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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-10-07
France And Duer Down The Shore

In accordance with an itinerary ar
ranged by the Republican State Cen
trail Committee, DR.. Joseph |. France
Republican candidate for U. S. Sena-
tor. and Robert f. Duer, Republican
candidate for Congress. are spending
several days this week in the lower
counties of the Eastern Shore. We'd
nesday afternoon they spent in Kent
county and Wednesday evening IN
CeatreVille. Thursday night they held
I, reception at E&ston in the Hotel and
spent the next day touring the county.
Saturday will be given to Worcester
county A dispatch to the daily pap
ers from Centreville says:
Mr. Duer and DR.. France believe
that more can be accomplished by per
sonally meeting the voters and infor-
mally talking to them than by making
long speeches at large gatherings, and
this is the method adopted by them
for their campaign on the Eastern
Shore.
Some Democrats and most of the
Progressives in this section of the
state are offering their support to the
entire Republican ticket. In their in
formal talks to the voters Mr.. Duer
and DR.. Farnce explained the import
ance of protective tariff.
Reports from men in close touch
wit hconditions in Queen Annes and
Kent counties indicate that Kent will
90 Republican by substantial ma
jority, and that Queen Annes will fol-
low not far behind, and this regard
less of the fact that the EasternShore
is looked upon as Democratic terri
tory. But DR.. France is known here
and the people like him personally.
To help DR.. France and Mr.. Duer in
their fight there is at this time lack
of harmony in the Democratic fold
The Lee faction and the Smith forces
are not pulling together. The Repub-
Leans are united and their candidates
are working quietly and effectively
1mong the voters, and their plan of
sampaign is accomplishing results.
Encouraging reports from all parts
f Kent and Queen Annes are being
eceived with reference to the regis
ration. All indications point to a full
rote in November, and a full vote
means Republican victory.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-10-07
MIR. Winchester Leaves His Party

No man in Maryland is more widely
nown in the business circles of the
tate than Marshall Winchester. 1t
Z therefore peculiarly fitting that,
lille hundreds of other Democrats
re at the present time refusing to
blow their party's betrayal by I'M
trustworthy leaders, the remuneration
his party by Mr.. Winchester should
given especial publicity. as it will
rry exceptional influence.
Reared a Democrat and even now
firm believer in the Jeffersonian
inciples of Democracy, Mr.. Win
ester feels that he is left no choice
to break his lifetime's record and
T the Republican ticket.
~" ons are best given in the
r:
in the Demo
in the prin-
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-10-07
PERRYVILl-E

Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett Smith and Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Smith anc children. of
Drewmore. Pa, were guests of Mr.
Charles Crawford and family last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Baker have
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-10-07

We wish to extend to the many
friends our sincere thanks for their
kindness and sympathy during the i'll
ness and at the death of our daughter,
Mary Agnes Gonce.
Mr.. and Mrs. ROBERT GONCE
Cecilton. Nd. Sept. 30, 1915.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-10-07
Cards of Thasks

We wish to thank Union Hospital
doctors and nurses for their kindness
to our uncle. John N. Hague, also
those who sent flowers.
MRS. ADA G. NABB,
MRS. WAYNE T. STRADLEY.
Cecilton. Nd Sent. % 1916
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-10-07

walton. Mr.. Wilson's defense of his
action makes his case worse than if
he had said nothing"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-10-07
No. 1886
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
The National Bank Of Elkton
Elson IN the State of Maryland, at business
September IL, 1916
RESOURCES

o'eait Suns unsecured
u bonds deposed to secure circulation %
Bonds and securities pledged %
}no inelun stocks owned $4,000 90
Tote, bord.
'sss bank stock - G s e
federal Reserve Bank $50
fixtures
s.: , DUE ss Psi s G s:s SIS
Net amount due from approved reserve
Net due from in 80 20
sand bankers
DINER gbank.
Notes other
Iealender noes "
Redemption Treasurer S q"
Total.
LIABILITIES
capital stock paid
Sragigd fund ss
Less current expenses interest and
or Sd S @
Individual deposits
Seftacates deposit
checks outstanding " "
mum secured by items sd and &c Of
Total demand tem3s se33s 10 ""''i
Tota s12s6 SIC 90
State Of Maryland o cecl,s
dbnkdo
above statement is true to the best of
ashier
FRANK
A. H. MENDENHALL,
Subscribed to day of September 1915
l..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
Delta of the Niger River


