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BUILDING
! IN CITY INCREASES
Permits Issued for $3.50, 500
Construction Projects Here
in Last Week.
Continued From First Page.)

frame dwelling, 1884 Kalmia street, to
cost $1,000.
Lloyd Nell, owner and builder; Abel
& Dillon, designers: to erect one 2
story brick dwelling, 4919 Brandyw1ne
street. TO cost $4,000.
RN,ert H. Worrall, owner and de-
signer; George T. Gilleland, builder;
to erect one 2-story brick dwelling, 26l7
Thirty second street southeast. to cost
$500
Joseph A. Shafer, owner, designer and
builder; to erect one 212-story brick
dwelling, GALL Thirty-f1rst street, to
cost $500.
Mrs. Katherine M Crown, owner !;
William Harris, designer; Norman C.
Rogers, builder; to erect one 2l2 STORY
brick dwelling, 37l5 Veazey street, to
cost $500.
Joseph NJ Stanley, owner and build
er; w. B. Honey, architect; to erect one
2-story brick dwelling, 3340 Runny-
meade place; to cost $1,000.
Tolson, Kemp & Nix, owners and
builders; Abel g. Dillon, designers; to
erect one 2-story trick tile and frame
dwelling, 3609 Twenty-sixth street
northeast; to cost $1,000.
S. E. Snyder, owner and builder; E.
K. Parks, designer; to erect two 2-story
brick and concrete dwellidngS, 1907
and 1909 Twenty-second street south
east; to cost $1,000. (
A. s. Beck Shoe Corporation. owners:
Sol Kaplan, designer; William Linger
Co, builders; to make repairs and al
terations, 1915 F street; to cost $1,000.
W. F. Warner, owner and builder; E.
J. Connor, designer; to erect one 2
story frame dwelling, 5315 Macomb
street; to cost SIS 500.
Mildred Saunders, owner and de-
signer; o. T. g. w. A. Carr, builders: to
erect one 2-story brick and tile dwelling,
1924 Carolina place; to cost $500.
Will Build Home.
Elizabeth 0'Hare: owner; STANDARD
builder; to erect one 2-story brick
dwelling, 54O7 Thirty-second street; to
cost $5,500
J.. Webbert Coover, owner; r. B.
Carr, designer; o. T. and w. A. Carr,
builders; to erect one 2-story brick and
tile dwelling, 1881 Van Ness street; to
cost $4,500.
House of Good Shepherd of the Dis
trict of Columbia, owners, j. H. Nc
Intyre, builders; to erect one brick ad-
dition, 1900 block of Thirty-sixth street.
to cost S2,500.
Arthur Carr, owner; Fred Drew Co.,
builders; to make repairs and alter
ations. 43os and 431o Georgia avenue;
to cost 81 400.
D. v. Conn, owner; A. P. Starr,
architect; S. J. Jones, builder; to
erect one 1-story brick and concrete
addition, 1910 Twenty-first street; to
cost $1,000.
Washington Sanitary Improvement
Co., owners; Mutual Construction Co..
builders; to make repairs, M street
southwest; to cost $1,000.
Miss Antoirette Garry, owner; j. B.
Latimer Co.. Inc, builders; to excavate
for building, 400 to Alb New Jersey
avenue: to cost $1,000.
H. L. Thornton, owner; Doran S.
Plat, designer; Davis & Platt. Inc,
builders; to make repairs, AIS Butter
nut street; to cost $3.50.
A. P. Mavars, owner, T. J. Gallagher,
builders; to make repairs, 655 South
Carolina avenue southeast to cost $3.50.
j. E. McKenney. owner; Doran S.
Platt. designer; Davis & Platt, Inc,
builders to erect one 1-story concrete
block gasoline station Office, 5000 Blair
road; to cost $500.
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this dropped to 56.7 per cent in 1920
and to 52.5 In 1880.
In the non-farm homes classification
We find that while 37.1 per cent of the
families owned their homes In 1910 the
figure increased to 40 per cent in 1920
and to 452 per cent in 1880.
Twelve States in the 1880 census
showed total home ownership percent
age in excess of SIS per cent of their
total family population, the current re-
port shows.
The list was headed by Wisconsin,
which boasted percentage OF 61.8.
Maine ran a close second with a per-
centage Of 60.6 and Utah was a close
third with a percentage Of go.
Others in the group Of the leading IL
States were: Vermont, 59.2 per cent;
Michigan 58.1 per cent; Oregon, 579;
Washington, 57.8; Minnesota, SIT; In
diana, 562; North Dakota, 56.1; New
Mexico. $50, and Idaho, 55.1.
The lowest 1880 level of home owner
ship was found in Georgia, where the
percentage was 29.8 per cent. South
Carolina was next with 30.4 and Mis-
sissippi third from the bottom Of the list
with a percentage Of 318.
More than $4,000, 900 worth of en-
broidery was sent from the Philippines
to the United States last year.
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Old Camp Site Sold.
,pecial pispatch to The Star.

