08-22

NEW YORK. Aug. z7.-Copper
STEADY; eiectrolytio spot and liter IL.
Tin easier; spot and nearby s2.5o;
futures 52.62.
Iron steady and unchanged.
Lead firm; spot $40 q 500.
Zinc steady. East St. Louis spot
and nearby delivery $40 a e.23.
Anthony spot 5.25.
, 1922-08-22
Money.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2z.-can money
firm; high 4; low az: ruling rate az;
closing hid 4; offered At AZ: last oar
4: call loans against a~cceptances 3;
time loans easier: mixed collateral 60
30 dayr 4; 4 to 6 months 494h; prime
commercial paper 4G4h.
, 1922-08-22
Silver.


NEW YORK. Aug 7z.-Forelgn
bar silver es.: Mexican dollars san.
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farm prices to other things may be
mentioned: Overproduetion of many
crops; continued high freight rates;
the maintenance of industrial wages
at near wartime levels; economic de-
preston and deprecated currency IN
European countries; interference with
efficient functioning Of necessary ID.
dustries: u~nreasonably high cost OF
distribution of some farm products
Notwithstanding the continued low
purchasing power of farm products, It
is fair to say that in general the farm
ers of the United States are in a bet
ter financial position than they were
a rear or 10 months ago. Farm pro-
ducts are selling at considerably high
err prices, and it is estimated that the
aggregate of the crops of the country
this year is about a billion and a quar-
ter dollars more than last year. Con-
siderable quantities Of these crops WI!
be fed, and the increased value VIII
not be wholly recovered to the farmer,
but the bare fact that such q large IN
crease in money viii reach the farm
ers' pockets this year is most gratIfy-
ing and r~eassuring.
Credit conditions are vastly I'M
proved. Interest rates have fallen COM
pared with a year and is months ago.
The banks in the agricultural section
are in a far better condition to serve
their farmer customers. and there
seems to be reason to believe that TINS
condition will improve"
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brought about the abnormal condition
under which the farmer produces much
but receives little.
IF the relationship between prices
now were such as existed before the
war; Mr.. Wallace writes, this would
be 4 prosperous year for agriculture,
and consequently a prosperous year
for the nation. With the distorted re-
lationship of prices at the present
time, the farmers notwithstanding
their hard work and large production
are laboring under a terrible disad-
vantage as compared with other
groups. In contrast with various other
groups of workers they have produced
~abundantly and without cessation.
This year the acreage of the IA
principle crops was 337 million acres,
which was seven million acres above
the 10-year average. and their produc-
ton for this year is estimated to be a
total of about 265 million tons. which
is IL million tons above last yea and
above the 10-year average. There is
food in abundance. and this contrib
utes to the prosperity Of business and
industry for a time but the inadequate
return which the farmer is receiving,
and has received for three years, in
evitably must result in readjustments
in the number of people on the farms
and in the cities, which will not be
for the continuing good of the nation.
While the price of many farm pro-
ducts has advanced considerably over
last year this advance has been coon
panied by equally large or larger adj
vances in the prices of other commod-
tiles. Many thousands of farmers
have not been able to weather the
storm, notwithstanding their most
strenuous efforts.
Farmers Condition
among the causes which contribute
to the abnormal relationship Of the
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not relative of your humble reporter
and is a stage version of the mellow
hopes of the vets.
The best we can say of THE Boot
leggers'' is that Win Page did a good
job with the material at hand. Many
a person will find THE Bootleggers"
an interesting and sometimes thrilling
melodrama. One night not long ago,
two persons arose from seats in the
stage box and angrily addressed the
audience, declaring some phrases the
actors had just voiced we're an I'M
justified attack on the Italian race
in this country. One may be excused
for suspecting that the press-agent
author saw his chance and planted"
those folks for publicity purposes.
"The Bootleggers' took the Thir-
ty-ninth Street theater for four
weeks. The show will run the four
weeks and then take to the road. It
is said to be booked for the wettest
cities in the country.
To many a theatergoer THE Boot
leggers" proves good fun. To others
it is a wet light hopefully shining in
a thirsty land.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
M|Tz| KEEPS CROWD
GOING; CRITIC SAYS
LADY BILLY IS HIT
Musical Comedy Comes to
Grand Theater Here at
Early Date.

