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Triple.Threat Man.

THOMAS MITCHELL, who is fea-
tured in Samuel Goldwyn's "The
Lady and the Cowboy" was known as
"triple-threat" man on Broadway
There he not only acted, but was also
a first-rate writer and stage director
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Harold Lloyd plans q trip to Argen-
tina, Brazil and other Pan-American
countries following picture which he
will make after Professor, Beware!"
which Paramount will soon release.
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Capitol Picture Is Tailored
To Unfailing Formula
always Goodbye Stars Miss Stanwyck
And Herbert Marshall in Roles
Both Always Have Fitted.
BY JAY CARMODY.

GooDsYE which opened Yesterday at the Capitol not
successful pictures designed for the
dent the two most important being Barbara
Marshall both Of them sacnca
child through
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Earle's 'Tropic Holiday
Has Its Saving Graces
Martha Raye and Music Keep
New Film on the Bright Side.
Stage Revue Is Sprightly.
BY HARRY MacARTHUR.

MOTHER OF the seasons cinema rines Top Holiday"
~ however to be better than the
~ counts
below unto
Miss Martha
with which the
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Morley, as Louis, Steals
Norma Shearer's Scenes
Crowd at Marie Antoinette'
Premiere Obs and Abs
Over Carole and Gable.
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.

IosLYWooD July Is NANAo-Dear Diary Friday Norma
Shearer
OF Marie Antoinete" theater
4 with Louis B. Mayer, wearing
hlmy white
ghtterng affair Where
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kHIUeIIIIE dIdIr. where ana When
il-fated Marie, turns in a splendid
performance, but, good as she is,
Robert Morley, a gross but unexpect-
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Recreation That Have Been Supported in Past Few
Years Under Plans.

