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announces tne
first showing next Friday of Freaks"
said to be something entirely new in
the way of entertainment, along with
"Frolics of 1882" a Capitol Theater
Revue
u EITHS, starting next Saturday, Will
N present Constance Benefits latest
picture, Lady With Past" with Ben
Lyon, David Manners and Albert Cont
in the cast. Gus Van, the melody
man." formerly of the team Of Van
and Schenck, will be the feature OF the
bill.
UEIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD" will
be the feature at the Warner
Bros. Earle Theater starting Saturday,
and Joe E. Brown will be the fireman
probably, for he is the star of the film.
Washington, the Man and the Cap
ital," will be a special contribution on
the screen to the Washington Bicenten-
NAL observance.
CEORGE ARLISS' newest picture
" The Man Who Played God"
-VitaphOne production, will have
its Washington premiere at the Warner
Metropolitan next Friday. when also
"Washington, the Man and the Capital"
in honor of the Washington Bicenten-
nial, will be a special contribution. 1t
is announced as Warner BroS.-Vita-
phone scoop"
THE Fox Theater will present She
Wanted a Millionaire" with Joan
Bennett and Spencer Tracy on the
screen, and with the Fanchon-Mar
idea, About Town." as the highlight of
the stage program.
UHELL DIVERS" described as IAN
IL epic Of the air" with Wallace
Beery and Clark Gable in the leading
roles, will follow Garbo and "Mata
Hari" when and II the program Is
changed at LOew's Columbia.
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Included in the cast of IS are Sid
ney Blackmer, Teresa Maxwell-Conover
Betty Garde, Wilfred Clarke, Helen
Tucker, Hans Hansen, George Henry
Trader. Jane Farrell. Mary AckleY. Os-
valid Yorke, Eliza beth Taylor and Will
Vodery's Band. The play is presented
in five sceens with three lavish and
elaborate stage settings.
BLOSSOM TIME"
L ATHRYN REECE, the "Mitzi' in
~ Blossom Time" which is coming
to the Belasco Theater Sunday eve
ming, February 21, halls from Durham.
N. c. After a course OF musical train
ing at the Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music, for three years she was a vocal
pupil Of the celebrated Marcella SEM
brich, one Of the foremost teachers in
America.
Miss Reece's notable concert ap-
pearances include several with the Gin
cinnati Orchestra under the artistic
Fritz Reiner. She has sung many
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Lincoln Drama Is Staged
For New York Audiences
But the Play Fails to "Click,' According to This
Criitic-Character Studies Are Large Part of
New Work, If Booth Had Missed"
By Percy Hammond.

IN his new drama at the Royale
Arthur Goodman assumes that If
Booth had missed Lincoln, another
L and more deadly marksman would
have killed him at the end. The
play, therefore, Is an expression OF the
authors faith in predestination rather
than q flight into the loftier spaces Of
conjecture. Few extravagant fancies
are begot in the ventricle of Mr.. Good
mans imaginings and he merely shifts
events and their courses from one chan
mel to another. The result OF Booths
aim is just postponement Of the Pres
ident's murder, leaving him in place of
his successor. Mr. johnson, to wrestle
with the troubles of reconstruction.
Even If Booth had missed, according
to Mr. Goodman, history would not
have BEEN changed except in its rela-
ton to individual characters. The
Union would be preserved, there would
be no North and no South, and the
Blue and Gray would be entwined, as
now they are, in amity's fraternal en-
braces 1t might have been more in
teresting feat of speculation had Mr..
Goodman written IF Grant Had Sur
rendered." or IF Mcclellan Had Been
Elected" Then he would nave had a
real opportunity to exercise his some
what slothful fancy.
Other dramatists. one trusts, will
profit by Mr. Goodman's pioneering and
present their ideas of what would have
happened. for instance, had Smith been
elected instead Of Hoover. or Champ
Clark instead of Wilson. Would Smith
have saved us from famine ana Clark
from war? The field is extensive and
ripe with probabilities.
Among those present at the first per-
formance was Edgar Lee Masters, a
student Of the period and the author of
trenchant biography of Lincoln.
Being none too stepped in knowledge
OF the time and its dominating figures,
sought Mr.. Masters and asked him
If he regarded If Booth Had Missed"
good play. He said No" Although
not a drama critic, Mr.. Masters prob
ably was right. The piece contains
flaws that I, myself, can see. Except
ing John Nicholson. who acts Thaddeus
Stephens with forceful vindictiveness,
the cast borders on mediOcrity, lacking
the power to give great limitations.
Then. too. the stage direction is often
puny. and some of the pictures ap-
proach the ridiculous The scenes after
Fred Eric, as frenzied John Wilkes
Booth, has bungied his errand. are par
ticllarly hostile to credibillty.
But If Booth Had Missed" is for
tunate in the fact that Lincoln IS acted
by a player sklllfui enough TO make
the character more than facade. Few
traces of sheer mimicry are to be found
in that impersonation by Daniel Poole,
an artist of whom. l daresay, most
theatergoers are unaware. He resem-
bles the Lincoln Of portrait and sculp-
ture, and he has a benign stage per-
sonality calculated to disarm those
who suspect such endeavors to be des-
ecrating. He comprehends and is able
to communicate to the audience the
traditional Lincoln qualities. Espe-
cislly is he apt in the humor. the no.
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Coming Attractions

