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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-21
Norm's Record

Norman Trevor, featured player
in the Herbert Brenon Para
mount production, Beau Geste."
at the National. was. not so long
ago, the all.round athletic cham
pion of India. When but is,
Trevor was taking an active part
in managing tea plantation 10.
Gated in the Himalaya Noun
tains. During his career as an
athlete, he captured more than
200 prizes. Then he iourneyed
to London and took to the stage.
After appearing in a few Shakes.
peareaR plays. the young actor
decided to come to the land of
the free. Following a succession
of stage plays which lasted un.
til 1924, Trevor finally entered
motion pictures and is now re-
tanned by Paramount on a long
term contract
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stage, apparently, but he has a
very fine voice and makes an
excellent appearance. He is as.
sisted by a very personable
young lady, Iris West.
Miss Hasoutra, with very fine
company of dancers, presents
fully staged and well executed
High Art" series OF wonder
dances. Alice Howard, Gordon
Bennett, the Reddicks-brother
and sister-and some very comedy
coryphees sen dthe stock OF this
act up. The closing number is
quite excellent.
Jim Williams, it will be good
news to the multitudes to hear, is
again with us, delivering his side
splitting Grafton and singing his
opera, to say nothing of the odd
bits he does OIL the piano. His
act stopped the show.
Bert Enrol appears in number
of costumes. feminine and mascu-
line. and does his singing in both
sexes. His last number. the i'm
PRESERVATION of Queen Eliza beth,
WaS elsvsrly done. His wife APP
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A SNAPPY REVUE
AND A GOOD
PICTURE

Credit Irwin B. Hamp and his
associate players with another en-.
tertatning bunch of comedy and
song at the Strand Theater. This
weeks nonsense is labeled Fun.
land" and It most APPLY describes
the nature Of the show. AS usual
down there, the bunch is seen
and heard in one big act that con.
tains q number of sub.comedy
playlets all affording the play.
srs opportunity to get in good
work without interrupting the
general progress of things.
/ Hamp puts across most Of the
hurnor, but there are others who
help out in that purpose in a
most effective manner. Among
them can be mentioned Lew
Lewis, Earl Root and Paul Groot.
They get off their best hits in
"The Google Eyed Man" uncle
Toms Cabin" and "Old Times on
the Levee."
The girls, headed by the charm.
ing singer, Rene Vincent, and
Billie LaMonte, are heard in some
excellent vocal melody that
seemed to be greatly appreciated
by yesterdays crowds.
The new chords proves a vast
Improvement over the old. It's
members are better dancers, better
lockers and possess more snap
and speed.
The picture Is that famous Gre
alton, THE Black Pirate" starring
Douglas Fairbanks. It's a tale
Of dark deeds on the Spanish
main. It has been reviewed in
these columns, but it should be
emphasized that 1t will furnish
= genuine entertainment to Strand
patrons. Manville's music is ex.
cellent as usual. ana taken al
together, Mr.. Sparrow can be
complimented on having O fine
show this week.-H. s.
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La Negri. as she is known in
the old country, is badly miscast.
This detection, however. doesn't
detract seriously from the pic.
ture. If it isn't Pota's picture.
it emphatically is George Sieg'
nnann's.
Dear old George, william of
many a Pickering thriller, eats
up the role OF Russian general
in a Galician village. How he
acts!
James Hall, Polas leading man,
is new one to this reviewer.
He had little to do, which is per-
haps just as well.
Hall had the part of an Aus.
trian lieutenant, who stumbles
into the Hotel Imperial, in the
Galician village, to escape pur.
suing Russians. He is protected
by the employees Of the hotel,
including Pola. When the Rus.
slams occupy the village. the lieu
tenant IL forced to masquerade
as a waiter.
From then on, the leading lady
pits her wits against the Russian
general, who takes up his billet
in the hotel. The general is one
of the Turing kind, and he prac.
tees this art on our fair heroine
with little success.
Finally she sacrifices her good
name TO save the lieutenant. a
Russian spy is killed and shortly
after the Lieutenant escapes, the
Austrians recapture the town.
The Photographic effects in the
picture are brilliant. but it almost
seems that Stiller has capitulated
to Hollywood in the occasional
lack Of directness and force dur
ing the film.
Adler, We'll and Herman, star
ring in presentation, stopped the
show. They might we'll have
filled in the time allotted to NJ.
de Jari, the handsome tenor.
Tom Cannon directs the orchestra
in Americana, historical must.
cal fantasia.
The international Newsreel has
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pears in one number as dancer,
Will Hay. British comedian,
presents a slap stick comedy
sketch that has many original lit.
tie touches, although the old gag
of the man named watt" Is
worked very hard.
Two young men, Brooks and
Ross, render some good harmony.
Their curtain speech, however, is
the best thing they do. 1t was
as a matter of fact, one Of the
best bits on the program.
1.-The Worlds Greatest" with
Henry Regal, o. Henry and Ida
Gerber presents some very humor-
Gus foolery and some good aero
battles. o. Henry is quite success.
full as a wisecracker.
The opening number introdu res
the most beautiful wire walker
the old town has seen in many a
long day, her name being Pauline
Price. Bert Ford, the partner, is
an accomplished master on the
wire. His act Is good. no question
about that; his singing. however,
in all charity, is not 20 good.
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mean something to take the
making of Marine and turn
out movie as funny and thrill
Ing as the best, and as colorful
as the uniform they wear. I'm
like the Army and Navy pictures,
which seem to be sadly in the
background now. Tell it to the
Marines is done to the smallest
detail, with no attempt at bur
lesque or satire, and even IL for
no other reason than it's story,
handling and acting, it would yet
stand as champion Of the service
pictures.
The story is that Of a bum who
finds himself enlisted in the
Marines, serving under a sergeant
as hard as nails-and both in
love with the same nurse-wal-
lowing in the mud of some hell
hole coaling station together,
fighting and hating each other,
and At last, side by side, protect.
Ing the gin Of their dreams from
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hordes of Chinese bandits.
The ending is the only artificial
phase of an otherwise, red.
blooded, all American movie.
Lon CLANCY, minus his makeup,
William Haynes and Eleanor
Boardman are the three prin.
cipals of the story, but Uncle
Sam, the biggest actor of them
ali, and hundreds of devil.dogs.
play important parts. Some Of
the shots are thrilling, but quite
indescribable
For minor details Of the bill.
there are an Aesop's Fable, which
is a bargain. and the News Reel.
e. L. P
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-21
HERBERT BRENON
DIRECTS A
NIFTY

