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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22
Mrs. Wesche Is This Weeks Best Poet

The best Don't Care'' Pest verse was written by Mrs. F. Wesche, of 53 Washing gton Terrace. It's a good one, too. See if you don't think so:
 YOU KNOW. When to a movie show I go like to sec it all, And nothing gets my goat so much As when some guy so tall Stands up in front and fusses with his
 Iubbers, coat and hat; I'd like to sec some other e-uy s-et mn
 and knock him flat, Hes seen enough, he doesn't care
 what other people miss, You know the place I'd like to send
 a horrid pest like this!
 Mrs Wesche's tickets will go to her in tonight's mail
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

Robert Brunton has commenced the production of Rudyard Kipllng's Without Benefit of Clergy" Vir- ginia Faire, late of Universal, has been engaged for the leading role, and James Young is directing.
 The stork has visited the home of H. B. Warner, picture star, once again. This time the baby is a boy and has been named for his father. thereby 'H. B." They stand for Henry Bryant.
 Monte. Blue will be the next Para mount player to graduate to stardom, according to well founded rumors.
 s.Judge Ben Lindsey writes me that in 21 years on the juvenile bench he cannot recall half a dozen cases traced to motion pictures comments William D. Taylor, a movie magnate.
 pr. Frank Crane has been engaged by George B. Van Cleve, general man ager of William Randolph Heafst's film interests, to write the titles for '"The Woman God Changed now ap- bearing in Hearst's magazine.
 Mary Roberts Rinehart has com called "The Glorious Fool" which will soon be ready for screening.
 Rose Coglan, who plays the role of Madame Rabouin in David Belasco's s production of 'Deburau," showing at the Be1aseo theater, New York, has just celeb rated her seventieth birth day, having spent more than half a century on the stage, during which she has appeared with many of the foremost American and English stars and also at the head of her own company.
 A native of Peterboro, England,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

I'm -the lady that sits in the movies ,and gossips with my neighbor.
 can't help it, it's the only place have ! TO gossip, and find out what's goin' ioni My husband won't let me gossip iaround the house-he says it's bad flor the children to hear-so the only chance get is over the back fence For at the movies.
 s-No, didn't hear that Mrs Goog- IIy's husband was goin' to leave her: You don't say: Now, whaddye know tEibout thati Do tell We'll, she's a shdfalutin piece, anyway, I never did like her since one day when I asked liner how she liked my new hat, she iup and said she didn't! Whaddye 5know about thati
 !! ssOh, there's MT. Goofus with a }gfrl-sfttin' right down there-don't fyou see 'em. I'm going to stop and tell Mrs Goofus on my way home! tWhats that2 That's Mrs. Goofus'
 sister that visiting them from out tWest, and Mrs. Goofus is sitting right in front of 'em? Oh. my, sure fenoughi I didn't THINK MT. Goofus was that kind of a man anyway, did ;you?'
 can't see that there's any harm .fn talking at the movies. If you don't t1ike it you'll have to come some other <. time or sit somewhere e1seI I guess I can talk if I want to. Women have ? the same rights as men nowadays land don't you forget that for a min
 ute!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22
ES7he Last Of 7he Mohicaras ''

s'The Last of the Mohicans,'' now play ing at Polls, is a picture drama of a character and quality very seldom seen upon the Amer jean screen. It tells pretty love story; but it's theme is the struggle of races for the pos session of vast continent.
 It shows the best fighting that has ever been pictured The combat is not between rugged men for the love of their ladies, but for the glory of the land and the safety of peoples.
 ssThe Last of the Mohicans'' is tragedy, drawn in sombre hues, but iteis a true picture of that daily and awful fear of s'savage beasts and yet more savage men, in which the pioneers of New York and New England lived and breathed
 s.The Last of the Mohicans'' is drama tized from the historic story of Cooper which is familiar to every New England schoolboy. From this story has been selected the capture of Fort William Henry, and the massacre by the Iroouois Indians of the helpless and flee ing garrison.
 In this massacre which has left a blenish upon the name of the great French General Montcalm, more than hundred women were put to death under most terrifying conditions and hundreds of men.
 The opportunity being afforded, that person can scarcely call himself educated, or understanding in the history of his coun- trv.'' who does not see this tremendous awe inspiring and wonderfully instructive epic, s.The Last of the Mohicans.
 At Polls this afternoon, this evening, tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

