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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

figure in the story and ~!l the hair raising exploits are shown in detail.
 Aside from being the great thriller ever filmed, "The Great Air Robbery" tells a dramatic story intermingIed with romance and love. It is not only up to the minute, but few years in advance, for 1t concerns Larry Cassidy tLocklear) crack pilot for the Amer ican tranScontinental mail service and his fearless, daredevil feats in bring ing to an end the exploits of band of air pirates and winning the girl he loves The mastery of the air by men and women of iron nerve and histrionic skill has made possible the filming of this thrilling narrative which, while it has yet had no parallel in real fife, is quite within the scope of modern achievement
 Waffle Mason, young aviator in the United States mail service and a. friend of Harry Cassidy. becomes enmeshed in the schemes of the air pirates through his attempt to secure his croix de guerre which he has sent to his sweetheart. but which falls into the hands of the leader of the black squadron. Larry Cassidy goes to save his friend from his own folly and also to protect the registered mail. A United States deputy marshal, also in the aviation branch of the service, is on the track of the aerial marauders, and in the three-cornered encounter which ensues some of the most thrill ing air scenes conceivable have been filmed
 The latest Fox Sunshine comedy, Sheriff Nelrs Comeback featuring the Sunshine beauties, will also be shown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
The Cup Of Fury, Feature PhotopLay, From Rupert
 Hughes NoUel, at the Lyric

himself and pronounced a living, breath
 -ng and vibrant reality of the story that
 runs through the pages of the book.
 Around dscontented village girl, who
 is thrown into the stirring scenes of
 American life that follow war, is evolved
 a remarkable story. She did not know
 her real self and neither did her sweet
 heart know any more about her real self
 than she. Who and what she was is
 the question that makes the story. The
 hero is one of the real men of the times
 and the heroine living American woman
 m company of real actors compos- ing the cast the screen production is a remarkably vivid portrayal of the story and the various roles and characters are put forth with the greatest regard to dramatic effect
 Quick sympathy for the girl character she portrays is won from her audiences by the sweetness and simplicity with which she handles the part When the story reaches its climax Miss Chadwick has ample opportunity to show her yer satility as one of the big stars of screen dom and makes the most of it. As Davidge, the hero, RockcIiffe Eel | loves IS cast in difficult part to es say, but does it with wonderful art and ! dramatic effect. As the cultured and l chlvalrous youth he is portraving the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
TRLANoN- SHIRLEY MASON

''The Cup of Fury" dramatized from the novel of Rupert Hughes by the same name, will be the feature picture at the Lyric all of this week. It has story that holds the interest until the last scene, is highly dramatic and has made as strong an impression on the public mind--if not stronger for it's true picto- rial representation-as the big novel cid when it first appeared
 The Eminent Authors Production Com pany was recently organized by Samuel Goldwyn and a group of foremost Ameri- can writers for the purpose of presenting true to life on the screen the best work of these authors "The Cup of Fury is the first feature production of this pro- ducing company and has attained phe- nomenal success wherever it has been shown. The story is produced for film dom with the wonderful technic that is characteristic of Goldwyn productions and has been passed on by the author
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

O..e scene shows the captain of a vessel
 brought to the U-boat's side after the
 sinking of the ship.
 He is taken aboard the submarine, then the small lfeboat containing members of his crew who had managed to escape were pushed off while the U-boat dived to safety.
 "The Exploits of the U-S5" are au- thentc. They were actually made during the war, and the names of the ships sunk are given, and these sinkings have been verified. As a record of the war i there is nothing more remarkable exist I ing. and it is a continued indictment of 1 German fiendishness.
 | "A Widow by Proxy is an entertaining 1 feature in which Marguerite Clark. the ! sweetest girl on the screen, is at her best, supported by an excellent cast, with l Nigel Barrie as her leading man. 1 These two big attractions will be at the Color .al through Thursday only. Fri l day and Saturday w & Hart will be the star in John Petticoats."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
Lieut.. .Locklear, Demon Of
 the Air, Stars At Alcazar
 "The GreatAir Robbery"

