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THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1920
V,
HOENIX CHINATOWN YIELDS
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DELIGHTS OF PELL STREET
No-No! It's Only Pop!
T While the Chinese colony in Phoenix
a no small as to be practically a neg
ligible quantity either In the census
returns or a survey of the city proper,
nevertheless the few citizens of the
Celestial republic Mho fi"nd residence
nere. according to those who have to
So With them, succeeded in building up
J u their usual custom a little city
within a city" which is as far away
rm the capital of Arizona in reality
fis' the underground community of the
older San Francisco or the Pell street
bt short story delights,
f To the occidental mind the Chinese,
despite short hair and the assumption
oC western clothes, are still people of
nystery, and the Interest that the
American or European finds in at
tempting to fathom their reasoning or
I-ii-ring the whys and hows of their ex
istence in their larger commuoies is
Jio greater than that of the Phoenician
Iffho, takes the opportunity to look at
what is going on in the small colony
t,hi3 own home town. This was dem-
f nstrated yesterday by a short Journey
uto the- realms of Asia as exemplified
fry. the gathering places of the Chineso
here.
First of all comes the joss house,
which was the primary object of inter
est to the tourist In San Francisco
aside, of course, from the elaborately
camouflaged den where two or three
Chinamen an'd perhaps a white woman
yarned a few cents a night by indulg
ing m "opium" sleeps induced by no
inore potent drug than the desire to
rajn the price of a .meal. Although
Phoenicians may not be aware of it.
there Is a joss house here, or rather a
fuddhist temple, small and unprepos
sessing from -the exterior, but dainty
jmd scrupulously clean within. Upon
t rafsed platform is a statue of the im
jnptable vBuddha, cross-legged and
with the eternal string of beads around
fcls neck aad falling into his lap. As is
rual. he is a fat . and prosperous
tluddha, with jolly round cheeks and
the hint of a smile in his almond eyes.
Il sits so quietly there with such an
sir of 5iaving just arisen from a well
lilled table, with such an attitude of
repose and with such an appearance of
numorous good nature and tolerance to
U the world that one cannot but
Imagine that he is a god well worth
knowing; such a one as would be happy
tn - helping hfs petitioners simply be
cause he would not like to hurt their
jfeelings by refusing their requests. The
incense sticks that burn before him do
Jiot seem to be adjuncts of his wor
ship, but rather things placed there by
himself to keep out the odors of a di's
Rgreeable world and to make his own
existance a little more comfortable,
yerhaps he wants to make that exist
ence a little more refined, also, but it is
difficult to believe that one so evi
int!y fond of taking things easy could
eo, to the trouble of being even faintly
esthetic.
It's All Right Her
;it!efore the pedestal on which His
I TODAY and
f TOMORROW
i"A Splendid
fiazard"
A tremendous story of
: love and adventure by
; : Harold MacGrath
a, -
VVith Henry B. Walthall, as the
mn who ruthlessly crushed
-, women or men and defied all
He( to balk, his 'mad ambition.
Added Features Today
POLLARD COMEDY
BRAY PICTOGRAPH
;Columbia
' Where It's Always Cool
The Columbia Theater Orchestra
creates an appropriate accompan
ment of harm'ory for every picture
shown here.
FRED BARLOW, Director
Comfortable Inetfableness sits are
vases with paper flowers, as bright and
fersh in their colors as in the day when
some danty Chineae raai'dcn or was it
some fat and elderly Celestial matron
in trousers and jacket with a tortoise
shell comb in her hair and her finger
nails filed to a point) cut from silk
their purple and white and red petals
and twisted the wire stems that hold
them stifly upright. There is a soft
red carpet on the floor, that invites, as
plainly as carpet can tlo, the casual vis
itor toslip off hia shoes, and, walking
over it, bump his head against ?t at the
base of the statue.
But the Phoenix Chinatown has more
than a temple in it. There are, hidden
away on the south side, tiny little
stores, usually in the back room, where
strange, twisted roots wait the Chmese
buyer, where there are boxes of li-chi
nuts and cartoons of insipidly sweet
Chinese candies, and where there is
smell which may be variegated but
which is certainly not "intriguing," as
novelist Chambers would say. In these
shops are also American staples, espe
cially tobacco, and little stacks of
canned goods. usMgJy sea foods. "Where
the merchants, however, keep their
dried shark fins or preserved bird
nests the gelatine of which fs the best
known of Chinese delicacies was not
found by the reporter, who, once upon
a time, found shark fin soup and bird
nest both entirely palatable if a
modicum of port wine or Manhattan
cocktail were used as sauces with
them.
