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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28

Missions, Ella May Smith, Cath
crime Walk, Clarence Conover, Har-
ry Walk; quartette, Mrs. Marion
Weed, Miss Anna Pruchnicki, Jas.
Boyee, Raymond Weed. Chorus.
Rev. C. X. Dilks baptized Clifford
Allen McCourt and Emma Falley
irwin.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28
CARNIVAL A SUCCESS.
Affair Conducted by Oaks Volun'
teer Fire Company.

The Carnival which was conduct
ed by the Oaks Volunteer fire com
pany closed Saturday night. The
affair was big success and was
very popular for both children and
grown-ups. The amusements and
booths We're well patronized by all
the visitors.
The proceeds of the carnival will
be used by the company to buy a
siren for the fire house and other
equipment.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28
Personal.

Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Miller, OF
White Horse Village, entertained
on Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. John Mil
Ter, Miss Mary Miller, Miss Helen
Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bowen
and children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jewel, of Delaware
avenue, entertained friends and rel
atives over the week end.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas, of Atlantic
City, are spending the summer in
Taylor's apartment, on Bay View
avenue.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. William Kyle, of
Atlantic City, spent Sunday at the
home Of Harry B. Conover.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28
sUcucnxy xrrxxYo xYnwv1n Absecon
:. M, 1onrsso, Steadily

the girls Of the Abseeon Queen Els.
Their Circle at their meeting Friday
night at the home Of Mrs. A. L.
HammeIl
The girls have been studying
"The Quare Women" which was
written by Miss Furhman and has
been explained by Miss Ethel Ham
nell at each monthly meeting. Miss
Furhman has spent the summers i'll
Absecon for a number of years.
During the business session
plans were made to send delegates
to the Queen Esther summer school
which will start at Ocean Grove
July 9.
Mrs. ldella Hand, member Of
the Queen Esther Circle Of the
First NJ. Z. Church, Atlantic City,
told OF many interesting features
which are being carried ON by their
society.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Miller enter
tanned Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Cornell and children, of Philadel-
phia.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28

Walter Conover, of Philadelphia,
spent the week end at his home on
New York road.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28

Her is ard sog the ngsmn
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right Commando Byrd Bert Ao George nav .i Ih Bern
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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28
Club Meetings.

The June meeting of the Absecon
Women's Republican Club will be
held Thursday night at the home OF
Mrs. Marrette Clark, Reed road. A
special musical program has been
arranged. An invitation has been
extended to the men,
The June meeting Of the Mission
airy society of the Presbyterian
Church will be held at the home OF
Mrs. James Ballantine.
The Ladies' Bible class will meet
tonight in the Nj. E. chapel. Mrs.
Harry Smith will be hostess.
Trustees OF the M. E. Church will
meet tonight at 7.30 in the church.
The picnic committee for the an
nual outing to be held at Mays Ian
ding July 8, will meet at O'Clock.
Rev. C. X. Dilks urged all members
of the various committees to at
tend.
At the mid-week prayer meeting
to be held Wednesday night, Rev.
Dilks will speak on THE Definite
Purpose" Mrs. George B. Conover
will render special music.
Miss Emily Gaskill is spending
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Weed
spent Sunday with Mr.. Weeds par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Weed,
New York road.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-06-28

The Abseeon Boys club will play
baseball Tuesday night at $50 on
the local diamond with The Leeds
avenue club. Thursday night the
Linwood club Will be met
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
A Few Bubbles May
Be Punctured
Here

This play, which Herman Shum-
lin and Paul Streger will pre-
sent at the Belasco for one
week, beginning Monday. is the
intimate odyssey of a modern
pugilistic demigod who finds it in
sufficient to be adorned for his
mere fistic feats and vaguely
aspires to higher things" The
attainment of this ambition
which was originally given its
impetus by the enterprising man.
ager-is effected in a workman
like manner. Culture is supplied
in compressed doses, like a pill
to be taken before and after
meals; refinement Is casually pur-
chased at whatever price is de-
manded.
This brings the essentially gaudy
champion into immensely amusing
predicanents. and provides merci-
less revelations of the actions
and intentions of the fighting
world: the camp, the hangers-on.
the publicity, the systematized
quackery. However, these intru-
sive glimpses are offered entirely
without bitterness; a zestful
laughter informs the whole play,
and the vivid racy slang serves
to strengthen the flavor of gay
reality. Very little of celebrity"
can be found on the sporting
pages of the newspapers; it is
inside stuff such as Is reaPely
disclosed to the public.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
School Taught Him
How to Be a
Lady

