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had three "headliners" on In the vaudeville houses. bis big act Tempt ation," with Kaliz, at the Palace; Ernestine Myers and company at Shubert's Forty-fourth street thea tre. and Marion Saki and company at the Jefferson.
 Almost equal to Avery Hopwood, who broke all records by having five shows playing in New York at one time.
 Outside our window at the Wander bile l heard a hurdy-g gurdy one bright, sunshiny worning playing for dear life, Tn the Good old Summer Time"
 It was the Swan Song" of the "Hurdy- Gurdy' last note of sum- mer.
 Alasi
 William Faversham. Lawrence Grossmith and Violet Kemble Cooper (you remember she played "The Duchess" to John Barrymore's Gwym- plane t'The clown") in Michael Stranges Clair de Lune') in ''Th'
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What time did you come in last night. young lady ?" The father of the family pointed an accusing finger at his Flapper daughter as she joined her brother at the Sunday morning breakfast table.
 panty.
 Did she what?" asked the father turning on him
 Did she come in last nightT he grinned, Tor was it this morning ?"
 That Is exactly what l am trying to find out. Father turned on the Flapper. What time did you get in. young lady?v
 Really, father" replied the Flap per- buttering her toast. T did not particularly listen to the ctacoo-coo.
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PARCEL POSTS GROWTH rom The Nations Business.

The growth of the parcel post since it's establishment in 1913 has been enormous. The estimated total mum Der of parcels carried has Increased. in round numbers. from 332. .000, ,000 in 1913. to over 2.500. 100000 in 1881. With this increase in the number of parcels. there has also been de- cided increase in the size and weight of parcels. It Is now the nreatest express facility in the world. One can well Imagine how such a growth
 would affect the mail service. with it's facilities never quite adequate and
 almost at standstill during the pc
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is rot nice for so young girl to be out sc late. Think about it bit"
 Lucy" said her mother. Your father Is right"
 'Yes. mother" said Lucy. "he Is not only nice but he is a dear big dun- derhead."
 What did you say. young lady?" he was indignant again.
 Pardon me, pops. for calling you what you really are. It does hurt, doesn't it 2' she> grinned at him.
 But you are making the mistake common to your sex. You are appeal ing to woman's reason, forgetting that women do not reason. They do not think. they feel. They do not reason, they have mental reactions like when you hit your shinbone your foot flies out.'
 'T never reasoned myself into trouble or out of 1t in my life. Just az a bat files around pitch dark
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habitants" of the various rest room< on the mezzanine promenade will un- doubtedly attract attention. The 'tr- habitants" of the foyer include live parrot, a monkey, several live ca naries, and as many canaries in pro- celain. The latter are housed in gold cages. as well as their live members, while the parrot and monkey are ex- pected to have the freedom of the theatre.
 A sunken electrical display foun- tain in the main foyer is one of the features. It was necessary to use the same fixtures for the installation of this fountain as used in submarines as all lights are submerged.
 Louis Xv furniture adorns the or chestra rest room. of antique gold. upholstered in black and gold silk. The walls have been treated also in black and gold silk, while large Aubusson rug covers the floor. Dell icate green silk covers the<walls of a second ladies' rest room. while the furniture is the Louis XVI period, up- holstered in green and ivory bro- cade. The smoking room has Francis period furpiture and huge stone mantle.
 Weighing more than 2,O00 pounds and heavily incrusted with crystals. the oval dome ip the main ceiling is a thing of beauty. It represents g sunburst, and the crystals are sur rounded by bands of coffers with rosettes which hang down in for rec ognition through the unusual Hum ination of the orchestra pit. A boomerang system has been employed which throws the rays of nine spot lamps from the sounding board in the ceiling on the musicians. There is a second smoking room. fashioned af- ter the old tap rooms. A new type of fan resembling an aeroplane is an attraction in this quarter.
 The afternoon Mrs. Kettig and
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riod of the war. As result of this condition. serious consideration must be given to providing additional buIid- ings in the leading postal centers for the specific purpose of handling par eel post packages.
 In order to prevent any delay to other classes of mall. such as let- ters, 1t has been suggested that par eel post be handled separately from other classes of mail in the congested cities and on certain congested trans portation routes. This involves great expenditures of money for buildings and equipment, and with the great burden of debt on the government. which must be considered. the solu- ton of this particular problem be- comes doubly difficult. It is being approached. however. from every an- gle. and it is proposed. as rapidly as possible, to meet these conditions without too great q tax upon the public treasury.
