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AGGIES IN THE GREAT WAR

E.B. Wheeler and Jeff Bateman collaborate on ‘No Peace with the Dawn’ THE HERALD JOURNAL

NOVEMBER 4-10, 2016

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November 4-10, 2016

COVER 6 Authors tell the story of Aggies during WWI in ‘No Peace with the Dawn’

THE ARTS 4 ‘Brother Brigham’ now on the Utah Theatre stage 4 David Archuleta coming

to perform at Logan High

4 Nashville Tribute Band

ready to kick off holidays

5 Imani Winds quintet set to play Performance Hall 5 ‘Once the Musical’ tour

coming to Eccles Theatre

8 Manhattan Transfer and Take 6 joining forces for The Summit on Nov. 15

MOVIES 3 Three stars: ‘Doctor

Strange’ joins Marvel’s big-screen universe

8 Tom Hanks’ ‘Inferno’

can’t take the heat from ‘Madea’ at the box office

9 Three stars: Gibson tells story of pacifist with very violent ‘Hacksaw Ridge’

CALENDAR 11 See what’s happening this week in Cache Valley

Carrie Underwood, left, Randy Travis and Brad Paisley perform “Forever And Ever, Amen” at the 50th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena Wednesday night in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo) On the cover: E.B. Wheeler, left, and Jeff Bateman pose for a portrait on the campus of Utah State University. The two authors wrote “No Peace with the Dawn.” (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal)

FROM THE EDITOR So, now that the World Series is over and the Chicago Cubs finally managed to end that pesky, 107-year-long losing streak, you might be looking for something to do this upcoming weekend/week.

Since the Aggies are on the road at Wyoming Saturday night, that means your best bet is probably to go inside. And I have to admit, I’ve been a little surprised while putting together this issue of Cache Magazine, just how much is going on here at the first of November.

In addition to the “Here’s Brother

Brigham” one-man show currently underway at the Utah Theatre, the Nashville Tribute Band is also presenting two Christmas shows at USU’s Morgan Theatre on Saturday.

And then there are at least four concerts being put on by Utah State University students, including those by the USU Wind Orchestra (Friday night), the music therapy program (Saturday night), the guitar program (Monday night) and the Caine Chamber Music Ensembles (Wednesday).

Since I unfortunately ended up running out of room for the fourth concert, let me add a brief plug here for the ensembles show on Wednesday which includes the Caine Percussion Ensemble, Caine Wood-

wind Quintet, Caine Saxophone Quartet and Caine Brass Quintet, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Caine Performance Hall.

“Caine Chamber concerts give the audience an opportunity to explore instrument families on a deeper level,” said Lane Weaver, assistant professor in the Caine College of the Arts. “Audiences often have greater opportunity to absorb the colors and technical possibilities of these like instruments in ways that are not usually presented in large ensemble settings.”

The Caine Chamber Music Ensembles concert is free and open the public.

— Jeff Hunter

Cumberbatch stars in new Marvel movie

By Aaron Peck Cache movie critic

In what is essentially a reimagining of the first “Iron Man” movie, “Doctor Strange” introduces us to a relatively unknown Marvel character (at least to the non-comic-book-reading masses). As with the multitude of Marvel movies that have come before this one, there are glaring issues. Yet, the imaginative nature of it pushes it above some of the more standard Marvel fare.

Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is the world’s foremost surgeon.

Like Tony Stark he’s impossibly arrogant in his success, lacking even the slightest bit of humility. His fame has brought him fortune. He’s the kind of guy who drives his Lamborghini 100 miles per hour on a steep cliffside road while talking on the phone.

The kind of rich dude who thinks he’s invincible. Only, he’s not.

Strange is involved in a car accident that crushes his prized hands. It’s important to note that the accident is his fault, his lack of basic decency finally catching up to him. A natural karma stripping him of his powers, so to speak.

After the accident Strange is unable to find worth in his new life as a has-been. Here’s where Strange and Stark part ways. Stark spent his lowest of times in a cave building an

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Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the title role of Marvel’s new “Doctor Strange.”

★★★ ‘Doctor Strange’ Director // Scott Derrickson Starring // Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mads Mikkelsen, Benjamin Bratt, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg Rated // PG-13 for sci-fi violence and action throughout, and an intense crash sequence

arc reactor out of spare parts.

Strange sits, secluded in his penthouse apartment wallowing in self-pity, thinking that the world owes him instead of the other way around.

At risk of blabbering on and on about the plot, which isn’t easily explained in a review, let’s cut to the chase.

Strange travels to Nepal to meet with The Ancient

One (Tilda Swinton). She’s rumored to have the ability to cure the incurable. Through this encounter Strange is introduced to the mystic arts.

Yes, sorcery exists in the universe of the Avengers. Just part and parcel, I suppose.

