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MIR. FIXIT
Coal Man viii Not Ven
ture Down CinderIeSS
Alleys,

Let Mr.. Fixit present your case to
city officials. He is The Times. repre-
at The Times.
Garbage collectors and coal men
decline to face the rigors of passage
down the alley between Marker st.
and Barth Ave, a correspondent Of
Mr.. Fixit wrote today:
DEAR MIR. FIXIT: Last winter
the city officials promised to put Gin
ders in the alley between Marker
ST. and Barth Ave-, but they never
did. This winter it is in such a ter
rible condition that no machine can
get through, not even the garbage
and sanitary trucks, and no coal
man will deliver us any coal because
every one that tried got stuck and
had to be pulled out. We own prop.
erty and pay big taxes. We believe
we are entitled to a few cinders.
PROPERTY OWNER.
OF course you're entitled to Gin
ders and you'll have them as soon
as possible.
DEAR MR.. FIXIT: Will ask you
to play Santa Claus for us. We
wish you to get the city to place
fire alarm box at or near e. Gar
fed DIR. new streets and Raymond
and Shelby SITS. When can they
place one? J. L. II.
William Griffis, board of safety
electrical engineer, will investi-
gate.
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WESTCHESTER, Pa. Dec. 81
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dred million dollars is required to re-
store the American Navy to its place
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premacy, Thomas S. Butler (Rep.),
chairman of the House Naval Affairs
Committee, asserted in a statement.
Butler, at his home here for the
holidays. reiterated his plea for a
gigantic naval program. He an
nounced he would press his fight for
adoption of the naval affairs commit
tee fleet plans.
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Evening star., 1926-04-11
Erich Won Stroheim.

gained reputation that almost
proved his undoing, pictorially speak
ing. later on.
But his successful performance in
The Unbeliever, won him an en-
gagement with D. W. Griffith in
Hearts of the World" A similar en-
gagement followed with THE Hun
Within" The late Allen Holubar then
engaged him as deail expert on The
Heart of Humanity" and gave him
the biggest part he had to that time
played.
shortly after THE Heart of Hu
manity" was completed the armistice
was signed and Won Stroheim, with a
reputation for playing particularly
"Hunnish" roles, found himself drug
on the market. The war was over
and German officers were no longer
needed.
Then followed nine months which
alomst resulted in starvation before
he summoned sufficient courage to tell
story he had in mind to Universal
officials. They were impressed and he
was engaged to write, direct and star
in Blind Husbands
Since then he has. written the
stories and continuities for The
DEVILS Pass Key" Foolish Wives,
Merry Go Round and The Merry
Widow" and the continuity Of
Greed" which he adapted from
Frank Norris story, "McTeague." He
made the production plans in their
entirety for all of them, directed all
hut one and personally appeared as
the star of one. SO. though his pic
lures have been few, his work has
been of greater proportions than
would appear on the surface.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Cartoonist Now Director.

Gregory La CavA, who eight months
ago joined the ranks of Paramount
directors on a picture-to-picture basis
has been signed to a two-year con
tract. His first picture. under the
new arrangement, will be the w. G.
Fields picture, SOS Your Old Man,
based on Julian Streets prize story
Mr.. Bisbees Princess"
La Cava proved his directorial
ability on the two latest Richard Din
comedies. "Womanhandled" and
Lets Get Married" He is now di
recting a third Dix production. Take
a Chance" in which Chester Conklir
and Alyco Mills support the star
Prior to becoming Dix's director, La
Cava filmed the stunt sequences ir
THE Shock Punch" and The Lucky
Devil earlier Dix hits.
Twelve years ago La Cava was a
cartoonist on the New York Evening
| World and the Sunday Herald. This
led him to experiment with animated
cartoons on the screen, and largely
due to his efforts this type of short
subject attained considerable vogue
! his films being featured on the pro
grams of the Rialto and Rivoli Thea
ters in New York. He was director
in-chef for four years of the Hearst
International Comic Films. then wrote
and directed the Lloyd Hamilton and
Jack White comedies
He adapted the "Torchy" stories fol-
Johnny Hines, and also wrote the
film version of Hines Sure Fire
Flint Then followed a series OF
Charlie Murray two-reel comedies
which he wrote and directed. Feature
productions for which La Cava has
earned directorial credit include Chic
Sales The School Teacher" and
"Restless Wives"
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Juniors Still on the Job.

