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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
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By LucyJeaneR Price

final proof: Charles Brewer, motor
man Of Q trolley car, stopped his car
at Maserole and Manhattan avenues,
Brooklyn, the other day at signal OF
one of our volunteer traffic police
women and then discovered that the
woman was his wife, who had been
made Captain Of the Women Police
Reserves Of the Greenwich Point po-
lice station. Hey, Matilda" he cried
out of the window Of his vestibule,
you 60 straight hime! Your feet are
soaked this minute" Snake that car
outa there" commanded Matilda,
crisply, before I hand you ticket"
Mr.. Brewer snaked his car out and
said nothing more.
NY
New York is adopting the very lat
est mode in Paris Of naming ones
motor car, Just as one does his yacht.
Sometimes the names are personal,
Marie" or James but more often
they sound as though they had been
stitched from a Pullman car or race
horse. The name is bravely engraved
on the radiator in most instances.
One of the editors Of the department
ing paper which answers the pleas
of the luvelorn, and is thought to be a
woman of high sounding name -
whereas you and know that many
times this feminine confidante is a
fat, bullying man - gives the woman's
side Of the accusation that women are
always late for an appointment. "She"
says the fair sex delays going any
where until certain that the other
party viii be there. 1t is quite reason
able to expect a man to wait on a
street corner, because that is the spe-
cies' natural habitat. No one notices,
no one cares. But nthe cast Of a
woman it is different. She is conspic-
uous no matter where she is, and a
veritable cynosure whe malone. To
avoid the annoyance Of stares and at
tentions sometimes not polite she
makes 1t point to be at least fifteen
minutes late. That offers safe mar
gin to the average male and even II
he should wait, what's the difference?
1t is so much safe for her to be late.
Not bad reasoning!
LUCY JEANNE PRICE.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
EMPLOYEE TO BE DIRECTOR
LOUISVILLE RAILWAY co.

Louisville. For the first time in
the history Of the Louisville Railway
Company and probably In any railway
company of the United States an en-
ployee will be elected by the en-
ployees to the directorate of the com
pany at the general meeting Of the
board in February. The announcement
was made ct dinner to the men given
because Of the safety records estab-
lished b ythe employees.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
wings which may easily be added
when needed.
USURPATION OF OFFICE
CHARGED IN CUSTER SUIT.

Hazard. - Custer proceedings were
begun here by J. W. Craft, recently
elected Mayor, against Floyd II. Ba-
ker, for "usurpation OF Office The
new council voted that Mr.. Baker, who
was serving temporarily, be continued
in office for four years longer, disre-
garding Crafts certificate of election.
Craft sued for the office and emolu-
ments. The case will be heard In the
circuit court In January.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
CONVICTION PRISONER Is
BANK ROBBER, ALLEGED

Cavington - Covington police say
John (Blink) Oder, former convict,
held in Covington Jail, was identified
by Roy Wolverton, First Savings bank
Middletown. Ohio, as enc of two men
who attempted to rob the bank May 26.
Oder was arrested at Detroit and
brought to Covington on charges of
HOUSEKEEPING and automobile steal
ing.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
PUNISHED. FOR STEALING
THEN FOR REMOVING PLANK.

Frankfort. - One conviction for an
offense is enough in the opinion Of
Gov. Edwin Morrow, who pardoned
Abe Frederick, Bath county. Il can
not and do not believe that the Com
monwealth Of Kentucky acted II either
mercy or justice when, after having
convicted this man TO rthe offense Of
stealing some dozen chickens and
combining him in Jail for period of
seven months, It then doubled the Of
tense by convicting him Of the crime
Of removal Of a plank from barn
from which he took the chickens" the
Governor said.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13

A California railroad company Is
entering into competition with itself
by running automobile buses on
roads that parallel its line. Some Of
the trains were operated at loss and
the auto bussses will take the place OF
these trains.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13

Matinee ZOO and 3:45
EVENING": and Gas
Admission Soc.
washingtonOp eraHouse
It's Some Picture.
See Il Sure.
NEW HAVEN WOMAN DIES
WHILE VISITING SON.