From Mystery Of the Niger River by
CYRUS c. Adams, in the American Re-
view of Reviews.
The Niger is the third greatest river In
Africa and the eleventh in rank in the
world How did 1t happen that for gen.
erations no one knew the place and the
manner of its junction with the Atlantic
The problem was really a hard nut to
crack though with our present methods
of African exploration and our knowl-
edge of how to live in the deadly eli
mate of the delta. the mystery would
have been solved in few months. The
Niger delta, one Of the largest in the
world, stretches $50 miles along the coast.
Most of it's streams are small; and. skirt
ing the coast, one can hardly observe
them, so completely are they hidden in
the dense region of mangrove swamps.
Explorers soon found that they might
struggle for weeks up stream only to
prove it a blind alley; for a popularity
Of the Niger is that not few independ-
ent rivers form between the delta branch
and have no connection with the Niger
itself Most of the delta Is network,
difficult to enter or to retreat from. All
nature is hidaous there. The brown wa
tiers lazilyN coursing; the evil odors OF
slime and ooze; the repulsive animal life
from crocodiles to pythons, lurking In
the shadow of their prey; and choice
collection of insect plaques, including the
anopheles mosquito, with its poisonous
sting. These terrible conditions, persisting
for about 40 miles inland, are then sue
ceeded by solid earth, noble trees and
sweet air; but the swamp region of the
lower delta is one of the most forbid
ding parts Of Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

not WlUuOuLf luISIC0G 1Ol eiiO9 {, u
at is conservatively estimated, al
though it is ALMOST impossible to OBJ
tain the exact figures" says this daily
.contemporary, "that the motion pic
ture companies now in and around Los
Angeles are spending more than $780,
100000 a year. And every line OF
business is helped thereby. The actors
for the most part are permanently To-
Gated in the city; most of them in fact
own their home, so that practically all
the money paid out by the film con-
Germs is left in Los Angeles. Probably
AZ, 900 people are employed by these
companies. Their payrolls are ire
mendOus.
Universal, the biggest film company in
the world. has weekly pay roll of more
than $4,000, while the overhead expenses
will reach about $4,000 more.
Ince soudios pay out regularly about
$1,000 in salaries every week and the
overhead expense amounts to about $50.
600 more.
Lasky's weekly pay roll ranges about
So, 900, with overhead expenses of about
$50,
Keystone has a weekly pay roll OF
about $4,000, with overhead expenses OF
at least $4,000.
Fine Arts pays out at least $4,000 a
week in salaries and about $4,000 as gen
eral expenses.
Selig has now pay roll of about $685.
600 and overhead expenses of $45, 900.
Balboa has a pay roll of about $4,000
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
THE DEVIL s NEEDLE
BOOKED AT BELLE
THEATRE IN ENSLEY
Manager Reese Announces
Excellent Programme for
This Week-'The De-
serter" for Today