MERRIFIELD, Va, September IL
Strathmeade, the 1,300-acre subdivision
fronting on the Lee Highway in Fair
fax County, was sold at public auction
Tuesday to E. N. Childs of Natural
Bridge, Va, owner of the deed of trust
under which the foreclosure sale was
held. The property was advertised for
sale by F. S. MCCandliSh, trustee. The
property was the site of Camp Alger
during the Spanish American War.
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So, 900 Addition Planned.

The Potomac Electric Power Co. has
filed plans with the District building in
spector calling for the erection of an
addition to its property at $500 Sher-
man avenue. The construction has an
estimated cost of $4,000. The addi-
ton, to be erected by Skinker g. Gar
rett, is to be Of brick and concrete.
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power in the hands of farmers is Of

power in the hands of farmers is Of
great Importance"
Home modernizing campaigns are
being aggressively conducted in some
200 cities and towns, organized by the
men of the building industry and back
ed by civic organizations interested in
unemployment relief Reports to the
Department of Commerce show that
since January l, 1882, these campaigns
have produced results involving an ex-
penditure for labor and building mate
rails Of not far from $50. 100000 1t Is
further estimated that the present
potential for such home repair and i'm
provement work Is close to $3000.-
O00, 900.
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TURKEY POINT SOLD

Is Transferred.
Turkey Point, large tract projecting
into the Chesapeake Bay, near the
mouth of South River, Anne Arundel
County, Md, has been purchased by
Harrison g. Broussard Co., Inc, Of this
city and Baltimore, according to an an
nouncement made by the Office of
Charles F. Lee of Annapolis.
The property, formerly owned by the
Harry Busick estate. contains approx
mately 40 acres. with 5000 feet of
shore frontage. The improvements in
clude 12-room house and q care
takers house.
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Buy Spring Road Home.

Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Kapneck have
purchased the dwelling at 3l5l Spring
road, it is reported by the office of j.
Leo Kolb. which handled the trans
action. The house, of brick construc-
ton, contains six main rooms.
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Electra" Analysed

