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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-11-30
CALLAHAN FOUND
GUILTY In JUSTICE
COURTBY JURY
RedstOne Man Found Guilty of VOL
ating the Compulsory Education
Law By Keeping Children Out of
School Against Law.

A jury trial was held in Judge L.
S. Olson's court on Saturday, Novem-
Der oath. in the case of the State of
Montana VS.. H. H. Callahan for vio-
lation of the Compulsory Education
law.
Mr.. Callahan was found guilty and
was fined $40, the fine to be suspend
ed upon Mr.. Callahan's compliance
with the law in the future.
The case has been appealed to the
District Court.
A large number of witnesses were
called in the case and the court room
was crowded with spectators of the
first trial of its kind in the county.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-11-30
Editor Taylor Surrenders
To Sheridan County Sheriff
VICTIM OF DR.. STORKANS WRATH GIVES HIMSELF
UP TO OFFICERS OF THE LAW AS SOON AS
HE LEARNS OF ARREST.

The following telegram received by the Sheriff Office
in this city from Senator Taylor who his way home in
which he gives himself up the officers victim of those
who fear the truth and would crush all who dare tell
things as they are without fear or favor:
THE TELEGRAM
Sheriff of Sheridan County
Rodney Salisbury,
am on No. 3. VIII surrender at BainvilIe.
TAYLOR.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-11-30
BANQUET AND DANCE AT OUTLOOK WAS
A SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS

S|OO0O Taken in For the Benefit of the Outlook Hospital AT
thanksgiving Feast-Everybody AccIaims 1t the Best
Ever Put On In Sheridan County-Senator Anderson
Gives Short Thanksgiving Address and Jim Popeslu
Noted FlentywOod Cook Made Things Hum in the Kitch-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-11-30

Anne Hovet spent Sunday with her
parents in Antelope.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-11-30

PRESS RUN -
THIS ISSUE OF
q ~ PRODUCERS
N NEWS IS 2,o0o'
plGEs EIGHT
Evening star., 1923-07-29
Novels to Be Filmed.

ALBERT Z. SMITH. president of
Vitagraph. has announced that
Vitagraph will distribute a series of
six special productions to be made by
Harry Sherman, who has a contract
with Harper & Bros. that gives to
him the motion picture rights to many
Of their most successful books.
His first production under the con-
tract will be an adaptation of Basil
Kings novel, Let No Man Put Asun-
der" The second will be Borrowed
Husbands" from the novel by Mildred
X. Barbour.
The list of stories submitted to Mr..
Smith by Mr.. Sherman includes four
teen novels and from this list the sub
jects will be chosen. The list in
cludes 1.-The Fruit of Desire" by VIII
\. Harden; "A Successful Life by
Marie Van Worst. The Rising Tide. "
by Margaret Deland; THE Road That
Led Home" by Will +. Ingersoll;
Between Two Worlds" by Philip
Curtis; "The Cat and the Canary" by
Margaret Cameron; Steps of Honor"
by Basil King; Wanted a Fool" by
Philip Curtis: ''The House of Happi-
ness by Kate Langley Bosher;
"Crater's Cold" by Philip Curtis;
1.-The Supreme Surrender" by A.
Maurice Low. and THE Garden of
Charity" by Basil King.
Evening star., 1923-07-29
DONALD II. CLARKE.

