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New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
One Man Dies Following
 Blaze in New Haven Home

New Haven. March CUP) - One death has resulted from the fire here Saturday night in which three persons were overcome. James H. Clerkin, 75, died last night from the effects of smoke.
 The blaze gutted his home here, damage being estimated at about S5,o0o. His sister. Julia Clorkin. still was in hospital today in critical condition. A third sister. Margaret Clerkin, was slightly in jured.
 The three were trapped on the top floor Of their Humphrey street home and firemen had to battle through the smoke filled stairways to rescue them.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
POLICE USE TEAR GAS ON STUDENTS
Michigan Basketball Enthusiasts Dispersed After Clash

Ann Arbor. Mich, March s LP)--
 University of Michigan students and ocal residents. celebrating Michi- ,an's winning of the Big Ten basketball title here last night. dashed with police who were forced
 0 use tear gas to disperse the crowd of jubilant fans.
 The crowd estimated at 800 per tons attempted to rush two down. Town theaters. The police, antici- Dating such q move, were on guard ind succeeded in routing the youths. The crowd gathered first about The Arcade theater After being Sarned off by the authorities there, t moved on down to the Majestic heater. There determined rush Eas made. As the youths, yelling Ind hooting charged the entrance. q fpecial detail' of police appeared and Fas showered with missiles,
 The fight continued for about an hour when the youths finally were Iriven from the section and dis persed.
 Three persons, two students and
 local resident, were slightly in pred during the fracas and a num- Ter of other persons suffered Temporarily from the gas fumes. Merchants in the battle sector sere forced to close their establish nents because of the reeking fumes.
 The police who made no arrests, ,eported that no property damage Fas done and announced that the natter would be looked on as d losed incident. University Of Mich gan officials had no comment to Fhake.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08

safety pin closer, operated through bronchoscope. The broncho- scope is q small. straight metal tube, inserted through the mouth It has a tiny electric bulb at the end and breathing holes near the end. Through it the operator can look inside the stomach or lungs, or operate safety pin closers, for cepts or other instruments for hand ling small objects. X broncho- scope for a baby is hardly larger than a straw.
 Dr. Jackson's records show that formerly 90 per cent of the chil- dren who got hard foreign objects into their stomachs or lungs. died, Today 9S per cent of the
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
WRITES EXCLUSIVE BOOK

New York, March 8 (UP)-An author who does notNwant his book 10 be bought has been found.
 According to an announcement to- day by George II. Doran, publisher Col Thomas Edward Lawrence, "uncrowned king of Arabia" is so anxious to prevent his "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" from becoming public that a limited edition. for American consumption, will cost
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08

patients live. He has found tacks, whistles, jackstones, buttons, and scores of other small objects in the lungs and stomachs Of children. Recently he removed q glass bead from the right bronchus of the five year old son Of missionary. brought to him 12,O00 miles from India.
 Dr. Jackson is professor of bron- choscopy and esophagoscopy at lief ferson Medical College and tn, postgraduate school of Pennsylva- nia University. He was awarded q S10,000 prize offered by Edward W. Box for the person who shall have performed or contributed a service calculated to advance tho best and largest interest in Philadelphia"
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08

formed painful gas and swelled ! stomach as tight as drum.
 Dull headaches that hammeret at my forehead hung on for day at time. And often l would haS, dizzy spells when everything in iron of me would blur. My nerves wer in such shape I could not sleep Lets not talk about it. For 1t is il the past. A bad memory l now enjoy good health, eat everything without sign Of pain. My nervrf are calm. I recommend Tanlac tt anyone seeking good health"
 Tanlac, made from roots, bark: and herbs. relieves suffering cleanses the system, restore, strength. Get your first bottle to. day from your druggist. Over in million bottles sold.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08

dress both in business and on social occasions. Even stubborn, unruly or shampooed hair stays combed all day in any style you like Hair Groom" is greascles : also helps grow thick, heavy, lustrous hair.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
BOILED BY \ KISS

Brockton, Mass, March 8 UP)- Kisses frustrated hold-up here.
 When a bandit entered his store and demanded money. Sam Adelman became so excited that he kissed him on the check.
 The hold-up man was so surprised
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
s2O.O00 a cpoy.

