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The Washington times., 1928-04-14

The genial Howley has stSrtled'
the baseball world by guiding his
new team to three successive vic
tories over the Detroit Tigers. re-
garded as much stronger outfit.
The three defeats have bepn
hard for Detroit fans to sWaI-
low because they were chiefly
dlIe to the playing Of former
Tiger stars. Manush, Blue and
ManiOn.
Yesterday Manion, a pinch hitter
tied the score with q home run in
the ninth and set the stage for the
fiasco in the eleventh when Hol-
loway, the Detroit pitcher, lost his
own game on q Wild pitch. 4 to Z.
The Tigers companions in mis-
fortune include the philadelphia
Athletics, whose pennant hopes have
received terrific jolt in the form
Of two defeats inflicted by the New
York Yankees. The AS are hitting
az well as ever but as was the case
last year, the Yanks are smuggling
the ball even harder. The two
teams made six home runs in yes.
terday's game, which New York
won by an S-to-7 margin. Joe
Hauser got two and Gehrig one.
Splendid pitching performances by
Arthur Nehf and Dazzy Vance feat
ured the National League games.
Nehf, world series hero six or
seven years ago, staged comeback
with the Cubs by banking the Reds,
TO y. Nehf was not considered
good enough to stick with the Reds
last year.
Vance held the Phlllies to five
hits as Brooklyn won, s to |.
Hendrich got his second home
rum Of the season. and Del Bis.
SOnette. d slugger obtained by
Brooklyn from the International
League, also hit for the circuit.
The New York Giant. tied the st.
Louis Cardinals for first place in the
senior circuit by plastcrIng the Bos-
ton Braves again. to 3. Andy
Cohen, New York fandom's new idol.
again outshone Rogers Hornsby. his
departed rival. by batting In three
runs. The Giants put the game on
ice by showing five runs across the
pan in the eighth.
The Cleveland Chicago game was
halted by rain in the sixth with the
score IL. Lefty Miller and Grady
Adkins. White Sox rookie from
Shreveport. staged pretty pitching
duel. The Indians remain tied with
the Browns and Yanks for first place
Rain held the Pirates and Car.
dinals idle.
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TIMES. HERALD OPENS

The newly organized Times. Herald
nine will face the Evening Star
tomorrow afternoon At / o'clock
on diamond No. 4 Of the Monument
grounds. i'%%
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TX -TIGERS AID BROWNS To Score
THIRD WIN OVER DE TR0IT

Dan Howe starting his second manager OF the
Browns il being hailed in ST. Louis today the Miracle
destined lead the Brownies out Of the American
The Washington times., 1928-04-14

The apartment columns IN tcday's
Times and Herald classified section viii
help ron in selecting tina apartment
n suit ycnr needs.
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We 7 RINGSTERS
IN CONDITION

From advance indications 1t looks
as though the American Legion
Veterans Of Foreign wars show
will attract a record gathering.
Most every eligible veteran in town
Ia applying for membership in the
two organizations.
The heavyweight bouts slated for
the Arcadia on wednesday, backed
by the brilliant ring record OF the
North Carolina Southern Confer
ence championship teams appear
ance is the magnet attracting the
faithful.
Joe Proctor. Goldie Ahearn's
shifty young heavyweight champion
of the South. Atlantic section, A.
A. u. and aspIrant for the Olympic
games. is in great shape for his
scheduled fling at the Southern
Amateur heavyweight champion
ship held by his opponent, Graydon
COX" Shuford, of North Carolina
University.
From Chapel Hill, n. G..
comes word that ShufOrd too Is
in rare shape, confident that
his unbrOken string of fourteen
wins will not be halted by the
local heavyweight.
Joe Roberts, big Marine Corps
entry from the Mayflower, is fit
and ready for his setto with
Johnny Warren. OF Carolina
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M0NTR0SE BILLED

The Montross A. e. will cross
bats with the Miller Furniture nine
afon4orrow Afternoon at ; o'clock on
. Diamond No. ] of the Monument
Grounds.
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The convenience ~ roOEningt and
b0ardlnE ~ the same residence Nnay
ne yonee=eelect <SnA ~ the rooms
throueh tOday'a Tlmea and Herald eIaeeI-
fled rental columns. :
The Washington times., 1928-04-14
DOWIE TRACK GOSSIB
I'D BIZ PADDOCK IL

