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Evening star., 1927-05-22
KETTH'S-Irene Bordopi.

Irene Bordoni, the noted French
comedienne, will appear at B. F.
Keith's Theater this week, beginning
this afternoon, in a program of the
songs which have long made her nopu-
lar. This is her first appearance in
vaudeville in five years, and is a part
of A tour which will carry her as far
West as California
Featured also will he Henri Garden,
the operate tenor, in a song recital,
while Bert L'Ahr and Mercedes will
smuse with What s the Idea"
Others will be Jeania. the world $
Evening star., 1927-05-22
EARLE-Clifr Edwards---"The Wash.
ingtOnians"

"Ukelele Ike" clever American sing
ing comedian. who sometimes mas
querades as Cliff Edwards, will head
line this weeks bill al the Earle The
ater. beginning this afternoon. in an
act entirely different from that which
he has been presenting on previous
occasions. Popular ont the stage and
on talking machine records and radio.
Evening star., 1927-05-22
Attractions In Washington
Playhouses This Week
MUSIC AND DRAMA.

NATIONA-Nationa Theater Players alias the Deacon
evening
KEITHS-Irene vaudeville This evening
EARLE-Chf EdwardsThe Washngtonans vaudeville This aft
and evening
STRAND-"Revew Reyues presentations. This alter
and evening.
Evening star., 1927-05-22
Photoplays This Week
SILENT DRAMA ATTRACTIONS

METROPOLITAN-The Blonde Sant-Vitaphone This afternoo
and evening.
PALACE-"Evening Clothes This afternoon and evening.
RIALTO-"Held by the Law This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA-"Lovers' This afternoon and evening
LITTLE THEATER-Sa1ome" This afternoon and evening.
Evening star., 1927-05-22

Paul Vasel, noted European athlete
and regarded as one of the best
fencers of the continent, makes his
bow to the screen in Held by the
Law"
Evening star., 1927-05-22
ROBIN HOOD PLAyERs-Monday.

The Robin Hood Players, featuring
a cast selected from well known local
dramatic organizations. will close their
seaseA with three performances 0f
Evening star., 1927-05-22
OUTDOOR ATTRACTIONS
CHEVY CHASE LAKE.

with Bert Saulsmans Band music for
dancing
Evening star., 1927-05-22
CHESAPEAKE BEACH.

Free bathing slides will be new
feature this season at Chesapeake
Beach, which opens next Saturday
with a three-day celebration, coming
to a climax on Decoration day.
These slides are long and steep and
as the bather is shot into the surf he
gets thrill he won't soon forget. A
trapeze, parallel bars and springing
board also have been installed, the
beach has been resanded, the net
around the bathing area has been re-
paired and everything is declared in
readiness now.
free beach playground for chill.
dren is another new feature, with
swings, see saws, slides and other de.
vices to amuse the kiddies.
The Comet, a sensational new ride
with thrilling dips and tremendous
curve, has been tested out and will he
ready also for opening day, together
Evening star., 1927-05-22
JARDIN LIDO.

Roof garden delights within the
reach of all amusement seekers are
announced at Jardin Lido, the Maddux-
Marshall-Moss & Mallory outdoor cab
aret, which will open atop the Airing
ton Hotel, May q.
Workmen are Transforming the roof
into a replica of a garden in the
famous Italian watering place. In
inclement weather, festivities will be
transferred to the Arlington Hotel
ballroom.
Dick Liebert and his popular Lido
Orchestra have been engaged, to in
sure the best dance music. A program
of appealing entertainment and a
series of specially nights are being
arranged.
Evening star., 1927-05-22

Eugene Hafer's comedy, Tanning
Charley" on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday at st. Mary's Hall, Fifth
and G streets northwest. Curtain at
$40. Paul Messink is directing the
ensemble.
William o. Bradley, the juvenile
lead, recently played in Green Stock
ings" and Miss Nina Allen, the sup.
porting ingenue, was last season with
the Washington Opera 90. Others
will include: Peggy Schneider. from
the Theater Work Shop, and Elveda
Pearce. from the Holy Rosary Play
ers, with Emmett Robertson. late of
the Little Theater, and John Mul-
vaney and Miss Barbara Hess, both
of the Peacock Players.
Evening star., 1927-05-22
WILSON PLAYERS--Thursday.

