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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
D|RECT-TO-BR|DGE
ROAD FIGHT IS ON
Organization to Continue Its
Efforts al Clarendon
Meeting Tuesday.

The fight of the newly organized
"Stra ght to the Bridge Boulevard AS
ISOLATION for due consideration by
the proper authorities of the merits
of the so-called Taylor avenue route
for probable designation as the route
of the proposed Lee boulevard and
for "a direct route to the Memorial
Bridge for Clarendon, Bailston and
territory contiguous, regardless OF
which route is finally selected, VIII
be continued at meeting to be held
in Clarendon Citizens Hall Tuesday
night.
A letter sent by committee of the
association to several hundred citizens
of communities mentioned above, IN
forming them of the meeting ana
urging their attendance, asks: W hen
the Memorial Bridge is opened four
wears from now. how are you ana tne
other people Of Clarendon, Ballston
and nearby sections going to get TO
it?'
Continuing the letter states:
we have all been hoping that the
Lee boulevard will be routed TINS way.
That would he very happy solution.
However, il is no secret that on next
Wednesday evening. at the Nashlhs
ton Auditorium, different route Will
be announced.
Must Have Approach.
at is. therefore, incumbent upon
the neonle of this section to secure ny
their OWN efforts the direct approach
10 Memorial Bridge which thelr III
terests render imperative. Clarendon
and Ballston and large portions OF
other adjoining communities cannot
afford to be left in pocket
1.-The securing of such a direct ap-
nroach TO the bridge presents no III III,
surmountable difficulties, nut IL WIN
require prompt and concerted dctioil
on the part of the citizens. lnere -
raa sonable assurance that the DrloSe
acr,mission will build the road from
tho bridge north of the cemetery wal
and to the western boundary OF lhe
military reservation. The county au'
thorities should he prevailed upon ~
condemn the necessary ground LOT tiie
extension of TAYLOR avenue 10 tie mn
itarv reservation. where IL Woulo lii'T,
The bridge road. Taylor avenue Siioul"
ho similarly extended from It's pres
ont western terminus at w iSoil
hn,,favard To some suitable point on
the Garrison road. from when POM
rhe way is already open as lal a.
Falls Church 10 an lnteFSettioll w.
he present Lee highway. ms r1utc
once opened, would be but le" M ,
dred cards longer than straight me
between Falls Church and the NE.
mortal Bridge and would he the n pest
route to Washington tor an lfle peo'
Mo in the territory which Il traVerses
once the right of way for t ms
ro,,te is provided, there Is reasonaple
assurance that the state Hlghw WAY
Commission could be induced 10 ,aht
II over and improve it under Feqera
aid It is known that the Lee Hlgh
way Association hopes to have the
route which it selects improved in TINS
very manner OF course, the state
would not feel justified IN taxing oNei
ho+b roads 1t is, therefore. up tt
the people of this section to take
nrompt action in order that they ma!
not lose the benefit which Is rlghtl1
theirs of the assistance of the state
and Federal Governments in improV
ing their highway approach to the
new bridge.
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MAGIC ON
THE STRAND
STAGE

