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consist of five or six hours a day of
lectures and studies. The trainees
study such subjects as American
foreign policy. contemporary inter-
national politics. and international
organization and law
State Department officials lecture
on variety of subjects. ranging
from topics such as How a Diplo-
matte Mission Operates" to Service
Etiquette"
Four out, of five of the original
group also served in the field on
temporary assignments in American
foreign service posts in Sydney,
Montreal, Canada; Mex
leo City, Mexico, and Havana, Cuba.
If you glance at map, you can
easily see that the Philippines nat
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uraily will work closely with the
peoples and countries of Southeast
Asia and China. The first Philip
pine foreign service posts will be in
the United States and in the Far
East. A Philippine Embassy was
set up here in Washington (at 1917
Massachusetts, avenue NV, former
ly headquarters of the Resident
Commissioner on July 4. Other
posts are planned on the Pacific
Coast, in San Francisco, Los Angeles
and Seattle; in New York and Chi
cago, Honolulu, Hawaii, and pos
sibly in Philadelphia and New
Orleans.
Nevertheless, the United States
probably will represent Philippine
interests abroad for some time to
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semidetached bungalow will be
yours.
1t took me four months to get my
apartment and I learned lot in
the process. Since then have also
learned that living in Washington
apartment is fun and worth all the
trouble it takes to find 1t.
Above all, in these days you must
plan the job of home-hunting like
a general plans battle. Even with
the most diabolical strategy and
perfect tactics you'll probably need
months to take your objective. But
you have better chance If you
plan your campaign carefully.
First, what do you want? If the
size of your family permits by all
means set your cap for an apart
ment rather than a house. This
is only common sense because there
are more apartments than rental
houses and the rate of turnover is
greater. If you can get along with
one bedroom. fine. There are more
of those than twos or threes.
Next, the topography. Look the
town over and decide whether you'd
like to live in this section, that Sec
ton or the other section. If you
get desperate enough you may de-
eide later that living in an over
sized packing box would seem like
heaven. But at first pick out the
general neighborhood you'd like to
live in. That will save you from
scattering your efforts.
After that pick out a dozen or
so apartment buildings that you
wouldn't object to as future home.
Write the addresses in your note
book, the names of the resident
manager, or rental agent, plus tele-
phone numbers.
If possible. try to get an interview
with the person in direct charge
OF the renting. If this happens to
be a woman send your husband to
talk to her.
Make no mistake, the personal
interview is important. For here
Is the time you need chance
to cross-your- heart hope -to-die
that you have no dogs, white rats,
bedbugs or other pets; that you
don't play a drum, that you never
would hold a party or drink any,
thing stronger that 80 gingerale.
In this interview try to make 1t
appear (truthfully. ii possible) that
you are quiet. refined, demure. re-
spectacle, and that you will treat
the dwelling as If it were your very
own. No one likes to think he's
renting to a couple who would toss
garbage into the corner of the
kitchen or go around with a hammer
beating the nice woodwork to splin-
ters.
BY the time the last of your dozen
rental agents has been interviewed,
it will be time to start the next part
Of your campaign. This is known as
the "follow-up."
Never think that just because your
name is on file and you've told the
nice man what lovely tenants you'd
make, that that apartment will fall
into your lap. You must keep fol-
lowing up by phone, In person, by
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come. At the request of President
Manuel RoxaS, the State Depart
ment appointed Richard P. Butrick.
veteran foreign service officer,
foreign relations advisor to the
Philippine government for one year.
Mr.. Butrick departed July n. for
Manila
The United States is prepared to
give as much assistance to the
Philippine Republic as one friendly
nation may give to another. AS
stepping-stone to the challenge Of
the future, the Philippine Foreign
Service Training Program may be
regarded as symbol of the Philip
pine Republics determination to
make place for itself in the realm
of world affairs.
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-UTURE diplomats of the
II worlds newest republic, the
Philippines. are getting their
"P. H. DIS" in foreign re-
lations in special program ini-
tiated by the State Department
here in Washington.
The Philippine Commonwealth
became the Philippine Republic, a.
free, sovereign and independent na-
ton, this past Fourth of July, and
the Filipinos are now, of course,
running their own affairs, foreign
as well as domestic.
The new republic, however, has
little experience to fall back on.
There has never been a Philippine
State Department, a Filipino For
eign Service, or Philippine diplo-
matte service.
Thus our State Department has
had a special problem on It's hands.
Several years ago the department
was already laying the groundwork
for the coming Of Philippine inde-
pendence. Plans were drawn UP.
studies were made, and out of it
blossomed a Philippine foreign af-
fairs training program, designed to
train Filipino diplomats.
Diplomatic Training
For Filipinos
In the historic State Department
building at Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. and in
Lothrop House on Connecticut
avenue, highly intensified train
ing program for the new nation has
been going on since December 8,
l945.
The schedule for the Filipino
trainee groups, which number from
Ave to IS members each, embraces
the organization and functioning of
our State Department Con which
ItAiS L DCpdl vi VI
eign Affairs may be closely mod
eled and the United Nations.
The keystone of the whole pro-
gram is the study of the organiza-
ton and functions of the future
Philippine Department of Foreign
Affairs. After many discussions the
first trainee group developed an in
formal ct. o. blueprint" for the
future Philippine Department of
State. This plan was submitted
to Manila, where it is being studied
by officers OF the Philippine govern
ment.
The trainees must be thoroughly
qualified. Most of them have been
recruited on the basis of stiff COM
petitive examinations, and are ex-
pected to be permanent Career
employees of the Philippine Repub-
tlir
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Al Jolson, Washington
ian, aUhose Words:: "Con1e
ON, Ma, listen to this" aoere
the first to be uttered in
q "talkie" feature.
commercializing the idea by build
ing small theater with a contin-
uous performance, charging S cents
admission, and to stay as long as
one pleased.
This theater," according to Mr.
Dayy, was opened in a store located
at the northeast corner of Tenth
and d streets, and about the same
time two brothers opened picture
house in the old Frank Ward house
on B street. Within year Mr.
Mcclure, manager of the Christiani
drugstores, and Charles Willis, a
sign painter, opened the Surprise
Theater at 919-921 Pennsylvania
avenue. This was followed by Abra-
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LII ioo. IJoi AC 4iCdpClt WiiCAC NAA NC
shown Might and Day." a picture
specially released for the ami
versary week. 1t will also be shown
in other theaters in key cities in
this country, in Canada, England,
South America and elsewhere.
On October 6, 1927, THE Jazz
Singer" starred Al Jolson at the
Warner Theater in New York. This,
it is said, was a partly silent film
with synchronized score. Singing
sequences were recorded directly by
Vitaphone (sound on disc). The
first line Of dialogue recorded by
was Wait minute.
You amt heard nothin' yet" 1t
proved to be prophetic for this pic
ture is credited as the one which
convinced the film industry leaders
that sound motion pictures were
here to stay.
Before this. however, Washington
had seen its first talking picture,
due to the foresight of John j.
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The Crandall Chain
Of Theaters Is Sold

