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Evening star., 1932-10-18


ably be of the mind, that this is no
cinema yarn. AS matter of fact,
it is quite the opposite. While its
pages are full of some of the most
glowing English this decade has
produced, while its characters move
and act and talk like real puppets
of this present-day world, its thesis
does not jump from crag to crag
and move along in the manner dear
to the screen.
In other words it lacks action.
Further than that it lacks the neces-
sary "hokum," and the Speakeasy
atmosphere prevalent SO potently
today in this medium.
The Fountain" comes dangerous
ly near to being great book. 1t, un-
fortunately, seems destined to make
not even a $3.50 film. The beauty
of thought and character, that leiS-
urely philosophic mood which it car
ries with it from beginning to end,
is not the sort of stuff" the cine
ma can reproduce with any degree
of perfection. Give the screen
play of tears and lace and old laven-
der (Such as the more than satisfac-
tory 'Smilin' Through'D or touch
it up with mOther-love back
ground (such as Miss Dietrich'S
handsome Blonde Venus') or make
it shout "Oh Kay, America" in ra-
dio stations and tougher its script
with gangster faces and fire-and-
thunder scenes and it will come out
bright and smiling and give the
public the kind of entertainment
which it apparently wants
Dip it, however, into the realm of
fantasy (witness the funereal Lii
iom" few seasons back or into
something perhaps a little more
difficult than that, and it often
seems blurred and unconvincing
and lacking in the very essentials
which 1t was striving for.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
SEABURY AND CURTIN
NOW ON SAME SIDE
Opposing Lawyers in Walker Case
Seek to Prevent Straus
Receivership.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 18.- Samuel
Seabury and John j. Curtin, opposing
attorneys in the removal proceedings
against former Mayor James j. Walker
at Albany, found themselves on the
same side of the counsel table yester-
day in opposing recelvershlp oroer
against S. W. Straus & Co.. Inc.
The appellate division reserved de-
cision on the petition to set aside the
receivership ordered by Supreme Court
Justice Alfred V. Norton.
Seabury appRred in behalf OF a
Bondholders' Protective Committee to
seek assurance that the receivershlp
would not infringe on its powers The
assistant attorney general told him
there was no intention to interfere
with the committee.
Curtin, representing S. w. Straus d
Co, Inc. attacked the receivershlp
order and defended the company's s
business methods.
Lazarus Joseph, deputy attorney gen.
eral, arguing in support of the receiv-
ership order. declared S. w. Straus &
Co.. Inc, had bank balance of only
$25.000.
There are now S400,000,000 of
Straus bonds-bonds bought by and for
widows and orphans in many cases
in default" he said, 'and all that S. w.
Straus & Co.. Inc, has in its bank
balance is $25,000"
Evening star., 1932-10-18

ported pianissimo she so often en-
ployed. sometimes to such an extent
that the words we're inaudible. In
Stride la vampa"-taken too slowly
and Der Tod und das Maedchen" the
necessary chest tone quality was lacking
to carry out the artistic effect intended
by Miss Toomey.
The charming "King of China's
Daughter" ans the French aria were by
far the best numbers on the program,
the latter arousing the enthusiasm of
the friendly audience to demand two
encores.
starr Preston was a most considerate
and sympathetic accompanist. A. E.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
INTERLOCKING INSURANCE
DlRECTORATEs OPPOSED
Alliances With Banks Also Are Hit
by State Officials at Dallas
Convention.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS. Tex, October 18.-The Ma
tional Convention of Insurance Com
missioners yesterday adopted resolu-
ton expressing opposition to interlock-
ing directorates or holding companies
for life insurance companies and aui-
ances of these companies with banks or
investment companies through stock
ownership.
The associations sixty-third annual
meeting will close today Afterward
the delegates will go to Houston and
Galveston. Thirty-one States were rep
resented.
Two speakers yesterday attributed the
failure recently of two large insurance
companies to interlocking directorates.
s. A. Olsness insurance commissioner
of North Dakota, and Joseph B. Thomp-
son, Missouri, were the speakers.
Evening star., 1932-10-18

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Noxzemas penetrating medication
Evening star., 1932-10-18
End These Ugly Faults
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fines the rough, irritated
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Evening star., 1932-10-18

