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The Washington times., 1930-04-05
ROst Suicide Library
Purchased by Augsburg

AUGSBURG, Germany, April
5 ($.N.SO The Augsburg Munich
pal Library has bought the
suicide library" collected by
Hans RoSt. journalist.
The collection contains more
than 1000 volumes. 1t starts
with a pamphlet written in 1785
by Bishop Seller, and includes
many forbidden works on suicide.
The Washington times., 1930-04-05
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED

NEW YORK, April 5 CU.SD
The New York chapter of the
American Institute of Architects
announced yesterday that the lie
Brun travelling scholarship for
1880 has been awarded to Joseph
B. Wertz of Durham, N. C.
The Washington times., 1930-04-05

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15

The war brought another and more Violent
change There was general change in tempo,
an incropping of Sophistication such seen in
Menjous pictures, a rising generation OF
whoopee- making boys and girls, a life-heart-
ened throng of returning men, certain hunger
and changed world. Overnight success be-
came relatively simple matter. Rudolph VAL
entino had started and ended with his death
the vogue of the shekish burning sutton, while
Ricardo Cortez, Ramon Novarro and a few
others had come along with their own brands
of foreign passion Where there had been .
half dozen personalities to choose from, now the
market was flooded and boats brought new
rivals from every corner of the globe. Carlo
and Jannings and all the rest with Carlo and
Gilbert building their tremendous popularity in
some of the most feverish love scenes ever
filmed
WHEN. however, the voice came in, that same
burning passion stuff that had once kept
the cash customers coming back for more,
seemed oddly amusing when uttered to gushy
words. So that the day came when maidens
actually giggled at the lines spoken by the
great John Gilbert himself.
Meanwhile, going along year after year, In
the face of time and change, were a few like
Dix and Fairbanks and Barrymore who reps
resented minority, but they survived where
many another came and went, and somehow or
Continued on Thirteenth PAGE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15
Broadzvay Has No Matinee Idols, and E0en
Among Screen Heroes 7hereAre No Roman
tic Stars Who Can Inspire the Fair Sex
to Sit Up and Sigh as They Did in
the Silent MoVies of VaIentino
and John Gilbert.

have been up to any of the great lover" stun
of yesteryear.
The film hits in Broadway as this is written
include John Barrymore's "about face"
One of the few survivors of the love and
romance" figureS to carry over his success into
the sound mediu N and continue his turgd love
scenes, Barrymore switched suddenly to straight
comedy in The Man From Blankley's," merry
cartoon farce in which he remained slightly
Soused throughout the story
The smooth sophisticated William Powell had
turned to a gambling character, fashioned
after the late Arnold Rothstein; Al Jolson was
quite careless, gay minstrel in NANNY;
Chevaler was demonstrating how to be French
lily and slyly sophisticated and naughty, while
Lawrence Tibbett the late opera star, was car
rying in song the sort of swashbuckling
figure built for years by Douglas Fairbanks
himself
A check-up of this condition with william
lie Baron the Radio Pictures chieftain; with
Winifred Sheehan, the Fox production execu-
tive, and with Motta Bell, who sits in charge
of Paramount's Eastern units evolved theory
something like this:
Fashions in fictionized lovers whether stage
screen or novel, change as surely as clothing
styles change. and each generation asks for a
new technique.
TIME was when starched collars, ruffieS and
even pompadours sighed over; when
the heroes were tremendous fellows of the Bill
Farnum type with Hobart Bosworth, Francis x.
Bushman, Tom Santschi and a few others in
the lead. And how they could toss a villain
about! How they could carelesSly comb back
their curly locks after sending the evil one over
the cliff. D. W. Griffith came along with the
spectacle" The heroine became wistful and
appealing and forlorn.
The hero was of the Barthelmess pattern,
also wistful and frequently forlorn, as in
Broken Blossoms"
The vrile herman slowly took his fadeout,
fighting to hold his strangling crowd and popu-
larity swung to the juvenile-the appealing
youths. the mothers boys and the home boys
who were getting tough break-that is to say.
the Wallie Reid Barthelmess and Charlie Ray
variety
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15