eThe Strand this week offers an
unusual novelty in the presenta-
ton of His Magic Wand by
Walter Fehl and company. Mr..
Fehl and his company OF music
ians. first mistify you by means
of clever stagecraft, and then
generously add musical enter
tainment with their orchestra,
which appears to spring into be.
ing from the very air
Other numbers on the program.
were Olive Briscoe and Al Rauh,
comedians. in a skit entitled
Conquered" Elizabeth Kennedy
and Sister, in Character I'm
pressions' elizabeth, by the way,
is some little impersorator); Al
len Calm and Charles Gale; two
born comedians in songs and
dances, and Gladys and Venus
Portia, in a contortionist offering
They are aptly billed the Worlds
Greatest Flexible Maryels,
In the screen offering "Coun-
sci for the Defense" the story Is
portrayed by an unusually good
cast headed by Betty Compson,
supported by Jay Hunt and House
Peters. Counsel for the De-
Tense is dramatic romance
wherein a newspaper editor and
a determined girl battle TO free
an honest old man, and win.
Concluding the program are the
usual short film features,
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at Loew's Palace this week-then
I'll out the coupon and send It to
the Masked Players G N $ {
Editor.
First prize winner will receive
$500 in gold. Other awards are
as follows:
Beautiful brown fox scarf
from Saks' Fur Company, 6IO
Twelfth ST.. valued at $50; lady's
solid gold wrist watch. from Cas-
telberg's National ,.Jewelry Com
pany. 935 Pennsylvania Ave,
valued at $50: portraits valued
at $50 from Cinedinst Studio,
733 Fourteenth st. II. w. silk
robe, from the Mode. cIothiers.
hatters and furnishers, and
Eleventh Streets Northwest. val
ued at SIS: Radiola No. 8, with
tubes and batteries. from j. Fred
Huber, 1922 g ST, valued at $25;
misses dress, from Stevens. 1i3
q st. N. W., valued at SIS; lady's
Gage Landgkok sport hat, valued
at SIS, from Creeron Millinery
Company, specialists on extra
large head size hats, 614 Twelfth
St-~N. w: Atwater Kent loud
speaker. from Harry G. Grove,
Inc, 1910 q st. N. W.. valued
at $1T.50: complete golf set. from
Sport Mart Store. 1903 F. st. II.
w, valued at SIS: misses dress
from Grayson Apparel Company.
917 F st. n, W., valued at Sl5:
small Cuban poodle. male or fe-
male, valued at SIS, from
Schmid's Bird Shop, 712 Twelfth
ST. N. w; one-half dozen pairs
Coral Band hosiery, from KAT
ka's, r Street at Tenth Street
Northwest. valued at ST.; cleo
trio toaster9 from G.. Schneider's
Sons, 1920 g st. N. W., valued
at So: lady's hat box. from Ber-
mans Tannery. 1902 r st. ~. W.,
valued at S.; gentleman's dress
shirt. from Nachmans. 1928
Fourteenth st. N w, valued at
So; 100 pairs Of tickets for Loew's
Palace
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her home. She starts to cry and
beats snice. A flash and its
out. but YOU remember il.
All this is the necessary back
ground for the Blackbird and his
brother, the bishop, conductor of
a gospel mission. Imagine CLANCY,
the hard boiled crook, with a
cruel. dissipated face--the next
minute he's the patient, sad, Grip
pied bishop. beloved of the slums.
When the Blackbird steals enough
for one evening. he comes to the
mission by a secret door,
dresses in churchly garment
throws a couple of joints out, ana
presto! he's the bishop. But the
director gets balled up in trying
to show the fbetter and the worse
side Of the BlaclIbird.
The Adoree girl again shows
reason why she should be glitter
ing III the fillum sky. Her part,
as the pub" dancer is all wool
and a .kilometer wide. The sup.
porting cast, among which is
owen Moore, is quite capable.
In raw words, the picture has
its faults, but is well worth
seeing
There is comedy that
liked and q newsreel showing how
good public men aren't, as ac-
tors. Professor Gannon's orcises-
ira served an excellent dinner of
music. w.
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PUPS
AND OTHERS
AT EARLE

The Earle offering of this
week embraces wide scope in
vaudeville, some of whcih is of
more than average merit. One
especially interesting and ap-
pealing act is real old time
troupe of remarkably we'll
trained hounds and poodles,
Meehan's CANNES, which offer
a pleasant contrast to the
usual ultra modern jazz per
formances.
The Charleston syncopators
contribute a very effective must
cal and dance carnival with
Gladys Darling and George Raft
as exceedingly able opponents of
this latest craze A welcome de-
parture from the usual run of
comedy is introduced by Anthony
and Rogers 1.-TWO Retired Ba.
mana Merchants'D who deservedly
win considerable applause. The
Novelties. seven song and dance
artists have arranged an elaborate
act featuring Trivial and Maslen,
human tops
Nick Lucas, grooming troubador.
with his steel guitar quite takes
the house by storm with the new
est song hits, including Irving
Berlin's latest ballad Always
lie is heralded as an exclusive
Brunswick recording artist. Men.
netti and June please the not too
exacting with some coarse mons
sense. and Alexander Arons, con-
cert organist, keeps to the spirit
of the syncopation program with
an excellent jazz medley
Fifth Avenue" the film re-
lease, features Marguerite, de La
Motto, Louise Dresser and Alan
Forrest, portrayal, of which is ex-
cellent. though the story Is not
up to the Earle's usual clean ana
wholesome standard of photo
play. The News reel and appro-
pirate music by the Earle or
chestra, Floyd Wheeler. conduct
ing, complete the bill.-H. IS.
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identity of the five masked play
ers will be in the form of pic
lures they appeared in.
Look these oyer-then youm
have valuable aid when you
go this week to Loew's Palace,
with a coupon clipped from this
paper, guess the masked actors
and actresses and write slogans
for them. Send them in to the
Masked Players Contest Editor
and see if you can't win one OF
those big prizes.
five players:
NtNnber one you saw in Three
WeeiN," His Hour" and THE
Only Thing and also in THE
Mystic. .
Number Two you saw recently
in The White Desert. She's
newlywed, by the way, and her
husbands famous actor.
Number Three is little French
,,irl who was a famous dancer
befoIe she went on the screen,
and whose popularity has jumped
q hundred per cent since she
played in 'The Big Parade"
Number Four is a slim girl who
scored in THE Way of Girl, "
Proud Flesh THE Circle" AMI
TIE Only Thing"
Number F'ive-the male star
appeared with a brunette star In
the second group in "A Slave Of
Fashion" and also has been seen
recently In Time the Comedian, .
So This is Marriage" and Man
and Maid
Here's an additional clue Num-
Der Three. Number Four ami
Number Five all appeared to
gether In IAN Exchange OF
Wives Number Five was mar
lied to Number Four and traded
Number Four for Number Three.
sharpen your wits on that
Clip the coupon, which runs
daily In this newspaper and be
sure and see the masked players
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white Cargo, The Bird of Para
disc" and Rain" with incl
dental "reminiscences from one
hundred other plays, books and
pictures. How the piece ever
negotiated a several months run
in New York combats under
standing The acting is terrifi.
cally BAD. excluding the work of
Mary Ann Detler, as Aloma, who
does contrive fairly straight
approach to the demands of her
role; a role wherein the native
girl falls in love with the DISCO
lutte but idealistic white man and
accomplishes through some witch
cries unknown to the Kelley In
stitute, his reformation in three
weeks.
There is incidental music of
the Hawaiian type, a few hula
dances to give the downtrodden
customers something for the
money; after that the deluge and
will II o'clock never come?
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NATIONAL
Newman Talk.

