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reaches the screen public. Among sew
eral things, the m,rnition angle will
have to be toned down, unless M-G-M
wishes to start war with the powerful
du Pont interests. And italy probably
will have something negative to say
regarding unfavorable perturbation Of
Its nationals.
While on the subject Of foreign 10
Gales, Paramount has bought THE
Last Train for Madrid" revolution
inspired story by Paul Hervey Fox.
Cary Grant, on the verge Of signing a
long-term contract with the studio,
gets the lead. The story sounds excit-
ing-about a couple of tourist honey
mooners who take the last train to
Madrid before revolution plunges the
city into a hell on earth.
A word of warning to film-struck
ladies of the South: The big guns Of
Selmick International. headed by Di-
rector George Cukor, aided and abetted
by Authoress Margaret Mitchell, are
going to march through Georgia in
Evening star., 1936-12-02
"Y" OFFICIAL TO TALK

Frank B. Lenz. International Y. M.
G. A. secretary Of New York City,
will speak on THE " Nobody Knows
ut q luncheon meeting Of the Twenty
Four-Hour-a-Day Club tomorrow OF
the Y. M. G. A. Building.
Lenz spent six years in China with
the Y. M. c. A.. returning to this
country in 1924.
He will also speak on "The Debit
and Credit Side Of the Soviet" at q
luncheon meeting Of the Loyal
knights Of the Round Table in the
Cosmos Club Friday.
Evening star., 1936-12-02

as one OF the endless, mysterious
conclaves conducted between coaches
and athletic squads in schools for
young females and males al over
America.
Except that most of these girls wore
traces Of theatrical makeup, within
an hour they would be back on the
stage of the Capitol Theater per-
forming q ballet, doing q nifty tap
dance routine or acting as extras in
a vaudeville skit They are dancers.
these youngsters, perhaps the most
versatile company ever seen on the
hoof in this city. At present they
represent a sort of Washington City
Ballet. appearing two weeks or more
each month in the largest vaudeville
film theater in town. quite as familiar
to the patrons of that house as the
Metropolitan Opera supernumeraries
are well known to the claque.
Since their ballet talents are their
primary distinction from other
choruses, they call themselves the
Elida Ballet Or at least they were
called that by their guide, manager,
mentor and instructor. Betty Freed
man, . dark-haired, vigorous woman
who first assembled the troupe in
Boston about three years ago. She Sc
lected the name Elida because she had
once been in a vaudeville act with her
four sisters, and the first letters OF
the five names combined to spell
"Elida." 1t is pronounced with the
i," as in Eliza Jane. About the time
her sisters act broke up, a Boston
theater wanted a line" as groups of
dancing girls are known to blend in
with its weekly stage presentations and
Miss Freedman set out to supply the
demand.
VIRTUALLY every girl she chose
had a good, solid foundation of
ballet training. They hailed from
Boston "a majority Of them), one
from Hackensack, N. j., another from
the Middle West, but geography was
not the question. They knew ballet.
A dancer who is grounded in that tech
nicue can learn taps, acrobatic nip
ups, bumps or anything else that may
be required of q terpischorean stock
company. But the girl who knows all
the other answers cannot pick up
ballet in a week end of rehearsals.
She Is useless when the light and
airy numbers are demanded.
In the last three years the company
has not changed much in personnel.
One or two have fallen by the wayside
into matrimony. A couple OF others
married and kept on at their stage
jobs. At a gentle estimate, they now
average around % years in age, S feet
inches in height. Six are brunettes,
two red heads, four blondes. (Note:
These figures are not guaranteed by
the editor) For there are IL alto
gether in the assembly. The twelfth
one joined our seance q bit later in
the game. She had been shampOoine
her hair. It was blonde.
In their joint careers, the girls have
mastered approximately 100 routines,
playing anything from little Dutch
milk maids to the wild houris OF
Harlem, with . dash of Isadora Dun
can and Pavlova mixed in. They also
cafl sing choral numbers in three
part harmony, a statement which ]
took to be gag until Miss Freedman
said, Go on, sing that Cornell song
for him." and the girls broke into
Far Above Cayuga's Waters" sweetly
Evening star., 1936-12-02

