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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
THIS UI1ANERZ YAPZ" OF NELFDEFEWNE

"oh. listen" expOstulates Minnie. I'm no
child"
"PERHAPs not" admits but even so.
still hold womanhood in too high a re-
gard to let myself be privy to the dissemination
of information that might cast blight on the
innocence and purity Of"
What are you talking about?" cuts in
Mellish.
Minnie" explains. wants to know what
q welter iS?"
well" grunts Ira, why don't you tell her?
A welter is a fighter who-er-is-er-"
You see" points out even your hus-
band hesitates. Can you blame me for not"
Judas H. Maccabeus!" yelps Mellish rs
there some scandal about being a welter?"
isn't there?" asks, meaningly. "I sup
pose you've never heard Of Casanova and Cleo
patra and Don Juan and the weller of affairs
they got into? I suppose you've never heard
Of the weller Europe got into during the
Great War? By the way, what did you do in
the Great WARP"
ton to the mill It's soon over, and couple
of hghtweights are dragged forth, one of 'em
being introduced as Lapander
"A Lapp eh?" remarks Davis. "I wonder
how many of him there are to mile"
No matter how many there are he's a short
horse and soon curried. The other baby hits
him with everything but the referees watch
and chain, and what hitting the visiting boy
does after the first round is largely from MEM
DRY. In the fourth round, the bozo from the
frozen north is caught under the chin with
an elevator punch that smacks him through
the ropes. For a moment he teeters on the
apron outside and then spills into Ira Mellish's
seat, regardless of the fact that Ira's occupying
it at the time. The kids a Laplander, all
right
Let's get out of here" Snarls Mellish push
ing the pug of. You can't go anywhere around
here without having fighter fall in your lap"
(The above article proves conclusively that
the heavyweight situation in America is in q
state of fux, and the rumor that Primo Car
neras to be pulled down and six-story apart
ment erected in his place. is without basis in
fact as most rumors are, and not few facts)
Copyright, 193O.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

three chairs down the stairs after them"
Come on" growls Ira Lets go to the
fights Nothing can be as brutal as this hoop-la
:. Who's on the card?
quite a bunch Of good boys" replies Davis
There's Malachi Ginsberg the battling Arab;
Joe Kitish, the bounding Basque from East
Liverpool, Ohio; 'Scarface' Mulligan, the"
Never mind the rest" scowls Mellish. Let's
co.
THE frau and Minnie finally won over,
and we proceeds to the arena Joe Davis
has some kind of q drag with the lad running
the abattoir and we're led to seats immedi-
ately abaft the bull-ring. The first prelim's
in progress when we gets there-an affair OF
clouts and clinches marked by all the science
of a scrap between a couple of drunken Eski-
mos battling blindfolded on a floating cake
of ice. The referees constantly prying the
ham, and-eggers apart.
why does he do that?" inquiries Minnie.
Even their best friends wouldn't tell EN-"
replies
You mean halitosiS?" says La Mellish.
"Yeh," comes back. That's why the ref
cree won't let them get so close together"
you know" says Minnie, i thought that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
By Sam HELM an.

young man with the light hair wanted to dance
with the other boy"
He probably did and does" tells her, but
this place has no public dance-han license and
the owners would get into an awful jam If
they'd let him do a Schottische or a mazurka
or even a simple Latvian folk dance. At that
you'll see a lot of necking before the nights
out. And these ladsll get paid for it, too"
do they get much?" asks Minnie.
about ten dollars apiece" says I, "and an
annual pass to all of last years ball games"
That's not much" she shifts
NO. agrees, heartily but it's better than
slap over the ear with wet fish"
Talking about wet fish one WILL chimes
in Davis, did you know the lad over in the
other corners touted as the coming welter-
weight champion of Manhattan Transfer"
What" queries Mrs. Mellish, lis welter-
weight?"
Nov, now, Minnie says I, reprovingly
you're a bToad-minded woman and all that,
but, after all, there some things that are
best kept from the of the fairish sex
Did you hear the question, Joe9"
'Yeh," comes back Davis, in a panied tone
~&nd ] hope she doesn't insist on an answer"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