Mitzi, the din,inutiye. Coincidence,
who is to be seen in Lady Billy at
the Grand theater at an early date,
had the crowds going in San Fran
cisco recently. according to the dra-
matte critic Of the San Francisco
Chronicle. He says:
"Mitzi had the crowd going from
the moment she stuck her saucy head
on the stage and edged her way into
the scene in overalls and a big cap
that covered all of her glorious hair.
And every man Of them-and the
women, too, who adore the piquant
little vienese-would have jumped on
the stage and thrashed Senior Manuel
Montijo in the person of Edward
Cianelli if he had laid a finger on
the cEarmer, as it seemed likely he
might do at certain times.
Bright Comedy
1.-THE %dininutive star brings a
bright musical piece by Zelda Sears,
once q stenographer, then an actress
and a mighty good n and now writ
ing plays and librettos for other peo-
ple to act. and Harold Levy, who
was % when he composed the
music. and so may be forgiven If he
chose to remember some very lovely
things that had been written before.
He has trimmed them over so neatly
and has made such an altogether
snappy, lively score you only vaguely
think that sounds familiar" and
like the tune all the more for that
very familiarity.
at is called Lady Billy this musical
comedy. taking its title from a mis-
chievous and miserably poor little
countess. who gets caught in the boys
garb in which she had been digging IN
the garden and conceals her identity
under the name of Billy.
"A very rich young American en-
gineer hears her sing and thinking her
a boy proposes that she go to America
and sing there as a boy soprano. She
goes because she has fallen in love
with him, but she makes a success and
plenty of money. then is found out and
takes refuge in Smiths arms.
Mitzl Whole Show
"a conventional tale. but filled in
with deft touches of comedy, a Soupcon
of romance and lots of Mitzi. who ap-
pears in the funny dress of her en-
trance. in a nifty, boys suit of breaches
and coat. in a very charming negligee.
for which she let's down her wonderful
hair, and in the dress of an ancestress.
"One doesn't care SO much about
the story. for Nitzi is a whole show
in herself, so full of magnetism. so
brimming over with high spirits. Sc
well prepared to act is she and able to
sing in a rather tiny voice, but very
charmingly, even though the very high
notes were just a bit flat.
Zone didn't mind that. The audi
ence a~pplauded her all the more be-
cause of it, perhaps. 1t was the tiny
flaw in a bundle Of perfection that
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made the darling little lady, and she is
as tiny as any actress in mind, seem
human and mayhap like the rest of US,
when she isn't behind the footlights.
Henry W. Savage has given his
star a very attractive setting for
the three acts of Lady Billy" has
excellent, and a number of pretty girls
in the very latest modes and in colors
of brilliant hue.
Other Parts Done Well
"Good old Mark Smith is among
major domo, who watches over Lady
Billy, and exerting all of his skill.
which from two other genera
tons of Mark Smiths, to get over the
comedy that falls to him, ~delighting
with his The Worm Turns" a de-
1icious hit by Gilbertian f%oolery.
"CianelIi captured many honors for
his jumping jack. Montijo, sings we'll
in a strong baritone that yet has
sweetness to commend it, and looks
very pleasant to the eve. Boyd Mar
shall is a good looking John Smith, has
d good voice and gets through his role
of lover very well.
'Fira Rial, daughter of old Jay Rial.
the circus man, and his accomplished
wife, Louise Rial, who was a dis
tinguished actress, plays an anxious
mother with one W lamb she is try
ing TO marry off to good advantage,
and Vera Kingston is the daughter
pretty, very, and doing the little that
falls to her well.
LADY Billy, with Mitzi has the
tang of Broadway and the finish of it
and is about as pleasant a way to
spend an evening as one might wish.
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Xheatpr NeWs|
From NeU York
By BRETT PAGE.