While Female Impersonation
AS q Fine Art" Is not in the col
lege textbooks or curriculum, all
the greatest impersonators Of this
type on the stage, since and be-
fore the world noted Julian Eltinge.
learned their art there. Like
Eltinge and the other great
ladies" before him, Karyl Nor.
man, better known as 1.-The Creole
Fashion Plate" who is one of the
headliners at the Fox next week,
found the inspiration for his art
at Lafayette College. AS in all
colleges, a certain portion of the
male students don wigs and high
heels to portray feminine roles in
their school plays.
Karyl proved such a hit in the
college plays that before his senior
year had ended he was consider.
ing a half dozen offers from
Broadway producers who were
then looking for someone to sue
ceed Eltinge. Cap, gown and di-
ploma were forgotten by Norma n
III thS Tusn 10 1ineS square, anu
he is today rated as the leading
impersonator of them all.
His first public success came In
vaudeville, but after that he
cheated regular musical comedy
beauties out of leading roles in
several Broadway revues. Like
Eltinge, he has featured a rich
and evotic wardrobe and many of
his gowns have been the envy
and despair of the genuine ladies'.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
G. w. u. VOdvil

George Washington Univer-
sity's annual Vodvil show will
he given Thursday night, Dec. 9,
in the Gym, 20S3 H. ST., N. W.,
at $40 p. m.
The all-University vodviIl has
for several years been one Of
the schools most popular activi-
ties in which all fraternities.
sororities, and organizations enter
acts into the outstanding enter
tainment event of the fan SEM
ester.
This year, the Board Of Direct
ors of the Dramatic Association
has inaugurated a new policy
by offering a cup to the organ
ization presenting the best act.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
dislike The Films
Are with Us
For Good

People have not yet ceased
wondering at the motion picture
industry and the things it has
accomplished. Probably people
will never cease this wonder
ing. There we're old time
shOwmen who would shout
with glee from the house tops
If they ever had an attraction
that would pay to a total OF
$4,000 in a week. Today this
sum would not pay the weekly
salary Of any one of several
popular picture stars.
Early in the present season
one New York cinema palace
announced that it's receipts on
a four weeks run had gone
over S25O,00O. A few weeks
later another huge house an
nounced gross receipts of
$4,000 in a week of seven
days.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
Broadway Notes on
The Plays and
Players

Blossom Seeley and Bennie
Fields, at the. Fox Theater next
week. have been signed for the
Forthcoming version of the Green
wieh Village Follies.
Jack Smith. Whispering Bari
tone." has had to cancel all
engagements owing to a throat
afflietion for which he will undergo
an operation.
AS good as we were to zieg-
field and his showboat. he has
nicked Boston as the opening
spot for his two newect pro-
duetions, "Rah, Rah Rosalie"
and "Three Musketeers."
Henry Duffy, once in jeopardy
here trying to promote stock
at the President. Is now the
proud ewner of seven bouncing
stock companies on the West
Coast, although this isn't essen,
TALLY a Broadway note.
Wells Hawks is leaving the
Naval Hospital in New York,
where he has heen confined
for some months. to rest in
his apartment. He was a lieu.
tenant commander here during
the war and widely known in
theater circles.
Eva LeGallienne, recent win,
ner of a $4,000 prize as the in.
dividual who contributed most
to the arts in 1926, has heen
viciously taken to task by critics
for her newest presentation,
"Twice Two Are Five" The
theme is objected to as gross
and affronting.
Fred and Tom waring, Joint
owners of Warnings Band, filed
petition in bankruptcy in Pitts,
burgh as the result of had in
vestmeuts in Florida. The in
vestments were not in land,
but in music stores.
Madge kennedy ia to be
starred in Philip Barry's new
play, THE Wedding" which Ar
thur Hopkins will produce.
Edwin Knopf opens his Bal,
timere stock company December
2e with He Who Gets Slapped"
icse Ruben and Fania Mar.
iAof1 will do the leads.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
Smart Cracks From
Mr.. CarrOll's
Vanities

Johnny Dooley. one of the de
luxe comedians in Earl Carroll
Vanities." arrived at the theater
recently later than is his usual
custom. Explaining his late ar
rival to the stage manager. he
said he went out to get some gin
and oranges, but he had to go
seven or eight places before he
could find any oranges.
George Moran, one Of the "Two
Black Crows" of the famous team
of Moran and Mack also in the
Vanities protests that 35 cents is
a pretty stiff price to pay for one
egg; but Charlie Mack, his part
ner, justifies it by reminding him
that 1t is days work for q. hen.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
M. CarrOl's Crowd,
Romance and
Opera

