I-DOTT BELIEVE IT!
Radio Sound Men Fool Public
With Strange Noise Gadgets
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D A DIO’S demand for sound effects that make a storm or police
II raid sound real to millions of listeners has created a new profes
sion of sound effects men ulio, on a moment’s notice, can fill any re
quest—no matter how crazy—from a producer. Harry Saz, with
the National Broadcasting company at Hollywood, illustrates in
these pic:ures hote the great deception is accomplished:
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1 When asked to reproduce the sound of a
J beating heart, Saz spent hours experi
* menting, then decided to try the real
thing. Above: He strips to the ivaist1
and applies the microphone to his own
heart, getting the desired residt. Left: An
army advances and the marching feet
are reproduced with this gadget.
Rain pattering on a tin roof
for the radio audience.
Harry Saz is shown creat
ing this effect by dropping
grape seeds from a sprin
kling can onto paper.
Below: Here comes the
show boat! Saz blows a riv*
erboat horn and churns a
box of water with a crank
that turns small paddles.
Above: A thunderstorm over
the prairies. Sax uses a huge
drum made of a single piece
of steer hide.
Christmas chimes didn’t sound like the real thing over the radio,
so Saz tried hitting a discarded brake drum with a small hammer.
It worked, and that’s what you hear over the radio each Yulotide.
Fifteen thousand records of different sounds in this library!
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LION
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By THAYER WALDO
(McClura Syndicate—WNU Service.)
SHE swung the Hispano-Suiza
into Western avenue and saw
the gates 50 yards ahead on
her right. As she approached
they swung open and a truck came
lumbering out. With a swerve that
squealed rubber across pavement,
she veered around it, turned into
the studio driveway, and shot for
ward.
From behind sounded an angry
shout.
The little mirror at her side
showed a man in uniform following
on the run. In front loomed a build
ing with Zenith Pictures, Ltd.—Pro
duction Offices, in gold lettering
over the entrance.
Once more she slid at right angles,
and pulled the long phaeton to a
■top before it. Then the gate guard
was alongside, puffing his indigna
tion.
"Look here, madam," he splut
tered, "I'll have to see your pass to
come on the lot—and no cars is al
lowed in, anyways.”
For one surcharged instant there
was no response.
The hard-breathing man stood
with a foot upon the running board,
his hands gripping the nickel
trimmed door. TTie girl sat immo
bile, erect, inscrutable eyes staring
at him from a pale and almost
bony face.
Then suddenly the tableau broke.
With a cat-quick movement she
snatched off one driving gauntlet
and slapped it smartly across the
guard's cheek.
As he staggered back, grunting
amazedly, she vaulted the car door
and came down facing him.
Words commenced firing from her
in an edged, staccato voice:
“You lout! How dare you have the
infernal impudence to order me!
Get back where you belong before
1 have you thrown out of this stu
dio.*’
He wavered, momentarily inde
cisive; then:
“But, lady ” he began, “there’s
strict rules about—’’
The words were drowned by a
shrill blare as the girl’s fist slammed
down upon her car’s horn button
and relentlessly held there.
Wave after wave of two-toned din
reverberated through the lot.
In a moment people were appear
ing.
Out of the building close at hand
came a slight man with sandy hair.
He strolled unconcernedly to the
Hispano-Suiza’s side, lifted its hood
and gave something a quick twist.
The racket ceased.
The girl turned her head sharply
to glare at him.
Sauntering around toward her, he
said:
“It’s okay—go right on as you
were. There just won't be so much
noise now.”
She didn’t wait for him to reach
her, but stalked aggressively for
ward. Her long legs were clad in
blue flannel slacks; a kelp green
blouse of loose pattern was tucked
into them. The tawny, windblown
hair had no covering.
“So the menials,” she snapped,
"aren't the only insolent ones around
here, eh?”
He gazed at her coolly and re
torted:
“Yeah—I was thinking that my
self. What kind of trouble are you
trying to start, and what are you
doing here, anyway?”
The glitter in her eyes held real
venom now.
“Publicly flaunting such filthy ig
norance is your idea of a joke, I
suppose. Well, I’m not in the mood.
I This swine—’’ with an outfling of
her arm toward the gateman—“in
sulted me, and I want him attended
to.”
“All right.”
The man in front of her addressed
the other:
“Frank, take this gimcrack on
wheels out in the street and park it
with the rest of ’em.”
Viciously the girl struck at him
with her open hand. He ducked,
caught her wrist, and added:
“Guess you better take this hell
cat along, too. Unless you want me
to get a straitjacket for her first.”