Treasury officials announce they have been unable to find any record of the United States owing France any money on account of loans ad- vanced during Revolutionary War. Paris Eclair says we owe France 90,- 000,O0O,0O0 francs.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

but it is extremely hard to keep up to the mark. There are fewer scenario writers in the field now than there were a year ago. I think this is the only. department that has not suffer-' ed from the general slump in pie tures-'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

A cablegram from Consul Leslie A Davis, dated March IA, says that nav igation at Helsingfors will be resum ed in a few days.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

William Gillette. who recently frac- tured his right shoulder blade as the result of a fall on the wharf at Had ed, has recovered sufficiently to be able to be removed to his home from the hospital
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

An international peace society to promote friendship among the various nations, was founded in Tokio by 300 prominent Japanese.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

TOMORROW- Read about the reform of a Bad Man''-how he did it, and why. Watch for it!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22
A couple of samples:

There was a fat lady who went to
 show
 She talked all the time the pictures
 did go 'Tfll a pleasant old gentleman sitting near cried: : eff you must talk about the neigh [, bors, why not go outsider Mrs. Jones was the wife of a drum uer sAt the movies sat near Mrs. Hummer. Whey gDSSiped and talked Till the audience baked And yelled: "Why weren't they
 made dumber?' ?''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

Mary Roberts Rinehart has com p1eted an original story for Goldwyn called '"The Glorious F'ool,'' which will soon be ready for screening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Courts Told of Five Stages
OF Courtship and Drunkenness

LONDON, July 8.-The five thing,
necessary to courtship recently were
described in the Law Courts. Accord
ing to counsel engaged in a breach O
promise case, they are:
Love letters.
A ring.
lntroductions between families.
Presents and Outings"
Look back upon your own engage
ments," he urged the jury (Which in.
cluded two women. Can you saw that
during the period any one of the five
was absent?"
The stages of intoxication were
enumerated by doctor at the South
western police court. He was giving
evidence in case in which a taxicah
driver was charged with being drunk
and said the man was in "the third
stage The five stages, as defined by
him, are:
General contentment of wellbeing
and happiness.
Flushing of the cheeks, bright eve
and hilarity.
Inability to exercise the muscles as
the brain directs.
Drunk and incapable.
Coma
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Carus0 Takes the Sun Cure In Italy

were people waiting for him. not ONLY
the caretakers and managers, but the
peasants who work on the land belong
ing TO him. Why Caruso has four
villas was told me by friend of his.
who has known him since he came to
Florence to pass the summer in the
lovely country outside he town He
was continually bothered by unwel-
come visitors, and his summer holidays
were spoiled by their presence when
he least expected them. When he had
only one house they found him with
out any great trouble, so he hit on the
plan of buying four, so that he could
motor to one or the other and thus no
one would know where he was staying.
TINS plan worked very we'll
The cure which Caruso will undergo
for two months will, according to his
doctors, be complete, as even sicker
patients than Caruso have been e
stored to health by it. Added to the
tenor's cheerfulness is that of his wife.
most devoted helpmeet and nurse. The
authorities at Sorrento have arranged
that two special guards shall stand by
day outside the villa to watch for
curious tourists or admirers who might
interfere with Caruso's much needed
rest
Sorrento police protected F. Marion
Crawford from inquisitive visitors, and
20
liant guard will be kept over his villa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

England (Cufaey Station, Hartford
shire), is now marked with a granite
monument to the late Captain William
Leefe Robinson, V. c., who was re-
sponsible for the destruction of the
raider The monument was unveiled
yesterday afternoon
The London Gazette, in announcing
the award of the Victoria Cross to
Captain Robinson, stated that she at
tackled an enemy airship under cir
cumstances of great difficulty and dan
ger and sent it crashing to the ground
flaming wreck He had been in
the air for more than two hours and
had previously attacked another air
ship during his fight
Shortly after this exploit Captain
Robinson was captured in flight over
the German lines in France and held
a prisoner in Germany until the end
of the war. He died few days after
being repatriated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Shopkeeper Catches Swindler
Who Robbed Rich American