Steppes as landing fields for the air transport
. Of the next millennium. But Of what use are
stars. planets and $1,000 900 tons of gaseous
platinum % 900 600 miles out In space?
Well, there are American factories that have
profited as a result Of solar research, strange
though 1t may seem. Let me explain. The
Spectroscope is an invaluable tool in the hands
of metailurgiSts and chemists in testing the
purity of metals and other materials for in
dustry 1t speeds up results. saves money and
so has become factory device. But the value
of the spectroScope as an industrial tool rests
on the solar researches Of German physicist,
Kirchof. What he discovered In the pursuit
of knowledge on the sun 10 years ago has been
turned to practical use in the pursuit of dollars
on the earth in 1880.
DERHAPS helium would have been found
eventually but it is another tribute to the
professors that Lockyear Of England sighted
it in the sun 26 years before its existence was
known on the earth. His discovery gave the
clue a hint that something was to be looked
for Last year the United States produced
5000 900 cubic feet Of helium-as a lifting gas
for dirigibleS.
Whole industries are founded on the behavior
of gases under electrical exctation. But it Is
only in the stars that we may observe gases
under extreme conditions of temperature,
pressure and rarehcation
The stars are laboratories They provide, as
Dr. Hale has pointed out cosrnic crucibes IN
which we may explore in the past and future OF
matter. They are test tubes in which we may
try out our theories and perhaps at last come
somewhere near the truth. They are en-
pires too for the mind to explore, expand to
and learn by.
Does this seem overambitious? Then re-
member that man Is Is yet but an infant
spiritually.
Only 800 years have passed since Calico
first turned his "optik tube" toward the skies.
His telescope was of ~ inches aperture We
have one of 100 inches, are planning another
OF 200 inches, and can we believe that anything
but the ultimate curve of space will limit mans
future vision?
An airship has circumnavigated the globe.
Is it extravagant to believe that some day
ship will navigate interplanetary space.
With radiation flooding US, is 1t merely
imaginative to repredict that some day man
will harness this energy to his own purpose?
But these projects are for the MONDAY. And
while we can only guess how they may be &C
complished we feel sure that they will be and
that their foundations already laid IN the
empire Of discovery which our pioneering pro-
fessors have glimpsed through the mists OF our
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Many Hunters Licensed.

F all the hunters in this country are marks
men and If they could be gathered together
in one army, it would be force to rouse the
respect of most any foe or combination of foes.
During the hunting season of 1s2s-29, licenses
to hunt were granted to 6,425.OOO hunters, who
paid s., 100000 in fees for the privileges Of
hunting.
New York led with 671 ,728, followed by
Pennsylvania with 516,603, and Ohio with
3e1 817 Delaware was at the bottom of the
list with slightly more than 1000 hunters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21


to see some box-flghts tonight?"
80 inquiries Joe Davis
Not me or l." delicately
shoulders Minnie Mellish. "Bru-
tai pastimes are not"
Brutal, your Aunt Chovy!" cuts IN. More
people are hurt every year In Skaneateles, N. Y,
by the collapse of churches in Barcelona, Spain,
than are hurt in the ring. Did you know that
accident companies give pugilists lower rate
than interior decorators and Swedish mas
seurs?"
That's right" agrees Davis. 1T once knew a
1eather-pusher who'd been in sc mills, not
counting the time he beat up his mother, with
out even getting his pompadour musSed. When
saw him in the hospital"
Hospital, eh?" grunts Ira Mellish. What
was he doing there? Waiting for taxicab?"
NO" says Joe. 1T seems he'd cut himself
while shaving and he wanted 'em to analyze
the red spot on his cheek. When they told
him it was blood, he tainted dead away. He'd
never seen any before"
THAT Slaughter House Mckinley you're
talking about?" inquiries.
"Yeh" returns Davis MRS. McGinley's boy"
81 knew him WELL" says I. II remember
when that Lithuanian first came over on the
Caulihower and took on 'Cast-Iron' Connolly,
the champion of Sweden. Mckinley laid him
like lnoleum-or was it like hnoleum?"
NNJO," comes back Joe. "It was like a
Kermanshah rug with astrakhan piping
OF the Teheran type"
Have 1t my way" interrupts, coldly, but
when did you get to be an expert on rugs OF
the Teheran type?"
Maybe I'm not" retorts Davis, with what
goes for asperity in some latitudes, but GER
tsinly can tell Delft ware from early American
slat-back chairs However, go with your
story. The lack of interest in its's getting In
tense"
We'll" says l. Modified by his surrender,
"'Slaughter house led with right-croSs at the
opening bell that he could have sold for sleep
ing powders TO a drug store II 1t had landed
fOne-Round' Heffernan ducked-"
"'One-Round' Heffernan eh?" snorts Mellish.
"How many guys this friend OF yours
fighting? thought the scrap was with Cast
Iron Connolly"
1T was5' admits frankly, "but, at the last
moment, he RSd to cancel on account Of his kid
getting the whoc2ing cough Connolly was
afraid he had some Of the germs with him and
might slip EN- to Slaughter House. who had
some children in Sweden"
"Considerate is what I calls it," comments
Davis.
Connolly always was like that" tells him
"Senstive, kindly, and a sentimental lad.
was at speakeasy once when he got into
scrap with three revenue agents who wanted
to pinch the proprietor for parking his car on
injustice and restrictions on personal liberty.
'Cast-Iron' spilled the three bozos down the
steps. but even in his rage he remained con-
6iderate. Feeling that the elected lads might
be cit fatigued from their labors. he sent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

