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The Washington times., 1934-05-23

An artist in Minneapolis re-
turned the money paid to her
by the PWA, because her
pictures were not up to her
own standards of art. She's
evidently not as bad as she
painted.
One artist submitted a pOr-
trait to the PWA, and said,
"This is a painting of my
girl" The PWA official
said, "This isn't a very good
picture" And the artist re-
piled, "Well, she isn't a very
good girl"
understand that one model
wanted to pose in the nude,
and the artist said, "All right,
but you'll have to take off that
blue serge suit" The model
said, "I'm not wearing any
suit. I'm just cold"
The call for artists brought
all kinds of applicants. One
fellow said, II paint men and
women" And the official said,
"A portrait painter?" The
artist replied, "NO, I paint,
Men on one door, and
Women on the other"
So Remember:
Many a painter who IL
welded to his art should be
divorced for cruelty.
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
Walsh Will Direct y
Quirt-FIagg Movie

The eminently successful trio
that scored with What Price
Glory" and The Cock-Eyed
World" will be reunited on the
Fox lot once more when Edmund
Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Raoul
Walsh, are brought together for
Danes Is Dynamite" soon to go
into production.
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
Stars Fourth Novel
To Be Offered Soon

ELISA Landi's fourth novel,
"The Ancestor" will be published
June 6, the author-actress an
nounced. 1t is the first Of a
trilogy, she said. She is now
working on the second volume
during between-screen rests on
the set of Charles r. Rogers
THE Great Filtration" in which
she heads the cast.
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has been handling capacity crowds
daily. A complete refurnishing of
the park has been effected this
year, and many new diversion de-
vices provided. The large SWIM
ming pool is also open.
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back in a play-"Come What
May" which opened Tuesday
night-in a nicely sentimental
play with one of my favorite SEN
timental heroines, Mary Phillips
:. Mr.. Max Gordon sat close to
me, L presume quite happy, that
one magazine had devoted some
20 pages to his theatrical efforts
and another had carried a glow
ing tribute by Mr.. o. o. Mcintyre
:. Miss Hope Hampton, I pre-
sumo, was happy, too, for on this
occasion at least, she was easily
the best dressed woman present.
Wandering back stage of the
Casino de Paree, Tuesday night,
I stumble over Bill Robinson sit
ting in corner, watching Eleanor
Powell strut her steps. {. . That
gal, she shuah can STEP" mur-
murs Bill, "she shuah cam. He
informs me he is to go into the
Apollo Theater at a $1,000 guar
antee and half the gross above
$4,000. .."I just wanna see," he
remarks, ''if this old boy can still
draw them" Wednesday night, I
spend a little time at the Paradise
where the girls are SO pretty and
so shapely-and I trust intelligent
Leon and Eddie's
The Messrs. Proser and Lach.
mann, for some fantastic reason,
have a cocktail party at Leon &
Eddie'S Monday afternoon and for
want of something better to do I
join the merry makers Here,
Mr.. Bert Wheeler confides that he
is a nervous wreck whenever
called upon to do an imprOmptu
act and Mr.. Jack Pearl complains
that the newspaper men do not
seem to like him, which 1 assure
him is a chiIdishly ridiculous COM
plex with him since every news
paper man 1 know is very fond of
the fellow Miss Helen Kane
flutters about and MIR. Harry
HerShfield tells his latest story
about the middle-aged gent whose
wife insisted upon neatneSS.
At Gallagher's Thursday night,
Helen Gallagher points to a
beautiful solitary flower in a long
vase. cts g. parrot tulip" she
explains, 1T closes up at night
and looks like a poll-parrot asleep
don't you think it adds a touch
to this placer" and I assure her
it does, but neglect to inquire why
it's surrounded by beer bottles. E.
DR.. Julius Lempert tells me some
narrowing tales of the medical
profession-and some sordid ones,
too. They should make up a
fascinating book, some day, I
think.
At the Cotton Club, Sunday
night "a week ago. Joe zelli
beams as he insists there's no city
with the gayety of New York with
London next. He ShrugS his
shoulders in commenting upon
his favorite Paris-Paris, it ap-
pears, has lost something of its
old time sparkle and bizarre
glamour. . In the Kings Terrace,
Tuesday night, Gertrude Nieser,
dressed entirely in black, regards
the rest of the world foregathered
in the night spot, out of broodirg
eyes. Wednesday night, again I
catch Ted Husing sitting in his
tiny roadster on the West SIND
ST., listening to a radio broadcast
:. Which reminds me that some
days ago, Mack Gordon, eager to
hear a certain broadcast, was ir'
ritated by the balkiness of the
radio in a friends hotel room. ).
So he dashed out and got into a
cab and was driven around. The
broadcast lasted half an hour
and Gordon's bill, with tip, was
something like IS. And the pro-
gram was lousy, to make it worse"
he complains. Snapshots. . The
Album of Manhattan!
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81 AVUP'
Benefit CeIebs

