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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
FEATURE PICTURE
AND VAUDEVILLE ON
g PROGRAM AT ROYAL

Yesterday brought to the Royal
screen, Mrs. Wallace Reid in Broken
Laws" and to the stage the latest
musical comedy conceit, ''0h, Suzette."
Bob Greer and his Royal Sweeties
seem 10 have extended themselves this
week, for the stage offering is unusual
ly bright and entertaining. New cos
TUNES, new songs, dances, jokes and
a novel story all blend together 10
make the musical show "Oh, Suzette, /"
a real attraction.
''Broken Laws" the film attraction
for the first half Of the week has in
the cast besides Mrs. Wallace Reid,
a group Of players Of prominence in
Guiding Percy Marmont, Ramsey
Wallace and Virginia Lee Corbin.
The story is an exciting one Of ultra
modern tendencies, showing our pres
ent youth in its hectic life of speed,
motor cars, road houses and petting
parties. TIE life stories Of two neigh
boring families, one with a growing
son and the other with a daughter,
is given with startling realism. The
play is dramatic, well acted and in
teresting.
The current Royal program also in
clndes several interesting short sub
jects.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
FUN. FOR
SAILORS IS RAISED

Thomas Meighan. Paramount star,
acted as master of ceremonies at a
concert aboard the S. s. cyiathan, en-
route to England. and smashed all rec
ords for raising money for charitable
purposes, according to radiogram re-
ceived from the ship. -
He succeeded in coaxing $1,000 out
of the pockets of the first-cabin pas
sengers. Tho most any other. person
has been able to get, acting in a SINH
lar capacity at a ship concert. is $500.
according to officials of the big United
States Line ghip.r 3
The money raised By Meighan viii
90 to the Seaman's Fund, an organi
zation that cares for the wants of dc
serving sailors,
The report that told of the recort
collection revealed that considerably
excitement prevailed during the con
cert. There were many noted interna
tional celebrities present and Meighan
proved he is an sauetionecr' of nc
mean ability. z
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23

For some reason which
'iias never fathomed the scalN
. which has been identified fl play
turies with the hunting field -.
Ways known as a pink coat and II MI
F,lor as b-ntin~ ,i,L 'sr 10
his
Humorous writers sometimes Is
Who know nothing Of hounds ant , MAJ
Aelses--take fling at the ancicEeideut.
sport itself and 80 do some ca grips
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
NEW STORY OF
UNDERWORLD
IS FL MED
Street Of Forgotten Men on
Screen at Empire
Theater.

"The Street of Forgotten Men," the
Paramount picture which opened Sat
urday at the Empire is a strange story
of New York's underworld-of Adolpho
the Disguiser, Easy Money Charley,
White Eye and other strange charac-
tiers of the street"
The tale is fantastic and reveals
bit of New York life that never comes
before the public-that bit of sordid
life up dirty Bowery alley where
the professional beggaTs of the great
city make up" for their business, COM
ing in as able, healthy men and lcav-
ing as bits of human wreckagc. with
fake plaster arms, bent legs and unsee-
ing eyes.
The principal character of the story
is Easy Money Charley" played by
Percy Marmont whose portrayal is re-
-gardcd as a masterpiece of charactcri-
cation. He is the king Of the Beg
gars," by right of his mastery in the
art of changing his upright. handsome
bearing into that of sickly, armlcss
cripple. and because of his superior
mentality which makes him the leader
of the beggars.
'The Street of Forgotten Men" is a
story of THE Miracle Man" appeal,
though of a totally different nature,
for it deals with a phase of under
world life never before brought to the
screen. The story was written by
George Kibbe Turner and directed by
Herbert Brenon.
Percy Marmont is supported by Neil
Hamilton, Mary Brian and an excel
lent cast of principals.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
.CHAPLIN'S
"THE GOLD RUSH" TO
BE RELEASED SOON

Charlie Chaplin's new picture "The
Gold Rush." opened its premier in
New York City this past week. Crit
les contend that Charles claims that
this is his greatest work are well
founded-that ell the laughs he gave
during his early film existence to-
gether with many new ones are to be
found in this humorous masterpiece.
The old time Charlie-funny feet,
funny pants, funny walk and funny
hat are an here.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
NEW YORK'S NIGHT
LIFE I'M PICTURE