But first take peek at the Broadway situa-
tion-as puzzling a one as has perplexed the
managerial minds in many season. 1t can
practically be said that this is day Of heroless
hits. Imagine if you can, dozen huge sue
cesses, in not of which is there hero
according to the well known standard.
OUTSTANDING, then is Green Pastures"
based on colored parsons concept of the
Bible story and played by an exclusively Negro
cast. And they're selling tickets several months
in advance
Or take The Last Mile" in which the lead
ing figure is young man about to be burned
in the electric chair. There is no love interest,
and the drama swings around death-cell
revolt.
THE Criminal Code" also concerned young
man involved in a prison revolt, and such love
interest enters is quickly drenched in tragedy
the innocent prisoner murders a guard and
makes futile dash for liberty.
Perhaps the finest single performance in New
York today is that of Leslie Howard in "Berke-
ley Square" yet the matinee girls who attend
do not go out of any hero" interest, but rather
to witness fine piece of acting. For Howard
is engaged in a wistful romance with girl
recreated out of another century and mysticism
Is chief keynote.
Down the street, where June Moon" still
packs them in the figures are Ring Lardner
characters of wise-cracking Tin Pan Alley folk.
Perhaps the most sympathetic role in the entire
piece is handed to Harry Rosenthal, who was a
professional piano player rather than an actor
until this particular season opened. And Harry
will never be hanged for his beauty.
Death Takes a Holiday" has Death itself for
a hero. Journeys End is without woman
character and its scene is bitter and heart
breaking picture of a dozen men hopleSSly
trapped by war. Strictly Dishonorable" pre-
Sents man of the world who admits right off
the bat to the pity maiden from the South
that his intentions are just that.
a ND 50 it goes!
Now all the prospective young idols can
not have gone to Hollywood. The fact is that
stngularly few are out there, and few of these
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-15
BY GILBERT SW AN.

p HAT, pray, has become OF the
matinee idol?
M There is at this moment not
q single male star in all the
Broadway belt who could come
completely under that definition.
And there is scarcely a performer who could
be credited with Turing into the third-row seats
those signing and Tickle maidens once defined
as matinee girls.
what's even more interesting Is that the con-
slant and restless turnover of new personalities
in the movies since they learned to talk has
made it all but impossible for the millions of
flmgoers TO get very Arm hold on any one
faverite.
Those old timers who seem to be nObly sur
vivfng the change are such figures Richard
Dix Douglas Fairbanks, Ronald Colman and
few others who, while they always wooed and
won their lady, never could have been classed as
great lovers" in the sense that Valentino and
John Gilbert were heart burners.
Yet Gilbert, betrayed by his voice and some
bad breaks in his first talking picture, finds it
necessary to stage a comeback. Dix has re-
manned Semi-comc, combining something of
a roughneck at times who, like Fairbanks, has
seasoned love affairs with sense of humor and
quite a little high and low adventure. Colman
has certainly. in two of the best-seling pictures
since the talkies began, kept his tongue in his
cheek; has played Bulldog Drummond" in a
key of high comedy and in Condemned" was
considerable of scamp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06

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The Washington times., 1930-06-12
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson

guillotine knife fell. TO the saw
age squaw is left the final, most
fearful. torturing of the captive.
But these peasants and primi-
tives have litt1C, If anything, on
modern fine ladies, according to
Mr.. Smith. And in no place Is
this demonstrated more plainly
than in the treatment Of the
working man by the working
woman of today.
Man, as many Of us have fire.
uuently suspected, was never
as great shucks as he led the
Misses to believe. But she
didn't discover that fact as long
as she stayed at home, well out
side the industrial racket. Hav-
ing become worker herself, she
is suffering bitter disalluSion-
ment concerning the Lords of
Creations, and taking it out on
them accordingly.
"Sl1e has become impatient of
his apparent failure, and So she
comes increasingly to despise
him. Hence her desire to wound.
But, with her impulsive outlook,
she makes the cardinal mistake
of regarding cruelty. mental or
physical, as an attribute Of
strength instead of weakness"
And you'll be able to think Of
a score of examples to support
this fact. But. again, is the
heckling wife cruel or is she
merely feeling her oats?
And the mother who tortures
her family with origin OF re-
elimination and self-pity, faint
ing spells and Sobbing fits. how
about her? Is she cruel-or just
craving the spotlight?
And last, but far from least,
how about the Lady Boss? Mr..
Smith says the cruelty Of
women overseers to girl en-
ployes is proverbial. Ever work
for a Lady Boss? Do you agree
with him?
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
A LIST OF HIP SING DEsERTERs

