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Evening star., 1926-06-20
NATIONAI-"The Show OFF,"

George Kelly's prize jolt at that
class who are completely at home un-
consciously treading on other peoples
corns, "The Show Off" by name, opens
Monday night at the National, with
Romaine Calender doing the title role.
In Burns Nantes book, "The Best
Plays of l923-24," he heads his list
with this play.
If 1.-THE Show Off" had nothing else
to recommend it, 1t would occupy a
rather unique position, in that its
locale is not New York, the nesting
habitat of the show-off class. The
author has chosen Philadelphia for
the locale 1t might just as well have
been Kokomo, or Chicago, or Frisco,
or any other city.
"The Show OFF, is to be studied
psychologically, though the study Is
accompanied by incessant gusts OF
laughter. He has an abnormal streak
of egotism in his makeup, ana MS
whole object in life is to hear hlmseli
talk. His boasting is without founda-
tion His tongue outraces his brain
nv a wide margin All he demands is
an audience, and whether his audience
is his barbar, the cigar clerk. an In
surance agent or members of his fam
ily. he cares not. He cannot be IN
suited. He bores listeners to eXtlnc-
ton, but still he rattles on To use q
current expression, he's one who can
strut sitting down. He is harmless
as a rule, and though he inspires in
every one a desire to kick him,
Author George Kelly has made OF hlm
a prime comedy character.
Adelaide Hibbard will do the caustlc,
an-seeing Ma Fisher, whose dueis
with the main pest evoke laughter
and all that goes with it. Leneta Lane
will do Amy, the unseeing sweetheart,
who thinks her Aubrey IS all MS own
tongue paints him.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Desire for Adventure.

THAT curious and Unsuitable desire
of the human heart for excite
ment and adventure was chiefly re-
sponsible for two unusual camera rec
ords-"Moana," Robert Flaherty's ro-
nance of the real South Seas, and
Grass" the film record of the semi
annual trek of the Baktyari tribes
men of Persia. which are shown here
for the first time today
Meriap c. Cooper. Ernest Schoe-
daack and Marguerite Harrison, all
Americans, made the perilous trip into
the Persian mountains to film Grass, :"
but money was the least of the prizes
sought, fer many a camera expedition
right at home would have paid better
The same is true of Robert F'laher-
ty, the man who made "Nanook of the
North" and who now comes along
with just as fascinating a camera rec
ord of the other end of the world. the
South Seas. Flaherty, like the three
other Americans, Us said to find but
little pleasure in civilization. He is
never quite happy unless poking his
camera into some far and remote cor
ner of the universe.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
EARLE-Herman Timberg & Co.

The Earle Theater announces for
this week, beginning this afternoon,
Herman Timberg, celebrated come
dian, and his brother Sammy and COM
pany in an entertaining sketch called
"A Family Affair" The added attrac-
ton will be, Rosita, noted Spanish
dancer, supported by Paco Morino and
Pilarica and Louis Marimba Band in
a pretentiously staged Offering of
songs, dances and Instrumentation en-
titled "a Gorgeous Hispano Revue"
Other offerings will include Stanley
and Elva in "On the Wire" Dixie
Norton and Coral Melnot in Andy
Rice's skit, "The Meal Hounds" in
which are introduced dances and
songs, and James Burke and Eleanor
DUrkin in "If l Could Only Think" !"
by Teddy Wild.
The photoplay will be "Shipwreck
ed" realistic drama of the stormy
sea, adapted from the play by Lang
don Mccormick, which pictures an ac-
tual tornado on the open Pacific. The
cast includes Seena Owen and Joseph
Schi1dkraut, with Mathew Betz, Clar-
ence Burton, Laska Winter and Lionel
Belmore.
Alexander Arons, concert pipe or
ganist, will play Echoes from Scot
land"
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Duke of Ladies.

"T-HE Duke of Ladies'" which the
Robert Kane Company put in
production in New York a few days
ago, enjoys two distinctions among
photoplays. 1t will be the first work
in this country, under the direction
of Lothar Mendes, celebrated German
director, and as a photoplay 1t will
antedate the novel version of the
basic story from which 1t is being
made. AS rule photoplay is made
after the novel has been written, wide
ly distributed-and sometimes more
or less forgotten.
Mr. Oppenheim first wrote the story
of "The Duke of Ladies" as play en-
titled "The Ex-Duke." Subsequently
a text version of the story was pre-
pared for publication in a leading Eng
lish magazine. Finally that text YER
sion was developed and refined for
publication as a novel which will be
called "The Interloper." The novel
will be published in the near future.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Testimony from China.

