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FRANCES WHITE
Keitha I
Central's Spring Play.

CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL will pre-
~ sent stop Thief" fsrcical melo-
drama by Carlyle Moore, as its annual
Spring play. on March 20, 81, 81, %.
The parts of kleptomaniacs. swag-
gering policemen. doctors, old maids,
fiappers and crooks give the would
be stars many fine chances for eX-
cellent character portrayal.
Central has always produced excel
lent Spring plays, and this years
promises to be no exception to that
rule. stop Thief is the type of pla y
| that should prove as successful as
those trfumphs of past years, Seven
Keys to Baldpate' and Quality Street"
The play is one OF involved situ-
ations, plots and counterplots. which
follow each other in rapid succession,
each more ridiculous than that pre-
ceding.
AS usual, there will be a double cast.
Joan Carr is played by Frances Ken
non and Susan Cannon. Mrs. Carr by
Margaret Schneider and Lillian Klee-
blatt. Caroline Carr by Inez Leon and
Marguerite Shellenberger, and Madge
Carr by Nell Childs and Mary Arm
strong. Marion Hall and Catherine
Griffith will take the part of Nell;
Manton Wyvell and Edward Arliss
that of William Carr, and Wellington
Rarto and Franklin Clarke that of
James Cluney. Mr.. Jamison will be
played by Andrew Allison and Fred
Roper; Jack Doogan by William
Bradley and Allan Lutz; sergeant,
Harry Wender: DR.. Willoughby,
Robert Milans and Robert Miller; de-
tective. Leslie Gillis and Fred Haskin.
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will give opportunity for a frank
measurement of the extent to which
the public favors pure wit in drama
and eminent artistry in acting.
Genuine satire remaino vivid and
apropos through the centuries. 1t
is true that the practice of dueling,
upon w.Ach so much of the plays
humor is based, lapsed long ago, but
even we who dwell in Washington,
where wrath or envy have been
taught to expend themselves in bonn
bardments of paper wads, still have
our Mrs. Malaprops of all ages
and of both genders. 1t is gallant
old comedy, when men were high
stepping and women moved daintily.
1t deals with an era in which social
customs had carried to extreme GER
tain manners from which the world,
in quest of reform, has departed,
and with some of which many would
like to experiment again in quest of
REFORMS anew. The differences be-
tween Then and Now seem great,
but are only superficial. The char
acters are all human and each gen.
Grafton must love them as if they
were still friends and neighborS .
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Poll s. Blossom Time.

