Life — May 13, 1926 — page 50: what you’re looking at

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The Telephone at the (entennial One hundred years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the infant tele- phone was first exhibited at the Philadelphia Exposition. Since the dawn of civiliza- tion, mankind had sought some means of communicating over distances which unaided hu- man speech could not bridge. Drums, signal fires, runners, the pony express, and finally the electric telegraph were means to get the message through. It remained for the telephone to convey a speaker’s words and tones over thousands of miles. “My God, it talks!” ex- claimed the Emperor of Brazil before a group of scientists at the Philadelphia Exposition, as he recognized the voice of Alexander Graham Bell, dem- onstrating the new invention. Today, after a brief half- century, the telephone lines of the Bell System have become the nerves of the nation. The telephone connects citizen with citizen, city with city, state with state for the peace and prosperity of all. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH ComPANY AND AssociATED ComPANIES IN ITS SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR THE BELL SYSTEM LOOKS FOR- WARD TO CONTINUED PROGRESS IN TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION A Matter of Mathematics sec; if we start now and get | | rk within five blocks we'll | uit 9:12 or 13. That'll be 1 the second Ret a si about wo-thirds y The overture, pre terpretative dances, comedy, news run of the fe lude, reel and announcements are tak about an hour and nine minutes j now. That'll put us hi bout 12 or | 12:15 without wafiles “I'l tell you what let's do. Let's wait till to-morrow night in town for dinner. and all meet Then we can get in line right lobby by and be at means we'll be away in the first #15. T and Italian Staircase half-way up the by 7:45 in the 8. I've fig Beauty d it out that Temple o 15 and 8:15 we move for one foyer every 15 minutes we all me Bil aves the office at six sharp. can get the car the at five and work can grab it quick after the show.” McC. H. it gradually into position so we ON BROOKLYN NEW YORK Life and Letters she should ¢ lar in some 1 atler om of so much excitement widely diverging lives, b case, and Miss Royde-Smith I as made an t of it | She should get a large black mark for | her unsympathetic and inaccurate char ac American t that sort ith Henry = se in’ her ARTHL R SCHNITZLER'S * ranslated by ¢ (Sin ter) + char- acteri nm by its author into aw 1, and soul. Last year, in “Fraulei the woman | was extremely young. This year she is a je creature of thirty-eight or her lure. The Director hims ber! In fact, the t tragedy lies in her em- | passionate yielding to his mbraces after she has pleaded with a rious pretty lady of the resort at vhich they are stopping not to take her son as a lover. That eli, vidowed and pure in he 1 be avidly guilty of similar misconduct is | more than she can bear, especially after she discovers that the y man is not | taking the a fiaire too nusly. It was ble that a lovely woman ps ine of her temperament Oliver Gold: 1 string with the pro; folly, but that pro: cedure after she ping te should drag he on into the lake ta bit thick for h her is spreadi s_ultra-moderns “Beatrice” is a moving study, beau tifully written Baird Le All the Sad Old Men l T is worth ne mittee to de that the latest com football is com ur profe of philosophy, three mat! three of English, two of ce languages ysicists, one phik | gist, one chemist, one hygienist, one gee one biol t, one professor of Latin anish. And it is | our guess that the committee will have a lot of explainin stu nd one o! lo do when the the department languages not s discover th: of Indo-Iranian represented. was comicbooks.com