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than Pat White, his name escapes
the statistical bureau of this de-
partment For nearly a quarter
of a century this famous comic
has been visiting town annually,
and in the wake OF every visit
is g. satisfied contingent Of
patrons. White and the Round
the Town" troupe come into the
Mutual tomorrow afternoon. His
appearance here earlier in the
season was accorded unusual
praise. The supporting company
includes Mabel Lea, Gladys Clark,
Lottie Lee, May Raymond, Pauline
Russell, Henry Keller, Sam Ray
nor, and Al MARITIME.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Adolphe
Menjou in "a Kiss In the Dark"
had already been announced as
the attraction at Loew's Column
bia for the week beginning Sun
day afternoon, 1ast-minute de-
cision on the part CT the theater
management has resulted IN the
retention for second big week
beginning today, Of Miss Marion
Davies in Cosn1opolitan's produc-
ton of Alice Brady's famous stage
success, "Zander the Great"
This wonderful screen produc-
ton, which was first presented to
washington at Loew's Columbia
last Sunday afternoon, has been
accorded one OF the greatest re-
ceptions in the photcplay history
of Washington and the decision
of the management to hold the
picture over for a second week is
due to the fact that thousands of
Columbia Theater patrons have
not yet had an opportunity to
see it, due to the capacity houses
which ruled all during the past
week.
Miss Davies, the star OF such
brilliant and spectacular costume
photoplays as Janice Meredith,
Little Old New York." when
Knighthood Was in Flower" and
"Yolanda," offers her first mod
ern comedy in the perturbation Of
"Zander, the Great" which, as a
play by Salisbury Field with Alice
Brady in its featured role, achiev-
ed a wonderful Broadway stage
success that Is being more than
duplicated by Miss Davies in the
same role on the screen.
Produced by Cosmopolitan and
released by Metro-G oldwyn, Fan
der the Great was adapted TO the
screen by Frances Marion and d.
rected by George William Hill
with settings designed by the noted
Joseph Urban. The cast that ap-
pears in support Of Miss Davies
in this production is practically
all.star in caliher, and includes
such famous stage and screen
favorites as Holbrook Blinn, OF
"The Bad Man." and 1.-THE Dove"
fame; Harrison Ford, Miss Davies
leading man in Janice Meredith"
and Little Old New York. Harry
Watson, famous stage comedian;
Harry Myers, remembered for, his
portrayal in "A Connecticut
Yankee at King Arthur's Court"
Richard earle, famous musical
comedy star; Hedda Hopper, we'll
known featured screen player;
Hobart Bosworth, of ''The Sea
Wolf" and other hits; George
Seigmann, villain Of ID. w. Crit.
fitn's biggest pictures; DIN How.
land, noted stage funlmaker; Emily
Fitzroy, weIl-known screen chars
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POLPS-Commencing tomorrow
night, Polls will offer Fay
Bainter, in Victor Herbert's last
comedy operetta, The Dream
Girl" She is supported by wal
ter Woolf. the personable young
baritone last noted here in '"Ehe
Lady in Ernine." The dream
girl is an impressionable young
ster who dreams her way back
to the fifteenth century and I'M
dergoes thereupon many unique
and exciting adventures. The mu-
steal version is adapted from
THE Road to Yesterday" Re-
Numbering Miss Bainter's three
Immediately previous Vehlcies,
East Is West, THE Lady Chris
tilinda," and THE Other Rose,
all dramatic plays, the current
vehicle reveals her with talents
only heretofore suspected and she
is required to sing and dance as
Is any star in musical comedy.
Nearly a dozen others are in sup
port. while there is an ensemble
Of singing and dancing folks, a
gypsy chorus, and Old-time tap
room songs by the double male
sextet.
BELASCO-John Emerson and
Anita Loos, famed collaborators
OF the screen, have again invaded
stage realms and will be repre-
sented at the Belasco, beginning
Monday night, with q new COM
edy, 1.-The Fall Of Eve" It's a
sort of modern version OF the
apple story with what is promised
as "a hilarious twist" Ruth Cor
don, who made such a pronounced
success as the dazed flapper in
Mrs. Partridge Presents"
earlier in the season, will be Eve
and Reginald Mason will have
considerable to do with her fall.
Others in the cast include Claude
King, Cora Witherspoon, Diantha
Pattison, Arthur A1bertson, Eve
" Wight, Matte Wilkes and
Alonzo Henderson.
