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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-22
CONTRACTION
ROAD WORK IN
CAMERON LET
Dodds & Wedegartner,
F. P. McElwrat a tn
SuccessfL-, Bidd ders
On State Jobs

Dodds a. Wedegartner of San Be-
nito and +. p. McElwrath OF Harlin-
gen were awarded contracts for paw
ing 80 lies on highway No. 100 and
7.s5 miles on highway 90. both in
Cameron county, BY the state high
way commission at the monthly let
ting of rosd contracts at Austin
Monday according 70 information re-
ceived by county officers.
Dodds & Wedegartner were award
ed the contract on highway No. 100
on a bid OF Si03,35I.26. The esti-
mate on this highway was sIls.000.
MeElwrath secured the contract on
highway No. 90 on q bid Of slI4,-
7l3-0s. the estimate or this highway
being $4,000. The bids were ap-
proximately $4,000 below the orig
inal estimate upon which the county
had placed funds in escrow.
The county will receive state aid
on highway No. So, but will finance
the entire program on Highway No.
100. all work to be under supervi-
sion Of the state highway depart
ment. Engineers pronounced the bids
among the lowest ever received on
Cameron county projects.
The state highway commission also
voted state aid OF so per cent for
widening of highway No. IL between
San Benito and Harlingen. Ii is un-
derstood this will be contingent upon
Cameron county widening the pres
ent 60-foot right-of-way. The state
desires n 100-foot right-of-way, and
the commission has indicated that IL
this width is provided the state will
finance the entire widening project.
Announcement was made By the
Continued on page nine.)
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ton, but Ousley and Johnson men,
toned several things which they
thought would be included in the
program, and Davidson attacked the
proposal of a state bond issue.
Davidson said that il a constitu-
tional amendment were passed al
lowing the legislature to authorize
the issuance Of bonds, a dangerous
precedent would be established.
Counselling against haste in road
construction. Davidson reviewed the
highway accomplishments Of the past
ten years.
The millionaire Houston lumber
man was questioned frequently near
the end of his talk. In response to a
question from Representative Adrian
Pool of FL Paso, he admitted that he
had supported several bond issues in
Harris county but said he thought
there was a distinction between
state and county bond issues
Johnson Raps
Ousley scored what he termed the
injustices Of taxing counties to help
build state highways. He asked the
legislature to stop this practice and
to repay the counties for what they
had contributed to the state highway
system. He suggested an increase
in the gross receipts tax on common
carriers and four-cent gasoline tax.
Johnson discussed the inadvisabil-
ity of the present local aid policy
from the standpoint of a member Of
the highway commission. He char
acterized it as false both in prin-
eiple and practice.
The highway commission cannot
enter on the construction OF a net
work Of state roads because the
counties and not the commission de.
Continued on page nine.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-22
MANY CITIES WANT
MISSOURI SUSPECT

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-. Jan. 22.-(PD-
Several cities have asked police for
the custody Of Cecil K. Irons, arrest
ed here Sunday as n suspect in a
New Orleans &c mrobbery.
New Orleans is sending officials
here to secure him, while word came
tonight from Springfield. Mo-. that
Officers are enroute to secure Irons.
charged with stealing jewels valued
at 5000 from a Springfield woman.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-22
PLAN INSTALLMENT
SALE OF AIRPLANES

NEW YORK. Jan. 22.-tFt-Organ-
ization Of a s5,000.000 corporation to
finance sales of airplanes on the in
stallment plan was announced today
By Howard l.. Wynegar, president OF
the Commercial Credit Corporation
of New York, who will be president.
Curtiss Aeroplane * Motor com
pany, Wright aeronautical Corpor-
alton and the Commercial Credit COM
pany will be financially interested In
the new corporation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-22
Baldwin Reopens
Plan to Tunnel
English Channel

LONDON, Jan. 22.-CP)-Premier
Baldwin announced in the house Of
commons today that a comprehen-
sive non-party examination will b.
made into the sixty-year-old project
70 Ia tunnel under theh English
channel.
A tunnel under the English chan
mel connecting England with this
European mainland on the French
coast, ~ a project that has long pre-
sented fascinating engineering diff
ficulties, although the political as
pect Of the problem rather than the
engineering has always blocked prog
ress.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-22
Honor Memory
Of Baylor Victim