A LII but two of the Paramount
= Junior stars are now working be-
fore the cameras.
Walter Goss has a role in Gloria
Swanson's Fine Manners" Charles
Brokaw has bit in the same pic
ture. Charles Buddy Rogers has been
loaned to Fox to play the lead in a
picture and has gone to Hollywood,
and Jack Luden. who recently re-
turned from Florida. where he ap-
peared in w. c. Fields IT'S the Old
Army Game" has been loaned TO F.
B. o. and also has gone West.
Six of the girls and four of the boys
are working in d. w. Griffith's "The
Sorrows of Satan" They are Jose
phine Dunn. Jeanne Morgan, Dorothy
Nourse, Iris Grey, Ivy Harris, Thelda
Kenvin, Robert Andrews, Claude Bu-
chanan, Irving Hartley and Greg
Blackton. Mona Palma is i'll with in
fluenZa.
Thelma Todd, whose screen debut
was made in Fascinating Youth,
now that she has become a profes-
Sional actress by virtue of A 5-year
contract TO play in Paramount films,
will make her home in New York to
be near the Long Island studio. Her
parents will make their home with
their daughter.
Before entering the school, Thelma
Todd was studying at the Lowell,
Mass, Normal School in preparation
for teachers career.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Venus de Milo De Trop.

Wadsworth spoke of "a perfect
woman nobly planned" and if you
had asked him what was his exact
conception of the perfect woman ne
would very likely have had to stutter
a poetic answer. But MIR. WayDurn
is a disciple of the exact sciences
even in matters of femininity.
Let us take, for example. four OF
the many young ladies whom l am
grooming for slardom-Nirginia Ba'
con, Olive Brady, Beatrice Roberts
and Helen Fables" says Mr.. way.
burn. They are representative OF
thousands of others clamoring for
theatrical recognition today. In each
case YOU will find that the girl. al
though fully matured TO the point OF
standing comparison. seldom comes up
to the buXomness of Venus de MILO.
The neck. the bust, the waist, hips,
thigh. calves and ankles are lnvarl'
ably smaller than those of the stat
uesque lady.
THE measurements Will range from
an inch to an inch-and half smaller in
the neck. The bustS suffer approx
mately the same loss by comparison.
The waist and the hips of these girls
are far below those of Venus, while
the thighs and especially the calves
and the ankles show the slightest
of the differences.
THE heights" continued Mr.. Way
burn, ARE another matter. for Venus
would not measure up to the modern
girl. who is from ] TO inches taller
Evening star., 1926-04-11

THOUGH he is accounted the peer
Of all motion picture directors. and
is included by the most conservative
among the four leading craftsmen OF
the screen, Erich Won Stroheim has
been associated with fewer motion
pictures than any other top rank dl-
rector.
Bearing out the statement, Won
Stroheim, now in his eleventh year
Of motion picture work, has been con
nected with only Is productions dur
ing that time. And of these IL. hve
were directed by him. for five he
wrote stories and for six he wrote
the continuities and made all prepa-
:ations incidental to production.
1t was in 1914 that Won Stroheim
made his entry into the film world
as an assistant to John Emerson in
the production OF "Old Heidelberg.
In which he also played the part OF
Lutz, valet to the prince. That he
was given such an important po-
Rition in motion pictures without prev
ious experience, was due to his knowi-
edge of European customs and court
etiquette.
He then assisted in the production
of Macbeth" starring Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree; THE Social Secre-
tary." and "Panthea.' starring Norma
Talmadge; Less Than the Dust.
starring Mary Pickford. and In
Again out Again" and His Picture
in the Papers" starring Douglas Fair
banks.
lie played parts in For France"
and The Unbeliever." II was in the
latter picture that he first attracted
attention as German officer and
Evening star., 1926-04-11

