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taken its toll on every infielder on the
Washington club except joey Kuhel
and Buddy Lewis. Red KreSS and
OSsie Bluege each could use a rest.
Yet, until Myer can do more
than Jog TO first base as he did
yesterday and turn over the re-
mainder of the running to
pitcher, this trio seemingly must
stay in the game.
There are no other inflelderS on the
bench except Myer, who could return
and give Bluege chance to relieve
both Kress and Lewis until he, too.
needs a vacation as badly as they
seem to need it.
Kress SIumps At Bat, Afield.
T EWIS, losing weight daily, no longer
looks the part of the ltne-drive,
extra base hitter that he was earlier
in the campaign. In his last "A times
at bat. for instance, Buddy has mar
aged to drive only four balls over tha
infleld and all were flies that we're
caught.
Kress was the leading hitter
on the club a couple of weeks
ago and playing as well defens-
lively as any shortstop In the
league, but Red undoubtedly is
slowing from day-in and day.
out toll under a mercilesS sun.
In the last l2 games Red has made
only 9 hits in As times at bat for
a 1876 average. Afield he shows the
slump equally as clearly. Ordinarily
a sure fielder Red has booted l3
chances in the last l9 games.
Bluege, greatest fielder Of them all,
apparently could be faultless on de-
fense if he carried Rudy Dusek on his
back, but at that Ossie has fallen of
in the last few days. One hit in the
last II trips to the plate is the record
he carries into today's game.
Cliff Bolton, with .227 aver
age for the last half dozen
games and a record for hitting
into four double plays, hasn't
been up to par.
The Griffs are full Of ailments and
the next seven games with the White
Sox and Indians, who have won Is Of
% games with Washington, do not
figure to aid them in getting back
into the first division. If the Mats
sink now they may have difficulty
coming up again. If they can pull
themselves together and swim, you
can't sell 'em short as a potential
second place outfit.
Evening star., 1936-07-17

ground again. In that case any
team-St. Louis and Philadelphia
excepted-could win"
Evening star., 1936-07-17

hit a slump and find themselves
down with the rest of US before
they can get their feet on the
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WHAT PLOTS ARE IN THIS P1cTURE7

} you please. But surely a dozen
plots for stories based or this
simple picture will spring up in
your mind.
How to make stories Of them,
stories you can sell? Well, that
is something else again. That re-
quires practice, and the practice
is less likely to be along the wrong
lines if you have the advice of an
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For the art of writing can be
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To order your copy. use coupon.
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JUNIOR PROM
ON TONIGHT

COLLEGE PARK, Md, Jan. 30.
Maryland University's annual
Junior Prom weekend, high light
of the campus social season fol.
lowing the completion of midterm
final exams, will begin tonight
with a Rossbourg Club dance in
the Richie Gymnasium-Armory
on the campus. The dance is to
be broadcast on a national hookup
as part of the Presidents Birthday
Party for the benefit of the Warm
Springs Foundation.
Miss Dorothy Millar, 523 Ken.
lucky Ave. S. E., a coed at the
university, will lead the dance
with Meredith Wilson, Baltimore,
chairman Of the RoSSbourg.
Following the Junior Prom in
the Willard Hotel tomorrow night,
most Of the fraternities and so.
rorities on the campus will hold
weekend house parties.
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What is there to write stories
about?
What a question. with the
world full Of drama, mystery,
tragedy, comed y-going on
around you all the time!
AS you walk down the street,
or ride in a bus, or study people
in a department store, what faces
you see, what tales peeping out
Of gay, or sad, or hard, or de-
feated eyes! A little group stands
talking. From pose, voice. dress.
gesture, you can deduce all sorts
of things.
Let's see how obServant you
are, you who want to write.
Who is this haggard, life-worn
figure stepping into the waiting
car of the fine lady? How did a
woman Of wealth happen to go to
a place where cats crawl in gar
bage barrels, where milk bottles
stand on window lodges, and the
wash swings from a clotheSline
trolley?
Is that sad woman an old
school teacher of the fine lady?
Who is the surprised young man
the rich woman'S son? He
hardly seems to belong in the
ash-can environment. Has the
Apply man inherited
money? Are these people trick.
ing her, or befriending her?
You answer these questions as
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DR.. Maynard TO Talk
On Idaho River Trip

