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The Washington times., 1923-04-04

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nadge. Ince win make "Evange-
line
Metro VIII have .'Scaramouche'
and "Toilers3 OF the Sea- by Ins
gram, and Captain Applejack,"a
which Is In part a costume play.
One of the. outstanding features
of this type will be, THE Hunch-
back Of Notre Dame, which will
cost upward of $500 900 and being
made by Universal who viii also
. release The Merry Go Round,
q series Of historical pictures, and
THE Lady of Quality. -
There will likely be released by
Selznick Rupert Of Hentzaa,' and
/ Hodkinson will have Lady Hamil-
ton" made abroad. Warner
Brothers viii include on their
schedule Beau Brummels and.
"Deburau," and the Rockets have
not yet determined release for
THE Life Of Abraham Lincoln /"
No release has been determined
for. the Clancy production of
Ali Bahia and the Forty Thieves. !"
or. Earle's "Rubaiyat," or w. p.
s. Earle's 'Tut-Arikh- Amen Re-
lease viii also be obtained prob
ably for 'Chu Chin Chow" to he.
made ir England. and The
Virgin Queen" and 'oThe Gypsy
Cavalier" made by j. Stuart
Bfacktoll abroad. There are a.
number of Others to be consid,
cred, including Othello', and
Queen of sin. owned by Ben
Bl1menthal, Oscar Lund's promised
production Of "Bitth Of Switzers
The Washington times., 1923-04-04
LOBBY GOSSIP

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purchased film rights to Elinor
Thought for the War Risk girls: ]
Constance Talmadge plays golf !
every moment she can spare from
Marguerite de La Motto
has composed a fox trot, "Meditsr-
ranean Moon" Gladys
Brockwell will play Mrs. Scho-
field" In Tarl<ington's ''Penrod and
SAM. now being filmed by First
National. $50 j. Warren Ker
rigan and Sylvia Dreamer are re.
hearsing steps of fifty years ago
for The Girl Of the Golden West"
William De Mile has started work
Melford has started on "Salomy
Jane, which will feature Jacdus-
lire Logan. Lawful
Larceny" il under way at the Para.
mount studios. Dorothy
Mackail, If one is to believe Nell
son Bell, of the Crandall staff, has
the charm OF Lillian Gish, the
forcefulneSs OF Mae Marsh ana the
blonde beauty Of Olive Thomas.
She will be seen in Mighty LAX
Rose" Jackie Coogan's
uncle is a chorus. man in G gorge
Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly"
Mr.. Barnum," a play written
by Tom Wise, and in which ne
will be seen, will be filmed by the
Carson studio shortly. - One
literary classic year is Tom Ince's
aim. He will do "EYangeline"
shortly. -" Ben Turpin is doing
Pitfalls Of a Big City under the
title, Where is My Wandering Boy
This Evening"" -" Mary Pick.
ford has been denied damages
from a music firm which publish.
ed a song, Daddy Long Legs"
She sued in 1919 as an infringe
ment on her picture. Pauline
Muir has sued Bert Lytell for
money alleged to be due her for
correcting errors in his income tax
returns. I" Robert Mantell has
been engaged by the Cosmopoli.
tan. Corporation to play Cardinal
Richelieu in Under the Red
Robe" ,s.
Mary Pickford will build
Spanish city on the roof Of her
studio for "Rosita-"
Frank Mayo has been cast for
the leading role opposite Corinne
Griffith in "Six Days"
II Neal Burns is suffering from a
regent automobile accident. His
condition Is not serious. "
Betty Compson has started work
on 1.-The Women With Four
Faces Richard Dix plays OPP
posite.
THE Scared Hand an original
by Eugene A. Vogt, has been fin
ished by the II. & B. Film Com.
pany at the Bronx studio.
c. Gardiner Sullivan and Eye
Unsell will scollaborate on the
scenario of Long Live the King"
Jackie Coogan's next picture
Al Christie has just started work
on something different" In the
two-reel comedy field. The whole
cast will appear in black face.
The picture in which Owen
Moore will appear for Famous
Players-Lasky will be a screen yer.
sion of Macmillan Fosters story,
"The Silent Partner"
Antonio Moreno, .debonair Span
lard, who recently was married
10 Mrs. Daisy Garfield DanziEer,
wealthy society woman, has fig.
ured Economically in rumors more
often than Charlie Chaplin, hav.
ing been reported engaged to
many beauties of the stage, screen
and society, including Alice Joyce,
Viola Dana, Rosemary Theby,
Edith Storey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
THE STEEPLECHASING PRINCE

