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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
Elaine Hammerstein
Takes New Part in
Play at Majestic

A photoplay which affords the
star a part far removed from any in
which she has before appeared and
tells an engrossing story of life in a
girls reformatory will be seen at
the Majestic theatre Sunday when
Elaine Hammerstein' latest Sell
nick picture, Handouts or Kisses"
begins a two day engagement at the
head of an attractive picture pro-
gram.
Miss Hammerstein in this pro-
duction portrays the part of a young
girl who is unjustly sentenced to Il
term in a large penal institution
While there she is subjected to end
less indignities and cruel punish
ment and when her rebellion brings
about a searching investigation into
conditions in the institution, love
creeps into the story and the action
accelerates until at the conclusion
of the play the picture is one of the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
FRENCH AND ITALIAN OPERA
SCHOOLS IN CHICAGO REPERTOIRE;
EDITH MASON TO MAKE DEBUT

Edith Mason, the American Lyric
soprano, whose reputation wa,
| highly established at the Metropol'
tan opera house in New York, viii
| make her debut with the Chicago
forces Wednesday night in Puc
cini's Madam Butterfly" in one o!
| her most notable roles as Cho-Cho-
San. With her will appear Edward
Johnson, Giacomo Rimini, Irene
Pavloska, Philine Falco, Jose Mo-
jica, Constantin Nicolay, Lodovico
OIiviero, Sallustio Civai and Harry
Cantor in their accustomed roles
and Mr.. Polacco will conduct.
The dual magnet of Mary Garden
and Lucien Muratore in Fevrier's
virile Norma Wanna" is deferred
to Thursday night, when they will
be surrounded by the memorable
cast formerly heard in this lyric
drama, including the Messrs, Bak-
lanoff, Cotreuil, Mojica, Nicolay.
Contesso and Defrere, with Mr..
PoIlaco conducting.
There will be no performance
Friday night
Rosa Raisa's first performance
Of the season is scheduled for Sat-
urday afternoon, when she will ap-
pear in the title role OF Aida" and
when the American contralto, Flea
nor Reynolds, of long and high
vogue in European opera houses,
will make her first operate APP
pearance in her own country, and
Jeanne Schneider, young French
soprano, will be heard for the first
time here as the Priestess. Mr..
Pattiera will have the tenor role,
and more familiar artists are Vir-
gilo I.azzari, Messrs. Rimini, Cot
reuil and Oliviero, and the Pavley-
Oukrainsky ballet will be headed by
Mile. Nemeroff, with Mr.. Ferrart
at the conductors desk.
Saturday nights popular price
performance will include the re-
markable attractions of Mary Gar
den in 1.-The Juggler of Notre Dame"
and a new dance poem to Schu-
bert's Unfinished Symphony, ar
ranged and presented by the
Messrs. Pavley and Oukrainsky with
their Corps de Ballet. Miss Garden
will be surrounded by the same
familiar cast with which she has
given this opera before except for
the introduction Of Mr.. Pagan as
the Prior, the other roles being pre-
scented by the Messrs. Dufranne,
Qua, Beck, Nicolay and Defrere.
Mr.. Polacco will conduct the op-
era and Giacomo Spadoni the bal
let.
Business Manager George NJ
Spangler has installed a new sys-
TEN for mail orders for out of town
PATRONS, by which these orders will
be filled Immediately in the rota-
ton of their arrival.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12

say You need life. you need love
Come tonight, in week we will be
in Honolulu, where the waves whis-
per on the beach. / have loved
you-you have been q slave long
enough to those who do not love
you"
Mabel throws up her hands in
joy. at last released, and dresses for
dinner with Stuart. Stuart waits
watching her door, thinking OF
Honolulu. Then in comes the
ad-shouldered, sQuare-headed
childhood lover of Mabel, and
Mabel gives up Honolulu and Mr
Holmes. Stuart has nothing to
say about all the money he has
laVished on her brother, nothing
to say of the ease and refinement
and comfort his money has brought
her. He merely bows, like the
wicked, wicked gentleman he is
smiles wryly, and as foul friends
are not supposed to do in the mov-
les, he goes out of the door, never
looking back. That is, you mag
inc, the way it really happens in
life. No fights, no merely a good
sport who wanted love, shooting,
no snarling reproaches, and com
pany, played for it, lost, and pass
ed out.
A very intelligent picture with
this very intelligent moment made
what it is by the very intelligent
MIR. Holmes. 1t has a big cast
and satisfies the most critical fan.
In addition to this remarkable
will be THE Grastean
Jensen Marimba Band" Of five art
lists, who offer a repertoire of pop
ular and jazzy selections on an
enormous Marimba. "Frisk, Rec
tor and Toolin's trio of harmony
singers will entertain in great
fashion. "Devilish Romeo" a two
act comedy, Pathe News, overture
and selections by the Concert or
chestra is the stupendous program
at the Fort Armstrong for three
days starting Sunday.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
BY sPRARMAN LEWIS.