A thrill-packed voyage down the
dangerous River of No Return"
in Idaho by a party of explorers
and scientists, who constantly
risked an upset in turbulent rap
ids or a collision with huge rocks
in midstream, will be described to
the National Geographic Society
in an illustrated lecture tomorrow
night by DR.. Maynard Owen Will
liams at Constitution Hall.
The expedition, with DR.. Will.
liams representing the society and
DR.. John c. Reed and DR.. Philip
J. Shenon of the United States
Geological Survey as leaders, ex-
plored 300 miles of the course of
the Salmon River, which in many
places runs through gorges deeper
than those of the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado.
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Better Bill Taxes
D. {. Claw Machines

A bill to regulate claw machines
and other games of skill in the
District was introduced in the
House yesterday by Representa-
tive A. F. Better, of New York.
The measure provides that q
SO fee and a 81 stamp tax be
assessed against every machine
and game. Representative Better
said the bill is needed. There are
now more than 5000 such ma
chimes in the District.
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"B thinks that when a girl is
engaged and is getting together
her linens and silver, the initial
to be used should be the initial
Of the bride-tO-be's first name, so
that if she should get a divorce
she could still use the same things.
do you think this is the right
attitude for b to take?
&C."
It's for the prospective bride to
decide whether she will use the
initials of her maiden name or
those of her name-to-be. Either
is correct. The first way is the
traditional way, the conservative
way, the always-correct way. But
many brides-to-be nowadays choose
to use the initials of the name-to-
be. And this, too, is now consid.
cred correct.
I'll grant you that BIS attitude
Is an essentially poor and hard
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Louis SObOl
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
Ear-Muffs for Two, Puh-Ieeze!

Three IN prees of B way who blended with miionaires
are united again Reno this wk-Marcee Edwards, Bar
bara Smith and Irish Adrian unleashng themselves
lively from T. Manville A. Loew and c. Ober Jr. Paddy
de Ccco and Margaret Lindsay, their intimate ntimaes in
innate merged several days before Thelma Todds death
Jimmy Walker took efthanded jab at AL Smith in his
short talk at the H. Hershed dinner Sunday mite Incl
denally, Hershfeds sottovoce murmur when the only
woman speaker called upon drew the ggge from the
daiswamers Watch out The female of the speeches IS
more deadly than the mae. Short short romantic story
Sunday, Jan 19-teephone call: "Lous9 This is Nat
Karson Do favor. Deny will you, that Henrietta
(Kaye) and engaged going to get married It's
cold ice :. Sunday Jan. 26)-teegram "Eloped with
Henrietta Armonk this morning Reggie Gard
ner and Beatrice Lille Witnesses
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SHE'D at making any charges,
and the fellow was released. ..
Bill Treadwell, WeStcheSter para
grapher, and Betty Foster will
try to live as cheap as three -.
BOrrah Minnevitch and his
hOOdlumS are packing them in
at the Cafe de Paris in London
E. Lucienne Boyer. who laid an
egg in Florida, follows him in
-. Strangely enough, none of
the heavy spending playbOyS Of
Broadway rates as much with
the little dolls Of the thorough
fare as one quiet, unasSuming
chap who has to fight the gals
Off-Dick Merrill, the aviator.
He is the newspaperman's pet
flier-practically every one Of
the by-liners Of note having
taken a flight with him The
largest turkey farm in America
is owned by an orchestra leader
ISham Jones And the Ork
pilot Tho played the most col
lege dates during 1885 was
George Hall-whO never went
beyond high school.
Among people of Broadway who
will be portrayed in the forthcom,
ing The Great Ziegfeld" are Gene
Buck, Julian Mitchell, Jerome
Kern; Sidney, the valet; Alice, the
phone operator, and Goldie, the
secretary The late Charles
Dillingham; also figures prominent
ly, with Frank Morgan playing the
role liberty is picking up the
Amateur Page idea which has
proved such a success in the
Journal 1t is F. P. A. who
calls attention to it's great mail
lure Incidentally. the report
is around again-it comes up three
or four times a year-that Bernarr
Macfadden is again flirting with
the idea of daily afternoon tab
in Manhattan-but not under the
name of Graphic with E. eau
vreau as his editor
Politically, these are the re-
ports around town. . ~ That
Jimmy Walker will openly cam
paign on behalf of Franklin ID.
Roosevelt in a gesture of re-
taliatiOn against AL Smith.
~ That John A. Lyons,
borough president of the
Bronx, will be the Democratic
candidate against La Guardia
... (3) That in the event he is
elected, Deputy Police Commits
siOner Brakeman will be the
new police commissioner. az
That Sec'y of State Flynn will
resign within the next so days
~ That AL Smith will not run
for mayOr-but will make a bid
for the senatorial tOga.
weeks Endorsements: The
Yacht Clab Boys and their
rhythmic tom-toms at Versailles
THE Ghost Goes West"
scintillating satire already doomed
as candidate for 1865 best film
at the Rivoli. Helen Morgan'S
new streamline chassis. Burns
and Aliens hilarious capers at
Loew'S State. ETHAN Frome" at
the National-three topnotch
transformations by r a YIN n d
Massey, Ruth Gordon and Pauline
Lord. Guy Lombardo's thrilling
arrangement of you Are MY
Lucky Star" at the Roosevelt
Grill. Margaret Mooers Mar
Shall's new tome, 1.-THE Golden
Height" -something about a gal
who was afraid to get married. =. .
Miami SIIrShipe
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VIRGINIA PARK
GETS24DEER