Larks entered the restaurant In which
Miss Brown was waitress, asked her
to marry him, and cut her with
POCKET knife when she refused him.
He ran from the restaurant. stopping
to cut his own throat, and, arriving al
his room, he shot himself to death.
Evening star., 1932-10-18

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Evening star., 1932-10-18

lar IT Cover
t he w a t e r
Front" has been
bought for pro-
duction, ug-
gests that Hol-
lywood is run
II ng around
again in the L.
brarieS, def
nitely out of
material, a n d
picking up the
best literature,
that can be
had.
Those W h o
have read Mr..
Morgan'S idvl-
lie book will,
Evening star., 1932-10-18

Exploring at Magallanes to find proof
that Magellan made his first landing in
the Philippines there instead of at Lin.
asawa. as popularity believed Agusan
students have unearthed a stone bearing
the date Of the explorers landing:
April Z, 1921"
Evening star., 1932-10-18
CAR OCCUPANTS BELIEVED
DROWNED IN MISHAP LIVE
Passengers of Michigan State Auto
mobile Ditched Seek Assist
ance at Garage.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MONTREAL Quebec, October 18-
Fears that occupants of State of
Michigan automobile had been drowned
when the car went into ditch near
st. Lambert during the night were dis
pelled when the occupants later came to
q garage for assistance. Charles K.
Moore Ferndale. Mich, the driver Of
the car, received minor injuries.
The car and a trailer. which was used
for transporting a motor boat. were
damaged. The ditch was full of water
and finding OF the unoccupied car led
to fear that some one had been
drowned,
Evening star., 1932-10-18
Ann Harding
To Star in "The Fountain"

~HARLES MORGAN'S best
seller, THE Fountain" has
been bought by the Radio
~ Keith organization and will
be used as starring We
hicle for Ann Harding.
This news, with the further an
nouncement that Max Miller's popu-
Evening star., 1932-10-18


ment and prepare to take Vienna's
Hollywood by storm.
Local News
OF Cinema and Theater.
THAT youngish gentleman with
i the glasses and the winning
smile, who was standing in the box
office and dispensing pasteboard
cheer to anxious customers at the
National last Sunday night, was Mr..
Ed Wynn himself Mr.. wynn
is in New York today, entertaining
several hundred patrons in his week
ly radio broadcast-hence no Laugh
Parade" performance tonight
A Halloween midnight show will be
given at Loew's Fox october 81,
which will feature Duke Ellington
and his Harlem brethren and the
new Tallulah Bankhead film, Faith
less" with Robert Montgomery
We believe that the Universal forces
did wrong in changing the name OF
the current film at the Rialto from
"Oh Kay, America" to THE Kid
naping of Ruth Drake" :. Out OF
the current Ted Healy roughhouse
at the Fox some IL gags" have
been deleted we are under the i'm
preston that II more should. be
weeded out Ann Pennington
will be seen at this house shortly on
the same bill as Dorothy Jordan
Steve Cochran says they may have
another show at the National to re-
place THE Pure III Heart" (Which 1t
Is said was not so Dure) ."Once
in a Lifetime" wis, mas a mid
night showing at the Rialto Thurs
day, is said by Baltimore picture
puzzler to be "one of the 10 best
pictures of the year" Loretta
Young, who will be seen tomorrow in
Life Begins" at the Metropolitan.
played before the camera at the age
of S in a film with Fannie Ward :.
The Drama Guild says it is little
theater" apologies are hereby
rendered We had thought (and in
the words of one of its own men,
bers) that It is community the
ater." Whatever and however, it is
a grand group. worthy of support. 1t
is not the kind of an experimental
group" we were talking about.
E. de S. M.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
|SOSTASY THEORY
IS HELD VERIFIED
Geodesy Division Chief De-
cIares Continents Float
on Sea of Lava.

