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the way, is not the same as heard here
several months ago in concert.
The third major unit Of the bill is
Fanchon & Marcos "Gondoliers" idea,
which is said to be one of the most
charming stage presentations to come
thus far from this important producing
company.
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ford Brooke, director. Indeed, the
players feel they will turn in a per-
Torrance equal to the best Broadway
produced, and are promising as much.
Its Wise Child" is comedy hilari-
Gus at its height. The story concerns
a young woman who deliberately mis-
represents her moral status in order to
evade an unpleasant marriage.
With this premise, anything can hap
pen-and it does.
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MEDIC SOCIETY TO MEET
Drs. John B. Deaver and Gerry
Morgan Will Address Sessions.

DR.. John B. Beaver, noted Phila-
delphia surgeon, will speak at the an
nual meeting of the Medical Society
of the District of Columbia, to be held
May at 1918 M street. His topic will
be "Peptic Ulcer
DR.. William Gerry Morgan of Wash
ington, president of the American Medi-
cal Association, also is on the program,
with an address on Some of the Medi-
cinal Effects of Alcohol
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What's What and Where
Attractions Soon to Be Seen in Washington Theaters

Fox Next Week
doctors Wives" Roxy Gang.
TIME Fox is to offer a triumvirate
of interesting features, beginning
Friday.
i The first is the picture "Doc-
tors Wives" presenting two
popular protagonists on the screen as
husband and wife in dramatic and
poignant story. They are Warner Bax-
ter and Joan Bennett. This picture was
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French Maids"
Coming to the Gayety.

A MOTHER new Mutual burlesque Of
fering, sponsored by the M. B. A.
Circuit, and embellished with title
previously used, but about all that re-
mains of French Maids" opens at the
Gayety Theater on Ninth street next
week. Both players and speciality acts
are said to have won acclaim in prev
ious seasons both on NJ. B. A. and in
high-grade vaudeville. Al Pharr, come
dian, and Scotty Freidel, eccentric
comic, with red-haired Jeri McCauley,
zippy singing and stepping ingenue,
are featured among the players. Others
include Jessie Mcdonald, soubrette; Joe
Land, smart singer and fast-hoofing
Juvenile; Harry Allen; Lillian Rose,
singer and number leader, and Lee
Smith, ingenue, with an entertaining
chorus.
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National Players,
Its a Wise Child" Monday.

Its A WISE CHILD" the COM
- edy by Laurence E. johnson,
that David Belasco made ia
i nous, will be presented by the
National Theater Players next
week, beginning Monday night.
Its Wise Child" has been called
the greatest Belasco success of recent
years. No other play from his work.
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R-K-O Keith's Friday
Bachelor ADartment."

CTARRING two of Radio Pictures
~ outstanding screen personalities,
Lowell Sherman and Irene Dunno, and
with Mae Murray, Claudia Dell, Noel
Francis and Kitty Kelly, quartet of
former "Follies" girls, featured, Bach
elor Apartments" will be the attraction
at R-K-O Keith's Theater for the week
starting Friday morning.
Endorsed for adults" this sophisti-
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Gated farce presents Lowell Sherman as
a suave, polished man of the world, q
wealthy philanderer, whose penthouse
apartment is the setting for most OF the
action. Irene Dunno Of "Cimarron"
fame, is the heroine. Fast action,
snappy dialogue, genuine romance and
secrets of the So-called fast set all play
part in a humorous, sophisticated en-
tertainment.
The sixth and final installment of
Johnny Farrells Champions Golf Les
sons" the current issues Of Pathe News,
Walter Catlett in "Ants in the Pants"
and william Bishop, "organist Of the
air" round out the program.
Metropolitan, Saturday,
TEN Nights In a Bar Room"
HTNEN NIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM"
l. the sensational story that
touched the hearts of yore, will be the
screen feature, starting Saturday, at
Warmers Metropolitan. Added thereto
will be the second episode OF "Adven-
lures in Africa" thrilling representa-
ton of life in the Dark Continent.
William Farnum has the leading role
in Ten Nights in Bar Room" He is
seen as loving father and ideal family
man until his efforts to become good
fellow result in his degeneration. Only
the love u Ills uduBIlICA ooFCo AAAlAA a. CAAA
ruin. The story is provided with
thrills, heart interest and pathos. as
well as a thrilling fight between Far
mum and Tom Santschi
The second episode of Adventures in
Africa" Is called IAN African Bomba, "
and shows Wynant d. Hubbard making
final preparations for his sefari into the
Jungle, with weird native customs, and
the thrilling capture of puff adder.
other shorts and the Graham Nc
Nance Talking News Reel complete the
artainrnent
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Cantor Josef ROsenblatt
Washington Auditorium Sunday.