NICE, July "a clever French swim
der here managed to extract $4,000
from wealthy American, according to
the local police, and get away with
it," but when he tried to borrow $3.50
from French shopkeeper he met his
Nemesis.
The man is Louis Laforge, self
styled King Louis | of Trans eau
casia- Vitanvalie" A woman with him,
Clementine Farapa. who maseueraded
as princess Fergana, Duchess of Mai
kopp," was taken into custody at the
same time.
The police say that the fake monarch
is we'll known to them, and that he was
arrested in 1918 and imprisoned for
two years on charge similar to the
one now brought against him. The
princess" they say, attracted the at
tention of an American whose name is
not given, and promised to marry him
The king" just by way of showing
that he was a good fellow, forthwith
made the young woman, whom he
claimed as his sister, princess of Fer
CANA" and promised the American the
post of charge d'affaires at the Court
of st. James's from Trans Caucasia-
Vitanvalie.' Whereupon, the police al
lege, the American parted with 10000
good, hard dollars as token of graft
tude.
Whether or not the king collected
in full is unknown, but, at any rate, he
soon became hard up and attempted to
negotiate a loan from a local mer-
chant. The shopkeeper, who didn't take
much stock in royalty, notified the po-
lice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Tourists Pick Up
Strange Legends

LoNDON, July s. The veil of pro
iesslohal secrecy for doctors was
rudely rent by Justice Horridee in the
alVorce court here. During the hear
ing of husbands petition fo, d;vorce
the petitioners counsel called as a
witness DR.. John Elliott, of Chester.
The doctor who was desired 70
testify concerning a treatment for
venereal disease, said, as he entered
the witness box, that he claimed the
privilege" of doctor and patient and
asked to be relieved of the obligation
to give evidence. The Judge replied
that there was no privilege for doc
tor IN court of law.
Il and other medical men ubo
formed the particular clinic in oues-
tlon,' protested the doctor, undertook
the duties on the distinct understand
ing that professional secrecy as to what
happened there would be observed and
upheld by the Ministry of Health"
Il am sorry" responded the Judge.
but the ministry have no power re-
specting the jurisdiction of these
courts
Still protesting that he was being
forced to violate the ethics of his nro-
fession the doctor at last consented TO
testify.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Blinded French Soldier
Becomes a Sculptor

At the Salon of French Artists. where
an exhibition is now on in Paris, there
IS small statue of soldier leaning
on his gun. Those who look at it are
astonished to hear that it is the work
Of an ex-poilu who became modeler
after shell explosion took away his
sight. He is Bernard Fodot, son OF
peasant farmer of La Chapelle Viells
Foret and before the war had never
touched clay except with hoe. Suca
are the wonders OF nature, however
that Fodot now visualizes with his
finger tips.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
King Alphonso Loses
100000 Franc Suit

King Alphonso has lost his case in
the claim for a fortune of 100000
francs willed to him in 1911 by Albert
Sapene. who died in an insane asylum
near Toulouse. Nine. Sacaze, sister of
the millionaire, contested the right OF
the King of Spain to accept bequest
made by man of unsound mind After
a tight in the courts for ten years
during which King Alphonso has been
represented by Marquis de Boya, Comp
troller of the Royal Household, the
Toulouse Court of Appeals reversed all
previous decisions and decreed that the
fortune should go to relatives of Sa-
pene. Counted in dollars, the fortune
has dwlndied by virtue of the litica-
ton from 100000 to $3.50 900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