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room and never hits the chandelier so a woman goes through the world just feeling things rather than req soning them out"
 "But." cautioned her father. 'you cannot depend on your instinct -
 That's where you are mistaken" said the Flapper emphatically. There never was woman who didn't know when she was doing right or wrong long before she did it."
 There never was woman who did not know whether a man was safe or dangerous before she had talked to him 10 minutes"
 'If was the devil and wanted to catch woman I would set q moon or eet-smeliing flower or beau tiful picture or. better yet, a piece Of sobful sympath music for a bait. Yet the only time 1 was ever tempt- ' ed in my life was saved by a big
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Duke at their beautiful Fifth avenue home.
 The palatial house which stands at the corner of Fifth avenue and Eighty-ninth street commands a wonderful view of Central park and Is Ideally located in the most attrac- tive part of the great city.
 Informal, sweet. cordial, always Mir. and Mrs. Duke appear nowhere to more attractive advantage than in their own beautiful home. where their old time southern cordiality and hospitality is gracefully dispensed and their southern friends are never forgotten by them. but always re- ceived with delight
 MT. and Mrs Duke had only re- gently returned when I saw them from a visit to their lovely daughter, Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Riddle, Jr., at her home at Irvington- on the- Hudson. where she and her handsome husband and their two lovely chill dren live during the summer months.
 Mir and Mrs. Duke are always in- terested in everything pertaining to the south and it's growth and ask af- fectionately after old friends both in Alabama and their native state, North Carolina, especially of Mrs. Adelaide Murphy of Greensboro, Ala, the lovely mother of our own Capt. Matt H. Murphy, of whom they are very fond.
 Reverting to the plays now on the boards in New York, one of the most charming things I saw was beautiful Marjorie Rambeau in Zoe Akins' play. "Daddy's Gone Hunting" with Lee Baker. who is pleasantly remem- bered here with "On Trial"
 Marjorie Rambeau as Edith Fields" gives an exquisite perform ance finely modulated eloquent with out excess and back of it all Zoe Akins. the wonderful playwright with him. He rolled away and I would like pops to please let me have the rotogravure section of the pa- per"
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charm a bird out of bush. He could tell you that he loved you and make hot and cold chills follow each. other.
 He used to tell me that I could reform him and that to dance with me was like wa1tzing in sun n-flecked forests and all that sort of thing.
 Pops. 1 guess he had looked you up in Bradstreet. for he wanted me to elope with him, He was leaning over the table trying to get my hand at the time. I do not know whether the band played Tramuerei. Mendels- sohn's Spring Song or the Hoffman Barcarole. It was something of that sort. and began to get sentimental. when l suddenly saw him as he was."
 But what did you say?" asked her mother anxiously.
 "Oh. l told him l had made a bet could make him propose in 10 days and that I had won the bet, and asked him to park himself in some other parlor now that l was bored
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fiddle" The Flapper laughed at the anxious expression on the faces of her parents.
 There Is something about one of those cello fiddlers that shake a woman way down inside where she lives. The old guys who play those overgrown fiddles in an orchestra don't cut any more figure than a one legged soldier at ball. They just sort of chink in the cracks in the music with a gum. gum, zoom, but when they turn one loose on solo he certainly burns up the track.
 T met sharp-faced chap at q dance one night, never mind his name. He was gray at the temples, had . languid movie william air about him and he. sure could wear clothes. knew he was a younge lizard and would not assay 10 cents to the ton in real he-man stuff. but that John had line of chatter that would
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Silver Fox" presented one of the best plays l saw in New York.
 loved Lawrence Grossmith's clever line when he said:
 T wish could invent some prep aration which would keep womans nose looking like a marshmallow, so wouldn't have to always be waiting for her to powder it."
 One of the joys of my visits to New York was hearing the great color atura singer Amelita Galli-Curci in concert, whom Birmingham people will hear when the "All-Star Con- certs'' presents her here for the first time this season.
 Like the renowned tenor John Me- Cormack, Galli-Curci is one of the few living artiss who can pack the vast Hippodrome and turn thou sands" away-and the evening Mrs Kettig and I heard her concert 1t was just another repetition of her wonder full drawing power and consummate art.
