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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
London's Slum District
Shown in 'Twinkletoes'

"Twind9.oes" is the intriguing
title of Colleen Moore's latest star
ring vehicle, which comes to the
Gala Theater next Sunday.
1t was adapted from Thomas
Burke's famous tale of the Lime
house district of London and the
combination of star, story and set
ting make "Twinkletoes" one of the
most promising entertainment offer.
ings that has shown here in many
moons.
Kenneth Harlan, Gladys Brock
well, Warner GLAND, Julanne john
ston, FULLY Marshall, John Philip
Kolb end Lucian Littlefeld bring to
life other famous characters of the
Burke story.
They portray Limehouse folks,
picturesque characters from thai
London maritime slum where al
races and kinds of humans meet
around the wharves, tensments, din
gy shops and dives and sinister plots
are born in the narrow, mysterious
streets bordering the waterfront.
Lots of Action
The action centers around a
charming love affair between "Twin-
kletoes" and a young Limehouse pu-
gilist, Chuck Lightfoot. Twink is a
dancer in the Quayside Theater and
for this role Colleen has discarded
her black Dutch bob and appears
with curly golden hair.
Through tense drama and sus.
pense, thrills and moments of Joy
and laughter the story builds swiftly
to a big, surprising, punchy climax
and an ending that is happy and
satisfactory. Colleen is at her best
in her role of "Twinkletoes," in
which she runs the entire gamut,
from tense pathos to the brightest
comedy.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Girls Baseball Club to Play
Carlo Curtis Team

LOS ANGELES, March "a. (By
ANP)-The first game of a series
to be played in April between the
three girls baseball teams here and
teams of white girls here will be
played at White Sox Park, the win
ter home of the Negro National
League pennant winners.
The white team is managed by
Carlo Curtis, owner of Main Street
Athletic Club. The colored team will
be the East Side Club, composed OF
school girls averaging Is years OF
age. Miss Genevieve Hawkins, cap.
tain, works her girls hard to keer
up their fast, snappy playing. Miss
Gladys Criner, a tall brown-skin
pitcher, "burns 'em" across the plate
just like regular" pitcher.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Unappreciated Talent

There was a concert presented last
night by the Tacoma Joymakers Club
at Washington Hall for the benefit
of the Orthopedic Hospital. The
club of young people offered some of
the best talent in music and song in
Tacoma. Despite the extensive adj
vertising and canvassing among sup,
posed music lovers the Joymakers
had to give their program to house
that was barely a quarter filed. The
people who give as little support to
heir artistic enterprises are not like
ly to soon develop large group of
artists,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
United States Civil
Service Examination

The United States Civil Service
Commission announces the follow
ing open competitive examinations
Railway Postal Clerk-Receipt of
applications for the railway postal
clerk examination will close April 8,
1927. The date of assembling of
competitors will be stated on the adj
mission cards sent applicants after
the close of receipt of applications.
The examination is to fill vacan-
cies occurring in the railway mail
service throughout the United States
at $3.50 a year.
Park Enthusiastically of APP
plications for the park naturalist
examination will close April 10.
1927. The date of assembling of
competitors will be stated on the adj
mission cards sent applicants after
the close of receipt of applications.
The examination is to fill vacan-
cies occurring in the national ptrk
service throughout the Eleventh U.
s. Civil Service district-comprising
the states of Idaho, Montana, Ore
gon, and Washington-at $1,000 a
year, less $40 a year for quarters,
water, heat and light, and in posi-
tons requiring similar qualifications.
, Full information and application
blanks may be obtained from the
secretary, Eleventh Unitsd States
Civil Service district, 207 Postoffice
Building, Seattle, or the secretary of
the board of United States Civil
Service Examiners ut any first or
second class postoffice within this
district. w. Paine, district Sec
rotary. s.."
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Young George Dixon Is
Promising Lightweight

Young George Dixon, Portland
lightweight, now under management
of George Moore of that city, gives
promise of developing into cham
pion. Young Dixon is clean liver,
fast, clever and packs hefty wal
lop in both hands, which he knows
how to use. In his bout with Walter
Cleghorn Tuesday night at Crystal
Pool, the Portland boy gave the In
dian scrapper an awful beating.
ICleghorn's stamina and clinging tao
tics saved him from knockout. In
the final round the Indian was vir-
tually out his feet. The judges
looked at Dixon's color, went blind
and called the bout a draw.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25

