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The Washington times., 1931-12-31

jour" from Louise" (Carpentier) .
The concert will open with the
overture, "Singals Cave" CMo-
zart) and will include Tschaikow-
sky'S Romeo and Juliet" the prel
ude to Act III, der Meistersing.
er" (Wagner) and "Espana"
(Chabrier).
The National Symphony Or
chestra will also give its fourth
symphony concert Of the 1892
season at Constitution Hall next
Thursday afternoon, January Z,
at 4:45 o'clock, with Mr.. Kinder
conducting.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31

fourth Sunday
afternoon con-
cert to be given
at Constitution
Hall next SUM-
day afternoon.
January 3. at 4
o'clock. W / t h
Hans Kin d Ter
con d u C tin g.
Miss l. ow will
sing two arias:
~ e t firetti lu-
singhieri" from
/" l d o m e n e o"
(MOZart) an d
"DenuiS lie
The Washington times., 1931-12-31

to try a round
Of personal ap-
p e ar anceS in
the movie thea
ters, Specificial-
ly in the R-K-O
houses. All will
be seen in the
near future on
the local R-K-O-
Keith stage.
Loe w's has
Lionel B a rry-
m ore waiting
to do four-a-
day Give on
Saturday in the
The Washington times., 1931-12-31

Grand Opera to Open Here Jan. a

evening, January S, IN Trovatore"
Tin Italian); Wednesday matinee,
January 6. Romeo and Juliet"
Tin French; wednesday evening,
January 6, double bill, "Hansel
and Gretel' Gin German). and
"Pagliacci" Cin Italian); Thurs
day evening, January Z. Faust"
(in French; Friday evening, jan
uary 8, Carmen" I'm French:
Saturday matinee, January 8,
double bill, "Hansel and Gretel
Gin English) and "Pagliacci" Gin
Italian); Saturday evening, jan
uary 8, "Rigoletto" Tin Itaiian).
Rooms and many Of tham with
boarding conveniehces. are listed for
Room Hunters >conveuience N the
Rental Columns Of tOday's CaSsified
Section
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
Rosa Low Will Be
Symphony's Star

Rosa Low. lyric soprano, is an
nounced as the soloist Of the
National Symphony Orchestral s
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
Actor BaIks
on
Sunday
BY ANDREW R. KELLEY

Grant Witchers, Dorothy Mack
ALL, Clyde Cook and Belle Bennett
are the latest Hollywood notableS
The Washington times., 1931-12-31

Mr.. and Mrs. William Harry
man Rapley will be hosts for a
joint ChristmaS-New Year recep-
ton at their Hotel Shoreham
apartment this p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31
Barbara R Robins
To Make Debut
In Films
BY HARRISON CARROLL

(C"pyrtght, 1891, FEehieL
HOLLYWOOD, Calf. Dec. 81.
Hollywood production schedules
are in a state OF jitterS these
days. Spencer Tracy was sup
posed to do a part in Rivers
End" Now, this picture has been
postponed and he will step into
the cast of Young America"
Some Of you may recall this is
a play by Fred Ballard. 1t tells
the story Of a married couple who
adopt a l5-year-old boy. They
find it exciting and Fox hopes
the audience will, too. At any
rate, the picture promises to have
an appeal both to adults and to
kids.
A new stage actress makes her
Hollywood debut in this -llm.
Her name is Barbara Robins and
she was seen on Broadway in
after Tomorrow" A Fox pub
licity man describes her to me as
zone of the reasons his wife ought
to be glad ne met his wife first. :"
Dave Howard, a Hollywood vet
eran, will megaphone Young
America"
No Way to Prove It
Over at United Artists they
were swapping regrets over
lost opportunities. Harry Brand
wished he could have his life
to live over again.
What would you do with it?"
he was asked.
Commit suicide at 49,"
snapped Harry.
The Washington times., 1931-12-31

Didn't that $3,O0O-a-week contract
come in 1881?
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12
Collection Is
Shown to ClubWOmen

Wood block prints by prominent
American and Mexican artists were
exhibited at the annual guest day Of
the Wednesday Study club at the
homes of Mrs. M. B. Gilman and Mrs.
w. B. Pierce Wednesday afternoon.
The prints were arranged in the Gil
man home, where a program of mu-
steal numbers was played by Mrs. Gil
man, followed by a lecture giving in
formation on the methods of design
ing and describing the various prints.
The lecture was read by Mrs. A. r.
TaviS.
The afternoon closed with a tea at
the home Of Mrs. Pierce. Lavender
and orchid were the colors empha-
sized in the appointments and bowls
of jonquils and lavender tulips dec
Grated the tea table where Mrs. w. H.
Bodensta5 presided.
Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Tavis and Miss
Mary Cashel arranged the program,
with Mrs. j. K. Blunt, Mrs. Gilman,
Mrs. Kelly Simonson and Mrs. Burt
Finney in charge Of the tea.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12
MANDAN NEWS
MANDAN JUNIOR
GIRLS WIN TITLE
Defeat Senior Class Team Is.
Fl Wednesday; Freshmen
Place Third in Meet