The fellow in uniform came to
ward them, saying:
“I didn’t know what to make of it,
Mr. Garrison. She hit me when I
told her cars couldn't come in
and—"
With a jerk that nearly cost Gar
rison balance, the girl wrenched
free of his grasp.
Her sallow features had grown
dark and were working spasmodi
cally.
For the first time she appeared to
become aware of the small crowd
that had gathered. Hoarsely she
cried:
“For God's sake will one of you
! gaping vultures tell this jackass who
I am, before I murder himt"
No one answered.
Garrison beckoned iwo men in
overalls from the onlookers.
“This has gone far enough, boys,”
he told them; “during all my years
In the publicity racket, never have
I seen a cruder gag This dame’s
just some movi.e-struck nitwit who’s
gotten hold of a flossy car and
swigged a little gin to fix her nerve.
| Well, the act’s not even funny. Put
her out."
I Promptly they seized the girl’s
arms.
In a tantrum of near-hysteria she
fought and kicked and writhed,
■but to no avail.
Strength and stolid determination
were with the workers.
Into the foreign auto's rear seat
they half-led, half-carried her.
The watchman clambered in front.
"Don’t use any rough stuff," Gar
rison instructed. "Just drive up
to the boulevard and sit there till
she calms down. Then leave her
and report back to me.”
Incoherent sounds were coming
from the girl as the car rolled away,
down the drive and out through the
gate.
Gradually those who had watched
drifted off, exchanging amused com
ments on the episode.
As Garrison turned to re-enter the
building, he was hailed from behind
and a tall dark man approached,
saying:
"Nice job you did clearing up
that rumpus, Louis. Going my
way?”
Garrison gave affirmation; togeth
er they went inside and along the
broad corridor.
As they reached the publicity
man’s office, he suggested:
"Come on in a minute, Walt. Got
something to show you."
Facing them as he opened the door
was a large portrait photograph.
It showed a woman whose promi
nent-boned face—arresting, though
not beautiful—was topped by an un
ruly mass of hair.
"Our new star, Kathleen Hodgson,”
Garrison said; "the one the New
York office signed last week and's
going to send on. Thought you might
be interested; this happens to be the
only picture of her we have so far.”
The other was staring at it like a
man transfixed.
After a second of stunned silence
he cried:
“But, great Scott, Louis—that’s
the Jane you just had bounced!”
Garrison had seated himself on
the desk, back to the portrait, and
was setting Are to a cigarette.
A slight smile tweaked his mouth
comers.
“Sure it is, you chump,” he agreed
calmly. “I knew that the first min
ute I looked at her. But my tech
nique had to be used for its chasten
ing effect. Remember, actresses get
screwy enough in this game even
when they start off like lambs!”
Motorized Equipment
Urged for U. S. Militia
Increased use of motor transport
in the field operations is being
stressed by the militia officials, par
ticularly in the transporting of
troops from their home stations to
their summer and winter field train
ing areas, but even with this ad
vancement in training in the use of
motor vehicles militia officers must
not lose sight of the fact that it
still is important for the soldier to
be able to use his legs. There is
said by the military officials to be
no prospect now, or in the future,
for infantrymen riding in trucks
clear up to the front lines of battle
and then Jumping out to fight.
Those in charge of training point
out that it is important in the in
struction of the militia to make
greater use of motor transport, par
ticularly for long distance hauls,
and especially in the operation of
convoys on the public roads with
greater distances between vehicles
so as to interfere as little as possi
ble with non-military traffic.
The use of wire communications
is also being stressed in the mili
tia training. While communications
among the guard units has shown
improvement there is said to be
still room for betterment. This lack
of complete effectiveness in wire
communications, however, is not
now blamed entirely on the guard,
but to some extent to the lack of
equipment. But this is being stead
ily made up. However, officials of
the national guard bureau stress
that guard units must make the
full use of the equipment which they
now have on hand and make every
effort to keep it in the very best of
condition to the end that during ma
neuvers or when war comes the
units charged with keeping open
the lines of communication will be
prepared to send and receive the
fullest information to higher and
lower commtynders. Guard units
have been instructed to #iake com
munications a habit, so that in the
stress of emergency they will not
forget to use the material which
they have on hand, officers pointing
out that even the finest equipment
being of little use if in the stress of
excitement the units fail to make
full use of it.
It was asserted there is a short
age of trained radio operators. To
fill this organizations throughout the
country have been ordered to make
every effort to find qualified men for
enlistment to fill these important
billets. Amateur radio operators are
pointed to as a field from which
the national guard might be able
to draw.
