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'Jhe DIp1H Or
A NATION"- =
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w YHEN "The Last Laugh" was
n first revealed before an
MN American audience a large
number of critics and other
observers announced that
the day of the great movie awakening
had dawned-that the cinematograph
had at last taken its place as 1nde-
pendent art form.
Many were the verbal laurel wreaths
that were tossed across the ocean and
deposited at the feet of an obscure
young German, F. w. Murnau, who
had directed 1.-THE Last Laugh" The
American public. be 1t said. failed to
support the critical opinion to any
appreciable extent. There was some.
thing about "The Last Laugh" which
failed to excite the fans enthusiasm,
and they avoided it carefully.
Nevertheless, though his picture
was a financial flop, Mr.. Murnau had
scored his point; he had proved that
it was possible to tell story on the
screen without words. He had estab-
lished, beyond all question of doubt,
the amazing eloquence of moving pic
lures. His influence on movie tech
nique became instantly apparent.
Every American director who saw
"The Last Laugh" started to use the
Murnau method-and, Of course. ex.
aggerated it absurdly.
Camera angles and various freakish
forms of trick photography were over.
done, in pictures wherein this fu-
turistic style of treatment did not
legitimately belong. However, the
trend was generally commendable
one. Thanks to THE Last Laugh" !"
the movies were beginning to explore
new fields, and thus were departing
from the spoken play form and the
written novel form. to which they had
been wrongly allied.
Last year William Fox announced
proudly that he had persuaded r. w.
Murnau to transfer his interesting
activities from Berlin to Hollywood.
Murnau worked for many months in
Southern California and expended an
enormous number of Mr.. Fox's
favorite dollars--and now the results
of his labors are evident in "Sun-
rise"
A few Of those who cheered most
loudly for THE Last Laugh" are
rather faint in their praise Of sun.
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Unique Scenes in 'Serenade.

ONE of the oldest forms of enter.
tainment is combined with the
newest in Adolphe Menjou's picture,
Serenade," in which the shadow.
graph. which centuries ago. was the
only type of stage production in
vogue, provides unique scene,
A great white gauze screen, so feet
wide and 40 feet high. was placed in
front OF the stage in the large theater
setting built for the film. By special
lighting effects behind this curtain,
the director was enabled to get some
particularly attractive scenes, show
ing in shadows a gypsy camp. In
front of these lights 80 dancers
whirled, while an orchestra of 20 mu.
sicians played.
The cameras were set back of the
audience. In the rear of the miniature
tneater. picking UP the dancing shad.
ows on the screen over a foreground
OF motionless heads of the people in
the opera chairs.
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BURTON HOLMEs. November 10.

Burton Holmes. who has given
travel-minded folk many delightful
hours as an observing world traveller,
artistic photographer and fascinating
story-teller, will begin his new series
of five illustrated travel revues at the
National Theater Thursday afternoon.
November 10. with Happy Hawaii"
as his first Offering.
This. it Is said, is in response to q
demand for pictorial knowledge Of our
own country and its island posses
sions. Hawaii" the traveller says, "is
the happiest country in the world
today" and to prove 1t he has made
up pictorial composite of its vast.
ness, varied scenery, prosperity. life
and boudless resources.
In dramatic contrast to the tropical
loveliness of Hawaii will come Days
In Paris" November II; Nights in
Paris" December 1; "The New
Austria" December 8, and 1.-THE Heart
or Italy," December Is.
All Of these dates are on Thursday
afternoons at 4:30. The sale of SUBJ
scription tickets for the entire course
opens at the National Theater on Mon.
day, October 81.
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Coming Attractions
NATIONAL-"The Barker -

Walter Houston in "The Barker"
will be the attraction at the National
Theater next week, opening, October 81.
This unusual play of carnival life
by Kenyon Nicholson, produced by
Charles l.. Wagner in association with
Edgar Selwyn. is described as a grip
ping, throbbing story Of carnival life,
so real, so human, that it is considered
one or the best dramas seen in the
theater in many decades.
1t ran at the Biltmore Theater, New
York, seven weeks.
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Bulletins.

