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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-04-01
HyDay Dsers Brewers Who Are Earning Fabulous
Profits Reouped Themselves Money They Gave
Campaign Defeat Temperance Act
BOoTLEGGING RAMPANT; GOVERNMENT STOl
STATIONS
Policy Promulgated Government contro Present Official Title
is Now Liquor Control Which Apt and Descriptive; People
Growing Weary Of System

tor Canadian Prohibition Bureau)
But this is only spirits and wine.
EIr. Price shows that spirits eonstitut-
ed 6062e6 Of the total sales, wine,
3.07eo; beer, 36.31eo. We must there
fore add the beer sales which, accord
ing to the percentage given, would be
SO 426. 368.42. giving us a grand total
OF sales through government agencies
at the rate Of SIC. OPS, 801.22.
But this is not all. These figures do
not include native wine and the At
torney General tells us that there are
SO wineries operating. A low estimate
OF their average sales would be at the
rate of 100000 annually, or total Of
$4,000 900.
But this is not all. The bootlegger
is still with rs and is flourishing. True,
the wholesale variety of bootlegger
has had his trade taken from him by
the government, but illicit dealers still
have uncanny ways of getting sup
plies either direct from the brewers
and distillers or some intermediary
GOVERNMENT STORE SUPPLIES
THE BOOTLEGGER
The government store, however, is
now the handy and safe depot Of sup
ply for the retail bootlegger who, large
ly free from difficulty in the buying end
of his nefariouS business; can concen-
trate his attention upon the selling
end This he is doing with huge sue
cess.
Neither do the foregoing figures
take into account IA beer which is be-
ing sold through 1,102 licensed hotels,
SAL licensed restaurants, SIG licensed
shops, and "a licensed clubs, total of
2,246 selling places.
Leaving the bootlegger and "A out
of the calculation, however, our much
vaunted control" system, when only
running for five months according to
Mr.. Prices own figures, is travelling at
the rate of $75,O00,000 per year and
constantly accelerating its pace. The
astounding thing is that the Attorney
General seems pleased with the re-
suits, gloatS in his job as Prisoner
General for the province and would
even persuade us that his plan is a
success.
EXCEEDS PROVINCIAL BUDGET
The amount being paid annually for
liquor is 100000 more than the to-
tai estimated budget of the Province
for all purposes which the provincial
treasurer gives as approximately $55,-
100000 The $75,000000 year which
the province is now spending for hq-
uor would pay off our gross provincial
debt of 1858, 100000 in less than five
years.
The figures given only represent the
amount of cold, hard cash paid for the
liquor sold If the purchasers would
only be wise enough to throw that
liquor away, without drinking it, they
would be out the cash but would not
suffer from any of the ills that fol-
lew the use of liquor, and society
would not be cursed as it is by the
thousand and one social disorders
that result from the consumption OF
alcoholic beverages.
Any senior school child will tell us
that alcohol is not food Our Off
cial textbook authorized by the Min
lister of Education, says, There is
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-04-01

Oy Ben II. Spence. Managing Dir
Ontario is spending through gov
eminent agencies at the rate Of $224,-
444.90 per day or $1,345,6 50.02 per week
or $70,025. 1912 per year for liquor,
according to the figures furnished by
the Attorney General, Hon. w. Il.
Price. At least $5,OO0,000 more IS spent
for native wine and in other ways,
making a total annual drink bill for
the province Of Ontario of over $75,-
0O0,000.
This stupendous sum demonstrates
the fact that the flood gates have
been thrown open, the province is be-
ing literally deluged with Intoxicating
beverages of all kinds, our citizenship
is being impoverished and alcoholized
ON an unprecedented scale.
LIQUOR SALES DOUBLED
During the last years of the Onta-
rio Temperance Act, Mr.. Price esti-
mates that in addition to $500C000
of liquor sold at the diSpenSaries, at
least $30,000,000 and $40000000 was
sold through the bootleggers, and that
altogether Ontario's liquor bill had
reached the highest point in its his
tory" On the basis of his own figures
therefore, the drink bill of Ontario to-
day is double what it was even in the
palmieSt days of the old Liquor Lii
cenSe Act, or his own exaggerated es-
innate of the amount spent under the
Ontario Temperance Act.
The first report of the Liquor Con-
troll Board is not yet available, but
Hon. w. II. Price, in his address in the
legislature, furnished advance figures
which we may take as official. He
gives the number of government shops
operating on October 81 as SO. These
were opened during each month as
follows: On June l, Is; added during
June 20; during July, 10; during Au-
gust, IL; during September, IS; during
October, 4.
Presuming the average day Of open
ing for the added stores to be the mid
die of each month, simple calcula-
ton shows that the average number
of selling days upon which the stores
operated was 1911. The amount of
sales of spirits and wine which were
sold only by government stores was
Sill, 1885, 43.10, or an average per store
per day of $1,62442 Deducting Sum
days and holidays, the states operated
in the aggregate the equivalent of g.
874 store days, reaching the peak of
operations at the end of the fiscal
year, October 81.
DRAINING THE PEOPLES PURSE
Ina year there are 305 selling days.
Assuming that the stores simply con-
tinued as they were doing on October
81, and assuming that only SO stores
were open, it will be seen at a glance
that we would have 26,840 store days
in year. At the rate of last year
they would take in SD, 500 1920.
This is a minimum estimate. AS
matter of fact there are many more
stores operating today and the bust
ness is extending and expanding.
Moreover, Mr. Prices figures do not
include the enormous holiday trade
Of Il.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-04-01

