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Royal Hishlanders in
Baltimore.

THE Royal Highlanders of Canada
famed as the BLACK Watch" will
give performance of songs and dances
at the Lyric Theater, Baltimore, Friday
evening. under the auspices of the
Friends of Art.
Robert Burns birthday has been
chosen for this performance; and per-
mission for the famous band to appear
here had to be obtained from the min
lister of defense of Canada, through
Duncan Campbell Scott, who, in addi-
ton to being department superintendent
Of Indian affairs, stationed at Ottawa,
is also poet of standing.
The visitors will. of course, appear in
full Highland regalia, for. as Scotsman
cannot play the pipes sitting down, he
must be provided opportunity to march.
One unit of the band consists of Is
pipers Maj william Johnston, who
will conduct the concert, was with the
Black Watch overseas during the war.
Maj, Andrew Fleming. second in COM
mand of the regiment, will command
the detachment visiting Baltimore.
The Royal Highlanders of Canada is
a famous regiment with a glorious ira
dition. 1t was raised in 1862, became
battalion of the Canadian militia,
served in South Africa and in 1904 was
affiliated with the Black Watch, the
oldest Scottish regiment of the British
army. The history of the regiment be-
gins with the latter part of the seven
teenth century. when marauders and
sheep stealers in the highlands became
such menace that the Earl Of Athlone
was commissioned to organize a guard
for the maintenance of peace and order.
The Canadian Black Watch is the only
regiment on this side Iof the Atlantic
Ocean the members of which are al
lowed to wear the red hackle, battle
honor.
On their arrival In Baltimore they
will be met by the mayor and the 18th
Infantry Regiment and will parade to
the City Hail.
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A Westinghouse Record

THERE was one real Washingtonian
among the principals of THE
Three Musketeers.' at the National
Theater last week-John NJ Kline,
who plays the part of DeTreville.
!. Mr.. Kline was born here. was edu-
Gated in the Washington public schools
and still maintains. a local residence at
1911 Gramercy street, Chevy Chase.
Kline made his first stage appear
ance at the old National Theater with
Robert Downing In THE Gladiator. Z"
He played Father Jerome in THE
Divorce Question" at the old Academy
of Music, now called the Strand,
Incidentally this was william Anthony
McGuire's first play-the same Me-
CURE who adapted the Ziegfeld musi-
cal from the Dumas original.
For five years Mr.. Kline was a mem
Der of the Columbia Players and for
three years with the Poll stock COM
pany. He also was with Dennis King
when the latter was with the Garrick
Players. Kline has appeared in
number of touring New York produc-
tons, including THE Heaven Trap
pers," with Leo GARLIC in THE
Padre" and in James Montgomerys
Ready Money"
During his long stock engagements
with the Columbia and Poll Players
he had, the honor Of appearing before
three Observation-Disclosures. Taft and
WILSON,
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nation nor to base most important
negotiation on the intrigue in
which several suits of pajamas
figure with entire authority. AM
basSadorS, military attaches, min
listers and others supposed to be
taking care of the peaceful under
! standing coveted by governments
are with their wives or sweet
hearts without exception de-
ceiving" one another. In very
short time the story goes on with
out causing any particular sur
prise. The characters apparently
have grown so used to being de-
ceived that they are rather be-
ginning to like it.
The latest designation of very
small house is "a bridge whist
audience" i.e., an audience not
too large to organize a cozy little
card party in the smoking room in
case the play is not found anus
| ing.
Diplomacy has figured in the
drama most effectually, notably
| in Sardou'S play, which as pre-
Sented in this country took its
title. from the subject it discussed
both with romantic skill and with
keen insight into the dueling ct
wits in the contentious of rival
patriotisms. Dramas of Washing
ton life have introduced the young
diplomatic subordinate who sought
to make playground of social
life. His role was utilized for the
purpose of administering a sound
common sense proof calculated TIC
be of some moral benefit in the
progress toward a responsible
career. A playwright working
under the influence of literary
standards would scarcely have
dared to take the liberty with
plauSibiiity assumed in telling the
story of a handsome young at
tache, who is commanded with
Sardonic yet memorable authority
to exercise his destinations wher-
eyer they may be made useful in
securing advantage through the
influence Of wife over her hus.
band.
While the farce presses onward
into pSychoanalysiS and devotes
some time to laborious attempts tC
be very profound indeed, the must
cal play becomes no longer the
exploitation of rather rough fur
and costumes relying largely fol-
charm on mere abbreviation. Both
styles Of entertainment have re.
versed their methods.
"The Three Musketeers" takes
its public by the hand and con-
ducts it back to the time wher
Salvini, the younger, was regarded
as the one D'Artagnan of his time
with never a suspicion in any.
| body's mind that a Dennis Kine
would appear in future genera.
ton to retell the story with sur.
roundings of ziegfeld magnifi-
! cence both of song and scenery
such as the 1.-THE, graceful, youni
italian had never dreamed of.
step in restoration of taste ant
style has been accomplished b.
; force of the new unity of unlim.
tied wealth with artistic resources
The hero of the hour as he il
shown from one spectacle to Thu
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Dreaming of Titles.

