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New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
Nall Street Briefs

Further advances in steel prices are reported from the middle west. Steel bars and plates are up a ton and sheet makers in the Youngstown district also have increased their quotations the same amount. The trade expects higher levels in other finished steel lines. New quotations are $2.S0 hundred weight for blue annealed; s3.70 for black and s4,Sh for galvanized. all F. o. E. Pitts. burgh. Sheet bars are being offered In the central west in tonnage lots al $se a ton, Youngstown or Pitts. burgh. town sl. /
 Net railway operating Income of the Baltimore & Ohio for 1924 shows a decrease of s4.04s,S06 un- der 1923 to a total of $3S.084.234 and a drop of $31.72b.64O in rail- way operating revenues to SPA. S1S,795. Railway operating ex- penses for tho year were cut to $6,- 571,32s. Improvement was noted in December, net operating income in- creased $2,S25,744 over December. 1Qo2
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
Woman Burned to Death
 In MOnctOn, N, B.. Fire

Moncton, N. B.. Jan. 27.--one woman was burned to death and two others were injured in a fire which broke out in the Windsor hotel here this morning ana en- veloped the building. The fire was still burning eight hours after 1t started.
 Many guests narrowly escaped be- ing trapped in the building by the flames.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
WILL ASK FOR
 l5 MORE POLICE
Board Prepares Budget for
 Coming Year

Sacrificing a number Of improve ,nents that would tend to increas, the efficiency Of the police depart
 nent. budget for the coming fisca
 ear has been prepared by ChairmaL t)avid L. Dunn of the board of polio, commissioners. Clerk Joseph A. Mo drail and Chief William c. Hart thai will be submitted to special meet
 ng of the board Of commissioners tonight. An effort was made to keep the requested appropriations at a figure near that of last year and the tentative budget prepared is only s4o0 in excess of last years.
 A total outlay of $163.4s3 for run hing the department as now organiz- ed Is called for in the budget and with the sum required for what the board considers necessary improve men to the force will require sum of s2S.5o0. .,.
 The committee that arranged the budget decided that fifteen addi tional men should be added to tn, regular force of the departmnt if the city was to be given proper attention Incidents during the past year have emphasized the need of the new men, according to Chief Hart, who said that additional protection in the cen ter of the city was absolutely neces, sary and could not be given without more men. Additional men are need. ed for traffic duty in different sec- tions of the city also. and the chief feels that the department ought to have two more motorcycle policemen available for duty. Two new motor- cycles are asked. The addition of IS of IS men to the force will require q sum of s28,500.
 Installation of the fIashlight sig nal system throughout the city will
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
FAVOR REGULATION
Row Over Price of Beer Keeps The
 terest in Czech Capital.

Prague. Jan. 27.--A row over the price of beer is the chief topic of public interest in the Czech capital these days. The breweries and the saloon and restaurant keepers want to see the decree by the ministry of food rescinded, by which a maximum price is set upon the beverage and the calculation of costs is made by the government, The liquor interests want to do their own calculating and to charge whatever the traffic will bear.
 In sharp. opposition to them are the conshumers' organizations, which have urged the retention of govern ment regulation. A recent public hearing held by the ministry of food broke up in a row. both sides becom- ing so embittered that the govern ment representative, Dr. Ira, had to close it with the remark that he would report the arguments of both sides to the ministry of food.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
CALLED HIMSELF MASTER

Leningrad, Jan. 27.-The Revo- lution Museum has received an in- teresting document from the Mos COW government. It is the census return which was filled in by the czaristic family in 1897. The an- swer of the then czar and czarina to the question, What is your pro- fession?" was Master and mistress of the Russian empire"
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
BRITISH FASCISTS

London, Jan. 27,-"The Earl of Glasgow. D.S.O. has been elected a president of the British Fascists and a member of the council and has taken over the command Of the British Fascists in Scotland Lord Ernest Hamilton has also been elect ed a member of the council of the British Fascists,
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
SUES FOR S3.O00

Meriden, Jan. 27.--Suit for 5000 was brought today against Wells Rockwell, local silverware manu- facturer in behalf of Harry Muska. Il, who Is alleged 10 have been butter on December 31 last by ram owned by Mir. Rockwell, causing a fracture of the leg and other in- juries.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
Mother. Sent to Prison,
 Pleads for Her Baby

