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The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-02
MISS MEXICO is
FREED BY JURl
Acquitted of Murder; Appea
of Lawyer Eloquent.

Bu United Press
MEXICO CITY, Dec. "A jury
deliberated only forty minutes to
reach verdict of not guilty, free
ing Maria Teresa De Landa De
Vidal, Miss Mexico" of charge
of numbering her husband, the
wealthy General Noises Vidal.
The trial attracted wide attention
throughout Mexico. The defendant
had been chosen Miss Mexico" at
the annual beauty pageant at Gal
weston little more than year
ago.
Closing sessions of the Sunday
we're broadcast by radio. The jury'S
decision partly was attributed to
the eloquent defense appeal of At
torney Jose Maria Lozano, who
painted a picture of temporarily
crazed Miss Mexico shooting at her
husband, when she read he already
had an undivorced wife and two
children.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-02
$4,000 Loss in Garage Fire
BIZ United Press

BIZ JNttcd PreS8
EDINBURG, Ind, Dec. "A fire
loss estimated at $4,000 was caused
by an overheated stove at the
Stoughton garage here. The gar
age and most of its contents were
destroyed. Exploding gasoline in au-
tomobiles stored in the garage made
fire fighting dangerous.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-02

tive, Frank G. Emerson, who sue
ceeded Mrs. Ross in the Statehouse
at Cheyenne.
But for this law, Wyoming's Re
publican Governor might appoint a
Republican senator.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-02
100000 Cases Today

What the national campaign has
accomplished in its first IS years
can be duplicated in even a shorter
time, but only if the war against
the disease is carried on without a
halt and without laxity on the part
Of the supporting public. the Good
Housekeeping editor shows.
THE road back to health is a
long one. long and uncertain un-
less the patient has rest and an un-
troubled mind and good food" he
continues. These must frequently
if not usually-be provided for
through sources outside the pa
TENTS family. Hence the necessity
for larger sums of money. There
are more than 100000 tuberculosis
cases in the country today, hence
the need for an ever-increasing
army of seal purchasers"
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-02
TUBERCULOSIS
DEATH RATE IS
DOWN TO HALF
Christmas Seals Are Chief
Source of Funds in
Fighting Disease.

BH Times SDeci1l
NEW YORK, Dec. Twenty
five years ago tuberculosis was
claiming 200 lives In each 100000
annually; today its toll has been
cut to less than half that figure.
Within a short time civilization may
expect to eliminate the scourge en-
tirely.
These are the facts brought out
by William Frederick Bigelow, edi-
tor of Good Housekeeping maga-
zine, in an editorial appeal for the
generous purchase Of the Christmas
seals of the National tuberculosis
Association.
Where the situation was regarded
as hopeless at the beginning Of the
century, it has now been firmly
established that tuberculosis is cur
able. But The fight is only half
won, Mr.. Bigelow points out. Tu-
berculosis still leads all other
diseases as a cause of death among
people in the prime of life.
Young are Victims
Three years ago it caused
91,568 deaths in the registration
area" he says, "and Of these victims
56,746 were boys and girls, young
men and Women-more women
under 80 than men of the same age
period But whatever the age or
sex, death from tuberculosis is a
needless death, for proof is both
abundant and positive that tuber-
culoSis can be cured.
Perhaps you helped to save some
of these lives. You most certainly
did If you co-operated with the
National tuberculosis Association.
which you did if you bought only
single Christmas seal. And if you
realized the seriousness of the Situ-
alton and bought the seals gener-
ously, your share was just that
much greater"
The Indianapolis times., 1929-12-02

