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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Club Lido

Club Lido Of late has become
more than ever rendezvous Tor
the college. set, its intimate. care
free atmosphere, poppy music and
reasonable convert having aD-
parently caught on with the
downtown crowd" to whom the
beautiful Hamilton Hotel night
club Is easily accessible.
It is recalled that the cover
charge at Lido is only so cents
four nights a week. with the en-
tertainment peak--the Wednesday
theatrical nights coming at $1.10
and the big Saturday night parties
at $1.65.
An outstanding reason for the
recent burst Of Lido popularity Il
said to be the trio recruited from
Emory Daugherty's crack band
Bob Oliver, saxophonist; Frank
Flanagan. singing banjoist, and
Johnny Slaughter. the sweet
fiddler which presents specially
comedy numbers between dances.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Tommy a Comedy
of the Smaller
Hinterlands

Tommy" a comedy of small
city life by Howard Lindsay and
Bertrand Robinson, presented by
George C. Tyler with the New
York cast intact, including Regina
Brown. Sidney Toler, Lloyd Neal,
Maidei Turner, Alan Bunce, Ben
Johnson, William Janney and
Florence Walcott, comes to the
National Theater for weeks en-
gagement beginning Monday night,
March Y.
In this interesting and funny
tale Of youthful courtship in a
modern American home, the de-
voted Tommy. a clerk in his uncle's'
bank. has a dangerous rival in
Bernard" a breezy automobile
salesman. In fact, the uncertainty
as to which young man the pretty
Marie Thurber will marry con-
tiHues until near the final curtain.
Tommy is given valuable tech
nical advice and instruction in the
art of love-making by an uncle of
the girl. who is a politician. and
after many hilarious scenes and
Incidents he is enabled to win the
girls heart and hand over the
Vaccination of his suave rival in
love.
Tommy" ran a year in New
York and had long and successful
engagements in Boston and Chi
cago before going on the road for
a tour Of the other large cities of
the country.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
4U the NeefuI info On Next Week S7lOJU FT1UOIJt1t
BrOokhart Bill Is
Injurious, Says
Ftp. Official

aIaek huying ~ motion pictures
/. - vai,,abie 20 the exhibitor a.
~ the produeer. sidney 8. Kent,
General sales manager OF Famous
players.I.asigy told the Senate IN.
ieraate com fnerce Commlttee
Thursday.
1T assures tha producer q
market in advance Of manufac-
tifre.o he said. opposing the Brook
hart blII 10 abolish the practice,
"bnt Ii also assures the exhibitor
n continuous supply Of an estab-
lIahed product"
Mr.. Kent denied that there was
any forcing Of exhibitors to &C.
cept 100 per cent bookings,
"Only S per cent Of the bookings
Of my company are on IVY per
cent basis" he testified. we
sell az near 100 per cent as pos
sible. but like all other sellers n
competitive fields. we take, IN the
long run, the best order we can
get"
Mr.. Kent said that Famous
Players-Laslcy tried out the meth.
Cd OF individual selling Of pic
lures. that the BrOOkhart bill
WOui0 GODlUcie U0b. gAAtNN - RAVAAAPN-
ly resulted In loss Of customers,
and was so unsatisfactory to the
exhibitors that It was abandc d.
1.-The whole progress and pros
perity OF the industry depends on
block, or wholesale, selling" he
said. This has been true from
the first, and It is true now. No
body can Judge in advance which
pictures will be the knock-0uts.
and which the less effective. A
fairly even spead OF distribution IL
the only way to continue the cost
w experiments which are the life
and growth of the business.
'The fixing OF an arbitrary price
differentiaI viii take a..ay all i'm
centive to produce such great pic
lures as 1.-THE Covered Wagon,
BEN Hur,' What Price Glory and
The Big Parade This proposed
legislation would saddle mediocrity
on the industry"
Only is per cent Of Famous
Players-I4aslxy sales revenue comes
from flneaters owned or partly
owned by the corporation. Mr..
Kent said, and the other 50 per
cent comes from fiercesy-competi.
tive selling In the open market
among 10000 possible buyers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Expressive Hands
Essential, Says
Greta

