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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-30
STATE OF MARYLAND
STATE ROADS COMMISSION
SEALED PROPOSALS for building
one section of State Highway,

SEALED PROPOSALS for building
one section of State Highway.
as follows:
Cecil County. Cont. Ce-9-A. One
T. Section of State Highway from
Porter's Bridge to Rising Sun,
distance of 3.75 miles. (Con-
crete Shoulders.)
will be received by the State Roads
Commission, at its Offices. sol Gar
rett Building, Baltimore. Maryland,
until IL M. on the 10th day of April,
1928, at which time and place they
will be publicly opened and read.
Bids must be made upon the
blank proposal form which, with
specifications and plans will be
furnished by the Commission upon
application AND cash payment Of
sl.00. as hereafter no charges will
be permitted.
No bids will be received unless
accompanied by a certified check for
the sum of Five Hundred (s5OO)
Dollars, payable to the State Roads
Commission.
The successful bidder Will be re-
CURED to give bond, and comply
with the Acts Of the General
Assembly of Maryland, respecting
contracts.
BY order of the State Roads Com
mission this 2Srd day of March
1928.
L. H. STEUART, J. N. MACKALL.
Secretary. Chairman.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-30
THE NEWSPAPER AND POLITICS

s'In Russia, Italy and Roumania
today we find the same kind OF rela-
lions between politicians and news
papers that used to exist in this
country" said Royal j. Davis, of the
editorial staff of the New York Eve
ming Post. in his lecture at st. Johns
College, Annapolis, on THE News
paper and Politics." I'VE for in
stance that something is happening
to Bratiano in Roumania, but the
press can't find out just what it is.
In this country, however, the mod
ern politician no longer fears news
papermen. Roosevelt was an out
standing example of the man in pub
lie life who uses the press to get his
ideas across to the people. Gov.
Smith Of New York does the same.
President Coolidge. however, when
he wanted the reporters to state only
approval of the administrators poll
icy in foreign affairs, showed the old
time fear of publicity.
Under such conditions" Mr..
Davis went on to say, Newspaper
men acquire a stock of information
which they don tprint, but none OF
it is of national Importance. II any
of them, for example, had known of
the oil scandal, that would have got
ten into the papers.
The influence exerted by newspap-
ers, Mr.. Davis said, was because
most Of what the majority Of the
people knew about any public cues
ton they have learned from the
newspapers, whether the subject is
socialism, the tariff. Muscle Shoals,
political personalities or political
events. This shows the Important
effect of newspapers on the know
ledge and the action of the citizens
in democracy.
"Most Newspapers, = Mr.. Davis
said, would rather sacrifice popu-
larity than integrity.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-30

s. Scott Beck, State Senator from
Kent County, has announced his can
didacy for Congress from the First
Maryland District. This makes
three candidates in field for the
Democratic nomination from the
First District, which comprises the
nine counties of the Eastern Shore.
The other two candidates are T. Al
Ian Goldsborough, the present Rep
resentative, and J. H. c. Legg, form
er state Senator from Queen Anne's
county. The three candidates are
subject to the Democratic primary
on May 9TH.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-30

Older people like to yell. occasion
ally. too, but they have no excuse
for it as college boys have.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-30

Pleasure trips are not as delight
full as the anticipation of them was
but the recollection is more so,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-30

A set Of resolutions adopted at q
mass meeting are not so greatly
alarming except to a politician.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-03-30

That's negE one on me-" said
the monkey as he scratched his back.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Ways of Achieving Fame.

