Attractions
at Theaters i
ATTRACTIONS TONIGHT
COLISEUM—Viola Dana in “Life’s
Darn Funny.”
PALACE—Priscilla Dean In “Under
Two Flags."
COMING ATTH«OTIONS
COLISEUM—Mary Miles Minter ir
“Her Winning Way.”
PALACE—“False Fronts.”
PUBLIC PLEASED
WITH VIOLA DANA
When an audience of picturegoert
becomes thoroughly engrossed with
the action of the screen, so absorbed
that everything else is as nothing
and when as one person it breaks
forth into applause—then, you can
nay that there’s something excep
tional about the picture.
That's just what can be said about
“Life's Darn FunB’y,” the Dallas M
Fitzgerald production for Metro, which
had Its first showing yesterday at the
Coliseum Theatre, and which proved
as entertaining and exciting a pic
ture an has been seen in this tit)
in a long time.
Two things contributed to this. Tht
most Impbrtant was the scintillating
dashing performance given by Viols
Dana as Zoe IJobert, the struggling
little violinist, whose plans of storm
ing the artistic world repeatedly gc
wrong.
•'UNDER TWO FLAGS”
AT PALACE TONIGHT
Ouida's immortal romance, “Undei
Two Flags,” Is probably the bes
known tragedy in the world, it flrsi
achieved tame as a work of fiction;
then as a play with that remarkabh
actress Blanche Bates in the role o
Cigarette, and now Universal gives b
to a long expectant public as a pho
toplay. The producing company i;
fortunate in having under contrac
the one star that could do full jus
tice to the part, that is Priscilli
Dean. The picture was shown hen
for the first .time last night at th(
Palace Theatre.
Masterly direction by Tod Brown
Ing, unequaled fire and verve of th(
star, and a splendid supporting cast
all in conjunction with the strengt!
of the basic story, make of this pro
duction one of the greatest picturei
ever shown. Miss Dean is a never
ending surprise, each picture she
makes seems to be the last word ii
histrionic ability, yet along comes th<
next Just a trifle better. It is no
such a difficult task selecting vehicle:
for such a star, because there an
plenty of magnifleent stories avail
able when one has the ability to plai
the parts.
NEWSPAPER GIRL POSES
A8 MAID TO GET INTERVIEW
As a clever ycigng newspaper write
and book reviewer who attempts ti
revamp the love theories of a fascl
Bating young author and to that em
gets a job as a housemaid in hi
borne, Mary Miles Minter has anothe
delightful role of the mischievous, rt
sourceful modern girl in “Her Wir
nlng Way,” which will be at th
Coliseum tomorrow matinee and Sal
urday night. '
“FALSE FRONTS” OPENS
AT PALACE 8L/NDAYY
The riotous glee of victorious co
legtans,. the triumph of a footba
star, the Bretdnse and sham of Net
York, Its d“l> Me, th
Jiuman^Nmtii of a smart set las
l
yer, the wiles of a match-making
mother, the abiding faith of a lovely
young wife, the ultimate worth of
an honored name and its traditions
—these are but a few of the angles
presented by S. Barrett McCormick
In his absorbing drama of New York
society, "False Fronts," which is to
be at the Palace starting Sundwjtf
matinee.
“False Fronts" tells the story of a
Southern youth, Keith Drummond,
who is left penniless by the death of
his father and is compelled to aban
don his college course. His only
heritage Is a fine name and a crop
of debts.
JACK HOLT AND BEBE
DANIELS AT COLISEUM
A real scene worthy to serve as
a David Belasco background! That's
what stage experts are claiming for
a love episode in “North of the!
Rio Grande," a Jack Holt-Bebe Dan
iels co-star Paramount picture which
will be shown at the Coliseum Thea
tre next Sunday.
The two players are seen In a
narorw canyon just as the sun is
setting. Huge barrel and tree cacti
jut out of the towering stone walls
which rise straight up on both sides.
The scene breathes the spirit of the
great out-of-doors, of the country
where Dame Nature is most decided
ly still in the rough.
PARISH SCHOOL
OPENS TUESDAY
leaching Staff Is Announced
—‘ Battling’1 Johnson Is
Athletic Instructor.
With the interior freshly painted
and kalsomined, new lockors added
and the gymnasium refitted, the
Parish School will open for the fall
term next Tuesday, September 4,
at 9 o’clock In the morning for the
pupils of all grades and the first
year high school.
The teaching staff will consist en
tirely of Sisters of St. Ann under
the direction of Rev. A. J. Rocattl.
I “Battling" Johnson will have charge
of athletics and Prof. Sumpf will
again direct the school orchestra.
The Sisters of St. Ann. on the teach
, ing staff, will be Sister M. Perpetual
Help. Sister M. Ethelind, Sister M.
Thomaslna and Sister M. Abagail.
