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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Boston, Oct. 5-(AP)-In opening
the 18th annual conference of Mass
achusetts planning boards at the
state house today Richard *. Con-
ant. state commissioner of public
welfare, said that the formation of
six new planning boards during the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

err, Charles Hackett, Frieda Hempel,
Anna Case, Mabel Garrison, Edward
Johnson and Nine. Ernestine Schu-
mann Heink
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Gettysburg, PA fourteen year
old high school freshman is dead as
the result of a tackle in football
game.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Paris-Gorgeous Georges Carpen-
tier has ambitions for a fight with
Battling Berlenbach and a few more
New York dollars.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Hartford Conn, Oct. 5,-(AP)-
The appeal of Gerald Chapman
from the verdict of the jury and
judgment entered in his conviction
of murder in the first degree, will
come UP for assignment tomorrow
when the supreme. court of errors
opens for the October term. Because
of the prominence of the Chapman
case it is possible the superior court
may consider a special assignment
for it, as arguments may require the
greater part of a day. 1t IS expected
to be heard on Wednesday or Thurs
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

New York, Oct. 5.-(AP)-Broad
peace flags anfurled today above the
headquarters of the On Leong and
Hip Sing Tongs which have been at
war for weeks. Details of the pact
were not made known but the Chin
csc quarter appeared today to re-
fleet confidence that they would pre-
vent other outbreaks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Boston. Oct. 5.-(AP)-F'ranll Mil
liaux was killed today when an auto
mobile he was moving in a Back Bay
garage plunged IS feet down an ele-
vator shaft, overturned to pinned him
beneath it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Concord, N. H., Oct. 5-(AP)-The
total valuation of taxable property
in New Hampshire for 1925 is S536,
975,634, as compared with a valuation
in 1924 of $685., 422,S77, according to
figures made available by the state
tax commission here today. The to-
tai taxes assessed for 1925 were an
nounced as $16,7S0,963S7 as compar-
ed to total of S15,S09, $50. 80 in 1924.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Senator Frisco, Big, by San
Francisco Ollie Burnett, by
Axworthy Oh. Thomas). ~
Claude Madden. Big Beatty /
Northern King. blk h, CVaiD
sony 233
Tom Dennisdn. be LeWis). 6 2 4
Southsvard. bg. kelly. ...., 3 5
1Childs, SIS
The Editor, bh, (McMahon) 10
Rhodanthe, CHI m, (Hearth
levi 10 8
Davenport, bh, (Ray). .~..... 8 DIR
Time-225; 2.22 L.; 2.23 "a;
2.24 IA.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

SECOND RACE, THE WALNUT
HALL CUP
2.0S trot, mile heats, 2 in
Crawford, Big, by Belwin Barrel
la, by Bingara (Murphy). l
Bob Armstrong, CHI h, CTall-
Hurry Up, Big, (White) ........ 2
Tumpet, By. (Cox). ...........
Todd Hart, blk E, (Putnam)... dis
Time-2.OS; 2.04 IA; 2.04 1-2.
THIRD RACE, THE KENTUCY
FUTURITY, 2 YEAR OLD TROT-
TIERS,
in 3, purse $1,000
reter Maltby, be, by Peter Volo-
Elite Guy, by Guy Axworthy :.
(Dickerson) ........... ...... 4 l
Hazleton, br c, (Cox) ............ :
Guy Dean. be, CWrighD .........
Petrena Harvester bf, (Childs).. Z 8
Polly Peachtree. bg. (J. Thomas) 4 4
HOLLYWOOD Susan, bf, Godge).... D
Station Belle, bf, (White) ....... 5dr
Time. 06 "a; 2.07.
FOURTH RACE, PIG PACE, 2 IN 8
ia mile heats, purse $1,000
Bonnie Watts. Big, by Genera
Watts-Bonnie Hall, by walnut
Hall (Childs) ................. l
J. Patch, Big, Gennon). ......... z
Captain Hal, Big. (Galleger) $500. 3
Helene Direct, CHI m, Gray. $50.
Time 221 L.: 2.24.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

