Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 58

SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO Y .5, 1925 Woman on Hunting Trip Challenged by Five African: Lions at Once | Undergoes Unusual Encounter Amid Perils of Night in Jungle, With Dread Noises Made by Approaching Beasts. Editor's Note: n precedir cles In this series the o hae t of her initiation into the wild life of British East Africa—with of p and_sa nat the experiences recount first kill—the shooting the " killing and being tr whose kleamin R rea Vi bt with dan ger was her capture of a full-grown ropa 8 a _cur ¢ sudd original its caz among home. Pess. ard save f. cowed BY MATGU MALLETT. WEEK after my adventure with Cyrus (our leopard), A.| was planning to set out for| Garindi. That year we were| ving more than enough | rain, and if the weather did not clear | light | say “Nonsense! it could not be done,” but it was, although I was not there |to see how. How beautifully clear the water was! I took a long, re- freshing drink Is there no other ‘way to Bardi- mat?" 1 asked Yes, there was another way across the mountains, perhaps 12 miles. When on ot to the top it was e easy. T was the cutting, me. 1 decided to take it ah declared his ability to get wagon, buckboard, gombes (oxen) and my horse and mule safely across, but on would have to be unloaded That meant time, and I am not fent “Who will come with me?” T asked I want some one to carry Obadiah™ pet lemu Two or three voluntecred No; one will do. Rabsah will want 1s many as possible to help.” Up the cutting, followed by the “boy.” T went. What was 12 miles? I I should be unable to go. It was very |could have my afternoon siesta as fsappointing. He expected to be| away a fortnight. I knew I should usual and then get in by 4 o'clock; it was s and I am a good “AS 'T STRAINED MY EYES IN THE DARKNESS, FIVE DIS- TINCT FORMS LOOMED OUT.” “I thought it was all up with you I said Yes, T thought T had got to hand in my checks,” replied A. XK K NHEN we turned to the boys, who | were huddling, frightened, behind | a tree. “That is my blanket,” a volce quavered, and the owner stepped gingerly out to retrieve his property “You may thank your lucky star you were not in it," retorted A. “But I was." It was said so earnestly that we had to laugh. The boy had fallen asleep by the fire, his blanket in a heap at his back, keeping the wind off, and the lion had snatched at the blanket, thinking the boy was inside. “Well,” said A., “you can take his skin off now, seeing he took yours The boy thought it was a huge joke We turned in again, but I could not sleep. The sight of those gleam ing fang: those flery eves, had got on my nerves. 1 pulled the lamp | closer and tried to read. An hour went by. 1 glanced at my watch fright of a few hours before, and feit another visit from those wretéHes would be more than I could stand Nearer they came.. Surely they would wake A. Still he slept on, and so did the “boys,” every one. Then there secemed & veritable pandemonium, roar succeeding roar, and, as strained my eves in the darkuess, one, twe, three, four—yes—five in distinet forms loomed out Was I losing my senses? Again T counted. Five! There was no mis- take about it They had come to within 200 yards when, as nearly as I could make out, they sat down and low growls took the place of the pre- vious roars. Would nothing on earth wake A.? Would the boys wait until eaten up alive? It sounds too absurd to be true; I know, but, being accustomed to the roars of lions every night, I myself slept through it all when at home and safely fastened up indoors. Here it was a different matter. Nothing but sheer exhaustion could account for this lethargy I opened my tent at the back, looked out and crept about 6 yards to A.'s be rather sick of myself by that time | Walker. At 12 o'clock we sat down to if I had to remain. However, so it|rest 1 have some refreshment, turned out. | It had taken some time longer than \ } b B i down, leaving the lamp beside me. | 000 WG S BE BEET e As “The roads will be a perfect quag-|I bad ated getting to the top. ‘ R A WA : : A nolse in the boma. Instantly Il onewhat senseless answer. mire; you won't enjoy it a bit, Mar-| Ve could only rest for one hour; then, A o \ Y i sat up and lstened. gun in hand. 1| **F0E ST TG0, of tons. garet.” | doing 3%; miles an hour, we should iy = \ Y ¢ A £ 3 next went to the door of my tent,|mpen 4s' A. prepared to go outside So A. started alone in a downpour. | Still be at Bardimat by 4 o'clock. But y B 4 ¢ only to see the fires almost out, the |ico equy T waid. -there are five’" As if by magic, the next day the sun |in this country one can be sure of boys sound asleep. They had finished | \pivas’ . gave an expressive shone gloriously. The next ere was | nothing until it really happens. skinning the lion, and, tired out, had | whistle, “Boys!” he shouted, giving a shower in the morning and then the [ Four o'ciock found us wearily look- fallen asleep while they talked around | pig voice full pla S eeihs actfine anh tar. thit yme one to show us the Way. the fire. Would they never learn | “Nidio, Bwana Instantly they e bestect: boy,” who had protested that he wisdom? o ted with all my | WeE® stifring I fretted and fumed, all to no pur- | KN€W it perfectly, having been, born 1 shouted and. shoute ith Ay | The lions got up and, still growling, DOBb. The next night was & lsenlass NEAE |,..