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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11
In The Thea.res
PLAZA.


 Tonight for the last two times Mary Miles Winters latest and best Realart production, "A Cumberland Romance" will be shown at the Plaza theatre. This is adapted from "A Mountain Europa" by John Fox, Jr., and is full of lively action. The hit of the season, Frank Newman's Merry Casino Girls, featuring Billy Lightelle, present their comedy tabloid, Count de Koko," for the last times tonight. Other acts will also be shown.
 Starting tomorrow the popular idol, Eugene O'Brien, will appear in John Lynch's famous story, "The Figurehead." Eugene O'Brien as the politician, goes through many e1cit- ing experiences fights corrupt bosses and wins a great love- Over 400 people took part in the production, among the supporting cast being Anna O. Nilsson. Ora Carewe, Edwin Stevens, Joseph Girard and Kate Price. Rob- ert Ellis directed it. Good news to the ears of those who witnessed Frank Newman's Revue this first half. for he is being held over for the latter half of the week with an entirely diff ferent act new scenery, new wardrobe and everything different except the big cast. Other acts complete the bill. PARK.
 Jack Singer, who has made more burlesque stars than any other man | ager in the business, announces that Harry Lander will head the "Jack Singers Show which comes to the ] Park theatre, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Harry, who is a tramp | comedian, entered burlesque last sea l son and was an instant hit IT every city his name was in the air There was hardly a street corner | that didn't hear, Have you see Ian i der?'' This year finds Lander fun rder than ever. In addition to his tramp character, he does a little black face turn that is scream O. l laughter. There is a wealth O. | scenery in the attraction that Singer | sends here next week. The cos tunes are out of the ordinary, ant ] come from one of the largest New 1 York establishments. There is | chorus made up of 20 beautiful girls l These girls can sing and dance ant do much to carry along with aero planic speed the action dn the tw' act vehicle The attraction is I laugh production and includes sucl
 stars as Willie Lander, Anet l Pynes, Bobby Moore, Cecil Jefferson |
 For a good hearty laugh one mus see Lander in the Grave Yard. WEST END
 "Jes' Call Me Jim,'' the lates
 Goldwyn production, starring Wi Rogers, is the story of a man wh loves a woman and believse her i
 love with another. The only thin
 he desires is to see her happy an
 to accomplish this. he risks his Tiff in an attempt to save Paul Benedic
 a poor and insanse inventor confine , in a workhouse by a scoundrel name
 Belcher and his accompMce, Buffun the superintendent of the workhous'
 Jim succeeds not onlg to assist Pal | to escape but also helps him to prov Belcher a, forger and regain the right
 and fortunes derived from his ow | invention.
 What is Jim's surprise when
 finds that it is he and not Paul ths
 the pretty miIliner loves? See tn
 picture at the West End Theatre to , night. Treat Elm Kind," re- comedy and Burton Holmes Trave will also be shown.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

Mary Pickford, in a little French speech at Paris at a luncheon there offered to her and Douglas Fairbanks prior to leaving, stated she would be back in Paris in October.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

Charles Cherry will be starred alone in "ScandaI' next season. June Walker will have the role created b1 Francine Larrimore.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

Resides playing her part in ''The Gold Diggers'' at the Lyceum Thea Ire, Ina Claire Is working at sthe Loew-Metro film studios on her pie ture Folly with a Past-"F
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

l 'Notbing in the world like the l American picture palace" was the
 comment of Lord DeWar after he
 made a tour of the Broadway picture houses.
 | "Your American picture theatre is
 an institution and I can well imagine l how much it means in the life of 1 your people, the English nobleman
 declared. There is, certainly nothing | anywhere comparable with your own
 cinema theatres, nor with the pro- | grams -presented.''
 | Lord Dewar, who came over from | England with Sir Thomts Lipton as a
 member of the baronet's personal party during the recent yacht races, | has been widely entertained in New
 York. With Commodore J. Stuart Blackton, he was the guest of Sam II uel J. Rothafe1 at the Capitol, and
 after seeing the performance, visited
 the other theatres along Broaway. II Scores of protests have been re- ceived by the Shuberts in the last few days against the closing of the New
 York engagement of "FForodora' to- night.
 | Shirley Mason is at work on g picturizatdon of Israel Zangwi1l's play
 Merely Mary Ann," for Fox release ! d. Ae od1Ilt Is o1A SStAlS Ihc pTO- duction. He also adapted 1t, for the screen. II William Archer. the London dra I matic writer, arrived from England | yesterday on the Nieuw Amsterdam l Mitzfs new production. a musica
 play,which is to be presented by Hen 1 ry W. Savage, is in rehearsal, with
 cast including Boyd Marshall, Sydne. l | Greenstreet, Beatrice Constance, Vic
 toria Kaye, Josephine Adair, Arthur UttrY and Mack Kanuedx.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

