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CAPT. BERGER WRITES SAGA IF LOCAL SEAS
 WITH STAUNCH VESSEL
MAIL VESSEL M. s. DISCOVERER MADE 336 PORTS OF CALL
 SEASON 1881

Again the staunch little motor ship Discoverer rides at her berth after her fifth year of maintaining Jason between the dwellers on Cook Inlet, Anchorage and Seward. It is like enjoying a well-earned rest, for the Discoverer has had her many battles with treacherOus wa ters, whitening gales and blinding snoWstorms, But nothing Neptune has reared up against the staunch 61-footer has made her miss her schedules, although, she has shared her portions of delays because her skipper, Captain Heinie Berger, ob- serves the motto hanging above his wheel: Safety First"
 A summary of the DiScoverer's seasons work indicates the demand made upon Captain Berger in main taining mail, passenger and freight service. He sailed out of Anchor age fl times, Seward 19 times, made 336 ports of call, carried 472 pas sengers and 342 tons of freight. The total number of miles covered dur- ling the season of 1881 Is 21 ,185. a.
 Thus, one begins to understand |what this service means to those who are separated from the re- nlainder of the Territory by the great roadless wilderness between the Alaska Railroad and Cook In- llet, and the long and treacherous Ireaches of "the most dangerous waters in the world" of up- per Cook Inlet, with their miles of ltreacherous mud flats, racing tides,
 narrow channels and few shelter ling harbors enroute, and the inn
 mense tiderips in Knik Arm above
 Fire Island, where only the most
 intrepid skipper dare poke the nose
 of even a 61-footer when the fog banks hang low and a 34-foot tide | challenges.
 Like the galaxy of veteran sea farers who have blazed the water trails of the North Pacific anc , have supplied some of the greatest : lsagas of the seas, Captain Berger
 has emerged entitled to take hi place as one of the best skipper! , sailing out of Seward.
 The Discoverer was practically
 made to order for the work she 1. , tcalled on to perform. With for, ,and aft lifeboat model, her weigh Iset well astern, she challenges an. iSea. Her 60-horsepower semi-die
 sel engine drives her over the heav,
 lest seas, when waters smoke iron gales sweeping the turbulent Nortl Pacific and lash it's rugged coast
 line like glistening wolf's teeth.
 Throughout his seasons work z Captain Berger has had at his el bow, Chief Engineer Jack Wilkin son, who in addition to his abilit, z III the engine room, Is an able sea man.
 The Discoverer is somethin
 more than a means of transportin U passengers, mail and freight. l might be likened to the errand bo . of all Of that portion of Cook Inle '' from Portlock to Anchorage. Pos : sibly no skipper has more difficul y responsibilities thrust upon hin
 Someone desires an advance
 household article, shown only in
 catalogue. It is up to Captain Der l. ger to pass judgment, make tn T purchase and assure himself tha T it comes up to specifications. . ], good housewife must have 8 rem
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SPIES EXECUTED

GRODNO, Poland, Dec. Il. F- Two Russians, convicted of espion- age in Poland, were hanged, bring ing the number of such executions within the week to 10. Two more cases are pending.
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ALLEGED MURDERER
 IF FIVE IN TRIAL IN WEST VIRGINIA
MAIL ORDER" MONSTER AC- CUSED LURING TWO WO-
 MEN, THREE CHILDREN

CLARKESBURG, w. Va. Dec. II. (P)-The trial of Harry F Powers, alias Cornelius o. Pierson, " h ic h opened here yesterday, reveals one of the most diabolical chapters ever written into criminal history, according to evidence being pre- sented by the state.
 Powers, known as the Mail Or der" monster, is accused of turing two women, Mrs. Dorothy A. Pres sler Lemke, and Mrs. Asta Buick Richer, and her three children Greta, aged IA; Annabel, nine; and Harry, 12, from their homes at North Uxridge, Mass, and Park Ridge, Chicago, to lonely garage five miles from Clarkesburg, and where all were murdered and bur- jed in drain leading from the garage to a creek.
 I According to mass of evidence unearthed by the police Powers conducted a mail order matrimon- ial business, and through this he lured the women into his clutches,
 after which he imprisoned them In a specially constructed charnel house below his garage, afte I which he strangled them and the children and disposed of tn bodies by burial
 In searching the garage police found the clothing of the victims
 together with other personal be- longings and thousands of letters
 secured through a matrimonial az
 ency, and written by women wh6
 answered his perfervid love mes
 sages picturing himself as a civi
 engineer with big income and lonely heart.
 How many other women wer'
 victims of Powers diabolica
 scheme may never be known. Acting upon clues supplied D. suspicious parties in Park Ridge 7 the Clarkesburg police arre ste' } Powers, exhumed the bodies, an' after 10 hours questioning secure' signed statement from the Blue
 beard" in which he confessed t E slaying of Mrs. Richer and tn ? three children.
 l.) According to the police, Power '. described the method employed i
 dispatching his victims. He starV ( ed them in a series of cells con !, structed beneath the garage an ' then strangled them one by on
 by hanging them to a gallows con e structed over a trapdoor leadin e to the celler of the garage. . Tn the confession, which the pt .s lice secured, and which is signe h by Powers, he is alleged to hav ,e said that he intended to have th e Richer boy witness the executio l. of his mother and sisters, bl ,f that he fought back compellin
 him to kill him with hammer. If Each of the women were DO: F. sessed of small fortunes, muc rs of which it is alleged Powers st ss cured after their death by fore
 ing their names.
 The crime for which Powers
 on trial was committed sometin m in June, 1881, and his apprehel l. sion was made September last g. Clarkesburg, where he was nvir IS with his wife, who conducted re small store, and where he vi
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ANOTHER INITIATION PERIOD

