The Clinton News Record, 1942-07-30, Page 3TI'IITRS., JULY 30 1942
THE
CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
ELLE UAI f JdINI1Ne < lw CGLINTO NT EARLY IN
1i L N; NTURY
Some Notes o f The News
in 1917
FROM THE CLINTON NEWS-
RECORD
JULY ;26TH, 1917
'Word has been received„ in town
that Lieut. Fred Brewer has been
severely wounded in France, Lieut.
elrewer is a son of a former well-
known Clinton citizen.
J. G. McKinnon, 0, Et, who enlisted
as a private and went overseas last.
autumn has been given his commis-
sion in France. Shortly after reach-
ing England he was promoted to the
rank of sergeant and he wrote his
wife, formerly Miss May Rance, the
other day that he was now lieuten-
ant. The Garman helmet, which has
been on exhibition in W. D. Pair
& Co's. window timing the past .week,
was picked up in the battle field by
Mr. McKinnon. It is an interesting
Mice. He also sent home a medal,
one of the ones given the sailors who
sank the Lusiatania.
A former resident of Clinton was
called to her long home on July 3rd,
when Mrs. Joseph Coventry of Mar-
quette, Mich., answered the final sum-
mons. The deceased formerly resided
here but it is a good ninny years
since she and her husband removed
to the State of Michigan. Messrs.
Henry and Christopher Beacom of
Hullett and Mrs. H. Watkins and; Miss
Mona Beacom of Clinton are surviv-
ing brothers and sister.
Mrs. R. J. Cluff returned Friday
from a visit with friends at Kincar-
dine and vicintiy.
Mr. Isaae Barr, having disposed of
his residence on Victoria street to
Mr. G .H. David, contemplates re-
moving to Termite in the autumn.
Miss Beryl Cooper of Clinton was
the guest of Mise Helen Ross at their
gunner cottage. "Smit -R -Inn! on the
...air-conditioned comfort
train TO THE WEST
DIRECT
SERVICE
to
WINNIPEG
SASKATOON
EDMONTON
JASPER
VANCOUVER
VICTORIA
Zir *vale:
JASPER PARK LODGE
JUNE tS – AUGUST 31
MiNAKI LODGE
JUNE 15 — AUGUST 31
CkIURCH DIRECTORY
THE SALVATION ARMY
Mrs Envoy Wright
11 a.m. —' Morning Worship
2.30 p.m. — Sunday School
7 p.m. Salvation Meeting'
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. A. E. Silver, Pastor
11 a.m. Sunday School.
7
pare—Evening Worship
The Young People meet each
Monday evening at 8 p.m,
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
Rev. G. W. Moore, LTh.
11 a.m. Morning Prayer.
10.80 a.m. Sunday School
7 p.m.—Evening Prayer.
ONTARIO STREET UNITED
Rave G. G. Burton. M.A., B.D.
10 a.m. Sunday School.
11 a.m.—Divine Worship
2.00 p.m. Turner's Church Ser-
vice and Sunday School
7 p.m. Evening Worship
ley of New York ise visiting hili moth-
er here at present. Mr. Fred .Johns-
tonis•lrusy painting Mrs. James Web-
ster's home. Miss Lauday Young of
Winnipeg is home for her vacation.
Dr. H. Bell and brother Nelson Bell
spent a few days the guest of John
Lashman.- Rev. Mr. and 1VIre. Ranee
and
and fondly are havingtheir ho'lidays
at present. Miss Muria Young spent
the past week with Clinton friends.
1VIr. A. 1VIcOuire, Goderich township,
announces the engagement of his
daughter, Ella Louise, to Mr. John E.
Reehill, Toronto. The marriage will
take place quietly ,early- in August.
Mrs, E. Flood., and Miss Olive Flee-
,
lakeside thepast Week. dy of Toronto are visiting relatives' in
Goderich township.
