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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION ? ? ? yi W fiSIIS 7 ? $ jJft Cwafcv Ar A quiz with answers offering ? 'nfrmat'ononvar'oussukiects ? 7 8. Seventeen (eight killed, nine wounded). 9. Yes. France was the scene oi most of these affairs in the Middle ages. There are authentic records of trials that no writer in fictioD would dare to present. 10. Battleships are named aftei states; cruisers after cities; de stroyers after naval heroes; sub marines after fish; the new car riers after famous battles. The Questions 1. The littoral of a country is its what? 2. An army pursuit squadron usually embraces how many planes? 3. George Washington belonged to what political party? 4. What city is known as the Russian Pittsburgh? 5. How many pounds of V... film are required to send a ton of letters to our boys at the front? 6. What is the largest single printing job to date? 7. The longest baseball game by innings played in the major leagues lasted how long? 8. How many Minute Men were killed or wounded at Lexington on April 19, 1775? 9. Is it true that animals were ever tried in law courts as if they were human beings? 10. What are battleships named after? Cruisers? Destroyers? Sub-marines? Aircraft carriers? The Answers 1. Coastal region. 2. Twenty-fiv- e planes. 3. Federalist. 4. Kharkov. 5. Twenty pounds. 6. Printing the government's new point-syste- ration books No. 2 150 million books. 7. Twenty-si- x innings Brooklyn vs. Boston, May 1, 1920. Use 50,000 Words Daily; 600 Ways to Say 'God' According to a statistical ex-pert, during 15 hours of wakeful-ness a man speaks, hears, reads, and thinks of words to the tune of 50,000 a day. Certain native dialects are famed for sundry peculiar distinc-tions in speech. In this connec-tion the British and Foreign Bible society tells us that whereas a verse in the third chapter of St. John runs to 15 words in English, 51 are required for it by the people of Mare, in the Loyalty Islands, and by those in Burma who speak Kachin. More remarkable still, there are 600 ways of pronounc-ing the word "God," some of them very lengthy. Regarding humorous brevity in the British house of commons, it would still be difficult to rival the, maiden speech of Lord Guildford, a son of Lord North. On rising to address the chair he was so blitzed with fright that he gasped out: "Sir " ; and promptly sat down again By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. WHEN Director King began telling Brian Donlevy about Ellis Island, the day Brian did his first scenes for "America," he replied "Bet I know more about Ellis Island than you do." Seems that in 1911 he returned to the United States from Ireland with his mother; unaware that she had to pay a head tax before being she'd spent all her money. A phone call to her husband in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., would have settled the matter. But as she had a hot Irish temper, she insisted on arguing with all the officials. "So they put us in a cor-ner and ignored us until Mother cooled off," said Donlevy. "That was two days later!" Bruce Bennett, on location with Humphrey Bogart for "Somewhere In Sahara," received a letter aski-ng him to become a Several years ago he was in Guatemala, making a Tar- - ) i V . : ;H;r i ' - " - , ?';; ; 'J t, - t .I'll l..l,.,n-- J BRUCE BENNETT zan picture; the outfit ran out ot funds, and while stranded Bennett made friends with a number of in-fluential people. Now, asked to choose a they've asked (or him. CBS Caravan's comedian, Jack Carson, has turned down a $25,000 personal appearance tour, on con-clusion of his Warner Bros, assign-ment, "The Animal Kingdom." He'll tour army camps for the Hollywood Victory committee Instead. If you've noticed lately when lis-tening to Monty Wooley on the air that his voice sounds a bit husky, don't blame it on the California fog. It's due to fog, all right one creat-ed on the set of "Holy Matrimony." RKO expects "The Robe," done in Technicolor, to be one of the most important pictures in screen history. The story is laid just subsequent to the crucifixion. With Metro mak-ing "Quo Vadis," it looks as ii there'd be a cycle of religious pic-tures. Julie Bishop steps into excellent ' company and into her first starring role, as well in "Dark Eyes"; Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan have the other two principal roles. It's a hi-larious comedy, made from a New York stage success; the girls will be seen as impoverished Russian gentlewomen, who write a play and then try to get backing for it. Samuel Goldwyn announces thai he's looking for "the 16 most beaut-iful girls in the world" for his mu-sical, "Up in Arms," introducing Danny Kaye to the screen. beauties go far. Betty Grable and Lucille Ball got their first screen breaks as Goldwyn lirls; they were in "Whoopee" and "The Kid From Spain," with Vir-ginia Bruce and Paulette Goddard. Miss Bruce got a part in Flo Zieg-feld'- s "Smiles" as a result. Paulette Goddard went right ahead on the screen, and also met Charles