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NORMA SHEARER HAS
WEAK MOVIE STORY
Their Own Desire, Although LaviShIy Mounted, Fails
to Handle Dramatic Problem Satisfactorily.
BY WALTER ID. HICKMAN

that Their
Il which miles a hit.
Although this lavish setting the
costumes beautiful, the
The fact is mss Shearer is miles from the dramatic and
displayed of Cheney"
She has developed stage laugh which sounds like ggge
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27
than anything else.

She seems nervous, and even her
conversation does not convince, even
in her big scene when she denounces
Lewis Stone, cast as her wealthy
father, who went the merry merry
with another married women at an
age when he should be home taking
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27

exploration OF the great pyramid
and the surrounding land viii pro-
duce discoveries of great interest
and significance"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-27
Court Work Increases

e. Times Special
RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. 27.-All
departments of the Wayne circuit
court did an increased business dur
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Tribesmen Slain In Syria

BIZ United Press
LONDON, Jan. 27.-The Daily
Express correspondent at Jerusalem
reported forty Bedouin and Rual-
lah tribesmen were killed when they
attacked Sabah and Amraat tribes
men in Syria last week. The casual
ties of the Sabah and Amraat tribes
were not mentioned.
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them have reached print, inferring
that Sheppard had a personal en-
counter with the demon rum in his
early youth and hated liquor ever
since. These stories have been de-
MED consistently and emphatically,
by the senator, who attributes his
aridity to his conviction that liquor
Is as vile to public health as a
poison or a drug.
Average cost of Subsisting man
in the United States navy is about
so cents a day.
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Very d e sir a b lie
styles, but all re-
duced below cost
for quick clear
ance.
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NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