The Prince of Wales has caused much |. talk in England because of his deyQtion to steeple-chasing which has led to eight bad spills in the past two years. The prince has more nerve apparently than he has skill in horsemanship, for it is not reported that those who ride with him meet similar disas- ter. Indeed, it is probable that. were he not a prince his riding would be ridiculed; but whatever reverence the British do not owe their prince they must pay to their own rev. erence for tradition, and tradition has 1t that princes should not be ridiculed.
 From the princess viewpoint, 1t is perhaps as inglorious to be merely prince as 1t is .. to be vice president. Rather than be non- epity, the prince would stceplechase. Rather than be merely among thost who also ran, the prince would acquire distinction by talk ing nasty spill now and then. Some- times, also, he wins The British press speaks of the princess dangerous riding with seriousness that is hardly to be con- fused with concern for succession, for, the Prince of Wales once disqualified by bro- ken neck. the Prince of Wales would still live, thanks to the existence of Duke of York. It appears that the British really are fond of the heir apparent, and that thsy merely do not relish looking forward to a sovereign who goes out every few days and falls off his horse. They'd like to see him cured before he becomes king,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
ROAD BENEFIT FAR-REACHING

Industrial Alabama is making distinct pro- gress toward that hard road alignment which will complete it's system of transportaton The state highway is being carried through Shelby county toward Jefferson. The Eto- wah-St. Clair highway toward Birmingham Is in progress. Jefferson county is about to extend it's hard surface road from Roebuck Springs to the St. Clair line The state highway commission has approved twenty five miles of the Bankhead highway from Jasper to the Marion county line. All this work is in industrial Alabama, and it's com pletion will serve to expedite the states industrial progress. The coal-mining and iron and steel making counties have com mon interest. and it will be better for one and all of them the closer they are united through hard surface roads, enabling their people to mingie more freely and realize this common interest. The entire state will bene- fit from whatever advances the industrial n- terests of the state because mine and milling centers, not being producers but large con scmers of products of farm and dairy are the largest and steadiest customers of the farms and the markets where farm products bring the highest cssh prices. Wherever a road is built in Alabama it's benefits perco- late throughout the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
IT MUST BE THE CLIMATE

Los Angeles always tries to grab all the glory. This time she claims to have ia jail the man who manufactured the baab that blew up Wall Street in September, 1920, The only shred of honor left to any rival city is now to apprehend the man whs threw the bomb. That would be some compensation, although Los Angeles glory would still bs the more effuigent, for surely brains, susn as would build bomb like that, are rarer than the brawH to hud it. It is not likely that Los Angeles will be content with the one, however. but will at once seeii air the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
SALE OF THE ADyERTIsERv

The transfer of the controlling interest in the Montgomery Advertiser to Mir. Vic tor H. Hanson, the publisher of the Bir- mingham News, is an interesting event in Alabama journalism. The Advertiser has been a newspaper identified with the life of Alabama for more than a half century, and under recent editorship which MT. Hanson announces will continue, has taken positive editorial position on matters of public mo- ment and concern.
 It is quite true and generally recognized by many thoughtful men in Alabama that service to the public interest has not always been the guiding influence governing the policy of that newspaper. The Advertiser has not been unfriendly to many interests the public has felt were adverse to the wider welfare of the people as whole.
 In considerable degree such also has been the position of the Birmingham News. Very recently the policy of the Birmingham News has been vigorous in it's condemnation of those who sought to check the growing in- fluence of the Alabama Power company in the political life of Alabama. The News has perhaps been the leader in the condemna- tion visited upon the members of the Ala Ddfna leRlSlaluTe WHO III InelT JuUglnenC and holding their own responsibility to>the peo- pie who elected them, ahrogatcd special privilege through exemption that has been enjoyed by the power company, although the voice of the News was silent when tho Alabama Power company sought to obtain m excessive eleventh hour valuation for rate-madng purposes from two members or the public service commission, previously repudiated by the people at the polls.
 This attitude on the part of the Birming- ham News, whose publisher now comes Into control of the Advertiser, will no doubt raise the question in the mines OF many peo- pie if the Advertiser Is to be reborn as a Journal In the service of the peepis or whether it's policies will follow the heritage of that newspaper which have been te large degree in keeping with the policy ef the Birmingham News.
 Those who hold the well being of the pee pie as primary obligation may hope te see this influence transferred to one of public service. The opportunity for such service is manifest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
By THOMAS R. MARSHALL Former Hice President of the United
 States

