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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
DoD LA RocQUE's career on stag

DOD LA ROCQUE'S career on stage
and screen was not instigated by
a rebellion against the family hearth.
He didn't have TO run away from
school, switch or broom. Unlike many
now pulSating cinema stars, he began
his footlight activities with complete
malice aforethought.
At the age Of Willard Mack politely
implored Rod to f1ll role left vacant by
a measleS-ridden child And since, in
those days, there was no law which pre-
vented babes In arms, or even younger,
from doing their bit on the stage, Mas
ter La ROGUE complied readily, and
forthwith began acting as only boy Of
Z can.
After that it seems that fame came in
snatcheS and in between these snatches
there were momentous doldrumS of de-
spair and impecuniousneSs. However,
young La ROGUE, Selling opportunity
in that strangely vaporized town of Chi
cago, applied to the ancient cinema
firm of Essanay and there amid the
distant mooings of soon-to-be- butchered
cattle, learned the art of the motion
pictures. At that time, the slim, not
too idolized gentleman. but recently
bloomed into manhood's proportions
played not the handsome, breath-taking
hero. but the role of the dark mean.
oily villain, whose sad lot consisted in
watching Bryant Washburn WOO the
girl Of his heart. Even the all-import-
ant part Of a villain in those lacka-
daisical days, however. paid but small
pittance. so when Essanay studios sud
denly closed its doors. Mr.. La ROGUE
had to borrow his buggy fare to New
York.
New York for Rod proved to be-
strangely enough the land Of promised
dreams. No sooner had he stepped of
the train than he was literally rushed
to the studios and told to make love to
Billie Burke in the picture. Let's Get
Married" Following this he made five
productions for Samuel Goldwyn, q
few opposite Mabel Norman and Mae
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

HIT songs of the future will be writ
l. L ten to At personalities, according
to l.. Wolfe Gilbert and Abel Baer, mel
ody creators for Paramount.
1.-THE day of writing songs on general
themes is gone, just as the reign of
New York's Tin Pan alley is ended" "
say Gilbert and Baer The audible
screen has wrought both changes.
Hollywood now is the popular song
capital of the world, they declare, and
melody creation has become a special
lied business in which writers work to-
ward a definite goal. That goal is to
turn out songs which fit film PERSONAL
tiles and help tell screen stories.
"Baer and 1 write songs to measure,
like tailors fashioning Clothes" ex-
personalities rather than bodies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Important Announcement.

important announcement.
THE movies rankle with envy when
ever anybody or anything seems to
be putting something over on them.
And they are equally prompt in re-
spending with Roland for an Oliver.
Paramounts publicity man has not
been blind to the front-page stories of
the naval pact, the recent crossing of
the Atlantic by the English flyers or
the Lindbergh baby. Such things are
q distinct infringement upon movie
rights. It is not, therefore, to be WON
dered at that he should strike quickly
and severely, and he does.
A recent fash from him brings the
important announcement that the name
Of Charles Ruggles has been changed,
and that "officially," too. Hereafter
Ruggles will be officially known in Par
amount literature as Charlie Ruggles."
The idea suggests the fact that back in
"the gay nineties' little chap named
Charlie Ross was stolen by kidnapers
and his fate was never disclosed there
after. Might not some ruthless child
Snatcher steal the screen star under his
new name? Isn't there a possible dam
ger of such q catastrophe?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Songs Tailored to Fit.

For example, in doing song numbers
for Clara Bows new picture, Love
Among the Millionaires,' our aim was
not simply to write catchy airs and
words. We tried to write songs which
would express Clara Bow herself first
of ali, as we'll as to advance the story.
THAT second point is important.
Putting songs into picture just to
prove that player can sing is obso-
iete. Melody numbers that stop action
and hold up the progress Of the story
have no place in films of today. Only
songs that do their part in telling the
story and keep the action going are per-
miSsible.
If properly done, personality songs
will be popular for the same reason that
the one who sings them is favorite.' -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Losing Confidence?