New Haven, Jan. 27.-Mary Fon- tano, 2S. recently divorced by her husband and sentenced with Grani- matico. SS, to from one to three years in state prison on charges of statutory misconduct, pleaded with Judge Pcasley in superior court to- day to take with her to prison her two months old babe. She was told that she could do so if she con- suited authorities at the county jail where she and Granimatico are tenn pcrarily confined, awaiting transfer 10 prison.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
RANKRUPTCY CASES

New Haven, Jan. 27.--Bankruptcy petitions filed today: Jacob Glass ner, clerk, Hartford, liabilities s. 1S9.72. assets $2,900. Jacob Fettig, radio dealer, Stamford, liabilities 3,Q6S.07., assets $1,S00.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
Draths
WasiI NrakuIa

Wasil Makula. IS years of age, died last night at his home. 2f Horace street, after an Illness of several months duration. He leaves bis wife and four children. John. Walter. Sophie and Melalia. He also leaves two brothers. Thomas of this city and John of Hartford.
 The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at the Russian Orthodox Holy Trinity church at s,S0 o'clock Interment will be in Fairview ceme. tery.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
WHEAT PRICES UP

Chicago, Jan. 27.-With buying on an immense scale wheat rose today to $1.99%. Two dollar wheat has been predicted for months. Today's advance was S% cents above yester- days close.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27
1lttrprala
Kevin Sheppard

The funeral of Kevin Sheppard, infant son of Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Sheppard of So Trinity street, who died Sunday afternoon, was held yesterday. Interment was in St. Mary's new cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1925-01-27

U. s. TREASURY STATEMENT. [. s. treasury balance, s276,610,376
Evening star., 1925-06-21

THE hobbies of screen stars ought to
be interesting. A check-ur on
Paramount stars brought forth the
following:
Wallace Beery spends practically
every week end fishing, and the rest
of the week regales his fellow players
on the set with stories Of his catches.
Jack Holt is an enthusiastic polo
PLAYER and week ends invariably md
him on the polo field. He is & great
lover of horses. and is nowhere so
much AT home as in the saddle.
Florence Vidor and Lois Wilson are
tennis fans, and spend all possible
time on a tennis court. Both are ex-
cellent players.
Ernest Torrence's hobby is playing
the piano and music in general. Dur
ing the Winter he Is regular attend
ant at the concerts of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra. His early
education was as a pianist and he
studied in Edinburgh. Stuttgart and
London. For many years he was on
the stage in musical comedy. Being a
good Scotchman. he also is an enthu-
sisstic golfer. Another of his hobbies
| is boxing with his 1S-year old son.
Gloria Swanson's hobby is reading
| and art. She is an omniverous reader,
and, IL is said. has one of the finest
libraries of any film star in Holly
| wood Gloria once studied art at the
Chicago Art Institute. Her art also
| takes the form of designing many of
her striking gowns.
Greta Nissen's hobby is pantomime
dancing, and she will go miles any
time to dance with a partner who
really knows how TO dance the Ar
gentine.
The hobby of James Cruze is swim
ming. At his beautiful home he has a
big outdoor swimming pool, and he
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Ina Claire.

WHEN a girl of IA, her hair still
hanging in braids and her skirt
even shorter than those in vogue until
a few months ago. Ina Claire, accom-
panied by her mother left her home
In Washington to make her debut in
vaudeville.
Her medium was a series of six
limitations, performed in girlish fash
ion. These met with the approval of
vaudeville audiences. and her success
led to her engagement to appear with
Richard Carle in Jumping Jupiter .
This marked her debut in musical
comedy.
Shortly after came the success that
established her in that form of enter
tainment-her performance In 1.-The
Quaker Girl" That performance
might be said to have made Miss
Claire a star. for 1t led to her engage
ment as leading woman with George
Edwardes' Gaiety Theater Co. in
London. =
In the English capital she originated
the title roles in THE Girl From Utah
and The Belle of Bond Street" Her
role in the former was played in this
country by Julia Sanderson.
Once more home, Miss Claire was
engaged for THE Follies'' and 80
Shortly after came a very Important
event in her career-her engagement
by David Belasco for the stellar role
in Polly With a Past" This was fol,
lowed by THE Gold Diggers." After
that came "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife"
and The Awful Truth"
Now she is starred in Right You
Are in which she appears here ir
vaudeville this week
Evening star., 1925-06-21

