The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 10

Editor's Note: This is another of the series of stories by Rodney Dutcher, Washington correspond- { env Yor The Tribune and NEA Service, who is accompanying President-elect Hoover's party in Latin America. so 8 Amapala, Honduras (By Mail)—It is the fate. of .Honduras. to become 1 more and more “Americanized.” Her mineral resources remain undevel- oped’ and American capital prob- 1 ably will enter there. She hopes for re port, railroad and steamship de- velopment and more automobiles and highways—American capital again. Honduras manufactures only some of the necessities of life. Other ne- cessities and all so-called luxuries she imports. Most of her imports are manufactured goods. If her present progressive tendencies toward eco- nomic improvement continue, the de- mand for them will greatly increase. But even now, one of the most sur- prising things about Central America is that it has so many things which remind one of the United States. Americanism Advances Even in Amapala, perhaps the most primitive of the villages and cities visited by the Hoover party, there were indications of the extent to : which American business enterprise has invaded Honduras. At Teguci- galpa, the capital, these evidences arc far more pronounced. ‘The natives may have been bare- foot and their dogs sadly skinny, but the native women in large numbers wore cheap cotton print dresses the cloth of which surely came from ™ull River or North Carolina. As for the handfui of pretty girls who came with the men from Tegucigalpa, they ap- peared to have drawn impartially for their styles from New York and Paris. ‘These ladies from the Honduran up- per crust would have graced any tea ¥- Latin America® inscriptions were in Spa them were “Ramona," Heaven,” “Valenci: Yet the Venecia was neither large enough or fit to accommodate the luncheon to Hoover. That was held |in the large home of Amapala’s lead- !ing importer and exporter, a Ger- man. American money is accepted here more eagerly than native money, but prices seem to go up when any ap- pears. On the north coast where the bananas are cut and shipped, one is advised that Honduran currency 1s not accepted at all. | Even in Amapala are signs depict- ing the superior merits of some Amer- ican pills and other signs show prom- inently a Spanish trade name for a famous brand of aspirin, with the American trademark. The stock in trade of the nearest approach to a delicatessen store shows that anyone who eats other than native food here is pretty sure to be filling up on American canned goods. Shrimp from San Francisco, table sauce of the mogt popular Amer- ican brand, American condensed milk, red snapper sauce from New Orleans, nd chow chow from the firm s 57 or more different kinds, canned bacon from Chicago, baking soda from “Nueva York,” asparagus from San Francisco and canned or- anges from a London firm—but who wants canned oranges? “My Blue American Movies No movies in Amapala, but they have them in Tegucigalpa and other larger communities. They are 90 per jcent American. The other 10 per cent are films from Britain and France, |which Hondurans say are too long and involved. On the other hand ithese folks are fed up on our wild | west films. They demand plenty of sentiment. | American movies are believed to be party in the world. | having an immense effect on the cus- In the cantina of the little Venecia|toms and habits of the people, i hotel on the Amapala wharf I ob- | especially in the interior towns. id served a newspaper photograph of| But development of pro-American- former President Harding high on the wall, Beneath it were similar photo- graphs of the wife of the commandant of Amapala, Senorita Sofia Robles, daughter of the last Costa Rican min- ister of the United States, and other Central American beauties. “My Blue Heaven” There, Too A large pile of phonograph records bore the imprint of the leading Amer- ican disc manufacturer, though the ism and spread of American ideas of progress are also coming frem the many younger men of the upper class who now receive their education in jthe United States. Nearly all the pro- fessional men in Tegucigalpa are | American-educated and although | many of the elder men in politics and government do not speak English, most of the younger men so engaged do. rT” | INNEW YORK | -—_—_—_—_—_______-_* New York, Dec. 28.