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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
PALACE-''VaIencia"-"S
Frolic."

At Loew's Palace this week, begin
ming this afternoon, Mae Murray, will
, be the photoplay star in Dimitri
Buchowetskis production, Valencia, .
for Metro G oldwyn Mayer. with Lloyd
Hughes and Roy Darcy in the cast.
A 'syncopation frolic" of novel and
pretentious type, with novelties, elab-
crate settings and exquisite lighting
effects. is promised as the stage
Offering
In Valencia" Miss Murray is seen
as a gypsy hoyden who fascinates a
sailor to the point where he deserts
his ship. She buys his pardon with
promises to a Spanish governor and,
in the end, manages to disgust that
official to the point where he makes
her leave Spain with the pardoned
sailor.
In the "syncopation frolic" are
George Silvers and his entertainers,
notable group of syncopationists,
and Sally Fields, popular singer of
"blues," in a repertory of popular
melodies. Christine Marson also will
be seen in her dancing argument,
THE Black Bottom VS.. The Charles
ton," and still another feature act
will be Joe Termini, ''the mad must
cian." The Palace Orchestra under
Tom Cannon, Loew's Palace maya
zine, Dick Leibert's organlogues.
Topics of the Day and Aesops Fables
will add to the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16


peared last week at the
r Earle, was found by First
~ Nighter in a suite of rooms
at the Mayflower, and he
told of his advent into the movies.
I'm the first place, / have always
desired to be my own boss and, sec
ondly, the remuneration is far ahead
of an actors salary. i served a couple
Of years in the movies and while at
Hollywood the idea came to me OF
creating a novelty by linking the
silent with the speaking stage. My
first venture, four years ago, Rose
Marie proved a success. / suppose l
am the only actor from the legitimate
stage who considers the MOVIES
blessing.
II have played all over the world
and NV experiences have been varied,
but the greatest thrill of my life de
veloped in Japan, when was showing
Rose Marie I opened in Toxic to
a. hacked house, and the audience was
totally ignorant of what was going
to show them. When we came to the
point where the company replaced the
pictures, the audience was simply
dumfounded. Looking out on the
crowd, 1t appeared as If every one had
gone pop.eyed as they stared at me
with open mouth and bulglng orbs.
Several women grabbed their children
and started to leave the hall. l
rushed to the footlights and in few
hurried words restored confidence ano
then resumed the acting. had to
hire police for the remainder of my
stay to keep the crowds back from
the entrance. It seemed as If every
person in Toxic wanted to see the
show at once. and l certainly reaped
a harvest. have been an actor quite
some time, but that was the big thrill
of my career"
Old friends of William A. Brady
were doubtless much pleased over the
success achieved by his daughter,
| Alice Brady, in Washington last week
| Years ago Bill" Brady was stage
manager at the old Bijou Theater and
| little Alice. running around the stage,
! was the pet OF the stock company and
many of the regular patrons. 1t took
! Brady quite time to fight his way
| to the top, but he finally reached
! there. Alice started acting early
under the directing eye of her father,
| steadily climbing the ladder of fam
both in the films and on the speak
ing stage. And, in addition, as Father
Bill recently remarked in New York:
She can cover every cent have and
| then retain a fortune beside
One of the outstanding marks in the
! production of THE Black Pirate
which packed them in at the Columbia
last week, is the fact that Douglas
Fairbanks is fovorite of man fans
When the picture opened last Sunday
night the lobby of the Columbia was
packed all the way out to the pave
ment, 500 people comprising the
crowd. OF this number, fully 40t
were men. and this ratio extended
through every showing during the
week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
METROPOLTTAN-"The Silent
Lover"

