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The Washington times., 1925-01-10
SMALL TALK ON PLAYS.
AND PLAYERS

"UndertOW, starring DOrO-
thy Dalton, was Withdrawn last
week after trying out. 1t is I'M
derstood Miss Darron viii retire
for the season.
High Tide, also has been with
drawn. l.. Lawrence Weber is
reported holding the attraction
off until next season.
= = Those who feel that Colleen
Moore's ability to portray charac-
ter on the screen is limited to the
depletion OF a single Harper
type will be astounded at the per
Torrance she gives as Selma
Peake, afterward Selma DeJong
in Edna Ferber's $50 Big" which
is at Crandall's Metropolitan and
Ambassador theaters Sunday aft
ernoon. Miss Moore's impersoha-
ton spans a lifetime and covers
the years from 1887 to the
present.
. The RialtO has established
an ushers' school which boys en-
gagged for work in that playhouse
as ushers must attend before be-
ing allowed to go on the floor to
handle the public. 1t is the policy
OF this playhouse to offer the
best in service and since the
ushers are the only persons who
come in direct contact with
patrons it is necessary that this
branch of the Ratio be given
extreme attention.
LOew's Palace has been
able to offer to it's patrons so
far this season two of the six
outstanding productions that Met
ro-Goldwyn will issue to the
American public within the next
twelve-month. The first was
''He Who Gets Slapped from
the Andreyev stage play that
held forth at the Palace last
week. The second is Erich Won
Stroheim's production, Greed"
from Frank Norris novel, NC
league" which opens there to-
morrow.
As N extra added at
traction to sliding" Billy Wat
sons big Fun Show" at the
Gayety next week. a vaudeville
specially will be contributed by
the Three Eddies, a trio of col
ored lads who do syncopated hoof-
ing. This is their first appear
a nee In sCOiuflDld DuE1SSqu S. anu
i'm every city in which they have
appeared they have registered
chit"
Having achieved a rec
ord for. the simultaneous playing
of a motion picture. the Famous
Players production of Peter
PAM will be withdrawn from
the market nv February l. The
nicture will be held until the
holiday time next year and then
presented, the idea being to make
il an annual holiday feature each
The figures that the picture
achieved at the box offices In
the 257 odd theaters where is
played last week are startling
in their magnitude.
) First night tickets for Al
Jolson's big Boy at the Win.
ter Garden We're in the form OF
race track badges. On the main
side is inscribed, Lower STAND.
Admit One"
The reverse details the seat
number with a. small stub attach
ed for the ticket taker. Also
the price is marked similarly TO
the track cards - Established
price SO. tax 81; total, $1l:
. . "The Narrow Street" play
The Washington times., 1925-01-10
Sentenced for five years!

Sentenced for five years!
How many culprits have trem-
bled as the dread words issued
from the mouth of stern judge,
and they saw before them the
dismal prospect of the peni-
tertiary.
There is another form of sen
tence for the same length of time
which is, on the contrary, very
appealing, and which any girl in
the land would be delighted to
face: The contract that SEN
fences you to five years of
featured and starring life in the
movies.
Dorothy Devore has just sign
ed a contract with Warner Bros.
to be starred in their productions
for this length of time. Her
first appearance is in 1.-THE Mar
row Street." the novel by Edwin
Bateman Morris, which will come
tomorrow for weeks run at
the Rialto Theater.
In this vehicle, directed by
William Beaudine, Miss Devore
has an opportunity to do an en-
tirely different type of work,
and the-local audiences will be
able to share the faith of the
The Washington times., 1925-01-10


City editors are forever telling
young reporters that life is full
of drama; that nose for news
and a pair of observing eyes will
find a city square to be as
charged with the unusual IN
human interest as the air is with
molecules or reticules or what
ever they are.
Until they stop believing these
fallacies of malevolent minds
young reporters remain young
reporters. Some of them, it is
true, die early, plunging anon
into lidless manholes or caught
meath the grinding wheels of a
juggernaut while scanning third
story skylines in obedience to
the city editors injunction that
mysterious things always hap
pen in third-story windows.
A young reporter friend of
mine-who can now be reached
at the B. & o. freight yards,
except Sundays-spent hours
one afternoon interpreting the
contents of an old applewoman's
basket into a rosary of hopes
and disappointments, for the
late sports edition. That shriv-
eled little pear in the corner
symbolized an migrate son, at
the very moment, most likely,
Multiplying a cigarette in some
Gambling den, the while he held
an inside straight in one hand,
and a beaker of gin in the other.
This big shiny red apple atop
the pile was translated into the
old woman's hopes and prayers,
born the day she first viewed
from her sickbed the little bun
die from the stork. And so on.
A pretty thing, my dears, and
on any other day such an ebul-
lition as would gain favor with
the city editor and undying
hatred from the. copy desk.
It so happened, however. that
the police picked this particular
afternoon to snare a notorious
murderer. ono Anvil-Faced Mike
who, in his playful moods, chose
also to be remembered to the
police and his friends as Tear
I'm Limb From Limb Dugan,
Hotsy-Tofsy One Eye Battling
The Washington times., 1925-01-10
GIDDY-UP PONY, THERE'S
PLANES OVERHEAD
$3.50 u

