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The Washington times., 1929-04-19
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WATERFOWL

Data on the bulk movement of
migratory waterfowl. such as ducks,
geese. swans and coots during their
spring and faI migration, and on
the surprisingly limited areas OF
their winter concentration. are be-
ing accumulated through waterfowl
censuses under the leadership OF
the Biological Survey Of the De-
partment of Agriculture.
This census taking, which was
lnaugurated about Is months ago,
Is carried on through the co.opera-
ton of about $500 volunteer OBJ
servers.
Each observer selects an area
typical of waterfowl conditions in
his general region, and agrees to
count the birds there once month
on a date that is the same for all
observers. Wherever possible, the
birds are actually counted. but
where the numbers are too great
for this, careful estimates are made
and recorded.
In the United States ~ bureaus
or major units of the Federal Gov
ernment that have field men sta
toned in suitable localities are CO.
operating with the Biological Sur
vey. In Canada the censuses are
conducted, also comparatively,
through the office of the National
Parks of Canada. All States and
provincial departments concerned
with game administration are CIV
ing active cooperation.
Information obtained through
these censuses helps to fix proper
open seasons and bag limits. 1t
will be necessary to accumulate re-
ports over a period Of two or more
years before a basis for calculations
regarding possible increase or de-
crease in the waterfowl population
can be established.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
Irving Berlin, Inc, Files
Music Copyright Suit

MARTINSBURG. w. Va, -Aprll
1s.--The first suit for copyright In
fringement in this part OF the Norln'
ern District of West Virginia has
been filed by the music firm OF
Irving Berlin, Inc, Of New York
city, against Jacob Goldberg, proprie-
tor OF the Charles Town Opera
House, for an infringement upon
copyright song published by the New
York firm. u.
The document was filed VIII
Deputy United States Court Clerk
A. c. Nadenbousch here and is now
In the records of the United States
District Attorney.
Details of the infringement were
not announced, but 1t was stated
that this suit is only one OF q
number of suits being brought in
various sections OF the country tol
the alleged unauthorized use of copy
righted songs. Damages In q sum
not to be less than $3.50 are asked.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19

BIRTHS, Enghgements, Marriages,
Deaths and In Mem0riRm appear daily
on the last inside page. last two columns.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
Rockefeller Aids Va.
100000 School Plan

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, April 10.
John d Rockefeller. Jr.. who is
reported to be financing projects
in connection with the restoration
Of parts Of this staid town to make
it resemble the State capital It was
in Colonial times. il now being
credited with having become inter
ested in plans for the, construction
Of unique school building here,
Bids win be received until May 2
for construction of high school
building to cost 100000, the struc-
ture to be owned jointly by the
College Of william and Mary and
williamsburg. Charles M. Robinson
Of Richmond. Is the architect. The
exterior OF the structure is to har
nlonize with COLONEL buildings now
being restored here
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Home-SchOOl Music to
Be Discussed at Meet

CABIN JOHN, Nd, April 19.--
The Glen Echo-Cabin John Parent.
Teacher Association win discuss
music in the home and school at
their next meeting on Monday
night, April %, in the school house.
DR.. H. Roland Roberts and Fanny
Armstrong Roberts, both of the
Washington College of Music, will
be present and talk on the sub.
ject. Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts were
both associated with the Sherwood
School Of Music in Chicago before
coming to Washington.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
TO CHICAGO
The LIBERTY LIMITED

Liberty Limited at 1890 PM. STANDARD
Time) in Chicago and be in Washington
at sos AM. the next morning.
There are 7 fast Pennsylvania trains
to Chicago every day. Whether you travel
for business or pleasure, there's one to
suit your needs Beginning April %, trains
will leave the Union Station at 7:55,
1850 AM, 2:45, 3:15, 7;o5, 7:2O, 1890
PM.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19

The luxurious Liberty Limited will clip
still more from its already fast running
time, both westbound and eastbound.
Boarding it at 3:15 PM. in Washington,
after nearly full day here, you will arrive
In Chicago the next day at 900 AM.
(Standard Timel-at the magnificent, new
Union Station, most convenient to hotels,
business, the North and South Shores.
Returning, you viii be able to catch the
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
D. A. r. Chapter Honors
George Rogers Clark