-..I now acknowledged ;mlg he - might, 1;\"”’,1::2 not suceed in waking | moved toward the homi Tnstancly 4 SRy okine n | knew nothing of it. Just what I might \ - 3 e of them or A. D oxen | circle of fires was ed into life ]'(“:‘_""‘L"“"““'"""’,’;““r:' e Y eul | soul did we meet until a quarter 3 there must be something about. How | 311 arour The boys wera keenly R, (B BOK 07 Sl 2. lto 6 ¥ \ G I would have liked to g0 out and|aifve to their danger now; mo were AN e e !”’H\H!‘. Then we met two women a » N shake them all! But that would have | tha hullocks and horses. We could down, walking round the boma to see | [TheR e Met tHQ WerleR and & man z : £ : e T B uriioc. AL LBl omantithere 1o o vy i Srend 4t wi0 und sttt Sy “ ge s oma, and. |{he bom he wounded one had be ;y}.‘:'m:::\ > lamps were proverly hung.| o fiye"ony to Bardimat? To see the was a mad rush in the boma. and.|ihe boma. The wounded one had heen feeding the owl, the leopard, the lion seeing that the dogs had their supper giving the cheetahs theirs, and romp- ing with them-—all of which toc up time; then I shut myself in. and I suppose slept about two hours. Then another half-hour and 1 would try to | “Will nothing wake you?" I shouted. sleep. At the end of that time I lay 11 nothing wake yo o “Do you want to be eaten that direction. This woke the bovs, |tent, the smell of blood appearing to laugh. Evidently they had never { en a white woman before. A lengthy conversation took place between tHem and my boy. behind. However, tonight a boma |, jumped up and seized their |ierrify the remainder. Backward and tle inclosure) must. be bullt to|spears, just in time to see a leopard | forward paced the lions. contain all the bullocks, as well as|vault over the boma an'l‘d Dpear Fvery minute seemed an hour. 2 i oniakl BT By that time A. was also awake,| “They won't dare to rush the fires,” mules and horses. Quickly the thorn-| 4" zather we went to the boma t0[said A.. reassuringls a gun went off. The traps we VWHO was 12 Where did T live? Was bush surrounding the manvatta was|find the bullocks in a state of frenzy “What had we better do?”" T asked all round the house and boma, as W Y martisd?” Was iy hisheon pulled down and a temporary boma land one badly clawed on the throat and Well. five to two is rather thick protection every night. Out of Gut Hare? WHive: wan hat Fwas 1 Z constructed. A kongoni, h\vhir)h A.|shoulder. But for my timely shot no [ We had better try firing into the air,” St a G Bl . , . had shot, was given to the “boys”|doubt it would have been killed. This R here wae 1t?” T inguired weling alone? Why? What did I|Involuntarily I_shuddered. What | where T was afraid I deprived some|beasts had he passed on the road.|and n ~Tommy. ot ready for the | et pa o e Do K und. the | ¢ hat does mot do. and they P ot Tl want to go to Bardimat for? What | would A. say? Well, I had my wish; [one of a bed, on which I lay down | “They lay there in hundreds,” he | qo.s B e eta et We £ that does ot Jocanc © rt was I doing in Masalland? How long |1 had seen Masailand and- Masai: | just as I was, boots and all, and |sald. In any case, it would be well | ““Bii fires were soon alight and the | deputed two to Keep mwake for an | ~Keep your head, My 2t Now? % F ok * was 1 going to stay? How many chil- | seen more than millions of other|slept heavily till morning. | that these should not return for a |phoys compared notes on the journey.|hour, then to wake another two. 1| A report from b s, quickl ALREADY “hoys” were coming out | 7en had 17 And so on women would ever see. Here let me pay a tribute of gratl-|time. Me 507 wih {alien out:of tie Buck |t e tHons toat I AHOMIL oot At ¥ |ttt cx by another ax s of huts, armed with spears. We | it Was some time before I could get 'What 15 to be will be.” I sup.