BOWIE RACETRACK, Nd, April 1.-THE list of previous
winners the $1,000 Prince Georges Handicap which will
have sixth renewal here today follows:
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.IRST |. D 4 !
KICK HITS
ALI VETS
BY Babe Ruth

PHILADELPHIA, April IA.
When a man starts his thir-
teenth season of baseball it
seems as though he ought to
be used to it, but I'm not. |
got just as much kick out OF
that opening game in Philadel-
phia on Wednesday as / got out
Of my first opening game way
back in 1915.
There's something about the yell.
ing of the crowd and the excite
rnent OF the fans that makes shivers
run up and down fellows spine
and guess its one thing that you
never get over.
People talk about kids being ex-
cited in their first game. I'm tell.
ing you that veterans always get
the same kick from an opener. And
the minute the game starts you for.
get all about the troubles of train
ing camp and the hard work to get
in condition. and just, feel thankful
end glad that you're there and ready
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MlDGETS BOOKING
The Mohawk Mideets are on the
lockout for games. Call Adams
37g4.J.
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Later on In the season you
sort Of lose. that feeling. The
/ 154 games are n long, hard
grind, and about the middle Of
tine summer baseball begins TO
be hard work. But always in
the sping it's the same old kick
when they pry the lid off. /
guess ball player who doesn't
feel It isn't cut out to be much
.AOf . bah player.
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About Cobb and Speaker Tn not
- certain. They're grand old ball
players. and every man in the
league will be pulling for them 10
make good. But they're getting old.
and the long grind of season
play lis pretty tough assignment.
Ty admits frankly that he is be-
ginning to feel his years. and Iris.
too, isn't the same Speaker we used
70. know. AS long as they're able to
stay In there Connie won't have to
worry much. but If they weaken
and have to get out he'll have
zeal problem in his outfieId.
AS ] see 1t the pitching depart
nnent is strong. Grove and WalburR
are great lefthanders, and young.
Ehmke ought TO be one of the best
rtght.handers In the league. and
Eddie ROmmell still has q lot OF
Baseball left in him. Then there's
old Jack Quinn. Well past 40 but
still going strong. There are stIIl
a lot worse pitchers in the league
ttiIan Jack.
Looking at 1t after these few
games l would say that the Ath.
letics chances for the pennant de-
pend entirely on pitching. If the
boys come through they'll he tough
II not--well seventeen games is a
lot to make up in one season.
copyright. 1928. ny the Christy
Walsh Syndicate)
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d Now that the season is a few
days old I notice that some of the
boys are beginning to back-pedal on
their selections. That always gives
me a laugh. Every game you win
in the spring. Of course. is one less
that you have to win later on-but
just the same the first five or six
games. or even the first two or
three weeks don't mean much.
Bad conditioning. minor injuries,
slowness to round into form, hitting
slunapsthese are just few Of the
talngs which may make a good
ball club look pretty good at the
start. But in baseball it's the long,
hard pull that counts. by June ] !,
I we ought to have a pretty good
line on all the teams, but until
That time it's just a guess and a
! gamble. There's no chance to really
dope out a pennant race until each
club has played each other club in
at least one series.
= We opened with the Athletics.
They look good-but don't know
that they're any stronger this
asason than they were last. Joe
Hauser at first base Is an inn
! provement--particu at bat.
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Official Program
And Scratches
AT Bowie

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Year Age Winner Jockey
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The As were weak at first
base I'll last season or until
started e sf Il M pIayins s there. Dy W."
know Jimmy Dykes is one OF
the most versatile aud best all.
around ball players / ever saw.
He can do anything on the bali
field and do IL well. IL had
60 name the most valuable
: player on the Athletic roster
right now. Jimmy is the boy
who would get my vote.
The Washington times., 1928-04-14

Vance held the PhIllies to five
hits as Brooklyn won, s to |.
Hendrick got his second home
run Of the season. and Del Bis.
SOnette. slugger obtained BY
Brooklyn from the international
League, also hit for the circuit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Burlesque Girl Likes Books.