An accident happened at the On-
tario street church . picnic yesterday, Cadet George Sanderson spent the
when. Huron ,the eldest sun of Mr. weekend in town with his relatives,
and Mrs. Lorne Murch, while at play He has joined the Royal Flying Corps
with another' little lady had his arm and is drilling at Camp Borden,
broken. Cadet Sanderson is the serondl Olin-
' cceuiled t Transeona, ton boy' who is now in the flying
The death o a game, Leiut. Frank Foster being now
Man., on July 14th o Dorothy F.
at the front.
Baker, wife of Mr. J. R. Andrews.
The deceased lady' was a. native of Miss Sybil Courtice leaves, in a few
Clinton and will be remembered by weeks to resume her missionary work
in the Methodist 'church in Japan.
Miss C'ourtice came back a year or
so ago owing to ill -health but believes
she is able once more to take up the
work.
many here.. She was the youngest
daughter of the Iate Mr. Richard
Baker ,her husband being the son of
Magistrate and Mrs. Andrews.
After seven years 'eennection with
the Doherty'' Piano Co. Mr. Willis, re-
signs his position as office manager
to take the management of the piano
and phonopraph business of the Per-
cival
eioival Piano Company of Ottawa. Mr.
Willis has recently returned froin the
west where for the past two years he
has •managed the western business for
The Doherty Piano Company with
headquarters at Winnipeg and bran-
ches at Calgary and Edmonton.
The death took place on Tuesday of
last week at Rochester, .Minn., of
Leonard Howson, formerly of Rolla,
N. Dak., and a native of Huilett town-
ship,
Many Clinton citizens will be glad
to know that Mr, 0. W. Hodgeon, for
a time a member of the Molsons
Bank staff here, has been raised to
the rank of Major in the Imperial
Army in England. '
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Harnwell, who
recently 'returned from the west, were
in town on Monday. Mn Harnwell,
who, disposed of his farm in Saskat-
chewan before seeding, leaves this
week to take a position as bookkeep-
er ancl.office manager of a wholesale
grocee'y at Windsor. A host of
friends, espe'eialIy in the Varna dis-
trict, where he formerly did business,
will wish him luck.
Mrs. Shaver and little son Calvin
returned to their home in Toronto on
,Monday after sepnding a couple of
weeks with the lady's sister, Mrs. J.
W. Nediger.
Mrs. Adam Kerr of Lorne Station;n,
who has been visiting her mother,
Mrs. Sioman of town, returned home
on Monday.
Mrs. Clncas and family of St. Louie
are guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W: D. Fair.
FROM THE CLINTON NEW ERA
JULY 26TH, 1917
Misses Kate and Julia Brawn, pup-
ils of Miss Alice Bell, all of Landes -
bore ,were successful in obtaining
first class honors in the recent theory
examinations in connection with the
Toronto Conservatory of Music.
On Friday evening last the people
of SS. No. 9 Hullett township met at
the home of Mr. James Roberton to
spend the evening with Gunner A.
Manning, who is home on leave from
Petawawa camp. Gunner Manning
was presented with a signet ring in
token of the goodwill and esteem of
his friends in the neighborhood,
A. quiet wedding took place on
Wednesday of last week at the hone
of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald MacGreg
ar, when their second daughter, Arm-
intha, was united in marriage to Mr.
Basil KdwarCIe, second concession of
Hay township. Dr. Aiken performed
the 'ceremony.
WESLEY-WILLIS UNITED
nor. • Andrew Lane, B.A.,'B.D.
3.1. a.m.—Divine Worship,
7 p.m.—F"ening Worship.
