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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
Local Stage and Screen.

mount up. AS a matter OF fact, each
show Is "set" at the very beginning OF
the week. the duration Of its laughs not
ed and the tempo is established SO as
to insure its presentation within the
given time.
Hardie Meakin. chief of publicity at
the Fox Theater. in response to the
reporters inquiry. gives some interest
ing data III regard to the running OF q
presentation show, summing 1t up with
the remark that putting on two hours
of entertainment in exactly 100 min
utes, no more and no less, today gives
the manager of a presentation theater
more gray hairs than were ever blancheo
by a temperamental prima donna"
In days past the motion picture OPP
orator in q projection room was an
expert at retrieving a few valuable
minutes consumed by encore accorded
the singing act, or the acrobats. or
the tap dancers, since he could simply
speed up the crank OF his machine
and rush the play to its logical con-
since the coming Of talkieS no such
manipulation of the film Is possible. for
the strip Of negative must proceed at
its ordained tempo of just 80 feet per
miaute. To alter this speed would re-
suit in sound chaos.
Concentration then, since the tempo
of the fllm Is established before it
even enters the theater, is leveled upon
the stage show, which must be set to
harmonic with the variable length Of
the picture, some Of which take go
minutes to show, others Of which take
80 minutes. Applause from the audi
ence, their reaction to the different
features of the stage unit, Is calculated
down to the split second. The actor
can take so much time and no more,
and 1t Is the business Of the master
of ceremonies TO see that the eStab-
lished schedule is adhered to. AT the
first new show Of the week on Saturday
the executive personnel takes seats as
far back as possible in the meZzanine
section tin order to view the perform
ance from its most diflcult angle" so
to speak and takes note of every
Torrance, music and especially Of audi
ence response. A conference Is then
held with the master Of ceremonies, the
orchestra leader and the stage director
and the tempo Of the show is established
for each two-hour presentation through
the week. Each Performance thereafter,
barring unforeseen Interruptions, Is
identically the same. No matter how
off-hand and casual the movements
OF the actors seem, they almost IN
variably repeat the same gestures, man.
nerisms, dance steps and lines, in
identically the same amount Of time.
The foregoing details are, in reality,
Just few of those which enter the
question Of setting and running a pres
entation unit. They happen to be all
the details Mr.. Meakin and this collab-
orator could work out on a warm after
noon in July. There are other angles.
such as the setting of laughs in the
Aim itself. which is done by pSycholo-
gists in Hollywood, and the calculation
of audience response to such q picture
as THE Cocoanuts," but such minutiae,
after all, make another story.
M. j. Cullen, managing director OF the
Palace and the Columbia, is another va
cationist these days His destination is
Newport and Narragansett. He will re-
turn in fortnight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
Jazzine Things Up.

WHEN the modern orchestra didn't
w falter when 1t ''jazzed up" Schu-
berts Serenade and even Chopin's
Funeral March, 1t might be supposed
that the world waiting for the sun
rise" was prepared for anything that
might follow, Not So however, at least
probably not so.
Paramount is making an "all-talk-
ing-singing picture" under the caption
The Dance of Life" It Is an adapta-
ton Of the widely known production
called "Burlesque" But that L. not
the news Of the story.
The real news is that perhaps, for
the frst time since it was written by
Stephen Foster to stir the hearts Of
humanity "Suwannee River" often
called THE Old Folks at Home" is
going to be sung from the screen and
Is to provide the melody to which Hal
Sicily and Nancy Carroll are to dance
graceful waltz clogs In the picture. In
fact. it Is going to be melody used
several times during the story and for
as many different purposes-properly
rhythmed, Of course
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
Real Doctor Drafted.

A cTORS could play doctors in silent
pictures, but in the talkies, where
the character medical men are re-
quired to speak lines, it takes genuine
medicos to provide the proper realism,
film directors are discovering.
For hospital sequences in 'Lum-
mox" the director tested a number OF
experienced actors for a physicians
role. They looked like doctors but they
didn't talk like doctors, Brenon decided,
so he finally drafted bona fide men,
Der Of the profession for the part.
DR.. Geoffrey Grace, head of the
United Artists studios emergency hos
pital, was persuaded to play a doctor
and train a corps Of nurses for scenes
in the picture. Afterwards it developed
that DR. Grace was an actor in his
youth and had worked in other talking
pictures during his association with the
studios
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
Keep Conduit Road Clean.

