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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-18
THEA1REs


The famous characters of Thack-
eray's novel VANITY Fair" live again
upon the screen in Hugo Ballin's pic
%turization of that great book at the
Ditmas theatre where this Goldwyn-
distributed p~hotoplay was shown last
night for the first time. Each one
}of the characters is acted with the
sharp and straight stroke of an
etcher. The picturesque costumes of
the early nineteenth century-at the
time of the battle of Waterloo-add
at~traetiyeness and color to the pro-
duction. The photoplay is clear and
the lighting skilfully managed. The
entire production shows the trained
hand of it's artist-director, Hugo Bal
lin.
While there are several spectacular
scenes in the picture-such as the
ball in Brussels on the w of the
battle of Waterloo and glimpses of
that historic battle itself-Mr. Bal
lin has stressed the human, appeal
ing side of Thackeray's famous story.
1t is the life-likeness OF the char
.aeters, the e~ngrossing and dramatic
story which is told, that makes this
production rank among the biggest
things the films have to their credit.
1t grips the heart as well as tickles
ones funny bone.
Mabel Balm adds to her artistic
stature by her performance of the
pert, designing Becky Sharp-a truly
fine impersonation. She has the
capable assistance of one Of the
years best casts. Among the players
are Hobart Bosworth, Eleanor
Boardman, George Walsh, Harrison
Ford, Earle Foxe, Willard Louis,
Robert Mack and a score more.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-18
Coming TO the Majestic

Original and novel songs and
dances are said to furnish many de-
lightful surprises to those fortunate
enough to witness the performances
of youthful Follies'' coming to the
Majestic tomorrow, Wednesday, mat
inee and night. Two daily perform
ances will be given-one at night
and one in the afternoon, the latter
being the now well established ia
dies matinee youthful Follies''
is said to carry the spirit of youth
in both it's production and its cast.
OF the latter Eddie Cole, is the par
ticular bright star while other lu-
minaries of brilliancy are Dollie
Davis. Harry Morris, Julia Clifford,
Myrtle Andrews, Harold Kennedy,
Stab and Bartlett, Harvey Brooks.
George Seymour and Helen DeVere.
The production is magnificently
staged, the young girls are smartly
and becomingly costumed, %particu-
larry in the bathing scenes, and are
capable and snappy in the dancing
and singing numbers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-18
Strand Attraction

1t needed twelve hundred acres to
produce "The Law of the Lawless!"
Just across the hills from Hollywood
lies the famous Lasky ranch, scene
of many motion pictures. 1t was
chosen because within its confines
are to be found almost every type
Of scenery in the vicinity of Los
Angeles-hills, small forests, broad
pastures, a small river and swamps.
The Lasky ranch measures twelve
hundred acres and Director Victor
Fleming filmed every acre of the
twelve hundred in making 1.-THE
Law of the Lawless," Dorothy Dali
toms newest Paramount star picture
now on view at the Strand Theatre.
The story marks the American de-
but of Charles de Roche, a famous
French screen actor. 1t is a tale of
life of the nomad tribes of the Do
brudja, a district in Roumania.
Almost every stage setting in the
picture requires ample room and
practically all of them are exteriors.
So the company-Director Fleming,
Dorothy Dalton, Theodore Kosloff.
Charles de Roche, Tully Marshall,
Margaret LOOMS, Fred Huntley and
the staff-practically transferred its
headquarters to the ranch.
For days the company worked in
the huge Tartar village covering
several acres of its own and the re-
gion adjoining this massive struc-
ture. Then came the gypsy camp in
a broad valley. And there are scenes
of the gypsy tribe en- route to a new
camp-again requiring plenty Of
Photographic space. Fight scenes,
rides, chases and dozens of minor
scenes requiring distinctive scenery
carried the company over almost
every foot of the twelve hundred
acres al their disposal.
Tasty Dessert
Vanilla tao earrvAl - ---.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-18

BY a Hearse
PEMBERTON, Lancashire.-Mich-
ael Cheetham, %, after jumping off
a tramway car, was knocked down
and killed-by a motor hearse.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-18

Tasty Dessert
Vanilla ice served in an orange
is an unusual and delicious dessert.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06
New York Day by Day
BY O. o. M'INTYRE.

