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Show THE MOVING SHOW We are living today in the most wonderful transitional and hyposta-tical hyposta-tical epoch the world has ever witnesses. wit-nesses. The Chinese Aladdin, with his oriental magic lamp, never dreamed of the miraculous and esoteric potentialities poten-tialities yet to be evolved through the application of the Twentieth century wizard Electricity, contemporary contem-porary with the knowledge and evolution evo-lution of this colossal agency, thee j arose the matchless mechanician and i master mind of all centuries, Thomas Thom-as A. Edison, whose tireless research and practical experiments, made the moving picture show a vital possibility. possibil-ity. The province of the moving show !as an educational asset, historically, geographically and ethically cannot be overestimated today. I went to a "movies" recently, and away up in the stillness, the vast-ness, vast-ness, the bigness, t saw the country immortalized by Service. They were all here, life size Dan McGrew, Sam McGee and "the lady that's known as Lou," The scene changes from the turbulence of the mining camp, and, behold! the cloistered nuns of St. Ann's, one of the oldest convents in North America, march before us with bowed heads and flowing robes. We have arrived at Montreal. Another click of the operator and we are gazing gaz-ing enraptured at the oldest Christian Chris-tian church in the world St. Peter's at Rome. Off to the left we see the largest ruin extant today, the Coliseum, Coli-seum, where the Christians were thrown to the lions, in the times of the Diocletian emperors. The guides also take us down into the Catacombs, Cata-combs, where those who believed that Jesus was the Christ, stole secretly sec-retly away by night to pray to their God and bury their martyred brothers. broth-ers. Farther in thft distance we see the palaces of Ohenobarbus (or red headl historically known as Nero, the most gigantic monster and hepi-tudinous hepi-tudinous ramaflauger of all the ages. Nero fiddledi while Rome burned; and a poor fiddler he was. He obtained ob-tained an audience by paving them to come and when all were seated the doors were locked to prevent their escape. On one of the beautiful hills behind St. Peter's we see the ancient palaces of the Machebens. where mother and sons, alike, suffered martyrdom mar-tyrdom for being Christians. How many Maccabees were at the show that night and saw the homes of their old chieftains? Men and women of Milford. do von want to see Rome and Paris. St. Pet-rngrnd Pet-rngrnd and Berlin. Jerusalem. Mad-"'d. Mad-"'d. London ,"nd. New York. Bnsfan. Chicago. Seattle. San Francisco. Los ngctes or Salt Lake: then go to the movies- nnd take a good look, all for n.c And what have we coming: The great spectacular Mormon dra mi. now in the filming nrocess. of 'Corianton' that made a Richfield bov famous. We'll sen (he T.nm.mftes at 7rn-homl.i. 7rn-homl.i. Father Mem mourning over he dneenemfe Corinnton. but. rom-fnr'"rl rom-fnr'"rl hv his othnr cons. Shlhlon and "Mmiri: wf will, see Tsnhel. the conr-to7nn. conr-to7nn. begnillnT a nronhef. and '"or-"knp '"or-"knp ,ho Musnhcmpr. struck down lifhtnlne- jn fv, .pf place, co-evnt v-five vears p. r Tn tT-n iieantimc prime to the monies mon-ies tenfeht nnrl if Vrti do not l"irn oT,vtVnr in nnrtlrulsr. have a rond tfHigh at the romedy. Contributed. |