washington AuultOAAuh ANA~@J'
CUNDAY night, April 26, Cantor
- Josef Rosenblatt and Associate Art
lists will stage an all-request program
In the Washington Auditorium. On
his last appearance in washington at
the Jewish Community Center, the
noted cantor created a sensation with
his remarkable singing powers.
The cantor'S program next SUNDAY
night will run the gamut OF musical
expression Boito, Borodin,
Weber, Chopin, Stravinsky, Rossini,
List and other masters being repre-
sented. In the second part OF the pro-
gram the cantor will intersperse songs
from many lands, including the cele-
brated Negro spiritual, GO Down
Moses" arranged by H. T.. Burleigh.
There will be also several OF the can
tors own compositions.
With him will be his son, Henri
Rosenblatt, bass-baritone, who will be
heard in two duets with his father;
Jascha Zeyde, famed pianist from the
Argentine; Joseph Gingold, from Brest-
Litowsk, a violinist of international
reputation, and William Friedman, Spe-
cial accompanist for the cantor.
Tickets for the concert may be
obtained at the Jewish Community
Center, at the T. Arthur Smith Concert
Bureau, at 1925 Georgia avenue north
west, at the New Willard Hotel and at
the Washington Auditorium.
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Friday evenings may be had at T. Ar
thur Smiths, the A. A. A. headquarters
and the Community Center Depart
ment. Tickets will also be on sale at
the door.
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Guides.

Washington wants everybody who
visits it to be properly and thoroughly
guided about so that everything Of In
terest at the Capital may be seen and
understood. It does not, however, want
that its visitors should be pestered and
harassinglv importuned and imposed
upon by the professional guides, who
are apparently growing in numbers and
finding business cut by competition. A
case has come to light Of undue enter
prise on the part of these bidders for
the patronage Of motor parties touring
the city. Three men, wearing uniforms
suggestively like those Of policemen.
were found to be holding UP motorists
with signals and then proffering tlaeil
services. This soliciting Of business Il
distinctly out Of order. It tends to cause
traffic congestion, it confuses the
strangers by causing them to think that
their accosters are officially commits
stoned, and 1t may lead to graver
trouble through the abuse Of their op.
pcrtunity by the hold-up guides.
The law controlling the licensing Of
guides for the Capital Is not IN salts
factory form. Permits are granttsl them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-03
The Quota for Japan.

The immigration Committee OF the
United States Chamber Of Commerce
has taken commendable action in rec
ommending that Japan be placed upon
the quota basis in the American immi-
grafton laws. At the instigation Of
leading business men from the Pacific
Coast, the committee has recommended
to the national chambers board Of di-
rectors "that the discrimination now
existing against Japan and other Fan
Eastern countries be removed and theil
nationals put on the quota basis, the
same as nationals of European counr
tries"
Presumably the immigration Com
mittees of both houses Of Congress viii
be urged, in due course, to initiate the
legislation necessary to give effect e
the Chamber Of Commences views
The Government of the United States
could strike no more effective blow fol
Japanese American friendship. The
exclusion clause enacted into the 1924
immigration law, more or less in pique
as the consequence of some unguarded
language that crept into the diplomatic
correspondence over the question
rankles in Nippon's side like thorn
It was regarded, and is still regarded
as an affront to japanese racial pride.
With admirable self-restraint, the
Toxic government has remained silent
for seven years on an issue which II
still regards as open and unsettled. Last
January, in the Japanese Diet, Baron
Shidehara, foreign minister, said:
On the question of the United States
immigration law, which for the pas
seven years has been weighing heavily
on popular sentiment in this country
there Is no longer any doubt that our
position Is now fully understood and
appreciated by large majority of the
American people. We shall watch
further development of the question
with unimpassioned, but keen interest
The majority of the American people
hope that there will be no further delay
in righting the wrong which Congress
perpetrated and in indicating Japan's
confidence in the spirit Of American
fair play.
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

