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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
sonhomore basketers of Western High

Sophomore basketers Of Western High
School, seeking revenge for their defeat
at the hands of the Juniors in the inter-
class championships recently, gained 1t
yesterday in an exhibition match by
scoring 1O-to-6 victory over their
rivals who hold the school title.
Juniors were leading, 6 to 3. at the
half, but the Sophs forged ahead to
turn the tide in their favor before the
final time was called. Betty Hartman
regular Junior forward, was absent from
the line and Catherine Crane, the regu-
lar center, filled her place. Julia Hough-
ton, reserve center, gave good account
of herself in Miss Cranes regular posi-
ton.
Juniors exhibited superior teamwork
in the opening session. but Sophs out
played them in the third and fourth
quarters. Mary Haley scored six of the
winners points. Katherine McCandless
and Mary Lee Watkins did some neat
work in the backfeld, where they were
faced with the difficult problem of
guarding Miss Crane, who outreached
them, and Miss Shippe, who is suffl
GENTLY fleet of foot to keep any guard
on the Jump.
New Britain herald., 1929-10-22

This lot was sent to us by a good 1riend who makes them-Samples and his surplus stock. Beautiful heavy Silk Crepes, many in novel pleated effects. The finest Scarf values that you have ever seen.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-15
LESLIE YIELDS
ARMORY BOARD
PRUNING KNIFE
Moorhead Is Only Jackson
AppOintee Retained by
Governor.

Only one member Of the old state
srnory board, State Senator Rob
ert L. Moorhead of Indianapolis,
was retained on the new board an
nounced by Governor Harry G.
Leslie today.
Terms of the old board members,
appointed by former Governor Ed
jackson, expired March II.
New members are former Gov
ernor Emmett T. Branch, Martins
vile; Attorney Meade Vestal. No.
blesville; DR.. A. C. Arnett, Lafay-
cite. and Frank Shellhouse, presi-
dent Of the Shellhouse Fireproof
Warehouse Company. Indianapolis.
All Were From City
Those on the Jackson board, be-
aide Moorhead, were Major General
Robert H. Tyndall, Clarence c. Wy
song, state insurance commissioner;
Wilbur r. Smith. and Lewellyn A..
Turnock, architect. All were from
indianapolis.
This board came from fire in a
senste investigation this year in an
hrnory building program fostered
during the past four years by Jack
son and his acknowledgement. Will
liam H. Kershner. The board men,
bers we're used as figurehead trus-
tees for Arnories built throughout
the state under a "cloSed corpora
tion" plan
They we're designed by Turnock's
arm.
Company Is Banks Subsidiary
All we're built by the Ostrom
Realty Company and financed by
the Peoples State Bank. The con-
struction company is the banks
subsidiary.
Having carried on the armory
probe throughout the session, the
legislature voted $4,000 ap-
preparation for further investigation
OF construction costs. This was
vetoed by the Governor, who as
sured them he would pay for such
investigation out of his emergency
fund. The law carried an emergency
clause to insure immediate action.
Thus far Governor Leslie has
made no report in the matter.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-15
LAMAR BANDIT
At BAR TODAY
Participant in Fatal Bank
HoIdup Faces Moose.

BIZ United Press
LAMAR, Colo, Oct. 15.-The grew
some story of the robbery Of the
First National bank here May %,
1928, that cost four lives will be re-
told here today as Howard L. Roy
ston, confessed bandit, faces jury
of ten farmers, q real estate opera
tor and a mechanic, with his life
at stake.
Royston, giant member of the
Fleagle gang, has shown little emo
ton. Even when his buddy, George
J. Abshier, was found guilty and
sentenced to hang, Royston revealed
little interest.
While Royston has not been iden-
titled as a killer. he can be SEN
fenced to death for his participation
in the bloody affair. When Roy
ston's trial is completed, Ralph
Fleagle, last of the captured trio
of bandits, will go to trial. Jake
Fleagle, fourth member of the gang,
still is at large.
When quarts crystal is heated it
expands faster sidewise than length
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-15
47,OOO HEARD TALKS
ON FIRE PREVENTION
Reports Show Addresses Made in
so Schools, 22 Plants.

