Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1925, Page 13

HUGE AR BEACO ERECTED N FRANCE New Era in Lighthouses Is Opened by Demands of Navigators of the Sky. “Lighting ships on their way of the most ancient adjuncts of navi- gation, has been revolutionized recent- ly because ships now sail the air as well as the:sea, and the classic type of lighthouse does not meet the needs of the air voyagers,” a bulletin from the headquarters of the National Geographic Society ““The latest development in the new- est lizhthouse field,” continues the bulletin, is the establishment of a one-billion-candlepower beacon near Dijon, in Eastern France, primarily to facilitate night travel on the Paris Marseille line, but also to point the way for the numerous buzzing carriers of passengers, mail and express France sees weaving & network of air routes over the country in the near future. 300 Miles From Ocean. “This most powerful lighthouse in the world does not rise like its long line of famous predecessors from near | the pounding a mountain top urt, but is situated on 250 miles inland from tha English Channel and the Mediter- ranean, and 800 from the Atlantic. It is not, like the existing aviation lights in the United States, one of a series of beacons in the line of a traveled route, and unlike many great light houses of the sea, it does not mark a region that is to be avolded or a channel entrance that is to be entered It is placed well to the side of the much traveled French air lanes, in such a situation that it can be seen from great distances and used as a check on location and direction. The beacon lies nearly 2,000 feet above sea level and flashes fts powerful beams far above most af the low hills of Central France. Under favorable at mospheric conditions- it is believed the Dijon light can be seen from near Marseilles in the Sauth, and from the alr above Paris, Lille and even Brus- sels in the North, “The lighthouses of the air have had a radically different development 80 far in America’s vast land areas Almost the only problem here has been to supply well lighted, hard and | fast routes for the transcontinental mail fiyers, and this has been so well solved by the Post Office Department that it probably will serve as a model for all the definitely lighted airways of the future. The most powerful of the air mail beacons are of half. billion candlepower. There are five of these, on the division landing fields at Chicago, Tow: Omaha, North Ch. . from 200 to apart. The planes land at each of these 'stations and the bril liant flashing beacons are to identify the landing fields. As the planes ap- proach the earth the beacons are turned off and the fields are flood- lighted. U. S. Routes Clearly Marked. “Between the r¢ lar landing fields, at 25-mile intervals, are emergency landing fields, each marked by a flashing _light of 5,000,000-candle power. Normally these smaller bea- cons serve to outline the fiying rout Between the lights of the emergency fields, approximately 3 miles apart, are small, blinking, routing bea- cons. Thus the air mail fiver has his night route marked out for him with & pencil of light extending off from Chicago 1,000 miles to the west. “all of these lights are not shin- ing at one time. For the west- bound fiver only the Chicago-Towa City division is lighted at first. The planes are operated on a regular dis- patching system. As a plane passes over each emergency field, the caretaker there notifies the station in advance and that in the rear, by tele- phone. When the plane lands at the division point, all of the emergency fields passed over are notified, and their lights are turned off. “Then the portion of the route passed over is lighted only by the lit. tle automatic blinking gas lights of the ~ 3-mile beacons, which pulse thelr signals for weel at a time with- out_ attention. When the plane fis ready to take off on the next leg of its cruise, all the beacons of the second division begin flas to lead it in safety along its Problem Different in East. “Between New York and Chicago a second lighted air is now being put, into operation, with somewhat different types of lights. Because of the rough country, beacons cannot be seen, as in the West, fc miles or motre lights of the Western emer- zency field type are placed from 12 to 17 miles apart, marking emergency landing sites. In between, usually on hills or ridges, are lamps which send out’ rather broad beams of fair