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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-10
PRIMARY LAW REPEALED.
North Carolina Legislature Also
Abolishes Party Pledges.

RALEIGH, N. c.. March 10 R).-
Delegates from North Carolina to
national party conventions in the flu.
ture would not be pledged to any one
candidate under bill passed Mon
day by the State Senate. The meas
ure, already adopted by the House.
would repeal the State presidential
preference primary law, and delegates
would be selected by conventions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-10

In Abyssinia a public hair cut is the
penalty inflicted on the woman who
lies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

boys club and watched at least one
kid baseball game. Believe me the
fellow who said that interest in
baseball was dying out, doesn't know
what he's talking about. There are
moro kids playing today than ever
beforehand they're getting more
out of the game.
In Boston and Chicago and st.
Louis they have kid leagues that
play all summer long. In Phila'
delphia and Detroit they have super,
vised Fairgrounds where the kids
are taught to be good sports as
well as good ball players.
It's fine stuff, all of it. And
don't make any mistake. The kids
who are out there shooting the ball
around today will be a lot better
men tomorrow for 1t.
Copyright. 1927, by Christy Walsh
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
BABE GIVES
SIMPLE
RULES
BY ''Babe" Ruth

CLEVELAND. May 20.-'There
isn't aweek goes by that ! don't
get a few letters from kids asking
me to tell them how to hit.
/ always get laugh from them,
vet / know that the kids who write
are perfectly serious. i wish
could give them some definite rules
Tor hitting. But about all that any
one can tell Is just to step up there
and take swing.
Good hitters are just born that
way They hit naturally. And II
chap hasn't a natural swing it's
mighty hard to teach him one. A
lot OF kids. and big league ballplay-
ers. too. make mistake in trying
to guess each time what the pitcher
IS going to throw. That's the bunk.
The only question is whether or
not a pitch is over the plate. II it's
good that's the time to swing. If
isn't. let It go past. So long as
ball is where you can hit 1t. you
should worry whether it's a curve
or q fast one.
Another mistake that q lot OF
baIlplayers make is in using the
wrong sort of bat. just because
one chap who happened to be a
good hitter, uses bat Of GER
tain kind all the others think
they should use that bat. too.
And different types Of hitters
require different bats, Just the
same as different golfers like
different types of clubs.
could no more use Ty Cobb's
bat, for instance, than / could fly.
And Ty couldn't use mine. AL Sim.
mons, Of the Athletics, uses a long
bat; Eddie Collins uses short one.
My bat is very heavy. Benny
Paschal uses light bat. And that's
the way it goes.
Get a bat that feels right; one
that has good balance and one that
you can swing without any effort.
When you've done that. then 20 UP
there and hit, and hit, and hit.
That's about the only rule there
y for batting. The practice is
valuable because 1t sharpens your
eye. Your swing is either natural or
It isn't. And driving the ball for
distance Is pretty much a matter of
proper timing. Time your swing SO
That 1t Is fastest at the moment the
hat and ball meet. The rest win
take care Of itself.
The other day in Chicago got a
letter from little kid in Germany.
He didn't want any baseballs, he
didn't ask, any questions, or want
me do to anything for him. He lust
wrote a kid letter wishing me luck.
And It's one Of the best letters
ever had in my life.
One thing in the letter stood
out. He told about his mother.
I answered the letter the same
DAY ! got it-and when 1 had
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
LACROSSE FASTEST

Lacrosse is one of the fastest
games played on foot, being speedier
tnan football and demanding more
consecutive action. Two or three
years OF practice is necessary be-
lore the player masters the game
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
MCINTYRE BEATEN

Lefty McIntire, erstwhile Wash
ington sandlotter, lost his first
game of the season pitching for
Martinsburg in the Blue Ridge
League. Chambersburg beat him
2 to /,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

and Circle Fraternity, an or.
ganlxatiOn similar to the N.
Il. A. The g Street Iassies
rang up . score Of 500 70 the
4g9 registered by the M. u.
girls.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
I RAILS
GIRLSIN
BY "Jerry'' Martin

The Central High School rifle team
has clinched the interhigh rifle
championship for 1897 by downing
the Eastern High sharpshooters
94S-944. This was the third match
won by the Centralites, out Of four
attempts. They bowed to Western
shooters once but also measured
them once and downed the Eastern.
ties twice.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

