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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1922-02-17
ORDER OF p OBLIGATION
IN RE: THE ADOPTION OFINFANT
EDNA PATRICIA DUNBAR AND
CHANGE OF HER NAME TO EDNA
PATRICIA BEATTIE
In the Circuit Court for Prince Georges
County, Maryland
Equity No. 5693

C4ulty NV OO0O
fNHE OBJECT of this suit is to pro
l. cure decree for the adoption O.
Edna Patricia Dunbar, an infant, ant
the change of name to Edna Patriots
Beattie.
The bill in substance SAYS: that the
petitioners, William R. Beattie and
Emma M Beattie, his wife, residents OF
Prince Georges County, MARYLAND, are
DESTROYS of adopting the said child and
have her name changed to Edna
Patricia Beattie.
That to the best of the knowledge
and belief OF the petitioners the said
infant, Edna Patricia Dunbar, was born
atNorfolk, Virginia, on March 18th, 1917
and that heraaether, lima Qualey Dun
bsS,> died in Washington, d. c., on Oct
0ber IL, 1921, the said Irma Dunbar
being resident of Prince Georges
County, Maryland, at the time of her
death.
That the said infant was the only
child of the said Irms Qualey Dunbar.
That Millard Dunbar, the father of
the said CHILD deserted the mother about
two years ago and has contributed
nothing to the support of the mother
or the child since the said desertion,
and since then his Whereabouts have
been unknown.
That the only near relatives of the
said child known to the petitioners
other than the father, are Inez Qualey,
aunt of the child, R. R Qualey, uncle
of the child. the grandmother of the
child on the mot hers side, and another
aunt of the said child. That Inez
Qualey and the child's grandmother
have requested your petitioners to
adopt the said child and that the others
have not appeared or shown any intel
est whatever in the child's welfare.
That the petitioners are amply able |
10 maintain, support and educate the
said child.
That the said infant has no estate
except five hundred dollar $500. COZ |
Insurance Policy due it as beneficiary
of its mother and fifty dollar $50 0O |
death benefit due it from its mo Their by |
virtue of death benefit of the firm of |
Lansburg Brothers.
1t IS thereupon this 9th day of Janu- |
airy, 1922, adjudged and orde, ed by the
Circuit Court for Prince Georges |
County, Maryland, that the P aintiff by |
causing copy of this order to be IN
serted in some newspaper published in
Prince Georges County, Maryland,
once in each of four successive weeks
before the 18th day of February
next, give notice to the said Willard
Dunbar of the object of this suit, and
warning him TO appear in this Court
OF bv solicitor on or before
he 25ih day of February, 1929. to how
cause if any he has, why decree for
he adoption of the said child and etc.
should not be passed against him as
PRAYED.
SUMMERFIEBD D. HALL,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Prince Georges County
true Copy, Test
s. d. HALL. Clerk. J.n13
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1922-02-17
JURY SERVICE BILL NULLIFIED

The House passed the Jury
Service bill for women through
its second reading Wednesday
afternoon, but not until after it
had tackled onto the measure an
amendment which, if it does not
kill the whole bill in the courts,
as some of the speakers predict
ed, will nullify practically its
whole effect.
This amendment, offered by
Delegate Nolle, of Baltimore
county, provides that all women
who want to serve on juries shall
register with the Clerk of the
Court in the city or county from
which the jury is to be drawn at
least 10 days before the panel is
made. The court authorities
then can draw for women only
from the lists of those register
ed as wanting to serve.
Delegate Robbins, of Dorch-
ester county, opposing the
amendment, said that the class of
women to be obtained for juries
under this plan would be the
class that hang around a court
house, and those who know
that class certainly would not
want to be tried before them on
any charge" Another speaker,
who opposed the amendment on
the ground that it would make
the whole bill unconstitutional
said that he believed that class
of women that would rush to the
court house to register wouldn't
be fit to try a yellow dog"
There was an almost unani-
nous opinion in the House that
the bill as drawn, which would
make jury service compulsory
on all women as it is on all men
now, should not be passed. One
speaker who seemed more bent
on embarrassing Floor Leader
Stephen w. Gambrill than in
pushing or impeding the progress
of the bill called attention to the
fact that the bill was drawn as
an administration measure and
necessary to carry out a party
platform pledge.
Mr.. Gambrill read the platform
which gives a promise ito make
it possible for. women to serve on
juries."
I am not prepared. +" said Mr..
Cambria, ito have my wife or
my daughter called down to the
courthouse, there to hear revolt |
ing stories of rape or worse and
later, in closed jury room in |
which the sexes are mixed, dis
cuss these revolving questions
with men or hear them discuss
ed by men,"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1922-02-17
ROAD NOTICE