FREDERSBURG, Va, April 49,
The memory Of George Rogers
Clark. Virginia pioneer. win be
honored here tomorrow when the
Munice dnd.) Chapter, D. A. r., viii
unveil tablet that hat 4Jeen placed
near the site Of the old Clark home
In this city,
Representative s. Otis Bland Of the
Third district. will preside. The dele
cation from Indiana will be accom-
panied to Fredericksburg by an
official committee from the Indiana
legislature.
The ceremonies begin with .
luncheon at noon, followed by the
dedication speech by James Lock-
wood, Of Indiana. The Quantico
Marine band win play.
BIRTHS, Enghgements, Marriages,
Deaths and In Mem0rlRm appear daily
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
CADETS TO FETE

BALLsTON. Va. April 19.-Two
companies OF cadets from the
George Mason and Washington Lee
High Schools are in Winchester
today taking part in the annual
Apple Blossom Festival. They will
ENturn tonight.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19

A new convenient connection with the
Mercantile Express will allow you to leave
Washington at 7:20 PM. and get to Cleve-
land at BIS AM. the next morning.
There are three Pennsylvania trains to
Cleveland daily, leaving at 7:55 AM,
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
NOTHING CLEARS
COMPL
LIKE POSLAM

Girls who use Poslam never have
bad complexionsl Its soothing, con.
centrated medication simply drive
pimples and blackheads away Ike
magic. Try It yourself. At all
FRE ;::;:: =; i: !; !. 'i;;.:.'' !; * &;
The Washington times., 1929-04-19

The Spirit of st. Louis will be faster than
ever! Leaving Washington at 2:45 PM.
you win get to st. Louis at l:20 PM. next
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
TO CLEVELAND
The MERCANTILE EXPRESS

7:2o, 1890 PM.
Through the portals Of the magnificent
Union Station in Washington, Pennsyl-
vania trains take you, without change,
to eight of the ten largest cities in the
country.
The Washington times., 1929-04-19
TO ST. LOUIS
The SPIRIT Of ST. LOUIS

day. There are four fast trains to st.
Louis daily, leaving at 1850 AM, 2:45.
$50, 1890 PM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
EVELYN BRENT and Hal SKELLY-
In Jhe Woman TFep : 2aAoe
THE DRAMA ON BROADWAY
By Percy Hammond.

NOTED, with careful explanations by the
author, to the turnkeyship of an up
state hoosegow. Mr.. Byron's represent
tation Of this honest and troubled
ofhceholder is one of the completest ex-
hibitionS of strong acting to be seen in
any of the neighborhood's better pup
pet shows. He borders, dare say, upon
the miraculous in the scene wherein he
grills the heroic felon, pleading with
him to betray the n1urderous TRUSTEES"
and sending the audience into a tumult
OF hand-clapping He has the bang,
the smash, the punch, the rhythm and
the Subtlety of fine and earnest i'm
personator and Snowman.
You will be in sympathy with Mr..
Russell Hardie's perfect characterize
! ton OF the ingenious victim of the laws
| mechanical cogwheelS, a part more diff
f1cult to play than Mr.. Byron's per-
hapS. He is, in the lingo of Times
| Square, immense" throughout the
panorama, and especially so as, in the
shadows of his dungeon, he sinks q
knife into the heart of a hateful and
ferocious official. Among the big thrills
I get from The Criminal Code" is that
in its last moment. The country lad
has asSaSsinated his cruel guard in a
| fit of desperation and he is sobbing in
the arms of the warden's daughter
Then the tragic prison whistle blows.
announcing that mischief is astir. It's
walls are long, loud and ominous, pre-
dieting the electrocution of the hero
as the curtain falls, and we make haste
| to Barney Gallant's or the Ambassa-
deurs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
A Jubilee Rolls Round.