These are pictures New Yoks Chinatown In that
part Of the world you belong tong association
Chinese for defense oen you must not desert to an
other Some Hip Sing Tong members forgot that and are now
dead slugs found in their bodies were Of large size
The upper picture shows Hip Sing Tong headquarters with
solemn Chinese reading list of the Hip Sing members that
deserted to the tong the On Leog The lower picture
shows Mr. Eddie Cong chief of the Hip Sings reading his
war book to Mr. julius Jabbs New York policeman.
These shootings between tong widespread Only
days ago added to the list of murders in
Massachusetts, one in Brooklyn, in Manhattan.
The police say: stop that How do you know that you
won't misfire somebody that is neither Hip Sing
nor an On Leong7" ....
The two the picture interesting represent
ing well the Eastern and Western world types
The big policeman read the face Of Mr. Eddie
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
Facts Only Must Settle Fiscal
Deadlock In Congress

Facts only should settle the deadlock between the House
and Senate over District fiscal relations
Rarcor and abuse always do harm, but 1t childish fof
House leaders to assume and to assert that Representative
Simmons and his supporters have all the LOGIC their side
That attitude Is the natural with legislative other
81 being dummies without abilities to to know
facts and truth
is Just arrogance that is at the bottom of the Senate
and House fight the District bill The Senate tired OF
being placed this position status to which it is quite
often regaed by the super minds that the House Ap
preparations Committee
Senator Bingham has presented to the Senate rrefuabe
facts that the Senate right this fiscal problem His SUBJ
committee study Of the whole subject has been extensive
that Of House members. 5
In the House the one persstsny displayed statement is
that the rate of $170 in the District about the lowest
in the country That statement is never accompanied Dy
the truthful statement that the rate of property assessments
here is about the HIGHEST of any city in the country and
that in cities with high tax rates the property assessments
are low with politicians and political bosses having their
properties assessed at almost nothing.
There display Of the truthful fact that high tax rates
in many cities due to waste outright corruption and
stealing Of public through avorm in contracts and
otherwise.
Congress fails to take deserved credit to itself for honest
ncorupt Government here for savings of public that
tend to keep tax rates low .
The howl all over the country for lower tax rates and YET
here the House wants to taxes largely that Of
its members may political capital work on in their dis
tricts.
On good ground is the House position justified House
logic is imaginary roller its main weapon and
is being employed today for years. against sufraeesS de-
fenseess citizens of Washington The Senate however not
defenseess and is at last bucng the House steam roller
The Washington times., 1930-06-12

Gong than could read the Chinese characters Of
the Hip Sing deserters I
That Chinese is too deep for any policeman any
other American.
BUT Mr. Jabbs the policeman, carries nghtstck and
pistol that fires many shots.
The Chinese face is too deep for the Westerner in the uni
FORM but that Westeers club is too heavy for the Chinese
face.
So spite of his mental depth the Chinese gentleman must
do what policeman says You lot Of facial
depth if you the rightszed club and the swing it.
That is your Uncle Sam should remember in dealing
with other countries Compared to their statesmen states
men are as this policeman compared the Chinese
beside him.
But have the right kind of club which means arlanes
and submarines shalOwness win not matter much
The Washington times., 1930-06-12

Nervousness is a blanket
term-loosely used-that covers
a variety of conditions. Peo-
pie employ it to designate any
disorder referable to nerves.
A much better term-juSt be-
cause nervousness is so all
embracing-iS the one that
medical men and psychologists
use. It is called "neuroSiS."
A neurosis is a very definite
thing-it is a functional nerve
condition that has no organic
basis. In a neurosis the nerve
cells and fiberS are intact and
able to perform the work in
tended for them to do. The
reason they do not succeed is
because usually they are de-
pleted. They no longer are
able to manufacture a Euffi-
cient amount Of nerve. energy,
Nerve energy is also wasted. It
is distributed to wrong places.
The sum total result is NAL
functioning of one or another.
Now this malfunctioning Of
nerves is perceived by the suf-
ferer as symptoms. One per-
son is keyed up, excitable. and
everything gets ION his nerves"
Another complains of excessive
fatigue. Anxiety, fear, obses-
sions, doubts, suspiciousness, a
feeling of impending danger,
restlesness, self depreciation.
loss of interest, chronic worry
all these and many more be.
sides are also symptoms.
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
By Helen Rowland

