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Evening star., 1925-09-06
EMPIRE.

Today and tomorrow. Ricardo Cor
tez in The Spaniard,' and comedy.
''Flapper Fever; Tuesday and
Wednesday, Bebe Daniels in 1.-THE
Crowded Hour" and comedy, Mar
ried Neighbors'; Thursday and Fri
day. Martha Mansfield in THE War
rens of Virginia" and comedy, "Baf-
fed by the Banjos," with also Fox
News added Thursday; Saturday.
William Mix in Pioneers of the
West" comedy, "A Scientific Hus-
band" and Fox News.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

Bridget and "Sportlight"; Tuesday,
Betty Blythe in Speed" Jimmie Au-
brey in "The Helping Hand and
Screen Almanac; Wednesday, Mar
iorie Daw and Lou Tellegen in
Greater Than Marriage" and CON-
edy, THE Brainless Horseman"
Thursday, THE Recreation of Brian
Kent" and Mack Sennett's "He Who
Gets Smacked"; Friday, Thomas Mel
CHAN in "Old Home Week" and "The
Fighting Ranger" Ne. II; Saturday,
Harry Carey in BAD Lands and
Charlie Chase in innocent Hus-
bands.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
TAKOMA.

Today and tomorrow, Jack Holt and
Lois Wilson in The laundering
Herd" Pathe News and comedy; Tues
day, Viola Dana in Forty Winks"
and comedy; Wednesday, Betty Bron-
son in "Are Parents People" and
comedy; Thursday. THE Goose Hangs
High" Hodge Podge and comedy;
Friday, Billie Dove and Warner Bax-
ter in the Air Mail" Aesop's Fables,
Pacenfakers and comedy; Saturday,
Thomas Meighan in Back Home and
Broke" Aesop's Fables and serial,
"Sunken Silver" No. 10.
YORK.
Today 'Beggar on Horseback" and
Eddie Gordon in kicked About;
Evening star., 1925-09-06
RAPHAEL.

Today, Monte Blue, Marie Provost
and Heleen Chadwick in THE Dark
Swan" and Ben Turpin in "The Mar
riage Circus; tomorrow, Rintintin in
1.-The Lighthouse by the Sea-" COM
edy, Aesop Fables; Tuesday, Elaine
Hammerstein and Herbert Rawlin-
son in 'Everyman's Wife, Spat
Family comedy, The Losl Dog and
Fox News, also amateur contest at
O'Clock; Wednesday, Edmund Lowe
in THE Kiss Barrier" Jimmie Au.
brey in ~ Helping Hand: Thurs
day. Antonio Moreno and Patsy Ruth
Miller in Her Husbands Secret, -
and Bert Roach in Welcome: Fri
day, Glynn Tryon in "The Battling
Orioles" also "Pacemakers." No. 6;
Saturday. Tom Mix in Dick Tur-
pin" Charlie Chase in What Price
Cooley" also "Sunken Silver" No. 4.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
HOME.

Today. Anita Stewart in ''Baree,
Son of kazan" and Buddy Messenger in
Almost Husband; tomorrow, Reed
Howes in THE Courageous FOOL and
Roach's "A Sailor Papa; Tuesday,
Bob Custer in "Galloping Vengeance, "
Stan Laurel in Somewhere in Wrong"
and Screen Almanac; Wednesday,
Richard Barthelmess in Soul Fire"
and Aesop Fable; Thursday, Richard
Evening star., 1925-09-06
CHEVY CHASE.

Today and tomorrow. Raymond
Griffith in THE Night Club" Aesop's
Fables and News Events; Tuesday
Bebe Daniels in The Manicure Girl
and Sunshine comedy, when Dumb
bells Ring; Wednesday and Thurs
day, Adolph Menjou and Greta Nissen
in Lost, Wife" Cliff Bowes in mo
Fooling," news and newspaper fun:
Friday, Tom Moore and Pauline
Starke in Adventure, Our Gang
comedy, Big Town" and third chap
ter Secret Service Sanders; Satur-
day. Jack Holt and Billie Dove \in
"Wanderer of the Wasteland" Uni
versal comedy, Nicely Rewarded, >"
and sixth chapter play Ball"
Evening star., 1925-09-06
LINCoLN-"Wild Horse Mesa. :