In one of these places, which evi
dently is used at times as a restau
rant, was found a Chinese oven of the
kind that makes roast duck a dish fit
for the Olympean gods and roast pork
too good even for them. It was a
square brick box, about three feet on
each side and 80 inches high, set in the
middle of the floor. On the inner walls
near the top were the hooks from
which the ducks are hung, sometimes
to the number of 15 or 20. To the lover
of fine eating there is no more pleasing
sight, especially before dinner, than
such an oven in operation. When the
lid, a square piece of fron, is lifted ffvm
the top, there is a puff of wood smoke
ascending to the celling, and then the
expectant diner sees the ducks (if it is
the right time) hanging neck down
ward from the hooks, just close enough
to the smouldering wood to keep from
burning. And such ducks! Goldeji
brown, glistening with the rich juices
that have oozed from the skin, and
calculated to make the mouth of the
most blase gastronomist run with an
ticipation, they make tke most appetiz
ing sight fn the world. A leg of pork,
hung in the same manner, is not to be
spoken of lightly, either, but the ducks
hold first place.
A Dish for a King
Slices of duck roasted in this man
ner .placed on top or chop-suey in a
blue bowl, with a little dish of sauce
at its side and a cup cf honest tea at
hand, make a combination which even
the taste of a BriHat-Savarin cannot
neer at to say nothing of the great
majority who eat ham and eggs from
high stools in Jake's place around the
corner. In the old days, too, such a
dish could be accompanied (and usu
ally was) by a bottle of wfne or a cock
tail, for the Chinese took early to occi
dental liquors, although their own rice
wine has a stimulating effect as dam
aging to the mental, moral and phys
ical man as the raisin brandy in Co
chfse county, which is distilled, they
say, in a washboiler after the lady of
the house has ended her weekly wrest
ling match with the laundry, and is
strained through the stirt tail of the
manufacturer. But to get back to
Phoenix.
The Chinese here have not forgotten
to exercise, in the evening, that phi
losophic lassitude which in a newer
and rougher people might be called
laziness. They know the calmness of
spirit that comes from sitting matlon-
less at t.je front door, smoking their
pipes with ridiculously small bowls.
and contemplating the sayfngs of tb,e
Seven Wise Men or the maxims of
Confucius or of Buddha dependent
upon how closely each individual Is
patterning after his Japanese neigh
bors. They know how to tak life
easily, ' do these Chinese, when the
day's task i's done and the sun has
dropped behind the palm trees. "So
they sit and smoke, talking in sharply
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DAYTON, Ohio. The wettest thing
served at Dayton, on Cox Notification
Uay, August 7, was pop. When Hard
ing was notified at Marion recently it
was the pie-counter that , drew the
'boys. But at Dayton the pop-stands
were the principal attraction.
clipped monosyllables reminiscing, no
doubt, of the crowded shores of the
Yangt-si-Kiang or the bustling
wharves of Shanghai or the wet rice
fields where barelegged girls under
broad-rimmed hats watch the tender
shoots spring upward from the mud.
So they sit and smoke, or go about
their daily tasks offering, their gifts to
the fat-faced Buddha who must be
gratified at having such quiet and con
templative worshippers, still a part of
China of the land of yesterday; where
everything that is new is ancient;
where the wandering minstrel with his
yee-gow sings the songs his fathers
sung 4,000 years ago; where the mis
sionary makes a general nuisance of
himself, and where 300,000,000 slani-.
eyed natives wonder what the deuce
was the matter with Wilson when he
handed Shantung to the Japs. Cor
poreally, they , are in Phoenix, but in
spirit they are 10,000 miles away, in a
land where, strangely enough, a laun
dry is only an inventfr?u of the "foreign
devill' and one can play fan-tan or
mark a lottery ticket or inhale tit
fumes of little yenshee without having
an American cop throw him in the
calaboose.
