The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1929, Page 10

werent as RO a OP A et t : : : j 1 | | a fh a Tr z It be Pp a I vi sd et wv a by eh PB te th 3 ot wi wm b-—@ “Rus @ —— “es srt pe a ri Editor's Note: Entertainment Rodney for the Bismarck Tribune and NEA Service. Dutcher was a member of the Hoover party and has written a series of interesting observations on Latin America. cee By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer «Copyright 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) Washington, Jan. 30.—For all its European preferences, Buenos Aires is just like the other Latin-American countries in preferring its movies from Hollywood. There may be sneers from some Argentinians about the low cultural =4 With HODVER ix Latin America’ The splendid clubhouse, fitted in- side with dance hall, library, medical Offices, restaurant and a roomful of mechanical horses and camels and other electric exercisers, is surrounded by outdoor swimming pool, roller skating rink, baseball, soccer and basketball fields and tennis courts, of which there will eventually be 50. This is Argentina's gift to the youth of its middle class, the result of in- creased stress on physical health and social contact between young people. Buenos Aires has a number of large cabarets. The most famous is Armenonville, a gorgeous affair on the outskirts as large as a good-sized theater and with out-door gardens. Men of Buenos Aires come here, but never their wives. One can find danc- ing partners from all over the world, level of our films, but the people eat | some very beautiful. them up. Your correspondent visited one of the larger movie houses on a Sunday afternoon. Instead of one main fea- ture picture he found four or five on the program. The movie patron here buys his show in one-hour sec- tions, He can buy from one hour of movies to five or six, with cut rates for three or five-hour tickets. A two-hour picture is cut and then speeded up to fit into its alloted hour and how the action does whizz. Most of the sob stuff and other junk is thereby ciiminated or made more bearable. Some remarkable effects are obtained from the slap-stick comedies. Instead of showing a single two-reel funny, the theater packs a half dozen of them into a single comedy hour. American business movies have creating demand for American Jux- uries, for when an Argentinian ob- tains only'a fleeting glimpse vf a lux- ury he has to have it. Sound movies have been tried in Buenos Aires, but the languege bar- rier has kept the talkies eway and none of th> latter has beer. produced in Spanish. Taking one's girl to the movies is a different process here. Especially in the middle class, it is also neces- sary to take along the rest of hur family. Romantic American youths confide that the best way yet found to beat this game is to pick a girl ha sister and provide another fellow for the sister. Two sisters, it appears, can sometimes break away frcm the house without having any of the older folks tag along, after which they can split up. men say the eee There has always been some com- Plaint concerning a lack of social in- tercourse among young people, although there is more of it now .The magnificent “Gymnasia y Esgouna” (gym sports and fencing) offers a center for young men and women from the city’s offices to meet soci- ally. This establishment is partially subsidized by unclaimed lottery prize Money and dues are only $2 a month. In effect “Gymnasia” is a gorgeous country club; there is nothing like it ‘in the United States. ‘The status of these partners i: rather vague, according to report. From any puritanical American standard, such a cabaret is a social phenomenon and is regarded as a show place for the visitor. The set- ting is more sumptuous than any American night club, eating is cheaper and so is drinking. The be- haviour is better. eee Another social phenomenon is the daily parade on Florida (pronounced Floreeda with penultimate accent), one of the principal streets. Automo- bile traffic is barred late each after- noon while the boys and girls of the town parade up and down Florida for about a mile. At the lower end, among the fashionable shops, the parade is found to be one vast ogle, continuing until dark, for dinner been a great hcip in | here is served at about 9 o'clock and anyone who goes out after dinner is likely to be out all night. On Florida, during parade, one finds many of the Beunos Aires beauties and heiresses. It is the cus- tom of the young men to express admiration when it is excited. Under the law de cincuenta, however, any female may call a cop if she receives any unwelcome addresses, whereupon the accoster is automatically fined 50 Pesos. Like the Mann act, the law de cincuenta is sometimes used as an instrument of blackmail. eee Intensive advertising has been creating a demand for the popular brands of American cigarets, but. be- cause of the tariff many of these brands are bootlegged in Buenos Aires. Camels or Lucky Strikes cost @ peso, or more than 40 cents, if bought legitimately; the smuggled article from the bootlegger comes for 28 cents. Incidentally, Spanish- speaking people find it so much easier to say “Camel” than “Chester- field,” so the former brand has <n edge here. American cigaret companies often take half-page ads in newspapers and, as in other fields our advertising slo- gans have been translated into Span- ish whenever possible. “They Satisfy!” becomes “Satis- facen!” and “Keep that Schoolgirl complexion” is “Conserve el cutis de Colegiala!” Crystal Hathaway, after reading the psychiatrist's merciless expose of the mental workings of victims of the in- feriority complex, would have given anything in the world to be able to snatch back and burn that mad “ran- som letter” she had concocted and sent to her cousin, Bob Hathaway. She had hardly given thought to the possibility—no, ‘What could she do? Oh, God, who loved even base creatures like herself, what could she do? Regardless of the cold wind which poured through the cracks, Crystal flung herself down upon the floor, sobbing wildly, beating upon the splintery boards with her clenched fists until her knuckles bled. There was no way out, but—death. And twice on Monday she had tried to it_ suicide and had found that lacked the . | filled with smoke and the odor of would rather die than have Cherry Johnson know the depths to which she had fallen. But what could she do? It was unthinkable to go on with the hid- eous game she was playing—and un- thinkable to crawl back to Stanton and confess her depravity. After all, she sobbed, she had been thinking of Pablo Mendoza more than of herself. It was to save him from Bob's wrath, from arrest as her deceiver or ab- ductor, that she had conceived the mad idea of kidnapping herself. Of course she had not realized what she was doing. But with violent hands Crystal slapped her own face again and again. “You coward, you!” she sobbed hy- sterically, glad of the pain she had inflicted upon herself. “Trying to justify yourself—you fool! I’m not fit to live! And I haven't the courage to die! Oh, God, have mercy on me! Show me what to do!” But not even that passionate prayer was wholly sincere. Crystal knew what she ought to do. But it was as impossible for her to go and con- fess her sins to Bob, Faith, | Cherry, as it was to kill herself. She was lying on the floor ex- hausted with weeping, when she became conscious that the room was burning beans. Although she really wanted to die, or thought she did, the instinct of self-preservation made Crystal leap to her feet and drag the pot of hope- lessly burned beans from the itire- Place. With a fork she dug at the mass frantically, but there was less than a cupful that could be eaten— unless she was starving, of course. — | IN NEW YORK New York, Jan. 30—Just ‘as the “little theaters” grew up in Greenwich Village in years agone as “protests against the commercial theater.” 80 are the artistic little mo- oe Playhouses cropping up as cinema castles continue their | Tue ONLY NEWS YHAT . MR. AND MRS JEREMIAN FILTERS. IN FROM TH! ANNOUNCE YUE Z QUTBIDE WORLD YO g ‘ CARR (3 THROUGH WN : 4 PAPE tPPED INTO. 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