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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09
CHARLIE CHAPLIN,S "PAY DAY" AND DRAMA AT TRIANON

Generally speaking there Is nothing unusual in any way about pay day, certainly 1t Is far from funny,-more of a serious matter, we would say. But every pay day is not Charlie Chaplin's Pay Day" in which he is starring at the Trianon. Truly in this, Pay Day" as 1t happens to be Charlie who goes to be paid, there Is all kinds of fun and unusualness. and Charlie pulls down a flock of laughs with his characteristic antics and mannerisms that never fail to delight, and in this fine new comedy story can be enjoyed in a new and more pleasing light than ever.
 While Chaplin Is more than usually reserved in Pay Day." he seems to appeal to the comic sense of his audi ence more than usual. It was always his droll. long faced way that got him across for screams. and his rather serious performance in, "Pay Day" makes him the more amusing.
 The Trianon is offering a double bill. With the Chaplin two-reel conn edy feature is also shown a drama of Central America, "Serenade," star ring Miriam Cooper This Is story of hot impetuous Spanish love, filled with the thrills of combat, the inter- est of intrigue and the entertainment o fall combined. Miriam Cooper is a real beauty as the girl, and the actor In her support. does some stunts m a chase that are about as good as Fairbanks in his stunt scenes in "The Mark of Zoro."
 "rHE SLEEK" AT ALCAZAR
 FINE ORIENTAL DRAMA
 t.rha Gbaikta VNifa" now the Al. cazar, should rank among all photo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09
Poindexter's s Tonic

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 Very respectfully,
 MRS. M. G. LOWERY. 1901 Fairfax Ave, Bessemer, Ala.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09
ADJUSTMENTS
THREE LIVE WIRES
 LYRIC HEADLINER
Fly EstelIe Bcathen Mar1Ovve

There Is lots of pep in the entire Lyric bill this half, with the head liner, the Ja Da Trio, setting a good example with more snap and go than vaudeyillians usually see in ane act. The Ja Da boys are billed, "The Three Live Wire Boys.v and live up to their billing In every particular. For in the presentation of several songs in glee club style. and some eccentric dancing. the trio certainly put their audience up against some live stuff.
 Dolly of the act. "on the Boule- yard" is in a class by herself when 1t comes to filtration comedy. No one else was seen on the boulevard last night except her partner com edian, Babcock. but 1t Is certain they would have had little chance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09
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 Liquid-Easy to Use

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09

beside regular boulevard vamp like Dolly. Babcock is the most comical fellow imaginable, and the way he falls literally and figuratively, for Dolly's flirting simply brought the house down last night
 About the most popular act after these is musical novelty. in which Moore and Davis offer some popular selections on novel instruments. The eight-stringed banjo is wonder in the instrumental line. The audience liked the type of songs these two have selected and applauded gener- ously. However. there was no en- core, and altogether the act was too short.
 A brilliantly costumed offering is "12 O'Clock At the Masque Ball." which is n very thrilling dance act solid. With the offering of the Ploetz brothers and sister billed "The Klown Review" one of the best shows we have had during the sea- son Is complete.
 Aesops Fables is as witty and ap- plicable as usual and Pathe News is more than usually interesting, pic- turing some fine flood scenes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09

plays as the best of the Oriental type. Tie scenes are actually taken in Arabia, and more than that, in all of tho small customs, actions, manner and general atmosphere noth- ing is spared to make the real Orien- tal appeal. Even the story is of a strong Oriental type. and bears with it the conviction of reality. The re- suit is almost like taking an adven- turous trip through Arabia oneself, and peeping into the harem of the Sheik, rather than merely seeing 1t run across the motion picture screen. The production as whole gives the warm and living effect of the hot breezes that blow over the plain across which dashes the Sheik of the story and his wife.
 When an idea underlying a narra- tive of the screen is not only inter osting but true and presented unspar- lngly as it Is in "The Sheik," 1t as- sures the picture of a strong dramatic quality. In The Sheik' 1t Is the idea of the heart breaking lot of an English woman who marries a Sheik. who, however, far above his kind is
 nevertheless by birth and training one of them. The Sheik's wife, who Is the Englishwoman, knows him as he is in Oxford where he Is edu- cated, and goes back to his people with him as his wife. and with the promise to remain his only wife. Once on his native plains. though, the Sheik feels the call of the sacred laws and customs" of his own people, and the fair haired wife faces a problem such as few women of the white races arc called upon to endure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09
BALANCED VARIETY
 ACTS AT THE BIJOU

