The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1928, Page 3

a THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928 How It Feels Ruth Snyder’s Stage Parallel Says ‘Death Is Equilib- rium? New York, Nov. 1.—If the spirit of the uohepry murderess, Ruth Snyder, coult summoned back from nd the electric chair it might tell a story similar to that of ole Johann, 24-year-old Hungarian ctress. ‘ Y Miss Johann is the star of “Mach- inal,” a New York play based on the Snyder-Gray case. Every night she is condemned to death and “goes Rut” with a scteam on her lips. It is a strange role; the strangest of the Broadway season, perhaps, and inescapably the most trying. But every nights Miss Johann ac- tepts the intensity of it with all the enthusiasm of an ambitious young girl delighted over her first real stroke of fortune. It is the first starring part she ever won, you see. *_ Has Sensations of Death So far, at least, her off-stage life has been wholly free of morbid re- actions, she said. “I feel that I really die, every night,” she told me. “But my imagined death comes to me as a relief from tension. I find a recent scientific definition very true and beautiful—‘Death is equi- librium.’” ‘@Miss Johann is just “A Young Woman” in the play. For this young woman life always was a trap, from which she vainly sought escape. Her first attempt, after years of drudgery to support her- self and her nagging old mother, is a marriage with her employer. He is fat, wealthy and middle-aged. The m we closed the trap all the el hed young woman goes groping for pleasure. She meets a young man, and goes with him to his rooms. She thinks a beautiful and sacred romance has come to her. Months afterward, with her lover away in Mexico, her husband is murdered in his sleep. The young woman, arrested and tried, testifies she awakened to see “some dark men” bending over her husband; that they killed him with a bottle filled with stones. The prosecutor breaks ee her perjury and she con- esses. Execution in Darkness “The young woman is in a death cell in the next scene. A pitifully meager figure, clothed in black, she aces back and forth and puts nzied questions to a priest. Her mother comes to say good-bye, and then she is led “back there.” For the execution scene, the stage is completely dark. The audience hears footsteps, and is acquainted with the action by the whispered comments of newspaper reporters. There is a woman’s sudden cry. Then slowly the darkness lifts. A vague, rosy light creeps across the stage and up the folds of the cur- tains. The young woman’ has-es- cared at last. ‘ “Anything so real and intense can- not be mere acting,” said Miss Jo- hann. “I never actually memorized my lines; they seemed to come to me by instinct. I am not Zita Jo- hann in the play. I am that young woman—any life is a reaching out, a fluttering against bars. Every- thing turns out to be an obstruction, a wall. “At the end I belong to a spiritual rather than a physical existence. The young woman holds no resentment. toward the judge who condemned her. People have become dwarfed to marionettes. They are figures in adream. Everything is easier after the confession. Terror-Stricken First “Qnly at the final moment, in the first’ performances, did there come to me sensation of purely animal terror. I felt the shock of the elec- tric current. ‘Somebody!’ I cried —‘Somebo—.’ And then well, equilibrium.” Miss Johann is careful, off-stage, to keep her nerve as fit as those of 2 nee. She done not. anos. a the goes on,’she prol ly wil be forced to seek outside distrac- tions, she said. She will begin play- ing violin again, and dancing. But right now she is living with her tole day and night.” Miss Johann was born in Hungary. Her father was a hussar in the Hun- [Seles army. Her parents brought r to America when she was seven, and she marveled at Broadway's nightly glow. Then came high schdol, dramatic school, a few minor Parts here and there, and now— The electric chair every night! PENNSYLVANIA TO ELECTRIFY New York, Nov. 1.—(#)—The Pennsylvania railroad is to electrify its entire freight and peleeests ‘ice between New York and » Del, at a cost of The decision was announced by General W. W. Atterbury, president ote ject will cover 325 miles rr mile ine’ cons “300 miles of nd seven or eight YeGeneral Atterbury said thet. if conditions warrant it the electrifica- tion of the road’s entire 11,000 miles imi ca trackage would follow, | section ‘ion, upon completion of the ans, to Meet Death in|ABSENT _ The Electric Chair---Every Night| LAW EXPLAINED a Zita Johann | Her Reaction to Death Role? Enthusiasm! | goes enthusiastically to the electric chair every night on a Broadway stage. She’s the star of “Machinal,” a play based on the Snyder-Gray case, BRISK STATEMENTS ON BOTH SIDES MARK RACE FOR SUPREME COURT State Bankers Association Is Cause of Tilt Between Opponents Rejoinders to a statement recently made by Justice L. E. Rirdzell of the supreme court have been made here by..F. O. Hellstrom and