New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1927, Page 11

|BERLIN |—— Tom Paine is Pictured as the Hero of Revolutionary Play Being Presented in Germany. Berlin, April 23—German admira- tion for American revolutionary hieroes is manifesting itael? once more in the tremendous success of Hans Johst's dramatized version of the life of Thomas Paine. Johst parades the dramatie inci- dents of Paine’s hectic life across e stage in a series of stirring | scenes, taking a number of liberties vith history to intensify the action. Washington and other figures ‘of the revolution are portrayed with remarkable accuracy, Paine being depicted as the man who fostered | the spirit of revolt with his pen and ! Washington as the man who carried *he revolt to a successful conclusion. | he drama’s premiera in Cologne ansed a sensation. It ix now play- ng in hal? a dozen German eiti Collection of Taxes Proving Difficult Berlin, April 23—The German fl. | nance ministry fs finding it increas- ingly hard to collact all of the nu- ! merous varieties of federal taxes. Despite the efforts of 70,000 affi- s the hooks show that $170,000.- is owed the government, a sum vhich would pay half the repara- tions bill this year. Tnheritance taxes, running from 20 to 20 per cent of the value of an state, are tha most diffieult to col- leet, the finance ministry reports, vhila the least trouble is incurred with fncome taxes from persons ho work for a fixed salary or ¥ because the fax {s automatie- | from each pay check There is admittedly ch dishonssty on the part of hese who make out their own In- > tax returns Carl Schurz Society Wil Foster Amity Berlin, April 23 — The nams of v'arl Schurz, frlend of Lincoln and secretary of the interior under As a tie to bind a together, to the plans of Anton Frke. of the democratic rmnr)‘ and well known : vho last year made an | nsive tour of the s that closer nd economic first meeting in Berlin re- ¢ the chir{ speaker was Prof. n of Breoslau uni- | » first German Carl hurz » University of mbers of the German Movie Firm Fights Yank Films Berlin, April 23—Tha 1 man Movie S¥ndicate, orzanized the announced purpose of “freeing Germany from the yok wood.” fs causing much coneern to American motion picture fnterests. Backed by several larga banking s and more th movis ater propristor: dicate purposes to produce " this year, starrin e country. Negotiations also ars pending Tor an exchangs of tha b rench, English and Swedish pro- ducers, who have already begun the fight against American domination he screen. We are merely rebeliing against President Schilling of | the svndicate sald, “which force us | to show many seeond-rate Am n films for every good on~." The syn- dicate {s expected to he a hlow to the Universum Film Company (UFA). the largest producing-als- tributing eorporation in backed by Famous Goldwyn, which ed out of fina noted nationalist Ities by the lisher, K Berlin, April 23—Whil» statesmen lot wes Europe ara perfecting | bonds of peace and taking further steps for the provention of war, flor- ists have taken up the peace spirlt {for the promotion of the American “Say-it-with-flowers” {dea Retailers of mors nations have signed an agreement for the sending of flowers by tele &raph from one to another of ‘eral hundred c a plan which is conceded would have heen unwork- !able before the war. The Enuropean Florists’ association has rstablished central offices in Berlin “Right and Teft” Tn I Relchstag Confusing | | Berlin, April 23—Which is right and which is left In the Reichstag? | Yisitors to the German parlia- | ment have become so confused as | to the arrangsment of ssats that it | has become necessary to publish a guide for them. i Everyhody knows that the com- mMunists sit on the extreme loft, and |y, the fascisti on the right, but fow vis- itors, it seems, know whether this | means to the left or right of the Befo the war it was easy to tol the diffarence from the fact that th uproariot sour manated fron the loft benches only. Sinca the | abolition of the empire yells and | hiatling and ca quite as er of tl day on the : left, | Whistling—the French For Hissing—Is Proposed as Cure For Faults of Paris Drama. Parie, Aprll 23-—Whistling-—the T'rench method of hissing—iy to be spplied to the French drama as a cure for stupidity, indecency and corruption A band of young men of nrtlsm temperament proposes to whistle out of existence a lot of theatrical trash. As one critic remarks, “they will, at least, keep the audlence | awake, even it the play doesn't. Money, as usual, gets most of the VLlame for the ills of the Parislan Theaters are subleased sev- cach lessor getting a profit, until managers are ham. strung. Everything is bought in the thea- writes Rene Wisner, “the roles as well as the privilage of having a vlay produced. Talent no longer counts, That is why our dramatic art, formerly the best in the world, nrow is in the fifth or sixth rank, be- hind Austria, Germany, Italy and even England.” Most noted actresses are credited with having rich protectors, and t dramatists most frequently played #1s0 have fortunes and can afford to pay for more glory, say the dis- gruntled ones, German “War Gullty” Can Becomo French Paris, April 23-—Quite a number of German “war gnilty” can, if they wish, hecome French citizens with- out any formality to speak