YOU can tell which way the wind is
blowing by watching the drift after
New York Official reception. And II
you can't get TO the metropolis, you can
guess right here in Washington by
watching where the congressional bills
go that do not pass.
More especially speaking of the
movies, the curious who love to speculate
are wondering If those "maggotS" who
run things are losing confidence in their
screen actors and actresses. Nearly
everything has been tried as a substitute
by them except trained seals in love
story, and, be 1t said, there have been
horses which have fairly gallOped away
with the pictures in which they appear
ed, while all the world knows Of Rim
Tin Tin, the famous dog actor.
Now, however, they seem to be lean
ing to all-animal casts, as a substitute
for the "all-star" affairs, for Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer is going to make an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

MO secret has been made of the fact
~ that Joan Crawfords next picture
will be Our Blushing Brides" with
Anita Page and Dorothy Sebastian as
the other brides. Robert Montgomery,
Raymond Hackett and John MILAN will
be the three necessary young men.
In this film also, in the words of DON
aid Henderson Clarke, are what have
been described as 'palatial country es-
tates and Park avenue apartments"
But the salient fact is that most of the
action revolves around a department
store and that Harry Beaumont, the d.
rector, went out and borrowed one.
Apparently the original plan had
been to build a department store at the
studio, but research disclosed that de-
partment stores require a deal of elbow
room and not few odds and ends Of
merchandise to make them look prop
erly realistic. So Mr.. Beaumont hired
the May Co., one of the largest depart
ment stores in Los Angeles, expressly
for the occasion. Along with the store
Beaumont engaged its regular personnel
as extras. and 1t was stipulated that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

other all-dog comedy. It's title, as
announced from the head offices, is
IAN Quite on the K9 Front" There
Is comedy even in the title-K9 being
very cute hint at the word canine.
And this fifth of the series Of all
barkie' comedieS-more cute comedy,
you will observe, has two directors. Zion
Myers and Jules White. while the pic
ture Is to be combination of terrier,
bloodhound and pekingese stars and
Synchronized voices" TO quote the Ian
guage OF the announcement.
1t would be sad to lose the human
element from the talkies. but II 1t isn't
meeting with boX-office approval. per-
haps 1t will have to go. The doggies
have made some fine pictures including
Hot Dog" college Hounds" who
Killed Rover?" and The Dogway Mel
ody" all, you will notice, with cute COM
edy injected into the titles But the-pes-
simistic will be sure to ask: Is humanity
getting tired OF humans in pictures?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Liner Docks at Studio.
PARAMOUNT has constructed a r,

PARAMOUNT has constructed q rep
lica of the promenade deck Of the
Cunard liner Berengaria at its New
York studio as the background for Jack
Oakie's new picture, THE Sap From
Syracuse"
In honor of the picture plants loca-
ton, the vessel has been rechristened
the s. S. Astoria, the "ia" ending on the
name indicating that it is a Cunarder.
Uniforms of officers are the same as
those worn on the Berengaria, and the
furniture also is copied exactly.
Another interesting feature is the
shield of the German Empire, which
appears on one wall of the royal suite.
The Berengaria was one of. the many
German liners taken over ~ England
after the war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Films Get Stuart Walker.

4 GAIN Columbia Pictures announces
something with flourish. 1t seems
they have signed Stuart Walker. of
stock company fame, to a long-term
contract.
Not only is this company especially
proud Of having acquired this mogul
director of repertoire for its studio staff,
but it points with pride to his discern
ing eye, which Is said to have turned
many humble Thespian into a gilded
Cinderella. Among the Walker Gin
derellas, male and female, have been
Ben Lyon (Mr. Bebe Daniels, George
Kelly, Morgan Farley, Elliott Nugent,
John Wray, Kay Francis and Helen
TwelvetreeS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Puts Over a Fast One.

CONTINUING that never-endins pol
icy of plucking Broadwayites from
their native nests Universal announces
that 1t has acquired the services OF
Genevieve Tobin. who until a week ago
was the most litheSome of ladies in
Fifty Million Frenchmen."
Since the musical show in which Miss
Tobin was featured is owned by the
Warner Bros. 1t would seem as though
Universal had put over what Is known
as "a fast one" for Sneaking a leading
lady from under the Warner banner
must be something of feat.
The name of the screen opus in which
Miss Tobin soon will begin work Is
The Lady SurrenderS."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Gaithersbure in Star Box.

4 FTER the fashion of the radio ex-
change announcer, The Star well
comes to its family of "neighborhood
houses" outlying theaters that make the
big talkies possible in the big cities, the
Lyric Theater of Gaithersburg, Md,
whose list of attractions for the coming
week will be found attractive.
Manager Hobart Ramsdell states that
his Lyric Theater is equipped Ito pre-
sent to their very best advantage" the
finest of talking pictures that come, and
which, he adds, are almost as popular
In Gaithersburg as Is The Evening
Star"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Berlin Borrows Ginger.

