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THE SUNDAY BEE: OMAHA. JULY 30. 1922.
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Electric Color
iMusic Adds to
-Theater Charm
Color Lighting Carried to
High' Degree of Perfection
in Capitol Theater in
New York ,
Electric color music ii a term that
recently bat besn made. It it com-
(voted of electricity, of color and of
music.
The development of thii phase of
theater lighting owe much to the ge
niut of the manager of the Capitol
theater, New York, one of the
largest motion picture houses in the
world.
Color lighting, through meant of
a large switchboard installed back
stage, hat made Mr. Rothafel'i mov
ing picture palace a place of en
chantment and an interesting visit
- ing spot for all the world. The rowl
of dimmer on the great switchboard
place in the hands of a dozen elec
tricians and artists absolute control
of the units of red, blue, green and
' amber lights that line the vast ceil
ings, walls, alcoves and stage by
hundreds of dozens. Shades and in
tensities of color, through the smooth
handling of these dimmers, blend or
absorb to suit the mood of the ac
tion on the stage, on the screen and
in the music. ,
Works All Night '
Mr. Rothafcl personally works out
every detail of his lighting, particu
larly that of the overture, which.
played by a celebrated orchestra of
70 musicians, thus becomes Jwo mov
ing works of art, combined. This
indefatigable manager frequently
works from 12 o'clock midnight after
the last show, until 6 the next morn
ing. He will not rest until color
effects and music are 'properly
blended to suit him.
The playing of Tchaikowsky's
"ISW overture by the Capitol or
chestra rftently. is given as an ex
ample of the lighting of such music,
because it is probably the most
widely-known of the Russian com
poser's music.
Three themes are easily recogniz
able in this overture; the first from
the Russian hymn, "God Preserve
Thy People;" the second from the
French Marseillaise and the third,
tfee Russian national anthem. .
Lighting Suit Theme,
; At the slow and solemn introduc
tion played by the viola and the
cellos in harmony, the stage is il
lumined by soft pastel lights, tlue
predominating. Then " comes, the
gradual approach of-the French and
the ominous sound of the drums
beating in the distance. Here the
first notes of the Marseillaise are
played bv the horns. At the first
beat of the drums, a faint red light
aajegins to pulsate on the stage, in
the footlights, in the house lights
and the lights of the proscenium
arch.
As the martial notes grow louder
and nearer, the red lights grow
stronger; and when at last the ap
parent victory of the French is an
nounced by the full sounds of the
I Marseillaise rising high and clear,
everything is overwhelmed by a
mighty blaze f red. Then the
original themes merge again and the
brilliant red subsides for a time,
slowly pulsating. And when the
Russian national anthem is intro
duced in the bass, growing up to the
erasing finale with the bells of Mos-
cow loudly ringing out their an
nouncement of victory, the reds fade
into a brilliant amber. The over
ture is closed. with a great flood of
gold sweeping from every direction.
Electric Drills Slice
Thick Paving With Ease
. Slicing the concrete streets of cities
with electric drills is one of the cofl-
veniencer electricity has brought to
street railway companies.
These drills are attached to great
motors moved by energy that laughs
at the thickest of stone, and art op
erated by men who, thus equipped,
deftlv and exoenditiously slice wedges
of any desired width and depth in
the solid street paving. Without de
stroying theasjork of street builders,
street car raits can be laid in the
wedges thus cot. One-way traffic,
and frequently two-way, can be car
ried on during the transition without
hindrance. ,
Ten years ago streets had to be
torn up, bit by bit, to lay street car
rails. Traffic had to stop on those
streets. Hundreds of workmen tedi
ously picked at the expensive surface
of the street until they had wrecked
it. Today it is different.
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FORT DODGE, IOWA
How Wilson Missed
Talk by Wireless
Ex-President, Returning
tunity to Hold First Long Distance
Speech.
The ' U. S. S. George Wa.hington"
was homeward bound, bearing the
president of the United States after
signing the Versailles treaty.
Unusual efforts had been made by
the Navy department -to brine the
radio equipment of the "George
Washington" to a point of perfection.
A huge new plant had been built at
New Brunswick. N. J- and apparatus
capable of carrying the human voice
over 1.300 miles had. been installed
on the president's ship.
Lieut. Walter S. Lemmon. U. N.
