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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-07
sTRANGLED WITH KERCHIEF

SOFIA.-Mlle. Sonia Kertisz was
found stranEled to death with her
handkerchief in her fathers home.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-07
JUNKER HELD UP

LISBON, Portugal, Oct. 7.-tP1-
Departure of the Junkers plane D.
1880 for the Azores, en- route TO the
United States. was postponed today
because Of a thick fog nj sea.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-07

TREE 1.00e YEARS OLD
HULL, Eng.-An oak tree believed
10 be 1000 years old was uprooted
near here by a heavy wind.
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ger. southern Illinois gang leader.
Snder sentence 10 die October ii.
for the murder or Mayor Joe Adams
AZ West City, was granted today ny
the supreme court on his petition
for a writ Of error and supersedas.
VIM Pom Cents--A Good Cigar
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WEATHER BULLETIN

First figures. highest temperature
yesterday; second. lowest last night;
third. precipitation in last "a hours
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Execution Stay
Granted Birger

SPRINGFIELD. Ill. Oct. 7.-Pl-
A stay of execution for Charles Bir-
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Attractions in Washington Theaters
Next Week

the program of the Community In
stitute OF Washington tomorrow night
at SIS O'Clock. in the auditorium of
Central High Community Center.
Thirteenth and Clifton streets, will
cover a number of vitally interesting
subjects in his lecture, 'lIas Our Civ
lization Failed?'
He is admittedly one of the world g
most eminent scientists. and in adj
dition is writer and speaker of
note. For 80 years DIR. Dorsey mas
made an intensive study of human
origins. md is famous for the daring
originality of his views His inveSti'
cations have taken him to all parts
of the world, visiting Egypt. India,
Rurmah. Austria liza. China. Japan and
Peru, and in the past 30 years he
has been actively associated with eX-
peditions orga niZed by the Field Mu-
scum of Chicago and other scientific
bodies of renown.
DIR. Dorsey has large fu..d OF an
ecdote based upon his travels and eX.
periences as we'll as broad VEN OF
hilmor, and he is justly celebrated
as a master of epigram.
The Community Institute announces
that a number Of season tickets are
still available at the office in the
Franklin School Building, Thirteenth
and X streets. as well as at the New
Willard newsstand Single tickets
for DR.. Dorsey's lecture; as well as
for all later events also, are available
at both places.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
BURTON HOLMES. TOMORROW.

At the National Theater tomorrow
afternoon at 4:30. Burton Holmes, de-
lineator of travel scenes and travel I'M
pressions. will make Paris his subject.
Mr.. Holmes has just returned from
Paris, bringing with him what he calls
some o. the most effective stills and
motion pictures he has ever made. lie
saws that 1--WE" have taken compete
possession of Paris-LindherSh and
the Legion, Pa and Ma, Aunt Jane
and Cousin Kate, our best-dressed
girls the smart set. the student tour
ists-the gang was all there last sum
mer.
The hotels, he says. are full OF US
signs in English land American all
over town. but French is stiii spoken,
The French cuisine is still wonderful,
there are still tables on the sidewalks,
the Louvre remains the richest treas
ury of art in the world, the million
aires still have their palaces in the
Park Monceau and the Champs Ely
sees still stretches toward the Arc de
Triomphe Paris is still Paris-the
most fascinating city in Europe.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
NATION Merry Wives OF
Windsor"

OF all the dramatic stars now con
epicuous in the public eye. none, per-
haps. enjoy greater favor or prestige
than Mrs. Fiske and Otis skinner 1T
is impossible for either of these great
artists to appear without stimulating
keen interest. and now they cooperate
in a revival of one of Shakespeare 5
most delightful comedies, opening next
Monday night at the National Theafer
for weeks engagement.
"The Merry Wives of Windsor in
which Mrs. Fiske will play the blythe
and buoyant Mistress Page and Otis
Skinner Will enact the amorous knight,
Falstaff. should prove one of the rarest
delights of the dramatic year. Another
beloved player of renown. Henrietta
Crosman. has been specially engaged
to play Mistress Ford. and the remain
der Of the cast has been selected with
care. while the production is said to be
elaborate IN every detail.
Evening star., 1927-11-16

