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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
Yes or No?

1. When the Russians changed their
calendar in 1918, did they have TO
omit some days?
2. Was the Mnyflower a new snip
when she made her famous trip u
America?
3. Could the ordinary street pigeon
Of our cities be trained as a homihs
pigeon?
4. Do the Indians Of Central Amer
lea stand the heat of the lowlands as
well es negroes do?
8. Is there any advantage in grow
ing prune trees on almond roots by
means of grating?
Answers to these questions may be
found
1. Yes. There was no February ]
in Russia in 1918 but the day after
January 81 was February IA. Thus
IS days were dropped from the calen-
dar and the reckoning made to agree
with that of other countries.
.. No. 1t is thought that in 1620
the Mayflower was an old ship OF
the Anti-Armada fleet of 1888.
3. Yes. The ordinary street pigeon
is the same species as the homins
pigeon but without the training.
4. No. Indians do not stand heat
MS well as Europeans or negroes do.
They perspire little, the skin becomes
very hot and they are easily pros
trated, and are especially susceptible
to the diseases of hot countries.
8. Yes. The almond has a better
root system than the prune and en-
ables the prune tree TO bear fruit
after its own roots would have been
exhausted.
Copyright, 1926, King Features syn, Inc,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15

res syndicate. Incorporated.
in his hands and the voice which
came from his bent form was de-
jected and almost sick with despair
as he said:
"To think that you can be jealous
again-and of that.-baby."
fell on my knees at Jim's side
and protested eagerly:
I'm not jealous. But you shut
me out so. And 1 love you. I hate
to share you with any one else. l
hate TO have you doing things l
don't know about. I'm always being
told by nice, catty friends"
ado I care when friends tell me
things about you?" Jim protested.
Am I ever jealous-or suspicious
except when there's someone who
really cares for you like Ralph Lacy
and ! get to measuring myself by
him and not feeling that / measure
up any too well?"
DON'T" / protested. you're the
only man in the world for me. You
ought to know it. suffer so when
/ think another woman-prettier, low
lier-is beginning to interest YOU
that you're firing of me perhaps"
Jim's arms went around me.
He held me close for n moment. Then
he pushed me away and said in a
curt, cold voice:
please go ahead with breakfast.
I'm starved. You don't understand
me. I'm not sure I ought to explain.
Perhaps a woman like you has to SUI
fer out of her folly"
That was all he would say. And
as l went out to prepare the meal
I knew I could not cat, my heart
was dark with premonition and
fear.
Ito Be COntinued)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15

"Yet he was Jealous, though he did
not show II,
For jealousy dislikes the world to
know it."
The jealous person always tries TO
conceal his jealousy, Byron notes III
Don Juan"
Choose a firm cloud before il fall,
and in il
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia oil
this minute
Take advantage Of the present, Pope
counsels in his moral Essays"
"Tis great, tits manly, TO disdain dis
guise;
1t shows our spirit, or il proves our
strength"
To be frank and honest is a proof
Of character, Young declares in Night
Thoughts"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15
WHO SAID IT AND WHERE

Men deal with life as children with
their play.
Who first misuse, then cast their toys
away"
Cowper, in Hope" says that most
Of us abuse the great gift Of life.
"Oh, God! that bread should be
so dear, and flesh and blood so
cheap"
This cry was wrung from the heart
Of Hood as he recited the ills of life
in THE Song of the Shirt"
ut is the modest, not the pre-
sumptuous, inquirer who makes a
real and safe progress in the discovery
OF divine trut -
The humble seeker after wisdom
is the most successful, Bolingbroke de-
clarcd in a Letter to Pope
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15

Nicholas Ricciardi is sensitive to
boys.
That means more than liking boys.
Anyone can like n boy. Or hate
boy. Or boss a boy. Or make wise
talks to boys. But rare indeed is the
adult who is in rhythm with that
curious, confused current which
sways the inner life of a boy.
That current has always run
through the life of youth. But never
has it run over such dangerous, un-
charted ways as now in this troubled,
new world of ours. It's a rolled and
raging current, that boy force with
which Nicholas Ricciardi is in touch.
Yet he sees his way clear through to
the essential strength, in spite of
the froth and murk that seem such
menace to many of US.
Because he feels that way about
boys, Nicholas Ricciardi is devoting
his life work to youngsters. He has
taught them in school, he has helped
in their rehabilitation work when
they came broken and desperate from
the war;. he as served rs head of
California's first trade school and is
now commissioner of vocational edu-
cation Of California.
Now. out of that service and out
of that strange, instructive commun-
ion with youth, he has written n book.
1t Is called "The Boy and His Flu
ture." 1 suppose that they have to
give proper, grammatical names like
that to books but il I'd had its nam.
ing I'd have called it kids" For
that is what it is.
Not book about kids, but the kids
themselves, alive there on those pages,
with the padlocked doors of their
spirits open at last for you to enter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15