WHEN the villainous father used to
w send his erring daughter out
into the storm in the old fashioned
melodrama, a stage hand, seated on a
stepladder, would dash a bucketful Of
bits of paper through the open door.
Thus was stage snow. The hoop
skirted and gathered public would gasp
its appreciation of the realism.
Today more critical public stonily
refuses to react to paper snow. Stage
and screen directors found out this
fact several years ago. A storm of
paper snow. even in the earliest days
of the movies. would arouse storm
OF protest at such patent trickery.
So the paper was abandoned. Play
rights and scenario writer's, however.
refused to abandon the snowstorm.
As they continued to write snow
scenes. property men had TO cast
about for a substitute for snow.
The movies. particularly, demanded
a. more realistic substance. The mo-
ton picture camera. 1t was found. was
sure to discover and portray decep-
tion.
In answer. the property men con-
coctcd a new mixture which was used
for several years as the best Substi-
tute for real snow. It's chief constitu'
ent was coarse salt. With this was
mixed asbestos for fiakiness and mica
for iridescence. It was fairly success
full. In banks and on the ground 1t
looked almost perfect. There was still
however, the difficulty of achieving
the effect of falling snow.
An imaginative salesman of a
breakfast cereal factory in Wilkes
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Eastward the Flight.

PARAMOUNT players and exec
utives are in the midst OF hegira
from Hollywood to New York. Some
have gone. others are on the way. and
more are going to turn their backs on
California temporarily for business or
pleasure In the metropolis.
One Of the first to leave was Alice
| Joyce. She departed for New York
city Immediately after completing her
work In Beau Geste," directed by
Herbert Brenon. She is to do her next
picture at the Famous Players.Lasky
Long Island studio.
Dorothy earns and James Shelley
| Hamilton, of the scenario department,
are packing their trunks preparatory
to crossing the continent. Miss earns
is to search for new story material
and Hamilton is TO do important screen
writing.
Allan Dwan will leave Hollywood as
soon as he completes cutting Pad
| locked" His next production will be
made at the Long Island studio.
| Warner Baxter has been loaned by
| Paramount to First National for the
| leading role in "Mismates" to be di
rected by Charles Brabin. He will
leave shortly for two months in New
York,
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Gold Got Him.

ROBERT DONAHUE. photographer
of the Pathe News, who went to
Red Lake. Ontario, where he got
some graphic scenes of the modern
klondike and himself fell before the
lure Of gold, is back again. .
Donahue, with his camera equip
ment, alighted in a snoWdrift at Hud'
son, $50 miles from Red Lake, in the
dead of night He found lodging In
a bunkhouse, the lone hotel in town
of AZ people and slept that night on
the top tier of row of hunks four
high. He started via dog sled train
from Hudson the next morning, but
found the going so slow that he had
the dog train turned back and char
tered an airplane. Soaring above the
40 degrees below zero, he photo
graphed a number of husky teams
struggling across the wastes.
In Red Lake he found motley
gathering of 'sourdoughs," rugged
prospectors and miners. 1t was tent
town where men of wealth and men
with only grub stakes were fired with
thoughts of riches. All talk was Gi
gold.
The price of stalking a claim was
only $40, and as Donahue listened to
the veteran prospectors' tales of
wealth won over night in the gold
rushes of other days, he caught the
fever.
Taking out a miners license, he
looked over terrain that seemed likely
to bear the yellow strain. cleared the
ground of three feet of snow, felled
a small tree. pointed it. chipped off
the bark on four sides and became a
land holder in the new Nome.
Donahue was the first New Yorker
to stake a claim. He filed his papers
in the log g-cabin recorders office and
thereby became a participant in the
greatest gold rush of the century
All he brought back, however. was
a halfstarved husky and the memory
of his adventure.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
Iva De Putt

