The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-09
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- Oranges for 25 Gents.
The Horse Was the Star.
Aboue the Knee, Please.
20 Million Feet a Day.
Bv ARTHUR BRISBANE.

Who, In the cold east could be-
lieve this?
You drive from Los Angeles to
Hollywood, here in southern Cali
fornia, and along the road are wa
gons filled with yellow ripe oranges.
with signs that read, six dozen
oranges for 25 cents"
And that is not misprint. You
buy a dozen oranges for cents,
six dozen for a quarter.
Who, in Florida or California
will find a way to squeeze out,
transport and deliver to homes in
the north, pure orange juice, with
the vitamins in good working
order?
The steel monoplane may arrange
that. The dashing young man will
have his orange juice route, instead
of his milk route. A thousand
pounds of orange juice would sup
ply many families.
As interesting as the price of
oranges are stories of moving pic
ture success, and humble starting.
For instance, take Miss Norma Tai
madge, in real life Mrs. Joseph
Schenck. Now she is all dressed in
fine spun, knitted green and, gold
silk, held together, here and there,
with big diamonds.
No butterfly could look better.
How did she begin? She tells you.
cts simple story that gave me
my first moving picture chance. |
was discovered kissing man, un-
der a photographers black cloth,
the kind they use to cover country
camera.
"An intelligent trained horse
lifted up the cloth with his teeth
and revealed me.
"Was | the star of that picture?
No, the horse was the star, and had
his name in big letters. | was not
mentioned, but I got So day, and
my lunch. :,
"And it was a start, which is all
anybody can ask for
Now Miss Talmadge is paid 10
times as much as the people pay
their president, and the horse is no
longer the star in her picture.
"From log cabin to White House"
is, financially speaking, mild in
comparison with movie success
sometimes.
But, young ladies on farms and
in small cities, do not come crowd
ing to Hollywood, unless you bring
money enough TO last for three
months, at least, plus enough to take
YOU home again. OF 100 that come
not more than 10 even secure places
as supernumeraries, at So or So a
day. Many bitter disappointments
and sad stories are here.
Success is hard always, and
harder in moving pictures than in
other work. Merely being pretty,
and ambitious, with curly hair is
not enough.
Paris rulers of fashion say to
women, all over the world:
"Wear your skirts above your
s knees, and paint your ears red
And the pathetic fact is that mil
lions of women will wear skirts so
short as to be silly, and paint their
ears without loss of time. Also the
eyelids are to be stained dark brown
or blue, the eye-lashes curled, and
the inside of the nostrils stained
bright red.
The short skirt, in reason, is sem
sible, a step toward common sense,
and away from microbes. Red ears,
when natural, indicate good blood
condition. But for women to wear
skirts that would look foolish on a
child, paint artificial health on their
ears, curl their lashes and color
their eyelids, that seems too much.
However, back of it all there is
divine wisdom, undoubtedly. Wo-
man is on her way to some grand
destiny. Let US observe and ad-
mire, but not criticize.
We can estimate the wealth un-
derground in this country. The
MARYLAND 4 Oil company strikes a
new oil we'll in its Colorado terri
tory. The roar of the gas, rushing
out, 20,000,000 feet day, can be
heard for six miles. If gas were
worth 81 a thousand, which is called
"a cheap, confiscatory price, how
much would that well yield in
money?
And the wealth in the ground is
perhaps less than the wealth in the
air. Floating above every farm,
waiting to be taken out and used, Is
enough nitrogen to fertilize many
such farms We buy nitrogen
hauled all the way from South
America, and there are billions of
tons Of it, above our heads.
And what is the wealth below
the waters of the oceans, seas and
lakes, that cover the greater part
of the earth?
Here and there, along the Pacific
coast, you see oil wells out in the
ocean. Where the ocean now is,
dry land once was, and vice versa.
Men eventually will explore the
oceans bed, as they now explore
Alaska, or Africa, and give to the
farms, from The air, the nitrogen
they need. Henry Ford would do
it now, if he had Muscle Shoals.
Assistant Postmaster General
Henderson promises night air mail
service between New York and Chi
cagon beginning in July.
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