White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11
THE TIN COMMANDMENTS"
OUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT

At least once year but some times
oftener, Edmund Anderson gives to
his movie patrons one of the few
great features of the year. His Christ
mas present this year is "The Ten
Commandment" which will be shown
in Hanford Christmas night and in
Liberty hall, White Bluffs, on Sat-
urday and Sunday nights, December
10Th and 9th. And it is a Christmas
present, for even at the admittance
price, so cents for adults and rs cents
for children, he could not more than
come out even if he had a packed
house each of the three nights.
Probably one of the best reviews
of "The Ten Commandments" is
given by Nell Brinkley one of the
great movie critics. She says:
To watch the great Paraoh drive
his black satin horses hitched to a
real Egyptian chariot taken bodily
from Thoroughbred stone; to watch
the storming sea turn itself into ii
tanic whirlpool in its agony of part
ing to let the freed Israelites pass
over on it's dry bed; to watch that
great going-forth of the tribe from
bondage across the desert in pictures
of color that suggests Byam Shaw;
to watch the heroic Moses pluck the
tablets of stone from lightning
crowned mountain-top; to hear again
the crash and clamor of the coming of
each Commandment; to watch again
the little modern San Francisco fam
lily wend its way through the Ten
Commandments, each in their own
reading of them, people keep pouring
into the .heatre, which shows that
the frivolous public is not so light
minded after all, has an impelling
curiousity and wants to think while it
is being entertained.
And entertained you will be! And
not left one moment on your hands
when you are not wrapt and absorbed.
And THINK you will. too. You
KNOW you haven't killed anybody,
but when some of the other Com
mandments thunder out from a tur-
MOL of divine creation. and winging
their way from mystery-shrouded
Godhead, stand terribly before you
in trembling soft fire, you begin to
wonder how many of the plain simple
rules for living at peace with your
fellow-men you DO keep.
"The Ten Commandments" is not
prcachment. 1t is simple story
with more than one thing to think
about. Not only does it say that when
you persist in ignoring these plain
rules for right living you bring your
own hell on yourself as natural re-
suit, but it also says. through the
mistakenly narrow character of the
little Scotch-American Mother, that
you can drive your children away from
the God you want them to love, by
using the Cross as a whipp
"The Ten Commandment" tells
you first that "they are not rules to
obey as personal favor to God"
"They are not laws. They are the
LAW"
And then the picture proceeds on
its way of showing you, in one half,
the times of Moses and Rameses, the
Paraoh, when this human law was
first recognized. 1t runs with the
blood and tears that the ignoring of
them brought. In the next half it
shows you what law has to do witt,
the lives of family-a mother and
her two sons. She sees through mar
row glasses. One son is impatient. fed
M with severe Interpretation of the
Ten Commandments, and therefore
flies off at an extreme tangent. The
other is tolerant of his Mothers be-
liefs, but sane and able to apply the
true meaning Of those laws to his
rhoderp life