4 Harry Wllie usiS ldhtll q IuIn az
Jockey, then as a stevedore and
now as prizefighter, made it plain
that Harry doesn't think he's through
by long ways.
He points out that our group has
to do more in boxing than the other
fellow just as he has to do in other
walks of life. He points out how
great the efforts were among GER
tain politicians to prevent Firpo from
fighting him, how long Dempsey
was able to dodge him successfully
and how, finally, Sharkey was given
victory over him by foul. .
Sharkey did not win. That is what
Wills told me. Ipretty well had his
number when they gave the bout to
him on a foul. No one was more
surprised than / VIXEN the referee
said: 81 disqualify you"
"For what?" / yelled, and the
newspaper men who had to send out
the dispatches that Sharkey won on
a foul made it read in addition that
he had won on points.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Langford Will Use Benefit
Fund to Buy Farm

NEW YORK, March 22.-Sam
Langford, veteran pugilist and once
famous as the Boston "tar baby"
will receive at once total of APP
proximately $4,000 raised in a re-
cent benefit for him here, instead
of S75 monthly. The state boxing
commission decided to do this to-
day, following repeated requests
from Langford, who is nearly blind
and wanted the money to buy a
farm. At the same time Chairman
James A. Farley, criticizing Lang
ford's attitude as unfair" declared
the commission would have nothing
further to do with egorts to aid the
negro.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Wildcat to Meet Port.
land Feather

James Malone, Seattle newspaper
man and former local ring promoter,
has taken over the management of
wildcat" Carter, Tacoma colored
streak of lightning. Malone says he
has been training Carter in quarters
at Lake Sammamish for three weeks
and has signed him to box Benny
Peltz. Portland (Ore.) feather
weight, at the Portland Armory
March 20. Both boys, Malone says,
have posted forfeits to make 126
pounds by the day of the fight.
Wildcat looks better than ever, says
Malone, who denies that the boy has
been going down the hill.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Duncan Sisters Using Col
ored Actors in Film

LOS ANGELES, March "a. (By
ANP)-So great a public demand
for the famous musical comedy "Top-
sy and Eva" has been made that II
be seen in pictures that the Duncan
Sisters, stars and owners of the show.
have begun filming It. They are us
ing a number of actors, among
whom are Spencer Williams, Robert
Frazier, Van Brunt, Ely Reynolds
and Henry Smith. They now are on
location" at Lake Tahoe, where
they will be for two weeks, returning
to the studio to finish it.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
"Tiny" Handles Country
Store at Gala Theatre

"Tiny" Maine, the "king of coun-
try store men," now is putting on a
greater store at the Gala Theater
every Wednesday night.
Tiny" has not gained his nick
name through giving small assert
nent of Northwest Products to each
winner, for it is more or less difficult
for one man, woman or child to
carry away the huge load he stacks
in the arms of each one, as every one
present last Wednesday night will
readily say.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Ray Hoffman Whips Young
Harry Wills

Ray Hoffman. a local boy, de-
feated Young Harry Wills in the
main event Of a boxing card put
on last Thursday night by the Com
munity Club at Snoqualmie. Hoff-
man. who looks good, took the fight
in the third round via the kayo
route. George Mars took the decision
from Charles White in the four
round semi-final. Mork Tranas won
from Young Joe Cans in the special
event.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Gun and Rod Club
Enjoy First Outing

The Twilight Rod and Gun Club
had its first shoot and outing last
Sunday at the Jones farm, near Ken
nydale. The club. installed new traps
and in the shoot at clay birds Ben
Jones was first with score of 20
out of possible rs and Sam Chap
pelle second with Ia out of a pos
sible 20. The club will hold another
shoot next Sunday afternoon at 2:3O
O'Clock at Kennydale.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Partner Wanted

WANTED-Colored partner for
poultry ranch, must be reliable and
handy with tools; must have some
money. A money-maker for the
right party. I have 30 acres, two
miles from town, with water, cleo
trio light and telephone, corner on
main road. Write, or come and in
vestigate. s. II. Jones, 623 Orondo
Ave-, Wenatchce, Wash.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
Pickens Discusses Race
Problem