"MoURNING BECOMES ELEC-
4'A IRA" means exactly what the
title says. In other words that mourn
ing looks well on Electra.
This triloy Of Eugene ONeill'S, gen.
orally considered to be his masterpiece,
comes to the National Theater tomor-
row. John Mason Brown, in his review
of it in the New York Evening Post,
presented the following very clear pic
ture Of its subject matter. He says in
part
"As the title makes very clear, Mr..
ONeills concern is with one Of the
grandest most spine-twisting tales of
murder that the theater's history knows
1t is, in short, the Electra story that
he is retelling IN more or less modern
terms, substituting the white pillars of
a country house in Civil War New Eng
land for the Doric Columns OF ancient
Argos.
"Mr. O'Neill's play, in other words
Is a testing Of his strength with that
fable Of the luckleSs house of AtreuS
which AeSchylus first treated in the
'OreSteia,' which Sophocles and Eurip-
ideS both dealt with in their respective
'Electras,' and which such modern as
the late Hugo Won Hofmannsthal vul-
CARRIED into Reinhardtian guignol OF
44SlJS anu l6tIS anu SIlhkel4hC ebSbuICo
1T is, as every one knows, story
of avenge, a saga of the way in which
fate calls upon Electra and her brother
OreStes to ayenge the murder Of their
father, Agamemnon, by Staying their
wicked mother Clytemnestra, and her
no less wicked lover Aegisthus 1t is
a myth which all three of the great
tragic dramatistS Of Greece have told
in their own way, taking their own
liberties with its details distributing the
emphasis according to their own sensing
of its moral and dramatic values, and
managing TO make it decidedly their
own in each Of their independent re-
tellings.
Mr.. O'NeiIl, needless to say, has
taken even greater liberties with this
classic myth than any of his ancient
predecessors dared TO do. But by taking
them he has made the story very much
his own, without robbing its terrible
sequence of castrophes Of either their
force or their essential outlines.
Unlike Sophocles and Euripides, who
contented themselves with the writing
of a single play about recognition Of
the long-Separated Electra and Orestes,
and the murder Of ClytemneStra and
AegiSthus, Mr.. O'Neill has turned to
AeSchylus for the model of Mourning
Becomes Electra Like that earliest Of
the Greek tragic writer's, Mr. ONeill has
chosen TO give the story in full, to pre-
pare for its coming and TO follow his
avengers Che follows both Electra and
Orestes) past the awful deed fate has
demanded Of them 10 the time when
the Erinyes (or FurieS) are pursuing
them.
Accordingly, Just as Aeschylus d.
v1ded bis 'Oresteia' into the 'Agamem-
non,' ~Ths Choephoroe,' or Libation
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Fanchon and Marco.

A UD1ENCEs in SO of the most
luxurious theaters in the country
sit back daily in contented amusement
as curtains part on miniature musical
comedies known as Fanchon and
Marco ideas" Singers vocalize songs
to suit the theme Of the show; tumblers
in symbolic costumes do hair raising
featS; comedians, cavort about in front
of sets typical of each specific idea, and
the highlight Of every show, a group
of sunkist beauties, trip in rhythmic
perfection to scintillating dance music
Every bit of this entertainment is
synchronized to the whole idea. Fan
chon and Marco fans often wonder how
the weekly pace is kept up.
Just across the street, in Hollywood
from the Fox Movietone studio is the
Fanchon and Marco plant. Stretch
ing for half a block on Sunset boule-
ward, the front gives little evidence OF
the beehive behind the facade. On five
rehearsal stages new ideas are con-
stantly in rehearsal.
All In all, three to five weeks are
spent in rehearsal. All aids are given
the director and cast during rehearsal
Equipment and stages are complete as
they would be in theater.
Finally a dress rehearsal Is held In
the studio. Miss Fanchon attends
these rehearSalS and makes her criti-
cisms of the idea, speeding up dance,
suggesting that gag be cut or en-
larged upon, re-routining the entire
idea If necessary for speed and sus-
tanned interest.
The next day the entire company
journeys to suburban house, where
the idea goes through a three-day try
out period. Wednesday of each week
an idea opens at Loews State Theater
in Los Angeles and from there goes on
a 5O-week international tour. These
ideas play Toronto and Vancouver as
we'll as United States key cities. A
company manager, an experienced road
show advance man, accompanies each
show to see that the idea is kept up
to par in all localities. Nothing Is left
to haphazard methods.
Starting on Friday Of this week Fan
chon and Marco will celebrate their
tenth anniversary Of idea production at
the Fox Theater with the "On Parade
Idea"
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Screen-Satished