Addresses were made in sixty
schools and twenty-five industries
during fire prevention week, Fire
Chief Harry E. Voshell reported to
the board of safety today.
Inspectors made 1877 talks before
SO ,2e2 pupils and 6.175 employees in
factories. Four community mass
meetings were held, the firemen's
string orchestra furnishing music.
Virgil Ferguson, fire prevention
chief, estimated 47,000 persons heard
addresses of inspectors and officials.
Fred w. Connen, safety board presi-
dent, thanked citizens who aided in
Are prevention observance.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-15
Gasoline Fire Causes Death

Sv United Press
GARY, Ind, Oct. l5.-Drawing
gasoline from a tank by lantern
light cost Charles Hobbs, go, watch
man for a Gary construction COM
pany, his life. An explosion which
resulted splattered Hobbs clothing
with flaming fluid.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-15
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Zona Gale
r Owe never faileth.-Corinthi-
ans 1873.
XXTHATSOEVER ye do, do 1t
w heartily, as to the Lord
Colossians 3 :23.
IF thine enemy hunger, feed him.
4 Romans 1920.
(ComDiIed bp the Bible Guild
Next-William (PusSyfOot) John
son.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-10-15

When quarts crystal is heated it
expands faster sidewise than length
wise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

MORRIS GEsT has just announced
A'1 varied and ambitious program for
i929-30. No less than IL major events
are included but other projects may be
added before the producer returns from
Europe in the late Summer. Mr.. Gest's
program will be roughly divided into
two categories: wholly new events, and
the continuation of projects in which
he has been previously interested.
One of the most significant features
in these two classifications is the foun-
dalton of a Russian American ballet
under the direction of Michel Fokine
Fokine, it will be recalled, first came
to America at the summons of Mr..
Gest to stage the ballet in Mecca"
Mr. Gest will take over and greatly
enlarge his studio in its scope to pro-
vide for the casting Of ballet roper
tory to include Rimsky- Korsakoff 5
as Cleopatra" Les Sylphides, Prince
Igor" and others.
Next season, among new events. will
also see the realization Of Mr.. Gest 5
long deferred intentions to do Often
bach's light Opera, "Orpheus in the
Underworld" under the personal direc-
ton of Max Reinhardt, as we'll as the
new spectacular pantomime by Hugo
Won Hofmannsthal and Reinhardt, also
under Reinhardt's direction.
Striking out into wholly new geograph-
ic and esthetic territory in the realm
of the theater international, he has
closed contracts for the first appear
ance in America under his direction of
the Royal Burmese Ballet, one of the
artistic wonders of the Orient. Last but
not least the new projects is a very
modern musical comedy with Russian
leanings for which Montague Glass has
written the book. Dmitri Tomkin, the
composer and husband of Albertina
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

GO far as preparation goes, save per-
~ haps in that matter of rehearsal
or two prior to tomorrow evenings per-
fcrmance, Manager Cochran, his dt-
rector Addison Pitt, and the National
Players are ready for a showdown
with "Smilin' Through" one of the
most interesting and delightful plays
they have ever presented. Further
more, with the consciousness of work
we'll done, they are ready and willing
to challenge a verdict.
With "The Girl of the Golden West. "
however, which has been selected as
the attraction for their hun
dredth anniversary" opening the week
of Monday, Junet 10. everybody con-
nected with the famous repertory COM
pany of Washington, the Capital OF
these United States, is still busy to the
utmost degree in putting on the final
touches that, with what has gone be-
fore, are expected to make David Be-
laSco sit up and take notice.
Even the local critics of the season
are or should be busy in brushing up
for so rare an event as Manager Coch-
ran has announced for next week. One
of them writes that the great Belasco
classic was given its premier at the Be-
lasco Theater in Pittsburgh the evening
Of October 8, 1905; that the play was
at first called THE Girl, the Man and
the Sheriff; that five years later, to
be exact, December 10, 1910, it was
produced In the form of a Puccini
grand opera at the Metropolitan Opera
House. New York, with Emmy Destinn
as the Girl, Caruso as the Outlaw and
Pasquale Amato as the Sheriff, and
that it was the first opera ever to have
been written from the theme Of an
American play.
Strange to say, however. confusing
1.-The Girl of the Golden West" with
THE Great Divide" he put Henry
Miller in the original cast of THE Girl
of the Golden West" with Blanche
Bates. He wasn't as wise as Director
Addison Pitt, however, who has not
overlooked anything even remotely con-
nected with the great BelaSco play. Di-
rector Pitt states that while Blanche
Bates was the original star of THE
Girl of tie Golden West" and therefore
the original Girl, it was Robert Hilliard
who created the role of the Outlaw, the
Girls lover, and Frank keenan, who
was the original Sheriff.
Folks are apt to talk about Manager
Cochran's hundredth anniversary, and
1t is going to be the most natural
thing in the world for those who are
wise as TO all matters theatrical Incl
dentally to refer to the original cast
Of The Girl" This story is not in
tended as a thump for our enterpris-
ing local writer, but simply to tell the
world that Henry Miller was the star
III THE Great Divide; that he did
not play in The Girl of the Golden
West" and that Robert Hilliard and
Frank keenan, were too wise in their
day and generation, even if Mr.. Belasco
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
Coming Attractions.
NATIONAL PLAYERS-"The Girl of
the Golden West"

