Nebraska Newspapers

    Two Slavers Will
^Come Up Before
Board of Pardons
Victor Moss and Cornelius
Cruz Will Plead Self-De
fense for Release
from Prison.
Lincoln, Feb. 23.—Victor Moss and
Cornelius Cruz, both serving sen
tences of from one to ten years, are
rmong penitentiary Inmates who will
come before the state board of
paroles and pardons for parole
March 11. '
Cruz, who has been before the
board before, declares that he acted
in self defense when he shot and
killed a fellow Mexican, one Dom
iniques. lie was sentenced June 10,
1920.
Qruz is recommended for a parole
by T^rial Judge Hobart on condition
that he be sent back to Mexico.
There has been no order for his de
portation forwarded to the board,
however.
Moss declares* in his petition that
be shot and killed Mrs. Izetta Linton
after she had reached for the gun.
“In the tussle,” he says, "the gun
was discharged.1” After the woman
had been shot. Moss attempted to
take his own life, but recovered after
a long period in the hospital. His
record shows that prior to the shoot
ing in 1921 he had had no trouble
with the authorities. Moss has a
war record.
Alleging that Lee M. Carroll,
• cashier of the Liberty theater of Lin
coln. conspired with him to rob the
theater of the Saturday night admis
sion fees. D. it. Trimble asks for a
parole. The evidence at the trial
showed that Trimble hit the cashier
over the head with a pie<*e of gas pipe
and took the money, but Trimble in
sists that Carroll, who was not con
victed, was an accomplice in the plot.
Others who will come before the
board are:
Penitentiary. Parole*.
Frank Deputy, Lancaster, forgery, 1 to
2D years; D. M. Trimble, Lancaster, grand
larceny, 1 to 7 years; .lohn C. DeFord.
OU>e, violation of liquor law, 1 to 2 years;
William .1. Basalnger. Otoe, burglary. 1
to f» years; John Allen. Douglas, robbery,
:i to 6 years; Charles Ford, Douglas,
breaking find entering, 1 to 3 years; Wil
liam Busey, Douglas, breaking and en
tering, 2 to 3 years; Herbert Williams,
Douglas, breaking and entering, 2 to 3
vura; Gilbert Foster. Douglas, breaking
and entering, 3 to 10 years; Joseph I^a
Ronte, Dixon, larceny, 1 to 5 years; Vic
tor Moss, Lincoln, manslaughter. 10 years;
Cornelius Cruz. Gordon, manslaughter. 1
to 10 years: Lloyd Massburn. Case, break
ing and entering. 1 to in years; Charles
Taylor. Hal!, burglary. 1 to 10 years;
Fred Kelp. Dawson, forgery, 1 to *0
penjtrnf,|ary. Commutation*.
8 8 Harmer. Garfield, Incest, not to ex
ceed 20 years. _ _ .
Reformatory fop Men, Parole*.
Richard Harris. Douglas, sssault with
Intent to commit rape, 2 to 4 years; Jack
VTankersley. Douglas, auto stealing and re
reiving stolen auto, 2 to 6 years; Carl
\VaIters, Douglas, receiving stolen prop
erty, 1 to 7 years; Will tarn Hicks. Doug
las. robbery. 3 to 3B years; Frank Rdn
ijeit, Douglas. «uto stealing, t to 7 year*;
Frank Galvin, Douglas, breaking and«n
' er:ng: Ralph Burnham, Rad Willow,
auto stealing. ^ _ _ ,
Reformatory for Women. Parole*.
Deloris Beldin. Lancaster, vagrancy. In
determinate; Mrs Myrtlo Berkley, Thom
*,* prostitution. Indeterminate
(,han£es in Lincoln
h* Route Discussed
Highway Between Missouri
V alley and Fremont May
Be Shortened. Wolz Says.
Fremont,. Neb., Feb. 24.—Fremont,
Columbus. Gram! Island and Central
City are In no danger of losing the
Lincoln highway, according to George
Wolz. Nebraska state_ consul of the
Lincoln Highway association.
Wolz's statement was made in re
ply to stories emanating from Colum
bus predicting a change in the route
of the highway following the comple
tion of the new Yutan bridge. ‘ It s
a pipe dream." %commented Wolz. "I
admire the energy of the workers
who are laboring so diligently to pro
mote their own territory."
