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The Washington times., 1928-12-21
MOVIE STARS
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XMAS
BY REGINA CREWE
1928. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

Syndicate. Inc.l
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 21.-With
Christmas hurrying toward US,
Hollywood takes on more and
more of a festive air. The roses
are still in bloom. The palms
are green. Hatless youths and
maidens throng the thoroughfares.
And to those accustomed to the
snap of Eastern winter, it is hard
TO believe that the Yuletide is
here The streets strung with
banners. lined with living Christ
mas trees, and blanketed with the
tons of artificial snow dropped
from droning fairplanes high over.
head create the illusion Of some
strange fiesta--but not of st.
Nicholas approaching visit. OF
course, there are great truck
loads of brilliant red poinsettas
being distributed to the dozens of
open-air flowermars.
And real reindeer tour the bou-
levards drawings a sleigh con-
tanning perspiring Santa ac-
companied by one or another OF
the screen stars. 1t seems doubly
strange at this season TO be fan
ming oneself under the lacey
boughs of a pepper tree while
gazing at the real snow which
tops the submits of the surround
ing mountains. At the studios
there is a tropical lull in activity.
The stars. like all the rest of
the world. prepare for Christmas.
Maurice Chevalier, the French
star, will spend a Saturday.to-
Wednesday Christmas with the
Adolphe Menjous down at the
famous Mission Inn. at River
side. the heart Of the orange
grove district.
Bebe Daniels, like Alice White
and a host of other cinema celebs,
will make the trip down into old
Mexico. The fine hotel at Aqua
Caliente will he overflowing with
film folk. There's sure to be
plenty whoopee below the border.
Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, Lupe
Velez and a lot of the youngsters
will gather at Clara s modest home
at Malibou Beach for a Christmas
swim. The Bancrofts and the
Beerys are going TO fly to the
Beery cabin at Silver Lake in
Wally's airplane. The Emil Jan
nin2s; with party of friends
from the foreign colony. will also
be in the Hi@' Si"rras among the
real snow OF the mountains.
Buddy Rogers and Dick Arlen are
going off on a yachting party,
probably to Catalina Island
Ramon NoVarro and all the
gang Of The Pagan" company
are hurrying home from the South
Seas location trip and will arrive
Sunday. Evelyn Brent and her
new hubby will have Christ
mas celebration at home. Esther
Ralston will have A score of poor
kids as her guests Bob Arm
strong and Jimmy Gleason are
going TO Lake Arrowhead where
there is two feet of snow. and
they'll take couple OF carloads
Of friends with them.
If You are looking for dividend
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When Feature Is
Shown on Screen

EARLE--Richard Arlen and
Nancy Carroll IN Manhattan
Cocktail" At 11:4s a. M, 1:45.
s:4s. 5:45. 7:45 and s:45 p. m
PALACE-Jack Holt in Ava
lanche." At 11:20 a. M. 1:o7,
s:5s. $40. 7;57 and $50 p. m.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dove
in Alteration" At 11:45 q. M.
1:45. s:45. 5:45. 7:45 and S:45 p. m.
COLUMBIA---Karl Dane and
George X. Arthur in "Bretherly
Love" At 1O:45. a. M. 1896.
2:27.. 4:1o. 500, and s:54 p m.
FOX-Helene Costello and An.
tonic Moreno in "A Midnight
Taxi" At 1915. 2:22. 4:29. 7:37
and 9:44 p. m.
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UFA Star Aids Billie

Lucy Doraiile playing Nfnette
in Billie Doves new First Ma.
tional picture sAdoration, which
is now playing at the Metropolis.
tan Theater, ii 4 European star
in her own right. formerly with
UFA, and known throughout the
Old World for her beauty and
talent.
This is Miss Doraine's first
appearance in America. but in
Germany she was starred in
"Sodom and Gomorrah, The
Queen OF SIM and other notable
pictures. Her present role Is
one Of much Importance.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21

