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The Washington times., 1915-12-19
No Place For a Girl With
A Retiring Disposition

II didn't find much consideration in
the movie business. although wouldn't
indict the entire business nor everyone
with whom / was thrown. On the
whole. however, it's no place for girl
IL she has a disposition that Is at all
retiring.
"if YOU go to New York and forget
your feelings. fighting every minute for
the UPPER hand and asserting yourself
constantly. you may get ahead In the
business. But l am not of the aGgres..
sivc. fighting type. and l, don't regard
TIE game as worth It Thsr" are are
il,usionmcnt. and tribulations ahead or
any Gir! that seeks to break into the
business of acting for the screen.
That. at least. is the way l feel about
I wouldn't advise anv girl to leave a
commercial position for the movie stage
it Is. at best gambling chance. Es,
oecially do feel sorry for any girl
who tries to break In because she has
been declared a beauty. The directors
and managers who actually stage the
pictures will be more interested in
somebody they have discovered than in
the girl who has made a contract with
the men higher up IN the home office;
ard your companies Of the drama prob
ably will take certain secret satisfac-
ton in making life unpleasant for you
because of the same reason.
rehoarsals. Maybc l should have per-
severed. but ] am glad ! did not
THE chief disappointment | feel 1:
act. and 7 don't think anybody else does
I You cant find that out If you enter 8
studio and feel instinctively that tn.
! man in charge Is going to take just a!
little interest In YOU as possible. and II
return you dislike that man from thu
The Washington times., 1915-12-19
She Prefers Stenography
, To the Photoplay

Il am back again at the American
Federation of Labor feel at home.
It's all funny. now that it's over. but
have voluntarily drawn down the cur
tain on my stage career. | prefer ste
biography to the photoplay. the type
writer to the moving picture camera.
and my friends and associates in Wash :
ngton to the cynical and unsympathetic
strangers Of New York"
Last summer Miss Ruth Purcell won
the beauty contest conducted by The
Washington Times to find the most
beautiful girl in the National Capital.
OF the several hundred contestants she
was designated by a board of Washing
ton artists and society leaders. as the
most beautiful young woman who had
entered the spirited competition.
In company with beauties selected
from each of the fortY-eight States.
Miss Purcell went to the San Francisco
and San Diego expositions At San
Francisco the many beauties went to a
ball. attended by prominent officials.
some Of whom acted as Judges. Miss
Purcell was declared to be the national
beauty. the prettiest girl of all those
gathered at the exposition city by rea-
son Of the nationwide beauty contest
Several OF the young women received
offers from moving picture companies
who were in search of beautiful and ac-
deaad e of Mss sneb ur ner
until long after her return to Washing
ton. She finally decided to 60 to New
York and enter the studio of a large
life Miss Purcell says: I'm cured -
and has returned to more consenial
work here.
The Washington beauty is of an ex
ceedingly modest and retiring disposi-
tiCn, and her story reveals that her
earlier fears that she would not like the
life of movie actress We're justified
In the words of the man who reDents
at leisure it's "NEVER AGAIN" for
Miss Ruth Purcell.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19
Studio Manager Her
Particular Nemesis

Another confession of Miss FurcelFs
lack of rs to SO per cent nerve" has
TO do with these JOURNEYS to the rural
districts. She says she had an under
standing that she would go to such
places in an automobile with the a.
rectors or the stars. but somehow she
was always crowded out and found her.
self in the van with the company.
A New York girl. on to the ways or
the "profesh." INDIGNANTLY told Miss
Purcell that she was foolish to hang
back.
go on up there in that automobile
where you belong; assert yourself; tell
'em where they get Off said the New
York miss. But Miss Purcell said she
wouldn't stage a controversy. and she
rode with the chorus. Somehow the
nlm companys higher ups never
seemed to be around when the promises
made to Miss Purcell were to be full.
flled-and the studio manager was
somewhat aDathetic.
Miss Purcell draws not fatterlng
picture of the studio manager, whom
she regards as her particular nemesis
in the movie game. According to MISS
Purcell. he was a "sawed-off' little fel
low, standing about so high. but with
all the austerity and hard-heartedness
of a conduering Napoleon.
He hoped about the studio on his
short legs. shouted directions here and
there. "bawled OUT the supernumer-
aries. abetted the directors in their
hurry-up methods. and made himself
generally Objectionable to one of the
retiring disposition of the Washington
healfv
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

