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The Washington times., 1928-01-13
RENSRAW SCHOOL
HAS LARGE ROSTER

The Anne Tillery Renshaw
School of Speech has the largest
enrolment of it's history. Many
men and women in professional
life are now taking class or pri.
Vate instruction in vocational
communication. To date the
school has been able to render
service to doctors. lawyers.
preachers, nurses, teachers, bust.
ness men and women, as well as
to Government clerks and high
school students. The oratorical
contests have stimulated the in.
terest in public speaking.
The dean. Mrs. Renshaw, is to
address the Soroptinnist Club
January IL at the LAFAYETTE
Hotel. The Story TelIerg. Of
Reading, Pa. have maze ar
rangements to have Mrs. Rem.
shaw give eight lectures there
beginning January rs.
The school is now sending out
invitations to the public to attend
series OF four recitals at the
studios. at 1889 Connecticut Ave.
Ihese recitals are at s D. M.
January IA. Fl, %, and February /.
Two new courses are added to
the curriculum-diction a prac.
tlcal course in pronunciation.
enunclation and articulation
English beautiful'-and a lee.
lure course on the backgrounds
OF literature given by the dean.
The school is open from 9
O'Clock in the morning until 10
o'clock at night.
with the aid Of the story tell
ing department. OF the school. a
chapter Of the National story
Teliers League will be organized
shortly.
The Washington times., 1928-01-13
QUIT FLOODING!
HERE'S SUCCESS

Don't be satisfied to see every
body else pass you on the road
to success.
Get aboard!
Your right to success Is as
good as anybody else's-if you
will but exercise it and make
the effort to achieve it.
Make up your mind that you
will not forever p1od along the
dusty highway of life when there
is a straight, highly polished
track leading to the gold toward
which you are striving, with
Pullman trains at your COM
mand every hour of the day.
1t you want Il reserved seat
on this Pullman Train of Sue.
cess, follow the examples of
the men and women who are
already aboard. You have only
to look about you to see how
they achieved their success. The
tickets" they carry are marked
Business Education" and these
tickets are on sale all over the
world.
Get one!
From the January "Tirne
Table" of the Southern Brothers
Business University.
The Washington times., 1928-01-13

ney, an authority on constitu.
tlonal law and formerly of the
State Department; Thomas Ster.
ling, former United States Sen.
ator from South Dakota; Pey.
ton Gordon, United States at.
torney for the District of Co.
lumbla; Thomas e. Robertson,
Commissioner of Patents: DR..
u. Percy Hickling, alienist for
the District of Columbia. and
Henry r. Rathbone, represen-
tative-at-large from Illinois. In
addition. there are many other
prominent lawyers on the fac
ulty. which numbers approx.
mately go persons.
The school of economics and
government, of which DR.. Charles
Pergler, formerly minister O
Japan from Czecho- SlovaEia, is
the dean. offers in its curricu.
lum excellent facilities for the
study Of subjects leading to
the bachelor Of arts degree in
government and the bachelor
OF science degree in economies.
banking and finance. and &C.
counting.
For the study of government,
students at National University
are offered. among others, the
following courses: American
Government. foundations of gov.
eminent. comparative govern
ment, municipal corporations, iu.
risprudence and legal history.
Roman law and it's evolution.
International law, modern civil
law. constitutional law. histor.
ical survey Of law. several so.
GEOLOGY courses and a number
OF courses in the activities of
ment. In addition, political sci.
ence and courses on United
States history. Latin-American
history and other subjects are
offered.
For the study of banking ana
finance, the school of economics
and government offers such
courses as the following: Money
and credit, trust company man
agement, investments, economies
and political science, psychology
corporation finance, business ii.
nance, money and banking, bank
ing practice and large number
of other subjects In the law
school which are offered in con.
junction with courses In the
school Of economics and govern.
ment. Among them are courses
IN the study of the Federal tax
laws, the law of contracts, cor.
porations and others.
Post graduate work leading to
the master and doctor degrees
is given both in the law school
and school OF economies and
government. The law school
awards the following post.gradu.
ate degrees: Master of laws.
doctor Of juridical science. mas.
ter of patent law and doctor Of
civil law. The school of econom
les and government offers
courses leading to the degrees of
master Of arts and master of
science.
The Washington times., 1928-01-13
SCHOOL HERE
,. TRAINS MANY
: IN j. 8. JOBS