Zane Grey's tale Of the West, wild
Horse Mesa" which reaches its climax
Guring a stampede of thousands of
wild horses, will be the attraction for
the first three days of this week at
the Lincoln Theater. The foremost
Soles are played by Jack Holt. Billie
Dove, Noah Beery and Douglas Fair
banks, jr. The comedy will be Lige
Conley in Below Zero"
Wednesday and Thursday, Betty
Bronson and Ricardo Cortez in Para
mounts production, Not So Long
Ago" together with Eddie Nelson in
SGoing Great" and the Screen Alma
mac; Friday and Saturday. THE
Street of Forgotten Men" with Percy
AIarmont featured: Our Gang" in
Sal Roachs THE Mysterious Mys-
kerv' and the Pathe Review.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
CIRCLE.

Today. Lewis Stone, Conrad Nagel
and Marguerite De La Motto in Cheap
er to Marry; tomorrow, Buster Keaton
in Seven Chances; Our Gang comedy
'Sundown Limited; Tuesday, Rod La
ROGUE and Claire Adams in Young
Wives; Wednesday. Eleanor Board
man and Matt Moore in ''The Way of
a Girl; Thursday and Friday, show
ing, Z and 8 PM, Marion Davies in
''Zander the Great; Saturday Tom
Terriss production, 1.-The Bandolero." :"
Evening star., 1925-09-06

Lulu Vollmer, author of "Sun-Up,"
the dramatic picture that tells a
romance of the North Carolina noun
tains, followed the example of that
other mountaineer chronicler, John
Fox, jr., by spending months among
the mountaineers, living their lives
and eating their coarse fare at the
same table.
. Pauline Starke, the heroine of Sun
Up" to be shown here this week
is one of those photoplay Dill
grims, a member of the cast of "The
Birth of Nation" Miss Starke, for
all her appearance of girlish youth
actually had part in that Griffith
classic, and spent four years under
Griffith in Fine Arts.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
DUMRARTQN.

Today, Betty Compson in Paths to
Paradise: tomorrow, Virginia Brown
Faire and Al Wilson in THE Air
Hawk; Tuesday, Priscilla Dean and
Robert Ellis in "A Cafe in Cairo:
Wednesday and Thursday, Harold
Lloyd in slot Water; Friday. "In
Love With Love-; Saturday, Buck
Jones in Gold and the Girl"
Evening star., 1925-09-06
APOLLO.

, Today and tomorrow. "Beggar on
Horseback" and Our Gang" in 1.-The
Mysterious Mystery; Tuesday and
"Wednesday, Rod La Rocaue and Dor
.othy Gish in Night Life of New
York" and Roach's THE Bouncer";
Thursday, Gladys Hulette and David
Butler in Private Affairs" and jim
mic Aubrey in Home Scouts; Fri
day, Harry Carey in Bad Lands"
Roach's Hold My Baby" and Hodge
Podge"; Saturday, Anita Stewart in
's-Earee, Son of Kazan," and Charlie
Chase in innocent Husbands
Evening star., 1925-09-06
PARK.
PARK.
Today, Thomas Meighan and Gloria

Today, Thomas Meighan and Gloria
Swanson in Male and Female, .
Spat Family and Pathe News events;
tomorrow, Kenneth Harlan and
Alice Joyce in white Man" and VIII
Rogers in "a Truthful Liar; special
matinee Tuesday, Emil Jannings in
THE Last Laugh" and Arthur Stone
in Are Blonde Men Bashful?"
Wednesday and Thursday, Adolphe
Menjou and Gretta Nissan in Lost
A Wife" and Stan Laurel in Skin
ners in Silk; Friday, House Peters
in Head Winds and Glenn TrSon
in IA Haunted Honeymoon; Satur-
day. Charles Ray in Percy" Ralph
Graves in THE Plumber" and sec
ond episode of PLAY Ball" (Shows
continuous on Saturdays from 2 and
on Sundays from PM
Evening star., 1925-09-06

