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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-02-17
Would Shut Down Gas
Works

My stomach has been so filled
with gas for the last three years
that | felt | could pretty nearly sup
ply our town. l also had frequent
PAINS in right side in region of the
appendix. Doctors didn't help much
one day my neighbor told me about
What Mayr's Wonderful Remedy had
done for him and l got a bottle of
our druggist | can say that it will
40 all and more than you claim for
it, 1t is simple, harmless prepar-
alton that removes the catarrhal mu-
Gus from the intestinal tract and al
lays the inflammation which causes
practically all stomach, liver and in
testinal ailments, including appendi-
citis. One dose will convince or mon
ey refunded Phelps Dodge Mercan-
tile Co, and druggists everywhere.
ADV.
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the ribs are sunk in consequence of
the relaxation OF the external inter-
costal muscles The abdominal part
of the full exhalation will take place
quite unconsciously. 1t is not a mis-
take here as it was during the i'm
halation to draw in the abdomen but
it is not at all necessary. 1t would
be a bad idea for beginners to press
the ribs in with the hands when ex~
halation is nearly completed. until
proper control Of the ribs is attained.
Every person should learn to take
full breath as it is health giving
exercise as well as helping to develop
good posture. The average person is
very lax when it comes to deep
breathing. 1t would be worth any
body's while to spend few minutes
a day in deep breathing
Next weeks article will be devoted
to breathing exercises.
EXERCISE S--LEGS
Position: Erect position. feet six
inches apart, hands on hips.
Movement: Rise on toes, then lower
to squatting position on heels then
back to first position.
Remarks: Stiffen legs when return
ing to- erect position also rising on
toes as far as possible. Repeat about
ten times to start with
EXERCISE o. NECK
Position; Stand erect with hands on
hips.
Movement: Bring head backwards as
far as possible without straining, then
forward, bringing chin in until it
touches front part of neck. Second
bend head sideways first to left then
to right. 3rd, make circles with head
first to left then to right Repeat
each movement about six times 20
start.
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Be Healthy
BY J. w. Deeming, Physical
Director Of the Douglas
Y. nj. C. A.
THE FULL BREATH


STAND erect with heels together and
the body well balanced upon the
whole of the feet. The. hands should
resrlEIpn the hips, the shoulders thus
being partly relieved of the weight
Of the arms. Lean the mead slightly
baclsil open the nostrils as wide as
possible. Stretch the whole upper
part of the trunk upwards simultan-
eously, moving the lower ribs outward
CHIEFLY sideways) but also forward
together with the breastbone The
air Will then rush in and fill every
part Of the lungs The initiation of
the lungs is performed quite auto
matically owing to the vacuum which
is created in the interior. Hence it
is quite wrong to suppose that by
sniffing or sucking, more air can be
inhaled On the contrary this will
probably cause a partial closing of
the nostrils since the air when sniff
fed in win have a tendency to drive
the wing of the nose into contact
with the middle wall. If the inhal-
alton is accompanied with loud
noise, then you may be sure that the
nostriis are NOT opened as wide as
they should be.
Exhalation is performed by the
precisely opposite movements. The
chin, shoulders and upper thorax are
again lowered. The breastbone and
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zoo IS ONLY SAFE PLACE FOR
WILD ANIMALS
by Charles p. Stewart

WAX iINGTON-Tliere's aomething
pathetic in the sight of one Of The
big cats-a lion or a tiger, say
pacing his cage in zoo, to and fro,
monotonously to and fro.
And those noble eagles! Lokit 'em.
The eagle! The emblem of our free
dom. Sitting on a dummy tree in
a big coop made out of chicken wire,
out at the Smithsonian Institutions S
Rock Creek park geological gardens!
What sacrilege!
Vol, there was a certain society
that sometime ago, felt that way
about it
1t didn't believe in holding wild
critters in captivity.
1t met and adopted resolutions to
that effect. 1t protested, in particu-
lar, against the imprisonment of
American eaglas-".the noble bird that
has been chosen to typify the proud,
free and lofty spirit of America"
Release 'em," demanded the society.
And il we did release 'em?" queries
Ned HOLSTER, for many years superin-
tendent Of that zoo of the Smithson-
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n institutions. S.

