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Show This Week by Arthur Brisbane Teaching Talkies to Talk William Wrigley, a Builder How to Fill a Church Heat Conquers Disease In Southern California, center and factory of the moving picture industry, even now one of the three greatest in America, mechanical mech-anical genius has made it possible pos-sible to put into the mouth of a "talkie" actor, who knows no language lan-guage but English, any other language lan-guage that may be desired, perfectly per-fectly synchronized. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, most successful among producers ot moving pictures, enabled this writer to see an admirable performance per-formance in which Norma Shearer Shear-er and Lionel Barrymore appeared. appear-ed. The language was German, and a most beautiful performance, perform-ance, although the picture had been made in English only. German Ger-man artists of high ability, a man and a woman, had "talked the film," supplying German voices for the American artists, they themselves noc photographed, or making any appearance except in sound. This means an end of the hope in foreign countries that "the talkies will kill American competition compe-tition abroad." The pictures will be made here, they will talk German Ger-man in Berlin, French in Paris, Italian in Rome. So admirably was the language substitution accomplished that it was impossible to believe that Norma Shearer, sitting In the prisoner's box, or Barrymore, 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 Ameri-can industry. William Wrigley Jr., having worked hard every day of his seventy years since childhood, is dead of heart disease, 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, developed and helped half a dozen industries, built great hotels, bought and developed de-veloped 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, as stockholders. If he could return and live another an-other life to order, he would select se-lect exactly the same kind. The learned Dr. Millikan, of California, discoverer of cosmic rays that constantly bombarded us, suggests work, for churches, "When men's stomachs are full," ray that scientist, "they have intellectual in-tellectual and moral wants which have not been satisfied or even realized." Dr. Millikan thinks the American Ameri-can church might satisfy those wants. Unfortunately with too many of us, when our stomachs are full and we have a little money mon-ey in the bank, the world seems about ail right, intellectual hunger hun-ger does not worry us. It is seme comfort to know that while so many things go wrong, science continues its ceaseless conquest of humanity's problems. You learn from Doctor Witte, formerly a research scientist with General Electric, now an associate associ-ate 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 health to thousands that had reconciled themselves to lifelong life-long illness. Diseases are caused by germs of various kinds. The germs are or can be destroyed by the right degree de-gree of heat. And the use of heat by electricity electric-ity and otherwise promises to do away with many diseases that have been looked upon as inevitable inevi-table for those that, in the words that Homer puts 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 Flammar-ion, Flammar-ion, 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 of miles of space in the "little Pleiades group." What would he say of the eighty-five ton magnet that has just been set up at the University of California in Berkeley? One of the four most powerful electromagnets electro-magnets ever built, its terrific force will be used to "shatter the atom." And the atom that is to be shattered, with its electrons revolving re-volving around their nucleus, trillions tril-lions 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 quotes W. S. Knudsen, president of Chevrolet, 'now lcoking 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 seem to have crying towel factories running on full j time, with production unlimited. |