NATIONAL PLAYERS-"The Girl Of
the Golden West"
It has been almost a quarter OF
century since Washington theatergoers
saw David Belascos celebrated play,
THE Girl of the Golden West" which
will be revived by the National Theater
Players next week, beginning Monday,
June 10. The play is vivid picture
of Western life as it was lived in Amer
lea just before the dawn of the new
century.
1.-THE Girl of the Golden West" was
first produced in Pittsburgh, at the
Belasco Theater, october 3, 1905, and
went into New York in November OF
the same year to make theatrical his
tory. Washington saw 1t when the
original company, with Blanche Bates,
Fra k Keenan, and Robert billiard.
PLAYED the Nations Capital in 1906
1.-THE Girl of the Golden West" will
be recalled by old-time theatergoerS as
possessing some of the greatest climaxes
ever presented in modern American
melodrama. THE girl" heroine who
meets with all the requirements of
histrionics, is running saloon out
In the great open spaces, and mas
resisted the advances OF all manner
of men until Dick Johnson, pictur-
esuue outlaw appears on the scene,
pursued by the sheriff, Jack Rance,
who in combat outside the cabin has
wounded the outlaw. The girl conceals
the bad man in loft. Rance, on the
trail of the fugitive, enters the cabin
and looks everywhere but in the
obvious place of concealment He Is
about to give up when the girl chal-
lenges him to play a game of poker
with her, with the understanding that
she is the stake. If she wins, he will
discontinue his efforts to capture her
lover With an old card trick, the
girl cheats the sheriff. but just as he
is about to leave the cabin a drop of
' blood falls on his gauntlet-a dead
give-away of the fugitive's presence
overhead THE Girl of the Golden
West" one of the most interesting
pieces of dramatics of all time, origi-
nally was called THE Girl, the Man
and the Sheriff"
From it was produced an opera by
Puccini, La Fanciulla del West"
which was produced at the Metropol-
itan Opera House, December 10, 1910,
with Emmy Destinn as Minnie, the girl
Enrico Caruso was Dick Johnson, the
/ outlaw, and Pasquale Amato was Jack
Rance. 1t was the first opera to be
written from the theme of an Amer
lean play
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
Morris Gest Announces

Rasch. the score, and Newman Levy,
the lyrics.
Mr.. Gest's continuing activities viii
include the second TRANSATLANTIC tour
of the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival
Company from the Shakespeare Me-
mortal Theater, the only theater In the
British Empire directly under the
patronage of His Majesty King George
the Fifth. Mr.. Gest will bring the
same company to New York in Oc-
tober in a limited engagement Of five
weeks in a repertory of eight plays.
Negotiations have also been completed
for the first return in five years OF the
Moscow Art Theater under the dual
direction of Stanislavsky and Nemro-
vitch-Dantchenko in repertory in
Guiding three wholly new productions as
well as the favorites from the original
seasons OF 1928 and 1924. After &
limited engagement in New York, this
company will also go on tour intact.
In January Mr.. Gest will introduce
Central Europe's foremost actor, Alex
ander Moissi, in his debut on the Eng
lish speaking stage in New York, in
Shakespeare Hamlet" After Sum-
mer Of rest in Europe, Balieff's Chauve-
Souris will return for a limited engage
ment Of four weeks in New York, with
q transcontinental tour to follow. Mr.
GeSJS ScneQule lnCluQeS ALSO tcViNdl
of The Miracle"
On the conclusion of its engagement
at his New York Hippodrome, the Frei-
burg Passion Play viii be sent by Mr..
Gest on a long transcontinental tour,
while the Dickens comedy, "Pickwick, ="
which was seen at the Empire Theater
in New York two seasons ago, will also
be revived and with David Belasco's
production Of Lenore Uric in Nina"
as well, will go on tour also under Mr..
GeStS direction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
Talkies Hamper Camera

