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Show MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1923 THE PROVO POST Griffith Dips Into- South for Picture COLUMBIA D. W. Griffith, noted photoplay and director, producer deep Tonight, 7:30, 9:15 into the old South fordipped backthe GILBERT in JOHN grounds for his new screen feature, The White Rose, and promises an which should prove of Exoffering TRUXTON KING ceptional appeal everywhere. In this new Griffith attraction are featured such screen stars as Mae; Marsh, Carol and Dempster, Ivor Novelloj Nell Hamilton, Lucille' La Verne and Porter FAT SANDERS f Strong. "The Whitp Rose, which conies to the Columbia theater Tuesday1 and COUNTRY STORE Wednesday under release by United Artists corporation, will show Mr. Griffith in a mood in which he has no equal; he will be found revelling TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY in the pastoral and painting camera scenes with a touch similar to Corot i Shows 2:30, 4, 7:30, 9:15 and Millet, Any student of the Regular Prices progress of motion pictures needs not be told other than that Mr. Grif fith is working for unusual scenic splendor, to gain some historical of along with a deep and pro-ide- a what his new work promises. Quite simple in its fabrication is the story of "The White Rose. It will lack the big spectacular punch. 'To introduce such into it would only mar the continuity of the romance and the sweetness' of its fulfillment. The tale deals with the true and pure love of a hapless waif and a scion of wealth, who turns to the ministry, only to forsake it and all honors of the world when he find his position untenable with thewroqg he has done. There is a triangle, but it explains into a quadrangle, involving a girl 6f great wealth and position and a lowly tradesmans son, wiio makes a way and a name, for himself in the world. Intermingled will be the humor f the South in negro characterization. The denouement proceeds with natural course to a happy conclusion and a moral worked out for all to take as they see fit. It might be said presents that' the foundation for the principle of the tale may be best found In the biblical example of, "Let he who thinketh he stand take heed lest he K i; r ; .q. r , STRAND A FIGHTING MINISTER A JEALOUS WOMAN j so-call- ed By PETER CLARK MaeFARLANE Directed by HAROLD WITH HOUSE PETERS GRACE CARLYLE EVELYN BRENT JAMES MORRISON BULL MONTANA D.V. GRIFFHIU , And BULL MONTANA in "theWSIOIIE faH. Mr. Griffith began work on thjs new offering in his studios at Mama-ronecN. Y. Then he set, forth in quest of genuine and untrammeled Southern countryside. He found It in the old Bayou Teche country in k, ' - J A new Mae Marsh , greater than ever , in a story about a girl who couldn't . stop loving a love story so big and so human you fofget an else and live the scenes yourself . Added Attraction western Louisiana. There he labored for some weeks and photographed the very idealistic background he n sought. Giant live oaks, and nestling close to river streams. Sweeps of cane-brea- k land; cypress mirror-lik- e boughs overspreading current-choke- d beds of and pools floating water hyacinths afford a play for the Griffith art which hardly could be equalled. The story is a modern one, but of a significance which stands out in cameo-lik- e fashion against a background of the older regime. An impression that his new story had to do is with Longfellows Evangeline, erroneous. True, Mr. Griffith wandered to the Bayou Teche country where Longfellow placed the most pathetically tragic part of his exposition of the dutrage of 175 5, but he did so only for "atmosphere. ONE WILD DAY DECEMBER 13TH? BELCHER TO MEET HUGHES IN FIGHT CARD IN ARMORY moss-strgw- I 3 , TUESDAY PROVO BAND CONCERT SIIAVV Final Details for Semimonthly Sporting Program Completed by Gad Williams. The card at the Jack Dempsey club Tuesday bight promises to e;a' r$al boxing carnival, and the man who will oppose Charlie he Hughes, deaf and dumb light heavyweight boxer of Hollywood, Calif., has been selected. "Red Belcher, Utah county welterweight champion, has been, given the unenviable opportunity of attempting to take care of the big Californian. The evenings entertainment will commence with the usual number of curtain raisers and a, big battle royal. Following these events Slim Long of Lehi will battle the Terrible Turk for four rounds, and no predictions as to the outcome of the battle between these two husky 130 pounders have been heard to date. What