Sunday S,ehool at conclusion of
morning service, ter, to Wm. Douglas Eddy y .,rho is a
rancher near Pincher Creek,' Alta.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH After a short honeymoon trip to the
Secnday School 10 a.m. mountains the happy, cou,ple have tak-
Worsh'!p Service 11 a.m. en up housekeeping, at Beaver Mines
8 p.za. WeafehiP Service at Bay:Eiele Alta. ,
' 2 pen.-43enday SehooL Bayfield, Londesboro News -18r. Joseph Ri-
Pte. G .M. Elliott of the Mechani-
cal Transports,' CampBorden, was
home for a few days. "Gabe" was
one of twenty-five chosen from two
hundred' to be sent overseas,
Mr. H. Ray Cantelon, son of Mr,
and Mrs. D .Cantelon, who enlisted
with a western unit and served in the
trenches for several' months with the
Princess Pats is now sepnding a few
weeks at home. He was, invalided:
home several: months ago and, since
has been -under medical treatment in
Mr. Geo, D: McTaggart received
word from Ottawa on Tuesday stating
that his brother-in-law, Lieut. Broder..
who is 'serving in. France had been
dangerously wounded. Mr. McTag-
gart went to Bayfield to: break the
news to his wife and Mrs. M. D.
McTaggart. The offic'er is the only
brother of the ladies,
Mr. David Cantelon received an of-
ficial -notice from Ottawa from the
Militia department stating that his
son, Pte. D. A. Cantelon, who was re-
ported missing is now believed killed
on May 6th. This is+ the first Official
word that the family have received,
On Sunday, July 2nd, Thomas Mal-
colm Keys was killed in action, some-
where
omewhere in France. - The deceased was
well-known in Varna having spent his
boyhood there. When war was de-
clared he was working in Detroit but
returned here during the formation
of the 161st battalion, (Hurons).
When The Present Centers
Was,Young.
FROM THE CLINTON NEWS -
RECORD
JULY 24TH, 1902
Mr. James Finch has taken a posi-
tion with Ford & McNeil where he
now wields the cleaver. He has been
at tire business for many years and
r
knows how to cut a carcass to tho
best adavntago. Few excel hint in
kttoevledge of roaste, steaks ,etc, etc.
Mr. John Scruton also donned the
white apron yesterday morning •hav-
ing undertaken to assist Mr.' Arthur
Couch temporarily. As a knight of
the cleaver Mr. Suntan has no super-
iors and when in business for himself
his patrons thought he was o.k. He
is big and rosy the typical. butcher.
An exciting game of lacrosse was
played in Hanover on. Friday last be-
tween the local and Durham teams,
Hanover had much the best of it until
three-quarter time wheil Arthur
Shepherd and Pete Matheson of Clin-
ton scored one two respectively, for
Durham and the latter just in the
nick of trine added a third, raking
the score, Durham 3, Hanover 2. The
boys say Hanover has a great team
find if it had struck its present gait
Lally in .the season; woul:l not have
beenmany points behind the pennant
Winners, if it dict not capture the
trophy itself.
Quebec.
Word has been received in town that
Miss Isabel Foot a native of :Clinton,
and sister of Mrs. O. B. Hale, was:
united in marriage at Frank, Alberta,
by Rev. Wm. Young, Methodist minis -
'PER ARDUA AI) _ASTIRA'
(The acrostic reproduced; below was
composes* by Aircraftmen Francis J.
1Vlott, an Englishman who hes lived
many years in the United States, acid
who came to Canada to join the, RC..
A.F. in 1940. Re is now stationed at
the R.CA.F. Manning Depot at Lech
-
me,
(A. C. Mott has, had the, acrostic
printed on postcard's which he sells
for five cents each og behalf of .the
Red Cross.)
Recruit with vague, bewildered gaze,
Of one to whom all things are new;
Youth, having nothing but a name,
A ,Number and an A,C.2.
Long pouf's of -waiting till his turn
Comes' round for "needles" and for
boots--
Awhile he dreams of aeroplanes,
Nose-dives and banks and parachutes.
Arrives at length the Pasting List
Directing, him to Training School;
Instantly -blossoms life anew
.And feeds his soul with fighting fuel!
