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The Washington times., 1925-06-16
FAY KING FINDS MUSIC
IN LIFT OPERATOR
He Makes Monologue Sound Like ar
Aria from Some Opera and Cheers
Everybody Up.

same rest and enthusiasm. / have
dropped I'm to see . show again
after q run OF several months
and found the players to be as
fresh in their roles as they were
on the opening night. But, after
all, they have q plot, q back
ground, a support to inspire
them.
But it seems to me there is
even more credit and praise due
q fellow who can, trip after trip,
day after day, I'm an elevator, in
ject pep and variation into reel
ing his mOnOIOgue Of merchan-
disc.
He certainly is endowed with
. great gift.
He's Of great value to the store.
Without any ad lib stuff, with
dignity and respect he manages
to lift his continuous chant into
q sphere of cheer, and entertain
ment, as well as information.
/ was tired and cross and swell
tering, and hateful when / en-
tered that elevator, and just to
hear the CHEEKY way I'm which
that attendant sang his song Of
shopping, as IL might be called,
Gained and refreshed my nerves.
Nothing Is more inspiring than
TO see someone who loves his job
and makes the most of it.
The Washington times., 1925-06-16
By FAY KING.

Colored folks are natural born
entertainers.
They have q talent for song
and music that is bound to cheer
every one within earsh0t, and
they don't have to be on the
stage to spread this cheer and
entertainment, either.
The other day ! rode to the
eighth floor in q crowded ele-
vator pilOted by q young cOIored
man, and the way he sang OF
the goods for sale on each floor
in that store Cheered everybody
up.
Instead Of q bored, mOnotOnOus
mumbled chant he gave accent
and emphasis to his words until
il was like an aria from some
happy opera.
He put just as much person.
fly into putting over his oral
catalogue of goods as II 1t had
been set to music or was some
new kind of free verse.
It would have done the heart
Of q silver-tOngued orator good TO
hear him.
sometimes wonder ut the
great ability that Is born In an
actor to enable him to 60 through
his part night after night and
two matinees a week, with the
The Washington times., 1925-06-16

came to The washington Herald
when Mr.. Hearst bought the paper.
Saw His Team Champions.
For ten consecutive years Dugan
had gone South with the ball club.
He lived to see his dreams come
true when Washington won the
American League pennant and the
world champion title.
"Bucky" Harris, manager Of the
champions, announced today that
many members of the team will be
present at Dugan's funeral.
He is survived by his niece, Mrs.
Wilfred Simpson; two sisters, Mrs.
Mary G. Guilford and Miss Jeanette
Dugan; a brother, Leo T. Dugan,
329 Seventeenth street southeast,
and three nephews. Eugene More
land, John A. Dugan and Leo T..
Dugan, jr.
The Washington times., 1925-06-16
WOMAN SERIOUSLY
ILL FROM POISONING

Mrs. Mary E. Hubbard, thirty
one, of 1916 Q street northwest,
picked up unconscious yesterday
from the street on Pennsylvania
avenue near Seventeenth north
west, suffering from poisoning, is
said to be dangerously i'll today.
Hospital authorities describe her
condition as ''only fair
No comment on the incident has
been made by Mrs. Hubbard or
Mrs. Mary r. Lipscomb, her mother,
or her husband, Raymond L. Hub
bard, both OF whom called at the
hospital last night.
The Washington times., 1925-06-16

United states Marshal. Ed Sny-
der, who is going to make q
Fourth OF July for Defense Day.
speech on Patriotism" You can
always be sure Of our applause,
Mr.. Marshal, is the way we spur
him on to glory.
Cap Russell Dean, of the Har-
Dor Precinct, will be retiring On
July /. Our guess is that he'll
spend his belated vacation down
on the water front wheie every
body knows and loves the genial
Cap.
The Washington times., 1925-06-16

hip. He walked with slight limp.
1t was this fact that earned for
him the sombriquett Of Hip.
Denied the life of an athlete
because Of his injury, Dugan did
the next best thing. He became
a coach, a counsellor and a chron
icler of sports events.
He joined The Washington Her
aid in 1906, when William Peet was
sports editor. Under Poets tute-
lage Dugan became assistant sports
editor. His acquaintanceship be-
came wide. From 1906 to 1919
Dugan was at times assistant sports
writer and baseball writer.
For the past ten years he had
specialized in baseball. In 1919
Dugan went to The Washington
Post, where, in a short time he
became sports editor. In 1928 Dugan
The Washington times., 1925-06-16
Funeral for Pastor