New York. April strong around New
world There the breath of the
shops shops One with armed
pot general delivery windows Fat bathhouse
5 as tr %Sm a F bm s s ' se % Pu p
Hers frightened looks There's blind seller
Eat there and ca Stuned old Chinese
Warm snuggly Bowery candy Pass
by day lonely as spuyten Duyvil .
Flap juggers looking spotless and joyia able
Bwery
the Bowery not refined? Mission schools Dim lit hotels with
of efficiency kindly
rademen than those of the Bowe There human sympathy
burleque
boys windows framing of Harding
tacde children defying death in the roaring street.
Dress suit renting pO Some Of the big st down here
o % are wea no mSts O Ss Hys &
Shoot em Ithaca New Haven And look
darned old world
exploits young man
who climbed the outside walls of the Hotel Martinique the tenth
waved to the crowds and then suddenly fell the sidewalk proved his
maker who saw the young man fall
, What was your reacton?' asked
idea the world tumbng in and falling
remember clerk throwing a
subway guard
life hermit the outskirts of the
Philippines
stand the rattle and ca of New Works trains and suad
he living
he could be satisfied Such should
human the versatile editor The Subway
Sun but to date be has not used it.
cobblers window a off Broadway
MY growing DIM work but not so fast
anything 70 to m
Copyright 1928, by The Mcknight Syndicate. Incl
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PROHIBITION A LA BASTINADO

Turkey, under the benign influence
of Moscow in international affairs, is
beginning to ape the United States in
domestic governance. If it pursues much
farther the course upon which it set out
recently with the PRONUNCIATION of an
cdict by the Angora government, it will
soon be free country.
But Turkey has gone" the United
States cone better"-which means zone
worse"-in the manifestation of free
dom. Whereas this country has both
constitutional amendment and law
debating what beverages the people
shall not drink, the land of the Islamites
has undertaken to attain in CONSTANT
nople the same impossible end through
the medium of instructions" issued by
the opponents of holy wars. However,
the difference is not so clean-cut as
might be inferred from this comparison
alone
In neither Turkey nor America did
the people, whatever the kind, quality
or degree of their freedom, authorize
the infliction of prohibition upon them
selves So far as freedom in this re-
spect is concerned, they have n super
abundance of it-they are free from
participation in the dsservice which
their government is performing. They
have been relieved of great response
bility; shouldn't they be thankful for
that!
There arc superficial differences be-
tween the American and Turkish meth
DDS of attempting to enforce the stump
tuary doctrine. In general terms, COM
pulsion is the means adopted in both
cases. But there are forms and forms
of compulsion. The average American
citizen is familiar with the methods en-
ployed in his own country BY prohibit
ton enforcement agents. He knows, too,
that the use of such methods has only
aggravated the liquor problem. In Tur-
key the bastinado is the authorized de-
vice to compel the populace to forget
its thirst
What is a "bastinado"? That is a
natural question. Sounds like "incom'
municado." But it isn't. However, the
! bastinado is an instrument for com
municadoing' with those who take ;
drink in Constantinople 1t is described
} as a long pliable stick. Whack! whack
whack fifty whacks and the prohibi
ton enforcement agent in Constants
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Pointed Paragraphs

An irresistible impulse is one we
yearn TO follow.
Luxury is aat to transform pleas
ures into burdens.
Marriage occasionally sobers a man
who is intoxicated with love.
Little mice gnaw at a big cheese
and little vices gnaw at great vir-
tue.
Frequently love makes man think
more of the girl than he does of him
self.
The price of liberty is eternal vigi-
lancc-payable in advance.
A few years more and there VIII
be no log cabins left for great men
TO he horn in.
Quarrel about trifles If you really
must quarrel. The less one has to
quarrel about the better.
How foolish it is TO kick when your
| neghbor calls you a donkey.
Many boy thinks that he will be-
his own boss when he reaches mans
estate. but then he proceeds to get
married.
A man never knows what woman
rcally thinks of him until after he
has been married to her for at least
six weeks.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06