New York-Forty Scotch brides ar
rived on one Sunday boat to join
their husbands.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

New York-A stone from Sulgrave
Manor, Washington's ancestral home
in England, is to be built into the
Cathedral of st. John the Divine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 5-(AP)-
The fall rowing season at Harvard
opened today with $50 men turning
out at the boathouse. Four varsity
Fights and seven class crews worked
out on the Charles river, Coach Ed
ward Stevens following the varsity
contingent which is captained by
Robert Winthrop, stroke. A group of
100 freshmen were kept indoors on
the machines under the tutelage of
Coach Herbert Haines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06

Boston-The last curtain has rung
down on the famous Boston Theatre
after a career of II years. Long the
largest and best in the country, 1t is
to be RACED for vaudeville house.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-06
FLASHES OF LIFE
(By the Associated Press)

II
(By the Associated Press)
Moscow-Russia is completely wet
again. The governments monopoly
has been ended and private individ-
uals are permitted to make and sell
liquor. The price runs from 81, to 81
a quart.
London-The white pearl" carna-
ton is the favorite boutonnier of
King George.
Vienna-Richard Strauss is writing
music for kettle drum piano under
construction.
Geneva-The smallest American
Legion post is to be established here.
1t will have three members.
Paris-French youths are to draw
lots for service in Morocco.
Vienna-Three thousand movie
actors are demanding that American
films be excluded. They had a Sun
day parade and mass meeting about
it.
Paris-Gorgeous Georges Carpen-
tier has ambitions for a. fight with
Battling Berlenbach and a few more
New York dollars.
New York-A stone from Sulgrave
Manor, Washington's ancestral home
in England, is to be built into the
Cathedral of st. John the Divine.
Boston-The last curtain has rung
down on the famous Boston Theatre
after a career of II years. Long the
largest and best in the country, 1t is
! to be RACED for a vaudeville house.
New York-Forty Scotch brides ar
rived on one Sunday boat to join
/ their husbands.
Gettysburg, PA fourteen year
old high school freshman is dead as
| the result of tackle in a football
/ game.
Washington-The tariff on Bob
White quail has been cut IN half.
New York-Jacll Luden of Reading
| Pa, son of a wealthy cough drop king
is studying to become a film star. His
folks wanted him to be doctor.
New York-Some of the girls seer
at the Atlantic City pageant are
aroused by criticisms that they are
beautiful but dumb. They insist that
beauty and brains are blended often
] New YArk-In an 1s-foot motor
boat labesied Headed for Heaven.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16

expedition under the auspices Of the
Southern Railway. Mr.. McGraw,
Is named for Mrs. Dougherty's
husband.
Mrs. John A. Hull will entertain
at luncheon at the Chevy Chase
Club on Thursday.
y y -
Countess di yilIanova, wife OF the
first secretary Of the Italian EN-.
bassv, is at the Waldorf Astoria in
New York for a few days. Mrs.
Arthur Bliss Lane is also a guest
at the Waldorf Astoria.
Charles Wells Russell, formerly
American minister to Persia, and
Mrs. Russell, with their daughter,
Mrs. Lucy Russell Ogston and her
children, have closed their apart.
ment here at the Parkwood and have
gone to their country place near
White Plains, Va, for the summer
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16
JEAN ELIOT'S GOSSIP OF SOCIETY
Presenting a Military Maid

Miss
!, | Catherine
(I Foster,
Fl daughter Of
/ Lieutenant
| Colonel and
| Mrs. Charles
| Z. Foster,
/ who is one
/ of the
| engaging
II young
[ members Of
III the army
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16

