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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-29
Fame of American Short Story Hastens Short
 Picture Evolution

It is common knowledge that American writers excel in the short story form. This has been acknoyyl. edged by leading literary authorities in other countries ever since the French Paude1aire became a frankly admiring propagandist for the Amer. lcan Poe. The leading magazines O this country which enjoy enormou- clrculations devote a large proportio the best attainable examples of sbor hction-which seems to be reliabl. evidence that the great multitude ot readers prefer to take their romances in small doses.
 These facts are remarked, in effect. by MT. Paul Brunei, President of Pathe, in a brief interview for the IlmeS on the recently announced pol icy of that concern to concentrate on short motion picture subjects. Mir. Brunei said:.
 Nobody knows better than the thousands of thoughtful exhibitors of motion pictures that this policy is not at all in the nature of a 'revolu- stage of evolution The entire list of Pathe short subjects have been gaining constantly in public favor. They never are dull, but always inter- esuns, and frequently brilliant con- centrat1ons in dramatic action or in the essence of what produces laughter. The larger the form of the picture, the more difficult the task of making it vital and compelling throughout Besides, the picture-1oving public like that which supports the maga- zine-reading multitude-inclines to- ward brevity with crystalized bril- lance or charm, rather than toward the larger and more pretentous forms until the latter have demonstrated their superiority. Thus America is celebrated the world over for the su- periority of it's short stories, while the American long novel is still some dis tance from the standard fixed in France, England and Russia You see, even this fundamental American literary situation is an argument in favor of the Pathe policy of concen- trating on short subjects for the pie ture screen"
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are about halfway up the hill, with out making O small detour to see them.
 It is indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chaSm, lined by gliStening coalblack rock and mar rowing into creaming, boiling pit of incalcula-ble depth, which brims over and shoots the stream onward over it's jagged lip. The long sweep of green water roaring forever down, and the thick hickering curtain of spray, hissing forever upward, turn a man siddy with their constant whir1 and clamor- We stood near the edge
 peering down at the gleam of the breaking water far below us against the black rocks, and listening to the ing up with the spray out of the abyss.
 The path has been cut halfway
 round the fall to afford a complete view, but it ends abruptly, and the
 traveller has to return as he came.
 We had turned to do so when we saw a Swiss lad come running along it
 with a letter in his hand. It bore the mark of the hotel which we had just left, and was addressed to me by IItt Idil0 iOEd IL dppSdISd llldC WIlIl-
 ill a, very few minutes of our leaving,
 an English lady had arrived who was in the last stage of consumption. she had wintered at Davos P1atz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her. It was thought that she could hardly live a few hours, but it would be a great consolation to her to see an English doctor, and, if I would only return, | etc. The good Steiler assured me in a postscript that he would himself look upon my compliance as a very
 great favor, since the lady absolutely refused to see a Swiss physician, and he could not but feel that he was mourning a great responsibility. The appeal was one which could
 not be ignored. It was impossible to refuse the request of a fellow-country- woman dying in a strange land Yet I | had my -scruples about leaving Holmes. It was finally agreed, how ever, that he should retain the young Swiss messenger with him as guide and companion while I returned to 1 Meiringen. My friend would stay some little time at the fall, he said, and would then walk slowly over the
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sraphed wasn't thought much of. as lack testifes, and he frequently would rewrite the scripts to suit some excellent location" which he had discovered With an average of eight companies working, Hawks and c. Gardner Sullivan, another famous movie author, wrote sixty-five per cent of the pictures, which is still considered an excellent record on the film Rialto.
 That he should have some inter- esting opinions. by this time. on the future of the motion picture, is scarcely surprising.
 The Story's the Thing.
 The pictures will yet develop their Shakespeare" he says .'The ad- vance which has been made of late years in the new medium is more profound, l believe, than most people imagine. The story has risen from a despised. obscure and faulty part of the pictures to the innortant level of the major element, a. has be- come the dominant note in produc- ton. Not so long ago, little blonde ladies and cute little babies and sleepy tabbies were the important clements! No more, however.
 Ihe result of the increase in prestige of the story has been fol plays which has almost exhausted their possibilities for the screen. The market IS or ening, now, for original themes for the films, and the future photop1ay will, more and more, be based on new premises
 Surprised the Sailors.
 Like Rex Beach. Hawks is as big a man. physically, as any of the heroes either has drawn for the screen. He has naturally a great knowledge oI outdoor life, and sail prs who were used in the cast of Inr1 directed by Reg1nald Barker. were amazed at his familiarity with depe- sea hfe-the result of his years before the mast. Jack is one of the men of long motion picture experience who has sieaned a really remarkable ac- quainted with the technique of the screen and he has the reputation for being one of the best-informed pie ture editors in the country But he would blush if you told him so.
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A Jack Of All Trades"