"The Great Air Robbery" an ex- traordinary picture of airplane adven- ture and piracy as it will exist in the future years, will be the feature at traction at the Alcazar theatre this week, with Lieut.. Homer l.. Lockiear in the leading role. .,
 Lieutenant Locklear is the man whose daring feats in the air have won him the plaudits of the continent. His daring stunts accomplished while in mid-aid have thrilled millions of people and he has become recognized as t'the king of the air" Lieutenant Lcckhear will be well remembered by the thousands of Birmingham people who witnessed his daredevil stunt of changing from one plane to another and the various other hair-raising feats which thrilled them to the core during his appearance here in connec- ton with the Alabama state fair last year.
 "The Great Air Robbery is Lock- lear's first feature production and it is said that he is a S good an actor as he is anaviator. He is surrounded by an all-star cast. including Francila Bill lington. Allan Forrest, Ray Ripley, Carmen Phillips an1 several other screen favorites.
 Theatregoers who have watched the progress of the motion picture art are rarely surprised by new thrills in story or startling developments in photography, but 1t Is safe to predict that when 'The Great Air RobberyY is first flashed on the screen at the Alca- gar the most sophisticated theatre goers will open their. eyes bit wider and feel new jingle.
 Scenes never before attempted on the screen are shown in this production, many of them taking place more than a mile above the earth. The camera = bearing aeroplanes were seldom more than 50 yards. from the biplanes which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
Will Rescue Trucks

London January 3.-Large numbers of ,derelict army trucks now rusting where they were abandoned in she'll cued" and brought back to England by the ministry of transport.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08

character stands out pre-eminently. Sur rounding the two leading stars of the company there are a coterie of supports who play every role with dramatic in- tensity and make the whole very living thing.
 "The Cup of Fury Goldwyn feature film will be seen at the Lyric all this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
LocKLEAR N 1.-THE GREAT AIR RoEsERY ALcAzAR

present are representative crowd from the best in the city. and one may feel proud of this clever company, who offer such clean line of plays.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
When Minot's Fell

The worst catastrophe, of course,
in the history Of the American light
house service was the destruction
of the first tower on Minot's Ledge.
This structure was completed in No
vcmber, 1848, and in many ways
resembled the Eddystone light off
the coast Of England, which is the
most famous in the world. Built
on a dangerous ledge, which shows
for only about thirty feet at ex-
treme low tide, the beacon rose vir-
tually out Of the water, as does the
one which is there now. It's posi-
ton was extremely precarious be-
cause Of it's exposure to the full
sweep Of wind and water, but it
was correspondingly valuable to
shipping because, unlike some Of
the lighthouses on shore, it was q
point which mariners could steer
by without the risk Of running on
the shoals.
One night a sudden storm broke
and within two days had attained
such ferocity that it was seen the
old tower itself was in danger. The
head keeper had built heavy iron
platform on one OF the side walls
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

seen in the mountainous waters, but
the watchers knew what had hap
pened when several articles of fur
niture which had been in the watch
room drifted ashore. The bodies
of the men who died when the tower
fell were never recovered.
Nowadays lighthouses are built
much more securely than in those
days, and accidents such as befel]
the first Minot light are rarely re-
ported, but there are several which
at this season of the year are very
uncomfortable because of their ex-
posed and dangerous positions. One
of these is on Spectacle Reef at the
northern end of Lake Huron, which
for days past has been a hopeless
jumble Of ice. Frequently ice will
press with such force against the
sides of the tower as to endanger
it's existence, and on several occa-
sions it suffered considerable dam
age from the pressure. Fortunately
for the keepers this station is
closed each year at the suspension
of navigation, and the men are
spared the ordeal Of isolation with
in the ice pack.
Recently it was reported the foe
had risen to the doorway of this
light, % feet above the lake, and
that it gave indications Of going
still higher before the end Of winter.
Another famous lighthouse. which
is anything but comfortable at this
time Of the year is Tillamook Rock,
on the Pacific Coast. This great
pile is sevcnty-two miles south of
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

for use in handling bulky articles,
and it was supposed that this and
heavy hawser which had been an
chored to seven-ton granite block
at the base of the rock, had weak
ened the structure.
Watchers assembled on the Co.
hasset shore but could do nothing
to assist the two keepers who were
in the tower. So high were the
waves that they frequently rose to
within seven feet Of the top of the
lantern, and finally at 10 o'clock ON
the night Of the third day they must
have gone even higher, Cor sud-
denly the flash disappeared entirely.
Evidently, however, the structure
still stood, for at 1 o'clock the next
morning the bell tolled violently
for a few minutes and then was
stilled forever. When dawn broke
no trace of the tower was to be
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

