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Evening star., 1924-05-14
Empire.

Sunday and Monday, 'Monna Van
na." also comedy, keep Healthy;
Tuesday, Jack Hoxie. in "The Desert
Rider" also Monte Banks, in Always
Late; Wednesday and Thursday.
Naldi. in Don't Call 1t Love" also
Our Gang comedy. Lodge Night; Fri
day, Jacqueline Logan and Antonio
Moreno, in Flaming Barriers" also
Saturday, William Desmond. in
"Breathless Moments" also comedy,
"A Lofty Marriage"
Evening star., 1924-05-14

versafs special, Sporting Youth" In
this subject the climax II reached
curing the running of an automobile
but the real thing. and packed with
tnrlils and humor. Cliff Bowes will
star In Powder Marks" a new COM
cay, ana touch of novelty will be
IenI I the Dill by the inclusion Of the
third dimension movie, which, when
Vieweq through the "spectacles" pro-
Hioeo' enable objects apparently to
into the spectators face.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Savoy.

Sunday and Monday. Anna Q. Nils
Gold" and Charles Chase. in April
Fool"; Tuesday and Wednesday,
The Great White Way; Thursday
and Friday, Douglas MacLean, in
The Yankee Consul" and Neal Burns.
in Dandy Lions; Saturday. Priscilla
Dean, in "The White Tiger" and Our
Gang, in Sunday Calm"
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Apollo.

Sunday and Monday, The Great
White Way" and Aesop Fables: Tues
day and Wednesday. Anna @. Nilsson.
in Flowing Gold" and Charles
Chase. in April Foor': Thursday,
Barbara La Mari. in THE Shooting
of Dan McGrew"; Cliff Bowes, in
Gave Inn; Friday. THE Breaking
Point" and winners "The Telephone
Girl; Saturday. Wesley Barry, in
The Printers Devil" and Clyde
Cook, in The Misflt"
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Wilson Normal PLAYERS.

The Wilson Normal Players, under
the direction of Aurora E. PoSton.
will present Mr.. PIN Passes BY,
Mines delightfully."- entertaining COM
edy, tomorrow evening at $50 at the
Wilson Normal Community Center,
11th and Harvard streets.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Chevy Chase.

Sunday and Monday, Baby Peggy,
in Darling of New York" Aesops
Fables Of Fun and Fox News Events:
Tuesday, THE Mark of the Beast:
Sennett comedy, "It Pays to Exer.
else; Wednesday, with matinee at
$3.50. and Thursday. Lon CLANCY and
Dorothy Mackaill. in The Stranger"
Fun from the Press and Fox News;
Board: Pathe comedy, Get BUSY"
and Way of a Man." No. S; Saturday,
Eleanor Boardman and Raymond
Griffith. in ''The Day of Faith; Cen
tury comedy, Should Poker Players
Marry" and last episode Of ruth Of
the Range"
Evening star., 1924-05-14
York.

Sunday and Monday, Jackie Coogan,
in "A Boy of Flanders" and Charles
Chase, in April Fool; Tuesday, Buck
Jones. in Not a Drum Was Heard;
Stah Laurel. in The Sellers" and
scenic: Wednesday. The Governors
Lady" and Howes "A Sailors Life;
Thursday. Barbara La Marr, in The
Shooting Of Dan McGrew," and Lge
Conley. in Wide Open; Friday,
Wesley Barry. in 1.-The Printers
Devil" and Witwer's 1.-THE Telephone
Girl: Saturday, Laura La Plante, in
Evening star., 1924-05-14

The opening Of the LIE Paradis roof
garden for the summer season of
1924 has been delayed until May %
because Of the cool weather.
New musical numbers and novelty
entertainment will be the features
on this gala night, assuming the ap-
purte enance of a carnival.
Evening star., 1924-05-14

Sunday and Monday, Betty Comp
son, In THE Stranger; Tuesday,
Viola Dana, in 'In Search Of q Thrill;
Wednesday, Maeterlinck's "Monna
Wanna: Thursday, Robert B. Mantell
and Alma Rubens, In Under the Red
Life; Saturday, Strongheart, in
THE Love Master"
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Avenue Grand.