Manager Claud Reese of the Belle
theatre in Ensley is the latest sub
scriber to the motion picture adver-
Using columns of The Age-Hera1d, and
he came in with the declaration that
in his opinion the fetching power of
an Age-Herald is unsurpassed by no
other newspaper in the south" This
should rally the Ensey clan to the
Belle theatre, where the greatest fea-
ture productions of the day are being
screened every week.
Manager Reese is the young man who
a few weeks ago announced the policy
of granting a free admission pass to
all urchins who furnished him with
SO dead flies. Mr.. Reese's idea was to
operate with the health campaign.
In three days Manager Reese received
10000 dead flies and he then cancelled
his offer to avoid bankruptcy.
Gosh mighty said Mr.. Reese,
those kids brought me so many flies.
that for three days all I had was fly
audience"
But Manager Reese's idea did one
good thing. 1t brought the flies to the
attention of the city commission and
they promptly passed ordinances re-
quiring fly-traps and screening and 9TH
er annoyances to make fiy's existence
precarious and miserable. President of
the city commission George B. Ward
did advocate adopting in toto the idea
of Manager Reese in that samll boys
would be paid small sum for dead
flies, but an empty civic treasury, due
to the legal raid of T. C. Mcdonald. pre-
vented.
At the Belle theatre this week Man
ager Reese offers a sterling programme.
opening today with THE Deserter," a.
five-part Ince- Triangle feature, in
which Charles Ray is starred. A two
reel keystone comedy is also booked.
Tomorrow 1.-The Man From Nowhere"
a Universal multiple reel production.
in which King Baggot and Helen Mar
tin are costars will be shown. THE In
ternational News Pictorial" is also
booked, which is an announcement to
delight the eye.
On Tuesday "a Soldiers Oath" with
William Farnum, Fox production, and
"The Scarlet Woman with Madame
Petrova, a 1ve-part Metro photoplay,
is booked with pirates of the Air" a
two-reel L-Ko comedy.
On Thursday 1.-THE Iron Claw" serial
in which Pearl White and Creighton
Hale are costars, and 1.-THE Human
Cactus" with Rupert Julian, and
"Twice at Once" a comedy. will be
| shown.
The Devils Needle" a fve-part Fine
Arts-Triangle production, with Norma
Talmadge and Tully Marshall, is
| booked, with a two-reel keystone
comedy for Fridays programme.
| On Saturday "The Money Lenders
with Marie Walcamp and Lee Hill, and
1.-The Mysteries of Myra," with Howard
Estabrook and Jean Southern, will be
shown.
] That's some programme for one week.
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and about $4,000 overhead expenses.
Kalem with two studios has a pay roll
of about 5000 and 10000, expenses re-r.
Vitagraph has pay roll of about $30o(
and expenses, of about $3000.s ,gfNsf-'
Fox, with two studios, has a pay roll
of about $4,000 and overhead expenses OF
at least $35,000
Horsley's pay roll reaches about $4,000
with $4,000 expenses
Z Clune has pay roll of about 5000 and
expenses reaching $4,000.
MoroSco has a pay roll of about $40.
600 and $4,000 overhead cost.
Signal has pay roll of about $4,000 and
$4,000 overhead expenses.
L-KO spend about $1,000 week equally
divided as to pay roll and overhead ex-
penses.
Christie has pay roll of about $200(
and overhead expenses of about $1,000.
Vobue has pay roll of about $1,000 and
overhead expenses about $4,000.
Rolin has a pay roll of about $4,000 and
expenses are about $4,000.
Metro has pay roll of about $4,000 ano
about $4,000 overhead expenses
Monrovia Feature Film company has a
pay roll Of about $2OOO with overhead
expenses of about $1,000 NJ
Norbig has pay roll of aboue $1,000
with about $1,000 as overhead expenses.
Ine Lone star company employing
Charlie Chaplin, has a small salary list
aside from Chaplin's $4,000 a week. The
overhead expenses will reach about $1,000
Mabel Normand Film company, $1,000 q
week, with $1,000 overhead expenses.
The E. & r. Jungle Film company ha.
a small pay roll because of the fact thai
this company employs aniamls for leads
These companies own and u operat,
about 1000 automobiles and nearly all thu
stars own cars
1t is also estimated that more than 40
900 miles of film is turned out Of Lo,
Angeles every year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
JEWELL MAN|K|NS
AT LYRIC THEATRE
All Star Bill of Vaudeville
Is Booked by Manager
SemOn

Madame JEWELS Manikins, one of the
best known of vaudevilles acts, and one
that has proven highly entertaining, to-
gether with the The Four Entertainers,
singers and musicians, will be the head
line attractions on the bill this week.
These two acts have scored repeated sue
cesses and are considered among the best
entertainers in vaudeville.
JEWELS Manikins is an act that has
afforded much pleasure to he theatre
goers of this country and the coming
of the act is always anticipated with
pleasure The little figures perform won
ders and Madame Jewell has certainly
proven herself an adept as an entertainer
with her interesting number.
The Four Entertainers are four young
men who are new Corners to vaudeville
and they have proven exceedingly sue
cessful. They present an harmonious
blend of fun and music and do their act
in an exceptionally clever manner.
AS co-entertainers with the feature
acts there will be three other high class
Keith acts and Pathe pictures.
"a Tom Waters and Eddie Morris will ap-
pear In their original lTlSH Coneuy
classic, Gather and Son" These two en-
tertainers are well known to the theatre
going public, and their presence on any
bill assures much amusement
IA Pair of Aces" is the way Witt and
Winter bill themselves and this billing
signifies that they are right at the top.
They are sensational hand to hand ball
ancers, and are said to be In class all
by themselves.
Joyce, West and SIENNA will entertain
with song, music and dance and at all
three they are adopts.
The Pathe pictures as usual will fea'
ture all performances. This feature Of
the Lyric programme is a pleasing one
and all the latest of world events are
produced in picture.
The heat will not trouble the Lyric
patrons as the theatre is cooled by ict(
air and electric fans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