field Connor, Helen Bache, Lola Hat.
ten, Margaret Price. Helen Perry. Mar
gie Parrish, Jeanne Rose, Mary Bru-
ton, Margaret Horn, Alice Foust, Eve
lyn Kelly, Sarah Steadman, Ruth Lip
pincott, Eleanor McWilliams, Marian
Seaman. Helen Eddy, Florence Shell
ings, Margaret Schroebel. Agnes Will
hanson, Carl Horn. Marvin Fisher,
Charles Strickler, Richard Hill and
Harry Yeide. r. D.
Evening star., 1936-12-02
PROGRAM ARRANGED
BY MADRIGAL SINGERS

THE Madrigal Singers, directed by
Mrs. John Milton Sylvester, will
be heard in a program Of English
madrigals, folk songs and Christmas
music at the Church Of the Latter
Day Saints. Sixteenth street and Co
lumbia road, on Thursday evening.
The program Is presented through
the courtesy of DR.. Edward p. Kimball,
organist Of the church, by Dr. and
Mrs. M. C. Merrill. DR.. Kimball will
precede the choral group with a short
organ recital and a reception to the
personnel Of those divisions of the
Department Of Agriculture associated
with DR.. Merrill will follow.
Evening star., 1936-12-02

Jersey Finds Laurel Oak Tree.
The first laurel oak tree ever found
in New Jersey was discovered re-
Gently; estimated to be about 100
years old, it Is in the Bass River
State Forest.
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Alfred Lunt and
Lynn Fonta ne
are starred, will
play the Lunt role
manager Of a
troupe Of dancing
cuties. 1t Is said
that Garbo is not
averse to playing
opposite Gable in
this picture to
era dicate Miss
Fontanne's stage
caricature of her.
Considerable
changes will have
to be made before
"Idiot's Delight"
Evening star., 1936-12-02
Washington's Own Ballet
Versatile, Hard-Working
Elida Dancers Have Mastered 100 Routines
Since Unit Was Formed in Boston
Three Years Ago.
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS. JR.

first there girls in the place They clustered inside the
of ttg
~
like moment launch
fight old
Impy Academy gathering
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Clark Gable Will PLAY
Lead in idiots Delight
Carlo May Take Lynn Fontannes Role to
Eradicate Stage Stars Caricature of
Her-M-G-M Is Producer
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oILYWooD December NAN)-Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer
policy Having burned hngers-and
the Turkish Armenian problem pic
he Turkish government protested
sudio)
ACQUIRED barrel idiots
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Gardner Is Star in Next
OfCity's Seeing Doubles"
English Comedian to Strut His Stokowski
on Stage and Screen at
Same Time
RY lay CARMOuY.

yEN phantom orchestra the screen
yesterday afternoon put idea
Wv loling the back Of Of the
' a beautiful simplicity and horrible
people getting things badly
mike up straight
HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD stealing
Evening star., 1936-12-02
Scales Reveal Fish's Age.

Just as the age of a tree can be
determined by studying its rings, 50
the scales Of fishes reveal their age.
Evening star., 1936-12-02

Delight the Pulitzer prize-winning
play by Robert E. Sherwood.
Clark Gable, who made special trip
10 New York to see the play, in which
Evening star., 1936-12-02

NIGHTS. S1.1e TO se.75
SAT. MAT. 55e TO S22o
Altogether, ladies and gentle
men. a delightful and nostalgia
evening in the theater, with
some of the best American
music ever written to keep the
memory of Victor Herbert fra
grant,"
Mellon B. Bell. Pest
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duet Feature
lOf "Martha"
Old Loved Tunes Are
Given by Went
worth Singers.

VIRGINIA WELDON scored a
! signal success singing THE
" Last Rose of Summer" at the
' production of "Martha," staged
Evening star., 1936-03-19
DELAYS Certificate
IN SISTERS DEATH
Coroner Awaits Completion of
Police Investigation in
Gas Fatalities.

