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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
THOUSANDS GWEN
TO AID RESEARCH
Council of Learned Societies
Provides for Projects
of Importance.

Grants in aid Of research, available
from July, 1880. are offered In the
humanities by the American Council
of Learned Societies. it was announced
Yesterday at national headquarters, DOT
Fifteenth street.
The stipends aggregate many thou
sands OF dollars. The fields Of study
are: Philosophy, philology, linguistics.
Oriental studies, including Sinology,
Indology, Semitics. Assyriology and
Egyptology: history and auxiliary
sciences. except those branches that
are essentially economic, social and po-
litical history, such as history OF re-
ligion, thought, science, learning and
the fine arts. photography, diplomacy
and chronology. a..
Grants in Two Glasses.
Grants in aid of research the an
nouncement says, ARE of two categorles
small grants and larger grants. The
small grants are normally OF the max
imum at $500, but they may be In
creased to $500 when, in the judgment
of the committee on aid to research.
such increase is justified by unusual
expenses, as of foreign travel
THE small grants are available 10
scholars Of all ages. except Tor assist
ance in fulfilling the requirements fer
any academic degree, who are citizens
Of the United States or permanently
employed or domiciled therein, and who
are engaged in specific projects of re-
search for which aid is actually needed
and not obtainable from any other
source.
THE larger grants range in amount
from $3.50 to $4,000, and are reserved
for mature scholars of demonstrated
ability. who are engaged In important
enterprises Of research to which they
are able to devote at least six months
without interruption. The same con-
ditions as to citizenship. residence: or
employment obtain as for the small
grants. The object of the larger grants
is TO assist in the advancement OF
undertakings of fundamental impor-
lance. Fl
Limited to Scholars.
1.-THE fellowships are of the post
doctoral type already offered by the
Social Science Research Council and the
National Research Council. Their OBJ
ject is to assist the better training Of
research and teaching personnel, and
they are limited to scholars, citizens of
the United States, who have received
the PHI. D., or have acquired its equiva-
lCIlI, uItO VIII dlC Stu1 III JllC GIdullIlk
period The amounts Of the fellowships
will be determined by individual needs.
Applications for both grants and
fellowships must be made by January
Is, 1890, on special forms that will be
furnished after October /, 1929. by the
Permanent Secretary Of the American
Council of Learned Societies, GOT Fiji
tenth street northwest, Washington, D.
c., to whom preliminary inquiries may
be addressed.
AT the same time, attention is called
to the grants-in-aid and fellowships Of
fered by the Social Science Research
Council, New York Central Building, 230
Park avenue, New York City, in eco
Monies, statistics, political science, So
GEOLOGY. anthropology. psychology. So
cial economic and political history and
related subjects. such as law and hui
man geography" ~
Weekly exr,resS rafIuav xarxfre@ f.a
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to secure suitable birls. Bids win be
opened on Thursday next.
Another phase of the wld-life pro
lection program in the parks was re-
vealed today when it was learned that
Col. Grants Office is making prepara-
tions to induce the wild ducks to utilize
the Tidal Basin this Winter. Arrange
ments are under way to have food
placed along the Tidal Basin to attract
the wild ducks that are now summer
ing in Canada and other points north.
A couple of ramps are to be built to &C
commodate the ducks. -.
Wild ducks are frequent visitors in the
Potomac River during the Winter sea-
SON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

Weekly express railway service be-
tween Shanghai and Peking, China,
has just been inaugurated. '''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
Arlington Building Permits.

BY q Stan Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE, Va, June 8.-There were nine
building permits for structures total
ing $74,300 in value issued during the
week by the commissioner of revenue
for Arlington County. With the ex-
ception of one. a garage, all of the per-
mits were for dwellings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09
Will See Old Locomotive.

DANVILLE, Va, June Especially -
People throughout this section will
have the opportunity of seeing next
Tuesday evening the first locomotive
built in the United States, known as
the Best Friend Of Charleston" It
was built in New York City in 1890
for the South Carolina Canal & Rail-
road Co. The primitive engine has
been rebuilt and two coaches similar
to those first used have been made
and the early train is touring the
South.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-09

OF beautiful design; heavy stick
reed, Wits fiber cross ties. Sturdy
construction with heavy frame,
properly braced. Automobile type
of spring seats; upholstered backs,
covered with gay eolored cretonne
of new design. Settee, $3.50
chair and rocker .....
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Will Thew Consent?

