The Moving Picture Weekly (1920-1921)

THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY A^ttractions Power of the N. W. M. P. Basis of Jaccard Story •yHE Royal Northwest Mounted Police, known the world over foi their deeds of courage and bravery and the romance attached to the members of the corps, are the centre of interest in Jacques Jaccard's special attraction, "Under Northern Lights." Leonard Clapham, Virginia Faire and William Buckley have the leading roles in this romance of the Northwoods, playing roles typical of the locale. Order is maintained throughout the entire Northwest, not only among the population, but among the Indians and the much more troublesome halfbi'eeds, by the Northwest Mounted Police, a body of seven hundred and nfty men, whose record has for years received unqualified praise. The members of this force are armed like soldiers, so as to fight collectively, yet have the authority to act individually as constables. The officers in the service are also empowered to act as magistrates — the combination which makes it possible to extent law and order over such tremendous areas by such a small force of men. Jacques Jaccard has taken as a basis for his story of "Under Northern Lights" just a few facts from the records of service in this noted cpnstabulary. Jaccard is an honorary member of the R. N. W. M. P., and Virginia Faire, Leonard Clapltam and William Buckley in "Under Nm^fli ern Lights." his knowledge of their activities is vast and accurate. It is a well-known fact that one constable has been known to ride directly into an Indian camp containing hundreds of armed savages and carry off, single-handed, a member of the tribe who was wanted on a charge of murder. The Indians are mortally afraid of the Mounted Police and pi'efer death to capture or sentence by them after committing a crime. WHAT OUR SUBSCRIBERS SAY: The Moving Picture Wecklv Pub. 1600 Broadway, N. Y. Dear Sirs: Co., Omaha, Neb., July 20, 1920. While I have read your publication for several years, getting it from my uncle, who runs the Theatre, Omaha, I have never yet wrote to you, although tempted to several times. This time I can't help telling you that those questions you are asking about what happens and what comes "Once to Every Woman" have got me thinking and wanting to know your idea. 1 think there are lots of things that come to every woman, but I have tried in vain to think of anything that happens only once, and then that it happens to every woman. I'm sure I don't know, and I'm simply crazy to know the answer. Won't you write by return mail and tell me? It can't be love, because some women never are loved. And there are lots of other things it can't be. So I wish you'd write and tell me the answer to those puzzling little designs in your publication. Veiy truly yours. Third Lyons-Moran £DDIE LYONS and Lee Moraa have started on the third of tkeir comedy features at Universal City, a story by Edgar Franklin entitfed "Once a Plumber " The sacoes. of "Everything bu the Truth" -was eclipsed by the screaming hit, "La La Lucille," and the stars are conficfent of contmuing their crescendo movement with their current ereatWM. "Once a Plumbei< " i« « storj £f two young partners m the stefti^-iStting business in a small city. One is quite satisfied with his lot, and is locking forward to marrying the ^rl of his heart. The other partrier lias socialistic tendencies. He feels tlat the plumbing business is beneatb Mm, and he envies the millionaire who owns the big mansion on the hill. On the eve of a reception at tie home of the millionaire the few* young plumbers are called in to mstkc^ some repairs. Overhearing the grumbling of the younger workman, the magnate offers him an opportunity t« realize his ambitions. He invites the young men to stay as his guests, viding them with names, clothes amd other requisites, makes them ofBeials of a high-sounding corporation, ajtd the boys finally wake up to diiseover that they have been led into a trap to shield two friends of the rich mas who had skated on thin ice of hi;»h finance and become enmesheff m the I'oils of the law.