Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-30
W1INIFRED BLACKS
w C ARTICLE
Copyright. 1924. BY NowaDassr Feature servics

They're making a picture of the life
Of Lincoln in Hollywood.
And when they get it done they're
going to put the film away in Wash
ington and it will be kept in a vault
until February i, 200, the Booth
anniversary of Lincoln's birth, and
then it will be brought up and shown
to the Americans Of that day.
BY that time / suppose We won't
have any use for such a motion pic
ture at all-somebosy will have dis
| bring all the voices of any certain era
back, saying exactly what they did say
at any certain moment.
All You'll Have to Do
They say sound never dies-and all
we have to do if we want to hear
Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg or
| Miriam's song before she crossed the
Dead Sea is to find exactly how to
reach out and get precisely the right
sound. that's all.
And by that time probably they will
have discovered that every human be
ing who exists makes some kind Of an
impression upon the very life which
can be reproduced at will by some
sort of instrument. And all you'll have
to do in 2109, if you want to know
lCL 41hG01bS lcCh'd t4At anu AStLS
| Mary Garden really was a great
Salome or not, will be to press a but
ton or turn a crank or something.
Time and space-they seem to be
vanishing from the face OF the earth.
If you could press a button this min
ute and bring back something out of
the mists of the years-what would
you choose?
I'd like to see Jeanne dare on her
| white horse, riding at the head of her
troops.
Id like to see Cleopatra stepping into
her barge of beaten gold with its sails
Of sikh wonder if she would really
look pretty to me.
I'd like to see Napoleon addressing
his soldiers when he said Beyond the
Alps lies Italy" How little he knew
Of the compositions that little freckled-
faced American girls would write with
that saying of his as a text-years
and years after his bones were dust.
Yes, there are many things ! should
love to ee-on Of them is the crowd
that surged through the gates of Jeru-
salem to meet a poor Man and humble,
walking on foot in a crowd of the very
poor.
But most Of all do you know what |
should love to see?
A little curly-haired girl with clear.
gray eyes, tucking up her queer. old
fashioned petticoats and wading in the
little brook, way back in Wisconsin,
years ago. and wondering what she
would do when she grew to be a wom-
an and where she would live.
Planning without Il doubt what kind
of a house she would have and nam
ing her dream grandchildren, one by
one, as little girls have done for cen
turtles. and will do for centuries yet.
What Would You Choose7
Wouldn't you like to see your moth
err as she was when she was a little
girl?
Wouldn't you like to walk with her
IN out Of the sunshine Of the sweet
valley of childhood, into the rugged
road that leads sometimes through the
deep woods and sometimes through
dark swamps. but always steadily up
and up to strong victorious loving.
gentle womanhood?
Yes, isn't it strange. how centered
we are in our own?
IF I had all the beauty and all the
wealth. and all the genius and all the
achievement to choose from. I should
choose to see again my mothers face
and hear again her voice hat sang
me to sleep, years and years ago.
You now-what would you choose?