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Evening star., 1925-10-18
Started in Washington

SENE NERAL years ago Grace Moore
- tired of Main street. .Iellico. Tenn.
She went to the Wilson-Green Music
School at Chevy Chase. Md, and one
night she sang with Giovanna Mar
tineli of the Metropolitan Grand
Opera Company at n concert III the
National Theater in Washington.
The applause was SO great that she
decided to go on the stage. Grace ran
away from school
Next she was playing in lust a
Minute" play that never reached
Broadway and that never paid her "A
cent in salary. She returned to New
York on a Christmas eve with cents
in her purse. She and a friend took a
room in Greenwich Village.
Later Miss Moore appeared in Up
in the Clouds" Then she left for
Paris, where she studied for more
than a year under Italian and French
masters. She appeared at the Opera
Comique in Paris. Her lovely voice
beautiful face and form and delightful
personality won her a deserved sue
cess. Irving Berlin saw her there and
persuaded her to return to America
and join the Music Box Revue"
Evening star., 1925-10-18

As a first cousin of Eugene O'Neill.
the much-discussed Young play
wright whose play. Desire Under the
Elms," will be one of the weeks attrac-
tions, Alma O'Neill has this to say:
II am the only living relative on his
fathers side who knows him personal
ly. And I regard him not with the
awe which he usually inspires but
with understa nding and love. for he
was my mothers favorite nephew and
my st-beloved playmate.
"At the time of Genes birth his
father Uames O'NeilD was we'll
launched on his career as Monte
Cristo,' triumphant financially as we'll
as dramatically, and Gene was born
not only TO theatrical position but to
considerable wealth as well.
when he was five years old he was
sent to a boarding school near New
York His father never allowed any
thing to interfere with his children's s
schooling, and. as his wife travelled
with him when on the road, and as
Monte Cristo' rarely played New
York, boarding school was the only
solution for the problem. And this
perhaps accounted for the beginning
of Genes antipathy for the stage. 1t
deprived him of his parents.
What his feelings were in his loneli-
ness and heartache only he knows.
He had no home life. The Summers,
however. he spent with his parents at
their cottage in New London, Conn.
Here was the sea, right at his door,
which he came to love so well, and
which, undoubtedly, was fascination
as well as a comfort and a friend.
when he reached college age he
decided on Princeton, and sojourned
there for two years. Then, to his
fathers intense disappointment, he an
Evening star., 1925-10-18
BEL Under the Elms.

At the Shubert Belasco tonight
"Desre Under the Elms,' one of the
most discussed plays of the theater.
comes for a weeks engagement. In
the cast are Frank McGlynn, famous
impersonator of Abraham Lincoln, and
Helen Freeman. who plays her noted
role Of Abbie Putnam.
Desire Under the Elms" comes
40 weeks in that city. The day after
sion that never waned until the com
pletion of its run.
The facets of this tragedy that
caught the public attention We're its
unusual theme. in which infanticide
plays prominent part; it's version of
New England life of the 1S50S that is
far removed from the New England
of Tha nksgivins joys, and the unusual
setting for the action.
Briefly, the play concerns itself with
he lives of the Cabots. an embittered
family living in the New England of
the 1S50s Old Ephraim Cabot. about
whom the play revolves. is as splendid
Characterization as ONeill has yet
wrought. and has carried that play
wright far above the ranks Of medi-
ocrity. Abbie. as played by Helen Free
man. is seen as the tragic role of the
future, to test the capabilities of aspir-
ing Bernhardts.
Others in the notable cast beside
Frank McGlynn include Howard
MerlinC Clement Wilenchick, Perry
Wins. and of course, Miss Helen
Freeman.
Evening star., 1925-10-18
A Pupil of Ysaye.

