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Evening star., 1928-05-27

go to Paris for us day after tomor-
row?"
And then, without waiting for her
answer, he went on.
You'd be in Paris only a month" !"
he said, but I'd want you to plan
to stay over for six. I want you to go
to Deauville and Monte Carlo. I might
have you in London for June"
I'm awfully sorry" said Marvel, but
I can't CO."
"Oh, come, Miss Mannering, don't
say that. I beg you. I'm sorry to be
giving you such short notice, but we
little significant pause Miss MacIvor
is not to be with us after this month" !"
miss MacIvor not to be with us
after this month how would you
like to go to Paris for us mo
wonder Marvels heart almost stopped
with a sickening lurch. Miss MacIvor
leaving-"how would you like"-here
was opportunity, a step up, steep
enough, far enough to make slow and
steady climber catch her breath with
sheer dizziness. But:
I'm awfully sorry" Marvel repeated.
"I can't"
"Oh, don't make a snap decision like
that Miss Mannering," the editor urged.
'IaKe HCLle Time 10 LnlnK IL over.
We are very eager to have you go, and
I can't feel that it wouldn't be to
your advantage quite as much as to
ours"
Indeed. I know it would be-" Marvel
said eagerly. Don't think 1 don't ap-
preciate the opportunity"
But you can't possibly arrange mat
ters so that you can accept it?"
Marvel smiled.
NO." she said, II can't-fortunately. "
She paused a moment. "You see, I'm
going to have baby in June"
"Oh, say!"
Marvel's smile deepened.
You needn't look so terribly SYM
pathetic" she said. I'm very much in
love with my husband and I want a
baby"
"Of course, of course" the editor
agreed hastily Its just that, at this
particular time
81 know" said Marvel That's why
I said it was fortunate. Because, If /
could put it off now. probably would" "
The editor looked at her minute,
shook his head, baff1ed.
Evening star., 1928-05-27

known to close a show for a perform
ance or two so that he could go to the
races AS he Is always a part owner
of his productions, however, he pays for
his flights of temperament.
Mr.. Chaplin also pays whenever he
Yields to a disinclination to work. He
may come around at 2 o'clock and de-
eide to call it a day. But his people
are paid whether they work or not.
Staid New England towns have often
been the scenes of temperamental
storms.
Geraldine Farrar created sensa-
ton a couple of seasons ago in Hart
ford when she walked out during the
tryout of a musical show thereby turn
ing a $l50,000 production into a total
loss, blasting expectations of season
on Broadway and run on the road.
Anne Grosvenor AyreS recalls the un-
timely death of a play called THE Bal
cony Walkers" produced by Henry Saw
age few years ago, when she was
publicity director for the Savage pro-
auctions. Mr.. Savage had assembled
"a gorgeous cast" with Flora LIE Bre-
ton, whom he had brought over from
England, and Ernest Glendinning play
ing the leads. :,
lust knew it would have long run. "
said Miss Ayres. And 1t would have
been a success, I am sure, had 1t not
been for Miss LIE Bretons ,flance, a
young Englishman, who was in the au-
dience the night we opened in Stam-
ford.
1.-The fiance objected to line spoken
by the leading lady in bedroom scene.
In his opinion 1t was not ladylike
line. Miss lie Breton stepped out of
her part and there was no one to take
her place. The play was taken off after
notice had been given to all members
of the company and advance salaries
paid. The case came up before Equity.
The cast went out looking for new Jobs.
The investment of thousands of dollars
in that production was total loss.
To support his theory that the tenn
peramental person of the theater never
stops to consider just who is going to
pay the costs, Francis Reed recalled a
story about Richard Mansfield.
MI. Mansfield was playing at the
Garden Theater. Mr.. Reed, then a re-
porter, left his desk to run down a story
about some steampipeS The pipes ~
the Garden Theater had set up ter
rife racket that night. Plumbers had
been ordered in to quiet them, but the
noise only increased in volume. Plumb
ers and pipes were too much for Mr..
Mansfield. He endured the noise for
two acts. Then he went home and
some one went onto the stage to an
nounce that the play was ended for
that evening. People were invited 70
Evening star., 1928-05-27

