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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-22
BY KENNETH S. VAN sTRUM.

NEW YORK, January 22.-It never
fails that after industrial stocks have
risen sharply and begin to show signs
of hesitation, a great deal Is said about
the possibility of rail market" When
the industrials hesitate it is always
pointed out that from the standpoint
of assets or earning power the rails are
behind the market" But by the re-
peated failure of the rails to respond
enthusiastically, the fact is always
brought forcibly to our attention that
the prices of railroad stocks cannot
be judged by the same standards as
the industrials. AS group, the rails
do not offer the same speculative pos
sibilities.
Various Influences.
One Is apt to go far wrong in ex-
pecting the amount of business done by
the railroads to be an accurate indi-
cation of the trend of railroad stocks.
For instance, gross earnings of rail-
roads rose sharply from late 1915 to
1920, while the prices of railroad stocks
declined sharply. The explanation was,
of course that the cost of operations
rose so high during this period that net
earnings of the rails were less in spite
of the increased business.
But even net earnings do not give an
accurate indication of the trend of
railroad stocks. In 1926 net earnings
were larger than last year and yet
lastAyear the prices of railroad stocks
were considerably higher than in 1925.
In 1928 both gross earnings and net
earnings of the railroads were close to
the record year, but in spite of this or
the fact that rails might have gained
impetus from the sharply rising indus
trial stock prices, the rails ended the
year only slightly above the prices at
the close of 1927.
Today the prices of leading railroad
stocks are only slightly higher than
they were at the 1906 peak. after %
years of great industrial progress. Dur
ing the period the prices of railroad
stocks have dropped to half their pres
ent prices. In view of the phenomenal
growth of industrial stock values, this
does not seem to be remarkably good
showing for the rails.
Speculative Element Diminished.
But the fact of the matter is that
we cannot consider railroad stocks in
the same speculative class as the indus
trials. The rails move over relatively
narrow range and the trend corresponds
more to the trend of bond prices than
to that of industrial stocks.
Government rallroao rate making ana
the fixing of maximum rate of return
has SO limited the speculative possible
tiles of the rails that they respond, like
bonds, to Honey market conditions.
The chart shows railroad stock prices
and the price of railroad bonds. Bond
prices are exaggerated to show the
fluctuations more distinctly.
Rails Related to Bonds.
1t is clear that in the past bond
prices usually precede railroad stock
prices on either rise or decline. Even
more important from the present
standpoint is that the rails have never
advanced vigorously when bond prices
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-22
ADVANCE IN CURB
LED BY UTILITIES
Other Speciality Favorites
Take Part in Brisk Up
ward Movement.
BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January ga strong
curb market, with the public utility
issues predominantly the leaders, offset
fears today over the possibility of an
immediate technical reaction.
The utilities were considered attrac-
tive at current price levels because of
the outlook for expanding operations
and the prospect for mergers.
American Light & Traction rose II
points to 238. Electric Bond & Share
Securities gained IL points to eli. Elec-
trio Investors advanced some 6 points
to around 104. American Super Power
issues were up some points and Co
lumbia Gas point or so. Buffalo,
Niagara & Eastern, United Gas and
Brooklyn City Railroad were also IA
vored. In each instance a new high
record was established.
The oil stocks did little, although
higher prices were the rule. Mining
issues were influenced by the pro-
nounced strength in related stocks on
the big board and improvement ex-
tended from fractions to more than
points. New Jersey Zinc made a new
high at $40. Roam Antelope rallied
some 4 points to its best and Ken
necott Copper new established the
highest since listed.
Other speciality favorites included
Charts Corporation, Aluminium Co,
Servel Corporation, Croker Wheeler,
Missouri-Kansas Pipe and Guardian
Fire Insurance, all at new tops.
A number of new issues were adj
mitte6 to trading One of these was
Fabrics Finishing Corporation 10000
shares of common stock offered for
public subscription at $3.50 a share.
The initial sale took place at a premi-
UNI of rs points. Tri-Continental
Corporation preferred changed hands
at 1854 and the common at 3O1a.
The issues were offered publicly Mon
day at 104 and 81, respectively.
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COTTON IS STEADY
ON INITIAL SALES
Prices Ease Off Slightly Under
Early Liquidation-General
Market Firm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 22.-The cot
ton market opened steady today at an
advance of l point to decline of 2
points. Near months were relatively
easy under liquidation incident to the
circulation of notices estimated at lit
tie over 1000 bales. January sold off
to POLL right after call, or points net
lower.
Other months eased few points also.
but there was enough buying from trade
or local sources to steady prices around
20.l6 for March and ITO for July. The
general market ruled about net I'M
changed to Z points higher at the end
of the first half hour.
Private cables said that trade calling
and Manchester buying had absorbed
Bombay selling in Liverpool and that
the cloth demand from China was well
sustained, but that from India poor.
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Crude Oil Prices.

