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Series of Gard Parties
On Lawn During Summer

A series of card parties will be given
Saturday during the Summer months
at 3 o'clock In the afternoon, on the
lawn of the Federation Country Club
Conduit road northwest at Dalecarlia
place. just at the District line In Mary
land The setting for these entertain
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BEVERLY. Mass, July T.--MarEinE
the real opening Of the season, mde'
rendence day found the WASHINGTON
colony on the Massachusetts, NortF
Shore the largest since the days when
the Tsfts made Beverly the Nation
Summer Capital with representatives
fran, the city by the Potomac IN al
the colonies from Nahant 70 Rockpor'
or. the ito end Of old Cape Ann, Whhe
President Coolidge and his family are
IN far-swav Wisconsin, there is every
nrosDect Of Secretary Herh>rt Clark
Hoover and members of his family
spending a portion Of the Summer on
the Nerth Shore and this week several
cottages we're. looked over as poSSIo4e
Summer homes,
There is a real Washington touch to
the life in the number Of the oip.o-
matte set finding 10Y IN the life on INC
s,,n-Sissed. ses-swept shores Of this an
terestins bit Of Massachusetts coast
The 6iniomstic set, with the British
German. Italian and Argentine enl-
hsssses Rn6 the Switzerland. Polish and
S.arneSe LEGATIONS established here. finds
nfe worth while. not only from the
vacation po,nt of view, but in the eX-
rerjenoes az North Shore hospitality.
Warm DAYS the arSt Of tbs week
BROUGHT many Washington Sojoura2cS
70 tbs beaches and the young folks III
the Diplomatic SGT often find Clip III
the sea and tunlbling through the
breakers an out-of-the- Ordinary pleas
ure, The Yachting season went INTO
full swing with the holiday. the night
of July 5. and there we're dinner dances
a. the Eastern and Corintl1ian Clubs.
with one Of the largest fleets Tor many
Summers participating, vessels all the
NAV from Is 70 80 footerS taking part
ana making a marine picture not dupll-
Gated along ths New England coast,
Representative Nicholas Longwortn
has leased his Ningo Beach cottage 10
Ny. and Mrs. George F. Steadman Q. s..
Louis. The Longwcrtils are conllng on
later il the season for their usual sum
mer visit with friends in the Ncrth
shore colonies.
The annual Legion horse show Of the
Mycpia Hunt Club az Hamilton proved
che Of the most successful in years,
There were nine classes on the card
and as BELTS show IN the Nyopls dis
trict. the hunters were featured, There
vas a notable gallery for the afternoon,
including many IN the diplomatic set.
IAT11CT9E IlcSe WHO 6INSI Ialftta All tItCA@
boxes along the track were Mrs. Clar-
ence c. williams Of Washington and
Sycamore Farm a; Hamilton, There
were entries from the Tuckerman,
Warren. Aver. Forbes, Goodwin, Man
dell. Taorndike. Curtis. Lawrence,
Eigginson. Sears. wolcott. Mexican,
Shaw and other stables Of well known
colonists.
Mfr. and Mrs J. Warren Merrill. who
spent the Winter and early season III
Washington. are al their Smiths Point
cottage al Manchester for the long sea-
son
Mai. W. H S. Aston. assistant mill
tarv attache fthe British embassy
has taken an apartment at the Essex
County Club for the Summer. Mai.
Aston shoots nice game Of golf and
the Essex County Club has one of the
suortiest courses on the North Shore,
John HennesSy. son of Col. L. H. r.
Pope Hennessy. military attache of the
British embassy, and Mrs Pope-He
messy. is expected soon from England
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unison when Dodolo appeared. and
walked out OF the theater. The Vien-
nese press supports their indignant
protest and says the offending passages
should be deleted from the play.
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Veterans Dinner Guests
At Wardman Park Hotel

The veterans of the Mount Alto Hos
pitai were the guests of the Wardman
Park Hotel at a dinner last evening in
the ballroom. when there were about
90 in the company. Col. Miller Ken
Won acter as POSTMASTER. Among the
guests of honor were Brig. Gen. Frank
Parker, Z. S. A.; Col. M, B. Macmillan,
washington regional manager OF the
Veterans Bureau: Col. William
Mitchell, Mr.. Robert Tolson, rehaoilta-
ton officer of the American Legion:
Or. Cline. medical officer in charge OF
the washington regional office Mr.. and
Mrs. w, 3. Mackie, Miss Bowman, Mr.