"Well, that does settle this particular
plan," he admitted. III have to send
somebody else. Shall you want to keep
on doing things for us here? You in
tend to keep right on with your work2"
"Oh. yes, indeed" said Marvel. She
paused a moment, thinking of Caroline,
of half dozen other women she knew,
struggling with their double problems
'I know thereIl be times when 1t won't
be so easy, but II really think Ill
make the grade"
"I don't doubt that you WILL" said
the editor. I'm rather good at reading
character, and you strike me as the one
out of hundred who always makes
the grade" He studied her a moment.
That's why it puzzles me-" he ad-
mitted "to see you suddenly turned
romantic, impulsive."
Romantic, impulsiveI" Marvel re-
peated the words as though their mean
ing, in connection with herself at least,
were Startlingly new. "You mean be-
cause I'm glad I can't put of having
my baby?"
'Well, I should think" the editor ad-
mitted charity, that a couple Of years
from now, when you'd got jr little
better established in your work, would
be more prudent"
Marvel shook her head.
"Too CLANCY" she said. AFTER two
years we might find it more prudent to
wait another two, and then another two,
and
She paused, touched smart little
handbag under her arm. carefully
drew on softly fine French glove.
There was a bowl Of tulips on the e@i-
tors desk, the room was richly rugged,
shining with mahogany, luxuriously
Summer heated.
The man, still watching Marvel, puz-
zled, saw only smart, a poised, expen-
siye-looking young woman with smiling
amber eyes, He did not know, of
course, that in the brief moment before
those smiling eyes blew the sleet and ice
of North Dakota Winter. that between
her and the shining desk hurried
wind-blown. weary, shabby little woman.
Gallant, indomitable.
1.-THE time to do what you figure is
important" said Jane Mannering'S
daughter, "is first"
(Copyright 1881
Evening star., 1928-05-27

vt took Jeanne Eagels to get the
story tellers started.
Calling the tawny-haired star
Il of Her Cardboard Lover" on the
courtroom carpet of the Actors
Equity Association, where she was
charged with walking out on her show
in Milwaukee and st. Louis, precipi-
tated the "reminiscences. Pencils and
pads were employed to figure out ap-
proximately the millions of dollars
that have been lost to producers, ac-
tors, authors and others because Of
the caprice of some temperamental
star on whose account show is sud-
denly closed-a play that might have
gone on for months making money
for dozens of people.
Suppose show Is drawing $4,000
or $4,000 a week and the chances
look good for long run. There is a
weekly salary list away UP in the
thousands and a margin that insures
good return on the investment.
"You can't figure 1t out that way"
argued Francis Reed, publicity direc-
tor for the Erlanger attractions. $50
many things have to be taken into
account. The balance of season is
always problematical. The best guesser
sometimes gueSSes wrong even on the
balance of week.
II remember the case of comedian
who was starring for Mr.. Tyler, play
ing one-night stands in New England.
Business was pretty bad. Playing to
small houses night after night got on
the comedians nerves. There came
day when he announced that he would
not go on that night. He would go
on a spree instead. Persuasive argu-
ments and threats were unavailing.
The star stipulated that If he failed
to appear he would reimburse the box
Office for the paltry couple Of hundred
dollars that might have to be refunded
to patrons. The town he picked for his
night off was Hartford. The house,
for some reason, was sold out. The
comedian did not come to the theater
and the curtain did not go up. That
spree cost him something over $4,000.
He blamed himself not for taking his
night off but for being bad picker"
John Barrymore, AL Jolson, Charlie
Chaplin and, of course, the late Rich
ard Mansfield are sure to be mentioned
in connection with what Is called tenn
permanent in the theater.
Some one recalled the night when
Barrymore, with his brother Lionel
and his uncle, John Drew, and his
manager went out to supper after a
performance of the mysteriously short
lived revival of Richard Ill" Closing
time came and the hint to 60 home
was disregarded At the proprietor's
suggestion, Gentlemen, 1 shall have
to lock you in If you don't CO." the
Barrymore temperament took charge.
To be locked in a cafe would be lark,
and locked in they were.
The curtain did not again go up on
Richard III" Barrymore had some
sort of breakdown and went to the hos
pital The play went to the storehouse.
The producer refunded $4,000 of ad-
vance sales. And. to cap the climax,
the storehouse burned down and de-
stroyed all the scenery of that Inflated
production.
Mr.. Jolson has more than once been
Evening star., 1928-05-27

