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HE theaters presented no
temptations to erudite effort
in the way OF commentary.
Washington is a big town
now, and its entertainment
considers the needs of the tired business
man and the tired business woman. too'
with truly metropolitan solicitude.
"oyer the Top" is of the distinctive type
considered infallible for the cure or
business cares. But the little 3oy-gfri
PolIyana carries a message of optimism
that has been found no less soothing
and satisfactory than the vast aggre-
CATION of music, beauty, comedy cos
tunes and scenery that make up What
is called a revue. Another production
which maintains the contention that the
drama, even when musicless. may be
gloom dispeiler will be offered when
THE Country Cousin" which had Its
Introductory performances in this city.
opens its engagement at the New Ma
tionai next Monday night.
q y *
The Sunday openings Of the regular
weekly attractions are not to be aban-
doned. The Rappold concert booked In
advance OF the new program prevented
Its DelnS carried out
performances are no innovation, the
fact being that it is difficult to provide
Cor regular schedule of openings on
eat day owing to the previous arrange
ments for concerts, lectures and the
like
A real innovation will be the series of
extended engagements contemplated by
the Beiasco, beginning with over the
Top" Manager Taylor is of the opinion
that the policy will be established sys-
tematically and successfully, basing
his belief on the demand for seats that
came in for "Over the Top" as soon as
it became known. that the big show was
to remain another week. Attractions
have played here two weeks in seasons
when the Capital city was less popu-
lous than now. among them Ben Hur,"
'The Merry Widow" and quite recent
ly Experience" Another evidence of
Washington's metropolitan develop
ment is the demand for Saturday night
seats, as in the great commercial GEN.
ters. Formerly Saturday night was
looked forward to by managers for the
lightest business of the week.
Interest in the lighter forms of en-
tertainment has not developed at the
expense of the more studious and artis-
tic offerings. The concerts, both vocal
and orchestral, have been numerous and
of peculiarly high character. The
lecturer, too, has found earnest atten-
tion even when his discourse did not
relate to the topic of all topics. the
war.
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cal songs. and Mollie King. singing
and character comedienne. will head
the B. F. Keith Theater bill next week.
three shows, at 2:15, 5:15 and s:15 pm.
Both headline attractions have been
recently acquired from the screen
realm. Other acts will be Homer Ma
son, Marguerite Keeler and company
in Marriage. Porter Emerson
Browne comedy; the Cameron sisters.
with fresh repertoire of dances and
songs; Joe Jackson. grotesque come
dian; Bert Fitzgibbon, eccentric mono
logist; Nine. Cronin's Electrical Novel;
ty and Rose and Moon, song and dance
specialiStS
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LYCEUM

'-The Gay Paree Girls" is the attrac-
ton at the Lyceum Theater for the cur
rent week. 1t has been staged in six
scenes and two acts, and introduces
two oId-time burlesquers, Roy Beverly
and Clarence Maurer. Gus Mortimer
and Clarence Stratton are the principal
com edians, and Harry Levine. Queenie
Powers, Lottie Gibson and Loretta Gail
are others leading the cast The OPEN
ing burlesque is laid at the Hotel de
Paris with a view of Paris in the dis
tance. The scene later shifts to the
Klondike, where complications follow
Quick and fast. A big ginger chorus of
twenty-four will be seen and heard in
new songs and dances.
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"The Rainbow Girl. !"

"The Rainbow Girl" a musical com-
edy, will be presented by K1aw & Err
LANCER at the National Theater next
week. 1t has been adapted from Je-
rome K. Jerome's Fanny and the
Servant Problem" which made big
hit when it was produced in London
and again when it was done in New
York under the title Of THE New Lady
Bantock."
The heroine Of the story is a musical
comedy prima donna who marries .
scion of the nobility. and when she ar
rives at her husbands ancestral home
finds herself confronted by q butler
who is her uncle and an entire stan
Of servants who are her cousins. The
play then goes on to tell how she gets
away with it. Louis A. Hirsch has
written some Of HIS most tuneful music
for it and Joseph Urban made the
scenery. Beth Lydy plays the title
role. the bride to whom it all happens
Others in the big cast are Billy 3. Van,
Sydney Greenstreet. Jack Henderson,
Harry Deli, Marguerite Haney. Robert
Pitkin. Leonora Novasio. Jane Buroy,
Dore Plowden. Calire Greenville. Fred
erick Solomon. Margaret Merriman,
Catherine Lindley and William CLIFTON.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter de Haven.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter de Haven, in
exclusive society, romance and topl-
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Leader.