Chicago, Nov. 12.-Chicago rise'
IN festive garb to its most impor
tant social and musical eyent-ths
opening OF the annual season Of
grand opera Monday night at tht
Auditorium theatre-with ever
box and stall in the big opera house
taken. Since last Tuesday there
has been not a seat available at the
box Office for the opening night
and the sale for other perform
Ances is mounting rapidly.
s.Samson and Delilah," the mas
terpiece OF the famous French COM
poser, Saint-Saens, will be the in
itial offering Monday night with
Lucien Muratore, Chicago's idolized
French tenor, as Samson for the
first time in this country and the
great Peruvian contralto. Marguer-
lite DAlvareZ, as Delilah. Other
roles will be interpreted by Hector
Dufranne, Desire Defrere, Paul
Pagan (his American debut, Oc-
tave Qua, Lodovico Oliviero and
Jerome UhI and Giorgio Polacco
will be the conductor, returning to
the chief post OF general director
Mary Gardens staff after an abb
sence of two years. Andreas Paw
ley and Serge Oukrainsky with
their corps de ballet, including
Miles. Shermont, Millar. Nemeroff,
Dagmara, Elisius and others in the
two ballets of this opera, for which
they have evolved a new spectacu-
lar arrangement
The repertoire for the inaugural
week OF the Chicago opera has been
selected by Miss Garden TO repre-
sent equally the French and Ital-
ian schools, three of the former by
Saint-Saens. Fevrier and Massenet,
while two Puccini operas and one
by Verdi make up the balance.
Lima Cavalieri, famed prima DON
IA of Hammerstein's regime in New
York, with the Boston and Chicago
companies later. and out of music
equally famed for her beauty, has
been induced to return to the lyric
stage on Tuesday night in the title
role of Puccini's "Tosca". In the
role of Cavaradossi the celebrated
Dalmatian, Tino Pattiera will make
his American debut, Georges Bak-
lancff, in his familiar interpreta-
ton OF Scarpia, will complete this
illustrious trio of operate charac-
ters. and Angelo Ferrari. con-
ductOr of five years standing at
La Scala. Milan. will conduct for
the first time with the Chicago com
pany Other roles will be assign
cd as f0rver1v 10 C~nstqrtin Nico-
Law, Ph;1'~a F"1"" V'ttorio Trevi-
san, Dodovico Olivinro. Sallustio
Civai and Jerome Uhl.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12

swiftest moving dramas in which
this popular star has appeared.
The screen story, while purely
fictional, is not unlike many others
that are daily being told in real life
within the confines of certain large
reformatories and in producing
Handouts or Kisses" the director
has woven into the plot much real
ism. Thomas Edglow wrote the
story, which appeared in "Youngs
Magazine" Direction is by George
Archainbaud
Supporting Miss Hammerstein is
a large and notable cast with
Robert Ellis at the head. Other
faces which will be familiar to
local theatregoers are Florence
Billings, Julia Swayne Gordon,
Ronald Schabel, George Lessey
Ronald Coleman, Dorothy Chap
peli, Edwards Davis and Alison
Skipworth.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12

its range. The usual voice of the
ornate singer, such as she is. is
either fine and delicate of timbre
like that of Nine. Barrientos or
Nine. Galli-Curci, or of an exQui-
sitely soft and silvery resonance,
like Nine. Melba's in her later
days.
In contrast, Miss Hempel's is
luscious, glowing, veritable gold
en- flood, ranging upward, ranging
downward in undiminished body
and beauty. The ornaments of song
spring from her lips in a kind of
splendor that not another singer
of our time may now attain. Her
highest notes ascend full, round,
edgeless; her staccati are no mere
sparks; her scales ripple in gold
en- food; she can Guido the Indians
at their favorite trick of the long
held, swelled, diminished note. She
excels equally in the large-lined,
slowly unfolding. warmly modulat-
ed pattern of RosSini's ornate song,
and in the hard, glinting, arbitrary
fioritura-a garden of glass flow
ers, if there was ever one-of
Meyerbeer's Shadow Song in
'Dinorah.'
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12