''Big Boy" Educational's baby star,
emulating older comedians, is making
a Jewish-Irish type of comedy, his
second on a new contract with Educa-
tional, which calls for eight comedies
this year, although he will not be 4
years old until next month. "Sham-
rock Alleyis the title,
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KETTH'S-Iew Cody.

Lew Cody. the motion picture star,
will make his first personal appear.
ance at B. F. Keith's Theater next
week in a humorous Offering, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry will be
featured in their newest character
study, "Clinging Ivy" by Jimmy
Barry.
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GAYETY-"Bare Facts"

Lena Daley will head her own pro-
duction at the Gayety Theater next
week. The new show is titled Bare
Facts" and has chorus of twenty
four girls in addition to the large cast
Of Columbia favorites.
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STRAND-"High FIyers. !"

High Flyers will be the attraction
next week at the Strand Theater, with
cast Of Mutual Burlesque favorites
and chorus Of sixteen singing and
dancing girls.
The show Is in two acts with four.
teen scenes and sixteen musical mum.
berS,
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The Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT e. SHERWOOD.

rise," but I for one can't understand
why. 1t seems to me that Sunrise"
is measurably superior to "The Last
Laugh" and that F. w. Murnau
emerges from 1t with a brand-new
supply of laurel wreaths.
Furthermore, 1t establishes beyond
all debate the pre.eminence of the di-
rector as q factor in movie making.
When the first German pictures were
released over here every one lamented
the fact that we had no actors in this
country comparable to Emil Jan.
nings, Pola Negri, Werner Krauss and
the other talented Teutons.
In Sunrise" however, Mr.. Muir.
nau has produced starting results
with the local talent Taking
George O'Brien when he was nothing
more than a handsome, virile and
rather expressionless leading man. he
has converted him into a tragic actor
of heroic proportions. Janet Gaynor
was an unidentified extra when she
was selected for the leading role in
Sunrise" but she passed from the
Murnau picture into Seventh Heaven"
and there achieved stardom.
Bulletins.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Pola Negri
has evidently made good, as she Is
to be signed to new contract with
Paramount at a reported salary of
$4,000 per week. Universal Is still
postponing its epic of the Navy in
the war, "The Big Gun" IL Mr..
Laemle doesn't hurry up his pic.
ture won't be ready before the next
war starts "Over the Andes"
the latest Douglas Fairbangs prod
uct, Is ready for release Harold
Lloyd returns this week from New
York, where he has spent the last
two months waiting for the sun to
come out.
tCopyright. 1927
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LITTLE THEATER-'The Birth Of
Nation"

This weeks program at the Little
Theater will feature d. w. Grifiith's
The Birth of Nation" the famous
spectacle and drama of the Civil War
and reconstruction days IN the South.
which Ia claimed to haYss revolution
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Photoplays This Week


FOX-'The Joy Girl" This afternoon and evening
PALACE-"Annie Laurie" This afternoon and evening.
METROPOLITAN-"Breakfast Sunrise This afternoon and
evening
RIALTO-"The Chinese Parrot" This afternoon and evening
COLUMBA-The Magic Flame This afternoon and evening
LITTLE THEATER-The Birth of Nation This afternoon and
evening
WARDMAN PARK-"A Dolls House" This evening.
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PALACE-"Annie Laurie"

