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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1921.

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REPUBLICAN LEADERS URGED TO AID ALIENS TO BECOME CITIZENS

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Ind, Sept. 14. As nlon of the citizen-

Movies Made By a Naturalist By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

a result of tr

ship amendm to the constitution an appeal wa. issued yesterday by E. M. Wasmuth, Ilepubllcan state chairman, urging members of -the party throughout Indiana to assist forelgnera In completing naturalization.

Active organization of men and women la requested In the statement to

encourage foreigners to become fullfledged American citizens and to Invite them to Join the Republican party. Mr. Wasmuth 'a appeal Is as follows: "Now that the voters of Indiana have decided to require full citizenFhlp for suffrage. I hope Republicans

throughout Indiana will assist our for- f. ' A i t-t ii i iuoj uu

elgners In completing their naturalization so that they may participate actively In public affairs and enjoy the

privileges of citizenship. It Is a great thing to be a citizen of the United States and I trust foreigners will avail themselves of the opportunities of citizenship and also share its obligations without delay. "I ask Republican district, county and city chairmen, as well as Republican precinct chairmen, men and women alike, to encourage our foreigners to become full-fledged American citizens. Republican state headquarters at Indianapolis is ready to answer all inquiries regarding citizenship and assist in this important work tor our country and our party. Calls It Splendid Service "I do not mean at all to suggest that this work be put on a political basis but I believe it to be a splendid service

for Republicans to assist foreigners in completing their citizenship and I believe it entirely proper for Republicans to explain to our foreigners what the Republican party stands for and to invite them to Join the Republican party. "This work should be undertaken without delay and should be done in a high-grade way. Let us explain to them what the Republican party has always stood for and what It stands for today, with an invitation that foreigners Join with us in the great work being done by the Republican party."

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 Patience i and subterfuge are the chief essentials in directing animals for the movie3, according to Dr, Raymond L. Ditmars, well known curator of reptiles of the Bronx Zoological Park here. "Violence is never necessary and therefore Inexcusable." he says. "You can get any effect you want by Bimple trickery" Dr. Ditmars, In cooperation with Charles Urban, movie producer. Is now filming the Fables of La Fontaine those delightful old animal stories which subtly Illustrate human frailties using the animals of the zoo as actorsj To make the fables effective, the animals must portray humor and tragedy, pleasure and anger, and various other emotions quite as convinc

ingly as human-screen stars. And

How? That is what we

WAS WITNESS OF TRAGEDY AT FATTY ARBUCKLE'S PARTY

SKELETON OF OLDEST INHABITANT FOUND IN PREHISTORIC MOUND

By Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 14 The comrlete skeleton of one of Indiana's oldest inhabitants, said by Dr. W. N. Logan, state geologist, to be that of a mound builder, has been placed in the state museum at the etatehouse. The skeleton, more than six feet in

height, was found by T. C. Heistant of Bloomington, and Dick Guersney, of Bedford In excavating a prehistoric

mound near the east fork of White River in Lawrence county. Dr. Logan says the time when the

mound builders inhabited. Indiana can not be determined as to years but that it was a long perod before the first record of the Indians is certain. The mound from which the body

was taken was In the form of a square with a vault system constructed of Flabs of limestone brought from the river bluffs some distance away. The upper part consisted of loose sand in which bodies had been buried promiscuously. The skeleton was obtained from the lower level and was lying as buried with all part3 intact and In position with the exception of some of the more fragile parts.

(Beautiful September)

Beautiful September! That's the month

I love so well.

September time Is always dear to me.

As this favorite month approaches,

bygone days I quick recall,

When a little boy-1 stood by daddy's

knee.

He would help me with my lessons, In

the evening after school.

Then I never knew the nature of a care; And all my little hardships, such as schoolboys always have,' This daddy with me willingly would phare. Now, I'm way up In forty, and my hair is turning gray; -Still September is a time I love to see. The children bright and Jolly, as they travel off to school ; It brings back happy boyhood days "to me.