ing present tasks and to qualify
portance. He is as conspicuously
studious as his unambitious fellow
worker is lacking in studiousness. In
stead of devotiIg all his leisure to
amusement, as the latter does, he gives
much o. it to thinking about business
affairs.
And since the mind, like the body,
grows with exercise, the ambitious
worker continually gains in power to
think to advantage. Entrusted with
new responsibilities, he does not
falter under them as would the men
tally inert, but meets them efficiently.
Thus, little by little, he rises because.
motivated by ambition, he has fitted
himself to rise.
Clearly, then, it would seem TO fol-
low that, as result of the prompt
ings of ambition, it is entirely possible
for a worker inferior to another in
point of Unborn ability TO outdistance
that other in tie competitions of bust
ness life. Every day observation, for
that matter, goes TO bear this out.
So that there is the soundest of
psychological reasons for the advice,
Aim high which, in common with
Mr.. Carnegie. so many of the eminent
ly successful give to business begin
ners. Neglect TO act in accordance
with this advice, whether from sheer
Indifference or from mistrust of ones
powers, is among the commonest of
all causes for the failure of multi
tudes to get on in the world
Copyright. 1928. by The Associated
Newspapers)
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nople's city will have communicated tc
his victim the fact that drinking is for.
hidden.
Perhaps it won't be so bad after all
For the bastinadee will have had his
drink before the bastinador gets into
action. Post-punishment would be pref
cradle to pre-punishment in that the
.punishee might not be so sensitive after
as before taking whatever it is they
take in Turkey to drive dull care away.
Moreover, it might not be bad idea
to introduce the bastinado in America.
What's the odds, so long as ones thirst
is quenched? Here even those who are
anticipating a drink are taken into GUS
tody and required to show cause why.
Usually they undertake to show cause
why not, and sometimes are punished
for that-tcchnically for contempt of
court
So. bring on the bastinado, and let
the thirsty choose between it and free
dom from the allegation that they are
freemen. Judging by common, daily oc-
currences, the majority would prefer the
beating.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06
Aim High!
BY ii. Addington Bruce.

One of the secrets of Andrew Car
negie's industrial success, it often has
been said, was his uncommon gift
for surrounding himself with able
lieutenants. According to biogra-
ply this gift was at least partly ex-
planned by his prediction for the am
bilious:
HE did not want the sort of man
who cheerfully became an under-dog.
And he considered such an attitude as
purely acquire.
He held that a man might as
easily wish himself overlordship as
servitude. That was Characteristic of
Mr.. Carnegie. He thoroughly be-
lieved that man could, so to speak,
will himself to power"
This, of course, raises an interest
ing question. question also of par
ticular significance to beginners in
business or professional life. For il
suggests that ambition not merely has
an energizing effect, but that it ac-
tually increases ability.
And, in an important sense, such
is demonstrably the case. Constrast
hat happens in the personal de-
velopment of the unambitious and the
ambitious.
When o boy or young man begins
his working career with no keen de-
termination to progress, he soon sets
in to live and work by routine. The
tasks assigned him he perhaps per-
forms faithfully enough. But he is
likely TO do them mechanically rather
than intelligehtly, and certainly il
never occurs, to him TO give any
thought to business problemc and duties
not Immediately connected with what
he personally is called upon TO do
All of which means that whatever
natural ability he possess is left to q
large extent unused. Still worse. il
accordance with the psychophysica
law that disuse means atrophy. oil
shrivelling. the longer the non-think
ing habit continues the less capable
becomes the mentally inert one OF
responding effectively TO any oppor
tunities for advancement that may
come to him.
The ambitious Ieginner. on the OPP
posite. applies himself both to master
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06
BILL AND JOE

