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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03
MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

Did mention that she lies prone while
writing?
Each one Of the pitfalls releases an
odor which IN turn releases something
inside Miss Farnum'S soul. That some
thing in turn is released in celluloid.
Fall cut incisively into the late heat
wave, nipping frostily at the nude calves
OF the little boulevard babies still dis
porting their tan.
Dark sudden as tropic night falls
on the boulevard at S. There Is a
sudden vitality on the part of shoppers
"a zip and a Zest the town has not
known since the first whiting day turned
the towns folk mahogany color and
slackened the tempo Of Gelatinland con-
siderably.
Around the Roosevelt, where the
Eastern contingent holds forth, pathetic
conversations circle about Fall in New
York.
Said one exile: Did you ever notice
snowfall high up against the sky
scraperS when it wasn't showing down
on the street at all? Man, that's
divine!"
And another: "Give me Washington
Square in the blue dusk Of early eve
ming, with light snow falling and all
the street lamps blurred to great golden
spangles, the avenue curving off through
the arch and the leafless trees etched
sharply"
And again: IT like that golden pat
tern of blocks, the lighted windows as
you come cut OF the park with a good
looking girl after nice taxi ride. II !
have only SIS in my pocket, that pattern
of lighted squares makes me feel like a
king!"
AS for me, the stone flames of st.
Patricks and st. Thomas, playing up
through the eddying flakes, or the long
river of Fifth avenue from bus top
a river teeming with tiny craft and
great barges; a gray river, streaming
on IN infinite perspective.
Comes the sharp consciousness that
in between this frosty boul ana that
gray river is an endless stretch Of fiat
country, blanketed in snow: fiat towns,
indicated by yellow wooden stations
where trains clang in, where patient
women come down to stand, hands
crossed over their abdomens.: forms
bulky in thick-pelted, durable furs.
Icy blasts and sharp curves of track;
shapeless figures of flagmen trudging
through the witness. waving lanterns,
hurrying back to the comfort of wood
stove in the switchman's shack, leaving
the great, dark wounds Of their foot
prints for the blizzard to blot out
My, my, my! How we do take on
sometimeS!.
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paper Alliance.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03
Today in
Washington History
BY DONALD A. CRAIG.

October 8, 1s62.-The Navy Yard
branch Of the passenger street railway
Is in operation today from the Navy
Yard to Capitol Hill, where 1t connects
with the main line to Georgetown. The
first cars were run over the newly
opened branch yesterday and regular
service Is now being maintained.
There are six cars running today.
With others that are expected soon, the
company will be able to run on five,
minute schedule, giving much needed
transportation to residents and stran-
gers travelling in that section Of the city.
The cars are being run from an early
hour in the morning until IL O'Clock
at night. This gives an opportunity to
residents in that part Of the city to at
tend the places of amusement down.
town and return with little trouble.
This part Of the street railway has
been pushed forward with great dis
patch. The law allowed the company
so days in which to have the line in
running order, after the completion OF
Georgetown. The time will not be up
until October %.
The curved track is now being laid
to connect Seventh street northwest
with the main line on Pennsylvania
avenue. The Seventh street line Is be-
ing rapidly constructed. In q short
time the Northern Liberties and the
Navy Yard will be connected by rail-.
The work on the other portions OF the
j street railway also is going forward
steadily.
A trial of the steam fire engine Hi
hernia. which is now in the Federal
Government service. was made today at
the corner of Twelfth and E streets. in
the presence of a large number OF citi-
zens, including Mayor Wallach, mem
bers of the City Councils officers of the
fire companies. number of Army OH
GERS and Frank Finney of the Philadel-
phia Fire Department.
The engine was drawn by two fine
white horses and was followed by a
hose carriage drawn by the same men
who worked the engine under the di-
recticn of William Dickson. After the
FIRE under the boiler was lighted, 1t took
10 minutes to get up steam. Different
sized streams of water were thrown, the
greatest distance obtained being $40
feet: An altitude higher than any
building In town was reached.
Government officiaIs and citizens gen.
orally expressed the hope that the
Washington City government may soon
be provided with steam fire machines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03
OUR CHILDREN
By ANGELO PATRI.
Guest Babies.

