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One-Way Streets N r ~l OW they wish to eliminate the j)ne-way __ traffic rule on N. Meridian St. All this agitation is caused by the fact that a reckless driver crashed' head-on into the front of a street car at Illinois St. and Indiana Ave. at 3 o’clock the other morning. It is argued that elimination of one-way traffic on Meridian St. will cut down speeding. It probably will. It will cut down speeding because it will be impossible to drive rapidly in a traffic jammed and confused two-way street in the rush hours. Two-way traffic on Meridian St. during the rush hours is far more dangerous than oneway driving at a reasonable speed. In fairness, it must be admitted that many motorists are driving more than twenty-five miles an hour on Meridian St. during the one-way periods. Why not retain the one-way system and require motorists to drive not more than twen-ty-five miles an hour? The Highway Squabble mHE gravel interests are figlking desperately to retain the present highway commission. The crushed stone interests are fighting just as desperately to depose the commission. The reason, of course, is tlutt the highway department uses gravel and not crushed stone in the construction of hard-sur-face roads. Whether gravel or crushed stone, or both, should bo specified the ordinary observer is not in a position to sa3\ The only interest of the public is in seeing that the best possible roads be constructed and maintained at the loAvest. possible cost. The indictments against highway depart-' ment men and others brought in the Marion County Criminal Court and Ihe investigation being made by the 1 .niteel Slates Government have no connection whatever with the question oE the use of gravel or crushed stone. This question is entirely beside the point, although. some individuals and some publications are attempting to make the public believe it is involved. The question, and the only one, involved in the indictments and in the investigation is that of the disposition made by the highway department of used war material. The department permitted to be shipped to Indiana huge quantities of material that could not conceivably be used in the construction and maintenance of roads. Then the highway department disposed of this material at ridiculously low prices without competitve bids and mostly to one concern. Ihe quest ’on of whether any law was violated in these peculiar transactions should be settled as speedily as possible. Public, officials and the courts should not be influenced in any way by a controversy between the gravel men and the stone men. ✓ - The Legion EBD by a group of solid and substantial young men, American Legion members are m the midst of a membership campaign.

Bootlegging Ends Prohibition

.Editor’s Note: This is the fifteen, of a series of articles hr Mr Gardner re' ewWw hte operation of the in the various provinces of Canada. By Gilson Gardner C J ~ ] ALGARY, Alberta. Canada (By Mail) —The case of “Emperor > Pick” Illustrates as well as anything what helped largely to change public opinion in Canada on prohibition, and led finally to the adoption of the present government sales plan. “Emperor Pick” was the title conferred by his patrons on the leading bootlegger of the Crown Nest Pass, a big mining settlement on the Al-berta-British Columbia boundary line. He was Emilio Picariello, Italian fruit vendor. Beginning in a small way, the Illegal running of rum, whisky and beer, he soon acquired wealth and prestige of a sort. But there came a day when, in company with a woman compatriot, Mrs. Florence Lasandro, Picariello shot to death a provincial policeman following a chase of Picariello’s son in a bootlegging car. Both Picariello and t'he woman, after a dramatic trial in Calgary, were hanged at Ft. Saskatchewan. The trial attracted widespread attention. The farmer government, then in power, put forward every effort to convict the pair. The leading lawyer of the province was engaged to assist the Attorney General In the prosecution. Amazing ramifications of the bootlegging traffic were disclosed. A conviction was obtained and the death sentence dealt the two. When a reprieve was denied at Ottawa the telegraphic announcement in the legislature was roundly applauded. Mrs. Lassandro was the first woman hanged in the province of Alberta. That is how the Canadians felt about bootlegging violence. They were trying to restore a spirit of respect for law. * But the drop had hardly been