BELASCO-A play with a prize.
fighting theme. celebrity" books
into the Belasco for the new week
beginning Monday. The idea is.
treated satirically with stress laid
on the enormous purses paid pres
ent-day fighters as against the
days Of Corbett, Jeffries ana sulli.
van, Willard Keefe, one-time
Washington newspaper man, is the
author. Crane Wilbur, Constance
Mackay and Claude Cooper are
featured with support from Nancy
Sheridan, Gavin Gordon, Hale
Norcross and others. Edward
Goodman. director of Shaw's est.
joan and other plays, has dl-
rected.
NATIONAL-Ear Earl CarrolPs
Vanities," with the irrepressible
two black crows" Moran and
Mack, promises another prosper
Gus week at the National. begin
ming Sunday night. There are
100 people in the company, includ-
ing Johnny Dooley, Frances Mar.
chant, Julius Tannen and Norman
Prescott, the latter a mind reader
VINO does astounding things. Miss
Dallas and Miss Wheeling, beauty
winners in this years Atlantic City
pageant, are also in the cast. And
the dancing Foster girls viii be
seen in their unusual rope climb
ing stunts.
POLPS-The grand opera fes-
tival with which the Washington
National Opera will open its tenth
season win be launched with q
performance Of Thomas ''Mignon"
in Polls Theater next Monday
night, December 5. at S:1S.
PRESIDENT - Because of the
numerous requests for a revival
this season of the Savoyan operas,
T. Arthur Smith, director Of the
President Theater Light Opera
Company, announces that his or
ganization will present for the
week beginning Monday night.
December 5, the most popular Of
all Gilbert. & Sullivan operas
The Mikado."
The famous opera, with its
melodic music - its high and
mighty buffoonery-is being re-
vived in all the lavishness that
has, made the President Theater
revivals notable.
Charles T. H. Jones, who is
staging the piece. has met with
unusual success in the matter Of
selection of cast. For the pivotal
assignments he has singled out
Anne Yago. Edith Thayer, Lee
Daily, William Mitchell. Ivan Ar
bucket and Harry Pfeil.
The usual chorus ensemble will
feature this presentation Of "The
Mikado."
Matinees will be on Thursday
and Saturday.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
The Variety Ais
And Their
Tenants

KEITH'S-Ned Wayburn brings
a new revue to Keith's for the
week beginning Sunday. John
Byam and Peggy Hanlon are fea-
tured and included in the cast of
q dozen or more Wayburn pro.
teges is Shirley Edwards, a Dem
yer Junior Lacquer. Duci de
Kerekjarto, violin virtuoso, is fea-
tured. Other acts include Ell
Brendel. with Flo Bert. In '"rhe
Poor Swede"; Ernest Hiatt, come
dian; Paul Decker in Liars All;
Rubio Si-ters, acrobats; the Hearst
Brothers, who got their training
from Gus Edwards; Frank Will
son in "Cycle-Ology." and the
customary house features.
EARLE-The Libby Dancers. in
"Sports a la Mode top the Earle
bill for the week beginning Sun
day. There are six scenes In the
revue, promoted by three featured
players known to the world only
as Doreen. Helen and Betty.
Dunbar's Collegians in Beats
and After-Beats'' win be featured
in a musicale interlude. Other
inclusions in the vaudeville por-
tion of the bill are La Belle 49ola.
Simian dancer with jungle band;
Stella Tracey and Jay Elwood in
bits of Broadway; Harry Levan
and Lettie Bolles in Mere Nom
sense" The photo feature for the
new week is Almost Human
with Vera Reynolds, Kenneth
Thompson and others. Also
shorter reels.
GAYETY-Ed Daley's battalion
of funsters come to the Gayety
for the new week in a revue called
Here We Are" led by Jack La
Mont, BILLY Tanner, Jyes La Rue
and Midgie Gibbons. Patricia
Burns and the Tuneville Four, har-
monists, will lead the chorus array
In a sequence of novelty numbers.
STRAND-"Lolita," billed as the
girl Of mystery, will be one of the
chief attractions in Girls From
the Follies," at the Strand for the
new week. Gladys Clark Youthful
dancer, will contribute several
numbers, as will Wava White. in
the chorus scenes. Fred Binder is
featured on the masculine side.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03

