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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30

have been awakened, with shote strings
trailing behind, I am running as hard
as can toward the camp. When ar
rive all IL in a hustle. The watch,
Mhieh stays up all night, dressed for or
their sheds and prepared to go off i'm
mediately. are already up in the air.
You can see them climbing in the
night: Our mechanics have had our
machines taken out of the sheds and
have been awakened, with shoestrings
Eager to Get Up in Air.
We are divided into kinds of squads,
citement. 1t is my turn. Essence. con-
tact" yells my mechanic. Are you
ready?' Eyes" He catches hold Of one
of the blades Of the propeller and gives
it a good pull. The motor starts off
with the noise of machine gun. l
hardly give time enough to my
mechanic to get out of the way and
jump in; then, opening my. throttle wide.
I leap up in the cold, black night. Poor
old motor. there is no pity for you now,
you will have to give out all you are
worth or bust. Up and up go. Every
thing Is black beneath me; there are no
lights, nothing tonight. The firemen
have given the alarm in Paris and all
the lights have been turned out. At
last the night has come. That night
we have been waiting for so long. On
ward. onward, higher. higher, in the
direction Of the enemy do we go. What
is that black shape over there? make
straight for it with a little emotion.
Just my luck, 1t is only a cloud, and
go on with my search.
But over there at the aerodrome they
are making signs for US to come down.
There is no hurry, no hurry now. slow
ly and peacefully do 1 land and take
my machine back to it's shed. I wait
for my comrades, and all together,
chatting and smoking. we walk back to
the offices to see what has happened.
The zipps did come. right up to x,
and there turned tail and went home
We do the same. But with hearts full
of disgust because Of the false hope
and the lost chance. G. DE S.
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Signs Of the Times.

From the Christian Register.
II see they have just dug mp a corner
stone OF q library in Greece on which
was inscribed 1000 b. c." remarked q
student to q Scotchman. what do you
suppose 1t meansT
TT Gamma mean bu' one thing" an
swered the Scot, solemnly. Before Car
neE4N"
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ADJUSTMENTS,
Especial Film Features

{ToDAY-OPEN 3 P.M.-FRANK LOsEE,
in THE EVIL THEREOF"
iToDAY-oPEN 3 P.M-KITTY GORDON.
in THE CRUCIAL TEST"
Olympic. 1881 Yon st. NV.
3TODAY-CHARLES CHAPLIN, in his latest
Comedy, THE vAGAB0ND." Mutual
Special in two acts.
Central Park. 9th md Grant PI. NV.
3TODAY-"SHOES; OR. WHERE IS MY
DAUGHTER?' PRESENTING MARY
! MACLAREN. In 8 acts.
Leader. 9th Bet. f & F. SITS. wv.
$TODAY-"sHoES; OR, WHERE IS MY
! DAUGHTER ?" PRESENTING MARY
! MACLAREN. In 5 acts.
masonic Auditorium.
T0NIGHT-RALPH HERR
and IRENE HAWLEY. in
THE PURPLE LADY," Metro.
! Penn Gardens. PA. Ave. "t c1.t st.
SToDAY-oPEN P.M.-TRIANGLE-wI
LIAM s. HART, WITH ROBERT McKIM,
in THE PRIMAL LURE" Also LOVE
TOMoRROw-MARGAR CLARK, I'M
SEVEN SISTERS Paramount. Also
! MONKEY COMEDY:
OUR AMPLE PARKING SPACE HAS
I PROVED CONCLUsIvELY THE POPU-
LARITY OF OUR BEAUTIFUL AIRDOME.
! Lyric, 18th and Irving SITS. NV.
1rODAY-OPEN P,M.-"WHO'S GUILTY."
] No. 10. FEATURING ANNA NILSSON
| AND TOM MOORE: Also CHARLIE
PATHE NEWS.
I Washington Park Is Oper. 18th & Z.
fTODAY-Crane Wilbur. Popular Romantic
I Actor. in THE WASTED YEARS.
I The Stanton, Near Stanton Place.
fToDAY-"HoMB. SWEET HOME" Also
CHAPLIN CARTOON.
American. R. I. Ave. and 1st St.
?TODAY-FLORENCE ROCKWELL, in
BODY AND SOUL"
The Liberty Theater. n. Cnp. nnd p.
iTODAY-OPEN 3 PRIMARY PICKFORD,
in THE ETERNAL GRIND
/: Circle. 21Os Pm. Ave. Phi. w. ss3.
fToDAY-OPEN 8 P.M.-EDNA MAY. in
I sisted by the following yitagraph players:
I Harry 7. Morey. L. Rogers Lytton, Don
aid Hall. Dorothy Kelly and Robert Con-
nelly. Also FRANK DANIELS COMEDY.
Crnndalp. Theater. 9th and r. Ste.
$TODAY-OPEN 3 PANAMA LUTHER
and GEORGE WALSH, in THE BEAST"
! CrandaII's savoy, 18th & Col. Road
fTODAY-OPEN 3 P.M.-MAE MARSH.
! ROBERT HARRON and FULLY MAR
! SHALL. in "A CHILD OF THE PARIS
! STREETS" Also WILLIE COLLIER, In
! ''wILLIE's WABBLY WAYS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30
Aroused From Sleep.
Dear Cousin