" OW would you boys and girls like
to see some box-fghts tonight"
inquiries Joe Davis.
mot me or l." delicately
- - shudders Minnie MelliSh Bril-
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
II Piano Numbers

Marion Davies latest starring
picture mot So Dumb" adapted
from the stage play "Dulcy" and
now playing at Loew's Palace has
no theme song but II piano num-
berS.
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
Well Acquainted

Loretta Young and Douglas
Fairbanks, jr., the youngest
team" In films, appear to-
gether in their fourth picture
in Loose Ankles" the First
National and Vitaphone pro.
duction now at the Earle Thea.
ter,
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
7heater Guild GiUes Washington Play Premie
FAIR LORETTA
BLOOMS AS
COMEDIENNE

Loretta Young, the young
est tragedy queen Of the silver
sheet, according to one film
critic, proves herself equally ef.
fective as q comedienne in
Loose Ankles" the new First
National picture now at the
Earle Theater.
Paired with Douglas Fair
banks, jr., in q novel love story
between q gigolo and a girl
who hires him to aid her In
q lively amusing struggle for q
legacy, Miss Young Is said to
sparkle in her comedy role.
With her in the picture are
such outstanding comics Of the
screen as Louise Fazenda, Ethel
Wales, Inez Courtney, Daphne
Pollard, Eddie Nugent and
Norman Douglas Selby.
Ted Wilde, who directs some
Of Harold Lloyd's most success
full films. piloted Loose
Ankles" which was scenariZed
by Gene Towne from the stage
comedy Of the same title by
Sam Janney. Some new songs
fresh off the pianos Of First
Nationals songsmiths win also
be featured, with Miss Court
ney, the singing hit Of Good
News" and Spring Is Here"
on Broadway. heading the cast
vocaliSts,
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
VANITY FAIR
1880 REVUE
COMING

Beginning March 16 George
e. Wintz will bring to the
National Theater a new mu-
sical revue Vanity Fair Of
1890" starring Cecil Lean and
Cleo Mayfield.
Mr.. Wintz it was who brought
recently to the same theater
Mitzi in her revival Of "Sari,"
and "The Vagabond King" and
in the new piece promise is
made Of bright comedy scenes,
tasteful and colorful stage set
tings and costuming, with a
large and talented cast, in
cluding Norma Gallo, last seen
here with Clark and McCul-
Tough in the "Ramblers": Dave
Burns, comedian from the
Music Box Revue: the Bower
Twins, Loretta Campeau, Carl
Byal, Elaine Pring, Danny Beck
and Pearl johnson. A large
beauty chorus is announced.
headed by Madeline Marlowe.
and a group Of Tiller Girls
have been brought over from
the Palace Theater, London,
for the present production.
'"The Shadowgraph" (third di.
mension illusory effect) and
Harry Shannon's Recording Or
chestra are announced as fea-
lures of the revue.
The book and lyrics are by
William K. Wells, author Of
the Cock Eyed World" and
the music is by George D
West and Harry Browne. "Van.
ity Fair" is in two acts and 80
scenes
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
HAINES GETS
CHANCE TO
EMOTE

Once a cinema player has
established a reputation for
some outstanding quality or tai
ent he is practically doomed
to play roles in which that
particular trait is prominent.
Many a Hollywood player has
fought against being constantly
cast into pure" types just as
many others have rebelled
against an uninterrupted flow
Of unSympathetic character
izations. Sooner or later the
player, If he has sufficient
stamina and perhaps more to
the point, temperament, backed
up by box office appeal, will
win his point and the powers
that-be in filmdom will permit
him to alternate a characterize
ton now and then.
Just such a metamorphosis
seems to be taking place with
one Of the most prominent of
screen stars who heretofore has
been confined to light comedy
while his soul longs for
emotional outlet somewhat
more satisfying than that Of
tripping up the william or max
ing faces behind somebody's
back.
This person is none other
than William Haines, whose
success at portraying seemingly
light-hearted athletic, collegiate
youth has brought him to the
front ranks of Hollywood star
dom only at the mephistophel-
ian cost of trading in his
individuality. And Haines like
Faust now regrets his bargains.
In "The Girl Said No" at
Loew'S Columbia now, while not
the sort Of thing Sarah Bern
hardt would have chosen for a
vehicle. has sufficient serious
ness between its hght-hearted
moments to give HaineS a
chance to get away from the
ever-clinging clown type Of role
he has been accustomed to in
most Of his past productions and
to show the world that he can
"emote" with the best Of them.
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
Fox Breaks Records
With Happy Days Film

