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Evening star., 1932-09-22
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington $ Theaters.

Warburton, the two seasons ago
; National Player, has been signed for
an important-role in the Fox "Cav-
alcade" film. MON has pur-
chased Another Language" (Which
opened in washington last Spring at
the Belasco and was attended by So
persons at the Wednesday matinee)
for close to 100000; Have you
seen the excellent painting by Alton
McWilliams in the lobby of the Fox
Theater? Lowe, methinks. better
than Bordoni, but Bordoni not to be
sneezed at. And, if you drop in at
the Fox Friday evening you will
see there, ensconsed in the presi-
Dental box, Mrs. Louise Thaden and
Mrs. Frances Marsalis, the two
woman flyers of the Flying Bou-
doir." Tallulah Bankhead Is quit
ting the films. She will return to
Broadway to look for a play almost
Immediately. E. de S. M.
Evening star., 1932-09-22
SILVER SPRING LEGION
HOLDS ANNUAL ELECTION

John j. Geary Is Chosen Com
mander of Cissel-Saxon Post
at Meeting Last Night.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, September "a.
John J. Geary was elected commander
of Cissel-Saxon Post, No. Al, American
Legio, here Tuesday night.
H. S. Guista was named first vice
commander, Anton Horak. second vice
| commander; Charles j. Clifford. ad-
jutant; Benjamin j. Hardesty, treas
urer: Rev. Kenneth c. Buker, chaplain;
Frank Heath, historian, and Henry
Eslin, sergeant at arms.
Geary, Gunsta, Horak, Clifford,
Hardesty, Maj. Howard w. Cutler,
| Joseph c. Cissel, L. T. Falconer, v. S.
Leizear and w. Talmadge Miller were
elected to the Executive Committe, and
Guista, Geary, Cutler, Leizear and
Faulconer were named delegates to the
Montgomery County Council Of the
American Legion.
Evening star., 1932-09-22

visiting picture
sleuths in New
York only a few
weeks ago: I'VE
planned to star
Miss Sidney in a
picture version
of Madame But
terfy' (the words
are not his to
the "T''), "and
then we decided
that she hadn't
had experience
enough; that De-
fore Going such
a part she should
do other things.
Later, perhap
ebo will att.aYnOt
Evening star., 1932-09-22
Sylvia Sidney Signed
To Play Madame Butterfly"

- YLVIA SIDNEY, last seasons
landslide Paramount player
and currently thought OF as
~ heading for the rocks, has
been definitely signed to play
the lead in the film version OF
Madame Butterfly
Said Sam Katz, Paramount's lusty
new chief, at the luncheon given for
Evening star., 1932-09-22
Two Openings Today.
Local and Other News.