Now comes the tine of new-found
skills,
And now his head bends to the task;
In front steep ramparts rear their
heads;
Risk fronts Achievement like a mask.
Finally'eomes that Day of Days;
On thuanping chest the Wings are
pinned;
Rider of Cloud ,and Lord of Windi
Columbus of the treach'rous mists– -
Enters a flyer in the lists!
• V
PRIZE LISTS DISTRIBUTED
The prize lists for the Exeter Fair
to be held September 16th and 17th
have been distributed. One of the
new features being introduced as a
sports item is a freak outfit for which
$10, $8„ $6 and e4 are being given as
prizes. It is not too early to plan
for this attraction. In the T. Eaton
special for hogs., the number of hogs
is not designated. The number is 6.
One of the outstanding features of
the fair this year will be the P,'erth-
Huron Shorthorn Cattle show for.
which liberal prizes are being award-
ed. Prize lists may be seeured from
the secretary, Clark Fisher.
Vart,a Ncwt—Miss Jennie Macken-
zie is visiting under the parental roof
this week. Mr, and Mrs. H. Ee Fair
returned to London on Tuesday after
spending over a week visiting friends
and acquaintances around Varna. Mr.
J. J. Keyes returned from Chicago on
Saturday when he had been attend-
ing a summer session at the univer-
sity. Mac. S. A. Moffat and Lloyd
and Maggie of London. visited friende
around Varna the latter part of lash
week and the beginning of this. Mrs.
D. Eekmier of Ethel is visiting this
week at Mr. S. Rathweli's home,
Mise Van 'Norman of Belgrave is
visiting her brother' this week at the
Varna hotel.
Dr, • Whitely of Goderieh was' :in
town on Tuesday.
Mr. Harvey Heaven left yesterday
for his homy in Petrolia.
Mr, Walter Jackson is taking' a
week's holidays at Thames Road.
Master Duncan Stevenson spent
last week as a guest at the 'Brewer
cottage in Bayfield.
Rev. Dr Gifford occupied the pul-
pit of the Wellington etreethahurch,
London, last Sunday inorninel land
evening:
Mise Eva Stephenson, Mr. John
Cuninghame, Mas, C. Colville.'and
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"YOUR HOME STATION"
CION$
920.1ccs. WINGHAM 226 meters
WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
FRIDAY, JULY 31ST:
12 noon Farm and Home Hour
5 pan. Organ Moods, H. V. Pym
6.30 pan. Your Wingbam Review
8 p,m. Laura at the ICeyboarcl
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1ST:
9 a.m. Kay Kyser Groh.
11 a.m. Saturday Morning Frolic
6.45 p.m. Evening news
8 p.m. CKNX Barn Dance
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2ND:
1.45 p.m. Hawaiian Memories
4.30 p.nt. H, V. Pym, organ
6.45 pan. Carson Robinson
MONDAY, AUGUST 3RD:
8.30 a.m. The Early Birds'
11 a.m. "At IIonie with the Ladies"
6.45 pan. Parade of. Bands
9.15, p.m. Old Time Varieties
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4T'H:
10 a.m. Almanac News
10.20 a.m Chas. Kuntz, piano
8 p.m. CICNX Ranch Boys
11.30.. Cheers: from the Camp.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST b'IH:
9.30 a.m. Hate Smith, songs
6 pan. Ring Sisters
6.30' pan. Oscar Rabin Ora.
8 p.m. Laura at the Keyboard'
:THURSDAY, AUGUST 6TH:
8,$5 am. Overnite News Summary
9,30' am. Freddie Martin Orlic.
8 _p.m. Wayne King Groh.
9 pan. Hawaiian Fantasies
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Experiments Show Drunk
• Tests Unfair, Medics Say
Police tests for drunkenness may
be unfair to suspected motorists, ex-
periments reported by two Stanford
university medical school ph}psi
cians,eindicate.