TALKING pictures, exhibited during
l. 1928, in which Benito Mussolini,
George Bernard Shaw, Lady Aston,
Mayor James j. Walker. King Alfonso
Of Spain and other public personalities
we're heard and seen, have convinced
D. W. Griffith, noted film director, that
the screen will borrow many interesting
motion picture personalities from public
life.
Mr.. Griffith says that public per-
sonalities almost always have excellent
voices, rich and of full quality, for talk
ing pictures. Their countenances fire.
quently are striking and always indi-
vidualistic, he says. And they "have
personalities that are definitely shaped
and Interestingly revealed" a quality
that he considers pre- eminent in pic
ture player. 1t is the degree of revela-
ton of this inner personality that de-
termines the stature of film star.
according to the director. During 1928
he saw and heard more new personali-
ties on the screen than in any former
year. he said.
1T is altogether probable that special
screen stories will be written, in a few
years, for public personalities who have
proven their capacities to attract and
to hold audiences" Mr.. Griffith said.
He expressed the belief that public
figures would consent to act occasionally
in talking films built around their per-
sonalities, not necessarily forsaking
their own careers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
RICHARD y
AlEXANDERanNV
NAMCyCARROLl
Fox
Mellow Old Play Compared
With Very Fresh One.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

make his story stand forth on its
own account as vivid, convinc-
ing realism. One of the consid-
erations which seems to call for
most praise of this Bison crea-
ton is the fine and comprehen-
Sive knowledge of the entire
repertory of the tricks of theater
and his restraint and precision in
selecting which he shall employ.
No better reason could be sought
for the tendency to revert from
the standardized current theater
to the standard drama of days
gone by than Young Love-" in
which Dorothy GiSh steps from
screen prominence into "her-
self" role before the footlights. 1t
is very short cast, a dramatic
quartet of exceptionally fine play
erS. The story is something akin
to the weird imaginings of adde's
cence in hauntS of unSophiStica-
ted rurality Having exhausted
the possibilities of the eternal
triangle, the play proceeds at a
bound to attempt the attainment
of a fourth dimension with calcu-
lations neither clear enough nor
sufficiently explorative in fancy to
prevent them from resembling a
sort of Renaissance of the early
days when a small boy in a
desperate impulse of social de-
fiance went out and ate a fuzzy
worm. To say that young Love"
is not scientific play-making does
not go far enough. 1t is not
psychological, though its, tend
encies are rather physiological. 1t
is purely psychopathic.
Such a play as this must be re-
garded as a turning point at
which the theater is compelled to
retrace it's steps toward earlier
responsibilities.
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At the Masters Feet

HOLLYWOOD has unique acad-
envy of motion picture acting. 1t
has but one regular student. and yet 1t
boasts faculty embracing the greatest
names and minds of the film industry.
The academy is shoe shining stand
at the Paramount studios. Oscar Smith,
colored bootblack and contract player,
is the lone student.
Resident members of the faculty in
clude Ernest Lubitsch. Emil Jannings,
William Wellman, George Bancroft,
Josef Won Sternberg, Adolph Menjou,
Victor Fleming, Richard Dix, Charles
Buddy" Rogers and other stars, di-
rectors and featured players.
Associate professors include such
greats" of the screen as Charles Chap
lin, Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert,
Theodore Roberts, Roland Colman and
Wallace Reid.
Glasses at the shoe stand school of
motion picture technique are held every
day except those when Oscar works be-
fore the cameras.
While welding his brush and polish
daubers, Oscar absorbs lessons In COM
edy portrayal from Chester Conklin, gets
tips on the art of being a jovial bad
man from Wallace Berry and takes ad-
vice on interpreting heavy emotional
drama from Jannings
1t is Oscars proud boast that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
LD-FASHIONED melodrama is
becoming SO exceedingly quaint
for some of the more sophisti-
Gated New York theatergoers

