Show GREAT ALASKAN V PLAY is THRILLER Packed Houses Greet Opening Opening Open Open- ing of The Spoilers Spoilers' for Week at StrandBy Strand StrandBy StrandBy By James R. R Park V Almost breathlessly five e great audiences audiences audi audi- sat eat through eight Ight reels of ot stirring cinema drama at the Strand yesterday when Rex Beachs Beach's The Spoilers opened a weeks week's run at the State street theatre As each audience filed tiled out of the playhouse playhouse playhouse play play- house at the end the almost unanimous opinion that it is one of the best motion I pictures ever seen here was heard on all I sides The Spoilers although filmed more than four years ago still stilt holds a tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- grip on theatregoers because of it Its stirring dramatic scenes and human- human ness It has been seen here before but its drawing power is in no way dimin Th The pla play when first filmed was one of the first big undertakings l in cinema work now so common and its success was Instantaneous Thousands of dollars were spent in the making and it m marked the beginning beginning- of ot spending fortunes fortunes fortunes for for- tunes in the tile making of ot a single picture It was waz the forerunner of The Clansman Clansman Clans Clans- man In Intolerance tolerance and other great productions The Tho story of The Tile Spoilers is too well wel known to bear repetition Suffice to say it tells toils of life In the great Nome country country country coun coun- try in the time virile days of ot the first gold discovery It teems with thrilling scenes that unravel plots and counter plots with great rapidity One of tile the big ble features Is la the realistic fight right between William I Farnum as s and Thomas o c l. l a as the crooked d p politician Mc- Mc I Namara It H Is thrilling In the extreme I and It is said aid the fight was so realistic when being fUmed filmed that both men were Ina in ina ina a hospital for three weeks afterward at at I least that is what th the press agent says saS Another gripping scene is the blowing up UI of the tile Midas lIdas mine to thwart the tile crooks who wile attempted to seize seizo it fully This Tills scene was actually filmed In Alaska and It is reputed to have cost coat to build this scene OCEne only eight minutes to show Farnum and divide the honors of the production production production pro pro- with lles Bessie Beesle le r eton as as Helen Chester and Kathl n Williams as Cherry CherT Malotte The latter is especially good The Spoilers deserves a packed house all week eek |