My Daughter, the ways Of foolish
husband nre tho delight of the news
papers but the light Of n Good Hus-
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s'.nus soIns inau anu possess nei.ner
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-15

At the top is Captain Cornelius
Brown, retired army officer now liv-
ing ut Los Angeles, who rushed to
the aid Of Mrs. II. l.. Brown, below,
when she was attacked by three men.
Captain Brown, 200 pounds Of mus
Gle and Drawn, was visiting his
mother when . woman rushed in
and asked protection from three
men who were following her. He ac-
costed the trio and when they at
tackled him he disarmed one and held
them ut bay with the captured re-
yoIver. One Of the trio, who refused
to obey the command to raise his
hands was shot through both hands
by the keen.eyed army officer.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
A Four-Hour Working
Day
CouR hours is the maximum work

EOUR hours is the maximum work
ing day for babies in California.
Organized infants all over the coun-
try will rejoice in the news that their
toiling brothers in the Southwest have
been partially freed from commercial
slavery through the enactment or hu-
name State laws.
One bread-winning toddler who has
been benefited by the statute is Snoo-
kums, wee tornado who nlays the
leading role in "Snookums. Merry
Christmas" and who earns a princely
salary as a star of the laughable two
reelers. "Newlyweds and Their Baby. y
The short working hours permitted
by the Babies Union" will give him
more time to spend the money and
more time to spend with his family.
"Snookums" does everything he Is
told and enjoys his work immensely.
This discipline Is probably due to his
father, q professional physical direc-
tor. who has had the baby in training
since he was a few weeks old and
has never used z. cross word to him.
Children are allowed to work only
four hours day. but Sonny Mckeen
(this Is the real name of Snookums)
spends only two of his four hours be-
fore the camera. The rest of the time
he is allowed to sleep. He has dress
ing room and a nursery. and his
mother has her own room at the
studio.
Such Is the life of the child who
initiates the baby made famous by
George McManus in his "Newlyweds"
cartoons.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Another Director Trick

COGNIZANT Of the fact that motion
~ picture audiences respond with
enthusiasm to anything that is novel
in a Aim, Roy Del Ruth, who is direct
ing "Wolf's Clothing" for Warner
Bros. starring Monte Blue with Patsy
Ruth Miller, had a bedroom set con.
structed which is unique, the most un-
usual ever built for a motion picture.
with this set, it is said, Director Del
Ruth succeeded in achieving what is
probably the most interesting photo
graphic effect to come out of Holly
wood this year.
The set was supposed to represent a
bare little room in a cheap water
front hotel Del Ruth wanted to con-
vey to the audience Monte Blues
mental impressions as he is coming
out from under Knockout drops ad-
ministered to him at a gay New Year
party. For the purpose Del Ruth had
the room and everything in it built on
Brobdignagian proportions. The room
and the objects in it were four times
as high, four times as wide, and four
times as thick as the normal room.
When Monte Is left unconscious in
the room, 1t Is of normal size. When
Monte comes to, 1t is gigantic. He
appears like a tiny doll on a life
sized bed He leaps off the bed, pulls
a huge chair over to the door and
hangs on to the doorknob. He can
not turn 1t nor the huge key. After
scaling the telephone stand. he is
forced to stand on tiptoe to shout into
1t, and 1t is all he can do to carry the
receiver on his shoulder.
Director Del Ruth, it is claimed, re.
sorted to no trick photography for
these effects. He photographed the
sets as they were built.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
How ZaSu Got It

7ASU Pitts. born at Parsons, Kans.,
on January 8. 1900, was chris
tened with name unique.
The new baby had two doting aunts,
Liza and Susan, and her mother, con-.
fronted with the desire to name the
child after both. at length compro-
missed by combining parts of both
their names.
ZaSu received all her schooling, the
atricals included, at Santa Cruz, Calf.
Eventually she went to Los Angeles
Her first motion picture experience
was with Mary Pickford in The Lit:
tie Princess"
Then followed several years of mis-.
cellaneous motion picture work, II
months Of it spent with Metro-Go old
wyn-Mayer.
She was seen to particular advan.
tage in Lazy Bones" THE Fast Set, -
"Mannequin," and Greed"
In the last-named picture, Erich
Won Stroheim characterized her as one
of the greatest tragediennes of the
screen. and later cast her for an inn
portant part in his first great Para
mount picture, THE Wedding March -
ZaSu Pitts is married to Tom Gal
lery, well known screen actor and box
ing impresariO. At the time of the
death of Barbara La Marr they adopt
ed her 3-year-old son as a compa MON
for their own little daughter.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
The Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT E. SHERWOOD.