ODETTE MYRTIL. who plays the
important role of Hortense in
The Love Song the story of Often
bach, with that famous composers
own music. is a Parisienne. with all
the Gallo fervor and artistic instincts
of the Partisan. Her father and
mother were both stage folks. and
travelled all over Europe in their pro
feSSion.
While still a young girl. Odette was
placed in a convent in Brussels. where
she received the rudiments of her edu-
cation. Her extreme youth and ar
tiStIc temperament, just beginning to
develop, excited the interest of Eu-
gene Ysaye. who took her as pupil,
without fee, and taught her to play
the violin.
After several years she became SO
deSifous of seeing her parents that she
travelled to Dresden. alone, where they
were playing in q stock company, and
surprised them by walking into their
dressing room. They would have sent
her back 10 Brussels. but the child in
sisted on playing the violin for them
They We're so greatly astonished by
her budding genius and the promise of
future technique that they interested
The management to the extent of hav-
ing her play during the intermissions.
After that there was nothing left for
the Young musician but musical and
dramatic career.
For several seasons she Travelled
with her parents. playing the violin
and appearing in small parts. Then
came a Partisan success in vaude-
vile, with equally successful engage
ments in London. Chariot introduced
her in one of his revues. and since
that time she has been featured en-
tertainer in many revues. Last sea
son she appeared in. the Shubert pro-
duction of "Nogues and Frolics" and
won personal triumph.
Evening star., 1925-10-18
RUTH GIBBS
Gaqety
Newspaper Man as Play
wright.

MOST newspap per men at some time
in their lives threaten TO come
down 10 play writing. Some Of them
develop symptoms to such degree
that they actually sieZe pen and paper
and execute their forty thoughts OF
paper. Frequently these plays are
written. In fact, many are written
but few are produced.
When II. Il. Warner appears here
in silence" we will have a shining
example of ncwspa per man. Man
MARGIN. who stood steadily by his
guns and kept everlastinsly AT the
business of writing PLAYS until he got
some Of them produced. notably such
popular hits as Cheating Cheaters.
The Woman in Room 13, Eyes ot
Youth" and Three Live Ghosts" Mr.
Marcins latest play. "Silence." ran al
the National Theater. New York City
the entire past season and is con
sidered To he this authors most en-
gaEing play.
In 1910. when Mr.. MARGIN was still a
| painstaking police reporter in New
York he began to lombard the mag
azines with short stories. After a
time few of them came hack. Five
years later his first play, The House
of Glass, was accepted and produced.
| 1t was a big success and he followed
1t with other action dramas. all oi
/ them more or less successful.
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Coming Attractions

! as The Maestr" "r Moutmartre. "
I where it scored 4 tremendous sue
cess.
I In scope. eIaboratcueSs Of detail
pretcntioUSueSS If setting. personnel
and ma agnitude Of east il i said Ia
SurpasS even such notable works Of
! fCreign origin as The Lady in En-
mine" blossom Time. and The
4 Student Prince" only at the Metro
4 p"Iitan Opera House in New York
Z can adequate parallel be found 10 the
/ extent of the production.
The play, in three acts. is from the
Hungarian and German of Eugene
Farago. Michael Nador. James Klein
and carl Rretschneider. The score
Z embraces manv Of Offenhach'S cele-
hrated airs. selected and arranged hv
I the Nlnu"$e c"mposer Edward Kun
neke. More than l"7 works uf often
bach. including The Tales Of lloff-
man, have been woven into the muSi-
. cal scheme Of the play
. The story shows Dffenbach a first as
a struggling Young composer and later
depicts him ttourishine under the pat
srunage Of Napoleon Ill as the genius
/ OF opera bouffe in Paris.
( An augmented orchestra of forty
musicians. selected for the most part
/ from symphony organizations viii
/ play the score. \ cast of more than
! 200 persons viii interpret The Love
Song. The Maryon Nadie dancers
and SOlarita. an importation from
Spain, furnish the principal da nee
numbers.
In the cast are Odetee Myrtil. Harry
X. Morton. Zella Russell. Allan Prior
Evelyn Herbert. Charlotte Woodruff.
Harrison RroCkhank. and others.
The complete New York production
is promised The highest seat price
for evenings Will he 81. for the Thurs
day (SpeciaD matinee >l.tu and for
the Saturday matinee S.
NATION BE Good"
The National Theater will have for
its attraction next week. beginning
/ Sunday. October -. the musical com
continued on Twelfth Pagel
Evening star., 1925-10-18

