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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-10-08

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-10-08

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, 1923-03-18
DiRUfTf AMETeRENcE- YOU'LL ADfIT- RETWEEW I,
WZHs COSTUMES OF PAST AM PRESENT

Well-for n thing, no fan of The
films who loves his modern play,
which presents the characters even
as you and I."need be at all alarmed.
He will still get his jazz, his tales
OF the slums, of high society, of the
wild and woody west. of Wall street
and the small town, a la Main street.
The Plays the Thing.
The truth of the matter. it seems
to the writer. is simply that the
movie audiences have grown so large
and so catholic in their tastes that
they afford a sufficient support for
any good picture. whatever its char
acter. But it's got to be good-that's
the answer.
Jack Holt had 1t. when he answer
ed the question. what do you think
is the best sort of picture?" by the
statement:
ANY GOOD plcture,"-or words to
that effect.
, 1923-03-18

the same situation and 1t seems un-
natural.
2. The average American actor
(and. sometimes. actress) does not
know how TO wear fancy costume.
and looks awkward as a conse-
quence.
g.. Costume plays cost too much
TO make.
What the Public Wants.
1t is possible to answer these after
a fashion as follows;
/. The public will appreciate the
emotions and actions Of a man or
woman in any style of dress or pc
Rod Of time. II the part is well
enough portrayed and the play suf-
hciently convincing.
2. There are many actors and ac-
tresses of foreign extraction who
have the inherent ability TO wear
fancy costume gracefully and many
who T purely American are artists
, 1923-03-18

enough to do likewise. The reason
costume plays fell into disfavor is
largely that thoy were so badly done
in most instances in the past.
o. No matter what a picture costs,
If it's box office drawing power is
sufficient, it is justified.
Certainly. the present day appear
ance Of the studios indicates a seri-
Gus determination on the part OF
procedure to find out whether the
public wants costume plays or
whether It doesn't.
Douglas Fairbanks was one of the
first to dare the possible loss in a
big production with 1.-THE Three
Musketeers." 1t was a success from
all accounts and at any rate the ac-
tor has followed 1t up by Robin
Hood"
Griffith brought out orphans oil
the Storm"
Hardly a Cecil b. DeMille picture
, 1923-03-18

The fashion in novels is much the
same as in plays and pictures.
A period novel like "scaramouche"
for example, is a success, because 1t
Is magnihcently written and is con-
vincing. Equally popular is a mod
orn problem story like IF Winter
Comes" And they are as opposite
as the poles, save for the fact that
each contains a large element of hui
man nature-which is much the
Same in all ages. That, after all.
seems to be the answer. Human ma
ture. if convincingly presented. fills
the requirements of any audience.
A mere lot of puppets in pretty
clothes never yet made a book, play
or picture, any nor than the same
puppets in modern clothes would be
acceptable to intelligent audiences.
THE plays the thing" as much as
ever It was!-Roger Starbuck.
, 1923-03-18

East Indian nobility. although for
much of the story he appears as a
Harvard athlete. brought up in the
atmosphere of New England and the
famous University. But he has a
"reincarnation ball" scene, where
the people of the play are seer in
the characters they assume to be-
lieve they may have been, in a for
mel life.
Where the pictures were not of
the period type, there have been cos
tune effects in plenty in such things
as George Melford's Burning
Sands" an Oriental tale; The
Sheik," introducing Valentino and
Agnes Ayres; in Blood and Sand
a colorful tale of the bullhghters Of
Spain. which June Mathis adapted
from the Ibanez novel, and in which
valentino a the colorful ac-
coutrements of the torero through
out.
The South Seas. with maidens who
perform the Dams du ventre with de-
Lotions. Of course, have been the To-
Gale of various pictures such as
Man Unconquerable," a Jack Holt
starring picture for Paramount, di-
rected by Joseph Henabery; "Ebb
Tide" which Melford is just now
producing, with Lila Lee and James
kirkwood, an adaptation from the
famous romance by Robert Louis
Stevenson; while scenes Of this type
appear in Betty Compson's picture,
THE Bonded Woman" etc.
Dress and Undress.
Agnes Ayres appears in Border
land,' n portion OF which original
tale, by Beulah Marie Dix. is laid in
the time of our grandfathers-alone
about 1850. When Alfred Green di-
rected Wallace Reid. supported by
Lila Lee, IN THE Ghost Breaker
he had Genes in an ancient Spanish
castle peopled by supposed ghosts in
complete steel arrayed." ghosts in
velvet and brocade and others salts
fed with just plain gauze. "Pink
Gods" the Penrhyn Stanlaws pro-
duction featuring Bebe Daniels and
James Kirkwood. brings Kafhrs and
Zulus in their picturesque undress
and the supply Of bolomania. was
almost exhausted in supplying the
darkencd hue so essential TO give
them the properly "sunburned
shade"
Even THE Old Homestead" which
James Cruze directed, takes us back
to 1885, whose costumes are almost
as strange to us today as the dress
of 1875.
What is tho answer, to sum up?
, 1923-03-18
Would 1t Surprise You to Know - ?

