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The Washington times., 1935-03-14
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BY LLOYD PANTAGEs

HoLLYWO March IA.
There are times when a nom de
plume can be most confusing.
Take the case of Betty williams,
one Of the most socially promi-
nent women in the motion picture
industry, who for some II years
has been dishing out very fine
contributions to the cine m
CBeau Geste," for example)
under the pen name of Elizabeth
Meehan, and who, until the pres
ent time. has never associated
with her producer friends as Miss
Meehan the writer. The other
day, Rupert Hughes, head Of the
Writer'S Guild, met her and said,
1T understand you are a writer.
Miss Williams. Why don't you
join our organizations" The
Writer'S Guild is minus one new
membership, for Miss Meehan has
been a member for II years.
It's great fun to be in the
cinema and reap the golden
sheckels of popularity, but there
is a great price to pay for ones
private life. AS an example,
Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres
have been trying ever since their
marriage to get off work at the
same time for a very belated
honeymoon. Finally, a week of
rest came about for them both, so
they packed for a motor trip to
Boulder Dam, stopped at a hotel
en- route for one night and were
about to be on their way next
morning when a call came in
from their respective studios de-
manding their return immedi-
ately. Such Is the price Of fame.
Add beautiful gestures: Mary
Ellis gave up her singing career
to become o dramatic actress
on the stage and what Is more,
became one Of no mean ability.
Paramount signed her, put her
in two musicals in which she
invented her lungs to popular
melodies land good, tOO), then
calmly announced their search
was still on for another Grace
Moore to grace their lOt-and
they are still searching. II they
would only stop long enough to
have Miss EKlis rattle off q
few operatic airs, they would
discover, to their amaZement 1
am sure, that she can hold her
own any day with Miss Moore
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and started tongues wagging from
Broadway to Hollywood. I have
yet to hear her motion seconded
by any member of the league OF
entertainers.
Knowing Miss Hayes as the
shrewd little business woman as
we'll as the talented actress take
her retirement hope like some
thing to be swallowed with a
large dash of tabasco. The story
will help her last(?) picture, IVA
nessa," where it needs help, at
the box office. It won't hurt
Helen much.
The truth is that her last two
pictures have not been what the
industry calls bell ringers, either
artistically or financially, What
Every Woman Knows" which
should have been one of her fin
est. was botched, in my Judgment,
by the Hollywood writer's who
adapted Sir James M. Barrie's
play for the screen. I journeyed
all the way to Richmond for a
preview, expecting to see Hayes
the Magnificent, in a Barrie play
she truly adorned on the stage
only to find that the scenario
writer had let her down.
Too Much Wal pole
"Vanessa" was made from q
Hugh Walpole novel and adapted
by Hugh Walpole. In this case
it impressed me that Author Wal
pole assumed everybody who
would witness the picture had
read his books. So he appeared
to dismiss as inconSequential, de-
tails that would have better ex'
planned his characters, given a
more searching insight into their
motives. In other words they
were hastily and sketchily pre-
sented on the screen. So "Van'
eSsa" is minor.
No, I don't take the Helen
Hayes screen retirement as some
thing that means the closing
Hollywood chapter. Another pic
ture like "Sin of Madelou
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M OWE
a CLOCK