Sunday and Monday, Milton Stills
and Anna Q. Nilsson, in Flowing
Gold" and Charles Chase, in April
Fool"; Tuesday and Wednesday. The
Great White Way: Thursday and
Friday, Douglas MacLean, in The
Yankee Consul" and Sennett's
Shanghaied Lovers; Saturday, Patsy
Ruth. Miller, in THE Breaking
Point, and comedy, Family Life"
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Wine, Woman and Song

Next week the Gayety will have
as its last attraction for this sea-
son wine, Woman and Song" with
special features planned for each
night of the week. Monday night
chorus girls contest will be held and
every chorus girl in the city is
eligible to enter and compete for
prizes; Tuesday night there will be
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Carolina.

Sunday and Monday. Norma Tai
madge. in The Song Of Love-; Tues
day. ]. w. Kerrigan and Anna o.
Nilsson, in .'Thundering Dawn; Wed
nesday. John Gilbert, in Just on
Broadway; Thursday, Betty Comp
son. in The Stranger: Friday, Harold
Lloyd, in safety Last; Saturday,
Tom Moore, in big Brother"
Evening star., 1924-05-14

Next January will mark the l0Oth
anniversary of the death of Eli Whit
ney, who revolutionized the cotton
industry by his invention OF a sue
cessful machine for separating COT
ton from the seed and cleaning it
with great expedition.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Dumbarton.

Sunday and Monday, "Daughters of
Today; Tuesday, The Day of Faith"
Wednesday and Thursday. Mary Pick
ford, in Tess of the Storm Country;
Friday, Hope Hampton, in Does It
Pay? Saturday, Tom Mix, in Ladies
to Board"
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Hippodrome.

Sunday, Katherine Macdonald, in
"Chastity": Monday. white Sim:
Tuesday, Bebe Daniels in Heritage
of the Desert; Wednesday, Jack
Hoxie, in THE Man From Wyoming;
Thursday, Harry Carey, in 1.-The Night
Hawk; Friday, The Days of Faith;
Evening star., 1924-05-14

Semon vein, packed with laughs and
noteworthy for succession of new
devices for making screen buffoonery
take on the glamour of novelty.
Evening star., 1924-05-14
LIE Paradis Roof

and Will Rogers, in
1.-TWO Wagons, Both Covered"
Evening star., 1924-05-14
Olympic.

Saturday, Jane Novak, in THE Lul-
laby."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
WHAT THE CHINESE EAT

Every now and then some Chinaman grave ly informs the American people that chop suey is a strictly American dish, unknown in the land of its alleged nativity. That may or may not be true. Some say that in China it is a poor mans dish. If that is the case, then the poor in China live well-better, in fact, than has been admitted by travellers in that land of mystery and perhaps of guile. If chop suey is the poor mans dish, then the rich undoubtedly possess a gastronomic category delectable indeed
 veteran officer of the old Russian army, who wandered on the borderland of Mongolia and China during RussiaS cataclysm, tells of having rescued an aged Chinese mandarin from a swamp into which his cart of state had fallen. Later the veteran was invited to take a formal meal with his grateful ac- quaintance. The meal, according to the officer, as quoted in the Literary Digest, was "a whole ceremony in itself. In the dining room at the head of the table stood three complete services-one for me, another for the man. darin and a third for his mother, who hardly ate at all, but only sat with us in order to see to it that on our big antique circular trays there were always two or three dishes, to taste each dish and generally supervise the serving of the meal. For dinner there were no less than forty-five dishes, among which were all the Chinese gastronomic del icacies swallows nests, preserved eggs which had lain underground for eight or ten years roasted tips of newly-sprouted stag horns, soup and sauce made from sea moss, candied eyes of fish and tigers broiled spiders and so on. . Their cooking of fowl and fish was especially excellent. Among the vegetables were Chinese cabbN R-f huge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
Brief Nature Studies
By 2. OTIS SWIFT

In Hog Swamp, near Asbury Park, pitcher plants grow on quaking sphagnum carpets. Along neighboring sandhills worked" pud- ding-stone show Delaware Indians prized the conglomerate for chipping implements. Mre Benjamin Wyckoff of Asbury Park has a spear-head made of it. In swamp wood roads deer tracks are found O mornings. Trees support great piles of dead sticks, the nests of fish-hawks who patrol the sea and bring home fish for the family. The ospreys scream savagely when nests are approached.
 Shoots of pink lady's slippers poke through the loam under andromedia~ bushes chained to the swamp. The other day a garden toad visiting it's ancestral swamp to launch a new generation patiently watched a bug on an orchid leaf, waiting to seize it when it moved: Behind the toad black snake, looking like a shiny stick, also waited the spirit to move.
 The wind stirred the leaf. Out shot the flabby tongue of Bufo and the bug disap- peared, also having breakfasted, slid away as a stray pig dashed out of thicket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
hEasONC | E OVER
BEDTIME STORY
The Board of Pardons and the Prlsone

