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Arizona republican., 1920-05-02

He recalled that President Wilson toured through parts of Europe on d bicycle several years ago. The fact that the summer White House is usually in a locality where there are miles of bouIevards suitable for plea surable cycling, lends probability. MT. Jacobson said, to the belief that the president may revert to the bicycle this summer for recreation.
Arizona republican., 1920-05-02
SAVE OUR FORESTS

'.How's this, waiter? You've me two dollars and a half for panked steak"
 Sorry sir, but lumber's gone up again. The Home Sector
Arizona republican., 1920-05-02
JUDGE RULES ANKLES
 TOO SMALL TO HIT

HAMMOND. Ind. - Michael Cuba was busted from a theater for throw ing peanuts at chorus girls an<lss. The manager and Cuba went to cour- about it. The judge ruled that said ankles weer too small to aim at and everybody went home happy.
Arizona republican., 1920-05-02

amusement hall Bremen pumped the water out and built a new blaze. and John Mccormack went ahead and sang his songs.
Arizona republican., 1920-05-02

It takes about ten hours to pass the Panama canal, including three hours spent in the locks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
WILL WEAR PAJAMhS NOW
EmpoIia Official Shocked by Bathing
Suits Shown by Cinema Girls"

Emporia. Kan. Sept. 11.-Because
members of his Cinema Girls Revue"
wore bathing suits which did not
reach their knees County Attorney
Lon c. McCarty today swore out COM
plants against Bob Finlay and five
women on charge of indeceRcy.
The girls are moving picture per-
formers. who were giving a vaudeville
''show'eat a movie theater- The man
ager of the theater announced the
bathers would wear pajanlas at future
performances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
At the Grand.

Starting Monday night, the Hillman
Stock company will present a roper
toire of plays every night next week.
The company is a high grade organ
ization Of stock actors and a select list
Of plays has been picked for the
weeks run. On the opening night
THE Other Wife" will be the offering.
On this night all ladies will be admit
ted free when accompanied by one
paid admission. Mr.. HilIman is intro
ducing something new in stock COM
pany programs for the coming week,
in that on Thursday evening two plays
will be given. One will start at 7:15
o'clock and the other at o'clock
Mr.. Hillman is a graduate of Kansas
university. His home is in McPher-
son. This is the second visit made by
him TO Topeka. He made his first ap-
pearance in this city ten years ago.
Miss Gertrude Ewing, his leading lady,
is well known thruout the west as a
capable stock company actress.
The program for the week follows:
Monday. 1.-The Other Wife,; Tuesday,
The Interloper'; Wednesday. The
Web: Thursday THE Girl From
Pocatello" and Heart of Wetona" ;
Friday, 1.-THE Blindness of Virtue"
Saturday, "a Light in the Dark and
"A Romance of Today"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
THEATORIALLY
Things That would Never Be Said
Regarding Movies, ct cetera, in
Any Other Way.
BY XII.

Are the movie fans in the same class
with those who in former years con-
fined their reading to that Enclosed by
yellow backs? Do the movie fans want
blood. lust and rapine or do the movie
producers just think they do?
It is noted with belief that it is an
indication of an uplift of the screen,
that the producers are now going to
the best writers of current fiction and
even to the classics OF English litera-
ture, for their plays. They are put
ting on the screen Omar Khayyanl
Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Cham
bers. Randolph Chester, William AL
len White and many others too num-
erous to mention. What is more they
are allowing the authors-where the
same are not already dead-to have a
whole lot of say as to how the stories
shall be screened and the public is
benefiting thereby.
None of the good authors are writ
ing blood and thunder stuff. They
would not allow such stuff to be in
serted in the screen versions OF their
stories, but when the screen versions
appear before the public. they come
unrecognizab BILE because the titles are
so changed that it is hardly possible
that the author would know it was
his brain child. THE Pavilion on the
Links" did not have enough of the
yellow back" in it so 1t was made
THE White Circle" Reams of paper
had to be used to tell the public what
/ 1t was they were seeing. Other stor-
i les are retitled the same way Others
like The Fighting Chance are left as
they were.
| The latter drew big houses here.
The people knew the story and knew
| the author. They wanted to see the
screen production. There are many
lovers of Stevenson in Topeka. but
none of them knew THE White Cir
Gle" as a Stevenson masterpiece and
the house was slim. No, the people
do not like blood and thunder titles
on their pictures and are speedily
showing the producers their mistake.
Producers are quick to give the public
what it wants and will nav for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
At the Isis.

