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Show THE CITIZEN 10 the entire population of the South Sea island where he labored, excepting his infant daughter and a native nurse, met death i na volcanic eruption. The met detath in a volcanic eruption. The tlou and the devastation caused are terrific, but no more so than the scenes which follow in a palatial Long Island home, once quiet and peaceful. The half savage young island girl falls heir to an immense fortune, and searchers go to the island in a steamer to bring her home. Gratia Latham does not take kindly to civilization as she finds it, and least of all to the purpose of a young man of the family to marry her for her money. Her jungle nature manifests itself in sensational fashion. The role of Gratia is played by Pearl White, heroine of many great photoplays, and she makes the most of the half savage nature of the character in the Long Island scenes as well as on the island and aboard the steamer at sea. The directing genius of J. Searle A Virgin Dawley is manifest in Paradise, which all in all is a supremely impressive photoplay. PA WAS A HUMDINGER. Pas enemies say he was a neer do well, but ina and us girls know' different. Didn't we sit around home with him for nineteen years? And surely in that length of time we learned to know him. Pa was a wonderful man. There never was one like him for giving good advice and telling folks how' to do things right. In some things he was unfortunate. In little business affairs, I mean. The most of the money ma got from her folks Pa put into an oil well. At least he thought it was an oil well, but it was just a hole in the ground. Pa did right in investing the money there, for had the oil come in wTe would have been as rich as Mr. Ford, and Lord knows Pa wasnt to blame for the oil not being there! Pa would have liked so much to have been a busy man, but as 1 have heard said about him, he wras too light for heavy work and too heavy for light work and I guess that just about expresses it. He was energetic, all right, never missed a day going down town and that is more than 1 can say for ma and us girls for after all the housework was done wre were just naturally too lazy for anything else. Pa liked to keep up appearances. He wras a most proud gentleman. Never a day passed he didnt change his collar and, rain or shine, winter or summer, he w'ore three shirts a week. It was such a pleasure for ma and us girls to wash them shirts, knowing it was such a pride for Pa to wear them. One thing we never spoiled Pa. He always waited on us. The days he wanted cabbage for dinner he never minded a bit walking four blocks to the grocery for the salt pork to cook it with, and it was such a satisfaction to see him eat. He nearly always helped himself first and started right in to show us how much he liked what we had. Pa died before the war began. Mr. Wilson never met him. Neither did General Pershing. Ma and us girls have often thought of that, for as 1 said before, Pa gave such good advice and I do wish he could have been here to have said something about how to work out these world affairs. Not that Wilson and Pershing didn't do wrell. But Pa could have helped them. Pa died on Friday the 13th and is buried at Grand Hill Cemetery. His tombstone is the largest to the left as you enter the gates. We wanted it that way, for he is just about the biggest, brainiest man lying out there. Ma and us girls think so and everyone who knew him does, too, but oth- ers have been a little backward expressing their opinion about Pa, knowing as how it w'ould make our loss appear all the greater. May Gibson Wagner. ORLANDO ON WILSON. It is a terrible indictment which Orlando brings against Wilson, yet it contains the same counts as those brought by Mr. Lansing, Mr. McCombs, Mr. Bryan, and other men who have known him well and long. It charges him with inordinate ambition, gross selfishness, pitiful weakness, and profound ignorance in the matter of diplomacy, a game which he attempted to play with past masters. Summing up, Orlando says of Wilson and his collapse: What the world will never know in its entirety is the fact that in the first few' months of the peace conference Wilson was supreme. He played with an immense power given him by the $30,000,000,000 Liberty loan, by an almost intact army, by the tremendous allied debt to America, by the fact that America and America alone, had the food and the raw' material we needed so badly. He could have got anything literally anything from us had ex-Premi- er ex-Preside- nt he known only how to u8e weapons, and for what cause could have prevented the ce8li of Shantung. He could have ma the trpaty a success fro American point of view. Thats something for 0 00 GHT Americi ponder on quite ruefully. Our dent with the entire game fo hands the power to dictate any t he pleased finally came out of it credited, beaten, and a laughing g, . . As Clemeanceau so bitterly served, it was too great a war f0 miserable a peace. When you impractical idealism with vanity ambition you have a deadly coml tion. And how our cherished allies n laugh when they recall what W said on the eve of his departure Europe about a confernece wits would be matched! igita si pa the C ainer gptbl t ire the M jeet nited sib to fOSUI asin THE TELEPHONE sited SMILE. rte innin Do you always keep your ten th( arke when you telephone? Sure! Other day a man ca sp: one me and said, You dont know zed this is talking, do you? pie Didnt that heat you up? Yep. But I simply said, No, 'm h I dont care, and hung up the M ceiver. Spectator, Portland, Ore, In do ; :erea CROSSED WIRES. dear, weve simply change our family doctor. My :pp got He's Why, this aftern he was examining me with the stei scope and while he was listening suddenly called out, 'Hello! Win Boston Transci this speaking? absent-minde- .5,95 bout d. iihs rch F Le Thi pen ran rs ALT LAKE Ag irtl i t THEATRE to :e Next Week i mu ke COMMENCING 3 t ang Monday Evening save low Seats Now on Sale iron Matinees Wednesday and Saturday Richard Walton Tully presents the popular Hawaiian Romance 3riti :nt T brt The Bird Th( Grp 0! Paradise A ei sai brilliant new cast, including no ANN READER and the Singing Hawaiians Prices: Evening, 50c, 75c, $1.00. TH $1.50, $2.00. Saturday Matinee, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50. Wednesday $1.09. Matinee, 50c, 75c, George arliss asin 'Disraeli Coming to Pantages week of November 30 part of the big Anniversary program. 151 t |