The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-11-27
EARLIEST DAYS IN
AMERICAN HISTORY
SERIES OF PICTURES SHOWN
HERE ATTRACTING ATTENTION
-"JAMESTOWN" THIS WEEK

Considerable interest has been
aroused locally by the series Of his
toric pictures, "The Chronicles of
America" which are being shown this
winter at the KenwOrthy, Mr.. Ken
worthy, local theatre proprietor, CO.
operating with the department of
American history at the University
of Idaho, and the high school and
various civic organizations, in bring
ing these excellent pictures to Mos
COW. The first picture, Columbus"
was shown some three weeks ago.
and the second of the series, James
town, will be seen Friday and Sat
urday nights, November 80 and De-
cember 1, at the Kenworthy.
Jamestown" showing Americas
historic first settlement, will not
only be of the greatest interest, to
everyone, and especially to students,
both of the university and of the
public schools, but will carry to all
who see it verified history of Amer
ica's cary days, which all should
know. The pictures are highly col
ored and show Pocahontas, Governor
Thomas Dale, deputy colonial gov
ernor and "blood and iron" ruler of
the colony; Captain John Rolfe, Vir-
ginia's first bridegroom; the old
jamestown church, Americas first
Episcopal church, and other persons
and places of real historic interest.
So great is the interest in this
series Of pictures, that Professor G.
j. Brosnan, professor of American
history at the university, has had
members of his class write a series
of sketches relating to jamestown
history The following sketch was
written by Miss Madeleine Foley, and
sets forth the things which Miss Fo-
ley expects to see in the picture:
Jamestown is the symbol of hard
ships and strife, joy and sorrow,
play and work that was evident in
the earliest periods of our history 1t
is to the founders of this historic
town that we owe our tripute and
thanksgiving. We can never found
a new country, but we can at least
follow in their footsteps and preserve
what has been given to US. The
screen, is for the first time in our
history, trying to portray to some ex-
tent, some of the life of the early
settlers Their life was not all sor-
experiences some of the joys Of the
earth. I do not think that the
screen should give to us the impress
sion that it was all hardships and
work, for they, too, had their pleas
ures as well as their sorrows.
And what of romance? No one
may go through the world and not |
find romance on every side of their |
pathway And so it was in James
town. The love of Pocahontas and |
John Ro1fe is typical of all our ro-
mances, and theirs was life in all |
its aspects of danger and suffering. I
Even the governor, Dale, was not
without his drink and his song. Hard /
to the most minute degree, he still /
had some of the attributes of a jolly,
human soul. The stern statesmen,
the upright churchmen, joined some
times with the merry children in
their play and lost their dignified
manners. The women of the col
ony, sometimes burdened to excess |.
with the cares of their household,
took time for their feasts and their
dances.
Jamestown does not seem to be
such stern and forbidding place,
and if the screen is to produce the
picture so that all the success and
fame that it deserves is given to it,
the director must not leave out the
human interest side along with the
Life is everywhere and
is, afterall, a repetition of mortals {
trying in their small way to make /
The world a better place to live in .
Why should the picture of the his ;
torical Jamestown give to us this
story, along with the grim realities
If its beginning? c