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Evening star., 1928-04-08
Most Costly Gown

& SINGLE costume costing $4,000 has
"A been designed and made for Co
rinne Griffith to wear in The Divine
Lady" a Frank Lloyd production. on
which final preparatory touches are
now being completed.
The story is taken from z. Barring
tons novel of the same name, dealing
with the immortal love Of Lady Han1il-
ton and Lord Nelson. Miss Griffith
will enact the former role, supported
by Victor Varconi as Lord Nelson. The
period of the story is the later part Of
the eighteenth century, and the action
take places at various British seaport
embassies in Europe.
Miss Griffth's expensive gown was
made Of the rarest Chantilly lace and
silk and is elaborately studded with
jewels. II is TO be worn al a dip.o-
matte social function.
Evening star., 1928-04-08

THE national popularity of amateur
motion pictures is proving q new
force in Fastening the wider use of mo-
ton pictures In the schools of America,
according to Lee F. Hammer, director
of recreation of the Russell Sage Foun-
dation and director of the Amateur
Cinema League. the international or
ganization of amateur movie makers.
The direct and personal interest In
making and using motion pictures in
everyday life which has been awakened
among leading citizens by the hobby
of personalized movie making has en-
phaSized among them, more effectively
than ever before, the valuable poSsibili-
ties of this new medium when applied
to practical education in the schools,
Mr.. Hammer declares, Having seen
what motion pictures are capable of do
ing in educating their own children in
their own homes. these civic leaders,
who today comprise the body of home
movie users. are interesting themselves
in awakening the school boards In their
Evening star., 1928-04-08
Hunting the Author.

THE dragnet has been flung open in
= nationwide search for one Fred
l., Freitas.
Freitas is an author. a participant
in the Paramount-P -Photoplay Magazine
Idea Contest, and the winner of the
sixth prize, $500. He wrote a good
story. did ii neatly. but. whether
through modesty or carelessness. he
failed to put his address on the paper
Freitas is wealthier by $500 today
but he hasn't as yet received 1t. for
the contest heads don't know where
to send 1t.
FreitaS is urged to communicate
with the Paramount Studios, Holly
wood
A Los Angeles girl, Rena Vale. cap
tured the first prize in the competition.
in which some 10000 manuscripts were
entered Her story, "Swag," won for
her a check for IS 900 and is TO be
filmed by Paramount with George Ban
croft as the star Miss Vale was for
merly connected with the board of
education as filing clerk. after a
varied career as cowgirl. school teach
er. coach driver, stenographer. and
peddler OF hosiery from Office TO office.
Evening star., 1928-04-08

According to Donlin. there are gen.
eral omens OF bad luck which are
known TO every player First. there
is the superstition OF crossed bats. If
one stick overlaps another as they are
lying in front OF the dugout the entire
squad goes haywire. That is the last
straw.
Another" he continues, sis the rule
Of walking back of the umpire when
approaching the batter's box am will
ing to wager that you have never seen a
player walk in between the catcher and
the umpire when taking his place at
bat.
Another peculiar form Of supersti-
tion is the aversion to cross-eyed boys.
On the other hand. hunchback is all
ways a sign of good luck Teams al
ways carry the little fellows with them
II possible and they live the lives of
kings
Finger rings are taboo, of course
not only because of superstition but
because Of the risk OF cutting finger. :"
Evening star., 1928-04-08
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Notes of the Stage and It's People.

Additions TO the cast Of Playing With
1cvr,n which opens in New York next
week. include Janet Beecher. Cethaleen
Eesbit and Claude Rains. Richard Ben
nett viii have the leading role.
Eelsna Royle. who last played in
'fEspoleon," +" viii be leading woman with
EeIbreck Blirn in The Plays the
Thing when IL reaches New York for
q return engagement this week.
"Box Seats" q play by Edward Mas
ser, viii have its first showing al Mount
ducec by Gordon II. Leland. who for
the last three years has been dramatic
critic OF the Billboard. The play is
scheduled 10 open IN New York next
week.
Willard Mack, nov appearing In his
own play, The Scarlet Fox" has COM
pleted another play. 1t is called Fancy
work" II is said to be the sixty-third
play he has written.
In addition TO Ruth Gordon. the cast
Of the play by Bruce Gould and Beatrice
Blackmer which Jed Harris viii try out
81 Atlantic City or June IS viii include
Roger Pryor, Phyllis Poyah, Osgood
Perkins and George MacFarlane.
'sPorgy." under direction Of the New
York T'heater Guild. closed its long run
ir Gotham last night. and is booked TO
cFen in Boston tomorrow. There is
esi6 70 Be a movement on foot 70 bar
'Porgy" from being shown IN Boston
on account Of being Haaae up entirely
O. colored actors. The play is a promi-
rent contender for the Pulitzer prize
this year.
Catherine willard has been engaged
b. play the leading role in the new
comedy by Daniel n. Rubin, The ALI
Taoniacs," which Sam Lewett is produc-
inz. TIE opening date is set for tor1or-
row night at New London, Conn. Miss
willard will be remembered for her good
Evening star., 1928-04-08

