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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-22
Broken Levees
BY Andrea Razaf

ny andrea Nazat Il
! can see those pickaninnies playing
in that Delta mud a-
Some made orphans, some made
homeless by that Mississippi
flood;
But, in spite of it, their faces haven't
lost that sunny smile. -
What's a broken levce to a happy
colored child?
And those mammics, they're not
whining-in their eyes lights
still shining
Seems they see a silvery lining in
those Delta skies SO gray.
"Halleluiah," hear them singing, as
their voices go up ringing
Through 1t all they still are clinging
to those prayers they love to pray.
Soon the flood will be forgotten and
new homes and town will rise;
Brighter fields of cane and cotton
will bloom forth to greet the eyes
For there is hope and courage at the
Mississippi mouth;
The spirit of these people is "the
spirit of the South"
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New Mining. Company
Should Pay Big Profits
Jerome Crande Copper y
Well Located With
Good Management

OF all the many mining compan-
les recently organized, the Jerome
Grande Copper Company of Jerome,
Arizona, with offices in the Thonp-
son building, Fourth Avenue. and
Cherry Street, Seattle, seems to have
the greatest chance of paying large
dividends for generations yet to
come. III.
Situated as it is, right between and
surrounded by the United Verde
Copper Company and the United
Verde Extension Mining Company,
two Copper mines that have paid
over 800, 000,000.00 in dividends,
II seems impossible for the Jerome
Grande Copper Company not to be
big producer, as according to en-
gineer's reports, it is on the same
mountain ridge with the same iden-
tical ore, as the United Verde which
has paid over $4,000, 100000 in diyi-
dends. Stock in the United Verde
originally sold at Acc per share, and
went to 100000 per share, having
paid over $233.00 per share in divi-
dends. Stock in the United Verde
Extension, another property which
surrounds the Jerome Grande, orig
inally sold at about 25c per share
and has since sold for $4,000 per
share, having paid over 10000 per
cent in dividends in the meantime.
The Jerome Grande Copper Com
pany is differed and directed by
practical and successful mining men.
Mr.. Theodore Torbenson, the general
manager, who resides in Seattle with
offices in the Skinner Building, is
well known throughout the west as
man of most unusual business
ability, combined with large vision
necessary for the conducting Of bust
ness on a large scale.
The history of Copper discloses the
fact that more fortunes have been
made from this metal than any
other, as it is universally used the
world over and the demand greatly
exceeds the supply.
Only few years ago, a San Fran
cisco man by the name of b. c..
Jackling, raised about $30,000.00 to
develop a property at Bingham Can
yon, Utah. This was a low grade
property and the mining world ridi-
culed Mr.. lacking for attempting
to develop his property in view Of
the low values. Today he has a
property worth two billion dollars.
The ore that occurs in the Jerome
district runs better than 10 per cent
Copper, with sufficient Gold and Sill
yer to nearly defray mining, milling
and operating costs, so that the Cop
per obtained is nearly all profit.
The management of the Jerome
Grande Copper company is thorough
ly endorsed by local Seattle banks,
and the company has been investi-
gated by Seattle authorities whose
business it is to investigate for the
public, and given the highest rating
any mining company could have
which is not yet on dividend paying
basis.
At the present time, the Jerome
Grande Copper company is offering
a limited amount of its stock at par,
for the completion of their shaft and
tunnels, after which the company
should go on paying basis within
a very short time. $685.
An investment in the stock of this
company at this time should pay
enormous profits. s.
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MANY NEW BOOKS
TO BE PUBLISHED
(contInued From Page D.