WASHINGTON, D. c, Dec. H. R)-The beginning of another oeriod of imitation early next year was predicted by Virgil Jordan New York economist.
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35-HOuR WEEK

WASHINGTON, D. O., Dec. Ii. R--The American Federation of Labor's president proposed five day, 35-hour working week here.
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In the Swim

CATHARINE DOUCET, "the wor-
~ ried widow from Dubuque" in las
Husbands Co." at the National Theater,
is a member of the distinguished CAL
houn family of Virginia. After her
marriage to Paul Doucet, a prominent
actor of French extraction, she was
known to the stage as Catharine Cal
houn Doucet. Since her husbands
death Mrs. Doucet has not used her
own family name. Those who know
their theater know what q fine actress
she is.
Jay Fassett, leading man in "As Hus-
bands Co." is a son OF the late Jay
Sloat Fassett, former United States
Senator and for many years Republican
leader in the neighborhood of his home,
Elmira, N. Y. Mr.. FasSett also Is a
concert baritone and in New York he
has sung in afternoon recitals and
musicaleS.
Mr. Fassett Is brother of Truman
Fassett, the well known painter. In
Elmira, N. Y, the Fassett family still
controls q bank and has extensive prop
erty interests. Jay Fassett was trained
in banking and politics when he left
college with o view to stepping into his
distinguished fathers shoes, but artistic
ambition decreed otherwise and he now
knows tho thrill Of success entirely
through his own efforts in field far
removed from the influence Of his
wealthy family connections. Prominent
critics have, praised his work for its
intelligence and f1nesse, and his diction
in the various languages is pronounced
unusually fine. He began his stage
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Canada Puts Many Films
. In the Undesirable List
Some of the Eliminated Pictures Were Biggest
Box Office Attractions of the Season in the
United States-Especially Strict Censorship.
By Robert E. Sherwood.

"The Vice Squad" was described as
propaganda evidently intended Tor
purpose of revising police methods In
u. S." and was therefore irrelevant
end unsuitable for British Columbia
and detrimental to respect for law"
Lover Come Back" was condemned
as portrayal of loose living amongst
undesirable type of Americas Broad
way"
"Quick Millions" was too highly
educational from a racketeering point
Of view" So, presumably, were Little
Caesar" The Last Parade" Gun
Smoke" "City Streets" Caught Cheat
ing" and 1.-The Man From Chicago" No
reasons were assigned for the rejection
of THE Front Page"
The longest objection of all was pro-
voked by the picture; Girls Demand
censors described the antics Of the fair
co-eds In this one as "braZen and un-
ladylike conduct" and summed up
with the statement: ITO Our minds
this is an erotic exhibition Of college
life and not true of any educational in
stitution.'
Those who saw Girls Demand Ex-
element" will agree that this is an I'M
answerably fair criticism.
Other offerings in which no good
Kiss THE Easiest Way" Its Wise
Child" Illicit" THE Blue Angel"
Resurrection" and "Millie."
In so far as 1 know, "Skippy" got by
with only a few cuts and bruises.
y x
THEY say that Ann Dvorak is
i among the more promising new
corners in Hollywood. She has already
scored an advance success in Scar
face" and has been promoted to the
leading role in "Sky Devils"
They're all talking about little Miss
Dvorak, and every one of them pro-
nounces her name in different way. II
she takes my advice she'll change It
now, before it's too late.
Let Miss Dvorak profit by the ex-
ample Of one of the greatest actors in
screen history, Sessue Hayakawa, who
fell from favor because he was unpro-
nourceable.
Which gives me an excuse to quote
an inexcusable bit of Marx Brothers
dialogue, as follows;
II wear q Hayakawa than you do"
"Sessue?"
tcopyright, 1917
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Pictures for New Week.
COVER THE HILL" featuring Mae

