Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 323, 24 November 1917 — Page 2

"acft and ffte Beanstalk" to be Big Feature at Washington

4 llliam Fox, the producer, has taken a great, new step in moving pictures. A demand that always has and always must exist has been gloriously met. The "Fox Kiddle Features" are ready for presentation. The first of these. "Jack and the Beanstalk," is now before you, at ttie Washington "Jack and the Beanstalk." the film that cost a half million of dollars to produce with its thirteen hundred children, its diminutive stars, it eight-and-a-half-foot giant, its castle and its walled city, built solely for this wonderful production has ah appeal to grown-ups as well as to children. Children play, most of the roles, except, of course, the giant; they make up the royal court and the army, and they tell their story in eight reels of wonderful and fascinating pictures to all the world of childhood, and to all who love them. The clever and sumptons handling .of the immortal story, that grown-ups half remember" and balf forget, gives it an appeal that is universal. The story lends itself wonderfully to pictures. It has an introductory modern setting that gives it reality to the mind of those of all ages and then it fades back to the time of doublet and hose and the beanstalk that leads to the land of fairy-tales and the devouring giant. As a matter of fact, it is the "film enchanted" to all who see it. It holds those of every age, whether they look at it with the eyes of a child and see the realization of their wonderful fairy tale, or view it as grown-u'. who behold the unfolding of a fascinating story done in an exquisite setting by beautiful children. "Jack and the Beanstalk" Facts The huge ; spectacular production was eight months ' in the making amidst the vast reaches of the California mountains and forests, and in Old and New Mexico and Hawaii.

It cost over $500,000 and is directed by C. M. and S. A. Franklin. Over 1,300 children, boys and girls, took part in the Fairy Village, as villagers and King's retainers. It is the most wonderful aggregation of Juvenile performers ever gathered together before In any motion picture. The average age of the children is five years Special trains were run from Los Angeles to a point fifty miles away in the mountains, every day for many weeks, carrying the child performers. On the train 15 make-up men worked feverishly preparing the children for the many scenes. Some of them wore white hair and long beards to represent old people of the King's Village. - J. M. Tarver, who plays the "Giant," is the biggest man in the world. He is eight feet six inches high, and weighs proportionately. When he was carried across the continent to California, a large box car was made over especially for his traveling home- A special bed was prepared for him, and he had a special staff of chefs and valets. The Giant in one scene of "Jack and the Beanstalk" practically destroys an entire village by the simple expedient of overturning the houses by a push of his handv The Giant is so big he frightened the child performers, and he had to tell them fairy tales of giants and pigmies to get their confidence. Special sets of scenery, far apart in proportion, had to be made for the new production. A bed scarcely four feet long, chairs about a foot high, with iny tables, were made for the kiddies. The "Giant's" table is five feet high, and his chair requires a step-ladder to enable the juveniles to reach the seat. "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the biggest and most stupendous picture spectacle of modern times.

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Next Week's Bill at Murray

Dorothy Dalton's new starring ve-1 hide, "The Flame of the Yukon," a Triangle play by Monte M. Katterjohn, produced under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, will be shown at the Murray theatre today. It is during the period of '9S, when the gold mad crowd pack the little town of Hope City, Alaska. Dorothy Dal ton appears as the "Flame," a harpy of the dance hall. Many thrilling episodes are enacted in the hall, where gamblers, miners and all types of men meet to try their luck with the roulette wheel. In one exciting scene "the flame" succeeds in breaking the bank and getting the money that her sweetheart has lost in a crooked game. An exact reproduction of the streets of Nome in the days of the gold rush is seen. Here a realistic fight takes place between Kenneth Harlan, as The Stranger, and Melbourne McDowell, as Black Jack Hovey. A company of nearly 300 people. Including thirty Eskimos and tpeir dog teams, enact their parts in this scene. Others in the cast are Margaret Thompson, Carl Uliman and May Palmer. The play was directed by Charles Miller. " When the massive sets were built for the production of "Intolerance," it was thought the last word in the construction of photo-dramatic sets had been reached, but Cecil B. deMille, the famous producer, who is responsible for the Artcraft production "The Woman God Forgot," in which Geraldine Farrar will be seen at the Mur

ray on Friday and Saturday has gone even that famous set one better. The scenes of "The Woman God Forgot," are laid during the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs and Mr. deMille had erected an exact reproduction of the famous pyramid of Teocalli, surrounded by an entire Aztec city. This one set covers an area of two square miles and the pyramid is nearly 200 feet in height and of the most substantial construction, owing to the fact that over a thousand men battle up the stairways and inclines to the temple at the top. The interior of the pyramid is also complete in the most minute detail, the huge sacrificial room being reproduced in the exact size of the room in which the High Priest of Aztec sacrificed his human victims to the Aztec gods.

