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Salt Lake City House Gives
Way to Progress.
Salt Lake City.—The Salt Lake the
ater, which for fully 60 years has been
a part of the very life of Salt Lake
/City, has had its last performance,
This theater is one of the oldest in
the country. It has continued without
linterruption to house only the first
lclass road shows, including practically
jall the leading American actors and
not.a few from other nations as well,
{for the last 50" years. The passing of
Ithe old playhouse is viewed with keen
fest regret in Salt Lake, because it
‘has ‘been .a publi¢ institution and a
vital part of the city’s life for so many
years. Many residents whose hair is
now gray remember the theater from
their earliest childhood, and many
have taken part in performances there.
Old as -the building is, it is still
good for many a season did not the
plans of the American Bell Telephone
and Telegraph company subsidiary
which has purchased the structure de
cree otherwise. Huge tree trunks hold
up the flooi's and are still in good con
dition: &+ v | : :
Nailed With Wooden Pins.
Erected in an age when iron was
scarce and what there was in the ter
ritory had to be hauled by wagon a
thousand miles across the plains, the
building is held together by wooden
pins. Some credit the splendid acous
tics of the building to this fact. In
fact, the favorite place for real lovers
of music to witness the operas which
have come here has been from the
gallery. ’
In pioneer days it was frequently
the practice to bring a small company
of stars—perhaps only one or two
leading performers. THe remainder
of the standard plays produced were
enacted by local talent. Contrary to
the common attitude of the churches
in those days, that of the Mormon
church was to-favor the theater and
to utilize its appeal to the public as a
means of advancing higher ideals. Not
that partisan religion as such was
thrust upon the audiences at the play
house, for it was not, but the attitude
of the church was an encouragement
to whatever histrionic ability was
latent in the community. Maude
Adams was perhaps the best example
of a leader of the drama who received
her early training in the old show
house. .It is related that her first pub
lic appearance on the stage was as
a baby in some production which
called for the appearance of a real.
baby instead of a doll.
. . _Local Talent Stars.
During the periods when stars were
not available, the stock company,
made up of local talent, continued its
productions. The theater was also
the meeting place for many Sessions
not essentially connected with the
stage. It provided the only large au
ditorium in the city for many years
outside of those operated by the Mor
mon church for its general confer
ences, Some of the more remarkable
scenes of Utah’s stirring political his
tory were enacted within that same
theater.
- Naturally, when the Mormon church,
which -long held controlling interest
through its leading officials, became
tired of footing annual deficits, which
have been all too common of late
years, and sold the property to the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele
graph company, there was some pro
test. The Daughters of the Utah Pio
neers, which is the most active publie
organization interested in preserva:
tion of pioneer history, took a lead
ing part and attempted to see what
could be done. It was for a time
thought feasible to move the building
to some site of less commercial value.
A firm on the Pacific coast was inter
ested in such a proposal and sent its
engineer here to see what could be
done,
After examining the structure the
engineer declared such a contract en
tirely feasible from the mechanical
point of view. The building, in other
words, old as it is, would stand re
moval, but the cost would be hetween
SIOO,OOO and $126.000, This latter
proved to be the stumbling block, De
sirable ‘as the project wus considered,
and important as had been the part
the theater played in the history of
the city, state. and the West, no one
cared to undertake to raise the $125.
000, and the*project wus reluctantly
abandoned. '
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Americas to Join in
‘ Studying Tropical lils
Panama.—ln the place where Amer
feans conquered yellow fever the na
tions of Latin Amerlea will Joip
the United States ip beginning active
research to combat all sorts of trop
seal diseases:. "
The community project 15 the
Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropl
eal and Preventive Medicine, Begin
ning of research immediately is made
possible by the government of Pan:
ama in assigning for temporary use
of the lustitute the newly completed
Natlonal School of Medicine bullding
Ultimately Panuma plans erection of
a permanent Ilnboratory for the instl
tute costing $500,000,
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Relics Unearthed.
Frankfort-on-Main—Excavations ot
Ruesselshelms, near Frankfort, have
brought to ight various relics from the
Brovze age. They Include two bronze
bracelets, spiral rings and a fourlnch
long cloak needle. The finds dute from
the perjod of 1800 to HOO B. G
ISLE INHABITED
BY RARE BIRDS
Feathered Kingdom Found on
U. S. Preserve.
Galveston, Texas.—A principality of
the feathered kingdom and an ornithol
ogist's paradise is Bird island.
