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room and there he awakenS his
numerous children. Just youngsters
they are and we next see the father
and his brood taking their morn
ing exercises, then the washing Of
the face, neck and ears. Then we see
Schiller with his beard of over
twenty winters. Schiller with his
beard is the good man, the honest
citizen and marvellous father. His
prayer at breakfast is G. ceremony
as done by Jannings. Schiller with
the beard is the good man through
and through. He then walks to the
bank after seeing the children off
to school with as much ceremony
as man could possess who wears
beard aged twenty years. Here is
fancy beard, part of Schiller.
A ask you to study this makeup
of Jannings because it is more than
masterful Jannings has complete
ly transformed himself into his
character. You do not see Jannings
but Schiller, the man with a beard
and a heart that is true gold.
Schiller is as much an institution
as the bank in which he works. Here
he is The good citizen, the leader
and defender of what is good.
AS Jannings plays Schiller, you
get the feeling that you would like
to see Schiller without the beard.
Is he like Samson without his hair?
Does his beard make him evil proof?
AS Jannings develops the charac-
ter, I asked myself those questions
and several others. Schiller faces
temptation in the form of street
walker and a gangster's stool pig
con when he leaves his home town
to take a fortune in bonds to Chi
cago, where he is supposed to sell
them. Here is an important mission
and the man with the beard sets
out to live up to the trust of his
bank.
On the train is a girl of the
streets known as Mayme. She cares
not for boards and does not get in
terested in the tWenty-year fancy
growth until she sees Schiller open
his large purse and sees the fortune
in bonds.
Mayme. then puts on her war
paint, lifts her skirts and displays
two shapely reasons for her exist
ence. The man with the beard can
not keep his mind on his religious
roo ci,n TT &c I,oro 1uJ,aro ryo11 coo
closeup acting" with purpose on
the part of Jannings and Phyllis
Haver as Mayme. Here is the best
double meaning acting have ever
seen.
Here you see Schiller as the
Maine Street boob, good man who
did not understand the language
that Mayme spoke. Mayme's cam
paign is so successful that as soon
as they land in Chicago she COM
pels Schiller to visit {. barber shop.
And then-a different character
looks at you when Jannings gets
out of the chair. He is now the
man of flesh, the man who will
yield, the man who will drink until
he goes with this scum of the street
into a cheap hour of the night
'hotel."
Of course, Mayme makes off in
the night with the fortune in bonds.
More great acting on Jannings part
when he realizes that is a ruined
man. Schiller makes one mad
effort to make Mayme give back
the bonds but Mayme had been
shopping and looked it.
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Wealth BreWs DistruSt