pointed teacher In the Baden high
school at a. salary OF $500 per nnnuri
the resignation of Miss Helen ET Mid
dlcton be accepted TO. take effect De-
cember 81. that superintendent I.ugere
>. Burroughs be authorized To borrow
". .250 to pay for repairs to Surratsville
high school, and $50 for repairs to
school at Woodville.
Mrs. George w. Wilson has returned
from a visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Flogal. in Phillipsbure. Ia.
Lieut.. Thomas S, Jilinger, of the
coast guard service, is spending the
month with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
o klinger, IN Kivcrdale.
The Riverdale volunteer fire depart
ment will hold dance in the town
hal Ion January 10.
Mrs. &. o. Fountain, WHO has been
spending the month with Mrs. Il. A.
Bennett. Rivcrdale, will leave Christ.
mas for months stay with relatives
i'm Henderson, S. G.
A. c. Quiscrbcrry. OF this town. ras
been appointed an nide-de-camp on the
staff OF the go, ernor OF * !<cntucity, with
the rank OF colonel
The Washington times., 1915-12-19
Isn't Very Enthusiastic
Over Studio Life

Miss Purcell says this free advice was
offered constantly by the "supe'' she
didn't know whether to get mad or to
accept the persistent COACHING of the
"so-much-per-day' actor. One day she
heard the director address this ''supe"
about as follows;
"oh, you bonehead; ,you, imbecile-
cant Hna yOq .b.eaey ae snyhGE Miss gPsI Purcell
what to do with the advice of the vol
unteer instructor.
"Supes" are apparently quite hungry
persons at times. Miss Purcell recalls
that In staging any picture wherein
there was an eating scene. it was OK
ceedingly difficult to keep the props,
until the final picture. The props"
had a habit OF disappearing during the
preliminary rehearsalS and more food
had to be supplied.
eve had a barnynrd scene once"
said Miss purcell. "in which there was
prominently displayed barrel of
apples. The harrcll vas almost filed
laid to show Lt5ove the top. While they
were making ready for this picture the
apples kept disappearing and the !rSl"l'
would show underneath. They sent cut
and got more apples after the company
had sneaked meal from the original
lot
Miss Purcell isn't very enthusiartic
over studio life as whole. The studio
TO which she was assigned is located
in q big warehouse. none too well heat
ed. She caught cold frequently and he:
mother was in constant .ear she worl ia
contract pneumonia while fitting about
ip fiinlSy evening gowns and other cos
tunes.
Not infreuuently Miss Purcell had to
20 'out in the country" where an out
door scene was being staged: Actors,
actresses and "supes" were loaded into
big vans and taken to some rural sec
tion to put on an outdoor drama.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19
Regarded the Directors As
Hard Task Masters

Having been reared in a deeply re-
liGious family, and having spent her
early years under the influence of the
convent. Miss Purcell felt that she
didn't eft in from the day she en-
tered that studio.
She was out of harmony with the eX-
perienced actors and actresses used to
n life Of ups and downs, she regarded
the directors as hard task-masters, she
The Washington times., 1915-12-19
ALEXANDRIA HOSPITAL
|. PLAN TO Be ADOPTED
No Change Is Planned From Site
at Washington and Duke
Streets.

|. ALEXANDRIA. Dec. lo.--Tho plans.
as prepared by Architect Waddv b.
Wood. of Washington. Tor the new
Alexandria Hospital. are cxnccted to he
adopted without change for the location
at Washington and DN,ko streets. which
has been donated by Edward J.. Dainger-
field. Tho new building will front on
Duke street. The rear buildings Of the
Daingerfeld residence will he torn down
and the main building, which front on
WASHINGTON street. will be used for ad-
ninistrativc purposes and for the
nurses home.
As son ns changes are mad" i'm The
plans they will be turned over for bids
II is expected construction will be COM
mcnced as soon as the weather permits
The new building will cost tbout SjO,gH
The board OF trustees arc expected to
ontain the lots on Clumbus street whiC n
ad1oin the hospital in the rear, 80 as to
make their property run through from
washington to Columbus streets.
Robert w Adcock, ffty-eisht wears
old. died last night at the Alexandria
Hospital. He resided at 216 South Henry
street He leaves u wife and three chill
drcn-HuEh NJ. hdcock. Eeturah Ad-
COCK. and Mrs. James Il. ISoe. Funeral
arrangements have not been completed
The first handicap Of the Alexandria
Gun Club was held yesterday on the
farm of George d. Willis. Eighteen
The Washington times., 1915-12-19
EVANSVILLE.

jackson II. Ralston. Democratic can
didate for the Congressional nomina.
ton will address the Hyattsville Citi
ycns' Association meeting tomorrow
night.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