1t Is a complete Pathe program Of
fered at the Isis for the first half of
the coming week. Both the feature
production and the news weekly are
produced by Pathe. The feature Of
fered is ]. Stuart Blackton's in Pass
ers By" This is a screen adaptation of
the play which two years ago made
a New York success for its author, c.
HaddJn Chambers. It is entirely out
Cd and will furnish a relief from the
oppressive sameness of a lot of the
most recent movie stories.
In "PasserS By a wealthy young
bachelor invites into his quarters the
strange characters who pass by his
window and in getting acquainted with
his fellowman, finds the love which he
had thought was lost to him. In the
play as it appeared on the stage as
well as in the story and the screen
version, there are three quaint and
wonderful characters.
They are Pine, the valet; Mighty,
the cabman, and Samuel Burns. the
derelict. Mr.. Blackton, who produced
the screen play, has secured what he
thinks are the three best actors OBJ
tainable to portray these characters
Tom Lewis, who has been everything
from a circus star to vaudeville
actor. minstrel man and stock com
pany actor. takes the part Of Mighty,
the cabman. William Ferguson, who
as the butler in The Whopper,"
scored q real hit, plays the part OF
Pine the valet. Dick Lee, a finished
character actor, has the part of Burns,
the derelict-
The program for the latter part of
the week at the Isis will be announced
later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
At the Coy.

a combined bill featuring special
comedies, will be shown at the Coy
next week. For the first Of the week
Charlie Chaplin in 1.-The Adventure"
one of his most recent masterpieces,
will be shown and for the last three
days Roscoe Arbuckle will star in ''Out
West"
The main picture of the bill for the
first three days will be The Broad
way Cowboy a real comedy starring
William Desmond. William Russell in
six Feet by Four" will be the star
piece of the week. It begins on Thrus-
day for a three-day run. It is an excit-
ing bit of wild west adventure in
which the capture Of q noted road
agent is the main theme. The story
is complicated by the fact that the
double of the highwayman, suspected
Of the others crimes, is able to prove
his alibi in every case. Thru the play
runs a love story that of course comes
out happy at the end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
AGED ARE ACTORS
Movies Open New Field for
Old Men.
Are 10000 Men Past Sixty
Working in Studios.

In a recent statement to the press
an official Of a home for the aged in
New York revealed a marked de-
crease in the number of charges
placed in the institutions care within
the past two years. Probing the
cause. the official questioned an old
man who had withdrawn his applica-
ton for admittance.
wal, I don't need charity" vigor-
ously asserted the old gent, I'm a
moving picture actor now and doin'
quite well. thank you" Further in
vestigation developed the fact that
there are thousands Of Father Times
veterans following the same course
The motion picture studio has opened
TO destitute old age a new road, in
finitely more roseate and attractive
than Charity Road"
Statistics compiled recently by the
census board show that approximately
10000 men past the age of 60 are en-
ployed weekly as motion picture
extras in the studios around New York
and Los Angeles.
The demands made upon the aged
actors by studio work are light, call
ing for little physical or mental exer-
ton and not more than two or three
hours Of actual activity a day. Their
average income from picture work Is
$3.50 per day which adequately cares
for their modest needs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
AT the Orpheum.

