Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1925, Page 86

Consideration {s being given by one local builder to the matter of provid- ing an armory for the National Guard of the District of Columbia, which will he out of a home on June 30, next, unless Congress makes some provi- sfon for a publlc armory or a suitable building can be found here which can he rented for the use of the local citizen soldiers in fitting themselves for service to the country in a period of national em which would necessitate the calling out of troops. Several weeks ago Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the local Guard, wrote to a number of local builders asking for suggestions from them a8 to the provision of an armory for he local troops. They were told of the amount allowed in the annual ap propriations for the rental of such A huflding =0 of the fact that he Guard only make a lease om year year hope was expressed that if did not 1ake provision ontr - a Govern- ling it make the to at and ¢ & he ht fo sufficient to put up a build. the Guard. He that he could 1e Guard would v such siding, at least until + suitable public armory could be provided. Representatives of the firm of liarry Wardman have been in com- munication with Guard headquarters ogarding the armory, seeking partic- larly information regarding the rent- ul and the length of lease that could he made. nd the type of building needed This inforn n has been f iished, but no further conferer: on the matter have vet been held. It s hoped that ething will grow out of these preliminary negotiations, is much in need of quar for the stowage of the expensive field equip troops but also for a space. At the present have no drill hall where even mpany can be satls. tactorily drilled, and the men must be sent into the publ streets, a por- on of which is roped off from traffic cach drill night by of the Dis trict Commissioners. But with the oming of inclement and _wintry weather many of these drills will have to be dispensed with Every power and influence pos: le that mav be exerted in the direction f providing a suitable home for the tstrict troops, one befitting their dig the National to aid in the n armory here. to et proviston in the “ederal and it is probable intro. n which will specific provision for such an to be paid for_on the appor- onment plan of the District of Co 4 revenues bearing a proportion aluable and ment of the suitable drill time the troops ovemer 13ffo to provide ts will be made mory Idings bill, it a separate bill w dneed at the ming se make ment a portion. The armory situation in the District of Columbia has been condemned by 1he National Guard Association of the 1'nited States, and the influence of its members also is being used in the di- rectioy of convineing the President snd Congress that something must be this vear to provide the local 1roops with a suitable home. The tinment ¢ e goal of mak- ing provision for an armory at the Coming session of Congress will be the culmination of vears of effort stretch. nz back over the period to the point vhere the local Guard was organized s military unit. The program did jeach a stage some years ago where Congress provided a large fund for the vreparation of plans, and these were prepared, but they were on such a sigantic scale that the funds for the building were never provided. Those in charge of the Guard now are not looking for a glgantic structure, but rather a simple structure, but special- iv bullt to enable the guardsmen to vet the maximum training and a proper place to stow their equipment where it may be quickly gotten out during drill periods. At the present time the equipment is only taken out during the annual encampment, and upon return to the armory after this period of training the equipment must be stowed agaln for another Jear. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan and Col. Lioyd M. Brett, U. S. A., retired, ad- jutant general of the District of Co- lumbta Miltia, are making plans to at- iend the annual convention of the Na- mal Guard Assoclation of the United which Is to be held at St Fla., June 14, 15 and 16, announced at Guard Jeadquarters that other officers who ntemplate going to the convention culd make reservations for accom ations through the office of Brig Gen. J. Clifford R. Foster adjutant weneral of Florida, State Arsenal, St. \ugustine, Fla Motor equipment of the Guard will b used to aid the fleet of post office 1rucks of Postmaster Mooney during the coming Christmas period. The