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Highland Park Press, 14 May 1931, p. 47

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Mr. Barbier has just signed a $200,000 picture contract and audiences who see him in "That‘s Gratitude" will recognize him in Mauâ€" rice Chevalier‘s next picture, "The Smiling Lieutenant" and many others in which he will appear during his five years‘ contract with Paramount. Like Frank Craven‘s earlier sucâ€" cess, "The First Year," "That‘s Gratâ€" itude" <~deals with human frailty as it isâ€"toâ€"be found inâ€"the averageâ€"Amerâ€" ican family. â€"Tom Maxwell, (Mr. Barâ€" bier}, a jovialâ€"traveling man from Hutchison, Kan., lies groaning in a small lowa hotel, from <the effects of tainted food when he is befriended by Bob Grant, (Mr. Ross), manager of ~a oneâ€"nightâ€"stand â€"musical â€"show. The pair wax mellow and affectionate over a bottle of prescription rye and a few weeks later he moves in on the Maxwells at Hutchison. Grant outâ€" wears his welcome and upsets the whole routine ‘of the household but not until he has started an unhappy and unattractive girl on â€"her way to a musical career. Thursday, May 14, 1931 "That‘s Gratitude" Is Biggest Comedy Hit Linking the names of John Golden and Frank Craven, "That‘s Gratiâ€" How Grant "promotes" the girl‘s finance for $7,000â€"enough to put out another road show with her in the leading role, thus taking her off the young man‘s hand and clearing the way for him to marry her more atâ€" tractive young sister; how the "ugly princess through the removal of moles and the application of peroxide and how she eventually leaves Grant in the lurch to elope with a tenorâ€"all this is told in a play that runs the gamut of romance, excitement, and clean, rippling fun. It can easily be â€"recommended â€"toâ€"everyâ€"memberâ€"of the family. Popular matinees are played on Wednesday and Saturday. Performâ€" ances begin at 2:30 and 8:30. _ Miss Olga Sandor presented her puâ€" pils at a recital last Saturday afterâ€" noon at the home of Mrs. William R. Watson of 288 Hazel avenue. The pupils presented were Eleanor Framâ€" hein, Renee Coghill, Katherine Johnâ€" ston and Rosemary Watson. A vocalist and violinist from Chiâ€" cago also played during the afterâ€" noon. The vocalist, Ida Mae Camâ€" eron dressed in costume presented an old group of Italian and Spanish songs. The violinist, Ethel Schwertzâ€" ler, also presented a yery interesting group ‘of pietes. . *.: . > "~~.~*. Miss Sandor‘s Pupils Appear in Recital St. James Court C. D. A. to Hold Card Party St. James Court, C. D. A., No. 951, has been organized five years in Highâ€" wood. â€"It is affiliated with the Naâ€" tional Council of the Catholic Daughâ€" ters of America, a large charitable order. & & The Court at Highwood has, for the past four years, given annual benefit card parties. These have always been well attended, because of their repuâ€" tation for good refreshments, attracâ€" tive prizes, and the sociability of the committee in charge. F It is hoped that those who have previously enjoyed an evening at one of these parties will come again and bring their friends. Full arrangements have not been completed, but there will be another announcement in next week‘s paper. Remember the date, the 22nd of May. Be prepared to have a pleasant time. $ This year the card party will take place Friday evening, May 22, at 8 o‘clock.â€"Tickets:â€"may _be â€"procured from the members. There will be bridge, five hundred and bunco. Some economists tell us that out of this depression will come a cure to end all future depressions. Didn‘t we hesir something a few years ago about a war that was to end all wars? * * One of the most difficultâ€"tasks was that of tunneling under Baby Creek at a point which is crossed by a rallroad bridge and where also a large sewer is under conâ€" struction by the city . of Detroit. :_xs kJ water a dayâ€"more than is * used by the cities of Detroit, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Washâ€" ington combinedâ€"will be the caâ€" pacity of a huge tunnel now nearing completion at the Rouge Plant ot the Ford Motor Company, Dearâ€" born, Michigan. ‘The tunnel will replace the presâ€" ent water intake system which sup plies the Ford plants with 500,â€" 000,000 gallons a day. At the same time the company is remodeling its power house to