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The Washington times., 1929-03-26
Stimson Will Be Guest
Of Hoover at Mansion

Immediately upon MS aFllNdl III
Washington late this afternoon.
Henry l.. Stimson, new Secretary of
State, will proceed to the White
House where he is to be a guest for
a week to enable President Hoover
to discuss with him the formulation
Of important foreign policies and
make selections for higher diplomatic
posts.
Hugh Gibson. American amhas-
sador to Belgium and chief Of the
American delegation on armaments,
is expected to attend these confer
ences.
1t was indicated at the White
House yesterday that the President
has not made selections for the more
important diplomatic posts and will
not do So until he has consulted with
Secretary Stimson.
1t is intimated that the more inn
portant European diplomatic posts,
with the exception of Italy and Bel
giurn. will be filled by new appoint
ments, for which many have been
recommended.
The President also is expected to
discuss with Secretary StimsOn the
question of recognition of Russia.
and the American policy toward the
World Court Recognition of Rus
sia. it is understood, while not
necessarily imminent. is a matter
which the Administration considers
is one which must be dealt with in
the not distant future.
Six days left to file your PERSONAL
tax return. Automobiles being
bought on the deferred payment
plan are taxable to the person buy.
Smyrna times., 1929-02-13
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WHY BE TROUBLED

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$3.50; 13-plate, 5000. Liberal allow
ance on old battery.
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ADVERTIsEMFNT FOR BIDS


Sealed proposals will be received by the
State Highway Department at its Office, Do
yer. Delaware. until 200 o'clock p. M, March
y. 1929. and at that place and time publicly
opened for contracts involving the following
f''- '''-''e CONTRACT "R"
Trees for Planting along State Highways.
$3.50 Elm
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within ten (l0) days after execution Of the
contract and be completed specified.
Monthly payments will be made for 80 per
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Bidders must submit proposals upon forms
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Each proposal must be accompanied by a
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The envelope containing the proposal must
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Good Directors.

ss'T>HE motion picture director Is
coming into his own. Audiences
are beginning to look for the directors
name on q film instead OF the stars
name. for without good director. q
good star makes a poor picture" 80
claims Alfred Santell.
what are the steps necessary to
directorial ability? These men do not
step into important positions behind the
camera without going through as many
steps Of preparation as the star.
Willard webb believes that q director
should first be an actor. when came
out to Hollywood. had hoped 70 De q
handsome hero OF the SCREEN. laugneo
the young man. When I saw myself
there. decided that belonged oenino
the camera instead Of In front OF 1t. but
the experience was valuable. learned
the actors viewpoint of the business
It helped me in selecting my actors. the
best points of a girls face, now 10
place players In scenes. etc.
Also, I think q director should nave
written for the SCREEN" Webb states
writing gives q clearer insight INTO
story values. wrote the scripts tor
Tiger Rose 'Dulcy' and Brass, 70
faniliarize myself with story forms and
how to get the strong situations out TO
the best advantage.
other directors who have been actors
before going behind the cameras to
guide some one else are Fred Niolo,
Cecil De Mile and william j. Cowen.
William De Mile was In charge OF
scenario department before he started
directing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

"THE LETTER" now visible and
audible in New York. is another
of those milestones along the rough road
of movie history. 1t is more than a
milestone 1t is a sign-post. indicating
distinct and extremely dangerous turn
in that road. It should cause every one
in the movie and theatrical business
and every one who contributes to the
support of the movie and theatrical
business, to stop, look and, above all
things, listen.
For 1.-The Letter" even more than
THE Jazz Singer" The Broadway
Melody" or any of the other talkies, is
the herald of new order. 1t is an an
nouncement, by the movie producers,
that in the future they will do battle
with the thinning minions of the speak
ing stage on the latter's home grounds.
The fact that THE Letter" is an all
talking picture-and an exceedingly eff
fective one, at that's not of major
importance. It could nave been made
five years ago into an interesting silent
picture; with the addition of a happy
ending and certain changes and dele
tons in Somerset Maughams bitter
story, it could have been popular and
profitable.
In its present form. 1.-THE Letter" APP
tally so; it is uncompromisingly tragic;
1t is as far removed from the standard
conception of a sweet, sloppy. senti-
mental movie as THE Wild Duck" is
from "Pollyanna" And it will make for
its sponsors, the Paramount Corpora
ton, considerable sums of money.
r X
The fiesh-and blood drama Gas OPP
posed to the movies) has been waning
appreciably in the past few years. 1t
has narrowed down to the Theater Guild
and those who have followed the Thea
Ter Guild in the production of plays of
the type that is known as ''high-brow."
The plays that have succeeded are
those which could not be duplicated on
the Screen-as, for instance. Strange
Interlude," "Coquette," Street Scene"
and even that grim melodrama. 1.-THE
Trial of Mary Dugan." Il exclude mu-
steal shows from this. because the zieg-
field variety of flesh-and-blood drama is
inevitably more desirable when viewed
in the fieSh)
The theater now finds its audience
among those who will cheerfully pay
$40 to see as intelligent, as stimulating
and as honest a play as Street Scene
but who couldn't be hired to attend a
showing of THE Cohens and Rsllxs in
Atlantic City"
Now, after all these years. the movie
people are going after this S770 audi
ence, and The Letter" proves that they
will be able to get it.
Not that The Letter" is particularly
remarkable as food for the intellect. 1t
Is an obvious and none too expert MUIR
der melodrama, in which the aristocratic
heroine is heard to remark, You
wouldn't treat a dog like you treat mel"
But 1t was made by Paramount with no
regard whatever for the old movie ira
ditions Zone of which is that a picture
with an unhappy ending will end up in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Why Dick Is Popular.

