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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
LonIiness And Crime
 By DIR. FRANK CRANE
THE. city is a home.
It is not only a pla.

It is not only place to make money in; it is a place to live in.
 Hence, why not have it honiey, cosy, and attractive, as we have our houses? We are already coming up to this. We have parks and fountains and statues. But we are still long way off.
 We still erect office buildings, each with out reference to its neighbor, with no archi- teetural harmony, hit and miss, individual ism run mad. We have uhsightly slums. We have hideous rows of apartment buildings. about as attractive in outward appearance as soldiers barracks, and inside hardly as com fortable. Our cities are scraggly, helter-skel- ter, ugly~blOtehes on the landscape.
 Where humanity coagulates ought to be the acme of art and beauty, the triumph of human joy and loveliness. It is not. It is tion, blatant advertising, a place to go when you have to, and to leave when you can.
 The charm of some of the old towns of Europe consists in that they look as if some body lived there and loved, it. The modern parts of European capitals.s to be sure, are almost as hideous as Chicago or Omaha, but the back streets are. attractive There are crooked, narrow ways oyer the river in Paris that look human, and funny passages ant. hooks in ancient London, and beloved haunt+ in Florence, while the lesser towns of Avi. non and Mines, Subiaco, Rothemburg. Re gensburg and the like really have the appear. ance of human habitations.
 Why not get back to this, at least to what of good there is in it? All of existing New York and Boston and St. Louis will have to be taken down a hundred years from now why not begin now to plan the city-to-come, and build something beautiful for our chil- dren's children?
 We lack the civic feeling. We are living 1 in the fag-end of the worldsmovement of com petition, It's every man for himself and devil take the hindmost The problem of the twentieth century is to get together.
 We cannot go back to that mediaeval solidarity of feeling that made the feudal towns charming, for that feeling arose from immobility, lack of transportation. But we can go on to a new solidarity, the unity of democracy, the sentiment that creates a Letchworth or BournvilleE
 And the thing most t6 keep in mind is that the real charm of city is not its proud buildings, but the beauty of its common houses and back streets.
 Above all, let us have some crooked streets, so that we may imagine we are at home and not in a penal colony.
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Traprock's HOt Weather ExpetIenee

'"The hot weather during the recent Au- gust weeks reminds me of an interesting bat tie had with the thermometer way back in 'SS," said the tanned old explorer. .s T was in Rangoon, India, in the service of the British government With a detail of one hundred men I was in command of the government buildings. All the other officials with their families had gone up to the noun tains. A hot wave struck us that was like the blast from a furnace!
 'The water in the port steamed and some of the low hills about us shrunk visibly un- der the terrific rays. Every manjack of my command deserted but one, Mahalabad, my faithful Indian servant. At the end of ten days we were both almost dead, but l re- fused to desert my post.
 II had large collection of turbans, off cial and otherwise. The faithful chap brought them all out, wet them in our scanty water supply, swung them in the air to cool them, and proceeded to wrap me from head to foot in what was nothing but a large turban. He wrapped in with me several loayes of bread and a quantity of dried figs. Then he hung me up in the coolest corner of the house like a gigantic cocoon. l hung there exactly two weeks, feeling, curiously, scarce ly any desire to eat. must have slept most of the time, and my experience convinces me that man, 1t he desired, could easily learn to hibernate in this way, as does the bear.
 "When the weather finally broke and some of my men ventured back and cut me down, was touched to find that the last turban Mahalabad had wrapped about me had been his own. A note explained that he had taken refuge in our cistern, but the water in this had evaporated and my poor friend along with it.
 "At the Dunbar the following year, King Edward personally handed me the Order of the Pink Parasol, an honor usually reserved for native princes and Nabobs of the blood royal"
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After Winter
(H. M. NJ. in New York Times)

The flowers on my desk mean a great deal
 to me Brought in tight little punches, In inartistic childish fists But with loves artistry on each small face, Brought Ito please teacher" They grew in places strange to me these
 many years Home gardens, quiet yards, Where Contentment. Industry and Peace Make a place worthy of their presence. Put them in water, dear" A splash of color in the dingy school room A fragrance, an assurance that God lives, The loving thought of children True and simple. These things they mean The flowers on my desk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
NOT MERE ECHOES

Of course Colonel Roosevelt ran for the vice presidency once, but this is the first campaign we ever experienced when both presidential candidates were kept on ten terhooks, whatever they are, all the time, having no more idea than rabbit what their respective running mates might say next-Ohio State Journal.
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eating when one already has indigestion. Mr. Davis Eliminates the while subject when he establishes the principle that lit is a chief executive function to ad- minister to their reasonable application the statutes already existent. That is the kind of president the nation needs at this luncture. -L - = =
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Intensive

Alice: Your husband plays golf, doesn't he?"
 Virginia: "NO, he works at it.'-R. W, J.
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That School Girl Complexion

