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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
FORWARD STEP IN
 MUSIC EDUCATION
Future Of American Airship Traffic Hangs On Success
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Curtis Institute In Phila- delphia Marks InnO-
 vatiOn

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 16.- not only has America become the music center of the world, but broader op- portunities for musical career are open today to American young men and women than ever before, accord ing to John Grolle, director; of the Curtis Institute of Music.
 Gratifying as this is," MT. Grolle goes on to say, there yet remains the opportunity for a greater and more significant adyance-the upbuilding of an intelligent appreciation of good music throughout our entire population.
 ITO widen and deepen our national musical appreciation we must have more real musicians-men and women who, whether from the nationwide vantage of the concert platform or operatic stage, or laboring quietly within the confines of their own com munity, shall have the scope, the vision, the completeness of full musicianship, to stimulate the musical life of the country.
 For several years a number of our most far-sighted musicians have bent their efforts toward this end. The higher grade schools of music have also tried to do their part. But prac- tical and financial handicaps have made progress discouragingly slow"
 With the definite purpose of main taining school of music which should, so far as possible. be free from such handicaps, the Curtis Institute of Music has been established in Phila- delphia under the auspices of the Cur tis Foundation, created by Mary Louise Curtis Box. The Curtis Institute is not a commercial venture. All it's re- sources are directed toward affording the broadest possible opportunities for musical training-opportuni unex- celled anywhere, here or abroad.
 Its director is John Grolle, who has for many years been at the head of the music in the Philadelphia Settlement Music school. As director of the Cur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
zoo GRIZZLY BEAR
 BITES OFF FINGER
Visitor Disregards Sign Warn ing Against Feeding Animals

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Charles Rodie, 65, laborer, took a day off to visit the Zoo in Central park. Signs forbidding visitors to feed the animals failed to impress him. When he came to the cage of big grizzly bear he thrust his hand through the bars with a piece of bread. The grizzly, whatever it's intentions may have been, bit hard, on the bread and snapped off the mid dIe finger of Rodie's right hand. A tournaiquet applied by Lieut.. Hart of the Arsenal Police station checked the flow of blood till an ambulance arrived and took Rodie to Reception hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
SWIMMING TEA
 FULL OF MYSTERY

LENOX, Miss, Aug. 23.-All Lenox is excited over invitations received to- day from Miss Kate Cary to swim ming tea" at Butternut Cottage. She has just completed large concrete swimming pool near her villa and this is to be a christening party" Those invited are wondering what to wear or what not to wear and what is going to happen. Miss Cary is silent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

tis institute, he will have working with him faculty which includes some of the most famous names which have ever given adherence as teachers to any music school-among others, Josef Hofmann, Marcella Sembrich, Leopold Stokowski and Carl Flesch.
 It is the aim of the Curtis institute to make possible, through its practical ly unlimited backing, the training each year of a substantial number of real musicians-artists, teachers and nom professionals. But the institute looks far beyond this to the uplifting of American musical taste and apprecia- tion through the after-work of its stu dents.
 "Of course" as Mir. Grolle points out, from the practical standpoint, each pupil must have his speciality. But we are not going to teach anybody to be just pianist, violiniss or a sing CT. We shall teach each and every one to be an all-round musician, and my idea of an all-round musician is one who not only knows all there is to know about music but is also well informed on all the sister arts and all the parallel studies that go with the arts Each student must be taught to realize that music itself is bigger than the artist, and that the bigger the artist, the greater his responsibility toward music.
 'The Curtis institute is to have two divisions, the preparatory department, limited to 400 pupils, and the oonserv- atory, limited to 250 A large normal department will be developed in the conservatory in order to spread as widely as possible through the coun- try the liberal educative methods of the institute.
 "The profound influence of the grad uates of such a school as teachers, art ists, or non-professional musicians, is obvious. And surely few things can contribute more to our daily life, our national culture, than q more wide spread and sincere appreciation and enjoyment of music in all it's forms"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
A PRACTICAL P0ET