Highway Truck Colors
Color as applied to trucks is just
as much a factor in highway safety
as in reflecting a type of business,
it is pointed out by Howard Ketch
am, color engineer and consultant to
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Next to white as a finish of great
value in rendering objects more dis
cernible at night, a certain yellow
has high light reflecting efficiency,
he asserts. That is why school
busses in all 48 states are chrome
yellow. This color contrasts with
the white of concrete roads during
the day. At night it reflects most
of the light from headlamps into the
eye of the trailing motorist.
Strange Facts
1 LongTime Between— 1
Highly Taxed Alley '
* Compensation Laics *
Several large American firms,
one of which is the F. W. Wool
worth company, pay their chief
I executives only once a year.
When purchased by any organi
zation other than a hospital or a
scientific laboratory, a 55-gallon
drum of pure alcohol, which sells
for $15, carries a federal tax of
$235.
How much the lens of a light
house intensifies light is well illus
trated by the one in the Navesink
station in New Jersey. This lens
increases its 2,400-candlepower
light 3,750 times, or into a 9,000,000
candlepower beam, which can be
seen at a distance of about 25
miles.
Florida has a law that forbids a
married woman to manage a busi
ness until a court of inquiry has
studied and passed upon her com
petency. Furthermore, she has to
pay the cost of the proceedings.
While some states have not yet
passed a workmen’s compensation
law, other states have been so lib
eral that they have granted work
men’s compensation for such ail
ments as flat feet, writer’s cramp
and bedsores.—Collier’s.
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ANOTHER f on Various Subjects
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The Questions
1. What is the supercargo on a
ship?
2. Why do stars twinkle?
3. Can the speaker of the house
of representatives cast his vote
when there is no tie?
4. What is meant by on the qui
vive?
5. What is the difference between
command and commandeer?
6. Can a President legally take
the oath of office on a Sunday?
7. How many people live in what
is known as the New York Region?
8. A doggery is a low grogshop.
What is a cattery?
The Answers
1. An officer who manages the
commercial concerns of the trip.
2. The twinkling is an illusion.
3. Yes, he has the rights of any
other representative.
4. On the alert.
5. Command—to direct, have un
der control; commandeer—to seize
arbitrarily, to force into service.
6. Yes. President Wilson did so.
7. This region, which includes
all people living within a radius of
50 miles of New York city, has a
population of 11,500,000.
8. A place where cats are kept.
States and Possessions
There are 48 states in the Union,
no state having been admitted
since 1912. The District of Colum
bia is the seat of the federal gov
ernment; special laws are made
for it by congress, and it is di
rectly governed by executive com
missioners named by the Presi
dent and confirmed by the sen
ate. Hawaii, like Alaska, is a
territory of the United States; the
Philippines, Canal Zone, Puerto
Rico, Virgin islands, American
Samoa and Guam are dependen
cies of the United States.
Perpetual Ignoranee
The recipe for perpetual ignor
ance is: to be satisfied with your
opinions and content with your
knowledge.—Elbert Hubbard.
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•‘P)EAR MRS. SPEARS: I
thought you might be inter
ested in how I made garment bags
for each member of my family,
almost entirely from things I had
on hand. The foundation part of
each was made of te-inch board;
a screw-eye; a hook from a hang
er; and five small screw hooks
underneath. For the bag, I com
bined muslin flour sacks with odds
and ends of figured cottons and
trimmed the joinings with bias
tape. I followed your directions in
SEWING Book 2, for initials of
bias tape to mark the bags.”
At the upper left is sketched
the foundation that this reader
used. If a zipper is used for the
opening, the 36-inch length is best.
If you put it in a curved line, you
will have a wider opening. Each
step in applying the zipper in this
way is shown here.
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NOTE: The Sewing Basket in
every thrifty household should
contain a copy of Mrs. Spears’
Sewing Book 2, in which she il
lustrates the five standard meth
ods of repairing all kinds of fab
rics. Thirty-two pages to delight
every lover of fine handw’ork. To
get your copy send 10 cents in coin
to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Bed
ford Hills, New York, to cover
cost.
Chinese Boy Thought One
Letup Deserved Another
In a Shanghai bungalow shared
by several young Englishmen, the
Chinese houseboy had a perfectly^
round head which he kept shaved
and polished like a billiard ball.
The young men were always
taking pot shots at this tempting
target with paper pellets or giving
it a pat as they passed by. To all
of which the Chinese said nothing.
One day they decided it was a
shame to keep worrying the boy,
so they called him in and told him
they had decided to stop doing it.
He replied: “Thank you, mas
ters. I very pleased. Now I not
make your coffee with dishwater
any more.”
Best Beloved
It is a good thing to be rich,
and a good thing to be strong, but
it is a better thing to be beloved
by many friends.—Euripides.
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