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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-10
BY Morris Llewellyn Cooke

VWI1CVCU IOI NN1 Oc1VICCI
Bate schedules for electricity used
In the home fluctuate, over the Unit
ed States, without rhyme or reason.
They range from the fair rates which
prevail in a few communities,
through q bulk of unjustifiably high
rates in most communities, to q few
which are absurd and outrageous.
Pittsburgh has a c. .nparatively
low top rate of 81 cents per kilo-
watt hour. The average domestic
consumer in Pittsburgh s 600
kitowatt hours q We. :, which is near
" double the average elsewhere. It
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-10
NARCOTICS SEIZED

st. Paul, May 10.-(P-Four men
and three women were arrested and
several hundred dollars worth of
narcotics yer seized by federal
agents and police in . raid on q small
downtown hotel.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-10
ELECTRIC CHARGES
FLUCYUATE WITHOUT
REASON, Says COOKE
Expert Cites Two Pennsylvania
Instances Ranging From 5
Cents to 80 per XVIII
MUNICIPAL PLANTS UPHELD
Cities Operating Own Power
Utilities Among Low Rate
Csnters Of Country

EDITORS NOTE: This is
the second Of four articles by
Morris Llewellyn Cooke, noted
Philadelphia public utilities ex-
pert. on electric rates for the
home. Cooke directed Governor
Pinchot's giant power survey in
1921, the biggest thing of the
kind ever attempted.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-10

NEXT: Household rates ". power
rates. How household consumers,
using one-fourth the total current,
pay half the total revenues.
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
Do You Know
When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

FOx-Marguefito Churchill in
"The Big Trail" at 1915 a. m,
2:04, 4:53, 7:18 and 9:44 D. m,
Stage shows at 1:OS, 3;57, SAG
and 9:12 p. m.
COIumbia-Marie Dressler and
Wallace Beery in Min and Bill. "
at 11:40 a. M, 1:40, 3:45, 5:45
1850 and 9:55 p. m.
R4K-O Keith'S-Maurice Chez.
lier in 'Playboy of Paris" at
1926 a. m. 1880, $40, $40. TAO
and 9:40 p. m.
PALACE-George Bancroft in
The Derelict." At 70 .O5, 2:22,
4:47, 7:34 and 9:49. Wesley Eddy
and stage show at 1899, 4:O4,
6:51 and 9:06 p. m.
,EarIe-Charles Pickford In
Rivers End" at IL noon, 2:2O
5:25, 7:45 and 1905 p. m. Stage
shows 1t 1:l5, 3:35, $40 and
9 p. m.
MetrOpOlitan--Lila Lee In "The
Gorilla" at IL a. m, 12:4a, 2:35
4:24, 6:12, 8 and $50 p. m.
RialtO-Helen Twelvetrees In
THE Cat Creeps,' at 11:45 a. m.
1855. 1853, $50, 7:50 and GAS
p. m.
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
LATEST STAGE
NEWS FROM
NEW YORK

Barbara Robins, who has ap-
peared with the Jitney Players
and whose only Broadway role
has been a small one in THE
Commodore Marries," has been
engaged for the chief feminine
part in the william Bolitho play
Overture" in which Colin Give
will be the leading player. Others
in the cast will be Pat O'Brien,
Frederick Rowland, Maurice Cass,
N. r. Cregan, William Foran,
John Hoysradt and Carlos zizold.
Frank Tours will direct the or.
chestra for Smiles" opening to.
night at the ziegfeld Theater.
The arrival of the first audience
and other features of the open
ing will be broadcast by Station
WMCA.
A theatrical committee for the
Newspaper Club ball, which will
be held on Friday, November 28,
at the Hotel Astor, is announced
to include Lou Holtz, chairman;
Eddie Cantor, Bert Lahr, Oscar
Shaw, Marilyn Miller, the
Astaires! Ethel Norman, Willie
Howard, Joe Cook, Leo Reisman,
Jeanne Aubert, Libby Holman,
Clifton Webb and Jack Benny.
According to Wilton and Web
ber, vaudeville comedians, viii
liam B. Friedlander will produce
Socks" a comedy of their au-
thorship, In January.
Laurence Schwab's new play.
Trade Winds" which opened in
Philadelphia last week, closed its
preliminary tour in that city on
Saturday night.
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
ALL OF MORRIS
FAMILY ON
STAGE
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1880. Premier
syndicate. Incl


HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 18--All Of
Chester Morris family are con.
nected with the stage.
The popular leading mans ia.
ther. william Morris, tops off a
long stage career by making his
talkie debut in Jack Oakie's new
picture, "On the Spot"
Adrian. one Of the Morris boys,
recently played here in THE Last
Mile" and since then has been
signed by Columbia for q part in
"Dirigible." p as
Wilhelmina, a sister, was seen
here last season In the Coast pro-
duction Of THE Criminal Code .
The mother, who was Eta Haw-
kins, stage comedienne, has re-
tired.
All of the family now live in
Hollywood save for Chester's
brother, Gordon. who is a play
wright and clings to Broadway.
Only few years back, the en-
tire clan, again with the excep-
ton of Gordon. toured the coun-
try in a vaudeville skit written by
william Morriss and called, "All
the Horrors of Home" The fa-
theirs career dates back to the
days when he followed Maurice
Bar: ymore as leading man for
Nine. Modjeska.
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
CORNELLIN
DISHONORED LADY,
By ANDREW r, KELLEY

In the annals of famous CAPT
tai crimes is the story Of Made
line Smith, of Glasgow, how she
poisoned her lover to smooth the
path to placid romance and
matrimony and, presumably by a
well-concocted alibi, escaped the
legal penalty for her crime.
"Dishonored Lady" whic h
Katharine Cornell brought to the
Belasco theater last night, is a
play founded upon this sordid
chapter from criminology.
1t adds another portrait to the
gallery of soiled women which
seem to drift with seasonal regu-
larity into the caeer of one of the
finest young actresses of the con-
temporary stage.
Filled With Action
I prefer it as play to THE
Age of Innocence" the last Cor
nell dramatic vehicle fashioned
by the same, playwrights, Mar
garet Aver Barnes and Edward
Sheldon. Not only because Miss
Cornell invests its two exciting
and emotional scenes with the
sincerity and realism Of a great
art, but because its melodrama-
tics, while sometimes verging on
the tawdry, nevertheless provide
vigorous action.
'sDishonored Lady is the story
of tainted heredity and a woman
whose efforts to rise about this
inherent urge results in futile
tragedy. The character OF
Madeline Cary, as played by
Katharine Cornell, generates
some sympathy. She had her
affair with her night club gigolo
and when touched by a sincere
love tried courageously to put
her past behind. But her hot
blooded Latin lover would not be
thrust aside. And so, as the po-
lice inelegantly but expressively
put it, Madeline bumped him
Off" Few mourned. Jose was
a cruel and tickle roue given to
striking his i11amoratas and a
cad generally. Madeline escapes
the electric chair but the finish
finds her willingly Stunned by
her friends, dishonored lady in
fact. AS the curtain drops, she
is wringing her hands and vainly
soliloquizing, "Oh, WE'LL"
Better Than Play
Miss Cornell is, as usual, better
than her play. Indeed there are
moments when the play is as
thoroughly absorbing as the
pleasantly recalled Green Hat, -
due entirely to the magic charm
of the Cornell voice, to the con-
summate skill with which she en-
dows her towering emotional
scenes. A well qualified com
pany gives splendid assistance
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
Billie's Comeback"

Billie Burke, whom Washington
can claim as a native actress, is
coming back to the stage. The
wife of Florenz Ziegfeld, strange
to say, will appear under the
banner of the MeSsrs. Shubert.
This is only strange because
"Ziggy" and the Shubert organiza-
ton are not the closest of friends.
Billie Burke's new play will be
called "The Truth Game" 1t was
written by Ivor Novello, an En-
glish author-actor imported by the
Shuberts, who will be co-starred
with her. Playwright Novello came
to America to appear in one of his
own plays, Symphony In Two
Flats" While it was a success in
London, 1t languished on Broad
way and was closed after a few
weeks.
/ hope Manager L. Stoddard
Taylor will pin this item to one
OF his daily communications to
Lee Shubert and suggest q Wash
ington premiere for "The Truth
Came" Billie Burke has always
been a favorite here. Her last
appearance was at the National
in lie Marquise" which went to
Broadway and attained a mod
crate success. Later she appeared
for Gilbert Miller in THE Happy
Husband" only a mild success.
President Wilson'S last appear
ance at the play was for the
Billie Burke performance of THE
Intimate Stranger" at the Ma
tional Theater.
The invalid President had to be
carried to his box. In this drama
Billie Burke had the able assis-
tance Of Alfred Lunt and Glenn
Hunter, two young actors WHO
have certainly gone on to greater
things in the past decade.
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
First Movie Actor