With pretty girls, negro jazzers
 music and dancing all joined in one
 act, the Carl Nixon Revue features
 the bill al Loew's Bijou for the first half of the week. The film offering
 entitled why Men Forget" tells in
 highly dramatic form the story of the man who works in factory
 town. It is based on the famous Brit
 ish novel Demos" by George Gis- l sing.
 Members of the Carl Nixon Reveue
 succeed in making their act "a synco- pated melodious minstrel musical cocktail" The girls dance as ele- santly IS they are costumed and the negro characters demonstrate a few difficult jazz hop steps.
 William Grew and Gwendolyn Pates Tn a comedy of married life kept tho audience in an uproar all during their act. He is half drunk and she is high tempered and the domestic exchanges that take place are full of fun. When the husband is reminded of his prom jse not to drink any more he replied.
 T didn't drink any more. l drank the same as usual"
 The absolute inability of the Eng
 .ishmen to understand joke is the central theme of the act by Jennings and Rowland entitled At the Golf
 Club" The Englishman with his evening dress and monocle draws a number Of laughs from his hearers. The Whirl of Grace" is the opening act in which Roy Mack and Peggy Brantley are seen whirling. spinning
 and dancing on roller skates. No position Is too difficult or dangerous tor them in their lightning like per-
 formanccs all over the stage. v,to "a Ct orA
 Reeder and Armstrong attempt to demonstrate how much jazz they can produce. The selection What a Cow was Mary" and reproduction of the Westminster chimes were particular ly cheered by the audience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09
W. M. s. INsTALLs OFFICERS

May Is the New Year" of .he Woman's Missionary society of the Southside Baptist church.
 At the first meeting in April tho officers for the coming year are
 elected and are given four weeks in which to make their plans for talk ing up the work of the society on May l, without days delay. The president appoints her chairmen of circles and of the committees, and assigns the members to the various circles so that each knows just where her post is, thus giving her the op- portunity to show at the end of the year 12 good months of service. At the election in April the fol- lowing officers were chosen to serve for a year from May 1: Mrs. Darby H. Brown, president; Mrs. H. c. Ab-
 bolt, first vice president in charge of home missions; Mrs. J. D. Hanby,
 second vice president in charge of foreign missions; Mrs. James D. Will cox, third vice president in charge of state missions; Mrs. J. A. Coker,
 fourth vice president in charge If aged ministers; Mrs. T. G. Bush, fifth
 vice president in charge of personal service Mrs. c, H. Nabb, treasurer
 Mrs. W. I. Hunter, recording secre-
 tary; Mrs. Fisher Tynes, correspond
 ing secretary.
 This society has made 1t custom
 to have a formal installation of its
 officers. commencing with a special w. M S. sermon by the pastor and ending with a very solemn service at the regular meeting on Monday.
 At the service on Sunday morning last, the women attended in an as- semblage of more than 300, including the Young Women's auxiliary, march ing in from either side of the pulpit, each bearing on her breast the num- Der of her circle in white on a circle of lavender, and singing as she walked the W. M. U. hymn. The Son of God Goes Forth to War" Mrs. H. c. Abbott, the retiring president, led on the one hand and Mrs. Brown. the incoming president on the other. After a beautiful anthem by the choir. the pastor. Dr. Diliard. preached a most inspiring sermon on Missions, saying that the missionary spirit Is the very heart of the gospel. The officers then stood and a prayer for their guidance was offered, led by the pastor.
 On Monday afternoon this install iation was completed in a most inn pressive service. led by Mrs. W. P. McAdory. Mir. Edward Powell Lee opened the program with beautiful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09
HOME COMING HELD
 BY ROCKFORD CHURCH

