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New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
GREAT BRITAIN PAYS

"Perfidious Albion" she is called That is the title that is current or, the continent or in some circles or the continent.
 Hence it is somewhat disconcert- ing to the critical gentry to discover the following among the writings o1 William Allen White. the detached and fair minded editorial pen speaking for the Emporia Gazette in the wheat country To wit.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
BATTLE TO DRAW

New Haven. Jan. IT tIp-Gcorgic Day and Joe Currio, both of this city battlcd 10 draw in the star bout of q professional card here last night which drew crowd of 5000 fans to Inc arena
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

The President of Cuba made speech over the radio to this coun- try yesterday and the only man ln the land who understood 1t was Sen ator Bingham.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

One fifth of the states poru'a ton is expected to drive automoolles in 1928, and they will try to concen- trate on one-tenth of the highways
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

All we have to say about a test mobilization of the national guard ia that 1t must feel like being all dressed up but no place to go.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
Observations On He Weather

Washington, Jan. 17.-Torecast for Southern New England: Fair and slightly colder tonight: We'd nesday partly cloudy: diminishing northwest winds.
 Forecast for Eastern New York:
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

Americans are scornful of the laws provisions" Huh. What about the mother provided by law - the one called a law?
 America nism: Feeling fortunate to have what you have, until you see somebody else with something bet ter
 The reformer's zeal is explained by the fact that he quite naturally thinks you are as mean as he was before he reformed.
 Doubtless the American property needing protection in Nicaragua in- cludes several undertaking establish ments.
 Don't c,lss about an employed $ dulnbness; if he wasn't dumb. he'd have job like yours and not be working for you.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
Careful IMli

Careful Lad! Judge: Why lid you beat up this man."
 Palmer: "He said he didn't like the shape Of my girls proboscis." Judge: Why that means only her nose!"
 Palmer: "Yes. but thought I'd better whip him first and look 1, up in the dictionary afterwards"
 Daniel C. Griffin
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

Patriotism: The conviction that the thermometer on your back porch is the only one that tells the truth.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

All the news stories say President Coolidge got a warm reception III C,ubs. the correspondents proving 1t by doffing their coats.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

The real reason checkers IS more nopular than chess is because checker player moves while chess player thinks.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

The young intellectual is just like other common-sense, practical peo- pie, except that ne thinks it remark able to be that way.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

Msnhes Audit Bsrcsu sf Circulation The \. B. c. is . national organization which furnishes newpapers and adver- tissrs with strictly honest analysis oi circulation Our circulation statistics are t.sed upon this audit. This insures pro- lection against fraud in newspaper d's- tribution figures to both national and local advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
u...., of. th, A,,eelated Press

Neuher of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusivey en- titled to the use for republication of all nsws credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published therein.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

If your boy doesn't believe in fairy tales, don't worry. He may never be a good idealist. bVt at least he won't be an aiienist.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

Happy thought. If there's any thing in evolution. pedestrians will get hard enough to crumple lenders and then drivers will dodge them.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

How pleasant life would be if all jobs were as easy as the other fe.- lows job looks.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

Vanity is the quality that enables a man who has grown bald to feel cheated because his wife has grown stout.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

The only profitable advertising medium h the Csty. Circulation books and press room alWays open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

The Herald is on sale esily in New York at Hotalins's Newsstand, Times Square; schultz's Newsstands. Entrance Grand Central, 42nd Street.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
Facts aadEdncies

It's just as cheap to raise large family. X sedan doesn't cost any more than a sport coupe.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

There are ST women scientists including chemists. zoologists, phy- sicists. botanists and pathologistA employed in government depart- ments at Washington.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
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 CONNECTICUT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Connecticut Was Prepared

In the Connecticut played an import although battles Waged her terfHorS
 of colony amply prepaed than other colony Peftect either to reconstruct Massachusetts, depose the government all the other states
 he Boston after the battle Connecticut under Israel Putnam and Benedict Arnold joined the British More than half New York in 1716 composed Untntedy Connecticut sent supplies to need She constructed ships which har urnde out large quantities of munitions.
 British movements made in Connecttcut-- Danbury in 1777; New Haven in 177e New London in 17s1.
 furnished about 1889 for the Continental the militia. Connecticut troops the Carolnas patriots of the struggle Nathan Coventry who undertook dangerous mission hanged T that have but life to lose for country"
 Tomorrow-Eiectrical Machinery Connecticut.>
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