offer of the trucks has been accepted, it was said, but Postmaster Mooney wrote that he could not guarantee vork to members of the National Guard in driving these trucks, as re- quested by the Guard officials. He pointed out that the trucks would be driven by carriers, and that when ad tional men are put on the civil ser mnst be exhausted before out de help may be employed. The p pose of Guard officials in seck positions for the members of the Guard was not only to put on them en familiar with the equipment, but 2150 to aid members of the Guard who are out of work to obtain a temporary posttion For the sixth consecutive week t! band of the 121st Engineers is head ing the list of other organizations of he local Guard in the matter of at fendance, with a rating of 77.14. In their preparations for the public con- cert to be given by the band the mem hers of this organization are giving much of their time (o reharsals. and e working unceasingly to make this blic appearance of the Laud on No erber 6 u great success. The stand % the other organi & for last week follows: Company st Engi- neers, 64.51 1st Sepa rvate Battalion, 63.51 dquarters nnd Service Company, 121st Engine §4.76 npany F, 12 sineers, 52.70; Company C. 121st Engineers, 52.45; Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, 47.69; Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery, 9th Mlitary Police Company, Company B, 121st Engineers 46.50; Medical Detachment, 121st Engi- 36.36; Company E, 121st Engl- neers, 31.94 and Company A, t ingineers, 31.66 Limitations on the strengths of small units of the Guard instead of by regiments and battalions has been fixed by orders issued at Guard head- quarters. FIxing of the strength by regiments, etc.. permitted some of the unite to gain more men than other corpanles, but under the new method when a unit reaches the maximum ellowed strength it cannot take on snore men, but it will have the effect of sending men to other commands to enlist. However, the new arder contains a provision that regimental and separate batallion commanders may ralse the maximum strengths fixed by the order, aa long as the total strength is not exceeded. Ilow- ever, this will require apecific authori- zation by the higher unit commander. The order also straightens out the matter of re-enlistments. When the recent strength order was some of the commands w bove the strength allowdd by the War De- partment and instructions were issued liat It would not be necessary im- medlately to discharge men be of this, but that reductions should {ake place gradually through expira- tions of enlistment, discharges and |other casualties. As many of the | commands were above strength, it had [the effect of cutting down recruit- ing. and furnished the possibility that through ordinary separations, which was belleved also to include men who might want to reenlist, that many good men would be lost to the Guard simply because the strength | must be cut down and re-enlistments might be stopped. The new order provides that men who ave discharged by expiration of enlistment may be re-enlisted within thirty days from date of discharge, regardless of the strength of the unit. The order fixes the total strength of all units of the Guard at one war rant officer and 720 enlisted men, and the limits of strength on the indivi- | dual units as follows: Headquarters land Service Company, 121st Engi neers, 72 men; Medical Detachment, 121st Engineers, 2 men: lettered com panies of the 121st Engineers. 65 men each: 20th Military Police Company, 0 men; lettered batteries of Coast Ar. tillery, 65 men each, and lettered com | panies of Infantr 5 men each. Preparations are bein |Guard to send a rifle | teams of the 3d Corps Area, includ jine the Regular Army, Natic 1 Guard, | Reserve Officers and Reserve Officers | Training Corps, at Camp Meade, Md October 31 and November 1. The con test will be for a cup donated by the Baitimore News, which was won in 1923 and 1925 by the Regular Army with the local National Guard team |as second. i First Lieut. J. ¢". Jensen, | z made by the team against 121st En 1 as cap- has been select 10 gineers, has been designat tain of the team, and he designated in orders to shooting members and 2 alternates The duty will be without pay. but Government employes will be furnish ed certiticates of serv teh will be fired at 200 vard ive, jand 200, 500 and §00 vards r In addition to t team will be com, Capt. C. S. Shields, Engineers: Master Sergt. F. F. Berns dorff, Headquarters and