If you want success on the
screen make your hands express
as much as your face.
This is advice from Greta
Carlo. famous film star who is
now playing the stellar role in
1.-THE Divine Woman" Metro
Goldwyn-M Mayer picture being
shown at Loew's Palace.
Miss Carlo learned her tech
nique at the Royal Academy OF
Sweden, a dramatic institution
founded and maintained by the
Swedish government in the in
terest of promoting the art OF
acting.
THE eyes are, Of course, the
most expressive feature" says
Miss Carlo, but there are more
long-shots taken in picture
than close-ups, hence the eyes
cannot be expected to do all the
work.
Hands can show pity, joy, sor-
row-all the human emotions.
In the Royal Dramatic Academy
of Sweden we were first taught
to use our bodies gracefully and
expressively. the theory being
that it was easier and more
natural to express emotions with
the face.
THE average person uses his
hands awkwardly because he has
not been taught to use them well,
but they are most important to
screen technique. In The Divine
Woman the character changes
from a simple little peasant girl
to great stage star. In the
first part of the picture I deliber-
ately use my hands badly, but
later on acquire ease and grace
of movement to coincide with the
role / am then playing"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03

How 1t has come about that this
curiously effective weapon did not
come into the notice of the Ameri-
can Indian. is some wonder.
Whether 1t is of great age is not
known. The Patagonians have
used it for nearly two centuries;
beyond that nothing is known of
the bolas. If it is that some
clever Patagonian invented this
missile, then it is also possible
that the bolas was the origin Of
a highly effective piece of naval
ordnance. Look in your dictionary
under the heading of chain-shot,
and you have the bolas idea. The
chain-shot. used in naval war
fare during the sailing ship era.
consist of two ball connected by
chain, and used to cut down
the masts or spars of vessels, or
to destroy the shrouds and
rigging.
While we have no knowledge of
the bolas being used farther back
than 200 years, we know posi-
lively that the chain-shot was en-
ployed more than 800 years agone.
Sir Philip Sidney. in his
Apologize for Poetrie," published
in 1895. referred to it. to wit:
''Thys argument, though it bee
leaveled against Poetrie. yet it is
indeed a chain-ball against all
learning" That would seem to
settle the early use of the chain
shot or chain-ball.
The idea behind the bolas is the
same as in the chain-shot. One
can easily imagine the curiosity
of a native of South America.
looking over the ordnance of Sir
Walter Raleigh's ship when she
stopped there on his voyage to
the Orinoco. Seeing the chain
shot and its use explained. one
can see the native taking a thong
OF leather, a couple of stones and
fashioning for himself a rude but
effective missile. This may have
been the origin of the Patagonian
bolas. or boleadoras. as it is
called,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Broadway Reflects
Your Very Own
Outlook

One of the fascinating quail
ties of the big city is that it
is truly "all things to all
men," To the rich it is financial
success. To the pIaybOy with
money from home it liz a gilt
tering toy. To the friendly
square shooter. it is usually a
smiling wOrk-mate. And to the
chap down on his luck, it can
be as cold and depressing as
yesterdays coffee.
A couple of Out-Of.W0rk
actors were discussing their
troubles on a wind-swept street
corner the other day when one
of them looked up at a big
movie sign, which carried the
sub title:
"As Big As The Heart Of
Humanity"
Eyes, commented the actor,
"Must be q One-reeler."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
"U" Club Musical

A short evening of music was
given at the University Club on
Wednesday, with Miss Minnie F.
Notz, pianist, and Carson p.
Frailey, tenor soloist. Mr.. Frailey
was accompanied by E. J. Stenson.
Among her other selections, Miss
Notz played series of her own
compositions, including Media.
tion," ''Brooklet," Romance" and
The Story, and Prayer of
Thanks" AS encores she played
her own arrangement for the piano
of Johann Sebastian Bach's 20!
Blessed Head" and "Barcarolle,
by Thome.
Mr.. Frailey was in fine voice
and captivated his audience with
MS rendering of ION the Road to
Mandalay" and Going Home"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03

