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Show nOOSEVELTTiCTUBES OF VITAL EM Theodore Boosuvelt penniued lor- sti..;-y of his life to appear in motion Til' -in res. The most interesting American h-j thus been translated into the most inio-esting lilm, which is to be shown next Monday and Tuesday at the Orpheum theater for the benefit of the Salt Lake City Teach- 1 ct's' associa tion. The biographical photoplay is a new and intensely interesting development of 1 the cinema art. Abraham Lin.oin looms before the people of today as an intensely human and sympathetic figure ovj.use of tiie iate Benjamin ("liapin's interpretation of him for tlie screen Am bassador Gerard's Ge-rard's four years n ( the Prussian court have been made n'al and absorbing to the American people through the faithful ! filming of his experiences with the kaiser 1 1 and his people. Colonel Koosevelt. in ! permitting tlie narrative of ids career to follow these masterly presentations, ac- , knowledged the film as a truthful chronicle, chroni-cle, a means of bringing him into almost personal intimacy with every family in the land. The man who writes a book about the i colonel has little chance to do justice to : the amazing activities of the man. but , the film is not so handicapped. A medium j ' adequate to mirror the actions of our ; slapdash motion-picture heroes and hero- I ! ines is by the same token able to repro- : duee adequately the many-sided Roose- ; velt, to show his development from a deli- i cate boy to a supremely active man; to depict his boxing experiences ; his big-game big-game hunting; his political combats; tlie big episodes of his life In the White House and the sterling finalities thatwon for him a multitude of devoted friends. No matter how much one differed from the colonel politically, everyone will agree that there was enough action, adventure, romance and inspiration in his career to crowd an evening with entertainment and uplift. Truth is stranger tha n fiction on the screen as well as in print, and when a character is discovered wiio embodies in his life all the thrills and excitement tha t (ran be found in the tiet.it tons episodes enacted by a dozen great actors, it is safe to predict that those who love history and biography, as well os thoso who love heart-thumping excitement, will throng the theaters to se the late colonel in "The Fighting Itoosevelts." |