MOTION pictures shown in China
are getting decidedly better" so
says r. M. Vanderburgh of the China
National Pictures, Inc.
In q report to James Yard of the
West China Union University he
says: "As to the quality of movies
reaching China, l would say, after
reviewing approximately 100 of them
since my arrival. that they are de-
cidedly getting better.
Il think that this is almost entirely
due to the efforts at good production
in America, rather than inclination
of buyers out here, for the buyers
are inclined to buy the speediest pos
sible pictures and those with risque
elements. The European pictures on
the whole are not nearly as high
toned as the American
Evening star., 1926-06-20
"Volga Boatman" Draws.

1.-THE Volga Boatman," Cecil B. De
Miles notable production, which
was brought back to CrandalIs Metro
politan Theater for a renewal of it's
downtown first run less than a month
after it's initial presentation in the
same theater, drew crowds SO large
early in the week that 1t was neces-
sary to stop selling orchestra seats
for the last performance.
Today the picture opens a three
day engagement at Crandall's Tivoli
exactly as presented at the Metropoli-
tan, with Imperial Male Chorus off
stage, and it is later to be shown in
all the Crandall residential houses,
the Apollo paralleling the Tivoli book
ing and the Avenue Grand taking the
picture on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
KEJTH'S-ViOlet Heming.

Violet Heming. the charming emo
tional actress, will be seen at keHn 5
this week, beginning this afternoon
in Edwin Burkes latest comedy sue
cess, "The Snob," and sharing top
honors with Miss Heming Is the
famous American concert viol1nlst,
Eddy Brown, who is making his frst
appearance in vaudeville after many
wears of successful concert work both
here and abroad.
A feature will be the musical
comedy dancing stars, William Sea-
bury and Margaret Irving, who bring
q large company. including Mignon
Hawkes., Valma Valentine, Viola Goer-
ing, Wilma Chapman, James Roxey
Clements and Jack Young in an act
original and entertaining.
others are Kin Carroll, with the
strumming uke; Erma Calvert and Vir-
ginia "Ginger" Phillips. the Charles
ton" queen. in one of the breeziest
acts In many months; the musical
comedy star. Carl Mccullough, in
Bright Bits Of Travesty"; Pearl and
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Getting Old Screen Habit.

EOR years the screen has been strug-
Cling to break away from the
domination of the stage, and now the
stage is driving the screen away from
it as a long tapped source of story ma
terial says Sam E. Rork, First Ma
tional film producer.
Rork, who spent two months view
ing the New York plays in a search
for stories, says because of the stage
trend toward immortality fewer plays
than ever will be bought this year by
film producers. Rork was a stage
producer for 20 years before entering
the picture industry
The present trend in spoken drama,
as evidenced by the recent activities
of the New York play jury in the in
stances of certain so-called objection
able productions, he points out, is to-
ward the same fate that befell the
screen-strict and legalized censor
ship.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
PALACE-"It's the Old Army Game. /"

w. c. Fields, famous comic of the
Ziegfeld "Follies,'' will be pictured
this week at Loew's Palace, starting
this afternoon, in his first Paramount
starring production, "It's the Old
Army Came" with Louise Brooks,
Blanche Ring, William Gaxton and
Mary Foy in his cast.
The Glenn Tryon comedy, "Say It
With Babies" the Pathe News Reel,
Topics of the Day and an overture
and accompaniment by the Palace Or
chestra, under Thomas ]. Cannon, will
be added attractions.
Its the Old Army Game"-a title
which is said to mean never give a
sucker an even break"-reveals Mr..
Fields in the role of a small town
Florida druggist, much enamored of
his pretty assistant, who falls in with
the plan of a New York go-getter to
sell New York real estate to Floridi-
ans. On the strength of the first
boom the druggist invests in a new
automobile and everything seems to
be going fine until his partner dis
appears. Then starts a succession of
hilarious adventures. Just when
things look blackest the real estate
profits materialize and the druggist
is saved from jail.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Chariot Revue Stars In
Films.