f. NJ. Newman yesterday CON
cluded his entertaining series of
traveltalks with a visit TO Lon
don and "Rambles through Eng.
land and Scotland" Ii is an am
bilious task 10 attempt to cover
the British Isles i'm one short lee
'ure. but Newman made no pre-
tense of doing the country
thoroughly and his choice of points
OF interest to Americans was in.
deed praiseworthy.
We were particularly impressed
by the Shakespeare country and
the bonnie doons and lochs of the
Highlands. 1t was a distinctly
literary tour with stops at, the
birthplaces or tombs of many of
England's great poets and writ
ers. Particularly interesting was
theverv inh where Tam O'Shanter
imbibed too freely and the church
ward where he saw the devil.
London with all its familiar
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FUNNY FELLOWS
OWN THE KEITH
BILL

can think of none of my
comparatively sane acquaint-
ances who would fail to find
the current weeks bill at Keith's
over the average in entertain
ment. What the bill hasn't got,
Roland Robbins doesn't know
about. And he lis popularity
ascribed to know more about
vaudeville than anyone else in
the world.
Well, sir, the high spot on the
program for your correspondent
was Dave Apollon RUSSIAN name)
in his Fantastic Revue He
has with him a Philippine stringed
orchestra, Miss Emily Fitzgerald
and Miss Marjorie Lane. talented
and beautiful dancers. Miss Lane
contributed a remarkable muscle
control bit.
Jimmy Hussey. assisted by
Eddie Hickey, has an act called
Getting a Ticket written for
him by Eddie Cantor. Jimmy
was better than the act--far bet
ter, and | am surprised at Mr..
Cantor. Then Mr. Hussey sang
q couple of songs in his own
tngratiating manner, and they
went over big.
Jack McLallen. with Sarah and
Fred Sanborn, offers the funniest
act on the bill. Sanborn is an
accomplished xylophonist.
Harriet Rempel, with some as
sistants, appears in Broadcast
ings OF 1926" written for her by
Paul Mccullough. gag man Of
Clark and Mccullough. Miss
Rempel is good. and the act is
genuinely humorous.
Lois Bennett, pretty, demure
and graceful, with the added
charm Of beautiful voice, sang
and sang. and everybody clapped
and c1apped. Her partner. George
B. Mckay, also did a little sing
ing.
What else have we? Potter
and Gamble, in kid costumes,
singing. with the lady doing
some clever dancing; the Worden
Brothers, juggling, and the Ref
fenach family on horseback.
Aesop's Fable. Topics. Pathe.
Freddy Clark. Exit march. Go
zee II. j. r.
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by offering a hewildering array
OF perfect and near perfect types
of glorious womanhood.
Arrayed in gowns of splendor
and alternating before our eyes
in dazzling one-piece bathing suits,
they dash madly through the
themes Of love and business upon
which the plot is founded and
leave us at the finish puzzled as
to just what it is all about.
The story revolves about the
efforts OF two rival manufac-
turers TO place their products Of
face creams before the public.
Each hits upon the scheme of
picking the winning beauty at
the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant
and through the winner advertise
their wares. Slight as it is, the
plot serves as an excuse for the
introduction of many beautiful
women sporting the very latest
creations in the world of fashion.
Much Of the action of the piece
takes place at Atlantic City and
boardwalk and beach of that re-
sort are turned into backgrounds
for the lovely ladies'. There are
times during the course of the
picture when one meets with a
thrill or two, but mainly it is
strictly screen effort devoted to
and exploiting the girlies.
In the cast are Fay Lanphier,
who won first honors and was
crowned Miss America at the
bathing beauty contest last Sep
TENDER; Esther. Ralson, Ernest
Terrence, Ford Sterling. Douglas
Fairbanks, jr., Lawrence Gray,
Edna May Oliver, w. T. Benda,
and a number of real bathing
beauties.
Other features on the program
includes the current release OF
the International News Reel,
short comedy and the' usual ex-
cellent musical features by the
