Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1923, Page 11

D. —ee e INS HALT RESCUE. OF FLOOD VIGTINS, Six Hundred Believed Dead. Searching Parties Make Little Progress. O, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1923. - THE EVENING ' STAR, WASHINGTON, 11 st e AMUSEMENTS SIUShATOELASS CHURGHLL ESCAPES Free-for-All Fights Mark Po- :l litical Meetings in England. ALLEGED MURDERER | ENDS HUNGER STRIKE, Malm Recants at Threat to De- prive Him of All Cigarettes. ! 1 SUBURBAN HEIGHTS—The News Instinct. —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS vidual pride goes with every vision William Faversham in of the customs and conditions, i and dangers of that first exploration | “ . B A Lesson in Love™ {1 (i ot o e Wi The very large and cordial Budlcnr‘c'{';k’ o:;sv{v:;« an aw nkw‘x_xlnz renliza- S o illiam . Faversham ¢! tion that the history of America is which ereeted William Faversham at (S0 (HGE VG LISTATT, OF the Shubert-Belasco Theater last eve ning, In the new play, now called “A Lesson in Love,” by Rudolph Besier and May Edginton, was a fine testimonial of the favor in which that graceful and polished actor is held in Washington. And the applause which followed throughout the play and especially at Its close seemed a strong indication that it also had found favor. It was splen- didly played by a cast which was with- out a gricvous flaw and with ar that suggested an episode in real rather than a play that was being acted upon the stage. h conditions In the world as they are, however, to almost paraphrase the epeech of the venerable Dean Carey lovable character in the story, it doubtful if the play will meet with un divided approval. It is cleve now Kansas the Oregon Trall until reen River Junction, in Wyoming, a section of the pioneers under Will Banion, the hero, move southwest to the goldfields of California—t vanguard of the Argonauts of | The original setticrs, led by J turn northwestward to the »f Oregon. The time is 1845 Historlc care is shown in weapons and the manner of | Indians and emigrants. Tre hand- |cal meptings In the ling of the wagon train in i Gl Rl ) jcamp and the stretch of prairie from | . - itrail to horizon give a convinei ith others sense of the reconstruction of the life P {of that early day. Ther n Indian |y jattack and a last-minute rescue, a |\ Althamston | realistic buffalo hunt, a breathless |crowd, {escape from prairvie fires {savages—and for the greatest | climaxes the fording of & river is a real danger while it lasts clever—and daring, most daring Inot an effect due to any enhancing | the lessoy that it Imparts, not & very itrick of the camer: mesmerizing | pretty lesson, is scarcely velled by the,gift of even so great w director as| rather trite énding. James Cruze. There is the Platte, | The novelist and the dramatist have | running wide and deep. And there eritteh the world full of tomes on |are the oxen—hundreds of oxen ford ove, and there has been written al- | ing until it came to swimming wit most’ envugh to fill another wor'd onjmouths above wa hors passion.” “A Lesson in Love” presents | philosophical under the stiain the inquiry when is the one the other | ing but game, and hitched ard ar. both ever the same. I horse and ox prairie schooner Laura Westerly has made herself an With obviously anxious. me outcust, so far as her former staid en and children, wh 1y {British ‘triends are concerned, by leav- 4L the mercy of their beasts ing an unloved husband for the man Of wagons shown at every v |she loves and for whom she Is willing ' ¢lose-ups and perspective |t.. sacrifice everything. She comes uarsely By the Assoclated Press, : follow: CHICAGO. December 4.