Very few habits are bad habits. They just seem that way because of the company they keep.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
TELEPHONE CALLS

yatsrsA at the Post oflcs at New Brit aip e sscoad Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

The difference between dog fight and a. street braNl is ten dol lars and costs.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

It's All In the Way You Go at 'Eml Let's make believe the drifts of snow Are drifts of mirth and cheer. Our shovels jokes and wield 'cm,
 Folks
 With grins from ear to ear!
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

The winter sport industry | something that used to be.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

Our late relocated oppres- sors and still later khaki-cla noble allies. the British, have just completed another payment on their war debt--a staggering payment on 3 stupendous sum, when one considers the re- sources and present economic conditions of the mother island.
 Of all the principal European nations. Britain IS the only one which is paying # honestly and sgrarelv-that is 10 say, pay ing fl out of her own taxes, and us for the purpose.
 Britain pays what she owes. remarked Stanley Baldv in seN- cral years ago when he came 10 this country on debt funding mission. And out of all discus sions of European debts. out of all palaverings as to their justice, as to whether we ought 10 cancer or llol 10 cancel, stands this one granit" fact like q Gibra liar in the fluCtuatiug sea Of pape~ promises and parchment pleas for credit: Britain pays.'
 old John Bull--.St odCy. overweight and q grumhler, But on the stipu lated time he steps up 10 the coun ter and docs his stuff, paying owe what be agreed 10 pay Us and nut tering something about honesty be ing th" best policy. Best of all. h doesn't borrow the money from u 10 pay Us hat he owes.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

A politician Is somebody who can tell q farmer what's ailing hum.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

Send aIl communications to Fun Shop Editor, caro 0f the New Britain Hcrall. and your letter WiH bo forwarded to New Yoek.
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
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New Britain herald., 1928-01-17
Our Present Crooi

Our Present Crop! Webster: Our present-day mo- torists all know how to make a left hand and right hand turn" Barnes: "Yes, everything except a kind turn!"
New Britain herald., 1928-01-17

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12

CHOWBOAT life Of the early 90s were
~ recalled by Ford Sterling during the
filming OF Chicken la King, when
one of the younger players remarked
that the movies were more c%actlng
than the legitimate stage, In that play
rrs we're required TO be on the set early
each morning and have 10 put IN q
fun eight and often nine and ten hour
day
Sterling said, II don't think that "A
hardship, remembering my own eX-
periences when I was working IN old
John Morrisons boat show back IN
1894. Then we we're lucky 10 get off
with what you call fun day, for often
that meant a night and day"
Once during the Spring floods" he
said we fought a heavy river current
all night, making reasonably good time
toward Bird Point, where we were
scheduled to play the next afternoon.
All went we'll till about in the
morning, when the boat ran into a
sand bank Several hours Of hectic
work we're spent IN trying TO get her off
and ultimately we managed 10 do So
but Morrison realized that We could not
show on time, because 1t would take
another two hours to make repairs so
that the boat could proceed
HE had couple Of rnustabouts
row me up To Bird Point To ballyhoo the
town and keep our prospective audience
amused so they would not go back
home before the boat arrived. And /
did conturng tricks, songs and dances
for three solid hours until the boat
came up
''Of course played my part in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT e. SHERWOOD.