The 80 was the highest ever scored
in off.hand position by q Washing
ton high school girl in competition.
Elizabeth Pile was high scorer for
Central, scoring 1874.
CENTRAL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

The Central girls were award
ed the Pearson and Grain cup
Immediately after the match.
Helen Seitz, Of the losing aggre-
cation set q new mark for high
school girl riflists. Shooting 90
Off-hand and SO In prone posi-
tlon, she turned in q target Of
105.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
KESSLER ELECTED

Gordon KessIer, former Tech
star, has been elected president Of
the class Of 1929 at Maryland Uni.
versity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
FRANCE SCORES AGAIN

STADE FRANCA1s, st. Cloud,
May 2O.--France took the first vic
tory in the Franco-American tennis
team matches here today, when
Jean Borotra defeated Francis
Hunter OF the United States, as. ].
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

Peabody School Of the Plaza
division, which won the team title
last year, has lost some Of its
strongest youngsters and IL not
figured as a title contender.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

10 promises to be one Of the
most keenly contested meets IN
the history Of playground COM
petition. 3. v. Brown School,
of the Georgetown division; Mon
roe, Of Columbia Heights; Maury,
ROsedale, and John Burroughs
School, Of the BlOomingdaIe divi-
sion, appear TO be the leading
cOntendeES.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
K ID s VIE
. ON TRACK

Four hundred young athletes. com.
prising the choice talent Of Wash
ington's graded schools, VIII fight It
out for city honors tomorrow on the
Plaza playground. The 400 are sur
vivors Of track and field meets held
by the various playground divisions
In which about 100 boys took part.
Action viii start tomorrow morning
at $50 o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

: never knew my mother. She
{ j when I was baby, and Just
had to grow up the best way /
could. Maybe that's one reason why
like to see kids have a good time
now. didn't have them when /
was little, and can appreciate
what it all means to them. sent
that little German kid a baseball
and a bat. hope he uses EN-.
When a boy has a good mother
and home, and a chance to play
baseball he ought to be pretty
happy. And If he has all those
things and makes the most of 'em
he won't go very far wong. figure.
But this is supposed to be some.
thing about baseball and here Il am
rambling along about. mothers.
What really started out to say
was this: In the last two weeks
we've played in five of the Ameri-
can League towns. And everywhere
I've gone I've visited at least one
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

The Junior high school annual
track and field meet win be held
in the Sixteenth Street Reservoir
Park tomorrow. beginning at 9
o'clock and closing at o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
CL (JBS
TOPLAY

Managers of unlimited class teams
will meet tonight In the Post build
ing to plan for their section in the
Capital City League. The compe-
tition among the unlimiteds prom
ises to be warm this summer. Two
teams that were 50 outstanding AZ
to kin interest in the races for
the last several years. the Sham
rocks and Georgetown A. c., have
gone. over to the Intercity Semi
PRO League
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

), Select the automobile You want from
the Spring Used Car OfferEnRg IN flIe
Times and Herald Classified Ads.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

George Washington University
rifle shots again came to the front
by coping the Dot and Circle
women's intercollegiate rifle match
for 1927 by a margin Of one point
over Maryland University, the
trophy holder.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

Walter Haight, secretary Of
the Capital City League, en-.
poets about twenty. five teams
to battle for the title passed nm
by the Skamrocks and George.
tOwners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

George Washington University
mermaids win vie for honors in
their annual swimming meet which
viii be run off tomorrow evening
at the new z. w. c. A. pool. The
prellminaries were completed We'd
nesday evening and keen competi.
ton Is expected from the entrants.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

The Dot and Circle match
just about comedies with the
national annual n. r. A. match,
with the exception that this
match II sponsored by the Dot
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

it all written Lou Gehrig put il
into German for me. And the
main thing l So was that a kid
who had q mother was richer
than the guy who had a million
dollars.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