Chap-lin. Descendants of Vodka, a cocker spaniel, have cornered the mascot market at various TJ. S. air bases. Vodka belongs to Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, and will appear with him in Walt Disney's "Victory Through Air Power," which will combine live action sequences and animated cartoons. Vodka is cred-ited with more than 1,000 hours in the air. Most of the people in England will hear the Quiz Kids in the very near future; while the Kids were in New-Yor-they were invited by the Briti-sh Broadcasting corporation to take Part in the British "Answering You" Program, recorded here and broad-cast there. ODDS AND ENDS Constance Ben-nett's going to play a burlesque queen "Hi Diddle Diddle" . . . Kate Smith turned down an offer to play Marie Dressier in a movie biography of the ' actress; says she's a singer, not an . . Brooklyn small-fr- hanging "round outside the Dodgers' ball park everyone who leaves, "When will Red Skeleton be out" . . . Though the wusicoi in which she returned to the ftage was a flop, Mary Martin's not lot-'"- I money . . . radio shoivs are falling over each other to sign her up as a guest "or, paying as much for one perform-"c-oi she'd earn in a week . . . Not ""a lor a Hollywood vacation! Parks Johnson and Warren Hull had a real problem on their hands, trying to find a real American farm from which to do a broadcast. There were plenty of farms run by executives, but they were looking for a real dirt farmer. Sarah Berner, of the "Tommj 'ggs and Betty Lou" show, has the "tie "The Most Photographed Voice ln the World." She's appeared in mre than 300 movies without being seen on the screen last as the cam-el's voice in "Road to Morocco." The gaily enameled unit insignia you see on a soldier's lapels and overseas cap are reproductions of his regimental shield displayed in' . the center of the eagle on his reg-imental flag. It's a part of U. S.1 Army tradition. Traditional, too, is the Army man's preference for Camel cigarettes. (Based on actual sales records from service men's own stores.) It's a gift from the folks back home, that always rates cheers. And though there are1 Post Office restrictions on pack-ages to overseas Army men, you' can still send Camels to soldiers' in the U. S., and to men in the' Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard wherever they are. Adv. PATTRNSL CIRCLE'JJj If I Versatile Suit il'Tsri ill VTERSATILE costume . . . with 1 I ' jacket, a good-looki- casual II I suit ready for everything . . . II I without jacket, first rate for ev-- UVj I ery active sport. I M 1762 Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1775-B- . de-- fj signed for sizes 10. 12, 14, 16, i8 and 20. .9 Corresponding bust measurements 28, 30, Perfect Date Dress 32' 3,4' 36 & 3S; ?2 (30,) f1semble requires 4'A yards THRILLING as graduation itself Due to an maiiy large demand and will be, just imagine how much current war conditions, slightly more more exciting this dress in white time is required in filling orders tor a few will make it seem. Down to the of the most popular pattern numbers, tiniest details, it is one of the love- - Send your order to: liest creations ever designed. Per- - feet, too, as a date dress for sewing circle pattern dept. spring. The charming bodice, slim 149 New Montgomery Street midriff and dirndl skirt are de-- San Francisco calif. Hghtfully young and so smart. p'eed.11'3 te Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1762-- Is de- - Pattern No Size signed for sizes 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19. Cor- - Kame responding bust measurements 29, 31, 33, 35 and 37. Size 13 (31) requires 4',i yards Address material. ' Gas on Stomach Relieved In 5 minutes or double money back When ejeeees stomach acid enoees painful, suffoca j Ing gas, sour stomach and heartburn, doctors usually : prescribe the fastest-actin- medicines known for symptomatic relief medicines like those in a Tablets. No laxative. Bell ana brings comfort In a jiffy or doable your money back on return of bottia to os. 2Sc at all droggistB. i III! IIlTTTT"'""llllflTTTnTfmW0 MT,CET RICH! I : Sensational New Edition-j- usl on!, E 5 j cansotTejoarfinancialproblemsiuid g teach yon in simple language bow to ; DEMAND mmd GET 5 your than of Iho richca of this world. & Z ' GET YOUR COPY TODAY, g . " : frfpM for IBaEK MUABS (Hmfebto) If 1 JlllIX ZIMMERMAN K Epr-- T P- - O. Box 30. CnnTonl, Hew Jersey g DELICIOUS !j Kolloim Comuany Vp CR) ON THE ( HOME FRONTS -- Ixnik RUTH WYETH SPEARS l)zJ5) Another interesting color note is the mats of the pink and white ma-terial used for the row of framed photographs over the bed. It also edges the full white lamp shades. NOTE The new book 9 which Mrs. Spears has prepared for readers shows numerous ways to make, repair and things for the home. It contains 32 illustrated pages and costs 15 cents. Please mail requests for booklets direct to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 9. Name Address CUTTING DIMENSIONS fill USING BEST PARTS J.K-- E. OF3 0LO SHEETS IjJjCl FfFEr 3'2 YARDS OF MioSfC