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Here is a side view of the new cathedral, known as La Major, verlooking the new harlour of Marseilles,

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In Marseilles, chter scafort France, an ancient and a er cathedral ave neighbours.

One, the isl enthedral o Major Siant-Marie-Mateurer, dat ing from the 12th century and

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for hot ois477) seeing ther which awept the city in 1720-21.

The celerated Notre Dame de la fine, the steple of white an spremnunted 49 a gilded stalim of the Vierin, th feet in height, resea of 150 feet noce The summit of fire

hill on which it stands. The pres

thapel is modern and » coppe The sile at our built, in 128

the ruins of the temple Diana, as in bal preservation.

The other, ruggedly built with alternate sauras of giren Fluzon. Tine stube anal white stone from! the neighborhout at Arles, is per

th fues!

Though the Widery of Marseil les chutes feum Gom) 170, the cats modern hins few Tonalis

:ther the cathedral in France, It is known Greek or Roman periods a nee as a Major, and was begun in; pation, and as por in mediavol 1962 and copened for worship in flauildings, as the conditing of the

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Designed in Byzantine style, the haseifica is in the form of a bath

The Four Lowers which

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with are roofed cupolas Mar the cathedral stands the Elshop's palace and the

văd cathedrad illustrates

The church of 21. Vietor, on the south sidered the old hart our, was built in the tith century. In the rentre of Old Marseilles 21 tonthe the ancient hurch of

Also In the obf town in

Notre

de la Mayor, which Hoy] Danie du Mont Carmel, orerapy ing

Here sinada the statue the place at what was the ritadei overlock.

Bishop Brisunce, a

Born in a nudi lawn town. reared on a western cattle ranch and has it made her stage debut at the age of five in amateur plays. This charting newenter to the talkies

HOW possessed Cherishe film contract.

Completing high school at Spokane, Wash, she tried a year at odloge, but vearning for the stage, triumphed and she reached Broadway via vandeville and a stock company, at Memphis, Tean, Then sdré brentue a Bellasco star,

In New York she played every type of "role from a native South Sen 1 land girl in "Asma" to the cultured Lady Do Winter in "The Three Musketeer;" French at the Mansalists when They were

This versatility was largely respon- sible for her Hollywund! eontráví, Jesuit pried of Marseilles, noted' besieged by Julous Caray.

She in Vienne Osborne.

IN

MIDGET

GOLF

AMERICA.

HOPES OF ARRESTING ÍTS DECLINE.

Not dead, but in process of evolution... miniature golf has some new sidelinma na at the upper right, where young ladies are playing a varition of "curling" adapted to miniature golf courses At upper left, in one of the more elaborate modern devices, a "roulette wheel," while at lower right le an early course built by boys on a playground .... At lower left are Doug Fair- banks and Mary Pickford at the opening of their $100,000 course in Hollywood.

thre

hair, cottonseed and cœna int the ninnufacture of materials for greens.

Like Another Gold Rush,

In no time at all there were 650 zourse in New York City, and cur

numbers resping

in other towns across the country. Some hig names joined the gold rush. Grantland Riar Teased two floors of the Grand Central Paince il Manhattan for another one of the indoor coursed which have been termed the finest in the world. In Los Angeles, Mary Pickfu installed

outdoor enurse that was the "let California." And this was only are of 2000 little links in Los An getes alone.

By November, 1930, there were

100,00 nearly

miniature golf courses in various singes of opera- tion in the United States, The UL. S Department of Commerce then estimated that $175,000,000 represented the nation's invest- ment in the game. Organizations more closely involved, however, put the amount at several times that figure.

Plenty of Money Went In.

For instance, the equipment and Installation for n minature ruurze cost from $5,500 to $5,000, with $4,000 as an average Initial outlay. Beginning with that figure of enurse the sky was the limit. Mas Pickford is said to have spent $100,000 in order that nisvie folk and their admirers could putter around. A links in the theatrical district of mid- lown Manhattan was built on pro- party valued at $6,000,000--with n proportionate rental.

Big Demand for Gear.

At the beginning of 1931 there were no less than 1800 concerns listed with the trade mugazines of !minature golf as makers of sup

greens,

New York, Aug. 20.-Miniature and sales, have been catapulted, every vacant lot seemed to bloom!lles and accessories. All but one golf, having written amusement into bankruptey or receivership, with green fairways and brilliant of the rubber companies produced special balls for miniature golf. history, last year, now seems to be A public which once paid goodly, painted hazards of tin and Nearly all the club ninkers put writing its own obituary in red money to try to push a painted wood.

speelal putters and nibilcks on the Ink. The midget sport that posed pellet around in pay now spends

There were a thousand courses market. Other products included for a few brilliant months na a its time an the fence in free

in the south before a single one lea

for mals, dye derisive kibitzing. Comie giant industry worth hundreds of and

was installed above the Mason score cards, turnstiles, fences, millions, has come close to being magazines have grown fond. of Dixon line. Florida adopted the tags, flood lights, handreds of smothered in ridicule.

depicting hermits and their pet

kinds of hazards, furniture, hole and dreasing of equipment salesmen markers, green spiders and squirrels as the only me during the winter, and

moved north in the wake of thescores of other essentials and no- occupants of miniature courses.

Only a Ful.

first rabin. Manufacturing and velles,

Midget golf and his small con- temporaries are scurrying around

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matters of price fixing and "pro- tection."

Then It Happened.

