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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-08

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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-08

First Publication May s.
STATE OF WISCONSIN. COUNTY
COURT FOR KENOsHA COUNTY-IN
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
A GREAT SET IN
 THE HEART OF YOUTH"

One of the largest and most com plete settings erected in a studio was constructed for scenes in Heart of Youth featuring Lila Lee. The structure is a complete mountain lodge, showing both exterior and in- terior and occupies almost all the floor space of one of the large glass stages at the Lasky studio.
 The floor of the structure was built about three feet above the stage so that steps might be laid leading up to the front porch and floor level. The lodge was constructed with logs. In front of the house a bit of outdoor mountain scenery was shown. The yard was planted in flowers and a walk ran up to the steps of the house. Out a little way from the house. tall fragrant pine and cedar Strees were standing. These trees were hauled from the mountains many miles away and expert landscape artists labored for days in giving the scene the ap- pearance of a most natural bit Of mountain scenery.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
ACTIVITY GALORE IN
 SELZNICK STUDIOS

The initial scenes of ''Everybody's Sweetheart" were shot up at the Selz- nick studio in the Bronx and p-oduc- ton is well under way.
 Mis- Janis has entered into her work with great enthusiasm, and is doing everything in her power to make the picture a huge success. Miss Janis is to have a strong sup porting cast, headed by Matt Moore and Roger Lytton.
 The story was specially written about Miss Janis's internationally fla nous personality by Edmund Gould ing. It contains many scenes that not only give Miss Janis a chance to show her ability as an actress, but to dis play the versatility that has made her so popular the world over.
 An entire circus has been engaged for this production. It will make its stand in a huge field close to Miss Janis's home, so she will not have far to travel.
 The production is not a circus pie ture, but some interesting scenes of circus life are one of its prominent features. As evidence of the large scale on which this production will be staged, it is also worth mentioning g that an entire railroad equipment has also been engaged.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
HOW DID CANADIAN GIRLS RECEIVE so
 MANY PROPOSALS
(New York Telegraph

fin these days of new records. with nU previous standards gone by the board as a result of the amazing re- versals of form of the troublous last five years, it Is astonishing to learh of the top notch figures set by two Canadian girls in the way of pro posals of marriage.
 Two hundred and thirty-four re- quests for their hands In maria ge were made to Miss Simono Hamel and her sister, Miss Clirette Hamel, of Hamilton, Ontario.
 This number of romantic episodes, however. will tend to cause regret in some circles that the war is ended. For. 1t was on or near the battlefield that the Misses Hamel received their petitions for marriage on such wholesale scale. Their experience may well add to the bitter disappointment of the girls who never had a chancs to go across. The young women re- fused all other suitors with equal im- partiality.
 They have neglected to tell us why they did so.
 Perhaps 1t was because there are or were two youths from their home to whom they had pledged their troth before they went overseas on their errandS of service for the Knights of Columbus.
 of course, if there were two such youths they must have been soldiers. If they were, there isn't a human heart in the world that will not hope they came safely through the inferno over There and that even now they are in Hamilton waiting eagerly to welcome home the young women of their choice.
 Perhaps the Misses HameI will not thank us for this kindly speculation as to their reasons for refusing to listen to 234 lorn males who saw in their comaliness and smiles the light of hope for happy lives after the burden and wearincss of their fighting days.
 Just tho same, 1t Is difficult to think of members of their sex so charming as to inspire tender thoughts in so many breasts as utter ly hard at heart. oh. yes: just by way of keeping the statistics straight. it was Miss Simone who told the story. She said 114 men had proposed to her but that was nothing" for her sister had been compelled to reject 120 eager awains.
 There might be a fly in fine oint- ment. though. It Is just possible some sturdy Hamilton, COnt) boy will be reminded some day that there were "one hundred and twenty other men I might have married"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
Where Does the Wind Begin?

The movement of these currents of air leaves many pockets of space where there is no air, and when one of these is uncovered the air rushes In and creates a wind in doing so These air currents are continually pressing against each other to get some place else. They change their direction according to the pressure that is being applied to them. Some times the pressure will be very light in one part of the air. many miles away. perhaps, and then the air in another part, which is uneer great pressure. will rush with great force into the part where the pressure is light. and thus form a big wind. When the pressure stops the wind stops.
 We have probably felt the wind that comes out of the valve of the auto
 mobile tire when the cap Is taken off 10 pump up tho tire. It is a real wind that comes out. The reason is tfat the air that IS in the tube of the tire Is under great pressure, and when tho opportunity is given 10 get where the pressure Is light 1t starts for that place with a rush and comes out
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
of the valve a real wind.
 From the Book ol Wonders.
Why Can't We Sleep with Our Eyes
 Open?