No death certificates for Nettie
Tippett, 81, and her 16-year-old sister,
Bessie, who died of Illuminating gas
poisoning, under circumstances still
under investigation by police, will be
issued until the inquiry is completed,
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald said
today.
Nettie Tippett, who was known at
her rooming house, 1927 Pennsylvania
avenue, as Mrs. Nettie East, died yes
terday, less than "a hours after the
younger girl was found dead in her
sisters gas-filled room at the PENN
sylvania address.
Death was due to the poisonous
effects of the gas alone. DR.. Mac
Donald said. but he will not issue a
death certificate until police have
completed every phase of their in
yestigation. Y
Evening star., 1936-03-19
TRAFFIC "a
& CONVICTIONS "a

Harry E. Boswell, 1906 D street
southeast, S5.
Thomas R. Bowling, 2l35 G street,
$40.
Clyde w. Emmert, Gil Longfellow
street, $40.
Arthur F. Owen, Maryland, $40.
William S. Rust, Virginia, $40.
Charles M. Brown. Maryland. $40.
Walter E. Freeman, 1881 Irving
street northeast, $40.
PERMITS SUSPENDED.
John L. Acuff, 77O1 Georgia ave-
nue., second offense. As days.
George Allen, Hyattsville, Md. Is
days.
David H. Andrews, 261O Cathedral
avenue, 80 days.
William Aronowitz, 7135 Seventh
street. Is days.
Floyd S. Davis, 3l00 Wisconsin ave-
nue., Is days.
Edward A. Debow, 47o5 Wisconsin
avenue, 80 days.
Jimmie G. Deouds, 47Ol Ninth street,
IS days.
Herbert w. Devolve, Riverdale, Md,
80 days.
Richard A. Dorsey, 2024 Portner
place. Is days.
Harold M. Dudley, Chevy Chase,
Md, 80 days.
William M. Edwards, 5l51 Franklin
street northeast, second offenSe, 30
days.
William P. Eldridge, 1911 Mime
sofa avenue southeast, 80 days.
Joseph F. Farrell, 1884 Second
street southeast, 80 days.
Henry E. Fass, 1865 Kennedy street,
80 days.
Edward A. Fay, 55lG Broad Branch
road, Is days.
Herbert H. Ford. ass First street
southeast, 80 days.
Thomas M. Ford, 1926 Walter street
southeast, 80 days.
Lester c. Frank, 5628 Kansas ave-
nue., Is days.
Bernard J. Garner, 806' Eighth
street northeast, second offense, 80
days.
Norman r. Gibbons. 900 Fourteenth
street southeast, revoked.
Ernest j. Graves, 1905 Gales street
northeast, Is days.
John w. Gray, 1920 G street north
east, second offense, revoked.
George w. Grigsby, 490 N street
southwest, Is days.
Gerard Guilfoyle, 5408 Colorado
avenue, Is days.
Anthony B. Gwyn, 1909 Seventeenth
Richard r. Bashaw, Clarendon, Va,
Is days.
Maurice r. Crimmen. As v street,
Is days.
James D. East, jr., 853 Woodrow
street, Ballston, Va, 80 days.
David Franks, 802 F street, 80 days.
Joseph w. Harris, 1910 New Jersey
avenue, Is days.
William G. Harveycutter, West
chester Apartments, Is days.
Meek R. Hughes, 211 Third street
southeast, Is days.
william B. Ingersoll, Clarendon.
Va, 80 days.
Walter r. Jex, TIL Florida avenue.
80 days.
Gordon johnson, 2811 Connecticut
avenue, 80 days.
Jack A. Jones, 403 Warren avenue,
Aurora Hill, Va, Is days.
John C. Jones, SOC Central avenue
northeast, is days.
Lawrence E. Jones, 800 Eleventh
street southwest, Is days.
Francis J. King; 1919 QuarleS street
northeast, 80 days.
William c. Strickler, Clarendon, Va,
revoked.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
DR.. ORWIN HOWE'S
WILL is CONTESTED
Provides for Establishment Of
Home for Girls-Executors
Charge Uncertainty.
By a staff correspondent OF The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, March
i9.-The will Of the late DR.. Orwin
z. Howe of Washington, providing for
the establishment of a home for un-
fortunate girls on his farm in Prince
Georges County, was attacked yes
terday by the executors on the ground
that the bequest was too indefinite
and uncertain.
In a petition in equity to the Prince
Georges County Circuit Court, the
executors, the Second National Bank
OF Washington and Mrs. Minta G.
Howe, the physicians widow of 434
Park road, the court is requested for
o ruling on the bequest because the
executors cannot proceed with the will
until such ruling Is made"
DR.. Howe died November 6, last
year, leaving an estate valued at
three-quarter million dollars. His will
devised the entire estate to the
executors as trustees, to pay the in
come to his widow and three children.
Upon the death of the last survivor
the estate was to be disposed of as
follows: $1,000 to the Baptist Home
for Children of the District of Co.
lumbia, and the balance paid over to
q corporation to be formed under the
name of "Dr. o. Z. Howe Home for
Unfortunate Girls"
The home was to be located on his
farm on the Potomac River in Prince
Georges County.
The executors assert in the petition
that they "are advised that the will
Is void" and request the court to so.
Rlle. 1
Evening star., 1936-03-19
UT Of a rare relationship estab-
lished II years ago between a
45-year-old business man and
a 13-yearold school boy has

