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** THE BIGGEST CITY IN THE WORLD."

ONE OF THE BEER BARONS.

[BY THEVOX C. WIGNALL.]

CHICAGO (II.)

I caught my first glimpse of Chicago just as the inhabitants were sitting down to their break- Insta. And the first thing I saw was an enormous painted sign on the wall of a skyscraper. It read Throw away your Hummer and get

Furn

I hadn't a notion what it meant until I was informed that the slogan was the invention of Mr. William Hale Thompson, Chicago's mayor, best known as Big Bill

In effect it was an instruction to all and sundry to stop knocking" and begin "boosting"-to stop be Hitting Chicago and, instead, tu sell the world that the city in the greatest" ever known. There is nothing in Chicago that hetter typifies it. It is the home of

hnasters.

CHAPLIN AT WORK.

HOW "THE CIRCUS" IS

BEING MADE,

PAINTING SHIPS WITH LARD!

QUEER STORIES IN COURT.

[BY IRIA BARRY, The Film Critic). A Chinese was sternly rebuked by

of "The Daily Mail"]

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

Lights have been burning late these past weeks at the Chaplin studica. The comedian is in the best of working trim and only few more scenes remain to be taken to complete "The Cirens."

The Chaplin studios are unbike any others in Hollywood; quieter and as the incurrent much more radiant. There are fewer people there, and all of them the best of friends and most of them display (112 a, angular, versatility. “

Chaplin, works hardest of them all, for he is not only the director) of the flu, the author of the story, and the principal actor, but every detail of lighting, camera work; sets, costume, every lit of «aching, as well as the editing and titling of the film, he does himself.

The scire for the next bit, a gmcer's store, ja ready. Chaplin sinads behind the canieras, his eyes closed and bend down for a mo meat, sisuksiny

the action. "Ready, let's go," he says suddenly, I met all sorts of people during he is to make. But he is not satis- and rehearses the comic fall which

my" atny--business magnates, fed and trundles round the scene judges. mwyers, milliounires, boot-whistling, His staff make sugges- leggars, and gunmen. Without ex-Suddenly he sees how to do what tions. He tries something else. ception at told me that in ave he wants, the lights smap on, there years Chicago will be the biggest is immediate silente, and he does city on earth

men

Thare was practically no crine in Chicago during the time of the big fight between Tunney and Dempsey..

The gangsters packed way their revolvers and machine guns, and the stick-up took a holiday. It was even por sible at night to visit the suburb of Cicero (the district where the Fotorious Sear-Faced Al Capone a absolute ruler)" without fear of being knocked on the head or shot

in the back.

The reason was this. A truce had been declared. The Beer Barons anak gunmen and lesser toughs had been politely asked to call off their wars until Chicago dropped out of the newspapers of the world. They faithfully fulfilled the promises they made. It was) even joyously published in one of the newspapers the day after the contest that on the previous night there hadn'; been so much ze burglary.!

A Quaint Party,

¿

his bit.

In a couple of minutes the whole undt has transferred itself to ah other scene, "behind the scenes" the Boule travelling circus, and Chaplin is rehearsing his leading Indy, Myrna Kennedy, the old clown, the young clown, and the ring master. He takes each one in tura, nets for them exactly what he wants them to do, makes them repeat, it. corrects a movement, laxed when you begin to cry, slows down a gesture. "Not so re

Myrna," he says gently: not despair but nerves."

"

It seems a pity he cannot play all the parts himself. he does them so well, with such an understanding of human nature.

He uses no

Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday when in an- swering a charge of having in his Possession pork which was unfit for human consumption he explained that he intended to convert the fat into lard by mixing it with ox-fat.

You dare to use rotten, stink- ing fat to make lard for human con sumption? What else is lard for except for food?"! queried - his Worship. Defendant said it would be used in painting ships and bonts. and seeing that he was failing to impress the Magistrate, explain-

further that the fat would be used in the making of tallow,

On being told by a Suni* vry Inspector that another summons would be taken out against the defendant, his Worship remanded the man.

TON LIFTED BY A MEDIUM.

THUMB-MARK OF A MAN DEAD FOR 15 YEARS.

SEANCE STORIES.

Astonishing achievements of the famous spiritualist mediums revealed at the Sorbonne by Mr.

Stella C. and Margery," were. Harry Price, director of the Na tional Laboratory for Psychic Re search in England, and Mr. Malcolm Bird Research Officer of the American Society, during the second day's session of the Inter- national Congress for Psychic Re search.

"Thermal changes do take place within the vicinity of certain psychics," said Mr. Price, who gave the result of a dozen different séances with "Stella C." when the temperature around the medium the production of the phenomena. rose and fell many degrees during

In one instance our instruments recorded a rise of 7.8 degrees with a brilliant blue flash inside the medium's cage.

This medium is a trasformer of energy rather than an absorber. music by the way, while acting. She had generated sufficient energy offer studios” do, In his for levitation, and, it has been opinton music, while it makes e estimated that she could raise one feel emotional, does not make one ton to a height of ten feet for each ale to nemotionally.

minute of her trance.