WASHINGTON. =" Sex and the
Race Problem" was the subject of
a lecture delivered by William Pick
ems, field secretary of the N. A. A.
c. P. and member of the League
for Industrial Democracy, at the
playhouse at 1914 N Street N. W.,
Monday night.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25

annual rest for the
last three weeks.
Mrs, Wills ACCOM-
panied him and the
two went immedi-
ately to the big
Claybrook ranc h
near here, where
Harry will do a lit
tie rough work and
start conditioning
for "A comeback in
the ring this sum
mer.
A long talk with
the big fighter, who
=
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25
By H. Brown

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Harry Wills
arrived here Sunday from the Py-
THAN Sanitarium at Hot Springs,
Ark, where he had been getting his
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-03-25

"Seven-Eleven" Company, with
Howard Brown and Smith, is at the
Park Theatcr, Bridgeport. Conn.
Evening star., 1927-03-19

less righteous, as compared with the
lawbreakers is so overwhelming that
the former have right TO say what
shall be done with the latter.
Their say" through the centuries
has been for the penitentiary'
Whether seclusion in hospitals, in
stead of at work, as proposed recently
bv Clarence Darrow, would better the
situation, is as yet only an interesting
question.
After all. is abnormality SO much
disease as difference? The unhealthy
who harm none but themselves are
not called upon TO share brotherhood
with those whose deviation Is shown
In a trail of lust, murder ana per
version of the normal instincts. 10
call such human beings mercy
sick" and thereby to lump 'le'i
with those suffering from coids'
and sore throats, IS
travesty upon the use of words anu
an Injustice to all concerned LEI
iustice be tempered with all the
mercy possible, but do not ai'oM
to become foolish at the same 'i''ie'
Evening star., 1927-03-19
Silverton's Choice.

Residents of Silverton, Colo, chose
movie" films instead of meat when
virtually isolated for a month by snow
slides.
The 200 persons of that up-to-date
citv without hesitation spoke up for
motion pictures, which were brought
in by mushers almost daily, in lieu or
fresh meat which might otherwise
have been handled.
When 1t came TO a choice between
meat and movies" Silverton spoke as
one man and woman: Give US hlms'
We want pictures. Let the meat stay
on the COW"
Such was the heroic decision OF the
miners, who admitted that bread may
be the staff of life, but equally insist
ed that motion pictures are the basic
modern amusement of the masses.
Poets OF the future, visioning this
supreme moment in the life of Silver
ton, will burst into rhapsodies over
the brave choice, and point to the
more ancient line to support them: "A
feast of reason and flow of film.'
They have no meat there, but they
have Doug" Fairbanks. And, De-
sides, they can vote, which Is more
than any resident Of the National Capt.
tai can do. Maybe we ought to tell
Silverton about It.
Evening star., 1927-03-19
The Abnormal.

That abnormality of mind is any
real excuse for crime. under the laws
of the land, has yet to be shown.
Given our Government as It is, and
our common human nature, there is
no clear reason why sentimentality
or even science should alter justice.
There has grown up in recent years
school of thought in penology
which would extenuate every crime
or the plea that every criminal is
abnormal. and that his very criminal
action proves him to be i'll rather than
perverse.
This is, indeed, tempering justice
with mercy. but il will remain a
question In the mind of the average
law-abiding citizen whether necessity
does not call for the more time hon
ored outlook upon the whole question
OF the crime and the criminal.
Methods of punishment by reform
schools. jails and prisons are ad-
mittedly unsatisfactory in results.
They have behind them, however, the
usage of the centuries, which surely
counts for something.
For all civilizations pretense, the
savage instincts of humanity lie at
the bottom OF the heap. and whether
one chooses to diagnose the criminal
as "ornery" or i'll, he remains an
eternal problem.
The huge numbers of the more a
Evening star., 1927-03-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

