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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
When Texas Catttemen
Drope Their Herds Up
Trails Infested by Hostile
Indians and Murderons
OufIa1gs-I he Roaring
Tovn Of abilene and
wild Bill" Hick0k.
Blasting Sin Shooters.

EDITORS NOTE-1Ae story
of ho7p Texas rdngcmeH, forced IN
the late oGs to go North or 90
broke" gathered their herds TO-
getlrr and droae them Stnbbornly
up the trdil-fghtiug their qcdy
through hostile Indians and mur-
der0nS oHtld7vS-fhe story of the
aid trail to7VHS and bad men that
Sbrdng into being in the qoake of
the great northqUard dri7'e-dH this
makes tense reading WI c.
Barnes, co-dnthor gtqth Mr.. Rdine
of this stirring account of that grim
bit fdr-yedching episode m Ameri-
can history, himself fought against
the Indians during the latter half of
the past century, and aUdS, NJ 1880,
a9ourdcd the Congressional Medal
of Honor "for brdvery in action
qofth hostile AbadI,c indians" Mr..
Roime, aoho came from England as
boy to settle in the West, IS qVeH
kno7Cn for his books of outdoor ad-
Ventnre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24

Y WAS moving day for Texas. She
was dustin " north, breaking bar
n riers that isolated her from the
Union she had joined, left, and into
which she had been coerced back
She was cut off by hundreds of miles in
habited only by Indians and buffalo. Half of
her was a wilderness surrounded by other
wilderneSSes. She had no railroads, few roads
of any kind. She was stiI in effect a Lone
Star State.
But now she was on her travels It was
go north go broke The stir of prepara-
ton filled the land. The herds were about to
take the trail.
The Texan was not starting on the long
trek north with any assurance of success,
but because of the pressure of economic con-
ditionS He had to find outlet for his
increasing herds. South of him lay the Gulf
and poverty-stricken Mexico. To the east
stretched PROSTATE Louisiana. Westward lay.
the Indian plains untenanted by whites. Re-
manned only the country north Of SO. It was
known that there was a scarcity of cattle in
that section and plenty Of money to pay Be-
tween Texas and the promised land waited
danger and hardship in plenty, but at the
trails end, if it could be reached, there must
be buyers
So Cattleland buzzed with activity. BY the
middle Of February. 1866 hundreds of brush
peppers" were combing the thickets for long
horns. Out Of the chaparral were being
bounded and dragged all the COW CRITTERS"
that could be found. Into the chutes of cor
rails they were forced and as the red-hot iron
of the road brand sizzled on their flesh the
ba Wing of cattle and the smell of burnt hair
filed the air.
1t is estimated that, in the Summer of 1866
herds totaling 10000 cattle took the road for
a market and crossed the Red River.
A CCORDNG to Col. Charles Goodnight,
the first cattleman to drive a trail herd
from Texas was Oliver Loving ST.
Nsm early as 1857 Loving trailed a herd
through "the Nation" Eastern Kansas and
Northwestern Missouri. to Quincy, Ill, selling
it to local farmers there. The next season
he took another to Pueblo, Colo
Later he joined forces with Goodnight
Taking an outfit Of 16 men. the two trailed
by way of Fort Belknap to Fort Sumner
N. Mex. This was soon known as the Good
night Trail.
n the Spring of 1867 Loving and Good
night again took the trail, with two herds.
With them went w. j. (BilD Wilson. From
the first the fates marked the expedition for
disaster. The partners went with the lead
herd. On the Clear Fork, near Camp Cooper
the Indians attacked the outfit. Goodnight
barely escaped with his life. One of the
herders, Long Joe Loving had arrow driven
through his neck. Goodnight pulled 1t out
with pair of nippers. Three hundred cattle
were lost in the stampede which followed. The
sand cattle
on the Pecos, hundred miles above Horse
h. I'd Crossing the partners separated late in
June. 1t was necessary for one of them to
reach Fort Sumner before the beef contracts
fof feeding the Indians were awarded in July.
Loving rode ahead, accompanied BY Bin Wilson.
a one-armed man cool and Of the most da-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
AND WILL C.. BARNES.

: + WAS moving day for Texas. She
was dustin" north, breaking bar
riers that isolated her frorl the
Union she had joined, left, and into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
BY WALLACE MUNRO.

