Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1947 — Page 13

FRIDAY, NOV. 28

Lecturer Speaks

Here on Tuesday By HENRY BUTLER , DON'T ASK Burton Holmes how many miles he's traveled The veteran travel-lecturer in his 54th Season. is apt to Teply “Any Pullman portér could knock my mijleage figures gailev west—or any war flier. Mr. Holmes, who will wind up his current Indianapolis ‘season - with an illustrated lecture on Hollywood and Southern California at 8:30 Pp. m. next Tuesday in the

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commonplace questions. » " » THE mileage question is the most frequent Another is about his education. Before youve even finfshed uttering that question, Mr. Holmes has snapped pleasantly, “I never even got into. high school, much less college. If I'd had a college education and had learned “how much there was still to know, I'd never have had the courage to opén my mouth.” Only a fluent and polished conversationalist like Mr. Holmes could make such an admission without embarrassment. His gift of gab, he shrewdly realizes, is ‘his greatest asset, n » ~ HE'S completely frank about how he started his career.- Giving lectures was a way of paying for the trips he liked to take.

Back from |

his first trip to Japan in 1892, he

made slides of the photo's he'd taken, hired a hall and commenced a

routine he's developed and perfected

In the years since. “The lectures began as something to take the curse off the silence. You can't show pictures without some kind of accompaniment. I wasn't a musician, so I had to talk.” Mr. Holmes adds, however, with a twinkle, “I'm only the obligato—the pictures are really the show.” » » ~ NOW THAT Burton Holmes is, you might say, a national by-word, even among persons who have never attended one of his lectures, people forget he was a pioneer photographer. He bought his first camera, a $10 outfit using some of the earliest dry plates, back in 1883: In 1897, he acquired a movie camera from Gaumont’ of Paris, and that summer in Rome made the first travel movies ever shot. His pioneering in travel movies

at a time when the late Lyman

"Hows managed touring “flicker” shows has had one unfortunate result. People still get Burton Holmes and Lyman Howe mixed up in their minds. Every now and then some elderly person will say, after attending 8 whole series of Burton Holmes travelogs, “Thank you so much, Mr. Howe, for the pleasure. you've given me. Il never forget the thrill when your shows used to come to my home JOvA 0 yeas ago.”

MR. HOLMES, we animation and elasticity belle his years, was born in January, 1870, in Chicago. Chicago is still his best audience ‘town, he says, with Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis and, off and on, New York doing quite well by him. Until recent years, Indianapolis was on his black list, after a couple of disastrous flops. The first was ‘ some 50 years ago, when “his then manager booked him for six appearances, the first or sample one free to the public. “That first night, the church I was lecturing in was simply jammed, and I began to have high hopes. But for the five remaining Jectures, there was a grand total of 40 paid admissions.” td » vy ANOTHER manager some Years “later booked him into English’s Opera House, with the same setup of one free and five paid lectures. “They were hanging by their eyeteeth from the chandeliers that first night,” he said.” “But the second night I looked down and saw what seemed to be the same 40 who had stood by me on the first trip. I had to cancel the last three lectures.” ' Mr. Holmes-keeps three camera erews of two men each busy the year around taking kodachrome travel pictures for his annual five new programs. One crew just returned from Ireland, after having had to wait four months for the kind of blue skies Mr. Holmes wanted in his pictures. - “You can't paint in a blue sky, of course,” he says. ” ” n WHEN you ask his nome address, he's apt to say, “Lower Seven, Car p4, care of George Pullman,’ although for some vears he's had a little house in Hollywood, where he spends his vacations with Mrs Holmes The Holmeses have no children “The stork never quite caught up , with us,” he says. “But now that I'm getting older in a world like ours, I'm not too sorry. Every time 8 see a perambulator these days, I feel like bending over it and saying, ‘Poor kiddie! You're going to have to live to pay all our debts.”

Proposed Bon on Metal

Can Held Unnecessary CHICAGO, Nov. 28 (UP)—R. 8 Bolinsky, president of the Can Manufacturer's Institute, said to= day a proposed government ban on the use of metal cans for packaging beer. coffee, pet foods and motor oil would be "unnecessary and unJust.” Mr. Solinsky said the ban, suggested by the Department of Commerce, would place an additional burden on the country's overtaxed transportation system and. have “negligible” results

Talking Cold Turkey GARDEN CITY. N. Y. Nov. 28 (UP) — Thanksgiving dinners were late in hundreds of homes of this ares. yesterday because the turkevs weren't done. “Todo many tur‘Keys and not ¢nough gas,” said the

Long Island Lighting Co. Gas pres-

suré returned to normal in mid-aft-emoon.

GLOBE-TROTTER—Burton Holmes confers w wi ith Miss Gladys Alwes,

Ul. S. May Protest es State Highway ‘cold Bonus’ Plan ow Datours Listed

2314 N. Meridian St Rouieed plans. for tr Day Camp during the comTruman Advisors Study or eon Tota stor.

I Starting Dec. 22 the all-day camp, The State Highway Canadian -Proposa program will be aavilable to boys today announced the followin WASHINGTONL Nov,

28 (UP) and girls between the ages of 6 and detours in effect in Indiana Both.the U. §. government and the 13, A full staff of counsellors ald xp Internatiorfal Monetary Fung may supervisors will ‘he in charge of 0 protest Canada’s revolutionar ridge

tivities at Jhe Centers ‘Big Jagle RD: teprem posal to increase her gold produc- Camp on Bi Fagle creek TRF TERIA . tion by paying an “incentive bonus ! © Lion 67 for extra output. President Truman's. top financial 2: 303 and 18 advisers now are conferring with The Central Indiana chapter of: IND, 13—~Four Canadian representatives. Monetary the American Foundrymen's As- OWA Fund officials are studying the plan Sociaion, Inc, will hold & dinner yxm. 16—Just west of Road 3 closely to determine if it violates meeting at 8:43 p.m. Monday in am ny Bie GY 5 AN am the Fund's edict against selling’ gold the Athenaeum. B. C. Yearly, as- | WDB. T=Closed 19 Leflc ovel at premimum prices. sistant general mADAger of the NaSo far the U. §-Canadian dis- Sonal Malieusle ud Steel Casting cussions are on an “information A:0.+ SICBFQ, tile WI Speak. please” level. But the United States, which is worried about the Inflationary effect of the flood of foreign gold into the banking system, may frame a diplomatic protest. The International Fund may take the position that Canada is tampering with the world price of gold It now is set at $35 an ounce, Under the Canadian scheme, which will be presented to the Canadian Parliament Dec. 5, gold ming operators would be presented with a $7 bonus for every ounce of gold they produce over the level of their output during the year ended June 30. Since much of Ca gold {lows into the United States, and 1 purchased by the Treasury at 233 an ounce, Canadian actually net $42 for production.” U. 8S. government officials say this is the first time any major gold producing nation has actually subsidized gold production. Canada, hard pressed for U. S dollars, has started an austerity program and set up bans on imports of American goods. With an annual production of $100 million worth of gold, she may step up nel shipments of gold to offset her unfavorable trade balance.

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