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Evening star., 1934-03-28
SOCIETY
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Long Island, N. Y, is at the Carlton
for a few days, accompanied by her
two sons. Mason Britton, jr.. and
Wright Britton.
State Senator Walter H. Tupper and
Mrs. Tupper of Burlington. VT, are
guests this week of Mr.. and Mrs.
Millward C. Taft of TaEoma Park.
They have been in Florida and are
returning to their home.
Mrs. H. Bruce Green entertained at
q charmingly arranged brides shower
last evening in her home in Clarendon,
Va, in compliment to Mrs Kleon D.
Fokedes. who was. before her recent
marriage Miss Virginia Dare Bushong
of Clarendon.
Upon arrival the honor guest was
presented by the hostess with an old
fashioned flower bouquet, which con-
tanned shower of ribbons, and in the
love-knot of each ribbon there was a
verse giving some clue as to the
whereabouts of each hidden gift.
StdlLIl lOI lIlC RIiLS Jllt
greater part of the evening.
Assisting Mrs. Green were Mrs. Elsie
keuchle, Miss Josephine Sterling, Miss
Lois Hagarty and Miss Louise Carl.
Additional guests included Mrs
Frank Bushong, Mrs C. w. Harris,
Mrs Norbert Melnick, Mrs. Frank
Bradley, Mrs. Gilbert Potterton. Miss
Lorena Lewis. Miss Elizabeth Lewis,
Miss Ruth Hutson. Miss Mildred Pres
ton, Miss Ruth Barley, Miss Vivian
Gessford Miss Virginia Harrison of
Arlington County and Mrs. Marshall
Rohr, Mrs Marie Atkinson. Miss
Martha Bean. Miss Ida Lyons. Miss
Louise Prescott. Miss Marie Reichman,
Miss Mary Ouimby and Miss Audrey
Seiber of Washington.
Miss Marie Mines Whitehurst is
spending the Easter holidays with
Miss Mary Tyler Mccormick, at Day
tona Beach, Fla.
Mrs George P. Merrill, 1922 Bel
mont street, entertained yesterday aft
ernoon for Mr.. and Mrs. J. Halsey
Gulick and the alumni of the Sebago-
Wohelo Camps, South Casco, Me.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Greenleaf of
Wakefield. Mass, are guests at the
Dodge. Mrs r. H. Taber, accom-
panied by her young son. Rufus Taber
and Mrs C H. Tibbits of Wallingford,
Conn, is guest at the Dodge.
Students from Miss Cleveland's
School. in Cleveland, Ohio. who are
spending the Spring vacation period
at the Dodge. are: Miss Peggy Platt,
Miss Catherine Villas. Miss Gertrude
BURY. Miss Mildred Stone, Miss Treb-
bing. Miss Betty Ruth Thomas, Miss
Mary Beck. Miss Jane Huber. Miss
Betty Elden, Miss Nancy MacLauchlin.
Miss Aileen Bruch, Miss Jeanne An
drews. Miss Rhea Hanna. Miss Anne
Crider. Miss Shirley Seller, Miss
Marjorie Cox. Miss Shirley Sebring.
Miss Shirley williams, Miss Patricia
knowlton. Miss Susanne Whitman,
Miss Anne Herrick and Miss Cleveland.
The Thursday Morning Club will
hold the last of its weekly luncheons
tomorrow at Epiphany Hall following
the MONDAY service Mrs. z, Barney
Phillips. Mrs Edward Droop Mrs
Paul Lum. Mrs. s. H Greene. Mrs H
K. Cornwell. Mrs. Edgar Snow. Mrs.
Charles Happier. Mrs. Andrew Duval,
Mrs. w. E. McReynolds. Mrs. William
E. Pearson. Mrs. C. H. Graves. Mrs.
Vernon Green. Mrs. George P James,
Miss E. w. Pierce. Mrs. Ernest Sap
pington. Mrs. Roy Sewart and Mrs.
Ernest Daniel will assist the president,
Mrs. Wistar Balderston. in receiving
the guests. A welcome is extended to
every one.
Evening star., 1934-03-28

Hospital. Mrs. Sasher, formerly Miss
Margaret Griffin. is the daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs. Presley Griffin Of Lyon
Village.
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which time each one will decapitats
himself with extreme JOY"
Evening star., 1934-07-29
SCREEN Stars LAMENT PASSING
OF GREAT ARTIST AND FRIEND
Found Marie DressIer One of Rare Individuals
Capable of Being Both, Statements
Make Clear.

