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FOOD FADS."
Of all of the people of the world,
WEDNESDAY,
NEW FILM STAR AT 60 YEARS.
·ARTISTIC TRIUMPH OF OLD WOMAN.
AT HOLLYWOOD.
New York, rob, 28-4 white
Americans are apparently more ad-haired" "baby star," somehow over-" dicted to, and the readiest victims looked by the Wampas aggroga- of food Inds of one type of another. tion of Hollywood, has come to The explanation lica, no doubt, Manhattan to gaze with almost advertising unbelloving eyes at the miracle of in high-pressure methods and eat more", cam- her own artistic triumph. paigns planned primarily for the Bra, Margaret Mann is a 60- promotion of single items of diet, year-old Cinderella brought from when diet sliould actually ba obscure poverty to fame by a widely assorted and well balanced, single motion picture. She played the part of Grandma Bernie in The most. vicious of all of the Four Sons" and almply walked food fads, strangely enough, is the avay with the picture. starvation fad. Undoubtedly most Americans overeat. The obvious corrective is to ext just enough in a public pageant In San Diego, food to satisfy the body's needs.
Investigators have retimated that man at hard muscular work requires 4150 calories: a moder ate worker, 3400; a desk worker, 2700; the person of leisure, 2450 calories per day. A child under one year requires about 45" calo- ties par pound of body weight, or about 900 calories per day.
The number is reduced from the age of six to 13 years to about 35 Calories per pound, or 2700 per day. From 18 to 25 years, it is still further reduced to about 25 calories per pound, or 3800 per dny.
At 30 years one may have 2750 calories per day if he weighs about 152 pounds; at 40 years, 2500 for a weight of 154 pounds; at 60 years, 2300 calories for a. weight of 160 pounds; at 70 years, 2000 calories for 134 pounds, and at
Years ago, by chance, she play. the role of Martha Washington
Calif: Well-meaning friends who knew little of the problems of the alms urged hor, to go into the movies. So she went to Holly- wood and found that her only chance was an occasional hit In a mob scene.
A Chance of Last.
For nearly ten years she haunt ed the offices of casting directors. The turning point in her fortunes was when "Mother Machree" was of 50 old filmed. She was one women picked from the crowd.
When John Ford, Fox director, was looking for a "mother typa" for "Four Sona," he remembered Mra, Mann and
gave her tho chance. There wasn't much to the story. It was about a Ger- man woman with four boys, three- of whom fought with the Ger mans; the other, who had migrat
80 years, 1760 calories for a waighted to America, battled with the of 139 pounds.
These figures indicate the im-. portance of calories to sustain body loss during the time of great- est energy, the gradual reduc- ton of fool intake with increasing age, and the importance, of the re- ducing of weight after 40 years of age in relation to longevity. Of this. more will be said Inter.
Yanks.
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Simple Portrayal.
The three on the German side
were killed; the American son was spared. He sent for her and she went, finally passing the immigra tion authorities after learning her settled down, ABC's. They happy.
Nevertheless, 'nt every age the
It was a simple and poignant human being requires a certain portrait of a mother that Mrs. amount of food to sustain his Mann brought to the screen. No. physical mechanism. An occa- tears, no maudlin "mammy" stuff. sional starvation period may be As pictures go, it probably won't worth while in relation to disease, be the most talked-of film of the but long continued fasts ΟΙ stravation as a routine is merely an
But her belated triumph 18
fad and should be severely dis-nothing short of a miracle to Mr. countenanced.
Mamm. To-day she occupies a sitó in one of New York's finest apart- ment. hotels and rubs her bright, TRAIN WRECKED AT eyes as clippings from the papers tell her she is a "great And" and a "splendid artist."
50 M.P.H.
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ONE HURT.
A remarkable feature of the de- rallment of & L. M. 8. passenger train, near Chatburn Station, was the fact that, although it was travelling at between 40 and 50 miles an hour, and one coach was overturned and another crashed lato buffers at the end of the station aiding, none of the 60 passengers on board was killed or Injured.
Now In Demand.
There will be other plotures in which she will star. Other pro- ducers will offer her contracts. Critics may call her "the greatest mother of the screen."
But no other triumph. can offer Margaret Mann the thrill that came from this first venture. Among those who offered their congratulations on her work was world- Mme. Schumann-Heink, famous diva now retired from the concert stage. The singer's own, experiences wore strangely like Doctors from Clitheroe, Chat- these of the mother in the story burn, and other places, and police for she, too, had cons on both with ambulances,, were quickly sides in the late war.
on the scene, and, in the words of
one of the medical men, were
Amazed to find that not a single SPANISH PETROLEUM.
passenger or any of the company'a
servants on the train had been Ellled or hurt."
Many persons recolved shock, and two others were medically trented.
GOVERNMENTS AWARD TO STANDARD OIL.
Madrid, Mar. 27, The train was running from
The Cabinet has adopted the re- Hellifield to Manchester, and the port of the commission charged whole of it, consisting of engine with valuing the petroleum re- and five coaches, was derailed.
Travellers' Experiences,
fineries belonging to the Standard Oll taken over by the Government monopoly, which the valuers as- The first conch broke clean away seas at twenty million pesetas. from its couplings. It was only
The Standard Oil request for prevented from topping over an embankment by coming into coll-compensation for ending their sion with a buffer on a goods line trade has been rejected-Reuter.
outside the station.. "The second
broke away from ita under.
carriage, and turned completely
over on its side.
Gas containers were smashed,
CHICAGO AMENITIES.
and one burst into flames, but | BOMBS EXPLODE IN HOMES luckily some distance from the
train.
Some of the passengers experi- enced great difficulty in extricat
OF OFFICIALS.
Chicago, Mar, 27.
ing themselves from the wreckage, Two bombs exploded to-night in Only one woman fainted. A man the homes of two politicians, of about 60 was seen to clamber Senator Doneen and Judge Swan with his dog through a window. son. The houses were badly
Mr. E. F. Jackson, who was in damaged,
the first coach; stated in an inter- There have been four previous view: "We felt a sudden swaying, bombings of houses of officials, and in a few seconds came to a but these were the first attacks on quick stop. We were thrown on persons openly opposing Mayor to cach other's kneca The Thompson. Router's American' amazing thing is that nobody was Service. Killed."
"I was flung from one side of
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“SALE OF EARLDOMS" It was hitting below the bolt, and Sir William said that the ernment had been the tar wae not true. the compartment to the other in a the brakes that a more serious.
The Earldóma, since the war had a good deal of cri atartling fashion," said another accident was averted. It WAS HOME SECRETARY'S REPLY been those of Lords" Oxford, Bit might give a quiet passenger, "I seemed to realise one of the most miraculousy: es-
TO MR MACDONALD, kenhead,
and Conservative I was doomed and I closed, my capes I have over known."blond Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the lead, Realty, Jolicoe in the House, and to eyes to await the crash,"
"Both the driver and the fire blocked. A breakdown gang from Home Secretary, speaking at Leeds! There, hed beon, no Earldom servative now lapen man stuck manfully to their Darwen was quickly on the scene, said that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's since, and though, there had been ask them not to urge poate," stated a railway official at A considerable length of the statement that the Tories could three peerages in the last List of with one breath
With the nex Chatburn Station, and It was metals was bent and twisted, and always get funds by the sale of Honours, not one penny had been penditure in owing to their presence of mindaleepers were reduced to match Darldoms was unworthy of him.Ipaid in respect of them in shutting off steam and applying wood,
The whole main line was
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