There would he no reason, lie said,
for the highway fo bs taken away
from the main line of ths Union Pa
cific to territory where there la no
transcontinental railroad.
If any change in the routs of the
Lincoln highway Is being considered,
Wols says. It is ths road between
Missouri Valley and Fremont. He
declares that there haa been some agl
tlon along this line to shorten the
routs In this manner. Another prop
osition Ife under way, he said, in re
gard to the D-L-D. The purpose If
to route the road through Wahoo and
thence south to Lincoln. Tills project
y pass. Wolz stated,
le believes that the Lincoln high
y through Fremont is safe for all
time if the people will continue to
keep it In repair.
ROUP
Spasmodic Croup is frequently
relieved by one application of -
Get instant, sure relief,
where and when you
need it most. Get the
Baumethat gives the
magic touch —use it
like cold cream.
C Headache*
Rheumatism
Cough* and cold*
Toothache*
Backache* ^
r Tired feet.
That. Looming fc Co.
Ann. AgtaUi Mi Y«
Cox Again a Candidate for Presidency
Miami Beach, Fla., Feb. 24.—Former fiov. James M. Cox of Ohio lias
authorized the use of his name as a candidate for the presidency of the
United States.
This photo shows Mr. Cox with John Bropliy, golf professional, at the
Miami Beach golf course. .
Health Expert to Tell Omaha Women
How to Regain and Retain Youth
Lectures Begin at the Strand
Theater Tuesday Under the
Auspices of The
Omaha Bee.
If all the women In tihe family start
cavorting the latter part of this
(week, turning somersaults and at
tempting to stand on their hands, it
won't be necessary to call in a doc
tor. They will only be reducing or
pufting youth into their knee Joints.
Tlte women will probably be fol
lowing the advice of Mrs. Margaret
Blair, beauty and health expert, who
will lecture In Omaha on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday at the
Strand theater, under auspices of
The Omaha Bee. Mrs. Blair, who Is
a 60-year-old grandmother. is as
sprightly ns many women at 2.1. She
dances, stands on her head apd fol
lows a courso of exercises to demon
strate to the women how she regaln
edeher youth.
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Ijongwrorth
startled some of the women In Wash
ington society by standing on her
head to demonstrate how she kept
her youth. Mrs. Rlalr does It for
dally exercise. She says she- does
it to strengthen her track and
shoulders.
Kxerelses Work Miracles.
Mrs. Blair had a crooked spine,
fallen arches grid neuritis a few
years ago before she started her
health exercises. Now she declares
she hasn't a thing the matter with
her.
Gallons of water are advised for the
women who seek beauty.
“A gallon a day is good for any
one,” says Mrs. Rlalr. ‘ Some women
are withering away for the want of
water, the very thing the body needs
to wash away its Impurities.”
Message of Values,
You have only to look at Mrs.
Blair to know- that she has a mes
Mr*. Margaret Hlalr.
sage of value to women. She has made
herself physically perfect by way of
prunes and phonograph. That is her
recipe for recovering health. Mrs.
Blair conquered laziness and now
turns cartwheels to the tune of the
phonograph. Prunes are on her daily
menu.
Ms. Blair for 25 years was a teacher
of domestic art In the University of
Minnesota. She gave it up to leach
women all over the world how to gain
health and beauty.
Schedule fur the lecture Is as fol
low s:
Tuesday morning at l*1: Health and
exercise'. Illustrated with health
dances.
Wednesday morning at 10: Care of
the body and skin.
Thursday, 12 to 1: How to keep fit
for business.
There will he no admission charge.
State-Wide Lincoln
Highway Meet Planned
Columbus, Neb., Feb. 14.—Although
It originally was planned to Include
only the towns from Fremont to
Grand Island. Inclusive, along the
I.lncoln highway In the I.lncoln high
way meeting to lie held In Columbus
March 0, the state officials of the
association, co-operating with the
Columbus Chamber of Commerce,
have decided to make’ It a state wide
I.lncoln Highway association meet
ing.
The completion of ths program
rests with P. J. Traill, secretary of
the Orand Island chamber; Herbert
Hohm, secretary of the local chamber
said that Gibbon Duncan, Grand
Island, Sutherland, Schuyler, Cen
tral City, Ogallala, Clarks, North
Bend antf Kesrney elready have sig
nified their Intention of sending a
representation.