THE Great Gatsby." r. Scott
Fitzgerald's novel done in cellu.
loid. Is at the Rialto this week.
1t will be one Of the most dis
cussed pictures OF the season, in.
as much as it is one of the few
that dares to make use OF that
dangerous dramatic element, irony.
All things being equal, Herbert
Brenon and his coworkers, who
did Beau Geste," accomplished
a more worthwhile piece OF work,
from an artistic standpoint. in
The Great Gatsby."
In the cast are Warner Bax-
ter. playing the title role; Lois
Wilson, Hale Hamilton. Neil
Hamilton. Georgia Hale, Car
melita Geraghty and William
Powell. Under competent direc'
tlon, they all do splendid work.
The story: Jay Gatsby, a
social nonentity, falls in love
with Daisy Lee, of an aristocratic
Louisville family. TRANSPORTED
by. an Army uniform, Jay is at.
tractive in Daisy's eyes and she
promises to wait until he re-
turns from war.
Gatsby. back from France, has
planned great things for Daisy,
although knowing Of her mar
riage. He becomes wealthy in a
mysterious way, living in a Long
Island mansion, surrounded by
spiendor and glorying in his
great possessions. He meets
Daisy and her husband and tries
to win her away from him. This
seems to be on the road TO &C
complishment when the story
runs into startling. tragic eli.
max and a swift denouement
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when the minister announces the
collection. Fate Is apparently
smiling upon the McFaddens, so
they run the pace a little faster
than is advisable, but the little
Scotchman just saves the day
financially. and the FLATS" are
completed.
A. comedy. mot Too Mad"
billed as something not seen be-
fore on the Met screen might do
we'll not to be seen again. If 1t
had a point, 1t failed to register
here.
A good world survey and a scenic
film in colors are additional fea-
lures. Breeskin's symphony or
chestra presents a delightful mu-
steal score and also an atmos-
pheric overture, Emerald Isle"
with Louis Annis. tenor, ably as.
sisting.-H, K.
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comedy Verges on the doIOrous
and that's pity. for Tom How.
ard is a comedian who can fairly
strew the aisles with victims II
he has any sort of ammunition.
Joe Penner is another zany who
draws almost a blank assignment.
You can offset these defects by
relishing one of the slickest Choir.
uses of the year, both as to looks
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A PICTURE YOU CAN'T
AFFORD TO MISS

