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FIRE HAZARD OF STEEL WOOL
AMONG THE STARS:
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[By "The Hollywood Boulevardier."1
Reginald Denny's latest vehicle for Universal, entitled, "On Your Toca," has just been released. It was directed by Fred Newmeyer, who was responsible for many of Harold Lloyd's fina comedies.
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BURNING DANGEROUS,
£2,000 RENT.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE IN
JERUSALEM,
PAID TO GERMANS.
No one ordinarily thinks of steal
London, Nov. 14. It is revealed in a parliament- as possessing any fire hazard at all, but when it is cut into the Hasary answer that the rent of Gov filaments of steel wool it becomes erament House, Jerusalem, the a very real fire hazard. The burn- official residence of the High ing of steel wool is particularly Commissioner of Palestine-Lord! dangerous because it does not pro-Plumeris paid to a German duce either flame or smoke to give organisation, warning. A fire in stoel wool can
Mr. Ormsby-Gore, Under- William Fox has acquired the be extinguished readily by the gen- screen rights to The Red Dancer erous application of water or the Secretary for the Colonies, an- of Moscow," which will soon go into product of one of the modern swering questions by Colonel production. Dolores Del Rio and foam-producing extinguishers, The W. G. Nicholson, is stated in the Charles Farrell will have the lead-use of a carbon-tetrachloride type official report of the House of
of extingulaher is dangerous, be-Commons to have said:- ing roles.
cause in the presence of finely- "The residence, in question. Is Louis B. Mayer, Vice-President divided steel and air, phosgene, a the property of the Kaiserin deadly polson, is formed, and the Augusta. Victoris Stiftung. (In- in charge of production for Metro-heat. generated by this reaction is stitution), to whom rent is paid Goldwyn-Mayer, has returned to likely to reignite the wool.
by the Palestine Government. Hollywood from New York, where he attended the Will Hays trade practice confèrenco..
"In 1926 the rent paid was E2,200. I am unable to say whether the figure has since been altered.""
Colonel Nicholson also asked who is responsible for the repair of the damage to the building during the recent earthquake, but Mr. Ormsby-Gore replied that the liability has not yet been settled.
which
True Horizontal Boring. When boring horizontal holes, it is easy to keep the bit at right Richard Barthelmess. has started angles to the work in the horizontal plane, but difficult to keep it at work in The Noose" for First right angles in a vertical plane. National, with John Francis Dillon This simple little trick for elimin- directing. Those in the castinating this trouble will be found clude Montagu Love, Lina Bas- very effective. A large fron washer quette, Theima Todd, Alice Joyce, is slipped over the shank of the Jay Eaton and Bob O'Connor. bit before it is inserted in the
chuck, and the hole is started. Government House, The washer is placed about half stands on the Mount of Olives, way between the chuck and the ex- was built by the Germans as an panded part of the bit, and then outcome of the ex-Kaiser's visit the boring Is continued. If the to Jerusalem in 1898. It domin- hole is progressing horizontally, ates Jerusalem, is designed like a the washer will remain in the same fortress, with walls many feet Basil Wrangel, a nephew of the position on the bit, but if the hole thick, and was the headquarters famous Russina general, for the is slanting downward the washer of the Germans and Turks in
film editor at the will slowly travel towards the Palestine during the war. past year Д
On the other hand, if then the ceiling of the chapel is a Metro-Goldwyn-Studios, la serving work.
technical adviser for John hole is slanting upward, the washer painting representing the ex- Gilbert's next picture, tentatively will travel toward the chuck. Kaiser as a Crusader, with he Merely by watching the washer and the horizontal angle of the bit, the late Kaiserin as Queen. They re shown holding a model of the hole can be bored true.
building
Famous Players has ongaged Herman J. Mankiewicz to write the aub-titles for Richard Diz's new film, "The Gay Defender."
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called. "The Cossacks,"
Paul Leni, the German director who made "The Cat And The Canary" and "The Chinese Parrot," is at present preparing for the production of Victor Hugo's "The Man Who Laughs. It has been announced that Mary Philbin will take the part of 'Dea;' with Conrad
Hurst, Veldt, Brandon
George Seigmann, Stuart Holmes, Jose- phine Crowell and Sam De Grasss in the support.
Edward Cline is making "Ladies Night In A Turkish Bath" for First National Pictures. As the title, will tell, the story is a farce, Dorothy Mackall and Jack Mulhall having the leading roles.