Review of the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Wash
ington Artsts-The Eben Comins Paintings.
Other Notes of Interest
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\ Cartoon History of Abraham Lncoln-New Novel by
Edith Wharton-The Illustrated "Odyssey'-Other
New Books From Publishers. -'.,-<
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from Harpers Ferry" and Benson
Moore. winter Haze"
Carl RAkemann shows here an inter-
| esting composition, Plough Horses"
Margaret NJ. Law is represented by a
picture of the South--Negroes in the
fields. Edith Hoyt contributes an ad-
mirably rendered picture of the village
OF La Malbaie, Canada, while from
Mary G. Riley has come a most engag-
ing transcription of one Of the noun
tain towns of Spain or Portugal.
In this gallery has been hung the
Portrait of Janet Spaeth," by Bennett
Durand. to which the portrait and
figure prize was awarded. In the next
gallery is a second contribution from
the same artist. Portrait of Mr. Gill; y
little less subtle. perhaps, but even
more strongly rendered. Both are sound
rs studies, and give indication Of ex-
ceptional ability, but they are not ma
ture works.
Here also one finds the painting in
the Landscape and Marine" class to
which the same jury gave honorable
mention-a flight of wooden steps UP
leafy and tree grown hillside, paint
ed by Renwick Taylor of Brooklyn,
who has put into his work some of the
zest which one sees in Sargent's pic
lures OF the outdoor world and has ex-
pressed it in somewhat similar manner
Mr.. Taylor is represented also BY ~
interesting still life study. Machine
Shop Window" colorful, toneful, broad
" rendered. tour de force-the kind
of thing which is enormously engaging
to the student. Mr.. Taylor. 1t is under
stood, spent last Summer at the Tiffany
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them. II was thrilling TO sic In
the living presence OF such men
and to think how valuable those
pictures will be to future sensr-
atoms. Suppose there had been
a talking movie Of Archinedes
demonstrating the lever or OF
Newton explaining the discovery
Of eravitation!
But what stirred me most was
not the experiments which these
men performed, but the spirit OF
their talk.
Sir Oliver Lodge, for example,
picked up a little weight from
his laboratory table and let II
drop with a thud. "That expert
ment," he said, ais the simplest
that one could possibly perform,
and yet there is hardly an expert
ment about which we know less
than we do about that"
And he added: "You are not
to suppose that you understand
things because you call them
names"
He proceeded to talk about the
mysterious properties Of "empty
space" and he concluded with
this paragraphs:
"If ever we find, as think we
are beginning to find, that life
and mind need not be associated
with matter, but can inhabit
empty space, then life will not be
u -
terial organism, and existence
will be perpetual"
As eontrasted with many OF
our smartest wise crackers, who
know everything, these wise men
Of science admitted frankly that
we are only on the furthernnost
berderland of knowledge. And
that anything lie possibls-even
eternal life. ~
A
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of Congress serving on committees
dealing with the District of Columbia,
visiting landscape architects and others.
City planning is one of the greatest
arts and one which in recent years has
witnessed an awakening of interest and
an advance in skill.
MIR. AND MRS. GEORGE HEWITT
AVA MYERS have issued invitations to
a lecture on Eastern Textiles Today"
given by A. j. v. WAGE keeper of tex
tiles at the Victoria and Albert Mu-
scum, at o'clock on Friday afternoon,
January II, in the Textile Museum,
1880 8 street. Mr.. WAGE Is paying a
ing some Of our textile collections. 1t is
extremely interesting that he will be
in Washington and will lecture here.
X i 4
nOROTHY GATCHELL will hold an
IL exhibition of her paintings from
January IL to % in Stoneleigh Court
under the auspices Of the League of
American Pen Women. Miss Gatchell
studied at the Corcoran School of Art
and last Summer at the Tiffany Foun-
dalton. She is represented in the cur
rent exhibition of the Society Of Wash
ington Artists by very attractive study
OF woodland walk. This is her first
one-man exhibition.
y r
THE Art and Archaeology League
held a meeting last evening at
Gordon Dunthorne's, at which Mr. Dun
thorne was not only host. but spoke on
THE History of the Art of Etching and
Engraving" illustrated by his collec-
lions. Mrs. Mitchell Carroll is presi-
dent of the league, Miss Harriet E.
Garrels secretary.
AT the Arts Club of washington the
"A exhibitions change today, the
works Of the 10 Philadelphia painters
being removed and paintings by Mar
guerite C. Mum, member of the club.
and by Henriette Wyeth Of Chads Ford.
Pa, taking their places.
y r y 4
A GROUP of is silk murals by Lydia
a Bush Brown. formerly of this city,
now of New York. will be placed on
view In the Corcoran Gallery of Art
this afternoon, where they may be seen
for fortnight. These murals' are pro-
duced by what Is known as batik proc
ess-the use of wax in conjunction with
dyes difficult but q very direct me-
dunn for individualistic artistic express
sion. Each piece is different, each spe-
cially and ENTHUSIASTICALLY designed
and executed-very genuine works of
art.
There is no more skillful or accom-
plished designer in this country today
than Lydia BuSh-Brown, and the show
ing Of her murals here constitutes an
event of pleasurable note Fuller COM
ment on her work will be given later.
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"OEDFAsHIONED FLOWERS" BY HATTIE BuRDETTE. A PAINT
ING IN THE SOCIETY or WASHINGTON ARTISTS EXHIBITION

coran Gallery. And then again, without
apparently changing his coat, he is the
sound academician, painting strongly
in accordance with tradition, as in his
portrait Of Eleanor and Esther" two
mulatto maids.
After all, art has no boundaries
which may not be exceeded at pleasure
II they be exceeded well.
Unique incidents in the current exhi-
bition-which continues. by the way,
through January 25-are a color
chart" representing war, and poem in
free verse on the colors, green and red.
suggested by a passage in Sandburg's
Lincoln" both by Mr.. Corltns.
y n
MISS CHARLOTTE s. CULLEN IS
AVA exhibiting o collection Of recent
paintings in water color and oil, as well
as a small group Of etchings at Gordon
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Foundation painting out Of doors and
indoors. working out certain problems.
Paintings receiving bronze medals in
the landscape, marine and still life
groups are to be found in the second
gallery, the former, odd Church on
the HILL" by Margaret Fish, the latter
Window Light" kitchen table strewn
with vegetables and odds and ends, by
Alexander B. Levin. Both of these
paintings are in the new mode--one
extremely simple, in which composition
and color are reduced to the simplest
terms; the other. by no means simple,
but essentially subjective, hon1ely things
glorified, and in both instances with
little regard to surface finish or tech
niQue.
* y =
TN this gallery one cannot pass with
out pause and appreciation por-
trait of an elederly lady painted by
Matilde M. Leisenring with great sym
pathy and reticence. Here, too. one will
ind with pleasure an interesting por-
trait OF young woman by Mary krem-
elberg, now Mrs. Gibson, painted IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
Wise Men
BY BRUCE BARTON

