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Evening star., 1928-12-16
Success of Foreign Players

girls succeed for the same reason that
some Of our own girls succeed-with
ability and natural charm. The inten-
sive training the European girl receives
is helpful, of course. Miss Garbo was
attending dramatic school when most
girls were in grammar school. She
studied for years before coming here"
To the defense of the native actress
comes William DeMiile. THE foreign
star lacks spontaneity because OF much
training" he declares. Our girls are
more pliable. They make up in natural
ness and charm what they lack in
technique and training"
The director of Mother Knows Best"
Jack Blystone, also favors the American
girl. Her determination and grit
makes up for any lack of preparedness.
She meets the situations as they come, +"
he claims.
Dorothy Dwan, Irene Rich, Billie
Dove, Phyllis Haver, Janet Gaynor and
Sue Carroll all certainly offer diversi-
fed attractiveness and talents to the
motion picture screen. After all, 1t is
matter of individual tastes as to
which actress pleaSes-each has much
to offer the public or she would not be
on the screen
Evening star., 1928-12-16

A NEW leading man signed by Fox
Films is Juan Sedillo, who traces
his family through 404 years in Amer
lea. Sedillo will play the lead in an
outstanding production on the Fox
Film schedule this year.
When this young lawyer of Santa Fe,
N. Mex, was brought to Hollywood for
a screen test it was the first time he
ever had been in California.
His mothers family is said to have
come to what is now Socorro, NJ Mex,
in 1924; his fathers in 1874. The lat
ter was granted 10000 acres Of land by
the King of Spain for long service In
the Spanish army, and the new leading
man is the sole heir to this vast tract.
because he is the sixth first-born di-
rect descendant" of the man to whom
the grant originally was made.
Evening star., 1928-12-16

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, December 49,
Most famous men have their weak mo-
ments A few of them in the film in.
dustry have spent some Of those mo-
ments handing out advice to young
ladies determined upon a cinemattc
career.
So, If you feel strong here goes:
Alfred Santell-"For Heavens sake
don't 20 on the street with the seam In
your stockings crooked 1t looks dread
full"
This is only Winter suggestion
HOLLYWOOD ladies aren't troubled with
seams in the warm season.
Fred Niblo-"Dont apply makeup tc
your face in public. Nothing shows In
ferior breeding like powdering the nose
conspicuously." .4..
It is the American girls defense in
foreign Hollywood.
AL Rogell-"Don't wear the skirts toe
short. The rear view of a woman's
knees is horrible to behold. SO keep
them covered"
What are the girls to do when Holly
wood merchants have dreSs-up week at
least every other month?
James Gleason-"Don't wear q hat
so small that the back OF your neck
shows under the hat. It's all right If
you haven't bobbed hair but with a
shaved neck It's terrible"
It is not the hat is small, but that
the head is large in Hollywood.
Robert Armstrong-"Don't try to
change the shape of the mouth with a
tipstick. No one ever vet did it sue
cessfully"
Lipsticks are used in the colony
chiefly for jotting down the ladys tele-
phone number on corner of the menu.
Ken Maynard-"Don't pretend to be
something you are not. Just act nat
ural. You don't fool Hollywood"
oh. Mr.. Maynardi How could you?
You know very well that every once in
a while some one "acts natural and
lands in Jail.
william Howard-"Don't wear gaudy
jewelry on the street It's not so bad
at night, but in the sunlight it looks
cheap"
It probably is cheap.
End now, after you've had your morn
ing exercises-your hair blondined, your
plastic treatment at the beautician's,
your reducing treatment at the reduc-
tionist's, yo dancing lesson, your Is
minutes at fen ling ito make the waist
suppie), and your hard days work at
the studio-if you're a Hollywood star,
you go in for little light cookery.
Phyllis Haver, Lois Wilson, Ethel
Kent Armstrong, Dorothy Dwan. and
Lena Basquette may not do all of the
above in one day, but every Monday
night they attend cooking club at Lu-
Evening star., 1928-12-16

ENGLTSH motion pictures producers
are to prove to American audiences
that "talkie" pictures have put them
on an even basis with Hollywood.
Purer diction on the part of English
players and hence better recording Of
speech is the claim made for the British
producers.
British Sound Film Productions has
started an ambitious production pro-
gram at its new studios constructed at
Wembley. using the De Forest Phono-
Aim method of. recording General
Talking Pictures Corporation, which
controls the same method here, has
been watching the English productions
closely and on reports from representa-
Evening star., 1928-12-16
American Beyond Doubt.