The Wilson players will present
their closing program for the season
on Thursday, May 26, Sis pm, at
Wilson Normal Auditorium, Eleventh
and Harvard streets northwest. "Un-
being played by Lahuna Clinton, Ed
win Baukhag ges, and Louise Wood in
the part of Hulda: "On Vengeance
Height" by Allan Davis, a short
drama of feud in the Tennessee
Mountains. in which Elizabeth Dyer
will play Gram, with Martha Ward,
Edwin Baukhages and Harry West
colt, and THE Weak Spot by
George Kelly. played on Keith's for
two or three years, with Irene Mel
kirk as Jenny and sylvia Hntt and
Harry Westcott In the other two,
parts.
Evening star., 1927-05-22
GLEN ECHO PARK.

With the picnic season opening,
Glen Echo Park, with it's spacious,
shady groves, is naturally in the field
for entertainment.
The big, open-air. free-admission
amusement park is receiving heavy
bookings for picnics and outings, and
despite unreasonable weather the park
is said to be drawing record throngs.
The Glen Echo ballroom, with new
decorations and attractive, indirect
lighting and with dance melodies by
David McWilliams and his 10-piece
novelty orchestra, which includes the
marvellous new vibraphone, introduced
for the first time in Washington at
the park this year, furnishes the ap-
peal to dancers.
An amusing human feature at the
park is the dignified person of middle
age who visits the park ito see the
youngsters having their fun" and is
himself engulfed in the whirlpool Of
merriment by the thrilling coaster
dips and the speedy Derby racer, the
whiz around the whip, the shooter and
the caterpillar, to say nothing Of the
hilarious Midway. with revolving bar
lels, trick floors, chutes and kiddie
coasters. And there are yet more
novelties to kill time and make an
outing joyful.
The Washington Railway & Electric
Co., just outside the Glen Echo gates.
provides cars marked Glen Echo"
and Cabin John" with frequent trips
to and from the city.
Evening star., 1927-05-22

At Chevy Chase Lake two Meyer
Davis bands, the featured attractions,
are staging a real battle for popu
larity honors. The contest is one be.
tween symphonic Jazz and jazz plus
vaudeville. with Director Al Kamons
representing the former and Ben
Levine the latter.
Director Kamons has won repu:
tation as the director of the Swanee
Syncopators, and Ben Levine is just
one of those extremely versatile peo-
pie, equally at nome I'm urging the
band on the upper pavilion into fe.
verish jazz and in putting on one
man vaudeville show of his own.
LIE PARADIS.
lie Paradis next week will feature
the Three Happy-go-lucky Boys"
big hit of the recent Palm Beach
season. in both melody and mirth. Be-
sides some highly tropical singing,
they also play the piano and the uku-
lele.
The LIE Paradis roof garden will
open May 25, and the opening will
be marked by souvenirs, a. roster of
specially booked entertainment and
gay floral decorations, with the music
OF LIE Paradis Band, under Director
Jack Golden, as a special program.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
With Other Editors
WHERE ARIZONAS LEGISLATIVE POWERS
ARE APPARENTLY IN CONFLICT
lArizona Republican)

The refusal secretary
the seventh legislature
higher courts food for thought in that they are lett largely ungudeo Oy law
precedent legislative that vested
by constitution to the
people
Only five cent
gnied The first attempt of the leg
administration of the motor certificate law out of the hands
OF the secretary was baked not by referendum put oy c0Fo pep
filing petitions for referendum with the required
the secretary held his authority to
the law under the provisions Of the conS
referendum invoked not against attempt to transfer the
secreas office but to repeal the law under which
he was acting
something the
greater than that reserved to the
law which, instead of aboshng the duties created
another department of the
provision different from that which had previously
seventh legislature but which would have
secretary since would have relieved him of
certificate and would have deprived him OF
of those duties This accom-
action the legislature should be sustained by the passage Of
clause putting that
legislation beyond the reach OF the referendum
the though the courts hold
legislation that the legislation made effective
bill with clause command
in this case had supefluity
speculate the effect OF the REFER
should sustain the latter act of the legislature whether
futile gesture whether
should be sustained the act OF
repealed whether the first act of the eighth should be
whether the latter
would repealed by the latter law which preserves the administration
the motor certificate act but puts into the hands of the mgn"a
appears the proceedings
provisions of the
constitution standing ccum
the judicial arder be well stocked with ovend for
thought
cuan constitutional vested the legislature
legislature intended accomplish
shown the effect of
the but to the state the effect of
each would be quite different
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
Fall House Cleaning Need.