TITLES mean much to the success Of
a play or motion picture. That
is why producers will spend big sums
for names that have definite box Office
values.
When Anne Nichols wrote "Abie's
Irish Rose" she was uncertain of a
title, so she selected Married in Trip
licate." That however, smacked of
farce comedy and did not convey the
spirit of tolerance that she had inter-
woven into the play. but it was the
best that came to her mind,
1t was not until the play was about
to have its world premiere in Los
Angeles in 1922 that Miss Nichols found
the title that was to become famous
IT dreamed that title one night"
she admits. by that / mean a dream
gave me the angle to work on. 1 imag-
ined myself in great garden, surround
ed entirely by chrysanthemums and roses
AS walked through I saw four-leaf
clover on the ground. and just as !
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The Perils of Pauline.

RLLLIE DOVE found that 1.-THE Man
and the Moment" her new picture
for First National, demanded some of
the most difficult stunts she had ever
known in motion pictures, when her
company was at Catalina Island.
Although she knew how to swim
this picture required she spend long
periods at time in the ocean, once
swimming to shore from consider
able distance and later hanging onto
the broken wing and rigging of a
wrecked airplane while the camera
boats circled her. Neither of these
stunts could be called simple SWIM
ming.
Southern California did its best for
the star, however. and gave her fine
weather during the entire location
trip. Rod La ROGUE, Miss Doves new
leading man, was likewise given sew
eral difficult stunts in the story, and
Director George FitSnaurice and his
crew spent many long hours on the
bouncing Pacific in small boats.
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Week Of Much Music;
DramaticS to Come Later
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The New York Theater has
come pretty near being reduced
to the position of a curbstone
petitioner with a tin cup held out
for pennies and an organette to
lure the crowd.
The police have again taken a
hand and issued the command
move on" to prevent traffic con-
geStion, leaving the theater at a
new disadvantage as it seeks to
gain some generous attention. Yet
II business is as bad as various
chroniclers report, it is no more
than fair to ask where all the
traffic congestion comes from re-
curing distribution of the crowd
by opening musical shows at $3.50
and dramatic entertainment at
is minutes to 900.
x X
A real success is relinquished
for the road very reluctantly. "The
Command to Love" found a cozy
and congenial place for year in
the esteem of a large element of
metropolitan theater patronage
For almost every play in which
there is a glow of intelligence,
practical or poetic, there are audi
enceS in Manhattan; if they can
only be reached and made aware
fIaaf THAR ocronial li1ao of o,,f ar
tainment is being offered.
After leaving this city Zone
Mile Up" changed it's name to
Zeppelin" and had the good for
tune to find at the hands of the
reviewers descriptive considera-
ton which made it perfectly clear
that it's object was to be thriller
and not classic. The success OF
play like this depends on in
tereSting auditors not SophiSti-
Gated to a degree that renders
them thrill-proof.
It was something of the same
selective type of clientele which
held Command to Love" in in
tereSt so long, a type which re-
CARDS the stage as entitled to the
fullest license in handling per-
Sonalities and events of the most
serious nature for the sake o.
securing laughs in the manner O.
an Avery Hopwood farce. 1t il
doubtful whether Hopwood coulc
have written a play like Com.
mand to Love" because his studi'
Gus improprieties we're alwayi
Skillfully attained without Sacri
fee of plot probabilities or correc
character delineationS. Com
mand to Love" is another re-
minder of how little real import
ance theatergoers really attach tt
the stage, whose methods of pub.
licity have been so disillusionins
as to leave no room for the pettet
darlings who, on matinee days
found crowds waiting to glimpS'
them as they passed to a carriage
y X
In some countries, perhaps a
other times than these, this so
called diplomatic comedy woult
call for abrupt cenSoriouS atten
ton. In order to score a tin.
point the play does not hesitate
iightheartediy to Scandalize tn
feminine character OF an entir'
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Resumes Active Work.

