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gain? sly:
arie Walcam
In the 12th EpisOde of” I
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arst Pattie News and Other.»
story at new interest ill-which in.
incur abilities as the master of com-
edy and characterisation are seen to
perfection. Starred with this famous
,personage in this production is lithe
Madge Evans. the World's kiddie star.
who is seen in the role of a little or
phan girl. “T1 8 Corner Grocer' was
a lrcrncndous {access as a stage play.
On the rcreeit all its merits have her.
enhanced, so that‘it has been lilllf‘
Dtlftrll Elizc‘r’il «niet‘tainment.
PALACE THEATRE
COMING . Marguerite Clark Tells of First The:-
Tyrone Power "6 Experience
‘30“ Marguerite Clark. winsome Para;
“The Planter”
pied from Herman Whitaker's
Famous Novel of Southern
Mexico
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egent Theatre
The House of High Grade
Entertainment
~ ay
Rex Beach's Great Plt'luit‘
The
notion Block
Life Drama (If a Million Girls
Saturday
w Fields and Ivlttttgt- Evans in
le Comer Grocer”
And the 11th Episode of
“The Fighting 'l‘rail’.’
ONDAY—«Iluslin Fili’nlllll in
arm of 53."
.OlllNflw—Nortna 'i'almadgc i
..t- Score, of The Storm t‘ottn-
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“THE AUCTION BLOCK"
mount star in speaking of her latest
production, "Iiab's Matinee Idol"
which is to be shown at. the Palace
Theatre Monday and Tuesday recent-
ly said‘ "It is truly remarkable how
closely 'Bub‘s' escapades follow some
of my own youthful boarding school
experiences while at the Ursuline
Convent, Cincinnati, Ohio.
“Bab, having been allowed as a SIM“
ciai treat to witness a theatrical per-
formance immediately nrocecds to fall
t’inicnl‘: in low with Mic itttt.lst::;‘.‘~
ledaing man, This, I must confess is
exactly what happenned to me at the
agc of fifteen when l was allowed
visit the thrutre for the first time. My
diary contains pages and panes of
dcscription of ‘iiim' and imaginary in-
terviews which are so screamingly
funny and make such good readins
that I was thinking very seriously of
publishing them, had not Itinebart's
Bab so nearly paralleled them."
SOME FAMOUS FOLK TELL A FEW
JOKE,8~—ON THEMSELVES
AND OTHERS
Happening: at the Paramount Studios
During the Filming of “Molly En-
tangled," an Iristhhotopiay Star.
ring Vivian Martin
Some time .go, before the "Public."
which is you and l and Tom and l‘-ick
and Harry. bcgun to get acquainted
with the grout folk of filmland and
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‘ihl’li' ways. it used to be (‘lI‘Ti’ili opin-
and
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"The Auction Block,” Rex Beach‘s Gr eatest Picture, at the Regent Theatre
Tonight
titc empty ones are all full."
Director Robert, Thornby had one to
match illl3”Wlih the joke on himself.
Sonic boards were lying in the very
middle of the studio floor and had
spoiled tt vcrv important scene. Put.
the Irish promp man, was requested
to remove them. “Where will I take
them?" he asked. “To. hell," replied
Director Thornby, somewhat peevish-
ly. ‘ ‘
l‘at moppcd his brow a moment and
replied softly, "itadu't i better take
them to hcltvcn‘.‘ They'd he “tore out
of vet' way, 801‘."
l-lvcu Harrison Ford, leading man
for Miss Martin in this picture was
stricken with the “Irish I‘lpidcmlc" as
he called it, and told one about an
Iris-h farmer, :4 novicc, who asked of
Mike his neighbor "how long cows
should be milked." Mike replied:
"The savttc .tt-l the short ones. begor—
cop—u.‘ .—...
cals, was the name these gentlemen
played, and at such enormous profits
its
brides" of later days seem consefla- .
live bankers by comparison. For
stance, the
1914, invested 31.000
used extensively
din-s, would in 1915 or 1918 have a pro
fit on his purchase of $10,000, with no
possible chance of a slump
market.
all patentchcrman medicinal chem-
icals in central use, as well as many
suhstxtttcrs ncccaaarv in the arts and
sciences.
