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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 2G, 1913 At Movie Houses Jack Benny And Rochester At New Theater; "Lady From Chungking" On Times Screen Dorothy Dix Says: With Golden Rule In Every Home, Divorce Courts Doubtless Would Close 1 I nrz rwrv By Donald Howe Kirkley IrmfS i rii rfJ lh Jack Benny and Rochester are having a lot of fOn at the New Theater in a modernized version of "The Meanest Man in the World," a minor farce produced many years ago by the late George M. Cohan. It is a very light, whimsical photoplay, running only a few minutes over an hour, but those who like Mr. Benny and his rusty-voiced henchman are apt to find it very much to their liking.

When "The Meanest Man in the World" was new, they called it hokum, which is now synonymous with corn, but it is good corn, such as is harvested weekly on most of the big radio programs. Mr. Benny, thinly disguised as himself, is a small-town lawyer in love with Priscilla Lane, who was born in Iowa, where they grow the best corn of all. In the story she is the daughter of the town tycoon, a pompous heavy father who gets pushed around a lot in the course of the story. Off To Seek Fortune A timid, tender-hearted man, Mr.

Benny comes to grief when called upon to prosecute a poor huckster whose jalopy dented the fenders of his girl's father's automobile. He goes off to New York to seek his fortune, accompanied by the faithful and caustic Rochester. Reduced to eating and sleeping in his office, and besieged by creditors, the poor ambulance chaser conceals his plight from the folk -back home. According to his letters, he is living in a luxury apartment on Park avenue and numbers New York's great among his clients. A sudden visit forces him to put up a colossal bluff, but he is in momentary danger of betrayal.

Hard-Boiled And Tough At this juncture he discovers what Rochester has long known: that a lawyer needs to be hard-boiled and tough if he is to get along in the big town. lie sets out to make a name for himself, and presently gets his picture in the papers as the meanest man in the world. He throws an old lady into the street for non-payment of rent, speaks roughly to blind beggars and actually steals candy from a child. Absurdity is piled upon absurdity to die everytime he had a headache aid who was the best company he knew. Well, knowing all the rules for being that kind of a husband every worsaa wishes she had, why not qualify for the role? Why not try being a little easier on your wife's eyes? Women no mere like to look at a man with a stubble cf beard on his face and in his oldest and shabbiest clothes than men like to lock at a woman with cold cream on her face and wearing a soiled house coat.

Why not do your bit about cheeraj up the household by being a ray cf sunshine in it? Why not praise your wife's cooking, instead of gulping it down without a word of appreciation? Why not help your wife run her budget, instead of lambasting her because she cannot make one dollar do the work of five? Believe me, there would be very few divorces if husbands and wives followed the Golden Rule and treated each other the way they would like to be treated. Religious Barriers Dear Miss Dix I am very much in lore with a young man who wants to marry me, but I feel that we would r.cl make a go of our marriage because his religion is so entirety different Jron mine. His mother is very strict and insists upon his going to church twice on Sundays and never going to any piece of amusement. But I hav-e been brought up in a much broader type of church, where we feel that dancing end sewing on Sundays, or indulging in any inno cent pleasure is all right. Do you think if I asked this boy to give up his church I would be asking too much? Trouble).

Answer What are called "mixed marriages," that is. a marriage between a man and a woman who have been brought up in different creeds and who look at religion from different viewpoints, never turn out happily. except in the rare cases in which the husband and wife are big enough and broad enough to be willing to grant each other the privilege of worshiping God according to the dictates of their own consciences. Certainly I don't think you have any right to ask your sweetheart to give up his own religion, and you will be taking a great risk if you marry him expecting him to change. In "Queen of ROCIIELLE HUDSON Broadway," on Maryland screen.

PRESTON FOSTER FRANCES CIFFORD In "American Empire at the Mayfair. Aunt Het A young couple who are about to take each other for better or worse asks me if I will give them a rule to follow that will help them to make a success of their marriage. Surely. That is easy. There Is one rule for making a happy marriage that, faithfully observed, never fails.

It is foolproof. It is called the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Especially when you are married to them. Be the kind of a husband that you would want if you were a wife. Make the kind of a wife you would thank God for if you were a husband.

