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Evening star., 1927-12-05
Padgett-Joyce Motor Co.
OAKLAND-PONTIAC.

Used CAR DEPARTMENT.
Pontiac Coach. 1925. ................ $3.50
Essex Coach ................. 800
Essex Coach. late ~. ..!......... $50
HUDSON demonstration. late '27. 80. 1900
Reo touring. good. ................ $50
Dodge Touring .................. $50
Ford Touring. 1925 model. ........... 900
Chevrolet Touring. good condition. -. $50
Flint Touring exceptionally good. 49,. $50
CASH OR TERMS.
Line. 844O. 71z E st. Sc.
Open Evenings and Sundays.
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'STERRETT &.FLEMING, Inc.
= r. z,Whippet-W Willys-Knight.
<f7o ...
-;75; u, u USED CAR
DEPARTMENT.
ALL GUARANTEED IN
WRITING.

Buick Touring, 1928. 90. $265
Hupmobile 4 Touring. 1922 lis
Ford Trucks, 1926. ...... 365
Whippet Coupe, 1926. 80. 4o5
Ford Touring, 1924. ....... lis
Stearns-Knight Coupe,
1876 900
Hupp IS" Sedan, 1926. .1,O45
Jordon line ''8" Touring,
1926 .................. 6o5
Ford Coupe, 1924. ....... 125
Whippet Coach, 1927. 80. $50
Durant Sedan, 1928. ....... 2S5
Jewett Coach, 1926. ...... SOS
Studebaker Touring, 1924. 325
Whippet 6 Roadster, 1927. 745
Kissell Touring, 1922. 80. 2o5
Hupp Touring, 1924. ...... 40
STERRETT & FLEMING, Inc.
Home of the "Gold Seal" Cars.
1711 18th St. NV.
Champlain St. at Kalorama Rd.
Col. $3.50.
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A FACT.

Our reputation has established itself.
Among other things important
Our cars are lower in
price. and upon inspec.
ton you'll actually"
find them better.
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APARTMENTS-FU
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112O COL. RID. N.W-TWO ATTRACTIVE,
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room. continuous hot WateE.
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HAWKINS.
We have at all times a select
stock Of late model used cars.
See them before buying.
Hawkins-Nash Motor Co.,
Conveniently Located"
HAWKINS.

COMven1entIy L0c6ted."
1333-1337 14th st. M. $780,
FORDS. FORDS. FORDS
1926-27 Tudor sedans. .... $500. 90 up
Other sedans ...:.:........... $500 up
Coupes. choice of 5......... g. 5000 up
Tourings and roadster. choice
1-ton trucks. open closed and dump bodies.
some rebuilt motors.
Some of the above cars can be bought for
$25 cash. balance S. per week. Used car
dept. open until pm: Sundays. 10 am,
141 18th St. Ne. ~ Line. 5000.
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SALE-AUTOMOBII.ES.

BUICK LIGHT SIX ROADSTER: $3.50. or
take coupe in trade. North 1857. So
prices. Also several late-model used
atfractively priced. Easy terms. Your car
as part payment. Buick Agency 10th Yon.
BUICK MASTER SIX FOUR-PAss. COUPE
Late model fully equipped: every extra DOS
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condition: best buy in town for S5S6: only
500 down. 1923 14th NV.
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OWENS.

USED CARS WITH AN OK. THAT COUNTS.
We own our building; we have
low operating expenses. 1t is
impossible for others to compete
with us.
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1924 Nash Touring. ST. $50
1924 Ford 4-door Sedan. 125
1926 Hudson Coach. go. SIS
1926 Ford Touring ...... 16O
1925 Buick Master 6 Coach 685
1924 Chrysler 20 Sedan. $50
1925 Dodge "B" Sedan. $50
1926 Chrysler so Coupe. $50
1926 Ford Coupe .. 285
1926 Nash Adv. 6 Sedan. o75
1926 Oakland Landau
Coupe ............. $50
1925 Chrysler 20 Rdstr. $50
1926 Chevrolet Landau
Sedan ............. AS
AND OTHERS.
DON'T
FORGET. -
Only $50 down and the balance
in one year.
H. B. LEARY, JR., & BROS,
1921 18th St. NV.
Phone N. 6826.
Open Evenings and Sundays.
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See Mr.. Hite, storage superin-
tendent.
ELECTRIC RANGE, Westing-
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Carroll Electric Co., Inc, 7l4
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LIGHTING FIXTURES, at and
below cost on account of retir-
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Beautiful and modern designs at
less than one-half the regular
price; must be closed out before
the first of the year. Carroll
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NV. Main 1920.
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Lady's solid platinum dia-
mond dinner ring, exquisitely
set with Is blue-white diamonds.
Must be seen to appreciate its
beauty and value. .$17O
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SALE-AUTOMOBILES.
BUICK 4-PASS.
COUPE. 1926.