of, by the forms of a new law revising the method of obtaining naturalization papers. now before the French par- liament, One of the clauses provides that acscendants of Hugeuenot families who emigrated after the revocation «f the Edict of Nantes in 1688 are entitled to naturalization without c¢ven undergoing a probationary pe- fod. Among the persons thus eligible are the Gorman general von Hutler and Naval Captain Armand von La- veyriere, both of whom figure prom- inently on Great Britain's list of “war guilty.” French Horizon Blue Glves Way To Khaki Paris. April 23—Khak! uniforms, wuch like the Amerfcan, will re- vlace the French horizon blue in the army. A quarter of a billion franes has heen appropriated for the uniforms and other accessorles and during the present year the change prob- ably will be completed. One promise to the French sol- diers-is that the hreeches are to he of a more ‘eclegant” cut. The Every | gather for quick, cheap ceromonies, | There 1s a line-up and the principals jand their witnesaes sign t s Into the big "Nfid- | ding saloon” of the city hall. | When all are assembled the may- ,0r's assistant reads the logal tey required and pronounces the conples wedded. Questions and answers are propounded scparately to each pair but otharwise it is like one big wed- ding. Simple Paintings Bring Peak Prices Paris, April 23—Startingly high prices for the primitive canvases of Henrl Rousseau, a “painter who couldn’t paint” again are amazing NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, ——[LONDON Society Girls of Mayfair Are Now to Be Seen Discreetly Dipping Their Snuff. London, April 22—Ths old fash- ned habit of snuif taking has been ed by the soclety girls and women of London The habit is cultivated, dealers say, not so much for the effect pro- duced by the . but for the very simple reason of an excuse for in oducing snuff boxes as part of the scheme of personal adorn As a consequenc feminina habit, b grandfathers, thera is unprec. demand at t {hoxes of var t alth asses gold and silver snuft some of which are set onds. Antique dealers s could sell ten times tha num snuff boxes, of any design, if they "had them. Instead of the nt powder of their forefathers, the girls of today are using a light powder said refreshingly after a long room. in the 1 pounds of used last yea habit has al e d vorking No. 13 Railway | Berths Eliminated London, April 23—Thera will b no No. 13 berths on London and Northwestern Railway sleeping cars | hereafter, All the rooms bearing that lucky numb will be 14A in ature, F ters are at work do- ing the numbers over. Passenzers did not like Tt was often necessary 1o s € person who was not superstitions | to exchar with an unwilling hold- er of No. 13. Australian Attacks Tnstallment Plan London, April 8 — A warning nst the growing habit of pur- chasing Ty was sounded by presiding at a r of Australasia. He sald when tha sale on install- plan provides for fal is such as the p « of house property or the pt 30 per cer comes the pure oxpenditure wonld othe have been curtailed or not unde taken, nace and if pers opinion aceca a country where the fallure of a harvest has such far-reaching effeets lead to something like dis: London Opera Gets Favorable Start London, April 23—The ra Syndicate annou ibscription list for th ing season at Covent more than thres tim cir Aring abor mbers of the pera company. ning of March a from Covent Garden has accompan i2d this company on tour in ord specially to rehearse the choruses for the forthcomir Fridas Worst Day destrinns Friday is ¢ worst day af for London i pedestrians, Sunday 18 the | safest, Hnistry of transportatton abulated street accidents for a [seven vear period revealing this and while I° December's vear toll s 502 fatali compar- | ed with for February. r 166 persons were killed 12 streats on Fridays, mostly by utomohiles. Saturday, wit | 0f 157, was the next most ous day, whils for Sunday ber was 101, the least of any day lin the we Since 1920 tha number of parsons Killed n the streets has increased from 657 in that year to 1 red increasing from Of the fatally fn- | | Blue Replaces Black For Formal Occasions London, April 23-—liven neral dress suit and dinner facket are showing effect of the demand for brighter colors in men's cloth- ing. From now on navy blus fnstead of solemn black will ha the correct color for evening dress, according to a London fon note. The Prince of Wales has given his approval to this color by wear- ing dinner suits of b fashion is spreading rapld! The tallors say a ve material looks hetter e oy cial light, than does black, which is | ,apt to take on a dingy hus, |COURAGE AN ASSET T0AUTO SALESMAN e eS| Hearts, Not Engines or Bodies, Sell Gars vy soft for <hat bird—-he iles and makes a week 4 with ¢ne hour's work."” Io 1y times that little saving is heard in the course of An automoblle salesmar source of envy to all his ftric Ha dwells in luxurious offices and drives new cars about town all da; | He dresses in the height of fashion and is never unruffied. Once while he unbends sufficic work his fountaln pen ac order blank and a week's work is done—not ! the world of modern art. These queer splashss of color, crude in design, devoid of studio technlque, revive stories of the fuss mado a quarter of a century ago over the French customs employe He never had an