Editors note-This continent on which
you live is only a huge floating island.
under the theory Of isostasy. How this
and others were formed and how the
whole face OF the earth took its pres
ent shape can be traced by applying
tsostasy. This story of earth is told
here for The Star and the Associated
Press by the official head of American
geology
Evening star., 1932-10-18
From the Front Row.
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters
It will be interestine to see what

It will be interesting to see what
comes of THE Fountain" Miss
Harding has not Jared well of late
on the screen. The Keith group has
bought novel after novel for her and
dramatized 1t, always with a kind
Of half-baked result. Leslie Howard,
of course, would be the ideal person
to play opposite her in the film ver-
sion OF this book. But Mr.. Howard
Is said to be contemplating tempo
rary retreat in England-as also
being engaged in writing a play
which he will act in himself. So Miss
Harding will probably have to be
contented with some one who is per-
haps trifle more Hollywood than
the admirable Mr.. Howard.
What can come Of this picture?
As what can be done with II Cover
the Water Front? Mr.. Miller's bril-
liant narrations of experiences along
San Diegoan seacoasts are a series
of tense and intense essays founded
on fact and executed with the art of
a past master who Is not too fond
Of ultra Literary English. His expert
ences are varied and many, and it
makes reading q fast and enjoyable
tdSh. I1OWcNci, SIOIy, dS StOTy, tIlcTe
is none No heroine ekes out her
heart through its pages-no hero is
born or dies or even so much as fails
in love. What will the cinema do
with it?
The results of these two imminent
films are being awaited eagerly.
Nevertheless, we cannot but help
think that the title and the in
nards" of these originals will be bet
ter than the West Coast products.
England. too. Is said to be speculat-
ing as to what will happen to the
story of its London Times dramatic
critic and the president of its
Critics Circle-Charles Morgan.
E. DE S. MELCHER.
Evening star., 1932-10-18

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Evening star., 1932-10-18

Nearly 100 British warships of all
classes took part in exercises in the
Firth of Forth, Scotland, recently.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
CUTS GIRL; KILLS SELF
Itinerant Pastor Makes Attack
After Refusal of Proposal to Wed.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 18 H).
Rev Aholean Larks, 80, identified by
police as an itinerant Baptist preacher,
yesterday slashed the throat of Miss
Jennie Brown, l8. when she refused his
proposal of marriage, and later COM
mitted suicide.
Miss Brown Is in serious condition.
Police Sergt. Harvey WeitZel said
Evening star., 1932-10-18
Maria Ieritza

Maria Jeritza
To Have Film Career.
MARIA JERITzA, until recently
A'A one Of the Metropolitan's most
fiamboyant and spectacular stars,
has announced that she will under
take a film career as soon as she can
get back to Vienna in the Spring.
Evening star., 1932-10-18
"The Pure in Heart"
Not to Play Here Next Week.

I AST-MINUTE news from the
- Offices of the Theater Guild in
New York indicates that THE Pure
in Heart" has been Cancelled and will
not come to the National on Mon
day. This was to have been the
second play in that series here spon-
sored by the American Theater So
ciety. The play will close Saturday
night in Cincinnati for revision"
All of which doesn't come as a great
surprise. since reports concerning it
have been manifold-and not always
complimentary. Incidentally, Helen
Flint. who was to have had a part
in 1t, came to Washington from
Pittsburgh last Friday and assumed
the role Of Lotus in The Good
Earth" replacing Sabene Newmark.
Evening star., 1932-10-18

Nine. Jeritza (Baroness Pepper to
you) Is said to be delighted at the
prospect of warbling before the
camera. In the meantime she will
undergo all sorts of dramatic treat
ment and prepare to take Vienna's
Hollywood by storm.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
BAKER APPEALS
FOR ASSISTANCE
ON RELIEF WORK

NEW YORK, Aug. 16. UP(-The
United States faces its greatest un-
employment problem next winter,
Newton D. Baker announced in
naming 55 persons who will aid in
the relief campaign.
Baker, former secretary of war,
is chairman of the national citi-
zens committee for the welfare
and relief mobilization of 1882, in
cluding 81 national welfare
agencies.
America is on trial this year and
must preserve her SOUL" Baker S
statement said. 1.-The task ahead
of us is the greatest we ever faced.
Every social welfare agency must
cooperate"
Among the 55 accepting places on
the committee were.
Alfred E. Smith, Secretary of
Commerce Roy D. Chaplin, Mrs.
August Belmont, Owen D. Young,
Walter D. Clifford, president, Amer
ican Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany, and Thomas w. Lamont of
j. P. Morgan & Co.
Also William Green, president,
American Federation of Labor;
Joseph Scott, president, Los Ange-
les Community Chest, and Morti-
mer Fleishacker, chairman, Anglo
California National Bank and Trust
company, San Francisco.
The national citizens committee
will sponsor a conference in Wash
ington, D. c.. September Is, to be
opened at the White House by
President Hoover.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
LAND VALUATION
SHIFT DISCUSSED
AT BOARD MEET