ADMIRAL CAPPS RESIGNS PLAGE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. Rear Admiral Washington L. Capps, chief constructor of tho navy, has asked to be relieved as general manager of the Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet

Corporation because of ill health and

probably will be succeeded by Homar L. Ferguson, now president and general manager of the Newport News Shipping and Dry Dock company. Mr. Ferguson has been asked to take the place. - In a recent general reorganization of the fleet corporation, Charles A. Piez, of Chicago, was made vice president and put in supreme charge of the

ship building program. Admiral! Capps was retained as general man-j ager but since the reorganization he j has devoted his time to technical de- j tails. It was said at. the time the!

shipping board was making the changes to put production experts in charge. The office of vice president was creatid by changing the by-laws.

Edward Hurley, chairman shipping board, is president corporation. Other changes

the organization are pending. Admiral Capps was appointed general manager by President Wilson to Micceed - Major General George W. Goethals.

A bewitching young newspaper woman who becomes disgusted with men in general by observing ,their actions at a notorious divorce tritl is the part played by Bessie Barrf.cale in the new Triangle play, "Hater of Men," by C. Gardner Sullivan, produced under the supervision of Thomas H. Ince, which will be shown at Murray theatre Sunday. ! One of the most novel of the pretentious settings used for this play is the interior of an oriental resort, luxuriously furnished with carved teakwood, rich silken draperies, embroidered screens, quaint incense burners and rare pottery of the Orient, Geisha girls play the curious instruments of their native land, while others of the company perform the dainty butterfly and fan dances of old Japan.

ENFORCED FOOD RATIONING SEEN

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 24. "The federal government is getting ready to do things, not by consultation, but by edict," said Dr. Harry E. Barnard, Indiana food administrator, today. "We have accomplished much through voluntary co-operative effort. But it is not enough We must have two wheatless days every week. We must have one meatless day per week. "The licensing of baker3 December 10th will mean that the bakers then will do what we tell them to do, not what they want to do. There will be

no evasion then, even by the smallest

baker. "The people must awaken to the

necessities of the occasion. These are

not empty words. They are fraught with direct significance. Unless we save the wheat, the meat, the fats, the sugar and other staples we are called

upon to save, through the use of substitute foods the federal regulations

will be enforced by strict application of the law. "You may be very sure Uncle Sam has the authority. The Lever bill has been interpreted as giving into the hands of the food administrator ample authority, ample power to enforce its edicts. It has been the idea of Mr. Hoover that it would be far better i results could be secured without resort to food conscription. But food conscription, enforced rationing will come, as certain as tomorrow, unless the conservation program is carried out in detail by housewives and public

caterers.

Surgery at the Zoo. The eccentric and varied care of a great collection of wild animals is little realized. Requirements are many and the ingenuity of those in charge is constantly taxed to the extreme. A surprising story is told In the scenes that show how a squad of eix husky, keepers carry a twenty-foot python to the zoo hospital in order to treat the creature's sore mouth and assist it to shed its skin. The monkey with an injured arm has this member covered with a plaster jacket. When he shows a stubborn desire to remove the bandages, he is provided with a still collar of such breadth; and design that he appears to be donned in court dress of Elizabethan times. The toe-nails of the big tortoise are filed down, the claws of the woodchuck must be trimmed to proper length and medicines for small mammals with sluggish appetites are administered from a bottle prepared to tempt the patient to swallow the so

lution. Quarantine regulations for new comers are shown and explained, in fact, a new phase of the care of animals appears in this entertaining story at the Murrette Sunday and Monday.

the girl he saw In Traquair's rooms. He denounces her. A letter from Traquair, written before he shot himself comes to hand after having followed Haynes all over India, It exonerates Margaret. There is Immediate reconciliation and happiness. At the Murrette Monday and Tuesday. William Russell, the clever star of photodrama, whose work on the screen is of an uncommon sort, depending to a considerable extent on the actor's athletic prowess for its success, goes Into training for his pictures just as an athlete does for a big event on the track or in the ring. For instance in the new American Mutual production, "Sands of Sacrifice," playing at the Murrette Wednesday and Thursday, Mr. Russell seizes Folye, the heavy villian, and tosses him bodily the length of a room. In the first rehearsal of this startling combat the victim of Russell's prowess hit the opposite wall with a crash and was in the hospital for a week.

