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The Washington times., 1929-09-10

Here's a scrap from letter:
I'm desperate-what can
do? Don't tell me to snap out
Of it and 90 to work am IT
work. Don't tell me to have
frank talk about my difficult
ties. / have already talked my.
self hoarse. The truth is, the
trouble is really in myself. Yet
l can't seem to get at it. !
seem to be going through a fog.
getting nowhere, accomplishing
nothing, getting weaker and more
discouraged all the time. What's
the cure?"
ED. ]. L.
I've been In moods like that.
So have you. Perhaps the thing
that has helped me has also
helped you. 1t isn't actually a
CURE. I've never yet found
anything that will permanently
cure the fogginess of life or my
own laundering. But have
found something that helps tire.
mendously. PRAYER.
Ed sniffs-mutters he wasn't
looking for religious advice"
I'm not offering it as religious
advice, Ed. This is shop talk
work dope--as though we were
discussing the running Of your
car. You wouldn't sniff II some.
one told you of good lubricant
for your car. PRAYER IS A
GOOD LUBRICANT FOR YOUR
SELF.
Talking things out to God.
Mind you, Ed, / don't know what
God is. / don't know whether
Gods a person who hears us or
a force which supplies US. Nor
do 1 know what happens when
we compose ourselves and tell our
story quietly to this Invisiblity.
But do know SOMETHING
HAPPENS.
l do know that il we'll tell our
story STRAIGHT and ask for
help. wen get help. don't know
whether that help comes from
some outside source or some in.
The Washington times., 1929-09-10
Ever Hear of CarboIoy?
MEN find in their brains substances far
Try It On Your Sapphire.

MEN find in their brains substances far superior to Ma
1V4 lures products
Have you heard Of carboloy, marvelousy hard metal
made OF tungsten carbide and cobalt? This new scientific
product will do what no natural metal has ever done
will cut the toughest steel ease and cut the sapphire
hardest natural material next to diamond
you grind carholoy on an emery Wheel you dig hole in
Inc emery wheel; It doesn't grind the carbOOy.
Carboloy having temper does not become SOFT but
continues cutting though heated red hot by friction
costs twice much gold now but will become cheaper
The Washington times., 1929-09-10
WHEN YOU FAIL

WHEN YOU FAIL"
TN your excuses for failure don't
4 you make some ridiculous
statements?
How often do you take full re.
sponsibility for your errorse
Isn't it true that you attribute
much of the blame on some one
else or on circumstances?
In making these excuses YOU
weaken yourself and your DO.
sition.
Because you do ascribe vour
inefficiency to the negligence of
others rather than to the fact
that you did not do YOUR own
part well, you do not make the
effort you should to improve your
methods and accomplishment
Don't try 10 hide behind the
other fellow.
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Los WILSON and CONRAD NAoEL-Fox-
Sunnybrook Farm Gives
Relief to the WOe-Weary
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Nine Muses.. 1t is neither Ameri-
can nor tragedy and to proclaim
it a distinctive picture of Ameri-
can life is to burden the citizen
ship of this country with all the
miserable follieS that have been
committed by reckless youth since
time immemorial. 1t is not
tragedy because it lacks the mo-
tive of the inevitable and plods
along through a mire of episodes
which trace the progress through
the most ordinary events of ill
doing and finally delivers only the
very obvious retribution Of the
electric chair.
1t is perhaps fortunate that
the Communist cenSors decided to
bar IAN American Tragedy" from
the Russian theater, although
StaniSlavSky is said to have ia
vored it, and to have been reluc-
tant to conSign it to the local
oblivion now being participated
in, to greater or less extent, by al
most every dramatic writer from
Shakespeare to Shaw. The reason
assigned for not doing the play
was that it was too grim to accord
with the lighter moods now de-
sired in the popular mind, as
public seeks to forget dark past
and adjust itself to hopes of a
new and brighter era.
The death of Brander Mat
thewS closed the interesting, yet
graciously transformations career
of a man, who, according to the
measurements of time, might
have been considered venerable,
but who defled the adjective be-
cause of the enduring vitality of
his thought and his unremitting
sympathy with everything per-
tanning to letters and the play
house. His own plays were not
nearly so numerous as his books
designed for students and crafts
men of the stage. Some of the
most remarkable figures of his
time were close friends and ad-
miring associates. His critical
word was always heard with re-
spect, even though it was in vari-
ably given in support of the ideals
that mean the best of which the
theater is capable and with small
Difference to commercialism. He
never ventured far into the broil
and battle of practical producing.
but was content to live a long
story and to make his own career
a classic.
X X \
A public that does not insist on
being panied or terrified crowded
the theater to see that entirely
demure and soothing drama, RE
becca of Sunnybrook Farm" The
gentle auditor is probably weary
of being bruised and welcomes
something which does not irritate,
but, on the contrary, is calculated
to prove healing to a troubled
| soul.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07