DURING a general conversation
= about motion pictures the other
day King Vidor's name was men,
toned. Some one recalled that. al
though recognized as one of the most
successful OF directors. he is only
tw wenty- nine years old. Some one
else observed. "Some people are born
lucky"
wait Bit" exclaimed a man who
has been closely associated with
pictures for many years. and who
had been active hitherto only as a
listener.
''Vidor wasn't born any luckier than
thousands of other chaps who are
lots older and lots poorer than he Is
now. The only difference, as nearly
as I can see it. is that he fixed on
a definite objective early in life and
started plugging for 1t to the ex-
clusion of everything else. The more
obstacles he had to overcome the
harder he plugged.
.'Vidor always had the idea he could
write, and while he was in high
school in his native state, Texas, and
later when he was at Tome Institute.
in Maryland, he kept grinding out
short stories and articles. About the
time he left the institute he made
up his mind definitely that motion
pictures were his career. and he start
ed in to write scenarios. He wrote
fifty before one was accepted, and he
didn't get much reward for that.
He was away off from the beaten
track of motion pictures-in Calves
ton, Tex. There weren't any studios
there, or any players, or experts In
any branch of his chosen field. But
he decided to make his own pictures,
nevertheless. He furnished the stories.
the players he recruited from visit
ing vaudeville acts, his sets were
homes and business buildings, his two
Evening star., 1923-07-29
"Children of the Dust.

OF THE DUST" Iris
tram Tupper's story, "Terwilli-
ger" adapted to the screen as a First
National attraction by Agnes Chris
tine Johnston, unfolds the simple tale
of three children reared at the edge
of Grammercy Park in New York
one the son Of rich parents, "the last
OF the Raymonds"; little girl. also
mores,"l and Terwilliger, the ragged
SON Of drunken stepfather. whose
great desire is to reach the social
plane that will bring sweet little
Helen Livermore within the reach OF
his ambition. Old Archer, the gar
shaping the destinies of these three.
In telling his tale on the silver
sheet, Mr.. -Borzage. not content with
reciting merely the childhood dreams
of his major characters, has followed
their lives through early youth and
adolescence to maturity and the age
when life's problems lose the glamour
of Str Galahad quest of the Holy
Grail and take on the stern reality
of ceaseless struggle.
.Terwilliger's love for Helen grows
and is glorified with years; Harvey
Raymond surrenders little more to
the promptings of jealousy and dis
trust and Helen's heart is torn by
the need of choosing between two
lifelong friends equally loved.
Then comes the outbreak of the
war and Terwilligers fulfillment of
the promise >of his childhood's heart
OF bold. by renouncing, in unequivocal
fashion, but with a kindly deftness
THAT leaves no sting. all claim to the
interest of the girl whom he believes
loves his friend.
And that is about all there is to tell
of-the story, save that II is unfolded
by an interesting group Of players.
Evening star., 1923-07-29
RIALT0-"Vanity Fair" Featur-
ing Mabel Ballin.

The new screen version of Vanity
Fair, produced by Goldwyn Pictures,
with Mabel Ballin starred as Becky
Sharp, is said to mark milestone in
the faithful translation to the screen
of great novelist's story. Hugo
Ballin, the director, made the screen
script himself. and at all times, it is
said, kept close to the original story.
IN the effort to make VANITY Fair d
screen masterpiece of world litera-
ture. 1t will be shown at Moore's
Rialto today and all this week.
The big ball scene in Brussels on
the eve of Waterloo is said to be one
of the finest of it's kind ever pictured
tie episodes are of a spectacular ma
ture. The human side of the story
and the various characters involved
are stressed all the way through the
play, however.
Becky Sharp. the scheming little
mink and one of the greatest vamps
known to fiction, who ffatterS men and
lies and cheats, dominates the pic
ture as played by Mabel Balln.
Every studio and technical resource
known to filmdom was brought to
bear in staging the production, which
revivals made by Goldwyn and seen
in Washington this season.
Hobart BoSworth is cast as the Mar
quis of Steyne, George Walsh as
Rawdon Crawley, Earle Foxe as Capt.
William Dobbin. Harrison Ford as
seph Sedley, Robert Mack as Sir Pitt
Crawley, James Marcus as Old Os-
borne. Eleanor Boardman as Amelia
Sedley and Laura La Varnie as Miss
Sedley
An exceptional musical interpreta-
ton is promised by Director George
Wild and the orchestra, together with
comedy and the latest Fox News.
Evening star., 1923-07-29
The Covered Wagon.
ARRANGEMENTS have been pc

