The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1919, Page 24

Pre eae: i a ee a ee ee WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1919 eps British Government Took in 1915 Prevent Rent Profiteering Now if Food Prices, Although Also Regulated, Are Not ‘Buch Lower in London Than in New York, Re- » ports Evening World’s Investigator. Sa By Beatrice Barmby sae an ws ? i ce Barmby began at seventeen to carn her own living in the * Dusiness world, and a number of years later was transferred Te New York office. Her recently published novel, “Betty Mar- jana!” is on intetigent study of the carcer of a young, self-supporting Or She i# now revisiting London and is writing for The Eve- { World @ series of articles on post-soar conditions for women eq with whose problems experience and sympathy especially fit Fis ea EVE he's giving me the piece with the bone in.” yy don’t you remonstrate—say you won't have it?’ ‘And get none at all! No, we've got used to taking what's given to gf being thankful for it.” my first experience of after- shopping in England an« as fhe butcher's lordly take-tt- manner, I sympathized r friend's attitude. came out of the shop she “That's where we used to ‘a cue before the rations sys- 1 remember one Pras started! when I wanted to go to a} |i) fl service at church, so 1 started , 9 o'clock to do my shopping) [9% But I dkin't see any church | [i >RO ing, for at twelve o'clock I standing outside this buteh- It was bitterly cold, too, and & miserable experience that for after, I did without any at all.” fe in little personal episodes like I have realized the true of the hardships and dim- ch English women have ly tackled for four trying Food conditions in America § been normal for #o long that I forgotten our Mttle aim in shortage of sugar, and and meatless days. Hers r every one is eating mar- , Bad if the sample of butter I any criterion, I vote for every time. For if any told me that that butter had from « submarine cargo, have shown no surprise. made a remark I can ‘Meppose that some thrifty gro- been storing it against & 1 Oh, for those old days fresh butter as thick as ED has teen. plentiful for some! ‘Dut there is still a string at-| to its sale, It must be twelve, defore it can be sold! Now “we all pull long faces if ‘rule were applied to us in (7 Indeed I think the Amer-| Tousewife would feel she was the students to be paid at the out- of-work donation scale, What a} boon for the mere man who is con- very raw deal if she had to| templating marriage on a small in- house under the conditions|come! No more death to love q here. For how badly | through badly-cooked meals and ill- ‘miss all the labor-saving | managed households, but a wife who of steam heat, continu-|bas learned bookkeeping, laundry work, the handling of tradesmen and the keeping of a house within a small allowance—it sounds Like the millennium! But there is the other side of the picture, which is such a sad one— the thousands of women whose pros- Pective husbands are lying on for- eign soll—the thousands of mothers to whom peace has come too late. Bach day in the paper there is a little paragraph which I never read without a new @ense of tragedy. It is headed “Lest We Forget” and then follow three short lines — “Killed, 670,986—miswing, 350,243— wounded, 2,041,040." One million women who lack a husband or a son! From what a fate have the women of England been saved through the valor of their soldiers and sailors\-but at what a about price, and you can ® lot!—the beat is scarce too. . ly, it is delightful to sit coal fire and dream dreams. I found the ending made by the plunge to an ice- com, and the delightful I hit the hot-water bottle scarcely made up for the oft dithering shivers. Fur- pas the hot-water supply s con- in «@ tiny boiler behind the Wm fire—which is subject to hijo whims and vagaries—well, iter supply is also apt to dust look at the prices! 1 live!” As an friend uttered the words T wad heard from so many housekeepers’ lips, I could ip wondering in how many that same cry was ascend- junto Heaven! For though the (gh Government has controlled of food to a tremendous I cannot find that they are Jower than they are in Amer- it there is one important ex- ——~ THE CYNIC A LOSER. BCRETARY CARTER GLASS was defending the League of Nations against a cynic, “You cynics,” he said, “lost out all seq) round. You're like the schoolboy, “This schoolboy, a born cynic, re- fused to play dur- f ing the recess hour, } which is in house rents, By As he sat on a of Parliament in 1915 the hard, pointed, un- was not allowed to put up comfortable rock, Will Have 5,000 Inhabitants Cover Nearly a City Block Dressing Rooms for 1,000 Studios for 20 Companies ART, WOOD