own again; that was about all. But
here at last was opportunity.
Here was French department with
monthly importations that Marvel
| learned to wait for as she used to wait
| for Christmas. Frocks from the famous
French houses; beautiful, audacious
wraps as subtle as glance-Marvel
could have these for hours to study
The buyer, a woman of As, recognized
| the human drive when she saw it. She
gave Marvel a lift wherever she could.
She encouraged Marvel to take all the
time she liked for making samples, all
the time she liked for calling on Attire S
art editor and showing him the sam
Piles. She went even further than this.
The afternoon that Marvel started out
for the first time on this errand Miss
Morgan swept her with practical eye.
You know how to carry clothes as
we'll as draw 'em," she commented ap-
provingly. A little pause. Then sud-
denly: Come on back" Back into
the French department. Miss Jack
son, where's that new O'Rossen tailleur2
And the black satin hat saw this
you look in them"
So Marvel no longer had to fill the old
teapot with money for French hats and
scarfs. Slim, suave, wearing her bor-
rowed finery as though born into it,
Marvel would visit the Office of Attire.
But it was not until one Autumn day,
two years later, that Marvel struck the
psychological moment.
The art editor glanced through her
sample drawings. Fortunately they were
her very best.
Gould you cover an opening this
afternoon for us?"
One breathless moment
"Yes."
Have you ever done an opening?"
mo-" said Marvel, "but can"
Mrs. Grosvenor was to do it for u.s.
hers was the long, spidery signature
but her little boy was run over this
morning-nothing serious, but she's
gone all to pieces"
Marvel nodded.
That was the beginning of her con-
nection with Attire-a teasing, tanta-
iizing, halfway sort of connection.
Every now and then, the magazine
would buy drawing or two. At rarer
intervals still, usually when something
had happened to Mrs. Grosvenor's little
boy, Marvel would have real assign
ment, an opening to cover, a famous
importer to meet at the dock.
Returning from one of these emer-
gency assignments one afternoon, she
had her first personal conversation with
the art editor. Mrs. Grosvenor's little
boy, who apparently led a hazardous
life, had escaped from his governess in
Central Park that morning and was still
at large. The art editor looked over
Marvel's sketches, sighed with appro-
val and relief. and then leaned back,
dangling his glasses by their wide black
ribbon.
"Are you married, Miss Mannering?"
he asked.
mo-" said Marvel.
Don't get married" the editor coun-
seled. "Or, if you feel you must get
married, don't, implore you, have, any
little boys or girls to break their legs
and get lost in the park"
Marvel smiled.
This is no idle jest, assure you.
like your work immensely. Well have
something permanent here for you,
Evening star., 1928-05-27
Water CavernS.

GINCE Yucatan, where the Mayas
- built their strange cities. is of coral
limestone formation, 1t follows that it
would have been desert but for its
Subterranean rivers and the cenotes, or
water caverns, which give access to
them.
The Mayas noted the courses of the
underground streams and built their
towns round the cenotes. Many cenotes
are now found surrounded by ruins
and give indications of the methods
employed by the Mayas to reach their
cool waters. In Uxmal a cenote about
40 feet deep in inhabited by a peculiar
species of fish. At Boianchen there
is a cenote having five openings In the
rocks at the bottom Of the cavern. Lad.
ders made by tying tree trunks together
lead down a total distance of 400
feet, but the perpendicular depth from
the surface to the water Is not more
than 500 feet-
Evening star., 1928-01-02
MONEY BANNED IN FRENCH
MAILS BY ANCIENT LAW
Gifts to Charities Curtailed, Oppo-
nents of Rule Say-Writer
Hit by Restriction.
Correspondence OF the Associated Press.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
PARIS.-An old law passed in the
reign of Napoleon III still makes it
a misdemeanour To send money
through the French mails and
thereby, say some. hinders charity.
Americas experience" it is said,
Shows that people will give freely
to charity If they can slip bin in
an envelope. They will give their
money but not their time In
France. & mail contributor would
have to get a postal money order or
q bank draft.
j, The law applies not only to actual
money but also 10 anything that
might be cashed by a stranger. Re-
Gently Louis Forest, writer. ran
afoul of the law because he sent
postal mone-- vrder in which the post
office clerk forgot to insert the name
OF the payee.
Evening star., 1928-01-02
DEATH IS NEARING
FOR RUTH SNYDER
Execution to Take Place Next
Week Unless Governor
Grants CIemency.