} will give the effect of characters In
/ photoplay moving about in the same
j room with the audience.
! Just imagine a nervous lady COINS
/ into a film parlor and having Lor
! CLANCY stride down from the screen
/ and SIT In her lap
/ Il think" writes Mfr Murnsu, that
/ pictures of the future will show per-
/ sons rather than screen personalities
humanity instead Of popular movie
stars In Sunrise some of the critics
we're severe with me because of the
ugly wig / allowed Janet Gaynor to
wear They complained that II eXtin-
g,iiShed her beauty and made her al
most plain They did not guess that
that was exactly what I was trying Ia
do wished Janet Gaynor to play,
not Janet Gaynor. the screen beauty,
but poor stupid little peasant girl. II
was = difficult thing. trying to suppress
this little actresses loneliness But Il
me. beauty is not going to be the chief
requisite of the stars Of the future,
They must photograph well, naturally,
but II Is their sympathy. their under
standing of the heart and their ability
70 show that understanding that will be
important"
AilCSS remarks Of MI. MuTDauS pear
out certain observations made in this
column recently on the decline Of the
star system. ] even pointed to Janet
Gaynor as an instance of talented
young lady who is now being developed
as an actress rather than as a star,
In the past, a star became SO inpor-
tant that he could pick his own roles
without consulting directors or even the
supervising executives A male star
naturally enough. would select only
those roles which gave him chance
TO appear as an unmitigated hero. A
female star would select those roles that
enabled her to wear the most becoming
clothes.
I hope that what Mr. Murnau says is
true-that from now on it will be
matter Of persons rather than PERSONAL
ties. The finest actor on the American
stage today is Alfred Lunt, who might
well qualify as a matinee idol II he
weren't more interested In qualifying as
an actor. Last year IN one play Mr.
Lunt wore copious whiskers, and in the
next play he appeared as a bootlegger
with pockmarked skin and prominent
gold tooth.
Why shouldn't the movie stars be as
broad minded Presumably because
they feel it their duty to their millions
of admirers to appear always in that
state Of pristine loneliness with which
God has blessed them
It will be fine thing for the art Of
the moving picture If the stars can b.
persuaded 70 stop posing as themselves.
tConyright. 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
Movie BrOadcasting

less as the horizons Of the sea. Para
mount lis not entering the broadcast
field in the customary sense Of the
terms, but IL does intend 10 use the
radio as a medium through which ex-
hibitors and the public can gain FIRST
hand impression Of the work accom-
plished in the film capital"
A network OF private telephone lines
will carry the programs originating in
the Paramount studio and in its many
remote controls over Cahuenga Pass TO
the new transmitter, distance Of about
u miles: and from this point the music
and messages will be broadcast from
the enormous antenna towers Of the
new station. II will be possible 10 effect
the change from 5.000-watt IN so 900
watt operation within "a hours and
thereby increase the range and power Of
The present equipment 100 times.
Listeners in every part Of the North
American continent will be able 70 tune
10 xxx with an ease never before pos
sible
There viii be one large studio, capable
Of handling with ease an orchestra Of
100 pieces. permitting broadcas8 OF
symphonic programs smaller studio
viii be available for ordinary use.
The same management that has
guided the destinies of xxx during the
past four years will continue 10 serve
in a similar capacity, The staff Is COM
prised Of MAYOR Rogers, manager and
program director: Glen Rice. assistant
manager. Harold Isbell, town crier Of
the night watch. Eddie Albright town
cricr Of the day watch, n, d. GarVey
chief technician. and Lloyd Underwood,
special announcer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12