A FTER a series of Photographic
n tests, Ramon Novarro has taken
pioneer step by abandoning alto
sether the use of makeup. heretofore
considered essential to the best screen
results. He appears without the GUS
tomary coat of grease paint and ye''
low powder in his first star produc-
ton, now being filmed at Annapolis.
under the auspices of the United
States Naval Academy, which chose
him the star best qualified for the
story depicting Annapolis life.
From the inception of pictures.
makeup has been the bane OF both
the actors and the cameramen. In
the early stages Of picture develop
ment cameramen aimed to get sharp
black a nd white photography without
striving for total values. With the in
PRODUCTION of klieg lights and Cooper
Hewitts the difficulties increased, as
the slightest change in the quality of
the light worked a change in color
values A standard makeup was then
found to insure witness to the skin.
This usually consisted of a foundation
of yellow grease paint overlaid with
yellow powder. To give contrast the
lips we're accentuated with red. which
photographs dark, and the eyes with
black.
Believing that the camera had been
perfected sufficiently to forego the use
OF these aids, Mr.. NovarrO made his
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Yearned for Higher Roles.

was doing md rushed East to beg d.
w. Griffith for part when she heard
he was contemplating a big comedy.
Miss Fazenda did not get the part
with Griffith. but she eventually got
out from under Sennett's influence. is
Is evidenced by her appearance this
season in a number of straight
comedy parts. the latest Of which is
in Grounds for Divorce" the Para
mount screen adaptation of Ernest
Vajda's play. Broadway stage sue
cess. which comes to town today.
OF course. there are always Holly
wood whispers to explain any actress
desire to leap from one medium to
another. and Hollywood. in this case.
whispers that Louise Fazenda has
never been able to reconcile herself to
the phenomenal success in dramatic
roles of another former Sennett bath
ing beauty. Gloria Swanson by name.
There may be something to this. for
Louise and Gloria, facially. are very
much of the same type, and it is well
known that Miss F'azenda is by no
means the worlds worst actress. re-
gardIess of the type of roles which
have been assigned her heretofore.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

Whole Towns Talking" When the
lights go up the audience is confront
ed with a scene that is unbeatable for
sheer surprise and hilariousness
The best man doesn't win. but the
sympathetic one does.
Charles Squires, scenic artist of the
National Theater Players, served in
similar capacity with the old Co.
lumbia Theater Players in Washing
ton years ago. Last season he was
with De Wolf Hopper at Polls. Dur
Ing the regular season Squires is
eagerly sought by the leading pro.
ducers and some of the biggest sue.
cesses have carried the imprint Of his
handiwork.
very pretty. bob haired youngster
less than five feet high. who c3Sld
easily get lost in the + street fapper
throngs. That's Anita Loos, co-author
of The Whole Towns Talking" and
of The Fall of Eve" as well as of a
thousand successful scenarios. The
rara avis of beauty and brains.
r. r. Keith's Theater is supplemen mt.
ing its regular bill with Keith kool
ies' ice cream dainties that. will he
served throughout the Summer to
matinee patrons.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Art and Believing Calves.

THE annals of the theater furnish
many trying incidents in the lives
of truly great artists, which II suffer
ed by those of lesser caliber would
have wrought their undoing.
The placing of the bronze bust
of the late Charlotte Cushman in the
Hall of Fame in New York" says
Morgan Sherwood, whose stage stories
OF the long ago have charmed others
than the old timers. recalls to my
mind an incident that occurred at
Ford's Opera House, at Ninth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, in this city.
Il was one OF the property boys of
that theater during the seasons of
1873 and 1874. ~during which the
famous actress, Charlotte Cushman,
supported by the John T. Ford Stock
Co.. presented some of her greatest
plpys.
Macbeth was the opening bill OF
the week, with Miss Cushman In the
great part of Lady Macbeth. The
theater was upstairs-the same as to-
day. The lower part of the building
was occupied by commission houses
run by John Miller.
Directly under the stage was
corral for live stock. and late in the
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Costly Vanity Case.

