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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-16
Belgian Stowaway Adopted
by Wealthy N. Y. Woman

NEW YORK. Oct. l6-Monsieur
Make Gilholley. champion boy stow
away. who has passed the past six
months gravitating between Europe
and the United States in an effort to
become an American, was happy lad
today when Commissioner Of Immigra-
ton Anthony Caminetu announced
that he would be permitted to become
4 citizen OF the country.
Two applicants have asked to adopt
the boy, who is a Belgian. Mrs. NJ. 7.
Curry. 4 wealthy New York resident,
desires to adopt him because her maid
en- name was Gilhooley. A Milwaukee
applicant. whose name has not been
revealed. also seeks to adopt him.
mike has moved from Ellis Island
10 pretentious hotel, where Mrs. Cur
~ is paying his expenses.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-16
RICHMOND

Our Charlie" as Britishers affec.
tionately referred to their sea hero
wasn't a prohibitionist, however. He
struck the keynote of his attitude to-
ward prohibition when, at the age OF
%, he made his maiden speech in the
House of Commons, quoting the re-
frain:
"Confound their eyes
If ever they tries
To rob a poor man Of his beer"
Asked when a boy what he would
like to be. he said he wanted to be
an admiral like Nelson" So at Is
he entered the navy as cadet.
He was an all-round sportsman and
an excellent boxer. Once when a
young man he had an argument with
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-16
RATS CAUSE HEAVY LOSS
IN UNITED KINGDOM ANNUALLY

LONDON<sOct. 16.-Rats do year
ly damage in the United Kingdom OF
$500, 900, 900, or nearly five dollars per
head of the population. according to
generally accepted figures. The pre-
war estimate of this damage was $751;
100000 The seriousness Of the situa-
ton has resulted in the inauguration
of a countrywide campaign, headed
by the Board of Agriculture, for the
destruction Of the pests.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-16

Early in the day ii had been thought
the exchange Of Publications by the
representatives Of Great Britain, Italy
and France with Baron Won Lersner
present head OF the German mission,
would take place Friday or Saturday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-16
CIT THIS OUTFITS WORTH MONEY

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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-16
British Admiral Who Quit
Drinking c' so, Refused
To Champion Prohibition
(By Associated Press)

LONDON, Oct. 15.-At about the
age Of 60, Admiral Lord Beresford
whose sudden death England is still
mourning. gave up the use Of intoxi
eating drinks. "Since I have given up
wine. spirits and beer" he said some
time afterward, Il find l can do as
much work or more, physically, and
mentally, than I could when I was 80
I laugh at the downs Of life equally
with the ups and always feel fit
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-16
French Won't Formally
Rotify Treaty This Week

PARIS, Oct. 16.-The formal raifica-
ton OF the peace treaty with Germany,
making that instrument effective. will
not take place this week, as had. been
expected, it was announced Wednes-
day by American delegates to the
peace conference. There has been in
definite postponement of this step, it
was stated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

the case Of Hor Lee, for instance,
who. lives at Mott Street, who is
five feet no inches tall and who is
an accomplished waiter.
In the restaurant where Hor Lee
serves two couples from uptown
sought chop suey and excitement the
other night. The young men, hav-
ing exhausted their scant store Of
witticism, looked for more in For
Lee. The larger of the two Young
men told how, if the United States
would ever go to war with China, he
would personally clean up an assem-
bly, district in Picking. He didn't get
overseas in this war, he said, because
he was an expert checker I'D on
canned corned beef at Camp Upton.
But he would get over in the next
war, especially if it was with China.
as he was a great admirer of the
Chinks as food.
He ordered chow main from Hor
Lee, and when he brought it. he in
sisted that he had asked for chicken
chop suey. 1t made him mad. the
young man said. In fact, he pointed
out, it made him want to lick many
Chinese. He arose and lowered ten
inches over Hor Lee. One of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