regarded as rich mans hobby re-
stricted to those who could afford
membership in private golf and coun-
try clubs.
Among the courses completed are
Hillsdale at Baltimore; Berjdey at
Denver; Millham Park, Kalamazoo,
Mich; Kearsley Lake, Flint, Mich;
Mohawk Park, Tulsa, Okla Memorial
Park, Houston, Tex. Others are mu-
nicipal courses at st. Augustine, Fla;
Dawson, Ca: Charlottesville and
Richmond. Ind; Portland. Me-;
Schuyler, Nebr; Las Vegas. N. Mex. !;
Black Mountain and Farmville, N. c.;
Ryder, Kuhn and Bottineau. N. Oak. /:
Miamisburg and Sharonville, Ohio;
Portland and Baker City. Greg.
Greenwood, S. c.; Elizabethton, Tenn.
Leavenworth. Chelan and Port An
geles, Wash; Oshkosh. Wis; Douglas,
Wyo, and Ukiah, Calf. In New
York City nine courses have been
built The 345 not listed were built or
improved under the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration, predeces-
sor of the w. P. A.
Others of the miscellaneous facili-
ties built by w. P A. include rodeo
football, soccer and polo fields; cro-
quet, badminton, handball and tennis
courts; outdoor bowling green's, boxing
and wrestling facilities. baseball dia.
mondS, running tracks, basketball
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courts, ski, toboggan and sled slides,
and in fact the means to satisfy every
sport-loving inclination. Even fish
have been put into the streams and
lakes to provide angling where it did
not exist before.
BEFORE w. P A. entered the pic
ture there had been completed
by the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration 882 new parks, 1882
childrens' Fairgrounds and Alps
athletic fields. while 1859 parks,
5000 Fairgrounds and 1887 athletic
fields already built had been i'm
proved. The athletic fields built in
cluded 204 combination fields, 6l9
baseball diamonds, 211 football grid
irons, l26 running tracks, 1910 ten
mis- courts. 679 other courts and 357
other types of fields. Improved were
1,00l combination fileds, 627 base
ball diamonds, 235 football fields, 80
tracks. 1,l87 tennis courts, 369 other
courts and SO other types of fields.
For the benefit of spectators at
athletic events 618 grandstands were
built and 460 repaired and improved,
also by F. E. r. A. There were $40
gymnasiums built and 1872 improved
35l swimming pools built and 226
improved, l43 bathing beaches con-
structed and 104 improved. besides
wading pools for children, bath
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were the most widely distributed Of
these municipal projects. Yacht har-
bors and golf courses formed only a
small portion of this group.
The inspiration for the Govern
ment's widespread interest in pro-
viding recreational facilities for the
people goes back 20 years to World
War days when the community spirit
was famed to a flame in the effort
to build up the morale of the people
at home to back up the soldiers at
the front. 1t started with community
singing. People who sing are not
depressed, was the psychology. And
what is more depressing than war?
The singing aided the liberty loan.
Red Cross and other drives.
After the war the thousands Of
welfare workers who had been
trained in morale building turned
their attention to peacetime activi-
ties. 1t was a natural transition to
the community center activities, and
the next step, local and Federal
| sponsorship of play.
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surrounded by his friends and great
hogsheads of tobacco, while schooners
at the dock are being loaded with
cargoes of the weed, bound for Eng
land.
Reports on tobacco, and on smoking,
by explorers to America and the
Orient, make up the third group of
items. Here appears the Journal of
Columbus, written by his son, wherein
Columbus account of gifts of tobacco
leaves proffered by the natives, is re-
peated, together with the observation
that two sailors exploring the interior
Of Cuba on November 2, in 1892, were
the first white men to see the cigar
in use.
OF particular interest to Americans
is the book Of Thomas Hariot. pub
lished at Frankfort on Main in 1890,
wherein is recorded for the first time
the presence of tobacco in Virginia,
its importation for social use into
England, and a delicate allusion to
the fact that EliZabethan ladies of
high esteem INDUCED in pipe smoking.
Sir Walter Raleigh's "Discoverie of
Guiana" is here, too. But, curiously
enough, the courtier who played so
important part in the history of to-
bacco made no contributions whatso-
ever to its literature.
One is led through these early ac-
counts to the books that concerned
themselves with the story Of the cul-
tivation of tobacco. In Thomas
Hariot's "Amiranda Narratio," pub
lished in 1890, one sees an illustra-
ton of q tobacco garden in an In
dian village in Virginia, and in Robert
Harcourt's Relation" published in
London in 1913, reads this prophetic
vision of the commercial value Of the
weed: "Only this commodity tobacco
