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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1930.

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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an export but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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113

15

16

17

18

19

20

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29

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135

142 143 144

150

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47 38

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154

160

63 64

165

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169

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HORIZONTAL

67 68

HORIZONTAL (Cont.); VERTICAL (Cont.).

23-Bums levied, as

· 1-Having recollection (55-Ropast 10-Dandy

19-8uffix-Belonging to 58-Permits

14-Poem

16-Meadow

16-Tune

56-A number

59-Point of crancent

moon

61-Wing shaped

17-Portion of a theatre 63-Stinging planta

19-Fruitful

-The moon

22-Distributo

23-Continent

25-Examina 29-Be borne' along 31-Moments of life

33-Imitate 34-Giver 35-City thoroughfares

(abbr.)

36-Eagle

38-Ropa used to raiso

or lower a yard (Naut.)

40-To suit (Local

u, B.)

41-A Chinese fabric

42-Pronoun

4B-Watering place

45-Rodent

47-Pouch

4-Burn slightly

81-Label

66-Those who buy and

solt

169-Thrae (Italian)

70-Cereal plant 71-Remark (abbr) 72-Popular name for

Sault St. Marle 73-Sorrowful 74-inclined beforehand

VERTICAL

1-Tear 2-Uncle Tom'a friend 3-8mall falcons

4-A substantive

6-Mental Imagos

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B-Poverty stelakon

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10-Weakneze

11-Lubricant

12-Cholces

18-Court of a prison

63-Portion of a play 20-Tropical plant.

taxes

24-Rosted

|28-A salt of tannlo sold

27-Abova 28-Cleanse 30-Prominent criminal.

whose first name is John

32-Parception 34-8ight depressions +37-Knock

30-AMrmative

43-Hasten 44-Made Into law 47-Feminine prophet 48-Busy creature 50-FIll to repletion 52-A thoroughfare

(abbr.) 54-Dressed

50-Weapon 57-Nostriis 60-Spill 62-Device for giving ":

light 64-Time period 65-Female saint (abbr.) |60-Profix-three

67-Fish eggs 68-Tur?

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear, in tomorrow's issue along with a new cross-woord puzzle,)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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Sunrise And Sunset In Colony

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or May, (Standard; time of the 120th Meridian,” East Greenwich) are as following

TRAGEDY AVERTED.

Songsters Not to Leave Britain.

DISPUTE SETTLED.

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MUSIC DRAMA · FILMS

BESSIE LOVE.

Wedding of Screen Actress.

HER RISE TO FAME.

The Los Angeles Examiner of December 28 reported:

Juanita Horton-vivacious, quite blonde-and not so very big became a bride last night at a wedding that would lift a haughty queen's chin with pride.

It was in one of the city's most beautiful churches and as little Juanita Horton walked nervously down the seemingly endless aisle to hear the solemn words, she saw on each side of her just about everybody who amounts to any thing in the profession that has brought her fame.

For Juanita Horton Was поле other than Bessie Love-the pro- fessional name that David Wark Grimth, director, fagged onto her several years ago when he first gave, her a part.

TALKING PICTURE DEVELOPMENT.

PARIS AS EUROPEAN

CENTRE."

AMERICAN PLAN,

PASSION PLAY.

Ten Thousands at Oberammergau.

INTERNATIONAL INTEREST.

Munich, May 8.

Ten thousands from all parts of Paris, April 28.

the world with the Anglo-American A big development in the talk element well represented are ar ing picture industry is foreshadow-riving in Upper Bavaria to attend ed by Mr. Jesse L. Lasky, the head the world-famous

Oberammergau of the Paramount organisation. paasion plays which opened on Apparently, the idea is to make Thursday before a selected Al- Paris a European centre to pro-dience, Including the Papal duce talking pictures in six Nuncio, high, clergy, Federal and languages, and to give each coun- State Government representatives. try ita own material made by its Five thousand spectators pack- own artistes in tune with its naturaled the newly erected festival hall thought and life.

which, however, only accommo- dates the audience, while in ac- cordance to tradition the players are performing on an open air stage, where on Thursday even a steady downpour did not dampen their religious fervour.

The reason why Paris has been chosen for the scheme is because of its geographical situation. The Joinville-Paris studio has been equipped to turn out sixty complete productions a year. Mr. Lasky sces in Paris what he calls the

The passion plays are lasting for "symbol of internationalism," ¡ five months with two performances since it possesses the necessary per week, and have been staged equipment and artistic and techni- every decade since medieval, timen cal ability.

and since the beginning of this century attracting huge interna- tional crowds who quarter within the radius of hundred miles from Oberammergau.

This year many arrive by car over specially con structed highways.—T.0.A.

Bessie Love became the bride of William Ballinger Hawks, young Pasadena business man, at St. James' Episcopal Church, 3903

The search for French "stars" Wilshire boulevard.

has not been in vain. It is an- They had met two years ago.nounced that contracts have been The two brothers of William signed with quite a number of Hawks, Kenneth and Howard, were them. hosts at reception. Bensle Love

The American film has already was there as a guest. So was Wil- a very large horizon.

It is now Ham, who had just returned home going to make a world appeal by on a brief vacation shortly before incorporating Europe. The pros- his graduation. Yesterday, they pect held out is that pictures pro- were married."

duced under American auspices

For two hours before the cere- mony, which had been scheduled for 8.30 p.m., Wilshire boulevard was a bedlam of congested traffic. Hundreds of persons crowded about the church doora and over flowed into the busy boulevard,

For an hour before the wedding a steady stream of limousines crawled up and discharged notable occupants.

