Lights Change
Stage Scenes
Turn of Switch Transforms the flimsy and covered with embroidery.
How about th at?”
Scenery, Costumes and Fig
“That's quite simple,” replied M.
Samoiloff. “To the colors I use In
ures in London Theater.
terial ; they will seein to match ex
actly, but chemical analysis will show
that one contains radium bromide,
another phospherine or zinc, and a
third no special chemical at all. In
ordinary daylight they look exactly
alike, but when I 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 quite
simple for you to make a plain blouse
look like a mass of embroidery.
“Perhaps you noticed In the Oriental
scene three of the dancers 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 be clad in modern gowns, the
only difference between them being
the colors of their costumes. It’s
merely an application of the knowl
edge of how light affects color.”
the mountuln scene I applied two meth
ods of analysis. First, I took their
spectra; then I analyzed the paints
used chemically. From the spectra I
found into what colors the first would
split up by the application of the
M. Samoiloff Assert* He Is Merely proper kind of strong light, and by
chemical analysis 1 discovered that a
Utilizing Harmony Between Light,
great variety of substances had been
Line and Color— Principles
used In the original paints and colors
Are Not New.
to produce the original hues. Take,
London.—The wonders accotniJlshed for example, several pieces of red ma
In transforming scenes, costumes and
actual figures from one period of his
tory to another by a mere change of
light on the stage of the Hippodrome
has set all London talking. In a revue
now playing there Is a scene repre
senting a very modern damsel sighing
for her lover In a frowning mountain
pass. She sings, the echo answers and
the audience is beguiled by the sweet
sentimentality of the situation.
Then behind the scenes somebody
does something and everything Is
ultered In a flash. 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 Indlun
maiden. It has all been brought about
by a change In light, by the manipu
lation of wore tliun 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, nnd the
Gun pit of the JL-2, armored dreadnaught of the air, showing two of thirty
girl, who was clad conventionally In machine guns from which 3,000 shots can be fire l In four seconds while the
a yellow artificial silk blouse with blue plane is speeding at 140 miles an hour. The Initial flight was mude from New
fuclngs uud a rust-red golf skirt, ap York to Washington In two hours with no stops.
pears now with her bust draped In
white, embroidered In black and
brown, with her waist unclothed and
her trousers-sklrt pule cream with a
graceful figured pattern.
WORKED OUT BY A RUSSIAN
Horse Racing and Starvation in Soviet Russia
I
New Dreadnaught of the Air *
Back Goes Everything.
Alien Property
to Be Returned
Here is an example of the sharp contrasts in soviet Russia. One photograph shows a trotting race on the
track at Moscow reopened by the Bolshevik government The other shows a starving family In the Samara dis
trict waiting for food or death.
Lessons of War
in N ew Defense
Plan Provides for an Efficient
S taff Trained in Peace
Time.
Guard and the organized reserves Into
the army of the United States In
peace times is defined by Colonel Pal
mer as follows:
“It ls primarily the object of our
new law to perpetuate the framework
of the organization developed In the
World war, so that Its tremendous cost
can be funded as a permanent Invest
ment for nil time,”
Had such a system as Is now well
advanced toward establishment been
erected after the Civil war, the offi
cer adds, “In 1898 more divisions than
were needed for the war with Spain
could have begun their expansion
within 24 hours after the declaration
of hostilities."
Supposed Suicide
Gets Up and Runs g
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Baltimore.—Several hundred
persons gathered on President
street to await the arrival of 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 Baltimore & Ohio railroad
train, grabbed the man and held
him for the police.
The “suicide” gave his name
as Angelo Scapano, thirty-two,
and an address on President
street. He was found lying be-
tween two freight cars, with his
head across one of the rails. A
pistol with two discharged
chambers was nearby.
A watchman at a nearby plant
fired several shots to attract the
police. Scapano told Lieutenant
Mooney he had crawled under
the car to sleep and knew noth-
Ing of the pistol or pistol shots,
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An Oriental scene follows, with the
customary dances. Men and women
In all the finery of the East enter and
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weave In and out In the mazes of the
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Foundation
W
ork
on
Great
National
ballet. The lover comes on, to all ap Government Officials Are Try tro-Hungarlan empire broke up after
Scheme of Mobilization Already
pearances robed In the loose white gar
the war has made possible a return
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Done— Regular Army to Train
ing to Map Out Plan for Un
ments nnd the trousers of certain
of a large portion of the property
castes of Hindus. The action grows
Men
for
W
ar.
seized from Austrian and Hungarian
raveling Tangle.
fast and furious; the heroine is threat
nationals who after the peace treaty
ened by u rival; she runs to the hero
became citizens of the new repub
Washington.—Two lessons of the
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for protection, und as he clnsps her to
lics that assumed friendly diplo World war, learned at heavy cost, are
Ids arms some one throws those
matic relationship with the United sharply emphasized In a War de
switches again.
States. Mr. Miller has been proceed partment bulletin, giving the first of
Centralized Process Demoralizing.