It is on this small island, less than
a mile long and about half a mile
wide, that trappers and government
banding agents find migratory birds
once common bhut now so scarce that
they are protected by federal law.
The island, about two miles from
the southwest tip of Galveston island
and three miles from the mainland,
can be reached only by boat at high
tide.
. The birds have.favorable weather
conditions. 'Breezes from the gulf
keep the sand as warm as 65 degrees
in winter and as cool as 80 degrees in
summer.,
The island itself offers few atirac
tions to the birds other than its isola
tion and almost even temperature.
The only vegetation is salt grass and
salt cedar, and other animal life is
scarce, The birds are mostly water
fowl, however.
At least two of the rarest species
visit the island at times. The whistling
and trumpeting swans have been
found there. The reddish and snowy
egret also are are frequent visitors.
Both nest there. Among other birds
nesting on the island are the black
and royal tern, the small blue heron
and the Louisiana heron, the skimmer,
the willet, the curlew, the cormorant,
sea pigeons and many more common
species.
The beautiful plumes of the egret
once adorned feminine apparel, but
federal laws now make even posses
sion of an egret feather an ofliense
punishable by a mazimum fine of SSOO.
Birds banded on the isle so their
seasonable flights could be traced
have been captured as far north as
Canada and as far south as Brazil.
Substitute for Glass
Is British Invention
London.—An unbreakable substitute
for glass, known as poloplass, abbre
viated to “plass,” has been invented
by E. C. Baly, professor of organic
chemistry at Liverpool university, and
his son. A factory for its manufac
ture is being erected in Nottingham.
The new substance, clear like glass
but unsplinterable, is said to be an
improvement on the material invented
by Dr. F. Pollack, the Austrian chem
ist, with whom Professor Baly and his
son have:been collaborating. “Plass,”
it is said, is cheaper than any other
glass substitute, is burglar-proof and
translucent to ultra-violet rays, like
vita-glass.
It can be molded to any shape and
can be “turned” like a piece of wood.
It can also be reduced to powder and
pressed hydraulically, so that it be
comes opaque and can then be given
any color,
As soon as the Nottingham factory
is finished the new glass substitute is
to be placed on the market. Professor
Baly does not say that it will super
sede glass entirely and says that he is
not satisfied with its brilliance, but
says that its possibilities are illimit
able.
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Mere Man Tells Milady
How to Pick Her Hats
Tampa, Fla—ls a woman's bat is
to be becoming, she should consider
her height, weight, shoulders, type of
skin, eyes and hair and forget her
face and age, says Fred S. Samcroft.
Sameroft, a milliner, says that not
one in 100 women wear the right hat.
“One finds women with lines wear
ing brimless hats,” he declares, “thosc
with glasses favoring turned.up
brims: gray-haired mothers almost in
variably favoring gray when they
should seleet violet, blue and rose. If
she is daring enough, nothing is so
pretty for grandmother as a red, red
hat.”
Sameroft began his career when
eight years old. He fashioned a “won
derful creation of rhubarb leaves and
garden flowers, fastened together with
‘oothpicks.” Because his sister
wouldn't wear it to the post office she
got a black eye—and the young miili
ner got a whipping
Court Protects Him,
Tampa, Flo.—~A Tampa busband s
gafeguarded by a court order which
directs that his wife must not attack
or molest him.
Bites Into Live Wire,
" .
Current Floors Him
Philadelphian.—~St. Agnes’ hos
pital attaches termed It the
frenkiest accident In thelr ex
perlence after they treated Vin
cent Valentz, twenty-four, for
gerfous burns and shock from
electricity.
Valentz, a heater and range
repalr man, was working on
heater under a store. He used
an extension light, and, both
pands being occupled, held the
cord In his mouth.
Gripping hard. be cut through
the ipsulation, eausing a short
eireult und shocking him. His
jaws went rigld, clamping on
the “live wire” stumbling
back, he feli into a puddie of
water, Increasing the conduc
tivity. His condition Is termed
serlous.
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
Many Queer Policies Are
Written by Firms.