CONTINUED From Page ID
On August 18th Alfred A. Knopf
will publish in that firms famous
Blue Jade Library, James Weldon
Johnson's 1.-THE Autobiography of
An Ex-Colored Man" First publish
ed anonymously in 1912 by Bos-
ton firm which went out Of business
during the war, this novel by Mr..
Johnson has long been out Of print
and eagerly sought after by collect
ors. Carl Van vechten has done an
introduction to the Knopf reprint.
The Blue Jade. Library is made up
OF distinguished books of lasting
value which have attained the posi-
ton Of being semi-classics.
Also in September a book OF par
ticular interest and Importance to
colored readers will be brought out
by the Viking Press. This IS "Por-
traits In Color" by Mary White
Oyington. Miss Ovington's book is
made up Of biographical and critical
essays on the lives and accomplish
ments Of twenty colored men and
women. The list includes Robert
Russo Motion, George w. Carver.
Scipio A. Jones, Ernest u. Just. w.
e. b. Dubois, James Weldon John
son, Louis T. Wright, Roland Hayes,
Paul Robson, Walter White, Lucy
Laney, Maggie L. Walker. Langston
Hughes and several others as we'll
known. This volume is certain to
be widely read and discussed.
Drama will be adequately repre-
sented by plays OF Negro Life,'
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/ further indication thar the position
of the Negro in the artistic world Is
being more securely fixed by excel
lent work and that the fears OF
some that the interest In things
Negro is passing fad are largely
unfounded. These books along with
others recently published like James
Weldon Johnson's notable Gods
Trombones," e. G. L=Adams' Con-
garee Sketches" and similar. books
of note are significant and encourage
ing signs of progress. Rudolph
Fisher, considered by many as the
best writer of short stories of Negro
life, is at work on a novel; Lang
ston Hughes is spending the summer
In Memphis, New Orleans. and other
Southern cities gathering material
for his next book: Matter White
sails with Mrs. White and their two
children for France where he will
spend a year writing two books;
and others as yet unknown are writ
ing, The outlook is distinctively'hope-
full for continuation of excellent
writing by Negroes.
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You Should Know

When can one Legally Drive on
the left side of the Road?
Vehicles when passing should turn
to the right, each on his side of the
center of the highway, or the trav-
eled part of the road. It does fol-
low that because a driver is on the
right-hand side of the road he can
disregard the right of others coming
in the opposite direction. If the road
is covered with drifted snow, or a
part of the highway flooded, travel
ers must turn TO the right of the
Travelled part of the road as it then
is. If an obstruction on the right
hand side of the highway, wash
out, or hole in bridge or culvert,
one can drive on the left side until
the obstruction is passed, If he uses
proper care when doing so.
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edited by Montgomery Gregory and
Alain Locke which Harper and
Brothers will publish during the
fall season. Practically every play
about Negroes by white and colored
authors will be included. The vol
ume will contain between twenty
five and thirty plays, about one-third
OF them written by. colored play
wrights.
Knopf will publish on October
21st book of interest made up Of
the Negro drawings of Miguel Covar-
rubias, the. talented Mexican artist,
whose. work has appeared mostly in
Vanity Fair Mr.. Coyarrubias' pic
Irritation of Negro types has done
much to attract attention to the
latent possibilities in the arts of
Negroes.
Knopf publishes on October 9Th
Stuffed Peacocks" BY Emily Clark.
This is volume of short stories
laid In Virginia some three or four
of them dealing with Negro char
acters. Miss Clark is a member of
one of the oldest families in Virginia
and was editor of the Reviewer.
She is one of the growing number
OF white people in and from the
South who are deeply interested in
the Negro and particularly his ar
tistic development.
This same firm will publish next
April first novel of great beauty
and distinction. The writer is Mrs.
Nella Larsen lines of New York and
her novel will bear the title of
"Quicksand'.
There are probably other books
by Negro authors and about Negro
life not yet announced, but the list
given is an imposing one. II gives
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-22
Lessons in English
Word End. Often Mi,used

Word Ends Often Misused
Don't say "the final end" or the
"final completion" Final" is re-
dundant. END" and completion"
mean final.
Word Often Mispronouneed
Hundred. Pronounce as spelled,
and not as hun-derd.
Words Often Misused
Hosiery.
Synonyms
Heavenly, celestial, supernal, elys-
ian, paradisiacal, beatific, unearth-
ly.
Word Study
Use a word three times and it is
yours. Let us increase our vocab-
ulary by mastering one word each
week.
IMPENETRABLE: not capable of
being pierced. "The fog was impene-
trable."
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Look and Learn

= What state of the U. s. con-
tains the highest land and the low
est land?
What is the lightest gas
known?
S-What people founded the city
of London?
4-What is the average distance
of the earth from the sun?
5-What is the longest river in
the United States?
ANSWERS
California.
Hydrogen.
9The Romans.
4-92,S00,000.
missouri River.
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sit, and have their very heart strings
torn out, in order that the morbid
tendencies of those who have gath
cred as if to celebrate a holiday
might be satisfied by a strict. adher-
ence to funeral formalities.
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Here's a Bargain