Probably no screen actress can
point to more diversified series
of roles than Phyllis Haver, who
portrayed chief feminine parts in
up in Mabels Room" 'Nobody's
Widow" don Juan" 1.-THE Little
Adventures, THE Way of All
Flesh" and Shanghai Mabel in
What Price Glory"
Her selection by Cecil B. De-
Mile for the outstanding crea-
ton of 1.-The most beautiful jazz
slayer in Chicago" is the latest
honor to come to Miss Haver.
A recent issue of Photoplay de-
votes one of its feature pages to
an interview concerning the rapid
strides she has made in recent
months, which she explains in
part as follows:
II can hardly believe the sue
cess I've had this year--it has
arrived so gradually for me. I've
been working forever, almost
since the day 1 was born an
O'Haver in Douglas, Kan. My
mother and 1 left there when l
was four and came to Los
Angeles. When I was IA was
playing a piano in a picture
show. and the next year l was
getting up at in the morning
and riding on a trolley nearly
two hours to get to Sennett's and
work all day for $12 a week"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Saturdays Child Is
Scheduled For a
New Play

Ruth Gordon, who for the
past two seasons has been
playing in the Actors Theater
production, Saturdays Chill
dren." has been engaged by
Jed Harris for the leading role
in a new comedy. as yet un-
named. by Bruce Gould and
Beatrice BIaclxmar. The owner
Of Broadway" "COquette,"
and ''The Royal Family" will
present the play out Of town
in July and will bring it into
New York in late September.
Mr.. Gould is the literary editor
of the New York Evening Post.
and Miss BIackmar is a well.
known newspaperwOman.
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The Gate-POst
Continued from Page 81

Continued from Page So
is not conceivable that Mus
keteers" would close if he got
sick. Neither would "Show Boat"
If Howard Marsh suffered a
misery in his throat. Marilyn
Miller, outstanding in the distaff
ranks of musical comedy, had
various sieges of indisposition
during the run of Sonny" but
an understudy always was on
hand to promote the curtains
rise.
Glamorous stars like Jolson and
Cantor are assets so long as they
gnub the doctors. Those on the
middle rung of the ladder are
safer by far. While they're
working they're liked; if they
quit the loss is less than cataclys-
mic. The moral should be: Hire
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Stage to Screen

Robert Edeson, the veteran
screen character actor, is ideally
cast as the lawyer for the de-
tense in the screen version Of
Maurine Watkins stage play
which is the current attraction
at the Rialto. Edeson is a pro-
duct of the speaking stage. In
his youth he was one of the
formost stars of the time
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03

musical play is the campus Of a
coed college. The big scene is 2
football game. William Wayne IS
the principal comedian and Marie
Callahan plays opposite him. Don
Tanning, Frank Mccormack, Mil
bred Costello, Thelma White and
Dolores Farris are some of the
principals in the large cast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Atmosphere

A Hungarian village. nesting
on the side of a mountain in
First National Studios large
grounds, has been built for Billie
Doves new film, THE Yellow
Lily"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Laugh This Off

"The giggled," said Johnny
Hines, the movie comedian,
whose latest First National
picture, Chinatown Charlie,
is nearing completion in Holly
wood, they giggled when !
sat down to the piano, but
when began to play the les
sons I learned from the Sure
shot Correspondence School,
they laughed right out loud.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Historical Import, Has
This Item

When Doug Fairbanks along in his photoplay
douglas Fairbanks the Gaucho and unwhls and lets fly
with the boas highly interesting South American missile there
those who going be curious to its origin Briefly
the boas consists of balls stones connected to-
gether by strong leather thong; these around the
head and discharged captured to
around and it.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-03-03
Another Surf Beauty
Who Made Good

cry bathing beauty Mack Sennett comedies
Chicago" version of
Watkins stage play being shown at the Rato But
versatility has successfully effected Phyllis
Have who emuatng Gloria Swanson and Bebe Daniels has
ladder rapidly
a wear and half as set all HOLLYWOOD
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-03
More Evidence

