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New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

that Melies again enlarged his studio. He proved himself genius for creating illusions. Despite the crudity of his apparatus, his films became widely known in France. un- til he produced at least two popular subjects a week and a feature about once a month.
 To do all this, Melies had to over come the problem of lighting. When he found the day not long enough, with natural light, he installed arc lamps, increasing their number as he enlarged his studio. Here again he was a pioneer. Then he went still another step, and used mercury vapor lights. He made the first fade out and fade-in pictures.
 Melies achieved perhaps his great est milestone in film production when he was visited one day by M. Paulus, who was a popular music hall songster and actor-the Maurice Chevalier of his day. Paulus was not going so good at the time and he contracted to act in a series of films for Melies. on the understanding that he would work incognito. Meles put him through capers illustrating his popular songs, and they were produced with the appropriate music, Those were days long before the "talkies," but audiences recog- nized their favorite and Paulus again won fame under the direction and stage management of Melies.
 Made 4,OOO Films
 Bigger and better pictures were produced, and such phantasies as 'The Journey to the Moon" and -Four Hundred Tricks of the Devir' are still affectionately remembered.
 Melies did not rent his films, but sold them outright to producers. But he could not market his pictures in the United States because of copy rights. He was still working hard and had produced over 1000 films when the war came on. Then he was ruined financially and sold his pie lures for anything that he could get. The ultimate thrust of irony came when he learned that some of his strips of celluloid were being used to make synthetic rubber heels.
 In 1918 Melies quite the picture business in despair. He lost his property and his studio and in order to make living he opened his little toy shop. Today he may be seen, bartering with children, small, bald-headed. white bearded. but kindly old man.
 Only when he talks of the old days does, the genius of Melies show itself. His eyes sparkle and with the mind of the producer he com- ments on pictures, old and new.
 T was sure these days would come" he said, speaking of super films blazing on the boulevards, but the business swept on too quickly for me. I at least have the satis- faction that I was right
 All I ask for today is recognition of what did over 30 years ago."
 He will be pleased if his studio will become a museum, but happier still if an appreciative government would bestow upon him the red rib bon of the Legion of Honor. He says he wants no financial reward.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

The portable post .odlce was used during the years of the Civil war. and was housed in a box-car which stood on the siding of the North western railroad here. Hank Flowers, Northwestern station agent during the civil conflict served as village postmaster. No mail deliveries were made during those years, and resi- dents were required to call at the box car for their mail.
 When the government erected post office building here. Miss Mur- phys father was station agent for the Northwestern railroad. and the
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
NEGLECTS
 PIONEER C|NEMAN
France Now May Honor George
 Melies, First Producer
BY MINO1'T SAUNDERS

Paris, Oct. IT - The worlds first moving picture studio may be turned into a museum, and the first pro- ducer of entertainment films Is hop ing for recognition as the instigator of an industry which. during his span of life, has swept through every land.
 George Melies might have been one of the wealthiest of men, but fortune turned against him. Now. at 69. he conducts a little sidewalk top shop near the Montparnasse rail- road station here.
 A drive has been started to save the studio of Melies at Montreuil, near Paris, so that it may stand as a monument to his genius.
 Melies was director of the Rob- ert Houdin theater when Louis Lu- miere, whom the French hail as the inventor of the moving picture cam- era and film. began to show what he could do back in 1895. On Christmas day of that year he pre- sented film strips of a few yards in length of documentary nature. Melies was present and was so im- pressed that he asked Lumiere to sell him the apparatus. Melies had his big idea.
 Lumiere refused to sell. how ever. 50 Melies went to work and constructed his own camera. Two months later. in February, 1896. he produced his first moving picture film. He called it. "A Card Party" and 1t ran about 50 feet.
 His First Film Studio
 Melies built his studio in the back yard of his home in Montreuil. He was careful about expenses because he didn't know how the thing was going to take. He just built little stage in the open air and worked hard all summer until September came and cut down his light. He could only operate from 10 a. m., to 5 D. m.
 His films were selling, however, so he enlarged his studio, making it dUOuI oO lcSI lOli6, ~ iSSI "ioS eiiN 20 feet high. with roof of glass.
 Meles was the scenario writer, producer, director. scene painter, stage carpenter and actor. When he was not acting he operated the camera, but otherwise his daughter turned the crank. His fellow actors and actresses were chosen from among workers around the legitimate theater.
 The Father of the Film" worked cautiously. Every time he got new idea for an effect he had to invent his own machinery. He built traps in the floor and runways overhead so that his actors could come into the picture from unexpected angles, giv- ing his pictures a novelty unknown to the stage.
 Was Real Pioneer
 Most of the tricks of the movie trade that seem so impressive today, Melies started in his humble way. He bedecked his actors in fantastic uniforms and splashed his paint brush around for lights and shades In 1897 business was going so good
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
FINE ARAB SPEEDS
 ]: SEEM U. 5. BOUND
British Taxation May Force Sale
 of Worlds Best