Who was the first movie actorP
I confess I would have flubbed
this question in any intelligence
test because I never even sus.
pected it was Jim Corbett. Yet
the former heavyweight champion
claims he was the first and who
is going to dispute him.
Here's how he tells about it
IN the New Movie magazine:
Away back in l895-or it
may have been in 1894-there
was a lot of talk about moving
pictures. but no one had ever
seen one. From what read
In the newspapers, however, it
looked as If they were really
going to do it-Over in Mr..
EdisOn's place in Orange, N.
j., where / was told that the
great inventor had at last made
moving pictures a sure thing.
I'm those days the nearest
thing we had to a moving pic.
ture was a lot Of pictures on
cards, q whole bunch of them
and by rapidly thumbing
them over, they gave the sur.
gestiOn Of movement.
In 1898 I was playing the
American Theater in New York
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
ALAN RLNEHART PLAY TO BE GIVEN
BILLIE BURKE
RETURNING
TO STAGE
Bx ANDREW 3. KELLEY


volcano" a play written BY
Alan Rinehart, son of the dlstin-
guished author, Mary Roberts
Rinehart. has been acquired by
Producer Messmore Kendall and
will be produced at once. Robert
Milton will stage the play.
The young playwright hopes,
you may be sure, for just a portion
of the success which greeted his
mothers great mystery drama,
''The Bat" This weird thriller,
which started the current vogue
for creepy stage offerings. was
made from the Mary Roberts
Rinehart novel, THE Circular
Staircase" Avery Hopwood
adapted it and on the night it
opened at the Belasco Theater as
"A Thief in the Night" it did not
look very promising.
Producers Wagenhals & Kem-
per changed the title to THE
Bat" and as polished and rounded
out for Broadway it became a SEN
sational hit. The firm of Wag-
enhals & Kemper made a huge
fortune on this one production
and then discreetly retired to
enjoy it. James Shesgreen, who
was the press agent for the show,
also owned a small percentage,
got $685. 900 for his share of the
profits. Shesgreen dropped every
penny trying to pick another play
like 1.-The Bat" and died in. COM
parative poverty.
Only Anne Nichols "Abie's
Irish Rose" exceeded THE Bat"
for gross profits. Mary Roberts
Rinehart's later attempts to
write for the stage were not
successful,
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
Ends Daylight Saving

Baltimore theaters have at least
been rid of an annoyance which
cost them thousands of dollars
the past summer-daylight
savings. The reform was ac-
complished via the ballot box
since Baltimoreans in a referen-
dunn voted 1892 to 71,435
against further fooling with the
clock in the summer time.
The difficulty was that the
neighboring city was only half
way on daylight savings time. In
some circles it was observed, in
others ignored. Thus motion pic
ture patrons we're confused over
the starting time If shows and
remained away rather than be
disappointed or 50 to the. trouble
OF looking it up
The theaters Co.cperated With
the Baltimore News and Sunday
American in a fighE cgaiust the
continuation of the daylight sav.
1ngs plan and the final count
shows fine victory.
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
Wayne Returns


The next episode in John
Wayne's career will be the leading
male role in the Fox picture that
was to have been called Waiting
at the Church"
Wayne was the hero Of Raoul
Walshs THE Big Trail" and has
been making personal appear
ances with this picture la the
Middle West. He was recalled
from Denver for his next film as
signment.
Opposite the young actor viii
be Virginia Cherrill, who has
grown up with Charlie Chaplin's
comedy, city Lights Seymour
Felix. former Broadway dance di.
rector will make his megaphone
debut In Waiting at the Church. !"
or whatever it now is called. Most
Of Fox'S younger set of players are
cast in the film. Frankie Albert
son and David Rollins both have
parts.
/ Note That
Jack Warner is asking 500, 900
a picture from a studio which
wishes to borrow Loretta Young.
The arrow seems to point to
Stardom for this young actress
=. Gwen Lee celebrated d her
twenty-sixth birthday this week
>. or is that telling?. Marion
Nixon and her husband, Edward
Hillman, jr., are back iri Holly
wood to allow Hillman to play
polo with the Chicago team
against the local uplifter's club.
Do You Know
That Edwina Booth is the niece
Of Edwin Booth?
That Ramon Novarro is one of
10 children?
That Marie Dressler made her
first stage appearance at the age
of 5, when she impersonated
cupid In a church show?
The Washington times., 1930-11-18