Harry F. Sinclair, mutmillionaire Oil man; William
j. Burns the detective and five Others are definitely
accused by a District of Columbia grand jury of
conspiracy to obstruct justice in having the jurors
in the Fa-Sinclar trial investigated and Swallowed
by detectives.
This is just as true as if the grand jury had
returned an indictment, instead of 'presentiment"
1t will be recalled that some weeks ago. when Fall
and Sinclair were trial a charge of conspiracy
to defraud the Government in the lease of the Teapot
Dome Oil Reserve, it was discovered by government
agents that the jurors being kept under surve-
lance. Government attorneys charged this for the
purpose of establishing contacts with them in the hope
of swaying their verdict. Justice Siddons at once
ordered mistrial.
Peyton Gordon, the district attorney, accused Sin
clair, Henry Mason Day and Sheldon Clark employees
of Sinclair Burns, Burns son, w. Sherman Burns,
and Detectives Ruddy and OReily, before the grand
jury.
The job of the grand jury was to hear the evidence
offered by the Government, to determine if it were
sufficient to warrant the being held for trial This
the grand jury did Its 'presentment" was formal
notification to the court that in the opinion of the
jury the men should be brought to trial
"presentment" according to Webster means in
law, "the notice taken, statement made by grand
jury of any offense unlawful state of affairs from
their own knowledge observation, without any bills
indictment laid before them"
preSentment is the necessary forerunner of in
dictnents, which drawn by the district attorney
and returned true bill to the court by the jury
The fact that no indictments were returned was
due to the failure Of the district attorney to draw
them Why he did not do so is not clear He may have
thought that the contempt proceedings in progress
before Justice Sddons which may result in summary
sentences from the BENCH were ample. He may have
wished not to add further trials to the Multiplicity of
legal actions which have grown up about the oil frauds
To many it will be disappointing that he did not make
the indictments, since this would have served as an
additional hold on the accused men, for in event
of the failure of the contempt proceedings.
There seems to be question as to whether the
presentment can hold over for possible future USE
Probably this is only interesting ACCIDENTALLY for it
apparent that the district attorney has TO in
tention of going beyond the contempt proceedings.
The grand jury which investigated the case is
credited with being unusually capable. Numerous
witnesses were heard over period of four or five
weeks.
This jury, in effect todt the court that it believed
that the Government justified in its accusations
that Sinclair and Burns and their agents we're seeking
to defeat justice by influencing the trial jury This Is
the important thing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-03
Two Girls Quit School

Some of the children who had
been nourished on the higher wis
dow of backyard gossip demurred
at this.
Evolution" declared one YOUTH
full savant, means to come from
monkeys"
Tate sought to enlighten them by
explaining that man named OAR
win had written books on the
theory that no one had ever claimed
the theory was true, and that a man
named William Jennings Bryan had
offered 500 to anyone who could
prove it true.
Evidently, more or less discus
sion occurred at this point, for Tate
says he told the children that "any-
one who did not believe in a process
Of self-development might as we'll
take their books and leave school,"
Two girls left, and that night
their parents telephoANd Tate lfor
an explanation. The next day d.
group Of parents came to the SCHOOL,
to see him. They also called on the
chairman of the school board. Thr
result was Tate's resignation to take
effect immediately
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-03
A New Note

new political note was sounded when
Walter Myers announced his willingness and
desire to become Senator from Indiana.
Myers evidently believes that the way to
clean up political conditions is to denounce the
evils in politics and point to the causes of those
evils.
Instead of hiding behind sonorous phrases,
Myers jabs with detailed Indictment
He does not seem to be afraid of the shadow
of the Ku-Klux Klan or offending members of
his own party who may have lingering affec-
ton for the hooded order.
That is different from what the voters have
been hearing for the past year.
When the campaign of year ago was in
progress and the State was interested in the
contents of the ''Black Boxes of Stephenson,
the Democratic orators were talking Of tariffs.
AT a time when corruption was a live issue
with the people, it was dead with the candi-
dates of both parties
The entrance Of Myers into the race for the
Democratic nomination seems to end that
period of fear and silence in regard to real
evils.
For there is no mistake concerning the cause
OF the evils of politics in Indiana.
The bosses made terms with intolerance and
bigotry and the dotted line contracts Of Steph.
ensonisn.
The triumph of these forces in 1924 was re-
peated in new form by the same influences in
1926.
To that sinister event the Democratic party
offered no protest or at least small protest.
1t will be at least interesting to the in
dependent voter to note that the coming OF
Myers ends this apathetic Indifference to real
issues 1t is just possible that he will inaug-
crate competition in virtue instead of con-
test III suppression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-03
(AnderSsn Herald)
Republican,