at her age should prove an inspiration
to all who today may be faced with
the same despair that once assailed
her.
Joe z. Brown-She was not only a
great actress but a great woman and
a wonderful force for good. Her clean
pictures and fine example in living
were always an inspiration.
Warner Baxter-It's people like
Marie Dressler who make this world
a better place in which to live. I'm
sorry she's gone.
John Boles-Marie Dressler was q
truly great inspiration not only fol-
we who also are in the profession, but
for others as well.
Frank Lloyd, director-The world
has lost another irreplacable artist.
Louis B. Mayer: The passing oi
Marie DresSler is a tremendous loss
not only to the motion picture screen
but to the entire world-surely there
never breathed woman more be-
loved.
Sees World Bereaved.
I--tEg c. Thalberg: Marie Dresslgr
leaves behind a monument of success
that will ever stand as an inspiration
to those whose lives seem paved with
obstacles. Her passing is a bereave-
ment to the whole world.
Norma Shearer: My friendship with
Marie Dressler has always been an
inspiration, She was truly a great
artist and magnificent person.
Wallace Beery: There's nothing
much I can say. Marie was my
friend-probably the best friend ]
ever had in the show business. She
wouldn't want her friends to mourn
for her now, but that's not as easy
as 1t sounds.
May Robson: I cannot speak OF
Marie as some one who has gone She
was one of my oldest friends and her
unselfish kindness has been of Won
derful assistance to me.
Joan Crawford: Hers was courage
that helped others to share their bur-
dens. No life was ever more useful
Clark Gable: To those of us priv
ileged to have known Marie Dresslel
her passing is terrific shock We
join her millions of admirers in thi:
bereavement.
Jean Harlow: I am proud to have
known Marie DresSler and to know
her was to have loved her dearly.
Lionel Barrymore: I am deeply
shocked at Marie's death. I can only
say this-she was trouper to the
end.
Polly Moran: Marie Dressler viii
never be dead. She will live forever
in the hearts of the theater- going
public and her friends throughout the
world.
Evening star., 1934-07-29
SEVEN C0NVICTS HURT
AS WATER TANK FALLS
Collapses on Kitchen at Arkansas
Prison Farm Near Din
ner Hour.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUCKER PRISON FARM. Ark,
July 28-Seven convictS were injured,
three of them seriously, when 1000
gallon water tank collapsed and fell
on the kitchen in which a dozen con-
victs were working at camp No. to-
day.
The men were preparing dinner
when warning shout came from a
yard man who saw the structure start
10 crumble A half dozen or more
men ran out into the open while the
others were trapped.
Superintendent S. L. Todhunter
said the tank was constructed about a
month ago and that some of the
braces supporting 1t appeared ito have
rotted."
Evening star., 1934-07-29
MARKET CONTROL
BODY PUSHES TASK
Makes Ready for Busy 80
Days Registering U. S.
Exchanges.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Stock Exchange Commission Is
setting about the task of registering
the country's stock exchanges and
the securities sold on them.
The law requires that an exchange
must be registered or specifically ex-
empted from registration by October
/. Similarly, the shares bought and
sold on the registered and exempted
exchanges must themselves be regis
tered with the commission by that
date IL transactions in them are not
to violate the law.
The act says exchanges and corpo-
rations which wish to have their stock
listed may make application begin
ming September /. Thus the time
limitations of the law leave the COM
mission exactly 80 days to complete
this phase of its work.
Time Held Inadequate.
Liberal exponents Of strict regu-
lation have complained that this Is
insufficient, especially as the result OF
a section of the law which says:
mo registration (of an exchange)
shall be granted or remain in force
unless the rules of the exchange in
clude provision for the expulsion,
suspension or disciplining Of men,
ber for conduct or proceedings in
consistent with Just and equitable
principles of trade, and declare that
the wilful violation of any provisions
of this title or any rule or regulation
Hereunder shall be considered con-
duct or proceeding inconsistent with
just and equitable principles OF
trade"
Equipped with voluminous mass
of information gathered by the SEN
ate Banking Committee, the commits
sion is making an early start on the
first clause of this paragraph.
The wording of the law gives it au-
thority to decide what are lust and
equitable principles Of trade" which
in the opinion of those who have
studied the act is one OF the widest
discretionary powers that it confers
Disbursements Marked.
One member of the commission
Ferdinand Pecora, who conducted the
Senate investigation, has been out
spoken in expressing the opinion thai
the New York Exchanges rules fal
far short Of providing the penalties
specified in the law. Disagreement
are being worked out in consultation
with officials of the Exchange.
These are expected, at present, Il
result in an harmonious settlement
in accordance with the general policy
of Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy
However. if disagreement should re-
suit. the commission has recourse K
another clause of the law which says
THE commission is further author
lied. If after making appropriate re-
quest in writing to national Securi'
ties exchange that such exchange eff
feet on its own behalf specified
changes In its rules and practices, anc
after appropriate notice and oppor'
tunity for hearing. the commission
determines that such exchange has
not made the changes so requested
by rules or regulations or by
order to alter or supplement the rules
OF such exchange"
Evening star., 1934-07-29
Mayor Dislikes Shorts.