POLI'S-The grand opera fes-
tival with which the Washington
National Opera will open its tenth
season win be launched with q
performance Of Thomas ''Mignon"
in Polls Theater next Monday
night, December 5, at e:1S.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03

NIaNoON OA dIEIUOCIHcIIV sC6ACIo'
At the top of the big time
group on Broadway is the war
spectacle. Wings" which has
the unique distinction of play
ing to full houses plus standing
room ever since it opened. Now
with more than 200 performances
in its record it is fast approach.
ing the day when it will be the
senior of all the specials in
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
Happy Task

Harry Langdon in his newest
First National picture, The
Chaser" is chased by a score of
Hollywood's most beautiful bath
ing girls. He plays the part of
a suburban husband who unwit.
tingly breaks up their picnic
party.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
Scene Paradise

All of the desert exteriors for
shes Sheik," starring Bebe
Daniels at the Rialto this week
were made in Guadalupe, Califor-
MIA. the location used for the film
ing of THE Ten Commandments
The Washington times., 1927-12-03

town,
In addition to the 81 shows. the
list of specials might be increased
by recognizing The Rough
Riders" which already has had
it's day in the aristocratic class
and now is making the rounds at
the priced, continuous
performance houses.
The Washington times., 1927-12-03
Nine So Films NotU
On BroQdlUay

With nine special So admission twohows-a-dy productions
showing Broadway houses the movies their
heyday of Importance competitors the great New York
The number of 81 before
showing at the time aere The increasing
number of such big productions convincing evidence the
enlarged interest in pictures and their growing appeal to all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-23

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
IONDON.-TheC crab, which hold:
a sponge five times its size over It's
back
The hermit crab, which tucks Its
defenseless tail into empty shells
The caterpillar of tropical Africa
which clusters around a twig so as
to resemble a poisonous berry, avoid =
ed by bird and beast
These are n few of q thousand IN
stances which show that the science
of military defense is a highly cult
waited art in the animal world.
McAndrew Haig. Chelsea's Scotch
naturalist, knows many of them. He
has devoted his life to the study OF
animals.
The art of camouflage, which hu-
man beings employed. to any extent
for the first time during the World
War, has been part of the daily life
of animals for hundreds of centuries.
Some animals adopt the warning
colors of more dangerous animals.
while others hide themselves against
the scenic background.
Spider crabs dress their shells with
weeds, corallines and debris. Haig
says. Some have shells with porous
surface, on which sponges grow, com.
pletely shielding them from more
powerful marine animals.
The cuttlefish elects a sepia fluid
of binding nature when pursued
by larger fish. A large number of
other molluscs also can create a
smoke screen" Some whelk re-
sembling snails, likewise emit q
screen Of liquid smoke. This In
ancient times provided the Tyrian
purple used to color festal garments.
while the young of many fishes are
still unable to defend themselves,
they achieve an automatic kind Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-23