Of course, there’s an evil entity trying to destroy Earth from the “dark dimension,” and, of course, Strange will be the one to try and save us all from our demise. It’s the same Marvel narrative with a different skin applied.

Even the main villain, played by the incomparable Mads

Mikkelsen, suffers the same why-should-we-care-aboutthis-guy syndrome. Too many Marvel villains are throwaway characters placed in the story without any real threat to the status quo. Kaecilius (Mikkelsen), is no different.

Where “Doctor Strange” excels is in the visually stunning action sequences that it constructs. So many action movies devolve into incessant, nauseating shaky-cam.

Here director Scott Derrickson shows us everything because there’s a lot to see.

Strange and his band of sorcerers are able to bend and manipulate matter, the results being terrifying kaleidoscopic scenes of buildings, streets, and even the sky folding in on itself as the characters tumble through the shifting landscape. It’s mesmerizing to behold.

Take for example a fight that happens as time moves backward around the participants. It’s a thrilling set piece that feels original and creative. Wrecked buildings repair themselves as our hero battles his enemies. Imagine that, a superhero fight that results in a city being restored rather than razed.

Does the excitement and originality of “Doctor Strange” outweigh the narrative sameness? To a point, yes. During those intricate fight scenes, which blend CGI and practical effects beautifully, it’s easy to forget about the familiarity of the story and character arcs.

However, in the end, Marvel must connect Strange’s story to the overall Avengers saga, and it’s the worse for it.

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, November 4, 2016

‘Doctor Strange’ hits the big screen

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all mixed up Group ready to kick off holidays Nashville Tribute Band to perform two shows at Morgan Theatre The Nashville Tribute Band will perform at 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Morgan Theatre in the Chase Fine Arts Center at Utah State University.

Tickets are at $18, and are available at nashvilletributeband.org.

The Nashville Tribute Band was formed by Jason Deere (Nashville record producer and songwriter) and Dan Truman (keyboardist of country super group Diamond Rio).

Their original music has paid tribute to specific figures of history.

Their latest album “Redeemer” was a Top 10 album on the Billboard Christian chart. Deere and Truman are joined by country trio Due West and pop singer/songwriters Ben and Chad Truman, also known as the Truman Brothers.

The Nashville Tribute Band has performed over 1,200 shows in the U.S., Australia, China, and

Canada. The purpose of the Nashville Tribute Band is to “bring souls unto Christ” and their passion is to help create events that bring multiple Christian denominations together; uniting their various ecclesiastical leaders for the purpose of forgetting any differences, standing together, and finding common ground in the one thing that so many share ... love for The Nashville Tribute Band will perform two shows Saturday, Nov. 5, in the Morgan Theatre at Utah State University.

Jesus Christ.

‘Brigham’ takes the stage Popular show runs through Saturday Actor and writer James Arrington presents the awardwinning, one-man show “Here’s Brother Brigham” at the Utah Theatre Nov. 3-5.

This is the final season and 40th anniversary of the play that has been performed for more than 405,000 people.

“Brother Brigham” transports the audience to the Salt Lake City office of Governor Brigham Young, one of America’s greatest colonizers and leaders of the 19th Century.

Arrington’s main goal is to “give people a more accurate view of this great forgotten American,” he said. “He was a powerful leader—a colorful man of wit and wisdom who actually had a very endearing character and a wry sense of humor.”

Young was the first territorial governor of Utah, a controversial polygamist, prophet, statesman, writer, missionary, carpenter, joiner, glazier, humanitarian, lieutenant, city planner and a peacemaker to the American Indians.

He led the largest migration in American history.

Tickets are $15 for adults and

Photo courtesy of James Arrington

Acclaimed actor and writer James Arrington brings the one-man show “Here’s Brother Brigham” to the Utah Theatre Nov. 3-5.

$8 for youth under age 18. Tickets will be available at the Utah Theatre, 18 W. Center St., the night of the show. Get tickets in advance online at theutahthe-

atre.org, by calling 750-0300 or visiting the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre Box Office located in the Dansante Building at 59 S. 100 West.

Archuleta coming to perform at LHS David Archuleta will stop in Logan on Tuesday, Dec. 13, during his Christmas Tour to perform at the newly renovated theater at Logan High School.

The “American Idol” sensation from Murray will be joined by Nathan Pacheco for an evening filled with Christmas classics and originals. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the concert beginning at 7 p.m.

Tickets range from $34 to $59 and are on sale now at davidarchuleta.com.

Archuleta became a star when he was just 16. In 2008, more than 30 million television viewers fell in love with his angelic voice and their 44 million votes made him runner-up in Season 7 of “American Idol.”