Riches constitute no barrier to
law, as General Pershing declares.
Instead they often invite it.
If England had not been rich,
Germany would not have visu-
allied her as a rival, and if Ger
many had not been rich other
European nations would not have
been anxious to pull her down.
When the United States was
poor she had little to fear. Europe
did not take her competition seri-
ously and Latin American did not
distrust her motives.
Wealth, more than any other
feature, has caused the United
States to become a common target
for worldwide envy.
If some system is not devised to
settle international troubles in a
different way than war, the United
States faces the necessity of pro-
viding a stronger national defense
than ever.
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ing in his store one rainy night.
This causes a pause in the friend
ship Of Murray and Sidney. The
fire and subsequent proceedings
patch that up, however.
The Life of Riley" is one con-
tinuous uproar from start to finish.
The fire chief has banked his all
on the fire extinguisher and he
demonstrates it to a select group
and burns up his store, for the fluid
in the extinguiSher had been
changed. But the girl really sells it,
for she puts out fire in the car of
the prospective purchaser.
I'm not trying to tell the story of
the film in its entirety. That would
be impossible after having seen it
but once. 1t is chock full of comedy
that has been handled differently.
Murray and Sidney are a new
comedy team, but they are fast
proving their worth by such things
as this.
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AAO" w DSAAA -
yarn around real
characters. This
movie is notable
because the di-
rector never per-
mitted the seem
cry or the atmos-
phere to become
stronger than his
four chief char
acterS. In I'm
derw world" you
meet Bull" Weed,
a burglar and safe
blower who knows
his busin e S S.
Bull" is a power
r. I.L
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cracking good burglar He is a
power in the underworld, but he
has a rival in the cruel and cum
ming Buck" Mulligan. They are
always fighting and trying to frame
each other. Rolls Royce" is one
of those underworld types who isn't
underworld at all at heart, but a
man who has gone wrong and drift
ed into evil company. rolls Royce"
becomes the polished tool of Bull"
Weed.
Bull" has a girl by the name of
Feathers" and we see the old tri-
angle-two men and a girl. Rolls
Royce" refuses to have anything to
do with Feathers" because she is
Bulls" gal. Rolls Royce" has prin-
ciple in this because he is a
gentleman at heart. OF course,
Feathers" likes the honesty of
rolls Royce" and she comes to
live mentally at least upon high
level.
Open warfare breaks out between
Bull" and Buck" Buck" cashes
in first and Bull" is found guilty
and is given the death penalty.
Rolls Royce" plans a getaway for
Bull" but the gangster misunder-
stands the motive, thinking that
Rolls Royce" wants Feathers"
for his girl.
So Bull" stages his own Jail de-
livery and then follows one of the
most exciting manhunts that has
ever been pictured on the screen.
Here is the real article for thrills.
Powerfully done are these scenes.
The cast is as follows:
Bull Weed ........... George Bancroft
Rolls Royce" ............... Give BROOK
Feathers" .. ........... Evelyn Brent
slippery Lewis ........... Larry Semon
Buck" Mulligan ........... Fred Kohler
Paloma ..................... Jerry Mandy
High Collar" Sam ........... Karl Morse
Your interest, of course. will be
centered upon the big four-Ban-
croft, Brook, Miss Brent and
Kohler. 1t is difficult to say which
of the four do the better work. I
feel satisfied that underworld" is
the best of the melodramas this
season. 1t is corking good theater.
The Circle has augmented its
program with a presentation in the
form of prologue to the picture
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may be running
short Of appro-
pirate vehicles for
this man Of many
faces.
CLANCY has reg
istered the best
when he actually
created fear and
horror, but in
"Mockery" he is
the only one who
has the fear. He
is cast as a Slow
thinking Russian
peasant, who has
always felt the
heel of the nobil-
ity. He has a
chance To shake
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movie unQer IIlS
Paramount banner
and I am more
than pleased to
state that jan
nings has lost none
of his masterful
artistry in making
his pictures in this
country.
You first meet
JanningS as August
Schiller, a bank
cashier, getting up
in the morning to
start another day.
He wears an old
fashioned nj G h t.
gown. He then goes
into another bed
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lice. The widow
Jones is the cause
of hard feelings
on the part OF
both. But from
walnut Shells
springs a hatred
for a certain
character t h a I
makes his living
by being a little
smarter than the
other fellow.
And, of course,
there must be a
love affair. The
son of the police
chief falls in love
with a girl that
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UNDERWORLD" is
MIGHTY GOOD MELODRAMA.

Before I saw underworld" with
George Bancroft, Give Brook and
Evelyn Brent, I had heard much
that was good and even great
about it.
AS I have stated in this space
before, we are running to crime
and underworld plays this season,
both on the stage and on the screen.
Underworld was written by Ben
Hecht, who has the reputation of
understanding life. Hecht knows
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-10
GOOD FUNNY
MOVIE AT OHIO

I have seen scenes of many fires
in pictures, but the funniest one
yet is the one that Charles Muir
ray builds to demonstrate his new
fire extinguisher that he has just
invented. Excitement, suspense and
rare humor are woven into the pic
ture, so that they stand out long
after the rest has become mere
blur.
Murray is the fire chief of Elm
dale Center and George Sidney is
oI,{aP Af M
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Is it possible to calculate how
many pennies jar will hold?
One cubic inch holds twenty-siS
pennies. The number of cubic inches
in the jar multiplied by twenty-siS
will give approximately the number
of pennies.
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Am convinced after seeing Emil
Jannings as August Schiller in
1.-THE Way of All Flesh" that he is
the greatest dramatic character
artist on the screen today.
This is his first American-made
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Thnn1b-NaiL
Sketches