We cannot sleep with our eyes open. because to be asleep involves losing control of most of the func- tions of the body. When we s-eep the brain sleeps also. Perhaps Il would be stated more clearly to say that we cannot sleep while the part of the brain which controls our ac- t!vftias is awake. There is a part of the brain which has the power to open our eyes. l. e., lift the eyelids. and when that portion of the brain ceases to exercise its power to keep the eyes open, they go shut. Even when we are awake that part Of our brain cannot keep our eyes from winkfng. because there is another part of the brain which sees to 1t that our eyes wink every so often. This Is dons for the purpose of washing the eye ball. and is the answer to another of your questions which Is given in an- other place in this book. When the engineer at the electric light plant shuts off the power all the lights go out. and when you go to sleep you automatically shut off the power that opens your eyes. and the eyes are shut The brain !s asleep also. and If 1t Is not completely asleep, you are restless
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
Where is the Wind When it ts not
 Blowing?

The answer is, of course, that there isn't any wind then. To understand this perfectly we must study a little and find out what the wind is. In plain words it is nothing more than moving ain
 If you make a hole in the bottom of q pail of water, the water will run out slowly. If you knock the whole bottom out of the pail filled with water. the water will rush out before you know it.
 That is about what happens to make the wind. The air is constantly full of air currents, like the currents you can see in q river. Down the middle of the river you mey notice a softly flowing current going along straight. Along the shore there will be little side currents going in all direc- tio-5. and you may find some little whirlpools. That is exactly what we should see in the air if we could see air currents.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
POII'S.

Full of action from start to finish, The Dark Star" shown at Polls last night for the first time here held the audience's interest for almost two hours at each performance. The story which is another one of Robert w. Chambers, is concerned with the activities of the French and German secret service just previous to the war. A set of plans of certain forti- hcations in Turkey is being sought by both countries and many tense sit nations areb rought out, showing the methods used by the enemy spies. The picture will bes hown today, and Tuesday and Wednesday.
 Kiss Me" a miniature musical comedy wiah plenty of pep, and in cluding a chorus of beauties is the vaudeville feature for this half of the week. It promises to be one of the best musical comedies ost1e sea- son and has had g. lS1g run on the Keith circuit.
 Adele, in s>robatfc dancing opens theb ill The atheP news, and an Arbuckle Comedy with several other features all promise to make the show worth seeing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
THE REASON WHY
Why We Have Five Fingers on Each Hand and Five Toes on Each Foot.

All animals, 1t seems. from a study of nature were started with ten fin gers and ten toes, the fingers origin ally having been the toes of the fore legs. In a good many cases the en- Vironment in which animals have. 1iy- ed has caused a change in the for nation of the ends of the limbs as well as in the limbs themselves. The horse, for instance. has developed into a one-toe or one-finger animal. while a COW is a two-fnger animal. The hen has only three toes on each foot and a part of another. But if we go back into the history and examine how the horses foot used to look we will find that he originally had five toes. The same is true of the COW and also the hen. Something happened to cause the change, for the rule of five fingers and five toes on the end of each limb has been universal If you examine q chicken in a shell just before it Is ready to come out, you can distinctly count five toes on each foot and at the ends of the wings you will see five little points. which under other conditions would develop into fingers, perhaps. Some of these toes of the new born chicken do not develop. It can be accepted as a rule that creatures were intended in the original plan to have five fingers on each hand and five toes or each foot. making our count of tens, which is the worlds basis for counting, and has always been.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
LIVE WIRE STUDIO NOTES NEWS OF BRLDGEPORT'S THEATRES
.JOTTINGS
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ing new dance."
 cne: You don't say"
 The Other: Were a cleanup on sny bill"
 One: Glad to hear 1t Lots O. Iuck!"
 The other act who has a wife who does the 'rGolddust Twin" dance strolls away swinging his cane.
 The other act (his friend) hangs around a while Off the cop around 47th street allows it) and meets his partner. The following dialogue en- sues:
 One: Hello girlie. Do we get that route from Slkinem and Cheatem ?''
 Girlte: "Naw. Tom and his wife got the route we expected so I hear"
 One: And I told Tom last time l seen him to put an idea of mine into a dance and their act would clean up." And such Is the game.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
MAY LIKES
 REHEARSALS TOO

