Judge — April 3, 1926 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Guide to the Movies “The Big Parade”—Heads the procession. “A Woman of the World” Main street a thrill. Negri gives Very ge “Siegfried” —The great German film “Tumbleweeds"—Standard Bill Hart fare. “Lady Windermere's Fan" —Poorly cast. 4 Kies fo Barrie Cinderella”"—Quite worthy of “Bluebeara’s burlesqued, Seren Wives"—The movie sheik “Womanhandled West wild. How to make the Wild Soul Mates"—Elinor Glyn piffie. “Mannequin’—Fanny Hurst's $50,000 prize melodrama. Not worth it. That Royle Girl”—More Chicago. “The Splendid R. about crime in 4” —Deep in slush. hariot race is worth the “Sea Beast"—Unintentional burlesque of Moby Dick “The Black Bird”—Lon Chaney in a good Limehouse drama, “The, Reckless Lady"—Sir Philip Gibbs wouldn't know his child “Memory Lane”—Mush. “Moana of the South conducted tour to Paradise Personally The Grand Duchess and the Adolphe Menjou in excellent comedy Waiter"— “Partners Again”—Potash and Perlmutter overworked. “Mare Nostrum"—Florid war tragedy from Ibanez “Dancing Mothers"—A feeble sermon. “Torrent” —G Garbo gives a finished performance of a sophisticated rile. “La Bokéme" acted and filmed, “lat Gat Married"—A Night Club in two The old story, beautifully Colleen Moore tries on a lot of gowns. “The Cace Man" —A libel on truck drivers. Answered A cERTAIN seed company had * * received from one customer fif- teen applications for free samples of their splendid pea 1s, and when the sixteenth arrived in the morning post the chief of the post order de- partment decided it was time he did something. He dictated a letter to the man which ran thus: “Dear Sir: I am sending you the | seeds as requested, but what are you doing with somuch? Are you plant- ing the whole of your suburb with peas?” A few days later he received a reply from his customer. “No,” it ran, “we are not planting them at all. The wife uses them for soup.” —Answers FHS In New York, a man on his way to be married was held up and | chloroformed, Later on, he came to his senses, —Humorist The Telephone and Better Living Picrures of pre-telephonic times seem quaint today. In the streets were horses and mud-splashed bug- gies, but no automobiles and no smooth pavements. Fifty years ago homes were heated by stoves and lighted by gas or kero- sene lamps. There was no domestic steam heating or electric lighting, nor were there electric motors in the home. Not only were there no tele- phones, but there were no phono: graphs, no radio and no motion pictures. The telephone permitted the sep- aration of business office from fac- tory and made possible the effec- tive co-ordination of widespread activities by a centralized organ- ization, It changed the business habits of the Nation. The amazing growth of the coun- try in the past fifty years could not have come had not science and in- vention supplied the farmer, manu- facturer, business man and family with many new inventions, great and small, for saving time and labor. During this period of marvelous in- dustrial progress, the telephone had its part. It has established its own usefulness and greatly accelerated the development of the industrial arts which have contributed so much to better living conditions and to the advancement of civilization. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CompaNy anD AssociaTED ComPaANIES IN ITS SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR THE BELL SYSTEM LOOKS FOR- WARD TO CONTINUED PROGRESS IN TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION HINT TO GARDENERS How to save your back this summer. comicbooks.com