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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
3
A vivid city note proclaims the Sells Floto circus arrival with parade scenes, including gray horses, tandem drivers, clowns, elephants, hippos, lions, tigers, camels and a calypso-like troupe. The piece emphasizes timeless amusement and public excitement for the event.
Four full reels present a collection of films led by Easanay featuring Francis X. Buchman in a dramatic tale of a derelict who saves a jilted lover. Also showing Every Rose Has its Stems and other titles including Hypnotic Nell American Tourist Abroad and A Humble Hero with a dog and a claim jumper tale.
A review roundup highlights A Dodging for the Night a tense dramatic picture set in the American Southwest near a Mexican inn. It contrasts romance and realism, praising the director’s eye for detail and noting Aunt Miranda's Cat as a later work with a comic sentimental arc. Also mentions According to Law, Tony's Tongue Turned Out, Henry TV and the Wood Chopper, and Good Fishing Off Leeland with brief impressions of humor, love, and industry footage.
Two reel period Western opens with a buffalo hunt and Indian attack. A despera te fight ends with settlers and the scout rallying to burn the Indians village and exterminate the tribe except a aiding Redwing. The tale centers on mother love and frontier courage amid carnage.
The Flirting Princess features popular real songs driving royalties to Joseph E. Howard and Mort H. Singer with Frank Adams and Will Hough as lyricists. Charles K. Harris sends over $4500 in royalties to Chicago. Oregon Theatre repeats June 18 with Dance and comedy interludes including The Dove and the Serpent and Blind Man's Bluff. Also slated are two reel features The Land of Darkness and other offerings Friday and Saturday.
A brief cinema and stage listing notes Hudson and Moran performing a Scotch character routine with a sword dance. It mentions Love's Terrible Sacrifice, Pathe film d Art, and several film titles described as bright, western, and scenic with a strong story.
Professor Willie J. Moore of the United States weather bureau predicted in London that aluminum cases could be lifted above storm levels by airplanes and then released to enable a speedy one day transatlantic journey from America to Europe, a prophecy voiced during a Royal Institute lecture.
In Paris the auction of Alexandre Regnault's Salome drew a large crowd as Knoedler bought the painting for $195,800. A group of patriotic citizens had raised funds to purchase it for the Louvre, but the bid went to the dealer amid groans from the assembled crowd.
The 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show arrives June 14 featuring Sioux Apache Cheyenne Pawnee Seminole and Yaqui performers. The display promises authentic early day living and universal sign language for tribes not yet wiped out by enemies or civilization.
Liuther Burbank employs five men to pack and forward spineless cactus plants to Mexico India Palestine Australia Italy Africa and other nations. Two Mexican mine owners visited and placed large orders then requested packing and mule transport for two hundred miles inland.
Kenneth Doe, former Stanford baseball captain from this city, recovered the body of 33 year old Lincoln-Selly Shessi who drowned while pathing in a reservoir on the HII and Hughes ranch. Doe dived to retrieve the remains, praised for his bravery.
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