will bring as great benefit and profit
as ever the Spaniards gained by the
best and richest silver mine in all
their West Indies"
The importation Of tobacco seeds
into Virginia, which proved the eco
nomic salvation of the colony. and
John Smiths history Of the tobacco
farming industry wherein he bitterly
opposed traffic in the "heathenish
weed are recorded, and there are
tracts from every nation dealing with
the agricultural aspects of the grow
| ing industry.
lOF GREAT interest Is the group
stressing the therapeutic value OF
tobacco and the esteem In which II
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form of public directed recreational
activity, and that more than 10000
full-time employees are engaged in di-
recting these activities Eventually the
number is expected to reach 10000.
There were $4,000 men and women
trained for such service last year. Be-
fore the Federal Government stepped in
there were only $4,000 persons. volun-
teer and professional, engaged in this
work and only $500 of them were en-
ployed full time.
THE scope of the public recreation
movement now embraces more
than 600 cities and 1000 counties, a
large part of which prior to four years
ago never had known directed play.
Taking into account the contribu-
tions by local communities, supple
menting the Federal grants and loans,
w. P. A. Administrator Harry L. Hop
kins estimates that the expenditures
up to this time on parks, Fairgrounds,
swimming pools and other recreational
facilities approximates $500, 1000, 900
They include 1884 parks. costing
sl99,799,611; 1906 athletic fields and
Fairgrounds, $59,859,392; 2,30l social
and recreational buildings. $50, 1861 ,664;
348 swimming pools, sl1,456, 1859; 81
bathing beaches, $4,652,l83, and Isis
other recreational features Of miscel-
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is the fact that Bacon mentions to-
bacco frequently in his writings, while
Shakespeare is said never to have
made reference to it. Barrie's MY
Lady Nicotine" Kipling's Depart
mental Ditties.' Longfellow's "Hia-
watha" are classics that pay tribute
to the comforts or significance of
smoking. The list of important books
containing such references is
fascinating commentary upon the in
fuence of this strangely soothing leaf
upon the destinies of man, and rep
resentative items have been chosen
with the utmost discrimination for
this exhibit. In fact, in the first book
Of English verse entirely devoted to
tobacco, The Metamorphosis of To-
bacco,' written by Sir John Beaumont
in 1902, the celestial fume" is praised
as responsible for the great and in
splred literature which developed in
England in the reigns of Elizabeth
and James.
TNTERSPERSED with the controver-
slal literature of tobacco We're
many International tracts by explor-
ers, botanists and medical men; re-
ports of debates in various univer-
sites, dissertations of economic in
terest, comments on the commerce
and manufacture of tobacco, broad
sides, customs reports and articles of
legislation controlling the tobacco
trade. All these make a valuable ad-
dition to the exhibit and cast i'm
portant sidelights upon tobacco his
tory.
They form, as we'll, an excellent
picture of our own growth and devel-
opment as an independent nation. In
fact, one of the most arresting features
OF this exhibit is its contribution to
Americana. for the history of tobacco
is in many respects our own Colonial
history. Certainly the weed altered
our national destiny when it turned
the currents of Virginia's history.
Proclamations, ordinances, tax lists
from all European countries, and ex-
amples of tobacco literature in II
languages. to say nothing of auto
graphed letters and manuscripts re-
| lating to tobacco, add color and life
to the exhibit, as well as delightful
| collection Of labels and advertisements
used, since its origin, in the trade of
| tobacco
Fortunately. this great wealth of in
formation and knowledge gathered by
George Arents and his helpers during
the days of collecting has been Or
ganized into fascinating history Of
tobacco, two volumes of which have
been issued. There will be four VOL
umes in all, containing illustrations
Of manuscripts and engravings from
the Arents library. The books are be-
ing written by Jerome Brooks and are
beautiful specimens of the book
makers art.
Worthy. too, Of special mention is
the charming handbook prepared by
the Library of Congress especially for
this exhibit.
| In exquisite taste with regard to
its binding. paper and typology, this
charming little book has a tobacco
colored cover and contains q list of
the items in the exhibit, with explana-
tory notes of color and interest. Great
distinction has been achieved by the
artistry with which it has been com.
piled and printed. Used in conjunc.
ton with its index it becomes q val.
liable historic and literary record.
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Georgetown
Continued From Page CAY