Let poets sing their songs of June with white clouds in the sky; our song the happy song of noon, with eats top ped off with pie.-The Houston Dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24

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Evening star., 1924-08-17

run your car three years. covering
10000 miles. Suppose it is rated as
an eight-year car and cost you $1,000
complete, delivered and tax paid.
Suppose you have paid $500 for
storage, 5000 for repairs, $3.50 for
tires, $50 for State licenses, $3.50 for
insurance and $50 for incidentals.
Your gas and oil has averaged, let us
say, 2.5 cents per mile.
Tho mile cost of your motoring is,
therefore. 10.5 cents. Knowing this,
it is possible for you to compare your
experience with the particular car
with other cars you have owned or
with the experience of other car
owners. You have something to go
by when you get down to brass tacks
In buying or when considering the
purchase of a new car
Evening star., 1924-08-17
CAR BUYERS PLAN
FALL PURCHASING
Two Glasses of Motorists
Will Be in Market Soon,
Say Dealers.

Who will buy automobiles this Fall
and will the number of car buyers
equal those who bought during the
spring?
The sales committee of the Wash
ington Automotive Trade Association
has just completed a survey of local
conditions that answers this query
in a way that should interest the
average motoriSt.
According to the committees re-
port, there are a number of psyche
logical factors at work to stimulate
sales beyond the fondest hopes of
some of the most enthusia site men,
bers of the automotive trade. 1t
is pointed out, for instance, that
hundreds Of local motorists have been
holding off on the purchase of a new
car in expectations of having a
wider choice of newer models if they
wait a while longer. Now, it is said,
the motoring public is aware that
there is always something new on
the market and that waiting is, there
fore, useless process, as in the pur-
chase of anything else that is needed.
One of the most important buying
forces due for the early fall, as
analyzed by the W. a. T. A, is a COM
bination of two viewpoints with re-
gard TO the purchase of a new car.
Some people prefer to summer with
the old car, using it roughly and in
localities where d new car is not so
practical. Others who postpone their
vacationing until the fall do not buy
the new car until it Is needed. Both
classes Of motorists are thus said to
be among those who will be active
buyers between now and cold
weather.
There appears to be a growing
6lr nd 70 hot will ad
quate accommodations for luggage"
reads the w. a. T. \. report. This
is the result of more extensive trav-
cling by motor. People do not want
to be bothered by wondering how
they are going to carry their belong
tngs when on tour. and many of
them who bought cars with the idea
Of not travelling extensively are ind
ing that they would profit by making
a change.
THE town car has fooled many a
motorist. People have bought cars
that were only suited 10 city use only
10 find that there is such a thing as
the lure of the open road. Now they
are ready to trade in their cars for
larger, better and more practical ma
chimes of both open and closed types
Many sales will be made as a re-
suit Of what the trade now recognizes
as a swing back to the open car. The
growing popularity of the closed car
is in no way threatened, but many
people who can afford more than one
car see certain advantages in the
airy, open car and are buying it to
supplement their closed-car service.
This is particularly noticeable
among the so-ca!led sporty element.
who, as a matter of fact, were largely
responsible for the adoption of the
automobile. The people who were
game enough to buy the early cars
Evening star., 1924-08-17
INDIANA ATTEMPTING
TO SALVAGE HIGHWAYS
State Trying to Make Old Beds
Serve as Basis for I'm
proved Roads.

In order to salvage as far as pos
sfble the original investment in the
existing gravel and stone roads as
bases for new motor highways the
Indiana State Highway Department
has lately embarked upon a more ex-
tensive program of bituminous con-
struction, divided into two classes,
one Of which is known as surface
treatment" and the other as the pen
etration method" Under the former
method the surface of the road is
treated with asphaltic materials. I'm
der the latter a top course Of asphalt
Is constructed by having the as
phaltic binding material penetrate.
under compaction, the gravel and
stone In the base.
The Indiana department is con-
structing this year 90.67 miles Of
surfaced treated roads and $500
miles of penetration macadam. These
roads are located in Carroll. Porter,
Lake, La Porte, Starke, Marshall,
Cass, Allen, Wells. Grant, Elkhart,
Harrison, Floyd, Lawrence. Monroe,
Dearborn, Jefferson, Delaware, Jay
and Wayne Counties, all of which are
situated in the extreme northern,
eastern and southern sections Of the
State.
Evening star., 1924-08-17

are now going in for fashionable
open cars. particularly in the road
ster class. Fall touring acceptuates
this trend.
The public is always interested in
mechanical changes and innovations.
The spirit of America is progressive
ness, and the lnotoriSt likes to be
Evening star., 1924-08-17