Come, dear old comrade, you and /
Will steal an hour from days gone by
The shining days when life was new,
And all was bright with morning dew,
The lusty days of long ago,
When you were Bill and l was Joe.
Your name may flaunt titled trail,
Proud as a cockerePs rainbow tan;
And mine as brief appendix wear
As Tam O'Shanter's luckless mare;
Today, old friend, remember still
That l am Joe and you are Bill
You've won the great worlds envied prize,
And grand you look in peoples eyes,
With III o n and l. d.
In big brave letters, fair to SEE
Your fist, old fellow! off they go!--
How are you, Bill? How are you, Joe?
You've worn the judges ermined robe;
You've taught your name to half the globe;
You've sung mankind a deathless strain;
You've made the dead past live again;
The world may call YOU what it will,
But you and i are Joe and Bill
The cbaffing young folks stare and say,
"See the old buffers, bent ana gray
They talk like fellows in their teens! :.
Mad moor old boys, That's what it means, -
And shake their heads; they little know
The throbbing hearts of Bill and jazz
How Bill forgetS ms hOur OF piiue'
While Joe sits smiling Mt his side:
How Joe, in spite of times disguise,
Find the old schoolmate in his eyes,
Those calm, stern eyes that melt and III
As Joe looks fondly up at Bill.
All. pensive scholar. what is fame!
A ftful tongue of leaping flame:
A eiddy whirlwind's tickle gust.
That lifts pinch of mortal rust;
A few swift years. and who can show
Which dust was Bill and which was Joe
The weary idol takes his stand.
Holds out his bruised and aching hand
While gasping thousands come and co.
How vain it seems. this empty show!
Till all at once his pulses thrill =
IT'S moor old Joe's God bless you, Bill!
And shall We breathe in happier spheres
The names that pleased our mortal ears
Tn some sweet lul Of harp and song
For earth-born spirits none too long,
lust whispering Of the world below
Where this was Bill and that was Joef
No matter. while our home is here
No sounding name is half dear:
when fades Mt length our lingering day.
Who cares What nnrnpous tomhstonos say?
pcaiJ on tho hcr~ts thet love us still.
He jacet joe Hic jacct Pill
Oliver Wendell Holm'
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06
Watching the Parade
BY John Pilgrim.

I do not mind being candid with
strangers. Being wholly openminded
to acquaintance does not bother me
a great deal. But / detest being
firm with a friend. If Mrs. Darden-
Nichols had given me even a small
hole to sneak through l would have
sneaked. She didn't.
Listen" / said, fretfully, having
recently yielded to the prevalent
habit of prefacing every sentence with
"listen,' as though | were rail-
road crossing post. Listen. Where do
YOU get that stuff, anyhow? What
makes you think we want to meet
'em?"
Mrs. Darden- Nichols was mentally
wrecked. She gobbled and choked.
"Why-why-why," she said. II
thought, of course, you'd want TO meet
them. | was so sure you would both
be pleased"
"Neither of us would be- I said.
snortily. 'And next time you feel
yourself yielding to an impulse to do
something nice for some one, you
go ard have yourself locked up. Be-
cause the chances are you'll gum the
cards.
She is one of chose well-intentioned
persons who come so near making this
world unlivable for the rest of us. She
bubbles with helpful desires. She
means so well. She had just planned
an evening in which Mrs. Pilgrim and
her Tut-ankh-Amen woulu be set Wis
avis to a pair of old friends we bit
terly hate nowadays. They hate us,
too.
1t isn't as simple to be little sun
beam ia this world of sin as it might
seem. A good deal of the social ice
has airholes in it, through which the
unwary sunbeam breaks through.
Never mind the mixed metaphor.
Many an evening that should have
been. pleasant has been wrecked be-
cause some one meant well.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06
THEY NEED THE MONEY

The badly busted Black crowd at the
city hall is sending out itenized tax
statements to the citizens of San An
tonic although the final date for paying
taxes is not until May 81. It is ap-
parent, of course, that the Black admin
istration needs the money By mailing
these statements out now, some tax
payers not we'll versed in city affairs
may go to the city hall and pay their
taxes. This will provide little more
ready money for conducting the Black
administration.
1t is probable, however, that a vast
majority of tax payers will take advan-
tage of the full time allowed them under
the law in the hopes that business ad-
ninistration will succeed the Black ad-
ministration and the hard-earned dollars
paid in by the tax payers will be de-
voted to some useful purpose.
No additional evidence is needed of
the unfitness of the Black administration
to hold office but were it needed, the
tax statements now in the hands of San
Antonio tax payers would be conclusive
Never in the history of this city have
taxes been advanced so radically and so
heavily through manipulation of the
property valuations.
Although the Black administration,
by this method, succeeded in bringing
to the city's treasury, an immense sum
of money, in the brief preiod of two
years, it has exhausted the city's fl
nances until today it is doubtful if it
can raise enough money to ride to the
inglorious end of its inglorious career.
Far be it from this newspaper to ad-
wise tax payers not to pay city taxes, but
we deem it only fair to call attention of
those now receiving their tax statements
from the city hall to the fact that they
do not have to pay taxes prior to May
81 and no penalty can be assessed
against them until after that date.
We also deem it only fair to tell them
that city election is coming soon, that
they have it in their power to completely
change the administration now in office
and to put the affairs of this city in the
hands of responsible businessmen. They
can then pay their taxes with some as
surance that they will get something for
their money besides hot air.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06
THE PATTER OF THE RAIN