This week, beginning this afternoon,
at Crandall's Metropolitan Theater,
the chief screen attraction will be
First Nationals release of George
| Archainbauds production. 'The Silent
Lover" starring Milton Stills.
The stage offering will be supplied
by Jack Smith, THE Whispering
Baritone in an entirely new
repertoire of song. The third feature
will be the film comedy 1.-The
Prodigal Bridegroom" starring Ben
Turpin.
The supplementary attractions will
embrace the Metropolitan World
Survey and orchestral contributions
by the Metropolitan Symphony, under
Daniel Breeskin.
1.-THE Silent Lover" was adapted
from Laios Bros story of 1.-The
Legionnaire. It's pivotal character is
young diplomat stationed in Paris,
whose career is ruined by his own
profiigacy and his susceptibility to the
allurements of feminine beauty. In
stead of expiating his shortcomings by
suicide, as suggested by his superior,
he enlists in the French Foreign
Legion and takes up active service as
1t is here that the climacteric episodes
of the story take place.
The supporting cast includes Arthur
Edmund Carew, Viola Dana, Charlie
Murray, Arthur Stone, Montagu Love,
Natalie Kingston, William V. Mong
and Claude King.
Evening star., 1927-08-28
Spain Makes Spurt
In Communications

Spain is making a sudden spurt in
communications. After a dead lull Of
30 years In railway building, the min
istry of public works is executing a
vast program. Bids for laying six
new railway lines. with many bridges,
have been accepted in as many
months. Proof of Spain's potential
economic strength lies in the fact
that nine Spanish contractors-no
Observation-Disclosures offers.
Great activity is to be exhibited in
the Improvement of automobile roads
For the rebuilding of 3.77S miles of
highways and the setting up of 76
new bridges. s35 900 900 will be ex-
pended. the work to extend through
the next four years. Private groups
have offered to build roads from Ma
drid to Valencia and Madrid to Bilbao
and San Sebastian. asking the right
to collect a special toll from the auto
owners.
Airways also are being extended.
German interests will soon inaugurate
a service between Berlin and Madrid
via Lyon and Barcelona, while a
Spanish company is contemplating
lines connecting Madrid with BARGE
Iona, Valencia and San Sebastian.
Evening star., 1927-08-28
BY ROBERT s. BROOKINGS,
President, Institute of Economics.

| AS Europe follows our example of
| industrial efficiency by adopting labor
saving devices and standardized mass
production and our economic democ-
racy of a relatively high wage through
which to distribute equitably among
the workers the resulting increased
production per capita, they will find
their economic well-being greatly inn
proved.
| Meantime glance at the cost of
living in all of the European countries
as compared with our own, even after
taking into consideration our higher
wage, is sufficient evidence that we
enjoy no basis or fundamental advan-
tage in housing. food and clothing.
We have experienced within the past
few years the influence upon the
worlds food markets of the develop
ment of Canada. the Argentine and
other countries, always bearing in
mind the potentialities of Russia and
the scientific progress, through the
use of fertilizers. in increased acreage
productivity.
The normal low cost of ocean trans
portation has practically equalized the
cost of imported food to all those
western nations having deep-water
ports. Only two or three years ago we
found ourselves unable to compete
with other nations in the worlds food
markets and the pressure of our rap
idlv increasing population with the
enhanced value of our agricultural
lands has q tendency to accentuate
this situation We usually classify
the most important raw materials I'M
der the heads of textiles and minerals.
AS our own cotton from the basic mar
kets of New Orleans and Galveston
finds it's way into foreign ports at
about as low cost of transportation as
to our New England mills. we seem
to have no advantage over other ma
tions in this important commodity:
and, as we are compelled to import
largely of wool for our own consump-
ton, we certainly have no advantage
in this commodity over any European
nation.
The same argument applies to hides
and leather. While we recognize the
Importance of minerals and especially
credit steel as being the key to indus
try. here again. notwithstanding our
rich Lake Superior and Alabama ore
deposits and our unequaled coal sup
ply all located some distance from the |
seaboard, we cannot claim to have |
any special advantage over the bal |
ance of the world.
Any survey of raw material advan !
tage must take into consideration the |
growing importance of the laboratory. |
The recent development of artificial |
silk and similar results in artificial |
wool. indicate the future influence ir |
this direction. Then gain we find
that basic or semi-finkshed products
Evening star., 1927-08-28
The Story the Week Has Told