Albion American Legion
Hall Opens With Carnival
Albion, Neb., Feb. 24.—The new
American leglnn hall was opened to
the public Thursday and Friday eve
nlngs, when a carnival, fair and
dance was put on by the legion ineiii
birs, assisted by he ritl/.ens general
ly. Upwards of 2,000 were in attend
ance.
Thugs Taken in Haiti.
Hioux City, la.. Feb. 24 Six men
said by local police to be member* of
the gang of thieve* and holdup* who,
have been operating here (luring the
last *lx week*, were taken Into cue
tody in a raid this morning.
%
Humboldt—Fred (liable, a prom
Inent farmer living north of this
city. In the edge of Nemaha county,
aged 60 years, died *t hi* home Frl
day morning. He leaves a widow and
five grown children.
Teeimixeh—*Mr. Arthur Tuxhorn
and Mis* Marie Melnt*, well known
young people of tld* community, were
married at the i'lensont Hill church,
southeast of the city, Thursday. A
reception was given *t the home of
the bride's parent* and a large party
attended.
fiyed lace mutches the color of the
evening frees,
REEL REMARKS
Hr the M. P. Editor.
Some Speed.
George Walsh, who Is to play the
title roll In "Ben Hur,” which Is to
he filmed In Italy, says he still can
run ion yards In 10,3. At least, thnt'a
what George’iy preas agent says.
Francis, llow Conld You?
Fnyiols X. Bushman used to he one
of the loveliest of the movie heroes.
Now he's a villain. He'a to play the
part of Messala In "Ben Hur."
A new baron has appealed. His
name Is Baron Hubert Kland von
Herwarth Blttenfield. You guessed
It. lie's an extra In the films.
Nn Kidding, Fltlier.
Hlsten to this! Claire Windsor's
next release is to he none other thsn
"Nellie, the Beautiful Clyak Model."
Carmel Myers has just finished
"Poisoned Paradise." Perhaps you
can explain what that tills means.
Something like "Beautiful t'gllness,"
ms3 Imp?
They Must I .Ike Spaghetti.
It's all the rage to go to Italy.
The latest to depart Is I'.dm u rid
Colliding, playwright, who is to write
two original stories for the Henry
King-Inspiration unit over there.
Tom Moore's venture on the apeak
Ing stage ended In disaster. Toni
was starring in “Thieves of Clover”
by Kugene Walter, hut the populace
disylayed no great Inclination to see
Tom In person and the troupers dls
banded. ,
Norma Talinadge and her husband.
Joseph H. Schenk, had a tough tone
this winter. They journeyed to Palm
Bfiftrh and hack on Irving Berlin's
private yacht.
4 ***' 1 " ■
J. Jv. McDonald, who directed "Pan
roil and Ham," la to produce for Fir*!
National n atory entitled "The Ooof."
Walt till they roIrcI an actor for the
title rX*
Thomas It. lure's "The Mnirijige
rheat" will In* iclcuaed l>\ First Nil
jtlonal In April It'a n atory of thr
j Mouth Men h a ml wm taken In (In
[touth sens ui Los Angeles.
BEHIND THE SCREEN
By SAMUEL GOLUWYIS
(Cnntinuril From Satnnhy.)
"The job I chose was with the
No sooner had 1 started to work than
I discovered Valentino was on the
same lot under llolubar. This second
contact with the young ' foreigner
deepened my confidence that he would
1)0 a great success on the silver sheet,
and when ‘The Foul Horsemen' came
along I thought of him immediately.
"Of course it was obvious that he
was the exact type of the young
tango-dancer hero of the story. Even
after I started work) with him, though,
I had no idea how far he'd go—not
at the very first. But when we came
to rehearsing the tango, "Rudy" did
so well that I made up my mind to
expand this phase of the story. X
did this by means of a sequence in
a Universal picture I had made sev
eral years liefore. The sequence
showed un adventurous youth going
Into a Bowery dive and taking the
dancer after he had first floored her
parti.er. Bones and marrow, I trans
posed this action to South America—
yet only a few of my wise Universal
friends recognized it,
"This bit of acting not in the W>k
gave Valentino a chance for one of!
his siiowiest pieces of work. I re
hearsed it very carefully for three
days right on the set, and I think
the result showed it.”
At this point in the director’s story
I asked him if he thought, as so many
people do, that Valentino Vas a mere
flash in the pan.