NOTICE is hereby given that thu
undersigned citizens of Prince Geor
ge's County, Maryland. residents anG
freeholders of said County, will peti'
ton the County Commissioners of SAID
County, after this notice shall have
been published thirty (30) days in said
County, for the opening of public
road in Bradbury Heights, Subdivis-
ion in Prince Georges County, Mary
land, a plat of which is duly recorded
among the Land Records of said Coun-
ty, BY adopting the following streets
and avenues in said Subdivision: Be-
ginning at the intersection Ct Mitchell
Avenue with Southern Avenue, said
Southern Avenue being the District of
Columbia boundary line, and thence
taking Mitchell Avenue for two blocks
to Washington Avenue, thence taking
Washington Avenue for two blocks to
Schley Avenue, thence taking SchleY
Avenue for two blocks to Fulton Ave-
nue., thence taking Fulton Avenue for
four blocks to Shadyside Avenue,
thence taking Shadyside Avenue to
the Southern boundary of said Subdivis
ion and the intersection of said Shady
side Avenue with the public road lead
ing through the lands of Samuel E. Cox
ct al to Suitland.
CHARLES A. PADGETT
CLAUDE T. BEALL
WILLIAM H NORFOLK
GEORGE F. LEAPLEY
W. FRED SHEPHERD
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
Hnterland Loves Shakespeare, Says Hampden

the past two years, and these changes
have been to secure talent which
promises successful development along
these lines.
II have high hopes that the School
of the Theater established at the Lex
ington Opera House last autumn by
Glare Tree Major will do much to rem
edy this deplorable condition in the
matter Of acting. The plan under
which this school is conducted is the
most practical that has come under my
observation in this country. Not only
are the theory andsrudiments Of acting
taught, but as a part Of the school has
been established theater, The Thresh-
old, in which the advanced students
will get active, practical experience be-
fore real audiences.
can amazingly fine start already has
been made at this young institution,
and if it is properly supported look
for it to develop into the greatest help
full adjunct that the American theater
ever has had"
Mr.. Hampden is spending his vaca-
ton on his farm at Ridgefeld, Conn.
He has there q workshop in which he
experiments upon scenic and lighting
effects. He expects to do something
unusual in these directions with his
"Othello" and also with the new Amer
lean play.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

League not because it Is the only one
which gives such instruction but be-
cause it covers the ground so widely
for amateurs and because there is no
element of money making in it. 1t is
part of the leagues campaign to help
the theater in America, and, so it would
now seem, almost the most important
part Nothing will so impress an East
erner to-day when he travels through
the Middle West as the hunger Of the
small towns for better entertainments
than they have been getting, and the
enthusiasm with which the high
schools, for instance, respond to On in
structor who really knows how to put
on good play.
There are towns In iowa, for ex-
ample, Of less than five thousand per-
sons who are now supporting COM
munity companies, and these COM
panies are going out to surrounding
villages with their productions. Thsf
first need, OF course, is for teachers
and other workers who really know
how to pick and put on plays, and it is
in answer to this need that such SUM-
mer schools as the Drama League in
stitute have sprung up. The fact that
they are 6ourishing this summer as
never before seems to show that, far
from being killed by the movies" the
spoken drama was never SO lively In
America as 1t is right now.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
W ALTER HAMPDEN recently re-
. turned from transcontinental