Three years later Mr.. Crandall
opened the Joy at Ninth and z
streets NV. Then Tom Moore
opened the Strand in the same
block, and soon Mr.. Noonan
opened the Maryland on lower
Ninth street and later established
the Virginia and West Virginia
Theaters. and then Mr.. Crandall
opened the Savoy on Fourteenth
street and the New Metropolitan
followed. . The Knickerbocker, now
the Ambassador, was opened in 1917.
The roof collapsed under weight of
snow on January %, 1922, killing 98
persons.
At the time Of the disaster the
theater was owned by the Knicker-
booker Theater Co., of which Mr..
Crandall was one of the principal
owners. On April %, following what
remained of the property was sold
at auction by Auctioner Harry N.
Dowling and was bought in by Mr..
Crandall for sl87 500. and soon re-
built and renamed the Ambassador.
When Mr.. Crandall sold his chain
of theaters he was at the crest of
a dazzling climb to fortune. After
he sold his theaters he became un-
happy at his separation from the
field in which he had found for
tune. AS many have said, he was q
great little guy" The rest he
sought became freighted with sad
ness and the tragedy which carried
him to the great beyond occurred
in February, 1887. He is buried in
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
One Of the outstanding events in
motion picture history occurred on
August 6, 1925, in New York City,
when Warner Bros, by arrangement
with Western Electric Co. and
Bell Telephone Laboratories, pre-
sented the first commercially sue
cessful showing of talking pictures.
And on Tuesday, the Goth ami
versary of this first showing, spe-
cial ceremonies in the United States
and abroad will commemorate and
portray the important pioneering
experiment.
The anniversary program planned
viii be climaxed here ut Warner
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Harry Crandall Pioneer
Film Exhibitor Here