Service Com pany, 121st Engineers; Technical Sergt H. A. Robertson, Ordnance Depart ment; Technical Sergt Kaye, Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers; Staff Sergt. L. T. Company 121st_Engineers Aff Sergt. T. A Company I, Ist Engineers: D. Andru Company E, 121s gineers. Nergt H. E. Riley, Company E. 1ZIst En. gineers: Sergt. George F. Votava, 260th Coast Artillery: Sergt. G Martin, Company I st Engineers; Sergt. W. M. Slavik, Company k. 1215t Engineers: Sergt. H. H. Green Company D, 1215t Engineers, and Pvt E. A. McMahon. Company B, 121st Engineers. All except McMahon and Robertson were members of the team which participated in the national matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. Orders have been issued for the organization of a board of officers which will conduct examinations for the purpose of developing a list of eligibles for promotion to the grade second lleutenant of Engineers, which selections will be made from time to time to fill vacancies in the reg fment. There are at present no nam on the list of eligibles. Those seeking commissions in the Engineers must be serving at the time as enlisted men in the organization Col. John W. Oehmann, command ing the 121st Engineers. has been designated as senior member of the board. the other members of which are Maj. George J. Allen, command ing the Medical Detachment, and Capt Clay Anderson, U. §. Army Engineer Corps, instructor of the local Engineer troops, who was placed on the board with his consent, and also because of the fact that the regulations pro. vide that there must be a regular officer on the board to examine offi- cers for units which are federally recognized. from Second Lieut. Daniel B. Lilovd. at| present second in command of the 29th | Military Police Company, has applied for transfer to the 12lst Engineers. His transfer has been approved by Lieut. Raymond C. Peak, commanding the military police unit, and it now awalts only the approval of Col. John W. Oehmann, commanding the Engi neers. Lieut. Lloyd is a graduate engineer, and is peculiarly fitted for engineer duty. Corpl. Lincoln S. Company C. 121st Engineers, been trans ferred to the National Guard Reserve fand assigned to the reserve of that unit The reason for the removal from the active list, it was said at headquarters, is because Corpl Jones is a second lieutenant in the En gineer Officers’ Reserve Corps, and the War Department would noi as- sign him to active training duty in that rank as long as he was on active duty with the local National Guard. Unit commanders of the Guard are arranging thelr property for the an- nual Inspections which began last week and will continue until Decem- ber 31, in accordance with general order issued at headquarters. Maj. James R. Lusby s the United States property and disbursing officer of the Natlonal Guard of the District of Columbia. Organzations of the local Guard are axperiencing their annual post-camp reductions, which is bringing several |of the organizations down below strength and will soon permit of re cruiting. While « number of the | men are seeking separation because | of removal from the District of Co- {lumbia, the great majority of appl | tions are on the basis of educational interference. Service with the Guard, | with its weekly drill, is said to inter. !fere with some of the men in the | night studies. However, these cases | this vear are being closely scrutin ized. in view of the fact that most | night schools have classes on three | nights a week, and the Guard drill Inight is on an off-school night. Al |ready a number of applications for discharge on this account have been |turned down because investigation by the officers have shown they were not true. It is just an attempt on the! part of some of the men to get o under this guise. Not only will they not be allowed to quit, but they will not be allowed to remain away from drills. Those who consistently refuse to attend drills with a good and valid reason will be court-martialed. Sen tences of Guard court-martials are en- forced by the United States marshal for the District of Columblia. Roug}: Stuff Fires Tully. ATE, with all its power, shall not make a slapstick comedian out of Tully Marshall. Tully ran to heavy dramas in the old Broadway stage days. His pres- ent film fame has been built out of comedy characterization. But when fate tried the Weber and Fields stuft on him Tully called a halt. He was playing a pirate role with Leon Errol in “Clothes Make the Pirate,” which Sam