~ TIE Army the Novn gaze Heauen's
They'll find the streets all guarded by United States Manes
That long anticipated Tell it to the Marines symbolic photo
play OF the third branch Of Uncle Sans fighters be produced
and infinitely superior to its precden for other
than its subject has arrived the Columbia Thate Whether the
picture Marine Corps propaganda does matter but
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interesting pictures of Shanghai,
with American. French and other
forces arriving. Topics of the
Day completes a varied and in
teresting bill.-H. J.
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GOBS OF VARIETY AT
KEITH'S

Khs Theater this presents uniformly high enter
tainment, headed by Elliott Dexter,
Mr. Dexter appears little entitled "Genemen Prefer
-? which contains quite few surprises-perhaps
for creduyfor such brief of time The
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-21
LangdOn's Next

Harry Langdon is to star in
THE Yes Man" following compile.
ton of Long Pants" which will
be an early First National re.
lease.
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A STRONG LAUGH BILL
AT THE MET

Flats stage of three decades
debut Metropolitan this week the evil
dent whoehatred delight capacity audiences Charlie Murray
and Chester Conk pretty much the whole show though
capable assists putting this rcass
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-21
GREEN WITCH FOLLIES
TARRYING
By HAROLD PHILLIPS

One you let alone and be either way,
"The Greenwich Village Foes" the big white mansion
known Polls.
If remember the sixth version this SERIES here years
the edition the benefit of The
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-21
POLA AND HARMONY
BOYS
BOYS

Here's funny situation: W.T..
Pola Neers Lcews Palace Theaer picture produced
these shores by Maurtz Sler the who The Last
Laugh" Cagan" and other revolutionary films The picture is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-21

NEIL
HAMILTON
as Digby
Geste,
one of the
three
brothers in
"Beau Geste,"
the dramatic
tale of the
French
Foreign
Legion,
now in its
second week
at the
National
Theater.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-09
CURRENT EVENTS
By t. ]. o'FLAHERTY

L OR unashamed lying, an article in
i last Mondays issue of the New
York Evening Post is worthy of the
attention of the Nobel Committee
provided the deceased dynamite ex-
pert left any part Of his fortune to
encourage the fine art of prevarica-
ton as he did for excellence in litera-
ture and commendable effort for the
preservation of peace among CAPT
talist nations. The writer of the ar
ticle, Herbert E. Casson by name,
strings so many falsehoods together
in the course of a short article that
can only deal with the top notchers.
Casson tries to bring warm glow
of satisfaction to the patriotic breasts
of the Wall Street readers of the Post
by insisting that prosperity is raging
furiously in England, that the fred
agents" found the soil so barren for
their revolutionary seed that they
withdrew their gold from the Bank
of England and returned it to Mos
COW, and that A. J. Cook, the mine
leader is an outlaw" the government
having refused him a seat on min
ing commission, though the prize liar
did not say that Cook was the I'M
animous choice of the miners execu-
tive for the committee. Casson
proves that Cook is outlawed by the
government but followed by the min
ers.
Mr.. "Liar" Casson finds a definite
swing against radicalism in England
since the beginning of the year, and
tendency to higher appreciation
of the capitalist system. The gen
tleman forgot to note that in practi
cally every election held since the
general strike, labor candidates have
been returned and the tories defeated
Does this look as if the masses were
going backwards to capitalism or for
ward to a Workers government?
About this Russian gold Here are
the facts. This gold was deposited
in the Bank of England at a time
when the Soviet Unions credits
Continued on Page Three
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Emergency Rent Laws
Subjects of Hearings
Conducted at Albany

