Bema tan Bellefonte, Pa., February 17, 1928 «)'LLE MODISTE,” LAVISH GLEE CLUB PRODUC- TION NEXT WEEK. Victor Herbert’s Triumph Plays the New State Theatre Monday and Tuesday. Gay, glittering, gorgeous, “Mlle Modiste” will make her bow next Monday and Tuesday nights, as the first legitimate attraction in Belle- fonte’s splendid new “State” theatre. The operetta is from the talented pen of Victor Herbert and has been one of the most popular plays ever pre- sented in an American playhouse. In presenting this as their annual show, the Glee Club takes its most ambi- tious step in the way of musical pro- duction. : The music,. most of it, is already well-known, having maintained its popularity ever since the play was first produced. “Hark the Drum,” “Furs and Feathers,” and “The Time, the Place, and the Girl” are all lovely tunes, but of course, “Kiss me Again” heads the list. This melcdy has caught and kept the popular fan- cy longer than any waltz of its gen- eration. The lyrics are well-written, some containing a great poetic beauty while others are extremely clever and amus- ing. Indeed, a great deal of the ac- tion is told in song. The drama itself is a well-con- structed piece containing suspense, love-interest, and comedy, with the comedy perhaps paramount. The ac- tion, as one has probably guessed, transpires in Paris and is swift and absorbing. At no time is the action permitted to lag and the speciator will find his interest riveted on the stage always. The story opens in the hat shop of Madame Cecile in Paris where the heroine, Fifi, is employed. Fifi, the best saleswoman in the shop, has her heart set on opera; but Madame, in order to keep her, plans to marry her to Gaston, her worthless and foppish nephew. Fifi is loved by Captain Etienne de Bouvray, young aristocrat who comes to the shop surreptitious- ly, fearing the wrath of his fiery old uncle, the Count de St. Mar, who has other plans for him. Into this scene comes a fabulously wealthy American, Hiram Bent, who charmzd by Fifi, lends her some money by a ruse. Con- fronted by the choice of marrying Gaston or leaving the shop, Fifi, with her new found means, of course, leaves. Just before she goes, the Count insults her and in her rage and affronted pride, she vows never to marry Etienne until his Uncle comes £0 her with his hat in his hand. Over one year later, Hiram Bent returns to Paris bringing with him “Mlle Bellini,” who is none other than Fifi, now a great singer. Hiram brings Fifi to a Charity Bazaar at the Count’s chateau and from then on things wax fast and furious. The ef- forts of Fifi to elude detection, the perplexity of the Count, the blunder- ing efforts of Hiram to smooth mat- ters over and the thwarted love of Etienne—all work up into a climax of fine power, replete with drama and fan. Through these glamorous scenes, pert and pretty shop givls flirt with handsome officers; light-hearted foot- men cavort behind the back of their master; stately Colonials dance the Polonaise; Cadets, in gay uniform, stir the audience with their singing; butterflies, powder-puffs, “the Dun- can Sisters,” and Farina—all flit against picturesque settings. Un- doubtedly the show has more beauty, glamour and appeal, than any show the Glee Club has ever put on and when one thinks of “The Earl and the Girl” or of “Pickles,” one realizes what a claim that is. Qutside the show proper there are added features which are easily on a par with the best parts of the hook. Especially interesting is “The Glow Worm” ensemble, in which twentv girls, in perfect time, dance. The steps are difficult, the costumes love- ly, combining to make a very fine ballet. The principals are not se numerous as usual, but they certainly make up in quality what they lack in quantity. Heading the cast in the three central roles of “Fifi,” “Hiram” and the “Count,” respectively, are Louise Tan- ner, Peter Meek, and Bill Brachbill. The first two have taken princinal parts before, and you know what to expect from them; but Bill sounds an entirely new note in his portrayal of the old aristocrat. Paul Crust is seen as the hero and, of course, plays the role with much skill and all the charm of his former peiformances. Catherine Bullock makes “Madame Cecile” a real Par- isian while Donald Conrad excels in the part of “Gaston.” Louise Meyer and Kenneth Little lend personality to the roles of “Marie” and ‘“Rene,” with Virginia Kern and William Markley offering contrast as a tem- peramental dancer and her silly