The weekday league races are
warming up. In one Of the niftiest
pitching duels of the season, Lyons,
OF the G.. p. o., beat Norman
Hutchinson, of the Union Printers,
3 to i, in the Government League.
1t was an eight-inning battle, Lyons
yielding three hits and Hutchinson
five.
Veterans Bureau and Postoffice
played a 6-6 tie in seven innings.
Postoffice saved itself from defeat
by scoring three runs in the last
session.
In the Federal League, Navy
trimmed State-LabOr, 10 to 4, BY
virtue Of an 8-run rally. Horns
berger, Navy slugger, made four
hits in four times up.
To win a Departmental League
game from Bureau, Is to s, Treas.
ury. scored seven runs in the first
inning and seven in the last. Ga.
hagan held Bureau to three hits in
six frames.
Thompson's Dairy won a neat vic.
tory over Barber & Ross in the
Merchants League, S to 8. Thomp-
son and Wellington were the CHIEF
sWatsmen for Thompson's.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-20

American ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .........- I.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
LITTLE THEATER-"BIind
Husbands"

The first of Erich Won Stroheim's
directorial successes, Blind Hus.
bands" in which the director himself
appears in the leading role. will be
presented this week at the Little The.
ater by the Motion Picture Guild,
which gives this first revival of the
film through the courtesy of Mr.. Won
Stroheim.
Described as drama of continental
sophistication, the story relates the
Irritation of a smart, Cowardly and
thoroughly charming Austrian officer
with the wife Of an American doctor
travelling through the Tyrol The
beauty and majesty of the Dolomite
Alps form the background for the un.
folding of the strange result of the
meeting of the trio in the village OF
Cortina d'AmpezzO, where they have
come mountain climbing.
The topmost pinnacle of high peak
furnishes the scene for the climax,
when the two men. alone and miles
from civilization, discover that they
are rivals and prepare to kill each
other. The supporting cast includes
Sam de Grasse and Gibson Gowland.
The feature will be accompa MED by
Will Rogers comedy. a microscopic
him. other reels and the Little Thea.
ter Trios music.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
FOX-"East Side, West Side"

The Fox Theater this week offers
as its principal photoplay attraction
Fast Side, West Side William
Fox's production of Capt. Felix Risen
bergs novel of glamorous New York.
The Fox Symphony Orchestra of 80
soloists will play the stirring "1Sl2
Overture" by TschaikOwsky, under
as special musical offering, for
which the burning of Moscow will be
depicted in a vivid stage picture.
The stage attractions will bring
Harold Jams and Harry Whalen,
hilarious testers; the coloratura So
prano. Beatrice Belkin. featured So
loist of 'Roxy's Radio Gang" and the
piquant Spanish danseuSe, Senorita
Luana Alcaniz, late of the Madrid
Grand Opera Co, and her company
of Spanish troubadours. The senorita
will offer a colOrful carnival of native
song. dance and music.
With George OBrien, Virginia
Valli and J. Farrell Macdonald in the
stellar roles. East Side, West Side
is a vivid drama of metropolitan eX
istence and portrays the trials and
tribulations of youth who mounts
from poverty and squalor to power
and riches.
Allan Dwan directed the production
In addition the program provides
for the Fox Screen Magazine and a
Movietone contribution featuring
Gertrude Lawrence, Broadway musi
cal comedy star, in an infectious reel
tation of quips and jests.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
Local Singer in Concert.

THE third concert in the series in
augurated at the Fox Theater
from . to on Sunday afternoons will
be given today by the Fox Theater
symphony Orchestra. under the direc-
ton of Adolphe $. kornspan.
l<ornspan has compiled a group of
both popular and classical compost
tions which will be welcomed by the
muslc-lovinG public of this city.
A feature of today's program will be
the appearance of Miss Nina Piozet.
accomplished Washington soprano,
who will be heard in a group of
Arditi's works. Inasmuch as this
series looks well on its way to becom-
ing a permanent local institution. ar
rangements are being made for The
engagement of rld-famous vocal and
instrumental soloists to appear in con-
junction with the orchestra.
The program for this afternoons
concert, In part, is as follows: Spring
Song by Mendelssohn, ''Ill Bacio"
and my Laddie" by Arditi, Mile.
Modiste" by Herbert, "Serenade" by
Schubert -kornspan and "Robespierre
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Evening star., 1927-10-30