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 8.-Repre-
sentatives of tenant organizations
and real estate operators appeared
today at a hearing on two bills af-
fecting the emergency rent laws.
Ole of the measures, introduced by
Assemblyman Cuvillier, New York
democrat, extends the rent laws for
another year in New York, Albany
and Buffalo.
The second bill, sponsored by AS
semblyman Grenthal, New York re-
publican, provides for stays in ac-
tions to dispossess tenants for nom
payment Of rent, where landlords
have failed to live up to all require
ments Of the rent laws.
A plea for passage of bill under
which landlords could not collect rent
unless they made needed repairs, was
made by the tenants.
ain some apartments there are rat
holes in the floor large enough for
baby to fall through" said one ten
ant.
The emergency rent laws will ex-
pire May 1, unless extended by the
legislature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-09
SENATE STIRRED
BY BUFFERS RAP
AT GALS CHANCE

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Nicolas
Murray Buffers prediction that Pres
ident Coolidge would not be a candi-
date for another term, but that a
"wet" would be sponsored by the Re-
rublicans drew the Senate's atten-
ton this afternoon.
Discussing presidential breakfasts,
Senator Nicely CD of West Virginia
declared that syrup and buckwheat
cakes, the Presidents favorite break
fast combination, would go beside
the boards and tempting beverages
be substituted if a twet" occupied
the White House.
DIR. Buffers assertion that no can.
didate can be elected president next
year who does not take a stand
against prohibition drew him chal
lenge from Senator William Z. Borah
,R) of Idaho.
In an open letter to DR.. Butler
Senator Borah declared this Afternoon
that he was willing to take the pro
hibition issue into every state in the
union between now and the time Of
the next republican convention anG
battle it out in the election of dele
gates.
For his own part, Borah said, he
intended doing everything in hi;
power to "force this issue to fina,
conclusion in the next convention"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-09
TELL LEFT WING
SIDE OF GARMENT
FIGHT AT Dinner
Lyman and PrOgreSsives
Address Liberals

More than three hundred well
known liberals, writers, artists, and
poets gathered at the Cafe Boulevard,
4Srd St. near Broadway, last Aight to
hear the left wing point of view of
the present struggle in the garment
trades.
Under the Craftsmanship of Robert
w. Dunn, well known labor journalist
Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint
Board, International Ladies Garment
Workers Union; julius Portnoy, sec
retary of Local %; Charles thinner
man, manager of the dress depart
ment of the Joint Board, and Carlos
Tresca, editor of the Italian news
paper II Martelo, addressed these as
sembled on Democracy in Trade
Unions"
Hymans speech in part was as fol-
lows:
"The policy of expelling members
opposed to the International officers
has been going ON for twenty years
in our union.
"The present action of Sigman and
his colleagues is in line with this eff
fort of officials to keep themselves in
power by force when they cannot keep
themselves in power with the consent
of the membership"
"Let Them Vote"
eff Mr.. Sigman would be willing
to hold an election supervised by some
impartial group we know that the re-
Continued on Page Three
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any crime-during the strike, or at
any previous time. He denounced
these workers as tho they were Grim
mails, and sent them behind prison
bars for years to come.
Dangerous Precedent.
Such precedent must not be al
lowed to stand. If these strikers can
be so prosecuted in New York City
how much worse will be the fate of
strikers in every other city in the
country! The workers must refuse
to let their brothers suffer for their
loyalty to the union and their ac-
tivity in its struggles. Every trade
unionist makes sacrifices for his or
ganization, but no group of workers
should be allowed to be penalized as
these IS cloakmakers have been.
Just the Start.
Today's mass meetings will be
only the beginning of the protest that
must be raised in behalf Of these
prisoners. It will take constant agi-
tation, and persistent effort on the
part of every worker in every trade
and every labor organization to bring
about the freedom of these cloak
makers. The cry for justice that is
raised in Webster Hall, Cooper Union
and the other halls today will carry
thruout the country and it will not
only rally the labor forces of all Sec
tons, but it will cheer the jailed cloak
strikers, who are relying on their
fellow-workers to set them free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-09
BRITISH BREAK WITH SOVIET UNION LOOMS
Working Women to Hold
Protest Mass Meetings
On ROsaIsky, Saturday