I'd love to find the sneaky bird
 Who gum-shoes through the town, Painting festive bill boards
 With gay scarlet, blue, and brown. want to gum his brush with glue,
 But he avoids detection, And meaniy keeps on bounding me, Bout that school girl complexion. His admonitions irk me,
 And the reason is quite simple, My school girl epidermis k1 Always did include pimple Many a girls dreams 20 up in smoke.
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When MT. Lodge paints his glowing picture of splendid isolation for this country he strangely overlooks citing China as the perfect example.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11

Mother: Has your young man shown any signs of proposing yet?" A Daughter: "Oh, yes. Only last, night he asked me if knew exactly how much father was worth."-Mrs. Rufus Wenzelg s x
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There seems to be considerable compe- tition between civil-war barbarities around Herrin and those in the vicinity of Shanghai.
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Tell-Tale Marks

Crawford: Are you ahead on the poker games you held in the house while your wife was away in the country?"
 Crabshaw: "Yes, but not enough to pay for having the Oriental rug repaired and a new finish put on the library table. Rich ard Huber.
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It is reported that a school of flying fish broke down lot of telegraph wires lin New Jersey. Perhaps a new name ] for unlicensed aviators-flying-fi fish.
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Even the strongest advocates of free speech in political campaigns these days are reminded that audiences, too, have
 some rights.
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The announcement that D'Annunzio has gone into absolute seclusion will be one of the welcome bits of news during the off-season.
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Mrs. Gayboy: Do you like, animal stories?'
 Mrs. Frolic: q certainly dol"
 Mrs. Gayboy "Then listen, and I'll tell you funny one about my husband. ."--Kath- erine Faheya s'
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Rats are reported to have eaten cal in North Carolina. Another sign that the masses are turning against the classes.
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A Republican enthusiast says that il is all over except the cheering. But he'll do we'll to get his cheering over early.
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WOULD BE sURfRIsED

learn that they are the chief source of their progeny's pride. Haven Register. h
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Perhaps few of the hardships en' countered by the world flyers will equal the banquets awaiting them at the finish
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These Women!

Cut Glass A five-dollar water pitche marked down to $3.9S.
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Why Men Swear

His heart throbbed painfully.
 He trembled from head to foot He could scarcely breathe, so stifling was the little air that reached him. Beads of precipitation gathered on his fevered brow. He heard a buzzing noise in his head then-Centrals voice "Lines busy; returning your money" -E. H. D.
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PREss-The As. sociated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited tc it. or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local published therein. All rights of republication of special dispatches also reserved.
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If the choice were left to me, whether to havesa free press or a free government, l would choose a free press.-Thomas Jefferson.
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No wonder we call life gamble" The girls are always talking about the chances they missed of getting married.
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We Know Quite 8 Few Like This Mary: "They say Jack has proposed to a great many girls" Grace Yes, everything but matrimony." :" William Sanford.
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THE AGE. HERALD


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Other places of interest here include kitchen and gas stove, tile bathroom wit no wet bathing suits all over the floor, bathtub without any shoes, waterwings, bab toys, clamshells, sardine cans and mud il it; and any number of clothes closets bi enough to put something besides can am hat in.
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Healthy Symptom,

Many girls dreams go up in smoke.
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Another very interesting thing, at place like this is piano that has been tuned since the Battle of Monmouth. When you strike the keys of this piano you get musical notes and not noise like the arrival of new ship ment of bric-a-brac at the five and ten-cent store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11

Getting Rid Of Eye-Sorcs-The Jefferson county board of revenue has passed a law prohibiting the tacking of signs along the highways of that county. That is one time the majority of the people of that and other counties will agree with them. These signs are not only obstructing. to the view, but are displeasing to the eyes of the automobil- ist, and they should come down. Some of the advertisements are of such nature that a mixed crowd could not read them aloud as they pass.-Centreville Press
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Around this house there is yard with n' strangers in it and attached to the house il veranda where can sit as long as wisl and not listen to lot of loose-lipped womel knock the new arrivals. In fact, one of tn, great charms of this place is that there ar, no 'new arrivals!' win
The Washington times., 1924-12-20

