HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FEBRUARY 23rd, 1929.
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SUPERSTITION IN PENNSYLVANIA.
SIDELIGHTS ON INTERESTING MURDER CASE.
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THEATRES CLOSE AND ACTORS JOBLESS.
Meanwhile the new talking pictures pack in the crowds and the movies do very well,' thank
you.
What's wrong? What is it all
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[By Gilbert Swan].' New York, Jan. 10.-Over-labout? shadowing every event on Brond- If you listen at the keyholes of way's gaudy trall, the menacing the producers you will hear much cloud of theatrical famine hangs chatter about the unions particu- uncertainly presaging either the larly the unions of slage hands. worst storm in modern stage Gilbert Miller, one Broadway history or a bright dawn, which figure, who tore up tent and went will bring miany important to London to produce, skricked his changes to the 'amusement busi-protest against the mechaniçal costs faced. Experiment, one
The condition of the theatre, is hears, is out of the question. The nothing short of critien!,'
unions demand far more than is Something like two-third of reasonable, one hears, and insists a ridiculous number of the Actors Equity membership is upon
helpers for ordinary work. Sam jobless. Variety, the theatrical
weekly places the army of un-Harris, for instance, wanted to rehearse a moving back drop for. "Congal," and was told that a crew 'of 12 would have to be hired. Hundreds of tales could be related of the woes of the managers where stage crews are concerned. The stage, of coútsel Jeannot compete with the movies, [since it can show at bat one theatre at a time, whereas a single [film, whatever its fabulous cost, can be slowing at thousands of theatres and putting on an end- less number of performances.
William A. Brady.
To the Rescue.
Too Many Theatres. There are other things, how- fever, to be considered, as I see it.
FIRST Broadway has far too many theatres. For five or six years, also, there have been too many actors. Thien too, only a few theatres are in the hands of the producers уда managers, Most of them are real estate ven- tures, like hostels or office build-
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It was during his regime as Chief Manager, from 1876 to 1902, that the foundations of the Bank's prosperlly were laid.
order to
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formers, have boosted salaries of a few actors to the skies and madej competition impossible. The "oldi timera" will tell you that some of these have all but "put the racket! on the fritz."
Here are the principals in the voodoo murder case, al York, Pa., and some of the pow wow symbols used in weaving spells, John Curray left, and Wilbert Hess, upper right, were the alleged accomplices of John Blymer, centre, Pepnsivania “hex doctor.” The cir- "cular, diagram is one set forth in the "Black-Art Book" and contains Latin, Greek and Hebrew incantations, The "Omnipotent" star, with German and Hebrew words, it is des
ings. The producers have been So bad, in fact, or just so-so, that clared, will arcomplish almost anything when traced in holy water. Lower right are mystic
pretty much at their mercy. the old theatregoer has learned aniulets, for left and right hands, which help the wearer to put more vigour into his players.
{Furthermore, to keep the theatreg | to wait a while and sec what employed at 15,000, Some 35 led, shows often have been would happen.. Because of the [By Gene Cohn).
penturies have to be cut away and↑ Told! Fearsome Tales,
shows gave up the ghost imme-turned out without much fore- various conditions, a new York, Pennsylvania, Jan. 10.the old Germani legends of Lads and lusses were reared in diately after the New Year köli-|thought,
of unknown producers has showed The "old wives' tales" are cal-Thor and Woden recalled. Next the whistling of eerie winds in day trade. Less than a third of brating a triumphant 200th -31 is necessary to invoke the the rafters..... winds that cause Broadway's theatres are necupied pretty much at the mercy of the has provided backers and, with- SECOND-The public has been up. Easy money in Wall Street niversary in this thriving, modern cabbalistic teachings of the 18th old grandmothers to take children and many of these belt produc-theatre scalper. Producers have out experience in play selection eity where the defiant spirit of century, wherein figured strange upon their knees and 'spin fear-tions which waver precariously on earelessly let their tickets drift or production, n Tom Paine once rocked conven-mystical signs and amulets and some tales. And when a lad or a their toes.
score of dramas where they might, to be sure of have tional minds.