PY arrangement with Paramount,
- Ginger Rogers, the young player
who has made rapid screen progress
this season, will play one of the prin-
cipal roles in Reaching for the Moon,'
Irving Berlin's initial venture as a mo-
ton picture producer.
Reaching for the Moon" will be
filmed at the United Artists studio in
Hollywood Miss Rogers, who recently
completed the leading feminine role in
Jack Oakie's THE Sap From Syracuse"
ct Paramount's New York studio, left
Sca the west Coast late IA June.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Eddie Cantor in Shorts.

THE first of series of novelty one
reel pictures, called The Cockeyed
News" will present Eddie Cantor in a
new type Of entertainment. Just COM
pleted by Paramount. 1t is about to be
shown as one OF the short feature
group.
1t is described as a take-off on the
Paramount Sound News, with a great
variety of traveSty scenes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

~ Indicates Where Film Is Being
Shown Today.
District of Columbia
"THE METROPOLITAN-F st. NV.
AMBASSADOR-l8th and Col I'd. NV.
APOLLO-624 ii st. ne
AVALON-COnn. ave. and Mckinley
AVENUE GRAND-645 Pa. ave, Sc.
CENTRAI-9th ct.
"COIONY-GeOrgia ave. and Farragut
EMPRESS-4l6 eth ut. NV.
HOME-1230 G. st. ne.
JESSE-31OO 18th st. ne.
SAVOY-3O3O l4th st. NV.
"STANTON-515 & st. ne.
"SYLVAN-104 Rhode Island ave. NV,
TIVOLI-l4th and Park I'd. NV.
TAKOMA-4th and Butternut SITS.
"YORk--GeOrgia ave. and Quebec. NV.
Maryland and Virginia
Observation-Disclosures, Md.
ARCADE-CrisfieId, Md.
ARCADE-HyattsvilIe, Md.
ASHTON-Clarendon, Va.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Va.
BERKELEY-Berkeley Springs, W. Va.
CAPITAL-CumberIa Md.
CAPITOL-Wincheste Va.
COMMUNICATING Md.
CREWE-Crewe, Va,
EMPIRE-P0c0mOke City, Ma.
EMPIRE-Saxis, Va.
FIREMENS HALL-WiIlards, Md.
GLOBE-Berlin, Md.
Observation-Disclosures Md.
JEFFERSON Va.
LYRIC-Fishing Greek, We.
MARADA-St. Michaels, Me.
-KitxmiIler, Md.
MASONIC-CliftOn Forge, Va.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Md.
NELSON HALL-LOvinEt0n Va.
NEW-Aberdeen, Md.
NEW-EIkt0n, Md.
NEW-HRncOck, Md.
NEW VIRGINIA-HarrisOn Va.
OPERA HOUSE. Leesburg, Va.
OPERA HOUSE-PiedmOnt w. Va,
PALACE-FrOstburg, Md.
PALACE-HagerstOw Md.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Md.
REPUBLIC THEATER-Annapoli
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Vista, Va,
STATE-Bethesda, Md.
STATE-Westminster Md.
STRAND-StauntOn Va.
WALLACE DALE-TanEier, Va
Observation-Disclosures, Va,
WE10- Alberton. Va
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06
Rod LaRocque's Romance.

Marsh and then played opposite Alice
Brady in the stage version of Alice
Ascends."
The more imminent accomplishments
OF Mr.. La ROGUE are current table talk
Probably his most notable achievement
Is the fact that in the face Of the stern
est competition he succeeded in chang
ing Wilma Banky's name to his own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

Mantillas, supposed TO be distinctively
local in San Salvador, are now being
made in France and shipped TO that
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
CLEANUP DRIVE
is BOOSTED AS
AID IS OFFERED
Salvation Army Offers to
Gather Waste Papers
and Furniture.

Aid of Salvation Army trucks IN
collecting papers and magazines
and dilapidated furniture, which
can be salvaged, was offered clean
up week officials today by Captain
Malcolm Salmond, manager Of the
industrial home.
Trucks will call for any house
hold waste which has any potential
value, he said.
Rules for the essay contest in
schools were mailed today by Julian
Wetzel, essay chairman.
Inspection of residential districts
was continued today by fire preven-
ton bureau inspectors under Virgil
T. Ferguson, fire prevention chief.
More than 5000 inspections we're
made Monday and Tuesday and all
hazards were ordered corrected.
Four squads will inspect the tol-
lowing territory Thursday
Thirteenth street to Thirty-fourth street,
and from Martindale avenue to Cornell
avenue. under inspector Charles Miller;
area bounded by Roosevelt, Thirty-fourth,
Olney avenue and Twenty-ffth street, I'M
der inspector Charles seecamp; Arsenal to
Rural and Ludlow avenue to Hillside ave
nue. under inspector w. H. Torbett; Raj
ston avenue. Keystone avenue, Thirty
fourth street to Belt railroad, under in
spector George Stapp.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
MCCORMACK TO
DESERT GOTHAM
Singer to Spend Winters on
West Coast.