Old Mr.. c.. sat down his luggage
on the porch of the little hotel
which had been both a home and
aa business for him. While Mrs. G..
held the For Sale" sign in place
Mr.. G. nailed it stoutly to the door,
way. Then they went heavily down
the steps, quite unaware that in one
of the upstairs rooms they had left
a guest.
He was sorry looking guest, to
be sure. His eyes were bright with
fever His once rotund body was
emaciated and thin. His cheeks
were sunken, but on them burned
bright pink patches. For three
weeks, until the hotel was sold, this
guest trudged YEARLY twice a day
to small "eat shop near by for
doughnuts and coffee-never any
thing else. But at last the proprie-
tor saw him no MOTE, even for this
simple repast. He must have lain
for day or two all alone in that
hotel, practically unconscious, be-
fore the agent brought perspective
buyer to look over the property.
In going through the rooms, then,
they found this old fellow, lost in
stupor, lying in one of the beds,
covered up with AL the bedclothes
available. He was wearing all his
clothes, including his overalls, his
shoes, his overcoat, his hat, his
gloves-even his umbrella lay on the
bed beside himl
They called the Flower Mission
Society and a little later took the
still unconscious man out to the
clean, white bed waiting for him.
Papers found in his clothes showed
that his sisters, living in Germany,
had been appealed to for aid but
that they were too poor to help him.
The Flower Mission is doing all
1t can for this victim of a dread
disease. Its resources for these poor
people are available because of
YOUR COMMUNITY FUND. ,
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until at least the control of the board is not in the
hands of benef1ciares of the present city admins
tration.
That fact alone would give more confidence in it's
decisions.
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trainload of automobiles burned on a sidir
near Detroit Dozens of pedestrians were saved
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-10

Cheer up! If you swallow your collar butto
at least you know where it is
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"MOCKERY" is A
STRANGE MOVIE

Since seeing "Mockery," with Lon
CLANCY, I have been troubled with
the fear that the movie owners
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called "River Front Frolics," with
Bart, Wiley and Shell.
The bill includes a news reel
and an overture by the orchestra.
AT the Circle.
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Consider the tack and the automobile tire anc
don't go around blowing yourself up.
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The fellow who lived to be 1872 years old in Russ
must have been diplomat at least
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-10

Inc country is becoming more prosperous Every
pig you run over on your motor trips is thorough
bred worth 500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-10

Maybe the fappers keep SO we'll because gooc
healthy germ doesn't care to waste time on tidbts
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The Department of Agriculture reveals scented
1ertlzer from the by-products of cocoa and choco-
late. The farmer needs dollars and they give him
scents.
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some farm relief bills might do lot for agri-
culture With other measures, agriculture might
be done for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

paratus, but luck was against us, and
finally we had to abandon the entire
equipment.
1t was then that Bussey's ingenuity
was taxed to the limit. When we ar
rived at Sac LUZ, undiscouraged by
the loss of the generator. he set about
the difficult job of rigging up combi-
nation set that would at least bridge
the 900 miles to Rio. He mounted
his apparatus on board prancha, or
barge, that was tied up alongside our
launch. Several messages had been
sent through successfully to Gen.
Rondon and others in Rio, but the To-
cal amateurs were not very reliable,
and even if they kept a schedule their
operating was so poor that it was
difficult to get a message. through
properly.
The time and energy spent on the
wireless outfit had not been with a
view to talking with Rio. Our friends
were in New York, and it was to New
York that 1 urged Bussey to turn his
thoughts. Common sense told me
that if we had figured on 500-watt
set for our initial conversations with
New York, not much could be expect
ed of a 712-watt tube, even if we
crowded a miserable % watts into it.
Bussey felt that an effort to COM
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Nebraska Pumice.

