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Evening star., 1924-04-05

ilTustrious potentate, Mystic Shrine,
and Mrs. Cary, William K. Reeve,
grand commander, Knights Templar,
and Miss Reeve, William Booth Price,
thfrty-third degree, s. G. 1. G. in
Maryland, and Mrs. Price, Ellwood p.
Morey, thirty-third degree, deputy
for the Supreme Council in District
of Columbia; II. w. Witcover, thirty
third degree, secretary general, S. G.
T. G. in Georgia; William D. Hoover,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Fishbaugh, Mr..
and Mrs. John Poole, Reynold K.
Blight, thirty third degree, editor
the New Age Magazine, and Mrs.
Blight. Mrs. Reber and Mrs Lucy
Clarke
Evening star., 1924-04-05
PROTESTS RENT BILL.
Bar Association Takes Action at
Special Meeting.

The District of Columbia Bar
Association at special meeting yes
terday indorsed the report of it's
legislative committee, which recon-
mended that the association protest
against re-enactment of the Ball act
creating the Rent Commission.
The matter had been referred to
the bar association some time ago
and it placed the question in the
hands of it's legislative committee for
investigation. When the committee
reported against continuation of the
rent board she association voted to
accept the report.
Evening star., 1924-04-05
SHAD BAKE MAY "a.
Quantico to Be Scene of Annual
Board of Trade Event.

The annual sflad bake of the Wash
May "a. at the United States marine
base at Quantico, Va, it was an
noVnced today. The committee in
charge, headed by George Pitt, has
chartered the steamer St. Johns for
the trip. and no limit will be placed
on the number of tickets this year, as
has been the case before.
There will be plenty of entertain
ment, both on. the boat and. at Guam
tico. and a base ball game between
teams representing William and Mary
College ard the Maaiaes-
Evening star., 1924-04-05

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Evening star., 1924-04-05
FLEET ENDS PRACTICE.

Los ANGELES. Calf, April 5.-The
United States battle fleet will leave
Panama for southern California
waters April II, arriving here April
81, according to dispatches received
from thetfiagship California following
completion last night of the fleets
two month program winter mancu-
yers in the Caribbean sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
IGNAZ FRIEDMAN'S
 RECITAL MARCH v
Noted Pianist To Appear At
 Phillips Auditorium

The fifth. and last feature of the Music Study clubs artists concert course for she season will be the ap- pearance of Ignaz Friedman, pianist, on March r.. Last season in New York Mir. Friedman was greeted with ovations from both audiences and crit ics. His very recent appearance there for a return engagement seems only to have revived the former enthusiasm of the public Deems Taylor of the New York World writes under the cap tion, One of the Great"
 ''Ignaz Friedman played stupendous- ly at Aeolian hall last night. This stubby, gray man, has piano tech nique so utterly complete that his play ing does not even seem effortless. He sits at the piano, exerting himself just about as much as would appear seemly i'll good average player, and out of the instrument come such sounds as it seems impossible for any human pair of hands to evoke, glittering scales that approach, flash by and disappear with the speed of lightning and yet are so clearly fingered that every note is clear and round runs in sixths, trills in thirds, chords that blare like trumpets, arpeggios that are like a caress-and never for a moment tech niQue for it's own sake.
 ''The audience cheered-something that doesn't often happen in Aeolian hall. He played an encore and they clapped and cheered again. Not until he had played three extra Chopin pieces would they let him go on with his pro- gramme. He is great pianist, this Friedman" Y"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
NEW YORK HITS
 FOR JEFFERSON
 DURING SUMMER
Wen-KnOwn Actors Will Play For Season In
 Birmingham