great citizens Douglas
havepe to weeds
while the fertility
that detac
responsibility
the of wonderfully
continued their activity during
hoped that will assume
pretet the
visitors.
continued their activity street
the and certainty that they
cooperate eliminating weeds from the beautiful
vista at this
that
fall
will they
preest best the southwest
Douglas the most attractive home
Fifteenth
with with
attention
that
home Other have
attention.
the aturalb beauty characterizes
ananye homes bringing
to foreground these words are4w wrttenJpo
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
A BIGGER WHEAT CROP IN 1928
(New York Herald -;Tribune)

5Tribune)
opportng department OF agriculture has just
the outlook the winter wheat in 1927
findings, little disturbing They point unerngy
world markets for American wheat
except 1913
condition yield remain
approximately 100000 with indicated
this the preliminary estimate for which 553OOOO
1924 This would with
bushels 1925 2O4O00OO bushels 1926 and
bushels in 1927
expansion
diminishing the cereal. unfortunately the
appears Argentine
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
WASHINGTON Al
LETTER SKI


WASdINGTON-S Senator j. Boom
boom McWhorter, who not only knows
it seems, all he reads in the papers,
but scans between the lines as well,
says the day of the war brides is
at hand.
'The servants of Mars are about
to be rewarded" was the quaint way
the senator put it as he looked uE
from his paper which he had been
shearing diligently of all political
news, particularly little items about
Senator McWhorter.
~ "Let us look significantly at Herbert
Hoover and Charles G.. Dawes the
senator proceeded. "Ain't it the
truth? The war made 'em and these
two menS except for Coolidge, are
now leading candidate for presidential
nomination"
Apparently neither party with draw
from veterans of the front line
trenches next year. But 1923 may see
the first nomination OF anyone
connected with the military or
1t is thus more or less interesting
to consider the madam's prophecy
i'll the light of past history
The first three presidents were
George Washington, John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson. Washington had
been commander-in-ch of the revo-
lutionary army, Jefferson wrote most
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

competitors engaged apparently similar
this
favorable
When cotton 1926 little than
withholding
present
of IL
putting
cotton his partially monopoistc
condition. wheat
second what the ponta serious effort made by
cotton planters this crta production thus bringing production and
commodity which include
latter oVerproducion
tbs of these paves that will
prevail against continued policy of over-expanson
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

of the declaration of independence
Adams was also on the committee
which reported the declaration--war
service put all three in line for the
presidency.
The first president chosen after
the Civil war was General U. S.
Grant, chief of the union armies
elected in. 1868 and 1872. Hayes was
elected in 1876 and Garfield in 1880
Both had been union generals. Gar
field defeated still another veteran
officer.
President Benjamin Harrison had
been a general and President William
Mckinley major
The Spanish war and San Juan
hill had brought Roosevelt to the
front and he was elected vice presi-
dent in 1900 and president in 1904
Even Bryan, who was a candidate
Sc often, had been an officer during
the Spanish war. If he had been
able-or allowed-to distinguish HIM
self in action as Roosevelt did, he
might have been elected on one
occasion.
Even now, one can predict that
while the 1923 candidate of one or
both parties may have achieved his
first important national prominence
during or as a result of the war,
no candidate is going to pe nominated
or elected on his war record alone.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
National Defense Cared For.

United rapidly preparedness
without fanfare tumpe administration bng
indicated by various items in the
Billings Mont, his return from the
Yellowstone National park
arms Coondges the
Military appreciation of the continuance OF
the efforts the president in behalf the successful operation OF the
nation
Americas huge apan Saratoga
completed will be commissioned
great experiments defense expected do
bringing Britain would
warships.
It reported power of the
of these great fighting craft
attended the
wa All photographs and drawings which
destroyed In fact little has been
the United States realize that
the ships about ready get up steam and take their places wtn the
Pacific fleets.
been completed and tested and everything ready
essential secret equipment is installed and
few finishing applied and there
that these two ships the most powerful and
dangerous war craft afoat
ships launch 80 fighting observation bombing
and torpedo planes of the mostm type
built in America with
Each 888 feet long, with bear 0
enlisted 100 officers 1SO of whom
viii carry eight eigbtnc gums Of new and powerful design
we'll he anti aircraft batteries
ship secondary of l2 fvench and
four21 ,@4t
Every bit of machinery ships
horsepower generated will be sufficient to heat
and a o population
car mostp probably
these experts
the
the
with warshs Smoke
remarkable an-alrcat armament would
the to a minimum
be safely launched and
landed ship that
warship action it cannot RETURN
design presenting an entirely
different picture viewed from the port as conrasted from the
that it consists OF
will land
Of craft
side ship
the at battle a distance
with
the
Pacific
administration while standing oddy
necessity
of makinga adeq preparations
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
Menus for the Family