Balloon tires, low mileage,
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1880 Conn. Ave. NV.
Frank. 8542.
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YOU CAN
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- GOOD USED
CARS
HERE AT
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SAVINGS.
Our rebuilt and guaran-
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and pick one out.

PACKARD 8 SEDAN. 81. 100
PACKARD 8 SEDAN. AN............. 140O
PACKARD 8 TOURING NG............ 1900
PACKARD 8 LIMOUSINE. .......... $3.50
PACKARD 6 SEDAN ............. 1850
PACKARD 8 CLUB. B................ $500
PACKARD PHAETON. N........... 1900
PACKARD 8 TOURING. ........... 800
TWIN LIMOUSINE. NE................ 300
JORDAN BROUGHAM. AM............. 995
HUDSON COACH. H.................. $50
HUDSON COACH. H.................. 800
P. ARROW LIMOUSINE. ........... 900
STUDEBAKER COUPE. ........... 1000
pAIGE CABRIOLET ROADSTER. 1.100
STCDEBAKER TOURING. .......... 400
STUDEBAKER ROADSTER. ........ $50
MARMON PHAETON "a. .......... $50
HUPP SEDAN N................ 1.100
JUNIOR SEDAN. AN................ 900
CHRISLER 20 COACH. ............ $50
ESSEX COACH .................. 1876
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IN
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Beyond a doubt we have the
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Used Cars.
Various Makes
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Sold on Easy
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31

MOT the least interesting OF the
~ many-sided community that Is
hollywood Is the activity Of those peo'
nile who free lance" their specialized
knowledge or ability in various sioe
lines of the motion picture industry.
Here Is the parachute jumper walt'
ing to double for stars IN aVlation
nictures. Here the owner OF a trlck
collie. Here the interpreter for ne"
Czech actress. Here the boomerang
thrower. Here a hundred more spe-
cialists. experts, technical ADVISERS
and what not in as many diverse iheS
of endeavOr. .o,,..
stuff" When Chinese pictures are
nroduced in Hollywood studios, Cup
bins is usually called in. His most
recent work was on Richard Dix's pic
ture, Shanghai Bound"
Gubbins sat in on story conferences
to lend the scenario writers his tirst'
hand knowledge of the Yangtze River,
the locale of the picture. He con-
ferred with Dix and Director Luther
Reed on phases of Chinese life: he
nersonally hired and costumed 2Oo
Chinese used in the picture. He pro-
yided almost a carload or Chlnese
"props." used in the studio and taken
with the company on the location trip
to Sacramento, where the Sacramento
River doubled" for the Yangtze-
Kiang.
Gubbins was able to provide over
night an assortment of materials
which included 200 coolie costumes
with slippers, 100 straw hats, so felt
hats. so red-knobbed caps, wheel
barrows, $50 boxes covered with rice
mating and 900 rice sacks flor cargo
of the river steamer of which DIX Is
supposed to be captain), 100 bamboo
poles, fish nets, IL lanterns. 10
Chinese knives, so coal baskets.
enough furniture for restaurant set
and enough bunting and hangings Tor
street set.
nese, which are seen in the picture,
and interpreted Reeds directions
throughout the picture.
Gubbins supplied these properties
from his store and warehouse in the
Los Angeles Chinatown, where his re-
tail establishment catering to motion
picture people provides him a steady
living between picture engagements.
He supplied the 200 Chinese from his
personal acquaintance with every
Chinese in the city who Is available
for motion.picture work.
He Is known to almost every one Of
Los Angeles 1900 Chinese as Tom
Sock" which means Uncle Tom, !"
and is sometimes called the unofficial
king of Chinatown" but he says he
prefers to be known simply as friend
of the Chinese"
Gubbins was born in Brooklyn, N.
Y, Of English parents, who took him
to Shanghai when he was s years old.
He lived there and in Hongkong for
IL years. He went to school. an Eng
lish school, in Shanghai and picked
up the Cantonese dialect. which he
speaks fluently and perfectly. In 1898
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
Steamboat Bill" Starts.
BUSTER X EATON recently start

