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Evening star., 1936-10-27


@. Did you complain about this7
A. Yes, did.
@. Did he continue to do what you
complain of-going away alone and
staying away week ends?
A. Yes.
Found Note on Table.
@. On Christmas day, 1884, did you
find a note lying on your dressing
table?
A. Yes.
@. (Handing Mrs. Simpson q note)
Is this the note? Just look at 1t.
Mrs. Simpson read the note then:
A. Yes.
@. Would you just hand that to
my lord Justice Hawke?
Mrs. Simpson leaned across the
witness box and handed 1t to q cour,
Official who passed it to the judge.
Justice Hawke addressing Birkett)
When do you say she was married
Mr. Birkett?
Birkett-July 81, 1928. The attor-
ney then addressed Mrs. Simpson
The note you have just handed to my
lord was the note you found on your
dressing table Christmas, 1884?
Mrs. Simpson nodded.
Birkett to Justice Hawke: You'll
see, my lord, it is in a woman's hand
writing. That is so. Mrs. Simpson,
is 1t not?
Mrs. Simpson answered: Yes.
Note Passed to Judge.
Justice Hawke: Mr.. Birkett. you
have Just handed me a note. sup
pose you want me to see 1t. 1t has
not reached me.
A court official hurriedly passed the
note to the judge. Justice Hawke
read it, then said: 1t may be in q
womans handwriting, but it's not
very legible.
Birkett handed the judge a type
written transcript of the note which
the attorney said the justice would
be able to follow more easily. After
reading the note the judge said to
Birkett:
This is evidence against nobody.
do not understand 1t.
Birkett, addressing Mrs. Simpson:
Did the finding Of that note cause
you considerable distress? I want to
frame a question on 1t.
A. 1t did.
@. Did you complain to your hus-
band at the time?
A. No. thought it better not, In the
hope conditions would improve.
@. Did they improve?
A. I'm afraid they did not.
@. Shortly after Easter. 1896, did
YOU receive a letter? Before the wit
ness could reply the lawyer continued
handing her a letter. Just look q,
that. Is that an envelope addressed
to you and is that letter?
A. Yes.
Addressed to Husband.
@. Will you just hand that to my
lord? That letter Is addressed to your
husband?
A. Yes
Justice Hawke dnterrupting again) :
do not understand this, Mr.. Bir-
kett. It is Q letter written to some
body else.
Birkett Ito Mrs. simpson,: The
envelope was addressed to you. The
letter obviously is for your husband
Did you come to the conclusion the
letter was Inadvertently put into youl
envelope.
A. Yes.
@. Hssanr read the contents Of tina,
Evening star., 1936-10-27

That, I think, identifies the respondent.
Birkett then rose and addressed the
judge:
"On that evidence I ask for decree
nisi with costs"
Justice Hawke-Well, suppose that
I must come to the conclusion there
was adultery in this case. There Is
one question which Is in my mind. ]
think you know what it is. -
Birkett-That the name Of the lady
has not been disclosed. :.
Justice Hawke-That is it.
Birkett-But it is disclosed in the
petition and she has been served with
the petition. =
Judge-That was what was in my
mind. Very well, decree nisi.
Birkett-With costs, my lord?
Judge-Yes. suppose so. (Birkett
bowed and sat down. o..
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He talks with as much enthusiasm
as he paints. He rarely lacks an au-
dience. Newsboy and banker, dowager
and shop girl stop to look on and
offer suggestions.
The artist often is hard pressed in
defense of his opinion as to how his
landscape should be painted. Once
he made an alteration suggested by
a passing urchin. He even admitted
it improved the picture.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
1000 PERSONS MARCH,
IN HOLY NAME PARADE
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, october ~.
Approximately 2,000 persons march,
ed through this community Sunday
with colorful church banners Of red.
blue and gold waving In the chill
Autumn air, preparatory to the an
nual gathering of the Holy Name So
ciety Of Southern Maryland.
The marchers gathered on the lawn
before the rectory here for mass.
celebrated by Rev. Joseph Leary OF
Benedict. Delegates from 20 churches
attended. Rev. Leary reviewed the
life of Christ In preaching the Holy
Name sermon. The priest criticized
those church members whom he said
used the church only - : shield or
cloak. - -
Evening star., 1936-10-27
ANNIVERSARY SET
Tairmont Heights Citizens to
Mark Founding of Association.