particularly colorful program I'm
Guiding BoseIli's Serenade and the
most popular of the Neapolitan
duets.
The overture win be Broolxes
Christmas fantasie, "Christmas
Echoes" played by the Rialto
Symphony with Bailey F. Alart
conducting. The balance of the
show will be rounded out by the
International News reel and
Newspaper Fun.
STRAND--Mystery and interest
is lent the new Strand bill, COM
mencing with Sunday matinee, in
the appearance of "Milo?" who
has to be seen to be understood.
The Wania-Semon tabloid revue
viii be the other big feature on
a holiday bill which also boasts
Herbert Hodge and Mildred Low
ell in clever skit. Object Matrk
fering Music, symphony aud
Charm" and the three Walters.
comedy gymnasts, will also .ap-
pear. '"Trouping With Ellen, a
story of chorus girl life, is the
photoplay feature, with Helene
Chadwick the star,
TIVOLI-Pola Negri will be the
pictured star at Crandalrs Tivoli
tomorrow and Monday in For
hidden Paradise, directed for
Paramount by Ernst Lubitsch.
The supporting cast includes Rod
La ROGUE, Adolphe Menjou.
Pauline Starke and Fred Mala-
tesla. Cliff Bowes will supply
the fun in Empty Heads" a
new comedy, and a new issue of
the Pathe Review also will be
shown.
on Tuesday and Wednesday
Reginald Denny and Laura La
Plante will be seen irA "The Fast
Worker" comedy-drama. Mack
Sennett's Wandering Waistlines"
win be the comedy Immediately
preceding Christmas. and scenic
subject, Haunted Hills" likewise
will be screened
For Christmas day and Friday
Vitagraph's super.spec.al, Cap
Continued ON Page 27l
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if he is / couldn't see 4 thing"
And so on.
I Box offices are generally re-
garded as information booths.
People actually. ask about train
schedules, the hours of mail col
lections, owl street car service
and what should be done with a
cold on the chest.
*** /
The next time you buy tickets,
step briskly to the cage. affect
non-committal smile, exhibit
the money in your hand and
say:
Il want two seats downstairs
for next Wednesday night. I
don't want them on the aisle.
Here is the correct change.
Never mind showing me the
positions on the plat. Have a
cigar"
Do this and if the man inside
falls dead no jury in the world
will convict YOU. .
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Eli3Or Glyn's story was first
planned for the screen. This was
sTheda Bara role. Yet Miss
Pringle, whose personality is one
Of cold aloofness, was selected,
while the movie fundamentalists
raised their hands in holy horror,
asserting she was too frigtd, too
remote, too refined And then,
to their surprise, they found critics
and public acclaiming Miss Pringle
ais one Of the discoveries of screen
history. INV
Miss Pringle herself came into
motion pictures equipped with q,
background Of social experience,
ais well as individual views Of her
art, that made her stand out as
II distinctive personality. Although
born in San francisco, she was
eSfucated IN England and on the
continent. And her ruling passion
had always been the art OF acting.
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THREE HUNG RAMS AND
]. MR.. RATHBONE

Basil Rathbone has a profound
regard for Hungarians. Not mere
~ q respect, but something that
is downright affection.
Most OF his success on the
American stage has been due to
Hungarians. Molnar, of course,
heads the list, for 1t was he who
wrote the remarkable part that is !
Doctor Agi in. the comedy coming
Monday night to the National The
ter.
HIS present role is as perfect q
one as any actor could hope for,
MIR. Rathbone believes. Then the
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two Hungarians, Melchior Lengyl
and Lajos BRO. wrote "The Ca.
rina," in which Rathbone appear
ed playing opposite Doris Keane.
1T was In this romantic costume
play, produced by the Charles
.Frohman Company avho. also pre-
sent R'pThe Swan,R that Rathbone
was introduced TO America. Gil
bert Miller, manager of the Froh.
man interests, brought him to this
country after having witnessed
Rathbone's London performance
in Peter Ibbetson-"
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BILFOR
THE EARLE'S
OPENING