Soon after, the young Utahan signed with Jive Records and his first single, “Crush,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of its release. Three months later, his self-titled album, “David Archuleta” went gold, selling more than 750,000 copies in the U.S. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Archuleta put his singing career on hiatus in 2012 in order to volunteer for a two-year stint as a full-time missionary in Santiago, Chile, at the La Misión Chile Rancagua. Archuleta returned from Chile in March 2014 eager to perform and record once again.

Since his return, he‘s traveled to the Middle East to perform for U.S. troops, recorded the song “ Glorious” for “Meet The Mormons” and been busy writing songs for a new album.

Pacheco is a classically trained tenor who has a passion for reaching out and uplifting people through music. In addition to being a television and recording artist, Pacheco completed his debut solo tour in 2013.

“(The) ensemble is strikingly virtuosic, immaculately tight, stylistically agile…” says Peter Van Zandt Lane of The Boston Musical Intelligencer.

Imani Winds is enriching the traditional wind quintet repertoire while meaningfully bridging European, American, African and Latin American traditions.

Imani Winds has established itself as one of the most successful chamber music ensembles in the United States. Since 1997, the Grammy-nominated quintet has taken a unique path in the classi-

cal music world with its dynamic playing, adventurous programming, and inspirational outreach programs. Through commissions and performance the quintet regularly collaborates with artists ranging from Yo-Yo Ma to Wayne Shorter.

The morning after their Logan concert, the group offers a master class open to the public. The class will be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m.

Friday, Nov. 11, at the Caine Performance Hall.

Visit imaniwinds.com for more information.

‘The Drowsy Chaperone’

The Mountain Crest High School Drama Department Presents “The Drowsy Chaperone” at 7 p.m.

Nov. 3-5 at the MCHS Auditorium in Hyrum.

This bright and exuberant musical lovingly pokes fun at all the tropes of musical theater and brings a 1920s frolic to vibrant life. Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not so bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

General admission tickets are $7; students and senior citizens are $5.

‘Once’ celebrates life, love USU Wind Orchestra The national Broadway tour of “Once the Musical,” winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play the Ellen Eccles Theatre for one night only at 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Tickets for “Once the Musical” are available at cachearts.org, at the CacheARTS ticket office at 43 S. Main Street or by calling 752-0026.

“Once” is the celebrated new musical based on the Academy Award-winning film. It tells the story of an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music.

Over the course of one fateful week, their unexpected friendship and collaboration evolves into a powerful but complicated romance, heightened by the raw emotion of the songs they create together. Brought to the stage by an award-winning team of visionary artists and featuring an ensemble cast of gifted actor/musicians, “Once” is a musical celebration of life and love: thrilling in its originality, daring in its honesty ... and unforgettable in every way.

“Once” features the Academy Awardwinning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a book by award-winning Irish playwright & screenwriter, Enda Walsh (“Penelope”), direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of “Black Watch,” John Tiffany, movement by Steven Hoggett (“American Idiot”) and music supervision and orchestrations by Martin Lowe (“Mamma Mia!”).

Visit oncemusical.com for more information.

The Utah State University Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Thomas P. Rohrer, will perform its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 at the Morgan Theatre on the USU campus. Admission is free.

The concert, entitled “Musical Drama for Theater and Film,” includes two halves: the first featuring guest saxophonist, Nathan Mensink from the University of Miami, and the second half dedicated to music from the stage and screen. Mensink is a Miami-based saxophone teacher and performer active in both classical and jazz styles.

‘Muses’ concert at USU

Many creative people have muses — the goddesses of the inspiration of literature, science and the arts. Students in Utah State University’s music therapy program have gathered their muses for a concert and will present “Muses” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Caine Performance Hall. The concert is free and open to everyone.

The concert features multiple students in the music therapy program, ranging from freshmen to seniors.

While “Muses” is free and open to the public, donations to the program are accepted. For more information, call 797-8022 or visit cca.usu.edu.

Guitar Ensembles show

“Once the Musical” will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

The annual fall Guitar Ensembles concert at Utah State University will begin at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, at the Caine Performance Hall.

“The music being performed includes original music by USU guitar majors,” said Corey Christiansen, professor of guitar in the Caine College of the Arts. “We present a wide variety of music and styles such as rock, folk, classical and jazz.”

Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 seniors and youth, $5 USU faculty and staff and free for USU students with ID. For more information and tickets, visit the CCA Box Office located in room L-101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center, call 797-8022 or visit cca.usu.edu.

The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah, Friday, November 4, 2016

Imani Winds will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at the Caine Performance Hall at Utah State University.

Tickets are $24; $10 for students. Tickets are available at arts.usu.edu, 797-8022 and at the door the night of the performance.

Further information is available at cmslogan.org.

Leave your pillow at home because you’re not getting any ZZZ’s at this concert. The quintet Imani Winds is performing 20th and 21st century music — energetic, subtle and riveting.