Dunn from the story of American
campus life, GLITTER" by Katherine
Brush.
The supplementary features will in
clude the Metropolitan World Survey,
other short reels and selections by
the Ne etropolitan Symphony Orchestra
under Daniel BreeSkin,
In The Drop Kick Barthelmess is
cast as Jock Hamill. who loses his
first opportunity to bring foot bail
honors to his college, but in the last
moment of play is again put into the
lineup and saves the day by drop
kick. In the chief supporting roles
are barbara Kent. Dorothy Eevier,
Alberta Vaughn, James Bradbury,
ir. Brooks Benedict Hedda Hopper.
Mayme Eelso, Eugene Strong and
the 10 national college stars selected
from leading universities by First Ma
tional Pictures as typical young Amer
leans.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
COLI UMBT.i-'Garden Of Allah"

The Garden of Allah.' which comes
10 LoeW'S Columbia Theater next sat
urday for a limited engagement, is
the story of a Trappist monk who
vowed never to marry. lie runs away
from an Algerian monastery and, de-
spite his vows, marries an English
girl nNacQuaintcd with his past.
Three months of honeymooning on
the Sahara Desert are spoiled by
pancs of conscience. A sandstone
nearly Kills him and his bride and he
promises God if she is spared he will
repent and confess hfs past life.
Alice Terry is the girl. She is sup
ported by Ivan Petrovich, n Serbian
leading man new to American audi
ences, and others in the cast are Mar
eel N!hcrt, Claude Fielding, Gerald
Fielding, Armande Dutcrtre, Ben. Sa
dour, Michael Powell and Rehba. II
is q Rex Ingram production fo1
Metro-GoldWyn from Robert Hickens
novel.
supplementary features include
M-G-M News. comedy and the Colum
bia orchestra under Claude Bur
rouCns.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
PRESIDENT-"Robin Hood"

T Arthur Smith, director OF the
President Theater Light Opera Co,
announces that the company will offer
Robin Hood" Reginad Dekoven's
melodious comic opera. as next week $
attraction.
The company is said to be well
qualified to give this work. as several
of the principals have appeared in the
opera before. among them being
Harry Pfiel. who sang in the produc-
ton some 1000 times: Anne Yago, who
plays Alan-a Dale and has appeared in
the role numerous times. and Charles
T. RI Jones. who stages the piece.
Robin Hood" is one of the most
popular of comic operas. 1t is pro-
fluced in three acts The music-"O
Promise Me-" Brown October Ale,
''The Merry GREENWOOD" d"-survives
even in this age of frantic melody.
The principals Of the opera company
will be given ample roles in Robin
Hood" and the cast has been boosted
by the addition of Edward Andrews.
who has been assigned the role of
Sheriff of Nottingham. and Ivan Ar
buckle. who will sing Will Scarlet.
The chorus will be featured.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
WiRDNiN P.ARK-"The Marriage
Circle y"

THE Marriage Circle" which will be
revived by the Motion Picture Guild
next week at the Wardman Park The
alter, is tale of gay Vienna and was
The first American production of the
European director, Ernest Lubitsch.
Adolphe Menjou, Marie Provost and
Monte Blue appear in the leading roles
Of The Marriage Circle" which deals
with domestic intidelity among smart
citizens of Vienna. Only a Viennese
could have supplied the touches and
ideas which bring to the picture its
sophistication and charm, it is said.
A Harold Lloyd comedy, other short
reels and music will complete the pro-
era m
Evening star., 1927-11-16
EARLE-".All-Girl Show"