old swain. Dorothy Wilkinson and Lenore Morgan fairly live the parts of “Mad- am Cecile’s daughters; Eugene Robb is a good “Francois,” while Henrietta Hunter runs away with a hit as “Mrs. Hirma Bent,” newly rich and in Paris for the first time. These many features are but a few of the charms in “M’lle Modiste’s hat box,” and she is very anxious to have you see all of them she asks you to come see her next week at “The State.” The admission charge will be 75 eents and reserved seats will be on sale at Gross’s on Saturday. enema — Lead pencils contain no lead. Lead pencil is as much a misnomer as it wotld be to call a horse a cow. The black substance used in pencils is neither a metal nor a compound of metal. one of the forms of carbon. EE It is plumbago or graphite, GASES ONCE WASTED TURNED INTO MONEY Industry and Public Benefited by Chemistry. East Pittsburgh, Pa.—Modern chem- istry is demonstrating that even odors can be turned into aol rg and cents. Gases that have pollyted the atmos- phere are now being captured and con- verted into the liquids from whieh they originated, to the profit of both industry and the publie. Experts of the materials and process engineering department of the West- inghouse Electric and Manufacturing company decided that too many smells were going up the chimney in the process of treating insulation with resinous materials. §o they trapped the gases as fast as they were gen- erated, mixed them with water and then distilled this liquid, recovering from 80 to 90 per cent of the solvents used in the formula. How far chemical engineers can go in eliminating and using fumes by liquefying thém before they are dis- charged into the air has not yet been determined, but experiments now un- der way suggest that far-reaching re- sults are possible. The saving already effected by the capture of used sol- vents is said to be considerable. Chemists point out, however, that recovery methods might be too well perfected, for it is possible that some of the agents recovered from gases would themselves be difficult to de- stroy. Seeks to Make Blend of Light and Music Philadelphia.—A basic patent for an invention to blend light with music has been granted te Mrs. Mary Hal- lock Greenwalt. Mrs. Greenwalt has been conducting experiments in the blending of light and sound for 2 years. She believes that her patent is the first granted for a new means of expressing human emotions in rhyth- mic form. While music is being rendered b) singer, violinist, pianist or orchestra, Mrs. Greenwalt’s apparatus floods the performer with lights of varying in- tensity. The fluctuations in light are intended to enhance the emotional and intellectual appeal of the music. The apparatus may be operated with a keyboard. Years of training in music, of pro fessional experience as a concert pianist, of study of physics, mechanics, physiology and psychology wemt into the achieving of the results now rec- ognized by the granting of the basic patent. Mrs. Greenwalt was born in Beirut, Syria, the daughter of Samuel and Sara Tabet Hallock. She came to the United States when a girl of eleven. After she left school she took up the study of music. Mystery Blasts Being Studied by Scientists White Plains, N. Y.—Residents of aorthern Westchester county are searching to find a solution to the mysterious blast which rocked build- ings and spread terror over several miles of the countryside. The heavy, dull roar and the quiver cf the earth kept the county police busy answering telephone calls for hours. Aimilar blasts have occurred at in .ervals of exactly six months within the last two years. They always come at night. The ground was shaken and the noise of the explosion was Lieard, but on each occasion it was unaccompanied by any flare or light such as would have been the case had the explosion been due to powder or gasoline or other known explosions that are set off by friction or heat. Scientists have been asked to study che terrain in the vicinity and ascer- tain if the blasts are being caused by some disturbance deep under the earth. To Stop Dress Snobbery Atlantic City, N. J.—With special approval by the principal some 50 high school girls are wearing middy blouses and blue skirts in an effort to stop dress snobbery. anfoorfonforionforforferfoefonInfonfectocfonforforforforfortoctoriecferte “Lifer” Sues Woman; Charged Cruel to Cat Boston.