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Show LTHLATRZ.S "Last Ot the Mohicans" to Show Sunday At Ogclcn Theatre W hen Maurice Tourneur picked his : a .-1 fur j Fsnlmare Cooper'a famous Lea her Stocking tale. Tin- Last of tho Mohlcuns." to be seen at th c-den c-den the;iti-e Sunday, he searched for the best artists. Tho beloved 1,'ncas. last of the Mo-I Mo-I hjcans, could not be a wrist watch-I watch-I wearing Broadway actor of the -, rean hero type. Ue hud t0 be a spiritual haracter, with .1 real man to be tbe carrier of L'neas' meswtge. Hence ! Tourneur examined many ar tors, until un-til be found Albert Roseoer who Is an eighth Osage- Indian, and a well known leading man. He shaved bis hair, bared his body a. d made up for ll pari. Muguu. the Hun-like redskin, who betrays the whites. Is In the j.patde hands of Wallace Beery, noted villain ;tmi liud man, who carrier off all honors hon-ors for playing mean parts. The colonel's two daughters. Cora anil Alice, played by Barbara Bedford 1 and Lillian Hall, respectively, are 1 pretty pictures on the silver she t. I it is unjust to sail any actor 'in '"The last of the Mohicans" u sup- j polling plaver. for each is a star. Henry Woodward, playing Major He:. -ward, is Tounssur's regular leading man. and does some fine work In this picture. Othtsra In the big all-lend cuit are Hawkeye". Harry Lorraine; Gamut, Nelson ICcl 'owe 1 1 , Chlngaehgook. Theodore Lerch; Tamehund.' Jack McDonald; Indian. Joseph Singleton, and numerous othfrs of the desirable seats WQre filled. M. t. Kronen, chuiriiwm of the eonunittce In ehar.' of .1 n;i neni.'nts, declared after the perfornUutce that he believed believ-ed enough money was paid for admissions admis-sions to pay all of the heavy expenses under which the I'bamher of Com- I nierce placed itself in order to secure thi- itellar attraction for Crawford county music lovers-It lovers-It would be u hard tiLSk for the av- jerage pei-son to decide tho better num- jbers of tlie program, tis all numbers were good. The opening number. Swing Along," with the orchestra and singers was very fine, however, and placed the audience in a receptive mood. Then the first quartet numbers num-bers were very t busiastlcaJly ap-Plauded ap-Plauded by tho hearers, but near the lend of the program when the second M'iirit appeared it seemed to make jrjven a more favorable Impression than the firs'. The p.egro sermon "Exhor? Itatlon" brought down the house aa a I laugh-provokcr. Tho orchestra nuni- I bcr "Jazz Is Jazz" proved true to name. Tbe violin solo by Lee was probably the most classical and stirring stir-ring number oil the program. Tho curtain v-nt dofjvq on a grand ensemble ensem-ble "A Ire.tm of the South," wherein where-in one singer ,"l through with the strain of "My did Kentucky Home ' land the other singers filled up the medley with other popuiw songs of the southland such as "Old Black Joe" and "Sw.-nee Klver. This WUfl a flt-:uii: flt-:uii: climax to apparently a perfect I program. ! , 00 |