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Silent and Talking Movies.

The producers problem in the talk
ies'' is to make the sound natural and
convincing. With this done, "talkies"
require actors with good voices and
clear enunciation, who can put mean
ing into their lines. Good voice actors
are rarer than good screen actors. But
will speaking limit the range Of screen
plays?
In play the dramatic effect is di-
vided between action and dialogue
Classic plays seem slow because there
is so much talk and so little atcion.
1t takes more intellectual interest
and taste to follow speaking plays.
If 1t is a comedy, wit and satire are
higher forms of humor than burlesQue
or slapstick. If that type of play is to
be screened at all it must be talked
Silent movies are adapted to action
plays, which the great public prefers.
How about the total realism? Ger
tainly for human action talk Is essen
tial; it makes drama. Pantomimes are
not popular and are very limited. Yet
people like the spectacular, and show
is the popular name for what goes on
on the stage. The movies" attract the
millions because they are cheap and
give the essentials on a spectacular
scale, with all nature, and city streets
and highways, and gardens and palaces,
and the haunts of slum life as real set
tings.
Until some dramatic genius comes
along and fits new dramatic art to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-20
A Sermon for Today
BIZ REV. JOHN Il. GUM.
Life Under Pressure.

Text-"We were pressed out Of meas
ure, above strength, in so much that we
despaired even Of life."-2 Cor, t.8.
How many there are whose lives these
words describe There are some who
have never known what 1t was to be
at ease and free from burden. They
have never known time when they
were out from under pressure. All
their days have been spent in toll and
struggle. They have always had heavy
loads to carry and often they have been
pressed out Of measure, above
strength" They have looked forward
to time when they would have some
freedom and be able ito take things a
little easier. But that time never
comes. There seems no chance of any
let-up of the pressure under which they
live.
We wish that these people might
have little more of life's romance, a
little more of its pleasures and re-
freshments. But after all, life is realized
at its highest and best only when lived
under pressure. The noblest charac-
tiers are not to be found among those
who live lightly, without cares and bur-
dens. It Is among those who are COM
PEELED to work under the steady weight
of duty, obligation and responsibility
that we must look for the worlds
purest and strongest men and women.
I'm this world we shall have tribu-
lation," Christ said to His disciples.
The word tribulation means literally
pressure" Christ knew that 1t re-
quired pressure to develop strong and
stalWart men.
Steam does its work under pressure.
Turn it loose in the air and it becomes
useless. Thus 1t is with men. 1t re-
ouires the confinement of responsible
| ity and obligation to make us worth
while and useful. To be and do our
best we must live under pressure.
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Everyday Law Cases
Can Builder Recover on Building
Contract Only Substantially
Complied With?
By TIE COUNSELLOR.
By THE COUNSELLOR.

John Spaulding, a builder, agreed
to make certain alterations in q house
owned by Mrs. Green for the sum Of
$500. He completed the alterations.
but Mrs. Green complained of certain
defects. She showed him that two
doors were loose and did not close
mitted. was correctly performed.
Because Of these defects she refused
to pay Spaulding any money even for
the work that was satisfactory.
Spauldtng refused to repair the de-
fective work and sued Mrs. Green to
recover the contract price, less an al
lowance of $50 for the defective work.
Mrs. Green, in defense, commended
that strict performance was a condition
precedent to Spaulding's right to re-
cover: that until he had completed
everything he had agreed to do he was
not entitled to payment Of any money.
The court, however. gave Spaulding
a judgment for the contract price, less
the allowance of $50. necessary to re-
pair the defective work, stating:
According to earlier decisions, strict
performance is essential in such case
in order to be permitted to recover in
suit on the contract. There has,
and now, on such contract, there
may be a recovery If 1t IS shown that
The builder has in good faith intended
to comply with the contract and has
substantially complied with it.
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The Sidewalks of Washington
BY THORNTON FISHER.