New Haven. - Theodore Kipp has
received telegram announcing the
death OF hi SISTER, Mrs. Catherine
Patzner, at the home of her son in
CHARLES City, Iowa. Mrs. Pratzner re-
sided here and left two months ago to
visit her son. She died of organic dis
ease OF the heart. She was ~.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
FOUR HEAD OF STOCK
PERISH IN BARN FIRE,

Bowling Green - Fire in the night
of unknown origin destroyed the stock
barn of E. L. Hunton, and two steers
and two hogs persisted. Provender
lost invluded sixty barrels of corn,
two tons Of oats, two tons Of hay and
three loads of fodder, besides vehicles
and farming machinery.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
VERANDA FALLS on MAN
FIGHTING NEIGHBOURS FIRE.

Flemingsburg. While Leonard
Fuller was fighting a fire which de-
stroyed the home of r. d. Carpenter,
his neighbor, at Hilltop, he loosened a
post which caused the veranda to fall
on him, breaking his left leg and other
wise injuring him.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
LUCY JEANNE PRICE.

The Georgia Federation Of Women's
Clubs adopted an official state song
following a state song contest which
was concluded at the state convention
held in November at Savannah. At this
time all competing songs were sung
by selected chorus and a ballot on
the songs was taken by the delegates
aasemh1pd
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13

New York = Twenty-six works of
art, including paintings and litho-
graphs by modern French artists have
Just been purchased by Otto H. Kahn,
to bedistributed to museums through
out this country nthe name Of the
Committee on the Diffusion of Modern
Art in the United States. In spite Of
the ponderous name, the committee is
doing a interesting work.
Ny
Anyone who thinks of Mex York's
lower East Side as being so close to
the tides Of immigration as to lack
real Americanism ought to have been
down at Battery Park the other day,
when 5000 persons gathered there in
drizzling rain and stood for more
than an hour to do honor to the war
heroes Of that East Side. 1t was the
occasion Of the unwilling Of granite
shaft, raised to the 76 Of that districts
young men who were killed in the
World War.
Ny
Lenore Uric has never shown her
self as real and appealing an actress
as she is doing in "Kiki," the new play
at the Belasco Theater. We liked her
in year past, but she never rose to the
achievement Of true comedy, true SYM
pathy, and a grasp on ones interest as
she does In this adaptation from the
French. A rowdyish little canine is
Miss Ulric's role, who from her place
in the chorus of French music hall,
aspired insanely, but with eventual
success, to filching the handsome d.
rector from the embrace of the prima
donna.
Ny
"Scherazade" is not confined to the
opera from the standpoint of color. A
visit to the Cicilian market here in
Gotham is an equivalent revelation in
color. When intent upon purchasing
your shrimps and lambs crops, arti-
chokes and other delicacies, yon can't
fail to notice the continuous trail of
wonderful color as the grape fruit
blends with the chrysanthemum and
the red cabbage with the dainty let
tuce leaf. Fellows abount in big ruta-
bagas and mealy sweet potatoes,
frightened by an occasional purple
egg plant. The sombre> mushroom and
drab artichoke are contrasted with
cranberries, a red which the Russian
Ballet has never achieved.
Ny
The tower Of masculine authority
has fallen at last. It's been tottering
for long time, but at last its walls
cracked and down It came. Here is
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13

Sidney ]. Williams, Secretary Of
the National Safety Council, stated re-
Gently that the economic loss caused
by industrial accidents amounted to
one billion dollars annually.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13
BURGLARS GET TWENTY
PISTOLS FROM WINDOW.