 A charming figure is Madame Galii- Curci on the stage, her gown or Parisienne design, her graceful move- ments and her winning personality justifying the ovation extended the singer, one long to pe reinehpcicu' as she stepped out upon the great stage with her husband-accompanist, Homer Samuels.
 And she sang like an angel. her flute-like, bird-like voice absolutely defying imitation and in her numbers with the flute, admirably played by Manuel Berenguer, 1t was difficult to distinguish between the instrument and the God given voice.
 Her encores. which were numerous. included a little Spanish chauson. which was charming. and which l had never heard before; 1t was "Glav- elibas" C'Carnations), by Joaquine ("Quinito") yalverde-which fairly fascinated the vast audience.
 But it was the Mad Scene" from
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1 wondrous personality and beautiful voicel
 As I sat there, just thought 1t was almost too much for one woman to have: personality, voice. temper ament, brains, while there sat alas-with pair of feet that are too little to walk on: hair that isn't nat urally curly; bad disposition and a "tumn1y' which I hope In my next incarnation will be asbestos so I can eat "canned tripe" and Bologna saul sage and not be like; "The small boy named Ned, Who ate before going to bed. He ate very much. of cheese That was Dutch
 And when he awoke-- He was--deadw
 Before finish my story about Galli-Curci 1t wouldn't be fair to you or to them If I didn't tell you about those two splendid southern boys. Mir. Lawrence Evans and MT. Jack salter. who are the great diva's man agers. and who gave us box for the concert.
 They have gone to New York young, enthusiastic and capable--and established themselves as "impres- sarios" of the highest quality. Their elegant offices in the Hartman Ma tional Bank building on Fifth ave- nue are frequented by celebrities and men of affairs while hundreds of lo- cal managers all over the world are fairly ,begsing< for a concert with their great singer, Galli-Curci.
 Gatti-Casazza. who has engaged Madame GalliCurci for the Metro politan Opera company. was at the concert the evening we heard the great singer, accompanied by Roberto Moranzoni, one of the Metropolitan Opera company's big conductors. and
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, hostess (you've seen her in lots of Bill Hart's pictures), we met the big man.
 Have a chair Che pronounced 1t 'cheerD, ladies' said Bill. "Thank you" said we.
 May we have some of your pie tures?" we asked.
 Not some. lady; one" said Bill laconically.
 We've heard somehow. Mir Hart q almost called him "Bilp) that you don't like ladies'"
 Don't know how you got that idea" said he, never once looking at us, but way out wonder over the sky scrapers and smoke and dust of gay New York---and I thought maybe he was thinking of pretty Jane Novak. whom rumor said he was going to marry. (but he didn'D.
 We read it in d book, maybe," I suggested.
 "T'aint so.'' said Bill emphaticaily. and at this juncture messenger boy arrived. and turning to Miss West over, MT. Hart said:
 Please answer the door for me Honey--that's a good girl"
 The messenger walked in and handed Bill something which looked ike a manuscript" and he begn to read 1t, and then glanclng up and seeing the messenger boy standing and playing with his cap. he said:
 Son, take a cheer"
 That just finished us, because 1t was the very identical thing he would have done in picture and any minute l expected to head the ''Di- rector" call--
 "Cameraw
 But he didn't.
 Speaking of people who are Inter ested in Birmingham, and nobody was, and in whom Birmingham is in- terested, our own Sidney Lazarus has reached fame on Broadway, as l told
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Have I told you any news?

Have told you any news?
 Of course all this is a little pink faced. chubby-fsted. four -weeks-old story, which forces me to recall the question which was once asked of Amos Cummings. What is news?"s7
 To which he replied:
 When a man bites a dog instead of dog biting a man., that's news?"
 Hero also is news:
 Philip Brenner. 67 years old. was playing poker, 10 cents limit. the other night.
 Every player held a pat hand Mir. Brenner gazed on royal flush, ace. king, queen. jack, ten of hearts No one drew cards. all raised Mir Brenner dropped dead, and you can hardly blame him. To wait all your life for royal straight flush and then get it in 10-cent game would weaken any heart. Medical Examiner Nammack of New York confirms the story Tender friends kept the royal flush and will frame it.