Six generations of Sedillo's, family
have been born in Socorro. His father
is district attorney of Albuquerque. His
grandfather was an attorney, and his
younger brother is studying law at
Princeton. His great-grandfather on
his mothers side was the last Mexican
governor of New Mexico before that
state became a part of the United
States, in 1923.
Juan Sedillo is a graduate Of the
University of New Mexico AMI of the
Law School of Georgetown University,
washington, d. C. He ran for Con-
gress two years ago, but was defeated.
He is a captain in the United States
Army Reserve Corps and assistant ad-
jutant general of the 111th Cavalry,
New Mexico National Guard.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
Children in Talkies.

consciousness are now faced with a new
embarrassment, that Of microphone
consciousness. BroadcasterS over the
radio know the sensation well.
But children speak with an easy art
lessness, without the slightest indtca-
ton that they are aware they are
speaking memorized lines rather than
babbling the easy patter Of childhood.
And the appeal Of child actors is en-
hanced by the natural inclination which
all fond parents have to read into the
screen youngsters the characteristics Of
their own offsprings, and to find In
their entertaining lines an echo OF the
bright sayings. of their own progeny.
Only in the case of the screen young
sters the bright sayings are really
amusing to others besides the fond
parents
Evening star., 1928-12-16

WHY do foreign stars achieve sem
~ sational success in American pic
lures? The most valuable box Office
names today are said to be Greta
Garbo, Lupe Velez, Dolores Del Rio and
Wilma Banky-all foreigners.
Director Alfred Santell answers the
question so far as concerns Miss
Bankys popularity.
Miss Banky had years of training in
Europe before she attempted to make
American pictures" says Mr.. Santell.
"She came to our screen finished
actress, not an immature girl as many
Of our stars are. Combined with
beauty and ability. Miss Banky pos
sesses poise, technique and years of
training"
Edwin Carewe is credited with. at
tributing Dolores Del Rios appeal to
her spontaneity and fire. Hundreds
of years of inheritance of Spanish
passion and love of the beautiful and
unusual come to Miss Del Rio he says.
"She possesses the individuality and
exotic beauty impossible to q conven-
tionally bred American girl
Of Greta Garbo Fred Niblo says:
Nationality is immaterial. Foreign
Evening star., 1928-12-16
Hope for All in Talkies.

CHARLES RICHARDS casting di-
- rector of the Pathe studios, has
received letter which reads, in part, as
follows:
Il have talking and singing parrot
that / believe would go over big in
talking pictures. This bird can sing
the following choruses: ITS a Long
Way to Berlin, and I'm Forever Blow
ing Bubbles and he carries the tune
wonderfully we'll with piano accompani-
ments. Would like for you to hear him
and also would like to know If You will
give him tryout"
Evening star., 1928-12-16

THE biggest and most costly picture
ever made by First National Pic
lures will be THE Miracle" Max
Reinhardt's stage spectacle, which will
be brought to the screen, it is an
nounced, at cost Of $2,ooo.0oo. 1t is
expected to be the most pretentious pic
ture ever produced by this company and
the most spectacular in the history Of
the motion picture industry.
Rights to the play have been in. con-
troversy for the past. two years, First
National finally winning them. The
dispute was settled out of court undei
the direction of Irving D. Rossheim,
president of First National Pictures, and
the contract was signed by Ned Depinet
W. c. Boothby and E. A. Perkins, for
Evening star., 1928-12-16
A Costly Picture.

First National, and AL H. Woods and
Joseph Menchen.
The dispute was between = First Ma
tional and Woods on one side and
Menchen and Metro Goldwyn on the
other, First National having purchased
the screen rights from Woods and
Metro GolCiwn from Menchen.
!; The settlement leaves First National
free to proceed with production work,
which is expected to start soon.
"The Miracle" as a stage spectacle
broke theatrical records both In Europe
and in the United States. where it was
presented by Morris Gest The screen
version is expected to be just as i'm
posing and spectacular as the stage
play. with the marvellous pictorial posi-
bilities Of the screen adding to its
beauty.
Evening star., 1928-12-16

CHILDREN are going to be more
~ popular on the screen than ever.
according to officials in the Fox talking
film studios. It's not simply that the
1928 model of youngster is more apt
than is predecessors to increase the
vogue of the children. It's because
of putting the small actor over in big
way.
Several definite reasons are given for
this.
First of all, children's voices seem
ideally suited for reproduction by. the
audible system. They are high, and
therefore carry we'll
Moreover. children seem much more
unconscious in, the new medium than
their elders. Grown-ups who have long
since overcome their initial camera
Evening star., 1928-12-16
English '"Talkies" Coming.