Louisville. - Breaking a glass win
down OF the pawn shop Of Louis
lsaacs, Third and Market streets,
thieves stole twenty pistols valued at
$3.50.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13

The shopkeepers of Vienna refuse
to accept Austrian money as payment
for purchases. They want American,
British or French money and the pref
erence is for American money.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-12-13

The tower Of masculine authority
has fallen at last. It's been tottering
for long time, but at last its walls
cracked and down It came. Here is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
BIC CITY FOUR" IS TOP[|NER AT LYRIC

The Big City Four is the big head liner at the Lyric for the first half of the week, and as it is a comedy singing act and boasts of four out-and-out art ists. it is expected to appeal to all au- diences
 Four other acts of Keith vaudeville, ranging from wire act that is described as ''all new to burlesque and satire rolled into one, in "A Study of Thinol- ogy," will provide the remainder of the entertainment together with Louise Lovely, in a screen story, entitled, While the Devil Laughs"
 Pat and Julia Ievolo do the wire act which is called Just Different" Each of thc novelties contained in the num- Der is pronounced of the extraordinary variety. The little lady of the act and the man perform individual features, while both do clever teamwork.
 Slim Grindeil and Corl Esther pro- vide "A Study in Anthology" and that's the new science. Judging by the waist lines nowadays, it's a difficult thing to do- The skit is based on MT. Grindell s thinness or elongation, And Miss Esthers s ability as a foil. Throughout the num- Der there's liberal scattering of songs
 The other two numbers are made up of offerings by Max Holden who will appear in an Artistic Novelty Act,' em- ibracing making smoke pictures, comedy ahadowgraphs and excellent handker- chic tricks, and James Burke and Elea- nor Durkin in "A Tete-a-Tete in Song.
 Miss Lovely's picture is declared to show her at splendid advantage, and the programme is scheduled to be one of the best at the Keith house in some time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27

lture next fall, as the presentation or "Claire de Lune" will only extend through the spring months. Mary Shaw, an actress who is known lby Birmingham people, is at present heading a company of Irish players who are offering in New York pro- gramme of Irish plays including Keeper of the Lights" 'Ballyculien Band" Three Comical Old Men.' These are one act plays, and are all given at one performance.
 Mary Shaw is known best for her
 work in shaw's plays, particularly Mrs. Warrens Profession" The New York Times carries this
 story of the telephone blunder which caused William Archer, playwright some moments of anguish: The matter of proper lighting fol the final act of "The Green Goddess" lcame up the other day and Winthrop
 Ames and George Arliss met by ap- pointment at the Booth theatre to
 make some experiments. While they were under way, William Archer, the playwright in the case, tried to reach Mr Ames over the telephone at his of- | flee sk
 Sorry" he was informed but Mir. Ames and MT Arliss are over at the
 theatre. They're relighting the lase act"
 Five minutes later. exhibiting every evidence of having thrown himself together, MT. Archer arrived breathless. Whats this I hear?" he gasped You're rewriting the last act? Why wasn't 1 consuIted?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
HIGH CLASS BILL
 AT LOEW'S bDOU

Songs again dominate the bill at Loews s Bijou theatre that opens with Monday afternoons performance and runs through the forepart of the week. In addition to this feature there is a deal of comedy that runs through the en- tire bill.
 Nine O'Clock is the big feature Of tho bill. This is a farcial comedy, writ ten by Howard Clark. and offered by five men and woman. The men are ''rube'' character comedians. whose comedy IS surpassed only by their harmony singing. The woman member of the company acts as foil to the nonsense of the quintet of comedians.
 Clay and Robinson mix song and chat- ter in their comedy sketch, "The Wop and the Girl" The male member of the team is said to be an excellent Ital-
 ian character comedian and to offer some lines far removed from the usual twop" comedy.
 The songs offered by NDelbridge and Gremmer are bound to be new for they are composed by the singers themselves and are not given opportunity to grow stale. Dancing, talking, singing, all com~ bine to make up the feature act or Hamony and Holmes.
 Leon and Mitzi are spectacular expo nenst of extraordinary equilfbrism Their gymnastic ability is said to be above that of the ordinary acrobats. Mitchell Lewis will be sen in "The Mutiny of the Elsinore,' a film version of Jack London's famous novel.
 This thrilling, pulsing story really lives, critics aver, in the screen version that has been produced by the c. E. Shurt- Jeff organization. Acton is the keynote of the picture. Subtle analysis has no part in it's plot. To the boy and girl of all ages who still can thrill to the excitement of a healthful tale of ad- venture The Mutiny of the Elsnore" will prove a treat, according to advance notices.
 And so full of action from start to finish, yet carrying tender love thread. and a stronger, more vibrant, one or friendship and loyalty, the tale is told as reel after reel unfoids. It is re- ported to be splendid action picture, we'll acted. well produced and well worth seeing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27

