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Evening star., 1924-04-01
Cosmos" Hong Kong
Follies"

TIE headliner at the Cosmos Thea
ter this week IS something Of a. nov
city, and a very pleasing one at that.
1t is called the Hong Kong Follies"
and is presented by a galaxy o.
comely Chinese girls. with a maScu-
line guitarist and singer. 1t has all
the grace, charm ard skill that might
be expected of Il Ziegfeld aggrega-
tion, and yet withal in a way quite
different The girls sing quite well,
one of them the Fritz Emmett yodel-
ing song in fine style. while their
dancing has a peculiar charm and
grace of it's own. The act is attrac-
lively staged, the performers popping
and out of a large and beautiful shell
Altogether it is an attractive bit of
oriental ShoWmanShip, and the girls,
at least, are real Chinese.
\ feature of the bill that seemed to
excite much interest and curiosity is
Clarence Willard, the man who grows
while you watch him, and he does
actually grow first in one leg, then in
an arm, and finally in his whole body,
several inches He has q pleasing
personality. is a good talker and in
PRODUCES clever card tricks as addi-
tioEal entertainments A guessing
contest is on as to how much Willard
really grows 1t closes Friday night
The Farrell Taylor Trio put over the
big laughmaker of the bill in "The
[hLlSdn luke, Wnlch also introduces
Edith Beryl Swan, a woman trombonist
of note.
Jack and Jessie Gibson open with
daring and difficult feats on one
wheel affairs, perched high in the
air. Their act, however, is staged
rather in a comedy setting, and the
laughs are many. Calvert and Shayne
with song and comedy offering and
Clark and Crosby in a wop act, with
songs, complete the vaudeville of
ferings.
Flaming Barriers" the sensational
picture featuring Jacqueline Logan,
Antonio Moreno and Walter HERS, in
spite of its thrills, especially dur
Evening star., 1924-04-01
Margaret Anglin as
The Great Lady Dedlock y

"The Great Lady Dedlock," roman
tic meIodrama by Paul kester. WOW
en- around incidents in Dickens ia
nous novel, BLEAK House, with
Margaret Anglin in dual role as
Lady Dedlock and Hortense, the
French maid. alternately amused and
thrilled the audience which welcom-
ed it to Washington at the National
Theater last night. Mr.. hester has
capitalized the dramatic element
found in so many of Charles Dickens
works, as Well as the kindly humor
that has endeared him to the Eng
disappearing races.
Miss Anglin, whose artistry has
made her n favoritc in the capital
in many roles, gives 4 new demon
stratiou of her histrionic ability. As
I.ady DedIock-the great lady.
power in the world of fashion-her
portrayal is admirable. And no less
convincing is her dclineation Of the
viVaCiOuS and vindiCtiNe HOrtenSe,
French maid in the employ of Lady
ledlock. Miss Anglin is given Won
derfully good support by others in
the company. in fact. John Ivan, as
Mr.. Tulkinghorn, solicitor of the
house of DedIock and arch conspir-
ator against the peace and happiness
Of Lady DedlOck. is Il dominating fig
ure and must bear with Miss Anglin
many of the honors of the pruduc-
ton. In makeup, in his omissions as
wei dS IN MS spoken llttS. MI. ivan
creates an IagO like TuikinghOrn, an
evil genius who nevertheless fasci-
mates the auditor.
Mr.. keSter has made a mystery
MAY, in which sordid bIackmaiI and
nnally murder have their part 1t is
mclodrama, with an 1850 English set
ting. In Inspector Bucket Of Scotland
Yard, admirably played by Percy
BeaverStock, the embryonic Sherlock
Holmes makes his appearance. And
the country ConStableS, NeCkert and
Gregory, the Mutt and jeff perchauce
81 the first part of the nineteenth CEN
Jury, the Harold Skimpole of Al Rob
rrts, the Nolumnia DedIock of Olive
oliver, the John Jarndyce of Leonard
Nude, the Sir Leicester Dedlock of
Harry Barfoot, all add not only to the
interest. but also TO the atmosphere of
the play, an atmosphere that is de-
lghtfully refreshing in these days of
Jazz.
1t would be idle TO attempt to tell
the story of Bleak House. so widely
known. Mr.. kester has woven into
'he story love match and has played
uIou the hidden love. many years in
e past. Of Lady Dedlock, to bring
he pictures he has chosen from the
t,lckenS novel into complete tale. In
lne last scene the author drags Lady
p"dlocI back TO life and apparently
TO happy home. which is decidedly
cheering, but artistically mistake.
such an ending, however, must make
IT'S appeal TO those who never read q
book which has an unhappy ending.
20 that part Of the public for which
kipling wrote his other ending" of
The Light That Failed"
Miss Angiin's Hortense is vitriolic.
q clever characterization in which her
knowledge of French, gained in a
French convent school. stands her in
good stead. Her Lady Dcdlock. the
anuthesis Of HortenSe. is another We
hicie for Miss Anglin's remarkable
emotional ability.
The stage settings. showing the
garden and the interior Of proud old
English horne. and the squalid street
nt London slUm. are works Of art in
themselves
Evening star., 1924-04-01