ion institutions.
what would happen?
Why, somebody would fill those
eagles so full of shot instanter that
they wouldn't even do to stuff and
put on top of the bookcase,
No, according to Ned Hollister, don't
waste any sympathy on the wild ami
mails you see in ZOOS
TO be sorry for performing ami
mails is all right. frequently their
trainers methods are cruel At best
it's doubtful if they like their stunts.
But .varmints which are permitted
simply to lie around and stay wild
are in great luck, not in spite Of
their captivity but actually because
Of it.
So Hollister alleges. $50
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wrestle with some of the best when
he was 65. The last three men are
all weightlifters Weight lifting viii
prepare a man for the strain that
will surely come if he is going in
for wrestling
If you take UP lifting, be careful
and go slow.
For boxer would recommend
chest weights and exercises with iron
dumbbells of not more than two or
three pounds in weight.
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ing on during his exercise, rest un-
til it passes away After a few
mornings it will not trouble you.
EXERCISE 10
AS the tenth exercise l would rec
ommend that you repeat the first
exercise of this series.
The foregoing series are exercises
that are primarily for the purpose
of stretching and loosening Of the
muscles I5o not expect to develop
much muscle by doing them, though
they will develop slightly. They nre
more for health building
Three more series of exercises will
be given. The first will be a series
OF breathing exercises, then a series
for womene and the last series for
the developing of muscle for men
and Young men,.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and my friend are going in Tor
wrestling and boxing. Do you. think
weightslifting would help us. S. NJ
S. MI would not advise weight
lifting for boxers but certainly
would for wrestling. Weight-lifting
is one of the most important parts
of a wrestler's training. Do not
misunderstood me. There are many
good wrestlers that have never touch
ed a weight but they do not last long
in the game.
There are instances to show that
this is, true in the majority of cases.
The great wrestler Gotch died a
comparatively young man while. his
famous opponent Hachenschmidt is
alive and in the best of health though
he was in the game years before
Gotch. Look at zbysko, so years old
and staying with the best of them
at the present day. Then the famous
Donald Dinnie who could lift and
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JOINS
ALL NATIONS
ON SCREEN

Wilma Banlsy, the blonde screen
charmer recently imported from
Budapest, has been in America
only a few months, but she has
learned enough English to say
that she thinks it is ausgezeichner
Hungarian for .jake'o that she
was chosen to play opposite Ru-
dolph Valentino in The Eagle.
his first United Artists Corpora
ton release, which opens its sec
ond weeks engagement at LoeW's
Columbia tomorrow afternoon.
In fact, Miss Banky's English
Is quite remarkable. She has
been deyoting herself to it assidu-
ousIy and from a vocabulary com
sisting of lamb chops and pine
apple" she has progressed to the
point Of making herself q poignant
experience to any man who meets
her. This is not accomplished
merely by the use of words, but
is perhaps more the result of
eyes. hair, gesture-what Sir
James NJ. Barrie called That
damned charm
Miss Baniy enjoys the distinc.
ton of being the only hungarian
who has attained prominence in
American motion pictures. Pola
Negri, represents the Poles; Vic
tor Seastrom, the Swedes; Valen
tino, the Italians: Ernst Lubitsch,
the Germans; Jetta Goudal, the
French; and Bull Montana, the
Neanderthals, but Miss Banl1y is
the first to arrive from Budapest.
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The Berlin Mackay wedding
aroused the nation to an IN
terest it seldom manifesss in
respectable individuals, however
important. Ann Nichols de-
clares it stimulated heavy at
tendance at "Abie's Irish Rose, .
and certainly it jolted Tin Pan
Alley into a race for the first
song on the music racks; the
boys remembering. that 100000
copies were sold of a song on
Caruso, entitled ''They Found
a Songbird in Heaven When
God Took Caruso Away So
a note-baiter named Rubin COM
poses and copyrights the fol-
lowing lyric, entitled "Wnen a
Kid Who Came From the East
Side Found a Sweet Society
Rose:
Let me tell voc a story, a beau
tiful story
Its just true romance;
He was just a song writer who
made our hearts lighter
And taught the world to dance.
Then a poor little rich girl,
we're told
Found his love meant more than
his gold.
Chorus
When a kid who came from the
East Side
Found a sweet society rose,
He sang a sweet little love song
That his lonely heart composed;
He said "YOu forgot to re-
member"
But she did Remember he
knows
Cause that kid who came from
the East Side
Got that sweet society rose.
* \ \
An indirect reflection Of the
wedding of that same pair is
noted locally. None other rnan
Myer Davis has been recreant
to the trust imposed in hin:
by his LAKELAND colleagues. Mr..
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completion, The V1enneSe Med
ley" made in Hollywood, under
supervision of June Mathis, and
men of Steel" an Earl Hudson
production starring Milton Stills.
The list of pictures from January
to June reads:
Norma Talmadge in "Kiki,' di-
rected by Clarence Brown. Col
leen Moore in Miss Nobody"
directed by Alfred Green. Con-
stance Talmadge in "Silky Anne
directed by Sidney Franklin.
Milton Stills in MEN of Steel"
directed by George Archainbaud.
Milton Stills in His Partners
Wife" Corinne Griffith in Mile.
Modiste,"' directed by Robert u.
Leonard. Corinne Griffith in
ashes" Richard Barthelmess in
Just Suppose" directed by Ken
meth Webb. Richard Barthel-
mess in 1.-The Kid from Mon
tana," directed by Sidney Olcott.
Johnny Hines in Rainbow Riley"
directed by Charles Hines. Har-
ry Langdon in Tramp. Tramp,
Tramp" directed by Harry Ed
wards. Leon Enrol in 1.-THE
Lunatic at Large" directed by
Fred Newmeyer. THE Desert
Healer directed by Maurice
Tourneur. "Too Much Money"
directed by John Francis Dillon.
1.-THE Far Cry" directed by Syl-
vester Balboni.
Memory Lane directed by
John NJ. Stahl. THE Second
Chance" directed by Lambert
Hillyer." "The Savage" directed
by Fred Newmeyer. Ben Lyon
and May McAvoy featured.
Good Luck" E. NJ. Rrod. Con-
way Tearle starred. 1.-THE Reck"
less Lady," produced by Robert
T. Kane, and directed by Howard
Higgin. Belle Bennett in title
role. 1.-THE Viennese Medley" ;di-
rected by Curt Reinfeld. Cast in
cludes Conway Tearle, Anna q.
Nilsson. Mae Allison, Ian Keith,
Lucy Beaumont, Nigel de Brulier,
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PERnS.
M R. DIX IS
DOIJSED