The Board of Pardons and the Prisoner Based on the Recent Trend in All Parts o
 the Country (Case No. l. J. LeGrand Larceny, a bucket
 shop king). O.; What do you wish? A.: If it's all the same to you, I'd like to get out of prison. I find it most uncomfort able there.
 O.: What were you charged with? A: Stealing about S100,000 from custom, CTS
 e.; Whats your objection to the prison A.: don't like the location. e.: Whats the matter with the location : A: It's too far away from the business center. O.: Any other objection? A.: Yes. Its practically impossible to seli the warden and guards anything O.: If released will you promise to do betterg A.: Better? By at least another hundred thousand year.
 O.: Petition granted. Anything else we can do for you? A.: Could you manage to set me up in business again?
 O.: Matter put over until next meeting of the parole board. Will you join us at lunch A: don't mind.
 (They exit merrily).
 Case No. ?. Simon Sparrow, clam
 digger). K O.: Whats your name? A: Simon Sparrow, sir . O.: Well, whaddaya want? Speak quick and don't be taking up our time. A.: would like to get out of prison. O.: That's laugh! How long have you been in? A: Nine years, sir.
 O.: Why, you've hardly started your sen. tence. What were you charged with? A.: stole Hot Cross bun. First Member of Board: Hear that? He admits it!
 Second Member: Horrible Take him away!
 O.. Don't you know it's a grave cffense to steal Hot Cross bun? Think of your example to the youth of our country What tor Hot Cross bun stealing promiscuously? :? A.: am sure I don't know, sir I'm very sorry.
 O.: What did you do with this bun? A: gave it to my wife and eight chil- dren.
 e.: What did they do with it? / A: They ate it, sir. O.: Are they in prison with you? A.: Mo- sir.
 Entire Board (indignantly): Why not? (He is rushed back to his cell). Cease No. 8. Nicky Grabalot, serving term for robbing widows and other gullible investors of life's savings). O.: What can we do for you? A: must get out of prison at once. O.: When did you begin Xour term? A. 7 Saturday.
 O.: What day is today? A.: Sunday.
 O.: Can't you manage to stay in over the weekend as special favor? A.: I'll try it.
 O.: By the way, how many people we're you accused of robbing?
 A.: About six hundred. O.: Did they try you on all counts? A.: No, only on one.
 Case No 4. Avery Goopus. umbrella repairer. Offense Snatching animal crack CTS from bakery store window). t1 O.: How long you been up? A.: Twelve years next Tuesday. O.: What did you dof A.: I stole half dozen animal crackers. O.: What did the judge give youF A: Two years on each of six counts O.: Back to prison! Whaddya think we are, lot of simps?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
The Right Word
BUT" UNNECESSARY Find fhA Errnr fin This ArflcIAl
By CURTIS NICHOLSON


 Mrs. c. A. Jones, superintendent of the Orchard public schools, Orchard, Neb., con fesses that she has often been puzzled in connection with a problem incorporated in one of the sentences appearing in the last test
 Enclosed you will find my list of an- swers to the sentences given in your recent test. l greatly enjoy your Right Word col- umn and it has helped me many times. Re- gently, used some of your discussions for a club paper on Common Errors in English and found them very practical.
 "The sentence in this test which has given me most concern is There is no doubt but that he will win That troublesome that is a puzzler."
 The trouble is not with the word that. The expression should read, '"There is no doubt that, etc" not, "There is no doubt but that, etc" The word but should always be omitted in that kind of a construction.
 More Than One
 James P. Duffy of New York writes as follows "Will you please explain the follow ing sentence and analyze it: There is more than one chief I do not know much about grammar. l did not take part in the last test, but will in the next"
 The expression more than one" is always in the singular number. Therefore, the verb is must be correct.
 Yesterdays Error
 Wrong: The following letter endorsing a position, which has already been taken, has been received ...
 Right: The following letter endorsing a position that has already been taken has been received =.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK GOOD

