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Show THE MOVIES I Did you see "Masters of Men" a drama of the Spanish American War? What do you know about old Spain, the visionary realm of Manana, whose motto is, "Never do anything today that you can put off 'till tomorrow?" tomor-row?" The laud, of the bull fight, the big bandana, the toreador, the hot to-male, to-male, the red bolero, the fandango, the mandolin and the dark-eyed Se-norita. Se-norita. The insignificant, retrogressive retrogres-sive and pusillanimous Spain of Modern history, was once the greatest great-est Empire in the world. Her territorial terri-torial acquisitions and agrandize-ment agrandize-ment extended through Europe, Asia Africa and the two Americas. She deputized her political baccaneers, Magellen, Cortez, Pizzaro and Nar-veaz Nar-veaz to subordinate, plunder and convert the Indian to Christianity, and to grab everything in sight for his inagesty, Philip the 5th, by Grace of God, King of Spain and Emperor of Germany. She wielded an arrogant and imperious im-perious sceptre until she was severely severe-ly chastised by England, who totally total-ly distroyed her so-called "Invincible "Invinci-ble Armada" and sent the whole bloomin' fleet to the four winds. Some of the Spanish sailors landed on the coast of Ireland where Pat and Dennis and Mike deftly changed clothes with the officers, and trotted around the bogs in gold lace and imperial im-perial buttons galore. But the whipping of her life was yet in store for her, and this is how it happened. For centuries the people peo-ple of Cuba and the adjacent islands had bowed under the lash and tyr-any tyr-any of Spanish despotism. The United Unit-ed States government Tesented the conditions in Cuba and the metropolitan metropol-itan newspapers in able editorials, called frequent attention to the "plague spot ot our back door." Finally, Fin-ally, during McKinley's administration administra-tion diplomatic relations became strained over a letter written by the ambassador from Madrid, in which he called our president "a low politician" poli-tician" and designated the Americans Ameri-cans as "Yankee Pigs." At last the destruction of the "Maine" in the harbor of Havana precipitated matters, mat-ters, diplomatic relations were cut and war was declared. Captain Clark of the "Oregon" was over in Frisco and was ordered home via Cape Horn. His reply to Washington D. C. was typical "If you don't tangle me up with telegrams, tele-grams, I can whip the whole d n Spanish Navy. Rid'em cowboy! Hook'em cow! Teddy Roosevelt Wow! Wow! Wow! Up San Juan hill and over the top! Tedkly Roosevelt (100 per cent he man and the most picturesque character char-acter in American history) his polka dot handkerchief flapping merrily. Bucky O'Neil from Tuscon, Hamilton Hamil-ton Fish, New York millionaire, who never before tied his own shoe laces and the black regiment, the 24th U. S. Infantry from Fort Douglas. Up they go whistling, "A Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight," and "Goodbye, "Good-bye, Dolly Gray." Watch the screen. Commodore Dew ey sails for Manilla. He arrives early in the morning, destroys the entire Spanish fleet stationed there and retires re-tires nonchalantly with his Yankee fighters to their typical American breakfast of ham, hot cakes and cof-feel. cof-feel. Click, Click we are back to Cuba his fleet bottled in the haTbor of San-tiego. San-tiego. At last he makes a rush to escape es-cape to the open sea, but inside of a few hours the enetire squardon, the pride and the boast of Spain is wrecked and dismantled and the war Is off. When leaving Spain, Captain Eu-late, Eu-late, a handsome cavalier nd com-mnder com-mnder of the "Viccaya" told his best girl that he would bring back our flag-ship the "Brooklyn" for a paper weight. But behold his return with a glass eye, a wooden leg, a tin roo?. and the kingdom of the Hapsburgs is tottering today on the brink of revolution and remotlon. Coming Soon "Hunting Wild Animals An-imals in Africa." Come early and see the greatest zoological panorama of 11 timefl and later on "The Covered Cover-ed Wagon." Come .early and see it all. Victory Fan. |