carelessly spill enough i'll week to
keep a grown man for three days.
s:Now, take it when ! was in the
Argonne. This little chicken you
dropped from your Cork would have
been beaucoup CHOW. comprec,
beaucoup chow"
The lower jews belonging. one
each, to two young escorts of the
eiggling girls were hanging low.
Ilor Lee proceeded:
There were times when
brought rations under fire for six
miles-and l could eat any Of them
myself. And just look how careless
you fellows are. l didn't get much
food, but | got some kind OF eta
ton. Now if YOU people wait I'll
show it to you
But his customers didn't wait.
The young men and their giggling
friends wanted to get away from
there-and did.
You see, Hor Lee was private
i'll the Supply Company of the
305th Infantry Of the 10Th Division.
He brought up rations to the men
on the firing line as he now brings
up chop suey to the young men and
women on the sightseeing line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

benches and policemen was trav-
elled glibly for as low as 5 cents,
although 10 cents was the prevail
ing market price
But q dime now is just a dime
and not the unfailing key to the
archives of the down-and- outer's
brain. This was Enthusiastically dem
onstrated in the shadow of Peter
Cooper's statue one night last week.
There is bench in Peters shadow,
no matter where the moon is rest
ing. The benches are firmly held
down these warm nights. They are
the enfolding cots of a hosiery
whose patrons soles for some his
toric reason are immune from the
tattoo of the cops nightstick.
Hunky grunted and sat up on one
of these benches and looked through
luXuriant eyebrows at the other end
of the bench where the guy who
wanted to write Sunday stories, but
had nothing to write about, had de-
posted himself To Hunky, as he
explained later, it was like some
one coming into your bedroom and
sitting on your bed to think.
"Sleepin' out here might be
healthy" Hunky said, "but you get
hives. Maybe it's mosquito bites,
because you gotta eat food of some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

twenty years in every kind of
weather. Her owners admit thew
should have painted her long AGO,
but now her lack Of paint adds to
her individuality.
zeno is so old that legends have
begun to revolve about her tur-
baned head. Rumor hath it that
Zeno first stood downtown on the
corner of Wall end Broad streets.
bVt that was so long ago that size
has lost her certificate of residence.
Since then Zeno has been in the
movies, and she has been embraced
by countless gentlemen under the
influence of prohibited beverages.
1t is even said she has been the
direct cause of a gun battle, but
this, like all COT Zeno's past, is
Shrouded in doubts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Cost of Hobo Yarns

kind to get hives. And when you
don't. eat no kind of food you can't
very we'll get hives" Hunky contin-
ued, establishing an indisputable
major premise.
"Now, when l wuz' - Hunky
trailed off like a diplomat who
finds that his tea table con-
versation is giving off information
on secret treaties or something.
A cop lolled by and Hunky moved
closer to the stranger, because the
latter wore a white collar and a
shave.
1t was getting late, so the query
was flung at Hunky-could he give
one or two thousand words on an
interesting. adventuresome exist
ence, with a park bench finale.
Hunky had undoubtedly been a
business man in one or two checkers
of his checkered career.
"Now," he said with spirit and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

front of cigar store an Indian is
standing.
Yes, wooden Indian, minus
arms, sans half nose, bedraggled
as to paint, but still AN Indian such
as was wont to stand watch over
tobacconists' shops twenty years
age. Though America has not been
much better for the wooden Indian
than it has for the live one, the IL
dian in front of the tobacco en-
porium is still on the job selling
cigars. And if Charles S. Mandel
and Julius Polster, the proprietors,
have anything to say about it Mira,
the Indian girl, is going to stand
outside the shop as long as there's
nickel cigar on the market.
"Why, we wouldn't sell her for
aEy money!" they say; "she's an as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Chinese Restaurants