NEBRASKA possesses extraordinary
deposits of pumice. Virtually
the whole State is overlaid by natu-
raj deposits of this substance, in all
stages of consolidation. from fairly
solid rock to the finest dust.
Pumice is a volcanic product. snc
it's presence in such large quantities
in Nebraska and some adjoining
States is taken to be evia,2-s 81 for
mer volcanic activity in that region.
1t is produced by the rapid expansion
of gases in lava. due to sudden release
of pressure, which either forms very
light, porous rock or may completely
shatter the lava into dust. in which
state it may be transported great dis
tances by wind and deposited in drifts.
In the western portion of Nebraska
there are impure masses of 1t. prob
ably deposited in this way 100 feet or
more in depth. Nearly all the pumice
or the volcanic ash used in the United
States is made into polishing powder
or incorporated in abrasive soap.
Other uses are the manufacture Of
semi-fused filing brick or mineral
vol or, cement and Of a cheap kind
of Rla&A.
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called him doc" and he was the
official mouthpiece of the party.
1t was his job to talk to local repre-
sentatives of the government, and he
proved to be the most efficient loud
speaker" / have ever had. He saved
me many struggles with the Portu-
guese tongue Without his valuable
assistance the expedition would not
have accomplished as much as it did.
Eugene Bussey, a 19-year-old lad
from Yonkers, was the wireless opera
tor. 1t was the first time he had been
on such an expedition, but he was we'll
posted on short-wave work, and came
to us through the courtesy of Gen.
Harbord of the Radio Corporation.
All transportation matters were In
the hands of Bob Young, and he had
his work cut out for him. Before we
reached the river our equipment num-
bered something like 60 boxes of vari-
Gus kinds. When our food supplies
had ben purchased, Bob found himself
with nearly 100 pieces of baggage to
tuSsle with.
Our equipment was as complete as
it was possible to make it. We started
out with two ShortwaVe wireless out
fits, one a large 500watt set, the other
a small portable instrument for field
work. The "B" batteries, storage
cells, charging generator, etc, were
bulky and heavy, as was the photo
graphic material. which included 10000
feet of film. Then came comeras espe-
cially made for us to stand up under
the damp atmosphere Of the tropics,
two motion picture cameras with tri-
pods, and last, but not least three fold
ing boats made of canvas. Besides
these principal stores, we carried
tents, camp beds and invaluable flash
lamps.
IRON Rio we Travelled 900 miles by
railway to the Paraguay River.
We had few exciting experiences dur
ing this part of the journey. Our
route to River Roosevelt lay along
civilized highways. We spent some
time hunting jaguars, and during our
expeditions into the jungle we had
vivid experiences, but these paled be-
side those we were later to meet with.
Fishing provided us with an interest
ing pastime, and our encounters with
the notorious piranhas, or man-eating
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allowed to go out of college knowing
something of plane trigonometry, but
absolutely ignorant of spherical.
(Groans and sobs.) No such man could
get out now. Renewed groansD
He himself-and he said it with en-
phasis-would rather keep a man at
college till he died than send him out
adorned with the college degree yet
ignorant even of the simplest spheri-
cal formula. (Applause)
|. Such a thing was unfair to the
graduates themselves. They went out
into the business world ignorant and
i'll equipped. They fell an easy prey
to the rapacity of the business man.
No such thing, he ventured to say,
could happen today.
In continuation, the president said
that he was assured that any one of
the venerable gentlemen seated before
him in the graduating class would
meet with nothing but respect and
consideration during his life in the
outside world. His life might indeed
be short. That he would not deny.
But it would, he hoped, be full. Gap
plause)
In conclusion, he congratulated the
venerable gentlemen before him on
their long and sustained requirement
of knowledge. He could see men in
front of him who had learned in their
Latin grammar not some of the IT,
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regular verbs but all of the irregular
verbs. There were men before MN
who knew what came after the first
book of XenophonS "Anabasis'; men
who had read not one canto of Dante's
Inferno" but all of it; who had read
and appreciated not merely a part OF
English literature but the whole OF 1t.
This, he said, was education indeed.
He did not wish to keep the class
seated too long, and he would gladly
request some of the older members TO
lie down if they wished to do so. But