| material or military advice from
Japan? Or merely that the psychology
ical effect of the attitude of the Jap
anese government, of it's pronounce
ments, Of the Japanese reinforcement
however slighO in Shantung. and
the sufficiently advertised protective
dispositions; that the psychological cf
feet on the morale of his troops land
of HIMSELF was disastrously dampen-
ing? What, really, does he mean?
l am inclined to think that Chang
is convinced that Japanese opposition
was al important element in the com,
bination Gf concert only very PARTIAL
which undid him. He finds it indis-
Greet to damn the undoubted chief
villain of the piece, namely, Feng Yu
Hsiang (who. by the way, cannot be
thought to be in cahoots with Japan.
His wrathful disappointment must
find a target; Japan is a convenient
one.
But perhaps I do him scant justice.
We may see in him the magnani
nous patriot who would not by parad.
ing his grievances prejudice the hopes.
however slight, of Nationalist re-
union, but who would whip anew into
flame the national distrust of Japan,
the great, the subtle, enemy.
Apart from the above the political
philosopher can find no object better
deserving his attention in these days
than Japanese policy in respect of
China. The statement is not sardonic;
the Japanese position is one of almost
inconceivable delicacy.
The White Russians in China have
had a sweet revenge. The services OF
the two thousand or so White Rus
slams in the pay of Chang Tsung
Chang, Tushun of Shantung Prov
ince, were of great Importance, if
not decisive toward repulse by that
interesting rascal of Chang Kai Shek's
invasion of Shantung. Chiefly they
operated armored trains and bomb
ing planes. Chang Tsung Chang is
enlisting two thousand more of these
hus,iies; chiefly from Manchuria. His
Russian adviser, M. Merkulov. would
have him bring the total up to 10000,
representing that such force. prop
ely handled. could wine the Nation
alists off the, map. But Chang. is
rightly "leary" of such proposition,
for sundry reasons; with others,
that the Chinese troops are fiercely
Jealous of the Russian mercenaries.
In a manner of speaking, Chang
Evening star., 1927-08-28
EUROPE is EXPECTED TO GAIN
BY ADOPTING u. S. TRADE RULES
Economic WellBeing May Improve Through Use of
Labor-Saving Devices and Standardized
Mass Production.

like pig iron feat all over the woald
at minimum cost of transportation
and can be accumulated with practi-
cally no cost of storage or of fire in
surance. The pig iron may then be
refined without serious handicap I'm
any country which has fuel. In other
words, occupation for population is
found in the refinement process rather
than in the production of basic mate
rials or semi-finished products. 1t
would, in fact, be difficult to name a
mineral of any Importance that Is not
produced some place in the world at
as low or lower cost than with us.
AS we think of the needs of people
in terms of housing, food and cloth
ing, this leaves us only the question
Of housing, which by necessity is q
local question. with seemingly no spe-
cial advantage in any country. The
consumption of our own timber sup
ply has now established our lowest
lumber market on the Pacific Coast
and the cost of transportation of this
timber by water to our centers Of larg.
est demand. or Eastern ports, is prac.
tically the same as to European ports
where we meet the competition of
Canada, Norway, Sweden and Russia.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-08-28