In connection with Harry Gram
dall's entrance into the motion
picture business. Mr.. Davy recalls
that when Mr.. Crandall was work
ing for the Post Office and operating
a stable for the mail carriers, he,
Mr.. Davy, helped to build for him
a theater at Fourth and East Capt.
tol streets, and that Tom Moore
installed the projecting machine.
Another pioneer in this industry,
locally, was Theodore Michael, who
kept 5-and-10-cent store at the
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When Movies Began to ak

ham Meyer, who built the Palace
Theater on Ninth street between
Pennsylvania avenue and D street.
Then Mr.. Armat converted the old
Columbia Photograph Amusement
Parlor. near Droop's, at s25 Penn
sylvania avenue, into the Cosmos
Theater. and introduced vaudeville
there. Following this Mr.. Brown
opened the Brown Theater at about
Oil Pennsylvania avenue and later
the Pickwick, also at 925 on the
Avenue"
Mr.. Davy, who personally installed
much of the equipment in many Of
the earlier motion picture houses in
Washington, and helped build them
as well, says Mr.. Mcclure built the
Olympia in this neighborhood and
that Mr.. Arnaat built another
theater next to the Cosmos. Soon
John Noonan built the Maryland
and Virginia Theaters on Ninth
street between F and G streets.
The Virginia is now known as the
Little Theater.
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Washington.
southeast corner of Seventh and F
streets, where is now Hecht's store
He had Mr.. Davy convert his store
into the Alhambra Theater, and he
was later called upon to assist in
building the Metropolitan Theater
under the hotel of that name on
Pennsylvania avenue.
Speaking of Harry Crandall, one
cannot help but recall that for many
years prior to 1927, when he sold his
chain of 18 local theaters to Warner
Bros, he was the Capitals out
standing motion picture theater
owner.
His rise from obscurity though
equaled in this country by many
famous man, was, nevertheless,
unique. He first went to work about
1900 for the local telephone COM
pany as a clerk. Later he acquired
a livery stable some time prior to
1908. At that time nickelodeons
were prospering in New York and
Chicago. and, according to state
ments made at the time of Mr..
Crandall's death, John j. Noonan
was then amusing his family and
friends with private showings of
motion pictures taken from the
platforms of a train. Tom Moore,
who later owned the Strand, and
who built the Rialto Theater after
the World War, had the same idea
that was agitating Harry Crandall
but Mr.. Crandall beat him to it by
opening the Airdrome at North
Capitol street and New York avenue
in 1910, where the SKY was the
ceiling"
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gram with john Barrymore as Don
Juan, on February 27, 1927.
Mr.. Payette also brought to this
city the Jazz Singer" AL Jolson
of course, sang, and the picture
dispelled any doubt that talking
pictures were here to stay.
Al Jolson Sold Papers
At Old Center Market
AL Jolson, by the way, is not only
a Washington boy, who was raised
on the Island" and went to the
Jefferson School, but has been for
many years one of the country's S
foremost comedians and entertain
ers. His late father, Moses Rubin
Yolson, was for years rabbi of a
synagogue on E near Fourth street
S.W., and he named his son
Asa Yolsor, but the son preferred
for his stage name, "Al Jolson."
AIS success has been we'll earned
In early life he peddled papers and
carried shopping baskets from the
old Center Market, became a sing
ing waiter" in the cabarets, switched
to burnt cork and musical comedy
and became Americas singing
fool" He inherited his talent fol
singing from his father, who is said
to have had a very good voice.
Mr.. Payette got his start in the
show business at the early age of IL
when he rambled one day through
the stage door of the Academy Of
Music Theater and came out of the
front door with the position o.
usher.
Three years later he was made
assistant treasurer Of this old Wash
ington legitimate theater. He wa!
Is then and at the age of II he was
appointed treasurer. That was ir
1910.
That year Mr.. Payette became
identified with motion pictures. His
work as treasurer of the legitimate
playhouse brought him an offer tt
operate the Rhode Island Theater
a 250-seat house, built especially
for motion picture exhibition. His
affiliation with this theater for the
next four years taught him the
fundamentals of the business.
With Americas entrance In the
World War Mr.. Payette enlisted fol
service overseas. On his discharge
from the Army he joined Harry M
Crandall's circuit of theaters.
The merger of the Crandall Thea
ters with the Stanley Company OF
America resulted in Mr.. Payette's
appointment as supervisor of thea
ters. The acquisition of the Stanley
Company by Warner Bros. saw him
in the berth of general zone man
ager.
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Private Movie Shown
AS Early as 1896