The Plaza begins its week today
with two-day engagement of the ro-
nance of New Works night life
Broadway After Dark" The cast
enacting the story is an unusually
strong one, featuring Adolphe Men.
jou, Norma Shearer. Anna @. Nilsson,
Edward Burns and Willard Louis.
Tuesday to Thursday the attraction
willAbe Tess of the 'D'Urbervilles. "
featuring Conrad Nagel and Blanche
Sweet.
Friday and Saturday the Plaza will
present the latest production offered
by Mrs. WeDace Reid. 1t is Broken
Laws" in which a notable cast appears
with Mrs. Reid, including Virginia Lee
Corbin. Percy Marmont and Ramsey
Wallace. b
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
FRANK LLOYD WILL
MAKE NEW PICTURE

"The Splendid Road" will be tie
next work Of Frank Lloyd after he
completes winds Of Chance" This
is story Of the gold rush days I'm
California. The cast for the produc-
ton has not yet been chosen.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
'5HORE LEAVE
EXTRACTION
At PALACE
United States Navy Co.
operated in Making
Film.

-- Shore Leave starring Richard
Barthelmess will be the featured film
. at the Palace tbeater this week. This
picture is taken from the famous
David Belasco stage play of the same
name and is claimed to be far more en-
PERTAINING and exciting in celluloid
form than in its legitimate state
Shore Leave" centers around the love
of a village dressmaker in a small
New England town for itinerant
sailor man. They meet while he is on
shore leave. He sees in her pleasing
companion for his land adventure and
she sees in him an ideal. The sailor
has no serious intentions and rebukes
4 her in his happy-go-lucky manner
: when she attempts TO lead him into
contemplation of anything to her than
the amusement at hand.
The sea rover sails with his thoughts
ON the next port, the next leave and
the next girl while the girl keeps in
7 her heart the remembrance of her
/. happy hours and visions a return of
her hero. In time fortune smiles on
her and it is her efforts to locate
I, the sailor lad, whose name is Smith
and the consequent situations that
provide the humor, drama, suspense,
thrill and other emotions that 90 to
make the thoroughly enjoyable movie.
:, NAVY CO-OPERATED.
According to the advance reports
: this picture was made with the full
cooperation of the United States
!. Naval Department. The United States
battleship Arkansas with full crew
and equipment was turned over to the
picture producers and every scene su-
pervised by naval authorities to insure
accuracy in presentation. The naval
base at Hampton Roads where sailors
aplenty are to be found at all times
was selected as the principal filming
point and much of the success of the
production from a standpoint of cor
rect atmosphere is attributed TO this
action.
-Shore Leave is listed as a picture
of exceptionally fast action and whole
some humor with sufficient Of drama
aud pathos thrown in to make IL
stand head and shoulders above the
average photoplay. An entire crew
from a large battleship 90 through
their daily drills and duties in one of
the sequences and ere claimed to af-
ford novel bit of screen entertain
ment with the various pranks that
they play on each other.
LATE PATHE COMEDY.
Dorothy Maekaill plays opposite the
star as the dressmaker who is forced
to give up her new found fortune in
order TO get the man Of her choice.
A supporting cast Of especially sell
ected players is commented on as being |
particularly well suited to their re-
spectiFe roles.
"a. One Of the latest Pathe comedies
will hold second place on the program
while Fox News, Pathe Review and
the usual scenic reel will have their
usual positions.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
COMEDY FILM
ON PRINCESS
PROGRAM

There is much to laugh about at
the Princess this week where Reginald
Denny holds forth as the laughmaking
star of I'm Show You The Town"
which opened Saturday.
'I'll Show You The Town" comes
recommended as a comedy entirely free
from 'hokum'" and slapstick, depend
ing upon rich humor, funny situations
and the novelty of plot to get it over.
The story deity unrayels a chain
of circumstances involving an IN roma
tic college professor who, in order 10
obtain a gift for his defunct college.
woos and nearly wins the heart of
wealthy widow. The wooing was part
of his plan-but the winning threw
him into a panic.
THE FUNNY DANCE.
Denny's adventures about the city
with three charming young ladies and
the wealthy widow on his arme are lu-
dicrous. He is inveigled into the
Hanging Gardens" cafe and is called
upon TO dance after not having danced
for years. How he and the widow,
neither of them at ali expert in the
intricacies of the modern dance, win
the plaudits of the patrons as ex-
hibition dancing experts constitutes
one of the funniest scenes of the pic
ture. Another humorous situation is
found in Denny's frantic efforts 20
keep from becoming embroiled with
jealous husbands who do not fancy
their wives traipsing about town with
Denny, the Lothario.
ORGAN NOVELTY.
His efforts at entertaining three
women in the same cafe without al
lowing any of the three to become
aware of the presence Of the others
forms most humorous bit Of the
story.
A Hodge Podge" cartoon novelty,
Princess News, a Bruce Scenic West
'ern Seas" and the organ novelty lis
tening" played by John Metz are the
other features on the new program.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-23
GRAUsTARK COMING.