A tabloid musical comedy will be
the big feature at the Orpheum all
next week. It is the Cinema Girl
Revue" starring Bob Finlay, one of
Mack Sennett's star comedians. Bob
is a star at eccentric dances and can
sing too In both these talents he
will have the backing of a group Of
really beautiful cinema girls also from
the Sernett forces at Los Angeles
In addition to the revue, the first
three days of the WEEK Viola Dana in
Dangerous to Men" will be shown.
This feature production is really the
film version of Eliza Comes to Stay"
which for three years was one of the
biggest Broadway hits. It is a story
of a young school girl who finds that
instead of being in danger in a bache-
lor's quarters, she is really the source
Of all the danger there is. A reel of
the Pathe News and a Mutt and Jeff
cartoon will complete the bill.
THE Third Generation" starring
Betty Blythe, is the chief offering for
the last three days Of the week It is
the story Of the young society man of
New York who after running thru his
fortune in society pleasures, starts in
again at the bottom with his wife and
works up to real success and happi-
ness. Miss Blythe has a part most
suited to her in the character of the
disillusioned society woman, wife of
the hero, but who also learns her les
son and aids him in making a fight
upward. A two-reel comedy will COM
plete the bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
LARRY SEMON is SUED
VItagraph Wants Nearly Half NH
lion in Damages From Comedian.

The largest case in the history of
the United States district court of
southern California has just been filed
by Pres. Albert E Smith, of the Vita
graph Company of America, who has
sued Larry Semon, the famous screen
comedian. for a total of $407, 1882
in damages. It is alleged the defend
ant deliberately increased the costs Of
his productions thru delays, careless
ness and waste to an unreasonable
figure, with the aim of forcing the
Vitagraph company to release him
from his contract.
The suit is unique in that Vitagraph
does not ask that it be released from
its contract, but insists the star make
good the damages and continue his
employment.
According to the terms Of the con-
tract, filed with the suit, Larry Semon
was to make twelve two-reel comedies
a year for three years. Five pictures
have been released, another has just
been completed, and Vitagraph de-
clareS it is practically impossible for
Semon to deliver more than a total of
seven pictures during the first year.
SemOn's latest picture. The Suitor,"
figures prominently in the suit mas
the usual studio expenses, more than
$50, 900 was spent, or approximately
$4,000 in excess of what would con-
stitute a reasonable outlay.
A few years ago Semon was a car
toonist on the New York Evening Tele-
gram and later on the New York Eve
ming Sun and the Morning Telegraph.
He left newspaper work to enter the
motion picture field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
At the Novelty.

An exceptionally strong program
will be offered at the Novelty for fair
week George Dammerel, who ap-
peared here earlier in the season in
his own sketch, is now producing mu-
steal sketches with girls. the first Of
which has been booked by the man
agment as an added attraction
"Oh, Hector is the title Of Mr.. Dam
merers offering. featuring Eddie
Hume as the principal funrnaker. Sup
porting Mr.. Hume are a clever array
Of singing and dancing beauties. Mr.
Dammerel is a past master in produc-
ing musical oddities and ooh Hector
should prove an exceptionally drawing
card.
Other acts on this remarkable bill
are the Fostos, versatile comedy pair
in their new Novelty Surprise Wright
and Gayman, the Canarie Birds OF
Vaudeville, are on second spot john
ME Johnston. with his comedy songs
under the billing OF Poet and Peas
anti Last but not least, Chong and
Moey, electrical celebrities. will prove
another bright spot on this strong
bill. The eleventh episode of ''Trailed
by Three" with frankie Mann and
Stuart Holmes will be the offering on
the silver sheet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11
NOTES OF THE MOVIES
CLEANED BY XXI

Charles Ray has just bought the
motion picture rights of Charles Van
Loans Saturday Evening Post story,
Scrap Iron" according to announce
ment by Richard Willis. Rays mana
ger The story deals with a young
man who is induced by circumstances
to become a boxer, and is said to be
particularly well fitted to Mr.. Ray. 1t
will be his next screen vehicle follow
ing Nineteen and Phyllis, which =
now being produced for release thru
First National.
! A two hundred and fifty foot
schooner is to be destroyed by fire and
gun cotton near the New York harbor
| TO provide some of the thrilling scenes
for Dead Men Tell No Tales" the big
Vitagraph special production based on
/ the novel of the same name by z. W.
Hornung. More than three hundred
persons will take part in the ship
scenes.
! 1t is estimated that the people of
! the United States alone will spend dur
! ing the next twelve months more than
81. 095, 100000 to see motion pictures.
| Authors usually are the first to see
/ the stage or screen entation of
their works, but Gouverneur Morris is
/ yet to see his own story. Trumpet Is
/ land" made into a picture play by
/ Vitagraph. The famous fiction writer
/ has been away from the large centers
for several weeks. A special showing
| of the picture will be given for his
benefit Immediately upon his return to
| New York.
Mary Pickford is selecting a cast at
| the Brunton studios for new comedy
drama. as yet untitled. Her director
in this picture will be Frances Marion,
who has been writing continuities for
the star during the past year.
The announcement by Francois
Descamps, manager for Georges Car
pentier, European heavyweight cham
pion and French war hero. that he and
his charge were sailing from France
| for America on September 4, to box
| Battling Levinsky at Brooklyn, N.
/ Y, October IL, has led to an extra or
binary increase in bookings for THE
/ Wonder Man" the film made by Rob-
I ertson-Cole with Carpenter as the
| hero.
Harold MacGrath. who has had
more novels screened than any other
| author, is spending a month at Cape
| Vincent, New York, fishing for fish
/ and ideas in the St. Lawrence river
In spare moments, when the bass are
not biting, he works on a novel which
the Mayflower PhotoplaY corporation
plans to film. This will be Mac
Grath's thirtieth book to reach the
/ screen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11