bril- liancy. These are merely routing sig. nale, and do not indicate landing flelds. To make their character clear, each sends vertically a constant beam of red light. - At shorter intervals along the Eastern airway are small, blinking lights like those used in the West.” TO MEET POLICEMEN. Commissioner Fenning Will Make First Official Visit Thursday. Commissioner Frederick A. Fen- first appearance in public as oner is scheduled for Thurs- v night, at the meeting of the Police- men’s Association, Milton D. Smith, president of the association, an. nounced today. The meeting will be held in_Pythian Temple. Commis- sloner Fennin is deeply interested in police work, and has aeccepted the as- sociation’s invitation in orderfthat he may come.in contact with the rank AMUSE KEITH'S—James Barton & Co. Comedians of the acrobatic type earn their salaries these days, and Jimmy Barton, headlining Kelth's this week, takes his mq cine in putting over his little act, ““The Pest,” : in & manner that started the audience last night into an uproar of laughter that lasted all during his.turn. “The Pest” is part of a sketch in “The Passing Show” some seasons back, and gives Jimmy a chance to intro- duce a bit of intoxication in a respect- able restaurant where he makes a | pest of himself with his maudlin talk and funny falls. Jimmy can make an intoxicated person a very ludicrous In response to prolonged ap- Jimmy encored with a wonder- ful display of eccentric dancing, in { which he probably is not surpassed in originality Another big turn on the program is “The Antique Shop,” in which the collector, impersonated by Val Bichen, introduces his wares in the shape of a large clock, a telephone cover, a Japanese doll, a Dutch mill, and a confectionery surprise, the figures coming to life and dancing cleverly. The settings are unusually rich and costly, and help make many pretty pictures, the best of which is the tele. phone figure. It is a beautiful num Other numbers that are entertain- ing and up to the standard include Al Striker, in a contortion act; |Flo and Ollie Walters, in a pretty number entitled ‘Telling Tales™; Meehan's canines in clever tricks and high jumping; Beatrice Herford in a new monologue that was well re- cefved; Jack Rose, the straw hat monologist and singer, who had the the audience laughing throughout his act, and Valdez Armand and Earnest Perez in acrobatic tumbling that bor- ders on the marvelous. EARLE—Maccabee Week. Save the continuous whirring of electric fans there’s little at the Earle { Theater this week to kill off uniel come thoughts of the weather. One | leaves the theater, however, deeply impressed with the ingenious methods employed by the advance agent of the Maccabees to advertise the forthcom- ing convention of the organization. It is “Maccabee Week” at the Earle and it was ushered in vigor- ously. First a film is flashed on the ser n depicting the activities of the pilots to arrange a safe journey over the highways for the automobile avans of Maccabdes en route to Wash- ington. Then the curtain rises on a first-class jazz orchestr lively music under the Macabee title, “Caravan Serenaders.” The Volga Boys, an octet of Russian singers, first heard in Washington about a month ago with Wynn' re the real headliners. These singers have remarkable voices which blend in perfect harmony and they deserve a greater reception than the Earle audience saw fit t night. Their rendition of Volga Boat Sons” was simply entrancing. John Marrone and Alfrado L'Acosta in a fast moving dance act, assisted by Senorita Carlita and Mlle. Galla, close the bill. Their offering 15 one of the bright spots. It includes Span- ish, tango, ballroom and Apache all are artistically executed. Coate, programed as the Syncopation,” sings some blue songs effectively, while James B. Donovan and Marie Lee have an en- tertaining skit. Donovan tells laugh- able stories to the accompainment of wise cracks from Miss Lee, who also interposes a few fast steps. Zuhn & lacks facetiousness. ““The Crimson Runner,” featuring Priscilla Dean, is the photo play offer- ing. The picture tells the story of the mad social upheaval in Vienna that came as a sequel to the World War. CE—“Are Parents People?” Bronson, the charming 17- year-old girl who jumped to screen fame through Sir James Barrie’s hoice of her to portray his elfin racter “Peter Pan” in films, is co-featured with Adolph Menjou and Florence Vidor in the picture at