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WALL STREET NOTES.
S2,5OO,OOO Car Order From Rock
Island Railroad.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. January 1.-THE
Rock Island road will buy 500 auto
mobile cars. $50 refrigerator cars, 25O
fifty-ton steel fiat cars, 500 box cars
and 40 locomotives from the Amerl-
can Locomotive Company. The pur-
chase involves 2.500,000.
British treasury notes outstanding
aggregate 266.5 900 pounds against
27f174 900 last week. Gold securing
these notes total 27,205.000 pounds,
against 27.166,000 last week.
dividend today: American. CoaI
and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie,
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roDAY's COTTON PRICES.

NEW YORK, January 11.-Cotton
futures opened steady: January, 1855;
March, 2S.75: May. 26.s5; July. 26.67;
October. 24.s5.
11:45 am.-Bids. January, 26.70;
March. 1884: May. 27.14; July. blank;
October, 25.06. Steady.
NEW ORLEANS, January 11.-Cot-
ton opened steady. January. 1881;
March, 26.46: May, $3.50. July, $3.50;
October, 1852.
~ noon bids-January, 26.JS;
March. 26.6S: May. 1858: July. 26.43;
October, 24.67. Steady.
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CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET,

CHICAGO, January II Omitted
States Department of Agriculture) =
Hogs - Receipts. $4,000 head; fairly
active. fully 10 higher; bulk $50 to
210 pound average, S.60aS.70;. top,
S.75; bulk 225 to 275 pound butchers,
8.45aS.55; weighty packing sows. dull
7.25a7.65; desirable pigs. mostly S.25
and up; heavy hogs, S.35aS So; me-
dunn. S45aS.65; light. s.6OaS.75; light
light. 8.60a8.75; packing sows, smooth,
7.60aS.00; packing sows, rough, 7.25a
7.65; killing pigs, S.00a8.60.
Cattle-Receipts, 5000; active,
practically all class strong to Is
higher; early top matured steers
11.85; some held higher; best year.
ling, 11.75; bulk beef steers, S.50a
1880; bulls mostly 25 higher veal
calves steady; stockers and feeders
scarce; bulk desirable veal calves to
packers, 1O.50a11.00; bulk Gamers,
8. 3.0Oa3.15. --s-s
Sheep = Receipts. $4,000; opening
fairly active; early sales. fat. lambs
steady; early top. 1900 to shippers;
1875 to packers; desirable clipped
fed lambs, 1925 to 1915; feeder de-
mand broad; supply liberal, about
1900 choice 60-pound feeding lambs,
1850; sheep around steady; good light
weight ewes up to 500.
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DAIRY PRODUCTS.

BALTIMORE, Md, January IL (Spe-
ciaD Live poultry--Turkeys, pound,
S5a42; old toms. 32a33; poor and
crooked breasts, 80; spring chickens,
27a2S; poor and leghorns, 20a24; old
hens. 24a27: small and leghorns. 19
a22: old roosters, 15a16; ducks, 1Sa28;
geese. 20a27; pigeons, pair, 30a35 |;
guinea fowl, each, 35a70.
Dressed poultry-Turkeys, S5a42;
old toms, 34a35; poor and crooked
breasts, 80; young chickens, 25a27:
old and mixed. 24a25i old roosters,
17a18; ducks, 25a30; geese, 24a30
Eggs-Loss off; native and nearby
frsts, dozen. AZ; southern, 40.
Butter-Creamery, fancy. pound, 81 !;
prints, SASS: nearby creamery, 34a35:
ladies, 35a36; rolls, 33a35: store
packed. 31a32; dairy prints, 34a35;
process butter, 41a42.
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GIVE BACK SECURITIES.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, January H.
Distribution to owners of approxi-
mately $2.500.e00 in securities held
for safekeeping by the defunct Hous-
ton, Fibie & Co., brokers, was begun
yesterday, ]. w. Perry, receiver, an
nounced. The auditors report is to
be considered tomorrow at a. meeting
of the creditors committee and the
receiver.
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TREASURY CERTIFICATES.
(ouotations furnished by Redmond & Col
Tribute to Mozart.

A million-doIlar theater, q rival to
the Wagner Theater at Bayreuth. is
TO be built az Salzburg, Austria. the
birthplace of Mozart. Mozart festi-
walls win be held there under the
auspices of international admirers of
the masters music.
If the spirit of Mozart was present
at the laying of the, e,corner stone last
summer he must have smiled with
gentle cynicism, says Mentor Maya
zine, for the great musician went
without recognition from his native
place, even after he had been recog-
nized elsewhere ~.---- =.
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DIVIDENDS.