WEN IdE HILL, featuring Mae
March, James Dunn, Sally Eilers
and James Kirkwood, will be the screen
feature, and "Limehouse Nights" the
Fanchon- Marco idea for the stage show
at the Fox Theater for the new week
starting next Friday, when Les Stevens
will assume the post of master of cere-
monies,
Flying High" adapted from Bert
Lahr's Broadway musical comedy sue
cess, with Bert himself and Charlotte
Greenwood, will be the next screen fea-
ture at Loew's Palace Theater, starting
Friday, when Hal Yeates with a new
flve-act stage show will move in.
Platinum Blonde" featuring Jean
Harlow, Loretta Young and Robert
williams, is announced as 1.-The next
screen attraction at RKO Keith's,"
but without a specific date for its
coming. The story concerns what hap
pens when a poor man marries q
wealthy girl.
1.-THE Champ" featuring Wallace
Berry and Jackie Cooper. which recent
ly was seen in preview here, will be
seen "next"-the date of the seeing
being not given-at Loew's Columbia
Theater. However, the picture is
heralded as one Of the seasons out
standing hits.
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O'Neill and Huston.

II Eugene O'Nein has his way, 1t Is
said. several Of his plays win not
only reach the screen, but win star
Walter Huston, now to be seen in The
Ruling Voice" at Warner Bros Metro
politan Theater.
Recently Huston visited Mr.. OTNeEl
in Paris. The author of anna Chris
tie," 1.-THE Hairy Ape" Strange Inter-
lude" and other brilliant plays Is now
living in the French capital. Mr..
oNein has q distinct regard for the
talking screen, so he confded to Hus-
ton. As . matter of fact, he has al
ready prepared screen versions Of The
Hairy Ape" and Desire Under the
Elms," in which he hopes to see Hus-
ton appear Mr.. HUSH. las already
appeared In the latter production on
the stage, also in ONeill's The Foun-
tain"
walter Huston is Of the opinion that
ONeill some day will turn his atten-
ton directly to the screen in writing
originals, though 1t is problematical
whether he will ever come to Holly
wood He chooses his own working 10
Gales and nothing can bulge him from
them. At present Paris agrees with
him very well, and Huston found him
working on q new play and with an
other just completed.
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Her Second Year Begins.

MAXINE DOYLE, the famous little
Thank You" mistress Of cere-
monies at the Warner Earle Theater,
has so well performed her simple
duties Of introducing the vaudeville
acts at that house that the manage
ment this week is celebrating her first
anniversary Of services well done.
Miss Doyle has appeared with l,456
shows. Last year she staged her own
fashion show" making 100 changes
Of costumes She comes all the way
from San Francisco, and she has a sis
ter, Billie, who is an outstanding
Fanchon- Marco dancing star. Further
more, she has hobby of collecting the
autographs of all the stars she intro
6uces, and she Is very fond of WASH
ington.
Maxine started her thank young"
in a radio station In San Francisco,
and she achieved such results with It
that at just II she found a stage career
awaiting her. She is q very modest
little girl, unassuming, and loves her
work. Surely all this will win the sym.
pathies Of those who may encounter
her on or Of stage in Washington.
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THE great stars of the current New
York stage, Alfred Lunt and Lynn
Fontanne, make their talking picture
debut in THE Guardsman," Ferenc
Molnar's continental comedy now cur
rent at Loew's Columbia Theater.
Mr.. Lunt and Miss Fontanne have for
years been reigning box-of1ce favorites
of the legitimate stage and it was only
recently that they were induced to try
talkies via the screen adaptation OF
1.-THE Guardsman," one Of their great
est stage successes.
The plot of THE Guardsman" CEN
tiers about an actor who DISCUSSES him
self as a romantic Russian guardsman
in order to test his wifes fidelity. The
ingenious methods by which he switches
from the contrasting roles of husband
and lover, and his wife's surprising re-
action. make for fine comedy which
combines brilliant dialogne with hilar-
iouS action
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This Weeks Pictures