London.—lnsurance companies are
often called upon to issue policies
that are bhardly distinguishable from
bets, and this is nowhere truer than
in London, where the example of
Lloyds, noted for being willing to
quote a premium on any possible fu
ture event, is followed by many other
companies.
The only stipulation most ot them
make is that the person taking out.
the policy shall have a genuine insur
able interest, which means that he
will lose money if the event insured
against occurs,
Under this system a London the
atrical promoter recently took out a
policy insuring the lives of the royal
family, on the ground that a period
of national mourning would cause the
closing of theaters. Insuring aghainst
twing is fairly common, while breackh
of promise, loss of bets on borse
races, had weather during vacations
and elopements cause the writing of
many policies.
Figuring Premiums.’
Insuring the stability of foreign
governments gives the political ex
perts in an insurance company a
steady job figuring premiums. The
life of the late czar of Russia was
insured for more than $5,000,000 by
various Knglish business men with in
terests in Russia. Hundreds of pol
icies . were issued to Anglo-German
traders when German finances sky
rocketed so suddenly. One policy has
even been issued insuring the finan
cial solvency of the British govern
ment, but the company which issued
it considered the premium paid more
or less in the nature of a gift,
Sometimes. the underwriters are
hard put to calculate the probubili
ties of an event occurring, on wkich
the premium rate is based. How.
for instance, did they figure out the
chances of three barrels of attar of
roses on a Bulgarian estate whnich
were insured against possible destruc
tion by the invading Serbs? How did
they compute the possibilities of sui
cide when a creditor asked to be in
sured against losing his money if his
debtor took his own life? Policies
were issued to cover both these con
tingencies.
Insurance against election risks is
common. The insurance companies
will make money if the government
chosen at the next general election
has a good majority; but if it is re
turned with so slight an advamage
that a new election will have to be
called soon, the underwiters will
have to pay for the losses that al
ways occur in the business retardation
that goes with elections. Failure of
electric current is a frequent source
of business for insurance companies,
but records of generating stations
make it comparatively easy to figure
the probabilities when a theater pro
prietor asks to be insured against bis
light failing him.
About once a month we read tales
of dancers insuring their legs, film
stars their weights, or pianists their
fingers. Sometimes these tales read
suspiciously like publicity, and we
feel that the actress who insures a
particular dimple for an abzurd
amount, or who seeks some still un
insured part of her anatomy to sup
port a new policy, is activated rather
by the thought of newspaper head
lines than any real forebodings.
Hat Insured Against Wind.
This would hardly be the case, how
ever, in such an example as that of
Professor Huxley, whose eyesight was
insured for $25,000, or Kubelik, who
valued his bow hand at $50,000. Per
haps one of the oddest—and that we
should hesitate to say was not con
tracted with an eye to the newspapers
—was the policy taken out by Cecile
Sorel, who insured a hat studded with
diamonds and emeralds against the
risk of being blown overboard during
an Atlantic voyage. It would have
been cheaper not to have worn it on
shipboard,
Aside from the policy guaranteeing
the solvency of the British govern
ment, perhaps the safest on record
wus the one insuring a famous family
against the expiration of the family
name, When the poliey was taken out
there were 60 persons bearing that
name, and there seemed no possibility
of a lack of heirs.
Tax Collector Idie in
. Pennsylvania Village
Armagh, Pa.~This little village of
some 110 Inhabltants Is a tax col
lector's paradise—little or no work,
but the salary goes on,
In & recent survey conducted by the
Department of Internal Affalrs It was
disclosed that no taxes were collected
or needed here In 1027,
According to Tax Collector Martha
B, Tomb, a H-mill tax was collected In
1026 on taxable property assessed at
$81,085, netting $204.18,
This was not only sufficlent for the
needs of the villuge In that year but
crented a surplus large enough to
muke taxes needless for 1027,
Worth Trying For.
New VYork.~lf Robert Randolph
Ashiner Is of good moral habits at
forty years of age, Is married and
has children, he will be entitled to
most of a $3,000000 estate, His fa
ther's will so provides, He Is now
twenty-eight years old. [lf at forty
he Is not up to the standard ser by
the will he will get only SI2OOO »
year,
Real Estate Man Pays
Fine Six Years Laie
San Francisco.—Diogenes un
doubtedly would be pleased
with D. H. Riker of Los An
geles, a real estate operator.