Visualize. if you will, a city
inhabited only by stenographers
and typists-every one of them
employed ky the United States
Government. Were it possible to
place them all in one place, they
would form city having a pop
ulation as large as that of At
lantic City and in addition there
would be $4,000 over. Such is
graphic picture of the size of
the army of workers that an.
nually write the billions of letters
and orders that are a part of
Uncle Sans" routine business.
From whence comes this army
of workers." the reader may
well ask.
The answer, Of course. is that
the nearly one-half million of
Government workers come from
the business schools and colleges
E of the country in the vicinity of
their place of employment.
$1,000 u. S. WORKERS
In Washington alone there are
$500 workers on the payrolls of
the United States Government.
OF this number approximately
$4,000, or % per cent, are en-
ployed as stenographers, secre.
taries and typists. their earning
capacity ranging from 81 800 to
SO, 500.
A high percentage Of these
lucrative positions are filled an
nually by the graduates from the
Southern Brothers Steward Bust
ness University. where hundreds
of efficient secretaries and stenog-
raphers find ready employment
awaiting them on completion of
their prescribed courses.
So great has been the Gov.
ernment's demand for efficient
stenographers and typists that
business courses have been added
to the high school courses of the
public schools. The elementary
foundation of a business educa-
ton is thus laid in the high
schools and on completion of the
high school course their rise to
lucrative position is but a short
step, through the medium Of q
short secretariaI course, averag-
ing about seven months, which
fits the finished graduate for a
Government position.
RISE RAPIDLY
A survey recently taken from
the records Of the United States
civil Service Commission shows
that thousands of these specially
trained secretaries rise to promi-
nent executive positions, both in
the Government and in the out
side marts Of the commercial
field.
The Southern Brothers Bust.
ness University was the first
school in Washington to train
students as private secretaries
and was also the first institution
of it's kind to maintain an EN-
ployment bureau under the man.
agement of a vocational expert.
through which department the
graduate is placed in a position
for which he is specially trained
and particularly fitted. The the
DRY of the school is that it's duty
does not end until the graduate
is actually placed in position
that will earn for him or her a
good livelihood.
The success of this method in
placing graduates is testified to
by the fact that thousands of
Southern Brothers graduates are
holding responsible positions, not
only in Washington, but in every
State in the Union, the majority
of these POSITIONS being secured
through the aid of the Univer.
sity's vocational bureau.
The Washington times., 1928-01-13
GROWTH SIGHTED
At NATIONAL j.

Having completed one Of it's
most successful years in 1927,
National University looks forward
to 1928 and the years to come
with unblended enthusiasm, thor
oughly convinced that it is filling
an important need in the National
Capital. Registration is con-
stantly increasing, and with this
increase, National University is
steadily expanding the scope of
Its scholastic activities,
Founded in 1859, National Uni.
verslty was incorporated under
the laws Of the District of Column
oia. The first department to be
organized was the law school,
This was followed by the organi-
zatlon or a medical school which
later was discontinued. More
lately the school of economies and
government was organized and at
present there are more than 200
STUDENTS attending this school.
More than 500 students are regis.
tered in the law school.
The first five chancellors of
National University were Pres
idents Grant, Hayes, Garfield,
Arthur and Cleveland. Diplomas
issued during their terms Of of.
nee bear the respective SIGNATURES
o! OF these Presidents and, in most
instances, were personally con-
heIred upon the recipients.
More than 5000 students have
oeen graduated from the law
school Of National University
during the course of it's ex-
lStence. and at the fifty-eighth
annual commencement exercises
held last June, 267 students re.
celYed degrees. T. was but
slightly more than seven wears
ago that the first woman. was
graduated from National Uni
Versity. Since that time the
number of women students has
constantly grown and several
Women's organizations are fos.
tered by the institution.
The study Of both civil law
and English common law may
be followed at National. Be
cause Of the exceptional faciEi.
Ties offered by the institution
for the study of civil law. an.
increasing number Of students
from foreign countries is being
attracted to National University.
The department of civil and
comparative law is under the
professorship of Judge Charles
8. Lobingier, formerly of the
Federal judiciary of the Philip.
pines. where civil law is prac.
uced, and also former Judge
OF the United States Federal
Court at Shanghai, China.
The department of English
common law, as well as statute
law, is exceptionally we'll EQUIP.
ped for preparing students for
the bar examinations Of the
various States. The faculty is
composed of ranking lawyers
of the District of Columbia, men
who have practiced extensively
and who thoroughly understand
the training necessary for law
students.
Among the law faculty of Ma
tional University are such men
as Judge Frederick L. Siddons,
associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the District Of Colum.
bia: Judge Charles II. Robb, as
sociate justice of the Court of
Appeals of the District of Co
Judge Jennings Bailey,
associate justice of the Su.
preme~ Court of the District of
Columbia: DR.. Albert H. Put.
The Washington times., 1928-01-13
National u. Provides
Many Scholarships