~ Ben H. Spence Managing Canadian Proh5on Bura)
Evening star., 1928-06-03
Coming Attractions
NATIONAL PLAYERS-"The
Thirteenth Chair"

Next week, beginning Monday, the
National Theater Players will offer the
mystery play, THE Thirteenth Chair,
thriller, tried and tcste'l
This play, by Bayard Jiiiier, the man
who wrote = the first great American
mystery play. within the Law" re-
Gently revived by an ail-star cast, and
directed by Clifford Brooke Of the Ma
tional Players, is considered one Of the
greatest hair-raisers Of theaterdom.
About once year patrons Of the Ma
tional Players revel in good. old
fashioned mystery meIodrama, and this
time Manager Cochran has succeeded
In selecting one that meets all the re-
quirements
THE Thirteenth Chair" whose au-
thor Is also responsible for one Of the
greatest successes of the current Broad
way season, The Trial Of Mary Dugan."
has to do with a seance, arranged in
an effort TO find the murderer of an
artist known TO all present and the
friend OF all. The seance starts in the
dark and from there on-vell, It Just
can't be told
Director Clifford Brooke, it Is said.
has arranged for some startling effects
to be presented on the stage of the Ma
tional when THE Thirteenth Chair"
begins TO creak
Evening star., 1928-06-03
New Music Published
Announced by Society

THE Society for the Publication of
American Music, founded by Bur-
net Corwin Tuthill in 1919, announces
that chamber music publications chosen
from those submitted for possible selec-
ton for publication for the, season of
1927-l928 were played before the COM
mittee Of judges at the studio Of Edwin
T. Rice. Is West Sixty-seventh street,
New York. Eleven judges took part In
the function.
Four compositions were played-two
for piano and violin and one suite for
piano and wind instruments.
The composition receiving the vote OF
approval was the sonata for violin and
piano by Bernard Wagenaar, a natural
lied American citizen of Dutch descent
and assistant professor of composition
at the Juilliard Foundation. The execu-
tive and musical advisory committee
therefore voted to publish this work and
to have under consideration the pub
lication of a second work, decision in
this latter matter to be announced as
soon as made.
In the meantime it Is hoped that the
members will aid In increasing the use
fulness Of the society by adding many
names to its membership list.
Compositions to be submitted for pos
sible selection for the season of 1928
1929 should be sent to the secretary OF
the society on or before October /, 1928.
The orchestral publications to be
issued in the current season, 1927-1928,
are to be:
f) "Oriental Impressions Henry Eichheim
t2l Suite from The Betrothal,'
Eric De Lamarter
For the season l926-1927 the society
has published and distributed to its
subscribing members:
III From the Northland" :. Leo Sowerby
Suite for full orchestra.
t2l Lux Aeterna" Howard Hanson. Op. "a
Symphonic poem for full orchestra. with
viola obbliEato.
Compositions to be submitted for pos
sible publication for the season Of 1928
1929 should be sent to the secretary on
or before October Is, 1928.
Evening star., 1928-06-03
Studio Architecture"