LIVERY one has heard the story OF
IL the first chorus girl who said to
the second chorus girl, We'll, l just don't
know what I can give Mamie for
Christmas" why don't you give her
book" the second suggested, and the
first responded, "Oh. that would never
do. She's got book already"
This, however, does not necessarily
preclude a chorus girl from having a
love for literature. Agnes Anderson of
the chorus at the Gayety Theater, it is
said, despite her burlesque avocation,
has an interest in books surpassed only
by her interest In her terpSichorean
and vocal work behind the footlights.
Unlike Gene Tunney. Miss Anderson
doesn't mention Shakespeare as her IA
vorite. 1t was, however, through
Shakespeare that her love for books
was born, for when small child she
sobbed over and was thrilled by the
heroines and villains of the Bard of
Avon through the medium of Lambs
"Tales From Shakespeare" read to her
by her mother, Today her favorite au-
thors, she says, are Oscar Wilde. Ana
tole France, John GalSWorthy and
James Branch Cabell.
Miss Anderson is one of "a Washing
ton girls, many of whom are just start
ing their careers behind the footlights,
who comprise the chorus at the Gayety
which is running season of stock bur-
leSQue.
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Great Lady Macbeths.

I method there was no defect" says one
of the records couched in the key oil
praise She embodied the character
She seemed to live it, she made her au-
dience oblivious that her exhibition OF
| wickedness and misery was mere simu-
lation; usually her embodiment, mas
sive regal and darkly tragic, exhibited
woman of great physical power, OF
still greater will and of a fierce, i'm
placable, terrible spirit"
Clara Morris Is on record as having
apprehended the character as that OF
fascinating young woman who sWays
her husband by personal charm. "She
moved with willoWy motion, employed
tigerish little smiles, and was charm
ing modern person assisting at a muir
der in a medieval CASTLE"
Janauscheks performance is said to
have exhibited all the harsh and fierce
properties of the character; Helena
Modjeska's most effective passage was
the sleep-Walking scene-"an image of
wonderful, woeful beauty, pallid. hag-
gard spectral. profoundly pathetic"
Ellen Terry In her embodiment of
Lady Macbeth placed strong emphasis
on the feminine fascination that the
wife exercises over her husband.
Numerous and jealous have been the
efforts to interpret the tragedy of Lady
Macbeth and her lord, but the roles are
so demanding that only artists of
ripened powers dare essay them.
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BETTY & OMPSON and
GEORGE BANCROFT Palace
Doubled for Fairbanks.

VARIOUS ways to reach motion pic
ture eminence are taken by aspi-
rants, but very few persons care to
risk their necks to do it.
Yet that is what Richard Talmadge
daredevil of the screen, actually did
before he even gained toe-hold on
the ladder leading to stardom.
After the opening of THE Cavalier
in New York recently. the newspaper
critics compared Talmadge to Douglas
Fairbanks, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson and
Will RogerS-one writer even stating
that he was combination of all, and
1.-THE best daredevil stunt man" on the
screen.
It is said that in the career of Doug
las Fairbanks, his understudy and double
for the more perilous stunts was this
same Talmadge. In fact Fairbanks gave
Talmadge due credit later for attract
ing attention to his athletic proves
when, owing to the risk of holding up
the picture through some injury, he was
unable to take chances in the more SEM
sational stunts.
Talmadge was working as an extra at
the Pickford-F studio when
Doug was being prompted in an extreme
~ dangerous feat. It was the opinion Of
all that it could not be done. Talmadge,
one of the crowd of extras, said it
could and before he could be stopped,
leaped from a window, revolved in the
air and landed on buffer three stories
below. More, he repeated 1t later for
the camera.
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Ben Greet, using no scenery, but
depending on the procedure OF
the old mystery plays in leaving
physical environment to the i'm
agination of the spectator. It was
entertaining, though it seemed
after all, a little freakish.
Tyler's latest announcement
shows departure from the Eng
lish classics to modern melo-
drama, modern at least as COM
pared with Shakespeare and
Sheridan classics. The detective
story unfolded around the ad-
ventures of the gentleman forger
Jim the Penman". afforded an
abundance of breathleSS suspense
at a time when Anna Katherine
Green's "Leavenworth Case" was
regarded as about the final posi-
bility in detective stories. Faver-
sham, Charles Richman, Law
renee D'Orsay and Fuller Mellich
are in the long list who will pre-
sent this old play, which had the
peculiar quality of making crime
! fiction take on the guise of a
society drama.
X X X X
Opportunity of writing the
songs of the Nation has been re-
ferred to as one of the rareSt
privileges to which genius may
aspire. Yet song authors of the
present time are easily lost in
oblivion. AS a matter of ancient
history it. is here recorded that
the author of Sidewalks of New
York" was the prolific and very
popular Charles LaWler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

