The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-20
IN THE MOVIE WORLD

1t required one hundred and four.
teen sets to furnish the scenic inves-
titure of Abraham Lincoln" to
be shown at the Caughren Theatre
Thursday, Friday and Saturday eve
nings of this week. The variety of
them with their wide constrast con-
stitutes one of the entertainments of
the picture.
The first, in the cabin where Abra-
ham Lincoln was born in Kentucky,
is an exact replica of the original
birth place now enshrined in the
marble memorial near Hodgenville,
Ky.
Then follow in a rapid pageant of
pictured scenes:
The great set of New Salem con-
Lincoln lived from 1881 to 1886
the biggest log set ever built.
The Pioneer Barbecue in Kentucky.
eer merry making.
The original Stuart and Lincoln
law office in Springfield, Ill.
The ball room in the Edwards
home at Springfield where Lincoln
was introduced to his future wife by
Stephen A. Douglas, his great politi-
cal rival.
The Lincoln home in Springfield.
The great Lincoln-Douglas debate
at Ottawa, Ill.
The historic train which carried
President-elect Lincoln to his in
auguration.
President Lincoln's office; Mrs.
Lincoln's boudoir and the Cabinet
Room in the White House.
The portico of the White House
in Washington.
Pennsylvania avenue, Washing
ton, D.. c., as it was during Lin
coins administration from the White
House to the Capitol Building. The
most famous street in the world-one
and a quarter miles long.
The hospital tents and the battle
fields.
The world famous set of the Get
tysburg Battlefield, scene of Lin
cons memorial address.
The magnificent East Room of the
White House celebrated in song and
story, where President Lincoln's Of
fetal receptions were held.
The exterior and interior of the
world-famed Lincoln Memorial at
Washington, D. c., where the spirit
of Lincoln is enthroned in external
stone and bronze.
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There are several ways for movie
struck youth to go to Hollywood, and
Merton Gill picked one of the wrong
ones.
Merton lives in his own little land
&c L o,1,iI fhn lroh cot
tings of Simsbury, Illonois, and
dreams of the day when his pictures
might adorn the lobby of the BlJou
Theatre, his name be blazoned in the
lights.
So he saves his grocery clerks sal
airy until he has railroad fare, and a
Pullman porter brushes the dust OF
Simsbury from his shoes.
What happens to him in Hollywood
his trials, his earnest awkward
strivings, his cruel Establishments
and his final unsuspecting triumph
constitute one of the really great
epics of the stage and screen.
1t is told in Merton of the Nov
ies," the novel and play by Harry
Leon Wilson which took the country
by storm, and which is now a James
CruZe paramount prOuucIoH COMING
to the Caughren Theatre Sunday and
Monday. Glenn Hunter, whose sue
cess in the stage version was phenom-
email, has the starring role with Viola
Dana.
Hunter, as Merton Gill, the groc-
er's clerk of Simsbury, is the motion
picture industry's one best patron,
The Biiou theatre is his fairyland,
and the famed Harold Parmalee his
ideal. In his spare moments ne prac-
tices the Parmalee technique on the
lady clothing dummy in the general
store. The gents raincoat dummy IS
the william of his little private drama,
foiled at every turn by the Parmaiee
resourcefulness as absorbed and prac-
ticed by Merton Gill.
1T is all right with Mr.. Gashwiier,
Merton's employer, until the eventful
Sunday morning when Merton gets
into his mail order cowboy clothes,
mounts the ancient Gashwiler deiiy-
cry horse and goes out, into the back