Dear Cousin:
1 was sleeping the other night like
the just'-for here In France the Just"
are supposed to sleep better than any,
body else-when was awakened by q
frantic ringing at my door. / opened
my eyes with a start. got out of bed
and ran to open the door. There on
the landing I saw my mechanic, with
shiny eyes and an excited face He
yelled at me "Alerte" and Immediately
started running down stairs like IL his
life depended on IT.
So the Zspps have come. I jump in
anything. I put on all I can lay my
hands on. for II viii be cold tonight up
in thu air. Not three minutes after ]
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ceeded only after he had offered ''ab-
surd wages" for the youngsters.
One hundred and ffty-six thousand
people paid admissions to the movie
exposition at Chicago. distributed. 1t is
said. as follows: Clara K. Young day,
5000; Mary Pickford day. $4,000; Vita
graph day. $4,000; Essanay day. $4,000:
Alice Brady day. 3s.700; Universal day.
$4,000.
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Figures Method Of Attack.

Dear COUSIN
Have you ever thought Of what you
would do If you saw an aeroplane coming
at rate Of 100 kilometers an hour
straight at you, and two or three meters
from the ground? You would duck,
wouldn't you? And what do you think
a Boche would do? / decided after much
thought that he would duck also, and
that before he realized the situation or
could do anything the aeroplane would
be pretty far off. When l arrived at that
conclusion we had been doing practically
nothing, on account Of the bad weather,
for about a fortnight. Naturally 1 was
pretty bored with life.
Well. think of it; all day on muddy
aerodrome looking at the rain falling,
and all night in a beastly little village
which has about ten houses and smells Of
COW. BY carefully studying the map,
and with the personal knowledge had
of the place, I was convinced that by
coming very low from behind a certain
little wood, an aeroplane could suddenly
find itself above the first line of German
trenches without the Boches being
warned. Secondly, I must find AN OBJ
server who was ready to come with me.
That / easily found In the person of my
mechanic, who is a good shot and always
ready for trouble of any kind.
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Trains for Night Flying.

have started my training for night
flying. It is no cinch. The nights are SC
dark at this time of the year that you
can hardly see the tips Of your wings
AS for the ground beneath you, 1t is just
one huge black patch. Houses, trees, open
ground are all one and the same black
hole. You do not even judge your height
you can be at SO or 500 meters. it is all
the same. For landing vs. have search
lights on our machines. but they only
light up the ground when you are a few
meters from It, and even with that it is
very difficult to Judge. You must be very
slow and very careful.
How is life on your side Of the water?
Yours, G. DE S.
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Takes silencers Off Motor.