REATRICE Lille and Jack Buchan-
an, internationally famous as the
stars of "Charlot's Revue" have been
signed by Cecil B. De Mile to appear
in pictures. Miss Lille and Buchan-
an have never worked before the
cameras. Before they had been play
ing In Hollywood week they had
been offered screen contracts by half a
dozen studios and only recently de-
cided to make their screen debut
under the De~Mille banner.
Evening star., 1926-06-20

ner. and Romeo Guaraldi as the
prince. The chorus is composed of s
pupils from Estelle Wentworth's
studio.
"Mignon" CThomas) has been Sc
lected for the overture, and the In
ternational News will complete the
bill.
OLUMBIA-"MOana" and Grass"
Two screen novelties will be shown
for the first time here at Loew's Co
lumbia Theater this week, starting this
afternoon-the South Sea Island pic
ture, "Moana," said u be a true pic
ture romance of Samoa and its people
in conjunction with Grass" the epic
film record of a nations fight from
disaster.
'Moana" is declared the first au-
thentic motion picture of the South
Seas, 50 long celebrated and carica-
tured by the synthetic drama of the
studios. 1t was made by Robert Fla
herty, producer of the Eskimo classic,
"Nanook Of the North" who spent
three whole years in the tropics of
the south Pacific filming an authentic
record of the lives of the islanders
The cast, exclusively native. includes
Moana, son of a tribal chieftain, with
the physique of an Apollo.
Grass" is a camera record of
strange people-the hill tribes of Per
sia, the Baktyari tribesmen, wh1
twice year encounter and endure the
most incredible hardships in their
semi-annual trek in search of grass
for their herds and for life for them
selves. Each year a mighty mountain
range is scaled and torrential rivers
are forded in this annual trek of a
whole nation.
Three American explorers, Mar
guerite Harrison, authoress and trav
eler; Ernest B. Schoedsack, war CORE
spondent and photographer, and
Merriam C.. Cooper, aviator, sailor and
writer, are said to have braved the
wrath of the tribesmen and ignored
warnings that the trip would prove
fatal in order to obtain this unique
record.
The International News reel, with
musical establishment by the Colum-
bia Orchestra, under Leon Brusilof,
will be among other. attractions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Daddies."
The frolicsome spirit of early SIM
mer Is promised in the comedy bill at
Continued on Third Pagel
Evening star., 1926-06-20
RIALTO-"The Prince of PiIsen." !"

1.-THE Prince of Pilsen," starring
George Sidney and Anita Stewart, is
the photoplay at the Rialto this week
starting today, with Sidney in the
role of Hans Wagner, the Cincinnati
brewer, who, with his daughter, pays
a visit to his old home in Europe and
is mistaken for the Prince of Pilsen.
! They are accorded a fattering re-
ception by the townspeople, and when
Hans is commanded to wed a princess
Of neighboring principality he be-
lieves he is being initiated into some
secret lodge, such as the Loyal Order
of Squirrels back home in Cincinnati,
Of which he is grand imperial chief
1t is a lavish production. filled with
humor, and Is said to strike new
note in film entertainment.
The supporting cast includes Allan
Forrest, Myrtle Stedman, w. Won
Brincken and Otis Harlan.
A prologue staged by Mischa Gutter
son, consisting of scenes and songs
from the musical comedy ''The Prince
of Pilsen," features Elizabeth Thorn
berry as the daughter Of Hans Wag-
Evening star., 1926-06-20

Violet Hamilton and Jessie Fordyce
in an entertaining bit called play
time," by Tom Howardi Fraley and
Putnam in "a Breeze From the
West; Raymond Pike in versatility
Personified'' and the screen features
Aesop's Fables. Topics of the Day and
the Pathe News pictorial.
Today Keith Koolies" once more
come into their own at B. F. Keith's
Theater. They are the ice cream
souvenirs given free at every Keith
matinee throughout the Summer.
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Photoplays This Week
At the Photoplay Houses This Week.


PALACE"Is the Old Army Game Shown this afternoon and
RIALTO-"The Prince Pisen afternoon
ming
METROPOLITAN-"Swee Daddies" Shown this afternoon
evening.
COLUMBIA-Moana" and Grass Shown this
evening.
TVOLThe Volga Boatman Shown this afternoon and evening
AMBASSADOR-"Sweet Daddes Shown this
ming
CENTRAL-The Night Cry Shown this evening
WARDMAN PARK-Quo Vadis?' Shown this md
evening.
STRAND-Tumbeweeds. Shown this afternoon evening.
LINCOLN (Colored)The Lies Shown
Evening star., 1926-06-20
Current Attractions.
At the Theaters This Week