T SPENT q day IN the research
laboratories Of the largest
electrical company in the
Il world. II 200 years ago
anybody had predicted the mar
wells that can be seen there today,
the God fearing citizens OF the
time would have burned him as
witch.
For example, as you know, the
metal 'radium 10 constantly civ.
inc off little particles which are
called eiectrons. The eleetron 10
infinitely smaller than the atom.
Indeed, the atom is a compare
lively big proposition. q sort of
universe with lots Of slectrons
flying around inside 1t.
OF course, neither the eIectron
nor the atom can be seen by any
instruments which we have yet
devised. But listen to this! The
scientists in that laboratory have
rugged up q radio apparatus, at
taehed to a loud speaker, which
10 SO delicate that il can detect
the flight Of eIectrons through
the ether.
held the dial Of my wrist
watch against the microphone.
The figures on the dial are ra-
dunn coated. And | could hear
the sIectrons pounding into the
loud speaker like q shower Of
hailstones on a tin roof.
On another floor I sat In front
Of a motion picture screen and
saw talking movies Of three great
scientists Of Ensland-Sir Ernest
Rutherford, Sir William Henry
Bragg and Sir oliver Lodge.
Each one Of them was photo
sraphsd In his own laboratory.
Each proceeded to perform GER
tain experiments and explain
fHAnvr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
BY LEILA .MECHLIN.

MERE are certainty some mUereSC-
ing paintings. works notable for
merit, included in the Society
Il of Washington Artists Thirty
ninth Annual Exhibition, which
opened in the Corcorsn Gallery OF Art
a week ago and will continue to jan
uary 81.
: Exactly 100 artists are represented in
this exhibition. OF this number all
but 20 reside In or in the vicinity of
Washington. An interesting fact in con-
nection with this exhibition is the COM
= paratively large number of new exhibit
tors-those whose names have not yet
abecome familiar. through achievement,
to even the local art lovers. That such
) should be the case is hopeful sign. for
1t gives indication of new talent and In
abundant quantity.
This local exhibition occupies the two
galleries to the right and left OF the
main staircase on the upper floor. Out
standing among the works in the gall
lery to the right. where the catalogue
numbers begin. is portrait of Mr..
+; Bush Brown, we'll known sculptor. for
merly president of the Arts Club. by
Catherine Carter Critcher. Not only is
this an excellent likeness but genuine
Interpretation of character, a sound and
very assured piece OF work.
~ ~
MISS CRITCHER is an Alexandrian
AVA by birth, daughter of the late
Judge Critcher of that city. She studied
at the Corcoran School Of Art and,
when scarcely beyond her student days,
established a studio here in Washing
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BOOKS RECEIVED

THE RETURN OF EURYLOCHUS; a
Tragedy OF Ancient Greece. BY Ray
Budwin. Boston: The Stratford Co.
PILOTS LUCK. Drawings by Clayton
Knight. With excerpts from Stories
by Elliott White Springs. Capt. A.,
Roy Brown. FLOYD Gibbons and Nor
man S. Hall. Philadelphia: David
Mckay Co.
MAKING A NEW CHINA. BY No Yong
Park. With an introduction by
Henrik Shipstead. United States
Senator. Boston: The Stratford Co.
INSIDE MY GARDEN WALL. BY
Gertrude Lee. Boston: The STRAIT
ford Co.
THE FINE ART OF READING. By
Robert E. Rogers. associate pro-
fessor of English. Massachusetts In
stitute OF Technology. Boston: The
Stratford Co.
THE AMAZING BENJAMIN FRANK
CONTINUED on Fifth Page.)
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the manner of Mancini and with gen.
uinc skill; and very charming por-
trait Of a little girl. Fine Feathers" by
Ruth A. Anderson, one of the non-resi-
dent members Of the society. II Is q
any collection.
The place Of honor in this gallery
has been given to S. Peter Wagner's
painting, Tide on the Coast of Maine"
trees seen from above, with back
ground of blue water-very effective.
To the right of this hangs an ex-
tremely skillful painting of housetops
and tower, "Wren's Tower" by ROW
land Lyon, who also contributes a
graphic impression Of railroad yards
very promising.
Theo j. Morgan, who has returned
to washington and taken up residence
| here this Winter after an absence OF
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Africa Malaria Scare
Drives Off Tourists

