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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-05
new GERMAN
CRUISERS ARE
WORLDS BEST
Three WarShips Set High
Mark in Efficiency and
Operations Range.
BY KEITH JONES
United Press STAFF Correspondent

LONDON, June 5.-Recently re-
vealed details Of the radius of action
and offensive and defensive capa-
bilities Of the new 6,000-ton Ger
man cruisers Koenigsberg, Karls-
ruhe and Koeln have amazed
British naval experts, and convinced
them these three German vessels
are far superior to anything in
their class in the world.
Each Of the new cruisers has a
radius Of action, using steam only,
of $500 miles at fifteen knots.
But running on Diesel engines
alone they will be able to travel
1900 miles without refueling.
This far exceeds the cruising per-
Torrance, without refueling, of any
other warship in the world. 1t gives
them a strategic performance en-
tirely disproportionate to their
tonnage.
Armament Is Powerful
This further is enhanced by an ex-
ceptionally powerful armament con-
sisting Of nine high-velocity 6-inch
Krupp guns each capable Of firing
eight rounds minute, or twenty
four rounds per turret minute.
There are three turrets, and the
cruisers, therefore, each are capable
OF hurting shells at the enemy at
the rate Of seventy-two 105-pound
shells a minute.
Against such a rain of steel and
explosives only the most heavily
armored vessels could hope to
survive.
New Mark for Efficiency
In addition to the 6-inch guns,
the cruisers are equipped with four
3.4-inch semi-automatic guns for
use against aircraft, and the I'M
usual number of twelve torpedo
tubes.
To Withstand heavy punishment
the arnor belt covers the water
line and a thick steel deck lies over
the machinery and magazine spaces.
Numerous water-t tight compart-
ments provide more than the usual
protection against shells or torpedos
finding their way home below the
water-line.
According to British designers,
the Diesel engines used in the three
vessels set an entirely new mark
for efficiency and low weight, de-
veloping one-horse power for each
twelve pounds of weight. This is
barely one-third the weight of Die
sci engines ordinarily employed for
marine purposes. They also are re-
markably compact.
In Glass by Themselves
This fact becomes more evident
when it is realized that the Diesel
engines were installed only as an
after-thought.
Yet ample room was found for
their installation, and by this clever
stroke the Germans created three
cruisers with a radius of action in
a class wholly by themselves.
These engines, it is pointed out,
would enable the three vessels to
make a voyage from Germany to
the far east and back without re-
fueling-a feature that is viewed
were as Of no little significance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-05

Sentenced for Killing Americans
BIZ United Press
YUNNANFU, China, June 5.-Two
Chinese servants were sentenced to
death today for the murder last
March Of Mrs. Vera White and Mrs.
Victoria Miller, Americans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
Versatile Producer

GUTHRIE McCLINTIC, who pre-
Sents Francine Larrimore in S. N.
Behrman's new comedy. Brief Mo-
ment,' is not limited to one kind of
pay, as his career in the theater wildly
recalls
1t was A. A. Mines THE Dover
Road" featuring Winifred Lennihan
and Charles Cherry, that introduced
McCllntic as a producer to Broadway.
Hitherto he had been known as young
actor of promise during the Grace
George repertory season in the New
York playhouses Then, in association
with Winthrop AmeS. he produced q
mystery play. I'm the Next Room" by
Eleanor Robson Belmont and Harriet
Ford. and this he followed with Lewis
Beach's The Square Peg" Blanche
Bates acted for him in Mrs. Part
ridge Presents -"
In contrast to high comedy, Nc
Cl.ntic staged THE Trial Of Mary
Dugan' and Crime" FOR A. H. Woods.
He acted in and directed Jealousy,
the two-character play for Fay Banter.
He brought out Maxwell Anderson S
comedy, Saturdays Children" and
then directed The Green Hat" for his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
Fries Fat Out of Bacon

us it not monstrous to suppose that
this downright outspoken, fearless man
had turned conspirator and acted such
an outrageously false and perfldious
role as the Baconians imagine? Con-
slider for a moment what Ben Jonson,
who was well acquainted with the life
and works of Shakespeare, wrote of
him:
:" Soul of the age.
Tn applause, delight, the wonder of our
stage,
My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge
thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont
lie
A little further, to make thee room
Thou art monument without tomb,
And art alive still while thy book doth
live,
And We have wits to read, or praise
to give
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
Takes Off the Curse