BURLINGTON, Vt, July 20 Dr.
Mayor James Burke, this city's "a
year-old chief executive, whose views
of what constitutes proper feminine
apparel have gained him wide pub
Icity, wants local police to become
"shoft" sighted. The mayor bounced
right out of city hall the other day
to reprimand a few girl campers who
appeared on the streets in shorts and
later on communicated his ideas to
the police.
Evening star., 1934-07-29

HOLLYWOOD, July % OP.-A
fellow comedian, Harold Lloyd, to-
night paid tribute to the memory of
Marie Dressler.
"The screen has suffered an ir-
reparable loss in the passing of Marie
Dressler," Lloyd said. 'She made
age a beautiful thing on the screen.
She was without doubt the greatest
comedienne of this generation.
She brought joy to millions at a
life-giving sacrifice. Her passing will
be sorrowfully mourned throughout
the world as 1t is here in HOLLYWOOD
"Her artistry will be her monu-
ment."
"She always was interested in
Others" said Edmund Lowe, "elated
when they had scored, downcast when
they had failed.
Temperament Praised.
Marie Dressler always was the
same, no matter what fortune or mis-
fortune had befallen her. Her personal
sorrows were her own.> Her encour-
agement meant everything to me.
She always asked of other people.
She did not talk of herself. This is
unusual with any actor or actress.
When any player is much interested
in the welfare of other players 1t Is
not unusual--it is epochal. That was
Marie DreSSler."
Carl Laemmle, jr., the producer, had
this to say:
Marie Dressler's death is a great
loss because she represented one of
the truly great characters Of the
screen-a woman with great heart
and mind"
Said J. M. Kerrigan, actor: ''The
theater has lost a great artist and a
great lady"
Calls Fight Inspiring.
Miss Dressler's courageous fight to
live has been stirring, inspirational
lesson in a world where most Of us
give up too easily" Mae West said.
Those of us who have been privileged
to walk even near the path of Miss
Dressler have learned something We
shall not soon forget. We have learned
to be more tolerant, to share with
others and to show humility.
Miss Dressler is gone, but she has
left lot for us to remember"
Other comments were:
Guy Kibbee-Marie DresSler's In
fluence for good cannot be calculated
All over the world her pictures have
pointed wonderful examples of per-
feet motherhood and perfect woman
| hood. She was a grand lady and g
fine trouper.
Frank Borzage, director--A great
soul has passed on.
Helen Lowell, actress-The career
Of Marie DreSSler and myself have
run parallel for more than 40 years
| We were young actresses together or
the New York stage before the Span
iSh-American War and both of us
came 10 Hollywood to close our career
| She had everything an actress needed
| for greatness-great technique, i'm
menSe personality. great talent and 9
| great heart and soul.
Comeback Heartening.
Edward G. Robinson-It seems hard
that Marie DreSSler should pass away
at the height Of her career, yet heI
great comeback into public favor
Evening star., 1934-07-29
MARIE DRESSLER,
G., LONG ILL, DIES
Two Years Suffering With
Cancer Fatal, Despite
Gallant Battle.
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the stage. she first came to Holly
wood in 1914 and played in a comedy
with the then little known Charlie
Chaplin and the late Mabel Nor
mand. Her return to the stage soon
afterward proved almost disastrous
to her career.
The stage was not receptive to a
woman of the age Miss Dressler had
reached after Liberty bond sales
service during the World War. and
for nine years she barely was able to
manage living.
She came back to Hollywood as a
last resort in the late 20s. She
got small parts. until finally she sur
prised the movie world with her role
Of Marty in Anna Christie"-a role
she was given through intercession of
the scenarist, Frances Marion.
From then on Miss Dressler had
Hollywood almost at her feet.
Her success brought about a new
trend In the movies-the featuring
and starring of the old trouper type
of players. in contrast to the habitual
youth and romance" tendency OF
film exploitation.
Became Tradition.
She became a sort Of tradition in
Hollywood. She reached such heights
of public esteem that her birthday
became a significant event. On her
sixty-second birthday last Fall she
was honored with a party at her
studio. Metro-Goldwyn-M Mayer, at
tended by 1000 persons, including
movie notables, the late Gov. James
Rolph, jr., of California and other
officials.
Her birthday cake weighed 500
pounds.
Miss Dressler's parties, her humor,
her outlook of jovial youthfulness,
were renowned in Hollywood.
She entertained in the good old
fashioned way" rather than in the
more sophisticated Hollywood man.
ner. Noted as a good cock, she de-
lighted in concocting unusual and
delicious dishes for her guests. She
loved the mountains, and one Of her
last parties was given for few close
friends in a mountain retreat beside
a canyon stream.
Only a few months ago she said,
'I really didn't begin to live until
was so, and I honestly feel younger
than I did at 25."
She described middle age as the
best part of life.
Miss Dressler's body will be taken
to her large brick house in Beverly
Hills tomorrow Funeral arrange
ments will await consultation with
friends
Evening star., 1934-07-29
400 WEDDINGS FAIL