NATIONAI-"The Off," Opens evening
KEITHS-Violet Hemng vaudeville. Opens this afternoon.
EARIEHerman Timbeg vaudeville. Opens this afternoon
The Ely miner., 1926-10-29

johnson Makes some Short An
sWerS to LOmmen's Bunk

mate the weakest man of the other
party so as to make it easy to defeat
him at the General Election, the re-
suit being that the people got the
two weakest candidates of either
party to select from, for office in
stead of the strongest man Of either
party. That law was Immediately
repealed in the next Legislature.
Johnson believes in honest nomina-
tions of the best qualified men of
any political party, where, there is a
party label and honest election where
the common people are allowed to
express their choice without interfer-
ence of crooks, cranks or corpora
tions.
Lommen speaks of many valuable
amendments that he offered to. bills
in the Legislature. Yes! He offer
ed one amendment to the Committee
Bus Bill, which would have given
license to operate busses to anyone
who was operating busses on the first
day of the Legislative session, with
out showing that they were qualified
under the law to operate such busses.
This amendment was offered pecul-
iarly in the interest of the very out
fit operating busses on the Range,
which he claims to have been fighting
since the adoption of the bus law.
Why did he change front? Does it
not seem strange that most of those
wonderful amendments were turned
down by Legislature whose mem
bers come from the farming districts
and the small towns of the State of
Minnesota, that could not possibly
have been bought UP by the band
wagon crowd?
Lommen claims loudly that he has
done more for the Range than any
other citizen in the past ten years.
1t must be admitted that, Lommen is
very good press agent and speaking
of band wagons, there is no doubt
but what he is advertising himself as
the old press agent on the old fash
ioned circus band wagon.
We submit that the voters of this
district want man whose works
speak louder than his words, and
Johnson's 80 years of active service
on the Range have many public inn
provements to prove his worth, his
honesty and his effectiveness and best
of all, Johnson is no hypocrite moi
does he stoop to falsehood to appeal
to his fellow citizens for votes.
JOHNSON VOLUNTEER COM
MITTEE,
F. w. KLINE, Chairman.
E. J. LARSON, Sec.-Treas.
The Ely miner., 1926-10-29

went into the traiRc law that permits
a drunken driver t. put up only $25
bail and can jump the state line AMI
escape prosecution, even though he
may have killed someone. The pee
pie, we believe, want few more hon.
est workers and business men and
women to help make their laws for
them, rather than joker lawers.
Lommen claims he is leader IN
the Farmer-Labor Party, which has a
State Plank calling for an increase
in the tonnage tax from SO to 1919
and who is now responsible for the
existence of the tonnage tax which
has caused the depression on the
Iron Ranges that we are now suffer-
ing under. Is Lommen going to
double-cross his party or the voters
on the ranges, when that bill comes
up next winter. Johnson was always
opposed to the tonnage tax and IS
running as the law intended-with-
out Party Label, and can honestly
vote against the tonnage tax or any
law that will cripple the small min
ing companies and drive our people
from the Ranges. His home, the
fruit of his entire life time of effort
and all he has in the world, is on the
Range, the same as all the rest of
US, asd he can not be persuaded to
sell out the interest of the common
people as has been insinuated in
Lommen's attacks.
Lommen speaks of ''little drops of
poison" that crooked corporations
are spreading against him and in be-
half of Johnson. You who elected
Johnson two years ago and those of
you who have elected him as MEM
Der of the School Board, City Coun
ell and Mayor, must know whether
anybody tried to poison your minds
to vote for Johnson or whether you
voted for him with an honest con-
viction that he would make a reliable
public servant.
Lommen throws out a bait to you,
suggesting primary law that will
permit voters to vote for any candi-
date on either party in the Primary
Election, as you do at the General
Election. For your information, we
L L IL
primary law of Minnesota was lust
of that kind and the result in the
Congressional District was that the
Democrats voted to nominate a Re-
publican candidate that had 15 GRIM
inal indictments against him AMI the
Republicans voted to nominate a
Democrat who was not fit man to
be elected, the object being to nom
The Ely miner., 1926-10-29