PRESIDENT = That heavily
manned legion of followers of
George McManus popular car
toon, Bringing Up Father will
see their favorite supplement fig
ures translated into actual terms
at the President Theater, COM
mencing Sunday night. Since
the days of the yellow Kids"
and Happy Hooligan" there
have been innumerabIe attempts
to create competing characters,
but none has survived these
twenty-five years save Jiggs and
Maggie. Bringing Up Father
In Ireland (admist the corn beef
and cabbage forests) is the title
of the Presidents new offering.
It is a musical show intended
only for laughs, an eye and ear
entertainment that should salts
fy. A well-trained chorus will
be in evidence.
KEITH'S-Laurette Taylor. the
distinguished stage star of Peg
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Marion Davies Film Sets Record at Comba-Hed Another "

nate this newest production star
ring a washington favorite. Mac
Lean is introduced here az
mountain climber and anyone
who knows mountains can suS-
meet the abundance or COMEDY
that would result from such &C.
cupation. Opposite MacLean' plays
Anne Cornwall, the Wampas
baby star for 1925. Oddly enough
nearly everyone in MacLean's
support is a stage luminary, ex-
cept Boteler, who supported the
star in his previous two vehicles.
Special singing and dancing novel
ties will supplement on the HI
alto stage; the fun theme viii be
carried out in tunes by the or
chestra end there will be briefer
films, including international
News reel.
PALACE Alice Terry and
Lewis Stone, both of whom con-
tributed greatly to- the success of
"scaramouche," 'The Prisoner of
Zenda," and Trifling Women. "
are again cast together in Di-
rector Victor Seastrom's latest
effort for Metro oldwyn- Mayer,
Confessions of a Queen" John
Bowers is featured in support in
this frank exposition Of royal
purlieus and what happens among
the all-powerful when passions
conflict. Stone is cast as the
king OF g. small and decadent
monarchy who deserts his. court
fayorite, marries the beautiful
Princess Fredericka Miss Terry
az a state contract, only to find
his advances met with revulsi0n
and terror. Another debauch
helps precipitate a state revolt
Consultations ensue fast, particu
Iarly a fresher romance between
the queen and a young prince,
and circumstances so shape them
selves that the kings life is
saved by his queen, who retires
with him to Paris rather than
chance reigning on the nlyrian
throne to which her lover-prince
has assembled. Shorter features
include a Ralph Graves comedy,
Pathe news reel, Topics, and spe
ciaI music.
Observation-Disclosures Pringle.
Dorothy Mackaill, Rosemary
Theby, Antonio Moreno. Sam De
Grasse, Leo White and Joseph
Kilgour appear in the pivotal
roles of First Nationals "One
Year To Live" scheduled for the
first three days of next week at
Crandall's Ambassador. The COM
panion feature will be Lloyd
Hamilton's latest two-reel comedy.
King Cotton" On Wednesday
and Thursday, David Wark Crit
fith's Isn't Life Wonderful,
starring Carol. Dempster, and Cliff
Bowes, in ''Merrymakers' are
listed. Friday THE Clean Heart"
featuring Percy Marmont, Otis
Harlan, Marguerite De La Motto
and others, and an Aesop Fable,
Permanent Waves" are to be
shown. Virginia Valli and Norma
Kerry co-star in THE Price OF
Pleasure" on Saturday, Our
Gang appears in High Society
and at the matinee the tenth
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GOINGS-ON
At the TheGters

o. NV Heart" and "Humoresque,
comes to Keith's tomorrow after
noon for the week in a condensed
version of the pantomime, Pier
rot. the Prodigal." AS a prelude
Miss Taylor tells the story and
then enacts it to music. Ottokar
Bartik, of the Metropohtan
Opera Company, has staged the
production. The old faVorltes,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmy Barry, VIII
return in Mr.. Barry's rural idyil,
scandals of Hensfoot Corners.
One of the peppiest bands IN
vaudeville today will be heard
when Ben Meroff and his band,
with Frank and Milt Britton VIII
appear in 1.-The High Hat" They
are said to be Psychologists su-
preme. Other star acts will IN
clude Lucas and Inez and the
three-and-one-h half Arleys. The
usual screen features will COM
plete the bill.
EARLE-"The Night Clerk" a
vaudeville musical comedy on q
big scale, tops the new bill at
the Earle, commencing Sunday
afternoon. Jack West is the tea.
tured comedian with plenty OF
others, singers and dancers, in
support.
With equal prominence is an
nounced the Metro-Goldwyn pho
tcpIay, 1.-The Bandolero," de-
scribed as the perfect picture
story. Opening the vaudeville
program will be the picturesque
Howard Girls, gymnasts, followed
by such offerings as Ed Morton,
clever comedian, who sings pop
ular songs and has made many
records for the monograph; Cuby
and Smith, pantomimists; "AIs
Here" a comedy full of laughter.
and Looking for Fun" an offer
ing presented by Pat Barrett and
Nora Cunnean. The Earle News,
a two-reel comedy, an organ nov
city solo played by Arthur Flagel
and Floyde @Wheeler's solo or
chestra are added.