light, to drown the click of the
film cameras following Colleen's
journey, two centuries-the past
and the present-were suddenly
linked.
Twenty wheeling escort planes,
darting like fledglings about
three giant mother planes, told
the story of the arrival of the
around-the-world filters at the
point from which they had start
ed-San Diego, Cal. -
And below them Colleen Moore
was making her first starring
picture for First National an
adaptation of Edna Ferber's col
orful novel of the preceding CEN
tury, $50 Big" at Crandall's Met
ropolitan and Ambassador thea
ters, beginning tomorrow after
noon.
Those man-made birds told the
story of the worlds progress, just
as the perturbation of $50 Big"
marks off the milestones of
most important era in screen
progress. 1t marks the changes
that time brings.
In Edna Ferber's novel of the
early Dutch settlement Of Chi
cago, the horse was still the
greatest servant of man. Today
steam and electricity, combustion
engines and generators, have rele-
gated the horse to the limbo Of
curiosities.
In the film Colleen Moore kneels
before a rusted. sooty wood stove,
to cook the meager meal for John
Bowers, her farmer husband.
And in her own home she has an
electric stove and big gas range
that combines all the different
styles of cooking food. The
Pickering lamp has given way to
incandescent globes. controlled by
the pressure Of finger.
The Washington times., 1925-01-10

Kid Sockdolager, and by. the
less flourishing pseudonym,
Dinty the Dope. And it so hap
pened, further, that the opposi-
ton scooped the young man who
would see -idylls in apples, with
such disastrous results that the
ire of even the butter and egg
editor was so majestic he forgot
to enter closing quotations on
Chattanooga Yards.
The purpose of this silly and
aggressive piece is to instance
that occasional exception to the
rule which people say occurs
with law-abiding frequency.
All drama, save Percy Mack
ayes pageants and "Jack in the
Pulpit, is grounded, however
sparsely, on actual life.
People are saying around
town this week that the charac-
ter impersonated by Lionel Bar
rymore at the Belasco is too
horribly dumb and foolish to be
real; that he's an exaggerated
pkantasmagoria; a fearful charge,
| must say, and one Mr.. Barry
would be justified in answering
with duelling pistols.
Norfolk, Va, has been harbor-
ing mystery man for weeks.
He was SO helpless in what the
authorities interpreted as "his
amnesia" that certain solicitous
. souls who would be starchine
altar cloths, or peeking into
hospital wards, or patting
strange children on the head i
they weren't helping this tragic
oddment in Norfolk, decided to
have him broadcast his voice in
the hope that friends might rec
ognize him and propel him
forthwith to the CHEEKY fireside
that must be awaiting him.
The boy talked a. few nights
ago; "in a strange and unheard-
of language" one newspaper
said. The language was not
strange to a Finnish attache of
the immigration department who
identified the mystery man as a
Finn who had arrived illegally
in this country, became lost and
who is now Ia durese vile. await
The Washington times., 1925-01-10
THE GATE-POST
By Harold Phillips;

Benchy Les witty critic of the Keiths
the Music Box Revue speciality The Treasurers
Report"
Just how the Keith interests managed to this foremost OF
pund selecter of real Gohamte
mystery far he likes suspect
and above his salary danged
Bencey probably of redopped boots
shooter promise of spwe at Des Moines to break the
jump Washington and Minneapolis.
Be that one another and hear
drama the country boasts in the
business of soterng completes Of
Harvard bells for entertainment Of the
two-aday. ..
Benchy the author of three books the entertaining
being "Of Things the third full year its existence
nicely the serocomc chemistry ofhs
up he points pride 1917-1S secretary
Army Aircraft Board in Washington.
The Washington times., 1925-01-10
FOR
ONE WEEK
!. AHEAD