WAsH1NGToN will have two
wv openings today This morning
Hardie Meakin presented the first
performance Of "Hell's Highway" at
R-K-O Keith's and tonight the
Rialto will reopen with gala per-
formance of Back Street. the
Fanny Hurst classic" The latter
opening. an $3.50 pm. event, will be
accomplished with a band in the
street, lights, crowds, music and the
usual first-night fanfare which Hol-
lywood is even fonder Of than Wash
ington. One hundred and fifty in
Nted guests, the cream of the city,
will be specially seated. Other
guests may come and go as they
please.
Word from the Loew Fox Office
indicates that Dorothy Jordan may
appear in person at that theater in
the very near future. Edmund Lowe
attended the regal repast fed hungry
drama sleuths on the stage at the
Fox yesterday morning, and pleased
them muchly, it is said, by his inim-
liable limitations of Hollywood great
and near-great. The musicians and
Steve Cochran are said to be smil-
ing sWeetly at each other. John
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It,"
Mr.. Katz has changed his mind.
1t must have been a sad day in
Sylyia's life when, with a butter
fiyan trousseau all commandeered
and living at her feet, the moguls
came to tell her mot yet, little one,
not vet" She had been grooming
herself for the part. Her home, 1t IS
said. was stuffed with reminders OF
this once overwhelming Geraldine
Farrar triumph. Her eyebrows even
had begun to climb north at the
corners.
Then began the revolution in
Paramount's budget-the revolution
in big men and little men, the
recasting and rewriting and plans
for the three or four big pictures.
Miss Sidney had played her parts
well. Even when Phillips Holmes
dumped her overheard in American
Tragedy" she acted well. But when
she went down into the lake her
stock went with her. She played in
"Merrily We Go to He'll" but wasn't
the girl she used to be. Some said
a heroine shouldn't look like q
kitten. Others were even more un-
kind.
Whatever was said-and most OF
It unjustly-Miss Sidney is among
those current oddities-.one o. eae
few young actresses who can act.
Her early training in the To- ter
Guild School of Dramaticd has
served her well. Washington may
remember that she played here in
THE Challenge of Youth with a
bursting appendix. Even then she
was a wow"
She has had her ups and downs
MANY downs-(the near butterfly
tragedy is an example) but she goes
on smiling with that same wistful
smile which made the American
Tragedy" so genuinely tragic.
She is the ideal Butterfly" among
the younger school of actresses. II
she trims down and eats only rice
and barley, pictorially she should be
splendid. OF all the beauties now
prevalent on the screen, she Is per
haps the least. Yet she has that
wistfulness Of face and manner
which is guaranteed to do the most
good to well seasoned tear
Wringer of the old school.
Butterfly" needs plenty OF tears
and plenty of those heart-rending
smiles which Miss Sidney carries up
her sleeve. When she pulls out the
old knife and plants her child in
front of her blindfolded the audi
ence should give way to a great deal
of misery. With Puccini's music as
a background and Miss Sidney sit
ting unhappily on the stage plotting
her own destruction, the walls OF
anguish which come from the aisles
should be legion.
This is something to look forward
to. Just as We are looking forward
to seeing Norma Shearer, Frederic
March and Leslie Howard in "Smil-
in Through; Jack Barrymore.
Katherine Hepburn and Billie Burke
in "A Bill of Divorcement" the
Barrymore family in "Rasputin," and
"Cavalcade," with half of the Brit
ish Isle in it. Butterfly" is particu-
>larly to be watched for on account
of the break that Sylvia Sidney al
most didn't get in it. We guarantee
she will be a knockout.
z. de S. MELCHER.
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rapidly, and greatly shocked the community.
 Born in September. 1863

rapidly, and greatly shocked the community.
 Born in September, 1863
 Mir. Britt was born September l2, 1863 at Fjoertoft, near Aalessund, Norway, where his progenitors- the ancentral name being Britain nicus-had settled as early as 1906. Of eminent family-one of his brothers was a. member of the Norwegian Parliament = MT. Britt had the best of educational ad vantages. He was graduated from the University of Oslo (Christiana, them. While at the institution, he gave special attention to languages and chemistry, and because of his application at that time and sub sequently he became proficient in German, French and Latin. Also while at the university, he did news paper work on the weekly Fedra- heimen.
 Opened Private School
 Immediately after his gradua- tion, he established a private school at Aalessund. He soon gave up the enterprise, however, to engage in the more lucrative undertaking of private tutor in the northern part of Norway. He followed this work three years. Then he returned to the University of Olso to pursue further the study of chemistry. Fol lowing completion of this study, he left Norway to visit brother, who was a pharmacist in Chicago, trav- cling leisurely through Germany, France and England. It was in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and MT. Britt's intention at the time was
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STRONG CREDIT AND CONFIDENCE:
 NEEDS OF HOUR
Secretary of Treasury Calls Present Most Severe De-
 pression in History