London, Oct. IT - The worlds most perfect collection of thorough bred Arabian horses is to be sold by the Baroness Wentworth, and she believes that England's loss will be Americas gain. The sale is in- evitable, a sacrifice to the tremend- ous and apparently never-ceasing tide of English taxation. But the famous horsewoman's last gesture of loyalty to the proud line of anil mals which has become traditional with her family is the hope that whoever buys the Arab stallions and mares will keep the entire stable together. And she fears that nobody but an American millionaire could do that.
 4. Since its inception, the Crabbet Park stud has cost at least $5,oo0.- 6b0, and the lowest price that even would be considered now would be we'll over $1.000,000. So only the very wealthy need apply.
 Thus will pass, probably to the United States, the animate sym bols of a romantic family legend. Lady Wentworth's father was Wilfrid Blunt, who in addition to being a great landowner was a poet famous for his verse trans lations of the Arab odes of pagan times. Her mother was Lady Anne Blunt. granddaughter of Lord Bryon. Lady Wentworth herself carries on the poetic tradi tions of both sides of her family by being on of the oldest of Eng lands living sonnetteers.
 Travelled in Arabia
 The love stories in the life of her Hlustrious ancestor, Byron. are household tales. The romance in the story of her parents is not so well known. and out of it grew the Crabbet Park stable of fiery Arab steeds.
 Owing to i'll health, the young poet was ordered to travel in the dry climate of the east. Accom- panied by his beautiful and ad- venturous wife, he went to Ara L!a, then even more dangerous for Europeans than 1t is now. But they both learned to speak Arabic fluently, dressed in Arabic cos tune, became blood-kin. so to speak. of the Arabs, and led their life.
 7. Then the hereditary passion for fine horses seized both the young 6eorle. For generations the Rlunts. the Byrons and the Love- face5 had spent big sums on fine horses. Now the young pair were in the desert land where were bred the finest horses in the world. They got for modest sums from their Arabian friends specimens q: blue -blooded horseflesh that 3hers could not have bought for Srtunes.
 = Carried on Hobby
 When Blunt returned to Eng land cured of his ailments, he de- voted as much time to his horses as he did to his books. Lady Went worth, the only child. was reared on poetry, Arabic and horses So
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
MODEL NEW HATS AFTER KING TUT'S
London Designers Present "Ra-
 mses" Type for Women

London, Oct. 1T (UP)-King Tut has been having a long inning with fashion designers, but now London dress experts are determined that Queen Tut" shall have her "raps."
 Designers who have been deiving into history books for bizarre ideas are resolved that Queen Tut" the little girl. shall be given big hand in a good old fashioned, home town way.
 To start this new era devoted to King Tut's Queen" the Rameses hat has been created. It is said by some to be simply divine, and by others, mostly men to be hideous.
 The Rameses hat has no brim. It is covered with artificial hair of the
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