Their challenge is aimed -at police
tests which rely on the concentra
tion of alcohol in the system as an
index to drunkenness, Results of
such tests are admissible as 'evi-
dence in drunken driving cases in -
several -states and cities,
Writing in the November issue al
Proceedings of the Society for Ex-
perimental Biology and : Medicine,
Drs. Henry Newman and Mason Ab.
rarnson conclude that drunkenness
depends not alone on how much
you drank, but when you drank it.
They do not infer, however, that
motorists can drinkwith-safety.
They assert:
"The presenceof alcohol in the
body over a period of several hours
affects a change in the presence of
the nervous system to alcohol with
the result that concentrations which
originally produced drunkenness no
longereffect."are capable of showing this
' ...
Two men were tested by requiring
them to aim a gun at a moving tar
get While under the influence of al-
cohol. Accuracy dropped rapidly
after the first drink, butgradually"
returned to normal despite' smal
doses which kept the alcohol con
centration. in their systems constant
In one test the amount of alcoho
in the subjects system was lie:
constant for four hours after the firs`
drink. A second drink, equal to the
first, did not affect his airn.
"Apparently," the authors state.
"the four-hour period at a lower al.
Bohol' concentration had been ef.
fective in 'adapting' the nervous :sys-
tem - " •
Drs. Abramson and Newman con.
elude that "the effect of a given cot.
centration of "alcohol depends not
only on its absolute value but also
on how long a time it has been pres-
ent in the body."
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FALL FAIR' DATES ANNOUNCED•'
Blyth Sept. 9, 10
Durham .. Sent. 10, 11
Tavistock Sept, 11, 12
Sept. 16, 17
Sept. 17, 18
Sept. 17, 18
Sept. 18, 19
Exeter
Hanover ,.
Kincardine .,,..
New Hamburg . Y.
Strathroy ..., Sept.' 14-16
Bayfield . .... Sept. 23, 24
Listowel . Sept, 23, 24
Sept. 22, 23
Seafarth Sept. 24, 25
Stratford Sept. 21-23
Zurich Sept. 21, 22
Dungannon: Oct. 1, 2
Mitchell Sept. 29, 30
Teeswater Oct. 6, 7
Walkerton Nov: 23
International Plowing Match in }bai-
lee Postponed.
Luelmow . , ,
Noah Webster Noted far
Work on the Dictionary
Noah Webster, lexicographer (Oc
toner 16, 1758 -May 28, 1843), was
born in West Hartford; Conn., son of
Noah and Mercy (descendant of Wil-
liam Bradford, second governor of
Plymouth colony) Webster. He was
graduated from Yale, 1778; studied.
law and admitted to bar at Hartford,
1781. In 1783 he published his fa-
mous "Grammatical Institute of the
English Language," nicknamed the
"Blue Backed Speller," which has
sold nearly 100,000,000 copies. He
married Rebecca Greenleaf in Bos-
ton and they had eight children.
In 1793 he launched a daily news-
paper in New York called the Miner-
va, backed by the Federalist party,
and a bi-weekly called the. Herald,
names afterwards changed to Com-
mercial Advertiser .and Spectator,
respectively, Later he published "A
Compendious Dictionary of the Eng
lish Language;".a short work which
was the forerunner of his "An Amer-
ican Dictionary of the English Lan-
guage," printed in ,two quarto vol-
umes, 1828.
Versatile, he wrote school books,
economic, political and medical
treatises, works on statistics and
climatology, -'and five dictionaries.
In early youth as a Freethinker, he
became a Congregationalist in 1808.
fatniir aro surnhner ing at, the Burk's
camp ground on Lake Huron.
Miss Vira Steep of Toronto is
spending' her holidays with her grand,-
mother,
randmother, Mrs. John Sachsen. ' She.
thinks there is no place like grand -
PAGE 3
Canadian Destroyer "HURON" Launched
at British Port
Named by .the Countess Minto Will' and establishments in the United
Join Canada's Growing Kingdom ,and Col D. R. Agnew, R.C.
and Cmdir. F. A. Price, R.C.N.V,
Rl •
.A BRITISH PORT; July 20—A new!
