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Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-08-15
Roadside Theatre Will
Offer "The Henrietta"
Beginning August 2t

With Murder in the Red Barn.
continuing for a second week begin
ming Monday, August 10, the Road
sides sixth production Of the season
is already well into rehearsal prepar-
atory to opening the following Mon
day, August 26. The barn theatre
players will offer a famous old COM
edy, "The Henrietta" written by the
foremost dramatist of his day, Bron-
son Howard, and the vehicle for sew
eral seasons of the popular comedy
team of William H. Crane and Stuart
Robson.
Harold Weinberger, whose most
recent directorial effort with the
Roadside was the immortal "Trilby''
which, incidentally, broke all attend
Iance records at the Roadside-is
directing "The Henrietta" In the cast
will be several members of that cast,
including Denis Connell, Richard
Stringfellow, Nancy Hall, Milton
Hirshfeld, John Rappolt, Jr., Ralph
Thayer, and Jean Smith.
"The Henrietta" has been called the
"first American comedy" That claim
rests on the fact that it was based on
entirely on typically American life
the particular phase which it satirizes
is Big Business. Bronson Howard said
that each country had one theme on
which numberless plays could be writ
ten, and that in the United States it
was business. So he proceeded to write
a fast-moving comedy Of stock market
speculation, with two entangled love
affairs to add to the confusion.
The plot centers around the title
Character" the Henrietta" But the
Henrietta is not one, but three-a
racehorse, notorious ballet dancer,
and a mining company all answer to
that name. When the rich widow reads
i'm letter misdirected to her, that one
lof her suitors is much interested in
the Henrietta she believes it is the
ballet dancer, and acts accordingly.
And when old Nick the king of Wall
Street, hears her talk about the
Henrietta, he thinks she has found
out about his secret market opera
tions. The result is a perfect comedy
lsituation-only the audience is "in the
know"
There is more than touch of melo-
drama in "The Henrietta" too, for a
son is out to ruin his own father, to
wrest from him the title of the king
of Wall Street. And a black deed in
his youth is revealed at the psycholog-
ical moment to create a true melo-
drama situation.
With the production of "The Hen
rietta," the Roadside continues a
policy of reviving plays that were
great popular successes in their day.
"Trilby" was the theatres initial ven-
ture, and packed houses every night
for two weeks proved that the years
only give an added flavor to the ap-
peal of truly good play.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-08-15

Annual chicken dinner of the Hunt
ing Hill M. E. Church at the parish
hall, Thursday, August 20.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-08-15

Dayton Lodge, No. 144, 1. o. o. F.,
Annual Picnic, Saturday, August "a.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-08-15

Ladies Aid Society of Mcdonald
Chapel will hold annual fried chicken
supper on the Church Lawn at Ounce
Orchard. Thursday, August % from
5 to 8 P. M.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-08-15

Union Picnic of Hyattstown Bibl,
School with fried chicken and coun
try ham at Mountain View Park
Saturday, August "a.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-08-15

Among birds the albino specimens
appear most often among blackblrds,
crows or robins than any other types
Of North American birds.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-08-15

st. Mary's Church, Barnesvilla,
annual picnic and supper, Wednes-
day, September
Montgomery County sentinel., 1935-08-15
Annual Picnic Dates

Annual picnic Of the Potomac
Band. At Potomac School, Thursday,
August Is. Real country supper and
other attractions.
Evening star., 1935-03-22

money can close most mouths, even
little of it.
Juan-Silva was saying: Have we
visitors? Have we really visitors at
last? What do you mean, my friends,
by tying up their hands and hobbling
their feet? Is that treatment for a
guest?"
The skeleton-headed captain of the
guard-compared with Juan-Silva. he
looked like a young man-anSWered:
They came into the valley, senior,
and so We brought them here safely.
Francisco and Felipe, who went out
to bring in the new gang of prisoners,
have killed each other at the mouth
OF the valley-and these two say that
they've come to take up the room that
Francisco and Felipe have left"
1t was clear enough statement
Juan-Silva pondered it for moment
Then he said: Take the friar into
my own room and leave him there
Unite the ropes. Let him be free.
Only watch-in case he should need
anything. I am glad that the church
is smiling on the Valley of the Dead
But this other one, he is different
Let me talk with him. my friends
Poor Brother PaScual, when he
knew that he was to be parted from
his friend, cast one glance of long
ing toward Montana, and then went
away. surrounded by several of the
guards. Others remained with the
Kid. And he felt those amazingly
Young eyes, brighter than youth, in
Evening star., 1935-03-22

