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Fool Creations.

THE original vampires? Who they
were and how and why their
legends2 Perhaps the reader will be
interested in an amateur inquiry made
into the ancient terrors of incubi and
werewolves, vampires in Europe, from
which Bran Stoker probably took the
one in his famous story, "Dracula."
A certain monarch once wrote King
James Booke Against Witchcraft and
Daemonologie:' His majesty, it seems,
was wroth against an impertinent Ok
ford scholar who had sought to prove
that "compacts and contracts of witches
with devils and all internal spirits or
familiars are but erroneous novelties
and imaginary conceptions" His maj
esty was awfully intent on burning the
soles Of old country folk until they
did dance with the devil" and on
driving pins under the fngernails Of
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unwilling barber-srrgeons until they
confessed themselves malignant and
internal ghosts" 1t was a time when
all England Except one poor, unpopu-
lar Oxford profesSor) believed in vam-
pres, and it was a time that would
last Tor more than a century.
AS late as the reign of George " it
was common practice to bury English
suicides at crossroads with a stake
orlVen through the chest for suicides,
OF course, were automatically potential
vampires. Then, even if the stake
failed to pin the uneasy ghost down, the
crossroads would bewilder it and it
would, return, disgruptled, to its coffin.
Not only were suioideS liable to turn
| into vampires. All suspected witches
were elected by unanimous vote when
they died. Or corpSeS of the most in
nocent or upright might become be-
Wltched before they went underground.
ANY eX-communicant of the church, any
one cursed by parents or grandparents,
might expect to be a wandering and
frenzied ghost, an Unsuitable blood
drinker in his after life. You might
have been very saint when living, but
If when you were laid out for your
burial cat were allowed to jump over
your bier or bird to cross the sky
above it you were the stuff vampires
are made of thereafter.
There are annals officially recorded
OF a whole graveyard dug up and all the
bodies spiked or burned to be rid of an
epidemic of vampires. The superstition
still has power for mischief In Eastern
Europe, travellers write. Belgrade is
famous for tales of vampire legions and
of their terribly wholesale extirpations.
That was so, as late as 1882, mind you.
The newspapers Of the day published it
soberly. .-.,t 49,.
Remember that poor, distracted Can
tervilleS Ghost" invented by Oscar
Wilde, who, as a last resort against a
parcel of uncouth Americans, made ar
rangementS for appearing "in his cele-
brated impersonation of the Vampire
Monk; or, The BloodlesS Benedictine,'"
a performance so horrible that when
old Lady Startup saw it, which she did
on the fatal New Year Eve in the
year 1864; she went of into the most
piercing ShriekS, which eliminated in
the most violent apoplexy, and died in
three days, after disinheriting the Can
tervilles, who were her nearest rela-
tives, and leaving all her money to her
London apothecary?
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NATIONAL-"Dracula."

The theatergoer who enjoys a quick
fire procession of super-thrills, surprises,
ShudderS and sensations will find in
"Dracula,". Horace .Liverights mystery
play which opens at the National Thea
ter tomorrow night, with matinees We'd
nesday and Saturday. just what he is
searching for. Mystery plays have been
produced on previous occasions and
have been successful in bewildering and
amazing all who have seen them, but
never before, it is claimed, has there
been play so unique in its theme, so
remarkable In its thrills, and so COM
pletely overwhelming in every respect
staged in America. -.
It is founded on Bran Stoker'S novel
that has thrilled two generations with
the enchanting horror of its story, the
mystery of its unfolding and the suS-
pense Of its climax. The dramatization
was made by Hamilton Deane, and the
play, now in its fourth year, is still go
ing in London.
In the cast of :'Dracula" will be seen
Marjorie Devoe, Terrence Neill, Wal
lace Widdecombe, Lester Alden, Alec
Hartford, Carl Reed, Joan Colburn, Ray
mond Huntley and Virginia Wallace.
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Antic," which makes no scientific
assumption, but discusses with
free for all flippancies what
everybody knows and what nobody
any longer takes the trouble to
profess being shocked about.
X **
The death of Raymond Hitch
COCK throws a shadow of sadness
over many friends he made in
washington. He was a strange
personality, not very acceptable as
legitimate star independent of
music and dancing and yet faSci-
mating in his drolleries when
suitable background was provided.
He came most forcefully to at
tentlon as a legitimate actor whell
he played the innkeeper in "The
Beaux'S Stratagem." Yet even
here he could not bind himself to
a scrupulous respect for the text.
He made the role all the more en-
joyable because of his irrepressiblc
interpretations.
George c. Tyler, as he surveys the
past for material worth preserv-
ing In his own particular museum
may finally become known in the
theater world as the Henry Ford
OF the drama. He has brought
forward many a pearl from the
dust heap of time.
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Even so forgotten a work as
"Beaux'S Stratagem" was well
worth preserving. Under Tyler
supervision it had a prophetic
touch Of value when FRITZ
Scheff'S charming little overture
Of her own in anticipation of her
entrance on the scene easily pre-
saged her return to light opera.
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CoLLETTE SlsTERs- III
SKY Aarbor~ Palace (075ye)
Spell of the Unusual in the
Play House.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