Mrs. Katie Walker, who lived on
Robins Reef for nearly fifty years,
turning the station over to her son
only recently. Invariably the women
have been willing to take their
share of the hardships, the same as
the men, and when, in response to
signals of eve are. starving" gov
ernment ship visited the Triangle
Lighthouse, in the Gulf of Mexico,
three years ago, the rescuers found
two women among the little group
which had kept beacon flashing
while waiting for succor. Among
the fifteen persons living on the ice
invested station at Belle Isle, who
recently narrowly escaped starva-
tion, several are women, wives of
the men stationed there.
But as the talk proceeds, and the
men in their rough storm coats
drift in and out of the Staten Island
depot, you hear many predictions
that soon there will be a change in
the service which will mean the ex-
tinction of the hardy breed of light
house tenders. The invention of self
tenNing lights, which burn for six
months or more without attention,
is responsible for these predictions
this and the growing popularity of
giant gas buoys and lightships as
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

before the war-the government
made much progress in perfecting
lights which needed no keepers.
Many of these keeperless beacons
were placed along the coast of
Alaska and afterward at points
much further south.
England also has experimental
along this line and has one light
ship which needs no keepers and is
visited only at intervals by the men
who keep the lights in order.
"In New York City the Light
house Department is now complet-
ing the placing of twenty lights
burning acetylene gas in the Hud-
son River. These beacons need at
tention only about once every six
months and could be made to burn
even longer without recharging by
reducing the length of the flashes.
''It is this invention which will,
ultimately, help do away with the
need of keepers constantly on duty
at the lighthouses and place the serv-
ice on an almost exclusively me-
chanical basis. One thing still to
be invented is an appliance for keep
ing bells or sirens going automati-
cally, and then the change from the
old to the new system will be rapid.
During the war experiments
along this line had to be halted in
the general effort to beat the en-
emy, but now that the fighting il
over l predict much progress will
be made"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
The Voice Beautiful

By q speaking voice that is musical,
Mrs. Louden means one that has pure
tone supported by proper breath con-
troll" She holds that "a speaking voice
can be made and should hs made as
beautiful as a singing voice, whether
used conversationally or from plat
form before large assemblage."
From her experience in training young
women to speak well Mrs. Louden finds.
among girls from all parts OF the coun-
try that those who live in and around
Boston have the most pleasing voices.
"The girls from certain other parts
of New England and from Pennsylvania
and the Middle West" she says, "may
be said to have the most unmusical
qualities of tone, especially as a result
Of the burr sound, and the fiat a.
which, overfatted, leads to strong
nasality.
"There is the mistaken feeling among
many Americans, and in many Ameri-
can schools, that the r. is neglected un-
less expressed by that hard, CONSTRUCTED
sound which comes from shutting the
voice into the throat by the tongue No
distinction is made between good r.
and a bad r. The result is an un-
musical, throaty tone"
Mrs. Louden says the worst defects in
the speaking voice are "burr," which
relates to the ar" nasality and indis-
tinctness.
Among the women's colleges Of the
country 1t is recognized that at Smith
great emphasis is placed on the speak
ing voice. According to Mrs Louden.
"the aim is to create a standard of
spoken English SO that no girl who goes
cut Of college will lack a weli-modulated
voice, free from the defects of harshness,
nasality and throatiness that charac-
terize SO much Of the American
speech"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