tour in Shakesp spearian roper
toire and is now engaged upon several
new plays by modern authors, which
he will present next season alongside
his classical offerings.
81 found the response to Shakespeare
throughout the Middle West and on the
Pacific Coast last season most crafty
ing" says Mr.. Hampden. 81 never be-
fore had played Shakespeare beyond
Chicago, and was interested to see that
the cities on the other side of the Mis-
sissippi lived up to their reputation of
app-eciating the m ore serious dramatic
works.
at was somewhat astonishing to find
that 'Othello,' Macbeth and 'Haplet'
were the favorites. At any rate, they
drew larger audiences and evoked more
enthusiasm than the lighter Merchant
of Venice and Tanning of the Shrew.
And the biggest part of the surprise to
me was that 'Othello,' which has had
of Venice and Tanning Of the Shrew.
little vogue in the last generation, ex-
cept when Tommaso Salvini played it
here, made the deepest impre ssion.
"This tour convinced me beyond a
doubt that Shakespeare yfs more alive
than ever as force in the theater, and
that Shakespearian productions far
from spelling ruin to managers, have
in them the potentiality of almost un-
limited financial success. If they are
m ounted and acted properly-that is,
as plays designed for entertainment in
the theater, handled humanity and in a
modern manner, not as antique curiosi-
ties-they will more and more appeal
| to people who are seeking diversion in
| the theater.
II intend doing plays by contempt
rary authors when l can get such as
suit my purpose, because ! do not wish
to be known exclusively as Shake
apea-ian actoy. Shakespeare's plays al
ways viii! be the vertebra of my rep
crtoirc. expect to go on playing
| Hamlet and 'Othello' as long as I an,
III VIC taSatCS, hA0 ihtSho "oN''S @s
least one of Shakespeare's plays to my
list each season for some years to come.
Ultimately I will do King Lear and
'Cor;olanus,' as we'll as some of the
more frequently acted tragedies and
I, comedies in which have not yet ap-
peared. But in the mean time Twill
act in q new modern play whenever
can find one that Is suitable and mas
sufficient merit. IN that way expect
ultimately to have repertoire Of clas-
sic and modern plays that will really be
! unique.
Il now have a new play which
think will fit in this scheme of things
and another is being written for me
| The completed one is by A. E. Thomas
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
College Players in the
Market for New PLAYS

The Washington Square College
Players Of New York University, under
the direction Of Randolph Somerville,
announce their third season will con-
sist Of six subscription productions, be-
ginning in October with revival Of
George M. Cohan's "Seven Keys to
Baldpate," to be followed by Moliere's
"TartufYe." For another program the
players have manuscripts OF new plays
by Malcolm La Prade and Pierre Loving
and by two students Of New York Uni
versity, Adolph Meyer and Sawyer Falk.
The director will consider manuscripts
Of both short and long plays by writer's
outside the university for the remain
ing programs.
The programs will BE given at the
New York University Playhouse, new
little .theater which Is being fashioned
into the remodeled university building
at Washington Square.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
''The Purple Highway"
With Madge Kennedy

Dear Me" than they would one called
been transferred to the screen foS
Madge Kennedy, has been finally nsmsd
"The Purple Highway" Somehow IT.
seems that more people would be I'm
PEELED TO go in and see a picture nane@
Dear Me" than they would one called
by the longer name. The play itself
has been changed also, which is the
usual mode Of procedure when g stage
success is screened. Madgs Kennedy
plays the role created by Grace Laurie.
In the supporting cast are Monte Blue.
Pedro de Cordoba, Dore Davidson ana
Vincent Coleman. Henry Eolker d.
rected the picture.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
A Chorus To Be Starred

decided that the chorus girl is entitled
to stardom by dint of efficiency and
long service, Lait and Foster are de-
termined that she shall get it. This
new offering is now being put into
shape during the moments that Lait
isn't preparing new vaudeville act,
mapping out q page spread for his
weekly magazine, or putting finish to
the weekly chart story by him that
appears in this magazine.
Mr.. Lait has the highest praise for
the chorus girls now appearing in the
Winter Garden piece. The first thing
that he did after the curtain lifted on
the Broadway premiere of "Spice" was
to go back stage and raise the salaries
Of the choristers.
This is one of several interesting
facts that might be recorded regarding
Jack Lait's connection with the rev
revue Others are these:
"Spice of 1922" was written in
"ridiculously short time" in the words
of the author. 1t was written for the
most part at the theater during actual
rehearsals. Many bits Of it were pre-
pared by Mr.. Lait on trains, princi-
pally while en- route from New York to
Philadelphia, and vice versa. Valeska
Suratt's .Lllies of. the Field" numbe.
was written in dressing room at the
Winter Garden on the back of a chorus
girls contract.
Jack Lait will tell you that he Is
prolific; he could not be otherwise ane
accomplish one-tenth of what he does
He made six trips to Philadelphia dur
ing the days that "Spice" was putting
itself in shape for its attempt to buck
the Broadway tide.
Back in his Chicago days. Mr. Lait
as is we'll known, pounded out fc
ton story a day. "The Chicago Trib
une" published them. He has had play!
produced, he has had countless shor
stories in print, has written innum
cradle vaudeville sketches, and ha!
taken his fling at the screen.
But he prefers above everything elss
the writing of such stuff as is founs
in "Spice Of 1922"
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