C. Leivert Tum, son of another candidate for the supreme court bench. Judge Birdzell’s statement vigor- ously attacked statements inade by Hellstrom, local - pamphleteer, in which certain decisions of the su- Preme court with refercnce to the state banking laws were criticized. Hellstrom’s reply to Birdzell, c.v- ering some 10 typewritten pages, re- iterates the charge that the supreme court aided the bankers of the state to pscerane taxation of their bank si Hellstrom _ propounds numerous questions to Birdzell bearing on the several decisions of the supreme court which he is attacking in the present campaign. He cites numer- ous decisions which, he claims, show lack of consistency on the part of the court and support his claim that the bankers’ were favored by the! court in deciding cases in which the! banks were interested. Birdzell, in his statement, said the court decided all cases in accordance with the law and vointed out that the courts ave not a law-making body and that the law in question was passed by the legislature at the suggestion of Lynn J. Frazier, who was then governor, - Bankers Group Mentioned In. the :.tatement of C. Leibert Crum, which he said was made on behalf of his father, the charge is made that the state bankers’ asso- ciation is active in behalf of Justice BirdzelJ, W. L. Nuessle and A. G. Burr, all of whom are candidates for re-election to the supreme court this year. Referring to a denial by A. G. Divet, attorney for the bankers’ as- sociation, that letters written to ‘Telephone 832 402 Main Ave. Always Busy. There’s a Reason . Friday Specials CANADIAN PIKE—i"...... SALMON STEAK—i".......... 30 SHORT RIBS OF BEEF?" bankers urging them to mupport the incumbent judges were written by him in his official capacity but were addressed only to his friends, Crum said pina the letters were writ- ten to banking corvorations and asked when Mr. Divet began classing corporations as acquaintances. Statements Are Sharp Both the Hellstrom and Crum statements bristle with opposition to the fnembers of the court who are seeking re-election and Hellstrom’s statement, in addition, contain nu- merous references to various legal decisions. Crum alleges that the court aided the bankers twice, once by interpret- Mey? a law in their favor and again by holding that an entire chapter of the law was nullified because the people in a referendum election, had stricken out the part of the law which the*court originally had de- cided exempted bank stock from tax- ation. Judge Birdzell, in his statement, bluntly challenges the accuracy of the statements leveled at the court and the honesty of the motives be- hind the attacks. His position was that in deciding all cases the court must give to the language of the statutes the ordinary meaning of the words used and that when the legislature exempted stocks from taxation the term included bank stocks as well as other stocks. The whole matter goes’ back to 1919 when the law in question was passed and to the court ‘decisions made shortly thereafter. Werner Residents Get Mail Route Extension Favorable action has been taken ona 10-mile extension of mail route No. 2, near Werner, North Dakota, it was announced by the Postoffice department today. - Approximately 50 families will be benatited by the extension. Con- ressman J. H. Sinclair represented petitioners before the postoffice department at Washington. “Telephone 337 186 ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE_ VOTERS for judge of the court. The statement follows: had man erroneous interpretation of the ab- sent voters law by F. O. Hellstrom, Bismarck attorney and a candidate state supreme “During the last few days we have inquiries in regard to the rent of the law in ‘the state of North Dakota. It has tiever been the law in this state. To. correct this misleading and erroneous statement and to enlighten the public and vot- ers of this state, I wish to call at- tention to the fact that's part of Mr, Hellstrom’s quotation was’ included vote, Any qualitied elector of this state having complied with the laws in regard to registration, who is ab- sent from the county of which he is an elector on the day of holding any general or primary election, may vote at any such election as herein- after provided.’ PAGE THREE voters ballot, a ‘person must. be or expect to be out of the county oF election day.” ‘ ’ An excellent ironing blanket can be made from old’ newspapers. Stitch half a dozen large sheets to- Hellstrom Erroneously Inter-| Absent Voters Law. Such inquiries | in Chapter 32 of the 1919 Special “ ‘Section 93. Application f ting tl 4 preted Rule, Shater’s As- | Br atovutiteey tee Bsus] Ssngtas, at, site| tae wien ARS "emt Efe ce, fue Mat an Facts of October 20, 1928, and pre-| ter 32 of the 1919 Spécial Session ateetOR, Gee von eae | cela sistant Says Explanation of the provisions of| to be the absent voters’ law was “made here today in a statement issued at the attorney general’s office. 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