—Otto Malm, held for the slaying of Edward Leh- man, watchman, Sunday broke a 72-hour hunger strike. .Malm had told guards he intended to “smok cigarettes until he starved to death.” He agreed to eat when guards threatened to take away his toba | ration. Malm and Mrs. Katherine Baluk, also known as Mrs. Malm, have made an alleged confesslon that they shot Lehman and wounded Albert Stem- wedel, Lehman’s companion, when the watchman _interrupted them while trying to rob a knitting goods fac- tory. Mr. tuk tried to commit sui- cide a few days Walter Bockelman and Tthel Bec his sweetheart, also made allezed con- fessions, but later repudiated their s, entire case will presented rand jury today. The po ice siznific nee to stories told by Minnie Murasky and Aug Samak ald that on the nizht hey had seen a man and le sitting the porch of 11 m and i couple they ap. n and uple. ! ( BUT DIDN'T TICK LD AW (EWS = WIPE SAYS SHE'S AAD A TULL DAY T00 ~ HASNT BLEN OUT 47 HOUSE .AND NOT A SOUL CAME SAYS NO HE HASN'T ANY NEWS - SAW A LOT OF MEN . & KNEW AT A BUSINTSS MEETING AND HAD LUNCH WITH SOME OLD COLLEGE TRIENDS BUT BY THE WAY T.D HE KNOW FRED PERLEY WAS HAVING BUSINESS TROUBLES THEIR TURNACE MAN CAME LOOKING} TOR A JOB BECAUSE FRED Py the Assoclated Press. : BERGAMO, Italy, December 4.—The work of finding the bodies of the 600 or more victims of last week's flood disaster continues over the extended zone devastated by the waters, but the rescue parties are encountering | difficulties. The water has receded, leaving Bergamo valley buried un- der several feet of mud, which the rains keep soft, thus rendering prog- T2ss almost fmpossible. Wallowing through this waste, the searching partics make the best of their way over areas where flourish- | 11 villages once siood. I"ood, clothing, blamkets and bed- ding not only for the survivors, but | for the members of the relief parties, are carried with great difficulty in ox carts, for all mechanical means of moving supplies have been rendered useless. Indeed, the authoritics hav en obligid to limit the number of volunteer workers, as it is impo: to feed a large company at the scene of the disaster. Meanwhile arby villages are open sung continuousiy rs pray for the cessition of By the Assoclated Pr LONDON, 1 jer 4 {lsm that has marked so man en dress, couts poli present camy n der ed the of T 1 pers in Rill was speaking ser supj ported to 1 a is Ay AND BY THE WAY CCRA BEEMAR 5 GOING TD HAVE 70 START LOOK~ ING FOR A MAID DECAUSE SHE HEARD THEIR MAID TCLL G THE DOLEYS' INTHE BACKYARD LET HIM GO CUT DOWN EX~ PENSES. AND THE WICKETTS ROOF HAS BEEN LEAKING AGAIN; SHE SAW THE MEN THERE ALL MORNING with the d. A libe, spup THAT SHE'S GOING TO QUIT AND SPIAKING O™ THE TOCLEYS DID HE XNOW THAT MR5. TOOLEY HAS VERV BAD EAR TROUBLE. LILY WASHES FOR THE TOOLEY'S be {mecting was also t of the ting these 0us camp the vot cal wooing gerly, but t i their “yes supy ts in intend to vot The pass: Strings wpoint took des be refuse 1o ping the Bow t on_ a_por give t and Bockel ed 1o suc y104ch doubt Miss b ¢ B. & 0. RECALLS 1,100 MEN TO WORK IN SHOPS 1.300 Furloughed Likely to Be Summoned Soon, Officials Indicate. Sporial Dispat Kerri the roles the train Frne vor I other, give humoron trusting friendships in shore to shore with wide to the home of Mrs. Beatrice Audley Is engized to I Moreto < her oy d and she in the wo Mrs. Audley he belicves 1, and agal: Gr'Capt. Andre Frenchmin 1 gives Latra to v an have nothing (o | o apt. Brique « | the & friel or this and teils her hiag | G8Y8; andl file Mundtens g0 o | s ved an ideal. He even Inti-|inians traders and sad-eved, droof tes that she herself wonld do asiheaded and most reliabie oXen, ura had done had she been tempted, | UP & vitality as vatural o8 {4 rom this point it is apparent that|T¢ nd Lois W aa f the gailant lone v ¥ . the i se sympith, to the room n re (Cha the | Emmanuel at Scene. | Trail