The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 10

ER IEE OIE Fee SMO EN IP AO I ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE _, TUESD AY, JANUARY 15, 1929 = Wl By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer Washington, Jan. Chile, is surrounded by inland moun- tains. The city has been unheard of in North America since its last big earthquake. It was reached by your correspondent only through accident. It ts capital of a whole Chilean prov- sce and populated by no more than! Spanish cards with swords, vege- jtables and such articles on the faces. 8,000 souls. Copiapo occupies the area of a modern American city eight or ten times as large. Built almost exclu- sively of one-story buildings, the great majority of adobe and thatch construction, and with frightful streets which will soon be paved for the first time, Copiapo is surely typi- cal of hundreds of towns of similar size in Latin America which the Hoover party could not visit on its tour. Your correspondent spent 24! hours in Copiapo, consorting with the single American resident. Copiapo, like the larger Latin- American cities, is becoming mod- ernized—as must the innumerable Copiapos in this part of the world.) Disastrous earthquakes may have helped her; reconstruction work has always shown a little more progress over the styles and customs of thej| year 1540, when the Spaniards founded Copiapo. 1 There’s a Rotary Club in Copiapo and it lunches once a week. Unable to count them, your correspondent was told that there were also some 200 automobiles. It costs $1,000 to get a new Ford here, so it was no surprise to see a couple of local fam- ilies driving in a Chevrolet with a uniformed chauffeur. Copiapo’s school girls wear white middies and blue skirts, bobbing their hair or not, as they choose. The town supports two movie theaters— three before the last fatal earth- quake. Occasionally they show a Chilean film, but they’re nearly al- ways American. Many Copiapans get excited about them; here a hiss may mean anything, as often as not a purr of contentment. . . . Not vnly movies here, but radio, for the American mining company represen- tative in Copiapo has a home made two-tube set in his house on which he claims to pick up the United States and Holland. The American goods sold in Co- piapo are automobiles, typewriters, chewing gum, cameras, a few drugs and machinery for farming and min- ing. No staple articles from the United States are obtainable. And although good tailor made suits may be had, nothing very satisfactory in the way of haberdashery. Your cor- respondent found that out when he undertook to get some new clothes te replace those soaked with oil in an airplane mishap earlier in the day. Among the several American manufacturers listed above, the only one that has any appreciable com- TRIBUNE’ HODVER ix} ‘2 Latin America‘4 15. — Copiapo,! a COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES = _| PAGE OF - |) SAW TOM.CARR RUSH: OUT OF HIS OFFICE WITH A TOUGH: LOOKING CHARACTER ABOUT TEN THIRTY THAT SAME NIGHT— THEY GOT @,00 vou BY Seo "Shows .- DID. YOU BY ANY . ty AND x * CHANCE REVERSE RV LIKE THE WIND bo youle miaures — J MEAN 72 2 Q- MARRIED OR SINGLE ?: As Singut - Br cHorce = GY, Q> YOUR AGE PLEASE - ANAY WERE. YOU : WHY WHEN. YOU. SAW “TOM : 1 SBT "THObEIT THAT SOME, ANO.THIS MAN RUSH =1 ADDLE+HEADEO- DONKEY: SSS Ee ? eh ‘STATE YOU WERE ii ‘YROTIC CLOD WOUKD ASK QUST SUCH A : 43 FEET WW% INCHES ‘ROODLEDOM QUESTION: ‘Awad GomP UPSET ‘THE COURTROOM . YESTERDAY WHEN DEFENSE COUNSEL INTIMATED ‘THAT HE MIGHT HAVE ‘SAKEN ‘THE $10,000- HIMSELF LL ‘y YOO Al te GOURT ATTACHES YO KOLD HIM —. HE SESSION ENDED IN A RIOT= DRAWING AND a FINE FOR CONTEMPT | 12m OF COURT= i petition is the camera; the Germans ‘sell cameras here, too. The popular sport _of this section of Chile is soccer. Even villages of 50 or 100 persons have their teams. In Copiapo there is also an outdoor basketball court and some tennis. Gambling is popular, as through- out Latin America The town games are baccarat and poker, played with 1 MEASURED any WHY? ‘ WILL YOU KINDLY Ten THE COURT “AND: HE JU! Just WHY “HYQu MEASURED 17 ~ WHAT. MADE You ANT ‘TO. KNOW me BXACT. STANCE? FROM HE DOOR= WOW DO. YOU HAPPEN ‘to. KNOW HE EXACY DISTANCE ? | Scores of dice games are played. An American mining man here some years ago taught the youth of the countryside to shoot craps and male Copiapans still like the game, but their own variations show in- finite imagination, Your corre- spondent learned a game called El Capitan Mando. The social center of Copiapo is the Club Social. Here in the evening ene can find anyone of importance, though there is also a radical club in town, The bar of the Club So- cial has a rail on which men put their feet, though nearly all Latin- American drinking is still done at tables. It was thence that your correspon- dent was led to meet leading citi- zens of Copiapo and to be inter- viewed by the editor of El Amigo del Pais, third oldest newspaper in Chile, with a circulation of 1,600. * * 8 PAYING A 32509 THLDA-TucKsAP | MM THE GUMP MAID ~ VS CALLED — WEY! LooK ouT"? You M6AT GET KILLED” Your correspondent then proceed- ed to interview the editor. Event- ually he asked him what Copiapo thought about prohibition in the United States. The editor replied that it must be inconvenient, but that everyone knew it wasn’t abso- lute. He spoke with a wink of speak- easies and proceeded to tell the story | H of an American farmer who was sent i mi Mt MW to jail for many years for operating ‘ | il A a still, whereupon his daughter had Qi. TWEN CANE e ‘ A DULL DEADENING - to go to work for the judge who had sentenced him, serving drinks night- ly in his home. Funny how such yarns get down here to Copiapo! «oe Mining and farming are Copiapo’s principal pursuits The rancheros have their ranches outside of town, raising grain and cattle. There are plants here with a high content of tannic acid, especialy algarrobilla. American goods are handled by local hous so the only’ American firm functioning on the spot is the American Smelting & Refining Co., which handles a third of the world’s lead and copper, with mines and smelters in the United States; Canada, Mexico and Peru. In Copiapo, it buys from small native miners. A few natives go out together to dig ore to sell the company. Sometimes a man goes out with his family; he digs and his wife and kids sort the ore, which is then brought to Copiapo on burros. The ore is then shipped to the Unit- ed States for smelting. YOU LET GO OF MY AQM OR TLL TELL Pop enn send BEEN TAKING HER WHAT A DIRTY, urTLe Gin! WHO 1S HELLO, CHICK! LOOKIE, WE'RE Film of Carnival | Life Exposes Its ‘Gaffed’ Games Eltinge Theatre Now Show- ing ‘The Barker’ “The Barker,” screen play of car- nival life which has received a great amount of favorable comment from reviewers and critics, opens at the El- tinge today and remains for Wednes- day and Thursday. “The Barker” is particularly entertaining because of the accuracy with which the carnival games have been reproduced. While the carnival has been con- sidered a scheme to “take the suck- ers” the better class of these shows have eliminated objectionable fea- tures. There are still, however, trav- eling shows of this description that Nleece the uninitiated with dexterity. Some of the deceits thus practiced are graphically exposed in “The Barker,” with Milton Sills and Dor- othey Mackaill co-starred. Sills makes a remarkably fine barker. Not even the stage play by Kenyon Nicholson offered superior acting, particularly in the central role. Sills gives it life, imparts the hardness, contrasting with a softening toward the end, and especially when his son is concerned, that shows his eile qualities and true histrion- While one is fascinated by the carni- val scenes, the expose of the devices for cheating participants in games of chance; the nomadic life of the itin- erant performers—the tense drama of father-love, the intrigue of associ- ‘ation between men and women in this precarious life, are even more com- pelling. ~« Realistic to a degree, splendidly K. Bull, R. L. Best and Miss Eva Wil- liams. Liecut.-Governor David Bartlett has returned from St. Louis, where he had gone to arrange for a booth and installation of exhibits. TEN YEARS AGO Mrs. Hattie Germain and Miss Mary Afth left for Superior, Wis., and other points in the east. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Bannon have as their guest Mrs. N. F. Bartholemew of Beach. A women’s wor': exhibit for the women of the Missouri Slope will be staged in the basement of the North- west hotel the last part of tre month. The following vomen will have charge of the various exhibits: Mts, W. L. Nuessle, child welfare; Mrs. C. L. Young, home convenience depart- ment; Mrs. F. R. Smyth, foods and methods of food conservation. ——_______.¢ | At the Movies o— @ PALACE THEATRE, MANDAN In the vaudeville program coming to ‘the Palace Theatre, Wednesday, syncopation, comedy and things to amaze join hands to make the bill meritorious and lively. The syncopation portion is. supplied by Harry Lewis and Mitzie Wyman and Band. This is an organization of entertainers and musicians who have an act that furnishes patrons with a clever combination of song and dance. A vocal offering that is a distinct novelty is being presented by Ben Miller and Crystal Welch. Lester, one of the foremost ventril- oquists of the day, is to offer his highly recommended act. Steve Ondek and Slinor Walent have conceived a versatile classic, the value of which lies chiefly in their entertainment qualities. In musical comedy this couple has scored signal success. Novelty of a marked degree is of- fered by Patrick rnd Retta, who come to vaudeville from the circus world in which they have attained distinction. On the screer. will be seen a com- edy drama of gay Paree, “Dry Mar- taal | Mary Astor and Matt HEY, Kins! THere’s SAM, HOWDY AN’ TH’ BUNOLE BUGGY AGcaIN! GEE, WHIZ, BUT THERE MUST BE A STRONG WIND BUCKIN' ME. — 1 CAN'T MAKE ANY “SPEEDO aT acu! Gost, HES FLYIN’ Low =- Just Lookee Here! PIPE THE ANCHOR! A —— —__— CAUITOL THEATRE ey