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Show Szoanson Piked "Nature Man" HILE the continuation of the se-rial se-rial pictures at the Rex theater will form one of the principal features at that house during the coming week, the programme winch is to be shown ou Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday is of especial interest. On Sunday and Monday the fourth episode of "The Red Circle, ' ' a chapter entitled "In fcrUrengo Attire " will be shown. On Friday Fri-day and Saturday there will be the fourth, installment of the "Graft" series;; se-ries;; a, yarn suggested by Reginald Wright KaufTman, the novelist and playwright, and caife,d "The Power of the People." ? The bill for Tuesday, Wednesday and Tlmrsday will be the Universal feature ",The Nature Man," with Joe Knowles ii'l; the leading' role. This film was inspected in-spected in New York by William H. Swanson, owner of tttf-Rex theater, and booked by him there, after its enthusiastic enthusias-tic reception in the metropolis. It s the story of a man who went into the woods somewhat after the fashion of Kobinson Crusoe, and, the story is tup-posed tup-posed to depict his life. . Of its kind the picture stands alone in motion picture history. .The time, the energy, the patience of its.producers, as evidenced by the rare pictures shown-, is nothing short of marvelous. You see a man enter the primeval wilds of the California mountains, unarmed, without tools or provisions of any kind, and ip a succession of most intensely interesting scenes you see how he conquers the forces of nature; how he clothes and feeds himself, makes r, fire and emerges compieror of brute force by the su-pteme su-pteme intelligence of a human being. The pictures themselves axe the full-proof full-proof of the genuincuess of the mu's, and men, women and children, ! regardless of their motion picture likes or dislikes will be held in thrilling fast-unit inn while "The Nature Man" builds ii tire by friction, makes a comfortable com-fortable shelter, makes a rope of bark, weaves a rish net from bark fiber, fashions fash-ions a fih spear and spears tish, builds a birch canoe, makes pets of bear cubs, snares rabbits for food, trees and captures cap-tures a bear, captures and kills a menu-lain menu-lain lion without weapons of modern mankind, snares wild elk and other animals, ani-mals, shoots the rapids of n mount a in fd-oani mi a log raft, and in short coiu-jilrtelv coiu-jilrtelv cares fur himself. i-Vr the t hree rh antics of programme mi lite house during the week excellent 'lill-in'' pictures have been provided, .-uiu-isir.t; comedies and short dramas : in sufficient quantity to make a full- f length show and of a qualit v com men - Minte with the hih standard of 1 pi. -hires shown at the Hex. |