Broadway, Brooklyn. BY dint of careful
outstanding Of the finances of the con-
Germ and the gradual expansion of pro-
duction facilities on the side Fox and
his associates built up their resources
and grew with the industry itself.
The story is written in interesting f1g-
ures, comparing the early status OF the
Fox business with its status today. The
insignificant little nickelodeon@ has now
given way to control Of 1000 theaters,
with a seating capacity Of almost a
million. From the first circumscribcd
studio at Fort Lee, N. j., the organiza-
ton now has two huge studios in Holly
wood and a magnificent new plant, with
soundproof stages, bungalows, music
halls and practice rooms, a restaurant
and divers other conveniences, situated
at Fox Movietone City, between Holly
wood and Santa Monica. There are also
studio facilities at the Fox plant in
New York. A production capacity of
$4,000 feet day has scared to 100000
in the New York laboratory alone.
Exchange offices have grown from
half dozen to 100 branches through
out the world, and there has been q
corresponding increase in personnel
Gradually taking over whole circuits, 40
theaters here, 60 there, 200 elsewhere
Fox built up the organization through
which he could present Fox studio pro-
auctions to the public. The motion pic
ture business is already the fourth larg-
est in the country. More than 25,00O,000
people 60 to the movies every day. pay
ing in yearly admissions Of $3.50, 900 900
Mr.. Fox shares to a considerable extent
in these returns.
A recent announcement from his
office concluded with the succinct state
ment: THE expansion Is continuing. y
The jubilee. 1t seems obvious, is merely
a milestone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
Subtle Stage Art.

THE booking of the exuberantly
funny farce, "Volpone," directly
after Marco Millions" at the National
Theater as the second play of the first
subscription season in Washington of
the Theater Guild of New York, will
serve to show not only the versatility
of the scenic designer, Lee Simonson,
of the Guild directorate, but the part
which style in setting plays to key an
appropriate mood in the audience.
The Venice of O'Neill's play is of
the thirteenth century. Marco Polo
Travelled afar through the Levant,
Persia, India and China, yet he carried
the atmosphere Of his grand city along
with him. In "Volpone," however, as
adapted by the contemporary Austrian
playwright from the comedy of hui
mors" written by Ben Jonson, the
whole action takes place in Venice of
the seventeenth century.
Perhaps it might be thought that in
the absence of city planning commits
sions no changes had taken place dur
ing those poky ages, even in four CEN
turtles, yet the studies which Simonson
carried on in preparation for the pro-
duction of the two plays revealed to
his eye, keen in the matter of techni-
calities, very different architectural and
ornamental designs. Students of such
matters should find in his staging OF
Marco Millions" and "Volpone" an ex-
position of the decorative history of
Venice during considerable part of its
existence.
Jonson chose a distant city for his
play, because he wanted freedom to
tell hilarious story at the expense
of his own English countrymen. He
could rail at their depravity and greed
and excite laughter at their folly, be-
cause he seemed to all intents anc
purposes to be washing in the play
house the linen of foreigners. He
specifically chose Venice because travel
ers reported that the pearl of the
Adriatic" was very decadent and GER
tainly very gay. Hence, by laughing
at the antics and vices of the Venetians
and now, incidently, for all the world
without appearing to hold a scornfu
finger at his native audience.
The atmospheric color of this Re.
naissance city is, therefore, rather in
| tsnsive, calling for no end of proper
ties and for a sort of teleScoping o
the landmarks dear to the tourist
Doublets and hose, ruffs and glitterinC
swords, great voluminous dresses ant
plumed hats, archways, piazzas anC
towers-all these become instrument
of illusion.
But to complicate matters for tn,
designer, the whole stage of "Volpone.
although a remarkable substitute for I
real trip to Venice, must refrain from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
Emil Jannings' Real Story.

PERHAPS for the first time in the
history of the screen a situation
in the real life of the actors who APP
pear furnished the plot and provided
the material for the film.
Emil Jannings, star of The Way of
All Flesh, Variety and Sins of the
Fathers" is one of Conrad Veidt's best
friends. Veidt also is a famous screen
personality in his own right, having
starred in THE Cabinet of DR.. Cali
gari," "A Mans Past" and 1.-THE Man
Who Laughs"
1t is not generally known that jan
nings' present wife is Veidt's first wife.
The separation took place few years
ago in Berlin about the time the film
Husbands or Lovers" was produced,
and it is significant that both screen
stars consented to play roles in this
f1lm, in which the situations are very
similar to the actual situations through
which they had just passed, with the
emotional elements of their own triangle
still fresh In their minds and hearts.
cHusbands or Lovers" is being shown
at the Little Theater this week.
Despite these facts, Jannings and
Veidt are close friends. They lived near
each other in Hollywood, where they
starred in Paramount and Universal
pictures. and now in Berlin, where they
are both making films for foreign pro-
ducers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13