Before starting we carefully overhauled
our Maxim. and stocked as much ammu-
milton as possible. I thought, too, that If
l could go along making some kind Of a
wild futuristic noise, it would be all the
better, so had the silencers of my motor
taken Off If you had heard the noise that
engine could make; / am sure an earth
quake makes the same sound. Any rate,
it suggested something devilish. which
was just to the point. When we went off
the clouds were very low and drops OF
rain were already falling. making my face
feel like as If a thousand pins were being
driven into it. Nobody would ever sus-
pect an aeroplane of being out in such
weather, and it was In grand style that
I came around the corner of that little
wood, right on top of the German
trenches. as I had calculated. l started
flying lengthwise over them. about two
trench all the time. And what did the
Boches do? What did / tell you they
would do? They ducked. They ducked
with harmony that was touching. 1t
was glorious sight. "Fire!" I yelled to
my mechanic And he did it with a will.
Germans Fall in Trenches.
Twelve hundred shots at the rate of
400 a minute, did we pour down that
trench. Ia, ia, ia, ia. ia, went the
machine gun. as fast as the bands or
cartridges would pass through it. and
over Topped the gray coats. And it did
my heart good to see them topple over
on their faces. or on their backs, or
jump in the air. with the shock and
pain. and finally see them all lying in
the good old mud of France. The mo-
ment of surprise past, they naturally
1.t.
the soft flock of a few bullets as they
went through our wings But it was too
late. / had finished. and with one good
pull / scared up triumphantly into the
air. AS / passed over our own trenches
going home, / could see the pioupious
waving and cheering at US. / am ready
now to stand another fortnight of bad
weather. G. DE s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30

A producer, who is wiser in his day and
generation than most Of them. mas de-
clared that printers INK mas mace
more successful photoplays than anything
else
Herbert Brenon the director who made
Annette Kellermann's photopiay, mas ASK
ed the New York supreme court TO restrain
William Fox, who furnished the money
for the production, from eliminating ms
name from the film advertising and press
matter for the picture.
London is getting the habit also The
Kinemacbeth pictures at the Adeiphi
are to be "replicated" at other leading
theaters.
Mack Sennett 1.-The Keystone wizard. y
is said to be growing fat laughing at his
own comedies.
Rex Beach's novel, 1.-The Barrier is to
be filmed by the Lubin company and re-
leased through V. L. s. E.
Buenos Aires is to pay from 81 to IS
seat to see Thomas Fl. Ince's "Civiliza-
ton In the opera house where Caruso
sang for 10000 night The dollar seats
are in the rear of the sixth balcony.
| 1.-THE international Spy thirtytwo
reel serial, described as combination Of
| military and spectacular scenes, with
punch" enough in each to satisfy the
most satiated film fan. is to be produced
by the Gotham Film Company, with
| Irving Cummings. Betty Marshall ana
Frederick Truesdell as co-stars.
Cleo Ridgeley has been selected as
leading woman for Lou-Tenegen In MS
| frst photoplay feature for the Lasky
company, under the direction of Frank
Reicher. She has the role OF famous
Partisan dancer.
he ivto
national modern dance creators, nave
been signed to longtime contract for
the Famous Players Film Company.
Marguerite Courtot, recently engaged
by the Famous Players. will be starred
with owen Moore In Rolling Stones.
A photoplay is not a photoplay when
it is a movie" says the press agent.
Jackie Saunders. the young photoplay
star, is noted for her listening look"
She listens beautifully in pictures.
Daily, 1t is said, photoplay directors
are feeling the need Of lines for the
player in creating effective scenes.
when you have an earthquake break
niaver to one Of them the other day.
you just have to say something to help
1t along.
Paul GOrQOn, VINO 40 Saiu " AdSo tAS
making of a new film idol, will make
his picture debut with Pauline Fred
erick in THE Woman in the Case"
Pathe Is to adapt" Rudyard Kip
ling's stories to the screen.
A. H. Van Buren,, the popular leading
man, first of the Columbia Players and
then of the Poll Players. has Joined the
William Fox Aim forces and will have
| the leading role in a coming release.
Gaboriau's novel, The Clique of
Cold" has been filmed.
Earl Schenck. a motion picture actor
of note, says, "In Los Angeles alone
| 1000 miles of negative film. which has
passed through a motion picture cam
era, are developed each year. From this
negative 10000 miles of positive. are
| made for exhibition purposes" almost
enough to girdle the globe twice."
1.-THE House Of the Golden Windows"
| the Lasky feature. in which Cleo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30