R, now of the Malone-Lemmon
Radio laboratories. New York, was
in charge of the radio work on ship-
Sparks
Keen interest is now rife among
radio amateurs in Omaha at to who
can catch the most distant tending
stations. Unless one hears St. Louis,
Kansas City, Schenectady or Atlan
ta, Ga., nightly, he's not in the upper
crust of radio amateurs. Last
Thursday night a group of radio fans
tuned in 'from a receiving set sta
tion WAAW in the Omaha Grain
exchange and heard a musical
comedy broadcast from St. Louis.
Further careful tuning and they
heard this:
"This is Atlanta, Gawgah, talkin'
the Atlanta Gawgan Journal signin
off."
Some thrill 1
For those amateurs interested in
long distance receiving The Omaha
Bee herewith prints the program of
station WWJ for tonight, tomorrow
and Tuesday:
WWJ The Detroit News.
Eastern Standard Time (800 Meter).
SUNDAY. JULY SO.
1:10 p. ra. Th Detroit Nw Orchastrs,
I:0 p. m. Herman W. Bchmeman'i
Concert Band, broadcast
from Bella Iala.
7: JO p. m. Church services from St
Paula cathedral.
WWJ-The Detroit News.
Eastern Standard Time (so Meter).
MONDAY. JULT II.
1:10 a. m. "Tonight' Dinner," and s
pecial talk by the wom
an's editor.
1:40 a. nt. Mualo reproduced.
10:15 a. m. Weather (4SS meters).
11:5S a. m. Time.
11:05 p. m. Mualo reproduced.
J:S0 p. m. Weather (4SS meters).
S:40 p. m. Market!. - f
5:00 p. m. Sport results.
8:10 p. m. The Detroit News rchestf.
The Town Crier.
Edith M. Ruebekam. mualo
lecturer, and other mail
eel numbers.
WWJ The Detroit News.
Eastern Standard Tim (SOS Meter).
TUESDAY. AUGUST 1.
1:30 a. m. 'Tonight' Dinner," and a
' special talk by the wom
en's editor. i
t:40 a. m. Music reproduced.
10:15 a. m. Weather C48S meters).
11:55 a. m. Time.
12:05 p. m. Muilc reproduced.
:30 p. m. Weather (486 meters).
3:40 p. m. Markets.
6: so p. m. Sport results.
8:20 p. m. The Detroit News orchestra.
The Town Crier.
Edith M. Ruebek&m, mualo
lecturer.
Carlisle Trio, and other
musical numbers.
Duck-Billed Platypus.
Is Received in Hawaii
Honolulu, T. H., July 29. A duck
billed platypus, the first of its kind
to ,be landed alive on American soil,
has recently be&n imported from
Australia and may become a part of
the zoological collection now main
tained by the city of Honolulu.
The duck-billed playpus is in ap
pearance a cross between a duck and
a beaver. It lays eggs, but suckles
its you.ng.
Previous attempts to establish the
platypus of the equator have' failed,
making the proposition a risky one,
particuarly as the price asked for
the bird-animal is $5,000. '
Fee Charged Visitors
to Museums in France
Paris, July 29. Enforcement of a
new regulation requiring the pay
ment of entrance fees to all mu
seums and places of historic interest
in France begins this month. The
fee will be 50 centimes, or 1 franc,
according to the importance of the
national monument or collection.
Special rates wuTbe made subscrib
ers, students, wounded soldiers,
members of large families and simi
lar privileged classes. . .
from France, Lost Oppor
board. On the lat day of the event
ful cruise, Lieut. Lemmon succeeded
m receiving a message from New
Brunswick that Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Roosevelt wished to tend
the country t greetings by radio tele
phone to President Wilson. This
was accomplished through the use of
the ordinary long-distance telephone
trom Wasli.figton to New Brunswick,
where it was hooked uo with that tta-
tion't powerful tending apparatus. At
the receiving end of the "George
Washington" a telephone instrument
on the president's desk was connected
so that he could talk to Washington
without moving from his chair.
As this was the president t first ex
perience with radio, he evinced a
great deal of interests-hut scarcely
had he prepared to take the secre
tary's message, when the thunder of
gunt and the whirring of aircraft an
nounced that the navyt escort of
honor had arrived and it became
necessary for him to go on deck im
mediately to take the presidential
salute. .
Mr. Wilson laid down the receiver
and, turning to Lieut. Lemmon, said,
"You speak for me." Thus the presi
dent lost hit only opportunity to ex
perience the thrill of talking without
wires over hundreds of miles of water
and land. '
Bay Kqiing for a
it-
It may be cool tonight, and again, it' may not Who it going to cool your fevered (
brow if it isn't? Hot weather doesn't hurt anyone who takes reasonable measures to
insure against its enervating effects. But just hoping for a cool night is hardly sen
sible. What you need,' all you need, is a '
Westinghouse Fan
that beautiful breeze-maker that produces comfort and coolness in a way that it
healthful and inexpensive. And you are wise if you don't wait until the store it dosed.