Frieda Hempel. who will be
heard in concert at the Coliseum,
Davenport, on Monday, Dec. IL, is
known as the Queen of Colora-
turas," The Incompatible Night
ingale," The Jenny Lind of To-
day" She is a "golden-throated
singer" her voice is of spun
gold" it is a voice of gold and
magic" The voices supreme"
She is here shown as Violetta in
La Traviata.
During the last year the fore
most music critics of the country
have written the foregoing phrases
of appreciation, and countless
more.
1t was left for H. T. Parker, the
distinguished critic of the Boston
Transcript, to draw a pen picture
of her marvellous work-a picture
which glows and shimmers and
veritably signs what it tells. Mr..
Parker wrote:
Miss Hempel stands now at the
golden noon of signal powers. Not
one of her present compeerS in
America has a voice so rich and
smooth of body. so lustrous, so
ample from beginning to end of
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
"No Woman Knows"
Fort Armstrong
Feature of Week

In all pictures, you of course
know there is one big scene in
which the villain tempts the hero
inc toward her fall and is only
cheated of his prey by the fierce
arrival of the hero. This is sur
missed by all picture directors to be
vastly thrilling.
Never has this reporter seen
this scene handled so humanity, so
realistically as Stuart Holmes and
Mabel Julienne Scott handle it in
No Woman Knows" Up until the
moment yOu have seen much inter
esting incident but few high spots
of acting. Then Stuart Holmes
swings into action and you get all
the good acting you may have
longed for. At amorous intriguing
and tempting Stuart is in a class
by himself Stuart is Mabcls EN-
ployer in the mail order house
where she tolls in order to support
a weakling violinist brother in
Dresden, and Stuart, linked to a
loveless wife, longs for Mabel.
Mabel is Fanny Herself" Miss
Edna Ferber's book. All her life
Mabel has shaved for this cur
brother, she has made him a home
when his chorus-wife deserted him,
she has persuaded Stuart Holmes
to finance concerts and to put her
brother over for a star-musician,
she has come home to find her mon
grel-brother gone again and with
the hussy-wife, she is bitter, she
wants at last to enjoy life, and
there is Stuart in dress suit to
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
Uneven Mounting Is
Reason Valve Stems
Pull Out, Expert Says

Why valve stems pull out Of inner
tubes even when the tire has not
.been<run flat, has caused consider
able argument among car owners.
The solution is a simple one and lies
in evenly mounting the tire on the
riIn.,
In placing a tire on a rim, the
tube valve stem is inserted in the
hole in the rim provided for IL Then
the casing is, ordinarily, worked on
the rim BY successively Nprying it
over the edges. This stretches that
part of the tube where the prying is
started and works an accumulation
or surplus of tube at the end on the
other side of the valve stem.
When the tube in this condition
is inflated, it can not adjust itself,
being stretched beyond the other
side. When the latter side strikes the
ground first, the over-stretched side
cxerts heavy pull on the valve
stem. This results, according to
Miller tire service experts, in a blow
out from a pulled valve patch or a
torn tube.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
Photos of Prize
Plane in Omaha
Pictures of Winner of Palitzer
Trophy Thanksgiving on
Display Here.

Photographs of the terville-
Packard airplane Of the United
States army flying service, which
won the first contest for the Pulitl-
ger trophy at Mitchell Field, L. l.,
on Thanksgiving day, making an
average speed of nearly three miles
a minute, have just been received
by Scott Bury Motor Car Co., To-
cal distributors for the Packard
company. This wonder plane, al
though somewhat handicapped by
fuel trouble on that occasion, is
now being groomed at McCook
field for an attempt to break the
worlds speed records and it is be-
lieyed certain that it will shortly at
tain the tremendous velocity of at
least 200 miles an hour.
st is interesting to note in con-
nection with the race, said Mr..
Bury, "thar the performance de-
pended almost entirely upon the
amazing power of tlH engine. The
plane itself, while up to the minute
in every particular, nevertheless fol
lows the conventional lines with
which we are familiar. 1t has none
of the features that have distin-
guished some of the recent speed
models, such as absence of struts
and supports, or device by which
the landing gear could be folded
into the fusilage and thus decrease
the head resistance. The trernen-
dous power of the engine has been
the factor depended upon to produce
these great speeds.
"This engine, which was designed
by Col. Jesse C. Vincent, co-design-
er of the Liberty engine and vice
president of engineering at the Pack.
ack, is capable Of producing around
600 horsepower at 1000 revolution:
per minute. It is the most powerful
engine ever designed for quantity
production and is far more powerful
than anything yet made except a
few racing freaks. 1t is not freak,
however, but for commercial pur-
poses or in case of war, could be
turned out literally by the thou
sands"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
New Car Models
Blossom in Cav
Colored Designs
Bright Yellows and Greens
Greet Crowds at Opening
OF Annual New York
Motor Show.