A vaudeville novelty is announced
Tor THANKSGIVING week. beginning next
Sunday afternoon, at the Earle Thea
ter. IN f. X. Nadefs "All-Girl Show"
composed of 25 talented members OF
the fair sex, including condolences,
singers. dancers. acrobats and musi-
clans. The offering. which is said TO
be lavishly costumed and staged. is
offered in six thrills the divisions
being frankie Cramer's Ten Melody
Bandits. the O'Reillv Sisters, Flo Mayo
and her Ten Good Reasons" Vera
Thomas and Rae Johnson in "Walking
Eack Home" AiIeen Cooke. the yes"
girl, and the Sntire ensemble in NO
Mans Land"
In addition. the Wilton Sisters,
"those Indiana girls" with their songs
and music and the Four Gerton Girls
Will he featured.
The photoplay will he First Nation
ais production of For the Love of
Mike featuring Ben Lyon. George
Sidney and Ford Sterling, and added
short reels will include, appropria tely.
bringing Home the Turkey" with
"Our Gang"
Evening star., 1927-11-16
LAWRENCE TIBBETT-Friday.

Lawrence Tibbett, American bari
tone with the Metropolitan Opera Co.
will make his only concert appear
ance Of the 1928 season at Polls
Theater, under the auspices Of Mrs.
Wilson n-Greene. at 4:30 pm.
Mr.. Tibbett. who has been steadily
growing in popularity as a concert
star in Washington ever since his
first appearance here with Mrs.
Townsend's morning musical series
several seasons ago, will present
program Of charming variety, which
will include group of selections from
Giordano. Handel, Brahms. Verdi and
Evening star., 1927-11-16
LITTLE THEATER-"Tartuff the
HypOcrite,"

UFA's new comedy, "Tartuffe the
Typocrite," in which Emil Jannings
plays the title role, will be held over
for second week at the Little
Thaatcr. beginning Sunday. The film
is based on a story by Moliere, and is
descrihcd as a humorous satire on
hypocrisy. the theme being given
modern twist by the Introduction OF
prologue and epilogue laid in the
world of today.
The seventeenth century fascination
and color of the original work are said
to be we'll adapted in the screen ver-
sion by Carl Mayer. F. w. Murnau
directed.
Jannings is supported by Werner
I[raus and lii Dagover. The feature
is accompanied by a Harold Lloyd
comedy. a lin record of Comdr.
Byrd's historic flight over The North
pole, other short films and the music
Of the Little Theater Trio.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
KEITH'S-Irene B0rd0ni.

Irene Bordoni, French star. will top
the bill at r. F. keith's Theater next
week. when she will he heard in Her
Song Repertoire, with Louis Alter at
the piano.
Jerry and Her Baby Grands" will
be featured, with Geraldine Nallere
directing and a company Including
Mollie klinger. Eleanor Geer and Flor
ence Kingsley.
Others will be George lie Marie and
Rex Van. comedians. known as The
Black Jacks; Jack Norton and Lucille
Haley in skit called Maybe I'm
Wrong" with lyric, song and dance;
Grace Nile and Dick Mansfield in a
turn called THE Man Said -
Kaye and Sayres known as "Socie' VS.
Step-Sons," comedy dancers: kafka.
Stanley and Mae in aerial wonders,
and Max's group of clever CANNES.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
Hobart Bosworth. Jacqueline Logan
and Pichard Arlnp


The story opens in a sailors lodging
house on the water front of San Fran
cisco in the early sos, and shifts
To "The Green Bough" or. as it is
known to the sailors, the blood ship.
Two widely different characters come
to the fore. one a scrappy, confident.
enthusiastic young chap; the other a
silent stranger, who seems out of pla ce
among the roistering tars From diff
ferent motives. both sign on THE
Green Bough." The remainder of the
crew is Shanghaied.
Once aboard. they find that Capt.
SWope's reputation for brutality has
not been exaggerated. 1t develops that
the young chap has fallen for the sup
posed daughter of the captain, While
the quiet stranger is bent on revenge
having been sent to prison for a muir
der capt. SWope committed, all of
which leads to n dramatic climax
OrVille Rennie comes for a return
engagement in the stage presentation
in new song selections
Evening star., 1927-11-16