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Sprayed Rustless Coatings.. A recent despatch from Ger- many mentions the use there or metallic zinc sprayed in a molten condition on to. A metal surface by the aid of compressed air (Schoopa third. process). This literally shoots the fine particles of zinc on to the surface at a velocity of 2.000ft. to 3,0001t, per minute, and thus secures firmly adherent coating. comparable to a "cold weld.It can strip the line off the real or has been shown that with this unwind it from a spool which re- The rest ig metallising process the formation valves on a mall. of rust is impeded, and at the same simple. Just draw the line time the seams and riveting of the through a cloth to wipe off the surface are reinforced. The ex-
excess paraffin, drop the line in! pense of spray zincing is of course coils to the floor, and wind when higher than that of painting, but
'cool. the coat persists far longer and has proved its worth, particularly in the case of gasometers, under favourable climatic conditions.
The cost of the building is said * to have been £250,000, of which the then German Emperor and Empress are believed to have paid
Flattening Curled Photographs.
Here is a simple method of tak- ing the curl out of photographic prints that have rolled up in dry- ing
Waterproofing Fishing Lines. Those who are at all familiar. The velvet-surface papers, such The most marvellous microscope with the most elementary chemistry as are commonly used by the in the world-the only one of its know that one of the simplest ways amateur, may be manipulated in After re kind existing has been shown to to waterproof an object is to coat the following manner. the Royal Society in London. This it with wax. While this, general moving from the final wash water, instrument is the most penetrating rule is very good, still there will place face down. on soft cotton eye that the human race possesses arise occasions when the applica- cloths or towels to dry. They will to-day. Those are some of the tion of the wax id not found to be curl while drying, but may then be things it will do:-:-Give a photo- an easy matter. Just such an in-made perfectly smooth by running graph in a depth of 1,250,000 part stance comes up in the waterproof- a clean, fairly hot flat-iron quickly of an inch; show the interior or ing of fishing lines. One ardent over the back of the prints, after gans of a microbe such as anthrax; sportsman has solved the problem they are thoroughly dry. For this rasolve the smallest known living in a simple manner, and tells of his purpose, they should be placed face organism or mineral deposit; give system in "Field and Stream." The down on a clean sheet of paper, n magnifying power of 3,500. Mr. waterproofing on a hard-braided laid on a cloth-covered ironing- J. E. Barnard, whose studies with bait-casting line is not's permanent board or table. By this method, Dr. Gye on the filter-passing cancer proposition like the enamelled and also by ferro-typing, the finish- virus astonished the world a year dressing on a fly line. Ordinarily ed prints or post cards will be ago, is responsible for this won- paraffin wax is used. Its purpose left beautifully smooth and even, derful new instrument Photo is twofold: to render the line but with a curl toward the emul graphs of the "skeletons" of mi- smooth so it runs freely through sion or picture side. This may be crobes such as anthrax, the hay the guides, and to reduce wear and permanently removed, or they may bacillus, typhoid, or cholera, taken add longer life. This paraffin be given a slight backward curl, by this instrument, not merely give dressing wears out quickly when by the application of heat while the outline of the creature, but much casting is done, but it can they are held evenly rolled in the show up the nuclei, the granules, be replaced easily by the method opposite direction: This is best and the different organs of the described. Half-fill a can with accomplished by rolling around a body. "We are advancing, so rapid-water, and place it in another wooden roller or a round bottle of y-in microscopical science, after smaller pan, filled with paraffin a slightly greater circumference being stuck for 80 years," said Mr. wax. Place on the gas stove, and than the over-all length of the Barnard, "that even this instrument | heat over · a slow fire until the prints. Several may be done at is likely to be out of date in a year water becomes hot enough to melt the same time, if placed with their or so. I believe that if we could the paraffin. Do not boil the backs to the tube and on the top utilise all the radiations, of light water, for if the wax becomes too of each other, and held tightly in Available on the ultra-violet region hot it will injure the line. When place by one or two strong elastic of the spectrum there is nothing the paraffin is in aliquid state, bands. A few seconds' exp sure alive so small but what a picture thread the end of the line through over a hot stove or any source of of It could be defined for the the eye of a dipsey sinker, and dry heat, avoiding all open flame, human brain, to appreciate." drop it into the inner pan. You will give the desired result.
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