New York, Jan. &-The 2ist an
nual New York automobile show
opened in a blaze of splendor at
Grand. Central Palace, with the ex-
uuisitely groomed and polished
creations of 76 manufacturers on dis
play. i.
Unusual significance is attached
to the opening of the New York
show this year, because Of the indi-
cation that the show will give as
to future business conditions, not
only In the autmobile industry but
other lines as well.
Judged by the inrush of spectators
at the time OF opening. an thrush that
was steadily maintained during the
hours following. there 10 destined to
be q revival OF interest in sutcmo-
biles during the spring Of 1921 com
parable to the business revival that
followed the depression resulting
from the close Of the war.
Still Holding OFF.
Manufacturers who have been pre-
dieting that the slump during the
final months Of 1920 would not out
stay the automobile shows are con-
fident that their prophecies are about
to be fealized, though they are still
holding off for the close of the New
York show to deliver their final ver-
dict.
Exceptional preparations were
made by all manufacturers this year
to stage as impressive and striking
show as possible. Conventional
color schemes are conspicuous Tor
their absence, bright hues of ready
visibility predon,inating.
Even the most conservative manu-
facturers made a concession to the
public taste il this. respect. The Ma
tional Motor Car and Vehicle corpo-
ration, for instance, one of the Oldest
in the industry, is headlining its dis
play with four-passenger phaeton
in brilliant yellow, and two-pas-
senger roadster that is a study in
three shades of green.
Postwar Creations.
With respect to new models, the
situation shows material improve
ment over last year, when Over
land, National, H. c. S. Mitchell
and Lafayette were about the only
manufacturers to bring out post
war designs. despite the expectancy
on the part of the public that this
practice would be general.
This year, there are probably an
even dozen postwar creations, most
prominent among which are the
new light Haynes, the single-six
Packard, the Paige, Pierce-Arrow.
Stevens, Duryea, McFarlan and Lin
coin. The General Motors company
is represented with two new offer
ings, the improved Buick and the
recently announced four-cylinder
Oldsmobile.
Generally speaking. however,
manufacturers are showing models
that have been standard for some
time, with the exception of minor
rehnements and improvements.
A New Car.
One concern. the National Motor
Car and Vehicle corporation, occu-
pies the unique position of continuing
its lines for 1921 without change OF
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
Starting in Winter
kprain on Battery

Starting is always severe dram
on battery. In winter il is more /.
than in summer" says Elmer Rosen-
gren of the Nebraska Storage Bat
terry company.
"A cold motor is harder to turn
over; a cold carburetor does not
vaporize as efficiently.
There is need OF more current for
lighting and there is usually less day
time running, when the generator
restores the battery's energy.
"On cold mornings. prime your
engine, and help the battery. Don't
exhaust it by jamming down the
starter button over and over again,
till the carburetor finally warns up
to its duty.
Be reasonable ill use OF your
lights
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
REQ Distributor
Says Car Is Sold
At Small Profit
For This Reason, He Declares,
Price Cuts Cannot Be
Made. as on Some
Other Cars.

In commenting upon the financial
statement of the REQ Motor Car
company, recently issued as of Sep
tember I. 1920, ]. M. Opper Of the
,Iones-Opper company, Nebraska
distributors of REQ automobiles and
speedwagons, has the following to
say;
financial statement, issued several
weeks since. shows surplus in the
treasury Of $9,747, ,508oi. with cap
;.alization. OF only Sl0000,000 au-
thorized. OF which $oo37,2s0 worth
of shares have been issued.
"Not Prohteeringy
The 100000 surplus. of course,
does not represent one years prof.
its, but the earnings accumulated
and remaining in'the business over
a period Of years. Dividing the
total volume of business done dur
ing the last several years by the net
profits Of the period, we find there IS
only slightly over 10 per cent
margin to the manufacturer on the
REQ products. Certainly this is not
profiteering and is one good reason
why the price 'on REQ automobiles
\and REQ speedwagons cannot be re-
duced at this time, as is possible
for some other manufacturers, since
prices were not inflated to show
large margins of profit during the
last two or three years.
Management's Idea.
"The surplus and capital really
represents the management's idea of
properly financing business, for
il Is not only sufficient for ordinary
needs or conditions that nust be
anticipated from time to time. but
proves sufficient to cover such ,fmer-
gencies and unforeseen conditions
such as those which recently oc-
Cured
"sThe REQ Motor Car company's
idea Of business is not to deplete
the treasury in order to pay fire.
auent and excessive dividends due
primarily to the habit of figuring
the stock ticker tape with the right
hand, while the left hand tries to
run the factory"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09

