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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
Norma I Talmadge Comes To Trianon
 In Greatest Roll In "Song Of Loue"

Norma Talmadge has stolen march on the makers of sheik photoplays by introducing the Ouled Nail dancing girl to the screen.
 And those who have seen the fiery scenes between Joseph Schildkraut, in his Arabian role. and Norma Talmadge as the Ouled Nail dancing girl, .The Song of Love-" predict that the sheik will go down to ignominous oblivion when both feminine and masculine theatre patrons see Norma in the sen suous dances of the mysterious orient. Norma Talmadge in 'The Song Of Love" will be the attraction at the Trianon this week.
 When Norma made her first appear anee as an Ouled Nail dancer at the United Studios, there was such de mand to see her in her dancing cos tune that the director, Chester Frank lin, was forced to put up three sets of excluding flats" to keep out visit ing actors. and actresses
 But they got in somehow and looked through the angles of the canvas screens, climbed. up on parallels. craned around corners and peeked through knot holes just the same. A
 It's new Norma the world will see in The Song of Love-" Norma who displays all the fiery emotion of which she. is capable. As an Ouled Nail dancing girl Norma makes all the aheiks of the screen look insipidly pale.
 This is drafna of the Algerian Sa- hara, produced by Joseph M. Schenck, produced by Joseph NJ. Schenck and released. through First National.
 Norma Talmadge dances her way into the action of ''The Song of Love-, D her latest love drama, stirring tale of Arabian desert romance Norma s advent in, the picture brings her for the first time with her new leading man, Joseph Schildkraut
 Norma plays the part of tempest uous dancing girl, whose uncles runs the gambling house and plots the over throw of the French in Algiers. She falls in love with Schildkraut, a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
BLACKJACK TEAM
 HEAD LYRIC BILL
Other Clever Acts Round Out We'll Balanced Program
 First Half Week

Anniversary week is over, but pat rons of the Lyric are promised that, the show that will be given. them the first half of this week will make chen think that the Lyric is still celebrating, Lots of entertainment is promised in the which make up the program, with several delightful screen novelties.
 For the headliner there Is one of the most unusual vaudeville black face acts. It is ''Coontown Diyorcons," with King and Irwin. Harrison Dixon's "Old Reliable" stores have done much to create demand for Legro characteri- zation. The demand has been fulfilled with a vengeance in "Coontown Dlvorcons," and King and Irwin, who are presentig this little satire, are do- ing their share in giving it the best possible deiineation. "Coontown Di- vorcons" is frequently termed, by those who have seen it as colored classic. It certainly accomplished it's purpose in producing plantations of laughter.
 The added attraction offers more comedy by Howard Smith and Mildred Barker in Good Medicine" a one-act comedy that is said to be corker. A critic says it is full of clever situations set off by sparkling dialogue with Mir. Smith and Miss Barker at their best.
 Music is the thing in the special feature. Billie Williams Mountaineers present Cycle of Music" with yer satile woman musician featured. The mountaineers are quartet, three men and girl, offering a last word in jazz.
 Rounding out the bill are Hal Berg and Jack English, two dark horses of the screen, and Jess Block and Fran cine Dunlop in Broke" comedy TO- nance in songs and dances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

'French spy, who in turn is in love with the wife of government official.
 An unusual love complication de- velops, with Miss Talmadge and Schildkraut the center of wild and ardent love tangle. Maude Wayne plays the erring wife, and Hector V. Sarno portrays Chandralal, the uncle.
 For a week prior to the entrance of Miss Talmadge, scenes presenting the ever glamOrous color of the Near East were taken. Exceeding streets and lined ana baked mud houses, the bazars with their heaps of carpets, pottery and art work spifling out into the walks, camels solemnly plodding along. thrpngs of long-robed, long whiskered natives, dusky damsels star ir@ coauettishly from out the veils drawn up to their big dark eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
SCREEN ACTRESS :, THREATENS TO QUIT

HOLLYWOOD, Cla., Jan. 26.-Lila Lee, screen actress, Friday threatened permAnent withdrawal from motion pie tlires unless '..the cloud of suspicion in voiving me in financial transactions in Chicago is. immediately removed by those responsible" N%e S.S
 Following rumors from Chicago that a note signed by her for 40,O00 had been uncovered in illegal liquor trans actions, Miss Lee said Further pub lication of such unjust and false state ments," would cause her retirement, owing to her inability to carry on- pros fessional work when these reports are current. She said she would retire to private life as Mrs. James Kirkwood, wife of the director.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
AT THE THEATRES

