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Show - This Week tj ARTHUR BRISBANE Teaching Talkies to Talk William Wrigley, a Builder How to Fill a Church Heat Conquers Disease j In Southern California, center and factory of the moving picture industry, indus-try, even now one of the three greatest great-est in America, mechanical genius has made it possible to put into the mouth of a "talkie" actor, who knows no language but English, any other language lan-guage that may be desired, perfectly iynchronlzed. Merto-Goldwyn-Mayer, most successful success-ful among producers of moving pictures, pic-tures, enabled this writer to see an admirable performance in which Norma Nor-ma Shearer and Lionel Barrymore appeared. The language was German, and a most beautiful performance, although al-though the picture had been made in English only. German artists of high ability, a man and a woman, had "talked the film," supplying German voices for the American artists, they themselves not photographed, or making mak-ing any appearance except In sound. This means an end of the hope in foreign countries that "the talkies will kill American competition abroad." The pictures will be made here, they will talk German in Berlin, French in Paris, Italian in Rome. So admirably was the language substitution sub-stitution accomplished that it was impossible im-possible to believe that Norma Shearer, Shear-er, sitting in the prisoner's box, or Barrymore, Bar-rymore, the lawyer, pleading for her life, was not talking German. This industrial accomplishment, in future will mean hundreds of millions in profits for an American industry. William Wrigley Jr., having worked hard every day of his seventy years since childhood, is dead of heart disease, dis-ease, with his wife and children around him. He was a typical American builder, created a great business that has made his name known over the world, devel oped and helped develop EalF a dozen industries, built great hotels, bought, and developed Catalina Island, established estab-lished a steamship line from the island to the mainland. He gave work to thousands of men and women, profits to those that shared with him, a stockholders. If he could return and live another lifa to order, he would select exactly the same kind. The learned Dr. Millikan,' of California, Cali-fornia, discoverer of cosmic rayg that constantly bombard us, suggests work for churches, "When men's stomachi are full," say that scientist, "they have intellectual and moral wants which have not been satisfied or evei lealized." Dr. Millikan thinks the American church might satisfy those wants. Unfortunately Un-fortunately with too many of us, when our stomachs are full and we have a litle money in the bank, the world seems about all right, intellectual hunger hun-ger does not worry us. It is some comfort to know that while so many things go wrong, science sci-ence continues its ceaseless conquest of humanity's problems. You learn from Doctor Witte, formerly form-erly a research scientist with General Electric, now ah associate of Doctors Moore and White in their clinic, that application of heat, sent through the tissues of the body by electric current and the infra-red rays, promises to restore re-store health to thousands that had reconciled themselves to lifelong iH-ness. iH-ness. Diseases are caused by germs of various kinds. The germs are or can be destroyed by the right degree of heat. And the use of heat by electricity and otherwise promises to do away with many diseases that have been looked upon as inevitable for those that, in . the words that Homer uta into the mouth of Hector's father, "have entered upon the hateful road of old age." With all its progress we can still say of science that Flammarion, the French astronomer, said to this writer just before he died: "nous ne sommes que sur le seuil, de la science." "We are only on the threshold of science." He was talking of the thousands of great suns that . move through . billions bil-lions of miles of space in the "little Pleiades group. What would he say of the eighty-five eighty-five ton magnet that has just been set up at the University of California in Berkeley? One of the four most powerful electro-magnets ever built, its terrific force will be used to "shatter "shat-ter the atom." And the atom that is to be shattered, with its electrons revolving re-volving around their nucleus, trillions of times in a second, is so small that a million like it, more or less, would not be noticed in your eye. Men may eventually know enough to keep them from swindling, cheating and cutting each others' throats. The San Francisco Examiner qquotes W. S. Knudsen, president of Chevrolet, now looking after sales on this Coast: "We've worn out the crying towel in the United States. Now we are getting down to work, and things are going to get better." If work can make them better, they will be better with Knudsen. But others oth-ers seem to have crying towel factories running on full time, with production unlimited. (,1931, by King Features Syndicate, Lie) |