T. Heating will be best man for
Mr.. Wood.
The bride ID wearing q graceful
gown Of beige chiffon trimmed
with silk lace dyed to match. The
skirt Is Of circular cut, and is
banded with the lace. Her hat is
of beige Neapolitan straw, with
trimming OF the lace, and long
streamer Of rose colored velvet
falls over one shoulder. She is
wearing a corsage bouquet of lilies
Of the valley and tea roses.
The maid of honor's costume is
Of apple green crepe Romano, and
she is wearing a hat of pink Nea-
politan straw and q corsage bou.
quet Of tea roses. The brides
mother will be gowned in gray geor
gette, with a becoming black hat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin r. Wood,
parents of the bridegroom, have
come from their home in Auburn,
Me-, to be present at the wedding
and beside a group of relatives
from Maine the out-of-town guests
include Miss Florence Anderson,
Of New York.
The couple will live In Cleveland,
Mr.. Wood being connected with
the Otis Steel Company in that city.
For her travelling costume the bride
will wear a smart white sport suit
with a hat to match.
X
Mrs. Robert Love Taylor has gone
to Tennessee, where she will spend
the summer and early autumn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hampson Gary have
returned to washington from Farm
ington, Conn, where they went to
attend the graduation OF their
daughter, Miss Helen Gary. Miss
Gary has gone to Hartford, Conn,
to attend the graduation exercises
at Trinity college and will return
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16

lege. General Tasker H. Bliss and
Rear Admiral Archibald Scales are
being honored with the degree OF
doctor of military science and doc
tors of naval science on the same
occasion. Major John Winthrop
Loveland. president of the alumni
and one of the trustees, has been
chosen by the board Of trustees to
make the presentation address.
Mrs. Thomas r. Walsh expects
to remain in Washington through
the summer and will keep open
her big house IN MASSACHUSETTS,
avenue.
Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, who
makes her home with Mrs. Walsh,
has as her guest her nephew, Allan
E. McGraw, of Boston. A student
at Culver Academy. the boy has
hts first job this summer and is
leaving town soon for a surveying
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16
FIRST NIGHTS
IN TEREST
SOCIETY
Bohemian Grip and
Butter and Egg Man"
Both Score
BY JEAN ELIOT.

NwYITH two first nights to
!" choose from last night, Wash
w ingtonians might have thought
themselves back in the height Of
the season had it not been for the
malice of the weather man. And
in spite of the heat there were
interesting audiences, both by
cumulative qualitative analysis. at
the Auditorium, where the Wash
ingten Opera Company was giving
its first performance of Bales
lovely Bohemian Girl and at the
Belasco Theater, where 1.-THE Butter
and Egg Man." a merry comedy by
George S. Kaufman, was having its
tryout prior to opening in New
York in the autumn.
The presence in the audience Of
Mrs. Henry B. Harris, widow of the
famous producer who went down
with the Titanic and herself an inn
Tportant figure in the theatrical
world. gave a flip of interest to
!: the occasion, which was increased
when Miss Charlotte Walker was
/ discovered in a stage box. Years
slago when Miss Walker was playing
There in stock she enjoyed a popu-
slarity with Washington audiences
which has rarely been repeated and
,,.she IS always given a warm well
leone when she returns.
Z The Rumanian Minister, Prince
Antoine Bibesco, was among those
IN the audience at the Belasco last
|Ievening ana nearby I noticed Mrs.
John r. Williams, with Mrs.
sOrmsby McCanamon; Mrs. Robert
IHinckley, with her son-in-law and
daughter Mr.. and Mrs. Percival Nc
t Ceney-Werlich and Mr.. and Mrs.
james C.. Crawford: Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick H. Brooke, Mrs. Robert
L. Owen, Mrs. Owen Hawkins and
Mrs. Rose Wallach Merriam, Mr..
land Mrs. Ralph Graves had box
party, having Miss Kathleen Evans
among their guests. Others in the
audience, which filled the theater,
were Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Smith, Mrs.
20. C. Aleshire and Miss Madeline
,Aleshire. Mrs. Pitt Cooke and her
daughter, Mrs. Helen Cooke Bar
bour, Mrs. Isabel PaIlen Stewart.
Marion Law, Louis Thompson and
George O,connor.
{ The author OF the piece was at
one time q resident of Washington
and has many friends here.
Box Parties Arranged For
:ssBohemian Giri' This Week.
( Miss Laura Harlan, Mrs. William
BeIden Noble and Mr.. and Mrs.
William Boyd Carpenter were among
those who entertained box parties
for the Bohemian Girl. Miss
Harlan had with her Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Denby and Commander
Joel I. Boone.
4 Others noted In the audience were
Major and Mrs. George Oakley Tot
ten, jr.. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua
|. Evans. Mrs. Marion Butler, Mrs.
II. T. CFonin, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
/. Ialiaferro, Miss Susan Barksdale
md Miss Anita Stephens.
! The performance win run through
the week and number of other
box parties have already been ar
ranged.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16
JAPANESE ENVOY BACK
FROM WEEK END VISIT.