based on the evident estimate OF
most of the protestations against
realism. so-called. as in fact, only
traditional hypocrisies. no more to
be taken seriously in the delineation
OF essential humanism than the
cherished, but useless, necktie or
the archaic button on your coat
sleeve. 1t is a defiance that fasci-
mates. We are often compelled to
admire craftsmanship, even when its
master assumes the role of bully
and coerces all our gentler impulses
of thought into a bruised submis-
sion.
England is taking liberty with
Shakespeare that America would
never have venturcd. by staging the
cast Of Hamlet" in formal modern
attire. Something similar is prom
iscd in this country. Strangely the
appeal of such an absurdity will be
strongest for the more intellectual
playgoer. satiated with poetic seri-
business and reconciled to any gro
tesquerie that might be called
novelty" 1t will be a "caviare TO
h" general.
Evening star., 1925-10-18
Closeup Of Eugene O'Neil.

nounCed that he was through with
schooling. So into business he went.
He failed. absolutely. and $50. 600 of
his fathers money failed with him.
And then came his experience at
acting and stage managing. He aC-
companied his father in a vaudeville
tour. with Il. condensed version Of
Monte Cristo' For Il short time he
was persuaded to actually appear on
the stage. This was SO nervera cking.
Soul-torturnE an ordeal that it almost
resulted in illness. Greatly 10 his
parents disappointment and of course
his own, ii was clearly seen that Gene
could never be sn actor.
Then came Genes sea travels. which
helped him find himself and his tai
ents, and also TO find peace of mind
and tranquility of soul.
II merely mention his being a re-
porter on a New London paper. also
his playwrit:Eg course at Harvard
Personally, | seriously doubt that he
acquired his marvellous technique
there. 1t was born in him-burned so
deep in his consciousness that II took
the deep probing of loneliness. suffer
ing, misunderstanding and self
beWiderment to bring IL to the sur
face; something that is stronger than
he and makes him express himself in
its own terms, though ii may set him
apart from the world in so doing.
This is the price he has paid, for
genius is lonely.
II have but scratched the surface in
this article. To one who has the great
privilege of knowing him, personally.
comes the realization of his bigness. of
his towering genius as America s
greatest playwright. but also the reali-
zation of his infinite humility In re-
gard to his achievements. n humility
before which / stand in silenGa."
Evening star., 1925-10-18
''School fer Scandal Nov. 9

day theater IS also announced in
connection with the presentation Of
the famous old comedy.
Walter Prichard Eaton is a leading
figure in present-day arts and let
terS in America and ranks a enc of
the foremost critics Of the draIna in
4 constructive sense.
In thus offering school for Sean
daI' Mr.. Tyler noted for many wears
as a producer OF ail-Star casts, has
departed from the tradition OF offer
ing a celebrated actress in the role
of Lady TeaZ!e and instead presents
May Collins, a youthful and beauti-
ful girl. who achieved rare honurs in
The Rivals"
Another feature IS that the play
is staged under the direction of Basil
Dean. noted English producer, play
wright and thority on the drama
Evening star., 1925-10-18
ROWLAND
Kelths
BEIiSCO-"SiIence."