SAN FRANCISCO, July % (P.-
There's many slip 'twixt the ring
and the trip, report of County Clerk
Harry l. Mulcreavy showed today.
Last year nearly 400 couples, who
applied for marriage licenses never
came back to get them, he reported
in looking over 12-month records
ended June 80. There were 6,006 ap-
plications filed and only 5,611 licenses
issued.
Evening star., 1934-07-29
Comeback Heartening.

Edward G. Robinson-It seems hard
that Marie DreSsler should pass away
at the height Of her career, yet her
great comeback into public favor
Evening star., 1934-07-29
Cell 13 Ready.

Cell I3 Ready.
PHILADELPHIA (R.-It was 9;13
pm.
Operator No. 13 received a fire
alarm.
Engine No. 13 responded.
1t pulled to a halt at 1913 N.
Thirteenth street, home of Mrs. NJ. C.
McDermott.
Cell No. Is is all ready for the one
who turned in the false alarm.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

had been reading, even glanced into
the umbrella holder, before he ap-
preached the piece Of furniture in
which, subconsciously, he felt the lost
fragment must be. He struggled with
his nerves, squared his shoulders, then
gingerly rolled back the sliding cover
which had concealed the horror. What
monumental confusion! A veritable
Augean Stables of a desk!
Item by item, he penetrated the
jungle of drawers and pigeon holes.
After a while neat piles of classified
findings began to appear around him.
But his mind adjusted itself to the
demand, and 1t was not long before
he began to take a certain pleasure in
the job. Hours were required to COM
plete the whole of 1t. The satisfaction,
however, was abundantly gratifying
when it was done. He finished with
the conviction of victory. He left the
office with the air of conqueror.
But did he find the lost memo?
No, not until a week later. He had
put it in his hat-for safe-keeping.
and by the time of its eventual dis
covery he had ceased to think of it
as being important.
Evening star., 1934-04-08

asserted and maintained his su-
premacy over cold and ice, tempest
and darkness. Peary's path was
strewn with the bones Of those who
had gone before him and fallen VIC
tins to the white dragon Of the
Arctic. He had conquered the dragon.
Like a knight in shining armor his
figure looms over the years.
The practical value Of his exploit
was of such a nature as might not be
easily appreciated by the world at
large. He had found no new wealth.
He had added no new territory to the
domains. of any government. At the
best, perhaps. he had contributed a
little data of value to science. But
actually he had done something far
greater. He had provided mankind
with new symbol of its own great
ness. 1t was that which the world
appreciated. Robert E Peary had
presented to his fellowmen such an
example of grit and perseverance as
they seldom had witnessed before. It
was worth more than a new and fertile
continent.
A shining procession is that Of the
great Arctic explorers-living and
dead. Sir John Franklin, Kane, Hayes,
Hall, De Long, Greeley, Nansen,
Amundsen-at the head of these mod
ern Holy Grail seekers rides the
stopped, strong figure of Peary. They
were knights out Of an heroic age.
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Recovery to Take Precedence Over
Reform in New Deal for a Time