"By no mei*», rejoined ne
promptly; ‘‘he's^^rv ambitious and
earnest, and If^e doesn't take what
the fans say t<» seriously he will live
a long time as a picture idol—provid
ed, of course, that he is kept In good
stories and has a capable director.”
Here at this point I can not refrain
from quoting the most famous of
directors on the subject of the present
day idol. In talking to Griffith one
day I asked, him what he thought of
Valentino.
“I declare I don't know,” replied
he; “all the time I was looking at hlrn
in ‘The Four Horsemen’ I kept ask
ing myself, 'Is this fellow really act
ing or is he so perfectly the type
that he doesn't need to act?’"
The existing impression that this
famous novel afforded Valentino his
first part In pictures is erroneous
Not only hal the young Latin worked
with Holubar, as Ingram mentioned,
but he had been cast with Mae
Murray by Bobby Leonard. And, of
course, he had rounded out his ex
perience as an extra. Had It not
been, however, for Rex Ingram and
for the materialization of a story so
exactly adapted to hia type, Valen
tino might still be standing around
In the lobby of some Hollywood hotel
—one of the thousands of young men
and women whose hearts are suf
focating with that one cry, “The
chance! If only they’d give me the
chance!”
"Hall, Czar of Hollywood!”—thus
some woman addressed Charlie
Chaplin not long ago.
"Oh, no,” smiled Charlie, "that no
longer. Valentino is the present
ruler,” And then he went on to say.
“I like the fellow, you know. He's
got a lot of color and charm. I went
around to see him the other day and
It just delighted me to see him step
ping about on his thick beautiful
rugs among his gorgeous hrio-abrac
and his incense burners. They seem
ed to suit him, you know, and he was
s pleased with all his new splendor
—just like a child.”
There Is Chaplin for you—alwavs
delighted with the colorful, the pic
torial. the thing which seta his
Imagination going.
In line with Charlie's approval
come the words of another man 1
know, a man well read, cultured, and
charming. “Any one who thinks
Valentino Is an Illiterate young for
eigner with R handsome fare and a
talent for dancing Is mistaken”—so
protests this witness. ”1 know him
well and I atn always Interested in
his comments on life and work.
You’ve got to remember that ‘Rudy'
doesn't Home from the lower classes
In Italy. His father was a scientist
and his family connections sre with
professional people.”
“The Four Horsemen carried not
only Valentino high Into the ether of
popular success. Although Hex
Ingram hart made successful pictures
liefore this, he had never so thorough
lv- demonstrated his rapacity for that
difficult union of finely knit narra
tive and sweep of vision as did he In
Ibanez's masterpiece. To my mind
Ihe sklli with which the personal ele
ment Is presented against the back
ground of great epic disaster places
Ingram In the very foremost rank of
acreen directors. As for Alice Terry,
her role of the wife In the story
afforded her the first satisfactory
avenue for that exquisite something
which differenflatee her.
The story of Alice Terry has the
same fairy tale quality as Valentino's
own. Idks him. she had worked hard
ss en extra for many yeera, and the
hard work had resulted In little rec
ognition. However, discouraging as
had been her experience. It was not
without results. For Rex Ingram
happened to see her In New York
when, ns a girl still In her mid teens,
she played with Resale Harrlscale In
“Not My kittle Slater.'' This promsie
which she gave Impressed the voting
director almost Immediately. When,
Indeed, he moved from New York
lo the coast he welcomed the fact
that she. too, had shifted from east
to west. Had It not been for the
war, In fact, Alice Terry would prob
ably have been his leading lady some
years before.
When Ingram on his return from
overseas service finally located the
Job which put n roof once more over
hla head and civilian clothes again
upon hla hack, he was to resume hla
slight acquaintance with Miss Terry.
For she can e to Ills office then and
applied for a position as script girl,
tho functionary who, working on the
set, chalks off the scenes ns they
are made and notes Iho new one*
extemporized.
lie looked at her In amazement.
"What." cried he, "you don't mean to
say that you've given up acting, do
you?"
She looked at him somewhat aadlv
"Oil. dear, yes," she replied. "1 did
that some time ago. It was too dls
couraging—I wasn't getting any
place, you see. No matter how hard
t worked nothing seemed to come of
it. A^id of course being an extra or
getting some bit now and then
doesn’t keep you. Ho I decided I'd
Just get a regular job.”
"And what have you been doing
since?" inquired Ingram.