In India a lot of the artistic touches
be puts in his pictures?
That w. ]. Ferguson, hfty-seven
years on the stage. is one of the few
living persons who were on the
stage when Lincoln was shot?
That Arthur Rankin, perpetual
juvenile. is tho nephew of John
Drew and cousin of Ethel, Lionel and
John barrymore?
That Conrad Nagel once Il a
swift hoof in the 1OO-yard dash while
at the Highland Park college, Des
Moines. Iowa?
Did you know that? Ia! Ha! 1
guess mott
, 1923-03-18
Period Plays, hnterhudes in Modern Dramas
Which Require Fancy Dress, Indicate Trend
ToUard This Type of Photodrama
BOUT every so often the ques-

A BOUT every so often the ques-
~ ton, Are costume Cor pc
riod) plays coming back to
the s%creon?" is asked by someone.
The answer generally is: "If they
are what tho public wants. they'n
come back"
Does the public want them? That's
the question which quite evidently
the producers are feeling out. so to
speak, Among the objections to the
period play or one which is almost
entirely in costume have been cited
the following:
l. The modern screen public hnds
# hard to accept the actions and ap-
pearance of people habited in the
fashion OF days gone by. In other
words, the emotions Of a man in a
modern suit Of clothes can be readily
understood by the public. but put the
same man In sock and buskin and in
, 1923-03-18

but had at least an interlude which
carried the spectators back to some
ancient period in history and enabled
the producer 10 show his ability Il
handle such subjects and to indulge
his love of beauty and gorgeous trap
pings. Male and Female" was an
early example of this with its cut
back to the days of Christian Slaves
and mighty Babylonian kings. His
very latest production, "Manslaugh-
ter" has a Roman revel. a baccha-
nal Of colossal proportions, during
the progress of which Thomas
Meighan, the mighty Alaric. rides in
at the head of his barbarian horde
and captures the maidens who have
drunk not wisely but too well. 1t is
one of the most elaborate sequences
ever introduced into Il modern
drama. Jeanne Macpherson adapted
the Alice Duer Miller novel.
George Fitzmaurice. another pro-
Queer. who revels in color and all
the ornate gildings of ye olden time.
has completed ITO Have and to
Hold,' a play laid in the days of the
early colonization of Virginia and in
the court Of King James. the first
of England. He is enabled to show
the piratical feats of the buccaneers,
battles with sayages, orgies in the
court of the monarch. Betty Comp
son, beautiful as an houri, shows to
especial advantage in the role of the
kings ward and Bert Lytell is a fine
figure as the doughty captain. hero
of Mary Johnston's novel which
ouida Bergere adapted. That tai
euted actor and dancer, Theodore
Kosloff. who if ever a man was borr
TO wear the trapplngs of the moyer
age is certainly the one. has a highly
~resplendent role as the petted anC
pampered Lord Carnal. favorite o
the King; and Raymond Hatton who
long ago displayed his ability in thil
line as Montezuma in Cecil b. De
Miles THE Woman God Forgot
and as the king in Joan the wo
man by the same producer. is agar
clad in the royal purple as KIM
James in this picture.
A Colonial Ball.
William deMille felt the impetus
toward the fancy dress and had {
ball scene in Nice People" wher,
the actors o Colonial garb ant
the interlude was distinctly pleasing
10 the eye.
Philip Il, Rosen. directing 9Th,
Young Rajah" which affords tn,
Paramount star. Rodolph Valentino
a great opportunity. presents tn,
young italian artist as n scion o
, 1923-03-18
XXTouLD 1t surprise you to
v That wallace Reid once