Find out what it costs you to roll"
your car. 1t is d feature of intelli-
gent and progressive car ownership.
1t eliminates the financial gamble.
Copyright, 1924, ny the ulIIuau Feature
Evening star., 1924-08-17
MILE COST. HELD VITAL
FACTOR IN MODERN
DAY COST OWNERSHIP
Continued from Fifth Page.)

vertent neglect On the average,
however, most people figure a normal
per year-dve to ten thou
sand miles-and figure on the year
life of the car.
That is, IL you use your car nor
mally 1t Is more accurate to figure
that it will serve you a certain num-
ber OF years rather than a certain
number of miles.
Suppose, therefore, that you have
Evening star., 1924-08-17

the first to try something new.
There is so much new this summer
that a big buying season is certain
to follow. All these factors, COM
bined with the usual fall demand for
closed cars, indicate sales for the
latter half OF the year sufficient to
make 1924 the big year as predicted"
Evening star., 1924-08-17
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Evening star., 1924-08-17
ADOPTS "LAREI, !.

-repairer in Connecticut citI
trademarks himself as Jack thJ
Tire Man" If this is going 10 be d
fad. bill the Repair Man" ought Il
be a popular one
Evening star., 1924-08-17

II automobile mechanics would
only swear at the owners instead of
tho helpless cars there'd be d lot less
to worry about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19

Boy of Flanders" especially recon mended, all ages. Enemies of Wom- en-" especially recommended. Big Mo- ments From aLittle Pictures" especial ly recommended, high school age and over. Triumph" high school age and over. 'The Country Kid" all ages.
 Norwood-"Newly Rich" "To The Last Man" "Abysmal Brute" higll!! school age and over. Mary of Zorro.
 Avondale-"When Odds Are Even. high school age and over. IoIable David" mature audiences. "The Darl- ing of New York" high school age and over. It's Your Move"
 Five Points-"Affairs of Lady Ham ilton," especially recommended. The Night Message" Unto the Net" espe- Ncially recommended. Potash and Peri mutter." especially recommended, high school age and over.
 North Birmingham-"Into the Net, 6, especially recommended. Tiger Claws" Not Drum Was Heard"
 Tiger Claws" Affairs of Lady Hamilton" especially recom- mended. "The Cowboys" high school age and over.
 Champion-"Into the Net" especiall.. recommended. ''The Covered Wagon, especially recommended, all ages.
 Frolic-"The Hanson Cabman.'
 Famous-"North of the Rio Grandc.
 Thy Name is Woman" especially recommended. Just Off Broadway"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
STRAND OFFERS
 THREE WOMEN
Gorgeous Settings Give Beauty To Drama
 Of Life

Three Women," new Ernest Lubtisch production, is the Strands feature offering for this week, begin ming Monda. It is a picture said to be remarkable in plot and construc- tion, with the advantages of extraord- mary direction, and quite unlike the very much overdone triangle story, and one with an appeal to sweethearts, wives and mothers all alike.
 It is not infrequent that a woman must give up the man she loves to another woman. But how different it all is, when that woman is her daughter. This gives different twist to a story that deals with three women and one man.
 The cast is headed by May McAvoy, Marie Provost and Pauline Frederick, and includes Lew Cody, Mary Carr, Pierre Gendron and Willard Lewis.
 Words to describe the colorful scenes that were enacted on the carnival ball set are lacking. Think of a maze of coloring, scores of beautiful girls in wonderful raiment, colcessionaires raf- fling off kisses, girls selling balloons, all playing parts in one of the gayest scenes imaginable.
 Another scene was the charity ball, where the real merry-go-round with a slide and other concessions make up part of the set, while at the other end is the mammoth stairway and balcony, where music was dispensed by two large orchestras to pep up into greater realism the filming of the ball room scene.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
Recommended MOUies

