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Show nm T i f t .. if I- - U $ U V R t Ju - ? NANOOK TAKES GOTHAM FAMOUS WRITER LAUDS DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS ESKIMO RIVAL NANOOK OF THE NORTH BY STORM HEARS PHONOGRAPH IN NEW YORK TRIBUNE NANOOK OF THE NORTH LAUGHS SALT LAKE SEES IT TODAY ?7 H - By CVHTIS DCXHAM. and made ardent disciple, of Ahem. The same principle and practice has you the support of every enlightened phy a truthful intimate view sician. the daily Ufa and Well, the Eskimo take, rare thst Eeirime hlaskla. hac a. ,h. He west, no skintight undergarments family the first idea, that .trike, you neither wife nor hts himself, to thkt our U babies. There is free circulation ha civtUuti&n of much overrated. Until quit, recently air; warm or cold, upon their skins at all Even times rmbodjr but a few Arctic explorers, a the Eskimo baby handful ? adventurou. fur trader, from the day of it. birth to taken enand an occasional mmionary had any tirely naked from it. fur nest in the first hand knowledge of the subject. hood of Its mother's costume to be fed And all that ha. been printed in in th below freeing temperature of book, about th. Eskimo., however the interior of tho family snow igloo .re unprecise In detail It may be, leavee winter homo. Yet "cold." the reader with only a vague mental heard of. Mr. Flaherty Join with other Arctic picture of a race of human beings more to Be pitied than admired. explorer, in proclaiming th. Eskimo eostumo ideal for the conditions under The. Eskimo Life is Not Ithlch ,,thy.lia. Awolready-Meted- . no undergarments ace worn. Within tn jh(. spectator. are not acting, All Blubber Eating. occupying every inch of snaoe In the It. loora covering of fur tho body and limbo to their extremities move the enormous auditorium of the Cap.toljbut living The struggle, they have Science I. now prepared, however, to freely in an envelope - Theatre, which placed the flr.t stamp.are rea. vruggle. There Is no make- - dhow all the world of air that conthat Eeklmo the the conflict betwecj them to not an object of pity, but that, on stantly renews itself. Even when of public approval on Nanook of I believe about .jTI he furnishes an ex- physical exertion causes profuse perv,re!in3,,e ice nnd snow and wind and the contrary, G,vUI lh North the clothing cannot stick to r that anrround them There ample of cheerful contentment, whole- spiration a U credit due, the Cap and effi- tho .kin because of the manner of its aif m e II as dramatic vitality, to some living, intelligence jbodv construction. to In bamuel Nanook's story And It I. therefore ciency dealing with the rigor, of Director of Presentation There to an upper and a nether garhi. environment. In- - fact, many- Ko.hafe.: When Pathe submb.ed the TbTa the latter being trouser, for of hi. dally life contain valu- ment. imme-(aItboth sexes. Both are double and prefilm to Mr. RothaM it n except the rare exception, among able lessons for the millions of X how matter ferable of deerskin prepared with the the,PhOIOPtovs intelligent for who considered have him diatelr booked at the Capitol may be. no matter how little being, .viator better than a ahlftlew, greasy, hair on. With the two fresh side, of week beginning June 11, Mr. Roth-i- ,. bboruly he may refuse to make eon- - blubber-eatin- g the double garment placed together It ravage. . eerion. to the screen because It. pic- hfel e. vine As the Eskimos have no inclina- to like a hooded Jacket and pair of are only the movie. he can ..Itureg North the trousers, with a surface of hair both of tion leave to Arctic 'Nanook the and regions enioy 'Nanook of the North" J consider do missionary, work among us, and inside and out. Besides the considerso out of ifie ordinary. so distinctive as it to not feasible for the rest ation of warmth, this permit, circulaand ao rich in other elcmeni enterof the world to go voyaging In tion of air all over the body and make, unusual an the costume a sort of f.re froran was to learn of them, a picture Into ing plorer of more than ordinary of body heat so that it doe. not thgt I 'feel no tlsubt of It. welcome' tirely by Eskimo, 'way up the land of vision undertook to bridge the chasm become damp from melting snow.easily rus nnd whit