Try. to make your dreams of an ideal marriage come true. She would like him to tell her, no matter how old and wrinkled she was, that she was more beautiful in his eyes than any glamor girl. She would like him to give her a kiss now and then that was warm on her lips, instead of chilly on the rim of her ears. Wants Square Deal She would like her husband to play ball with her.

She would like him to be as faithful to her as she is to him. She would like him to give her a square deal about money and not make her have to rattle a cup like a blind beggar before Jiim to get every penny out of him. She would like him to speak as politely to her as he does to his secretary, and to listen as attentively to her when she tries to talk to him as he does to his partner at a dinner. She would like him to brag about her a little and show that he is proud of her, instead of making her the butt of his jokes and referring to her as his ball and chain. In a word, she would like her husband to show her that she is his Beloved Wife while she is still alive, instead of waiting to have it carved on her tombstone.

Golden Rule Applies Well, knowing so accurately what kind of a wife you would want if you were a man, why not cash in on that inside information? Why not try to be it? Why not keep on cutting the bait with which you caught your fish? Why not doll yourself up after marriage as you did before marriage and show your husband that you thought him worth dressing up for? Why not keep the love fires burning by continually throwing fresh fuel on the flames? Every human soul is lonely. Every heart craves affection and appreciation. So why not tell your husband every day in every way that you love him; that you admire him; that you still sec him as the Fairy Prince of your girlish dreams? Why not take the trouble to entertain and amuse him as you would any stranger on whom you wished to make a good impression? Every man knows the kind of wife he would like to have. He would like to have a wife he could be proud of and who would be an ornament to his show window, but who at the same time was a good free-hand cook and penny-pincher. He would like a wife who was a good lover and whose theme song was that her Good Angel must have been working overtime when she got him for a husband.

lie would like a wife who appreciated all of his good points and who never ceased saying "thank you" for all the things he did for her. Should Buck Up Husband He would like a wife who was a discreet press agent who would show him off in company and say: "John, do tell that funny story about the Irishman," instead of saying, "Oh. for Heaven's sake, don't be a bore. Everybody has heard that a million times." He would like a wife who made home cheerful and comfortable, who bucked him up when he was downcast, who acted as If she thought he was going Good Morning! until the picture casts all logic to the winds and goes in for sheer slapstick. In these capers Mr.

Benny receives considerable help from Miss Lane, Matt Briggs, Edmund Gwenn and Anne Revere, and, sometimes, a bit too much from Rochester, who has a knack of overshadowing his boss on occasion. It is hard to see why the studio did not add another twenty or thirty minutes to the film and plug it as a first-line comedy. In some ways it is much more amusing than the highly touted Jack Benny special, "George Washington Slept Here." "Lady From Chungking" The war is a serious thing, and "Lady From Chungking," at the Times Theater, is an earnest effort to slap the Jap through the medium of screen melodrama. But there are times when the portrayal of a Japanese general by Harold Huber comes perilously close to burlesque. This general worked as a spy in an American munitions plant and still remembers his social security number.

He acquired his notions of love and war apparently from seeing too many double features, and his style in both is copied from that of Eric von Stroheim in his World War I period. Guerrilla Arrives When a beautiful guerrilla, Anna May Wong, turns up in the Chinese village occupied by the general and an army which consists of one skeleton squad, that high-placed son of the Mikado begins to woo her with flowery compliments, champagne and droop-eyed leers meant to be persuasive and fetching. Miss Wong, meanwhile, is preparing the coolie warriors, obviously 4-H men from Central Casting, for their great coup, and in due time, with the assistance of two captive Flying Tigers, they wreck a troop train, thwart a proposed drive on Chungking and obliterate masses of Zeros. Hence we must give the producers of "The Lady From Chungking" credit for good intentions and let it go at that. and libraries in this country and in Canada.