when her parents died, she just naturally carried on with the Crabbet Park stud.
 The ravages of war and disease iI Arabia have made her stable unique. In Arabia itself there are no longer any horses to equal hers. Animals from her collec- tion have been sold to improve the breed in every horse-loving coun- try of the world. King Feisal of Irak and King Fuad of Egypt. who in other times would have sent to Arabia for horses. have had to have recourse to her collec- tion and have personally visited it.
 Tt breaks my heart to think or parting with these glorious ami mals," said Lady Wentworth. "They are as much a part of the history of my family as this old house, which has been lived in by my ancestors for 300 years. But I am suffering from the burdens of high taxation. as are all great lduueu III L1A6i
 U. S. Knows Her Horses
 AS an Englishwoman. I nat urally would like to see the stud bought by an Englishman and kept intact in this country. be- cause it can never be replaced. But I would hate to see it bought by an Englishman and then dis persed by sales of ten blooded ami mals here. fifteen there. and so on. That is why, if one of my own ccuntrymen cannot buy 1t and keep it intact, would love to see it acquired by some American of great means, who could afford to keep it intact.
 "The stud already has many American associations. When w. E. Brown of New Hampshire and w. K. Kellogg of California founded their famous studs, they bought some of their choice speci- mems from me.
 Tn their time, too, my horses DtCdlnS ldillouS III youA SOoAi|A y . In 1921 there was run great en- durance test. The horses were to cover 310 miles within five days time. My geldng, Crabbet, won. carrying weight of 225 pounds. IT. 1919 my mare, Ramlah, had scored the same kind of success in the same kind of endurance race carrying 217 pounds. In a similar race run some years ago in Eng land ny mare, Belka. came first. A ye&.' ago at the Richmond horse show my stallion. Shareer, was called the finest horse in the world.
 Some Understand Arabic
 When I part with these ami mals it will be like parting with some of my own family. There is not one of them who does not know me by sight and by voice. For I have always taken a very active part in their management ard many of these horses have known me since they were foaled.
 No" she added, T cant speak to all of them in Arabic, for the simple reason that they have be- come English as to tongue by req son of association with English grooms. But some of them under stand Arabic as we'll as English"
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

professional thin-man who exhib- ited at fairs slipped through the bars of his cell here. jumped the high wall and was gone.
 Inquiry revealed that Pouchet had recently gone on hungerstrike. apparently with the idea of getting thinner and making his escape easy.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
NERVY WOMAN PILOT

Frankfort, N. Y, Oct. IT (UP) - While government inspectors exam ined the airport at Talcottville where her flying instructor, Richard Yule, was killed in crash. Mrs. Lillian Wiltse of Frankfort success fully passed tests for private pilots license.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
FR1EDMAN,s PASSES WIN

New York. Oct. IF (UP)-Benny Friedman's New York Giants de- feated Ernie Never's Chicago Cardi- nals 25 to 12 In a professional foot ball game at the Polo Grounds hero last night.
 Friedman's long. accurate passes featured the game.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
Circus Freak So Skinny
 He SIips Through Bars

Lille, France, Oct. r (UP)-Po. lice are securing the region of Lille for Marcel Pouchet an escaped con vict sentenced for theft, who owes his getaway to his extreme thin ness.
 During the absence of the guards at lunch, Pouchet who was once a
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

portable post office was turned over to him. Since then Illinois unusual and probably oldest post office has been the possession of the Murphy family.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
ILLINOIS WOMAN OWNS
 FIRST p. 0. IN TOWN
Portable Cabinet With Eight Lock Boxes and Special Delivery Draw
 CT Used During Civil War

River Forest, H., Oct. IT (UP)- Among the heirlooms possessed by Miss Mary Murphy here is the vil- lage's first ost office. It Is a portable cabinet, about the size of an or dinary cabinet. containing eight pri- vate drawers which was used for special delivery mail. The bottom of the cabinet contained two draw CTS which were used for magazines newspapers and articles.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-17
Carried on Hobby

When Blunt returned to Eng land cured of his ailments, he de- voted as much time to his horses as he did to his books. Lady Went worth, the only child. was reared oh poetry, Arabic and horses So
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02
PORKERS SHOW
WEAKER TREND
AT CITY YARDS
General Trend About Steady
in Cattle: VeaIers
Sell Off.