| black eyes and saucy smiles that lure
the men to propose? Then they ought to
pause in their laughter some night and
they might catch a faint whisper behind
them. 1t is the fairies discussing whether
or not they are suited to each other! If
the fairies decide that they are ill-mated,
they will quarrel and part. If they seem
to the little eaves-droppers to be ideally
matched, then they will kiss.
That at least Is what the little Lady
Eileen firmly believes in the Famous
Players production of that name in which
Marguerite Clark is starring. For Eileen
is Irish, with all the rare charm and all
the imaginative gifts of the Irish-and
she believes in the fairies with all her
heart and SOUL
And why shouldn't she? If 1t were not
for them how would she ever have found
her true love and how would she ever
brute of an impostor who married her
for her money when she never knew she
had any herself? Only the good fairies
could have brought big Stanley Churchill
to her when she never knew that he
existed and only the elfs of the air could
have rolled the giant boulder down upon
his fleeing brother as he galloped away
in cowardly fear after he had nearly
killed Stanley for rescuing the bringing
Eileen. -.e
So it is only. natural and right that
Eileen should offer prayers of thanks to
the fairies for all her happiness and
for her same deliverance from misery
now that she and Stanley are living
happily ever AFTER and it is only nat
ural and right that the irresistible lit
tie Markuerite Clark should bring little
Lady Eileen into existence on the screen,
as she proves by her exquisite inter-
probation of the character of this happy.
mischievous, charming Irish girl. 1t
would be manifestly unfair to Miss Clark
and to the producers to call Little Lady
Eileen second molly Make-Believe."
since the story settings and the character
are totally different. but it Is safe to
predict that Miss Clark's latest picture
will more than duplicate the remarkable
success which she scored in the adapta-
tion of Eleanor Haliowell Abott's cele-
brated story.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
Secret of the Submarine
at the Odeon One Theatre

At the Odeon One theatre for today
1.-THE Secret of the Submarine" another
episode of a dramatic patriotic serial
is booked with Tom Chatterton and
Juanita Hansen in the leading roles.
Tomorrow 1.-THE Story of the Missing
Waterman" a Beatrice Fairfax story,
with Grace Darling and Harry Fox as
costars is booked at the Odeon One.
This is the new serial now being pro-
duced by the International Film Ser
vice. Inc.
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with the irresistible currents of thought
which dominated their ages and all lead
to the approaching era of individual re-
sponsibility tempered with the mutually
of brotherly understanding between men.
The entire conception is poe tic and epo-
cal, investing newer understanding of
the past and present with more direct
force than was dreamed possible until
this method perfected by Griffith came
to hand. 1t will be staged with that at
tention to detail which marks the Grif-
fifth productions and its emotional mes
sage will be carried by an orchestral
,, score equal in every demand to the range
and sweep of the book.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

Players Paramount production in which
fairies predominant.
When lovers meet and woo and wed
do the silly geese think that they are de-
termining their own fates? Do the SWANS
believe that they are so handsome that
the girls cannot resist them and do the
lassies think that it is their laughing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
MOVIE MASTERPIECE
WILL BE PRESENTED
BY DAV ID GRIFFITH
Intolerance" Gigantic Spectacle, the Result of
Patient EndeavOr, Will Be Given First Public
Presentation at Liberty Theatre, New York, on
Tuesday Night, August %

N w. GRIFFITH completed arrangements with Klaw &
-. Eranger in New York this week to take the lib
erty theatre for the 1861 beginning August 81 His
first production will be the colossal spectacle, ntoer
ance = which he designates play of the ages
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
MORE ROMANCE