The Japanese Ambassador. TsuneO
Matsudaira, has returned to Wash
ington after spending the weekend
TAT Syosset. L. L. -as the guest of
Colonel Lloyd C. Griscom, former
American ambassador to Japan.
During his stay he called on Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt at Sycamore
Hill, Oyster Bay. which is about
three miles from Syosset.
James j. Davis, Secretary OF
Labor, has gone to Chester, Pa, to
receive an honorary LII. D. degree
from the Pennsylvania Military Col
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16

-YITH two first nights to
J" choose from last night, Wash
w ingtonians might have thought
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16
TONIGHT
FOR BRIDAL
COUPLE
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles P.
Keyser to Entertain for
Daughter

| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles p. Keyser
! will entertain at reception this
| evening in their home at 1870
Decatur street for their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd
Humphreys Rea, whose marriage
took place on May 81 at Upper
Marlboro, Md. About five hundred
gugests have been invited.
The wedding OF Mr.. and MIS-.
Rea, the latter formerly Miss
Catherine Keyser, was planned for
a later date In washington, but
the couple decided to have it with
out the formal ceremony and so
slipped away on the afternoon OF
May, 81 to Upper Marlboro. where
the ceremony was performed in Old
Salem Cottage, the rectory Of Trim
Ity Episcopal Church with the
rector. the Reverend Francis T..
McManus officiating.
The bride is the niece Of the late
Senator Charles j. Hughes Of Col.
orado, w:lo was the brother OF
Mrs. Keyser. Her father has been
washington correspondent for the
st. Louis Globe-D Democrat for the
last twenty-one years. She was
born and educated in washington,
having attended the public schools
and Fairmont Seminary.
Mr.. Rea is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Marshall Rea, OF It's Varnum
street. He was born in Brooklyn,
N. Y, and was educated in the
public schools Of that city and at
st. Johns Military Academy on the
Hudson. He has been engaged in
the automobile business for several
years in Washington and is now q
member Of the sales organization
OF Stanley K. Horner.
WEDDING TODAY; TO
LIVE IN CLEVELAND.
The marriage OF Miss Edith Vim,
cent, daughter OF Mrs. Henry =.
Vincent and the late Mr.. Vincent,
ana Arthur J. Wood, Of Cleveland,
Ohio, will be solemnized this after.
noon at clock In the Church Of
the Immaculate Conception, the
Reverend Father James e. O'Con.
nell officiating. A company Of
relatives and friends of the bride
and bridegroom, will assemble for
| the ceremony and afterward there
will be reception at the home OF
the bride.
Miss Helen Vincent will be her
sisters maid Of honor and Joseph
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16
ENTERTAINING TONIGHT
FnR BRIDAL PARTY.