tives in England has made tentative
agreement for the distribution Of the
films here.
The British Phonoflm Co. Is said to
have been actively engaged on short
subject products for the past three
years. and the scouts report that this
experience has resulted In quality
of voice registration in the "talkies"
that is superior to anything which has
yet been shown in America.
Two of the most noted of English
authors-Arnold Bennett and Eben
Phillpotts-collabora on the first
feature for British Sound Films, which
has been given the title Of "SinewS OF
War" 1t should be completed within
the next six weeks and print will
be forwarded to America Immediately.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
Goes From De Mile to Fox

OOeS from LIE Nlille 10 ToA'
RERTRAM MrLLHAusER' for many
years associated with Cecil B. De
Mile as writer, supervisor and asso-
ciate producer, has been signed by Fox
Films. .
His first assignment under his new
contract is to prepare one of his own
stories for the screen, Beulah Marie
Dix writing the scenario. This is a
story of modern youth and according
to present plans. Sue Carol, who re-
Gently put her signature to a Fox Film
contract, will have one of the outstand-
ing roles.
While with De Mile. Millhauser off,
ciated as associate producer on Three
Faces East" Silence" walking
Back" in which Sue Carol played the
lead, 1.-The Country Doctor. With Miss
Dix, Millhauser also wrote the scenario
for Margaretta Tuttle's Feet OF Clay,
and he was the writer Of what has been
called Raymond Grif6th's most success
full comedy, Forty Winks."
Evening star., 1928-12-16
Thirteen For Luck,

s" HE MISSING MAN. Pathes hrst
all-dialogue production, laughs at
superstition.
There are 13 principals in the picture,
actual production began on the 18th
of November and there are 13 letters
in the title. All that remains Is for
the picture to be finished on the 18th
of the same month and then the
moth-worn superstition would receive
a test such as has never been given
it in the motion picture business.
Benjamin Glazer. in charge of sound
production at the Pathe studios, believes
that the number 13 can be just as lucky
as any other. George ,Barraud, June
Nash, Lee Patrick and the other prin-
cipals agree with him.
Evening star., 1928-12-16

George M. Cohan's next production,
'"The Barn." is due in New York New
Year week 1t is a comedy by A: e.
Thomas, in which Phyllis Povah will
have the principal role.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
Mantell's Plan to Go On.

Hamper has arranged for large num-
Der of reserved orchestra and balcony
tickets at one dollar each for every one
of her performances.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20
Giants Confronted Will
Serious Second Base
Problem

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-An that
is worrying John McGraw today
Is the signing of somebody to re.
place Rogers Hornsby at second
base on the New York Giants.
The other three members of the
infield, Freddie Lindstrom, Travis
jackson and Bill Terry. have sent
in their signed contracts. Eddie
Roush is the only other Giant in
the fold for 1928.
Secretary James Tierney denied
that he attempted to sign Ty Cobb
for the Giants on his recent trip
to Georgia.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20

Tuesday against Business, but he
NAV be shifted back to guard and
Lemon nominated for the center
job. Should Colley remain at cen
ter. Lemon will be seen as a guard.
Ken Fischer may supplant Bill
Woodward at the other forward
hole. In case Coach COggins de-
cides to pair Burgess and Wood
ward as forwards, the other guard
position remains a choice between
Dick Castell and Ken Fischer.
Central and Tech must finish
on top today II either expects
to keep step with Eastern IN
the pursuit Of the 1928 munich
pal high school basketball
championship.
Tech and Central now find that
Eastern has jumped up to put q
claim in for the, crown. The Lincoln
Parkers have reached the stage
where they can be said to be dan
gerous.
There is not a better-working pair
of forwards in the series than
Freddy Cappelli and Heinie Hoff-
man. They are unlike q batch OF
others who are out seeking fame
and glory and scoring records. Cap
peIli and Hoffman are in there
playing for Eastern. Either ts
quite willing to pass to the other
IL the mate is in better scoring
position. That's the secret for East
ern's success and answers questions
for other teams surprising defeats.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20
GONZAGANS
ARE HOSTS