THE Government officials having
u charge of the Conduit road,
through the engineers ONCE, recently
have directed complaint to the man
agement of Glen Echo Park that it is
almost an impossibility to keep the road
clean because Of the thousands of pop
corn boxes purchased at the park and
thrown along the Government prop
erty.
In order to cooperate with the Gov
eminent and to see that the road is
kept as clean at all times rs the park
itself, Director Schloss has arranged for
Q special road cleaner" who will do
nothing but see that no popcorn boxes
litter the Conduit road from Delacarlia
Reservoir to Cabin John Bridge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
A Mary Pickford Protese.

VIRGINIA BEACHANdP, one of the
~ girls brought to Hollywood re-
Gently by Mary Pickford to visit the
Aim colony, Is the FIRST Of the group to
return to the coast to begin a motion
picture career
Miss Beachamp. with but two extra
parts to her credit, was cast for the
important role Of Enc in Charles
Buddy" Rogers new picture, an adapta-
ton of Booth Tarkington's Magnolia. "
which has the screen title Of River OF
Romance"
Born in Montgomery, Ala, Miss Bea-
champ grew up in Birmingham. In
January, she won the Mary Pickford
contest conducted by the Birmingham
Post and came to Hollywood with "a
girls and representatives Of the news
papers which elected them. Upon COM
pletion of her visit, she returned TO
Birmingham and persuaded her parents
10 let her come back to the Aim colony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14

MINIATURE British and German
ANA armies, each composed of 500 men,
were recruited" in Hollywood for the
war scenes in Three Live Ghosts"
which Is being filmed as an all-talking
picture at United Artists studios.
Recruiting the German "army" was
different than in the days of the silent
pictures. Five hundred men in German
uniforms wouldn't do. Inasmuch as the
film was all-talking the German army"
must speak German. Engaging recruits
for the British contingent was COM
paratively easy
Thornton Freeland, director, COM
missioned his two assistants to recruit
the army and prepare the battle scenes.
Trenches had to be dug, barbed wire
entanglements set up, and explosives
planted.
Notables among the two armies re-
cruited included a former general,
5 colonies, II majors, 8 captains and
/ lieutenant of the German army, and
a colonel, a lieutenant colonel majors.
il captains, lieutenants and sub
lieutenants, who had seen service with
the British forces in the late war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
CURLING the "All Talkie",

cat the beginning Of the era Of talk
ing pictures" says Monta Bell, Para
mounts talking director at the Long
Island studios, dialogue ran approx
mately a word to each foot of Aim.
Now it has been reduced to about a
half word a foot"
The purpose, Mr.. Bell explains, is to
gradually eliminate dialogue and re-
strict it to the essential requirements
Of plot and character development, the
only reasons that exist for the use OF
dialogue at all. Thus far dialogue seems
to have been crowded into the picture
just to make it all talking" and, Mr..
Bell states, producers have become
aware that this is not an. ideal way to
make talking pictures.
Future scripts, therefore, we are told,
will remedy this evil, and thus not only
speed up action in the pictures but less
en- the mishaps that as rule threaten
talking pictures and sometimes make
them ridiculous.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
Has International Cast.

1--WE different countries and the
capitals Of three nations are repre-
scented In the cast Of Ina Claire's first
all-talking picture, The Awful Truth"
Miss Claire calls Washington, D. c.,
her home.
Henry Daniel was born in London,
England.
Jacqueline Dyris was born in Brus-
sells. Belgium.
Judith Vosselli comes from BARGE
Iona, Spain.
Sidney Bracy is an Australian.
John Roche comes from Penn Yam,
N. Y.
Theodore Won Eltz's home town Is
New Haven, Conn.
Paul Harvey was born in Sandwich,
Ill.
Marshall Neilan, the director, Is q
Californian.
Which makes 1t q perfect interna-
tional cast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
NHEN q thing doesn't belong" SO
wv to speak, the less there is Of it the