Miss Elizabeth Ann Albers and
her fiance. Joseph simms Earrnan.
Of West Palm Beach, Fla. win be
the guests Of honor at. dinner this
evening OF the formers parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Albers, who
will entertain in their home on
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-16

to washington the end OF the week.
Mr.. and Mrs Gary's son, Frank
lin Gary, who is a junior at Prince
ton University, sailed Saturday
from New York on the Conte Rosso
for Europe, where he viii pass the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Golden Donald
son have leased the estate az Canon
Russell, "Beauvoir," $500 WoodIey
road, formerly occupied by the I'm
dersecretary of state and Mrs.
Grew, and will take possession inn
| mediately. Robert G.. Donaldson
jr., q senior at williams college, II
visiting his parents for few days
prior to his sailing on June 90 tc
pass the summer travelling In Flu
rope.
Miss Ruth Donaldson Is nov
making a series of visits in Phila
delphia and New York and win joir
her parents shortly.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. John p. Story have
gone to New York to meet Miss
Caroline Story on her return from
Europe, where she has been visiting
her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
land Mrs. Roy Glen. Mr.. and Mrs
Story have moved from their house
In Massachusetts, avenue to 1922
/ Eighteenth street. They will SO
later IN the season to Whitehall,
their summer home at Annapolis.
The Washington times., 1925-07-04
FUNNY ONES
FROM THE WEST

They were always friends and
were bound together by the fact
that they wers both working their
way through college. Olsen, like
a great many youths: was wait
ing on the table at his fraternity
house, while johnson earned his
way by playing the piano at.
various college functions.
After college Olsen became q
cartoonist on the Chicago Daily
News, while johnson continued
with his music. One evening
they were together at q Chicago
night club, when the proprietor
asked them to do a stunt for the
crowd. They got up and, with
Johnson at the piano. did one of
the bits of fooiery that had made
them popular entertainers at col
lege. It was an overwhelming
success, a success so great, In
fact. that the management offer
ed them an eight weeks contract.
They talked II over, and Olsen
decided to abandon cartooning for
the time being, at any rate. The
eight weeks grew into eighteen,
and the newspaper business lost
one of it's best cartoonists.
After their cabaret engagement
the boys went into vaudeville.
where they have. remained ever
since. With them are Comb and
Brush" pair of crack negro
cancers. ss l,.3y
The Washington times., 1925-07-04
WALLOPSl TEARLE
ONCE A FIGHTER

Washington has manifested a
keen interest in the gentle art of
hauling the physiognomy and
the torso with the lusty boxing
glove during recent months-and
probably will continue to do 20
If Major Peyton Gordon. prose
cutting attorney, will graciously
play dead-but the king town of
them all in this land Of the spree
and home Of the rave is. Los An
geles, California.
When the frequent fight nights
arrive in the capital of the
movies, the studios are dark, the
Hollywood homes are deserted
and the entire populace will be
found at the ringside cheering
the leather pushers on to victory
or the rosin.
Ask Damon Runyan, he knows.
They all have different reasons
or eXcuses-for regular attend
ance at the prize fights in Hol-
lywood. but the one offered by
Conway Tearle Is perhaps the
most unique.
Tearle Is one of the most con-
sistent ringside rooters at the
Hollywood Stadium every week.
Nothing but death could keep him
away from a good fast battle
with the gloves.
Between scenes in Just a
Woman" M. c.. Levee's newest
production for First National at
The Washington times., 1925-07-04

Masters in the new school Of
nut comedy, Ole Olsen and
Chic Johnson, topping the bill at
Keith'sA for the new week, have
set the style for a type of stage
humor that is fast growing in
popularity with the public and the
performers alike. These two
young Hmen from the Midle West
have worked together IN vaude-
vile for several years. Their per-
Torrance is SO well liked by other
actors on the bill. that there is
never week during which they
do not stage an impromptu after
piece That is to say, the other.
people on the bill come cut and
interrupt Ole and Chic to the
great amusement Of the audience.
Olsen and Johnson have known
each other since they were boys
at the University of Chicago.
The Washington times., 1925-07-04
GOINGS-ON
AT the The1terSi