70 the captain had reached gen.ss,
Boghe' on the SENEGAL River, wbsrs :.
was able to acquire native cams. -,
make the journey down the ssrs,u
Podor. From Podor the rer,,lsr -
steamers carried him to st. Lon. -
Senegalese capital. which he rs..s.,
on April 8, and two days later =.
at Dakar.
The pcrilous trip from Alsier. ..
Dakar was made by Captain Au.;.s..
- 1919 days. distance as travelled :,
little more than $500 kilome,ar, =
about 1900 miles. This is the s...-
time that a white man has ev.r 80
tempted to cross the Great Dsser. -.
to make the trans-desert trip f,ons.
Algeria 10 Senegal. The exnedi+;.s
has not only emphasized the yastn..,
Of African desert reaches, but b.,
given the French government vaIs.s,s
typographical data never before tnorss /,
One immediate result of the cx,ss;s.
ton may be to shorten the airnl.n:
route between France, Spain. Norhers
Africa and Senegal, whose main nav.
Dakar, is already the terminus Of m.
French airline company. Airn,ssas
or this route are row forced 70 foIlov
more circutous coast itinerayx
From France they skirt the esstsfs
coast of Spain, thcn Jump across tss
Morocco and again skirt the Afr;e.y
coast south to Senegal 4 straight 90.
across tho Great Desert with stops at.
watering places now explored BY Can.
tain Augieras may result shorteuipv
air travel between France and her in.
portant West Africa colony from ths
thlee days row required to less than
two. From Dakar steamers run to South
America on the shortest trans Atlantic
route between the two continents. IRE
voyage from Dakar 10 Pernambuca !,
possible in less than foun DAYS.
II Captain Augierass explorations
VII have made it eventually possible
fol air voyages between France and
Senegal in two days the light baggage
traveller may be able to reach South
America from France in minimum II
SIX days, the fastest route yet specu,,
lated upon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Oppenheim Fined for
Alleged Poker Playing

LONDON, July Sc. Phillips Or
penheim, author, has been getting into
trouble. He is director of the Cleve-
land Club. Charges Street, London. and
as such was fined f1O at the Marlbor-
ough Street police court for alleged
,, illegal playing of poker, although he
does not play the game himself. The
Public Prosecutor said that the Com
missioner of Police was out to stop
poker playing in the clubs Mr.. Oppen-
helm was astonished at the charge.
esterday,' he said was the first
time in my life | had ever entered q
police court and I only wish it were
possible to lodge an appeal against the
fine that was imposed under such re-
, markable circumstances.
Il don't happen to play poker my
self, but | certainly contend that it is
not game of chance 1t was
stated that counters representing e177
($695) were on the table, but it should
be remembered that there were nine
persons playing, which gives an aver
age of less than $40 each. The plavers
were not poor. Because thew
played poker, game of skill that is so
well known in club land, they commit
ted an offense against the law. At the
! low stakes that are permitted you must
nave long run of very bad luck be-
fore you csn lose $50 or $40. whereas
If you care to play bridge on the other
side of the curtain at $40 a hundred
there is nothing in law to prevent YOU
| losing $500 on a rubber
The whole thing is illogical and
thoroughly in keeping with the finicky
ideas so prevalent nowadays that in
terfere with the liberty of the subject.
Personally | am not great PLAYER.
When come Up to London | may have
a couple of rubbers at bridge on two
evenings a week. but | regard cards as
perfectly legitimate recreation for
business men after their DAYS work.
The police say they are determined
| to stamp out poker, as if such a plan
on their part were something to be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
the Mauritanian contingent at Ell Mzer-
reb as planned.

the Mauritanian contingent at Ell Mzer-
reb, as planned.
The distance from Boubout to El
Mzerreb was about $50 miles. The trail
led over another smaller desert known
as FL Eglab, and the course taken was
southeast, n order to pass the oasis
Of Chehachen, known to the natives
but never before visited by white
man. The Chenachen we'll, surrounded
by a few struggling palms, was reached
without incident, and here the expe-
dition refilled its skin water sacks and
started southwest into the comparative
unknown. On December II the mission
was lost in the sea Of sand, which lent
visions to every member of bleaching
bones of cames and men after horrible
deaths from thirst A study of stars
told the party that there was hope of
reaching all oasis reported to thn
northwest, and it was patrol bearing
off in this direction that encountered
d detachment of Moors who actually
lOIucu tHc duNdnCc guard OF lne
Mauritanian mission Bearings were
again found, and the two missions met
at FL Mzerreb, where the Mauritanans
under Major Lausanne had been wait
ing two days.
The two leaders. after conference,
decided to start from Ell Mzerreb to
the northwest where an important
we'll, named Abd-el-Mslek, had been
reported as the central meeting place
OF roaming bands of desert bandits.
This we'll had never before been visited
by white men nor military forces, and
it was necessary to break the south
ward course of the expedition to ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
Military Forces Brave Death
To Explore the Great Sahara
White Men Travel From Algiers to Dakar in lse
Days at Head of Colonial Troops;
Feat Unparalleled