work In the Nicholson play,
Love Is Like That"
J. Harold Murray. the tenor with Rio
Rita" al the National this week, de-
votes a great deal of his time to in
structing me@bers of the organization
in golf. Hs Is president OF the Rio
Rita Coli Club, located at Great Neck,
Long Island.
The Wife-in-Law," adapted by Har-
man Bernstein and I. s. Richter from
the French of George Berr and Louis
Verneuil. is announced for Fall produc-
ton by Sidney Ross.
Gilbert Miller. the producer, has in
hand q new play, entitled The Happy
Husband" which viii 60 into rehearsal
shortly. being booked for presentation
in New York about the first Of May.
A. e. Mathews. the English actor, viii
have the leading role.
Just back from Europe with even
more manuscripts than usual, A. H.
Woods announced last week that he
has placed Katherine Cornell and her
husband. Gutherie McClintic. under
contract TO appear jointly in q new play
by Eugene Walter.
Russell Grouse OF the New York Eve
ming Post staff and Cariotta Irwin have
been engaged for roles in Ward More
houses newspaper play. Gentlemen OF
the Press" II viii be Mr.. Crouse's nrst
stage appearance.
Eddie Cantor. whose illness recently
kept the Ziegfeld "Follies" from touring
returned 70 New York last week from
California. Cantor went away 10 rest
after his action in withdrawing from
the 'Follies," and was upheld By COM
mittee Of Equity members.
Billy Mccarthy another tenor that
halls from Ireland. where they raise
tenorS as easily as they do larkS, Ii
making his debut this season with the
Speed Girls Of 1928" this weeks bur.
lesque attraction.
Evening star., 1928-04-08
UNIVERSITY PLAY APRIL ~.

Copenhagen, the Paris OF the North,
where all earthly problems which ex-
ist elsewhere seem to have solved them
selves, is the setting of "2X2=5," the
dramatic comedy to be presented by the
Dramatic Association of George Wash
ington University the week Of April %
at the Wardman Park Theater
Here the prevailing tone of the intel
lectual life is one OF amused tolerance
and happy scepticism. leaving the coun-
try untroubled by the panicky fears of
privileged inbecility on the one hand.
and the overhopeful aspirations of radi-
Gals on the other.
Gustav Weld, author of "2X2-5,"
which is having its first appearance on
any stage outside Of New York, is de-
clared the personification OF the Danish
wit and ironic laughter which makes
Copenhagen irresistible as refuge
from the humhug of latterday prophets.
Dennis Connell is directing the cast,
comprising Nell Childs Marion Camp
bell, Harry Clayton, John Shorey. Mary
Crowley. Betty Clark. Max Tender,
Kenneth Yerans. Margaret Maize, n. r.
Sawyer. Frank WestbFook. Perm Hem
ninger. Roberta Harrison, Claudia Sut-
ton, Abner Frank, Robert Parsons, Os-
car Berry and Lawrence Johnson.
Evening star., 1928-04-08

TT was not until Director King Vidor
had filmed more than million peo-
pie in the congested manufacturing and
commercial oenters of the Eastern
States. 1t is said. that he believed he
had caught the proper spirit OF The
Crowd" his new 12-reel special for
Metro Goldwyn- Mayer.
Most Of the people were filmed at
time when they were utterly uncon-
scious of the fact they were appearing
in motion picture, for with masked
batteries of cameras. Vidor caught the
immense theater crowds of New Yorks
Broadway. He filmed the MONDAY
crowds Of Fifth avenue and Broad
way, the exclusive shopping dis
tricts of New York. the great financial
district, the docks and the water fronts
He caught the exits of the towering
skyscrapers as they discharged their
tens Of thousands of employees for the
night. and from barges in the harbor
he "shot" the magnificent skyline of
the busiest city in the world.
Evening star., 1928-04-08
Amateur Movie Makers.