E. D. Merrill president Of the Wash
ington Rapid Transit Co; Mr.. and MRS.
Isaac Cans Mr.. Clyde E. StoVali, au-
infant of the American Legion; Miss
Lillian Damn and Mrs. Laura v. Damn.
organizer of the American Women
Legion.
g ~----~-~~---
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Last year Louisiana produced 1000
600 pounds of dressed frogs, valued al
ssnf nfn IN the wholesale market.
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government has worked out its own
plan for keeping q working percentage
Of peasants, workmen anG soldiers con-
tent with their jobs and vaccinated
against the deadly germ Of this uni
versal malady.
From now on one must have spent
four years in government cinema
college before appearing on the screen
in anything more important than q
mob scene in a bona fide film. And
inasmuch as there are only three coll
legeS--in Moscow, In Leningrad and IN
OdeSsa--which can beStow the coveted
diploma and each one accommodates
only $50 students no Russian cutie can
arrive by any Of the we'll known short
cuts.
THE Moscow College. in which spent
one week. carries on in great wing
of the once luxurious and fashionable
cabaret Yar Gorgeous and enormous
cut glass chandeliers that used TO flash
light upon scenes of revelry In oldeu
DAYS still hang suspended from the high
ceilings, But they are not Illuminated,
except indirectly from the reflection Of
cinema lamps. The dust of 10 years
INNCAS tklStll. FlaklQ-plCASu
OF the new youth of Russia have re-
placed the girls Of II former decade who
used to enliven the visits of wealthy
merchants.
When ! used TO be in the movies" il
was the consensus of opinion that tnert
Was not much about the game this;
could be taught. But the Russians
contend that Ii is poSSible.to teach YOU
the business Of making Aims II they
catch YOU young enough, And after
seeing their college. I agree with them
For instance the students are NOS
merely taught theory. They are obliged
70 conceive their own stories. write
their own scenarios. crank the camera.
develop the negative, project. cut and
sdit-~under the supervision of their
instructors
The students are admitted after much
consideration and examination by tlle
directing board, which is composed of
professors i'll the arts OF writing, acting
composition, drawing. chemistry arA
photography Beauty Of form anc
features, Of course, counts In the case
OF girl applicant, but prettineSS son,s.
now does not seem To carry much
weight, Physique. however, Is az
supreme Importance. Not only have
they ? gymnasium In the movie" col
Use nut ballet master comes no from
the MOSCOW BolShoya Theater; there +
an acrohatlc instructor from the gov.
%tnment circus, q boxing master ane
'aSt, ent not least, professor Of the
Ne"'sl traneye.
Noticing the net a"1 trapese above
the enormous stage ot shN old cabaret
l iacSttouSlv remartN" Vat the Soviet
apparently was putt 81, time-honored
oaeSStase curse on ~ ans; II hope
your children viii all + .~rehatS."
young student tn whom addressed
this remark knowing very little about
English and nothing about American
wise~erackS, took me seriously and re-
piled that the government not only
hoced they would be aerohatS but IN
sisted upon t.
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down in history Instead of making
him feel better, it only made me feel
worse.
The other directors also are very
young. Puoovkin, who directed The
Mother" and The Last of st. Peters
burg" is IS.
Young Valentine, lad of 20, with
fiery red hair and a freckled face.
projected to me his uncut film on the
uses Of the airplane. which took him
four years TO make.
AS pilot cameraman, director and
writer of the scenario he did the whole
thing virtually single-handed. This
picture covers everything from q pas
Senger voyage from Berlin to Moscow
to the transportation of doctors and
medicine to plague-infected areas, hum
dredS of miles from Moscow.