The very best place in all the world
for baby is home, but there comes
the time when the baby must be taken
somewhere else. Mothers cannot be
prisoners and there are times when the
baby must 60 where It's mother goes.
Some preparation ought to be made for
such guest babies.
When the club gives lecture for
mothers some provision for the care OF
the guest babies must be made or the
very mothers who need and want the
lecture cannot enjoy it. No baby can
be quiet throughout lecture. When 1t
cries and protests against the imposed
restraints the mother has to leave the
room, the audience is annoyed and the
speaker distressed. And the mother
feels bad, not alone because she has
been the cause, through her child, Of
annoying q group OF people. put that
her child actually needs for growth be-
cause of that child. She has double
grievance.
Church service is not possible for little
children. The silence and immobility
that Is required Is not possible for chill
dren. II the child squiFms and whis-
pers and cries, the congregation Is dis
turbed and the minister put to it TO
bold his thread Of thought and his au-
Grown-up parties, afternoon bridges,
socials, Ladies' Aid meetings make no
provision for baby guests. That usually
means the mother must stay home.
The loss to the mother, the child and
the community is plain. Provision ought
to be made for the babies.
Some churches have room set aside
to receive the little ones There is a
nurse and primary teacher in charge
II the group is a large one it ought to
be divided, the babies in cribs and the
runabouts In playroom Every town
has somebody to volunteer for this
work If the equipment and management
are ready.
OF course, babies will not be taken to
private houses as guests unless they
have been invited, and In that case, Of
course, the hostess provides for the care
and entertainment Of her baby guests.
Every house ought to have a room
equipped with crib and the crib ought
to be equipped for the baby so as not
to embarraSS the mother whose child
occupies 1t.
When babies are invited anywhere the
hostess ought to have good milk ready
in the icebox, several kinds of cereal,
some stewed fruit. fresh fruit and
whatever special diet the guests COM
fort demands. Kindness and hospitality
SHOWN 10 d DdOy means more 10 MS
mother than that shown her. A guest
baby needs careful thought and plan
ming wherever he goes. and only when
his mother is assured that arrange
ments have been made for his well
being and comfort can she be at ease
Isn't it worth while considering? At
tendance at church, lectures, musicales,
meetings would be- increased and the
increase would be worth while as to
quality.
Copyright. 1929, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03

My naburs is mourn hart crazy on
the new tangled idear about SperretS.
Sperretooul Sircles is held nitely &
or long haired fellers has settled here
and gone into the sperret bizniz ex-
cloesively. A atent was made to git
Mrs. A. Ward to embark into the Sper-
ret biZniz but the atemt failed. / of
the long haired fellers told her she was
a ethereal creeter & wood make a
sweet mejium, whareupon she attact
him with mop handle and drove him
out of the house. Twill hear obSarve
that Mrs. Ward is invalerable woman
the partner of my goys g. the shatrer
Of my sorrers. In my absunse she
watcfis my interests & things with a
Eagle Eye Il when I return she well
Gums me In a fectionate stile. Trooly
it is with us as it was with Mr.. q Mrs.
Ingomer In the play, to wit-"2 Soles
with but a single thawt, harts which
beet as l."
My naburs injooced me to attend a
Sperretooul Sircle at Squire Smiths.
When arrove found the east room
chock full includin all the old maids
In the villige & the long haired fellers
a4sed. When I went in was salootid
with hear Gums the benited man
hear Gums the hory-heded unbeleever"
hear Gums the skoffer at trooth,"
etsettery, etsettery.
SEE I, my trends, it's troo I'm near,
b now bring on your Sperrets."
l of the long haired fellers riz
UP and sed he would state few re-
marks. He sed man was critter OF
intelleck 81 was movin on to a Cole.
Sum men had bigger intellecks than
other men had and thay wood git to
the Cole the somerset. Sum men was
beests 81 wood never git into the Cole
at all. He sed the Firth was material
but man was immaterial, and hens man
was different from the Firth. The
Firth, continnered the speakers, resolves
round on its own axel-tree onct In
"a hours, but as man haint gut no
axel-tree he can't resolve. He sed the
ethereal essence of the koordinate
branchis Of superhuman natur bacum
mettymorfusSed as man progrest in
harmonial coxeistance & eventooally
anty humanized themselves & turned
into reglar sperretuellers. (This was
versifferusly applauded by the cumpany,
and as I make it pint to get along
as pleasant as possible I sung out,
"bully for you, old boy.')
The cumpany then drew round the
table and the Sircle kommenst to go 1t.
They axed me If thare was anybody in
the Sperrit land which I would like to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03
Special Dispatch to The Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance.

