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PAGE FOUR. THE S ALEMITE Saturday, March 15, 1930. 1 World News In 1928 the 230,000 American tourists in France spent at least $353,000,000. Last year the figure dropped about forty million because of de luxe taxes and liigh prices, says the Americans, because of Ger man advertising to the tourist trade, say tlie French Hevcc, Premier Tar dier (at time of writing) has called for an appropriation of $1,200,000, to be used for the “encouragement of tourists.”—World’s Work. How long does the elephant live? Centuries, we say, recalling Kipling. Prof. A. D. Peacock, of University College, Dundee, Scotland, with scientific curiosity has attempted t find out the greatest recorded ag« of all animals. Four, he finds, ma live longer than man; the tortoise, which may reach two hundred; the Gleman Carp, 150; the white-headed vulture, which has reached 118; and the eagle, which has an attested age of 104. The elephant is marked whale for forty. The record for a dog is thirty-five years! for a horse, forty; and for a cow twenty-five. A toad is known to have lived thirty- six years, an alligator for forty, and an eel for sixty. The insect record of thirty-seven years is held by a fire beetle, while the winged male of the bug called Stylops stays on this world from one to three hours.-^ World’s Work. Down in Bolivia the match-and- tobacco business is an exclusive little government racket. Therefore, all cigarette lighters are taxed $4.. 56 annually. Unregistered lighters are liable to confiscation and the owner may be fined $7.60. Henry Ford says woman’s place is in the home. But her refusal to stay there has appreciably inrreased the demand for Henry’s product— Florence Herald. Aluminum cooking utensils have received the O. K. of the research laboratory at Yale University. Fear that the human body might absorb an injurious amount of aluminum from pots and pans, or even from baking powder containing aluminum, is groundless^ according to Pxof. L. P. Underhill. The body, he finds, will reject anything more than a .small and harmless quantity— World’s Work. The famous lake of Morat, Switzerland, is again displaying its occasional habits of turning to blood, a phenomenon which never fails t arouse supertitious awe in the neigh horhood, frighten the sinful int( some sort of rectitude, and effect miraculous cures. Nonmystical olobists explain that the color caused by exceptional growth, i der certain favorable conditions of a tiny red plant of the algae family which is always in the water of the lake but is rarely noticeable. Thi; plant, first cousin to the green scun seen on stagnant water, often grow on artic snow and on stole bread— World’s Work. An aerial mapping party has re turned to New York, after an ex tensive survey to correct maps, “of a little known part of the country.” The little-known part of the country was in Maine-territory included in the thirteen original states—World’s Work. Konigsberg University, Germany, claims to have been successful in determining a child’s parentage through serum test of blood samples. Blood tests have been used before for this purpose, but inconclusively; the new test is said to be positive and sure. The process is borrowed from culloid chemistry and depends on reactions between tiny particles in the related bloods.—World’s Work. Better plays and better houses than Broadway provides are to be found in the Nation s Little Thea ters, reports Kenneth Macgow; ter a 14,000-mile tour of the try. He finds that these amateur and semi-pro organizations are sup plying t h e bulk o f America’ dramatic entertainment, s h o w i n ; good plays in excellent houses to large audiences. The tour even made under the auspices of the American Association for Adult Education and the Carnegie Founda- Hugh Feriss, architectual prophet par-excellence, reports that there are 322 skyscrapers (defined as build ings over twenty-story mark) in the United States; 188 in New York City.—World’s Work. Teachers take note! Dr. .lay B. Nash, director of health and physi cal education at New York Univer sity, says that there should be nc home-work given to children until they are almost through high school. “Power, the ability to resist fatigue and sustain effort is built in by big muscle activity for long hours ovt long years, coming to a climax at tl age of ten, when a child oxight have seven hours of play a day.— SPRING SPORTS Spring is here! In spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to— spring-boards and springing jokes, but here at Salem when this season comes our thoughts turn to sports— the good old spring sports. Volley ball is now in and in a short time it will be in ftill force. This is one of the sports which everybody likes. Get your tennis rackets out of their cases, dust them off, get some of tliose wild red tennis balls from the book store and hie yourselves to the tennis courts. This sport is evidence every warm day, and just think of the spring days to Horses, horses—who said any thing about horses.'’ Everybody is saying something about them, now, because the days for long rides are coming, in fact, they are here, so don your riding togs and join the “Big Parade.” Are your clubs in good condition You had better be sure that they because golfing weather is here also and you'll soon be anxious to and on the course. Can't you almost hear the balls whiz thru spring air.? (That is, if 3’ou able to make them whiz!) The swimming pool will soon open so start strenuous reducing that last year’s suit will fit, then liop into the good old pool for a cool swim. r is over and spring is here! Those who went out for the winter sports are eagerly awaiting the rival of the Spring ones. Now y who didn’t go out for athletics the winter had better come out c have a good time, then you’ll real the joy of being alive. SCHOLARSHIP IN ACTING “Chasing Rainbows,” featuring Bessie Love and Charles King, will be shown the last half of next week at the Colonial. This is a back stage comedy-drama. Polly Moran, Gwen Lee, George K. Arthur, and Marie Dressier are in the supporting le Gloucester School of the Lit tle Theatre is again offering free icholarships to two undergraduates if American Colleges or Universities. The Gloucester summer school has passed its tenth successful season and has came to be known as a sort students interested in acting or in production. It already counts among its graduates, several who are on tlie professional stage. Candidates for these scholarship.s should liave: (a) Normal voice and posture, of summer work-sliop for', college (b) Dramatic ability or ability some branch of production. (c) They must present referent as to character. All applicants for the scholarship should send for further informati before May first to: I'lorence Evans ) I’lorence Cunningham) Directf Gloucester School of The I,it Theatre, 112 Charles St., Boston, Massachusett.s. Photoplay Magazine selects the best pictures each month. This month it selects eight. They are: “Anna Christie,” “The Rogue Song” (That’s Lawrence Tibbet’s first pic ture), “Street of Chance,” “The Laughing Lady,” “Roadhouse Nights,” “No, No, Nanette,” “Men Without Women” and “The Case of Sergeant Grischa” (when this comes don’t miss it). Norma Shearer is taking' a rest. Therefore Ruth Chatterton will play the feminine lead in a piece sched uled for Norma, “The High Road.” Ralph Forbes will play the mascu line lead. . cat’s life isn’t happy, If it’s hair is full of fleas. When it hf’-> to sneeze? A cockroach is a little bug. Which walks upon your bread. It’s just a great big brother. Of the one upon your head. A fly has no personality, 1 don’t believe this is true. They say a louse is morbid, I don’t know, do 3’OU? —Dic/c Cumberland. At The Theatres A little bit of this and that but it much of great importance is listed on next week’s bookings for d theaters. Happy Days,” a Fox Movietone all-star musical romance, will be shown at the Carolina the first half. Featured in this are 100 headliners of stage nd screen. They include Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Walter Catlett, Charles Farrell, William Collier, Veitor MeLaglen, Edmund I.owe, Warner Baxter, Dixie Lee, j-e Jessel, and George Olsen and His Music. The grand finale, “A Dream on a iece of Wedding Cake,” is said to ; one of the most spectacular and surprising features ever brought to the all-talking screen. Helen Morgan is cast as a road house entertainer. Fred Kohler, that “bad man of the pictures (and a good one, too) is the proprietor, be sides being the leader of a notorious gang of bootleggers. And so when Charles Ruggles, a newspapei porter from Cliicago puts in hi pearanee with every intentioi getting the low down on the gang, and while doing so, falls in love with Miss Morgan, Kohleiv decides to put Ruggles “on the spot.” “Roadhouse Nights” is the picture and Helen Morgan sings a new song. It C.an t in Like This.” irolina, Thursday, I'riday, Sat- y -20, 21, 22. Get They rs Sleep ii t tripped across the floor? tell me why it is nake their getaway, by does a napkin on the floor to play? We now report the tale of the oaf who was cast up on a cannibal is land and every day the natives stuck him and took a drink of his blood. Finally, in indignation, he announc ed to the king, “I don’t mind if the boys kill me, but I hate to be con tinually stuck for the drinks.” A pfennig for the first to write the music for this.—Ihdla-Baloo. Enterprising Bije-loxc, hahy hunting; naddy’x gone a-hunt'mg; ' one to fitid some one who’ll pay itr those cute things babies say. “Peanuts are fattening.” “How do you know?” “Why, look at the elephant.” —Annapolis Log. ; upon the farms, I lady’s arms? soft and slippery, I me if you learn. If they’re the same on both .sides. Why then must they turn? lis thought trinkles thru my n And fills me with depression mourn ’n moan for this'poor thing, A worm has no expression. QUALITY^ERVICE SATISFACTION Nissen Drug Co. Bobbitt Bros. PHONE 888 Winston-Salem, N. C. WHY Why should I be little in soi Simply because another is? Why should my heart in 1 unfold Because unkind another is? Why sliould my heart with b beat Beeausc another is unforgiv ■ should my soul cry Ther( ' other.' whos( kind. 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