COME people, to paraphrase the old
~ adage, are born famous, some
achieve fame and some have fame
thrust upon them. There Is still an
other variety that goes out and dragS
fame in by the heels. That is how
Marion Harris, who is known across the
continent through the double medium
of monograph records and Keith vaude-
vile, got hers.
Early in life" said Miss Harris, who
is headlining at Keiths, II learned that,
so far as was concerned, to get things
that wanted and to make progress in
my chosen profession, I must depend
upon myself alone. had lots of OBJ
stacles In the first place, my mother
didn't want me to do anything con-
nected with the theater, but was de-
termined, so I just picked up what
training I could by myself. Not that
I'm under any illusions about my vocal
projections"
"Then," she continued, IT had to get
out and land job. I'll never forget
that first job. was just IA, rather big
for my age, and home from school for
the Christmas holidays. We were living
in Chicago, and I saw a sign In front
of a shabby picture theater that a
singer was wanted. I knew they'd
n2ver give me a chance in my pigtails
and short dresses, SO I went to store
where I knew my mother had charge
account and bought complete outfit
of groWn-up clothes.
And then I applied for the job, tell
ing them I was 10. I was hired at the
stupendous sum of $40 a week. And
that was the beginning of my stage
career"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

THE confirmation of the deal where
by Warner Brothers have taken
over the interests of the Stanley Co.
of America makes certain the fact that
the many theaters of the Stanley
Crandall chain in Washington are TO
feel the effect of a new controlling
hand but thus far details are lacking
and probably will remain so, at least,
for a time.
First National Pictures Corporation is
now constructing four sound stages"
at an estimated cost of half million
dollars, and A. Rocket has gone TO
New York to engage three stage direc-
tors to supervise the manufacture OF
"talkies" for that corporation. Mean
while, Warner Brothers, who already
have absorbed the Stanley Co. Of
America are dickering for control of
First National.
One possibility looms in the present
attitude of foreign producers towards
American motion pictures and it is that
American producers may be forced to
manufacture a better literary quality
of picture than they have been doing
recently There is more or less mum
bling that in their mad haste to make
sound pictures they have permitted the
quality OF their silent drama to de-
teriorate Certainly the sound pictures
that have reached Washington thus far
do not begin to match the quality of
the silent pictures that have preceded
them.
After nearly so years in the theatrical
| field, Sylvester Pol has now announced
his permanent retirement, and Offices
of the chain of Poll theaters which he
sold to William Fox have been removed
to New York.
Meyer Davis has been appointed gen.
eral manager of music for the Poll
chain of theaters recently purchased by
Fox. 1t includes 20 theaters in New
England.
Camera work is to be started in
| October on THE Desert Song" which
is to be Vitaphoned through with Roy
Del Ray directing. 1t will be the first
Vitarhone operetta.
"T:lree Week Ends" a screen original
ly written by Elinor Glyn, has been def
nitely selected by Paramount as Clara
| Bows next assignment. Production is
| scheduled to begin within few days.
| First National is collecting stock
of gondolas for Milton Sills' next star
ring picture, to be called The Comedy
of Life" 1t is laid in Venice. Alexan-
| der Korda will direct.
"Hells Angels" the road-show super
of the air which Howard Hughes Is
producing and said to be the first mo-
ton picture to employ both color and
sound effects, will have a world pre-
miere in New York City in December.
1.-The Thirtieth Day of October" q
! story of the Russian revolution, is tc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Tattoo Man Breaks In.

EvEN the tattoo experts have crashed
into the pictures; at least one OF
them has.
In THE River Pirate" Fox Films
production directed by William K
Howard. the leading role is played by
Victor McLaglen as Sailor Frink, a
hard boiled son of the sea who goes
wrong, lands in reformatory, and
when he is released becomes river
pirate, with pal to whom he became
attached while both were behind the
bars.
McLaglen's character called for IL
different designs, ships, hearts, ladies
and the like, to be tattooed on him and
while Howard did not go so far as to
ask for real tattooing, ho did insist on
a real tattooer, so lower Main street in
Los Angeles, where the sailors from
the fleets visit, was called on to fur
niSh its best.
Thus, Sailor Harvey, who modestly
claims the distinction of the world S
best tattoo expert" resolved the as
signment, and for three weeks he put
on the tattoos in the morning and
took them off at night, repeating the
process each day.
The job proved so much to his lik-
ing that when 1t was done Sailor
Harvey sold his shop and now has
Joined the throng of fame seekers at
the gates of Hollywood studios.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Receive Honor Medals.