CLARA BOW INDUCES in an orgy Of
- clothes In her new and first all
talking picture, THE Wild Party" pro-
duced at the Paramount studios In
Hollywood.
The costume plot calls for:
A green satin teddy with green velvet
neglige.
Black chiffon and lace pajamas with
black velvet fur-trimmed jacket.
A sports outfit of skirt and sweater
blue, with blue silk scarf.
/ An abbreviated skirtleSs dance cos
tune Of black sequins and diamonds
body-itting, and with one shoulder
strap
a college outfit of red skirt, cream
blouse with red tie.
An evening gown of peach chiffon
beaded, and wrap of peach velvet with
peach fox.
One bleu satin nightgown.
A set of peach satin and lace indies
A set Of same, blue satin, with Japa-
nese kimo1o.
I Another college outfit Of tan skirt
tan and green sweater with scarf.
A travel costume of gray and crimson
dress, gray fur coat and gray hat.
It Is described as the most elaborate
wardrobe ever designed for Miss Bow.
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It is the privilege of an author
to have the last word even though
his auditors may be but few and
skeptical.
Much the most interesting part
of that weird phenomenon en-
titled IAN American Tragedy" is
the note at the foot of the pro-
gram beginning, "A great moral
lesson is taught in this play" and
proceeding with a solemn state
ment that "the story was written
from actual scenes in life"
An announcement of this kind
Is a fitting part Of an enterprise
distinguished by a sublime liter
airy naivete which evidently i'm
AGNES that some sort of internal
mental warmth has suddenly burst
into a flame to warm or dazzle
mankind. It is a subjective de-
monstration, and there is no
doubt that the authorship of the
play must have experienced deep
mental hardShipS which, like
mental hardships in general,
sought relief in expression.
y
A company of % people is kept
busy telling the story of a bell
hop who secured his chance in
mercantile life through the bene-
ficence of his uncle, a prosperous
collar manufacturer whose family
looked down on the lad as social
inferior. This might have made
foundation for a rather rollick-
some farce if the bell hopper had
assorted knowledge acquired by his
observation of the uSages of
opulent society and told the
family, famed for collars, just
which forks to use at table, and
where to get on and on the high
horse of priggery.
But the bell hop shared the
fate of all the characters in the
play by proving utterly destitute
of a sense of humor.
II the dramatiStS concerned in
the creation could have taken the
benefit of a conference with that
kindly and helpful student of the
stage, the late Brander Matthews,
they might have been persuaded
at least not to get off to a false
start, as they did by revealing the
most contemplate role in the
piece as apparently the unsophis-
ticated youth who is going to
make good in spite of persecution
and by introducing the really
sensible and kindly cousin as a
man instinctively vindictive and
unfair.
X X X
1t requires a little time to read
just and find that the boyi1ood
recollections of Horatio Alger, who
piloted so much struggling youth
through literary and other pit
falls. has here gone entirely to
the bad.
X y X y
"An American Tragedy" is a
libel on Uncle Sam and all the
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Will Lend Their Aid.

THE National Theater Players will
u attend the ball of the Sons of Con-
federate Veterans to be held in the Will
ard Hotel Wednesday evening. The
players, with their manager, S. E.
Cochran, will go to the ballroom of the
Willard Immediately after the perform
ance of The Bad Man. in the Ma
tional.
Miss Mary Newton will sing several
of her songs and other members of the
cast will contribute dramatic and vocal
entertainment at the ball, which is be-
ing given under the auspices of the local
camp, 305 Arthur Clarendon Smith,
commander. for the benefit of the Con-
federate Veterans Home, in this city,
and to provide funds for the mainte-
nance of the battlefield of Bull Run,
at Manassas, Va.
Maj. U. S. Grant. Sd, grandson of
Gen. Grant. who commanded the Union
Army during the war between the
States, will be one of the prominent
guests. with Gen. Summerall, chief of
staff of the United States Army.
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Robert Brister and Fate.