Further discussion of a farm bu-
reau committee recommendation
that directors of the Imperial Irri-
CATION district increase the prop
erty valuations in valley munich
palities from $5,500,0O0 to $10,000,- :
600, took place at board meeting
this afternoon.
The suggestion was made at a
meeting last week and since no ac-
ton was taken by the board, addi-
tional discussion was deemed nee
essary. At press time today no
formal action had taken place.
Committeeman representing the
farm bureau were said to favor the
increase in municipal valuation
with view to presenting it to bond
holders for a settlement on that
basis.
Director Burleigh Adams said to-
Gay the proposition would result in
a shift of the burden instead of a
reduction, taking 1t from the farm
property owner and adding to the
city property owner. Director w.
o. Blair said he did not consider
the proposition a fair one and that
he considered this no time for a
shift of that type.
1t was explained that municipali-
ties pay $275,000 in taxes in addi-
tion to 81 per acre foot for water
and that cities are assessed on a
county basis.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Egan Beneficiary
Of Slain Woman

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Is. U.P)
Frank j. Egan, former public de-
fender of San Francisco, stood to
profit by at least $4,000 through the
accidental" death of Mrs. Jessie
Scott Hughes, a prosecution witness
declared today at the trial of Egan
and Albert Tinnin for The murder
OF Mrs Hughes.
Anthony Cawley, insurance bro
ker, testified that Egan was bene-
ficiary to two policies issued to Mrs.
Hughes. Both were originally made
out to benefit Mrs. Hughes estate,
but were changed to make Egan
beneficiary, he said.
The policies paid double indem-
nifty in case of accidental death.
The state contends that Mrs.
Egan was crushed to death in her
garage under the wheels Of an au-
tomobile and that her body then
was left in the street to make it
appear she was the victim of a
hit-run accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16

gard as partly responsible 1or til9
loss of their other baby.
Doctors. nurses, servants, all VINO
had any knowledge of todays plfth
in the Morrow home at EngleWooo,
were sworn to secrecy. New YORK
physicians who attended MIS-.
Lindbergh refrained from dlsclls-
sing her condition with friends or
associates.
Although newspapermen stood az
the gate to the Morrow homestead
for days, they were given no m
formation either before Or after the
birth. After the baby was bora
this morning, Lindbergh confirmed
the fact by telephone, but that was
all. The reporters at the gate
learned it from their offices in New
York.
The only news allowed TO es-
cape from the sheltered homestead
was that the baby was boy and
that baby and mother were well.
Whether the second son is large
or small, whether he will be given
the name of junior and whether he
resembles his murdered brother
were closely guarded secrets.
The Lindberghs plan TO return
to their Hopewell estate and re-
ports are that ground guards have
been arranged SO no one may ap-
proach the property without being
sighted by at least one guard.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
WALKER HEARING
CONTINUES AT
STATE CAPITOL
BY FREDERICK A STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent


STATE CAPITOL, ALBANY, N
Y, Aug. 16.-A second "unidenti-
fled woman recipient of a letter
OF credit for $4,000 from Russell T.
Sherwood, Mayor James J. Walker S
missing financial agents brought a
gasp of excitement to spectators to-
day at Walkers trial on removal
charges.
Until the New York mayor sought
to explain Sherwood's payments
and to disclaim any knowledge of
them-both the name and the sex
of the person" to whom checks
and letters of credit were given
had been undisclosed.
But the mayor himself, angrily
protesting against evidence regard
ing these transactions, blurted out
the word she" Declaring that
Sherwood had taken care of the in
come tax accounts of the unidenti-
fled person Walker exclaimed:
'She had large sums of money
in various banks of the city"
A murmur of suppressed excite
ment swept the courtroom.
An attempt to show a direct in
terest by the mayor in the finan-
cial affairs of this still unnamed
woman, came when the governor
asked directly of the mayor:
1T appears that Mr.. Block stated
he gave directions that check for
$500 be drawn to a person named
by you. Did you get that check?'
Walker walked to the governors
desk and gave mis- answer in al
most inaudible tones.
"A letter of credit, April 80, 1881,
was paid for by Russell T. Sher-
wood to the same person who re-
ceived the check mentioned. The
letter of credit was for $4,000. Do
you know anything about it?"
'I do not" The mayor replied,
and volunteered the information
that Sherwood had made out in
come tax returns for her"
Roosevelt offered to give Walker
48 hours co inspect the Sherwood
accounts. but John j. Curtin, the
counsel, indicated he would
not avail himself of the offer.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16