AT the Rialtoy theatre today "The
River of Romance" a five-part Metro
Esubject, is booked Harold Lockwood
and May Allison are costars in this
romantic film production and for the
past two days this picture has pleased
the patrons of the Rialto.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

The city of Madras, India, is to hold an
all-India sanitary exhibition during the
last week of next December, and has in
vited American firms to participate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

Mr. Griffith has been at work upon TINS
story for over five years. 1t is an original
idea, consisting of parallel narratives
coming down through four ages in the
worlds development. The connecting
link between the past and present reveals
that the same force which has created
crises in the worlds affairs is at work
today. In this production Mr.. Griffith
has set new mark and created his most
ambitious achievement. Greater back
grounds have been made for his action
than was ever revealed before. In his
principal scenes he has utilized more peo-
pie than were ever seen in any produce
ton.
FIRST PRESENTATION
Intolerance" will be presented for the
first time in any theatre at the Liberty
theatre on Tuesday night. August I'D.
This is the production which has been
referred to heretofore as 1.-THE Mother
and the Law" title which was used
solely for working purposes. 1t tells a
modern story Of striking local color and
stirring detail which depicts the suffering
and adventures of young couple who
happen to be caught in the whirlpool of
so-called social reform. The effort to
thwart the law of individual destinies is
the force which brings the young lovers
and others into sequence OF events
which engulf them. In this Griffith has
shown a keen insight into prevalent con-
ditions and in illustration of his theme
has painted a picture which will STARTER
the world by it's realism.
In joining his modern story to ancient
events Griffith has made a wide departure
cto tr1Io n the aSf
He Celebrates upon his original invention
of the switch-back to flash parallel mar
ratives of the fall Of Babylon, the advert
of the Nazarene into Judea and the mas
sacre of st. Bartholomew in Paris in 1872
In each locale he introduces analogous
characters to the protagonists of his mod
ern story and shows them engulfed in
the same vortex of intolerant opinions
which are the negative forces in his main
theme. The historic surroundings OF
these various periods are presented in
elaborate and accurate detail The work
of research to give authority to these
scenes was carried on by corps OF ex-
perts over a period of the past three OF
four years. These writers furnished Mr.
Griffith with over six volumes or the
latset condensations upon the different
subjects, and 1t was this data that ne
worked upon. His Babylonia is brought
up to the very latest discoveries and his
tories of the leading university expedi-
tons to the ruins which are being exca-
waited. His scenes in and about Jaffa and
Jerusalem will give pictorial color to
the Holy Land which has never been re-
vealed before and his background fol
the massacre in Paris shows the quarters
of old Paris in minute detail from prints
and descriptions of the times which are
of vast value for their fidelity
GREATEST CHARACTERS
Some of the greatest characters in the
worlds development are pictured at war
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
BUSHMAN AGAIN

At the Trianon theatre today Francis
x. Bushman and Beverly Bayne are CO.
starred in "A Virginia Romance" a
two-part Metro photoplay. TOO Many
Cooks" a Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Drew
comedy, is also booked. which makes
the Trianon programme unusually we'll
balanced.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13
MANUFACTURING OF
MOTION PICTURES is
COSTLY PROCEDURE
Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Expended
Every Week in Los Angeles in Pay Rolls and
Overhead Expenses of the Greatest Film Max
ing City of the World Has Been Boon to City

TATISTICS Of the film producing business in Los Angeles
> prepared Of the daily papers and gives
the following figures, which, though exaggerated,
,o+ without interest for the oullibe:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

Coffee beans are sorted not only for
size, but for color.
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MISS MARGUERITE CLARK
Beautiful and popular star of "Lit-
tie Lady Eileen" five-part Famous
Players-ParamOunt photoplay, at the
Strand theatre Friday and Saturday.
Miss Clark admits that she prefers
the part of happy heroine always
and she puts them over nicely.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-13

Is LITTLE LADY EILEEN"
< On Friday and Saturday Manager Alb
ernethy announces the engagement ex-
traordinary of Marguerite Clark in Lit
tie Lady Eileen" a five-part Famous