WACO, Tex, Jan. 22.-(Pb-Me-
mortal services were held at Baylor
University here today for 10 Baylor
students and athletes who were kill
ed in a crossing accident 1T Round
Rock, Tex, two years ago today.
A bus was taking more than 20
students from Waco to Austin where
a basketball game was to be played
that night. At Round Rock an j.
d G. n. train crashed into the We
hicle. Twelve students were in
jured and ten killed.
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Several Killed
AS Fire Sweeps
COnstantinople

C0NSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 22.--tE9
Several persons were killed and
a thousand buildings destroyed in
the populous Greek district Of Ta-
vala In Constantinople today by a
terrific fire famed by n high wind.
At least 5000 persons were driven
from their homes to the freezing
streets and suffered from exposure
aggravated by d violent blizzard.
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WEATHER

For Brownsville and the Valley:
Fair and somewhat colder tonight;
Wednesday fair and colder: much
colder Wednesday plight. Moderate
to fresh southerly ~.ads today on
the west coast, shifting 20 northerly
late tonight.
For East Texas: Generally fair
and much colder tonight and We'd
neEday; freezing tonight or Wednes-
day in north portion. Moderate to
fresh south to northwest winds o.
the coast.
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CHALLENGE STATEMENT
NEW YORK GOVERNOR

ALBANY. N. Y, Jan. 22.-lPp-Gcv-
ernor Roosevelt today faced the pos
sibility Of being asked by the leTis-
iature 10 produce proof OF a state
ment that . feeling was prevalent
after the last election similar to that
which followed the theft Of the
presidency in the Tilden case"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-22
I'm OUR
VALLEY

c. Z. COLEMAN, Corpus Christ
produce merchant. who in 1895
shipped the first carload of cabbage
ever sent north from the lower
Gulf coast, can't see any excuse for
s25 cabbage at this time.
Makes some interesting comment
about the situation in a statement
appearing elsewhere in The Herald
today.
Mr.. Coleman has a wager with an
eastern buyer. A nice, new nat will
be the prize.
The easterner declares that cab
bage will be $50 ton by the first
Of February.
Mr.. Coleman, anxious for $50 cab
bage but regarding it as improbable,
is fighting mad" over the fact TINT
something has happened to cut Val
ley cabbage from s45 or so a ton to
SIS.
All that in face Of a rapidly de-
eTezeng cold storage supply.
He offers a suggestion. Reduce
shipments, he says.
A GOOD LADY up in Lyford, a
good friend of Brownsville, is criti-
cal of Brownsville.
Writing to The Herald, she SAYS:
awhile Brownsville is busy doing
everything to bring people to visit
the city, they are not busy enough
in its Identification.
Il have not seen a more charming
location in the United States, and |
have lived in st. Paul, Denver,
Columbus, Topeka, Des Moines and
other cities. In fact, / have lived
in eleven states.
Ponds and small water holes
could be turned over to nurserymen
for study in Identification. Plant
bulbs around the banks. Water
lilies grow there, profusely. Fish
in this water would care for in
sects.
There is plenty of talk about
what should be done"
AND SHE HAS another complaint.
She paints pictures. Started one of
a scene at a nearby lake.
"Before l could finish the picture.
or photograph it, / find a dredge
has dug through-got pay for leav-
ing a beautiful scene entirely spoil
ed.
"A few years back someone howled
about the water hyacinths in the
resacas. They were cleared. and now
the lakes have grown up with cat
tails rank grass and other growth.
The hyacinths are gone.
IL hear people exclaim over the
poinsettias. Now I expect that some
one will find something dreadful
about the poinsettias, and these
beautiful shrubs will disappear.
GALL THE SHRUBS and roots
brought to Brownsville from every
quarter Of the globe now are being
buried under brick and cement.
Stately palms are lowered by the
blows Of an axe. Lots around old
residences should be dug up and
choice plants removed. some may
urge, and thus further spoil beau
tieAtlSt are Brownsville's alone.
And we need a statue of George
Washington somewhere in Browns
VILE. to remind us it is the United
States-and make people more loyal"
THE GOOD LADY az Lyford is
right in many respects.
Certainly Brownsville can be made
u city Of beautiful parks.
Certainly much may be done TO
beautify lawns and other ground
spaces.
This column urged months ago the
point that the banks Of Browns
ville's resaeas. or lakes, are this
eity's future beauty spots.
And a few statues, Of George
Washington and other historic char
acters would add 10 this city's fame.
Great statues found in many Of
the Latin-American cities are al
ways OF interest 10 visitors.
Washington, one Of the worlds
Continued on page nine-)
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the bus driver, who escaped,
failed to see the electric car
because of a snowstorm.
The interurban was derailed and
fell across the bus, which was
thrown into a ditch and demolished.
Officials at the funeral homes
said it would be impossible to iden-
tify any of the dead for some time.
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II, I

