Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1928, Page 10

10 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, TRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928. LIGHT TRANSHITS City Club Forum Luncheon| Guests See Demonstration | of Beam Experiment. | Adapting modern sclence to an an- «cient signal system once used to betray | a Persian army—a system involving flashing of light by mirrors—John Bel- lamy Taylor, consulting engineer of the General Electric Co., today demon- strated at the City Club how Vhonmi graph music may be transmitted over a beam of light. | Utilizing light waves instead of radio waves, Mr. Taylor sent jazz music and other sounds hurtling from one side of the ballroom of the City Club to the| other over an intense beam of light,| and transformed the light rays back again into music and other transmitted sounds. Cuts Out Eavesdropping. The remarkable demonstration was glven before a mystified group of busi- ness and professional men at the week- ly forum luncheon of the club. It was said the device has consider- able military value, since messages may | be sent over short distances on a di- rected path, inaccessible to other “list- eners-in.” The playing of phonograph records was thus “narrowcast” with faithful- ness to volume and tonal quality. ‘The varying light of an ordinary electric lamp, set into invisible oscillation by to the guests. It sounded like the throbbing of a gigantic motor. Even the burning of a match was converted into crackling sound. Mr. Taylor explained thst the ap- paratus is a development of “old ideas,” mentioning that Alexander Graham Bell 50 years ago demonstrated the | feasibility of transmitting sound by | MRS. ROBINSON ENJOYS BUYING HABERDASHERY FOR HUSBAND SOUND VIBRATIONS wite of Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Has Artist’s Taste—Keeps Touch With Written Exclusively for The Star and the North American Newspaper Alllance. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. October 23.— Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Demo- | cratic nominee for Vice President, is one of the best dressed men in Arkansas and Mrs. Robinson does his shopping for him. She has the taste of an artist; she knows how to keep a Senator dressed, and she knows, too, how to make Mrs. Robinson one of the most attractive- appearing women in State gatherings in Arkansas. Senator and Mrs. Robinson have no children. So Mrs. herself to “Joe” with all the motherly intensity she might give to a family of six. Who has not seen her on the streets of Hot Springs or Little Rock, her arms full of bundles for “Joe,” her eyes scan- ning the windows of haberdashers’ shops for a new necktie, another shirt, a comfortable suit of linens? She did his “notification shopping” at Hot Springs, while Senator Robinson, too busy to think of the figure he cut, had conferences with ~Democratic leaders. Quizzed on Size. And once Mrs. Robinson entered his private office without warning, waited until he had finished a portentous sen- tence, and asked, very sweetly: “What size so-and-so do you wear?” The Senator looked at her with far- alternating current, was made audible | 3Way eyes. came to earth, and replied, | “42." 'Then he began another por- tentous sentence. And off Mrs. Robin- son went to the haberdasher’s. She is a delightful woman, hospitable, charming, a ready and witty conver- sationalist, tasteful in all things, carry- ing herself with the grace and kindli- ness and dignity of a hostess of the old South. Even in the hotel suites her husband Robinson devotes | Home Folk. The old folk down at Lonoke, on the sultry road to Memphis, out in the black loam, bayou country, consider Mrs. Robinson a Lonoke giri, too. | ~ “As sweet a child as you ever see,” the old women say. “And such a home body, too. She grew right up here with | Joe Robinson. He was just 22 when he |married her, and he was certainly lucky. These women in politics—they're too apt to gei hign soclety like, but sne just stays the same sweet home body. | She knows how to cook and sew, too.” Mrs. Robinson has had 25 years’ ex- | perience as a social leader in Washing- ton, but she can meet the old folk down at Lonoke just as she did when she left them. And that is an art in- | deed. Out of Politics. ~ They respect her at Lonoke, for she is a good wife."In Lonoke women still |are supposed to defer to their husbands. | And Mrs. Robinson does. It is a mat- | ter of remark in Little Rock that Mrs. | Robinson does not “meddle with the | Senator’s political plans or projects.” She is his wife, not his political part- ner. This is the impression on> gets of her in public. Mrs. Robinson is considered as much of a diplomat in her own social world, however, as the Senator is in politics. Friends of Senator and Mrs. Robin- son often comment on the wife's devo- [tion to her husband, on her constant efforts to please him, to make his work AMENDED COUZENS CHARGES ORDERED Chariged Phraseology to In-| dicéte Whether Senator’s Words Were Privileged. Becaule he considered a claim of Eenator “Couzens of Michigan that he may noty be questioned in court for a statemen? made on the floor of the Sen- ate of “such high privilege,” Justice Wendell ©. Stafford of the District Su- | preme Ccurt today decided that Howe P. Cochran, tax expert, who is suing the Senator fgr $500,000 damages for state- ments colicerning him on the floor of the Senatg last April, should amend his declaratiof to state whether the words comnlnlne‘, of were or were not “ut- tered in tRe cause of speech or debate on the floer of the Senate.” As to two other points of objection to the deciaration made by Attorneys Davies, Jonos & Beebe for Senator Couz- lighter and ‘more pleasant. They recall that on his campaign in the South she gave up thé luxury of evening gowns simply because they were In the way on the train ahd hampered the baggage movement from train to hotel. She an- nounced thét she would wear plain dresses. Z Mrs. Robiason takes care of her mother, ‘Mrs? Jessle Miller, as well as of Senator Rdbinson. (Copright. 