It is impossible for the average mind to keep up with all that is go- ing on nowadays, but where ones treasure is there will his heart be also, and one inevitably seeks in- formation along lines of peculiar interest to ones self. This may explain why quite a few of us are not excited about our origin. We belong to neither the monkey nor the anti-monkey movement. It is quite immaterisl to us whether God made man in His own image or whether He took couple of million years to evolve him out of mon key into his present state of sta bility. It suffices with us that God made him and did not evolve him.
 Still, I know no reason why a man, if it is source of consolation for him, may not believe that his ancestors were monkeys, although l do not approve of a man shifting responsibility for his conduct. In the end it all comes to the same thing. There can be no law without a law giver; nothing created with out creator; no evolution without an evolutionist. So far as l have any record of the thoughts, feeling and conduct of mankind, the intel lectual motive back of life has been much the same through all ages. Of course, the thoughts of men have broadened with the processes of the suns, but their thoughts have been practically the same, enlarged and intensified by each succeeding gen. eration.
 This is a new Easter morn. The giadness of the day finds expres- sion in triumphant music and in the solemn assurance that the finer things of life rest upon faith and hope rather than upon scientific theories. The church is rebeauti- fled; the trembling soul once again gasps more firmly the anchor of faith within the troubled waters of time. Outwardly, it is reincarna- tion. Inwardly, how does it differ from that first Easter morn? Then, as now, there were all sorts of thought and belief. Then. as now, it was not difficult to find what men thought. Now, as then and all ways, it is the riddle of the human intellect to ascertain why men think the thoughts they think. Pi- late was in his imperial palace that morning. He had washed his hands in token of his innocency. He had nothing to do with the blood of that just Man. Although within his power to have rendered Judgment and prevented an appeal from the decision of the court. he yielded to the cries of the rabble. Even now in places of power are persons who care not about justice for .others who are sure that justice crucified will not rise again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

rant flower to a sick room. Many a wearied- out body has taken on new lease of life by reason of the presence of these gentle vis- itors, and many are the men and women who have recovered the sooner because ths sending of the flowers was token to them that others thought affectionately of them and there was still place in the world for them to fill. Not enough of this is done. Often after 1t is all over the flowers come to them that can neither see nor enjoy their perfume. They should be sent to those that live and can enjoy them. They are greater tonic than many realize, because they express that which men cherish above all other things, the regard of their fellow man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
A LITTLE EASTER MORNING TALK

Are there not many today who compromise with truth rather than face opposition? Even worse, are there not thousands of careless, in- different, self-satisfied souls who steadfastly avoid answering to, If Fou aught we know, Caiaphas of fered that Easter morning the sac rifice of the temple. He doubtless approached his service smilingly, thinking he was doing Gods will in closing forever the mouth of t:le pestilent fellow who somehow thought that loving sacrifice was of far more avail to humanity than burnt offering. Are there not today many who still conceive that out of forms and ceremonrals the real fife of people is to be made? Do they not gather to themselves the thought that he who would substitute senti- ment for regularity is distinctly in- imical to the worlds good and should be sealed forever m a tomb? Now, as then, those worth consideration are the broken-hearted doubters and those stalwart souls who, like Jacob, will wrestie with the angel all night.
 The little band of disciples had suffered the shipwreck of hope. They had inisconceived His mission, but not from lack of love or loyalty or faith. His was to, be a kingdom temporal in character and all-em- bracing in its area. The might of man was not to prevail against it. And yet His body was slowly mol dering back to dust in the new hewn tomb of Joseph of Aramithea. How many thousands there are who, because things have not gone their way, are inclined to grow .despond- ent, to say what's the use, to think that death ends all and to believe that there is to be no resurrection into higher and finer things! How many are there who view. with sus- picion, who stoically accept all sit nations, who prate about fate and admit the things they once believed divine are dead and moldering in lilc lUIllD. DOtS CdSbCI naught to these? It will bring sur cease from doubt and sorrow if they but avail themselves of the faith of that small group, women all, who at the break of day went to the sepulcher. These women had not the larger opportunities of the dis ciples to learn the mission of the Master; they had not the training of the Roman ruler in the law nor the narrowness of the high priests in religion. They had just seen Him and believed. Intuitively they felt that He who had brought Mary's brother back to life could not Him. self forever die. So while Pilate eased his conscience with denial of responsibility, while the high priest gloried in his Journalism, and while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