Special Dispatch to The Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, october 8
(N.A.N.A) They fare best in movie
land who invest their inspiration with
an air of mystery.
Although to motion picture producers
inspiration begins at o in the morning
when dialogue writer's and scenarists are
clicked as they enter the studio gates
and closes at S, $50, or whatever hour
the conference ends.
And although 1900 words day are
expected of these writer's, those impress
the simple souls of movie executives
most who invest their 1900 words with
vast amount of hocus-pocus.
There was Monte Katterjohn, who
rode about town in the back seat OF his
Limousine pounding at a portable. Who
knows just what he pounded out? But
the fact remains that he created the
atmosphere Of inspiration so vivid that
once started on its cycle, nothing but
death could stop 1t.
Dorothy Farnum writes her adapta-
tons and originals while a varlet OF
some sort changes records on talking
machine hidden in the farthest corner
of her study. AS she dictates to her
stenographer her hand reaches out now
and again to series Of little phials
lined up on the table beside her divan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03
The Sidewalks of Washington
By THORNTON FISHER.

have ignited this waste and destroyed
the place.
I'VE finally reached the president.
Very excitedly I said: Mr.. Blank, DO
you know that there is e burglar in the
cellar?' "A what?' he exclaimed In
establishment. "A burglar repeated
with emphasis.
THE young clerk seized large
pistol. Come with me- said, and Ill
show him to you
I'VE descended the staircase and the
president asked US to find the intruder.
There he is I said, pointing to the
debris. If this should ever catch on
FIRE your books and reputation will go
up in flames. The janitor should keep
this place clean.
"The president smiled and said, Come
back at 4 o'clock this afternoon We
did and found the basement so clean
that one could have lunched on the
floor. This Is what we are trying to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03
Bleached Hair.

Dear Miss Lea6s-In a certain way
am in terrible fix. I have bleached
my hair to an undecided blond, and
everybody likes it, but they feel suspi.
cious of my hair being this shade. Now,
wish could gradually restore it back
to its natural color. Or, If not back to
its natural color, then little darker.
It would make me very happy If you
would advise me. M. M. j.
Answer-Bleached hair deceives no
one, my dear. It will continue to grow
its own natural shade, which involves
constant bleaching to keep the hair
uniform color. The. result in time is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03

There are only two occasions when
most people evince an interest In fires.
When fire apparatus dashes by we race
to the window, and when our fire in
surance premium is due we may give
the danger Of a conflagration passing
thought. ~, f'''.'
Next Monday will begin Fire Preven-
Non week throughout the country. Back
of every great and wise movement for
the benefit of mankind are men and
women, perhaps unknown to the pub
lie, who are seeking to make the world
a better place in which to live, from
a social as well as economic standpoint.
Some are paid for their labor, while
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NANCY PAGE
Brown and Orange with
Beige for Fall.
ny FLORENCE la GANKE.
BY FLORENCE La GANKE.

Fashions may come and fashions
may 60, but there Is little which can
improve upon the ever popular and
always sensible wool skirts on cotton
bodices and pull-over sweaters. This
fashion for small girls has been good
for years and will continue to be for
years to come, unless fashion experts
70 contrary to all expectations.
The sweaters may be striped in fne
stripes of red and white or blue and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03

