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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-11
q A "a HEAR

First Street Musician: Do you
think they q hear us all right?
Second Ditto: Yes, somebody's
just shut down a window.-Answers.
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ARsrrRDLY

ABSUROLY COKKECT
Teacher: Johnny, can you define
nonsense?
Johnny: Yes, teacher - an ele-
plant hanging over a cliff with its
tail tied to a daisy!-Le Rire, Paris.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-11

Movable coast defense forts which can be shifted
quickly from one point on the seacoast to another are
now being developed by the U. S. army.
Fourteen-inch guns with an effective range of 80
miles, are to be mounted on railway trucks. and en-
placements for them are to be built at 100 Atlantic coast
ports. Thus, in case Of a threatened invasion. the heavy
artillery needed to repel an attacking fleet could be
quickly shifted from one sector to another, wherever the
need might be greatest.
II the scheme works out as we'll as the army men hope.
it ought to be a rather economical step. 1t will relieve
the army from the necessity of building a great chain Of
forts-and modern forts. with their gian. guns. cost a
great deal of money.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-11

by the inhaling Of . foreign object,
effort should be made to res
move the substance, trying such
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-11

A major disaster is one that kills as many people in
a few hours as fool drivers kill in several months.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-11
P0OR EVER SINCE

POOR EVER SINCE
Il wish I knew Of q way of getting
some ready cash."
why don't you marry a girl with
money!"
II did."-Judge.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-11

The father may be the head of the home, but mother
usually is the receiver.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-07-11

Chemists are now trying to MAKE
artificial cotton from wood fibre,
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QUOTES TEDDY

QUOTES TEDDY
She says that society is rapidly be.
lievins Theodore Roosevelt's opinion
Of drinking. She quotes him
There isn't a thought in q hogs
head of alcohol. There isn't an idea
in a whole brewery. Nothing of merit
has wen been written or done under
the inspiration of alcohol. 1t stupe-
fies without invigorating. And It's
effect upon the brain is to stagnate
thought.
OUR BETTERS
She herself writes
The ribaldry of the cocktail shaker.
the exchange of homebrew recipes.
and the florid eagerness for false
stimulation from what is always
questionable liquor are rapidly fading
from the picture OF social hours in
Washington.
Alcohol makes people chatter. All
parties in Washington are SO mixed
that many Of the guests, in fact, do
not drink. rel when drinks r.
offered. Some who do have confessed
to me. with q smile at themselves,
that they entertained uneasy recollec-
tons of loquaciousness the next
morning.
1T has come to be more of a social
achievement to establish the reputa-
ton for successful entertainment
without cocktail. highball. or liquors.
She tells us that society. when 1t
drinks. is remii.d ed of the price Of
its drink in lawlessness. murder, etc.
MAKING JOHNNY GOOD
While. as I said. there is much food
-or drink-for thought in the lady
writer's dissertation, It savors of a
patronizing c-ondescension that will
have few results.
It implies that If Society with .
capital Ear give up liquors. surely the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

early road tours, tells of a personal
connection with the play.
ut came to Wichita, Kan, where
my mother had gone with a stock
company during a boom there"
she relates.
Suddenly Takes Part
"Tn May, 1887, a slight back
stage accident incapacitated my
mother Just when the overture was
called, leaving the manager with
the alternative Of dismissing a
packed house or moving his cast
about and showing the kid as ]
was called, into a small ingenue
pert.
go my forced debut was made
at 20 minutes notice. Blessed with
q Photographic brain, / needed
only to read the part to know it.
Three weeks later / became the
juvenile woman of the company,
still lacking five months to my
fourteenth birthday. But I was
five foot, a full 3S model, so there
was nothing little girlish about me.
Mother returned east to an engage
ment.
Some weeks later Long John
Allen, nickramed from his excess
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
'Carnation Kid a
Talkie With Lively
Action Of Silents

"The Carnation Kid" starring
Douglas MacLean, is the first mo-
ton picture with talking sequences
running throughout to have typical
movie action. BY that it is meant
the picture is featured with thrill
ing action from the very first Sc
quence. keeping at O high pitch
until the final fade out, according
to the Christie Corporation, produc-
ers of the picture. This talking COM
edy-drama is now at the Capitol.
continuing as the feature produc-
ton through Tuesday.
Action is the by-word Of The
Carnation Kid" the producers point
out, for the comedy is based on a
melodramatic background in which
the plot moves breezily forward
through all kinds of thrilling action.
with suspense held all the way
through. AS proof of this it is
pointed out that the action of the
story takes place in forty-three diff
ferent settings.
Douglas MacLean Is supported in
his latest film effort by Frances Lee,
Lorraine Eddy. William Davidson,
Francis Mcdonald and other we'll
known film players. Alfred A. Cohn
prepared the story. It's a Para
mount picture.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
Star GdZiinS