incantations. These were blend- Jass fell ill, there would be buch
come and gone-most of As symbols of this survival offed in a medieval mixture of primi-tabbling of primitive lore., Keys,
disposal. Plays that are looked them seeming to be fantastic upon us potential success are travesties transplanted folk-lure and errictive Christianity,
were still suspended to backs for
on play-writing and! As this is written, a committee "bought up" by the agencies performing. whisperings are two strapping]
nose bleed; a string taken from ans rushed into nation to do weeks in advance. The average farmer boys: John Curray, who The black arts were anticipat-dead man's finger was an infallible something about it. It is headed ticket buyer gets but a smile at
Many of these newcomers, in get well-known per- and Wilburt Hess, 18, whose losing modern inventive magie and charm for growths. There were, by that atage-broke old prosincer, the average box office and has to muscular arms and hand have the alchemists were anticipatingas of yore, folk who could "east William A. Brady, who avers that pay twice the valio of a ticket if
mulers chemistry as they brewed spells for reasons best known to some, intelligent and courerted he goes to a scalper. grown hard guiding And as an
intermediary betwestheir potions to find the philoso-themselves. And witch doctors
Before this double burden was these lads of a modern age and a pher's stone" that would trans-pppared to uncast farm. In the primitive medievalism is one John mute base metals to gold and back country, there was no thar-man's development has already placed upon the theatregoer, the a panacea for all ills, atanism. Many worked without reached a term, and that further price was beyond the reach of the Blymer, who mastered the "black greate
progress will only be along the middle-class than. Its cost, at Paracelsus WIS swashbuckling fee arts" at the knee of an ancient)
lines of his higher nature—that is, [lowest, might have been $4.40 or crone in what one day may begone down from his Alpine hills to form
But in York and the centres. of his moral and spiritual per-$5.50. By the time the purchase
Expects. Improvement. ja human hyphen between the past the "pow-wow" ar
""hex" doctors|sonality. known as "Voodoo Valley."
has been made, the cost is from
Add to this the novelty of the hong up signs. There are many
talkies; the fabulous salaries In tifla so-called jazz age," one and the present.
"In this regard it doth not yet $8 upward per seat. Medicine was in its synddling to be seen in the streets of this.
offered well-known Broadway might expect two farmer lads fol
So They Go to Movies, be hitching radio nerlads to the clothes. And when ills came upon busy town-with Sam Schick, appear what we shall be'; and here
Agures for appearing in "talkers” And so the theatre has lost the barn by way of allaying the the house, the old women went to Mme, Shease and Prof. Lenhart as the hypothesis of a life eternal,
and a general timidity horn of inmortal and invisible seems to "average" man's business. He has Jonesomeness that creeps lato a their ancient pharmacopea and the outstanding practitioners.
meet the need better than any grown
MANY failures and you have robwebs and east-off Meanwhile the work of a cer- other and to provide scope for Particularly for a show that may at present.
tired of being held up. some idea of the Broadway chaos farscattered farm bell. Instead, crushed of which we find them giving ear shake skins and all the rest. tain, John Hohman appeared in that process of spiritual evolution have little or no worth. After all, to mai mintierings handed down Eventually these remedies were many a farm house, it was titled,which, while it may be begun here the theatre cannot be entirely from one generation to another be allied with cabbalistic signs and The Long Lost Friend," and was and now, seems to require some supported by the cut-of-town trade whispering old women, and tak- incantations and became not only a compendium of magic,
larger scale of being for its com-which, drifting in for a few days, ing their way by the dark of the gremedies for physical ills but
pletion. 'moon to lay low a witch.
does not question the expense. !"witches.” If enttle fell ill · or Because the practices were link-
"It is not only the case that Tens of thousands who once at This, witch, or spell-caster, was chickens died, or any of the hard-pil with religion and the cross ap man has forever, as the pot tended the theatre stay home at go to the movies-- presumed to live in the body or ships of the farm came upon one peared as a symbol of baske faith, says, but that he needs forever, the radio or
the problem has not been easy to one Nelson Rehmeyer, a prosper-then a "spell" had been east.
God hath set eternity in our even when the movies are duller ous, mystical farmer. And so, at, All of this lore was transplanted deal with legislatively. Nor has hearts, and only in eternity can we than the shows. the alleged suggestion of Blymer, part, and parrel by the Germans education crept in to help much. Peach the full development of our THIRD-The run of plays this they killed him to obtain a logk who came in revolutionary days] Folk who'eduld not recognize the higher selves,"
season has been particularly bad. of hair that "must be buried eight and took up their residences in nume of Tom Paine are familiar feet below the ground" before the southern Pennsylvania. So down with the history of Jolm Hohman' carac could be lifted from the the ages it has been handed, from and can recite passages from the less form.
generation generation. Thejapochryphal "Seventh Book of But how can such practices sur-venerable grandmas would whis-Moses."
Was "Bewitched." .
weapons against "lemons" and
Dificult to Combat,
vive, after 200 years of progress?jper the old wives' tales to children Here, then, enters the final an-
After all, this region is an historic upon their knees.