i » whi for many d Bergamo when the gr 1r rain and f the 1zel 1p in the pres quet, & st world, her gues nd that sh, her ARE GOING TO HAVE A BIG TAKING UP T THE LARRABIES DINNER TONIGHT WITH TWELVE ADDS WITH A SIGH SHE GUESTS. WHEN THE BOY BROUGHT ~ REALLY OUGHT T GET OUT HER. ORDER PROM THE MARKET HORE AND TIND OUT WHAT'S HE TOLD HER ALL HE WAS GUNG ON TOO AND SHE TOLD ALL AROUT IT WHILE SHE W5 HERE IRONING TODAY AND JOE BLODGETT'S OFF FOR ANOTHER BUSINESS TRIP-SAW HIM START, AND THE \ARRABIES (AR ON MODERNIST - DOGTRINES URGED ‘ : : Baptists Must Accept Deity Remainder of d terrible condi- the kir = 48 extensiv He was 3 arnazza, [ e promised repair the estimated 1 t0 The Star CUMBERLAND. Md.. December 4, ADout 758 mechanics of the heavy pa ind Ohio rail and about 400 2 who were furlou of cconomy one Alled to duty hanics in il re 1ic Deputie inacel. wnee to ch are {about are {tore 3 the rema i |of that . Fifty candid lalready been returned unc at Key a means K0, wer. About 100 and 100 in Keys but likely will 1 There wer fferent poin Changes in Stations Of Army Officers of Interest to Capital Anwy. at e week e e king visited able the ruined viliages and with some of the Injurcd in tha hos pitals. Stopping whera th Nage of Corna once stood, soon zave he talk s far as td 1 the Maj. Charles S. Farnsworth, chief of infantry, at Dayton, Ohlo, has to the 11 hospital Ark.for treatment. ut. W. F. Sadtler, has been relieved from Field, Anacostia, D. issy Field, Calif., Gen, layoff of shopmen was general i a At Coler, which forn iy five n : at Dezzo, at another small the varfous sixty men ¥ind 200 Dead. been ordered Hot Springs, Second L nal Corps, of Jesus, Virgin Birth, Res- |aus at Boline ki urrection, Says Dean. for duty ene \r repa istruction the Ridge Maryla s at ve n | Br the Assoctated Pross D ENABLE RAILWAYS TO EXPAND FACILITIES ™\pyw " Youx : ne. | Fun atier ¢ Tin- |} oper Asserts, | Sig @ hended @ M teen; whi elect <. Decembe on the Increase in lief in sight, Chay dent of the Staft Sergt. William J with { Quartermaster Corps, at Fort Va, and First Sergt. James Russell, ! 2ith Infantry, at Fort Benning, en re for age. «l 8 Creignton,’ Me the gene city and Tedical Corps, Den in Already n from the m its wake. ireat a valley yes: uutomobiles of conveyance 1 (¥ s Infiuenced and before | o she scarcely realizes it she herself is 1 Bobby Folsom and Metropol- {calmly plans to marry Capt. Briquet l GROWING IN EUROPE when she is firmly but kindly Inform- everyhody — shudders at the horfor of the broposi- | dram 1 . tion calmly tells her nothing re- {Dr. Weizmann, Here to Promote! zot the t him, she throws h into his | performanc s in days later, < in | dier Mr that ra comes, hut does not seem to|tan Orchestra, Miss T kindly to the captain's objection | pretty miss with ability venerable dean mined d dfe. He foes | Mrs. Audies shadows cast on 2 white cotton scree ISEES ANTI'SEMITISM “‘ love with the captaln. Breaking her engagement with Sir Nevil, she & itan Orchestra. ed_ that his intentions do not con-| This we < X template marriage, and when she duys t | main but to s farewell, where- | gram w B y upon, de ng-she cannot live with Palestine Restoration, Declares i - ; abject is_all | program 8.000,000 Lives Threatened. SBenE I the o T Audle lused awalting the call| Th k'8 bill of Laura, whom she has summoned. | Fo'som and Jack Dent Vlu marriage when there is no reason [Ler songs In fetching fa or it. Then Sir Ne ppears with |the orchestra 8 one of 1 Audley the ad have been taken rud which the Hood left in | i wouL | 1 i 1 throughout e ry cam \ used o s here to unada the | ¥ her sheep- |t al curtain | Roxte fram dancing. Lena Tak o Fle es o t and kind | tra ver s s f {ippodr am 1 t ai fntermedia Maj. Edgar surgeon gen- ordered to at the