The Mandan junior class eirls'
squad won the Mandan high school
girls basketball championship We'd
nesday by virtue of a 1921 defeat over
the seniors.
In the consolation contest the
Freshman girls scored an 1915 VIC
tory over the sophomores to win third
place honors.
Dorothy Parkins and Eleanor Ed
wards were outstanding for the jun
Tor class while Winnifred Weibers
and Ruth Hagebush were the best
performers for the seniors.
Tournament was under the charge
of Miss Eta Walters, high school
girls physical education instructor.
The members of the championship
.quint are: Eleanor Edwards, Doro-
thy Parkins, Anna Grenz, Lille
Starr, Beulah Parkins and Luella
Murphy.
Senior class squad members are
Ruth Hagebush, Winnifred Weibers,
Fern Burdick, Beatrice Smeland,
Gretchen Hendercheid and Agnes
Zahn.
Sophomore class girl players are
Vivian Edwards, LaVerne Shaw, Ade-
line Graner, Caroline Schardt, Agnes
Nelson, Gertrude Roberts, and Evelyn
Schultz.
Members of the Freshmen girls
! squad consist of Eva Hecker, Ruth
Syvrud, Anna Brucher, Opal Parkins,
Myrtle BachSen, and Vivian Malgren.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12
Oil Companies Will
Cooperate on Imports

Washington, March 12.-P-Sec-
rotary Wilbur Thursday announced
that all Of the oil companies that
have been approached in negotia-
lions to limit imports have said they
were willing to cooperate"
The negotiations. conducted by
Secretary Lamont under instructions
from President Hoover, included the
Gulf Oil company, Standard Oil
company Of New Jersey, Standard of
Indiana, and others.
Wilbur refused to give the terms
Of the negotiations or the amount
suggested for reducing imports. He
explained that the companies we're
being asked to aid as much as pos
sible and said 1t would require some
time for each company to determine
how much 1t could do.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12
Rob Second Mandan
Store in Two DAYS

In the second robbery In Mandan
IN two days, burglars entered the
! Morck Mercantile company store at
312 Main s.. early Thursday morning
and escaped with $4.75. Nothing
else was taken, according to Mandan
| authorities.
Gaining access by breaking a win
dow in the rear door, the burglars
opened the till and took all the
change but the pennies. The robbery
occurred between 2 and $3.50 Thurs
day morning, according to Jim Buck
ley, Mandan night patrolman, who
first noticed the robbery.
No clue was left by the burglars.
Tuesday night burglars entered the
John Atkinson store and took 100
pennies from the till.
Mandan authorities believe the
burglaries were committed by local
amateurs.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12

A Zeal Value, Mahogany-color
retan uppers. oak leather soles,
solid leather heels. Riveted
reinforcements, moccasin stitch
ed toe. Mems sizes, 6 to IL.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12
Movie Director Dies
From Auto Accident

Santa Barbara, Calf, March H.
R1-F. w. Murnau, one Of Holly
woods most colorful motion picture
directors, died in q hospital here
Wednesday of injuries received In an
automobile accident Tuesday night.
Murnau. who directed the produce
ton Of "Faust," "Sun Rise" -Four
Devils" and other pictures. was born
at Biedfeld, Germany, and directed
several pictures in that country be-
fore going to Hollywood.
The director was driving to San
Francisco, expecting to sail from
there to Germany for a vacation. His
car swerved over an embankment to
avoid striking a truck and overturned.
Murnau'S skull was fractured.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12
Signs Bill Killing
Old Capitol Trolley

The state-owned trolley, which ope-
rated between the state capitol and
the downtown district here for the
last q years, officially passed out Of
existence Thursday.
Governor George F. Shafer Thurs
day morning signed the measure
which made the trolley q thing Of the
past. Since March l the a had
ceased operation because Of lack. Of
funds, but the act Of which it was
established remained effective until
the governor signed the bill which
repealed the law under which the line
was created.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12
Measure for
Lindbergh Memorial

st. Paul, March 12.-R9-The boy
hood home Of Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh has been saved for posterity.
A measure passed by the legislature,
creating the Charles A. Lindbergh
state park out Of the Little Falls
farm where he spent his boyhood, was
signed Thursday by Governor Floyd
B. Olson.
The lands will be decided to the
state by Col. Lindbergh and other
heirs Of the father Of the famous
filler, the late Charles A. Lindbergh,
former Minnesota congressman.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12
Charge Local Man With
First-D Degree Robbery