Perhaps you never have heard of Jack Hawks, but if you are an aver age American. with a fair record of attendance at movie theatres the chances are many that you have seen some of his work. MT. Hawks has puncher, sailor, soldier, and other adventurous things. Also, Jack Hawks has been a writer, and in his afhhation with the screen has proven himself one of the most prolific of all photoplay writers, with two hum dred original stories to his credit, of which 104 have been produced as features! For some time, now, he has been head of the editorial depart ment of Goldwyn Pictures, a post which he recently signed himself to maintain for long term of years.
 Sailor and Covpuncher.
 America produces a certain quality any category-the Rex Beach, Jack London, Jack Hawks type-men who lead the same bold, adventurous lives with which they endow their heroes. Hawks, like the rest of that class of writer, has always managed to be on the ground when trouble developed. To begin with, he was a sailor in his early years, serving three of them before the mast. Then he was a cowpuncher. Then came the Span "ef anu lHe Hn1upp1ne fnsurrection, and Jack Hawks man aged to squeeze in on the deal.
 Finally he turned from adventur- ing to become an actor for MT. Be lasco, but the imp of excitement was not at home without Jack somewhere near to him and the result was that when the San Francisco earthouake boomed and famed and destroyed, Jack was sufficiently near to the seat of the trouble to become a member or the dynamite squad which fought the fire.
 Fitting the Story to the Location.
 After this was over, he returned 10 the stage and became a director Tor various producers and stock com Panies, until he finally drifted into the movie industry, then in a much cruder and less powerful state than It IS today. In those good old days. the story that was being photo-
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By A. Conan Doyle