Birmingham will have the oppor- tunity this summer of seeing the latest Successful New York plays, some of which have never been here, with the opening of a stock company at the lief ferson theatre, it was announced Sat urday.
 Actors will arrive in Birmingham Monday to start rehearsals for the all- star repertoire company, which will open a spring season at the Jefferson theatre, according to Brown Parkes, who will be manager of the company.
 Birmingham will now be in posi- Eion to take it's place with other large cities and enjoy the privilege of seeing the best Broadway actors at prices all most unbelievable" said Parkes.
 George D. Walters, who was man. aging director of the company which appeared ill Birmingham last summer, . will arrive with the company, and states it is positively the greatest act ing cast he has ever assembled in all his years of experience. Il have combed Broadway to bring down the greatest Company possible and feel sure that Birmingham will be pleased" wired Mir. Walters.
 New York Hits
 Among the plays contracted for are all of the. big New York hits, most of which have never been seen in Birming- ham or the south. Included in the list are Such classics as David Belasco's The Gold Diggers,' by Avery Hop wood. which ran for two solid years on Broadway. Another -Belasco- hit, Daddies," has been contracted for. Others are Little Old New York; The Meanest Man in the World" Mice; People, ''The Demi Virgin" 'Smilin' Through Her Temporary Husband" and a new show, New Toys" now playing on Broadway at the Fulton theatre.
 'The company is locally owned and operated and will be strictly a Birming- ham institution said Mir. Parkes, and 1t has been organized, not so much for the purpose of making money, as of giv- ing the people of Birmingham the highest value of entertainment at the minimum cost
 Mir. Walters has operated similar companies at Des Moines, Dallas, Los Angeles and Cincinnati, and I am sure that he will bring us the most artistic company it has yet been our good for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

Brady, Isabel Vernan, Verna Shaff al the rest of the cast intact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
BLOSSOM TIME
 IS COMING BACK
Shubert's Popular Musical Play Returns To Jefferson For
 Three Days

It seems almost unbelievable but it is true, the information, of course, that the Messrs. Shubert's incompara- ble musical play, Blossom Time" is returning to the Jefferson theatre Thursday night for three-day engage ment with matinee Saturday.
 Never before in local theatrical his tory, has it ever been known for any play to be presented three times in one season, and Blossom Time" will not only play third engagement here but also in several other cities it has heretofore played this season.
 The same splendid cast which ap- peared here on both fctmer occasions is returning again, headed by those two excellent artistes Greek Evans and Margaret Merle whose splendid 'rendi- ton of ''The Song of Love" has en- deared them to all that have heard them, and made, them very popular locally. In fact one can hardly go any where in town where there is music without hearing the now famous Song of Love" which is requested every where Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful melodies ever written, as sung by Mir. Evans and Miss Merle it takes on new beauty. ,r
 Besides Mir. Evans mad Miss Merle, the same splendid balanced cast which played here on both previous oc- casions returns including Robert Lee Allen, that splendid comedian whose "Kranz' is such masterpiece; Robert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

Patrons of the Trianon theatre are in for real treat beginning Monday, when "The Meanest Man in the World" will be the banner attraction. This is film adaptation from the famous stage play of George NJ. Conan and in which Mir. Conan personally appeared for over a year in New York city. Ii is a First National picture.
 The footlight presentation was re- garded by critics as one of the out standing features of New York and the screen version of the play is said to be to the screen what the play was to the stage. ..
 Bert Lytell enacts' the title role, and this popular player is surrounded with cast that is truly all-star in every essence of the word Blanche Sweet appears opposite Lytell and others of importance include Bryant Washburn, Maryon Aye. Helen Lynch, Victor Po- i tel, Warde Crane, William Conklin, Frances Raymond and Forrest Rob- inson. i The story of ''the meanest man" i deals with the struggles of young lawyer who is so soft-hearted he finds himself a failure because he can not. say mo" to anybody.
 He is given his real chance. how ever. when he is assigned the duty of collecting a note from one J. Hudson. who resides in a little town in New York state. On his arrival he finds that J. Hudson is a girl and that the !. stands for Jane. In all towns there are the rich and the poor. and Jane Hudson. who owns the merchandise store of the town. like "the meanest man." can not say no to the poor GUS toners. All that Jane possesses is her stock of goods and a piece of farm land. | Hiram Leeds, the local banker, seems quite interested in buying Jane's land and becomes so insistent that the at torney decides to ascertain his real mo tive He finally succeeds and brings the news to Jane that she has oil land and not farm land. By soliciting through the town. the attorney gathers sufficient money together to erect a derrick and drilling is started Leeds 1 has a mortgage on the property, how l ever, and sends word to JaNe he is Ro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
NEW BIJOU BILL
 STARTS MONDAY
Entire Change Of Vaudeville Acts And Picture Start
 New Week