and cheer leaders Of the schools lead
students In the audience in the school
yells. Al MitcheIl's overture, with Fox
Movietone News and an episode Of The
Galloping Ghost" complete the bill.
RIALTO-"Morals for Women"
THE age-old clash between moral
= codes Is said to be brought into the
high light in Morals for Women" now
current on the Rialto Theater screen.
Bessie Love and Conway Tearle are the
featured players in this Tiffany pro-
duction. which was directed by Mort
Blumenstock. Natalie Moorhead, Emma
Dunn, Edmund Breese, Virginia Lee
Corbin, June Clyde, Lima Basquette,
John Holland and David Rollins COM
prise the supporting cast.
Unlike many dramatic attempts to
touch upon moral questions, Morals
facts in this particular case without an
indicated moral or solution.
The Rialto program also embraces
the Talking Reporter in the latest Uni
versal news and a short comedy attrac-
ton.
PALACE-"New Adventures Of Get
Rich Quick Wallingford."
WILLIAM HAINES makes q personal
w appearance this week at Loew's
Palace Theater. He is in the East for
q vacation, and will appear in connec-
ton with his latest Metro-G oldwyn-
Mayer production, THE New Adven.
lures of -Rich-Quick Wallingford,"
during the week at Loew's Palace.
THE New Adventures Of Get-Rich-
Quick Wallingford' is described ~ the
story Of "a young man who didn't mind
having no money and to whom the en-
fire World his nvetAr - Rrnnek
Terrence and Jimmy Durante are seen
in important roles. with Leila Hyams
playing the feminine lead opposite
Haines.
A gala stage show from the Capitol
Theater, in New York, titled Great
Guns" in which Milton Berle Is starred,
will include several Loew vaudeville acts
in support.
METROPOLITAN-"The Ruling Voice."
0'TNHE RULING VOICE" q dynamic
First National and vitaphone
drama, is the current screen attraction
at Warmers Metropolitan Theater.
Doris Kenyon, Loretta Young and WAL
ter Huston are seen in the featured
roles, with David Manners and q strong
cast in support.
1.-THE Ruling Voice" Is q powerful
story of man whose merest whisper
pursuit of power, which made him bar
gain away his own daughters happi-
ness. The cast includes John Halliday,
Dudley Digges, Gilbert Emery, Willard
Robertson and Douglas Scott.
KEITHS-"Way Back Home"
0GETH PARKER" phillips H. Lord)
~ and his Jonesport neighbors in
way Back Home" are continuing an
other week at R-K-O Keith's Theater,
which should be good news to the fol-
lowing developed by these quaint old
New England characters in Sunday
night broadcasts over the radio.
All the familiar radio characters, Liz,
Ma Parker, Cephus, "Wobblin'" and
the others are portrayed in the picture
by the members Of the broadcasting
company. assisted by Dorothy Petersen,
Frank Albertson and Bette Davis, pro-
feSGi0nal ccroan Y1laUore
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to display the ability which has MADE
them. perhaps. the most famous Team
on the legitimate stage.
EARLE-Anniversary Week.
GAY festivities celebrate the first
~ double anniversary at Warner
Earle Theater this week-the nrst
anniversary Of the Earle vaudeville pol
icy and FIRST year of Maxine Doyle as
mistress of ceremonies. This show,
the second Of the Remember Novem-
Der" lineup hits, presents seven acts on
the stage instead Of the usual four, and
boasts such headliners as Louise
Groody, star of Hit the DeckP and
mo, No. Nanette," and Neville Fleeson,
with Jeanne and Lynton revue, Stan
Kavanagh, Freddie Sanborn, Joe Wong
and Fumi, Four Casting Stars and Max
Gruder in Oddities of Jungle" with
Eva, Topsy and Rigo. Maxine Doyle
also contributes q novelty bit.
The screen feature will be Ruth
Chatterton IN "Once q Lady" q Para
mount production, with q momentous
story about a woman OF society VINO
loses wealth and renown in one scan
dalous mement, only to regain 1t In
decade Of love atonement IN the bright
capitals Of the world. The cast In
CIuuCo AVA ANONCAOp ~AAA A@SA~ANN~ s~~~~-
Godfrey Kerr.
FOX--"Heartbreak."
UHEARTBREAK, q Fox romantic
l. drama, is the current screen at
traction at the Fox Theater. Charles
Farrell and Madge Evans are starred
in 1t.
Farrell is seen as an attache at the
American embassy in Vienna when
the war smashes his romance with an
Austrian girl (Madge Evans), but in
spite OF separation and misunderstand-
ing their love survives tragedy and
heartbreak, after a climax of great in
tensity. The supporting cast Of youth
full players includes Hardie Albright,
Paul Cavanagh and John Arledge. Al
fred L. Worker directed the production.
a screen version of Llewellyn Hughes
recent magazine story.
Fanchon and Marco will present on
the stage their "exotique" idea, staged
by Fanchon, with Claudia Coleman,
mistress of ceremonies; Grammar, Hess
and Vale, Ramon and Virginia, Elmer
Herring, the Emo Troupe and the exotic
Sunkist Beauties.
Last Friday marked the opening of
Washington high school foot ball week,
with separate night for each Of the
five high schools. A Fox movietone
film shows the interhigh school games
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Alfred Lunt.
CONTINUED From First Page.)