BIZ ScrippS- Hoicard Newspaper Alliance
HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April %
Ireland and California will be the
two important spots in John Nc
Cormack's geography henceforth.
The famous Irish tenor, who re-
Gently bought a Hollywood estate,
after completing his first talking
singing picture, announces in an in
terview in the current Photoplay
magazine that he will give up his
New York home, make his residence
here for the greater part Of the
year and spend his summers on his
estate in County Kildare, Ireland.
Mccormack admits that he ap-
preached the talkieS with trepida-
ton, but his success and the recep-
ton of his picture has made him
enthusiastic. He believes sound
reproduction will play a great part
in the future of music as well as
of the drama.
Think of posterity being able not
only to hear, but to see the great
artists of our time" he says. IF I
only could hear Mario and Patti as
our grandchildren will be able to
hear and see the foremost singers of
today. what JOY it would be to me"
Although only recently he leased
an elaborate New York apartment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Held Up Train
Present Railroad Lobbyist
Once Nabbed Pay Car,
Collected Taxes.

a FLORIDA sheriff who re-
"A Gently held up a passenger
train for payment of delinquent
taxes the road owed his county,
had a long time precedent in In
diana, it was learned today.
Back in 1891 Harry Miesse, sec
rotary of the Indiana Taxpayers
Association, was in the Adams
county treasurer's Office. There
was long delinquent tax list he
was sent out to collect On that
list was some $4,000 which the
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad
owed the county.
Miesse was en- route to COL
lect from farmer, who was
then in the midst of another de-
preston period. En- route he
crossed the G. r. & 1. tracks
and noticed the pay car being
pulled over the road with cash for
elnploye pay rolls,
The assistant treasurer secured
an attachment and ''held up" the
pay car, locomotive, money and
all. He got promise of payment
before he permitted the train to
leave town. The money was de-
livered to Miesse at Fl. Wayne
next day.
For many years since then he
has been employed as lobbyist
for the big railway systems pass
ing through this state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
SCHOOL BOARD
TAKES SLAP AT
CLOSED BIDDING
Rejects Shipp Heating and
VentiIating Systems in
New Buildings.

c. c. Ship, heating and venti-
lating manufacturer, long the storm
center in CLOSED competition" con-
troversies, today considered the slap
administered by the new citizens
school committee faction Of the In
dianapolis school board.
The board in special meeting late
Tuesday adopted resolution order
ir= the split system. as opposed to
Ships system, in all buildings now
proposed.
The board split three to two when
the resolution, presented by Mrs.
Maud Miller, TO use the split" sys-
tenn instead of the Shipp system
of heating and ventilating was dis
cussed. Lewis E. Whiteman and
Fred Kepner, members Of the for
mer boards majority faction, OPP
posed the others, but when the vote
was taken Whiteman joined the
majority, leaving Kepner to vote
against the resolution.
Crushing of Shipp, who manufac-
lures direct-indirect heating and
ventilatiing systems, apparently has
been accomplished after many years
Of war between school factions. Most
of these battles have been won by
the majority factions favorable to
Ship.
The split" system as distin-
guished from the direct-indirect OPP
crates with heating units and venti-
lating units separated, instead of in
one unit.
Kepner and Whiteman contended
that by stipulating the split" sys-
TEN the board was preventing COM
pe-Itiye bidding A. B. Good, bust
ness director, however, pointed out
that separate bids would be re-
ceived on units of the system, and
that no manufacturer held pat
ents on the entire system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
HUGE INCREASE
IN STATE FIRE
REPORTED
Figure Nearly Doubled for
Six Months Period,
HOgSton Says.