ward rush. and 20 they hit the ground
and went pop" Unlucaify. the motors
being stopped at the time, the Zeppelin
aid not catch fire. Most Of tho crew,
therefore, was able to escape with more
or less serious injury. only few men
having been killed by the shock or crush
ed under the remains Of the balloon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30
Experiences in Clouds.

I have mounted guard above Paris in
the clouds. They started at about $500
to end at about four or five Thousand
meters. 1t was rather fun promenading
between two huge walls of vapor. kilo-
meters high. Sometimes they would
close under you and you would be like
in valley of snow. Or sometimes there
would be just one big tunnel in the
midst of a huge cloud, through which
you went. Or perhaps one large. clear
space with one tremendous cumulus, re-
sembling an iceberg, sending up in the
blue sky domes, towers and pinnacles of
fantastic shape, all glimmering in the
sunshine. And through the holes far
down below, you could see good old
Paris, baking in the sun.
We have at last got hold of one of
those dirty Boches which have been an
moving US so much lately by pretending
they were coming on Paris and then
turning away in a blue funk and run
ming for home. One of our fast, chas-
ing machines. that we use for the day
time. caught him up, dived behind it,
got underneath, and at twenty meters
fired for all it was worth. The Boche
suddenly side slipped and dived perpen-
dicularly- Then it's wings broke. and
what was left of the machine crashed
to earth. marking it's course by bits of
canvas and wood. that slowly drifted in
the wind. They were two officers The
pilot had bullet through his heart and
one through his head. Hurray. G. de s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30
Almost Despaired Once.

Ny Dear Cousin: had had no time to
tell you how I am housed. in my last
Letter. but have found garconniere
in the village. and at any time of the
day or night / must be found there or
at the aerodrome and ready to fly
within ten minutes of the appel" The
penalty of slack observance of this
rule 10 considered as abandonment of
post. in front of the enemy, and one
may be shot for that. No fear for me.
however. so do not tremble. I APP
preciate my privileges after the winter
Of camp life. when my diggins con-
sisted Of stable. with FIVE discon-
soiate "pioupious" like myself. and a
COW and goat and sheep to keep me
long months Of ever being a flying
man. so deep I seemed to be sunk in
the SLOUGH of despond." But this is
Retrospective and I know you are i'm
patient to have the daily bulletin OF
what am at present doing.
Huddles in Machine.
This morning 1t is clear and cold, SO,
with jerseys and furlined coats till I
resemble a small dirigibie balloon. I
hurry away to my turn. My word, it
IN cold at 1000 meters. but huddle
up inside mymachine and do all can
20 aSolC the WbnQ, 1 play around pre-
tending I am a lizard looking for sun
shine. When I get one side of myself
too hot ! would turn my big bird
around and warm the other side. So
life was not TOO bad after all. You
have heard by now about the "Zepp"
that came over Paris three days before
l came heref Well. II has become a
souvenir now. and because of us. We
got the tip from the information serv-
ice. When the ''Zepp" came II fell
plumb into the los of fellows that
We're cruising above Paris. 1t was
-pied by one Of them. who fmmedi-
ately started chasing. firing all sorts
OF unhealthy things for balloons.
Start Swiftly for Home.
Well. the '.zepp' people got rather nerv-
Gus about IT. chucked everything that
was possible overheard to escape and
started for home like lightning. Tho lieu
tenant that was fighting It followed.
Luckily. the -zepp." having got rid Of all
it's ballast. climbed to q tremendous
height The aeroplane WAS not able to
Get close enough to bring Il down and
they got away. When they got back to
Belgium they had enough OF It and started
laettng So ont to coma down They did
ooms down In grand style. Only when
|; they got eiose to the earth they had no
noee beliat . otoD ths "Zsp0I' down
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engaged for inssnue roles. will b seen
with her