Tribal class destroyer which even-
tually' Wile
ven-tnally''wile swell the strength of the
itoyal Canadian Navy has been
launched in a famous, •shipytelei at this,'
Thre. I
Amid the roar and clatter of build-
ing operations on 'other ships the new
vessel was namar1 H,M.C'.S. Huron by
the Countess Minto, the former Mar-
iota Cook of Montreal.
.Autliorities permitted the announce -
meet of the launching but permitted
no mention . of the locale or date of
the ceremony.
The'"Hua'On is the thud such dese
troyer built in. the Utnit'ed ICingdoin
for the Royal Canadian Navy. It fol
ldws in. the wake of the Iroquois .and
the Athabaska launched last year.
• Vide Admiral Percy W. Ne11es, chief
of naval staff for Canada ,bas des-
cribed the clas's as "comparable in
fighting power eo some light cruisers
now in service." They are vessels of
1,870 tons carrying crews of 190 and
armed with, eight 4.7 -inch guns, seven
smaller guns and four torpedo. tubes.
"It has filled me with pride to see
how many convoys have been safely
e eecorted by gallant little ships man-
ned by officers and men of our young
navy," the Countess said as the hull
slid clown the ways,
The Countess Minta, a daughter-in-
law of the Earl of Minto who was
Governor-General of Canada from
November, 1898 ,to September, 1934,
expressed the hope that some of the
workmen employed in building the
Huron would some day visit. "my
country."
Vice -Admiral St. A. B. Wake, R.N.,
superintendent of contract -built ships,
said the only way to reduce shipping
losses is to destroy enemy submar-
ines, which is possible only by supply-
ing a large number of anti-subtnar-
Jne craft and escorts for convoys.
Frederick Hudd, , official secretary
of Canada House in London, described
the growth -of the Canadian navy.
Among those present were the Earl
of Minto, Rear Admiral W. Hose, R.
C.N. retired, former chief of Caned,
fun Naval Stuff, Capt. R. I. Agnew,
11.0..N., r;ptain continandirig ships
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THE DESTROYER HURON
The launching of the destroyer
"Huron," of the Royal Canadian
Navy, as described in the accompany-
ing newspaper .dispatch, is an event
of peculiar interest to the people of
this county :of Huron.: There is al-
ready a mine -sweeper "Goderich,"
named in honor of the aeounty town,
and' the pride in which the people of
Goderich and Huron hold their town
and county will be extended to include
*hes two ships 0f His Majesty's Cana-
dian Navy. In the case of the des-
troyer just launched this feeling' may
be somewhat lessened by .consider -
ration of the fact that the "Huron" is
one of the Tribal class of vessels and
as such bears the naive of a famous
tribe of Indians, but the tribe and the
county being so closely associated by -
their common name it is quite in me -
:der for ,Hurons and Huronites alike to
join in greeting the new vessel and–
'pledging
nd-'pledging it their especial interest.
I As a matter of fact, the naming '
:of the new vessel follows• closely
upon a request presented to the De-
partment of National Defence by the --
County Council of Huron. At the -
November session of 1941 County
Council adopted a recommendation of
the Warden's committee to be for-
warded to the Department of Nation-
al Defence that a destroyer be built
and called "Huron."
In December .in reply to this re-
quest County Clerk Miller receival
the following from the office of the
Minister of Naval Services at Otte -
"Your letter of the 27th of Noveni-
ber to the Minister of National De-
fence indicating the request of your
' County Council that one of our new
destroyers be given the nauib of
'Huron' has been referred to this of-
fice..
"I may say that the destroyers
which we are constructing at the
1 present time 'are what are known as
Tribal Class destroyers and are name -
ed after Indian tribes, Since Huron
is the name of an Indian tribe we
shall be pleased' to give it considera-
tion when we are naming additional
destroyers.