Blossom Time" the famous oper-
eta based on the love story and mu-
sic of Franz Schubert, will be the at
traction at Polls this week, starting
tonight. Those who have seen Bios
som Time" will want to see it again,
and those who have never seen it
shoould not miss the chance.
This delightful operetta. based on
the love story of Franz Schubert, the
great composer, and with numerous
of his compositions forming the mu-
sical background, has set a standard
for this style of entertainment, which
has a whimsicality, elusiveness and
delicacy of conception, aside from it's
beautiful music, that make their own
pronounced appeal. Schubert's music
has been admirably adapted by Sig
mund Romberg, and there are meIo-
dies by H. Berte. The choicest of
Schubert's music-the lovely "Sere-
made" THE Moment Musical" Ave
Maria" and the themes of THE Un-
finished symphony" find voice in the
operetta's chief numbers. THE Song
of Love" Love is a Riddle" Tell
Me, Daisy; Lonely Hearts," MY
Springtime Thou Art" and Let Me
Awake" are melodies too familiar to
need comment.
The company presenting Blossom
Time" is declared an admirable sing
ing organization, and includes knight
MacGregor, Eliz Gergely, Grace A.
Yeager, Sioux Nedra, Mitsi Merry,
Alexandra Dagmar, Doris Miller,
Ralph Soule, Sano Marcov, Harry
Wilson, Clarence Harvey, Rupert Dar-
rel, Ray Greene, Keith Smerage, Viola
Heygi, William Mckinley, Mac Ponch,
w. J. Mccarthy, Mabel Kane, Millie
Freeman and r. w. Callahan.
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dies only three, The Rivals" now re-
vfved in comme emoration of the 15oth
anniversary of its original produc-
ton; THE School for Scandal and
She Stoops to Conquer" possessed
the vitality to survive as perennial
favorites along with Shakespeare
plays. And these three were the
work of two exceptional dramatists-
Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oliver
Goldsmith.
Ever since its first production THE
Rivals" has commanded the laughter
and the affection of each succeeding
generation of playgoers and the
services of the most celebrated actors
of their day. In this country it was
constant favorite in the repertory
of Augustin Daly's stock company,
which held the stage during the pc
riod of the greatest distinction of the
American theater.
Jefferson started giving 1t regularly
in 1881, with Mrs. Drew as Mrs Mala-
prop and Maurice Barrymore as Capt.
Absolute. And later, after William j.
Florence Joined the company, Jeffer-
son continued to produce it until 1892.
In 1896 Jefferson took the Company
on months tour of the country
playing one-night stands. Jefferson
played Bob Acres. Mrs. Drew was seen
as Mrs. Malaprop, William II. Crane
as Sir Anthony Absolute, Robert Ia
Der as Capt. Absolute, Joseph Hol-
land as Falkland, Nat Goodwin as
Sir Lucius O'Trigger. L. NJ. Holland
as Fag, Francis Wilson as David.
Julia Marlowe s Lydia 1.anguish nd
Fanny Rice a Lucy
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National-"T The Rivals.

The present dramatic season, mark
ing the 150th anniversary of the
original production of Sheridan's
comedy, The Rivals" is signalized
by revival of this eighteenth CEN
tury classic, which comes to the Ma
tional Theater for a weeks engage
ment, beginning tomorrow, under the
management of George c. Tyler and
Hugh Ford.
A brilliant coterie of players has
combined for the presentation of the
play in an extended tour of the United
States and Canada as a mark of re-
spect for the memory of man who
not only was the most brilliant dra-
matte writer of the eighteenth CEN
tury, but performed distinguished
services in the British Parliament in
behalf of the American Colonies.
The cast is made notable by the
appearance of Mrs. Fiske as Mrs.
Malaprop; Chauncey Olcott as Sir
Lucius O'Trigger, the eating
Irishman; Thomas A Wise as Sir An
thony Absolute, this appearance sig
nalizing Mr.. Wises return to the field
of old English comedy; James T. Pow
ers, already noted as David, in the
role of the ridiculous but lovable Bob
Acres; Lola Fisher as Lydia Languish,
the part played in former years by
Viola Allen and Julia Marlowe; Lotus
Robb as Julia; Marie Carroll, well
known in high comedy, in the part of
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Lucy, a role that once employed the
talents Of Fanny Rice; Kenneth
Thomson as Capt. Absolute, Fred Eric
as Falkland. Percival Vivian as Fag
George Tawde as David and Walter
Woodall, long a member of Joseph
Jefferson's company, as Thomas, the
coachman.
OF the scores Of eighteenth century
comedies Of manners" that were pop
ular in their time only three have
survived to this day for major pro-
duction along with Shakespeare s
plays. These are The Rivals ard
School for Scandal" by Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, and "She Stoops to
Conquer" by oliver Goldsmith. Ever
since it was revealed in Covent Gar
den, London, January II, ITS, until
the present time, The Rivals" has
held first place among these three in
popular favor, because it's characters
and its humor are ever green, and,
save on the technical side, it is as up
to date as 1t was in the time of Gar
rick.
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Drama, Old and New,
In DeIirious Profusiion
By Ph;1ander Johnson.