THROUGH its new s,o0o-watt super
power radio broadcast station. xxx.
for the first time It's history the Para
mount organization viii have oral con-
tsct with millions Of picture goers.
The new station makes It's debut on
the air early in September.
II will be Paramount's policy. through
the medium Of radio, to maintain close
touch with the thousands Of exhibitors
showing Paramount pictures and 10
make this uper-poger station a direct
and valuable aid 10 them. In addition,
KNx viii keep them. as veil as the pub
JIG. informed Of the latest developments
tn HollYwoodS fllndom.
Bro2dcasting will be done with 5000
watt energy output an increase 81 10
times the power used By xxx At pres
enr. but permission mas been obtained
from the Federal Radio Commission IN
install transmission equipment Of 10000
watt capacity for future USE. The su-
per-poVer equipment xlll make KNX
one Of the most powerful stations In the
world, there being only three other sta
tons Of equal power IN the West and
three with greater power anywhere IN
the country.
Paramount Is happy 70 be associated
with q radio station 81 the caliber and
reputation Of KNX. declared Jesse L
Lasky in announcing the new plans
with the addition Of Of super power
equipment. IL viii not be long before tts
audience viii cover the entire North
American continent.
Motion pictures ard radio are the
fwo greatest forces IN he world to-day
The future NJ the tao arts Is as limit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
By MoLLIE MERRECK.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, August Ii
Much pQssyfootiag about the studios
now With producers sinking fortunes
IN talking pictures. nobody is letting
the right hand know what the left hand
Il doing.
Ideas are precious IN these early
days Of the new picture development
II the entire "taiGie" craze proves to
be bubble. then the producers with
the maximum Of originality viii clean
Up.
Writers ere forbidden 10 discuss
stories they are a. work upon, and
actors are significantly silent regarding
the technique employed. No inside in
formation e supposed 20 leak out. and
visitors are being kept OF the sets.
= Voice experts nave descended en-
rssse upon Hollywood. Scarcely a
rnovisite who has not included voice
training along with the wearving hours
CT fencing. riding. swimming and gen.
eral athletic regime.
Taking has complicated things con-
aistently since the beginning Of time.
rocsl talking machine agencies re-
port an unprecedented demand for re-
cording discs since the beginning OF
the "1alk.e" campaign.
Movie actors who have not had the
mora courage TO take voice test, lest
they be found wanting, are trying ont
the.r tones on the recording discs at
hcne
If studio test Is made and rumor
gets around that it Is not good, players
find the breaks" hard to land.
Dorothy swan Is among the cinema
girlz who have gene legitimate as q
means Ct preparing for the new work
She wsS one Of the cast when Henry
Duffy opened his second Hollywood
theater z night or 50 aEo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
To Begin Our Daily
Bread"

L w. MuRNAU. Fox Films director
L .who created Sunrise and -Four
Devils" will now take his stan OF
canersmen and technicians to oregon
10 prepare for shooting wheat neio
scenes that play an important part IN
Our Daily Bread" Mr.. Murnaus tniru
production in America. Charles Far
rell and Mary Duncan viii play the
leads. -.
This super production concerns tne
son of a wheat king" who falls In love
with a waitress in the city as ne goes
10 sell his fathers wheat. He taxes
her home as his wife, and she flndS IN
the omen country anything but what
she expected when she visioned II from
her hall bedroom in the city. Sne
grows embittered over treatment ac-
corded her by her husbands family
seeks revenge, and then when she Is
about to accomplish that absndons II
10 help those who had hurt her so
much.
Mr.. Murnau expects to begin his ac-
tual camera work about August 20:
Fox Films purchased a huge ranch OF
wheat TO serve as the setting Tor this
production.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12
SECRECY SHROUDS STUDIOS
AS "TALKIES'' ARE DEVELOPED

Mcvieland folk attend these openings
as enthusiastically as they do a motion
picture first night, Malcolm st. Clair
who is to direct q "talkie," was there.
And James Hall, who is 70 appear in
one shortly He is the co-star with
Ruth Taylor in a new series Of light
comedy pictures,
Frederick and Fanny Hatton were
chatting with group of friends in the
Lobby. Playwrights are finding Holly
wood good field these days, for people
with knowledge of theater are in
demand.
To be in movies is to think and talk
them eternaIly There Is no getting
away from shop. Marion Davies.
Charles Chaplin. Mary Pickford and
Douglas Fairbanks, Harold Lloyd and
others have always enjoyed motion
pictures in their homes and made them
part of many evenings entertain
mert.
But Harold Lloyd Is the first TO have
his home wired for "talkies" and pipe
organ installed. The youth who has
capitalized on clean fun and ome-like,
niidle-class appeal viii have the show
place Of Cinenaland when his new
home is finished.
Yet his boon companions are the
fellows he has worked around with
during the years
Mary Duncan has ambitions to be
the enfant terrible among Hollywood
celebrities, as 1t were. Clothes of ex-
travagant cut and conversation with an
extravagant swing. Incorporating into
her personality something Of the quail
ties of Gaby Deslys. Barbara La Mari,
Anna Held and few Of the real girls.
Even Hollywood holds its breath.
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Newspaper Alliance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12