RICHMOND. Va. June 1e.-Doc-
tor Russell Cecil. soventy-one, pas.
tor Of the Second Presbyterian
Church, who died here yesterday Of
heart disease, Will be buried tomor-
row morning in Hollywood Gene
The Washington times., 1925-06-16
chlropractors % Meet

An interesting program i prom.
ised at the meeting o. the Capital
city Chiropractic Association to-
morrow night ct the Wage Earnsrs'
Home, 1115 Rhode Island avenue
northwest. Doctor b. .. Hlack.
wen viii preside.
The Washington times., 1925-06-16
TO make
n COOLING DRINK!
Water, Ice
and ZA-REX

Nix and serve IN So seconds.
Apint maIesa gallon Of de
most delicious fresh fruit
Juice drinks. It's COOL. It's
luscious L .quenches that
summer thirst.
Six choice favurites: Rasp.
berry, Lemon, Strawberry,
Orange, Lemon and Lime,
Grape-or ZA.REX
PUNCH, = delicious blend
Of SIX real fresh fruit juices
b one.
Fresh fruits are always m
season with ZA-REX. Re
heshing, healthful. Let the
children have their 6u -at
parties and al play every day.
Drink ZA-REXi
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Girls. Get This.

FROM movie Hollywood comes a
statement that American women
have only the vice of "dewdads' to
blame for their failure to lift the
fashion domination of France and
Paris.
american women persist in spelling
good gowns with ornamentation'
cries Adrian, n man dreSsmaker who
in this case constitutes himself film
Moses to lead downtrodden feminity
from enSlaVcment to the Rue de la
PaiX. Reforms that have stuck and
fashions that have lasted have done
50 because creative energy was con-
fined to a single idea.
american women are not content
with the single idea" gown of the
French designer but insist on loading
it with supplementary beads, tucks,
ribbons, etc, until what was a great
painting in cloth becomes a mere
Garish circus poster.
"a distinctive school of purely
American design is growing, thanks
to the motion picture, but it will
never attain definite Importance until
American women realize that dew
dads form the dividing line between
good and bad TASTE
Adrian, only % years old but al
ready internationally famous. came tc
the Music Box Revue" from Paris
and is now under contract to Ceci
de Mile, to uphold the De Mile repu
tation for "dressy' pictures.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Colleen Moore's 8 Brother.

HE makes his debut in a lifelong
role. He's a brother to Colleen
Moore, both on and off the screen.
.Cleve Moore couldn't have chosen a
happier part in which to make his bow
before the cinema public if the part OF
Dick Sundale in the new Colleen
Moore-First National production OF
I'VE Moderns" had been especially
written for him.
Israel Zangwill, when he penned the
novel on which the screen story is
based, hadn't an inkling. however
that it was to give impetus to a screen
career.
Cleve was born in Port Huron
Mich, as was his celebrated sister.
After he journeyed through five diff
sessed the same natural bent for the
mimetic art that is his sisters. He
became an Office boy to a motion pic
ture executive-just to gain admission
to the "lot." Later he was made
script holder-to hold the typewriter
story Of the picture being made and
make notes as it is photographed. He
performed this task on "The Lost
World" and Colleen Moores three
photoplays. so Big sally" and
1.-The Desert Flower"
This contact gave Cleve an insight
into the technique of acting, and with
this knowledge added to screenable
features and an instructive sense of
drama, his choice for screen honors
became a matter of course.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
AMBASSADOR-"The White
Monkey"