For the first time in several years
no luxury tourist liner will visit South
Africa this season The reason is the
malaria scare. In March the liner
Duchess Of Atholl brought several hun
Some time after they had left South
Africa, and following a visit to East
African ports, several passengers con-
tracted malaria and four died The
news was broadcast that the victims
had contracted the malaria in South
Africa. Precautions taken to protect
tourists within the few malaria areas
of South Africa had been so complete
that there Is little chance that the
disease was actually contracted there.
but the statement has had an adverse
effect on tourist trafic from which 1t
will take years to recover.
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The Story the Week Has Told

THE budget. ~ says he, "is balanced
with a substantial surplus. Let me en-
pnaslze that this was done more
taxation. All departments of the gov
eminent have been cut down to the
minimum In personnel, and one or two
enterprises In which the former gov
ernmentS had lost millions of escudos
Che is referring to the railways and the
tobacco monopoly, the latter of which
had caused the downfall of several gov
ernmentS) have been turned over to
private companies, with the result that
we are now receiving revenues instead
Of paying deficits"
Slowly but surely he says, q gold re-
serve Is being accumulated SUFFICIENT to
make possible sterilization of the es-
| Guido.
Dock and harbor improvements at
Lisbon, Oporto, and other smaller ports,
are under contemplation The Lisbon
undertaking has been fully planned and
work thereon will begin at once, the
money being available; Lisbon is to be
one OF the most important ports Of
Europe.
The important bodybuilding pro-
gram Is nearing completion. The new
roads will make readily accessible
points Of interest hitherto unblessed by
tourist traf1c; "unspoiled by the influ-
ence OF ultra-modern civilization" Of
the President thinks that way, why
open 'em upO I'VE are going to make
1tal for the building of hotels at various
points"
GERMANY.-The German mystery
ship" the Arsatz PreusSen, is causing
desperate fiutter in the naval dove
cotes. James Fighting Ships calls 1t
quite the most remarkable warship
produced since the war;" and most ex-
perts assent. She is in class by her
self, having been evolved with reference
to the clause of the Versailles treaty
which limits Germany to six battleships
not TO exceed 10000 tons each. She is
more heavily protected and carries a
heavier armament than any of the
Washington treaty 10,000-ton cruisers,
and her speed Of IS knotSaWell exceeds
that of any battleShip; so that no
cruiser would dare to tackle her and no
battleShip could get to her. Only bat
tie cruiser could deal with her and bat
tie cruisers are not too numerous, and
there are to be six Of her class. The
most remarkable thing about her Is her
cruising radius of 10000 miles at 20
knots, which is claimed for her. Our
cruiser Pensacola, though with a much
higher maximum speed, can do only
Is, 900 miles at Is knots.
1t will be recalled that the Washing
ton treaty cruisers may not carry guns
Of larger caliber than s-inch. The
ErSatz PreuSSen carry six 11-inch gums.
A good many are thinking that it was
q mistake not to invite Germany to
the London Naval Conference.
There Is good authority for the
statement that so per cent of the
present-day German marriage couples
are determined to be childless. The
German birth rate of 1928 was 1873 per
1000 of population, as against 25.e in
1920, and 400 just before the Franco
Prussian War. Berlin Is today the
poorest in children of all European
capitals"
\ y Il y
RUSSIA.-'Li Liquidation" as used by
Stain, is word of very terrible i'm
port. When he announced that the
class Of Kulaks, or rich peasants, was
to be "liquidated." the word imported
the harshest Of fateS for members Of
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held and have taken steadily more and
more farms from the individual farmers
has added to the problem. The IncaS
cultivated vast areas, relatively, by irri-
cation, the ruins of their rice paddles
lining the steep sides of the mountains
In every valley of the country. Even in
Spanish times, in the sixteenth century,
1t Is estimated that 1,750,000 acres were
cultivated on the Pacific slopes, while