KX YOU'D it surprise you 10
WV know
That Wallace Reid once
edited an automobile magazine?
That Betty Compson played n vio-
lin in the orchestra of the Mission
Theater. Salt Lake City?
That Theodore Koslod, best known
as a dancer and cinema actor is also
a painter with a record price of $780,
600?
That Raymond Hatton holds the
king" championship of the cinema,
having played six different monarchs
in as many Kingdoms?
That George F~itzmaurice learned
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-23

In the rough. Everything about 1t
that could be made without nails or
square corners was so made. The
race track, laid out on the shores of
the lake, had heretofore been damp
from seepage from the lake, but this
year they are draining the lake to
make repairs and the line of damp
ness and navigation went down, leav-
ing the race track dry and dusty
We have not the report of the win
ners in the races and stunts, but in a
riding contest are mentioned Slim
Wager, first; Glove Sterling, second
and Loss Lewis, third. In calf rop-
ing Tommie House, first; Doc Alfred.
second and Merle Hunt, third. Bull
logging, Tex Smith, first and Glover
Sterling, second. Each days pro-
gram consisted of twenty-five or
thirty stunts, and before the close of
the big event, the half mile track
was about enclosed with a ring of
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-23
ENGINEER VISITS TOWN

! D. T. Murphey, the engineer repre-
senting the settlers of the Dubois
Project for many years, was In
! Blackfoot Sunday on his way home
from a ten-day study in southern
Idaho, and reports that the situation
| is looking more hopeful for the
! Dubois project than it has at any
; time for number of years. He held
conferences with number of local
men regarding the matter and went
on up the valley to lay the subject
before leading men in every town.
The last congress appropriated
$4,000 to be used in completing the
Investigations in certain new features
that have arisen, and the work is
being done this summer and reports
will be made to Washington as soon
as possible.
The first keen interest in this tract
was aroused in the summer of 1902
when a congressional committee
headed by Senator Dubois spent
several days going over it. 1t was at
that time designed that the waters Of
Jackson lake should be increased by
a storage dam and used to reclaim
the tract, and such eminent men as
II. ANCWSll,f HOdu VI tllC ItCCidmd-
ton Service, A. P. Davis, his assist
ant, and number of senator's, con-
gressmen and engineers pronounced
it one of the finest tracts cf land in
America, and endorsed the proposal
to make thoro investigation of the
feasibility of the plans proposed by
the Idaho senator. Then came the
effort of the Twin Falls country to
supplement their water rights and to
reclaim the new empire on the north
side, and they started work on the
dam at Moran and have ever since
been in the saddle controlling the
waters of the lake that lies at the
foot Of the Grand Teton, that has be-
come so famous and so rich an in
vestment for its owners.
Large numbers of people settled,
On the Dubois tract believing that
they could make a living as dry
farmers and that the irrigation pro-
ect would be accomplished, and in
he twenty years that have elapsed,
Try farming has been discredited and
/ combination of circumstances has
Kept the project shelved. Seepage
developed in the Mud lake country
md large areas have been reclaimed
here by pumping plants, and that ,
ut down the area to be reclaimed
lnder the original plan to something |
ike a quarter of q million acres
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THE HENRY STAMPEDE
Continued from page l