0 A LwAYS a bridesmaid, never a
"A bride" is the theme of an old
genuine lament once put into song
form.
It is but a slight variation to say
that the man who usually plays the
villain seldom If ever gets to be the
hero.
In the play of the week at the Ma
tional. "The Bad Man." Robert Brister,
who has played villain after villain in
the company's repertoire, is going to
reverse things, for now he is to be the
leading man, at least for the time be-
ing. It Is sort of turning OF the
tables, so to speak.
Robert Brister, Handsome Bob" he
used to be called IN the Far West, has
been filling important hooks on the
stage of the National Theater, as q
member Of the National Players, Tor
quite a while. He has never failed to
turn in O good performance, according
to the management. Also never, until
now. has he had Q chance to play q
lead role. Why? Well. because villains
seldom ever get to be heroes, and Bris-
ter has been wonderful villain now
for 40 or so plays.
In "The Bad Man." however, Brister
Is to have the honor of playing the role
made famous by the late HolbrooE
BIinn. Holbrook Blinn was widely
known and valued as an actor long be-
fore he essayed the role Of Panchc
Iopez, In 1.-THE Bad Man." But II was
not until he presented this character
creation that he really became famous
ard then his fame came to him as
rortrayor Of bad man."
Brisfer and Blinn, in his later years
were as far apart as the poles, so Ia
as 1,hvsical resemblance is concerned
Vet r,ictures Of Holhrook Biinn in THE
BAD Man" show that he was about the
same build as Erister. and that thes
had. in outline. at least. the same gen.
,eral characteristics. Manager Cochran
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Measuring Emotion.

MOVE audiences in Los Angeles and
AVA nearby cities are being analysed
by an emotional response meter"
This new development of talking pic
lures was brought into use for the first
time at a preview of Paranount's
all-talking comedy melodran1a, THE
Dummy"
One of the most difficult phases Of
talking films lies in timing the action
of the players in relation to the au-
dience's reactions. Whenever a player,
for example. does or says something
humorous, time must allowed for the
resultant laugh to die down before ne
resumes his action and speech.
Microphones connected to small
sensitive meter were installed in the
theater at the preview and the informa-
ton obtained was turned over to the
cutters of the film who timed the play
ers' voices in accordance with the du-
ration of the audiences laughs.
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~ NE of the minor woes of the
life artistic is that suffered
by Miss Margalo Gilmore as
~ the undone- ingenue in Mans
Estate" Miss Gilmore, in
this Theater Guild comedy, is a like
able orphan, who, with no mother to
guide her, falls into trouble of most
serious kind.
The situation is poignant and full of
reason for tears. Her companion in
error is a gifted youth. whose archi-
tectaural plans for cathedral have
won the prize But he is addicted to
himself and career unimpeded by
matrimonial responsibilities. 1t is par.
Gillmores Illustration of the innocent
sinner is good looking and sympathetic.
BY all the rules Of human conduct We
should feel sorry for her.
Yet on Monday night when Miss Gill
more was denoting with accuracy the
mysteries of an important distress, the
audience laughed. There she was, poor
child, delirious and swooning upon a
divan. So penetrating was Miss Gill
more's delineation that 1t deserved a
solemn tribute. How discouraging 1t
must have been to see her agonies fall
lightly upon the drama lovers. Her
affiiction was neglected by the audience,
for comic remark made by another
character in the play, and she must
have returned to her dressing room,
sullen with disappointment.
Mans Estate" is a sort of fiapper
thing, a promising mediocrity indica-
tive that its authors, Miss Blackmar
and Mr.. Gould, both of them eminent
New York journalists, fresh from prairy
land, will eventually help to make the
drama more human. A discarded prof.
ect of Jed Harris, a major wizard OF
the Broadway theater, it is now under
the protection of the guild, the safest
of the stages Notifications.
Miss Jane Cowl belongs in any au-
tfloritative list Of first actresses in the
United States of America, being a
pretty girl, a hypnotic personality, and
a shrewd show woman. Though she Is
not q martyr to her art as Miss Eva
LIE Caffeine and Miss Blanche Yurke
are. she is still anxious to alternate
profitable pot-boilers with the, better
things. Thus she goes from the senti-
mental hoakunn of her own writings
to the poetic seventies of the classic
bards-tlle prosperous Swan of Avon
and the starving Stephen Phillips. "A
bit ashamed, perhaps OF 1.-THE jealous
Moon" the conscientious Miss CoWl
now turns her talents to- Stephen Phil
lips "Paolo and Francesca"
It is one of the minor works of that
fine garnet minstrel, written when he
was hungry and slept in the straw.
The recital Of its tragic episodes has
none Of the sonorous vitality OF
ULYSSES" for instance; and the tale
| it tells has few excitements. In it Miss
Cowl as Francesca and Philip Merivale
as Paolo seem to be involved In rather
a white Irritation between a brother
| in-law and a sister -law---he reading
| to her from a book In a bower Of
great roses and she sharing her
chamber with him because she likes
! him and Is lonely in her crippled laus-
bands absence. Miss CoWl Is heallts.
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NATIONAL PLAYERs-"The Bad Man