The college recently made a poll of reviewers in America and has now issued a supplementary list of the ten best for and the ten best against books out of the original hundred. A CANDLE IN THE WINDOW Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be "horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble, at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall. Ezekiel, xxxii, 10. Delightful One of the most skillful and delightful novels of Southern color that I have read for a long time is "Colonel Effingham's Raid," by Berry Fleming, in which the whimsical irony of the author shines forth supremely and the natural setting and characteristics of his people come into the picture as naturally as life flows along itself in Author Fleming's imagined town of Fredericksville, Ga. Not All Not all nor every day Can old war have his say.

Some moments still for men To think of peace again. To think of peace and love, When righteously for all Freedom shall shine above And beauty hear ov call. B. B. Pildifter Park Aunt Petunia was sittin' in the kitchen last night tryin' to figure out her rationin' points and keep sweet at the same time.

Steps LittZe steps count, too, Though they be small and few Yet if we walk the way with love The teeniest step will do, They all will lead above. B. B. Partial To Yellow Anne Shirley, always partial to yellow, has gone overboard for that sun-gay color in a new two-piece dress she just bought to wear around the house. It is a simple yellow shirt, with a full, dirndl-type skirt of a deeper tone of yellow and the belt is actually a sash wound several times around the waist of leaf green.

The fabric was especially remarkable, being a sort of homespun in a mixture of rayon and cotton. "Got Beauty And You By Patricia Lindsay How to bleach freckles is the common problem of auburn-haired lassies and other girls who have exceedingly fair skin. Unfortunately, there is no sure way of banishing freckles. Chemical preparations for eradicating these little skin spots are not only unreliable but some of them are injurious and should never be tried. The safest treatment is pure lemon juice whicli should be removed from the skin with a little milk after five minutes.

The milk relieves any irritation. Buttermilk may be used for the same purpose. Another Suggestion Another home remedy bleach is a lotion consisting of one ounce of lactic acid, one ounce of glycerin (which may not be available because of the war), and six ounces of rose water mixed together and applied with a bit of fresh absorbent cotton two or three times a day. Although freckles are sometimes undesirable they are not abnormal and are considered indicative of very good health. It is better to have freckles and good health than to be deprived of the sunshine and fresh air.

How To Cover Them Up If your crop of freckles worries you, try using a powder foundation a shade deeper than your current skin tone and match your face powder to the color of the foundation. There are some very opaque foundation lotions and pastes on cosmetic counters. Some girls mix a bit of liquid rouge with their cream foundation. This tints the skin and detracts from the freckles. Nature has a nice way of giving each girl certain beauty assets which offset beauty flaws.

Freckled-faced girls usually have- very pretty hair if they take care of it. Here is a shampoo which you might like to try. Take a bar of pure castile soap and shave it into a little hot water to melt it. Then beat up a whole egg until it is creamy and add this to the melted soap. Beat again.

After shampooing in the ordinary manner (two applications of the above concoction and thorough rinsings) brush your hair dry with a span clean brush in the sunshine, if possible. Good Taste Today By Emily Post A very unpleasant duty that at times falls upon directors, organizers or employers and on occasion devoted friends is described in this letter: I wonder, Mrs. Post, if I may bring vp an unpleasant s'thject. No one else I ask seems to know how to handle the situation. A young woman, who works in this office and who has to go out on the floor and sell has a very offensive breath much of the tune.

She is a lovely as well as a very capable person, but this failure, we believe, is a detriment to us so far as having her take care of customers. She is very refined and sensitive and she is also an excellent office worker. Yet we think we'll have to make an excuse and let her go unless you have a suggestion to offer. Only Suggestion The only suggestion I can offer is to tell her the truth as directly as possible. Take it as a matter of course that there is something wrong with her digestion and she must see a physician who will correct her diet, or give her digestive tablets, or whatever else she personally needs.

All questions of unpleasant odor are, it is quite true, the hardest possible problem that any personal-relations director or employer or, worst of all, friend can face. But when it is realized that the offender is utterly innocent, that the fault is purely a question of chemistry that a physician can easily adjust, it should be approached and also received without embarrassment. Embarrassing To All I think the reason this and other subjects of personal correction are difficult is that we arc embarrassed when we make them and therefore they who receive them are embarrassed. They are also unpleasant to talk about because the fact itself is unpleasant, but if it is realized as a condition that is not necessarily due to neglected tooth-brushing or scrubbing and that it can overtake the most fastidious of persons, that it is entirely a question of lack of chemical balance, it ought not to be difficult to set straight. Long Dresses In Morning? Dear Mrs.

