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Show :'& . i r. rwww v rTi ; n ysr&frarTvrtrir.'T-r- '' ' rV.FW.3 " ' " t-r- o y.-T- !?.' A:!-i':'T- h" n " t The Home Stretch ' Fascinating Pictures Real Comedy Drama Coming to Strand Many Thrilling Situations and Tanglu In Douglas Mac Lean's Photoplay. i There is a certain fascination and thrill In watching a game of chance, ac- - even when the spectator is not Comedies possessing genuine ele- tlvely concerned ments of gripping, tingling drama end of delicate sentiment without sacrificing laugh-powAre- - Infrequent enough to cause Douglas Mac-Lea- : 4 4 er ' V. ns latest Paramount picture, 'The Home Stretch," which comes to r the Columbia theater Wednesday-t- o stand forth as one of the most original and entertaining offerings of the year. The story concerns a Jockey? a trainer, a racetrack follower, who at the time the picture opens, has risen to the ranks of racehorse owners, and of the difficulties he encounters when he attempts to abandon his gambling habits. Not only is Mr. Mac Lean afforded ample opportunity to "get over sparkling comedy situations, but to display his dramatic ability and his skill with thrillers" 5 as well. The opening scenes of the story; laid on a famous California race track, are notable for tensely dramatic situations, and a thrilling ac- cident, in which Mr. MacLean plays a prominent part. Throughout the remainder of the picture, clever comedy and dramatic suspense are delightfully blended and carried through to an unusual ending. As Johnny Hardwick, the. juvenile turfman, Mr. MacLean Is said to give a performance which surpasses his Sergeant Grey" in Twenty-thre- e and a Half Honrs Leave. His vigcould create a greater feeling orous personality and clever comedy What than to watch the stak"business are the outstanding fea- of suspense tures of the production. Beatrice ing of a humana beings life and hapagainst fortune! Such thrills Burnham, Margaret Warren, a win- piness suspense form the basis of Who some small town" girl, heads an and Am IT excellent supporting cast .which In- theater which comes to the Strand next Wednesday and Thurscluded Margaret Livingston, Wade and the action of the plot is set day, Malles Boetler, Charles and Molly McConnell. .The Home Stretch" amid surroundings of gorgeous, glitwas adapted to the screen by Louis tering splendor. Henry Kolker directed the produc8tevens from the, original' story by tion, which is from the story by Charles Belmont Davis. Max Brand. Claire Anderson and Nile Welch head, the cast, which contains many prominent photoplay- ADVANCE NOTICE A i r ers. "The Branding Iron, which comes Home to the Columbia theater Thursday, Viola is the latest Goldwyn feature proComing duction, enacted by an east, and directed by the j Viola Dana, whose admirers on Reginald Barker. screen are has the stellar tho The story is truly dramatic, and role in Home.legion, which comes deals with the life a beautiful young to the Strand Stuff, and theater Friday Is In who a girl, Joan, Imprisoned . Saturday.' cabjji In the mountains of Wyoming, Viola Dana has the atelier role of by s liquor crated father, who has Madge Joy, a leading lady ot a cheap never permitted her to see the outer barnstorming company, who finds world. Her opportunity came one haven In a quiet, simple farmstead, intoximore when her father, night, onsted from the company, after being cated than ever before, unmindfully and her place taken by an inexpeleaves the only door to the cabin un- rienced girl, whose admirer Is will-lulocked. to back tho Impoverished show Joan took refuge la a ranch house Then the company of actors eome e In the ralley, where Pierre, a to the farm, bringing with them the rugged type of a man. Is at- - , girl, a runaway from, the very home traded by her beauty, wooes and ja(jge has entered, he working out ! marries her.