Get small quantity At any
pharmacy or from your favorite
toilet goods counter. simply ask
ing for Buttrrmilk cream. and
massage il daily into the face,
neck. arms and hands. The di-
rectiuns are simple and il costs 50
little that any girl or woman can
afford it, Your complexion must
quickly show a decided improve
ment or your dealer is authorized
To return your money without
question should you be dissatis-
fed.
No matter whether you are
troubled with wrinkles. hard
little lines around the mouth and
eyes, coarse, sallow, faded looking
skin. or simply roughness and
redness caused by wind and sun.
YOU will find that all these trials
quickly disappear with the use
OF this old-fashioned beauty recipe
brought up to date.
ButtermiIk Cream is only sold
on 4 positive guarantee of salts
faction or money back.-Adver-
riSemeut.
Evening star., 1924-04-01
REPAIRS HALTING GLOBE.
PLANES UNTIL THURSDAY
Had Planned to Leave Seattle To-
morrow for Prince Rupert
on Next Lap.
By the Associated Press.
GLy A vtIIT IL Wash

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, April IA leaky
pontoon attached to the air cruiser
Chicago WAS being repaired today at
Sand Point aviation field, northeast
Of here, where three other United
States Army planes are ready for
their final tests before the four leave
at $50 am. Thursday for Prince
Rupert, British Columbia, on the next
leg Of an attempt to fly around the
world. Minor repairs have made it
impossible to leave tomorrow, as was
planned. Maj. f. L. Martin, com
mandant of the squadron, announced
Evening star., 1924-04-01
AUTOMOBILE FATALITY
CLAIMS SET RECORD
Over Million Paid by Metropolitan
in 1928 to Beneficiaries of
Victims.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April Claims ot
$1,144.304, a new record for automo-
bile fatalities, were paid in 1928 by
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, it was announced yesterday.
The previous high figure was $S67,-
900, paid in 1922.
Fatal automobile accidents last
January increased more than II per
cent over January, 1928, according to
statistics from J.. .000. 900 Metropolitan
industrial policy holders in the United
states and Canada
Evening star., 1924-04-01

ing its big fire forest scene, with
hundreds of lives endangered, is en-
joyabIe mostly for its comedy. The
new Leather Pusher picture, "The
Kid From Madrid, Michigan" featur-
ing Billy Sullivan, an Improvement
on the Reginald Denny fight pictures,
offers an exciting bout that looks
like the real thing. The news pic
lures show the new American cardi-
mails in Rome.
Evening star., 1924-04-01

Andre, Ted Lorraine and Jack Mimic
that was well received; Beatrice He'd
ford, in an original monologue; Will
Morris, in q ludicrous tramp bicycle
act, and the usual house attractions.
Evening star., 1924-04-01
Girls Use Buttermilk
To Remove Freckles
Sunburn or Tan

This Delightful New Vanishing
Cream Containing True Butter-
milk Must Quickly show De-
cidcd Improvement or Money
Hack-JuSt Try 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
King Tut's Mother-in-Law
 EnchantS Eye Of British

mystery. Her face is not typically , Egyptian. Some experts think she was Syrian, others even suggest that she may have come from Flu rope.
 A strange fact about this remark able work is that the left eye socket is vacant. Archeologists are divided between the belief held by MT. Ar thur Weigalluf, the great authority on this period, that the queen was blind in one eye, or that the sculptor did not finish his work.
 Nefreti-Iti is linked with the first royal love affair pictured by art royal love affair pictured by art ists. Earlier and later queens or Egypt are sculptured beside their husbands in conventional attitudes, but Akhaton commanded his artists at Fl Amarna to paint himself and his wife, not as king and queen of Egypt, but as human beings. The rock tombs of Amarna are full of realistic reliefs showing Akhnaton and his beautiful wife sitting togeth- CT affectionately holding hands. There is one picture of Nefret- -Iti, sitting on her husbands knee.
 The history of the ideal city of the sun built by Akhnaton $500 years ago, so that he and his wife could experiment with Utopia, suggests that this delicate, aristocratic woman was also one of the first great lovers in history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