streaked, dry, faded, strawlike hair,
the despair Of its owner. The use Of
the right methods and treatments will
help to bring out the hidden beauty of
every color or shade of hair, but 1t is
foolish to try to be blonde when you
are a brunette. I do think that true
blondes should give their hair special
care but even blondes in early life change
into light brown. ashen or golden brown
types. There are all shades and va
rieties of blondes, brunettes, auburn and
reddish types, but each should try to
bring out the beauty of her particular
type. It is not so much the color, but
the condition and healthfulness of the
hair, that Is attractive. My advice to
any girl or woman whose fair tresses are
turning brown is to let Nature have her
way, since bleached or dyed hair never
harmonizes with ones natural skin
tints.
The remedy in your case is to allow
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white. The oxfords are brown and
socks are beige.
The skirts are pleated on sides,
leaving the front and back panels
plain. This is by all odds, the most
sensible plan for any active children
or for youngsters who have to sit still
for many hours in school. This ar
rangement saves many an hour over
the pressing board.
When the Lacey children started to
school, they we're not three little girls
in blue, but in difference to this brown
year, they were three little girls in
brown-three nut brown maids.
The two youngest Lacey children had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03

tCoSAA u4AS RaSAAS'
S m q ii towns, In
particular. feel the
loss caused by a
fire.
What happens
when q factory is
destroyed? Live S
may be lest and q
water system IN
paired, 50 that q
bond issue Is nee
essary to- restore
it. But there is
more. The town
Is d e m o r O liked
temporarily. so that
business does not
return to normally
for several days.
While the process
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03

ObIISTS T. U II LIlDutc
t h cir knowledge
and skill. The ma
chinery Of state
functions more or
less smoothly be-
cause of the unseen
human gadgets who
are a part Of the
vast, intricate thing
we all govern
ment.
There is nothing
that evokes the in
terest and efforts of
scientists and lay
men more than the
preservation of life.
Traffic students are
eternally working
toward the solution
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dresses of orange crepe, a wool crepe
Judith's dress had a brown belt, but
PANS dress hung straight from the
shoulders. Both girls wore brown
berets. Their socks were beige and
their oxfords were brown.
Claire, who was in her teens and
had attained the dignity of q suit, had
a Jacket and skirt of brown jersey.
She wore brown and orange pull-over
sweater. She was much too large for
socks, but wore fine Isle beige stockings.
Her oxfords were brown, too.
II you are planning for clothes for a
baby, write to Nancy Page, care Of this
paper, inclosing . stamped, self-addressed
(Copyrisht, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03

An Ohio man has invented automo-
bile bearings made of an alloy that he
claims can be fabricated with water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03
U5ed by hospitals

Do you knowthat $50 of our
leading hospitals use Kotex
filler in preference TO any other
absorbent? They use it even
for surgical dressings in serious
operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-03

(Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
Alexandria High Quint to Play
Warrenton for District Title

Old Dominion Boat Club, city un-
limited champion last season, will meet
ST. Mary's Celtics in one of the Alex
andria Basket Ball League games
Thursday night at $50 In Armory
Hall.
Hoffman ClO<hicrs have the use of
Armory Hall wednesday night and are
anxious to schedule game with one of
Washington's fastest unlimited uuints
Phone Manager Jack Allen at Alex
aF1dria 2lo6 between IL am. and pm.
Sunday.
Skinker Bros Eagles of washington
viii play the st. Marys Celtics cagers
next Saturday night at $50 in Armory
Hall.
Ajax A. C. win 20 10 Washington to-
morrow night TO play the ST. Martins
Juniors at 8 o'clock in the St. Martins
gymnasium. Manager Robert V0gt is
seeking more games for his Ajax five
and junior teams having a gymnasium
are requested to phone Alexandria l498
between and pm.
All-American A. e. win hold an i'm
portant business meeting Monday night
at 1880 o'clock In the Methodist Epis-
ecpal Church South's annex. The ALL
Americans quint dropped It's first game
last night, losing TO the Schreiner Bros.
by a 54-to-25 count Manager Howard
l.. James is looking about for games
for the losers with junior clubs. Phone
him at Alexandria 1878 between and Z.
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F|VES FACE TODAY
IN COUNTY SERIES
Dixie Pigs and Hawks Meet
at Laurel-DoubIe Bill
at Hyattsville.