THERE are five quite occidental
a Oriental restaurants in China
town: These are ostensibly
Chinese owned and managed Oc-
casionally, however, lawsuit re-
veals that two owners, Cohen and
Rosenthal, never could agree, so
they might as well break up part
nership now as ever.
Few homegrown Chinese take
nourishment in these places, be-
cause they feel kind of out of place
and they hate to break in on the
nice white people from uptown and
Brooklyn. But the walters are all
Chinese, for the same reason that
the walls have tapestry and the
lights are shrouded in fantastic
shades.
The war did a lot of funny things
everywhere and it did a few to
Chinatown, notably in these occi-
dental Oriental restaurants. Take
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

girls pulled his coat and he sat dow,
The other young man wanted
more tea and he pounded the emntv
pot on the imitation marble ton -
the table. Hor Lee came after =.
minute, and the young man wanted
to know where he had been.
you Chinks are TOO damned
fresh" he said, in effect. Sym
think you are as good as US, don't
you? What did you do in the war
heb; what did you do? We guys
were fighting to-to-to-er-wel
fighting. For two cents. 3D.
Hor Lee was collecting the dishes
so he didn't hear much Of the after
dinner remarks of the guest. He
carefully wiped the stray grains Of
rice into tie chop suey bowl and
mopped up the split tea. He shook
his head sorrowfully.
"You fellows are very careles,
with your food" he said. "You
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

weeks ago when the city was like
an oven and people we're going
away.
A little breeze was stirring in
Madison Square Park. In the CEN
ire OF the park Tony saw water.
Tony ran to the side of the basin.
The water was clear and deep. 1t
was coming from something that
stood up in the centre. Tony reached
in and felt the found it lust liks
Coney Island. He put his whole
arm int was great. Nobody was
looking, there wasn't even a COD in
sight.
Behind him some one laughed,
friendly laugh, as though no en-
joyed it as much as Tony, and thar
decided him. He stood up on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Cone-the Aibi

Bing! goes the alibi. He couldn't
turn down the applicant on the
ground Of no experience and, any
way, if he's good director he is
looking for talent, and this person
may be the very one he needs. What
is the answer? A try-out, of
course, and, once before the camera,
it is distinctly up to the graduate
whether she makes good.
1t is a fact. There is school
right in the heart of New York City
where the youth or maiden aspiring
to a place at the top of filmdom
may learn the rudiments of the
art. There is nothing nonsensical
in it's conduct, and it's entrance ex-
amlnations are as rigid as they can
be made. 1t is thoroughly
equipped studio atop the American
Film Laboratories Building at
Ninetieth Street and Columbus
Avenue. There are three class
rooms, each a motion picture "set. 4"
One is drawing room, one a sump-
tuously appointed ballroom, and the
third thoroughly equipped bust
ness office typical of the financial
district.
1t is here that the students fore
gather and study their lessons. And
none is accepted for training who
doesn't measure up to high stand
ard set b. Professor" C. NJ. Ack-
erman, principal of the school, or
his assistant, George Matthews,
both of them men of long expert
ence in motion pictures. The en-
trance examinations seem to be
simple and easily passed, but if YOU
feel that way about it try it YOUR
self and learn how mistaken Won
are. They are tests in registering
the different emotions, and unless
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

Just when the car of the studio
had believed himself at the pinnacle
OF SNUG supremacy along comes
another innovation in the film in
dustry that threatens to make his
life miserable--a departure to meet
which he has until the present writ
ing found no weapon. Higher edu-
cation has invaded the studio and
with its advent presto. goes the
stock alibi of the director.
F'rinstance-Back in the glorious
old days, two or three months ago.
when the m. p. director was ap-
preached by a young and most am
bilious youth or maiden. who "just
knew" his or her career was in the
motion pictures" he escaped the in
cipient plague somewhat after this
fashion:
"Any experienced"
mo, sir" the crestfallen applicant
would reply, and a curt dismissal
would follow, thus ending a poten-
tial career" And that settled it.
However, tempus does fugit, and
the fleeing wings of time beat Just
as remorsely at the doors of film
dom as they do elsewhere. Thus,
in the span of few weeks we have
with us a real motion picture uni
versity and the fine arts of vampir-
ing, villany and heroizing take their
places alongside readin', 'ritin and
'rithmetic. This studio school is no
myth. 1t has made it's advent with
little heralding, played the game
seriously, and there is the same con-
straint and sincerity in it's sessions
as may be found in an advanced
class in mathematics or philosophy.
SO in future, when the one-time
monarch of the studio receives the
applicant for "chance" in the
films and chortles What expert
ence have you?" it's gold eagles to
Mexican pesos that the applicant.
shoulders squared and with a new
light in her eyes, will tender a card
reading omething like this:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
HOST persons know and worry
wi about the high cost of living,