Their object is to revive the organization to its proper place in this city. The legion stands for many praiseworthy principles. It advocates preparedness. Amerieansim, rehabilitation of the Avar stricken and served its country day by day quietly but effectively. “Tell the boys for Lew Shank to join the legion, if they are eligible,” Mayor Shank said. “I know a lot of fellows avlio would give their right eye to have this privilege.” Certainly, no veteran of the world Avar could lose by taking Shank’s advice. Bootleggers Convibted I q jENTENTES of twenty-tAvo of the twenty--1 I three persons found guilty in Federal Court of conspiracy to violate the prohibtion laws av ill be pronounced by Judge Tloberf C. Baltzell Dec. 30. The Government in this case effectively stopped a huge liquor conspiracy by Avhich at least sonic of the demand for booze in this part of the country was being supplied. Stopping the liquor business at the source is the most effective way of enforcing prohibition. It is much more effective than the popular system of searching the homes of innocent persons on mere rumor that somebody's friend’s cousin’s brother-in-law Avas thought to have made the statement that he had an idea there might possibly be a half pint of peach brandy in that peculiar home. Statesmen 6r Just Politicians? | o jEC'RETARY KELLOGG, in his New York I 1 speech, said America’s foreign relations should be kept out of polities. Bravo, Mr. Secretary! But doesn’t the message come a trifle late? What a pity he did not bring the members of his own party around to that Avav of thinking back in the days when the League of Nations and Treaty of Versailles fight was rocking the roof of the National Capitol! N Unless our memory is playing us a trick, with precious few exceptions on the final showdown, every Republican voted against the treaty and league, save with “nullifying” reservations. and every Democrat voted for them. It is putting too great a strain on human credulity to ask anybody to belie A-e that line-up had nothing to do with politics. In truth, the treaty and league were in politics eA'en before they were hatched. The late Senator Lodge admits as much in his posthumous hook. The American delegation in Paris cabled him for his advice, as leader of ‘he Senate, to guide them in framing a just and lasting peace. Did they get it? They did not. The political bosses saw political capital might be made of the issue and they were grimly determined to take full advantage of it. Still and all, Secretary Kellogg’s suggestion is not the less welcome because tardy. Numerous foreign issues are now before the Senate, the World Court entry proposal perhaps being the most important. We hope the Senate Avill take his advice. There is yet time for its members to shoAv Avhether they are statesmen or just politicians.

sprung in this double hanging when smother provincial policeman was Killed as the rum-running car he was 1 rying to stop crashed into a fence. The rum-runner was tried for murder but went free. The public inlnd was becoming saturated with stories of this sort. Added to the local doings there ■were the stories of rum-running across the international border. Daring crimes by international bandits in “high powered cars.” with the police arming for defense in armored cars carrying machine guns and gas bombs. The colts of the wild west days were replaced by "automatics” and the broncho by the “whisky six.” It was the same in all the western provinces—crime and bootlegging went together. * What then? Perhaps there' could be found a better plan than this brand of "prohibition.” Causes for Change Other causes contributing to the change of mind were: The medical and pharmaceutical professions were becoming sensitive to their loss of standing through becoming the /dispensers of drink on “prescriptions.” The public was growing cynical about the new world which was to follow the war and was reacting against much which had been accepted with the enthusiasm of patriotic sacrifice in 1916 under the name of “reform.” Among these was prohibition. Cutting off the importation of the “residential allowance” and other “tightening up” policies were regarded by many as “bad faith” on the part of the prohibitionists in power. Finally ail the provinces were (and are) burdened with debt following the war, and were very anxious for

revenue. British Columbia, tbe first of the western provinces to adopt government sales, broadcast to the dominion that up to March 31, 1922, it had distributed to the municipalities for hospital and road purposes $1,300,000. Quebec, meantime, was telling the world of a profit of $4,000,000 for Its first year of government sales. The Canadians have a political system which is more responsive to public opinion than ours. They have such things as the Initiative and referendum and preferential ballot. So when public opinion got around to it a petition by the hotel men of Alberta signed by 60,000 voters forced a plebiscite on the general question. The Hotel Men’s Act referred to the sale of real • beer by hotels, restaurants, etc., but the government submitted the matter In the form of four questions: .1. Continuance and strengthening of prohibition. 2. The Hotel Men’s Act. 3. Sale of beer by government vendors with sale of liquor as medicine in prescriptions. 4. Government sale of liquor by vendors for beverage purposes and licensed consumption of real beer in public places. The election, on first choice votes (and by this time the women voted; they did not when prohibition was passed in 1915) went as follows: 1. 61,596. 2. 3,874. 3. 8,164. 4. 93,634. This government control of liquor sales had a straight majority over prohibition of 32,567, but as both “C” and “D” were “wet” proposals, the total wet majority over prohibition was reall>‘ 39,077,