nv tae Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 2.-Mrs. Ruth
SNYDER and Henry Judd Gray were
on their last week of life today unless
.clemency should be granted the two
slayers by Gov. Alfred r.. Smith.
The execution at Sing Sing prison
or the two slayers of Albert Snyder.
the woman's husband, has been set
for the week of January 2. but Gov.
Smith has granted request of their
attorneys TO hear plea OF mercy
Thursday.
Letters from all parts of the country
have been received by the governor
advising him as to the course he
should take. Many Of them ask
that he not permit a woman TO
die in the electric chair. Seven women
have been executed in New York
State in the last century.
Mrs. Snyder and Gray In their death
cells at Sing Sing remained awake
until after midnight Saturday TO greet
the new year. They heard program
by the prison hand and several selec-
tons over the radio.
Evening star., 1928-01-02
LOST KISSES VALUED.
Woman Wins Suit Over Mutilated
Lips, Which Barred Oscillation.
OF the Associated Press.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
PARIS.-Lost kisses were appraised
at 10000 francs recently by French
courts. Such damages were awarded
Nine. Marie Laparcerie, a writer of
note, upon showing that she was un-
able for months TO kiss her children
because her lip, injured in an automo-
bile accident, panied her too much
when she tried TO bestow the maternal
kiss
Nine. Laparcerie lost her suit in the
lower court when her claim was based
on a scar on her breast that she felt
would prevent her from wearing low
cut evening gowns. The kiss" plea.
on her appeal. moved the court and
she won her case.
Evening star., 1928-01-02

were given recognition. Edward Ger.
man was made knight and Sir Ed.
ward EIgar had the knight grand
cross Of the Royal Victorian order
conferred upon him.
NoticeabIe also in the list are thf
names Of 25 women. including heads
Of educational establishments. nursing
bodies and workers Of various public
committees. They include the Ouch
ess OF Bedford, who was made q dame
commander Of the Order OF the British
Empire.
Evening star., 1928-01-02
SOUND ECONOMIC
STANDARDS SOUGHT
Appeal Made for Cooperation
of Owners of Industries and
Organized Labor. e

BY the Associated Press.
An appeal to owners and manage.
ment of industry in the United States
to cooperate with organized labor in
the establishment and maintenance
OF sound economic standards and in.
dustrial peace" was contained In
New Year greeting to 1.-The employers
and the public" by William Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor.
Mr.. Green said that the federation
Evening star., 1928-01-02

and respect for each others rights"
Opposition to the American Fed.
Grafton of Labor and It's constituent
parts through the organization of
company unions, the use of court in.
functions and the forced denial of the
exercise Of the right Of employees to
join the labor union of their choice
tends to fan the flame Of Industrial
hate and to widen the breach between
employers and employees"
Evening star., 1928-01-02

A British physician says that since
the importance of sunlight to health
has been realized the Summer months
are no longer the most fatal to babies,
but the first three months of the year,
when there is least sunlight, have the
most infant deaths
Evening star., 1928-01-02
SCIENTIST GETS ODD JOB.
Assigned to Look Over Horses in
Time of War.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
PARIS.--Military chiefs who are
proverbially supposed to detail bakers
as shoemakers and carpenters as
cooks have another achievement
credited to them.
Georges Claude, whose name Is
linked with the invention OF liquid air.
Is a reserve officer and asked recently
to bel assigned to an artillery lab
oratory where his scientific genius
might be Of service to the army.
His army chiefs, his friends say.
promptly detailed him to act as an
inspector Of cavalry horses in time
Of war.
Evening star., 1928-01-02
financed to the point where they can

financed to the point where they can
buy freely"
"How will the owners Of Industrial
enterprises meet this challenger" he
asked. "Will they accept organized
labor's offer Of cooperation? VIII
they assist in the giving Of new force
and meaning to collective bargaining
SO that oil concerned may think in
terms OF industrial peace and OF the
peaceful solution of Industrial PROB.
lens which affect the relationship or
employers and employees?
Teamwork Held Desirable.
Teamwork on the part Of employ
ers and employees Is very desirable
thing, but before 1t can be a practical
reality there must be n will to work
together and a frank recognition OF
Evening star., 1928-01-02
Gales Receives Diplomats.