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GOOD CHOP YIELDS
WILL GIVE AUSTRIA
NEW LEASE OF LIFE
CHARLES M. ROBERTS
IS PHOENIX VISITOR;
TELLS OF CAMPAIGN
orcor tioaJ ac this popular shopping
center for a ress. suit or coat valued
at $50 will be given to the lucky winner.
Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday
nights are Diamond Ring nights, and
on these evenings at the end of the
10:30 dance, the prize is awarded. The
plan is to present the dancers with
numbered tickets as thev enter the
ballroom, and from these numbers one
is drawn. The holder of the drawn
number is awarded a genuine diamond
ring, set in a solid gold mounting.
These will continue throughout the
season.
Of course, the dance is conducted
every evening with King Brady and his
jazz band furnishing the music.
Bathing i:i the big pool, where the
water is kept clean, fresh and strictly
sanitary, continues at the highest
pitch. A dip in the Riverside plunge
means an enjoyable swim in a pool
built for the purpose, kept clean and
thoroughly fresh, where refuse and
foreign waste matter is unknown.
Strand
If you haven't seen Wallace Reid in
"Excuse My Dust," the present attrac
tion at the Strand, you are overlooking
one of the very best stories this dash
ing star has yet brought to the screen.
Pn'marily a story of automobile racing,
the production follows closely on the
heels of the first picture of this class
he made. "The Roaring Road." "Ex
cuse My Dust" is the screen adaptation
of the Saturday Evening Post story,
"The Bear Trap," and besides the won
derful personality of Wallace Reid,
such celebreties as Theodore Roberts,
Tully Marshall and Ann Little are
found in the supporting array.
It is a picture of speed, action and
innumerable thrills. Perhaps the
greatest tension is reached during the
race through the night on the course
between Ls Angeles and San Fran
cisco, when Reid as "Toodles" is pitted
against rival drivers of a competing
concern. A terrific smashup marks Jlhe
course of the race, a smashup that for
realism would be indeed to duplicate,
and a moment that for intense action
and compeling suspense is indescribable.
The comedy end of the program is
taken care of by "Training Husbands,
a Sunshi'ne riot, and of course the n
tire program is balanced by th? Pathe
News. The Florida Original jazz haYid
has charge of the musical end of the
program, a fact that assures ex
cellence.
obsession ajid a vita! part of a man's
life, can fortify him with an almost
super-human courage, even transform
his entire character, is strikingly
shown by the figure of Karl Breitman
in "A Splendid Hazard," an Allan
Dawn production adapted from Harold
MacGrath's novel of that name.
Breitman is one of the most fasci
nating characters in modern fiction.
A descendant of Napoleon I, emperor
of France, his whole being i's consumed
by the fire of an ambition to reestab
lish the Napoleonic regime with him
self as its head. With the reckless
daring that recalls visions of Dumas'
immortal IVArtagnan, he surmounts
seemingly impassible obstacles. His
quest carries him from France to
America and thence to the Isle of
Corsica, where in a thrilling hunt for
buried treasure, his mad ambition
proves his undoing.
Breitman's ambition- was his life's
blood and his nemesis. It drove from
his mind the powers of sane reason
ing; it warped his soul and robbed him
of his scruples. It make of him a
dominant, masterful figure, imbued
with stoical courage and a grim de
termination to smash down every
barrier that stood between him and the
achievement of i.is ambition.
The role of Breitman ia played in
"The Splendid Hazard" by Henry B
Walthall whose consumate skill at
character portraiture reaches its zenith
in this Allan Dawn production. Others
in the cast are Rosemary Theby, Nor
man Kerry. Philo McCullough and
Thomas Jefferson.
"A Splendid Hazard" will be the fea
ture attraction at the Columbia theater
today and tomorrow.