Columbia concert orchestra.
H. S.
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can not possess. Such picture,
IL it may possibly be called that,
can not be described; it can but
be recommended.
The colorfuI, if aged, William
Tell serves as the opening over
ture, and Director Guterson leads
his men successfully through the
storm to a glorious finish. Well
done. A few minutes breathing
spell is taken up by the Inter
national Newsreel, foremost Of
which is New Yorks recent biz
gard, and then, a real delight.
Marie MacQuarFie and her Harp
Ensemble is it. Seven young
ladies and seven harps produce
some of the most fascinating
music heard in Washington in
some time. Stella Hymson, So
prano, abets the offerings with
sn aria, and the Rialto manage
ment is TO be congratulated upon
its wise choice Of such a charm.
ing fantasy.
Ao 1CdAS d6O II "A 81
Year came into being at the
hands of Frank Craven as the
best comedy then on the legiti-
mate stage. This week it reaches
the screen via the Rialto, still re-
tanning its quaint slant on the
first year OF domesticity. Whether
il is a really convincing argu-
ment that 1.-The first year is the
hardest depneds upon many
things, but it is safe to say, that
whether this a criterion of all
first years" or not, il serves as
an amusing and funny piece OF
fiction. most suitably adapted to
the screen. There is not much
TO it except trouble, separation,
success and reconciliation, with
numerous little hOmely touches all
TOO familiar to those who have
endured the first year. Matt
Moore and Kathryn Perry head
the cast, not one of unusual dis
tinction, but certainly sufficient
II is directed by Frank Borsage,
with care and much considera-
ton. l.. L. +.
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GOings-On
IN THE THEATERs-

I'm The 1nEt4 Ak1ksk9--
NATIONALS Suzanne, musical
comedy. $40.
KEITHS Jimmy Hussey: Jack
McLallen; others: 2:15 and SIS.
EARL E. Syncopation W k;
vaudeville and films. Contin
PRESIDENT-Film, The Lost
Battalion"
STRAND-Magic and music:
uous 1880 to IL.
WARDMAN RK-Herber
Players in THE Lady Next
Door, S:20
GAYETY-"F'lapper of 1925: bur-
lesque. 2:15 and S:15.
METU L." Make it Poppy; bur-
lesIue. 2:3O and 500.
RILATO-"The First Year" stage
features. 1925, 1925, 3:35, 5:3o,
T:S5 aid 9:45.
METROPOLITAN-"The Road to
Yesterday: solos, 1916, 1920,
2:20. APO. 5:55, 1855 and 10.
PAL.ACE-Lon Clancy in The
Biackhird.'' 1925, 1:25, 3:35,
5:35, 1895 and 9:45.
COLUM BIZ A-"The American
Venus 1856, 1916, $50, 4:25,
6:1G, 1856 and $50
TIVOI4I-"L Little Annie Rooney
1880. $3.50, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:45.
AMBASSADOR-"The Road TO
Yesterday" s, 7:50 and $40.
CENTRAL-"Rose of the World.
1890, 2. $3.50, 5. $50, s and 9:f0.
SAVOY-"Lights of Old Broad
way"
AVENUE GRAND-"Clothes Make
the Pirate"
APOLLO-"The Fool
YORk-"Old Clothes"
HOME-''Lovers in Quarantine.
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and that in good measure, the
people. You get their crassness,.
their vulgarity, passionate loves
and deadly hates; it makes you
laugh and hate and fear with
them. You're shocked and you
like it.
The types are excellent-slink-
ing Cinnamon, hard-faced thieves,
dissolute, aIe-swilling old women,
and all the rest of the crew to
make little chills run up and
down your backbone. There is
one in particular, a bit, in which
very young girl has decided to
be very bad: she paints and
dresses like a street walker. but
is clean at heart--a MY among
leprous sunflowers. if you get
what / mean. In the bit, she is
going with Chinaman. when
the Blackbird stops her and sends
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Rose of the World" a film
version of the novel by Kathleen
Norris, is featured at Crandall's
Central the first two days of this
week. with Patsy Ruth Miller
heading the cast. The story is
one Of misplaced trust. fiery tenn
pers and bonds clipped uneX-
pectedly by Fate. permitting love
to find it's way. The comedy is
slippery Feet in which Bobby
Vernon is the star.
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TIVOLL
Little Annie Rooney"

