Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16

r e MATIN, Paris.-As the result
of the vigorous and partially sue
cessful demonstration waged at
IL MelJn by men and women affih-
ated with the French Society for
the Protection OF Animals, the Spanish
bullnghts which were TO have been
held in that commune recently. and
Sunday. have been interdicted by the
minister of the interior. There was so
much criticism, both in the press and
By the public, OF the laxity OF the au-
thorities in permitting these barbarous
spectacles, and the behavior of the
police gendarmes was 50 severe and
violent in driving the manifestants out
of the arena when they were endeavor-
ing to prevent the first bullhght, that
the government has decided to put
a permanent embargo on all such ex-
hibitions in France.
DeadwOOd Dicks
Death Comes aS Shock.
The Irish Independent, Dublin.-The
reported death OF Deadwood Dick In
America, at an advanced age, will come
as a shock to many people, especially
to those who may not have realized
how comparatively recent is the period
Of American mythology. For Deadwood
Dick, though he was every inch man,
never quite belonged TO history. He
achieved that rarer renown that is only
possible amid the haze that forms
the dawn and the twilight Of nations.
Along with Buffalo Bill, Daniel Boone
and Wild Bill Hickok, he built up a
sort of Yankee Niebelungenlied, which
will be remembered, perhaps, when such
names as Coolidge and Hoover are
merely food for examination papers.
Today American gun play Is car
| ried on by people OF very dlherent
type, and one can imagine the opinion
| such a fellow as Deadwood Dick must
| have had of them. Bootleggers, rival
gangsters, motor bandits-how inferior
| and decadent they must all have seemed
| to him, compared with the grand per-
| sonalities Of those earlier ARRAYS, ~
which hero, heroine and villain, even
| though they might disagree on some
| point of behavior or property, were
| at least united by a common love OF
horses and the open air Whatever
YOU may say against those anclents,
| when every man in Texas and Canlor-
MIA went armed, Wild Westerns had a
| deem respect for law and order, and
| the strictest code of morals, 80 that
As the tide Of civilization advanced, IL
was comparatively easy for them TO give
I'M their escapades, and become a peace
| able. prosperous community. Alksh Ike
| and Jesse James, for all their outia"ry'
never belonged to the underworld!
We are glad that in the smalleI
bookshops one still may buy Tor
few coppers stories of Diamond DICK
! and Pawnee Joe, and that outside the
walls OF the shabbier cinemas one may
| still see Wild West villains, Indians ana
| bewhiskered sheriffs galloping across
the gsudy posters.
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| FORMULATING
! Street Pianos Popular.
la Nacion. Buenos Aires.-We doubt
| II any of the orchestras in this music
| loving city have as great ano en-
tbusiastic clientele as the peramoulat-
| ing street pianos, conducted all Ihrousn
| the suburban districts and approacIiiLls
| as near the central portions OF Ie
| cauital as they are permitted by uis
trafic regulations. $50, =.
These wagons. upon each of which is
! pnsconced an instrument operated eltheL
| by motor or crank. each in charge OF
| some picturesque Bohemian, carry tneH
melodies and operas to thousands never
| able 10 attend the stately and CLASSIC
| renditions offered in the concert nails
and theaters Recently, IN the nome
| of one of these itinerant yirtuosos, thefe
was held a reunion OF all the street OF
| ganists OF DuenOS AACS' 49, Ify5
! nent As could be taken into the build
/ ing was removed firm the carts and
| poured forth its melodies to q throng
\ which crammed the premises. Otner
organs Iarg and more sonorous, per-
formed their numbers outside the house.
Juan dc Dios Filiberto, the dean OF
ali the organ grinders in Buenos Aires,
was master of ceremonies and, assisted
by Quinquels and Seniors Riganelli and
Arato arranged a classic and interest
! ing program from the works OF many
| great composers Bizet, with Car
men" Won Flotow. with Martha;
! Gounod. with Faust" and Auber with
1 Fra Diavolo," were all enjoyed again
by the gathering, and, of course, the
strains II n Trovstors," "Cavalleria
Ru.ticsna" end the national tanSos
and fan6angos were not omitted. Sum