I VA DE PUTT, the Hungarian ac-
tress whom Griffith has selected
for the role of Lady Sybil in 1.-THE
Sorrows of Satan is said to be an eX-
traordinary new conner.
Persons who have seen her declare
that not in a long while has come to
the American screen a more fascinat-
ing actress. In her beauty there Is
provocative strangeness, and an
almost child-like naivete with which
she exercises her allurements over
men is declared puzzling in its fasci-
nation
She is a slight girl of just 2 inches
more than 5 feet in height and weighs
l03 pounds. She has black hair, which
she wears bobbed, and flashing brown
eyes so dark they are almost black.
Her mouth is small and frequently an
expression not unlike the Mona Lisa
smile hoVerS around it's corners.
She was born in Budapest 22 years
ago of an Italian father and a Hun
garian mother. Her father died
shortly after her birth. Lya studied
dancing and in her early teens went
To Berlin and became member Of
I he Winter Garten Ballet. Strangely
enough this same Winter Garten later
was TO be the scene or her greatest
triumph to date on the screen in
Variety" a story Of life back stage
| at this theater.
While there Joi Mai, the German di.
rector of pictures, saw her and placed
| her under contract. Since then she
| has done many pictures and has a
| large following among. moviegoerS ir
| Europe.
! Other notable pictures in which she
| has appeared are "The Mistress OF
| the World" and "Manon Lescaut."
Miss de Putt was married -four
years ago to Ludwig Christia nson, a
wealthy Norwegian merchant. He
| died two wears ago.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
NATIONAL PLAYERS-"The First
Year."

Frank Craven's humorously.edged
satire on the cocoon stage of married
life, THE First Year" is promised by
Director Clifford Brooke of the Ma.
iional Theater players next week, be-
ginning Monday, April 10. John War.
ner will play the role of Tommy
Tucker, the misunderstood young
bridegroom eventually deserted by his
lovable wife< played by Leneta Lane.
The FIRST Year" has been labeled
a. comic tragedy of married life" and
such 1t really is, for underlying the
superficial structure of comedy. is a
tragic replica. of the lives of thousands
IT young couples for whom the ad-
Iustment period of the first year is
fruitful only of misery and misunder-
standing.
Tommy Tucker triumphS over his
glib rival. marries Grace Livingston.
and they desert the home town for the
broader opportunities New York offers.
Their married life is alternately funny
and ptiful. Grace's pretty shoulders,
already burdened beyond endurance by
the eccentricitieS of life in small
apartment finally falter under the
load of entertaining Tommy's boss at
dinner. ana a series of laughable
blunderS Culminate in faux pas
that sends the boss and his wife in
dignantly out into the night and
threaten Tommys chances of ever get
ting ahead.
KEITH'S-NOra Bayes.
The hill nj r r Keith's Theater for
Evening star., 1926-04-11
CHATEAU LIE PARADIS.
Wins Noted French Actor.

NEWS has been received by cable
~ that Firmin Gemier, French actor
and stage director, will make his first
appearance as cinema player In Rex
Ingram's production of The Ma
gician," the Somerset Maugham tale
which is now being photographed In
Nice
1t has been said that Gemier is to
France what a blend Of David War
field and David Belasco Is to this
country--if such a comparison be per,
missible. He is the director of the
Theater National de IOdeon of
France, the Trocadero. Paris. an Off
GER of the Legion of Honor, the Order
Of Leopold of Belgium and the Royal
Order of Denmark.
He Is also generally regarded as the
leading actor Of France. He was one
of the first actors to play Ibsen,
Biornson and Tolstoi in France and
succeeded in making a success of
Shakespeare. which he presented in
original settings. He played O'Neill' s
Emperor Jones'" and this Fall will
produce White Cargo" in Paris.
Gemier and Ingram met for the first
time in Paris when Ingram was pre-
pairing to film Mare Nostrum." They
became friends. and Gemier accepted
the directors invitation to spend sew
eral weeks at the studio near Nice
while some of the interior episodes
of the IbaneZ story were being filmed.
During this visit Gemier made a study
of the camera, and the factors which
enter into picture making.
Previously. Gemier had not taken
the cinema at all seriously, and, in
fact. had turned down many offers
TO appear in pictures as we'll as to
direct. But before he left Nice.
Gemier became enthusiastic. and at
4ngram's suggestion agreed to appear
in one of the young directors pictures
if there was a role that suited him.
Consequently. when Ingram picked
The Magician" as his next picture
for Metro-Goldwyn. Gemier accepted
the opportunity to play a leading part.
Those interested in the theater may
recall that Gemier made a visit to
the United States several years ago
Evening star., 1926-04-11