Barbara La Mar will be seen at
Crandall's Ambassador Theater the
first three days Of this week, begin
ming this afternoon, in First Nationals
film version of John Galsworthy's
story THE White Monkey" with a
supporting cast led by Thomas Hold
ing, Henry Victor, George Marion,
Colin Campbell. Flore LIE Breton and
Tammany Young. The picture was
directed by Phil Rosen, maker Of
Abraham Lincoln" and sets forth an
intensely dramatic recital of events in
the life Of a London society pet. An
Aesop Fable, "The Hero Wins; the
Pathe Review and pipe organ en-
bellishments will be added features.
Wednesday and Thursday, Alice
Joyce and Give Brook in The Home
Maker" directed by King Baggott,
from Dorothy Canfiield's novel: also
Harry Langdon in "Boobs in the
Woods; Friday, Madge Bellamy, sup
ported by Ethel Clayton. Charles Far
rell, Freeman Wood, Robert Cain and
Katherine Perry in wings Of Youth;
also Eddie Nelson in Hot and
Heavy" Bruce scenic, and Topics
of the Day: Saturday. Richard Dix
in THE Lucky Devil" supported by
Esther Ralston and directed by Frank
Tuttle; also Neal Burns in Christies
Soup to Nuts" Spotlight and
Felix cartoon.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
Navy s Pet Picture.

QAMON NOVARRO, the Metro
Goldwyn screen st.r, is said to
have been chosen with the approval
of the Bureau of Navigation of the
Navy Department as the hero of the
big Navy picture, The Midshipman,
which was filmed at Annapolis last
June, under Navy Department super
vision. The Midshipma.l" is further
claimed to be the Navys first attempt
to glorify the Annapolis midshipman.
When the department was approach
ed by the ro-Goldwyn-M Mayer or
ganization with a suggestion that such
a film be made, the proposal is said
to have met with an immediate re-
sponse from Navy officials, who had
long desired to give the country a
graphic idea of the life of an embryo
admiral during his four-year course
Of training on the Severn.
1t was made clear to the producing
firm, however, It is claimed, that the
Navy itself must have the final say
Evening star., 1925-10-04
COLUMBIA-"Don @. Son of Zorro"

Douglas Fairbanks latest screen
triumph. Don q, Son of Zorro" has
been held over by popular demand
and Will continue as the feature at
LoeWs Columbia the current week,
beginning this afternoon.
Don q, Son of Zorro is consid-
cred one of the most fascinating pro-
ductions that Fairbanks has brought
to the screen. 1t is based on the novel,
Don Qs Love Story" by K. and Hes
keith Prichard, and was directed by
Donald Crisp, with a cast that includes
Mary AStor, Warner GLAND, Lottie
Plckford Forrest and Mr.. Crisp him.
self. 1t is actually a sequel to Fair
banks romantic picture, The Mark
of Zorro and presents him in his
first dual role as Zorro himself and as
Don q, his son.
The story concerns the son of a
Spanish ariStocrat of the old California
regime who is sent 10 Spain to be edli-
Gated. wins the favor of the Queen
and beautiful senorita, but the hat.
red of an officer of the Queens guards,
who reSentS his attentions to the
beauty and his popularity with his
sovereign. He is accused of a murder
he never committed, and to avoid dis
grace he pretendS to commit suicide
and becomes an outlaw.
Mr.. Fairbanks enactment Of the
role of Don Q, Son of Zorro, among
other things, features his apparent
mastery of new art-the manipula-
ton of 50-foot-long bull whip. with
which he performs series Of veritable
wonders.
Morning showings of the picture
on week days start at 10:45 am, con-
tinuing at 1915, $50, 4::5o, Z and
9:l5 pm.
Evening star., 1925-10-04

as to all details, and it was with
that understanding that Director
ChriSty Cabanne. with Ramon Novarro
and his supporting company, moved
into Carvel Hall at Annapolis and
stayed for the best part of month
last Summer, filming cadet activities
and the annual June commencement
exercises as background for the story
Capt. II. +. Cook, comma adant OF
midshipnen, and Comdr. Herbert r.
Jones, ii is claimed, were detailed
to supervise Director Cabanne's pro
duction, and therefore, it can be as
s,lmed that THE Midshipman" is a
most accurate and authoritative film.
The Midshipman' will be remem-
bered as the picture that, for time,
was expected to bring President Cool
idge before the camera to present
the 1925 graduating class with their
diplomas, but, as is well known, Mr.
Coolidge declined, and Secretary of the
Navy Wilbur took his place. This
forms one Of the big scenes of the
picture.
Evening star., 1925-10-04

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the noted authors of the world have
against film productions because the literary punch
several studios have sought their
creations
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Evening star., 1925-10-04
Jane Cowl to Gloria Swan.
son.