1t ought to interest the sports
department to know that a once
substitute first baseman of the
Boston Braves and a former
battler in the pugilistic stable of
Joe Tipman, in Baltimore, is
coming to town as the star of
play.
Reference is to Hal Skelly in
the Arthur Hopkins production
of "Burlesque," and a corking
actor, make no mistake. When
the sports world lost a competl-
tor who never was able to quite
reach the top rung, the stage
won a fine recruit.
Late in July, with De Wolf
Hopper as seat companion, !
saw Actor Skelly in the George
Marker Waters play in New
York. It was the kind of an
absorbing drama that made one
forget the temperature was 20
and the day might be more
comfortably spent on Long
Island.
One real test of a play, or
for that matter movie, Is
whether the prospect of a sec
ond performance is a pleasure.
"Burlesque" stands this ap-
praisal admirably. It is, as per-
haps you know, the story of
burlesque comedian, a talented
knight of slapstick (Skid),
blessed with very ambitious
wife and partner (Bonny).
Skid feels that he can never
possess the profitable quality of
entertaining the Four Hundred
audiences. But Bonny is con-
tinually urging him on. Skid
is hardly convinced. Thus this
passage in the play:
Skid: "You gotta make up your
mind, Bonny, that I'm hoke
comic. Don't waste no time try
ing to clean me up, because
I'd be flop. When I was
baby, the first thing | reached
for was a custard pie. My
grandma said / was going to
be a baker. Grandma was a
smart old lady, but she never
went to shows, so she didn't
know nothin' at all about the
real meaning of custard pies.
If it. happened today she'd know
damn we'll J was going to be a
movie actor"
But Skid does get up there.
He sees. his anne in the bright
bulbs and he leaves Bonny out
in the burlesque sticks while he
bends the elbQw and acquires a
love nest. Soon he is on the
Broadway toboggan and the
finish finds him back as a hoke
comic with Bonny in the wings
urging a burnt out, nerve-shats
tered alcoholic to give them his
best.
Through these rollicking
scenes and in moments that will
moisten your eye Hal Skelly is
tremendously effective and ne
gets magnificent support from
Barbara Stanwyck, who is the
Bonny.
And before / sign off anent
"Burlesque," it seems an appro-
pirate time to mention that
Polls ought to begin the new
year agreeably, for the play
arrives at Fifteenth and the
Avenue, the first week of 1929.
AS one who had the good
fortune to see Strange Inter
lude" at the John Golden Thea
ter, | have been asked not once,
but many times, what the play
is all about. Most of these
queries come from now and then
playgoers who have already
made reservations for the Eu-
gene O'Neill nine-act drama.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
Paris Gayety

Brilliant cafe scenes in Paris
are seen in Alteration, new
Billie Dove picture from First
National, now at the Metropoli-
tan Theater. 1t IS the. Cafe
Russia, and there are Russian
dancers, musicians ard others as
entertainers. Miss Dove in this
sequence wears the Russian ma
tional costume.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21

BETWEEN A r. =" STREET AND
VOLTA PLACE. NORTHWEST
BY virtue OF q certain deed OF trust dltly
recorded in IibeF No. 1539 Folio eos, et
seq. III the land records OF the District 0f
secured thereby. the Undersigned trnstee
Will sell. AZ public anction q The office of
Thos; y. Owen 3 son. 143l Eye Street
THE Twenty 9ssr .sixTR BAY 8 MoFs5sHA OF bEcEaf,
O'CLOCK r NJ. the following described
land and premises, situate in the District
of Columbia. and DESIGNATED as and being
part of lot five t5l in Beatty and Haw-
kins' Amended Addition TO GEORGETOWN
tbeing IN Square SO in said Georgetnwnf,
described by nletes and bounds as follows;
Bteglnnlng t., at a poEnt on the west side q
twelve and thirty-three hundredthB
1889 feet southerly from the south
Iass, nne oil, oi Fourth street f and running thence
eight and eight hundredths i2S.0Sl feet.
thence westerly parallel with Fourth Street
northeriy twenty eight and eight hun
dredths t2S,0Sl feet parallel with Fred,
eriek Street, thence easterly one hundred
and tlfty t15Ol feet to the beginning; with
the right of way over private alley six and
thirty-three hHndredths 1881 feet wide
along the north line of said described prop
erty rs indicated on plat filed with report
OF. Trustees in EQUITY Cause No. 12l30 in
The supreme Court of the District OF
Terms OF sale: one-third OF the purchase
money 10 be paid III cash: balance IN two
equdl luStdimentS. payable IN one ana two
years. with interest ut q per centum per
annum payable semiannually. from day OF
sale secured by deed of trust upon the
property sold or all cash. at the option of
the purchaser depOsit of $500 will be
required at time OF sale All conveyance
ing recording, etc az cost OF purchaser.
Terms of sale to be complied with within
30 days from day OF sale, otherwise the
Trustee reserves the right to- resell the
property at the risk and cost OF defaultinE
purchaser. after five DAYS advertisement
Of such resale In. some newspaper published
in Washington. D. c.
Surviving Trustee
dec1a SO.21 %. .o4
The Washington times., 1928-12-21