tnaJ IL is now not only lntelleC-
tually quite respectable. but even fash
ionable. like Currier and Ives prints and
other early Americana.
Dion Boucicault's After Dark"
revived by group of literary adven-
Hoboken, last December, Is still playing
cheerfully, and its success made in
evitable other adventures along the
same line. The even more famous old
Boucicault play. The Octoroon," was
revived on Broadway last week, while
the Hoboken quartet followed their first
experiment with an elaborate revival
of that terror Of our grandmotherS,
THE Black Crook"
In Glenn Hunters case, quaintness is
less easily capitalized. Mr.. Hunter, 1t
will be recalled, was the hero of the
stage version. Booth Tarkington's
Seventeen" People have been worry
ing over what should be done with Mr..
Hunters talents ever since. The last
experiment, tried this last week. was to
put him into musical comedy. In
Spring Is Here" by owen Davis and
others, he plays an awkward sap" OF
a youth who can't make any impression
on the girl Of his dreams-until the
last act-and contrives to repeat, slight
ly burlesqued, his old performance OF
Seventeen"
He grinned and crinkled up his fore
head and ran his words together, in his
breathless manner. and turned on gem
erously all his familiar charm. But he
could not sing, apparently-the duets
In which he took part were recited, on
his side, while the lady sang alone
and he ventured on only few apologize
dance steps.
The result was a rather curious sort
of uneven teamwork between Mr..
Hunter and the rest of the show. He
seemed to have little or no footing IN
this new genre, while the rest OF them,
on the other hand, have as little place
in his. He was all very well in his way
but there was little for him to do that
he could do well and naturally and one
had a constant sense of talents wasted
or misapplied.
\ y X
The ex-service man In Warren F.
Lawrence's new play, Conflict" has the
markings of something very interesting
and theatrically worth while. His Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

has shined the shoes of every notable
of the films from Adolph Zukor on
down. And never has he missed an OPP
portunity to ask questions and absorb
information.
The screen celebrities are said to have
taken Oscars thirst for knowledge
seriously and have played their teacher
roles accordingly.
On slack times at his shine stand
Oscar supplements the regular lecture
course with graduate work on the sets.
There he observes his professors putting
into practice the theories they ex-
pounded to him while their shoes were
taking on new luster.
This intensive training, which dates
back 10 years to the time Oscar became
valet for the late Wallace Reid, first
bore fruit when the bootblack was taken
away from his stand to play small
role in Richard Dix picture. He made
good, and other small parts came his
way.
Then he was cast for the best part of
his career in THE Canary Murder
Case" which was made as an all-talking
picture. Oscars stutter and his acting
got laughs and he was rushed into the
cast of CLOSE Harmony" dialogue
musical play.
That has not meant the closing of the
one-student academy. Between picture
roles Oscar still shines shoes, and gets
tips on acting from the masters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Twice Married.

Z ATE PRICE, Irish comedienne, cele-
IN brated her second divorce" and
third marriage" automatically speak
ing, in her role of Mrs Kelly in Uni
versal's THE Cohens and Kellys in At
lantic City" While George Sidney and
Vera Gordon as Mr.. and Mrs. Cohen
have remained steadfast. Miss Price has
had three husbands as Mrs Kelly.
In THE Cohens and Kellys," pro-
duced by Universal two years ago,
Charlie Murray enacted Kelly. Last
year in THE Cohens and Kellys in
Paris" Miss Price for motion picture
purposes was married" to j. Farrell
Macdonald. Now, in the latest of the
series, Mack Swain is playing Kelly.
Sidney, Miss Gordon and Miss Price
have become popularity identified with
their characters and are frequently re-
ferred to by the names of their roles.
Sidney is the star
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
On the Broadway Stage

the case of the man suddenly become a
hero through his war eploitS and I'M
able to make the grade" in the new
circumstances into which his success
lifts him.
Banks was clerk in an Office, where
he waited until called out by the draft,
A curious and rather intriguing mix
ture of thick and impu-
dence, he surprised everybody by turn
ing out to be crack flyer, won his cap
taincy, and finally became hero by
bringing down the German ace, Baron
Won Mueller
When Banks got back to New York
he turned down the girl he was en-
gagged to--a stenographer working for
his employer-rode over everybody, in
his strange, heavy-handed. stupid, but
attractively insolent way, and got him.
self married to his employers rich and
somewhat devil-may-care niece.
Their marriage and home life-which
happened of stage and had rather to
be taken for granted by somewhat in
credulous audience-waS unsuccessful
The girl, whose sporting spirit had evil
IDENTIFY been piqued by Banks cool inso-
lence, was really in love all the time
with an earlier semi-fiance of her own
class, and the tale ends with her leaving
WAoAA OAiC AdutCi, IodlIkS ana some
OF his pals. reconciled now, after his
temporary WEAKNESS of them, start West
to take charge of a new aviation field,
with Banks rejected girl quite content
to go along with them on the chance
that she can work in somehow or other
as her former frances secretary.
X
Plainly there are possibilities here of
something very good and out of the
ordinary run. There Is originality in
this hero" with his unconventional
mixture of a kind of smoldering ability,
OVERLAND with rather muckerish man
ners, heavy conceit and inability to
catch on in the upper levels to which
his war accomplishments suddenly lift
him. But his clean-cut portrait and
the logical drama growing out of his
peculiarities never quite come off.
The rather meaningless title, Con
f1ict," Is suggestive of vagueneSs and
uncertainty felt throughout.
(Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
EASTERN HIGH SPRING PLAY
Thursday.