JEFFERsON-"The Last Warning" Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with Wednesday matinee. LoEWS BIJOU--Vaudevile lead 'The Biltmore Society Orchestra under the direcontof Charles Pnton picture "The Vrgnian with Kenneth Harlan and Florence Vidor. LYRIC-Frst half vaudeville lead King and Irwin blackface eomedians second half, -Four Diamonds Fox comedies and Pathe News. .s-.
 AT THE MOVIES CAPIToI-Betty Compson in ITO Have and to Hold ]" Monday and Tuesday, Miltons Stills and Colleen Moore in Flaming Youth," Wednesday and Thursday; Wallace Reid Bebe Daniels and Conrad Nagel in Nice People, Friday and Saturday. [E.
 GALAx-4The Eternal Three" :" with Hobart Bosworth, Claire Windsor, Raymond Griffith and Bessie Love. ODEQN-Same last week. with the exception of Fighting Blood" added attraction Friday and Saturday, AE.s %.Fs -.'~ & PRINCESS Monday and Tpesday Tom Mix in "Step- ping Fast' Wednesday and Thursday, Edmond Cobb in Riders of the Range Friday and Saturday, Bill Patton in "The JBattlin Kid"
 RIALTo-"The Dempsey Firpo Fight" "The Gumps in RoYAL.Frst half, Hoot Gibson in, "Blinky"; second half, Tom Mix in "The Heart of Texas Ryan"
 sTRANDz-Mary Pickford in "Rosita."
 TRIANoN-Norma Talmadge in "The Song of Love-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

Gold pens go. through no less than 45 processes frem the gold bar to the fin ished product.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

Actual duration of perennial plants varies from two years to hundreds of years. i..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
FROM THE WISE

4 schoolboy's definition of a friend |: "A friend is fellow who knows all about you, but likes you"
 How fine it would be if we had less law, less lawyers and more living and more lovers.-Col. William Hunter.
 have never had a policy. have simply tried to do what seemed best each day as each day came.-Lincoln.
 We. cannot make sunshine but we can remove from that which casts a shadow on 'us.-Spurgeon.
 Cato said, "The best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new. Bacon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

ghosts just when want to be calling a taxicab. Sometimes I get so muddled about lost wills, nocturned visitants and midnight providers that I am ac- tually afraid to powder my nose in the dark. Beyond a doubt, I lead a fan.
 tastic existence every time I step on the stage to take part in The Last Warning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

Graves on the island in the South seas are whitewashed to keep ont the evil spirits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

The name petrel is a diminutive of Peter and refers to the appearance they present of walking on the water.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06

the gal in either California or Iowa.
So i have made up what / nickname
my mind to run for same but only On
one condition namely that it will be
secret ballot. The voting will ae
done by mail and any letters til. I
come in voting for somebody else will
BIZ returned to the writer with the no
tation Opened by mistake"
If elected on these grounds i viii
rrecede on the following platforms
1. The capital will be moved 20
Palm Beach to save telegraph tolls.
=. Congress will all half TO be COM
posed of deaf mutes. In other words
it will be a deaf and dumb congress
which means that the present incum-
brance can remain in office provided
they get hard of hearing.
8. All conversations between govt.
officials must be carried on in some
simple code. Like for inst. the presi-
dent wants another pit. of corn. why
instead of saying IL right out he must
say WOR Newark Which is the co'ie
used by Sherlock Holmes when ne
was chief of the burro.
4. All the members of the cabinet
must throw their real names in the
ash Dbl. and he necknamed BY tae
PRESIDENT. They will he called re-
spectfully "Prunes. "Pcars." "Nurs. y
"Artichokes. "Sninach." Eggs" aud
fRaspberries.. They went be no
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06