A herd of "a deer has Just been
released in the George Washing
ton National Forest in the Shen-
andoah Valley of Virginia, and
at least so more are to be added
by the United States Forest Ser
vice, it was announced today.
But since the forest is a game
preserve, nimrods need not hope
of getting a shot at the fleet
footed animals.
The deer, imported from Penn
Sylvania. are being placed in the
forest in line with the wild life
restoration project.
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Unit
ToHeor Talk
On Fashion
By MARY PADGETT

A great deal OF interest Is
being anticipated by members of
Major L'Enfant Chapter. Daugh-
tiers Of the American Revolution,
for a program arranged by Mrs.
Sterling Bockoven, regent of the
chapter, which will have as the
guest speaker Ethel Armes, we'll
known writer and former his
torian and research authority of
the Robert E. Lee Memorial
Foundation.
The program will be held Fri
day night, February 7, at 1927
New Hampshire Ave.
Miss Armes' subject, THE In
ternational Romance Of Lady Of
Fashion," will outline a moving
drama of a Colonial belle set
against the background of the
Revolution, and tells colorful
picture of the social whirl on a
Virginia plantation and in old
Philadelphia interrupted by war
and intrigue through which pa
raded some of the great figures
of history.
A program Of Southern music
will be presented by Arthur Corn
we'll, radio artist, accompanied by
DR.. Harold Dudley.
Members are urged to attend the
next meeting of the Robert E. Lee
Chapter, United Daughters of the
Confederacy. Monday night. at 8
o'clock, in the Confederate Me
mortal Hall.
An interesting program has been
arranged by Miss Eliza Carpenter,
chairman of entertainment. Mrs.
Richard Allen, president of the
chapter, will preside.
The annual banquet of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Daughters of
the American Colonists will be
held tonight at the Mayflower
Hotel, with the national preSi-
dent, Mrs. Joseph S. Calfee, as
the guest of honor.
Mrs. John Franklin Little, State
regent, will welcome the guests
at a reception preceding the din
ner.
Among the special guests who
are expected to be present are
Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Mrs.
John Laidlaw Buel, honorary ma
tional presidents of the society;
Mrs. Harry C. Grove, national
vice president; Mrs. David D.
Caldwell. national recording Sec
rotary; Mrs. Benjamin Wyche, of
Charlotte, N. c.; Mrs. Maurice A.
Blake, national treasurer; Mrs.
James Charles Peabody. Of Bos-
ton: Mrs. w. P. Hiden, of Nor.
folk, national historian; Miss Lii
liam A. Norton, national registrar;
Mrs. George Maynard Minor, of
Connecticut. and Mr.. and Mrs.
Wade H. Ellis.
Plans will be completed for a
dance at the meeting of Alpha
Province, Chi Sigma Sorority, next
Wednesday night at the May
flower Hotel.
The dance is scheduled for Feb
ruary Is at the Willard Hotel.
Mrs. Dorothy Casey, province so
cial chairman. is in charge of the
affair, assisted by one person
from each of the 10 local chap
tiers.
Some Of the national officers
and many of the out-of-town mem
bers Of the sorority are expected
to attend the entertainment.
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Daily Times
Table
TODAY