FAMILY feuda although not unknown
% the big City. are perhaps rsrer
and less intense than those that develop
among the hardy folk If the Southern
mountains where nature exists nearer
20 Us primitive form than the cops VIII
permit IN the big cities
The demand If natures freeman is
81 want what ! want when ] want it,!
And natures other freeman who at
tenp,s 10 withhold Il usually starts
something most unpleasant when he ne
gins 10 assert himself
Thus IL Is that Inc family feId begins
and the freeF the folks that 1t involves,
tlae more deadly It's consequences. Amer
teas family feQd history furnishes an
Imposing mass If material for American
r1elodramz and indeed. for American
tragedy.
Eut the screen soions who are al
ways doing and daring, picked out a
wicked feud between two mountain
families for comedy treatment for the
benefit Of Wallace Berry and Raymond
Hatton The Big killing II IL called
And they" Say y Is a great comedy sur
ceks
The theme, however stumped the
vress agent. for he deyateg the healthy
fsrt Of a newspaper column 70 impress
prospective pstrons with a horseshoe
fprT between the two comedians, which
wculd be printed here cut for tns fact
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12

MOT so very long ago, two new plays,
one THE Racket" which has now
achieved success both on the stage and
as a screen attraction. and the other
a play by John Wray. One of the
Finest" born in vaudeville, in which
the author also appeared, were pre-
sented In Washington.
When the latter came, Kathrine
Givney, who had already become a
great favorite with the patrons Of the
National Players, was In the cast. And
when the former. The Racket after
having been greatly improved had
achieved metropolitan success and took
to the road with the Pacific Coast as
its destination. its cast carried one Of
the greatest of former favorites in the
National Players. Romano Calender,
whose name is frequently mentioned by
host of admirers whom he left in
Washington and who. evidently. have
missed him from the splendid company
at the National now.
"One of the Finest has now be-
come THE Nightstick" and, like The
Racket" has won high fame as a mod
ern mclodrama, or, as the present day
press agent prefers to call 1t, play Of
the underworld" and under its new
name and with its new billing will en-
terrain at the National this week. but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-12

II n the September issue Of MoCall'S
Magazine is an article by F w
Murnau, entitled "Films of the
Il Future"
Mr., Afurnau. of course, is the
German director Of The Last Laugh.
who was brought to America by Will
liam Fox and who. since his transplant
tstion from Berlin 10 Hollywood. has
produced one great picture. sunrise, y
end is nov completing a second, Five
Devils"
In view Of his record as progressive
force in the movies. Mr. Murnau has a
distinct right Ia discuss the future de-
eelopment of his art and in Mr., Muir
nau'S case The silent drama does con-
stltute A legitimate art and one should
pay close attention to everything he
may have 70 say.
Unfortunately he doesn't say much
He docs not believe that the talking
pictures will evc~ supplant those pam
tom;rlic Aims which tell story in conf
plete silence He feels certain that
there will be greater use Of the form
that he originated i'll The Last Laugh"
the form that 6iSpenses with all
words, including those phraSed gaudlly
In SuhtitleS
In this respect. I think Mr. Murnau
Is oVeropilmiStle The Last Laugh
VAS a freak as has been proven by sub
Seouent attempts 20 initiate it. There
ere almost no stories that can be told
without words. and even If there were
q sufficient number Of these stories.
there would still be almost no dirsc-
tors competent to cope with them
A rhoroplay that is interrupted
every 10 feet by a subtitle is not panto-
mime, any more than a lecture Illus
tratec with lantern slides is pantomlme.
In talking pictures actual speech is
substituted for the quotations printed
In the Subtitles and actual sounds are
substituted for the weird and frequently
irrelevant noises made by the theater
orgsniStS. Thus. tine new talkie is bound
10 be more honest, as well as more ef-
fective. than the oio silent one.
Nevertheless, if Mr., Murnau wants 70
s. ahead and make some more 100 per
cent silent pictures like The Last
Laugh" I. for one. earnestly hope his
employers viii give him the oppor-
tunity to do SO.
AS a work Of art. The Last Laugh
stands head and shoulders above any
vordv picture or play that has been
produced in the last 10 years.
=
Mr.. Murnau also believes that color
films will come into general favor and
he hints that g stereoptieon device is
now in process Of perfection which will
give the screen new dimension. In
fact stereopticon pictures will practi-
eslly Go away with the fat screen. They