the dead setting Of that face, scan
ming him, probing at him.
"You have a name, senor?" asked
Juan-Silva.
Several" said the Kid, smiling
"Some people call me Arizona, and
some call me Montana. And some
simply call me El Keed. That Is,
south, here, in Mexico"
He wondered, vaguely, If the knowl-
edge of that name had penetrated as
far as the Valley of the Dead, even?
The death's-head who faced him
showed no sign of recognition, but
the others instantly shifted and stirred
a little. At this, Juan-Silva lifted a
bony finger and pointed to one.
"You know something" he said.
What is it you know?"
"a rurale told me-" said the man.
"One of the rurales who were bring
ing up new prisoners to the valley
entrance. He told me about Ell Keed." :"
And he said?" went on the ancient
man.
He said, senior, that he would give
the halo from his hope Of Sainthood
and his good right hand, also, if only
he could become the captor OF El
Keed."
Tell me in one words there a
price on the head of this man?"
There is price-10.000 pesos-on
the head of this gringo!"
This informant was a good, broad
chunk of man with the top Of his
nose Dashed in. perhaps by the kick
of horse or q mule, and with his
nostrils correspondingly f1aring wide,
Evening star., 1935-03-22

so that he always seemed to be out
Of breath, or in passion.
"Ten Thousand pesos?" said Juan
Silva. "Well, that is money. tooT'
He rubbed his lean hands together,
and Montana heard the chafing Of
the dry skin. But 10000 pesos
why, my friend? Is this great man.
killer and robber? This gringo? But
is he really a gringo?"
81 am an American" admitted the
Kid.
IT have known q few" said the
rasping but subdued voice of juan
Silva, but I have never known any
good to come out of them. Go on
yoV!-and tell me why they want to
pay SO much money for FL Keed
dead or alive?"
Eyes, dead or alive. That is how
the poster reads"
well, we have never made much
money out of dead men, but we may
begin to export them," said Juan
Silva. He pushed out his tongue and
ran it slowly over his lips, as though
his mouth were sore and needed COM
fort. But you still have story to
tell"
why, this is the man." said the
informant, who has ridden from one
end of Mexico to the other, with the
rurales trying to catch him and al
ways missing, just missing, and leav-
ing behind them good many wounded
and good many dead and dying"
Juan-Silva looked straight at Mon
tana.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
WHITE HOUSE NOTE
THRILL FOR ALYCE
Presidents Wife Expresses Hope
Girl Soon Will Recover
From Operation.

BY the Associated Press.
FALL RIVER, Mass, March 22.-
Plucky 10-year-old Alyce Jane Nc
Henry last night was warmed by the
thrill of letter on embossed
White House stationery from the wife
Of the President.
1t read:
MY Dear Alyce:
IT am sending you a few flowers in
the hope that they will bring you a
little cheera I am sure that you have
been very brave little girl and hope
that it will not be long before you
have fully recovered.
With all good wishes, am,
Every sincerely yours.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT"
The letter to the little Omaha
(Nebr) girl. who was operated on at
the Truesdale Hospital several weeks
ago to have her stomach put back
where 1t belonged, was especially
cheering as gloomy, cold day made
Evening star., 1935-03-22
lllssA Aqals||
SSSTw a RAPID.FiRE ROMANCE sY EVAN EVANS

ing of the brightest old Mexican
featherwork. He was croSs-legged,
like an Indian. on a mat of woven
dyed grass, and he sat at the verge
of a shallow run of water whose swift
ripples threw upward continual play
of reflected light on the face of the
despot of the Valley of the Dead.
He wore, like the lowest of his labor
ers, only loin CLOTH so that Montana
could see the withered limbs and the
sagging paunch of an old man Of 80.
at least. His head was bald as an
egg. 1t was strangel.i shaped, with
Il dividing crease in the center be-
tween the big front and back lobes.
FRpm his face the spare flesh had
been melted away by time, but the
skin had not Shrunk to tight fit.
Over the jowls, beside the mouth and
hanging under the chin, were almost
rigid folds of the old, tough hide.
He had once been tall man with
wide shoulders and still he was not
bowed, but The years had turned him
into a mummy. And, as in a mummy
of a young man, his Sunken cheeks
were drawn out lean and hard be-
cause he still possessed a full set of
teeth. When he spoke, his lips first
furled back over the teeth, which then
parted before utterance came.
This curious contortion had the
effect of smile, at first, and after
ward it was as though he wanted to
get his lips away. carefully, from
teeth that might cut them. The voice
itself was low-pitched and the vibra-
tions could almost be counted. One
might have called him dying man,
but Montana had the conviction that
death would still be postponed for
many years.
How did he manage to retain his
place? Every year, according to rule.
the tax inspectors. at least, journeyed
into the Valley of the Dead. and every
year they came out again without
registering a claim against the mon
strous rule of this evil old man. Well,
Evening star., 1935-03-22
CHAPTER XXXVI.
,JUAN-SILVA.