r UCKY the author nowadays who
IL sees his play on the screen winning
as much success as it won on Broad
way as big hit.
Lucky, too, perhaps is the author who
can honestly find complete satisfaction
with the treatment accorded his BRAIN
child on the screen.
Preston Sturges, who wrote Strictly
Dishonorable," now in its third week at
the Rialto, as a matter Of fact, says he
believes the film version OF the play Is
better than the stage treatment.
ut pleases me more" says Mr..
SturgeS, "and it is easy to tell you why.
"On the stage there was no oppor-
tunity to vary the setting. An act Is
an act, and without going to great
deal Of expense the setting must stand.
Not so in pictures. The setting could
be changed, or a new angle presented,
or a closeup injected at will. These
changes unquestionably offer variety
and relief. The comedy was sharpened
and the expressions on the faces Of the
players and their gestures were all in
the film brought directly before the
audience.
I'm one author who hasn't the usual
complaint to make against the film
people I haven't any Justification.
They did exceedingly well by my baby
my first--and I'm proud of the accom-
plishment."
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Midwest Knows Him.

SUCH illustrious names as Alfred
~ Lunt and katherine Cornell, along
with other Broadway stars, may not be
so familiar to audiences in the Middle
West, but If Ralph Bellamy's name is
mentioned it gets instant and enthusi-
aStic response.
Bellamy was until recently one Of the
most popular stock company stars In
the country. His name was featured in
repertory companies for several years,
and he has played one might stands as
well as longer engagements in small
towns and cities in many States.
Since entering the screen world Bel
lamy has been seen in THE Secret Six, -
The Magnificent Lie" and Surrender" ."
Forbidden" the Columbia picture now
at the Earle Theater, shows him as the
neWspaperman lover of Barbara Stan
wyck.
Cities such as Kansas City, Mo-; Des
Moines, Iowa; Fort Wayne, Ind; Terre
Haute. Ind; Denver, Col; Joplin, Mo-
Madison, Wis, and Rochester, N. Y,
recognized his talents as an actor long
before he became talkie player.
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Screen Fare Ahead

IN the big downtown picture palaces,
where vaudeville is vying with the
singing shadows, the picture fan,
A as a rule, phones in for advance
information. The following will
serve to indicate what Is to be expected
after what now is isn't.
GsT TNDER EIGHTEEN" a Warner
~ aphone production, with
Marian Marsh as its star, in the human
story Of a poor girl who starts out to
win place among the idle rich, will
embelliSh the screen at the Warner
Earle Theater. The famous Duke
Ellington and his band will head the
flesh and blood entertainment of the
stage program, starting Saturday.
THE Fox Theater, starting Friday,
will present James Dunn and Sally
Eilers in Dance Team" on the screen
and the "On Parade" idea, celebrating
the Fanchon-Marco tenth anniversary
on the stage program.
P-K-O KEITHS, starting Saturday
IN instead OF Friday as heretofore, will
have Edna Mae Oliver in Ladies OF
the Jury" on the screen to challenge
its vaudeville program exploiting Koran,
the mystic; Charles King, star of the
musical comedy stage remembered from
The Broadway Melody" and the Dia-
mond Boys, a new Palace Theater hit
H'T'HE MAD PARADE" a love feud
Il of emotional intensity and punch,
featuring Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich,
Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Mar
celine Day and June Clyde, will furnish
the screen entertainment at the Warner
Metropolitan, starting Saturday.
&C TRICTLY DISHONORABLE, T"
~ which has been packing them in
at the Rialto for the past two weeks
will start its third week on Friday, with
the crowds still coming, according to
the management.
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HAMPDEN AS "CYRANO."