t ox anl by Capitol patron. " ieth noth with several thousand feet of celluadventurous frig; left to the plcturecroers imairlna loid film. Having witnessed the finand The intense Nothing Win Shed Water non u without ished result, this writer It will astound heartily ap- Like drama lived by the real character. In !igustinff Chewed Sealskin.Roald Amundsen, Captain plaud. intimate the picture, reveals also the . . Hasn't a spark of ! assertion that Robert J. Flaherty, the Herald The Eskimos hands and feet receive . . is . . But as explorer-producdomestic life - of th hero and his interest in It of the picture, has eooHrtff and refreshing dn this weather the North down to th. great care. The Eskimo women are family, within their skin tent, in a arenie of a aoda fountain mixing "brought In credited with making the only abu'-lutel- y snow igloos drnka. . . Superior to the ordinary South. Rummer and their The file, of "The Monthly Review. picture in that it la pervaded published Vinter. Beside. Explorer Flaherty, travel waterproof boot in existence. It American the Geographby with the stark drama of human exist to made of sealskin, without the fur. who mod the picture, one of the enr which can t be buried under moun ical Society, contain the strictly sci- "tanned and kept pliable by chew. . . snow The entific record, of Robert J. Flaherty's love other h,. men familiar with the tain high drifts of is almost incred.bly good exploration, of the previously little ing. The parts of the pattern are photography condition life of these people and the and mgn(!tanl . . . known northern limit, of the Ungava sewn together with deer si news, in a Barren lock stitch" whlch.no other race In the forbidding In which they live, is the world faro AMERICAN Talk about atmosphere Peninsula, Land, of Labrador, which are Inhab- the world seems to understand- WithThere la more ou discoverer of the South Pole, and in photodrama! to the cubic centimeter around ited only by the mnall tribe of Es- in this boot of chawed sealskin is most persistent investigator of North Nanook of the North" than ever was kimo whose-- domestic life and -- daily worn a deerskin sock, with the hair AmRoald next the skin. compressed Into the same apace in the occupations he vlvldty 'translate.-t- m Polar phenomena. Captain .Both sock and boot come off tohistory of the screen. . . the motion picture screen in "Nanook undsen. Captain Amundsen enjoyed previous and away the beat thing of the of the North. Far show records Those gether. and every night they are dried of Bhack-efto"Nanook of view been done kind since that has a special private, Mr. Flaherty, as leader of five on a framework rigged above the igloo South Polar pictures, and there that William Mackenzie expeditions, oil lamp, which to kept burning day the North. which he pronounced are scenes in which even that hlstori. Sir virtually lived with these Eskimos, and night for this drying purpose and faithful In detail, in character, and cal series Is surpassed . . . From in both and summer, for mors for occasional cooking and the perpetwinter ts Nanook to there finale troductlon conditions, and adding- - "You have than eight year. from 191! to ual melting of enow for drinking waus." Nanook of the North" TRIBrNB to down of his picture, waa ter. hero North the brought the isn't a picture play, because there la his faithful guide and companion And the first thing in the morning no story. It shows the way the Eskiand recrossing the Ungava when the dawn comes In through the Coming down from the far North mo lives and it probabiy will please crossing and fhence Journeying fur- eastward-lookin- g Peninsula as. ft does mttre than ice window in the n most neopie Hudwith hi. thousand, of feet of price-teof ice floe, the hover of ther nort . . The picture runs the length igloo and the members of the family negative film. Mr. Flaherty true he usual feature and Is far more In son Straits into Baffin Island. emerge from beneath tha fur coverwe of those have most than terestmg to hi. Mtlentiflc Instinct and training seen ings of their skin beds. The first Yon learn everything For Lessons in Hygiene, lately duty of the women to to "chew" the brought also a great quantity of Es- - there is to know about the Eskimo, boots of