Pupils from other schools are re
quoelcd to present promotion cards
1 or credits. The course of studies
i and text books will be the same
1 as used in the Territorial schools
with half an hour added for religious
i instruction every day.
BRITISH ENCOURAGED BY
OIL DRILLING SUCCESSES
I.ONDON, Aug. 31—The success of
recent oil-drilling operations In the
I northern counties- of England and In
•'Scotland have led to new drilling
>! operations on a larger scale. The
-; oil found, while not abundant, is
11 claimed to be of the finest heavy
( grade and has led many geologists
- to. believe that asphalt deposits lie
. in this section.
Oil has been found in Derbyshire,
s' Staffordshire and Midlothian. At
Hardstoft, Berbyshtre, a well drilled
about a year ago has produced a
thousand tons of heavy oil and the
well is still flowing. Five other wells
In this section have shown traces of
- oil but have not yet been pumped.
1 Indications of oil have been found
7 in the Staff ordabire coal mines, bat
s the prospects of not believed en
- coursging for the operator.
FIRST STEP IN
BOND CASE WON
BY PETERSBURO
Judge Reed Holds no Ground
for Enjoining Town from
Issuing Bonds.
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Judge T. 11. Rood yesterday ruled
hat the town of Petersburg is with
n its rights In providing for the
ssuance, sale, maturity and redemp
tion of municipal electric light and
tiotwor bands and, by suttglaing a
lejauirer tiled by Henry Roden a;
taunael for that community, dismirs
jd the action brought by Paul Lund
iii the local U. S. Disrttct Court in
which it was fought to enjoin the
own from i.juing the bonds. Papers
in an appeal are being perfected by
[I. iL. Faulkner, attorney for Mr.
Lund, and tho action will be carried
to the U. S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals.
Thu suit, which was started on
August 1th, last, is a friendly one,
instituted on the ad'lie of Mr.
Roden to the City Council of Peters
burg in order to clear away certain
technical points now holding up the
Issuance of the bonds, the proceeds
of which arc to be used to construct
a municipal lighting and power
plant without the corporate limits of
the town. The bonds were placed
with a Seattle firm last .Spring by
Mr. Roden but negotiations were
halted pending final settlement of
the questions invovled.
Four Main Grounds.
Four main causes of action were
set up by Mr. Faulkner in his com
plaint filed for Mr. Lund.
1. That the corporation has no
authority to acquire property out
side of the corporate limits of the
town for Its proposed electric light
and power plant;
2. That it is not authorized or
ampowered by Its charter, or other
wise, to Bell or dispose of the elec
tric power generated by its pro
posed plant to private parties for
use outside of its corporate limits;
3. That the town authorities
have no power or authority under
the Act of Congress to provide for
the levy of a tax to meet the interest
>n said bands as this interest may
accrue, or to provide for a sinking
fund for the settlement of the prin
ripal of the bonds at their matur
ity—
(a) Because the act authorizing
Joes not so specifically provide;
(b) Because such tax will result
In a levy in excess of the two per
rent on the assessed value of the
taxable property as limited by the
Drganic Act of the Territory;
(c) Because the obligation to
levy a tax and provide a sinking
Fund will cause the town to exceed
Its ctatutory limit of indebtedness;
and
4. That the Town Council is
without authority to bind itself to
redeem any of tho bonds before the
MOTHERS HER BABE AND MAKES GOLF CLUBS.
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Mrs. R. S. Weinsltenker, shown here with her baby, Alvin
(■rant, is an instructor in golf and a maker of golf clubs in Chi
lago. She continues to devote hersolf to her trade, despite the
coming of the baby and the necessary change in her home life.
expiration of the twenty years pro
vided for In tho Act.
Upholds General Demurrer.
Mr. Roden fllou u general demur
rer to tho complaint.
In his opinion sustaining the de
niurrer and denying the injunctioi
sought. Judge Reed gave a memor
andum opinion covering each o
tlio points raised "Considering thi
lirst cause,” lie said, "in my qpln
ion, that authority of the municipal
ity to acquire property outside o
the corporate limits of the town fo
municipal purposes is implied in th
general power granted it." If sucl
were not the case, he continued, tie
question Is settled “by positive sta
tutory enactment.” lie cited Chap
ter 50, Session haws, 1013, am
Sac!ion 16. Chapter 97, Session haws
1923, in this connection. "This set
tics the question as to the author!t;
of the city to purchase and hob
real estate for municipal purpose
outside of its corporate limits; am
the complaint of tho plaintiff oi
that ground is without foundation,’
I ho declared.
