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The Washington times., 1926-09-22
TRAVEL TREND
DOWNWARD
TURNS
Prominent Washington
ians Heading Toward
Capital
BY JEAN ELIOT

"HE tide of travel is now set
ting definitely homeward. Mrs.
- Richard Townsend, who has
been at Bar Harbor for the sun
mer. left today for New York.
where she will spend several days
before returning to her house in
Washington. Her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. B. Sumner
Welles, will remain at Bar Harbor
through this month, and they, too,
will probably stop off in New York
for a week or so on their way back
to town. They have taken a lease
for another year on the apartment
at 1885 Massachusetts Ave-. which
they occupied last season, having
been disappointed in their efforts
to find a house-with a garden
exactly suited to their needs and
wishes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend
are just home from Scroon Lake in
the Adirondacks, where they have
a summer home and where they
spent several lazy, restful weeks.
Mrs. Townsend is already at work
on preparations for her series of
morning musicales at the Mayflower,
the first of which is to be held on
December s, and she promises Wash
ington a group of really thrilling
artists. Earlier in the summer she
visited her daughter, Miss Yvonne
Townsend. who has been at Hender.
sonville, n. c.. for several months.
Mrs. Field i'm Europe
Mrs. Lyman Kendall and her
pretty little daughter, Jane, are
sailing today on the Olympic for
home after a few weeks in Europe.
Mrs. Kendall. who had not been
well, went to Marienbad for the
Kur and writes that she now feels
ever so much better.
Mrs. Marshall Field, who has
been abroad all summer, will be
turning her. face homeward before
long, but has not yet set a def
mite day for sailing. She has been
touring France and Italy by motor
and hasn't set foot in a train all
summer. Mrs. Field and Mrs. Hope
Slater met at Aix-les-Bains and took
the kur together.
Seek To SubIet
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Flint are
expected in town before long. but
are seeking to sublet their house
here, 2235 r ST., as they have pur-
chased land farther out Massachu-
setts Avenue, and expect to build
there. They want to have a free
foot while they are overseeing build
ing operations, SO that they can
spend what time they want IN
Washington and yet be able to slip
away when they feel disposed to
New York or to Hamilton, Mass,
where their son-in-law and daugh-
ter make their home.
X \
The Minister of the Kingdom of
the Serbs. lCroats and Slovenes, DIR.
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Swiss Point Curtains
Special $3~95 pair

Brand-new Curtains offered now for
the first time in the Semi-Annual Sale.
Curtains that bring an undefinable air
of warm comfort and refinement to every
room in which they are used. And this
group is in a charming tint of ivory or
ecru with figured border.
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concert stage all members Of the
choir are engaged in other and
more gainfuI occupations.
The choir's American debut will
be made in New York at Carnegie
Hall on October 4, appearing In
Washington the next day. The real
purpose of the choir's visit Is to
demonstrate that Scotland today has
an intense regard for culture. a
feeling for beauty, and a love for
song.
Tickets are now available at Mrs.
Wilson-Greene's concert bureau, in
Droop's
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HEALTH CONGRESS
DELEGATES CONVENE

DR.. and Mrs. Carlos ]. Bello and
their daughter have arrived at the
Willard where they will spend sew.
eral weeks. Doctor Bello will rep.
resent Venezuela at the first Pan
American Conference of Directors
Of Public Health. which viii con.
vene here next Monday at the Pan
American Union.
DIR. Ramon Baez. jr., who win
represent the Dominican Republic
at the conference, has arrived in
Washington and is at the Willard,
where he will stay while in Was1-
ington.
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aotO Dy cliendinst