Margaret Fielding, on the eve of an eloping marriage with Henry -Traquair, is accidentally discovered with him in a hotel by Capt Haynes, a friend of Traquair, under circumstances which, though innocent, are compromising from the strictly conventional point of view. Traquair, to save the reputation of his fiancee, is compelled to introduce her as his wife. Immediately afterwards he receives word that he is ruined through the rascality of a bank president. His suicide leaves Margaret in a desperate situation. Walter Maxwell, a well known author, who was with Haynes when Margaret as discovered in Traquair's apartment, is stricken blind through abuse of his eyes. By a chapter of accidents Margaret is thrown Into contact with End marries him in spite of his blindness. Maxwell is operated on, recovers his sight and recognizes his wife as

Concrete piles have been driven nine feet into the coral rock of Honolulu with 3,100 blows of an ordinary drop hammer.

Earl Gaar Has Part in Play at Murray

One of the principal characters in the famous photoplay "The Flame of the Yukon," now showing at the Murray theater, Is a former well known Richmond young man, Earl Gaar, now a resident of Los Angeles. Gaar plays the part of the dealer of the gambling game in the gambling house scene. Many of his friends who attended the play Friday night recognized him.

GETS PRISON TERM

Joseph Higginbothei was sentenced to serve from one to eight years in the state prison at Michigan City by Judge Fox in circuit court Friday morning. Higginbothei pleaded guilty to a charge of petit larceny.

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FAMOUS CRITIC HERE TUESDAY

Dr. William Lyon Phelps, of Yal nniversity, an authority on literature, who delighted hundreds of persons the recent Richmond Chautauqua, will speak at Earlham college next Tuesday night. He cams to Richmond under the auspices of the Angelican club. !;dPS Dr. Phelps, who is professor of English in Yale university, is recognized as one of the foremost literary critics in the world. His talks are not only educational but full of wholesome humor. He has spoken before thousands of persons and always attracts persons for miles around the city in which he speaks.

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"The price of preaching must go up along with other labor costs," declared the Rev. G. H. Lobdeil, pastor of the Christian church at Eureka, Cal., in announcing his resignation because of the small salary.

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"Cy Whittaker's Ward" Featuring the Dainty Star 2 REEL CHARLEY CHAPLIN COMEDY "The Jitney Elopement" Sunday Special Return Engagement of The Favorite Comedian

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Pennsylvania Lines Notice of Change of Time, Effective Sunday, Nov. 25th, 1917. Train now leaving for Chicago at ":00 a. m. will leave at 1:45 a. m. daily. The Southland (through train to Florida) will leave at 5:20 a. m. instead of 4:40. a. m. daily. The train now arriving at 12:10 Noon from New York will become a through train from Boston and New "York and arrive at 1:33 p. m. going through to St. Louis, daily. Eaut bound this train for New York and Boston will leave at 9:30 a. iii., daily. The Commercial Express No. 26 for Pittsburgh and New York at J- :4a p. m. will leave at 8:50 p. m. daily. The Louisville and Madison, Ind., train now leaving at 1:35 p. m. will leave at 3:25 p. m. daily except Sunday. Tne Pittsburgh Express at 12:10 a. m. will be routed via Piqua and Urbana instead of via Dayton and Xenia. Oilier trains as at present. C. W. ELMER, Passenger and Ticket Agent. ?;i(limorT. Trd.. Nov. 21st. 15)17.

Sunday Greater Vitagraph ' Presents The Star Supreme ALICE JOYCE In a Sensational Adventure Story "The Fettered Woman" in 5 Acts Also the Wonderful Western Drama 'THE FIGHTING TRAIL' And a Cartoon Comedy. Extra Sunday Night Extra

Kolp's Orchestra"

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Coming Clara Kimball Young in "THE BADGE OF SHAME"

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A drama of the gold-mad days in the lawless arctic land. NOTE Earl Garr, a Richmond boy in this picture.

TRIANGLE COMEDY Bray Pictograph with Bobby Bumps Cartoon. Special Music Score by The Runge Orchestra Clarence Runge, director; Miss Marie James, soprano.

MATINEE DAILY 2:00 and 3:45 p. m 5c, 10c. 15c (Except Sundays and Holidays). Evenings 7:00 and 8:45. Lower Floor, 20c; Balcony, 10c, 15c. Children, 10c Seats reserved for evening performances.

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The Stars and Stripes in France

Showing our noted Rainbow Division.

The first American War Picture.

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