Boys are not partial to posing in the
movies. It is said by a certain pro-
Queer that when he wanted about 500
between the ages of fourteen and
eighteen to pose for a military "off to
the front" picture he had the greatest
difficulty In getting them. and suo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30
Brought Down by Fokker.

Dear Cousin:
Do you remember F.? You know the
officer at P--B-with whom 1 had
got into trouble. Well he is dead, poor
fellow. Brought down by Fokker.
He had fight with it for about three
quarters Of an hour. BY the end of
that time the Fokker got into position,
behind and underneath him. Immedi-
ately after F@was seen to make one
mighty curve. and dive straight at the
German. They both fell, a burning
twisted mass Of wood and metal.
took very early guard the other
day. There was lot of mist right on
the ground. To such a point that you
could hardly see it. So all the country.
or less like huge lake, and in the
middle Of it. like two islands. the Eiffel
tower and Montmartre stuck out
Flies Over Paris.
Last evening was lovely night. The
air was as clear as could be. and there
was. too. the loveliest moonlight one
could wish; you know, the kind that
| makes nature look like opera scenery.
I felt like flying. Saw the captain
about 1T and was Off at about 10 o'clock.
| | climbed high and then went over
| Paris. 1t was worth seeing Like fly
| ing between two skies for the street
lamps looked exactly like stars. Here
glittering with red white and green
| lamps. and long shiny worms winding
! in and out Of them. You could recog-
nize the Place de la Concorde, the
Champs Elysees. by the disposition of
| their lampposts, and in the middle of
| it all the Seine shining like a. long
streak of quicksilver.
Gets Lost in the Air.
Well. when 1 had admired it for a
| while / thought it would be about
| time to go back. I swished around
and turned towards home Hello
but that is not B Oh, there 1t is
What fool 1 am No. not that
either Where can it be?- 1 can
| not ask my mechanic: it Is too fool
| ish. l will find it in minute No
| good all those lights are the same
| am all muddied up. Hey. where
Why?'- well, do not, either
He looks scared and huddles back in
his seat Those wicked twinkling
lights that looked SO pretty a few
chimneys. trees Poor De few
months ago got lost, too turned
| around in a circle for two hours
his petrol gave out and
Is Finally Located.
II 1 was only over the open country
might have the luck to land on a field
any rate, instead of here over Paris
seeing nothing. I make straight for
the black border that marks the end
| of the town. Suddenly my mechanic
turns around. pointing frantically and
yelling. over there. over there" and
in the distance. oh JOY, see the lights
Of B. / am sure you do not realize
how good it is to look at an electric
| lamp.
| Why cannot the boches come by q
lovely night like this? Would 1t not
be fun fighting up there in the moon
| light right in the middle of the night
like ghosts do an fairy tales? But no
such luck cney have not got the
| will alwsys be of those who hide and
| hit you in the back. On land, on the
sea and even in the air.
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PHOTOPLAY
F E A T u R E S
Continued from Second Page.)