4 RRANGEMENTS have been per-
= fected with the A. L Erlanger
booking offices and those OF Lee and
]. j. Shubert for the complete exhIbi-
ton schedule of "The Covered
Wagon" in the principal theaters of
America for the season of 1923-24.
New York. Boston, Chicago and Los
Angeles. where the picture has been
on exhibition for several months, are
the only cities where THE Covered
Wagon" will be seen until the latter
part of August or the first week in
September.
In August two territories will be
opened up for the season-Portland,
Greg, and Dallas. Tex. and then in
order. Houston. San Antonio, Austin
and Fort Worth.
THE Covered Wagon" has been re-
ferr d to as the great American
picture at last" because II touches
the days of the late forties, when
sturdy pioneers set out west Of the
Mississippi and treked 1000 miles
across unexplored plains and deserts
TO build that marvellous part Of Amer
lea. the west.
The production was made by
Famous Players-Lasky- with Jane 8
CruZe, a native of Utah. as the prin-
cipal director. The story is adapted
from the late Emerson Hough's
serial in the Saturday Evening Post.
Evening star., 1923-07-29
Rialto Announcements.

Moore's Rialto, following the Gus
tom of the large theaters throughout
the country. announces the produc-
tions due for presentation on its
screen the coming season.
With the Rialto. the so-called "the-
atrical season" starts right now, Tom
Moore, its owner. has obtained for
his theater the first exclusive option
to show. beginning right now. and
continuing throughout the year. the
product of many of the greatest pro-
ducipg units in this country, namely
Goldwyn. Cosmopolitan, Warner
Bros. Distinctive and Universal Pic
lures, and at the same time II is
announced he has arranged with these
companies for pre-release presenta-
tlon during the months Of Au-
gust and September. of many of their
big special offerings that are usually
withheld until late fall or winter.
Heading the list Is Warner Bros.
screen classic, "where he North Be-
gins" featuring Rintintin, said to be
one of the most remarkable pictures
Goldwyn's The Eternal Three" a
ing Hobart Bosworth and Claire
Windsor; Universal's mammoth pro-
duction. Merry Go Round" featur-
ing Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry,
now being shown in New York at ad-
vance prices. and Goldwyn's Elinor
Glyn production, six Days" with
Corinne Griffith and Frank Mayo.
Others are Goldwyn's The Green
Goddess" with George Arliss, Alice
Joyce, David Rowell and Harry
Morey: Universars The Lady of
Quality; Red Lights" with Alice
Lake, Johnny Walker and Marie Pre-
vost; ''The AcQuittaf; THE Gold
Diggers." David Belasco production,
with Hope Hampton, Louise Fazenda
and some" girls; GoIdwyn's THE
Magic Skin," by Balzac, with Bessie
Love. George Walsh and Carmel Mey-
ers; 1.-The Day Of Faith" Arthur Som
ers Roche story. with Eleanor Board
man. Ray Griffith. Tyrone Power and and
Dark" with a great cast; F. Marion
Crawford's "In the. Palace Of the
King" featuring Blanche Sweet, Ho-
bert Bosworth, Edmund Lowe and
Pauline Starke; How to Educate a
Wife" another Elinor Glyn story.
with selected cast; Tiger Rose" an
other David Belasco production,
starring Leonore Uric; Lucretia
Lombard" kathleen Norris story,
with Irene Rich; David Belasco's s
"Daddies"; Beau Brummel," with
Lionel barrymore. and others to fol-
low. These will entertain up to De.
cember, however.
Evening star., 1923-07-29
METROPOLITAN - Children of
Dust"