New York, Dec. 3O.-sThe merriest
of merry Christmases to you n
yours."Ewa the eager cries of those
along Broadway last Sunday. And for
the first. time IN several seasons there
was behind that greeting a warmth OF
cheer and ardent hope half-realized or
entirely graspcd.
The reason? Dramatically, Broad
way has come into its own. Art as
we'll as business, is prospecting. And
the show business is less make-believe
shoW-the SHOW of prosperity-than
at any other time since the "haying
days. Of the war. Broadway is be-
ginning to be proud of what it is do
ing. And it's pride ii Justified.
They say--the they in this in
stance are those who keep their fingers
on the box office pulse-that the road
is not as financially communicative as
it ought to be. OF course, there are
flee returns. But on the whole, save
for certain high-spot cities, they tell
us the road is not as eager for shows
n consequently not so financially
complimentary-as they feel it should
be.
AS was promised two weeks ago in
these columns, your reporter is re-
spending to letters received from sew
eral widely separated sections of the
country, in an effort to discover
whether the managers or the road it
self is at fault. The crux of the mat
ter seems to lie in what one person
termed "the quality of second COM
panies and their advertising"
Your reporter has made what dip
lomats term Representations to the
managers. Ernest letters are already
upon the desk. They disclose frank
facts. A single current seems to run
through these communications. AS
soon as a few more letters have been
received and thoroughly digested, the
report will be submitted to you.
In the meantime we have several
first, perhaps, should be a musical
comedy which because of accident has
not been reviewed until this moment.
This is 1.-THE Bunch and Judy" which
has been merrily ambling along at the
Globe theater under the direction of
Charles Dillingham;. for several
weeks. It is 1929 version of the
Annual Globe show. usually in recent
years headed by Fred Stone.
Johnny and Ray Dooley take the
comedy leads and most of the audience
BY storm in the Globes latest show.
In the role Of a musician in the or
chestra of the theater in which an OPP
eretta "Loye Finds a Way'-yes, the
The Bunch and Judy has an operetta
within a musical entertainment
Johnny Dooley leaps into the leading
tenor role and makes a joyous mess
of it. One of the heartiest laughs
heard in any theater this season greets
the appearance of Johnny Dooley-
before he speaks a word-when he
makes his entrance in one Of these
operetta scenes.
The occasion on which the audience
witnesses the operetta is the farewell
of the prima donna. Judy Jordan, to
the stage. She is retiring to marry a
Scotch lord. But before she becomes
his bride, she goes to Scotland to win
the approval of his noble father.
Chaperoned by the lords sister. Judy
is next seen in the highlands Of Scot
land. having a terrible time, though she
looks adorable in her kits. We must
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interrupt right her to record the happy
fact that Judy is well played and Won
drously danced by Adele Astaire. Then
along come the bunch-Judy's bunch
who are playing the operetta in Eng
land and Scotland now without Judy.
And Judy suddenly makes up her
mind that she has been horribly unfair
to herself as well as to her old dane
ing partner-yes, he is real life Fred
Astaire-and so she run away from
the Scottish castle and
The rest Of the show is a tumble
of humorous JOY chiefly the product of
the Dooleys, Johnny and Ray. And of
course love triumphs in the end;
There are six scenes in THE Bunch
and Judy" divided into two acts. Each
of the big scenes seems more beautiful
than the one that preceded it. The
feeling for color demonstrated in seen
cry and costumes is exquisite. THE
Bunch and Judy is one of the most
beautiful entertainments among recent
offerings Of its class.
The Six Brown Brothers-their fun
niIy-dressed. black-faced leader still
stepping along ahead of his five white
faced. Pierrot-costumed tooters-stlll
hold their places in appreciation. They
are the only interpolated act The
rest of the show-eyen the funny spe-
cialty by the Dooleys in the second
scene of the second act when they
nearly miss the train which bears them
away from Scotland-is composed of
closely knitted specialties and big
scenes of special quality. The cast is
competent and even the ~littlest chorus
girl does her best to help Johnny
Dooley demonstrate that he is fast
climbing into fame far more stable
than that which was his when he was
only stumbling and tumbling laughs.
Anne Caldwell and Hugh Ford are
responsible for the good book. The
lyrics are the work Of Anne Caldwell
alone. The music is Jerome Kern's
pr~esent-day best.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
Chaplin Will Assist
BALM in Directing
Film, Vanity Fair

When Hugo Balm arrived in Los
Angeles from New York to make
VANITY Fair for Goldwyn, n of the
first things he did was to ask about
James Chaplin. the young man who as
sisted him in the east on two big pic
lures. and then came west to work for
another company.
The result of Mr.. Ballin's inquiry is
that Jimmy sometimes called the
Youngest assistant director in the bus
mess, has been loaned by Fox to Mr..
BALM for the duration of the picture,
in which Mabel BALM will play Becky
Sharpe.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
"GRINGO"