NATIONAL-W. c.. Fields in a
new z egfeld revue, THE Comic
Supplement" ;
BELASCO- Lillian Foster in
Conscience" 8
KEITH'S-Duci de Kerekjarto, {
violinist: Others.
GAYETY-Barney Gerard's new
show. 3
MUTUAL = Hurry Up bur-
lesquers.
STRAND-Jim Toney and Ann.
Norman: Grace Elders revue. :.
METROPOL1TAN-Lewis Stone
in Husband and Lovers.
PALAGE-Agnes Ayers In To
morrow'ss Love. &
COLUMBIA---Dou Fairbanks in
''rhe Thief of Bagdad."
RIALTO--PauIi1te Frederick in
"Smouldering Fires.
The Washington times., 1925-01-10
GREED SCENES FILMED
IN NATURAL LOCALE

to the great majority .of con-
temporary screen plays, not one
single scene of Greed was pro-
duccd or filmed in the studio
Greed" opens it's first engage.
ment in Washington at Loew's
Palace tomorrow afternoon, where
it will lie the featured attraction
through the week.
The Washington times., 1925-01-10

From the jogging seat of an
old, creaking farm wagon, bear
ing load of vegetables to mar
ket, Colleen Moore looked up as
a covey of great, cloth-and-metal
ducks" came winging overhead.
In that second, as the 100-mile-
an-hour purring came drifting
down through the cleaning sun
The Washington times., 1925-01-10

Much has been written and
more has been said of the mar
wells of modern motion picture
settings Every studio boasts OF
the perfection of the temporary
drawing rooms, villages, palaces
and novels which, mushroom-like.
blossom into being overnight at
the will of. the director.
MARY elous things they are
these realistic structures of wool
and cardboard that have become
such an important part of the
newest of the dramatic arts. To
bring them into existence there
exists an army of highly trained
specialists--architec artists, in
terror decorators and skilled crafts
men
But one intrepid screen director
has Ventured to upset the estab-
lished conventions ~of photoplay
settings. He is Eric Won StrO-
helm. vino, in the interest of abso-
lutte realism, filmed the entire pro
duction OF Greed the Metro
Goodwin Mayer perturbation Of
Frank Norris classic of American
literature, "McTeague." in it's &C
tual locale. Real houses, stores,
restaurants, mines, cities and
deserts served as the background
for the action of this unusual mo-
ton picture. In sharp contrast
The Washington times., 1925-01-10

ing deportation to Helsingfors or
some other town of equally for
bidding aspect.
Bernie Kaplan in "Four
Knaves and Joker" is as dumb
as a fox compared to this astute
stowaway, yet if the incident
were put on the stage, people
would stick their tongues in
their cheeks and scatter pea
nuts all over the floor.
The moral of this tale is that
radio is wonderful.
The Washington times., 1925-01-10

deems Taylor,
nj u sic critic IF
the New York
HWorld" and COM
poser, will make
a grand opera
from the story of
Janice Meredith, y
for which he COM
posed the movie
score.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
DISTRICT FIRGLOSS
GOES UP $1,115,204
Most Fires Here Preventable, Ma
tional Underwriters
Board Declares.

Losses from fire in the District of
Columbia in 1928 totaling Sl,34S.762
Increased S1,115,204 in the five-year
period ended with 1928, the national
board of fire underwriters announced
today. In 1918 fire losses in Wash
ington totaled $233,55S.
OF the 20 originating causes for
Ares in Washington, defective Chin
neys and f1ues were responsible for
losses aggregating S39S,452 while
matches and smoking caused losses
amounting to $33S,5S1. Both fall with
the strictly preventahle classification.
the board said, which lends support
support to the contention of fire pre-
vention engineers that three-fourths
of the nations fire destruction is al
ways aVoidable.
Turned to use instead of into smoke,
the S1,34S,763 fire bill in Washing
ton for 1928 would have built IS
modern, fireprOof school houses, each
costing 100000, while applied to road
construction, to the erection and
maintenance of hospitals or to any
of a number of public works. this
money would have improved condi-
tions here and lowered taxes.
In addition to the monetary losses,
all the property destroyed was re-
moved. a [ least for a time, from the
municipal tax rolls. In arriving at
the figures also, the cost of eXtin-
gushing the many individual fires re-
sulting in the total, was not reckoned
and should rightly be added to :he
expense borne by the public, the
board said.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
ARGENTINA SEES
CHILEAN VICTORY
Coolidge Award Held to Be
Mainly Against Peru in
Dispute on Tacna.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
BUENOS AIRES, March lot is
generally considered in Buenos Aires
that Chile has won decided victory
IN the Tacna-Arica arbitration, in
asn1uch as the plebiscite ordered was
one of the points insisted on in Chile's
argument
While President Coolidge finds that
Peru failed to prove its charges that
the two provinces had been Chilean
iKed," 1t is accepted here that any
plebiscite held would be certain to
favor Chile, inasmuch as the Chilean
population overwhelms both prov
inoes.
Sympathy for Peru.
out to Peru. There is feeling here
However, while she has the sympa
who have visited Tacna AFRICA and
other place in the province, Chile
probably has done more for their ad
vancement than if they had remained
under Peruvian sovereignty.
Only within the past decade has
Peru awakened to the necessity of
modernizing and improving standards
of living, and most of her cities and
villages now, except Lima, are back
ward and unsanitaTy the same as two
centuries ago Chile, realizing the
value of first impressions, has given
careful attention 10 the cities of
Tacna and africa. Both are attractive
and sanitary, in striking contrast to
Peruvian villages in the interior.
Copyright, 1925. by Chicago Daily News Coz
Evening star., 1925-03-10
AMERICANS GET DAMAGES.
100000 Francs Awarded in French
Auto Accident,

