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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
THE BROADWAY DRAMA
By Percy Hammond.

and j. c. Squire, 1t was g high-born
play, whose patrician quality was en-
HANGED by the excellence of its perform
ance. Though not simple exercise in
metaphysics. its mysteries were clari-
ned for most of those present; and even
those who seemed slightly baffled were
made happy by its superiority as q tale.
Leslie Howard was Peter Standish, a
young American of today, obsesSed by
passion for the peace of old things"
So ardently did he yearn for time to
turn backward that it did so in the first
act and changed him from Peter Stand
ish Of New York. 1928, to his ancestor.
Peter Standish of London, 1894. There
In the morning room of his cousins
house in Berkeley, Berkeley Square, he
appeared as a ghost from the future,
myStifying those around him with dis
plays of clairvoyance. Having lived ITO
years later. he was able to foretell in
ctdents in a. manner disturbing to those
around him. Only his cousin, Helen
Pettigrew miss Margola Gillmore) was
able to understand him. Joining her
visions of the future to his of the past,
she fell in love, and so did he.
All Of this was done by Mr.. Balder-
Ston and the actors in an effortless
fashion, with the supernatural elements
deity limited and never stressed. Mr..
Howard occasionally reached In his
pocket Tor MS cigarette box and found
instead case incloSing an ancient da-
guerreotype. He entered the house in
Berkeley Square through a keyhole and
although it was storming outside. his
coat was dry and his boots immaculate,
He made himself noted as an epigram-
mattst by quoting from Oscar Wilde
and woodrow Wilson, and he horrif1ed
his lady-love by telling her of the World
War. In that scene between him and
Miss Gilmore both players were ideal
in their illustration of an eery romance
Miss Gilmore in her frightened
aspen way. and Mr.. Howard. the beau
lover, whispering to her of the rnvs
tertes Of time and sex. I believe that
this was where the curtain came down
with Mr.. Howard looSening his embrace
and saying. Never was there a Kiss
ike that since the world bsgan!"
The play ended bravely on a note ~
melancholy. with Peter Standish re-
turned from the past, disrnissinp hi.
modern lady-love and signing over ~
Latin epltaph engraved upon the sepl;i
,ner OF his sweetheart of 1884. Mr.
Howard excelled. as usual as this
lkable young man. and there u,rra
aithful representations by Miss Av-a
John as a battleship dowsv.r,
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Stage and Screen Attractions This Week

NAT1ONALCaprce" comedy by Sil-Vara with Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne Theaer Guild presentation Opens
morrow evening.
POLrS-Little Accident, comedy. Opens this evening
GAYETY"Jazztime Revue" burlesque This afternoon and
evening.
METPOLTTAN- Ariss in "Disrae" talking picture
This afternoon and evening.
R-kO kEITHSRo Rita attacking picture with Bebe
Daniels. This afternoon and evening.
RALTOMary Nolan Shanghai Lady" talking picture
afternoon and evening.
EARLE-Colleen Footlights Fools talking
ture. This afternoon and evening
FOLenore Uric in Frozen Justice" talking picture.
afternoon and evening
PALACE Untamed with Joan Crawford; talking picture.
This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA Bring UpP" talking picture
and Mack. Second week. This afternoon and evening.
LITTLE THEATER-Picadily" Gray silent picture
This afternoon and evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
: CARLTON and BALLEW- III
.cJhe Song Shop RaAce S7ay9
Emotional Playing Again
Has It's Day.
BY PHILANpER johnson.