Hack goes everything to the moun
ing quietly with the unraveling of ficial picture of the new national de
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tain gorge, and a very modern young Most of the Seized Holdings W ill numerous claims until the old Aus fense structure projected In the re
“Mobilization In 1917,” Colonel Pal
man In a brown lounge suit of unex
trian property Is In such shape that organized army of the United States. mer continues, “would have proceed
Eventually Go Back to the Orig
ceptionable cut Is seen embracing the
he can see daylight, and he antici
inal Owners— Claims of Our
One lesson comes direct from the ed as a decentralization process and
young woman In the crowd of equully
pates little trouble from that source battlefields of France. It Is that effi not ns a great centralized process,
Citizens Must Be Satisfied.
modernly dressed people.
between now and the time congress cient staff work Is vital to modern mil upsetting the economic life of the na In peace times, but through practice In
handling a divisional unit of 20,000 or
How Is it done? Only Adrian V.
acts.
itary operations, and with It goes the tion. It would not have been necessary so men, training can be imparted, It
Washington.—Administration leaders
Rainolloff, the Russian artist who has
Congress will hove to pass on the corollary that staff functions cannot to spend millions for great concen
worked the thing out, and the Moss are trying to map out a policy disposition of less than half the be
trated training camps or to overbur is felt, to fit future leaders to handle
learned over night
for
disposing
of
the
alien
properly
Empires, who hold the patent, can tell
den
the railroads with unclassified corps of armies in battle.
Austro-Hungarian
holdings,
or
prop
The other comes from the wartime
From Its role as staff college, also,
In detail, but It Is possible to give a trusts. Most of the seized hold erty valued nt $18,000,000 out of a din and confusion of the centralized personell nnd material In order to
comes the demand of the army for a
general Idea of this startling new ings will eventually go back to the total of $40,000,000 seized when war
organize
and
train
and
equip
and
pro
training camps at home. It Is that effi
larger proportion of officers thnn the
stage effect. When JI. Samoiloff was original owners, but Allen Property wns declared. When congress amend cient
mobilization of the nation's fight vide officers all at the same time. actual enlisted strength of any prob
Custodian
Miller
Insists
that
the
usked about It, he said:
Such
a
national
organization
must
ed
the
trading
with
the
enemy
act
ing strength can be carried out only
"It’s merely a matter of establish claims of American citizens ngalnst It provided that the possessions of as a decentralized process through have saved months In time and mil able regular force would require.
These extra officers would play little
ing and utilizing a harmony between Germany nnd Austria must be citizens of Czechoslovakia and Po agencies set up In times of peace.
lions In money.”
light, line and color. Is It new? Well, satisfied first. The ultimate disposi land and subjects of the new Jugo
Colonel Palmer points out that part In the actual peace time em
Realization
that
these
lessons
must
all the elements of It have been been tion of the property rests with con slav nation and the section of old be worked Into the new mllltnry pol Stonewall Jackson alone of leaders ployment of the army as such or
known for years; I have merely gress, except In cases where It has ex- Hungary added to Rumania might icy If perilous delay and costly con on either side of the Civil war en even in small emergency that required
brought them together and worked pressly authorized settlements. Wind be returned, and settlement of the fusion which preceded past mobiliza tered the contest with knowledge of only the regulars to meet the nation's
them out scientifically nnd systemati ing up the alien property affairs Is claims of these people Is proceeding
what staff work meant. He had stud needs. They would be under training
cally. Ho you remember, for Instance, now the big lask before the adminis rapidly. Mr. Miller announced that tions were to be avoided lias marked ied Napoleon’s troop orders, and In In staff functions, and In turn be
the postcards we hud as children, tration In getting back to an actual possessions valued at more than the effort of the War department the first battle of the war, Colonel passing on their knowledge to the Na
The bulletin shows that It has attempt
which showed one Inscription in one peace status.
$9,000,000 already had been handed ed to write regulations under the re Palmer says, “showed that even raw tional Guardsmen nnd reserve officers
and the whole scheme of keeping the
No Austria-Hungary Now.
light and another la another? Well,
back to the owners.
vised national defense act that would troops can stand like a stone wall if
that’s part of It. Then during the
Of the remaining approximately furnish a clean-cut scheme for war the prevalent rawness does not extend country up to date In a mllltnry sense
Virtually all the attention, both
war he heard a lot about ‘dazzle’ nnd public nnd in congress, has been $30,000,000 Mr. Miller estimated that
to the craftsmanship of the com without keeping any substantial force
under arms at any time rests on this
camouflage, nnd how a few apparently focused on the seized German hold about $12,000,000 subsequently will go mobilization without violating nation mander.”
random lines of paint would alter to ings In this country. The chief claims to nationals of the three new Euro- al traditions against militarism or cre
To meet such a situation, the new provision, It ls asserted.