CARVING AND CARPENTER SHOP EW YORK, city of wonders, {s soon to have something new in mam-} N moth monuments to point out to visitors and natives as well. It is a Motion Picture City covering four acres, in the heart of | Manhattan, within five minutes of Broadway, It will be under one roof— in one building—a city of 5,000 people—the biggest thing of the kind in the world—surpassing in size even the immense studios that have made Los Angeles famous as the City of Motion Pictures, This latest of Now York's wonders is being built by William Fox, president of the Fox Film Corporation. It will cover nearly a city block, from Fifty-fifth to Fifty-sixth Streets on Tenth Avenue. Its cost is to be over $2,500,000 and it will have a capacity for turning out 3,000,000 feet of finished motion pictures every week, or enough adventure, love and thrills to make a celluloid carpet from New York to Cleveland. Work on this Motion Picture City is already well advanced, and by next fall it is expected that 1t will be ready for occupancy. According to the architects, the city will be the most completely equipped and most efficient in the world, It} not only will include every known! device for the expeditious and economical production of films, but Also will be #0 Inid out as to insure a maximum of efficiency in administra-! tion, a minimum of lost energy and waste and the greatest safety and comfort for employees, ‘The building—for it 1s a city under one roof—will have three stories and rooms for the camera men, prop rooms, sewing rooms, carpenter shops, scene artists’ shops, quarters for the plaster artists — everything that makes for the expeditious production | of photoplays will be right where | the directors can get {t most con- veniently. Lighting is the most important es sential in a motion picture studio, It ls estimated that the studio lights alone in the Fox City will cost up- ® basement and will furniah a homo| “8M of $150,000. The lighting sys- for tho Fox Film Corporation's labor- |@™ Was the subject of an exhaustive atories, Eastern studios and execu-|!"Vestixation on the part of a big tive offices, EWvery inch of the vast |*t@ cf experta, who devised an ar- space in the structure will be util-|[APsement of the high-powered Teas, Go that tee detec cece “ein te | ArMONS IACI 89 that the dlreotare aan a humming ave of films and people | Put. UP thelr este anywhere in the handling films and finn affaires, (stueto without baving the lights re. The city will be divided so that the |*"™nsed. making of pictures will be in one part, the clerical offices in another, and the physical handling of film in a third. Each of these departments will within easy reach of the executive offices, making the estab- lishment ‘The stars of tho films will each have his or her own large, well appointed dressing room on the studio floor#and opening from each of them wilt be shower equipped bath rooms. Other dressing rooms will be pro- be ‘beyond the 1914 figure, ur- house was over a certain and as the rent of the aver- iF was well within this much suffering has been Of course I suppose tho! doesn't see it in this light— 6 one has any sympathy for a fd anyway! SJ contemplating with & cynical sneer the games of the other lads, a comrade sai “*Why ain't you playin’, Jack? “He sniffed. “Catch me playin'!” he aaid. “It T played the recess hour would go too fast!'"-—Washington Star, — the numerous reoonstruc-| NEW STITCHING MACHINE. mehemes which the Government| Yor making tents, wagon covers hand is one important an-jand other articles of heavy fabrics ‘The Ministry of Labor|a motor-driven sewing machine has Deon developed that makes two par- of Hye Ae one of the most compact] vided to accommodate 1,000 persons, and efficient in the world, and there will be ample provision here The studio, occupying the entire|for the comfort and convenience of top floor, will have accomodations} the playera E n the extras will have two big, sunny dressing rooms, one for men and another for women. As an adjunct to tho big laboratory, there will be a special department for chemical research work. Here some ot the foremost experts in photog- {raphy will devote themselves to con- Every convenience directors have|duoting experiments for the improve- for twenty companies to worl at once Thero will not be @ pillar, post or obstruction of any kind throughout the whole floor, This absence of posts and pillars will allow directors to put up their sets wherever they please. STUDIO FLOOR WHERE 100 SCENES MAY © BE ENACTED AT ONE TIME |4re miniature theatres, equipped with | A “Movie City’’ in Manhattan World’s Largest Film Plant Under One Root To Be Built Right Here in New York Twelve Miniature Theatres Four Acres