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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1922)
o Lights Change Stage Scenes Turn of Switch Transforms the Scenery, Costumes and Fig ures in London Theater. flimsy and covered with embroidery. IIow about that?” “ That's quite simple,” replied SI. Samoiloff. “To the colors 1 use in the mountain scene I applied two meth ods of analysis. First, I took their WORKED OUT BY A RUSSIAN! found used chemically. From the spectra 1 Into what colors the first would M. Samoiloff Asserts He Is Merely Utilizing Harmony Between Light, Line and Color— Principles Are Not New. split up by the application o f the proper kind of strong light, and by chemical analysis I discovered that a great variety of substances had been used In the original paints and colors to produce the original hues. Take, for example, several pieces of red ma- terla l; they will scorn to match ex actly, but chemical analysis will show tliut one contuins radium bromide, another pliospherine or zinc, uud a third no s|<eo!al chemical at all. In ordinary daylight they look exactly alike, hut when 1 begin to throw my specially prepared lights upon them they change in different ways accord ing to the chemicals they contain. When you have worked this out very carefully, as I did. It will be quit* simple for you to make a plain blouse look like a mass o f embroidery. “ Perhaps you noticed In the Oriental scene three of the dam-era who seemed to be clothed In quite different ways; one looked as If she were wearing merely a skirt, another was draped to her shoulders, and so on. Yet when the light was changed all three were found to he clad in modem gowns, the only difference between them being the colors o f their costumes. It's merely an application of tlie knowl edge of how light affects color." London.— The wonders accoiuidlshed In transforming scenes, costumes and actunl figures from one period of his tory to another by a mere change of light on the stage o f the Hippodrome has set all London tulklng. In a revue now playing there is a scene repre senting a very modern damsel sighing for her lover In a frowning mountain pass. i>he sings, the echo answers and the audience is beguiled by the sweet sentimentality of the situation. Then behind the scenes somebody docs something uud everything is altered In a Hash. The grim moun tains become a Hindu temple, the frowning rocks melt Into sands and palms and the tall, slender young woman turns Into a stout Indian i maiden. It has uU been brought about j by a change in light, by the manipu lation of more than 100 different switches at the same moment, and the audience is carried back 3,000 years and from one continent to another. Every detail is transmogrified, and the Gun pit of the JL-3, armored dreudnaught of the air, showing two of thirty girl, who wns clad conventionally In machine guns from which 3,000 shots enn be tired In four seconds while the a yellow artificial silk blouse w ith blue plane Is speeding nt 140 miles an hour. The initial flight was made from New facings and u rust-red gulf skirt, up- York to Washington in two hours with no stops. |iears now with her bust draped In white, embroidered in black and brown, with her waist unclothed und her trousers-sklrt pale cream with a graceful figured pattern. Horse Racing and Starvation in Soviet Russia New Dreadnaught of the A ir Back Goes Everything. An Oriental scene follows, with the customary dances. Men and women In all the finery of the East enter and weave in and out In the muzes o f the bullet. The lover comes on, to uil up- pearnnees robed in the loose w hite gar ments and the trousers of certain castes o f Hindus. The nction grows fast and furious; the heroine is threat ened by a riv a l; she runs to the hero for protection, and as he clusps her to his arms some one throws those switches again. Hack goes everything to the moun tain gorge, and n very modern young man in a brown lounge suit of unex ceptionable cut Is seen embracing the young woman in the crowd of equally modernly dressed people. IIow is it done? Only Adrian V. FamoilofT, the Itusslun artist who lias worked the tiling out, and the Moss Empires, who hold the patent, can tell in detnil, but it is possible to give a general Idea of this startling new stage effect. When M. SumoUofT was asked about it, he said: “ It's merely a matter o f establish ing and utilizing a harmony lie'ween light, line and color. Is it new? WeU, nil tile elements of it have been been known for years; I have merely brought them together and worked them out scientifically and systemati cally. Do you remember, for Instance, the postcards we had ns children. Which showed one Inscription In one light and nnother In another? Well, that’s part of it. Then during the war he heard a lot about 'dazzle' and camouflage, and liow a few apparently random lines of paint would alter to the distant observer th« shape of the outline o f n vessel. That's part o f It, too. I have merely worked along these and similar lines until I got the re sults I wonted.” Light Changes Costume. “ Hut the girl's skirt and blouse in the mountain scene seemed to be of solid color and heavy material, while In the Hindu sceue they were quite Alien Property to Be Returned Here is an example of tlie sliurp eoutrasts In soviet Kussla. One photograph shows a trotting race on the track at Moscow reopened by tlio Uol.-hevik government. The other shows u starving family In the Samara dis trict waiting for food or death. Lessons of W ar in N ew Defense Plan Provides for an Efficient Staff Trained in Peace Time. BARS CENTRALIZED CAMPS tro-IIungarian empire broke up nfter Foundation Work on Great National Scheme of Mobilization Already the war lias made possible n return of a large portion of the property Done— Regular Army to Train seized from Austrian and Hungarian Men for War. nationals who after the peace treaty became citizens of the new repub Washington.