The necessity for a fence or hedge
of some sort If one Is TO really have
garden Is seen by practically all
| writer's upon the subject.
Every gardener ought to take heart
sf their words and refuse to be
"buffaloed" into the idea that the
fenceless property is anything but
public property. Unfenced property
is not private even If one owns 1t.
ut is all too true that thousands
OF gardens and grounds all around
our American homes are bare to desc
lation." says Robert Ii. Cridland in
the opening chapter of A. r. de la
Mares Garden Guide"
The democratic idea and feeling
against the planting of hedges and
the lining off of ones property makes
Tor deadly uniformity.
Ihe arguments that hedsed or
fenced grounds would be contrary to
the best artistic conception and treat.
ment of a city or suburb as a whole
pught not to be allowed to sway the
property owner from making the most
INA the best of his own place.
mere Is school of iandsca ne
gardeners and city planners who seem
set their face against this. en-
couraglng the open community TYNE
of home grounds.
Inc latter Will never get us anv.
Where as nation of garden lovers
ana almost entirely precludes the
practice of finer gardening.
we plead rather to see places
nicely hedged or rallied off. so that
stray dogs and unceremonious persons
may he kept at a proper distance. but
most or all for the sake of the on.
Joyment and encouragement of that
qulet privacy, without which the true
pleasures of gardening cannot he at.
tained." 0 at
II there were any truer words than
tnoSe ever written upon the subject
the present writer does not remamher
having seen them
Al this time Of the year, when every,
one wants to get out and dig. II is
particularly necessary 10 get firmly
hNed In the mind just what garden
really is.
The sanctity of ones own property.
marking back to the funda mental
English idea OF "a mans house is his
castle" is often lost sight of in the
hurly-burly of modern living.
There are hundreds of property
owners who long to fence off their
grounds, yet refrain from doing so
because 1t is not generally done in
their neighborhood.
Yet the right to do so is inherent in
every property owner. and it is a
right which the District government
grants to local residents. with only
certain regulations necessary to pre-
vent too high fences
An abortive attempt by an Engi-
neer Commissioner several years ago
TO force by law an entire neighborhood
to be alike, either all fenced or all
unfenced, was a dismal failure, since
1t struck so directly at the rights of
property owners to protect their own.
. Mrs. Francis King, in her classic
small book, 'The Little Garden"
says
Whether we advocate formal or
informal plans, one thing Is needed in
either case, and that is some line or
border of green growth which shall
encircle the lot-shall make II into
that garth, or enclosed spot, which
gives the word garden its old first
meaning.
The garden belongs first of all to
him or her who owns it and makes it t."
That such fundamental idea
Evening star., 1927-03-19

should need such explicit stating by
so eminent a gardener as Mrs. KING
shows how far some of us nave
strayed from the right idea.
A garden does, indeed, belong frst
of all to him or her who owns it and
makes IT. Behind this primary ideh
lies all our system Of law and order
A wide open" garden Is a bolshevik
garden. one where any profane foot
| may come and tread out in second
the loving work of days, weeks or
even years.
A garden without privacy is only a
public park.
Owners of row houses. with low
back fences, know just how pubic
ones gardening may become. 1t is
true that the good neighhors do not
line up at the back windows and look
at one. but nevertheless that is the
idea that one often has.
A garden--a real garden-ought to
be a place of peace and quiet, and
| that necessary privacy for lack of
which, as social workers tell US, so
many crimes are committed.
The human soul Graves to be alone
at times.
What better place is there than
a green garden, where shady nook
beCkonS, and sweet flowers, with all
the tints of the rainbow. call to the
best instincts of the human mind and
soul?
This esthetic satisfaction cannot be
enjoyed in the open. Try as one
may, he misses some of the most dur
able satisfacti Of gardening when he
gardens in the same spirit that the
housewife hangs clothes upon the line.
~
II Is significant that the two writer's
quoted speak most of all for the pri-
vacy of gardens This is the higher
aspect Of the question
The more material. but none the less
significant side is that of protection.
Gardening, if INDUCED in for love Of
nature, and not just in competition
with ones neighbors, leads one to plan
and experiment. with the hope, al
though It may be a faint one, of Gre
ating a new flower. thus joining the
immortal ranks of the creators.
Now how can one put the work of
his hands and the love of his heart
into the soil if all the time he knows
that any stray dog. or thoughtless
child, may come along and in few
moments undo all his time, labor and
expense?
He cannot, and he will not. Secur-
ity in the garden is prime necessity,
and without it there can be no real
garden, any more than there can be
if privacy is lacking
One may have pretty flowers and
get much enjoyment out of an open
yard-if he is lucky-but the previ-
ously mentioned durable satisfaction
will be missing, 50 that even the
most Indifferent persons will sense
their lack.
Heirs of the late Gen. Lew Wallace
author of "BenHur," upon returning
from a visit to England, built high
brick wall entirely around the old
homestead covering an entire block
in the pretty little city of Crawfords.
Vile, Ind.
The good townfolk were more or
less incensed at this high wall But
those who built it were right, as we
see it. Most persons who buy prop
erty come to the conclusion, sooner or
later, that the higher and thicker the
wall is, the better all around.
Plenty of jagged glass. too. imbed-
ded in the top of the wall. is a useful
addition, as it can hurt no one who
has any business up there-and no one
has any business there. of course.
Evening star., 1927-03-19
Reapportionment Failure
Brings Attack ON Congress