acidosis and excite his toxic
poisoning temper?
And when the wife hands,
him something in a green or
amber tumbler, and bids him
drink, does it fill him with
hope-or only with dark sus-
picion?
For how can HE know
whether the strange and myS-
teriouS looking draught is char
treuse, creme de menthe, plain
aqua pura or just plain ar
senic? They're all ONE, in a
colored glass! And, no man
can ever be quite free from the
suspicion that his wife is trying
to slip him something" in a
goblet, anyway. these days.
I'LL tell you how all this new
color-madneSS affects a man!
He LOVES it! He eats it up!
He revels in it! It is hyacinths
TO MS soul!
A woman may consciously
love some colorS. But a man
has a secret passion for ALL
bright, warm, glowing colorS.
Red is his favorite-because it
is the brightest, eolor Of them
all. AS a small boy he loves
a red ball, rGA sled or a red
balloon. Later, he yearnS for a
red necktie-and. still later, he
loves a red.headed woman.
For years and years man has
suffered from a suppressed de-
sire for more color in his life,
more color in his home, more
color in his clothes and more
color in his wife. Now he is
getting it-and his color COM
plex is at last satisfied! Here's
to more and brighter colors in
the home! Anything to take
the moan" out of matrimony |!
The Washington times., 1930-06-12

Are women innately cruel7
Are they more cruel than
men?
Do they like to watch suffer
Ing and delight in inflictins
pain?
A. Corbett Smith, British
author and lecturer, says they
are and do. Which is a rude
shock to the ancient theory
that woman is the tender and
compassionate sex. But perhaps
some Of us have had reason to
doubt that tradition, even De-
fore Author Smith crashed in
with his impolite remarks.
For example, heart reno-
ing play called "The Last Mile
was staged in New York recent.
ly. It portrayed the final hours
of certain convicts. in q row OF
death cells. Every agony that
the human heart can know
passed through that rim. gray
row. And, almost to a man. the
males in the audience flinched
and went still at the horror
and pity of it. Butsnot SO the
ladies! After the first curious
surveyal of this alien scene.
they began to fidget and fuss
and. at length. frankly bored,
to glggle.
The agony of those tortured
creatures was real to the men.
SO real they were visibly wrung
by it. But, to the women, 1t
was merely a tiresolne 4play
without a plot" The men went
gray. The women powdered
their noses. This phenomenon
occurred not once. but nightly.
Many critics commented upon it.
Did the ladies merely lack i'm.
agination? Or were they inSen.
sitive to suffering?
The women Of the French
revolution knitted and laughed
over picnic lunches while the
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
PeriIs of CarelesSneSS

Electric irons are blessing for women but have their
dangers the electric current is not cut off after using Never
leave electric iron the ironing board and go ABOUT
something else It may become overheated set the board on
fire and start confagaon that imperis lives and prop
erty. =, 1,
Most of the cleaning fluids used in homes nflammabe
and should be used with exceeding care at ALL It is far
safer and better to send garments to cleaners
Csreesnes and thoughssnes are responsible IN this coun
try for huge toll of lives and burned homes Fire losses
in this country exceed those Of half dozen large European
nations combined
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
Hearst Papers Advocate

/. 'tPeuce ana dm,ty wtth aH nations; entGmgtsng
alliances Nth nome" as advocated by George
Washington g
e Proportional representation IN the United States
Senate no State to haze less than taOo Senator's.
Legtstdt,on to enforce prompt constitutional reap
portaonment IN the House of Representatives..
8. A separate Department OF the Army, of the NGUy
and of the Air Forces all united under Secretary
Of National Defense.
q. Federgi action to the limit OF Federal potUers to
abolish ititeracy IN the United States under
Secretary of Education.
s. Election of Congress IN November Installation
on the first Of January tono.Otna. INGugnrdttoH
of the President first of January merit after
November election.
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
ONCE-OVERS

you are doing or pessimiStic
about having a chance to ad.
vance if you were prepared to
60 farther up the scale.
Forget those gloomy forebod.
ings and past failures except to
make them serve as experience
or warning against their repeti'
ton.
If your mind dwells on your
mistakes in the past you can't
think about ways to make q
success when your mind Is full
of hindrance thoughts.
You are wasting valuable
time thinking about your fail
ureS.
Again, forget the past and
press on to greater things.
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
KNOWLEDGE TEST
Do you know:

Do know: .
/. Who is Governor-C General Of the Philippines?
What noted Norwegian Arctic explorer recently died?
Admiral Byrd been absent from America?
4. Who composed 1.-THE Stars and Stripes Forever?"
S. Where Libby Prison during the Civil War?
s. Who is the American Ambassador to Belgium?
z. What. horse the Kentucky Derby?
8. What negro actor fame as Emperor Jones'?
9. What State is Oregon north Of?
10. Who famous editor of the Boston Pilot?
Fill each blank:
IL. Orinoco is a river of
IL. The city of Pasadena Calf is near the city of
l3. General Wolfe killed in the battle of
IA. Rameses the name of several kings of .
is. Hans a German poet, who a cobbler.
CAnswers Magazine Page)
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
Secrets of Health
BY DIR. Louis E. Bisch

If a person only occasionally
shows a malfunctioning of nerves
we do not say he has a ten
dency to develop a neurosis. II
the term nervousness is to be
used at all it should be con-
fined to these milder NANTES
tationS-these neurotic Symp-
toms. This distinction marks
a real difference.
NeuroSes are on the increase
-neurotic symptoms even more
so!
Every day life is becoming
more and more complicated.
intense and depicting. The
part of the body that bears
the brunt of this increased
stress and strain is the nervous
system.
We are all candidates for a
neurosis. but. that does not
mean that all of us will de-
velop a neuroSis. The danger is
there, but, like every other
danger, If we are aware Of it
we can take steps to avoid it.
Therefore. watch your nerve
reactions. When anything be-
gins to wear you down modify
it until the tension is removed.
Be constantly on the lookout!
"An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure!"
The maxim is so old and
lackneyed I'm almost ashamed
to quote it. But it is true, just
the same. And regarding
nerves, it is doubly true!
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Ninety million liters Of wine
are lying in cellars in Portugal
because there is no foreign mar
ket..
Weapons Of all persons carry
ing them in Mexico without q
license are confiScated.
OF the 1.251.164 recorded
blind people in the world. Pal
estine and Egypt rank highest
In blindness.
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
COlOrs-and the Man
Women are enjoying a grand
and glorious color-jag!


Every beach looks like an
artists palette. And the once
austere and unompromising
American home has ceased to
resemble an operating room and
is beginning to vie with the
Aurora BorealiS.
Women have always been af.
fected by colors. A rose-cOl-
ored boudoir can make even the
plainest woman feel vampish
and frivolous. And an orchid
one can inspire her with posi-
lively purple thoughts. While
a marigold kitchenette can turn
even the deadly monotony of
cooking into a thing Of sweet
ness and light.
But how does all this chro-
matte craze affect a MAN?
How does he react to this hys-
terra in the bathroom, and this
positive RIOT of color all over
the house? Do pink soap, va
riegated bath-salts and a flow
cred shower curtain stimulate
him to wilder ablutions and in
spire him to Sweeter song dur
ing his matutinal plunge? Or
do they>make him nervous and
cause his razor hand to slip?
How does he feel when he
wakes up in the morning and
finds his head reposing on a
rose-pink pillow slip or his
hands crossed on a baby-blue
sheet? Does he feel like an In
nocent infant in a basinette?
Does an apple-green break
fast-room have a restful and
soothing effect on his alarm
The Washington times., 1930-06-12

Regrets
Do you think too much about
the past?
Bitter regrets over what
might have been, what you
might have done and too little
thought for the future?
You feel that you have had
the best opportunities that can
come to you.
There is little ahead to en-.
courage and inspire you to
greater effort.
But h do you l;now what
lies lust around the corner for
someone in your line who Is
working to get ahead of the
average man or woman?
Don't be satisfied with what
The Washington times., 1930-06-12
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

For men may come and men
may go,
But I go on forever.
-TennySon.
In the wreck of noble lives,
Something immortal still sur
wives. -Long1ellow.
Not all the lip can speak Is
The w0lsh silence Of the Hart.
--AdAEnR.