Two irresistible forces win collide
tbIa afternoon and sCrnethlnRs
ho,,nd ~ happen, Gonzaga High
w,iII have Emerson Institute az its
hasIvefbau guests this afternoon at
9,sO o'clock in the Gonzaga tent
Ing grounds. Gonzaga win strive
"a hoist its consecutive victory
string to four and Emerson VIII be
.nlIt for its seventh successive win.
one team will be disappointed.
Back in December. this GOnzaga
club didn't look any too strong.
The players showed absolutely moth
ing. Today, Gonzaga would prove
tartars for any scholastic quint IN
the District. Ken Sinondinger,
crafty coach, has been responsible
for this Transformation. He Ii
really miracle coach and can do
wonders.
Gonzaga and Emerson are ex.
pected to wage q close struggle.
These Gonzaga teams are noted for
their fighting qualities and ag-
gressive spirit, which never quakes
or quivvers.
Not since 1899 has Gonxaga
been represented BY B high
class club and IL can't be said
the 1928 aggregation matches
the one that harb0red such a.
Leo Fitzgerald, Paul Byrne,
Jim Duffy, George O'COnnOr,
Vernon Graves and others.
Irving Sanborn, Emerson coach.
has decided upon only three posi-
tions. Alvin Buscher win be seen
in one forward. Paul Casassa or
Paul Clifford win be seen in the
other forward. Farmer jenkins win
be assigned center with Bill Burns
at one guard position. The other
guard post will be handled by Ray
Davidson or Sam Gordon.
Emerson has captured seven Of
Its eight regular games. They have
lost several practice games, but only
one regularly scheduled game. Gon-
zaga has yielded only to Eastern and
Xavier High Of New York.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20

test attracts considerable attention
because of the prominent position
held by both institutions in the
State and q banner attendance is
expected. Hopkins lost to George
town earlier in the week. but play
ing on its home floor may give It
decided advantage over the Old
Liners. Maryland is generally
touted as the more likely winner.
The College Park outfit walked
all over Kentucky University last
night and won, 81 to z. The visitors
made but one goal from the floor
and never had a chance for the vic
tory. 1t was Maryland's eighth
straight triumph.
Julie Radice and ThurstOn
Dean were MaryIand's wizards,
the former scoring 10 points
ON four field goals and two foul
shots. But the entire team out.
classed Kentucky.
Duquesne, with victory all
tucked away against American Uni
versity, went out to Brookland and
came within an ace OF tripping the
Cardinals for the first time this
season. AS things happened, how
ever, Ray Foley's field goal in the
last few moments Of the combat
kept the c. II. slate clean. The
Cardinals won. % to 25. and have
now taken all nine games played.
Duquesne uses the professional
style of advancing the ball and,
centering their play around Rosen.
berg, the mammoth forward, the
visitors gave the Cardinals their
hardest fight to date. The short pass
ing game gave Duquesne an early
lead that was maintained until late
in the half, when a sturdy squirt
brought c. u. out in front, Is to 10,
when half.time was called. Two
goals by Foley were valuable in
showing his team in front.
The visitors began pounding
away when play was resumed,
Stephens getting two free shots.
But again Foley came to the
Cardinals rescue with two field
goals and q foul toss.
The score was 81 to % in favor of
c.. u. when Duquesne opened q last
minute rally that scared the big
crowd of C. u. supporters, Reich
shot a goal with only seconds re.
naming to play, but Harvey came
back with a foul toss as the whistle
sounded, leaving c. U. quite breath
less but victorious.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20
N. Y. Municipal Golf Star
Decides TO Turn
Professional

NEW YORK. Jan. 20. Joe
Ford, youthful golfer who reached
the semi-finals in the 1925 Ma.
tionaI Public Links championship
and who won the Municipal Links
title here three times, announces
that he has decided to turn pro-
fessional. A#t
The Washington times., 1928-01-20

Capt. Forrest Burgess is the only
Central player certain to appear IN
a playing position. He will be seen
In one OF the forward spots. Mel
son Colley and DuvaH Lemon are
other starters, but their positions
have not been determined.
Colley held down the pilots post
The Washington times., 1928-01-20

Judson C. WeIIiver will begin
an interesting series Of articles
on Government Service" daily
and Sunday i'm The Washington
Herald, beginning January %.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20
NATIVITY EAGER

The Nativity A. C. is securing
for basketball action with junior
fives. Call Manager Bill, Atlantic
1926.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20

Jack Faber, former Eastern High
and Maryland University flash, is
starring as a forward with the
Anacostia Eagles.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20

The sickness and subsequent
injury to Ben Burch has proven
a cheeIImate to Central. and the
Mt. Pleasanters barely squeezed
through the Business game
without any damage. Burch
has returned to school. but is in
no condition to play.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20
LEVINSKY'S RECORD

Battling Levinsky, ex'lightheavy:
weight champion, holds a record of
having fought SO times in one year,
a mark which probably will never
be equalled.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20