National University offers a
number of scholarships to those
students who are unable to paw
their way through school. These
scholarships include tuition and
the necessary books. Application
for scholarships may be made
TO university authorities.
The Washington times., 1928-01-13

MISS GERTRUDE EDERLE famous xwimmer If the
English Channel whose early ambition was to have
business career, was presented with gold medal by
the 1877 champion typists Of the Southern Brothers
university recently Shown with Miss Ederle are Misses
Ceclle Harrington Helen Knode, Dorothy schechells
.Trudy, Ethel Mae France Madge Crabill and Maria
Garrido, reading left to right
Evening star., 1928-11-25
Holding Its Own.

WARNER BROS. report that Vita
phone talking and silent Aim pro-
duction continues to maintain its Ca
pacity level. Five companies are filming
at the present time and IL produc-
tions are occupying the attention of the
cutting and editing force. Meanwhile
several new Vitaphone stages. enlarg-
ing the facilities of the studio tremen-
dously, are under construction, and af-
filiated units are likewise being expand
ed with new equipment and buildings
More than 100000 has been appro-
priated for this phase of expansion.
Actual filming is now being conducted
on five pictureS-"The Desert Song"
Vitaphone's first operetta; "No De-
fense," co-starring Monte Blue and May
McAvoy; "One Stolen Night" featuring
Betty Bronson and William Collier, jr. |;
"She Knew Men," featuring Edward
Everett Horton, and Frozen River" !"
starring Rim Tin Tin.
Pictures now in the cutting room in
clude Madonna of Avenue A." starring
Dolores Costello; 1.-THE Greyhound Linn
Kisses,2 starring May McAvoy; kid
Gloves" with Conrad Nagel and Lois
Wilson; stark Mad" with cast includ-
ing H B. Warner, Louise Fazenda and
Jacqueline Logan: MY Man." starring
Fannie Brice; 1.-THE Redeeming Sim"
starring Dolores Costello with Conrad
Nagel; Conquest" starring Monte Blue
and H B. Warner; Queen of the Night
Clubs" featuring Texas Guinan; Audrey
Ferris in Fancy Baggage" and Myrna
10y in "Hardboiled Rose"
Vitaphone's domain will be extended
in January to the continent of Europe,
according to an announcement by Her.
man Starr, Warner Bros. executive, who
Evening star., 1928-11-25
Sonny Boy Gets Reward.

CONVINCED that little David Lee,
~ who has scored SO conspicuously
with AL Jolson in The Singing Fool"
will develop into a great screen drawing
card. Warner Bros. have attested their
faith by tearing up his first contract
and giving him one that Is bigger and
better.
Because of his work in 'The Singing
Fool" the 4-year-old actor was signed
by Warmers for several pictures, the
first Of which was Frozen River" star
ring Rin-Tin-Tin. That production
now completed, shows David's ability
even more distinctly. 1t is said than
"The Singing Fool" David's contract
is not for a specified number of pictures,
but covers an extended length of time,
during which he may be starred, II the
public continues to be as enthusiastic
as Warner Bros. He has now been cast
in "She Knew Men" which co-features
Betty Bronson and Edward Everett
Horton. ~ ..st
Evening star., 1928-11-25

pAUL RALLI is one of the answers
to the persistent wall of the SCREEN
struck for information as to "How do
get into the movies?" Paul is in the
movies now. Anybody who sees him in
support of Marion Davies and William
Haines in "Show People" will concede
that.
But this is Paul's story, and a little
more interesting by reason of its actual
ity than any screen presentation.
He wasn't aiming for the screen In
the beginning, but for Broadway. And,
arriving in New York broke from the
Middle West, which bore him, he lis
tened to the advice of the inner man
and took a job which carried meals
with it-dishwashing In restaurant.
Other steps followed in quick sue
cession-a job in lumber yard, an
other digging in the subways. All the
time Paul Ralli was also haunting the
Times Square theatrical agencies. And
though this did not lead to an engage
ment, it did bring a job as dancing in
structor, out of which followed vaude-
vile turn.
Then, at last, like many another
haunter of Broadway, our young man
Evening star., 1928-11-25
Saw a Sussex Ghost.

