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Show "The MariNext Door" by Author ' Of "Covered Wagon " Crowds State 'Mc5 ; x&fZz r Alice Calhoun and Jamos Morrison, stars in Kmcrnon IIouk1i film now Wing shown here. Immense crowdn wltnestd tn th Initial ihowlnjj, of "The Man Next Door." which opened yeiterday at the State lhatie. jfrnlse heard, not only for thU pcture, but the laugh provoking comedy. "The Mystery Man," and the p'aylnir of Curtc Peteraon'a orchratra, Tht musical scor-a harmonizing so artistically ar-tistically with th picture. "The man Next Door" is erne of the most famous novel by Aroer- ten's most popular norellst, Kmer-on Kmer-on Hough. He Is the man who brought with vivid reality the great open Weat and Its growth and n-r-Mopmknt hfore the ey op th Amr1Ati mlllluns who llvo raxt of the Mississippi rlvr. He was the suthor of "The Coveri-ti Waao.i, ' "The Mississippi Bubble," ,'&4-l0 or Fight," "North of a " All of his work has been marked by a vigorous vig-orous love of hla country and lis advancement. The fart that he did ot herln wrltlnR- for publication until mld-Me mld-Me life ranaed Kmrwn llnuith to reCJird-d hy many as one of the younKer writern. In fact h is a veteran of nationwide nme as a Jnrir.g explorrr. bijf Kimi hn 'r and .Yevote d nature litver bt-furt' most of the "youn:; lloni" of (jrecn-wich (jrecn-wich village were born. LAWYER I KltO.TIKH TOWX Kmron Hotiarh was admitted to the Iowa hT soon after l-vjng el-Icge, el-Icge, and then went to hlte Oaks. N. M.. a wild frontU-r town, where he practised law and frftratherel with llie alrenuoda characters who afterward figured In ile realistic 1 tiles. He Mao cult Ivnted th love of ni'.tur which be.-ame a rn"'"" of his life. From New M.Alco he went back to Iw a. thence to Kan-S.l?1. Kan-S.l?1. tn nee to -t'hlcago. Plnnllv. In the fall vt 135. he set out on ills gr-at ndvenlure In Yellowstone Yel-lowstone park, exploring that sIH) savage reatori In midwinter, traveling travel-ing on snow shues and skis. Tu han writing In lcJ'S with "The Sinking Mouse" stories, and continued i-t 197 with 'The Hiory of the f'owbov." but with little success. suc-cess. Then. In th fall of ivti? he nmrrled Charlotte A. rhepse- bro of Chtmago. who had ftth In hla llterarv ability and Inspired tlm to pereerver. So he wrof "The Olrl at the Half-wav Hoijp-' In l!rtn, with better ren'ilta. Then In lf02 csme "The MlJ-siF.-tiprd Hubble." SI RPItlXKn H V Bl tttS. Fxpertln that, like the others, it would have to s-o th ronnds of nufriy publishers, he hit upon the i-xpedlent of P-akln five routes at onctj and sending them almultane-ously almultane-ously to five puMMheis. thinking that. If by a mirucl" m-re than one accepted It. he -rould rive It to the one who spoke first, or who offered the beef terma. To hi amazement, all fli'e promptlv acceptor! it. It was A "lest seller." and thcrenfter he did not have to sevk publishers. They bestecred him. Hi books, more than a score In n'imber. are chieflv talc of West-tern West-tern life and of red hio.d Amer-trar Amer-trar doings, contemporaneous and historical. In the World war. both the I'nlt-ed I'nlt-ed States and Canadian armies rejected re-jected htm- for- active arrvlre because be-cause of his ave. but he finally became be-came a captnin In the military Intelligence In-telligence division. When he was in uniform h looked so much like CenrI IVrlilic as frequently to be mistaken for him. H ha served for some yara as pr"sident of the Society of Midland A ut hora |