NICE, France, March 10.-A civil
tribunal here has awarded provisory
damages totaling 100000 francs to
the Americans injured in the auto
mobile bus accident near Guillaumes
on August 20, 1928. and to the heirs
OF the six who were killed.
The full sums to which the injured
persons are entitled will be fixed later
by the court when medical experts
have decided as to the degree of in
capacity resulting from the injuries
in each case.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
BY WILLIAM p. HELM, JR.

President Coolidge has called on
every branch of the Federal Govern
ment to send him, through proper
channels. a monthly report showing
the number of employees on it's pay
roll at the close of the month as
compared with the number at the
close of the preceding month. If there
is an increase, an explanation will be
demanded.
That is the second step in the
Presidents campaign to reduce the
number of Federal employees so that
taxes soon may be cut again. The
first step was taken on the night of
January 26 fast, when the President,
addressing the Cabinet and bureau
heads at meeting in Washington,
asserted:
What we are looking for is a re-
duction in the number of employees.
Let me remind you that the Gov
ernment pay roll for 1924 reached
the staggering total of 81, $50, 900 900.
Not a dollar should be asked
from the taxpayers for superfious
personnel. We have superfiuous en-
ployes. 1t is an unpleasant and
difficult task to separate people from
the Federal service. But it can be
done. 1t will be done. l advise Fed
eral administrators to plan to- operate
with a smaller personnel than is now
employed"
Determines on Vigorous Action.
Since that utterance Mr.. Coolidge
has seen figures compiled by the Civil
Service Commission showing that the
number of Federal employees increased
by 10,94S during the year 1924-the
first calendar year of his presidency.
In the light of those figures, and
coupled with his expressed desire to
reduce the personnel, the President
has determined on unusual and vigor-
Gus action.
Hereafter he will keep his eye on
the public pay roll to an extent greater
than ever before attempted by the
White House. Mr.. Coolidge wants to
know how many persons are working
under his direction. He intends to see
personally that the number is not in
creased unnecessarily. The count of
heads will go to the White House
hereafter about the 10th of each
month.
This count will be made by the Civil
Service Commission, which in turn is
acting on request of the Bureau of
the Budget. Gen. Lord, director OF
the Bureau OF the Budget, sent the
request several weeks ago, by di
rection of the President" to the Civil
Service Commission. The commission
has prepared a simple and handy form
which will be used by each depart
ment in reporting, so that the re-
turns will be standard.
Information Is Asked.
The first request for this informa-
tion was sent out by the commission
within the past three weeks in iden-
tical letters addressed to the proper
officials of each department and indie
pendent office of the Government
These letters said that the informa-
tlon was intended for the President.
AS the first request was sent out in
February it was. thought best to go
back to the ending of 1924 as a con-
venient date for the comparison
rather than to the end of January.
Hence the first reports to go to the
President will contain figures show
ing in detail the number of Federal
employees December 81, 1924, ana the
number of employees February %,
1925 The comparative periods thus
will be two months apart in the first
summary. Hereafter they will be only
one month apart.
Evening star., 1925-03-10

