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Evening star., 1925-04-26

FD WYNN in his newest spectacular
laughquake, THE Grab Bag" says
the world is getting laughabler every
day. and the people in it never so
ready ito crack a smile
you've got to move around a lot, 4"
says Wynn, in support of his conten-
ton, ito know just what the world
is disposed to take with a grin. The
professor with his dire prophecy that
Wen soon be a laughleSS world ought
to get out and mix with the moving
throngs. Stage folk are the greatest
mixers in the world. In a single sea-
sons tour a player with his eyes open
and his ears registering will pile up
| enough laughs to keep his mother-in-
law in good humor all during a dull
| Summer.
"One cause for the general fun
sense of America is the funnies' of
the periodical press. Insiders know
the cartoon artists and comic writers
! of the newspapers are the saving
| spirit of our industrial life. Take
any one of the strips any day, and
| the family has laughing matter for
| breakfast, dinner and supper.
After the cartoonists and newspa.
per humorists come the consumers
and readers, when 1t comes to ap-
praising the country's fun fonts. III
wager there's more spontaneous wit
and humor swapped any day between
Americas mill. factory, shop and
store workers today than would have
been sparked during any several
years in the days OF the oldtimers
The stage adds a lot to the country S
sense of humor, but, even the stage,
like the country's politics, must get
its cue from the people to whom it
| caters. The fun on the stage, to be
instantly sure-fire, must hit angles of
passing life.
| Shooting folly as it flies isn't a
bad line, and the man who got sore
the other day because the copyright
department at Washington wouldn't
give him a title to it was but one OF
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Rachel Sewall's Marionettes.
4 MOTHER performance of Rachel

& MOTHER performance of Rachel
Sewall's famous little marionettes
will be given tomorrow evening at
SIS o'clock at the Parish House of
the Church of the Holy City, Six
teenth and Corcoran streets north
west.
The program will include three Sc
lections by the Brass Band" featur-
ing very amusing leader and cor
net soloist; Plantation Scenes-Uncle
Ned, the banjo player. and the Picka-
ninny Dancers; the ballad of George
Washington and the Cherry Tree; two
Italian opera singers on concert tour;
Aesop's Fable of the Bear and the
Peasant" Guy Wetmore Carofs YER
sion) and a circus scene, with the
clown, the dog, the elephant, ballet
dancer and the tight-rope walker. BY
special request Miss Sewall will re-
peat her famous presentation OF the
balcony scene from Romeo and
Juliet"
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Frances Starr In Vaudeville

MISS FRANCES STARR, most pop
ular, perhaps, of the several
David Belasco stars who have been
seen in Washington, will make her
vaudeville debut this week at B. F.
Keith's Theater in new one-act play
let, "Colette," written by Jean Archi-
bald. Miss Starr was born in New
York State and was educated in the
Albany public schools. She entered
upon her professional career via the
stock company route with much sue
cess and at an early age.
'Colette" was written by the author
of Call the Doctor a play produced
by Belasco several seasons back. 1t
will be remembered that Miss Starr
was last seen in "Shore Leave" Her
other appearances here include Tiger.
Tiger; The Easiest Way and
Marie Odile.
David Belasco has personally direct
ed Miss STAIRS playlet for vaudeville
and it Is declared complete in every
detail, absolutely up to the Belasco
standard.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
favorite som. win disnense his UNIQUE

favorite son, will dispense his unique
brand of fun with his apparently i'm
promptu chatter of wit and humor.
Others on the bill are Alma Nelson.
in an artistically staged dance offer
ing, assisted by Dan B. Ely, Dave Rice
and the F'rivolity Five: Fred Galetti
and lola Kokin, in Comedy Novelty
Surprises" which Introduces the only
featured monkey in vaudeville; Marie
Walsh and Frank Ellis in Ours Is
Nice House, Ours 1s,' a frolic Of pat
ter and song; Ryan and Ryan. Offering
"Song Steps and Ski Dancing; Wei
dano's Sensation, a trio, who perform
from a trapeze suspended from a.
whirling tower, and Larimer and Hud-
son in Moving Moments" a unique
bicycle act.
The bill will be surrounded by the
popular house features, including
Aesop's Fables, Topics of the Day and
the Pathe News Weekly.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
William Collier, Jr.. Makes
Good.