WHY is Victor Herbert popular? The
answer, in all probability, is be-
cause he composed music that appealed
TO the many, not to the few; because
he composed music that you could re-
member, that you could sing, to which
you could dance, and music that carried
Its message home in a tempo expressive
OF the soul Of the man who composed II.
Edward Ellsworth Hipsher in writing
OF Victor Herbert said:
Victor Herbedt was one of Americas
most earnest advocates Of true music.
In his way he did more in spreading the
gospel OF good music than most of the
classiciSts, for he reached the musically
unframed and taught them to appre-
clate the difference between music of
the day and music of all time. His
lightsome art was a stepping stone be-
tween the trivial things Of temporary
appeal and the more complicated
classics, which are appreciated by the
limited few"
Victor Herbert composed tuneful music
because he loved the Tilt, the animation.
the verve the harmony of those COM
positions. He played with his airs lust
as Joyfully as a kiddie would play with
doll. If he succeeded in adding a
new twist to an already composed
theme, he gloried in 1t as much as
mathematician would in solving
problem. He loved his work,
and the success and popularity of his
compositions reflect the devotion of the
master
just II years ago this month Victor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Gypsy Dances in "Sarii. g"

NINE. ALBERTINA RASCH is a
Hungarian. born in Budapest, a
close friend Of Emmerich Kalmdn the
composer Of "Sari," and member of
famous family of dancers, her parents
and grandparents having been stars in
the royal ballet in Hungary and who
had the great distinction of dancing
before nearly all the crowned heads of
Europe in other days. She herself is a
maker Of famous dancers.
This season, she says, she has placed
with Mitzi in "Sari," what she claims
is the best class of dancers she has
turned out for many years. Explaining
why, she says:
1T is the first time in my career as
a dancing teacher that have been able
to give vent to my emotion in poetry
OF dancing through the medium of the
native Magyar airs of my country,
Most all the attractions that / place
my girls with are of the modern type
and the dances are the same, but in
"Sari" could give way to my feelings
toward my native music, and was also
very happy in that most of the Young
ladies that placed with the company
are OF hungarian parentage. Their
wild abandon IN the gypsy numbers are
natural Tor them, for 1t expresses their
feelings In their native dances that I
would be utterly unable to convey un-
less they were native born. have cut
my whole soul into the dances In "Sari !"
and am very proud to say that where
ever Mitzi and "Sari" have appeared
we have received wonderful mention :"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Victor Herbert's Music.

Herbert in friendly chat with James
Francis Cooke, the eminent musical
authority, made the statement that 1.-THE
musical public Is commencing to cry
out for melody-real, beautiful, an
trancing melody" If these two men
could meet again today, it is not I'M
likely the same remark would be ut
tered by the same man, but with a
greater reason for making it than he
had when he really uttered it.
Why? Because tastes change lust
the same as modes change, and music
Is no exception to the general scheme of
Things. For long time past the music
loving public has been satiated with by
products of Tinpan Alley. The pro-
verbal worm has turned, and now a
demand is made to revive some Of the
lyrical gems that have been for a long
time laid away as relics of the past.
In comic opera and the lighter forms
OF melodic expression the wheels of con-
ventionality revolve with a regularity
akin to the changes in public taste for
the drama. The compositions of Offen-
bach, Audran, Planquette, Auber and
Lecocq were the vogue for time. lust
as were those of Gilbert & Sullivan
Lehar and Strauss. But then another
form OF harmonica arrived, and the
melodies of the masters had to give wav
to the syncopated measure Of a school
that possessed neither breadth of tradt-
ton nor symphonic beauty to insure its
perpetuity. This season finds the evolu-
ton OF taste again circling, and we are
back again to where we were almost
quarter of a century ago-with Victor
Herbert the reigning king of melody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
NINTH Alma kruger of the New Yorl

WITH Alma Kruger OF the New York
Civic Repertory Theater as guest
director, the Community Drama Guild
OF Washington is perfecting plans for
the presentation of its second full
length play this SeaSon-John Tobin's
medieval comedy. THE Honeymoon"
at Mckinley Auditorium, Friday and
Saturday evenings, February % and
March l.
The play is to be given with all the
lure of fifteenth century Spain, scenes
OF quaint old inns and medieval cot
tageS and courtly ante rooms and audi
ence chambers in ducal palaces. Its
caretree life of the countryside will be
coStumed in the colorful, picturesque
garb of the period and dances of the
peasantry and the court will be intro
duced.
Miss Kruger is we'll fitted to direct
this masterpiece of John Tobin friend
and admirer of William Shakespeare.
She has had wide experience in classical
roles with Sothern and Marlowe and
with the Ben Greet Players and others.
-Four years ago while playing an i'm
portant role in the George Kelly piece,
Daisy Mayme," in Philadelphia, Miss
Eva lie Caffeine. director of the New
York Civic Repertory Theater invited
ner TO join with that company, then
Just at the beginning of its career.
Miss Kruger accepted and came to
washington with Miss LIE Caffeine In
March, 1927, at the National Theater
In THE Cradle Song" and other sue
cesses OF the early Spring. Since then
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16