Diving into q Central Park lake
on hot day is not a, bad sport.
Richard Dix tried it out recently
and found it very comfortable,
even though he was attired in a
well pressed pongee silk suit.
After the first plunge he felt
like congratulating Hhe scenario
writer who had put the scene in
the script of his new Paramount
picture. ndled. But
after the second and bird
plunges made because Gregory
la Cava, the director, wanted to
be sure the lighting !. was right.
Mr.. Dix began to feel chilly.
The scene was then shifted to
d park bench and the star had to
spend an hour or more. playing
with the child he had just rescued
and conversing with Esther Raj
ston. He tried not to shiyer when
the camera was grinding. but be-
tween scenes he almost Jared the
filings out of his teeth.
As the sun went down it be-
came colder, so Mr.. La Caya
called off work for the day. The
next morning Mr.. nix reported
sneezing. so that he would look
exactly as he had the day before
one of the prop boys stood on
bench and sprinkled him from
mead to foot with a watering can.
When ne showed signs of dry:
ing out he was sprinKled again.
It didn't help much when park
urchin told him he looked like a
bathing beauty.
Esther Ralston, Margaret Nor
ris and others equally as well
known appear in support Of the
star in the picture which opens
weeks engagement at Loew's
Palace tomorrow. Arthur Stringer
wrote. the story which ran IN
the Saturday Evening Post.
Luther Reed made the adaptation.
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COIN GS ON
70 the .Theaters

Weayers enhance Miss Brice's act
and charming number is as
sured. al song and dance revue.
HThe Broadway Whirl, Is the
featured act, introducing singers
dancers. and comedians. Other
numbers include the Four Cast
ing Stars, gymnasts; Bill Titan
comedian from the great open
spaces: Guth, Carmen and Guth,
Intermediates Jimmy Rowland
and Jimmy Meenan, comedians
The photopIay feature has Jack
Holt, Florence Vfd0r, Noah Beery
Mary Brian and others in The
Enchanted Hill. Special organ
and orchestra music also.
STRAND The Guy and Pearl
Magley Revue, interpreting stories
in dance. headlines at the Strand
for the new week. The Melvin
Sisters and Frank and Ted Deei
are IN the supporting troupe.
Shorty McAllister and Dick Ian.
caster are comedians in song
and dance slxits Playing Golf,
Other numbers: Jack Fulton and
Peggy Parker In Diversion q la
Carte: John Irving Fisher IN
song stories and melodies: Dillon
and Margarita. In a novel music
and gymnast stunt. warner
Brothers Compromise, with
Irene Rich, Louise Fezenda and
others will be the film feature
with shorter films and special
music by Arthur ManviIle's orches-
ira.
WARDMAN PARK-'The Han
dy Man, three-act comedy, will
be the new offering of THE
Thomas Herbert Players for the
week beginning Monday night. Al
story of small town life with
plenty OF rural comedy and some
thing as to situation. Arthur
Rhodes win be new addition to
the cast as Grandpa.
MUTUAI--F r ia n k Harcourt's
Red Hot burlesquers occupy the
Mutual stage for the new week,
Harc0urt essays the leading role
and has surrounded himself with
group of funnalxers including
T.ibbie Hart, Vivian Lawrence.
Babe Lawrence, Ed Griffin, Jack
Stab, George Collins and Bert
Lester. One of the new house
features at the Mutual is week
liz midnight show on Friday night.
GAYETY-"Happy Moments is
the attractive title Of the new bur
iesuue attraction coming into the
Gayety tomorrow afternoon for the
week. Lew White tops the cast
us comedian Others include Doc
Dorman. a character funster; Wal
Ter Mcdowell comedian: Allan
Mcdonald straight man, and
FIoyd Hallicy, juvenile. The fem
mine leads have Pauline Glenmar,
Gladys Vaughn. prina donna;
Lola A. Pullman. ingenue, and
Mildred Steele, little dancerfrom
Paris.
PALACE-Richard Dix In
'Womanhandled." the answer, we
suppose. to Gloria Swanson's
"Manhandled,' comes to the
Palace beginning tomorrow with
a splendid supporting cast, in
Guiding Esther Ralston, Olive Tel
Continued on Page 25l
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MEET WINCEIELL SMITH,
ONCE A BIG HAY
AND GRAIN MAN