March" and "The Circus" will be
along eventually.
Ernst Lubitsch has offered one sec
ond-rate picture, so This Is Paris. "
Malcolm ST. Clair has added to his
reputation with "The Grand Duchess
and the Waiter" and THE Show-off." "
Herbert Brenon, James Cruze and
Raoul Walsh have done likewise with
Beau Geste," "Old Ironsides' and
What Price Glory"
Marshall Nolan has made two pic.
lures, Diplomacy" and Everybody S
Acting neither of which was worth
a hoot. Tod Browning has failed In
"The Blackbird" and "The Road to
Mandalay' to equal the success OF
The Unholy Three" Rex Ingram
has made one good picture, Mare
Nostrum," and one exceedingly bad
one, 1.-The Magician"
Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Mary
Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Raymond
Griffith. Mae Murray, Marion Davies
Betty Bronson. Douglas MacLean
Richard Barthelmess, Ben Lyon, Alice
Terry. Ramon Novarro, Rod La
ROGUE and Leatrice JOY have retro.
gressed.
Thomas Meighan. Buster Keaton
Pola Negri, Harold Lloyd, Marie Pre-.
vost, Reginald Denny, Richard Dix
Bebe Daniels. Tom Mix. Adolphe
Menjou, Douglas Fairbanks. Corinne
Griffith, Ronald Colman, Milton Sills
Colleen Moore and Lon Chaney have
remained about az they were.
Valentino has died. Charlie Chap.
lin. Richard Barthelmess and Con.
stance Talmadge haze had domestic
difficulties. King Vidor and Eleanor
Boardman have been married. so have
Lew Cody, Mabel Normand, Laura
La Plante and William Setter and
Mae Murray and somebody or other
from Georgia.
The vitaphone has been introduced,
Terry Ramsaye has written "A Mil.
lion and One Nights-the History of
the Motion Picture" John and Lionel
Barrymore have given up the stage
and consecrated themselves to cine.
photographic art. Will II. Hays has
kept the censorship wolf from the
door, Patsy Ruth Miller's engagement
has been announced only twice. Sam.
uel Goldwyn has become a father,
Morris Gest has gone to Hollywood
and Jackie Coogan has had his hair
cut.
This being the case, your CORE.
spondent begs leave to wish you an
indescribably Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.
fCopyriRht. 1927
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Original" Screen Stories

ORIGINAL stories, written directly
for the motion-picture screen. are
replacing adaptations of novels, short
stories and plays, Richard Dix, Para.
mount star, believes.
When motion pictures were strug-
Cling for a place in the entertainment
world" Mr.. Dix said recently, "the
producer was glad to be able to film.
famous play or novel. 1t gave his
product q certain prestige it could not
get otherwise. And in those days the
movies needed prestige badly. Now.
however. the industry has advanced
to a point where 1t need not borrow
prestige. or anything else, from any
other form of art.
With this change has come, too. the
realization that writing for pictures is
entirely different from any other kind
of writing. The writer. first of an,
must have essentially pictorial mind.
must be able to visualize his story.
and then tell 1t. not with words, but,
solely with and In pictures. Many
successful novelists and playwrights
do not have this peculiar ability.
Moreover. fine writing necessity. in.
literary success. is absolutely worth
less in scenario writing"
Evening star., 1926-12-26
PALACE-Toye's Kindness. !"