The following orders wcra passed by
the board OF school commissioners
Resignation of Miss Marguerite Bowie
as teacher in school No. 3, in Seat
Pleasant district. he accepted from re-
ccmber 81; that Miss Lettic Dent be ap
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

Funeral services for Miss Emily f..
Mehafrey will be held tomorrow at II
o'clock from the residence Of Mrs. Da-
vid J. Howell, 700 Duke street. and will
be conducted by the Rev. =. p. Phillips,
rector OF st. Pauls Episcopal Church.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

members competed and the prices were
awarded as follows: a turkey to II.
hunt Roberts, goose to Robley d.
Brumback, and a pocketknfc to Howell
Thomas The gun club has recently
had Installed traps on the Willis farm,
ana the weekly tournaments are in
crcasing In interest.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

Mrs. Hayward Douglas Euckett and
young son, of Charleston, s. c., arrived
here Friday and will spend the hoii-
days with Mrs LuCkett's mother-in-law,
Mrs. Lucy Peyton Luckett. at her home
I'm South Patrick street.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19
ROCKVILLE.

Preston u. Ray. clerk of the circuit
court. and Miss Nancy CalN ert Schuer-
mann, daughter OF Mrs. Rose Calvert
Schuermann, OF Washington, were mar
ried yesterday In st. Stephens Brlscoal
Church, the rector officiating. The
bride. who wore a ;;own OF dark blue
velvet and carried Bride roses. was at
tended bv Mrs. J. Dawson Williams. of
Kensington. as platron of honor, and
by her sister, Miss lila schuermann, of
Washington. as maid Of honor. Arthur
Peter was best man.
Mrs. Laura Virginia shaw and Burton
Stanley Rready were married yesterday
in Emory Methodist Church. Oakdalc.
by the pastor. Rev. Frank 4. Neel
Under the auspices OF the Ladies' I'M
Drovement Society OF Silver Spring.
this county. a bali will be given In tho
armory. at Silver Spring, December 81.
Mrs. Mark Shields. formerly Miss
Polly Janney. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
ly underwent an oneratiun for appendi-
cities in a Chicago hospital. She Is said
TO be on the road To recovery.
Under the direction Of Mrs. Berry T..
Clark. the fairy fantasy, The Moon
King will be presented here soon for
the benefit OF the Social Service
League.
family have closed their home, on the
I,nckyilla ,,:ka md have removed n
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

The sale of Red Cross Christmas seals
will he commenced tomorrow under the
auspices of the local branch OF the Anti.
Tuberculosis Society.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

inc Kew. o. w. Triplett. pastor of the
second Baptist Church, preached in the
First Baptist Church this morning.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Holmes and
family have closed their home, on the
Rockville Pike and have removed TO
Wa ashington for the winter.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

The Holy Name Society band has ac-
copied an invitation from Washington
Council, Knights of Columbus. to play
at u social session in Washington to-
morrow night. The members of the
band will leave here at 7 o'clock in
charge OF william DcVaughan.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19
NATIONAL BEAUTY
/ QUITS MOVIE STAGE
Miss Ruth Purcell "Cured'' by
Two Months Experience
With Supes and Managers.

Continued from Ninth Pagc)
faces at yourself Move the chair
around the room and talk to then
Stand in different poses. etc, etc.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

Aloxandria's public schools will close
Thursday and remain closed until Jan
uary j.. st. Mary's Academy. conduct
ed by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. will
close for the same period. The Episco-
pal High School closed yesterday, and
viii reopen January 4. The Virginia
Theological Seminary will close Thurs
day and remain closed until January 5.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

A meeting OF the primary branch of
the Parent-Tcachers' Association will
be held tomorrow afternoon at $3.50
o'clock in Lee School building AT the
conclusion of tho business session there
will be Christmas rccitRtions and a
musical and literary program.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

Under the auspices OF the Ladies' Im-
propement Society OF Silver Spring.
this county. a bali will be given In tho
arInory. at Silver Spring, December 81.
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

Mrs. George w. Wilson has returned
Mrs. George Flogal, in Phillipsburp, Ia
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

The first handicap OF the Alexandria
Siun Club was held yesterday on the
farm of George b. Willis. Eighteen
The Washington times., 1915-12-19

The Riverdale volunteer fire depart
ment will hold dance in the town
hal lon January 10.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
-rfom the Columbus tonio, Dispatch.

