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t World^ News Through the Eyes of the Camera - !_ . / r SPAIN'S QUEEN NOW ON VISIT TO ROME. King Alfonso of Spain, accompanied by bueen Victoria and an entourage of grandees, admirals, generals and statesmen is making a visit to Rome. Photo shows Queen Victoria with her second son. COMMEDIAN PLEADS FOR STAGE CLEANUP. Fred Stone, the man who has made millions laugh, drew tears from an aud ience recently mak ing an address to religion, for the sake of the profes sion to which he is intrusting his daugh ter, Miss Dorothy Stone. He demanded that Broadway, New York's gay white way, clean up its shady plays. And then Fred Stone, already bursting with paternal pride, stepped to the foot lights, dashed down his funny hat and made his confession of faith, not in. formal religion this time, but in his craift, the craft of clean laughter. FKJtD STONB. NOW TRIES THE CLOTHING BUSINESS. t oareer as a taxicab driver having come to an'end, Francto , french, son of a wealthy father, is now trying his-hand as a clothing salesman. “Feel ’em,” he is saving to the customer. French a cousin of William H. Vanderbilt, well known New York society -nan. He quit the taxicab company and entered suit for $100,000 carnages alleging his nam chad been wed for publicity uumosea. „ "AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL.* FIRST AIR TRAFFIC VIOLATORS TO BE ARRESTED i n&iwi, pycaojj There is an efficient air police force in Akron, Ohio. "When Howard Calvert, a stunt pilot, and hie manager, Prank O'Neal, the handcuffed gentleman in the picture, performed stunts over a re stricted district in Akron, Officer Kullberg (right) hopped into his patrol and ran the law violators down. They were convicted of violating a city ordinance and sentenced to spend a day in a kite balloon at the end of a 1.000 foot cable. Photo shows Officer Kulibera and his two nrisoners. f ‘ . i GET TEN—THEN LEARN TO DANCE. A sum and graceful little woman with dark eyes, olive skin and curly black hair, arrived m \ New York by the steamship Tyrrhenia, assemble d her ten children around a pyramid of trunks on • the pier and waited for the customs men to inspect her possessions, mostly dancing costumes. She is Mme. Calliope Charissi, a real Greek, proud of her Christian name commemorating the pagan .muse of ekxjuence and epic poetry. Each one of her children, who resemble her strikingly, has a Cheek.name. She is a dancer and so are all the children, ages ranging from 7 to 20. In the family t are a set of twins, a boy and girl. The reporters asked as a Greek comedy chorus: And why did you not bring your husband along?” “That," the gay little woman' answered, “was impossible. They would not let him off. He is an engineer in a power house in Paris. Perhaps he may come later. I Photo shows, left to right: Rita, Ivan, Marie and Andre (twins), Elane. Kitty, Beatrice, Eusta, s| Nicko. Noel and Mme. Charissi (above). ■ . LECTURES ON BOMBARDING OF ATOMS. / Winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1922, Prof. Niels Bohr of the University of Copenhagen, is giving six lectures at Tale Uni versity. The Danish scientist showed in his first lecture pictures of imaginary collisions between electrons and atoms. He explained that the bombardment these atoms and electrons gave each other con firmed his hypothesis of what happens when tiny particles of matter come together. PIANO TURNS COMMERCIAL. •mss®** On the stage of the local “opry house’* In ShelbyvIUe, ffl, Charles . L. Wagner, above, staged bis first production—a modest concert. Later, when he had become famous as a manager and producer in the musical and theatrical world, the “opry house” was doomed, and the piano, which had served faithfully ever since its use in Mr. Wagner’s first program, was to be sold at auction. ShelbyvIUe friends^ however, stepped In and bought it and transformed it into the desk j which now holds the position of honor in the well known manager's > office. , i PEACEMAKER IN ENGLAND. . .. 4 :</; I It was Sir Alfred Mond, above, the qickel magnate and Minister • of Health under Prime Minister Lloyd George, who effected the recon ciliation between his former chief and Herbert H. Asquith, whereby the factions of the Liberal party in Great Britain were reunited, j Sir Alfred induced the two statesmen, between whom a bitter feeiUur ' has existed since 1916. to shake hands.
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