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A Sermon for Today By Rev. John R. Gunn

Text: “Unto us a child is bom.’’ —ls. 9:6. SHE text is a prophetic reference to the birth of the Christ-child, a prophecy which was fulfilled in Bethlehem nineteen centuries ago. Consider what that birth In Bethlehem has meant to the childhood of the world. Childhood Is sacred because the world’s Saviour was once a child. ' Before the story of the Bethlehem manger the lot of childhood was deplorable. Parents had the right to sell their offspring and to some this was a profitable traffic. The religious superstitions of some moved them to commit their little ones to the fiery arms of the god of Molock. The burden of children was unfavorable to the wanderings of thfe nomadic tribes and they disposed of them in any way they pleased as needless incumbrances. Lawmakers held that it was necessary to restrict population and therefore childhood had to be cut down to save the state. Licentiousness, poverty and vanity led to heartless massacres of innocent and helpless children. Such was the cruelty practiced upon infancy and childhood in different periods and among the various peoples of the ancient days. But since Christ was a babe in

RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON

TWO CENTS FOR TRANSFERS mHE Indianapolis Street Railway Company has been authorized by the public service commission to increase its transfer charge from 1 to 2 cents, beginning Jan. 1. It Is expected the boost will fatten street car revenues SIOO,OOO annually. Perhaps the mountihg deficit of the street car system justifies doubling the price of transfers. But there Is little assurance that the increase will yield the hoped for relief. The previous fare increase granted the street car company was offset by a decrease In customers. Revenues continued to shrink. Hence another successful plea for another boost in rates, which has Just been granted. If that is followed by a slump in transfer sales the street railway will be no better off than under the old rates. The real source of the trolley system's ills Is too few customers, not too low rates. Sandbagging remaining patrons by raising their fares is more likely to drive some of them away than to lure new customers to the cars. In seeking higher rates a street car company Is like a cat' chasing Its tail. Tt seems to be doing something, but doesn’t get anywhere. Even the sympathetic public service commission can't indefinitely spoon-feed public utilities by granting rate increases. If the city electric lines are to survive, something else will have to be tried. DON'T BLAME IT ON THE JURORS IEAN M'NUTT, of the Indiana University law school, .ii in an Indianapolis speech recently, deplored the lack of interest of the public in the administration of Justice. As an example he cited the widespread tendency to evade jury service. Don't blame the Jurors for failure of our courts to function properly. True the veniremen drawn for important criminal trials mostly try to get off by swearing they have a fixed opinion in the case, scruples against capital punishment, or some other perfectly valid excuse for discharge. Who can blame them? There are ample reasons why respectable, busy citizens dodge jury service. Long-drawn-out trials, disruption of private affairs, and inadequate compensation. In Indiana a juror draws the munificent stipend of $2.50 a day. In a very ordinary murder trial the lawyers in the case may be getting SIOO a day. The juror, who under our system of justice, is ,the most vital cog In the court machinery, receives less for his servires than the court bailiff or the janitor. If the conditions were reversed — lawyers received $2.50 a day in court and jurors $lO0 —court procedure would speed up amazingly and there would be less complaint of the administration of justice. ONE-WAY TRAFFIC mHREE automobile fatalities In Indianapolis in twentyfour hours—Friday nigllt and Saturday have galvanized city authorities into feverish activity. The familiar aftermath of such tragedies. Another war against speeding is proclaimed. Various proposals to put a stop to speeding by motoriests are urged. Among which is a movement to abolish the one way traffic system on Meridian' St. That’s silly. Abrogation of the limited one-way rule now In force on Meridian Ct.. w-ould be about as effective a safety measure as requiring all automobile drivers to wear red neckties. In the eight or nine months that Meridian has been a one-way street four hours a day It has carried a heavier motor traffic during the rush hours, at a greater speed, and with a smaller percentage of accidents than any other main traffic thoroughfare in the city. Since the adoption of the plan there has not been a single fatality or serious traffic accident in the street during the one-way periods. The reason is plain. Though the one way traffic mows at high speed, drivers axe. alert. They have their concentrated on the busines tot driving. And sidestreet.L trj|ffic hesitates discreetly