10 speak, Ine 4SSS GIeIc ID VI ~ IAe
better.
In spite of the wonderful development
Of devices to make the screen talk, 1t
has not always been possible to make
u talk as ordinary human beings talk.
A hitch in the apparatus, accidental
have balled up a talking picture until
audiences have laughed outright. This
is not an argument against the talking
picture; accidents are likely to happen
in any walk of life, and even human
talking machines have been known to
make slips that gave them keen cause
for regret.
When the movie industry embarks on
a new venture, it sometimes overdoes
things in the mad desire for haste to
present to the public something new,
even before it is ready for such pres
entation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
Miniature Armies.

This, in a measure, coupled with the
hum of machine gun bullets, firing of
cannon, punctuated by bursting ex-
plosives, and the whine of rifle bullets
piercing the air, add to the realism of
the scene. Scores of microphones re-
corded every sound and voice heard,
from the explosion Of shells to the cries
Of the men as they went lover the top"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14
DANCING.
DAXISON'S

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Earle Studio Of Dancing, .517 18th 81.
Latest steps In ballroom dancing, tango, etc,
taught. Class dance Tuesday, Friday. 16s
MISS GiRARDEAU L'EGARE. rive private
lessons, IS; single, S1.26. Fox .Trot, Waltz,
Hop. Class disc. until September. 2o35 p
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-14

Dying from a mysterious disease.
sparrows, which once were plentiful on
Fair Isle, in the North Of Scotland, have
practically disappeared.
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JUDGE LINDSEY .
 IS D|SBARRED BY . SUPREME COURT
PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT WHILE HOLDING OFFICE
 CHARGED

DENVER, Dec, 10, (P) Ben B. Lindsey, former juvenile court judge, was disbarred by the Colo- rado state supreme court upon charges of professional misconduct embracing acceptance of fees while ne was judge.
 The decision of the court was unanimous with respect to the charge against Lindsey that he accepted s37OOO from Mrs. Helen ElWood Stokes, prominent Denver and New York society woman, who was attempting to establish rights of her two children for a settlement with the w. E. Stokes estate.
 He was also charged with talk ing Sl0,000 from Samuel Unter- meyer, attorney in the same case.
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PLANES COMING SEWARD. STEAMER,
 SEARCH E|ELSOII
NEITHER ARMY OR NAVY HAVE PLANES PROPERLY EQUIP
 ED TO AID SEARCH

NEW YORK, Dec, 1o, lPl-Gra- ham F. Grosvenor, president of the Aviation Corp, said three Fairchild planes are ready to be dispatched to Alaska to aid in the search for Colonel Eielson and Borland.
 Two planes are at San Francisco and the other is to be shipped from Grandmere, Quebec, to Victoria, 1t IS said, where it will be placed on the same boat as the others.
 Two other planes are being fur nished by the Fairchild Aviation Corp, of Grandmere and Doe Oakes If Montreal, will be in charge of a crew of six pilots who will man the ships. Grosvenor said Oakes IS reported to be on his way to Victo- ria.
 The Army and Navy both advised the Aviation Corps, they had no planes properly equipped to aid in the search.
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W0MEV
 CHILDREN LEAVE W" CITY IF NA|!KING
UNCERTAIN SITUATION AS TO THE FUTURE CAUSE OF
 EVACUATION

SHANGHAI, Dec, 10, (P-sev- enty-five American women and children refugees, evacuating from Nanking, arrived on steam CTS from the central capital, also refugees from other countries. all forced from their homes by the threatening success of rebel sol dierS.
 All American women and chil- dren, and some men, have left Nanking but 40 American men are remaining in their homes; the majority of the missionaries said they had decided to leave at the request Of the consular and other authorities who stated publicly because Of the uncertain sit uation it was impossible to fore see the future and We advise all Americans and British women to leave as quickly as possible for Shanghai
 Two boats, a British river steam er, and a Standard oil Company river tanker, brought the refu- gees here.
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HUNDRED SLOTS
 FIRED: BANDITS ].
 ARE SHUT DOvl!!
OFFICERS TIPPED OFF LAY IN WATT FOR ROBBERS As
 SOUGHT TO ESCAPE