will probably be the most interesting battle of the card is the semifinal between Roundhouse "Bill and Red Hicks. The former comes from the railroad shops and the latter from the steel plabt. Both factions are eager to demonstrate the superiority of their fistic ability, and to the limit by their will respective coworkers. As the final, Hughes of Hollywood, who in his one appearance in Provo gave promise of being a real scrapper, will met Belcher of Provo, whose merits as a ringman are too well known to need any Introduction to the followers of the .game here. Who constantly tries to "put something over, seme day will find that he has been put under.1 If "It takes mondy to make money, as you often ,har, howdtd the first man to have?$.ny getEls? be'-back- ed James Morrison, House Peters and John Sainpolia in HELD Tp ANSWER If a jazz player 13 an,artist, what would you call a musfan?X, Even troubles have their uses. What would pawnbrokers do without them? At the Strand, tonight and Tuesday Wilford Perry PHONE 117 - 338-34- 2 The flapper flares WEST CENTER PRICES FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 8 15c Fancy Mix. Cracks., ea. le Bananas, lb. 30c Bakers Cakes,1 doz. 40c 50c Oranges, doz. 30c 40c Cheese, lb. Lemons, doz. 3c Cheese, Limburger, lb.40c Onions, lb. 10c Milk, Cherry Hill, qt $1.00 Potatoes, bushel 55c 2c Butter, Timp., lb. Carrots, lb. 55c 3c Banquet, lb. Cabbage, lb. 50c Knudsens, lb. Apples, Jonathan, crate 20c 3 55c Loose lbs. 25c Lard, Rome Beauty, crate 25c Beans, 3 lbs. 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They beAt a first night performance in longed to what Is vaguely known New York, a beautiful young as the sporting fraternity, and . woman attracts attention by rising were invariably in funds, aland leisurely surveying the audi- though they must have existed Claver- with the minimum of work. The ence through her glasses. ing, a newspaper columnist, and army of unemployed was hardly his cousin, Dinwiddle, are particu- larger and certainly no bread line larly interested, Dinwiddie declar- was ever half as long. Mounted ing that she is the image of Mary police rode up and down to avert Ogden, a belle of thirty years ago, any anticipation of the nights batwho had married a Count Zattiany tle. A loud barking murmur rose and lived abroad. He is convinced and mingled with the roar of the that this is Marys daughter. At avenues. The great clock of the MetropolClavering 8 suggestion Mrs. Oglethorpe, a friend of Mary Ogdens itan Tower began to play those sad in her youth, is asked to solve the and sweetly ominous notes prelimmystery. She calls on the young inary to booming out the hour. woman, but learns nothing beyond They always reminded him of the the fact that she is not Mary Og- warning bell on a wild and rocky coast, with something of the Loredens daughter. lei in its cadences: like a heartless to Clavering finally manages meet her and she tells him she is womans subtle allure, poignantly the Countess Josef Zgttiany, a difficult to resist. There was a knock on the door. jycgus'i of Mary Ogdens; that she hafr married a relative of Marys Clavering gave his daily stint to husband; that Mary is ill in a the messenger boy. He was hunting for change, when he recapsanitarium in Vienna. down at his Clavering departs, skeptical, but tured his column, sat confer in the knowledge that he desk, and, running it over hastily, authentic. will se her again. She has invit- inserted the word ed hirtv and Dinwiddie for dinner New York must have its Word, Authentic, the next night. Meantime, he re- even as its topic. loosed the world upon by Arnold to is who Dinwiddie, ports equally Bennett, was the rage at present. incredulous. The little writers hardly dared use it. It was, as it were, the tradeVIII (Continued) I sometimes used to think that mark of the Sophisticates. The bby, superior, indifferent, if it hadnt been for her breeding and the standards that involves, and chewing gum, accepted his tip and her wealth and position, shed and departed. Clavering returned s have made a adven- to the window. Gone was the symphony of gold and gray. The buildturess. ings surrounding the Square were Was she a good liar? She ws insolently truthful, but a dark and formless mass in the Im certain she wouldnt have hes- heavy dusk. Only the street lights itated at a whopping lie if it would below shone like globular phoshave served her purpose. She was phorescence on a dark and turbulent sea. certainly rusee. Two hours later he left