of Floor Space Cost Over $2,500,000 3,000,000 Ft. of Film Weekly nd cheerful rest rooms on each floor, recreation rooms, shower baths, gym- | nasium and other features designed to make for the physica) and mental | well being of the employees, | Elaborate precautions also have been taken to insure safety for em- ployees. No employee will be farther than 100 feet from an exit, and through a system of ramps, or in- clined walks, almost as wide as streets it will be possible to empty the vast structure in less than sixty seconds. On the first floor there. are no| fewer than twelve theatres, In tech- nical parlance these are known as “projection rooms,” but in reality they | every convenience for the comfort of | audiences, The seats will be arranged on a sloping floor and will be heavily upholstered, Kach projection room will have @ piano and provision for other music, #0 that the photoplays will be seen in an atmosphere prac- tically corresponding to that of a well conducted theatra In these rooms directors, executives and other officials of the corporation will have private screenings of the pictures as) rapidly as they are made. | Since the discovery of California's | sunshine, by the modern ‘49ers, Los Angeles has held undisputed sway as the motion picture production hub of the universe, Virtually all of the leading producing companies have studios in Hollywood, as in other sub- urbs of Los Angeles, and it seemed for a long time that the City of Angels had permanently become the City of Motion Pictures, But, although the producers have seen fit to send their stars to the Coast and erect studiog there, they have not found it feasible to move their executive offices far from Broad- way. The result is that, while pro- duction is carried on in Los Angeles, the administration of the film indus. try has been at this end of the con- tinent, ‘This, of course, has not only increased costs, but has been a source of delays and other inefMciencies, In recent months there has ‘been a grow- ing tgndency to bring production wer lo the business seat of the in- dustry, sought since the beginning of the|ment of the technical standards of industry will be available, Revolv-|motion picture photography, The cost ing stagos, stationary stages, | of the laboratory.equipment alone will wealth of Hght, dressing rooms to be upward of $1,000,000, it Is stated. acoomodate 1,000 persons, private Facilities will be provided to in- A factor which operates to New York's benefit as a film centre is the ease with which actors can be found RESTAURANT AND ALL THIS ONLY FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY GYMN. sTuDIO GREE “LARGEST FIL FEET PER the film colony there “vill never be able to produce the number or variety of real actors that can be found on Broadway any afternoon, This is of immense importance to directors looking for types. Motion pictures were first produced in New York City, and it.would be only poetic justice for Manhattan to become the first film city of the world, as well as the first in pretty nearly everything else, As Science Advances Keep Pace With It and Avoid Dangers! By H. Gernsback, Editor Electrical Experimenter Mag- azine. T': wonderful age in which we are living has never been par- alleled in history, We have more comforts, more conveniences, more of everything than human be- ings ever had since the creation of the world. Nevertheless, our lives become more and more complex time rolls on, while the average hu- man being becomes more perplexed at the strange surroundings in which he finds himself, Our electro-mechanical age brings forth new surprises constantly, and he who \does not know the rudimen- taries of mechanics, electricity and general physics is like a blind man in a cireus, He hears what is going on but all is meanin, is to him—he cannot t the full benefit of the per- formance, Where humanity now finds itself surrounded by machines and by eli trical wires at every hand it be- hooves every man to know some- thing about them, ‘Thousands of lives as [are lost every year because laymen refuse to learn a little about science in general, They get killed because they fight short circuits with water, when ten minutes of study would have told them that water is a con- ductor and that a few handfuls of dry rand—which is a non-conductor— would have saved the life, and the house which burned down due to the short elreult, If the father had told his boy that a wet rope is a good crease the physical comfort of the| here. Although a number of the morejconductor for electricity that boy DRESSING FOR 1,000 ARTISTS _ PLANT IN. THE WORLD :- CAPACITY 3,000,090 MABLE’S LOVE LETTERS TO HER ROOKIE By Florence Elizabeth Summers Iiustrations by Natalie