city in a play called The Ma
val Cadet My manager; Will
liam A. Brady, who Is now the
famous theatrical manager. and
the father Of Alice Brady, came
to me one day and said: Il
have a proposition from Edi-
sons place in New Jersey, say
ing they would like to have you
go over there and box for them.
They want to see If they can
catch a knockout blow and re-
produce it in moving pictures
"Well, Of course, / was very
much surprised to think they
had gone that far, and said
to Brady, What shall i do?'
He THOUGHT it over for a mo-
ment and then answered. Well,
I'd tell them, yes
"'HOw much do we get?
asked.
They'll give us a percent.
age of what the picture makes
he said.
"And I can say now that II
was $4,000 we made out Of the
~"'ect, which wasn't SO oad
IS years aEO!."
The Washington times., 1930-11-18

with special commendation for
S. Herbert Bragiotti, Paul Harvey.
Charles L. Francis, Harvey
Stevens, Fred L. Tiden and Ruth
Fallows.
Miss Cornell revealed an ex-
quiSite wardrobe during the
action of the three acts and the
play has been gorgeously lighted
and mounted by Guthrie Nc
Clintic. In a nutshell, Dis.
honored Lady" is first class
theater and for the Katharine
Cornell following eminently salts
flying.
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
Hone Springs Eternal

Today's note of optimism is
sounded by Dick We'll, the writer.
who says he's between salaries,
but thinks that everything will be
all right in the film business If it
can hold out until after the
Olympic Games.
The Washington times., 1930-11-18
Mussolini As Producer

The Italian government has
taken up the busines Of making
pictures and has reached an arm
out to Hollywood to put Lonnie
D'Orsa under contract.
D'Orsa has been Edmund
Goulding's assistant for many
years. He'll sail on December II
for Rome, where he'll help pro.
duce film In French, Italian and
English.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
FUTILE ASKS NAME 0F CRATER SPONSOR
Demands That Gov. R0Ose- welt Say Who Recom-
 mended Him

Glens Falls, N. r, Oct. g LR - Charles H. Futile, republican nom- inee for governor, said today that if Governor Roosevelt would make public the name of the man who recommended to him the appoint ment of the missing supreme court justice, Joseph F. Crater" he be- lieved a "clue might be found for the reason for that mysterious dis appearance"
 Mir. Futile demanded to know why District Attorney Grain had not called Governor Roosevelt to testi- fly in his inquiry as to Craters dis appearance. "The one man who hasn't been asked should be asked to make public the name or names of those who recommended that ap- pointment to him. It is not possible that therein would be found the clue to explain that mysterious disap- pearance?"
 He called attention to the fact that Justice Crater disappeared the day after he (Tuttle) wrote an open letter to MT. Grain reciting the cir cumstances In the Ewald case. It was more than coincidence, Mr. Futile said he believed, that the day after the publication of this letter the man who inducted Ewald into office and who came from Ewald's own political district, should dis appear.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
Serum Rushed From New York Admins tered to II Persons Late This Morning Examination of Head Discloses Rabies.
Animal Runs Amuck Through City Streets, Creating Reign of Terror Police Commissioner Shoots It After Long Chase.
Especial to the Herald)

Bristol, Oct. 9 - Examination of the head of dog which ran amuck through the streets of Bristol last night and created a reign of terror by biting at least 13 persons showed today that the animal was rabid and serum rushed here from New York city was administered this morning to il of the victims. The dog, a brown and black ''mongreb" was owned by Edmund Gagnon of Pennington avenue, it was learned today by local health officials, and broke away from it's leash as it be- gan it's mad career about the city. The animal, it is said, had been suspected of illness and had been sent away to a mountain spot in New York but had recently returned in the belief that it was cured. It was tied in the yard behind Gag mons house early last evening when seizure came on, and it wrenched itself loose and dashed into the street.
 Bites Woman, Tears Clothes According to reports, the dob first bit Mrs. Edward Schwartz of 90 Wolcott street while she was in front of a gasoline station at sDutton ave- nue and Park street. It bit her leg and tore part of her dress and stock ings from her person. Then the mad dened canine proceeded on toward West and Divinity streets, where it sank it's jaws in some seven or eight more persons. Joseph Friedman, Jr., of Tulip street, fought the animal as it leaped at him and it bit him on both wrists and one hip. All the other persons were bitten on the legs and their injuries were believed today to be superficial.
 Alternating between a stumbling gait and sudden dashes at its vic- tims, the dog continued down West street and into South street, where it passed several persons without attacking them. By this time, how, ever, Mrs. Schwartz had reported. her experience and police armed with riot guns were issuing from headquarters to hunt the animal. News that mad dog was loose in the city spread rapidly and the southern and western sections of the city were terrorized. A warning was | flashed upon the screens of local theaters, and police headquarters was besieged with telephone calls from, worrie6 residents
 Judd Dispatches Animal On South street, however, the anil nal was sighted by two men in an automobile. City Councilman and Police Commissioner Homer H. Judd l joined them in a chase which led across East street to Riverside ave- nue, where the exhausted canine was finally run to earth when 1t lay down in front of the Session Clock Co. MT. Judd then killed 1t with a charge from a shotgun, first, how ever, having one of it's victims iden- tify it as the terror spreader.
 | Theater patrons who had been
 clinging to their seats for fear of being bitten if they ventured on the streets were released several hours (Continued on Page Three)
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
Rum Runner Crashes
 Into Cop on Cycle