DEN LYON, one of Hollywood's
- popular juveniles. has been en-
gagged to star in Columbia pictures.
after an enforced absence from the
screen due to freak motion picture
contract, which held him as one of
the leads in "Hell's Angels" the spec
cial now famous for its never lending
retakes, It has been in production
for more than a year and has kept
its leading players from working for
other companies.
Ben, who was recently released after
completing his part, has gained great
ly in Importance since the advent of
talking pictures, 1t is said. He is one
of that select group of stars who have
had actual experience on the stage.
He left the cast of Mary the Third
a Broadway play, for the lead in
Flaming Youth"
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BELAsCO-"HOneymoon Lane. /"

Kate Smith, through the courtesy
OF Eddie Bowling, will appear in the
role which brought her fame on Broad
way, when Charles Emerson Cook pre-
sentS her with his Savoy Musicome-
dians in Dowling's greatest musical
comedy hit, Honeymoon Lane" at the
Belasco Theater, beginning this eve
ming.
This will be the last chance that
Washington theaterlovers will get to see
and hear its fayorite "blues" singer
and champion Charleston dancer this
season. Immediately after the Friday
night performance Miss Smith takes
the train for Chicago, where she begins
a headlining vaudeville tour on the
Keith circuit two days later.
An extra matinee on Friday at the
Belasco Theater may be given to take
care of all who want to see Miss Smith
in Honeymoon Lane" for it was in
Honeymoon Lane" that Miss Smith
burst upon the theatrical horizon two
seasons ago as new and overwhelm-
ingly popular star. The New York
press have put her in the same class
with Nora Bayes and Sophie Tucker,
rating her one OF the outstanding per-
sonalitieS of the stage.
Robert Capron, leading comedian,
will appear in the Eddie Downing role,
and Thelma Parker will sing and, dance
the leading feminine role. Frank Gal
lagher as youthful villain" Renee
Hamilton as Hollywood star, John
O'Neil as the movie director, Vance
Leonard IN his original role of the
Dream Man. Edward Metcalfe, Rosa
Snowden, Eileen McEvoy. Helene RAN
dolph, Jack Closson and Robert Burton
are others in the cast. 1.-THE Gorgeous
Garden of Girls have an excellent op-
portunity to show what they can do
in the singing and dancing ensembles.
Some exceedingly poppy and melo-
dious tunes include notably Little
White House" Gee, I Want to Be
Bad" Dreams for Sale" On to Holly
wood. Head Over Heels in Love" and
Smile a Little, Laugh a Little.p
The story of Honeymoon Lane" con-
Germs a little country girl who runs
away from home to 80 on the stage,
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cullar young ladies'. One or
i them miss Phyllis Povah) is in
Vermont" by A. E. Thomas;
the other tMiss Claiborne Foster) is
in Maxwell Anderson's Gypsy" Those
who depend upon the theater for their
knowledge of life usually find it to be
trustworthy tutor.
Mr.. Anderson and Mr. Thomas give
us two especially difficult examples.
Miss Foster as Gypsy, for instance, is
a carefree nymph, plying her charms
in New York's half-Bohemia. She fits
from husband to lovers and back again
with nonchalance, since freedom is her
native land and sex the least important
of its boundaries. When she kisses, she
tells her husband or not, for what's
the difference? She loves her husband,
minor violinist. With all this equip
ment for enjoying herself untrammeled
by the ordinary rules and bylaws, why
does she turn on the gas and try to
end 1t all?
Her newest accomplice (Donn Cook
is not only brilliant and handsome
novelist, but he is faithful in his
fashion and a member of the Players
Club. Her deserted husband tLester
VaiD still adores her and is beseeching
her to come back. The New York BUSH
ness man to whom she is secretary
pleads with her to go out with him
and to stay as long as he likes. She is
young, pretty, enticing and free, and
the opportunities for her to be happy
are unlimited.
X X X X
MISS POVAH, in Mr.. Thomas "Ver-
AVE- mont" is much more confusing
than is Miss Foster in Gypsy" A
noble New England girl, bred in the
chaste quarries of her native common
in Rutland, but has abandoned peda-
gogy because she was needed upon the
farm. That stony tract of land is
stingy in its harvests, and her old,
Woodworking father is desperate i'll his
perspiring endeavors to make both ends
meet. In the midst of his travail a
seductive hootlegger enters and promises
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was about to pick it up I noted a
shamrock on one, of the rosebushes,
This bush bore beautiful red roses, but
all the petals were shamrock shaped!
Next morning remembered it. and
called the play An Irish Rose But
Able was my central character, so !
changed the words to "Able's irish
Rose" That combination Of three words
sold the idea of the story and conveyed
the principles and ideals I wished
in it,"
Such is the story of title, the title
of the worlds most successful play,
which is now showing at the Metro
politan Theater, with Charles Rogers
as Able and Nancy Carroll as Rose
mary in Paramount's film version of
the play.
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E. NJ. NEwMAN-This Afternoon.