the men. . Eskimo. , Go to the klmO material, implements, costumes, who sleeps in his white bear skin. Owing to the pure cold sir which f .One of are A of Morvivj this they breathe and to preservation cte r wh.ch worthy favorite hunting grouni exerof those unusual features so original In of the of Eskimos museums. Is The cise which teeth and gums and Jaws region in the .oid s greatest treatment that It makes one tribe as Duffertn. any map which, the get,in Eskimos w list these have Cape' of ond r shy ro mnhrectors cling to specimens following strong of th teeth. Such s thing ss avery shows, lie about resuit of countless generations' of hat kneci plots and settings "cavity or coast of Hudson Bay, any form of toothache east the up to way handicraft Indicates j A . virtually unRun for Here, on land and o nice floes far known gr,nn(c era! interest of the exhibit. 'ex.Btenee among them. graphically portrayed, and out to sea, are the "locations of Mr. r ot canoe The made Eskimo can give civilization lesKayak Nanook's (he wlnrt ,nd ,hp ,noa rtriftx ha,. been During the winters son in diet, in spit of being almost Flahertys picture 1920 called upon to aid Jn skina stretched over S framework jartistnaily h 1921 and summers of with ing t.hla more uhan s mere tratelogue. and Eskimo wholly upon wild animal made a complete film record of the life for dependent food. Unless hard pressed, . MATL . A wonderful film . . . ivory shoes. life .domestic occupations seal-oneverordinary il eat their natural food Stone Ump uwd to JneltJOM 0f the most appealing absorbingly and hunting adventures of a typical they "out of season. our pleas-i- n In fact, they live rnuw for drink, and to dry garments interesting films ft has year-ol- d . A master- - Eskimo family, including the Jura to see in , "from hand to mouth." and literally the tgloo at nisht. baby, two boys of four and six consequently the rule Is either fresh ,th real dramarhe piece, po gnant Stone cooking pou and meat or a dlnct contribution to the years, two wives and mother fresh fish all the time. This, Nanook's costume complete, bear- - dram . .Dont mis motion several men followers of Nanook in skin trousers, .eat akin coal and boots. the filmpicture world they are safe in eating either in Its raw expediwalrus and his seal hunting n which mittens. state, circumstance i compel EVENING JOt'R.VAD Educa tions. Them to do most of ths time. Walrus Jvorv harpoon, with atone Mr, Flaherty's purpose, heartily intlon and entertainment along the moat Medical science is for th of the strong members influential point liberal lines are Joyoaaijr blended In dorsed by Seal harpoon. . There fa British Nanook of the North" and American Geographical drinking of large quantities of pure r water snow to knife, Walrua Ivory etark tragedy vtaible in every foot of societies, was to enable more Intipromote the assimilation of d arrows In the film, from one viewpoint there la mate Bow and of Eskimo life. nutriment and to insure prompt elimscientific continuous mirth from another aspect But he "builded study he knew," ination of body wastes. But most peoseal skin rase. than better profound, for hie thousand of feet of film nega- ple pay vyryjlttle attention to what Salmon spear,' with Ivory tip and ard under it all there le sociological and philosophical basis tive make s picture of fascinating the doctors say, aad many confess Ivory lures. A EVENING TELEGRAM t twenty-foowith that they have small use for water exskin seal type of popular interest. Dog whip us cept for the bath, anyway- drama rarelv seen on the screen lash. hat Mr. Flaherty lias to show Is nt from the fertile imagination It Eskimos and the lessons Set of dog harness. of the scenarist. It is life-s- tark and about the Complete Igloo furniture, including tragic and real at the top of the world, we can learn from them to likelycom-to He Has Favorite Tippl -- skins for or Americans out of the $00 miles north of civ.fizatton a farthsleeping and costumes jar manyview is Snow Water , they take of their own It .women and children. est outposts. . . . placent hypampered lives. The self coddled Right here is where the Eskimo, pochondriac, noting the wholesome knowing nothing about medicheerfulness with which every mem- though science, teaches