The Cinema Girls are scheduled to
appear all next week at the Orpheum.
Bob Finlay. a Mack Sennett comedian,
is the leading man for the revue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11

Director David Smith has spent two
months and more than 100, 900 feet of
film to get less than one thousand feet
of perfect animal action for the Vita
graph special production, BLACK
Beauty" based on the famous classic
by Anna Sewel Extreme care has
been exercised with the beautiful ami
mails obtained for the parts and only
by patience and much film footage was
the proper action obtained to fit the
story. Director Smith has now COM
pleted the animal sequence and is pre-
pairing TO start the picture proper with
the human characters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-11

Anna O. Nilsson has postponed her
trip to Sweden and is now consider
ing several offers made by producers
in New York. At the end of her
present engagement with r. A Walsh
she may head her own company. She
will soon be on the screen in two new
Mayflower offerings
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-16
Light and Fuel.
(Cincinnati Enquirer.) )

Cincinnati Enquirer)
 Mr Edison is buoyantly prophetic. He sees new wider for the electric motor and the storage battery. In 20 years, he says, the horse vii have disappeared from the cities and largely from the farms Electricity is going to be So cheap that 1t will not pay to use any other form of power. De- lightfu indeed! But what assurance have we that Mir Edison's beliefs the cheapness ot this won derful power will be verified? Alas, even chained and controlled lightning is not so swift as the mod ern profteer to take advantage of opportunity to bleed the public.
 ihis is a surpassing Pwer means progress heirs to the dream Prometheus But. even as Frometheus stole fire heaven. if we don't look sharp the predatory of the earth will flch from extensively or deny to the blessings Of cheap electricity We could wish that it might be other wise but we fear Mr Edisons cheerful vision is not wholly clear
 We should have light and heat ill abundance at price which would be within the reach of the roorest among us. The creator gave these to man We desire and need them Light is synonymous with truth We should see it that no interests in the future should make it represent q lie. Cheap light and heat for the cities is of the big problems o1 the present since the supply of natural gas con tinuously is being depeted and manufactured gas possibly never supply universal demand, there remains MT Edisons harnessed spirit Electricity Eut if the cheap general of this agent is to be realized it will be in the day when the use or coal IS more economical than it is at present
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-16
SHIPPING TONNAGE OF THE WORLD.

Lloyd's Register for 1920-21 places the shipping tonnage of the world (yessels of loo tons onl! ceunted) at 57 ,000 GOO tons The United States has over 16,000. .000 Gerat Britain over lS,ooo,ooo and the rest fo the world 20,000,0O0. This IS nearer proportions that existed at the outbreak c the Civil War when the shipping of the world was divided practically three equal parts-the thted States leading, Great Britain following closely ana the rest of the world slightly behind Great Britain The seagong tonnage of the United States h2s ln- creased 10, ,000 000 500 per cent since l9l4
 Great Britain has long lead in ocean steam ton Eage but nothing like her pre-War preponderahce. Before war she had 43.9 per cent of this char acter of tonnage. This has fallen now to 35l On the other hand the United States which had Al per cent of the ocean steam tonnage six years ago, now has "A per cent.
 Itis claimed by Lloyd's that Gerat Britain is now building tonnage than the United States fcl the first time in several years, though she has not yet reached the maximum American production of 1918 and 1919.
 Germany which ranked second to Great Britain in tonnage in 1914 when she had over 5,000,000 tons of merchant steamers has but 4190o0 tons
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-16
Ponzied Finance