WALTER HAMPDEN will come to
w the National Theater in "Cyrano
de Bergerac" for four performances
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday matinee
and Wednesday night, February 8, Q
and 10.
1t has been seven years since this
superb play has been presented here,
and "Cyrano" without question is Mr.
Hampdens most popular role. Many
consider it his greatest, not forgetting
even his many mastery Shakespearean
portrayals.
There is no more picturesque or fas-
cinating figure in drama than Edmond
RoStand's great-nosed Gascon adven-
turer, poet, duelist, philosopher, SOL
dier, lover, madman, with the pride of
Lucifer, the courage of crusader and
the tenderness of woman. A gallant
figure he, with his hands without
gloves, shoes without buckles, pockets
without money, but with a sword ever
ready to leap from its scabbard in de-
fense Of that honor which he kept as
unsullied as the white plumes floating
gayly and defiantly over his head.
Evening star., 1932-01-10
Ethel Barrymore on the WAY

FTHEL BARRYMORE. princess OF
the theater's royal family" has re-
sumed her countrywide tour, starting
In Philadelphia.
After Philadelphia Miss Barrymore
Will play series of New York suburban
theaters and then start West again, the
announcement states, stopping briefly in
Washington on her way to Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Cincinnati and points West
and Southwest.
She is playing Sheridan's great satir-
ical comedy, "The School for Scandal -
and Is deSirous of exhibiting this thea
trical masterpiece to as many different
cities as the time allotted for her tour
Will permit, hence her engagements
everywhere are limited to minimum
period
Evening star., 1932-01-10
Much Talked About.

EET AIDES OF THE BIG HOUSE." !"
L. which the advance notices say is
"the most stirring drama Of prison life
ever produced"-now at Loew's Palace
has Sylvia Sidney in the leading role
as one of Americas young women to
be found in penal institutions through
out the country. The story Is attract
ing wide notice throughout the land
and Miss Sidney has achieved fame for
her excellent work in difficult role.
Evening star., 1932-01-10
Shubert Receivership.

NEW YORK news brings the infor-
l ' nation that the Federal Court has
ordered the Shubert Theater Corpora
ton receivers to continue their conduct
Of the affairs Of the organization until
June 2, but to make full report to the
court on March 5, or sooner, If develop
mentS warrant 1t. The court vouched
for Lee Shubert as an asset of the
nOrpOratiOn
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Az Nv "NNAAf
ming Monday eve
ming. This Is a
musical version of
the play in which,
for three years,
Jane Cowl register
ed a noteworthy
s uc C esS. Brian
Hooker has adapt
ed it to m u S i C,
while Vincent YOU
mans appears in
the dual capacity
of producer and
composer. Its lyrics
are by e d W a T d
Heyman, dances by
Jack Haskell and
the book is staged
h,, 4 n o. ar Mac
Evening star., 1932-01-10

Pourers,' and The Eumenides,' so Mr..
O'NeiIl has divided Mourning Becomes
Electra into three parts that bear such
Bulwer-Lytton titles as Homecoming,
The Hunted and The Haunted Con-
trary to the example of Aeschylus, and
much more according to the practice OF
Sophocles and Euripides, Mr.. ONeill
gives his trilogy to Electra. 1t is she
even as Orestes fused the Aeshylean
original into one long play-with pauSes
rather than three separate dramas" /"
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BLESSED EvENT"-FRED STONE.
MAURICE CHEyALTER.

MAURICE CHEvAL1ER will pay this
4Vi city an informal visit Sunday, Feb
ruary 7, for an intimate concert, in
which he will sing his songs in French
and in English, at the National Theater.
The mail orders received for Cheva-
liers brief engagement are the biggest
in the history of the National. Charles
Dillingham; Is sponsoring the brief tour
for Chevalier, who afterward will re-
turn to HOLLYWOOD for work on his new
picture by Rodgers & Hart, to be di-
rected by Mamoullian.
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other, Minna Com
bell, still true TO
the tig hts a n d
spear. They meet
at Louise Dresser's
home on Long Is
land, W h er e the
past comes out to
s m ite her. T h G
unmasklng to her
high = hat friends
proves hilariously
funny.
The supporting
cast inclpdes Will
liam Collier, sr.;;
How ard Phillips,
S tanley Smith,
Ferdinand Munier,
- i
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MISUNDERSTANDING Becomes
Electra"