"Why I , prize

Beautiful September!

asked Dr. Ditmars, and this is what he told us: N "Suppose we want to photograph a scene which shows the Elephant presiding over a meeting of the- other animals," he said. "According to the scenario, the elephant asks the monkey what fault he has to find with himself, and the monkey can find none. 'I can swing from high limbs, he

boasts, 'and run fast, but I feel sorry

for the bear. He is big and clumsy

and very slow, I'm told.' The elephant then turns to the bear and asks him

what complaint he has" to make concerning himself. The bear does not share the monkey's view. He is strong and can crush his enemies beneath his giant paws and he gets a splendid rest cure every winter, but there is

tne poor little rox. He teeis sorry for him. The fox, however, feels sorry

for one of his neighbors, and so it goes on clear around the circle of animals.

illustrating the human tendency' to excuse one's own faults while decrying the sins of one's neighbors. "Finally, the elephant becomes disgusted. He must register great anger and contempt, turning wrathfully from one side of Uie animal group to the other. We got that by placing a man the elephant liked on one side of him and another whom he hated oh the

other. It was as simple as that.

"We get a bear to stand up on his

hindlegs by placing on a roof or

ledge above him (out of the camera's view of course) a man who holds an apple in his hand. Food is the great bait You can always get a satisfactory response with it. Really a case

of directing the food and letting the animal follow his natural bent. Movies of Frogs "There are some animals which are too small and nimble to make good actors," continued Dr. Ditmers. "We could not use live frogs, for instance, in one of the fables, so we had to use dead ones. Fortunately, we were able to get a large number of dead frogs from an experimental laboratory which had Just used them in a stomach test. The purpose of the test had been to discover what kind of insects the frogs ate, in an effort to prove whether they were or were not of value to the farmer. Well, we made our fable frogs out of a plastic substance and applied the skins of the dead ones.

Then we moved them with Invisible

wires. I had to work all day and night on those frog scenes, because they had to be taken while the frogs were still moist. If I'd put it off until the next day, they would have been dried up and useless." Here Dr. Ditmars was interrunted

for a few moments by one of the zoo

keepers, who communicated his mes

sage in an agitated whisper. The geese, it seems, in one of the pools had become suddenly up stage and refused

to be trapped into cosine for th

camera. They were not hungry, and would not leave their afternoon constitutional on the water for a scattering of grain. "Let it go until morning." directed Dr. Ditmars. "Don't feed them until I get there, and they will be in a conciliatory frame of mind then. Let me see, where was I?" he said, getting back to the interview. "What sort of creature do you find the most difficult to photograph?" we asked, steering him politely. "Insects," replied the doctor immediately, "because they are so small. We have to trick them. too. We

wanted to get some pictures of different species of Insects which sing at night. You know that the singing is performed by special organs on the wings like the bow of the fiddle. We wanted closeups of that sintrin an-

paratus in action, but we had to take them under powerful mercury lights, and insects do not usually sing under such conditions. We finally got around thi3 difficulty by placing decoys other insects In dark boxes near those under the lights. The latter, hearing loud songs issuing from the dark security of the boxes, were fooled into replying, and the camera man secured some excellent pictures. "Some of the most interesting insect pictures we have obtained are of ants," continued Director Ditmars. "We have a splendid closeup of an ant dragging a weight much greater than that of itself. Then we show a close-

up of a pair of scales weighing the material. The result revealed that the ant's load waa about in the same proportion as a 300 pound load carried by a 135 pound, man. Filming an Ant War "We also have pictures of a great ant war. We secured two distant ant colonies In solid blocks of earth, be

ing careful to capture the queens, ana

transferred them to the studio table.

we set the table legs m water, so

they could not escape, and then ran

a sash cord from one table leg to the other. This formed a bridge. That

was all that was needed. In a short

time, the first ant scouts were across

that bridge, sniffing each other's colonies and on the warpath.