the ce this week, “‘Are Parents Peo- " taken from Alice Duell Miller story. Her role is that of a schoolgirl, who, unhappy at the breach between her parents, which necessitates her dividing her time between them and having little or no real home life, attempts to bring them together and give them a single interest by as- suming a ‘“crush” on a movie sta The star, however, proves to be a real man and exposes the whole af. fair, much to the girl's disgust and to her parents’ relief.” Nothing daunt- ed, however, she cooks up a scheme that not only apparently involves her in a real scandal, but badly com promises a young doctor. This time her efforts are of avail, however, and through their anxiety over their daughter the parents become recon- ciled, and the end of the picture finds a romance budding between the young doctor and the spirited, happy girl. Betty Bronson is most captivating, and bids fair to travel far along the path that leads to highest screen fame. Florence Vidor is, as alw: her charming self, and Adolphe Men- jou exyoses a new and rather ten- der side to his pleasing .personality. “Our Gang"” add to their growing list of laugh successes in a new com- “Big Town.” and the Pathe News, Topics of the Day and a well chosen orchestra score played by theé Palace Orchestra, under Thomas .J. Gannon._comnlete an excellent b SHOE REPAIR and file of the department. everybody every d%)g osts Bran Flakes as an ounce of prevention 415} -11th.St. W, Look for thi *500 down UNEQUALLED value in new, well con. structed brick homes, with oak floors, hot-water heat, electricity and numerous other modern features. concrete sidewalks. Open till 9 pm. * Third Between L and*M Streets N.E. BOSS A0 PHELPS HOME OF HOMES 1417 K lb?tl'eet . which plays | to give | Drefs offer nonsensical dialogue that | THE EVENING STAR. MENTS | METROPOLITAN—"The Heart of a Siren.” Barbara La Marr and Conway of a Stren,” which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. Miss La Marr is pictured in ccstumes which may easily be classed With the most gorgeous ever displayed on stage or screen, and in settings equaliy as grand, but clothes alone do not make a good play, and the story as spun-from the reels is not especially soul-stirring or thrill- ing. Isabella, famous throughout Eu- rope as a smasher of men’s hearts, is & shrew rather than a siren. A vam- pire may be wicked; she may be selfish; she may be ruthless; she may have not a single attribute of a lady, and withal she may be lovely and attrac- tive. There is, however, no excuse for describing a beautiful young woman as a siren and then making her per form as a shrew who shrieks and screams, throws things and tears things—and’ who boxes men’s jaws. It is believeable that a campire might be reformed overnight by the recog nition of true love, but it requires some stretch of imagination to tame a wildeat in just two brief meetings with an attractive man. “The Heart of a Siren” is not calculated to overetax one's ‘“‘gray matter.” The news pictures, a_comedy, some beautiful scenés in color pho- tography of a mystery-enveloped and wdition-steeped town of ancient nce, complete the program, with Suppe’s “Pique Dame” as an orches. tral number COLUMBIA—“Code of the West.” Owen - Moore and Constance Ben- nett, daughter of Richard Bennett, the famous actor, play the leading roles in Zane Grey's “Code of the West," at the Columbia this week. Supporting them.are' Mabel Ballin, David Butler and Charles Ogle. Miss Bennett has the part of a Broadway flapper, who goes into the Tonto Basin country of Arizona, where she vamps all men but one, Cal Thurman, a young plainsman, who remains immune to her charms. The girl piqued by his actions, then devotes practically all her attention to him and he eventually proposes mar- riage only to be coldly rejected. David Butier, as.an ex-pugilist trainer from New York, who Thur- man has befriended, seeing his friend’s plight, and being familiar with the ways of big city girls, shows Thurman, in a practical how to win the girl and Cal, following his friend’s instructions, quietly force: | the girl to go into the mountains with him, where, at the point of a gun, |he makes her marry him. He, then carrys her off to a mountain cabin, |where he begins the, Instructions given him by Butler for having a |wife *“made-to-order Cal and his “bride,”” in separate . _innocent of everything going tside are warned by Thurman's | of a forest fire raging