"Oh You Sheik," miniature musical comedy, featuring the Berg Sisters, and presented by the company of artists, known as Clay Crouch and Company, is announced as the headline offering of the vaudeville bill at IIoew's Bijou during all of this week. an act, which, according to press dispatches from At lanta has created a sensation at At lanta all of last week, where it was presented at Loew's Grand theatre, coming there straight from long and successful run at New York.
 Another musical feature, said to be of a high order, on the weeks vaude- vile bill, will be offered by Dorothy Nelson, the Norwegian violinist, with company, and Otis Francis at the piano, in revue of classics and popu- lar numbers. By way of diversity there is also the we'll known team of Free man and Morton in a comedy skit, en- titled "Everything's All Right" and a military dancing act by the trio of terpischorean artists, known as the Demo Ssisters and Thibault.
 Opening the weeks vaudeville bill some sensational aerial feats on the trapeze will be offered by Bee Jung. known as 'The Flying Venus of The Air." who promises some entirely new thrills for the friends and patrons of this popular theatre.
 Spectacle scenes, love theme, psych- ology and old atmosphere of days gone by--these clements are all said to be found in "A Lady of Quality" the Uni versal-Jewell production starring Vir- ginia Valli and directed by Hobart Henley, which is the screen feature at Loew's Bijou during this week.
 The period of "A Lady of Quality" is 1704, and the atmosphere is that of merrie old England. The settings, executed under supervision of Elmer Sheeley, art director at Universay City. are particularly interesting because of the interest attached to architecture. customs and manners of that period in history. It involved considerable re- search and designing.
 Milton Stills of Legally Dead and other popular successes, Earle Foxe, Willard Louis. Aileen Manning, Bert Roach and other players of standard ability support Miss Valli in other i'm portant roles in the piece.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
AT THE MOVIES

Capito-Thomas Meighan Monday Tuesday, Norma Tamade The Safety Curtain Wednesday and Thurs day; Jack Holt in Making Man,, Friday and Saturday GaIax-he Leavenworth with Martha Mansfield Wifred Ladies', Edward Horton, Theodore Roberts Helen Jerome Eddy and Louise Dresser
 Express" Monday day. Pete Morrison in The Ghost City, Wednesday and Thurs day Lincoln The Adventures of Tarzan Fighting Blood" Friday and Saturday. %4 in My Smoke" Monday Tuesday, Wlism Hart n The Silent Man Wednesday and Thursday Lloyd Westerner; Tents of Allah and "The Way of Man; second half, Norma Talmadge in the Eternal Flame" ROyBl Sullivan in Th New Leather Pushrs and Ralph Con "The Man from Gengarry first half; William (B Pat ton in Growing Better" second half Strand-Thomas in all M. Cohans "The Columbus" from "Chronces of America, ," all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
SENT TO MUESEUM
Engine Of First Mail Plane Is Preserv-
 ed For POSterity

SANTA BARBARA, Cay. March 15. The engine used in Bleriot monoplane to carry the first aeral mail in the United States has been presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Earle Ovington. a Santa Barbara aviator. who. in 1911. was sworn in as the first aeria postman.
 The official document. bearing the signatures of Postmaster General Hitch cock and Chief Inspector Morgan of New York also will he presented to the institution. together with a sample of mail carried on the first trip and a of the plane. ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
BAN AMERICAN BARS
Sc They Change Name And Booze
 Flows Just The Same