The morning shave is the time for
fine, constructive thinking. Splashed
70 a physical pink in the bath one
usually wields the lathering brush in
glow OF mental tra-la-la.
Only the first-class vulgarian would
reproach the pleasant old world at
such a time. The morning shave in
spires most Of US to paint life in
heroic tints.
We begin to wonder what blight Of
meanness fell upon us yesterday when
we spoke harshly TO the maid. There
comes the realization of a debt or so
long neglected that must be paid.
What does money amount to, any
way?
How ridiculous to think OF the
days labor ahead as boredom and
commonplace. We laugh-ha, ha-at
the idea that yesterdays efforts were
trivial. Indeed they appear master
pieces-something to live and so thun-
dering down the ages.
The noise of the sparrows outside
the window that usually sounds like
annoying chatter becomes liquid
warbling. It is unfortunate we can
not swing through the day with such
high-powered thoughts as those that
accompany the morning shave.
Nothing restores self respect like
the bath and shave. History has not
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
The Fable of How Europe Got Even
BY

Once there was a Husky employed
to crack the Whip around a
Factory that did not offer an at
tractive Vista from the Car Window,
although it blossomed with a fra
grant crop of Dividends every time
| the Directors got together in the
Back Room. Most Of the American
Workingmen employed in this Hive
of Industry came from remote parts
of Europe. Each wore his Head en-
tirely in front of his Ears and had
taken an Oath to support the Con-
| stitution.
1t was the duty Of the Husky to
keep these imported Rabbits on the
Jump and increase the Output.
He made himself so strong that Is
declared in every time a Melon was
sliced, and when it came time to
scramble the Eggs and pull off the
grand Whack-Up, he was standing
at the head Of the Line with a
Basket on his Arm. So it came
! about that one who started in a
matched Cottage and grew up on
cold Spuds and never saw q Mani
cure Set until he was 80 years of
age, went home one day to find Gold
Fish swimming about in every Room
and Servants blocking the Railways.
He had some trouble finding Rings
that would 20 over his Knuckles and
the Silk next to the Hide felt itchy
for quite a while, but finally he ad-
justed himself to his new Prosperity
and began to deplore the apparent
Growth Of Socialism.
This rugged and forceful Charac-
ter, to whom the Muck Rakers re-
ferred as a Baron, had a Daughter
who started out as Katie when she
carried the Hot Coffee over to Dad
every Noon.
When she got her first Chip Dia-
mond and Father switched from the
Dudeen to Cigars, she was known in
High School Circles as Katherine.
And when Pop got in on the main
Divvy and began to take an interest
in Paintings, the name went down
on the Register at the Bitz as Kath-
ryn, in those peaked Sierra Nevada
Letters about four inches high.
Katie used to go to st. Josephs
Hall once in while with Martin,
the Lad who helped around the
Grocery.
Father Makes a Cleanup.
Katherine regarded with some
Favor a Pallid Drug Clerk who acted
as a Clearing House for all local
Scandal.
But say, when Kathryn came back
from a vine-clad Institute overlook.
ing the historic Hudson, and devoted
to the enclosing and polishing of
the Female Progeny of those who
have not away with it, she began
working the Snuffer on all the
Would-be back in the Mill Town.
When she got through extinguishing,
the little Group that remained looked
like the Remnant of the Old Guard
at Waterloo.
Father had to stick around because
occasionally the eight thousand good
tempered Boys on the Pay Roll
would begin to burn with Hood Al
cohol and the Wrongs Of Hobor and
pull off a few murders. merely to
hasten the Triumph Of Justice.
He believed that Immigration. was
Good Thing as long as he could
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06