Rockford. May 8.-(speciaL)- )-Yes- terday was a red letter day" for Rockford. It was the Home Coming occasion which was instituted at the Methodist church the first Sunday in May last year. About twice as many people attended this year. An un- usually large number of the old Sacred Harmony from over this coun- ty and other counties assembled at the court house at o'clock and en- gagged in singing until Il o'clock while the various Sunday schools met in their churches. At II o'clock they all went to the court house to hear most excellent sermon de- livered by Rev. George Driskill of Lineville. He was pastor of the Meth odist church here many years ago. After the sermon all retired to the court house yard, where a beautiful feast was waiting, just such a spread IS Coosa county knows how to serve At 1;30 o'clock all assembled in the court house and the singing con- tinued until o'clock. It was a day long to be remembered by this com munity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09
SOCIETY
JUNIOR HADASSAH
 OF BIRMINGHAM ORGANIZED

Meeting with a great deal of suc- cess is the organizing of new chapter of the national organization of the Hadassah in Birmingham, known as the Junior Hadassah. At d meeting held Sunday afternoon at the Hebrew institute. officers were elected, committees appointed and the bylaws of the Junior Hadassah of Birmingham adopted. The aim and purpose of this organization is one of charity, being to support one or more orphan children in the Near East and over devastated Europe .or one year. Funds for this purpose will be derived from public functions and from the dues taxed against each member.
 We hope to make this chapter of the Hadassah one of the foremost in America, one that Birmingham will be proud of. The first regular meet ing of the Junior Hadassah of Bir- mingham will take place on May 21 at 3 o'clock, at the Hebrew institute. and all other regular meetings will be held every fourth Sunday there after. at the same meeting place. All members are urged to be present: those who desire to become members will be gladly received and visitors, as usual, are welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-09

1.-THE SLEEK" AT ALCAZAR
 FINE ORIENTAL DRAMA
 "The Sheik's Wife," now at the AL cazar, should rank among all photo-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
The Presidents Serenity.

| Edward G.. Lowrey writing for the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger states that President
Harding has come to the end OF long, try
ing summer with poise undisturbed. Where
as the greater part OF official Washington is
in pcevish and irritable state OF mind the
president is calm, unruf1ed and unworried.
He is in the pink OF condition. mentally and
physically. As the visitor him i'll the
executive Offices dressed in light summer at
tire and with his favorite pipe in his mouth,
he apparently has not care IN the world.
He discourses of men, events and affairs with
patience, tolerance kindness and lack OF
ascerbity. Knowing that mistakes have
been made and that at times all has not gone
well with his administration, he does not at
tempt to place the blame and he does not
find fault. He does not share the mean emo
tons of other eminent figures who have
found the summers events too much tor their
equininity and peace of mind Whether one
admires or applauds him, 1T is reassurng,"
Mr. Lowrey testihes, ito find him at this
iuncture a poised, serene figure with a mind
by mean, little petty things
Mr. Lowrey states that in order to dis
like President Harding people are obliged to
stay away from him; that persons who come
in contact with him like him and want to
help him." Thus there is reason for saying
that the presidents most valuable asset IS
the flavor and quality of his personal char
acter.
1t is pleasing to learn from this source
hat the president is so serene that his days
are not envenomed by little jealousies, little
;pites and little hatreds and that he is bear
ng the burdens Of his office easily. Mr..
owrev draws a portrait of man large OF
mind and heart. 1t is evident that he is al
owing his critics to do all the worrying. He
las undertaken to do the best he knows how
o do and having done that declines to be
roubled in his mind about it, 1t would not
,e correct to say that President Harding had
,cessors, or that he has had problems to
solve more difficult than the problems OF
other presidents Notwithstanding, he has
been under fire constantly ever since he was
in 1920, and as the summer has
vaned the fire has increased in intensity. Also
ne has had hard problems demanding solu-
ion. and he has had congress on his hands
or IS months. To emerge from that expe-
renee with serenity undisturbed, still toler-
ant and kindly, with mind and heart free OF
late and malice, is distinct achievement.
1t was Charles Lamb, was it not, who said
t was impossible to dislike man when one
knew him. or words to that effect.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
RUDE RURAL RHYMES
PLUMBING.