The Fox doesn't seem to be
able to set a new high attend
ance record and stick to 1t.
First came I'm. Old Arizona"
with Warner Baxter, which was
the first outdoor all-talking pic
ture. It smashed a few rec
ordS on its own. Then came
THE Cock Eyed World" with
Edmund Lowe and Victor Nc
Laglen and bing!-up went q
new high record to shoot at.
That didn't last long, however.
for next was Sunny Side Up"
with Janet Gaynor and Charles
Farrell, which topped all Of its
predecessors.
Now with Happy Days." In
It's second week at the Fox, the
combined efforts of these stars
plus the service Of some 237
others is simply smashing rec
ords right and left. Others
are coming, such as The Big
Party" and Lets Go Places" :"
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
PLAYS NAMED
FOR STOCK
SEASON

With the leading players and
their principal supports now
under contract, the National
Theater Players management
has turned its attention to
culling the best plays from the
sheaf that has hit Broadway
this year. The first three plays
Of the 10 weeks course can be
definitely announced and It
may come under the head Of
news to say that none Of them
has been seen In Washington.
The opening production the
week Of March 81 will be the
Plymouth Theater success, "Holi-
day." produced by Arthur Hop
kinS and which Spanned q full
seasons run.
Brothers" viii be the second
offering. This melodrama, which
lured Bert Lytell from the
screen two years ago, Is still
on the road with Mr.. Lytell in
the lead. Remarkably, enough,
the players new leading lady,
Marion Wells, played opposite
Mr.. Lytell in this production
for several months.
"Nancy's Private Affair" o
comedy still running at the
Hudson Theater In New York,
will be number three on the
list. 1t is unusual that O
Broadway success Is released for
repertoire before the New York
run is completed.
Contrasting with the policy
Of sharing the schedule with
plays not seen here before, one
Of the productions in the an
nounced season will be revival
Of "The Old Homestead" a
classic in American stage lore
which, incidentally, has not in
trigued Washington in Is years
Subscription books for the
10 weeks course will close
March Is. After that date no
orders will be taken for the
entire course, though seats for
individual performances will al
ways be available. It can be
mentioned again that Subscrip-
tionS to the entire course
means a material saving in
money and, also in time, for
the tickets are mailed out for
the entire season which elm.
mates the inconvenience Of box
office lines.
City or suburban homes offering yOa
many lOng-wanted pleasures are LISTED
for sale In Times Classified Ads.
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
BRENON CALLS
'GRISCHA' HIS
FINEST

writing the high-lights Of
my career isn't as difficult an
assignment as 1t might have
been had I not been born In an
atmosphere Of printers ink"
aid Herbert Brenon, director
e Radio Pictures "The Case Of
Sergeant Grischa," which is
held over q second week ct the
R-K-O Keith's Theater.
Back in Dublin, Ireland,
where I was born, my father,
mother and brothers all were
Journalists, and I spent my
early life in an environment
where writing for the press was
the principal occupation-an
honorable profession which
some day I would adopt as my
own.
But although I have always
liked writing and things liter
ary, I turned to the stage when
q young man. While attending
st. Paul's School and Kings
College in London, found my
interest in the theater increas-
ing from day to day as the
pages Of dramatic literature
were unfolded before me.
MY theatrical career actu-
ally began in America when !
secured a job as call boy for
Augustin Daly's company at
the DAILY Theater in New York
city. That was in 1898. I've
been engaged in dramaticS ever
since. The following year I
went on the road with a trav-
cling troupe as an actor and
spent the next seven years in
one-night stands. all over the
country.
Forming a vaudeville team
with my wife in 1906, we played
dramatic sketches on the Or
pheum and other vaudeville
circuits for three years. In
1909 / became q scenario writer
with the IMP Company. Carl
Laemmle, then president Of the
IMP, gave me my first chance
as o film director the same
year, and from that time on
my work has been done behind
the camera.
my most ambitious early
productions were made in 1914,
when filmed "A Daughter Of
the Gods" and "Neptune's
Daughter" with Annette Keller
man. The last Is years the
pictures I like to recall as my
best were "War Brides" peter
PAN" 1.-THE Street Of Forgotten
Men," Beau Geste," "The
Great Gatsby," "Sorrell and
Son." "Lummox," and my first
for Radio Pictures, '"The Case
of Sergeant Grischa."
The latter, adapted from the
famous novel by Arnold Zweig,
offered wonderful opportunities
for treatment on the talking
screen, and an unusually Splen-
did cast was given me to inter
pref the various characters.
Chester Morris as Grischa,
Betty. Compson as Babka, Alec
Francis, Jean HerSholt and Gus
tav Won Seyffertitz as German
officers-an ideal cast and the
kind Of story for which every
director prayS."
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
Is Versatile Actor