rule concerning Shakespeare
seems to be that he must have
either no scenery at all or an I'M
limited abundance.
X 4 X X
An especial interest attaches to
the jungle films shown at the Ma
tional Theater because of the
radical experiment they represent
In testing the coordination of
speech with pictures. While it is
impossible to bring home the
trumpeting. of the elephant, nor
the weird chant of the aboriginal
cannibal, a very Shrewdly de-
signed setting is employed to rep
resent a drawing room audience,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Martin John
son conducting a hospitable enter
talnment and apparently display
ing a marvellous collection of pic
lures to appreciative friends. It
must be admitted at the very out
set that an explorer compelled to
lead a naturaliSt'S existence in
efforts to interpret sign languages
could scarcely be expected to
master the modern arts of elocu-
ton to a degree that would rival
the demonstrations of the Shake
Spearean group engaged in rivalry
not far away. The method has
the advantage of a definitely re-
hearsed series of descriptions ac-
curately delivered. Startling as
the talking film becomes in its
realism, it has not yet made up
for the lack of the personal figure
on the stage. A sound picture
lecture is still far away from cap
turing the honors from Newman
or Burton Holmes. The little
lntermisSion talk by the Boy Scout
brought a neat and spirited de-
livery in terms of genuine human
lty that caused young Dick Doug
las to come pretty near being the
star Of the show.
Another arrival from the realms
OF remembrance will be MitZi. who
has sung many roles since "Sari,"
which she will interpret again for
washington audiences. These
audiences lost no time in assert
ing themselves as her Stanch ad-
mirers. Eleanor Painter, whose
career has been garlanded by
many miles Of typewriter ribbon
moistened in the ink of compli-
ment, will restore the charming
melodies OF 1.-THE Fortune Teller"
assisting to give new emphasis to
the distinction of the current sea-
son as a time Of reunion for cher
ished friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Another Great Colleeian.

4 CCORDING to rumor, and what not
one Of the few times the Metro
politan Operas famous tenor, Mar
tinelli, did anybody a favor by not APP
pearing at song fest was when, stub
bling his toe, the crippled warbler was
not able to get to the Spring Festival
at the University of Michigan, thus
necessitating the substitution of an
undergraduate, one Allan Rogers.
To this-one might vulgarly call 1t
"break"-such cities as Paris, London,
Berlin and Stockholm have been said to
take off their hats. For, as a result of
this unexpected opportunity at his alma
mater, the youthful Rogers was waited
not only to the Elysian shores of Chi
cago, as guest Soloist with the Symphony
Orchestra, but soon after was trans
ported to fog-bound London, where he
sang to supposedly enraptured au-
dience.
Still later he was called to the Nordic
region, the land of the great Carlo,
where, amidst the elegancies of the
Royal Opera. he again demonstrated the
spiritual quality of his rare voice which
reaped the rewards of the just later in
the production Of Rose Marie"
Now, after vacation in other cities,
this popular young man comes back to
the Palace, with a new selection of
songs, a brand-new baton, and-what
will you?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Raoul Walsh s Find"

p AOUL WALSH on recent European
fling in search Of pulchritude per-
lection. 1t is said. came upon Katie
Karlin, who was dancing and singing
at the Winter Garden, Berlin. So
handsome did he think her face and
physiogomy that he signed her at once
for the films
She is to have an important part in
his next production, says the director
of The Cock Eyed World" and Hot
Tor Paris. Just what kind of a part
she will have may cause some speciila-
ton. as the pretty fraulein cannot
speak word of English. But then,
perhaps she doesn't need to talk, or IL
might be in another one Of those silent
talkies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
His Original Creation.

