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Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15
''Men and Women"
At the Palace

"Men and Women William
DeMille picture, will close tonight
at the Palace theater. The story
centers around three young people.
men ard women who live the lives
of the average American in a big
citv. The story moves quickly
through many locales. 1t opens in
the home Of the bank cashier, then
goes to the bank, the broker $ Of
flee, to many other places and fin
allv ends on Il liner bound for South
America.
In the picture Richard Dix has the
role of a young bank cashier who
borrows his company's securities to
make "elean up on Wall street.
Neil Hamilton and Claire Adams
support Dix.
''Silent Sanderson and Mad
Rush'' two reel Mack Sennett
battling beauty comedy will be
shown tomorrow night at he Palace.
Number six of Idaho = viii also
be shown.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15
TODAY. LAST DAY
Richard Dix i'm Men and Women"
Sales Manager
Tn Virile Talk
Over the Radio

VIII sales conventions of the fu-
ture be- held through the magic
medium of radio?
B. J. Williams. sales manager of
The Paraffine Companies, Inc, of
Los Angeles believes they will.
Williams recently spoke over
station KGO IN SAN Francisco on
".What Selling Is and What Sell
ing Is Net. = 1t has been said
that one million people heard the
address, and letters received by the
station indicate that the average
person who buys goods every day
is Just as interested in selling as
the salesman himself.
He viii speak each Monday night
for six weeks over radio kGO, his
talk for Monday, May llth, being
TYPES of Selling.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15
SEVERAL FIRMS
TO MOVE INTO
ELKS' QUARTERS

With workmen already busy re
modelling the old courthouse for use
by Fl Centre lodge of Eifs. ipdiea
tions are that the COO block on Main
street is to become one of the busi
est sections Of that thoroughfare.
When present alterations ON the
old courthouse property are com
pleted. several firms now doing bus
iness in other parts of Main street,
win move to the Elks property.
Among these are J. c. Penny
Company, Lanier s News Agency
and the Imperial Valley Electric
Company. all of whom have alrea-
dy signed leases with the Eiks for
space in their building. 1t is un-
derstood that other business men
have made application for space
in the building formerly used by
the farm advisor and other comfy
departments, just west OF the Elks
property.
With these various firms doing
business, it is believed that the GEO
block will take on new lease of
life and will vie with the 500 block
as being the busiest section of the
city. The business trend Of the
city is westward. and this fact has
been emphasized by the removal
of the courthouse 10 West Main
street.
1t is not expected that the re-
moyal of several firms from the
500 block will affect that section
adversely, as almost any store in it
is considered desirable location
and undoubtedly none of the places
to be vacated viii long be idle.
This condition e proof Of the fact
that Fl Centre is prosperous and
progressing, and that the lean days
experienced Immediately following
the; war have passed into history,
which every business man hopes will
never repeat itself.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15
Women Drivers
Lauded By Head
OF Traffic Squad
BY United Press Leased Wire

PORTLAND, Ore, May Is. =
."Every day we hear women driv-
ers are dangerous drivers. l en-
phatically disagree with the state
ment.
This was the tactful remark of
Captain Frank Erwin, Portland
traffic officer, speaking at the
first session of the police school for
women drivers.
The school opened in municipal
court last night. Attendance was
entirely voluntary and more than
200 women were out. His ladies
school is one of Ervin's schemes to
make automobile traffic safer from
accidents.
'.Good driving is matter of cor
rect thinking and we men must adj
init that most women can think
better and quicker Erwin contin-
ued.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15
FILM ACTOR is
NAMED IN SUIT

LONDON, May 15.-Alfred Hax-
tom today was granted q divorce
from his wife Leah, daughter Of
Barney Barnato, South African mil
lionaire, on the grounds Of mis-
conduct with Carlyle Blackwell, the
film actor.
Costs Of the trial were assessed
against Blackwell. Evidence given
was 10 the effect that the actor
started living with Mrs. Haxton in
May, 1923, since which time wit
nesses had seen them together in
their bedroom negligee.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15
.Barthelmess and
Wife Separate
nv United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, May 15.-RiehaId
BarthelmesS, movie star, and his
wife, Mary Hay, former follies girl,
have separated by mutual agree
ment and will live apart, perhaps
permanently.
According to Miss Hay, no di-
vorce is contemplated and the un
derstanding was reached merely to
enable them to pursue their individ-
ual careers.
In few weeks Miss Hay will sail
for Europe for dancing tour. Dur
ing her absence their two year old
daughter, May Hay Barthelmess,
will be cared for by her father. On
Miss Hay : return, she viii have
custody of the child for six months
of each year.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15
STUDYING SNAIL,
KILLED BY TRAIN

ny United Press Leased Wire
LONDON, May 15.- While
following snail along a rail
road track to study its habits,
Professor Thomas Waddngton
of the Kettering Naturalists'
society, was killed by a train.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15