Stock OF ray
Record. able.
American Ice ex. pf.. 1acs.
American Ice eX. en-. Ia fc.. :....:: -;
Cartier, Inc O.. 1$sT. pf Jan. 10 Jan. 81
Du Pont De Semours 'ex
llari, pf ..a.-... .'.'. =,
EIgin Nat Watch Co, O., 30 Jan 10 Feb. l
Fort Worth Power-Light Co,
O., 1&G, pf. Jan. 10 req.
Gillette Safety Razor Co., a.,
So .............. Feb Mch.
Gillette Safety Razor Co.. ,59d
Hnpp Motor Car Corp. a.,
2Afe ;;..,t,,o xsrt'.'ii
Nash Motors Co. a, $1.75 pf ian. 10 Feb.
Nash Motors Co.. a.. $l.T5,
a. pf ,ooc,, .;;:i, IAN ~ ftp'
Prairie Pipe Line, ex.. 2o0fo
stock .s..... .'.-.. ..-.....
Sinclair Cons. Oil Corp, g."
Sinclair Cons. Oil Corp, g..
81 .....-........ ......Feo. 10 FeD' %
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ENORMOUS COKE OUTPUT.

UNIONTOWN, Pa. January IL (Spe-
cial) Coke production came near the
200, ,000-ton mark last week. Car short
age held back shipments, With ade-
quate car supply this district would shat
ter all shipment records. Furnace coke
sold at $7.75, with little spot available.
The best products of bi-product Con-
nellsville is going at 1926 with large
amounts ready for deliveries.
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FIRM TO REoRGANIzE,

NEW YORK. January 11.-Reorgan-
ization OF the Federal Adding Ma
chine Corporation. recently placed in
the hands of receiver. is announced
Control has been purchased by Joseph
F. OGorman. w. S. Pitcairn. AIexan-
der Alexander and Arlington Hall. 1t
was stated that $4,000 shares of no
par value value new stock would be
issued under the name OF Federal
Adding Machines, Inc.
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INDUSTRIES FOR BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE, January II. - Five
new industries withra plant invest
ment of $565.000 and six expansions
which will total $9o5,o00 were added
to Baltimore's industrial community
last month, according to report pre-
pared by the board of trade. The
most important of, the onew.rindustrtes
was the window shade cloth factory
Of eLapsley~ 6 Bro. Company
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CANADIAN WHEAT EXPORTS.

OTTAWA, January 11.-Canadian ex-
ports of wheat during December totaled
4O,669.119 bushels, valued at $46,110,-,
896, the external trade branch of the
dominion bureau of statistics announced
today. OF this total 33,433,4 ,457 bushels
valued at $3S,743.613. went to Great
Britain, 6,13O,079 bushels. worth $685.
1913, being shipped from Canadian sea-
ports, while the remainder went via
ports of the United States.
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PLANT IN EAST PLANNED.

NEWARK. N. j.. January 1.-THE
Western Electric Company OF Chicago
has bought from Joseph =. Day, Inc,
fifty-fiye acres of the Kearny mead
ow. midway between Newark and
Jersey City, on which an eastern
factory will be built to supplement
operations at its. Hawthorne plant,
Chicago. The reported price was said
to exceed 100000.
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Cleveland Now Enjoying
Lively Business Boom
special Dispatch to The Star.


CLEVELAND. January 11.-Indus-
trial operations are proceeding at
decidedly increased rate, according to
employment figures compiled today.
Reports from 100 of the larger plants
here show that 26 per cent more work
ers are employed today than on the
corresponding date Year ago. Thirty
firms have Signified their intention of
adding to their forces before Febru-
airy !.
Companies making automobiles and
motor parts nave increased their pay
rolls for the first time since last July.
Logging Industry Picks Up.
SEATTLE. January IL (Speciall.
There is at last pickup in the
logging industry after weeks or
idleness caused by SHOWS in the hills.
Japan again is in the market for
building timbers after a cessation
of buying due to disturbed financial
conditions in that country and orders
are coming in to all Pacific coast
lumber centers.
Seek South American Trade.
SAN FRANCISCO. January IL (Spe-.
ciaD.- delegation of San Francisco
business men will leave here January
% for a visit to the cities of South
America to develop trade relations.
Although the larger .partaof the visit
will be devoted to Chile and Peru.
Brazil and Argentina also Will be
visited
Special Dividend Declared.
HOUSTON, January IL (SpeciaD.-
The special per cent dividend de-
clared by the Houston Federal Lands
Bank, in addition to the regular per
cent, will be distributed shortly. Seven
million dollars of the 100000 Fed
eral Land Bank bonds just sold viii
be devoted to loans in this district.
Loans in December amounted to $3,-
$4,000. or so per cent more than for
any other month in the banks his
tory.
Copyright 1927
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CAR FOR EVERY 8 PERSONS.