the Winnipasocket, because she is
big enough to smash through. And
on the way back you might pick up
the gas buoy that was fouled in the
Martha's anchor chain off Quaran-
tine. And, oh, yes, Vineyard Point
reports being short of provisions
and unable to get the motor boat
through on account of the ice. You
might take 'em supply after you've
found Wilson,"
You hear a lot of such stories
these days-stories that make you
thankful for a job on shore and
which cause you, as a layman, to
wonder what there is in the life that
SO fascinates those who are engaged
in it. You know the pay of the
light keepers is comparatively small,
that the days spent on the dreary
rocks or tossing lightships are
monotonous and trying almost be-
yond endurance, but still you rarely
hear of any one in the service quit
ting.
"You not only never hear of their
quitting" an official in charge of
the Lighthouse Department ex-
plains, "but many of them even re-
fuse to take their shore leave. Don't
ask me what it is. I don't know,
and I've been in the department
twenty-six years and wouldn't leave
it for any other in the world"
Tenders constantly are coming
in and going out of the station while
the official is talking. All are
heavily coated with spray ice, and
the crews, too, are fringed with
tiny icicles where the water struck
and froze. Most of the boats are
engaged in marking or renewing the
markings of wrecks which have
shifted in the storms, or in replac
ing the giant gas buoys which have
been hit by steamships feeling their
way through the fogs and wintry
seas.
But occasionally you hear of
some more serious mission, such as
having to rescue light keeper car
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

the mouth of the Columbia River,
and although the lantern is 1872
feet above water it is not unusual
for the spray to rise higher than
the summit Of the lighthouse itself.
"You hear a lot about how calm
the water is off the western side
Of the continent" one of the men
in the New York service said, "but
occasionally, even out there, they
have their troubles, as was proved
by the experience some time ago
Of the woman keeper of Angel
Light in San Francisco Bay. Dur
ing a fog something went wrong
with the machinery in the tower,
and the woman had to keep the
bell going by hand. She kept at it
for 20 hours and 35 minutes,
hitting the bell at regular inter-
vais with hammer, and she did it
all over again two days later. This
time, another fog having come up
and the machinery still being out
Of commission, she stood on the
platform all night and hit the bell
with the hammer until dawn"
SIN the New York district" the
man went on, 1--WE sometimes have
trouble with ice in such seasons as
this, although conditions now are by
no means what they were two years
ago. Two years ago the ice was
very heavy indeed, and many light
house keepers experienced consider
able difficulty getting about in their
power boats when needing pro-
visions. / am talking, of course, Of
the keepers Of lights out in the
water, and not of Barnegat and
others, which are on land and can be
approached without q boat.
Caught in the Ice
1.-TWO years ago the light on
Green's Reef, which is three miles off
the coast in Long Island Sound,
failed to flash, and investigation dis
closed that Frank Thompson, the as
sistant keeper, had been caught in
an ice foe while returning with food
supplies. Thompson and William F.
Rhodes, the keeper, had rowed to
the mainland, where the latter took
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11

train to Bridgeport on official bust
ness, instructing Thompson to be
back on duty in time to get the light
going.
"The assistant keeper tried to fol-
low instructions, but after he had
rowed short distance off shore the
ice closed in and he could not get
away. Some one reported his pre-
dicament to headquarters and a
tender was sent out, but Thompson
was pretty far gone from the cold
by the time they got him. He had
drifted far out toward sea, and, not
being dressed warmly, suffered a
great deal from the bitter wind.
Then, too, the boat was in constant
danger of being crushed, and this
did not help the situation any.
Thompson was able to take up his
duties after a while, and is now at
Barnegat, where he was transferred
from Green's Reef"
Now, as at all other times. the
cardinal rule among the keepers
both of the lighthouses and the
lightships is to "keep the light 60
ing" and you hear stirring old
yarns Of the way they manage to
do it. Women figure in these tales
almost as prominently as the men,
and no symposium in lighthouse lore
is complete which does not produce
at least one story about Ida Lewis,
late keeper for thirty-two years in
the Lime Rock Light in Newport
Harbor. Among the other things
they will tell you is that she saved
at least thirteen persons from
drowning during her long period of
service.
Another famous woman light
ender in the New York district was
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Still Another Blow Is Aimed at Romance:
Lighthouse Keepers Days Are Numbered
Brave Tales That will Be Heard
No More When Ocean Bea.
cons Become Automatic j,

