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Evening star., 1924-06-01
A Day In the Life Of
The Casting Director

home folks all about 1t. They want to
get glimpse of the stars and find
out how pictures are made, but they
rarely get past the barriers unless
they have special permit.
Most of the girls who apply are
keen on wearing the fne gowns
which are used in some of the better
society sets. They all believe they
could outshire Pola Negri or Gloria
Swanson If given a chance. There
are appointments all day long with
people who make this suggestion.
Then there are the people who ask
endless questions over the phone as
to how they can get in pictures or
get their children In. If all the Baby
PegGys'' and Jackie Coogans' were
brought together there wouldn't be a
hall in Hollywood big enough to hold
them.
Newcomers are always advised to
register with Screen Service. in Los
Angeles, a..ere thousands OF people
of all ~ es are registered. Many Of
the applicants find this discouraging.
not knowing that the Office fles are
filed with registrations of expert
enced people 6nly
Evening star., 1924-06-01

THE casting department window
opens at o'clock every morning to
discover a crowd of people of all
types and professions waiting In the
hope of getting a bit" in picture.
They are fat and lean, rich and poor,
handsome and otherwise, of all ages.
nationalities and denominations.
There is an eager rush as the window
opens, and from then on through
out the day the casting director must
listen to pleas and stories recited in
the hope OF obtaining work. Some of
them are amusing, some pitiful. In
the latter class are those of men
badly in need of work, practically
destitute and with families to sup
port. Wherever possible these men
are given the preference as extras
Generally late in the afternoon ap-
pears a different element-well-to-d to- do
residents of Hollywood and tourists
whose chief impulse in seeking work
in pictures is prompted by their curl
osity to see the inside OF a studio
and their ability later to tell the
Evening star., 1924-06-01
Arts Club Plays Given
Before Crowded House

With the rooms Of the Arts Club
crowded to the limit Tuesday evening
a program of three original one-act
plays by members of the club WAS
presented by casts composed almost
wholly of members of the organise
ton. These three plays were re-
Gently chosen by committee of
judges in a competition instituted by
the dramatic committee of the club
and their production marked the close
Of the season Of play-giving in the
clubhouse. In introduction of the
program G. A. Lyon, president Of the
Arts Club. explained that until the
projected improvements were effect
ed, comprising an auditorium and
exhibition gallery in the rear of the
building, 1t wouldI be necessary to
continue the play giving in the par
Tors, with the inadequate space avail
able and a lack of the usual facilities
for effective dramatic renderings. He
noted the fact that the measures for
financing this work were being pre-
pared and gave warning that soon
Evening star., 1924-06-01

the club will seek the necessary funds
through loans.
The three plays were False Value"
by Alice Barney; "The Scorpion" by
Edith Ogden Heidsl and The Gen. en-
In the frst-named, which was direct
ed by Airline Alcine, the cast was
composed Of Orme Libbey. Maurice
Jarvis and Maud Howell Smith. In
"The Scorpion" directed by Mrs.
Marie Moore Forrest, the cast con-
Harrington and Anne Ives. THE
Gentleman in Waiting" directed by
Arthur B. White, was given by Royal
Foster. Maude Lee Hunt, Harriet
Murphy and J. Martin Scranage. The
lighting effects were by Glenn Madi-
son Brown.
The dramatic committee of the Arts
Club, under which the competition
was conducted and which directs the
play-giving work at the clubhouse,
2ol7 I street. will, for the ensuing
year. as during 1884, be under the
Craftsmanship OF Mrs. Maud Howell
Smith
Evening star., 1924-06-01