/ communities to the value Of this largely
neglected field.
Furthermore, in the communities
where the school authorities themselves
are wide awake to the value Of film edu-
cation but have been held back by an
unawakened public appreciation, this
new interest OF community leaders has
proved OF great assistance in the fur
therance of visual education.
The amateur movement also has been
the means Of providing for school use
new types Of safe, compact, portable
and inexpensive equipment, and the
economical film developed for amateur
use has made possible still further saw
ings in the establishment and operation
of school film libraries.
AS one reciprocal result OF this inter-
est of personal movie fans III educa-
tional films, the same libraries now
being used in schools have also been
made available for home use Amateur
Movie Makers, the publication of the
Amateur Cinema League, is also aiding
editorially in the development of both
home and school visual education.
Evening star., 1928-04-08

pILLY PHELPS, jovial Juvenile of the
National Theater Players, will
celebrate his fourth year with this
group when he returns with the others
on April so for the new season.
Billy has been busy in stock in upper
New York and in the Middle West
since leaving washington last Septem-
her Unlike most actors. Phelps makes
religion of playing stock engage
mentS only, and will not undertake a
road tour.
Let those who want to go into
production do it, but will stand by
stock as long as there is a market for
anything l have TO offer" he says.
Acting is business despite the pre-
lenses that are made TO veil 1t with
an aura of romance More than half
of the ventures made for the stage
each year are failures and every time
YOU note failure it would be we'll TO
remember that at least two weeks of
Evening star., 1928-04-08
One of the New Movies.
1.-THE MATINEE IDOL" heralded O

"THE MATINEE IDOL" heralded on
the Coast as one Of the outstand-
ing comedies Of the season, has been
selected by Columbia Pictures as It's next
release. The new production. which
was adapted from Come Back TO
Aaron" is Frank Capra's third produc-
ton for the company.
An insight into tent show life, a mas
querade ball and reproduction of a
Broadway musical revue are some of
the high lights Of the new production.
Bessie Love appears as transforming
queen and Johnnie Walker as the
black-face comedian of a musical revue
Lionel Belmore. Ernest Hilliard, Sid
ney D'Albrook and David Mir head the
supporting cast.
Evening star., 1928-04-08
BILLY" Phelps Fourth Year.

effort have been donated by the cast
in rehearsing.
The canniest Of our producers
ziegfeld, Belasco, Arthur Hopkins
cannot tell before first night whether
they have on their hands hit or a
flop. Show business Is greater
gamble than the stock market.
why shouldn't stay by the one
absolute certainty, stock playing, in
the profession? Coming to the Ma
tional, for instance, assures me of
from 10 to 20 weeks work That is
merely for the Summer. and am al
ways certain of filling out a Winter
engagement for like period. There
are actors on Broadway today who
haven't worked 20 weeks in five years.
They are--or like to think they are
the Brahmins of the trade. They must
have production or nothing. am
less sensitive to the negotiable
honors OF acting for arts sake than 1
am TO that awfully necessary thing
called increment
Evening star., 1928-04-08
Coming Attractions
GAYETY-"Tempterx."

''rempteTs." new United BurIesque
attraction, featuring Ed Jordan and q
large cast Of entertainers, will be next
weeks United Burlesque Offering at the
Gayety Theater. The show also fea-
lures q chorus OF 1e girls. specially Sc
lected for their ability TO sing and
dance.
Evening star., 1928-04-08
Douglas MacLean Reappears

DOUGLAS MACLEAN, the film star
has returned to Paramount to star
In two feature productions to be made
at the Christie studios for the coming
season of l923-29. The star made Soft
Cushions" with his own producing or
ganization, but 1t was released by Para
mount.
MacLean's affiliation with the Chris
ties. 1t Is said, will keep him on the
Paramount program. where the bulk of
his many starring features in the past
few years have been distributed, since
the beginning of his picture career
when he appeared in Twenty three
and a Half Hours Leave" Mary
Ankle" and other pictures produced by
Thomas II. Ince.
AS light comedy and farce, such as
was displayed in The Hottentot" and
Going Up" is the particular forte Of
this star, 1t is likely that Christie will
present him in the same type OF films
for the new season.
Several stories and plays now are
under consideration for MacLean.
Evening star., 1928-04-08