nF all the woman characters that
~ adorn the plays of Shakespeare
Lady Macbeth is perhaps the richest in
traditions of great tragic actresses
the dark lady of that stupendous work
which we easily conceive might have
electrified an Athenian audience, ever
fascinated by the representation of the
Furies, whom the wary Grecians
euphenistically called 1.-THE good-na-
tured goddesses."
In the list of distinguished actresses
who have represented Lady Macbeth,
Florence Reed will now take her place,
to give her rendition of the famous
sleep-Walking scene, which alone will
make notable the production of MAC
beth" at the National Theater. That
scene, with it's saturation of anguish,
fastens itself with hooks of steel on the
memory-the listener being made to
gaze into the depths of soul which
has entered the night of madness, en-
during the torments of hell.
Not without fitness has George G.
Tyler, the producer, provided In the
torial exhibit of mementoS of the great
Mrs. Siddons, who played the part to
John Philip Kemble's Macbeth.
On the reproduction of program
filled with lustrous names of the Brit
ish stage of 1902 appears the name
of Miss Kelly as one of the appari-
tons. This actress, then a child of 9,
is none other than the famous Miss
Kelly who figured in the hopeless ro-
nance of Charles Lamb. Lambs
writings on the theater are filled with
lovely literary souvenirs of the grace,
the beauty and the talent of this
actress. She was 10 when the critic
first proposed marriage to her. He
was refused, but their friendship con-
tinued, and for her sake Lamb remained
a bachelor, living with his sister, Mary,
and, in collaboration with her, turning
out those exquisite essays that mark
that literary period.
Mention of the women who have ap-
peared on the American stage as Lady
Macbeth would include Elizabeth KEN
BILE, a sister of Mrs. SiddonS, and, COM
ing down to later time. not beyond
the memory of playgoers still living, are
Mrs. Bowers, Charlotte, Cushman,
Nine Ponisi, Matilda Heron, Fanny
Janauschek, Clara Morris and Helena
Modjeska. OF still later date the role
has been played in America by Julia
MarloWe, Ellen Terry, Julia Arthur and
Nance O'Neill.
Testimony of the elder theater in this
country is I'd the effect that Charlotte
Cushman, who took her final farewell
of the stage in 1874, was the most i'm
Iperial representative of Lady Macbeth
IsesA In that tisne. LIN her artistic
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The Theater Was Not
Wholly Neglected in
Election Excitement
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