to extremes and being either in
tenSely intellectual or uncompro-
misingly physical. It is a little too
much to expect auditors to turn,
at weeks notice, from the romp-
ing gayetieS of stage beauty
queens to the serious deliberations
which discuss PHILOSOPHERS and
even elements of science so much
apart from usual thought that
they seem to threaten an eventual
audience of large-browed and Sc
date thinkers assembled in limited
number to witness an intensive
dramatic discussion of the Elm
stein theory.
X **
There is big drama in "Wings
Over Europe"-drama that clutch
es interest f1ercely in its arraign-
ment of human power unable to
proceed even with beneflcent in
tention in ways apart from those
Of ancient habit. One of the
striking scenes in the play is
presented when the entire cabi-
net at the council table is at
last brought to believe that a
boyish inventor can make good
his threat to annihilate them,
himself and with them the entire
world in which they have been
living. The nerve strain increases
in the group that waits for the
minutes to elapSe. The men, once
so overbearing and secure, are
gradually reduced in broken pride
to babeling panic, during which
all their old repreSSionS are aban-
doned as they tell, in desperation
Of contempt, exactly what they
have been thinking in hatred of
one another during all the years.
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The assassination of the youth
full inventor to prevent him from
destroying the world makes d
saddening incident as it shows the
necessity of sacrifice as sanctioned
by the law of Self-preServation.
The receipt Of word from a Scien-
tific body that the same discovery
has been made, with a message
that airplaneS are even now carry
ing the minute but deadly mech
aniSm for atom explosion over the
city, cause new CONSERVATION, and
when the "Wings Over Europe"
are heard in their buzz of relent-
less monotony, the group adjourns
to make its way with all possible
haste to gatherings whose purpose
is a universal peace.
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The play is not an emotionalism
designed to arouse well worn
sympathies, but hard, cold dem
onStration of what the human
brain might accomplish if not re-
strained by the human conscience.
| \ 4
The opposite extreme in the ef-
fort to interest popular attention
was evidenced by "The .Amorous
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The play is not an emotionalism
designed to arouse well worn
sympathies, but hard, cold dem
onStration of what the human
brain might accomplish if not re-
strained by the human conscience.
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Again that extraordinary enter
prise, the Theater Guild, has
deIved into the mentalities deeper
than into the popularities with
wings Over Europe" another of
the dramas dealing with social re-
lationShipS. These dramas appeal
in a satisfactory manner to the
dissatisfied state Of mind.
A first far-away glimpse of the
title hints of the possibility OF the
return to robust old melodramaS
like Lights of London" or "The
Black Flag" modernized by plenty
of fighting in the clouds to invoke
the response of timely enthusiasm.
OF all the plays recently dealing
with themes of materialiSn,
wings over Europe" is perh3pS
the most mechanistic. 1t goes be-
yond the guilds robot play in
striking terror to the mind and is
mercilesSly obstinate in compel
ling an application of intelligent
attention, which, easy enough
for the trained technician in Si-
most any branch of science, is not
particularly welcome to the audi
tor who insists upon the theater
being limited to the responsibility
Of passing diversion.
~ X r.
''Wings Over Europe" like the
robot play, looks to the destruction
of the human race by mechanical
means. 1t goes further, however,
in planning the annihilation by
means of the exploding atom OF
the entire earth as it now exists.
While the logical process in the
two plays is asserted on somewhat
similar lines, the actual stage i'm
preston conveyed by wings" is
wholly unique.
This latest play Of theirs to be
seen in Washington follows a ten
dency greatly favored by the
Theater Guild to discard conven-
11i0nal restraints in dramatic con-
oSruction In a manner calculated
to drive the text book authors and
teachers to the verge of despair.
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If strange Interlude" was a
defiance of accepted form.
Wings" void of "heart interest"
on the accepted lines of fiction
and played by a cast composed en-
tirely of men, is no less con-
temptuous of academic rules.
There is no cook book that can be
relied upon to prepare a dainty
dish to be set before King Popular
Patronage. In criticizing conven-
tionS Of society, plays Of this type
protest with consistency more
complete perhaps because not de-
liberately designed against con-
ventions Of the drama.
~ ~
Play producers insist on going
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GEORGE BANCROFT
m lite hIah71y~
Palace
Has the Public Grown Up?