It must have been great moment in the life of Mrs Mary Roberts Rinehart, when, at the beginning of this season, she, cosauthor with Avery Hopwood of The Bat' and Spanish Love-" and au- thor alone of "Bab," had the experience of seeing the three plays from her hand become successes on Broadway, and si- simultaneously.
 By way of description, let me say at the start these plays are as different as can be imagined. "Bab" is version or Mrs. Rineharts sub-deb stories, with which we are more or less familiar. The Bat is made up of all the melodramas YOU ever heard of, 'stewed in thelr own juice," well seasoned with condiments or humor, and you are constantly surprised by horror or laughter-provoking inserts Spanish Love" is a strong love story of old Spain This also has intervals or farcical comedy, the actors appear in the boxes and through the theatre, taking part in play from these points, which IS bit unusual.
 Mrs. Rinehart seems to retain the en- thusiasm of youth and admitted in an interview given out at the time her three plays were starting their success full careers, that her own plays thrilled her immensely T was just as excited over Spanish Love as though friend had written 1t, and if had been pres ent the first night, I should have called for .Authorr" said Mrs. Rinehart-
 ssPersonally I can forget what I have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
A Spree In Rorneo

From "A Camera Man in Borneo," by Martin Johnson in Asia Magazine. When we were settled in the Tenggaa village, 1 bought out big bag of salt and another of tobacco to bargain for curios. I found salt tho most valuable trade stuff I ever took among savages. An ounce would buy anything they had. l got blow guns, spears, native hats and the ingenious fire-making device without which no native will travel. The only things could not get were human heads. The Hadji confided to me that the natives had great many heads, but that, since the government imposed a pen- alty of seven years Imprisonment on all natives found with heads in their possession, they naturally had hidden away these treasures.
 All this time. additional visitors were arriving from the hills Each new arrival shook hands with us and then took to the sago jars.. After out to see the village. It was a des-a olate place. The dozen houses were scattered over about a square mile of territory. Everything. including the trails between the houses, was over- grown with weeds. We saw two weedy gardens in which a few yams were growing. Chickens and mangy dogs
 
 roamed in and out of the houses, which they shared with the human occupants.
 When we returned to the hut, we found about 10 or 12 men at each go jar with the others crowding about them. clamoring for turn. They were all, our boatmen included, becoming noisy, and the women seemed to be worried. The Hadji was so much afraid of trouble that we decided to leave before dark and camp farther down the river. We loaded the canoes and pushed off just before sunset Seven or eight hilarious young men jumped into a gobong and followed us. gesticulating wildly to urge us 10 return. trained the camera on them. and we went pumping off. our canoes scraping the bottom of the shallcw stream. Soon we left the Tenggara village and our too -hospitable hosts in the distance. But for 1ong time we could hear the sound of shouting and singing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
Works the Impossible