never do it, In storing that lovely you taking
the chance Of having il ruined by moths. Why not
sell Il, and apply the CASH received for il on a new
rug 10 Fit your roomg That is THRIFT. In the WANT
AID department Of The Herald there courteous Ad-
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taker, who will be glad to as
sist you In Writing m Ad that
viii find q buyer for your rug.
Phone Us T0DAY-No. g. You
may say charge IT," II you
like.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-22

RIVER FORECAST
There will be no material change
In the river during the next few
days
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TIDE TABLE
High and low tide nc Point Isnbe
tomorrow, under normal meteorologi
- mrwdftfnnn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Veteran
Star at
Mutual
Record Breakers to Be
BurIeSque Fare for
Week.
DRINaING what he optimisti-

BRINGING what he optimistic
LIZ calIy terms his greatest the
atrical entertainment, Jack Read,
veteran burlesque producer ana
star, brings his entirely new edition
of his famous Record Breakers" to
the Mutual theater Sunday.
This whirl around the Mutual cir
cult finds Reid fortified with cast
Of principals that rank with the
best in this field of amusement and
includes, among others, Elsie Ray
nor. the winsome young dancer and
"shimmy" artist; Miss Mae KenniS
brings her smile and soubrettish ac-
tivitieS; Juanita Evans is In the in
genue part and Dave Burt makes
laughs with his elastic countenance.
There is Ed Jordan. accredited
one of the best of the younger crop
of eccentric comiques. Roy Cowan
acts as master of ceremonies,
new phase for straight men. And
to top it of, Jack Reid does a hui
morous monologue at every per-
Torrance.
The chorus, numbering the usual
sixteen, is quoted as being youthful
and active, and the comic features
are topped by an aviation sequence.
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the Columbia production, will be
the feature photoplay attraction
for the week. 1t is a tense moral
drama pedicting the psychological
battle raging between the younger
and older generations. One repre-
sents the puritanical view; the other
the modern struggle for liberty,
freedom of expression and the right
to love. Against colorful back
grounds of college life business and
sensational murder trial, father is
matched against son. Both stake
their all-love, ideals, ambitions, flu
ture and moral codes-on the OUT
come of a single case in which a
girls life hangs In the balance.
Marceline Day has the leading fem
mime role. Ralph Forbes portrays
the son while Norman Trevor is
cast as the father. The production
was made under the direction of
ChriSty Cabanne.
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Buddy, Is a Conductor

With Charles (Buddy) Rogers
conducting, twelve members Of Jess
Stafford's well-known monograph
recording band are making scenes
at the Paramount Hollywood studio
for "Close Harmony" the Elsie
Janis-Gene Markey story Of back
stage life. Nancy Carroll appears
with Rogers in this all-dialogue Aim
which is being directed by John
Cromwell, late of the Broadway
stage. Jack Oakie and Richard
(Skeet) Gallagher, equally we'll
known in musical comedy and films,
form song and dance team for this
production, and several other prom
inent vaudeville actors also will APP
pear.
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ROSE MARIE"
OPENS MONDAY