TANE COWL, the noted actress,
= thought so much of Gloria Swan
sons 1.-THE Coast of Folly" that she
wrote the star expressing her appre.
citation. This is what she said:
II was deeply moved by your superb
characterization = in 1.-The Coast of
Folly" 1t was extraordinary-so pitt
fully true and developed with so much
mastery. It is a rare joy to see such
great art on the screen.
when it was over 1 wanted to get
up and cheer, and that supplied my
only regret of the night-that you
weren't there in person, so that l
could show you how felt and some
how give vent to the pleasure had in
seeing such craftsmanship"
Evening star., 1925-10-04
RIALTO-"Tracked in the Snow
Country"

Rin-Tin-Tin in Tracked in the
Snow Country is the photoplay at
traction at the Rialto this week.
1t is a drama of the North Woods,
and deals with the secret ownership
Of a gold mine by an old man which
a half-breed attempts to steal from
him and his daughter. There is a
young forest ranger in love with the
girl, and he aids Rin-Tin-Tin, the
faithful dog Of the miner, in frustrat-
ing the schemes of the villain. This
canine star, 1t Is said, has been fur
nished with number of new thrills
in this story Of the eternal SHOWS of
the Far North, of strong men and
tender women, and of an outlawed
dog who tracked his enemy to his
death.
June Marlowe, David Butler,
Mitchell Lewis and Charles Sellon
are the principal humans" in the
cast.
A special musical prelude to the
picture has been arranged by Mischa
Guterson along with other musical
numbers. which includes Mendels.
Evening star., 1925-10-04
TIEOLI-"The Danger Signal"

Jane Novak and Robert Edeson
head the cast to be seen at Crandall's
Tivoli TheAter the first two days Of
this week in ''The Danger Signal" a
roustng drama that reflects all Of the
romance of railroading. Others in the
cast include Robert Gordon, CASTOR
Glass, Dorothy Revier. Lincoln Sted-
man, Lee Shumway and Mayme Kelso.
Mack Sennett's 1.-The Iron Nag" a
Grantland Rice "Sportlight" and the
Pathe Review also will be shown.
Tuesday and Wednesday. Gloria
Swanson in Paramount's THE Coast
of Folly" directed by Allen Dwan,
with the supporting cast LED by Alec
b. Francis, Dorothy Cumming, Jed
Prouty and Eugene Besserer: also Hal
Roachs The Big Kick" a new Ly-
man H. Howe Hodge Podge" and
Topics of the Day: Thursday and Fri.
day, Richard BarAhelmess in "Shore
Leave adapted from Hubert Os-
borne's Belasco play, made with the
cooperation of the United States
Navy, and featuring Dorothy Mackail:
Nontinued on Fourth Pace
Evening star., 1925-10-04

| on the screen for 10 YEARS.. Montagr
Love paid his first visit to Hollywood
| when he went there to play in Para
mounts The Ancient Highway
soon to be released
Greta Nissen. featured in "The
| King on Main Street" will play one
of the principal roles in Raou
Walsh's elaborate production OF
''HasSan."
John Peale Bishop, writer and for
| merly managing editor of Vanity
! Fair, has been appointed by Jesse l.
Lasky to fill the post of title editor
for Paramount's eastern photoplays
For the past year Mr.. Bishop has
been assisting Julian Johnson in the
titling and editing task. and with the
elevation of Mr.. Johnson to the rank
of supervisor of production Mr.. Bishop
succeeds him.
Edna Somers, the singing sou
bret with 'The Temptress" Company
the current attraction at the Mutual
Theater. is one Of Broadway's best
known blues" singers and was being
featured at the Parody Club when
she accepted the assignment with the
Mutual burlesque attraction.
Not every turtle can swim. What
kind are you? William Beaudine, who
is directing Mary Pickford, recently
ordered a turtle for a scene in a bog.
1t was turned loose in the swamp and
Immediately sank. Property men res
cued the animal and tried it again
with the same result. 1t was a mud
and not water turtle. and lost a
chance for screen fame as a result.
When Frances M. Robinson. field
secretary of the Radio Corporation Of
America; George Clarke of the same
corporation; Fred Huber, president Of
the local Radio Merchants Associa-
ton; Abe Dresner, vice president, and
the officials of broadcasting station
WRC last week, finding themselves
in need Of talent for their matinees
. and nights during the radio exposi-
ton, appealed to the "Crandall Satur-
day Nighters" they got what they
wanted.
One Of the greatest screen comedies
that Washington has ever, had the
good fortune to enjoy is promised
in the near future at Crandall's s
Metropolitan Theater In Harold
Lloyds latest feature length picture,
THE Freshman" which is said to
have more laughs to the square foot
than any funfest ever devised. Lloyd
is cast in the role of the college
'goat"-the kid who is constantly
kidded without knowing it. His por-
trayal is said to have just the right
touch Of pathos to make It a classic.
Evening star., 1925-10-04