Il has been discovered that at the rate of interest guaranteed by Char les Ponzi an investor could run S10t up to $6570 in two years. Ponzi in terest meant 2,463 per cent in { year. This would mean 1,6SS,30G per cent in three years. One thous and dollars invested with Pong would have paid you $16,S30 GOO in three years. $431 100000 in four years and $11.000, 100000 in five years Ii the Allies had invested a million doll ars with Ponzi they could have paid off their total war debt in three years. Whatever else you may say about Ponzi, he wasn't piker In three years PonH would have run that $1.000000 up into a mere $16, SS5, 100000. Ho. hum! Please pass the coke!
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-16
COLD COMFORT.

It is hard to draw much comfort from the super fscally statements Of the Geological Survey that bituminous coal production reached its 1920 peak in the week ending August II, with 11,728,000 net tons and that the total bituminous production was then 4S 250 GOO tons more than at the same date in 1919. The soft coal mined weekly should have reached the 12,000,0 ,000-ton mark in June ard have been held there since As d matter Of fact in the first week after the cccnt strike ended it was only 10.335 900 net tons. It is true tLat our 1920 production is well ahead Of that for 1919, but it remains just about far tehind that for 1918 and the 1918 figure best represents our needs. In the first 1S7 working days of 1920 We had mined 45 la million soft coal than last year, but 3S million tons less than in 1918. Transport difficulties essening, but are far from an end.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-16
HARDING ON HIGH COST OF LIVING.

Newspaper men, who have been searching the record to discover the position of Senator Harding on various problems which confront the country. nave run on to is remedy for the high cost of living. He seems to think the people live high, and suggests thrift sef-denal and lower living rather than gov ol nment interference, the remedy.
 Senator Harding, speaking in the Senate Sald:
 If you could regulate habits of men by statutory enactment, if Congress could pre- scribe little self-sacrifice and still more Of thrift then the entire problem would solve
 itself If I could have my way wouG say to the people of the United States, If there are things that to you too high do not buy" and we would solve the problem *
 listened a little while ago, with much respect and great interest to lhe Senator from Nevada talking about the eX- treme necessity of well-fed and well cared for people Well, in that is a very agreeabe' thing to say but if l could fix condilIo! 10 strengthen the fibre of the citi- zenship of the United States of America, would prescribe some self-denial"
 And again:
 T You can never reduce the cost of living except as you reduce capacity to live. Senator Hardings remedy is the one that was applied after the Civil War, and during other times o stress from the high cost of living The govern ment did nothing. It left the people to struggle with inc nroblem and let time and the law of supply and demand solve it. There is a great deal more merit in Senator 4arding's position than more i'm patient people will admit
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-09-16
Let Them Be Punished.
(Ford's International Weekly. )


 There is an axiom as old the automobile that gasoline and whisky will not mix. The drunken driver has always the greatest menace of the reads and it curious that this menace shcu'C ln- crease with the country dry
 Some doubtless, think that this IS an indictment oj prohibition, but it is hardly that Not the most ardent advocate of cold water believed that the country would arid as he law WAS enacted any if anyone with a memory wishes to LOOK BACK # the campaign waged for the dry amendment ne Nil note that it not those accustomed to oflnk all their lives that the law expected to reach but the growing generation
 Not a small part of drunkenness today comes rom imbibing of unbelievable concoctlCns one or tWC drinks of which will the birds twlterlng Tn the most hardened drinkers brain As long as these men stav out of automobiles, they hurt few put theli- selves When they persist in driving they should De dealt with perhaps not by prison sentence put ceI- tainly in such a way will deter them trying to drive while intoxicated.
 In that way, the menace will pass, Tor IL Is not not very likely that the young man ci tonorro" eve. w" have acquired taste the stuff his fahter crlhks in lieu of his banned liquor