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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
METROPOLITAN
Norma TaImadge

The movie-mad public has
come to realize that in Norma
Talmadge at least. they have one
star who never dims, who always
equals, and exceeds a little. their
expectations.
So it is that in Norma Tai
nadge's latest, The Lady" at
the Metropolitan this week the
popular screen Betelegeuse is at
her loyeliest, dimplest best.
The story briIns over with
sentimentality and gives Norma
q most sympathetic role, consid-
erably different from any she
has appeared in heretofore. But
yet il is an interesting plot, or
rather character study and
strangely enough has not the
proverbially happy ending.
THE Lady" is only a London
music hall artistic who aspires to
be like the gentry. This was
twenty-five years ago, before
London society had its Mr.. A
and General X scandals). She
weds into a nobly English fani-
ly. Her husband is disowned by
a peeved papa, and she conse-
quentIy is cast off, abandoned
and called a guttersnipe by her
husband And to make matters
worse her baby is torn from
her." So 1.-The lady" becomes a
singer in a Marseilles dive and
In a strange way, but quite pos
sibIe in the movies, her son
comes back to her. The youth.
a British Tommy, kills his buddy
in barroom brawl and his
mother proves herself a real
lady" by shouldering the blame.
The story gives Norma consi6-
cradle opportunity to emotc in
the sob situations and she takes
full advantage of 1t.
An able supporting cast in
cludes such seasoned actors as
Wallace Mcdonald, Brandon
Hurst, Marc McDermott, Walter
Long and Paulette Duval.
A Christie comedy, why He's
itate?" featuring Neal Burns as
a bashful sutton develops a num-
Der of funny situations. The
"dance OF the flowers" by the
heavy villain of this piece is
about as amusing a burIesque of
classic dancing as we have seen.
The concert overture for the
week is "Solonnelle." by Tschai-
kowsky.-J. G. c.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
COLUMBIA
Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson
Your knowledge is leon
IF you rhyme it sOith "beGn,
While some hGUe a wen
To connect Il tDith "tOvens
But since French began
he been only "S0ns-Gene.
Memo ,rs of Napoleon Bonaparte.
That's mighty poor verse. but
II it helps to clear up doubt IN
the public mind, what care we?
This department win do anything
in it's power to preserve peace
and harmony in the American
home and call off duels that
threaten over the pronunciation
OF Gloria Swanson's large affair.
MADAME Sans-Gene," now being
exhibited, with great success, at
Loew's Columbia Theater.
Such is fame. When old Vic
Sardou, the daddy Of modern
French melodrama, gave this
play to the world, little did he
realize that an American shop.
girl, later to become the Mar
quise de la Falaise, would pre-
sent it in cinema form, against
the authentic background Of Fon-
tainebleau. the Tuileries and
Campeigne.
1t is a play Of the French rev.
olution, carried on into the reign
Of Napoleon. As far as deftly
knit continuity il concerned. this
reviewer thinks not so much
Of it.
But there is La Gloria and
east of mixed French and Ameri-
cans, all OF whom know their
parts and play them for all they
are worth, against the afore-
mentioned authentic background
which couldn't be duplicated in
Hollywood for many press
agents million.
It's something like Pola's first
bid for immortality, Passion p
the rise OF Catherine Huebscher,
q French laundress and vivandiere
to the rank of Duchess. Some
thing like Gloria's own life. for
that matter.
Well. Madame San-Gene. which
is a nickname, is one Of the
knew him when" girls. She
knew Napoleon, Fouche, Marshal
Ney and the other big boys Of
the empire when they couldn't
pay their laundry bills. And she
had a sentimental reason for saw
ing Maps bills. They came in
handy later on. .
The ex-laundress, in her role as
Duchess. was riot at court, but
It all comes out right in the end.
Now you know just about as much
as we care to tell you. IL you
were our best friend and should
come and ask US IL you should
see the picture, we would lay our
hands upon your shoulders and
Quaver, by all means"
The musical score is very good.
And you can't guess what's III it.
That song the French sing, yuu
know-you ought to know-The
Aarseillaise.
Because Madame is rather
long, but doesn't seem so, all but
the International News Reel have
been cut from the usual sup
porting features. The reel 10
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
THE NEW VAUDEVILLE
PROGRAMS
KEITH'S
Florence Reed

