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Evening star., 1923-11-30
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told. l wonder IL we are going to
stay here. / hope So
Il don't" whimpered Nanny. who
once more was beginning to be really
homesick. Il hope this great man
bird Will take Us home again right
away. We are prisoners here any
way. What good will il do US to be
down in the sunny South If we can
not run around and see things close
to? We can't tell what the Sunny
South is really like from way up in
the air. | want to go back home.
do So
Pooh replied Danny. II don't.
Now l am down here / want to see
everything there is to be seen. We
may be prisoners now, but perhaps
We'll be able to escape by and by.
Anyway, we are safe and we have
Evening star., 1923-11-30

plenty to eat, and Il is delightfully."-
warm. Why it is just like the middle
of summer down here. Perhaps We'll
find some more of our old friends
Perhaps Jenny Wren and Redwing the
Blackbird and Chippy the Chipping
Sparrow will get down here after
awhile. I'm not going to worry. I'm
just going to make the best of every
thing. Now I'm going to see if there
isn't some way of getting out of
here"
Copyright. 1923. by r W. Burxessl
Evening star., 1923-11-30

cook over hot water for two min
utes. Remove from fire and place in
pan of cold water. adding vinegar
and seasonings. This may be put in
glass jar and kept for several days.
Evening star., 1923-11-30
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If Parents Would Only Try to See Things From Their
Chidrens Viewpoint Instead of Getting Angry and
Clouding the ISSUE Working Agreement
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Evening star., 1923-11-30

Minnesota's only woman sheriff,
Mrs. Anna NJ. Lowe Of Slayton, will
emulate her husband in office by not
going armed.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
IRENE IS RESPONSIBLE
She Didn't Invent Bodied Hair bu;
She Started the Fad.

The coming engagement of Irene
Castle at the Majestic st1rting Friday
night, November ., for three perform
ances Saturday matinee) has revived
again the discussion as to whether
or not she invented bobbed hair.
There are those who say that she
invented it; certainly she introduced
it, but as she herself says, inventing
and introducing are two different
things. As a point of fact. she din
cut her hair, not from any idea of
style, but to facilitate an indulgence
of her secret passion for the swim
ming pool between classes at boarding
school. which could only be accom-
plished with less hair to dry. For class
and formal wear she stimulated her
old couture by sly addition of her
clipped braids, until one day someone
saw her without them and begged her
to clip her own. Frankly. the bobbcd
hair was becoming. as things are ap.
to be with Irene, and before she was
done she had castle-clipped at least
20 heads.
When n little later she Joined her
actOr-husband in the dance which was
TO whirl them to fame. she found
bobbed hair a great convenience: no
golden hair hanging down her back
when she didn't expect it. No stage
hands curse as he shoveled off the
scattered hair pins after her act. Her
hair was found so attractive that
whole audiences went right out and
over to the BARRIERS demanding the
"Castle-Clip," and when she tied
string of beads about her head to-
keep the hair out of her eyes, whole
audiences went right out and over to
the jewelers. demanding the. castle
band"
This, Of course, was several seasons
ago. and while Mrs. Irene Castle Tire
mains hair is once more bobbed, it is
very likely because Mrs. Tremain Is
once more dancing. 1t is said for pri-
vate evening wear she often effects
several of the latest methods of sim
ulating longer hair which have been
placed upon the market.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Two New Directors.