Needed. fc Not “Political kering,” B. W. H 1P e eir Julia plas ram'rs and urtain Hu rry Emerson base H. P the Ba ntered t series of anti-m; adjustment, « o beir for the miles in exte purts of the dam i W a n to the village of Love head of L bui barr in this way were forced day night The roy constry DRY AGENT IS ARRESTED | AFTER FATAL SHOOTING ! - {th | forc claborate arriage, after the his conquest of e argumente, the wv—and_ it dangl father of to expose her or possible influenmes of |1 i Love Yet it wasltive inin her than the adie that the big a at moments mind expected n ary us Mrs. Audley artist s charm o! experie Sir Nev while ¢ Dean Carey memory. Gri ami att dan- was river 5 -Huy ave been of instruc rvard University Graduate Susiness Administration Maj. Robert Skelton. Medical Corps, 7 transfer from the su general's office to the gener. icdiate depot, th 5 2. A Regnier, Sth Cavalrs. s Tex.. has v _assig valry, at Fort Myer, Va. ank L. Carr, Sth Cav- has heen ver, Va., for duty riding team Nolan has been detailed as chief of staff, G-4, and Briz. Gen. Stuart Heintze man as assistant chief of staff, war plans division, War Department Maj. H Miner, feld artillery, at ~, and Capt. . F. Manchester, . womas t lines I of them r the would hesitate the Lesson | trom " the | masculine plause came thoughtful conventioyal or_refleeti e - a course nt for a literal Dr. v ptist h to ec DReE=, Dr. Weizm toward th attributed the feelin fin. | pretation s as an aftermath of the 1| Pettinguli Bibla ., the yes- & Bliss 10 at rt to the Firs alry ordere with th Brig ies of the ided the league of nations At if It did not soon have the America, disintegr e of another ) might folow | zmann assertod to enter Pales rate | th ports of | won Arabs as enc co. trat nd s t T ¥ he Me- ives at Tonto wh d be wis amony th vary degrecs. Dr board of da is ural mi-chievou under Defachni Prejude in B Minc with tones that suggested and Probably his Allegro de Concert,” with and delicate mel St T r number the audience Officer Says He Fired in Self-De fense When Serving Capias in Raid Case. By the Associated Press RALE Grover B and farmer o nd W Tibition agent, miirder curring e 1 ¥ Woodfin, afte to federal authorities dered to Raleigh pe ia said by police officers o claim s defense. he killing was the outgrowth o raid by prohibition agents seve onths ago which resu n a on copper still being seized dley property yund _in_North ¢ ars of Gr the time of the trial One, John ow up for trial and the esterday went to serve a capias upon him ‘The o ers found the brothers to- gether d it was while att to make the arrest that the which resulted in the d ver Bradley was committed WIFE MURDERER TAKEN. Paison Officers Capture Slayer ,\Who Scaled Walls, MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., December 4 —Wilham Schray, alias Wilbur J Kelly, convicted wife mu na rum runner, was ca erday on the East Dunes highway entrance to Michigan City by four officers of the Indiana state prison. His auto- | y ile contained mnine cases of Will Test Representative's Right to Sky % Schray, a_rum runner between Make “Fruit troit and Milwaukee, escaped from i 5 the Indiana state prison in 1917, when 1 D'spateh to The Star. five prisoners scaled the walls, He LTIMORE, December 4.