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The Washington times., 1930-02-12
DOG POISONERS
ARE. BUSY In
HOLLYWOOD
BY DOROTHY HERZOG

BY DOROTHY HERZOG
Copyright, 1880, Premier SyndIcate)
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Feb. IL.
Strange, the nomadic cruelty Of
some people.
Up Laurel Canyon ways, dog
poisoners are on the rampage
again. Residents, from time to
time, have appealed to local
authorities in an effort to catch
these dog poisoners red-handed,
but for the past few years, dur
ing which time 100 dogs have
been poisoned, the jewellers in
this Satanic amusement have
evaded the hand of the law.
The other even, I chanced to
be at Rita Mickey Flynn's
home in Laurel Canyon. Mick
.ey's pet pomeranian ran out
doors. About five minutes later,
there was a commotion. The
bridge game was interrupted
while Mickey investigated. She
found the pomeranian dying.
The little fellow had eaten a
piece of celery doused with
strychnine. Efforts to save the
dog were futile. That's the
third or fourth dog Mickey has
lost by poison since the first
of the year.
Peter the hermit, a familiar
Hollywood character, lives in a
secluded Laurel Canon spot.
Peter has Is dogs. He, too, has
lost three or four dogs recently.
Also bv >.
Ever so often a dog poisoning
epidemic plaques colony spots.
At rare intervals, the killers are
caught and sent to prison
Seems a pity the exception isn't
the rule.
jeanette Loft appears in a
splendiferous scene in John
Murray Anderson's Paul White
man Revue. For the bridal
scene. jeanette wore a gown
comprising 500 yards of lace!
Battle Royal
1t happened few hours be-
fore dawn. In a Hollywood res,
tamant.
He was a writer. He sat with
a few friends.
The motion picture actor en-
tered Also with a few friends.
Except for the walters, the
restaurant was empty.
The writer had penned a caus-
tic story about the actor. The
actor walked up to him and
called him a spade in various
phases. The writer leaped to
his feet. A smacking blow. And
the actors mouth was abject.
Friends interviewed. Writer
and actor broke free of them.
They went into a corner, alone,
to talk it out. They returned in
a few minutes. Abruptly, the
argument started again with
fisticuffs threatening. Friends
held the two enraged men apart.
But while it lasted. the argu-
ment, physical and verbal, was
a pyrotechnic SiZZler.
The Washington times., 1930-02-12

hand impression on the effec-
tiveneSs of the mountains of
studio literature directed at the
desks Of movie editors.
He wants to know how much
of this high pressure publicity
finds its way into type, how
much is thrown away and the
why of it all insofar as it per
tains to Washington.
In pursuit of this information
he will dine and QUESTIONABLE
local scribes at Hotel Willard
luncheon on Thursday at l
p. m.
Those who enjoyed Nick
Lucas and his mandolin in
Gold Diggers of Broadway"
are assured of a treat at the
Earle Theater during the week
of March 8. The singing
troubadour will make per-
senal appearance at Thirteenth
and F Streets, in connection
with the showing of the pic
ture, Loose Ankles"
The Great Garbo's first talk
ing picture, Anna Christie" a
screen version of the Eugene
O'Neill play will come to the
Columbia Theater after the
Novarro feature, Devil May
Care" has run it's course.
Another Columbia booking
for early March is Lawrence
Tibbett in The Rogue Song"
This is the first feature of the
Metropolitan Opera singer and
is credited with. having made
the Hollywood industry grand
opera conscious.
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"Get the Story"

Along with "the show must go
on" as the tradition of the
theater as the tradition of news
paper work. "get your story"
1t is this tradition that Joseph
Schildkruat lives up to in
might Ride" sensational Uni
versal all talking picture of
gangiand and the newspaper
game, which is showing at the
Rialto Theater. AS a star re-
porter Schildkraut leaves his
bride of a minute to be taken
for a ride" by a gunman.
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Here is her billet doux:
Just to let you know Betty
Grace Tucker Gwen Taylor
has a pretty good part in
Wonderful Night going on
tour and opening at Newark
next week. I hope we play
Polls. Best luck to you. and
the new husband is just Won
derful.
(Signed BETTY GRACE"
Harry Hammond Beall, preSi
dent of Wampas, which is the
national or anization of mo-
tion picture press agents with
headquarters in California. is
Ia Washington to get a first
The Washington times., 1930-02-12
ADVERTISEMENT
Shameful Blemishes
Made Others Turn Away
but almost overnight
they turned to admire