19%8. by North American News- per Alliance.) Democratic Mass Meeting 7:30 Tonight ens, the court held with Attorneys Lam- bert, Yeatman & Horning, representing Cochran, that the words “unofficially and not in discharge of his duties as a Senator” may remain and that there exists no necessity to state in the dec- laration the names of the persons to whom the alleged slancer was stated nor the names of persons in whose presence the statements were made. When' the change has been made in the declaration, as directed by the court, Justice Stafford will hear argu- ments on the question of privilege raised by counsel for the defendant under a special appearance attacking the jurisdiction of the court. The change of phraseology ordered by the court will make the declara- tion state afrmatively or negatively whether the words were privileged under the Constitution, which provides, “and for any speech or debate in either house they (members of Congress) shall not be questioned in any other place.” Justice Stafford last weel denied a; defense motion to quash the service of the subpoena in the case. for It Will Be Our Pleasure to Furnish to Our Friends GUEST TICKETS IDEAL HOME EXPOSITION to be held the week of October 29 AMITS LARCENY CHARGE. | Homer Stegle Under Bond for Ac- tion of Grand Jury. i Helping himself to an automobile, | which, police say, he was forced to re- turn to the finance company, Homer Siegle, 400 block of Bryant street, | pleaded guilty to grand larceny before | Judge John P. McMahon in Police Court today, and was bound over to the | grand jury under bond of $1.000. | According to police, Stegle refused to | surrender the automobile keys when he returned the car to the finance com- pany. Subsecsently the same machine was sold to Stegle’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Mollie A. Wiseman. The man is said to | have taken it from the latter's resi- dence, 317 T street northeast, last Sun- | day and driven to Chesapeake Beach. | The car was recovered there yesterday by Detective Berry of the twelfth pre- | cinct. | the HoMeE oF THE WORUMBOQO 0VERCOATS it WHAT'S' GOING | at %th & E? (Washington’s 42nd & Broadway) A great Anniversary Sale is now in progress—the 12th birthday party of the Fashion Shop. The reason it’s causing so much excitement is the fact that all these distinctive styles featured by the Fashion Shop are now available at greatly re- duced prices despite the fact that men would now be buying them even if re- ductions weren’t being offered. What styles? Why our famous Doublewear suits (They Hold the Press) in the favored Hollywood models, our distinguished Rondo Topcoats and Overcoats and the host of other features for which this Shop is so well known! Unless you can afford to overlook savings like these you'd better hurry to 9th & E. Hundreds of [ GHottywood MODELS IN g 3 DOUBLEWEAR (They Hold the Press) light, r must occupy on his campaigns—her life P S 7 | Fas been one of campaigns and acmin- at the Washington Auditorium istrations—Mrs. Robinson keeps house, arranges flowers in bowls, looks after “Joe's” personal wants, his laundry and his meals and receives the innumerable callers, who must wait uatil he is out of conference. How fortunate is the political caller at o;:e nrusenator Robénsm;l's l:emp(:r:}l;y headquarters. He need not stare at the from an electic bulb, and the refected | yohf Sy coveiess magazine or wateh e Tooon $0 M gewm paraphernalia, |& Stenographer click out telegrams. He e iivor thowd it tais with'the ] Iy BAIE With datity yMa Jobtnjad, A the mireor moved in tine with the | who receives all callers with the same it 100 i s e ey s | charming courtesy she would show in |8 Photo-electric cell, such as i used in |D°F OWR home. Widely Traveled. television work. This cell has the fac- : ulty of transforming light variations into | painty indeed! She is slight of figure; she wears pastel colors to her advan- electric variations. The electric pulsa- | tions then were sent through a regular | tage, and flowers lend color to her fair complexion and hair. amplifying outfit, and they emerged from a large cabinet loudspeaker in the | Mrs. Robinson has traveled much in| Europe and America; her travels have | form of reproduced sound. Mr. Taylor has conducted similar |given color to her speech. She knows demonstrations in other cities. art, but principally the art of house- keeping and hospitality. ~She doesn’t SSgsEm Lt talk above anybody’s head, not even the ‘HOTEL GREETERS’ MEET. |headof him with 17 children who came —ia— out of the “sticks” to pledge the vote of Russell A. Conn and Roger S. Creel Address Group. his paternal Democratic organization to Russell A. Conn, manager of the the Senator. Hamilton Hotel, and Roger S. Creel, The weather, flowers, recipes, plans for the future, her husband's health, the manager of the George Mason Hotel of ‘Alexandria, were the principal speakers caller’s health—these are the burden of at the meeting of the Hotel Greeters' Current Vibrates Mirror. ‘The music from the phonograph, it was pointed out, was converted first into electrical variations by means of an ordinary “pick up.” The current then set up variations in an electrical field, controlling the movement of a tiny mirror suspended by a fine wire. 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