greatly increase the power output.. Both improvements, costing several million dollars, are being made to enlarge the produc tion facilities of the Ford plant. Sixty Feet Under Ground In constructing the waterway, the largest of its kind ever undertaken by a single business concern, the engineers are burrowing sixty feet under.ground forâ€"aâ€"distanceâ€"ofâ€"two and a fifth miles. They have gone under main highways, railroads, street car tracks, bridges, a ceme tery and a creek. â€" _ The piles that provide the foundaâ€" tion for the bridge and those driven by the company constructing the sewer formed a network on each side of the creek. It was the task of the Ford engineers to burrow under the creek, sewer and bridge, going between the piles without striking or weakening them. Ford Digs Two Mile Tunnel for A Billion Gallons of Water a Day T HE PR E88 TO PREVENT GUEST ~~ RIDER FROM SUING Billâ€"Offered in â€"Legislature to â€"Eliminate Abuse of Motor Law; No Damages _ Motorists who have taken guests for a ride, and those who have given lifts to caddies going to and from golf clubs, no longer. will have to shiver with the thought of paying heavy damages in the case of an acâ€" cident, in the event that a bill inâ€" troduced in the house yesterday by Representative William A. Carroll, of Woodstock, passes. Carroll‘s measure provides that an owner or an operator of an automoâ€" bile be exempt from damages for an injury to a guest riding with him. Many Affected Here There are a score or more motorâ€" ists living in Waukegan and Lake county who will watch this bill with interest. They are a part of those luckless victims who have been forced to pay judgments after Jaw suits in which companions sued them for damâ€" ages following an accident. Under the present law if a person qoi zn en onl * Chairman Raskob thinks the next were to pick up a pedestrian who Democrat platform should by all waved him down for a ride, and then | means have a wet plank for the drys had an accident in which the: hitch] to walk.â€"â€"Cincinnati Enquirer. _ â€"~ . Boring of the tunnel is accomâ€" plished by means of a. shieldâ€"a large steel cylinder fourteen feet long and twontyâ€"one feet in outside diameter with a solid steel shell or skin two and a fourth inches thick. made fast near the front end. There are four openings through . which the mud streams, like toothpaste from a tube, as the shield is shoved forward by twenty powerfal hyâ€" draulic jacks. When the shield has been pushed forward sufficiently concrete blocks two and a half feet.wide and five The head of one of the sections of the Ford tunne!l showing the machinery used to burrow through the ground. In the foreground is one of the concrete blocks used to line the tunne!l which has an inside diameter of fifteen feet. $ feet long, each weighing 3,420 pounds, are placed to form a ring around the cireumferehce of the tunnel. One of them acts as a keyâ€" stone so that the lining of con:â€" crete, which is eighteen ~inches the earth. After this steel forms are set up and filled with concrete to form a solid inner lining which is also eighteen inches thick. The present intake system of the Ford plant has a capacity of 500, 000,000 gallons a day. The new tunâ€" nel will be able to carry 913,600,000 gallons. # hiker was injured, the operator of the car would be responsible for inâ€" juries received by the person who reâ€" ceived the favor of getting a ride. Many Pass Up Wavers Common knowledge of this law has forced many motorists to pass youngâ€" sters caddying atâ€"Bonnie Brook and Glen Flora golf clubs who have waved for a ride either to or from the clubs. They have feared an accident in which the youngster could force them to pay for any injuries received. __________ In one recent case a woman was sued by her sister, who was an oCâ€" cupant of the car, but this step was taken to force the insurance company to settle. Chairman _ Raskob‘s _ two great achievements for the Democratic party: Raising money and raising Cain.â€"Milwaukee Journal. When it comes to matrimony it is still better to pick a girl who is handy with a gas range rather than one who is an expert with a gas buggy. If you think politicians have an easy graft, try sitting on a fence and keeping one ear on the ground.â€"San Francisco Chronicle. E :‘fi F3 & la

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