LONDON, Nov. 29.-A woman whose amazing beauty enchants the eyr and the mind, although she died in Egypt $500 years ago, is caus- ing a sensation in the Egyptian room of the British museum.
 She is Queen Nefret-Iti, wife of the Pharoah Akhnaton, and mother in-law of Tutankhamen.
 The almost life-size, colored bust which has just been presented to the museum is a replica of the original found in the ruins of Tel-El-Amarna and now in the Berlin museum.
 "Shc is the finest example of Egyptian portraiture," said Dr. Hall, keeper of the Egyptian antiquities in the British museum.
 Famous archeologists and artists who have seen her agree that she is the most beautiful woman of an- tiquity, and that as work of art her portrait bust is the most living thing that has come down from the ancient world.
 Ncfret-Iti's small head, set on a long, slim neck is surmounted by the curious nigh crown which her hus- band, Akhnaton, evidently invented for her and her daughters. There is sad half-smile on her face, and the general impression is that of wo- man of great delicacy and breeding. ing.
 Her personality is surrounded by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

of real volume of verse, "A Harp in the Winds; that Anna Dorsey Will Hams has a new novel out dealing with life in the national capital, novel called ''The Spirit of the House" (Ap- pleton's); that James Branch Cabell has ranked Miss Frances Newman with Mrs. Elinor Wylie as "the most opu- lently gifted of all the younger women now publishing in America"; that Mac millans have brought out new edition of Lafcadio Hearn's Japan; "An At tempt at Interpretation" that Fora klain has privately published her Quaker Contributions to Education in North Carolina; and that-but what's the use. Every one may not be the inveterate gossip that we are.
 Having already mentioned Wilbur Daniel Steele, we can't neglect to pass on his word about his labor in writing his new novel, "Isles of the Blest," (Harpers). Writing to a friend, Mir. Steele said: T am now engaged in trying to write a novel. It is the same one l commenced last winter and threw away for sheer disgust with it. I cheer myself along with the reflection that. as l have heard tell, the first hundred thousand words are the hardest It IS harder work for me to write than it IS for anyone else in the world"
 The work of Anne Bozeman Lyon and her treatment of the historical Mo bile is called to our attention by M. Y., who points out further the richness of background of city which, she says, lis known by every student of Amer ican history to have been under five flags" Miss Lyon's Padre FeIipo" were are told has been widely copied in Canadian, English, and Irish journals.
 In "A Pilgrims Scrip" Century, Gale Young Rice has brought together another volume of his verse, this time book for the traveller to slip into his handbag for poetic interpretations of different lands which he may visit. The book is divided into geographical sec tions, one for China, another for Indil and Thibet, still others for Greece, Italy. Palestine, and so on. There is much here of beauty-any volume which contains "The Bells Of Oseney" is assured of that-and some little under standing of foreign life and manners, though, we suspect, the book will hard ly be read from that point of view. Mir. Rice sees about the things which every traveller runs into in his wanderings {; the point IS that "A Pilgrims Scrip expresses these moods and impressions poetically. The book will, we think, prove of most interest to those who have already made the swing around the cir cle. Here, for example, is a glimpse of Egypt.
 FROM A FELUCCA"
 By GALE YOUNG RICE
 "A white tomb in the desert,
 An Arab at his prayers
 Besides the Niles dark water,
 Where the lone camel fares,
 An ibis on the sunset,
 A slow shadouf at rest,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
Mid-Victorian Monstrosities Often Yield To In expensive Roof Treatment
 Example Outlined

troying-tearing down the ugly, ram bling porch, chopping off the ridiculous lantern, ripping away the top-heavy, overhanging flat roof. To each of the house, q two story extension, one room deep, was added. The whole was GOV cred with low hipped roof of graceful proportions, the entire exterior was tuccoed, and many other minor artis- tic detals added. The result of all this is an Italian villa of charm and distinction.
 Naturally such an elaborate treat ment as this-while far below the cost of constructing such a house from the ground up-involves considerable ex- pense. As general rule, however, remodeling is not expensive. This is proved by a little book recently pub lished by one of America's best-known manufacturers of roofing. This book suggests wide variety of methods for transforming Mid-Victorian and other types of old houses into attractive, up- to-date homes. Some of these trans- formations cost as little as two hun dred dollars.
 Anyone interested in this problem should take steps to secure the book It is a gold mine of practical infor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
ARCH PLOTTERS GIVEN g YEARS
 IN RONDOUT CASE
Sentencing Of Fahy And
 Murray Follows Denial .s Of New Trial
By Associated Press.)