From The Nations Business.
 Among the most disappointed wool growers in the United States when the
 bottom dropped out of the wool market some months back were scores of boys
 and girls in Connecticut who had gone in for sheep raising in response to the appeal to bring the sheep back to New England" These youngsters had looked forward to big prices for their wool, and the sudden drop in price sharply upset their ambitious expectations. But just when the outlook was most dismal good fortune smiled upon them. A. G. Skinner, a sheep specialist of Ontario Agricultural college, Canada, came to their rescue with an ingenious and enterprising plan
 which made 1t possible for the kids to get q dollar a pound for their wool. when they couldn't have sold It for 20 cents a pound in the open market
 Skinner had been engaged by the Con-
 necticut Agricultural college to give ad- vice on sheep raising, but when the mar ket broke he turned his efforts in an- other direction He got together all thu wool grown by the boys and girls be- longing to sheep clubs and had it secured at securing plant in Lawrence, Mass. without any charge. Then he made an- other arrangement with a woolen millown- CT in Connecticut whereby the secured wool was made into cloth at actual cost. The news of what Skinner has done travelled widely, and immediately there sprung up big demand for Connecticut wool cloth. Everett J. Lake, governor elect of Connecticut had suit made of it so that he could wear it at his in-
 auguration. The big demand for the cloth
 shot the price up to s3.50 per yard, which
 allowed the boys and girls from 80 cents to $1 pound for their wool. But lot of youngsters didn't want $1 a pound or any other sum for their wool They took the cloth instead so that they could have suits and dresses made of cloth | from their own sheep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27


 DeMille's dramas are always placed in a class by themselves by the critics. They are set apart from the common run of pictures as objects worthy of the best the screen has to offer. And now Forbidden Fruit, has been set above the others, by those who know, as the others rank beyond the ordi- nary feature.
 "Forbidden Fruit" Is in no sense a sequel to anything else that MT. De Mile has done. but 1t marks his re- turn to the depicting of the problems of matrimony in straight from the shoul- der drama, which grips with it's in tensity, charms with it's romance and satisfies with it's logic. It is the type of play that made For Better, For Worse" one of the most talked pie lures of recent years. But it is dis tinct and separate from even that fa- nous masterpiece, and critics say 1t sets another mark in the screens ad- vance.
 "Forbidden Fruit" is drama of mar riage, of real people who live and love like those with whom everyone is familiar. There is the big universal ap- peal in the feature, which is staged with the wealth of details lavish beau ty of setting and costuming that marks every DeMille product. And the cast, though different in membership from any of the previous offerings of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
FIigf Class Vaudeville and Photoplays on Weeks Bill

such striking impression at the Strand in the leading role of "Dost Thou Take This Woman;'' Theodore Roberts, who needs no introduction to motion picture enthusiasts; Forrest Stanley, a young actor who is fulfill ing the great promise he showed in his earlier work, Kathlyn Williams, Clar- ence Burton, Theodore Kosloff, shan ron Day. Julia Faye. and others whose names are prominent on the para mount roster.
 "Forbidden Fruit is the story of girl who marries blindly, only to find that she has thrown her life away on worthless man. How fate un- tangles the snarl of her life is told most dramatically. 'Forbidden Fruit will be the attraction all this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
Is Boston Still Boston?

w. iA George, III Harper Md6 dAiAo
 Happening to want the telephone number of a person whose name began with ''O," I came upon the name. "O'Brien." I turned the page, and 1t was still "O'Brien" The next pf1r~ was inexorably still "OBrien." Be- coming haunted. I roughly counted the O'Briens; in Boston there afes 4S0 O'Briens on the telephone. That means that there are at least 5000 OsBrfene net in The telephone: that with/ the families, 10000 Bostonians are alled OBrien. We'll add the O'Bynes, the O'Connors the O'Donnels, etc. and what is the conclusion? Boston is an Irish city. If it is Finis Bostonia it Is the beginning of Limerick It is also. if ] can trust my ears. the beginning of New Russia, New Berlin. New Bo- hemia and New Italy. In other words, Boston has not escaped the fate Uf cit- les more renowned for foreign immi- grafton. It has become as foreign a city as Chicago, and 1t is only because something of itsS old tradition clfngs to t that people believe that Boston is still Boston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27

the mud at the bottom of the vaal river. in South Africa diving bells of great size have been built so that diamond divers may work in comfort for hours without coming to the surface. Ths work is done in series of compressed air locks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
Forbidden Fruit' Newest
 DeNiUe Feature at Strand

 smashing without letup the DeAfe tn, able All these the said
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Cincinnati, prior to 179J. was known as Losanteville.
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famous producer, contains players who are best fitted to portray the roles as- signed them.
 The list includes Agnes Ayres, the beautiful young woman who made