= 4nlS particular occasion, INCL
0entally, was a benefit perform
a1lce for the First Division Cardiac
Clinic sponsored by the Drs.
CarneS Weeks and Morris Dinner
stein. . 1t was a mixed assembly
- There was Commissioner Null
rooney present, for instance, and
Merchant Prince Bernard Gimbel
=. .Sad-eyed, nervous Fred AStaire
end gay Jock Whitney. .Digni-
fled Charles Dana Gibson and un-
easy Milt Gross Feature Chief
Joseph v. Connolly and Magazine
Sports Writer Quentin Reynolds. {.
Society debs and matrons and
night club girls.
i. Thursday night brought the
shiver-inspiring Invitation to a
Murder" to the MaSque "a
thriller with mysterious trap
doors, silent guns, living dead and
poisoned curtains Frankly, I
enjoy macabre hoke, nor am I one
to pry too closely into plausibility
or motives. i said as much to
Archie Selwyn during intermission
and he recalled the days of his
own meller-producing along with
A. H. Woods when seat prices
were low but profits high. Sci
wyn, just back from England, has
rounded up Elizabeth Bergner,
Gertrude Lawrence. Yvonne Prin-
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ak-1t was good to see Hal skelIy
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THE VOICE OF
Broadway
Louis SObOI-
SNAPSHOTS AT RANDOM!

Odd the color Gene Tunney acquires he reedes and
from his pugistic past L watched him bowng chat
ting and dancing gracefully at the Place Pquae Wednesday
and remembered how coorless figure he had been
fgherhow sports writers used to complain of his lack of
fire and spirit Now, he appears commanding personality
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ROBERT YOUNG, who furn-
ishes the young love interest in
"The House of Rothschild,"
Arliss starring film which re-
turns to F Street and the
Columbia on Friday.
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A Junk Dealer

/ Schmidt was junk dealer, and
I don't mean that he wrote
columns. Dirty, ragged, unkempt,
he was constant visitor at the
city's dumping grounds, ash cans,
and junk piles to see what he
could salvage. You and I can't
see much profit in that, but
Schmidt must have known what
he was doing. For that was the
only work he knew, and it had al
ways earned him a living.
The man, as you can readily
imagine, was hardly a prepos-
sessing figure. He rarely took the
trouble to shave, and he had a
long, pointed nose with wart on
the very tip. Although there was
nothing wrong with it, he kept his
left eye almost perpetually closed.
He walked with his head down, his
shoulders hunched. In other
words, you wouldn't have the
slightest difficulty in distinguish
ing him from Clark Gable.
You wouldn't think that there
would be much of story in Old
Man Schmidt, would you? Well,
you'd be right, if it weren't for
Joe Schmidt. Joe was the old
mans son, and he was the only
happiness his father had ever
known.
Nobody in the neighborhood re.
membered Mrs. Schmidt. Rumor
had it that she was a decent girl
from the West Side, and that she
had died when giving birth to Joe.
Or maybe it was that she had
looked at Old Man Schmidt just
| once too often and had been
frightened to death. But nobody
really knew.
All anyone could tell you was
that Old Man Schmidt, absent
from his accustomed haunts for
more than year, had returned
to his squalid home with a baby
he said was his son.
Nobody said much about it.
Because nobody cared. >.
1t was funny to watch Old
Man Schmidt caring for a baby.
Although, come to think of it,
funny is hardly the proper word.
A brown cloth bag over his
shoulder, he'd shuttle to the
dumping ground or junk pile
that was on his schedule for that
day.
Promptly at II, he was home
again to look after his little Joe.
He'd spend an hour with the kid
and off he'd go again. In the
afternoon, Mrs. Muller, the widow
IN the flat below, would take
care Of Joe. And the old man
would always be home at 6
o'clock to spend the rest of his
time with the baby.
Sometimes, when the weather
was warm, Old Man Schmidt
would sit on the tenement steps
of an evening and engage in con-
versation with his neighbors. He
never spoke about anything else
but his boy.
THAT boy of mines gonna be
Somethin' some day." he insisted
proudly. "He amt gonna be like
me. Not if I got anythin' to say
about it. No, Stree.
"Joe's gonna have an educa-
ton. He's gonna go to school
and be somebody. Just you wait
and see."
oe Graduates
The boy grew older. He did go
to school for a short time, and
there wasn't a prouder man in the
world than Old Man Schmidt on
the morning that Joe graduated
from public school. His father
put on a collar that day, and
there is even a legend to the eff.
feet that he washed his neck. But
there's nobody who'll actually
swear to it.
Joe entered StuyveSant High
School, but his education ended
there after two or three months.
The boy took to hanging out with
the mob on the corner and shoot
ing pool with the experts. He was
only 16 when he was arrested for
clipping packages-and they sent
him away for six months. Only
The Washington times., 1934-05-23