NEW YORK, January % LR-
Crude oil prices in the week ended jan
uary 10, averaged in 10 principal fields
STA barrel, unchanged from the pre-
ylous week, compared with $l457 in
the corresponding week of 1928, the oil,
paint and drug reporter states. Case
line at refineries was fractionally lower,
averaging 1893 cents gallon against
800 the previous week and 6.87 cents
last year.
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Crude Oil Production,

TULSA, Okla, January % [P.-Crude
oil production reached a new high peak
In the week ended January 10. said the
OIL and Gas Journal today, with daiIv
average output from the Nations fields
OF 2,649,530 barrels. This market the
third consecutive week that production
has set new mark.
AS in previous weeks, the increased
now was due to deep test production
IN the Santa Fe Springs Fields of Cali
fornla. The Seminole area of Oklahoma
showed an average daily increase of
approximately 5000 barrels.
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PARIS B0URSE PRICES.

PARIS, January % (R.-Price changes
were irregular on the Bourse today.
Three per cent rentes, 50 francs 60
centimes; per cent loan, 90 francs
confines. Exchange on London, 1914
francs 9 confines. The dollar was quoted
at 25 francs SO confines.
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New Dupont Stock.

NEW YORK, January % R.-
New common stock, $40 par value, of
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co., has
been admitted to listing on the New
mon without par value will be taken
from the list February 5.
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Steel.

PITTSBURGH.-Pro of oil
country goods are receiving most sat-
isfactory orders for line pipe, much of
which is destined for natural gas lines.
Shipment of sheets and strips of old
contracts Is heavy.
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Corn.

CHICAGO-The farmers have had
to start feeding 1928 corn much earlier
than usual. and as consequence the
present visible supply is nearly TO-
100000 bushels less than it was at this
time last year. Farmers wishing to
sell cash corn are making profit at
present prices.
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NEW YORK BANK CLEARINGs

NEW YORK, January 90 Especially -
New York bank clearings, $2,15l 000,-
600; New York bank balances, $22l,-
100000; New York Federal reserve
credit balances, 5000, 900.
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Commodity Notes
Potatoes.

LANSING, Mich, January 22.-The
Michigan Potato and Egg Growers AS
sociations have joined in asking an in
crease. of from 80 to As cents bushel
in the tariff on potatoes and from 8
to IL cents a case on eggs.
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Fruit.

ATLANTA.-Plans are being COM
pleted with British concerns t3r an ex-
tensive export of Georgia peaches to
Great Britain this coming Summer The
Strachen Shipping Co. is Quitting sew
eral vessels with refrigeration equip
ment. The peaches will be packed like
the Italian and Spanish fruit.
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New Bond Issues
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, January 22.-Public Of
fering is being made today of $780,
600 American Department Stores Cor
poration of Pennsylvania per cent
convertible sinking fund gold deben-
to yield about 5.78 per cent, by Schulz
ter & Co.
A banking group headed by Harris,
Forbes g. Co. will soon offer $25,000,-
600 Associated Gas g. Electric Az per
cent debentures, due January IS, 1949.
The debentures will be convertible at
any time from March /, 1880, to March
!, 1882, into the class A stock of the
company at the rate of 1712 shares for
each $1,000 debenture.
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Railroad Eauipment.

BERWICK, Pa.-The American Car
& Foundry plant here is busy on an
order for railroad cars for Brazil which
will total $3,000,000.
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U. S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.

Treasury receipts for January 10 were
$9,636,5l6.42; expenditures, $12,710,-
644.85 balance, $144. 107.21290.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received By Private Wire Direct to The Star Once
INDuSTRIALS,

NEW YORK, January 22.-Following
is list of stocks and bonds traded in
on the New York Curb Market today:
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13 new GROUPS ASK
CHEST MEMBERSHIP
Applications Will Be Studied by
subcommittee for Recon-
mendatons to Trustees.