so fond of. The moonlight flooded 1t
when I opened the door, and as I en-
tered I saw a little girl near the WIN
dow. She was calmly skipping rope.
silhouetted in the moonbeams that were
as white and thick as heavy London
fog. was surprised to see a child
there so late at night. called her over
to me, but as I went toward her she
slipped out, laughing, and disappeared
down the stairs.
The next morning at breakfast /
spoke to my hostess about the child.
While was talking her face went dead
white. The man helped her into a
chair, and then her husband whispered
to me. THAT was our little daughter
you saw. She died year ago."
What, I wonder, had really seen2
The wind f1uttering the curtains, the
moonlight casting haunting reflection
on the floor, the little girl, or what?
Evening star., 1928-11-25
FILMOGRAMS

picture for Fox to follow Mother Knows
Best" It is titled Exile" and is a
Richard Harding Davis story. Don
Terry has the leading male role.
Music clubs. aided by the City Feder-
alton of Women's Clubs, are launching a
movement in San Antonio, Tex, to abol-
ish sound pictures and to recall the liv-
ing orchestras to the theaterS.
Willard Mack, who has been engaged
to co talking pictures for Metro-G Gold
wyn-Mayer, has completed his first orig
inal story, Haunted" which he will di-
rect and in which he will play the lead
ing character. Robert Ames and John
Milan will be in the cast.
Premier MusSolini has banned the
showing of 1.-THE Street Angel" in Italy
and he has dismissed members of the
censorship committee who authorized
the production.
William Boyd, the Pathe star, is all
bandaged up. He broke two of his ribs
in a screen fight with Robert Arm
strong. But he goes on with his work
in THE Leatherneck" just the same.
Looks as though Bob wasn't gentle in
the fight.
Sound pictures have had another
"kick in the Stats" An English inven-
tor has arrived, claiming that he owns
the basic patent on the tube device used
in making sound pictures and that some
of our big sound producers have in
fringed his patent
Evening star., 1928-11-25
Had a Career.
T oUIs VAN DEN ECKER, a

+ OUIS VAN DEN ECKER, Belgian,
- who has been appointed technical
director Of Squads Right" now being
filmed for Tiffany -Stahl under the di-
rection of George .Archainbaud, for
merly was an officer in the French army,
served in the Belgian army. was an In
Structor in the Polish army, served In
the French diplomatic service, and it
is said accompanied Marshal Foch on
against the pirates and Moroccan tribes
in the Saraha Desert in 1908-1909. He
was a member of the Foreign Legion
and was awarded one Of the highest
decorations for valor
Evening star., 1928-11-25

IMAGINE a film star kissing % film
heroes in front of a whirring camera
before the one who will play opposite
her in her picture is selected!
That's the record of Alice White,
blond, tiny, but dynamic, and the new
est of First National stars. Her. forth
coming picture, "1ot Stuff" is only her
second starring vehicle. "Show Girl"
was the first. She also had CO.
featured role opposite Jack Mulhall in
Naughty Baby" intervening.
Yet % of filmdom's handsomest young
men played opposite Miss White in sew
eral actual scenes of Hot Stuff" The
young leads were being given film tests
and the star had to share TIP tests so
that Director Mervyn LIE Roy could see
how they would work with Miss White.
Now there is considerable speculation
RS to which young leading man will be
chosen. Apparently the votes" are
all in.
ST am glad I don't have to choose one
myself" Miss White declares. Half a
dozen of them thrilled me so in the test
scenes that began to think I'd have to
have at least that many in the picture.
It's fortunate that husbands and wives
of real life aren't chosen by similar
method. We'd all stay unmarried, be-
Evening star., 1928-11-25
How Paul Got In.

went West. He had a pack on his
back, stout shoes on his feet, $40 in
his pocket and Hollywood in his mind.
He made it-sans shoes, sans money
six weeks later.
How to get into the movies? Paul
was in Hollywood, but the movie lots
had high fences and ogres at the gates.
| With that strange horde which stands
outside every gate when production
is being cast mingled Paul. Then q
man came through, an important di-
rector, who thought he recognized in
Paul a man who once had worked for
him.
Paul got the job. It was "bit"-but
in Hollywood "bit" is a lot. Later he
got other "bits." Still later he doubled
for John Gilbert. Now, his first real
part.
How do I get into the novies?"
wall the Screen-struck. Paul Ralli is
one Of the~answers.
Evening star., 1928-11-25
Woman to Woman.
TT Is not generally known that