The latter are now in Constan.
tinople where Mr.. Belin was trans
ferred from the State Department
few months ago. Mr.. and Mrs.
Howell are recent arrivals in WASH
ington, having come from the
American legation in Prague. MIR.
Howell is now on duty in the State
Departmene.
The Military Attacbe Of the Japa.
nese Embassy entertained informal
ly at luncheon today on the Willard
roof.
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DOubLe-Fdced
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Luxurious grace and distinctive beauty
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hangings. And a selection can be made
from blue faced with blue, mulberry,
brown, rose, taupe and gold; also null
berry and brown or any other color
combination.
Curtain Section, Sixth floor.
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SAMUEL NORMAN
VIOLINIST, who has just re.
signed from the Willard Hotel
Orchestra. Mr.. Norman has for
IA years been leader and first
violin of this popular Meyer
Davis orchestra. All Washing.
ton, at both dinner ard dance,
has enjoyed him and will regret
that the call of business Is
taking him away from his ia.
miliar haunts.
NEW POLICY OF
MRS. WILSON-GREENE
Memorial Continental Hall, an
nounces Mrs. Wilson.Grene. will
be the scene Of four Of the six
concerts originally announced by
that manager for evening presenta-
ton.
The presentation of stars like
Tito Schipa. the Chicago Opera
tenor; Dusolina Giannini, soprano
The English Singers and Ossip
abrilowitsch, pianist; and the Gin.
cinnati Orchestra, in an auditor.
ium the size of the Washington
Auditorium. was not without its
drawbacks, according to the i'm
preSario.
Memorial Continental Hall, seat
ing nearly 1900 persons, is so ar
ranged as to give a feeling Of
warmth and intimacy that is ex
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pected to greatly enhance the pleas
ures of these four performances.
The other two concerts in Mrs.
Wilson. .Greene's evening series
CALI Curci and John Mccormack
who will appear here on February
and December 10, respectively, at
$3.50 o'clock, will be given at the
Washington Auditorium which IS
expected to prove none too large
for artists of such international
reputation and phenomenal draWlnS
power. 1t will probably be recalled
that last season McCormack's eve"
ming concert at the auditorium
drew a huge attendance even Ior
that great hall;
SCOTS CHOIR TO
OPEN MUSIC YEAR
News of the coming to Washing"
ton Of the famous Glasgow Orpheus
Choir-14O noGn and women singers
under the direction Of Hugh 5.
Robertson. It's founder-is unex-
pected and highly interesting. 1t is
the choir's first tour of the United
States.
The Glasgow Orpheus Choir Is
scheduled for Tuesday afternoon,
October 5. at 4:30 o'clock, at Polls
Theater, under the local manage
ment Of Mrs. Wilson Greene. So
far as is known. this is the first
major musical event Of the season
and augurs brilliantly for the
months that lie ahead.
Washington is one of % American
cities that will be visited by this
choir. Great interest attaches to
its appearance here not only due to
the choir's remarkable mastery OF
choral effects but through its prac-
tically unique organization.
The singers are all voluntary ar"
fists, receiving no fees of any kind
beyond travelling and hotel expenses,
and between appearances on the
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
WEDDING IN ST. MARGARET'S

The wedding Of Miss Elizabeth
Roberts Ramsburgh, daughter Of
Mrs. Edith Roberts Ramsburgh. and
the late DR.. Jesse Ramsburgh, and
Lawrence Lafayette Gourley, son
of Nathan Joiner Gourley and the
late Mrs. Gourley, Is taking place
this afternoon at 5 o'clock at st.
Margaret's Episcopal Church with
the rector, the Rev. DR.. Herbert
Scott Smith. officiating.
The brides brother, J. Stephen
Ramsburgh, will give her in mar
riage and she will have as her
attendants Miss Dorothy Roberts
Bierer, maid-of-honor, and Miss Vir-
ginia Thompson, Miss Persis Con.
rad, Miss Kitty Turner and Miss
Leslie Coyle. bridesmaids.
The bride is wearing a gown of
white satin fashioned with close
fitting bodice and full skirt having
a shadow flounce of tulle. 1t is
embroidered in pearls and has a
trimming of ribbon flowers. A veil
OF lace, an heirloom. falls to form
a train. She is carrying a shower
bouquet of brides roses and. lilies
of-the-valley.
The maid.of-honor is gowned in
orchid taffeta and lace made with
close fitting bodice and bouffant
skirt graduated longer in the back.
Her hat is a picture model In
brown velvet with tulle streamers
and she is wearing brown velvet
slippers.
The bridesmaids are wearing
frocks Of corn color taffeta fashion.
ed like that of the maid.of.hOnor
and their hats and slippers are also
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A. Tresitch- h-Pavitchitch, left town
today for New York, where he will
present Mr.. Nicola Tesla. the noted
scientist, with the Order of Saint
Sava, first degree, bestowed on Mr..
Tesla by King Alexandria, OF Serbia.
X %x
NEWCOMERS LEASE
HISTORIC EVERMAY
Mr. and Mrs Williamson Smith
Howell, jr., have leased "Evermay"
in Georgetown. from Mr.. and Mrs.
+. Lammot Belin for the winter.
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Notes On Homecoming Wanderers
BRITISH ENVOY
OFFFOR HOME
SAILS TODAY
Will Rejoin Lady Isa-
bella Howard
Abroad

