Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-22 | Page 7 | Red Cross to Get Receipts of Film

fifSOSS TO GET ! RECEIPTSOF FILM 'The Fighting Roosevelts Will Be at Orpheum, Beginning Be-ginning March 31. Ajl financial returns received from the oniMtlon throughout the world of "The Kichting Roosevelts," an authorized version ver-sion of Theodore Roosevelt's life and works, will be donated to the American Red Cross until all American soldiers Java returned to their homes from the V The production, which will be shown t tho Orpheum, March SI and April 1 for t!i benefit of the Salt Lake City Teachers' association, is a plcturlzatlon , the life of the former president from ,h, cradle to the White House. Colonel Roosevelt announced, when ne-toiiations ne-toiiations were successfully concluded lor a special motion picture based on his ctreer, that he would make the American Red Cross, and possibly other war work orMnl.atlons, the beneficiaries of any orollt which might accrue to him in the Sr-'eement which was made. He wrote statement to this effect, which has been nhoioEraphed and Incorporated in the first reel of the picture. Just how much the Red Cross will revive through this unique arrangement. Tliich. g0 far as is known, is the first of lis kind, no one has attempted to state Hh a"y degree of certainty, but men who are Intimately acquainted with the motion picture Industry, and who know from previous experience the popularity accorded to other big special screen attractions, at-tractions, predict that the amount that will ultimately be paid to the Red Cross under the terms of tho late Colonel Roosevelt's donation will run well into six figures.