0 brothers when | start to eat l want no
flies upon my meat, but when | hear the crit
tiers humming and see some forty 'leven
coming I'm glad | live where folks have
plumbing. A fly is never clean and neat; he
may have garbage on his feet. In country
homes cen in this new age he often carries
germs and sewage. O let us rise and give
our thanks to him who first made septic
tanks. How dear to my heart is a cool drink
OF water, poured by some farmers charming
daughter. While gazing on that glowing
cheek OF germs how can l think or speak?
(But if | drink can | avoid the lurking dan
gers of typhoid0 | fear | must delay the
draught that | may look before and aft sur
vey the landscape near and far and see where
certain buildings are; then, noting slope OF
hill and plain, determine where those build
ings drain And even il a glance should
show the we'll above, all else below, some eX-
cavatng should be done to see how straight
the strata run. Perhaps they dip, perhaps
they bend, perhaps in that old well they end
And so, sweet Hebe, don't you think you
really ought to boil my drink Though dear
to my heart is the old oaken bucket, the old
leather sucker or chain a sproCket, | view
the same with grave alarm at many home
on many a farm. | do not like that building
style, let's move it back half a mile; or
better still let's join the ranks of those who
have good septic tanks.
BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
Shows How to Beat the Boil Weevil.
From the Atlanta Journal.

A remarkable instance of how Georgia
farmer beat the boil weeviI came to light
"Wednesday when W. S. Tigner, well-known
planter of Meriwether county, sold the first
car load OF Meriwether county lambs to the
White Provision Company for the excellent
price of 10 cents a pound on the hoof. The
lambs were sold through Mr.. Tigner's agent,
J. K. Shippey & Bros, live stock dealers
at the Union Stock yards.
According to Mr.. Tigner the sale Of the
car load of lambs brings the total net profits
of $500 originally invested in ewes nine
months ago to $437. In addition to the O.
lambs sold and the 500 pounds OF WOOL Mr..
Tigner retained % lambs with his original
1888 ewes
When the boil weevil struck Meriwether
county several years ago Mr.. Tigner turned
to live stock and truck farming to make
his farm pay He has herd of so shorthorn
cattle, another herd of Duroc hogs, and this
year he has marketed a quantity OF English
peas from small acreage. He is preparing
to plant an extensive acreage In English
peas in the near future
Mr.. Tigner did not plant a single cotton
seed this year
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
LIES FROM ASIA MINOR.

Editor and Publisher: Danger to America
turks in the near east; just how great that
danger is or will become rests entirely with
the American newspapers. The international
are buster today than at any
period since 1914, and it is regrettable that
American editors after their sad experience
with old world liars during the great war
should now put faith in the same sources OF
information Elihu Root, writing in the new
quarterly magazine, Foreign Affairs, might
well have been discussing the first news to
reach us of the sack of Smyrna by the Turks
as a warning against the dangers threatening
popular diplomacy when he said When
foreign affairs are ruled by democracies the
danger OF war will be mistaken beliefs. The
world will be the gamer by the change (to
open diplomacy, for while there is no hui
man way to prevent king from having
bad heart. there is a human way to prevent
a people from having an erroneous opinion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
More Public Spirit Needed.
From the Dallas New Era.

No community can expand and prosper
unless there is united effort on the part OF
the citizenship. The burden OF town or
community rests upon the shoulders OF the
people who inhabt it. They, and they alone,
are responsible for its growth and moral up
lift.
We cannot afford to sit still and let the
town run itself 1t must have the help OF the
people to boost and show up its resources
to the outside world if it prospers as it
should.
What nearly every town needs is more
pronounced spirit. Civic stagnation as the
result of indifference has its root in a selfish
ness that considers nothing but private gain.
Take any community whose citizens are in
tent only on their private affairs and you
find a community destitute of progress and
public spirit 1t is a short sighted policy
based upon the wrong idea that does not
pay individually to spare even traction OF
time to devote to the general good. On
truth it does not pay, for in these pushing
days the town destitute of that wholesome
wide awake spirit which makes for the pub
lie welfare falls behind Other towns pass
it by, draw away its trade and leave it hope
lessy in the rear as a fossilized specimen of
antiquity petrihed through clinging to a
dead selfshness and obsolete methods.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
CHEMISTRY OF THE BEE.
Honey Results From Acid Insects. Add
To Product of Flowers.
Dallas L. Sharp in Harper's Magazine.