The actor who, with few exceptions,
has within the past few years been
mere puppet in the production of
motion pictures may now, like the
legitimate performer. have a creative
part in film plays, thanks initially to
two rebellious producers.
These producers are Arthur Sawyer.
one of the old-timers in films, and
Perley Poore Sheehan, novelist and
scenarist, who is going to direct one
of his own stories for Universal.
Both these men are going to let
the actor create his role.
This long-established prerogative of
the stage has been zealously barred
from the screen where the director
and the scenarist have been para.
| mount.
Sawyer, who long has been FESTIVE
under the present production tradi.
tons. is shortly to start filming Rob.
ert Services "The Shooting of Dan
McGrew," with Barbara La Mari as
''the lady known as Lou"
He says he is going to let the
players work out the story as il
will be picturized, the actors first
having been selected to fit the char
aeters depicted by the laureate of
the arctic.
Services ballards have little Of de-
tailed plot in them, and for that rea-
son, thinks Sawyer. will MAKE ideal
fillu material because they are not
too rigid. A definite story, with all
its scenes worked out, is, il it be
adhered to, a handicap in making q
m IntN
vaguely and some protestingly real
ize this, but haevn't the power or
courage TO break the trammels of the
established system.
Sawyer, having selected his play-
ers. they will under capable direc-
ton work ont many of the Incl.
dents and all the detail Of the film
play themselves, say the producer
If they are real troupers, he OK.
plains, they will know from long ex.
perience and observation what dra-
matte incidents and connectives arc
sure fire and they will know it far
more certainly in the aggregate than
any single scenario writer is ant to.
Sawyer says he produced Quincy
Adams Sawyer" in this way. the
actors working out much Of the
action. He didn't discuss that pir,
lures merits nor hold it IN particu-
larry as exemplary, although il
panned out good box office value.
Perley Poore Sheehan in filming
his story. Innocent" is going Z
follow this "know and work out your
own part" plan for the actors. He
will insist that each player exhaus.
lively study his own part after the
play has been read and discussed by
! the assembled cast.
Although this has been done or
! the stage for 80 years." says Shee.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
SchoOJs Ruy PiauOs

An appropriation of $5740 for the
purchase of pianos, one for each of
the junior high schools and one for the
negro high school. was authorized at a
special meeting of the school board.
Friday afternoon. The school board
also authorized the purchase of three
Brunswick and three Edison phono-
graphs for use in the junior high
schools at cost of approximately
500 each. DIR. Jeremiah Rhodes. sup
erintendent of schools. made a report
on the progress of the new salary
schedule. The report was referred to
the finance committee. the school board
business manager. and the superintend-
ent with instructions to present a writ
ten resolution for action by the school
board. at called meeting TO be held at l
o'clock Monday afternoon.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

han, at has been almost completely
ignored in pictures.
Usually the screen player doesn't
know the story. He is told to be
ready in makeup at certain hour
and is then quickly coached as to
his own particular performance with
very little idea of how his part af-
fccts or is related to the others. In
Innocent and other to follow, I
hope, we are going to put the show
business back into pictures"
With Charles Chaplin smashing
production precedent in his woman
of Paris" one of few photoplays ever
done as authentic screen idiom; with
Doug Fairbanks soon to come along
with another tradition toppler in his
"Thief of Bagdad," and a number of
less illustrious producers jumping
fences and crying in the wilderness.
this next year would seem to be one
of considerable venturing by screen
prophets having an ounce of courage
and vision,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Gossip About the Films
Some New Pictures by New Directors.

witchcraft epidemic. The town has its
hypocrite, one Gillead Wingate, play
ed by Frank Tweed, who breaches but
does not practice. 1t has its beautiful
girl, Rachael. the lovely Mary Astor,
and her sweetheart, Richard Talbot,
played by Elliot Cabot.
But Wingate's illegitimate son. born
TO Goody Rickby, dies-and OH the
night Of its death, Goodby, played by
Maude Hill. and DIR. Nicholas, whom
the spectators recognize rs Satan,
conspire to get even with Wingate,
but to bide their time.
Years later Wingate is shown as
the town power. Goody meanwhile,
under the inspiration of Satan, has
learned to practice magic and she is
Stunned by all save Rachael, the
beautiful ward of Wingate.
Through her. Goody and Satan
aid to destroy Wingate. They
breathe life into a pumpkin-headed
Scarecrow, and the result is a hand
some courtier whom they call Lord
Ravensbane. Gl-nn Hunter, in that
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