E. Racine of 214 Seventh street
South was arraigned in magistrates
court Thursday afternoon to answer
charges of first-degree robbery.
He was arrested after Ronald Itch
olson, Stewartsdale, had signed .
complaint charging him with the
theft If more than $50. b
The judge granted a continuance OF
the hearing so that time might be had
with which to get further testimony.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12

Women'S bloom
erS, step-ins. vests,
pantieS! Run re-
sistant rayon, well
made.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-03-12

A special value for Jubilee
Week. OF white : back blue
denim mill shrunk. Big peck
cts, triple stitched seams, rust
proof buttons. High and low
back styles.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-18
FOREWORD

Only the more fantastic and improb-
able events contained in this book are
true. There is no attempt to set down
q literal history Of Oklahoma. All the
characters, the towns, and many of
the happenings contained herein are
Imaginary. But through reading the
scant available records, documents,
and histories Qncluding the Oklahoma
State Historical library collection) and
through many talks with men and
women who have lived in Oklahoma
since the day Of the Opening, some
thing of the spirit, the color the move
ment, the life Of that incredible COM
monwealth has, 1 hope, been caught.
Certainly the Run, the Sunday service
in the gambling tent, the death of
Isaiah and Of Arita Red Feather, the
catching Of the can of nitroglycerin,
many Of the shooting ARRAYS, most de-
scriptive passages, all Of the oil phase,
and the Usage Indian material COM
plete-these are based on actual hap
penings. In many cases material en-
use because it was so melodramatic,
so absurd as to be too strange for the
realm Of fiction.
There is no city Of Usage, Okla. It
is composite Of perhaps, five exist
ent Oklahoma cities. The Kid is not
meant to be the notorious Billy the
Kid Of an earlier day. There was no
Yancey Cravat-he is blending Of a
number Of dashing Oklahoma figures
of past and present day. There is
no Sabra Cravat, but she exists In a
score of bright-eyed, white-haired, in
tensely interesting women of sixty-fve
or thereabouts who told me many
strange things as we talked and rocked
on an Oklahoma front porch (tree-
shaded now.
Anything can have happened in
Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
EDNA FERBER.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-18

never knew it) the greatest criminal
lawyer Of his day. It was said that
he hypnotized jury with his eyes and
his hands and his voice. His law prac-
tice yielded him nothing, or less than
that, for being sentimental and mele-
dramatic he usually found himself out
Of pocket following his brilliant and
successful defense of some Dodge City
dance-hall girl or roistering cowboy
whose six-shooter had been pointed
the wrong way.
His past, before his coming to
Wichita, was clouded with myths and
surmises. Gossip said this; SANDER
whispered that. Rumor, romantic, I'M
savory, fantastic, shifting and chang
ing like clouds on a mountain peak,
floated about the head Of Yancey era
vat. They say he has Indian blood in
him. They say he has an Indian wife
somewhere, and lot of papooses.
Cherokee. They say he used to be
known as "Cimarron" Cravat, hence
his sons name, corrupted to Gin.
They say his real name is Cimarron
Seven, Of the Choctaw Indian family
Of Sevens; he was raised in tepee;
wickiup had been his bedroom,
a blanket his robe. It was
known he. had been one Of the
early boomers who followed the ban
ner Of the picturesque and splendidly
mad David Payne in the first wild
dash Of that adventurer into Indian
territory. He had dwelt, others whis-
pered, in that sinister strip, thirty-four
miles wide and almost two hundred
miles long, called No-Man's-Land as
early as 1854, and, later, known as the
Cimarron, a Spanish word meaning
wild or unruly. Here, in this strange
unowned empire without laws and
without government, paradise for
horse thieves, murderers, desperadoes
1t was rumored he had spent at least
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-18

In Babylonia the first domesticated
horse appeared about 1000 B. G. It
was introduced into Egypt by the
Hyksos, or shepherd kings, who came
from the north and east of Syria, and
conquered lower Egypt in the Seven
teenth century B. G. In both these
cases 1t is to be noted that the horse
was preceded by many centuries by
the OK and the ass. From these facts
and few other scraps Of evidence
one may picture the first domestica-
ton Of the horse as occurring in CEN
trail Asia. Probably it was accom-
plished by people Of nomadic herds
men to whom the convenience Of rid
ing would be obvious Sooner or later
the mounted nomad came to realize
the measure Of his advantage over the
man who Travelled and fought afoot,
and was encouraged to wander far
ther afleld, conquering as he went. In
any case, the horse (elther as
charger or yoked to a chariot) be-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-18
CHAPTER 1