sister Mary. who was the sister Of
Thomas Dick, who married Margaret,
the daughter of the pioneer Robert
Peter.
Elizabeth, another daughter of the
same Robert Peter married James
Dunlop, and it so happened that James
Dunlop, jr.. married Barbara, the eld-
est daughter of John Laird. so one can
easily see the close relationship be-
tween the Peter, the Dunlop and the
Laird families.
Before John Laird built this house.
he resided in a frame house on the
same site, but while his new house
was in course of construction he lived
in the house across the street, at BOLT
N street, built in 1894 by Thomas Beall.
There is much history to this house,
just as there is to nearly all the old
houses in Georgetown, but since 1915 it
has been owned and occupied by Col.
and Mrs. w. E. P. French, whom the
writer knows to be very delightful peo-
pie.
Recently, when the writer was look
ing up another matter in the National
Intelligencer, he came across the obit-
uary notice of the death of Thomas
Beall, the one who built this house. 1t
was in the issue of October Z, 1919,
and said:
"On Tuesday last at o'clock am.
Thomas Beall of George, Esq, in the
72d year of his age He was one of the
oldest native citizens of Georgetown
and District of Columbia. Few men
have equaled him for strict integrity
and punctuality in his dealings. He
was man of great independence in
his sentiments, and yet from acting
without guile or duplicity, he enjoyed
through long life, the confidence Of
his fellow citizens, and was univer-
sally respected. He appeared to per-
form his social duties without fear, IA
vor or affection. AS a proprietor of
two additions to Georgetown, he acted
with great liberality in the disposal of
the lots to actual settlers, his prices
were moderate, and his payments easy.
His name will long be dear to his
townsmen, as we'll as to the individuals
of his own family"
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houses. camp halls, park buildings
and the like
Even horse racing has come in for
attention by the recreation-minded
Government experts, so race tracks
being included in the construction
and improvement programs, mostly
on county fair grounds. along with
81 rodeo grounds, 80 rifle ranges, 465
fish ponds. 70 game preserves. 217
fish hatcheries and 95 tourist parks
for the auto vacationists.
Aside from its school and college
athletic facilities construction, the
P. w. A. has sponsored 80 projects
costing s15.37o,580 as municipal rec
reation centers. Swimming pools
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clear that the Federal Government is
justified in meeting this growing need
through its works program"
With the reduction that has taken
place within the last three decades in
normal working hours and in more re-
cent years the failure of large numbers
of persons to find employment, mark
ed increase in leisure and idleness has
resulted. This will be materially ac-
centuated if and when Congress enacts
legislation, as proposed in the pending
wage-hour bill, to further curtail work.
ing hours of large part of the popu-
lation.
The w. P. A. estimates that 25,-
0OO. 900 persons are taking part in some
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a pleasing drunkenness and cleared
the head of moisture humors" An
Italian herbal in this group, which first
appeared in 1885, contains an account
of the medicinal uses of tobacco.
Herein Durante records that tobacco
had been introduced into Italy by
Cardinal Prospero di Santa Croce.
after whom the herb was named
"Herba Santa Croce"
A completely charming addition to
this group is an unpublished manu-
script containing "a water-color draw
ings of the tobacco plant and map
of Cuba.
The ceremonials, rituals and my
thology of tobacco are revealed by the
second group of books and manu-
scripts, which includes De Bry's won-
derful voyages. Father Hennepin's
New Discovery of a Vast Country
in America Jonathon Carver S
Travels Through North America" "
Pratz's "Histoire de la Louisiana, +"
Lescarbot's Nova Francia" and other
precious journals of travels in new
lands where ceremonials and rituals
are mentioned that include the use of
tobacco. Acosta's "Historia Natural
y Moral de las Indias," for example.
published in Seville in 1890, gives
testimony that the divine weed" was
of sacrosanct value to Mexican medi-
cine men, while in a De Bry edition
of De Lery a ritual is depicted among
the Carib warriors of Brazil. In this
illustration the priests blow smoke
upon the dancers, chanting the while,
Receive all the spirit of fortitude
whereby you may overcome your
enemies"
The use of ceremonial cigars, re-
hections upon snuff takers calumets
of peace, myths and heroic poems
reflect in the pages Of these early
books the high esteem in which
smoking was regarded by savage
tribes, though an edition of the Koran
in this group, published in London In
1734, presents the prophecy of q
devout Moslem who opposed the use
of tobacco and assailed those Moslems
who, in later days, will smoke Ger
tain weed called tobacco"
A VERY delightful item in tht
group is an old map of Virgins
that was drawn by Joshua Fry ant
Peter Jefferson-the father Of Thoma!
in ITS. In one corner Of the maj
appears charming cartouche show
ing the tobacco planter seated at eas'
upon o dock, being served with wines
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GIANT SNAIL THRIVES
ON RAW RUBBER DIET
It Preys on Trees Planted to
Replace Worn Out Stock in
Malay Peninsula.