Miniature golf had become a big industry in every respect except the rather important one of popu- larity with its ensh customers, At the begining of the present season. 25 per cent. of the existing courses failed to open. By new, tarted according to a survey conduct by the Miniature Golf Caurse Magazin, apoller 27 per cent.

over.

have closed. And

of the ones whelming majority still in operation are unprostable. Everybody has a different ans- wer, but none believes the depress sion is directly responsible. Some ex-members of defunct assoria- tions have said that the Liliputian links were nothing more than or fad. Course operators themselves. are inclined to blame price-slash- ing and the overcrowding of the field. Others declare that publie ridicule and the jukes based on the game have rained it.

Hut here is what Howard Sleane, of the Miniature Golf Course Magazine, has to say:

"Poor business judgment is re- sponsible. Thousands of people went into peewee golf with noth ing but a vacant fet and a vacant notion that they were going to make a lot of money.

into

BURGLARY

A LUTHER FOR GERMANY.

DESCENDANT OF CHURCHMAN.

Dr. Hans Luther.

Another Luther is now the man of the hour in Germany,

Just as Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the church door at

years ago

They knew nothing about howį to make their places attractive, Wittenberg don how to promote contests, special argued half of Christendom inta stunts or any of the things that go Protestantism, his remotely relat

the success of fan amusement el descendant. Dr. Hans Luther, pul. enterprise. In desperation, ther now faces the heroir task of ent prices until they couldn't make ing the nation out of bankruptcy. As president of the great Rei- profit even if their courses wern lied to capacity. When they chatank, or Bank of Germany, boosted prices again the public he holds one of the three most im turned them down cold.

portant positions in Germany in the present crisis. The others are of Chancellor Heinrich those Bruening and Foreign Minister

AL

"This spring, most of those who reopened did so as a Limid gesture. They didn't remodel their courses, add other games, or spend money

advertising. Their layouts gave the game a bad name from the start. People assumed that miniature golf was dead.

shabby

Julius Curtis,

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When it comes to getting things he wants. Dr. Luther is as deter

mined as was his famed ancestor. (His hurried aeroplane trips to vari- Hope By No Means Dead. ous European capitals, in quest of Jonas to nave Germany from totter- "But in every city arc exceping over the brink stamp him as a tions that prave these views. man of action. Where courses are in good Inea- tions, with enough space! lunger shots, nach plenty enthusiastic management,

are

con

for they

still successful, Hundreds of i courses have failed R LOR Angeles but Miss Pickford's is eti in profitable operation. In New York, the

courses which spent a few thousand dollars in dressing up with new hazards and new games like archery, shuffle- board and badminton are nearly as prosperous as over."

Sloane balleves that mininture self will survive, and that the rublle still likes to play it. But: the trend, he explains, is toward the establishment of community Amusement

centres-actually small parks which offer a variety of entertainment. Tennis, base

in quest of artificial respiration in| the form of new ideas and new Pewee golf has been branded distributing companies were form- City-state and national nasocia.bull, hockey, and practically all of diminutive garned. But they're publicly as one of those transity ed as fast as the presses could tions were formed for the co-or- looking very glum.

fads like mah jong, in which you turn out papers of incorporation. dination of the Industry, the ex- One reason, of course, is that spent a lot of money but didn't Big concerns like National Pipe change of progressive Ideas and they're not receiving very muck have much fun.

Products Corp., which fathered the regulation of prices. Maguzi. nk in their efforts to revive the You'll recall the tale of how a Tom Thumb golf in the north, nes agrung into being as aids to the the trade. The National Tom pigmy golf gume. A number of | Chattanooga hotel keeper invented threw their facilities into organizations which once were the game in 1928. But it remain-making of links supplies as an im- Thumb Golf Association prometed concerned with management mo-ed for the genius of big business portant sidoline. Others divert- tournaments and offered prizes. thoils and promotion, distribution to put over the idea in 1930, whened by-products such as animal | Racketeers began to muscle in on

the field aports have been reduced to table games. Driving and chip- shot ranges remain popular.

The survivors of the miniature golf "gold rush". feel that there's still gold in those miniature golf hills, but that it will take a more highly-specialized form of mining to get it in the future.

As head of

Germany's great

easy to understand. this:

war,

It is simply

In the years just after the Germany deviled to regnin

its position as a world trade pow- er by modernizing Its

factories

low-

theroughly and producing goods. at tremendous rate ou a enst scale.

come

That part succeeded and alf might have gone well if the work

hul't wide depression along. The depression hit Ger- many hard. More and more goods

being

produced. but the had vanished Great quantities of unsold goods began.

were market

to pile up.

Naturally factories began to close down with resultant yn-

employment.

Lots of these fac

in toriga stand dark and silent

thent Germany today. Many of are practically new, the new puint glistening on the idle machines.

of the Germany, like the real worlt. was organized on a high production basis that meant it.

Dr. Bruening.

thun

it

WER

producing more could sell or consume.

Under such conditions, closing fof banks was inevitable.

But Germany looks with hops toward Dr. Jather because he has a way of solving financial crises. Eight years ago it was chielly he who ended the chain of disasters that followed the col lapse of the mark, when the bot tom fell out of the money market and it took half a billion paper marka to buy a leaf of bread,

Since the foundation of the German republic, Dr. Luther i the only man who, as chancellor, was able to present a government. al budget with expenditures less than receipts.

So, today, he is the man of the hour. Germany is confident that le can he pull the nation out of the ***hole, and has always been; last spring, for instance, when he was made head of the Reichsbank as Hjalmar the successor to Dr. Schacht, prices of stocks went up immediately as a reflection of ra- tlonal confidonco.

Foreign Minister Curtius. bank, Dr. Luther faces a national condition that is desperate but