Y VYATTSVIILE, Md, February
II 23.-Dixie Pig A. G. and Brent
wood Hawks will meet tonlor-
Il 4 row afternoon In the National
Guard Armory at Laurel in the
second game OF scheduled series Of
three for the Prince Georges County
Basket Ball League championship.
Dixie Pig won the FIRST game here last
Sunday. 30 to "a.
Tomorruws game viii start at 1880
o'clock and viii be the first Of card
of three contests, Other games will
bring together Headquarters Company.
Laurel National Guard, and Ellicott City
and Berwyr A. G. and Govans OF Balti-
more.
Regular basketers Of Company r,
National Guard. will meet American
Railway Express quint Of washington
here tomorrow In the main attraction
Of double header.
Frenchy Cohen's Arcadians are to
meet a team to be announced in pre-
liminary starting at 2:i5 o'clock.
pierce A. C. basket bali team of
Hyatssville will 60 to Fort Washington.
Ma. tomorrow to engage the post quint
there. Pierce players are to assemble at
Washington barracks to take the beat
leaving at ii am.
Hyattsville High Schools basket ball
team win play three games next week,
one at home and two away.
Monday afternoon Hyattsville Will race
Tech, washington public high cham
pions. in the Tech gym. In a previous
game Tech decisively trimmed the locals.
Gainesville High win be here Wednes-
day to engage Hyattsville. The locals
scored over Gainesville in a close match
at Gainesville several weeks ago and
another briskly contested encounter Is
expected.
Friday . first-round match In the
State championship tournament under
auspices of the Playground Athletic
League of Maryland is scheduled be-
tween Hyattsville and the Montgomery
County winners. The scene has been
designated as Carlin's In Baltimore, but
Hyattsvillee authorities are DESTROYS OF
having It changed to another floor.
Hyattsville automatically viii repre-
sent Prince Georges County In the series,
as 1t Is the only high school IN the
county having . Quint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24

A LEXANDRIA, va, February %
~ The final and deciding game
IA of the third athletic district Of
\ Virginia titular series will be
staged here Wednesday night at
$50 O'Clock in Armory Hall, with Alex
andria High School, champion of sec
ton A, and Warrenton High School,
title holder in section B, meeting for
the championship.
The winner will receive a trophy, EN-
blematic of the district title, and viii
also gain the right to- represent the
third district in the State championship
series.
The local schoolboys have one other
game next week, playing host to Swave-
ly School OF Manassas, Va, at the
Armory Friday night The game sched-
uled for Wednesday night with the Old
Dominion Boat Club has been Cancelled.
The first annual bowling sweepstakes
in the history of this city will be staged
Monday night at the Health Center
Bowling Alleys.
The entry list is open only to bowle-s
who average 100. or less Sweepstakes
for more proficient pinspillers win be
held In March.
Episcopal High will close its baske.
ball campaign next Saturday by play
ing Woodbsrry Forest at Orange, Va.
The two schools are great rivals ard
considerable Importance Is attached to
winning the game. woodbury. won the
foot BAH game the past Fall and the
Maroon and Black is anxious to score
on the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24

men down court and one of the two
middle men, No. 2 in this case,
makes a break for the basket, he
turns from it toward a sfdeline, SO
he will be behind the guard of his
forward on that side, as No. Is
here shown behind A, the opponent
of No. /,
OF course the defense for such
play Is for A and B. opponents Of
NO. and No. Q, respectively, to
swap men. The Tigers expect that,
and have variation. as all basket
ball attacks must have, TO meet just
such a contingency. The variation
here is for No. 4. the forward on the
other side of the court. TO break at
top speed by his opponent as the
above moves are attracting this OPP
ponent, Els attention. and take
long, high rass from No. /, juat as
No. gets the hall
tcopyrigat, io2e.l
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GRAYS AND PHOENIX
TOSSERS TO CLASH.

United Typewriter Grays will engage
Phoenix A. c. in a basket ball game
this afternoon at 3 o'clock, in Noel
House gym. Seventeenth and II streets
northeast These Grays are. to report
for the game: Forney, Buscher, Colley.
Gordon, Banta, Macdonald T. Peck and
Zones.
Other games on the Grays' schedule
this week are: Tuesday, Pontiacs at
Central High, 8 o'clock, Community
Center League contest; Wednesday,
Mount Vernons at Central High, 8
o'clock, Community Center League con-
test. and Thursday, Original Anacostia
Eagles, at Congress Heights Auditorium,
o'clock.
Grays, with the Community Center
League flag all but clinched. are look-
ing to the game with Skinker Eagles,
District champions, March S, at Con-
gress Heights Auditorium.