NEW YORK, April 20.-Proof that
that chattering brat of the cellu-
loid industry, the talkie, has grown
to mans estate can be found in a
drama, yclept "Alibi."
In "Alibi" a number Of ancient
movie traditions are upset and sent
crashing into limbo, and the result
is, OF course, a good picture, a fine
one.
There is no star, not even a fea-
tured player hollywood is not yet
over the shock, though young Mr..
Chester Morris grabs the picture in
the first scene and gallops right off
with 1t. This picture has made him
He's a star.
"Ahbi," based on the stage piece,
"Nightstick," is the story Of a young
crook who stays a crook and doesn't
melt under the love Of a girl.
aBlooie! EThere goes tradition No.
THE Racket" was about the first
picture to give the cops a break.
"Alibi' does more-you can't help
but love the cops in the picture;
they r such fine fellows.
Rapid fire action, sensible direc-
ton, some swell photography and
an intelligent mael cast make "Alibi'
one you'll remember. The women
are negligible.
If Chester Morris deserves star
dom's laurelS for his work, so does
Roland West. diminutive director of
"Alibi," who has turned out as neat
a piece of good entertainment you'll
see in q long, long while.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
(By Central Press

CBy Central Press
= HO2OKEE, N. J., April 20.-Re-
vival II this small city across the
Hudson from New York OF The
Black Crook" recalls many memo
ries.
The country was ct white heat
when first it was produced in 1856.
Sermons were preached, police
spurred into action, ana the play
made a fortune. All because it
introduced to America q ballet with
whisper the word-tiglts!
Which probably causes Broadway
revue producers to smile. But even
at this late date-63 years later
1.-THE Black Crook" revived by
Christopher Morley, a high-brow
author, and his associates, IS get
ting into news columns TO such en-
extent as to turn Broadway press
agents green with envy. You see,
grandfather is recalling.
Tights Made It
Written by Charles NJ. Barras as
a straight melodrama, The Black
Crook" Cater to be known as
Fathers Forbidden Favorite")
reached the stage at Niolo's Gar
Gems, New York. Sert. II, 1866. Lit
tie Of the original text remained.
Opposition producers had been t.
Europe and had discovered Marie
Bonfonti, ballerina, and her ballet
for whom they had bought elabor-
ate costumes. Arriving in New
York, they found the theater they
had expected to use had burned
THE Black Crook" meantime
didn't show up any too well in re-
heersals. Therefore, the two pro-
ducers combined their shows.
big Money" Immediately
The original production cost
$55, 000, with a running expense of
$6,10G a week. In the first seven
weeks $4,000 was taken in. The
first seasons net proceeds were
$650,OO0.
Next to Uncle Toms Cabin" 1t
had the longest run on record
throughout the United States
more than 80 years. And it is used
as the best example of the change
in style of chorus girls-from large
women to the characters of today.
Mary Asquith, New York play
broker whose father, James II.
Browne of Chicago, managed the
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21

i've size, height and tninness, came
in for a month with three plays,
The Black Crook (tWo weeks
The Devils Daughter and The
Mysteries of Paris a spectacular
melodrama. He brought scenery
costumes, dancers and the women
for the Amazon march-and they
were Amazons!
A Child With Tights
Some Of his people played prin-
cipal characters, so on Monday
night I was one Of Stalacta'S fair
les, and unknown to me the old
timers Rugged the entrances to see
the kid with her first pair Of tights
But I had seen tights all my life
SO I was blissfully unconscious OF
them.
Tuesday one Of the dancers
twisted her ankle and that night
played her part, Zelda, and Wed
nesday I'LL leading woman learned
that her son, at school i'll Kansas
City, was Ill and went to him-and
that night I went en- for StaIacta,
the lead part. Tie marvellous cour-
age of youth!
For two nights I satisfied my
ambition and led the march, then
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
With Brownsville = and Valley Theaters
M ODie Calendar
Sunday-Monday