BELASCO-"Petersburg Nights"
1855 a. M, 1855, 3:45, 5:53,
1852, 9:51 p. m.
FOX-Helen Hayes, Robert
Montgomery in "Vanessa,"
10:45 a. M, las, AIS, 7:10
10 p. m. Stage, 1910, 3.
$50, $40 p. m.
PALACE-Claudette Colbert
and Fred McMurray in THE
Gilded Lily" II a. m, lis,
3:20, 5:25, 1880, 9:40 p. m.
EARLE-Edward G. Robinson
and Jean Arthur in THE
Whole Towns Talking" II
a. M, 1875, 4:20, 7:05, $50
p. m. Stage, 1850, 1885, 6:15,
8 p. m.
METROPOLITAN B arbara
Stanwyck and Gene Ray.
mond in women In Red"
l1:15 a. M. /, 2:45, 4:35.
$40, sos, $50 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Fred Astaire an
Ginger Rogers in Roberta,
1882 a. m; 1874, 1885. 5:3e
7:40, 9:42 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Mr. and Mrs.
johnson in "Baboona," 1880
a. M, lao, $3.50, 5:45, 7:55.
1:10 p. m. Stage, 1:25, 3:55,
7:40, 9:55.
HOWARD-Josephine Hutchin.
son and George Brent in
"The Right to Live" 1890.
3:55, 7:05, 1910 p. m. State,
2:40, $50, 9:05 p. m.
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the front page bulletin.
What the eager hoofing army seems to for
get is that Fred Astaire was headline star
in the $3.50 musicals and revues before pic
lures ever discovered him. And in his sister,
Adele Astaire, he had partner who could
dance rings around the cutie Hollywood dis
covered for him, Ginger Rogers.
The Astaire talent is "a find" only to
picture audiences. 1t happens to be thrust
into new medium that gives it a much
wider circulation. The dancers who think
Fred Astaire is the beneficiary of overnight
Hollywood luck have the same chance to
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real happenings in a Newport
News courtroom. Kelly is now ap-
pearing with Andy Clyde in INC.
Fadden's Flats"
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Henry TERRY" Duffy, the most
prominent West Coast stage pro-
ducer, has joined Daryl zanuck's
Twentieth Century company as an
association producer of motion
pictures.
This is the Terry Duffy who Tin
association with Arthur Leslie
SMITH operated the President
Theater on Pennsylvania Avenue
and chalked up a twelve weeks
run with "Abie's Irish Rose" You
can search the record, before or
since, without finding a play to
equal that record in washington.
"Abie" ran five solid years on
Broadway. Yet in the poll just
completed of 800 seasoned play
goers, invited by Ward Morehouse
to name the "Ten Greatest Plays
of All Time" not single, solitary
vote did "Abie" receive. Where
have all the friends of the corned
beef and cabbage school of drama
disappeared?
Paramount feels that some OF
Abie's friends or descendants are
still around. For you will find
"McFadden's Flats" a Paramount
picture, now occupying the Rialto
Theater at Forty-second Street
and Broadway.
Hey, you'll need the clock week
after next. For Will Rogers in
Life Begins at 40'' will be at
Loew's Palace. Around the cor
ner at the National, Life Begins
at 8:4O." Figure out your own
WiSecrack.
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MADGE FRAZER selected the girl with the incest
figure by Busby Berkeley director of Warner Bros God
dggers of 1885, in recent beauty contest held in Bur-
bank, CAL Busby Berkeley awarded this young lady
contract and she will appear in "Goddggers of 1885,
coming Friday to the Earle Theater.
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Fred Astaire Triumph Leads
Prancing Army to Seek
Success on Screen
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Fred Asaires in Roberta" has started parade
of dancers to Hollywood, reports Variety
"'The prancing boys Broadway busy busting off
their ceats and seeing their agents about
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M-C-M Wrong Guess