KEITHSr-
Florence Reed
Florence Reed is the headliner
at Keith's Theater this week and
there is only one thing wrong
with her act, 1t isn't long
enough. This is said in serious
spirit as the fact is really too
AS fine an artistic as she is, II
is an impossible task for her TO
carry an audience through an
intensely emotional scene when
the way has to be paved and the
act done within the space OF
twenty minutes.
Miss Reed is truly great, how
ever, and those who love drama
and can appreciate capable act
ing will enjoy her sketch, Tin
sell" in which she is assisted by
Thelma Page, Donald Macmillan,
Arthur Behrens and Alfred
Shirlye.
Mitchell Brothers. Singing
Banjoists From the South" car
ried off the greatest applause of
the evening. Washington audi
ences evidently love banjos and
the Mitchell boys were amply
able to supply the demand.
Running strong for top honors
are Eddie Kane and Jay Her.
man, who have one OF the fun.
niest acts on the Keith circuit. It
is rapidly done, downright clever
and there isn't dull spot in
anything they do, including sew
eral encores. Their work really
deserves q more extended review
than space here will permit.
Lillian Shaw is still seeking
advice on the marriage question:
and then going ahead and doing
it. She Is as funny as ever and
mas added some new songs to her
repertoire, songs which she
puts over in her own inimitAble
way. The "Vamp" song is es.
pecially good, very clever
buflesQue.
Ted Trever and Dina Harris,
imported from merry old Eng
land TO caper awhile on the
Keith circuit, are finished
dancers. TO their eternal credit
be it said they didn't do the
Apache. These dancers are as
sisted by Paul F'ried's Chicago
Ramblers, q clever group Of mu-
sicians.
Rose Irene Kress and COM
pany, IN 'Terpsichorean Wheels,
stage an interesting dance num-
Der on skates, including some
sensational feats. Carlton Emmy
and a group OF trained dogs fol-
low the opening act and Joe
Fanton and company. close the
bill with some exciting acrobatic
feats. The usual films are
shown. J. w. 3.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
CENTRAL
"Born Rich"

A story of pampered wealth
brought suddenly to the realiza-
ton that money is not every
thing is visualized in First Ma
tionaFs Born Rich," in which
Claire Windsor, Bert Lytell. Cul
len Lands and Doris Kenyon
have chief roles, at CrandalFs
Central, for yesterday and today.
The narrative is one of social
intrigue and financial piracy
which eliminates in a rehabiIitn-
ton of two very much spoiled
members of the ultra-rich class.
Bert Roach is star of the
comedy that leads the supple.
mentary features of the program,
under the title of ''Papa's Pet
Added short-reel subjects of d.
versified interest and delightful
pipe organ music by Mesdames
Libby and Thompson complete
the bill
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
Goings-On

NATIONAII-Ethel Barrymore, In
THE Second Mrs. Tanqueray'
POLI'S-Greenwich Village Fol
lies. with Daphne Pollard.
BELASCO-Extended run of The
Gorilla" mystery play.
PRESIDENT-Sec week of
white Cargo"
KEITH'S-Florence Reed the
emotional star; others
EARLE-Scranton Sirens Orches-
ira: other acts and films.
STRAND-"Stars of the Future;
others and films.
Hippity Hop bur-
lesque.
MUTUAI-"Step Along, bur
lesque.
COLUMBIA-Gloria Swanson, in
Mime. Sans Gene"
METROPOLITAN - Norma Tai
madge, in 1.-THE Lady"
RIALTO-Tom Moore and Edith
Roberts, in ION Thin Ice;" other
features
PALACE-Elinor Gyms Man
and Maid"
TIVOLI-Syd Chaplin. in Char
ley's' Aunt"
AMBASSAD DO R-Norma ral
madge, in 1.-THE Lady"
CENTRAI-"Born Rich" with
Claire Windsor.
SAVOY-House Peters. in The
Tornado
AVENU GRAND-Constance
TaImadge. in Learning TO
Love-"
APOLLO-Tom Meighan, in Com
ing Through"
YORK-Constance Talmadge. In
Learning to Love-"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
Shakespeare Anniversary