STRAND-"A little of every
thing and everything good" is
the recipe for the Strands new
vaudeville and picture bill, open
LOIlIOIAOW d4lCIAAOOII VIII Moi
vim Franklin and company top
lining in a musical revue, Broad
way Bits and Hits" and four
other audible attractions follow
ing in. Others appearing will in
clude Locke and Verdi, Italian
comedians; Loring Smith and
Natalie Sawyer, in "Sunkist Sa-
tire; Bart Grant and Mildred
Feeley, in 1.-THE Composer and
His Irish Colleen" and the
Osaka Boys, in Japanese past
times. 1.-The Scarlet Honey
moon,' the main photoplay at
traction, will bring Shirley Mason
back to town in the role Of a
New York stenographer, who
meets her great romance in a
Broadway automat Pierre Cen
dron, Alan Sears, J. Farrell Mac
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-09
Popular Lingo
In Hollywood

What questions are asked
by the millions who write
letters ITO the film stars!
Marian Nixon, who takes
personal interest in her fan
mail, and Huntly Gordon,
who gives much time to
reading his letters, jointly
reply that the following
three questions are asked
more than all others:
What chance has new
conner in motion pictures:
Is Hollywood wicked?
Are studios hard to get
into?
They answer the questions
in order:
AS good as in any bust
ness.
No.
Yes.
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acter woman, and Master John
Huff. who Ii "Zaf1der the Great"
The production win be supple
nented by continued showings Of
Walter HERS short -length COM
edy. "Tenderfeet, the Interna-
tionaI News, Mr.. Brusilof's must
cal establishment, and other fea-
lures.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS can
be identified as a specially bal
anced'' bill opens the new week
at Crandall's Metropolitan to-
morrow at 8. The feature film
will present a high-grade cast In
"One Year to Live; Lloyd
Hamilton comedy; King Cotton;
shorter films and a soprano in
terlude by Mary Lucia Fish; not
to overlook the special overture
and accompaniment by the
orchestra. In "One Year To
Live" First National has as
sembled a glittering cast which
includes Aileen Pringle. Dorothy
Mackaill, Rosemary Theby. An
tonic Moreno, Joseph Kilgour and
Sam De Grasse. Here Is a drama
or the Partisan stage IN which
the two leading characters are
sisters; one supposedly an incur
able invalid, the other healthy
and famous; whose positions are
reversed and the latter is told
she has but one year to live.
From this theme Is spun what
advance notices say Is an in
tense drama and one that has
scenic accoutrements that are
bound to cause comment. In the
comedy, king Cotton" Lloyd
Hamilton does a black face in
contrast to the blond beauties
of his supporting lady, Dorothy
Seastrom. Doors open at 2 p. m.
RIALTO-The kind of comedy
that induces loud laughter and
long will be the order for the new
week at the Rialto when Douglas
MacLean opens there tomorrow
afternoon in Introduce Me" A
succession of thrills. fun and love
is how the advance notices 0esig-
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ton this year, mostly concerning
itself with music, comedy and
girls. Jack Hunt and Clyde Bates
lead the large retinue of merry
makers. Winnie Phillips is also
retained from last seasons com
pany. Others in the all-new show
are Dudley Farnsworth. Happy
Will Smith, Kitty Madison, and
Marie Hart, soubrettes, and Hazel
Romaine, a singer of blues" AS
a sensational and startling 'vaude-
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Vile feature the Aeroplane Girls
will disport themselves In aero
battles, athletics, and aerial con-
tortions. Sam Lewis, Joe Young,
and Jimmie Johnson wrote the
special music to which Leonard
Harper has staged a dozen mu-
steal numbers through which a
score of pretty girls will dance.
MUTUAL-If there is a better
known. comedian in burlesque
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Donald, Rose Taply and Eugenla
Gilbert have important roles in
the production. Short films and
music added.
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GAYET RUDE Bernstein's
Bathing Beauties" come, natu-
rally enough in the late spring
time, to the Gayety for the new
week. Bernstein is rated a far
seeing burlesque producer and IS
said to have an excellent attrac-
Evening star., 1925-02-07
SCHOOLS NOW HAVE.
65,288 STUDENTS
Midyear Enrolment Here
Drops 2,5O7 Due to
GraduationS.