able adjusting TO do. He hasn't quit.
| oriented himself as yet. An anxiety
which in less positive man would b.
timidity. has measurably restrained
him. That was apparent in his franB
concern as to how the public wouii
accept "Rosita," although there was
no hint of il to the outsider while the
picture was being filmed.
The American audience is Herr
Lubitsch's chief perplexity.
With he American film players he
was quickly at home. Everyone with
whom he has come i'll contact likes
him personally and respects him pro-
fessionally. Even his firmness has
never been mistaken for harshness.
And to the studio life in Hollywood
he took like n mallard to a pond. But
that pondeIous, dmorphous entity so
variously appraised by motion picture
folk. the American movie audience
of that he stands somewhat in awe.
At least, he's still puzzled in fitting
his own peculiar technique to what
he conceives to be its outstanding de-
mands.
You have splendid acting material
here" affirms Lubitsch. 1T is mucn
easier TO find beauty and ability il
America than abroad. The chief bar.
rier to picture progress it seems to
me now is the public. The public has
ments for actors. They want to see
this one or that one in almost any
picture. There doesn't seem to be much
concern for versatility. and too mucn
regard for personalities.
Thu r,,nct thipv about h
itsch, considering what he has already
done. is his age-31.
Gypsy Blood" in which he and
Pola Negri simultaneously achieved
first acclaimed success. was made
many's first big costume play, starr
ing an entirely new picture epoch
there, he made at the age of 81.
Ernst. Lubitsch has lived intensely.
He matured rapidly.
At 81 he stands abreast most men
of 40. He does everything with swift
precision. He strides fast. He works
without any lost motion, in striking
contrast to most directors. And he IS
the most rapid eater l have ever con-
tested.
l observed one step in his rapid
Americanization at lunch where he
ordered his first corned beef and cab
bage. When the entire was interpreted
for him by his manager, DIR. Erich
Locke, he said, with gustatory en-
thusiasm, Owe will try it." Now II
yield to no man in the matter of max
Hilary dispatch. but Herr Lubitsch had
me looking like a toothless fletcher
iZer.
1t took him just a few years to
step from the obscurity of Berlin
retail clothing shop clerk to the stage
as comedian, or to the screen as
comedy star, then becoming one Of
Europe's foremost film director.
In view of these characteristics
and performances, it shouldn't take
Ernst Lubitsch long to discover what
the picture public is yearning for and
TO provide it, if he hasn't already
done so in his two American-made
pictures.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Hollywood, Cal, Oct. 25.-Not a

Hollywood, Cal, Oct. 2s.-Not all
the movie romances are screened.
Not all the residents of Hollywood
are villains and vamps.
For instance:
Trida grew to girlhood in st. Louis,
OF course. she knew her way in the
best movie circles, but her acquain-
tanceship with the stars and starlets
was limitcd-and she had TO pay the
cashier every time.
Being a most natural damsel, given
to admiring the other sex, Frida read
everything, in newspapers, magazines
and other sources, about her idols.
She liked this or that leading man,
she loved so-an-so and she just wor!
SHIPPED, whoever he or she might be
at this particular time.
Then a few years passed, as the
sub-titles say, and Frida heard oppor-
tunity knocking. The movie bug
had bitten her. She came to Holly
wood.
Bob was born without the proverb-
ial silver spoon. Like a true boy he
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