Army, retired, who served in the Civil
War, is dead at his home, I'll Corinthian
avenue. He was 80 years old. He died
Saturday after an illness of several
months. He was at one time superin-
tendent of the Cayuga Lake Military
Academy, at Aurora, N. Y. At the close
of the Civil War he was made a second
lieutenant in the United States Army and
soon after was commissioned a captain.
His widow and two children, Miss
Florence A. Bishop and William T.
Bishop, survive. Funeral services will be
held tomorrow morning from his resi-
dence. Interment will be in Arlington
Cemetery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
HIT FREIGHT TO GET
SUNDAYS HOT AIR,
WEEPS IN SAWDUST
John Keller Tells of His
Conversion-He Felt That
Billy" Was T akin g
Right Straight at Him.
By JOHN KELLER

I guess there amt many men gone to
the trouble to see and hear "Bilr' Sunday
that 1 have. hit a freight all the way
UP here from Eddystone and I'm going
back the same way, I guess. I will un-
less they throw me off, and then I'll have
to hoof it over the ties.
Why did want to hear him so bad?
Why, It's like this: Down at Baldwln's,
where work, we get the papers and 1
began reading "Bilps" preachments. I'd
been reading about him before he came,
when I got reading what he really said
1t didn't sound like hot air. 1t was
good stun. and knew he knew what he
was talking about all right
don't take much stock in this preach
er gaff as a rule. but, say, II they was
all like he is ia be at church three times
on Sunday and a prayer meeting on We'd
to get there.
Now, listeni I know what I'm talking
about when say "Bill' knows what he
talks about. I've had my knocks, all
right. 1 was born on a farm up at Wa
terford. N. Y, back in '59. My father
and mother was Episcopalians and was
booked to be the same, but couldn't see
that farm life, so 1 ran away when 1 was
16 years old.
knocked around for while getting
into lots of trouble, of course. finally end
ing up down east in Lawrence, where I
got job driving n grocery wagon. Then
l took a kind of brace when l met a
young fellow, who taught me to weave in
his mothers house. 1 was big, strong
fellow. 10 years old then.
But 1t didn't last long. I got rambling
around from one place to another and l
was slipping down pretty fast. Then 1
fell Off a horse one day and it put my
right leg on the bum. I had wanted to
join the navy, but, of course, my leg
being knocked out put that Idea out OF
the way. so 1 Just went on the way 1
was going.
hit the booze I did a lot of betting
and I gambled at cards whenever l got
the chance-there amt much 1 didn't do,
1 guess. was drifting from one place
tn another. and guess I've worked about
everywhere in the East where there is
iron works. But the booze was the worst
of all. look like was 20 years old and
I'm only So, and pretty well shot, at that.
Do 1 know wnat I'm talking about
when I say "Bill'' has the right dope?
You bet your life dol When he was
preaching up there 1t seemed as though
he was looking and talking right at me
every minute, and maybe it didn't make
me ashamed of myself! 1 was crying
before knew it, and was mighty glad
when he gave US sinners a chance to
come up front and say we was going to
quit the old game and be Christians
got right down there in the sawdust and
prayed-the first time in 10 years-and
I'm not ashamed that did it, either.
] don't know as L know much about
being Christian. but I'm going to do
my best and "Blli' says that's the most
God expects OF anybody.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
ETERNAL HELL A CHRISTIAN
DREAM" SAYS UNITARIAN
Theory Used to Terdfy Sinners, the
Rev. A. r.. Hussey Declares.

Theory Used to Terlify Sinners, the
Rev. A. r., Hussey Declares.
The Day Of judgment and the theory
Of eternal punishment in hell are early
christian dreams utilized to terrify
people into leading good lives according
to the Rev. Alfred r. Hussey of Balti-
more, who believes with the Unitarian
denomination that sinners experience
hell on earth" Tho Rev. Mr.. Hussey
delivered a sermon on THE Unitarian
Thought Of Hell" last night to the con-
greRation of the Germantown Unitarian
Church. The address was one Of a series
to be given through the week to Offset
the doctrines being promulgated by
BILLY Sunday" who holds to the old be-
liefs.
For the modern thinker" declared the
speaker, "the ancient Christian dream of
Day of Judgment has lost all OF its
former terror. 1t is now recognized as a
part Of the old church machinery and n
part OF the theology Of older days.
I'VE have learned TO regard life not as
part secular and part sacred, but as all
sacred, entirely holy. potentially divine,
wherein there is nothing and nobody in
curably evil and inherently clean. The
belief In a future judgment produces an
attitude of mind which becomes n frantic
groveling at the feet of a capricious, an
CRY Deity. 1t tends to create religious
freaks and slaves. The liberal sees that
judgment is a present fact"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
ap111Yn SUNDAY HELPS P. R. T.