The ambassador of Great Britain,
Sir Esme Howard, and his son,
Francis Howard. sailed today for
England on the steamship Beren-
garia and will later join Lady Isa-
bella Howard and the other mem
bers of their family. No date has
been set for the ambassadors re-
turn. The Hon. Herbert w, Brooks,
first secretary of the embassy, will
be charge d'affaires until the ar
rival of the counselor. Henry Getty
Chiffon, who, with Mrs. Chiffon, is
on his way home from holiday in
England.
The newly appointed ambassador
of Spain, Don Alexandra Padillo V
Bell, sailed from Spain Monday on
the Manuel Arnus.
The minister Of Panama. Dr. Don
Ricardo J. Alfaro, and Nine. Alfaro
and their family have arrived from
Panama, where they passed the
summer.
j The minister of Egypt, Mahmoud
Samy Pasha, Nine. Samy Pasha and
their children will return tomorrow
afternoon from Bluemont, Va.
REEDS STATIONED
IN GERMAN CAPITAL
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Lyndal
Reed, who have been at Madrid for
the summer, are on their way
thence to Berlin, where Mr.. Reed
will take up his new duties on
October !. The marriage OF Mr..
Reed, who is in the Foreign
Service, and Miss Caroline Story,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs, John P.
Story, jr., took place In Washing
ton in the spring.
X%&
Rear Admiral and Mrs. John c.
Boyd, who arrived in New York
on the Celtic from Europe, are at
the st. Regis Hotel for a few days
before coming to Washington.
\ X.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pinckney Tuck,
who have been living in Switzerland
since their marriage, are expected
in Washington in early December
for visit to her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. James M. Beck. Mr.. Tuck Is
consul at Geneva.
Evening star., 1926-08-22
Comedy Costlier. Etc.

MAKE them laugh is the order
- that has gone out through the
big studios" says Buster Keaton. "and
l look for a banner season this year
for photoplay comedy of all kinds.
"Of course, the public complains
that screen comedy is not always up
to par, and In many instances 1t
isn't There is no harder task in
screen prodIction than that of max
ing a laugi1 .satiated public hold its
sides. We -Four thousands of dollars
into comedy making now where we
formerly poured hundreds. and still
the public demands funnier pictures.
"The average feature comedy of
few years ago was really nothing
more than Il bit of slapstick and
gags The studio sets cost little,
and any street or park was good
enough location for exteriors. Those
days. however. are gone forever.
THE public now demands a really
funny story, lavish settings, a big
and frequently famous cast, and,
above all else. laughs. A lot of
waste footage will be endured in a
dramatic picture, but If a comedy let's
down for two minutes, they turn
thumbs down on it.
"A few years back we could turn
out a comedy for few hundred dol
lars and make 1t in a. week. Now
adays' it takes us six months, and
the story alone costs more than the
entire picture used to cost. That is
certainly true of my own production
OF Battling Butler and / know it's
true Of many others"
Evening star., 1926-08-22
Movie Hopes Make Varnish

THE movies now come forward with
the accusation that nearly every
other automobile is covered with a
broken heart
The statement is commercial rather
than sentimental. and has to Go with
one of the various processes through
which motion picture film passes.
At the Metro o-Goldwyn-Mayer studio
in Culver City, Calf. where more Aim
Is said to be consumed than at any
other place in the movie colony, 1t was
disclosed that tons of old celluloid--
mostly tests Of unsuccessful screen
plays. "close-ups'' of actors and
actresses that were deleted from pho
toplays. and scenes that didn't get into
the finished picture because they We're
too long or not good enough-are
baled and sold to a manufacturer OF
auto varnish.
The celuloid is dissolved in a prepa-
ration of acetone and forms the basic
of modern celluloid ename!s used on
automobiles. A large proportion of
the enamel used on cars today is made
from old film. In the process the sill
yer in the film Is first removed by
acid: the remaining celluloid is dis
solved and reappears under fanciful
names as auto varnish.
Evening star., 1926-08-22
Pictures and the STAGE.

only two minutes of entertainment
during the average day. Or in other
words. what YOU see Of kid Boots
on the screen In two minutes took us
to 10 and maybe Is hours of work
to produce.
And once it's on the screen, il you
don't like it, 1t can't be changed. 1t
was hard for me to get used to this
fact, for having played on the stage
for years l had learned to take sug.
geStions in changes. But on the
screen it's different. There isn't a
chance in the world to change any.
thing from one performance to the
next. for there isn't any next per-
formance. If it's wrong. or fails to
ring true, well, you're just out Of
luck.
In case you don't know any more
about what ''rushes" are than I did
three months ago, will explain that
after each days work. the film eX.
posed the day before is shown in the
projection room Of the studio. These
are 'rusheS'-a name derived, no
doubt, from the fact that 1t takes con-
siderable rushing about in the labora
tories to get them developed In time.
Now that I've finished my first pic
ture. l still hold to my conviction that
pictures offer greater possibilities for
portraying comedy than the stage.
And l intend to continue making
clean pictures, as I did clean stage
productions. I never said a line on
the stage that was ashamed to have
my wife and children hear, and I'll
never do anything on the screen that
! wouldn't want them to see.
Evening star., 1926-08-22
Winter Stock Announced.