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The afternoon Mrs. Kettig and I
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one day dropped in at Loew's
New-York tribune., 1921-03-09
FrancO-American Film
Promoter Is Arrested

PARIS, March 8.--Andre Himmel, re-
puted general manager Of the Franco
American Cinematograp Corporation,
who was arrested at Havre on the ar
rival there Of the steamer La Savoic
from New York, was held to-day on
charge of having misused more than
1,000,OOO francs invested in the cor
poration by Frenchman named
Rivary. M. Rivary caused the arrest
Of Himmel at Havre.
Hlmmel, at his preliminary examina-
ton here to-day, contended that he had
acted in good faith in connection with
the corporation and that he would have
fulfilled his promises if American as
soclates had not defaulted on their
agreements at the last moment.
Himmel in July, 1920, announced the
incorporation of the Franco-American
Clnematograph Corporation in Della
ware. He explained that the company
was formed to facilitate the exchange
OF films between Europe and the Unit
ed States.
Prominent Frenchmen interested in
the corporation were said to be M.
Viviani. former Prime Minister of
France; Baron de Rothschild, Jean
Rlchepln, commander of the Legion Of
Honor, and Marcel Provost of the
French Cabinet. M. Himmel, it is
alleged, asserted that the French gov
ernment had given encouragement to
the project and that French bankers
had subscribed to all the stock of the
company.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-09
Police Propose
NatiOnalBureau
Crime
Conference Called Here
May 2 to Z to Establish
a System of Countrywide
Aid Among Cities
Enright Advocates Plan
Officials From Three States
Approve the Project for
the Metropolitan Area

representatives Of the police depart
ments Of forty cities in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut indorsed Com
missioner Richard E. Enright's pro-
posal to establish a central bureau of
information for the metropolitan dis
trict yesterday and named commit
tee to put the project into effect.
The committee, which will be
headed by Mr.. Enright, is composed of
five other New York police heads and
five each from New Jersey and Con-
necticut.
1t also was decided to hold ma
tional police conference in this city
May to May 7, at which the advisable
ity of establishing similar system for
country wide coordination Of police
work will be discussed.
Yesterdays conference took place at
the Police Club, 145 Riverside Drive.
and followed luncheon to the visiting
officials. In the morning they witnessed
from City Hall steps the drill and ex-
ercises Of $50 police rockies, who will
be graduated tomorrow night from the
school Of recruits.
Chicago Chief Present
In addition to the officials from
surrounding cities there were present
Charles c. Fitzmorrie, Chief of Police
of Chicago, and Police Commissioner
A. j. Hilton-Johnson Of Shanghai.
Commissioner Enright in opening
the conference asserted that the sys-
TEN OF driving criminals from one CITY
to another is as absurd RS if municipal
health authorities scattered CONTAGIOUS
disease broadcast instead of seereeat-
ing and quarantining it. He predicted
that when his plan is in operation.
with police regulations standardized
and the department of each city on
the alert to keep that of every other
informed as to the movements of
known criminals and to flash news of
the commission of crimes. the metro
politan district will be thoroughly un-
safe for violators Of the law.
Mayor Hylan expressed approval of
the Enright proposal. Chief Fitzmorris
said he would take the idea back to
Chicago with him. Others who in
dorsed the project were
DR.. Simon Indorses Plan
Chief Michael T. Long, Newark;
Commissioner Philo C. Calhoun,
bridgeport; Commissioner John O.
Devlin, Bayonne; DR.. Carelton Simon.
deputy Commissioner in charge of the
narcotic division, who said the system
of intercity cooperation had worked
wonders in his branch of police work;
Commissioner Childs, New Rrochelle;
Chief O'Keefe, Yonkers; Chief AtweI.
Mount Vernon; Commissioner Bentley
and Chief Battersby, Jersey City;
COMMISSIONER Ford, Newark, and Dep
uty commissioners Harriss, of this city.
On the committee named to plan for
the central bureau are Commissioner
Enright and Chiefs Brown of New
hurgh, McCabe of Poughkeepsie, At
Well Of Mount Vernon, Cody of New
Rochelle and Burke of Peekskiu. for
New York. The New Jersey members
are Chiefs Kelly Of Plainfeid, Wallum
New-York tribune., 1921-03-09
Dry Enforcement Bills
Advanced in Assembly
Passage of Mullan-Cage Meas.
ures Expected To-day; Tax
LEGISLATION Also Moves On
FvoM a Staf Correspondent

ALBANY, March 8.-The Assembly
to-day, by vote Of rs to SIS, advanced
the Mullan-Gage bills, providing for
state dry enforcement, to final order
of passage. The measures probably
will come up for passage tomorrow.