pink bottled goods has got it all
over Holmes like a Striped Awning.
All the starving members of the
| Up Against 1t Association were
waiting at the Dock to cop the pros
pective Meal Ticket. Not one of
them had ever shaved or worked and
each wore his handkerchief inside
his Cuff and was fully entitled to sit
in an Electric Chair and have 5000
Volts distributed through the Steel
| Ribs of his Corset.
As soon as Kathryn began to meet
the Roqueforts and Camemberta she
discovered that they had lovely Eyes
and certainly knew how to treat a
Lady.
The Magnificent Maree.
Kathryn had been brought up on
Philadelphia Literature and even
during her most ambitious Social
Flights, she had encountered the
Type Of Man who remains on the
opposite side of the Room having
trouble with his White Gloves.
She never had been against those
Willing Performers, from Gascony
who wore Red Ribbons and Medals,
and who rushed over to kiss the
Hand and then look deep into her
Eyes and throb like Motor Boat. -
This class of Work simply shot
her Pulse up to 100 and made. her
think that she was Cleopatra, float
ing in the Royal Barge and sur
rounded by crawling Slaves.
When a certain Markee crawled
into her Lap and purred into her Ear
and threatened to .curl up on the
Rug and die il she refused him, she
simply keeled over with Excitement.
After she recovered, she found
herself actually engaged to the Rep
! resentative of one of the Oldest
Families in the Saucisson District of
the Burgeo Province and as manly a
Chap as ever borrowed Money from
q Toe-Dancer.
She hurried horne to keep it out
| Of the Newspapers and to tell those
who would listen that American
Men were Impossible. Then the
Markee came over with his Solicitor
and Bottle Of Chloroform and full
kit of Surgical Instruments. and the
Wedding was fully reported by, the
Associated Press.
The Captain Of Industry sized up
SOH-lH-IdW, anu kIeW tHdI Whcii
the Money was gone the Markee
could always get a job hanging up
Hats in the Check-Room of first
class, Jazz Restaurant.
From the window of her Chateau
in the Burgoo Province the Lady
Cashier can see the American Tour
lists going by in their hired Motor
Cars. Her Check flushes with De-
light when she happens to remember
that in another Three months or so
Friend Husband will ;come home
long enough to show her where to
signIher Name. tt D
| 5FWhat is more, she has the fpriyi-
Ilege Of walking out at any time and
picking Flowers with the under
standing that she is not to let it be
known that she is related to any Of
her Relatives on either side of the
Atlantic. -.,..-
MORAL - Europeans made and
contributed the Money and they have
= right to n Drawback.
= Copyright, 1924, by the Bell Syndicate
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06

types in a country town barber shop.
The greatest compliment / ever re-
ceived was written by u. W. Howe.
the Kansas philosopher, who wrote in
Howe's Monthly: 20. o. Mcintyre
is country town reporter who is
still doing country town reporting in
New York" My first reportorial pin
feathers sprouted in the barber shop.
Tramp BARRIERS No More.
There is a type Of raillery in cheap
vaudeville jokes and comic weeklies
aimed at the barber that pictures him
as a dunderhead or dodo. My expe-
rience has been that he is very far
from that Just recently in the up
heaval Of government in England a
Glasgow barber was appointed under
secretary for Scotland.
The old type barber who fitted
rather Economically from town to
town has gone the way Of the tramp
printer. They are called Journeyman
BARRIERS, but the best in the trade do
not change jobs often. Perhaps the
best known barber in New York is a
Tenderloin tonsorial artist. who is
called John the Barber"
He has become the secret angel OF
many Broadway theatrical produc-
tons and has promoted quite a few
prize fights. His shop is patronized
chiefly by actors and the big rush
comes shoytly after the noon hour
when the hctor rises for the day.
John the Barber" is a huge fellow
with a booming voice. He is a first
nighter and is given to wearing fanci-
full jewelry displays.
copyrighted, 1924, By the Nc.
Naught Syndicate, Inc,)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
my Hats in the Ring"
BY RING LARDNER

70 the editor:
A little vile ago a magazine in N.
Y. city nicknamed Good Housekeeping
took straw ballot around the coun-
try in regards to who the people
wanted for their next president and
it seems that a lady in either Iowa
or California expressed their pref
erence for the undersigned.
When this come out in public the
lady in question was arrested in a
friendly way and it was developed in
court that one of her maternal an
cestors was subject to paranoia on
the fathers side and the lady in qucs-
ton has now took life least on a
one room apartment which the walls
is upholstered in rubber which all
she can do is bounce back and 4th.
The abote was called to my tension
and I was asked pit. blank would
run and says I was like Mr.. Ford
and perfectly satisfied with the gent
now in office but since then a who d.
lot of pressure has been broughten to
bear by the citizens of North Caro-
lima where / been stopping begging me
would ] please run and 1 kept asking
them why and they would not tell ne
but finely a Asheville boy name HoI.
loway betrayed their confidence and
says that the big demand for me was
on acct. of a craving for a president
elect who was libel to die before the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
StrOpping the Razor
BY o. o. M'INTYRE.