Moussorcskv. and also songs by such
modern composers as Frank La Forge,
Deems Taylor. Charles Wood, Rupert
Hughes and Edward Harris, the latter
composer being Mr.. Tibhetts accom-
panist.
The program will be featured by
Handlers recitative and aria from
"Acis and Galatea" co Euddier Than
the Cherry'D: credo from Nerdi's
"Othello," as we'll as his popular
'Roustabout." by Rupert Hughes.
Seats for Mr.. Tibbett'S concert are
now on sale at the concert bureau in
Droop's. 1900 G. street northwest.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
PALACE-"The Fair Cold"

Marion Davies in The Fair Cold, ."
a comedy of college life from coed s
point of view. comes to Loew's Palace
Thcater next Saturday as the screen
attraction, while the stage will feature
Billy Hamiitons orchestra; Gordon
and King, dancing team; Irene Taylor.
singer of blue harmonies. and a spe-
cial Colby Hartman orchestral num-
ber. "Pil@rms Praise" with Dorothy
Wilson IIalbach. contralto. M-GM
News, J. Virgil Iluffman's organ music
and the Palace Concert Orchestra, un-
der Don Fclicc. guest conductor, will
round out the program.
The story of The Fair COED
opens with Marion deciding she will
not 20 to school at Bingham because
the dean has ISSUED ban against stu.
dent automobiles When Johnny Mack
Brown appears at her door peddling
books to help defray his school ex-
penSes, Marion changes her mind.
however, and the story then deals
with the hilarious incidents familiar
to all who have attended college. In
the end Marion almost wrecks the
school, but she wins the heart of the
boy and learns the value of loyalty TO
her college. THE Fair Cold" was
adapted by Bryon Morgan from the
stage play by George Ade and Gustav
Luders. and directed by Sam Wood.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
RI.tLT0-"The Blood Ship"

''The Blood Ship which IS the fea-
ture at the Rialto beginning Saturday.
is robust drama of the seas during
the daNs Of the sailing shin. featuring
Evening star., 1927-11-16
GAYETY-'IIigh Hat Revue"

Next weeks attraction at the Gay
ETY. Theater will be Billy Gilbert star.
ring in the High Hat Revue"
The enterta inment is said to con-
sist of new comedy scenes. garla nds
of girls. varied specalties and
swiftly moving panorama of fun and
frclic.
Margie Catlin, the soubrette, will
lead the chorus of - girls, with Belle
Barron. Babe Abbott and Dolly Ash
ton adding to the feminine ma jority.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
METROPOLITAN-"The Drop Kick.

Beginning Saturday and including
Thanksgiving week. the feature photo
play at CrandaIl's Metropolitan Thea
ter VIII be Richard BartheImess' pro
duction. for First National of THE
Dron Kick" adanted by Winifret
Evening star., 1927-11-16
FOX-"The College Widow"

Dolores Costello in "The College
Widow Warner Brothers revival ~
George AIDES stage hit of several years
ago. will be the. feature photoplay at.
traction at the Fox Theatcr this week.
Miss Costello is cast as the daughter
Of college president who is about to
lose his job because of his inability
to interest athletes in coming to the
institution. a promised gift also is
10 be forfeited for the same reason.
The pretty daughter decides to make
things move. and by her personal
charm wins foot bali team which
sweeps her fathers college TO victory
and his job to security.
Supporting the star in the principal
role is William Collier. jr.. while the
rest of the east includes Anders Ran
dolph. Douglas Gerard. Robert Ryan.
Charles ill Males, Sumner Getchel.
Big Boy Williams. Grace Gordon and
Jess Hibbs. The picture was produced
under the direction of Archie l.. Mayo.
The stage program will include Il
second week Of the popular trio of har-
monists. the Keller Sisters and Franz
Lynch. who will offer an entirely new
repertoire Of popular melodies, and
Art Kahn and his Serenaders, the
popular radio and recording jazz band.
Evening star., 1927-11-16
STRA<D-"GirIs of the L. s. A."