RUSTER X EATON recently started
his new United Artists comedy,
Steamboat Bill" in the presence of
one of the largest throngs ever as
sembled to watch a motion picture
company in action, according to adj
vices from Sacramento, where the
frozen-faced star and his organization
are on location.
The keaton company is located at
a made-to-order town across the river
from the Capifornia capital, and for
the next few months will live in that
picturesque community, according to
the report. Hundreds Of carpenters
worked day and night to have the
river town completed by the time
Busters troupe arrived. Steamboats,
and other craft which figure in the
story of Steamboat Bill" are moored
and several carloads of electrical
equipment. properties and wardrobe
lend assets to the new town.
Ernest Terrence is announced to
play his first straight comedy role in
Steamboat Bill" and Marion Byron.
practically unknown until Director
Charles Chick" Reisner gave her the
chance, has the chief feminine part.
Others include Tom Mcclure, charac.
ter actor. and Tom Lewis of Ziegfelc
Follies fame.
A score of young actresses took
tests for Steamboat Bill" but Miss
Byron, who recently celebrated her
eighteenth birthday, was the unani.
nous choice of those who had the say.
The froZen-faced star was so impressed
with her screen possibilities that he
gave her five-year contract. the first
instance of it's kind in the Keaton or.
ganiza ton.
Miss Byron is being called 'the
greatest find as a coincidence since
Mabel Normand first burst into fame"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
The Corda-Kordas

TT took their transatlantic 1ame
about six months TO catch up with
Maria Corda, the Hungarian actress.
and her director husband, Alexander
Korda, both of whom are now unoer
contract to First National Pictures
but il has arrived with a rush.
Two pictures starring Miss Corda
were shown recently on Broadway
one Moon Of Israel" at New YORK
''Roxy." 1t is a lavish UFA produc'
ton, made in Germany. and IS being
released in this country by FBO.
The other picture, which Alexander
Horda directed, Is a European satire
Madame Wants No Children" with
Marie Corda starred as the madame IN
question. It was given enthusiastic
reviews by many Of the New York
critics.
Korda's subtle direction and his keen
sense of satire in kidding the modern
Jazz age were especially praised. The
picture was made in Europe for FOX
and was the last thing done by the
director and star before they were
signed up by Richard A. Rowland
general manager Of First National
and brought TO this country. 4 r. $50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
A Man and His Barrel.

development; and Petworth hasn't any
of that class in it's lively precincts.
But to get back to the barrel. It
furnishes the theme for one Of the
ever new and most laughable stage
colleagues thaat one can imagine. II
is not the purpose here to tell how.
but simply to point out the fact, with
a few interesting details that make
1t stand out.
years old; that Is to say, It IL full IL
years since it came into his possession
1t has hoops and brass nails in it. and
ever and anon a new coat OF varnish
serves to shine up its sides. He
bought It for rs cents in Grand Rap
ids, but, according to his estimate, he
has expended fully $1,000 on 1t up to
the present time. and 1t isn't worn out
yet by a barrelful.
1t has to be shipped from place to
place, where Spencer and his wife ap-
pear, in special crate, and Spencer
estimated that it's cost for excess bag.
gage alone easily approximates 800 a
year. 1t has been seen on every
prominent vaudeville stage in the
United States and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, back and forth, for
eight times. It has made one trip to
England and another much longer one
to Australia. 1t is even now being
prepared for another trip to the Brit
ish Isles, when the new season begins.
There isn't thing about this old
barrel that indicates that Lady Luck
ever has bestowed upon 1t her nysti-
cal favors, and although to the most
observing eye 1t will be found as
empty as a hole in the air, yet Chester
Spencer and his young wife say 1t Ia
like the scriptural widows cruise OF
meal. the more you take out Of 1t the
more 1t seems to hold.
II is a comedy barrel, filled to the
hrin with laughter. and its supply Is
never exhausted. That's what Chester
Spencer's barrel is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
Paramount's New Output.
MYTH II pictures in various stages