"The law of supply and demand
born or
“mum” than the plturmacist,‘and “3- becomes inevitable, the Department of
cot‘tiingh’
disorcanizetl as the importing and dis.
ttiiuttittg of drug»;
of trade are like arteries of'thc human
. rise in am: chemicals as to look
.fornlncreuein‘thecostofooallf
all the mines stopped working for a
year. .
"For a time no marked change oc-
curred from neutral lands, for there
were large stacks on hand; but a!
,tade routes were disturbed by the
:closingof the old markets and the
: difficulties of transportation increased
,ydue to the. hazards of the sea, and
iconsequentiy warehouse stocks were
i exhausted, slowly but surely came the
iupward giving in the cost of dogena
éof crude drugs and their bv-products
i —drugs which are gathered in strange
nooks and in hidden corners of the
'world as far from the clash and the
1. mail of battles as ever they could be.
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“It is not generally known that
most of the castor bean from which
i castor oil is pressed comes to the Unit-
ied States from India. lndeer, our
yannual importation in normal times
.ie nearly a million bushels, The Dr-
ient has always produced tit's "deli-
:cscy" of our childhood days and ii is
interesting to remember that the
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EX BEACH'J‘
GREATEST ptcrog:
”THE. MTIONBLOCK Ebert! papyrus. an Egyptian medical I
manuscript, written when Moses was
a young man, speaks of the medicinal
virtues of the castor plant. 3
"'I'odav importers are viewim with
upttrehcnsion_iancl children with joy!’
the castor oil situation. .‘Iot only
is production lessened,.bttt the dim-
,culites of sea transpor'ation from
‘lndia are increasing with the. lack
of shi s. In fact, earch, heaven. and
speculator Who in July occun 29cm to conspire attains: chain!
in antipvrinuon; submarines are ambitions to send
in mum“ "W n to the bottom of the WM, white
aeroplanes demand ‘ as u Iuhtlctm: in
large Quantities. Therefore, with tur
ambiitOus air program and our dimin-
ishing supply of oil. we have rcuon
to study the situation a little.
“However. the cantor plant will
grow rapidly almost every where, it is
freqncnIiy seen cultivated in our gar-
dens. The ll‘iflf‘lllnPI'V for crushing is
also available, so if a shortage really
., welt]
.w :5
to make the plungers in “war
in-
in the
This was practically true of
more widely traveled ntcr-
no business is '0 quickly Agriculture will be 8MP “3 incubate
another infant industry. . .
“""ri'". urn”. phungcs in drug prices which
for the
, have come
Theatre Today
ouch the story is, of coursc, the
r" of “The Auction Block," the
at picture mode from the Rex
ch novel, an unusually strong and
, ion that they lcd lives of luxury
Beach’s Great Picture at Regent idk-npgg.
checks and clippinz
ru." And Inter. durinc thc sentiml'n-
tal swoon, ilr l‘cr'i murmured, “Sure
'tis a proof cw. 0:1 to he alone, [upli-
signing
coupons. Later,
interspersed with
witcn it became known that they
spend countlcss hours and cncrgv up-
on thc making of each smallest seen".
the contrary opinion was held.
able cast, of players will be seen The truth of thc matter is, ttmvevcr,
”‘9 picturizatlon 0' “‘9 3'0”“ that those great folk cniov them-
i.”‘ and "WNW“ 1‘“ Rubye DR 119- eclvos quite its much and Work Just as
'. W110 WW5 ”19 TO‘t’ 0i Lorelei hard as the ordinary man or woman.
“in" ”‘9 beautiful “"1“ countrv They have. thouuh. the peculiar fut-u!-
whose greedy parents and Hclwm- tv of bringing luv to tltcit‘ work bv
51'6"!" bring her 10 New York ‘0 making play of it. For instance, dur-
her 0“ ”‘9 auction block, for sale ing the filming of "Mollv Entunclcd."
“‘9 ”3'19“ bidder. M135 De Rem- Vivian Martin's ltt'cst Paramount
virtually a newcomer in motion photoplttv which is to be shown to«
mm: W" '0' "70 years a favored day at the Palace Theatre, they thor-
lit" .9! the Ziegficld Midnight ouchly enjoyed the whole thing.