Norma Talmadgez and Eugene
O'Brien, the screens. greatest lovers
will be seen together in the modern
lied version of "Graustarkr whiah
will have its first local showing at
an carly date.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
ROYAL BABE Is GIVEN
PLAIN AMERICAN NAME
Princess Xenia, Former Miss Leeds
Calls Daughter Nancy" Dis
carding Helene Marie"
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 5.-Helene
Marie Leeds, 6-month-old royal grand
daughter of the late tin plate king
is back from her Partisan christening
as a plain American. She has lost the
name given her in Paris.
Her mother, Princess Xenia of
Russia, said that Helene Marie" had
been cast aside for just plain Nancy" J."
and Nancy she would always be, just
as she would be forever American.
Her father. w. B. Leeds, has taken a
Long Island estate. They plan to be
in this country for some time.
I'VE are Americans, you know" the
princess said, and we want to live in
our own country"
But Nancy, with all her royal blood
coloring her rosy cheeks, might have
been even more fortunate. BY the
terms of the late tin plate kings
will the $40, 200, 900 estate can only be
inherited by a male issue.
In the Leeds party on the Aquitania
yesterday was Prince Paul of Greece,
a tall blonde youth % years old, who
wears monocle and has valet.
Evening star., 1925-09-05

Rev Lillian Herrick Chapman, an
ordained minister of the Congrega-
tional Church, has become one of the
pastors Of large church in Elmira,
N. Y.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
WORKER DIES INSTANTLY
FROM TOUCH OF LIVE WIRE
Elmer S. Carrick Killed When He
Attempts to Cut Off Electric
Switch at Plant.

Elmer S. Carrick, 33 years old, was
instantly killed yesterday when his
hand touched a live wire in attempt
ing to cut off an electric switch at the
National Woodworking Co. plant, 80
New York avenue northeast, where
he was employed.
He was taken to Sibley Hospital in
an automobile, but physicians stated
he had died instantly.
An inquest into this case, as well as
one into the death of Samuel NJ. Dick
erson, % years old, colored, a laborer
on a construction operation at Seven
teenth and l streets, who was killed
in "A fall down an elevator shaft yes
terday, is being held today at the Dis
trict Morgue.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
CRIME IN BRITAIN
HAS BIG DECREASE
Only About One Sixth as
Many in Prisons Now
as so Years Ago.
Correspondence of The Star and New York


Correspondence of The, Star and New York
World.
LONDON. August 20.-Striking sta
tistics showing the decrease of crime
in Great Britain were given by Home
Secretary Sir William Johyson-Hicks
at the opening of the International
Prison Congress here. Fifty years
ago, said Sir William, there were
10000 people serving sentences of
penal servitude and 10000 lesser Of
tenders in local jails. Today there are
only 1900 undergoing penal servitude
and 5000 in local jails. To these must
be added 1,100 juvenile offenders con-
fined in the detention jails called
"Borstal institutions"
The number of prisons required in
Great Britain has correspondingly de-
creased. for whereas SO years ago
Britain had to maintain 113 local pris-
ons and 13 penal servitude centers,
they now only needed 81 local prisons
and four penal servitude institutions.
This, despite the great increase in
population.
The reason for this decrease, said
the home secretary, was mainly bot
ter education, improved sobriety and
Improvement in the standard and
conditions of living, also in the care
taken by judges and magistrates to
make the greatest possible use of the
alternative to detention. However, a
great deal has been accomplished by
modern mad more humane methods
of dealing with offenders.
Training the Real Aim.
The time has passed." said Sir
Wlllam, when an executive gov
ernment considered it had done its
70
an offender. In depriving a human
being of his liberty an executive gov
ernment has undertaken a new re-
sponsibility of the very gravest kind
that of the treatment and training
of the offender during his incarcera.
ton.
"a man does not lose his rights as
a human being because he has broken
the law. A man must not come out
OF prison in such condition of mind
and body that he is no longer fit to
take his place in society. The state is
Ifee TO experiment upon prisoners
with mental, and physical forces, with
a view to their restoration to a state
or normal citizenship. This is the
object of every one of our prison ad.
ministrators.
+. Explaining new methods, the home
secretary said, two experiments were
pelng conducted at present in regard
to prisons. One was that Wormwood
Scrubs prison lone of the most famous
Jails in the London district had been
organized on the basis of the idea of
separate establishment for first Of
tenders. A few months ago this prison
was set aside entirely for men COM
mitted from the London area who had
never been in prison before, with the
object or training them in an environ
ment free from the prison atmosphere.
The Drisou at Wakefield Yorkshire)
Evening star., 1925-09-05
UNCLE SAM, BIG LOCAL FARMER,
MAKES BUT LITTLE FOR WORK
Variety of Produce, Grown for Experimental Pur
poses, Fails to Pay Its Costs Despite Its Ex-
cellence-Fnds Market Here