Government win take census of
insects, but we don t want the job
of counting mosquitoes children.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15

Marion Davies i'm For Today Tomorrow
Eak Remember valley

Oakland Judge claims he walked
1000 miles. Maybe he was abse9t
minded and forgot to stop. /
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15

Efforts to make silver dollars po-
nular has been abandoned. They
make wealth too much of h burden.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15

The king of Bulgaria has q very
hard job. He mas to get up early
every day and foil q few plots.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-15

Gardens are good examples. IL
You make anything out of them you
have to get out and dig.
Evening star., 1925-12-06

port themselves. Despite the endow-
mentS and other sources of income
the annual disbursements still are
made at a deficit OF from $50 900 TO
$4,000 a year. 1t is TO make up this
sum that the annual benefits are pre-
sented in the larger cities of the coun-
try. including Washington, New York
Philadelphia and Chicago.
Fridays performance Will enlist the
services of practically all of the lead
ing members of the theatrical profes-
sion playing the Washington theaters
this week. as we'll as many special
artists who will accompany Mr.. Froh-
man TO the Capital from New York
for the express purpose of making
this entertainment the greatest in the
history of the local benefits. In addi-
ton, Spencer Tupman's MayfioweI'
Hotel Orchestra and several of the
stars of the 'Crandall Saturday Night
ers' will be heard in an exceptional
program, which will begin promptly 81
$50 pm. in order not to interfere
with other charity enterprises sChed-
uled for the same date.
Subscription seats and boxes may
be had by those desiring preferred
locations. These may be obtained at
the National box Office, where seats
have been on sale since last Wednes
daV
Evening star., 1925-12-06
Movie a Melting Pot.

Any large motion-picture studio is a
veritable melting pot of races and
types. but the Metro -Goldwyn studio
at Culver City raised film democracy
TO the zenith during the production of
Elinor Glyn's latest story, The Only
Thing"
Elinor Glyn is noted as relentless
searcher for types, and the race, color
or previous condition of servitude of
an individual matters not at all when
the individual represents the type she
wants.
For this reason she took n cham
bermaid from a Hollywood hotel and
made her into a screen lady of quail
ity, just because she looked the part,
while a San Francisco society woman,
with great era wing for screen
career. was given the part of king s
mistress because she, too. in Nine.
Glyn's opinion, was the type.
In the same picture a Russian
prince who had escaped the clutches
of the Communists in Russia played
the part of a crown prince. while
Russian general who had escaped the
same debacle played the part of him
self before the camera.
Evening star., 1925-12-06
Actors Fund Benefit.

THE annual celebration Of the
Actors Fund benefit will take place
in the National Theater Friday. De
cember II. and will be participated in
by notable group of visiting and resi-
dent artists. The National Theater has
been donated for this purpose by vii
liam Hartman Rapley, its owner. and
the performance Will be presented un-
der the direct personal supervision
Of Daniel Frohman, president of the
Actors Fund
1t is of interest to know that Mrs
Calvin Coolidge, First Lady of the
Land. is one of the patronesses of this
splendid charity. which was founded
many years ago by distinguished mem
bers of the theatrical profession as
means of providing for the needy and
destitute of their calling. This note
worthy group of Thespians included
Joseph Jefferson. Edwin Booth, John
Mccullough. Daniel Frohman and
many others whose names have been
closely identified with the making of
American theatrical history.
The Actors Fund OF America dis
burses several hundred thousand dol
lars annually in its relief work and
maintains at Staten Island the beau
tiful Actors Home throughout the
year for artists no longer able to sup
Evening star., 1925-12-06

for the theater than a newspa per.
Rejane induced him to leave his post
on La Prensa and become assistant
stage director of her company. In
this capacity he went to France.
where for several seasons he served
as director of the Theatre Rejane and
became widely known in French
theatrical circles as the Argentine"
At the urge of Reiane he tried his
hand at playwrighting. His first
effort The Refuge" proved 10 be
one of the most successful vehicles tho
great French tragedienne ever had
He followed il with "LAigrette."
which drew even more money at the
box office. The late LuCien Guitry
commissioned him TO write play, and
within a season Niccodemi found him
self famous as a dramatist of France
At the outbreak of the war he re-
turned to Italy and entered the army.
The war over. he settled in Milan and
returned to the theatrical business
Evening star., 1925-12-06
Cadman In the Movies.

CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN
~ possesses none of the attributes
of the general conception of a COM
poser of poetry and music.
He is not dreamyeyed. He does not
wear his hair long and it never ap-
pears unkempt. There is nothing
about any part of his attire that seems
careless or disheveled. He is not tenn
peramental. He is not a recluse.
Mr.. Cardman is a very progressive
appearing American type of man.
about feet 10 inches tall athIetically
built, with keen brown eyes, a firm,
friendly handclaSp and a ready smile.
He looks upon composing music as
a great privilege, but nothing terribly
mysterious.
When Jesse L. Lasky teIegraphed
and asked him to prepare a score for
THE Vanishing American" he
promptly replied that he would look
at the picture and give his decision
Two minutes after he had viewed Zane
Grey's epic of the American Indian he
wired Lasky that he would drop all
other work and fill the urgent request.
For six weeks Cadman forgot all
about his new opera. THE Witch of
Salem.' forgot all about concerts and
everything else to plunge himself into
the task of writing the score. At the
end of six weeks it was completed
Among other numbers it included a
theme song, Little White Rose"
which he looks upon as one of the
most promising ballads he has ever
written. 1t symbolizes the love of the
Indian hero of the story for the white
girl.
Evening star., 1925-12-06
Discovered by Rejane.

nARIO NICCODEMI, the Italian
dramatist, author of Stronger
Than Love- was born at Livorno,
Italy. in 1877. and at the age of l8
migrated to South America.
facile Hnquist, speaking French.
Portuguese and Spanish as we'll as his
native tongue. he adopted the profess
sion Of journalism and secured a po-
Sition as newspaper reporter on La
Prensa. the leading paper of Buenos
Aires.
For year or so he did tho work
of reporting everything from we'd
dings and funerals TO police court
news. Then he was promoted To the
post of dramatic critic The bril-
liancy and wit of his theatrical report
ing attra cted the attention of Gabrille
Rejane, the noted French actress, then
touring South America with a French
troupe, and she sent for the young
dramatic reporter.
Convinced that he was more fitted
Evening star., 1925-12-06
To Write Original for Pola.

ERNEST EADJA. famous Hunga-
- rian playwright. has arrived in
Hollywood for a study of the screen III
connection with his contract to write
original stories exclusively for Famous
Players Lasky Corporation. He is the
advance guard of the group of noted
foreign playwrights signed by Para
mount to write for the screen.
Mr. Vadja had four plays stimuli.
taneously on broadway last season.
THE Harem," produced by David Be
lasco: Grounds for Divorce" pro
duced by the Charles Frohman Co;
"Fata Morgana." produced by the
Theater Guild. and Little Angel a
Brock Pemberton production.
The playwright is now at work on
an original story for Pola Negri. His
Paramount contract calls for series
of at least four original stories.
Evening star., 1925-12-06
The Viennese Medley.'

TUNE MATHIS Christmas present
y TO film lovers Will be The Niennese
Medley" on which she has been
working for more than year.
The Niennese Medley" is a story of
Vienna during and after the war, but.
strange 10 say. there is not war
episode or scene in the feature.
Among the principals are Conway
Tearle. Anna z. Nilsson, Ian Keith,
Lucie Beaumont. Nigel de Bruiler.
John Sainpolis Edward Earle, Marcia
Manon. Virginia Southern. May Alli-
son, Isabelle Keith. Jean Hersholt.
Hale Hamilton and Cora Macy. The
picture was directed by Curt Rehfeld.
who gave valuable aid during the pro-
duction of THE Four Horsemen"
Evening star., 1925-12-06
Filmograms