This boy has the instinct for pho
Biography and. being an amateur. he
has told his story Ill pictures of one
syllable, The child or the oldest peas
ant will enjoy the drama Of it and.
at the same time be convinced that
the alrplane is not merely a startling
toy, but an instrument in bringing
enlightenment and progress TO the
masses. Thus, the cinema is knocking
on the door of the toyless peasant,
bringing HIM education and a knowl-
edge of the outside world.
*&%
THERE is man from Southern RUS
sia who has battled In vain for
an idea contained III what he calls
the kino eve. His name is D1isa
Nertoff He conceived his idea when
ne looked one day at factory build
ing OF new Russia and viSualiged, tow
ering above II, with his brow III the
sky, the figure of giant. This giant
had the lines of toll In his face and
his muscles were wrought Of flberS
developed Ill labor.
Here" said Vertoff, lis the real
drama OF life. Here Is an actor trained,
not in the thcater, but In the factory
IN the mill, who reeiteS lines not writ
ten by the author but by the neceSSi~
ties Of life. can find him anywhere
look, and IN pieturing him l ann
translating 10 the eye the most dra-
matte spectacle that life has TO offer"
Accompanied hy his assistant direc~
tor, who Is now his wife. and a dare
devil cameraman, he started 10 shoot
pictures iii the factories, mines and
fields of the Ukraine Vertoffs records
conveyed more poignant reality than
had ever been taken down by mo-
ton picture camera, In Russia he was
prophet III his own country In Paris
ct the International Exhibition Of Arts,
1924. his "kino eye" picture was awarded
the Cine pri1e.
lie believes that without much din
Guilty q cinema industry can move its
cameras into the streets and into the
workshops Of the people, and even into
the homes The only eifficulty will be
in catching the movement Of life un-
consciously.
The great problem which has driven
so many American directors mad and
created condition bordering on hysteria
Ia The minds of probably hundred
million If our American citizens is, How
10 set into the movies The Soviet
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tons; some guns and powder--the- /,
was some left over.
III shooting a subject they all knew
by heart they acquired a technique
which now enables them TO make pic
lures of German life,
But the films which have been made
III Russia are for the most part Russian
films not imitation American. German
or anything else. The actors and ac-
tresses were there and always have
hecn. As for the stories. In addition To
the revolution, which is still the main
subject OF the Soviet movie" camera,
Russian literature lis rich IN material.
Love stories are not considered OF
vital Importance to the education Of the
people They are classed with the
other Injuries Comedy is not taboo
In fact, IL ~ encouraged when II lands
priceless advice Mack Seunett once
gave me: Comedy is kick on some
body elSe's shins"
American films are preferred above
all others by the Russian PUBLIC but
the Soviet government does not let box
Office receipts weigh heavily against the
danger of putting notions IN the heaGs
Of the people as to whether life III
communistic Russia is az gay as In
America
Emil ,hnnines Variety" drew ennr~
nous 1owds to the Conservatory of
Music, There are only two foreign ar
lists tlNat the Russians place on par
with JNnnings $3.50 Charlie Chaplin and
Lillian Gish Either Miss Gish or
Chaplin can so to work for The SoVkino,
IN fact. / was present at meeting OF
Sovkinn directors when they tele~
gfaphed Miss Gish that they would
like 20 have her start film iii Moscow
III muhth's time,
They were fIahbergasted when
mentioned her salary but nevertheless
they were willing to see It through
/ was also astonished to see them
shooting 3 fllm OF present~daY German
Life al lhA Meierpom RUSS studio. IAe
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rr7lv q cinema crusader.

army O. cinema crusaders.
Never before has any government
taken complete control and direction
Of every film produced within It's
boundaries
Il the entire motion picture pro-
ductl0n Of the United States acre 70 be
turned oyer 81 the Salvation Army
with instructions 30 reach every soul
TIE situation would but parallel the
Soviet governments instructions 10 It's
cinema army 10 keep 80 600 900 c3ii-
zens marching ~ TIE trail oi Com
nluDlsm
Those #ho were actively engaged IN
cgerthToRlng fGe GIG regime worry lest
time vail clyn tnelr revolution They
wish 20 leave behind them records Of
that period it Russian history. They
20 farther than that They want pos
tefity 20 believe that the revolution
was merely d start toward neW goal.