result, he says, was that horny-handed
sons of the soil in half a dozen States
proceeded to plant barley instead of
wheat In consequence, It's said, 4,000,-
600 perfectly good acres this year are
going to yield a crop for which the
anticipated market is lacking.
Senator Tom Connally, Democrat, Of
Texas. for whom a 1882 vice presiden-
tial boom is sprouting, is coming to
think there's something in that cpl
gram that a prophet Is not without
honor save in his own bailiwick. Not
long ago a mid-Texas newspaper put
in a long distance telephone call for
Tom to Marlin, the Senator's home
town. II don't know the number"
said the caller, ''but just say want
Tom Connatiy." A few minutes later
Marlin exchange doesn't know Of any
Tom Connally in that town."
4 +
Even Uncle Sans big ditch, the
Panama Canal. has been hit by Old
Man Depression. Normal toll collec-
tons, expected to amount to three or
four million dollars, actually total $2,-
43l, 43S less than collections for the
PACNAOuo AAoOo4 yCdIs was q QG-
crease of $50 vessel transitS during the
intervening twelvemonth.
The Washington newspaper corps Is
about to say good-by to two Of its
shining lights just dispatched to take
up assignments as special correspond
entS in Berlin. One Is M. Farmer
Murphy Of the Baltimore Sun and the
other Robert Barry, late of the New
York Evening World and now Of Uni
yersal Service. Their transfer Is a
token of the realization on the part of
American editors that Germany and
Central Europe are going to be ire
mendous news sources in the immediate
future.
\ 4 n Il
Anti-R Roosevelt Democrats In WASH
ington are out with the 'IowdoWn''
about Chicago Mayor ''Tony" Cermak's
Endorsement Of the Governors presi-
Dental boom. Chicago wants q big
New York State appropriation and par
ticipation in the 1888 Century of
Progress" World Fair in the windy
City. Cermak went to Albany (accord-
ing to the tale), bagged his booty and
then told the world that Roosevelt q
wet enough" for nlinoisl
(Copyright. 1917
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ton without leaving Identifying marks.
Fingerprints are not always left as
clues to the perpetrators, who have
found methods of avoiding these tell
tale signs. Visual identification In the
rare instances when law-breakers are
seen by casual witnesses Is not absolute.
~ dependable.
The surest method Of detection lies
in the fullest possible acquaintance by
the police with the individual residents
Of every section OF the city where crime
breeds. The use of the radio sets squads
Of men to work searching Immediately.
Suspicious circumstances are found
while the trail is fresh. Incautious
remarks are reported and gften the
identity Of the robber or slayer Is indi-
Gated by his own conduct. To obtain
such clues there must be prompt and
persistent search, with an intelligent
coordination Of all information.
There have been several lanrentable
failures Of detection In the District ana
the nearby counties Of Maryland and
Virginia Of late. These, however, do
not warrant the belief that the police
methods are becoming less eficient.
There Is, perhaps, more crime, and
while the percentage runs against the
criminal, the greater the number Of
homicides and hold-ups, the more
escapes there will be. Still the goal
remains-to catch every robber and
every murderer as quickly as possible
and to send them to prison or to greater
punishment for their crimes.
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Parcel Post Campaign
To Cut Down Deficit