The eighth wife of Norman Sefby (Kid McCoy), who was Dagmar Dahlgren, has started an action for divorce in Los Angeles She charges desertion and non,support-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

Scrambled Wives a new comedy by Adelaide Matthews and Martha M. Stanley, will be presented at the Fulton Theatre tonight by Adolph Kauber. Roland Hughes and Juliette Day head the cast Others are Marie Chambers, Glenn finders, Elsie Bart lett, James Lounsberry, Betty Barni- coat, Louis Albion, Margaret Hutchins and William Iennox-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

"Irene," the musical comedy sue cess at the Vanderbilt Theatre, will remain at that theatre indefinitely, it was announced yesterday.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

Plans for the presentation of 'Lightnin' in Chicago late this month have been cancelled, and the play, with Frank Bacon as it's star, will continue at the Gaiety indef1n- itely.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

William Archer. the London dra- natic writer. arrived from England yesterday on the Nieuw Amsterdam.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-11

Sir William Jury, the noted film distributor, has sailed for New Yorl on the Imperator. He will renai1 in America for about one month.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
~w. the (one) Peopl. of Colorado"

The Tucson Citizen in it's Phoenix correspondence attacks the Colorado state highway law from which the proposed Arizona State Highway law adapted. The attack is in the shape of introduc ton m which inferences unfairly drawn q subjoined dispatch Colorado Springs. this introduction that Colorado is talking discarding it's law. It is further left be in ferred all about the excellences of the law, have learned from the chairman of the Colo rado Highway Commission" and the further infer that chairman would naturally uphold law if it bad
 The is that such recommendation, a high have had of the law, Mr. Leonard Curtis. who though associated with the commission and who had framing of the law. has not for years been nected with the commission but a distinguished engineer engaged in private practice in Denver
 As to the Colorado Springs dispatch 'fric- tion it discloses all the talk of dscarding the law all the accusations that the commissioners ap- plying the state funds for their benefit nished by one man. When only a small Der of men arise in opposition a a public sttution they safely be regarded "soreheads"
 It appears from this individuals complaint that the commissioners have not wasted the funds but that they exercised power to use the in localities where they personally interestd. That of course. if true, though not criminal of fense, is reprehensble and calls commission CTS rather than for destruction of the law
 Inasmuch though as only one person joined with himself in the criticism of the commission neither the law should be condemned off hand.
 Laws require administration effective. Laws may be perfect, but administrators being human often not. Any highway law possibly have must be administered by more human beings that if want to make the most of good law must select the best human beings find for its administration.
 The Arizona bill, of ~siasant ae perfection the part those who operate it but effort is made far ba ma 7e to n the selection of who would a genuine and unselfish interest in the construction high Every possible guaranty is affo ded sainst misconduct in its administration
 We think though that the law considering recommendation of it have had, and the careful study of it for days by committee Arizona Good Roads Association. better than no law at all, a law, now have.
 As recall there a larger convocation when a famous occasion. movement was started to change the current of destiny England. There were then and there present in concaye the three tailors of Tooley street. We believe that only one has assembled and resolved against the Colorado state highway law, H. F. Emmons Fort Collins. He alone. so far gather the Colorado Springs dispatch, is talking dscarding" the law.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