In Children of Dust" the First
National attraction to be shown this
week at CrandalrS Metropolitan
Theater, Frank Borzage, director of
'Humoresque," is claimed to have
made another great picture that will
take rank with the masterpieces. A
perfunctory outline of plot cannot
convey an adequate notion of the
deep human appeal. the dramatic
forcfulness and the deft characterize
ton claimed as the outstanding quail
tiles of the picture, which was adapt
ed from Tristram Tupper's story of
"Terwilliger" In it are featured
Pauline Garon, Lloyd Hughes and
Johnny Walker.
The com edy will be Lloyd Hamilton,
in IF. o. b." the laughable tale of a
village pest who became freight
car nomad and had strange adven-
lures. The Metropolitan World Sur
vey Of picture news and natural color
scenic will be shown with other short
reels.
The Metropolitan Orchestra, Daniel
Breeskin conducting, will play selec-
tions from Victor Herbert's "Sere.
made" Love Sends Little Gift of
Roses" played first as a cornet solo
by Frank Bernardo, then as a violin
solo by Samson Noble, both with full
orchestral accompaniment, and an in
terpre etative score compiled by Mr..
Breeskin, notable for, three theme
numbers-"Will You Remember Me?"
from "Maytime," Dear Little Boy of
Mine and "Buddies.' '
Evening star., 1923-07-29
How the Vidors Made Luck

reelers were made in four or five
During this period he passed an
unusuasly pretty girl on the street.
He sought an introduction because
he wanted her for a leading lady.
thing. SO Vidor married her. No
one who knows anything at all about
pictures doesn't know about Vidor's S
wife. Florence Vidor.
We'll, the Vidors made a few more
two-reelers In Texas: then they went
to New York for experience: They
worked as extras. and In all sorts
of other capacities in studios. Then
they went back again to picture
making In Galveston. But they
weren't satisfied.
So finally they made the big plunge.
gave up everything, and motored to
Los Angeles, and took any work they
could get in the studios.
THE first good break came when
vilor got a position in the scenario
was rapid. He soon became a. di-
rector, and clinched his future in
1918 with The Turn in the Road,
was one of the first big successes
with a spiritual theme.
Now he is one of the big directors
engaged by Goldwyn. His latest
picture Three Wise Fools, 1s said
to be one of the best photodramas
he ever has made.
"It would be a fine thing" con-
cluded the speaker. 'if every young
man and woman who sees Three
Wise Fools could look back Of the
screen. at the life of Vidor. not to
see only his beautiful home. and his
motor cars and yachts and things
like that, but the everlasting stick
to-it-iveness, the hammer -at-one-
thing -until-you- there spirit, that,
taking him through all barriers:
brought him success at the age of
twenty-nine. He wasn't born lucky.
He made his own luck"
Evening star., 1923-07-29
PIE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON,
Bill Hart g Own Story.

FAMOUS figures Of the west in the
= days following the civil war are to
be pictured in the Aim with which
william s. Hart will end his retire.
ment.
The title Of the picture is william
8. Hart in wild Bill Hickok." Some
of its characters, including Hickok
himself, were national figures in the
period from 1865 to 1872.
+ Included among them will be Will
liam B. (Bat) Masterson, during his
earlier years marshal and hunter of
desperadoes and all-around pictur-
esque character, who later became a
friend of Roosevelt and ended his
career as sporting editor of a New
York paper.
famous marshal Of old Dodge City
days; Chalk Beeson. Charlie Bassett.
Bill Tilghman, Luke Short, Doc Hol-
liday and the much-talked about femi-
nine character of the time-Calamity
Jane.
Bill Hart has been an assiduous
reader of the history of the west for
years. His studies were supplemented
during the later years Of Bat" Mas
terson's life by numerous anecdotes
which Masterson told him from the
pages of his own colorful career.
Hart and Masterson were great
friends,
Evening star., 1923-07-29
An Old Song Idealized.

