Show HIPPODROME MADE NATIONAL AFFAIR BY PRESENTING AMERICA WIll WHY III- III not let R baby babs tell teU the story atory ivy That chubb chubby In HB ItH papoose portable portable portable port port- able crib that opened Its eyes eye s with delight when its straight haired mother pinched Its cheeks checks at the Hippodrome Hip on the opening night lof loft left t nothing to be he sa said saLd d Like the rest of ot us us that amazed papoose discovered disco AmerIca AmerIca Amer America ica The least wo SO 0 can sa say In our awkward fashion Is la is that up grown America makes the Hippodrome a national lust lust- The truth no rio matter how stilted stilted stilted stilt stilt- ed must out o on this patriotic occa occa- sion alon on This Is not saying that the Hippodrome Hip has an any artistic right to add another atar to Its Us triumphant flag for In Jn this Ins Instance ance It has merely plucked a feather from the thc eagles eagle's wing That wing as you know now has al already already al- al ready spread Itself over the greatest show In the world orld But If the opening of ot the Panama canal cana is as successful as the opening of ot the Hippodrome the man who is digging gins it may assure himself that ho Is h In II for tor a a. Happy y New Ne Year And nd right here Is Is' whore we must raise our hat ver very high to Arthur Without consulting engineers or r an any of th the workmen n who are going to tho the rock-bottom rock of things on tho the Isthmus we must say that Mr r. r has anticipated j AmerI American n history b by cutting a a. straight path through the big big- Je gent t scene on an any map With all Its rc olaU revelations na America discloses disclose nothing 80 so Impressive as that mighty might steamship steamship steam steam- ship passing ting slowly and majestically with moke trailing from Its stacks through h the tile cut This rea really great reul scene is iR not merely a a. thing of or ortho tho theatre it IN 15 a a. symbol of or progress The Tue splendid ship with deck upon deck alight carries Illusion to such a a. degree that one sits in deep silence as It pa passes aes It Is a pit pity that Mr did not keep lop his hla surprisingly beautiful pic pie picture ture turo of Niagara Ia Falls to glorify America for in spite of tho the wonders ho he has achieved the picture IK Is not Complete Complete Com corn w without hout It That Panama canal 1 Is Impre impressive alve scene yet ct ct It isn't a drop In the bucket to Niagara So why not take us back hack to tho the f falls Mr tim need have hive no tea fear i of repeating him him- I self I Tho The Grand canyon scene may be re- re re relied I lied upon to hold Its own ol it It is a tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- I picture full tull of ot d' d dignity It color I and power Naturally some somo of the the other I views lows seem comparatively small though I the they show phases of America from a I New England farm girls thrusting thrust- thrust I Jn ing th their thIr lr smiling f faces cos through a n load lond I of or hay to Florida Florida's s palmy beach where I a Carnival al of ot Sports takes place Tho The II yachts with silken sails I e easily came cam out put first first- firstIn In In this thle carnival I though th the dipping circling aeroplanes were vere a a. clOse clos 1 second The Th other features i of ot this capital capit f Idea cra not marked I with the tho InI ingenuity that might mis-ht have havo I b be been An n displayed I At tho the same time William Willfam I J J. Wilson I has staged America with is There There- Is Is' Is the tie realism of or i th the tho streets we know sp J well for tor example ex- ex I ample amIc In in t tho 10 scene U that thai at sho shows s horses I galloping to a Tire fire with rocking I en en- en gine In X Nn n w York though hUh the fire I itself 1 It Is nothing more than w we have havo I often orten seen on the atago Curiously I enough man many of or tue scenes In fn Amer merlea lea ica seem too 1 that literal Is beauty Is I often orton sacrificed to h I The thrill of or courses cours must be felt and I I it it In a was n wa way automobile automobileS S carl carrying tho the villain and the tho plot took tonic an unexpected turn In th the air all and lauded laud ed in Iii the tank with Ith n n a great splash Still this thrill might have teen Icen moru mory Intense if It the audience had been worked up io to o the tho overturning point to speak literally b by moro more careful preparation It II was all so 50 sudden that it failed to register ns as they siy say In moving circles To quote the tho Hippodromes Hippodrome's poet those girls who walked right down to tho the bottom of or the tank tani and then walked right UI up again probably did so to follow follow fol fol- low loss out a 3 d deathless destiny Its It's odd but it Isn't n. n now new w Th That t Panama Panama- steamer b boat at the tho tank tank- It i a ully i r cached e th the Hippodromes Hippodrome's water high mark marl I |