However. the first movie shown
in Washington took place at 1913 F
street in 1896. But this was a pri-
vate showing.
Naturally, in this brief story, the
writer is making no attempt, scien-
tiflcally or otherwise, to trace the
beginnings of the motion picture
and If so he would probably start
with the accidental part played by
Leland Stanford, who in 1872 as
signed John D. Isaacs the problem
OF Photographic a horse in motion.
Nor would he fail to include Edison
and George Eastman. And of
course he would include Thomas
Armat, who when residing in Wash
ington in June, 1895, discovered the
principle of the modern protector,
a film movement which gave each
successive image a period of rest
and Illumination in excess of the
image.
A few days ago the writer had
a personal interview with both Mr..
and Mrs. Armat, who still reside
in this city. Orrin ]. Davy, chief
electrician for the printing house of
Judd g. Detweiler and recording sec
retary of the Association of Oldest
Inhabitants, and who was himself
actively employed in the motion pic
ture industry here during its pioneer
days, says:
In the early 19O0s Mr.. Armat
maintained large experimental
laboratory on the fourth floor of
the Hutchin's Building, at the
northeast corner of Tenth and D
streets NV, devoting his time to
the problem of projecting an ami
mated picture on a screen. Soon
Mr.. Armat conceived the idea of
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Payette, now general zone manager
for Warner Bros theaters in this
city, Maryland and Virginia. 1t
was about 20 years ago. we are told,
that Mr.. Payette, then assistant
general manager for the Harry M.
Crandall theaters here, made a trip
to the Metropolitan Theater. in Bal
timore, where Warmers had in
stalled equipment for the presenta-
tion of Don Juan"
At the Baltimore Inauguration of
sound pictures Mr.. Payette became
so enthusiastic that he inspired
Harry Crandall to install sound
equipment at the Metropolitan
Theater here. Thus Washington
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was handkerchief folding night.
Nothing less than direct order
from the Chief of Staff could have
interferred with this ceremonial rite
in which scores of handkerchiefs,
just back from the laundry, were
folded carefully and preciseH-
Tuesday was set aside as snow
polishing night. Right after dinner,
out came his imported polishes.
English brushes and flannel cloths
and he happily FURNISHED shoes for
hours. And so on down the week.
There were plenty of others to
help make life interesting. The man
(See APARTMENTS, Page C-5l
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even tougher job at first is that you
probably don't have any friends to
help you, and must tramp the
streets, hoping that eventually you'll
be lucky.
In this period the most important
thing is to keep your morale up and
your shoes well-soled. Think of all
those notices you know-"Perse-
verance Will Win" Everything
Comes to Him Who Waits" Never
Evening star., 1946-08-04
By Betty TrexIer

HE No. l problem for the
average newcomer to Wash
ington is finding a place to
live. What makes this an
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Cro,Od street aOatig to get into the Metropolitan
Theater to hear Al Jolson natiue Wasngtonan in the
Jass Singer Dere 1oords he uttered before he sang be-
came the first words reproduced in feature talking
picture" -renschsrt q Faek Photo
Evening star., 1946-08-04
By John CIoeett Proctor
-HE days of the silent moving
picture seem part of another

/" HE days OF the silent moving
picture seem part OF another
era to many of us so that
the ceremonies to be held
Tuesday to mark the commercial
advent of "talkies" should provoke
food Of memories of the early
days of movies hereabouts.
People rarely forget anniversaries.
AS soon as they begin to think and
reckon for themselves, they begin to
recall the outstanding events of by
gone days that appeal to them as of
particular Importance. Indeed they
are taught to do this by their eld-
ers, and the more mature they be-
come the more grows their interest
in the happenings of the yester-
years.
OF course. II ones own memory
goes no further back than a mere
half century, he will find that even
during that seemingly brief time
numerous inventions and discover
les have come into use for the pres
ervation of health and the saving of
life itself, for the many phases of
labor saving and for OUR education
and amusement.
In the amusement category, for
Instance, the introduction of the mo-
ton picture in washington occurred
just a few months short of so years
ago. Consider its marvellous growth
since then. In The Star of January
2, 1897, we find review of the first
public exhibition of the Cinemato-
graphe in Washington, which says:
THE Cinematographe was placed
on exhibition at Willard Hall yes
terday. Exhibitions are given at 2,
and o'clock, and at all three of
these exhibitions yesterday a large
audience was present. The Cinema
tographe is the invention of the
Lumieres, the famous French
scientists, and is regarded as the
perfection of the moving photo
graph. The views given yesterday
were extremely good. They were
well selected, and Mr.. Whiting Allen,
who has the Cinematographe in
charge, delivers short lecture on
each one that adds greatly to its
attractiveness. The photographs
are very distinct, without any blur
ring or sparks appearing on the
screen, and the light, is as strong as
that of any of the other like ma
chimes. The Cinematographe is
really the original of the vitascope,
the animatographe and other in
ventions of similar character. and
its exhibition yesterday was the
first given by 1t in this city. Among
the interesting pictures given were
views Of Washington, a baby quarrel,
a body of soldiers crossing a river by
fording, and a card fight, while in
the instructive class may be men,
toned the crowning of the Car,
the athletic sports at Milan, Spanish
artillery in action, and Emperor Will
liam reviewing his troops. The eff
fects produced in these different il
lustrations of real life are remark
able, and must be seen to be fully
appreciated"
Evening star., 1946-08-04
Diplomats for a New Nation
By Reno Levunder