MEXICO CITY, January . R).-
President Gales received members of
the diplomatic corps at the National
Palace yesterday morning. The Presi,
dent and the diplomats exchanged
wishes for a happy New Year.
Evening star., 1928-01-02
TWO BRITISH COMPOSERS
GIVEN ROYAL ORDERS
25 Women Included in Kings List
Of Honors Bestowed
During 1927.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. January 2.-Sciences and
the arts are rather conspicuously ig.
nored in the Kings long list Of honors
bestowed during 1927, mostly for Do.
litical or public service at home or
abroad, but two British composers
Evening star., 1928-01-02

Health conditions throughout the
world in general were better during
the year ending June 30, 1927, than for
any previous year on record, says the
United States Public Health Service.
Evening star., 1928-01-02

welcomed the opportunity Of giving
''our collective skill. training and
technique to the development Of In.
dustrial and individual efficiency"
He expressed the belief that American
living standards and national pros.
perity could be fostered only through
the maintenance Of a high industrial
productivity level and q high mass
purchasing power.
Evening star., 1928-01-02
S12.50 Quilted S10.95
Satin Robes AZ

Beautiful. lu>trou> Sa,ins made So
well with tuxedo collars. long se,-in
sleeves and silk cord giEdles--~and
lined with lap silk. Choice OF rose.
pottery blue. black aud orchid in
small, medium and large siseS-Si0@S.
Evening star., 1928-01-02
New Year Problem Cited.

"The real problem of the New Year
will be that Of financing commodity
consumption" the federation presi-
dent continued, mot only must the
consuming mass Of people be en-.
couraged to buy but they must be
Evening star., 1928-01-02
Philippine Hand. 81 .95
made Gowns i

Lovely hue naiuSook with hand
embroidered scaliops anu elabcrateiy
haud-cmhroidered tokes Sleeveless
and cap sleeve moiclS-a special i'm
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Evening star., 1928-01-02

Beautifully tailored models in at
tractivc new patterns and color
blendings. Long roll collars, bound
with silk braid, and silk cord girdles
TO match-~$5.
Evening star., 1928-01-02

Chin Chin is that splendid heavy
silk crepe with a lovely sheen. and
il is not often found i'll gowns at S.
particularly such beautiful tailored
gowns with >calloped bottoms and
intriguing nccklines. Pastel shades
$s.
Evening star., 1928-01-02

White and pastel shades in these
dainty gowns attraetiveiy elaborated
BY hand done embroideries and con-
trasting eolored appliqres. in etFec-
tive patterns. All sizes-Si.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-04
Billion Dollar Public
 Utility Is Nou Seen m
 United States Higl,,Uays

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Ameri- cas- highways constitute a public utility system having reyenee through indirect taxes alone of more than 0000,000 used largely for it's own extension and improvement. says Thomas II. Macdonald. chief of the United States Bureau of Public Roads.
 "The people of the United States are spending more than st,0o0,0o0, 900 annually in building good roads," MT. Macdonald pointed out. That does not include city streets; just country roads. And it has taken only few years for our highway system to con- vert continent into neighbor- hood, largely through the inaus- uration of new system of taxa
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-04

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Canada, like the United States, is becoming a creditor nation instead of debtor as a result of economic changes during the years since the world war. For five years, the Ameri- can commerce departmen. est. mates, Canada has been exporting capital at an accelerating rate.
 Canada's present condition, de- clares Ray Hall of the commerce departments finance and invest. ment division, is that ''of a so- called debit nation which is re- ducing it sold debts to foreign in- vestors or is making new foreign investments of its own in an az gregate volume exceeding that e. it's new borrowings from abroad. 9 Exact figures in the field are near ly impossible of attainment. MT. Hall said, but on the face of rec ords compiled by the Canadian and American governments, by financial institutions and economic obsery- CTS it is apparent that Canada has been putting capital abroad. chief ly into the United States, on very large scale.
 Canada is It guar investor in Latin-America," MT. Hall added, "and to some extent customer for foreign securities underwritten in London. Canadian banks are understood during all recent years to have increased the volume of their short term funds held abroad.
 Among the sources noted by which Canada has acquired fore
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-04
$500, ,O0O Yearly in
 Chicago Alimony Is
 Paid by Money Order

CHICAGO. Aug. 4.-Poor ex-hus- bands of Chicago, who have not enough money to keep checking account. pay alimony totalling s300,000 annually by the postal money order route.
 The figures were revealed yes terday by James A. Kearns, clerk of the Municipal Court. where re- mittance records are handled.
 It isn't only the rich who pay he said.
 Most of the money orders, the records show, are sent to the of flee on Mondays. indicating that the working man dependent on his Saturday pay check waits unt:. payday to send his ex-wife her legal allowance.