CHICAGO, Nov. 29.-William J: Fahy, once rated as an ace among postai insnectors. and James Murray, minor nolitical boss of Chicago's West Slde' were today sentenced to 70 years m Atlanta penitentiary for their parts Tn the S2OOO,OOO mail train robbery at Rondout, H., last June.
 Herbert Holiday, Brent Glasscock, Toe. Jesse, Wylie and Willie Newton, the actual robbers, all of whom piead- r6 guilty, will be sentenced Monday, Federal Judge Adam c. Cliffe an- nounced.
 Walter McComb who was tried with Fabv and Murray, was found not guilty
 Sentencing uf Fahy and Murray, the convicted arch plotters of what has been called the great train robbery followed denial of new trial to Murray and Fahy.
 Counsel for the convicted men made immediate moves for an appeal. It was charged. Fahy furnished information ot movements of valuable mail shipments and Murray supplied the information to Brent Glasscock ard Willie Newton, leaders of the actual robbers who with four others pleaded guilty, Glasscock proved the principal witness for the government.
 Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler, of the United States circuit court of ap- peals. will hepr an application for a writ of supersedeas on behalf of Mur- ray and Fahy on Monday. This will delay departure of the prisoners for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

It was in the years between 1870 and 1890 in the so-called Mid-Victorian period that America saw the heyday of ugly architecture. Good taste seemed to have died out completely. Houses were encrusted with gingerbread work and jig-saw ornaments, overloaded with turrets and towers, billed out of shape by lanterns and bay windows. So many of these Mid-yictorian houses still sur vive in all their pristine ugliness that further description of them is unnec- essary.
 When good taste came to life again in the early part of this century, the ''home-remodeling movement" started. All over the country, these Victor ian monstrosities began to disappear. People discovered that a few we'll planned little changes would transform an old-fashioned house into a delight full, up-to-date home.
 The illustrations above show how one very common type of Mid Victorian house can be reconstructed into a pie turesque modern home in the Italian villa style, which has gained such wide popularity in recent days. The first stage of the remodeling consisted in de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
STATE CARES FOR GAME
In Pennsylvania Refuges Are Estab
 lished Wherever Possible