enterprise pursues plan that
has worked out successfully IN
many instances, that of taking a
moderately successful comedy and
embellishing it with music and
dancing; thereby taking the bene-
fit of a neat and consistent plot
along with the vaudeville hllarlty.
* v
Pauline Frederick, now appear
ing under the auspices Of the ex-
perienced Lew WiSwell, SO long in
close association with Henry W.
Savage, has attained the diStinc-
ton of that double identity which
calls for the word (herself) to
show when she is appearing as
one of the speaking successes and
not as an idol of the screen. A
capital comedy with clever situa-
tions, good lines and precisely the
proper players to interpret them
got off to a rather bad start in
the matter of selecting title.
This often happens and the au-
thor is not necessarily in author
ity as to the selection.
|
After play has been labori-
ously and often intelligently
written any one of dozens of peo-
pie feels quite competent to select
a title and in many instances an
effort to get it snappy, up-to-d date,
suggestive of what the public
wants" (favorite old phraSe), re-
suits in a caption which really
bellies the clean cleverness of the
work itself. Miss Frederick's play
was first called 1.-THE Scarlet
Woman" an entirely inappro-
pirate designation, since the
heroine in the purest affection for
children has adopted a baby and
is too proud to explain her posi-
| ton when it is misinterpreted by
7 the gossipS, the lady killers and
a sincere sutton. Any one desir-
| ing to see a play of scarlet life
would be thoroughly disappointed.
The title was changed to "The
Imperfect Lady" less violent in it's
limiting and suffering the dis
advantage Of having been pre-
empted by motion picture. The
first mentioned title was resumed
in this city and will probably be
retained. Too many changes Of
title destroy the identity of work,
necessitating new printing and
incidentally, too much new pub
+; licity machinery.
Broadway producers must have
their amusement like the ordinary
1 folk and when a new manuscript
is decided upon for presentation
it is customary for proprietorship
to call an executive meeting to
find a descriptive word with the
proper number of letters for bill
board spacing. It is as fascinat-
ing as crossword puzzling, with
the advantage of having some
thing at stake in the matter of
commercial influence.
x X *
No such problems are involved
in the more recent activity OF
George c. Tyler, whose revivals
succeed really in reviving not only
material from the past, but the
spirits of many an auditor of the
/ jaded present. He assemblies
names that bring the autograph
seekers around stage doors thick
as bees in locust blossoms. He
has been pretty we'll devoted to
Shakespeare and will make Mac
beth" a study of reading inter-
probation as we'll as of scenic dis
play. One of the best and most
| agreeably remembered produc-
tions of Macbeth" was that Oh
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Bobs in Tahiti.
poBBED hair may be all r

pOBBED hair may be all right in
~ Hollywood, but it certainly raised
the dickens in Tahiti. where w. S. Van
Dyke and Metro-G oldwyn- Mayer
company of 60 spent five months film
ing white Shadows in the South Seas. 81
a glamorous romance of thrills and ad-
venture.
The bobbing craze, according to Van
Dyke, struck the islands about two
years ago and within a week after 1t
started the streets of Papeete were re-
ported to have been two feet deep
with glossy black tresses.
When the director arrived with
Monte Blue, Raquel Torres and the
company to film the production, which
deals with the coming of the white men
to the islands. he found unbobbed
heads almost as scarce as hens teeth.
After much difficulty the damsels with
long hair were at last located and
then came another difficulty. None of the
bobbed Tahitian bellies could see any
reason why the lack of a little hair
should prevent them from having their
pictures taken and unless forcibly re-
strained would persist IN parading be-
fore the csnera at the most inoppor-
tune tiness 1920
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Tessel's First Feature.

GEORGE JESsEL has signed con-
tract to make his first feature
length sound picture for Tiffany-Stahl
Productions.
Jessel the original jazz Singer" stage
star. vaudeville headliner and singer OF
homely melodies, will appear in spe--
cial production called Lucky Boy" that
will be in every sense of the word talk
ing picture. There will be dialogue
sequences, musical interpretations ano
the star will sing half dozen songs that
are tied up with his name.
Jessel's only appearance in sound pic
lures has been in two short subjects in
which he presented part of his vaude-
vile act. These stood out SO promi-
nently that Tiffany-Stahl opened ne
eotiations to obtain him for full
length production.
Jessel is now appearing on the stage
In New York IA THE War Song
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Dahlia Named for Colleen.
THE name of Colleen Moore is wi

THE name of Colleen Moore is win.
ming honors in new fields
At a recent dahlia show at the Bit
more Hotel in Los Angeles, it is re-
ported, a particularly beautiful bloom
named after the popular First National
star won two awards in competition
with the finest flowers in Southern
California, which is noted for its gor-
geous dahlias.
The Colleen Moore" blossom was the
entry of Peter Parabino of Santa Moni-
ca, an amateur horticulturist, who Sc
cured Miss Moore's permission to use
her name before the flower show opened.
He had developed this dahlia from
seeds obtained by careful pollen trans
ference, and achieved delicate yellow
tint to petals that is particularly beau