realism and suggest, instead, quantity
artificial world. The settings, in short,
must help the audience, as does the
action itself, to escape from life.
And the designer taking the cue
makes even the scenery frolic. Some
times, with delightful naivete, Mr.:
Simonson has painted whatever props"
were needed right on the backdrop.
With guileful simplicity, he has dis
posed of a set of chairs, pair of
love birds, a bunch of keys, and a
group of bland Venetial lions, by
painting them on in the artless fiat
tones of Ben Jonson's own period. In
the scene in the Senate Chamber OF
Venice, a backdrop discloses a long
vista of arches painted in humorously
old-fashioned perspective. The effect
is as whimsical as harlequinade and
through it the settings perfectly match
the blithe spirit of the dramatists
holiday treatment.
AS with the pictures, so with the
costumes and the makeup. Released
from the restrictions of realistic acting,
the players caper through the story
in the hat-tossing mood of larky young
sters just let out of school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13

A REMARKABLE career of enterprise
"A and achievement in the motion
picture field has reached the stage Tor
the celebration of silver jubilee, ano
in the coming week in every part OF
the country the theaters of William Fox
will ioin in that celebration.
Twenty-Five years ago Mr.. Fox, who
had come to this country as poor
immigrant boy from Hungary, made an
extremely modest start in the film busl-
ness. The story goes that he had been
refused a So raise by his employer IN 2
suit-cutting shop. and win fair OF
independence determined to strike out
for his own fortune. He bought a, one
third interest in a tiny cinema theater
of l46 seats, contrived out OF a store on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
In Capital Theaters
NATIONAL-N. Y. Theater Guild in
"V0lpone."
R/5Ho

NATIONALr-N. Y. Theater Guild in
"Volpone."
In the second offering of the first
subscription season of the Theater
Guild of New York at the National
Theater, beginning tomorrow night, the
Guild Acting Co. turns from the satire
and romance of Marco Millions" to
the racy farce of Ben Jonson's
''Volpone," made young and spirited b.
the skillfully adaptive hand OF the
Austrian dramatist, Stefan Zweig.
Holding fast to the sturdy vigor that
had kept this masterpiece popular in
the theater for over $50 years after II
was written, Herr Zweig pruned away
its seventeenth century oddities ana
cluttering subplots to make 1t actaoie
on the modern stage. So well did ne
accomplish his purpose that AUDIENCES
everywhere on the Theater Guild tour
of last season were delighted apparently
over the idea of finding, for once,
dramatic classic that sizzleS With He
and movement.
If q comedy is a farce by an author
who has been dead so years or more, as
the playwright Pinero cynlcally SAID,
then "Volpone" by that definition Is a
comedy. But Jonson's cariacatures are
as extravagant as those Of Dickens and
lust as ludicrous; besides, Stefan ZWelg,
who performed the face-lifting opera
ton, Is very much alive and, therefore,
his adaptation must be as yet farce.
True, Jonson protested that the "end
of the comical part should not be upon
such scornful matters as stirretn
laughter only, but ne mas only NM :
self to blame for tickling the ribs OF
his audience from the beginning Oh
the play to the end.
Like Serena Blandish, who learned
that one diamond ring on the ringer Will
tease forth another, Volpone the Fox,
displaying his wealth and pretending
illness, draws forth gifts from all and
sundry who hope that he Will thereby
be affected TO give them exclusive men
ton in his last Will and testament. Inc 1t
trick works so well that he decides 10
be near deaths door, for exhibition
purposes. through an undetermined
period Besides, his servant, MosCa the
Gadfly. is so devilishly cunning IN
weaving the greed of Voltore the Vul-
ture, Corvino the Grow and Corbacclc
the Raven into web OF maddenlne
cross-purposes, that Volpones dehgh'
knows no bounds. But when Leone
the lion. rushing obstreperously to The
aid of COLUMBIA the Dove, complicate'
an already suspensive plot, it may W
said from the hilarious development
that ensue that even fox can be toT
smart.
The direction of the Guild productio,
by Philip Moeller exquisitely follows
ZweiR's direction: ITO be played as {
con1edia dell arte, lightly, quickly
caricatured rather than realistic" Tn
sets and costumes by Lee Simonson ar
like Venetian color prints, colorfu
sometimes rich, sometimes amusingl
naive.
In the leading roles the principals o
the Theater Guild Acting Co. will in
cIude Earle Larimore, Sylvia FielC
Henry Travers, Ernest Cossart, Sydne
c5reenstreet, Helen Tilden, Albert Va
Decker, Teresa Guerini, Vincent 6her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
Notes on Comedy.