Aen years ago II school teacher or
community worker had wanted to learn
something about putting on plays, she
would have been hard put to know
where to turn. To-day sheer he
can find plenty Of instruction. In .
single decade the interest in amateur
play production has so increased and
become SO serious that hundreds of
men and women are now ready to give
up part Of their vacations to intensive
study. There are several summer
courses IN various departments Of play
production conducted in New York by
well known professional artists, and
you will find similar courses across the
continent to Pasadena, where there is
school Of community theater work.
Nothing could better illustrate how
far the amateur drama has progressed
in America away from the old, cheap
standards of generation ago; and. of
course, the more serious the interest
in amateur drama, the better the audi
ences in the professional theater.
I have been specially interested in
the prospectus Of the summer insti-
tute of the Drama League of Amer
lea, which opens this year on August
Il in Chicago. Two years ago, when
the Drama League began this insti-
tute, they had about thirty pupils and
met in sfngle-room studio. This
year they have been forced to rent a
large schoolhouse. Tho work, of
course, is not done for profit, so the
tuition is kept as low as possible to
cover expenses. The teaching staff
however, consists Of experienced work
ers. There are courses in high school
and college dramatics, in play pro-
ducing for children, in play writing
Conducted by Professor Dean, Of Mon
tana University. who first put on "He
Who Gets Slapped" in America), in
pageantry Conducted by Linwood
Taft), In costume designing, in make
up Conducted by professional actors)
in scenic designing, in lighting Gan es-
pecially useful course, because the av-
erage auditorium where amateurs have
to work is deficient in lighting facili.
ties), in puppet producing, in the or.
ganization and conduct Of community
theater, in eurythmics, in voice cul.
ture and. finally, in drama for the
church and Sunday school.
! cite this institute Of the Drams
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

broadway is TO get new thrill
soon. 1t won't be furnished by
! something yanked out of distant Rus
sia, that new and highly productive
mine for theatrical material, but it
will come from the staging of New
York musical show, conceived and exc
cuted by New Workers.
t This new production will go into re-
| hearsal during the steaming days of
August, and when it is ready for the
stage it will be billed to Broadway
and the world in this fashion: "W World's
Greatest Chorus in Life"
The chorus is to be starred. The
principals will have to be content with
secondary consideration, as far as
/; the billing is concerned. "Life" is the
name Of this new Offering, and Jack
Lat and Allan K Foster will sponsor
it. The chorus girl has been grinding
away long enough, in their opinion.
It's high time somebody put her in
electric lights. That's what Life will
undertake to do.
| Jack Lait, playwright, short story
writer, war correspondent, critic, globe
trotter, editor and ex-soldier, spoke of
! the new venture as he sat the other
day before a desk piled high with
! papers, telephone at one hand and
secretary at the other. He was in his
office. the Office where he is the editor
of "The international Feature Service
Inc" The time was 8 p. m. There he
was, Jack Lait the editor Two hours
later he might be found fussing with a
new bit of business or a new comedy
line needed for "Spice of 1922" the new
production at the Winter Garden. He
j as now Jack Lait the playwright. And
still Later he might be caught hammer
ing out rapid-fre dialogue needed by
team booked solid for the Keith cir
cuit-Jack Lait, the vaudeville artist.
This Jack of all trades has high
/ opinion of the American chorus girl
and this opinion is shared by Allan K
/ Foster, stage director for "Spice," ano
the man with whom Lait started in the
"show business" in Chicago twenty
years ago. Those were in the days wher
Lait was a Broadway hater. And having
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
Cullen Landis Lands
lob With Billie. Dove

Cullen Lands will be leading man
with Billie Dove in Country Love
The picture is now being prcduted
under the direction Of Emile Ckautard
at the Metro Studios in Hollywood. At
present Mr.. Lands is Viola Dana's
leading msn in page Tim o'Brien,'
but he counts on inishiug work in this
picture in time to commence with MISS
Dove. Hulburt Footner is the autho or
Of Country Love-" which has been
ADAPTED to the screen by Edith Ken
nedy.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

