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bank is being called on to give the evidence he has against the culprit. President Paul Harris takes the witness stand. This vision is the most surprising of all! There is Lyman Long ped- dling lip stick and rouge! Changed your views, haven't you, Lyman? Dorothy Webster is conducting a class in European History. She seems to be a very strict teacher. Up in the crystal comes a face that always headed the list of Hie members of '24. Louise Archer is stepping into her handsome closed car. Louise is living on her income which she inherited. The crystal ball reflects the figures '24. Over the numerals a hand is raised, a head bends proudly over '24 and Rev. Mr. Nichols gives the bene- diction. The streets of Baltimore! How crowded they are! The crowd is all rushing toward one street where the mayor, Mr. Arthur Emory Benson, IS passing. On a street in Norfolk I see a studio sign. There is Bess Core giving music lessons. How diligently she seems to be working with her pupils. Now the streets of a town in Wisconsin are flocked with people going to Chautauqua. They enter a large hall and await the evening's lecture. The curtain goes up and there stands "Ditty." Her lecture is entitled- "The True Ideals of the Human Race." Her lecture is over, and from the audience is coming a prosperous lawyer, Howard Newman, to speak to her. After him comes another familiar figure. "My, my, my, but I'm darned glad to see you, Miss Ditman," says the State Superintendent of Wiscon- sin Schools, Mr. Webster. "Little Old New York" dotted with the purple taxis fills the crystal ball. There looms the Purple Taxi Line headquarters. One big old taxi rolls in"with the owner driving. Who would have thought that Louise Mitchell would own a whole taxi line and fulfill her desire for driving by running a taxi herself. The taxi line fades away and in its place is the large research labora- tory of two noted chemists, Elizabeth Hooper and Weaver Clayton. Back in his home town is Elmer Chandlee as principal of the high school. The Methodist Protestant Church is unusually crowded. There are remarks about a new minister. Clarence Dawson takes his place in the familiar pulpit and preaches in the town of his Alma Mater. Surely this is not a scene in India? Yes, and there is Hutch Ward going among the people as a missionary. The room is an office. The man at the desk is Norris. His work is quite heavy as secretary to the world's greatest baseball star, Pete Gallo- way. Miriam Hull and Elsie Hoffa are walking arm in arm up the corridor of a hospital." They're nurses, happy over the fact that they have an afternoon off. The University of Pennsylvania has Jake McKinsey coaching football. The President of a Southern university and his wife are spending a quiet evening at home. Elizabeth (Gehr) is reading a book by America's most noted author, Treva Miller. Sitting in his bachelor's den is Lindsay Sapp. He is looking thru a well worn album. As he looks at the pictures of those old sweethearts he moans over the fact that he could never decide which one he really loved. One Hundred and Seven