WE have followed the work of
young William Collier, jr., very
closely for several MONTHS says
Jesse L.. Lasky of Famous Players.
His brilliant personality was clear
ly manifested in The DEVILS Cargo
and Ewes Secret soon to be re-
leased. And from what we have al
ready glimpsed of The Wanderer'
Golfers portrayal promises to be as
fine a triumph as was Betty Bron-
son in Peter Pan Although work
on The Wanderer' will keep Mr.. Col
lier occupied for several months, we
already have planned some very i'm
portant parts for him."
Young Collier, who is % years old,
has been acting in pictures for the
past nine years. He is the son of
William Collier, the well known actor
and playwright.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

NATIONAI-Ed Wynn The Bag musical comedy Opens
tonight.
BELASCO-Queen Nab, comedy drama. Opens night
PRESDENT-"White Cargo" Performance tonight.
KETHS-France Starr vaudeville. Opens this afternoon
EARLE-"Carmen" vaudeville. Opens this afternoon.
GAYETY-"Bom Bay Girls buesque Opens this afternoon.
MUTUAI-French Folies" burlesque. Opens
Evening star., 1925-04-26
MUTUAL-"French Frolics."

Betty Palmer and her French
Frolics," open today for a return en-
gagement at the Mutual Theater.
Charles LIE Vine, Billy Tanner and
Eddy Dyer. are featured as the prin-
cipal comedians. and among those as
sisting are Howard and Hirst, Harry
Connors, Arthur Lyons and lively
chorus.
Betty Palmer is a dancer of sur
passing pep and agility. and others
in the cast include Buelah Baker, the
prima donna, and Loretta Fradlin, a
speciality dancer.
Many changes have been made in
the show, it is stated, new numbers
Continued. on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1925-04-26
BELASCO-"Queen Nab"

Oliver Morosco. producer of Peg o
My Heart" Upstairs and Down,
THE Bird of Paradise $50 Long,
Lefty Civilian Clothes" THE Brat,
and "Abie's Irish Rose" and who rare
ly picks what is known as "a bloom
err will bring his latest production,
Queen Nab" by John Hastings Tur-
ner. to the Shubert- -Belasco Theater
this week, opening tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
EARLE-"Carmen."

One of the most popular of grand
operas, Carmen" has been condensed
for, presentation in vaudeville and
opens today at the Earle Theater for
a weeks engagement. Presented by
26 grand opera singers, the vaudeville
version is not merely one scene from
the opera, but is the complete story.
told briefly, including all Of the ia
nous melodies.
Thomas P. jackson and his com.
pany, in THE New Stenographer,
have appeared in vaudeville through
out the world. The comedy playlet
always scores. Harrison Greene and
Katherine Parker come from musical
comedy fields, where they appeared
under the management of such pro
ducers ASIA II. Woods and Weber &
Fields. Paul Gerard Smith and Les,
ter Lee are authors of "a Girl OF To.
day." presented by Jack Fulton and
Dorothy Quinette. Adelyn Jason and
Helen Harrigan, two talented girls
sing and dance, and the Romas troupe
complete the program.
The photoplay is ''The Night Club, y
with Raymond Griffith, the light co
median, in the leading role. 1t is a
Paramount picture and said to be a
comedy supreme.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
GAYETY-"Bom Bax Girls"


Two shows will be offered by the
Gayety Theater this week, when Jack
Reid's Record Breakers" and Drake
and Walkers BON Bay Girls" will
divide honors on the program.
Before intermission Jack Reid,
known as THE Information Kid will
be seen as star of an entertainment
including songs. dances, chorus mum
bers and comedy scenes, supported by
Sid Rogers, Joe Melino. Billy Roscoe,
Tony Vallevona, Rose Sharon and
Evelyn Craig and a chorus of 20
dancing girls. After intermission the
colored folk will take the stage, and
Drake and Walkers Bonn Bay Girls
will offer different style of work. The
Cyclonic Jazz Hounds will inspire
syncopated instrumental strains for
the dancing, which includes buck-and-
wing, cake walking and Charleston
stepping of dozen creole girls who
form the chorus
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Might" a play by Harry Dunbar
from the Italian of Gino Rocco, will
be produced at Stamford. Conn, May
l, with a cast headed by Olive Tel
and George Nash.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
sTRAND-De Carlos & Granada.