He likewise held that the Eocom
'cause was without foundation, say
lug: "What future common council:
may do in this regard is not wlthli
the power of the plaintiff to state
nor ran the terms of any contrac
which the authorllies of the towi
! may enter into be set forth hln
or a ground for enjoining the Eali
of the bonds; therefore, a discus
Irion on this point, is purely aend
• jOHile." The Court added, however,
that "common sense dictates that
the surplus should not be allowed
to run to waste, and, as a matter of
business. It would seem to be the
duty of the municipal authorities to
| secure all the revenue possible from
! i it'- plant provided that the primary j
purpose of supplying the inhabitants;
of the oily had been fulfilled."
To the allegation that the city
was without power to provide for
the levy of a tax to meet the In
terest on thb bond Issue, and no;
authority to provide for a sinking
fund, the Court held that the Act
of Congress authorizing the i nance
and sale of the bonds did not have
to include such authority specific
ally, that the authority to issue and
sell the lmnds carried with it fhe
implied power to levy the necessary
taxes for Interest and to provide a
sinking fund for their retirement on
maturity.
Trx Limitation S't Aside.
The Court, while viewing the con
tention that the sale of the bonds
’ would put upon Petersburg an in
debtedne, In excess of that author
■ tzod by general law, or would neces
usttate levying taxes In excess of the
j two per cent maximum fixed by the
Organic Act, as the most serious:
nuestlcn raised, held it to be with-;
out force. It held that tlie special
bonding Act aot aside the general!
: clause in tho Organic Act, saying: j
"Considering .tho limitations provid-’
■ ed'in the Organic Act with the limi-!
NIPIGON RIVER, THE WORLD S GREATEST TROUT STREAM
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JMtPKMN TROUT FULL Or‘P£P~
The Nipigon River, which empties
into Lake Superior 65 miles east of
Port Arthur, has been called the
"Aristocrat of Troutdom," because
It is the world’s greatest trout
stream. In its 40 mile rush from
Lake Nipigon to Lake Superior, R
drops 250 feet and > to the cold
"white water* of its rapids and at
the foot of its numerous falls
sauarc-tailed, speckled brook trout
grow to incredible site and give the
angler the battle of a lifetime.
Five and six Round trout are com
mas and the ftrst one caught this
sear when the comfortable new
bungalow camp bnpt by the Cana
dian Pacific was opened on the
shore of Lake Hslen, weighed six
sad ons-half poupds. lad sum
mer W. C Loebhmt, sdtkfg of tbs
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JVO/Mtfc f?£V&*0 A//0KSOM a&OOK TfZCHJT, /4-ft i&Sr
Scientific Angler, caught one
weighing six and three-quarters
pounds and four which together
tipped the scales at ten pounds.
Every dajr each member of his
party of three caught tan pounds of
trout, the legal limit of Ontario's
Ashing laws. Luebbert’s big one,
mounted by the QJibway Indian
guides on a framed piece of whit*
birch bark, was two feet long.
But big as the trout were, the
Bipigon has dona even better.
Several years ago Or.. J. W. Cook,
of Fort SUliam, Onfc, caught the
world’s record speckled trout In
this stream while fiohina with a
live minnow. This “granddaddy of
them all” weighed fourteen and
one-half poupjb. was more th.n
fsat long and elavan
told Prof, Jxtuia Agassiz. the noted
naturalist, that be had often caught
brook trout weighing four or five
pounds. Agassis replied that there
were no real speckled trout of that
size. Whereupon Frye caught a
fire pounder and sent it to the pro
fessor with the query: “Professor,
what kind of a bug is this?"
“The science of a lifetime kicked
to death by a dead fish," was Prof.
Agassiz’s hum pie reply. Among
the famous men who have caught
big trout on the Nipigon wero
Theodore Roosevelt, James Bryce,
the Prince of Wales and Rev. Dr.
Henry Van Dyke. Now that the
new fsgaiHan Pacific bungalow
camp with its central clnb house
surrounded,by rustic bungalows la
at the aerrioe el fishermen and
tntion in tho amount of taxation, 1
ini of the opinion that the tax
Imitation is impliedly repealed by
he special authority granted the
iumieipality to Issue the bonds for
hr r; ason that the sperial authority
o contract included tho power to
vy taxes for the purpose of com
! lying with the contract eve.n
'hough tho amount of the taxes be
beyond the general statutory llmi-i
■ lion." The remaining grounds the|
Court also found to bo without i
merit.
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LAST TIME TONIGHT
VIOLA DANA
IN
“LIFE'S DARI!
FUNNY"
IT IS A JOLLY SHC 7.
Paiemcunt Weekly and Magazine
ON SATURDAY
Matinee and Evening
MARY MILES MINTER
IN
“HER WINNING WAY”
Aba another chapter of “Adven
ture£ of Robinson Crus: 3”
REMEMBER
BEGINS NEXT SUNDAY
The opening bill will be
JACK HOLT and BEBE DANIELS
in
•NORTH OF THE RIO GRANDE”
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tomorrow fer
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