- of the plot Is truly splendid. Pierre took the girl to the lonely Thls story by Frank Dasey and Ag- on his ranch, where they nes Johnston was directed by Albert little cabin lived and loved devotedly, until Kelley. The enpportlng cast in Joan's father, mudh the worse for eludes Tom , Gallery, Josephine liquor, appeared at the ranch one Crowell, Nelson McDowell, Priscilla day, and warped Pierre that his wife Bonner, Robert Chandler, Alleen was lnherltedly like her mother, who Manning an dPhllllp Sleeman. was unfaithful to him, and whom he Dana in Stuff all-et- ar Here well-kno- k . rJj- - iii ti I 11 I 1 hand-som- 1 I BIG WALLPAPER Discount On 20 All Wallpaper A beautiful assortment of -- up-t- o the minute stock from which to choose PROVO PAINT: & GLASS CO. confessedly shot Holliwell, a young preacher, with a kindly Interest in Joan, prompted by his sympathy for her utter lack of education. Interested the little mountain girl In good books, for which she manifested a keen delight. Pierre, returning from the range, was greeted by Joan, who told him of her efforts to better her condition under the kindly influence of Holliwell. Pierre, knowing the broader vision Joan would derive from her reading, and fearing the consequences, for hade her to see Holliwell again. ' Joan saw Holliwell, and when Pierre again came back from h! range, and discovered her disobedience. his anger rose, until like a maddened animal, he tied her to the t, and before her eyee heated a branding iron, exclalmtng that he would brand her as he does his catis tle, that everybody may know shewas his property. When the iron white hot he advanced towards her, blind to her horror. Many situations followed in the wake of the branding Iron. bed-pos- Hard Up Youre not hard up when your purse - Is flat And your trousers frayed like an old .. door-ma- '. t; Youre not hard up when your bills fall due And you havent a dollar to see you thru; Youre not hard up till you see the day Tlat you havent a cheerful word to say. . Youre not hard up when your com IS gOnO ' And you whistle a. tune as you .our- ney on; You may walk the streets While otn- ers ride naught but And your pockets have -- -- hands inside; Thats not being broke you may de- GOOD COAL" THAT ts Standard Castle Gate THE KIND YOU WANT Panther King Black Hawk Creek Clear ' : ORDER TOt)AY : . SMOOT & SPAPFORD Phone 17. 1 I STOCK REDUCING -- pend. For youre not hard up while you ' have a friend. But you are hard up, In a sorry way If you havent a cheerful word to say; If nothing on earth appeals to you And you cant see charm W the skies ' a of blue, And yon are - hard up If youve , reached the end, And can eay injtruth that you have so friend. Masonic Bulletin. ' BATES COLLEGE PRESIDENT GIVES GOOD ADVICE V 3. rry Where Pierces i i. a President Clifton' D. Gray, of Bates College, said America needs leaders who think straight, who look at the stars while they keep their Serve the eeme dellelou, feet on the gronnd, and who are aouriahing, ' digestible dishes capable ot moral enthusiasm that lasts longer than over the week-enat your eaatpfire meal that He made this assertion in his bacye eajoy in your eity home calaureate sermon at Bates College: Take geod supply ef Florae's It ill becomes ns, he said, to Feed Predneta on your next sneer at the new Americans. The trip. Send for FREE RSCRPE over came fact that our ancestors BOOKLET. In the Mayflower should not give us a feeling of superiority over the new American who has Jnat reached these shores in the steerage ot the Mauretania. The latter is undoubtedly more sanitary than the stuffy hold ot tho Mayflower ever was, and while these may need disinfecting and delousing, the companions of Elder, Brewster never heard of either. Onr nation needs men who can increase the number of bushels ot wheat to the acre, develop our water power, preserve our forests, carry our manufactures to markets overseas, establish credits Coionades, Book CJases, and build up a sound and enduring structure of finance that can withw CO stand the strain of universal war, famine and revolution. But it needs Ideas as much as it needs corn or catalso tle or ships, and America needs tn ideals more than It needs ideas, and 554-- J. O the ideals that it needs must be of the kind that can be translated into Shop 335 realty. Ideals that end In rhetoric are worthless. These are days when we might well speak of the occupa- tjonaj diseases of education as well as of Industry. 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