civilisation a lesber of the Eskimo family battles for cal son of common sense. He fill himself existence against the most forbidding Into to bursting with raw salmon or the forces of nature, will be shamed some raw Leah of a seal Just harpooned stirring his sluggish bloodonwith -ins-e- ws The-Day- s end then, when the process of digescheerful form of activity tion is well advanced, he drink great ! The example- - of strenuous physical quantities of enow water. The Eskimos avidity for melted outdoor exercise for health of body on tn the world snow as a beverage keeps the women and nptnd and getting normal and of boy the igloo busy melting snow or fillwill appeal to every entering busi- ing pails at hole In the ice. girl In the land Thoee Mr, Flaherty emphasizes what other ness or some other seritnis career will irresistibly to authorlt.es have said about tha amia6nd themselves urged tlx and watchers "clock bility, the unvarying good nature, of stop being their attention upon results.our atten-tto- n the Eskimo. He epeeks of y them as Above all. se'enc d.recta "the fearless, lovable, to what we can learn from, the Eeklmo.' mental and our physical Eskimo for blubber-eatinwellbeing What Go to the CHEWS BOOTS greav Eskimo for lessons in ACTRESS "Great VTiTr Wev." J All of the implementttie utensils in costumes are ptrrore, doe. not enjoy the hi:he of Xorsfi." put to their ..Nanopk nf and of mage tatlons with reviewers The peert building gv ordlnarj " and ' k .creep nrodiiotlorn whose wrlt'nirs - tf the within if shttwing mate Eskimo !. Other issued from In - publication, thaffcd onat important centre, of population The p"ttr ,h, actuaI hrpoon- ch;r,,nan(1 n- -, s of - Broadway theatre, are acuosed of a. hug. walrua. (na amJ fJ,ptur himself taking a eal aationallnn, and the m'i of their with Nanook e m the own Its patron, of more than doubtful taste. through and Incident. In enterof In choice of thus sort which at It. ffr?at picture-dram- a ' taintheir medt. Jtut tf there charge were Capitol Theatre opening surprised d audl- metropolitan wali founded, trhat chn-- r U6iM' RoU- und mp'ivir-to"fn,'!, have G S. ert J. Flaherty. F. R. epic of hi. garat mo.ion-pi.tu- re Newspaper Opinion. the best of lepre-- j Eskimo audiences" wnoK of the south." senlatlv New Tork j denee-- p Trf peopleT'is'Tlify'a'p-- ' ret lfla"Jusf Jew Tork it mi-tand P- Inti-pe- moe-Moe- T XT "THEN for the first time Wget adven---typic- al - -- blow-hol- -' I'-- ' r ,.t tlfe-befo-re Tfiaf-Ort'- I, fif -- - TL I so U 4- j :? ' XTSenSSl v ae-pe- ct hu-fha- yz-xr-- . scientist-ex- ;. 1 ' v - atiwToa-phe- 4 - re v w-.-' . , kTv v- -- , s?..tv- ; ' : w J bb na ' two-thir- Sat -- e, jer dog-ski- stone-tippe- ' Nanook, the mighty Eskimo hunter and hero of the motion picture feature, "Nanook of Ihe North, had never been near enough to even the most remote outposts of civilization to get acquainted with the phonography so Explorer Flaherty took a small machine out to fheNoj'theast Hudson Bay region on one of his later expedi- - tlon. and the above photograph show.'iim that the "canned talk the Interesting result. Nanook is seen might prove appetizing ss well. thing Bine here surrounded by his seasons catch being made the star of a motion picof furs getting his first ture of earful" feature of which Path hue se"Machine ct red world distribution rights, the When th disc was removed and exMr . Flaherty, sav. plained. Nanook tried to bite off a that Nanook 1s prepared to believe somewhat with white men familiar capable- - of anything expiece. Being the canned edibles carried by white cept becoming independent citizens of men on exploring trips It occurred to the frozen North. Man-Talk- rer-producer, i'll huge and very dangerous walthe hair next to the bare foot and the other with thwhair next to the rus, the polar bear and the seal NasealSKin boot. Socks and boots go on nook. catches in hand to hand encounters killing w.th nothing more forand off together. In the Igloo at night the boots are midable than his Jiarpoon on the end of dried over the blubber lamp that is n line. He fishes without kept burning, and in the morneng the bait luring the fish within range of .women chew them to restore their h.s pear with two small pieces of pliability. This i their