NEW YORK, April 25-A re- invigorated credit structure and the restoration of national confidence is called for by Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills as the twin weapons which must be forg- ed to turn back the forces of de- struction,." Secretary Mills was speaking at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press.
 The Secretary of the Treasury said it was a most extraordinary paradox that this country, richer than any ever dreamed for any nation, would sometimes undergo the most severe depression ever ex- perienced. He outlined the policy of controlled credit expansion safeguarded by the Federal Re- serve System.
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est was in schools. Alaska's public school laws are the result in great measure of legislation that he spon- sored and urged to be enacted when he was member of the Ter ritory's Legislature. He was Chair man of the Educational Commit tees of House and Senate during his legislative terms.
 MT. Britt's educational attain ments and his experience as phar- macist recommended him for ap- pointment to the Alaska Board of Pharmacy. For years he had been President of the Board and was its President at the time of his death.
 Knight of St. Olaf
 Tn 1914, Mir. Britt was appointed vice-Consul for Norway. In 1928, for efficient consular service, he was made by King Haakon VII of Norway Knight of the First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, an honor that at the time was held by not more than 12 others persons in the United States.
 Until 1927, when MT Britt suf- fered stroke that for a while caused partial paralysis, he was fond of fishing. After the illness, which kept him for several weeks confined to his home, he never felt sufficiently active to indulge in the pastime as he had done prev iously.
 MT. Britt was Mason of the 32nd Degree, a member of the Mystic Shrine, an Elk and belong ed to the Pioneers of Alaska.
 Tutor Weeds Pupil
 It was in 1904, while MT. Britt was in business in Skagway that he made a trip to Norway to wed Miss Sophia Lind of Tronjem, who had been one of his pupils when he was a private tutor in the northern part of the kingdom. They were married in May that year. Their honeymoon was spent in touring several European countries before coming to Alaska to make their home.
 MT. and Mrs. Britt's son was born in Skagway in 1905. He was appointed to the United States
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around a little to head it down the hill, so we could get it moving and thus start it's engine. was in front of the machine and Mir. Britt was at it's side. The automo- bile got under way quickly, I leap ed aside from the front of it. MT. Britt stepped upon the running board I yelled to him to jump from the running board and let me on it. I ran beside the car for a short distance and then followed it. MT. Britt either did not hear me or he thought he could get the car under control.
 Door Was Shut
 Standing on the running board, with the door shut, he reached a hand to the streering wheel and tried to guide the machine. It ca reened acrossed the street and then eown it at considerable speed, scrap ing the telephone pole. AS MT. Britt's head was struck by the pole he seemed to be tossed in the air and then fell limp to the ground. am sure he never realized what happened to him."
 Mrs. Britt was almost prostrated by the tragic event. Friends re- mained with her at her home last night. She left the city today to stay with friends in the country.
 The Britt Pharmacy has been closed temporarily.
 The Chevrolet, with its front axle, wheels, bumper and lenders badly damaged, was taken by 8 wrecking car to the garage of the Connors Motor Company.
 News of the fatal accident spread
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LONE CLUE IN
 DIEMER CASE.
Former Alaskan May Have Jumped Overheard
 from Ferry

SEATTLE, April 25.-An elderly man who leaped to death from a Seattle -Bremerton ferry is be- lieved to have been Frederick A. Diemer, former operator of the Nome Transportation Company who disappeared on March 12 leaving a suicide note.
 Last week Superior Judge Chester A. Batchelor made & ruling that unless Diefrer, aged 69 years, re- turns within the next 30 days, his estate will be admitted to probate.
 Diemer left a note in his hotel room saying: i've made mess of life and I am going to take a cold bath"
 Judge Batchelor said the evil dence that Diemer had shielded was so conclusive that a longer period was not necessary before the estate could be submitted to probate
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The son was notified by cable gram yesterday of his fathers de- mise and will arrive in Juneau, Tuesday, May 3, in time for the funeral, which will be held under auspices of the Masonic Order Wednesday, May 4.
 MT. Sather, resident os Nome, who has been visiting his sister, Miss Kristie Sather of this city since early this month, was an eye witness of the accident that re- suited in MT. Britt's death.
 Story of Eye Witness
 T was at the home of MT. and Mrs. Britt yesterday when MT. Britt left the house to go to his phar- macy" said MT. Sather today "1n a few minutes he returned to the dwelling to ask me to go to the garage with him to crank his car, which was a Chevrolet coach. It was equipped with a self-starter, but this would not work on account of a weak batetry. tried to crank the car, but without success. Then we pushed the car backwards out of the garage to Gold Street. Once on the street, we showed the car
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to make merely visit. The broth- er'se untimely death, however, ef- fected change in MT Britt,s plans. He inherited the pharmacy. To qualify himself to conduct it, he entered the Pharmacy School of Northwestern University at Evans ton, III. He could speak but little English then, and he also devoted himself to learning the language
 Bicycle Trip to West
 In 1897, MT. Britt disposed of the business in Chicago. With a companion he made bicycle trip to San Francisco, writing his ex- periences for the Chicago Norweg- ian language newspaper, Scandi- maven. In the winter of 1897-98, he heard a great deal of the strike of gold in the Klondike. In the spring of 1898, he went to Seattle, and within a few weeks after his arrival there, he took steamship for Skagway. He went into Dawson in 1898. He was not successful in min ing there, and in the following year, he went to Atlin. He remain ed in Atlin until 1900, when he settled in Skagway, opening drug store.
 Came Here in 1912
 In 1912 MT. Briss came to Ju- neau, establishing a drug store here. Although he lived in this city, he continued to conduct his drug store in Skagway until 1916. In that year he discontinued business in Skagway, and opened his second drug store here Tn 1925, he con- solidated his two stores in Juneau and devoted his entire attention to the business conducted as Britt's Pharmacy on Seward Street be- tween Front and Second Streets.
 MT. Britt was prominent in civic as well as in business affairs.
 When a resident of Skagway, he served for many years as a member of the School Board. In Juneau he was for several terms on the City Council. He was Democrat in politics. He was member of the Territorial House of Represent tatives two terms, 1915 and 1917 and of the Territorial Senate one term, 1919 and 1921.
 In civic matters his chief inter
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Naval Academy by Delegate Dan Sutherland and was graduated with the class of 1929. The young off cer and his wife visited MT. and Mrs. Britt here late in 1880.
 MT. Britt continued throughout his life the education that he started as youth in Norway. He was widely read, delighted in good literature; was student of econ omics and of science, and a patron of the arts. His home was a center for cultured persons.
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JUDGE HILL
 IS APPROVED