WITH IL pictures In various stages
OF production, Paramount this
week reached the peak Of its Sum-
mer producing activity. A number
of the companies are out on location,
other units are working on the studio
stages; prints of several features are
in the cutting and fitting rooms. In
addition to those now in work, nine
more are slated for start of filming
in August, to be followed by seven
in September.
Productions we'll under way, with
their leading players and directors,
are as follows: Hula" starring Clara
Bow. directed by Victor Fleming;
Swim. Girl. SWIM" starring Bebe
Daniels with Gertrude Ederle, con-
uueror of the English Channel, in an
important role. and Emil Janrings'
third Paramount production, Hitting
for Heaven" Eddie Sutherland is
directing Esther Ralston in Heaven
Help the Working Girl and Chester
Conklin and George Bancroft are CO.
featured in Tell 1t to Sweeny." di-
rected by Gregory La Cava.
Florence Vidor is working on "One
Woman to Another" under direction
of Frank Tuttle; Beau sabreur,"
SEQUEL to Beau Geste," boasts large
Noah Berry, Roscoe Harms, William
Powell, Gary Cooper and Evelyn
Brent: Jack Luden's initial starring
Western subject Is "Shootin' Irons"
and Richard Dix is back from loca-
ton with his Shanghai Bound" COM
pany.
Adolphe Menjou Is working under
the direction of H. DAbbadie OAR
rast in "a Gentleman Of Paris"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
The Moving Picture Album


foolish ideas Of living and extrava-
gance. eliminate a lot Of unnecessary
'put-on' and 'show-off,' get down to
common sense, be ourselves and be-
come picture men in the morning,
noon and night. with no other bust
ness, not even golf, we will rightfully
take our proper place in the CONNER
cial world"
Here is the voice of an honest man,
voice that energies like a shaft Of
clean, white light from the dark, dank
fogs of buncombe which surround
Hollywood.
There is no news value in the state.
ment that Tom Mix Is a popular star.
He ranks somewhere up near Harold
Lloyd. Mary Pickford and Gloria
Swanson as one Of the most consist
emily successful of all the stars that
the silent drama has created.
When Mr.. Mix says: Amy time
can't make a picture that the public
and boys can't understand without a
prologue it's time for Tony and me to
go back to my RANCH" he Is uttering
truth which is charged with ines
Unable significance.
For prologues with all other pres.
entation trimmings are admissions
that the pictures they accompany are
too frail to survive without artificial
aid. And the f1ossier the prologue the
feebler the film.
The movie industry in the days Of
its celebrated infancy was an uncouth
hut sturdy youngster who stood on
his own two feet and talked back to
any one who sought to reprimand
him.
Now, miraculously, the healthy in.
FAINT of yesterday has suddenly be-
come doddering old man, rich and
powerful but suffering from senile
dementia in its most virulent form.
He is existing on false stimulation
he is taking a treatment which con-
sists principally Of shots in the arm,
administered by high-priced special
lists brought in from the outside.
1t remains for simple general
practitioner like Tom Mix-one who
really understands the movie and its
ailments-to provide the trueSt dag
nosis of its condition.
Echoing Mr.. Mix's admirable senti-
mentS, l repeat the cry which was
raised to this column last week
"Give us good pictures and the thea
tiers will take care of themselves"
Bulletins.
HOLLY, Calif-D. w. Griffith's
next picture will be a comedy, en-
titled "a Romance Of Old SPAIN" The
title sounds very tentative"
Harry Langdon isn't going to play
in THE Butter and Egg Man." that
story having been turned over to Jack
Mulhall.
John Gilbert has been causing some
disturbance at the Metro Goldwyn-
Mayer studio. His complaint seems
to be against the quality of the mate
rial offered him, he being particularly
dissatisfied with his current release,
Twelve Miles Out" Perhaps John
has caught the temperament fever
from Greta Carlo.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
Shadoweraph

aREFoRE the shadowsraph was In
troduced by Ziegfeld's Follies 1t
had proved a sensation In London and
Paris.
Much has been said about seeing
things through rose.hued glasses. but
no glass has ever produced the fan
tastes seen through paper pince nes
used for the Shadowgraph. Tor acre
is really a mystifying. and starving
novelty, uncanny illusions that pro-
duce either thrills or laughter.
The Shadowgraph was a feature OF
the Follies for two seasons. Paper
eyeglasses are distributed among tne
audience. One lens is red, the other
green. Then the shadows are SHOWN
by a patented process. The enect y
that the shade wwalks right out OF
the sheet. A missile is hurlec ano
the audience lodges 1t. In fact the
sheet is given a fourth dimension: IL
is not only interesting and entertain
ing. but attracts from a scientinc
standpoint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
Rothacker on the Job.