"I’ve been working in tlie cutting
room," replied she, "and that was fine
—I mean it was fine—knowing just
what you were going to get each
week. But the ether commenced to
get into my lungs and that's why I'm
looking around for something else.”
Ingram promised to give her the
desired position in the picture fol
lowing "Shore Acres." However,
something changed his plana and
instead he cast her for a wild and
woolly Drury Lane melodrama called
"Hearts Are Trumps.” To his sur
prise she seemed loath to accept this
chance of returning to the screen.
"Oh, no, 1 don’t want to try—I've
given it ail up, you see,’ she kept
protesting in a way that showed how
completely previous discouragements
had shattered her self-confidence.
But he finally succeeded in over
coming her fears, and since then she
has been his leading woman in every
story except "Trifling Women." It
was not, however, until the appear
ance of "The Four Horsemen'' that
Alice Terry, the girl who, heartsick
from her discouragements on the set,
had wanted to retire to the compara
tive obscurity of script work, won
the w'ide recognition which her beauty
and her screen personality had so
long deserved.
Ali this I have just related I heard
frgm Miss Terry, now Mrs. Rex
Ingram, on the same evening when
Ingram told me of his experience
with Valentino. On this same oc
casion she and her husband men
Honed that her next appearance will
be in John Russell’s "Passion Vity>."
In this her support will be Ramon
Navarro, another dancer from whom
Ingram predicts a success which
may even duplicate that of Valentino.
Anent both Valentino and Navarro,
Ingram made an interesting observa
tion. "A good danrer," said he, “fre
quently makes a good screen actor.
Why? Rerause lie has both poise and
repose, and I don't know any better
start than these."
In this connection do not forget that
Chaplin is one of the most graceful
of dancers. Although not a profes
sional, he might easily have become
so.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.
Romantic True Stories of Some Screen
Favorite*.
Another film triumph won only
after a long siege of the citadel la
that of Von "Stroheim. Born of an
old and distinguished Viennese family,
the Baron von Stroheim was in an
other day one of those pictorial young
officer* who swaggered about the
Ring Strn.sse, partook of cafe mel
ange* and fancifully whittled cakes
at the smart conditioners' on the
Graben, sunned themselves where the
band* play "The Beautiful Blue
Danube" and other Strauss waltze*—
in brief, lent themselves to that
atmosphere, at once sprightly and
sentimental, which made the fascina
tion of prewar Vienna. Terhaps he
lent himself to it somewhat too
thoroughly, for he always smiles when
you ask him how he first happened
to come to this country. And the
smile seem* to hint at *ome .youthful
escapade.
When he arrived In this country
he had no more equipment for mak
ing hi* own livelihood than is sug
gested by till* background of fjivolity,
of leisure, and of rigid caste etiquette.
Yet h* was penniless now. Soda
fountain attendant and groom In n
stable—these two jobs are only a few
of the mile stones passed in the
wanderings of Von Stroheim from his
hereditary environment. He was. In
fact, almost starving when Griffith's
war pictures presented to him an op
portunity. His Austrian uniform, his
scars, hi* typical teutonic appearance
—all these were utilized in a screen
presentation of the hated German
officer.
After the vogue of the war picture
had passed, however. Von Stroheim
found himself In n plight almost as
had a* that from which these pictures
had delivered him. No use to him
now was the uniform, the scar*, the
typical teutonic appearance! Quite
the reverse. For day* he would sit
in the depressing anterooms which
guard the presence of the grenl: I
used to *«e him in tlie Goldwyn
.studio* nnd, remembering with ail
miration his work in tlie war picture*
I wished only that the change lr
popular taste had not prohibited my
emplovment of him In a character
Istle role.
„ “I knew all the time that I had
something in me which might he valu
ahl* to the screen,’* ao he himself
told a friend of mine in reference to
thl# period, "hut I couldn't get myaelf
over. I lacked the American push. X
took no for an ansiver far too easily,
and so I might still he eittJng around
In dingy anteroom* had not something
happened to me. X became deeply in
fatuated with a girl. But she said
to me, ‘No—not Until I see if you can
ever make good.' Then for the first
time In my life X made up tfiy mind
to succeed."
The rest of his story Is known hy
those who follow the history of
screen celebrities, lie had long t.ren
Cough, cough, coughing—
all night long
You can stop it . .
