October 31—The Forgotten Village. This is the story of a small Mexican
village, a primitive place, where the people prefer the chants and
lotions of their “Witch Doctor” or “Wise Woman” to the modern
knowledge of the village teacher. It is a stirring and vigorous
film with the thrills and suspense of a Hollywood production.
November 7—Wedding of Palo. An exciting story of Greenland Eskimo life
filmed by that famous Danish Arctic explorer, Knud Rasmussen. The
sound track is in native Eskimo with English titles; there is a
rousing surprise-ending to this tale of the Far North.
November 14—Wildlife Wonders. Presented in person by Drs. Lorus and
Margery Milne, a “Western movie” like no other Western, for this
is the story of wildlife of the Jackson Hole country of Wyoming.
We will see elk roaming in herds among the quaking aspen trees,
pronghorn antelope and badger in the sagebrush, moose browsing
along the Snake River, buffalo taking dust baths, and the rare
trumpeter swans. Drs. Lorus and Margery Milne who tell this tale
will be here in person under the auspices of Audubon Screen Tours.
November 21—American Pioneer Highlights. This is the presentation of
three films on exciting pioneer episodes of American history—The
Kentucky Pioneers; Daniel Boone; and Pocahontas, the Indian girl
who saved Captain John Smith and Jamestown. The trio forms an
interesting story of some of America’s spectacular historic
pioneer events.
_THREE RIVERS SOUTH_ BY EIFERT: A REVIEW
In the new novel, _Three Rivers South, a Tale of Young Abe Lincoln_,
Virginia S. Eifert, editor of _The Living Museum_, has written a story
based on Abraham Lincoln’s famous flatboat trip in the spring of the
year, 1831. Into the fabric of fiction, Mrs. Eifert has woven the few
known facts of this obscure period in Lincoln’s life, and has created a
narrative of adventure down three rivers of Mid-America.
These three streams are the Sangamon, the Illinois, and the Mississippi.
The tale begins with young Abe and his kinsmen building a flatboat at
Sangamo Town because their employer had neglected to procure a boat at
the specified time in order to haul a load of corn and pork down to New
Orleans. The story covers the month occupied in building the boat, the
month enroute down the flooding rivers to the rowdy, elegant city of New
Orleans, where the three spent a month exploring the city before
returning to the Illinois country where Abe had a job at New Salem.
_Three Rivers South_ has been capably and dramatically illustrated by
one of America’s foremost artists, Thomas Hart Benton. It was published
in September by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, and is priced at
$2.95. It may be obtained from your local book shop and from the Book
Department of the Illinois State Museum.