A. Illinois" is pronounced either with the "s' sounded or silent.
 c. Is Luxemburs still an independ- ent country and who is it's ruier7- E. 5. U. -....... -.-...,' -.
 X. I.uxemburg is an independent grand duchy bounded by Trance. Bel gium and Germany. The present ruler is the Grand Duchess Charlotte.
 o. Where are the largest springs in the world ?-L. u. c.
 A. Probably the Fontaine de Van chese in southern France, is the largest one in the world. and Malad Springs. near the Snake River canyon, Idaho, the largest in the United States.
 o. How was Benjamin Frankiin's kite experiment. conducted2- Y.
 A Tn experimenting with electricity in the atmosphere with his kite, Ben jamin Franklin used kite made of silk, at the top of which there was @ free sharp pointed wire. To the end of the twine next to hand he tied a silk ribbon, and where the silk and twine joined fastened the key. The kite was raised during a thunder storm, and when the clouds cane over the kite the wire brought the electric fire from them, and the kite with ali the twine became electrified. When the rain wet the kite, it conducted the electricity freely so that it streamed out from the key.
 c. How did "marmaIade" get it's name7-P. U. C.
 A. The word comes from the Portu- guese marmelada. meaning q quince jam The modern conserve is not nec- essarily made from quinces as the name suggests, being often jam of oranges, apricots, greengage plums or grapes.
 (Any reader can get the answer to any question by writing The Repub- 1 lican Information Bureau, Frederic J Haskin. Director. Washington D. C. l This offer applies strictly to informa- 1 ton. The bureau cannot give advice I on legal. medical and financial matters i It does not attempt to settle domestic i troubles. nor to undertake exhaustive 1 research on any subject Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and inclose . cents i in stamps for return postage All re J plies are sent direct to the inaUirerA
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

land should have a population of 973,250 instead of 796.s36-as high the illiterate officials could count
 The school population of Phoenix and we know those figures straight, is 99s7. With the aid which Cleveland school board secre- tary believes be safe, and conservative, we should have population of 42,445.
 But that the way official censuses are always taken results inadequate unless the citi- things their hands, guess how many the enumerators likely to miss, and cospire pad the figures the deficiency always been that the gods help those who help themselves If apathetically leave the officials to their divorces to get the worst of 1t.
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
GRAVEL F RO M THE GROCERY
 BOY

I can tell from the way a wom2.7 comes in the store and does her buy ing just how her kitchenu looks.
 The boys in the store likes to wait on Mrs. Pennington. She comes early to give her order and it's all wrote down on her card just what she wants to buy and you don't have to stand around and hear her say, My good ness what shall l buy for dinner to- night been to the matinee this af ternoon and I hardly got time to cook any vegetables before Charley gets home. You people don't seem to carry much of a variety. How much are me beets? oh, ten cents a bunch-that's too much and besides I haven't got time to cook them before Charley gets home How much is the beans? Oh, when are they coming down? No. not today they take too long 10 cook. Char ley is a bear when dinner aint ready. Oh dear! l don't know what to get! Everything is so high and takes so long to cook. Spinitch? No, we had don't eat it. Have you some carrots or something else that cooks fast? No, never mind the carrots, I haven't got time to clean them-Charley will be home too soon. Why don't you people get more of variety to choose from Oh, | guess I'll have to give it up. We're tired of everything and it's so hard to think up something new to eat
 when the stores don't keep it and it's
 so hot I hate to cook. We'll I guess you just better give me a loaf of bread and a can of baked beans and pint i of milk Charley didn't eat only half 1 his beans last night, but l can't help ! it. if he comes home so soon he's gotta 1 take pot luck tonight"
 l And when Chris the head clerk
 wraps the things up and hands the
 package to her, she says, oh. please
 have the boy bring them up--he knows the address Crescent Apartments numbeh two -thuhty-f -foahi And please 1 tell him to hurry as l want to have
 dinner ready when Charley gets home.
 And-by the way, just charge it.
 When I gets over to "numbah two
 thuhty- foah" just as I hammers on ths back door and hollers "Groceries hears her saying to him, "I guess Tn i untitled to a little fun outa life. Now you cut out the grabbing. Either yoi take me out for dinner tonight or VI don't eat, see? If you think"
 Bang, bang. bang, I hammers on th' door again. "Shut up and go and SCI 1 whose at the back door-do something l around the house once in a while in stead of hollering your head off at me | 4 man like you is enough to drive l person wild"
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
The Census Aqain