"Silence." the new and thrilling
Max MARGIN melodrama. with II. T..
Warner of Alias Jimmie Valentine
fame. in the leading role, will begin
on next Monday night an engagement
of one week at the Shubert Eela SEQ
Thester. The star and play are said
to have met in other cities the same
great success that was achieved last
season in New York. where the play
ran at the National Theater from
Autumn to Spring.
Mr. Warner is seen in stage crook
Jim Warren. the hero of Silence. In
times past. as in the present play, he
has made the stage lawhreaker a
rather likdble character. His present
role. that of confidence man whose
stoical and heroic silence brings him -
most uncomfortable proximity To the
electric chairs said to carry his
audience through every emotion that
can we'll be aroused III the course Of
an evenings dra amatic entertainment.
The plot of the play j. 50 intricate
that any attempt to briefly Summar.
ize it would he futile. yet the story is
as clear as it is thrilling and humOr-
Gus.
The company includes Frederick
Perry, Flora Sheffield, William Neville,
John NJ Washburn, Jack Bennett,
W. G. Hodges. Charles Ritchie. Frank
4. Bond. Alton Goodrich, John Lyons
Noel Connors. Charles Gibney. Gran
VILE Bates, Joseph North, William
Grant and Lillian kembie.
POLFS-'The Love Song"
The MessrS. ShuLert will present
The Love Song the new musical
play of the Second Empire. based
upon the life and music of JaSdueS
OffenhaCh for d week : enga cement
beginning next sunday night. OCt"-
ber - at Polls Theater. II comes
10 Washington with a reputation es-
tablished by an entire season : run
at the mammoth Century Theater in
New York. and was originally pro
duced in Vienna under the title Of
The Life of Offenbs Ch" and in Paris
Evening star., 1925-10-18
KEITH'S-Adele Rowland.

Adele Rowland musical comedy
star, headlines the bill at B. F.
Keith's Theater this week. Miss Row
land, who in private life is Mrs. Con
way Tearle, will be remembered for
her work in Her Soldier Boy" The
Only Girl" and Irene" and other
musical comedies. Her present offer
ing is called "Song Stories"
Harry j. Conley. character comedian
will be featured in new one e-act
sketch by Willard Mack, "Slick as
Ever"
A novel entertainer is Albert Whe-
Ian, the Australian. who is the ori-
ginator of all he does on the stage, and
it is said he does a bit of everything.
Others to appear are ''Signor Fris-
coe," Xylophonist, who will be heard
with his Quatemalan ensemble, offer
ing an unusual musical program
Willard Mack's sketch, THE Last
Dance" offered by William Newell and
Elsa Most; Mulroy, McNeece and
Ridge, in their skating production,
"Whirls and Steps: Tuck and Cinns
Continued on Twelfth PassJ
Evening star., 1925-10-18

A s step further in the movement
"A toward better theater for
America, which was inauSurated last
season by his presentation of The
Rivals" with Mrs. Fiske and a no.
table cast. George L. Tyler now an
nounces Richard Rrinsley SheridanS
school for Scandal" with @. Il.
Hesgie. Henrietta trosman. Julia
Hoyt May Collins, Ian Hunter, JEFF
ferson De Angels. James Dale, Ben
Field. William seymour. Arthur
Lewis. Neil Martin. Romaine Callen-
der. Philip Tonge. Mary Hone. An
thony kemble Cooper. Essex Dane.
Brian O'Neil and Harold Thomas. at
the National Theater November 9.
Mr.. Walter Pritchard Eaton. in n
series of lectures on the drama Of
Sheridan and his day as related to
the current tendency Of the present
Evening star., 1925-10-18
NATIONM-"sIu Box Revue"

The fourth annual Music Box Re
vue" is announced for the National
Theater this week, commencing this
eveninS-in "2S scenes of shimmerins
color and imaginative settings that
run the gamut all the way from sur
prise to astonishment." In lavishness
and bigness it is said to surpass all
the previous productions.
The new show also promises the
finest collection of talented specialists
that have ever been gathered together
In any of the Sam II. Harris and
Irving Berlin previous revues.
The dominant note of the revue Is
beauty, and from the rise of the cur
tain on the looming Catskills and Rip
Van Wrinkle awakening from his long
sleep ii embraces a succession of
tableauX by master of stage craft
that translate dreams into dramatic
realities John Murray Anderson is
the magician.
Irving Berlin has composed score
which ranges from super-jaZz to the
sensuOusly beautiful.
The cast of principals includes
Fannie Brice. Clark and Mccullough.
Oscar Shaw. Grace Moore, Brox
Sisters, Runaway Four, May Corey
Kitchen, Joseph Macauley. Wynn Bull
lock, Leonard S. Leo, Frank Allworth,
Evening star., 1925-10-18

Bud and Jack Pearson, Hazel eau
dreau. Irving Rose, George Clifford,
Lillian Aune, Dorothea and Nadia
Henri Permain and Thomas Draak
. and the chorus.
Evening star., 1925-10-18
Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week.

