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Show The Princess Moil Eve. f & A ; . .-. ,u i at. v. 1 1 f1 ' Scene from "May Blossom" "May Blossom" - cal detail, and at the same time realistic effects. This photoplay is marvelously realistic as the identical missions spoken of in the story were photographed, whenever possible. "Captain Courtesy" required a veritable army for its production. produc-tion. There were Mexicans in , full uniform of generals and subaltern, sub-altern, vacqueros, cow boys, civilian civ-ilian soldiers, Indians, painted and feathered, pioneers of every ev-ery variety, and beautiful thoroughbred thor-oughbred horses. A beautiful Arabian steed was used by Mr. Farnum when he plunged thro a stained glass window of the old mission, and rode to Kearney headquarters to bring help to the besieged inmates. . Bosworth leased a vast ranch for this picture, pic-ture, one of the most beautiful locations in the mountains. This is a play of the red blooded blood-ed variety, and is supreme for scene and realism. One day seventy years ago, Padre Reinaldo was grieving, over the poverty and misery into which Mexican rule had plunged them. That same day a further outrage on the American settlers was perpetrated by the Mexicans instigated and led by George Granville, a renegade American holding a commission in the Mexican army. During the son's absence from home, Hugh Davis and his half Spanish wife were killed by Granville and his Mexicans. Mex-icans. The sight of his murdered parents par-ents and their ruined property, which greeted Leonardo on his return home, caused him to vow vengeance on the Mexicans and he launched himself into the career ca-reer of a masked highwayman, robbing and terrorizing the Mexicans Mex-icans and contributing the spoils to the settlers' cause. His politeness po-liteness and unfailing courtesy to ladies, won for him the title of Captain Courtesy. On one of his rides he rescued Eleanor, the beautiful ward of Padre Reinaldo, from a drunken Mexican, who insulted her and fell in love with her at once Uunng the dark clays that followed, fol-lowed, while the Americans were throwing off the Mexican rule Courtesy, who for love of Eleanor Elea-nor renounced his vow of vengeance ven-geance and enlisted with the California riflemen, was a pow-erfu pow-erfu aid, thwarting Granville in all his wickedness, and saving the inmates of the mission by Ins daring rj,e for ,.PS(.ue When the battle was over jranville rescued Eleanor from the burning mission, but just at the door he is met by Courtesy, and uncontrolled rage prompts wito tell that he was the slayer io f r?y's ParenK A strug- jeg -anville's life of Courtesy ranville slinks off, and Fleanor nd Courtesy declare heir love n the ru.ned deserted mission PLOWING AND RAILING:- u., figure on your railing and ilowing. We will g,ad sh estimates. All work prompt-V prompt-V and properly attended to tephan Bros. Caterpillar Con racting. 1 mile west of Wood-0W- jylStf a play whose popularity and fame have endured for many decades, has been produced as a feature photopiay by the Famous Players Play-ers Film Company. This subject sub-ject is the big Paramount feature at the PRINCESS TilEATRE Delta Monday night Hinckley Tuesday night Deseret Wednesday night May Blossom is the name of the heroine of the play. She is the daughter of a retired fisherman. fisher-man. She falls Mn love with a young man of the village, whose name is Robert, but she is also beloved by an older suitor, Steve Harland. The father desires her to marry Steve,- but she becomes be-comes bethrothed to Robert. It is on the eve of the civil war, and Robert has been captured by i band cf millitary marauders, and before he has a chance to talk to May, for the last time is carried away. He is unable to communicate with her, and Steve in order to gain his ends, circulates circu-lates a story, that Robert had fled, never to return. May disconsolate dis-consolate at not having heard from her lover and influenced by her father, marries Steve, to whom she -becomes a respected and dutiful wife. As time passes pass-es a child is born, and toward the climax of the drama, during the course of a jolly evening of dancing and other social activity, news arrives that Robert has returned. re-turned. Robert enters and a big scene occurs. In the midst of it, Steve, the husband enters, and when the men confront each other May discovers that her husband has deceived her. Robert, Ro-bert, broken hearted, returned to the war, and Steve, tortured by the results of his deceit, but still loving May, also joins the colors. In the course of time he returns. His little child has grown up, and meeting her in the forest with a number of other oth-er children, he is led to his wife, who, during the development of the latter part of the story has learned to love her husband to whom she is reunited, by the guileless arts of the child. The play comes to a happy conclusion amid events and scenes strongly dramatic. Tho the period of the drama is that just preceeding and during the Civil War, the play is essentially a domestic drama and not a war play. AT THE PRINCESS "Captain Courtesy" i Delta Thursday night i Hinckley Friday night J Deseret Saturday night starring Dustin Farnum in the :itle role, is a stirring drama from :he pen of Edward Childs Car- I center, the plot of which is laid I n 1844, when California was un- j ler Mexican rule. v The play has been staged with i he greatest accuracy to histori- r |