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It is a well known fact that Mark Twain would never allow his famous book, "Tom Sawyer," to be dramatized. To get the white town drowsing in the sunshine by the sleepy Mississippi and the thousand and one details that made his picture so vivid seemed an impossibility. And indeed it would have been an impossibility to have placed all that on the narrow confines of any stage. But the motion picture has placed those days far behind and today many marvels are accomplished through the medium of the screen and the all-seeing, all-recording eyes of the camera. The great Paramount company has succeeded at last in bringing to the screen the very incarnation of the immortal boy hero, a role skillfully and masterfully portrayed by Jack Pickford. The scenes were taken in Hannibal, Missouri, the very town
of which Mark Twain wrote, and where he spent his boyhood. Thus it is that the "white town drowsing in the sunlight" and all the other details that go to make up a perfect portrayal of the little Missouri town in the last century are to be found in the screen version. ManDette cess (OL UNC ...e.e.lneatre has arranged to-show "Tom Sawyen® Bomoas LOOatre beginning ‘on i.e. ce.
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Jack Pickford has achieved one of the best boy impersonations of his entire career. The picture was filmed in Hannibal, Missouri, and shows the very house where Mark Twain lived as a boy and the house where Huck Finn, whose real name was Tom Blankership, lived. It is all there,—even to the famous fence which Tom was set to whitewash the morning his friends came to jeer at him but remained to paint the fence,—for which precious privilege they paid to Tom,—do you remember :—
Twelve marbles, a part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottled glass, a spool cotton, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a piece of Poatkosea glass stopper, a tin soldier, two tadpoles, a fire cracker,
/a kitten with one eye, a brass door knob, a dog collar but no dog, a handle of a broken knife, four pieces of orange peel -and a piece of an old broken window sash! Director William D. Taylor, who is responsible for the production, and who is noted as a stickler for realisn, even shows these "props," and together with Mr. Pickford has made the picture a notable success.
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