The first enrolment figures COM
piled by school officials since the be-
ginning of the second semester, Feb
ruary :, announced today at the
Franklin School. show total of
65,2SS pupils on the rolls. This is a
decrease of 2,507 under the total
enrolment on January &c, just prior
to the midyear graduations.
The 65,2SS pupils are distributed as
follows: Elementary schools, 51,91S;
senior and junior high schools, 12,766,
and normal schools, COS
Comparison of the new enrolment
statistics with those of January 26
reveal that the decrease occurred in
the elementary schools. while the
senior and junior high schools show
an increase of $40 pupils.
Few New EnroIlments.
The decrease in the elementary
schools, which amounted to 3,463 pu-
pills, is due primarily to the fact that
few new children enroll in Febru-
airy, while the midyear commence
ments turned out more than a thou
sand children. The Junior High
Schools at the beginning of the new
semester also absorbed a large num-
ber of the seventh and eighth grade
pupils.
All five of the white senior high
schools have larger student bodies
than in January. Central reports an
increase of 206 students; Eastern. an
Increase of 1858; Western, an increase
of 20; Business, an increase of 1862,
and Mckinley, an increase of 81. The
enrolment in these Institutions fol-
lows: Central, 3,240; Eastern, 1884
Western, 1,101; Business, 1.242, and
Mckinley, 1,425.
Evening star., 1925-02-07
Fireman Called
To Rescue Kitten
Trapped in Piano
Succeeds Where Mayor
and Clerk Fail, But In
StrunleTlt Is Ruined.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, February 7.-Nigger,
5week-old kitten, with the cat Gu
riosity of proverb and the nine lives
of tradition, will depend on his own
vocal cords for music in the future.
The reason is, Niger has just been
rescued after a protracted stay in
the insides of a player-piano.
The kitten is the property of Mr..
and Mrs. John Michalosky of Stan
hope, N. j. Two weeks ago Niger
found an inviting opening from
which the pedals of the player-piano
projected and climbed in and up
ward. However, he soon found him
self in trap. Then he began to sing.
His mistress traced the song to it's
source, but her efforts only resu1ted d
in locating Nigger's approximate po-
sition. Later her husband tried and
finally gave up.
In the meantime, Nigger's song
rose to d wall. He howled all night,
and in the days and nights which
followed he kept it up. Even bits of
milk-soaked bread dropped into the
piano failed to comfort him.
Finally, in desperation, Micalosky
appealed to Mayor John Wills. Wills
called in Borough Clerk j. j. Shaw.
who also doubles as Morris County
agent of the American Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
After considerable effort they went
back to municipal affairs, leaving the
plano uninjured and Niger still in it.
Harry M. Clark of Hose Company
No. I volunteered to do the impossi-
BILE, and succeeded. He restored the
still singing Niger to the Michalosky y
family and salvaged various bits of
mechanism for a piano expert to worry
over
Evening star., 1925-02-07
W0ULDFAC|L|TATE
DISTRICT AFFAIRS
commissioners to Recon-
mend important Changes
to Next Congress.

Three important recommendations
to improve and facilitate the hand
ling OF District affairs may be CON
sidered for presentation to Congress
IN December by the Commissioners
stated In general terms, they are:
Some curtaiiment in the control
which the Budget Bureau exercises
over the annual District estimates.
A suggestion that District matters.
both of an appropriation and Iegis-
lative nature, be considered jointly
by the appropriate committees Of the
Senate and House instead of holding
separate hearings.
Revival of the proposed bill to en-
large the powers of the Commits
sioners over numerous administrative
matters that now require action by
Congress
Question Budget Bureaus Actions.
The Commissioners indicated today
that they do not believe the Bureau
of the Budget should control District
Government contributes a fixed lump
sum toward the upkeep of the
National Capital
Engineer Commissioner Bell pointed
out today that under the present ar
rangement the Commissioners must
go through four separate and distinct
hearings each year on the same set
OF estimates.
Elimination of the hearing at the
Budget Bureau and the holding of a
joint hearing by the Senate and
House subcommittee at the Capitol
would eliminate two of them.
The, Commissioners were prompted
to consider the proposals they intend
making by the discussion along the
same line in Congress the past few
days, principally in the speech OF
Representative r. Walton Moore Of
Virginia. Representative Moore ad-
vocated that the Commissioners be
allowed to submit their estimates di-
rect to Congress-
Evening star., 1925-02-07
EUROPE is COLD
TO ARMS PARLEY
ASKED IN CONGRESS
CONTINUED from First Page.)