foreign soil Now
Madrid long experienced in state
of
Guatemala Pictured at the right meet
Edge of New
will to France American ambassador succeeding the
T. (exreme right who
several months as ambassador %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
ORM|STON CALLED
IN HARDY PROBE
CaIiforniais to Seek Mans
Story of Mrs. McPherson's
kidnapping Case.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, February Am at
tempt to draw from Kenneth G. Or
mission. former radio operator at An.
gelus Temple, his version of the Aimee
Semple Mcpherson disappearance case
and the charges growing out OF 1t viii
be made by the legislative committee
investigating the evangelist's love Of
fering' of $4,000 TO Judge Carlos S..
Hardy of the Los Angeles Criminal
Court
Crmiston, who was alleged to have
been with Mrs. Mcpherson at Carmel,
Calf, during the time she said she was
held by kidnapers on the Mexican
desert. was named in subpoena order
issued yesterday.
Operator Long Secluded.
The radio man disappeared during
the investigation, which led to the filing
Of the conspiracy charge against the
evangelist, and was mot located until
some time after the case had been
dropped. Found in New York, he re-
turned to Los Angeles Voluntarily in
company with Los Angeles County in
vestigatorS but the case was never Of
ficially reopened. He has been living
here since.
Former District Attorney Asa Keyes.
who brought the charges against the
evangelist and who eventually dismissed
the case on the grounds of lack of EVIL
dence, appeared in response to SUBJ
poena before the investigating commit
tee last night.
He denied that Judge Hardy ever had
approached him regarding the McPher-
son case. The committee is seeking to
determine if Judge Hardy committed
an improbable offense in accepting the
$4,000.
Denies Making Advance Statement.
Keys. who at present is on trial with
two co-defendants on charges of bribery
and conspiracy, also denied that, prior
to his appearance in court to move the
dismissal of the evangelist's case he
had told any one that he intended to
make such move, with the exception
of Superior Judge Albert l.. Stephens.
before whom the motion was made, and
the States attorney general.
Jackson Berger, Los Angeles news
paper man, and Nick Harris also testi-
fed last night. Berger, who had in
terviewed Judge Hardy last Autumn
when it became known that he had
been the recipient of the check, testi-
fed that the jurist then told him it
was given for advice rendered in real
estate deals and other matters in con-
nection with Angelus Temple.
Harris told the committee he had
been called into the Mcpherson case
July 8, 1926, and later employed to
ferret out information and make re-
ports on rumors for Mrs. Mcpherson.
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TAKES BIBLE AS TEXT.
DR.. Barnes Will Preach at Fiji,
teenth Street Christian Church.

At Fifteenth Street Christian Church,
Fifteenth street and Kentucky avenue
southeast, thu pastor, Rev. Harry M.
Wilson, announces that DR.. F. r.
Barnes viii preach today at II
O'Clock on the theme of John, lille:
''The Golden Text of the Bible"
Intermediate Endeavor and Senior
Endeavor societies meet at 6:45 pm.
The evening church service begins
at 8 o'clock. DR.. Newell will occupy
the pulpit In the absence of the pastor,
who is in a revival meeting at Langdon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
First Lady's Compliments.

NO prouder or happier man walked
the streets of Washington after the
Saturday matinee of This Thing Called
Love" than Manager Steve Cochran of
the National Theater Players, despite
his many troubles with the Musicians
Union.
And why not? For was not the most
distinguished member of his audience
on that occasion no less than Mrs. CAL
win Coolidge. the First Lady of the
Land, and had she not only remained to
witness the entire play but fingered
afterward, an interested listener to the
proceedings, while Director Addison
Pitt OF the Players introduced the sew
eral members of his company and read
the cordial kilograms that had been re-
ceived from former members of Man.
ager Cochran's noted repertoire COM
pany, then entering the fifth season Of
its happy career?
Steve reached the seventh heaven"
of existence. however. when Mrs. Cool
idge. as she was leaving the theater,
stopped for a moment to pay the finest
compliment he has received yet for his
famous Players.
IT thoroughly enjoyed the perform
ance," Mrs. Coolidge told the blushing
manager. This is the finest repertoire
company have seen, and am particu-
larly well pleased with the new members
Of the cast
Mrs. Coolidge has been a regular pa
tron of the National Theater Players
for the past four seasons of their ex-
istence. and her pretty compliment
coming as a parting expression of ap-
probation before she leaves the city.
Manager Cochran says, is one of our
real treasures"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
On the Broadway Stage
YAsTOR
Fox