said to be the most spectacular Mu-
tual Burlesque offerings of the current
season, Girls of the u. S. A." will
be next weeks attraction at the Stra nd
Theater. George Carroll and Norma
Noel head the cast, which also in
cludes a large chorus of talented girls
Evening star., 1927-11-16
DIR. Dorsey Tomorrow.

DR. George A. Dorsey who is 10
Il speaker at the second event In
Evening star., 1927-09-25

A long-range gun in the
Army backheld. ]. H. Muir
rel is getting plenty OF
drive in this punt during
foot ball practice at West
Point 9 Underwood & Underwood.
Evening star., 1927-09-25

Members of the Col.
Tench Tilghman Chap
ter, D. A. R., the Mont
gomery County COM
missioners and Judge
Robert O. Peter (hold-
ing picture), at the
chapters recent pres
entation to the COM
missioners of a valu-
able old print of Gen.
Richard Montgomery.
for whom the county
was named. The pres
entation was made at
the Rockville court
house, in which the
print will hang.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-05-26
British Captain Kind
to Captiue Americans

Running the blockade between Bal
timore and the Maryland eastern
shore was an exciting undertaking
while the British fleet was In the bay
in the War of 1912. On one occasion
the packet Messenger bound for Bal
timore, tried to get through and was
challenged by the man Of war Dragon,
mounting IA guns. On board the Mes
senger were numerous women and
children. but the British officers as
sured them they need feel no alarm,
and to prove it invited them to ban
quet on board the Dragon. Captain
Barrie of the Dragon was particularly
kind to Mrs. Edith Dawson and her
two children Noting that one Of the
little girls was eating with a pewter
spoon, the captain ordered a silver
spoon taken from his own locker and
presented to the child as souvenir
Of the occasion. This spoon is now
an heirloom In that child's family
Baltimore Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-05-26
One Ordinary Day in
Life of Sfatistician

Arose, feeling on the peak of the
chart. Consumed average breakfast.
Assumed average intellectual attitude
toward life. Il am an average statis-
tician with a mean disposition.) Or
ganized new end-to-end toothpick cir
cult, New York to Detroit. Cable
from India: Calcutta agent reports ter
minus reached for Splitter fountain
pen line. Splitter pens now circle
tive-eighths of globe Estimated po-
tential heat In celluloid collars, with
and without necks. Issued report re
fact that five out of every nineteen fat
men sink anyway; also that more than
2437 lost golf balls are in plain
sight all the time.
Statistics during lunch hour on max
fmum girth of the common garden
mole Gam. Talpidoe). Wrot to Reach
and Extend bureau about pyramid
made of rear collar buttons lost in
Hawaii in one year. Mailed circulars
on Reversible Statistical Charts for
This and That, and Surreptitious
Studies in Statistics for Sufferers.
After dinner attended lecture on
Facts and How to Avoid Them" Re
Elected on the futility of the end-to-
end spaghetti problem in Italy. To
bed, and fell asleep dividing the sheep
jumping over the customary stone wall
by some of the digits.-Los Angeles
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-05-26
Black Not Always an
Emblem of Mourning

The widows mourning cap dates
back to the days of ancient Egypt.
Egyptian men shaved the beard and
the head as token of mourning. The
women, instead of cutting off the hair,
concealed it with a close cap. The
Romans, who were as a race clean
shaven, shaved the head in mourning
and wore a wig.
The black band on the sleeve, as a
sign Of mourning, comes from the days
of chivalry. The lady tied scarf or
napkin, as the handkerchief was
called, about the arm of her knight.
If he was killed in battle she wore
the band in memory of him.
Black has so long been the color Of
grief in Anglo-SaXon countries that
it seems part of the upside-down civ
ilization of the East that Japan and
China wear white. But no longer ago
than the time of Elizabeth the I'll for
tunate Mary Of Scotland wore white
on the death Of Darnley. Even now
the hearse used for children is white,
and in England the mourners at fun
erals of young unmarried persons wear
hatbands and sashes of white.
A queer English custom is that Of
decorating the black hearse horses
with long black tails.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-05-26
Ingenious Scheme to
End Visits From Bore