TT Is not generally known that E.
harrington, author Of 'The Divine
Lady" the novel dealing with the life
and loves Of the cooks daughter who
married the famous Lord Hamilton, is a
woman. The picture is Corinne Grif-
fith'S first picture as a star for First
National under her new contract.
In private life E. harrington Is Mrs.
l.. Adams Beck. She resides in New
York and writes under numerous pseu-
donyms. using E. Darlington for her
novels and other names for her maga-
zine and newspaper work. .T
When e. harrington and Corinne
Grif1th exchanged autographed photo
graphs. Mrs. Beck wrote the following
inscription on her portrait: ITO Corinne
Grifith, the divine lady of the screen
the only motion picture actress as beau
tiful as Lady Hamilton, and the one
who above all others would have been
my choice to interpret the charm, the
wisdom, the weakness and the strength,
the true fenininity, the very heart and
soul of the celebrated Emma Hart, so
dear to my own heart" .5 ....
Evening star., 1928-11-25

TALKING in the movies has killed the
chances of many bright, young stars
and players whose voices do not re-
spond pleasantly to the demands of dia-
loe1le pictures. They are being replaced
with players from. the stage where talk
ing is forte.
Lois Wilson has been engaged by
Christie to appear with Edward Everett
Horton in tWo-reel sound comedies for
release by Paramount on the 1929-30
program.
Edmund Breese has replaced Claude
Gillingwater in the cast for the Leon
Zurado story, "She Knew Men,"
Joe E. Brown, well known to vaude-
vile. is to support Harry Richnan in
say 1t With Music" the Irving Berlin
talking and singing picture to be made
for United Artists.
Eddie Cantor is to be starred in Birth
Of, the Blues" talker for Paramount,
Film Daily reports, and adds that
George Gershwin music may be used IN
the production.
Paramount's first all-talking feature,
Interference" which was recently re-
leased in New York, is being acclaimed
as distinct advance in the art OF the
talker. Film Daily says it displays a
high order of intelligence and class In
all its production elements.
Madge Bellany has begun her first
Evening star., 1928-11-25
Roland Haves-Nov. 81.

THE Artists course of afternoon con-
/ certs at Polls Theater, under the
management of Mrs. Wilson Greene,
will be opened Tuesday afternoon, No
vember ". at 4:30 o'clock, with the con-
cert of Roland Hayes, the celebrated
colored tenor. who rose from the ranks
of Georgia farm laborers to become a
figure on the concert stage. The sing
er's program includes four of the negro
spirituals for which he first became IA
mous-'When Get Home" Ezekiel
Saw De Wheel" "In-a-dat Mornin'" !"
and "My God Is SO High"
Seats for this concert or. for the en-
tire course, which includes concerts by
Kreisler, the Boston Symphony Orches-
ira, Onegin and Rachmaninoff, may be
obtained at the concert bureau, IN
Droop's.
Evening star., 1928-11-25
Erna Rubinstein-Next
Week.

ERNA RUBINSTEIN, q foremost
- violinist of the younger generation,
will appear in recital here next Sunday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at Washing
ton Auditorium, in company with an
other Hungarian artist, Miksa Merson,
pianist, and the Tchernikoff Gardiner
Dancers of this city.
Miss Rubinstein was hailed as artist
at the age of years and toured
Europe when she was IL, playing, as
soloist, under the direction of the most
celebrated conductors on the Continent.
Her first American appearance. in 1922.
was a sensational success, and she has
made several tours of this country,
being everywhere acclaimed as great
artist.
Tickets for this concert, at popular
prices, at the willard, 1910 Connecticut
avenue and the A. A. A.
Evening star., 1928-11-25
BY NORMA TALMADGE.

WHILE vacationing abroad, just
w before the start of my new pic
ture, "The Woman Disputed" which
Henry King and Sam Taylor have so
ably directed, I was one of party in
England, and we were invited to spend
a week end at a house in Sussex. 1t
was "a beautiful old English country
house, dating back to the fifteenth CEN
tury. There was sense of the past
about it, a certain dignified quiet that
could only come with the changing of
centuries. Yet it wasn't gloomy house
it was merely permeated With a pro-
found atmosphere. After dinner we
played bridge, talked, spent the usual
uneventful evening in a country house,
then went to bed; it couldn't have been
any later than midnight.
My room faced an old-fashioned gar
den, the colorful kind the English are