E. Rork was filming at the Cosmopolitan Studios. First Tully got a jab in the eye from the butt of a musket in a pirate rald. Then he dropped four feet off a ship deck and twisted his arm. Immedi- ately after he slipped on a beer keg and was thrown to the floor. He arose, his features grim with re- pressed fury. and stalked off the s | " “Where ‘are you going, Tully?” asked Rork and Marion Fairfax, pro- duction supervisor. “I'm not a slapstick comedian,” Marshall hurled back over his shoui- der. “I'm going back to the u!age,i where at least my dignity will be respected” | the | far as ‘the medium is concerned THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER PART: 1. 1925 In the Spotlight. ' _ ¢Continued from First Page) at the ceremonies, but Herndon took it off thelr hands last week. Mary Newcomb is to be the star. McClintle will stage “The for Mrs. Leslie Carter. This drama, by John Colton, 15 to be elaborate and the designs for the sets follow the “Follies” styre. ge it Anger and Mary Fair have a | new act at the Earle this week, which has been accorded much credit by crities, It is called ““The Old pol™" and is in four scenes. In the presen tation they are assisted by Madelyn Shone Mr. Anger is known to the stage character actor and has been seen in Washington with many | of the best Known stars. as a What is believed to be the hij £ross receipts ever reached by a dra matic star in a four-week engagement in Philadelphia was received by George in Winthrop Ames’ production “Old English Street Theater, « Saturday night, when Arliss $79.823 The record Inut, the oldest theater in Amer was broken both for attendance receipts on the opening night, as 15 for the run of the drama Itimore. at the Auditorium on Monday night ed 708.30. well In §2 Avliss The Arliss banquet sce ends “Old English,” the worthy play, Is said te Mansfleld Baron Chevrial A Parisian Romance. been many dinners stage, the famous which the ac s feast Therce hav served on the turkey e ors in Shore 1 1o get so tired Ivan F. S ed for his vi Green Goddess,” is as an actor. e the Rajah of Ttukh and is ing on a_ fulllength fig . stur as Sylvanus Hey » in Galsworthy play pson, who is remembe butier in “The Arliss a work the the lNainous modeled Gordon McRae of the George Arliss company is the son of Bruce McRae. Gordon is now making his first ap. pearance on the atage. He promixed s father he would wait until he was 20 years old before he became an actor Ashley Dukes, author of “The Man With a Load of Mischief,” whict uberts are presenting with Chatterton and Robert Lorain stars, is a brother of Sir Paul Dukes noted English composer and lectu Lady Dukes was formerly Mrs. Ogden AMills Ruth a8 ity The entire first edition of the Amer ican version of “Hay Igyer.” Noel! Coward’s play, is reported 'sold out i1 advance of publication | Glynne and Dennis Ne who recently ended their er gagement in “The Crooked Iriday will appear soon in a new play ¢ titled “The Offence.” The Actors Theater return engagement in Candida,” with Peg, Wood i ing a new cast After a limited st in the metropolis it is tn be sent 1 short tour of the last The Theater Guild is 1o produce Storm,” a play by C. K. Munro voung Irish playwright who his heer highly praised by George Bernard Shaw, and later a play called At Mrs am's New Yorl on the | arl finalls to open in N its book have Carroll's is ter defects In been remedied by the | authors, Paul Porter d Benjam Hapgood Burt, assisted by Willlam | A. Grew: alterations in staging by | Frederick Stanhope and the perfection | of the dance numbers and ensembles by David Bennett, together with the addition of new people the of entertainers White Cargo vears “The Red Knig lage comedy by Edmond former New York and Washington | newspaper man, rece had a suo cessful tryvout in San Francisco, with | newspaper critics acclaiming it as a | “brilliant comedy” and “gem ire.” A Greenw Vi MeKenna, | Screen v priaNT ning.” Paramount terview hantasy. directe in a L i raph man’s motion U de vun away with the idea that producers hold me back. Not at ail. We can_do only what the public will stand fc It it wants phantasy, if it wants us to explore the huge field of what vou call the subjective, we will explore it. We try, when we can, to give it a lead—hints of what can be done. But the audience must ask and keep on asking for it. Productions cost a for tune. Tell your English public that it can only get all these exciting things, which in time really will be works of art, by supporting