|tude to those Indlans, men whom 1| When I told him of the fearful|poard and inspected heard anything, so they had better |began walking away e B T A s him av > g posed it was Fate, Inexorable Fate,|had never seen before, whose names | time I had spent coming over the| ‘e must have it ready tonight, in|shout to let me know they were |three seemed undecided hyena 5 N e ud, “which way 3o We|1I shivered from head to foot as the|] did not know. They were kindness |mountains he sald a good deal that | case we want it,” remarked A awake and watching. Before the |plenty—it was worth trying for. and how m miles off are we?” | jiqeous roars reverberated and dieq|itself. Never shall I forget it. I would rather not repeat, the least | ““Tamps were filled and placed all |hour had expired, the two were | “Ready?” said A | e surprise on their faces aimoat mads -7 A 1 =) w would probably have to remain [Unable to restrain myself, I fired removed and fastened close to A.'s | | “All this trouble over a hyena : | thought, as I reset the trap S Ehres ailen e e :;r::"i"’}ed aw. only to. be taken wmn and| In the morning I was myself |being that women were such mad-|round the boma. one hung on each |asieep, and it was I who had to do % e boys dragged the carcass away. ; 2} 2 5 Bk e bed. “This thme no |, How tired Iwas! I began to wish I'|yelled in hideous chorus. Why diq|2nd tea in abundance. Then, as no | certain what their next move wou over, we prepared for bed,| “Put wood on the fires—put wood | ['WO more bullets whizzed through hope of sleeping, so I took a boc remained with the wagon. MY | not become insensible againz 1f!| tdings had come of A., my “boy”|be. In my own case I'm afraid he | givir ovs final instructions to|on the fires! | the air, just over the lions’ heads. B i ace v 1 slower; then a[only I could! Instead, every nerve|WAS Sent off to the house of the|was right! »s up before we retired.| “N'dio, Mem-sahib." Instantaneously the three made off st e e e ess came Over me | seemed strung taut, every sense wide | 4IStrict commissioner, Capt. L., about | We left Garindi soon after | Oh. what a night that was! We were | How many times that night for more. A. sent 1 dreamen [ heard a gun go off. Then |° v iterated that command, reall % Alof s reriiuen D IOLS A hurled back again. Then the hyenas | 2E2in. They brought curry and rice | brained creatures one could never be of our s, just over the entrance.|the shouting. | S 2 Sy B awake. =)\H Ynllflls (vff“ « ‘D(.k]; {;AI‘RB away frurln luncheon, so did not get far that day oth tired out and soon fell asleep. d that T u o GRS K] e ahib v 3 x | home, but Mrs. L. kindly sent a mule | We camped about half-past 4 near Il at once we were startled by |not know. Suffice it to say t ever 3 r speed—and that was the there came a knocking at m T, | sounded in my ear, “don’t go to sieep; | I Wished I had not seated myself |and escort fo fotch me to Garindl | v ors i s el et e 's. We rushed |boy slept within a quarter of an hour of them although [t was some time before I | {so close to the path, not more than | &n nyatta. (collection of huts). | shrieks from the boy ) THSheC : P . hough ok at the lion’s spoor. Mem-sahib, it | {0 €108 10 the path, not more than|There for three days I stayed as|Manyattas are never far from |out, in time to see a great beast|of taking his turn on guard, and 2 aste and get some coffee O nat ia/itr” Toaskel crondly is getting dark. Wake up.” o e I fact. If only I had | Mrs. L.'s guest—three very happy |streams of some description, and this | vanish with what appeared to be one |was I who had to do the watching. | re: d to the S “Chui, mem-sahib,” the voice reit- | ' \h an e I rose and continued | B0, BUR' ""5’,,“\':’,‘)"‘["“" sense as-| days, doing nothing but rest. How |one was no exception to the rule P e bove in his mouth. We both | How thankful I was when my watch |the time we were dressed it , m ib, i my rney. Lions' spoo A at use was a | goo r s p RS rr . . Canb e 3 e ac s, |sald 5 o'clock, and w we P | Jonenay, Li n poor there cer St How naerioabatt e | &0 d it was to see a white face again, | I'm afraid we shall be disturk lion turned and faced us, [said § lock, and/X knew it v ] iy B o B it A | tainly was, and leopards’ also. Then Sy s surely fand that a woman's—a refined, edu-| A. said as we were discussing dinner to spring. Again we fired. | soon be daylight Bciocos A ™ ‘h‘“l (oopard), iaem-sabib { he began to tell me that this footpath "‘“i’r;“? ‘!curds 1”1“f‘\‘ and that! . . .“num!. traveled woman, who could| “Lions?’ I queried pped the blanket (for so it * o wo* | e e h e . ‘\\. s the one always used by lions to y cold as a gleam pene- |talk on many subjects and vet with| *Yes A. replied. “They are pretty to be) which it had selzed | A S 1 settled down, a roar broke on | anindcs - o s | : we have brought it.” g0 to the water hole, about three |trated the darkness and visions of {such a quiet, restful manner, and so |bad here.