Annie Laurie, beloved to the world
for centuries in song and story, has
come to life again--on the screen
through Lillian Gish, queen Of roman
tic drama. who enacts the historic
heroine in her latest Metro-Goldwyn.
Mayer picture, annie Laurie" Il
dramatic spectacle of the Scottish
Highlands, now being shown at Loew's
Palace Theater.
The stage features Ted Weems and
his Victor Recording Orchestra.
Added features include M-G-M News,
]. Virgil Huffman, organ music, and
a special overture. "Reminiscences of
Scotland" by the Palace Orchestra.
under Don Felice.
Miss Gish plays role totally differ
ent to any in her previous career.
AS Annie Laurie. noblewoman and
mistress of the great Maxwelton
Castle, and then as a woman, Drawing
the spears of her own tribesmen to
save the man she loves, she has a
role that plumbs the elemental depths
of a woman's soul.
The new picture is a gorgeous pro-
duction, with hugh replicas Of famous
Scottish castles and bearded Scottish
warriors, in kits and tartans, battling
In the rugged highlands with claymore
and shield.
Norman Kerry plays the leading
male role.
Evening star., 1927-10-23

At the Fox Theater this week begin.
ming today, William Fox will present
as the film attraction. THE Joy Girl, %
the Saturday Evening Post story by
May Edginton, with Olive Borden. the
screens most youthful star, in the
title role.
THE Joy Girl is a narrative OF
naive youth and faithful love, and
treats of Palm Beach and palaces
Gotham and the glitter Of gold. Di-
rector Allan Dwan assembled a cast of
we'll known players in her support,
including Neil Hamilton, for the lead.
ing male role; Mary Alden, and Marie
Dressler.
In addition to an enhancing ballet,
there will be another effective Roxy"
silhouette, THE Spider and the Fly"
and Mignolette, French coloratura so.
prano of "Roxy's" Gang, will be the
featured soloist.
Evening star., 1927-10-23

ID EGISTER a victory for the pro-
N testorsi The producers have
iust completed the film version OF
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Few of us it's true have oppor-
tunity to do the things the world
calls big. Not many of us are
heroes, or feel that we can add great
ly to the worlds measure of happi-
ness, but perhaps we can all agree
with an old, old man, not far off
from the century mark, who said
the other day:
Il used to regret that l was not
going to leave the world some worth
while Notwithstanding that
would count and make the world
know had lived. Then this thought
came to me. What does the world
need most?--what's important to al
most everybody we meet? Why
cheerfulness. The world needs
happy folks, happy thoughts, happy
greetings. I can, without cent in
my pocket give that.
That realization has made the
last fifty years of my life, most
blessed"
Those who know the old man say
that his life has meant much to them
that he's scattered a world of in
SEPARATION and encouragement into
hundreds of lives.
So don't feel that because you can't
20 as a missionary to China or write
a page in the worlds history, you
haven't had a chance to make your
Nife count.
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lot right this very day. You're a
real little soldier and are having the
biggest kind of chance to develop in
mind and soul. Dear little girl, only
those who have had similar disap-
pointments, know what it means to
lay aside hopes cherished for years.
But here's an odd and comforting
fact, though. Many a person who's
life course has been detected has
found a mine Of joy and accomplish
ment in what he at first scorned.
See if you can't realize what a big,
fine thing your present opportunity
is--helping to mold the little broth
ers' lives and comforting a lone and
bereaved man.
James" is engaged to a girl who
pleases him very much, only she is
terribly extravagant, putting every
cent that she makes on clothes. This
worries James as he is not a high
salaried man. Well, James, a girls
clothes are an investment to her,
especially when she is dressing to
please her possible mate.
If the girl is sensible and agree
able and pleases you in every other
way, this hardly seems a fault to
hold UP a wedding. With a home
and others to take her interest,
clothes may mean comparatively lit
tie to her after while.
peggy" who is a young married
woman lives with her husbands two
sisters. They are not financially de-
pendent upon her husband, but as
they reared him, he feels that he can
not leave them. Peggy" wants a
home of her own, and think she is
justified in renting nice little apart
ment and telling the sisters and hub
by afterwards.
I believe he'd be delighted, only he
can't make the move and save his
face to his sisters.
"Rose NJ who has been keeping
company with a young man she
likes very much was dressed in
knickerbockers one day recently and
the young man made some severe
remarks. They quarreled. He justi-
fed his remarks by saying that she
had dressed like a boy and shouldn't
expect lady's treatment.
The young man went too far in
his disapproval. Clothes are per-
sonal matter, but when a girl puts
on trousers, she rather lays herself
open to missing the consideration
naturally extended to the feminine
sex. You can't have your cake and
eat it, Rose.
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NORMAL WAISTLINE