SYMBOLIzING their directoria
achievements in producing the
outstanding pictures of the 1927 sea-
son at the Paramount Theater, New
York medals of honor in gold and sill
YER have just been awarded to Josef
Won Sternberg and Clarence Badger.
Jesse L.. LaSkey. first vice president
in charge of production, personally
made the presentations on behalf of the
Paramount amous-Lasky Corporation
Won Sternberg's medallion. cast in
solid gold, memorialiZes the selection of
his production, underworld" as the
most successful picture shown at the
Paramount Theater during the 1927
season.
Badgers medal, of pure silver, is a
token OF the success of "It," which
ranked second in the 1927 tabulation
made by the judges, Jesse L. Lasky,
S. r. Kent, general manager of the
corporation. and Sam Katz. president
of Publix Theaters.
The awards were based on the terms
OF the contest as announced in 1925:
Quality of production, cost and direc-
torial contribution to the finished pic
ture. Behind this award is the idea of
continued and increased excellence of
Paramount'S week-byweek product
the program pictures from which the
theater-going public gets its chief en-
tertainment
Cash bonuses of $4,000 to Won
Sternberg and $4,000 to Badger pre-
viouSly were awarded by the company
A third medal. symbolizing the third
place award, won by Hotel Imperial. ~
Will be forwarded to Mauritz Stiller,
who directed this Pola Negri success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
BY CECIL b. DE MILE.

MOT merely the size and methods of
presenting movies by radio in the
home will prevent them from being a
serious competitor of the great palaces
of amusement found in every city today,
but the psychology of the theater as
against that of the home will continue
to keep patrons flocking to the former
The radio has not cut down the pat
ronage of the Hollywood Bowl or the
Metropolitan Opera House. On the
same principle first-class screen enter
tainment at the theater will always far
excel that which can be presented in
the home.
The psychology of seeing a work of
entertainment in company with a large
number of people heightens the emo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
About Radio Movies.

tional reactions and the undoubted SUI
periority of professional presentation in
the theater with all the concomitants
of beauty and art, is an additional fac
tor that will keep the theaters in sue
cessful operation.
The difference between seeing movies
via radio in the home and in the theater
may be compared to the difference be-
tween seeing woman in sackcloth and
ashes and seeing the same woman in
the beauty of evening attire with all the
feminine allure of which the modern
woman is capable of surrounding her
self.
Radio movies will undoubtedly have
great home uses but in the nature of
things they cannot replace the attrac-
ton of mass entertainment under pro-
fesSional management.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Burton Holmes Returns.

RURTON HOLMES, whose perennial
pilgrimages have taken him into
every corner of the globe, and who for
many years has been the pied piper to
countless thousands of stay-at-home
tourists, has returned from a sojourn
in Spain. where he was accorded I'M
usual privileges to make pictures-both
still and motion.
He feels that the tourist as we'll as
the lecturegoer should know about this
land of contrasting shades and colors,
with its fascinating history and its
present-day mixture of ancient, medic
val and modern architecture, and to
that end he proposes to reveal it to
them through the medium of his pic
lures and his international descrip-
tons.
Mr. Holmes Winter course of travel
revues will consist of the following
topics: Madrid and Northern Spain, "
Seville and Southern SPAIN" Motor
ing Through France From Biarritz to
Deauville," "The Irish Free State" and
siam, the Land of Chang"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
News and Comment
BY w. II. LANDNOIGT.