And then what had happened? Who was to tell us what had happened then?
 I stood for a minute Or two to col feet myself, for was dazen with the horror of the thing Then I began to try to practise them in reading thu tragedy It was, alas, only too easy to do. During our conversation we had not gone to the end of the path, place where we had stood. The blackish soil is kept forever soft by the incessant drift of spray, and a bird would leave it's tread upon it. Two lines of footnlarlzs were clearly
 marked along the farther end of the path, both leading away from me. There were none returning. A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud. and the brambles and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and be-
 draggled. I lay upon my face and peered over with the spray spouung up all around me It had darkened since left, and now I could only see here and there the glistening of noiS- ture upon the black walls, and far away down at the end of the shaft the gleam of the broken water. I shouted; but only that same half human cry of the fall was borne back to my ears. But it was destined that I should after all have a, last word of greeting from my friend and comrade. I have said that his Alpine-stock had been
 left leaning against a rock which
 jutted on to the patch. From the
 top of this bowIder the gleam.. of something bright caught my eye, and,
 raising my hand, found that it came from the silver cigarette case which
 he used to carry. As I took it up a small square of paper upon which it had lain fiuttered down on to the ground. Unfolding it, found that it consisted of three pages torn from his note book and addressed to me. was characteristic of the man that the direction was as precise, and the writing as firm and clear, as though it had been written in his study.
 ssMy dear Watson, it said, write these few lines~through the courtesy of MT. Moriarty, who awaits my convenience for the final discus sion of those questions which lie be- tween us He has been giving me sketch of the methods by which he avoided the English police and kept The Final Problem Concluded on Page
 Nine.
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hill to RosenIaui, where I was to re- join him in the evening. As I turned away I saw Holmes, with his back against a rock and his arms folded, gazing down at the rush of the wa ters It was the last that I was ever destined to see of him in this world
 When I was near the bottom of the descent I looked back It was inn possible, from that position, to see the fall, but I could see the curving path which winds over the shoulder of the hill and leads to it. Along this a man was, remember, walking very rapidly.
 I could see his black figure clearly outlined against the green behind him. I noted him and the energy with which he walked, but he passed from my mind again as I hurried on upon my errand-
 It may have been a little over an hour before I reached Meiringen. Old Steiler was standing at the porch of his hotel.
 we'll said I, as I came hurrying up, ''I trust that she is no worse ?''
 A look of surprise passed over his face, and at the first quiver of his eyebrows my heart turned to lead in my breast.
 "You did not write this?' I said. There is no sick Englishwoman in the hotel?"
 "Certainly not!" he cried. 'tBut it has the hotel mark upon it! Ha, it must have been written by that tall Englishman who came in after you had gone. He safd-''
 But waited for none of the land lords explanations. In jingle of fear was already running down the village street, and making for the path which had so lately descended. It had taken me an hour to come down. For all my efforts two more had passed before I found myself at the fall of Reichenbach once more. There was Holmes Alpine-stock still leaning against the rock by which I had left him. But there was no sign of him, and it was in vain that I shouted. My only answer was my own voice reverberating in a rolling echo from the cliffs around me.
 It was the sight of that Alpine stock which turned me cold and sick. He had not gone to RosenIaui, then. He had remained on that three-foot path, with sheer wall on one side and sheer drop on the other, until his enemy had overtaken him. The young Swiss had gone, too. He had probably been in the pay of Moriarty, and had left the two men together.
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Are there any lengths to which

Are there any lengths to which Fashion will not go in her passionate striving for effect with individuality? with good reason. She has sighted Pierre pursuing Pierrot about the bottom of skirt: flower baskets de- pending from pockets; beasties ca vorting among blossoms that grow in exotic confusion upon fragile b1ouses; birds and butterflies f1uttering in a blue parasol sky; beads that turn most modern creations into wraiths of ancient Egypt bodices that make the Misses Manhattan appear to have stepped out of an old daguerreotype; chappeaux that suggest the days when every woman was a lady and every man knight; headdresses that were the splendor of Oriental courts Or the freedom of the plains, and so forth and so on ad minimum.
 These are the things that win and hold the attention of the woman with a penchant for the unique. but her more conservative sister. who quite as fervently desires individuality. eschews them to gain the latter with more simple means. To the tailored costume she adds a dainty collar. With the all black gown she carries brilliant fan or one of exquisite workmanship. The least elaborate of spring froclxs, plain and almost to the point of severity. she protects from the rays of the sun with a parasol colorful and gay with any number of things straight from the out of doors Speaking of parasols it is odd, but when it comes to the handles, one sees but few of the loop effects that lave been so popular and for so long a time. If madame would be up to the minute she chooses a crook and nncOO1fOrt ahla nav he n carry. straight handle, too, is quite the t1ling-While it remains in ones
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she turned out to be a managing female, of course, you didn't like her. Maybe things will be different now that we understand
 Jim laughed, straight ening his shoulders and drawing me to him again with hands that gripped until they hurt.
 "Jove! It doesn't matter whether we understand or not,'' he cried.
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I'd killed your love, I've hurt you over and over don't know why, Anne. I've been a brute. But if you ever wanted to pay me up, these last twenty-four hours ought to satisfy you.''
 q got up and went over to lay my hand on his mouth.
 You shan't say such things about the man I love, .Jimmiet We haven't had an easy time-getting acquaint- ed- But it's been my fau1t-mostly.
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get away. You didn't put me out of your heart while we were pretending to be pals and all the rest of the darn nonsense. No other man took you from me-
 ttSupposing one had,?" I asked with a f1utter of coquetry.
 Jim strained me against him with arms that were like steel, and his voice rang as he replied:
 "You're mine, Anne. You love me. But even if you'd stopped, I'd have made you come back to me. I'd have
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gives promise of proving 9 favorite
 Then there-is the all cordovan han dle to match the shoes, popularly known as the Ritz; and another, called stLittle Billy" a wooden stick with a bakelite top and a. narrow leather strap; and still another that has won the appeIlation Of "Jazz,'' in black and white bakelitte, in pin stripes and b1otched effects.
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gone after you and taken you from the best man in the world. You're nnine-twice as much mine as you ever were before- Mine!"
 Trembling in Jin's arms, af1ame with happiness, I tried to push away the memories that crowded up to jeer:
 Ut won't last. Nothing does" had Jim again. That was enough. Even if it were only for the moment, this moment was ours.
 Gro Be Continued.)
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poSSeSSiOn.