wideness of its squares and streets and
the powerful proportions or ornamental
and structural features In its building
give 1t character found nowhere else
in the world
These heavy proportions, seen no.
where except IN Russia, are emphasized
In all the sets built by Hans Drier for
THE Patriot"
The long Winters in Russia made the
use Of the fireplace In Russian homes
almost impossible. Their picturesque
qualities do not make up for the fact
that they do not adequately heat a
freezing room. AS result Russia de-
veloped those huge tiled stoves which
are unique. They reach to the ceiling
burn continuously from October to May
and have two openings, one facing the
room they are intended TO heat and the
other the hallway. Servants replenish
the fuel from the hallway without dis
turbing their masters in the rooms
Another feature of Russian rooms c.
the period is the seantiness Of the fur
nishtngs. The English idea Of filling a
house with coZY furniture and having
many comfortable corners was unknown
in Russia. AS a result a room appears
empty. A chair. table, the iron. the
tiled stove-there you have the furniture
Of palace room or cottage room in
Russia
So everything characteristic Of Russia
in the time of Paul Is featured in the
architecture and decorations In The
Patriot" The streets are wide and
deSolate. deep buried in snow. The ex-
terror of the Cars palace Is crude and
barbaric In its richness. The interior
has rooms of great height, dark. gloomy
and heavily ornamented IN gold The
backgrounds, odd-shaped golden cupolaS
Of the orthodox churches, snow-laden
against a Winter sky. are carefully pre-
pared so that the camera may make the
most of them.
Lubitsch. it Is said, prefers the studio
constructed set TO the real building
The former Is built for him. for his
cameraman with hts lights and for his
players. The latter is difficult TO light
and hard TO make part of the story
Where one wants q light one finds a
stone wall, and where one desires to set
up a camera for an interesting angle
one discovers more granite, q stairway
or some other obstacle. On the set the
stone wall" can be moved. the stairway
shifted. The cameraman can take the
roof OF and set his lights.
Evening star., 1928-06-03

k,ss BeYDert ETe1lon, Fred NlEio.
Henry King and EdBiH CAfewe. The
pkE>c4ee.E sEe represented by joseph II.
f>gkefaek. Samuel Coi0wyn. Morris GeS..
water Camp, IT,, and Howard Hughes.
Since tl3s election of Joseph III.
isesaenck " tias eigalxmang9ip Of It's
1}asc " directors. United Artists ilag
eDs4Fso tI4s exhibition field In d hm~
hkc ssfase. on May "A, 1926, Joseph
III iselleack announced his intention
W t*aMaSAsA 4 chain VI ~ DEe~relGAse
United Artists theatTs This EaeateT
circuit il now In operation and In
einnes half Interest In the United
hSsse3S~isagoal. REV IgYk, and oyner~
sf7iD of new tflfaBefg III L1s Angeles,
iSt1roits lf26ak1 sEo other KEY cities
The begiDa1Dg 9f United AftigtA' tenth
yeaf fincs use sight egneT ~neDliere ali
seiHe5@nCeq ~ pr1dustioug, Mis- PICK
fefas Ny Eeel On" Norma Tai
nsSagss The Dove" GtGria EUanst,F1's 4
. ~i3soA& fDonpaga," Charles claplin's
THE Circus D9Bl2i&s FaiTDa41ks' "'rias
G&3&et0." II. NJ Cr1ffatIgg Drums Df
l<2se," ggidByG's I've Lgysrs" and
fej9eHck's productions of The Garden
u Ecea" SIac "If<ollege" sll being exw
hsbatsd during sas anniversary month.
Evening star., 1928-06-03
THE authentic reproduction of period