- wd came toward us, mane bristling. my ear—not so far off, e! ool Aam sahfl)? s st arhin: before me. Again I seemed to hear I thought f wha I had gone distended, fangs glistening then miles off. our journey from Siana appeared | homely! ‘l it gl * ok ok ¥ | through a few nights before, but|can see it now as it advanced and 1 did look, and I was quite pre. (A saying, “That is not a hut; it is ! . . % 1 e i inside the door and go,” T g0 my door opened, or rather the door of the house. There were | heavy footsteps, then my door was | F::';:q open and a big leopard rolled | (figerine "uccession. Big and little, | Thank heaven! I heard voices. It | pected. Four of his oxen had be. ow overtaken us shot and A.'s rang out simultaneously . . they seemed to dance befors my eyes, | W28 & lantern, not eyes. The Indfans | come sick, and finally died; he was | alenh ey hod met with adven.| e el s Another Leopard Deposited. {and once again T fell senseless, only | had come at last, and brought a|fearful for the rest. More had to|tures, his wagon had broken down|huge form liy almost at A.'s feet al l Iera el I ls 1 \/ eS Scarcely had they gone when an-|!0 De recalled to myself once xnon\l!m‘ge- 4 Fhlun}y ll'hp\' helped me up, | be purchased, all of which took time.|and he had had to repair it. V | We exchanged glances other Fun went off, and a quarter of |Vt the oftrepeated “Mem.sahib!|and with two lanterns leading the |He was glad T had brought the buck- | A.s assistance, I was surprised ‘hat A near shave, that,” A. said — e I et econd leopard lay | Mem-sahib! don’t g0 to sleep. way, two Dringlng up the rear and |board. Now we could return with-[he had not remained in the bed of | quietly. beside the first. |, It was no use; 1 was staggered on|0ne Indian leading my mule, at last |out the oxen. which he proposed |the stream. It said something for Water. pleas T had lost interest in chui and every- | few vards and had to give in. I|We ‘f‘"f d‘t Bardimat. They brought | leaving behind, with two boys to|Rabsah's ingenuity. nything in it?" thing else; I wanted only to sleep, [°0uld do no more. I zat down and|™e f00C— cn‘l(ml not eat; but a cup |look after them, as he was much w there seemed no help fc No.” hing e it T drenped off again. | leaned my head against a tree. of tea I drank greedily, then anoth- |afrald the four he had lost died of |A’s gombes (oxen) and those 1 h es, T iInsist In the morning those two beasts We cannot be far from Bardimat|er: finally they took me to a tent, | rinderpest, so many carcasses of wild ' brought were fraternizing. The whole | brandy went another, and another, followed 3 < & truthfully say I in quick succession. Were they com said nothing. At that moment there | straight toward A = hecey N1 Bidiaoe ot opex iy as a noise outside; on investigation Fire, Margaret! it proved to be my boy, who had| I pulled myself together and my pared to believe his version. The foot- |# lon. | AT the end of the three days A. marks crossed and recrossed in be.| Nearer. it came, nearer atill arrived. It was as I had ex- BY C. MORAN. AIRBREATH HARRY leaps from a century flier into a and"&/;dagh S0t racing automobile; he crawle, into 4 out on the wing of a plane ing evidence of the terrific force blasts due to flour and starc and en: led those witnessing them to appreciate more vivid i eve re he penalty that often |is gave me a fright, as my eyes rested | now 1 aid. on them for a moment on waking. Then the events of the night slowly recurred to me. Well, they were two | beauties anyw: Something to show A. on his retur ‘Four days had passed since he went, another possible 10, perhaps 14, be- fore he would be back—one could never be sure. So much might hap- | pen: a horse or mule go lame, acci-| dents to the wagon, difficulty in cross- | ing rivers, and much else had to be taken into consideration The next morning was glorious, but | I could settle to do nothin Why should not I follow A 1, if nothing | else go as far as Bardimat, and await him there? With me, think is to act True, it would be rather un 1 a woman travelling alone; st plenty of boy of dogs, should be w 2 Rabsah one or two of \der ong did they think? 1 it be pos: For a mor open-mouthed; then th mem-sahib_wanted to go, wWh st go. They would take care How I enjoyed it | was all wish it to be horse W : the boys full of spirits, and the | not too heavily dened—i , they, with their load of hides to sold,” formed the excuse for my journey. S “’F, camped at last, not far from tream, in_as open & we could find. What a temptati was always, to see shady trees to know that you must not pitch your tent under these, but on the dry sandy attention of leopards and lions; there must be nothing in the shape of cover for them near you I had about seven dogs with me seven being the number that has al ys brought me 1 and un urbed nights we had, quite unusu al in these parts. Then, when nearing Bardimat, we suddenly came on stream. ver shall T forget it! If I were to tell you the size of those bowlders lying at the bottom, of the steepness of the ascent, you w i iy i sharp velp of a jac “You walk on quickly and tell the Indians there that your Mem-sahib is here and they must come and fetch her. Take Obadizh, and if I am not here when you come back you are to let him go. Do vou-understand?”’ But, Mem-sahib, simba (lion), chui (leopard),” he remonstrated o at once: tell the Indians they must come and carry me.” With a quick stride he was off, and I watched his retreating figure ith something like regret, resolving that, should T get out of this safely, 1 undertake a journey alone. would never again in this countr: welve miles I must have walk- ed— “I cannot walk any further," I said. Then once more all became blurred and I knew nothing. When 1 iads of grasshoppers were chirping; | it sounded almost like the whirr of came to it was quite dark. Myr- achinery in the distance. hyena uttered its complaining Nearer there was a short, and a night- swooped ~down on moiseless stone's throw away. T JHAT was that? I strained my ears to catch the sound. I had t long to wait. The roar of a m, unmistakable as it was inspir- g. Hardly had it died away when 1 answ 1g challenge rang out on my right, quickly followed by an- other and yvet another. 1 found myself conjecturing the 1! distance the sound had traveled. A {lion's roar can be heard a distance |teacher had of five miles, A. had said only the her day. Was that five miles off? |in her belief that her prophecy would wcher had posted her age offers from any r career, as, A bit con- wondered. I thought not. If so, t distance? Again roar upon roar, as if calling to each other to mortal combat. No, certalnly it was not five miles; perhaps three, perhaps less. he next roar left me no longer in »t. One mile at the most. I tried to rise; my legs refused to support me. Of what use, I thought, when I had not the faintest idea which way to go. How close it sounded! RUSH OF :AIR, A WHIRL OF DUST.” - he turned to Philadelphia Metropolitan said Dippel. at three of the after noon concerts which were a regular feature at the hotel. “Do you expect to sing in opera? asked Behrens gaged to app would be a grand opera singer. come true, the t »w long did it take a lion to cover |[pupil not to encou: one who suggested for instance, light opera. fused, Anna Case decided, when her questioner asked her if she intended to sing in opera, that he referred to light opera. “I never expect to,” she replied. would you like to sing in our pursued Behrens. will not sing in light opera.” exclaimed the other, is grand opera. I want your address|Opera Company also had heard her for Mr. Andreas Dippel A great light broke in upon the |sing and had praised her much | third, that still a third person, name little New Jersey girl. She recalled [not mentioned, but “high up” in her teacher’s prediction. It did not | seem possible that it could be coming true so soon. And yet— A few days later, at home, she re. celved a letter from the man who had played her accompaniments at her Philadelphia appearances — Clarence K. Borden. Her told her that her singing appeared likely to bring great results for her. After her departure he had learned three things: First, that Andreas Dippel had been greatly impressed by her volce; second, Mme. Gadski of the Metropolitan | musical world, was interested in her he happy augury of this letter was | soon justified. A letter from Behrens followed that of Borden “Mr. Dippel wishes to hear you sing again with a view to your ap pointment to the Metropolitan,’ ran And next came a note from Dippel himself. “Please call on me in New York, it said, “so that I may hear you sing | | struggle by the chance discovery of | her voice that afternoon in the Phila with the possibility of an engage ment in mind.” American Ideas in Spain PARIS, June 25. national polo games. He knew Americans long ago and they know | him. This time he came back to his country well decided to apply Ameri- can ideas or, as he expresses it, the principles of democracy.” He has been as good as his word He has just given orders that two of the immense landed estates which have been for half a thousand years in the possession of his family “shall be cut up into small properties. These are to be the farms which 400 families of his present tenants will henceforth own in fee simple for themselves and work for their own profit. He has worked out a deferred pay- ment plan by which they will gradual ly acquire such ownership without any further obligation to any one. And from now on, instead of paying rent as tenants or working land on shares or for wages, they become small farmers on their own It took the great revolution to make the peasants who did the work pro- prietors