Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 230, 6 August 1920 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. RICHMOND, IND FRIDAY, AUG. 6, 1920.

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MORE FOLKS LIVE IN CITIES THAN COUNTRY, CENSUS MAY REVEAL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. For the Bret time in the history of the United States the 1920 census returns will show that more people live In the cities and towns than in the rural territory, officials of the census hureau estimated Thursday. When the final tabulations are completed, officials declared, they expect it to be shown that 51 or possibly 52 per cent of the total population of continental United States resides In urban districts. According to the official estimate, of the total population recently made by Dr. J. A. Hill, chief statistician of the census bureau, which was 105,000,000, the numbe? of people living in cities and towns, if the percentage is 51, would be 53,550,000 and 51,450,000 in rural territory. That the urban population would ex

ceed the rural has become increasingly evident, as the tabulations are completed, census officials stated. Country Population Is Leas. With the population of about onethird of the cities and towns, including practically all of the larger cities, and about one-third of the counties, tabulated and announced, the bureau statisticians feel certain that the rural population will be shown to be less than the urban. "There has been a very great tendency toward large Increases in the cities and towns which we can't account for, unless it has come from the country," said Samuel L. Rogers, director of the census. "This tendency toward the cities has been apparent for some time." The increase in the proportion of the urban population has been 6teady and rapid since 1880. In fact, this tendency has been manifested conspicuously since 1820.

The Theatres

WASHINGTON. What position does the scenarist i rightfully hold among the creators of I dramatic literature? A few authors of novels, who claim that their works have been mutilated by the continuity writers in their transition to screen form, would banish the scenarist from the face of the earth. They claim that he is "neither fish, fowl, nor good red herring." That he occupies an anomalous position that should be abolished. On the other hand, there are those who scoff at the meager knowledge of film technique possessed by the average author and maintain that the best photo-stories are not adaptations from novels or serial, but are furnished by men who write for the screen directly and exclusively. As a practical example, they generally point to C. Gardner Sullivan. Such popular vehicles as "Wagon Tracks," "Stepping Out," and "The Woman in the Suitcase" have recently come from his pen. He is the author of the appealing Enid Bennett picture, "The False Road," in which the pretty star is appearing at the Washington Theatre Friday and Saturday. MURRETTE. Can a picture be funny and thrilling at the same time? Nine people out of every ten will reply "no" and in the majority of cases they are right for it is the most difficult task in the making of motion pictures to inject a thrill In a purely comedy story particularly Ss this true when that comedy is a broad travesty on some serious subject. But in "Married Ldfe" the new Mack Sennett five-reel super comedy due at the Murretto for two days, beginning Friday, this master of mirth making has atta.iited the almost impossible. In

this purely farcical offering he has Injected one thrill after another and to make this feat doubly marvelous, the thrills and comedy are so closely intertwined that the shivers up the spine are immediately dispelled by the laugh that follows. Ben Turpln, he of the contrary eyes leads the Sennett fun makers in the intermingling of laughs and thrills. As Rodney St. Clair, the dashing hero, he first turns the trick in one of the most realistic football scrimmages the screen has produced in a long time. This performance he repeats later on In the hospital where he Is inflated with gas and floats out of the windows and still later when he and Jimmy Finlayson battle on wings of an airplane of the earth. Then to cap the climax he gives the auditor the supreme laugh thrill of the evening at the very tail end of the story. MURRAY. It never pays to deal from tho bot

tom of the deck, whether in the game 1

of cards or in the game of life! Frank Keenan, portraying the picturesque tramp in "Smouldering Embers" had to deal with those who had double crossed in both cards and life. The Murray theatre is presenting this newest of Frank Keenon's productions for Pathe the last half of the week. It is an original story by Kate Corbaley, who has woven a charming romance around tho mayor's stepson and a vagabond's pretty daughter, with a vagabond playing a cupld-by-proxy role. It is doubtful if Frank Keenan has ever bad a more charming and sympa

thetic role than the one in "Smoldering Embers." The love he had for his son was so big and fine and noble

that he could enter the boy's life, save him from disgrace and set him on the

road to happiness, and then go out of

it; the boy never knowing that the ragged old tramp was his father he thought dead, but who lived in his memory as a "regular fellow." RICHMOND. The name of Theda Bara is 6ynony moua with vampire. With unquestioned genius she depicts the soul of the

adventuress and temptress in all ages

and climes.

This unique personality of the screen

is really an American, although every evidence of manner and demeanor suggests a foreigner from the borderland

of clustered nations. In a cinema j sense bloods of various races have

flowed through her veins the pasBlonate Latin, the magnificent Oriental, the Egyptian. In "Salome" she achieves the apex of her art, after a series of productions that have left a permanent imprint upon the motion picture industry. She sounds the depths of human passion and stirs the spectators to ecstacies of admiration. Her Salome can be seen at the Richmond theatre next Sunday. MURRAY VAUDEVILLE A good vaudeville show and a splendid picture at the Murray the last half of the week make up one of the best bills that has been seen on local stages for some time. The bill is opened by Eldora and company, manipulators of heavy weights. Eldora does some fearless stunts. Very few jugglers attempt to juggle wagon wheels or catch weights

as big as large pumpkins on the back of their neck. Eldora is no respecter of articles. He seems to take just aa much delight in Juggling a four-legged table as he does in catching a rubber ball. He closes his act with a sensational catch of a giant' weight which files through the air and lands on the back of his neck when he steps on a spring board. Oliver and Lee In "The Boob and the Girl," make a decided hit. Oliver gives one of the best impersonations of an awkward, country fellow that has appeared here for some time. The girl has a pleasant manner and their team-work is excellent. They 6ucceeder in getting a good round of applatfse from the second show crowd and that speaks for itself.The Four Franklins, jazz artists, close the bill. Their first offering is a saxaphone quartet and they furnish

some real melody. They pass rapidly from one set of instruments to another

and seem equally at home with each I

set. Their offering is full of pep, jazz

and harmony, and is a fitting finish tt a good, clean bill.

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