Bethlehem there has come into the world anew spirit more favorable to childhood. Special Institutions for the care of dependent and neglected children have sprung up everywhere. Other agencies ‘consecrated to the welfare of children have multiplied until now more is being done to provide for their happiness and unstinted growth than could be recited in a thousand volumes. As this kindly spirit has enlarged and spread over the earth, childhood has become radiant with a news hope. This new hope has sometimes been shadowed by new and threatening perils; yet all must admit that the lot of childhood is happier today than in any other age of the world. In celebrating the birth of Christ we give the right of way to the child. In this Yuletide season we lavish affection upon our children, spending time, thought and money to make them merry and happy. All this is but significant of the new reverence the world has come to have for childhood since the Christchild was born in Bethlehem. “Unto us a child is born.” The birth of that child has given anew meaning to every child born into the world and added to child-life everywhere anew halo of glory. (Copyright, 1925, by John R. Gunn.)

before crossing or turning into the preferential thoroughfare. To abolish the present rule and reduce Meridian to the status of the ordinary two-way street would contribute nothing to safety and would simply increase downtown congestion where already only spry pedestrians survive. A lot of changes in traffic regulations and adoption of fancy now rules won’t prevent such accidents as occurred Friday and Saturday. It isn’t traffic regulations that need shaking up—but enforcement. A MATRIMONIAL MISADVENTURE TYjONA GANNETT. 13-year-oid /. Marion (Ind.) girl, had her matrimonial knot slipped off the other day. Her marriage was annulled and her maiden name restored to her. Thus another golden romance, fortified by an elopement, fades to something less than brass. Last summer she and her Lochinvar —a 14-year-old Munole youth—flivvered to St. Joseph. Mich., where they were duly joined in wedlock by an apparently nearsighted parson with an itching palm. After paying for the ceremony the young husband had 40 cents left with which to finance a honeymoon and set up a domestic establishment. The honeymeon set at Mishawaka, where the gas tank went dry, and they were taken into custody at the request of the girl's fat her. Many good people worry about this country's divorce record. They would improve the state of matrimony by more stringent divorce laws. That’s the wrong end of the problem. Little can be done to improve the matrimonial situation as long as a couple of kids and 40 cents can clamber ln*o a flivver and hie themselves gaily to a parson.

MR. FIXIT Few Traffic Arrests Draw Letter From Reader

Let Mr. Flxit present jour case to ) city officials. He is The Times’ representative at the city hall. Write him at The Times. Arrests for traffic violations are less than in 1924 because police are loss alert. Is the contention of the Hoosier Traveling Man, a constant correspondent of Mr. Flxit. “In eight minutes a few days ago three of us checked traffic at West St and Kentucky Ave., and there were twenty-one violations of the law,” he writes. You must agree, however, there are only a few traffic officers to handle the situation, and many of them were di’afted for service in the recent crime wave.” DEAR MR. FIXIT: The crossing at Thirty-First and School Sts., is in a terrible condition. Would appreciate anything you can do. R. S. W. P. Hargon, clerk of the street commissioner’s office, will do his best with a limited appropriation. TO ONE WHO KNOWS: Mr. Fixit does not pursue investigations of liquor law violations. Report them to Capt. William Paulsell, Lincoln 4555.

Movie Verdict Ohio Fannie Hurst has given the screen a big and powerful story in “Mannequin." Not to be missed. Wonderfully acted and directed. Circle—The bill this week is one that the entire family will enjoy, especially the children, because Rose’s Midgets are present in person and the screen offers "The Scarlet West.” Colonial—Melodrama it is and nothing else but. Am speaking of "When The Door Opened.” Apollo—The director didn't dare to let Pola Negri act as warm in her love scenes as the author created the character of the Countess in "A Woman of the World.”