is today's talkie public more discrimi-
mating, more mature in its viewpoint
than the public of an earlier day, which
set the level of the frequently tepid
products Of silent moviedom?
Two recently expressed opinions seem
to be in disagreement on the point.
Jesse L. Lasky holds that "the public's
mind today is very definitely mature.
There can be no doubt that the people
who make up the motion picture audi
ences have come of age mentally. We
dare do things in pictures today that
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Stage and Screen Attractions This Week.

1eO6~ '8AAu OCHSSn Attractions 1hlS w eek
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS mystery play. Opens evening
BELASCOHelen Menken and Leslie Banks in The Infinite
Shoeblack." Opens tomorrow evening
POLTSFritzi Victor Herbert N6e Modste Onen
this evening. ~ ~
GAYETYMoun Rouge Girls" burlesuue This afternoon and
evening. -: ! 1 ~ ~
FAC1George Bancroft in "The Mighty" talking picture
This afternoon evening '''
FOXPaul MUM in Faces talking picture This after
noon and evening
EARLEPaulne Frederick in evidence talking picture This
afternoon and evening.
COLUMBIA-"The Cooper
Walter Huston This afternoon and evening
RALTOAnn Harding Private Affair" talking picture
This afternoon and evening"
METROPOLITAN-Ha Loyd in "Welcome Danger" TALKING
picture. Second week. This evening.
RKO KEITHS-BEBE DANIELS and John Boles Rita
taking picture Fourth week. This afternoon and evening
LITTLE TEEATERThe Soul of France" silent picture. This
afternoon and evening. -- - ttF-
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The opposite extreme in the ef-
fort to interest popular attention
was evidenced by THE .Amorous
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EARLE-Pauline Frederick in
Evidence"

Pauline Frederick, the we'll known
dramatic actress, is pictured at the
Earle this week in the Warner Bros.
Vitaphone feature, evidence" II /,
colorful tale OF, London society.
Miss Frederick appears as Myra
Stanhope, divorced wife OF Lord Cyrii
Wimborne-divorced on circumstantial
evidence which linked her name with
that Of Maj. Pollock, notorious profii-
gate. Driven from her home and her
son, the Inundated woman is drawn
back by mother love, which enables
her to wage a winning campaign
against apparently insurmountable odds
for her good name and for the love and
respect of her child. The story Is filled
with suspense, enhanced by crisp,
trenchant dialogue. ~
The cast supporting Miss Frederick
includes William Cpurtenay, Lowell
Sherman, Conway Tearle, Alec q
Francis, Ivan Simpson, Lionel Belmore,
Continued on Second Page.)
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! FOX-Paul MUM in "Seven Faces"
Paul MUM will be seen at the Fox
Theater this week in Seven Faces"
a Fox Movietone production wherein
Mr.. MUM portrays seven distinct char
acters.
Mr.. MUM will appear in person also
in conjunction with his screen nero
tormance during the week.
AS lovable old Papa Chibou, care
taker OF the Pratouchy wax works, who
wouldnt let Napoleon out of his sight,
Paul MUM is said to have a role nj
unlimited opportunities.
The Fanchon and Marco novelty"
VIII De tne stage offering, with John
Irving Fisher as master OF ceremonies
The Fox Orchestra will resume a series
OF overtureS from the older classics and
the Fox Movietore News in sound and
pictures will complete the program,
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GAYETY-"MOulin Rouge Girls. {"