Thirteen new organizations have ap-
piled for membership, consequently
Washington's 1890 Community Chest
camuaign viii be for 20 organizations
instead of the familiar 81 Of 1929 II all
the applications are accepted. Elwooo
Street, director of the chest, said yester-
day. Frederic A. Delano, president OF
the Community Chest, sent out letters
inviting organizations approved by the
charities Endorsement committee OF the
District of Columbia to apply for mem
bership in the 1880 campaign and the
10 applications resulted.
Agencies applying for membership
are the Washington Federation OF
Churches Hospital Work, Hebrew Shell
tering and Immigrant Aid Society OF
America, Aged Women's Home, Charity
Missionary Club, Inc; Mother-Chtld
Center of the Frances e. w. Harper
Woman's Christian temperance Union,
General Medical Clinic, spon]Ired by
the Homeopathic Laymen's LAgune Of
the American Foundation foi2 Homeop-
athy. Inc; Washington I tstitute of
Mental Hygiene. National Training
School for Woman and Gir1. Stoddard
Baptist Old Folks Home, st. Annals
Church Home, Union Wesley A. M. e.
Zion Church, May Day Child Health
and Eastern Dispensary and Casualty
Hospital.
These applications will be studied
by the various subcommittee Of the
budget committee. which, in turn. will
make its recommendations to the board
Of trustees at the September meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
MONEY DUE VETERANS
FOR SALE OF ARTICLES
Discharged Walter Reed Patients
Have Sums as High as $50
Coming to Them.

Several hundred veterans Of the World
War who took the vocational training
course while patients at Walter Reed
Hospital and have since been discharged
have sums Of money coming to them
ranging in amounts from few dollars
to $50, the proceeds derived from the
sale of articles they made. Hospital
authorities and American Legion OH
Gals here are trying to locate them to
make the payments.
Some of the patients presumably left
the hospital with the impression that
their handiwork would find no pur-
chasers. During the past two. years q
large number Of them have been dis
charged who failed to leave forward
ing address and all efforts Of the hos
pital to communicate with them have
been futile.
The money due the former patients is
for the sale Of rugs, toys, furniture,
jewelry, leather work and other useful
merchandise, manufactured In the re-
Mobilization shops at the hospital.
Names of former patients having
money coming to them may be obtained
from the occupational therapy depart
ment at Walter Reed Hospital or from
James Pistorio, representative of the
American Legion, in care of the water
department, District building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
BENNING YOUTH HELD
IN POLICE LIQUOR NET
Charges Of Transportation and
Possession Made Against Elmer
Maske, Driver of Auto.

The police crusade to stem the tide
Of Independence day liquor is said to
have led to the arrest of Elmer Maske,
10 years old, Of Route /, Benning, D. c.,
when he entered the city Tuesday
night. 81
Sergt. George Little, commander of
the liquor squad, accompanied by De-
tectives Leo Murray, G. c. Deyoe and
T. o. Montgomery, are said to have
observed Maske driving an automobile
out Of the city on the Marlboro road
last night. At that time Sergt. Little
said the car was riding high and
dry"
Returning at later hour, Maske was
again observed by Sergt. Little's squad.
The springs of the car were sagging, it
Is said, which led to q search being
made. The investigation is said to have
disclosed 80 gallons Of alleged liquor.
Charges of transporting and possess
ing were lodged, against the youth.
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GLEN ECHO PARK.

With the glorious Fourth upon us,
Glen Echo viii open its hospitable gates
free for the celebration of the holiday.
The park will be in gay attire and all
the amusementS set to do their stun.
Many all-day picnic parties are expect
ed and benches, chairs, ETC., have been
provided by the management In album
dance.
More kick than any celebrant ever
received from giant flrecracker will
be found in the ups and downs of the
coaster dip, or the derby racer, the
whizz through the air, with a couple
of first-claSS banks" on board the
airplane swing: the old mill. carrousel,
caterpillar, whip, skooter-but why go
on-there are more than so ways OF
celebrating every day at Glen Echo
In the ballroom McWilliams and his
orchestra will delight the dancers, and
fast service over the Washington Rail-
way q Electric Co. line Is assured every
day and night.
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ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERs

across the sea, where she finds Reggie
and Tom, q young garage mechanic
from her home town, the latter elevated
to the rank Of captain and doing his
share of fighting. while Reggie, a mere
supply sergeant. is leading life OF lux
ury far from the front. When the call
comes for Reggie to go to the front,
he fails, and Joan takes his place.
Under fire, she has the chance to see
the stun of which Tom is made and
falls In love with him, and the romance
ends with Joan a wiser and happier
chanic.
The Columbia Orchestra. the M-G-M
News, the Fox Movietone News and
house features will complete the list Of
entertainment
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TODAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