A Christmas Tree Loaded With Little and Big Gifts Awaits All at Circle

By Walter D. Hickman CHRISTMAS tree In the form of a Yuletide program ■■■ of entertainment is visible at the Circle this week. The entire tree has been filled with gifts which will appeal to every American family, especially the children. • The children will go “wild" over | Rose’s Royal Midgets, twenty-five gifted little people a who do everything that one expect adults to do in a big stage revue They open with their own idea of a minstrel s h o w. ' ''m During this num -8B ber a midget give■ox 4 impression ol Vt Eddie Leonard sing , fIH ins and dancing " lda -” This Uttic 'Wile l. BB man’s conception of Leonard is accurate C 'wH in every detail. TC&J9rWn Then another little man, the smallest Clara Bow of the lot. does some dancing which is another hit. The opening is a fine flash, good set and everything that goes with it. Then the revue becomes individual such as dancing, singing and the playing of instruments. For a closing -the entire j company of midgets do the Charles- | ton in a way to close the offering to a grand finish. Ike Rose has j collected a mighty fine and talented ! company of midgets. Their singing | voices are excellent. He has spent I several fortunes In giving them the right kind of scenic background. Here is a stage presentation which every child will love and even the grownups will marvel at the completeness as well as the artistry of the offering. The movie on this Christmas bill has been selected for the entire family, especially the children. “The Scarlet West” Introduces General Custer, a historical character that every boy and girl loves. There are some fine out-of door shots in this picture, especially the Indian war dances and the last stand of General Custer. In this fight soene the director has done a big piece of work. There are hundreds of Indians in “The Scarlet West." 1 The cast is as follows: Oardrlanche Robert Frazer Miriam, the ceneral’e daughter. Clara Bow General Kinnard Robert Kdeson Lieutenant Parkman Johnny Walker Lieutenant Harper Walter Mi-Grail Captain Howard .Gaston Glass Neetina Helene Ferguson Mrs. Custer Ruth Stonehouse Harriett Kinnard, the geuerals sister Martha Francis Mrs. Harper Floreuce Crawford Miss Dessa Byrd is playing “Christmas Smiles” tills week and her success is so great that it is with difficulty that the show continues At the Circle all week. -I- -I- + \ PRIZE WINNING STORY THAT LIVES UP TO TITLE When they tell me that a story has been a prize winner, I have the feeling sometimes that it may not turn out to be such a prize when it reaches the screen. Fannie Hurst won the $50,000 prize offered by Liberty Magazine for the best story suitable for movie use. Fannie Hurst, who knows what makes a good movie story, wrote and submitted “Mannequin.” She copped the prize. T* l * story is now THl_hß r,,, ining serially .’j ’ yi%Aul ,l '° mugs zinc IP which offered the prize. So I must fIB Judge "Manne- ▼! quin” as movie. y % just released by - Paramount. Fana| nle Hurst must have a powerful l heme in "MannenßjdßUiy quin,” if not .lumes Cruze is the greatest di MIIIII. reel or. 1 know is master at creWarner Baxter ative artistry on the screen, and he comes to the front in telling force in “Mannequin.” Os course, he had a great writer to conceive the characters and the plot, but it remained for a great director to make these characters live on the screen. Cruze had the services of Alice Joyce, Warner Baxter, Dolores Costello and Zasu Pitts to ail him in bringing “Mannequin” to life on the screen. As the first the movie is old-fashioned. Cruze has a chance to recreate the past. This he does with an accuracy that is surprising. When he gets into the jazz temperature of today, he is equally successful. But it is when he gets into the courtroom scene that one appreciates the ability of this man to create realism that is realism and then temper it down with one of those sweet and everybody happy endings, Am not going to repeat the story of "Mannequin” because Ignorance of the story certainly made my experience in seeing it as a movie even more enjoyable. I am going to recommend "Mannequin” as a movie entertainment to those who appreciate great directing, powerful acting and a strong story. Dont miss "Mannequin.” The hill Includes a comedy: Ruth Noiler at the organ and orchestral music by Charlie Davis and his orchestra. At the Ohio all week. •I- -I- -ITHE CENSORS MUST HAVE BEEN NE AR POLA NEGRI Naughty does as naughty should not when the censors are around. Carl Van Vechten is an author who is supijosed to dish dirt along literary lines for the few and the many who like a certain brand of up-to-date dirt. Carl wrote a foolish and at times an entertaining thing called “Tho Tattooed Countess,” a story about a woman who was naughty in Europe and then brings her own brand of love making tricks to a Main Street of a small town in lowa. The Countess was one of those creatures who enjoyed the company of men. The poor old dear, American born, had acquired some rapid tricks in lovemaking while in Europe. The old girl just about caused Main St. with his gossip carrying bunch to have nervous prostrations. In the book,