BREAKFAST = Honeydew mellon,
cereal, cream, crisp broiled bacon,
soft cooked eggs, toast, coffee, milk.
LUNCHEON-Cre of pea soup,
toasted crackers, stuffed tomato salad,
blueberry bread pudding, milk, tea.
DINNER - Country Iried spring
chicken, milk, gravy, mashed potatoes
corn on the cob, cold Slaw, apple
pie, cheese, rolls, milk coffee.
A ''fryer" should weigh from two
TO two and one half pounds dressed
A chicken this size is disjointed rather
than being split in half as "broiler"
is. Each joint is rolled in flour,
seasoned with salt and pepper and
quickly Drowned on all sides in
mixture of butter and lard Then
the heat is reduced, the frying pan
covered and the chicken cooked slowly
for one hour.
BIueberry Bread Pudding
!. One pint blueberrieS, one half cup
grApulated sugar, one half teaspoon
cinnamon, one eighth teaspoon salt,
four tablespoons water, bread, butter,
hard sauce.
Mix berries;N sugar, cinnamon, salt
and water. Cook ten minutes. Re
move crust from several slices OF
bread cut about one half inch thick.
Spread one side evenly with butter
and cut each slice into one Ahalf inch
cubes, Put one tablespoonful of the
hot berry mixture into eacn of tour
custard cups. Add layer of bread
and press down until bread is covered
with berry mixture Continue layer
for layer, pressing into fruit until
all is used. Place on ice TO chill and
serve With hard sauce, ..s....,...-a
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO

The Douglas volunteer fire de-
partment at it's meeting Monday
evening decided to disband its
organization and turn its affairs,
ever to the call men. This part
of the city fire service was or
ganized in 1910 by Chief Nemeck..
Charles Legrand left yesterday
for Los Angeles to spend a vaca-
ton.
Miss Jessie Hill has returned
to Douglas from the coast, where
she spent the summer.
Mrs. w. G. Greene returned to
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
More Truth Than Poetry
BY JAMES ]. MONTAGUE
BLUFF

Fetng stepped to my ears in historical
stuff
AS it's wHt;eh n story 'ns ar
IN convncsc that the !cllow who
throws the bcsC blIlf
Is the one Who gets :s:;fest along
in the fight 'ht)uFn tie se-.
fame and 'en)vn
The timjd rcnAlaJ Dr lie shelf,
While the lal who walked G'i ."
the sceO,'a anG crown
Was the S,,e VINO ttu.rnt w.: .,
himSe
1t seldom was necd.ul for rulers
and kings
Those .ong vanished etnt.rics
through
To make GOOD their boasting ard
do all rhc thirgs
They had 81 " pro'lair'd they
could do
They had ~" lv to say that with
valor and might
They hal GlwlJs bcca richly en-
dowed,
And to strut round rss;.uI. to
cowa and aff::grs
The stupid and wcr l:!prii.E cf"
Canute, you may tell me, has dis
proved this rule,
But that unhappy day on the
coast
The old man behaved like fatuous
fool
In attempting to make good his
boast
Had he simply announced: II can
hold back the tide"
AS one stating an obvious fact
Beyond any possible doubt he'd have
died
With his great reputation intact.
Have care when you sneer at the
man who declares
That he means to get power and
place,
That he'll plunge into statecraft or
business affairs
And gain long lead in the race.
Don't think that his boasts are un~
worthy to heed,
That his hopes are but vain land
absurd
1t is twenty to one that the chaps
will succeed
If he don't try to make good his
word!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

Fruit gelatins are easy to prepare.
The proportion usually is one en-
velope of gelatin to one quart of
liquid, a little less in warm weather.
An ounce of gelatin will soften in
about two minutes in one-half cup of
cold water Heat one cup of water
with three-fourths cup of sugar or
less, depending on the acidity of the
fruit to be used. Add the Softened
gelatin Take 2 IA cups of strained
fruit juice, the juice of half lemon
to intensity the flavor, mix with the
dissolved gelatin and sugar, and pour
into a mold.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
ABE MARTIN