People use 1t today as a term of
semi-contempt to indicate something
that is affected, that strives to seem
superior to the rest of the world.
'Highbrow' doesn't mean this at all
A man with high brow. a high fore
head, is usually a man of greater in
telligence. Therefore, thing that Is
highhrow is something that awakens a
mans intelligence to greater and more
careful thinking.
Practically every plot we have ever
done at the Theater Guild has been
done before. Certainly the situation in
The Guardsman, that Of q man max
ing love to his own wife, is not new.
"The one thing in our past plays that
has added the 'highbrow' touch is the
matter of treatment. We believe that
there are two ways OF treating any
given seene-first,, eoarsely. crudely and
obviously with carelessly chosen words,
or carefully, subtly, intelligently, with
every word chosen to deliver an exact
shade of meaning.
That is all the expression 'highbrow'
amounts to. Two of the funniest conn
edieS ever written are two in which
Alfred and I have played-7Sn Varas
Caprice and Molnar's The Guards
man. The wrong use of the word
'highbrow' indicates something stodgy
and deadly serious. Neither OF these
plays are anything but uproariously
laughable.
But at the same time they are de-
cidedly highbrow. They are highbrow
because their authors, ,Sil Vara and
Molnar, used the upper parts OF their
brains to put into them more beautiful
and more expressive language. Neither
would be one-hai so amusing we're
they written with less care and less
flnesse.
I'm taIkies Alfred and would point
TO The Divorce as a case in point.
not because it is superserious or
dun : = it is anything but that. In
fact, it snaps along o little bit faster
than the Twentieth Century Limited.
But to US It is .highbrow' because a lot
of extra hard thinking went into its
deity woven situations and its splen-
did lines
Let's be . little more careful how
we use the word 'highbrow.' The d.
vorcee' and other thoughtfully con-
ceiyed talkies have made money; and
the Theater Guild has done very well,
thank you. When thing is really high
brow people take it to their hearts.
When 1t merely hits at intelligence.
without striking the bull's-eye, 1t Is, Of
course. only a bore.
"Highbrow things, like all else In life,
must be true and sincere TO succeed.
When this IS the case they do very
we'll"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

and Mr.. Gable plays opposite her
with a strength that supports
rather than detracts from the
stars own acting.
Mr.. Gable, as they say in fistis
circles, can take 1t on the chin.
He is not a passive lover. He
flames and he cajoles in his own
rough way just as Miss Carlo
does in hers. His Is a personality.
too, which Is so denonStrativd
and so unlike the lady Of this par
ticular heart that he demands at
tention.
His performance is very nearly
as effective as Miss CARLOS. Lady
admirers of his will probably fine
themselves losing themselves iis
him just as they do in the star
This state of affairs is, however,
far from q laInentable one. Miss
Carlo has nothing to lose by ID
and Mr.. Gable has much to gain
Furthermore, when has there
been an emotional duo which cap
pound out such tempestuous von
canicS with such devastating re-
suits? When before has Miss
Carlo felt herself completely
crushed in the arms of fnani
When, as a matter of fact, has
she done anything but all the
crushing herself? The fact that
Mr.. Gable was selected to be heI
knight was a wise move. He GER
taillly thunders around her. He
may not be brother GaIahad
hilt he's an old Sir I,auncelOtr--
and what a GuineYere Greta has
turned out to be! Long life tc
the double G's!
~
THE greatest excitement of the
week was caused by the an.
nOuncement on a card Of the ar.
rival of Barry William Lundy
which suggested in no uncertain
terms that the boy is a boy. Con.
gratulations to the proud parents
and to the boy himself for max
ing such a good landing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
Barrymore Film Elaborate

IN John Barrymore's latest Warner
picture. The Mad Genius" now at
the Metropolitan Theater.. early Sc
quenceS of the story show the star as
master OF travelling marionette show.
For this part OF the story the Club
Titerero. Hollywood's principal puppet
shop, worked night and day for two
months, building figures and apparatus
for the few brief scenes In which the
puppets actually appear.
Later incidents take place against the
elaborate background OF European the
alters in rehearSals and performances of
the Russian Imperial Ballet. where the
hai-mad impresario. TSarakov works out
his demoniac devices Three complete
hallets were trained by Adolph Bolm
Tor these sequences. Although the
dances and dancers appear only as at
mosphere for the story. three great
theater interiors were constructed for
these scenes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
TT has remained for Stratford to fry
the fat out of Bacon.