# Washington could provide an
audience as New York so easily
does, composed of producers, play
ers and theater students of all
kinds, including the enthusiasts
who delight to recognize the play
house as a means of artistic ex-
preston, there would undoubtedly
have been large assemblages to
see and hear the Fay Banter play,
Passions of Jealousy"
** +
It's title hints of the French type
of drama which lays down topic
and proceeds to expound with
scrupulous erudition. Eugene Wal
ter, who is master in compelling
interest in the sufferings of a tor
tured feminine soul, might easily
have found a better one with less
suggestion of the formal caption
of an essayist.
\ X
Fay BANTER has been content to
deliver splendid acting, such as
has won invariable praise, but did
not hitherto enable her to make
a confident claim to position as
the foremost emotional actress of
her day. To new generation she
brings a type of bygone genius
and, among those who know, will
be found worthy of discussion IN
the same terms as were applied to
Clara Morris, whose delineations
of the heart-stricken heroine held
matinees spellbound when the
Emotional Drama" was school
of drama unto itself.
Had Jeanne Eagels survived she
would have ranked as Bainter's
one emotional rival; even though
handicapped in strange way by
phenomenal success which held
her to a single portraiture which
years ago began to render her
weary and fretful.
Success may have shackles as
well as laurelS.
4 4
II Fay BANTER showed some pa
thence in her expectation of big
moment of recognition, the pro-
Queer of her present play, A. H.
Woods, has shown none less. He
studied his theater from the A B G
book of small priced melodrama,
and by a sturdy devotion to ideals
of his own, secured promotion In
popular esteem grade by grade
until he becomes a fitting sponsor
for this play, distinguished by
unique form and artistic hazards,
calling for the most minute dis
elimination in effect.
Whether or not the Passions OF
Jealousy" throngS the auditorium,
the fact remains that it appeals
most intensely to the interest
which takes the theater seriously
and will be thought of and dis
cuSsed even in the event of its
giving place in course of time tc
some creation of more obvious and
more popularity alluring quality.
Apart from its compulsion as an
example of stage emotion, the
Banter play has fascination even
to the cynic who may have lost
sympathy with the make believe
sorrows of the footlights. It is a
searching study in dramatic tech
nique.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10

French authors have previously
made the experiment of reducing
the cast of characters to three
only. Grace George produced a
hree-character play at the old
Garrick Theater, then under man
agement of Stoddard Taylor, but
now obliterated by the march of
the Seventh street emporium. It
was entitled ITO Love" Opposite
Grace George played Norman Ire
vor, deceased only a few days
since. This play by Louis Verneuil
goes a step farther and reduces
the list to two. Yet the eternal
triangle cannot be dispensed with.
The serpent" who destroyed ideal
devotion in Eden long ago still
Kisses and coils and provides
fruits carrying irresistible tempta-
ton, is compelled to remain un-
seen. If an actor were to assume
the part in person, he might find
coveted glory if he succeeded in
carrying with competence a role
that would be so exacting.
**
The apex of the eternal triangle,
the roue with another's wife in
his power, is not made visible.
This fact removes a danger that
might threaten the equilibrium of
prestige in the presentation
Should an actor playing this role
have made as conspicuous study
of it as Richard Mansfield made
of Baron Chevrial in 1.-THE Pa
risian Romance"-in which the
baron was designed only as a
subordinate characterize might
have duplicated the Mansfield hit
and shared honorS even with
BANTER herself.
y X II
The Mansfield story is old and
perhaps tinged with fiction, for
theater press agents were giants
in those days" It ran to the eff
feet that Mansfield consented to
take the role only on condition
that he be permitted to make it up
and play it precisely in accord
with his own ideas. 1t was
thought that this would make but
little difference in the general
plans for the performance, but he
made the character the one out
standing hit on the first night and
eventually included it in his own
permanent repertory.
4 X X
Most comedians who did not
work in solo were content to play
in duo, like the Rogers brothers or
Weber and Fields; going even fur
Their back, Robson and Crane or
Evans and Hoey. The Marx
brothers offer a quartet, a style
of organization in evidence most
conSpicuouSly hitherto in the per-
sonnet of the four, Cohans. If
it were not for such laughing sue
cesses as Animal Crackers" it
might not be so easy to find en-
courage n t in experienced
sources to sponsor financially
plays of the more serious charac-
ter, which, like those Of the Thea
ter Guild, assume a frank indie
pendence of the box office.
u X
Caprice" the closing chapter
of the Theater Guild Autumn Sc
rial story in Washington, will be
presented this week. The guilds
offerings hitherto have been
marked by extraordinary versa
tility combined with a finesSe ex-
tending to the most minute detail
and enabling the art of the per-
formances to assert itself above
and beyond even their revelations
Of lavish beauty.
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! REAT BRITAIN has been more