was curious about freight cars. His
curiosity in that direction ceased at
the age of Gan accident happened.
The surgeons thought he would die,
but he was saved, after both legs had
been amputated.
Here was a handicap. Bob knew
it. He worked hard and studied hard
in the intervening years, finally leav-
ing his home town, Chicago. to be
scenario writer on the staff of the
Universal Film Company.
Amid the arid wastes and craggy
hills of romantic Old Mexico, on the
desert fringes Of grim battlefields.
wher, strong men blazed the trail
for the civilization of their pampered
brethren" was Robert J. Horner,
director of the productions bearing
that name. Mr.. Horner, alias Bob,
had brought his dashing troupers to
this spot to shoot scenes for a current
celluloid thriller.
Members of the company were
adare that a pretty girl had accom-
panied them aross the border al
though not cast. Frida A. Bohnn was
her name. not that it mattered.
After filming the last scene. Horner
went into conference with his stars,
Eva Novak and George Chesebro.
When they got through it was an
nounced that Miss Bohnn had been
given a lifetime contract as general
manager of the youthful director.
With his players as witnesses, the
marriage ceremonies were performed
at Tia Juana, the same place. Incl
dentally, where Rudolph Valentino
got married-or thought he did-for
the second time.
Horner's rise to director-producer
has baan phenomenal. Today be is
said to be the youngest movie mag
nate on the west coast. And Frida,
the movie-stricken girl from the mid
die west, is his boss.
Camerai
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
@Pritan Passions

1t isn't possible that the author and
producers of puritan Passions"
merely wanted to show the public a
cross-section of life as it was in the
early days of this country. The pic
ture, being given its premier on
Broadway, fulfills its primary pur-
pose of portraying the superstition
laden life of the Puritans. But it
: also, throughout the unfolding of its
} theme. shakes a warning finger at the
sophisticated twentieth century spec
tator before it, as though to say
= This picture is for you to think
about"
Today we laugh at witchcraft. But
Puritans didn't. Today the life prob
lens of the actors in puritan Pas
sions" give us amusement-yes. but
we dismiss them with a shrug of thu
shoulders and an impatient toss If
the head, wondering how any Ameri-
can ever could have placed faith in
such hokum.
puritan Passions deals with Sa-
lem Towne, then in the throes of a
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
Pecans on Market.

Cuero. Tex. Oct. 27.-Pecans are
coming into market now. though tn
nuts are not falling from the trees as
they will in about three more weeks.
About third of n normal crop will
be gathered here this fall and sew
eral car lots will be shipp.d out.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28

part, portrays the character with all
the skill he can summon.
Right here the author toys with
his characters. Cynically, he makes
the girl forget her sweetheart, a
youth with character, and foId4s her
to fall in love with the pumpkin
headed scarecrow, who possesses no
soul, no character. and naught but
a handsome face. How like real life
4 wedding is planned and the
sweetheart of the girl interrupts the
ceremony to force Ravensbane TO
stand before the Mirror of Truth.
Then Ravensbane realizes he has no
soul; that he is made Of a scare
crow. And the author, reaching the
heights of true philosophy, whispers
to his puppets of the screen-and to
the spectators in front-that there is
way to gain a soul, even for n
human scarecrow, and that is by
love.
Ravensbane accepts the authors
challenge and dies, by his own hand
by destroying the source of his life,
a pipe. That act of love for the girl
he knows he must not marry is suffi-
cient for the author at least, and for
40 " VI lillli
Only serious-minded, fearless
group could have Attempted to pro-
duce so fine sugar-coated sermon
as puritan Passions" taken from
Percy Mackaye's stage play, 1.-The
ScarecrOw." Luckily. there is such,
the new group calling itself The Film
Guild" We hope puritan Passions"
is a financial SUCCESS; then may we
expect others like it.
On the day Mary AstOr, who PLAYS
the feminine lead, was born, her moth
er determined to make her a motion
picture star. How well she succeeded.
Puritan Passions" shows. You will
hear more of Mary Astor. Glenn Hun
ter looms as one of the most promis-
ing of the younger stars, too. We
understand both have been signed TO
fat contracts by Famous Players.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-28
More About Iubitsch.