the house owners decided 10 further
moderniZc IT, and extenSivH improve
ments We're modc last Winter. \ new
lobby ha. heep installed. the theatsr
has been rcdecoTdted, and q complete
ira nSfOi1nation has taken place
throughout tho interior. \ now
lighting system and improved stage
facilities arc installed now for tho first
time, the floors have been Carpetei
seven rows of seats have been dis
carded in the rear to allow for an
intimate promenade foyer. which is
shut off from the auditorium by heavy
velour drapes. Numerous other do
tails have been perfected to point
where a visit TO the thc1ter by those
familiar with it last Winter will as
tonish.
Manager Harris. Who twice visited
the Albee PLAYERS at Providence this
season. is convinced that in Director
Schofield he has the real nucleus Uf
Winter company that may prove in
StitutiOnal in Washington. Since late
Spring he and his associates have
been combing the stock Centtrs and
New York agencies for talent. MI
merouS ir:CrVIcVS with applicants
were made and numerous reflections
were made.
1t is said that tho company now in
prospect, numbering about - players.
is the flower ct a field of 200 players
interviewed. The names will he fur
nished for publication. later.
Season reservations will he allowed.
permitting patrons to retain the SAM
seats weekly without extra charge.
These reservations can be made now
by applying by mail to {. j. Harris,
President Theater
Evening star., 1926-08-22

r CMOR took to it's heels the past
week before the definite announce.
ment that Washington this Fall and
Winter will harbor a stock company
at the newly rebuilt President Thea.
ter. on Pennsylvania avenue at E,lev.
enth street.
Close to 0,OO0 has been spent on
this house within the last 10 months
provoking all sorts of guesSes as to
the reason.
The President will open Monday.
September 20. presenting What Price
Glory?" with a cast recruited from the
best stock and production talent OBJ
tainable. it is announced.
Clarence J. Harris, long identified
with the theater in Washington and
best remembered as n,anager for sew
eral years of Polls Theater here. will
manage the house. Charles l. Scho-
field. for nine Summers director OF
the Albee Players in Providence. r. L..
viii! direct In passing it might be
mentioned that the Albee Players have
enjoyed an uninterrupted residence in
Providence for 26 years. and its male
and feminine leads are considered
among the best in the business:
Popular prices will prevail-S1 top
at night, so cents for Wednesday
matinees and SO and rs cents for the
seen production on Broadway as re-
cent as last season will predomirate
in the play schedule.
The President Theater was prac
tically rebuilt following the Harvey
Restaurant fire. Stock and transient
plays and local productions followed
there in turn from time to time. Then
Evening star., 1926-08-22
By EDDIE CANTOR.

COCRTING the motion picture
camera is new and novel to me
| like it and. while at times I feel AL
most like a veteran motion picture
actor. I still retain the novice's in
1erest and feel the fascination Of the
newcomer to the screen.
The motion picture camera itself
does a lot of things didn't know it
and it can't be fooled When one
feels top of the world" the camera is
his friend; but when he doesnt-look
out. It's searching eye defies YOU to
hide from il the fact that last nights
sleep was unrestful. One of the first
things I learned was TO get to sleep
as early as possible and to get all
the rest the days work allowed.
Most people. I think. share nv late
belief that the camera is capable of
hiding about everything undesirable
and improving on all the good things.
After working in my first picture I've
been disilluSioned. On the stage l
learned that later hours left marks.
hut that they could be effaced with
makeup. The closeup shot of the
screen doesn't yield to this treatment.
however.
One of the things which surprised
and impressed me very much was the
time it takes to make a motion picture.
kid Boots" was actually In the max
ing about SO days in addition to
months of preparation and cutting and
editing When shown OF the screen
Il will run a little over one hour. That
means our company actually produced
Evening star., 1926-08-22
Literary Forms of Art.