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Imani Winds coming to Logan COMING UP

‘No Peace with the Dawn’ tells Cache Valley authors Jeff Bateman and E.B. Wheeler collaborate on new novel The life and times of a century-old Cache Valley are often forgotten. but two local authors are trying to bring these stories to life in a new historical fiction novel.

E.B. Wheeler and Jeff Bateman, both adjunct history professors at Utah State University, are releasing “No Peace with the Dawn,” on Tuesday, Nov. 8. The novel examines the lives of a lost generation as they struggled with prejudice, patriotism, conscientious objectors, refugees, indigenous cultures and war.

“These are things that are very pertinent in today’s world,” Wheeler said. “I think it’s good for people to remember that it’s happened before.”

It is no coincidence that the book is being released just before the 100th anniversary of the U.S. — and Utah — entering World War I. The authors became fascinated by young people in 1917 who were attending the Agricultural College of Utah (later to be called Utah State University) and realized that together they were well-equipped to tell the story.

Bateman and Wheeler met during grad school at USU. They reconnected about 10 years later in a writing group called the League of Utah Writers. Bateman grew curious about the time period when he came across the World War I college enlistment frenzies for his thesis research. Wheeler’s curiosity was piqued during the effort to save the Art Barn, built in 1919 next to Old Main and demolished in the summer of

2015 to be replaced by a welcome center. She, too, became fascinated by World War I era Cache Valley.

A conversation between the pair of historians led Wheeler to come up with the idea to write a book. Their backgrounds complement each other. Bateman has the military background and Wheeler has the social background. He is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a military historian, while she is a social historian and member of the LDS Church.

“We found that our skills overlapped really well to tell the story,” Wheeler said.

The story is told from four point of view characters, all of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bateman wrote the chapters for the two male characters, Wheeler wrote the two female characters. The book is a historical fiction, meaning some characters are real-life people and some are made up, either based on real people or created from research of the time period.

Most of the characters happen to be Mormon because most people from Utah at the time were LDS. “Their faith is part of who they are, but it isn’t a big part of the story,” Wheeler said.

Bateman, who is not LDS, said they didn’t change anything that was factual, but they had to make sure it was clean and uplifting, which among other things, meant no curse words. He said this can be difficult when telling a war story. Wheeler said they

STORY BY SEAN DOLAN • PORTRAIT BY ELI LUCERO are hoping to break through the prejudice in the publishing industry that Utah is boring and all about Mormons and polygamy.

“We want it to appeal to a wider audience, but we know with LDS characters that’s where the core audience is going to be,” Wheeler said.

Bateman said they were intrigued by young college

students deciding to leave everything behind and go to war. In 1917, going to college was a privilege. It required being spared from working on the farm, completing high school and having money for tuition. Yet, many students signed up to join the war effort.

“Why would you leave to fight in France? Or to serve in

France in other ways?” Bateman said.

Each of the main characters tells the struggles of their social, gender and ethnic backgrounds before and during the Great War. Clara Jensen is a fictional character loosely based on the real-life Utah woman Maud Fitch. Wheeler read the letters Fitch wrote back to her fam-

story of Aggies in World War I

Above, authors E.B. Wheeler and Jeff Bateman pose for a portrait on the campus of Utah State University. Top right, World War I era soldiers drill during the winter near Old Main at what was then known as the Agricultural College of Utah (USU Special Collections). Far right, soldiers pause for a photograph during a meal at the dining hall (USU Special Collections). Right, “No Peace with the Dawn” will be released by Cedar Fort Press on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

ily in Utah to tell the story of women who joined the war effort. Wheeler said women who went to war were adventurous risk takers. They were in physical and financial trouble. While male soldiers were

paid to fight, women who went to war had to pay their own way. They volunteered for organizations like the Red Cross or the YMCA and had to pay for their transportation to the front and accommoda-

tion in France. Still, they joined the war effort to show their patriotism.

“They wanted to do more than knitting socks,” Wheeler said.

These women rarely fired guns, instead, they fought against social mores. A common argument against women suffrage at the time was that if you can’t fight, you can’t vote. Although Utah woman already had the right to

vote, national women’s suffrage would not be attained until 1920.

Trudi Kessler is a Swiss German character from “Little Berlin,” the northern part of Logan where Germanspeaking LDS converts lived. She is used as a vehicle to show the experience of immigrant German speakers in the Cache Valley. Before the war, Bateman said German culture was admired.

They were industrious and thrifty. Once it became apparent that Germany was the enemy in the Great War, the campus German speaking club was shut down, German language church services were ended and the teaching of German throughout the state was banned. Germans had to register to make sure they were not spies.

See DAWN on Page 11

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‘Madea’ reigns once again at the box office NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Hanks.

