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Show the advantages of travel to the ; ones who for various reasons are '. deprived of the benefits of th's means of education. For a long time many people thought that the picture play was a cheap substitute for the theatre, but the idea is being 1 rapidly dispelled. One of the ' new plays that is now being pro- duced, and very extensively ad- vertised, cost over $25,000 for ' the films alone. Some of the ' best actors in the world are fea- ' tured in it, and the scenes are ' realistic, as the scenery was built expressly for it at great ex- pense. The tickets to this play cost $2.00 each, so it cannot be called a "cheap" substitute. For the films of one play, the manager had a bridge built, and an express train wrecked on it, and so real is the scene that it nearly killed all the actors engaged en-gaged in it when the train was actually wrecked. Where in real stage life can you find anything any-thing like that? The expense of producing this was enormous, as nearly all the material used was a complete wreck. A company has been formed in Salt Lake, and a large tract of land purchased, and the scenery built for the production of films of western life. This company expects to be in actual operation this summer. The people of Delta and vicinity vici-nity are very fortunate in getting the very best of the moving pictures, pic-tures, and the managment is to be congratulated on the fine service ser-vice they give. The pictures are the latest, and often times they are produced for the first time in the state, in the local play ' houses. In a number of instances where the managers are enterprising enter-prising and energetic, we have known of the films being produced pro-duced in the small towns before they were seen in the large ones. For instance, in a circuit of small towns in an adjoining state, films were produced at least three weeks before they were seen in Ogden and Salt Lake. Some of you might be interested interest-ed in the salaries paid to moving , picture artists. Mary Pickford is paid $2000 per week; Charles ' Chaplin, who is well known, to all patrons of the moving picture play, gets $1100 per week, ai d many others draw enormous salaries. V The Picture Show as an ' Educator Thomas Edison, the wizard of America, has said that the moving mov-ing picture is destined to become . the text book of the future, and f certain it is that the value of the moving picture is being recognized recog-nized more and more by educators educa-tors throughout the world. In some towns, the schools are given giv-en a half holiday in order to enable en-able the children to see some especially es-pecially prepared films, and I . have yet to hear the parent or patron who says that the child did not learn as much as if the time were spent in the school room. All educators agree that there is nothing so enlighteningas travel, and the .moving picture brings |