today only about half that area is under
cultivation through irrigation-and all
must be irrigated, for no rain falls on
the Pacific side of the Andes.
Since 1900, Peru has increased her
cultivation Of cotton and sugar f1ve-fold,
but at the same time she has increased
her imports of foodstuffS ten-fold. This
evil has been attacked directly and al
most alone by President Leguia, and he
has spent vast sums Gin proportion to
revenue) on the creation Of new irriga-
ton country, sold on 25-year payments
to the humber people. In addition, he
has turned back wasted waters from
rich farms to the irrigation of ADAM
doned lands now made available to
small farmers. Every force in Peru and
outside 1t has been turned against him;
even the American bond houses han
ding Peruvian loans were once short
sighted enough to make protest to
President Leguia, at the instigation Of
the local ariStocracy, to curtail his irri-
cation expenditures If he expected to
get money from the United StatesI
transportation Is Difficult,
The communications of Peru have al
ways been ap appalling problem. Sheer
from the coast of the Pacific rise the
high Andes. One of the great Standard
gauge railways built by the American
promoter, Henry Meiggs, in the years
OF the guano prosperity, when Peru was
wasting In every direction, crosses the
Andes at the height of 1880 feet above
the sea-and that sea, the Pacific, is
only an hour or two away from that
pass by airplane today. The wall stands
sheer and forbidding, and only the wild
extravaganceS of the two railways and
the trails dreaded by the naughty llama
and the humble donkey have penetrat-
ed it.
Today President Leguia has in full
swing a highway program which moves
up and down the coast, runs I'D into
new valleys which brings the farmers
closer to the cities than they had ever
dreamed Of being. This highway sys-
tenn now is also leaping the Andes.
running through to the highlands and
over to the rich, smiling, well-watered
lands of the eastern slopes which slip
down to the valley of the Amazon.
Distances are being annihilated by
the roads, concrete near the cities and
gravel between and, still further on,
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determining toward his fall. Truly
ironical, indeed, that, with his so adj
mirable general economic record, finan-
cial gaucherie should be his undoing.
1t is understood that the relations be-
tween the King and Gen. Berenguer
are most cordial. Let us hope that
restoration of the constitution of 1875
will not mean lapSing of the improve
mentS instituted by Primo de Rivera,
revival Of caciquismo. resurgence of
the hideous tsms. Primo de Rivera de-
clares that the Patriotic Union will be
victorious at the coming elections.
which would be interesting, but seems
unlikely.
The Spanish constitution Of 1876 pro-
vides that the Cortes consist Of an
upper house, one-third Of which MEM
bers are so betitled, one-third by royal
appointment for life and one-third
through election by the universities and
other organizations, and lower house
Of AIT members, elected by popular but
not universal suffrage.
\
PORTUGAL.-PreSi Gin effect,
dictator) Carmona Of Portugal Is OPP
timistic.
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bossisn, on the one hand, and against
resurgence of communism with its
kindred iSms) on the other.
Ill and no doubt utterly weary Of his
job, apparently he had for long been
holding on solely in the hope of estab-
fishing such guarantees.
Does 1t not seem probable that Primo
de Rivera will go down in history as
one Of the most admirable of dictators-
amene, magnanimouS, disinterested, of
large views and no mean intelligence?
His conduct of the Moroccan situation
was mastery and he did much toward
purging the services Of their worst evils.
He went far to effect a reunion of
hearts between Spain and her daugh-
tiers Of America. He cowed the reds.
He restored the ancient municipal and
provincial representative bodies. But
perhaps the main Justification Of the
dictatorship was its economic record
agricultural and industrial improve
ments. road building, rehabilitation of
mining, the railways, etc. Yet, despite
that he is a notable economist in the
large sense, the marques is lamentably
ignorant of finance. Perhaps the
clamor of big business in recent months
on account Of the fall Of the peseta was