partn,eht OF New York City awarded
contract for 2l2 hve-ton motor
trucks of the automatic type. at
cost of more than 81 100000.
The average estimated repair bill
for all automobiles in the United
States amounts to $500,000 day.
Norway has just commenced oper-
ating its first automobile factory.
The output is estimated at 200 cars
year.
1t is estimated that l3.s00,0N gal
Ions of gasoline are used daily by
motor vehicles throughout the
United States.
Auto polo will be special feature
at the state fair at Trenton, N. j.,
from September u to October |,
inclusive.
mountainous, it is covered by net
work of fine roads.
Throughout the country the over
all width of motor vehicles varies in
different states from 90 to ia
inches and the length from 80 to
IS feet.
Highways Of Switzerland arc Of
macadam or concrete structure and
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09

even the most minor nature. How
ever, inasmueh as the present Ma
tional product. surnamed Sextet,
was announced only at the shoE of a
year ago, it is still regarded as a
new car, though as well car OF es-
tablished worth.
The automobile show remains
closed on Sunday, to reopen its
doors Monday to what is expected
to prove a record day in the his
tory of metropolitan attendance.
Show visitors on Saturday are
generally local. whereas Monday be-
gins to bring motor enthusiasts and
members of the trade from all the
corners OF the United States. Judg-
ing by advance ticket sales to manu-
facturers. it Is believed that the OUT
of.town attendance will be unusual
ly heavy, foreshadowing a renewed
interest and buying movement in au-
tomobiles all over the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
School Is Conducted
For Cadillac Mechanics

To keep service men and me.
chanics fully conversant with and
up-to-date in the repairing of Cadil-
lac cars, the ]. H. Hansen Cadillac
company maintains a school under
the supervision of Guy A. Wheaton,
technical manager.
Glasses are conducted during the
lunch hour, and the course Includes
lectures on mathematics. the theory
of gasoline motors, electrical work,
and the practical ways of repairing
and adjusting Cadillac cars.
The school is maintained through
out the winter months and at the
end of the course an examination is
held and prizes awarded 10 those Of
highest standing.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09

are kept in excellent condition.
Though the country is hilly and
In the rural districts of Colorado
and Utah, motor transportation is
furnished children from their homes
TO public schools.
During the world war, Germany
used commercial alcohol, distilled
from sawdust and various kinds Of
waste vegetable matter.
More than 80 per cent of the ton.
mage of rail and water lines is trans
ported over highways before reach
ing the consumer.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09

There are three and one-half auto
mobiles for every mile of the $1,000
miles of public highways in Wis
eonsin.
A Philadelphia undertaken sue
cessfully operated an automobile fu-
neral wagon 20 years ago.
Because of shortage OF automo-
b;les in Europe, cars are selling at
figures far beyond their actual value.
To cope with the snow problem
next winter, the street cleaning de-
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
J. H. Hansen Leaves for
New York Automobile Show

J. H. Hansen, of the ]. H. Hansen
Cadillac Co., left Friday evening for
New York City, to attend the 2lst
annual automobile show.
During the New York show,
Cadillac distributors and dealers
from AN parts of the United States
will be assembled at mammoth
meeting to discuss the coming years
business.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
Significance of q Dirty Engine

A dirty engine is the sign of .
careless driver. Dirt is not merely
unsightly, it causes trouble in the
bearings, carbureter, distributor and
other places. Clean it off with
long handled paint brush, using
kerosene, as gasolene is expensive,
belides beng dangerous,
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09
Clear Oil From. Grooves.

II the oil grooves in the bushings
hecome clogged, the oil will not be
able to reach the~surfaces which need
it. The use of an excess quantity OF
graphite sometimes serves to pro-
duce this condition.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-01-09

Army engineers have developed a
new type of searchlight, mounted on
. rubber-tired trailer, that can be
pulled great distances by motor
truck.