'PimpleS. blackheads and ugly
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Squeezing made my skin look
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nothing helped. Then a friend
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its Sulphur cleansed the clogged
poreS-how it's Menthol soothed
and healed sore, raw tissue. I
applied this ointment at night.
The next day I looked better. In
a few days my skin cleared up"
For relieving itching torture,
pimples, blackheads, blemishes or
eczema there's nothing better
than Rowles Mentho Sulphur.
Clears skin right up! Keeps it
clear. Sold by all druggists.
The Washington times., 1930-02-12

The Statler business is founded
on the assumption that the
guest who is pleased with what
he gets in these hotels will
come back to us.
No hotel operation on so
large a scale as this could show
such endurance, and growth,
unless it were making good in
pleasing guests.
So, naturally, these hotels
go to great lengths to please
people.
That's why there's a radio
in every Statler room "A
morning paper under the door
every morning - circulating
ice water, and such little (but
much appreciated) conven-
fences as the bed-head reading
lamp, the well-stocked library,
and so on, right down to the
pincushion in which you always
find threaded needles.
That's why the Statler din
ing rooms take especial pains
with their foods, and their
menus, and their prices: that's
why Statler employees are
trained to give courteous, In
terested. helpful ssrvics-L
ways.
Fixed, Hnehanging rSt.s ~
posted in sVrry StGrIsr roOw.
The Washington times., 1930-02-12
GlEANlN
SCREENINGS
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

AZ EAANSASANNN Ave- AAANANA<A1G
On Friday the Metropolitan
Theater adopts the New York
idea of a fish day opening.
All the Broadway first run
houses now start their new
programs on Friday ana o
thorough trial, has convinced
exhibitors it is a stimulation to
week end business.
The Rialto Theater inaugu-
rated the sixth day premier IN
Washington and is reported
well satisfied with the !nnova-
tion. Now Warner Brothers
have taken it up. One theory
supporting the change is that
the persistent movie-goer has
exhausted all the first run pic
lures available by Friday and is
ready for a new deal. In Pits
burgh Warner Brothers use
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
for opening days.
The picture which will
inaugurate the new policy a.
the Metropolitan is the mus
icaled film version of mo, NO
Nanette." The Earle Theater
will continue with it's Friday
midnight premiereS.
For those who like TO at
tend the movies when he
crowds are smallest it can be
set down that Monday and
Tuesday matinees and Wednes-
day night are times when 1t 10
generally listed F. Street at
tendance is at it's lowest ebb.
The Methodist ministers have
opened up on Strange Inter
lude" in Philadelphia and the
Theater Guild production of
O'Neill's play confrontS turmoil
like that which drove it from
Boston out into the hinter-
lands of Quincy, Mass, IA miles
away.
DR.. Arthur C. Cleveland, pro-
f-ssor of English and dramatic
literature at Temple University,
as spokesman for the organ
lied clergy has called on DR..
Frederick C. Poole, Philadelphia
censor, to bar the play. He
says among othe.. things:
1T is the smallpox of the
theater. It is filthy and loath-
some.
1T attacks honor and de-
cency at the motivating princi-
piles CT human conduct and ad-
vocates happiness through per-
sonal Indulgence as the only
aim and end of life
1T leads to the utter abase-
ment of the morals of Ameri-
can Womanhood.
1T attempts to justify illicit
relations between the sexes oy
Specious SophiStry of one sort
or another.
1T upholds free love and ad
vocateS promiscuous relations
between the sexes. 1t attacks
sex purity among women and
blasphemes the Deity"
This iconoclastic play is
without exception the most
lecherous play that producers
have ever attempted to show in
Philadelphia.
In general, Strange Inter
lude' does not tend to elevate
the standards of good taste,
good manners or rood morals"
Since Washington has seen
both the uneXpurgated and the
deodorized versions of the
O'Neill play-and paid close to
$4,000 for the 13 performances
local playgoerS may read this
indictment and sit as a jury on
the merit of the complaint. AS
far as the official record goes
no complaints we're received be-
fore or after the presentation
of the nine-act Theater Guild
production in Washington.
All seems to be well with
Betty Grace Tucker, the Wash
ington girl who was thrust into
the theater when chosen in
The Washington Herald con-
test for show girls conducted
by Earl Carroll. Since last
mentioned on these pages. Miss
Tucker has become a Mrs"
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A Small Grain of Comfort.