' - 3” 303011 ““5 her New "0"“ The air was thick with broguc and
beautiful girl. of them had a try at it. Miss Martin
commenced with a story of a recent
experience. She said she went into a
small motion picture theatre and was
looking for a seat when an attentive
usher “9908de at her elbowxd
"Want a seat. Miss?" he asked
a attraction at the Regent Thca- “Yes n “mt, plea“...
- on Saturday will be Lew Fields in "lndtidc, Miss," was the reply,
' " Corner Grocer," a delightful ehould be glad to give you a sate but
' EOENT THEATRE SATURDAY
‘0 Corner Grocer," starring Lew
Nelda, Aloo 11th Episode of
“The Fighting Trail"
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ting the wireless ovcrntucit. and rt», or soft brush with it, drawing this
in privatethrough the hair.
icodc. They were speculators, gam-Istrund at a time.
{bit'l'ih those nervous, anxious-lookingggray hair disappears; after another
tttnknowna. not dealers in war mater-' application or two. its natural color is
Littls nor food, but speculators in drugs , restored and it becomes thick. filo"!
--the kind of things that vouand I so: and lustrous, and you appear Y8"!
drug j younger.
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i WAR‘S EFFECT ON MEDICINES
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Many Drugs Have Become Scarce and
i Prices High |
wnsntxurox. n. C.-—tn a com-’
municuiion to the National Geogra-i
lvilil' Society, Dr. John Poole preschtl?
an amazinc collection of facts regnrd~
'inu the effect of the war on the world-
;l\'i(it’ sourccs upon which the physician,
relics when h:- wrltcs his
alization that the pharmacist must go
to :very nook and corner of the globe
for tho tirttuu which fill his bottles.
his salvo boxes. and his powder re-
ceptacles. A portion of Dr. Foote's
,communictttion was issued by the Geo-’
ticrnphical soclctv as the following war.
:gcographv bulletin: / :
“When the war cloud burst in Eu-V
rope a suddcn paralysis of credit tem-
Lporarily engulfed the Western world.‘
[As business relations were restored.
ioccan travel resumed, antitradcra set,
aside the scnsc of danger, certain 88':
lcretlve individuals crossed, from Etc;
rope, keeping to themselves and avoid-
cciving daily aerogrnms
frequently buy in the corner
store.
“To gain possession
stores of German manufacture,
leapecinllv Get-titan patented chemi- tion or prevention of disease—Ade.
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Mod em
,... 5w. '1‘
it Fresh Pork to Roast .......... ....... 30c lb. .
Small Loins) / .
g Small Fresh Hams. cut from native pigs . . . 32c lb.
I Small Fresh Shoulders . . . .. . .. 28clb.
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simplest notes advancing age.
:prcscriptions. The war has brought the advantages of a youthful appcztr- mil medicinal substances, '
“mm, to ”1,. American people there- ancc. Your hair is your charm. n accumulation of stocks of drugs b) went on. until this single copy brought
of existing‘pound is a delightful toilet requisite.
and It is not intended for thr- cure, mltlga~
our Saturday, villieriugs ,
Include the Following i
Fancy Native Fowls .1 .....
'SnringLambIcgs.......,
Fbreouarters Spring Lamb
'2' Ma‘iesticSueat-Cured Hams
EconomvBaconSouares...........‘..”,.’....35¢ I
f LeanPotRoast..._...‘................’.Mill.
ChuckRoastofBeef......‘..............:‘;.‘24¢Ib.
.t Pigs" est. Smut-lbs. Feed
-- tsebestHoIe-mdeSsmgeiatbedty.”
hotly~ scnni'iic throughout to any
clutngc in the volume of 'flow in even
the most likewise remote branch.
"The luw‘oa supply and dcmttnd
applies likewise to drugs; therefore
it would 15% as natural to expect a
iiiilS! toot iiiliili.
-lliiiiiili Gilli liilil
Use the OId-Time.8sge Tea and Bul-
phur and Nobody Will Know
Gray hair, however handsome. de-
. We all know
makes or mars the face. When it
fades, turns gray and, looks streaked.
just a few applications of Sage Tea
and Sulphur enhances Its appearance
a hundred~fold.