ture. THE Flower of No Mans Land -
Satins." featuring Marguerite Clark.
will be shown Wednesday,; Charlie
Chaplin. pictured in his latest Mutual
comedy. THE Vagabond," and the
World film photoplay. The Weakness
Of Man." featuring Holbrook Blinn. will
be shown Thursday; William S. Hart
and Bessie Love, in the Triangle-Kay
Bee production. 1.-The Primal Lure" a
western drama, Friday, when 1.-THE Love
Comet" Keystone comedy, also will
be shown, and Victor Moore pictured in
the Paramount drama of circus life,
The Clown" Saturday.
"The Grip Of Evil"
The Balboa serial. presenting stories
tending to suggest the inquiry '1s the
World in the Grip Of Evil?" is bringing
out comments by public men.
Jack London. author and adventurer,
finds his mind directed to the world war,
which. he says, so far as the entire race,
and not the individual, is concerned, is
good. He thinks it has been "a pente-
costal cleaning Of the spirit of man" and
has compelled man ito turn fom the easy
life Of illusion to the brass tacks and
iron facts of reality"
DR.. Frank Crane is quoted as saying
Grass materialfsm, with it's sister, lux
ury, rules. Old ideas, old moralities are
crumbling
THE answer to the riddle of the uni
verse is not heaven. 1t is not hell. nor
any final crash. In every world cataclysm
is concealed purpose. That purpose is
development. The story of mankind is
not tragedy nor a comedy There is no
climax. The tale proceeds forever
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30
Reports an Accident.

Dear Cousin:
There was a pretty bad accident
a few nights ago during the night fly
ing. Two fellows are rather badly
hurt. Everybody had to do ten min
utes around the grounds. You could
see all the machines in the air with
their searchlights and their little red
and green lamps going round and
round in the sky. Every now and then
one having finished its time would
come and land.
Suddenly We saw one coming down
and much too high up to land in the
lighted part of the grounds. Instead
Of restarting his engine and having
another try, he went on with his land
ing. We saw him come down and down,
and suddenly we heard that awful
noise, like big drum falling down a
staircase, which means in aviation that
a pal of yours with whom you were
perhaps joking five minutes ago Is dead
or badly hurt AS we were running
toward the place where they had over
turned we saw the most dreaded thing
of all aviators, huge flame leap up in
the air. Nobody said a word. but every
man started running with all his
might Just think of the poor fellows
pinioned under the aeroplane. Luckily
it was only their anti-aircraft bombs
burning, and we got there in time to
prevent the petrol catching fire. We
picked them up and took them to the
infirmary. And the flying went on.
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DEPICTS EMOTIONS
As WARRIOR OF AIR
Youth With Artists Soul De-
scribes Life of Paris
Defenders.
TELLS OF AN ATTACK
ON GERMAN TRENCH
Bullets Pumped Into "Boches" in
Successful Venture and Deed
Brings Cheers.

How Paris looks at night to it's de-
tenders from the sky, the emotions that
surge through the breast of the aero
plane guard. the intensity of yearning
with which he awaits the "Zepps" and
the ecstatic thrill he feels as, sweeping
over the frst-line trenches of the Ger
mans, he pumps 1900 shots in three
minutes upon the "Boches." causing
them to grovel in the French mud
they have invaded
All this Is told simply in a series of
letters written one each day while
yet the spirit of the still night guard
or the fever of successful sortie Is
upon the young French aviator, thrill
with the Joy of service to his beloved
France, and written by youth with
an artists soul. who puts on paper
what music of meditation, aspiration or
triumph his heart beats out while he
is flying by night, among the clouds
q. guardian of the great French cap
ital.
These letters, written with no expec-
tation that they would ever be printed.
addressed to my Dear Cousin" and
merely intended as a chronicle of the
young aviators service" are of added
interest, because they are thus real
diary not only of what the air-pilot
does but what he thinks and hopes
while ION guard" They are as fol-
lows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30
In FINLAND.

A producer, who is wiser in his day and
grafton than most of them. has de-
cIared that printers ink has maze
more successful photoplays than anything
else"