Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 13

" TRADE AD PLEDGED TOHAMPTON ROADS Port Cities Throughout U. S. and Canada Reported Eager to Co-Operate. "By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., September 23.— California, Oregon, Canada, New Eng- land and the Gulf States are anxious 1o co-operate with Virginia in the development of Hampton Roads, for they see in the growth of the Vir- ginia port relative increases in their own commerce. This was the statement here today of Maj. Le Roy Hodges, managing di- rector of the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, when he arrived from a tour of the principal ports on the North American continent. Everywhere, the Virginian said, he was heartily received and told to carry back to Virginia the assurance that other ports will gladly do all in their power to forward the develop- ment of coastal trade. Canada Will Ald. New England’s co-operation, through the naming of a commission to come to Virginia and study the situation, is assured. he added, and 50 is the aid of the shipping and busi- ness interests of Canada Maj. Hodges discussed at length the possibilities of the u of Virginia coal in the province of New Bruns- wick, Canada, in competition with Cape Breton coal, and the importation of Newfoundland steel in competi- tion with the Pennsylvania product Montreal, he continued, was much interested in the possibilities of pulp wood export and import, together with tobacco, cotton and other South- ern products. Some Trade Conducted. Halifax, Nova Scotia, is already im- porting some bituminous coal from Hampton Roads, he said, despite the fact that the province produces this commodity and the port also exports annually about 15,000 to 20,000 tons of wood pulp logs to the Hampton Roads cities. The director found Vancouver, Seat- tle and Portland very receptive to coastal trade development through the Panama Canal, and at Los An- geles he said he was told that Panama Canal intercoastal water transport: tion was more satisfactory th transcontinental railroad transporta- tion, that the time was shorter of transit and the delivery more certain. San Francisco port facilities, he found. were crowded to the limit. In San Diego, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans great interest was shown and the possibilities of early coasting trade were discussed. Some coastal trade exists with the Gulf port harbors, but it is negligible, Maj. Hodges believes, when compared with bilities. Mobile Chamber of Is are anxious to as- sist in establishing commerce, he de- clared. e FIDDLING FOR VOTES. Chilton Campaigning Against Goff With Music. Special Dispatch to The Star. SPENCER, W. Va, September 23.— ‘William E. Chiltan, Democratic nom nee for the United States Senate, is using a fiddle in his eampaign against Guy D. Goff, his Republican opponent. Speaking here at a rally of farmers, Chilton introduced a program of old- fashioned tunes into the regular pro- ceedings of the meeting. are victims Those are the oddsyou fight in the battle Pyorrhea. Four out ofcv::“y five over 40— 2s as’thou ds_younger, too— are afficied with thia sinister g you be a victim? National—"The Far Cry." It has long been the tradition that the opening of the National Theater marks the Fall opening of the theat- rical season of the year in Washing- ton. And so the new season now may be considered opened and in full blast, for last night, despite the equinoctial torrents, Washington's dean of theaters was fllled with a representative audience to witness the initial effort of Robert Milton, fa- mous as a stage director, who has now become a producer. The offer- ing was “The Far Cry,” & comedy- drama by Arthur Richman, with a fine cast of actors and with Miss Margalo Gillmore as its near star. The play invites consideration from two standpoints—one as a medium for the exploitation of the talents of the players, and in that respect, per- haps, it is excellent; the other as a food for thought rather than as enjoyable entertainment. Its theme is the lives of rich women whose affluence per- mits their extended *living abroad, and who, ignored or neglected by the heads of their families, the husbands and fathers, wreck their lives in hec- tic living and unrestrained self-in- dulgence. And so, as may be sur- mised, there 4s not one lovable, even one likable, character to be found in the eleven who unfold its sordid story. At the close one tempted to be thankful that the natives