At the Theaters This Week.
BEIASCODcsire Under the Elns. drama Opens this
NATIONAIl-Musc Box Revue. this
POIIS-"My Girl" musical play. Opens this evening
KEITHS-Adce Rowland. vaudeville. Opens this afternoon.
EARLE-Ama1a Molina. vaudeville Opens this afternoon.
STRAND-"Aice land. vaudeville Opens this afternoon
GYETY-" Parisicnnc burleque Opens this afternoon
MUTUA-"Eappv Hours hnrlcsque Opens this afternoon
Evening star., 1925-10-18

The smell OF raw meat is in the
air. Eugene O'Neills Desire Under
the Elms' draws near. Many play
goers will say they do not like it. but
will see it. nevertheless. Art as
sumes al independence Of expression
Evening star., 1925-10-18

is Zat So?" made po'it- recog-
nition of this National Capitals
metrorolistic strides and gave it a
fortnight season instead Of treating
Evening star., 1925-08-10
FRANK FULLER DIES;
WAS ATTORNEY HERE
Former Nebraska State Senator
Had Practiced Here for
Many Years.

Frank Fuller, for many years an
attorney in Washington and former
Nebraska State Senator. died yester-
day at his residence. 1921 Rhode Is
land avenue.
Mr.. Fuller was born in Orange
County. Va, in 1851. He came TO
Washington in 1863 and graduated
from Columbian University, now
George Washington University, and
National University He practiced
law in Wayne, Nebr., from 1861 to
1902, during which time he was State
Senator and mayor OF Wayne. He re-
turned to Washington in 1902 and was
principal of the Drillery Business Col.
lege for several years.
He was a member of King Solomon's
Lodge, F. A. A. NJ: Scottish Rite and
an honorary member of the National
University Ldw School Masonic Club.
Mr.. Fuller is survived by his widow.
Hortense T. Fuller. and two sons, Ben
l.. and Frank T. Fuller.
Funeral services will be held al his
late home tomorrow at 2 pm. Inter
ment will be in Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1925-08-10
Swimmer Wins $3
Crossing Channel;
Fails to Collect

Evidently suffering from a cross
channel swim complex heightened
by side bets totaling 50, Reginald
DE Witt Oden. 20 years old, of 49s
Maryland avenue southwest, dived
off the moving steamboat Charles
Manchester last night and success
fully swan the Washington Chan
mel opposite the War College.
A loud splash from the murky
water was the only thing that an
nounced that Oden had taken the
bet offered by his companions that
he would not jump overheard.
reach shore and be waiting on the
dock when the boat arrived. He
was successful and was gayly waV-
ing to his companions from the
dock as the boat approached. There
was 50 much excitement that the
So bet was forgotten
Evening star., 1925-08-10
DEATH TO Be ASKED
FOR VANDERVOORT:
Slayer of Father Appeared
to Be Walking in Sleep,
Wounded Mother Says.
Bv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
PARKERSBURG. Iowa. August 10.
The death penalty for Warren
Nandsrvoort, who last Thursday shot
and killed his father and seriously in
iured his mother, will be asked by the
state. A. Brauer, Butler County at
torney. made this known YESTERDAY
when he was informed that many
persons in Parkersh+lrs would be sat
isAed with a life sentence.
Mr.. Brauer revealed that he had
put a number Of written questions to
Mrs. Vanderyoort in the hospital.
where she is under treatment mere,
He made some of the questions and
answers public.
In seeking possible motive for the
slaving the attorney asked her if Mr..
Eandervocrt carried life insurance
She replied that he did not. He asked
her IL she knew Of any possible mo-
tive for the crime She said she had
none. but added that she believed her
son was walking In his sleep when
he fired the fatal shot.
Boy Appeared Asleep.
Mrs. Eandeyv5ort told Of seeing her
son come up the Stairs. of hearing
him shoot his father and then, whei:
she ran to her husbands. side. OF how
he shot her. following her 10 her bed.
where she staggered after the first,
shot. and shooting her again.
Warren had the appearance of
being asleep, she said, and did not.
speak word during the time he was
upstairs. Mrs. Vanderveort then was
asked II there had been any family
quarreIs and she replied in the mega
tive She also said that there had
not been a family quarrel on the
night of the shooting. s-.'
Mrs Vandervoort spent comfort
able day and it was said she will re-
cover unless complications set In.
Evening star., 1925-08-10
HELD OFFICERS SLAYER.
Eentuekian Accused of Killing
Policeman at Dance.