drama. The treatment. however. ocre re-
moves this story from any possible
charge Of being commonplace. These
They desire to do the aIl-around
decent thing. This fact strikes the
| note of difference between this de-
| velopment and that OF many of the
| in. the main, a study of states of
mind torn by the passion OF love, a
study of psychological reactions
under this supreme urge. story of
cross purposes between desire and
the will to be fair. 1t is. in effect, a
story of renunciatton, of temporary
renunciation, at least, which Is about
as much as one desires an author 70
lies back of this romance and goGd
work fulfills that purpose.
THE HONORABLE JIM. By Baroness,
Orczy. author of THE Triumph of
the Scarlet Pimpernel," etc. New
York: George H. Doran Company.
Moving from France over into
England, the Scarlet Pimpernel" of
the former country becomes the
Fiennes, this, a live man something
like three hundred years ago. Master
of Broughton Castle, seat Of the an
cient house of the Lords Saye and
sele The romance is set in the midst
the king, Cromwell against Charles !.
Now on this side, now and that,
neighbor sets himself against neigh
Dor, friend against friend. In the
midst Of the swift and highly ro-
mantle action Jim Fiennes takes a
strange, but clearly dramatic and ef-
fective part on the side of English
liberty. An equally romantic love
story goes along, adding its peculiar
urgencies to the already stressfuI ad-
ventures created by the facts of the
civil war itself. A characteristic ro-
nance, blood brother in the goodly
family of this authors many popular
inventions.
WHIRLWIND. By H. C. M. Hardinee.
New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
What a life she had led. What a
vagabond she had been! What ques-
tionable scenes she had been through,
and how curiously clean and peaceful
was this quiet sunny English mead
ow." This comes at the end of the
story-a beautiful and elegant woman
backward. "Whirlwind" is the pic
q !dizzying. progress: from one Euro
pean city to- another, on the other
hand a devoted mother to an adoring
SON. Here Is the double life that men
are sometimes portrayed as leading.
Women not SO often, or not at all.
Exciting? Oh. very. Plausible? On
the surface, no. But the human is, at
heart, full Of surprises, capable Of
shaking one completely out of his
preoonceived ideas Of what the hui
man will and will not, do.
Evening star., 1924-06-01
Seeks Repentant Magdalene

THOMAS H. INCE is looking for a
repentant Magdalene. With Bradley
Kings completed script on Kathleen
Norris novel. Christine of the Hun
Sry Heart" on his desk, Ince is delay
ing the production of this picture
while search is being. made for the
inning saint. Together with John
iriff1th Wray, who, will direct the
,icture, he Is spending many hours
,ach day studying Photographic
ecords of the work of many act
.eSSeS.
Evening star., 1924-06-01
Woodbridge School Reunion
and Recital.

THE fifth annual recital and re-
union given to the pupils. friends
and patrons Of the Woodbridge School
will be held June I, Masonic Hall, at
o'clock. Mrs. Grace Hazard Wor-
melle. director, plans program. in
cluding a fair play, entitled Three
Wishes" and novelties in esthetic
dances, humorous recitations and mu-
sical numbers.
Evening star., 1924-06-01
Dunbar Music Festival.

THE annual music festival at Dun
bar High School will be given next
Friday night at s o'clock. in honor of
larry T. Burleigh and Nathaniel
oett. Those taking part are Char.
otte Wallace Murray. contralto. and
he Afro-American Folk Song Sing
irs. The soloist was formerly a
eacher of music at the Shaw Junior
High School here. and was for sew
eral years director of the singers
with whom she is appearing. These
singers form an organization of
Washingtonians who have specialized
II arousing increasing interest in
regro music. They have appeared at
carnegie Hall and Town Hall, New
York City; the Academy Of Music.
: Philadelphia, and at Bethlehem High
school, Bethlehem, Pa.
Evening star., 1924-06-01
The PUBLIC LIBRARY