The English Speaking Union will
observe the birthday anniversary of
William Shakespeare at a dinner
Thursday at Rauscher's. Langdon
Mitchell. OF Philadelphia, will be
the principal speaker. The British
ambassador. who 10 out of the city,
will be represented by Henry Getty
Chiffon, counselor of the embassy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
SANS GENE" DEBUT AT
LOEW'S COLUMBIA

mond-and a reviewer who failed
to say that she is beautiful would
be lacking in professional ethics
plays the feminine lead in a
creditable manner, though her
role, to my mind, was not alto
gether convincing. Renee Adore
is seen as gay little Parisienne,
and Alec Francis, giving his
usual great Characterization, is
seen as a valet.
"Boobs In the Woods" Mack
Sonnet comedy; Pathe Newsreel
and a scenic film Of Philadelphia,
in which the subtitle, THE City
of Brotherly Love-" caused some
sacriligious tittering in the au-
dience, complete the program.
Tom Gannon's Orchestra did
well as usual. j. w. b.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
Easter Holiday Over

A weeks Easter holiday ended
today for pupils Of the public
schools. Sixty eight thousand boys
and girls trooped back to the 160-odd
school buildings this morning to
resume their studies. Two months
of the school year remain.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
AMBASSADOR
Norma Talmadge

Paul Terry. cartoonist de luxe,
has never devised more intriguing
pastiming for his funny farmers,
fishes, mice. cats and dogs than
in his latest Aesop Fable, Deep
Stuff" comic embroidery of the
bill. yesterday. today, and Tues
day at Crandall's Ambassador
Theater Additional short-reel
subjects and pipe organ music
round out the splendid bill, Of
which the chief feature is Norma
Talmadge's new First National
release, 1.-The Lady" a complete
review Of which will be found in
conjunction with Crandall's Metro
nOlffan
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
TOKYO ROCKED AGAIN
BY QUAKES; NO LOSSES

TOKYO. April 90. Tokyo was
rocked by two earthquakes last
night and this morning. the first
shock coming at midnight and the
second at a. m.
No damage was reported.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20

+ f 8
There are really three stars.
Daphne Pollard, the dinninutive
one, does a number of the gro
tesqueries she is noted for.
Buster West makes an unmatch-
able dancing soloist, and the
soft-spoken Tom Howard leads
q great comic array Of silly
folk.
The loveliest vision of the
troupe is Irene Delroy, who
sings and dances through sew
eral numbers. Julia Silvers and
Billye Weston lend further en-
chanting presences to the Gen.
ter of the stage. For comedy
the high lights are 'eThe Fata
Card" the burlesque acrobatics
Of the Mandells, and the "MOv-
ing Mans Dream" by the
Briants, a marvellous piece of
comic pantomime.
Scenically, THE Garden of
Kama" in the mood of Law
renee Hopes Indian love lyrics;
"The Far West" Moonlight
Kisses" and "A Spanish Fiesta"
are the completest eye-fillers.
If not the best Of all five
editions, certainly this produc-
zion is as good as its predeces-
sors and is one OF the snapplest
revues to visit here this season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
AN AMUSING SHOW AND
GOOD TO LOOK AT
BY HAROLD PHILLIPS.

There's speed beauty much comedy in the fifth Greenwich
Village Foes which Polls night for weeks
after raivantng the circuit for the last and
playing to scandalousy long
The production unfods like suprvaudeve show with enter
tanning variety its very Of lovely
pageantry scampering tempo but the MAN, the
producers dancing and comedy And there
fk.&k s. @
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-20
Lecture for City Club Women

An illustrated lecture entitled "A
Trip Through the Clouds" will be
delivered by w. G. Barnes, at the
Women's City Club. % Jackson
place, tonight at $50 o'clock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-04-03

Think of buying beautiful plain and full bordere
Coats at this unheard of low price.
In the very heart of the season. with Easter but
few days off, we offer these sensational values as
special opening attraction>High grade garments thu
you would expect to psy elsewhere $40 and even s.
for.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Psychologists Find
Throat Germ Enemy

Madison, Wis. p Great prog
ress toward checking fatal results of
a throat disease known to science as
streptococus has been made by three
American psychologists it was an
nounced today at the twenty-seventh
annual convention of the society of
American psychologists, it was an
Less virulent forms of disease have
been checked by means of bacter-
iopsage developed by doctors Paul F..
Clark and Alice Shiedt Clark of the
University of Wisconsin, who were
able to cope with the form known as
Hemolytic streptococcus. The lytic
principle was obtained by growing or
ganisms with activated sludge from
the Milwaukee sewerage disposal
plant.
DR.. L. o, Dutton of the Methodist
Hospital, Memphis, Tenn, has gone
even farther in his Investigations of
the subject, using bacteriophage as-an
agent.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
General Hsu Slain
at Railway Station