WASHINGTON, April 25. = The Senate Judiciary Committee has reported favorable on the nomina- tion of E. Coke Hill to be Federal Judge of the Fourth Division in Alaska. He is now Judge of the Third Division.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-25
CAPT. YANCEY
 MAKES RECORD

BURBBNAK, Cal. April B. Capt. Lewis Yancey, New York to Rome flier, reached an altitude Of 19,2O0 feet in an autogyro plane on Sunday, exceeding the former unofficial record by Amelia Ear hart Putnam.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-25
LEG BROKEN THREE TIMES

Peter Woch, miner, suffered three fractures above the ankle in one of his legs this morning. He is receiving tre tm ent at the St. Ann's Hospital.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-25
Valdez Residents Get Marriage License in
 State of Washington

WENAnCHEE. Wash, April B. Arthur J. Hill and Mrs. Joan M. Dillon, both of Valdez, Alaska, have obtained a marriage license here.
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LUMBER GOES TO cANNERY

With a load of box shocks and lumber, the Virginia ", Capt. Thomas Topness, of the Juneau Lumber Mills, departed last night for the Libby McNeill and Libby Cannery at Taku Harbor.
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WILLIAM E. BRITT
 | 0SES LIFE IN AUTO ACCIDENT

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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-30
Human Nature In Alaska