UT Of rare relationship estab-
lished IL years ago between a
45-year r-old business man and
~ a l3-yearold school boy has
come a national prize-winning COM
bination that on Saturday night at the
Willard Hotel will receive the highest
honor ever bestowed on a pair Of
Washington pigeon fanciers.
Back in 1924, william F. Dismer,
even then a quarter-century devotee
of the sport, initiated young Theodore
McGann into the game, thereby in
augurating an association that will be
climaxed by their receiving as signal
a distinction as the pigeon game can
give.
Dismer and the young University OF
Maryland graduate will receive g
gold medal for the performance Of
pigeon, owned and bred by the former
and trained by McGann. 1t holds the
best five-year record of any bird in
the East, a record marked by un-
precedented flights in the Chatta-
noga race-the Kentucky Derby of
pigeon racing.
500 Miles in One Day.
To win this distinction the bird,
Twilight and Dawn" followed q
performance of being the only entrant
in the 1881 race to arrive home on
the day of liberation by winning q
600-mile race in 1884 from Alfalfa,
Ala.-being clocked at am. the
day after being released. Since then
the bird has flown. the Chattanooga
course twice, getting good positions
each time.
Neither Dismer nor McGann could
have succeeded in producing such
bird without the other. Restricted by
business in the vital daily training
of his pets, Dismer found ain enthu-
siastic ally in McGann, who availed
himself of the opportunity of making
a partnership by training the birds
every day. He thought nothing Of
getting up at S am. to see a bird
come home, or staying around until
after 8 pm. on the supposition that
an expected arrival had not gone to
roost en- route home for the night.
Evening star., 1936-03-19

Near Chattanooga is being laid out
a 7,500-acre recreational grounds con-
tanning the highest waterfall in the
EaSt-the Falls Creek Falls.
Nearly every one of the areas con-
tains something of exceptional inter-
est.
1t must not be understood, the re-
settlement engineers say, that all the
land in these areas actually is sub
marginal. Some of it may be valuable
property. In such cases it is pur-
chased as nucleus of the project or
to close in gap. but in few cases is
the price of the area as whole-good
and bad land Jumped together
allowed to run more than SIS an
acre.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
PLANS APPROVED
|. FOR NEW SCHOOLS
Board of Education Backs
Erection of Seven
Junior Highs.