THE authentic reproduction of period
architecture for motion picture pur-
poses, besides Offering tough problem:
for the studio technician, demonstrates
unlimited possibilities In kidding" a
camera lens; for directors are one In
maintaining the superiority Of the arti-
fetal as opposed TO the real for pic
ture laid IN an unfamiliar architec-
tural mise en- scene.
A set built for pictures Is so to 10C
per cent superior TO the real thing in
8 cases out Of 10, 1t is claimed, because
the man who built the real thing knew
nothing about camera angles, and the
set-builder has the camera perpetually
In his mind.
This Is the reason that the beautiful
Old World structures are almost a total
loss when 1t comes to picture making
From the outside they are splendid, but
take q company and a camera inside
and difficulties cluster. 1t Is impossible
TO light the interiors satisfactorily.
Once In while a director runs into
q period where the entire national
architecture or the particular part Of ii
he wished TO photograph is useless to
him. Such was the case when Para
mount began production plans for 'The
Patriot" which Ernst Lubitsch directed
with Emil Jannings as It's star.
The story takes place In the reign OF
the Car Paul I of Russia, who lived in
the palace Of St. Michael, built for him
in st. Petersburg Because Of the Cars
suspicion Of every one who approached
him, the palace was as nearly murder
proof as a terrified man could make It,
The Czar had good reason to fear. He
tortured and murdered with fearful
cruelties thousands Of his unfortunate
subjects.
The character Of this palace was SC
conventional and pictorially uninterest-
ing that studio technicians decided to
invent a style which would be based
upon the st. Petersburg traditions oi
the time, but sufficiently modified in its
characteristics to create the atmosphere
of grandeur and gloom, danger and in
trigue, indispensable as a background.
The style Of Moscow, medieval ir
character and thoroughly Russian. had
to be carefully avoided, 1t Is explained
because st. Petersburg was founded by
Peter the Great In the swamps Of the
Neva In the first years of the eighteenth
century. st. Petersburg shows a dis
tinctly Continental atmosphere, but the
Evening star., 1928-06-03
Indian Girl Hard to Find.

A FTER interviewing more than $50
: = young women and making camera
tests Of 56. Fred Thomson has found an
la-year-old girl to play the role Of an
Indian maiden in Kit Carson" She
is Dorothy Janis, Fort Worth girl,
who has appeared in only one picture
The Thomson company thought the
casting of an Indian girl q simple mat
ter. but after securing Hollywood for
experienced players and extending the
search to real Indian girls they dis
covered the type is almost impossible
TO find.
Miss Janis reached Hollywood for the
first time several months ago on q visit
to her cousin, KaSha HaEoldi, a player
While the two were at q studio, Miss
Janis was picked for role as an Ara
bian girl IN spite Of her lack OF ex-
perience. Persons who saw her In this
and knew Of Mr. ThomSon's search for
an Indian girl advised her to Try for
the role. She was given q test and
chosen as soon as it vas shown on the
screen.
Evening star., 1928-06-03
Film Editing

THE hunt for the chap who makes
or breaks a motion picture re-
sembles, for instance, the chase after
the fellow who commits a mysterious
murder. or, having committed cold
bIooded one, makes a mysterious get
away Very like the hunt for Dorsey
Foultz, for instance.
The most difficult problems in pic
ture making, says the experienced mas
ter, David Wark Grifnth. are not en-
countered In the direction. casting or
camera divisions. but In the proSaic and
more tedious task Of cutting and editing
the film.
mo picture, no matter how well di-
been first inteiiigently condensed, re-
vised and reconstructed to fit the time
limitations of the theater and the taste
OF the public.
"To accomplish this requires an ar
tistically minded. logical. dramatic
genius OF the first order as the film
editor. II he be inexperienced. or I'M
sympathetic, he may discard certain
bits of action that are vital to the
success OF not only scene but OF the
picture itself.
Many potentially fine pictures have
been utterly ruined by unframed
cutting, as many plays and fine bits
OF literature have been spoiled by poor
editing.
THE chief function Of o film editor
Is TO pare directoriAi verbosity, so to
speak. TO the point where 1t Is
recognizable as work of art, whose
limitations have been predetermined by
intent. custom or practical experience.
Like an editor on newspaper. he must
alter other men or women's work to
Evening star., 1928-06-03
Maryland's Movie