milton is coupled with an ability to
dismiss deficiencies with a little
friendly regret concerning the dis
appointment which they have
| learned SO we'll to measure as often
/ an inevitable part of the days work.
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AS for the Shubert- -Belasco show
| (whcse title will not be mentioned
| here owing to a desire further to
irritate its management, it is one
| of the strangeSt exhibitions vet de-
vised. 1t runs the recollection far
back into the old scrapbook to the
old melodrama theater, whose price
| scale was a dollar top and whose
audience Kissed the villain and well
coined vociferous defamation under
the impression that this was where
they got their moneys worth in real
| acting. 1t goes as far back as the
Worlds Fair in Chicago, with it's
hoochy-coochy dances. 1t hints
even of reincarnation a collabora-
tion OF Bertha NJ Clay and P. T.
Barnum. 1t brings forward the
grand chronological congress- Upon
a platform rich with Oriental en-
bellishment sits the Fat Lady. Yon-
der is the Whirling Dervish, not far
from the Bearded Woman. The
barbaric band strums discordantly,
and in the vast aggregation of mar
vels there is only one important fig
ure who appears to be absent from
the scene, the oarmless phenomenon
who wrote by holding a pen with
his toes. Possibly he is the gentle
man who wrote the play.
This play, which shall be nameless
here, not because of propriety, but
through a sheer desire in mischief
to refrain from boosting for the box
office, is a genuine effort to recon-
struct the theater upon early prin-
ciples. No more determined effort
could be imagined to guess what the
public wants and to provide it law
ishly. 1t reflects nearly everything
that has ever been passed out from
the theaterS or the newsstands as
creations OF sensational interest.
There is only one fault to be found
in its appeal to the tickle affections
of the playgoing public. 1t is too
blunt. 1t lacks coyness and tnesse.
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The art of giving the public what
it wants is difficult to analyze. Pro-
ducers appear to regard it as con-
sisting in giving the public more and
more of what it has already had
There are publics and publics. Near
ly all attractions are now directing
their attention to the public most
uncompromising in its demands for
emphatic impropriety. 1t would be
a sad misanthrope to assume that
this public represents large ma
jority of the population, but it may
be said with considerable confidence
that it is that element which parts
with its money most easily.
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New York producers still insist in
denouncing one another and in de-
manding some sort of censorship.
They are at least agreed on a deter
mination that no one among them
shall NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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The Frank Craven play would
have been joyous relief enthusias-
tically welcomed had it been Just
little better done The scenes by
Mr.. Craven and Mr. McWade, both
good actors, as everybody knows, had
to carry almost the entire interest
of story simple enough, yet full of
amusing turns and revealing types
of humanity such as we are sur
rounded by, yet which we somehow
do not recognize in all their whim-
sicality or their beauty until we see
them delineated by the artist. 1t
was a relief, indeed, to meet the
young man who knew exactly how
to run his fathers business and dis
cover by way of a change that he
had his troubles in doing so. 1t is
defiant contradiction of all the
traditions of light literature; a
pleasant ringing of changes in a IA
miliar theme. 1t is distinctly a
Cravenesque. creation and worthy OF
an Interpretation competent to
bring even to the subordinate roles
the deftest touch of subtle humor.
The. presents tiou of tThe-RiyalsA
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Strand-Mann' $ Band Bo,

Harmony, dance and syncopation
will vie with comedy in the headline
attraction at the Strand Theater this
week, beginning today, the dance and
syncopation being supplied by Cell
Mann's peppy and gorgeously staged
Band Box Revue" featuring Ruiz
and Bunnie, talented dancers.
Senior Ruiz and his partner, Miss
Bunnie. are said to enjoy the distinc-
tion of being among the first to pre-
sent in vaudeville the real Spanish
tango. and in conjunction with their
appearance the Strand will stage
amateur tango dancing contests
Tuesday. Wednesday and THURSDAY
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mounting by the noted Sam Forrest.
and the cast includes a group of
competent Broadway favorites, in
cluding Frederick Smith, Edward
Keane, Josephine Morse, Joseph Robi-
son, Harry Burkhardt. Grace AIDE,
Jack Veitch, William McFadden and
May Anderson.
The story unfolds a drama of in
teresting conflict between Sadie
Thompson, a girl from the bad lands
of Honolulu, and a fanatical zealot,
who meets the girl and determines
not only to rid Oceania of her pres
ence, but that she shall be sent back
to San Francisco, where she is want
ed by the police. The girl, with her
back to the wall and with prison
staring her in the face, fights back
with her only weapon,
Matinees will be given Thursday
and Saturday at 2:20 pm.
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Earle-Cunningham and
Bennett.