Allus sOmethin' happenin' an allus
some event t IOOk forward TO, this is
great ole world, even if we do have
T. carry stickup insurance. believe
they could begin now T. publish some
O. tn presidents photographs over
asin without anybuddy gittin' on. fer
his vacation 80 fer hain't hee'' nOtIniN'
more'n q change o. venue.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
Miss Leading

Home town chum: Gee whiz
John, you're sure some popular fell
Ter. No wonder me girl at home likes
you. And were you practically en-
gagged to all these girls whose pictures
cover your walls?
Big frat man: Nav, I had my
prep get 'em.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

A bungalow colony, with swim
ming pool and everything, is being
established in Death Valley. Maybe
Commander Byrd could sell some OF
the folk around the south pole some
of the new electric refrigerators.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
BARB8

SOCIAL NOTE: Mayor Jimmy
Walker, of New York, has returned
for a visit to his ancestral home
in Ireland. There hasn't been much
doing around New York lately, the
Atlantic ocean having been pretty
well flown
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
FIFTY-FIFTY

| 1t is said that 100000 prohibition
agents would be necessary to enforce
| the Volstead law That would be
about one for every bootlegger.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

the fatal pnial in his pocket rushed
down the stairs tripped over hi-
little sisters kiddie car and broke
his neck
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

The attention of Tex Rickard is
respectfully called to all the neigh,
boring cities of about the same size
in the United States just after their
census announcements.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
WORTH ITHEIR WHILE

The ship builders would doubtless
be glad to finance another confer
ence for the limitation of arna-
ment.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

The collegiate iGea OF lamp of
knowledge The tail light of parked
car.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

j. R. Hilburn, who has been
deputy sheriff in Douglas since
Jack Whites second election. has
resigned because of illness.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
HIGH OR Low?

There is movement to abolish
dives in Atlantic City, but the an
nouncement doesn't say which kind
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

He had finally arranged everything.
He would make one last call-would
tell her he still loved her--would
swallow the acid, and die writhing in
her arms How sorry she would be!
With tears binding his eyes he put
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

Several doughboys are en- route
to Paris This is their second attempt
to see little of France.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

st see by the paper that widowei
with nine children has married a
widow with seven children"
"That was no marriage. That was
a merger"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

els he a good driver?"
"Well, when the road turns the
came time he does, it's just coinci-
dence,"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

j. A. Coombs left yesterday for
Illinois to visit his aged mother.
He will spend the winter in Neb-
raska, returning to Douglas in the
spring.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30
Plucked From the Plains

What made you oversleep this
morning?"
"There are eight in the house, but
the alarm was only set for seven"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

rs: A lot of prominent citizens of
Syracuse want me to come back and
live there
'27: Really?
'26: Yes, / get letters from the
leading merchants every SO often
saying that they would like to have
me come back and settle.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

Tourist in western town: 1 sup
pose men still die around here with
their boots on?
Sheriff: Yep. But faint from six
shooters now as much as from six
cylinders!
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

"Good morning, sir. Does anyone
in your family happen to play the
piano?"
eyes, confound it, my daughter"
"Then I have the very attachment
you need for it."
"What is it?"
"a lock and key"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

"In how many ways can six people
sit in fcur seatS?"
That's easy. One way The way
nature intended them to Sit
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-30

Cananea yesterday accompanied
by her neice, Miss Mollie Dowdle.
Mrs Greene will leave soon to
make her home in Los Angeles.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-19
AUTO statesmen
|. PLAN SERVICE .

Establishment of an employment
department Of the National. Auto
motive SaIesmen's Association az a
service to dealers and to members
Of the organization, was announced
today at national headquarters.
Through this department Of the
N. A. s. A, it Is pointed out by
officials. automotive dealers WflI be
enabled to get in touch with
recommended men for their sales
staffs, and members of the oreani.
zation will be placed In contact
with dealers who have signified
their needs.
According to Eugene OrchsenreI.
ter, president of the National Auto
motive Salesmen's Association and
member of the sales staff of the
Semmes Motor Company, Washing.
ton Dodge distributors, establishment
of the newIy-formed body marks
the first of a series of constructive
efforts to be undertaken through
the association.
we have lost no time organizing
our employment division" Mr..
Ochsenreiter points out, because
we have felt for many years there
has been an urgent need for such
an agency. Our purpose is to make
1t a clearing house to which the
automobile dealers OF the country
may turn and feel confident in the
men who viii be recommended 70
them