his hotel be should the dinner highWell, ly Interesting with all these under- and walked up Madison Avenue. Street was deserted currents. Ill call for you at a Twenty-sixtas and with papers, peanut littered I run must quarter past eight. shells, and various other debris as now to do my column. poClavering, often satirical and a picnic train. The mounted From the Ironic, was positively brutal that lice had disappeared. The latest play, book, great building came the first roar afternoon. the thousands assembled, whethmoving picture, the inefficiency of of in approval or the reverse It er the New York police, his afflicting would be difficult to determine. to correspondents, were hacked roared They upon the slightest had bone. When he the finished, they would roar steadhis jangling nerves were unac- pretext andhalf-past ten or eleven, ily until countably soothed. Other nerves when they would burst out of Let would shriek next morning. em. Hed been honest enough, every exit, rending the night with their yells, while, a congested mass and If he chose to use a battle-ax- e motors and shrieked instead of Toledo steel that was of and honked and squealed and his privilege. He called down for a messenger coughed; and then abruptly the silence of death would fall upon boy and strolled to the window to what Is now a business quarter soothe his nerves still further. an occasional hotel or where only Dusk had fallen. Every window of the high stone buildings sur- little old brownstone house sole reminder of a vanished past when rounding Madison Square was an Madison Square was the center of fashion lingered between the towering masses of concrete and steel. first-clas- h taxi-cab- When Clavering - ; i . Railroads Make Good on Promise to Move All Business Offered ; m A low freight rate and no cars in which to ship is as as a low price for bread and no bread. ory I Heretofore, fall harvest has brought a widespread car fshortage. Last year it wras 140,000 cars. This year there: is generally a surplus of cars throughout the country and especially of box cars in the West and Northwest, notwithstanding the roads are handling the greatest volume of busi-es- s in their history. ! - j Theres a reason Fpr 1923, all the railroads of the United States joined .in a cooperative effort and writh a defined program to improve traffic conditions and to establish new standards of service, even excelling fut pre-w- records. In fulfilling this program, ar new freight cars and 2,963 new locomotives were in service between January and October, 1923, a larger umber than in any similar period within the past ten years. Remarkable progress has been made in reducing the num-e- r of locomotives and cars awaiting repairs, 86.3 of the ocomotives and 93.3 n of the cars being in serviceable in October. . More railroad coal has been placed in stock pile storage nd more commercial coal dumped at Lake Erie ports than n any previous year, thus making equipment available for ther necessary traffic during peak periods. 22 From an con-itio; miles per car per day, (including average movement of time) in 1921, the railroads made 29.2 miles in September, 1923. In the 42 weeks from January 1 to October 20', 1923, the railroads aded and moved 40,545,920 cars, which was an increase of 18 ver 1922 and 10 over the record year of 1920. Isnt this a splendid tribute to the efficiency of the carriers and the ooperation of shippers? The roads are spending this year 700 million dollars for w equipment and 400 million dollars for other improvements. Years ago James J. Hill, the' great railroad builder qf tihe Northwest; saud that the roads must spend one billion dollars y year for additions and betterments to keep abreast of the countrys growing, traffic, but this is the first year in twelve that the railroads have found it possible to obtain that amount. Such expenditures have a vital bearing on national prosperity,. contributing tjo the expansion of industry and employment of labor, increasing tfie demand for products of mine, forest and farm. This $1,100,000,000 being spent In 1923 Is almost entire! new money, and not taken from earnings. The expenditure is .based on tpe conviction that the American people will, encourage compensatory rates and discourage attempts to embarrass the railroads ih tfieir efforts to provide adequate service. It is not predicated oh pesent earnings for even in this record-breakin- g year, it is unlikely the roads will earn the 5.75 on their valuation permitted tiat Interstate by Commerce Commission under the Transportation Acf, tie which if they do not earn they do not get. bit ' I d laws produce no freight cars. Constructive suggestions are always welcome. le et-er- Anti-railroa- j C. R. GRAY, Omaha, Nebraska, December 1, 1923. j President. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM s Pim9C WfflsS JFtmoU ITMs Manage Saves IHIallS least AThalf the fuel is and usually about required with a Coles Hot Blast Down Draft Range. It bums the ffuel gases other ranges waste by mixing 20 pounds of air with every pound of fuel. jThis great saving will give you money for I other things you have wanted. ' its is this famous for better JNot only range baking but it is known as the lifetime "range. All inner construction, except the n firebox, is of heavy. Armco iron, enameled. Its a beautiful range, the finest one-thir- IX and Dinwiddie arrived at the Ogden house Judge Trpnt was already there and mixing cocktails In the library. He was a large man who must have had a superly figure before it grew heavy. He wore the moustache of his generation and in common with what was left Of his hair it glistened like crystal. His black eyes were still very bright and his full loose mouth wore the slight smirk peculiar to old men whose sex vanity perishes only In the grave. Beside him stood a man some ten years younger who was in the graying period, which gave him a somewhat dried and dusty look; but whose figure was still slender "The roar of the great city came and whose hard outlines of face were as yet unblurred by fleeh. up to him like a flood. They were, of course, faultlessly oblong of light, it wa a symphony groomed, but if met in the wilds of of gray and gold, of which he nev- Africa, clad : In rags and bearded er tired. It invested business with like the jungle, to the Initiate they romance and beauty. The men be- still would have been New Yorkhind those radiant panels, think- ers. Come In! Come In!, cried the ing of nothing less, made their brief contribution to the beauty of Judge heartily. Madame Zattiany . the world, transported the rapt will be down In a minute she prespectator to a realm of pure loveli-- fers to be called Madame Zattiany, ness. by the way. Thinks titles in AmerA light fall of snow lay on the ica are absurl nnlese wearers grass and benches, the statues and were born to t'ess more particutrees of the Square. Motors were larly since continental titles today flashing and honking below and are worth about as much as rubles over on Fifth Avenue. The roar of and marks. . . . Mr. Clavering, the great city came up to him like you know Mr. Osborne? Madame a flood over a broken dam. Black Zattiany kindly permitted me to masses were pouring toward the bring him as she was having a litLife! New York was tle party. Families old friends. subways. the epitome of life. He enjoyed Clavering placed two fingers In those his the way through limp hand extended and met forcing It interested but cold appraising eye calmly. the masses, moving him even more to feel above, The New York assumption that all aloof, as he did this evening. other Americans are rank outThose tides swept on as uncon- siders, that, in short, not to have scious of the watchers so high been born in New York is a social above them as of the soaring beau- and irremediable crime, had often ower. annoyed him, but never caused ty of the Metropolitan Ground hogs, most of them, but him to feel the slightest sense of part of the ever changing, ever inferiority. He had his own anfascinating, metropolitan pageant. cestors, as important in their day The arcade of Madison Square as any bewlgged old Dutchmen Garden was already packed with all of whom, he reminded himself, men and he knew that a triple line had been but honest burghers in Street Holland. But he admired their reached down Twenty-sixtto Fourth Avenue. There was to consistency. The rest of the counbe a prize fight tonight and the try had been commenting bitterly men had stood there since noon, on the New York attitude since buying apples and peanuts from the eighteenth century. And when peddlers. This was Tuesday and you got under their protective These armor they1 were an honorable and there was no men appeared to have unbounded a loyal lot Meanwhile It paid to leisure while the rest of the city be as rude as themselves. toiled or demanded work. But (To Be Continued) d, 1 rust-resisti- to be had, and you should see and in--. vestigate it now during5 the special display. 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