Working women will unite to
help in the defense of the 16 inn
prisoned cloak makers.
A mass meeting will be held on
Saturday, February IL, at P. M.
in Webster Hall, 119 East 18th St.,
New York City, to protest against
the unjust sentence Of pickets by
Judge Rosalsky, with the aid of
agents prOvocateurs and gangsters
Of the Sigman machine.
Working women of Greater New
York shops, factories and homes
Your duty is to attend and par
ticipate in protest at this mass
protest meeting.
Let the voice of the working
women be heard!
Sisters, the 16 innocent cloak
makers must be free and return to
their wives and children.
AUSPICES OF:
Cloak Makers Wives Councils,
United Council of Working
Glass Housewives, Joint Board
Cloak and Dresses Womens
Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-09
REVOLUTION IN
PORTUGAL WINS
WIDER SUPPORT

LISBON, Feb. S.-The Portuguese
Constitutional Revolution against the
tyranny of General Carmona has now
spread to nationwide dimensions.
The opposition has been joined by
sailors, policemen, the republican
guard and detachments of infantry.
The center Of fighting has now been
definitely transferred from oporto to
Lisbon, the capital Of the country,
where the revolutionists have cap
tured the ministers Of foreign af-
fairs and Of the interior, and are hold
ing them prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-09
EXPECT THOUSANDS TO PARTICIPATE
IN DRIVE TO SAVE JAILED PICKETS
Meetings in Webster Hall, Manhattan Lyceum
Cooper Union, Today, for ROsalsky's Victims

Not by tens and hundreds, but by
thousands the workers are planning
to respond to the call of the cloak
makers today, and in Webster Hall
119 East 18th St., Manhattan Ly-
ceum, 66 East 4th St., Cooper Union
9Th Stand Srd Ave-, they will raise
the cry for freedom of the 10 cloak
makers now sitting in prison.
Immediately after work the meet
ings will begin, and every industry
in the city has been urged to join in
this campaign for the release of these
victims of Judge Rosalsky's ven
geance.
These 18 cloal1makers, who had
been members of their union for 8,
10 and IA years, were arrested while
picketing their shops during the long
strike which began July l. They
were attacked on the picket line and
defended themselves; yet they are &C
cused of being criminals and by no
toriously hostile judge were given the
heaviest sentences ever imposed on
workers in this city for their strike
activities.
Two workers were given terms of
from two and a half to five years;
two workers were given one and a
half years; the others received indie
terminate sentences in the peniten-
tiary. The Judge mercilessly separ-
ated them from their wives and chill
dren, he refused to consider the fact
that they had never been guilty Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-09
Fascists in Cabinet
In Favor Of Rupture
Fear Victory for Cantonese Will Light Fires of
Revolution in India
(special no The DAILY WORKER.l

BERLIN Feb. S.-The Soviet government, understand
through diplomatic channels from Moscow expecting pre-
pared for England the Chinese situation
Russia
Moscow convinced that influences in the British cabinet
headed by Churchill and Birkenhead will win out
The Russians think that the British believe order TO
British rule in India and prevent similar there
imperative for Britain crush the government
what to do with the revOIutiOnss in China" Biren-
head secretary of state for India credited in diplomatic circles
with having demanded of Chamberlain last conference
Then he alleged to have declared India is lost
less you stffen up On China"
Germany learn, is exerng all its influence break
between the two countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-09

affairs OF Cnlna.
Eugene Chen, Cantonese foreign
minister, in a bitter attack on the
British government declared that if
any violence took place in Shanghai
the British mobilization of armies and
fleets would be responsible.
The Cantonese intend taking the
foreign concessions as soon as posi-
BILE. The war lords Chang-Tso-Lin
and Sun Chuan-Fang are ready to
dicker with the imperialists. This
gives the key to the imperialist OPP
position to the Nationalist govern
ment. 1t is freely stated here that
the Kellogg note was a hostile move
against the Cantonese government
since Washington knew beforehand
through information supplied by Min
lister MacMurray in Picking, that
Chang was willing to accept the neu-
tralization proposals.
The imperialist powers have no OBJ
lection to the presence of Sun Chuan-
Fang's mercenaries in Shanghai, but
they express the utmost concern over
the arrival Of the Cantonese whose
reputation for orderly conduct has
penetrated throughout the whole of
China. 1t is clear that the powers are
not sending armed forces to Shanghai
to protect the lives of their nation
alists but to safeguard their ill-gotten
possessions.