Theater bill this week. Another noted
contributor is Sydney Grant. remem-
bered as co-star with Charlotte Green.
wood in so Long, Lefty" and who
appears in a skit called Things Are
Different Now
The Famous Players Balaban and
katz Theater amalgamation will func
tion under the corporate title PubliH
Theaters. Inc.
Victor Fleming. not James Cruze
will direct The Blind Goddess" for
Paramount, as Cruze is planning 4
trip abroad.
Marguerite de La Motto and John
Bowers are 10 co-star in three pic
lures TO be produced by Metropolitan
Pictures, Inc.
Monta Bell has begun directing
THE Torrent" at the Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer Studios, with Ricardo Cortez
Greta Garbo. Tully Marshall and
others in the cast.
Sydney Franklin is now directine
Marion Davies in Beverly of Graus
tark.'
A Little Friend of All the World
is the title of Il special Christmas re
lease by Red Seal. 1t is one-reel
novelty made by the Bray Studios.
Gloria Swanson was scheduled to
begin work on Fanny Hurst's story.
''Untamed," this week for Paramount,
with Frank Tuttle directing.
Richard Barthelmess' newest Inspi-
ration picture. Just Suppose" is said
to be about completed His next will
be o. to start January I.
Glorious Youth is the working
title of the first picture of the embryo
stars of the Paramount School.
Wanda Hawley is the only woman
in Combat" in which House Peters
is starred.
Hobart Henley will direct The
Auction Block with Eleanor Board
man and Charles Ray in the leading
roles for Metro-Goldwyn-M Mayer.
Down to Earth" by Julius PertuZ.
will be the first picture made for Fox
by the German director of THE Last
Laugh" F. W. Murnau, who is now
under contract with Fox.
The report is abroad that Eugene
O'Neill, Kenneth MacGowan. Robert
Edmund Jones, Maxwell Anderson
and Mervin Stearns are forming a
unit for the production Of pictures.
The story of Jack .Hoxie's next pic
ture. THE Tuneful Tornado" --es
written by Harrison Jacobs.
Evening star., 1925-12-06
Photoplays This Week
At the Photoplay Houses This Week.

METROPOITAN"Thc New Commandment Shown this after
and evening
PAACE-Thc Only Thing Shown evening.
Shown
COIUMBIA-"The Merry Widow" Shown this afternoon
TNOII-Caiforna Straight afternoon
AMBASSADOR-"The New Commandment" Shown afternoon
and evening
CENTRAI-"Thc Wanted" Shown this after
evening.
LINCOLN (coored)Sstan Sab1cs. Shown
Evening star., 1925-12-06
METROPOLITAN-" New Com
mandment."

CrandalIS Metropolitan Theater
this week, beginning this afternoon
at 8, will offer First Nationals pro-
duction of The New Commandment"
adapted from the novel. Invisible
Wounds" by Col. Frederick Palmer,
and featuring Blanche Sweet and
Ben Lyon. with Holbrook Blinn, Effie
Shannon. Pedro De Cordoba, George
Cooper and others. together with a
composite overture number. conduct
ed by Daniel Breeskin. and partici-
pated in by several of the stars Of
The Crandall Saturday NiShters," ;"
who broadcast every Saturday night
through station WRC.
supplementary features will en-
brace the Metropolitan World Sur
yey. new Aesop Fable and other
films. with orchestral establishment.
THE New Commandment" has as
the basis of its narrative a love affair
between a misunderstood girl and a
lad who went into the Great War
rather than undergo the anguish he
thought was being forced upon him
In addition to stage veterans in the
cast, an interesting and attractive
figure is Dorothy Cummings, one of
First Nationals newly discovered
beauties.
The "Crandall Saturday Nighters"
who will take part III the overture
number, supervised and staged by
John j. Payette. include SiSmund
Ziebel. Alexander Podnos. George
Benedict and Roy Laing. Violinists:
Sig Newman, saxophonist: Preston
Shelly, cellist: MichauX Crump, cor
netist; Nate Lewis, ukulele special
list: Kate Smith. Washington :
queen of syncopation." and Dorothy
Wilson Halbach. dramatic Contralto
These artists will be heard in solo
and concerted numbers presented as
in a radio broadcasting studio.
PALACE-"The Only Thing"
Elinor Glyn. famous author Of
Three Weeks" has given the screen
a successor in the story of Metro
Goldwyn. .Mayer's production of The
Only Thing" a drama of love behind
a throne. which, with Conrad Nagel
and Eleanor Boardman featured,
open it's initial Washington engage
ment at Loew's Palace Theater this
afternoon.
Written, adapted and personally
supervised by the author. The Only
Thing was directed by Jack Conway,
and the supporting cast includes Ed
"e'i u NoiIilCilS, Ndl It SldTh "dfQ,
Vera Lewis. Constance Wylie, Mario
Garlic and Arthur Edmund Carew.
1t is characterized by a series of
gorgeous and colorful backgrounds,
and reveals Eleanor Boardman in the
role of beautiful princess about to
contract state marriage with an
elderly and unpreposSesSing monarch,
but who. on the very eve Of her mar
riage, meets and falls madly in love
with a young English duke, who is
representing his king at the nuptials
Realizing the hopelessness of their
love. neither has counted on the out
break Of revolution. timed for the
very marriage. In the wild outbursts
Of rioting that follows the newly
welded king is killed and his unloving
bride is taken prisoner, but in a thrill.
ing scene the young Englishman n
takes his life in his hands to effect a
successful rescue.
The added attractions include Ralph
Graves short-length laugh-maker,
Hurry, Doctor, the Pathe news reel,
Topics of the Day and a musical en-
Evening star., 1925-12-06

CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S next picture
- will be The Clown" which will be
made with the assistance of Harry
Crocker and Milt Gross. with Georgia
Hale and Henry Bergman in the cast.
The Rialto reports receipt of the
news that Ernst Lubitschs screen
masterpiece. Lady Windermere' s
Fam" has been secured for showing
at the Ninth street picture house, the
date uncertain as Yet.
Alice Terry is in New York, but her
next picture. The Magician" will be
made abroad by her husband, Rex
Ingram.
Richard Barthelmess was the host
at the welcome dinner rendered
Dorothy Gish upon her arrival from
abroad recently.
Good Luck" a Drury Lane melo-
drama.
Censors of the movie in Seattle.
Wash, are much upset over all-night
picture exhibitions. They cannot be
lieve that people while watching pic
lures are free for the time from other
temptations.
Charlie Chaplin is firm believer
in the principle of the scrap of pa
per-" He says he is not ready to go
into the United Artists Metro Gold
yn-Mayer combine yet. and that
there is an agreement by which a
unanimous vote is required. which
sort of makes Germans of Doug and
Mary and the other United Artists.
A Citizens league" is stirring up
things in Maryland in the effort to
promote picture censorship.
Tom Meighan's next picture for
Famous Players-Lasky is tentatively
called FLORIDA Romance"
A 200.foot ferry boat to ply between
Puget Sound cities, with picture
built by the Puget Sound Navigation
Co. 1t is also to have room for 100
automobiles.
They let Gilda Gray and her com
pany in "Aloma Of the South Seas
get away from the South Seas and
back to New York, only IN this in
stance the South Seas is another
name for Porto Rico.
A deal is on for the screen rights
to Me new play by Henry Myers,
with several producers dickering for
them.
Elmira, n. Y, is insisting that her
movie houses be well ventilated.
Edna Wallace Hopper is not the
only representative of the American
musical comedy stage on the Earle
Evening star., 1925-12-06

the head And then Charlie adds People laugh
productions dreadful enough I'll admit but contend
peoples and not only the delight Of the The
lives people hasn't conventions and
know If
film bad they coming possession Of the world We
beginning Only
track thinking that the medium connected with the curtain
being something new Charlie have the
if he is only the best comedian we know.
Evening star., 1925-12-06
TIVOLI-"California Straight Ahead

Reginald Denny will be seen at Gran
dall's Tivoli Theater the first two days
of this week, beginning today, in Cali
fornia Straight Ahead" a story of
motor cars racing and other diverting
impedimenta, in which important roles
are played by Gertrude Olmstead, Tom
Wilson. Charles Gerard and John
Stepping: "Our Gang" in Hal Roach's
Mary. Queen of Tots" and other
short films will also be shown.
Tuesday and Wednesday, ''The
Trouble With Wives together with
Clyde Cook in "Moonlight and Noses"
and the Pathe Review. Thursday and
Friday, Anna @. Nilsson, Ben Lyon.
Viola Dana. Hobart Bosworth and
Victor McLaglen in Frank Lloyd's $
film version. of Rex Beach's story of
the Klondike and gold rush days,
b"Winds of Chance; also an Aesop
Continued on Fourth Page)
Evening star., 1925-12-06

One of those much talked about but
rarely seen 'all-star" casts is being
filmed in THE Reckless Lady" 1t in
cludes James Kirkwood, Belle Ben
nett. Louis Moran, Lowell Sherman,
Charles Murray and Marcia Harris
THE Reckless Lady is described as a
society melodrama and has its basis
in Monte Carlo. 1t is an adaptation
Evening star., 1925-12-06

Patrons who attend morning per-
formances will usually avoid the
lock out" conditions which so far
have chara acterized all afternoon and
evening performances of THE Merry
Widow" at Loews Columbia.