With the passing of each year the field of diversified industries in the Birmingham dis trict shows marked development. Many new industries are established here with local capital, while number of manufacturing projects in other parts of the country are moving their operating departments to this center of materials, having been attracted by economies in transportation rates, efficient labor and adequate distributing conditions. The section within easy reach of Birmingham is steadily increasing as a profitable market for large percentage of the products of this district All of these considerations are con- tributing effectively to make the Birmingham district one of the important centers of va ried industries in the country.
 Two large new enterprises have been an- nounced within the past few days. Imme- diate construction will begin on three red-thousand-dolla fire-brick producing plant near Bessemer, with capacity of thirty thousand bricks day, and giving steady en- { fployment to a hundred and twenty-five opera: tives. Construction work is already under way on the Hercules Power Company plant near Bessemer, which is to be an important industry with large capacity, and employing many operatives. Both of these enterprises will market large part of their products in this district.
 Within short time construction work will begin on school development projects and the new public library building. These enter prises represent an investment of more than four million dollars, which, in addition to the erection of a tuberculosis sanitorium to cost about two hundred thousand dollars, will materially increase the already active building program.
 The industrial outlook for many months is exceedingly encouraging. The employment situation is satisfactory. Production is stead fly increasing, and general conditions are re- assuring. There is no ominous cloud on the business horizon. The Birmingham district is busy, prosperous and contented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
Voices And NerUes
By M. ADDINoroN BRUCR

There are soft-voiced men and women who m some degree suffer from nervousness That is undeniable. But also 1t is undeniable that most nervous people have voices that are shrilI CT harsh or otherwise unpleasant.
 Their voices are at once symptom and a cause of the nervousness that is present. They are symptom in being, at least in part, products of the tension that goes with nerv- ousness. And they are cause in that they involve vocal effort productive of more ten sion, hence contributing to greater nervous ness.
 As it has been well put by one who has made close study of the relation between nervousness and misuse of the voice
 "The effort to propel the voice from the throat, and use force in those most delicate muscles when it should come from the strong CT muscles of the diaphragm, is like trying to make one man do the work of ten. The result must eventually be the utter collapse of the one man from over-aetivity, and loss of power in the ten men because of muscles unused
 "One of thos8est and surest ways to gov- err yoGf temper is to lower your voice. In- deed the nervous system and the voice are in such exquisite sympathy that they con stantly act and react on each other It is always easier to relax superfIuous tension after lowering the voice" [
 For the matter of that, there are those who hold that misuse of the voice contributes not only to nervousness, but to organic dis eases as we'll. Such was the belif of, for ex- ample, the late s. S. Curry, perhaps the fore most authority on vocal expression America has yet known. Speaking specifically of the affooto AS T,1fp nR x,asnr kv-k kas Rs pointed out in his remarkable book, "The Province of Expression =
 That something destroys the health of teachers has been recognized for some time and physical culture has been brought for ward the past few years as the remedy. This is very important, but it does not go to the root of the evil
 Many, not knowing how to breathe. cramp the lungs and strain the throat, 50 that the whole nervous system becomes broken down and the organs of the body ready for dis ease"
 If you who read these lines happen to be victim of nervousness and if at the. same time you recognize that your voice is not ex- actly what 1t should be, make a real effort to achieve vocal improvement.
 Be on guard to catch yourself speaking in a, sharp, shrill, hard or nasal voice. Simply do not permit yourself to talk loudly. Strive for gentleness and quietness of voice.
 The effect on others is sure to be agree able. The effect on yourself may be really astOnishingly good. And if, owing to long continued habits of faulty voice production. you find yourself unable to gain the desired improvement without outside aid, enroll your self for private or class instruction, by some compstent teacher of the voice.
 That, of course, will cost you something. It should not cost you great deal. From more than one point of view. you will find it an excellent investment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
NOW PROVIDE THE REVENUE

Although the bonus measure is now law, there is still lacking one essential to its com pleteness. There has as yet been no specific source of revenue provided for taking care of this obligation. It was because of this lack in a former measure that MT. Harding vetoed it, after having given congress full notice beforehand that he would veto it unless the revenue was specifically provided It is easy for the opponents of the bonus to say that now the hope of tax reduction has gone glimmering. Such is not the case at all. Even if the bonus is direct levy on the treasury, it would still be possible to carry out the tax-reduction program. But it would be far better and more businesslike to de- vote some specific income to this purpose. Is it too much to hope that congress will make the necessary provision to this end?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
Lots Of Time
lFolger MeKinsey in Baltimore sunl