M-C-M Wrong Guess
Radio pictures is cashing in on
Fred Astaire because they recog'
nize his superb foot work as
something that could be fitted
into pictures. 1.-The Gay Divor-
Gee" may have been a surprise
succe but the Astaire of
"Roberta" was a well planned and
directed triumph.
Only Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Is
on the mourner's bench in this
case. They had Dancer Astaire
under contract, let him strut a
little of his fancy hoofing with
Joan Crawford in Dancing Lady"
but failed to recognize the chip as
the sample of rare diamond. OF
course they couldn't let him
blanket La Crawford, and there
you are. Radio let Irene Dunno
take a back seat when necessary
and the public seems to be say.
ing, it's a better Roberta" be-
cause of the Astaire prominence.
Collins Might
The dancer who has the best
chance to challenge Fred Astaire
is, I think, entertaining London at
the moment. He is Charlie Col.
lins, Dorothy Stones husband.
This boy has looks, grace and
figure besides the ability to dance
divinely. He would have the
same chance to be a sensation as
Fred Astaire PROVIDED he had
the same good fortune and intelli.
gent handling in the studio:
That's a very big PROVIDED.
BY the way, Hollywood has the
best eccentric dancer developed in
the last generation right out in
its midst and hasn't asked him to
dance a step-Jim Barton.
Will Hayes Retire?
Helen Hayes said there was
such a thing as "too much
money" in announcing her pro
posed retirement from the screen
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achieve his they did to reach his spot as featured
dancer in the Ziegfeld musicals.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
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her almost to the screaming point.
Family meals became a nightmare.
II saw Leslie Harris walking up the
street with a bunch Of violets as big
as a cabbage" Nate would state in
nocently.
Or Norris would quote Judge Hol-
comb as saying that these days James
Stimson didn't know whether his head
YVES screwed on behind or before, and
ask his mother what the Judge meant
by that.
They never made but the one re-
mark at q meal and sometimes de-
layed it until the dessert, but Jane
knew that it was coming and watched
and waited for it, shrinking almost
visibly.
She never answered her brothers,
never, if possible, SO much as looked
in their direction, but she knew well
that across the table four impish
china blue eyes were watching her
covertly. Sooner or later she would
feel herself flushing and could all
but hear the twins diabolic inward
chuckles.
Oh, to pay them back! The hate
full little devils! They deserved to be
beaten until the blood ran. If only
she could beat them herself, strip
them naked and beat them and beat
them with a black snake!
If she did they would be capable
of poisoning her might cut up
needles and put them in her food.
She wouldn't put even murder beyond
them: They were SO careful now to
do nothing of which she could COM
plain to her father
But sooner or later she would get
even. She would turn the tables and
they would laugh then on the wrong
side Of their mouths. She would get
even, she would. But how?
Her mother told her to laugh, to
pay no attention. Hadn't she tried?
Wasn't she always trying? Outwardly
no one could have been gayer than
she was that early Summer.
She had given party after party
got up picnics, hay rides, q tennis
club. Her father grumbled that he
never saw her alone for more than
10 minutes at a time. No one In
New Concord could say that she was
grieving her heart out for that gawky
James Stimson.
And she wasn't, she wasn't. Except
to make the twins look silly she
wouldn't have James back on q bet
The twins and Leslie Harris! Moth.
ing would SO thoroughly spite ths
three of them than for James to re.
turn to his former allegiance. Per.
hapS her mother was right. Perhaps
Leslie had said something. Per.
haps poor James was more victim
than sinner.
That afternoon Jane broke an en-.
gagement to play tennis and went tc
call on Miss Julia Pratt.
Jane did not bring up the sub.
ject of James, but Miss Julia Pratt
did. She told Jane, confidentially
of course, that Sarah Stimson hac
said that she would rather see hel
nephew in his coffin than married tc
that designing common Harris girl
Miss Julia added that this was un.
| lust Leslie WAS neither deSipnipc
Evening star., 1935-04-17

nor common. But Sarah, since los
ing her money. had developed an
oversensitive pride in family. For
her part Miss Julia was fond of Les
lie. Still, it did seem rather a
pity ..
Every one likes Leslie" Jane said
quickly. But If James really means
to go to Congress I'm afraid that
Leslie Is hardly"
Exactly" Miss Julia sighed and
looked hard at Jane.
Jane looked shard at her and the
compact was made and signed. They
kissed at parting, although neither
was demonstrative and they had
never been especially intimate.
Miss Julia waved good-by to Jane
and few to the telephone. The bat
tie was on.
It has long been agreed that all's
fair in love and war, and in this CAM
paign there were elements of both.
Miss Sarah started the ball rolling
by giving q cotillon which Jane was
invited to lead with James-invited
before James had been consulted con-
cerning his partner.
Tomorrow, James makes q re-
mark about q moon goddess.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
How brunettes Can
Rival Blondes in
Romantic Com p|exions
By Lillian LOy