Call" fantasy by Minnie Saxton Bliss,
taken from an old Irish legend. This
story holds that on the last day of
April-May eve--the fairies are in
power and appear to all Irishmen to
reward or reprove them for their acts
during the past year. BY chance, JOS
eph Shannon does good turn for a
friend on this day, much to the disgust
Of his little daughter Eileen, who is in
clined to be selfish.
How the fairies come to her and
finally reward her father for his sac
rifice forms a delightful story
Evening star., 1928-04-08
SPRING DANCE RECITAL-FRAIDAY

Miss Minnie Hawke viii present her
annual Spring dance recital Friday
afternoon, at ais pm, at the Shubert-
Belasco Theater.
The program will include an old
fashioned dance, the "Jarabe Tapatio":
a soft-shoe dance, The Awakening OF
Spring; q gayotte. ballet group and
many solo and duet numbers. The pa
triotic number, The Red. White and
Blue" will be repeated from last year
by popular request.
In connection with the recital, Miss
Hawke also viii present The Fairy
Evening star., 1928-04-08
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Evening star., 1928-04-08
COUNT KEYsERLING, FRIDAY.

An interesting event OF the coming
week will be a lecture entitled will
Freer Morals Make Life Richer?" by
Count Hermann Keyserling. which is 10
be given Friday evening, in the ballroom
of the Mayfiower Hotel, under the aus
pices of the Mount Holypke Alumnae
Association of Washington, and for the
benefit OF the local scholarship fund.
Few living writer's or philosophers
have achieved international fame with
the overnight suddenness that brought
Hermann Keyserling into the lime
light-due to the publication in 1918 OF
his Travel Diary Of a Philosopher, -
which was written in 1911, following a
trip around the world.
He naturalized himself wherever he
went, and probably no European has
ever succeeded more completely In be-
coming q Buddhist In Ceylon, or Hindu
in Benares, or Confucianist in China.
Mrs. William G. Gordon La chairman
Of tickets for the lecture, which are also
TO be had at the Mayhower Hotel.
Evening star., 1928-04-08

Continued from First Page)
of volunteer professional women who
respond to the call for cooperation
from other organizations which may
need their specialized advice and assist
ance, Mabel Rowland, diseuse. will pre-
sent her original comedy melodramas
on Wednesday afternoon at o'clock
in the Hotel Mayflower ballroom.
Among the kindly satires and the
amusing sketches TO be presented will
be a travesty on Bridge" entitled,
Mrs. Shapiro of the Bronx After She
Has Lost at Bridge"
Evening star., 1928-04-08
DANIINal

The japanese are giving up motor
cycles for automobiles.
Evening star., 1928-04-08
Current Attractions

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-08-17

America leads the world in tele-
phone development and many cities
in the United States are served by
more telephones than some entire ma
lions Washington, the nations CAPT.
tai, with a population OF 100000 is
served by more than 1925 tele.
phones. which is equivalent to % for
each 100 people.
Some OF the countries with large
populations but small telephone de.
velopment, according to telephone and
telegraph statistics OF the world just
issued by the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company are, Greece with
q population of about $500 G00 and
only 6.32S telephones; Bolivia, s A.,
with population OF 2,S90,000 had
1924 telephones; Ecuador with 2.000,-
900 people had 45lS telephones; and
Paraguay with population Of 1000.
900 only Alb telephones.
These figures are In startling con.
trast with facts which show that four
government departments at Washing.
ton, d. c.. the U. s. Capitol, War and
Navy. Treasury, and Agriculture, and
five hotels In that city, are served by
total Of 10000 telephones.
The United States had, as of jan
uary /, 1927. about 100000 tele-
phones which is equivalent to 1873
telephones for each 100 people as COM
pared with only 1.6 for each 100 per.
sons in Europe where nearly So per
cent of the telephones are under gov
| eminent control.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-08-17
Decree of Authority
Subject to Discount