3, . STAN CORRESPONDENT Oh The Star.
FAIRMoNT HEIGHTS. Md, Octo-
Der 27.-In celebration of the twenty
seventh anniversary Of its founding
the local citizens association will give
an entertainment in the Elks' Hall.
$50 Chapel avenue, November 6.
A. K. Savoy, Washington school
official: Mayor Robert s. Nichols and
Association President boswell Brooks.
Prince Georges County school super
visor. win give the principal ad-
dresses. ~
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PRIvY COUNCIL MEETS.

Ming EuWNru FTesIues AZ brIeI h0u-
tine Session.
LONDON, October ~ R.-King
Edward presided at routine, 20-min-
ute session of the privy council and
received distinguished subjects today.
while his American friend, Mrs. Wallis
Simpson. was at Ipswich. obtaining q
divorce.
The privy council session was called
to conduct business In connection with
the reassembling Of Parliament this
week.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
ASSISTANCE.

THE elderly artist who sets up his
easel on Pennsylvania avenue side
walks these Fall afternoons seems to
welcome rather than shun public COM
ment, even critical comment.
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1t was one Of those pretty tableaux
that would have made an appealing
magazine cover. But only for few
minutes, however. Then the squirrel
spoiled the whole thing by diving into
the box of buttons, grabbing a large
mouthful Of them, and racing away
across the new w. P. A. gTeensward.
The elderly man shook his fists at
the retreating animal and delivered
himself Of words that were soft in
intonation but hard, indeed, In their
implications.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
pOI ,TTTCS
POLITICS.
T WOULD be nice to tell you, In a
strictly nonpartisan way, the