Speaking again of the water that has run under thte bridges and the water wheel for the grind ing of forgotten grists. reapproach the subject inc census invited back by comments by the Cleve land Plain Dealer of Forest City the fifth city in point of size in the United States where ,x fl is believed that i had been accurate c,,unt if might have fourth instead of Detroit which attained that position
 Cleveland points it's greater bank clearings d t the greater volume diversified industries. ,,e word "diversified.' being employed to direct
 +ion to the automobile industry, the almost single , o, which Detroit Cleveland finds ,tioo in the fact that growth though slower has ,,a., steady. through last deeennum through ,reyot1s ones and is not mushroom growth The
 ,roorn growing season is never long one
 7rbe subjects of area and annexations are con- ,,7 i, these comments. It is pointed out that 1,4i+ has increased it's to S6 square miles ,, cleveland is yet confined within the limits of = a~e miles "a measure inadequate to contain - .ha solidIy built metropolitan area The town
 r,+ cleveland a considerable municipality is
 a+d from Cleveland only by the length of a , Lakewood another szable suburb is built up
 Ise that those unfamiliar with the geography Of ,1ard do not know where the city ends and the suburb begins , ., ,., . ,++c, in which or Phoenix have a .,,rettc interest-the school population as com
 , ,,ftb the official population II iS aho"n that t, cleveland 2e9.00o school children The
 -r,- taking tft d factor beheFeS Hat cie'e-
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
DAWN
(sy The Cub Reporter)


 My constant readers will. remember how faithfully 1 covered Murry Cranes big show at Chi. two wks ago, and how I brightened the dull moments between acts with my clever remarks last wk. and therefor will be expecting me to say some thing about the gathering of friends at Frisco next wk.
 And while I really have nothing to say today, I can not afford to disap- point by clienteel of followers-and hence will now pull something on the coming convention under the title of DAWN owing to last wk. I called it Between the dark and the daylight"
 As I said, I have nothing to say to- day, but must carry on and please don't go yet because clever things to say will come to me as I go along especial since I just had a drink. My tongue always loosens up after I had a drink. I don't know why-but beer always did effect me that way. And who knows what this new stuff will accomplish?
 However, this is not a convention of vets and drys as Bryan is trying to make it out to be, and so I will now drop that line of talk. But right along that line 1 wish to state that from the efforts being made by thirsty democrats and blood tnlrsry would think that somebody was trying to change the party emblem from the donkey to a white mule, that being what they call bootleg booze.
 On the other hand, certain women is reported to be indeavoring to have the party emblem changed 10 the | fhn fhAnrx- that 4ha rf ' is fighting one and not muleish. And they say lots of women will be on 1 hand with lots of little silver roosters i to pin on your shirt.
 That's alright, particularly as I claim Cox will be nominated and so lets | have the rooster's emblem with the 1 epitaph under it, We are for the fight ing Cox" Get it?
 The nomination of Owen would not 1 be distasteful to me, as Penrose spoKe so unkindly of Harding. because ther our slogan would be: owen youi own home and put him across.
 Now, I understand that Chairman Cummings is strong for wet plank il 1 our party's platform, and in case ht succeeds in having that plank put in | I am preparing a campaign song Iol the democrats that's sure to be vote getter, entitled: Cummings Througf With The Rye" which you can gues: ] is a parody.
 
 As to the rumor that labor will in sert plank in the party, if they art as slow laying that plank as they art ! in laying blanks in some of our loca buildings, there's no cause for alarm.
 