The Earle Theater announces for
this weeks headline attraction Cum
ningham and Bennett, song writer's
and musical comedy favorites. in
Community Sue" with a company of
Is supporting them. Other acts are
Twists and Twirls," sextet of
dancing marvels; Primrose four,
known as "A Thousand Pounds of
Harmony" this male quartet but re-
Gently being one of the features of
Broadway musical revue; The Two
Skeiks.n LAy .&kinkaxn Hiltans q
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President "Rain" Third
Week.

The President Theater announces
w. Somerset Maugham's dramatic
sensation, RAIN" for its third con-
secutive week, beginning with the
performance tonight. With this an
nouncement comes further word that
the extension of the engagement into
a third week will be marked by a
radical reduction in prices for all
performances.
RAIN" as is well knc n, Is one
of the sensational hits of recent
years in the theater. Already 1t has
played two consecutive years in New
York and is rolling up a brilliant
record of success on the road.
With Miss Katherine Hayden in the
chief role at the President. Vaughan s
drama has been given q sppsrh
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nights, the first two nights being
given to elimination contests and
Thursday night to the final contest.
The audience will act as Judges
Handsome silver and gold medals
Will be awarded.
The comedy will be furnished by
Sue Creighton and eddie Lynn, in
Harry w. Conn's side splitting skft,
THE Follies of a Side Street." and
Billy Zeck and Gladys Randolph, in
another rib-cracker, entitled Groom
ing the Groom
Others will be Carol Racine and
Dorothy Ray, in 'Life's Little Jokes"
and Boyd and Wallin, in a Novelty
Wire and Iron Jaw Sensation
Three Keys" the photoplay, is a
thrilling mystery melodrama based
on Frederick V. r. Deys story. The
cast, headed by Edith Roberts, Jack
Mulhall and Virginia Lee Corbin. in
c1udes CASTOR Glass, Stuart Holmes,
Charles Clary, Miss du Pont and Jo-
seph w Girard.
A funny comedy, Nobody Works
But Father" and an interesting news
reel will complete the bill
Gayety-"Fast Steppers."
The attraction this week at the
Gayety Theater is Fast Steppers,"
SCoatinued on Second Paxa.5
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The billboards frankly served the
purpose of no admittance signs so
far as the Shubert-Belasco Theater
was concerned in warning away per-
sons with fastidious sense of pro-
'priety. One of the saddest pictures
of the week, sadder even than Sadie
Thompson, III dread of trip to San
Francisco, or the young lady about
TO be horsewhipped by Sahara cy-
clops, was the young, sensitive, wist-
ful-eyed boy manager who sank de-
spairingly into the chair, his bosom
heaving with suppressed sobs. He
had done his best. He had described
the uncladness of the harem dancers
with a frankness that brought a
blush to his cheek SO prolonged that
1t stood as permanent complexion
He had neglected nothing, except
perhaps to hang the red lights indi-
eating exits IN front OF the house
a S danger signals. 1t had been all to