THE little town of st. Michaels, Md,
quietly glowing with historic back
ground, has blazed forth In new glory
as motion picture producing center.
No chapter In early American history
is complete without reference to the
stanch community tucked away on the
Miles River of Chesapeake Bay, but
today another fame comes from an en-
tirely different direction HOLLYWOOD.
Overnight, netamorphosis has taken
place. Here Is not the modest city,
content to view in retrospect its con-
tributions to affairs which have helped
develop great nation. Here is not the
tranquil community Of yesterday, will
ing to relate to the stranger soft
spoken tales Of the part played blythe
now broken down snipyard which built
and outfitted the first American ship
TO take the defensive against the
British. Here is not the serene water
front where always oyster boats idled
and grew shiny under the efforts of
their shippers preparing for the new
season.
Here. instead. is hustle and action,
and motion pictures are responsible
Citizens gazA at trucks bearing immense
generators, come to provide Juice" for
the sun-arcs. They thrill at the ap-
pearance Of the players IN costume and
IN makeup. Business is temporarily
suspended while the siopkeepers saun-
ter down to watch Hollywood at work,
They absorb, In silence, such mystify-
ing terms as spots" "gaffery," '4props, -
floods" breads, - ''incieS," I" and the lot.
which are tossed back and forth by
members Of the company. They watch
deft makeup man apply the grease
paint TO members Of the cast.
Grfzzled old veterans Of the sea. the
oysterTnen, smile and talk among them
selves. They are TO De actors. Yes.
they have been cast for roles In the
production. The director asked them
They receive the admiring giances of
their friends with unregtful pride. The
girls study the director Supposing he
should single her out for a tiny bit
oliyWood-fame-
Stlh they come. Ropes are stretched
around a territory which might be
called corner stone Of America In order
that those from the film capital might
work. Prom the windows OF stately
colonial dwellings, some Of them re-
constructed from the originals Of more
than 100 years ago, peer the faces OF
fascinated spectators. HoIIyood Is here.
"a DaHo-neW ItldpseT OF history Is 70
be added TO the old.
Why did this company travel more
than 5000 miles and select this little
community as the setting for a motion
picture2 II is said that Hollywood las
everything necessary for the filming Of
. production; II 1t hasn't, the sets
needed can be constructed on the giant
stages Of a studio. Why this long
Journey 10 ST. Michaels, from one ex-
remity Of the country TO the other, to
obtain scenes for motion picture?
The reason iS--accuraey. And upon
this little word win be hung thousands
Of dollars In actual expenditure 50 that
motion picture audiences all over the
world may be assured Of authenticity.
1t was not 80 long ago that Para
mount officials determined 70 eo-star
young Gary Cooper and younger Pay
Wrzy In . series Of romantic screen
Evening star., 1928-06-03

stories. This decision was arrived at
after little more than years splendid
work on the part of both Miss Wray
and Cooper. The former, making her
real debut in The Wedding March" T"
followed with fine work with Emil jan
nings In The Street Of Sin" Cooper
getting his start In westerns, contrib
uted materially TO the success of
Wings" Beau Sabreur," 1T, "
"Doomsday' and others In the course
of brief twelve months. AS reward,
he was co-featured with Miss Wray In
The Legion Of the Condemned"
Such success was this story Of the
air that Paramount Immediately set
about finding suitable material which
would launch the two players as CO.
stars and as the glorious young
lovers" From the hundreds of tales
considered one was selected which was
considered ideal It had appeared In
published form by one Of the larger
national magazines under the title Of
-Four Brothers" The author was iris
tam Upper and the theme concerned
the faithful love Of q boy for . girl.
together with an undercurrent Of the
love Of brothers
The setting was colorfui, beautiful. A
locale Of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland,
Talbot County, where the smooth waters
Of the coves and bayous reach out like
tapering fingers and careSs green
shores Where the oySter-craft skim
from harbor to the beds or rest silently
at their n10orings. Where the dwell
ingS erected more than a century ago,
proudly hold their secrets Of other days.
Where tradition is as strong as anchor
chains. Here, indeed, was . motion
picture setting. And the story itself
met all the requirements Of the film
executives. II would be made.
Rowland v. Lee was chosen i'm
years Of experience and his forte Is
cessea include "Barbed Wire" and
Three Sinners" with Pola Negri; also
"Doomsday." with Florence vidor. Lee
could do it.
He set out TO find locations on the
Pacific Coast For once the West fell
down. Its own peculiar type Of beauty
was quite different from that Of the
Atlantic and Transformation was out of
the question. IE was evident that the
locale called for In the original story
was the only one which would sufilce.
There were no arguments. Prepara-
tionS were made 70 send an entire COM
paIiy 70 6L. MIcnaeB. IakinE the bcrIpt
prepared by John FarTow and 50 men,
bers OF his staff, Lee boarded the train
and headed for st. Michaels. II was
complete detachment from Hollywood.
Maryland was to see and contribute
10 the making of what will be known on
the screen as THE First Kiss"
So, Hollywood has come to st.
Michaels II Is here that judges and
debutantes alike gaze at the marveis OF
the motion picture. 1t is here that
usually quiet citizens become very ex-
cited when asked by the business man.
ager IL their home could be used for
the filming Of a scene. Antiques and
helrloon1g in families for years are Of
fered Lee and his associates for the
filming Of THE First Kiss" which is
based, after all. upon their own lives.
their own community and their own
possessions