NEW YORK. January 1.-THE year
1922 ended with 12.357.376 automobiles
and motor, trucks on the roads OF the
United States-a gain OF 1,S51,716, or
17.6 per cent over registration figures
for 1921-Says a report made public by
the automotive industries. The figures
mean a car of some sort for every 81
persons in the country.
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WESTERN MARYLAND GAINS.

BALTIMORE. January 11.-Gross
earnings of the Western Maryland
Railway Company last year were
$18,560,705, an increase of $s17,651 as
compared with the previous year. ac-
cording to an estimate given out by
the company yesterday. December was
q good month. gross showing an in
crease of $332.943 as compared with
the same month In 1921.
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BAR SILVER PRICES.

bar Silver, 65h; Mexican dollars,
LONDON. January 11.-Bar silver,
81 9-I6 pence per ounce. Money, u
per cent. Discount rates short bills,
2ha2A per cent. Three month bills,
2 5s16a2 y per cent.
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BERLIN B0URSE FIRM.

BERLIN, January 11.-Despite the
disturbed political situation, the Ber-
lin bourse was relatively firm yester-
day, even Rhenish industrials and
mining stocks being called for.
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PARIS, January 11.-Prices were firm
on the bourse today. Three per cent
rentes, So francs, 80 centimes. Ex-
change on London, 81 francs Is cen-
times. Five per cent loan, rs francs
20 .centimes. The dollar was quoted at
: II francs AIN centimes. -
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TOTAL SALES (Par VaIue):
II a.m... 3 600 IL noon.. $4,000
1p.m.... 7s6sooo 2p.m.... s0s2 600
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CONDITION OF LOCAL BANKS.

comparative statement shows the condition of local
by the controller September Is December 1922
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which was once D. VS. throne, and
hopes "to Great as many comedy
stars here as Griffith created dra
matte stars"
That makes lapse of Il years,
just half Whites lifetime. He
was earning 81 . week in a hard
ware store when Mack Sennett of.
fered him sc as an office boy in the
old home of Keystone Comedies,
where Charlie Chaplin was just get
ting started, Fatty Arbuckle was an
extra. and where Ford Sterling,
Mabel Normand and Fred Mace were
the big stars. Around the studio he
was a Jack OF all work. gradually
focusing his time and study on film
cutting.
Acting didn't interest him. The
business of making pictures did.
-four years in the cutting room. :"
he said, "shOwcd me an unbelievable
number of directors errors. Patch
ing UP their work was like writing
story from dictionary-so jun
blcd and haphazard was most of the
film. / felt | couldn't pull so many
bloomers. and so, lcaning before look
ing. / launched out for myself. put
ting all had into q comedy called
Roaring Lions and Wedding Bells.
That PUT me on the man as n direc-
tor. and from that venture grew
first the Jack White Comedies, and,
after Lloyd Hamilton and | had
joined forces, the Mermaid Come
dies"
Jack White has amasSed COM
Portable personal fortune in those l.
years. and will this year spend Il gross
of nearly million on production. Di-
vide the million by the 5000 year
White used TO get as Il hardware
store roustahout and you have the
dollar equation in the spectacular
climb of an "inquisitive kid"
Such success as l have had" he
claims, lis probably due TO my rcali-
cation that, while the desire TO laugh
is probably the least common denomi-
nator among all people. it takes more
than mere comedy label to make a
comedy.
Audiences advance three times as
fast in their critical attitude toward
comedy as they do toward drama.
Many producers and actors catering
to the risibles failed TO perceive this
and were left by the wayside.
"A playgoer's Judgment on film
is frequently blinded by an actors
ability to start n tear, but seldom by
his efforts TO be funny. That's why
comedies have TO exercise closer
craftsmanship. Naturally, the pro-
duccrs who shot wild came home with
empty sacks. and exhibitors accepted
comedies generally merely as program
filters.
I'VE are now trying to keep pace
with audiences by making comedies
as sincere and human as the better
dramas"
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down to Wall Street and got a job