At hast they've discovered a way
b make a brunette complexion as
alluringly beautiful as a ravishing
blondes. The secret of the perfect
blonde complexion is that it is fair,
and it is clear .. and that is what
this marvellous new beautifer does
1t makes your skin glamorously
clear and fair. From the first app}i-
cation you see the improvement.
As you 60 on using this amazing
beauty discovery, the texture of
your skin becomes finer and finer
refined" would be a better
word, because all the coarseness
vanishes magically. Open pores
are reduced. Biackheads and white
heads are prevented. Lines and
wrinkles are made invisible. Dis
eoloratious, brown spots and
patches of tan seem to disappear.
Sallow or muddy skin is given a
live natural color.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

days. and, in addition, ne has been
held for the grand jury on a charge
Of assault with dangerous weapon.
In Police Court yesterday 1t was tes-
titled that Gregory ran amuck dur
ing q "crap" game in the 900 block Of
r street, on March %. First, 1t was
alleged, he struck Russell Dodson. COL
ored, 400 block of New York avenue,
with an iron pipe, and then bit Abe
Galloway, also colored, 1900 block of
Corcoran street, between the eyes.
Gregory next attempted to assault
Policeman William M. Sanford of the
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Court Bars Whisky Label.

LOUISVILLE, KY, April II R.-
Circuit Judge Churchill Humphrey
enjoined the Churchill Downs Distill-
ing Co. yesterday from labelling its
whisky Churchill Downs" He ex-
pressed doubt, however, of legal
authority to prohibit a non-competi-
tive business from using the name of
the track where the Kentucky Derby
is run and granted an appeal. The
track complained that the distillery
took advantage of its advertising and
good will.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

day treats your skin with its Ma
turs-endowed benefits.
The name of this sensational
beautifier is DIOXOGEN CREAM.
1t took ten years to perfect Dioxo-
gen Cream, but within three
months time smart women all over
America discovered that Dioxogen
Cream really does something for
the skin. There's no other beau.
tifier in the world like it.
Approved by
Good Housekeeping
Every jar. of Dioxogen Cream
bears the Good Housekeeping seal
of approval. This means you can
safely use Dioxogen Cream it
will do all that is claimed for it.
Even the woman whose complexion
has gone to pieces, soon raves
about Dioxogen Cream. A gener-
Gus jar costs but 50t; extra size 81.
Dioxogen Cream smells inviting
and looks inviting you'll like it
for it's own sake, as we'll as for
the remarkable way it helps your
skin. We beauty advisers call Di-
oxogen Cream the "find" Of the
year. Try it and see the gorgeous
effect of brunette coloring with .
clear, fair and vivacious skin. Sup
piled by Peoples Drug Stores.
@1935 O.C.C
Evening star., 1935-04-17

Traffic Bureau, 1t was testified, using
a knife in the attempt.
Gregory was sentenced to 270 days
for the assault on Galloway and go
days for the attack on the policeman.
He was held for the grand jury on the
charge Of striking Dodson. who Is still
In the hospital.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Oxygen Does 1t

What is this "boon from heaven"
that brings a romantic complexion
to brunettes? I'll tell you the secret.
Chemists have captured oxygen
and put it in a skin cream! The
moment you apply this cream to
your face and neck, the oxygen is
released and for "a hours Of the
Evening star., 1935-04-17
DISPLAY OF IRE COSTS
MAN $50 DAYS IN JAIL
James Gregory, colored, Also
Faces Charge of Assault With
Dangerous Weapon.