Talmadge in Tearing Through, -
Jimmie Aubrey in "Heebie Jeebies'
and Pathe Review; Friday, Pete Nor
rison in Santa Fe Pete" and Earle
FoXe in "A Spanish Romeo; Satur-
day, Jack Holt and Billie Dove in
wild Horse Mesa" and Roach's THE
Bouncer"
Evening star., 1925-09-06

tomorrow, pat o 'Malley and Dorothy
Mackaill IN "The Mine With the Iron
Door," Roach's The Bouncer" and
Pathe Review; Tuesday and Wednes-
day, Corinne Griffith in THE Mar
riage Whirl'' and Aesop Fable; Thurs
day, Gladys Hulette and David Butler
in Private Affairs" and Larry Semon
in 1.-The Cloud HOPPER; Friday Harry
Carey in bad Lands" and Jimmie
Aubrey in ooh, What a Flirt"; Sat
urday, Tom Mix in "The Rainbow
Trail and comedy. ''Papa's Darling"
Evening star., 1925-09-06
SAVOY.

Today, Gladys Hulette and David
Butler in Private Affairs and Edna
Marion in "Plenty of Nerve; tomor-
row, Bert Lytell in steele of the
Royal Mounted" Walter Hers in "Oh.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

Grant Mitchell, who closes his en-
gagement in "Spooks" this week, will
soon be seen in vaudeville in a
sketch, Safety First" by Dorothy De
Jaegers.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
|
CAROLINA.

Today and tomorrow. The Span
lard" with Ricardo Cortez and Noah
Beery; Tuesday, Marry Me-" with
Florence Vidor; Wednesday, Betty
Compson in Paths to Paradise: ::
Thursday, 'Salome of the Tenements. :"
with Jacqueline Logan; Friday, Hoot
Gibson. The Hurricane Kid: Satur-
day, THE White Desert" with Claire
Windsor
Evening star., 1925-09-06
AVENUE GRAND.

Today and tomorrow, Rod La Rocque
. nd Dorothy Gish in might Life of
Evening star., 1925-09-06

New York" and Sennett's Cupid S
Boots; Tuesday and Wednesday,
Jack Holt and Billy Dove in wild
Horse Mesa" and Roach's 1.-THE
Bouncer"; Thursday, Harry Carey in
Bad Lands" Roach's "A Sailor
Papa" and Hodge Podge"; Friday,
Anita Stewart in "Baree, Son of
Kazan," and Jimmie Aubrey in
Home Scouts; Saturday. Thomas
Meighan in ''Old Home Week" and
the Spat Family in Laugh That of. -
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Photoplays This Week

Continued from First Page.1
Evening star., 1925-09-06

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS m
Evening star., 1925-08-26
An Oriental Rarity"

An excited citizen the other day
FASTENED into the office of the curator
of the Staten Island Museum with a
remarkable find. 1t was queer
shaped insect about two and one-half
inches long, looking like a cross be-
tween grasshopper and an airplane
The curator of the museum received
it gratefully and told the donor that
he recognized it as a praying mantis,
strange Oriental insect which had
been imported from the Far East a
few years ago for the purpose of
Wag1ng war on the caterpillarS and
other garden pests in Staten Island.
Only isolated specimens of it had pre-
viously from time to time been found
there, and it is presumed that they
had arrived on incoming ships.
Residents of Washington will read
of this remarkable chronological Ais
covery in Staten Island with somx
amusement. The praying mantis is a
familiar creature in this region, has,
indeed, been a garden commonplace
from time immemorial. 1t is better
known perhaps TO most people as the
rare horse" Though it is quite a
harmless creature, having no venom
or means of attack, it is held in awe
by most youngsters until they learn
its innocence. Indeed, one Of the
favorite outdoor sports of some boys
is to capture a pair of these insects
and harness them up with threads.
The mantis. or rare horse, is said to
be the only insect in creation that can
look over its shoulder. Its capacity
for turning its head almost completely
around to stare with its great bulbous
eyes in any direction adds to its odd
ity. When aroused and "r'aring'' with
it's forelegs paving the air and its
head turning as on swivel it is one
OF the most laughable creatures in
nature.
If this rare horse of the Washington
region is an import from the Orient it
has surely found a congenial home
and multiplied until it has become in
digenous. II Staten Island Museum
wants more specimens they can readily
be supplied from the backyards and
vacant lots of this city.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
New Rules Tend to
Slow Traffic Movement
To the Editor Of The Star