TT has remained for Stratford to fry
the fat out of Bacon.
The most anti Baconians in the
world come from Shakespeare's birth
place, and the statements from the
Stratford- Upon-Avon Shakespeare Fes-
tival Co, now in our midst, leave no
doubt as to who wrote the plays of
Shakespeare.
Apart from Lord Bacon's lack OF
ability for such work as playwriting, +"
begins the thesis, his whole life, well
known for its serious aims, forbids any
one to suppose he could have had a
hand in the creation of such charac-
tiers as Falstaff, Dogberry. Pistol, Bar
dolph, Malvolio, Petruchio and Bene-
dick.
And" w. Bridges Adams, director
of the company, asks, what interest
could Bacon find in all the light tales
and romances of Shakespeare's brilliant
comedies"
Were not such studies foreign TO
Lord Bacon's tastes. as displayed by MS
writings?" queries Mr.. Adams.
but oflHkeSDeaTe. ike the DSc. OOAAA
extract honey from them all. He was
the great alchemist who could trans
mute base metals into gold; and so, IN
deed. could Bacon, but for very oli-
ferent purposes. Each followed the bent
OF his genius, each worked for diner
ent objects, precisely as those do VINO
read their writings. Imagine William
Coboett composing a flve-act play
Imagine Charles Matthews or Theodore
Hook writing a long, serious discourse
on taxes!
To ask one to believe that Bacon
wrote Shakespeare is like suppoSing
that Lord Brougham was the author
not only of Dickens works, but OF
Thackeray's and of Tennyson's as wen:
Shakespeare is all action. life ana
poetry; Bacon is all contemplation;
calmneSs and repose: Shakespeare al
imagination. wit and humor; Bacon al
logic. science and sense.
As far as We know says a writer
IN Temple Bar, lit would have been as
impossible for Lord Bacon 10 portray
character in action as il. would nave
been foreign TO Shakespe&res mind 10
nave reasoned from propositions 10 a
logical system
1t is well known that Lord Bacon
engaged Ben JonSon to turn some OF
MS philosophical writings into LATIN.
continues Mr. ADAMS. ana the sie9N
philosopher treated the learned dram
atist SO we'll that the latter ever SPOKE
With respect and esteem of him. Wnat
a pity Jonson did not avail himself OF
his acquaintance with Bacon to intro
ouce his brilliant friend Shakespeare 70
MN and afterward give an account OF
the interview What a delicious DIT OF
reading that account would be; ana II
would have meant a new immortality
for Ben Jonson.
II Bacon we're the author OF tne
plays attributed to Shakespeare, IS II
credible that honest Ben. knowing the
Two men as he did. would have gwen
Shakespeare the sole and entire creolt
Tor them and eulogized him IN the
ooundless way hs did?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

wife, Katherine Cornell. In fact, all
the plays in which Miss Cornell has
starred, McClintic has produced, The
Letter. The Age of Innocents,'' Dis
honored Lady" and The BarrettS of
Wimpole Street"
In a dozen years McClintic has had
one, perhaps two. successful plays on
Broadway each season. In later years
he has found time TO direct talking
pictures, the latest being Once a
lady" starring Ruth Chatterton
Katherine Cornell, having leased the
Belasco Theater in New York, will APP
pear there next season. In the mean
time McClintic will present Miss Larri-
more there in Brief Moment" Later
this Fall ne will star Pauline Lord in
Doh Totheroh's Distant Drums" and
perhaps produce Noel Coward's POST
mortem."
McClintic, unlike some of the young
producers before the public, gained his
experience in all departments in the
theater Beginning as an actor, he be-
came director with Jessie Bonstelle's
stock companies in Buffalo and Detroit.
For a period he was casting director
and stage manager for winthrop Ames.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
Broad-Minded Spoilers.
THROUGHOUT her stage ca

THROUGHOUT her stage career
Julia Marlowe had an inimitahie
irish maid and companion, Mary DAILY
BY name. She was and still is an un-
usual person. Wit is not the least OF
her attributes. Taxed one day about
her method Of spelling, she dismissed the
subject with I'm broad-minded about
1t" She Is not alone In this.
Guthrie McClintics new production,
Brief Moment" starring Francine Lar
rinnore, offers such persons unusual op-
portunities. McClintic is not Me-
Clintick nor McClintOck, as some peo-
pie insist The stars first name Is not
Frances and her last name asks for
three RS" and an f. not t'y."
Alexander WooIlcott, the writer who
has made his stage debut IN this come
dy, Is suffering the most from compost
tors. for he demands three "c's," two
rs" and two IT'S In his last name,
and Is seldom allowed them. s. n.
Rehrman, the author, admits he long
ago accepted the fact that most people
prefer his name with two ms, at the
end and often transpose the "h'' and the
10 Mielziner. the scene designer,
says his hrst name has no 4e," never
had one, but generally gets one.
And last but not least, the title Is
Brief Moment" not Brief Moments,n
but Try to persuade sign painters g
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
Ancient Drama Returns
Once More to Tempt Fate
With That of Later Mold
After Music and Modern Comedy Comes Shake
speare and New Play Starring Francine
Larrimore- Theater News and Comment.
By w. H. Landvoist.