BUDAPEST, March 15.--ln conse- quence of a government decree pro- mulgated recently American bars" have disappeared from Budapest. How ever, the stuff sold in the places flows as freely as before The decree directed all places of amusement. cafes and other public resorts bearing French English or German names to put out signs in the Magyar language. The American bar has become an ''ivoc- sarnol.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

for Jane Hudson and Jane finds she, too. has. fallen in love.
 The widely heralded Yale university pictures, "The Chronicles of America" |" will be an added attraction on the Tri- anon program. These pictures show the making of America and are regarded as the greatest educational films in the history of the screen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
"MEANEST MAN INTHE
 WORLD" AT TRIANON

ing sto foreclose at noon of the day it is due. Then the dramatic moments of the picture begin with the drillers striving to. bring in the well in time. At five minutes to 12 the well gushes aud Jane becomes rich. Incidentally, the attorney finds he has lost his heart
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
OUT FOR PROFITS
Trains Now Being Built In Germany
 Carry American Name

HAMBURG, March 15.-The word Pullman to designate sleeping cars is making it's way into several of the languages of Europe. The Germans. for instance. call the pullman wagons :" build them in their own shops, and export them to foreign countries.
 Breslau recently completed 47 such cars on an order from Chile, and these are now on their way to South Amer ica. More are to follow to other Suth American cuntries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
tune to see. A complete list of the cast

tune to see. A complete list of the cast will be given in a day or so.'
 Seats go on sale in the near future at the box office at the Jefferson thea tre. A new production will be given each week, starting on Monday night and matinees will take place on Tues day, Thursday and Saturday. Patrons who desire choice seats are advised to make permanent reservations for the entire season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
AT THE: THEATRES

Spice Monday Tuesday Wednesday, with Wednesday matinee; Blossom Time second showing, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with Saturday matinee
 Bijou-vaudevile lead Clay Shek; Virginia Vali Milton Stills in "A Lady of Quality LyYaudeve ead Cartme and Harris first haf and Claudia Coleman, comedienne half, pictures comedies and Pathe News
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-22

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 bonus is one of his responsibilities, he in forms the people that 1t will not interfere with the tax-reduction program. This latest attitude is taken also in spite of his earlier statement that the compromise tax-reduction schedules would cut too much revenue off from the treasury. Yet. in the face of the success of the compromise schedules, he now finds it possible to absorb the added charge of the bonus upon the revenues that will nc crue under the schedules he originally ob- jected to. Just why these inconsistencies in Mir. Melons views he does not explain. Per haps they are due to his own further study of the situation. At any rate, he deserves credit for seeking to cooperate with the financial legislation rather than to continue to criticize it after it becomes law.
 One Mellon recommendation, however has not received the consideration it deserves That is the program looking to the. discon. tinuance of tax-free securities. Mir. Mellon says that this is the only way to get at the wealth which is most consistently seeking to escape it's share of the public burden. Inas. much as considerable part of the Mellon holdings are tax-free and as he himself would have to pay additional taxes were his rec. concentrations carried out, new light is thrown upon the Mellon personality, es- pecially in view of the fact that he has been accused of seeking. legislation that would relieve his burdens on his other income Verify, Mir. Mellon is not the easiest of our public men to read. ap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-22
Watchil1g The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

We have an odd situation bobbing around in the waters of opinion in our town. Come to think about it, it is the fix the world is in, seen through the wrong end of a tele- scope.
 "Is a leader entitled to deference if he leads in the wrong direction :s
 The dissension began over the Reverend Silas Fords sermon on pacifism. The two boys who had tried to hold up the baker were recovering. One of them had a widowed mother and the other ones sister was the heroine of the fires in the telephone build ing, when she sat in front of her switch board until the last galoot was ashore. The baker had levied on his army sat when he was demobbed. With which, being bitter and savage, he had shot the two boys wherp they tried to hold him up,
 .What is our country coming toss asked the Reverend Silas Ford passioEately. Whereupon he made these points:
 That the savage bakers action in shooting the two boys through their little vitals was un- Christian. The baker, said Mir. Ford. should have submitted to the hold-up. That the baker had stolen the sat from the United States government. which is undoubtedly true. That he had no permission to keep q gun on the premises. That the two boys had lovely families. Therefore, said Mr. Ford, if this were an ideal state of society they should be forgiven.
 We're not ideal in our town, said the chief of police, in rebuttal. T cannot get enough policemen because our taxes are too high now. This country was not settled by pacifists, unless you call Daniel Boone and George Washington and the '49ers and the Mornions pacifists. The only thing for our citizens to do is each to buy gun, and learn how to shoot with 1t, and keep it under the counter and shoot the first hold-up man right through the bung."
 So we've started a pistol-shooting club in our town, and future hold-up men are mighty apt to be bad insurance risks. Pop ular opinion seems to be with the chief of police. But he was not hired to be leader of opinion and the Reverend Silas Ford was.
 Hence-recurring to the original query
 Where does this leave Ford2 What shall we do with leaders who lead the wrong way
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-22