That cough—it keep* you awake at night,
break* your rest, waste* your strength, en
danger* the delicate tissues of your thnmt
• and cheat—break it up noir.
For more than fifty \ear*. thousand* of
fnmiliea have relied upon Dr. King * New
Discovery to break up coughs. It doe* this quickly,
naturally by stimulating the mucous membrane* to
throw ofT the secretions that are clogging them. Ilsrm
leaaly, ami without any bad after effects, it quiets the
throat and lung spasms, and the irritation that is
musing the iSnigh then promptly dears up. It has an
agreeable taste \ 11 druggi't*
Kjrhnustinfj niijht
nvugktnq is quickly
stopped frith this
simple household
remedy.
Army Aviator
Rises 34,983 Feet
.Dayton, O.,—Lieut. John A. Mac
Heady on Friday, February 22, fail
ed in his second attempt in two
months to set a netv world’s airplane
altitude record.
His Lepere plane reached an actual
altitude of 34,983 feet, it was an
nounced several hours after he had
descended. It previously had been
believed that the record was broken
when his instruments showed an indi
cated altitude of 41,000 feet.
fired by an Idea for the screen. Mad
dened by his inability to get an
audience for this idea, the erstwhile
Viennese aristocrat resolved upon
forceful measures. He literally broke
into Laemmele’s room in a hotel, and
with all the fire of desperation set
forth his great ideas. The result was
"Foolish Wives." This picture, not
able—even notorious—among screen
folk for the tremendous costliness oj
its production, is also set apart by
the fact that Von Stroheim’s activities
in it were three fold. He wrote the
scenario, he directed it. and he look
the leading part. His subsequent
work shows the same correlation.
(Continued In The Morning Bee.)
“Love Doctor” and
Movies at Empress
The smart musical comedy, "The
I.ove Doctor," was presented yester
day at the Empress by the Halt on
Powell players. The company will
be In Omaha for an indefinite period
of time. Starting today, there will
he two shows instead of Just one ev
ery week.
A castoff is picked up by a mil
lionaire's son by mistake. In order
to shield hirnself from disgrace, the
son Introduces the tramp as a doctor
from Europe. Immediately the fath
er jilans to stage a reception for the
wealth^ people of town. The plans
are broken by Intimate members of
the family who claim that the father
is drunk.
The real "love doctor" makes his
appearance in the millionaire's man
sion and is then srrested by a po
licpman who was summoned by the
father.
"The Whispered Name.” a news
paper picture, was screened at the
Empress. A group of first class
blackmailers are caught trying to
bring about a divorce between Van
Kreel, the millionaire, and his wife.
The event is foiled by a society re
porter and the managing editor.
( Adele Garrison N
“My Husband’s Love”
\_
On I he Way Madge Kxtolled the
Beauties i4 Hushing.
I defy anyone not a confirmed mis
anthrope, with a soul squeezed dry,
to drive along the north shore of
Long island without feeling the calm
and cheerfulness which result from
suffusing one s spirit with beauty. A»
my sister-in-law’s soul, though a bit
circumscribed by the rigid and pecul
iar ideas of duty which always had
possessed her still was large and ap
preciative, she did not prove an ex
ception to my rule, hut instead
thawed so perceptibly toward the
views, with such unusual enthusi
asm for her, that I saw her husband
glance at her once or twice in sur
prise tinged with a pleasure that was
a bit pathetic in its revelation of the
things the 'big man had missed in
their years together.
Long ago I had surmised that my
husband’s sister had been so busy
surrounding her famous husband
with every physical comfort and mak
ing his home life a padded routine,
through which even the traditional
roseleaf of the seven mattresses could
not penetrate, that she had made her
self a sublimated domestic machine.
Their life together, while absolutely
without jars, was like a smoothly
running machine with none o^ the
variations from the expected which
make life colorful and interesting.
She had been perfection, a model
housekeeper, a gracious hostess,
when he wanted to entertain his
friends, a cultured and stately figure
whom he was proud to own as his
wife when she accompanied him to
the gatherings where people delighted
to do him honor.
“Motorist's Delight.’’
Blit there is no platitude truer
than the one about perfection pall
ing, especially, I said to myself a
bit maliciously, when one is so ab
solutely certain of one's own super
excellence as is my sister-in law. I
amended by phrasing with quick
rcntrition. made it "as was my sister
in-law," for Harriet Braithwaithe,
since she had opened her arms to her
dead sister's children, had been a
woman transformed. lAte might not
l>e so smoothly running for Edwin
Braithwaite in the future, but it
would be happier and much more In
teresting—on that I would have
staked much.