Fire losses in Indiana for the first
six months of the fiscal year, Oct. /,
1929, to April l, 1880, totaleG
s3,oo3,657, an increase of 1,467, 1853
over the same period last year, &C
cording to figures compiled today by
State Fire Marshal Alfred E.
Hogston.
Total property loss this year was
divided as follows: Cities over 5000
population, $1,O75,275; towns under
5000 population, $470,757, and
Sl457, 625 in rural districts and small
villages.
For the year before the figures
we're $873219 in cities over 5000:
$399, 1868 under 5000, and $263,l0T
in rural districts and small villages.
These figures" Hogston saids
bear out what I have declared many
times. The fire problem gradually
is being solved in cities and towns
but villages and rural districts show
a serious need for fire prevention
methods"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
EagIe creek CoaIing Station

Eagle Greek Coaling Station
TINE "one- tank town" becomes
L no object for derision when
the leaky leaning tank of fiction
is displaced by such a giant of
concrete as straddles the two
Pennsylvania tracks and serves a
third and fourth at the Eagle
Creek coaling station in West In
dianapolis.
Fuel, water and sand can be
supplied to locomotives on four
main tracks and the arrangement
permits the servicing of through
trains without having the engines
cut off.
Passenger locomotives. by using
the newly completed plant, can
operate from Columbus, o., to ST.
Louis. Mo, and from Chicago to
Louisville, KY, intact in their
trains.
Built of concrete and steel, the
new 300-ton coaling station
supplements the 500-ton station
located near the new $1,000,O00
engine house recently completed
and put in operation.
Considered the finest locomotive
service station west of Pittsburgh,
the Hawthorne engine house has
thirty stalls; well equipped ma
chine shop; as pits and boiler
washing plant and the most mod
ern equipment for serving the
huge locomotives in the shortest
possible time with a maximum OF
safety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
Indy TO FLY MAIL
South American Line to Be
Inaugurated Saturday.

BIZ JniteJ Press
NEW YORK, April 23.-Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh will inaugurate
another phase of South American
air mail service Saturday, when he
flies from Miami, Fla, to Cristobal,
Canal Zone, with the first mail con-
signment on the seven-day service
between New York and Buenos Aires.
The famous fier, who recently
SPAWNED the continent in IA hours
As minutes and 80 seconds to eS-
tablish a new record, will use
standard Sikorsky amphibian.
Mrs. Lindbergh will not accompany
him on this fight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
-L Learning to FIy-No. 3
NezU Instructor Passes
Pointers to Times Filler

me some encouragement in the be-
lief that I would be able to take
nv solo Night within the next few
weeks.
The average student requires from
ten to twelve hours instruction be-
fore he is qualified to solo, although
some are permitted to fly alone in
a little less time, and other require
as much as fifteen or twenty hours.
Ordinarily it requires more hours
when the lessons are taken at in
frequent intervals, spreading the
course o,er a long period of time.
In this way the last lesson is not
fresh in the students mind when
he takes his next lesson.
Thus far I have been able to get
in a half hour lesson daily, going
up between showers some days.
TODAY Brooks had me practice
i take-offs and landings again,
two of the most important features
of learning to fly.
1 made an especial effort today
to keep the plane straight on the
take-off, having found I had a
tendency to over-control with the
rudder bars, making the tail swing
first to one side and then to the
ether, as I attempted to correct the
first swing.
I had pretty good luck along this
line. but in concentrating on hold
ing the plane straight, failed on
several take-offs to hold the plane
at the proper angle, causing it tc
bounce a little before it had gained
sufficient momentum for me to pull
the nose up for climb
Brooks helped me some on the
take-off by telling me to use my
toes, instead of the ball of my foot
on the rudder, giving me quicker
control as the plane starts to swing
On the first landing my instruc-
tor left it up to me to decide when
to shut off the motor and start my
glide on to the field.
TINE first time I cut the motor
Il too soon and had to start ii
again for a minute to get into the
field.
The next time I waited until we
got nearer the field, but forgot
was flying higher than had been
before, and consequently was toe
close to keep from overshooting the
field.
This time Brooks instructed me
to make a wide, banked turn to lose
altitude, and by doing this I made
a fair landing.
ut is all right to use the motor
to stretch out your glide Brooks
told me. But you should attempt
to start your glides into the field
from the proper place. 1t is good
practice in case of deadstick land
ing, one where your motor stops be-
fore you land. In time you will
acquire skill at judging distances
and speed"
Two more hops, during which
Brooks checked my tendency tC
glide in too Steeply, concluded the
lesson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
RECEIVE 'JINX NUMBER
Dry, Wet Candidates in Thirteenth
Places on Ballots.

The fateful number "13" has been
accorded one wet and one dry cam
didate for congress.
Representative Louis Ludlow,
Democrat and dry, will be num1R
"13" on his party's ballot, while
Ward B. Hiner, Republican wet, will
have that number on the G. o. P.
ballot.
Ludlow has but one opponent, By
ron Horn, while Hiner has four.