Metropolitan hunderbolt," photo
play, at l1:25 am, 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:25
and 9:25 pm.
FOx-"The Black Watch" at 1855
am, 2:l5, 4:40, 1880 and 9:55 pm.
Palace-"Bridge of San Luis Rey," at
II AS am. 2:2p. sos, 1880 and 9:45 p I'm.
EarIe-"wolf Song" at 11:4O am,
1886, $40, $40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
C0Iumbia-"Tre Cocoanuts'' second
week., at ii am, 1:05, Sis, 5:25, 1880
and $40 pm.
Enthusiastically Gone Wild" at
sos, 1850, $3.50, 8:l5 and 10 pm.
TivOlk-"Hot Stuff,n at 2:30, 4:20,
sos, T:55 and GAS pm.
Central Saturdays Children" con-
tinuous from IL am. to IL pm.
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CHARGES FRAUD, ASKS
MARRIAGE ANNULMENT
Sixteen-Year-old Girl Alleges Hus-
band Was Not Free to
Marry in D. C,

Charging frand, which caused her to
consent to 60 through marriage cere-
mony February 4 last, Lena e. McDon-
nell, Is years old, through her mother,
Mrs. Lena Wicker, 1872 Eleventh street
notheast, has filed suit for annulment of
her marriage to James A. Mcdonnell,
4116 Kansas avenue.
The plaintiff says Mcdonnell told her
he had been granted divorce from his
former wife and was free to marry. She
has since learned, she states, that his
former wife had been granted the d.
vorce against him and under the Dis
trict Code he was not at liberty to marry
in this District. She returned to her
parents home May 81, she says. At
torneys Raymond Neudecker and Will
liam c. Ashford appear for the plaintiff.
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Hebrew Drive Near Goal.

CINCINNATI, July 4 CP).-The He
brew Union College announced yester-
day that its campaign for q $4,000, 900
endowment fund had passed the
81, O00, 900 mark and that the $500, 900
subscription Of Julius Rosenwald, Chi
cago philanthropist, offered on condi-
was made q certainty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
CHESAPEAKE BEACH.

Chesapeake Beach, nearby Maryland
bay resort, is preparing for the biggest
Fourth of July crowd In its history.
Special trains will be run and addi-
tional trafic officers will be stationed
both at the Junction and the Beach
to look after motorists.
Swimming now is popular at the
Beach. The new free double water
slide Is q special attraction. Ralph H.
Garren's Carolinians play, sing and
cut up on the dance pavilion. Picnic
groves. are groomed for. luncheon
parties and Boardwalk amusementS and
the kiddies' playground near the Beach
are other attractions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
Death Is Held Accidental.

A verdict Of accidental death was
rendered yesterday by coroner's jury
at an inquest into the death OF James
Thomas, colored, S6-year-old patient at
day after he had been pushed by John
Allen, also colored, So, another patient.
Thomas fell to the floor Of the west
ward. fracturing his hip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
MARSHALL HALL.

A pleasant place for an outing over
the Fourth, or, indeed, any other time,
is at Marshall Hall, the historic resort
on the Potomac River opposite Mount
Vernon. Here may be had a variety OF
amusementS, including roller coaster.
derby racer, shooters, airplane swings,
shooting galleries, etc. The beautiful
grounds make an especial appeal to
picnic parties, with plenty Of tables and
chairs at hand.
The steamer Charles Manchester will
make three trips daily, leaving the Sew
enth street wharf at 10 am, 2:30 and
6:45 pm. On Sundays the morning trip
ia DELAYED until 1f.3O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
FUNERAL RITES HELD
FOR HENRY A. BAKER
Cousin Of Wilson's War Secretary
will Be Buried in West
Virginia,

Funeral services for Henry A. Baker,
prominent local attorney and q cousin
Of Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War
during the Wilson administration, who
was found dead Monday night in his
apartment, at 213o wyoming avenue,
were held at Hysong's funeral home,
1900 N street, yesterday Afternoon.
He will be buried In Shepherdstown,
w. Va.
Mr.. Bakers mother, Mrs. Alice Cook
Baker; two sisters, Mrs. Eugene B. Whit
more and Mrs. Percy T. Burness, and a
brother, w. Lester Baker, survive. All
reside here but Mrs. Burmese, whose
home Is in Germantown, Pa.
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Veteran Actor Dead.

