THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY AFfERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921
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Fhea ters
i ntirp French Milage Built to Be De
stro.vod in Metro's "Four Horsemen"
Spectacle Now Showing at the
Auditorium.
The towers of a quaint French
n.-tle reared the pinnacles over the
Vr,-e lops of a great ranch near Los
Anp'les. while1 a group of little" struc
tures about its base took on the out
v ard semblance of a village in France.
A miniature army of carpenters
worked in double shifts for weeks to
i.reare castle and village for an equal
ly industrious body of men that later
(:-troyed the result of their efforts.
The castle and village faced a terrible
hv from the biggest guns of thf
wrecked German military machine
v hen the second battlo of the Marne
wis re-enacted and served as one of
big features of the screen version
plin'3e Ur0rsmen of the Apo-I
-vf 4- j ingram production
LMf Lro' ada?ted by June Mathis
ibanez Vincente Blasco
Although such big structures ordi
narily would be rebuilt in miniature
for the destructive purposes of the
director, it waa decided, in. this in
stance that the same effect of realism
could not be obtained in any way but
through the reproduction in detail of
the castles
homes that were in the path of Ger-1
"iiii suns auring the battle of the
Marne.
"Babe" Ruth at Broadway.
i.L,ike j116 arrival of a circus, came
the enthusiasm that was prevalent in
Charlotte with the opening of the three
day engagement of "Babe" Ruth the
miracle boy," in the motherliest storv
ever told on the srvoov. tjj:.
Home at the Broadway theater today!
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CRAVER'S
Three Days Starting Today'
A KILL10K DOLLAR STAR Iff AMilLKM DOLLAR PHOTODRAMA
inc KUi I rapUIAR MAN IN THP Woni r- v
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THE SWEETEST AND HOTHERUEST STORY EVER TOLD
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rfJA SlwPlJE Tale Of Simple Rjlks Li A Ssmple village
ABOUNDING IN
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Yes, the same "Babe" Ruth who thrills thousands by his
aome-run swats, is tne star ot tnis six-reel pnotodrama of Hie
on the farm, in the home, on the diamond and of mother-love.
-ADDED ATTRACTION
"BROWNIES BABY DOLLS"
Featuring Brownie "The .Wonder Dog"
THE BROADWAY A Charlotte Insttiution
ACADEMY
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ONE WEEK BEGINNING
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
MATINEE AND NIGHT
GRIFFITH
Presents
"WAY DOWN EAST" ,
Based on Wm. A Brady's Famous Play by
Lottie Blair Parker and Jos. R. Grismer.
Here you have something more than a motion picture it
is a story of human hearts, unfolded in a simple, soul-reaching
way, under the master guidance of Mr. Griffith a pro
duction that will go thundering down the ages just because
it is so human.
BOX OFFICE OPENS TODAY 1 P. M.
Make Your Reservations Early. -Prices:
50c to $1.00; these prices include war tax.
Performance Starts Sharp 3:30 and 8:30 P. M.
CHARLOTTE'S BIG CIRCUS DAY
CIRCUS
COMING
MONDAY,
OCTOBER 10
BEST HOLDDAY
OF THE YEAR
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Wm -MOULTS TtllglDiiei so - WSSJS?
DOCKS OPEN AT I AND 7 P.M.-PERFORMANCES AT 2 AND 8 P.M.
,H"jSjr8CK.ET ADMITS TO EVEScyTWIWC
THERE WILL BE NO STREET PARADE
Downtown Ticket Office CIRCUS DAY at HUNTER-HOUSE CIGAR
hTOilE, Cor. Trade and Church Streets. Admission Tickets and Re
served Seats on Sale.
The kiddies who have looked forward
anxiously to the coming of their idol
looked on the day as one deserving
of more than ordinary notice.
To the woman folks the showing of
"Headin" Home" means more than it
does to either youth or man. In the
first place "Headin' Home" tells a
tale that reaches down to the funda
mentals of human life mother. It de
picts that earthly saint as she really
is, lovable, sympathetic and sacrificing.
She plays a most important role in the
building up of manhood out of a lad
who is scorned and belittle by a
Puritanical community.