around the cabin, and this furnishes exciting | experiences, ‘after which the girl becomes reconciled to the ways of |the West. Many laughs are to be obtaine from the comedy, “Breaking the Ice, featuring Ralph Graves. Other at- | tractions are the International News reel and music by the Columbia Or- chestra under Leon Brusilof. RIALTO—"I'l Show You the Town.” Reginald Denny's “latest and best comedy, “I'll Show You the Town, one of the fastest and funniest of the year, is the feature picture in an ex- cellent program at the Rialto Theater this week. It is all abont a decorous young college professor, who starts out ‘to who winds up by marrying a pretty flapper after two wild and flighty day of courtship. Futhermore, continuou: interruptions to Prof. Alexander Du- | pree's usual staid habits change him from a safe and dependable easy- mark into a dangerous and unrell. able caveman of the first rank. To manage two dinner dates at the same restauraunt and on top of that find one's best girl on the spot and then to reach home and discover another man's wife in one’s bathtub are only a few of the things that b pen in breathtaking succession. Everything is unraveled, however, to | the satisfaction of all concerned. Reginald Denny gets better and better as time rolls on and is rapidly earning the title of “our best liked comedian.” The little leading lady. Marion ixon, is a newcomer, who will be welcomed with open arms. The rmainder of the cast is unusually gbod and literally “supporting,” and this includes Lilyan Tashman, Hayden Stevenson, Cissy Fitzgerald, Margaret Livingston and Neely Edwards. Other attractions include Miss Mary Apple in “Songs of the Southland, which are not so noticeably “south- ern”; Helen Jane Marr in a sheik dance; another of those really laugh- able Wanda Wiley comedies, as well as “The Chocolate Soldier” overture by the orchestra under Director OPPORTUNITIES _In Arcade Building 14th 'St. & Park Road ‘The Heart of This Busy Section FINE STORE When finished will have 30 feet of aitractive show “window frontage. MARKET STANDS Completed rebuilding has made a number of desirable stands available. Best trade in Washington. MANUFACTURING SPACE In' rear of our main building, with ample supply of elec- tricity, steam and hot water. APPLY TO ARCADE MARKET OFFICE Tearle are twin stars of “The Heart|s spend his vacation writing a book, but | | to $5,650 price $50 a month Including all interest and Ppayments on principal Paved alley and Street Guterson, a Lyman H. Howe “Hodge Podge” and the current International News.” TIVOLI—“Sally. First National's film version of the Ziegfeld musical comedy hit, “Sally,” with charming Colleen Moore in -the“title role and Leon Errol in part which he created ofi the ge, fs a pictare to see and fo rémember, for it is one of ,the best among the really good. scréen,cre- ations of the year. “Sally” is thé attraction at Crandall's Tivoll The- ater the first three days of this week. Colleen Moore has created a deft bit of character delineation in the role of the slayey who eventually be- came the toast of the town as a dancer. Leon Errol {s himself and irresistible. Lloyd Hughes is the young lover, and Myrtle Stedman, E. H. Calvert and Dan Mason add to the strength of a truly fine cast. . Otto F. Beck and Harold T. Pease provide a fine musical accompani- ment. A new issue of the Pathe Review is a fine added attraction. AMBASSADOR——'The Heart of a Siren."” CIiff Bowes in “Fun’s Fun,” a new short comedy, supplements “The Heart of a Siren,” which is the featured picture the first three days of the week at Crandall's Ambassador Theater also.” Clff Bowes is star of “Fun's Fun,” but, as a matter of fact, the major honors ought to go to some small kids and a dog, who Ao most of the important cavorting and create a majority of the laughs. It is a clever bit of tomfoolery. at that. Other short films and pipe organ music round out the bill. CENTRAL—"“Forbidden Cargo." The foremost feature yesterday and today at Crandall's Central presents Evelyn Brent, one of the gifted young stars, in a thrillingly realistic drama of rcmance and rum-runners, bearing the title of “Forbidden Cargo. Accompanying attractions are No. 4 of H. C. Witwer's tworeel comedv dramas, “The Pacemakers,” featuring George O'Hara and Alberta Vaughn and Walter Hiers in his latest two- reeler, “A Rarin’ Romeo,” which 1s highly amusing Excellent pipe organ music is pro- vided by Mrs. Margaret Libby and Mrs. Thompson. Plunge in Automobile Fatal. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., June 8. ~—Ash- bel S. Chidester, 64 years old, of Cuz- zart, W. Va., died in an automobile here today while being brought to a hospital. He had been crushed when n automobile he over a cliff 100 feet at Albright, W Va. He was backing the car when the clutch stuck. His wife and son had laft the machine to open a gate and thus escaped. It’s a lot cooler in— . 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Johnson, Marian Leech, Wylie Little, Alexander Tunstall MacNutt, Willlam Eusebius Martin and Olive Luay Wat- Kins. 3 Those who took part in the mock trial were Mark Harris, Billy Legg. Thoburn Armstiong, Willlam Hitz, Margaret Eckels, Wililam Martin, Dor- othy Duff, Alexander McNutt, Tom Brown, Polly Ann Colver, David Den- nis and Mark Sullivan. The members of the play cast and the committee which prepared for the presentation of the comedy were; George Johnson, 1da Goodloe, Wylie Little, Marian Leech, Mark Harris, Lucy Watkins, Dorothy Duff, Tom Brown and Charles Wilcox. What She Really Needed. From the Pittsburgh Chroniele-Telegraph A farmer's wife sat reading a farm journal and, as she had outgrown, or, rather, outaged her spectacles, she had to hold the paper at arm’s length in order to see the print “Father,” she said, with a sigh, “I do wish the next time you go in to ou'd buy me a stronger pair of ' said father, who was a no. toriously mean old curmudgeon, ‘“it ain’t stronger specs you need—it's lon- ger arms. \ THURSDAY. $16.80 FROM LEAVES Union_Station Tickets g00d for 16 days, valld for of usunt” charzes for Apace oecnpied. Ask Ticket Agents for [ % MONDAY, JUNE THE IDEAL ROUTE TO NIAGARA FAL THROUGH BEAUTIFUL SUS 1925, KING TESTIFIES IN SUIT OVER EMPLOYES’ WAGES Many of Royalty Called as Wit- nesses When Servants Sue for Pensions. Correspondence of the Associated Press. ROME, May 17.—A ruling king, a former empress and mors than a score princes and princesses of royal and noble houses of Europe have been called as witnesses before the praetor of Viareggio in a lawsuit brought by 14 pensioned employes of the late Duke Robert of Parma. The employes, granted lifelong con- tinuation of their salaries by the will of the duke, who died in 1907, were paid until March 1918, when the disastrous financial consequences of the ' World War caused the duke's heirs to stop payments. Now the pensioners, most of them too old to work, are appealing to the praetor to force the heirs to pay arrears. Among the witnesses, who have been called are King Boris af Bulgaria, former Empress Zita of* Austria, the brothers of the Bulgarian King, the daughters of the late Princess of Bour- bon, Louisa, first wife of former King Ferdinand, and the princes and prin- cesses descendants of the marriages of Duke Robert of Parma first with Princess Maria Pia of the Two Sicilies, and then with Princess Maria Antonia of Braganza. Two Months to Make a Hat. Cabo Rojo, near the: southwestern corner of Porto Rico, 1§ a straw. hat Weaving center. In that place rain never falls and the weavers may spend the available working hours of two full months to fashion one of the fashionable high-grade Porto Rican panamas, which the weaver may seil at his doorstep for as much as $48 The threads of fine straw are laid on the grass to absorb the dew In early morning and late aftemnoon to make them pliable. 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King George is a regular radio fan Although one of the royal household electgicians looks after the technical operation of the set the King takes great pride .in operating it himself. The King and Queen often spend en- tire evenings alone in thelr apartments " 43 in Buckingham Palace, listening-n to their heart's’ content The royal radio apparatus is among the most elaborate sets in Europe The batteries, head phones and loud speaker aré contajned with the set in a_ bealitiful mahogany cabinet, with ebony panels inlaid with ivory and mounted upon an ebony stand. The panel carrying the valves and con trols is contained in a silk-screened compartment on the left-hand side of the cabinet. In a_similar compart ment on the right-hand side are the loud speaker and four sets of head phones. The royal radio set will be brought back to Buckingham Palace when its | season at Windsor is finished Bachelor Once Humble Term. 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