the lower section. All the Robinson
boys were home owners. Mace used TO
do catering on the side for lodge and
private home functions. have never
heard an i'll word spoken of anyone
of them. Nearly all of the boys of our
town got their first shave from Tom
Hill or one of the Robinson boys.
shop an Open Forum.
Tom Hills barber shop was the
local open forum. Editor Sibley used
TO be a patron. He was and is one of
the best informed men / know. Gen.
eral George House was also a patron.
General House always wore a high
silk hat and stands out in my men,
DRY as one of the greatest aristocrats.
His nails had a polish long before
manicuring came into vogue. G. W.
Henking, the local banker, also shaved
at Toms. As a boy it was a great
experience to be shaved at Toms and
feel somehow you were one OF the
great of our town.
1t was in this background OF Toms
barber shop that l first felt the vast
movements Of life. 1t was here / saw
the eddies, the reactions and the coun-
ter-currents in the personal lives OF
men who made up the bulk Of the citi-
zenship.
Whatever small knack 1 have for
reporting was inspired by studying
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
By GEORGE ABE.

get large-sized European for $3.50
a Day. Of course there was an
awful Whoop in Wages after the big
Quarrel broke loose over there but,
also, there was a sky-rocket Ad-
vance in Prices. Father made the
cleanup of his Life.
He certainly did feel friendly to-
ward the Old World and especially
toward the Serbian Gentleman who
killed the Austrian Prince because
that started the whole Fuss and
made it possible for reputable Ameri-
can Business Men to realize on their
Investments.
After the Disturbance ended and
Dad was up to his Neck in Currency,
some Fiend in Human Shape in
vented the Income Tax and another
Anarchist down at Washington added
the Surtax. thereby causing the
great Captain of Industry to lose
good deal Of Sleep. The Govern
ment robbed him something scam
dalous but he employed an Expert
and managed to save several Mil
lions from the Wreck.
While he was blowing his way to
Financial Supremacy his Wife was
hiding in a Back Room most Of the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
Preparedness

The late Mr.. Bonar Law used TO
tell story which had amused him
very much. Long before be came to
power his health had not been very
good and his doctor, finding him over
worked, ordered him a complete rest.
Try TO find a cottage" he said,
right away in the country, away
from everything and spend a few
weeks there"
Mr.. Bonar Law at once wrote to a
farmer who possessed an ideal little
cottage which seemed to be the very
thing. He naturally asked a few
questions rs to the comfort of the little
house and feeling sure il would be
useless to ask If there were a bath
room. he asked modestly il there were
any means of taking a bath there. The
faSmer answered without hesitation !:
IF you have need of bath you
will do well to lave one before COM
ing
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-06
Idle Thoughts
ON PRIMES.

when a youngster we worked in a
place where our board and room was
part of the emolument. The cook used
to serve stewel prunes for break
fast. At noon the same fruit came
on the table, but he called them
"strawberries" and at night he served
them as cherries or whatever other
name struck his fancy.
+ In six months we piled up deep
and abiding hatred for prunes 'au
naturel. -stewed. preserved or other.
wise. In the twenty-five years that
has interviewed that hatred has inten-
sifled rather than lessened.
Once in later years the cook we
signed for life caused rift in our
otherwise domestic happiness by dis
guising the appearance Of some prunes
in Scream whip" and persuading US
to taste them.
1t is impossible to ascertain wheth-
err .prunes can hate back but we have
reason to believe that they can. They
are always bobbing up somewhere to
cause us embarrassment and it some
times seems as IL they have a ma
licious intent.
There was an illustration just this
week. A relative remembered our
birthday anniversary by sending a box
of assorted fruits. When the box
was opened all the other fruit was
covered up with a layer of black
prunes each one wearing a derisive
grin.
Hardly had we recovered from that
than there came note from j. Frank
Davis enclosing the following two
verses of a song he had picked up on
his radio outfit:
I.
No matter how young a prune may be,
It's always full of wrinkles!
We may get them on our face.
But prunes get them every place.
| Nothing ever worries them,
Their life's an open book.
But no matter how young prune
may be.
1t has a worried look.
III.
No matter how young prune may be,
It's always full of wrinkles.
/ Baby prunes look like their dad,
But not wrinkled quite as bad.
| Prohibition worries us.
But they don't sit and brood,
Cause no matter how young a prune
may be,
It's always getting stewed.
| We hate prunes!