TALKING pictures have not only
l. played the cat and the banjo with
acting. writing and directing of films;
they have also altered fashions in de-
signs of sets against which man. woman
and the Tertium Quid diSport them
selves.
Time was when a design for motion
picture set looked like one of those
pastel-colored washes which landscape
architects and interior decorators pre-
pare for their clients. But the sketches
for Bulldog Drummond," for example
designed to give the proper air OF mid
night horror to story Of blackmail,
torture and sudden death, have little
of the air of George Bellows, even a
suggestion of Edgar Allan Poe. They
got that way largely on account OF talk
ing pictures.
It all began with such imported pic
lures as THE Cabinet of DR.. Caligari, P"
Variety" and THE Last Laugh" In
these German productions, American
directors and cameramen learned that
a few feet of film shot from an alb
normal angle would heighten the dra-
matte effect of certain types OF Sc
quenceS more than a whole reel Of
normally fore-shortened pictures. 1t
can scarcely be said the Hollywood
technique in camera angles ever sur
passed that of Variety" for instance,
yet within short time it was fairly
well abreast of the foreigners.
The Russians also acquired the new
idea and turned it into particular
regard for rows of feet masses of hands
and such anatomical symbolism, from
which the full repercussion is yet to
be felt in California. THE Passion Of
Joan of Arc" has lately shown New
York that this general continental ira
dition is being nobly kept up.
Directors now had a new weapon in
their arsenals: and pictures, 1t must
be admitted, showed a considerable i'm
provement in the matter of photo
graphic treatment. And the scene-de-
signers as yet felt no III effects. They
could still lay out realistic barrooms,
cabarets and rose-covered cottages with
very little thought of where cameras
were to be planted for angle shots,
since a motion picture camera OF the
old school is reasonably portable
object
With the coming Of dialogue, how
ever, and the introduction OF special
equipment which could not be picked
up and carried about except by trav-
cling crane, the golden age Of designers
came to an abrupt and tragic end.
Overnight the camera, which previously
had scarcely been taken into account,
turned into an overgroWn ice box
dangling perilously at the ends Of huge
chains, making its troubled way to
wherever it happened to be needed In
the studio with the ponderous finality
of an elephant feeling for peanut. A
cameras cruising radius, so to speak,
was thus reduced to a vanishing point
and the designers troubles began.
Mahomet can no longer come to the
mountains; the mountains must come
to Mahomet; and the angles which
clever camera placing would have pro-
duced two years ago are now designed
beforehand and built into the sets be-
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Continuity Changes

have literally worn themselves out 70
extract such performances from some
bit players?"
The other extreme is represented by
talking pictures, and action is acceler-
ated by dialogue, he declared. Tuttle
gives an example by this excerpt taken
from the continuity Of THE Studio
Murder Mystery:
Outside Borka set-semi-close shot.
Helen, staring through the aperture
into the set, covers her face with i1er
hands and starts to sink slowly to the
floor, her body shaken by great Sobs.
Tony rushes out from the set to her
and catches her in his arms.
Tony (whispering)- you knew
about this! Helen, baby, tell me!
Helen (moaning) didn't
know anything-what is it?
Tony quickly, tenSely looking about)
-Hardell-he's dead-some one killed
hin1-you knew that!
Helen-No-noi
An assistant director from the neigh
boring stage runs on, stops short and
glares.
Assistant-Hey, can the racket, will
you? Don't you,
Tony (flercely)-shut up, you fool!
Hardell is in there-dead!
Assistant-What!
His jaw drops, he looks at Helen
shuddering in Tony's arms, at Tony's
tense face, and then takes a stride to
the aperture and looks in.
Assistant-Lord! I'll get cop. Hey,
somebody-Mr. Hemming! Hey!
! He runs of excitedly.
Dialogue is surely a greater medium
with which to work." Tuttle resumed
lin producing a scene of this type.
The best artistry in the world could
never enact this scene In pantomime
and endow 1t with the thrilling suspense
| it possesses with dialogue treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