To the Editor af The Star
As a motorist for nearly 90 years,
principally on the streets of Wash
ington, my opinion is that the present
speed limit of % miles per hour,
checked by the frequent stop signs,
does not give any better speed average
than the former speed of Is miles per
hour. On a trip across Washin gton
from east to west, it is necessary to
stop your car where the streets are
traversed by trolley lines, also at Six
teenth street, to permit north and
south bound traffic to pass. The stop
signs at street intersections like
Sixth, Tenth and Eighteenth delay
traffic, as usually no traffic is ready
to pass at the time the sign tells you
to stop. The obliterating of the stop
signs by the wear and tear and
weather conditions causes further in
fractions Of the law. particularly at
night.
If motorists were held to strict ac-
count OF the present traffic regulations
it is reasonable to state that practi-
cally every one will be hailed into
Traffic Court during the year.
My statement Is made of present
conditions and is not intentional
criticism other than I believe that a
number Of notifications should be
made to handle the volume Of traffic
as it exists at the present and new
regulations placed in effect only as
conditions merit them.
Sane driving necessitates the maxi
mum speed to be made between blocks
and a slowing down at street inter-
sections, with necessary stopping to
permit traffic to move in the opposite
direction under the rule of the ma
chine on right having the right of
way. WALTEReL. CARTER.
Evening star., 1925-08-26

important parts of a county fair,
county fair is the rendezvous, the
central market place, the forum, the
convocatio of the homo rusticus.
They gather to see the best and latest
things in cattle. hogs. sheep and crops
and to get pointers from men who
have been successful in corn, wheat,
potatoes, lima beans and q hundred
and-odd other important things. A
prize for farm product carries honor
and marks the winner as an expert
and a successful man in some of the
highly useful things of life.
Domestic arts have their place in
the county fair and there woman pits
herself against woman in making
blackberry jam. Only a woman who
really and truly knows how to put up
preserves has a look-in for honors at
the county fair. Wives and daughters
enter the lists as cake and biscuit
makers, and the girl who takes a
prize for biscuit johnnycake, short
cake or hoecake, poundcake, fruitcake
and the like can wear her plumes and
tassels more queenly, walk with d
prouder step and carry her head
higher.
In the city men meet TO read papers,
which are usually dull, telling of what
they have done in certain lines of
human endeavor. At the county fair
men bring before the people the proofs
of what they have done and qualified
Judges sit upon their work.
Evening star., 1925-08-26
American Banking Billions.

American banking resources are es-
timated today at over $50, ,0o0, 900 900,
an increase of s57, 900, 900 900 in the
last half century. These figures,
which are almost beyond comprehen-
sion, indicate the enormous. develop
ment of the country, productivity and
commercially, since 1875.
At it's annual convention to be held
this week in Atlantic City the Ameri-
can Bankers Association will celebrate
it's fftieth anniversary. In a call to
it's membership to attend the meeting,
William E. Knox, president of the as
sociation, takes occa sion to emphasize
the real reason for and duty of bank
ing establishments. They are not so
much for the mere anlassing of money
as for the incubation of sound eco.
nomic principles in the people who are
served by the banks.
Today there are 10000 banks in the
United States, where fifty years ago
there were 5000. Today the capital
funds of the banks aggregate more
than $1,000, 100000 and their deposits
are $4,000. 100000 plus, while in 1875
the capital funds were in the neigh
borhood of 81 ,0oo, 200, 900 and the de-
posits about $1,000, 900 900.
This tremendous growth of banking
resources has been due to the natural
wealth of the country, to the industry of
the American people, and to the sound
banking laws and system developed.
Stability and the confidence which it
engenders have brought to the Ameri.
can banks the billions which they now
boast. At the coming convention of
Evening star., 1925-08-26