hour's instructien in composition; but 55,060 francs | was paid recently for a picture that many art critics consider nothing more than the odd effort of childish, untrained ability. Rousseau painted to amuse him- self and his friends. Sometimos he copied figures from catalogie His human figures are clear-cut spots of color, like paper dol “The cult for Rousscan.” explains | one critic, “‘was the sign of a reac- tion against all the mannerism,! falseness, trickery, and mechanical | formulae of a school of painting as« | empty as it was artificial.” Rousseau once said his dead wife sometimes directed his brush-hand and he showed tha mysticism of a child excited by nightmares. Cast Tron Tested In French Pavement Paris, France, April —~Cast fron is being tried out as paving material at Le Mans. Ten tons of plates are being laid | jon a part of a main highway, the | Avenue Leon Bolles, named after the automobile designer, and the ex- periment 18 being watched by en- gineers. The government's chief of road | engineers designed a paving plate, sufficiently rough to prevent horses and <cattle from slippinz, but auft. able, above all, for automobile traf- fle. i \ll\< fl'll \ "()\l)l(l n A New Britain girl, Miss Lillian | 8tein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. Vrench private gets breeches and | Stoln of 27 Winthrop strect a ropho- cloth bands for puttces. The cloth of the blue uniform, so familiar to doughhoys who served in France, didn’t stand the weather or the hard usage it got during the war. Paris, Like Britanny, Has Mass Marriages Parls, April 23—Mass marriages more student at Simmons college, was honored last week when she selected with another girl 1o represent the school in a demonstra- | tlon of sitting and working at a typewriter. The demonstration was given before a Teachers’ convention at the Hotel Statler, Boston, on Thursday. Miss Stein Is taking a secretarlal are performed in one part of Paris ) course at the school. he was gradu- | much as they Daoulas, In Britanny, where brides and bridegrooms assemble ' <very January for the mayor to le- galize their unions. are at Plougstel- |ated from the New Rritain High the [ sehool with the mid-year class of 1924, Her honor was considercd high | because of the large enrollment at the school. A talk with one of the profession reveals much of the Inside story of the work which escapes the casual oye, A Bile of a car brings in & {{cbmitbrabl alfnsnd Lot dissap- pointments, the relentless pursuit of ihe prospect, the word batiles and the final heartbreaking struggle to &et the purchaser’'s name on the dotted line are all a part of the sale Many Engagements Broken Hours are lost by thoughless pros- pects who make ¢ break them with ease. 7 the car-buyers, an automobile sales man {8 a persen to whom one can maks promises and break 10 thought of a troubled ¢ ence. Ingagements with a salesman are things to be kept if nothing else comes up; a casnal acquaintance, long drawn out conversation, of rain, an enticing movie automobile salesman waits fn vain —waits with 2 smile on his rage in his heart. “Oh yes, T did make an engage- ment to meet you at § o'clock, didn't 1?2 Well, to tell you the truth, T for- ot all about it—hope it didn't make any diff, nee with you” With a zuileless face the prospect dismisses the weary hours of waiting, the missed dinner, the wasted time n which other prospects could be in- terviewed or recreation enjoyed, “Oh no, Mr. Brown, T shought you'd fergotten it so T only waited little while. And it was on my ay to another prospect anywa Little white lies that prevent any rupture between the salesman and the prospect. Many snags Aay's work, Hardest of all is the ob- stacle of comparison of the sales- | 1's product with another firm' r. No automobile salesman knock the other chap’s ear—it i3 an un- written law, occasional hroken perhaps but not by the most sub- stantial dealers. “What about the Blank car. Is that a good car?” the salesman is asked while showinz his prospect | his own product. Here is a snag— | the salesman must lead his pros. peet’s mind away from the other car without directly saying that the Blank car is less value than his own machine. Tt {s dons in many w: by admitting that the other car has selling, > all | no bed of roscs. True | e encountered in a | £00d faature« and bringing ont salesma By co ¢ s seen on the strests with the oppo- nent's car—there are mar | "The worlt's too small to he en iting each other's throats all ¢ time,” remarked the “Co-operation betwer s forces have brought the busi- ness to the position it now holds, The truth fs that every car must he informant. | worth the amount asked to be on | the market today. There can bs no Zypping” in the antomohile game-— the public is too well informed on such matters as to stand for it long. | | Undergraduates Placed in Linc | The difference in cars is sligh jone car has a featurs that the other 't One ear gives a better trade- in allowance than the other or one firm may h maore luxurious ! product than the next for which it tlad to more money. There {could be absolutely no advantage in the statement that such and h a car is not worth the money. The crdinary prospect knows hetter than to believe that a national product | could be over-charging exorbitant- b) o3 Neighbor Spoils Sale perience: continued