Columbia
That ambition, when it becomes an
Joint Head Resort
BATHING
The Best in the Valley
Water is safe and clean
Rickards & Nace Enterprises
It's the most exciting thing you
have seen in years
WALLACE REID
IN
"EXCUSE MY DUST"
A PARAMOUNT PICTURE
Adapted from "The Bear TrapJ'
in The Saturday Evening Pott
COMEDY
NEWS
THE HIP
LAST TIME TODAY
MADLAINE
TRAVERSE
In a Love Story of the Ocean
'THE HELL SHIP"
MUTT AND JEFF COMEDY
Here's another big double pro
gram for the one price of
admission
BESSIE LOVE
"PEGEEN"
Added
WILLIAM DUNCAN
in
"The Silent Avenger"
Riverside Park
THE S5000 PRIZE OFFERED
BY
THE FRENCH SHOP
WILL BE AWARDED IN
THIS FRIDAY NIGHT
BALLOON SHOWER
DON'T FORGET
Diamond Ring Nights
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Someone wins a diamond every
time why not you?
DANCING EVERY EVENING AT THE ARBOR
VIENNA, Aug. 13 Bountiful crops
of early fruit and vegetables and
promise of an abundance of hardier
later yields from field and orchard, with
the. big American flour credit still
available for the ration of daily bread
have given Austria a reprieve from
the terrible hardships of last winter.
Fats are as scarce as ever, how
ever, but in this gracious weather
their need is not so keenly felt. Meat,
too, is scanty and high, beyond reach
of the masses. The American flour
credit will be exhausted before the
winter sets fairly in and no man in
Austria knows from where or by what
means it will be replaced.
Strikes and disturbances in the
Teschen coal fields, the situation in
Silesia, virtual suspension of the Hun
garian supply, little as it was and,
finally, Austria's inability to enforce
even the meager contractual supplies
from Bohemia, have prevented the
hoped for accumulation of a modest
fuel reserve during the summer months.
Public utilities of Vienna are report
ed to have but a week's reserve of coal
for power and light and less than a
month of gas coal at a minimum con
sumption. The last Austrian pig iron
oven in operation has just drawn its
fires for lack of coke.
Into this situation has been injected
a curious ousiness pnase resuiun
from the increased value of the crown
cn foreign change. In the late winter
and early spring the crown dropped as
low as 350 to the dollar on private ex
change. Encouraged by this a small
export trade was nourished. Aus
trian factories, famous for certain
forms of finished articles, began to re
sume operations on a limited scale, for
eign buyers seeing a good business
chance in the low crown value against
standard monies.
Manufacturers were able to get ad
vances of credit to secure coal and
needed raw materials. It was a good
speculation for foreign values. Then
the minister of finance. Dr. Reisch,
dropped a hint one day during a de
bate in the assembly that it would be
wise if Austrian retail sellers were to
raise their crown pa-ices to the equiva
lent of foreign values. They did it. A
suit of clothes that cost from 3,000 to
4,000 crowns rose in price to from 15,
000 to 18,000 crowns. Everything else
went up in proportion.
Then the government, acting on the
same principle, is reported to have
gone on the Zurich exchange, which
controls crown quotations, with large
amounts of foreign mony and forced
the crown up. Their efforts were as
sisted unexpectedly by an influx into
Austria of foreign money speculators.
Appreciation of the monies of the oth
er countries of Central and Eastern
Europe made this their last field for
speculation. Pounds, dollars and francs
became plentiful with small demand
and the crown rose in value until the
official price was 130 to the dollar and
150 in private deals, Retail prices con
tinued to go up, fo that with the rise
in the crown cutting foreign values
one-half, the plan literally "cut its own
throat."
Foreign buyers quit. Retail trade
stagnated. Native Austrians did not
know whether to laugh or cry at a
straw hat in a window bearing the
price mark of 2,000 crowns. But they
were not sold.
The next step in the reaction hit the
basic industries. The few factories
running have begun to curtail or cloise
down as orders are cancelled and new
contracts fail to come. The ministry
of socialization U besieged with re
quests from manufacturers to be per-
Hon. Charles M. Roberts, one of the
candidates for the Democratic nomina
tion for governor, is in the city, feel
ing his old-time confidence in his suc
cess at the primary. He has been in
touch with all parts of the state, and
the word that has come to him from
his friends, he says, is of the most en
couraging character.
He said that he is basing his claims
to the nomination on a platform of
efficiency. If nominated and elected,
he will try to introduce the same
methods into the management of the
state offices that good business men
insist upon in their offices. He does
not say that he would clean out the
state house and the state institutions,
but that he would remove all incom
petent and unnecessary clerks. He
would expect thost who remain to give
th6 same service and the same time
to their duties that would be required
of them by a private employer.