MADISONVILLE, KY, August 10
R).-Lee Tapp, 35. was being held In
Jail here without bail charged with
the murder, Saturday night, OF County
Patrolman John Allen at a dance near
Beulah, eight miles from Madison
vile.
The killing occurred when Allen at
tempted to remove man from an
automobile. A shot fired from shot
gun by an assailant hidden in q clump
Of bushes 20 feet away killed the offi.
Ger instantly.
Tapp will be given a preliminary
hearing Tuesday.
Evening star., 1925-08-10
Tourist Rerrisals Asked in Spain.

MADRID. August 10 P.-El Sol
demands that the Spanish govern
nent establish Identification cards
for all foreigners in Spain as a re-
prisal against the difficulties which
the paper alleges are encountered by
Spanish travellers In the United
States and France.
Evening star., 1925-08-10
Rey .Apreared Asleep.
Holy Name Rally Planned.

Plans for a rally OF st. Martin s
Holy Name SgEiety will be discussed
At a mass meeting TO be held tonight
in st. Martins new school building at
5 O'Clock. All the men of ST. Martins s
parish have been asked by the clergy
Of st. Martins to attend the meeting.
Evening star., 1925-08-10
VILLAGE is RAZED
BY TURKISH QUAKE
Others Badly Damaged in Repeated
Tremors-Many Persons Re-
ported Injured.

By the Associated Press.
CONST TANTINOPIE, August To-
Severe earthquake shocks on Thurs
day and Friday in the Nillayet OF
smyrna razed one village and badly
damaged several others. The loss OF
life is believed to have been small
but many persons were injured.
Several Hurt at Hamadieh.
PARIS. August 10 P).-A Havas
dispatch from smyrna says that one
entire village was destroyed and that
several persons were injured during
earthquake shocks Saturday night and
Sunday at Hamadieh and DenizH. In
the latter place the railway station
was destroyed and number of houses
collapsed.
The shocks occurred between 10
o'clock Saturday evening and $50
o'clock Sunday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-03
RACE NARROWS
IN CONTEST FOR
CARNIVAL QUEEN

The counting of the hundreds of
thousands Of ballots cast in the con-
test for the selection of Queen OF
the fourth annual State of Maine
Winter Carnival, continued merrily
all cay Monday at the contest head
quarters in the Chamber of Conf
mercc rooms, and had progressed 60
far that last night that it was fairly
certain that three of the seven as
pirants had been eliminated from
any possibility of success.
The four between whom the We
tory now rests are Miss Yvonne
Faucher, Miss Helen ]. Bachelor.
Miss Florence Wilson and Miss
Gladys Madore. The chairman of
the Carnival Kueen contest could
give nothing definite late last night
the relative standing Of
these four, but 1t was announced
that all of these young ladies d
been measured for royal robes. so
that when the ultimate winner is
known there will be no delay in
bedecking her for her appearance at
the Carnival Ball. Thursday even
ing.