Just take down the receiver, while this paper is still in your hand, and Phone tor a Fanl
The Following Dealers Carry a Complete Stock of
Westinghouse Fans f
OMAHA
Auburn Electric Co., 2423 Leavenworth St; DOuglaa 4407. .
J. Burns Electric Co., 4532 S. 24th St; MArket 0890.
Thomas Durkin, 2223 Cuming St; JAckson 2519.
Kettell .Electric Co., 4408 N. 24th St; KEnwood 1424.
LeBro'n & Gray Electrical Co., 116 S. 13th St; JAckson 2019. '
La Bron Electrical Works, 318 S. 13 St; JAckson 2176.
Modern Electric Co., 6912 Military Ave.; WAlnut 6190.
Nebraska, Power Co., 15th and Farnam Sts.; AT lantic 31001
Nelson Electric Co., 406 S. 15th St; ATlantic 7649.
Omaha Electric Works, 1214 Harney St; JAckson 1181.
Schneider Electric Works, 1108 Farnam St; JAckson 2455.
Wolfe Electric Co., 313 S. 17th St; ATlantic 1414. N
Orchard Wilhelm Co., 414 S. 16th St; ATlantic 3000.. v
Modern Electric Co., 2924 Leavenworth St; HArney 1255.
- COUNCIL BLUFFS
Bradley Electric Co., 331 W. Broadway; Phone. 393.
Citizens' Gas and Electric Co., 26 Pearl St; Phone 4700.
Johnson Electric Works, 113 E.. Bsoadway; Phone 373.
.OMAHA
Porclj Important
Feature of Home
Electricity Allow Entire Day's
Tasks to Be performed
on Porch.
The porch in summer hat been
termed the outdoor living room, but
ftiit designation does not begin to
cover itt functions.
The modern, electrically equipped
porch not only tervet at living room,
but in many hornet it used at a din
ing room, kitchen, tewing room, re
ception room and sleeping room. In
fact, an entire day's tasks may be per
formed on the porch, and performed
with more comfort and convenience
than in any other part of the house.
In drawing plant for the modern
home the porch should receive gen
erous attention and space. At a mat
ter of fact, it it oftimet desirable to
sacrifice the tize of interior roomt in
order that the porchet may be suf
ficiently spacious.
The ideal house should have three
porchet an upstairs or sleeping
porch, a convenient back porch where
breakfast may be served, and an ex
tensive and spacious veranda where
almost every household task may be
performed.
To obtain 100 per cent efficiency
from the veranda, at least four con
venient outlets, for . electric tervice
should be installed. These will per
mit the -use of an electric fan, ' an
electrified tea wagon equipped with
electric grill, toaster, chafing dish,
percolator, etc., an electric cleaner
with its myriad used, an electric sew
ing machine, iron heater Or whatever
appliance meett the moment's re
quirements.
Stone 6x3 feet is cut in 15 minutes
by a stone cutting saw 100J4 inchet
in diameter and it of an inch thick.
Distributors
Tasks an Electric
Fan Will Do for You
1 Dry frosting on a cake.
2 Hasten the drying of varnith
or paint. . . .
3 Hurry along the dehydration
of fruit or vegetables.
4 Dry quickly delicate garments
suspended on a hanger, so at to
prevent running of colon.
5 Remove dampnest from clothes
after ironing.
6 Drive ttagnant air from a
closet or closed room, thut compell
ing live air to enter,
7 Vitalize air by the procest of
stirring it up at timet when win
dowt cannot be opened.
8 Establish a draft in furnace
when fire is tlow.
9 Cause radiation of heat from
register or tteam coil in the winter.
10 Woo tleep -for baby on hot
days, or for baby't mother and fath
er on hot nights. v
11 Mae the temperature of
kitchens, laundries or other work
roomt endurable to housekeepers.
12 Give to officet the coolness
necessary to serene nerves and effi
cient work.
Dynamite Is Used to t
Destroy Monster Still
Greensville, S. C, July 29.-What
it declared to be the largest and most
complete distilling plant ever seized
by raiding officers was captured near
here by a group of federal prohibi
tion officers. , -.