Another reform he would introduce
would be a prohibition against ap
pointees and attaches of offices mani
festing pernicious activity in Demo
cratic politics -and burning up high
priced gasoline at the expense of the
sate in behalf of favorite candidates.
Speaking of the primary system. Mr.
Roberts said that while he had confi
dence in the people, the candidates had
so demeaned themselves and perverted
the use of that institution that the
people had become disgusted. He had
observed that in. many parts of the
state and he had noticed it particular
ly in this county, where the registra
tion list to date shows that more than
3400 voters have registered as of no
party, so that they will not be able to
take part in any of the primaries and
have thus secured themselves against
bedevilment by candidates begging for
their votes.
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CHILD KILLED BY CAKE OF ICE
DENVER, Aug. 14. Virginia Mon
roe, eight-year-old daughter of Vance
Monroe, editor. of the Colorado union
Farmer, was instantly killed tonight
when a cake of ice fell off an ice
wagon and cushed her head. The
child was. playing by the alley at the
rear of the family home when the
wagon passed. The driver did not
know of the accident until another
phild called to him that he had lost
a cake of ice. He returned and found
the child under the cake, which weigh
ed 200 pounds.
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I AMUSEMENTS
Ramona,
Bessie Love in "Pegeen," to be seen
at the Ramona today and tomorrow,
has in this picture one of her famous
"glad plays." As the little waif who
seeks to bring happiness to everyone
the child the victim of fate and cir
cumstance, drifting on the sea of life
ahe knows not whither, but contented
that she makes others happy this
charming girl is simply bewildering.
As the story has it, Peg's mother
has died when she is an infant and the
blow has affected the father's reason
Dan O'Neill, the father, takes to drink,
and is soon in the lowest depths. One
of his hallucinations is' that he must
illuminate the skies at night, and this
thought leads him to commit several
crimes of incendiarism, with the result
that the vigilance, committee of the
town is on the trail of the firebug
swearing to put an end to his life. In
some way "Peg'' suspects her father
and it is this angle that gives the
story its immense appeal, for the lit
tie girl, powerless in the hands of
fate, seeks o shield her parent, and
yet put an end to the destruction that
threatens the entire town. And all the
while the love theme is steadily build
Ing, the entire story finding its climax
in the thrilling fire scene, in which
Peg is seen trying to calm her father,
and praying that the flames might be
checked until her father passes away
It is a peculiarly human story, told in
an intensely human way, and should
find favor with the Ramona's patrons
On the same program, the added at
traction is William Duncan in the
current installment of "The Silent
Avenger."
Riverside Park
Riverside Park announces that ow
ing to the inclement weather prevail
ing Friday night, the big $50 prize of
fered by the French Shop in the bal
loon shower was postponed, to be of
fered this coming Friday night. This
is one of the most pretentious prize
ever offered in an event of this char
acter and it is attracting any amoun
of attention. This balloon shower will
be held this coming Fridav, and th
of
venture that Drougut to rami n
realization that she was a woman, wun
. i i. TU. m-sL rv fnt i nla-
a woman s neari. a" i
ment that enters the story at this
point is a most appealing numan im mn
and establishes "xne Jit'u omi o
among the really exceptional utories
of the sea.
Th u-pstern added feature and the
Mutt and Jeff cartoon comedy are the
balancing subjects.
- The Hip
Madelaine Traverse, "empress
stormy emotion." is finishing her en
gagement at the Hip with the final
showings today of "The Hell Ship."
This remarkable picture is a love
story of the ocean, and its plot is
woven aUout a tramp ship, plying the
Pacific and carrying contraband cargo.
The ship is in charge of "Satan" Hum
phrey, so named because of his cruelty
and his tactics with his crew. During
a mutiny, "Satan" is killed, and his
daughter Paula (Madelaine Traverse)
assumes control. Accustomed all her
life to the hardships of the sea. life, she
proved mistress of the situation, and
carried out to the letter the law as
established by her father. But in time
there came to her the "big adven
ture," an adventure which brought the
tramp ship to the rescue of a sole sur
vivor of a wrecked liner and an ad-
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