I ating
;
iu u c llilic i J
m u t
W L714IL 1
I Impose
machinery
that
would
the distant observer tlio shape of the of American citizens growing out of pean states or nationals of the new heavy burdens In peace times upon military policy Imposes on the regular
outline of n vessel. That's part of It, the war are against the German gov section of Rumania. This will leave
army the duty of training In peace
Com for Fuel.
too. I have merely worked along these ernment, which will probably be approximately $18,000,000 tied up in the taxpayers.
times the men on whom must of ne
Le
Suer,
Minn.—Declaring
that corn
To Profit by Experience.
and similar lines until I got the re charged up with the financial loss to trust until congress authorizes the
cessity fall tho burden of command at 21 cents a bushel Is cheaper fuel
sults I wanted."
The project undertaken probably Is and direction of great forces in war. than coal. Dr. F. A. Dodge, a resident
Americans through the Lusitania President, through the alien property
Light Change* Costume.
sinking, on which many of the claims custodian and the Department of Jus the most far-reaching military effort From this arises the present distribu of Le Suer nnd a farm owner, has
"Hut the girl’s skirt nnd blouse In rest. For this reason It Is expected tice, to return It or dispose of it other the nation has ever attempted in peace tion of the regulars into divisional commenced burning corn as a fuel to
times.
areas which underlay the corps and heat his residence. A1 Schlegel, a
the mountain scene seemed to be of that settlement of the German prop wise.
In discussing the Austrian nnd Hun
The foundation work has been done. army area structure. It is not ex farmer living near here also says he
solid color and heavy material, while erty will be longer delayed.
In the Hindu scene they were quite
In addition, the fact that the Aus- garian property seized in this country. All over the country decentralized ms- pected, officers say, that more than a Intends to use com ns a fuel, because
very few pointed out that it Included chlnery is being set up cnpable, Its division ever will be brought together of the low price and labor at $3 a day.
very few estates of any size—In fact, designers believe, of getting the na-
only one, the Gladys Vanderbilt estate, tlon on a war footing with little de
valued at $4,008,000, which was re- lay and confusion. Yet It Is felt that
turned after congress provided that the nation at large and even the most
the property of American women mar- Important links In the new defense
rled to alien enemies prior to April 8, chain, the regular army, the National
1917, wiych was taken over during the Guard and the Officers' Reserve corps
war, might he handed back. Count do not appreciate fully what Is being
Szechenyl, who married Gladys Van- ! done.
derbllt, ls now mentioned ns the Hun-
Col. John McA. Palmer, the officer
garlan ambassador to the United assigned to aid congress In framing
States when the treaty ratification» the legislation making It all possible,
are exchanged.
and who has devoted himself to a
One Item of $400.000.
study of the subject, was called upon
Of the remaining Austro-Hungarian to furnish the document, and his work
property In the hands of the gov is to go to all parts of the new army
ernment the largest lump sum Is as a means of preventing misunder
that of >800.000 taken over with the standing.
Austro-Hungarian bank of New York.
Colonel Palmer points out that at
I*art of this trust fund will prob the conclusion of previous wars, the
ably be handed back before congress United States scrapped all it had
l asses on the Austrian property. Mr. learned In battle and demobilized with- i
Miller said that citizens of Poland, out any attempt to carry those costly
Caecboslovnkla. Jugoslavia and Ru lessons on to youtiger generations for
mania hold an Interest, the extent of their protection and aid In time of
which ls still umleternilm d. In the war. Veterans of the Civil war, j
bank.
It is expected to materially schooled In soldier c ra ft skilled In
reduce the total when claims are al staff work and the handling of mighty
lowed.
•
forces with minimum contagion in
Virtually all the rest of the Aus movement and minimum loasfes In
trian property consists of small es- battle, went back to civil life, be says,
tates, some of which amount to only and lost all touch with military mat
$40 or similar sums awarded work ter*. When the war with Spain came
The Island of Ceylon produces most of the graphite used by the world In men under state compensation acta. their knowledge was lost to the men i
the manufacture of lead pencils, paint, stove hlucklng, lubricants, crucibles and The $18.0t*»,dtm of Austrian and Hun of 1888. It was necessary to bulhl
foundry facings. The methods used In the mining of the mineral In Ceylon are garian property Is In the same boat again from the ground up. and 1817
primitive, natives only being employed In the work. The Ceylon graphite Ls •a the balk of the German trust funds, saw this waste repeated, the bulletin h~ ,.In»KT,CT keep,a rec,’r<1 of their best chicks, progeny of their best laying
ih?v are h 7 tc£ d " a
X L S ’i T “*
“*Eg,n* the tlny blrd* , s ’oo° “
over 08 |>er cent pure carbon. It Is also commonly known as “black lead." The over which the Prwldcnt has no
■rts.
th ey an hahhed. A numbered bit of metal ls affixed to a win? Mi«« Rdirh
above photograph shows native women working over a barrel of graphite at power of disposition nntil be obtains
The purpose of the new scheme of Struddera, who claims to have some of the finest of Petaluma’s Twelve
Colombo, Ceylon.
welding the regulars, the National j fine hens. Is shown tagging a few of her day-old chicks.
» twelve million
further authority.
BARS CENTRALIZED CAMPS
NECESSARY TO PEACE STATUS
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Where Your Pencil Lead Comes From
Tagging Chicks as They Are Hatched
r