of the land in France, and the change has made France one of the richest farming countries in the | world. One of the reasons why Spain has been so backward has been the owner- ship of land in great estates. This has stood in the way of the minute and intensified cultivation which makes the countryside in France and Belgium look so like a succession of gardens. The duke is no revolution- ist, but he believes that Spaniards will work with more ambition and profit when the land is their own. And he hopes that his plan will work so well that other great land owners will follow his example. The high land of Spain, which is an immense territory in itself and be- came barren after its thriftless own- ers cut off the trees centuries ago to make money from the timber, may now be replanted and draw fertilizing rains. That would make another great farming country to keep the ‘world in order. Livy, the Roman historian, said: “Big landed estates have destroyed the Latin country.” The Earl of Derby, who is a broad-minded English statesman, evidently thinks the same about big property-owning, even in cities, for he, too, is turning over his properties near Liverpool to those who have been his tenants. Like Lord Derby, the Duke of Alba ,was born with many silver spoons in HE Duke of Alba, who is a| grandee of Spain by 14 lines| of descent, rode last season in | the United States in the inter- | his mouth and farms and villages more than he can remember among | his land titles. The duchy which gives him his titled name was in the hands of his family 500 years ago, and there have been Dukes of Alba ever | since 1465. It was the great Queen Isa- | bella’s predecessor, her brother, King Henry II, who constitiited the duchy for this powerful family. And, curi- | ously enough, Christopher Columbus, | who was a man of the common people by birth, but did so much for Spain and the world by discovering Ameri and was therefore made lord admiral by Isabella, broke into this grandee family in the person of Catarina, his descendant and heir in the eighth generation. Then, for four genera tions, the Dukes of Alba were also lord admirals as heirs of Columbus and, although this title passed with | the end of the eighteenth century to the present Dukes of Veragua, the Albas still represent the great discov- erer. I have counted up the actual titles held in virtue of the law of Spanish grandeeism by the Duke of Alba, who has set about applying the ideas of | American successors of Columbus in another way. He is a duke by four other titles than Alba; he is a marquis by ten titles attached to as many dif- ferent landed estates; he is the twenty- fourth Count de Lemos, and his fam ily on that side goes back beyond the vear 1000; he is count thirteen times elsewhere, al with family estates: and he is Constable of Navarre, which is not to be sneezed at. His father before him, from whom he has all this nobility, died in New York 24 years ago. The son now applies American ideas, which may be the turning point in a _peaceful but thorough revolution of all Spain. Even this is not quite all the mar- velous and mixed heredity boiling in the veins of this grandee who turns to the people. His family name—for even a duke must have a family and a name—is Fitz-James, and he is tenth Duke of Berwick, in Scotland. That means he is descended straight from James II of England, the last of the Stuarts to reign in that country, and so, of course, he is an Jeir of Mary, Queen of Scotts. They were unfor- funate with their subjects. He steps down in full greatness to his tenants and from subjects makes them his equals. That is true democracy, for the farming people are the sovereign people when they own their land. “But it is new to Spain. Village Teacher Really Discovered Anna Case’s Great Musical Talent BY PRESTON WRIGHT. NDREAS DIPPEL impresario, stood in the lounge Bellevue-Stratford Hotel Philadelphia, penetratingly yet strong soprano voice of a young irl singing in the balcony. His manner was that of the critic. As she concluded the number, schel's “Spring Song, Sigmund Behrens, representative Opera Co. his_companion. “Who is that little girl?” he asked. Behrens did not know “Go up and find out Behrens proceeded to the balcony. The “little girl,” he found, was Anna Case, 17 yea N. J., a little village of scarcely more The result of that hearing is well known. Miss Case signed a contract and became a Metropolitan Opera star in her eighteenth year, the only merican girl ever to have accom hed the feat without the prelimi ary of European training and ex perience. It was the sequal to a bit ter s le to develop a talent which had sought expression from child hood, for Anna Case’s parents were | poor’ and to obtain her lessons she | had to borrow. work and scheme