Arizona republican., 1916-11-14
AMERICAN MOVIES CHARM THE ORIENT

AMERICAN MOVIES CHARM THE ORIENT
 had not been in America fifteen minutes after Tour months in the Orient before an interested pro- ducer asked me:
 and China?" -' 'api"
 Charlie Chaplin is big drawing card in China" l replied. There cinema exhibitions in all of the cities The Chinese like the 'moves so do the Japa- nese.T
 There are few occasions, excepting a patriotic or religious festival where the Japanese will so unbend himself and forget his dignity" At Kyoto the an- cent capital where had the people festive ana gay during the day, they participated the great aoi festival at the Kamo shrine observed them in the evening they witnessed the American thriller "The Hazards of Helen" They made about as much noise at one as at the other giving oubursts of ap- pause and even rising to their feet and shouting just about much when the hero saved Helen and her baby by venturing to the railroad bridge and Jumping into the river with the two in his arms as the express train Whizzed screen as fhey did when the Sugekasa passal the sacred horses passed through the streets their stately journey toward the Shinto temple
 At all Japanese motion picture exhibitions a lee turer stands the stage and explains the action even in such yarns of primitive construction The ards of Helen"
 Now you the little child going out upon the railroad bridge" he explains "She is a thoughtful infant who does not know that death lurking in the pathway Sha is probably happy any innocent little child coul6be She skips along over the railway ties, thinking that she has found new amusement because she has walked on the railway tracks before But what will happen when the fast train comes laundering along the track? What will become of the chd?'
 Oh he is an eloquent speaker, this chorus" who explains the play. He much into his "explan- alton" that is prompted by the picture itself much that never entered into the mind the scenario wrf producer
 was unable to learn the origin of these gentle men who seem so important the movie industry in Japan. but they must have had much theatrical ex- perence in their native country. They have as ready knowledge of all the old plots the average drar fieti in acted in Japanese plays the plots of most of which the the stereotyped plots in American drama.-Archie Bell in the Theater Magazine.
 If anybody ever ventures to suggest the preferen- tal ballot for South Carolina it should be made the duty of some public official swear out lunacy papers against such without delay. The Flor ida primary held the first of June At last after more than three months of counting and recounting the ballots, the matter has gotten as far as the courts; and the talk in the Florida papers invites the belief that what the is not likely to be accepted as final If Catts is shut the Tampa Tribune predicts that the will repudi- ate the whole business and elect Catts governor in the general election.
 It is bad anyway you look at it Florida undoubtedly is for the time being the unhappy of southern states far politics goes and the worst of it is that for the four years at least Florida has no prospect of relief in sight matter how the contest now in. progress ends.-Charleston News and Courier.
 i've tried to teach my boy the value of money"
 Good thngl"'
 Well, don't know He used to behave for ten cents, but now he wants quarter."-Life.
 His light and airy
 We cannot but admire
 Is heard whistle
 While struggling with tire.
 One day his turned turtle
 The while he sped along;
 He crawed out from the wreckage
 And hummed a little song
 Birmingham Age Herald. Cousin Ann-Mamie has been out riding with Jack every night for week and it's putting in her cheeks.
 Aunt Sue-Yes, and if it doesn't put orange blos- sons in her hair I'll miss my Browning's Magazine