TWO square -shouldered buildings
stood in the center OF the val
ley One for the women, said
Il guard, and another for the
men.
"But there are hundreds in here
and how can they be crowded into
places of that size?" asked Montana.
by sleeping them in tiers five
high" grinned the guard, land where
there isn't room to lie down, they
stand"
The thing spread itself in grisly
pfGture before the eyes of Montana
the thick of the gloom lighted by
one or two dull lamps, and the groan-
ing of the sick and the deSpairing,
and the horrible steam and stencil of
close-packed humanity.
But somewhere within the walls of
this valley was Maeto RubriZ. Per-
haps his chains were jangling in
one of the nearby rows of hoers as
he drove the blade of his hoe inches
deeper than the rest And the thought
of him transformed the place for the
Kid The StrangeneSS of their past
swept over him, and feeling that
there must be future for them both.
They came now toward building
with a very long, low front.
There's your master. There's Juan
Silva-and may God help you!" said
one of the guards.
To which the captain answered,
chuckling: God can't look in here.
The steam's too thick"
And once more they all laughed
at this.
In front of the place they were
halted In place of the lariatS, they
we're tied with short cords, even their
feet being hobbled; afterward, they
were led through an entrance door
down a naked hall, and so into the
brightness of an open court.
Here sat Juan-Silva under an avn
Evening star., 1935-03-22

Have you killed some Of the brave
ruraleS?" he asked
IT have" said Montana.
"Ha! And you boast Of it?"
Suddenly Montana felt that it would
be far wiser 70 tell most Of the truth
to this terrible old man. Therefore,
he broke out. speaking truth from
the bottom of his heart. "I never
saw q rurale I would not have put
bullets through, II I could"
"Ah," said Juan-Silva. That's the
truth Of 1t, is it?" He began to nod
his head, wagging 1t far up and down.
AS last he said: IT, also. never have
seen rurale did not wish dead!"
Montana. tomorrow, has q shooting
match with Death.
Evening star., 1935-03-22
PART AFTER so YEARS

GAIL I Could Bear" Says North
Carolina Husband, Divorced.
MOCKSVILLE, N. c., March % (P)
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Reavis took so
years to discover they couldn't get
along together.
Fifty years of married life is all I
could bear" said Reavis, rs, in Su-
perior Court.
The couple have been married So
years. Grounds for the divorce was
two years separation. 1t was uncon-
tested and a jury granted an abso-
lutte decree.
Evening star., 1935-03-22