canvas, there was an effort to collec
fee from the dancers, but tn
crowd closed in so solid that contrt
Of the situation was lost at the ou1
set, and 1t was anybOdy's dance tina
could get room in which to shuttle
The second year the dance cOmmitte
! rOped it of more carefully and re
| CURED each dancer to buy ticket
Some of them bought, and it was oh
! served that the tickets were no
printed and were not even uniform
but were cut from colored paste
board as if they had been made from
cartons. The sports took in the
situation quickly, retired to thei
camps or to the eating stands, wher'
empty cartons had been thrown
away, and cut out tickets for them
selves and their friends and swampeG
the committee with bolshevik money
While some danced, others stOOG
around and laughed about the joys OF
meeting expenses on the European
plan.
This year the committee deter
mined that too much booze had been
a hindrance to orderly management
disorder and license as of old, and an
effort was made to corral the boot
leggers. Moonshine and enforce
ment officers migrated to Henry in
perceptible quantity and ten or
eleven men were taken into custody
before the program started. One
young woman, who won fame at
Blackfoot nine years ago this month
by holding up the sheriff and telling
him which road to take back to town,
once more became heorine. On the
first occasion she had just been mar
ried and she and the groom were out
riding for pleasure, one of them u.s.
ing a borrowed saddle. No special
time had been set for the return of
the saddle and charge of theft was
made against the groom. When the
sheriff intercepted them with this
kind Of charge, the lady became
indignant and whipped out gun
and backed the sheriff over the
ropes. He got fused about it, called
out all his legions and combed the
country far and wide trying to get
the woman. The opposition played
It up as proof of what a great sheriff |
ne was and he was beaten for nom
nation at the pending primary.
Then came the war and the flu,
md her husband died. Not daunted
The married again, and lived up to
Ter reputation as master of any sit
lation in which she found herself. At
Henry the other day an irate hus-
,and indicated to the enforcement
,ff1cers that his wife was operating
With booze, and he is said to have
'ffered to sign warrant for
Ter arrest. Men of the noun
ms considered her of irreproachable
and wondered why the
husband was so irritated as to resort
o these drastic means. The officer
ook the warrant and judged that he
night need aid to arrest her. He is
aid to have ridden around for quite
ONE time looking for two men to I
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-23
AND CHILD
REN'S CONFERENCE
Continued on page four
by parents and children needing
help, 1t stimulates the welfare work
ers to do their best.

by parents and children needing
help, 1t stimulates the welfare work
ers to do their best.
When the clinic was held al
Weiser, the women of the town got
out with their cars and drove all over
the country bringing in women and
children and taking them home
again. One woman who had a new
Cadillac car and was just getting it SO
she was the master of it, drove back
and forth across Washington county
early and late for three days. bring
ing them in from remote places and
over all kinds of roads without re-
gard to the wear and tear on her fine
machine
Up In North Idaho a woman with
six children living far back in the
mountains, thirty-five miles from the
town, rounded up a saddle horse and
three pack horses, rugged up the
pack saddles with a pack bag on each
side of each saddle, loaded a child
into each sack and she trailed her
precious cargoes to the clinic and
back. In one settlement in Latah
county they made up a wagon load
and hauled them thirty miles to the
railroad and then took the train
from there to Moscow to the clinic
In almost every clinic some rather
extraordinary events come to light.
In almost every clinic some woman
finds that serious surgical opera !
ton has been made necessary by
some slight violation of natures laws
or by working too hard or by lifting
something when she should not have
lifted. One feature about 1t is that
the woman receives the information
and is almost Frustrated by it, and
has to go home and explain it to a
husband who does not comprehend
what azsurgical operation means
who merely considers that the
patient is put to sleep with some
thing while the cutting and sewing
is being done and then all she has
to do is to lie still and get well. Who
does not know of the tediousness of
lying on cot bearing the pain OF
the healing day after day and night
after night, with gas pains and throb-
bling nerves and depressed feelings
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-23