REING known Gf at alp as one critic
who takes a fiendish delight in
calling attention TO the worst faults
in the movies, it is a considerable re-
lief for me now and then to step out
OF my usually crabby character and
give credit where credit is due.
1t seems TO me that a great deal Of
credit is due a large number of per
sons at this particular moment-that
the silent drama of late has produced
better results than at any previous pc
riod Of it's history.
Furthermore. the good pictures, of
which there is now a considerable sup
ply, have almost all been produced by
new directors and new stars~-Without
aid from the old established masters
Look through the list of current sue
cesses and YOU will find that Charlie
Chaplin. Thomas MeiGhan. Douglas
Fairbanks. -. w. Griffith. Harold
Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Cecil g. De
Mile, Gloria Swanson. James Cruze,
Lillian Gish, Herbert Brenon and SINH
lar established institutions are not rep
resented.
Here are some of the noteworthy
productions that have emerged from
Hollywood within the past few months:
Sunrise" (t'ox), an extraordinarily
interesting experiment with the new
forms in pictorial expression, directed
by +. w. Murnau and starring George
O Brien and Janet Gaynor
The Way Of All Flesh" para
mOunO, the auspicious debut of Emil
Jannings IA Hollywood star, in
which the great actor has an excellent
chance to re-enact at least three Of
his most famous roles
The Student Prince" (Metro.G old
wynn, soulful, sentimental and
tenderly sympathetic treatment of an
old story; directed by Ernst Lubitsch
and starring Ramon Novarro and
Norma Shearer.
wings" ParamounD, an excep-
tionallY thrilling melodrama Of the
air forces in France; directed by vii.
liam Wellman.
THE Garden Of Allah" Metro
Goldwyn), genuinely beautiful and
provocatively mystical desert ro-
nance; directed by Rex Ingram.
THE Patent Leather Kid" O'irst
NationaD, AN uneven, but generally
vital melodrama Of the prize ring
and the front line; directed by Alfred
Santell and starring Richard Barthel-
mess.
1.-The Jazz Singer" (Warner Bros0.
Al Jolson's and the Vitaphone's s
triumph.
Seventh Heaven" (Fox), the ap.
pealing love story Of a sewer rat and
a waif in Paris; directed by Frank
Borgaze and starring Charles Farrell
ana eAnet GaynoEa -------- ---.----..--..--.
Evening star., 1927-10-30

soap. Next came an engagement as a
super In the movies. followed by
TRIP 10 scotland. where he took service
as a butler in a castle near Peebles.
w hlIe here he saved his money.
nought bicycle and a ticket for
france. Although possessing a very
limited French vocabulary, he man
aged 10 act as tourist guide to Ameri-
can visitors in Paris. This was mot n
very lucrative proposition and the
need OF ready cash prompted him IN
Write accounts of his experiences.
ne Log OF Steerage Steward" was
printed and praised by a London
newspaper. Thereafter a notebook az.
companled him. and during his senior
year at college he began to find a
steady market for his short stories
and articles
Although The Barker" is Mr.. Mich.
olson $ frst full-length play. many OF
MS sketches have toured the yaude.
VILE circuit, and he has written sew.
eral sketches and one-act plavs. which
nave been compiled and published in
the East AZ
Evening star., 1927-10-30

Sports on the Screen.

RAsKET BALL, the most played of
all sports now makes it's cinema
debut. The game is said to lend itself
for remarkable camera shots and rapid
succession of thrills.
The fact that the game numbers
more players among its followers in
this country than any other sport
was revealed in a check.up by Hugh
Fullerton feature writer and national
ly known sports authority for many
years. Fullerton knew basket bail
had a great vogue, but was astounded
at the statistics disclosed. lie had
been actuated to make the check-up
through noticing Il big crowd going
to n church society game in New
York.
Golf and base ball. which might
reasonably be supposed more played,
were not only surpassed but almost
outdistanced, according to the figures
assembled. Basket ball is played in
nearly every grammar and high and
prep school. college, university, girls
seminary, Y. NJ. G. A., Y. w. G. A.
and athletic clubhouse. and has
claimed thousands in business houses
athletic clubs, fraternal societies and
other organizations.
The thrills, glamour and romance of
basket ball have been impressed in
celluloid in High School Hero" in
which two of the cleverest teams Of
youths In Los Angeles stage a furious
court fray. Charles Paddock. the
worlds fastest human, is the basket
ball coach in the photoplay.
1t is confidently believed by the
producers of the picture that it will
evoke as great popularity as any opus
on boxing, base ball, foot ball,
thoroughbred racing or other sport
that has been made.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
WARDMAN PARK-'Iady Winder.
mere's Fan"