Black crows foreboding i'll, mystery.
romance. humor and battling situations
are combined in Jerome K. Jeromes
comedy "Robina in Search of a Hus-
band" which Eastern will present on
Thursday and Friday evenings of this
week as its annual Spring play.
A brief sketch of the plot shows the
heroine. Robina, determined to find q
man who loves her for herself and not
her money. Kate. her friend, is search
ing for long-lost husband. The hus-
band appears. determined to be true to
his wife, who has changed places with
Robina, and naturally complications
arise
A double alternating cast of charac-
tiers includes Myrtle Thorn and Gwenl-
liam Davis as Robina, Sylvia Donavitz
and Katherine Garret in the part of
Kate and Cynthia Eldridge and Mildred
Duryee as Susan. The part of Lord
Jim, the husband. is taken by William
Wood and Ronald Van Tine, OF Horace
Greenleaf by Blaine Harrell and DON
aid Craig. the Doctor by Clark Harper
and William Waikart. Amos Jordan by
Dick Kelso and John Riecks, Mrs. Null
berry by Irene Slime and Lou Snyder
and the Inspector by Newell Lusby.
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(OMPSON-
Metropolitan

CARROLL of musical cor

NANCY CARROLL of musical COM
edy fame and David Calls, legit-
innate stage actor, who together made
the shooting episode in Chicago" the
hit Of the play, again are paired in the
Fox screen production, 1.-THE Sin Sister"
They compose the vaudeville team of
AL and Pearl in the picture. They are
a pair of small time vaudeville actors in
the story When thrown upon their
own resources in a deserted travellers
rest in frozen Alaska they both prove to
be big time heroes. The picture. based
on a popular novel. is stated to give
Miss Carroll her greatest opportunities
since becoming a screen star.
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Gcaxe from
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TRIAL
C>olumbia
Sign Noted Stage Star.

WITH the signing of Barbara STAN
w wick, young New York stage star,
to play the chief role in THE Locked
Door," which George Fitzmaurice will
direct as an all-talking picture for
United Artists, plans are rapidly taking
shape for the early start of production.
John w. Considine, jr., general pro-
duction manager at the United Artists
studios, announced the acquisition of
the footlights favorite following ad-
vices from Joseph M. Schenck, United
Artists president, in New York Sew
eral Hollywood studios were reported
to have been bidding for Miss STAN
wick's services as a result of the phe-
nomenal success she enjoyed as the
star of "Burslesque" and THE Moose"
on the New York stage.
Experts who have seen and heard
Miss Stanwick's screen tests prophesy
that she will win even greater laurels
in talking pictures.
THE Locked Door" is described as
powerful story of modern-day life. C.
Gardner Sullivan is preparing the
scenario and George Scarborough, the
playwright, is writing the dialogue.
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No Excuses Now.

IF Colleen Moore is ever late to the
studio in the future, she can't
blame slow clock.
Fourteen electrically controlled
clocks guaranteed not to vary a hun
dredth of second a year, are soon to
be installed in the new home Miss
Moore is building in the exclusive Bel
Air district of Los Angeles. All of these
telechrons, as they are called, are OPP
Grated from the same power lines that
provide electric illumination for the
house, and special re-setting device
guards against the possibility of an err
ror in time through the cutting of Of
the power.
Miss Moore's telechrons vary in type
from an attractive grandfather's clock
in the hallway equipped with three sets
of chimes. to dainty boudoir clock
several mantel and wall timepieces and
outdoor clocks for the swimming pool
and garage. Not only is it unnecessary
to wind such modern clocks, but they
all register exactly the same at any
given moment.
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Mystifying Maggie.