The outfit was too large to be de
stroyed with axes, and two sticks
of dynamite were set oh! under the
apparatus, blowing it to bits. '
The plan consisted of a large
brick furnace base, over which was
a steel nveted Doner naving a ca-
J f. approximately 400 gallons,
Two cooper condensing outfits were
connected with the boiler, each hav
ing a capacity of 90 gallons. Five
thousand gallons of rye beer was
poured out by the officers,
SIOUX CITY
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New Apparatus
Used to Detect
Depth of Ocean
Hydrophone Takes Soundings
by Measuring Time- Re'
quired for Reflection of
Sound from Sea Bed.
At toon at the navy't oceano-
graphic ship Hannibal comet in fro,m
itt present sounding expedition it will
be equipped with the hydrophone re
cently perfected by the navy. Offi
cials of the United States hvdro-
graphic office state that the new de
vice will revolutionise their work of
surveying the sea bottom bv permit
ting tne taking ot soundings in a few
. . a a . . .. ' . '
minutes which tinder present meth
ods reauire hours.
The depth of the ocean it obtained
instantly by this device, which de
penas upon tne time it takes tor a
sound to travel from t sound-creating
oscillator locate? in the aft portion
of the ship to the tea floor, and be
reflected back to the receiver located
in line with the transmitter, but in
the forward part of the boat. The
hydrophone receives only the relected
sound. The time determines the
angle and the apparatut automatically
computet the depth.
Highly Accurate.
ine new device necessarily hat a
high degree of accuracy, at the veloc
ity of tound in tea water is roughly
Truly, a Banisher
of Drudgery
Special!
For this week only,
July 31st to August 5th
A very special offering of renewed thoroughly overhauled THOR
IRONERS guaranteed to be in first-class running order while they
last (the number is limited).
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4,400 feet per tecond. a velocity too
great to be measured accurately by
stop-watch method. An error of
one-fifth second results in a discrep
ancy of over 70 tathoms in the de
termining of depth.
Besides making more rapid, detail
ed and accurate hvdrographic sur.
veyt of the ocean bottom, the new
device would alio be uted in locating
vessels at tea and supplement the
radio compass. Powerful tound
tourcet may be installed off capes
and harbors. Ily sending radio sig
nals and the i t) lerwater tound signals
at the tame instant the difference in
the time of reception will give the
distance the vessels are apart when
the depth of the ocean is known.
Will Detect Icebergs.
The inventor, I Dr. Harvey C
Hayes, physicist Jft r the navy, be
lieves that the MW device will be
able to detect tne presence of ice
bergs by the sound reflected from
the herg, and avert - such disasters
at befell the Titanic
"In actual experiment it hat been
determined that Ihe navigator, cruis
ing at full tpeed throngh the fog and
darkness, was certain of his position
at all times and proceeded with com
plete confidence, taid Dr. Hayes in
describing one of the earlier trips
with a less perfect apparatut than
that which it now being used.
Radio Works Between
France and New York
Paris, July 29. Communication
between America and France has
been further facilitated by the open
ing to public use of the wireless tta,
tion at Sainte-Assise. which sends di
rectly to New York. It is said to
be the most powerful wireless its'
tion yet constructed.
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Number 44 Ironers
$99,
REMEMBER this special offer on these true
household servants is'good ONLY during the week
of JULY 31 to AUGUST 5.
BUY YOURS NOW!
Safely Switch Stands
Guard Over Motors
Almost human in their uncanny in
telligence are the delicate devices
which are developed, with the prog,
reat in mechanics for controlling ma
chinery and "making it behave."
lost interesting among these is the
safety twitch that stands guard over
electric motort.
Machinery, though itt action! mty
be accountable to a hair's breadth of
space and infinitesimal fraction of
time under normal conditions, it still
subject to many unforseen variation!
of temperament when dust or grit
pets in bearings, or a thread gett
jammed in itt rapid whirling wheels,
or a bit or drill sticks or binds.
Therefore there must be super-controls,
tort of "power behind the
throne," to ttop machinery before it
diet off at a tangent and injures
work or workman. '
The tafety twitch which should
accompany electric motort giving
energy to variout tools it more than
a super-control; it it almost a
guardian angel. Itt purpose it to
automatically thut off current, at the
same time throwing in resittanee, the
moment an operator! hand leaves s
machine, thut the machine, or tool,
it ttopped in less than one revolu
tion snd cannot become unmanage
able.' Concerts From Auto Truck.
Amhertt, O., July 29. Besidet giv.
Ing radio concerts at itt store, the
Amhertt Furniture company hat
equipped itt truck with radio-receiving
apparatus and it giving radio con
certs wherever the truck goes about
the village.
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