SEASIDE PARK-From it's
opening last Saturday, this Chesa-
peake Beach amusement center
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
All In A Dav
By MARK HELLINGER
THE LAST TRICK

IN HIS neighborhood which far removed from the
Astors and the Vanderbis he known Old Man
Schmidt He had probably carried first upon
tme but he had dropped in the long ago. For many
more
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temps and others for his fall sea-
son here and appears confident
there's to be plenty of gold in the
Rialto hills. Lawrence Schwab
was a curbstone standee-in one
Of those dark shirts and light ties
that Broadway is affecting.
Schwab's conversation shift t d
from his Miami newspaper to his
next theatrical production, from
q novel he has in mind to certain
mechanical innovations on his
yacht.
Later, most Of us drove out to
the Riviera, picturesquely set on
the Jersey cliffs overlooking the
Hudson. Here, because of an
unparalleled turnout in which
patrons we're seated even on the
entertainment floor jammed right
I'D to the bandStand, there was
no chance for the long-rehearsed
and presumably elaborate show
to reveal itself Mr.. Harry Rich
man, however, did climb onto
the platform and robustly gave
his all, singing many songs and
even sobbing a bit as he chanted
some highly sentimental thing
called "Shake Hands With a
Millionaire" which calls for tuck
ing the coat collar up around the
ears, quavering bit in voice and
catching a bit at the throat.
It was a highly successful eve
ming for Mr.. Richman and for the
half a hundred song writer's pres
ent whose songs Mr.. Richman
sang. Here again, for the second
time in a month, Mr.. Damon
Runyon and his pretty bride,
Patricia, tore themselves away
from the penthouse in which Mr.
RunyOn writes magazine stories
which are converted into we'll
advertised movies-here again, ]
say, they were present as part of
our silly night life. So were MIR.
and Mrs. Irving Berlin.
Rudy at Opening
Mr.. Rudy Vallee, who should
have been at the Hollywood, was
al the Riviera inStead-probably
for a brief spell, however, for I
soon lost sight of him Former
Health Commissioner Shirley y
Wynne appeared fascinated with
the excitement, and Milton Berle
seemed unusually quiet Fannie
ward was chattery neighbor,
Bert Lahr was among the beamers,
the Messrs. Gordon and Revel
tried to appear unconcerned as
Mr.. Richman sang their songs
Mr.. Bobby Crawford limited
vaguely of a hurry-up trip back to
the coast, Mr.. Lew Brown limited
vaguely of spending a weekend
at his country home, Miss Mary
Brian murmured vaguely some
thing about wishing the car would
hurry up and arrive-and others
Of us, vaguely or otherwise, drifted
downstairs or to one of the three
bars.
ak-.1t was good to see Hal Skelly
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SON LINE-The nightly
moonlight boat trips on the City
of Washington are proving i'm
menSely popular this year. The
boat is a pleasant cool spot, with
an orchestra and spacious dance
floor. During the day, the City
of Washington runs to Marshall
Hall Park, amusement resort on
the Potomac.
The Washington times., 1934-05-23
|News Of Nearbv
Outdoor Resorts

GLEN O-Saturday will
mark the opening of Glen Echo's
mammouth Crystal Pool, with a
reduced admission scale. Besides
the attraction for the swimmers,
there are, of course, the other
amusements, the coaster dips, air.
plane swings, old mill, etc. The
picnic groves are popular for fam
lily parties. Dave McWilliams and
his orchestra, play nightly except
Sunday, in the Spanish ballroom.
CHEVY CHASE LAKE-To-
night, this dance resort will open
for the summer season with AL
Kamons' band, a Maxim Lowe
unit, as the attraction. A new
policy with name" bands sched.
uled for early appearances and
free dancing on Monday, Tuesday
and Thursday nights, is in effect.
A new bandbox floor has been
built on the refreshment terrace,
where beer and light wines will be
served.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-23
Braddock Couple Are
HonOred at Party