operate roles, among them Mimi,
Gilda and Juliette in Gounods Romeo
and Juliette' Her work in light opera
has included leading parts in Mile.
MoGiste," 'Katinka," Robin Hood" !"
The Black Crook" "Falstaff." Princess
Charming" Winthrop Ames' production
of "Iolanthe,' and The Enchanted
Isle
1t was as the winner Of a scholar
ship awarded by the Juilliard Founda-
tion, the huge fund beQueathed by a
New York merchant for the encourage
ment of music, that Miss Reece became
pupil of Nine Sembrich for three
years.
THE Girls From Joyland."
A WEEK from this afternoon Man
ager Lake will present at the
Gayety Theater on Ninth street a new
burlesque attraction. titled The Girls
From Joyland." with Ann Corio, billed
as "burlesk's most beautiful star"
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Another Premiere.
II ONORS are falling thick and fast

II ONORS are falling thick and fast
for Washington
With the rain that drifted into the
Rational Capital on Friday came the
lurprising news that Peggy Fears is to
send her brand-new production of
"0htld of Manhattan" the new play by
PRESTON Sturges who wrote Strictly
Dlshonorable," to the National Theater
in Washington for its premiere, on
February %
Dorothy Hall, who will be remem-
beyed for excellent acting in Flying
HIGH" and The Greeks Had a Name
for It. together with Reginald Owen,
whc played the role of the Cardinal in
Ziea eldS Three Musketeers, and with
Ger "ude Lawrence in Candle Light"
will lead cast of 80 celebrities in the
theater." j. E. JorguleSco designed the
IS scenic settings for this production
and Howard Lindsay is staging the
production.
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Wisdom and Girls.
among girls?

"ISDOM among girls?
w Don't laugh! Remember that some
people call it just intuition. Maybe
they're right And when you see Three
Wise Girls" now at the Rialto, maybe
you can give the answer.
It's a wise girl, indeed, that knows her
own man-and a still wiser laSsie who
knows how to get him and keep him.
In Three Wise Girls" it is a case Of
the three misses being doubly wise
wise in wiseguys and wise in wise
cracks. And the three characterizations
are wise, in addition in acting wisdom,
since they, in the hands Of Mae Clarke.
the platinumized Jean Harlow and the
rollicking Marie Provost.
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bility and the eloquence Of the role.
Much of the speech is CLEANED from
Lincoln's more dramatic utterances, in
cluding the Gettysburg address and
the second inaugural, both Of which are
introduced without obtrusive effort.
Mr.. Poole delivers these naturally, with
full value of their beauty and import.
Mr. Goodman ransacks the traditions
with fair success and Gen. Grant Is to
be recognized by his cigar and his pre-
dilection for Bourbon liquor. Mrs.
Lincoln is exhibited in her familiar
displays of jealousy, and it is her the
atrical meddling that enables the con-
spirators to make trouble for her long
suffering husband Little Tad also
comes in and prattles precociously while
sitting On the arm Of his fathers chair.
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Late Corners Advised