Losing his temper in dice game
will cost James Gregory, colored, first
block Of r street, his freedom for $50
Evening star., 1935-04-17

Pensions Bill Is Huge.
Britain has paid, up to date, nearly
S. SOC, ,000, 900 In World War pensions.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

Tomorrow, James makes q re-
mark about q moon goddess.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-03
FIFTH RESERVE
AREA REPORTS
FEW FAILURES

While business trends for June
and early July in the Fifth dis
trict, which includes Washington,
were conflicting, changes were
seasonal for the most part and on
the whole favorable, according to
the Monthly Review Of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Richmond.
The number Of business failures
in the Fifth district in June was
the lowest for any June since
1920. and liabilities involved in
these failures were the lowest for
any month since April, 1920, the
review said.
y No marked changes were noted
in, employment conditions in
June, some improvement in con-
struction fields and coal mines be-
ing offset by decreased demand
for workers in other industries.
Estimated value of Washington
building permits issued in June
was put at $2,206,045 compared
with $670,815 in the same month
of 1884.
Department store sales here in
June were 11.2 per cent above a
year ago while sales for the first
six months showed a gain OF 1913
per cent compared with the same
period of 1884, the banks report
said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-03
MAIL SHIP
SAILINGS

The following table shows the
names of ships, the lines Oper-
ating them, their time Of sail.
ing from New York, and
their regular and supplementary
mails close. Time shown is
daylight saving time. Dates
after names Of ports indicate
scheduled dates Of arrival. ~
Indicates mails must be espe.
cially addressed by this steamer.
(+) Indicates supplementary
mails will be accepted on pier
mp to 10 minutes before sailing
time.
MONDAY
Transatlantic
BLACK FALCON (Black Diamond)
Antwerp August II: Pier X, Wee
hawken, N. J.-Mails close 1880 p. NJ
Mails for Belgium and Luxembourg: par
eel post for Belgium, Belgian Congo
Canada
ACADIA eastern s. 81. Yarmouth
a. m.-Mails for Nova Scotia Except
registered maiD: parcel post.
GEoRGIC (Cunard White starr, Hall
(west Fourteenth st.)-No mails car
ried on this voyage: sails 8 p. m.
TUESDAY
Transatlantic
BYRON (Greek), Ponta Delsada Au
Boston; Fifty-eighth ST., Brooklyn
Nails close $3.50 a. m. Csupp. maill
close p. m. and go by rail to Boston
thence by steamer; sails noon--Mails for
40 azores Islands and Portugal: parcel
Islands. Greece. Portugal and Portu
guese West Africa.
r, ExG "a, (Ame5iGan Export>'
Jaffa and Haifa IS. and Beirut rs; Pie,
F. Jersey City-Mails close y. M
Sails 4 p. m.-Mails for Balearic Islands
Egypt. Gibraltar, Irak DIETER maiD
ter maiD and syria: parcel post.
GTSLA 81. e. ElwelD. Tangiers An
gust %. Ceuta 25 and Melilla rs: Fifty
eighth ST.. Brooklyn-Mails close noon
parcel post for Spanish Morocco.
Latin America
CAXAMBU Nloyd Brasiliero). Caba
dello August 81, Pernambuco 90 AMI
lyn (Forty-ninth ST. - Mails close
a. m.-Mails for Brazil (Cabadello
Maceio, Pernambuco, Parahyba anC
MONARCH OF BERMUDA CFurnes
Bermuda), st. Georges and Hamilton
Bermuda. August 8: Pier s5, Nortl
River (West Fifty-fifth st.)-Mails clos
noon: sails 3 p. m.-Mails for Bermuda
parcel post
TEXAN (American Hawaiian). Girls
tobal August 10: Pier s, Bush Docks
Brooklyn (Forty-second St.)-Mails clos
p. m. (supp. mails 4 p. m.)-Mails 70
onIy1 Eeusdor RsS,
Esmeralda and Mania only and Pan
anna: parcel post for Canal Zone AM
Panama
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-03
MERGER SUIT
NOT APPEALED