Benny "Wop" Moore, versatile Italian
comedian, is featured with Moulin
Rouge Girls" which in its new edition
opens at the Gayety Theater this week.
Nanette Daley, a brunette beauty, is
the starred soubrette, and these two are
surrounded by as competent q support
ing cast, including Ned Fine, Hebrew
comedian; Tom Fairclough, singing
straight man; Jess Mack, Juvenile lead;
Cecil Reed, soubrette; Madeline NC
Evoy, prima donna with sweet sing
ing voice; Jean Lee and Sam Rice, jr.
One OF the high spots of the enter
tainment Is Skit, THE Sign of the
Rose" in which Moore and several of
his aides present an act that for sheer
human interest and absorbing detail is
said to outrank anything of its kind in
Mutual BurleSque.
A chorus of beautiful girls is q boast
of this show.
Matinees for ladies will be given to-
morrow, Wednesday and Friday.
PALACE-GeOrge Bancroft in "The
Mighty" :.
George Bancroft in 1.-THE Mighty. Is
the screen attraction at Loew'S Palace
this week, He is said to have one of
the greatest roles of his career in the
Paramount talking production, whose
cast includes Esther Ralston, Warner
GLAND, Raymond Hatton, Dorothy
Revter and o. P. Heggie.
The story concerns Blake GreeSon. a
tough gunman, who is drafted for the
war, but throws his call In the waste |
basket. Four M. P.'s finally force him |
into the service and q chap named |
Patterson becomes his buddy. Patter- |
son is killed, but not before he gets |
Greeson's promise to tell his folks he |
had died brave man. Fam private |
Greeson emerges from the war q major
and national hero, due to his cunning
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In Capital Theaters

instinct. In fulfillment of his promise
to Patterson he goes to the latters
home town and is received as a hero.
He is offered the position of commits
sioner of public safety, and to further
his, unlawful career he accepts. Mean
while he has met his buddy's sister,
who, unknown to him, knows his past.
She by various methods tries to bring
out the good in him. The girls efforts
ultimately are rewarded when Greeson
has change OF heart and swoops down
on nest of gangsters and, with two
criminals.
Allan Rogers, new master Of cere-
monies. is presented in the lavish unit.
Sky Harbor," which features Herschei
Henlere in speciality act. Others in
clude the Collette Sisters, dancers and
singers; Jimmy Ray, eccentric dancer:
Cleo Floyd. acrobatic dancer, and Nick
Lang and Fred Hughes, singers. The
Hearst Metrotone News Harry Bories
and the Palace Orchestra, with a com
edy, short subjects and Charles Gaige
a. the organ, complete the bill.
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$9,275, 993.46, and for the year 1923 it had
risen to $16211,8 8752 The other Prov
lnces increased their liquor sales in about
the same prportion.
Sir George E. Foster, the greatest living
Canadian statesman, has publicly stated
regarding this method of handling liquor:
"GoOernnlent sale is the prime motiUe:
government control is mere camoufoge
The iUhole machinery OF the liquor
commission is 1oorked to promote sales
and increase government reUenueS, and is
brdOely succeeding"
IMPORTS INCREASE
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics has
just issued report on the liquor traffic in
Canada, from which the following figures
are taken, showing the increase in the i'm
portation Of liquor during the past five
years. For spirits the importation in
creased from 1884, 500 gallons in 1925 to
2,604,769 gallons in 1929. Malt liquors rose
from 91,923 gallons to 242 100 gallons.
Wines from 673 SAT gallons to 1,334,973
The value Of imports rose from 1929 ,629
to $43,844 Ill.
Liquor manufactured in Canada rose
oportionately. From 1924 to 1928 the
manufacture rose for spirits from ALL 1896
gallons to Il $4,000 gallons; malt liquors
from 44090,49O gallons to 58397913 gal
Ions; wine from 1,144,5 $50 to 1905 49,
BOOTLEGGING INCREASES
Bootlegging has never been SO prevalent
as during the present regime. The Van
couver World the government organ, as
early as July, 1922, declared that the
Government Liquor Control Board does
not sell one-half the liquor consumed in
British Columbia Later the World came
out with ringing editorial entitled, End
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These Year Books contain. volume by
volume, a complete and authentic review
Of the most important facts connected
with the development and progress of the
prohibition movement both in America
and abroad. They constitute vertable
encyclopedia.
THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT By
Frank C. Ste1Uart; 6H9, So pages, 1927
SOC.
A reply to Pierre S dupont. who said
that the result OF prohibition is that the
United States is in the throes of revolu-
ton" Mr.. Stewart makes a keenly ana
lytical answer to this charge from the
viewpoint of a lawyer, and adds argu-
ment to show that the Eighteenth Amend
ment promotes the general welfare
FUNDAMENTAL FACTS FOR pa
TRIOTS; 6x9, So pages, 1929 Csc.
Contains the Declaration of Independ-
ence, the Constitution of the United
States the amendments thereto, and es-
pecially explains how the Eighteenth
Amendment was adopted Also. contains
the CENTURY CLIMB, which gives the i'm
poprtant steps toward national prohibi-
ton beginning in 1926.
THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT;
ITS VALIDITC; PUBLIC IPINION by
E, A. Harper; 6X9, "a pages, 15c.
The most remarkable argument in de-
Tense of the Eighteenth Amendment in
answer to the attacks of DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president Of Columbia
University, is a reprint of an article by
Prof. E. A. Harper, of the Dickinson
School of Law, Carlisle Pa. appearing in
the Dickinson LaD ReUieD for May, 1923.
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FRUITS OF GOVERNMENT SALE OF LIQUOR IN CANADA