—Hear Fas convicted in Harrison count in of the petition for an injur a3 !brought by United States District Attorney Amos W. Woodcock s, 1914, Abe I\Iartln Says: zainst Congressman John Phillp {Hill has been set for January 4 | — rs of the unive 1zed sity Lr. Fosdick and Dr. laring that their in- only brins about the c tions here s ia. He s should be and to die He bro alist of ar g0 tanding made 3 Car Laura Me role Lenorc Ulnc m Klk Bitter-sweet {n humor and a ing in poigny Tt throbs, * came again to W ngton last nigh playing an admixture of chirn nd trath which convinced a ' grap ence at the National Thea- | o obe w York d keen appre. |Pects t fation of good stagecraft and supe. | Teception rior character delineation In holding | Part of the com v for “two solid years.' lin the He d indeed who headline i active Mrs 1 adequate | and F. S the mino sprient BOY ABANDONED ON TRAIN, QUESTIONED BY OFFICERS | Calls Himself Robert McClelland and Says His Home Is in Pittsburgh. By the Assaciatad Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, i's right of ne antics for their the of i 3 Henry G. Stahl, United States Infantry. has been piaced on ired list count of disabil- nt to the service Officer Carl Witeher, in anal Zone, has been or- for du at the nn played two 1i £S wi tow Cloud * and “The Dey % ny in the audience 1 red with him at their ¢ ul.” 1 came Schumann rather rmy ving thrse ACe BICTOr hen writing the wound.d their cause. nilies might tundumen dernists, ier than if Docember mine en up i 1. ouid sur- his family. rea. Juvenile Frolics of 1923. Several he Tibe ull said, Ne the pia 1 the said to have e compositions, there was a sly lt old Russian's cc ed to indicate h at the rebellion o that . Col. B. C. Goss, Officers’ Re- serve Corps, of Cleveland, Okio, has been ordercd to this city for duty in the office of the assistant secretaty of war. Warrant Officer John A. Hillard, at Washington barracks. D. has been ordered to Honolulu, ilawail. Non-commissioned officers been iled 2 military in as follows: rgt. . AL Beall, w the Conneeticut National Guard; J. W. Bennett, with the Texa nal Guard; Sergt. H. L. Doom. the Montana -National Guard: 3 O'Brien, with the Con. ut uard; Sergt. H Southern, with the Texas Na- tional Guard: 'Sergt. T. R. Dynes. to the New York National Guard, and Sergt. W. B. Van Pelt, with the Okl National Guard Albert B. Cowden, Signal Corps, has been transferred from Camp Alfred Vall, N. J., to Fort Hum- phreys, Va. WAGJER FESTIVAL DATES. BEYREUTH, Bavaria, December The foliowing schedule’ has been ar- anged for the performances of the Wagner festival to be resumed here ) Ring,” July “Meister Singel 1, August’s, 11 and 19; “Parsifal, . August 1, 4, 7, 5, 10 and 20. THE THRILL THAT COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME—By WEBSTER itlined three es- an faith—belief in Jesus in the doctrine of birth und in the wodily He said there could by with those wio Dacember t members of th sor- who_boarde train with nd was sub 10 que: police last night Pt to establish his ident- s which i rta vitd Washington week Fro ity of s Virgin rrectio comproi. these things Spoakers at today's ude Dr. R E. Nelghl 0 13 to tak on Intolerable to in this at ion this week urprising artistle, The Rus by Sam Krevoff. whom ha tion of does mnot out ters in a d passed in t in Washin quent tioned b n_an at have | it uctors meetin, rta Walsh, Trave station her by W. R. ind him | reached { s itob- lived ersy T & was o I True Bap- ats, who aldn't who could ¢ ibiic pu tsastrous efr Ho: her ideal =0 mad inz to “walk m, to steal for him, to murder for| and, greatest of all of these, to | ieep 0d* in all the viciousness of he P sian demi-world for him. | Kiki said as much during the presen- ation, nd sh proved she meant ~1.t she said. It is hard to say where charm and grace fits into the production. Our better elements, no doubt, wou d peer at iki through lorgnettes and pro- nounce her vulgar. At first si when one doesn't know Kikl well, she is not exactly the type to W I u cal Menu™ Invite to an dfternoon tea withlof its kind, in which a mother. Ah, but wait until she un- |contralto and a fine sopranc folds her character. Watch her re- (heard in numbers soaring oven pulse advances from the hunter male. |the classies. Arthur Hill makes Watch her love for