When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres,
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in raining tears,
What a joy TO press the pillow
OF a cottage chamber bed,
And to listen to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead.
Every patter on the shingles
Has an echo of the heart.
Many long forgotten fancies
Into being quickly start,
And a thousand recollections
Weave their bright hues into wool
As | listen to the patter
OF the soft rain on the roof.
Now in memory comes my mother,
As she used long years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers,
Ere she left them to the dawn.
Oh. / see her bending DER me
As | list to the refrain
Which is played upon the shingles
BY the patter of the rain.
Coates Kline.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06
ALWAYS LECTURING US

The various peoples of Europe must
have strange ideas of Americans. They
concede us ability of certain sort; they
admit that we are one of the greatest
nations that has ever existed; they
acknowledge that we are rich and power
full; that we are a fairly decent sort
to have as a neighbor and grant us
various other good traits. For all that,
however, they seem to have poor idea
of Our understanding. They seem to
hold strongly to the belief that we can
not "get' things or that we are unable
to make up Our own minds about any
thing
This peculiar quirk in the European
intellect has been shown repeatedly by
persons who come over here to Explain
things TO us. They evidently conside
US unable to grasp a general idea. Glenn
enccau came over here to convert us t,
his idea of what France should do il
the matter of the German reparations
He said that he did not desire to commi
the inpertinence of trying to make II
our minds for us but he worked to tina
end and no other. He merely wante
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-06

us to understand" That was what he
said. What he really wanted was for us
to understand things as he understands
them.
Now comes Lord Robert Cecil of Eng
land TO tell us about the League of Ma
tons. He is not trying to convert us
to the idea of joining the league. Oh,
dear no. He would not for the world
be guilty of the discourtesy of trying to
suggest to us what we should do and
what we should not do in the little mat
ter of becoming member of that body.
We have perfect right, says Lord
Robert, to do as we choose in such mat
tiers. We knew that before he told us
but he just desires to confirm our iudg-
ment.
The plain truth of the mission OF Lord
Robert Cecil is that he is anxious to do
what he can to bring the United States
into the League of Nations. One would
think that when the people of the United
States had rejected by a majority of
more than 100000 votes the PROPOSE
ton that we become members of the
League of Nations we should be credited
with having definitely declared ourselves.
Lord Robert understands all that-of
course he understands it, but, he Just
wants to clear up few ideas of ours
that have gone bit wrong. Not that
he wishes to interfere; goodness, no; but
it might be just possible, you know, that
there are few little details on which
we have not been correctly informed.
He is willing to explain these little mat
tiers to us if we will just listen bit.
We must confess that this everlasting
condescension of various people in
Europe gives us large and constantly
increasing pain. We know Our own
business as we'll as the average mortal
ever does know it and we certainly do
know what we desire to do in relation
to the never-ending squabbles of Europe.
We are growing bit tired of having
somebody always trying to send us to
school and learn of their superior wis
dom. In Our opinion Lord Robert Cecil
would make mighty good picture stand
inC on the deck of an eastward-bound
steamer. We have nothing against him
personally, except that he causes mental
fatigue, but we are fed up with this lee
ture business.
The United States understands the
League of Nations and has declared that
it wants none of it. 1t is not at all
probable that we will change Our minds.
The thing has done nothing but run an
expense account ever since it was born
and it will never do anything else. We
need OUR money for the purpose of pay
ing Our debts and decreasing the we'll
nigh intolerable burden of taxation under
which business is staggering today. We
are going to use none of that money for
the purpose Of pacifying all the fools in
Europe who persist in quarreling all the
time.
We have no desire to be impolite to
Lord Robert Cecil, but we wish he
would go home or shut up. 1t would
do no harm if he did both.