Stratford, Oct. (UP)-It took no detective work on the part of Motorcycle Policeman George Flint to discover rum runners automobile here. The machine ran right up and knocked him down.
 Flint was sitting astride his ma chine at 8 curb when an automo. bile driven by Ray J. Wormer, 3435 Olinville avenue, Bronx. N. T., knocked him down last night.
 After Flint investigated and found 120 quarts of alleged whis- key in the car, Wormer and his companion, Mrs. Fannie Newman. Cumberland hotel, 54th street and Broadway, New York, were held on charges of transporting liquor. Wormer also was charged with driving while intoxicated.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
TWO BROOKLYN KILLINGS
 OCCUPY POLICE ATTENTION
Taxicab Driver and Contractor Shot
 Car With Three Guns in Back Seat Found.

New York, Oct. R1Two killings which occurred within a few hours
 of each other occupied the attention
 of Brooklyn police today. In one of
 the shootings third man was wounded.
 The body of Samuel Chermook, 27-year-old taxicab driver. was
 found in Atkins avenue shortly after midnight, one bullet wound in the abdomen and one through the heart. Half an hour later police found
 an abandoned automobile about two miles away with three pistols on the back seat of the car. The car was identified as one that had been stolen from near where Chermook' s
 body was found.
 Residents of the neighborhood
 told police they heard loud talking
 and cursing then the sound of a car
 driving away at high speed.
 The other killing was that of Rug
 giero Consiglio. 49, a wealthy Brook lyn contractor. He and his brother, Arthur, were attacked in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn. Arthur l was shot in the shoulder.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
TRUMbULL REBUkED
 IN CIVIC CLUB TALK
Levitt Plays Governor for Neglect in Custer
 Proceedings

Hartford, Oct. g [R - Governor Trumbull was severely rebuked to- day by Prof. Albert Levitt of Red ding for failing to order Deputy At- torney General Ernest L. Averill to begin custer proceedings against the members of the public utilities com- mission. in accordance with an opin- lon handed down by the Connecti- cut supreme court of errors.
 Responsibility for Averill's alleged neglect in proceeding against the commission was placed on the gov- ernor by Levitt in an address at the luncheon of the Lions club here this afternoon. Levitt said his criti- cism of the governor was not politi- cal since the latter was not can- Gidate for office again, but that it was based entirely on the reluctance of Averill to carry out the orders of the supreme court. The latter body upheld Levitt's custer proceed ings against the commission and or dered Averill to bring the members into superior court. Levitt charges the commission with ignoring the state statutes requiring the New Ha- ven railroad to remove certain pro- portion of railroad crossings each year.
 Levitt's address was largely based on the constitution of Connecticut.
 He said the founders of the state fled from Massachusetts in order to escape the religious and political dictatorship of that colony. How ever, he pointed out, present politi- cal conditions indicated that Con- necticut no longer enjoys the free dom it's founders set out to obtain, but that the very thing they sought to escape in Massachusetts is now confronting them in this state.
New Britain herald., 1930-10-09
BOSTON ASKS LYNCH 1 TO APPEAR AT TRIAL
New Britain Man Asked to Testify Against
 Pickpocket
Special to the Herald)

Boston, Oct. s-Detective Ser geant Thomas J. Feeney of New Britain, Conn, aiding in the inves- tigation being carried on by the Boston police department into the picking of the pocket of Cornelius Lynch, also of New Britain, during the American Legion national con- vention parade last Tuesday, was informed that George Williams, in- ternationally known crook who, in police circles Is known as English George, Is being held for trial. A request has been issued for Lynch to return to Boston for the hearing.
 Lynchs wallet, the police say was found on Williams as a Boston detective nabbed him after he had extracted it from Lynch's pocket. Any money that was in it was not recovered. Williams is charged with larceny.
 Eddy-Glover post drum and bugle corps was unsuccessful in it's at tempt to be numbered among the prize winning bands in the drill competitions yesterday. Forty drum corps competed in the preliminaries yesterday morning at Braves Field and 40 more participated yesterday (Continued on Page Three)