THERE was a reason why two SOM
Der. serious.iooking individuals.
strangers at Universal City, followed
Margaret Livingston from set to set
during the filming of Up the
Ladder"
Gossip first had il one thing and
then another. but it was not until a
preview Of the MIN, that the secret
was out of the bag.
Nothing less than a 10000 vanity
case was the reason.
No longer can FINLAND be termed
the land Of makebelieve. at least as
far as Edward Slomans productions
are concerned. When the script of
Up the Ladder" called for a val
liable jeweled vanity case" Sloman,
who directed the picture, went the
limit. He telephoned one of the ex-
elusive gem shops in Los Angeles to
rush the real article right out to
the studio" Two serious, somberlook-
ing individuals delivered it to Miss
Livingston, who uses 1t in the picture,
and they stayed right with her
throughout the filming of the story.
The vanity case, used in several
scenes, forms the basis for the dra.
matte denunciation of 'the other
woman" by the wife in the story.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Turns to Short Subjects.
, meet the demand for novelties

Tb meet the demand for novelties on
grade never before attempted,
VILLAIN Fox announces an ambitious
prSgram in the short subject feid.
in choosing subjects he has given
them a dignity and importance which
hitherto has been foreign to this class
of picture.
To this end the producer has divided
his short subjects into six groups.
There will be eight two-reel comedies
based on the Van Bibber," stories by
Fox in the leading part; eight two
reelers from o. Henry stories, never
made for the screen before.
The third group contains q distinct
novelty. 1t consists Of eight pictures
TO be made from the stories by Mabel
Herbert Urner on The Married Life
Of Helen and Warren" They deal
with a couple in moderate circum-
stances and portray their domestic life
with it's trials and tribulation, most
OF which are humorous in the ex-
treme.
Another group consists OF 20 I'm
perial comedies. made from the fun
niest stories obtainAble. Unlike the
ordinary slap-stick comedy the I'm
perial comedies will be given the sam:
care and attention devoted to a big
attraction and carry with them spe-
cialIy picked bevy of beauties.
The fifth group, known as Fox
Varieties. are one-reel subjects, con-
sisting of novelty pictures from all
parts of the world, covering the fields
of science, exploration. invention, the
arts and adventure. Their apt motto
is The World We Live In
The last group consists of Fox News,
the one-reel screen newspaper which
now enters into its sixth year, and
which is issued twice a week.
The six groups total ia separate
and distinct subjects.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Screen Personality.

4 FTER all the photogra phs have
been studied; after all the COM
mittees have met and eliminated
this one and that one; after all
those not thus eliminated have been
interviewed; after those still re-
naming have been given camera
tests, 10 girls and 10 boys will be
chosen as pupils for the Paramount
Pictures School.
Thousands, literally. in cities and
towns in nearly every State in the
Union will wonder why they were
not chosen. And a great many per-
sons who had,a part in the choosing
will not be able to tell them.
Why?
Because screen personality is the
most mysterious, the most elusive
the least understood element OF
psychology.
Anybody who sets himself up as
an expert in this is lost" SAYS Will
liam Cohill. casting director of the
Long Island studio. Business in
stitutions of many kinds have train
ed employment experts. men and
women versed in the study of char
aCter. who get unusual results in
the choice of workers for various
tasks. The motion picture business
has casting directors. In the course
of years we have learned to observe
the details of features. We can tell
whether the eyes are too deep
set. whether the color Ia bad for
photogra ply. where facial contours
are good. whether the carriage, and
the general physique is ab1e; we
can even estimate to certain ex'
tent whether talent is non existent
or latent, but to date ] am convinced
that one future star in 100000 is a
good average.
Il have learned to classify them
as types-ingenues, character play
ers. heavies, villains-in fact, all the
varied kinds of people necessary to
make a balanced cast. but in the
final analysis I depend upon impress
sions.
IF girl or boy or man or woman
Evening star., 1925-06-21
LADY, Be Good"

ADY. Be Good" the musical com.
edy now at the Liberty Theater,
New York, and in the seventh month
of its successful Broadway run. will
easily continue there during the en-
tire Summer Its producers. Alex A.
Aarons and Vinton Freddy, an
nounce that it will be sent on tour
early in the Fall with Fred and Adele
Astaire and Walter Catlett in their
original roles. and practically the en-
tire New York cast. Lady. Be Good
will be seen also in London. but not
until after the principal America n
cities. including Boston. Philadelphia
Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati. Cleveland, Detroit.
st. Louis and possibly two or three
more. have been visited. When the
musical comedy goes on the road the
entire production will be sent along
and it will be presented just as it is
being given now in New York.
Lady. Be Good has for it's authors
Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson. who
supplied the book. with musical score
by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira
Gershwin.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Knows No Summer.