Mr.. and Mrs. o. M. Vie, Braddock,
who celebrated their 25th wedding
anniversary, Sunday August 10, were
rendered surprise party at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. L. e. Shafer, Kin
tyre. where Mr.. and Mrs. Vie and
children, Edgar and Evelyn, had been
invited to dinner at which q number
OF relatives were present.
During the afternoon $50 friends
from Braddock, Kintyre and Napoleon
called at the Shafer home to extend
congratulations to Mr.. and Mrs. Vie
on their silver wedding anniversary.
The afternoon was spent In visiting,
after which refreshments, prepared
by the ladies present. were served.
Rev. Melander, a returned missionary
from Africa, who was q guest, related
many interesting stories Of hunting
trips he had made while in Africa.
Guests from z distance present at
the affair were Mr.. and Mrs. T. Rod
lin, ana children, Helen and william
and Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Manning. all
of Nome. N. D.; Mr.. and Mrs. Char
les Nord, Enderlin, N. D.. Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Vie and children, Bea-
trice and Edna, Of Fort Ransom, N.
D.; Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph storhoff and
son derhart Of Eastridge. N. D., Rev.
and Mrs. Adolph Johns, Bismarck, and
Rev. Melander.
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Wilton Girl to Wed
Bismarck Man Soon

Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Hagstrom, Wilton,
announce the engagement and ap-
preaching marriage of their daughter,
Miss Pauline B. Hagstrom, to Law
renee r. Splitter. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Splitter Of Bismarck.
The wedding will take place at the
home Of the bride-to-be In September.
A number Of social affairs and show
ers have been planned to honor Miss
Hagstrom. On Saturday, Aug. Is, q
kitchen shower will be given by q
number Of her Wilton friends.
\ X X
Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. O'Hare. so2
Fifth st., returned Tuesday from a
several weeks fishing trip to Twin
Lakes and to Bemidji, Mimi, and In
northern Minnesota.
X X X
Miss Edith Peart, 8l8 Fifth st.. has
returned from a months vacation
which was spent at the Dells Of Wis
consin and other Wisconsin points
and in Chicago.
Mrs. T. B. Meinhover, 523 Seventh
st., entertained at a bridge party
Wednesday evening for her sister,
Miss Margaret Reynolds. Louisville,
KY, who has been visiting here for
several weeks. There were guests for
two tables OF bridge and one table
Of buncc and prizes In the games
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Thursday Musical Club
Sponsors Recital Sept. Is
Local Women Attend
Religious Retreat

