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Fox Offers Film Version of Great Mark Twain Storyi/RAULINEZC'A CCN N ECTICUT, VAN iCEf,“Wiu iai*, FOX JSOOvcrugmM;.rk Twain’s masterpiece, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Anhui's Couri.” has been made into a motion-picture bv William Fox on a scale worthy of the subject. Issued as n special production, it will open an engagement at the Palace theatre for a; hip four-dav engagement starting j Tuesday. May 9.Known to Jhe multitude of Murk Twain lovers as “The Yankee.” this story is regarded not onlv as a great classic of American humor, but also as a forceful satirp directed against those I who sigh for the “good old times •* Mark Twain set out to show that the world we live in is the best of all pos-■, sible worlds, and the time we live in is the best of all possible times.This he did bv taking a typical voung American, bright as a nc.v nennv. filled with smart, un-to-ddie ideas, and setting him down in a medieval court, where he could iudge tor himself whether the knights of old wore more courageous than the men of todav. and whether life as a whole was more comfortable then than now.The result is exquisite fantasy and delicious fooling, w ith a sharplv draw n ! conclusion. “The Yankee” is rated high among Mark Twain's books. Certainly it is one of the funniest.The picture was directed bv Emmett.T. Flynn, noted for his skill in fideiitv to detail. The Yankee is plaved bv | played by Harry C. Mvers, a wcil-; known light comedian.! This attraction is one of the foreruns’ events#in picture production of this year and is being widely heralded for a radius of forty miles.
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Muscatine Journal and News Tribune
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Fri, May 05, 1922
Page 6
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