them.” The interview suggested that the | movie would never enjoy prestige in England till those able to get it pres tige—artists, thinkers and creators or Il sorts—were willing to sit throngh good deal that wa of indifferent value in order to ferret out what was good. extoll it. proclaim it and din its possibilities into the public ear “That’s it.” said Mr. Cruze. *“We have a marvel here, but until we get credit for trying, however inadequate results as compared with those achleved in arts having traditions, we can get no further. I'd like von to fay to English artists and creative minds, take an interest in us, try to see the medium as having a separate existence from other mediums, try to explain to people what we are trying to do. “It's easy to see what got and to p n onr when you consider that of - can thought in we haven't imbecilities we are, as like men juggling with hig forces in the dark ‘and having to please millions. | I'd like them to instruct the public in | what we have got and wherein and | how we ‘come off.’ | -— | Bans Charleston. t TUERE will be no dancing of the Charleston on any set where| James (‘ruze is directing pictures. | The other day, when he was direct- ing a group of extras in “The Manne- | quin,” at the Paramount studio, the | extra girls, who were dressed in 1007 | “Gibson girl” costumes, heard about | it. Between scenes they volunteered | to teach him. So he sat himself down | in his directorial chair, ordered music. | and the “Charlestonites” began to do | their stuff. Cruze watched them for three min utes, and then stopped the music and | the dance. “There will be no dancing of the Charleston on this set,” he sald. *T| think it is the most terrible dance 1 have ever seen—if it can be called a dance. Tt is cheap, certainly not graceful, and is ugly to watch. It looks just like a negro voodoo dance to me. T understand some one claims it originated in the South Sea Isles. 1f so, it Is a good place for it to stay. There'’s only one dance, anyway—and William Kelly, Paramount’s branch manager at Calgary, Canada, has the | distinction of serving the only Eskimo motion picture exhihitor on the Conti- nent. Each print used by this theater man must be shipped 300 miles by dog train. Not unlike the days of “The Yony Express” in the United States. | tomine [ longed 10 be a clown Dcug. Turns Shipbui]der. Arliss’ Early Ambit: rliss Larly 1tion DOUGIAS FAIRBANKS n buil 53 o B AR ing four ships for his new photo YRGE ARLISS, star of “O1d Eng- sh,” says he never had but two 1deas about w he wanted to do in his life. The second ide \\hl«)v_‘ modified, was later adopted, came ‘”t "l Iways amuses me,” sa Arliss, who sw playing tn “Ola | English” “to hear peopis abont what the public want preliminary experience gained through w series of plays given upon a little stage built in the cellar of his parents’ home. At a children’s party glven for him when he was 14 years old were the two sons of a musical comedy star then very popular in London. They had been sponsored by a cousin of the star of “Old Engiish,” and arrange- and one which promisea aii sorts of |ments had been made by zousin xcitement and adventure. The bus|and the actr sons to give aplay. conductor continued to appear to him | When the day of the party arrived My as a sublime creature until the day of | Arliss’ cousin could not attend, and it | oot Siate o Hieater | Seemed that the play would have tc That happened when he was 7 years | abandonec he two boys with old. He was taken to London pan s ancestry, however, persuaded The clown in the perforn. their host to pluy his cousin’s role, and ance made a great hit Iforthwith he | that was Mr. Arliss’ real introduction The clown cos- | L0 the stage tume which mother provided rnx'i Aft hi became » Of the dearest and | Mr chert, e ons of But us the passed he outgrew | of & Ings o w the clown costume anfl also outgrew | with no lines to speak the desire to be a clown, but not to be | lines to spe and no advance in sal- | No memb of his family lary until toward the close of his f stage, but his [ vear with the compan it he sately launched upon the carcer thiy had chosen and had Jearned | 1 1eh about tiny play, “The Biack Pirate,” now in pro duction at the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios ! Three the vessels, ranging|*"s . from 100 to 212 feet In length, are If a producer really knew what the 1 of the type that salled the saven seas|Public wanted his fortune wou | v in the days of the Spanish Mal 1| made overnight th, 75 feet long, a fanta 1.