The second annual retreat for young
ladies and married women Of the
Catholic church was conducted by 1t.
Rev. Abbot Cuthbert 0oeb, o. s.. B.,
abbot OF Assumption Abbey, at Rich
ardton, N. D., last week, beginning
Aug. II and closing on Aug. 10.
It was estimated that over 120 wo-
men Of the Missouri slope attended
the lectures given at the tlree-day
session. Mrs. Joseph Orchard, Mrs.
r. ]. Teck, Mrs. AL p. Simon, Mrs.
Frank Robidou, Miss Catherine Roeth-
er, Miss Harriet Zimmerman, Miss
Catherine Mc0innitey and Mrs. How
ard Wood were among the women
from Bismarck who attended the re-
treat.
Another retreat will be given In the
German language for the elderly la
dies Of the various parishes who do
not sufficiently understand the Eng
lish language, and this will be an
nounced In their respective churches.
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villages will be played as part Of the
program.
i
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Dolph, TIC
Third st., have as their guests Mr..
Dolph's father, ]. N. Dolph, and his
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Curtis M. Dolph and son Curtis,
Jr., Of Guthrie, Oklahoma. They ar
rived the first part Of the week and
will leave Monday for st. Paul to
visit for several days and will then
go to Chicago to attend the EXPOSE
ton. The Messrs. Dolph are owners
and publishers Of the Oklahoma State
Register, weekly newspaper ct outh-
RE.
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were awarded to Miss Zoe Harring-
TOM Miss Reynolds, Miss Mary Mushik
and Miss Leone Hiland. Out-of town
guests at the party were Miss Mushik
and Mrs. Rose McCarty Of Mandan.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. j. Rue, $40 Ninth
St., have as their guest for several
weeks Mrs. Rue's sister, Mrs. Anna
Halseth Of Los Angeles, Calf.
X \ y
Miss Myrtle Fahlgren. 500 Avenue
A, has as her guest her sister, Miss
Lefty Fahlgren, Washburn, who will
visit In Bismarck for several days.
Mrs. Herman Ode, 1l08 Thirteenth
st., underwent q major operation at
st. Alexius hospital Tuesday morning
and Is reported to be getting along
nicely.
Mrs. Frank L. Gale OF Scotland,
8. D., formerly of Bismarck, is spend
Ing several days here as a guest at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. F..
Jones, Sill Fifth st.
4 \ 4
DR.. and Mrs. w. p. Pierce and son
James, 831 Sixth st.. have returned
from q three-week vacation spent in
touring the Glacier and Yellowstone
National parks.
Miss Pearl Anderson Of Minot Is q
guest this week at the home Of the
Misses Hazel DeVore and Elma Lind
gren, Gil Sixth st. Miss Anderson
is en- route to her home after SPEND
ing several weeks with friends in
Osceola, Wis.
The dancing party of the Nonpart-
isan Girls auxiliary to club No. l, to
be held on the Show Boat Friday
evening Is scheduled to begin at $50
o'clock. following which q trip will
be made up the river. Invitations
have been extended to members and
their invited guests.
\ \ 4
Mr.. and Mrs. r. J. Greenwood have
returned to their home in jamestown
after weeks visit at the home Of
Mr.. Greenwood's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. e. A. Greenwood, S13 Avenue B.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Greenwood &C
them to Jamestown and
visited for several days at the D. r.
Brockman home.
X X \
Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Gagner and
daughter Ruth Anne Of 314 Third st.,
have returned from six weeks trip
to Sioux Falls, s. D., Sioux City and
other points In northwest Iowa. They
were accompanied here by Mrs. Kate
Boothby, Cherokee. Iowa, mother of
Mrs. Ralph Truman, who will visit at
the Truman home for a week.
i = X
Mrs. r. n. Penwarden and daugh-
ter, Sybil, 4l2 Avenue D, who have
been visiting for two weeks at Moor
head, Mimi, with Mrs. Penwarden's
mother, Mrs. A. N. Miller. and at
Detroit Lakes. returned home We'd
nesday. They were accompanied
home by Miss Cecil Ryan, Az Avenue
D, who spent a weeks vacation at
Detroit Lakes and Fargo visiting
friends.
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Mrs. William H. Bolster, Jr., nation
al president of the American Legion
Auxiliary. will speak over q National
Broadcasting system, Friday, August
"a at lis est, on National FIDAC,
from the Pantadon DeLaguerre World
War Memorial building located on
the Century Of Progress grounds at
Chicago. Music from the Foreign
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Bismarck Man to
Marry Fargo Girl

Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Diemert, Eckel-
son, N. D., have announced the be-
trothal Of their daughter, Adeline, to
Joseph Myers, Bismarck, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. A. A. Myers, Fargo. The
wedding will take place In the San
born. N. D., Catholic church, Monday,
September 3, at a nuptial Mass.
Miss Diemert has been employed In
the Fargo office Of the Northwestern
Bell Telephone company. Mr.. Myers,
who has lived in Bismarck for about
six months, Is associated with the
Armour company. The couple will
make their home here. Mr.. Myers is
a brother of G. J. Myers Of TOO First
st.
\ i
Miss Edith Ramstad, daughter Of
DR.. and Mrs. N. O. Ramstad, 824
Fourth st., Is spending several days
In Minneapolis visiting friends. Miss
Ramstad has recently returned from
a motor trip to California, where she
spent a month in company with Miss
Barbara Bliss Of Valley City.
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Mr.. and Mrs. l.. r. Conan, Rose
Apartments, left Tuesday for weeks
trip to Chicago where they will visit
the Century Of Progress exposition.
X * *
The Ice cream social which was to
be given Thursday evening by Circle
No. 1 of the Trinity Lutheran Ladies'
Aid has been postponed until a later
date, it was announced Thursday by
Mrs. Paul Netland, president of the
circle.
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Mr.. and Mrs. G. b. Nupen, 2l2
Third St., have as their guest Mrs.
Nupen's niece, Miss Avice Jongeward
Of Litchville, N. D., who will make
an extended visit here.
X \ X
The Misses Evelyn and Eugenia
Fryer and Mrs. Violet Fryer, 40 Sec
ond ST., returned Tuesday from an
extended visit to points in South Da-
kota. They spent q week at Spirit
Wood lake resort.
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The stitch-In-Time Sewing club
were entertained at the home Of MEs.
J. O. JOHNSON, 70l Front st., Wednes-
day evening. In quilt block contest
conducted by the members, Miss Anne
Walters received the quilt given to
the person having made the most
quilt blocks, Mrs. Ralph Broehl and
Mrs. John Scher were the winners Of
second and third prizes. At the close
Of the evening Mrs. Johnson served
lunch. The next meeting will b hal6
August %, at the home Of Mrs. Scher,
40 South Eleventh st., when they
will have discussion on home -can-
ned goods.
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