1890 P.M.-Luncheon; TOO p.
M, dinner, American Council of
Learned Societies, Mayflower Ho-
tel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Cosmo-
politan Club, Carlton Hotel.
1920 PM.-Luncheon. Kiwanis
Club, Mayflower Hotel.
7:3O PM.-Dinner, Federal Stor-
age Company, Mayflower Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon. Colum-
Lila Wholesalers, Hamilton Hotel.
$50 P.M.-Dinner, Panama Ca
nal, Hamilton Hotel.
800 P.M.-Meeting, Department
of Potomac, Grand Army of Re-
public, Hamilton.
800 P.M.-Dinner, City College,
Hamilton Hotel.
8:15 P.M.-Bridge Club, Dupli-
cate Contract Bridge, Carlton
Hotel.
900 PM. Bail, President
Roosevelt's Birthday Ball, May
flower Hotel.
1000 PM. Ball, President
Roosevelt's Birthday Ball, Raleigh
Hotel.
1000 PM. Ball. President
Roosevelt's Birthday Ball. Ward
man Park Hotel.
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Heads Game Group

MARTINSBURG, W. Va, Jan
30.-Whiting C. Faulkner, post.
master here, was elected president
of the Berkeley county Game and
Fish Protective Association at the
annual business meeting here last
night. william K. Eavenson was
named vice president: Donald
Dodd, secretary, and Joseph Gam.
bino, treasurer.
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boiled" attitude even to consider
when one is about to be married.
1t is h, .ibly crude and wrong
thinking even to consider that
there may be a divorce when one
is entering the "holy state of
matrimony." So we'll just have to
leave B to her far-from-ideal point
of view. for the world has in it,
alas, just such earth-bound people
CHRISTMAS CARD
Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
IF a young man does not an
Swer a girls letter, and sends a
telegram of good wishes for the
holidays in return for her Christ
mas card, shall she answer the
message with note of thanks?
&C."
Yes, it is polite to write a note
Of thanks for q Christmas greet
ing-telegram.
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TOMORROW

800 A.M.-BreakfaSt; 800 p.
M, Dinner, City College, Hamilton
Hotel.
1000 A.M.-Meeting, American
Counsel of Learned Societies, May
flower Hotel.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon Meeting,
Round Table. University Club.
1890 P.M.-Luncheon, Reel
procity Club, Lafayette Hotel.
TOO P.M.-Dinner. University
of Virginia Alumni, Mayflower
Hotel.
TOO PM. - Ceremonial, Tall
Cedars of Lebanon, Raleigh Hotel.
TOO P.M.-Meeting, Midwinter
Dinner Committee, Washington
Board of Trade, Mayflower Hotel.
800 PM. - Meeting, Grand
Army Republic, Raleigh Hotel.
900 P.M.-Buffet and Supper
Dance, Resettlement Purchase
Unit, Hamilton Hotel.
1000 P.M.-Dance, Georgetown
University Law School, Wardman
Park Hotel.
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Margaret SulIivan's Hollywood
temperament is town topic stuff
in cinema city One Of her
pet hates Is the news phOtOg-
rapher-she won't pose for him
So they've CLAIMED against
her. Margaret is now the bride
Of william Wyler, the director
Her ex is Henry Fonda,
the leading man. A few
wks. ago the report spread
that Wyler and Margaret had
parted, which they both denied,
but right after the denial Mar
garet went to a preview with
ex.Hubby Fonda. AS they en-
tered the theater a cameraman
"shOt" 'em down and Margaret
fumed. She offered to buy the
plate. The lenSman refused.
She threatened to smash the
camera. He handed it to her
(having extracted the plateS),
and told her to go ahead-it was
insured. Finally she stormed
out and tried to get the plates
back by bullying the editor Of
the paper for which it was in
tended If. it will ease her
mind, she will learn today that
she needn't fret. When the
plates were developed it was
found they were Over-expOsed-
the figures look like twin Bill
RObinSonS
Tough break for Jay Faggen
who rated paragraphs here, when
he turned over his publicity biz
some wkS. ago to his assistant
and became an executive for the
Bobby Crawford Music Publish
ing firm. Faggen is out of the
Crawford outfit since the week
end-and plenty detected. Wolfe
Kaufman. one of the Variety
mugs" has been tossing bricks
at Florence Rogge. dance director
at Roxy's, at every opportunity. ..
Recently, he discovered she had
been a classmate of his in the De
troit public schools, years ago. .
Miss Rogge will draw bouquets in
the future. Today's Success
Story heroine-Ann Brae. former
vaude headliner. who broke with
her spouse five yrs. ago-and
found herself pennilesS with a
child to support. For a time, the
river seemed the only solution. {. .
Today. she is the chief feminine
producer of radio programs-has
a big office, car, a chauffeur
servants-and a healthy bank &C
count Without the aid Of
man. THE Music Goes Round
etc." is heading for the fadeout
already-over-Wo worked Inciden.
tally. one song writer, Abne1
Silver, makes an interesting OBJ
servation-to wit: that songs with
a geographical orientation have a
better chance of attaining first
rank, and lists as examples Moon
Over Miami" ALBANY Bound
Carolina Moon" Missouri
Waltz" Mississippi Mud
Underneath the Harlem Moon,
zone Night in Monte Carlo,
Tahiti and a dozen others. =.
Nine. 5tavisky, by the way, will
not be featured in the new French
Casino show-not even receiving
program billing She will be one
Of the chorus girls at the wkly
stipend of so bucks.
Janet Reade MRS. Pat Rooney.
3D. was harassed by a subway
masher Sunday A plain
clOthesman sitting in the same
car nabbed the guy as he was
making his passes and hauled
him off to the StatiOn-where
however, the Reade gal suddenly
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WOMAN'S CLUB CALENDAR
Today