Of the humors and pains of Manhat-
tan's black belt
The Negro theme, which comes to its
surface from time to time, was the best
expressed, perhaps, in the last scene,
when. in the midst of the excitement
following murder in which an inno-
cent young West Indian Negro is
suspected of the killing. and the police
are frisking pockets and firing questions
at the family dragged ito the affair,
the old mother of the girl involved, a
serious. self-respecting black woman,
fresh from South Carolina, cries out
brokenly to the white plain clothes
man: Mister, We amt done nothin'!
We'se just up from the South and amt
got used to Harlem yet-dat's ALL"
AS the final curtain falls and the
daughter of the family quite spoiled
young fapper, ready to take her men
where she can find them, and buy her
way to the city's bright lights with her
own audacity and good looks and dash
the consequences-as this symbol of
what New York can do to folks-curses
her own parents and flounces out with
her latest man, the old mother raises
her arms and cries eart-brokenly.
There are several similarly eloquent
occurrences Of this theme-that of the
Simpie, old-IaSn1oned, God-fearing Negro
flung into the bewildering glibness and
glitter Of the big town, and trying some-
how or other to hold his feet.
X X
IBITzER," by Edward Robinson
and 10 Swerling, brings a new
bit OF slang into the local vernacular.
and an amusing. if somewhat over
stressed, type to the Broadway stage. A
"kloitzer' tsome say that the word is
properly used only as a verb is. it
seems, man who insists on butting In
with more or less useless advice
know-it-all, who. when a real showdown
comes, is revealed to know little
The scene is laid in little tobacco
store on Amsterdam avenue, and the
"kibitler' of the play Is its proprietor.
who insists on looking over peoples
shoulders while they are playing cards
and telling them their mistakes knows
just where and why big Wall Street
operators sometimes lose money and so
on. II. was all written to give Mr.. Rob
1nson himself fat character part. and
Is lopsided and exaggerated in conse-
quence, but funny in its harmless way.
nevertheless.
Copyright, 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Wisely Combined.
THE human voice was used in p,

THE human voice was used in Para
mounts THE Canary Murder Case"
wherever it added to the story's dra-
matte intensity.
Wherever silence frightened the drama,
dialogue was omitted.
This was the decision reached by off,
Gals at the studios in Hollywood fol-
lowing a careful study of the unusual
problems presented by the filming of S.
S. Van Dimes famous detective story.
There were places where the human
voice was tremendous help In carry
ing the story along at high dramatic
speed" said B. p Schulberg, general
manager of West Coast production for
Paramount, land there were places
where silent action was more COM
polling force"
William Powell az Philo Vance, the
detective, heads the featured players
Louise Brooks as the Broadway playgirl
the Canary; James Hall and Jean Ar
thur complete the featured list
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Waiting on Nature

WAITING 10 days for nature to create
the proper cloud effects so that an
entire sunrise might be photographed
with motion picture camera was the
experience Of the Metro Goldwyn- Mayer
company that filmed Desert Nights"
the latest John Gilbert starring feature,
with synchronized score and sound ef-
fects
Desiring certain lighting effects which
could be obtained only by the intermin-
Cling of misty black clouds with the
light reflection of the horizon, Director
William Nigh posted a cameraman at a
certain point every night for 10 nights
to catch old Sol in the proper setting
A different shift was sent on watch"
every morning and no time was lost by
the company, for If there were no
clouds in the sky at the very break of
dawn the vigil was useless and the watch
relieved The sunrise effects, so clearly
seen in the production, are said to be
the most beautiful ever obtained for 4
motion picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Maude Adams Plav.

THE dramatic vehicle that swept
Maude Adams to new heights OF
glory has now been transplanted to the
screen as an all-talking motion picture
The rights to Sir James M. Barrie's
renowned play Half an Hour" were
acquired by Paramount and made into
full-length all-talking production un-
der the title OF THE Doctors Secret ii
Ruth Chatterton, H. B. Warner, John
Loder, Robert Edeson, Ethel Wales, Will
fred Noy and Nanci Price comprise the
cast. which Is stage trained William c.
De Mile. famous stage and screen d.
rector. not only directed the production
but adapted the story as we'll.
While there is whimsical touch evil
dent In most of Barrie's plays, such as
Peter Pan" it is not so evident in 1.-The
Doctors Secret" This is a play OF
dramatic intensity. filled with suspense
and ruthless realism and pierced with
flashes Of almost sardonic humor. 1t is
one of Barrie's finest plays. Half an
Hour" and with its being transplanted
to the screen as audible entertainment
film fans and lovers Of the drama NAV
be assured of enjoyment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
World War Picture
HOVER There" the official I'm