strictly nonpartisan way, the
story Of Washington elevator
L operator who is violently partisan.
The incident involved the taking of
a picture for publicity purposes, the
subject being a higher-up in local
Republican councils. As the camera
man was about to shoot, it occurred
to every one present that the spirit
of the thing would be better exempli-
fed If q prominent Democrat were
inserted in the photograph.
Democratic headquarters were called
and with becoming amiability agreed
to send some one over right away.
When the some one" an attractive
woman party worker, failed to arrive
in what seemed to be a reasonable
time, an investigation was started.
They found her in the lobby of the
Republicans building, trapped by an
elevator man who, learning she was
a Democrat, refused to take her to
the Office where the cameraman and
his other subjects were waiting.
&** -
SNAIL-WALKER.
Any of those dog-Walking SerU-
ices looking for an opportunity to
expand operations may find hint
(helptul, OF course) in the report
phich comes from an operative
iDhose reliability neUer has been
challenged.
With an emphasis phich implies
passionate desire to be believed.
. she reports recently hauing seen
,ooman ,oalking bo,Ul OF pet
sndils. The snails, she says, are
carried in bo,1i OF clear Dater,
Nth green plants providing them
any needed protection from the
sun.
And there you are.
SQUIRREL
YOUR reaction to the birds ana
beasts in Lafayette Park depends
upon the circumstances under which
you meet them.
There is an elderly man, for in
stance, who has good reason to
abominate the squirrels. He was
sitting in the park the other day
doing a bit of alfresco sewing and
mending, when a squirrel came up
and sat beside him, an interested
spectator to the process Of sewing
on buttons.
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tors?
A. Yes.
@. Upon your instructions, did they
keep observations upon your husba nd
A. Yes.
The photograph was handed to the
Judge. Birkett handed Mrs. Simpson g
form, asking:
@. Would you just look at this regis
tration form? In whose handwriting
is the signature on that form?
A. Mr.. Simpsons.
@. Your husband?
A. Yes.
Leaves Witness Box.
Q. Is that in the name of Ernest
Arthur Simmons?
A. Yes.
Birkett then turned to Mrs Simpson
and, with a bow. said Thank you
She left the witness box and returned
to her seat by the side of the solicitor
Attorney Frampton took Birketts s
place and called Archibald Travers.
@. Frampton, you are employed a.:
q floor waiter in the Hotel De Paris
at Bray?
A. I was employed.
@. On July 2l last you were EN-
ployed at the hotel as a floor waiter?
A. Yes.
@. One OF the rooms in your charge
on that day was room No. 4.
A. Yes.
Q. Was that room occupied by a
gentleman and lady?
A. Yes.
@. Did you wait upon them the
morning Of July %?
A. Yes.
Took in Breakfast.
@. Did you take in breakfast?
"A. Yes.
@. Where were they when you took
In breakfast?
A. They were in bed together.
Q. Is there one double bed in the
room they were in or were there two
beds together?
A. One double bed.
@. On the following day-July 23-
you were of duty?
A. Yes. The room was looked after
by my relief.
O. On July 80. did you attend with
your relief at a solicitors ONCE in
Leadenhall street?
A. Yes.
O. Were the man and woman you
waited upon on July 81 present at the
ONCE?
A. Yes.
Frampton then indicated Mrs. Simp-
son with wave of his hand and
asked:
@. Was that the lady who was with
the gentleman?
A. No.
Waiter Also Testifies.
Travers was dismissed, and Framp-
ton called Dante Busclia to the stand
Busclia testified he was a waiter in
the Hotel de Paris and said he served
the occupants of room No. on July %
@. Did you take breakfast to that
room the morning of July %?
A. Yes.
@. Whom did you find in the room?
A. A lady and gentleman in bed to-
gether.
Busclia added that on July 80 he
went to the solicitors office in Leaden-
hall street and there saw papers
served on q man and woman.
@. Is that the lady indicating Mrs
Simpson,
A. No.
Justice Hawke-What is the photo
graph for that you handed in earlier
in the case?
Frampton-It Is not necessary as
an appearance has been entered.
Justice Hawke-I didn't ask you II
it was necessary. asked you what
1t was for.
Frampton-It is not necessary. as
of identifying the respondent. I'll
put 1t to witness If it Is necessary
Justice Hawke-Just as you please
Frampton recalled Busclia and
asked him If he recognized any one
in the photograph. The witness SAID
he recognized one Of the persons as
the man on whom he had waited
July %.
Porter Is Called.
Christian Haesler was called and de-
scribed himself as porter In the Hotel
de Paris. He said he met lady and
gentleman July 81 and let them into
room No. 4.
@. (By Frampton) Did the gentle
man sign the registration form?
A. Yes.
@. Did you produce it?
A. Yes.
@. Did you see the gentleman sign
that form?
A. Yes.
Frampton Ito Justice Hawke)-
Evening star., 1936-10-27
PURSUIT.

A NEW pastor in Washington tells
= the story Of how his failure to
find certain straying members Of his
flock made him the more anxious to
find them
In his quest for knowledge Of the
habits Of certain members of the
congregation he paused one day
recently for a chat with several boys
in q northeast neighborhood.
And what time might I find your
father home of an EVENING"" he asked
one of the youngsters.
II don't know" the lad replied.
Some times he does not come home
at night"
Evening star., 1936-10-27
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Evening star., 1936-10-27
MISTAKE. .

THE presence of the classified ad-
vertising boxes in The Stars
business ofice came mighty near
sending q couple of strangers in WASH
ington away with the idea that this
town is crazy with respect to post
ofiice architecture.
Directed to the Benjamin Franklin
substation at Twelfth and the Avenue,
they got lost. wandered up Eleventh
street. saw the battery of want ad
boxes through our windows. and
thought they had found the post
ofice. Once inside, however, they
could find neither q stamp window
or letter drop. It struck them as odd
to the point Of imbecility but for 10
minutes they waited around hoping
the stranseness Of it all would become
clear.
II did 30 when some one directed
them to the proper Il dress.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
SYSTEM.