George Walsh. the popular screen
star. will be pictured at the Leader to-
day and all this week in Jack Spur
lock-Prodigal,' an adaptation from
George Horace Lorimer's magazine
underlying the fun is stratum of horse
sense philosophy. The story reveals
that it is easier to buy bear than to
get rid of one, and a 400-pound Alas
kan bear is one of its noticeable char
acters.
Young Spurlock, who bought him
gets into more scraps than usually
fall to the lot of a young man, but
manages not only to get out of them
safely. but has bushels of fun doing 1t
A Fox Sunshine Comedy will also be
shown.
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Corn Cob Cutups,"

The Cosmos Theater next week will
adopt an "act mirthful" as it's head
line attraction in what is called the
Corn Cob Cutups," eight men in min
strelsy and rube comedy. Other acts
are Ell Gotta, ragtime xylophonist; the
Avalos in musical number; Nor
ris Freeman and company in mo Chill
dren Allowed; Alice Cole, singer; Will
and Kemp, acrobatic offering, and Kane
and Wagner. "dippy harmonists." The
Paramount-Artcraft photoplay will pic
ture William s. Hart in evolves of the
Rail"
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secured a remarkable group of historic
scenes. Exclusive motion pictures and
gorgeous color views also will show
the busy street life of Porto Rico's
capital. San Juan; basket and drawn
work industry, lace and hat makers, the
market place at Charlottee Amalie.
blowing and cutting sugar cane, the
worlds second largest sugar mill.
teaching useful arts, village and city
school life, quaint types. Alexander
Hamilton's birthplace and home picking
tobacco under cheesecloth, Bluebeard
and ackbeard's castles and all the at
tractive sights of interest.
Those holding tickets for the night
lecture can have them exchanged for
the afternoon
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Crandall's Apollo.

Marguerite Clark. pictured in ''The
Seven Swans" will be the photoplay at
traction at Crandalrs Apollo today and
tomorrow; Wednesday. Charles Ray
will be pictured in His Aother's Boy;
Thursday. Harold Lockwood. in '"The
Avenging Trail: Friday, Jack Picks
ford. in The Spirit of H." and Satur-
day, Elsie Ferguson, in Rose of tha
World and Polly Moran, in the Key
stone comedy, Tanning Target Center.s
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"The Ginger Bread Man."

1.-THE Ginger Bread Man." one of the
successful musical comedies. will be the
attraction at Polls next week
The personnel of the musical comedy
players at the Avenue playhouse lends
itself admirably to this production.
Both in scenery and costumes the
production will be made in accordance
with the fantastic dreams that are the
basis for the comedy. The settings of
the Sugar Plum Palace and the Nursery
Rhyme Factory are especially eiabo-
rate,
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ginning sunday night, February II.
Three matinees Will be given during
the week
In accordance with precedent the new
entertainment opens here directly fol-
lowing a Deven-month run on Broad.
way.
The cast includes Dewolf Hopper,
Charles (Chic) Sale. Johnny Dooley,
Henry Berrman, Rosie Quinn, Emily
Miles. Miller and Mack, Earl Higiey.
Claude Aller, william Singer. George
A. Schiller. Helen Darlington. Grace
Hall, Bessie Hohan. Mac McDermott,
Agnes Hall, Betty Touratne and the
Winter Garden chorus.
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Moore's Garden.

