Beworrali Waco Bellefonte, Pa., February 19, 1926. RADIO PLAY USES NUMEROUS TRICKS Experiments and Stud Vv Show Which Sounds Broadcast Best. San Francisco.—Experiments and study of the technique of the radio drama, conducted systematically over a period of months on the air and in the laboratories of the Pacific coast, have created a craftmanship that promises interesting development of this form of theatrical entert: ainment, Like the motion picture, the radio play has given birth to a new art. as the principles of a successful micro- phon performance are distinct—unlike those involved in the writing or pres- entation of a stage or screen produe tion, Shakespeare was a natural writer of radio “scenarios,” Carl W. Rhode- hamel of the staff of the General Elec- tric station, KGO, says western pro- ducers have found, But there are so few authors or playwrights whose ef- forts can be utilized without almost complete reconstruction that attempts to adapt popular or classical plays are diminishing. Instead, western studios are bending their efforts toward the development of the radio playwright, recruiting principally from amatep- ranks. What's It All About? For definition of broadcast drama, Rhodehamel has accepted this: “The radio play is a series of sound pictures printed on a film of time.” He con- ceives the patron of this art as “an eavesdropper listening in on real life.” The producer's task, Rhodehamel believes, is principally to “synchronize the rhythm of the three kinds of sound which are the ingredients of the radio drama—music, speech and accessory noises.” Failure to correlate their rhythm results dismally, sometimes hu- morously, as in the first experiment of “interlapping,” when more than one kind of sound was transmitted at a time, In this early test music was placed vehind accessory neise and speech with the result that scores of “fans” wrote in complaining that a Los An- geles station was constantly “butting in” Trying again, rhythm of music, accessory noises and speech were syn- chronized. The listeners then under- stood that the producers were attempt- ing to tell the same story in more than one way. There were no com- plaints this time about the southern station, Beating of horses’ hoofs, ringing of a door bell, sounds of a scuffle, revolv- er shots, heavy breathing, hissing wand, clatter and sputter of a starting locomotive are only some of the in- numerable “accessory noises” that go into the broadcast play to give it in- tense realism. These and music, the most highly organized character of sound, raise it from dialogue to a high form of drama with all the thrills and color of a stage success, Pacific coast producers have decided that 35 minutes is the maximum time the ear of the radio auditor can be kept. So with only an hour and forty-five minutes for presentation of a three-act play, a great part of its plot must be unfolded through sug- gestion, To test power of music to sustain mterest and preserve continuity of plot, an experimental drama was given in which the climax came in act 1. Reversal of dramatic order seem- ingly did not forfeit interest of pa- trons. Many wrote in they had fol- lowed the play to the end—further- more, liked it, Trick of the Trade. In another experiment a virtual les- 4on in geography and natural history of China and Tibet was crowded into every paragraph of a play, “The Yangtze River.” This offering went over as a dramatic presentation with few criticisms based on its hyper- abundant textbook phases. Like the movie, radio has made ef- fective use of “tricks of the trade” in the mechanics of the new art, KGO has magnified the sound of a duzzing insect to obtain the roar of a wild animal; breaking of toothpicks to picture trees falling in a forest; breathing through a lamp chimney to provide a terrifying windstorm, and talk into a barrel to get the sound of voices in a cave or tomb. Swishing a rag around in a mop pail resulted in a realistic impression of a storm at sea, with waves striking against the side of a boat. Double Tragedy Ends in Romance for Survivors New York.—A romance that began fast March in a double tragedy has ended in the marriage of William Dempsey and Mrs. Robert Noonan, in New York city. Dempsey’s wife and Mrs, Noonan's husband were found dead im an au- tomobile near Paterson, N, J., last spring. Mrs. Dempsey’s baby daughter, who was found crying beside the car, sald Noonan had shot her mother and then killed himself, The aftermath of the tragedy brought the widow and widower to- gether. Friendship that culminated in the marriage was the result. ——Get your job work done here, Early Home of Washington Hayfield plantation near Alexandria, before the Revolution, out by George Washington. Miss Evelyn Smith of New duced the garden at Amawalk, Westchester county, N. Y her father, Maj. Orlando Jay Smith. Va., the home of George Washington lost its old English Boxwood garden which was laid York city has repro- » as a memorial tec Photograph shews the old place in ruins, the eld boxwood hedge being removed. Pr Rn mp ME RE em Pe Pm Mm Rc Pm Em Ry St. Paul’s Chapel Mg Fn Ma a PE Mae Pm RE Ma Colonial atmosphere has been scarce in lower Broadway for many years, but St. Paul's chapel, the oldest ex- isting church edifice in the island, has brought back some of the grace and simplicity of the days of the Rev- olution. The famous place of worship has been redecorated and renovated to conform with the fashions prevail- ing in 1764-6, when St. Paul’s was huilt by McBean. When the British evacuated the city after the surrender