e. M. Newman, travel talker. win
present the picture and word story Of
THE Garden of Allah" covering his
recent experiences IN Morocco and Al
glers. this afternoon at the National
Theater.
The twentieth century has elbowed its
way into the desert. permitting the
traveller to live in luxury among Moors
and Arabs who still dwell. in fif-
teenth-century simplicity. Wonderful
gardens, fertile fields and miles OF wav-
ing grain, 1t is explained, dispel the
illusion that Morocco and AiHiers are
all arid. The children Of ALLAH live In
land rich in agriculture, animated by
fockS OF sheep, herds of cattle. horses
and stately camels. Not Hat barren
country, but much Of II a great. 9ranary.
SnoTscovered mountains rise from
Continued on THIRD Page.J
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STRAND-"StoIen Sweets.


Stolen Sweets" is the title of the
Mutual BurleSque show at the Strand
Theater this week. Harry Levine and
Edith Palmer are co-featured in q
company of comedians. dancers and
queens of burlesque. An added attrac-
ton, La Jade, is an East Indian sensa-
tional dancer. Assisting Miss Palmer
in the chorus of youthful song and
dance girls are Thelma Lewis, ingenue
prima donna, and Bea Moore, soubrette.
In the comedy section Harry Levine
will be assisted by Artie Lewis, straight
man; William j. Johnston, eccentric
comedian, and Bob Leonard, a dancing
soloist and comedian.
Among the scenic high spots are
Apple Blossom Time" an Intriguing
group of pretty girls: "Cottonland,S
with its sunflower ballet in which the
girls are disguised as nodding sun
flowers; Chinese jazz" a scene OF
brilliant Oriental settings and lanterns
OF many hueS, and the formulation
Chorus" led by La Jade in her East
Indian dance creation.
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Attractions in Washington
Playhouses This Week
IN LOCAL THEATERS THIS WEEK

Honeymoon Lane" musical comedy Opens this
evening
STRAND-"stoen Sweets" buresque This afternoon and
evening
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ziegfeld's Show Boat" reached its
5o0th performance last night and ID
still going strong.
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leaving behind her rustic knight err
rant. She encounters many pitfalls,
and in the end decides that love, after
all, is the greatest thing in the world.
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NEW YORK, January 10.

THE Dramas recent studies in
womankind reveal two very Pc
culiar young ladies. One of
l. them miss Phyllis Povah) is in
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In some countries, perhaps at
other times than these, this So
called diplomatic comedy would
call for abrupt censorious atten-
ton. In order to score a tiny
point the play does not hesitate
iightheartedly to Scandalize the
feminine character of an entire
The Washington times., 1929-06-26
HEADS FAIRFAX
HEALTH UNIT

FAIRFAX, Va, June 26.-The
state Department Of Health has
notified local authorities that it
has selected DR.. Harry Walker, of
CORTLAND, in southampton county,
as head of the Fairfax County
Health Unit which is to be re-
established here next month. DIR.
Walker will report in Fairfax on
July is. He is now head of the
health unit in Southampton county.
The health nurse who will serve
with him will not be selected until
later. There have been several
applicants for the position of nurse.
r. ]. White, sanitary officer of
Fairfax county for the past year,
and a clerk will complete the
personnel Of the unit. Funds have
been provided jointly by the Com.
monweaith. the county and private
sources. Representative r. Walton
Moore. who is one of the most
ardent supporters of health work
in the county, has pledged $1,000
year for three years to insure
the continuation of the project.
The Fairfax County Red Cross
Chapter has also contributed a
portion Of the cost.
The Washington times., 1929-06-26
SINGER 5 DEATH.
IS PR0BED