DITTMANN - THE Blockade"
with Anna @. Nilsson. Educational
Comedy.
CAPITOL-"The Carnation Kid"
with Douglas MacLean. Broadway
Blues" a talking comedy.
QUEEN-'The Duke Steps Out"
with william Raines, Joan Craw-
ford. Christie comedy, Aesops
Fables, and MGM News.
TEXAS-John Gilbert in Masks
Of the Devil" Universal comedy, IN
ternational News.
Observation-Disclosures
DITTMANN-"Boy Of the Streets"
and Fox News.
CAPTTOL-Tuesday 1.-THE Carna-
ton Kid" The Dummy" an all
talking picture with Ruth Chatter
ton opens Wednesday. Also vaude-
vile on screen.
QUEEN-"The Road to Ruin"
with all-star cast. Comedy, news,
and Pathe Review.
TEXAS - THE Wolf Of Wall
Street with George Bancroft. Chris
tie and Hal Roach comedy.
Thursday-Friday
+, DLTTMANN-"Runaway Girls
with Shirley Mason. Artclass COM
edy.
CAPITOL-"The Dummy" with
Ruth Chatterton. Vaudeville on
screen.
OUEEN-Thursday, 1.-THE Road to
Ruin" Friday, Glenn Tryon in
"The Gate Crasher."
TEXAS-Tim Mccoy in sioux
Blood" Hal Roach comedy and
International News.
Saturday
DITTMANN-"Law and Man.
with Johnnie Walker. Educational
comedy.
CAPTTOL-'The Dummy"
QUEEN-"The Gate Crasher,"
with Glenn Tryon.
TEXAS-ReX, the wonder horse
in wild Blood" Chapter ] Of "The
Diamond Master. Pathe Comedy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
Is Model For
Thousands; Clara
Bows Everywhere

10 you think that there is only
@Clara Bow2
N II do you r wrong, accord
tngS~ George N. Hates, head of
the NwmSgn relations department
of tfNSS Eamount studios, who
says tfSfsstaere are literally thou
sands Of Clara Bows all over the
world.
Among the conclusions Hates
made in a study Of foreign needs
in motion pictures was the one that
Clara Bow is no longer an individ-
ual but a type.
Had Clara Bow been a cashier
in a vinegar factory she would
have grown up solely herself"
Hates said recently. But instead
she chose to enter the motion pic
lures and because she has become
the most popular of feminine stars,
she has followers all over the
world.
"One Informant recently wrote
that the shock of his life came
when strolling down a quaint old
lane in Spain when he came face
to face with two Andalusian girls
wearing their hair exactly as does
Clara Bow and looking strikingly
like her.
Its the same the world over.
Go into any high school today and
you'll see Clara Bow there. On a
recent trip to New York I purposely
studied the groups Of villagers at
the stations in each town, and in
each gathering there was a Clara
Bow"
Greater impetus to the Bow
mannerism vogue and to the fad
for Bow hair-dressing is expected
from the next Bow release, The
Wild Party" an all-talking picture
of flaming and unbridled youth on
the campus, now showing at the
Palace theater, McAllen.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
Haines, Crawford,
In Hectic College
Picture AT Queen

Using a moving train, q college
campus, and a fight stadium crowd
ed with a thousand fight fans for
settings, James Cruze, director,
filmed one of the most strenuous
pictures of his career in THE Duke
Steps Out" william Haines' new
Metro-G oldwyn-Mayer vehicle now
playing at the Queen theater.
The story opens in a train, and
a genuine train was used while in
motion, with ten Pullman porters
impressed as actors. A college
campus was invaded and an entire
university also Impressed for sat
mosphere." In the fight scene in
the Hollywood Legion Stadium, a
genuine referee. genuine handlers
and announcers, and a genuine
prize fighter, Jack Roper, appear
as the actors. Haines fights a SEN
Sational bout with the heavyweight
championship contender. Haines,
incidentally, was the only lama
teur" In that ring. He admits that
some of the blows Roper gave him
were quite genuine also.
The new picture is a filmization
of the Saturday Evening Post story
by Lucian Cary. Haines plans a
prize fighter who enters college to
please his sweetheart, and his trials
and tribulations furnish hilarious
comedy while the fight furnishes
thrills. His love affair with Joan
Crawford supplies a pretty TO
nance.
The cast includes Karl Dane,
Tenen Holtz, Eddie Nugent, Del
mer Dawes, Luke Cosgrove, Her.
bert Prior and many others of note.
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NAMES

Especial to The Herald.)