At Moore's Garden Theater. today and
tomorrow. will be shown THE Gun
Woman" new idea in western photos
plays. in which Texas Guinan Is picI
tured as female William S. Hart
two-gun woman known as the
"Tigress," who operates the Devils
Kitchen dance hall in the town Of La
Mesa. 1t is picturesque role and AZ
fords opportunity for Miss Guinan to
blaze new trails along a way that has
not heretofore been followed by the
INT Iad N
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Crandall's Savoy.

The Seven swans. fairy storJt
featuring Marguerite Clark. win be
shown at crandalrs Savoy today and
tomorrow. 1t is the story Of the mis-.
chievous Princess Tweedledee. who re.
fuses to marry Prince Peterkin, as
planned by his designing mother. In
revenge, the latter seeks the aid of a
witch. who transforms the princess'
seven brothers into swans. She finally
rescues them with the aid of the fairies.
Wednesday, Dorothy Dalton. will be
pictured in Love Letters; Thursday,
Kitty Gordon, in The Divine Sacri-
fice"; Friday, Mae Marsh. in Fields of
Honor: Saturday. Harold Lockwood, in
The Avenging TraiI,". and Roscoe
fFatty'D Arbuckle, in ''Out West"
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Arcade.

The feature attraction at the Arcade
this week will be grand spotlight
dance and carnival Wednesday even
ing; Thursday, a valentine party, with
souvenir valentine to every one. The
night will also be celebrated with con-
fetti. noise-makers and brilliant deco
rations to lend a Mardi Gras atmos.
pliers 70 the occssions .1
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"The Passing Show of 1917"

With a remarkable cast of popular
comedians. a wealth Of elaborate and
dazzling stage embellishment. battal-
ions of chorus beauties in endless array
Of lavish and variegated costumes, and
with more spectacular scenic surprises
than ever before, 'The Passing Show
of 1917" the sixth and most preten-
tious Of the New York Winter Gardens
series Of annual revues, IL announced,
for the 11lesco. Thsater nest week. sbe-l
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Crandall's.

Love Letters photo drama OF
mystery, will be shown at Crandalfs
today and tomorrow. In it Dorothy
Dalton is pictured as girl who falls
under the influence of a teacher of East
Indian cults. and later marries her
guardian, supposing the other man has
gone out of her life. He returns, how
ever, with certain indiscreet letters she
had written him years before. is found
murdered in his rooms and evidence
seems to point to the young wife as
the guilty party Rose of the World"
from the play by Agnes and Edgerton
Castle, will be shown Wednesday and
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Alma Gluck, February %.

Alma Gluck, the noted soprano, will
be heard in recital at the National The |
ater, Thursday, February 20. at 4:3e
pm. Alma Gluck last year achieved a
series Of triumphs rarely approached |
by concert celebrities. It Is estimated
that at least 100000 people heard the
famed soprano.
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Private Peat. February "a.

Private Peat will make his first ap-
pearance at the Belasco Theater Sun
day night. February "a. This young
Canadian was one OF the first to re-
spond to the call for volunteers. hav-
ing enlisted in August, 1914. He went
through the early days of the war.
and for two years managed to hold his
place in the line. Although wounded at
last, he has come out of the war with a
smile and spirit of optimism that Is
worth meeting. Private Peats talk
will deal somewhat with his own ex-
periences in the war and partly with
its effect on the people who go into it.
Evening star., 1918-02-10
Newman's Concluding Talk Today.

In "west Indies" Newmans fifth and
last traveltalk this season. at the Be-
lasco Theater this afternoon only at 8
o'clock. for there will be no lecture, at
night, will be presented the salient
characteristics of today's daily life in
Porto Rico, Santa Cruz and the new
American possessions, the Virgin Is
lands. An unusual feature will be a
motion picture record-Vthe only one in
existence-of the ceEAmonies Of the
transfer Of the islands to the United
States. Newman went personally whAn
the transfer was made ~. Denmark ma
Evening star., 1918-02-10
Modern Musketeer," will be provided at
tha Casunas Thea fer this week