Alfred Edward Cooke, now of Denver,
Colo, former Canadian citizen, having
lived twenty years in Canada in five
different provinces, is we'll qualified to
judge the real merits of prohibition, par
tial prohibition, and government control
in operation in Canada having lived there
urder all three regimes. The following
facts are cleaned from a story by Dr.
Cooke which may be obtained in full from
The American Issue Publishing Co.
The one feature common to all the wet
Provinces is that all of them are in the
liquor business, pushing the sale and reap
ng profit tllerefrom. None of them con-
trolS the production of liquor. They all
act simply as statesmen or distributors for
the products of the brewers and distillers
who make their full profit on all liquor
sold to the government.
There is no limit to the amount Of hard
liquor purchasable On permit in British
Columbia and Alberta. The other wet
Provinces limit hard liquor sales which
can be purchased only in government
stores, but in most Provinces beer is sold
by the glass in beer parlors. or cafes, or
grocery stores, or hotels or direct by the
brewers to the consumers.
SALES INCREASE
In every Province there has been
steady increase in the amount of liquor
sold each year since government sale be-
gan. In British Columbia during the last
year of prohibition the total sales of liquor
for all legitimate purposes was 5000 1884.
In the next nine and half months Cthe
fiscal year ends March 81 under govern
ment sale, the amount sold came to S.
344617. The next full year it totalled
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FOUR ESPECIALLY
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PROHIBITION AT ITS WORST, by
Professor IrUing Fisher; 5x715, 272 pages,
(1926) cloth $f75.
An authoritative treatment OF the most
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numerous charts and diagrams.
PROHIBITION STILL AT ITS WORST,
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pages, (1928) cloth $3.50.
This volume is a sequel to PROHIBITION
AT It's WORST. However, it is written on
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PROHIBITION-ITS ECONOMIC AND
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1929, cloth $500.
A comprehensive treatise of not only the
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PROHIBITION, AN ADVENTURE IN
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Here are the main chapter heads: An
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A WONAN'S APPEAL
Dean of Barnard College Declares
for Observance and Enforce
ment of Dry Law

A stirring appeal for law observance and,
for strict obedience to the prohibition law
in particular. has just been voiced by
Miss Virginia Gildersleeye. nationally
known educator and dean OF Barnard
College, in an address to students of the
general assembly of her institution in
New York, says the Christian Science
Monitor.
Miss Gldersleeve held that young peo-
pie share in the manners and fashions of
their time, and even in that strange,
base indifference which is the most eX-
asperating trait of the present day"
This silly indifference" she said, of
ten leads people to feel that the only way
in which they can get any real interest or
excitement out of life is to break the
law"
Miss Gilder~leeYe referred to lawbreak-
ing as having become "a fashionable di-
version among some persons, the result
being that people who don't like cock
tails are drinking cocktails to-day be-
cause this is a prohibition country
isn't that feeble attitude?' she
asked. Personally I happen to dislike
cocktails. When I say that 1 often re-
ceive the reply, oh, I don't like them
either, but how can one refuse them?'
And then I make the following declara-
ton of independence: I will not be
bullied by prohibition into drinking cock
tails which don't like
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Boston and Massachusetts, prison statis-
tics, truaney, mortality, etc.
FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE DRINK
QUESTION IN MASSACHUSETTS,, by
Cora Frances Stoddard and Amy Woods;
7x10, 120 pages, 1929, 500.
An analysis of seven consecutive years
before prohibition and of the first seven
prohibition years as shown by Massachu-
sets public records covering public order
youth, family life, health and economic
conditions, Illustrated by fifteen diagrams.
Appendix contains complete statistical Ia
bIes for Is to II consecutive years.