—Jesse Pomeroy, “lifer,” who entered the state prison at Charleston a seventeen-year-old boy, nearly fifty-one years ago. is the plaintiff in a $5,000 ac tion in which he denies charges that he has been cruel to ani mals while in prison. Pomeroy remains In his cell while two attorneys represent J, him before the Suffolk Supreme civil court. The defendant is Alice Stone Blackwell of Dorchester, pub lisher of a magazine for women, who told the court that “she felt it a public duty to write a letter to a Boston newspaper in 1925 in opposition to a pardon for Pomeroy. The letter described his crime as much worse than that of Leopold and Loeb and repeated a rumor that Pomeroy. when permitted the companion- ship of a kitten, “had skinned i alive.” Counsel for Pcmeroy told the court that the suit was brought to “spike a lie,” and said that animals had been Pomeroy’s only friends in prison. BIER LE lds sae Banana Employed by the Serpent in Eden? “Early inhabitants of the East be- lieved that the banana plant was the source of good and evil and that the serpent which tempted Eve hid in a bunch of the fruit,” according to W. T. Pope of the Hawaii experiment station of the United States Depar# ment of Agriculture. ’ Undoubtedly this legend influenced the early classifiers who designated two species of the plant as musa par- adisiaca (fruit of paradise) and musa sapientum (fruit of knowledge). The common name, “banana,” was adopted from the language of an African Con- go tribe, and first came into use dur- ing the Sixteenth century. Prior to that time the fruit was called “apple of paradise” and “Adam’s fig.” The name “banana” seems to have been borne for a long period by the fruit, which was eaten raw. The term “plantain” was given to a variety which, though closely related to the banana, is edible only after being cooked. The generic name “Musa” for the banana group was bestowed by the botanist Linnaeus in honor of An- tonius Musa, a learned physician of the early Roman empire.~Chicago Journal. Modern Homes Built on Old Mission Site On the heights east of Manila is an old Franciscan estate with an early Seventeenth century church on it, and down in a vale the ruins of a chapel— the holy edifice and the ruin alike memorable of a forgotten age. when Spain under Philip II attempted to evangelize the world. The churen, which, of course, has a monastery at- tached to it, was the sanctuary whence Franciscan missionaries went to Japan, China, Cochinchina, Cam- bodia, India, Java, the Moluccas and other parts. Back of the altar was a cave in which the friars knelt and en- dured voluntary bleeding in order to be steeled against tortures in heathen lands and to resist the temptation un- der physical pain to apostatize them- selves. The “via crucis”—for prayer and penitence—began in the monas- tery courtyard and ended at the chapel, a distance equal to that which Christ walked from Pilate’s palace in Jerusalem to Mount Calvary. An American has acquired this old estate and laid it out in suburban home sites which prosperous Filipinos are eager- ly buying. The chapel and church are carefully preserved. Clerical Sandwich A missionary to one of the islands where man-eating is still practiced was captured by a cannibal chief. To his surprise he was offered his free- dom on condition that he would carry a small packet to another chief in the mountains. He agreed and he was so grateful to his captor that when on his way he met a detachment of marines, he declined to accompany them to safe territory. The sealed packet should be delivered as he had promised. But while one officer was arguing with him another quietly opened the packet. [It contained a small quantity of onions with a note to the chief reading: “The bearer will be delicious with these.”—Boston Transcript. Poetic Justice “Arabs dearly love what we call poetic justice,” said Lowell Thomas, the writer-lecturer. “They tell the story of an Arab who stole a horse and sent his son to market to sell it. On the way to market, the son was himself robbed of the horse and forced to return to his father empty handed. “‘Ah!’ exclaimed the old man when nis son walked back into camp. ‘I see thou has sold the horse. How much did it bring. “ ‘Father,’ said the son disconsolate- ly, ‘it brought the same price for which thou thyself didst buy it?” A World Thinker The need of the hour is for a world chinker. Most of us are like flies that buzz around a very small area—and perhaps get caught or swatted before we even get into the next room. At this state of civilization—and we have quite a considerable civilization at the moment—we need men who do not buzz about a small area but who can look all up and down the long road along which the caravan of his tory has passed and is passing. We need men with perspective— world thinkers.