one of the finest natural harbors in
| Europe.
China.-A conference of representa-
tives of the Hankow and Marking
groups is now taking place at Kiu
| Siang, looking to reconsideration of the
Nationalist movement. 1t is reported
that Sun Chuan Feng is throwing his
lrmy across the Yangtze between Nan
king and Chinkiarg.
Obviously he is proposing to recap
! ture Marking and Shanghai before
the demoraliZed forces of the Nanking
group can be reorganiZed and rein.
forced from Hankow. (Report has it
that Hankow troops are on the way to
NankingD Chang Tso Lin and Chang
Tsung Chang (Tuchun of Shantung)
are said to disapprove Suns efforts
to re.establish himself as lord of
Shanghai. Their alleged reasons. po
litical and strategic. for disapproval
are sound enough; but one suspects
that jealousy is an even stronger mo-
tive.
In blaming Japan for his reverses
in the North, what does Chang Kai
Shek mean to hint by the following
statement, which, literally taken,
scarcely finds justification in the in
formation available to us? "Our
Northern campaign" says Chang,
failed because the Japanese occupied
Shantung. They blocked our ad-
vance and aided our foes at the most
critical moment, when Hankow threat
ened from the west. Unable to pro-
ceed in the face of such opposition, /
found it strategic to retreat Then
Sun Chuan Feng, with strangely re-
newed vigor. attacked our Suchow po-
sition, which we eventually evacuated
to give Hankow more attention.
Japan controlled the balance in Shan
tung. She is responsible for one fail
ure.''
According to our information, Japan
maintained only a paltry total of
troops at Tsingtao, at Tsinan and
along the line of the Tsingtao- -Tsinan
railroad. for protection OF Japanese
nationals and properties. Did Chang
receive warnings and threats from
Tokyo of which we have no knowl-
edge? Was he told not to advance
beyond the line very thinly sprinkled
by the Japanese protective detach-
ments? Does he hint that the enemy
chiefs, Chang Tsung Chang and Sun
Chuan Feng, were in receipt of war
Evening star., 1927-08-28
Metropolis Housing
Conditions Assailed

With the general increase OF lux.
urious apartment houses for the
wealthy the New York City Health
Department is endeavoring to bring
before the public the fact that hous-
ing conditions in certain sections of
the lower and extreme upper East
Side have not kept pace with the
sanitary progress of the rest Of the
city. The infant mortality and gen.
eral mortality rates and the tuber.
culosis rate of these sections Is con-
siderably higher than the rates for
the city as a whole.
Field nurses from the department
have recently completed a house-to.
house survey of these sections. The
conditions disclosed Health Commits.
sioner Louis i. Harris describes as
and intolerab1e. Bedrooms
are crowded and badly ventilated.
Many families live in Easements.
And scattered throughout the sec.
tions are factory buildings. which the
commissioner regards as having a
definite influence upon the health of
the children. DIR. Harris hopes to
arouse the city to the need Of remedial
measures.
Evening star., 1927-08-28
Sacco Case Now Rivets Attention
On Reform of i. S. Criminal Law
Continued from First Page.)

Continued from First Page)
criminal code. and the subject Of ap.
peaIs has not yet been considered
When this code is completed it is
hoped that it will serve as a guide to
those who seek to secure a. more
prompt and efficient administration
OF criminal justice"
Eight Basic Premises.
In dealing with the defects in
criminal justice" the American Law
Institutes investigators are proceed.
ing from the following series Of basic
premises,
l. There is more crime in this
country in proportion to population
than there is in England or Canada.
.. A much larger proportion of
those who commit crimes are not APP
pretended in this country as com
pared with the two countries men
toned.
g. A larger proportion of those
who are prosecuted for crime in this
country escape conviction and pun
ishment than in England or Canada.
T. There are altogether too many
crimes committed by those who are
not apprehended.
;. There are altogether too many
offenders who are not indicted.
Il There are too many indicted
I Too many Of those who are
Prosecuted are acquitted and too few
;"e convicted.
.. Too many Of those who are In
Evening star., 1927-08-28

the presidency, or rather for the nomi-
tion of the dominant, so-called Radical
party. These are DR.. Hipolito Irigoyen.
who preceded DR.. Alvear as President
and has been his bitter political enemy
for almost the whole of the Presidents
five years of service, and DR.. Leopoldo
Melo, the friend and supporter in the
Senate of President Alvear. The oppo.
sition is at the present time negligible,
although the Socialist party in Buenos
Aires is strong, and has been made
stronger in the country through the
fact that during the past five years
both factions of the Radical party had
apparently rather give power to the
Socialists than to the other wing of
their own party. 1t thus is possible
Evening star., 1927-08-28