SO. today they are graphically record
ing the advances" made since the 1917
revolution, 10 that the whole world
may come 10 believe the revolution
1aS not IL vain,
That is one u the things the Rus
sian government Is doing with IT.
cinema II Is doing others. H. Is a.
tempting 10 educate q country which
Is S5 per cent lNiterate 1t Is reason
ing with d population 700 tat flung 4
talk with face 10 face. ano incapable
Of oecipheTing the message Of Inc PRINT
so page.
Every step. from the making Of IN
rim down 10 it, distribution and ma
Exhibition before the peasants 10 dlS'
! kaAt pGIs Ct &Ae land Is botn S@lSE
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managing director, Conrad Sneiderhod.
a Russian born but of German parent
age. ruefully informed me that the
public was clamoring for foreign films.
The Sovkino has arranged with a Ber-
lin producing company for the ex-
change of artists, directors and tech
nicianS.
1T WILL be years before the returns in
L rubles will equal the expenditures
occasioned by establishing this govern
ment cinema industry The returns,
however. in the matter of support of
the government by the people have
already been indicated.
There are today three studios in Mos
COW Only one of these buildings was
originally constructed for the purpose
Of making films. The Mejerpom Russ
is CHARTERED in the ancient de luxe
cabaret Var, facing Moscows still
famous race course. Another smaller
one, devoted to the making of scientific
films, was another place of entertain
ment The main studio OF Sovkino
was constructed as a film studio before
the war, and. consequently, Is much
out of date in arrangement. They ali
appear makeshift, overcrowded, but
huzzing with activity.
A year from now the largest film
studio in the world will have been
completed in Moscow. To purchase
the equipment for 1t Danashevsky is
being sent to Germany and America.
Poor DanasheySky he will need the
rest! For the part he has played is
telling on him physically. His hair
has turned gray during the few years
he has directed the production OF RUS
sias films He was getting hundreds
of dollars week when he worked for
Griffith. but since he enlisted in the
army of workers in his own country
he draws 5000 a month. Shutko and
his wife also have broken down un-
der the strain and were on Through
when | left Moscow
EiSenstein. who attracted notice IN
"Potemkin." is one Of the best exam
pies of the extent TO which they are
sacrificing themselves to their work.
II took him more than nine months
to shoot and cut October the story
of the revolution.
He nearly wore out his staff, work
ING all day and most of the night.
He himself showed the strain. He
has a pet aversion TO actors and
actresses, Those who play in his ftlmS
have had no professional training, Hc
will moi even allow them to put on
makeup. Each individual Is sub
merged in mass movement for the
better telling of the story. No indi-
viduai is permitted to stand ont to
such a degree as in our American
nlms. Close-upS are for story telling,
and not tor the glorlfcation of fea-
lures,
| happened to take photographs ri
him ON his birthday, He was sad and
detected He had Just passed out OF
his 20s and / had dropped in on the
stroke OF 80, He suddenly realized he
was getting old Thirty in Russia Is
| odd" today, for life there has doubled
| It's pace In the last 10 years. l tried
! 10 console him admitting that my
thirtieth birthday had long since gons
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general production manager DAN
aSheVSky. who years ago worked for -.
w Criffith In America,
The Soviet government told him that
motion pictures had TO be made I'M
medateiy and cheaply. The peasants
and many Of the workers had cherished
the idea that as soon as they had con-
troll Of the government the rest would
be easy The film must gently disil-
fusion them about this, Danashevsky
was instructed Peasants and workers
must be persuaded to work as they had
never worked before. 10 reconstruct q
country ravaged and hled white by war
They must be taught To think and rea-
son, and enlightened as to science, SAN
itation. transportation and their new
status Of life
Where the directors would come from
nobody quite kneW~~but equipment and
facilities had to be ready for them when
they arrived.
