The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1929, Page 10

Wilh > eZ EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is an- other interesting article of the series by Rodney Dutcher, Wash- ington correspondent of The Tribune and NEA Service, who accompanied President-elect Hoo- ver on his tour through South America. ia By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Washington, Jan. 16.—Chile and prohibition are far apart, but in An- tofagasta, Chile, northern port of 30,000 inhabitants, they have one or two wrinkles vaguely suggestive of its operation in some parts of the United States. Out at Luna Park, the local amuse- ment resort, an ordinance says drinks can’t be served after midnight. So, quite in the fashion of a res- taurant speakeasy in our own fair| land, they serve whiskey in cups with a teapot in the center of the table to camouflage it. The “Royal Jazz” is what they call the dance palace, probably more out of deference to the 400 or more Brit- ish inhabitants of Antofagasta than to the score or two Americans here. Most of the music is unmistakably American. | see Forms of prohibition exist around | the mines and nitrate fields, theoret- ical total prohibition at the former, but only theoretical. The poor roto population has been inclined to go in for heavy drinking, resulting in sadly inefficient Mondays. The new government has under- taken both to improve the lot of the roto and restrict his drinking, being responsible in co-operation with American copper companies for curb- ing drunkenness at the mines. And although many consider Chilean wines the best in the world, a law lim- iting extension of wine-producing Jands was passed as long ago as 1922. Antofagasta, a few hundred miles down Chile's 2700-mile Pacific coast line, is the export and import point for a large radius of nitrate and cop- per territory. Almost the first glimpse of her from the sea contains an impression of American sales methods, for on the great cliffs which rise beyond her are painted, 15 yards high, letters adver- —_—_ ! IN NEW YORK | SSA RESON New York, Jan. 16.—Sixth avenue is the poor relation of two of the world’s most famous highways. It lives be- tween them in second-rate quarters; its heels are a bit run over and its stockings reveal long runs. On one side is the aristocratic, high- priced and elegant Fifth avenue. On the other are the raucous, merry, theatrical ahd zestful Seventh avenue and Broadway. And like many a poor relation, Sixth avenue lives off the crumbs that drop from either table. Also it makes those pretensions which might be expected of one so closely related, cn one hand, to Fifth avenue and, on the other, to Seventh avenue or Broadway. Sometimes it feigns swankiness and sometimes it attempts the theatrical. But it lacks the taste of the aristocrat and the flair of the jazzsome. It achieves a splendid mediocrity. ° se 6 To be sure, its windows are filled with fur coats—but they are imita- tions of its Fifth avenue kin. The shop girl who looks wistfully through the panes feels the: she can ape her avenue-strutting sisters. And the windows tell her that she can do this by paying $10 down and mortgaging her salary for a year. Even the pawnshops. which are fre- quent, reveal wares of a better cal- iber than most. These pawnshops are handy to the Fifth avenue and the Broadway “fourflushers,” as well as those who have fallen upon evil days and need a few easily achieved dollars, eee Sixth Avenue, of all the midtown Streets of Manhattan, has most per- sistently defied the intrusion of archi- tectural flourishes and furbelows, typ- ical of the changing times. Its build- ings are as squat and squalid as any to be found on a venerable Main found in profusion; clock shops where Persistent birds leap out in intermit- ”; green grocers and handtinted china of the sort one had forgotten; those cheap art shops where a forlorn-looking painter sits &. window and turns out chromos by the hour; a sudden intrusion of Fifth avenue smartness and then an house; sandwich bars and counters; 5 TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES: : z Latin America’ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THE GUMPS_THE STAR WITNESS’ ) FEEL SORRY FOR THIS ¢ - V WAS PASSING CARR'S OFFICE THE NIGHT HE. SAFE WAS ROBGED — iE wi ‘ Yo SEE HIM TAKE Z tising the leading coffee shop and the most fashionable photographer of the city. The letters are so indistin- guishable far off that one dumbell in the Hoover party thought he saw a graveyard on the hillside. Within Antofagasta, one observes ane AGENT= AFTER LENGTHY SELF ad extagonal revolving street lights, LAUDATION = YO THE with illuminated ads for cigars, Buick POINT OF_ HIS STORY = cars, liquor and cigarets. HE SAW TOM CARRS | Pe PALE ANO AGITATED = Later on, however, your correspond- : erirgres alld BYA ¢ ent discovered that for all her paved streets, unusually pure water supply and other modern improvements. An- tofagasta had no telephone communi- cations with Santiago. There are plenty of local systems and Chile has 