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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-13
Fading Stars of the Screen.

Where are the stars of yesteryear?
So asks the movie fan, the habitual,
persistent, faithful follower of the
flicker drama" He sits, perhaps, in
the darkened chamber of the silver
screen and sees new faces come into
view, and thinks. maybe with a wrench
OF regret, Of those who have passed, Of
the stars that have faded. And doubt
less he wonders whether, after all, it
is worth while getting devotedly at
tached to picture personalities when
they pass so soon.
Tor the film stars do pass more
quickly than stage favorites. A much
shorter span Of years is allotted to
them for their performances in the
front rank. Barring accidents, misad.
ventures with the law and unfortunate
encounters with public sentiment, few,
If any, last more than seven or eight
wears. A ten-year star Is really a
wonder. Five years is perhaps nearer
the average of public favor. OF course,
there are the elders of the screen who
old woman parts, and they are almost
perennial. But the youthful roles, the
Juveniles" the lover parts and the
heroines, call for new material con-
stantly.
The film career OF star is shorter
than the stage career for several rea-
sons. In the first place. the passing
Of time can be concealed behind the
footlights to a great degree by means
of makeup. And even when cosmetics
were, there remain the personal quail
ties that endear the actor or the &C
tress to the public. the voice, the skill.
the technique, the magnetic element
that is the secret of histrionlc success.
The star may grow stout and gray,
and even wrinkled, possibly on the
other hand, may be thin and bent. and
yet hold position through sheer genius.
Sarah Bernhard had that power,
Duse had 1t, Ellen Terry had it, though
she retired. perhaps wisely. before the
handicap OF time became heavy. Irv.
ing had 1t, Booth--in fact, all the
great men and women of the Ameri-
can and English stage possessed that
quality that kept them young before
their audiences.
On the screen, however. these vet
Grams could not have played long in
the youthful roles. They would have
had to play the eccentrics, the elders,
the background" parts, for when the
camera clicks youth will be served.
And that is why the turnover" in the
silent drama is so heavy. Perhaps it
is this very factor, this constant re-
placement Of personalities, that main
tains the strong appeal Of the movie
for public favor.
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Blossom Time.

April takes her role as a maid of
spring and shifts the humor Of her
face from frown to smile. She bids
sad nists and rain begone, and sends
a message to the sun to shine. She
beckons to the South to send a breeze
Of balm, and she tells the cherry trees
and a thousand fiower-bearing shrubs
to bloom. And gladly they obey,
Forsythia swings out her golden bells
and dandelion beams. Soon Miss But
tercup will shower gold upon the
fields, and even now the violet in ia.
vored spots is painting earth as blue
as any sky. The crocus and the
hyacinth are in jolly mood, and the
lilac is making ready to show the
world her beauty. Our Japanese
cherry trees have put on their
festnl dress and are holding fete in
Potomac Park. If the weather bureau
is right, and the weather hs1as
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MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

Frank A. Vanderlip has certainly
started something with his citizens
federal research bureau in Washing
ton. A visitor to the spacious quar-
tiers OF the organization, where a
small army of clerks and officials
seaned TO be extremely busy at the
task of sorting out graft in the gov
eminent service, roughly estimated
that the bureau may be costing the
former president of the National City
! Bank at the rate Of something like
100000 year. Possibly MIR. Van
derlfp expects help in running the
bureau, for certainly. even to man
Of his reputed wealth. the anti graft
organization. which is the bankers
answer to charges of loose talk lev
eled against him, must prove sooner
or later to be too much of a burden
for one man to carry.
Visitors at the bureau bring away
an impression Of the old efficiency
days at the National City Bank. One
visitor claims to have felt that same
lack of warmth which dwells about
the office OF the president of bank
when some one steps in to borrow
money. 1t is an indefnable chill.
He further reported Mr.. Vanderlip no
less inaccessible than he was in the
big banking days. This visitor tried
in vain 10 run the gantet.
as Mr.. vanderlip in?' he asked.
"In, but not seeing any one re-
piled the efficient secretary.
But he asked me to call.
Sorry, but he is not seeing any
one today"
when may / see him."
THAT is difficult to answer, really
Well, would you mind asking MI.
vanderlip to cali me up?"
oh" and this in a tone akin to
horror. "Nr. yanderlip never calls
any one up"
"Oh. yes. and won't you try again
some day; perhaps YOU will have bet
ter luck"
In New York, where they arc try
ing Mrs. Myrtle Bowman Hayes TOT
the alleged forgery of the name OF
Charles NJ. Schwsb to a $4,000 note
the presiding judge threatened TO
put the defendant in jail II she
didn't get to court on time.
Mrs. Hayes was fifteen minutes
late.
IF I put you in Jail every nlsht
you won't be late any more in the
morning" said the irritated judge.
Which recalls story told by Mar
tin W. Littleton, the Sinclair LAWYER
who has tried to throw a monkey
wrench into the Senate oil investi-
cation by advising his client not to
answer any questions. Mr.. Littleton
was attorney for Harry X. Tha~
when the latter was tried the second
time for the murder of stanford
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BY THOMAS n. MARSHALL,
Former Vice President of the United
States,