| ~ REAT BRITAIN has been more
than usually liberal this year
in its donations to our thea
~ ter Although the season is
new, it has sent us 10 plays,
for some of which we should be CRATE
full, Our most cherished blessing in a
drama Journeys Ends gift from
England, and we have to thank the
| Step-motherland for such joyous toys
as Bitter Sweet" and Bird in Hand"
The pensive Many Waters" too, is a
reliable present. instructing a hasty
public in the quiet pleasures of medi-
tation. Berkeley Squares wistful
spook, in the beguiling person OF Leslie
Howard, is no less than a boon, and
Ropes End" with its ingenious horrors,
belongs in any Christmas box. THE
Silver Tassie.' though damaged in
transit, also has its precious elements,
bitter partnership of reality and fan
tasy from the isle of Mother Macree.
Despite the generosity of the afore-
up at some of the other largess from
benef1cent Albion. Murder on the
Second Floor" smart merry go-round.
was rejected, as was Scotland Yard"
detective play, and THE Middle
Watch" dull and decent pajama
farce. Candle Light" though inflated
by Miss Gertrude Lawrences fragrant
6eNeoCcp Noo ACSdI0C0 do Uu6 a DlI1k Ddl-
loon easily punctured, ephemeral and
scarcely worth while. Nevertheless, we
are obligated to London for some of the
best times to be had in the dirtiest
sinokiest, gayest, most happy-go-lucky
and slattern of the metropoliSes There
fore, think that Miss Lillian Foster,
an American actress in London. was
ungrateful when, in a burst of red,
white and blue indignation, she socked
Hammer Swaffer, Engiand's pet dra-
matte critic, upon his jaw. And I sus-
pect that Oscar Asche, q dean of Brit |
tsh entertainment, was tactless the |
other day when he denounced Ameri- |
can shownaen as impolite, noisy, vulgar. |
indecent, ill-bred and barbarous. Let |
us forget those small hostilities and !
nestle comfortably in the binding grasp
OF hands across the sea.
y \
Mr.. BALDERsToN's stately ghost
story. Berkeley Square" came
from London and by its gentle necro-
nancy quite enchanted its first Ameri-
can audience. The product of the
Morning Worlds London correspond
ent, with suggestions from Henry James
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
John Francis Shows
Drawing Big Crowds

"A startling feather OF the John
Francis shows. playing here this
week under the auspices OF the
American Legion bugle and drum
CORPS. was the spectacular dive
made ny Captain Blake into q tank
Of fire. Blake dived from a height
of 90 feet into a small tank, filled
with water and covered with blaz-
ing gasoline.
Attendance has been good since
the opening Of the show here. the
manager and American Legion Of
ficials state. Proceeds from the
show are TO be used by the bugie
and drum corps to defray expenses
incurred on the trip 70 the national
convention at Louisville.
John Francis. manager, was host
to the Eagle team Monday evening,
and the boys enjoyed all attractions
at the show at his expense.
The carnival. which X In full
swing 40 the Missouri Pacific park,
will continue through Friday. Cap
tain Blake Is TO make his leap each
evening.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
STOCKS

NEW YORK, Dec. l0-tP-Sell-
ing pressure was renewed at the
opening Of today's stock market,
and prices drifted irregularly low
er. General electric dropped 3 Ia
points to 240, which contrasts with
a high of PSI last Friday. National
biscuit fell 2 ga points, Union Car
bide / ga and Bethlehem steel /
IA. American advanced 2 IL
points and American Telephone l
l-2.
Strong buying support for ". ..
Steel common, General Electric,
Westinghouse and other leaders
brought about an irregular recovery
before the end or the first half
hour, although at that time the
majority Of issues were still selling
below yesterdays close. Strength
Of III. s. Steel, which opened frac-
tionally lower at ITO ga and ran up
to 1874 IA. may have been influ-
enced by expectations of a favorable
monthly tonnage report this noon
General Electric quickly recovered
an early loss Of 4 "a. and Westing-
house Electric converted an early
loss Of 2 points into a gain Of 2 IL.
Auburn Auto dropped 8 points,
Brooklyn Union Gas 5 ID and
Lackawanna, Worthington Pump,
Simmons. Sears Roebuck. Mont
Eomery Ward. Standard Oil Of New
Jersey Standard Oil OF California.
Erie and Chesapeake g. Ohio we're
among the many issues to sell down
4 to 2 IL points.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
Many Air Passengers
Leave For Mexico

w. c. Keith. Of the Keith Lumber
company. Beaumont, left for Tam
pico Tuesday to look after the Mex
lean branch OF the company there
He was a passenger on the Mexican
Aviation company plane. Another
passenger was q. ". Young, Of Los
Angeles, who goes to Tampico TO
take charge Of that branch OF the
Sinclair oil company there. Scott
M. Hanley. head Of the United
dredging company. which Is work
ing in Tampico. came up to Browns
vile Monday afternoon for q few
days. r. III. Bohart. manager q the
Mexican Gulf oil company, OF Tam
pico. also came up on a trip north
Stanley Hawkins, secretary at the
u. s. legation in Guatemala, pass
NJ through Monday afternoon on
his wav TO Los Angeles. He was &C
comuanied by Mrs. Hawkins, and
thew are going on their vacation
They arrived by the Mexican avia-
ton company plane, and continued
their trip by air and rail, Monday
afternoon
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
WOMEN FLOCK
TO BIG EVENT
Especial to The Herald.)