Uncle Sam, as everybody knows, is
one of our most prominent local
farmers
He raises quite a variety of crops
in considerable quantities at his eX-
perimental farm at Arlington and at
his model dairy farm at Beltsville,
Md, to say nothing of speciality crops
at half dozen other places near
Washington.
But the old gentleman is not a
money-making farmer. He likes to
putter around the places, trying
unique experiments with this thing or
that thing, not even expecting the
farms to pay for themselves. If it
were not for his generous nephews
and nieces, the old homesteads would
have gone under the hammer years
ago.
Like all other farmers, Uncle Sam
has his troubles with those mysterious
influences which establish prices and
with the vagaries of the law of supply
and demand. Sometimes he has a fine
crop ready to harvest and then finds
that it is not worth gathering. Some
times he gets it to market and finds
that the bottom has dropped out
overnight.
Last year was very successful one
on his farms. But the gross income
was only about $1S,000, not splash
in the bucket of expenditures for
hired men, fertilizers, etc.
Products on Sale Here.
All of his farm products available
for sale are disposed of at a store in
the basement of the administration
building of the Department of Agri-
culture, in charge of the captain of
the watch. They are sold at slightly
below the market price, to compen-
safe purchasers for Juggling them
home. Most of the customers are
department employees, although the
store is open to anybody.
Uncle Sam does not consider him.
self in competition with the city
markets. His sales are SO small, COM
paratively, that they make no differ
ence, whereas he cannot be expected
to throw away $4,000 to 100000 a
year, especially in these hard times
when he is looking out for every
penny.
Three bureaus supply most of the
produce. From the Arlington farm
come principally apples, with very
few grapes and peaches and some
vegetables in season. Nearly 5000
bushels of apples were sold last year.
There is a fine orchard at Arlington
consisting of more than 500 trees, but
there are only two each of the same
variety. Some are good bearers and
some very poor. A considerable part
of the harvest is not sold at all, but
used in further experiments, such as
in storing, canning or cider making.
The vegetable crop at Arlington is
very small. A few years ago, when
free seeds were distributed by the de-
partment, a large, fiouriShing vege-
table garden was maintained. The
produce was furnished to the mess at
Fort Myer. Fort Myer would be en-
titled to a garden of it's own in the
Arlington reservation If it demanded
it. In the experimental vegetable
garden days the Department of Agri-
culture made an agreement to supply
Evening star., 1925-09-05
DENIES CANDIDACY.

SPOKANE, Wash, September 5
N).-Vice President Dawes, speak
ing yesterday from the rear end of
a train on which he was travelling to
Seattle, said he is not a candidate
for office. He made the statement
while urging his hearers to bring
pressure upon their Senators for a
revision of the Senate rules.
There are a lot of fellows talking
about me being in politics, trying 70
create the impression that l am try
ing to be what is a matter of simple
duty, for political purposes. This is
not so, and don't believe it,,
Evening star., 1925-09-05