NN$SAASAeS
Very nice. Oh, I love it. But, of
course, at other times look pretty
awful. 7 know then that that's
my real self and the other is only
Hollywood. But I like 1t, oh, yes,
we all do" And he laughed long
and loud and then started in,
But isn't my wife glorious in this
play. (Reunion in Vienna) ?
Isn't she lovely? Oh, my, am
so proud Of her" etc.
The happiest family in the
world-theSe INDEPENDENTLY
when they're out marketing. They
have a great and luxurious greed
for green vegetables. That's prob
ably why they look so healthy.
MARY PICKFORD, looking
A'A younger and prettier than
ever, was in town Thursday. In
her suite at the Mayhower, her
blond hair curling over the edge
of her hat, her smile as devas-
tating as it has always been, she
talked about the future and only
a little about the past.
"No." she said. II have not yet
torn up all my old films, or burned
them, either. But I'm going to.
I have no sentiment about my old
pictures or about my old cos
tunes, either"
So into the fire goes all her
youthful Pollyanna past. She will,
however las was suggested in
these columns a few weeks ago.
do no more '''Kiki's." She laughed
about that. "'Kikr was foreign to
me. So was 'Coquette.' Too
sophisticated. The public don't
want me that way. No, I shall no
longer be a little girl. Do you
think I could?" she added with a
laugh as we nodded a very def
mite Eyes" (she really isn't grown
up YETI II want a nice human
story, something like The Mil
lionaire.'"
Miss Pickford is working on a
story now with a well known
author" She won't say who he
is. But mightn't it be Robert
Sherwood? Didn't she and Doug
dine with Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood
Thursday night and then trot
around to see the Lunt family in
Reunion in Vienna? She de-
MES that it will be this play. But
Mr.. Sherwood undoubtedly has a
few more up his sleeve. You never
can tell. At any rate, while Doug
las Is travelling hither and yon-
which, Mary says, Douglas loves"
she will be back in Hollywood
working at something. "This
time" she said as we left, its
going to be good. I am not going
to take any chances. 1t will be
good"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-15

pHILLIPS H. LORD, the Seth Parker
of radio fame, whose first motion
picture, Way Back Home" is now on
its second week at RKO Keith's Thea
ter. was born on farm in Maine, but
calls Bangor his own "home town"
A broadcasting station in Hartford,
Conn, was first to see possibilities in
Lords protrayal Of q Yankee farmer
and 1t permitted him to broadcast
over the station for the glorious sum of
nothing-for six weeks. Later the sta
ton raised the ante to $40 a week"
Now Lord is heard each Sunday
night over practically every N. B. C,
station from coast to coast, and Is also
making personal appearances at fig
ures that make a 500 weekly stipend
look mighty small
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key to Happy Marriage"

HUSBANDS, not wives, are respon-
sible for the success or failure Of
a marriage, according to the philosophy
of Rachel Crothers, in the play, las
Husbands Co."
Pearly bits from the play are these:
"A husbands formula for remaining
in love Is to tell his wife how wonderful
she is so often that he grows to. believe
it himself.
1.-The quality Of mans love depends
on his own nature: the woman he loves
is accidental and her qualities have no
effect on the nature Of his feeling for
her. n
"A great love is . romantic love
grown up.
d. THE husband who will force his mar
riage into channels Of SUGGESTIVE kind
I have tried to draw in my plays all
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Newsreel Grown Up.

THE first Of the newsrGels. Pathe
= News, is doing some celebrating
this week via the screen Of RKO
Keith's; because that newsreel has
attained its twenty-first birthday. The
current issue at the RKO Theater has
many Of the old time shots incorporated
together with brief glimpse Of world
events Of Importance.
Recently the Pathe Newsreel was &C.
quired by the Radio-K Keith Orpheun
Corporation and with that change ir
management a former Washingtonian
Jack Connolly, was placed in charge
under the general direction Of Court
land Smith, a pioneer talking newsree
executive