Tom Cruise. Ben Affleck. None of them have been a match for Tyler Perry’s Madea.

In a surprise victory at the weekend box office, Perry’s “Boo! A Madea Halloween” toppled another A-lister as Hanks’ and Ron Howard’s new Dan Brown adaption, “Inferno,” went up in flames. Perry’s latest movie about his tough-talking grandmother remained No. 1 for the second straight week with an estimated $16.7 million.

That was enough to scare away

the third installment of the “Da Vinci Code” franchise. According to studio estimates Sunday, “Inferno” bombed with $15 million, about half of what more bullish predictions anticipated.

Sony Pictures and “Inferno” could take solace in stronger overseas business. In three weeks of international release, the Italy-set film has earned nearly $150 million. The studio also stressed that the $75 million budget for “Inferno” was half that of 2006’s “The Da Vinci Code” or 2009’s “Angels & Demons.”

“Certainly we thought of the film as for the international market. We knew that’s where the sweet spot was going to be,” said Rory Bruer, domestic distribution chief for Sony.

“We got a few bad breaks, the biggest being this historical World Series.” (Friday night’s Game Three between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians drew 19.4 million viewers, a 12-year-best, and Saturday night’s Game Four was watched by 15.1 million.)

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Summit set for Nov. 15 Combining forces for the first time, The Manhattan Transfer and Take 6 will perform together in a unique and thrilling musical collaboration at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

Entitled The Summit this concert will cover almost every genre of popular music, from a capella to pop, jazz to swing, from gospel to R&B. Tickets for The Summit: Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6 are available at www. cachearts.org, at the CacheARTS ticket office or by calling 752-0026.

Between them, the two groups boast 20 Grammy Awards for such songs as “Spread Love” (Take 6) and “Birdland” (The Manhattan Transfer).

Unlike many other music co-bills and meetings, The Manhattan Transfer and Take 6 were not content to sing separate sets and simply join each other for a finale.

Instead, they will sing and perform nearly a dozen songs together

The Summit: Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6 will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at the Ellen Eccles Theatre.

during The Summit, creating musical moments like audiences have never seen before.

Celebrating their 45th anniversary in 2017, The Manhattan Transfer continues to set the standard as one of the world’s greatest and most innovative vocal groups.

Winners of 10 Grammy Awards with millions of records sold worldwide, this amazing quartet is building upon the extraordinary legacy created

by founder Tim Hauser, who organized the fourpart harmony group in 1972 in New York City.

Now consisting of Janis Siegel (alto), Alan Paul (tenor), Cheryl Bentyne (soprano), and newcomer Trist Cureless (bass) who replaced Hauser following his passing in October 2014, the group is proud to extend Hauser’s vision more than four decades later.

Take 6 (Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel

Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and Khristian Dentley), heralded

by Quincy Jones as the “baddest vocal cats on the planet,” is the quintessential acappela group and model for vocal genius.

Six virtuosic voices united in crystal clear harmony, against a backdrop of syncopated rhythms, innovative arrangements, and funky grooves that bubble into an intoxicating brew of gospel, jazz, R&B, and pop.

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“Inferno” brought in a disappointing $15 million at the box office last weekend.

News networks draw big ratings NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been such a great party at the television news networks that only a crank would mention the morning after.

MSNBC reached its biggest weekday prime-time audience in the network’s 20-year history in October. Rivals CNN and Fox News Channel had strong months, too. For about a year, the networks have devoted most of their broadcast time to the presidential race, now about to be decided.

Fox averaged 3.06 million viewers during weekday prime in October, the Nielsen company said.

MSNBC had 2.03 million and CNN had 1.99 million.

CNN is stronger on the weekends, and moves into second place if Saturday and Sunday are included.

Measuring the full day, it was CNN’s mostwatched month since 2005. It was also the first time in 15 years that CNN has beaten Fox in both the daytime and evening among the 25-to-54 demographic that much of news advertising sales are based upon.

Fox had its best weekday prime-time number since October 2012, Nielsen said. Friday’s news that the FBI is looking into more of Hillary Clinton’s emails so energized Fox’s conservative audience that the network crushed CNN in the news demo.

Recognizing an opportunity, Fox stayed in live programming all weekend to talk about the story.

Yet the sun will come up on the morning of Nov. 9, as surely as it does on the morning after a party to reveal a throbbing headaches and scattered beer bottles. News ratings are sure to tumble as the networks try to figure out something to keep their audiences interested.

For the week of Oct. 24-30, the top 5 shows, their networks and viewerships: World Series Game 5: Cleveland at Chicago, Fox, 23.64 million; World Series Game 3: Cleveland at Chicago, Fox, 19.38 million; World Series Game 1: Chicago at Cleveland, Fox, 19.37 million; NFL Football: Philadelphia at Dallas, NBC, 18.02 million; and World Series Game 2: Chicago at Cleveland, Fox, 17.39.