OWING TO the length of Ethel Barry
~ more's performance of The School
for Scandal at the Shubert- -Belasco
Theater, the management has an
nounced it will be necessary TO begin
the play promptly at 8:l5 O'Clock in
the evenings and at 2:l5 at matinees.
Patrons are urgently requested 10 reach
the theater in time TO be seated before
the curtain rises. No one will be seated
after the first act starts until its close
Evening star., 1932-02-14
Screen Stars in "Hot-Cha.

Screen Stars In F1ot-Cha.
COME of the most famous screen
stars of the present day will embel-
lish the cast of Florenz Ziegfeld's
musical comedy "Hot-Cha," which will
have its world premiere at the. National
Monday night. (
Buddy" Rogers. the juvenile Hot
Cha" is one of the most widely ad-
mired of screen stars of the present day,
and his singing voice is said to make
him the ideal juvenile for this story OF
Mexico.
Bert Lahr, the toreador: Marjorie
White, petite and blonde, who won her
fame in the picture Sunny Side Up
and Miriam Battista, known just few
years ago as the marvel child OF the
screen, with Lynn Overman, English
and American favorite, all have MADE
noteworthy appearances in motion pic
ture productions.
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High" Scandals,
d" ood N eW S,
"Follow Thru and
song hits such as
Button Up Your
Overcoat," You're
the Cream in My
Coffee" Thank
Your NJ o t h e r, "
Life Is Just a
Bowl Of Cherries"
This Is the Mrs"
and scores OF
others.
The locale OF
the new play is
Mexico. and it has
to do with the
comic exploits of a
t or e a dor. The
hOnk by JaW
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Broadway playwright. The climax
comes when Rogers and his family flnd
themselves in the midst of an Arabian
tribal war.
The supporting cast includes Jetta
Goudal. Joel McCrea. Dorothy Peter
son, Peggy Ross. Cyril Ring, Jed
Prouty, oscar APPEL and Boris Karloff.
The picture was directed by David
Butler.
On the stage Fanchon and Marco
present their Hacienda idea, featur-
ing Sue Russell, with Hinky and Rinky,
Adriana, Mexico's sweetheart: Doyle and
Donnelly. Five Juggling Gems and the
Five Gordonians. AL Mitchell, the pop
ular master of ceremonies and orches-
ira conductor, again is back in the pit,
offering one of his popular orchestra
novelties, and the Fox -Moyietone News
completes the bill .-.
EARLE-"The Hatchet Man"
EDWARD G. ROBINSON, one Of the
- screens great character actors. in
First National and Vitaphone's The
Hatchet Man is the major screen Of
fering for the second leap year frolic
week, now at Warner Bros Earle
Theater. The stage program is headed
hy three favorites of musical comedy
and vaudeville, the Three Sailors,
eccentric exciters of glee.
The Hatchet Man" was adapted
from the play The Honorable Mr..
Wong" by the late David Belasco and
Achmed Abdullah. Robinson portrays
the feared member Of the tong whose
duty it is to carry out the edicts OF
the secret society, even though 1t is
his boyhood friend who must suffer the
be intensely dramatic.
The Three Sailors, who head the
vaudeville. are Bert Jason. Bob Hobson
and Harry Blue, three pantomimic &c
centric dancers. Other acts include
Hill and Hoffman. concoction OF
mirth and melody, entitled Baby
Grand Larceny; Cherry and June
Preisser, Dixie's Own Dancing Daugh-
ters; Col. Fedor Maybaum's Russian
Revels." a miniature dance revue with
a Balalyka Orchestra and four enter.
tainers. and Maxine Doyle. mistress OF
ceremonies. The Graham MacNamee
Newsreel and an orchestral prelude
complete the program
KEITHS-"Panama Flo"
T LILLIAN ROTH, whose fame is a
IL blend Of the stage. the screen and
the radio is the headline Of the vaude-
vile bill at R-K-O Keith'S this week:
Miss Roth has shone in long list OF
Broadway revues by Ziegfeld. George
White, TIE Shuberts and Earl Carroll.
She also has won added lauralS for her
singing of Sing, You Sinners"
On the same bill will be Hugh Skelly
and company in Honeymoon Trou-
bles": Nellie Atnaut and her brothers,
Collette Lyons and George Synder. and
the Rath Brothers, whose studies in
endurance have long been vaudeville
offering.
The screen, in the new R-K-O Keith
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IIRIC-in The Social Register" !"