NEW YORK, July 4 (P.-Charles
Alexander Stevenson, veteran actor.
who had been leading man for Mrs.
Leslie Carter in "ZaZa" and "Dubarry,'
died yesterday at the Polytechnic Hos
pital. He was n years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04

Monte Blue in a new character in
Prom Headquarters" the Warner
Brothers vitaphone talking picture,
comes to the Fox next week. It is a
story of the United States Marines In
a mythical tropical country, with
Monte Blue as derelict with price
on his head deserter from his COM
pany Of Marines. The picture has all
of the lazy charm of q tropical village,
with an intensely dramatic story.
liams, remembered as fBfg Boy" VIII
liams of "Noah'S Ark; Henry b.
Welthall and Gladys Brockwell.
John Irving Fisher will preside as
master Of ceremonies, introducing the
usual gathering of Broadway musical
comedy and revue entertainers, the Fox
regulars" the gorgeous Foxettes and
the Fox Jazzmanians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04

SPANS 1879 olive crop was only two
thirds that n the previous season
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CASHIER ADMITS THEFT
or $1,000 COUNTY FUNDS
Surrenders at Jail After Having
Disappeared in Attempt to
Raise Money to Repay Loss.

BY the Associated Press.
RELLINGHAM, Wash, July Ed
ward Melhart, Whatcom County cashier,
who has been missing several days, sur
rendered at the county jail yesterday
and confessed to Deputy Sheriff John
ODeM the theft Of $21, 900 county funds,
the officer announced.
In his confession, Melhart said he had
been in San Francisco endeavoring to
raise funds with which to pay back
the money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
EARLE-"The Glad Rag DoIl.r

In her first comedy role on the screen
Dolores Costello, Warner Brothers star,
will appear In 1.-THE Glad Rag Doll,
which comes to the Earle for q week
beginning with the Friday midnight
premiere. It is Vitaphone talking
production, written by Harvey Gates.
Michael Curtiz, who directed Miss Cos
teIlo In "Noaf's Ark" and Madonna of
Avenue A." directed the filming of THE
Glad Rag Doll"
The story concerns Annabel Lea, q
Broadway musical comedy actress, who
has become engaged to Jimmy Fair
child, younger son Of q proud and
wealthy family which objects to an &C
tress for his wife. When John Fair
child, the elder brother, has Annabel
discharged from the show in which she
is appearing for refusing TO give up
burning love letters and goes to the
family home, in Philadelphia, and John
reluctantly invites her to spend the
week end, hoping to gain possession OF
the letters. Annabel discovers num-
Der of ugly family skeletons, and she is
confident she can make the family eat
out of her hand, but all OF her plans
are upset when she falls In love with
John, and he with her. COMEDY ana
dramatic situations develop rapidly
LklGIGa1tGTp WIFI bAAC 4A0PPy SAA0AAAS S~~e~S
all comedies deserve.
The supporting cast includes Ralph
Graves, as John Fatrchild; Arthur Pan
kin as his younger brother; Audrey Fer
ris, as his sister; Albert Gran, as his
uncle: Maude Turner Gordon, as his
aunt, and Claude Gillingwater, as his
attorney, together with Tom Tickets.
Douglas Gerard, Dale Fuller, Andre
BeranRe, Louise Beaver, Lee. Moran,
Tom kennedy and Stanley Taylor.
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METROPOLITAN-"On With the
Show"

ION With the Show" the first 100 per
cent natural color, talking, singing and
dancing Warner Brohetrs' vitaphone
production, will be seen at the Metro
politan Theater next week, beginning
the coming Saturday. 1t is described
as the most lavish and colorful picture
Of the season. The new color process
was used to bring out costumes, set
tings and players In their natural tints
It is declared the first talking color
picture to be filmed.
Betty Compson, Arthur Lake, Sally
O'Neil, Joe Z. Brown, Louise Fazenda
Ethel Waters, William Blackwell, the
Fairbanks twins, Sam Hardy, Lee
Moran. Wheeler Oakman and many
other notables are in the cast, in add
ton to a beauty chorus of 100.
The story was adapted for the screen
by Robert Lord from the story by
Humphrey Pearson. Harry Akst and
Grant Clarke supplied words and music
Larry CeballoS arranged dances and
stage presentations. and the direction
was in the capable hands Of Alan Cros-
land