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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
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HORIZONTA
1-Escape
5-Nest of an eagle
9-Outer mantle of a
Roman citizen
11-Soll
12-Egyptian sun-god 14-A French meat dish 16-Collage degree
(abbr)
17-Canton of
Switzerland
19-Pertone who foretell
events
20-Note of a deva
21-Vicea
21-Rodent
24-Revalve
26-Censurs
27-Hollow horned
ruminant 23-Grade 29-Serpent (pl.) 30-Chuote
81-Ostentatioun $2-Complated
34-Obese
$5-Abound
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THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (Cont.) 37-Exist
15-B#11 16-To dash off
36-Feminine nanis
40-God (Latin)
41-Right (abbr) 42-An order of optic
mammals
44-Perform
45~Peel
unexpectedly 18-Encroach 20-Salled along the
shora
22-Look Intently 24-To heat excessively 46-To utter a sharp cry 26-Goddess of malicious
48-Bird of prey 49-Arsist
VERTICAL
1-The god of anat
wind (Gr. Myth)
2-In
3-Speck 4-The mantle of
Minerva B-Troubles
6-Before 7-Musical nats
8-Antiseptic solution
10-Depriva
11-A market 113-Molody
mischief (Gr. Myth.) 27-Portuguese colony
W. coast of India 29-The selonce that
treats of plants 30-Bogment
31-Empty
32-Plant
33-A river in N. France 34-Food
30-American form of
the alk
38-Ancestor
39-Hastens
42-8alt (Latin)
43-Beverage 40-Portugs: (abbr) 147-Porto Alao (abbr.)
BUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. There will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both,
(The solution of the above crois-word puzzle will appear in Co-munrow & ipsue along with a new crossword puzzle.
UNIQUE CUSTOM
Bringing in the "Boar's
Head"
The Boar's Head, as I understand;
Is the bravest dish in all the
land."
So sang the Master Tanor at the Boar's Head Feast of the Court of the, Worshipful Company of Cutlers at their hall, when the boar's bead was brought in. with all the traditional. picturesqueness. ·
After the roast phassant course, the
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singing of the choir in an ante-room choir taking up the refrain.. announced the entry of the procession. Past Master Bir Cato Worsfold said
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First came the beadle, carrying his that the ceremony was 'over silver-headed staff. Following him years old, and had its origin in the came a small choirboy carrying the sacrifice of the boar's head by the
THE
CHINA MAIL.
MUSIC DRAMA FILMS
COLOUR WORK ON THE CINEMA
United States to become professor of chemistry at the Boston institu- tion and began experimenting with colours and photography. Но дено taught at Queen's University, U.S. TECHNICAL FIRM TO OPEN Kingston, Ontario, and directed for
IN BRITAIN
a number of years the chemical and metallurgical research work for the Dominions of Canada.
SPECIAL CAMERAS
The possibility of the Techni- colour motion picture corporation building a £100,000 plant in Lon- don or Berlin was disclosed by Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus in an interview recently.
Dr. Kalmus, president and gen- eral manager of the company which bas laboratories in Hollywood, New York and Boaten, said that the chaire of position would probably he London, near tho Elatreo district, British and German managers of studios Desire 1 Techni-colour plant, Dr. Kalmus anys, and the only difficulty in the way at present is the doubt that enough film footage can be furnished by European motion picture lots.
At the present time Dr. Kalmus is making a survey of the London atudios. He has just completed a similar study of conditions in Berlin.
Technicolour is the system used by most American companies. The process is an outgrowth of work carried on by the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology at Boston. The Beginning 12 Years Ago Twolve years ago the real start was made and since that time the art has advanced until all the lend- ing Hollywood and New York Istudios are using it. Seventy feature pictures for release this year will be done fully in Techni- colour.
The process altors little on the set except arrangement of the colour background, selection of
Outlay Already Incurred Dr. Kalmus says about the procedure employed by his firm,
CINEMA STARS DANCE
[By Dorothy Herzog]
A big night at the New Embassy Club the other evening. Jack Warner dancing with his outfit's new Budapest import, Lotti Loder, And she gay in light blue evening dress with headgear a-matching. She's
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Mrs. leabet Craven Tollegen, third wife of Lou Tellegen, erstwhile Adonis of the stage and screen, was granted a divorce from him and the Custody of their five-your-old son, Rax, whom sho is holding in the picture.