SAN BENITO, April 20.-Rev.
Francis M. Davis was one of three
ministerial commissioners elected to
represent the Presbytery of western
Texas at the general assembly of
the organization to be held in Mon
treal, N. c., on May Is. The cleo
ton Of the local minister as part Of
the gorup of three ministers and
three laymen that will represent the
western Texas Presbytery at the
general assembly came at the close
of the two-day session of the west
ern P~resbytery which vas held in
San Benito Wednesday and Thurs
day.
The other members of the group
who will comprise the commission
of ministers and laymen are the
following: Rev. H. P. Bates, San
Antonio; Rev. S. Brooks McClane,
Kingsville; Garland H. Lang, Kerr
vile; A. c. Burkholder, San Mar
COS; and w. A. Ramsey Of San AM
tonic.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
Point Isabel School
Presented American
Flag Al Program
(SneciaI to The Heraldl


POINT ISABEL, April 20.-An
American flag given by Mrs. Ben
T. johnson, Pharr, in memory of
her dead mother, Mrs. Josephine
Meilke was officially presented to
the Point Isabel public schools last
night.
In the dedication ceremonies the
Rev. O.. c. Grow, presiding elder of
the Brownsville district of the
Methodist church made the princi-
pal address. He was introduced by
Father Paul Lewis.
Father George F. Sexton of San
Antonio gave the invocation.
Mrs. Meilke, in whose memory
the presentation Of the flag was
made, was a pioneer citizen Of
Point Isabel. She was born at
Clarksville. The old town has
since been destroyed by floods
Mrs. Miekle died at the age of IS,
Members of the Point Isabel
school rendered a brief program
and closed singing America"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
TICKETS ON SALE
FOR MONDAY CARD

Tickets for the Monday night
fight card to be staged at the Fort
Brown skating rink are being sold
by Red" Nelson. Several substi-
stations have been established over
the city for those wishing to make
early reservations for the fights.
The cardboards are reported as
moving fast. Local fans seem anX-
ious to SEE Garcia and Apara in
action.
our leading woman came back, the
dancer got well and I retired TO the
original minor mart"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
'CLEMENCEAU TAKING
A VIEW'-HUTIN

PARIS, April 20-P-Marcel HUI
tin, writing in the Echo de Paris,
today, says Georges Clemenceau,
Frances wartime premier, takes an
exceedingly grave view of the at
titude of DR.. Hjalma Schracht in
the present reparations deadlock.
The journalist quotes Clemenceau
as follows:
His (Schacht'S) refusal and his
designs tend toward nothing less
than a new war"
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TO
GO TO NASHVILLE

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 90
P)-A number Of prominent Texas
Methodists are expected here dur
ing the latter part of April and the
first of May for the annual meet
ings of the different departments
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. Nearly all sections of the
Lone Star State have representa-
tiveS on the various boards of the
church, which has a southern men,
bership of nearly 5000, 900.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
RAIL HEADS JOIN IN
STATION CELEBRATION

TEXARKANA, April 20.-(P-
Presidents of railway companies CO.
operating in construction of the
S1yOO0,000 union station here have
informed officials that they will
join in a celebration of the OPEN
ing Of the terminal, according to
L. G. Cargile, president Of the
Texarkana Chamber of Commerce.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-04-21
SWOLLEN STREAMS IN
N

TOPEKA, April 19.-tP)-Swollen
by ~torrential spring rains the past
two days, streams in eastern Kansas
today were at flood stages, disrupt
ing highway and railway traffic.
The Kaw. largest of all Kansas
rivers, stood at 21.8 feet at Topeka
today, the highest stage of the river
here since June, 1915. Flood warn
ings had been issued along the Ver-
degris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
Worth Belittled Rises.

TT is a favorite trick in the theater-
and perhaps In the world at large
to belittle worth with tag or nickname
in order to avoid giving 1t the recogni-
ton 1t really merits.
For instance, with the fading from
popularity OF vaudeville. in which in its
heyday the most talented people of the
theater have appeared, the once favorite
song-and dance team has come to be
salary is kept within bounds by calling
q dancer a "hoofer," The aging actor
long ago became "a ham," and many
other instances might be cited.
But the trick has never worked with
the girls of the musical stage who break
into dramatic life via the chorus. The
reason is simple.
You simply cannot keep a chorus girl
down II she Is wise as to her opportuni-
ties. Give her the most modest Of duties
and in one way or another-it may be
with her eyes a toss of her feet, a
roguish smile or saucy twist Of her
personality-she soon forces an audi
ence to sit up and take notice. The
rest Is between her and her manager,
and as a rule she gets her advance
ment The original sextet Of the ia
nous production "Florodora" ultimately
became queens, or counteSSes, or some
Otner nlgn-cla6S ana ulSSraceluIly' pros
porous ladies, and many of their sue
cessors followed in their footsteps.
In the gorgeous film reproduction Of
the famous Belasco play THE Gold
Diggers" there is one explanation OF
how this was accomplished; for, unlike
the play, the film introduces the merry
merries" both at work and at play.
Their is a sort of reverse action, how
ever, In the film, in that some of the
ladies of the chorus, who, in fact, have
already touched the high spots, like
Ann Pennington, Nancy Wexford and
Liltan Eastman, are made to revert to
the ranks. But don't be deceived. It
is only in the play-onlv in the play.
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O'Neill Characteristics.

