Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1929, Page 30

30 « FRST HOVES STUN WSCONSI FARNER 84-Year-0ld Visitor to Film Palace Is Amazed by Talkies and Girls. &oecial Dispatch to The Star. SUPERIOR. Wis., October 5 (N.A. N.A)—"My, my, my,” said Peter Dale, 84, as he sat in a hotel chair here, not quite recovered from his amazing ex- perience, “I didn't think it was pos- sible.” He had seen his first motion picture the night before, It was a talkie with dancing girls! ‘The white-haired farmer liked the girls: even better than those “mighty funny fellows,” the Marx Brothers. ‘The newsreels were “amazing,” but the girls just left him lost for superlatives. “How they could dance!” he mar- veled. “I didn't think it was possible for girls to dance so. I was amazed. It was wonderful. I can't for the life of me see how they can make pictures that way. I kept wondering if it was actually real or if it was some of this trick photography. I'll always carry the memory of that picture with me.” Dale is no backwoodsmad, although he lives some distance from a railroad in Cornucopia. on Lake Superior. He makes trips every once in a while to wisit his daughters at Wilmar, Minn., ana Kansas City, Mo. It “just hap- pened” that he never had gone to a movie. But this time when Dale came to Su- perior from his iake-shore town for a Visit acquaintances took him to the theater, the first theater he had been in since he was a Vernon County legis- lator at Madison 50 years ago. Mr. Dale's blue eyes gazed out into the street, but he wasn't seeing it; he was still at the show. Absently he re- called that he has lived near Cornu- copia for 12 years. He had a little farm and his cows and chickens are something nice 10 see—fine stock. His wife died in March and he's been rather lonesome. That's why he came to Superior—to sce something different. And, by jingo, he saw it! (Copyright, 1920, by North American News- paper Alliance.) FOSSIL OF PINE CONE IS BEING STUDIED Geological Find Throws Light on Pre-Historic Conditions on Pacific Coast. LOS ANGELES (Special).—The story of Western California’s inundation by the Pacific Ocean and the millions of years during which the geological trans- formation took place which brought the Pacific Coast to its present outline is epitomized in a fossil specimen discov- ered recently near Bakersfield and turned over to the geology department of the University of California at Lcs Angeles. This specimen consists of an im- mense pine cone, perfectly preserved in a state of petrifaction, found by Harold B. Rathwell, geologist of an il com- pany, in the mountains east of Bakers- fleld. It is several million vears since this cone dropped from a pine tree, and its subsequent history, as interpreted by Prof. W. J. Miller, head of the univer- sity’s geology department, is an outline of the history of the Pacific Coast from the time when the ocean extended over the major portion of what is now Cali- fernia. The specimen, considered one of the most beautiful pieces representing the tertiary age, will repose in the new geo- logical museum which is to be part of the new university's geological depart- ment. 2 CITY PAUSES AS POWER FAILS, STOPPING WORK Street Signals Quit, Radios Quiet-l en and Presses Halt for Lack of Electricity. Among the many riddles that were | frequently asked in the days of parlor achievement none was more popular than the one, “Where was Moses when the light went out?” We recall that he was merely in the dark. No such sim- ple answer could be given today. You may find a variety of answers in the description given by the Boston Herald of what happened when the power went | off in Springfield: “Street signals failed to work, with consequent traffic snarls; radios were struck dumb: electric machinery in dozens of factories stopped, the West- inghouse plant alone reporting a loss | of 3,500 productions hours; elevators stuck between floors, temporarily im- Pflsonlng passengers: fans and venti- lators were stilled and stores and offices became uncomfortably stuffy: pipe | organs in movie theaters died with | dismal groans and the pictures ‘froze’ on the screen: soda fountain milk- shakers refused to shake and the supply of carbonated water soon gave out; artificial refrigerators would not refrig- erate; ‘self-winding clocks’ went on a bat; afternoon newspapers were delayed by idle presses; dentists’ patients en- Joyed a respite, as the fendish ‘buzzer’ wouldn't buzz: conveyance systems in department stores stopped and corps of ‘cash girls’ were hastily organized, and the barber shops were unable to give fastidious patrons their daily facial massage.” A Moses in Springfield might have found himself affected by any one of these numerous tie-ups. 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