the Countess ends her adventures by running off with a sort of a high school boy. In bringing the Countess with her tattoo to the screen under the title of "A Woman of the World,” the director hud u bunch of trouThe SAFETY VALVE M Blow* -When the rrpor In Too brent, —By The Stoker 1 OUR OWN QUESTIONS AM) ANSWERS DEPARTMENT Why does a dog, whose ancestors for thousands of years traveled on their own four legs, get so much kick from riding in an automobile? Can’t say. Perhaps the dog Is like man, a “time-binding” animat. See Korzyzski's “Manhood of Humanity.” •' * * If P. Green is to he the accredited agent of Soviet Russia in America we hope the conservative papers will stop talking about him as a red. • * • Editor of Safety Valve: Beatrice Lillie in Cralot’s Review sings a song which goes like this: “Mouse, mouse, come out of your hole. I will give you a golden bowl. You shall rest on a tuft of hay; I will frighten the cats away." It seems to me that the above song is clearly against the criminal syndicalism laws. It is an incitement to mice to come out and frighten propertied citizens. I feel quite sure it is inspired from Moscow. Can nothing be done about if? Suggest you call it to the attention of the National Security Teague or Ralph M. Easley. If they will do nothing see our State Department. • * • The train from Montreal was approaching Rouse’s Point, where It crosses the international boundary line. The American customs inspector was making his rounds. “Anything to declare?” he demanded of the American ticketed to Atlantic City. “Yes,” replied the passenger. “In that big black suitcase you will find a quart bottle of Scotch right on top. And it hasn’t been opened. Now that I’ye been honest about it, I suppose you’ll be a good sport and not see it.” The passenger spoke in loud, hearty tones audible all over the car. The customs inspector looked embarrassed. “I’m afraid”— he began. “Oh, I know you’re going to be a good sport.” persisted tbe passenger. “You’d be mean to see it after I’ve told you.” The inspector was firm. “I’m sorry,” he said. “You will have to get rid of the bottle before we get to the boundary." He went on leaving the American protesting. After a while he came back and asked if there was anything to de oiare. “That bottle I told you about,” bellowed the Americun “Right on top. And T know you ain’t, going to show yourself to this carload of people as the meanest inspector on the force.” The Inspector was polite but firm. "And I will not only have to confiscate your bottle but I shall have to fine you $5. So please see that it Is disposed of.” “Nothing doing.” answered the passenger. And at Rouse’s Point the bottle was confiscated and a $5 fine paid “Why were you so hard on that inspector?” demanded the man in the washroom the following morning. “That was a very decent inspector and he was only doing his duty.” “Hell,” replied the noisy one, “I was Just centering his at tentlon on the'bottle on tep so he wouldn’t notice the twelve bottles I had under the layer of shirts.”