Main street, the principal thorough
rare OF the republic, furnishes in tab
ioiu FORM all the hopes, aspirations
ambitions, Weaknesses, elements of
strength and racial characteristics of
our land. I wish to refer to only one
| national quality-the forgiving spirit
OF our people. But first / wish to re-
| cali some Main street incidents.
A small boy trained in a Presbyte-
Ran home to fear and abhor the
| devil, visited side show which pre-
scented to the delectation of our coun-
try populace Dante's Inferno. Il
nope now you have some conception
of the devil and that you will avoid
him and all his works and ways" said
his mother when he returned home.
His reply was, Now that have seen
,, him. he doesn't look to me to be
| half-bad fellow"
After we have blown off steam and
scattered our Indignation into the cir
cumambient air, we have a sort of
national characteristic of judging as
charitably as we can our fellow men.
Our Main street later was shocked
by a bank wreck. In the vault was
found only single penny of the
| thousands of dollars it had held. In
dignation ran high; there were calls
for grand juries, calls for condign
punishment, calls for ropes; and yet
| in few days the excitement and fury
had abated. At meeting of the
creditors the strongest and most pow
erful men in the community had to
argue to gain consent to have the
case presented to the grand jury.
Most of the creditors took the posi-
ton that they did not believe the
banker really intended to be dishon-
est. They wanted to give him an
other chance. They even joked with
they had lost, those who lost heavily
calling the smaller creditors "pikers."
The Indignation of the American
people bears resemblance to bottle
of soda water: uncorked. it fizzes for
a little while and then subsidies.
And in Main street I always found
sympathy for the under-dog. AL
though the dog might be the most
despicable of ours. there was detect
able a spirit that it was all right to
kick him into the street, but that IL
was not all right to follow him into
the street and kick him block after
block. This spirit is eNtant today.
People become indignant at the COM
mission of 4 crime, and they wish the
guilty to be punished. but they are
unwilling that the criminal should be
handled too roughly.
x X
/ recall the trial of dishonest
banker indicted for embezzlement.
The prosecuting attorney made
closing argument so vitriolic that it
ought to have been preserved as
bit OF forensic condemnation of crime.
He told the jury that IL he had son
whom he desired to train up as
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its radiance, all Washington will jam
Potomac Park today to make its year.
ly cherry blossom call. A rosy scene!
Perhaps these trees are saying to each
other: Let us bloom as we have never
bloomed before; let US show these peo-
pie Of the west a bit Of the magic Of
flowers a picture of our far-off home"
Soon the rugged. nay, even ragged,
locust trees will plume themselves in
creamy white as pure as ever worn
by bride. And perhaps these trees, rich
in bloom, will tell 1t to the world that
these foreign cherry trees have naught
On us. 1t will be gay in Potomac Park
today!
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Public Opposes Kicking Man
When Down, Marshall Says

master criminal he would seek to
place him in the Office of the defend
ant. When the jury filed out the
prosecutor asked me how long !
thought they would be out, and l
guessed five minutes. He said. You
are probably right; the case is so
clear they will waste no time on II. )"
told him the case was clear. but
that the defendant would be acquitted
because he had aroused sympathy for
him by his abuse. In few minutes
the defendant was a free man.
There is trait of American char
acter not explainable by any of the
laws of logic, not at all explainable
by the purposes and intent OF the
American people to deal justly. to
have the Law indicated and to have
crime punished. 1t is trait that
says punish the guilty. but not be-
come vindictive in that punishment.
Recent revela tions in the public life
of America have been the subject or
universal comment. have heard them
discussed by persons Of all grades
of Intelligence and education. The
resultant effect upon my mind is that
civilization in and OF itself Is just
IA veneer. and that without the power
of an unseen influence upon the life
OF man. human nature in the raw Is
much the same as 1t mas peen
throughout recorded time. i have also
which go with the people, out OF
which they may be jolted for time,
but TO which they soon return.
4 X
There is today a sentiment that may
be said to be, practically unanimous
that the politics of this country must
be cleansed and purified. There IS a
feeling that the law always must be
vidicated, but more and more Is being
heard the opinion that the investiga-
ton and prosecution of crime should
be done in an orderly way by our
courts and grand juries. There is a
feeling that the government of1cials
who have gone wrong will suffer
enough If the wrong which they have
done is simply presented to the court.
The public's anger is beginning 10
disappear, and one hears II asked
from many mouths: rs this an at
tempt to punish wrongdoing or is 1t an
attempt to pillory the wrongdoers in
public opinion"
There Is no purpose or intent to
minimize the wrong that has been
done or to excuse the rrongdoers,
but the average man is qualifying
his condemnation. adding the word
but" and expressing the belief that
when a man is down and out. is l. not
the privilege OF every American to
kick him in the ribs.
1t is the business OF the courts OF
this country to punish crime and the
business of executives to clean out all
scoundrels from public offices. Nobody
has any right to play with "A crimi-
nal Just for the purpose of putting
on a show, or to butcher the worst OF
men in order to make an American
holiday. The Washington exposures
have been profitable, of immense
good, but I hope that the kicking and
cutting of men will not continue.
Otherwise we shall have a public
sentiment which shall say, They have
already been punished sufficiently; let
the erring brothers go in peace.
Copyright, 1924. BY Twenty nrst Century
PreA.)
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Arlington Memorial Bridge.