WATTERSON r. ROTHACKER,
new managing director of the
First National studios at Burbank, re.
Gently elected vice president Of First
National Productions, has arrived in
Los Angeles, and taken up his duties
at the film plant.
Although a comparatively young
man, Rothacker Is one OF the pioneers
OF the film industry. Coming from a
newspaper family, he went into news
paper work as a youth. but in 1910
saw the possibilities of the picture
business and formed the Rothacker
Film Manufacturing Co. in associa.
ton with Carl Laemmle and r. II.
Cochrane.
He rapidly became a specialist in
the Industrial end OF pictures and lat.
er founded the Rothacker-Aller Labo.
ratories. in Hollywood, which develops
and prints most OF the Aim shots" in
the movie colony. The concern was
sold a short time ago TO the Consoli.
dated Film Industries. Since then Mr.
Rothacker has been taking an extend.
ed vacation in Europe.
AS a producer several years ago he
made THE Lost World" for First Ma
tional. Rothacker also Is credited
with ha wing conceived and executed
the Miles Of Smiles" film during the
war, which sent to the doughboys at
the front a celluloid record of the
mothers, sisters apd sweethearts back
home, and their activities in behalf Of
the boys over there" ------.
Il a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31
Nine ''Outstanders.'

"HAv1NG found its meter and
it's forte in the production of
outstanding special films for rec
prd-breaking runs on Broadway" it is
announced, "the Metro Goldwyn.Mayer
company is determined to devote even
greater energy in that direction"
According to the latest checkup in
the studios in Culver City, Calf. nine
film productions will be among the
outstanding of the 1928 program,
as against four Of the preceding sea-
son.
These nine will serve to Illustrate
diversity of entertainment, for in the
group are included stage dramas, mu-
steal comedies, melodrama, mystery,
romance, situation comedy and farce.
not to mention a wide variety of
locales.
The first will be 'Tn Old Kentucky"
which John NJ. Stahl will direct in the
blue grass famous racing stable re-
gions.
Within two weeks Fr2d Niblo will
start on Lillian Gish's new screen yer.
sion of Charming Pollock's play THE
Enemy" with its central European
locale.
The next two films will be based on
popular musical comedies, Rose Ma
RE" and 1.-THE Fair Coed" The for
mer, directed by William Nigh. will
have Renee Adoree in the title role
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-31

Two items are interesting the movie
industry at this time. in addition
to the bid for outside aid in connection
with stories and their treatment. The
one is the Vatican ban on education
ais" which it is said is not understood
in New York; the other is what Is to
be done about ''block booking"
Film Daily reports, Notwithstanding
the denial by Mr.. Poll, that the
Stanley Co. of America, with the
Keith .Albee interests in the back
ground, is to absorb the Poll Theater
circuit in New England. And the deal
is said to include Polls Theater In
Washington.
Lon CLANCY in his new picture.
1.-THE Hypnotist," will have the sup
mort of MarceIine Day. Conrad Nagel.
Henry Walthall, Polly Moran and
Edna Tichenor.
Beverell Marley, who handled the
photography on THE King of Kings
is to perform the same job on THE
West Pointer" in which Pathe Is to
star William Boyd.
Vincent Huidobro, young Spaniard
living in Paris, was awarded the In
ternational prize Of $4,000 by the
League for Better Pictures for his
scenario of "Cagliostro." The secre-
tary Of the league states that "one of
our largest film companies contrib
uted to the fund from which the
award was made.
Outstanding pictures on current ex.
hibition in New York include THE
Bib Parade" which has been running
since November, 1925; THE King OF
Kings" Seventh Heaven" "Old San
Francisco" THE Way Of All Flesh.
the Emil Jannings picture, and Ca
MILE" Norma Talmadge's latest pic
ture. Passion" Pola Negri's best,
also has been revived.
Richard Barthelmess will go to New
York for the premier showing OF his
latest picture, THE Patent Leather
Kid" on August Is.
Film Daily has sent oat a cheerful
message to the world, and to passe
screen stars especially, on the posi-
bility Of Coming back" 1t all grew
out of Jack Dempsey's comeback
in the prizefight ring.
It seems safe to say that the SLOW
motion picture camera viii be an i'm.
portant adjunct to the equipment OF
the future prizefght ring.
publicity Madness" is the title Of
Lois Morans first starring picture,
as they call 1t, for Fox Films. Ed
mund Lowe will play the male lead.
Publicity ought to be good theme'