A drought has forced Pennsylvania to follow the example of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York and tenn porarily close the hunting season Ill the hone of thus cutting down the number of forest fires. The unusually dry au- tumn had made the danger Of 1lres rreater than ever, and as Pennsylvanla! has always taken lead in matters or conservation the governor has property oxnressed no little concern. The poilcy of the state has been to protect ana loS- lar the increase of game, and inasmuch os +be destruction of wild life Pennsyl- Hsn;a hunters have supported the governor's action.
 Pennsylvania offers one or the pese examples of the good effects or m.se t.' nolicy of game conservation. Mens 5o five wears ago the state was allhosI u nnded of game. Today IS has an exec, ae,, ant supply of deer, bear, elk anu e'en wild turkey. ,...o
 Not content with present condltions' brover the game commissioners are nooL;n1 to nut into effect 2-year pro- Srom which includes the purchase ol T;ld lands for game preserves, proper ,,roris;ons for feeding game III the "n- tar tbe creation of new game reiuseS and @ breeding grounds, and the establish. q ment of what are called "suxlaadry r.ad nv sa the ato+e taking over the hunting rlgnts OH Siaee niaees '% of privately owned land of one ne thorsord acres of more for period ol ot Ioost ten years. It is thus posslpie to create game refuges where the staIe could co never hope to purchase a lana. 0h Many of these will be w1tn,n n;ea easy Csnters ar
 In thus extending protection and pro pr v;dine shelter and feed for games !es the thers secret of the preservation of ila wild life. life Despite the fears of many lovers rs of animals that at the present raIe oa destruction there will soon be no game me left, the experience or San, rennS;n'%nr" ;n con- srvation n~S and the regulation of shoot ing pay manifold returnst-New 1ork Times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
TRADING IS STEADY
 IN FINISHED GOODS
Production Now We'll Above 85 Per Cent
(By Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-The demand for cotton goods has been less active this week ip the gray goods division, but trading is still quite steady, and finished goods lines are making better progress. Production is now well above an average Of s5 per cent capacity, and bids fair to hold on that level until well after the turn of the year. New Eng land mills are making steadier progress toward the resumption of normal oper- ations, and during the week they have successfully established lower wage schedules in some sections by about 10 per cent without friction of any kind with operatives. Some of the larger centers they still are working on the higher wage schedules, but are not running in full.
 Some increase is reported In the in- quiries for export goods, but at prices that are not workable at this time for markets in the Far East. Shipments on past orders continue fair to South America, the West Indies and the Philippines. The imports or fine cloths from England continue good, and the demand for these fine yarn woolens for spot delivery is active.
 Percales have been sold up by some or the printers, anu pElCco dES uP oA both prints and percales, withdrawn for the time-being. Wide sheetings are moving steadily. Ginghams show some improvement, but low prices still pre- vail. Novelties and fancies In cottona and cotton and artificial silk continue to come forward from the mills in un- usual volume for spring distribution and are being bought moderately. Ad- vance orders on finished goods have not been as large as the advance busi- ness placed on unfinished lines for con- verting and finishing.
 Southern knitters of heavyweight cot ton underwear have opened their lines for reductions averaging 12h per cent from the prices of fall of this year, and business is beginning to come along quite freely. Cotton yarns have held about steady for the interval, but the demand is not broad, nor pressing Heavy cotton goods for the auto trades and building trades are comfortably sold ahead, but prices are on a very close basis, and competition for orders is sharp. The demand for silk and cot ton mixtures continues full.
 Prices current in primary markets Tor cotton goods are as follows: Print cloths 2S-inch 64x64's, 7%c; 64x60's, 7Asc; 3sA inch 64x64's, 9hc; brown sheetings. southern standards, 15hc; tickings, ] oz., 26c; denims, 2.20's indigo, 19Mc; staple ginghams, 1oAc; prints' sAc; dress ginghams, 171sc and 2oc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
THE WORLDS OLDEST TREES
America, England And Ataly n"'
 Monarchs Centuries Old

Aunerica. England And ACaly h"'0
 Monarchs Centuries Old
 Tn Glen Lyon, Perthshire, there grows vow which witnesses the bison ana other prehistoric European animals and most probably quivered to the vol conic convulsions that brought the North Sea into being where had been land and forest. .,od
 This the Fortingal yew, is reckoned hv forestry experts to be between 5'uUo and 4JOOO years old. Changes in the earth's court and climate which nave destroyed great forests of big trees ana altered the continent of Europe nave left it untouched. It may have sheltered human beings who were but little more than beast-kind long before they dweit in caves and devised weapons or 1llnV' There is. though, another tree which apc nroaches near it in age-the cypress or Soma. in Lombardy for Italy has not only one of the oldest trees known, but one which is the oldest of which there ;s any ancient authorization. rms cy- nress is mentioned in record ot the Tatins vet preserved in Milan that nroyes it was an old tree in the year B. c. AZ
 The heart of the British oak begins to rot at the age of 2OO years But the American cypress, as shown by the ring counts on the stumps of telled trees. Often reaches 1,6OO years, sound and healthy. The famous cy- nress near Oaxaca, in Mexico, discov- cred by Humboldt in his noted tour ot equatorial America, has been reckoned to be between $500 and 4,OO0 years of age. He nailed to it a wooden tablet, which is now half covered by the sue ceeding growth of the tree.
 Upon it, however, is still legible the autograph of the famoues Teutonic nat uralist. Yet this cypress is younger than trees in the Brazilian forests.
 These are the locust trees-mammoth in size. The aged cypress of Oaxaca shows a girth of 126 feet round it's trunk four feet from the ground, but many a comparatively young locust tree in Brazil is S4 feet in circumference, and 60 feet where the stem, with it's bare bark becomes cylindrical. In heght this tree grows to such an al titude that the shape of the leaves which grow only on the very topmost part, cannot be distinguished by the naked eye Counting the years by the concentric rings on the tree stump some locust trees, it has been arrived at, must have lived through 45 centuries. That is to say, when the Christian era began they were then older than the Christian religion is today.-Edin- burgh Scotsman.