Recent accessions at the Public Ii,
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Science.
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Plants. N-Bl52m.
Bonsels. waldemar. The Adventures
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Coulter. ]. NJ. and NJ. c. Where Evo.
luton and Religion Meet. NV.
CSa5w.
Crowder. William. Dwellers of the
Sea and Shore. MZ-C8SS.
Elliot, G. F. S. The Romance Of Saw.
age Life. 1922. PX-El55r
Huntington; Ellsworth. Earth and Sun
Hu5Iey, Is tya.! :, $. Essays of Biologist
Meade, i 4; 4; g, 6, Making the Weather
Peabody, j. f., and Hunt, A. E. Ri.
PsisS. PlSsg and Human Welfare NV
Pienaar, A. A. Adventures Of a Lion
Family. PS-P57E
spiers, F; s.. ed: Tho Microscope
Squier, E. L. On Autumn Trails. O.
Sq43o.
Smith. E. NJ. The Investigation O,
Mind in Animals OC-Sm55i.
SteJneger. l.. H. and Barbour, Thorn
as. Check List Of the North Amer
lean lea. Amphibians and Reptiles. PD-
FTh9mson; J. "A. The Biology Of Birds
Thomson, J. A, What 1. Mans Pw-
Van oloas. E.s.ve opI:vs7. i: !; 1nvertesrats 70
Wheeler. w: NJ. Social Life Among
the Insects. OY-W56Ss.
Literature.
Bald, NJ. A. Women Writers OF the
nineteenth Century. ZY-B1sw.
Criticism in America. zY-Css4
RsssHsf es fas Eishss AsdFfsit. isis
Drinkwater, John, ed. The Outline Of
literature. 2v. ZY-DS36o.
GarHHS; Wsssra r. W. Wordsworth, zYA-
Hearn: I-afcadio. Essays in European
and Oriental Literature. Y-H355es.
Hoyt, A. s. The Spiritual Message of
Modsrn English Poetry. Typ
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!sesIsns EesFass,I From English Literature.
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Thompson. e. N. 8. Literary BY.
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Untsrmeyer Louis. American Poetry
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"e1sh: nn..i r. E 2; Giassics Of the Souls
Poetry.
Arnold. Matthew. sohrab and Rus.
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BoEss. ieyiss. Body Of This Death.
Cooper. 4: {. Poem. of Today. Up.
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Das;es; Second w. ser. H. Ype3assse G9!las.ed Poems.
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Elliott. G: r., and Forester, Norman,
EDS: English Poetry Of the Nine
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MOWER, p. 9; The Good Comrade and
Roe; assS RSbert. Here You Have Ne. YP.
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Wit and Humor.
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Stewart. D. o. Aunt Polly's Story Of
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Hersey. F. W. c.. and oreenoush, c. NJ,
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Evening star., 1924-06-01

Adele Rowland will probably return
to the musical stage in New York
this summer. Miss Rowland, who has
been in retirement on the coast for
the last year cheering on her hus-
band, Conway Tearle, to bigger and
better things in the films, arrived in
New York last week
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Next Weeks Photoplays
METROPOLITAN-"The Mar
riage Cheat"
COLUM BIA-"The Guilty
One"
PALACE-"The Code of the
Sea-"
IALT "The Rejected
Woman"
AMBASSADOR - "The Mar
riage Cheat"
CENTRAL-"B Broadway or
Bust"
Evening star., 1924-06-01

It is probable that Rose Rolando,
the former Music Box Revue" star,
Will be a member Of Arthur Hammer
STEMS cast for Rose Marie" next
fall Otto Harbach is said to be CIV
ing her serious consideration.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Having inaugurated her return to
the stage a few weeks ago in Polly
Preferred" in London, Justine john
stone has decided to accomplish the
same achievement in New York, and
will open in the latter city as soon as
she can secure the proper play.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Gilda Gray, who opens at the HirS-
podrome. New York, this week. will
present the dance program she plans
to give in Paris, London and Berlin
Evening star., 1924-06-01
In the Spotlight.

HCO THIS IS POLITICS." a play by
Barry Connors. will be pre-
sented in New York about June IL by
Carl Reed. The play was tried out
on tour last summer as THE Clean
Up
Evening star., 1924-06-01
CHESAPEAKE BEACH

be1uf1ful new dance pavfI1On-0ll
seashOre attractions. One hours ride
screened coaches.
ROUND TRIP: ADULTS, soc
CHILDREN. 25c
Sundays and Holidays:
Adults. 81 90; Children, SOC.
TRAINS LEAVE DISTRICT LINE STATION
Saturday-9:00, 1890, 2:36. $40, $50.
Sunday-9S0. ii 100. 200. SEQ, 4:S5, 500.
Other days-e:0o, 1870, $50 $40.
Frequent Trains Returning
Evening star., 1924-06-01