SHAK0PEE, Minnesota, Dec. 10. (P)-Actnig on a tip from the underworld, a posse hidden in a village shop shot down three bandits as they sought to escape after robbing the First National Bank of $500 and after a gun fight on Main street.
 A hundred shots were fired One of the bandits was Identi- fled as William ssBudr McInerny of st. Paul; the others are thought to be Frank Morris of Chicago. and George Larkin of st. Paul. All were seriously wounded and Nc Inerny may die.
 Morris sat in the auto while the others raided the bank safe. Morris stepped out of the car And immediately the posse opened fire with shoulder machine gun; Morris was wounded in both legs. His companions then rush- ed out of the bank which was the signal for pistol fire to join the machine gun, from Police chlef John Ring, Sheriff Week. man, and a number of deputies hidden in shops across tile Street from the bank. ~
 Larkin dropped severely wound ed from several guns and Me Inerny, with the loot, ran back into the bank through N rear door but was shot dawn in the alley
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TE|I PEOPLE:DIE
 FILM EXCHANGE . BUILDING IN 4. '.
INFLAMABLE FILMS QUICKLY MAKE INFERNO INTERIOR
 OF BUILDING

NEW YORK. Dec., 10, QP-Ten persons, five men and five wo- men, are known to have been kill eo ana several others are missing in a fire which swept the three story brick studio of the Man. hattan studio and Pathe Motion Picture Exchange.
 About 75 persons were in the building when the fire, of unde ternined origin, was discovered Fed by the inflamable film the flames quickly made an inferno of the interior of the building.
 Many barely escaped with their lives by jumping from windows Four fire alarms brought all avail able apparatus from upper Man hattan and the Bronx and sev- eral fireboats played streams on the flaming building from the nearby Harlem river.
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W[RKNAN'S s TRAIN
 LEAVES TRACK: '
 KILLED. 48 INJURED
BRAE IS FAILED ITO ACT AND TRAEN, AT GREAT SPEED,
 PILED UP

BRUSSELS, Dec. 10, (P--sev- enteen persons were killed and 43 injured when workman's train left the rails at the en- trance to the Namur station.
 The train left Brussels for Alon and was descending 3 steep grade when the brakes failed to act and the train rushed at a great speed toward the Namur station near where the engine left the rails with the coaches piling on top.
 Immediate help was available and the wrecked coaches were lifted by cranes and the injured persons removed and taken to hospitals.
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ARTIFICIAL S|V|)W
 MANUFA PICTURED BY
 DR. ]. M. ADAMS
MINIATURE BLIZZARD STAGED IN LABORATORY CAMPUS
 U. OF CALF.

LOS ANGELES, Dec, 10, lP)- 4 conquest over the elements which has enabled science to make snow fly despite the balmy climes of southern California, was revealed in an announcement by pr. John Mead Adams, asso- ciate professor of physics, Uni yersity of California, at Los Am geles.
 Dr. Adams staged miniature blizzard in his laboratory on the campus. The apparatus used in the production Of the white crys- tals included a glass tube sur rounded by containers of gurg- ling waters; a vacuum jug, coils of white rubber tubing, a cooling apparatus, and a resistance in- strument.
 As the snow crystals formed they drifted down upon black cloth sufficiently cooled to pre- serve them to allow microscopic examination and photographing.
 pr, Adams believes that snow crystals are built Up from smaller crystals through action of a kin etic or electrical energy, but as yet ne has found no proof of his theory through experiments.
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SNOW AND INTENSE ClLD
 RESPONSIBLE ACCIDENTS

NEW YORK, Dec, 10, (P)-snow and cold which swept the country from the Rockies to the Atlantic seaboard, were held responsible for accidents which caused at least a dozen deaths, innumerable fires in different sections.
 The cold wave extended into Ithe southern states with zero tenn peratures reported in many sec- particularly west of the Mississippi New York experienced the first real 'snoWstorm of the season. Railroad traffic schedules were disrupted in many points and one mail plane was reported missing.
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MARKET Is DEVOID
 OF ANY KEEN INTEREST

