Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 34

- efficient 34 INSECTS UTILIZE iMake Paper, Embalm, Dig With Tools and Get Drunk, Says Savant. BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., lot of “bo | were feciing | These are not gentlemen of Vagabondia, | | 8s you might imagine: they are the un- | ates whose voices have been tried talkie” films and found wanting. | ) | Ao | August 2—A | The highest forms of civilization at- tained by man, Austin H. Clark of the Smithsonian Institution has observed, rest upon acquired knowledge wnish is most nearlr approached, not slowly 8 | during the last 24 hours has had d heartening results for some, and for others has virtually reopened a bright | course fou career that was beginning to dim. which have practices in common With the more civilized classes of men. The complicated engi evements of beavers and ! tion of some by Bower birds also have a taste for menting their nests with shells. te., crows and enjoy Lois Wilson had a heavenly smile when I met her on the Warner lot to- v. It looks as if she would stage a via the talking film. tty ex-school teacher has had | the played the part of the very poor | | girl—the prim, “sweet, honest-as-day | sort of girl, whom mothers would like | thefr sons to marry, providing mothers | | ever liked their sons to marry. When business began to get slack Tois d had been good too long, mewhat different type. g rame the . romselves what she could do With enviable skill | vocally i ‘ One species. before laving egss on 8| The “talkie” has transformed movie | caterpillar or spider. paralyzes the vic- | making from-a rowdy, boisterous game | tim with an injection of formic acid|ints o dignified profession. | which at the same time preserves it | Directors who bawled profanely while | from decav. while another kind protects | the cameras clicked must keep their | the eggs themselves with a thin 1a¥er |;more expressive than elegant language of this chemcal when depositing them | i, " themselves until the sequence is and allows the host to go on With|fineq. By that time self-control neces- | business as usual Some diSger WASDS | itated by the demand for absolute als0 make use of tools. patting down the | sijence while the cameras are grinding | earth with small sticks or stones after | haq done its work | filling in their holes. . Hold a bellow back 10 or 12 minutes Hawk moths, humming birds and |ang you are quite likely not to bellow hover flies are more advanced than |save your withering sarcasm for a bit man in one respeet, Clark says, having L = S Jrarned tn fiv bacl d as well as for- ward, and an ent adequate knowl- s 00 ROUND 3" “rrrp Ocean City, Md. now is exploring is dis- Children 5 Years and Under 12, Half Fare ed b spiders in the construction of Sunday, Aug. 5 some species even devising Good for day only rap doors with hinges. Vise Child Labor. #v%."fi"v'v."s!gk ves i2th and N. Y. The spinning ants of Africa and| erry whar! at Al Australia. althouzh not equipped with spmnning apparatus themselves, he re- | 1ztes, have learned to make use of in- voluntary child labor by pressing their | larvae into service. When they set out 'ns in motion pictures. :"‘ to make one of their huge nests, they take some of their helpless voung and use them as shuttles to sew bunches ©of leaves fogether with the liquid silk they contain until the supply is nearly exhausted. Then they return the larvae to their resting place and bring out &/ fresh supply of living shuttles. i with non-stop _tr: C Ocean City. (Arriving Ocea Return, leave Ocean City frive Washington 10:00 P cean City famous for and it dies in your sive temper thri ,| The “talkie” “Talkies” are made in rooms as silent {as felt-lined walls, S |and mute directors They general tryout throughout studios | structed, high-powered electrics the regular movie lighting Cameramen are locked in & soundproof box, and the picture is specially The machinery of movies The engineer sits | | sputter would be fatal | shot | lens window. |1s set in readiness. {in a box to one side, quite high, near the | ment A sign from the director and | duty sepulchral silence falls. { the actors are heard. Th» scene has been rehearsed. are too bad, the action is stopped | amendments. ignal from the director. | ceiling. acto by good a s THE on are lighted by of through a old-time profane throat « lers” and “growlers’ director of tomorrow will \" “sizzlers” and "growlers™ | . “g¢ ‘patient as a fisherman and as low in Hollywood today.|mild as a botany professor. curtained can make EVENING ' TALKING MOVIE TESTS PROVE UNDOING OF SOME NOTED STARS WIDE SCIENGELORE' ..., w:1.0n. Ex—Sctool Teacher. One of Those Who Will Return to Films Through Conversation. An explo- each explosion ceilings them. con- | The specially constructed Only the voices | If the | But the | roar does not | the STAR, WASH 3 TON, ring out. The director ralses his hand and the machinery of miovie making stops. He clenches his fist about the useless megaphone, trade mark of his profession, and says with patient resig- nation, “Suppose we try that again Remember, Miss Bland, that it is your mother who is dying, not some one you met 10 minutes ago. Get the idea? may vet make an honest woman out of “movies.” Privately her mother's friends be- wailed the fact that she was a 5-year- old prodigy. Public life, they said, had robbed her of her najevette, She always said and did the correct thing. Had the poise and manners of a woman of 40. One afternoon the perpetual ingenue came to tea. In spite of 40-0dd vears. |c a blond transformation and some face lifts, she played the parts of sweet 16, The child prodigy took a fancy to her Became emotional. Hurled herself ai ¢ visttor with this breatnless an- nouncement: “T love you, and I'm going to kiss you |5 right on vour cunnin’ little gold tooth!” Copyright, 1928, by North American | Newspaper Alliance.) . Assigned to Army Board. Lieut. Col. Jerome G. Pillow, U Cavalry, stationed at the War Depart- | has been assigned to additional | a member of the Army Board, | convened here to recommend those to | be awarded decorations under the act of | Congress approved July 18, 1926, and | He will relieve Capt. | Frank G. Huner, Air Corps, who has been assigned to other duty. | Navy Carriers to Participate tarysand naval aireraft and airer riers, p. €, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1928. 400 ARMY AND NAVY | PLANES TO MOBILIZE| in Mass Flight From San Diego This Month. fe % | By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif 2 2. Mill- | t car- riers will mobilize at San Diego August 16 for the Army and Navy mass flight of 400 planes Orders directing the hug Saratoga and Lexington cced to San Diego for the mass program, have been issued by Admiral 'J. M. 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