LONDON, June 20 u,N,s.).-The
possibility that Sir Mortimer Singer
wealthy aviation pioneer and ma
tive Of Yonkers, N. T., may have
committed suicide was brought out
at an inquest yesterday.
Sir Mortimer, son of the inventor
OF the Singer sewing machine and
one OF the best-known horse breed
ers and exhibitors in England. died
at his home here yesterday.
First indication of suicide came
when Sir Mortimer's nurse testified
she had found him holding a glass
in his hand, from which he appar-
entity had drunk. There was a
white sediment in the bottom Of the
glass. Then the coroner read a
letter said to have been left by Sir
Mortimer which read in part:
81 cannot stand 1t any longer,
The coroner ordered the inquest
adjourned pending an autopsy. An
analysis Of the sediment found in
the glass also will be made.
The Washington times., 1929-06-26
WALES EXTOLS
DAWES

LONDON, June 26 U.N,sO-Gen.
Charles G. Dawes, ambassador to
Great Britain. received a warm
greeting last night at dinner given
by the British Empire Service
League. Proposing the health of .
new Ambassador, the Prince OF
Wales sa i:
"For ,ome reason the General
describes himself as stranger. He
told me at dinner that he was so
strange that when he took his seat
at the table he asked his neigE :.
for the latter's name. The latter
replied L am Lord Jellicoe.'
1--WE don't believe that. m
sure we know in our country as
we'll as in the United States that
General Dawes is q regular T low
We warmly welcome him not only as
an ambass dor but also as repre-
s alive of / Q cx-serVice men of
the United States.
In his response Ambassador Dawes
quoted q phrase of the constitution
of the Service League which states
the purpose ~ the league Is to -
Their the ideal of comradeship op-
posed to force as an arbiter between
nations.
"That phrase expresses my chief
instr tons from President Hoover"
the Ambassador said.
The Ambassadors speech was
greeted wi prolong cheers.
The Washington times., 1929-06-26
Fairfax Firemen Get
$500 From Carnival

FAIRFAX. Va, June 26.--The
Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department
has elected Allen williams as chief
in place of Berkeley s. Gillespie,
resigned. Elmer Dove was pro-
NOTED to the post Of chief engineer
and Bill Williams from second to
first engineer. The carnival com.
mittee reported net profit of
approximately 5000. President Beat
tie appointed George Robey and
T. P. Chapman, jr., committee to
collect unpaid pledges and arrange
for making the next payment on
the engine.
The Washington times., 1929-06-26
PLAN CITY FUND
TALK IN VA,

ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 26.-Be-
cause of the McCleary relief meeting
held in another part of the building,
the talk of ]. E. w. Timberman, of
the city council on the spending of
the city's money, was deferred until
the September meeting of the civic
bureau.
The bureau, after discussing sew
eral minor matters, adjourned for
the summer. A resolution of sym
pathy for the family of Sergeant Nc
Cleary was passed by the bureau.
The question of the widening of
the river road from the new city
limits to the old was gone over, but
action deferred until it is decided.
In effort to raise the needed
money to finish paying for the home
of Mrs. Charles r. McCleary and her
five children, the committee in
charge of the fund held a meeting
and zoned the city. They will report
tomorrow evening.
Goldie Qelch. Clara Shepherd and
Catherine Hamilton who disappeared
from their homes here Saturday
were found at Acootink, Va, by
Capt. H. j. Durrer. of the Fairfax
county police force, and returned to
their families.
The Virginia bass season will open
Monday in all the streams of the
State. Non-residents fishing above
tidewater are required to have a H.
cense costing $3.50.
One hundred and twenty delegates
are expected to attend the conven-
ton of the Virginia Association of
Insurance Agents here tomorrow
and Friday. Caver r. Day. of Nor
folk. president of the Association,
will preside over the meetings. A
banquet will be held at the George
Mason Hotel Thursday night.
A testimonial to Rozier D. Lyles
and Harriet E. Thornton colored
school teachers who were retired
at the end of the last term, was
given last night at Roberts Chapel
by the Colored Teachers Ag.
ISOLATION.