Belts creep nearer the normal
waistline as the season progresses.
Either regulation waistline or tight
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BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Along about four o'clock in the
afternoon do you hear the sudden
slam of the front door and a shrill
voice calling?
Sometimes your nerves are all un-
strung, you are tired and feel that
you can't stand the noise and the
work and TIE confusion for another
Fday. From father down to the
littlest lad, the minute they hit the
house comes the same cry, where's
MOTHER"
But don't complain. What mat
ters it if your quiet is broken and
your peace shattered, that you hurry
from one task to another, that yours
is the job of finding Immediately
what everybody wants. For, after
all. what deeper thing can life hold
for anybody than this?
To know yourself the pivot about
which all the home revolves. To
realize that yours is the face that
lights those rooms to which each per-
son in the family comes with such a
feeling of consummation. To be
sure that you are needed desperately.
For the years go swiftly, and the
babies are grown up all too soon.
At night you tuck them into bed
and kiss each rounded cheek and
smooth the tangled hair. You can
not see the subtle changes every
morning brings. You think that you
will always find them there, the
same sweet troublesome ones.
But someway, they are snatched
away from you. Even while you
clasp them in your arms, suddenly
and magically, they are gone. Their
plump round bodies. become long
and slim and one day they look at
you with a strange glance and your
heart is stabbed with the knowl-
edge that they are babies no longer.
For this is the tragedy of mother
hood.
While we work and struggle amid
the noise and the wall Of childish
complaints, we do not always SAVIOR
this our precious fruit of life. We
are forever looking into the future, to
some day when we shall have moth
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ANNUAL ROUNDUP
OPENS At PURDUE
Attendance Between 5000
and 1900.

BIZ United Press
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 4.--Indi-
ana's boys and girls All Club
roundup opened here this morning
with attendance Of between $500
and 1000.
Judging by boys teams started
Tuesday afternoon. Thirty-five teams
in corn, 3S in dairy, 81 in livestock
and 80 in poultry work entered this
contest. The judging was started
half day early in order to give the
general program.
Girls judging teams in canning,
baking and clothing will start this
morning and horse judging will also
get under way. Examinations which
will determine Indiana's healthiest
boy and girl will start, in charge of
the State board Of health and DR..
Harold Risk of Lafayette.
Industrial and manual training
groups will swell the attendance at
the roundup Thursday. A special
program has been arranged for these
groups by the engineering extension
department and the practical me-
chanics department.
Features of the entertainment pro-
gram today were the Western Con-
ference baseball game between Pur-
due and Michigan in the afternoon,
at which the young visitors were
guests of the Purdue Athletic De-
partment, and the Purdue Livestock
Review tonight, in charge Of the
Hoof and Horn Club and the animal
industry department. This review
will be held in the livestock judg-
ment pavilion.
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JEWELED ORNAMENTS

Jaunty spring hats, with their
pleated crowns of soft straw silk or
felt, are sporting valuable jeweled
pins with precious stones as orna-
ments.
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BLACK AND WHITE

Striking combinations Of black and
white are bringing in a spring mode
of dashing smartness.
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What Does World Need Most? Happy Folks, Happy
Thoughts Happy Greetings, and They Don't, Cost
One Penny, Philosophy of This Man.
BY Martha Lee