down to Wall Street and got a job
as a clerk.
Bijou Fernandez was scouting for
talent for the Goldwyn company and
quite by accident saw young Haines
She was introduced to Haines and
then introduced him TO Robert Nc
lntyre, the casting director. He was
part of the background in Souls for
Sale and was given his first oppor-
tunity to splash about bit in Three
Wise Fools
Haines is six feet, weighs 172 and,
according to the dope at hand. has
"a brunei personality" whatever
that is.
Being a mere neophyte he talks
like Merton Gill when asked about
the movies as an art. He says. "Thc
screen needs more mysticism, a great
scope of fancy and more subtle an.
peal of beauty" (After he has sail
that as often as this writer has he'll
begin to believe that motion picture
producers and directors have tin
ears.)
Girls, I'll tell you again, this
Haines boy is a whiz bang as Ia
looks. II he learns TO act. I'll with
draw my bet on Alfred Lunt and put
it on him in the Matinee Idol Sweep
stakes.
Another player on the screen this
week who engages the attention il
Madge Kennedy in The Purple
Highway" Miss Kennedy is beauti-
full, graceful. intelligent. She has Ill
the requisites of star. However. it
must be reported that "The Purp.c
Highway" which was based on the
stage play, "Dear Me-" is a woful
fizzlc.
"Dear Me" was an extraordinarily
good play because of its simplicity.
The picture based on it is cytraor.
dinarily poor because Henry Kolker.
the director. threw all the tvnical
flim-flnm extravagances he could de-
wise into it.
Excellent contrast Of methods in
transferring stage plays to the screen
is offered nv "The Three Wise Fools"
and "The Purple Highway
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ties, il we are to heed the cry of the
press agent. The stars twinkle contin.
ually in consultations and singly and
among those who appear are Agnes
Ayres. Betty Compson. Thoma,
Meighan. JacQueline Lobgan, JACK
Holt, Theodore Kosloff. Mia Naldi.
Lila Lee. Anna q. Nilsson. Pola Ne
gri. Lois Wilson and William $. Hast
The story is cleverly conceived.
1t concerns pretty girl in small
town who thinks that she should be
in the movies and who is urged by
her friend TO enter. She is OF n poor
family and has an ailing grand
father. Using the need of n change
Of air for her grandfather. she visits
Hollywood on funds provided by the
sale of the lot on which the family
home has Just burned. a donation
of the grandmother. who is certain
the girl will succeed.
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who rears her sleek children by the

who rears her sleek children by the
million.
Eggs magnified to the size of n
balloon; the larva afloat in its jelly
case; babies gnawing their way out
of wax cells; nurse bees sedulously
guarding the virgin queen; honey
bearers gathering sweets which they
may never eat drone dandies i'm
prisoned for a day of fate: the royal
matron. with sting like curved
scimiter, killing her potential celled
rivals-these vital processes and So
cial phases of the bee colony. as here
citured. are indeed 1.-THE Secrets of
Life" garnered from its very matrix.
The same intimate details of the
ants being are also divulged-a life
still more advanced in the entomo-
logical scale than that of the bee. ac-
cording to Tolhurst, who has studied
insects with the lens for 81 wears.
A cross-section of an ant hill. Gun.
ningly secured, illuminates the text
Go to the ant. thou slugSard." Hero
occur prodigious feats of strength and
energy. Here again, as with the bee.
romance is for the select few while
toll and travail is for the many. Black
armored giants, fearless knights of
the lesser world, go forth to battle or,
on the bridal Morn, go homesteading
on gossamer wings.
Women and children first is the
slogan in the ant hill. and Tolhurst.
with the patience Of the scientist and
the feeling of the artist, has put its
implications on the screen in striking
fashion.
The spider and the fly enact their
immemorial drama in the third nic-
iure. and it is grinping conflict when
the two are magnificd TO human size.
Walter Anthony's deft titling If
THE Secrets Of Life" conveying the
necessary explanations with poetic
pith and delicrcy. adds the final
measure of eyeellerce 10 series Of
films (which for novelty. information
and entertainment l rate 100 per
cent.
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Bill Haines Is Handsome.