by the hardy desert nomads The stu
the French officer that he might find
wells to the west. The party headed
across the Maktier dunes to the west
and found wells, but still no water
wandering, and now without drop Of
water, the mission reached well which
had been reported to them on a small
oasis called Aouchiche, and there found
parched throats and swollen lips Cap
tain Augeras and his followers liter
ally fell into the Shiny pools and drank
their fill. The old wheeze, "How many
days can camel go without water ?"
was almost answered, according to
members of the expedition
Possibly two or three more days
would have finished the animals, which
rad travelled steadily for seventeen
Gays, covering nearly four hundred
miles without drop Of water The
human members of the expedition like
wise narrowly escaped with their lives
IT, by some miscal culation the we'll at
Aouchiche had been missed or had been
found dry upon the missions arrival, it
is regarded as doubtful if either men
or animals could have covered a much
greater distance in search OF prob en-
atica water holes 1t is highly prob
able that the filthy water Of Aouch iche
was the provdcntal find that allowed
the entire party TO survive.
First Time White Man
Crossed Great Desert
BY January l9 the expedition mad
reached Altar the small desert town in
Mauritania where the French govern
ment maintains wireless station.
After a few days rest here the indomi-
table Captain Augieras started of with
small detachment of Senegalese rife
men on a further expedition eastward
into the little known region between
the Mauritanian settlements OF Chin
gueti and Tedjikja. From the sandy
plateau of Tagant he descended in TO tho
plain of Brakna, where the Moors breed
zehus, the oxlihe African beast Of bur
den, and sheep and goats. On March
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

before, to any great extent,
have dissenting voices interfered with
the renowned purchasing committee of
the Louvre. This committee is now an
Cling for Jan Vermeer's celebrated
canvas "Ruelle" (the little street, =,
painted by the Dutch master in the
seventeenth century
"Ruele' is owned by the Mauritshuis.
the gallery at The Hague, and can be
purchased for France, it is said, for
two million francs But even French
connoisseurs, who would swell with ma
tional pride to see Vermeer's gem
in the Louvre, are to-day forced to
consider the argument that two million
francs spent n assuaging misery in the
devastated regions is worth far more
to France at present than another ia
nous canvas hanging in the French
museum of art.
The Louvre is part of the French
government, and money spent for it
comes from the Golfers Of the govern.
ment
Frantz Jourdain, president of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17

proud of; but where is the harm in
poker? The campaign results only in
an irritation of the community and it
ls absurd to suppose that the game
can be stopped by methods of com
pulsion. Just as in America the at
tempt to make whole nation tenn
perate by law has led to evasion, so
will poker players defeat any attempt
to prohibit the game. People have
simply decided to play in their own
homes.
sit is a grandm otherly and foolish
policy altogether"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-17
France Wants Vermeer's 'Ruelle.'
But Balks at 100000 Francs
Many Art Connoisseurs Think Money Can Be Spent
Better i'm War Reconstruction Than in
Purchase of Famous Canvas

Paris autumn Salon and a world
known connoisseur, is among those VITA
have been torn between "Ruelle" AMI
binding up wounds still bleeding j.
France. His decision is now made.
Two million francs spent in the
devastated regions will bring far
greater JOY than the possession Of
'Ruelle,' says NJ. Jourdain. at is there
in its home at The Hague and vii be
on view for the whole world, whether
France buys it or not.