Modern Musketeer," will be provided at
the Cosmos Theater this week.
The vaudeville will be headed by Lo-
nos. Hawaiians in a reflection of old
Hawaii in songs, dances and instru-
mental numbers. 1t will be handsomely
staged and present some beautiful elec-
trical effects. Dorothy Burton's COM
pany will present THE Real Thing; the
six Imps and Girl" an odd combina-
tion of music and specially; the Rialto-
songs and comedy. and Mullen and
Rogers, an acrobatic comedy. Other
acts include Charles Reilly. an Irish
laughmaker, and Nadel and Toilette, in
songs, dances and snappy dialogue.
"A Modern Musketeer'' will be shown
only at 1:15 and 4:45 pm. daily from
Monday to Saturday. except on Tuesday.
when the theater will be closed.
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Sam Howe's Show.

Sam Howe's Big Show" a popular
organization with burlesque fans. will
be the attraction next week at the
Gayety. This years production is new
in every department. The revue is de-
clared bigger. brighter and better than
ever. A two-act musical fantasy is an
nounced, entitled "a Wife in Every
Port" with a galaxy of vaudeville acts
which are presented during its progress
The company includes Sam Howe, Snitz
Moore, Billie Hill, Helen .Tarr. Sylvia
Brody, jeanette Cobet, David Jameson.
Dick Vanderbilt, Will Adams, Lew Har-
ris, Tom Packard and Chester Weeks,
with typical Howe chorus OF twenty.
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Breeskin-Macbeth Recital.

Elias Breeskin, violinist, and Florence
Macbeth. soprano Of the Chicago
Opera Company, will be heard in joint
recital Thursday afternoon. at 4:30
o'clock, at the National Theater. The
program follows: Symphonic Espag-
nole." allegro moderate. andante. rondo
IAalo), Elias Breeskin: aria, "Ariette,"
from Jean de Nievelle" (Delibes),
Florence Macbeth; AVE Maria" (Schu-
bert -WilhemD. Alabama" (Albert
Spalding). Caprice ,Espagnole" (Ket-
ten-Loeff1er), Elias Breeskin; Care
Selve" CHandeD, "Ariette" (Vidall,
"Montanina" (Buzzi-Peccia). Mid
summer Lullaby" (MacDowel), Moon
snsstarigh Nn 9t Flo1snSe
"Menuett" (PaderewskD, "Moto Per-
petuo' (NoVacekl, Elias Breeskin.
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at Polls this week, beginning with a
matinee tomorrow afternoon. when "a
Hawaiian Follie,'' spirited musical
melange in two acts. showing the Carl
bella and American hotels in Honolulu,
will be presented.
The production will be enhanced by
a group of Hawaiians secured in New
York. They are expert in that brand
of entertainment peculiar to the sunny
Pacific isles. Their specialties will in
clude songs. dances and instrumental
numbers. An original conception Of the
hula hula dance is promised.
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Voice Production-Speakin Of the
concert singer recently, Nine. Marie
Rappold. who will appear tonight at
the National Theater. had this to say:
II think when singers are judged on
the concert stage they should be Judged
as nearly az possible from the stand
point Of voice production. Tbs stage
eetting o9ery no dtstractions: the Ac-
VContinned % Seventh PAgs]
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Coming Attractions
Frieda Hemnel Fehruarv 21.

opera star, will be heard in recital at
the National Theater Thursday after.
noon. February a. For the past iivs
years Frieda Hempei has been the lsad-
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Howard.
MARIE RkPPOlD
CONCERT

The well known play, Common Clay"
will be presented at the Howard Theater
all this week. beginning tomorrow even
ing. with matinees Thursday and Satur-
day. by company including Abbie Mitch
ell. Inez Clough, Susie Sutton, Alice Cor
gas, Tom Brown. Charles Olden, Babe
Townsend and ]. F. Moore. The thea
ter will be closed Tuesday.
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Photoplay Features

Thursday with Elsie EerguSua 49,
tured. Many of its scenes are laid IN
India Mrs. Danes Defense" adApkod
from ths play by Henry Arthur Jones'
Will Be shown Friday and Saturday.
with Pauline Frederick featured.
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POLI'S.