All flowers do not yield honey. Flowers
Weld sweet water-those that flow for the
bees-a sweet water which may be ravishly
perfumed and tinctured with Installations as
of altar and frankincense and myrrh, but
whose sweet taste is that of cane sugar only.
This sweet water the bees suck from the
flower tubes and carry home in their alb
dominal honey sacs, and on the journey IN
the body Of the bee the sweet secretion OF
the flower to which has been added a minute
drop OF acid secretion of the bee, mdergoes
a chemical change, resulting in new conf
pound called honey.
AS the drop of nectar rs sucked from the
flower tubes it receives III passing certain
glands at the root of the bees tongue an
infinitely small drop of fornic acid, and the
change into honey begins. The bee hurries
home with her load, but instead of running
to the empty cell with her sac of sweets she
is met by a home worker who, mouth to
mouth, drinks from her sisters sac, emptylng
its contents into her own honey sac and add
ing her own portion of acid thus doubly
charging the nectar, as charge the trmt
Juice at the fountain with a dash OF acid
phosphate; and the sweet water, which had
been sweet as with cane sugar, is now, from
out of this second bees abdominal sac, poured
into the cell of the comb, real honey sweet
with grape sugar, not cane sugar, different
product, the Joint chemical compound OF
many blossoms and at least OF two bees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
A Superior Product.

The News, always booster for home en-
terprises and home products, is glad to note
the superior grade OF ice being manufactured
by the Dawson ice plant. The housewives
have in the past had reason to complain Of
the poor quality, but, according to observa-
tons made for some time past by the re-
porter, nobody can find fault any more with
the product of our local factory. The ice we
get is free from ammonia and frozen so hard
it lasts almost twice as long as what we have
had to put up with in the past We are glad
to note the good work. OF this local enter
prise
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-17
Well Done.

Eureka Springs, Ark, seems to be well
named, for it found the way to make what
appeared to be a successful bank robbery fail
completely. The whole country will feel like
saving "Well done, sharpshooters," because
the thing was accomplished in such bust
ness like manner as to elicit nationwide admit
ration. Five bandits foiled and their loot re-
covered, two of them dead, another perhaps
fatally wounded and the two remaining des-
Beradoes safely landed in jail is rather a good
record for a half hours work on a recent
morning before dinner 1t looks very much
as though old times are coming back when
citizens, who are mnding their own business
and living honest lives, make up their minds
that they will not let robbers have their own
way.
The nice thing about the Eureka Springs
battle is that nobody on the right side is
hurt at all One man, Ernest Jordan, jew
eler, who dropped his man with his first shot
got some powder burns, and no doubt vii
be proud of the marks as a badge OF dis
tinction Outside of that everything is al
right at Eureka Springs, with the sharp
shooters back at their various tasks and the
bank doing business with the treasure tina
was temporarily removed once more repos
ing in its vaults. That is the proper way tc
end a bank robbery, and it is one worthy
of the best communities, but the Arkansas
town gets the honor by virtue OF having &C
complished the feat.
More resistance is the secret of putting
an end to robberies At least, it will cut tina
brand of crime down to minimum. Wher
robbers realize that their work is daily be
coming more dangerous they will hesitate t.
perpetrate crimes of this character. Homes
persons have only one thing to do in dis
couraging robbers, and that is to make i
increasingly hard for them to accomplish thei
purpose and to invest the undertaking will
she greatest element OF danger possible. Thel
the robber a coward at heart, will find some
thing else to do-maybe honest work through
necessity