Either the fact that it won the
Pulitzer prize or the widespread
discussion Of it's technique, or
perhaps the novelty of a cur
tain raised at $50 in the after
noon, has aroused exceptional
interest in the National Thea
ter's Christmas week attraction.
Well, | know of no better or
easier plan to meet these re-
quests for information than 10
reprint a synopsis of Strange
Interlude" | set down for these
columns on humid August
afternoon.
Strange Interlude" presents
O'l>eill in one Of his morose
moods. 1t is a searching analy-
sis of woman's loves and pas
sions. Her very soul is stripped
and laid out for inspection in
nine acts of period episodes that
are frequently brutally frank in
The Washington times., 1928-12-21

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Hotels and ResOrts
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MEsT FAI.M REAdH. FLA.
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TRUSTEES, SALE or UNEMPLOYED
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Evening star., 1928-11-22

that the newspaper reporter under ar
rest in New Orleans for the theft Of
$176,000 of Liberty bonds from the
First National Bank of Los Angeles is
James B. O'Neil of Los Angeles, for
whose arrest a reward Of $4,000 has
been offered.
The bureau sent out fingerprints and
pictures of O'Nel on June IS, 1926, and
its investigators declared they found
that since that time he had travelled
under the aliases of r. A. Ramsey and
w. H. Frost, in addition to the name
of Kenneth Terrence O'Hara, under
which he worked in New Orleans. His
mother is listed as Mrs. Phile O'Neil
of 5132 Victoria avenue, Los Angeles;
his brother, O. E. ONeil. Is said to be
employed in the Security Bank there,
and his sister, Ilene, is attending
Redondo High School in the Southern
California city, the bureaus records
show.
ONeil was born in Louisville, KY,
June 5, 1891. Investigation into O'Neil's
record, the department said, showed
that a few weeks after he left Los
Angeles he sent to the Treasury here
$15l 900 of the bonds, asking that they
be registered in the name of the owner
He was said to have returned the bonds
through the Treasury by representing
himself as an officer of the bank.
The bond owner is listed as Willard
Austin Van Brunt of 6255 Harvard
Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
REPORTER ACCUSED
/ IN 100000 THEFT
Newspaper Man Shielding
Identity BaIks Police in AS
Certaining Real Name.
Ry The Associated Press.