TIMES have changed! The old order
is gone. Even beauty isn't beauty
any more. Venue de Milo is declasse.
Venus. adored of the ages; Venus, idol
of artist and artisan: Venus, marble
breath of feminine perfection.
Her prestige is of a past daN. Her
fame Crumbles in the dust before the
onslaughts of modernity. For
Ned Wayburn. Broadway's beauty
mentor for the American musical
stage has issued a statement OF far
reaching import.
The standards of feminine physi-
cal measurement have changed con-
siderably." says the noted director.
1.-The model of womanly beauty today
is far below the actual measurement
of the perfect woman of years of the
past So far below the measurements
of Venus de Milo are the require
mentS of the ideal stage type today
that 7 fear Venus would have diff
ficult time making the grade with the
average theatrical producer.
And then he added with a smile:
"Of course | guess she could get
fob because of her reputation. That
would still he a drawing card
But close scrutiny of the measure
ments of many of the stage stars of
current fame will prove the conten-
ton of the man who has known more
than $4,000 members of the fair sex
during his IS years producing beauty
shows for international publiCS.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
STRAND-"A Miniature Musical
Comedy"

Next week the Strand Theater bill
will be headed by Mabel Walzer and
her boy friend in "A Miniature Musical
Comedy" a lavishly costumed and
staged revue of singing. dancing and
music. Other numbers will include
Fred Piasano and Jack Landauer in
Boom Boom" Eddie Cook with
Dorothy and Gladys Shaw in "A
Smart Production" Sammy Duncan
in "The Pride of Bonnie Scotland"
and Claude Decar and company in
"Pantomine Acrobatic Novelty"
The photoplay will be romantic
comedy. THE Cave Man. the story of
a coal HEAVIER who becomes f1apper's
ideal with Matt Moore and Marie
Provost in the featured roles.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
No Snow? How Foolish.

Barre, Pa. however, saw a movie one
night which contained a snow scene.
Struck with the very apparent use Of
a substitute for snow and with the
possibility Of opening up a new sales
channel, he wrote to Seymour, sug-
gesting the use of the husks of faxed
wheat for movie snow. Seymour gave
the sample the salesman sent trial.
1t was almost perfect snow.
It looks like snow on the ground, 1t
falls flakily through the air, and, like
snow, it can be eaten. 1t will not
melt on the hottest days. 1t is cheap.
There is no secret about the material
despite its success-it Is simply the
wheat into which is mixed a small
nroportion of mica.
Evening star., 1926-04-11

at the invitation of n committee made
up of John ID. Rockefeller. Otto Kahn
and others. During his stay here he
was received by the President and
by leading city and State officials,
clubs and civic organizations. 1t was
he who decorated David Belasco, Otto
Kahn and other notables in the opera
and theater world with the French
Legion of Honor on behalf of the
French government.
Several months ago Gemier founded
the Universal Society Of the Theater
and of Music. To date five nations
have become associated with this
movement, and at least dozen other
countries are expected to unite with
1t in June.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
EARLE-The Great Nicola.

The Great Nicola. a noted magician.
;llusionist and prestidisitator, VIII
headline next weeks bill at the Earle
Theater. Others will include Claire
Vincent with an etching from life;
the Runaway Four; Jules John Bern
ard and Marcelle in songs, steps and
stories: the Country Club Girls in "On
the Links of Melody" and Grace
Aver and Billy. The photoplay will
be whispering Smith,
Evening star., 1926-04-11

The Swanee syncopators. under Al
kamons, will furnish the music for a
Spring revue Tuesday evening, a
kindergarten revue" Thursday, with
Juvenile entertainment and a battle
of music" at, the Swanee. where dane
ing is the outstanding feature.
Evening star., 1926-04-11
MAYFLOWER GARDENS.

Evening dancing to music by the
Tupman- Mayfiower orchestra together
with daily tea dances are announced
as special features of the Mayflower
Gardens, where Nine. Mishtowt is the
hoSteaS