May Allison working on 'Irair ana Warmer" says she likes rehearsa1s better than the actual shooting of scenes.
 Here VIC are" she said. "worllinC away on a number of scenes on n hot day. We get all tired out but 1t will never show in the finished picture be- cause this is only rehearsal Wen get n number of scenes all ready to shoot and then go home get n good nights rest and come back in the morning fresh ms daisies. ready for the final taking And the bes: part of it is that we can rehearsc without make up. Makeup has an aggravating habit of moving around on the face fin warm weather. On many occa- sions. under tho old system. have found tho makeup that I put on my forehead in tho beginning had moved down to my chin long before we were throuxh--
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
WOUNDED SOLDIERS
 USED AS EXTRAS

One of the scenes for "Everybody's Sweetheart" calls for a number of wounded soldiers as extras It gave Miss Janis an opportunity to put into practice her favorite motto: "If he was good enough to fight for you. he is more than good enough to work for you" For when the casting director was planning to hire regular motion picture extras to use as the wound cd soldiers in the scene referred to. the star spoke up. Nothing doing" said she to Production Manager My ron Selnz.ck. i've need wounded sol diers for the scene and I'm going 10 get real doughboys and pay them real money for their time"
 Miss Janis hurried over to a niIi- tary hospital, located near the Selz- nick studio-she went personally, for this was a matter which she wanted to take care of herself.
 The next day. forty of the men de- scended in a body on the Selznick studio and took part in the scene from ''Everybody's Sweetheart"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
PARK.

We are soon to have with us at the Park Theatre. Wednesday, Aug. 27, the saucy star, MitzI, the same mischievous Mitzi remembered in ''The Spring Maid'' "Sari," and Pom Pom" although perhaps with fewer clothes except for those moments she prepares to dazzle femininity, but it is Mitzi richer in arts that call forth the elusive chuckles from her list eners and richer In her all-pervading charm.
 Mitzi Is returning In Head Over Heels" newest of the Henry w. Savage musical comedies that has been praised for It's beauty in all the bright furnishings and big stage set
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
WEST END.

william s. Hart, popular Aircraft gar, has scored another bullseye in his latest western picture, Wagon Tracks," in five acts Nlown tonight at the West End theatre. As Buck skin Hamilton, D desert guide, NIn. Hart has ono of the strongest roles he has essayed in many months and his suporting company headed by Jane Novalx and Robert McKim is ex- cellent.
 Mrs. Sidney Drew in her latest two reel comedy, ''Bunkered," Topics of tho Day and News Reel will also be shown. b.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
A REAL COMEDIAN
 BOTH ON AND OFF

Chester Conklin, comedian of Fox Sunshine comedies is a comedian in everyday life, just as much as when he is working in scenes for the screen scream CTS.
 He is the life of the studio in the leisure moments; fun seems to bubble within him.
 Incidentally Conklin has been in about as many comedies as any mo- tion picture comedian in existence he is a pioneer. For long time he was Charley Chaplin's right-hand fun-maker, and as the 'Walrus'' con- vulsed millions of picture fans.
 His dropping mOustache, whence comes the nickname of 'Walrus," is Q marvel in hirsute architecture.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25

-. dollar goes a long way on Broad way now-yep-when the wind blows it!
 Acts wishing to use Of this ma terial may do so by first asking the permission of their agent.
 We know agents are so criticsi
 When it comes to the days thy are to get their commissions.
 Some of them die natval oeArhs the rest of the week.
 Laugh and the wora laughs with you. Weep and tho aSehts Jolh h.
 Scene: Palace T'eatre loboy' TWO big time actors meet.
 one, erT4eIIo Tom. How's tricks7" The Other. ,sireat. The wife's do-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
FOOTLIGHT CHATTER