Mary Pickford stars at Gran
dall's Tivoli the first two days
of this week in Little Annie
Rooney" an original film play
by Katherine Hennessey, sug-
gested by the old song. In this
subject the star reverts to the
type OF characterization upon
which her most enduring fame
and popularity are based-.hat
of a little hoyden who falls in
love and wins her man despite
gang fights, and battles, or what
have you? William Haines Is
Miss Jickford's leading man.
The program is augmented by
Pathe Review and Topics OF
the Day"
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AMBASSADOR
'ROad to Yesterday"

Joseph Schildkraut, Vera Revn-
olds, William Boyd. Jetta Gou-
dial. Julia Faye and Trixie
Friganza appear in Cecil B. De-
Miles magnificent production of
Beulah Marie Dix's play. The
Road to Yesterday" at CrandalI's
Ambassador the first three DAYS
or the present week. 1t is fully
reviewed in connection with
Crandall's Metropolitan.
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sights. the picturesque East End
and the Ritzy West End. and
visit to the wonder exhibition at
Wembley were a few OF the other
high lights Of the last and We
thought, best OF the Newman pic
lures. L. p
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hereabouts has been satisfactorily
Indictment for me and L can't get
excited about a tempest maneuV-
cred by the stage-hands' union
"Aloma'' is a congIomerate mess
of .sThe Man Who Came Back
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A MEDIOCRE BLEND OF
OLD. OLD STUFF
By HAROLD PHILLIPS

If compensate you for enduring
several hours of acting bad play Aloma OF the
South Seas" may merit nod from you with the further
provso hiatt heavy and uninvng your
hands mad there's Personally the weather
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MR.. CLANCY AND. MUCH
DEVIL;TRY

Backbird Palace Theater, showing
tive phzzes Of Lon CLANCY Adoree jewel
ioy forever laid the Lmehouse section
London somewhat New York Bowery It doesn't
buildings of Limehouse, but it does show
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FIVE MASKED PLAYERS
TO SHARPEN YOUR
WITS ON

Here's chance pictures and players together and make
payi
The third of the four masked The Times MASKED
Player Contest being this week the daily program az
the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-08
BEACH NYMPHS FIT
THROUGH VENUS

colorfu background
Of animation threatens oyershadow the plot
Of the the Columbia Theater this week
Invading long held sacred to Flo Zegfe this Paramount
production, thunder
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AMUNDSEN LOG ADDS
THRILL AT RLALTO

doubts that Truth than fiction"
there proof him the
excellence
picture of Ellsworth
the thrill and that
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Mc
Greatest January
in HiStOTy|

Announcement of tremendous price
reductions and vital improvements
was followed by the greatest January
III Dodge Brothers history.
Retail sales for the four weeks ending
January 31st were 14,943, an increase
of GA per cent over the same period
of 1925.
Midsummer business in january
When the drastic reductions went into
effect, Dodge Brothers, Inc. said frankly
that they were offering the greatest
values in their history.
How well the public realizes that'thcso
reallyARE the greatest values is proved
IN definite and emphatic way by tho
remarkable record for January.
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OF
DOGS URGED BY
STATE HEALTH DEPT.

Helena, Feb. 1O.-With the idea of
preventing any possible spread of the
rabies, following a recent outbreak at
Belgrade, requests will be sent out
within a few days to all town and
city councils of the communities of
Montana by DR.. w. J. Butler, state
veterinarian, and DR.. w. F. Cogs-
well, secretary of the state board of
health, that ordinances be passed re-
curing the vaccination of all dogs.
There is no cause for alarm in this
state because of the present situation,
according to DR.. Butter, who explained
that the request is to be made for
the purpose Of preventing any stu
alton which may cause alarm in the
future.
The request for vaccination is
prompted, however, by the fact that
recently a dog affected with the ra-
bies bit five people at Belgrade. The
bites upon two person drew blood and
it was necessary for them to take