r Il wish could do good in the world!
How many times hear folks say that Usually they II add
that they don't because they haven't any chance.
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All it takes to answer today's list
Of questions is a good fund Of
general information. If any of
them are too much for you, you'll
find the answers on page IA:
1. Give the line which follows,
Laugh and the world laughs with
you"
.. In what city is the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology?
8. Who was Euripedes?
4. Are the verbs ito occur" and
ito transpire" synonymous in any
sense?
5. In what sport did Glenna Collett
gain fame?
6. Who is Alfred Noyes?
7. Who is credited with having in
troduced the tobacco habit into
Europe?
8. From what poems, by whom,
are the following quotations:
(a) when dipped into the future,
far as human eye could see"
(b) Bright star! would 1 were
steadfast as thou art"
(c) There is no death! What seems
so is transition"
Id when lilacs last in the door
yard bloomed."
9. Upon what subject did President
Coolidge speak in his address in New
York week ago Monday night?
10. The plane of what famous flyer
crashed recently on the eve of his
proposed attempt to fly from New
York TO Paris?
II. Name the Governor OF Massa-
chusetts upon whom now rests the
fate Of Sacco and Vanzetti.
IL. Name four well-known pub
lie figures who have been involved
in formal debates on the prohibition
question within the last month.
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BE HAPPY WHEN THEY
ASK WHERE'S MOTHER?
Women Who Really Live Are Those That Toll Beside Their
Husbands and Cudde Babies TO Hearts.

ing to do. when our children will be
able to look after themselves, and
we can settle down and enjoy life.
And by and by when that day final
ly comes, only then do we under
stand that it is bitterest of our exist
ence.
For no matter how hard you may
work or how difficult seems your
particular task, think upon the fact
that only woman really lives who tolls
beside her husband and cuddles a
baby to her heart. The rest of them
only play at life.
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Her HOPES DESTROYED

90 discouraged don't know what to
do. / am an only daughter am 10
years old. Two years ago my mother
died At the time | was Just ready to
go away to college and even had my
clothes ready. Mothers death changed
everything.
had TO give up all my plans as my
father and brothers have needed me at
home. | really don't mind doing for them.
but ] am so disappointed because " seems
like I will never have a chance to do any
thing that amounts to anything. ! cry
almost every night. but ! wouldn't let
father know. nor my little brothers.
ERNESTINE.
Why Ernestine, you're doing some
thing that amounts to a tremendous
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of Uniting :
Copyright. 1920

For perfect tinting of dainty I'M
Iderwear, dresses, etc, the easiest way
and by far the best way--is the
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Real dyes will get such smooth
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Diamond dyes do a perfect. pro
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Beauty You Stop
3 ToLook At

If there is anything in this world
lovelier than e. head of silkeIl-like
hair, pronounced in it's own color,
and wavy, it is an abundance Of it.
1t is just as easy to have hair like
that as to have any at all. 1t is
not always a gift of nature, that is
true. But it is always possible if
you keep it clean by brushing 1t
with a few dashes of Danderine.
Shampooing alone can not remove
the dandruff and that oily film which
keeps it dull.
Make it habit to use little Dan
derine on your brush every time you
fix your hair, and you will always
have soft, lovely, beautiful locks. A
million women are doing it, and as
fast as those who are still strug-
Cling with coarse, dull, lifeless hair,
learn about the marvellous things
Danderine is doing, they can not
keep back their enthusiasm.
Just one thing to be sure Of. Use
a stiff brush and draw it through
the hair with long, even strokes
clear to the scalp so each strand
becomes alive and glowing. 1t will
help to keep in your waves.
Danderine is so inexpensive. too.
The 35c bottle contains enough to
show you how wonderful it is. You
can get it from your nearest store.
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Daughters of the wealthy and so.
cialIy eminent Du Pont family up
ON whom Cupid recently has put
his mark! Miss Victorine Du Pont
upper, has announced her en-
gagement to Ebert Dent of Chest
nut Hill, Pa. After an eIOpement,
Elizabeth Frances Du POnt Qower)
has become Mrs. Richard ID. Nor
gan. She is the daughter of Philip
Du POnt, and, like Victorine, halls
from Wilmington, Del. Dent is a
Social Registerite while Frances
husband is salar-ied employee of
the Bell Telephone Company.
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Feelin' very .much at home.
Thank you. That's Harry Bason,
pianist, now with the Royal Pea
cock Orchestra at the Colonial
Bason lives here.