All the venables sat at Sunday din
ner. All those handsome inbred Ven
able faces were turned, enthralled,
toward Yancey Cravat, who was talk
ing. The combined effect was almost
binding, as Of incandescence; but
Yancey Cravat was not bedazzled A
sun surrounded by lesser planets, he
gave out a radiance so powerful as to
dim the luminous circle about him.
The Venables, dining, strangely re-
sembled one of those fertile and dra-
matte family groups portrayed lolling
unconventionally at meat in the less
spiritual of those Biblical canvases
that glow richly down at one from the
great gallery walls of Europe. Though
their garb was sober enough, being
characteristic of the time-19S9-and
the place-Kansas-it yet conveyed an
impression as Of purple and scarlet
robes enveloping these gracile Shout
ders You would not have been sur
prised to see, moving silently about
this board, Nubian blacks in loin-
cloths, bearing aloft golden vessels
piled with exotic fruits or steaming
with strange pasties in which night
ingales' tongues figured prominently.
Blacks, as a matter of fact, did move
about the venable table, but these.
too. wore the conventional garb of
the servitor.
This branch of the Venable family
tree had been transplanted from Mis-
eissippi to Kansas more than two
decades before, but the midwest had
failed to set her bourgeois stamp upon
them. Straitened though it was, there
still obtained in that household, by
some genealogical miracle many Of
those charming ways, remotely orien-
lal, that were Of the South whence
they had sprung. Unwilling emigres,
war ruined, Lewis Venable and his
wife Felice had brought their dear
customs with them into exile, as well
as the superb mahogany oval at which
they now sat, and the war-salvaged
silver which gave elegance to the
Wichita, Kansas, board.
AS the family sat at Its MONDAY
meal it was plain that while two
decades of living In the Middle West
had done little to quicken the speech
or hasten the movements OF Lewis
Venable and his wife Felice (they still
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By
Edna Ferber
Copyright by Edna Ferber.
WNU Service.i

always, a white felt hat, broad
brimmed and rolling. On occasion he
simply blubbered Shakespeare, the Old
Testament, the Odyssey. the Had. His
speech was spattered with bits Of
Latin, and with occasional Spanish
phrases, relic Of his Texas days. He
flattered you with his fine eyes; he
bewitched you with his voice; he mes
merized you with his hands. he drank
a quart of whisky day; was almost
never drunk, but on rare occasions
when the liquor fumes bested him he
would invariably select hapless VIC
tim and, whipping out the pair OF
Observation-Disclosures six-shooters he
always wore at his belt, would force
him to dance by shooting at his feet
a pleasing fancy brought with him
from Texas and the Cimarron. After
ward, sobered, he was always filled
with shame Wine, he quoted sadly,
Is mocker, strong drink Is raging.
Yancey Cravat could have been Tin
fact was, though most Of America
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Ancient Glass

The residents of ancient Pompeii
used glass in their windows, but as
late as the Fourteenth century Rich
ard II issued writ to scour England
to find enough glass to repair the
windows in just one castle, and near
the close of the Seventeenth century
all of the great towns in Italy, with
the exception Of Genoa, used paper in
their windows. For centuries glass
was regarded as luxury, and was
taxed accordingly, down to recent
times. Discovered by the Phoenicians.
according to Pliny the Second, modern
manufacturing methods have made
glass so common today that no one
gives it a thought. But the windows
of Americas first homes were provid-
ed only with parchment or oiled paper.
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Edna Ferber has
many great stories.

great Southwest. You will thrill at
the description OF the great rush OF
land seekers across the border line be-
tween Kansas and Oklahoma Of April
-. 1889; you will enjoy Yancey Cravat
rs land seeker, as editor, as pioneer;
you will love his energetic and capable
wife and her ability to carry on when
Yancey fails. With Yancey she Joined
the Oklahoma run" Into this wilder
ness of rattlesnakes, Indians, bad men,
she took her four-year-old son. They
saw the wilderness into which they
had rushed with thousands Of others
made populous in an hour, and cities
numbering thousands of people spring
ing up over night. There's never been
anything like It since creation" said
the wife. Creation! HI" said Yam
cey, THAT took six days"
Cimarron Is destined to be ranked
among the greatest Of American his
torical romances, and as serial 1t Is
q story you are going to appreciate
moro than any other you have read for
q long, long time.
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Union Pacific Sput-
ter and chug into
the shops for re-
pairs and overhaul
ing. He chatted
with the mechan-
les, sometimes be-
! ing gruffly ordered
to get out Of the
way, ran errands
for them W h en-
they were good ma
tured, and learned,
as he watched, that
skilled hands can
do ~ an drn II q