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Show This is your corner. Make use of it for your information on question that are puzzling you. It will be ray pleasure and privilege to answer carefully care-fully and promptly all questions submitted to me. If a more detailed answer than can be given in these columns is desired, send a stamped envelope and it will be given prompt attention- All communications will always be held in absolute confidence. All letters should be addressed very plainly in pen and ink to Helen Brooks, Box 1545. Salt Lake City. l4A-t,(3 Dear Miss Broods: Would certainly like to hear your opinion of Pola Negri, motion picture star who has been appearing at some of the leading picture houses. It seems io me that her plays are decidedly below be-low the moral standard of the general American public. Are these pictures produced in America and what is her nationality? Don't you think these vampire pictures are demanded by the theatre-going public the present day? Thanking you very much for enlightenment en-lightenment m this matier! I am, MADGE B., Mi. Pleasant, Utah It must be admitted that there seeras to be a demand for the Pola Negri class of picture plays by a part of the theatre-going public, but let us sincerely sincere-ly hope that it is not the majority. I believe the majority never leave shows of the class in which this actress have appared or others of like nature, without with-out feeling that the time spent in viewing view-ing it has been lost and there remains a very unpleasant "taste" as a reminder remind-er for some time. The "moral" which is supposed to be the good derived from its production produc-tion could just as easily be placed before be-fore the public in a picture which would not leave such an unsatisfied feeling of time misspent. This actress was born in Poland. Her pictures have been made abroad, in Germany and in Paws and London. Dear Miss Brooks: Will you please give me the cast of characters which played in "Truth About Husbands." Thanking you in advance. A Ford full of love and a kiss on each rattle. MOVIE FAN, Grantsville, Utah. Welcome to my corner. You are very generous with your affection. I fear you will become bankrupt if you do not use more, economy. The following fol-lowing is the cafet in "Truth About Husbands:" Janc-' Preece by Anna Lehr ; Duncan Dun-can Ramshaw by H. E. Herbert; Mrs. Stonehay by Elizabeth Garrison ; Leslie Les-lie Brownell by Mae McAvoy; Hugh Murry by Richard Gordon; Lord Randolph by Ivo Cawson ; .Wilbert Barnell by Arthur Rankin; Irene Stonehay by Loraine Frost. Dear Helen Brooks: I am going to make use of your corner and hope it will not take too much of your lime to explain to me how burglars and others who commit crimes are caught by their finger prints ? EARNEST INQUIRER, Ephraim I am glad to welcome you to my corner. The idea is this. All people differ in the pattern of the little ridges on their fingers. Two patterns exactly exact-ly the same from two different people have never yet been found. A man may change his clothes and the appearance ap-pearance of his face, he may look like a different person, and have not the slightest resemblance to a photogTaph taken of him, but his thumb-mark never nev-er changes. These little ridges may be destroyed, but no different pattern can be put in their place. So you can see if a man is found whose thumb-mark is the same as that found in connection with a crime the evidence is extremely strong against him. Dear Mits Brosks: I was very mueh surprised to hear some one say recently that lobsters were red only after being cooked. Is this true, and what is their color while alive ? MAEBELL, Downey, Idaho. Yes, Maebell, it is true that lobsters lob-sters turn red when boiled. This is caused by a chemical change that occurs oc-curs in the brown coloring matter of the shell when it is heated. It is a curious fact that the red coloring matter of our blood turns brown when heated, but the brown of the lobtser's shell turns red. |