cial treaty intended to ensure free
dom of trade by abolishing irksome
import restriction.
The Italian member also insisted
that Italy had aided Austria, but he
declared Austria must first help her
self
The Austrian representative replied
automatically, saying Austria always
had known she had the support of
Great Britain and France. and was
glad to learn she also had the good
will of Czechoslovakia and Italy
The council subsequently passed a
resolution approving the opinion and
recommendations of the financial
committee and attaching the highest
Importance to the prompt execution
by Austria of these recommendations
The council today considered the
Greek refugee question, eX-Premier
BRAND of France making report
welcoming Charles P. Rowland of
New York, as the new president of
the Greek Land Settlement Commits
sion, and voicing the councils pleas
ure at the successful floating of
$50 600. 900 loan in New York, London
and Athens.
A resolution adopted approved Mr.
Howland's suggestion that the prob
lem of the Greek refugees requires
it's complete solution, and addressed
an appeal to charitable institutions
A report of the leagues permanent
financial committee also was adopted.
1t recommended that the commission
of governmental experts engaged in
studying double taxation and fiscal
evasion be enlarged by the addition
of representatives of the United
States, one South American country,
= Nearsrr1 q ar1H md On1o
Arbitration Move Gains.
The leagues economic committee
informed the council that the protocol
for the insertion of arbitration
clauses in commercial contracts had
been signed conditionally by Austria
and Paraguay and by Great Britain
for Southern Rhodesia, and had been
| ratified by Belgium, Germany and
Great Britain. The protocol has been
signed by % states and ratified by 6,
the other three ratifying powers be-
ing Albania, Finland and Italy.
The council approved a decision of
| the economic committee to send three
| members to the international con-
| ference to revise the convention for
the protection of industrial property,
| which is to meet at The Hague. Octo-
ber s. Holland especially desires
y
stressing the Importance of the
leagues cola alteration on this sub
ject which is connected with the gen.
eral question of unfair competition
in trade which the league is study
ing.
Ludwig Scholz, for a long time
prominent in the promotion of Ger
man enterprises in the German
colonies, arrived here today from Ber-
| lin as the private representative of
German colonial interests. He me-
morialized each member of the council,
asking for the appointment of a
commission to investigate the Ger
man colonial question, proposal
which he presented to the mandate
commission last year.
He told the council that sixty mill
lion Germans needed an economic out
let and insisted European security
never would be really assured until
the German people have the possibil-
ity of overseas economic expansion
He argued that Germany should be
given some mandate.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
TWO DOCTORS ADDED
TO DISTRICT STAFF
F. Y. Williamson and W. B. Mar.
bury Go to Police and Fire
Board

Appointment of Drs. Fred Y. Will
hanson and William B. Marbury as
additional members of the board of
police and fire surgeons was an
nounced by the Commissioners at
board session today
Three contracts for grading new
streets were awarded, as follows: w.
F. Cush, Inc, to grade Brewer place:
l. P. Shaw, TO grade Tenth street be-
tween Spring road and Quebec place.
and to Latimer & Maloney, to grade
Fifteenth street northeast from New
ton street.
A contract for the purchase of so
new fire hydrants for the Fire De-
partment was awarded to the A. p.
Smith Manufacturing Co.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
WORK FOR MAP .LAUDED.
Geographic Society Answers Letter
of D. C. Commissioners.

The National Geographic Society,
through its president, Gilbert Gros-
venor, today replied to the letter re-
Gently made public by the District
Commissioners thanking the society
for installing in Union Station the
large map of Washington showing
all important buildings and places.
In reply to the letter sent him by
Engineer Commissioner Bell, Mr.. Gros-
venor said, in part:
The National Geographic Society
was very glad to cooperate with you
and Assistant Commissioner Covell
in the PREPARATION of the map. 1t
Is just the sort of work that the
society welcomes in its services for
the increase and diffusion of geo
graphic knowledge. We are in
debted to Maj. Covell for originally
suggesting TO the society that it
prepare these maps"
Evening star., 1925-03-10
COOLIDGE TO CHECK MONTHLY
ON SIZE OF FEDERAL PAYROLL
Calls Every Branch of Government to Submit
Comparative Statements Number of EN-
ployes in Service Euery 80 Days.

This is the second of three articles
describing in detail President Cool
id0e's plans to cut do1on operating
expenses of the Government u, the
face OF continually grotoing Fed
eTdl pay roll.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
Mai. Aurand Ordered to Manila

Maj. Henry S. Aurand. Ordnance De-
partment. has been relieved from duty
in the Office of the chief of ordnance
War Department, and ordered to Manila
P. l., for duty.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
Kellogg Named to Debt Body.

The nomination of Secretary kellogg
to be member of the World War
Foreign Debt Commission in the place
of former Secretary Hughes was sent
to the Senate yesterday by President
Coolidge.
Evening star., 1925-03-10

Motor cyclists of Austria last year
bought three times as many machines
made in America as did all the rest
of the world combined.