 I Thaf,fl be all for today
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25

WASHINGTON. D. C., June 1S.-At the Chicago convention of eight years ago a huge Texas delegate picked up Victor Rosewater, chairman of the national committee, a very small naan and boosted him above the heads of the crowd that he might be admired and receive its plaudits.
 Put that child down." roared voice from the gallery, you're not it's father!" And the chairman reaped a great laugh.
 Every national convention brings forth it's crop of jokes, many of which are very good and deserve to live. If the reporters instead of putting down the endless and empty oratory would only record the jokes and let 1t go at that, the conventions would live long in the memory of men.
 A convention Is a huge Eeyser or perfunctory bupcombe. It is a nam moth platitudes factory. Supposed to be a means of expressing the popular will, it is really a struggle between a weary mob and an aStute little group of professional wire -puliers.
 Against all its pretense and parade it's empty words and meaningless maneuvers, the American sense or humor occasionally reacts with con sidera bIe force and point. Thus, when a certain Democratic convention had dragged it's weary length through many
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
CONVENTION HUMOR

ballots, famous orator got up and began bouncing his hollow words off the heads of the jaded delegates.
 Gentlemen, why are we hereg he boomed in rhetorical query at the height Of his eloquence. And at once the delegation in mournful chorus answered him:
 They Told Him
 We're here because we're here be- cause we're here because we're here
 When convention becomes dead locked it is a truly terrible test of en- durance and patience. At the Demo cratic convention in Baltimore in 1sl2 for example. the proceedings dragged so long that the round trip tickets of the delegates had repeatedly to be eX- tended. When it was announced that the tickets had been extended to June 10th, the irreverent voice immediately demanded:
 This year or next?"
 Senator Gore at this same conven- tion comforted the unhappy delegates by telling the mthe story of the little boy who went 10 a picnic. He got stung by a bee. spilled molasses down his sleeve. another boy licked him, and he fell in the brook When he got home his mother asked him if he had had good time. and he said, well, he was so glad to get back home that he was glad he went
 Indeed, at d deadlocked convention, the prevailing sentiment is often in favor of choosing almost anyone in order to get done with the job As the delegates at Baltimore sat through long sweltering hours while the enter prising inn keepers of that town added up their bills, they lifted up their voices in this doleful ditty:
 At home we have to skimp and save. TI., ic ~cf Why pa must pay twelve bones day To make our nations history. There is always a certain struggle 1 between the chairman and the gal i leries Theoretically the thousands l in the galleries are no part of the con vention proper They are merely there | to look on. But as q matter Of fact ! they take part in all the yelling and l singing, they reinforce and magnify l every mob impulse. Stampedcs that have carried dark horses into the nomination have been started from the gallery and carried forward largely by the gallery. It is the admission of an enormous gallery which has changed ! the convention from deliberatiVe body into a circus. Therefore when Sen ator Root with terrific dignity reproved ! the gallery saying:
 A Damper for Dignity q remind you that you are guests i of this convention"
 The irreverent voice at once repliedt ''I paid four dollars for my seat"
 And once more laughter routed dig nifty.
 4 good deal more was accomplished by the sergeant at arms who stru gglet with a confusion as to whether a gal l lery was singular or plural. | "The gallery will remember then conduct" he announced "Otherwist they-which is only here as guests will be cleared. We do not want tC speak to it or them-whether it he hin or her-again. II will remain orderly and not be those to cause disturbance.
 At Baltimore a pigeon got loose B the coliseum and flew round and round
 "Ha," shouted an ecstatic delegate "The dove of peace."
 Yes couutered d weary one do ing it's darndest To escape.
 There are always. at conventions ar.
 other political gatherings. d certain
Arizona republican., 1920-06-25
EXPLANATION

The Tombstone Prospector. after paying a compliment 10 the Cancels Back and ye ed, (for which we blush ingly return thanl5s) takes running jump and falls on us for trying to tell the world that the bricklayers on the Walter Reed hospital are getting more pay than the doctors of that institu- tion.
 Speaking from the depths of rich ex- perience as a soldier with doctors. the Prospector's editor suggests that few doctors he has thus met are worth more than the pay given even an as- sistant to a bricklayer's apprentice.
 Now, without wanting to horn in on our respected contemporary's quarrel with the medcos, but politely suggest ing that he is still full of the prunes they fed him in the army. we wish to explain that the Walter Reed hospital comment in last weeks edition was no work of ours. The makeup man, hay ing a little space to fill out in one of our columns. grabbed the first thing