LYFORD, Dec. l0.-With visitors
continuing to arrive. approximate
ly It's leading women Of this sec
ton had registered here noon
Tuesday for the 32nd annual con-
vention of the Valley Federation
Of Women's clubs.
The session was being held in the
auditorium OF the Lyford high
school. Holiday was declared for
the pupils in order that the wo-
men might have use Of the hall.
There were 43 delegates and Of
ficers Of Cameron county clubs
present and they had it'll them %
visitors. Starr and Willacy fur
nished eleven delegates and 81
visitors, while 43 delegates and ten
visitors were present from Hidalgo
county.
Mrs. Howard Haywood was act
ing as chairman of the hostess COM
mitee of the Lyford clubs.
The meeting was opened at 3 q.
m. IN the Lyford school auditorium
BY Mrs. +. Owen Scott Of Rio
Grande City. president Of the Fed
Grafton. Visitors from the Valley
we're welcomed by George Mitchell
for the city Of Lyford and by Miss
Harriet Fowler for Lyford club wom-
en-. Mrs. w. r. Jones. president OF
the Brownsville City Federation and
Cameron county superintendent
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10

ROUTE PLEAS
Proximity To City Chief
Designation Cause
Now Advocated

Proximity to Brownsville, snd con-
nection with air mail lines into Mex
leo and Central America Is cited by
advocates Of the New Orleans-Hous
toni Galveston route for the pro-
posed new southern transcontinental
air line. according to the report re-
ceived by the chamber of commerce
from Harry Sexton. Sexton repre-
sented Brownsville at the recent
hearing before assistant postmaster
general. Irving Glover, in charge of
the airmail division.
The brief OF the case submitted by
representatives of the interested cit
les call attention to the fact that
1t taps the southern air lines for
a direct line between Brownsville
and Houston.
Brownsville Is supporting the
route through Houston and San An
tonic, as against q possible one
through Dallas or some other more
northern point.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
French War Debt Is
Funded 81 Years

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-tF-
Approval Of the treasury depart
ment today was formally placed up
on the plant worked out for fund
ing the S4,O25. 900 900 French war
debt to the United States.
Appearing before the house ways
and mean committee. under-secre-
tary Mills said the department en-
dorsed the pending bill to author
ize acceptance of the funding agree
ment worked out several years ago
by the American Debt Commission
which passed out OF existence short
~ after negotiating the agreement.
Mills explained the French obli-
cation would be funded over a g.
year period with an increase in
payments during the latter years
of the period.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
GRID TICKETS
SELLING FAS
information For M "a TX ing
Reservations Given
To Public

Immediate ordering OF tickets for
the Battle OF Grapefruit" game III
urged by wv. II. P~endergraft. man
ager. Tickets are selling at a rapid
rate In the towns up the Valley.
Pendergraft declares. and good
seats are going out fast.
Boxes may be reserved through
Il. <. Mockbee. manager OF the
telephone company in Brownsville,
while tickets have been placed for
sale in each town. Regular seats
are procurable in Brownsville
through the chamber OF commerce.
Several special features for the
game between the All-Valley team
and the Cisco players T being ar
ranged, n Of which Ks IN sing-song.
Ted by CleVe Tandy. Rotary song
leader for Brownsville. Several well
known songs will be printed on the
programs nc the game.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
SUMMARY

A disturbance Of considerable in
t-nsity has appeared over the north
Pacific states this morning CBar-
ometer at Portland, Ore, 29.32),
while pressure continued moderate
ly high to high over the eastern
two-thirds of the United States and
over south-central Canada. Cloudy
and unsettled weather prevailed
over the greater portion Of the
country at the morning observation,
with dense fog reported from many
stations in the central and south
central states and all along the
Gulf coast. Precipitation was slight
to heavy and general throughout
the far Northwest since last report.
Temperatures we're seasonable to
mild this morning from the north
Pacific states Southeastward to the
middle Gulf states, seasonable over
the northeastern portion OF the
United States, and somewhat sub
normal in the Canadian Northwest.
WEATHER BULLETIN
First figures. lowest temperatures
last night; second, highest tempera-
lures yesterday; third. wind We
locity nc 8 a. m; fourth, precipi-
tation In last "a hours.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
Regimental Review
AT Fort Tomorrow