Sy The Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, November Coon
Micting reports OF admissions and de-
mails have further complicated the
enigma of the identity of the New Or
leans newspaper reporter, known here
as Kenneth T. OHara and sought by
California authorities as thief and
embezzler.
California police believe the man
known as O'Hara is James B. O'Neil,
former Los Angeles bank teller, under
Federal Indictment there charging the
theft of $4,000 in bonds and also
charged with the embezzlement of
$4,000 in bonds from the First Ma
tional Bank. where he worked.
New Orleans police quote O'Hara
as admitting he was the man wanted in
California, and saying, They may call
me what they please"
Department of Justice agents who
questioned O'Hara about the Federal
charge say he denied knowledge of the
theft. A New orleans friend who talked
yesterday with the accused man quoted
him as saying his real name was neither
O'Hara nor O'Neil, but was IAN honored
name of Kentucky, and Id die before
I'd reveal it."
Harry o. GregSon, captain of detec-
tiveS, who so fascinated the reporter in
MS ROUNDS OF police headquarters that
OHara featured the captain in q story
as the detective who always gets his
man." was the man who arrested the
reporter ION the job" with his news
paper.
Continuing to cloak his identity, Ken
heth T., as he was known familiarly,
denied various disclosures that drifted
in from widely separated sources.
George II. Pratt, business manager of
the Veterans Hospital at Gulfport,
Miss, told police that a newspaper pho
tograph of Kenneth T. OHara bore a
close resemblance of the OHara he
served with in the aviation school dur
ing the war at Kelly Field.
O'Hara denied this and also grinned
at the supposition that he was Louis
Atwood, jr., scion of an old Kentucky
family.
To reveal his identity, OHara persist
entity maintained, would only add to his
predicament by involving others. He
said he did not intend to fight extra
dition to the West nor resist prosecution
on the embezzlement charge.
The reporter was traced to New Or
leans through a letter written a Los
Angeles friend. whose identity detectives
declined to reveal.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Judge Isaac r. Hit in Police Court

Judge Isaac r. Hit in Police Court
today.
While driving on Eleventh street
northeast, Richter's car sideswiped a
machine driven by j. r. Apolinio. The
two drivers agreed on settlement of
their property damage, but were
arguing over another feature of the
mishap when Policeman H. S. Carrico
of the ninth precinct appeared and ar
rested Richter for disorderly conduct.
At the station house, the prosecution
claimed, Richter became disorderly
again in protesting against such treat
ment of fireman by policeman.
Thereupon Lieut.. Lauten of No. 8 or
dered second charge of disorderly
conduct placed against his name.
Attorney John P. Mullen appeared
for Richter
Evening star., 1928-11-22

ord. said they both struck Coffee, who
was hunting wild turkeys, with clubs
and robbed his body of diamond ring
and stole his shotgun. They further
admitted, according to a statement by
County Solicitor Bart B. Chamberlain,
that with the assistance of three other
colored men they tied the body to a
Mrs. Frank A. Barthold of New York
City, daughter of Coffee, today author
lied the county authorities to offer a
reward of $500 for the recovery of her
fathers body.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
COL0RED PAIR ADMIT
MURDER OF AGED MAN
Threw Body Of Hunter in Lake,
They Confess to Mobile
Police.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOBILE, Ala, November 22--The
mystery of the disappearance of Chris
topher Columbus Coffee, TO- retired life
Insurance agent, from hunting camp
on Halls Lake, Clark County, 70 miles
north of here, on November IL, ap-
parently was solved last night by con-
fesSion of Percy Lang and Carson
Lewis, colored, that they killed the aged
Lang and Lewis, according to the
confession, now part of the court rec
Evening star., 1928-11-22
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Evening star., 1928-11-22
ABSENCE OF WITNESS
WINS CONTINUATION
Cases Against Fireman Are Held
Over Because of Woman's
Illness.

Claiming the excitement Of a slight
automobile accident and his subsequent
arrest on two charges of disorderly
conduct had so upset woman COM
panion that she was unable to testify
in his behalf in court, Joseph Richter,
fireman, had the cases against him
continued after partial hearing before
Evening star., 1928-11-22
Rayon Spreads
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Small lot of lustrous
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covering entire bed and
pillows.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
POLICE HOLD ALLEGED
MAIL TRAIN BANDIT
Man Wanted for $133, 900 Robbery
Is Silent When Quizzed
in Chicago.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 22.-Sought as
an accomplice in the $133,000 Grand
Trunk mail train robbery of last Febru-
ary and for several other alleged crimes,
Virgil LitSinger was captured by police
and Federal authorities yesterday.
Litsinger. taken to police headquar-
ters, and later to the Federal building
Evening star., 1928-11-22

for questioning by postal authorities,
refused to talk
He was accused of taking part in the
holdup of the Grand Trunk train last
Winter. in which gang, headed by
Charles "Limpy" Cleaver, dynamited an
express car to get the loot. Cleaver
was captured and sentenced to p
years. Litsinger also is accused OF hold
ing up the Chicago theater several
weeks ago, stealing about $4,000. Police
said they also might charge him with
murder.
Evening star., 1928-11-22

When a bear broke loose during a re-
cent circus performance at Dresden,
Germany. 1t mauled a girl performer
and caused q panic among the specta-
tors.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
So Felt Hats
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Evening star., 1928-11-22
$4,000 REWARD OFFERED.