J

with

Work has been going on since

"Spirit Control.". long before noon. It begins again) e

Mr. Bird's address was accom- soon after nine in the evening, after a short break for food. While panied by many extraordinary I was the guest one night of one

of séances. the lights "are being adjusted photographs of the Beer. Barons. I didn't Chaplin ges off to the projection Margery," the renowned Boston know t util it was too late for me to see the "takes

Teleplasm, which Mr. of the medium. me to leave the house to which morning's work, finds some of it Bird described as a cool, damp sub- bud been taken. Otherwise wild good, some not so satisfactory, and stance, white and frothy, was shown burses would not have got me discusses it in detail with his as issuing from the nose and ears of ther. I was driven to the house tant and his manager, Mr. the entranged woman." in an armoured saloon eat that was Reeves, the laconic Englishman "of Sixty-eight thumb-prints piloted by a man with a revolver who has been with him now since made in soft wax during forty it his side... There was also a Karno days. Then, to save time, senaces, sixty three were proved by machine-gun somewhere non the he begins to rehearse the most im police finger-print experts of Bos- bonnet.. Our speed during the portant scene of the day with the ton to be of the same thumb," said greater part of the 15-miles young leading man, whom he is Mr. Bird. journey averaged, nearly 60 mile imploring to do a service for the an hour. No notice was taken of Ettle heroine, and imploring in traffic Agual, which suggested to his own eloquene dumb-show. me that the powerful spot-light on the front of the car was a signal that was known to the police."

It was a quaict-party. It was held in the basement, and the re- freshntents included corned beef

Her hands were strapped out-: side apertures in the medium's cage during the entire proceedings.

Stinson, her brother, who has been "Her spirit control is, Wolter dead for fifteen yours. We were able to secure the razor with which, he shaved on the morning he was killed. His thumb-print made on was the same thumbprint as was made sixty-three times by the tele plasmic hand."

Both of them know exactly what it is he is trying to convey, both seek the best way in which it may b pantomimed. Now Chaplin is pleading with him, uttering the words in a toneless whisper, every sandwiches and a barrel of beer limb and every line of his shabby it with lather, and thus, preserved, made da the baron'a Chicago little back eloquent. But he is not brewery.

satisfied. Does it look true? he My main companion was an un-naks; he wonders if he is taking dersized youth who is admittedly it too fast, "exactly how he and the one of the city's chief beer-runners young man are to play in with and gunmen. He had a dialert of each other. They rehearse it seven his own which made it difficult for ar eight times; then Charlie goes me to understand all he said; but off by himself to work up his own I did comprehend him when he part more naturally. tald me stories of evenings when he had had to use his gun. I may never meet him again, but I ehall certainly remember him.

Deeply Religious,

Suddenly he begins guying hin-

edi, sings a few notes; makes an

absurd remark in his ordinary, not 谢 dumb-show-whisper, Voice.

That's it; let's go,' he cries.

It is 8.30 before Chaplin is satis.

HOSPITAL SCHEME FOR THE MIDDLE CLASSES.

A LONDON M.P. MAKES A NEW PROPOSAL..

The problem of medical attention

And that is also true, of the baron; fèd, then he wants to go to the for the middle-classes has been himself.. Never have I encounter- projection room puce more and see. raised by Dr. Graham Little, 30.P. ed a man more remarkable. He is some more rough “takes." There for London University. a non-smoker, a non-drinker, and are orders, in minute, detail, for Ho states that a member of thei apparently deeply religious; and next day's work. Walking, across staff of a great hospital divides his his great complaint was that he the lawn to his car, still in the day between two classes the rich familiar costume which so many and the poor. For tending the sick was not allowed to ply his "trada" peacefully and without hindrance initions know on the screen and noor he gets nothing. He gleans Two of his brothers were killed reia make-up, he tears off the Ettle from the rich the means which en- cently in gang battles, and he him black moustache on his upper lip,able him to devote himself to his self realises that his life is not bit by bit, and re-enters his every profession and as the same time

day personality.

to succour the poor without fee.

"Upon the middle class nearly the whole financial burden of our country," said Dr. Little, and it is, in my opinion, high time that some provision was made

worth a cent.

That, I think, is why I was Mr. Chaplin is going home, his prompted to decline his invitation picture le practically finished, all's to "fook-over" Chicago with him wall with the world. The studio

lies

I told him frankly that in addi- closes, the old dog who lives in tion to being busy I knew better the studiosa veteran now but ways of committing suicide. Next once a stag in A. Dog's Life" for their proper medical treat day, when I asked a politician why composes himself for sleep. there were so many shootings "in,

The Circus will be ready for

ment.?

A scheme which he considered

which may be put into operation in

the city, he replied simply: It the public' by the end of Noven-ikely to meet the situation and only the bootleggers and the gang ber at the latest.-Daily Mail. sters, who pull guns. We're en- couraging them to do so.

space.

"

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Friday, December 2nd. BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S.

Belf-Supporting Schome.

process of elimination they'll soon arrived in Chicago not only penni- Dr. Little

There should be a certain num- "At the moment I cannot say be exterminated. But don't you less but owing £200,000. On the take a ride in this place with any inst day I was with them they were ber of hods set apart in the hospi that it would include surgical fees. one you don't know. If you do offered £2,000,000 for four of the tale "for people between the meh I hope that it might be possible, you'll wake up dead in some open six enormous buildings they have and the poor classes," he said. but, of course, is the surgical built. One of these was erected in They will pay na inclusive fee of fees for an operation which are so I didn't

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"The arrangement would be run In three tention and their keep, and this tunities. Among the new friends I inade were two ex-cowboys named years Jackson and Stanr-who would, I think, include any medias part of the hospital scheme, and

still throw

ride cal examination which might be the idea is that those middle-class and ropes Jackson and Stamer. In 1924 they mustangs in their spare time-have necessary.

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(Continued on next Column.) There would be no profit."

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A county co-operative_hospital. scheme is in force, in Brighton, Middle-class people who belong to it subscrilie a guinea a your, which entitles them to treatment at all or any of the hospitals belonging to the scheme. London also have a medical bencht scheme for their members, a small subscription entitling them medical attention and treatment.

The Ladies' National. Clubs in.