Post Is it proper for the mothers and sisters of the bride and groom to wear ankle-length dresses at a morning w.edding? Long dresses simply do not sound right to me for morning wear. One doesn't consider wearing them for any other morning occasion. At least we never have, but perhaps we were wrong about that too. Answer If you mean 8 o'clock in the morning, then long dresses do seem unsuitable, except for the bride and her maid of honor. But if you mean noon, they are entirely correct.

Gift For Bridegroom Dear Mrs. Post My employer wants to send a wedding present to the groom instead of to the bride. The man is a good business friend and the bride a stranger, who will remain a stranger since these men see each other only at business meetings. The question has come up because your book says wedding presents are sent to the bride. He wonders if there may be an exception in this case and if he may now send a personal present, such as cuff links, to this man? If this would be proper, should they be addressed to the bride with a message they are for him? Answer Under the circumstances described, it will be entirely proper to send the cuff links for the bridegroom to his own home address.

I By Robert Quillen "I always despise the yellow little sneaks, but I get maddest when I want to use a recipe that says to fry in deep fat." Aunt Recipes Fo lentil supe widout meat try dis, Miss Ada: Lentil Soup Take lz a poun' ob lentils, 3 pints ob water, 1 pint ob milk, 1 mejum-size onion, 1 carrot, 1 rounded tablespoon ob butter, 2 stalks ob celery, wid salt an' pepper to yo tas'e. Soke de lentils fo' 24 'ours, den drene. Chop de onion, de carrot an de celery. Melt de butter an' add de veg'tubles, cookin' ober a slow flame fo nie onter 15 minits. Add de lentils, stirrin' wid de res' ob de veg'tubles.

Put all inter yo' supe pot wid de water; bring to de bile an' simmer fo about 2 'ours, or till de lentils am sof. Rub thru yo siv, wid de water dey cooked in; add de milk an' let all bile up togeder, sesinin to yo' tas'e. If de supe ain't as thick as you likes it, cream 1 tablespoon ob flour wid a extra tablespoon ob butter, thin wid a little ob de supe an stir inter de res'. Let cook up befo serbin. Just Words By Frank Colby Please pronounce and give the origin of the word carbine, meaning "a short rifle." Dr.

S. Answer Rhyme the second syllable, with dine, fine. Say: KAHR-bine. Curiously, the word derives from an Old French word, scarrabin, which means "One who disposes of bodies in a plague." Clean Suede Shoes To clean suede shoes rub with a soft brush. Mesh or wire brushes are likely to break the fabric.

Give the edges of the shoes a polish by dipping a discarded tooth brush into shoe polish of the desired shade. Place the shoes on a paper until dry to prevent shoe polish stains from getting onto rugs. O. DAYLIGHT-- MUSS UP TH' BED GOOD. OUST AS IF I HAD SLEPT IN IT ALL NIGHT-- AN KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP WHEN I GO DOWN TO BREAKFAST- BY THE BENTZTOWN BARD (Folger McKinsey) It was only a glad "Good Morning" As she passed along the way.

But it spread the morning's glory Over the livelong day! Carlotta Perry. OLD MAN MOSE IS PLOWING Old man Mose is plowing For a Victory garden, dear. The old mule is kowtowing And the spring is very near: Around the old ten acres Old man Mose is treading through The sedge grass and the briars And the silver-cinctured dew. The larks are back in heaven And a catbird on the fence Has been counting to eleven In his song of now and hence: A crow is cawing yonder And a buzzard wheels in sight, And the lovers go to wander In the moon-deeps of the night. Old man Mose is turning Sweet old furrows with the plow.

The hills with joy are burning And 'twill soon be summer now: The fallow is so fertile, And the corn and beans will sprout, And we'll crown the queen with myrtle. And of joy and love we'll shout. B. B. How The Book Barometer I Bobbing Now-A-Day In the race for chosen positions in the bestseller lists the "past week there have been three novels that have run each other a close race "The Robe," "Mrs.

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