Approval of the Board Of Educa-
ton was given late yesterday to the
erection of seven new junior high
schools, five additions to other Junior
high schools, three new vocational
schools and one vocational school
addition.
These and other plans for more
adequate school facilities were in
cluded as part of the f1ve-year school,
building program.
Supt. of Schools Frank w. Ballou
also submitted to the board the thir-
teenth of his reports on the proposed
f1ve-year school-building program,
estimating that the elementary schools
will need ATS additional rooms In the
next five years.
Sites Are Listed.
The construction program approved
calls for new junior high schools in
the vicinity of Massachusetts, avenue
and Macomb street, the Cleveland
Park area, Nineteenth street and Co
lumbia road, Kansas avenue and CAL
latin street, the Wheatley School area.
Anacostia area and on Sherman ave-
nue. south of Columbia road.
The new wings would be added to
the Alice Deal, Eliot, Francis, Randall
and Taft Junior High Schools and
the Margaret Murray Washington
Vocational School for girls. New vo-
cation,l schools would be built to re-
place the Abbott, Dennison and Lenox
Schools.
DR.. Ballou reported that Of the ATS
new rooms needed for elementary
schools, 121 were required to relieve
the current accumulated shortage.
Others would be distributed as follows:
One hundred and thirty-nine rooms
to accommodate the increased enroll
ment of s.527- children by 1912, l31
rooms for the replacement and aban-
donment Of antiquated schools, a
rooms for the establishment of occu-
pational classes, 16 rooms for the care
of anemic and other. similarly handi-
capped children, and "A rooms to
make up for the transfer of the
Douglas-Simmons School to Junior
high school use.
DR.. Ballou reported that "a Of I b
Evening star., 1936-03-19
H|SEY Jury GIVEN
CASE H|NG|NG ON
DR|NK-ORGY CLAIM
Defendant in Girl Killing
Described as Kindly in
Final Argument.
lNT0xICATl0N EXTENT
STRESSED BY JUDGE
Four Possible Verdicts Open.
Prosecution Denies Claim
of Excessive Drinking.
BY WILLIAM H. SHIPPEN. JR.

bI WILLIAM n. SHlfPEN, Jh.
The case of Charles Frederick Hisey,
who is charged with the murder of
girl roomer in his home, went to
jury in District Supreme Court early
this afternoon after the 52-year old
defendent had been described in clos
ing arguments as a kindly man de-
bauched by drink and as deliberate
murderer.
Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue in
structed the jury that the defendents
degree of intoxication at the time he
is alleged to have shot Miss Virgie
RoSella Lyttle is an important ques-
ton of fact for the jury to determine
in deciding between four possible ver-
dicts-conyiction of first or second de-
gree murder, manslaughter or acquit-
tai.
Intoxicati0n Signs Denied.
In his closing argument Assistant
United States Attorney Irving Gold
stein stressed the fact that an Army
doctor who treated Hisey Immediately
after the shooting on August 20 found
no signs of i1toxication about him.
Goldstein reminded the jury that his
testimony was corroborated by four
police officers who arrested Hisey in
his home at Ala Rittenhouse street
after the tragedy.
IF this defendant was so drunk at
that time" Goldstein asked the jury,
why can he recall only those details
which help his case? Why can he
remember buying whisky and drinking
copiouSly when he cannot recall the
murder?
IF this defendant was so deter
mined to take his own life, why did
he fail to do so? He had plenty of
opportunity after he bought the gun.
GoldStein declared that the motive
for the shooting had been established
by testimony that Hisey was partic-
ularly interested in the girl and wished
to place her under obligation to him
by insisting that she borrow 5000.
Motive Declared Lacking.
On the other hand Defense Attor-
neys Neil Burkinshaw and Nugent
Dodds denied that any motive had
been established. They declared
Hiscy's attitude toward the girl room
ers in his home was paternal and
friendly and that the Government had
failed completely to establish motive.
They pointed out that maudlin and
profane suicide notes found in Hisey's
pocket and about the home indicated
he intended to destroy himself in fit
of maudlin drunkenness.
Justice O'Donoghue instructed the
Jury that IF you believe the defend
ant was so intoxicated he could not
entertain the specific intent to murder
as charged, then he could not be
guilty of murder in the first or second
degree" The justice pointed out that
conviction for first-degree murder
must presume reasonable mind and
the purpose and deliberate and
premedi malice to kill.
Evening star., 1936-03-19

