Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1925, Page 17

SPEEDING TRAFFI GASES 5 SOUEHT Ayres Proposes Change in Code to Apply Curb on Jury Trial Demands. The amendment offered to the ap- propriation bill of the District Wf | Columbia by Representative- William | \. Ayres of Ka increasing the nimber of police judzes from two to four and making appropriation to care for the extra expense for these courts, was passed, and is now part of the Jaw of the District of Columbia, <o far as the House is concerned. Tt | Wil have to be passed by the Senate. There is another provision in the amendment offered by Representative | Ayres which amends the second para- graph of section 11 of the Code of lLaw for the District of Columbia, which code at this time provides: “In all es where the accused would mot by force of the Constitu- tion of the United States be entitled | 10 a trial by jury, the the conrt without a jury, unless in such of last-named cases where- n the fine or penalty may be more than $50, or imprisonment as punish- ment for the offense may be more than 30 days, the accused shall demand a trial by jury, in which case the trial shall be by ju win The change in the amendment vided by Mr. Avres leaves the lan- guage just as it is, but provides that | where the fine is more than $300 or imprisonment more than 90 davs. the accused can demand a trial by jury. 1t is contended that this change will | enable the court to take care of alt of these cases which now can demand a trial by jury, and that even the four judges would not otherwise be ablo to take care of the present business. Thers are 117 cases on the docket pending where parties are charged with driving automobiles while drunk. Most of these are out on bond cases of col- liding and 48 ast driving. All told, there are 141 cases docket- ed for petty offenses, all of which are demanding trial by jury. This 18 an unnecessary expense, it is pointad out, besides the delay. Mr. Ayres is seeking to amend the code along the same lines as in other alties, There is no question about the con- stitutionality of the provision, Rep- resentative Ayres points out, because it has been decided by the Court of Appeals of this District that the party is not entitled to trial bv jurv as a matter of right for violation of the code To leave that cods as it is now, he states, would take 14 judges instead of four to clean the docket, adding: “1f there is one thing that the vio- lator of a city ordinance likes better than anything else, except possibly his discharge, it is to delay the trial of his case, hoping and feeling he can geti rid of some of the witnesses or that people will forget all about the charge. It is pointed out also that If thers is one class of people everybody wants to see punished to the limit, it is the drunken driver of an automobile. “There are 117 of those cases now pending on the docket, with most, if not all, of the drunken drivers out again getting drunk, running over people and smashing other people’s automobiles.” says Representative Ayres. “With four judges and an ordinance in the code providing they are not entitled to a jury trial, it will put a stop to this and soon clean up the docket; and this will do more good and be far less expense than the two or three hundred policemen con- templated by the traffic act which now is before the District legislative committes.” ON VIEW IN NEW YORK. Sketches Depicting Washington, Work of Dorsey Doniphan. Several water colors depicting Wash- Angton’s civic charm and beauty, the ‘work of Dorsey Doniphan, Washing- ton artist, have been placed on ex- hibition at the Ainslie Galleries, in New York. Mr. Doniphan's display includes ennsylvania avenue, Rock Creek Park and the Capitol Grounds, seen at different times of the day. His “Self Portrait” is said to be the most contained and artistic of the several works he shows in oils. Mr. Doniphan is a former Central High School student. He also attend- orcoran Art School. rial shall be by | Facilitate Trials. 4 outof 5 get Pyorrhea The fight against Eyorrhea is n'hfi ht againstove: i3z odds. Statistics prove that four out of every five over #0—and thousands unger, too—j Trhea's dread, toll. Will you? {he night comes Pyorrhes |in New York, | boyant, | ture, |as exemplified National—"Rain. —not “the gentle rain from but the pitiless, drenching, ending, nerve-racking rain of South Sea Islands, symbolizing mercy, but cruelty—such is “Rain,” which for some yeara thrill- od, amused, depressed, but above ail interested an ever-changing throng and for which Wash- have waited with what patience they could until it opened last night at the National Theater for a week’s run Miss Jeanne Eagles' Sadie Thomp- son has been burlesqued, even imi- ated, a measure, in parts of like character. But the Sadie Thompson “Rain’ heaven neve the not ington audiences | of Miss Eagels is a creation not easily to be forgotten. She is the flam- the flaunting, armed against all mankind, but with an allure for men that even breaks down the bar- riers which the Rev. Alfred Davidson, v. has built about himself. theme was taken Miss Thompson,” a short story 3 Somerset Maugham, is a blend of the psychological and physiologi- cal. Tt tells the tale of a soul that raised—if only for a brief interval —to mountain tops. It tells the story of a body that answers a call of na- long repressed. 