S-V,VVV a Cp0y.
 Lawrence. who tells in his book of leading an army Of Arab tribes men during the World War, doesn't want his heroism exploited; hence the high price to be charged
 An edition of 50 copies. much cheaper, is being issued in England. To prevent pirating the book in America the author has arranged to publish and copyright it here to prevent his story becoming widely known. Twenty copies will be issued.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
Cooper Relieved of Serious Trouble
Father of 5 Children Suffering From Indigestion. Nervousness. Rundown Condition Rcgeins Good Health. Takes T~-'cc.

"1'anlac made m, feel Ii k c my olC self once again says Samuel Coope l520 Lake avenu Rochester. N. Y, blacksmith h wit New York stree Railway and fathe of q large mil. For years I suffe ed from indigestio Food that at,
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08

night and three pairs of shoes valued at s9, taken. The officer found that someone had gone into the cellar through an unlocked door and had drilled number of holes close to the sliding bolt in the trap door leading into the store. The holes permitted hand to go through and unfasten the bolt, the officer reported.
New Britain herald., 1927-03-08
"HAIR.cRooh"
Keeps Hair Conbed, Glossy
 Nell-Groolned all Day

air-Groom" Is q 1ignifed comb ing cream which costs only a few cents q jar al any drugstore. Millions use it because it gives that natural gloss and we'll groomci effect to the hair - that f. nal touch to good
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
In the. Movies Now

THE scope of the movie as a dra.
matte medium has won another
distinguished recruit from the speak
ing stage in Sam Forrest, late general
stage director Of Sam H. Harris, who
has been signed to five-year con-
tract with Famous Players.Lasky.
Forrest has been In the theatrical
profession for IS years, as call boy,
property man, actor, director. play
doctor" and dramatist, and during
the past II years he has revised,
adapted and staged most of the big
hits of the former firm of Conan q
Harris and the present Sam H. Har-
ris Co.
II am convinced that the motion
picture now holds more stimulating
work for the man with imagination
than does the legitimate stage" says
Forrest. There Is no limit to the
type or scope of stories used for
screen material. and they can be sub
jected to a wide variety of treatment
There are no four.wali restrictions.
In the movies you can go anywhere. /"
Others who have been enticed lately
by screen opportunities include Owen
Davis. Bayard WELLER and Alfred
Savoir. all OF whom are in the see
mario department. of the Paramount
Long Island studio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

She rode to America on the crest
of "Variety's" wave of success; since
then, she has slumped rapidly, as
result of her poor showing in THE
Sorrows of Satan and The Prince
of Tempters."
Other highly touted foreign stars
and directors who have fallen by the
wayside are Sigrid Holmquist, Lothar
Mendes. Dimitri BuchowetZki, Charles
de Roche. e. A. Dupont, Svend Gade
and Benjamin Christensen. s..
All these had previously won vic
tories on their. home grounds.
Indeed. aside from Lubitsch, Victor
Seastrom Is the only one of the ar
tistic immigrants who has really made
substantial progress. Two of his
American pictures, He Who Gets
Slapped" and 1.-THE Scarlet Letter"
have been notably successful.
Two of the greatest of the cont.
nentals-Emil Jannings, the star, and
F. w. Murnau, the director of THE
Last Laugh"-have lately arrived In
California, and their activities there
should be matters Of consuming inter
est to those who like to keep an eye
on the silent drama.
Jannings, with Passion, "Decep-
ton THE Loves of Pharaoh" THE
Last Laugh" Variety and many
other triumphs behind him, is now at
the Paramount studio working in n
picture called "The Man God Forgot"
The story for this was written by
Bruce Barton, but aside from that
your correspondent is ignorant of the
details.
Murnau is at the Fox studio. apply
ing the finishing touches to Sunrise"
triangle drama of a humble peasa MT,
his wife and a Turing lady from the
great metropolis. The three char
acters in question are played by
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor and
Margaret Livingstone.
Some of the still pictures of Sun
rise" have struggled to my attention
and 1t seems, from them, that Murnau
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
nv CONSTANCE TALMADGE.