the But T expect that all automobils »smen have about the same num- ber of eurious things happening to us. Once, after T had worked on a prospeet for several months 1 at last had him at the point where hn was ready to sign the order. His on and his daughter-in-law wer I for the car, his wife was fairly cnthused and he was convineed t the car was the machine for him T had my fountain pen out and was | handing it to him when, without a knock in walked the prospect’ neighbor. Being foreigners, they conversed togethed in their mative tongue and I. sitting there with my heart in my throat waiting for the John Hancock to be placed on the | order. “They talked for quite a whils and soon the son-in-law and the ! rter joined in. The mother was t and the five of them chatted for ahont half an hour. At the end of that fime the two vounger pro- ple slammed out of the room, the wife appeared to be on the verge of tears and the prospect handed back the fountaln pen and rofused to sign. Just what the conversation wae, T naver learned, but all my arguments proved unsatisfactory. He acknowledged that the car was a good car, that the price was right i{but he wouldn’t buy. I could have murdered the too-friendly nefehbor | in his tracks with a smile that mmxdnv come off." “Wrap That One Up” | “Another time 1 was in the ales toom when a new prospect walked in. Ho looked over a car, one of the most expensive that we sell and \wrhmn hardly a word of explana- tion of the features of the machine, he signed an order, p able deposit on the car and walked out, refusing to listen ahout just | how good his purchase was. T think | T came nearer fainting then than ¥ ever have hefore or sinae.” S0 it goes. way up and way down. During the winter months when the frigid weather onsts all {deas of summer touring out of prospects’ minds the auto talasman considers | applying for positions with the enow squad of the public works depart- automobils | “I have had many interesting ex- |, salesman, | SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927. | ment. During the ot months when mo out of town on asking *Ts | a spring ot | ca. But on w. spring ¢ | ¥s whaen Drospects are rosponsive fountain pens are bus; t automobila looks ke a tooth p: 1.5, NOW HAS TS OWNLABOR BUREAU for Part o Full Time Work { Tn accordance with iis polley of giving a helping hand to the dents even after their gradnation from t1 senior authorities or the past 8 a special department ‘\\‘nt‘] will care for the hoys and | girls whose future will Le with the emploved class. dents who desire to enter upon working career make applic s department, which charga of Vice-prinelpal Jan Moody, and supply it with statistic | Felative to the type of work they de. sire. As soon as the vice-principal recelves a call from one of the fac- torles asking for a student to do th "wnrl\, Mr. Moody brings about th jcontract hetweon employa an {ployer and the sbudent begins his jcareer of practical experienca, The department has now reached a stage of efficlency where the de- mand for stenographers, hooki rs, and office clerks is so great that {supply Is taken care of long bafore |graduation. In other words many of the commercial students at the school are engaged for work in ona of the local factory offices several months hefore they graduata. | When the department was organ |ized its principal duties was to take jcare of the graduates after they ve left school or as they were ahout to leave school. At the pres time a person who wishes to have household duties performed for Saturdaye or after school hours often calls upon the high school anthorities and a hoy or girl Is sup- plied. There are several high school stu- dents going to school for half a day and recelving practical experlence in factory offices for the reat of the day. |(|n|v students who have progressed Ito the point in the senfor year wher: they have enough units to pass in their subjects are allowed to earry (on this arrangement, the autherities have ruled, FUR STORAGE 2% HUDSON FUR SHOP 13 FRANKLIN BQUARE. summer | RESPONSIBLE TRUSTEESHIP! ---that is what you want to prov ide for your Life Insurance Funds so your Heirs will receive maximum benefit from them. And you can make sure of the careful distribution and nvestment of these funds bx nammg the NEW BRITAIN NATIONAL as Trustee under a Life Insurance Trust. Such a Trust also gives your heirs the benefit of the advxce and counse] of men who have had many years experience in financial matters. And they take a persona], fnendly interest 1n every Trust. ; NEW BRITAIN NATIONAL BANK NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT To the Woman Who Intends to Buy a New Gas Range Unless the Range has a RED WHEEL it is NOT a LORAIN e Remember the following Lorain Red Wheel featurcs: 1 Simplicity of design and case of ® operation. Proper location on the range. Never placed where the wheel becomes hot from the heat of cooking-top burners. The Wheel never burns the user’s hand. Sensitiv c—qmcl\l\ causes oven tempers ature to come to an agrcement with wheel setting. Delicate food cannot be ruined. Wheel is proper distance from side of ovenand can be turned without touching the hotovenandburningaperson’s hand. Steady — maintains the oven temper- ature constant. Allows no extreme fluctuations WE SELL JEWEL 5] ORAIN New Britain Gas Light Co.