no avail. He could not persuade the
police to arrest him or even to stop
the show.
In an effort to live up to its title
the Shubert-Belasco Theater appar-
emily endeavorS at this moment to
combine the most emphatic demon
stration in spectacular chorus work
and heart-hammering drama The
two names of that theater have for
a long time been watched with
sense of weird anticipation that
some day the hyphen would bulge
and crumple as the two names met
in mortal combat. The business re-
lationsfip and the commercial affil-
iations announced by the theater are
strange affairs and frequently sug-
. gest unstable compounds liable at
any moment to sizzle and explode
1t is absolutely necessary, of course,
that people play together regard
less of personal resentments or pref
udices, but every now and then an
old score is settled and the restraint
needful for artistic cooperation
both in planning and in performing
has lessened steadily. Even business
advantage does not hold the inf1u-
snce it had when Weber and Fields
decided to forget their own misun-
derstandings and work together
again. Nobody suspects any great
mutual admiration between Shubert
and BelaSco, and 1t is always a re-
lief on approaching the theater to
observe that there is at least enough
tolerant and practical spirit remain
ing to keep the old sign still above
the door.
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In one respect there is a system
of admirable reciprocity between
the Shubert-B Belasco and Polls. The
Wednesday matinee of the former
is always assured an audience from
the company playing at the latter
and the compliment is promptly re-
turned on the following day. Not
only do the eminent producers move
their own troupes, but they are en-
abled, in case of emergency, to do
something toward providing their
own audiences. They are interest
ing audiences, too, differing from
the others through their generosity
of applause and enthusiastic recog-
nitio9efAzAaAi4eoA Lhae3Aoass,
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former burlesque comedian, and Ned
Clothes" Norton, called the male
fashion plate of vaudeville; for the
kiddfes the trained ponies. dogs and
monkeys of the De Dio Circus, and
Jack Sydney. a minstrel, in a. story
and song Offering.
The photoplay will be "A Fool and
His Money" taken from the George
Barr McCutcheon story. Madge Bel
lamy and William Haines are the
featured players This will be the
first showing of this film in Wash
ngtOn
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all their magnificence aIe shown in
detail. Beautiful rugs, many colored
silks and gorgeous robes are plenti-
fui.
dancers and the performance of Mile
Lisa Pavnova in dances of the Orient.
The cast, headed by Frank WILCOX
Allyn King and Henry Herbert, in
cludes Charles Denniston, Dorothy
Holmes, William Podmore, Adrian
Morgan, Matte Edwards, Edward
Davidson, Erin O'Brien Moore, Hamid
H. Ghoshal and L. V. Granville.
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Current Attractions
At the Theaters This Week