~ VER There" the official United
States Government perturbation
OF the World War, will be shown at the
Leader Theater. Ninth street between
E and F streets, beginning Saturday
March 2. for four days.
Every branch of the service Is repre-
sented In the photoplay The planes
drop bombs, the artillery batters enemy
towns, the infantry advances under
whitening fire. One sees the Kaiser
reviewing his housekeeping troops In
1914. The picture is Endorsed by all
World War veteran organizations and
bears the official stamp. It is not only
valuable record made available for
tne nIst time: but also a picture Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

should become at all nervous
about it.
The well known fondness of E.
H. Sothern for this city has proved
fortunate for the Junior Theater,
where Mr.. SothernS dramatic
recitals have established agreeable
interest. Mr.. Sothern is another
OF the figures in the theater who
have followed in parental foot
steps.
Replacing the musical company
at the BelaSco will be Margaret
Anglin, who has been playing
Lady Dedlock" and who, possibly
in view of the fact that her per-
Torrance in this play has already
been seen here, has decided to
substitute a drama which will
have the interest of novelty. One
Of the important theatrical events
was Miss Anglin's appearance at
the BelaSco, then the Lafayette
Square, with Henry Miller in 1.-THE
Great Divide" It was a play of
great Importance in theater an
nails, and her appearance in it
was one of the highlights of her
career.
The National Theater Players
have selection they think will
have positive appeal to an inau-
guration week clientele. A great
deal of the drama has been in
the conference room; not drama
that could have any COMPETE
tive effect in the stage preSen-
tationS, not at all a drama of
genial fancies. 1t is rather sta
tistical, with simple arithmetic
taking the place of figures of
speech. When the management
intimates that three orchestra
musicians are all that should be
needed for a stock season. the mu-
Sicians refer with grim determina-
ton to their official wage scale and
theoretically quote the line from
Wordsworth, 1--WE are seven"-and
the band plays on.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Strand
Extra Shows This
Week

MIDNIGHT shows are an
AvA nounced at both the Metro
politan and the Earle Theaters,
starting on the stroke of IL
o'clock this evening, and both
theaters will be open to the pub
lie Monday morning at 9 o'clock,
with complete performances.
The Central Theater, Ninth be-
tween D and z streets northwest.
also will open its doors at 8
o'clock Monday morning. The
Metropolitan Theater will have
its usual midnight premier on
Friday evening, with change OF
bill.
The Loew Theaters, the Palace
and the Columbia, both announce
midnight performances tonight at
IL O'Clock sharp, doors opening at
1880 pm.
The Strand (burlesque) The
alter announces midnight per-
formances this evening and to-
morrow evening, starting on the
stroke of IL.
None Of these theaters an
nounce other than the regular
prices for seats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
New Faces in HOLLYWOOD.

NINETEEN twenty-nine will witness
the introduction Of more new screen
personalities than any year in the his
tory of motion pictures, according to
studio executives.
The chief reason is talking films.
which have brought an influx of fresh
talent from the speaking stage. Never
before have there been so many new
faces in Hollywood, many of them long
time favorites in the legitimate thea
tiers Of New York and other large cities,
but comparative unknowns as far az
the millions OF dim fans are concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Has New ORGAN.

I>HE Liberty Theater, 14l9 North
Capitol street northeast, has Just
installed $4,000 console organ which
is to be played by Howard Cooper. The
theater recently installed new lighting
system and effects and will shortly
undergo new painting throughout. This
playhouse belongs to the Sidney B.
Lust chain and is considered one OF
the most up-to-date neighborhood thea
tiers in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Observation-Disclosures Style.

n HNDrNErNOH1ErO are going over IN
big way in Hollywood
When the fashionable screen star
takes her 'kerchief from a pocketbook
nowadays, one pauses. amazed, at its
size
It's nothing at all for the things to
be SO inches square, all lacey or picot-
edged; in fact, some Of them are so
large they might easily be mistaken for
a shoulder shawl. such as grandmother
used TO wear.
Loretta Young piquant screen player,
surprised her friends on the lot when
she took from her coat pocket a cherry
colored georgette handkerchief that
measured 80 inches across.
BY way Of novelty, she doubled it and
wore 1t around her neck, scarf -faShion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
NATIONAL PLAYERS-"Mary's
Other Husband"