WHAT a dog will do when he sees
w the picture of dog on the motion
picture screen, many persons have
wondered. A few persons at the Patio
Theater, st. Petersburg Fla, found out.
The first reels of Rim Tin-Tin picture
were being run off to give the musicians
their cues. Maggie, an exceptionally
valuable dog. property of the manager,
was with her master as he watched the
picture, and the animal CHANGED to look
at the screen at the moment large
closeup was shown of Rin-Tin-Tin.
Maggie's hair bristled. she let out a
series of growls and made a lunge to-
ward the stage when the scene changed.
But for several minutes the animal
kept her attention fixed on the screen.
apparently at a loss to understand
where the other dog had gone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
NATIONAL PLAYERS-"Nothing But
the Truth"

| Nothing But the Truth" that fine,
fanciful farce from the pen of James
Montgomery, will be revived by the Ma
tional Theater Players this week, begin
| ming tomorrow night.
Not seen in Washington since it was.
played here by the first road company,
| many years ago, Nothing But the
Truth" will be recalled by the old-timers
as one of the most care-free and roll
| licking comedies of the past two dec
AIDES. 1t was hailed as the first, truly
| representative American comedy. since
| it resorted to none of the continental
Subterfuges nor SuggeStivenesSeS. Its
story 1t based upon wager-a typically
American way of settling a controversy.
When the central character takes up
bet that he can refrain from telling
a lie during all of "a hours, he starts
train of calamity that no one. not
even himself. foresaw. He. undertakes
to tell the truth. the whole truth and
nothing but the truth, so help him
Jehosophat! The result is, a young mar
ried couple is sent scurrying toward
the divorce courts and he and his sweet
heart are forced to cancel their en-
gagement to be married. Such is the
mighty force of truth. Having gotten
the man to tell the truth. the entire
surrounding populace spends the "a
hours trying to persuade him to lie;
but
There is the substance of the farce.
1t is claimed to be one of the funni-
est ever written.
Wilfred Lytell will necessarily carry
the burden Of the play. since he must
portray its central character. Miss Mary
Newton will be cast opposite, in fast
moving part. Miss Betty Kent, the new
ingenue, and Freddie Sherman, juve-
nile, also have excellent parts, along
with Charles Hampden, Mrs. Hubbard,
Miss Helen Wallace and Robert BriSter,
who help nightly in the unfolding
of the play.
WARDMAN PARK-"Master Skylark"
A lad in the theater of Will Shake
speare, himself, is charming Master |
Skylark sweetest singer In Eng |
land'-as he was called. The Junior |
Theater at Wardman Park is giving |
the play of Master Skylark' this week |
end, with matinee Friday at $50. Sat-
urday at 2:30 and performances both !
evenings at 8:15.
Master Skylark" as story was |
published In st. Nicholas some 20 |
years ago, and 1t has been dear to
many children ever since. Later it was |
dramatized by Edgar White Burrill |
from the John Bennett story, and so J
accurate are its details on the life and |
customs of the Elizabethan era that |
schools and colleges have used the book
to give some idea of the brilliancy of
the epoch.
The boy got his name because of his
singing, for the skylark in England is
the loveliest song bird to be heard. We
find good Queen Bess one Of his ad-
mirers. Or we find him in all the fine
costuming of the period. with his
small friend, Mistress Cicely. as young
as himself. saying 20 Nick, thou art
most beautiful" There Is heart APP
peal in this story and a young romance.
Mildred Natwick will play the title
role of the boy, Master Skylark, and
Peyton Thorne, who did such nice !
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THERESA HELBURN LECTURE.
FRIDAY.

1.-THE Trend of the Modern Theater"
will be discussed by Miss Theresa Hell
burn. executive director of the New
York Theater Guild. in a lecture which
she is to give Friday evening at 8
O'Clock at the Y. w. c. A. auditorium,
under the auspices of the American
Association of University Women.
A graduate of Bryn Mawr, Miss Hell
burn took an active interest in the
drama in her college days, and later
at the Sorbonne in Paris. When the
Washington Square Players was start
eG In New York she became piay
reader. This was the predecessor of
the Theater Guild. which was or.
ganized by committee of six, all OF
them, except Miss Helburn. professional
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