waiting all these painful years,
for Hollywood seems to have
caught Burton Holmes in its
mesh, and he Is going to tell US
the whole, honest-to-g goodness
truth about the beautiful land
where the movie robots operate.
A ND yet, with this pleasant
prospect fresh before us comes
the Scriptural warning, in the same
breath, Whom the Lord loveth
He chasteneth. We are surprised
onlookers while the National Army
swallows our local police force,
but worse tidings from Gotham
tell us that the recently an
nounced Shubert receiverShip is
going to result In less theaterS in
New York ''as well as out of town"
That quoted phrase sounds
mighty like a threat that Wash
ington may lose SO per cent of
its legitimate theaterS. It will be
recalled that we have but two.
Now, how can one be optimistic
and happily hustle this old be-
fuddled world into whoopS of Joy
with this danger staring us in the
face?' Washington Is never very
fortunate in its assignments of
quotas, but to lose half of what
we have in the temples Of the i'm
mortal drama sounds tough even
to the hard boiled, especially
with the further news that that
fine theater that some one was
to build at Pennsylvania avenue
and Thirteenth street has already
faded into emptiness, if not
| farther.
Put the Scriptures tell us also
that THE Lord tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb" and
again we try to mend the broken
links and piece the chain of hope
| together. Our old friend, Robert
E. Sherwood, who also knows and
has told us many things about
Hollywood. is going to have his
| say in the halls of the legitimate
a week hence, when the Theater
Guild, our one reliance in days of
dramatic sorrow, will bring his
new play, Reunion in Vienna"
/ to the National. And in the not
So-Very-far- diStant-hereafter the
guild also promises us selections
from a group of plays, includ-
| ing Mourning Becomes Electra, -
Eugene O'Neil's latest play, which
the news reports say outdoeS the
very best that ever could be: that
wicked Bernard Shaw's TOO True
to Be Good. Emil Ludwig'S story
OF the Peace Conference, "Ver-
SailleS": Paul Green's The House
of Connolly" which some folks
say is the best ever; H. r. Lenor-
mand'S PSYCHOLOGICAL study. THE
/ Coward" and EUGENE Gurster'S
/ satirical farce, Three Times
/ Waterloo" All this the Theater
Guild promises Washington. and
/ the chief 10Y in the promise is
that the Theater Guild always
manages to live up to expecta-
tons. And if this is not enough
to make JOY for all hands. there
is the further fact that just two
weeks out beyond the 12-mile
limit Rachel CrotherS' comedv,
las Husbands Co." is SLOWLY
Steaming to port. and that port
the National Theater in Wash
/ ington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
Francine Fought for Fame.

LRANCINE LAEJHlMOHE y tne
niece of one of the greatest Yid'
dish actors, Jacob p. Adler, but 1t WA
not until she had finished her educa-
ton In Hunter College. New York City
that she seriously turned her attention
to acting.
The pleasant fairy-book stories OF 3
royal road to success do not herald Miss
Larrimore's experience on the stage
She had as much difficulty as any nov.
ice in getting her first part. The fact
that her uncle was noted figure IN
the theater was of no assistance to her.
Even after her stage debut she had to
work and work hard and necessarily
to reach the position she now holds IN
the American theater
Before her overnight success In Chi
cago In Avery HopWood's farce, Fair
and Warmer" were seasons Of appear
ances in minor roles in many plays. The
result was that when at last she was
given good role she knew what 70
do with IL.
It was her acting in Cosno Hanil-
tons Scandal that made her q star.
Charles Cherry was her leading man
and she speaks of him with gratitude.
Not only was he fine gentleman. who
knew the theater. he was most generous
TO the young actress both at rehearsal
and in the public performances Of the
comedy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

v YITH hitch its waiting all these painful years
NA cient sharpening for Hollywood
Wv lpineS In
dah aaa..a .l..Ah - =.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01

FOR the first time, too, Miss
Carlo has gotten herself an
opposite" who Is outstanding
Formerly she was content with
the weak type. the Robert Mont
gomerys, who seemed woefully
lacking in flesh and blood: the
Gavin Gordons, who were need
lessly undressing. Now, sud-
denly, she summons Clark Gable,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
BY DONALD H. CLARKE.