| POLITICAL situation in Ar.
| ~ gentina which is not dissimi-
| ~ lar to that which split the Re.
n publican party here in 1912
may result in the nomination
and election of the present Ambassa-
dor in Washington. DR.. Honorio Pueyr.
redon. TO the office Of President of
Argentina for the six-year term begin.
ming in October. 1928.
The Argentine situation is one OF
| the most interesting of the political
campaigns which, in 1928 will be un.
| der way in half q dozen countries of
| this hemisphere, from the United
States southward. Not only is Argen.
| tina about to emerge from period of
political feud that has held back the
development of important policies of
national expansion and social read
justment, but political situation has
arisen which. as noted above, may
carry to the presidency for the first
time in recent Argentine history
man who knows and understands the
United States as few Argentines have
ever cared to know it and who, with
his understanding, has also a great
good will and desire for better mutual
relations between the two great repub-
lies at the two ends OF the Western
Hemisphere. Should DIR. Pueyrredon
reach thus early in his career the post
of President of Argentina, those who
have known him here believe he would
be an instrument of ushering in a new
era of United States-Argentine rela.
tions which would be Of vast benefit
not only to the two peoples and nations
concerned, but not inconceivably to
the entire world. The next few years
or Argentine-Cnited States relations
are fraught with immense Importance
to the relations of the nations of this
hemisphere, and the dominant posi-.
ton of the Western World makes the
unity of its elements one of the crucial
factors in the future outlook of civil.
cation.
The political situation in Argentina
which may thus possibly result in DR..
Pueyrredon's elevation to the presi.
dency, is immensely interesting, and.
like most interesting political situa-
tions. thoroughly complicated. 1t un-
ravels satisfactorily. however, it, one
follows the always wise practice of
going back far enough The imme.
date situation may we'll be stated first.
however. This is that the term of the
present President of Argentina, DR..
Marcelo T. de Alvear, expires in Octo-
Der. 1928. He is ineligible for re.elec.
ton, the Argentine presidential term
being for six years, without re-elec.
ton, although a President is eligible
after another's term has intervened.
There are two leading candidates for
Evening star., 1927-08-28
Believing Too Little
BY BRUCE BARTON.

beyond the things that can be
seen and weighed.
"He that does not go beyond
the facts" said Huxley, "will
seldom get as far as the facts
J. r. Morgan, when he died,
left several million dollars in
worthless stocks. These repre-
sented his adventures in faith,
the penalties charged against
him for believing too much.
But he left many more millions
in sound securities-the reward
of a faith which was right far
more often than it was wrong.
The great practical joker of
the last generation was p. 7.
Barnum. He played upon the
creduIity of more people than
any other man Of modern times.
Therefore, when he talks about
how much it is safe to believe,
he is an authority whose word
is worth consideration. He said:
'lf the fact could be definitely
determined, think it would be
discovered that in this wide
awake country there are more
persons humbugeed by believing
too little than by believing too
much"
Of course, the ideal middle
ground is to believe just enough,
but few of US can attain that
state Of perfection. Therefore,
since we must err on one side or
the other, prefer to be one of
those who is fooled occasionally
by believing too much. 1t is
much pIeasanter.
And, as is proved'by Henry
Ford, Mr.. Morgan and many
others, it is generally much more
profitable.
Evening star., 1927-08-28

I WneH ne was OuilOIUS
his first factory his faith
Il Il er was greatly worried.
Every few days the old gen.
tIeman shook his head and said:
"You are. too late, Henry.
Before you can begin to pro-
duee automobiles, everybody in
the United States who can afford
a car will have one."
This sounds much funnier to-
day than it sounded 20 years
ago, when it was freely predicted
that the automobile would be a
short. lived fad like the bicycle.
Many of our "most conserva-
tive business men" shared that
view. You probably have never
heard the names of these "most
conservative business men,"
though they lived carefully and
left comfortable estates. But
you have heard Of Ford, the
dreamer, who was foolish enough
to believe that the American
people have an almost unlimited
capacity for buying automobiles.
We live in what is called
materiaiistic age; everything is
submitted to scientific tests;
nothing can go forward until it
has surmounted all the barriers
that skeptieism can erect. And
there is much wisdom in this.
But skepticism alone never
built a great fortune. Nobody,
looking merely at the figures,
would ever have had the courage
to stretch a line Of rails across
our Western deserts. No great
scientific discovery was ever
achieved unless imagination was
permitted to soar far above and
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