THE first of the J. Stuart BIackton
productions to be released by
vitagraph is "On the Banks Of the
wabash" a story inspired by the
famous old song classic written by
Paul Dresser Elaine Sterne was en-
gagged to write the scenario.
The drama deals with Indiana and
Indiana folk who live along the banks
Of the famous river. 1t centers
around a fine old character. quaint in
humor, strong in manhood, who rises
TO an emergency and provides the
thrill Of the picture. The love in
terest centers around a boy and a
GIRL.
In a recent proclamation Gov. War
rem r. McCray of Indiana told OF
plans to honor Paul Dresser. The re-
mains of the writer are to be re-
moved to a lovely spot on the banks
of the Wabash at Terre Haute, where
Dresser played as a boy. Sons and
daughters Of Indiana throughout the
world are contributing to the fund
which will be used to erect the
memorial
"There IL no song which touches
more deeply the heart of the man or
Evening star., 1923-07-29
Learning What Patrons Like

DOLA NEGRI goes to school, and a
night school at that. Her class
room is any little picture house she
takes fancy to. and her teachers are
those who fancy the same theater on
the same night.
She goes to see all types of films, her
own as we'll as those made by other
players. She takes all comedies.
dramas and tragedies. She listens to
what the audiences have to say. and
from every one she learns something.
Determined to understand the Ameri-
can people and to bring herself into
close sympathy with their ideals. Miss
Negri spends portion of her
leisure time each week listening to the
comments of people who never dream
they are overheard. The same deter
mination which made II possible for her
Evening star., 1923-07-29
In 21O9 A. D.

ON the 18th of February. 21os. 1st
years from Abraham Lincoln's
last birthday, there will be opened at
Washington, D. c., or at Springfield
Ill. (whichever place is chosen for its
location), a special vault, from which
will be taken a copy of the motion
picture 1.-THE Dramatic Life of Abra-
ham Lincoln" now in process of film
ing by the Rockett-Lincoln Film
Company of Hollywood.
Everybody now living in the world
will be dead then, but If the Rocket
Lincoln Con,pany's experts are right
the fllm will be alive" and the peo-
pie of that day will be given an op-
portunity to see motion pictures as
they were made in 1928.
The Lincoln subject was chosen, II
Is said, because of it's universal ap.
peal and also because all things ap-
pertaining to Lincoln are likely to be
of interest to the people of that day
perhaps more than those OF the pres
coming a greater world figure every
day.
Evening star., 1923-07-29
PALACE-"The Man Next Door.

'sThe Man Next Door," Emerson
Hough's romance centering about a
daughter of the golden west, Will
reach the screen in Washington in
advance of Hough's screen epic, THE
Covered Wagon" and will be shown
at Loew's Palace Thearter this week,
beginning this afternoon.
1t was scenarized by c. Graham
Baker and made a Vitograph pro-
duction by Victor Schertzinger. The
cast includes Alice Calhoun, James
Morrison, David Terrence. Frank
Sheridan, John Stepping, Adele Far
rington, Mary Culver and Bruce Bo-
teller.
Miss Calhoun has the role of Bon
ME Bell Wright, daughter of a west
ern cattle king, who. on the death of
her mother, is reared by her father
and Curly, a cattle boss, until she
goes east to be educated. When she
is a young woman the cattle king
realizes that the rugged west is no
place for a lady and with Curly, the
cattle boss, they invade eastern So
ciety. She meets a young man, ap-
parently a gardener, attached to the
Wisner household and the two elope.
The girls father, believing the
Wisners responsible, attempts to
take western revenge, only to dis
cover that the young man is really
the Wisner son and heir.
Evening star., 1923-07-29

woman who has wandered from the
old home as ON the Banks Of the
wabash" sComodore Blackton says:
u have chosen it because it has
the universal, worldwide appeal.
Indiana is state Of homes.
Sturdy people settled that great state,
people who lived wholesome lives,
who lived close to the soil. The pio-
neers who hewed their way through
the virgin forests Of the Wabash
valley, and who cleared timberland
that they might grow food products,
have left posterity that probably
Is nearer to real America than any
other community in our great United
States. Indiana folk are typical of
all America. it is America.
THE people in this picture are real
people. human, kindly, subject to the
same foibles as all other people,
sometimes selfish, sometimes cruel
without understanding that they are
cruel.
II knew Paul Dresser personally.
and Paul. l am sure. would like, to
have his song live on the screen. I
am happy to be the man who shall
place 1t there. s.
'I expect to begin shooting at an
early date"
Evening star., 1923-07-29
CENTRAL-"The Mysterious Wit.
ness"