7 ENORE URIC in her newest sue
cess. The Social Register"
comes TO the National Theater
IL next week beginning with the
Monday CWashington's birth
day. matinee. The play Is 6y An!ta
Loos and John Emerson and was fash
Evening star., 1932-02-14

lOneQ from MISS
Loos' popular nov
el, But Gentle
men Marry Bru-
nettes."
In the Emerson
Loos comedy Miss
Uric, as a Van
tiles" girl, marries
into a Park ave-
nue. family, and, ii
is said. gives one
of the most inter-
esting character
izations of her ca
reer. The play is
a gay and glitter
ing tongue in the
cheek spoofng Of
all chorus girls who
marry rich young
M on
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L IL { l " e " a
wealthy razor blade
manufacturer from
the corn belt. on a
tour of Europe. He
is a c ON p a MED
bv a nagging
wife and a lovesick
daughter. During
his tour he becomes
involved with a
fascinating Paris
ienne, " no at
tempts to extract
the secret of his
going abroad. Com
plicationS gro W
worse as his daugh-
ter becomes ac-
quainted with a
bisticat I o n
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ELLERY WALTERS, Tuesday.
4 YOUNG man who Travelled quar-
Z ter of a million miles on a pair Of
crutches, Ellery Walter, will be pre-
sented by the Community Institute Of
Washington at the auditorium Of Cen
tral Community Center Central High
SCHOOL,, Thirteenth and Clifton streets.
Tuesday evening, for talk which he
titles High Hats and Low Bows
Poverty and illness did not quench
his courage as he went round the world
on nothing a year-a hobo in Mexico.
president of his class in the University
of Washington, stoker at sea, drifting
down the Nile-always under appalling
difficulties, dangers and discourage
ments. And yet he has met and talked
with most of the worlds great leaders
Mussolini, Pope Plus XII, King Alfonso
XIII, Lloyd George, Won Hindenburg-
and he tells of these interviews in an
amusing and fascinating fashion.
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Pictures Next Week.

A MYSTERY thriller surprising
~ even the dread "Dracula" and
"A. "Frankenstein," no other than
4 IA the screen version Of Edgar
- Allan Poes Murders in the
Rue ssMorgue," is announced for the
Riaato, starting Friday of the current
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week. when the
new weeks bill
will be presented
for the first time.
Bella Lugosi, Sid
ney Fox, Leon
w a y C If, Bert
Roach, Brandon
Hurst, Noble John
son, Darcy Cor
rigan and Betty
Ross Clarke will
illuminate the cast.
II you haven't
read the Poe story,
one of his greatest
thrillers, it might
be wise to do 1t.
= =
T OEW'S PALACE
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Stage and Screen Attractions This Week

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "HotCha" Opens tomorrow evening.
BELASCO-Ethe Barrymore School for Scandal" to-
evening.
GAYETY-"Holywood (burlesque. This afternoon
and evening.
ON THE SCREEN
FOX-Wll Rogers Business Pleasure"
and evening
EARLE-"The Hatchet Man" This afternoon and evening
KEITHS-"Panama Flo" This afternoon and evening.
PAIACE-The Passionate Plumber This afternoon and
ming
RIALTO-'Three Wise Girls" afternoon evening
METROPOLITAN-"West Broadway" This afternoon and
evening.
COIUMBIA-"Mata Hari." This afternoon evening.
Evening star., 1932-02-14