regular morn ivory danglng oq seal-- h de cords. His knife is of shining ivory from mg dut. excellent exerccte for the the tusks of the walrus. So as to cut teeth and jaws, which they perform more a they perform ail their duties with easily. Nanook licks it and it 1s the utmost amiabilit). instantly g azed with ice. It is his 'Will you have oatmeal this morn-lrg- ? on y tooj. used In the building of hts of snow Explorer Flahertv asxed N la. sei-hi- -- him get an Internal illness or fever, and it attacks himmentaily. He gives Measles ts fatal to an up and dies Eskimo. "Nanook of the North depicts th dramatic life story of an Eskimo family. It was produced by Mr- - Flaherty for Revillon Frere in the actual ArJ-ti-r where the theremometer drops to $4 below and stays there for days and day and whjre live a marvelous race free from the influence of civilization. "Stark, Barren Winter. and ice. the first day of the filming NaNo. thank you. Nyla a wered"' The household belongings of conThen comes Winter long nights: efctidwn in Eskimo. "Ill feel quite f as soon nook. h.s wife sist of a few robes of bear and deet short, bitter days, the mercury near as I chew on Nanook's boots' There to no film, anywhere in the skin, a stone pot and stone lamps bottom and etaying there for days world, on any subject, so ajsoluie'y There he carries wherever the search and days Then fanook has only the for food takes him on his k unique in several respects, as is made of wood, which is very prectoui seal for food, and his air hole in th of the North produced for Frere by Robert J. Flaherty. to Nanook. He sometimes walks miles Ice is email end hard to detect. When F. R, G. 8. along the beach to find a log that has Nanook's sharp, trained eyes ilo find First-I- t story Is not the product of drifted, perhaps, from Winnipeg, a the fertile imagination of a seenariotst thousand miles away! For light he It, spearing the Ogjuk to a task reIf is life stark and dramatic as It is uses moss for wicking and seal oil for quiring sklil and strength. lived day by. day in a barren and un- fuel. In an hour Nanook. with the aid of Yet. in spite of the hardships of life h!a civilized land. family and his .ivory knife, cut food the EsSecond, it was photographed in the and its ample purpose kimo is the happiest, most content and blocks of snow and erects his lco igloo, frozen North, 90 miles Noth of even putting in an ice window. , Withkind. lest creature in the world. most northerly outposts, in. where the temperature must never where the sea is frozen and tne land he warmer than freezing, a corner Is the. Walrus. produces nothing, where the average Harpooning built for tbe puppies. Before bedtemperature to 3s degrees below zero. time Nanook teachee hts little eon how Third, it was developed and printed 'Nanook lures the salmon with two to use a bow and arrow, and the chilin the North, with the assistance of slide down the ice hbls on their e line, dren. Eskimo, who were taught how to de- pieces of ivory on a - - . little sleds of driftwood. velop. To do this, coal, costing 3120 then spears them. and bite them to When sleep calls them to rest they a ton h&d to be brought over a thou- death. When the sea is free of ice and take off their fur clothes, roll them sand miles from lVtnntpeg! " the Sa'mon gone, "they face starvation. up for pillows, and a naked baby . Fourth. Mr. Flaherty shows us the when walruses are found on a far nug''d against a warm, naked back. Eeklmo, not as a freak or a curiosity, but off excitement reigns, for a they huddle under heavy fur robes. but as a Superman a roan who has two-ion Outside the gale blows the stinging wertrus means a lot of food and snow man a to whose whole nothing, a life about, burying the huskies until the black tips of their nose he to hLpy aeon.e?t .. the Royal Geographical Society, producer and the surf and his raw meat eaten by .COMPOSERS NOW SEEK of the photographer of "Nanook from dogs to nursing babies North, led five William Mackenzie all, THEMES FROM FILMS expeditions into North Hudson Bav reEskimoNeverSwear or gions H discovered and charted the The movie Influence, caused, by the Belcher Inlands of Hudson Bay Lose --Temper, , by that industry which to often declared to be "still in its Infancy. has been so a lnUroat n assocULoa. wnto, GswwrowR that it is now Eskimo, hnseTi?e Jramg It iw mnrtraT ctrrtes--'- in the T'athe eature. Did you ever hear! of a film star tribe of Eskimo who Inhabit the t. n- - nfold.