I YNN FONTANNE, the Theater
Guild star. who, with her husband
Alfred Lunt. has just finished her work
in Mayors picture YER
sion of Franz Molnar's The Guards
man." objects to the characterization
"highbrow."
Highbrow'" she says, has come to
have a warped significance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
Stage and Screen Attractions This Week

NATIONAI-"Merry Wives of Windsor" evening"
BELASCO-"Bref Moment" Tomorrow evening.
GAYETY-Sugar Babies" Cburesquel. This afternoon
evening.
ON THE SCREEN
PALACE-Cuban Love Song This afternoon and evening
FOx-"AmbaSsador Bill" This afternoon and evening
INTERCOLLEGIATE Genius" This afternoon
evening.
COLUMBIA Lenox Her Fall and Rise This afternoon
and evening
EARLE-"Glls About Town" This afternoon evening
Marriage This afternoon and evening"
RIALTo-Reckless Living" This afternoon and evening.
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FEDERAL JOBS OPEN

The United States Civil Ser.
vice Commission has announced
open competitive examinations
as follows:
Assistant supervisor of nurses,
chief nurse, head nurse, Indian
Service; graduate nurse, visiting
duty, various services. Closing
date, December 30.. 1881, except.
that the commission reserves the
right to issue subsequent notice
closing the receipt of applica.
tions before that date.
Special worker (psychiatric).
81. 600 . year, junior social wor.
ker. $1,000 . year. Veterans
Administration. Closing date.
December 80. 1881. except that
the commission reserves the
right to issue subsequent notice
closing the receipt of applica.
tions before that date.
Assistant supervisor of proba.
tion, $4,000 to $500 a year.
Bureau of Pensions, Department
OF Justice. Closing date, No.
vember II, 1881.
Senior surveillance Inspector.
81, 900 year. junior surveillance
inspector, 81. 1.62O q year, Ord
nance Department at Large, War
Department. Closing date, No.
vember II, 1881.
Associate naval architect. 49,.
200 q year, assistant naval archi.
tect, $4,000 a year. Bureau of
Construction and Repair, Naval
Department. and Coast Guard.
Treasury Department. Closing
date. November II, 1881.
All states except Delaware.
Iowa, Maine. Maryland, Yer.
mont, Virginia. and the District
of Columbia have received less
than their share of appointments
in the apportioned departmental
service at Washington, D. G.
Full information may be OBJ.
tained from Jack Farmer. Secre.
tary of the United States Civil
Service Board of Examiners ct
the post Office or custom house
in this city.
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sTA5lLiZ,No SILVER

Senator Key Pittman of Ne.
vads believes that the abandon.
ment OF the gold standard of
coinage by Great Britain may
lead to q solution of tho world
silver problem.
England's move will probably
result in . silver conference
among the worlds great nations,
with the purpose of stabilizinG
the price of the metal at q nor.
NAL level.
Many economic authorities are
of tho opinion that the present
world depression Was largely
brought about by the decline in
buying power of such countries
as China, India, Mexico, etc.,
which have the silver standard.
When the value of silver went
down, their purchasing power
dropped accordingly. Stabiliza.
ton of silver would bring this
buying power back-and. from g
national stand dpoint, would mean
an industrial revival in the min.
inR states.
The border vidette., 1931-10-31

Somerton-Posey & Thurman
moved their blacksmith shop to
brick garage building on State
St. north of Main.
Sonoita - Arizona Petroleum
Co., Inc., leased 10000 acres Of
land from Arizona-Pacific Elk.
ploration company, few miles
northwest of this city.
Superior-Msgma Copper Co.
resumed operations at its mines
here short time ago.
Tombstone-Light and power
plant painted.
Globes. K. Produce com.
pany open Air Market operating
here in new building at corner
of South Broad and Cotton wood
streets.
Flagstaff-Frank Irwin took
over Mems Dresswell Shop from
Il. E Taylor.
Phoeuix-During July. Ari-
zona stockmen shipped 4,1O9
head. of cattle. according to re.
port issued by State Livestock
Sanitary Board.
Plans being considered for
erecting steel bridge on Hol.
brook Young Highway over
Buckskin wash.
Holbrook-Jim Meadows pur.
chased Franklin Barber Shop.
North Porter street from W. W.
Franklin.
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mended by the laboratory.

Miss Rider is urging all towns
throughout the state to follow
the lead of Globe and Miami in
requiring a certificate of immu
iz2tion against rabies before issu
ing a license tag to any dog.
In addition, Miss Rider states,
skunks, coyotes and cats have
been found to have rabies. Ra.
ther than shooting q dog sus.
pected of being infected, Miss
Rider suggests that the animal
be tied safely until 1t is definitely
known whether or not he has
the disease.