The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany's earnings will show a substantial
increase. in the opinion of several of the
offieials OF the company, as the result of
the "Billy" Sunday meetings at 18th and
Vine streets. 1t was declared yesterday
that the gross receipts Of the company
were now running close to 5000 day
ahead OF the receipts OF the same period
last year.
It 10 estimated that in the entire cam
paign the company will show gains of up-
ward Of s125.OO0. From 1900 to 10000 ad-
altionAl passengers are carried daily.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
SAMUEL M. zAcHARIAs

Samuel NJ. zacharias. IA years old, who
died Sunday night at his home, 361S
Hamilton street, was for 30 years super
intendent of vaults of the Guarantee
Trust and Safe Deposit Company. Mr.,
Zacharlas was born in Llngletown,
Dauphin County, and was graduated
from the Philadelphia College of Phar-
macy in 1863. That year he Joined the
Union Army, serving with the Sixth
Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. Fol-
lowing this he entered the grain business
with his father, and later was appointed
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for
Juniata, Mlfflin and Snyder Counties.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
Deaths

ABOLIANCE. - GERTRUDE ABOLIANCE.
14O0 South 9th st.
ANDRE.-In Doylestown. Pa. on Sunday.
January "a, 1915 MARY ALICE, wife OF
John r. Andre and daughter OF DR.. and Mrs.
John V. Allen. Relatives and friends are In
morning. January 2s. at o'clock. from her
late residence. Requiem Mass at Our Lady OF
Mt Carmel Church at 10 o'clock. lnterment
at adjoining cemetery. Carriages will meet
train leaving Reading Terminal at Z 80 a. m.
at Doylestown.
ANTHONY.-At Edgewater Park, N. j.. on
January 20, 1915 ISABEL. wife Of Harry l..
Anthony. Funeral from her late residence.
Wood Wood Lang Edgewater Park: on ThuEsday'
Evergreen Cemetery. Camden.
ARNOLD.--on January 25, 1918. ANNA
barbara. widow OF John G, Arnold.
Funeral services Thursday. at IL a. m,
at her late residence, bli8 Germantown ave,
Germantown. Interment private.
ATKINSON.-At Collingswood. N. j., on
January 20, at GAL Stokes ave, II. F. q.
p m. at the residence OF his son-in-law
Thomas w. Jack, o20 Haddon ave, Ceilings
wood. y. ]. Interment private. West laurel
BAKDER.@on January 25. 1915. PHILIP,
husband of Lena Baeder. Funeral services
on Friday at D. m. at HIS late residence
so West LehlEh ave. lnterment private, at
Mt Vernon Cemetery.
BANNING.-MARIA BANNING. 14oe South
Water ST.
8. BISHOP. Major u. 8. A.. retired. Ai. Fu-
neral services. Wednesday, 8 D. m, from
terment at Arlington Cemetery, Va.
BOWKER.-on January 20, 1915. ELIZA
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
FRANK E. MARsHAL1

Frank e. Marshall secretary of the
North American Grain Export Associa-
tion and former secretary of the Com
mercial Exchange, died at his home. 643S
Wayne avenue, Germantown, this morn
ing after brief illness from pneumonia.
Mr.. Marshall was born in Mobile Ala,
81 years ago, and came to Philadelphia
when a young man. He was a grain
broker for many years. During his life
he accumulated what is regarded as one
of the finest and largest collections of
antiques in the country, and was known
as a connoisseur in literature and art. He
is survived by his widow and his mother.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
HARRY F. ToRcHIANA

Harry f. Torchiana, for many years
secretary and general manager of the C.
E. Howe Company, publishers of direc-
tories, will be buried Thursday morning,
from his home in Sharon Hill. He was
IS years old, and succumbed Saturday to
an attack of heart disease. Mr.. Torch
lana was born in this city and received
his early education in public and German
schools. He was affiliated with the Howe
Company for 15 years, where his brother.
William G.. Torchiana, Is president and
treasurer. He was n member of the
Sharon Hill Board of Health and the
knights of Columbus. A widow and
seven children survive.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-26
WAR RELIEF FUNDS NEEDED
$4,000 Not Sufficient to Stock shil
for Belgians.

More than $4,000 has been received by
the Belgian Relief Committee to be used
In stocking the relief ship which is ex-
pected to load at Philadelphia this week.
Much more money will be needed for the
third expedition of mercy which will be
sent out from this port and the COM
mittee in charge is hard at work in the
hope Of realizing sutncient funds to load
the ship promptly
The work OF the Home Division of Re-
lief of the Emergency Aid has virtually
come to a standstill. In spite of the re-
doubled efforts of those who have been
working in the interests of this feature
of the charity there are not sufficient
funds to carry on the project