Hogs showed further weakness at
the city yards today, prices ranging
5 to 20 cents lower than Monday.
The bulk, 100 to 300 pounds, sold
for 1925 to $S35, the latter hold
ing as the early top. Receipts we're
estimated at 5000; holdovers were
1876.
The general trade in cattle was
slow and about steady at Mondays
decline. Receipts were 1000.
Vealers were weak with the rest of
The market, selling off so cents at
s13 down. Calf receipts we're 900.
Sheep held steady, good and
choice lambs bringing generally
$3.50 to SO. Receipts were 1900.
Chicago hog receipts were $4,000
including 5000 direct. Holdovers
were 1000. The market was slow
with asking around steady. Most
early bids and a few sales 10 to Is
cents lower than Mondays average.
Good to choice 40 to 240-pound
weights $50; choice 2OO-pound
butchers. $8.15; few 100 to 210-pound
weights $50. Cattle receipts 5000;
calves 1000; market steady. Sheep
5000; steady.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02
POSTAL PROBE
GROUP TO CALL
HEAD OF FIRM
R. D. Brown of indianapolis
to Be Summoned
for Quizzing.
By Times Special

BY IimeS Spcctdt
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.-Ray-
mond d. Brown, indianapolis, presi-
dent of the United Postoffices Cor
poration, will be summoned by q
special postof1ice lease investigating
committee at an early date for in
vestigation of postofflce leases his
corporation holds, Senator Blaine
rep, Wis.,, chairman, said today
Date for resumption of the COM
mittee's hearings has not been set,
but it is expected they will be re-
newed in the near future.
Senator Blaine does not know how
many postoffice leases the United
Postoffices Corporation holds, nor
their value, he said today, explain
ing he had been unable to get at
Browns records.
However, he intimated that the
committee will begin inquiry to de-
termine whether Will Hays, motion
picture car, and Harry S. New of
Indiana, former postmaster general,
were involved in leasing practices
which favored Brown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02

Electric Power and Light Corporation and
subsidiaries twelve months ended Sept. 30
shares against S2.7e a share on 1900 211
shares in preceding twelve months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02
Chicago Stocks Opening
Marriage Licenses

Ralph J. Magic %. Of New Bethel. ma
chinist. and Eva D. Perry. 10. OF New
Bethel.
Richard Roach. 25. of 1116 South sher-
man drive. labcrer. and Nellie A. Dye, o.
of 226 West Wyoming. clerk.
Irwin R. Lambert. 81. of 3057 Central
avenue. clerk. and Regina S. Bensman, a.
of 3l6 East Terrace.
Thomas w L. White 29. of 926 North
Meridian student. and Lena p. Decker. 49,
of 926 North Meridian. waitress.
Allen Gibson 81. OF Lawrence. chauf-
feur. and Francis B. Jordan. 16. of Oak
landon. clerk.
Chester L. DowneY. "a. O. 1926 East
Washington, machinist. and Olive l.. Sal
laday. %. of 375 South Emerson avenue,
stenographer.
Charles NJ. Davis. 2e of s36 North
Arsenal. copywriter. and Clara L. Oblinger.
a. of 1888 Carrollton.
Tony Jardine 81. of 61e Stevens street.
merchant. and Esther Wishart, 18, of 1923
North Illinois street. clerk.
John T. Burris. Is. of 1901 Ingram street.
clerk. and Garnet N. Soden, %. of 2122
North Olney street.
Hugh Amos. %. of Waterford o.. physi-
clan. and Harriet E. Weed. IS, of 1887
Kenneth siler: 20. of Madison; Wise.
teacher. and Margaret c. Benedict. 81.
of R. r. g Box 400, teacher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02
w54Nr7ARY- NOT 0M5AM74RY