fusion and folly, Liberty first and
union afterwards; but everywhere,
spread all over in characters of living
light, blazing on all its ample folds, as
they float over the sea and over the
land, and in every wind under the
whole heavens, that other sentiment,
dear to every true American heart
Liberty and Union. now and forever,
one and inseparable."
Talk about your thrills, gentle reader.
* +
Imagine placing a record in the ma
chine and hearing the eloquent words
of Edmund Burke, delivered in the
House of Commons: IF, amid these
bright and happy scenes of domestic
honor and prosperity, that angel should
have drawn up the curtain and un-
folded the rising glories of his country.
and while he was gazing with admira-
ton on the then commercial grandeur
of England, the genius should point
out to him a little speck. scarce vist-
BILE in the mass of the national inter-
est and should tell him, Young
man, there is America-which at this
day serves for little more than to
amuse you with stories of savage men
and uncouth manners; yet shall. before
you taste death, show. itself equal to
the whole Of that commerce which now
attracts the envy Of the world What
ever England has been growing to by
a progressive increase of improvement.
brought in by varieties of people. by
succession of civilizing conquests and
civiliZing settlements in a series Of 100
years, you shall see as much added to
her by America in the course Of SIM
gle life"
The voice Of the enunciator Of this
prophecy would be worth many times
the price Of an ordinary record. The
cline but certainly 1t is less in evidence.
No wonder the visitor is disappointed
when he fails to hear the halls of Con-
gress ring with the expected thrilling
speeches
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Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

Mrs. D. w. B. writes: MY 2-year-
old daughter gets breath-holding spells.
Sometimes these are caused by fright,
anger or being overtired, and some
times / can flnd no reason for them.
She gets gray in the face and num-
Der of times has been unconscious for
several minutes. 1 have always been
able to bring her back by rubbing her
f sassSsss= with a cold, wet cloth, but she is
Limp and weak for an hour afterward-
9nd so am !.
/, None of my friends has ever had
such an experience with her children
and my doctor can give me no cause
or cure"
Answer-This letter describes a spell
characteristic of those suffered by chill
dren with enlarged thynnus glands.
Present-day parents are warned con-
stantly not to attribute breath-holding
spells, which are followed by limp re-
action. to pain, temper and so on. The
pain or temper might induce an emo
ton which led to the suffocation and
breath holding, but the child doesn't
do this consciously or use this as a
weapon over the parent. The child
can't help it.
The thymus is located in the upper
chest and is largest In infancy. It
grows progressively smaller and usually
is at its smallest after puberty. 1t has
been said that the pathologically en-
larged thymus, the type which so
presses on the respiratory organs that
under stress of almost any emotion it
suffocates the child, is present only in
about one child in thousand. l have
no way of controverting those figures,
but with my extremely large mail I
hear of such cases so often that it
seems to me they must be much more
common than that. Always the descrip-
ton is the same: My child holds his
breath, faints away and then is limp
and sleeps for hours afterwards"
We all know children who hold their
breath when angry or tempery, but
there Is no such after-effect The
child draws his breath and is rosy and
unaffected. This does not belong to
the type mentioned.
We do not believe in frightening par
ents. However, a mother should be
warned of the danger in allowing an
enlarged thymus to be neglected because
one Is attributing such spells to temper
and not to their rightfuI cause. When
her child exhibits the symptoms she
should take him to a doctor who will
have an X-ray picture made of the
chest to determine the relative size of
the thymus and whether it would be
helped by some X-ray treatments to
diminish 1t.
Not so long ago received an impas-
stoned appeal from mother to broad
cast this probable cause Of breath-hold-
ing spells followed by weakness and
lmpness. We hope this meets her eye.
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KEEPING MENTALLY FIT
BY JOSEPH JASTROW.

talking screen we shall have to choose
somewhat between the realism of the
action and of the dialogue. But do we
want so realistic an imitation of the real
that 1t might be mistaken for reality, or
Is all art selection? Do you get an
added thrill from actual drenching rain
on the stage? In the wreckage scene,
with actual derricks and derailed cars,
would you also want to hear the shrieks
of the injured and the noisy shouting
of the wrecking crew? Or would that
scare you by its realism?
Then there is color. Do you miss the
color? AS yet colored movies have not
been satisfactory, but we shall soon
II you could see actors and settings
solid in three dimensions, and In color,
and haveShe human figures so real that
you would mistake them for actual liv-
ing persons with the voice added, would
the effect be so startling as to be almost
weird? Or is that the final goal? Solid
-colored-talking movies?
It's complex matter. The producer
and the dramatist are working at it.
They are guessing in terms of millions
of dollars what the public wants, and
the psychologist is fairly bewildered
when he asks, How will the average
mind react to the talkieS? He, too,
may be guessing, but in terms of what
suits the human mind, how to address
ear and eye to get the best effects and
the biggest thrill.
(Copyright. 1927
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perfectly smooth ones. A prong may
catch and pull a thread slightly, thus
making wee line of unevenness in the
weave, with loose END hanging, or 1t
may cause a run. Nails of fingers and
toes must be smoothly cut and the lat
ter be short. Rough nails are disas-
trous.
Do not fasten garters so tight that
thread snaps in the weave of the stock
ing if the wearer bends the knee sharply
either in sitting down or in STOPPING
over. The weave of hosiery is very
elastic, but frequently, too, 1t is taxed
to its utmost when garters are fastened.
No more give" remains.
Always fasten garters through the
hem of hosiery. If either the carriers
or the stockings are so long that this
cannot be done, make a fold in the
hosiery and thus provide triple thick
ness for the garter to be buttoned into.
Always see that the buttons or gar
tiers are rubber, felt or cloth covered.
French garters generally are fitted with
the latter. Metal buttons will wear
stockings.
(Copyright, 1929
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SUB ROSA
By MIMI.
Talking Machines.