The Strand Theater announces for
this week De Carlos & Granada, as
sisted by their own Argentine Orches-
ira, in Character Dances and Melo-
dies" as the headline attraction. The
act is reputed to be one of the best Of
South American entertainments.
Others appearing include Arthur
Thornton and Sam Carlton in mot
Now; James Kennedy & Comany.
presenting "The Squire; Billy Goelet
and Vera Hall, offering Songs, Dances
and Music and Charles Russell and
Walter Hayes opening the bill with
Lets Sing
THE Last Hour" Trio Productions
version of Frank r. Adams story
Blind Justice" is the photoplay.
Milton Sills and Carmel Myers are the
featured players, the former in the
role of a reformed crook, and the lat
ter is seen as a girl, well educated,
and far above the usual product Of the
so-called underworld. These two are
said top provide tense dramatic scenes.
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Gene Buck, lyric writer for the
"Follies," announces that he will be-
come a producer next season. He
plans to present "Gunpowder," a play
by J. c. and Elliott Nugent.
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Pat O'Malley, Jack Mower, Alec B.
Francis, Charles Clary. Walter Long,
Eric Mayne and Wilson Hummell
complete the cast.
Short films and music by Director
Maxwell and his band will complete
the program.
Evening star., 1925-04-26
In the Spotlight

announce that next season they will
offer matinees of a burlesque pro-
duction of Romeo and Juliet" with
an all Hebrew cast headed by Fan
ME Brice and Harry Green.
Elsie Ferguson left for the Pa
ciffc Coast last week to play the
leading role in The Grand Duchess.
which Henry Miller and his company
will produce in San Francisco, MAJ
IS. The play, from the french of
Alfred Savoir, has been adapted by
Arthur Richman. 1t will be Fail
production in New YORK of Charles
Frohman, Inc.
William Francis Dugan, author
producer and director OF Thrills"
assumed the leading role of his play
in New York last week.
Allan Kearns and Madeleine Fair
banks. leading juvenile and ingenue
of "Mercenary Mary" have signed
der the management of L. Lawrence
Weber.
A motion picture corporation has
secured Cape Smoke" the African
melodrama now renamed The Witch
Doctor" 1t Is reported 1t is to be
made a screen vehicle for Douglas
Fairbanks.
Laurette Taylor will have the role
IF Rose Trelawney in the revival of
Pinero's "Trelawney of the Wells" by
the Players in New York. June ].
John Drew. president of the club, will
return to the stage to play the part
of Sir William Cover.
Morris Gest has gone to Montreal
fnr xx-ith hn hq a.Sn
company. He is still negotiating for
bringing to America the Moscow Art
Theater Musical Studio next season.
Aarons & Freedley announce that
when Lady, Be Good" is presented
in London next Fall Fred and Adele
Astaire will be starred.
ALI Weinberger, now stage manager
| for The Fall Guy" is to head cor
| poration which is being formed for
the presentation of foreign plays in
this country next season.
Schwab & MandeI, producers of
'"The Firebrand," announce for the
| Fall a musical comedy which they are
| now writing, to be called "Girlfriend."
Gregory Kelly, now in Chicago with
Madge Kennedy in Badges" has
been engaged by Crosby Gaige for the
| leading role in 1.-The Butter and Egg
| Man." which George s. kaufman is
| feverishly finishing in time for a Sum-
| mer tryout
Lillian Walker. the we'll known
| cinema actress, will open soon on the
| Keith-Albee circuit in 1T Happens to
Everybody" playlet by Irwin
| Franklin.
| Fred Hand, manager of the Earle,
was the original producer Of the
Thomas p. Jackson playlet, THE New
| Stenographer." This sketch, 1t is
said, has been played throughout shs
entire English speaking world.
Evening star., 1925-04-26

GLADYS MILLER has been en-
gagged for the cast Of Zelda
Sears Broke" now In rehearsal.
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Queen Nab" deals with the love
affairs of a young queen OF one OF
those strange, little-known countries.
which lie somewhere hidden away in
the hills between the Baltic and Black
Seas, and In the shadows of the Urals.
Queen Nab" however, is said to
go plays of the type of THE Prisoner
of Zenda" and THE Swan" one bet
ter. Instead of the young royal maiden
casting her affections on a romantic
hero whom she will under no circum
stances be allowed to marry, she has
already acquired a husband before the
play starts, and to further complicate
matters, he drives a delivery van
through the prosaic London streets.
while she herself is shop girl in the
British metropolis, with no idea what
ever of the overwhelming fact that
she is of royal birth, and will be sud
denly called upon to assume the er-
mine and purple, and WELD the scep-
ter of her ancestors.
"A typical Morosco cast" Is an
nounced, including Mary Duncan,
Carlton Brockert, Minnie Dupree, Ed
| ward Emery, Marion Vantine, Lums-
den Hare, Edward Emery, Carolyne
| Mclean, Charles Brown, Margot Les
ter, Harold West, Frank Hubert,
| Leigh Lowell and Francis E. Malloy.
PRESIDENT-"Whi Cargo
In view of the extraordinary de-
mand, white Cargo" will be con-
| tinued at the President Theater an
| other week, starting tonight. This
| will be it's last week in the Capital,
according to announcement.
Leon Gordon dramatized the story
| from Ida Vera Simonton's book,
''Helrs Playground The company
| will give but two matinees this week,
| Thursday and Saturday.
KEITH'S-"Demi-Tas Revue"
Ned Wayburn's latest musical pro-
duction, the "Demi-Tasse Revue, will
headline the bill at B. F. Keith's The
alter this week, beginning with a
matinee today, replacing Miss Frances
Starr, who will headline the Keith
bill next week, beginning Sunday mat
inee, May 3.
The "Demi Tasse Revue" is said to
be the liveliest, costliest, merriest and
most tuneful attraction of its kind Of
fered in vaudeville. 1t will be present
ed in 10 settings, with bevy of beau
tiful Ned Wayburn embryonic stage
stars, enriched with more than 100
I gorgeous gowns.
In contrast, Frank Fay, Broadways s
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Arthur j. Lamb will begin rehears-
ais of his new play, The Soul on
May 4.
Evening star., 1925-04-26