II the Arlington Memorial bridge
had nothing to commend it but the
beauty and dignity it will add to the
National Capital the project still
would be entitled to favorable con.
sderation at the hands of Congress.
But another bridge across the Poto-
mac is badly needed now and will be.
come an imperative necessity of the
not. distant future. The new Key
bridge is no sooner completed than it
is congested at both its terminals and
the vchiCular traffic to Washington
now flowing in over the westerly
roads is only at its beginning. 1t will
multiply and remultiply itself within
the next half score of years.
\ part of this increased traffic
will result from the building up of
Arlington and Fairfax counties as
suburbs of Washington. Such sub
urban development now is under way
on a scale not realized by many
residents Of the city proper, and as
the National Capital reaches and
passes the half-million mark it is
bound to proceed at an accelerated
pace. The foothills of the Blue Ridge,
which overlook the Potomac valley,
furnish ideal sites for the home
builder and, with the assurance of
transportation facilities, are bound
to share with the adjacent Maryland
counties in accommodating future
population as it overfiows the federal
Districts boundaries.
But it is not alone development Of
Virginia suburbs that will increase
traffic across the Potomac. Opening
of roads to the westward, into the
historic Shenandoah valley and be
yond, will bring great streams OF
tourist travel. Nor is the opening of
these roads a matter of the indefinite
future. Lee Highway gives promise
Of being the first transcontinental
route to be complete it's entire length
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, ahead
even of its companion route, the Lin
coin highway. And Lee highway
must cross the Potomac at Washing
ton. 1t now is routed in over the
Key bridge, but that route is wholly
inadequate to accommodate the traffic
which is certain to follow completion
of the highway.
The Lee Highway Association,
which has headquarters in this city.
already has taken cognizance of the
proposed Arlington Memorial bridge,
and the national organization has
given official approval to plans which
contemplate magnificent boulevard
westward from the bridges Virginia
terminal, extending as far, at least,
as the Caverns of Luray, in the Shen-
andoah valley. AS an earnest of this
intention, when rights of way were
obtained last year for stretch Of
Lee highway through Fairfax county,
property owners coded to width of
100 feet. So the Arlington bridge
does not appeal solely as a project in
itself, but as the beginning of d new
era of expansion and Identification.
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man or woman who enjoys il fail TO
| take advantage of it when primary
| or election day comes around? The
| ing number of men and women, most
of them Of average intelligence, at
least, do that very thing!
Much is heard nowadays of the
! popular unrest and dissatisfaction
with the government or the manner
| in which the government is conduct
! ed. and various panaceas have been
/ proposed Most OF them contemplate
a change in the federal Constitution.
| One group wants to make 1t easier
! to amend the Constitution. Another
seeks to limit the power OF the Su-
| preme Court to declare acts of Con-
| gress unconstitutional
more recent proposal, OF which
much will be heard during the COM
ing presidential campaign. is that
steps should be taken to make the
priceless privilege of American citi-
zenShip" really priceless. The way
to do this is to take it away from
those who do not appreciate 1t, 1t
| is argued.
Briefly stated the idea is that the
citizen who fails to vote, and who
cannot present an acceptable excuse,
shall he disfranchised for two year rs
upon his first offense. for four years
upon his second offense and for all
time to come upon his third offense
! Thus the right OF the ballot. as the
badge Of citizenship. will be made
to impose an obligation or duty
upon all who wear it.
Members Of certain fraternal So
cieties who do not attend meetings
regularly and otherwise discharge
the obligations of their membership
may forfeit their membership or be
fined or disciplined. Should an
American citizen owe lesser obliga-
ton to his government than to his
lodge?
Back of the idea of compulsory
voting, under penalty of being dis
franchised. is the belief that when
every citizen must vote he will not
only take the trouble to acQuaint
himself with the character, record
and capacity of candidates for public
Office. but will also want to know in
detail just how his government is
constituted and how il functions.
That. obviously. will make for intel
ligent citizenship.
When George Washington predicted
that the federal Constitution would
endure as long as there Remained
any virtue in the body of the peo-
pie" he pointed out that one of the
menaces to it would be "listIessness
for the preservation of the national
and inalienable rights of mankind. -
He also said that eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty" and he might
have added that the exercise of the
priceless privilege of citizenship is
the first essential of eternal Wig
ilance.
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Historic Places.