THEY solved the problem and depel-
oped the industry by selecting
executives who knew nothing about
making Aims and lot about the story
The films would be expected Ia tell
, These executives In Turn engaged the
/ most imaginative painters, writer's
chemists. photographers and theatre
cal experts available. called them be-
fore them and said
Make films Of The revolution You
went through It. You ought 10 know
! what 1t Is all about"
But there arc no studios came the
answer
The revolution didn't take place III
a fllm studio, did It? Then shoot II
J with the same light they used IN the
revolution itself And the real S. d are
still standing. why go to the trouble
or expense To build sets9"
All they hid to start With was tht
locations, and they were authentic, d
bunch nj Russian Tepolutioniats. WhC
didn't need 70 be feheafped III reyoiu.
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those Of the earlier days in America
Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Ben Turpiu,
Gloria Swanson and others who are
established for all time as celebrated
pioneerS~but even they, with their en-
thusiasm for making films, dreamed Of
the day when they would all be wealthy
This Russian crowd is quite as ambl-
tious. If anything, even madder. But
they know they have no chance In the
world Of gaining fortune as a recon-
pense for their work.
However, they are getting the thrill
which comes from believing they arc
the first 10 do something They are
not the first to make films, but. at
! least, they are the first TO use them
as a front-line emergency arm for a
! government, They are in campaign
of persuasion
/ With no assistance from the outside
world, no imported talent to give them
/ the benefit of experience IN America,
| Germany, France or England, they are
/ mastering the cinema game by research
and experiments
y
! WHEN the war broke out in 1914
there vas one small studio IN Mos
COW, another In St Petersburg Ftlm
. RAb1A@hlJiI tldd llpls uI1 W AlNf}s fSo|tA
taken seriously. It was about the last
thing anybody thought Of during The
| devastating years that followed, IN
about 1922 the government heads dared
come up for air long enough to explain
what al the shooting had been about.
When the matter Of cinema produce
ton finally came up at conference
| ri which Lenin presided, there was
present man named shutko who had
! been an actor to start with. Back III
! The early days he had dritted into what
pictures there were and had become q
director and an organizer In small
| Aay. But his cinema career. up 70
The time the war started, had been IN
terrupted several times by his so1ournb
IN Siberian mines for having too freely
expressed his antipathy To the CZar's
regime. But at least he knew from eX~
perience that motion pictures were pho
ogfaphlc impressions on celluloid. rms
being much more than anybody else
available knew, he was delegated tn
create a government film industry.
His wife, writer. whom he 1ao
met as fellow prisoner in Siberia
proved ii very capable collaboration
These two workers conceived the ldea
aud wrote the scenario Of "Potemkin
Sovkino the name, Of course, being .
combination ot Soviet end Kline, Was
organized and the government chose al
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Used and carried out by the govern
ment
In government colleges. the actors
and actresses. the directors and camera
men are trained In government
studios the films are made, Over It's
own railways the government clsulb~
ute6 the films throughout the nation
As an exhibitor. the government pro-
iecrs them IN scho0lhouecs and IN
mansions which have been confiscated
from former wealthy members Of the
aristocracy.
In Moscow and the other large
cities theatefs have been commander
ed and some large cinema houses al
ready have been constructen-aiso by
/ the government.
And all over the nation the people,
starved for anything that diVerts their
minds from the routine 81 hardship.
: Sit or stand and look, until they arc
put out # they cannot pay Tor then
seats they go In free Plenty OF tea
I and cigarettes are provided while the
reels are being changed
The writer who has had good many
years experience IN the films, spent
! the last Winter in Moscow large
part OF his time In its cinema studios
THE enthusiasm OF the Russians h
reminiscent Of the early days oi
cinema making In California when
Griffith was shooting THE Birth OF o
Nation" when Mary PIckford, In few
months time, suddenly became more
widely known than Joan Of Arc III al
the years since she FIRST stirred TIN
Imagination Of the world; when Mach
6ennett and his little gang, wearing
costumes 100 ridiculous to allow then
even trolley transportation, hooted y
into the hills accompanied by a Ions
/ CameTan19n,
4 bizarre band Of cinema pilgrims
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Russia Proposes to Make Use of Films
to Instruct the People, Who Are Too
Widely Scattered and Too Hit
crate to Be Reached Otherwise.
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By JAMES T.. Able.

EYTRINC may happen 70 the
n worlds film production as q
Il reguls of The activities Of the
4 \ Soviet governments imaginative