diplomats of the
II worlds newest republic, the
Philippines, are getting their
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-12-11
ROMAN SOSESKE
spsan leta ls4l. iik pred razpadom stare Jusossve

spanjem zlil "a vrat zehtar mr.
zle vode. To je Mihi sicer spa
nje temeljito pregnalo, toda Cd
tistih dob ga je zacela metati
bozjast. skraja ga je bolezen
mucila bolj poredkoma, toda z
lett ga je obiskovala vedno bolj
pogosto in ga je petdesetimi
lett tako zdelala, da nj bill "a no.
beno rabo vec, in postal je be-
rae.
"Miha, pojdi no malo sem!'
ga je Re cd dalec poklical Mos
koplet in mu takoj zacel delati
prostor poleg sebe. To je storil
il same zlobe, Att ma mrst, ker
je vedel, da baba tega bozjast-
nika ne more trpeti.
Miha, XII je sele pred nekaj
dnevi zapustil kup stelje V Dvor-
nikovem hlevu, kjer ga je zalo-
til zadnji bozjastni napad, je S
plahimi, Sc okrvavljenimi ocmi
takoj prisedel.
"Prav "a prav bi morali ze v
cerkev, ker je ze odvabilo,' je
dejal Miha nekoliko zavalje-
MIN, Sc izmucenim glasom. Ker
je videl, da Alta ze prebira pat
muster, je tudi on izvlekel svoje
molilno orodje in 81 ga polozil
ma krilc.
"Jaz re ne bonn molil!" je po-
vel Moskoplet upornim gla-
som.
"Zakaj pa potem sem no.
dis?" je menil Miha zacudeno,
ker je pozabil, da je Moskoplet
bill znan kot pravi brezboznez,
XII je vcasih cello samega sebe
tail.
Moskoplet ga je zmedeno po-
gledal in obmolknil. Nato sta
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-12-11

oba tho obsedela "a zidom in
molce strmela po mirni vasi,
kjer nj bilo skoraj mixer "a
patti kakega zivljenja. Ljudje
so bill po polju ali pa Sc po hi
Sab. LIE potok je polglasno Sum-
ljal proti severn k dravskim vo-
dam. Tu pa tam je najblizje-
ga dvorisea Apatove hise poku-
kako kosmato Scene in zalajalo
proti beracem "a zidom. Tudi v
velikem, starinsken zupniseu
"a potokom, kamor sta beraea
dolgo strmela, Sc nj, Sc mic ga
milo, cello glavna vrata so bila
Sc zaprta.
Ma prvi pogled Sc tje videlo,
da je bio jamnisko zupnisee "a
razmeroma majhno faro mnogo
,preveliko in da je v svoji prete-
klosti videlo gotovo ze boljse
case. In res je bila nekdaj JAM
niska fara mnogo obsirnejsa
kakor dandanes. Ko je skof
Slomsek v preteklem stoletju
svojo skofijo preselil il Koroske
ma stajersko, so tudi veliko
jamnisko faro raztrgali skoraj
ma diva della, kar je zupnik ta-
kratnim faranom priznice
oznanil S temile besedami: ::
"Ravno nocoj oh polnoci nam
je hudic pol fare pozrl "
Zagonetne obcutke, kateri-
mi sta beraca strmela proti ia
rovzu, je prekinil Moskopletov
radovedni vzdih:
"Bog We, zakaj je Munk pla-
cal danes tako veliko opravi-
10 ?"
"Ne vem" je S trudnim gla-
som odgovoril Miha.