at Yorktown nearly all of the decorations that indi- cated an English affiliation were torn out of the chapel. Every royal emblem, every reminder of the connection with Great Britain, was removed with the exception of the three-feathered badge of the heir apparent of the Knglish throne sur- mounting tha pulpit. The heir appar- ant then became George 1V in 1811. Through some neglect his embieM Was eft in its original place and for years it was the subject of curious questions, This heraldic badge of the prince of Wales survived many periods of deco- ration when other ancient embellish- nents were removed. Now many of these decorations have been returned to their former posi- ions. But the British “atmosphere” has not been brought back. Only the Colonial fixtures used when George Washington was President of the United States have kept their places n the old church. It was there that ne worshiped for many years. His lour-sided pew, always interesting to patriotic pilgrims, is on the Vesey street aisle. It is marked by a large- sized painting of the shield of the United States of America. Opposite, on the Fulton street aisle, a similar pew, used by De Witt Clinton when he was governor of New York, is iden- tified with a painting of the New York shield. It was in St. Paul's that George Washington received holy communion inauguration after his in 1789 as St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway, Fulton and Vesey Streets, the Oldest Church Structure in ‘Manhattan, first President of the United States. The old organ which played on that occasion was sold to Marblehead, Mass. While President Washington was living in New York he made a prac- tice of riding his horse every Sunday morning to St. Paul’s, which was not then in the bustling city. In those times Wall street was the extreme end of the business section of the town and Fulton street was out in the country. During the years while New York has been steadily, rapidly moving up- town, St. Paul’s has stood as a foot- hold of comparative antiquity. Build- ings have shot into the sky, frowning down on the little church, until today it nestles in a teeming canyon at the feet of man’s towers of stone and steel. Old St, Paul’s has been involved in much of New York's history. It was not the first church in Manhattan; the Dutch church of St. Nicholas in the fort at the Battery preceded it by 120 ‘Chere was also a French But St, Paul's knew the Tory Patriot struggles preceding and dur- ing the Revolution. At its back, in what became Chatham street and then Park row, had been the jail, the bride- well, the gallows, covered with a Chi- nese kiosk; the pillory, stocks aad. in a little group of trees, the whipping post (according to Martha .f. Lamb The war drums have sounded many times since the cornerstone was laid in 1764. Troops have marched past to battle with a song on their lips. The entire interior has been reno- vated. In the process some ancient relics came to light. One was a mas sive chandelier that formerly hung in the middle of the church. This chan- delier, found in sections in the attic over the organ loft, was fitted with modern improvements and replaced to its former position. Ecclesiastica vessels, documents and small furni ture were unearthed from the litter of more than a century. In its simple dress of former years St. Paul's, the only remaining church edifice in Manhattan with a history begun before the American revolution, is expected to reawaken in lower Broadway Colonial associations pre. served chiefly by Bowling green, Fraunces tavern, the: last home of President Monroe, and the architec ture of City hall, , years, church. Started Washington on Pathway to Fame In the English colonies in America the presence of the French west of the Alleghenies was considered a trespass of one nation upon another's lang, says the Detroit News. The notion was that the French, having slipped into what did not belong to them, ought to be turned out. So some in. fluential Virginians, two of them brothers of George Washington, se cured a grant of 500,000 acres of land on the Ohio river, with the purpose of selling it. These associates called themselves the Ohio company. Before taking any decisive steps it was thought best to go through the empty form of warning off the intruders, This would make a national question of it. A summons to depart was there- fore drawn up and George Washing: ton, a young Virginia planter, wholly unknown to fame—Thackeray calls him “a road surveyor at a guinea a day”—was chosen by Governor Din- widdie as messenger. The young sol- dier promptly accepted the trust, and on October 30, 1753, he set out from Williamsburg for the far frontier and undying fame, Marshall, in his “Life of Washing- ton,” says it was the Ohio company that brought on the war known as the French and Indian war, in which the Indians were allies of the French, Discouraged Liquor in “George Washington, Country uentleman,” is the following state- ment: “Some of the contracts (en- tered into with hired employees) con- tain peculiar stipulations, That with a certain overseer provided: ‘And whereas there are a aumber of whisky stills very contiguous to the said plantations, and many idle drunk- ‘ers and dissolute people continually resorting to same priding themselves in debauching sober and well-inclined persons the said Edd Violett doth promise as well for his own sake as his employees to avoid them as he ought.’ ” Washington’s Maxims Be not apt to relate news if yon know not the truth thereof. TEInk before you speak. When a man does all he can, though It succeeds not well, blame not him that did it. Let your conversation be without malice or envy. Let your recreation be manful, not sinful, Speak no evil of the absent, for it Is unjust. Show yourself not glad at the mis- fortune of another though he were your enemy. COTTON PRODUCER [30 ly Ir nr Oran irenaoronnos Harvests Greater Crep Now Than Virginia. Sacramento, Cal.—For 75 years the Golden state has been trying to be- come known as the land of cotton, and at last its efforts are meeting with a Success as striking as were some of its early failures. Figures of the federal Department of Agriculture disclose that for sev- eral years California has produced more cotton than Virginia, the oldest cotton-producing state; that Califor- nia’s average yield per acre is the highest of any cotton-producing state, and that California acala cotton sells ‘at a premium on the cotton markets of the United States. It was not always thus. In 1851, when farmers were still throwing away their plows to join the rush for California gold, T. O. Selby received some cottonseed from Missis- sippi and planted it on his ranch just outside the city of Sacramento. Three years later the Sacramento Union ac- knowledged on its editorial page the receipt of “ a lot of beautiful cotton” grown on the Selby ranch. It quoted Mr. Selby as saying that only the high price of labor prevented Califor- Ha from becoming within a few years “one of the heaviest cotton- -producing states in the republic.” Under the lash of World-war devel- opment Imperial valley's cotton pro- duction expanded prodigiously and tempted other districts to try growing on a commercial scale. The first im- portant San Joaquin valley production was in 1918 and expansion was so rapid that in 1925 more than half the state’s cotton acreage was in this re- gion. Last year the state had an acre- age of 172,000, the average yield be- ing estimated at 351 pounds per acre as against 162.3 pounds for the Unite¢ States at large. The estimated tots production was 125,000 bales. State legislation has set aside cer- tain counties where only acala cotton may be grown, to protect growers from the seed stock deterioration that comes from intercrossing. A rigid and persistent quarantine is preserved against the boll weevil, Fights Right of Dogs to Destroy Unpunished Oklahoma City.—A revolt against dogs’ rights—acquired during the feu- day days of England—is in progress in Oklahoma. The common law principle of syien ter, which was established when the canine pets of Norman oppressors were permitted with impunity to wreak destruction on Saxon flocks, has been passed down intact to the statute books of Oklahoma—a state not yet twenty vears old. The principle means simply that a dog owner is not re- sponsible for the depredation of his animals if he is not aware of their mischievous natures. It was one thing, declare assailants of canine prerogatives, for dogs to de- stroy feudal flocks which were mere articles of exchange, and something else for them to slaughter modern tur- keys that have a commercial value of around 50 cents a pound during the holiday season. With the aim of curtailing some of an Oklahoma dog’s privileges, C. C. McDonald of Wagoner county is seek- ing to have the state Supreme court pass for the third time on a case in- volving this principle. The litigation started in 1920 when fifteen turkeys belsnging to McDon- ald, were killed by dogs. Angry Boy Blows Up Companion With Bomb Minot, N. D.—Revenge inspired a fifteen-year-old boy to send an “infer- nal machine” to his fellow high school student, Clarence Stromwold, which resulted in an explosion which severe- ly injured the latter. The boy was held by the police, who refused to di- vulge his name, to face federal charges. The “machine” was com- posed of dangerous explosive chem- icals of the lad’s own invention, he told the authorities. Stromword, the lad said, “played dirty tricks on me.” . Warns Women San Antonio. Texas.—Wlves of army officers stationed here have been warned by Brig. Gen. Paul B. Malone of the bad effect on their husbands’ career of the drinking of liquor at dinner parties. SIL LLLPIFBELIEPIIIEDIS Wed 60 Years, Still 2 Live in Same Cabin Marion, Ill.—Just east of Wil- liamson county live Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Absher, in a log house constructed before the Civil war. They recently cele- brated their sixtieth wedding anniversary and are now begin- ning their sixty-first year of married life in the same house. Mr. Absher is one of the few men now living who accorpa- nied General Sherman on his march to the sea in the Civil war, and the memories which he now recalls of that four years of strife include his cap- ture by the Confederate forces and long weeks passed in the Libby and Salisbury prisons. This veteran has been a farm- er all of his life and ig still an unusually active man for his eighty-two years. CALIFORNIA BIG This Bank is a very busy place, but its offt- cers always have time to see those who need their services, Maybe we can help you in some way. Banking is not the only subject discussed here. The First National Bank BELLEFONTE, PA. bi as “without ostentation or men- tion of my name.” You can only be benevolent if you save for thatjpurpose. Open an account in the First National Bank and enjoy the luxury of benevolence. 2 | Z % 4 : o 3 per cent Interest Paid on Savings Accounts THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK STATE COLLEGE, PA. 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