--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 29 number: 7 published: 1926-05 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Motion Pictures,” *Improvement Era* 29, no. 7 (May 1926): 701." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2907unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2907unse start_page: 701 end_page: 701 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1926-05) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2907unse publication_year: 1926 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1926, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Motion Pictures Motion Pictures The following pictures have been previewed by the Committee on Recreation and may be obtained from the Visual Education Department of the University of Utah: Off the Highway — 8 reels. An all-star special. A Hunt Stromberg personally supervised production. Mike — 7 reels. A Metro-Goldwin-Mayer picture written and directed by Marshall Neilan. A sparkling comedy drama of life in a desert town, with Sally O'Neill. Steel Preferred — 7 reels. Vera Reynolds, William Boyd, and Charlie Murray. A tremendous dramatic story filmed in the heart of the great steel industry. The Million Dollar Handicap — 6 reels. A Metropolitan production with Vera Reynolds, Edmund Burns and Ralph Lewis. A great melodramatic picture of the American turf, vibrant with humor and thrills. Don Q Son of Zorro — 1 1 reels. Douglas Fairbanks. Swift action, tender ro- mance, thrilling stunts, with lightning-like whip-lash, comedy, rapid adventure, high conspiracy, mystery plots. We again call your attention to the picture America, which was mentioned in the list published in the April Journal and Era. Specially recommended by the Committee. IMPROVEMENT ERA, MAY, 1926 Two Dollars per Annum Entered at the Post Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, as second class matter Hcbcr J. Grant, XpA't Melvin J. Ballard, Business Mgr. Edward H. Anderson. £ Moroni Snow, Assistant. Acceptance for wailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1 103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 2, 1918 CONTENTS In Hawaii Frontispiece The Soul's Captain. A Poem Orson F. Whitney 611 Diamond Jubilee of Missionary Effort in Hawaii. Illustrated ..Francis J. Russell 613 Harold Dingit's Wild Ride. A Story David Horatio Morgan 620 A Mother's Worth. A Poem O. F. Ursenbach 627 Motherhood. A Poem Alberta L. Jacobs 627 Oratory, Poesy and Prophecy Orson F. Whitney 628 "Twenty Nickles." A Story George Blair Glade 632 May Day. A Poem Mrs. Otis Geise 633 Wild Life of the Forest. Illustrated Benjamin Swapp 634 My Mother. A Poem C. H. Durrant 637 The Choice. A Story Weston N. Nordgran 638 Mother is Praying for Me. A Poem Elsie M. Larsen —641 A "Speeding" Cure. A Story Glen Perrins 642 Bits of Philosophy Nephi Jensen 643 The Formal Opening) of Bryce Canyon Grace Wharton Montaigne 644 Laughter. A Poem - D. C. Retsloff 647 Latter-day Saints' New Seminary at Payson, Utah. Illustration 648 An American Indian Pageant. Illustrated Victor Lindblad 649 Things as They Are. A Poem Bertha A. Kleinman 651 Pioneers. Song with Music P. D. Griffith 652 Joseph Smith, and the Great West /. K. Russelt 653 For the Soul that Comprehends. A Poem Grace Ingles Frost 660 San Francisco to Leningrad via the North Pole Elizabeth Cannon Porter 661 Putting the Mutual Reading Course Across Fred G. Barker...: 665 Dear Mother of Mine. A Poem Walter N. Home ...666 Messages from the Missions. Illustrated 668 Editors' Table — President Heber J. Grant's Con- ference Message / — 677 Changes in Officers — Church Statistics 686 3riesthood Quorums 688 Mutual Work 68 9 Passing Events 69 6