Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-04-09 | Page 11 | "with Colonel Roosevelt in South America," Remarkable Film to be Shown at Liberty Three Days, Commencing Today

"With Colonel Roosevelt in South America," Remarkable Film to Be Shown at Liberty Three Days, Commencing Today. "With Colonel Roosevelt In South America." the throe-part feature film which will bo shown at tho Liberty theater thea-ter for throe days commencing1 today, 1S notable for tho largo amount of "something "some-thing doing" that pormeates It. Tho film shows that tho trip was thoroughly Rooscveltian. Teddy, as usual, was tho central flguro of a number of unusual happenings. For ono thing, ho saved two beautiful American girls from being lurod to tho lair of Rio de Janeiro white slavers. slav-ers. Tho trip to South America was made aboard tlie Van Dyck. which served ns flagship for Colonel Roosevelt when he was president. Aboard ship sports and games wero indulged in, and tho colonel mixed Into tho Jollity of these contests with the spirits of a boy. Whon tho party crossed the equator tho "Feast of Nop-tuno" Nop-tuno" had to be gono through with, and evoryono who was crossing: the equator for the first tlmo was compelled to participate par-ticipate In tho ceremony. Tho colonel proved that ho had crossed the equator during his 1010 African hunting trip, and so waa excusod. He watched the others take their duckings and Initiations, Including In-cluding the "shaving" of a number of pretty girls, among whom wore the two young womon from New York whom he and bin wlfo saved from that other life. They aro Miss Gladys Waddell, 17 years old. and Miss Mable Tone, 10 years old, both of whom aro well known in Now York theatrical circles. Upon arrival In the South American cities visited. Colonel Roosevelt was literally liter-ally mobbed by tho populace. IIo was foted and dined day and night, and accorded ac-corded overy courtesy tho South Americans Ameri-cans could suggest. The royal personages person-ages of every city visited by Roosevelt came out en mnsso to greet him and his party. As much ceromony, pomp and pageantry waa exercised as if the occasion occa-sion had been a national holiday, The jjeencs that constitute hundreds of feot of tho film servo as a highly educational travelogue In themselves. Tbo great harbors har-bors of tho South American ports, marlno scenes, as well as the vlows of tho cities and rural communities, mako tho film of exceptional lntorest from a sconlc standpoint