Today made purchase by slipping
quarter into a slot only to receive a
package of candy and hear some sort of
a tin can say Thank you'll" 1t was
robot. But his powers Of conversation
were limited
Dear mel Have we come to the place
where we have to have machines do
our talking, and, If so, what's to be-
come of conversation? AS it is already,
conversation Is kind of lost art, like
Greek vases, stained glass windows and
heme cooking.
We live in an age of hurry. when
there is no time for conversation and
when We do try to say something there's
too much noise for us to talk. find
that while the street car Is rafting
along I can't be heard and when 1t
stops I can't think of anything to say.
But human beings were meant to use
their tongues for some other purpose
than licking stamps and believe that
Just as many words are uttered now as
In the past. Yes, we talk, but we don't
converse.
The dictionary swells with new words,
more and more phone calls are put In
and there is plenty of rattle from china.
It's only that we don't exchange views.
feelings and aspirations by means of
conversation.
A real conversation Is like the dia-
logue in play. There may be little
ping pong about it as we talk into each
others ears, but 1t is shared expert
ence and must not die an unnatural
death.
To converse well, you must have
something to talk about or you'll do no
more than talk words. Don't harangue
or debate; leave that to orators and
congressman. But have a theme, If
only the weather We talk about that
because we are interested in 1t.
True topics of conversation are those
of general interest. What most inter-
ests just you, like your headache or
the man you met, may not have a
social interest. RecitalS about tonsils
and the appendix are too private to be
of public interest.
Silent people are a bluff and a nui-
sance. They give the impression that
they know all that's being said and
then some. They refuse to chip in on
the conversation game and should be
shown up as worse than robots.
The grand rule of conversation is the
Golden Rule. Talk to others the way
you'd like to have them talk to you.
Talk intimately, but use your own per-
sonality as springboard for your
wor6s. Then you can tell the world.
(Copyright, 1929
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.DorothyDix.
Handbook
OF
Charm
For Girls
Completes
List
OF
Requirements
Charming Personality Includes Integrity Spirit of
independence, Simplicity and knowledge
And Respect for Own Worth.
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out adding any new pieces will make
that room paradise" to the woman
who must spend majority of her
waking hours In the kitchen.
In the illustration is shown an ordi-
nary cabinet which has been painted
a light shade of green inside and out,
with black knobs and hinges and glass
partitions.
The woodwork in the room Is ivory
and the walls are yellow. The wide
board floors have been painted tan and
the chairs are in Chinese red, this same
color being chosen for the bowls, kitch-
en- coffee pot, tea kettle. etc, and the
little brackets are light green with
black holders and red candles.
(Copyrtght, 1920
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n4E LlHE RCH1S on
TIE RIGHT

1t would be possible, through the use
of the microphone, to make talking
machine records of the voices for pos
terity. What a heritage would be the
voices of Patrick Henry, Webster, Lin
coin and Washington. Suppose one
could put on a record containing Rob-
ert Emmet's protest against sentence
as traitor. Hear his last words: 81
have but a few more words to say-I
am going to my cold and silent grave
my lamp Of life is nearly extinguished-
my race is run-the grave opens to
receive me and I sink into its bosom.
have but one request to ask at my
departure from this world. It is-the
charity Of its silence. Let no man
write my epitaph, for as no man who
knows my motives dares now to vindi-
cate them, let not prejudice or igno-
rance asperSe them. Let them and
me rest in obscurity and peace and
my tomb remain uninScribed, and nv
memory in oblivion, until other times
and other men can do justice to my
character. When my country takes her
place among the nations Of the earth.
and not till then, let my epitaph be
written. have done"
And suppose we could turn the record
over and hear the voice of Webster in
reply to Hayne, saying: when my ewes
shall be turned to behold, for the last
time tho et1ra ~,
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Two sparkling fountains Of interest
for the visitor in Washington are the
Senate chamber and the House OF
Representatives. Only on certain occa-
sions does the tourist from Whoopee,
N. Y, or Kekokie, Nebr., hear the
golden eloquence of these chambers.
Most of the time he gaZeS upon a
startling number of vacant seats or lis
tens to the monotonous murmur of
voices. Seldom do our national halls
vibrate with thrilling speeches.
Save for importance and significance,
the congressional chambers do not diff
fer from State legislative halls. And
yet both the Senate and the House have
their stars. their showmen-those scin-
tillating statesmen who. when adver-
tised to speak. can fill the galleries and
jam the corridors.
Let the word go out that Senator jim
Reed or Senator Borah will speak at a
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Home in Good Taste
BY SARA HILAND.