and ether utensils. Above the fire.
place Is q ffintlock musket, and on the
mantel stands the old warming pan.
Pewter plates. candlesticks- candle
snuffers and other necessities rest on
the tables or in the cupboards.
Some of the furnishings have
grim history. A quantity fashioned
ash shovel, with n four-foot handle,
was the weapon used by a Carver
woman to protect herself against an
attack by Indians. With it she is
known to have killed one of her at
tackers.
One Of the rarest possessions is a
Dutch sink of heavy sandstone.
Standing on three-legged pedestal,
its lip protruding through a hole in
the wall, its contents could be emptied
into the yard outside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-23
Mapping Baffin Land.
rom the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Before he sailed to the Arctic Circle
to explore the Fox Basin coast of
Bafin Land George Palmer Putnam
estimated the area of that terra incog.
nita at 800, 900 square miles, two-thirds
of which, he said, mot only is unmap-
ped, but literally has never felt the
foot of white man." The east and
southeastern coast has been fairly well
mapped, for Davis Strait and Baffin
Bay are accessible enough in the Sum.
mer months. William Baffin explored
the great bay named after him as long
ago as 1916. A great deal of work has
since been done by other explorers.
But interior Baffin Land still remains
a blank. Its geography Is mythical.
DR.. Boas reported mountains 5000 feet
high lin the central parts" but evil
IDENTIFY at long range, for the Oxford
survey Of the British Empire says Of
his account that IF this is correct the
far northern mountains may surpass
the Torngats of Labrador in altitude
DR.. Robert Bell, the Canadian geolo.
gist, has found wide bands of crys.
talline limestone associated with
gneiss" in Baffin Land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-23
TOURIST TREK TURNS
AWAY FROM FRANCE
Large Numbers Of Americans Pass
Through Paris on Way to
Other Countries.
of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS.-American tourists in large
numbers have been passing through
France this Summer to spend their
time and dollars in other countries
just at travellers from st. Louis and
the Southwest pass through Philadel.
phia on their way to New York. Last
year France got the lions share OF
the transatlantic rubber-neck trade
and the hotels waXed prosperous. This
year none of them are filled to capac
ity--that Is, none of the hotels.
Visiting the Saint Lazare Station in
Paris, where all the trains from Cher
bourg and Havre deposit their pas.
passengers, a glance at the baggage
room reveals that a large proportion
Of foreign visitors merely pass through
France instead Of stopping. Much Of
the baggage from New York is in
bond. Labels on the trunks indicate
final destination as Italy, Switzerland
or Germany-mostly Italy this year.
Many tourists spent most Of their
holiday in France IL months ago
merely because prices were lower in
dollars than elsewhere In Europe.
That is no longer true, and they move
on. Hotel prices in francs are about
the same as il 1926-except in hotels
de luxe. whore the gold standard is
followed. But, in dollars. French hotel
prices are 70 to 100 per cent above the
1926 charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-23
HOUSE IS UNCHANGED
THROUGH ESQ YEARS
Correspondence of the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PLYMOUTH. Mass.-History turns
back three centuries at the threshold
of the old Harlow house.
The ancient dwelling, thanks to the
efforts of the Antiquarian Society, to.
day stands little changed In appear.
ance sfrom the time when Sergt.
William Harlow built 1t in 1877, using
timbers from the ancient fort on
Burial Hill.
Severity simple furnishings typify
the early Colonial period Some have
been in the house since 1t was built.
Its massive fireplace is graced by a
crane from which hang iron kettles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-23
RUSSIANS REPORT
DEBT AGREEMENT
French and Soviet Find Com.
mon Ground in Principle,
Litvinoff Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Russia, September 90
a fun agreement has been reached OF
the debt question between the Sovie
and French delegations studying thu
question, Maxim Litvinoff, chief o.
the Soviet legations abroad, declared
, Interviewed by the Soviet news
agency tass on doubts expressed ir
French newspapers as to whether ar
agreement had been reached between
the delegates, NJ. Litvinoff said:
Ell emphatically affirm and authorize
you publicly TO report that between
the Soviet and French delegations a
full agreement has been reached on
the debt question. The general agree
ment has not been signed only be
cause the French have not yet &C
cepted our proposals in the matter OF
credits.
VIII Deposit Fund.
Although agreement in principle
has been reached on the question of
credits a complete understanding re.
garding their size has not been
reached
However, all doubts will soon be
set at rest when the French public
will learn that the Soviet government
is ready within the next six months to
deposit in an agreed bank the first
half yearly installment of 10000. 900
gold francs ABOUT $6,000.00o) from
which the first payments can be made
to the French holders of Russian Sc
curities Immediately after the ratifl-
cation by both government of the gen
eral agreement on debts and credits
as we authorized Rakovsky tSoviet
Ambassador to France) yesterday to
, declare to the French delegates"
Hailed as Victory.
The official organ. Izvestia, COM
menting on the announced debt settle
ment with France. halls it as a vic
tory of Soviet diplomacy, stating that
1t offers the basis for a working I'M
Outstanding with the bourgeoisie world
and undermines the ground under
meath the bitterly anti-Soviet elements
by settling a problem to the mutual
satisfaction Of the parties concerned.
After stating that Ambassador
Rakovsky had been instructed to mott.
fy the French delegation of the readi.
ness OF the Soviet government to de-
post the first payment of 10000, 900
gold francs, the balance to be paid in
annuities of 60,000.000 gold francs for
81 years, 1zvestia says:
Evidently this compromise means
q concession on our part as well, but
with this agreement, which substan.
tally is advantageous to us. we knock
the bottom from underneath the ele-
ments Of the French bourgeoisie,
which incite the masses Of petty
French bondholders hit by the annui.
ment or the cars debts.''
According to recent disclosures,
brewers of 5000 B. c. were trying to
nr0drYce hpQr fraa frny,n