1t impossible to wheel her on the
sun porch for her fresh-air bath"
Doctors said Alyce was very much
better.
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addition of 20 new cruisers. If the
battleship must remain at the insist
ence of other nations, Britain will GER
tainly start construction of at least
one, to replace those capital ships
in his majesty's fleet which are rapid
ly becoming obsolete.
The United States will, without
much argument, seek to uphold the
present policy of naval parity with
Great Britain, as granted by the Wash
ington naval treaty of 1922. She will,
however, differ with Britain on the
types of ships to be built, since the
battleship, or capital ship, is real
necessity to an efficient American
navy.
Japan, having already broken the
reins of the 5-5-3 ratio, will reiterate
more forcibly her demands for parity
with Britain and America. Such
parity will be in all likelihood theoret-
ical, for japan is little likely to be
in a position to do enough building
to reach that level If the two English
speaking nations are going to make
sizeable additions to their naval
strengths.
Germany has won an agreement with
Great Britain which will allow her to
build fleet equal to 80 per cent of
the British strength. France will at
least insist upon matching ship for
ship with Germany. What Italy will
do is highly problematical at the time,
although it may be said she will keep
right on increasing the size of her
navy; to what extent is the problem.
Submarines would be abolished If
Britain had her way, and 1t is a safe
bet that John Bull will make the au-
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constructed with anything like reck-
less abandon.
$4,000 Tons Our Limit.
No ship larger than $4,000 tons can
clear the locks in the Panama canal,
so it is safe to predict that the Unit
ed States will not plan any new battle
ships of more than that limit. Nor
is it probable that Uncle Sam will ever
agree to the limit of 27,5O0 tons, which
it is reported, Great Britain will pro-
pose.
Britain feels that 1t would be more
to her advantage to distribute her tom
mage limit In larger number of small
er ships. With her widely scattered
colonies, covering the earth (You
know: "The sun never sets on the
British fiag"), she has ample fuel sta
lions to feed her ships on long cruises.
America has no comparable system Of
supply depots, and therefore finds it
essential to have ships with larger
long way from home without having
to worry about refueling.
Growing more and more every day
in Great Britain is the feeling that
Anglo-American battleship agreements
are not worth bothering about any
way, because it seems unthinkable that
the two fleets should ever be directed
against each other. Let America GO
right ahead and build ships on any
size she likes" say the sponsors of
this plan, land let Britain build what
ever size she deems advisable"
However, is 1t really certain that
these two great navies would never
be used against each other? Here is
a case In point:
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HOSTILE
VALLEY
l|IInN Ames
IllUl Williams
IIIIlIII Copyright by
HILL Ben Ames Williams.
IIlIlIIl WNU Service.
SYNOPSIS
Copyright by
Ben Ames Williams.
WNU Service.

At a gathering of cronies in the viii
lage of Liberty, Maine, Jim Saladine
listens to the history of the neighbor-
ing Hostile Valley-its past tragedies.
its superb fishing streams, and, above
all, the mysterious, enticing Hubby"
wife of Will Ferrin. Interested, he
drives to the Valley for a days fishing,
though admitting to himself his chief
desire is to see the glamorous Hubby
Ferrn. "Old Marin" Pierce and her
nineteen-year-old granddaughter Jenny
live in the Valley. Since childhood
Jenny has deeply loved young Will
Ferrin, older than she, and who re-
CARDS her as still a child. Will leaves
to take employment in nearby Augusta.
His fathers death brings Will back
to the Valley, but he returns to Au-
gusta, still unconscious of Jenny's
womanhOod, and love. Neighbors of
the Pierces are Bart and Amy Carey,
brother and sister. Bart, unmarried and
something of a neer-do-well. is at
tracted by Jenny. The girl repulses
him definitely. Learning that Will
is coming home, Jenny, exulting, sets
his long-empty house ito rights" and
has dinner ready for him. He comes
bringing his wife, Hubby. The girls
world collapSes. Hubby becomes the
subject of unfavorable gossip in the
Valley. Entering his home unlocked
for, Will finds seemingly damning
evidence of his wife's unfaithfulness
as a man he knows Is Seth Humph-
reys breaks from the house. Will over
takes him and chokes him to death.
although Humphreys skaters his leg
with a bullet. At Marin Pierce's house
the leg is amputated. Jenny goes to
break the news to Hubby and finds
her with Bart Carey. Hubby makes a
mock of Jenny's sympathy, declaring
she has no use for half a man." and
is leaving. Will is legally exonerated,
and with a homemade artificial leg
carries on" hiring a helper, Zeke
Dace. Months later Hubby comes back
Will accepts her presence as her right
Two years go by. Zeke and Bart Carey
engage in a fist fight, the trouble aris-
ing, as all know, over Hubby.
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tomato suggestion to outlaw them in
the preliminary conference, with alb
solutely no hope of success. At least
that will clarity the situation with
respect to underwater craft in the SUBJ
sequent discussions.
Limiting Battleship Tonnage.
There is also no doubt that America
will be successful In unfolding the
international legality of the capital
ship. The question will resolve itself
into an effort to limit the tonnage of
these vessels, rather than to abolish
them altogether. The United States
was successful in defeating the Brit
ish proposal to limit capital ships to
$4,000 tons at the London conference
of 1880.
The generally accepted naval theory
is that battleships have outlived their
usefulness after they have become
more than twenty years Of age. There
have been no battleships completed
during the last ten years, and by far
the greater part of the worlds battle
ships have already passed the twenty
year mark.
By agreement, the United States and
Great Britain may not lay down an
other battleship until 1887. 1t takes
three or four years to build one Of
the giant floating fortresses." By the
year 1941 there would be only two
British battleships less than twenty
years old-the Rodney and the Nelson.
The United States will have the Colo
RADIO and the West Virginia still Of
useful age. Japan will have none and
France will have none. Italy is build
ing two 35,000-ton battleships now, and
they alone in II Duce's navy will be
less than twenty years old.
From this it will be seen that if the
naval conferences do not succeed in
abolishing the battleship, Father Time
will, unless the powers begin build
ing new ones soon. Battleships cost
about $4O,OOO,OOO apiece, so it is hard
ly reasonable that new ones will be
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-"She looks real poorly, Granny" she
some of this tonic you give me. -
sulphur and molasses is likely all
she needs" Marin Pierce guessed.
"Amy knows that we'll as me, but II
she needs me, low she'll let me
know"
But in this conjecture Marin Pierce
was tragically wrong. Amy needed
more than homely remedies; but she
did not come to consult the old woman,
and though Jenny went once to the
house to see the other. she saw only
Bart, and he showed an unaccustomed
i'll humor at her solicitude.
"He was fixing to spray his apple
trees" Jenny explained, when she re-
turned. working in the barn. guess
Amy was inside the house; but Bart
said she was all right"
She did not confess Bart's i'll hu-
NOR. 1t had seemed to her at the
time futile and reasonless, yet not her
concern.
DuI I"O VI thICC idlCk sic
would remember it, and regret that she
had NOT persisted in her intent to see
Amy. For Bart came in haste through
the woods path, splashing through the
mud; and the man was pale and
shaken.
"Ma'am," he said. you've got to
come quick. Amy's drunk some apple
spray"
Marin Pierce cried: Drunk it? How
come? You dumb fool, did you leave it
around. :"
"She done it a-purpose," he con-
fessed; and he protested: 81 dunno
why. Amy amt been the same all
winter; brooding and worrying about
nothing. You come quick, or she'll be
done for"
"What was in it, arsenic?" the old
woman demanded grimly.
Sure"
And Marin Pierce nodded. "Fetch
the mustard, Jenny" she commanded.
And plenty salt. Oh, know you've
likely got Them in your own kitchen.
Uul IL tame tlLuS " uliu GILL
there. Jenny, come on"
So they three went together through
the belt of woodland to Bart's farm,
Marin Pierce scurrying in the lead,
Bart at her heels repeating and
reiterating his bewiderment. Jenny
sick and shaken, trudged behind.
She thought Amy must have loved
Zeke and waited for him to come
back to her, this long winter through;
and when he did not come.
They found Amy on the floor in the
kitchen. Bart explained: 81 carried
her in here; but l never stopped to
put her in bed. :"
"Never mind now" Marin Pierce told
him. "No time to, move her. The mus
tard, Jenny. Bart, you hold her mouth
open.
Jenny watched what followed in
plying silence, helping when she could,
asking no questions; but she felt
deep kinship between herself and this
girl, and at the same time a certain
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BY WILLIAM c. UTLEY
( nth the whole world fearful
A I that the East African incident
v may provoke the entire Eu-
ronean continent into another