Aside from the mother love and
musical organization, he arranges all
the orchestrations for the entire show,
writes many of the numbers used, in
cluding a number of vocal solos, directs
all the choruses and rehearses all the
musical parts of the show. He plays
in the band, too.
This is Mr. Brayan's sixth season
with Al. G. Field. His home is at Red
Wins, Minn.
Mr. Field has had many excellent
musical directors during the thirty-five
years of his minstrel career. Mr. Bryan !
is the present one. Amonj his prede
cessors were Frank Fuhrer, who was
also director with the Neal O'Brien Min
strels at one time, and Eddie Cupero,
human 'interest that abounds in this who Wal 7ilthr theTrmfe Dckf-
feature photodrama, "Headin' Home"
is chock full of that indescribable, but
at ail time entertaining rural humor.
It is a story that will reach out to
the heart strings for it is a simple
story of simple, peace-loving folks liv
ing in a simple fashion and commu
nity. It will . bring back fond and ever
welcome memories of mother, sweet
heart and what is more home. It is
the sort of play that will endear itself
to every boy and girl between "six
and sixty."
The message carried in "Headin'
Home" is human. It teaches the
younger generation a lesson that can
not help but leave its impression.
"Brownie's Baby Dolls," a fine com
edy featuring Brownie, "the Vonder
deg," is the added attraction.
tader and the Lew Dockstader Minstrels
also.
JEWISH NEW YEAR TO
BE OBSERVED HERE
CIRCUS PARADE NOW
THING OF THE PAST.
Beginning Sunday evening and con
tinuing until Monday evening, the He
brews of Charlotte and the whole coun
try will hold appropriate ceremonies in
observance of the beginning of the Jew
ish new year.
The vast majority of this people re
gard their new year as one of the two
most significant holy days on the Jew
ish calendar, the other being the day
of atonement which comes ten days
later. Acording to Jewish belief, new
year's day marks the anniversary of the
creation of the world and according to
this tradition, the coming year will be
the 5,682 year of the existence of the
world.
Great Combine Drops Pageant to Make
Room for Mammoth New Features.
Because of the increased size of the
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bai
ley Combined Shows, the managing di
rectors have this season been obliged
to eliminate the usual street parade.
"It was a case of eliminating this
feature or being obliged to reduce the
size of the show," said one of the ad
vance agents today, "so the parade was
dropped, and now we are able to pre
sent an even bigger circus than that
which toured America last season. In
deed, the elimination of parade equip
ment has made possible the addition of
the largest of Europe's trained animal t
shows. This immense aggregation oc- j
cupies sixteen specially designed rail
way cars. A corps of more than thirty ;
trainers and assistants who accompan-
ied the animals to this country, attend '
them. Four mammoth steel arenas are
each day carted from the trains and :
erected in the circus main tent, that
the scores of lions, tigers, leopards and
jaguars may be presented on the regu
lar circus program. Fifty additional
property men are required to handle
this one feature.
"That there might be room for the
added arenas and yet retain all the
rings and stages heretofore used in pre-!
senting the human side of the perform- j
ances, it was necessary to enlarge the ,
main tent. Thus everything is bigger, 1
everything is heavier harder to han
dle. "There can be no time for a street i
! parade. The immensity of the new cir-!
cus requires every hour of the morning j
and all the people of the show to get it j
in place.
"The elimination of the circus street j
parade has been under consideration j
since the two grtat shows were merged
in 1918. The bigness of the combined
institution rendered it most difficult to j
get the ponderous equipment and prop- i
erties on the show grouds and stil give
the street pageant at anything like the
advertised hour. Indeed there were
many days when the parade ha.d to be
cancelled entirely. Thus, the sidewalk
crowds were disappointed lafter waiting-
patiently for hours.
"Now there will be no more such oc
curences. There will be no more wait
ing' at the big show entrance for be
lated doors to open. Everything will
begin on time.
"What about the small boy who used
to follow the calliope? Why he and the
grown-ups will find more free sights on
the circus grouds between sun-up and
lunch time than any street parade ever
offered. We have more than forty ele
phants, the menagerie is bigger than
ever and the scores of trained animals,
before mentioned, and which have no
connection whatever with the circus
zoo, are easily the finest specimens ever
seen in America."