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Andrew Garfield stars in Mel Gibson’s World War II drama, “Hacksaw Ridge.”

★★★ ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Director // Mel Gibson Starring // Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Richard Roxburgh, Rachel Griffiths Rated // R for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence including grisly bloody images

Army. His new girlfriend, There’s just no assuaging Dorothy (Teresa Palmer), his innate responsibility is dismayed by the news. to serve. There’s only

Box Continued from Page 8 But the unexpectedly poor performance of “Inferno” was yet another example of an anxious trend in the movie business: More of the same isn’t working.

Poorly reviewed and coming seven years after the last Robert Langdon thriller, “Inferno” arrived long after the Dan Brown craze. “Angels & Demons” opened with $46.1 million in 2009.

Efforts to adapt the third book in Brown’s series, “The Lost Symbol,” were scuttled in favor of Brown’s fourth installment, “Inferno.” “’Inferno’ joins the long list of sequels that didn’t measure up to their predecessors this year and in particular this summer when only three of the 14 sequels released outperformed their immediate predecessors at the box office,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore.

Hanks has still notched the fall’s biggest hit, Clint

one caveat, Doss is adamant that he won’t touch a firearm. He wants to train as a war medic, and will not kill another human being.

It’s his compassion that becomes the centerpiece of the film. Here’s a man that is determined to run into blood-soaked battlefields armed only with medical supplies. It’s a harrowing idea indeed.

While the first half Eastwood’s “Sully.” It’s been an especially starstudded season, with Tom Cruise in “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” ($9.6 million in its second week) and Ben Affleck in “The Accountant” ($8.5 million in its third week).

But Perry’s longrunning character has fared better than each, at least in North America.

The Halloween-themed “Boo,” released by Lionsgate, has made $52 million in 10 days, making it Perry’s biggest hit since 2009’s “Madea Goes to Jail.”

of the film focuses on Doss getting ready to go to war, the second half is the war, and boy is it brutal. Gibson has amped up the carnage to a degree not seen since “Saving Private Ryan.”

Even then, “Hacksaw Ridge” might be more brutal than “Saving Private Ryan” was. Once Doss and his garrison find themselves atop Hacksaw Ridge, face to face with hordes of dugin Japanese soldiers, the film is an endless parade of wartime horrors.

Much of the violence is required. A juxtaposition of Doss and his love-oneanother attitude against the bloody hellscape of

close combat. However, some decisions

by Gibson defy rationality and seem to undermine the film’s purpose. We expect to witness what Doss witnessed. It’s gory and grueling. But, Gibson’s decision to show the firebombing of the tunnels or the seppuku acts of Japanese officers (acts that Doss isn’t around to see) is confusing.

On one hand the movie attempts to act as a discussion about the terrible things humans do to each other and how we can rise above it; and then at the same time it appears to revel in slow-mo shots of Japanese soldiers burning to death just because it can.

While “Hacksaw Ridge” has its issues, Doss’ story is exciting, harrowing, and uplifting. Humanity can do great things — impossible things even — in the face of fear.

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The Reel Place Aaron Peck

For a movie extolling the virtues of pacifism, “Hacksaw Ridge” is exceedingly violent — ironically so at times.

That’s not to say that director Mel Gibson’s film about real-life American war hero Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) is bad, it’s just that the film seems conflicted with itself (more on that later).

For a little background, Doss fought in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. He (as we’re told in the closing credits) became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. Doss passed away a few years ago, but his legacy lives on. Gibson’s film does a striking job at portraying his life and sacrifice.

Doss grew up a Seventh-day Adventist. His father (Hugo Weaving) was a mean drunk who fought in World War I and hasn’t been able to leave that conflict behind him. Day after day his dad can be seen in the local cemetery pulling on a bottle of whiskey, overlooking the graves of his lost battlefield brothers. He’s a strict man who turns to the belt whenever he needs to teach his sons a lesson.

Contrary to his upbringing, Doss turned into a passive, happy soul. The narrative sort of glosses over how he came to this conclusion.

He had every right to turn out as nasty and poisonous as his father, but somehow he became the exact opposite.

Feeling a sense of duty and patriotism, Doss decides that he’s going to enlist in the

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Everyone is invited to public night at the USU Observatory from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4. Hosted by USU’s Physics Department, guests are invited to view the autumn sky through the observatory’s 20-inch telescope on the roof of the Science Engineering Research building. Admission is free. Before arrival, please visit physics.usu.edu/observatory, as event will be cancelled in the event of cloudy or inclement weather. Website also offers directions and parking information.