NA11UNAL FLA Inc bau MAN,
Porter Emerson Brownies comedy.
THE Bad Man." will be enacted by the
National Theater Players this week be-
ginning tomorrow night in the National
Theater, with the usual matinees on
Wednesday and Saturday.
Originally a sensation in New York,
where 1t ran an entire season in the
Comedy Theater under the direction of
William Harris, jr., THE Bad Man
brought to the fore one of the most
sterling of American actors, the late
Holbrook Blinn. 1t is the play with
which his name will always be asso-
ciated. Essentially a comedy, 1t has
much of romance and genial love story
that is never lost In the shuttle.
The main action takes place in the
Gilbert Jones American ranch house.
just over the border from Mexico. A
mortgage on the place is to be fore
closed. Pell, the villain, Is stirring things
up in the proyerbial manner when there
is 'clatter of horses hoofs, the thud
of rife butt on the door and an IN
slant later, behold the Bad Man IN
person, Pancho Lopez. He and his band
of desperadoes have come to get little
action. He picks out the Jones house.
hold, and Pell in particular, for his
nefarious work, and then he recognizes
Jones as the man who once saved his
life. AS even bandits have hearts, Lopez
proves he has a real one and the play
moves on to happy conclusion.
In drawing the character, the author
gave Pancho Lopez an American edu-
cation and sent him back to Mexico
to take up banditry. Thus, there is a
humorous angle to the affair to make
a merry evening in the theater.
Robert Brister, who is said to closely
Bad Man"
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First British Talker.

british International Pictures has
! sent a British company, with a
large British cast, British director and
q British production across the Atlantic,
.slug and luggage" to make-in the
United States-the first British talking
picture with British cast.
In the Gramercy Studios, New. York,
recently opened by r. C. A. Photophone
Inc. talking sequences are now being
made for the Aim version of Kitty, 2
the novel by Warwick Deeping, author
of "Sorrell and Son"
Some of the most extraordinary
sound effects ever produced In the new
art of talking movies are promised. In
the production.
These effects will range from the
singing of the kettle on the stove to
the fatal crash of an airplane to the
ground.
The story was chosen by Victor
Saville director of British international
Pictures, for the debut in England OF
British sound pictures. The silent Sc
uaences were filmed abroad.
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From Pit to Screen.

WHEN A.. P. Frankenstein left the
w orchestra pit at the Orpheum
Theater after 81 years of fiddling and
welding the baton, he climbed right up
on the screen and landed in The
Broadway Melody"
This veteran Los Angeles orchestra
leader will be seen and heard playing
the violin that made him famous
character In the theater world of the
Southland.
Frankenstein resigned from the the
alter post because he wanted rest :"
but after sitting around home for a few
weeks he began fidgeting and wonder
ing what this new-fangled talking pic
ture" business was all about He visited
Director Harry Beaumont at the Metro
Geldwyn Mayer studio and before he
left his name was signed to contract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
A Weepie, Please.