Motion pictures recommended by the national better films committee, showing in Birmingham this week, as announced by Mrs M. W. Shell, city amusement in spector, follow:
 Note: Picture at Trianon is new re- lease, no report has been received on it.
 Strand "Three Women,' mature audience. "Going East" high school age and over.
 Galx-"Empty Hands" "Aggreyatin' Papa high School age and over.
 Temple-For Saturday morning mati- nee, "Penrod and Sam"
 Rialto-"Those Who Dance" especial ly recommended.
 Capitol high school age and over. The Voice From the Min aret."
 Odeon-'Into the Net" f, especially recommended.
 Princess-"The Testing Block.
 West End-"A Boy of Flanders, ' especially recommended, all ages. "Ene- mics of Women" especially recon mended. Big Moments From Little Pictures" especially recommended, high school age and over. Triumph high school age and over.
 Woodlawn-"Six Days" especially recommended. mature audiences. "A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
REVIVE THE TOLL ROAD

 Europe Tries Commercial Highways
 As Traffic Problem Solution
 The almost forgotten toll roads have been revived in some localities, we are told in the Engineering News-Record In Europe those are trunk roads ex- clusively for motor vehicles. England has been discussing several projects, the most notable being the London Birmingham road, one hundred miles, to be paved with concrete 6O feet wide.
 "A more important example, from the fact that it is proceeding rapidly with its construction, is the 65-mlie Italian autostrada, which, like the proposed London Birmingham highway is concrete paved. Both are toll roads, financed and operated by private in- terests with government sanction and, in limited way, government aid. Par ticularly three things are outstanding as characteristic of these foreign road developments They are routes wholly separate from existing highways; they are speedways, i. e., paved roads with out grade crossings, and they are private commercial enterprises. It IS barely possible that some last-century American toll road still is operated i: if not, the nearest similar highway in the United States similar highway in the United States is the recently com pleted Corners toll road through the Florida Everglades. Here it will be noted that, unlike the British and Italian projects, it is a general traffic route and not of speedway construction, but, like the foreign highways, it is a commercial enterprise operating under state sanction for profit. These three enterprises suggest the possibility of the revival of the toll road to meet other pressing conditions of highway traffic. 7" Literary Digest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19

the teeth, where it is said to give merry sensations.
 The dark type of Virginia, Tennessee or Kentucky tobacco is the leaf chiefly used in the production of snuff. The leaf must be two years old before it will do. It is put through various fer mentation processes, is ground into powder by machinery and is seasoned year in the wood. The market, so far as known, it not yet flooded with snuff made overnight, nevertheless the warn ing should be sounded that snuff that has lain in the wood long while is much more healthful than the kind whose antiquity is dubious.
 The expressions "wet snuff and "dry snuff" are increasingly heard. It is well to know that in wet snuff the fer mentation takes place after the leaf has been powered.
 A Times Square cigar store man who sells Scotch snuff and MaccaboK has a long list of steady customers. His new patrons, as rule, he says, are people from the south, where snuff-taking has fingered longer than in the Puritan north.
 "Our snuff buyers are very nice folk" he declares. 'They are not un- tidy. In fact I can't see that snuff taking is any more untidy. than the using of tobacco in any other form. A good many women buy snuff here l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19

ancient Lithuanian capital, to Poland because the towns population is over whelmingly Polish.
 HenceSas a total result, the peoples across three-quarters of the frontier may be said to be distinctly menancing to Poland. There is thus need of a highly trained armed force in this country, even though, like the present army, it costs half of Poland's reve- nue.
 The Polish army is the bulwark,, not only of Poland, but (whether one re- gard Poland as a wall or as a bridge) of Europe; it is vital to the peaoa of Europe, and that means the worlds s peace.
 And what attractive soldiers the Poles make Today saw some of them arriving at their barracks the military band preceding, playing the beautiful Polish natioal hymn, at which all the bystanders uncovered. In their military movement the soldiers seemed to unite something of German solirity to some thing of Italian alertness and elasticity. -Elbert Francis Baldwin. in the Out look.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19