After a considerable period of
darkness, English's will open on
Monday night for an engagement
of three nights and a matinee on
Wednesday with Rose Marie" the
Arthur Hammerstein musical pro-
duction which is well known to In
dianapoliS theatergoers,
Fashioned more in the manner of
an operetta than musical comedy,
Rose Marie" which Manager
Hammerstein produced, is one of
the more outstanding works of its
kind staged in Manhattan or else
where in this country during the
last decade. Collaborating in the
making of its were Otto Harbach
and Oscar Hammerstein II, who
wrote the book and the lyrics, and
Rudolph FTirnl and Herbert Stoth-
art, who composed the music. Their
cooperating resulted in a work
which is notable not only for we'll
developed story, but for its melodi-
GUS contents.
In the novelty of the scene in
which the action. of Rose Marie
begins, the piece differs from most
creations of its kind. The move
ment starts in a frontier hotel in
Saskatchewan and introduces char
acters who recall some OF the
dramas Of the Canadian northwest
The heroine, whose name gives
title to the work, is the most popular
girl in her neighborhood. Among
those with whom she is thrown into
contact with are Jim Kenyon, a bad
man, in love with her. Edward
Hawley. an fastener; Hard Boiled
Herman" the 4rascally partner of
Kenyon; Lady Jane, the barmaid
Wanda, a Jealous and treacherous
Indian; village girls and youths and
members of the Mounted Police. The
action moves through a night scene
in a snowcovered valley to a lodge
on the upper Lootenay.
Inviting picturesque settings, Man.
ager Hammerstein provided them in
lavish manner and with such re-
gard for novel effects as help to
make the production vivid and
beautiful
Moreover, he assembled COM
pany that did full justice to the
romantic. humorous, melodramatic
and musical contents of the piece
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to
Top Bill
at Lyric
The Castle of Dreams
Opens Sunday for
Week.

NNE of the most artistic unusual
~ and fascinating presentations
that has graced vaudeville for many
seasons will come to the Lyric next
week as the headline attraction.
1.-THE Castle of Dreams" is a re-
freshing colorful extravaganza of
song and dance in feudaI setting
featuring Mickey" Norton, famous
interpretive dancer supported by
Hazel Mason and Cedric Lindsay, a
renowned dance team who have
been prominent members of many
George M. Cohan's shows.
Hazel is known as the girl with the
Rag Doll" anatomy and is proud of
the title. She is not a contortionist,
but by dint of much practice she
has trained her body to bend, fold
up and fall in such a way as to give
the impression that she is without
bones.
The bill will include:
Rector, Chandon and Doreer-
Present a routine of daring stunts
high up in theair in their novel
offering.
Elbrown--Said to be one of the
the cleverest male impersonators
that has stood in the spotlight since
Vesta Tillie retired, will present an
act titled "a Breeze of Melody. y
Just as slick as to appearance and
just as well dressed, but instead OF
the swinging English songs We have
the melodies of the south and
some specially written characteri-
cations, all of which are handled
in an original fashion by Miss FL
brown.
Roger WiIliams-In Featuring
the Organ" gives limitations of the
radio, automobile horns, pipe or
gan, Ford engine and starter and
numerous other things.
Coleman and Blake--Present a
comedy skit entitled Relatively
Speaking"
The Four Eastons-European i'm
portation features double and triple
somersaults in an act which they
call Fun in Baggage Room"
On the Screen-"R Restless Youth, =
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make up part Of the whole tragedy in this
final version Of the play.
The "asides" OF Strange Interlude,
IL must ne remembered. are far different
matters than the old-fashioned aside,
which was merely clumsy method Of
exposition for playwrights who had no
better means Of identifying their charac-
tiers. A typical example Of the old
fashioned aside is that Of a man meeting
woman and acting the part Of gentle
man and then stepping downstage to &C
quaint the audience from behind the
palm Of his hand that he is an impostor
and thief and and intends to steal the
woman's Jewels. This sort of easy In
forming OF an audience Of each charac-
ters identity and purposes has deserved
ly become obsolete. Skilful playwrights
their characters.
O'Neill has not revised the old aside"
for any such simple purpose, he is suffi-
GENTLY able to tell his story without such
crutches But he has gone back to the
idea of asides in order to let characters
give the audience a peep into their gen.
uine unexpressed thoughts-not only
their conscious thoughts. but even their
voice emotions of which they themselves
are not entirely cognizant-they speak
out the stray. whirling wisps of subcon-
scious feelings rather than thoughts. and
these give the clew to their very deepest
and most private being.
Thus these characters are moro clearly
illumined than any others that have ever
been put upon the stage-the audience
perceives the very heart of their fears
and aspirations end loves and hatreds.
stripped of all the pretension which or
binary social intercourse conceals. The
audience is permitted to see back of the
masks of politeness and expedience which
every man wears. And thus, here again
ONeill IS working on the same trail that
he so hardly explored in 1.-THE Great God
Brown in which the characters wore or
removed actual masks to symbolic their
being either ION parade before the resi-
Of the world, or being simple and genuine
and sincere.
O'NeiIl worked for two years on Strange
Interlude,'' finishing it Just before the end
of 1927. The Theatre Guild acquired the
play when only six Of its nine acts had
been completed. Lawrence Langner, visit
ing O'NeilPs winter home in Bermuda,
read the first six acts and on the basis
of that much the script, he Immediately
pre-empted the play for the Guild. Dur
ing the time he wrote Strange Interlude,
O'NeiH also finished 'Labarus Laughed
which he had started in 1925. And now
his most recent play, Dynamo" Is on
the verge of production at the hands of
the Guild. 1t was written entirely dur
ing 1925.
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Because SO many questions have
been asked me concerning this
O'Neil play, have arranged to see
this play today in Cincinnati, where
it has been playing 70 absolute ca
pacity for the week.
And so I have decided to give you
a detailed report about Miss Lord in
"The Strange Interlude" next Mon
day in The Times.
Then we have at Englishs's
George Arliss in 1.-THE Merchant of
Venice" and then soon we have an
other popular play, The Trial of
Mary Dugan."
I have been told by the represen-
tative of Mr.. Arliss that his tour to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
At Colonial