NEW YORK, Dec, 10, (P)-Except for kicks provided by half dozen pool favorites the Stock Market was devoid of popular interest. Price movements were extremely narrow and purposeless. As a rule tendency was toward lower levels in early trading and toward higher prices toward the last.
 Final tables were badly mixed. Coppers were neglected; Rails took little part in proceedings: Utilities held fairly we'll Turnover amount ed to only about 2,5OO,Oo shares.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-10
ONE STEP NEARER

WASHINGTON, Dec, 10, (A America drew one step nearer to participation in the world court with affixing it's signature at Gel neva to the revised protocol but a rough hedge hurdle still fronts the senate for final entry.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-10
GRANTED DIVORCE

FLINT, Mich, Dec, 10, R- Charles s. Mott, wee president of General Motors Corp, was granted "a decree of divorce from the former Miss Dee Furey.
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GOES TO WORK

NEW YORK, Dec., 10, (P-John D. Rockefeller, Third, went to work in the office of his father John ID. Rockefeller Jr., in the Standard Oil Building on lower Broadway. The young millionaire is a graduate of Princeton University.
Seward daily gateway., 1929-12-10
QUIET REIGNS HAITI
PORTAL PRINCE. Dec. 10.

PUHIAU FRINGE, Dec, 10, (H) Complete quiet reigns through out Haiti, it is reported to the government, in all quarters and districts. There have been no dis turbances during the past AS hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-26
LOWDEN APPROVES
HOOVER ARM AID
Former Governor Says Presi-
dents Announced Program
Was Endorsed at Polls.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 26.-Frank O..
IIowden, former Governor of Illinois,
who gave a clear field to Herbert Hoover
in the Republican convention last June
after making campaign for himself
for the nomination, has Endorsed the
Presidents farm relief program.
Mr.. Hoover, in the campaign last
Fall" he declared in formal state
ment. stated clearly and unequivocally
his opposition to the principle of the
eoualizat ton fee. as we'll as to the prin-
ciple of the debenture plan. He was
elected by a substantial majority. The
country, therefore, authorized him to
nroceed with his own agriculture pro-
gram. That program was outlined, not
only in his speeches, but more fully in
his recent message to Congress.
1T is to be assumed that upon an
issue so clearly decided by the election
Congress will support the President. It
then becomes the duty of all sincere
friends of farm relief to cooperate with
the administration in giving effect to its
program. If it later should appear that
this program was inadequate, the Presi-
dent indicated in his message that the
way Is open for further action"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-26
MICHIGAN DELEGATION
GIVES GAvEL TO HOOVER
Presentations Also Are Made to
Vice President Curtis and
Speaker Longworth.

Three gavels, made from a historic
oak tree in Michigan. were brought to
Washington today by delegation from
that State, headed by Gov. Fred W.
Green. and presented to President
Hoover, Vice President Curtis and
Speaker Longworth. The delegation is
here In connection with plans for the
Forthcoming celebration at Jackson.
Mich, Of the seventy-first birthday of
the Republican party.
The meeting to be celebrated this year
was held under the oaks" at Jackson,
on July s, 1854. and the three gavels
brought here today we're hewn from one
of these trees.
Accompanied by Senators Couzens and
Vandenberg and the House members
from Michigan, the visitors called on
Vice President Curtis and Speaker
Iongworth this morning. They are
scheduled to go to the White House
early this afternoon. They will invite
President Hoover to become honorary
president of the Jackson diamond jubi-
lee of the Republican party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-26
PLEDGES COLLECTED.
July 81 Is Final Date for Admis-
sion to Chest.

Collection of $753,501 rs of the cam
paign pledges Of $1,501 ,040.S2 was
reported by John Poole, speaking for
the Federal-American National Bank,
treasurer of the Community Chest, at
a meeting of the executive committee
Of the chest in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building yester-
day afternoon
The committee voted to name July
81 as the final date for the entry Of
additional agencies into the chest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-26

Ancient grain houses Of q race pre-
dating the cliff dweliers were recently
tIY1earthed in New Mexico
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-26

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