of other | countries do not choose America for | the exploitation of similar character- |istics and also to hope that all'Ameri- |cans of that type really do go abroad and stay there. As Claire Marsh, daughter of a family that has permitted her to “live her life” without restraint of any kind, but rather with example and the means to indulge her wayward whims to the uttermost degree, Miss Gillmore presents with ripening art a characterization that had its first germ in the role of the wayward daughter in “The Famous Mrs. Fair." It is not a pleasant role, for even with the “happy ending” that finds her the wife of the man whom she |loves and who, perhaps, loves her in the same old fashion, it serves neverthe- less to picture a tragedy of youth and of all that goes to make life sweet and wholesome. Winifred Harris, as her mother, pictures a character that must be ab- horrent to real womankind, while Claude King, as her father, is a figure for contempt rather than for pity, although the manifest effort of —the actor who portrayed the role is to paint him as a gentleman of re- pressed dignity and with some nobil- ity of character. Excellent character work is pre- sented by Michelette Burani as Mar- garetta, an Italian maid; by Freder- ick Worlock as Count Filippo Sturani, ar Italian Lothario and would-be lover of Claire; by Kenneth Mac- Kenna as Dick Clayton, the lover and afterward the husband of Claire, and by Jose Alessandro as Max Fraisier as Claire's former husband. Lucille Watson is convincing as the mother of Dick. while George Thorpe as a suitor for the favors of Mrs. Marsh, and Leonore Harris as Natalle Perry, a friend of Claire and her mother and quite of the same sort, are adequate to the requirements of minor roles. Alice John is seen as a nurse, an un- important role. Mr. Milton has made a fine produc- tion of the play. The setting for the second act, a villa near Florence, is a thing of artistic beauty. Belasco—'Cock of the Roost’ Youth breezily and, according to old-fashioned ideas, impertinently tells the oldes generation exactly Protect your gums what's what in Rida Johnson Young's play, “Cock of the Roost,” which opened last evening at the Belasco Theater, before a good-sised audience which received the offering emthusi- astically. Jerry Hayward is the masculine half of the youth, with s corviction that if one only masters his feazs he may have whatsover he desires, and Clare Clark is the flapper half, who is unabashed by age, wealth or social standing. However, these two pre- cocious ones do not marry and live happily ever after. Jerry has his heart set upon a more conventional girl, while Clare pursues the rich but not very cultivated bachelor. The play incidentally mauls the New York idea of living beyond one's income on bluff, burnishes up the an- clent idea of, love in z cottage, and despite the effronteries of present-day youth gets close to tae realities our elders are supposed to Sponsor. Pierce Dawn is a writer who is only one lap ahead of bankruptcy. His wife loves luxury and is scheming to have her daughter, Phyllis, marry the aforesaid Mr. Barron, Jerry jauntily courts Phyllis with no capi- tal except his big idea. The wife and daughter go off on Barron's yacht and Jerry takes the slipping father in hand to make him proof of his theory that success comes when fear goes. Jerry succeeds with Mr. Dawn, then loses his own grip when Phyllis seems to ha decided upon Barron. The climax is expertly handled, Donald Foster as Jerry, Harry Dav- enport as Dawn, Elizabeth Risdon as his wife_ Katherine Wilson as Phyllis, Purnell Pratt as Barron, Sylvia Field as Clare, Edward Donnelly as Clare' tather, and Tracy D'Engle as Clar. mother, gave completely satlstying characterizations. The work of Dav- THE EVENING ST AMUSEMENTS . WASHINGTON, enport In the second act as a man bordering on nervous prostration is especially noteworthy. Miss Risdon was effective in the reconciliation scene in the third act, and Foster, throughout, most capable. In lesser roles Allen Lee as the butler, Kath- ryn Meredith as the mald, Desmond Gallagher as Jerry's friend, and Lionel Bevans as tho minister, com- pleted an exceptionally well balanced company. D.. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1924 the minority when this pair is doing its stuff. Frank Ernest; Barkham’s partner in comedy, is good, as also is Fay Shirley, Alline Rogers and Miss Har- rison. 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