) Mcdowell and Ann May, Will
he pictured at the Tivoli the first
two days of next week In WAX
ing Jp the Town" The prin-
cinal supplementary features VIII
include q new "Our Gang COM
edy. 1.-The Big Town." a new
issue of the Pathe Review ana
"Topics of the Day. augmented
as usual by pipe organ accom-
naniment and solo interludes.
tuesday and Wednesday, Bar.
bara LaMarr> in 1.-THE Heart OF
a Siren" and a comedy: Thurs
day and Friday, Richard DIX IN
.'The Shock Punch and The
Paeemakers"; Saturday, Tom
Nix> in "Dick Turpin,' a Sport
light, Aesop Fable and "sunken
Silver"
AMBASSADOR-Ciaire Windsor,
Conway Tearle. Percy Marmont.
Dorothy Revier, Eddie Cribbon
land baby Dorothy Brock com.
prise the cast of Irving Cum.
innings picturi3atton, of Just 4
. tyVer1an,'s to be shown for the
first three days Of next week at
.Crandalls Ambassador Theater.
The companion feature Will be
"The Cloud Hopper" with Larry
Semon. wednesday and Thurs
day, Blanche Sweet In THE
Sporting Venus" and an Al st.
John comedy; Friday, Tom Mix
in Riders of the Purple Sage"
and Walter HERS in Tender.
feet" and q Pacemakers install
Ynent; Saturday, Adolphe Menjou
In "a Kiss in the Dark" an
Our Gang comedy and "Sunken
Silver"
CENTRAL-"T Courageous
Fool'' will be shown at CrandalIs
Central Theater, beginning Sun.
day at 8, with Reed Howes in
the title role, and Camelita Ger
agility and Ned Sparks support
ing. Another instalment Of the
Pacemakers and q comedy,
Haunted Honeymoon, will round
out. Tuesday and wednesday
Corinne Griffith in "Declasse"
and a comedy. Wake Up"
Thursday. and Friday, "Confes-
sions of a Queen" with Alice
Terry and comedy with Ben
Turpin in 1.-THE Marriage Circus"
Saturday, Doris Kenyon In Ids
Tongues and Al st. John In
'@The Iron Mule"
The Washington times., 1925-07-04
DAYLIGHT FILMS
PROCESS NOW
PERFECTED

"A daylight screen has been
developed by the Trans.Lux Day
light Picture Screen Corporations
after eight years OF experimental
work and an expenditure, it Is
said. Of more than 81 ,000, 900. Six
OF these screens are now being
used on the New York Stock Elk
change, another is used on the
Curb Market and q number In
brokers' offices for the showing
OF stock quotations.
This new screen Is made Of
gelatinous compound reinforced
with a special fabric and IS as
chemically inert as glass, 50 that
there Is no deterioration through
exposure. 1T has a finely grooy
ed surface and the minute cor
rugations arc said TO be 50 sci
entifica1ly exact that there - NO:
distortion of the picture when,
viewed from any angle or from
the front seats of q theater. There,
is, the inventors say. u variation
In thickness of not more than
one oue-hundretl1 part Of an inch
In q screen of any size up 20
eighteen by twenty-five feet, the
largest size which has 30 Tar
given efficient results. The screen
il tinted q very light green Or
blue, with the effect Of giving
good reproductions Of coIored
films and at the same time Civ
ing q certain dept and yivfdness
to the regular run Of pictures.
The picture Ii projected directly
from the rear, instead Of indirect
~ through reflection from in
front. The projection machine
IL at the back Of the stage, and
in the event Of a fire the lower
ing of an asbestos curtain can
shut off the audience from dan.
ger.
Rear projection, however, re-
quires that the projection machine
be placed twenty-five or thirty
feet behind the screen. This de-
rnands more space back-stage than
is available in many tileaters,
but this is compensated for to-
a certain extent by the theater
managers being able to have
seats much closer to the screen.