will be stepped up soon as work gets
under way on the s3,30o,o00, 900 pub
lie works program, but the years
deficit is expected to be nearer $4,000
100000 than the $7,OO0,0 900, 900 which
President Roosevelt estimated.
Despite the increased business ac-
tivity and the spending efforts of the
Government, the volume of unem-
ployment remains not more than s.
100000 under the peak Of the de-
preston.
AS its next step in the drive on the
depression, the Government plans to
stimulate construction. 1t is working
on a program of Nationwide home
building and home improvement as a
means of taking up the Summer
slack in employment and adding to
the total number of jobs.
Gen. Johnson will direct this drive
if it is found to be practical. His
ability as a promoter and organizer
is counted on to make the whole en-
terprise a success.
While the industrial picture is
frightened by the evidences Of re-
covery, in the background there
hovers that old problem of price dis
PARTIES between the products Of the
cities and those of the farm. 1t was
this decline in farm buying power as
contrasted with the slower decline in
city prices that was blamed by some
economists for adding to the severity
Of the depression.
Now the N. r. A and the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration are
in competition again, with results
that might lead to a crisis such as
that faced last Summer, unless cor
rected.
AS a result Of N. R. A. wage-raising
and hour-reducing policies prices of
city products of the type needed by
farmers are rising again. At the
same time farm prices, after period
Of improvement, have resumed their
decline.
Through its vast program Of volun-
tary production control, the A. A. A.
has succeeded in raising farm prices
on the average about so per cent
above a year ago. But city prices
have been increased about 25 per cent,
so that the gain for the farmer actu-
ally has been rather small.
Each time the A. A. A. works out a
program to get prices for farm prod
ucts higher, the N. R. A. comes along
with program that results in raising
city prices. 1t is this conflict that
many Washington observers feel may
upset the recovery program, or at least
retard it. High city prices, in ad-
vance of broader purchasing power on
the part of farmers and of the mass
of wage earners, tend to hold back
buying and to keep in check rising
trend of production.
Copyright, 1934)
Evening star., 1934-04-08
Something Lost.

On occasion it is good to lose some
thing. Many an average man or
woman must have learned by expert
ence that searching for mislaid let
ter, book or photograph provides an
opportunity for the rediscovery and
more orderly arrangement of scores
of other articles which have been
judged worthy of preservation. To il
lustrate: In quest for a scrap of
paper not larger than a business card
a representative Washingtonian re-
Gently put to rights the contents of
roll-top desk which had been accumu-
lating documents, pamphlets, pencils
and pens, matches, clips and rubber
bands, postage stamps and Red Cross
seals, odd coins and street car tokens,
shoe strings and collar buttons,
Memoranda on countless themes and
piles of correspondence of multi
tudinous degrees of importance for a
whole decade.
This individual had had that
chaotic depository on his mind for
many months. Again and again he
had formed the resolution to attack
the task of correcting its condition.
The obligation bothered him. 1t was
a kind of sin to allow it to be neg
lected. But other duties, other labors
had prior claim on his attention. Day
followed day, and each morning the
challenge summoned him and each
evening he went home with it on his
conscience undischarged. He found
himself possessed with fear, dis
taste, hatred almost-the anarchy
of the desk irritated him less than
his lack of courage to tackle it.
And then few lines of notes escaped
him. He went through his pockets
without finding the data. He examined
the entire room. shook out papers he
Evening star., 1934-04-08
MORE THAN HALF WAY
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D., IL. L.
Bishop of Washington

The greatest story ever told" is the
way a distinguished English writer
speaks of the parable of the Prodigal
Son. 1t is a misnamed parable and
is more appropriately designated as
the Parable of the Loving Father"
The story as Jesus told it is the more
remarkable because it seems to fit into
every age and condition of life. The
incidents He relates are as common to
a twentieth century household as they
were to a first century household.
The happenings that attended the
youth who went into a far country
and wasted his substance in riotous
living" are reflected in the life of
many a youth of our own day and
generation. The Master artist who
painted the picture made the portrait
of the Wayward youth vivid and ap-
pealing He was the victim of con-
ditions and circumstances Of his own
choosing. His recovery was marked
by the revival of his better nature.
His return home, the home he had
offended and from which he believed
himself wholly alien, was marked by
misgivings as to the reception that
awaited him. The climax of the story
is reached where Jesus says: when
he was yet a great way off his father
saw him." and, running to meet him,
he silenced all the fears and appre-
tensions of the wayward son, and re-
stored him to his rightful and hon.
ored place in the family circle.
We do not recall of single word
spoken by the Master that interprets
more fully and completely the atti-
tude of the Eternal Father toward
His children than this word: when
he was yet a great way off his father
saw him." In it Christ comes more
closely to our human nature and gives
us a revelation of the purpose and
love of God that is so indescribably
touching and beautiful that it breaks
down all our resistance to His will
and fills us with a desire to win His
love and favor. Jesus would seem to
say: I'm spite of all your apostasy.