Crandalrs Central Theater the first
three days of the present week, be-
ginning this afternoon, will offer
The Mysterious Witness" romantic
melodrama of the west, featuring
Robert Gordon and Elinor Fair, No
IL release of the Fighting Blood
series, featuring George O'Hara and
Clara Horton; Jimmie Adams in "The
Dude" the Kilograms and other
short reels. with pipe organ music by
w. Il. Thompson; Wednesday and
Thursday, Allan Forrest. Viola Vale
and Edna Murphy. in THE Man Be
tween" a romantic thriller, written
and produced by Finis Fox. a story of
the rivalry in love of several pictur-
esque French Canadian characters,
with a colorful cabaret scene. where
one of the principals does some vivid
work as a terpsichorean performer,
together with Kick Out" Lige Con-
ley comedy; and Friday and Saturday.
Alice Calhoun. in "One Stolen Night"
Vitagraph's contribution to the sheilx
pictures. and Buster Keaton, in The
Love Nest"
Evening star., 1923-07-29
Kisses, Comedy In Africa.

CCHIRM KELL, film editor of the
Buster Keaton company, who il
cutting the Japanese negative OF
Buster Keaton's first five-reel comedy
for Metro. Three Ages" says the
Japanese police censors eliminate all
kissing scenes from American motior
pictures, and in making up his oriental
prints kell is cutting out all thw-
osculation close-ups from Three
Ages -
Il have now 120 feet of KISSES .itH
says, Kell. s"Some of them are stone
age kisses, some Roman and SomgS
modern. I'm not going to throw ths
cut-outs from the Jap negative away
however" he added. Anything goes,
in Borneo and Sumatra, as we'll as ir-
Italian Somaliland. so L ship all ths
cut-outs to the natives. 80
THE black tribes of Africa laugh
as heartily at American kissing as
Eskimos do at Caruso's 'PagliacciTE
records, and 120 feet of Keaton kisses
will be pure comedy cream in the
heart of Africa" .-
Evening star., 1923-07-29
C0LUMBIA-Jack Holt in "a Gen.
tleman of Leisure"

Jack Holt will be the picture star
at Loew's Columbia Theater this
week beginning this afternoon, in
"A Gentleman of Leisure" story
of love and amateur burglary. 1t is
an adaptation for Paramount by Jack
Cunningham of the, stage play by
p. G. Wodehouse and John Stapleton,
and was directed by Joseph Hena-
berry. The cast includes Sigrid Holm
Quist, "the Mary Pickford of Swe-
dem; Casson Ferguson and Alec B.
Francis.
Itis the story Of rich young idler
returned to America from abroad and
the daughter, of a millionaire police
official who is followed to America
by her fiance. an impoverished noble
man, and his mother The young
idler bets that within a short time
he can obtain the girls photograph,
suitably inscribed. -
His effort to acquire by burglary
the photograph of the girl brings
about serious and exciting conse-
Quences.
The story is thrilling in it's action
and tender In it's romantic episodes.
Minor screen subjects and musical
attractions will complete the bill.
Evening star., 1923-07-29

THOSE men who settled the west
camet from strange environ
ments and few. ever knew the
secrets in the hearts of the careless
living cowmen who roamed the great
ranges. Occasionally one hears the
story of one of these pioneer fortune
hunters who were less careless con-
cerning fortunes and more eager to
live lives of forgetfulness.
1t is for sketching such characters e
that Emerson Hough, author of The
Man Next Door," Is famous.
Victor Schertzinger shot the ranch
scenes at Palo Verdi ranch, In South
ern California Schertzinger is. a. mu-
sician Of note and an artist at the
piano. Members of the company had
asked him to play for them one
night and while he played the men
from the bunkhouse gathered around
outside the windows of the huge
living room.
SLhertzinger had played number
of simple airs and had left the piano
when bent and grizzled old cow
man, with hat in hand, entered the
door timidly. n s...-