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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JULY 13th, 1929.

GIVING CRIPPLED CHILDREN A CHANCE. SPECIAL SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS AND TEACHERS.

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"SALLY."

MARILYN MILLER TO VE STARRED.

Joe E. Brown, one of Bronilway's most popular comedians, has been signed by First National-Vitn plinne pictures to play the featured comedy role in "Bally," which will star Marilyn Miller,

Brown is the first of the sup porting east to be signed, and the 6fth Broadway celebrity to join the First National-Vitaphone or- ganization. The others are Miss Miller, Irene Bordoni, Eddie Buz-! zelland - Jack Buchanan.

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Beginning his career 13 trouper 1 ឯ burlesque, Brown graduated into vaudeville and leaped thence into musical comedy, Studio ofllelals are confident that [his signing will add grently to the

Pntertainment value of "Sally,"

While preliminary work on Miss Miller's picture is getting under way, the same studio announces that "Her Private Life" will be Blic, Dave's next starring vehicle.

This film has been adapted front the stage play, "The Lasty Whoi Dared," by Zoe Akins. Like her two pictures, it will be a dialogue affair, featuring also n

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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

VESUVIUS SEEN IN ERUPTION.

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School days are so pleasant they make handicapped youngsters forget, they eatinot and pump like other children, (Upper) A group of eripples leave their wheel chairs and crutches, to study arithmetic. Lawer feft), Meals at aluvial Home mean a body-building diet for

angemic children. (Right) Little tubercular tots practically live outdoors..

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What approximates an X-ray to mau this intelleétual project,Į "heraupy Chey employ, tenching all picture of the kindly heart of addition to all equipment of in- the arts of weaving, working in New York is shown of the Parents Mitutions. Six hundred teachers, metal, carving, furnitujë miaking,

as the normal eat eaning and other handicrafts, ; Exposition presentist by the United in fact as many Parents' Association. This No Town of 75,000 inhabitants em-Thus a child any learn a trade; called "picture" in reality as a plays regularly to handle all of that ventually makes series of broths wherein is shown, i srhools, are hired

by motion pictures, photographs handicapped children. and innumerable bit of handi

for the supporting.

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who wanted

Marilyn Miller. An interesting example of just number of special songs which The rrowning humanitarianbow considerate the Board offare now being written. erat, just how the fora! Board a“.

Pathe has recently installed · a Lalucation salvages handicapped, deed of this educative project is Etneation is the case of a boy! children for a normal edtcation, itu sent teachers to the little howe-without hands

A special! new $200,000 stage for the pro- Since these learn stenography. (or as avarly nofund as possible, bound children.

which is about the last word in Pwenty years, agu

a crippled children vanant come to school, pewriter was constructed which duction of its talkies-a stage)

to them. Each of the lnd can work with his elbows, mechancial ingenuity. little New Yorker was just out of school

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nunther over 500, te has taken a new lease on life i Jurk. Unless his parents el Mese, afford tutors, little Johnny was gets as a minimum of instruction, and his sunny face can be seen cheated of his American birth- three periods of one and a half milion

nay day, right education.

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har lessons weekly.

Indicative of wint this means

Many Are Hopeless Cripples, Today, 15,000 handicappede the Indridden child, one little Jobaities and Belous are bring lpless lad who had never attend-

Although the first essential " the production if talking pictures. ater. his new machine is absolute silence about the stage, his new affair of Pathe's Is Tequipped to handle three, com- Atmosphere of Normality, panies simultaneously. 11 is divid- From the first homes for tuber-d into three sound-proof cham- 1 bers, so that production of three

taugh their three R's and a bed school, exclaimed to his home cular children to the latest special different films can go on at the of fascinating artistic extras - teacher the other day, "I am the lances for cripples in ordinary same time. sides, outside of the regular school happigst bay in the world since I publie schools, the Board of Ealuen- {*

raules,

learned to read?”

Some of the 15,000 little ones Thas presumption of the Board have heart role that keeps them of Education is: First, give each inacfive. Some have rickets or child the medical care he or she

tion has tried to create a normal The transmission of motion for these pictures by television for recep- zhool, atmosphere.

in prospect, Visu- graphie Pictures, Inc.. is now segregated groups. These haustion in the homes of listeners- fbal normal children do that working on a series of short movies capped children do all the things now are dangerously ameinie. Others needs do makes him as fit as posé they possibly can. They have which will be put on the air as

same soon as they are completed. are paralyzed, blind, doaf, or hope- :ible for education. Seeund, every the same books, play the lessly crippled.

child has a right to a regular games, and when and if they doị Station W2XCR, Jersey City,!

hr the Arst place they have pubile school education. specialized health care thai as- sumes that all but hopeless cases

get well enough to join regular will broadcast them. Of course, Adapteri to Individunt Needs,

classes, they are put right in with only auch radio fans as possess sels equipped for picking up television broadcasts will be able The regular curriculum is fol. them.

get them; and, naturally

will be normal eventually. There wed wherever possible in this It is the attitude of normalcy, t is polar transportation to and 'special educative work. Of applied to children that a genera-enough, since this sort of thing is

1 more or less in the experi- from special classes in public.course, it is adapted to meet the tion or two ago would have been

mental stages, the first films will schools for cripples. There, are individual needs of unusual cases. unde in feel "different" that is be simple sketches especially hospitals, convalescent 'homva and Bui all the general subjects of perhaps the most remarkable adapted for television purposes. outdoor Exing quarters--all, with hood work are pursued. In ad thing about this work. One foula, Visugraphic oficials, however, school rooms included-for the dilim, wherever it is impossible to surveying it, that little handicap-are confident that they are begin- bed-ridden tots, for the tuberealag:continue regular schunt

worked children are really fortunatening to open a tremendous field, and cardiac census.

(substitute subjects are supplied to live, where such an understand and predict that in a few years the Television movie will be an Need Large Tetching Staff. This introdanes the whole magni-ing, intelligent experiment goes extremely popular variant of the It takes a small army of teachers ficent work of occupational on day by day.

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Our picture shows an impressive view of the crater of Vesuvius taken. by a special photo- grapher of The Times during the eruptions. At times Incandes cent stones were thrown up to the mountain sido. a height of 1,150ft, while gigantic waves of lava flowed down

(Times copyright.)

MEXICO'S WEDDING GIFT

TO FLIER.

A magnificent off painting, with the figures of four Mexican girls, in life-size, reproduced above, is the wedding gift of President Portes Cl of Mexico to Colonel Lindbergh and Anne Morrow. The title of the gorgeous work is "Mexican Flowers," and it is the masterpiece of Alfredo Ramos Martinez, noted Mexican artist, who worked for years upon the lask.

The Derby: The Finish from the Slands. For the second year in succession the Derby was won by an outsider. Our picture shows Mr. W. Barnett's colt "Trigo" passing the winning post a length and a half in front of Lord

Woolavington's "Waiter Gay," with Mr. S. Tattersall's "Brienz" two lengthis further behind. (Tipica copyright.)'

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