sgT HAVE often wondered why Rich
l. ard Barthelmess is such q favor
tie with both male and female patrons
of the picture palaces. Nevertheless.
it is true that he appeals to people OF
all ages and both sexes. And think
/ have discovered the reason. after
watching him work with scores OF the
most beautiful girls in Hollywood and
dozens of handsome young men:
Il asked the men what they thought
of Dick. I asked the girls in the pic
ture and the technical cast on the set.
I got the same enthusiastic reply from
them all-'He's a peachp
1T found that his directors have en-
loved working with him, that his pho
tographers who have been making still
pictures for Dick for years share the
enthusiasm.
"'Dick is still a shy, self-conscious
boy in public one Of his closest friends
told me. That's why he never makes
public appearances and never Is on the
speaking list at banquets. He loves his
home and his baby girl, his boo and
his books. And his friends repAen his
friends through the years
surely. thought. that Is reason
enough for his continued popularity
on the screen and off,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
The Snoring picture cAlbnm
Bv Robert E. Sherwood.

the red ink): 1t was made with no re-
gard for the movie public. en- masSe.
which expresses its attitude in the
words, Il go to the theater to be en-
tertained"
THE Letter" was produced cheaply,
as feature pictures go, and its diStrihu-
ton will he limited. 1t won't have to
appeal to the millions o. fans. in big
towns and little ones, who went into
ecstasies over Lilac Time It will
appeal to the few who would have been
qualified to appreciate THE Last Laugh
had it been brought to their attention.
From those few, in a few big cities,
Paramount will derive a handsome
profit.
What they have done with THE Let
ter" they will be able to do with any
other play. any novel or short story.
for that matter. They can and will
invade that last exclusive precinct
which has been the dramas ultimate
citadel. which means that a great many
more asbestos curtains are soon to be
rung down for the last time.
We hear much of mammoth mergers
in the movie industry at this time.
Fox has merged with Loew. and Para
mount. they say, will merge with the
| Radio Corporation and possibly with
| Warner Bros. This is all part Of the
vast scheme of reorganization, the OBJ
| ject of which is to achieve monster
corporations along the expansive lines
Of General Motors.
| When that has come to pass movies
will be made and sold as automobiles
are made and sold.
I, therefore, warn all Broadway play
wrights. actors and managers to stop
reassuring themselves with the state
ment that "the mere mechanical movie
can never take the place of the glorious
| speaking stage" And I also warn all
Hollywood scenario writer's, actors and
directors to stop alibing themselves
with the explanation that I'VE know
our pictures are stupid. but we've got
to make them for the moronS, not for
the grown-ups.'
Since the movies have learned how
to talk they have also begun to learn
how to think. They have previously
had wealth and plenty of charm; now.
with the added attraction of intelli-
gence, they should be practically ire
Sistible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Yearns for Stage Glory.