most efficient and honest public Of
fetal, VIM. Fay, for County Commits
sioner for the Fourth District.
Throw your hammer out of the
window and join the crowd. Come on.
everybody. Boost for Fay. Get out
your neighbors if they are careless
about their duty. Let's have every
voter in the district cast a ballot and
let's give Fay one hundred, per cent
support in this part of his sdistrict.
He is not only good road builder
but he is able to get his share of the
appropriations made for the building
of roads and bridges. His, ability in
that respect was clearly demonstrat-
ED in 1925, when he secured as his
share the sum of $285,000, while in
that same year the taxpayers of the
district paid only $65, ,325.81 into the
fund.
Many persons have a mistaken
idea of the percentage-of their taxes
that go into the Road and Bridge
Fund. They do not realize the num-
ber of ways into which this tax levy
must be cut. There is less than
seven mills of the tax allowed for
the Road and Bridge Fund. That is
less than seven cents out of every
ten dollars you pay, so do not holier
if you are a tax payer and do not
think you have not had a square deal
from the commissioner. Consider
the amount of your money that was
allowed him for his work of road
building.
We endorsed Fay four years age
and gave him splendid vote. Now
let's forget personal grievances an
give him an even better vote next
Tuesday. Make it 100%o. Just
show once that you can get behind
your candidate and put him over
big. You owe it to yourself and the
District. Just look around you In
an unprecedented way and count up
the good things that have come to us
since this man has been in office. Do
not be an agitator against the cause
that means so much to us. Consider
ahead of your own petty grievance
the good of the District. The fact
| that his colleagues on the County
Board elected him Chairman of that
Board this year, should convince
you of their esteem for and conf
| dence in him.
Bill did not have to go out of the
District for his endorsements. Hi:
acts speak for themselves and are
very good reasons why he should b,
reelected to this Office on November
2.
BE SURE TO VOTE AND VOTE
FOR FAY.
The Ely miner., 1926-10-29

Some of Lommen's campaign state
mentS require a very short answer,
but for the benefit of voters who do
not know Johnson personally, the fol-
lowing answers are made:
Lommen claims that Johnson acted
on the Corporations side of the fol-
lowing bills in the last Legislature -
One day rest in seven.
Eight hour work day.
Prison Labor bill.
Public Works bill.
Bus bill
Also every bill where the issue
might be for or against corporations
or labor.
To that claim there is only one
answer and that is that Lommen de-
liberately makes false accusation.
Johnson voted for the peoples inter
est in every one of such roll calls or
motions.
Lommen tries to create the impress
sion that johnson supported the So
called Railroad-Bus bill. That is an
other false, malicious statemen
The only bus bill supported by john
son was the bill prepared by the
Legislative Committee of the House
and only Is members out of 131
members of the House voted against
it, as Lommen did. In other words,
according to Lommen's claim, all of
those members that voted for that
bill must have been on the corpora
ton band wagon, including all the
Farmer members.
based on railroad rates of parallel
railroad lines, not on property and
cost value of service. That is also
untrue. All transportation rates
under public, control must be regu-
lated on the basis of property, and
cost plus reasonable profit value.
Lommen claims Johnson refused
to aid him in organizing a bus COM
pany on the range to furnish bus SER
vice. That is true. Lommen had a
scheme to use the names of promi-
nent range citizens to promote such
a bus company in competition with
other bus lines and to be turned over
to Hibbing concern. Johnson never
was that kind of tool or promoter
and did not lend his name to the
scheme. 1t would be interesting to
know who would benefit by this
scheme, except the promoter.
Lommen claims johnson was elect
ed two years ago by the mining COM
panies and corporations and was rum
ming against Lommen. That is an
other false statement. There was
The Ely miner., 1926-10-29

Next Tuesday, November I'd, is
Election Day and it is the duty of
every voter to cast ballot.
Remember that many bad polite
ian was put in Office by the good
people who failed to vote. The
Fourth District has in office a Com
missioner who should be returned to
that office. He has kept faith with
the people who elected him four
years ago; his one promise at that
time was "a square deal' for every
body and as far as human power
could make it possible, every section
of the large district has been dealt
with fairly and squarely.
He has proved himself efficient,
conservative and honest and his ad-
ministratlon has been conducted n
an economical way; an effort being
made always to get value for every
dollar expended. At times this
method has been criticized because
some people think that because they
are working for the county, they
should not make any effort to do a
days work for a days pay. There
is no creative aspect taken into ac-
count, just the desire for the pay
envelope. This system would not
be tolerated by any honest official
who hoped to make showing.
There has been no slave-driving,
just a desire to keep costs where
they should be. There was s.me
criticism about the employment OF
school boys during vacation. but
when the estimates were made up
it was found that the crew on which
these high school boys were employ
ed, built roads for third of the cost
incurred by a crew of adults. This
employment of school boys during
vacation has been the means of en-.
abling many of them to continue
their schooling, for without some