Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1924, Page 15

ASKSU.S. UPHOLD PATENTEE'S RIGHTS Attack on Law Which Pro- tects Inventors in Govern- ment Service Is Charged. Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, today asked the Department of Justice to intervene on behalf of the Government in a case now pend- ing in the Circuit Court Jf Appeals, fn which, it was claimed by Steward, the United States District Court of New York had set aside the law of 1883, protecting inventors in the Government service. The District Court had sustained the right of the American Telephone and Telegraph use a device patented by ieorge O. Squiers,” formerly chief signal officer of the Army. Construed by Attorney General, The law of 1883 Had been construed by the Attorney General, it was pointed out, to reserve to all Govern- ment inventors full property rights in such patents as against all other persons, except as to thelr free use by the Government. The patent in litigation, issued to Gen. Squiers, covers an apparatus which permits of the sending , simul- taneously of several messages over the same wire. The decision, Mr. Steward says, will temove the great incentive which has held many high-grade scientists In Government service despite the offer of larger salaries by private corporations, and will stultify re- scarch and other original effort so essential to productive endeavor in the many ntific divisions of Gov- ernment serv Leasens Corps Morale. The abolition of these patent rights ! will not only lessen the morale of the corps of high-grade scientists in Gov- ernment service, Mr. Steward says, but will tend to induce inventors to leave the servico in order to qualify for the privilege of patent. The Gov- ernment Wil thus not only lose the service of these highly trained workers but the free use of their patented ‘processes as well. The case is now pending on appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and Mr. Steward in his letter to the At- torney General has asked that the Department of Justice intervene with a view to-securing a speedy decislon of the United States Supreme Court In this test case. AMUSEMENTS National —*Ladies of the derstanding and sympathy, would abandon her “profession.” Interested in his theme, Jerry goes out into the night to find a woman; to make her his model. The second scene of the first act— when Jerry takes his street walker to a room In a cheap hotel—provides all the shock required. The audience last night passed from one gasp to another, with Intermittent giggling. It emerged from this scene, however, case-hardened and able to swallow the rest. It may be said that Jerry succeeds in awakening the soul of his street walker, Kay Beatty. Then her pal Dot, whose soul, by the way, has not been awakened, reveals the fact that Jerry has made a wager with his friends in regard to Kay. She likens Jerry's experiment with Kay to “put- ting poison in a pig” to see how it will act. Kay, madly incensed, leaves Jerry to go back to her old life. He defles her to make the return. She cannot. The third act is tense, with Dot seeking to lure Kay into old primrose paths. The final act—but it Would be unfair to give the detail— is "as you like it.” A great measure of the success of “Ladles of the Evening” lles in the acting of Miss Beth Merrill, as Kay, and Miss Edna Hibbard, as Dot, two “ladles of the evening." The brazeness of Kay in the first act is admirably portrayed by Miss Merrill. No less clever Is she in revealing Kay after the metamorphosis has taken place. To Dot, the unregenerate, must go the honors of the comedy—much of it low comedy. An, intoxicated woman is not a pleasing subject, but Dot In her drunken scene is a_scream. Jerry is played by James Kirkwood. Others in the st_who glve clever portrayals are Dudley Hawley, Vernon Steele, Kay Strozzi and Robert E. O'Connor. The play is long, but not many of those who witnessed its premier would shorten it. Perhaps the third act might be reduced In length to advantage. But that might mean the elimination of the Waterbury boys and their efforts to fall from grace at Atlantic City—a sure touch. There was no mistaking the triumph of “Ladies of the Evening.” Cur- tain calls were many. David Belasco himself was forced to acknowledge, in a brief speech, the gratitude of the company and himself for the gen- erous treatment accorded them. The play goes to New York at the close of this week, and evidently for a long run there. o Evening. The metamorphosis of a street walker; the transmutation from the base to the preclous metal, such is the theme of “Ladtes of the Evening.” This latest production of David Be- lasco, opening last night at the Na- tional Theater, shows everywhere the hand of the master. Like it or not, it is a great picture of life in the raw, wonderfully acted and wonderfully produced. W rington went to the theater last expecting to be shocked. The of the play was sufficlent hint, and if more were necded there was only to remember another of Mr. lasco's most recent efforts, “The " And Washington was shock- ed. It remained to applaud. Doubtless “Ladies of the Evening” will be compared with “The Harem." But the latter is a mere farce—arti- ficial and amusing. “Ladles of the Evening” is the story of the awakening of a soul through under- standing, and finally love. The au- thor, Milton Herbert Gropper, has scarcely picked a new theme. It is as old as the New Testament. But it has been given a new setting—a Belasco setting. Most vital of all questions relating to the play, par- ticularly when the proprieties are in- volved, is “Does it offend good taste?” Here and there lines crop. out so crude, so raw that they grate. But even these lines fit in the plcture which the author and the producer are seeking to paint so closely that they may be forgiven. It is easily conceivable that “Ladies of the Evening” in hands less capable than Mr., Belasco's and the excellent company he has selected would be- come impossible. From the opening scene, showing the wide windows of a New York club, where its habitues idly glance— though with Interest—at the women passing in the street, fo the closing picture of a downtown restaurant in the metropolis, not a detail has been overlooked. The story all comes about because Jerry, the artist, ‘wagers with two of his intimates that & street walker, If given proper un- ON- CHRISTMAS 3% SAVINGS BRANCH OFFICE We Psy Interest CALLES’ BROTHER NAMED TO NEW YORK CONSULATE Senior Member of Mexican Diplo- matic Corps Is En Route East. By the Associated Press. TUCSON, Ariz, December 12— Alturo Elias, brother of President Calles ot Mexico, vas here today en route to New York to take charge of the Mexican consulate there, as well as the post of minister of finance of the Mexican government. 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