Don‘t stay gray! Look young! Elthv'
or prepare the recipe at home. or get
from any drug store a 50cent bottle
of "Wyctlt'a Sage and ,Sulphnr Com-
pound," which is merely the old-time
recipe improved bv the addition of
other ingredients. Thousands of
folks recommend this ready-to-use
preparation, because it darkens the
hair beautifully, besides no one can
possibly tell, as it darkens so natural-
taking one small
By morning the
.Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com-
A
Market
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..... .....25clb.
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in this war are duP,
chronolouica‘iv to the blanfldc of
Germany, in relation to the enormous
chemical manufacturing industry of
Straightened and
Leaky Radiators
mam mum VIII IA"
Fenders. floods, laps and ladies
Welding Guaranteed—Wrecks a Specialty
Winter Tops for All Cars
SPECIAL PRICES ON TIRES
warn cums mo album covers ,
Overhauling and Repair Work Guaranteed
Finest Touring Cars and limousines
for Hire for All Occasions
VAAST BRils. GARAGE
Phone 1350 17 Chestnutsr, So. Norwalk
Refill to Grier ~
in the cold for over an hour until they
got their clothes again. Epidemic:
were rampant. There wsi no pre-
tence at sanitation, and brutal guards
forced them to wade .up to . their
knees through filth on their way to the
latrines. The horrors of Talerhof
throw the camp of Wittenbcrg into
the shade.
, "A few individual cases may he ad-
ded. An internal journalist made a
spccth in camp in honor of the quilt.
cl'ntenary of John Hus' execution.
For this he was ttjicd for high trca
son and >entcnccd to fourteen years
of hard labor. The sole witness
against him was :1 Pole who had an
imperfect knowledge of Czech, had
iWICc been sentenced as a uwindier.
and admitted having offercd himself
as a spy to foreign governments.
"A girl in Bt'unn, aged 21.7mscd
carried into captivity.
perhaps, discouraged by the failure
of some city church to show any
real interest in a didident strung“; ‘
they mistake the forth of the sum.
ing eddy for the current of the main
stream. Unlesl they wake up in
time. all their flue ambitions are soon
buried in failure; failure morally
first followed almt inevitably soon-I
or or later by failure in all of life.
The old song, “Dare to be 3 Dan-
'ielf is no job. if. is bust advic.‘
a young man leaving home can have.
Out of the thomands of men of law
rael, as well born as they who were
only Daniel,
and his tthree Meade ,‘wro‘teflbeir,
names on the tablets of history. 0!
the young :men who left home for the
city in times past it is largely those
who purposed not to be denied who
are today the presidents of banks and.
the heads of great enterprises. The
city needs clean men, who will stay .
'clean. against whom
temptation is
powerless. Only the country pm
the Christ can produce such men.—
The christian Herald.
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in a if ttcr to ltcr uncle a copyof the'
Russian Proclamation to the Austrian;
nattrrlaiiiics given to her by a wound- ,C'lliéf Counsel of-Federal
tit nicotinfri".
iatinc stocks
to speculation
at the outbreak of the
war; to the congestion of transporta-
in PX-
ed soldier in the’ bespital. For this
the girl was sentenced to death. The;l
uncle copied the Proclamation into his?
notebook and read It aloud to a friend
ton both by shirt and sea and term-
inal facilities in belligerent countries;
1to the removal of blockaded shippinx
ifrom world trade, causing a shortage
in sea transports; to the destruction
by commerce-raiders of shopping and
cancel and the high marine insur
ance and freight rates; to the conver-
sion of labor to war purposes from
trades concerned with the gathering.
marketing or manufacturing of drugs
and to the
army organization."
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ATION ' 5
THE SITU IN BOHEMIA!
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...\'t~:w vonx, Dcc, li.—-ln a ten" to
Mr. J. P. Stcpi‘na. presiden‘ . the.
American State Bank of f" ' ago. Con !
greasman Medill Mei” snack of Chi-t
cago, who only rccenti? returned
from Elil'opt", describes conditions in
ilchcm'n in vivid tcrms. The descrip
tion shows what ‘a martyrdom the
Czech nation had to undergo and is
brutal Hamburg atrocity. Mr. Mc-
Cormack in part says as follows:
“The situation of Bohemia differs
from that of Poland in that it has
neither been wasted by contending or
mice or re-divided. The Bohemian
press is even more closely muuled
than the Viennese press. The playing
of national music was prohibited.