TNESCAPABLE characteristics Of Eu-
gene O'Neill. author Of Marco Mil
lions" which the New York Theater
Guild will present at the National Thea
ter in october, are the power, the con-
viction, the sureness of the dark, tall,
lean man with the burning eyes. He
has got the wildcat by the tail and he
is not afraid. After IL years work and
some 30 plays written, he is convinced
that there Is nothing that cannot be
done on the stage. The only thing you
have to do is to decide what you want
to do and then find the means to do it
that is, if you are Eugene O'Neill.
He believes our drama has been
cramped and loaded down with the
weight of its own machinery. like all
our modern processes of life. He would
restore the supremacy of the idea over
the machinery, set the end above the
means. He would use the marvellous
contraptions of modern stage, its
lights and the rest, not as toys to anuse
grown-up children, but as slaves of the
dramatist's magic lamp, with due econ
omy observed in the name OF truth and
the interest of art.
So ideal is ONeill about ideas that
he tries to be a symbolist. Sometimes
he succeeds. Fortunately, the Irish in
him keeps his ideas so human that
usually drama rises triumphant and
shrill from the symbolistic clutter. He
is, nevertheless, man set surely upon
his road and bent to go his own way
quite clear that it is leading in the
right direction and that this direction
is toward the emancipation Of the
theater.
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West Virginia.

BRIDGE-Petersburg, W. Va.
OPERA HOUSE-Piedmont, W. Va.
PRINCESS-Lewisburg, w. Va.
BERKLEY-Berkley Springs, ". Va.
rRFDGE-Paw Paw w. Vs.
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Stepin Fetchit.

MO screen artist is said to be grow
~ ing in popularity throughout the
world faster than Stepin Fetchit, the
inimitable colored comedian whom Hol-
lywood screen scouts discovered in a
small vaudeville act in San Diego, Calf.
And no actor, it is claimed, has taken
success with better grace and more
modesty than this former Key West
sinner Of shoes, medicine show per-
former and rubber of Step and Fetchit,
the thoroughbred race horse from which
he obtained his own stage name.
Stepin Fetchit, who was christened
Lincoln Theodore Perry on the day of
his birth, May 80, 1902, has been COM
pared favorably by leading critics with
the late Bert Williams, greatest Of
Negro comedians. Yet Stepin, who
almost steals" every picture in which
he is cast, no matter how small his
part, wishes people would not compare
him with Bert Williams or with any one
else.
There will never be any one like
Bert Williams" he says, land Step1n
Fetchit is always going to be Stepin
Fetchit."
Hearts in Dixie" gave Stepin an I'M
usually strong send-of in motion pic
lures. He followed it with uniformly
fine work in THE Fox Movietone Follies
of 1929" as a slow-noving call boy, and
his most recent screen role Is that Of
Smoke Screen, servant in Salute,
John Ford's Fox Movietone production
which is now at the Fox Theater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22

EIGHTEEN years ago a 1o-year-old
boy and man were walking along
the streets of Union Hill, N. J.
The boy was complaining.
'Mr. Edwards" he said, that girl
I sing my song to is not so good
she doesn't pay any attention and
when. can't get a reaction sing like
a dill pickle"
ooh, is that SOP" inquired Gus Ed
wards, with just a touch of sarcasm
in his voice. so you want to pick
your leading ladies already, Ell? Well.
il you're so smart, let's see you do it."
"All right. How about that girl
there?"
The boy pointed to a little girl. about
4 years old, playing with doll on a
porch. The girl was very pretty and
had big dark eyes.
You're not such bad picker at
that" Edwards answered.
He knocked at the door Of the house,
introduced himself to the little girls
mother. After family conference at