The Assembly also advanced the Daven-
Rort-Judson bill reorganizing the State
Tax Commission and placing all the
states revenue collecting agencies un-
der the supervision of the new depart
ment. There was no opposition to the
advancing of this measure.
Minority Leader Charles D. Dono-
hue attempted to prevent the dry bills
from being advanced He wanted ac
tion deferred, he said, so that mem
bers might have an opportunity to ac-
quaint themselves with the measures.
which have undergone considerable
amendment since their introduction.
The dry enforcement measure in its
present form adheres closely to the
lines of the Volstead act.
The passage Of the measures was as
sured Monday night when the Repub-
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Kills His Girl
Secretary and
Hi1nselfinParlx
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copy Of Kipling's poem "The Vampire" )"
There were also several warm express
sions Of love in his handwriting ad-
dressed to woman.
McCurdy lived at 537 First Avenue,
Astoria. 1t was said that he was ex-
tremely punctual In arriving home from
his Office and that he spent most Of
his evenings with his family, some
times taking his daughter to moving
pictures. He was an excellent tennis
player and was member of the track
team when he attended the University
OF Pennsylvania. His father was a
Pittsburgh clergyman.
His wife, who had been worried be-
cause he had not returned home Mon
day night, was telephoning in an effort
TO get some news Of him when Patrol
man Keller called and told her the
circums stances Of his death.
Mrs. McCurdy tainted upon recent
Of this news and suffered several sub
sequent fainting spells throughout the
day.
Mrs. McCurdy said she was acquaint-
ed with Miss Snowden through calling
for her husband at his office on Satur-
day afternoons, but she did not know
that his friendship for his secretary
extended beyond taking her to lunch
occasionally.
Surety Officials Shocked
Officials Of the American Surety
Company and McCurdy's associates
were shocked at the news Of his death.
lie had been employed by the company
since 1906, with the exception of four
years. Miss Snowden began working
Tor the surety company two years ago.
3. Z. Henstreet, executive manager,
and McCurdy's immediate superior and
a TREND Of some years standing. said
ne had held the highest opinion Of Nc
Curdy. He said the personnel man
ager was considered nervous and high
strung, but not temperamental,
Medical Examiner Charles Norris.
who examined the bodies before thew
were removed to the Arsenal Station,
said he believed that both shots were
fired by McCurdy. Miss Snowdcn's
right hand was gloved and tightly
ciutched handkerchief Her left hand
was bare, but he concluded that she
could hardly have employed it in dis
charging a revolver into the right side
OF her head, even if she were left hand
ed. The fact that McCurdy's wound
was in almost the same place as hers.
he said, indicated that it was the wor,
of one mind.
There were no signs that struggle
mad taken place and no evidence that
the shooting was not done by McCurdv
New-York tribune., 1921-03-09

lican members Of the House caucused
on tho bills. The leaders count on at
least eighty-three votes--seven moro
than the required majority. The only
two New York City Assemblymen who
will vote for tho measure are Freder-
lex A. Wells, Of Brooklyn, and George
N. Jesse, both Republicans. Tho other
New York City Republicans, led by
Joseph Steinberg, bolted the caucus.
Tho dry enforcement bills are still
In committee in the Senate. They
probably will bc reported out to-mor-
row. 1t Is estimated that there will
be at least twenty eight votes for the
measures in the Senate, where no eau
Gus action was taken. The bills carry
out some Of Governor Miller's pre-
election pledges
New-York tribune., 1921-03-09
Aground in Boston Harbor

BOSTON, March 8.-The Ocean Line
steamship, City of Columbus, with
thirty passengers and a general cargo
from Savannah, ran aground in the
inner harbor in dense fog to-day.
After tugs had tried for more than an
hour to drag her from the mud the
efforts were abandoned until night
high tide. The passengers were trans
ferred to tugs and landed here late
this afternoon.
1t probably will be necessary to
lighter some of the cargo before tho
vessel can be foated.