IT is the boast of Harry M. Crandall
and his executive staff that there
is no such thing as Summer season
In the conduct of the Is Crandall Thea
ters in Washington and vicinity, in so
far as quality of entertainment is con.
cerned
The photoplay product. booked for
prese ntation in the Crandall houses. 1t
is announced, is not winnowed with
ones" until Fall
Never before in the history of the
orga niZation has there been a more
impressive array of bookings for the
current Summer months"
Among the major features to be
shown between now and September.
following Dorothy Mackaill in Chick
ie," are Anna Q. Nilsson, Lewis s.
Stone, Shirley Mason. Tully Marshall
and Ian Keith in THE Talker." adapt
ed from her own stage play by Marion
Windsor in Just A Woman; Richard
Barthelmess in Soul Fire; Milton
Sills and Dorothy Mackain in The
Making of O'Malley": Barbara La
MARI in The White Monkey; Col
leen Moore in The Desert Flower:
COrinne Griffith in THE Marriage
Whirl." adapted from The National
Anthem: Lewis S. Stone in THE
Lady Who Lied; Constance Talmadge
in Her Sister From Paris and Alma
Rubens and Lewis Stone in Fine
Clothes
The supplementary camera subjects
and accompanying music, it is an
nounced, will be kept at the same high
level of excellence as the principal
features. and bills given their pre-.
mieres in Crandall's Metropolitan and
Ambassador Theaters will be seen sub
sequently in Crandall's Tivoli, Central.
Savoy. Avenue Grand Apollo, York
and Home Theaters. which the man
asements claim are the coolest houses
in the National Capital. their average
inside temperatures being about 20
degrees cooler than the street.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Ben Turpin Retires.
REN TURPIN has retired, says tt

REN TURPIN has retired, says the
July Motion Picture Classic.
Or rather Ben Turpin, the comedia n
with the toe-in eyes. the long stringy
neck and the trick moustache, is
playing another role these days with
an audience of one. And he Is Civ.
ing his best performance, though the
only applause Is sick woman's voice,
calling in the fiat accents of the deaf
Ben. where are you? | want you,
Ben
Since last December when his wife.
an invalid for years. had grown SO
much worse that she could not bear
him out of her sight, hardly out of
her reach. the Sennett studio has
caught only 1eeting glimpses of Ben
on such rare occasions as he could
steal away from home for an hour
or two to visit his old haunts.
If there is usefulness in his comic
eyes as he watches his old friends,
nobody knows it, for Ben speaks
cheerily:
What's the good of all the money
I got if it can't make my wife well?
She's all that counts. AS long as she
needs me the movies can go hang.
I'm tired of acting, anyhow"
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Abandons Use of Make-Up.

first experiments while filming The
Arab" with Rex Ingram. under the
clear African sun in Tunis. He com
promised at first by using light coat
of grease paint without powder. The
results proved more satisfactory than
when makeup was employed. In the
technicolor scenes of Ben Hur' he
aba ndoned makeup entirely. believing
that the nautral bronze coloring of
the skin was more effective than a
pa ste white.
The day of artifice is over. d. W.
Griffith has always declared that the
camera penetrates to the soul of a
man. The camera has been perfected
to a point where 1t can reproduce the
texture of mans skin. So what s
the use of trying to hide behind an
inch of grease paint? l never intend
to put on makeup again. I'll let ma
ture do it's worst" This Is Mr.. Novar.
ro's ultima tum.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

THERE comes a time in the life OF
of every king and queen of slap
stick comedy when the cruder meth
ods Of the custard-pie school Of laugh
making pail upon them. and they
yearn nightly for the more dignified
mea sures of the legitimate comedy
field 1t is this variant OF the come
dams eternal yearning to play Ham
let" that makes the labor turnover so
large in comedy, according to creators
Of screen fun-making like AL Christie
and Mack Sennett.
Take. for example. the case OF
Louise Fazenda. at one time the un-
disputed comic queen Of Mr.. Sennett 8
realm and without whom he would. at
one time. have no more dreamed or
making a slap-stick farce than he
would have dreamed of starting with
out the services of the immortal Pep
per, the trick Sennett cat. or Teddy
that famous canine comedian. Miss
Fazenda's parts were supposed to be
uproarous; her salary was beyond the
dreams of avarice. If we believe the
press agent: yet despite these induce
ments. it was none other than Louise
herself who dropped everything she