Six years ago Riker was tined
SI,OOO in Federal court here on
a charge of sending fraudulent
sales literature through the
mails. He took a pauper’'s oath
and so escaped the fine. But
he told the court he would pay
it some day.
Today John Preston, associ
ate Justice of the State Su
preme court, turned over to the
Federal court a check for SI,OOO
from Riker, Preston was Rik
er’s attorney when he was fined.
WILD COLT SAVES |
DROWNING BABY
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Fishes Child Out of Water
Tank Just in Time.
Hays, Kan.—A wild, unweaned colt,
shunning every member of the Reiners
Donn family except the two-year-old
baby boy, staged a dramatic and un
usual life-saving feat recently by fish
ing the chila out of the water tank
into which he £ll and holding the
baby's head out of water.
How long the colt stood with teeth
firmly gripping the neckband of the
baby's dress before the situation was
discovered was not ascertained.
The baby was unconscious when
finally found by the frantic mother
and father, but quick resuscitation
was possible.
The colt strangely displayed an un
wonted affection for the baby son of
the family for some time. Shying
away from Mr, Donn himself, the colt
permitted no one to come near him.
Yet the animal would walk up to the
baby and nuzzle it while the infant
clapped its hands in glee.
A few days ago the older brother
was told to watch the baby. The
threshing machine lured the watch
man away from his charge. Some
time later the bahy was missed. A
young woman neighbor to the Donn’s
family joined in the search. And it
was she who found the colt at the
water tank patiently holding the child
out of the water by the neckband of
the tiny dress.
Mr. Donn believes the child's
screams as it struck the water at
tracted the colt and that the animal
fumbled around in the water until a
firm hold was obtained on the child’s
clothing. :
Boy With Glass Pistol
Confesses 40 Thefts
New York.—The capture of Ter
rence Roberts, the boy burglar who
has been terrorizing residents of
Sheepshead Bay and Vanderveer
Park, has-relieved police of those pre
cincets.
Recently Terrence entered the home
of Mrs. Margaret Killorin and was up
stairs when she came in from the
yard. The boy struggled with Mrs.
Killorin, who is seventy years old, and
to frighten her away pushed a glass
pistol against her. A fireman, Floyd
Strachan, heard the screaming and
ran after the boy, catching him after
a few blocks chase. :
At the Sheepshead Bay station the
boy admitted to Detectives John J.
McDonald and Albert Dailey, police
say, that he had burglarized 42 homes,
and took them around to many of
them,
He told Magistrate Hirshfleld in the
Coney Island court that he wanted
money to spend like the other boys.
He said he was sorry for what he had
done and asked the newspaper men to
warn other boys that burglary did
not pay. He had been living at a
turkish batn for ome time, and po
lice there found a number of watches
and other alleged loot,
Find Cannibals Ate
Tax Collecting Squad
The Hague.~Startling reports come
from Java to the effect that Pangasin
an cannibals in the interior of Duteh
New Guinea ate an entire Duteh Indinn
police force sent to collect tuxes, The
police arrived at Pangasinan, where
they intended to assess the population
the following morning., During the night
a surprise attack took place, They
were immediately butchered and the
hodles were divided among several
tribes, whonte them during the feasts,
Expeditions sent hy the Duteh Indian
government found thut the natives
had fled to the wilderness,
el i e
$3,000 for a Tooth
New York.—Two years ago Mrs,
Sarah Cohen broke a tooth while ent
ing a slice of bread. Recently she
was awarded a Judgment of $3,000
agoinst the baker when the court
learned he had allowed a rusty nall to
drop In the dough,
Musical Convict
Lincoln, Neb.—~A Nebruska conviet
perving a life sentence Is now a direc
tor of the penitentinry orchestra, us
well as composer of several songs.
He has also patented a reed clipper
for use in makirg wind Instruments.
Convicts Study Law
Moscow.~More than 50 convicts In
Soviet prisons are studying law
through a correspondence course of
the Moscow state university.
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War Shortened Stature
German youths average one and
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The bureau of standards says that
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Life,
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Silence - Preferred
" “What do you think of talking ple
tures?”
“There are many ancient tales
afloat,” said Miss Cayenne, “Talking
pictures are all right. But I'm glad
there aren't any in the old family
album.”
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