NATIONA-The Rivals" Sheridans comedy Opens tomorrow
evening.
POLIS-"Blossom Time, operea Opens this evening.
BELASCO-"Seducion," drama Performance evening.
PRESIDENT-"Rain,' drama. Performance this evening
KETHS-Frances White Dorothy Jardon vaudeville Opens
afternoon.
EARLE-Cunningham and Bennett Opens this after
STRANDMann Band Box Revue, vaudeville
GAYETY-"Fa Steppers," buresque Opens afternoon
MUTUAI-"Red Hot" buresque Opens this
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Belasco-" -"Seduction."

At the Shubert-Belasco Theater
this week, including this evening
Seduction" Dewitt Newing's ro.
the attraction.
In this play the desert Is realisti-
cally staged-much sand being used
and the abodes of the desert lords IN
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New York producers still insist in
denouncing one another and in de-
manding some sort of censorship
They are at least agreed on a deter
mination that no one among them
& b all ,>1io,r = M, cIs. mann onolv
Evening star., 1925-03-21
REFUSES new TRIAL
TO WOMAN FORGER
Court Rejects Appeal of Former
Secretary of Representative
S. a. Kendall.

Chief Justice Mccoy of the District
Supreme Court today denied an appli-
cation of Mrs. Margaret B. Buchanan.
former secretary of Samuel A. Ken
dali Representative from Pennsyl-
vania, for a new trial of the charge
of forging the name of Martha War
field, an illiterate colored woman who
had been a cook in her house, to two
checks from the Veterans Bureau for
compensation and insurance on the life
of the son of the former cook
Counsel for the woman contended
that the court erred in excluding GER
tain testimony at the trial and in al
lowing Assistant United States Attor-
ney Burnett to ask questions of Mrs
Buchanan beyond the scope Of her di-
rect testimony
Mrs. Buchanan was remanded to Jail
until next Saturday, when sentence
will be imposed.
She was acquitted in February of a
charge of forgery in altering the in
dorsement of Representative Kendall
to a note for $1,000 sent by Mayor
Smart of Uniontown, Pa, in payment
of surplus war material sold in Penn
Sylvania.
Evening star., 1925-03-21
Traffic Officer
In "Merry" Mis-Up
With Gunner of Car
DetectiUe Bureau Failed
to Report Recovery OF
Stolen Auto.

A traffic officer very much on the
overlooked or failed in some manner
TO inform the Traffic Bureau and the
police precincts that stolen car had
been recovered, formed a combination
that gave a Washington motorlst
merry half-hour today.
ReveIing in the warm air of the
first day of Spring and In the fact
that the Police Department had re-
covered his car, stolen last Saturday,
the motorist drove care free up Penn
sylvania avenue, and was stopped at
the intersection of Fourteenth street
by a shrill blast from the whistle OF
Traffic officer Mulcahey.
you're driving a stolen car BUDDY,
came the gruff assertion of the officer.
Let's see your registration card?'
1t looked funny to the motorist, for
the car was his, chattel and baggage,
and even though it was stolen nve
days ago. it had been returned to
him by the police, found by the vigi-
liant eye of detective Alligood on
lower Pennsylvania avenue, where II
had been abandoned by the Joy-riders
who stole it. Yet, there it was. He
was accused of driving a stolen car.
Words wouldn't mend the matter.
So in climbed the keen-eyed traffic
cop and they drove around to head
quarters. Sure enough, headquarters
said the car had been recovered and
returned to the owner Monday. Yet
the traffic squad didn't know about
it, for Mulcahey said he had not been
told of it's recovery. Neither had
Policeman Sinkowitz at Ninth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, for Sim
kowitz had followed the car on two
separate occasions and had lost it in
traffic.
Headquarters promised to notify
the precincts that the car had been
recovered.
Evening star., 1925-03-21
Z DIE ON GALLONS
FOR WIFE MURDER
Third Gets Life Sentence.
Five Children Left Without
Parents as Result.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, March 21.-Jeal-
ousy of their wives caused two men
to be hanged and a third to be SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment in
Louisiana yesterday.
One of the women was shot to
death, another had her throat cut
and the third, negress, died from
being beaten with club in the hands
of her husband. The fiveday- old
baby of one died, too, by falling from
the bed while it's father was slash
ing its mothers throat. The two
men who We're hanged went calmly
10 death, saying they had repented
and believed their souls were saved,
but the man sentenced to a life term
tried to kill himself. Five children
were left without parents as re-
suit of the tragedies.
Martin +. Carricutt, 38, carpenter,
was hanged at Marksville, in Avoy
elles parish Jail. In a signed state
ment he admitted he killed his wife
because he believed she had accepted
attentions from another man, but he as
serted their baby, for whose murder he
also was indicted, fell off the bed and
was killed. He had just painted the scaf-
fold on which he died.
Amos White, a negro, was hanged
at Coushatta, in Red River parish,
and because there had been no legal
execution there since 1881 and the
jail was too small to hold scaffold,
the death penalty was meted out in
the criminal courtroom of the court
house.
The hangings took place shortly
after noon and about the time they
were In progress Condido Badua, 27,
Il native of the Philippines, was be-
Ing sentenced in New Orleans to life
Imprisonment at hard labor after
having pleaded guilty. He and his
wife had been separated for five
months, he said, and when, last Octo-
Der IL, he went to seek a reconcilia-
tion she started singing Il love
somebody, but that somebody isn't
you" Enraged, he fired a pistol shot
into her back and tried to turn the
weapon on himself, but neighbors
prevented him.