Transpianting the American idea of
the musical revue to Hawaii for three
zePxszts the program to be launched
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Eddy Brown, Violinist, Friday.

The eighth concert of the Ten Star
series will be given at the National
Theater Friday at 4:3o pm. Eddy
Brown, the young violinist, who Walter
Damrosch says "is destined to be one of
the two or three greatest violinists of
the world" will be the artist. Eddy
having appeared here in a joint recital
last season. His program follows: $50
nata in G major" adagio cantabile. al
legro. presto assai, Tartini; Concerto"
allegro motto adagio, allegro subito,
J. Conus; "Ciacona," Bach; "Gavotte,"
Bach; "Rondino." mer-Brown; "Gui-
tar" Moskowsky: "Orientale," Cui;
"Rondo Papageno," Ernst.
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ing lyric soprano of the Metropolitan.
Her personal beauty is matched by a
voice Of exquisite texture and brill
liancy. Its lyric quality is declared
1aWlesS.
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COSMOS.

A seven-act bill. supplemented with
the Paramount-Artcraftf feature photo
play picturing Douglas Fairbanks in a
Evening star., 1918-02-10

rpANnAI1'G American. Ist q n. Z.
(i-fAlSOhAA ~ ToDAY-3 TO IL Pm
wM S. HART. in THE SILENT MAN."
TOMORROw-MkRY ANDERSON, in
MARRIAGE SPECULATION"
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Mr.. and Mrs. Carter de Haven.

Mr.. and Mrs. Carter de Haven, In
exclusive society. romance and topi-
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CIRCLE :Ios Pa. ave; Phone ": sSs.
..SHIRIEY KAYE" Also West" Comedy.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

CONTINUED on Seventh Pa
Evening star., 1918-04-29
HUNS MADE NERVOUS
BY ENORMOUS LOSSES
BY the Associated Press,

ny the Associated Press.
LONDON, April Is. to Reuter- Ottawa
Agency.-A telegram from Reuters COR
respondent at Amsterdam says:
Extraordinary nervousness and de-
preston prevail in Germany owing to tho
losses in the western offensive. revealed
with remarkable frankness in an article
by Capt. Won Salzmann in the vossische
Zeitung. in which he endeavors to restore
their lost confidence to the Germans by
ture Of KENNEL hill
Capt. Won Salzmann enumerates a few
Of the series Of rumors current in Ger
many. All of these stories are prefaced
by the remark. In the reichstag 1t is said
and go on to say:
"'Our losses have been enormous. The
offensive in the west has arrived at a
deadlock. The enemy is much stronger
than the supreme command assumed. We
are unable to continue the offensive owing
to lack OF horses. The region before
fpres is great lake. and, therefore, i'm
passable. The whole country between our
Amiens front and Paris is mined and will
be blown up
The people. continues Salzmann. have
begun to lose their nerve. Replying in
the reichstag. the minister of war said
something like this:
1T goes without saying that there are
big losses in such a struggle. Our losses
in one part of the front have been very
heavy. Two-thirds Of the company lead
ers in many regiments have fallen
1T is said that a certain deputy there
upon told his electors in a north German
town: The minister of war has openly
declared our losses to be so heavy that
the offensive must be abandoned"
664, 1O4 Germans Missing.
AMSTERDAM, Saturday, April 27-
Speaking before the main committee Of
Evening star., 1918-04-29
RECORD TRIP IN AIRPLANE.
Gen. Kenly, Head Of Aeronautics,
Flies From Washington to Mineola.