When Ernst Lubitsch, master Ger
man picture director, came to America
many months ago he declined tact
fully but firmly to make any compar-
isons between native and foreign films
or picture coIr1itions here and abroad
But presently we shall have some
thing more tangible than opinion
thel comparison inherent to his own
works: Gypsy Blood" Passion"
Deception" and others done in Eu-
rope; ''Rosita," with Mary PickfOrd,
and "The Marriage Circle" for War
ner Brothers, made in Hollywood.
''Rosita" is being shown, and the
Marriage Circle" is soon to be com
pleted. They are widely dissimilar,
each affording an insight to TIE
Lubitsch directorial genius as it has
been influenced by new environmen.
Not that these two American-made
photOplays will warrant final verdict
as to his permanent place among pic
ture pilots, for he still has consider
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-15

When an irresistible political machine meets an im1novable obstacle in the governors chair, the result Is an ad- ministration such as Governor Charles A. Templeton's has been during the session of the general assembly which ended Wednesday,, 1 mtay be a pretty problem for the class i'll physics, but as matter of civil government it's mess Since the inauguration on January 5, Connecticut has been governed under the traditional sysem of cheeks and balances" with the Roraback faction in the legislature doing all the, checking and the governor balancing first one way and then another.
 Briefly the state has, for the past five months, been witnessing the hazing of its chief executive at he hands of the general assembly. With House Leader Buckley of Union and Senator Trumbull of Plainvil1e holding the re- publican corners and Representative Grath of Waterbury heaving on the democratic side, the governor has been politically blanket-tossed until today he sees the general assembly whirl to a giddy finish with practically all of his administration proposals either trampled underfoot and forgotten or hopelessly jumbled out of all semblance to his original suggestions. Following the final adjournment of the legislature Governor Templeton may look for ward to eighteen months of comparative executive solitude with an occasional banouet or corner stone ceremony to re- mind the general public that the gov ernnent still lives on capitol hill.
 Governor Templeton's has been a troubled administration from the very first. The evening before his inau- g1ration The Times, said editorially, "The organization is in full command of the situation" and every day since then has borne out the literal truth of the assertion.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-15

terly resented hy the millions of home loving workmen of America.
 The institutes committee contends that the work1nen themselves prefer the long hours. Undoubtedly there are those who will voluntarily work long hours to their own hurt, but the committees contention is chiefly significant as show ing that worknen whose only choice is between abnornally long hours of labor and earnings that are insufficient to maintain family in health and decency naturally adopt the more arduous alter native.
 SAFEGUARDING PROFITS IS PUT.
 ABOVE HUMAN WELFARE.
 That plea that a shortage of labor makes impracticab1e the change from two to three shifts of work1nen affords but meagre defense. The shortage of labor was not the reason for the failure to abolish the long day two years ago, when there was appalling unemployment, which could have been in large measure relieved in steel manufacturing districts by introducing the three-shift system in the steel industry.
 "The steel institutes committee finds that the entire cost of change to the eight-hour day would have to be paid by the consumers of steel, disregarding the possibility of some proportionate contri- button out of the earnings of the in dustry. Thus the safeguarding of profits becomes consideration superior to that of the wages and hours of the workers.
 INHUMANITIES EXCUSED AS
 ECONOMIC NECESSITIES.
 The committee finds that there are questions of high importance involved ln this whole matter, which, they assert, have no moral or, social features. They are economic say the steel manufac- terest of the great public This divorce between the moral or social element of a problem and its economic aspects ruris counter to the teaching of religion. It excuses inhumanities in the name of economic necessity. Furthermore, 1t overlooks an important series of de- monstrations within the steel industry and elsewhere of the practicability and superior advantages of the three-shift system.
 NJ O A LILY INDEFENSIBLE REGIME MUST BE ENDED.
 The one redeeming feature of the committees report is the intimation that it is not final. The public has waited long for the fulfllment of a virtual promise from the industry. The public expects the initiative to be taken by the United States Steel Corporation. It is a task that presents admitted difficulties, but none that powerful corporation which has accumulated an enormous surplus should find insurmountable.
 "The forces of organized religion in America are now warranted in declaring that this morally indefensible regime of the 12-hour day must come to an end A further report is due from the Iron and Steel Institute-a report of a very different tenor"