England has not given France that
minimum OF guarantee which every
Englishman appreciates France will
demand before she consents to dis
band a division. All of which Is an
other way of saying that the British
regard any American effort to force a
conference now ss totally unlikely to
succeed in forwarding the cause of
peace. and as almost surely calcu-
lated to produce new, undesirable An
glo- French debates.
The present crisis, the only real
crisis in Europe, arises from the fact
that at Paris the United States and
Great Britain, through their repre-
sentatives, offered France guar
antee treaty of assistance in case of
new German aggression IL France
would agree to evacuate the Rhine.
France did agree, the United States
repudiated Mr.. Wilson's pledge and
Great Britain has so far given no in
dividual pledge. Now France is re-
fusing to leave the Rhine unless she
gets a British guarantee. The British
do not want to give a guarantee, and
fear they may have to. They know
how unpropitious the moment is to
approach France to ask not alone
that she quit the Rhine without any
fulfllment OF past promises. but in
addition, besides getting no support
from America and Britain, disband
her own military strength.
Therefore, i do not think ] exag-
gerate when l say British opinion is
pretty well agreed in regarding any
American proposal of a disarmament
conference now as unwise, as / have
said, calculated to do infinite harm
without attaining the slightest use
full end. Moreover. they know that if
we approach the French in this mat
ter we shall have to do 1t In con-
junction with a proposal to give
France some form of guarantee or
the result may be to upset the pres
ent Herriot government, which Brit
ish statesmanship regards as offerin g
the best promise of ultimate solution
of European problems conceivable.
In a word, then, British opinion,
official and unofficial. hopes that
President Coolidge will pigeonhole
the congressional recommendation, to
avoid proposing any International
conference, and leave Europe to set
tie in a European way problems
which are serious but, all things con-
sidered, by no means hopeless.
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1925-02-07
GETS ADDED YEAR
| AS HOUSEBREAKER
Court Extends Sentence of
Youth NoN in 0ccoquan.
Other Sentences Imposed.

Ralph White, 10 years old. who
pleaded guilty to six cases of house
breaking and who is serving two
years at OccoQuan on two other
charges, was given an additional year
at Occoquan by Chief Justice Mccoy
today in Criminal Division 2. Manley
Harris, 10, who accompanied White on
four of the escapades, was given eight
months at Occoquan. The court took
into consideration the youth of the
boys and the fact that they have been
some months in Jail awaiting DISPOSE
tion of their cases.
White is said to have attempted a
Jail delivery and his father and a
friend of the latter are under indict-
ment for sending saws to the prisoner
inclosed in a book. Harris denied
that he had any connection with the
attempt to break Jail.
Given One Year Each.
Franklin H. Acton and William J.
Carnell. young white men, were given
one year each at Occoquan for hit
ting Annie B. Meyer, an old woman,
over the head with a glass bottle
August IT last.
Max Dennis, a young white man
from New York, who took a joy ride
shortly after reaching the National
Capital and was caught with the
goooS, was placed on proDatlon To-Day
by Chief Justice Mccoy under a sus
pended sentence of one year. The
court made it a condition of the pro-
baton that Bennis return to New
York and stay there
Another Offender on Probation.
Probation was also extended to
Horace Taylor, colorerd. larceny after
trust; William F. Winter, tampering
with the mails; James Thomas, col
ored, possession of dope; Joseph f.
and Thomas +. Moore, housebreaking,
and Gerald A. Teneyck, robbery.
A fine of $25 was assessed by the
chief justice against Isaiah Shelton,
colored, who was convicted of violat-
ing the national prohibition law by
possessing intoxicants
Evening star., 1925-02-07
WHEAT CONTROL
VOTED BY FRANCE
Government Measure Is De.
signed to Curb Rising
Price of Bread.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, February THE Chamber
of Deputies yesterday evening. by a
vote of 332 against 223. adopted the
governments wheat bill.
The government before the meas
ure was passed consented to the in
clusion In the bill of an article pro-
viding that 1t shall cease to be ap-
plicable August Is. 1t also accepted
a few minor notifications, mostly of
a nature to clarity certain passages.
The bill. designed to combat the
high bread cost in France, was intro
duced in the chamber by Premier
Herriot, with some changes from the
original draft outlined by the cabinet
council yesterday. The premier asked
immediate discussion OF the measure
in a night session. This brought
about opposition from the Right, and
NJ Herriot promptly proposed a ques-
tion of confidence. winning by vote
Of 326 against 215.
With the alterations the bill would
increase the credit for the purchase
of foreign wheat from 100, 100000 to
$50, 100000 francs, would create
control Office for imported wheat,
and leave with the local projects the
task of ruling whether bakeries
should be closed one day a week or
not.