For sale-Fiye-room house and
garage at $40 26th Are. N. Price.
81 800. Small payment. balance like
rent. Mrs. NJ. Mann, 1893 24th Ave.
Phone East 0618,
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Housekeeper Wanted

"a Reliable woman vented at once
as matron and housekeeper at So
journer Truth Club. Good wages.
For particulars see Mrs. o. WASH
ington, 1726 22nd Ave. Phone East
6O7O.
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big Copper interests have fought property in the
for years and we just recently obtained clear title to it,
We have only successful mining directing Company
Our General Manager Mr. Theodore Torbnson Seattle
merly president of mlondoar bank We refer Gov.
E. Erickson of Montana F. sh vcepresdent of the First
National Bank Fargo North Dakota Newman president of
the First National Bank Henger North Dakota
Superintendent of Banks Helena Montana regarding Mr. Tor
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-22
MAKE A FORTUNE IN MINING!

We II a of right next
to and surrounded by Mines
100000 in dividends companies has paid over 10000
cent in dividends the original
selling today the New York Curb for about
its original
Over billion and half pounds Copper used annually
the United States We situated district
that produces AZ all Copper United States
We property outright and do dollar
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We refer Jerome Arizona regarding
other officers directors q
We fair square your MONEY No
officer director salary opportunity
lifetime Only small of stock offered this time.
Every stakeholder will receive weekly
Mine. ~.
LOCAL BANK AND COMMERCIAL REFERENCES ts.
CALL, PHONE WRITE FOR FULL DETAILS. WITHOUT
OBLIGATION. ms ed
} M P ANY
Phone Number Eliot 1888
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
RpaUfy'

Slaves OF Beauty" shown at Gran
dalls Metropolitan yesterday. offers
an interesting version. under new
circumstances. of the age-oid evil.
domestic intranquillity.
The story. adapted from Nina Wilcox
Putuam's The Grandfiapper." con.
Germs wife who tires of her rather
passive husband and seeks fame and
love in a field Of her own. The drama
opens with the unhappy couple and a
grown daughter diving in the slums
of New York The wife. weary of her
husbands seeming inattention and
lack Of ambition. ventures forth into
the beauty parlor field to win fortune.
seasoned by an intriguing love affair
with her manager. Meanwhile her
daughter comes home from college and
breaks up her mothers love affair by
ensnaring her paramour. Father,
meantime, has ventured into business
Of the same nature for himself. win.
ming wealth without the benefit OF
women. whom he is successful in
stunning.
The story concludes with having the
family happily reunited. after many
incidents that are amusing as well as
offering a variety of play on the
emotions.
Olive Tell is the dissatisfied wife
Holmes Herbert, the husband, and
Earle Foxe has IA difficult role Rich
ard Walling and Sue Carroll are the
lovers. while Margaret Livingston pro.
vides amusing situations as the mani
curist.
Harry Langdon is amusing in His
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OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON
THEATERS

camp for German prisoners, and Pola
and her film father are forced to care
for the enemy in this way. There Is
one particular German prisoner who
becomes the hero and there are sew
eral others among the prison group
who prove so wholesomely human and
likeable that they give a reality To
the picture that nothing else could
possibly provide. OF course. the other
French peasants harhor resentment
and even suspicion of the heroine's at
titude toward these prisoners, and the
time comes when she must fight he
fore n judge and jury in n crowded
courtroom for her lovers life. The
end OF the picture cleverly suggests
the futility of hate and bitterness
among human beings.
Miss Negri carries remarkable CON
viction in her acting and she is ably
assisted by Sinar Hanson, Give
Brook and Claude Gillingwater.
An unusually gay jazz orchestra :cd
by Phil Spitalny and called Victory
Melody Masters play everything from
Tschaikowski's overture 1872 to the
popular hit. "Hallelujah." \ dancer
with the group deserves special men
ton.
The gold medal film, 1.-THE Voice of
the Nightingale" colored nature
picture. with clever whistling by
Sybil Fagen and good flute obbli-
cato. is another unusual feature on
a particularly we'll rounded and inter.
esting bill that also includes news
reel and an overture by the house
orc l1pStr1
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EARLE-"G0ssips Of 1927"