in a | way that would have daunted most young women But if Andreas Dippel ended this delphia hotel, his was merei recognition won by ap already | developed talent. The honor of hav. | ing perceived the greatness in Miss Case’s voice while it still was unde. veloped belongs to Miss Katherine Opdycke, a teacher of voice in the little New Jersey village of Summer ville, not far from South Branch. When her ambition to sing in sistently demanded fulfillment, Anna Case, then, about 16, journeved the six miles to Summerville and saw Miss Opdycke. The latter agreed to give her two lessons a week for 75 cents. Her would-be pupil had no money and there was none to be gotten at home. She put it up to a friend, a South Branch grocer, and he ad- vanced it as a loan. Lessons began Luckily for the girl, her teacher happened to be unusual for a com- munity of the size in which she taught. She had been a pupil of Mme. Augusta Ostrom-Renard in New Yor time passed she per- ceived An had a talent You have a great future,” she told her pupil. “You must have a bigger teacher.” She took Miss Case to Mme. Renard. The latter heard her and said, ¥ don't think you have a future. “However, she added, “I'l give you three or four lessons and we will see.” The pupil went to Mme. Renard with a range of an octave. At the very first lesson, under her teacher’s instruction, she reached high C. It was enough. Mme. Renard reversed her previous attitude com- Dletely. “You will have an operatic career,” she declared. The matter of expense proved not to be an item. “She will teach you for nothing,” Miss Opdycke had told Miss Case. This proved to be true. Six months after beginning her studies Anna Case was attached to the Metropolitan. But this might not have happened had it not been for still another person. Friends took her to Seagirt, N. J., to a dance at the home of E. C. Stokes, then governor of the State. After hearing her sing he asked her | many questions about her voice and her ambitions. When he learned her financial condition he arranged to take her to a cousin in Philadelphia who had charge of concerts there so that she might have a hearing with a view to_an engagement. g She got the engagement. The con- certs were those given at the Belle- vue-Stratford Hotel. And that was how Andreas Dippel came to hear her. (Copyright, 19259, and drops off into space; he leaps a good dozen feet across a yawn: ing chasm, jumps off a high cliff into by a submarine Great stuff! Action! Camera! But what of the unseen camera ms who really outmatches every seeming Iy superhuman effort depicted on the screen? Uncle Sam recently has been zetting into this business of producing hair-raising movies and has developed in Washington a staff of camera men whose experiences read like a dime novel George R. Goergens, chief cinema tographer for the United States De partment of Agriculture, has been at leath’s door in the performance of his public duties probably more times than any other civilian in Government service. They say at the Department of Agriculture that Goergens has the proverbial nine liv While shooting scenes from an airplane in forest patrol work, he fell in the plane a distance of 200 feet The plane was smashed to pieces and Goergens was hauled out cut in 38 different places and with a broken knee cap. He was laid up for six months during which time his Gov ernment leave ran out, and because there is no provision for compensation such cases he was compelled to bear the cost of his illness out of his own pocket. Another of his miraculous escapes was when taking pictures of dust ex plosions at the Bureau of Mines plant in Pittsburgh. These pictures have been shown all over the country in teaching safety-first lessons in indus. trial plants where the menace of ex plosions of sugar, grain, starch and other dusts is ever present. Goergens was housed in a portable telephone booth brought to the scene to serve as a shelter and placed with the solid board side of the booth turned toward the mouth of the ex plosion cylinder. The shelter was set less than 100 feet from the cylin- der, and just enough to one side to be out of the direct line of the blast. A hole was cut in the wall of the booth through which the camera was trained on the scene of the explosion During each of the first two blasts the operator was somewhat shaken by the detonations, but the shocks were relatively light, and their effect little more than temporary. With the setting off of an explosion of starch dust. however, the earth seem- ed to tremble, the booth rocked on its foundations, and reports received later showed that houses two and three miles away were shaken. The concussion shattered the glass in the walls of the telephone booth, and Gpergens was temporarily blind- ed. Only his long