—Two lesson« of the lics that assumed friendly diplo matic relationship with the I'nited World war, learned at heavy coat, are States. Mr. Miller lias been proceed | sharply emphasized In n War de ing quietly with the unraveling of partment bulletin, giving the first o f ficial picture of the new national de Most of the Seized Holdings Will numerous claims until the old Aus fense structure projected In the re trian property is in such slmi>e that Eventually Go Back to the Orig lie can see daylight, and lie antici organized army o f the United Stntes. inal Owners— Claims of Our pates little troulde from that source i One lesson comes direct from the Citizens Must Be Satisfied. between now and the time congress battlefields of France. It Is that elfi- clent staff work is vital to modern mil ucts. Washington.—Administration leaders Congress will have to pass on the itary operations, and with It goes the are trying to map out a policy disposition of less than half the corollary that staff functions cannot for disposing of the alien property Austro-Hungarian holdings, or prop be lenrned over night. trusts. Most of the seized hold The other comes from the wartime erty valued nt $18,000,000 out o f a in g will eventually go back to the total of .$40.000,ittl0 seized when war din ami confusion of the centralized original owners, hut Allen Property wns declared. When congress amend trnlulng camps at home. It Is that effi Custodian Miller Insists that the ed the trading with the enemy net cient mobilization of the nation's fight claims of American citizens against ing strength enn bo carried out only it provided that the possessions of Germany and Austria must be citizens of Czechoslovakia and Po as a decentralized process through satisfied first. The ultimate disposi land and subjects of the new'.Jugo agencies set up In times of pence. tion o f the property rests with con Keallzntion that these lessons must slav nation anil the section of old gress, except In cases where It has ex Hungary added to Itumnnla might be worked Into the new military pol pressly authorized settlements. Wind be returned, and settlement of the icy If perilous delay and costly con ing up the alien property affairs Is fusion which preceded pnst mobiliza claims of these people Is proceeding now the big task before the adminis rapidly. Mr. Miller announced that tions were to be avoided lias marked tration In getting back to an actual possessions valued at more than the effort o f the War department. peace stntus. $0,000,000 already had been banded The bulletin shows Hint It has attempt ed to write regulations under the re No Austria Hungary Now. back to the owners. O f the remaining approximately vised national defense act that would Virtually all the attention, both furnish n clean-cut scheme for war public and In congress, lias been $30,000,000 Mr. Miller estimated that mobilization without vlolntlng nation about $13,000,000 subsequently will go focused on the seized German hold al traditions against militarism or «'re ings In this country. The chief claims to nationals of the three new Euro nting machinery that would Imtsise of American citizens growing out of pean stntes or nationals o f the new This will leave heavy burdens In peacs times upon the war ure against the German gov section of Itumnnla. the taxpayers. ernment, which will probably be approximately $18.000.000 tied up in To Profit by Experience. charged up with the finaneia! loss to trust utitil congress authorizes the Americans through the Lusitania President, through ttie alien property The project undertaken probably Is sinking, on which many of the claims custodian and the Department of Jus the most far reaching military effort rest. For this reason it Is exjiected tice, to return it or dispose o f it other the nation lias ever attempted iu peace that settlement of the German prop wise. times. In discussing the Austrian and Hun erty will be longer delayed. The foundation work has been done. In addition, the fact that the Aus- garian property seized in this country, All over the country decentralized ma very few pointed out that It Included chinery Is being set up capable. Its very few estates o f any size— in fact, designers believe, of getting the na only one, the Gladys Vanderbilt estate, tion on a war footing with little de valued nt $4,000,000, which was re lay and confusion. Yet It Is felt that turned nfter congoess provided that the nation at large and even the most the property of American women mar important links In the new defense ried to alien enemies prior to April (5, chain, the regular army, the National 1017, which was taken over during the Guard und the Officers' Ileserve corps war, might be handed back. Count do not appreciate fully what Is being Rzechenyl, who married Gladys Van done. derbilt, Is now mentioned as the Hun Col. John McA. I’nlmer, the officer garian ambassador to the United assigned to ohl congress In framing States when the treaty ratifications the legislation making It all possible, are exchanged. and who has devoted himself to a One Item of 1:00000. study o f the subject, was called upon O f the remaining Anstro-Hungarlnn to furnish the document, anil Ids work property In the hands o f the gov is to go to ull parts of the new army ernment the largest lump sum Is ns a means of preventing misunder I that o f $400.000 taken over with the standing. | Austro Iltingar an hank o f New York. Colonel I'almer points out that at Part o f this trust fund will pr<l>- the conclusion of previous wars, the j ably be banded back tiefore cong • United .States sernp|>ed all It hod passes on the Austrian pro;>erty. Mr. lenrned In liattle nml demobilized with ! Miller said that citizens of Poland, ! out Hny attempt to carry those costly i Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Hu- I lessons on to younger generations for mania hold an Interest, the extent o f I their protection and aid In time of which is still umlelertnlm d. In the j war. Veterans of the