The social climber is usually sup
posed to be creation of the city
civilization, and that he could exist
among savage tribes living in the
stone age seems quite impossible. But
Kalervo Oberg, student of anthro-
pology who recently returned from a
visit to northwestern Alaska, reports
that a tribe OF Tlingit Indians there
plays the high society game with grim
and feverish determination.
According to Mr.. Oberg. these In
dams strive to get rich-in furs
blankets, copper shields and the like
hot for the things that wealth can
buy, but for the sake of social pres
tige. The tribe has its "old families"
which have been rich for generations
and which look down on the parvenu
families. 1t has it's climbers who give
elaborate parties in order to crash the
gates of high society. 1t has it's low
err classes, to whom the higher groups
will not speak.
II there is moral to all of this,
it would seem to be that snobbery and
conceit are traits very deeply engrain-
ed in human nature.
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energies with q valuation that has
leaped from the original $4,000, 900 to
something like $4,000 900.
Where, now, does the public utilities
commission get off in its effort to
protect the public from unfair prices?
It can do nothing but permit re-
turn Of per cent on the higher fig
ure. John Public pays the bill when
the holding company business is head
ed upward.
He also pays it when it is coming
down, as witness the tremendous loss
es to investors which seem certain to
result from the collapse of the insult
utility empire. The losses there seem
most likely to fall heaviest on those
who invested in the numerous hold
ing companies which the erstw!aile
power king organized according to the
best practices of high finance.
From the standpoint of the invest
or as we'll as the consumer it seems
a good idea to make certain that pub
lie utilities are worth the amounts
on which rates are based and stock
issued.
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nigh frequency current which is not
heat, but in its passage through the
body tissues raises the temperature of
the tissues, in way impossible to
achieve by means of external applica-
ton of heat in any form.
Prior to the development of med
ical diathermy-and here I wish to
warn readers that it is not safe to
entrust the application of such
remedy to any other than trained
medical hands-the bursitis sufferer
had to choose one or the other alter
native-to endure the pain till the in
Illumination spontaneously subsidies,
which may happen in six weeks or six
months-or to submit to operation for
the removal or drainage of the affect
ed bursa.
Diathermy changes all that. With
rare exceptions daily medical dia-
thermy for the first two weeks, and
treatments once or twice a week
afterward, will give bursitis sufferers
grateful relief and cure the bursitis.
The applications usually take half an
hour. The relief from a single treat.
ment lasts for many hours following,
so that the victim can enjoy a good
nights rest, whereas without dia-
thermy he just losses about or sits up
and plans heinous crimes.
Again warn readers to be sure the
physician who applies diathermy,
medical or surgical, is a man of good
professional standing and hence of
responsibility.
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The First Loan
Minneapolis Tribune)

1t seems quite natural that Illinois,
where graft and waste in the expendi-
ture of public funds has become al
most proverbial, should be the first to
receive help from the federal loan
fund. Unable to collect enough in
taxes to pay the normal operating ex-
penses of its largest city there can be
little question that Illinois has little if
any money left for relief purposes.
Hence Illinois was considered an
emergency case and its request for a
loan was acted on even before the last
vacancy on the Reconstruction Fin
ance corporations board of directors
had been filled.
Illinois and Pennsylvania We'd with
one another in being the first to reach
the federal loan fund and Illinois won.
Governor Pinchot, quite in the habit
of asking for federal aid, was the first
to make request for loan when he
put Pennsylvania's name down for the
maximum, $45, 100000. Illinois orig
inal request had been for $40 900 900,
but was allotted only $3,000,O00.
The nleagerness of this first hand
out, and there is nothing to indicate
that Illinois has made its last request,
leads one to believe that even though
some states may forget the day of
reckoning and ask for the limit i'm
mediately, the administrators of the
loan fund are going to put damper
on their enthusiasm. That some
damper will be needed, the sudden
rush Of mendicants to the federal
treasury, which found more than half
the states in the union asking for a
loan almost before the ink was dry
on President Hoovers signature max
ing the relief bill law, rather strong
ly indicates.
In defining the loan policy that Is
to obtain for these grants to the
states the board has emphatically de-
clared that every state will be ex-
pected to meet their needs, to the
greatest extent possible, out Of their
own public and private sources first.
Such a policy is not only wise, In view
Of the small amount that is available,
but also because 1t will force states
to give careful consideration to the
need for loans before making them.
It is altogether too easy to forget now
that these loans are financial res
possibility that will sooner or later
have to be met.
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lone child in any household is a sad
affair. Such child doesn't get a
square deal.
Science, Eli?
On the strength of your teachings
and my own experienced haven't
possessed any headgear for the past
three years. claim going without a
hat the year round is healthful. My
science instructor claims that sinus
trouble will develop, If not now, then
later in life .. CM. j. M
Answer-The science teacher prob
ably cleaned that from-oh, well, I
suppose we columnists must preserve
the esprit de corps. There is no more
scientific ground for this notion than
there is for the old fogy notion that
one contracts some vague undefinable
respiratory infection from getting the
feet wet. 1t is always good hygiene
to 60 without any clothing whenever
it is comfortable to do so.
Girl With Mole.
I am 10 and what good looks
might have are spoiled by a mole on
my chin with hairs growing in it.
CB. g.
Answer-Physician skilled in dia-
thermy or electrolysis can remove it.
Beware of submitting to such treat
ment by any other than a reputable,
responsible physician.