ment of such traffic in the diversion
OF interstate commerce from the rail
lines. 1t IS by no means improbable
that in the future a national highway
may be distinctive reality and that
the United States shield posted on it
will be sign and warning of Federal
authority"
Some objections to the system,
however, are suggested. 1T is diff
cult, the Grand Rapids Press asserts.
Ito imagine the least use for any such
system, in view of the ample informa-
tfon and splendid maps of State sys-
TENS available, the improved state of
markings everywhere, and the free
interchange of highway advice regard
ing Interstate routes" The Atlanta
Journal calls attention to the fact
that the marks will relate to route
numbers, curves, railroad crossings
and other conditions of the roads -
and states that in the program for
Georgia there is no provision for GER
tain roads. Scores of such deficien-
cies are obvious" it says.
x X X
Ambitious as is this national prof.
ect one even more ambitious has been
contemplated, as is pointed out by the
Pittsburgh Sun, which refers TO the
meeting of the Pan-American Road
Congress, to be held in Buenos Aires
October 5. at the invitation of the Ar
eentine government. This meeting
will have for "one of its objects" SAYS
the Sun, the construction of a pan
American highway which will unite
the countries that compose the Pan
American Union" The day will
come" predicts the Sioux City Trib-
une, when tourists from this country
will glide down over we'll built con-
nected highways onto the highways
of South America" The Oakland
Tribune sees pleasure jaunts to the
tip end Of Chile and Argentine" in
prospect, while the San Antonio Ex-
press visions this 'pan-American
highway system" as preceding the
dream of prospective empire build
ers, that of a railroad spanning the
Americas from north to south"
Evening star., 1925-08-26
The County Fair.

The county fair season in the Wash.
ington country is in full tilt, Mont
gomery in the van. Later will come
accounts Of the annual fair of Prince
Georges and perhaps Charles, ST.
Marys and Anne Arundel will have the
spotlight turned on them, and, of
course, the Virginia counties which
draw much of their inspiration and
wealth from Washington and furnish
our people with produce and vaca-
tions, will be in the procession.
The county fair is an institution. 1t
dates far back in the centuries. There
are city people who do not know much
about the county fair. Many city
people are not educated in country
matters. There are city people, max
ing a pretense of wisdom, who do not
know how to set hen or milk a COW.
and as to breaking a colt, they would
look on that as a dangerous amuse-
ment, almost as risky as getting on
the other side of a traffic.roaring
street. Some of our most prominent
Ni'iHciiS Souiu hot PiCh oul o. beTk-
shire from any other kind of a hog,
and Guernseys, Jerseys and Holsteins
look alike to them. They could not
shuck an ear of corn and deliver an
extemporaneous address on its tech
nical merits.
Many have the idea that county
fair is a carnival where owners OF
slow-going race horses take money
from unwary and unwise men. They
think q popcorn and lemonade as
Evening star., 1925-08-26
Jazzing Shakespeare.

A capacity audience last night in a
London theater cheered a performance
of Hamlet" up to date. This "1925"
version of Shakespeare play was dis
tinSuished from the innumerable rem
ditions of the past only in the matter
of dress. All the characters were at.
tired in modern costumes, Hamlet ap-
pearing in the graveside scene in a
Golf suit, and he and his associates of
the cast at other times in correct
afternoon Dress the men with
creased trousers and spats, and the
women with frocks of the latest pres
ent day styles. some of them with
bobbed or shingled hair. In one of
the scenes a male character lighted a
cigarette.
The purpose of this revival in
anachronistic setting, it was an
play has an appeal for moderns as
strong as when it was first staged.
But no departure from the traditions
can possibly prove such an appeal.
Rather is it to be said that the play
appeals to modern taste, even though
it is taken out of its true historic at
mosphere, despite the outrage to the
dramatist's concept. Yesterdays per-
fornlance, on the contrary, merely
proves that a London audience rel
ishes novelty
1t is inexpressibly sad thus to see
Shakespeare ridiculed. 1t is a danger
Gus step to costume the cast in the
clothes of today, for il is but a short
step farther TO take other liberties.
For instance, Hamlet in his Voyaging
from Denmark TO England and return
may be transported by airplane rather
than taking the perilous passage by sea.
How can an audience take seriously
the discourse of a man in plus fours"
about the hazards of the wave? Is
not the spectacle of knickerbockered
gentlemen of 1925 fighting to death
with swords an inconsistency that de-
stroys all illusion?
The pity of all this is the willing
ness of the public to receive and ap-
plaud such an incongruous mess. If d
taste for modernized Shakespeare is
developed there is no end to the pro-
cedure. The honk of the motor horn
will be heard on the stage. Caesar
will be slain by automatics. Lear's
daughters will be ultra-mascuIine pro
fessional ladies. Shylock will appear
in a iattopped derby, wearing dia-
monds in his shirt front. Antony
and Cleopatra will lanSuish on the
deck of motor boat. Malvolio will
strut in a dinner jacket. Radio will
summon the sprites for Callahan.
Twaddle about the modern appeal
is simply camouflage for commercial
enterprise. The real fact about
this libelous London performance of
Shakespeare is that a theatrical pro-
ducer has hit upon new scheme for
drawing a crowd and shamelessly
seeks justification by quoting Shakes
peare himself to the effect that 'the
plays the thing" whatever the garb
Evening star., 1925-08-26