These slot machines that dot the
city disguised as games OF skill
may be hard for the average Gus
toner, but to one enterprising in.
diuidual they offer no difficulties
UhdteUer.
This tDizard, according to rumor.
goes about equipped ,Dith po,o-
ertul magnet. Once the little steel
ball starts rolling over the board,
he brings this instrument into play.
and holding it firmly against the
glass top OF the machine, diuerts
the ball into a lucratipe channel.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
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Liquor

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Simpson

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Evening star., 1936-01-12

finished making a picture with him,
so we'll take him first.
LIE HAS that sympathetic under
standing" quality that
makes it unnecessary to explain
things. He takes everything for
granted. He never gushes; he's never
full of voluble sympathy when you're
in trouble; he doesn't come around
patting you on the back and saying:
Poor little Jean. Never mind, I'm
on your side" He doesn't say any
thing, but you know you can depend
on him. You can count on him any
time and any place.
Wallace Beery probably best illus
trates what I mean by that sort OF
protectiveness." He's big and strong
but all men with muscle and braTr
haven't his tenderness.
Perhaps the best way to explain my
point is to say that if there is a dan.
gerous scsne in a picture, where If The
least thing went wrong something ter
rible would happen, I wouldn't worry
If was told l was tu play the scene
with Wally. I'd feel certain that If he
was there with me ned get me through
The thing that occurs to me first
about Clark Gable is his utter fear
lessness. He has the kind of courage
admire You couldn't down Clark, nc
matter what you did to him.
believe that if woman were abso-
lutely dependent on a man she'd have
to have one who never lost his couraSe
Evening star., 1936-01-12
IDEAL MAN is A COMPOSITE AS SKETCHED BY LA HARLOW
Julie the Great Tests
Artful YOkel to Utmost
Producer of ''Three Men on Horse" Had No
Money Trouble This Time, but He Found
Great Many to Take Its Place.

eral actors whom he had in mind for
parts and actually received promises
from five. Then Warner Bros. became
interested in his proposition, and,
after many conferences, decided to
take substantial interest in the
comedy. Mr.. Yokel then borrowed
enough to buy most of the remaining
stock himself, and, with a handful of
other very small investors, he went
to work. The rest was comparatively
easy.
THE rest" however. has been the
hardest part in producing Julie the
Great" Money troubles have been
nil. but others have abounded. First,
getting the play. In the case Of
Three Men on Horse" John Cecil
Holm. its original author. had peddled
it all over Broadway. 1t had been
turned down by Brock Pemberton,
William A Brady Gin whose theater
the original Washington company is
still playing). Paramount and others.
Mr.. Yokel had no trouble at all in
buying" 1t.
WITH Julie the Great" Mr.. Yokel
did not even have a chance to
buy it. because he never saw it as
play at the time he wanted to pro-
duce it. This was because at that
time it had never been play. II
had been a short story high-lighted
in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr..
a1y al IL onA th0n ahr1rf
arguing its author, John Taintor
Foote. into dramatizng it. Mr.. Foote
refused. Mr.. Foote had been in the
theater before and Mr.. Foote said,
Away with the theater." To sum
up. Mr.. Yokel worked just about three
times harder making Mr.. Foote drama
conscious than he did in raising
enough money to produce his comedy.
But he was equally successful in both
endeavors.
Then came the tussle & to whether
it would be wiser to follow Three
Men on a Horse" policy Of casting
competent, experienced players who
were comparatively unoknwn and
therefore who would not be featured
or starred, or whether it would be
necessary to engage a name" Finally
it was decided that play dominated
by so strong character would re-
quire famous actress in this role.
For once, all executive hands agreed
| that Beth Merrill was the logical
choice for the part Of Julie. After
all, they said unanimously, Julie is a
glamorous, vibrant character; she is
an actress who is starred in great
plays; she has fought her way up
from obscurity in unknown stock
companies; she is a positive, vital
force.
But Miss Merrill was not available.
She had other interests. She did
not want tc tie herself down. Once
again the persuasive Mr.. Yokel had
to 60 to work. If all the words he
used could have been laid end to end,
only the covers would have been left
on the dictionary. Or so both OF
them grimly thought. But 1t worked
and Miss Merrill began studying her
part.
All these problems have been COM
pletely eliminated by now. All that
remains is the opening night. That's
tomorrow.
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Ben Franklin
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merce but forbidden to abolish slave
trade for at least 20 years.
After settling these major issues
weary delegates hastened other de-
cisions until the final draft Of the Con.
stitution was ready. AS soon as 1t had
been read DR.. Franklin rose to support
it, for there was great fear 1t woul6
never be signed.
At confess" he said. "that there are
several parts of this Constitution
which I do not at present approve, but
I am not sure that shall never ap-
prove them :. consent, sir, to this
Constitution because I expect no bet
ter and because I am not sure that it
is not the best"
IN CONCLUSION Franklin moved
that the Constitution be signed.
Other delegates seconded his proposal.
Gouveneur Morris said he. too. had OBJ
iections, but would take it with all
its faults" Washington approved OF
it as a man and a delegate from Vir-
ginia. though he did not consider the
system perfect" Finally 38 of the Al
members present signed the document
and only Mason, Gerry and Randolph
refused A solemn hush fell over the
convention now that its great work
was concluded.
DR.. Franklin broke the silence with
a prophetic remark. He had, he said,
often looked at the gilded sun en-
blaZoned on the back of Washing
tons chair, in doubt whether 1t was
rising or setting, but at last he was
certain that it was rising sun.
Well might this grand old man have
felt it was a dawning! He who had
dreamed of union since 1854, attended
the Continental Congress and signed
the Declaration Of Independence!
AS a climax to his life Of service to
America he induced Pennsylvania to
be the first State to hold convention
to ratify the Constitution. He died
in .l790, shortly after the great docu-
ment was adopted by ratification Of
nine States as the basis of the Cow
ernment under which his beloved Ma
ton was to grow and prosper.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