Washington's newest theater,
the Earle, will open its doors to
the public on Saturday, December
81. This opening but two days
after Christmas fulfiIls the prom
Use made by the Brylawskis, own
ers and builders of the new house.
that it would be ready during the
holiday period. Those who have
viewed the interior Of the Earle
are pronouncing 1t to be one OF
the really artistic amusement
places of the National Capital
they add that Washington should
and will be proud Of it.
The vaudeville bill for the
opening week looks great. Head
line honors are being divided be-
tween Harry Green In THE Cher.
ry Tree and Meyer Davis
famous LIE Paradis Band. The
first named has been a standard
offering for years and has but
recently returned from a sue
cessfuI tour in Europe.
Neutrality-suspicious. look upon the
lie Paradis Band as their. own.
This musical aggregation has ap-
peared in vaudeville here on
numerous occasions always scor-
ing emphatically. For the open
ing of the Earle Meyer Davis has
created an entirely new act and
those who have seen the pre-
vious presentations of this band
can readily realize the entertain
ing value of this feature.
In addition to number OF re-
cnnt and uni0ueIy orchestrated
Broadway hits, the band will also
present several of the numbers
they recently did for the Victor,
people, probably including, No.
body Loves You Like Do" and
the Washington and Lee Swing.
Jack Nesbit will again appear as
soloist and Lew Whisky, custodian
of the drums, viii step out in a
novelty dance number with a
stunt new in the annals of vaude-
vile.
The supporting bill has not been
neglected, and such stars as
Singing Eddie Nelson. who is a
high light in burnt cork comedy;
the Kanazawa Trio, three Japs
famed for their balancing and Jug
Cling: Sinclair and Gaspard, a
comedy pair; SIENNA and Weber,
and Vlmos Westony, the famous
Hungarian violinist, and the de-
lightfui prima donna, Eva Fon-
tayne, will be seen, heard and APP
preciated.
The opening performance is
scheduled for 6 O'clock p. M, on
Saturday next.
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RFs4rsif5 X X =
Al half a day in any busy box
pffice is an unbeatable course in
psychology. Box-office men, go
ing on duty, are always searched
for weapons to forestall the i'm
evitab!e breaking point when
they run amuck. In some thea
tiers slogans are used. The in
coming shift may be greeted
with, 7
Remember the wife and kid
aiesl" or. alright, Job, give
sem what they want and re-
member, none of it will matter
. year from today"
The commonest pests are peo-
pie who want seats in the bal
cony when there isn't any
balcony; those who will not be-
lieve a show is sold out; those
who don't care what the scale
of prices is so long as one dol
lar gets them in the first five
rows downstairs; those who get
in line at $40 p. m. for seats
for next weeks show: those
who won't get in line at all;
those who want an estimate If
the show when such unerring
chronicles as The Times are on
file in the libraries and on sale
in the streets; those who ask
biographical data on the star,
the leading man, the company
manager and "Will the tall fell
low who sat in front Of me last
Monday be here tonight, because
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ELECTING ALLEN AS TIE
l NEW HEROINE TYPE

Although screen acting inherits
from ancient pantomime. its mod
arm development makes it virtually
d new art. But already in spite
of its newness. 1t has acquired a
string Of traditions that new
corners find hard to break Up to
q few years ago, and even today,
every actress cast in the role of
seductive woman seemed to feel
Ahe influence of Theda Bara how.
iering over her when s''a had to
gaze dangerously into . g hero's
eyes; the alittle ingenues Ill SEEM
ed to remember Mary PiclSford's
early sweetnesses; the SRy. swift
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THE GATE POST
By Harold Phillips

The time of year being hand when the whole world
conspiracy help the needy the afflicted and otherwise
exhibit the strain Of tolerance however hurts win rise
above the and in the loudest possible BE
Kind to Box Office Men Week." 7-# ss#ss ss@#t
n the public mind the behind the brass wicket in
theater fellow Of Hunnish who will not sell the
tickets Actually he is Of gracousness
postum Of all the willing hands in the universe He has ntrin
scay the of St Bernard dog but the public him
the rough of that Because principally the
public just determined to make him do chores he isn't
bosed dos he is determined sell
that available sSss
Of accommodating people who passing by and who suddenly
decide purchase couple of seats Most of think he put
there check baggage mind small children call cash
checks ndscreons of the architect such squeaky
Rse oosehangng doors; discuss seating oppo
houses funny and share his lunch with ther
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Davis to Direct.

Meyer Davis will personally
direct the orchestras which win
play for the E. b. Mclean movie
and music evening" Sunday and
for the hall to he given by the
Joseph Letters on December "a.
The McI.eans have recently
been entertaining Sunday evening
dinner parties with First run"
movies not yet released in Wash
ington.
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little madcaps attached themselves
to the Mae Murray school
But every now and again 4 new
star looms on the screen horizon,
whose personality an methods are
new to motion pictures. And such
a one is Aileen Pringle, who has
one of the featured roles I'm Metro
Goldwyn's new production Of
wife of the Centaur,,' which
opens a Christmas, week engage
ment at Loew's Columbia tomor-
row.
Any tradition bound director
would have rejected the idea or
casting Miss PriAgle In the leading
role OF Three Weeks" when
The Washington times., 1924-12-20

3 GAYETY--"Rib" Shannon and
Shorty" Leeming are the prin-
scipal comedians with Come
Along" the Gayetv's new bill for
Christmas week beginning tomQg-
Evening star., 1924-03-01
ARCHITECTS Plan
MEETING IN MARCH
Will Gather in New Orleans to
Make Plans for Annual
Session Here.

Prominent members of the archi-
tectural profession from all over the
country will gather in New Orleans
March s and 6 to attend a meeting
of the executive committee of the
American Institute of Architects. The
committee will make plans for the
fifty-seventh convention Of the in
stitute. which, it is announced, will
be held in this city May 21, 22 and
%. Reports of standing and special
committees will be considered.
Coincident with the committee
meeting, there will be a conference
Of the seventh district of the insti-
tute, comprising the states of Ten
nessee, Georgia. Florida. Alabama
Mississippi. Arkansas, Louisiana,
0klahoma and Texas. Charles A.
Favrot of New Orleans is a member
of the institutes board of directors
from this district.