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Show MACK TALKS OF NORTHERN LIGHTS WILItABD MACK. Approximately close to Utah as Is the scene of the famous Custer massacre, which occurred June 25, 1S76, in the Big PTorn basin of Montana, it Is probable that cry few Salt Lakers understand Just what part the appearance in the heavens. In May of that year of the northern lights played In the disaster. "To begin with, the Indians believed that tho appearance of the lights In the hoavens represented the fingers of God. beckoning them to tho battlefield," declares de-clares Mr. Mack, whose company is presenting pre-senting the play "Northern Lights" at the Colonial. "I have been on the Custer battlefield in Montana." continued Mr. Mack, "and f have, myself seen tho lights come up over tho horizon. They usually appear In May, lato in the month, and they are best visible shortly after dusk- "The lights will stay that way for ten minutes and then recede and appear again. To the Indians the lights meant the hand of God bidding them to their battlefields. A great many Indian lighters light-ers have always thought that Inasmuch as the lights appear in the early spring after the Indians, had gone through a cold, hard winter and ended it with their provisions short, that probably the state of their larders and the anger and unrest un-rest brought on by the cold and hunger had a great deal to do with the promptness prompt-ness with which the tribes always accepted ac-cepted the Bupposed Invitation to do battle bat-tle after the appearance of the northern lights." At the Colonial this week a scenic illusion il-lusion of the northern lights has been effected that Is remarkable in Its faithfulness faith-fulness to tho spectacle, and a. corps of experts worked three weeks building the scene under Mr. Mack's personal direction. |