| ly protested by Germany, and when an
nouncement was made that it had been
secured for exhibition in America near
ly all the big American producing and
distributing corporations declined TO
have anything to do with 1t. The Mo-
ton Picture Guild, however, now an
nounces that the unhistoric defects Of
the picture have been eliminated and
that it has since then been shown both
in England and Germany without OBJ
lection With the lcading countries of
the world declaring for the elimination
of war from their national policies, it is
questionable that this revival of one of
its most unpleasant incidents is justified
by any other reason than that of money
making. an industry for which the
movies are famous. However, this is
supposed to be free country. and pic
ture patrons must decide for themselves
whether or not it is profitable. even by
suggestion, to revive memories of a
time when the world knew its greatest
bitterness in thought and opinion. even
for the purpose of entertainment
THE World War, strange to say.
l. seems to have obsessed movie pro-
ducers and their story writer's, who,
when they do not make out-and-out war
stories, utilize the war as background
for their romanceS. The current weeks
bills Illustrate this in an unusual degree.
However. the movie patronage has to be
thrilled in one way or another and war
is at least a fine thing to stir up the
emotions and chase the cold shudders
down the backbone. Nearly all the pic
lures come highly heralded some of
them with prominent stars, male and
female; only it is to be recommended
that those who go to see them will even
then endeavor to remember that the
American Secretary of State has just
returned from 'war-torn Europe" after
a prodigious effort to get the theme Of
war out of the international mind. This
is most important, because with presi-
dental election near at hand and both
big parties lined up in warlike array the
incentive to do dire deeds is not very
far in the background.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Sir Phillip Gibbs Story.

CIR PHILLIP GIBBS, author of "Out
- of the Ruins" Richard Barthel-
mess new First National picture, which
will be seen here this week, Is one of
the most noted of British authors and
war correspondents. Aside from his
novels and many short stories, he has
written some Of the most authoritative
material on the World War.
"Out of the Ruins" is declared highly
dramatic, and 1t said contains one Of the
most poignant love stories ever con-
ceived. BarthelmesS has pretty Marion
Nixon as his leading woman, and she
makes decidedly beautiful French
girl.
John Francis Dillon, who directed
"Out of the Ruins" paid particular at
tention to the French atmosphere,
especially in scenes in Paris and in the
cafes and homes of the denizens of the
great METROPOLIS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Exit Boyish Figures.

FLAT chests, slim hips and boyish
outlines for girls are on the way
out, judging from survey Of the girls
on the Mack Sennett lot. The famous
producer of comedies for Pathe IS &C
counted judge of feminine beauty sec
ond to none, and the way he picks them
has a great influence not so much on
what girls will wear, as what they will
wear them on.
Pictures of Sennett's first bathing
girls of IL years ago are still eXtant
and are of interest to those who ap-
preciate that not only do the styles of
feminine dress change rapidly but the
feminine figure also. Those pioneer
ne-piece- bathing beauties had
what might be termed liberal charms.
There was nothing scanty about them.
Curves, curves. curves; not so much on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

the elliptical order as on the arc. They
were truly 'eyeflling.
But Sennett senses a change in beauty
styles before the public has had its fill
of the old. Like Alexander Pope, he
believes
BE not the first by whom the new is
tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside
While the rather hefty darlings still
rode the waves of popularity, Sennett
was picking them on simmer lines and
before the public had walked up to the
momentous move, the Sennett girls
were 100 per cent boyish in figure, sill
houettes so to speak. AS goes Sennett
SO goes the haute monde of feminine
beauty.
But the pendulum swings Plumpness
is no longer a liability but an asset
The word is going around, curves are
coming back, for Sennett says So"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Cats in Honeymoon

THE high price of cats has been Civ
ing the Metro-G oldwyn- Mayer
Honeymoon" company serious concern.
In fact, they have discovered that the
felines used in the picture are quite as
expensive as the human actors.
Ordinarily one would expect that a
few dozen cats would be the cheapest
article in the world to procure, but
such is far from the truth. The great
majority of the felines take one look at
the Kleig lights and go looking for cor
ners to hide in. For that reason a
cat with "stage presence" Is worth at
the very least $35 day, and possibly
as much as $3.50 per diem, depending on
the nature of the brute.
AS Flash, the M-G-M dog star, has to
chase a cat--or rather a number Of
cats-through nearly every scene in the
picture, it can easily be seen that the
felines are highly important.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Edith Cavell's Story.