Bessie Love wore B wedding gown of ivory satin, draped closely and lavishly trimmed in duchess lace with a bridal veil of four or five tiers of applique lace.

Father and Mother,

will be given an "International mind." The inevitable question is asked whather, this means that purely European picture-producing firms are to face increased American competition,

ETHICS FOR FILMS.

Brutality

With Good Taste."

Mr. Will M. Hays, the "Dictator

"CAPTAIN OF GUARD":

New Film of French

Revolution.

exerts an Invincible fascination The capture of the Bastille over American film producers. This episode in the French Revolu. tion is depicted once more in "Captain of the Guard," presented at the Capitol on April 29,

Staged on the grand scale, It must be confessed that the savage exultation of the mob of torch. bearing revolutionaries sweeping towards their objective to the thrilling strains of "La Marsell-

of the Film Industry," has prepar-laise" inspires a certain measure

ed for the approval of the Asso- of awe. This, however, does not She carried an old-fashioned ciation of Motion Picture Produc-allay the feeling of irritation pro. bridal bouquet-lilles of the valleyers, a "Code of Ethica" for talk- and orange blossoms with a long ing pictures. trailing fall of the same flowers. With her were her mother. and father, Mr. and Mrs. John Cross Horton, Her matron of honour was Blanche Sweet, in a gown of rose taffeta and holding a bouquet of yellow. roses.

voked by this travesty of history, Nor does a preliminary sub-title, The code, which is intended to

which declares that the object of forestall agitation in Congress for the screen playwright is to enter. the establishment of a Federaltain and not to educate, justify the censorship of the screen, pledges producers in representing Louis all the members of the organina XVI. as a flippant imbecile, and tion to refrain from producing Marie Antoinette as a heartless pictures which ridicule the law or wretch. It is not surprising to tend to lower the moral standards learn that "Captain of the Guard"

is not to be shown in France.

John Boles, who Impersonates an imposing Rouget de Lisle, is figure, and sings with fine effect. Laura La Plante, na Marie, the Maid of the Inn, is not so effective. as usual. As a mere spectacle

Her bridesmaids were: Bebe Daniels, Carmel Myers, Edith and ❘ of life. Irene Mayer, Mary Astor, Norma and Athole Shearer. Each wore a

flowing gown of golden yellow taffeta and a maline hat to match, and each carried bouquets of pink

roses,

And, of course, the closest friends of the bridegroom ware there his brothers, Howard' and Kenneth, Irving Thalberg, William Davey, Fred Stradling and Robert Shaudeman, 65 attendants and ushers.

Reception Held.

Next came the ceremony, con- ducted by the Rev. Ray O. Miller. Following, a reception was held at the Ambassador Hotel.

Many of those who hovered around the church doors, unable to gain entrance, had been brought there by memories of this little actress who not so long ago was chosen from "the mob" to play a small part in "Intolerance" when she was only 15 years old-who rose to the zenith of stardom in a few short years who then more or leas passed back into obscurity on the screen-but who now, eastern critics are proclaiming, has staged one of the most phenomenal "come- backs" of the screen.

To-day, Besafe Love and her hus- band are "somewhere in America” ́on a honeymoon.

when I produced the certificate of an eminent specialist stating that

It specifically outlaws the pre- santation of crimes in such a way

as to excite sympathy for the criminal or to inspire the desire for imitation, and creates, among others, the following rules:—

The sanctity of the Institution of marriage and of the home"Captain of the Guard" can, how- shall be upheld.

Adultery, sometimes necessary for plot materials, shall not be justified or treated attractively.

Scenes of passion shall not be treated in a manner calculated to stimulate the lower or baser elements.

Obscenity in word, gesture, re- ference, song, or by suggestion is forbidden.

...

Complete nudity must never be permitted.

No film may throw ridicule on any religious faith,

- Ministers of religion shall not be used as comic characters or villains.

The code demands that the fol- lowing subjects shall be treated |||with "good taste":"

Actual hangings or electrocu tions; third degree methods; brutality and possible gruesome- nees; the branding of people or animals; and a woman selling her virtue.

VALENTINO'S ESTATE

Bills Totalling £110,000 Presented..

Mr. S. George Ullman, executor of the $160,000: estate of Rudolph Valentino, the famous screen lover, has presented to the Superior Court for approval a statement of accounts, In which bills totalling about $110,000, are sat down, a Miss Maria Strada Guilelm, the * These include £4,300 advanced to

I was not in a condition to work. - “Don't Mean Maybe" //

"The rumours would never have circulated but for the fact that this incident coincided with a dis. Differences between Layton and puts we had over the inadequate Johnstone, the coloured American manner in which we were billed. variety artistes, and a powerful Johnstone described the reports group of theatre owners" have now that they are returning to the been amicably settled, and a threat United States in a mixture of per that the entertainers might have feet almost academic-British their permit to work in Britain and American slang, reacfaded no longer exists.

It is preposterous to suggest such a thing" he said, "I have Mr. Valentino's attorney hea never heard of any rumour so far been paid £3,000, and 2360 has from the truth...... Bunce, Sir, I'll bean disbursed as "tips to the police" for their servicos: af the actor's funeral

The trouble, which arose out of a dispute over the carrying out of A contract, led to reports that the two entertainers were about to re-say it is bunco, and I'm not mean- turn to the United States.

Action Withdrawn, in

Ing, maybe"

certain powerful group of theatre THEATRE IN TURKEY.

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