During the next annual convention
OF the National Educational Society
at Washington it is proposed to take
groups OF visiting teachers to various
'-shrines" in the District, Maryland
and Virginia, and Eat each place q
brief patriotic program and some
especially appropriate tribute will be
rendered" The list Of places to be
visited has not been closed by the
Washington committee in charge Of
the pilgrimages, but the list now made
for pilgrimages into Maryland and
Virginia includes Mount Vernon,
Monticello, Yorktown, jamestown.
Williamsburg, Fort Monroe, st. Johns
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SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.


Tick, Took.
I sat an I listened to old Miss Clock.
She first said Tick" an she next said
Took"
An says, IF I'd nothin' but that to
say,
I'd jes' keep quiet, both night an
day
An then, as I dozed in the freight
glow,
I heard her answerin', soft an slow:
Those words you have learned by
heart SO well,
Are tellin' you all that there is to tell"
Remember, when next my song you
hear,
Tick means a smile; Took means a
tear.
They are all that life can hold in
store"
An she started in sayin', Tick. Took, y
once more.
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White. Thaw was a very exacting
client. He was filled with that de-
nentia which gives one an exag
gerated idea Of ones own Importance.
Quite often he would send peremp-
tory orders to his attorney to come
to the Tombs prison. where Harry
ianguished in dursnce vile. In re-
Spouse to an order one day Mr.. Lit
tieton sent word to Thaw that h.
would be at the prison at 4 o'clock.
something happened to detain TIL
IaWyer ana ne did not arrive at tn"
prison until 400. He found Thaw
paeIng ms cell in high dudgeon
w nat DO you mean By being late.
Whst 40 you mean by not keeping
your engagement promptly: what do
you mean by keeping me waiting
IKE thls? blazed the prisoner.
Hey" protested Mr. IittIetou.
but you know, Harry, was perfect
~ confident in my own mind that
you would be here"
x : !:
Howard Warrington, host Of the
famous little green house" on X
street in Washington. professed to
be overwhelmed by the attentions
paid to him on the occasion OF his
arrival in New York from Europe 4
few days ago. Two dozen reporters
climbed over the rail of the incom-
ing ship down at Quarantine and
Howard, unctious and smiling az
usual, soon had them all seated about
him in one of the salons There
were friends waiting at the pier. too.
THESE attentions" said Mr. Man
ninSton, perhaps | expected But /
did not know that my welcome was
| to be an official one"
He grfnned as he glanced At IN.
senate subpoena which had been
handed to him by deputy sergeant
Listen to what it says. bows" h.
continued. THE United states or
america. The Congress of the United
states. To Howard Warrington:
Ireetinss.' Think Of that. BOYS. the
congress sending greetings to az
humble citizen like me. All that ie
glory enough for today"
i <
The times are indeed out Of joint.
The man from home" doesn't want
to go back any more. w. Jett Lauck.
the economist. just back in Wash
ington from a business trip to Cuba
says he was introduced in Havana BY
a Hoosier friend there to an ex-bar
tender from Kokomo When Kokomo
went dry, the bartender went away
from there. He went to Havana and
opened an American bar all of his
own, and claims. says MIR Lauck. Ia
be doing a fine business
DO you know" said the eX-polisher
of glasses. that even if they should
repeal the Volstead act | don't be-
lieve would go back to kokomo."
And so another great American cX-
patriate is made.
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you can trust the people in that
section" said Lincoln. 81 come from
them and know them" Placing his
finger on the big war map, Lincoln
said propheticaliy: IF we ever come
out Of this horror alive we must do
something for these mountain phople,
who have been shut out of thew orld
all these years"
Soon the assassins bullet killed
Lincoln, but Gen. Howard never for
got that scene. Set in the beautiful
blue ranges of the Cumberland Noun
tains Of Tennessee, near where three
states join, the very gateway through
which the slaves of the south en-
tered freedom in the north, there has
been erected At Cumberland Gap a
university for Lincofns own people. "