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bai
ley wil exhibit here Wednesday, Octo
ber 10.
1,000 Ladies' New Ready-to-Wear
Garments offered
in our Opening Sale Satur
day morning 10:30, Post
Piano Store Rooms, 209-211
West Trade street.
EFIRD'S EFIRD'S
The Coolest Place in Town.
TODAY ONLY
Cecil BDeMi lies
PRODUCTION
The Affairs,
of Aria to I
WITH AN ALL STAB. CAST
X Cparumoxnl Cpidure
A real life story pulsing with thrills
md clad in a thousand beauties.
Acted by the greatest cast of noted
olayers ever brought together on the
screen.
ADDED
INTERNATIONAL, NEWS
AUDITORIUM
TUESDAY
OCTOBER 4.
Matinee and Night.
AL. G. FIELD'S MUSICAL- DIRECTOR
Thomas B. Bryan is the director and
part composer of the Al. G. Field Min-
istrels, which appear at the Auditorium j
next Tuesday, October 4, matinee and j
night. Besides directing the Field or- (
chestra. an excellent and justly famed
PRICES
Night $2.00, $1.50, $1.00, 75c
Bargain matinee 50c, $1.00
All seats reserved. Seats on sale
Friday at Beatty Drug Store.
Mail orders accepted now. Ad
dress Geo. E. Swink, Mgr.
CHARLOTTE
JOINS WITH
ATLANTA
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
BOSTON
AND OTHER GREAT
CITIES IN ACCLAIMING
FUZZY WdODBlTT
IN "THE CONSTITUION"
"The Four Horsemen" Marks
Arrival of New Screen Era
One looks vainly for some
standard by which a compari
son can be made for "The
Four Horsemen." "The Birth
of a Nation" becomes dwarfed,
"Intolerance" pales into the
poor and puny endeavor of
the circus' grand entrance
spectacle to depict the Hindoo
Durbar. "Hearts of the
World" descends to war-time
trash. "Broken Blossoms" be
comes maudlin sentimentality,
and "Way Down East" the
cheapest sort of obsolete
melodrama.
The Greatest
Picture Ever
Filmed
NOW SHOWING
TWICE DAILY
at 3:30 and 8:15
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
SAYS :
The Four Horsemen is not a
sermon, nor a historical treat
ise or an allegorical spectacle.
It is a play far removed from
the average so billed "big
photoplays, one by which no
comparison can be made. Brim
full of human element that
makes a good story so power
ful and so effectively told,
and one looks vainly for some
standard by which a - com
parison can be made. The
picture thrills, it goes further,
it teaches a good moral lesson.
J. A. DALY
IN "CHARLOTTE NEWS"
"Four Horsemen" Powerful
Film
is worthy companion piece In
every particular to the Birth
of a Nation.
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Today, Friday
and Saturday
DUDLEY GLASS
IN "THE GEORGIAN"
The photography In "The
Four Horsemen" is superb,
the settings magnificent, the
dramatic action gripping; it
is one of those "big" photo
dramas which call for tremen
dous expenditure of money
and time and work, and per
haps better than any of its
predecessors it proves worthy
of all that has been lavished
upon it.
Matinee, 3:30; Night 8:15 P. M.
Seat Sale, 9:30 A. M. to 2:30 P. M., Beatty's Drug Store.
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Temporary Salesrooms
The Post Piano Loca
tion
'jp
r" We get possession of store rooms at 12 o'clock
Friday night, and will open 10:30 Saturday morning.
Come down, look us over, see what we can accomplish
in a few hours.
All New Merchandise
We have not lost a minute. Our buyers have been in
New York ever since the fire and we have the biggest
selection of all new merchandise shown at one time in
Charlotte in many a day.
Ready-toW ear
We. wil! show more than one thousand Ladies'
Ready-to-Wear Garments in our opening Saturday
morning.
All Stocks About
Complete
Men's and Boys' Clothing, Shoes, Dry Goods, Dress
Goods, Silks, etc., in fact all departments represented
with new merchandise at special prices.
209-211 West Trade St
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