William Haines will now step for
ward and be hit by the critical ash
can and the kliegls of public dissec-
ton.
Bill, you're a handsome dog. You're
the answer to the maiden's prayer
the prayers of thousands of maidens
and grandmas who will soon be writ
ing crush notes and asking for your
dashing signature on the diverse side
of your latest tin-type.
Bill. you're n long way from being
an actor in ''Thrce Wise Fools" youc
first movie. However, YOU show
promise of becoming a pretty fair sort
of actor because you seem TO have
avoided all the little sterotyped tricks
of the jumping flickers.
But why should lucky cuss with
a face like yours worry about acting?
When fellow can glide across the
screen and make feminine hearts
skip a beat. why, boy. he's made :
That's considering the art of the
motion picture neither here nor there.
It's lust SO.
"Three Wise Fools" is thorough en-.
ipu S'iuolii iifHtt
with such whimsical pantomimists ~
Claude Gillingwater. William II
Crane and Alec Francis. OF course,
they carry the bigger mart Of the on
tertainment. but. say. Bill. when you
come an the screen the girls begin TO
flutter and their fellows begin to bite
their fingernails in jealous discount
ture. Bill. you're there. at least your
foce is, like the mug Of Michael Hille.
gas on ten-snot yellowback.
Now. girls. I'll tell you a bit about
this Billy Haines.
He was born on the first day ri
this century Mt stanton. Va. III,
went to the military academy in TIM.
town and then ran away from home.
He worked in a powder nlnnt and
made hig lack for a kid of his years.
He drifted about the country and
then landed in New York.
Bills father was n broker and so
when Bill hit the big town he went
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LOUISE FAZENDA

BILE monsters of the infinite jungles
beyond the ken of the average my
opic mortal. a new realm just be-
ginning to be explored by the micro
movie. And only the dullard will
fail to respond to their destinations.
Tolhurst microscopically invades the
hive home of $4,000 bees, where the
busy insect housewife. often praised
but fortunately seldom emulated,
works herself to death in six weeks
as reward for her industry. There is a
closeup of the hive queen, magnificent
siren whom it is fatal to court and
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Having nothing but beauty in her
favor: she cannot get chance: but
the grandfather, being type is
practically forced into film work 10y
runners for producers. II, takes
on airs. is an honored guest at the
homes of the stars. while the girl
who expected TO prove sensation
in pictures depends upon him for
her living.
Tho old chap becomes so gay the
girl writes home without making
her letter plain. The grandmother
and an old maid of the family rush
to Hollywood on money the Cd fell
low sent home. They. are both
nabbed as types and. get into pie
lures. The girl finally marries. and
her twins are Communicated for
pictures. Every one connected with
her gets into pictures bit she, her
self.
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Gossip About Film Folk
Louise Fazenda Forsakes Slapstick Comedy for
"Nobler and Better Things"

"cold light" of Tolhurst's new co-or-
dination OF cinema and microscopic
processes, the life of these creatures is
presented in natures unbridled play of
war, love. motherhood, stratagem, 10y
atty and villany.
Lens power magnifies the ant and
the bee to the size of man on the
screen. They are beautiful or terri
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Jack Whites Rise.

In the days when Hollywood was
a village, Jack White used to sneak
into the old Fine Arts studio to
watch d. W. Griffith screen his
early masterpieces.
The inQuisitive youngster, tolcr-
ated on the lot because he was so
deadly in earnest to pick up crumbs
of production technique. developed n
deep sentimental attachment for TIT
place which didn't wane as White
himself began to make name in the
picture field.
Today, Jack White. producer of
comedies, in association with Lloyd
Hamilton, occupies the renovated
Fine Arts studio with five units of
$50 people. close rival of Hal
Roach in the slap-stick field.
He occupies the old swivel chair
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BY JACK JUNGMEYER.

Hollywood, Cal, Aug. 11.-Louisc
Fazenda is big girl now. She's
DOTTED the outlandish toys and the UNI
couth manner of the screen dumbbell
for the air and plumage of sophistica
ton.
The Transformation of filmland'S
most foolish flapper is startling even
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HOLLYWOOD COMING
EMPIRE FEATURE HAS
A CAST OF 22 STARS
Photoplay Reveals Inside
Story of Life in Movie
Colony.

Interest again centers on the En-
pire with Hollywood" coming 20 that
theater, next Saturday for an engage
ment of one week. This is the photo
play that reveals the inside story Of
life in the pictmeque movie colony in
a humorous fashion.
The picture boasts Of cast OF
some 30 stars and 65 screen personali-