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Show BARBARA WORTH No picture could , come at a more appropriate time than the coming of "Barbara Worth" at the Orpheum at the present time and the management manage-ment of the popular house should be congratulated upon securing it just now. The scene of the story is laid in the Imperial yailey at the time when 'he Colorado river had overflown its banks and threatened to destroy that crowing and promising region. The damage was a direct result of the uncontrolled un-controlled flood. water produced by the melting of vast quantities of snow in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, rushing rush-ing down the great river, breaking its levies and spreading death and destruction des-truction in its path. The construction construc-tion of the Boulder dam now being advocated in Congress would have prevented that great loss. There is no opposition at the present pres-ent time to the construction of control con-trol works on the river, but there is strong opposition to .the governmental, government-al, construction and control of the vii st power works which are being linked up with the question. You Will regret it if you miss seeing see-ing this wonderful picture at the Orpheum on Tuesday and Wednesday February 15-16. In connection with this it is well to remember that Jefferson Worth who is reallv Wm. L. Holt in com-rany com-rany with H. B. Waters, Karl S. Carlton and .Dr. Addison Bybee spent -mne time in Milford some three or four years ago. He is now interested in irrigation and development, work at Widtsoe, Utah. The Story in Brief An easterner and a westerner fight for the heart of a girl, against the menace of a beautiful, desolate desert. Willard Holmes.' the easterner, comes west, to assist his unscrupulous unscrupul-ous stepfather in the execution of a vast irrigation project. Holmes is an engineer. He meet Barbara Worth, ulo-ited daughter of Jefferson Worth, a desert banker who originated the reclamation plan. Greenfield, the stepfather, builds a cheap intake at the river for the purpose pur-pose of gouging settlers of their sav-inirs. sav-inirs. Worth, at his own village, offers of-fers the settlers free lands and water and thev flock to his city. Greenfield cuts off Worth's finance and it is onlv after Holmes, now in love with Barbara and the desert, comes to Worth's rescue, saves the life of Abe Lee, the ewsterner, in a thrilling fight with bandits, and makes a dar-in"- ride across tb" burning sands, that Worth is able to complete his project. G-eenfield's dam burtsts. His city of Kingston is wiped out by the flood, fin mes is the man of the hour. He fights back the flood and saves the desert for the settlers. A new dam is built ami the dream of Jefferson Worth is at last realized. Holmes and Barbara marry. |