Boston Transcript independent Re.
publican) believes that "some citizens.
not the worst in the country, either.
must find 1t rather difficult to pre-
serve respect for the Constitution and
Congress at the same time"
The plan for action based on the 1880
census impresses the Lynchburg Ad-
vance Democratic) as a mere gesture,
and lit is quite likely" the Advance
argues. that In the next three wears
some States will lose a considerable
number of inhabitants while others
will grow in population. TO enact
legislation on the basis of the 1880 esti
mated census might create a similar
situation to that which exists now
What the House should have done
was to have passed a reapportionment
bill based on the last census" This
Virginia paper sees little wonder that
California is peeved at the way in
which the House has ignored the plain
mandate of the Constitution.
1t Is quite possible that six electoral
votes may decide the next presiden-
tial election"
The Muskegon Chronicle Gndepend
enD offers the comment: Whether
or not there is an avenue whereby
LHio can De re-
solved by the Supreme Court is uncer-
tain, but there ought to be such a re-
view. Because otherwise this question
Is going to be perennially before us
and become increasingly a cause of
bitterness. There is no question but
the makers of the Constitution in
tended to provide for a decennial re.
apportionment of representation based
on the decennial population count.
1t is disconcerting to the or.
binary citizen to observe how direct.
selfish interests can toy with constitu-
tionai definitions even in the houses
Of Congress"
The Worcester Telegram Republi-
cam contends that las long as there
is delay in reapportionment, Congress
will stand clearly on the side Of un-
fairness" In explanation, the Flint
Daily Journal says: "At least two
great national questions are said to
figure In the political lineup on reap
portionment. They are farm relief
and prohibition. The metropolitan
East Is looked upon as unfriendly to
the cause of the farmers and to pro
hibition. More Representatives from
this section and fewer from the dry
and rural West would mean a differ
ent lineup in Congress. Yet
the opponents of reapportionment are
holding up an express provision of the
Constitution"
Evening star., 1927-03-19
Scientists See Varying
In Evolution Theory

From the Baltimore Sun.
The news from London that Sir
Arthur Keith, in his presidential ad-
dress this Summer to the great British
Association for the Advancement of
Science, will have something to say
on evolution contrary to the views of
Charles Darwin will not surprise
scientists. They all know that the
precise views of Darwin are subjected
to many exceptions by his successors.
and that the theory of evolution has
been modified time and again as the
result of the study in long years by
many able and devoted men. Indeed.
George Bernard Shaw, taking note of
this. has fiippantly remarked that
Charles is a back number"
But If there Is nothing to surprise
the scientists in the news Of Sir Arthur
Keith's intention to summarize the
work of 60 years following Darwin,
there is much to cause the enemies of
the theory of evolution to take thought.
1t is worth the while of the Funda-
mentalists to note that science is not
making an Interchangeable dogma Of
Darwin's teachings, that 1t Is pains.
takingly going on in search of truth,
and that 1t Is admitting changes as
new evidence Is brought to light 1t
would seem difficult for honest men.
of whatever belief, to fear method
and procedure so hoRest>
Evening star., 1927-03-19
Detective Fiction.

a conscientious young man, whom
his associates never suspected OF
reading anything less than the At
lantic Monthly. was surprised recently
in the act of perusing one of the pop
ular magazines devoted to detective
stories.
The. good natured "joshing" which
he suffered brought bushes to his
face. such is human nature. AS
matter Of plain fact, however. the
magazine he was reading was quite
as worthy, in its way. as its so-called
"highbrow" cotemporary.
The detective story ever has been a
favorite of men Of discrimination. The
late Woodrow Wilson alleviated the
trials OF his great office by reading
such stories.
Visitors TO the church study of a
prominent Washington clergyman are
often surprised TO find the shelves
lined with detective fiction by Conan