MOST persons know and worry
wi about the high cost of living,
but the high and mounting
cost of listening is less public in
formation. But as a matter of
dolorous fact it costs considerably
more to be at the receiving end of
conversation than it did several
years ago-about the time O. Henry
was chronicling the pulse and beats
of our concentrated millions, for in
stance.
The man who spoke of the then
four million in the true voice of the
city paid, he AYERS, at various times,
an average of 10 cents per CONVEX
sation with the gentry who are not
dressed up and have no place to go.
1t seems that a slender, adamant
dime was the open sesame to the
hobo memoirs; the lubricant to the
mendicant larynX. The vocal road
from riches and servants to park
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Indian s Last Stand

\ ANTIQUITIES west of Broad
~ way in the Forty-second
Street zone are few and far between.
but the maxim of "the fewer the
finer" still holds good. If you can
succeed in making your way through
the Broadway traffic and penetrate
west even beyond the lure of the
theatres, in the course of time YOU
reach a modern Eighth Avenue.
Walk up the avenue and halfway be-
tween Forty-second and Forty-third
streets an apparition halts you. In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

hoarseness, 81 might tell of lots of
things. But when | talks a lot
gets hungry and l wants to eat
maybe with something to float it
down."
Hunky felt something pressed
into his hand. 1t was slender and
aC..mant, the open sesame of the
hobo memoirs of other days. Hunky
felt the coin thoughtfully before he
spoke. Finally he was certain OF
it's denomination.
Il was young and handsome
once" Hunky recited, "but now
amt. Maybe it was a goil or drink
maybe it wasn't" Hunky got ur
suddenly and walked away.
The rookie cop watching two
tough looking youths follow another
equally tough looking youth ur
Third Avenue was told of Hunky's
perfdy.
Glow much did you say you gave
him." he asked.
."All of a dime" was the annoyed
reply.
"Huh," laughed the young cop
"Ten cents was the old rate. Ever
the cokies don't talk for less thar
a quarter any more. Get after this
guy and give him Is cents more, OF
you're completely out a dime"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

set to the business. Our customers
wouldn't remember us if she was
gone, and she brings in the trade,
too. You see her names Zeno, and
she's the only Indian girl in New
York. SO the boys around here get
hold of somebody who's easy enough
and say they'll show him the only
Indian girl in New York, and he'd
better bring her some fruit, and
when he gets here the cigars are on
him.
Zeno has stood in front of "The
Nickel-In-Cigar Mfrs" for over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
C0olin Park Fountain

\ SIX any New Yorker the
N name of the bathing cen
tres for four of the city's
100000 and he, or even she
would probably mention Conev
Island and the Rockaways. A few
might say Long Beach, Atlantic
City, Asbury Park, but they would
be either rich or those who want
to give that impression. Ask Tony
Carpini and he would say-Madison
Square Park. Tony lives on West
Twenty-fourth Street, in a block
where the only telephone is
a rusty one in McGivney's saloon.
Tony wandered cross town four
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

brownstone rim of the fountain, as
fully clothed as any twelve-year-
old boy in summer. He jumped and
lost his breath and discomfort in the
cooling "innards" of the bath. He
trollcked about, and several people
were attracted, among them boys
OF about his own age and similarly
remote from Coney Island. The
other boys were also water hungry
and play thirsty, and they joined
Tony III his moist paradise. Tony
came out, after about thirty min
utcs, and his thin feet were blue,
and even the wan breeze made him
SILVER. His clothes were closer to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