Who says that kitchen cannot be
furnished attractively, even if it does
have a lot of old pieces of furniture
in it! That is often the feeling of a,
woman who is tired of her routine of
duty in a kitchen which has uninter-
esting pine woodwork, wide board floors
and one of those ordinary old kitchen,
cabinets that look as if they came "outl
of the ark"-not to mention couple
of chairs which she wishes she would'
never see again.
A general refinishing of the kitchens
and repainting Of the furniture with
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Hamburg Casserole.

Slice three onions into a frying pan
and cook slowly In a little fat. Sea-
son one and one-half pounds of ham
burg steak to taste Heat one can Of
corn in butter. add salt and pepper
and little milk. Into a casserole put
in layers the onions, the steak. half
a can of tomato soup, the corn, the
other half can of tomato soup, and
some mashed potato. Dot with but
ter and cook in the oven until the
nOtato Is brown
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specified hour, and
the line forms not
only on the right
but on the left and
center.
The suggestion
has been advanced
in recent months
that microphones
be installed in the
Capitol, so that
hearers through
out the country
might hear their
/ a W m a kers al
work. 1t is doubt
ful il this would
be interesting. save
on those occasions
when the mighty
t,oav, IF NratNy.f,
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Effective Care of Silk Stockings
By LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

The problem of keeping silk stock
ings In wearable condition Just as long
as the fllnly fabric can be made to en-
dure the strain put upon 1t Is one that
confronts every woman. The textile
gets more sheer each season. Net is
the latest fancy. Even in cold, Wintry
weather, these stockings are being worn
sometimes with no extra protection for
out of doors, sometimes partially cover
ed with fancy arctics which have vari-
GUS names.
Practically every woman wears silk
stockings in varying degrees of sheer
ness and the desire to know ways to
make them last longer" is universal.
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time, the sun in
heaven, may I not
see him shining on
the broken and
dishonored frag-
ments Of q once
glorious Union; on
States discovered,
discordant, bellige-
rent; on q land
rent with civil
feuds, or drenched,
it may be, in fra
ternal blood. Let
their last feeble
a n d lingering
glance rather be-
hold the gorgeous
ensign Of the Re-
public, now known
and honore d
fhrnii0I1ofif thu
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=. 10

The hints given today are "tried and
true"
Draw on stockings deity. Gather
the leg portion each side of the back
seam until 1t is crumpled in the hands
as far down as the foot. Slip the foot
into the stocking until the toes and
heel are fitted snugly. Then draw up
the hands, gradually releasing the
stocking, with the back seam kept
straight until the top is reached and the
leg covered.
Never pull on stockings held straight
while the foot pushes its way down to
the toe Of the hosiery. This strains the
weave. Never have rings on, except
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Lessons in English
BIZ W. L. GORDON.

Words often n1isused: Avoid use of
the word "muchly." It is now obsolete.
often misspelled: Sculptor and sculp-
ture.
Synonyms: Acumen, acuteness. clev-
erness, discernment, keenness, insight,
shrewdness, sagacity.
Word study: use word three times
and it is yours" Let us increase our
vocabulary by mastering one word each
day. Today's word: Surmise (verb); to
imagine or infer on slight grounds: to
guess. II surmised as much from what
She said"
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earth, still full high advanced, its arms
and trophies streaming in their origi-
nal luster, not stripe erased or pol
luted, nor a single star obscured. bear
ing for its motto no such miserable
interrogatory as What is all this
worth?' nor those other words of de-
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In the African Republic of Liberia,
mourning bands are worn, not upon the
sleeve. for the native garb is often ex-
ceedingly scant. but around the fingers
or about the head
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I find it quite difficult at times to
get my children to eat their vegetables.
have found a little game to play with
them which has helped solve this diff
Guilty. I hold up as many fingers as I
think it will take bites to eat their
food. With each bite they take, drop
a finger. They are so interested in
watching the fingers go down that by
the time they are all down. the vege-
tables are down, too!
Copyright. 1920