the bankers association important
Questions of policy will be discussed,
including tax revision and economy in
expenditures. Selfish determinations
of these questions on the part of the
banking interests can have no good
effect. After all, it Is the people whose
money the banks hold in trust to whom
consideration is first due, and the vast
ma jority of the depositors are persons
of moderate means.
Because of the business which they
transact and the places of trust which
they occupy, the American bankers
are in position to give valuable ad-
vice, and it is to be expected that this
advice will be based on sound economic
principles and in the interest of the
great mass of those whom the banks
serve
Evening star., 1925-08-26
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

Q. What is the ratio OF explosives
used to coal mined &C. A.
A Last year in bituminous coal
| mines 165, $4,000 pounds of explosives
were used This amounted to 342
| pounds for each 1000 tons of coal
| produced In anthracite mines 3d.
| S37.117 pounds of explosives were
| used, or 100 pounds per 1000 tons of
| hard coal produced.
O. Which is correct IAN error
| would result in subscriber being
| charged with a CALL OF "a Subscrib-
ers being" etc. III. NJ. II.
A. The word should be "subscrib-
er's" 4 noun modifying a verbal
noun or Serund must be in the pos
sessive case.
O. Has cooked cabbage as great a
vitamin content as raw cabbage P
| F. NJ. Is.
a. Cooking cabbage reduces the
vitamin content two thirds, the most
marked differences being in vitamin
c. Vitamin B remains the same and
vitamin A is reduced
O. What is Guido's scale in music
H. L.
a. Guido's scale in music was in
vented by Guido d'AgreZzo t900-1050)
and is substantially the same one as
we now use. The syllables were
taken from the first line of Latin
hymn, "Ut re mi ia sol la Ut" The
usual note Isl" was not recognized in
Guido's time. DO" has been sub
| stituted for ut"
| @. Please give some informa ton
about British Honduras. w. s.
| A The climate of British Honduras
| is hot, moist and generally unhealthy
| for foreigners. The coast is, as a
rule low and swampy and large
part of the interior is covered with
| forests yielding large quantities OF
mahogany and loGwood. over 10000
acres are under cultivation and yield
| fruits. rubber, coffee, etc. The colony
| is administered by a governor, and
| has an executive and legislative
council. United States gold currency
was adopted as legal tender in 1894
The majority of the population Is
| composed of negroes, mulattoes and
Indians.
G. Can an American citizen ar
range 10 have his old mother come Il
| this country even if the quota Is
| filled a u.
| A The Bureau of immigration says
I
for his aged mother to come into this
country under the Preference quota.
| Q. Why do French watches have
numerals from l to PAT. q. NJ.
A. The French do not divide the
hours of the day into shifts of Il
! but count up 10 the numeral "a
| Thus: ] pm. is 13 O'Clock, pm. is
| II O'Clock, and so on.
!
| O. The newspapers are saying now
| that women make better automobile
drivers than men. Is this true?-A
| NJ. s.
A. Doubtless the newspaper arti
cles to which you refer related to the
| tests recently made by DIR. F. a. Moss
of George Washington University anC
II. II. Allen of the United States Bu
reau of Standards, in which 25 mer
| and 10 women were put through q
| series of tests and it was found thai
the average reaction time of the won
en- was 0.56 seconds and that of the