There were wholesale arrests open
tlie slightest provocation, and I think
it may be fair to say that the politi-
cal executions have numbered be
sentenced to death for possessing it
still undergoing at the bands of mu“
its execution by his servants.
Austrian prime minister has annoanc
ed in favor of dualism.
Czcch members of the Reinchasrath
whom he allowed to make a copy for:
himself. after promising not to handi
It on further. For this the uncle was‘
sentenced to death. His friend, breakp,
lng his pledge, made three copies. Of
these the first was given to the direct-
or of a Brunn institution, who was
and the others to two other friends.
who wcrc sentenced to five and three
years respectively. And so the bum
in a bag of 30 victims, including six
death sentences and 91 years of im»
prisonment. ‘.
“These are but isolated examples of
the justice meted out by Austria to the
Czechs, and serve to explain why the
nation is solid and unshakablc in its
demand for national independence and
ulty with it.~ Slovak brethren. Even
the most ailslt'opllile of its leacrs, the
Socialist Smcral, boldly declared only
last month that “the deplorable policy
of these three years of war, its amr
gance and injustice. have cut so deep
into the soul of the people that to the
st majority of the Czechs the Czech
state appears as the only way out of
an intolerable chaos.
"if the policy of Emperor Charles
represented a Ltincere desire on hie
part to reconcile Czechs to their
union with Austria-Hungary by the
concession of liberalism and national-
ism, his purpose has been thwarted in,
The:
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Trade Commission
....ng ,
, JOHN WALSH
Mr. John Walsh, who has been ap-
pointed file! colon] of the Federal
Trade Communion. lie is the but
chief mood of the commission; the
position having been vacant until his
appointment. Hr. Walsh is a brother ..
of Senator 'I'. J. Walsh of Montana.
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Remember when they used to bar.
hog killing down on the farm?
Eye Strain at
School
Poorvisionamlattemptsto
aeeeeusestbeebildto assume,
.tional Socialist
given a terrible account of the treat-
interned victimi—amonlz”
tween two and three
formation,
1,200, and this is certainly only a part
of intellectuals were placed in unsanlv
tnry intcrnmcnt camps and subjected
to every kind of privatlon: the mor-
tality has been Wow great. In the
Austrian parliament
aunt of
them women. girls, a
more sent off in chains. an
Id men. who
persons were killed on the road by a
Magyar militia detachment.
beaten till they‘bled and were can
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quote from a private communication,
which was sent to a request for in-
"The number of civilians ofilctally'
admitted to have been executed for
political offences in Bohemia during
the tlrst eighteen months of we? was
of the truth. Mcdnnwhilc thousands|
the Curb Xa-
dcputy Stribmy has ‘.
ho were!
usually et-owaea together In a by cat- ‘
us tracks. In one case a hate of 43
In the
Syrian camp of Telethof many were
, l‘ortbelnt time day-and
topmost alldexu “(has
'.w’ Muhammad“:
who were pardoned and liberated by
the emperor's order are excluded from
{taking their seats by order of the pres
'ident of the chamber, and the govern-
ment's plans for ‘rccognition of the
rights of nationalities' provide for lol
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cal national self-government on such a
scale that if it is carried out the (329-!
chcslcvaks, instead of being united in1
a single national state. will be racially,
and administratively broken Pp by the:
establishment of local German and;
Hungarian governments, so that Slog
wakia, Moravia and Bohemia will look I
like a political ethonoligical checker-2
boar ."
FOR THE COUNTRV BOY. !
How He Can Best Face Life in the;
CitY. . « i
I niei pnrporcd in his heart them
be, cold not defile himself. Adv!
boy is safe who with such a purpose}
goes from the country or from Fiihnl'i
to the army. The realob so many;
‘en them something of education.
“who! onslaught do all too ut-
tld of God. mg Inca some to the
mi.
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faulty positions. As a result
breathing and circulation are
interfered with. You owe it to
your children to see that their
eyes are right.
Our ocnliet will examine them
and a'dvise you on this matter. ;
T HAM ER
"m Mo lye Service"
Ocu lieu. Optometrists. Optician.
81 Atlantic 51. Stamford, Conn.
Open an. Eve. till 9 p. m. cn‘mr
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maroon DAlLY
fall and then fall is that the" have
no firm anchorage of faith or loyalty “m6 w my
to God. The lite backbone has gird my m u '
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