NIF nature had not made US a little
frivolous we should be most
wretched, -. / look upon soiemnity
as a disease"
Now, of course. Voltaire said that,
and he said It as no one else has been
able to say 1t, so I have taken 1t for
my motto. / think the most exhila-
rating thing in the world is to make
some one who is sad laugh. 1t isn't
easy, but it's wonderful. Try 1t.
France appreciated this when she
decorated the Fratellini Trio with the
Legion Of Honor. These clowns have
tambledr all over Europe for years and
have made people split their sides and
cause tears of mirth to stream down
their cheeks. They are loved in every
country in which they have appeared.
France, suddenly approaching them
as soldiers of happiness. gave all three
of the Fratellini brothers the cross Of
the Legion of Honor.
In the government order, raising
these three clowns to this singular
dignity. the. minister of the interior
wrote: 4 congratulate you heartily
in the name Of all the little children
of Paris, whose JOY you are, and also
in the name of their fathers, those
other big children, whom we call
men"
/ have never been able to get over
childish delight in watching clowns.
They seem so brave in giving all their
enthusiastic energy In trying to make
vast audience laugh. I heard this
Summer a story about clown that
touched me. Years ago, every Christ
mastime, Joey. the famous English
clown, appeared in a. pantomime at
the old Covert Garden Theater. One
Christmas they decided not to give the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
The Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT e. SHERWOOD.

WHEN the foreign invasion of the
American screen began, in 1920,
with the presentation of Passion" 1t
was instantly evident to every OBJ
server that certain foreign countries
Germany, in particularly had some
thing to teach us in the production of
motion pictures.
The films that followed revealed
the talent of Pola Negri Ernst
Lubitsch, Emil Jannings and many
others-and while the celluloid in
vasion itself petered out it's results
became markedly apparent.
American producers, with their vast
resources, were able to lure foreign
directors and stars to this country
using as bait financial offers that may
we'll be described as tempting"
Dozens of European artists have
journeyed across the seas to Holly
wood, and it is possible, now, to
check up on their subsequent
progress.
A glance at the records of these
continental celebrities since they ar
rived in America shows that most of
them have done none too we'll in COM
petition with our homegrown boys
and girls.
Ernst Lubitsch, of course, has ac-
COIiIllSiCu NoHQCIS. w lth ITO Mai
riage Circle kiss Me Again.
Lady Windermere's Fan" and other
high comedies, he has managed TO
augment the fame that he achieved
in Germany. He is now, unquestion-
ably, one of the five greatest directors
lin America, or anywhere else.
4 X X X
Pola Negri, the foremost of the
foreign stars, has not been so fortu-
nate. She has made many pictures
since she set foot on these hospitable
shores, but not one of them Except
Forbidden Paradise") can be COM
pared TO Passion" Gypsy Blood or
others of her German-made films
Miss Negri herself has managed to
keep up to her own high standard of
effectiveness, but her surroundings
have been unworthy. A series of
feeble pictures has undermined her
popularity to a great extent.
X X
Lya de Putt is bound to be elimi-
mated as a box-office attraction unless
something radical is done to enliven
her professional career.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

frequently than To- stars or directors.
Douglas Fairbanks and John Barry.
more were famous before they ever
entered the movies; but Mary Pick
ford, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd.
James Cruze. y. W. Griffith. Lillian
Gish, King NidOr, Gloria Swanson.
John Gilbert and almost all the other
great ones started to bloom, for the
first time. when exposed 10 the Cali
fOrnia sun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

has at least managed to equip the film
with some extraordinarily interesting
backgrounds.
X
1t is strange fact that few of the
men and women who have approached
Hollywood with regulations have &C
complished anything in the Citadel of
the Cinema.
This applies to authors even more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

The public service and educational
department of the Stanley randall
Theaters, under Mrs. Harriet Hawley
Locher, has brought to this city from
the New York Libraries of the fore
most producers in America many Of
the outstanding photoplay productions
of the past. which are making a posi-.
tive appeal to the amusement instinct
of a rising generation that was not
of SUFFICIENT age to appreciate these
showings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
What Laughter Means

paritomime, but to put on a play in
stead. There was no Joey on the
stage that Christmas. The following
year the pantomime was given again
and Joey. who had never spoken a
word on the stage, came on at that
first performance and said, Here we
are again.
The entire performance was stopped,
the audience cheered, yelled itself
hoarse, created q furore just to let
Joey know how happy they were to
have him back.
1 decided to become coincidence
long before I realized what serious
ambition 1t was. know now that
one of the greatest things today is
laughter. not cynical, derisive laugh
ter, but the Joyous. free laughter that
has health In 1t. ] did not know that
then, of course. I only felt 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Sensational Success"
CABLE received by S. r. Ken