The bill for the Colonial for the
week is Captain Racket" This is
return to the light comedy type
of entertainment with Buddy Kane
minus his character makeup. Hazel
Smith the soubrette who has been
absent from the cast will return
this week and Bert Wrennick and
Leon Mcdonald will be featured in
new song numbers. The movie for
the week is "The Devils Cage" with
Ruth Stonehouse and Pauline
Garon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26
Sound Shorts Planned

The first number of University
Sound Shorts will go into produc-
ton at Universal City this week.
It is entitled 1.-THE Pilgrim Papas. +"
with Benny Rubin and by Benny
Rubin. Eddie Kane, well-known
vaudeville performer, has been cast
in the role of the school teacher. 1t
will be directed by Jack Foley, who
has written a number of the Glenn
Tryon features for Universal. 1t is
Foley's first opportunity as a
director.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26

Rose Marie to Open Three-Day Stay at EngIiSh'S
Monday-George Ariss Will Be Seen as Shylock
Soon for a Limited Engagement.

WITH Rose Marie" night Engls for three
w
Thursday afternoon the the Mat all
indianapolis getting the of all
As this written indication Strange
lude with Pauline the best the viii
Gaiing only each of the three performances.
Indications that the Passion Play which Monday night
the the will capacity
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the Pacific coast has been both an
artistic triumph as will as a financial
success. Shakespeare can be sold
when done by a star and star
only. We must have our stars in
Shakespeare.
II
There may not be cough in a
carload, but Ona B. talbot didn't
trust her cold the other night when
she broadcast over WFBM in the in
terest of "The Passion Play" which
she is bringing to the Murat next
week. Mrs. Talbot bought a pound
of horehound candy, carted it to the
radio studio and she found out that
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Next Picture Chosen

Evidence" a play by Edward
Montague, has been chosen as the
next Universal production for VIII
liam Wyler to direct. II has been
put in scenario form by Charles
Kenyon and John Clymer. This
will be the third big production by
William Wyler, the other two being
Anybody Here Seen Kelly" and
THE Shakedown," which is now
being synchronized at Universal
City.
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there was not a cough in the entire
pound.
g y y
Jim Cogan, press representative
and mighty good one for "The
Passion Play" has been in the city
for the past two weeks. Cogan Is
well known newspaper man in
Chicago, and is now on leave of alb
sence from that paper while tour
ing the country with '"The Passion
Play."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-26

The principals in the performance
here will be Virginia Fox, Paul
Donah, Mira Nirska, Peggy Bates,
Charles Meakins. Houston Richards,
Daisy Gibson, Sano Marco, Ross
Gibson and Russell Griswold. A
large chorus of boys and girls is ac-
tive in the stage proceedings.
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Ona B. Talbot states: Never in
the history of music and the drama
here has there been such wide all
state demand for seats as for the
Passion Play"