} Two Washingtonians. Paulette de
:. Glin and Jim Bergin, are the au-
tors, of the Washington fox trot,
The a ntw, march that
','rote the words and, Miss St. Glin
NE music
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Ruth Dayton, new to the stage, will
begin her acting career in the near
future under the direction of David
Belasco. appearing as a reader in a
version of "Hiawatha." arranged by
Sidney Toler
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Eddie Clark has bought the stage
rights to Platinum Handcuffs," by
Michael J. Phillips, which ran as a
two-part story in the Saturday Eve
ming Post
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Tho Adorable Spartan" by Myron
c. Pagan, will be given a preliminary
performance this summer and will go
into New York in the fall.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

The success attending the recent
of "Pinafore" by the
,'stelle Wentworth Comic Opera Com
! any prompted the decision to repeat
4 in the early fall, and to continue
he presentation Of other Gilbert and
+ ullivan operas. Rehearsals have
ommenced on The Mikado," also to
given at that time.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

1.-THE Werewolf" from the German
of Rudolf Lother, was produced for
the first time In Stamford last week
by George B. McLellen and has gone
to Chicago for q run.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

THE Miracle" now running in
New York, will have its last per
formance June 2S. AS Il result Of the
cost of production, Morris Gest has
decided IL will be impossible to con-
tinue the Reinhardt play through the
summer.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Ann Pennington's stay in vaudeville
will be shortlived, as she is to be one
Of the stars in the new Follies, which
start rehearsals this week.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

A new comedy by Adelaide Mat
thews and Martha Stanley called The
Trouble Hound" will be given late
this summer in New York by Thomas
Wilkes Gail Kane will have the
PRINCIPAL role.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Former members Of the staff of the
Kansas City Star now living in New
York attended a performance of
Blossom Time one night last week
to hear Margaret Merle in the prima
donna role Miss Merle was once a
reporter ON the Star.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

An italian actor. Guida Nadzo, will
play the leading role in The Dream
ers," which A. II. Woods will pro-
duce next season with an elaborate
cast
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Eff1e Shannon. instead of Henrietta
Crosman. will play Mrs. Hardcastle
in she Stoops to Conquer" which
the Players Club will revive in New
York on June 9. Helen Hayes and
Pauline Lord will also be in the cast.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

William A. Brady will shortly begin
casting for musical version of
Little Miss Brown" Mr.. Brady has
decided To call il "Katy's Kisses"
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Tho Long Lane Producing Company
announces that its initial produc-
tion from material which 0. Henry
himself selected for q play from his
stories will be called The Gentle
CRATER" in order to convey the idea
that this Is an Q. Henry play.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Patricia Calvert. daughter Of the
late Louis Calvert, has assumed the
role of the daughter in Meet the
Wife," now running in New York.
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Winthrop Ames and Gutherie Nc
Cltntic. producers of the mysterious
melodrama, I'm the Next ROOM, by
Eleanor Robson Belmont and Harriet
Ford, have closed arrangements by
which Basil Dean will present the
play In London
Evening star., 1924-06-01

Tho Fatal Wedding" will mark the
debut OF Con Conrad as a stage pro-
ducer. Mr.. Conrad Is the composer
Of the scores OF Moonlight" and the
Greenwich Village Follies.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-16
Old Documents Tell
of Mayflower Fund

DALLAS, Texas. May is-rUo
volumes. describing the financing
of the MayfloWer and listing Of the
Nsgfowers passengers. have been
presented 20 The public library here
b. The Daughters q the American
Revolution. The hooks were written
from data nom original sources and
contain Ernuine copies ~ manu-.
scripts and documents long heii1esi
iost. They give tho names % the
hneiish families who contributed
10 a fund 10 ~ out the MayfioWer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-16
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The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-03-06
ADMINISTRATORS SALE