Largest Aviary in World
There's; a lot to do at Santa Cate-
ifna, off the coast of southern Cali-
fornia. You` can hunt wild goats,
wild bear and quail You can ride,
play golf, hike and swim. You can
lie on the sand beaches or visit the
seal rocks. The whole place is a
photographer's dream -come -true.
There are 26 varieties of native
trees and 100 species of nativebirds.
The hills are a mass of colored
wild flowers.
Probably the largest aviary in the
world is there. Sheltered among
shrubbery and brilliantly colored
flowers thatrival their own gay
plumage are more than 7,000 rare
birds. They represent nearly 650
species collected from all parts of
the gloiae, writes .Paul Light in the
St. Paul .Pioneer press. There are
ostriches as large as a small horse
and humming birds as small as e
large thimble, birds that dance and
birds that talk. And proud beau-
ties that merely strut their proud
plumage. There's a pair of i•hinocei-
os hornbills that look like a bad
dream and a couple of king vultures
Vegetable Sponges
One of the many curious plants
that grow in Ecuador is the vege-
seble sponge gourd. It grows to a
height of 10 to 15 feet and bears a
sail' shelled gourd, the interior of,
eiah is fibrous and is used as a
hath sponge, for washing dishes and
other cleaning purposs as it absorbs
water and can be squeezed out. in
much the same manner as :a sea
Early Tacking Picture
The first full-length all -talking pre
tore was ."Lights of New York,"
shown in New York the week of Au-
gust 20, 1928,
Thomas Edison made experiments
with sound and exhibited a film with
phonograph accompaniment in 1913.
"What Price •Glory,", and the 1927
version of "Seventh Heaven" includ-
ed sound effects and talking princi-
ples were . used ine "Don Juan"
(1926), "The Jaz; Singer" (1927),
"fendcrloin" (1928) and "Glorious
pie,,-ey+ (1828).
gieSNAPSNIT
PHOTOGRAPHIC PARTIES
For a new find of party, conduct
lots of fun=-wi
U AVE you ever heard. of photo
Y S graphic parties? The chances
are you have. But have you ever
. given one? It's a guaranteed method
of having a good time.
Hew can you give a .snapshot
party? : Well, let's take the case of
the photographic scavenger hunt.
First, I'd suggest that you invite all
your camera -owning friends to meet
at your house sometime in the
afternoon—say at 2:30 on Saturday.
Then it's up to you to prepare sev-
eral general assignments for every-
body to wont on --for the idea of
a scavenger hunt ie to give people
picture -making assignments, send
them out to fill them, and then fix
a time limit by which all pictures
must be handed in.!
For instance, one oi' gour general
assignments might be:—"Illustrate
the phrase, 'a Abad egg.' " That would
leave quite a bit of leeway in in-
terpretation. One participant might
choose to photograph a tough -look-
ing, gangster -type model. Another
player might show a person looking
at a broken hen's egg and holding
a photographic scavenger hunt. It's
nter or summer.
his nose. And somebody else, by
setting up a still-life study, could
create a tough -looking little man.
out of a hardboiled egg by the use,
of a few props and a paint brush.
Or another assignment might be
to picture a young goat, as above.
Just use your ingenuity and you
won't have any difficulty getting a
long list of suggeEitions, but hold
yourself down to three or four' as-
signments..And whatever you decide
upon, place a deadline on the pic-
ture-making—a time be which every-
body 'must have their prints in if
they are to compete for the prizes.,
If you wish you can set that time
tor later that evening, or you can
arrange a eecond party for the print
.judging later in the week.
As for judging prints, the best
idea is to let everybody vote and
decide the winners by popular ac-
claim. You can give small photo-
graphic merchandise prizes for the
best picture of the day, another tor
the 'first man back with all of his
prints, and a third for the most.
original work.
369 John van Guilder