the disciples were submerged in doubling grief, these faithful souls early in the morning witnessed the first resurrection dawn.
 All of us need to be resurrected from our dead selves, to come from out the tombs of passion, pride, doubt or despair into the sunlight of new morning. But one is not resurrected without faith, and faith IS not always an emotion, but oftimes the consummate flower of finest thinking. Why will men take partial view when they may see the whole if they. will? Why will they speak of Kismet, luck, fate, chance? Why will many of those who delve into the mysteries of nature dis pute the value of faith, if, indeed, they do not deny the need of faith? The wonderful discoveries of our modern age do not dispute the doc Urine of the resurrection or tarnish it's glory.
 Without a word of revelation should still be convinced that Jesus Christ arose from the dead. Im- portant to myself as is this faith of mine, comes today thought of far more transcendent beauty. Sinless He went to His death and going thus, He made it possible for sinful men and women on their dead selves to rise to better things. I have . faith that teaches me that there is not one death for man, but many, not one hope of resurrection, but several. Are the lilies to be taken from the altar this morning and transplanted into the hearts of men there to bloom perennially? If so, we must die to every unworthy sen- timent which, we have entertained for our fellow-men. We must wrap in grave clothes every envy, hatred and ill will. We must be touched / again into newness of life by the angels of love and service. We must cease to be coldly logical or personally indifferent. We must bring into the larger life of the world that life so easily led at home, the life of trust and love which has the supreme assurance that more things have been wrought by faith and prayer than ever came from doubt or questioning. The world has always needed a resurrection morn and never more so than today. What would do this old world the most good is blind and, if you will, foolish faith in the risen Nazarene. We should leave in the tomb of Lent, wrapped in grave clothes, envy and malice and hatred and self-seeking and. carelessness and indifference to the needs of others. It will be an easter that will make the Master of mankind glad that He gave this world it's hop> if we shall be resurrected this day to the full stature of sons and daughters of God.
 Copyright. 1928. by Thomas R. Marshall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
SCHOOL NEEDS ARE URGENT

The Exchange Club, after careful investl- gation of school conditions through its edu- cation committee, has gone on record as favoring any legitimate and reasonable meas ures to relieve the frightfully over-crowded conditions of the school buildings Here are some of the facts the education commit tee learned: From 1910-11 to 1922-23 at tendance oil the elementary schools increased from 20,416 to 32,562, while the high school record for that period showed an increase of from 1,788 to 4,854. Overcrowding in the white schools, that is, lack of seating capacity, was from 5000 to 9,440, and con- siderably worse in the negro schools. In other words, the school enrolment is many thousand more than the seating capacity. There are from thirty-five to forty-five pu- pills for each teacher provided, while the average in the United States is thirty.
 These are just few of the unfavorable conditions discovered. The carpenter can not work effectively without his tools and facilities Nor can children do anything like their best work and get>full benefits of even such teacl.ing as is offered when they are jumbled into crowded uncomfortable and unhealthful masses at times when they must give their best mental efforts to what is put before them. Overcrowded school rooms with insufficient teaching forces to provide reasonable individual attention for the pupils is in part waste of even such facilities as are provided. Conditions, en- vironment, the very atmosphere must be favorable for efficient woork by teachers as well as pupils.
 Whats the answer to this problem? There is but one-sufficient funds for relief of these discouraging conditions And whence shall come those funds? Only from the peo- pie of this big, rich and growing community We spreading out, advancing, develop ing in every field of activity more than in the most important of all-the schools, which are our greatest asset, our most productive influence not only in creating improved working conditions and results, but in the development of better citizenship and higher standards of government. The words of distinguished Alabamian are again recalled, that there Is nothing in the threadbare argu- ment that the people cannot afford to edu- cate; for they cannot afford not to educate their children
 It matters not whether bond issue, mill tax or other means of raising sufficient revenues Is adopted. That is a question of detail. The thing to keep in mind is that Birmingham sorely needs and should have adequate school facilities, if this city would attain it's logical development along all wise and healthy lines. The people arc willing to tax themselves in all reason for this purpose, when they are sufficiently enlightened as to how the money is to be expended and sat- isfied that there will be no mismanagement, waste or inefficiency. All they want to know is that they are getting proper returns. More and more are they appreciating the need for relief in this respect, and the more they are enlightened as to existing conditions. the sooner will that relief be forthcoming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
THE SOLACE OF FLOWERS

Thoughtful, indeed, was the act of Mrs, Harding, wife of the president, in sending the White House conservatory flowers te the sick in Washington hospitals on Eastes. More than five hundred Easter lilies, together with hundreds of roses. sweet peas and other beautiful and fragrant flowers, were thus distributed. How many wholesome thoughts they provoked and how much hope they shed none may estimate, because such are tho things which the eye does net see and the ear does not hear, yet they are precious things of life, There is no more kindly act
 n the world than sending bright and frag-