—Grove Patterson, in the Mobile Journal, Morphia Tests Morphia is a very common poison, out its presence is easy to detect by the chemist. With no great difficulty he can detect the presence of even one-twenty-thousandth part of a grain! The usual residue having been ob- tained, an addition of iodic acid is made, and then, should morphia be present, the whole at once turns blue when a little starch-paste is added. Alternatively, chloride of zinc may be added, and the mixture, when heated, produces a beautiful and lasting green color. Rarin’ to Go An Alabama man declares that the priefest courtship of all was that of a darkey couple in that state. It ran about as follows: Rastus speaking first: “Why dor’t you take me?” *’Cause you’ ain't ast me.” “Well, now | asts yo'.” “Well. now 1 has yo'.” SPREADS SUNSHINE AMONG SHUT-INS Carolinian Has Given Away 80,000 Bouquets. Greenville, S. C.—Spreading sun- shine is the hobby of A. G. Gower, Greenville bookkeeper — figuratively, that is. : * For eight years he has made and presented 80,000 bouquets to Green- ville shut-ins, persons who are ill, and others, Gower estimates that he cuts 230, 000 blossoms annually from his gar- den, all of which are given away. The monetary return is nothing, but, he says “It is spreading sunshine whole- sale, and my reward is so tremendous that it is boundless. I have a treas- ure house without limits.” He began his flower mission in 8 small way about 20 years ago. It was not until just after the World war in 3919 that it began to assume its pres- ent large proportions. At that time he was asked to teach a Bible class in the United States Army Hospital No. 26, at Camp Sevier. [aH teach the class,” he said, “if you will let me bring the boys flowers every Sunday morning.” Then the work of spreading sun shine began in earnest, His flower garden became larger and larger, un- til today it occupies every nook and ; cranny of the half-acre plot around his home, For 48 hours each week Gower is engaged with long ¢olumns of figures. But early mornings, late afternoons and evenings, find him in his garden caring for the (lowers that have brought happiness to him and the per- sons who receive them. Saturday afternoons until dark he gathers the flowers for his baskets of bouquets. Kills Three of His Brothers and Ends Own Life Bakerstield, Calif.—Albert Villard, difty years, hanged himself from his own automobile and then shot him- self to make death doubly certain after he had killed three of his broth- ers and wounded a fourth, according to reports brought here, Walter Rice of Tulare said he found the slayer’s body hanging by a rope from Villard’s car on a road nine miles from Tulare, Joe Villard, suffering from bullet wounds inflicted by his brother, walked two miles to a neighbor's ranch to notify the authorities. The three brothers who were killed ~—August, Eugene and Gabriel Villard —with Joe and their parents were at breakfast and did not know that Al- bert was in the room until he began shooting, Joe said. " Ranchmen say that for several years Albert has held a grudge against his brothers, claiming he was deprived of his share of the Villard ranch. 5,000,000 Italian Born Living in United States Rome.—Latest statistics here show that there are 9,118,593 expatriated Italians living in different parts of the world. The figure is probably even greater than this, as the consular re- turns from some countries are con- fessedly incomplete. The greatest number of emigrated {talians live in the American conti- nent. Between North and South and Central America 7,674,583 Italians are accounted for. The United Statcs alone has mors than 5,000,000 of them, while there are 150,000 in Canada, 800,000 in Mex- ico, 87,000 in Costa Rica, 800,000 in Brazil, 1,600,000 in the Argentine, and 21,500 in Chile. In Europe there are 1,267,841 exiled ftalians, more than half of whom are living in France. In Africa there are 189,100 Italians, while Australia has 27,000 living under its flag. Think Farm Children Superior to City Bred Wellington, New Zealand.