----------Z ANSWER 10 YesTER0Ay5 s7ar,Me,7 &Nt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02
The City in Brief

commemoration of the centenary of
apparitions of the Blessed Virgin
to Sister Catherine Laboure in
France. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Char
trand, bishop of the Indianapolis
diocese of the Roman Catholic
church, preached the sermon. Oh
servance of the iridium will con-
tinue until Thursday.
Opening of general insurance
agency under names of MCGOWAN
and Brosnan at 1415 Merchants
Bank building, was announced to-
day by William K. MCGOWAN and
Kelvin D. Brosnan.
Failure of police radio tests for
use of the Municipal Gardens as
the station for the local station
WMDZ today sent safety board
members in search of new site.
In celebration of its membership
drive, in which several hundred
new members were enrolled, In
dianapolis lodge No. 13, B. P. 0. E.,
will give dance, free to members,
in the clubrooms in the Antlers
Saturday night, Dec. 6, it was an
nounced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02
FOREIGN NE MS
HOLDS FUTURE
TRADE STEADY
Firmer Trend at Liverpool
Adds Stronger Tone to
All Grains.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. Firm foreign
cables and light deliveries gave
wheat a steady opening on the
Board of Trade today. Liverpool
was strong in small trade, mostly
in the way of covering, with frost
reported III Argentina and a slight
~ better sentiment.
The South American market was
about steady Corn showed strength
again today on the cold weather
and absence of deliveries. Oats
trailed corn closely.
AT the opening wheat was Is cent
higher, corn was y to cent higher
and oats were IS to y cent higher.
Provisions inactive and steady.
Liverpool was about as expected
at the start, but f1rmed somewhat
by midafternoon to stand * to =
cent higher. Buenos Aires opened
steady, but lost Il to Z cent by mid
day.
There is little incentive to trade
In wheat at present, owing to the
stablilzed condition of the market,
and indications are for a narrow
range for the time being. The only
delivery in which the government
has apparently no interest is July.
and that month is being affected
more by foreign news than domes-
tic, as it is new crop month. The
only action in wheat at present Is
confined to scalping, taking small
profits.
Traders in corn believe that the
market is we'll liquidated. and with
no pressure from a heavy run and
light terminal stocks. a steady mar
ket is looked for. There were no
deliveries Monday or today, and it
it thought that those who have corn
will continue to hold it by transfer
ring their holdings into deferred
months.
Oats are being guided by the
trend in corn and the action of the
cash market. Spreading between
December and May has been the
only activity outside of cash house
operations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02
Favoritism CHARGED

The name of Raymond D. Brown,
United Postoff1ces Corporation pres
ident, figured in the senate inves-
tigating committees hearing at
Chicago two weeks ago.
Rival contractors testified Brown
had been accorded favoritism in
the awarding of contracts because of
his intimacy with former Postmas-
General Harry S. New. Brown,
who was not called before the COM
mittee. denounced the charges as
ridiculous
On Nov. 20 Judge William S. Nc
Master in superior court four named
Brown receiver for the Postal Sta
ton State bank, which closed its
doors Oct. %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-02

Following is the explanation OF
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Mondays Times:
Bully Waterman-Captain Rob-
ert H. (Bully) Waterman, mas
ter of the Yankee clipper Chal-
lenge, is described in contempt
rary newspaper reports as tine
most inhuman monster that
ever sailed the seas. When he
sailed into the Golden Gate one
day in October, 1851, he had shot
fatally seventeen men out of o
crew Of forty-tWO. The other
members of the crew told a tale
of horror and oppression which,
even in those days of "hard sail
ing" masters, stirred the synpa-
thy of popular opinion. Water
man never was brought to JUS
tice He outWitted the law
through numerous stunts of eva
sion. He never returned to New
York and died in California.
A Suit Of Armor-This bit of
information is surprising. The
heaviest suit of armor in the
great collection of the Tower of
London weighs no more than
sixty-six pounds, while soldiers in
the World war carried a load Of
from seventy-five to ninety
pounds in full field equipment.
Wednesday: The Kangaroo
chair.
NEW YORK COFFEE RANGE