Charles Compton who generally acts and sings in musical comedies, is to have a departure this season when he acts a skillfuIly conceived role in a comedy without music. For two years M-. Compton has been the chief de- peDdency of "Oh, Boy" which SCOT ed the record for money-making last season. Compton came to New York first with Willard Mack
 The Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome, the oldest musical organization in the world, will furnish many musical stars to America next year besides the Au- gusteum Orchestra. Pietro Yon, a gra- duate of this school, a noted Italian musician and the most brilliant or ganist and composer of organ music, will make a tour as an organ virtu- oso.
 In a recent New York musical play seven of the leading characters used French in it's proper form as a means of speaking lines during the play. This would indicate that French Is our second language. and justifies the or ganization of the French Players which is to appear in New York and then tour the leading cities of the United States in modern French plays.
 The Theatre Parisien in New York will be a. permanency according to Richard C.. Herndon, the business manager. It will take over the Bel mont Theatre, and offer a program of French lyric and dramatic art, spo- ken and sung in native language, and by g. company essentially Pari- sienne. There is nothing like 1t in this country at present, and will be bit of faithfully transplanted French at mosphere.
 From Kalamazoo to Kissimmee and Saugerties to Santa Monica, the mas ters of the dance will foregather in New York next month to receive in- structions in the graces and measures of the new dances which, happily promise to counteract the "shimmy'' and other formIess disgraces, if the views of Madame Sonia Serova are prophetic and as the Vestoff- -Serova school has been elected to teach these measures, the views of the exception ally clever young dancer may be ac- cepted as authoritative.
 "The Wayfarer," an elaborate pa gaent spectacle, which has been on view at Columbus, O., for several weeks, has proven so popular that it may be repeated in New York. "It is the first successful merger of the pulpit and stage" declares Miss Jus tina Wayne, a noted dramatic actress | who was associated with the staging 1 of the pagaent. ''It is more than a great play or spectacle, it is a power 1 fuI sermon. The foundation was Pil- | grim's Progress and it was the Meth | odist Episcopal Church that staged il | at its centennial. It has succeeded i where many comm ercial attempts al l elaborcAe pagaentry failed" Miss | Wayne was one of the several New York actresses who contributed to the success.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
RECENT EPIDEMIC.

There was a recent epidemic of sickness in the Jewish quarter at Jerusalem, due to sewers which have been left open since the time of the Turkish regime. The old govern ment started to put in a new drain- age system. but in true Turkish fashion they quit in the middle of the job. Funds contributed by American and British Jews recently completed the work
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
STORIES ABOUT STARS THAT YOU LIKE TO SEE SHINE

arrive in New York in October, in- augurate its concert season at the Metropolitan, and thereafter visit the leading cities. The committee repre- sents the most noted music patrons.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
TIE PRESS AGENTS SAY

tings the Henry w. Savage name guarantees to musical offerings, and cheerful in it's gay story of Edgar Al Ian Woof and music by Jerome Kern.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
STAGE GOSSIP

Helene Flanders the brilliant prima donna has organized her own business staff to attend to her affairs. One was a secretary. T hope you are not one of those clock watchers" the singer inquired. "Oh dear no. Miss Flanders, was the answer, T gotta wrist watch. I don't care for clocks
 Harold De Becker, who has con- tributed some of the best acting Broadway has seen in many years, has been engaged by John Cort to act in a new comedy by Earl Derr Biggers. '"Three's a Crowd'' is the title, and it will be one of the first new comedies from this office to be produced on Broadway.
 Justina Wayne, an actress who ap- pears to be as successful in moving pictures as when acting dramas and comedies, is one of the very few act resses of Scandinavia birth OIL the American stage. That country has produced many remarkable plays. but has given us few of her great players.
 Madame Desiree Loubovska, one of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25

Captain Van VIiet, his son, learned his tennis in California. where he en- tered the University of California to be near his dad" who was sta toned on the coast. He made his col lege team during his senior year, 1916.
 Upon graduation he was commis- stoned lieutenant and went to the Mexican border. He was promoted to captain before sailing for France with the First Division. He left Hoboken on June II. 1917, and so was with the first troops that went to France.
 This put him into plenty of action for the Foul, Nontdidier and Cha teau Thierry operations. In the lat ter engagement he took 215 men into the line and had only eighty-five left after ten days fighting. Having eaten food that was poisoned by gas he went to the hospital, and later came home as casual, having recently been stationed at the army piers in Hoboken.
 Captain Van VIiet is a member of the Hoboken Tennis Club and has played great tennis with it's team in the North Jersey League. With his father he will play a father and son match against the Andersons to-. morrow, at the Hoboken Tennis Club Castle Point. Hoboken.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25

''The Royal Academy of St. G.
 Ciiia,'' declares the Italo-American
 Association for Music, lis the oldes, music organization in the world. It is the sponsor for the Augusteum Or chestra. which is to make the first tour of the United States in its his tory. under the official patronage of His Majesty, the King and the Italian Royal Government, and will be the most notable musical event of the present season. The orchestra will
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25

the most celebrated dancers in the United States has deserted the Hip podrome and light entertainment for the more serious concert and recital work. She is also to appear in the title role of "L LEnfant Prologue" the famous French pantonirne, when < .5 revived.