and complete works OF art. And so
The motion picture scenario, which Is
now a working outline Of notes for
the director and the actors, can be
made into a definite literary form,
full of charm and beauty and poetry.
And when this. time comes the motion
picture will be interpreted not only
once, but by successive generations
Of actors. just as Hamlet and Camille
are interpreted and reirterpreted.
Il hope the time will come when
we will have a beautiful art of the
screen. do not mean by that an
art that is materially instructive or
intellectual.
PERSONALLY. I believe that the great
dramas and stories of the world are
dramas and stories that exist for
themselves alone. The great art stor.
les of the world have been the stories
that have stood for themselves alone.
The ''Iliad' and the odyssey" the
narrative poems of India and Persia
the Morse legends, "Niebelungenlied, ."
the Arabian Night" these are art
stories that stand for themselves
alone.
"When our scenario writer's do
these beautifully and will, technique
which | hope we will have then, we
shall have genuine art of motion
picture-an art we shall be proud of.
An art that will be handed down as
a contribution from Americas cinema
world
Evening star., 1926-08-22

Is the motion picture scenario des'
tined to become a literary form OF
art? Will the manuscript from which
II film is dramatized take it's place
alongside great dramatic contributions
that are handed down through the
centuries?
Edwin Carewe. the movie director of
Pals First" has some interesting
ideas on the subject.
Right now" says Carewe. Il be-
lieve we are in the same position as
the predecessors Of Shakespeare. Mar
lowe. Green and Peele, who forged
blank verse and the technique of the
ShakeSpea rean drama. We are forg-
ing a medium for some man of genius
who will succeed us. | believe it is
possible.
I'VE who work in tho silent drama
have artistic ideals and aspirations.
We have an enthusiasm for beauty
and for the production of fine things
that can be made on the screen. |
believe the time is coming when the
motion picture scenario will be classic
BERNARD Shaw has declared that the
scenario can become such. | am
glad nc has declared himself he
lieve that in time the scenario will
become a genuine literary form Of
art
THE plays preceding Shakespeare
are really notes for actors Succeed.
ing dramatists have elaborated the
notes until their plays are intricate
Evening star., 1926-08-22
Sang at Samoa.

ETHAEL ALBERTINI, the Italian
~ prima donna of broadway Brev-
tiles" who is making her debut in
burlesque this season. says she once
sang to a mixed audience in Pago-
Pago, in the Samoan Islands, where
the ship on which she was passen-
ger stopped en- route from the Far
East to Australia. to the strangest
audience of her career. 1t comprised
white officials, planters and traders.
and a large number of the Polynesian
grandees Of the islands.
Songs were what the natives en-
loved most, she says, and Il was not
the topical songs that seemed to de.
light them most. but those from the
opera and the classics.
Mile. Albertini sings in three Ian
guages beside English-1talian, Span
ish and French. She is an italian by
birth, and this is her first season in
f,olurphia hNr1eSO1e
Evening star., 1926-08-22
From Overseas.
A.~~~lAtAA pHnam

BY the Associated Press.
CACHA GUITRY, the French actor
- dramatist, who won great success
in London with his musical play. MO
zart," performed in French. says he
has decided that he will never permit
another of his plays to be translated
into any foreign language.
II have learned TO my sorrow what
translators do 70 ones work. de-
clared Guitry. II have seen my work
butchered. and have finally decided
that my plays must be acted IN
French or not at all
Premier Stanley Baldwin's eldest
son. Oliver. has written a play. enti'
tied "The One Talent" which Is to be
produced this Fall by Sir Frank Ben
son, the veteran actor.manager. who
arranged 26 Of the annual Shakespeare
festivals at Stratford.on.Avon.
The play Is said to be controversial.
but 1t has no sex interest. Oliver
Baldwin is in his early thirties.
Ruth -Draper's great success in Lon
don as a "one.man show" has pro.
voked wide comment among dramatic
writer's as to how many entertainers
there are who can hold single.handed
an audience spellbound for an entire
aftern oon or evening. Will Rogers,
Sir Harry Lauder and Miss Draper
have been rather generally selected as
those who could hold the undivided
attention Of any English.speaking au-
dience for two hours.
Actors with established London rep
utations used to refuse to play in the
provinces. But that was in the days
when London theaters were more
prosperous. Nowadays many famous
actors are delighted to get engage
ments with companies touring the
larger provincial cities. for there Is
more money for actors in the prov
inces than in the capital.
In the early Autumn a single Lon.
don producer will send out Is road
companies. headed by we'll known
stars. Oscar Asche, Violet Vanbrugh
Eva Moore. Ethel Irving and many
others are now on tour. and Autumn
will find Matheson Lang. Marie Lohr,
Arthur Bourchier, Fred Terry, Julia
Nelson, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Viola
Tree. Sybil Thorndike. Sir John Mar.
tin Harvey and Henry Ainley in the
provinces with recent London sue
cesses.