WASHINGTON has a new candidate
" for stage glory. Bob Carbauh at
the age of years was soloist at a
banquet given by the Order of the
Cardiac, accompanied by the Marine
Band. He received letter of COM
mendation from Lieut.. Santelmann,
who at that time was directing the
band. Mr.. Santelmann praised his
singing, as we'll as his voice, and pre-
dicted bright future for him. During
the war he was busy singing at all
the camps. At the age of 9 he was
doing orchestra work as drummer and
leader. At the age of 13 he took up
the xylophone and uke. At the age
of Is for TO years he toured the
New England States with his dad in
concert. He Is popular radio artist,
having appeared over many stations,
some of which are WCAP, WEAF,
VIVA, WTAM, WRC. WMAL. WOR,
VOL and WIZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Appeared Personally.
7 UPE vELEZ, the Mexican girl vi

T UPE VELEZ, the Mexican girl who
has won stardom and a consider
able fan popularity for herself in a
short space Of time, made personal ap-
pearances in New York in connection
with the showing of her picture Lady
of the Pavements." Her personality,
both on the screen and on the stage.
impressed most of the critics favorably;
the vivid style of her dancing and pat
ter" won comment.
The Mexican girls next picture will
have its locale In the Argentine. Story
details are now being worked out. One
of her first screen successes was with
Douglas Fairbanks in The Gauchn."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Coming Attractions
NATIONAL PLAYERs-"Twin Beds

For the week beginning March IS,
the National Theater Players have ar
ranged to revive what has been called
the comedy masterpiece Twin Beds"
by Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo
co-authors.
Twin Beds" Is title suggestive of
one of the old Avery Hopwood farces,
which 1t is not. Yet Twin Beds" Is a
farce-and farce never to be forgot
ten 1t tells the story of a young man.
weary of club life, who marries and
settles down to the quiet Joys of do
mesticity. Happily engaged during
business hours, he leaves at home, in
the luxurious apartment, q young wife
who pines for something to do: who,
when he comes home at night tired
after hard day in the Office. wants to
join the merry-making. Her uncon-
sciouS fiirtationS and the consequences
that cause three married couples to
fee each from the others, only to be
brought together again under another
roof, form the basis for the action.
Miss Mary Newton, Wilfred Lytell,
Miss Betty Kent, the new ingenue;
Freddie Sherman. Charles Hampden,
Mrs. Adaleide Hubbard, Miss Helen
Wallace and Robert Brister will carry
the various roles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
JANET RICHARDS, Tomorrow.

Miss Janet Richards at her regular
talk on Public Questions: Home and
Foreign" tomorrow will give a general
review OF the outstanding events In the
worlds work for the past week, with
special mention of the progress Of
events under the new administration In
Washington, and a glance at the va
rious capitals Of Europe, where history
is being made, concluding with the
present status Of the revolution in
Mexico.
The talks are given every Monday
morning at 10:45 o'clock in the Masonic
Temple, Thirteenth street and New
York avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Flashes From the Screen
By G. E. Nelson.

the nation, from the trustees Of
the British Empire Film Institute
the great film of Capt. SCOTS last
and fatal Antarctic expedition
Many films of the World War are
already preserved in Great Brit
aims war Office, and the new ma
tional film collection will include
various visits of the Prince OF
Wales to distant sections of the
ar-fiung empire, scenes at the
opening of Parliament, ArmiStice
Day celebrations and Shackleton's
attempt to conquer Mount Everest
** ~
WHILE some of the producers
w and exhibitors do not take
television seriously, Bayard Veil
Ter, playwright, says that scenario
editors are no longer fuSSing over
the picture rights or even the
talking rights; it is the television
rights that they want authors to
sign away"
WELLER goes on to say: "Tele-
vision is much nearer perfection
that any one is yet ready to admit.
But I don't think it will ever sue
coed in scrapping the movie
theaterS. Half of the pleasure
derived from show comes from
seeing it with an audience. Seen
in a projection room, no picture
is ever half so good.
II am enthusiastic about the
talking pictures. They are going
to sweep everything before them.
It won't take so very long, either.
Look at the progress they've made
in only the past few months.
There's nothing they won't be
able to do, eventually"
WELLER Is not new to the movies.
Seven years ago he was director
general of Metro Goldwyn- Mayer,
in charge of nine units, and all Of
his stage plays have been turned
into screen productions.
1t Is Said That
"THE LETTER" the new talking
L film, taken from the play of
Somerset Vaughan, is "princi-
pally meritorious on account of
the tragedy and pathoS of a wife,
and Jeanne Eagles, the former
stage star, plays the wife.
Baclanova will sing four Rus
sian songs in the picture THE
Woman Who Needed Killing" We
are given to understand that the
title of the picture has nothing to
do with the fact that she sings,
for she once lifted her voice as a
of the Moscow Art
Theater.
If Wilma Banky's voice tests
prove successful, she will be al
lowed to sing in This Is Heaven"
James Barton, the stage come
dian, will have a song-dance part
in "Africano," which is to be pro-
duced by Paramount.
Ronald Colman is recovering
from injuries sustained during
the filming of Bulldog Drum
During struggle with
thugs" he sustained a cracked
rib, sprained knee and other
bruises.
Mary Astor is to have a talking
part in her new picture, 1.-The
Lady From He'll" Fireworks and
an odor of birthstone!
Eight cameras are used from
different angles in the filming of
a cabaret scene from Broadway"
The accompanying sound and dia-
logue are recorded on a single
sound track which will~be trans
ferred to the finished films upon
completion Of the Photographic
work. Paul Fejos Is directing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