WinchelI Smith, who has di-
rected the staging Of Marc Con
nelly's new fantastic comedy,
The Wisdom Tooth coming to
the National next week, attributes
his success in life to the fact
that he never 'hesitated to change
his occupation when he found
that it failed to provide him with
decent living. His motto in
life has been: Of ar first you
don't succeed, try something else.
And with this idea uppermost in
his mind he has amassed a for
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The Prodigal Son
In Pictures
Soon

Two pictures based on the
story of the Prodigal Son and
the Twenty-third Psalm. leach
featuring the universally of
the Fathers love-" are to be
the first productions of the
Religious Motion Picture Foun-
dation, according to a recent
announcement by officers Of
the association. AS this is the
4O0th anniversary of William
Tyndale's translation of the
New Testament into English,
a series of How We Got Our
Bible" is contemplated for the
future.
The production of a few
short pictures and the working
out of a plan of distribution TO
churches constitute present ac-
tivities. of the foundation,
which was recently organized
by the William Harmon Foun-
alton with the cooperation of
the Federal Council %
Churches of Christ in Ameri-
ca, and the Motion Picture
Producers and Distributors OF
America, Inc.
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the Spencer Tupman organization.
Its appearance will also mark a
new trend in the Tupman work.
which has been hitherto devoted
entirely to the production of a
very high type of dance music.
The new orchestra will specialize
on classic music and also in the
more ambitious of the futuristic
music of living composers.
Director Tupman has been noted
for the last few years for the
skill and excellent taste he has
used in transposing classic num-
bers into dance music form. His
new orchestra will give him an
opportunity to play classic music
in it's original form and thus
crafty long-felt ambition.
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on the Russian stage. Her father
was a member of the Imperial
Opera House in the old Czarist
regime and her grandfather was
concert master at the Royal Ballet.
Young Rosa went on the stage
at the age of 10 and became so
proficient in child parts that she
soon became nationally famous ana
two years later was elevated to
stardom. She has played in hun
dreds Of stage roles and several
years ago went into pictures.
A unique method was employed
in casting His People" Aside
from the Juvenile roles, every
member of the cast is a character
actor of note. Rudolph Schlld-
kraut is famous abroad as the
leading dramatic star of the CON
tinent. Kate Price is known quite
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NATIONAL - Marc Connolly s
new comedy The Wisdom Tooth, z
opens Monday night at the Ma
tional. This is COnnelly's first
solo ef1deavor as playwright
though his coIlaborations with
George Kaufman have been sub
stanital successes, notably Dulcy,
sBeggar on Horseback" and To
the Ladies'. \ The new play Is de-
scribed as a fantastic comedy,
the fantasy being afforded in the
sentimental Journey back to his
boyhood. taken by a New York
clerk There are eight scenes,
several of them offering locales
new to the stage. John Golden,
the producer, has recruited an
especially large cast Whlcn m
c1udes Mary Philips, Thomas
Mitchell. Malcolm Williams, Helen
Chandler, Mark Sullivan, AMI
dozen others Winchell Smith has
directed.
KEITH'S Karyl Norman, fe-
male impersonator well known to
Washington audiences as the
Creole fashion plate. tops the
new Keith bill for the week be-
ginning Sunday, in songs and
fashion display. Sharing head
line honors are the Loclzforts.
French dancers, who are making
q world tour An orchestra IS In
cluded in their offering. Other
acts will have York and king,
in1personators; Sylvia Clark, the
little buffoon'';; the Briants IN
'tThe Dream of a Moving Man
Kurna with his Japanese n1ys-
teries. Pearson Brothers, acrobatic
dancers: Foster and Peggy. The
latter q trained dog. The usual
house features. too.
EARLE-Elizabeth Brice, sing
ing coincidence, tops the incom-
ing Earle bill Of vaudeville and
pictures. Frank Kessler's Music
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farm was TO open a-flour and feed
store in Hartford. Later, selling out,
he went to New York. He attended
a dramatic school for q while
and then, his slender means be-
coming exhausted, got a job as
a clearer--one who sweeps the
stage and shifts the scenery--in
a Broadway tlleater, at so cents
a performance and the open SEES
anne to life behind the curtain
line.
His next experience was as a
super in THE Prodigal .Daugh-
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Epsrybodys confidsnes-.....=.=....
THE GATE-POST
By Harold Phillips