possession Among the smartest of sunshades and t'unrbrels" are the amber handled affairs, shaped in any way at all, with flat tops or round tops, but straight as a string before the top is reached. A fiat crooked handle of amber, tippeed with pig skin, is one of the exceptions to the rule. Shell gray is another color of this semi-transparent material that
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-29

Nor must the Ma1acca be ignored; it develops some- of the smartest models and is topped with carved ivory or ball tops with inlay. The Mecca handle is fiat and starlight and of wood carved in Oriental designs. the carvings filled in with colors of the Orient. Natural ash comes in for it's share of liking as we'll.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-29
FAIR
 AND BAZAAR
 AT ST. JOHNS

The annual Easter fair and bazaar of the Sunday school of St. Johns Episcopal church will be held in the parish hall, 76S Fairfield avenue Tuesday afternoon and evening. The fair will be opened with a play, 'EThe Vision of St Agnes Eve,'' which will be presented in the Burroughs Me- moria1 chapel, by the young people of tion of Deaconess Barlow and Miss Adelaide ST Ger The play will be given at 80 and again at 7:3o. No admission twill be charged but a free will offe= Ag will be received.
 The Various tables and those in charge of them, are as follows:
 Grab bag, Miss Phyllis Tominson; fruit table, Mrs. John Pettigrew. Mrs. Harry Abbott; candy table, Mrs. T. H. Albert, Mrs. w. J. Hammett, Miss Clara Northrup, Miss Pauline Hall; utility table, Miss Kathryn Hanson, Miss Elsie Grass, Miss Dorothy Cad man, Mrs. J. Lester Cargill; popcorn check room, Roy S. Case, sr.; book table, Miss Helen Schwerdtle, Miss Hansey Mathisen; games, A. R. French, Karl Hawk; ice cream, Roy S. Case, Sr.: flower table, Miss Annie tune booth, Mrs Carpenter; lingerie, Miss Alice Godfrey, Miss Lucille God frey.
 Supper will be served in the Parish House by the members of St. Hilda's Guild, following the custom establish ed last year, from 5 until o'clock.
 The Easter week festivities will be brought to a close with a dance and social which will be given in the Ma sonic hall, on Broad street. This Is in charge of w. H. M. Riker and R. P Walker A large number of tickets have been disposed of, Mur- rays orchestra has been engaged and a good time is assured. The dance will continue from S:3O to 12 o'clock.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-29
With Many Little Things Does One Achieve

Some costumes are created chic some acquire chic and still others have chic thrust upon them and whatever the time, wherever the place, who the girl, due credit must be given where credit is due to dainty accessories
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MISS CATHERINE SHELTON Of $50 Laurel avenue is spending the Easter vacation in this city as the guest of her parents. Miss Shelton
 is attending the Connecticut State college for women at New London.
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A HEALTH TALK,

Whats the use of complaining? When you have to meet that kind of \ man-quit. There's health and pleasure in meeting the regular kind of a fellow. That's why you will want to paitronize the Atlas Turkish Baths. There all regular fellows. F. D. Stafford, formerly of St. Nicholas Baths, at the desk. Alex Maisel, from the Everhard's Turkish Baths of New York, expert in charge of the bathing facilities Atlas Baths brides itself on the caliber of its personnel.
 Senator Smooth, with the aid of Treasury experts, is preparing a bill for reclassifcation of government sal
 aries.
 After laying-up~ for four months. the Cunard liner Mauretania sailed from Southampton for the United States with 700 passengers aboard.
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THE FINAL PROBLEM Part 3 z$s$$=z

Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Bros- Published by special arrangement with the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
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PAGE FIVE
The Washington times., 1921-02-20
CLAIRVOYANTS
licensed By the District of Columbia

NINE. FREDA. Csc: love and business:
bring ad. 709 fth st, n. w.
The Washington times., 1921-02-20
PA. COAL OPERATOR
HELD FOR Staying
Albert 7. White Accused Of
StrangIing Wife and Bury
ing Body in Hay.

NEW CASTLE. Pa. Feb. 20.-Albert
T. White, the coal operator OF this
city, who was accused last night by q
coroner's jury OF strangling his wife
to death and hiding her body under
meath a pile OF hay, is under close
guard here today 10 prevent suicide.
Evidence pointing TO the fact that
White has contemplated suicide was
found in letters introduced at the
coroner's inquest
These letters were written TO Mrs.
Mamie Longstreet. a diyorcee with
whom he was living when arrested.
In one OF these he asked her TO have
a local undertaken prepare him for
burial if he came to an untimely end.
Mrs. Longstreet is under the eyes OF
the police, and II she attempts to
leave this vicinity the authorities de-
clare that they will arrest her on
charges OF being an accessory after
the fact.
The police are working on tho
theory that White killed his wife so
that he could be free to marry Mrs.
Longstreet. who became his wife tho
day before Mrs. White disappeared.
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lining up for a bitter night aud sensa-
lions wtii crowd the trial
The town Is nllins up with detec-
tives said 10 be In the employ OF the
State. Sensational reports are cur
rent that warrants will be asked for
the arrest of persons In Ardmore. Ok
lAhoma City Lawton. and Jtanser.
Tex, whore. IL 10 claimed. enemies q
the accused woman have been suborned
TO testify against her.
Attorneys for the girl refuse to
make comment. but from reliable
sources IL WAS learned that investiga-
ton Is under way OF charges that q
conspiracy exists to convict the ac-
cused woman and that private in
terests are supplying money to aid
the prosecution. Open talk Il heard
that political scandal will result
from disclosures soon 20 be made.
The name OF NJ. G. Collins. OF New
York, fgures prominently in the case
today. According 90 information re-
ceived by the attorney OF the accused
woman. he occupied a room In the
hotel where Hanon was shot on the
day OF the tragedy.
His room is said TO have been just
above the suite in which Hamon and
the accused woman lived. and. accord
ing to the informants of the defense.
he heard enough OF the quarrel which
preceded the shooting to make him a
valuable witness.
The case against the girl as II
touches the main lines OF prosecution
Will be built chiefly on circumstap-
tisl evidence. the State seeking to
disprove her story that she shot
Hamon accidentally when he was in
a drunken fury and made a move to
hit her with a chair.
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FOR EXCHANGE

I30 ACRES River road and In direct
line OF Mass. ave. extended and adjoin-
ing Bradley Hills; level, and contains beau
tifui trees and fine timber and cord wood
clear of debt. for good equity In apartment
or business building. See BRASWELL,
1911 III" N, w. Main 9se,
100 feet front on Conn. ave. by 224 feet
deep: level lot. on grade with nne old
trees: ideal for home-build this spring.
DRASWELL. Real Estate. 1888 III n. w.
Main 9S9.
EQUITY Of 1900 In small rented house
and $3.50 In non -assessable stock for
small farm or suburban. lilo + st. N. w.
Room IS.
The Washington times., 1921-02-20
Five Strikes to Be Adjusted.

Five strikes and thirty-six con-
troversies which have not reached the
strike stage, are before the Depart
ment OF Labor for adjustment, II was
announced yesterday. One new case was
brought to the departments attention
during the week. as compared with
three and three for the two previous
weeks