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You can get an answer to any quoattnn of fact or information by writing to Tho Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau. 1333 Sew York Are.. Washington, 1). C.. Inclosing 3 cents In stamps for rraply. Medical, legal and martial advice cannot be given nor can extended research bo undertaken. All other oucstlons will iTceived a personal reply Unsigned requests esnnot be answered. All letters are confidential. —Editor. Where is the Island of Re? A small island, eighteen miles off the French coast, opposite Ra Rochelle. Salt manufacturing Is the chief industry. Wine and oysters are also exported. The principal town is St. Martin. Can you tell me how Geraldine , Farrar won her place in the musical world; under whom did she study and when did she make her first public appearance? Bom in Melrose. Mass,, in 1882. Geraldine Farrar began her musical studies under Mrs. J. H. I/ong of Boston, from whom she went to Madame Thursby in Now York. After further study with Trabadello in Paris and Lili Rehmann in Berlin she made her debut as Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust,” in Berlin, at the Royal Opera, Oct. 15, 1901, and achieved a. sensational successAlmost immediately she was offered a three-year contract and soon was one of the prime favorites'with the Berlin public. In 1906 she Appeared as one of the leading sopranos of the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, and has since then been a regular member of the company. Can you tell me something of Stradivari and his work? Antonio Stradivari was the most famous violin maker of the Cremonese school. He was bom in Cremona and was probably apprenticed at an early age to Nicola Amati. at that time regarded as the greatest of the Cremonese masters. His first instruments were made between 1670 and 1685 and were of the Amatl model. They are distinguished by their lack of symmetry compared with his later work, their plain wood and generally squatty design. About 1685 his originality began to assert Itself and by the following year he had acquired his own peculiar style, since largely used as a model. In 1684 Nicola Amat! died and bequeathed all his wood, models and tools to Stradivari, thus providing him with a large and choice stock of tempered and seasoned wood.

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ble, that I am sure. With Pola Negri as the Countess, the director must have had more trouble because 1 have the feeling that the combination of Negri and Vaji Vechten would result in a bunch of warm goings on that the censors would never tolerate. So the dilector kept the ter mom eter upon Pola and the minute she registered too much heat, the direct or either calmed Pola down or wrote a now scene. That’s my impression of “A Woman of the World.” The book was sjlly enough at times. So 1 can sympathise with both with Miss Negri and her director. Tlie real lift of this picture Is Chester Conklin as a Main Streei husband, lie certainly walks away with all the honors. Must give credit to the village gossips, tw o women with sharp tonguos, Be your own judge of this new Negri picture. Personally, I don’t care for \an Vechten when he Is In a tattooed countess mood. Again be your own judge and jury on this one because I would vote “guilty." Bill includes a Mack Sennet t comedy, anew reel, vocal, organ and orchestral music. At the Apollo all week. YOU WANT MELODRAMA? THEN GO TO COLONIAL If you enjoy melodrama—pure melodrama with all of Its hundred and one little tricks—then do not pass up "When the Door Opened.” It has always seemed funny to me why in melodrama that all the had naughty people HfWWWBMBi drown in u flood EjSߣ£jjSSftyP J)f a d the hero and heroine and most Bfc&ffiait*' or their families nl ways swim to safe - >- £ 1 >, Knows that smh mm things JjHJJIn books, on the staßijrjHHß and on the screen J*"~ ~ Ho should know . because he has put , s / one of those tmpon- / sible melodramatic floods, which wipes 7 fjt // away all evil, leaving only the good Jacqueline people, or those who Logan ore supposed to be good. And yet melodrama, the brand handed out by Curwood, is such darn good entertainment at times that one feels rather guilty to even think of realism and practical things after an hour or two with Curwood. "When the Door Opened” is one of the regulation Curwood stories, made from the same old formula which has made pots of money for this author. He has found a successful formula, and he refuses to try another. The big scene of “When the Door Opened" Is the flood scene in Canada. A castle is washed away. Including the had characters, and the good ones swim to safety. The cast is satisfactory. It includes lacqtiellne Tx>gan, Robri Cain, Walter MeGrall. Frank Keenan (here Is a fine actor who haan’t strived at the top of the ladder of fame for some strange reason) Margaret Livingston and a trained dog. This dog baa been trained along sympathetic lines. He does some excellent work. “When The Door Opened” Is Cur wood in his most melodramatic mood. Bill Includes a Charles Puffs' comedy, Aesop Fablea, Topics of the Day, a news reel, orchestral music an dottier events. At the Colonial all week. -!• -I- -IOther theaters today offer: Emma Trentini at FveitU.'a: “Bungle-Love’’ at the Palace; Willis and MacFarlane at the Lyric; burlesque at %ie Broadway and “The Desert's Price" with Buck Jones at the Isis.

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