FLOWERED PRINT if i ,JN a 0Ffl SHEET jtimiTSIDE STRIP ilJ!'llxij- -' CENTER END PIECE A NY pretty flowered print may be combined with the side strips of sheets that are good after the center part has worn out. A good section may be cut from the center bottom too. The diagram at the left gives all the dimensions you need for making a spread for a double bed from the good parts of three old sheets put together with six-inc- h strips flowered cot-ton material of about1 the same weight. Here, the figured goods is in a pink and white pattern that is especially effective with the white muslin. It is also used to trim the curtains made from old sheets. , ' f .jip.jw'!.'iiuiim?p in "wimw.n m i I imping lfMB flow icommp J"J- - , . . . tit wttMime Min tiffiiW .iffiSrJ ",a,tin9 powder, against waste of n'.flV lfraivs baUn n9rwionl . . . 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T to historians) swung to the head oi the circus parade after Jenny Line Unlike P. T.,NewztT::, Circus Chief Can hundred anf Do Own Warbling m? golden nights for his ?1,000 per night performance. The new president of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey's swings in front after lifting his own baritone voice in song for many years. Robert Ringling was an op-- eratic star, too. And good! "Why not?" his mother said when he start-ed in the family business a few years ago. "He can't go any far-ther in opera." Taking the presidency of his fam-ily show, Ringling preserves a fam-ily tradition sixty years old and over. The seven Ringling brothers, of whom his father was fifth, rolled their first little acts out of Baraboo, Wis., in 1882. In an era of trusts they got the idea quickly, bought Barnum and Bailey's and finally merged it with their own. Robert Ringling, for upwards of thirty years, watched their performances with no interest at all. Barring four years spent in hobbles after winning a high school football game at the price of broken hip bones, he went right on becoming a singer. He made his debut at twenty-fiv- e in Tampa, Fla. He sang all over Germany, and then with the Chi-cago Civic Opera. He had a rep-ertoire, count 'em, of 194 roles, the best of them Wagnerian. Since 1939 he has been chiefly with the circus. Age will hardly stop him. He is only 46, stocky, be-spectacled, gray-haire- d and quiet. And certainly he isn't likely to find a bigger job. He heads up the vast-est amalgamation of marvels, mas-todons and muscularity man has 'ever seen. Tarquin the Younger would pop his eyes to see what has grown out of a few simple tricks he thought up 2200 years ago to make a Roman holiday. 1R. HERBERT VERE EVATT, in Washington now from Aus-tralia to talk a few wrinkles out oi the troubled state of affairs in the cific, might Perhaps He Cave aiso give Our Boys Idea of some first Mixed Marriages hand evi" dence about the mixed marriages that American soldiers down under seem to look upon with such high favor. His wife was Miss Mary Alice Shorter of Iowa. Evatt was a brilliant member of the Australian High Court bench until the war came on and he quit to help more directly in the good fight. He had reached the bench at 36, the youngest man ever appointed to such a ' court in all the British empire. Forty-nin- e now, he is recognized as one of the commonwealth's first scholars, historians and ju-rists. These last three years he has been a member of Prime Minister Cur-tin'- s Labor government, and it is as minister of external affairs that he comes to the United States. This is not his first visit. A lecturer in philosophy and English, he has spo-ken often at various American uni-versities. that Sir Richard T. D. NOW Common Wealth party has elected its first man to parlia-ment England's older parties may do m ore Tossed His Wealth than worry. To Less Favored They have Fellow Englishmen dolng; the four previous in each of which a Common Wealther ran. All four lost, but even so the vote was too close for comfort. Tall, spectacled, baldish at 37, talks about his new party as though it combined the ripe virtues of the Townsend plan and Louisi-ana Long's club plus some choice Russian cut-tings. "We want," he says, "to amalgamate Russia's economy with our own political system." One of his notions is that millionaires are finished. In proof he himself last February, gave his total interest in 17,000 acres of the storied Lorna Doone country to the National Trust. A cozy $80,000 inherited from his fa-ther went into the hopper, too. He proposes to support his wife and two sons on his pay as a member of parliament and his earnings as a writer. He attended both expensive Rugby and more expensive Oxford, but un-less he whips up a best seller pretty soon, the sons are likely to miss both. There have been Aclands m Eng-land for 800 years. For half that time the family has held a title. Sir Richard is the 15th baronet of. the line. An ancestor, stout royalist, fought the American Revolution. No less than 13 of Sir Richard's living kin have made themselves notable. But for the last two generations the heads of the family have been