The inaugural week attraction of the
National Theater Players will be the
hilarious farce comedy "Mary's Other
Husbands" beginning tonight with mat
inees on Wednesday and Saturday.
'Mary's Other Husband is from the
pen of Larry E. johnson, who Is re-
puted to have fair for clever comedy.
He wrote one outstanding success OF
last season, What Anne Brought
Home" which was also presented here
by the National Theater Players.
In "Mary's Other Husband" Mr..
johnson has revolved his comedy about
an unusual situation and the common
trait of humanity, the tendency to
boast. Mary Marshall, whose folk live
out West, Is married to an ordinary
young fellow without much money. In
her letters to friends and relatives in
the West. however. Mary paints to-
tally different picture. She has her
husband one of the most successful Of
business men, with motor cars and q
home of exquisite beauty and design.
In other words, her imagination runs
away with her. So, when her uncle un-
expectedly announces his intention to
visit her. Mary has to make special ar
rangements. She borrows silverware,
curtains, lovely furniture and other &C
cessorieS from a cheerful neighbor and
as she needs butler she presses her
husband into this role and leads the
uncle to understand that her husband
has gone away on business. The old
man. however. decides to remain and
see the husband. so Mary Is forced to
get a substitute in the way Of a young
friend of one of the neighbors. This
works out all right until the uncle
brings into the house the yOllnQ lady
then the fun begins.
Miss Mary Newton. leading lady, will
naturally have thu rols OF her pAne-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

I/ ATERINA," the play from the
~ Russian Of Leonid Andreyev,
~ which Miss lie Gallienne' s
L ~ Civic Repertory Co. put on
in English last week, starts
with pistol shot A husband suspects
his wife Of lnfidelity and tries to kill
her
His three shots do not reach her
nody, but are supposed to have killed
dead" And in the mechanistic maca-
bre sort of dance into which her life
thereupon whirls she does not only
that OF which her husband wrongly sus-
pected her, but all the things which his
morbidly jealous Imagination might
have pictured.
She becomes kind of automatic bac-
chante, even half animate Salome.
demanding the head of her adored.
She writhes, wrings her hands, leers
and entices, has Semi-lucid intervals of
horror and remorse, goes through the
motions OF lost soul condemned to
live on amidst the everyday surround
ings OF its shattered earthly life. And
at the last goes whirling off with one
Of her male parasites, while a sister
sobs gently and the husband smokes
N the manner OF misunderstanding
somnambulist.
Those who recall the ALA Nazimova
OF the old pre- Hollywood days, will
readily picture the Russian actress in
the snaky convolutions of this extreme
ly theatrical part. You are supposed
to sympathize strongly with. Katerina
and to see quite clearly that she has
been driven" to do as she does by
her husbands unfounded suspicious All
through. she is supposed to be revolving
inWardly against the very things she
outwardly does-the play is not merely
picture of depravity rugged up to make
the spectators gasp, but a tremendous
spiritual tragedy, a pure woman driven
by her outraged sense OF justice to sin,
in defiance and, as it were, in spite of
herself
All that may be taken with a certain
grain of salt. Andreyev was a very
popular Russian playwright before the
Russian Revolution. but was not a
thinker, philosopher or poet, in any Sc
riouS sense. He was essentially a man
of the theater, Snowman, although, to
be sure, a Slavic and not Broadway
Snowman.
"Katerina" doesn't tell the spectator
unfamiliar with Russian literature and
the Russian theater, anything very i'm
portant about that strange land and
peooAc' Cue ~ ooeo give oH AHeIlCdn
audience a chance to see a foreign play
over which quite fuss was made when
it was first produced by the Moscow
Art Theater Co. in 1928, and if the
Civic Repertory Co.'S performance is
not perfect, it is probably about as good
as anything that would be likely to be
seen further North on Broadway and
seems to give the late Mr. Andreyev's
effort about as much as it deserves.
X
MUCH more pertinent to the news"
AvA Of the essentially American stage
Is the new Negro play, Harlem" which
had Negro, Wallace Thurman, as one
Of its two authors-the other was Will
liam Jourdan Rapp-is played by a
white. and endsavss to dzanaatias sons
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
Attractions in Washington
Playhouses This Week
IN LOCAL THEATERS THIS WEEK

KEITHs-Lttle Nellie Kelly" musical comedy Opens this
afternoon.
NATIONALMary's Other Husband" farce comedy Opens
tomorrow evening
BEASCOMargaret Angln in Security Opens this evening
POLIS-Joe Cook in Rain Shine" Opens evening
STRAND-"Peaches burlesque. This afternoon evening