Laugh begin yesterday already here
it S January II.
The first smoker reading Harry Herhfed telegram
of cogratuaon Irving Berlin his marriage to En Mackay
Mr. Herhfied Telegraph the following
Congratulations Here's 35 cents You won't get"
Hershfed draws "Ab the Agent for The Times and other
newspapers. nmortalized among fun
loving eptaph
Hershfied If not notify Ginsberg, the undertaken"
Smoker Number Two from Varietys London column
conducted by Hammer Swafe Michael Aren che writes
abroad every other inch gentleman"
Number Three by Evening
World who Scochman with splinter tongue explain
ingto the attending physician that he dropped his drink
With this unmgated offering The Gate Post swings into the
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Mr.. Coolidge Helps
Decide A
Wager
SAYS Warner Bros. publicity

Says warner Bros. puDnclty
man:
Combining business with
the pursuit of pleasure, Irene
Rich stopped for a day III
Washington, on her recent
tour of the Warner Bros.
tlleaters, and was received Dy
the President.
Before entering the White
House. Sam l.. Warner.< who
was escOrting her. bet Miss
Rich that the President
wouldn't say more than three
words to his callers. He told
MIR, Coolidge of the wager and
asked him to decided 1t. The
reply was Enthusiastically
targe. "YOu win!' exclaimed
the President.
As it turned out. though, it
was Miss Rich who really won.
The President spoke great
many more than three words.
He betrayed a lively interest
i'm motion pictures and asked
the star q lot of questions
about her art and her expert.
eneeS."
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ter" at so per week. Later he
created the role Of the telegraph
operator in Secret Service with
William Gillette, continuing as an
actor with various Frohnan
companies for the neAt 10. years.
With thousand dollars Dor
rOwed from Gillette, Smith put on
George Bernard Shaw's Can
dida,n In conjunction with Arnold
DAILY, at the Berkeley Lyceun in
New York. This venture made
little mpney, but Fred Thomp-
son, part owner and manager OF
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Luna EaEK a.
Coney Island
and the New
x ork Hippo
dronne, happen
ed to need some
one at this time
to dra m ait ize
"Brewster's Mil
lions and he
came to Smith
with the as
Segment.
1t seems that
the production
had alre a d y
been built. but
the four or five
authors work
ing on the
script had fallen
d o w n a n i
r h o m p SO q
pleade "BHl,
you've simply
got to write
this play" Smith
went to work.
and in collabo-
ration with By
ron o n & ! 9 y,
turned out a
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we'll over the land; Nat Carr, of
vaudeville and burlesque fame,
has a reputation as comedian:
Otto Lederer has been in pic
lures fifteen years; Edgar Ken
nedy, Bertram Marburg and Harry
Tenbrook are Well-known charac-
ter men, and Charles Sullivan is
a real pugilist.
1t is said not false note is
struck in the story. Aside from
the capable players, every set is
true to life. The tenement home
is an exact reproduction of an
actual New York Ghetto living
room, the New York street is
facsimile of a real street in the
metropolis and the prize ring.
in which an epochal prize fight
takes place, is laid in q real,
modern sporting club.
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tune writing sue.
G e 8 8 + III com.
edies. eth e RI
alone or in col
alteration, and
is best known
as a play doc
tor - one who
can translate
another mans
ideas into terms
o f successful
drama.
Born on a
farm near Hart
ford. Conn Mr..
Smith has never
been able TO
trace his love
for the theater..
He certa / My
didn't inherit it,
for his father
was a breeder
of trott in 6.
horses and his
mother a mis-
sionary. 1t was
no more than
natural, then.
that his first
step from the