Jose Ruben is again with us just
off Broadway. In "Grineo", a play
written by Sophie Treadwell and pro-
duced b. Guthrie McClintock, at the
Comedy theater. Jose Ruben again
proves that he is always interesting.
And also proves that although his
great play may not yet have found
him out, he is better served by
"Gringo" than by II other it has
been his lot to interpret.
Americans mixing in the life of
Mexico. subject to plots and counter
plots, with gold at stake and with
hate and love mingled with it all.
make up a play which for two acts
is big with promise. and then makes
that promise good in larger measure
than your reporter had hoped.
1t would be unfair to detail the
story of "Gringo', for in cold print
it would seem but stark melodrama.
While the fact is that "Gringo' is. rich
with authentic local color-its play
wright knows her Mexico first hand
and is vibrant with that life which
comes only from the correct obserya-
ton, careful writino and cleverly-con-
structed scene. In addition, much of
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

the goodness Of "Gringo" is the prod
uct of fine actors in smaller roles
than those in which good Character
acting is usually to be seen.
For good as Jose Ruben is in his
colorful, imprisoned part, there has
been given him support far out of the
ordinary. Edna IIibbard. for instance,
in the role of the little half breed girl
in love with the bandit, is astonishingly
good. Oddly enough, she plays the
same type as that to which she lent
soaring dramatic wings in The Bad
Man" which played this same theater
for so long, departing but a few brief
months ago.
A young Indian is unusually well
done by Leonard Doyle. Richard Bar
bee plays a socialist TO the life and
almost to the death. Olin Field seems
really to live a squaw woman to the
admirably played squaw man of Fred
erick Perry. And Edna Walton and
Arthur AIbertson maintain the high
quality Of a most exceptional cast.
Because of its unusual ending
"Gringo' just tapers off as most of
the incidents of real life gradually fade
your reporter suspects that Sophie
TreadwelI deliberately set out to make
us understand Mexico. Americans south
Of the Rio Grande and the breeds and
half Of the hills. better than we
do today. If this vas her purpose
she has admirably succeeded. But, of
course. Miss Treadwell intended to
write a good play, too. And in this
she has also succeeded admirably.
"Gringo" may not be a play about
which one will rave with delight in his
dreams, but it is worth seeing. for it
is interesting in every character and
plot and counterpart, whether of guns
or hearts. "Gringo" must be added to
the list Of fine plays. and its players
particularly Jose Ruben and Edra
Hibbard-must be thanked for their
more than usually good work.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
Entertaining Program
Planned for Liberty's
New Midnight Frolic

The Liberty theater's second an
nuaI midnight froIic will be held
tonight, commencing at 1890 and
ending not later than 1915. Man
ager. Will Steege has arranged a
most entertaining program, which
will Include numbers by a jazz or
chestra, dancing acts, vocal and in
strumentaI solos, and a community
sing-the last act on the bill being
a %pre-reIease showing Of Buster
Keaton's latest comedy, DAY
Dreams"
There will be no "hokum' this
year-that Is, ieering the acts.
Matchmaking souvenirs will be dis
tFibuted, but Manager Steege in
sists that they not be used during
the performance of any part of the
bill except Buster Keaton's COM
edy. He doesn't care how much
noise Is made at that time.
The Liberty has a seating capac-
Ity of 1900. hut only 1900 tickets
will be issued for the froIIic, thus
assuring every person of a seat.
Street cars to all parts of the city
will be available at the end OF the
show.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
1.-THE B~ootleggers"

Did we forget to mention the ap-
pearance at the Thirty-ninth Street
theatre of a very wet melodrama en-
titled The B~ootleggers." If we did,
the error should be repaired at once,
for 1.-THE Bootleggers" was written by
one Of our very best press agents, VIII
a. Page-no. the smiling stout gentle
man at the right in the velour hat is
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
GALL ON ACCOUNT OF ELIZA"

"A1l On Account of Eliza" was writ
ten by that famous author. Leo De
triestien, and Miss Clara Lipman and
Louis Mann, two of Americas big
theatrical stars, were featured in it.
It's production at the Palace this week
is a noteworthy one, never having been
played here before.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
MISS RUMBLE TO TEACH
DRAMATIC ART HERE

Miss Adeline Rumble of the Adeline
Rumble Players at the Palace theater
is planning to open a school of dra-
matic art in the near future. Her
studio will be located in the Palace
Theater building, and pupils will be
given practical training along with in
.struction in the theory of dramatic
art.