The late Leonard W. Wood was
commiserated with by a reporter, one
day In Washington, on the apparent
neglect melted out to him during the
World war and on the harsh Judgment
that had been passed upon his admin
istration of the Philippines.
General Wood changed the subject,
but afterward, as the reporter was
about to go, he told a story.
when we are judged" he said, I'VE
must consider our judges. We must
judge our judges, SO to speak.
Joe Childs, perhaps, was the great
est Jockey In the world He won al
most every big race; some of them
he had won three or four times over;
the kings Jockey, you know.
swell, during the war Joe enlisted
In a cavalry regiment, and they sent
him to a riding school at the Curragh
in Ireland to be trained.
"When he mounted his horse at the
Curragh school the riding master said
to him:
"'Have you ever ridden beforer
ayes, once or twice. said Joe.
ayes, said the riding master, with
a disguised laugh, 'on donkey at
the zoo, guess. Why, you've got the
worst seat on a horse ever saw in
my life"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-08-17
Watched Bandits Dig
GroUe for His Body

The widest of the weird tales OF
oriental fiction can hardly beat the
real experience of Francisco Alvarez,
q rural merchant near Orense Spain.
related in the Pathfinder Magazine.
He actually saw bandits digging his
grave for him
Travelling through the country Al.
varez was robbed by two hlghwaymen
OF about $50. When he reached
an Inn several miles away he put up
for the night, told the landlord his
adventure and contided To him that
he had concealed from the robbers a
much larger sum in the band of his
hat
Sleeping lightly the traveller was
awakened by voices which he recog
nized 10 he those of the bandits They
were calling the iGnkeeper father"
Foreseeing what would likely occur
Alvarez very quiell, arranged his bed
50 that II appeared To be occupied.
and took his place behind door
From there he could see the two
bandits digsing~in the back yard ana
he knew the hole they were making
was intended for his grave.
As the alert Alvarez waited the
innkeeper slealthily entered the room
crepl To the he'd AMI suddenly plunged
u dagger into the pile of bedclothes
Alvarez WIS ON him In jiny and
soon had him oyerpowered, gagged
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-08-17
Electric Furnace One
of Scientific Freaks

When men can thrust their bare
hands into an electric furnace that
melts metal with ease, 1t would seem
that there is such thing as cold heat
White MICE too, will run about In
this furnace without suffering any ILL
effects, while an interior of wireless
valve can be heated to incandescence
without heating the glass bulb itself.
The secret is that the furnace heats
only electrical conductors, being a
high-frequency inductance furnace.
1t is In the manufacture Of wireless
valves that one of the most interest
ing uses of this furnace Is found just
before the valve Is sealed from the
vacuum pump II is placed for mo-
ment within hlgh-freQuency coil
The metal parts Immediately become
red hot and the bubbles of gas and
vapor are boiled out. The valve Is
then sealed from the pump with the
knowledge that the later heating of
the valve by the tilament will not
cause further release of bubbles.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-08-17
Like Dynamite

There Is nothing that man will
not do for the woman he truly loves
There is a type of woman who knows
this and who, after having won the
devoted love Of a man, proceeds to
use that love as a mean of gaining her
purely selfish ends
Many woman of this type is hope
lessly eXtravagant. She knows that her
husband will make any sacrifice to
crafty even her slightest within. But
she often does not know that the very
love which makes him spoil her will
make him violently condemn her If she
INDUCES in dangerous indiscretions
Love is somewhat like dynamite If
properly handled, II can serve the
most useful of purposes. If treated
carelessly, 1t can cause havoc and
even death.-True Story Magazine.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-08-17

II. b. Jordan. Police Chiet Of Rich.
mOnd, fnds the telephone Invaluable
ia his cork.
Police departments everywhere rec
ognize the value OF the telephone as
an aid in maintaining law and order.
In several states departments of pub.
lie safety are circulating their tele
phone numbers TO other cities and
towns so that calls may be made
promptly in cases OF emergency
Chief of police Il Jordan, OF
Richmond. Va. has sent the follow
ing letter to police departments
throughout the state asking for their
cooperation:
This department desires at all
times to render prompt and efficient
service to other departments in con
nection with the apprehension of Grim
inals, and other official business
Should you deem 1t necessary, al
any time. to call this department by
telephone. day or night: | am giving
you the numbers of the telephones
for your information: Chief of Police
Madison 1000 (day time only) Cap
tain of Detectives. Madison 1880 (day
and nighD; ana Captain OF Detectives
Madison 1881 (day and night
"ln order to expedite official bust
ness, and save much time and money
Will you kindly let me have the nun
Der OF your telephones, stating both
day and night numbers. shouls It be
necessary for this department to call
YOU.
Your kindly official cooperation In
patter will be appreciated"