(Folger McKinsey in Baltimore Sun) Lots of time for fishing, So you needn't go just now The yard to rake, the ground to dig, and
 don't forget the COW! Lots of time for fishing, And the lad that lives by wishing Can wish himself forever in q world whose
 days are free But he'll always have yard to rake, ship
 to scrub at sea Lots of time for loving, So you needn't rush and fret The seed to plant, the corn to hoe, the cab
 bage sprouts to set Lots of time for loving, And who seeks love shall know That round the world and through the world
 and round the world betime He'll have to seek, or strong or weak, before
 the bells do chime! Lots of time for singing; So, work and wait they say The shop to tend, the meal to grind, the books
 to keep and all Lots of time for singing, But he who would be winging His way above the trivial to the heights of
 song sublime Must seize the moment early and forget the
 claims of time!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21
4 Miserable Life
POyerty is { point of Yiew.
By DR. FRANK CRANR

Poverty is point of view.
 1t all depends upon what you are used to, and upon what you see others enjoying.
 The average realistic author who seeks to harrow the readers feelings with his ac- count of the wretchedness of existence is sim ply performing the trick of bringing a man with one set of tastes into the life of man with another set of tastes.
 The king deceives himself if he thinks the cobbler unhappy, for the cobbler has never been king.
 The poet is mistaken when be imagines the life of a rough teamster to be miserable, for the teamster is, a teamster and not a poet. 4
 Leaving actual pain out of account, most lives are reasonably content so long as they are what they are and do not view themselves from the point of what they are not.
 Much of the description of the hollowness and emptiness of existence we find in George Gissing or Upton Sinclair, and their ilk might be thus parodied:
 '"Ehe days crept on with leaden feet for Archibald Vandegold. There was no golf nor lawn tennis. Only the dull routine of be- having himself and earning living.
 "In his little flat there was only one sery- ant and she was absent Thursdays.
 There were no mistresses nor chorus girls to eat lobster and drink Veuve Cliquot with him at 1 a. m. No, only one wife and child.
 "He had to reach for the bread at table himself, and pass bis own plate when he wanted another piece of ham. No butler stood behind his chair and whisked away his plate every time he took another spoonful of beans Like all the dreary bourgeois to whose class he belonged, he did his own but ting.
 "To arise in the morning and select your collar, tie your own tie, and stoop over to put on your own shoes until the temples thEob with the constrained attitude, to have no valet to turn on the hot water for your bath, but to be compelled to handle the faucet your self to go out to the dining room and drink your coffee instead of having James bring it to you as you lie abed; to rida downtown on tramwRy instead of taking a morning gallop upon your thoroughbredS to haxs mo polo ponies, no private yacht, mot even 70 belong to a club to have no bonat theGpsra where you can wear your dress suit and loll about and converse with duchessaB and xnil- lionaires' daughters in Robert ". ChambsRS dialogues; such is the life of that suhmarged class which the reader of the average maga- zine society yarn hates to think about
 Little do we suspect the sorrows ofr&he poor. Archibald Vandergold fett his hranSil- iation. His bathtub was not of poEphyxys His cigarette case was not gold with hfs monogram on 1t; it was leather and carried the advertisement of Q coal dealer.
 He actually went to church Sundays with his wife and child, and not to gilt restan- rant with another mans wife.
 "The darkness of his narrow existence cam be imagined when 1t is added that he actually liked his wife, liked to go to church, enjoyed being decent, and was interested in his busi ness.
 And pardon my vulgarity in saying it, but the whole fetid truth must be told--the pooi wretch did not own an antomohileig
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-21

size-almost as large as human head. Their dressings were also very varied, all kinds of sauces made of lemons, oranges, vinegar, mus tard and various peppers and the oils of beans and nuts-the latter not like anything we have in Europe, but incomparably better and finer in flavor"
 Thus the rich man in China is hard put to it to serve better table than his colleagues. No wonder the rich don't know chop suey. Who would want such a commonplace when he could have instead candied fish eyes and broiled spiders Or ancient eggs, symbol of ancestor-worship In a way, nevertheless, it may be that the poor in China have some what the best of it.