HOLLYWOOD'S film colony is &C.
cu5tomed to seeing all kinds of
sights and unusual scenes in the pro-
duction of movies. But the rest of the
world is not. Therefore it is not sur
prising that the populance of Brussels
Belgium. gazed in fear and consterna-
ton when they saw 5000 field-gray-
clad German soldiers marching through
the main streets.
When word was carried. however
that the troops were only movie actors
about to engage in the production of
the film Dawn" the citizens cheered
tons.
The presence of the mock troops in
Brussels was occasioned by the decision
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

of Herbert Wilcox. the British producer
to film the dramatic story of Edith
Cavell on the actual historical loca-
tons. Wilcox brought to Belgium an
army of camera and technical experts
actors and truckloads of studio fixtures
in order to shoot his scenes on the very
spots where Nurse Cavell enacted that
part of her life which has gone down
in history.
In writing of the filming of Dawn"
a special correspondent of the London
Sunday Express, cabled his Office a
rather thrilling account. He said:
Mime. Bodart in the picture plays
the part she really enacted in real life,
for she was Nurse Cavell's chief helper
up to the time of the latter's execu-
ton"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Solemn Ceremony Shown.

THE Shabbas ritual given every FRI
day evening in orthodox Jewish
homes furnishes one of the dramatic
ally impressive sequences in John Gill
bert's new picture, -Four Walls"
Gilbert plays the role of Jewish boy
who becomes gangster. In a brawl in
a Greenwich Village night club he
shoots man and is sent to Sing Sing
for four years.
He is released on Friday and goes
Immediately to his home. There his
mother welcomes him lust at the din
ner hour and they 90 through the
simple but ancient Shabbas ceremony.
1t has never before been filmed for a
motion picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
A Genius for Inner Sense.

CERGIUS NJ EISENSTEIN, director
~ of "Potemkin," who was recently
signed by Joseph M. Schenck to make
a picture for United Artists has made
another masterpiece in THE General
Line" which is now being released in
Berlin by Derussa, which is represented
in this country by the Affiliated Euro
pean Producers. Inc.
Ernst jaeger, editor of the Berlin Film
kurrier, makes the following comment
on the director of this film:
mo one on earth, no producer, no
production manager, no director. has as
Eisenstein the inner sense Of the film
of today"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
FILMOGRAMS

be Billie Doves next picture for First
National. Its locale is Russia and Paris.
and it was written by Lajos BRO. Hun
garian author, and Alexander Korda.
director.
Lucien Hubbard will direct "Thc
Mysterious Island" which is an adapta-
ton of Jules Vernes imaginative story,
and underwater scenes. which alreao.
have been made off the Bahama Il.
lands by a special camera expedition
The cast includes James Murray
Jacqueline Gadsdon, Lionel Barrymor,
Snitz Edwards and Montague Love.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

Next Week $ Photoplays
COLUMBIA-Emil Jannings
in 1.-THE Patriot"
EARLE - Mary Philbin in
Victor Hugo's 1.-THE Man
Who Laughs"
FOX-"Four Sons"
METROPOLITAN - Lights
of New York"
PALACE-Jack Holt in THE
Water Hole"
LITTLE THEATER - Ufa's
production, Frederick the
Great"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

From pajamas to palpitating pictures
is the brief history of Camilla Horn
who plays opposite John Barrymore ir
Tempest" Miss Horn wanted career
on the stage, so she made some pajamas
and sold them to a store that wanted
all she could supply. Money obtained
from her sewing tided her over until
her chance came. Moral, las you sew
so shall you reap"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
Karl Browns Next.

X ARL BROWN, who has been signed
by Columbia to make THE Wild
cat has just finished spending six
months doing research work in the
South Seas for an undersea film he ex-
poets to make soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

T INDER the auspices of the Moving
Picture Guild Washington is to see
also the film production called Dawn"
which purports to unfold the life story
of Edith Cavell, the English nurse who
was executed by the German military
authorities during the World War. This
picture as originally produced. was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16

John Howard Lawson, author of
Professional" Loud Speaker" and
other expressionist plays, has been
placed under contract by Metro Gold
wynn Mayer. and will join that COM
pany's scenario department at its West
coast studio.