Daughters of American Colo
rrists-Annual banquet, 7 p. m,
Mayflower Hotel.
Department of Potomac, Wo-
mans Relief Corps Installation
banquet, $50 p. m, Hamilton
Hotel.
Order of the Eastern Star
Grand Patrons and Grand Ma
irons Association, meeting, 8 p. m,
MayfloWer Hotel.
Ways and Means Committee of
Acacia Chapter, o. E. S.-Turkey
dinner, 5 to Z p. m, Almas
Temple.
Petworth Woman's Club - Elk
ecutive board meeting, 8 p. m,
home of Mrs. s. G. Waite, 1925
Ninth st.
Sewing Club of Ladies Auxiliary
to D. C. Fire DEPARTMENTAL
day meeting, Children's Hospital
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Reception Today

In honor of the newly organized
Trinity College Auxiliary Board, a
tea and reception will be held at
the college at 4:30 p. NJ. today.
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Correct Manners
Initiating of Silver; Linen
Decided by Girl
By MRS. CORNELIUS BEECKMAN

Dear Mrs. Beeckman:
II would like to know who is correct? thinks that when
girl engaged to be married and is getting her linens and
silver together that she should the initial her husband
to-be
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Tomorrow

Daughters of America Colo
nists-Committee meeting, 10 a.
M, Carlton Hotel.
Court District of Columbia
Catholic Daughters of America
Card and bingo party, 8 p. M,
St. Martins Hall.
District Branch, National Lea.
que of American Pen Women
Journalism group meeting, 1880
p. M, League Studio, Burlington
Hotel,
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CHRISTENING A BRAIN CHILD

Democrats firm live state are going to fore
gather here pr at Asheyile it is planned >early in
April. They will come by invitation of the pres.
cent 10th district chairman of the Young Democrats
Haywood Robbins, who seems to have thought it
up and therefore to hold proprietary rights on the
idea. The purpose of the assembly is to whoOp II
up for Mr. Roosevelt and the whole New Deal and
with that in view some Of our best whoopels up
viii be in attendance '.".
. Well 1t suits But obviously to be a success
the meeting must have catchy name. Everybody
remembers the convention of the Grass Roots Re-
'pubicans,' not because of anything of Importance
transpiring that occasion bat because the hamt
was sure-fire Everybody remembers the GOoDel
Democrats corralled by Lord Gene Talmadge o!
Gawgy Who, indeed, could forget so aptly christ
eaed crew? g..
|! But that isn't finding US a name for our own
boys. Come, now; let's try hard. Robbins makes
grass; green grass makes US think of-Eureka
there it is "The Green Pasture Democrats! It's
natural. 1t has all sorts of cennotations: Demo
Gratis a-graSng and a-hopmg to Craze; the lush fel"
tihty that is characteristic of the New Deal; the
placid conlminglng of Jersey and Holstein anG
Guernsey cattle under the common denominator OF
cows, which is to say Democrats. S.
That, the name Green Pasture Democrats, is oul
contribution to the success of the show. The copy
right is waived--Charlotte News.