the man she | v while his plump and adores crop up and drive her like tner wins her audience winds drive a sailing clipper, fleat- ype of femi footed toward the goal, and you will | fancing that gets w ccdi y change your opi Then | ights Hoth ch her cry with the terrible bur- | \mtre number. den of futllity in life which weigh h& e upon her and you'll love her yourseif | \ravdeville Hash & nentis Lenore Ulric has created @ charnc- | »iortaiament ond the ok $f ter. She has brought the role to a [ jCF(ENMent and the fwo Carles point where she portrays Jealousy | (%) 4nd clever acrobatic exhihition love, hatred, fear, pathos, devilish Paiamshiits b O i ness and the whole gamut of emo | . SUWRCRELS BIS Gl Wanson tions as clearly as black charcoal on (iFERE B atire. @aza. e white paper. £ > g “The pie = The supporting cast, if at times it Etx~h|r”.”")"(r,/f. L e s shows the effect of two vears' cal- |Su{ 0 e VOIS, war, in it modi- culated to make it role-weary, re-|llcations ar s its audienee bounds to the reactions in the comady [ thToughout It is free from ¢ with such life that the hint of super- | fensive, Ten Hurpin. in “The EndiXog” yor speedily is dissipated. Svesti beautifu than | high prais Upon Sam B. Hardy falls the major [Movie Chats complete a bill of tfine | hE" PT supporting role. He assumes it well, |entertainment. Fine Arts Thomas Findlay as Brule, the back o vheiuosity. of thi door man, and Thomas Mitchell as a was sougdiy tested v servant tender outstanding. perform- mne” and Max Bruch 7 Minor." John pastor of of the Thursday nignt Modernism on vatory when the trair »wn, the boy aid he land and he ater he in_ Pittsburh and school at Aspinw v The man with whom he | train’ paid for himself [ with commutation ticket trips between Pittsburgh ester, Pa., Mr. Couse said to the oy the man told him that he was_taking him “into town to losa him.” It is not known where the man | left the train, | NEW STRAUS OPERA. | BERLIN, December 4.—Richard Straus | i writing a new opera, for which Hugo . | Hoffmannsthal is supplving the book | The theme is taken from Greek my- hology, and Straus says the opera will abound’ in humor. with sergt for —_— WOMAN NOv=LIST DIES. Reina M. Marquis Was Wife of | New York Columnist. Melcher Marqu mn a nov pst Hills, Marquis lanta, fifteen ye HILL HEARING JANUARY 4. he attends boarded the and Loy . issued for and Roch According an which merits the desert grade youthful profes Harry L. Webb, “the nd more is a scream nd_his so " Laurctta Rhodes ROCKVILLE. the ROCKYVILL Md, December 4 a result of a collision ille pike. near Garrett Sunday evening between « ed by J. W. Say- Md., and George both mé.. . Sylvia Lent's Recital. Don i i piaywri; 5 1 lovers sk were Rocl tion nd t, L 1 born co mbin obiles is { Union W are into the pretty with drivins. owed that aly damag. Judge ine f X » one wa b ble to de the evidence whose zence eaused the ent_an dzed both not guilt Ellfs. however, was fined $10 and costs for |not having Maryland markers on his Sheriff Al lorin Parmeter {uty sheriff for bed to 11 over th close with a good ec-{ Earl Bronson and - help the merriment with hurt, De- Juices, ¢ has appointed Kensington a dep e county, and he has su oath of office be- fore erk of the circuit court meter 1s assistant town for Kensington. heen ftsued by the ircuit court herp for the of the following: Fred- ck M. Davis and Miss Ruth M. King. both of Bridzeport. Conn.; Paul R. Turner and s Willa A. Man- ville, both of Washington; Willlam 1. Busye and Mlss Merie G. Dungan, both of Washington; Harry P. Dool- iing of Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Miss Jeanne Nichols of New York, and Roy W. Conkey of Quantico, Va., and Miss Katherine Kavanaugh of Washing- ton. For violations of the motor vehicle regulations the