WHEN Archie Mayo came to direct
w little Davey in Sonny Boy" he
confided to Edward Everett Horton that
the lob would probably be a dificult one.
'You know Davey Is only Al" he said.
Mayo started to explain his first scene
in very careful and detailed way, in
words of one syllable. David appeared
slightly puzzled at first, then look OF
boredom suffused his face.
Pardon me, Mr.. Mayo. You want q
weepie. don't you? Let's twy It," and
with all the assurance Of seasoned
trouper he went through the scene.
s'Well, Archie, that takes the load
right of your shoulders" said Horton.
Some kid" answered the beaming di-
rector.
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is inclined to the belief that this re-
semblance is going to manifest itself
further in the portrayal of the leading
role in 1.-THE Bad Man"
Robert Brister is one of the ablest
actors with the National Players and
he has had extensive experience in the
theater He has played in stock in
many cities of America and has toured
with some of the greatest stars of the
day. He has had Broadway engage
ments, and also is one of the few actors
who can claim the authorship of a play
now running on Broadway. The play
is "The Penthouse 1t has already
made tour of the tryout towns and
has just appeared on the, Street OF
White Lights.
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Charmed With Her Dancing

A FEATURE of unusual interest at
the supper dances at Wardman
Park Hotel during the week has been
the delightful terpsichorean specialties
presented by Miss Harriette Caperton
and her partner, Vernon Biddle. Miss
,Caperton is Southern girl of rare
charm and accomplishment, and since
her appearance as a featured artist
with Ned Wayburn's "Gambols," last
season. she has been devoting herself
to higher class night club entertain
ndent. Her graceful and exquisite num-
hers have attracted much attention,
and keen regret was expressed last eve
ming that her engagement would ter
inmate this week.
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Wounds as Needed.

FANCY Red Cross station estab-
= lished for the purpose of supplying
wounds instead of dressing them!
One was used, however aboard each
of the vessels Of the French and Eng
lish fleets represented in THE Divine
Lady" starring Corinne Grifith.
The picture reproduces the famous
naval victory Of Lord Nelson, the bat
tie of Trafalgar. It was filmed on old
sailing ships rebuilt to duplicate exactly
the ships used by Nelson and the
French, over 100 miles off the Califor-
mia coast.
Each ship had it's RED Cross" sta
ton, composed of seven or eight make
up men. who we're kept busy wound
ing" soldiers and sailors by means of
artificial blood and other devices.
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6eexe from 2o Jhe DUMMY Palace,
BY Percy Hammond.

Gus in golden wig and also in Mr.
Phillips silvery rhetoric, which is sell
dom affected or pretentious. Mr.. Meri-
vale looks very pale and fragile in
Paolo's arnor, and he makes italian
love bashfully. AS the famed Giovanni
Sir Guy Standing limps and limps
muff1ing his speeches melodiously +.
1t is altogether grim traditional toy
with only Miss Cowl's personal love
illness to save it from being thoroughly
dull and funereal. When in the final
scene the undertakers carried the dead
bodies of .Paolo and Francesca to the
footlights upon theatrical bier it was
so ridiculous that one was forced to
laugh, even as one did at Miss Gill
more's misfortunes in Mans Estate y
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Another One.

nNE more New York stage person
~ atty has arrived in Hollywood, to
talk from the screen for the first time,
Barbara Stanwyck. chiefly distinguished
by her performance In "Burlesque,"
arrived in Los Angeles recently at the
United Artists Studio. She will have
the chief role in The Locked Door
the Aim version of Charming Pollocks
"The sign on the Door.
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WARDMAN PARK-"A Midsummer
Nights Dream

The Junior Theater at Wardman Park
will present "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" next Friday and Saturday. with
two performances each day. So charm
ing Is this Shakespeare play for youth
that one feels like saying: Its all about
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Attractions in Washington
PlayhOuses This Week
IN LOCAL THEATERS THIS WEEK.

NATIoNAL-"The Bad Man." comedy. Opens tomorrow
BELAsco-Heen Menken in "Congai" Opens evening
POLTS-"Ta Kiss, French musical comedy
Opens this evening.
WARDMAN PARK-"A Midsummer Nights Dream" with music.
Opens Friday.
STRAND-"Nite Paris buresuue
evening