comedy by the HATTONS, which will
be placed in rehearsal as soon as the
Hopwood play has been presented.
:. who's Who," the foreign
farce with which Al Woods was to have
opened the Eltingc Theater, is being re-
written. After all ANN PEN
NINGTON probably will not be in
"Scandals,' which George White
places in rehearsal this week. Penny
is to be featured in her own show,
which White will produce. Scandals"
is to apear with new list OF prin-
cipals. TOWNSEND WALSH,
of the Dillingham; staff, and CHESTER
RICE, of John Golden's Office, have
started for Cairo on a cruise up the
Nile. Walsh is doing archaeological!
research. NORMAN PEEL, of
the Wagenhals & Kemper staff, who is
touring Europe, writes that an un-
usually large number of American the
ater folk are on the Continent. Among
the names ne crowded on a post card
were GEORGE BOWLES, settled in
Paris as Continental agent for the
William Griffith productions; JEFF
MCCARTHY, touring the metropolitan
centers and selling way Down East"
and "Orphans Of the Storm" and
HARRY ELMER, of William A Brady IS
staff For the Vanderbilt Pro-
ducing Company JAMES MONTGOM-
ERY is writing new musical play,
due at the Vanderbilt in the autumn.
"That Day. the Louis Anspacher
drama which the Belmont Theater
Company tried cut in Atlantic City last
week, will be brought to Broadway in
September. An Atlantic City CORE
spondent describes it as "a forceful
play for thinking people with tale as
virile and gripping as an Ibsen theory.
The play deals with husband who
idealizes his wife until he learns, she
has lived with another previous to his
marriage. He finds it hard to recon
cile himself to the happiness that he
possesses and the love that is his. The
author has made his problem very real,
impressive in its forcefulnsss and in
teliigent in the concluding theory. A
play for intelligent saud;ances."
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

dppeaIeo III spoken drama since lSl4.
Ths play is by MICHAEL MORTON,
author of The Yellow Ticket" and
PETER TRAILL- In the supporting
company are IAN KEITH, HENRY
WARWICK, CHARLES WALDRON,
LUMSDEN HARE, FLORENCE EDNE
and MARY MOORE. West of
Pittsburgh" and Merton of the
Movies" the new comedies by MARC
CoNNELLY and GEORGE KAUFMAN,
will probably not come into New York
before October. . . AL JOLSON re-
turned from the Pacific Coast last
week with mouthful of news abou.
Frisco restaurant. "They call it
gas Bull Ring says Al; "a shack
rugged out like an arena and decorated
IKE the very fandango. The walters
are picadores, matadores, toreadores
ana chilli queens. Tamales? Friioles? :?
No. boy ;nothing but planked steak.
But what steak! And only a dollar!
WISH they'd try it on Broadway" {.
ANNE MORRISON, who has never
missed one of the eight hundred
ana sixteen performances of "The Bat"
a. the Morosco Theater, goes on vaca-
Uon to Toronto this week, where
STUART ROBBINS will try out new
play, of which she is the author, en-
''ied' How Much Do You Love Me 2"
MISS Morrison will return to Broad
way in two weeks. The new play may
OF may not follow her shortly after.
:. The report comes from Indian
apolis that MRS. JULIA LYDIG HOYT
wiz appear this autumn in the
stoART WALKER stock company.
"A Clean Town" is the title Of
me new comedy by JOHN C. and
ELLIOTT NUGENT, authors of
Aempy' The Nugents. father, son
an and daughter Ruth. will remain with
hempy" at the Belmont. +.
HUBERT M'LAUGHLIN, author of
pecameron Nights the London hit,
s ass taken over the Metropolitan
neater IN Cleveland and will build
= Vaere permanent producing stock
sVapany to try out new plays. His
..s' production will be Bristol
e'ass," which BOOTH HARRINGTON
aas written for GREGORY KELLY and
- WIFE 1t is story Of the Cape
w country Later, Mr.. Mclaughlin
m s.l DO piece for a. H. Woods, called
mats In 1t For Me-" by EMIL
iihAY, who wrote "My Lady
.,.ehds' for Clifton Crawford. /.
.asaRY HoPWooD's latest comedy is
sa'asied, Why Men Leave Home p
4'eh every woman wants to know. 1t
s., now In rehearsal with FLORENCE
er..sEf aIEf in the leading role. WA
sshALs and KEMPER willtry it out
atlantic City on July "a and bring
!. 70 Broadway about September S.
Is of the "Fair and Warmer
p. TIE producers characterize
:, piece as "a society comedy !.
"agenhals & Kemper have a new
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16
The laybill
Fe,c bright rays she'd over the sra,;ng season.

Of the Moere tercenenary
their will give "e Maade maginaire" English
Columbia University July
29h 1t will be
comedy here by given
cf the Institute of
d comparative literature and languages Columbia
Probably major event of the new season will
A H. WOODSS production of By Right starring
PAULINE Frederick has not
New-York tribune., 1922-07-16

entitled The Black Flag and, un-
less my plans undergo an un-
looked-for change I will do it in New
York next season. l expect that this
play and 'Othello' will be my mainstays
during the next year, which will
spend entirely in the East.
"The greatest difficulty confronting
producer Of Shakespeare nowadays is
in finding actors and actresses qualified
to play in classic drama and comedy