"It creates no new expense as to coming along rapidly with her equipment on the part of a studio,
Our profit is in making the Binni | English.
Knows how to say O.K.
film negatives for general release. Mervyn Leroy dancing with his Talking pictures do not increase Misans Edna Merryn denied being dimculties in our work.
"We are an independent company. annoyed. "Directorial he put Over $5,000,000 has been spent in It. Then there was Laura perfecting the process and another La Plante terpsichoring with $2,000,000 will be spent duringį Jack Muhall and neither mind- this year. Soon we hope to use a three colour process Instead of a two colour treatment.
"As time goes on our work will improve, as will the motion picture industry as a whole. In nature, or educational pictures we can present life as it exists.
"Already we have colours filmed to perfection in their natural state. In time, costumes and background will be selected in colour pictures which will prove pleasing and
Carmella Ponselle of the Metropoli-artistic, as they now are striking.
tan Opera Company has announced her engagement to Joseph J. Lyons, who is well known in New York realty and politicat circles.
costumes and lighting effects. To meet these changed conditions Technicolour furnishes artists and costume directors to handle specific details. Mrs. Kalmus, an accom- plished young artist and costume designer, is in charge of this work. Special cameras arc used in colour work. These machines are ronted to the studio. When scenes are shot the negative is taken to the laboratory and early prints sent back the following day of the picture in the making.
When B film is finally shot, the scenes are placed together into one continuous film. The colour, like the sound recording treatment, is on the strip of film negative itself.
The cost of producing Techni- colour pictures is not a great deal
"Most of the leading films now being made are using colour."
"On with the Show," was the first full length film done in colour," Song of the West," "Whoopee." "Vagabond
Lover," Show of Shows," and "Paramount оп Parade," are but a few of the leading productions being filmed in colour.
"AMERICA'S SWEETHEART"
Discovered. A dark and indigo slice of B. P. Schulberg's past. Ben is the high mogul of Famous to-day. Day before yesterday he was publicity man for the same company. In the days of Mary Pickford, Sarah Bernhardt and others and here's the dark and indigo part-tis he who coined the slogan that adhesives to Misa Pick- ford to this day: "America's Sweetheart."
Clara Bow, fiery redhead of the motion pic turis and flancio of Harry Richman, night club favourite asunied the yoke of connubial bliss in New York on New Year's Day.
Gilver 'salt-dish; two trumpeters in Vikings to the Scandinavian god higher than the common black and scarlet Jackets; two chefs with the Now it was offered to the most hon whites, according to Dr. Kalmus. boar's head, borne aloft on a huge dish; cured guest at a fast-hence the So many films are now using the an official carrying upright a long Cutlers' Company's use of the cert- kalfe and fork, each 3ft. long; and the "mony as an honour to the Lord Process that the cost is becoming choir and vicar of Christ Church, Mayor.
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Nekgate Street (the Rev. T. Hine The Lord Mayor, responding to the Dr. Kalmas graduated: from. Hayork, Chaplain to the Company) civic toast, proposed by the Master, Massachusetts Tech and then The Master Tenor meanwhile, sanganid that the delightful ceremony was studied at the University of Berlin The Carod of the Boar's Hand, the unique in the City,
and Zurich He returned to the
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packed dance floor, Louise Fazenda declared she had never touched so many backs without an introduction...Amongst
Basil Rathbun, Virginia Valli and others noticed were, Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Farrell, Catherine Dale Owen and Prince Yucca Troubetsky. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gilbert, Evelyn and Mrs. B. P. Schulberg, Mr. and Brent and Harry D. Edwards, Mr.
Mra. Darryl Zanuk, the Jack Warners,
Goulding, Eddie Lowe. Paul White- Hedda Hopper, Eddle
man and his band arrived at mid- night and played in their own inimical style.
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