—Farm children are superior to city reared children, says a national report on a survey of the physical growth and mental attainment of the boys and girls of New Zealand. Superiority of farmers’ children was most pronounced at the age of thirteen. . The survey included 20,000 town and country children ranging in age from ten to fourteen and was carried out by Dr. Ada Paterson, director of the health department’s division of school hygiene, and Dr. E. Marsden. assistant director of education. AOA ANAOAN AOAC ANAC ANANA AOA AAD OR RRR ERRORS RRR BALE S000 OBCERCR0EC8 Will Written on Egg Shell Termed Valid Brooklyn.—Wills have been written on eggshells, coalbins and bedposts, and might possibly be tattooed on the shoulder of an heiress and remain valid. Crenna Skellers told of these among other unusual legal doc- § uments in a talk on “The Pow- er to Make a Will,” given at the Academy of Music. Among surprising provisions in wills of historical people, Miss Skellers announced that Gouverneur Morris willed that his wife’s income be doubled if $ she married again. Thomas % Paine, she said, although com- {3 menly considered an atheist, be- 2 queathed his soul to God. Many Southerners, including George Washington, she revealed, freed their slaves in their wills. 0 a SEIN EB BE. el rn £ven Finest Violins Must Have Exercise A violin, like a growing boy, accord- ing to the experts, is much better when kept busy. And dance tunes are just as good for “exercising” even a priceless Stradivarius as are the high- est class concert numbers. A violin, bearing the date 1713 and believed to be a genuine “Strad,” has been in the possession of the family of William McDonald of Rice Lake, Wis. says the Milwaukee Journal, for 175 years. Mr. McDonald, who owned the instru- ment for 53 years, has used it in old fiddlers’ contests throughout this part of the state. Inside the violin is this inscription: “Antonius Stradivaris tonio Stradivari, made in the year 1718). The famous Cremona carver was at the height of his career as a violin maker in 1713, and all the evi- dence to be found in the family rec- ords leads the McDonalds to believe the instrument is an original of the noted maker. Daily Loss of Weight The loss of weight that we under- go every day has been the object of recent research, says Science. In the experiments, conducted by the Carnegie institution at Washington, two sensitive balances were used. Both were strong enough to weigh a man, but delicate enough to register minute changes in weight. One of the balances would indicate a change of one-third of an ounce, and a person could sleep all night on its platform. The other was a hundred times as sensitive, but could be occupied only for an hour or so at a time. The total moisture losses through the lungs and skin of a woman of average weight averaged around 30 grams, or one ounce per hour; for a man the figure was about one-third higher. Forgetful The forgetful man got to the rail- road station a few minutes before train time, but he felt he had forgot- tei something. He looked over his baggage. It was all there. He felt in his pocket. His wallet was bulging pleasantly. Ab- sently he reached in another pocket and pulled out two tickets to Niagara falls and a marriage license. So that was it! He groaned and rushed for a tele shone booth. But it was no use. He had forgot- ten the name and telephone number of the girl with whom he had intend- ed to elope.—American Legion Month: ly. Streams That “Meander” “Crooked as the River Jordan,” is an old expression, but there are streams that make Jordan look straight. In the old days when packet steamers were .popular-gs-transporta- tion up and down the Mississippi, pas- sengers used to get out at many of the sharp bends and walk across a narrow neck of land to rest from the tedious trip, the steamer arriving sometimes an hour later. The White river in Arkansas is another erratic stream. It travels 1,000 miles in traversing a distance of 30 miles. A Month of Birthdays. February is the shortest month in the year, a fact well known to all of us, but it is also a very important month. It is full of birthdays, and we shall enumerate a few of them, even though we repeat facts known to us all. February gave us Wash- ington, the founder of our Republic, and Lincoln, the saviour of the na- tion. Daniel Boone, that great pio- neer who read our title clear to that huge tract of land lying west of the Appalachian Mcuntains, was a Feb- ruary lad, the eleventh being his day. It is fitting, too, that the Boy Scouts’ birthday falls in the same month with this greatest of scouts, and that spe- «cial exercises by their troops will mark his birthday. And toward the end of the month—the twenty-seventh —we find the birthday of Henry W. Longfellow, who sang of our original settlers as no other poet has done, and who also sang for the children: Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's oceupation That is known as the Children’s Hour. erm enti ANNIVERSARIES OF THE WEEK February 16—Fort Donaldson sur- rendered 1862. February 17—President Jefferson elected 1801. February 19—Jefferson Davis inaug- urated 1861. February 20—Panama-Pacific Expo- sition 1910. February 21—General Sherman bur- ied 1891. February 22—Washington’s birthday. Cremonensis, Faciebat Anno 17138” (Cremona of An- | WORTH KNOWING One automobile in each twenty in- jared some one last year. Two inches is the average thick- ness of the hippopotamus’ skin. It requires 567 bees working a life- time to produce a pound of honey. A French chemist claims that he i has invented a non-inflammable gaso- i line. | Few men make themselves masters “of the things they write or speak.— Selden | Over 6,000 kinds of caterpillars have been found in America north of : Mexico. | Falls kill more people than battles, ‘according to the National Safety Council. The saxophone was named for its inventor, Antoine Joseph Sax, of Bel- gium and Paris. A single bee averages only 31.65 trips from hive to field during its entire existence. One person in each one hundred in the United States was injured by an automobile last year. Eighty per cent of all savings in the United States are said to be in the names of women. Nevada is now a State without a street car, busses having entirely sup- planted the trolley system. A rate war among the barbers of Butler, Mo. has forced the price of hair cuts down to 20 cents. The average life of the honey bee is six weeks; three as a field bee; three as a nurse rearing its young. The first game of intercollegiate football was played early in Novem- ber, 1869, between Princeton and Rut- gers universities. Three per cent of all bees issuing from the hive never return, as the re- sult of the toll of storms, birds, and their own consuming labor. The largest electric sign ever built was lighted for the first time, Feb- 1, in Times Square, New York City. The new sign is lighted by 8115 lamps, which are connected with twenty miles of wire. A policeman of Bourne, England, recently held up traffic when a duck started to waddle across the road. In the middle of the road she sat down to lay an egg. Ten minutes later the egs was rescued and traffic resumed. Realizing the educational effect of films, the British government has ap- pointed Mrs. Ashley, wife of a mem- ber of Parliament, as censor of eti- quette for films. So the villain may eat peas with his knife in America— but not in England. Sailors have numerous supersti- tions. A sailor may sing, but he sel- dom whistles, for whistling is sup- posed to bring on a hurricane. Blue paint is also unpopular with sea-far- ing men, who dislike to join a vessel having any part of her painted blue. Army airmen will now have a three mile limit. Instructions to regulate high-altitude flying by ars Air Corps pilots have been issued by Ma- jor General James E. Fechet, chief of the Air Corps. Because of the dangers of high- altitudes, special per- mission and special apparatus will be required for those desiring to go above the three-mile limit. The most remarkable echo known is one on the north side of Shipley church, in Sussex, England, which dis- tinctly repeats twenty-one syllables. In the Cathedral of Girgenti, Sicily, the slightest whisper is borne with perfect distinctness from the great doors to the cornice behind the altar, 2 Jistanes of two hundred and fifty eet. Hedjaz, in southern Arabia, is a land of despair for safety razor and shaving soap manufacturers. Ibn Saoud, its ruler, has not only forbid- den smoking, the use of alcoholic liquors and perfume, and the wearing of silver and gold ornaments and silk garments, but has made shaving a crime for which both the barber and the man shaved shall be punished. ——The “Watchman” is the most readable paper published. Try it. IRA D. GARMAN JEWELER 101 South Eleventh St., PHILADELPHIA. Have Your Diamonds Reset in Platinum 72-48-tf Exclusive Emblem Jewelry Free six HOSE Free Mendel’s Knit Silk Hose for Wo- men, guaranteed to wear six months without runners in leg or holes in heels or toe. A new Satz FREE if they fail. Price $1.00. YEAGER'S TINY BOOT SHOP. CHICHESTER S PILLS pr La x28, ki ther. _e at. Ask for Sa! 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