A CABLE received by S. r. Kent
general manager of Famous
Players-Lasky Corporation, reports
the unprecedented success scored by
Pola Negri in Hotel Imperial on
the Paramount pictures premiere in
Berlin last week.
Never in film history has any film
received such wonderful criticisms, =
the cable declares. This picture win
not only be a big business success,
but will be a great asset for the
whole film industry in Central Eu'
rope"
Similar reports have been received
from Sweden, the home of the diree.
tor, Mauritz Stiller, one of the popular
European directors now in this coun.
try, and the exhibitors of Scandinavia,
Germany and Central Europe are
showing a keen desire to present at
an early date what promises to be
the outstanding box office achieve.
ment of the new year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Photoplays at Washington Theaters This Week


llII1 M WY III " SA
Paint" Sennett
comedy, Spotlight,
variety reel. serial:
Olive Borden in
Three Bad Men.
Marian Nixon iin
"Spangles.
Imperial comedy
and serial
Betty Bronson in .
"Everybody's Acting,
Imperial comedy
and serial.
Mat. Ranger the Dog
in FLAMING Fury
Night. Lloyd Hughes
in Forever After
oIlUd VI dS
in
"Aloma of the South
Seas
Edward Everett
Horton In
Taxi. Taxi. "
Glenn Try0n comedy.
Buck Jones in
THE FLYING Horse
man Charlie Chase
comedy. Serial. ...--
The Country Beyond"
with Olive Borden.
Sport series.
The Collegians '
Tom Mix in
"Tony Runs Wild.
Our Gang comedy
and serial:
Tom Mix in
"T'ony Runs Wild
Mary Pickford In
"Lovelight, "
"Bill Grimm's Prog
ress" series.
Pauline Frederick in
Her Honor the
Governor"
Pathe News Comedy
Tom Mix in
TONY Runs Wild, ="
Our Gang comedy
and serial.
| Buster Keator in
Battling Butler
"Scotty of the Scouts, y
! serial and comedy.
| No picture
scheduled.
Betty Bronson In =.
"Everybody's Acting. "
Our Gang" comedy.
Serial.
Viola Dana
in
Kosher Kitty Kelly
Comedy.
| Madge Bellamy
In
1.-THE Golden Strain,
Our Gang comedy.
Buck Jones in
Gentle Cyclone.
Bill Grimm's Prog
ress. !" Comedy.
/ Peter the Great in
king of the Pack, "
Lloyd Hamilton
comedy.
Ranger in
Flaming Fury
Biil Grimm's Prog
resS. ~ Comedy.
Rin-Tin-Tin in
while London
Sleeps" Neal Burns
comedy. Serial.
George O'Brien
THE Blue Eagle. "
Alice Day comedy.
Serial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

The Miami Beach Woman's Club,
says Film Daily, lin an effort to coun-
teract what is termed the silly atti-
tude' which women's clubs have taken
toward Charles Chaplin has petit
toned local exhibitors to show all
pictures that feature the comedian.
Mrs. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, its
president, is quoted as saying ''the
patrons of picture theaters viii be the
loser IL Chaplin's films are barred"
Armand CorteZ, who has been in
1.-The American Venus" THE Palm
Beach Girl" and The Ace of Cads,"
has been cast as the Rat" one of
q band of jewel thieves, in Ed Wynn's
first film comedy, Rubber Heels. ="
AS a correspondence school detective
Wynn will try to foil the evil machi-
nations of these crooks.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-27
BRAVE WOMAN
RESCUESPICKET
In STRIKE WAR