The Earle Theater varies its regular
routine of presenting five different acts
nf vaudeville in presenting this week
"GossipS of 1927" a novelty act Of
vaudeville that covers the time usually
given to the entire vaudeville bill.
"Gossips of 1927" is a Junior musical
comedy of seven scenes, with Billy
Dale. who. as 1.-THE merry rounder. "
furnishes the comedy, assisted by
Marie Hartman. Eddie Emerson and
Jerry Baldwin, the last named with q
hit of comedy juggling. Most of the
dancing falls to Al Butts and Marion
Wilkens, and the Six California
Peaches, all Of whom are good dancers.
Butts especially, in acrobatic dancing.
= Another feature is Marjorie Moore
and her 40 June Buds" woman or
chestra that plays really good music.
Miss Moore has a pleasing voice and
is also a dancer of no mean ability.
The entire act is attractively
staged and costumed and seemed to
delight last nights audience.
The photoplay is High Hat" with
Ben Lyon, Mary Brian. Sam Hardy
and Jack Ackroyd. The picture is a
sort Of disjointed affair, described as a
burlesque on the making of the
movies. and proves to be but mildly
interesting. Short-reel features and
music by the Earle Orchestra and
Alexander Arons, pipe organist, COM
piete the bill.
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EEITHS-Odette Myrtil.

: That charming violinist Coincidence.
Odette Myrtil, is headlininS good
bill at Keith's this week. Her sing
ing is confined to French ditties, which
she puts over most effectively, part
lv through the adroit use OF her
wonderful eyes. for be their color
what il may, they serve to heIp Il
voice not too strong or over sweet
With the violin Odette is superb al
most making the instrument tax as
she glides through a pantomlme
romance of music teacher with MS
pupil. she is assisted by a talented
srouple whose mention Is overlooked
by the program. Several curtain cans
and brief speech closed real MT
of the bill.
Quite pretentious offering is thai
of Gibbs in A sort of tabloid musical
comedy. Dear Little Rebel" with an
assisting male chorus dressed as
Southern officers Miss Gibbs, dressed
in a beautiful crinoline of the war
period. sings several original songs eI'
fectively and was rewarded last night
with a half dozen curtain calls.
Carl Mccullough. singer and story
teller, is back with a new batch OF
songs and tales of the road that he
puts over in telling style. He finally
gave several limitations of popular
stars in answer to persistent calls.
Dault and La Mari have a good
acrobatic act entitled. "Laffs and
Thrills: kharum, the clever pianist,
who must have been pleased with his
cordial reception. but failed to smile.
although hOwing low his acknowledge.
ment: Julius 0Chichtl and his astonish-
ing manikins: Ed Clayton and Frank
Jennie In their old turn. "A Sundae
in London" which created the usual
laughter. and Ed and Lee Traver in
graceful and daring acrohatic turn,
with the regular house attractions.
complete the bill.
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PALACE-"Barbed Wire"

The beautiful Pola Negri. who es-
tablished herself high in the regard
of Americans for her marvellous por
trayal of the title role in the foreign
film, 'Du Barry" seems to have at
last come into her own in a role in
an American film that gives her par
ticular talents full sway. This pic
ture is "Barbed Wire" the feature
film at Loew's Palace Theater this
week.
1t is a story of Internal ional bitter
ness, pointing out the only way of
eliminating such feelings after such
great catastrophe as the World War.
There are few scenes of the actual
battle front, but the feeling of the
French people against the ''boche"
and the Germans bitterness against
the French provide the underlying
theme.
The story introduces Pola as
French peasant girl living peacefully
on the little farm with her father and
brother when war is proclaimed.
Later this particular farm is chosen
by the government as the site for
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other things besides. All OF this in ar