following have pald fines or forfeited collaterals in_the police court here: Joseph Saunders, $10; F. H. Kohman, $7; J. G. Harsh- man, $10; W. M. Ward, $7.50. Clifford H. Robertson of the local bar has awarded the contract for the on S R W CLINT, TAKE THESE TICKET S IM AND PASS '€ ARCUMD, TWo FOR THE OPENMING OF THE NEw COMIC OPERA GO To DWIGHT MARY (M - TWO FOR THAT MySTERY PLAY ARE For Louis HILLHOUSE ~ FOUR Fom ORE WAL O WE ST SHow GoTo CHARLEY HUGHES = Tinp FOR. THE FIGHT ARE FOR NEO BROWM = Two Forr THE CHAPLIN MOVIE ARE FOR BILL JOKHSTN Am O HERE ARE A COUPLE For YOU TO THE ADVERTISING MEN'S SHow {Judge Morris A Soper, at the re- made he Quest of Mr. Woodcock. The injunction was asked to close Mr. Hi home, 5 West Franklin street, Laltimore, where he rceently made a quantity of &rape juice to test the Voistead act relating to the manufacture for home consumption of “non-intoxicating” fruit juices and cider. In Mr. Hill's answer to the peti- tion, filed some time ago, he denied having broken the law and said that his experiments were conducted en- tireiy in accord with dircctions and rulings of Prohibition Commi Roy A. Haynes. | BUCK ausplees of “Chuckles of 1923. Jean Bedint's “Chuckles the show which he took to and, according to reports, < “Concerto proved equal to every and and her every ; srcee singing quality full of in making John Bull laugh heartily | and warmth and faultless ¥ p at American jokes and comedy, is{ The opening no the at the Gayety this week 7 the concerto was This is the show that orig s0norous resonance starred Bolby Clark and Paul | ton: the | Culloch, but the only performer of | lude and Allegr the first company now with the produc- | firm surencss of tion is Leo, the lien. Cliff Bragdon | broath-taking in and “Coo Coo" Morrissey h the| Saint-Saen” ances. The remainder of the cast contribute their stints in adequate fashion. In closing two things should be men- tioned. The first is the clever ada tion of David Belasco of the French original character study of Kiki, Adre Picard® comedy creation. Slang and brazen lines are skillfully turned into English in a manner which leaves ro doubt as to Latin origin assum- ing, however, genuine American shades of expression. Secondly, ¢he of 19 e of u orga bowing its beauty s “Introd: Th’ worst drawback t’ havin’ a reputation fer bein’ close- mouthed is that so mueh is ex- ected of us when we do cut oose. O’ course, farmin’ hain’t what it might be, but folks that live! out in th’ €ountry ought t’ be glad they hain't steppin’ on dis- carded chewin’ gum all th’ time. 4Copyright Nationsl Newspaper Serviced KILLED BY YOUTH. Animal Weighing 225 Pounds Bagged in Maryland. Special Dispatch to The Star, CUMBERLAND, Md., December 4.— | {Walter Harden, nineteen years bagged a .fine 223-pound buck the Vicinity of Rockweod The animal came down a 150 feet istant at full spced, having been frightened by other hunters. The lad fired three times and each one of the 30-30 bui- lets took effect. RITES FOR DR. GIBBONS. Special Dispateh to The Star. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., December 4—The funeral of Dr. Page A. Gib- bons, fifty, son of the late Rev. George A. Gibbons, for many years rector of Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Romney, W. Va. and only ! brother of Mrs' John G. Lynn of Cumberland, Md., _was held today. Burial was held in Oak Grove cemetery. Dr. Gibbons is survived by his wife, one son, Allen Gibbons, and one daughter, Miss Virginia _Gibbons, students at West Virginia Universityy eroction of a modern office bullding on Court street, adjoining the prop- erty of the Farmers' Banking and Trust Company. It will contain three rooms and will cost around $1,500. iHarry G. Howes of Rockville is the builder. At a recent joint meeting of the