A grain of comfort may be extracted
from statement just issued from the
Internal Revenue Bureau regarding the
manufacture and sale of pistols in the
United States. 1t is announced that
there was an actual decrease in this
traffic during the seven months end
ing January 81 last. While the collec-
tions on this score during the period
were actually greater than during the
corresponding period of 1929, back
taxes amounting to $4,000 were in
cluded, and the current business was
$1,792 less--perhaps accounting for a
thousand fewer gums" put into cir
culation.
But this grain of comfort for those
who regard the pistol as an evil, to be
tolerated If at all only for the sake OF
its rarely necessitous use in the main
tenance Of law and order-if 1t indeed
Is of any use in that interests q
very small grain indeed. There has
been no evident diminution in pistol
use during the seven months of this
comparative period. just about as
many footpads have shown and used
guns, and burglars have been thus
armed, and private executioners have
employed these weapons, and suicides
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
The Indian Situation.

From the Toronto, Canada, Daily Star.
When the trouble in Ireland was at
its worst few years ago and the Black
and Tans were enforcing authority with
gun and bayonet and making an I'M
satisfactory job of it, one of the wiSest
IriShmen remarked that no people can
be governed against their will once they
are prepared to die in offering resist
ance. Those words were true. In SO
far as the south of Ireland was con-
cerned there was nothing for England
to do but withdraw.
The gravest news that has as yet
come out of India consists of the recent
message of Gandhi to his devoted fol-
lowers. He counsels them to adhere to
the policy of civil disobedience and nom
violence, but he warns them that In
pursuing this course with fidelity they
may expect to encounter violence, in
which case they must die for the cause.
This is not the rhetoric with which one
becomes familiar in Western countries.
This will, in India, be taken to mean
Just what it says and devoted natives
will die as the need arises.
Britain's position in India is very
serious one, and it is almost beyond the
wisdom of man to devise a plan where
by British rule there can either with
draw or remain-So urgent are those
who depict the perils of taking either
course as it is proposed. But II Gandhi
has a vast following that Is Wiling &c
resist British rtllek unto death no man
| can tell what the outcome must be-
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during these past few decades, prophecy
remains unsafe and uncertain.
Washington Is just about to 60 over
to the dial system of telephony. The
preliminaries Of instruction are In
progress and soon exchanges will be
rugged for daily service on the basis OF
an almost completely mechanical con-
nection. In the course Of C year or sc
the entire District service will be by the
dial method. This will be a distinct adj
vance. In other cities dialing has been
introduced effectively and with little
difficulty in the transition. Washington
has been deliberately held back from
this change in order that the system
might be brought to its highest state OF
perfection before introduction here.
From the dial service to the wireless
mode of selective telephony may be only
short move. Then, indeed, if that Is
effected, will the phone" be a well-nigh
perfect facility. Short of fires and
blasts wrecking the central stations. the
ganglia Of the system, there will be no
risk of arrangement or disablement
Storms will not break connections by
sweeping down poles and lines. Quakes
incident to natures violence or to mans
carelessness will not break the contacts
So & is that, great as have been the
wonders of advance in this marvellous
art, there remains another, even more
wonderful, yet to come.
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Airplane Overshoes.