On the other hand, when a pupi
is accepted she is Immediately as
signed to an instructor and there
begins a course of sixteen lessons
a system of intensive preparation
which, Alderman contends, will
produce a good actress if the young
woman pupil is attentive. These
sixteen lessons are divided as fol
lows:
First-Technicalities, the recita-
ton of lines, etiquette of the stu
do, the explanation of studio par
lance and instruction in walking
standing and acting in camera
or inside the cameras range.
Second - The acting of brief
sketches.
Third to twelfth--From small to
lengthier sketches, main scenes,
group scenes.
Thirteenth to sixteenth-The art
OF makeup, general department in
the studio and original scenes.
A rehearsal staged one evening
last week had as its principals
Hilda Strauss, formerly ballet
dancer in the Royal Opera at Co.
penhagen; Lester Wunsch, of 1857
Third Avenue, tiftcen-year-old
asplrant of the East Side, and Muir
ray Lee, acclaimed by his teachers
sure-fire "comer' in pictures.
The plot of their sketch was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17


him than they had ever been be-
fore, and his shoes made a sound
like 'squdge' when he walked He
locked about him fearfully Cor the
cop who always comes when you
are having some fun. But there
was no cop, and Tony and his wet
and newly made friends went OF
together
They have come back often since,
on warm days. Tony is still afraid
that he might be arrested same time,
but he is fretting needlessly. How
should he know that two of the
three cops on duty near the park
have children about Tony's age
down at Coney Island, while The
other one went swimming in me
fountain himself not so long agos !.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Graduate
d.

And the director, abashed for the
first time in his untrammelled with
al hectic experience, probably will
ask: but what's the M. W and
the ID. H.'?"
Simple as can be-" his naughty
visitor will tell him. "Those are
my Representatives, of vamping
and Doctor of Heroics.' l got them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

you pass them all you are not
qualified to pose for the pictures.
An example of one rejected appli-
cant's report illustrated the system
used by the school. 1t follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

because | graduated from motion
picture college and they show that
I'm clever in any kind of a role.
I'm experienced all right, believe
me-"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
DIRECTORS REMARKS

"This applicant could not possibly
be successful in films. She has no
conception of facial expression, al
though she is of exceptional beauty
and would waste her time in this
school,"
EXPRESSIONS
10y Grief Surprise Love Terror Hate
I BaG Fair Bad Poor Fair Fair
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

simple enough. Hilda was the
angered wife Of Lee, who was in a
simply awful financial JAM" and
needed $4,000. He knew Hilda
had it and demanded it. She re-
fused. He choked her. He killed
her. He kissed her dead face and
turned to leave the place when
LESTER WALKED IN.
you've killed herw cried Lester.
II know it," walled Lee. "Save
me! Save me-"
Never" cried Lester, and the
scene closed with Lee squirming
at Testers feet as that young man
reached for a telephone to call the
police.
They are getting along famous
ly,N the director said. "By the time
they are graduated there won't be q
director in the country who will
refuse to give them a chance as an
extra and in that way they can
get their hand in for something
bigger"
The writer, having in mind dis
astrous results in other schools
which had promised places for their
pupils, asked Professor" Acker-
man what promises he made to his
pupils.
No Promises
None whatever" he replied. Gas
matter of fact, they are compelled
TO sign three statements when we
enroll them, saying they under
stand that they are not promised
position in the motion pictures
by us. make that a point. Our
school equlps them and equips them
we'll for career in motion pictures.
What they do after they leave US.
whatever heights they attain, is
strictly up to them"
If the student. fails to make suf-
fclent progress in sixteen lessons.
the principal added, she is not grad
uated until she does attain pro-
flclency, no matter how long it. NAV
take. But thus far, none of the
pupils has failed to make good in
the required time. The graduate
of gelatine college is we'll "heeled, >"
as they say on Broadway, with Gre
dentlals when she leaves it's doors.
She bears with her an Endorsement
at the bottom of her diploma.
signed by the director. This is
sample Endorsements:
DIRECTORS FINAL REPORT
This pupil has shown particular
ability in vampire roles and is
recommended to any casting director
for such work"
There are seventy-odd pupils in
the Fllmart college now, and more
are enrolling daily. The real object
is to provide talent for field which
has but few real stars in comparison
to its size, and it is believed direc-
tors will welcome the innovation.
That is, after they get over their
initial mad" because of the loss
of their pet alibi.