Civil war, bank. It is exjiected to materially ; schooled in soldier craft, skilled in reduce the total when claims are al staff work and the handling o f mighty lowed. forces with minimum confusion in Virtnally all the rest o f the Aus movement and minimum losses in trian property consists of sms II es battle, went back to civil life, lie says, tates, some o f which amount to only ! snd lost all touch with military mat l $40 or similar sums awarded work- j ters. When the war with 8|>aln came The Island o f Ceylon produces most of the graphite n«ed by tne world In men tinder state compensation nets, their knowledge was lost to the men the manufacture o f lead pencils, paint, stove blacking, lubrlcsnts, crucibles and The $13,0001009 of Austrian and llun- of 181*3. It wns necessary to build foundry facings. The methods used in the mining of the mineral In Ceylon are gsrlnn properly Is In the same h<» t again from the ground up. and H*17 primitive, natives only being employed In the work. The Ceylon graphite Is as the hulk of the German trust funds, ! saw this waste rejieated, the bulletin over 93 per cent pure carbon. It Is also commonly known as "black lead.” The over which the President has no | asserts. above photograph shows native women working over a barrel of graphite at power of disposition until he obtains The purpose of the new scheme of Colombo, Ceylon. ‘ further authority. welding the regulars, the National Government Officials Are T ry ing to Map Out Plan for Un raveling Tangle. NECESSARY TO PEACE STATUS Where Your Pencil Lead Comes From o Guard and the organized reserves Into the urmy o f the United Stntes in peace times Is defined by Colonel I'al mer as follows: "It Is primarily the object o f our mow law to perpetuate the framework of the organization developed In the World war, so that its tremendous cost can be funded ns a permanent Invest ment for nil time.” Hud such a system ns Is now well advanced toward establishment bt>en erected after the Civil war, the offi cer adds, “ In 1N9S more divisions than were needed for the war with Spain could have begun their expansion within 34 hours after the declaration o f hostilities.” Centralized Process Demoralizing. “ Mobilization In 1917," Colonel Ful mer continues, “ would have proceed ed ns a decentralization process and not ns a great centralized process, upsetting the economic life of the na- tion. It would not have been necessary to spend millions for great concen trated training camps or to overbur den the railroads with umiussltled personcll ami material in order to organize anil train and equip and pro vide officers ull at tlie same time. Such a national organization must have saved months In time nml mil lions In money." Colonel I’ulmer points out tliut Stonewul! Jackson alone of leaders on either side of the Civil war en tered the contest with knowledge of wliut staff work meant. He hud stud ied Napoleon's troop orders, and In the first buttle o f Hie war, Gololiei I’ulmer says, “ showed that even raw troops run stand like a stone wall If the prevalent rawness dia>s not extend to the craftsmanship of the com mander." To meet such n situation, the new mllitury policy Imposes on the regulur army the duly o f training in peace times tlie men on whom must of ne cessity full Hit) burden of command and direction of great forces in war. From this arises Hie present distribu tion of the regulars Into divisional areas which underlay Hie corps and army area structure. It Is not ex- liected, officers say, that more Hum a division ever will he brought together Supposed Suicide Gets Up and Runs Halt (more.— Several hundred persons gathered on President street to await the arrival o f the police to move the body of a re ported suicide lying under a rail road car. They were startled when the man got up and ran. William N. Houck, conductor of a Haltlmore «V Ohio railroad train, grubbed the limn and held him for the police. The "suicide" gave his name us Angdo Scupuno, thirty-two, and an address on President street. He was found lying be tween two freight curs, with Ills head across one of the rails. A pistol with two discharged chambers was nearby. A watchman nt a nearby plant fired several shots to attract the police. Scapano told Lieutenant Mooney lie hud crawled under the car to sleep and knew noth ing of the pistol or pistol shots. In peace times, hut through practice In handling a divisional unit o f 30,000 or so men, training con he Imparted, It Is felt, to fit future leaders to handle corps of nrmles In battle. From its role as staff college, also, comes the demand o f the army for a larger proportion of officers than llie actual enlisted strength o f any prob able regulur force would require. These extra officers would play little part In the actual peace time em ployment of the army as such or even In smull emergency that required only the regulars to meet the nation’s i-ceds. They would he under training In stuff functions, nml In turn ho passing on their knowledge to the Na tional Guardsmen and reserve officers snd the whole scheme o f keeping the country up to date In n military sense without keeping nny substantial force under arms nt any time rests on this provision, It Is asserted. Corn for Fuel. I.e Suer, Minn.— Declaring that corn at 31 cents u bushel Is cheaper fuel than coal. Dr. F. A. Dodge, n resident of Le Suer and a farm owner, has commenced burning corn ns a fuel to heat Ids residence. Al Sehlegel, a farmer living neur here also says he Intends to use corn as a fuel, Is'eause of the low price and labor at $3 a day. Tagging Chicks as They Are Hatched In order to keep a record o f their best chicks, progeny of their best laying hens, the poultry raisers o f California are tagging the Hny birds as soon as they are hatched. A numbered hit o f metal Is affixed to a wing. Miss Edith Strudders, who claims to hare some of the finest of I'etaluiua's twelve million One hens. Is shown tagging a few of her day-old chicks.