Ernest Lubitsch's production Of
Lady Windermeres Fan" taken
from the play by Oscar Wilde, in
which the continental wit and insight
or the German director and the Eng.
Hsh playwright are said to he delight.
Iuily blended. will be shown at the
Wardman Park Theater this week by
the Motion Picture Guild.
Bert Lytell. Irene Rich and Nav
McAvoy have the leading roles in the
picture. which relates the compromise
or Lady Windermere, charming Lon.
don hostess. when her fan is found in
the rooms of gay bachelor, Mavfair
society and European customs are wit
uly !ampooned in the working out of
this situation.
!, \ Harry Langdon comedy is among
the short films ACCOMMODATING tho fas.
ture, and music also is on the nro.
gram.
Evening star., 1927-10-30
The Moving Picture Album
BY ROBERT E. SHERWOOD.

Service for Ladies'" ParamounO
just about the pleasantest and most
adrOit Of all the pleasantly adroit
farces in which Adolphe Menjou has
appeared: directed by Harry D'Arrast.
The Blood Ship" (Columbia). Ito.
bart BosWorth and other he-men in
a real, red-blooded. old-fashioned
thriller.
Carmen" Tox), an appropriately
peppery Spanish dish, seasoned with
Il great deal Of sex appeal; directed
by Raoul Walsh and starring Dolores
del Rio and Victor McLaglen.
"UnderWorld" paramoun0, the
most enthralling crook melodrama
that has ever reached the screen,
directed by Josef Won Sternberg.
In addition to these, mention may
we'll be made Of Fast Side. West
Side" Gox); Harry Langdon in
''Three's "A Crowd" First NationaD
Pola Negri in 1.-The Woman on Trial
0aramounD, Laura La Plante in
THE Cat and the Canary" Uni-
versaD, Ronald Colman and Wilma
Banky in THE Magic Flame" Paid
to Love" CFoX), and Buster keaton in
college,"
There are probably few others
deserving of citation: il SO. my omis-
sion of them is due to failing memory
rather than to i'll will.
* *+
There certainly has been no dearth
Of first-claSs entertainment since last
June. Now, with the new season real
ly getting into it's stride there is every
indication that the commercially rapid
rate of progress will not be dimin-
ishcd
Douglas Fairbanks will be along
soon in over the Andes; so will
Charlie Chaplin in "The Circus" bar
ring further delays: so will Mary Pick.
ford in MY Best Girl"
From Beatrice Lille, lately return
ed from Hollywood, comes the predic-
ton that sadie Thompson" (nee
"Iiain') will be great picture, and
that none of the intense vitality of the
play will be lost Gloria Swanson. of
course, is the star; Raoul Walsh the
director and Lionel Barrymore is i'm
parsonating the Inflated religious IA
matte who crosses Sadie's path.
Then there are "The Trail of '9S."
"The Enemy" "The Crowd" and
Love" from Metro G oldwyn; "The
Cock eyed World" from Fox; Uncle
Toms Cabin" from Universal: "The
Private Life of Helen of Troy" from
First National; Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes" and Speedy" Harold Lloyd's
latest, from Paramount; THE Tenn.
pest" Uohn Barrymore), "Sorrell and
Son." Steamboat Bill Buster Eea-
toni and the new y. w. Griffith pro-
duction from United Artists.
..-... ACepyright. lp2zA s... .ssssus.ass
Evening star., 1927-10-30

pictures have come to realize the need
Tor sound financial direction of their
great enterprises.
1t Is not necessary to turn back
the pages OF picture history for many
years In order to reach the time when
conservative financiers looked ask.
ance at the new industry growing
with mushrOom-iike rapiditv. For
tunes were quickly accumula ted and
az quickly lost. There seemed to be
no stability in the methods of picture
promoters. who in the main We're men
without substantial financial back
ground.
Little by little, as motion picture
investments increased from thousa nds
of dollars 10 millions OF dollars and as
theater holdings became great factor
in real estate development, the ba nix.
ers OF the country have come to recoe-
nize the immense possibilities in the
new field, s*ar