large means presupposes responsibility, ob- ligation to the community and duty to one's fellow man. If all of these are neglected, the greatest injury falls upon the man who has been satisfied to become drone, in a sense, parasite. There is no truer saying than that an idle brain is the devils work shop. It not only fosters injury to its owner, but exercises a .baneful influence upon all with whom its possessor comes in contact.
 One of the most wholesome influences which are contributing to the productive devel- opment of the South is the rapid extirpation of the mistaken and demoralizing feudal con cept of work as something degrading. The more the South departs from such an idea, the greater the South's constructive achieve ment and permanent prosperity. Since the South was put upon it's mettle in this re- spect it's development has been not only much greater than it's most sanguine prophets dreamed, but its influence throughout the civilized world has been far more potent, and it's contribution to world expansion of far greater proportions.
 One of the South's most distinguished men said in public address T never have and never will recognize any aristocracS which is not founded on one or more of four char acteristics, namely, duty, charity, brains or public service" All are closely associated in precept and in practice with earnest. pur- poseful work. It would not be easy. to find an atmosphere where the dignity of work is more genuinely appreciated than at Auburn. There some of the most constructive and pro ductive work in the country has been done. There work is the motive power for service and usefulness. It is one of the most demo- cratic institutions of learning in the world, merits, and where work is the ideal to guide the ambition and purpose of those who carry away memories of their alma mater, and are ever conscious of what it looks to them to accomplish through application of it's pre- cepts in their lifes endeavor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-22
The LatU Of Fun
By and by the comic becomes sad.
By DR. FRANK CRANE

By and by the comic becomes sad.
 A man can go sober all day, never smiling once, and do fairly well; but if he were to laugh all day without stopping he would
 Itis essential to fun that it should be oc- casional.
 For long time after the death of Moliere his seat in barbershop was pointed out as the place where he would sit for hours the picture of lugubrious dejection
 A London physician was called to see a man who was suffering from continual de- pression of spirits. After carefully examin- ing his patient the doctor said:
 Well, sir, can find nothing the matter with you, except that you are victim of too much breeding. You need cheerful sights and sounds Go to the theater. Go and hear Haukins; he's the funniest man that ever lived"
 "Alasp' responded the man, T am Haul kins."
 When you say, T haven't had good laugh for a long while" it is no more than to say at dinner that you have good appe-
 Seriousness is the only proper hunger for mirth.
 A droll saying is drollest when it comes from 6 solemn face.
 Cheer up, by all means! But don't be too
  constantly cheerful -The smile that won't come off is good for nothing except to ad- yertise breakfast food or to sell cheap cloth ing.
 is any task harder than to read whole hook of Bill Nye's at one sitting? Yet he is my favorite fun-maker.
 I am glad Mark Twain rote .'The Yankee at King Arthurs Court" and "Joan of Arc. They are ballast to his reputation. Wit is like chartreuse, benedietine, ana xusl, Iiouors. to be taken only in very small glasses, as Romainville said.
 As a matter of fact, nothing grows more monotonous than pleasant things, pretty things, and funny things,
 The chief enjoyment of life comes from work. That is the souls solid food. Pleasure and pain are sauces.
 A man can work right along for seventy years: he can laugh heartily or suffer poig- nantly only few minutes at a time, without danger.