-and writers of melLyric a composers heard gav T peninsula, one of the region-dLanook of the North. showing at chewing-bo- ots .V have sli ot-41eist odics now r turn to the films for In accraaiWe- men- - e a he but. ns'W A thcatre.-ltaritf pfBduce? motifs; for ideas and photo spirations:-fochewer. Then here to something Ntrth American continent. Dancing, to without a doubt the hero of the atory. f a grapher. Robert J. Flaherty. F. R. G. themes. res among "personaliUe on the ail- -frrt-ttf-Nanook the e .most reoreaticui tnthis popular TS to u . zrzM , things Thler of IbiTTI- say and the demand for fox-trjl tf ivImulU' and Lmou through U Un temperament and dis- rcuntry, Nyla, the amillnir p and tie must as a rreat hunter." The score or position supplied hence edited in the email North Hudson Mr. Flaherty, and his need of. new inspiration. whteh -ehe -oo- of native famttW conSiautin opinion to th Nnnook the Corroborated Bay tribe of Eskimo k other of fara-tithe by the Pathe wr North," 1? explorers t "isolated Peculiarly and tnere- the reigning beauty, th Eskimo, finds 'the prim- Special feature, to the latest photoor9 forkful their racial tradition itive, with heroine of the blc itaa immadic to s. who 'inspire live at the play And Nyla art mode of life, and Herbert Na'nook''of Thd North." 4riy 4hdpen-iltn- top of the worldpeople fearless, lovable and ( looker, sml Milt Hagen, lyric writers, . of civilization. only featured is also probably Mb He can and Victor the of a chewed teach composer Number, movie octrees that gvfer apair white man many lesaons in patience, noirber of "hit songs have underof boots! Life Primitive. kindliness, faithfulness taken to and out turn a skill. nd her "frigid To be more explicit Njrta The Eskimo ever displays temper or a "frozen . or what ever native sister make tbe only iwo "Nanook of the North. the Palhe to to a weakness to show anger, and (be Influence of ths photoplay rosy In exist hoots water-prolately bite man who affect mum. best their feature at the Pantage theatre, progets Th three young , ence. They are of with the Eskimo to the msnalong who nev - Jmcn first experimented with th Pathe skin with th fur removed, the part duced fbf Revfion Frere? by the noted T a A. toad -- disposuiow. . . if i fefcUir---'410 nd th 0 Zorde, czplorertand engine,. Robert J. Fla- - Eskimo-displatemper, he to danger-irtfii- lt was an unexpected "hit" an wfihIiLew.lef?i. fox-trF. R. g , herty. the real, true (k that caught remark- imper to titeh that make the well the spirit raT! R tr ths picture. re Eskimo hunter and viouf even to sir. fad" thona with 1 fV"7 of amount of pain. Cuts and watch for the coming PoUn. his family. socks, v.crn two- - deer-aki- n wmind. are nothing to him. but let t. "Nanook of the North! hts-igl- dog-sled- "N.-noo- a -- Eskimo Kiddies Seen In of Reel Sport- seat-hid- "tnraVfoV happy-go-luck- g. A Benjamin Franklin, For instance our country's earnest and greatest radical- - science, prosed and published for the benefit of po. baths terlty that frequent cold-ai- r skinhealth are Indispensable Ttr perfect 0$ He wrote aoout his practice qf opening 4 the windows of hi Sleeping room on rising, even in the coldest weather. w-- - vi they are not blowing up a football ! It's only two Eskimo k ddles dining on some seal meat in Nanook of the North, the iathe feature. . w No, He would move about entirely nude witout .the least discomfort, because the current of cold air striking the skin almost1, instantly brought the warm blood tothe surface of his body, the entire circulation accelerating while cleansing and stimulating all the processes of the body's "greatest organ. The same practice to urged by the heiebrstea Danish phvstcat ttiktractor. Lieutenant Mueller, who demonstrated that principle to the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Emperor William 11 of Germany, among many others. tTiS -- T,,r Pan-tag- ito- ra s iw-h- is rm ot one-ste- ar song-writer- l happy-go-luck- Ekimo fox-trot- ." one-step- ,? . of Tb y -- sm vr;-- ot Trfora. Fox-Tro- j f mz -- A |