From the st. Joseph Gazette.
What Is 'hailed as one Of the most In
tensive and elaborate campaigns in
postal history has been started by the
Post Once Department to educate peo-
pie to greater use Of the parcel post
service. The action follows the decision
Of the Interstate Commerce Commission
authorizing the Postmaster General to
increase the limits OF size and weight of
parcels carried in the mails.
Through the campaign it is hoped to
reduce materially, If not to wipe out
altogether, the losses at present result
ing from handling this class of mail.
In the fiscal year 1890 the parcel post
600. v'sss'
The first step has been the appoint
ment OF supervisors at sixty OF the
largest post ofilces, whose duty it is to
come Ia contact with the public, to offer
helpful suggestions to shippers, to hear
complaints and in general to do every
thing possible to increase the use 81
parcel post facilities. But virtually eyery
available means Of publicity, too. viii
be used In the campaign.
There Is no reason why the public
should not respond satisfactorily to the
campaign. While the value Of the par-
eel post service Is obvious, no doubt
many persons have failed through lack
Of knowledge of its many advantages "a
use It the fullest extent The fact that
the size and weight limits Of naailable
packages has been increased alone
should see Q considerable pickup "a The
volume Of parcel post business.
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If the Oil Wells Shut Down

From the Oklahoma City Times.
Further reduction in the price Of
crude petroleum threatens the complete
shutdown, of the Oklahoma City oil
fieId. Even before the last slash in
the price Of crude, many Of the local
wells were producing oil at an actual
loss. The latest reduction makes profit
impossible for the most Of these huge
glishers. A shutdown Is bitter medi-
cine, but it may be step toward i'm
provemept in an industry that has been
hampered by huge surplus production
from the flush pools. It becomes inn
perative that production must be Tegu-
lated, and this heroic treatment may be
needed.
The deluge Of oil In East Texas fields
was the factor that swamped the mid
continent area. The Texas Legislature
viii undertake legislation that win pro-
vide the essential regulation for that
great oil State. There is hope for Inn
provement from that source, and that
q gradual upward trend In other In
dustries may yet be reflected Ia Oh.
Oil has been Of huge benefit to Okla
homa and Oklahoma City. It Is real
wealth, still; q commodity essential TO
the functioning Of modern civilization,
and that u basis for . prosperity that
win return.
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under which they may display badges,
which can readily be mistaken for tok-
ems Of real authority. Once they have
secured their patrons, they are subject
only to the rules governing conduct in
general. There Is no fixed scale Of fees.
If they overcharge the victims have no
redress. There should be standard
of compensation, determined by the
Commissioners, and placarded in the Gre
dentials of the guides. which should be
shown 70 every patron.
A visitor who Is annoyed by an Inn
portuning bidder for engagement as O
guide is likely to pass on the matter as
he would the persistence Of street
salesman. NCne who Is charged an ex-
orbitant fee for q routine service feels
helpless, If he senses the imposition.
He does not know to whom to report
the case. He does not want to be de-
layed by the procedure Of inquiry and
punishment. He passes on the matter
as Just another extortion, and charges
it up against the city.
A large proportion of the visitors to
Washington 60 about to ''see the sights
in the buses provided for that pur-
pose, with guides attached whose "lec-
lures" are In the main correct and In
structive. But there are quite as many
again who tour the city in their own cars,
and have no guidance save that which
may be volunteered by kindly disposed
citizens or which may be hired. 1t Is I'M
portant that the professional guides be
subjected to larger measure OF con-
troll and to occasional inspection to as
certain whether they are giving the
proper service and telling the story Of
Washington correctly.
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Crime Solution.

There Is occasion for ,congratulation
to the police upon their capture and
Identification Of the man who shot and
killed taxicab driver the other night.
When the crime was reported It was
undoubtedly set down by the public Is
another case Of unsoivable mystery, 90
numerous have been these homicides IN
this region Of late. But Is Q result Of
prompt and eficient detective work the
perpetrator Of the shooting was rounded
up, though taken In fact for another
offense.
Crime detection is not as assured as
It may seem to be from the reading Of
| detective stories" The motor car
makes escape comparatively easy for
the criminal. Readily available weapons
are Of nature to permit swift execu-
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Shaw's Communism.