WIDE contrasts between continuities
w for silent and talking pictures.
established when the motion picture
industry decided to SAY it with words
were commented on recently by Frank
Tuttle, Hollywood writer-director.
For silent pictures" futile said,
writers made their characters speak
by their ACTIONS. Subtitles, for dia-
logue or explanatory purposes, had to
be held to the minimum, and continuity
workers labored for years to evolve q
technique of effective pantomime.
Talking pictures have wrought radi-
cal changes And best illustrations Of
these divergent methods can be OBJ
tanned by comparing small portions Of
continuitieS on two pictures. The first
of these is The Four Feathers the
Merriam c. Cooper Ernest B. Schoedsack
production, which was 18 months in the
making in Africa, which will be re-
leased with musical and sound effect
synchronization. The second continuitv
excerpt is from The Studio Murder
Mystery an all-dialogue thriller"
One scene from the Cooper-Schoed-
sack picture in continuity form reads:
The Leader in pantomime asks the
Sentry If he has seen any sign of help
approaching. The Sentry registers that
he has looked everywhere, in all direc-
tions, pointing with a sweep of his arm
and shaking his head to indicate that
he has seen nothing. The Leader OF
the mutiny reacts with angry satisfac-
tion registering that this is just what
he expected. He talks earnestly to the
Sentry, clearly showing that he is
breeding mutiny. The Sentry listens
and agrees.
Consider" continued Tuttle, that
all of the foregoing scene has to be
pantomimed for the comprehension OF
an audience. No Subtitles are used.
And IS it anY wonder that directors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

cessful picture comes from its ex-
hibition in other countries. Here
tofore, all the producer had to do
was to change the written cap
tions into the language of the
country where the film was being
exhibited. Now, with the talkieS,
trouble confrontS the producer
when he sends his pictures abroad.
From London comes the warning
that American producers must be
diplomatic and careful In their
work. For instance, they must
avoid introducing words or in
cidents, which past experiences
have shown are unacceptable to
Britain" Chief objection is
voiced by the censor against
"travesty and mockery of Biblical
characters, reference to the Prince
of Wales, white men in state or
DEGRADATION amid Far Eastern
and native surroundings, offlcers
in British uniform in a disgraceful
light, girls and women IN a state
of intoxication and orgy scenes. :.
All these come under the ban OF
the British censors. In LONDON,
the censors viewed 1,947 American
DlCLuT6S QuEl1lS LllC pdoV yCd1, oLAA
3O5 were drasticallv altered. Eight
were rejected.
France, Germany and the other
countries have their censors,
some of them more strict than
others, and yet this is really only
a minor trouble of the producers.
Now. with the talkieS, all the
s'noise" must be changed to fit the
various countries-new sets OF
takers in the studios for France,
Germany, Russia, etc. At just
about this point the average pro-
Queer is declaring himself for a
universal language; he would not
care especially what the language
was, Just so 1t would be under
stood by the movie patrons all
over the civilized globe.
X
THE Berlin producers announce
L that only about Is per cent of
the German pictures are being
made with dialogue. Nearly all of
the sound equipment, for studio
and theater, is coming from this
side of the Atlantic, the important
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
Villainy Paws More.

HOLLYWOOD'S screen heroes are
discovering that villainy pays more
dividends and wins them better roles
than good deeds. Never before has
there been such q demand for men
aces" in films. and the most choice roles
in several of the biggest talking pic
lures call for Characterization that
used to be Missed and now are ap-
plauded. Three of the United Artists
audible films are conspicuous examples
of populariZed yillainy.
Chester Morris started the ball roll.
ing with his portrayal of the gang
leader in Roland Vests "Alibi." and
now Gilbert Roland and Rod La ROGUE
are deserving the ranks of the heroes
to play heavies. Roland is going in for
dark deeds in Norma Talmadge'S initial
talking feature, Tin Pan Alley" to be
directed by Lewis Milestone, and La
ROGUE plays the heavy in the George
Fitzmaurice production, THE Locked
Door, in which William Boyd has tbs
sympathetic characterization. So the
screen idols are threatening the her.
ONES instead of pampering them-and
their directors say it will make them
more popular than ever with the pub.
lie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02
Sareassum Alsae.

CARGASSUM algae made its bow in
- the films at First National studios
when film studio gardeners, who pro-
duce everything for sets" from lawns
rolled up like carpets to full-sized upas
trees from Borneo, imported their first
large shipment Of seaweed the other
day.
1t was required there for the filming
Of Sargasso Sea scenes in "The Isle of
Lost Ships" Acres Of it were massed
in huge shallow pond that represents
the famous UNEMPLOYED seaweed eddy OF
the Atlantic Ocean.
There was one compensation, how
ever, from the studio horticulturists'
point of view. There was no bother of
Inspection that sometimes is long and
costly, even to the point of running
specimens, when foreign plants are
brought into California. The State
horticultural inspectors must go over
all such shipments for pestiferous in
sects and rusts. But scales and mill
dews and bugs do not flourish on sea:
weed, 50 this formality was dispensed
with