One of the chief hazards Of Winter
flying will be removed If further tests
confirm the successful operation Of q
new type Of "overshoe" for the wing
edges of airplanes to break up the
formation of ice. Tests have already
been made with the device and its
sponsors are optimistic that the funda-
mentals at least Of method to remove
the ice danger have been discovered.
The overshoes lace over the forward
edge of the wing and consist Of a
thin layer of vulcanized rubber which
continually exudes colorless oil. I'M
der the overshoe IS a small hose which
with a slight pulsation Of air breaks
the ice as it forms on the wing edge.
A pilot when he enters the ice region
will have but to open a valve and the
tubes will automatically initiate and
debate as fast as ice is formed.
The entire aviation world is anx-
iously awaiting such a device. Ice Is
one of the most deadly enemies OF air
men. Not only does 1t add weight to
the plane when it forms, but it changes
the delicate curvature Of the wings to
such an extent that it may fall to earth
like a plummet, absolutely out Of the
control of the pilot. On his epochal
flight to Paris Lindbergh was facec
with this peril, but succeeded in avoid
ing it by diving close to the surface OF
the ocean. 1t is exceedingly probable
that some of the Inflated Atlantic Myers
met their deaths because ice put theii
planes out of control.
Every effort has been made to over.
come this obstacle, but until the tests
were announced of the success Of the
overshoes nothing has been accom-
plished. Wings have been chemical!
treated and other ingenious methods
attempted, but the bugbear still re-
manned. 1t is obvious that grea
stride forward has been made If TIT
overshoes live up to expectations.
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The Wonders of Telephony.

Great as have been the advances and
improvements in telephony during the
past twenty or twenty-five years. it re-
mains in practical application on the
basis of transmission of current and
communication by wire. The voice has
been carried by radio over great dis
tances, but for direct person-to-person
communication. confidential and pri-
{: vate. the wireless" method is inappli-
cable. Hence it is that when an acci-
dent occurs such as that in New York
Thursday, when ten thousand tele-
:, the blasting and burning of cables in
conduits ruptured by gas explosion,
: the system is crippled Immediate re-
pairs may be made to effect trunk
connections, but the work of hooking
, up all individual lines after mishap
. of such magnitude requires many
= hours. even days, to accomplish. 1t is
; estimated that fully week will be
needed in New York to complete the
: task of identifying and resecting the
wires.
? wireless telephony is the dream OF
the inventors and of the officials OF
che corporations conducting this most
important line of public utility. Will
: 1t ever Gomez Will it ever be possible
to talk directly to person at a dis
lance in the same city, or in another
city, or in another country, without
: wires and with perfect assurance OF
. secrecy and security? To answer that
question requires the gift of prophecy
and however great the faittatnspirec
by the maryels that have BEEN wrought
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have shunied OF the mortal coil by
this route.
It may be that gangsters and gun
men, engaged in one Of the country'i
most lively and prosperous industries
that Of racketeering-have found the
pistol comparatively ineffective weap-
on, adopting in its stead the portable
machine gun, which sprays death al
most inescapably. Or perhaps, with q
slight tightening of the laws against
pistol purchasing and carrying very
slight tightening, indeed. with none at
all in the District of Columbia-the pis-
toll users have taken to the use Of boot
leg weapons. imported from abroad
usually by smuggling.
Not until there is enacted In every
State and in Congress to cover the Fed
eral areas, including the District Of
Columbia, q law which forbids under
penalty the sale Of guns of this char
acter save to persons who have been
granted permits to buy them, after the
establishment before judicial author
ity Of legitimate need, will there be
any material reduction in the traffic in
deadly weapons and in the deaths in
cident to their possession and use. Not
until the vendor of the weapon is put
upon risk of heavy fine or Imprisonment
for selling to unauthorized persons will
this murderous trade be lessened. And
when such law is passed and enforced
the Internal Revenue figures will show
real and significant reduction in the
trafic.
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Highligghts on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

money to keep the deliberate cheats IN
iafl but at least the publicity given 10
these cases may act as deterrent 10
other potential thieves"
Under the re-purchase system goods
remain the property OF the suppieF
until the final payment IS mace.
X X X X
Dispute Type of
LanceS for PicadOrS.
Ell Concrete, Lima-The much debated
subject of the kind of lances that should
be allowed the picadors for stimulating
the bulls in the contests OF the plaza
seems as far from a decision as ever.
Cattle raisers and picadors have very
divergent opinions regarding the types
of instrument that should be employed
in the ring.
In Lima, particularly, the subject Is
painful one, for number or excellent
combats have been ruined, as was the
case with the fourth bull recently, the
picador instead OF the blade OF the
matador.
In the international code of the plaza,
very definite rules are laid down for the
sport of the bullring. Here in Lima
we violate nearly all of them, with the
full knowledge, if not with the full sane
ton, of the sporting and legal authorities.
ApropoS OF the matter now discussed
article SO of the above code provides
| that the weapon of the picador shall
have a point not more than 10 MILL
meters in length from the center point
| of the triangle to the base, where it is
! fitted into the end of the shaft. This
| is the standard length, tapering back to
a 6-millimeter base, of the point used
| on lances in Spain. Right below this
there is the blunt shaft end preventing
penetration of the point to a distance
greater than its own length.
In Peru, however, the lance used
employs point Of the same dimensions.
but fitted onto the end Of tapered
shaft. without guard or even the
buffer afforded by a square-wrepped
shaft end. The Peruvian instrument Is
formidable spear. The Spanish type
is little more than the goad used by OK
drivers. Unless we adopt the Spanish
goad quickly, bullfighting is going to
be utterly degenerated in Peru.
We are much in favor of national
referendum to see whether it is the will
of the people that picadors continue to
be equipped with the murderous lance
Of Peru or the innocent goad OF Spain.
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Triumph of German Liners
Challenge to u. S. Shipping