"These tiny warriors, you know, have an uncanny way of recognizing their friends and of Immediately Identifying ants from strange colonies. A stranger thrown into a nest of ants will be almost Instantly killed. "Wild activity started up in each of the camps. While some guarded the entrance to the underground galleries of the nests where their queens lived, others started in droves across the bridge. The royal guard remained around the queen with their mandibles or Jaws wide open, ready to defend her to the last. "The battle lasted several hours until the field was covered with wounded and one side finally triumphed. Proudly, they carried the dismembered bodies of the vanquished back to their galrelies to be stored for winter food. The eggs of the enemy queen were also captured and removed to- the vic

torious camp. These eggs, we believe, are allowed to hatch out and the young are kept as slaves. At any rate, the eggs are not used as food, but are taken as part of the booty while the enemy queen is always killed. We got a charming silhouette of thelast procession of victors (greatly enlarged, of course) carrying their loot across the cord bridge into camp." "Which of the zoo animals is the most dangerous to photograph?" we asked. , "The tiger is the most treacherous," replied Dr. Ditmars, "but none of them is actually to be trusted. We sometimes wear protective apparatus. The Black Mambra (See Dr. Ditmars'

book on reptiles) will spit poison in all directions when frightened, which would be most dangerous if we didn't wear goggles to protect our eyes. "I believe moving pictures are of the greatest possible value in teaching the public natural history," the zoo director concluded. "I have been

producing them for years and have worked out my own Dhotosrrarhic

I The Theatres

WASHINGTON Who is' Rex Ingram? ' ' Thi3 was the question asked after

the first showing in New York of the film version of that remarkable novel

The Four Horsemen of the Apocal

ypse by Vicente Blasco Ibanez. and

it will doubtless be the question asked

by those who see the picture at the

Washington theatre.

marks its advent with its gorgeouB put to bed an hour later with. .bad

Lowell Sherman. Lowell Sherman is one of the motion picture stars who attended the party in Fatty Arbuckle's rooms in a San Francisco hotel from which resulted the death of Virginia Rappe.

book on natural history. It represents 12 years' work, and 40 per cent of the animals contained in it will never be taken again, so fast are certain species dying out." At this point, Dr. Ditmars was 'interrupted by his pretty young daughter, who rushed into the office much excited. "Come, Dad, quick," she cried. "The albino tortoise has his head out where's the camera?"

Much of the credit of the success of

the picture is said to be due the now

famous director whose name until

qoiie recently nas meant little or

nothing to the general picture public

Working from a scenario written by

June Mathis and approved by the great Spanish author himself, Ingram

nas produced a play which it is claim

ed will take its place among the great

screen stones. Who is Rex Ingram?

TWs is the information we have

about his career and achievements

Mr. Ingram is an Irishman. He is 29 years old, was born in Dublin and graduated from the Trinity college where his father was a professor. Having studied about life in the classroom he started out to find out

about life as it really was. He has been a sailor, an actor on the stage and screen, a scenario writer, a director, and he saw service in the great war as a member of the Canadian Royal Flying corps.

Ingram's first picture experience was with the old Edison company, writing scenarios and acting for the screen, and from this concern he went to become a member of the old Vitagraph stock company, playing opposite Littlan Walker, Leah Baird. Helen Gardner and Clara Kimball Young, as well as continuing to write

scrips. Later he was with Fox and the Universal companies. In 1917 Ingram Joined the Canadian

Royal Flying corps in which he was commissioned second lieutenant. MURRAY MINSTRELS. Probably no announcement of the theatrical season is received with more acclaim than that of toe coming of the Neil O'Brien Great American Super-Minstrels which Manager Oscar F. Hodge -will present at the Murray, matinee and night, on Thursday, Sept. 29, and the usual keen anticipation

street parade headed by an inspiring tii ass band. The appearance of the Barney and Bailey and the Ringling Brothers show is no more deserving of being referred

to as the "circus day" than is the day set apart for the coming of this big minstrel company being regarded as

