Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1924, Page 13

LOAN GRANTED ROAD ~TO STAVE OFF SALE S * T. 8. Judge Permits Receiver of D. and R. G. W. to Borrow $l 500,000. IEEDED FOR Offék Said to Have Been Made by Junior Bondholders. By the Associnted Press. DENVER, Col, Jan Denyer and Rio Grande road, now “pnder feder: ship} was saved from D the auction block for t when United States D Foster Symes yesterd order permitting Receiver Thomas H. Beacon to borrow $1,500,000 to be used in paying $1,129,000 in interest on underlyMg “bords~ of' $81;000,000, the jnterest having fallen due Tuesday It is understood that the offer was made by a group'of junior bond- holders, whose holdings of $31,000,000 and? $10.000.000 in secondary mort- gages would be imperiled in the event of a. foreclosure on default of the interest on the senior bonds: - The coutt order does not name the source of the loan, but it is known that ap- parently Judge Symes and Recelver Beacon have been considering two offers—one _ from: the junior bond- holders thfough the Bankers' Trust Company of New York and the New York Trust Compan 1d the other from the Western. Pag and the Mis- sour] Pacific railroads, according to reports. Second Morigages. stern rail- receiver- ble sale on cond time T sourl Pacifie are sald to hold approxi- matgly $8.000,000 in s of the Rio nde Agtion of Judge ance of the he road to in allowing other interest | due between now and June 1, |, it was said. Judge Symes e ined that the loam will enable the road to proceed under receivership plans with the rehabilitation program which, at its inception, $16,000,000. Acceptance of the loan will have no involved approximately | bearing whatever on the proposed | == plan_of refinancing the road which was “approved recently by the Inter- state Commerce Commission, Judge Symeés said posed by th AMUSEMENTS Bflfll Sydfley n Peer Gynt VPB(I‘ Gynt,” Ibsen’s dramatic poem, presénted by the . Theater Guild at Polits last night’ was a performance of surpassing beauty. Ivery element of the gre £ this classic o bleak Norw Chis world-wid in the univer: of its theme, the excellent andyinterpreting lmw task. One ean venture the. suggestion he plan is being te of Colorado. irrational dreams h INTEREST e Western Pacific and the Mis- | 1d mortgages | 1 also will en- | op--{ for overy character. The problem of th performer is to_elicit that sym- athhy, whatever the role, whether The slaying Glovanni, the betraying Paolo, the Intriguing Lucresia, the fate-doomed Francesca, the poison- vending Pulcl. In their_work last night the members of the Ram's Head group proved their capacity to win the audience in such a taxing combi- nation of appeals. Walter Beck, as Gilovanni, com- mands the fullest admiration for his presentation. He read the lines with rare significance, and at no time was T, sWe to” the 'point of assassination’ by Lis betrayal, Josephine Hutchinson proved exceptionally attractive and appealing in her Francesca. She was the spirit of innocent youth, and in the finer shadings of the part she gave evidence, already indicated in the previous performances of the group, of a highly artistic discrimi- tion. Robert Bell; as Paolo, ap- aled rather to the pity than the athy of his hearers, putting into the rendition a depth of feeling that somewhat lessened the heroism whils it heightened the pathos of the tragedy. T.eona Roberts, as Lucrezia, rose toa nct height 'of dominance in the scene with Francesca and com- pletely won her audience in the soft- ening of the heart of the thwarted mother. Anne Ives gave one of the finest impersonations of her Wash- ington career as Angelia, the blind nurse, an ptional ~ rendition, Arthur J. Rhodes, brief opportun but made the most of his few min- utes to offer a strong. sincere char- acter. Other roles were filled by Joseph Alice Tams, Frances Lehman, Daniel De Souza and “Paolo and Francesca” will be re- peated at the regular intervals of the Ram’s Head schedule until Janu- ary 16, when “Cecily A 3 ¢ Bertram Bloch, will bo #iven; Tor SUES FOR DIVORCE. Hamill L. Nicholson, former motor cycle policeman. attached to the ninth \as filed a suit for an obsolute .~ P. Nicholson. % Developing and Printing Yon simply can’t get better Finishing Service than we are prepared to give you. @ur Inborators ix in charge of men who thoroughly know their business and have given sears to the careful study of amateurs’ needs. 1f you bring us your negatives, we will give sou better prints and fewer disappointments. Our work is the most convincing srgument. One-day service, too. The National Remembrance Shop (Mr, Foster's Shop) One Door from 14th St. OrGRoqkr Also 1220 Pa. Ave. midfle-aged Peer. who had achieved aterial of his dreams of youth— e shattered, broken, remorse- en old man, Sydnev was superb. er Gynt” is the product of the e e e L leads stralght and sure to abysmal depths of despair. Basil Sydney's “Peer Gynt" rode ¢ through life, crushing, rend- nnihilating all that stood in BEST LVER ND. BOWEL LAXATIE ay of.aitainment, of his, dream |+ of monumental selfishness—to find in the %nd that his uttegly valuele: and *tragically love, of his youth, . to Solveig, the symbol of ltelg. and Nannie cult.roles ex If Headachy, Bilious, Sick, Constipated The only flaw in the performance was+outside the footlights. The weather may have been the reason. At any ra 1 that this exquisi i should not have touche d more Wash- ingtontans, Ram's Head Pl;yers Open Season | in “Paolo and Francesca,” A “second season inaugurated Jast night at their «Ram’s Head Plavers, ington a serjes of dramat year with their most amh soms respects most art tions. 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