In the spring of 1927 an in
vestigation of school attendance
and child labor was conducted in
seven towns and cities of Indiana
by the national child labor COM
mittee. In making public this re-
port the committee states: "Sel-
dom has the child labor COM
mittee in its many years of study
and investigation found as salts
factory conditions of school at
tendance as were found in the
Indiana towns recently studied.
Few children under Is years were
out of school, either for work or
for any other reason. On the other
hand, the study revealed a fairly
large number of school children
employed outside of school hours,
frequently in violation of the legal
requirements for work"
The towns and cities included
in the study were Connersville.
Charlottesville, Brazil, Washing
ton, Tell City, Cannelton, Goshen,
Peru and Marion.
In each of these towns two
studies were made. First, the
school enrolment was compared
with the school census, and every
child IA to 10 years, who was not
in school was visited. Second, each
school room was visited, and all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-03
0pen-M Minded Man

When asked if he knew what
evolution meant, one OF the COM
plainants against Tate said he did
not and did not want to know, but
what he did know was that he
wanted none of it for his children.
This is also position Darwin
never would have taken. When re-
minded Of the attacks Christians
were making on him, and asked
what his attitude was toward them
and their belief, Darwin replied
that he had never studied tina
doctrines of Christianity. thoroughly
enough to speak with assurance,
and that it was his conviction a
man should not engage in a con-
troversy over something with which
he was unfamiliar.
Darwin's conclusions may be
wrong with regard TO the origin and
development of species. but he did
not jump at them through
prejudice, nor cid he bother much
about the prejudice Of others. He
was above all else an open minded
man, tolerant man, a kindly man 4
The fundamentals could thro]
every book he wrote in the fire an y
still improve themselves by folloT
ing his example in this respect.
However, he may have neglef
to study the Bible, Darwin did
neglect to study the book of n
and if God wrote one He ceI
wrote the other. &
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-03

prose, wrote essays advocating the
unity of Greece under this new and
masterful man from the north.
Athens took the advice of the orator.
fought Philip at Chaeronea 1888 E.
c., suffered defeat, and accepted
without grace the Macedonian yoke.
Isocrates liked Philip as Goethe
liked Napoleon, because every phil
osopher pines for unity, and every
scribe admires action. It might have
been materially better for Greece to
be ruled by Philip if Philip had not
been. like Napoleon, something of
a barbarian crude, cruel and drunk
with power.
In addition, Philip drank like
Shakespeare and married like Solo,
mon. One of his wives, Olympies S,
q half-savage MoloSsian princess,
who had given him Alexander, grew
jealous of the other wives, and to
make sure that Philip would have
no other heirs, connived at the as
sassination of the king 1885, B. g..
CUDDENLY, therefore, at the age
~ of twenty Alexander found him.
self ruler of Macedon and Greece.
He was a wild youth, energetic
and passionate, inheriting greatness
from his father with a fondness for
alcohol. For two years Aristotle
tutored him. but even that glacial
philosopher could not cool Alexan-
der's royal fire.
When, on the lads accession, the
Greek states revolted, presuming on
his youth, he crushed them with one
blow; and When Thebes rebelled
again he burnt it to the ground.
But he spared the house of the
poet Pindar, and gave to all but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-03

civilized and fairly industrious
hunters, fishers, guides and basket
and curio makers. They do not
seem to have much desire to i'm
prove their condition, but they are
moral. sober, and law-abiding. The
Micmacs are almost Solidly Roman
Catholic as a result of early efforts
of French missionaries and their
successors.
Why is Connecticut called the
Nutmeg State?
The nickname refers to a tradi-
ton that INSCRIPTIONS traders from
that State palmed off wooden"
nutmegs on their customers.
What is the difference between
game of chance and a speculation?
A game of chance is one in which
the element of luck is the control
ling factor. When specializing a
person takes a chance but also exer-
cises judgment. One usually specu-
lates in a thing in which he at
tempts to forecast what the results
will be. In a game Of pure chance
the results are wholly fortuitous.