A laughable story is ascribed to the
artist and wit, Oliver Herford, by his
associate, Edward Simmons the paint
er, as recalled by writer in the Kan
sas City Star. One day while Sim
mons was enjoying an agreeable call
at Herford's studio their CONVERSE
ton was interrupted by a peculiar
knocking at the door-three loud per-
emptory knocks at intervals of a sec
ond or two and then two more In
quick succession.
Herford at once put his finger on
his lip and motioned to his caller to
be perfectly quiet. Neither man
spoke or stirred while the curious
knock was repeated. Then they heard
the retreating footsteps of the knocker
passing down the hall.
Then HEREFORD relaxed his attitude Of
silent tension and smiled.
"That was Blank" he said, "a thor
oughly good and well-meaning fellow,
but a most frightful bore. I've stood
all the calls from him l could. So
told him that l have given special
knocks to all my intimate friends, In
order that l might know when they
called and let them in at times when
l should be unwilling to be disturbed
by less congenial callers. Blank was
saying only the other night that !
must have been out a good deal lately.
He hasn't got in to see me since !
assigned him his knock !"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-05-26

she might have sent them flaming up
in one wretched linen holocaust. As
1t was she turned the key and one
morning as she went to work she
paused and dropped the key into the
stream. Almost she wished she could
follow it.
Aunt Janavice said all sorts of
things.
$50 that Hartley fellows gone
away, Ell? Well, I guess you can live
without him. I never thought he
seemed very much in earnest. You
want to look out for a man whose
eyebrows come close together that
way. Inconstant, that's what II
means. Come here from land knows
where, stays year and then away
he goes again. l knew all the time
you were filling that chest, that you'd
never need 1t on his account, anyway.
Maybe after while, of course, some
other fellow will happen by"
Jean, suffering kept silence. But
she dropped and into her eyes came
a haunting sadness. Aunt Janavice
said she looked as If she had the
pip"
Then one rainy evening as she sat
trying to read-she could no longer
do stitchery, poor child-whlle Aunt
Janavice dozed behind a pretense Of
scanning the evening paper, there
came snatch at the doorbell. Aunt
Janavice went and came back with
letter-special delivery.
who's it fromY the old woman
asked.
That was what Jean was wonder
ing. She tore 1t open and saw his
name
Suddenly she was crying out with
such ring In her voice:
"Hugh's got the best job ever was
and he wants me to marry him; he
wants to come back and be married
right away. He wanted to ask me be-
fore he went away, but he wasn't sure
and he didn't earn enough here to get
married on-oh, Aunt Janavice!" She
flung her arms about the old woman's
unwilling form and kissed her.
Ten minutes later Jean was running
through the rain to the post office to
get there before it closed. She had
written a letter. the merest scribble-
"I'm so glad. Come. I love you. I'm
ready"
The hopeless chest had changed its
name at last.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-05-26
Don't Shoot

Murder with knife has somewhat
gone out, because marks and finger
prints left on the knife are apt to be-
tray the killer. But short time ago,
no one would have thought that a bull
let could identify the man who sent
it from his gun. Now, science is able
to distinguish the scratches and
grooves on fatal bullets, and deter
mine from what revolver they were
fired, for it seems that each weapon
has distinctive marks in the bore Of
its barrel. When every other trace
has been removed, the murderer is
still in danger of detection, says the
Scientific American, if the criminal
has been careless enough to leave
a bullet in his victims body.