Stokes. BRE BILL, D I been thinking of you lately, an how you love to eat. We got a new kind of greens, Somebody sent them to pa from the moun- | tains down south. Theyre galax. The leaves is larger than spinich. Were tryin some for dinner,¢é———$_ cooked with good old country bacon, Im ait- tin in the kitchen writin war chest all day. Ive embroidered some pillo shams with “Good night” an “Good Morning,” like your and watchin them #0/ mothers, Shes goin to give us her they wont scortch, framed motto “God bless our home.” Our meetin, “Gettin| N in touch with the ser- gets more inter- estin an more fun every I thought it would be borin at first but it aint, Ive worked on my | time. Say ts CCOMMODATIONS “COUSIN LULAS CRAZY ABOUT THE TALKIN MACHINE.” | Looks like well have the jlong before we get the house Cousin Lula has been in from the country with little Mable, named after me. They say shes three years old, but she must be older than that, for she couldn't have gotten as dirty as she is in three years. I never saw such a young un. Shes somethin lke her pa. Went to Washington to the inauguration once an took a clean shirt an a five dollar bill. Stayed three weeks an never changed elther one of them. Cousin Lulas crazy about the talkin machine. he never heard one be- fore. The other day we was all on the front poarch fer a little while an pa started it up an cousin Lula propped the screen door open 90s she could hear better. I must go and get busy “Gettin in touch with the service.” Yours till I know more about it furniture PRINTING WEEK ’ MABLE ' (Copyright, 1019, by Frederick A. Stokes Oo.) ‘The complete eries of “DBI BILL" Letter book form, te pulled in TWO MINUTES OF OPTIMISM _ By Herman J. Stich There’s Always a Height Unreached You grandfather would have grinned commiseratingly, tapped | oc ea 2 his forehead meaningly and hopelessly wobbled his head at mention of an adding machine or a gyroscope or the “Express in the Woolworth Building. It is only a short backward flight since our golden granaries were gruesome cemeteries, since steam locomotives and motion pic tures and whirling, whirring wheels of steel were adjudged 'the ebulli- tions of superheated fancies, since the dirigible and the submarine— birdmen and fishmen—were regarded as weird, fantastic pipe-dreams. Skyscrapers and subways, telephones and telegrams and wireless, antiseptic surgery and antitoxins were the prénce’s palace and the magic carpet and the healing spirits of Grimm and Anderson and village sages and patriarchs, L We hadn't yet seen or said “How do you do” to germs who were as deadly as they were unknown. Aqueducts and Aquitanias and Lust- tanias, sewing machines and poison gas, electrical dynamos and Croton reservoirs, gasoline and gasjets, canned “eats” and canned music and canned heat, seventy-five mile range cannon and hundred and seventy-five-mile-an-hour airplanes couldn't be tagged even in the most unabridged Webster. Six billion dollars was an uncertain, unspoken figure, were smoky, choky charcoal, Radiators Incandescent lights were smelly, sloppy candles, The country was a waste and the city was an outpost. The writers of fairy tales were pikers with stunted imagina- tions and frosted vision compared to the writers of modern industry. The old magicians and wizards and sorcerers—chicaners and charla- tans and medicine men—have been supplanted by hard-headed cap- tains of commerce and finance in whose hands science is a pawn and the “inconceivable” another try. The seven league boots of yes- terday are ‘the seven league intellects of to-day. We have hardly started and we've outstripped the wilde dictions of the so-called craziest of decade, ‘ “Impossible” and “impossibility” are long since obsolescent, rhould you acknowledge them when up-to-date lexicons don't? Constantly the horizon of human limitations retreats—keeps pace with the onslaughts of knowledge and determination and their ac- complishments, The nearer to the skyline we advance the further from us it recedes, Progress is an illimitable ladder. a height unreached. pre- thinkers and last tinkers the Why There's always boy threw the wet rope over the high WITH THE INVENTORS, tension line while holding it in his} A process has heen n hand and was killed invented in If the 600 auto owners who were| for extracting a substance asphyxiated last year-the casualties| fm sulphite lye which is powdered become larger each year-had known|and compressed into. fuel briqueta A Sweden a bit of chemistry, they too would) * be living to-day, But they insisted] For advertising purposes an tn- upon running their engines in @ ga- candescent lamp h tented with closed doors, and unfortu- “<n @ Die down, pa It carbon mon- 4 poet ates