other things besides. All OF this in an
exchange of notes.
An unexpected meeting between the
two follows which leads from further
exchange of pleasantries to mutual
admiration. Babe and Annie finally
become engaged. but on the eve of the
wedding a difference of opinion breaks
up the affair. Babe loses his EYE"
for the ball, Annie loses her interest
in things generally. and everybody is
unhappy until another turn of the
wheel of fate makes Annie forget her
pride, and sends Babe into the game
at a critical moment to save the series
for his club.
on the stage. quintet of popular
song and dance artists are featured.
Minor screen offerings include beau
titul scenic THE Glory That Was
Greece" showing the famous Acrop
oils. parthenon, statue of pallaS
Athene by Phidias, and other noted
ruins of tho greatest sculptured art
the world has known.
The comedy is another Keeping Up
With the Jones" episode. Pathe News
and selections from The Chocolate
Soldier" by the Rialto orchestra com
plete the program.
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women in the cast overdo, but then
maybe the rest of us would If we
looked at things that way. It is more
depressing than Crime and Punish
ment." While it is intellectual. it Is
based on the Teutonic standard of So
phisticated entertainment. The pro-
gram compares 1t with 1.-The Last
Laugh" 1.-The Last Laugh was beau
tiful in spots. The high points of
Shattered" are re-eminently ugly.
The Ballet Mecanique" is an inter
esting piece of work. thoroughly
sophisticated and unusual. 1t has been
done before on smaller scale in other
pictures There is also a better class
travel film, which is interesting, and a
news reel. However, Charlie Chaplin
in Carmen provides the entertain
ment of the evening.
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RIALTO-"Babe Comes Home"
Taking his initial swing at that
elusive sphere. movie stardom. Babe
Ruth, the darling of the New York
Yankees" has knocked off a homer
with as much apparent ease as he
socks the familiar pill at the ball park.
Babe has proved himself natural
actor in his first screen appearance.
Babe Comes Home" which is fea-
tured at the Rialto Theater this week.
OF course. the picture is about bas"
ball, an entertaining comedy with
backstage atmosphere which so de-
lights the ardent fan, but for all that
it would be decidedly mane In spots
were it not for Babes amusing per
SOnality.
The story Ccnters around romance
which has it's beginning in an eN-
change OF back hand compliments
between one Annie, n pretty laundress,
and certain Babe pugEan. home run
hitter for the Angels" Il hard boiled
base ball outfit.
Annie has to laundcr Babes uni
forms and is shocked ut their hahitual
resemblance to something the pig has
wallowed in when they reach her
hands. Annie doesn't SEQ why ball
players can't keep ont Of the dirt like
S,cntlcmeu. Babe does see, and feels
no hcStancy in informing Annie of
her colossal ignorance-and a few
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without the aid of makeup, and Bar
bara La Mari and Blanche Sweet APP
pear in the leading feminine roles.
The rural atmosphere is portrayed
convincingly, and there is plenty of
comedy relief from the perils Of the
hero and his sweetheart. John
Bowers plays the part Of Quincy
Adams Sawyer.
One of the scenes depicts a rescue
from the rushing waters Of the falls.
1t is rather unconvincing, and the
general makeup of the picture IS bet
ter suited to the screen of a decade
ago than to the motion picture thea.
ter of today. Still, Lon CLANCY makes
It go.
A comedy and the usual news reel
round out the bill The house
orchestra plays an attractive number.
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BANDITS ROB TWENTY.
Store Porch Crowd Relieved o,
$4,000 and Gems by Men.

PHILADELPHIA. August Is R.--
Nine men operating in two automo-
biIes raided a group of 20 persons
seated on a store porch. at Edge Hill.
near here. early yesterday. robbed
them at pistol point of $4,000 in money
and iewelry and escaped after dis
abling two automobiles in which their
victims might have followed them.
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LITTLE THEATER-"Shattered."

The patrons of the Little Theater
whose memories do not range beyond
10 years owe q great deal this week to
Charlie Chaplin, for his performance in
the burlcsque Carmen saves the
day. The feature picture, shattered. -
~ similar to the series that has been
running at the Little Theater for some
time. 1t was all right at first. but now
it Is beginning to weaken. Few peo-
pie like to see morbid tragedy, tragedy
without the light of hope.
"Shattered' is artistic. that cannot
be denied and the acting of the two
male characters is very fine. The
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colt MBIA--"Quincy Adams
SAWYER"

Quincy Adams Sawyer is pre-
scented on the screen at LoeWs Column
bia this week. 1t is a bucolic melo-
drama of the old school. in which Lon
CLANCY makes relentless villain
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First Flame" and news reel featur.
ing Col. Lindberg completes the enter
tainment