now building a ship designed especially
to beat the Germans. The United States
will soon construct two Superliners to
rank with or surpasS any ships af1oat,
building or designed
* X *
at was q challenge from Germany"
according to the Jersey City Journal,
that the proud Europa carried when
she drove her nose through the mists
of the harbor. but it was the kind OF
challenge that America likes. 1t was
the challenge Of skill from the other
side of the Atlantic, saying, This is
what we can do-match it if you can "
The Allentown Morning Call justifies
interest in clipping the record by a
few minutes every once in while" with
the statement that "the horse that is
likely to break record almost any
day is the interesting horse on the race
track" The Asheville Times believes
that lit should soon be possible to cross
the Atlantic, in sort of floating hotel,
in four days"
1.-THE Europa established a record in
spite of unfavorable weather condi-
tions," observes the Dayton Daily News,
adding that with the tempestuous At
lantic giving better cooperation. it
will not be surprising to see the Europa
Louis Globe-Democrat refers to speed
records at sea with the comment on
notable performances in the past.
Speed on the ocean ordinarily increases
at a slow rate. The race course on
which the swift wonders of former
years measured their progress was be-
tween Queenstown and New York, 2,780
miles, and gains were oftener recorded
in minutes than in hours. The Alaska
was the first to reduce the time slightly
below seven days, back in 1882, and
the Majestic, in 1891. the first to reduce
it somewhat below six days. The Lusi-
tania brought it below five days in
1908. which the Mauritania bettered by
four hours in 1910. The recent records
are measured from the vicinity of Cher
bourg in the Channel to New York,
1853 miles, which the Leviathan made
in days hours 81 minutes, or an
average Of PAST miles an hour, while
the Bremen's average for the entire
distance was 27.85 miles an hour and
the Europa's few seconds greater
Conditions on the return voyages to
the east are more favorable and the
low record even less"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05

There is satisfaction in surveying
a purpose successfully carried out. Ever
since Will Hays first announced his
intentions for a movie cleanup the
movies have. financially speaking, been
cleaning up every year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHMANDER JOHNSON.

Melodic Delirium.
I sometimes pause to wonder why
My fancy is not caught
BY poems with a purpose high,
And music nobly wrought
But of the tariff still hear
With nothing new to learn.
To soothe a dissipated ear
Once more to jazz turn!
At serious times my brain will balk.
The classics make no hit
When there's so much delirious talk
The music ought to At.
A fuddlement may bring relief
When fates unkind befall.
Where some in drink might drown theil
grief,
Sor still more jazz I call.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05

A specially designed alcohol spray
is suggested as means Of keeping
members of Parliament from doing. If
it can bring prohibition into action as a
political issue, nobody will get any
sleep.
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Resourceful France.

From the Toledo Blade.
France is a resourceful nation. When.
a cabinet breaks down, which happens
often, she always has spare parts at
hand with which to make necessary re-
pairs.
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Hardly That.

From the Charleston. W. Va, Daily Mail.
It is reported that Trotsky will leave
Turkey for his health. It Is quite GER
tain, however, that he GILL not return
10 Russia to rseoyer 1t. X
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05

Homicide mysteries have been so fire.
quent in genuine police news that they
no longer have to be invented for
newsstand circulation.
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That's Real Economy.

From the Jackson Citizen Patriot.
Germany has reduced her growing
navy by an armed cruiser. This was
easy. All they had TO do was to tear
I'D O blue print.