ther discussion of the question will
take place at later meetings.
Legislative changes proposed for
the next session also come up for
discussion at the same meeting.
M. j. Dowd, chief engineer, at
tended a regular meeting of the
Districts Securities commission, of
which he is a member. This ses-
sion was held in San Francisco,
also. Various problems of irriga-
ton districts were discussed, among
them being finances and refinanc-
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Childers Attends
Coast Meeting

Charles L. Childers, chief counsel
for the Imperial Irrigation district,
returned this weekend from San
Francisco where he attended a
meeting of the executive commit
tee of the California Irrigation Dis
trjct association.
The main topic of discussion, ac-
cording to Childcrs, was the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation and
emergency financial legislation iu
relation to irrigation districts. Fur
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16

Former Deputy visits-Miss Car
lotta Williford, formerly chief dep
uty county clerk, was visitor here
today, coming over from Mission
Beach where she is a guest of Mrs.
Leta May Bryan. Miss Williford
now resides at Bishop.
B. NJ. Gruwen, candidate for
State Senator, will speak over KXO
at GAO Monday night. 6t19
immigration Prisoners Immi-
grafton officers brought two prison.
ers to the county jail last night.
Sylvestiano Gonzales, 33, was ar
rested at Calexico and Manuel
Sanchez, 33, at Westmorland.
Special Low Price on gallon
quantities of milk at New Sunland
Dairy Plant. West Main st. 22tf
Lodged In Jail-George Woods
was brought to the county jail from
Brawley last night and booked for
violation of the state liquor act.
W. j. Mainus, Il, was brought from
Holtville and jailed on a statutory
charge.
Drink pure lemonade by glass or
gallon at Paul's. Corner Ninth and
Main. Itf
Visitors From Coast-Capt. Rudy
Sehmoke and Inspector E. L.
Bruck were down from Los Angeles
today for a consultation with Capt
Frank Oswalt of the California
highway patrol.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Another Son Born
To Noted Flyer
CONTINUED From Page u

bog In the woods within sight of
the Lindbergh estate.
The child was identified by
means of the dainty infant gar
ments found on the body.
Mrs. Lindbergh never saw the
mutilated body of her first born.
Colonel Lindbergh went alone into
the mortuary at Trenton, N. j.,
grief-stricken and bowed by the
tragedy and strain of the long
months he had searched for his
son. He stood there silently exam
lining the small form.
Yes, it is my son." he replied
bluntly to a question.
The body was cremated.
Slowly the great police force
moved out of the lonely Lindbergn
home in the Sourland hills. The
Lindberghs finally closed the estate
and came to the Morrow home on
the wooded hills above Englewood
to await the birth of her second
child.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
NAVY TO TEACH SAFETY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. U.P)-
The navy department announced
today that the experimental SUBJ
marine S-4 will leave San Diego,
Calf, August 10 for Pearl Harbor,
T. H, where it will be used to in
struct officers and men in the
methods of escape from disabled
undersea craft. It will be towed
to Pearl Harbor by the submarine
tender Bushnell.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
HORNED OWL CAUGHT

DAWSON, Ga. U.P) = One of
those rare birds, a horned OWL was
caught in a steel trap at the home
of r. B. McLain, near here. Hawks
had been after McLain's chickens
and he set a trap for them. 1t is
the second horned owl ever caught
in this vicinity.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
POTATO GREW LIKE DOG

RICHMOND, Va. (U.P)-A sweet
potato closely resembling small
dog in shape was found by Mrs. D.
Holm, of Richmond. 1t had nat
ural sprouts where the tail of the
dog belongs and the potato had
two front legs and one eye.