1t may be there are missionaries in the world like the Rev. Alfred David- son. preaching the gospel by means of a kind of tyranny, possible in the primitive corditions existing in the {slands of the South Seas, making of od Sadie plctures him Hypocrisy and cant are not confined to clergymen and missionaries. But in the Rev. Alfred Davidson, they give the cloth an evil name The author of “Rain.” John Colton and Clemence Randolph, have magni- fied and enlarged the story of Somer- set Maugham into a three-act play that hangs together with remarkable consisten There is no anticlimax, no lagging of interest. 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Forhan Company, New York. forhans FOR THE GUM More than a tooth paste= d checks Pyorrhea . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOM AMUSEMENTS rain—to heighten the effect, until the continuous downpour affects the nerves even of the auditors. It is an unusual device which gives to the play an unusually significant title. It would be difficult to overpraiss the acting of Miss Eagels and the cast which supports her. The change which comes over Sadie Thompson, under the influence of terror and finally under the influence of a kind of spiritual awakening, as pictured by Miss Eagels, and her reversion to her old solf in the final act show real range of power. Robert Kelly has the part of the missionary, “the man who feedeth on devils,” and plays it convincingly. Rapley Holmes as Joe Horn, trader of Pago Pago, and Emma Wilcox as Ameena, his wife, are literally and figuratively tre- mendous in their parts. Fritz Wil- liams plays the hard-headed but soft- hearted Dr. McPhail. Justto heighten the effect, a couple of natives, Howa Owa and Llano Paulo, are thrown in. The entire action of the play takes place in the hotel store of Trader Joe Horn oni the Island of Tutuila, Port of Pago Pago, South Seas. A motley gathering is deposited at Pago Pago en route to another and larger island under British rule. The Stars and Stripes float over Tutuila, and American marines are. in evi- dence. Among the visitors are Rev. Alfred Davidson and his wife, mis- slonaries; Dr. and Mrs. McPhail and Sadie Thompson. Sadie has been traveling second-class heretofore and so has not come in contact with the others until they land at Pago Pago. There they are stranded for two weeks, guarantined. Sadie is tough but picturesque. She is “easy to look at,” as the burlesque writer has it. She gathers a little marine out- fit of her own. But when the Rev. | Davidson gets wind of her doings, the trouble begins. He rules she must be deported and sent back to San Francisco, she must not contami Encore/ Jo une in again with the Souht Sea Islands. San Francisco is the one place in the world which Sadie fears. A return means the penitentiary for her. She defles the Rev. Davidson, He has in- fluence, as,a missionary and compels the governor of the lsland to order her deportation. It is than that Sadie’s conversion begins, in spite of her. It gives her a kind of exalta- tlon, though it does not make, her happy. As she turns her eyes up- ward through the prayers of the mis- slonary, he loses control of himself in & mad passion. The denouement is tragic. “All men are pigs!” Sadle screams. The play abounds in pungent lines, some epigrammatic. It is & strange doctrine the missionary preaches—as cruel the missionary of bygone days. His description of how he creates the impression of wrongdo- ing among the natives, sp that they will know when they are sinning, is naive in the extreme. Take it all in all, “Rain” is one of the most interesting plays that have come to the National Capital in many a day. It is one of the smoothest- running dramatic engines, with all rough corners worn flat, the actors fitting Into their particular grooves— the perfect performance which comes with practice. Gayetyj—]furlc sque ‘ Anniversary. The twenty-fifth anniversary of Columbia Burlesque ' is being cele- brated at the Gayety Theater, along with other houses of the Columbia Circuit, this week. And In the cele- bration is evidence that Columbia Burlesque has more in mind than the mere passing of years. There is a sort of exultation in the reform which has come into its quality that has graduated it from the forbidden thing to be enjoyed by the men on the quiet to an entertalnment in form and character which can com- mand and delight the patronage of women. And it is for this reason that the anniversary celebration is being accentuated. Manager John W. 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