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, May 23.
An aged colored American woman
was the heroine of a strike war
that occurred at the Mascot Stove
Works here late Saturday afternoon.
Going through the bullet swept
street near the plant, where no one
else dared to venture, the woman
picked up a wounded white man
and carried him to safety and dress
ed his wounds. The woman's hero
ism is said to have prevented the
man from bleeding to death from
Is buckshot wounds in his chest.
Strikers who were adversed to
open shop rules, which were being
carried on in spite of them with
imported help, started an attack up
on the plant. They exchanged hun
dreds of shots with pickets during
which nearly every window in the
plant was shattered and automobiles
parked in the vicinity were perforat-
ed. The white man, an unarmed
picket, was wounded as he fled from
the plant. For many minutes he
lay in the streets slowly bleeding
to death as his friends and workers
exchanged shots with the strikers.
No one dared venture out to give
the man aid until the colored, wo-
man in a house close by, moved by
pity, deliberately walked out into
the path of the bullets picked the
wounded man up in her arms and
carried him to the steps of her
home, where she tried to stop the
flow of blood from his head and
his punctured lungs. Doctors ar
rived after the police had quelled
the riot some time later and attend
ed the wounded man. They readily
stated that the colored woman's
prompt and brave action probably
saved his life.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-27

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Clarence
Darrow, champion of the oppressed
launched his local campaign Sunday
at the Metropolitan Opera House,
under the auspices of the N. A. A. c.
p. before an audience which cheered
him repeatedly.
There's a lot Of bunk in this
world"
The Negro race, the Caucasian
race, the Mongolian race, we're all
carelessly dumped into that pile as
part and parcel of that pile of bunk.
There Is, according to Mr.. Darrow
only one race: the human race.
Pure Nordicism was likewise heap
ed upon that pile. The Christianity
OF the controlling heads of the Y.
NJ. c. A. was relegatod to this pile.
II was, on the whole. a most cosmo-
politan bank heap"
The inconsistency Of the white
man keeping the Negro in his
place" and permitting the blacklist
OF Negro governesses to ride in the
best OF Pullmans, provided they had
white babies in their arms, was
pointed out by the speaker. His
theory In this connection was that
the white man did not complain
against associating with the Negro
as long as they could fix the terms.
"The white men Of this country
settled the Indian question by kill
ing them,'t he said They can't
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-27
BLOODY BATTLE
FOUGHT AT ELKS
DINING H ALL

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, May
24.-While score OF business men,
gathered for the weekly membership
luncheon at the Elks club, watched
from the lobby, two colored walters
Monday staged desperate knife
battle in the club dining room.
Both suffered severe wounds, but
will probably live.
The two participants in the brief
but sanguine fray, which tempo
rarily converted the club dining
room into an imitation of a field
hospital. were Bishop Folk. 80, and
william Clay, 20. According to j.
T. Hunter, head waiter. there had
been trouble between the two for
some time, but it never reached the
point of an open quarrel.
At 10:45 o'clock Clay came to
work. He was ten minutes late.
whats the matter?" inquired
Folk. "Ain't you afraid of meeting
yourself coming to work some day
when you're going homer"
Mind your business" said Will
liam.
Further repartee passed until the
matter became serious. Other wait
ers watching the two suddenly saw
a butcher knife in the hand Of Folk
and pocket knife In that OF Clay
Before the bystanders could sep
arate the two, Folk had been slash
ed on the chest, back. head and
arms. Clay had sustained equally
severe cuts on the forehead, arms
and hands.
Members attending the luncheon
were delayed for about fifteen min
utes while the surviving walters
removed the trace of battle. Those
who saw it gave it as their opinion
that Clay was earnest, but that
Folk seemed handler with knife.
Both men, 1t was stated by the
club management, will have to look
for new jobs when they emerge
from the hospital.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-27
BY william Pickens CAMP

Many preachers misrepresent God.
None of us know anything about
him. But the Chicago preacher,
who recently discussed God in rela-
tion TO the Mississippi flood, dis
played the greatest ignorance of all.
when he said:
"God has poured his irresistible
waters over the fields of the south
to punish the white people for their
rnistreatment of the Negro"
Now, this preacher does not de-
serve to be attacked. No preacher
deserves to be attacked. But this
siiperstitious idea does need to be
attacked and destroyed: the foolish
idea that God has any love for His
sis'ippi N,sgroes which he does not
have for Mississippi white people.
Let us see: Eight out of every
ten OF the flood sufferers are col
ored people; in some localities nine
out of every ten. The lowlands OF
the Mississippi Valley are inhabited
mostly by innocent black people.
The fatal flood has swept away from
them everything--but left the white
mans land. The biggest loser is the
Negro. Not only the Flood but the
Red Cross and the Martial Law will
be HIS enemies. and forced labor
will mean black labor. Blacks win
be put to work helping to clear the
white mans property. without wages
or reward. Being poor and home
less they will be yoked with new