When George Bernard Shaw reached
London on his return from Russia he
said that he was sorry to be back and
that he would advise young man to &c
10 Russia and settle there. Continuing:
Russia is putting her house in order
All the other nations are playing the
fool. cannot speak in detail about the
great experiment have seen, for what
I have to say must be carefully thought
out and written, and have made ar
rangements to do this.
Mr.. Shaw declared the other day in
Moscow that he was a Communist; in
deed that he was a Communist before
Lenin. His subsequent remarks have
been punctuated by scornful references
to capitalism" and Capitalists" Evil
IDENTIFY the thought Of individual prop
erty is abhorrent to him. Yet it is dol
lars to doughnuts that the arrange
ments" which he has made to write his
comments on Russia, once he has care
fully thought them out, include the pay
ment Of good round sum to the author
and substantial royalties for any repro
duction, in whatever form they may be
presented now or hereafter.
If G. B. s. is a Communist fA has
q golden chance to demonstrate by
a division Of his reputedly large estate
among his less fortunate fellow cit
liens. He has been accommodating
wealth for good many years. There
Is no keener collector of compensation
in the literary world. There is no more
savage pursuer of royalty dodgers than
he. On very rare occasions he has per-
mitted plays of his TO be produced for
charity without royalty-the fact being
widely exploited to his glory.
Property to Shaw is something per-
sonal, to be held closely. One searches
vainly the Lists Of great benefactions to
find his name included. In all the
scope Of philanthropy it is missing. And
yet he was q Communist before Lenin,
and he now broadcasts to the world his
faith in the universal ownership Of
wealth and his contempt for the nation
which has enriched him for playing
the fool" In not turning Communist.
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the national professional tennis cham
pionship.
Q. why is this season Of the year
called dog days?-B. II.
A. Dog days comprise the hot, sui
try season Of Summer during parts Of
July and August; 50 called from the
fact that the rising Of the dog star,
Sirius, the brightest star In the heav-
ems, is coincident with the rising of
the sun. The ancients thought this
conjunction caused the intense heat Of
Summer and the maladies which then
prevailed. hence the popular suppose
this season.
@. Please state where Robert Todd
Lincoln Is buried-T. r.
A. He Is buried in Arlington National
Cemetery.
g: X What is occasional hai'd'ns'
A. The occasional building Is d term
applied to the new style of architecture,
seen, for example, in many Of the New
York structures. As the building in
creases in height the width Of the
floors Is reduced, so that seemingly the
building tapers.
Q. Does mocking bird have o song
of its own, or merely initiate other
birds?-C. B.
A. The Biological Survey says that
a mocking birds song is both natural
and initiative. It has good song Of
its own, but it Is such an incessant
mimic that 1t would rather initiate
than sing its own song.
@. Among savage tribes, were ref
erendums held on war, especially among
the Indians when the whites first ap-
peared in North America?-J. r.
A. The Smithsonian Institution says
that the holding Of q referendum was
the accepted method among Organized
tribes like the IroQuoian and Muskho-
gean tribes This was mentioned by
Lafitau in his writings, published In
1724.
@. Are there more baritones, tenors
or BASES in this country2-G. D.
A. At the present time the number
OF trained baritones and tenors 70
about the same. There are fewer bass
singers.
@. What is a fulgurite?-G. II.
A. Fulgurites are the CLASSY forma-
tons, sometimes called lightning tubes,
due to the fusing of loose sand along
the path of q lightning discharge in the
earth. The. inner surface Is Of smooth
glass, while the outer consists Of rough,
incompletely fused particles Of sand.
They are found Of various sizes, some
of several inches in diameter, and in
some cases extend more than IS feet
into the ground.
Q. How many children has Sir Oliver
Lodge?-A. L. M.
A. He had IL children. His son Ray.
mond was killed in the World War.
@. To what extent does fog interfere
with Shipping?-V. B. N.
A. There are no general statistics q
the subject, but specific example that
may be cited Is that of dense fog that
hung for five days over the English
Channel No serious accident resulted,
but the time lost by vessels laid up in
the Thames estuary alone was estimated
to be worth $5,000,00O.
Q. Is butter usually made Of sweet
cream or sour cream?-A. S. A.
A. The Bureau of Dairying says that
more than one-half of the butter made
in the United States Is made from sour
cream. There is, however, consider
able quantity made from sweet cream.
Q. How much of the time do bats
sleep?-M. T.
A. They are awake only about four Of
the "a hours daily.