—In those my- riad places where fiddlers fiddle and cornetists toot, they will telt you that the old dyed-in-the-wool musician is passing from the scene. Up and down the street of folly and frolic you can see musicians tramping ’@ pavement, as actors are now ‘amping the pavement, looking for Ix, and you'll hear the prediction: This winter the musician will starve!” It is not necessary to keep your ear to the ground to hear also that soon there will be but concert artists and jazz bandists. And when you ask for the answer you will hear—“The talk- ing pictures.” . Up and down the street of frolic and folly, the theaters have.come to depend for their music upon the canned variety that goes with the! synchronized films. And after some weeks of doleful | predictions, I did a little personal | checking—although I detest statistics | —and found that 60 per cent of the | Broadway theaters which once pro- duced films with orchestral accom- | paniment now use the musical cellu- | loids. Only the three key theaters, | which present prologues with their pictures, maintain the usual sym- Phony orchestras. The sidewalks statisticians will ask you to remember that sound equip- ment is being installed in thousands | of theaters across the land and where | this happens the orchestra disappears —that is, in a majority of cases. There remains, then, the symphony | orchestras—and there are a limited | number of these—the jazz bands, to | which the old-time musicians are not | attuned and the concert artists. If the musical celluloids continue their invasion, the necessity for orches- | tras will disappear. Thousands, I am told, will be out of work this winter, F and the problem is one which brings premature gray hairs to those organ- | ization heads which look after the in-! terests of the musician. eee The army of women gamblers has | grown to such an extent since the! recent sales spurt in the Stock Ex- | change that most of the big brokerage concerns now have a “ladies’ room.” 4 ‘Time was when brokers discouraged women margin gamblers, and some actually refused to take their account. Women, it was said, were bad losers and had a habit of committing sui- cide when wiped out or faced by a heavy loss. This, of course, was bad FLAPPER FANNY S Hl | for the reputation of the stock mar- ket. | In the recent waves of buying and | selling women have been among the | heaviest players. They are, for the most part, the wives of rich men— | the sort of women who used to play s, having noth- | ing much else to do; or those Park avenue ladies of luxury whose lives are financed by some sugar daddy; or young women of the theater who |overhear good market tips while go- | | ing about the night resorts with the | heavy Wall Street spender: | ee The newly arrived women margin players are not exactly the delight of | a broker's life. The subject of a | hundred amusing cartoons could be | found in their amusing questions and orders, | There have been any number of cases of women who have been tipped | off only to place their order when a given stock has already taken a spurt. | “But I want to buy it at $52,” they will say, in their best bargain sale voices. “But you can’t,” the broker will tell them, “it’s already at $56.” “Well, that’s certainly funny, for only last night I was told I could buy at $52 ..+.” And the phone bangs up. GILBERT SWAN. (Copjyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) | At the Movies : 7 CAPITOL THEATRE A hard-riding, two-fisted cowboy who swears vengeance on the girl he loves. That is an unusual angle in Fox Films’ latest Western thriller featuring Rex Bell. This flaming epic taken from a story by Richard Bret Harte, and brought to the screen under the title of “Taking a Chance,” which will be shown at the Capitol Theatre today, Friday and Saturday. Rex's pard, an old_ missionary, is under suspicion as the famous lone bandit, “The Locust,” and to free his friend Rex promises to capture the terror of the hills, either dead or alive. iv He shoots at “The Locust” but misses. Then follows his mysterious trail night after night ‘on his mission of vengeance and finally tracks “him” down, only to find it is the girl he loved. This brings to a climax one of the best-depicted Westerns ever brought to the screen, and others featured in the cast with Bell are Lola Todd as “The Locust,” Richard Carlyle as the Preacher, and other well-known names, including Billy Watson, Jack Byron, Martin Cichy and Jack Hen- derson. ELTINGE THEATRE Flora Finch, whose fame in films is as old as the picture industry itself, makes a real come-back in Marion Davies’ “Quality Street,” the feature Picture at the Eltinge for today and INSCRUYABLE INSINUATION. SAN ANTONE @ AT LAST — AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY YHAT ME EAGLE ALWAYS GETS HIS MAN — BEHIND THAT THERE 1S AN SATISFACTION HINTING OF AN IMMEDIATE END YO THE LONG, LONG TRAIL — STARE oF YEAM~TMAT THING OF) ( p\Ey DONT THINK \ABOUT OSSIE AN’ | jis 1¢ NO MORE A e' |AIS AIRPLANE= 7] AIRPLANE THAN I Penne a ~~ SALESMAN SAM Arter FORGETTING TO TAKE GUZ2LEMS| $4400 To ato MAN D.RIGABLE! 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