Maryland and Gallaudet are play
ing away from home tonight. The
Old Liners, fresh from trampling all
over the Kentucky Wildcats. will be
in Baltimore, facing Johns Hopkins.
The Kendall Green outfit will be at
Newark, Del. facing Delaware
University. Tomorrow Gallaudet
will meet st. Johns at Annapolis.
The Maryland. ohm Hopkins con-
The Washington times., 1928-01-20
| LINEUP IS
UNKNOWN
By George A. Simpson

Bert Coggins, Central High
basketball coach, Is faced with. a
problem as to how he VIII station
for today's game with Western
High. The two are to engage this
afternoon at the Arcadia at 3:15
o'clock. Tech and Business are to
tangle in the afterpiece, which will
be somewhere around 4:45 o'clock.
1t requires an hour and a half
to complete one of these interhigh
basketball games, 40 minutes for
the actual game and so minutes for
other details that could be elimi-
mated. The final game is rarely
completed before o'clock and once
1t was SIS o'clock before the last
contest was completed.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20


those receiving invitations from the
Hilltop authorities win be admitted
to the Arcadia where the tourney
will get under way at $3.50 O'Clock.
About 1000 spectators are expected
to be present.
The HiIltOppers are new to
boxing and tonight the team
will be making its first public
appearance since Coach Cal.
hOun. formerly Of the Naval
Academy. began training his
squad.
Spike webb, boxing coach at
the Naval Academy. will act as
referee at tonight's bouts. assisted
by two judges, Representative
Ralph e. Updike, Of Indiana, and
Lieut.. Comdr. o. D. Kessler, q.
s. N.
Georgetown's student band will
provide popular airs before and dur
ing the show and the cheer leaders
will be seen at their best, leading
vocal support for the Blue and Gray
gladiators.
Coach Calhoun has some forty
five candidates in training for the
Hilltop team, Only. two are left
overs from last year, Ben Davis, a
lightweight, and Mccarthy, who
works in the same class. Davis Is
on tonight's program, facing
Meyers, OF western Maryland.
Norris, of the visiting team. is
the South Atlantic amateur well
terweight champion. McRObie.
boxing in the light heavyweight
class, is an all.arOund athletic
star at Western Maryland.
The program for tonight follows:
Bantamweight Q15-pound class
Callahan CWestern Maryland VS.. Nc
Dewitt (Georgetown).
Featherweight Q26-pound class
Crosby (Western Marylan0 vs..
Hagerty (GeorgetOwn).
Lightweight QS5 pound class -
Meyers (Western Maryland VS..
Davis (Georgetown).
Welterweight Q45-pound classl--
Norris CWestern Maryland VS..
Murphy (Georgetown).
MiddIeweight G60-pound class
Ekaitis CWestern Maryland VS.. Fish
(Georgetown).
Light heavyweight Q75 pound
class)-McRobie Western Maryland
vs.. Mccarthy (Georgetown).
Heavyweight - Downe (Western
Maryland VS.. Shaffly tGeorgetoWn).
The Washington times., 1928-01-20
Tender Gets Another
Crack At Ace HudIxins

NEW YORK. Jan. 2O.--Lew Tend
Ter. Philadelphia welterweight win
tackle Ace Hudkins. of Lincoln,
Neb., ia a ten-round bout here
tonight. Hudgfns is 2-to-1 favor
tie. He beat Tender once before.
The winner viii be matched with
Sergeant Sammy Baker and the
winner Of that scuffle viii tackle
Joe Dundee, the champion.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20
COLONIALS
FACE Fol:

Both Catholic University and the
George Washington Colonials are
primed for tomorrow's big basket
ball battle in the Brookland gym.
This promises to be close to the
best court contest of the season
n the Capital and a packed house
u expected. The teams will line
up as follows
'coIoN1ALs Pc CARDINALS
Carey ........F ..ss.......s Ogden
GOodson, ...C..s...s.ss.s carney
Perry ....so..s... g.. ...s.ssseSs foley
Lopeman s.......G.........ss harvey
The Cardinals, playing on their
own floor and az yet undefeated.
rule favorites to win tomorrow
night, They have a veteran machine
that clicks with all the smoothness
Of a cash register well.oiled. Elk
cept Odgen, the team has been
playing together since their fresh
man days at Brookland.
The COIOniaIs, after q rather
Shalxy start, have been moving
forward ut a fast clip and are
not going out TO BrOOkland
with any Idea of making II easy
for a home victory. Coach
Crum's team Is big and ex.
perienced, playing a rugged
kind Of basketball that IL
usually effective. Plenty OF ex'
element is expected when these
crack CUNTS face each other.
The Washington times., 1928-01-20

Judson o. WeIlfver viii begin
an interesting series OF articles
ON Government Service" daily
and Sunday iii The Washington
Herald. beginning January 2s.