un-easy in their ease. A quarter of a century ago. Sir Richard's father trusted the estate to the nation for 500 years. He cov-enanted to make no changes either for buildings, but for agriculture or he kept the rents and profits. It is, these such as they are in a heavily taxed' world, that Sir Richard turns over to his fellow men. A paper plate glued to the bot-tom of a paint can will catch all drippings from the can and serves as a rest for the paint brush be-sides. To remove a stain left by ad-hesive tape, apply kerosene, then wash .the spot with warm suds. When washing a coat sweater or cardigan, sew up the buttonholes to prevent stretching. Mixed with salt, vinegar will clean discolored copper, brass and silver, and remove ink stains from the fingers. Diluted with water, it will clean gilt picture frames. Worn bath towels may be cut in squares or circles for wash-cloths. Either crochet an edge around them or bind with wash-able cotton tape. An old pair of curling irons makes an excellent gripper to use in dyeing garments. You can grip the material firmly and swish it about in the dye bath and it will not slip off as it sometimes does when a stick or something of that sort is used. Use a stiff wire brush to re-move crumbs and other particles from the burners of a gas or elec-tric stove. Aluminum pots and pans leave their marks on the surface of sinks and enamel drainboards. Such marks can be prevented by plac-ing a rubber mat on that part of the sink most likely to come in contact with the aluminum, or they can be removed by using a inild cleaner applied with a damp cloth. A variety of play materials is essential for a child's development. T.oys are needed for vigorous physical activity, for ma-nipulative and creative play, and for dramatic play. Butter will spread more smooth-ly and go further if a little hot milk is creamed with it. Corrosion on Glass Fiber Glass fiber, which has a tensile " j strength greater than steel, loses j at least 95 per cent of this strength1 when there is a trace of corrosion1 i on its surface produced by thai touch of a finger. j Pilgrimage to Mecca Every true Mohammedan is ex-pected to make at least one pil-grimage to Mecca, the holiest city of the Moslem world. He may fulfill this duty by visiting a less sacred shrine a required number of times. For instance, seven jour neys to Kairouan in Tunisia are equivalent to one to Mecca. SmileAujhilf Prosaic Two married men were discussing their joys and sorrows. "My wife," said one, "is very poetic. She gets up at sunrise and says 'Lot the morn! " "Huh!1 said the other, sadly, "Mine says 'Mow the lawn ' " Had Its Good Point Making a forced landing, the young pilot hit a treetop; the ma-chine turned over and landed up-side down. The pilot crawled out and sur-veyed the wreckage. Then he lit a cigarette and remarked: "Well, that sort of landing saves the tires." Small girl just home from Sun-day school: "Mummy, we had a Bible lesson this morning, and teacher told us all about the ten commandos." Her Whereabouts "Well, I'm all right. I've got the best mother-in-la- in the coun-try." "Yes, it makes a difference hav-ing her in the country." Perfect Technique The London couple were part of a crowd that got caught in a blackout. " 'Erbert," said the young lady, "you shouldn't kiss me with all this crowd standing around." "I didn't kiss you," replied Herbert. "And if I catch the fellow who did, I'll teach him a thing or two." "Don't bother, 'Erbert," she sighed, "you couldn't teach him nothing." A Turnabout Judge One year and $50 fine. Prisoner's Lawyer Your honor, I beg the sentence be reversed. Judge Very well. Fifty years and $1 fine.. Censored The clergyman was preparing his sermon, and his little daugh-ter was watching him. "Daddy," she asked, "does God tell y'ou what to say?" "Of course, child," the father answered. "Why do you ask?" "Oh," said the little girl, "then why do you scratch some of it out?" Heard about the man who had been paying his wife hush money for a year? She was learning the piano. Reversed Courting "Jeff spent four years courting that girl, and now she's thrown him over for another. How come?" "He spent less time and more money." Radios Plane Trouble A new device automatically ra-dios the performance of 70 dif-ferent parts of a plane during a test flight to a ground machine which records the data on sound film and disks, and then makes graphs for visual study in a mat-ter of seconds, says Collier's. Thus it not only enables the ground men to warn pilots of incipient trouble, but its records check and supplement those of the pilot and are not lost in case of a crackup. Sergeant Growler $5 Although about 90 per cent of the dogs in the United States are too small for war duty, their own-ers may contribute to the Dog War Fund of Dogs for Defense. A rat-ing based on the contribution is given the animal, says Collier's. For example, $1 makes it a pri-vate or seaman, $5 a sergeant or chief petty officer, ?J5 a colonel or naval captain and $100 a general or admiral. 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