35,000 telephones, but telegraph wires suffice this enlongated Rebuplic for communications. The aforementioned British at American residents are all engaged in trade. The big American firm is! W. R. Grace & Co. American auto- mobiles and mining and agricultural machinery, which are such a large component part of our export volume to Latin-American countries, predom- RIVE YO THE STATION DI THE NIGHT OF THE ROBBERY= CARR HANDED THE HE STRANGER A ROU. OF MONEY AND PUT HIM_ABOARD THE FAST TRAIN™ . There 18 No DOUBT IN MR. HUNKLE’S MIND AS Re ale OK THE jinate among Chilean imports. Cloth for clothing, though importa- tion of our cotton goods have more than doubled in volume since before the war, still comes mostly from Eng- land. So do groceries, leather and many of the smaller staples. Ger- many leads in the small electrical equipment field and France gets most of the cosmetic and women’s clothing business. eruises aBouT )f ice EAD AND Body: | ge rere aS WELL BE ALLRieiT ] “Soon AS IN A OXY OR SOM BANE YOU NOTIFIED AIS PARENTS, MISS POOR LITTLE TIKE--ITS A GUAME THE Way YounesTERs E ARE BEING STRUCK BY ; AUTOMOBILES = TANIA UEANEN, THIS ONE ISN'T SERIOUSLY INJURED! Chile is making rapid progress in producing her own necessities. The government is developing domestic industries as rapidly as possible. Chil- eans have begun to make their own leather, their own woolen clothing and their own canned goods. They have several thousand factories with @ $250,000,000 investment, including numerous power plants which are be- ing used to turn wheels for both fac- tories and farms. Chile also wants to smelt her own ore. There is a project for a 30 per cent tax on copper ore, which would hit the American companies, and which may or may not be adopted. “The government is now subsidizing a big new steel plant at Coral, using electric power for smelting for she has no good coke coal. avenue and journey to Seventh ave- nue or Broadway with hands pawing in empty pockets. Nor is there money in the purses for the movies, the theaters and the catch-penny pleas- ures of the jazz lanes. For Sixth avenue is also a street of employment agencies. In the upper mid-town belt crowds stand idly in the cold reading the badly lettered squate signs. They read of dish washers at $15 a week and waitresses and lumberjacks and sewer diggers and housekeepers— Like the street, they are caught be- tween two highways that are miles amy from their immediate possibili- ties. YOU'RE SOME FIsKY. FRILL, ‘fant, vour srespeus ¢ VOUR. STEPPERS CLICK ongeee WO THAT SAzZz- 1S THROWING A SWELL BENDER~ HOW ABOUT IT? HLCHICK! ARE You GOIN’ TO THE CANOE CLUB DANCE? WE'RE GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) At the Movies —. ELTINGE THEATRE . Every once in a while a picture comes along that takes us completely out of ourselves and transports us into a new and unfamiliar environ- ment. For a time we live the lives of the players in the story, suffer vicariously and joy with them in their triumphs. Such a picture is “The Barker,” which opened at the Eltinge yester- day and remains for today and Thursday. It has Milton Sills in the title role as the spieler in the little third-rate carnival troupe. Sills has never given better work to a role. It is shaded so finely, restrained where needed and flamboyant where the characterization demanded expres- siveness. z Dorothy Mackaill is co-starred as the girl Lou. She plays the part with just the proper degree of. abandon- ment, the pathetic desire for a clean atmosphere and a real love is ex- pressed with delicacy and compre- hension. Betty Compson is admirable as the Barker’s sweetheart, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is excellent as the son of the same hardened individual, whose only soft spot is his love for his boy. The trials and tribulations of the troupe, the internal dissension as a result of the Barker's son falling in jove with the carnival girl, Lou, whom he eventually weds, the father’s re- pudiation and final reconciliation—all these things enter into the romantic, mbites! and at times humorous pic- {Hop RIGHT IN, aN’ WELL ORWE OUT IN TH’ COUNTRY - (TS & PEACH OF A OY TS (ISFNME ITS GREAT Ta SIT LiKE ) OH, 1! JusT SAM THE COLD HEY, WHATS THe (OER ie ue TMS AN’ Gaze er TH lent ; “(ER ALL WRONG, UDOT — FROM aoe TW COOKS 0 YER RIGHT ARM Co 4. eae me OU'RE WAISTING! _ gents’ haberdasheries with clothes cut im the ultra-Broadway fashion, and windows showing the most ultra of French wax models. So it goes, in an alluring, fantastic mixture—a sort of super-Main street and Coney Island is one thing more. Since relation, many of its fre- live hand to mouth. CAPITOL THEATRE ’ Motion picture stars are not the only ones to claim interesting back- grounds. Although Gilda Gray is the star of “The Devil Dancer” at the Capitol theatre, Fred Niblo deserves ® generous share of the credit. Fred Niblo, “Ben Hur” director, came to the screen after a long ca- Teer on ee stage, which included ap- Pearances every English-speaking country in the world. He w: in York, Neb. lg