Department of Justice Gives Data on
zEan Believed ]. b. O'NeiI
BY the Associated Press.
The Bureau of Investigation of the
Department of Justice announced today
Evening star., 1928-11-22

Customs officials frequently resort to
the X-ray to examine objects suspected
of containing contraband liquor or val
uableS
Evening star., 1928-11-22

New Zealand is developing trade with
the remote Cook Islands, in the Pacific.
Evening star., 1928-11-22
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The Washington times., 1928-10-26
LARGER LIFE FETE '

The League for the Larger Life
will entertain with Halloween
party tonight at . o'clock in the
ballroom of Stoneleigh Court.
The Washington times., 1928-10-26
MOVE MADE
To SPARE
MOTHER
BY international News Service

BY International News Service
VANCOUVER, B. C.. Canada,
Oct. 26.--"I'll go back to California
and plead guilty to all the charges
against me if you'll promise not to
bring poor little mother into it.'
Investigator James r. Quinn to-
day declared he had received this
amazing proposition from Gordon
Stewart .Northcott, Los Angeles
"ape man." accused of four child
slayings on his alleged murder
farm" near Riverside. Calf.
Northcott's mother, Mrs. Louisa
Northcott, is accused with him. She
is in Jail at Calgary, and has been
ordered extradited to the United
States to face charges as an acces-
sorry.
Quinn intimated that he had re-.
fused to consider Northcott's offer
to enter a plea of guilty to the
murders.
His offer is interpreted as an in
dication of ''cracking'' under the
strain OF imprisonment
Northcott will be detained here
for another week due to non-arrival
of extradition papers from Wash
ington.
The Washington times., 1928-10-26
MEETING
OPENS HERE

A broad welfare program aimed
for American youth is the chief
topic before the International Asso-
Citation of Lion Clubs. which opened
a two-day conference in the May
flower Hotel today.
Nearly 1.500 clubs in five coun-
tries. with an aggregate membership
of $1,000. are represented in the
meeting. which began in an execu-
tive session and continues in open
session this afternoon.
President Coolidge will receive the
delegates tomorrow at the Wi.ite
House and there will follow the dedi-
cation in Arlington National Gene
terry of a bronze plaque in memory
of the Unknown Soldier Robert L.
McKeever. president of the local
Lions club, will preside at the cere-
mony.
The visiting officers will be the
guests of the Washington Lions
Club at banquet at 7:30 tomorrow
night in the MayfloWer Hotel. with
Thomas W. Brahany as toastma ster.
Arrangements are in charge of DR..
George ]. Sharp. chairman: presi-
dent McKeeyer. Secretary Leonard
W. DeGast. and Past Presidents
Grahany and William c. Miller.
Ben a. Ruffin, of Richmond Va.
international president. is in charge
of the program today. in which the
care of handicapped children is be-
ing discussed.
The Washington times., 1928-10-26
D { A 7 H CLAIMS
VETERAN, 81

LURAY, Va, Oct. 26.-Death has
claimed Philip NJ Printz, 81
years old, gallant Confederate soldier
and highly respected citizen of
near Luray.
Uncle Philip as he was familiar.
ly known died after lingering
illness.
Entering the army at the out
break of the war, Uncle Philip suf.
fered severe wounds in the battle
Of Manassas but continued through
the entire war. taking part in every
principal engagement. A favorite
expression of his was that ''he
never surrendered at Appomattox
and had not done so since" He
was an ardent Democrat and had
expressed the wish only last week
that he might live to aid in the
election of AL Smith"
Funeral services were conducted
this afternoon, Rev. A. l.. Boliek
officiating. The deceased's wife died
several years ago.