professional training kept him turning the crank of the camera. Climbing out from the broken booth the operator looked about and found that some of the engineers who had stood at a con-| siderable distance to witness the test had been thrown to the ground. As soon as they recovered their senses they ran to the telephone booth, fear- ing that Goergens had been killed. * ¥ b ox XAMINATION of the Bureau of Mines’ equipment showed that the concrete foundations had been shattered by the violence of th® blast and part of the shelves within had been blown out and reduced to kindling, while the target or deflect- ing screen which stood some dis- tance from the open mouth of the cylinder, had been partly torn from its deeply laid foundations. Motion picture men declare that in the whole history of the industry few movie views of this sort have been taken under such hazardous circumstances. Nothing so violent, and destructive as the detonations which occurred was looked for by the engineers present, who frequently had set off charges in the same plant in connee- tion with studies of mirke explosions. The experiments offered\overwhelm- ) exacted for carelessness in allowing |dust to accumulate in plants One time in New Mexico Goergens the Atlantic Oeean. and is picked up|fell With his camera off a cliff and landed within 6 feet of a giant ra tlesnake. Instinctively, he set up his camera to take the rattler's picture. The serpent struck, but missed, and went through the legs of the tripod The s killed and gave up nine es and a_buttor On still a r occasion in the Ban dolier Nati Forest, Goergens w ordered to pictures of a buffal harging the came He was assured that the buffalo would stop within a few feet of the camera. but instead of rounding up one buffalo the directors incensed a herd of five and charged them at Goergens The enraged beasts came head on Suppose they didn't stop? Goergens already could hear the singing of the angels. His only chance of escape was to throw himself flat on the ground Fortunately - for him, the buffalos swerved ¢ The War College is still working on war films taken in France under the most hazardous conditions experienced by cameramen. To be sure, these pi tures were taken in war time when human life was valued lower than the product, but they exemplify the spirit of men in Government service even in time of peace. Millions of feet of film were taken in making practically a complete pict rial record of the battle front. Many men sacrificed r lives in this dan- gerous work, but the result was a pho tographic r ributed {much to the successful outcome of the war. Special equipment was designed in which to develop the negatives while the planes were in flight, so that the completed pictures were available upon landing. Only pictures of imme. diate value were thus developed, so much footage being taken that the War College to this day—six years after the armistice—is still develop- ling some of the negatives During the war period Goergens of the Department of Agriculture was dl-t(»l_ilf‘d to the Coast Guard to make motion pictures of storms, wrecks and other marine happenings. In this ca pacity he was aboard the famous Yamacraw in 1917, when 10 of the crew were drowned in going to the rescue of the Louisfana. which was stranded on the shoals off Ocean City * ok %ok 'HE British navy during the war pe riod had been having difficulty with the ramming of guns. Goergens was instructed to make a study of the situation, and the outcome was the de- velopment of a motion picture machine attachment which made it possible to make photographic exposures at the rate of 128 a second, as compared wjth the usual rate of 16 pictures a second This was the first development of the so-called slow-motion picture camera, and in photographing the firing of the British guns strips of film were produced in which the shells could actually be seen emerging from the mouth of the cannon. A public patent was granted Goergens for his invention and the British government was permitted to use it, for which they officially extended their thanks to the American government and to Goergens individually. Fred W. Perkins, in charge of tha Department of Agriculture motion picture laboratory here in Washing- ton, has been compelled to take on the’ job of movie operator aiong with his many other tasks, particularly in flight scenes. He nas made 14 trips in airplanes for the purpose of taking pictures under conditions that would faze even the professional daredevil A particularly hazardous task was in_connection with taking scenes of boll weevil cotton dusting by aero- plane. The danger of this work lies in the fact that the dusting plane, skims at terrific speed above the tops of the plants, spraving the cotton T (Continued on Fourth Page) —