The Logan Dance Factory will take over the Whittier Community Center from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, at 300 N. 400 East. Singles and married couples are welcome; ages 31 and up. A $5 entry donation is asked for. Music by DJ Bruce Howe will be a mix of 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Snack table donations are appreciated.

The Hyrum City Museum invites you to the second annual Elite Hall Art & Quilt Show from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5,

Dawn Continued from Page 6 “There really is anti-German hysteria,” Wheeler said.

A real-life character is brought back to further show the plight of German speakers in the valley. Bateman pored over copies of the Student Life newspaper, the predecessor to The Utah Statesman, looking at the public section where anyone could post a few sentences.

“It’s the Facebook of the early 20th Century,” Bateman said.

He found several posts that referred to “Kaiser Havertz” and was intrigued. After more research, he found Joeseph Havertz was a German immigrant and LDS convert who

at Elite Hall in downtown Hyrum.

Along with artwork from local amateur and professional artists, select pieces from the American West Historical Quilt Collection will be on display. There will also be an extensive display on the history of Hyrum. Everyone is welcome and admission is free.

There will also be a dance at 8 p.m. Saturday sponsored by the USU Swing Club. The dance is $6, or you can come at 7 p.m. for dance instruction, which is only $2. Call 245-0208 or email museum@hyrumcity.com for info.

The Logan Library and the Cache Valley Civic Ballet are pleased to present a special Ballerina Storytime at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in the Jim Bridger Room.

Come enjoy the magic of ballet and get a taste of the upcoming performance of “The Nutcracker.”

Parents and children of all ages are welcome.

797-3004 for more information.

SATURDAY The Solarists will perform with Festive People and Isabel Forinash at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6. Visit whysound. com for more information.

CAPSA invites you to join its local retail partners for it’s annual Stuff the Truck event from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, at Smith’s Marketplace. CAPSA will be present accepting donations from community members.

Needed items will be highlighted by volunteers at the doors. Your donations will impact those who are receiving services at CAPSA. Help us “stuff the truck” and bring hope to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Visit capsa.org for more information.

SUNDAY

The Utah State University Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Thomas P. Rohrer, will perform its fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4 at the Morgan Theatre on the USU campus.

Admission is free. Please call

St. John’s Episcopal Church will hold a special Sunday evening musical service at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 6, at 85 E. 100 North. This event will feature the vocal accompaniment of

had a mustache just like Kaiser Wilhelm. Before the war there were lots of jokes about the “Kaiser” that were all in good fun. When the anti-German sentient grew, Havertz had a friend put a note in the paper asking everyone to stop calling him Kaiser, saying he is a loyal American who buys Liberty bonds.

“It wasn’t cool, in 1917, to be called Kaiser anymore,” Bateman said.

Joseph Sorrell is a fictional character who tells the story of the 10,000 Native Americans who fought in the Great War. Many Native Americans born on reservations — who belonged to sovereign nations and therefore not American citizens — were still drafted and shipped off to the front lines. Some who weren’t drafted still signed

up to fight on their own freewill. Bateman read a book on Native Americans in the World War I to gain insight into what brought these non-citizens to fight in war that did not affect them. He describes Sorrell, a Shoshone born on a reservation and an LDS convert, as a man who wanted to be an American and wanted to prove his fighting prowess.

“You’re raised in a culture were the warrior is respected and you have to demonstrate your skill and bravery as a warrior,” Bateman said. “But the opportunities to do that are virtually nil at that time.”

Once Sorrell joined, he took a train through Preston on the way to a military training camp in Washington State.

The train crosses the site of the Bear River Massacre, one

the USU Choral Scholars. All Souls’ Day is an ancient, annual occasion for remembering our friends and loved ones who have passed away, and is observed with special prayers and hymns.

All are welcome to this memorial service, followed by a reception afterwards. For more information, please call 752-0331.

MONDAY The Booklore Club will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, at the home of Bernice McCowin.

The Logan Library Monday Movie will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 7, in the Jim Bridger Room. This week’s movie is “Central Intelligence,” which is rated PG-13. Popcorn and admission is free.

WEDNESDAY

patriotic and entertaining stroll down memory lane at 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 9. As part of a salute to our veterans, the Oscar-winning film, “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” starring James Cagney, will be shown in the Jim Bridger Room. This 1942 classic is not rated. Admission and popcorn are free.

Authors and historians, E. B. Wheeler and Jeffery Bateman will speak at the November Cache Valley Historical Society meeting on the profound effect World War I had on Utah, Cache Valley and Utah Agricultural College. The meeting is open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the Historic Cache County Courthouse, 199 N. Main St.

THURSDAY

Join the Logan Library in a

Imani Winds will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, at the USU Performance Hall. Tickets are $24; $10 for students.

Tickets are available at arts.usu. edu, 797-8022 and at the door the night of the performance.