SINGAPORE (P).-A giant snail of
unknown origin, which thrives on
diet of raw rubber, has become night
mare to rubber planters throughout
the Malay Peninsula.
This snail, which varies from 8 to 10
inches in length, is particular men,
ace to young rubber trees being planted
now all over the peninsular to replace
the worn-out stock planted in the early
days of rubber cultivation.
The giant pest also nibbles the ten
der bark from older trees which have
been tapped and drinks the raw rubber.
on which it thrives with almost mag
got-like rapidity.
A novel snail poison has been devised
to combat the menace. 1t is COM
pound of bran mixed with Canned
meat" The snail likes this diet 80 well
he dies Of overeating.
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Books, Drawings and Manuscripts Relate
to Every Branch of Development
Since Early Colonial Days.

fire in primeval forest, emerges more
real and understandable because he
has shared with citizens of our own
time the pleasures and comforts of a
friendly herb.
About $50 of the more than 1000
times that make up the Arents to-
bacco collection are exhibited and
every individual item expresses the
remarkable discernment of the COL
lector, who has spent years in browsing
about American and European book
stalls, poring over catalogs, examining,
judging. selecting, discarding.
IT WAS William Everett Benjamin,
the autograph and book collector,
who first inspired George Arents to
start off on his quest, and it was a
small pamphlet by James Thomson,
Selections to Copes Tobacco Plant"
that formed his first accession, at the
cost of ST..
Neither the author Of this pamph-
let nor its content" says Mr.. Arents
today, has acquired added Signifl-
canoe with the passing of time. Ger
tainly the work was probably even
then of small Importance but to me
it was and remains landmark. 1t
made me collector. From that day
forward, whenever / chanced to be in
book store, my eye always roamed
the shelves for the word tobacco
In the course of his travels George
Arents became known to book sellers
all over the world, and they wrote him
of rare finds, knowing his interest in
the subject of tobacco.
II had been concentrating on books
which dealt only with tobacco when
it was suggested to me that could
add tang and interest to my library
and collecting if I were to include
early books in which mention was
made of tobacco. Out of this sug-
gestion grew the plan on which rests
the collection as it now stands. 1t
includes histories and relations of the
Jesuit missionaries and French voy-
ageurs, with accounts of the origin
of tobacco and its uses by the various
Indian tribes; the works of Elizabethan
poets and playwrights, denouncing and
extolling tobacco; medical treatises of
the sixteenth and seventeenth CEN
tuHes, according universal curative
powers to tobacco, and there is that
little book which named this con-
tinent America" and in which occurs
the first reference to tobacco in print
Waldseemuller's 'Cosmographiae In
troductio,' published in 1907.
1T has been an exciting hunt te
find these books"
One of the groups as displayed
today in the Library Of Congress re-
lates to the botany of tobacco. There
are copies of early sixteenth century
English herbals and the Species Plan.
tarum" of Carroll Linnaei-the first
edition of book which revolutionizec
botanical science and which included
!. for the first time the modern scientific
) terms for the two chief species O.
tobacco, 'nicotiana tabacum" ane
. "nicotiana rustica."
OTHER herbals in this group con
. tain the first illustrations Of nico
. tiana rustica and tabacum, and Their
, Is the earliest English publication
, fully to describe and illustrate to
: bacco, with references to crude ciga
smoked by returned mariners wherein
It Is assumed that the habit induce
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By Lucy Salamanca.

TN THE age when the divine weed"
of tobacco plays so important a
part in our social life it is doubt
L full if any more interesting exhibit
could have been arranged for the
American public than that fascinating
collection of books, drawings and
manuscripts relating to tobacco that
George Arents has permitted the
Library of Congress to display during
this month in Washington. The origin
of the use of tobacco, the disputes
that ragged over its use, the history
of its cultivation and development,
and all those irresistible anecdotes
that have flourished throughout its
history, can be traced in The rare
and entertaining documents that make
up Mr.. Arents' extraordinary collec-
ton.
DR. Herbert Putnam librarian of Con-
gress, in acknowledging the gracious
ness of the collector and his generosity
in presenting his books and manu-
scripts for public enjoyment. stresses
the fact that this particular collection
Is ulllQuc, LII CIldI ~ 1ldo bNCAl 6oAAt
around special subject or theme.
Unlike many collectors who gather
without specific program" DR.. Put
nam points out, "Mr. Arents, whose
family has for three generations had
| an interest in the culture and COM
merce of tobacco, chose tobacco as
the theme of his collection. He began
with the books dealing directly with
it as plant and product, but soon
widened his quest to include all ref
erences to it in literature. The result
was collection numbering thousands
of volumes, covering wide range in
many fields and many tongues. How
wide a range and how informing a
content is suggested in the several
hundred items of distinction embraced
in this exhibit"
THE exhibit Is proving one of the
most popular ever shown in the
Library's public galleries. And the
hundreds Of visitors who are taking
advantage of its appearance in Wash
ington are interested for reasons a.
diverse as the subject matter itself
The high significance of the literary
material. the light shed upon the his
tory of tobacco, the information of.
. fered upon its cultivation and com.
merce, all make their especial appeal
. so that observers have ranged from
the casual visitor in the Capital tt
Government officials concerned will
the economic significance of the his
toric weed.
/ The valuable items that make VI
, the exhibit were shipped to Washing
ton in special armored trucks, in tn,
care Of the Rare Book Collection
Under the direction of v. Waltz
r Parma, curator of the Rare Book Col
lection, the exhibit was arranged TO
I display and today occupies long aisl
e of cases on the exhibit floor of tn
= Library
( The undeniable charm of tn
= Arents collection is due in no smal
= measure to the contemporary genera
interest in the subject ITSELF Ther
= Is bond between this smoking ag
> and all those powdered courtiers VIII
= first puffed a pipe in Elizabetha
), castles. And even the North Amer
b ican Indian. sending up clouds Of tc
y bacco smoke about some ceremonii