Peklng AZ - General Ssu
Shu- Cheng, known as "litle Hsu," was
shot and killed with several members
of his staff on the railway station
platform at Langfang last night.
The assassin, self proclaimed in a
Countrywide manifesto, was In Cheng-
WI, captain in the Kuoninchun ina
tional peoples army and son Of GEN
eral Lu Chien-Chang, whom little
Hsu shot in LUIS garden at Tientsin
while dinner guest there in 1918.
Captain Lu, who apparently has not
been arrested, declared his act was in
revenge for his fathers murder.
Lu is a cousin of Marshal Feng
Yu-Hsiang, formerly styled 'the
Christian general" who commands the
Kuominchun forces which oc-
cupied Tientsin.
Hsu had just arrived after tour of
Europe, the United States and Japan
where he studied political and eco
nomic affairs of the Peking govern
ment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Birge Tells of
Scientific Work

Madison, Wis. - >--x'y - Two p1-
eneers in the field of science in the
middle west told the Society of Am.
erican Psychologists at its request
Of their early work. They are DR.. E
A. Birge, president emeritus of the
University of Wisconsin, and DR.. Will
liam Trelease of the University OF
Illinois.
Drs. Birge and Trelease initiated
and developed the study of bacteriolo'
gy in the middle west. This year
marks the fortieth anniversary of
their establishment of formal courses
in the science at the University OF
Wisconsin.
In 1882, DR.. Trelease, then of the
department Of biology, introduced into
his course in cryptigamic botany g
discussion of the bacteria. The work
of Pasteur, Tyndai, Koch and Coin
was presented. Cultures were made or
potato.
Gelatine and agar had not been
used. The students were required to
read paper to DR.. E. A. Burrill on
Bacteria" A copy of this paper
among the first, to be written on the
subject in this country, is among the
exhibits in Lathrop hall. DR.. L. H
Pammel, Wisconsin, 1885, of the Iowa
State Agricultural, college, was the
first student of the university to en-
gage in active work in bacteriology.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
EXTRA!
EUROPEAN FLOODS
TAKE LIVES OF 200
Damage From Swollen Rivers In
creases Hourly; Rumania, Hum
gary Distressed.

Paris - -, - Floods in central
Europe are increasing, in their raw.
age. Every hour brings news of addi-
tional rivers overlooking their banks
Pennsylvania, western Rumanla and
eastern Hungary are being disastrous
ly affected. The governments of Ru-
mania and Hungary are hurriedly
adopting measures to cop with the
situation.
Pillaging has begun and the Ru-
manian government has proclaimed
martial law so that thieves may be
summarily dealt with, It is impos.
sible from reports thus far received
to estimate more than approximately
the loss of life, but it undoubtedly
exceeds 200. The material loss is
extremely heavy. In addition to dam
ages to houses and other buildings
thousands of horses and other stock
have drowned.
Belgrade is now threatened by the
water from the melting snow in the
Carpathians which is swelling the
Danube. The water is beginning to
creep into lower parts of the city and
many villages in the environs of the
Serbian capital are under water.
The French rivers continue to rise
slowly. The officials are optimistic as
to the Paris district, but when the
mass of water accommodating in the
tributaries of the Seine comes down
about January 6, Paris and its sub
urbs apparently are bound to suffer
badly.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
SEN. CAPPER DEMANDS
TARIFF FOR FARMER
Threatens Removal of Protection for
Industry if Agriculture
is Ignored.