he would like to detain them and the
audience long enough to invite their
consideration of the question as TO
why a college man should ever gradu-
ate. (Applause)
This question, he was pleased 10
say, was being earnestly debated by
the board of trustees. Funds would
probably be available within short
time to render graduation unneces.
sary and to keep the college men OF
the future at college until removed
by death.
The increasing comfort of the DOR
mitories. the continued Improvement
of the food in the college halls, to-
gether with the fearful rise OF the
cost of living in the outside world ana
the spread of Bolshevism and other
dangers, rendered this reform more
and more desirable.
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the word-that is to say, they would
not eat any of their own kind. But
we found that in most cases they
never hesitated to devour the dead
piranhas we threw back into the river.
So far as fish go, they do not grow
very large. The largest we saw
weighed from three to four pounds.
They are deep-bodied and have mouths
like the jaws of steel traps, fringed
with teeth like those of sharks. They
will bite through the smaller gauges
of bronze wire like thread, and sew
eral times we had hooks bitten in two.
One most extraordinary performance
was witnessed-the head of big fell
low, when completely severed from the
body, continued to bite savagely for
couple of minutes afterWard.
In the early stages of the trip we
were initiated into the habits of ants,
one of the worst pests with which
Brazil contends. / know of no coun-
try in the world where they are found
in such numbers, from large black
ants measuring an inch long to the
microscopic ones that travel in armies
of a T.iillion or more. Ants are found,
On the ground and in the trees. They
swarm everywhere and eat every
thing. Metal Is about the only thing
they won't touch.
OF all the ants, those known as
the carregadores are the worst. They
have powerful nippers and eat holes
in mosquito netting or shoe leather
with equal ease. Docs first expert
ence was when they sampled his felt
hat. Carelessly he left it on the
ground before retiring. and the next
morning it was scalloped around the
edges in a manner almost artistic. He
hung it on a tree the following night.
When he woke the lining was all gone
and some large holes the size of a
quarter had been clipped out of the
brim.
X X x
WE reached the Paraguay River and
w then assembled it some distance
to the little town of Sac LUZ de Ca
ceres. 1t was during this part of our
journey that we met with our first set
back. The high-frequency generator
which enabled us to operate the main
wireless station refused to function.
Neither time nor money had been
spared to obtain the most efficient APP
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consider raising the salaries of the
teaching staff.
The treasurer next presented the
capital and building accounts, which
he was sorry to say all showed seri-
Gus deficits. Here was a deficit of
100000 on the new household econ
omy building; the school of manage
ment showed a deficit of $500 900; the
school of practical business showed a
shortage of $4,000; the school of ac-
countancy had been unable to get it's
accounts in shape for presentation in
time for commencement day, but it
was expected that there would be a
certain shortage.
He was happy to say, however, that
all these deficits had been lifted by
the generosity of Mr.. Buttlerocks. and
that new building program would be
launched at once.
In conclusion. there remained only
deficit on the current stationery ac-
count of $40. As he did not wish to
appeal again to the generous benefac-
tor who had done so much, he would
suggest that this Indebtedness might
be lifted by an effort of the graduate
body themselves.
tCopyriEht. aR27A 44zsE' I
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municate direct with the United
States would be a sheer waste of
time. Nevertheless, he rugged up his
apparatus and tested out several COM
binations on short waves which he
fancied held out some ray of hope.
1t was then that he achieved the i'm
possible. From the heart of Brazil
he sent his first message direct to
New York City.
X X
SHALL never forget that night. as
we sat silently in the crowded
quarters of the prancha with reaches
running races all over the place and
a solitary candle spluttering out it's
feeble light in front of the transmit
ter. Outside it was pitch dark. Not
n soul was stirring; the inhabitants
of Sac LUZ are all abed by 10 o'clock,
and it was we'll past midnight when
we took up our vigil.
BuSSey tuned up the set, noted the
power input GA watts and remarked
that any one in New York who want
ed to hear us would have to strain
his ear drums to do so. He then sent
out a general call to the United States.