FOX-Will Rogers Business and
Pleasure"
~ USINESS AND PLEASURE"
- Will Rogers latest screen
achievement, is announced
as the feature attraction at
the Fox Theater in its world
premiere. 1t is comedy satire adapted
from Booth Tarkington's The Pluto
crat." The story finds Will Rogers in
Evening star., 1932-02-14
NAITIONAL-ZiegfeId's Hot Cha"

NAIT1ONAL-Ziegfe "HOt-Cha!
TOMORROW night should be a
gala night in Washington, for
it brings FlorenZ Ziegfeld to
i the National Theater with the
world premier of his newest
production, "Hot-C -Cha!'
This new musical comedy is the
work of Brown and Henderson, famous
collaborators responsible for Flying
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New Musical Production
md Drama on the Stage
Ziesfeld Brings Some Screen Stars in His Revue
While Ethel Barrymore Returns to the
Capital With an Old Favorte.
ELLERY WALTERS. Tuesday.

ing. There will be no talk on Wash
ingtons birthday.
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Brown, Ray Henderson and Mark Hell
linger. is based on a suggestion by H.
S. Kraft. The dances have been staged
by Bobby Connolly. who was RESPONSE
bic for the brilliant Changing of the
Guards" ballet in the zlegfeld Fol
lies" Sons of Guns" Good News"
and Follow Thru" The settings are
by Joseph Urban, the famous scenic
artist who made the settings for Zieg-
fields Rio Rita" Show Boat Fol
lies Three Musketeers,' etc. The
dialogue was staged by Edward Lilly
and the costumes are by Charles LIE
Marie, one of the most gifted of med
ern designers Al Goodman will direct
the melodiouS score and will be in
charge of his own special unit OF solo
inStrumentalistS.
The cast is headed by the exuberant
young comedian. Bert Lahr, recently
the star of Flying High and Hold
Everything" whose broad comedy, racy
pantomime and risible eccentricities
make life gay. Surrounding Mr.. Lahr
is cast specially selected by Mr., Zieg-
field for youth, beauty and unique tai
ents, including, by special arrangement,
Buddy Rogers, on the stage Tor the
first ime; Marjorie White. Lynne Over
man, June knight, June MacCloy,
Revva Raves. Tito Coral, Eleanore
Powell, three Hernandez brothers, Jack
Holland, Arthur Page, Nick Basil and
Miriam Battista.
Evening star., 1932-01-31

Twenty per cent of all retail sales
are automotive products.
Evening star., 1932-01-31

either in crowded garage or out on
the street, be sure to have the head
lights tested as there is a good posi-
bility that the lamps will be found out
of focus. A car never should be moved
by pushing on the lamps or the radia-
tor, but in an emergency this point IS
often overlooked.
No, it isn't because they use the
choke too much that women have more
trouble with carbCnized motors than
men. It's Just the more limited field
in which the average woman operates
her car. The motor of the family car
will load up with carbon much more
rapidly than one that is pushed hard
on the open road. Short runs, fire.
quent recrankingS and much parking
invites a valve and carbon job more
quickly than anything else.
One of the meanest tricks a male
member of the family can do is to
start the car and put it out on the
driveway for your use when you are
ready to go off for the day. his looks
like the height of chivalry, but you
don't know the half Of it,
If an engine is stopped before It is
we'll warmed up, there is considerable
condensation Of gas vapor in the
cylinders. This causes dilution OF the
oil in the engine and invites sticky
valves Then if the car stands too
long the poor battery has double dose
of difficult cranking.
It's just one of those simple things,
but if you haven't discovered it, now is
the time to take note. Just this: You
can tell if the stoplight signal is work.
ing by the way the ammeter pointer
will flicker toward discharge whenever
you press the brake pedal.
Evening star., 1932-01-31
RIDE REGULATION NEW STUDY
FOR ALL AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS

applications of the system. While
statesmen are perhaps not fully aware
of all points concerning ride control,
they can spare the motorist many pos
sible pitfalls and can aid him in know
ing when and how to select the control
best suited to any one of number of
conditions. These conditions may be
roughly classed as road, load, speed,
tire imitation, temperature, weight ap-
portionment, traction, spring fleXibility
and seat cushion fieXibility.
An essential point in controlling the
adjustment of the shock absorbers is to
anticipate conditions. 1t is a convent
ence to be able to adjust the car for
whatever situation develops, but for
maximum results and for safety, antici-
patton is preferable. This calls for &C
curate knowledge of the how and why
of riding characteristics.
The story is told of one motorist who
had been testing a car over rough
road at slow speed, using the softest
adjustment for this purpose. Immedi-
ately following this he started up a
long, well paved grade. Going into a
sharp turn at high speed he nearly
upset the car because of the inability
of the shock absorbers to prevent the
car from swaying.
Evening star., 1932-01-31
Milady's Motoring
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.

When hubby asks his lambkin If she's
not in draft and completely comfort
able probably he wants to change seats
with her.
The signs distinctly warned against
driving over Is miles an hour, but she
came into the park at 80 and held to
that speed, honking the twin horns like
fireman on three alarm blaze. An
elderly pedestrian pointed a finger of
scorn as she whizzed by and I found
myself jumping back to the grass.
Three minutes later she came tearing
back, having picked up little Oswald,
who can't be trusted to come home from
school Of his own accord with all these
reckless drivers"
There's good news for women in the
TACT that with the new starters you are
not likely to forget to switch off the
ignition at night, since the engine
would keep on running, but let's temper
this with the fact that you can run
down good battery by forgetting to
switch off the cars hot-water heater.
incidentally, If you like the idea. and
If you do not have need for heat while
the car is parked you can have your
service man wire the fan of the heater
the Ignition IS on. This prevents the
fan from operating when the engine is
not running.
In reaching conclusions about the de-
STABILITY Of mechanical improvements
women are handicapped by a limited
experience with things automotive.
There was, for instance, the recent case
OF the woman who decided against a
car with free wheeling because her hus-
band said that modern clutches are so
easy to operate he could not see where
there would be any point in eliminating
need for using the clutch when shift
ing. II only she had been able to think
back a comparatively few years to the
Gays When men were saying that it was
just as easy to use the hand crank as
to bother with a seIf-starter!
How old should woman be to drive
car? At what age should she be
asked to let James do the driving?
You may say it all depends and it
probably does. But one of the insur-
ance companies which issues a special
accident policy for wife or daughter sets
the age limits from 18 to SO. If the
units are too conservative III vote in
favor OF an extension at the upper end
One Of the best and safest women 1
have ever driven behind is we'll over the
go mark.
In spirit Of fun some one has
penned new proverb of the road de-
claring the later the night. the
greater the speed" 1t is true. Traffic
lights are either set at caution or
snapped out altogether. Collisions are
invited by the very thought that they
are noI so likely to happen Each
driver feels that he is alone on the
road and need not worry about the
other fellow 1t is a dangerous business
at best. Better remind the men folk
who plan to be out late, and speak
about it when one or the other Of YOU
is driving the car home from the eve
ming bridge party.
If any one has pushed your car,
Evening star., 1932-01-31
POLICEMAN LOOKS
AT SPEED VIOLATIONS
Matter of Interest Described in
Traffic Officers Train
ing Manual.

How the motor cycle officer looks
at speed Violations of the motorist is
interestingly revealed in a back-Stage
glimpse of traffic regulation afforded by
Traffic officers Training Manual, which
is being used as a standard work in
an increasing number of cities.
Two views exist in regard to speed
regulation, the book states One in
wolves the prima facie speed law, hav-
ing a legal limit but permitting the
motorist to exceed the limit if he can
prove he is doing so safely. The 9TH
er depends upon the clear space ahead
of the speeding car. In any event, says
the author, Clarence P. Taylor, the
officer trailing car must be sure he
is keeping the same rate of speed, and
should allow the motorist five miles