Further information is available at cmslogan.org.

of the greatest massacres of Shoshone Indians by the U.S. Army. In the story, his grandparents were killed in the massacre. He recognizes the irony that he has now joined the army that killed his ancestors.

Finally, when Sorrell came back from the war, he could not vote. He had to apply to be a citizen after fighting for a country he does not belong to.

“If serving your country doesn’t give you the vote, what does?” Bateman said.

“It’s kind of appalling, really.”

Reed Lewis, in contrast, is a good-looking farm boy who spends his summers out in the canyon catching and breaking wild horses. Lewis and Jensen fall for each other, but the authors insist they are not romance writers. They explore the characters’ commitment to their faith throughout their

relationship and the war. Reed struggles with his faith when he leads his battalion into the Battle of Belleau Wood, armed only with a bamboo cane against German machine guns. His battalion takes a 150 percent casualty rate, meaning all of the original men died or were wounded, plus half of the replacements over the six day battle. Lewis questions his faith during the battle. He doesn’t pray to survive, he simply prays that he does not fail his men.

This is a story about people with faith and family who go to war. The authors want to remind people what life was like 100 years ago for the lost generation.

“I don’t know if World War I is always uplifting, but I think our story is,” Bateman said.

Avoid The Void and Dead Crown will perform at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 9, at WhySound, 30 Federal Ave. Admission is $6. Visit whysound.com for more information.

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By Myles Mellor and Sally York Across 1. Scoped out 6. Obliquely 12. Party person and puzzle theme starter 15. Open 17. Hound, in the hunt 18. Stand 20. Closed book 21. In contrast to 22. “City Without Walls” poet 23. Protests 26. Short-tailed lemur 28. Assess 29. Patched 31. Birthright seller 32. Whiner 38. Short coats 41. Character 42. Light rowboat 43. Certain hospitals 45. Northern sky constellation 47. LaBrea goo 48. Big Apple inits.

50. It may be written “on” something 53. They’re all the same 54. Prius’s advantage 56. Record company 58. Chalcedony specimens 63. Deodars 66. In a shape that comes up to a point 67. Union conflicts 71. Christmas tree growing area 72. Cravings 73. “Rain Man” subject 74. Captain Nemo’s creator 75. Peccadillo 76. Blackball 78. Billiard shooter?

79. Anna starters, in a celeb name 81. Canine command 84. Big Dipper’s locale 91. Espresso serving 94. Dessert

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95. Creamy salad 99. Wood tar derivative 100. Newborn outfit 101. Whittle 102. Singer, Ant 103. High point 106. Unpaid debt 108. How some countries are run 117. Dull and tasteless 118. Holiday roast 119. Composer, Jean Philippe ______ 120. Etcher’s medium 121. Skin problem 122. Fleet of warships 123. Barely get, with “out” 124. Aegean Sea island 125. Arcade coin Down 1. Reminded 2. Diarist heroine 3. “___fan” movie 4. Consequently 5. Angry outburst 6. Capital overlooking the Gulf of Guinea 7. Young hog 8. Light case 9. Italian province or its capital 10. Stepson of Claudius 11. Metamorphosed 12. Tremble 13. Very 14. Unskilled 16. Father figures 18. Deny 19. Bleed 24. Give it a shot 25. Mind reader 27. Supplicate 30. Strangle 32. Welsh valley 33. Fraternity letter 34. Passion 35. Good buddy 36. Sweep 37. Exiter’s exclamation

39. Swallow 40. Homeric H 43. Scale note 44. Inquire 46. Type of CPU (abbr.)

49. Influence 50. Bassoon relatives 51. Belief in a supreme being 52. Days of yore, in days of yore 55. “__ Love You” (Beatles tune) 57. Opposed party 58. Goodbye, in Paris 59. Sort 60. Religious ending 61. “Baked” side dish, slangily 62. Victorian, e.g.

63. Trash bag accessory 64. “Maggie May” singer Stewart 65. Naval rank abbreviation 66. PC element 68. Folk rock’s ___ DiFranco 69. It measures the moisture in soil 70. Without (French) 71. Pipe 75. Pottery fragment 76. Greyhound transport 77. “Diamonds ___ Forever” (Bond film) 80. What bouncers check 82. ___ a good plan!

83. Chinese ideal 85. Title for Khan 86. Can 87. Took a course?

88. Spout 89. Horse feed 90. Regret 92. Fermented beverage 93. Avoided responsibilities and work

95. Mani/pedi place 96. Feeding stage of insects 97. Fermented Middle East beverage 98. Tearjerker 100. Do-over 104. Thick liqueur 105. Pyramid builders 107. Tutor 109. Lots of 110. Very small pasta 111. Certain investment, for short 112. Golfer’s transport 113. Fire power 114. Make public 115. Put on board 116. Chinese money

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