Conceding certain defeat If he
pressed the matter, Attorney Cen
eral Cummings yesterday decided
not to appeal an adverse court
decision in his move to block the
merger Of the Republic Corpora
ton with the Corrigan-McKinney
Steel Company and other corpora
lions.
The Northern Ohio District
Court ruled June IS the proposed
transfer of stocks and bonds was
legal, and in no sense a violation
Of the antitrust laws.
The Attorney General said:
"This case was brought in or
der that the agreement could
be subjected to judicial scru-
tiny. 1t was fully tried, and un-
der the facts found, the court
pronounced the proposed agree
ment legal. It has been cOnclud'
ed, in view Of this situation,
that an appeal would be una
vailing."
The proposed agreement pro-
vided for purchase by the Re
public Corporation Of all assets
of the Corrigan-McKinney Steel
Company, including the latter's
stock in two subsidiaries. In re-
turn the stocks and bonds Of the
Republic would be transferred to
Corrigan- Mckinney for diStribu'
ton among stockholders of the
latter company.
Meanwhile, Republic Steel Cor
poration stockholders are sched-
uled to meet August IS to act on
ratifying the merger Of Republic
and Corrigan-McKinney Steel
Company Of Cleveland.
Corrigan stockholders already
have voted ratification.
Should the merger be ratified,
Republic also will take over con-
troll of Truscon Steel Company,
a fabricating concern.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-03
BY PIERE ]. HUSS
Copyright. 1895. by International
News Seryice)

BERLIN, Aug. 3 G.N.SO.-Em
peror Halle Selassie and Premie,
MusSolini will both suffer variou!
consequences as the aftermath
of an Ethiopian war, whoever tn,
eventual victor may be, in tn,
opinion Of Major Hans Steffen
noted German military exper
and Ethiopian consul-g enera
here. He said:
"As far as the Negus is con-
cerned, 1t will Immediately tie
his hands and retard the slow
but sure interior development Of
his country and people. Roads,
medical institutions, schools
and other projects have been
making cOmmendable progress
under his encouragement.
His elimination as ruler
might prove a tragedy, for he
is a humanitarian and one of
his greatest ambitions is to
wipe out slavery by the time
this generation dies out.
SLAVERY OUTLAWED
Acceptance by native chiefs
Of new slaves is forbidden and
every slave automatically be-
comes q free man at the time
Of the death of his master. On
top of that, the Negus has Sc
cured appropriations to be used
for purchasing the freedom of
slaves, who are usually treated
more kindly by their Ethiopian
masters than domestic servants
in European households.
persons who know the cOun-
try and the circumstances, as
far as could see after talking
with many, seem to be of the
opinion also that the NeguS is
handling the problem of abolish
ing slavery in the most practical
manner possible. His difficulty
is best understood when one re-
calls that in America that ques-
ton finally pushed the country
into a civil war.
ITALIAN PRAISE CITED
81 recall that in the Chamber
of Deputies in Rome recently
the secretary for colonies de-
cIared that a regime such as
that of Ethiopia, where a bar.
barrie system of slavery and SER
vitude flOuriSheS must be over.
thrown.
"WelI I remember also that
in 1923, when Ethiopia entered
the League of Nations with the
warm approval of France and
particularly Italy, an Italian
delegate made euphOnic speech
praiSing the progressive method
adopted by the Emperor in
launching himself to the task Of
abOliShing slavery.
$50 1t goes, and as I said be-
fore, a war will cost both sides
tremendously in blood and
money in addition to all sorts
Of an unpleasant aftermath"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-03

Determined to rise in the Gov
eminent service since accepting
an appointment about a year
ago with the Federal Housing
Administration, merry-eyed Ma
jeI Kehoe plans to enter busi-
ness school in September to in
crease her knowledge of stenog.
raphy, bookkeeping and other
varied subjects required Of Uncle
Sans employees.
Miss Kehoe came from Phila-
delphia, but is a graduate OF
Central High School here. She
Is at present an assistant pay
roll clerk with the accounts and
audit section of FILA.
The attractive young employt
is active in the Young Demo-
cratic Club of Washington, act
ing as secretary for Mary Lou
Roper, chairman of the groups
social committee.
A brunette. with brown eyes
and curly locks, Miss Kehoe is
athletically inclined, being es-
pecially proficient in swimming,
dancing and bicycle riding.