In December, 1928, he joined the
Savoy Musical Stock Co. - q chorus
boy, and wound up the season with the
heaviest part in Little Nellie Kelly"
that of Jack Lloyd, for which he received
most favorable criticism from the
newspapers. Bob intends to make the
stage his life work, regardless of the
opposition of his father. who insists
that 1t Is a rough road to travel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
STRAND-"She -

One Of the principals in next week.
attraction at the Strand Theater Is de-
scribed as She" counterpart Of that
interesting personality found in Rider
Haggard's sensational novel. Others Of
note include Jack Ericsson, Joe Kilch
Marie North and Anna Propp, the
smallest girl on the burlesque stage,
with a sprightly chorus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

Max Reinhardt, the famous CONT
mental theatrical producer, has called
of his contract TO present Lillian Gish
in o pictur: tentatively called The
Miracle Woman" and he has gone back
10 Germany. The demand for talking
pictures is said to have caused the
change In plans. Max couldn't stand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Current Attractions
Continued From First Page.>

people. including a lawyer, an artist,
an actress and banker.
Miss Helburn, as a rich young So
ciety girl" was the one able to spend
great deal Of time doing more than
her share toward building up the guild,
and, incidentally, learning all the
tricks of the trade" Tactful, capable,
and with many contacts, she soon be-
came so necessary to the guild that she
was made executive member of the
committee, and has been so ever since.
In addition to being largely responsible
for the general policy of the guild. Miss
Helbufn participates In the selection
Of plays, supervises all casting Of play
ers, and takes care Of other details
too numerous to mention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
THORNTON WILDER, March 81.

washingtonians will have their first
opportunity to hear the noted American
novelist. Thornton wilder, who will APP
pear under the auspices Of the Commu-
nifty Institute Of Washington March
81 in Central High School Auditorium
at 8:15 pm.
His latest novel, 1.-THE Bridge Of San
Luis Rey," won the Pulitzer prize of
1928, and it is on the growth Of THE
Bridge" that Mr.. Wilder will lecture
in Washington. THE Bridge Of San
Luis Rey' holds the rare distinction Of
having been pronounced a classic by
critics.
A native of Wisconsin, Mr.. Wilder
passed his early years in China, where
hts father was American consul gen.
eral. He graduated from Yale In 1920,
spent two years at the American Acad-
envy in Rome, and before reaching his
thirtieh birthday anniversary had pub
lsihed two novels which placed him in
the first rank of American writer's.
Tickets are on sale at the New VIII
lard, American Automobile Association
and the Community Institute, Franklin
School Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
TEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM
March 22-23.

"Ten Nights In a Bar Room" WIN be
presented by the Columbia Players the
evenings of March % and % at the
Wilson Auditorium, Eleventh and Har-
ward streets.
Special settings have been painted by
Miss Virginia Ubhoh and the produc-
ton aims faithfully to reconstruct the
The incidental music, which played an
important part in the old nfelodrana
will be furnished by string quartet
under the direction Of Mrs. e. j. Ward
and the old songs, such as Father
Dear Father. Come Home to Me Now, "
will be included. Mrs. Aurora Poston Is
the director. .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

Laurence Stallings and Leighton K.
Brill have finished the Nbretto for
Eddie Dowling's forthcoming musical
production, THE Big Parade" Edgar
MacGregor will stage the piece.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17

THERE is being inaugurated, in
Great Britain, a movement to
collect and preserve for the en-
pire all films that embody the
spirit OF endeavor and the history
Of Britain, and to see that pos
terity, through these films, will
have visual evidence Of the spirit
and doings Of the past. The Duke
of York will accept, on behalf of