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Show Mark Twain Film Pokes Fun j at All the History Book? 'l"un with a pvirpoPi"'' Is what Mark Twain gave the world in "A Connecti- IHkLLv cut Yankee In King Arthur's Court." which, presented by William Fox as a I special film production, Is to be shown beginnlnq Sunday al tliv Ogden theatre. Mark Twain wrote this great comic romance first to make the world laugh and I second to "show up" King Arthur. flH Twain had not a very high opinion of the Knights of the Round Table liifl He had heard too much about them. Ruskin nnd William Morris had been iLLl feeding the public un the Middle Ages, and it had become the fashion to believe pBLaafl lhat everybody dead and gone was better than everybody alive Tennyson's r saaaaaal "Idylls of the King" road Mark Twain sick. H-- WSM tired of the Middle Ages. I-Ladles I-Ladles languishing In high, Inaccessible towers, waiting for knights to com- f Laaaal and rescue them, did not appeal to him at all. He had been brought up on the j Mississippi, and he had the idea that one Miasisssippl rlverruan was as gooi! L saaaaaa! as several oi" the Knighta i the Round fable and protfably a lot better, Si ' H "alahad he considered a wishy-washy sort ot" hero; he preferred Tom Sawyer. "I'll show up King Arthur and his well known knights," said Mark Twain, in effect. Po lie wrote a book describing the adventures of a modern, smart, clever young American at the Court of King Arthur. One of the first things this young American. Martin Cavendish, discov i ered was that Arthur and the Knights yvcre victims of superstition. Then he discovered that tho plumbing ot King Arthur's Castle was very bad in j deed. The vaunted knichts did not take a bath an too often, and the ladle? of the court wore not particularly attractive, HARRy C MYERS ahJ. PAULINE STAPLKjE tA-oNNECTCUT VANICEE IN ICIN6 ARTHUfG COURT4 "VPllXIAM. POJt PRODUCT 1 0O Worst of all, the Knights ol tho Round Table were no great shakes wh-n It como to fighting. Martin, armed with a revolver and a lasso, defeated iLLV the whole company of thorn in n great tournament, and then turned aXOUnd LiLLb and told the king that all tills talk about nobility was bunk. H Life in Lyonncsae was uncomfortable for tho Yankee unul he hud mouur H cd all the knights on motorcycles, given them revolvers, and improved the H royal telephone service and the plumbing- J This was all great fun for Mark Twain and his readers, fnd ii did H good work in decreasing the sale of art leather books of neo-niedjeval works IH such as Morris' "Three Red Ross aCrOsa the Moon' and Roset'i's "The H Blesaed Damozel." And it is great lun for th motion picture public. Judging from the sm cesa A dcjnneCjtfcui Yankee" hay had at New York. LOI Angeles, Loudou and HiamBtYri aaQ |