w nth the whole world fearful
IA ! that the East African incident
Wv may provoke the entire Eu-
ropean continent into another
terrible war and that such war, if
it comes, will eventually spread to the
far corners of the earth, there is lit
tie room for hope that any definite
agreements of Importance will be
reached during the naval conference
which opens in London December 2.
Certainly no reductions in naval
ornaments Of the powers will find ia
vor. Neither will things remain ex-
actly as they are. Rather the chief
hope Of the meeting will be to put
some sort of limitations upon the ma
val building which is certain to be-
gin with the expiration of the present
London treaty at the end Of 1886. If
the delegates can succeed in prevent
ing a free-for-all naval race which ulti
mately might lead to disaster, the con-
ference will not have been in vain.
The December conference is In re-
atty q preliminary to conferences In
May or June of next year. Delegates
will now attempt to clarity the de-
sires and intentions of the several
major powers; in the spring they will
return to London to see what actual
technical agreements can be arrived
at, using the revelations of the De-
cember meeting as foundation.
1t has been generally predicted that
the outcome of these meetings will be
additions totaling 100000 tons to the
navies of the great powers. Whether
each power will be able to build her
desired share of the additions without
serious protest from the others re-
mains to be seen.
Would Ban Batteship.
Great Britain, it is safe to predict,
will renew her efforts to sell the other
powers on the idea of abolishing the
battleship in all navies. She has in
dicated that she would like to aug
ment her present naval tonnage by the