Colonel Daniel Van Voorhis.
commanding Fort Brown, announces
that he will hold a dress up" re-
gimental review at the Post. We'd
nesday. December IL, at $3.50,
o'clock. With the mounted Band,
the horses with white trimmings and
the command in caps and blouses,
an inspiring sight Is promised.
The usual Tuesday afternoon
band concert will be held at the
Post at 400, o'clock. by the II Cav
airy Band. under the direction of
Charles r. Waddington. Immedi-
ately following the band concert. at
ABS. Captain William T. Haldeman.
post adjutant viii hold a formal
dismounted guard mount on the
main parade ground
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
CHICAGOAN SPENT $4,000
NOT HIS OWNFOR DANCING

CHICAGO, Dec. 10-R-JacK
New, 20. promised to tell Judge
Francis Borelli today how he had
taxi-danced $4,000 away in two
years-s6,OO0 that didn't belong to
him.
II never smoked, drank, swore,
or gambled i'm my life,' he told
police last night after being re-
turned from Memphis. Tenn. but.
boy, how I've danced these last
two yearsl"
New was bookkeeper for the
Wood-Davis company which had
him arrested for embezzlement Of
company funds. He is married and
has two children.
az spent that whole $4,000 on
taxi dances" he told sergeant Ru-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10

OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. l0-FJ
Running 1rt OF fuel and with
the earth hiGacn by a heavy blanket
OF fog. Charles Peoples, air mail
pilot. attempted a landing at the
municipal airport here late last
night, cracked up his plane and es-
capped without n scratch. This
morning ne was aboard a train 10
Kansas City with his mail.
After taking off at Fort Worth.
Peoples ran into a heavy fog near
Headton- He pushed ahead. and a
short time later received radio
warnings that the fog was unbroken
from his position to Oklahoma
City.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10

dolph Fremont. II have danced a
distance equivalent TO several times
around the world"
You know this taxi dance racket.
serreant-a dime a dance for half a
minute. 20 cents "A minute. The
house gets half. your girl partner
gets half. I never danced until I
dropped into that taxi dance place.
It fascinated me 7 couldn't stop.
When they closed at I a. m. i
would sometimes take three or four
taxi dancers 10 night clubs. Anna
Wandu, Beatrice. Bobbie and Sop
HE"
II was Sophie Krause. 15. who
gave detectives a clue to News
whereabouts. She told sergeant
Fremont she had received "A letter
from New in Memphis.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10
JURY DELVES
into HIDALCO
COUNTY Case
Evidence OF Federal
Law Violation
Is Sought

Delving into the political situa-
ton IN Hidalgo county, which, since
the last general election campaign
started has been noted in the White
House. the state legislature, state
courts, federal courts and delibera-
ton OF congressional investigating
committees, a federal grand Jury
To-Day sought evidence of a viola
ton OF a federal law in last No
MEMBERS election tangle in tire
county.
Federal Judge J. c. Hutchinson.
Jr- instructed the jury TO disregard
anything that might be found which
did not infringe on federal laws.
The situation first came to ma
ticnal attention when q number Of
independent republicans, whose
candidates were denied a place on
the republican ballot, appealed to.
President Coolidge to intervene to.
guarantee q fair election. These
appeals were turned over to the de-
partment of justice.
The independents lost. but claim
ed their candidates would have been
successful If the Weslaco box had
been counted in the returns. The
returns from that box were rejected
because the county commissioners
maintained they were not properly
conveyed to the commissioners
court.
A large delegation Of Hidalgo
voters visited the legislature in an
effort to obtain an Investigation,
and a number Of witnesses testified
before the congressional campaign
funds investigation committee
which held hearings In the county.
Numerous contests were filed in
the state courts.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-10

NEW YORK. Dec. 10.-tR-The
cotton market opened steady at a
decline OF 4 points to an advance of
one point. but continuation Of the
selling which developed yesterday
sent active months 3 to 8 points
below yesterdays close. The mar
ket was quiet and fairly steady with
prices showing rallies Of 2 or 3
points from the lowest at the end
Of the first half hour.