FOR any information concerning the
history of film comedies and the
comedians of yesterday and today, the
arrow points to Louise Fazenda.
Miss Fazenda has worked with some
of the most famous comedians the
screen has known. beginning with the
time she made her first comedy for
Mack Sennett.
II have seen comedy change from
chasing ducks and pigs and falling out
of and into rain barrels to the most
subtle variety of humor in talking pic
lures" declared Louise. The comedi-
enne is at present playing the role of
simpering old maid In Warner Broth
ers' Marrow Street"
When two comedians meet for the
first time they know at once whether
they will be good comedy team" says
Louise. Each may be splendid alone.
but total flop together. or, on the
other hand. both might be failures
alone. but sensation when teamed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
Perils and Palpitations.

plot is frequently appalling, to say the
least
Most important of all, the new sound
technique has given vent to the crisp
orders, the shouts, the stern call OF
heroisrn, as we'll as to the groans, the
cries, the dull thuds and narrowing
shrieks, without which mystery play
is as placid as bedtime story.
1.-THE Ace of Scotland Yard" is IN ten
chapters and was directed by Ray Tay-
lor. a veteran serial maker. Crawford
Kent plays the role of Blake. Grace
Cunard, long popular as serial heroine,
is the beleaguered beauty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13

MELODRANdA in the raw, via the
serial pictures. has taken a new
lease on life with the coming of sound
and dialogue to the screen. So says
Universal, which has completed chap
tered talkie called THE Ace of Scotland
Yard"
The new episode thriller finds Inspec-
tor Blake, ace sleuth of Scotland Yard,
in full possession of his tongue and has
given the breath of life to the master
criminals, the henchmen, the hobbies
and to the beautiful Lady Diana, whose
plight in the midst of plot and counter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
Maureen' s Her Name.
Miss Maureen O'Sul-
l,,,ao ~ Uillinev Ireland

Ivan, of Killiney, Ireland.
Miss O'Sullivan, who is Is, brunette,
with bobbed hair and soft Irish &C.
cent, was taken out Of a Dublin restau-
rant last week by Director Frank Bor-
cage and signed to contract with Fox
Films.
After Borzage had despaired Of find
ing in Ireland an Irish girl for the
romantic lead in John McCormack's
first starring production, he discovered
Maureen So certain had it seemed
that the girl for the part was not to be
found in the Emerald Isle that Borzage
had cabled to the studios in Hollywood
to find a suitable girl there.
With Miss O'Sullivan Is coming
Thomas Clifford, 11-year-old Dublin
school boy who is playing the part Of
"Tad" in the production. He was dis
covered among several children used In
the picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
Stage and Screen Attractions This Week

NATIONAL-Vopone" Theater Guild production
sons Sardonic farce. Opens tomorrow evening.
BEIASCOLionel Atwi in play, Stripped" Opens to-
morrow evening
GAYETY-"spory Widows" buresque This afternoon and
evening
FoxMarred in Hollywood" Jubilee week.. This afternoon
and evening.
PALACE-Woman Trap with Evelyn Brent and Hal Sicily,
talking picture This afternoon and evening
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Diggers of Broadway" Fourth week.,
sound picture. This afternoon and evening.
RIALTO-Ina Claire in Awful TRUTH" talking picture
This afternoon and evening.
Illusion" with Buddy" Rogers and Nancy Carroll,
talking picture This afternoon and evening
COLUBIA-The Hollywood Revue" Second week. sound pic
ture This afternoon and evening.
LITTLE Observation-Disclosures Lovers with Emil JanningS
and Conrad Veidt. silent picture This afternoon and
evening.