Kensington Home, School and Com- munity Association and the Arnold Wilburn post of the American Legion of Kensington a resolution was unanimously adopted favoring “high- er salaries for teachers, with high teacher requirements and standards, and setting forth that “the financial needs of our schools should be of paramount importance In formulal ling .ce county budget.” Fe.rle E. Waters, chosen at the r cent election register of wills for the Icounty to succeed himself, subscribed [to the oath of offire before the clerk {of the circuit court here today and | entered upon his new terms of three years. .Miss Lilllan F. Prettyman and |Miss Ella Plummer will continue to jlook after the clerical work of the office. More than thirty-four hundred - censes to hunt have been issued by the clerk of the circuit court here and the number is Increasing daily. The hunting season closes January 1. i THE EOMTOR HANDS ‘ OUT THE PASSE “THE CURREMNT ATTRACTION S 5 For Pl stage setting—so appropriate are the settings that one dosen't notice them at first and then suddenly they are brought to attention. It makes one wonder why the first glance doesn't Lring home the facts. The Cov;red Wagon." “The Covered Wagon"—a backward glimpse of American history, “dedi- cated to a great American. Theodore Roosevelt’—was welcomed last night at Poli's by as much of Washington as could be crowded into the theater's last inch of space. It was an un- usual audience, In I patrons of good motion pictures were reinforced by newly arrived official,| society in_evening ‘suits and grand opera garb; school bodies and stu- dents, young and old—all hushed with personal tenseness, as the story un- folded the history and romance born of the Oregon trall. So many reasons have “been ad- wanced for the popularity of this pro- duction that one more, for good meas- ure, may lle in the fact that the de- scendants of the adventurers who dared the trackless stretches of the west are 80 scattered throughout the countryg that o puise beat of comedy roles and while the 1 situations are becoming u little an- clent now the work of these two funny fellows is always good for a laugh. ~And, strange to say, the biggest hit last night was not made with comedy, but rather with a clever musical specialty in which Bragdon performs on a cornet plays a drum with professionals. This turn rece biggest round of applausc evening. Among the specialties during the entertalnment are a saxophone num- ber by Emmet Baker. a group of compositions by the Sixophone Four, that customary |an acrobatic turn by the Four Pashas| With it and songs by Elaine Beaslee, Nor- ma Barry and Elwood Gr: Others in the cast are the Russell Sisiers Pat Kearney, Henri Permane ana C Valerio. The show carries a large chorus and -some rather effective scenery. Nis dismir e Dachmann Viadimir de Pachmann, who first toured the United States in 1899, re turned to Washington at Poii's Theate ¥ afternoon, nearly a quarter of a century later, and bewitched aun Rondo Cappriccioso” played. the delica stic of this compo: emphas and Kreisler's ment_of Gluck's “Melodle” | tractively presented. In the fina’ group of fairylike comn- positions Sylvia Lent had her audl ence at her feet, for she nlayed Sur a delicacy of touch that gave unusual charm. The fairy com on was so delightful that thag nce insisted upon its repetition fmh's “Vato Pernetuo” w constant and well balanced oo, aid G oetzmer's “Cradle Song' proved an ideal contrast. The most brilliant number on tha perhaps was Wienlawski's i angement of Henri's aise in D" Sylvia Lent ga e all the dashing, colorful qualities suggested in the notes with swift, sure bowing that so pleased the audience that demanded. ¥ the program inc! chube: Bee" arrangeme Chaminade’s nade.” Herman Newman was iml!h her accoms