HUGH HUNTLEY, who will be seen
Il as "the other man." the chap who
nearly wrecks a young couples home
and happiness with too ardent love-
making to a young wife who had a no.
ton she was being abused, in Second
Wife" the attraction at Keiths this
week, created the role in the play on
Broadway from which the picture was
adapted
With Conrad Nagel as the husband,
Lila Lee as the second wife," the low
able Mary Carr as the aged family SER
want, and sensational little Freddie
Burke Frederick as the stepchild, the
picture seemed to have an irresistible
cast. But Russell Mack, who directed
1t. didn't weaken on that account. He
wanted it to De flawleSs, and so he
wired Hugh Huntley in New York and
signed him without further ado.
Second Wife" is Huntley's first
talkie and hR went to Hollywood for
his first visit to help make it. Years
ago, however. he played opposite Olive
Thomas, the first Mrs. Jack Pickford,
In silent pictures. He has been n stage
veteran for Is years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Mitzi and Her CompatriOt,

NTH, for years identified as 1.-The
adorable little comedienne," the star
OF "Sari," is native of Budapest and
proudly boasts that her company is
largely composed of Hungarian asso-
ciates that she knew in the old days
before she became famous.
Among them is Paul Yartin, COM
poser, philosopher, musician and the
musical director of "Sari" Born in
Hungary, the son of a famous newspa-
per man and political power, Joseph
Yartin. he received his education in
Budapest, Vienna and Rome; was class
mate of Emmerich Kalman, the COM
poser of "Sari," at the Royal Academy
OF Music in Budapest, the famous insti-
tuition founded by List, who, after max
ing his degree of philosophiae, pro-
ceeded thence to Rome, where he was
made a "Chevalier of Italy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
CONRAD NAGEL ond kitALE :
IN "Second Wife : kOkelHhs
Happy Theatre Reunions
Still in Evidence.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON

Wise men of the theater have
often reiterated the morose epi.
gram, Shakespeare spells ruin
Like most epigramS, it lends the
force of brevity to the expression
of a partial truth, and earns
mental gratitude by not wearyine
the mind with notifications.
Following a style of word play
much favored in British wit, this
epigram is made the basis of fur
ther smart phraSeology by the
simple process of fiat contradic-
ton. It should be announced
without hesitation in the interest
OF truth as well as SmartneSS-
Shakespeare Spells Success"
* y
This is far from meaning that
In the bright lexicon of the Eliza
bethan drama there is no such
word as fail" (the quotation often
attributed casually to Shakespeare
because the play "Richelieu" fits
so nicely into blank verse roper
tory. but on contrary it points
to the success that can come only
from life devotion and the defeat
or natural survival leaving be-
hind many competitors. In each
of the decades there is some one
ShakeSpearean actor supreme in
popular acceptance, a monarch
of the territory he has selected
for his particular theatric king
dom.
It is now Fritz Leiber who has
battled his way with the rapier
Of Laertes or the broad sword OF
MacDuff through myriad combats
with a Hamlet or a Macbeth that
leave him at last undisputed mas
ter of the field.
A true instructive Shakespear-
can actor loves work, and does not
reconcile himself to ease. He is
a reminder Of the Chicago news
paper reporter who inherited q
to energetic action that he never
could accommodate himself to his
new circumstances by learning to
walk slowly. Fritz Leiber could
very easily have made up an in
tereSting week by using, say, three
plays of popular appeal, perhaps
Hamlet" Macbeth" and one OF
the comedies, taking the benefit
of favorable criticism and afford
ing opportunities to his patronage
to enjoy the satisfaction Of goods
that have been locally guar
anteed. The reception given his
Hamlet" indicated a readiness to
accept him as a favorite inter
prefer of this role without de-
manding the repertory test OF
technical versatility.
~
This actor prefers, however, to
toll necessarily from one end OF
the week to the other, with
wilderneSses of splendid scenery
to be continually re-explored
Many attentive spectators will re-
call the studied simplicity of the
Ben Greet stage settings with as
much satisfaction as the opuIent
elaboration of the thoroughly
modern scene. One memorable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Basil Dean to Film Escape

RASn DEAN, the English producer
whose alignment with R-K-O Pro-
auctions was recently announced. will
make as his first Anglo American pro-
duction a Aim version of John Gals
worthy's play, Escape"
Under the arrangement with R-K-O
and Mr.. Deans company the Associated
Talking Pictures, Inc, the American
company offers the English firm imam
cial backing and the use of some of its
players. The production will be made,
however, in English studios under Eng
fish direction, and will be released on
both sides of the Atlantic as "Asso-
ciated Radio Pictures"
Mr.. Dean is well known as a film di-
rector in this country, having made
THE Return of Sherlock Holmes" in
the Paramount (Astoria) studios last
Summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16