In fact, 1t was McGann who trap
ped" the prize winning bird at 8:l5
o'clock that evening in 1881 when
his boss" was vacationing in At
lantic City. 1t was then that the
monicker Twilight" was attached
to the famed bird, name to which
Dawn was added when she came
home two years later at that early
stage of her second day out.
The presentation at the annual
banquet of the Washington center of
the American Racing Pigeon Union
will follow a similar presentation to
be made earlier in the day to Secre-
tary of War Dern. For it was the Army
that produced the outstanding pigeon
OF 1884, when bird trained by Tom
Ross. pigeon expert at Fort Mon
mouth, N. j.. flew from Chattanooga
to the Jersey base in a space of "a
hours.
Both awards will be made in the
presence of DR.. E. Walter Edlund of
Chicago. who originated the hall OF
fame idea in 1881, for 1.-The bird max
ing the outstanding record each year"
No award was made for the 1892
season, when a noteworthy accom-
plishment could not be found. The
Morris brothers of Pittsburgh were
the first winners the following year,
possessing birds who few 900 miles a
day twice within the same week.
Many Fanciers Coming.
Saturdays banquet will be attended
by many out-of-town fanciers, includ-
ing some from New York, Cincinnati
and Pittsburgh. Representative
Holmes of Massachusetts,, an ardent
fan, will act as POSTMASTER.
Other prominent guests will in
clude Charles Hoser, for 81 years the
publisher of the American Racing
Pigeon News; Capt. John L. Carney
of Pittsburgh. who was in charge of
the first pigeon detachment at the
front In 1917; Capt. David BuScall,
head Of the pigeon A. E. F.: Capt.
Garland c. Black of the Signal Corps,
Oscar w. Opsam Of Mamaroneck, N
Y, president Of the A. r. P. u, and
Walter Schmitt Of Cincinnati, a for
mer president.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
ID. c. COURT JUDGE
REFUSES TO BLOCK
| PERMIT REV0K|NG
Declines to Pass on Validity
of Law by Which Board
Operates.
APPEAL TO CITY HEADS
HELD PROPER COURSE
Commissioners Review Would
Have Acted Automatically
to Stay Suspension.

Justice Jesse c. Adkins of District
Supreme Court today refused to re-
strain the revocation and suspension
of drivers permits by local traffic
authorities.
He did not rule, however, on the
constitutionality of the law under
which the Board of RevocationS and
Reservations of Operators Permits
functions.
Instead, he expressed the opinion
that Calvin B. Hartman, 1856 Sheri-
dan street, the motorist who brought
the question before the court by filing
an injunction petition. should have
appealed to the Commissioners from
the suspension Of his permit before
coming into court.
Under the statute, the plaintiff
had the right to make application to
the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia to review the order sus-
pending his operators permit" stated
the judge in a memorandum opinion.
Such application would have oper-
ated as stay Of the order of sus-
pension until the decision of the
Commissioners.
Therefore, it was the duty of the
plaintiff to avail himself of this ad-
ministrative remedy before bringing
suit in court"
Mason WEIGH, Hartman's attorney,
had asked the judge to hold the law
under which permits are revoked un-
constitutional as an improper delega-
ton of legislative authority. WEIGH
contended that the law empowered
the Commissioners and their agents to
revoke or suspend permits. for any
cause they deem sufficient, thereby
giving them power to legislate by
setting up standards to govern their
actions. Justice Adkins did not touch
on this point in his ruling.
Evening star., 1936-03-19
POST OFFICE CLOSED
IN NAVY BUILDING

The public Post Office located in
the ninth wing of the Navy Build
ing, was closed this morning, due to
the flood threat, but officials prom
ised it would be open by 1890 am.
today.
A large sign was placed on the
door reading:
Closed on Account of Flood. Post
ONCE Stock Has Been Taken Away"
Inquiry developed that the stamps
and other material had been re-
moved to the main Post Office. The
official Post once, situated next door
to the public Post once. was doing
business as usual, however.