The car behaved beautifully, and
we rolled on, through quaint old
Rnslyg, with houses clinging to
miniature hills and nestled in valleys
and delis like those scooped out by
children in play on past the clock
tower, known by the motorists from
all over the world up the winding hill
w-lth the world spread out beneath
us, on again, up and down more
grueling hills until, finally tfie broad
smooth pavement came to an end and
the car jolted on to a cobblestoned
road with street car tracka dividing
it into right and left, narrow path
ways.
"What is this'’ ’ Edwin asked with
quick interest.
"This is known as the Motorist’s
Delight.” I answered as we traveled
up the hill from which the pretty
village of Douglestor descends to the
shore. ‘'Tou'II realize wfty before we
come to the end of it."
No one spoke again until we had
gingerly descended the rough road
way and traveled over the narrow
ramshackle bridge the bane of all
vehicles along the otherwise wonder
ful North Shore highway. Then after
we had traversed another stretch of
cobble-stoned road and rolled out
upon a broad road as smooth as a
tennis court, my brother-in-law
emitted a disgusted masculine snort.
The Neck of a Bottle.
"Why la such nonsense permitted’ v
ha asked Indignantly. "A wonderful
route spoiled by a miserable little
stretch like that. Jt must be a mess
in the traffic of summer time."
■'it is,” I affirmed emphatically,
with the memorjp-of an unfortunate
Sunday trip vividly before me. ‘‘On
Saturday afternoons, Sundays and
holidays, the motor cars extend from
Queensboro bridge back almost to
Hoslyn in an unbroken line, two,
three and where the road will permit,
four abrest. Getting them through
here is like pushing them througli
the neck of a bottle. But from now
on the roads are wonderful and
Flushing, which we soon will reach
is one of the oldest and most iA
turesque sections of I>ong Island.
You'd better take a good look at it
for it’s in a transition period. It al
ways will be beautiful ,but th^ last
of the big old farms and country
estates are being broken up Into
smaller home sites and the coming
of the subway meant its final trans
formation into the city which'It is
already technically a part.”
‘‘What a pity." Harriet said, ns
we ran smoothly along the street*
first of Bayside and then of Flush
ing, ‘‘that the city e\W should touch
a place as beautiful as this. Just
look at these houses./ Every one has
an air of homey seclusio^. each Iqoks
as if i( belonged to cultured beauty
loving people. Just imagine them
transformed into apartment build
ings.”
I could not help my lips twitch
ing into a smile. She had translated
my talk of the city invasion literally
and visioned the imminent destruo
tion of everything homelike in th*
beautiful suburb. But I was sav<aj
the necessity of explanation. Her
husband broke into a ringing laugh.
"I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
Harriet,” he said . genially. ‘‘I don't
believe well see sweat shop tene
ments along here in our lifetime.”
Warsaw Pave Tribute
to Woodrow Wilson
Warsaw, Feb. ii.—President Woj
ciechowskl, the speakers of both
houses, the members of the cabinet
and the American legation. Genera!
Haller, chief of staff, and manv
Americans today attended an lmpres
sive ceremony in memory of Wood
tow Wilson in the city hall. Chopin's
funeral march was played by massed
military bands.
Later it was announced that one
of the streets of Warsaw witl 1>*
named after the late former pre>,
dent
Among the throngs ef people
theater audiences and in restraurants
on New Year's Kve one observer
saw not one single black dress.
WE APOLOGIZE!
To the hundreds and hundreds of people who attended the
STRAND Sunday and suffered the discomforts of a crowded
lobby, stood patiently in line and waited not only minutes but
hours to get in.
And to the people who became tired of waiting and had to
leave—we apologize. *
BUT —RICHARD BARTHELMESS in his greatest success,
“THE FIGHTING BLADE” will be here all of this week.
Please, those of you who couldn’t get in—come back some
other evening or if possible attend a matinee show and avoid
the enormous evening crowds.
In order to accommodate as many people as possible at the
matinees and relieve the evening congestion, matinee prices will
be in effect until 6:15 o’clock so if those of you who can, will
attend the matinees, it will give everyone a chance to see this
magnificent production. v
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