Bs,ocmfw shr emf sh sh shrddllu uuu
 Heads by one of the greatest singles on the vaudeville stage today, and a single means a person able to give a whole show by him orherself, the bill to be offered patrons of the Lyric for the first half of this week promises un- usual entertainment. The five acts of big-time Keith vaudeville are crammed with good things, and the screen novel, ties add touch of zest to the bill.
 Pert Kelton is the headliner. Up on Broadway, where Keith maintains his biggest theater, Pert Kelton is all that it is necessary to say for vaude- vile lovers to know that entertain ment of the very finest is on tap.
 She is quite brimming full of pep and magnetic personality, aside from be- ing all exquisite dancer. She is ably assisted by her mother, Mrs. Kelton and Edward Francisco the latter being
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
One or Greatest Singles
 In Vaudeville At Lyric
Feminine Variety Star Tops New Five-Act Bill
 Opening Monday For First Half Week

the musical director of this very smart little offering. A feature of Miss Pert's inimitable act is her versatility.
 The added attraction is q miniature musical comedy, Honeymoon House" offered by Bryan Lee and Mary Cans ton. The story concerns an ex-husband and ex-wife who meet just when they are about to marry again, but not each other. It is full of surprise, comical in cidents and clever lines, critics say.
 The special feature is that much sought after something in vaudeville, a novelty. Radio Fun" introducing Mile. Burnell, scientific enigma, is the num- Der, 6nd 1t is said to be filled with surprises and rib-tickling comedy.
 Rounding out the bill are Keo Taxi md Toki versatile entertainers from Nippon, and Manhoney and Cecil in "On the Broadwalk, a skit especially prepared for these singing and dancing comedians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19

After an absence of several seasons Otis Skinner returns again to Bir- mingham. It is a matter for congratu- lations that Mir. Skinner is to be with us this year and particularly interest ing in that his coming brings tremend- ous production to Birmingham.
 This, apropos of the forthcoming ap- pearance of Mir. Skinner in his new play "Sacho Panza," at the Jefferson theater for three-day engagement. Be ginning Thursday October 30, with a matinee on Saturday November l.
 Russell Janney, the producer of .'Sancho tPanza," has been wise in selecting'a version of Cervantes' famous novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha," in which the main interest centers, as it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
MENDING CURTAINS

Now is the time to look over the supply of net curtains preparatory to laundering them- Do not throw away any of them as every bit of net will do for atchiRgs The sneatest and cas- jest way to mend torn curtains is to cut squares of net large enough to am ply cover the torn portions. Dip the square in cold startch, place it over the tear on the wrong side and press with a hot iron. Of course, this must be done after the curtain is laundered. By this method the edges of the two nets will adhere snugly and the rent will not be noticeable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19

don't know whether they buy it for themselves or for their grandfathers, but they buy it. No, we don't sell snuff boxes, but I'll tell you where you can get them"
 At the Fifth avenue shop that he named some small plain boxes were found on sale, and an elderly gentleman was boldly buying one.
 The habitual and well-trained snuff taker doesn't sneeze. To sneeze is thought bad form. Beginners, of course, sneeze their heads off, just as small boys succumb to their first cigar.
 In 1897 the country produced 13,000,- 900 pounds of snuff Last years pro duction was about 40000,000 pounds, according to internal revenue figures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
HAS .SNAPPY' sOLDIERs

The Poles have established an army r-and, undanw French guidance, not able army, too. In great part the frontier is not naturally marked for defense. In, addition, Poland lies be- tween two drowning, threatening colossi, Germany and Russia. Moreover little Lithuania, on the northwest, con sidefS herself already at war with Poland because of the Ambassadors conference decision giving Wilma, the