Boston, Mass. - \ - Warning
was issued today by Senator Capper
Republican, Kansas, that unless the
tariff was made to apply to agricul.
tural crops its protection probably
would be removed from manufactured
products.
Addressing the Boston Chamber Of
Commerce, the senator declared that
"some practical and sensible way
must be found to take care of farm
surplus.
~''Something must be done, and
speedily, in regard to the troublesome
matter of crop surplus" he said. 1T
is inevitable it seems to me, that some
arrangement must be made whereby
when there is surplus to export, that
the surplus, say 10, Is or 20 per cent
of the crop, will not govern the price
of the entire crop.
This simply means that some feas-
IDLE system must be worked out so
foreign consumptive channels, sold for
what it will bring and the loss prop
erly distributed among the producers,
who will then be able to sell their
remaining crops in the home market
free of the drag of this excess pro-
duction.
"This must be done in a way that
is practical and sensible, way the
entire country will accept as such.
Either our tariff must apply effective
~ to agricultural SURPRISES or its
benevolent protecting hand is likely,
fear, to be removed from our sur
pluses of manufactured products
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Pie1o Bende Has Hearing on $4,000 Exoton Plot Chay
IOWA GOVERNOR TO
CALL FARM MEETING
Plans Program of Immediate Agricul-
turaI Relief Among Eleven
Midwestern States.

Des Moines, Iowa ~ Within a
few days Governor Hamill of Iowa
expects to call corn belt farm relief
conference, to unite the farmers of
eleven middlewestern states back of
a program of immediate relief of
agriculture. Plans for this confer
,ence, and an insistence upon farm
products export corporation wer e
among the principal measures adopted
at the "all-Iowa" marketing confer
ence here yesterday under the aus
pieces of the Iowa Bankers association.
Iowa's entire congressional delega-
tion spoke in favor of the principle
of the McNary- Haugen BILL" as Sena-
tor A. B. Cummins expressed it.
Others, especially Senator Smith w.
Brookhart and E. T. Merideah, former
secretary of agriculture, advocated,
in addition, price fixing federal
farm board.
"Tariff protested industries enjoy
indirect price fixing" said Represen-
tative Gilbert N. Haugen. "There is
nothing paternalistic or socialistic or
difficult about fixing prices"
Senator Brookhart was sharply crit
ical of the part he said the bankers
played in debating the farmer five
years ago, which is just now bearing
fruit. His proposed export corpora
tion would start with $1,500,00O,OO0
of government capital, add five per
cent to farmers cost of production
and set that as the price.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
KENOSHA LOSES
US. HARBOR FUND
Announcement Says Allot-
ment for KenOsha Has
Been Transferred.
RACINE ALSO A LOSER

Although the sum of only $4,000 for
harbor improvement in Kenosha in
1926 was asked by army engineers for
the Milwaukee district in their report
submitted to congress early in De-
cember, the smallest amount asked in
many years and a sum almost insig-
nificant, the local harbor is very likely
to get no appropriation at all.
Out of Washington comes a press
dispatch today announcing that army
engineers have just decided to trans
fer $4,000 in rivers and harbors al
,otments in the Wisconsin and Michi-
gan area, and that the sum making up
the transfer total has been taken from
the allotments recommended for the
harbors at Racine and Kenosha, in
Wisconsin, and the harbor of South
Haven, in Michigan.
Further, the dispatch states, the
sum is to be distributed as follows:
Green Bay harbor, Wisconsin, $751;
600; Two Rivers harbor, Wisconsin.
$4,000; Holland, Mich, harbor, $4,000;
Muskegon harbor, Michigan, $4,000;
Ludington harbor, Michigan, $4,000;
Green River, Mich.,. $4,000, and Man
istee harbor, Michigan, $4,000.
Whether all of the $4,000 allotment
to Kenosha harbor is being trans
ferred, or if only a portion of it goes
is not disclosed by the dispatch. Ra-
cine is obviously to lose only por-
ton of her allotment, for the original
figures set by the Milwaukee district
engineers for that city was S77,130.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
Were MarOOned
for Four Weeks

Marinette, Wis., x After an en-
forced stay Of twenty-seven days on
Green Island without mail or COM
munication with the mainland, Frank
Drew, lightkeeper, and his assistant,
Alfred Cornell, are in Marinette for
the winter.
While the lightkeepers remain here
until spring, their acetylene light in
Green Bay will continue to burn.
They walked over the ice to the marin
land, pushing hand sled, covering
the distance in three hours in below
zero weather and in the face of a
strong northwest wind. Twenty times
they had to stop because of the ex-
treme cold.
The bay is frozen over with ice
from to 8 inches thick, they re-
ported. Local fishermen are prepar-
ing to begin their winter fishing
through the ice and traffic on the ice
between here and points across the
bay is expected to start within a
week.