w YHEN Alex Yokel presented
A/ Three Men on a Horse"
wv to Washington last Janu-
ary he took the first step
in establishing himself as one of
Broadway's outstanding producers,
for Three Men on a Horse" later
developed into the biggest money
making production of the decade.
As all Washington knows, Three
Men on Horse" is a comedy. Now.
just a year later-Tuesday, to be
exact-Mr Yokel will return to
Washington with another piece-this
time a drama entitled Julie the
Great" by John Taintor Foote. the
celebrated short-story writer. and fea-
turing Beth Merrill, the late David
Belasco's youngest star.
Needless to say, Julie the Great"
is being financed out Of the profits Of
Three Men on a Horse" which is
entering its second year in New York
This is a far different situation than
existed a year or so ago, when Mr..
Yokel, then almost literally pennileSs,
was financing the then unknown COM
edy. When he decided to produce
Julie the Great" he simply took cut
his -distantly acquired bank
book. wrote himself a check for the
bond producers must post with Actors
Equity Association when players con-
tracts are signed; wrote himself an
other check to cover fees for the stage
director, scenic artist and musical di-
rector; wrote himself third check to
cover various and sundry." or. if
you prefer one-word description. 'in-
cidentals"; wrote himself fourth
check just for the heck Of it and went
over to the gymnasium for his daily
workout. Such are the rewards Of
the box Office.
Financing Three Men on a Horse,
| however, was entirely different. At
the time that he wanted to acquire
its producing rights he was working
as the press agent for well-known
New York restaurant. It was only a
/ part time job. 1t did not pay espe-
cially well, even for a part-time job.
And before he got it he had gone
through period of unemployment.
So he was in no position even to pay
down the initial $500 that an author
receives when he and the producer
sign their contracts.
/ A THOUGH he knew that he
wanted to produce Three Men
on a Horse" as soon as he had COM
pleted rea ading it the first time. he
did not know how or where or WHEN
to raise the $500, not to mention the
subsequent and larger necessary
amounts So he sat down and syste-
matically drew up list of possible
money providers. The list contained
( about so names, few Of them being
/ companies, but most of them being
| individuals, many of whom he had
known for a quarter of a century or
! LONGER.
The list completed. he started his
| contact work Those III New York he
saw personally. Those out OF town
first received a night wire, then a let
ter and, finally. a long distance tele-
o. one call. OF the SO, many never
even bothered replying or else cut
him of with curt mot interested.
In the meantime, Mr.. Yokel was sc
enthusiastic that he interviewed ssv-