A unit of "a Albertina Rasch dan
GERS has been engaged for the next
addition of George Whites Scan
dal A"
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Ruth Shepley has Joined the cast
of The Back Snapper
Evening star., 1925-04-26

A motion picture corporation has
secured Cape Smoke" the African
melodrama now renamed The Witch
Doctor" 1t Is reported it is to be
made a screen vehicle for Douglas
Fairbanks
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Lillian Walker. the we'll known
cinema actress. will open soon on the
Keith-Albee circuit in 1T Happens to
Everybody" playlet by Irwin
Franklin.
Evening star., 1925-04-26

Fred Hand, manager of the Earle,
was the original producer of the
Thomas P. Jackson playlet, "The New
Stenographer." This sketch, 1t is
said. has been played throughout sAs
entire English speaking world.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
Rocking Stones" Are
Credited to Glaciers

How did the Bowder stone in Bor-
rowdale get to its present position?
How did the many 'perched powders"
and rocking stones" hundreds of tons
in weight, yet poised so lightly that
human hand can move them, get
into these peculiar positions?
"hey were gently deposited by
melting ice, as gently as ever mother
laid her baby to rest in It's cradle.
For ice Is the king of bumpers, and
the former presence of glaciers ac-
counts for all the erratic powders in
the world, says London Answers.
Some of these curious rocks are Of
tremendous size. The biggest in Eng
land is the Bowder stone, but there is
one in Switzerland, far away from
any present-day glacier, which weighs
5000 tons and contains $4,000 cubic
feet of rock.
And visitors to the Alps can see the
same processes at work today, as huge
rocks, which no traction engine could
haul, are borne along very slowly but
nevertheless very surely on the sur
face of the glaciers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
Removing Temptation

A friend tells me that he attended
church the other night where the pas
tor delivered an interesting lecture
which was Illustrated by stereopticon
slides in the darkened auditorium. At
certain point in the lecture the col
lectors received the offering, the room
still remaining quite dark. The mar
rator says when the collection plate
reached him-after having been hand
ed along by fifty or sixty persons-it
had only about 10 cents in it, and he
held back the silver dollar which he
had expected to give and fished out a
nickel for the plate. he said: IF
forty or fifty folks, after listening to
that splendid lecture, couldn't contrib
ute more than Is or 20 cents, my sill
yer dollar might tempt some one to
steal 1t from the plate, 80 / Clipped
in a nickel and played SAFE "-Polf
Daniels In Howard Courant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
Too Many Words Are
Ciuen NeU Meanings

One wonders where language will
bring up one of these days. Every new
dictionary Is thicker than the last. Is
1t that there are too many new words
or is 1t that people are using words iT
so many various ways that note has
to be taken of all of them?
There are few newspapers that
are still sticklers for the use of words
One Of them, for instance will not
permit any of it's writer's to use the
word secure" for "obtain." The news
paper is right and yet it seems to be
dipping back the sea with teaspoon
as against the flood of use More
people, more newspapers appear to be
using secure" where they mean lob
tain than otherwise. The lexicon
makers have surrendered to use and
they have listed secure" as meaning
obtain" So 1t goes, many more
words are being used in their figura-
tive sense until the usage becomes
matter of fact.
So one may ask, where Is our lam
guage tendency finally to bring up?
The final effect may be that we shall
cultivate the use of SO many words
and cultivate some of them so far
from their original meaning that OBJ
scurity rather than clarity will result.
Lansing State Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
TIED TO JOB"
t.re Company Union
Workers, Declares A. F.
of L. Metal Trades
Chief