In the United States more than 1000
women in 1877 cities are employed as
executives In banks and trust COM
panies.
Evening star., 1925-09-05
SUBMARINES MADE
FOR ROCK STUDIES
British Scientist Describes
Physical Properties of
Interior of Earth.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Septem-
Der 3.-Submarines are to be used
in the near future in a study of the
densest and hardest rocks on earth.
which ere under the sea. This new
peace-time use of the former war
time terrors was announced to the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science, now in session here,
by it's president, Prof. Horace Lamb,
in his opening address.
The new subsea craft is planned by
a Dutch scientist, DIR. Victor Meinesz,
to carry instruments specially de-
signed for the study of the gravita-
tional effects of the rocks of the ocean
bottom. which are as yet very little
understood.
Old Theory Discarded.
Prof. Lamb discussed in his address
the physical properties of the in
terror of the earth. concerning which
he is an acknowledged authority. He
l-stated that the old idea of a molten,
fiery interior of our planet was long
ago discarded by scientists, and that
we now know, by studies Of the be-
other means, that the earth as
whole is as rigid as steel within.
Though the inside of the earth is not
molten, it is still very hot, he said.
| fore the outer layers serve as a heat
insulating blanket, just like the as
bestos jacket of a steam engine.
At the core fthe earth, occupying
about one-fourth of its total diane
ter, is a mass of very dense material
HR-h nh iG
culiar Prof. Lamb said. 1t yields
slowly, like stiff tar, under long, slow
strains; but to sudden shocks like
earthquakes. and even to vibrations
whose length may be measured in
days or weeks, it behaves as though
it were rigid.
Semi-Fluid Layer.
Coming a little closer to the sur
face, Prof. Lamb told of a viscous
stratum about so miles down, on
which the mountains literally float,
like foam on water. 1t Is this semi
fiuid layer that permits the face of the
earth to change, mountains to fold,
and continents to drift.
Another feature of the session was
the report of a committee appointed
to investigate what is known to sci
entists as 'parthenogenesis," or the
production of animals from virgin fe-
males. Moths and sawf1ies had been
produced without fathers for Is and 8
generations, respectively, the commit
tee stated. During all this time no
weakness was discovered, and only s
males appeared among 1000 insects
produced. The scientists will next ex-
tend their experiments to vertebrates,
probably using frogs as their fire&
material
Evening star., 1925-09-05

the fort rather than have another
large garden, carried on without scien-
tific knowledge, so close at hand. The
mess still gets some vegetables.
8,428 Dozen Eggs Sold.
The eggs and meat come from the
Beltsville farm of the Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry. Last year S,42S dozen
eggs were sold in the department
store. The price ran about the market
wholesale price. but no effort was
made to grade the eggs. Small pullet
eggs were mixed in indiscriminately
Considerable numbers of hams and
shoulders are sold as we'll as other
pork products. Lamb is sold very
rarely. Chickens are still more rare
ly on the market.
From the Bureau of Chemistry the
store receives twice a year about 80
pounds of tea which has been sent in
for tests and allowed to accumulate.
The one product on hand every day
of the year is American Swiss cheese,
received from the dairy division. This
division is striving to produce an
American product which will have all
the advantages of the Swiss and at
the same time infringe on none of
the patented methods. A great deal is
produced in the course of the expert
ments. 1t is sold for 20 cents a pound,
whereas the European product brings
about 80 cents.
Ice Cream Goes Fast.
About once a month a supply of ice
cream, made in the course of expert
ments, is received from the dairy di-
vision This is sold for 10 cents a pint
and usually is all gone in a very short
time.
Sales of butter and cream are han
died by an organization inside the
dairy division.
The actual harvest of Uncle Sans
farms is far less than the casual OBJ
server, noting flourishing fields, might
believe. Everything is grown for ex-
perimental purposes. Sometimes the
purpose of the experiment is COM
piled with when the crop is half
grown. If so, it is removed to make
way for some other experiment.
Oftentimes the Government expert
ments with varieties which do not
prove good bearers, so that the har-
vest is SO small it would be waste of
money to gather it.
At the experimental farm at Bell.
Md, this year there were 10 acres of
Seeding Strawberries. They COM
priSed a great number of varieties
Some vineS~were loaded with berries
Others would bear only one or two
all season. The Bureau of Horticul-
tural Investigation was unwilling to
use up any of it's appropriation to
pick them. The crop was turned over
on the vines to the finance and sup
ply division, which paid for the labor
of picking and realized about $400
on the crop.
All the receipts of the store go into
the Treasury.