The gayety and glamour of the holi
day season will be reflected in the
stage and screen presentations at
Loew's Palace this week, starting this
afternoon.
Heading the bill will be Gus Ed.
wards and his class of 1925 of youth
full stars in Edwards Atlantic City
revue. "Ritz-Carlton Nights by Nat
and Max Lief, composed and staged
by Edwards and announced as the
finest entertainment unit he has ever
assembled.
No less than 20 Juvenile stars of
song, dance and comedy appear, head
ed by the 1S-year-old dance star,
Nitza Vernille, from Ziegfeld's Fol
lies" and "The Greenwich Village Fol
lies" with Dorothea James in Charles
ton and Black Bottom dances; Lola
and Leota Lane of the Greenwich
Village Follies"; Virginia Martin.
acrobatic dancer; Ray Bolger, dancer.
singer and comedian, and the Rey-
nolds Singers.
The photoplay will be Elinor Glyn's
Metro Goldwyn Mayer production,
Loves Blindness romantic drama
of English social life, directed by
John Francis Dillon, which features
Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno
Lilyun Tashman, Sam De Grasse and
Kate Price.
Added to these will be an overture
"Recollections of Bayes." by the Pal,
ace Orchestra: Loew's Palace Maga.
zine and Topics of the Day.
A midnight performance will be
given on New Year eve. December
81, starting at 11:3O pm.
DTAUrn .To;t rox;r,
The holiday week feature at the
R;alto Theater is Taxi! Taxi filmed
fro mthe magazine story by George
Weston, co-starring Edward Everett
Horton and Marian Nixon.
The plot, which bristles with un-
usual, farcical situations, concerns a
young architect who works for the
conservative firm of Schemerhorn,
Schuyler and Braith. Old Schuyler
is a snob and a despot. He has never
given any of his men a real chance.
Circumstance throws the hero into
the company of Rose, the niece of old
Schermerhorn. Love, secret meet
ings and comical situations arise when
the lovers become innocently in
volved in the disappearance of a
stolen diamond bracelet. Under sus-
picion, the hero is followed by a de-
tective. who contributes much to the
merriment.
The stage presentation again fea-
lures THE Atlantic Four" harmony
singers and entertainers. in an en-
tirely new change of program.
The Rialto Orchestra. Rox Rom.
nell conducting. will offer a novelty
overture entitled Bye, Bye. Black
Evening star., 1926-12-26
From Coal, the Fire
Divine

WHEN Emil Jannings was a youth
of IL years he ran away from
home to become a sailor. IT wanted
to wear a beautiful uniform with
brass buttons, to stand at the wheel
of a ship and sing chanteys at the top
of my voice." he explains. Instead
they gave him a pair of dirty dun.
garees and told him to shovel coal
He lasted as sailor but two
months and then Joined band of
travelling players, making "one-night
stands in the provincial towns of
Germany. He followed this life for IL
years. and there received the training
that has made him one of the fore
most actors of his time.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
COLUMBIA-"We'r In the Navy
Now"

The program at Loew's Columbia
Theater this week. beginning this af
ternoon, will include the first local
presentation of Paramount's new
comedy of Navy life afloat and ashore
in the hectic days of II. Were in
the Navy Now" featuring Wallace
Beery and Raymond Hatton.
Directed by Edward Sutherland
from a story by Monty Brice, 1t picks
up these two comic adventurers on
the eve of big prize fight in which
Beery as Knockout Hansen and Hat
ton as "Stinky" Smith. his manager,
have Intellectually comspired to knock
one Sailor Scruggs into dreamland.
only to have the redoubtable KNOCK
out" knocked clear out of the ring
Highly disgusted with each other. they
manage to get mixed with a truck
load Of Navy rockies and find them
selves inducted into the naval service
without the formality of an enlistment. .
1t would waste time to outline in
detail their ludicrous conflicts
with stern Navy discipline and the
penalties they incur. -
For good measure, there is thrill
| ing adventure with a beautiful spy.
a disastrous encounter with a French
battleship, an "act of supreme hero-
isn1." which is nothing but sheer bone.
headedness and an award of medals
to the pair that is heavily ironic.
A short-length comedy, the Pathe
Newsreel and a New Years overture
by the Columbia Orchestra, under
Leon Brusilof. are also included in the
BILL A midnight performance will be
given New Year eve, starting at 1880
| Dno.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Rialto s Big Tree

THE Christmas tree in the rotunda
of the Rialto is attracting much
favorable comment and interest from
picture patrons.
It has been the custom ever since
1t was first opened to have a tree at
Christmas. The tree this year is the
largest ever. and 1t has been more
elaborate1y decorated.
It was installed and decorated by
Ray Waller, the house electrician, and
measures 27 feet in height.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." {"