with mont of that display and al
fectation. To them It is = case OF
having a patients life at stake, their
personal interest conferred in the
patient, and their own reputation al
stake. this last item being the
smaller consideration.
When a person goes to a distant
hospital, there Is generally axniety to
get out and get home as soon as they
can, and 1t is necessary for the
patient to have the attention of q
doctor at intervals for a few weeks
after the home coming, so . local
doctor is requested to run in and
make observations and advise about
the case until the patient is fully re-
covered. In these cases, the local
doctor receives perhaps a few small
fees or the promise of payment, and
/ the city doctor receives the big fee
paid in cash for doing the operation,
while the doctor at home watches
the case longer and spends more
time on it for q pittance. He gets
generally gets the worst of 1t in the
newspapers. II person goes to
local physician for consultation or
surgery, the newspaper does not con-
slider 1t news, but If the person goes
to a town or city up or down. the
line for consultation or surgery, the
average newspaper plays 1t up and
tells just which physician and which
hospital, and in that way keeps CIV
ing free advertising to the out Of
town doctor, but none to the home
doctors.
A person in the hands of a local
physician and local nurses is in tfH
hands of friends, who have every
reason for doing their very best
When the patient goes to the city
and is in the hands of strangers
there is not that personal interest,
and not the opportunity for the home
folks to run in for five minutes or
fifteen minutes when the patient /
needs just that or can be benefited ,
by such a call.
In the general average of folks,
there are two periods when people +
do not exercise good judgmnt, or
even good sense, and that is when
they are approaching the marriage
altar and when they are approaching
the surgical question. They are
governed more by sentiment than by
reason; more by fashion than by
cool judgment. In selecting a
surgeon they want one in whom they
have confidence, and the talk Of the
too often is of reck-
less and extravagant kind that un-
fairly destroys confidence in the
local physicians and does them very
decided injustice. If people would
just reverse their attitude towards
the local physicians as compared
with the distant physicians, If they
would pay their cash to home doctors
instead of to railroads and distant
doctors, If they would ask for free
service and credit of the distant
physicians as they do of the home
physicians, they would very rapidly
AXE the tangles out of their rela-
ions with doctors and nurses.
Quite a number of local doctors, |:
lurses and women of Blackfoot have
worked during the conference at the
curt house this week for the good of
hose who came in for examination, Il
nd it has all been done gratituOusly II
nd purely for the good it would do. Il
he thanks of the community are =
ne to these people for their un
elfish service in behalf of those who :
eceived the benefit of the con-
,rpucp
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-08-23

aid him in making the arrest. She
was reputed to always have a gun
on her person, but it was not always
known just where. If she were out
riding and a chicken flew up, she
would puncture 1t out of hand, and
such demonstrations commanded re-
| spect. Such was her reputation as
governess, that people said no man
ever get fresh with her the second
time.
AS the race program progressed at
Henry last week, the jolly woman,
she of the gun, seemed to have as
much fun as anybody and no trio re-
ported any progress in taking her
into custody. On the second day she
was as much at ease as would be
chief factor at a rendezvous of
century ago, and on the third day
when everybody bent their steps
homeward she was happy member
of the cavalcade, riding the flagship
so to speak.
1t is worthy of mention that at the
first and second rOdeo there was no
we'll at the grounds and water had to
be hauled in from a distance The
water wagon was apt to be late, and
bottled fluids sold rather openly, |
pop being poured from the bottles |
first, and then they might be refilled |
with flQtilla or something and sold
openly for more money. The in !
creased disorder due to these prac-
tices made it harder for the manage
ment to keep things in hand and for
the 1928 event they had good we'll
in service and the enforcement Of
ficers thinned out the bootleggers
until they came to the
case of the girl of the flagship, she
who could puncture the chicken on
the wing, and then they acted on the
slogan, who in thunder wants to be
a chicken!"
A contest milking wild cows was
an entirely new feature that created
much merriment. AS an illustra-
lion of the way the Diary business is
conducted among the stockmen,
bunch of wild cows was driven in
Ind cowboys proceeded to rope
cow apiece, holding her by the horn
If the saddle, but of course, leaving
Ter some rope to move about on. A
,evy Of boys went over the top and
ZACH bOssy cow was approached on
nd attempt was made to drain her I
rank shaft into the bottle. Thel I
OBJ was in no wise fool proof, ana I
1ost of the cows kicked as bad as a
ord car. Hook the boys they could
OF, for the cowboys held them head
n and kept them fast at anchor.
very COW had the unrestricted use n
both blades of her propeller and Il
er tail. and right vigorously did she N
pply them. Boys got kicked over, ii
nocked over, spattered over, and Al
listed over, but up they came grin Al
ing and milking or trying to milk. n
hey gradually scattered out over
lrger and larger area until some
ere down on the water front and
Tiers back on the meadows. When
yer boy got his bottle full he IL
ould come running and claim his 4,
ward. :.
One of the features of the grand -
and was that it was made of poles :"