"minstrel day." The Neil O'Brien minstrels long have been established as almost a national institution, and this being it3 tenth annual tour no effort has been spared to accentuate and amplify its well earned distinction of being the foremost organization of its kind in the world. The scenic production will be massive and magnificent, and the peerless excellence of the big company of com

edians, singers, and dancers, under the skillful direction of the acknowledged creator of progressive minstrelsy, Mr. Neil O'Brien promises to set a new standard of rare and enviable attainment. MURRETTE. During the filming of "The Sign on

the Door," the highly successful Fir3t National attraction, now showing. at the Murrette theatre, Norma Ti'.lmadge, the star, set aside one day to hold a reception with her sister, Constance for newspaper and magazine writers, who, though they had been writing about them for the past five years, had never actually had the pleasure of shaking their hands. But when the day come, Constance,

j who lives two doors below Norma, at

the St. Regis, in New York, was taken suddenly ill, "end the doctor declared she must have absolute rest and quiet. Norma, in alarm, went to visit Constance and caught a germ, and "was

case of bronchial trouble which later developed into grippe. Both girls sick in bed and forty members of the press coming to tea! Poor Constance was too ill to "see anyone, but waa Norma daunted? Not a bit! "I shall receive from bed," she said. And she did under a lovely rose canopy, propped up against a dozen silk cushions of pastel shades, in a rose negligee and a rose silk and lace quilt. The affair was a tremendous success.

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The Bankert-Schlicte damage case which has been before the Wayne circuit court for the past week, is expected to go to the jury Wednesday afternoon. All evidence in the case was completed Tuesday evening. Judge Bond allowed the attorneys two hours and

a half for arguments which started Wednesday morning. The action Is for $10,000 damages for alleged personal injuries received by Mrs. Bankert when, she fell down a Ftairway in a store operated by Mr. Schlicte at Connersville. The case was venued to Wayne county from Fayette county.

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Julio Desmmyen 'It is the greatest picture I ever saw." Percy Hammond Chicago Tribune. "It is a great picture

. . . In every way it lives up to its promises . . . Words cannot do

the picture justice." Breton Transcript.

"Another epic has

been presented to the

world .... not an

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The METRO PICTURE CORP. Presents REX IIMGRA'S Prodigious Picturization of Vicente Blasco Ibanez's

World Famous Novel

Tchemcff "The piece takes its place with The Birth of a Nation 'Way Down East,' and other great motion picture masterpieces... In the opinion of many it surpasses them alL" llosion Herald. "There has been blended into one harmonious and symbolic whole, contrasting threads of life, the beauty of domestic relations, the tenderness and passion of love affairs, both the splendor and awfulness of war, the gayety of the dance hall." Pittsburj Dispatch.

"Go and see The

Four Horsemen" Mae

Tine. -Chicago Tribune.

"Many pictures you

can afford to miss, but

not 'The Four Horse

men or tne Apoca-Iype.m

CfalfMMro Pally New. "At times so won

derful is this

picturization the spectator is scarcely conscious that the characters shown on the screen are not real personalities in flesh and blood." --Detroit Free Preaoi

With the Most Important Cast Ever Assembled for Any Picture Including:

Rudolph Valentino Pomeroy Cannon Stuart Holmes Nigel de Brulier Mile. Dolorez Derek Ghent

Alice Terry Virginia Warwick Harry Northrup Edward Connelly Beatrice Dominguez Broadwitch Turner

Wallace Beery John Sanpolis Joseph Swkkard Mabel Van Bur en Isabel Keith Alan Hale

and Forty Others with an Ensemble of More Than 12,000. Vitalized by a Musical Setting Artistically Rendered by an Orchestra of Symphony Soloists.

AN ASTOUNDING WORK OF GENIUS v . Since Victor Hugo, there has been no more striking literary figure than Vicente Blasco Ibanez, whose famous book has reached its 200th edition here. The multifarious thrills, the perfection of this masterpiece, have been presented masterfully in this THE WORLD'S GREATEST PICTURE

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"It is a picture to re

new your faith, in film

production . and- to make you forget the horrors in the screen reproduction of ' other masterpieces."'

- Xew York American. "The Four Horse

men or the Apocalypse' is a really great

picture ... one which

stands out in sharp

contrast to the everyday claptrap for which too many producers seem to think the American p u b I i c is clamoring." Boston Globe.

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