You remember that item which an
peared in the newspapers recently
about the fifteen persons who were
held starving for days in the gov
ernment light at Belle Isle by a
storm off the Newfoundland coast,
You remember, also, that similar
experience was had by several per
sons in the beacon Off the coast of
Yucatan.
Wasn't the first Minot Light. on
the very spot where you are sitting
now, and every human being in it
lost in a terrible gale few years
ago?
You take another look out of the
window, hoping by this time tho
storm shows some signs Of abating.
but, on the contrary, it gives every
indication Of growing worse. Over
head the flying wrack of clouds has
become somber and threatening, and
to add to your discomfort the tower
itself seems suddenly to have ac-
quired an altogether unexplainable
inclination for jumping about and
down in the waves. This, Of course,
is an optical illusion but, none the
less terrifying. One minute the
structure, though more than eighty
feet high, is almost down to the
lantern in the smother. and the next
seems to be shooting high into the
air, like captive balloon suddenly
released from its moorings.
"Guess I'll 60 up and have a look
at the light" the keeper finally re-
marks, quietly.
You begin to have new respect
for the man and for all of his call
ing. You realize that life in light
house is something more than song
and sentiment, and by the time
three or four days have elapsed and
you are still held a prisoner by the
storm you are convinced of it. You
walk about the tiny circular struc-
ture like Gagged animal, but get
very little relief from the exercise.
You can't read because Of the noise
and you can't sleep because of the
fear that some time during the night
the building will disintegrate and
You will be drowned without know
ing it. Finally, on the fifth day
and this is making it easy, because
frequently it takes much longer-the
sea has grown calm enough for you
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Barnegat to Go

"A bill is to be introduced in Con-
gress soon," one of the men asserts,
for the placing of a lightship off
Barnegat. If the appropriation for
the lightship is granted Barnegat
will become even more obsolete than
it is now. The fact that Barnegat
throws beam which can be seen
for nineteen miles means nothing,
because no light, however power
full, is any good in fog. The trouble
with Barnegat is that it is too far in
land, and by the time a ship could
pick it's light up in a fog the ship
would be aground.
"a lightship well off the coast in
deep water would give shipping
something really safe to steer by,
and would make it unnecessary to
keep the light at Barnegat going.
"The same is true Of Absecon
Light, at Atlantic City, which, as
every sailor knows, has long had no
other than a decorative value; of
the Fire Island Light, Of Navesink
and other giant beams which are al
most entirely ignored by shipping
as steering points.
"Ships coming into New York
steer for Ambrose Lightship, and
when they get into the channel pro-
ceed along the path marked out BY
the buoys.
$50 hundreds Of famous old lights
land lights, that is-are already
obsolete and are retained only
through sentiment.
"Recently-or, to be more exact,
New-York tribune., 1920-01-11
Boston Voices
Most Beautiful

no THE women Of Boston have the
most pleasing voices in America
Is it only in eastern Massachusetts
that feminine speech approaches per-
lection?
The Affirmative answer comes from
the woman who teaches spoken English
at Smith College. which is at North
ampton, far enough west in the state
so that it cannot be suggested she
is roofing for home talent.
The voice of Smith College is being
heard just now in an appeal for q
$4,000,000 endowment fund. Mrs.
Thomas Louden, Of the faculty, speaks
up to say that all college girls should
have musical voices-and yet, alas. too
few do.
There may be girlish voice out in
Wisconsin, say. or Colorado that sounds
like music TO your ears. In some To-
cality-the old home town, perhaps
every feminine sound may seem beau
tiful to you.
when word reaches its coeducational
colleges that the girls out there tend
to nasaiity.
Boston's pretensions to being the
hub Of the universe are harmless
enough, but when women's voices ara
challenged-ah, that is different.
Probably the only community that
will not protest against assumption Of
vocal superiority is New York City.
Native Manhattanese and Brooklyness
have few rivals in unlovely speech.
Such residents of the world metrop-
oils as come from somewhere, while
admitting that New York women can
scarcely contend for first honors in
vocal contest, are loath to yield the
distinction to Boston femininity, pre-
ferring to pick runners-up elsewhere.