[swer to the question-the situa- seat of revolt staged against old In three thriving counties thejtion has been condoned, and com- lands and old wrongs. Here Lafa-tales have survived and bound the promise has been allowed. In the vette came to battle an anti-rountryaidė in ancient fetters. country phurches. the ministers Washington conspirary and the York, Lancaster and Berks, coun-have not frowned on what they Articles of Federation were sign-ities are the centres of the "black saw, and a general silence has ed. Here lived Tom Paine, famedjarts" survival,
fallen over the scene. York has political and philosophical author Metropolitan little cities have nut wished to appear “benighted”. The question appears to have been built in these counties, but jand things have been allowed to several answers, The beginnings the back country is farm country drift plong until tragedy came to lie deeprooted in time. Seven and often lonely country,
lopen its eyes.
WOMEN AS AVIATORS. Jerenture
GREATER INTEHEST
ADVOCATED.
which ean be seen |throbbing across the sky for hours on and at a steady hundred miles jor mare for every sixty minutes
of Invigorating enjoyment. There
EVOLUTION OF THE MIND.
is no and thrill which can com- Principal Selble, of Mansfield are with the almost effortless, College, delivered the Drew Lee yet at the same time "living" for ture recently, and in the course of ward surging of an aeroplane his address sald:--
Lady Heath, writing in the Empire Review, asserts that women should take a greater Interest In billowing clouds. ·
aviation. She says:-
as it speeds on amongst the
"We must remember that
REMAINS OF OLD MACAO. CROSS THAT INSPIRED A HYMN.
of
Meanwhile, thousands of actors of walk the streets and theatres grow darker.
Out of this situation are likely to come lower priced ticketą; n new aliftude on scalpers; better and more amusing plays; new arrangements between producers,
sudden ict-up in theatre expaa- stage, hands and selors and a
sion.
Or maybe I'm too optimistic,
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Freedom is the keynote of flying machinery as we know it to-day The Sao Paulo Cathedral, at the facade as it stands to-day, To those to whom this exhilarat- freedom from all restaint, and evidences at every point the mind Macao, is dedicated to Mary. The story of the cross surmount-
or minds which He behind it; and having over the ing form of travel has a more than from all the dust, smell, (91)-
front door the Ing the facade is as follows. It is temporary attraction (and by the fusion, delaying, and misadventure when Kipling tells us, for example, inscription Mater Dei, (Mother said that Sir John Bowring, number of women who enjoy the which constitate road travel prae- of the modern engine that it is of God). Japanese refugees, con- British Minister to Peking at the
The Supreme example of law, order,
time, and later Governor experience of fast motoring these tieally anywhere to-day.
Hongkong, when relations were daye, I imagine that the somewhat higher sunlight air is always pure, beauty and restraint, obedience, verts of St. Francis Xavier, who kindred thrills of speed and with an inspiring freshness in it discipline, what is he saying fut escaped from Japan during the broken off with Chinn during the mechanical impulso have as great which is felt nowhere on the that it is a supreme example of Anti-Christian persecution, when first opium war removed to Macao Japan tried to exterminate Chris and that it was the sight of this a fascination for them as for their earth's surface. To fly is to live, the action of mind?
"If men-folk) the new career of nad to live is to want to do some
the ruined SUPPORT “WHITE HORSE” DURING RACE WEEK. then, man is organic to tianity, but it in 1802. These cross surmounting air pilot offers a great scope for good in the world. Here, then, Is the universe and if, as is obvious refugees found safety in Macao. facade that inspired him to write
You'll have no regreta A Kront their activities, Personal strength;
opportunity for usly the case, he too has been the It was built to the order of the his famous hymn "In. the Cross of and physical force are required Women; and the more of us who subject of a long and Intricate Jesuit fathers and the facade has Christ I glory."
avail ourselves of it the greater developmental process, it is only some of the earliest symbols of About twenty years ago a move- even less in flying than in motor the benefit that will accrue, to reasonable to assume that this that order. Adjoining it was also ment was started to raise sub-
In fact, it needs quite a delicate her colonies scattered, as
Great Britain, her dominions, and process does not stop with his an extensive Seminary and Mon- seriptions to rebuild the Church, they body. Indeed 80 far 18' his astry of that order. It was des- but, sufficient funds not being touch on the "Joy-slick" to controlare, throughout the length and physical organtem is concerned, troyed by typhoon and fire early raised, the proposition fell
there is reason
to suppose that in the 19th, Century, leaving only, through..
ing,
the movements of the great bird-breadth of the world.
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