MINEOLA. N. Y, April 29.-Brig.
Gen. William l. Kenly, the newly ap-
pointed clr1ef of the division Of aero
nautics. who has been visiting various
aviation camps by airplane, in order
to familiarize himself with conditions
at the training centers. and to test the
flying powers Of different machines,
landed here yesterday, with three COM
panions, after a nonstop fight from
Washington. He made the trip in a
powerful Italian biplane. which has
been scattering liberty loan literature
recently over New York, Philadelphia
and Washington. With the general
was his son, Capt. Silvio Resnati of
the italian Flying Corps. the pilot. and
Capt. Hugh DAnnunzio, reserve pilot.
The trip was made. against a head
wind. in three and one-quarter hours.
which is said to be a record for the
distance.
Evening star., 1918-04-29
SHRAPNEL
Sidelights on the War
-BY-
OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
Bertha Krupp, the cannon queen of Ger

Bertha Krupp. the cannon queen OF Ger
many. who presides over the trials Of
workers accused of betraying secrets of
the plant. has stereotyped sentence for
each victim. 1t has been revealed by a
secret service man who penetrated the
innermost secrets Of the Krupp plant be-
fore the war. The sentence follows:
''Blank-Blank." she says. you have
been found guilty Of treachery against our
sovereign lord the emperor.
you have betrayed Krupp's for gold.
ITO betray Krupp's is to betray the
fatherland. For the might of our empire
Is symbolized in Krupp's. Wine, woman
and song, and greed may have caused you
to have taken this step, as these things
have caused many another to stand in
that dock before me. Treachery to our
cause never goes undetected. 1t is bound
to be found out. Pity you did not realize
this before. krupp's Is a law
unto itself.
by charter granted by his imperial
majesty, my late father. the founder of
this great firm. had power to try and
sentence in this chamber those of his
workpeople suspected Of being spies. When
my father died and ! succeeded him as
head OF this concern that power was vest
Evening star., 1918-04-29
"Pershing Hob-Nailed Shoe, Next.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. J.. April ga
new style of footwear recommended by
Gen. John ]. Pershing for the American
e1peditionary force will be known as
the "Pershing hob-nailed SHOE" ac-
cording to an announcement made here
by committee representing the Ma
tiona1 Tanners Association and the
American Leather Association. The
Ahoes now worn by United States
troops do not stand up well, because
the stitched sole falls off when the
threads rot. The new shoe with which
Cen Pershing has been experimenting
for several months will have a heavier
sole, attached with nails
Evening star., 1918-04-29

Who has noticed tn feller with
his windshield plastered with food
conservation cards who parks in
front o TIL market an lays in a
Sunday dinner big enough t feed
an opery company?
It's now warm enough fer tn
girls t uncover Their ears.
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the German reichstag Friday. according
to Vorwaerts Gen. Won Risberg stated
that on March 81 last the number OF
German missing had reached a total OF
664.l04. OF this number. he raid. 1885,.
England, 49,, 900 in Russia and Rumania
and the remainder could be regarded aS
dead
Evening star., 1918-04-29

kaiser. Under it l sentence you to death
death by shooting at dawn tomorrow"
David Lloyd George receives a salary of
5.000 pounds year as first lord of the
treasury, but he gets nothing for his
services as premier Of England.
All the styles and dress fancies copied
earlier in the war from Russia by the
women of England no longer are in vogue.
There has been a slump in things Rus
sian in all entente countries.
When soldier emerges from long stay
In the front line trenches he seems doubly
gay and happy-go-lucky. Escape from
Out there in France where. in the heat
OF battle, mems souls. are tried, where
army life abounds with trials and tribula-
enemy arouse the red blood of real men,
there is much old fashioned "cussing''
according to soldier who has returned
from France. He said:
Some people perhaps imagine that the
army out there is without blemish and
that no word beyond a damn is ever
uttered. l don't like to disillusion these
gentle folk: but, as in times past, our
soldiers are still using pretty strong oaths,
and frequently, too. There is not SOL
fess that he does not use very forcible
language at times-language which each
confesses he never used at home"
Queer sensations of the men in charge
of the kite balloons operated to detect the
presence Of German submarines are many
When a wild gale is blowing it always
makes the novice in balloon feel that
he is going to be thrown over the sides
Of the car. A pilot reassuring one youth
said
You can't fall out. Ever seen a pail
filed with water swung around without
losing a drop? We are like that water.
The swing sends US to the bottom of the
car instead of pitching us over the side