Atlantic City, n. 1.-THE company
union" stock ownership and group
insurance are intended to tie workers
to their jobs and make them feel they
are part owners of the company, and
That trade-unionism is not necessary
said James O'Connell, president of the
A. r. of L., metal trades department,
in lis annual report.
Because of the administration
economy policy at Washington, Presi-
dent O'Connell said that employment
in the governments mechanical de-
partments is as uncertain "as the
time when death will come"
"The government, he said, "is the
owner of number of the finest me-
chanical plants in the world, and to see
them going into decay and rot, and
their splendid equipment dismantled
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
COMPENSATION
PLAN ADOPTED
in ARIZONA

Phoenix, Ariz.-At a special cleo
tion voters in this state have written
a workmen"s compensation provision
into the Arizona constitution. Gov
ernor Hunt appointed a compensation
commission before the official vote
was announced.
The proposal was passed by the last
legislature, and since then it has been
subjected to unceasing opposition by
ambulance-chasing lawyers and large
employers. Every unfair method was
resorted to by these forces to confuse
the people.
Organized labor took a leading part
in support of the people.
Organized labor took leading part
in support of the constitutional
change.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
ACCIDENTS
In Coal Mines Kill 1876.
Workers During August

BY International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C.-Accidents at
coal mines in the United States in
August caused the. loss of 1876 lives,
according to information furnished by
state mine inspectors to the bureau
of mines, department of commerce.
As the amount Of coal mined was
SO, 765,O00 tons, the fatality rate for
the month was 1868 per million tons,
reduction of II per cent from the
fatality rate of 4.07 for August of
last year. Ten men were killed in an
explosion at Wilkes-B Barre, Pa, on
August 3. In August last year there
were no major disasters.
The reports for August showed 46
fatalities at anthracite mines in Penn
sylvania, and 149 fatalities at bitum-
inous coal mines in all states.
Accident records of the bureau of
mines for the first eight months of
1925 show 1,461 fatalities; those for
the corresponding period last year
showed 1861. The eight months ton
mage was 81,840,000 and 363 500, 900
in the two years, respectively. These
figures indicate fatality rate of 3.S3
per million tons for the present year
and 4.57 for the first eight months of
1924, a reduction of 16 per cent. Later
returns will probably increase the
1925 rates slightly, because of deaths
from injuries that had not proved
fatal when returns for August were
received.
The eight months fatality rate for
anthracite mines alone was Gil per
million tons, based on production of
62, ,489, 900 tons, as compared with SGT
and an output of 59,247,000 tons dur
ing the first eight months of 1924, an
Increase in the death rate of per
cent.
For bituminous mines alone the fa-
tality rate for January to August was
3.38, based on a production of 319,-
351 900 tons, as compared with a rate
of 4.35 and an output of 304,273 900
tons for the corresponding months
last year, a decline in the death rate
of about % per cent in 1925
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
Introduction of Strou Hats

The recent heat introduces the sub
ject of straw hats and straw-hat
stories. In 1896 a chancellor of the
exchequer imposed duty ON hats.
All headgear made of "felt or wool
or beaver or any leather or japanned
hats came within the scope Of the
tax. But an Edinburgh merchant,
astute enough to observe that straw
was not included in the legal enumer-
alton Of materials used, introduced
straw hats to Scotland for the first
time, early in the summer Of 1893.
Unfortunately for the enterprising hat
ter. an amendment to the act, within
a few weeks, rendered the popular
tax-evading novelty liable to payment.
The act, which remained in force until
1911, allowed exemption to nightcaps.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
Beat Everything in Sight

Here is a good one about little
lad who was given his first watch the
other day as a gift on his ninth birth
day. His aunt tells the story.
Although he seemed pleased" she
said, when he first opened the box
his enthusiasm was quite restrained.
But he dashed into the house on his
return from school that day, and ex-
claimed jubilantly
my. but I've got dandy watch !
I'm glad you like it, said his
mother, duly pleased at his pleasure.
Yes he said, It's half an hour
ahead of Jim's watch, and it's whole
hour ahead of the clock in the drug
store! Gee, it beats them all p"-St.
Paul Dispatch.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16
Wax EMgies Of the Dead

II was once the curious custom In
England to carry wax effigies Of the
dead-if they were distinguished
enough-in their funeral professions.
l. was also Is'omary to leave th.'
efiigies near the grave for some time
thereafter, and the mourning friends Of
the deceased used to compose elegies.
rhymed laments and similar produc-
tions. which they would write out on
paper and pin TO the clothing Of the
efiigy. A number Of the quaint old
effigies are still preserved at West
minister abbey. where they are stored
in the Islip chapel. and one at least.
that Of Frances. duchess Of Richmond.
is still TO be seen beside her grave in
Henry Wis chanel Family Herald.