Crandall's Metropolitan T h a er
feature this week. beginning this
afternoon, will be First Nationals pic
turization of Thomas Burkes story of
the dancing waif of London's Lime
house, 'Twinkletoes. with Colleen
Moore. supported by Kenneth Harlan,
Tully Marshall, Gladys Brockwell and
Warner GLAND.
The stage offering will be Art
Fowler, Wizard of the Ukulele,"
radio favorite and recording artist.
The supplementary attractions will
embrace the Metropolitan World
Survey, a cartoon comedy in Paul
Terry's Aesop Fable series, and offer
ings by the Metropolitan Symphony
Orchestra, under Daniel Breeskin.
There will be midnight show Fri
day. starting at 1145 o'clock, and
complete in every detail.
'Twinkletoes" has a story of varied
mood, with comedy predominant, and
permits the Introduction of scenes of
beauty in contrast with the sordidness
of the tenement life of London's Lime
house district and Chinatown. 1t
concerns a high-spirited and optimis-
| tic little waif of the tenements who
| idolizes her renegade father. who
! manages, until the last few scenes, to
shield his daughter from knowledge
of his character. The love scene
centers in the attachment between
| Twinkletoes and Chuck tough boy
| of Limehouse, married to a woman sot
who does all she can to wreck the
! life of Twinkletoes, the little dancer
who has inherited from a professional
mother a talent which promises tC
carry her far into the favor of Lon
| don's elite.
| The climax of the story is intensely
dramatic. Kenneth Harlan. Tully
Marshall Gladys Brockwell and
! Lucien Littlefield are in important
| roles.
| The Metropolitan Symphony will
| play THE Dance of the Hours" from
La Gioconda" by Ponchielli, an in
! terpretative score featuring "The
| Afterglow." by Charles Huerter, and
'Do-dodo." from ''Oh Kay" by George
! Gershwin.
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Sceue from TAXI TAXI RiaI+o

Next Week S Photoplays
PALACE-Renee Adoree ard
Antonio Moreno in THE
Flaming Forest
METROPOLITAN - Harrison
Ford and PHYLLIS Haver in
The Nervous Wreck"
RIALTO-Ralph Ince in
Breed of the Sea-
WARDMAN PARK-"Napo-
leon and Josephine
Evening star., 1926-12-26
Photoplays This Week
SILENT DRAMA ATTRACTIONS

METROPOIITA "Twnkletoe This afternoon and evening
PALACE-"Loves Blindness. This afternoon and evening
RIALTO-"Taxi! Taxi" This afternoon and evening
CCLUMBIA-"Were Now" This afternoon and
the Magnificent This afternoon and evening
AMBASSADOR-"Twinkeo This afternoon evening.
CENTRAI-"Kng of Pack" This evening
Evening star., 1926-12-26

bird" with digressions on two pianos
played by Rommell and Carlson Haf-
grave.
An organlogue by Otto F. Beck.
the International News and Shook
um's Merry Christmas" a comedy,
complete the program. The manage
ment announces midnight perfor-
nance New Year eve. commencing a.
i1:30 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-21

when we were to stop our light and
go home for the Winter. We ran the
light and fog horn until noon of the
18th, when we left note on the door
and took to the launch. We landed
at Pigeon Point and stayed with VIII
liam Hurst, fisherman. / hiked two
miles to Jack Hurst's. He said he
would lend me a skiff il I cared to
take a chance. / started rowing the
skiff Sunday from Pigeon Point to
Washington Bay, four and one-half
miles, and took from $3.50 am. to
about noon. l spent the night on a
little island there with a fisherman.
Yesterday morning / started to cross
the bay. three and one-half miles,
and arrived at Hat Point at 8 o'clock.
| walked from Hat Point to Mineral
Center. about eight miles altogether,
and then met four fellows in a car"
His comrades, Joseph Metiver. keep
er of Rock of Ages light: Ben Hudak
Of Sheboygan and Sterling Malone of
Superior. Wis. were still at Pigeon
Point. Morrill, said. but the fishing
steamer Winyah was scheduled to call
for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-21
LITER FREED T0SPEND
YULETIDE WITH MOTHER
Woman Whose Convict Son Built
Her Home on Prison Savings
Will Greet Him Christmas.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. December 2l.-
The gates of the Eastern State Peni-
Tertiary will swing open in time for
Jacob Pensendorfer, known as Life
time Jake" to spend Christmas with
his aged mother, who lives in bun
galow built for her at Berlin. n. j..
from her sons earnings in prison.
Pensendorfer. who has been in prison
rs years, was pardoned yesterday by
Gov. Pinchot, and will be released as
soon as the pardon reaches the peni-
Tertiary. He was sentenced to be
hanged for the murder of his father.
in.law. Henry Gautschi. whom he shot
September 4, 1901, as climax to a
five-year quarrel. In April, 1902, his
sentence was committed to life impris-
Lifetime Jake who is 81 years
old arranged to sell his wood working
business. built up during his 20 years
in prison, for $4,000. Other convicts
made a collection of credit slips" ag-
rregating $500 as an additional purse
For him. They also gave him watch,
chain and penknife Of white gold