TINE chief event Of Washington's
fitful theatrical season occurs
Monday afternoon, starting at
4 $50 pm, when the curtain
rises on the first washington
performance OF Eugene O'Neill's mas
terpiece, Mourning Becomes Electra" +"
a trilogy consisting of three separate
plays made up of IA acts and six scenes.
Evening star., 1932-01-10

i llC L iiCdICI SulIQ
nresents this mag
nificent production
OF It's third sue
cessful Washington
subscription sc a.
son. Judith An
derson, Florence
Reed, Walter Abel,
Crane ilbur.
Thurston Hall and
some 20 other ac-
tors make up a
noteworthy cast.
The first play,
I'll o m e C 0 M
ing" begins at $50
pm. sharp. At 7
there is an hours
dinner intermis-
sion. At 8 o'clock
the next two plays
R-.t
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JANET RICHARDS TOMORROW.


JANET RICHARDS TOMORROW.
MISS JANET RICHARDS at her
1VA weekly review tomorrow morning
Of affairs Political and International
will briefly compare the conflicting
relief programs" of the President and
Congress, with mention of the special
relief measures urged by the President
in his recent extra message to Con-
gress. The pathetic futility of hunger
marches" and the right OF petition"
will also be mentioned.
Other subjects considered win be the
gathering Of the Democratic clans in
Washington, and why; the grave Incl
dent OF the attack upon United States
consul at Mukden, and the impending
tripartite protest concerning military
activity in Manchuria. The high lights
of affairs European will also be re-
viewed.
These talks are given every Monday
morning at IL O'Clock in the Willard
room of the willard Hotel and are aided
by the use of large maps.
THOMAS CRAVEN, WEDNESDAY.
BECAUSE of the widespread interest
D in the writings OF Thomas Craven,
| the Washington Society of Fine Arts
| is sponsoring the leCIuIe WHICH NH.
| Craven Is to give Wednesday evening
| to the public at nominal charge.
His subject will be that Of his much
discussed book, Men Of Art" The
place will be Barker Hall, in the Y. w.
c. A. Building, Seventeenth and <
streets.
Mr.. Craven has had most inter-
eSting career. He has done newspaper
work in Denver, taught school in Cali
fornia, worked for the Santa Fe Rail-
| road at Los Vegas, sailed before the
mast in the West Indies, taught Eng
| lish in Porto Rico, but art and its bet
ter understanding has now become his
absorbing interest, and his critical arti-
cles on art, published in the American
Mercury, the Forum, Dial and New
Republic, have proved exceptionally
controversial, arousing wide and heated
discussion.
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Gregor. The play comes to Washington
after q two weeks engagement in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, en- route
to Broadway.
The cast, far above the average, in
cludes Norma Terris, who combines
charm, pathos and sprightly allure In
the former Jane CoWl role OF girl OF
today and long ago; Charles Winninger,
whimsically amusing; Ada May, pert
and impish; Tom Powers, former Thea
ter Guild star Michael Bartlett, a
pleasing tenor; Nick Long, jr., agile in
dancing and capable in acting, and
Marion Ballou, Dallas Wexford, Marion
Evenson, Caryl Bergman and Lelane
Rivera
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Fox--"stepping Sisters"

FOX-"stepping Sisters"
T<HE Fox Theater is presenting a
double bill this week, the COM
edy Stepping Sisters" being
featured on the screen, and the
famous Ruth Etting, in person,
on the stage.
stepping Sisters" concerns three ex-
burlesque queens-one, Louise Dresser,
prominent in society; one, Jobyna HOW
land a Shakespearean reader, and the
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SMILING THROUGH.

EAsILY one Of the most important
II dramatic and musical events of the
season will be the engagement of Vim
cent Youman's Smiling Through"
which starts at the National Theater