GEORGIA Cobb County.
By virtue of an order of the Court Of Or
binary Of said county, granted at the regular
March Term, 1924, thereof, | will sell before
the Court House door in the City Of Marietta,
on the first Tuesday in April, 1924, between
the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder,
the following described property, to-wit:
A certain house and lot in the City Of
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, fronting So
feet, more or less. on the south side Of Lemon
street running east from the Episcopal church
and running back south a uniform width a
distance of three hundred feet, more or less,
said lot bounded on the north by Lemon St.
east by lot formerly owned by Ephriam Will
liams, south by lot formerly owned by w.
r. Power, now Mr.. GriRgs, and west by lot
formerly owned by Ned Gresham. and being
the property sold by F. NJ Gordon to Jennie
Frasier.
Said property sold as the property Of Jen-
ME Frasier, and sold for the purpose IF pay
ing debts and distribution among the heirs
at law. Terms cash
This March 9Th, 1924.
GORDON b. GAM,
Administrator of the estate Of Jennie Frasier,
deceased.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-03-06
BISHOP JAMES E. DICKEY
APPEALS FOR ENDOWMENT

The following appeal from Bishop
James E. Dickey, we'll known and be-
loved divine, formerly of the North
Georgia Conference, will be inter
esting to the Methodist of this Sec
ton:
Il do not base my appeal for the
superannuated preacher on the
ground of charity. Charity does not
recognize obligation, except as a no.
bic nature is impelled to relieve need.
My appeal for the superannuate is
based on obligation, an economic as
We'll as a moral and spiritual obi
cation, growing out of benefit ac-
orued to the public from life and la
Dor of a productive laborer.
The unthinking sometimes refer
10 the preacher as an unproductive
laoorer, as though he were para
site, feeding on the body polite. If
inns were true, his claim would rest
alone upon the charity of pitiless
world; but if he is a productive la
oorer, his claims to an age benefit is
as binding on the community as that
Of the sailor or soldier on the Gov
'fament, or that of the employee on
me commercial company. In order
TO establish this contention we have
only to show the value Of the church
10 society. Remove the church and
aiI religious influences of the church
rom community and what follows?
Material values at once depreciate,
moral values decline, the best of the
s'VIzenry migrate, and little remains
out savagery and sin.
Silence your pulpits, and you close
me doors of your churches. Close
0"e doors of your churches for de-
gaoe' and what of your civilization?
~ may become as respondent as that
=. ancient Greece or Rome, but it
VIII become as riotous and as rotten
Il then, these superannuates have,
upon the broad bosom of their faith
"lted whole communities into the
presence of God, and with tears and
sroans unutterable, by the power of
me Spirit, have transformed savages
INTO saints, let not only the church,
out all lovers of righteousness sup
port them"
Special Effort Committee.
D. r. Little, Chairman.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-03-06


Mr.. and Mrs. V. H. Atkins and son,
Howard, of Smyrna, were the dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Rogers
Saturday.
Mr.. G. B. Wallace, of Mt. Zion,
made a business trip to Atlanta one
day last week.
Rev. Singleton, of Atlanta, failed
to fill his appointment here Sunday.
Mr.. Reuben Norton, of Atlanta,
spent Sunday here with his sister,
Mrs. R. P. Norton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grogan are all smiles
over a fine boy, who was born last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Luttrell visited Mrs. 7. W..
Rogers last Wednesday.
Mr.. G. B. Sorrell and family were
the Sunday guests of Mr.. c. N. Sor-
rells.
The singing at Flint Hill Sunday
was decided success.
Our Sunday school is in flourish
ing condition, having good attend
ance every Sunday, but the cores
pondent feels like there are many
more in this community that should
attend. We have eighty-six enrolled.
Let's make it one hundred by April
first, so everybody come out next
Sunday and help to carry on this
good work.
The sick folks in this community
are improving, we are glad to note.
Miss Ludie Petty returned home
Saturday, after spending a delight
full week with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Pilgram, of near Macland.
Misses Oran and Cleo Fenley at
tended church services at Orange
Hill, Sunday.
Mr.. Wayman Sorrels, of Atlanta,
visited his father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. C. n Sorrels, Sunday.
Mrs. T. W. Rodgers has been quite
i'll for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grady Fur and lit
tie son, visited in Atlanta Saturday
and Sunday.