Yartin came to the United States ~
years ago, and for the past II years has
been practically associated with promi-
nent Broadway producers. His works
have been published all over the world,
and he is the only musician in the
world to give Kalman's score unabbre-
waited.
Yartin is also famous for another
thing; for, it is claimed, outside of
Baron Huenefeld. the late German avia-
tor, he is the only man in the world
who can do anything with q monocle in
his eye. II he becomes involved in a
heated argument with any one on the
subject of art or music, no matter how
excited he may become, the monoclO
never drops out.
Mitzi calls him her "ever- present res
minder Of the beloved Vienna" she love-
to remember
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Revived in a Talkie.

1.-THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN
WEST" David Belasco's mas
terpiece In the field of melodrama, is
about TO undergo its third meta
morphosis. Revived this Winter with
considerable eclat at the metropolitan
Opera House, with Maria Jeritza doing
the leading honors, this erstwhile play,
then opera, is to be transformed into
talkie
First National is contributing its
talent to the unfolding of this story
before the microphone. But who will
be the heroic gal, and who will be
the bewhiskered Sheriff is O question
still very much In the dark.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Posed for the Gay Nineties

THE "old-timers" gathered together
by M-G-M for a review of the CAV
Dos, to be called The March Of Time .
have done their little duty and scat
tered again.
Joe Weber and wife have gone to
ukulele-land. Mr.. and Mrs. Lew Fields
returned to New York, where Fields is
to do a musical version of "HuckIe
berry Finn" the shades of Mark Twain
permitting. DeWolf Hopper and his
helpmate are visiting in Oakland.
Marie Dressler remains on the Job.
Hollywood couldn't do without that
grill She compares herself to brook.
not that she's babbling, but says she
fears she must go on forever. And it's
Ok. with the fans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Plans for The HONEYMOON

she has appeared in many New York
/ Civic Repertory successes, notably as
the lady in The Lady From Alta
Bourrat"; in THE Master Builder:
The Good Hope" in which she played
Ellen Terry'S famous role: in THE Liv-
ing Corpse" and finally just last week
in the revival Of "Hedda Gabler." play
ing Aunt Julia, to Eva LIE Gallienne's
Hedda, with Jacob Ben-Ami. Josephine
Hutchinson and Leona Roberts.
Marie Moore Forrest, executive secre-
tary of the Community Drama Guild,
has general charge Of the production of
The Honeymoon"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Stage and Screen Attractions This Week

NAT1ONAL-Mitzi in "sari" Opens tomorrow evening
POLISEleanor Painter in "The Teller OPENS to-
morrow evening. Ft W.
ming. ~ ~ e'e
FOx-"Cy Girl" This afternoon and evening
PALACE-"Burning Up" This afternoon and evening
Observation-Disclosures No, Nanette" afternoon and eve
ming. ~ az" wv
RK-O KEITHSSecond Wife" This afternoon and evening
EARLE-The Great Divide" This afternoon evening
RIALTO-"Woman to Woman" afternoon and evening
COLUMBA-"Dev May Care" Second week. This afternoon
and evening. - -
LITTLE-"Passion" This afternoon and evening
The Washington times., 1930-05-16
When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

METROPOLITAN-Mau uric
Chevalier in THE Big Pond" At
11:41 a. m, 1:41, 3:41, SAL, TAI
and 9:41 p. m.
EARLE-John Barrymore in
THE Man From Blankley's." At
ii a. m, 1910, 2:30, I4:45, $40, 8
and $50 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Norma Shearer
in THE Divorcee." At 1885, 1875,
$40, $40, 7:40 and 9:4O p. m.
RK.O.KEITH'S-Bert Wheeler
and Robert Woolsey in THE
CuckooS." At 11:18 a. m. 1:2O.
$40, $40. 7:25 and $50 p. m.
PALACE-Ramon Novarro in
I'm Gay Madrid" At 11:55 a..
m, 2:15, 4:40, 7:35 and 9:55 p.
m.
FOX-El Brendel in "The
Golden Calf" At 1929, 2:4O
4:45, 7:55 and 10 p. m.
RIALTO-Paul White mans
King of Jazz Revue" At 1920,
1:2O, 800, $40, 1920 and 9:20
p. m.