Douglas Fairbanks, jr., who
is appearing with Loretta
Young in Loose Ankles" q
First National and Vitaphone
feature picture, at the Earle
Theater, is not only an actor
but q poet, a sculptor, a nusi-
clan, a costume designer and
an athlete. Also he is a great
reader, his chief interests lying
in the fields Of biography. his
tory and metaphysical philoso-
ply. He stands exactly six
feet in height, and weighs 1$0
pounds.
Not only In books, but in life,
young Doug is q philosopher.
He says he has no desire to
work in any way; he labors
from necessity. But also he
adds that acting is not only
work but the most fascinating
kind Of play to him, so he en-.
joys life to the full.
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
Burton Holmes Comes
In Series of Talks

Burton Holmes, the veteran
reconteur and world-traveler,
will presently return to the Ma
tional Theater when he will be-
gin a new series Of his absorb
ingly interesting travel reVues.
This years offering is to consist
Of five new pictured stories OF
travel based on the travellers
impressions and observations as
a wayfarer through Europe and
the Near East. London in the
Season" will be the first topic
in the series. This viii be pre-
sented on Thursday afternoon,
March 20, at 4::30.
Despite the advent Of new
buildings and the constant de-
molition Of her older structures,
London still remains the en-
bodiment Of England's history,
and much is still left to remind
the thoughtful traveller Of her
past glorieS. The great cathe-
dral; the halls Of the great city
companies; her streets and lanes
towers and palaces: her inns Of
court and chancery; her ports
and docks and bridges: and the
stately Thames, father Of all her
greatness, flowing by her tri-
umphS Of ancient and modern
architecture, still holds fascina-
ton for the overseas visitor.
Other topics In the Holmes
series, to be given on successive
Thursday afternoons, viii be:
Motoring Through France"
"Present-day Travel in Ger
many" "The 1929 Spring Cruise
Of the Mediterranean" and
"Venice and the Mountains of
North italy,"
The Washington times., 1930-03-08
POWELL PLAYS
A BROADWAY
GAMBLER

''When I left home for the
first time, my father told me
never to play cards with stran-
gers, and now I know whyl"
Thus spoke william Powell,
recently, when sitting in at q
dummy" poker game with
John Cromwell, director, and
Frank Terry, technical adviser
for Powell's first starring pic
ture, Street Of Chance" now
being shown at Warmers Met
ropohtan Theater.
Powell, in his debut as Q star,
is cast as Broadway'S greatest
Rambler--a man who cheats in
life, love and cards. Terry, who
knows the secrets Of stacking
the paste-boards," had been
assigned by Cromwell to teach
the suave william all the tricks
Of the crooked professional gam
blers' trade.
The things that Terry showed
Powell brought amusement to
the countenance Of the usually
imperturbable actor, and called
forth his reflection upon the
parental advice.
Paramount spared no expense
to bring all the reality Of the
Times Square and Broadway
belts Of New York into full re-
lief in this picture.
Regis Toomey. whose excel
lent work in "Alibi" landed him
q Paramount contract, Is cast
as the leading supporting
player for Powell in this inter-
eSting drama-romance Of big
city life. Kay Francis, who
scored personal success in "The
CocoanutS," Gentlemen Of the
Press" and THE Marriage
Playground" is seen and heard
as the svelte wife Of the
gambler Powell.
Jean Arthur, recently seen
and heard with Clara Bow in
THE Saturday Night Kid"
and with Buddy Rogers in
Half Way to Heaven" Is cast
in the role Of the young and
guilelesS wife Of Toomey.