men, out Z,4UO 1nldSnlpmen IN all
appeared in the production.
Nothing Else Butt" the celebrated
| Navy goat that accompanies the Navy
| team to the annual Army Navy foot
ball game, was immortaliZed in cellu-
loid for Ramon Novarro's new picture,
THE Midshipman."
Baldpate Inn, perhaps the best
known hostelry in the United States.
has been reconstructed by Douglas
MacLean for his current Paramount
picture, "Seven Keys to Baldpate.' -
| Because of the tremendous popularity
Of the original George NJ. Cohan farce,
| 1t is estimated that more people have
seen the interior of Baldpate Inn than
have ever inspected the interior of
| any real hotel in the country.
In case you might be interested. be
it known that William De Mile who
| made the forthcoming Paramount
| picture, New Brooms," is a keen
student Of Freud and Tridon. He
picks with care each of the persons
in his unit. Il never do anything
which some one else can do for me"
he has said. And that, SO it is said,
is a secret Of success.
While making "The Golden Prin-
cess" Betty Bronson learned to read
the Indian sign language. This pic
ture was taken in the far Northwest.
Edna May Oliver in the cast of one
of Broadway's newest successes, "The
Cradle Snatchers," has an important
role in Bebe Daniels next picture.
Lovers in Quarantine" A consider
able part of this picture was made in
Bermuda.
While Pola Negri was making
Flower of Night she suddenly
sneezed. Paul Bern, the director,
| clapped his hands together and ex-
claimed, THAT reminds me-snuff
boxes" And so the research depart
ment was put to work finding out
what style snuff boxes were used in
California in 1856. That sneeze gave.
the research department two hours
work.
The easiest job in the world accord
ing to Paul Bern, director for Para
miunt, is to select pretty girls. He
passed it up in favor of the casting
department when 100 pretties were
needed. But" says Mr.. Bern, ''the
hardest job is to pick types"
With "The Pony Express James
Sruze celebrated his golden film ami
versary, for ''The Pony Express" was
his fiftieth, all Of them for Paramount.
Although he has had feature roles
Evening star., 1925-10-04
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"

So great has been the demand to
see Norma Talmadge in First Ma
tionafs perturbation of George Barr
McCutcheon's romantic novel, "Grau-
stark" that Crandall's Metropolitan
Theater announces it's continuation
this week.. beginning this afternoon.
This highly diverting tale of an
intrepid young American and Miss
Yetive Guggenslocker, whom he val
iantly sought abroad and who turned
out to be the Princess Of Graustark,
has been given thoroughly modern
treatment. The romance begins in
a train shed when two dining cars
stand on opposite tracks. In one is
the princess. in the other Grenfall
Lorry, American "go-getter." What
follows comprises one of the most
delightful of screen diversions.
The role of the American is played
by Eugene O'Brien, who has been
declared in this subject 'the perfect
lover" Others include Marc McDer-
mott, Frank Currier, Wanda Hawley
Albert Gran, Lillian Lawrence and
Winter Hall.
Dimitri Buchowetski has made this
love drama gem of artistry. A new
issue of the Metropolitan World
Survey will also be shown, together
with one of o. Henry's original
stories, Shoes" a tale of Yankee
resourcefulness in the tropics; a Pathe
trick reel, in which a whole flock of
Ann Penningtons are shown An 'di-
versified executions Of the Charles
ton," and a musical program arranged
and conducted by Daniel Breeskin for
the Metropolitan Symphony, including
1.-The Evolution of the Waltz" COM
bining blue Danube" Merry
Widow" Three O'Clock in the Morn
ing" and "The Midnight Waltz; an
orchestral picture setting. Deep in
My Heart from 1.-The Student
Prince" and the exit number, .'Twi-