} “My own craft propelled by a hundred oars, is|Dever wants the partic an child of the star.|play. Tt i @ being bullt from paint-| that the public doesn’t want Carl Oscar Borg, the|plays any more, o L want crook ke for the production by | pla tow war If, construction is undcr | think the public supervision of a nautical expert.|play that is a “Doc.” P. H. L. Wilson, marine tech- | kind of . |nician and deep water skipper, who | ity t wiil @lso act as fleet captuin. There| are 350 men in the crew doing this ork, 14 of whom are sald to be the lmost expert ship-riggers obtainable o1 [the Pacific Coast For close-up work tions of these vessels are being dup: feated. This will make possil nti shots which could not be obtained the disad working at These secti of ships have !l mounted on huge, ste cradles | entertai nious mechar 11 devices rock l vealism G talking | diftict him when he was 7 years old. His first ambition was to explore the world—in other words, London the conductor of a bus. At the that seemed a very-glorious pt idea is that the parti any wlar docs for ie 18 an author's mind ex j effective e pring the pur of entertainine e by entertainment ughter. Anything is g takes one affai axes ¢ - the dricals ompany ater, in salary four years of home joined the stock ¥ od entertain- | St sorh e had no and | Thit ar, and part ma had « Leen 1 natic bition whic The wish been OMOrrow 1§ the D&Z)/ THE most astonishing demonstration ever held will be given throughout the country by dealers in Victor products. It will begin at 9 A. M. and continue throughout the day It will introduce the most important contribution to music since the invention, 30 years ago, of the Victor Talking Machine “Those men are playing from their hearts! a day of days in the history of music A ... Why, gentlemen, that is a band you hear!” new instrument will be played—anincredi- Fritz Kreisler, Paul Whiteman and other ble instrument! When you have heard it, Victor artists, are equally enthusiastic. In you will say that here at last is music such fact, every man or woman who has listened as you have never heard anywhere but in o this astonishing instrument hasbeen com- the living presence of great artists. pletcly won by its matchless performance. Don't let preconceived ideas rob you It stands triumphant—a musical miracle. of this inspiring experience. The morc It will take only a few minutes of your critical your attitude toward music, time tomorrow tocall on the nearest dealer the more astounded and enthusiastic you in Victor products, and listen to a demon- will be.. There is a fullness, a richness, 2 stration, and in those few minutes you will magnificence of tone, and an exactness of pe surprised beyond belief. As a lover of detail that is incomparable. Asthe first notes fine music, you will be overjoyed at the reach your cars, you will understand why vision of pleasures in store. You'll find 2 great artists, critics and music lovers have new thrill in dance music, for the jazziest said in substance:“Gentlemen, this is mausic’” jazz takes on new color and new interest. Madame Schumann-Heink marveled. I O, if vocal and instrumental solos, sym- would not have thought it possible,” she phonicsand choruses inspire you—then you, said. “Now you can hear an ‘s’ when the too, have the treat of a lifetime in store. singer sings it —somcthing you could never Beginning tomorrow morning at nine hear before” o'clock, and continuing all day . . . special John Philip Sousa could hardly believe it. demonstrations will be in progress in any “That is music from the soull” he exclaimed. store where Victor products are sold. The New Orthophonic [ Victor Day — Monday, November 2ad NovemMBER 2ND . . . tomorrow . .. will be 1Ctro Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey believe in r0tow into necessary words of one svllable in order to artist to give in my antmal a ivp, # “The Gold R sedly saves Charlie Chaplin an death of suggestion methods which theater of late riy in these sensational plays have made aphic the the er, and this these such What the Public Wants! momient he rathe new ‘arty instead of a storm. I to spell out an fdea meaning. playwright hes to create a ‘tough’ character. he will not find i that role notling oaths and vulgarities to speak: there ave other and more subtle meth delineation, and they are meore opinion. {more. T do not belleve the public realls 1| wants that sort of thing.” Further tors—John Brown, a dog dog. loans Charlie n bhe! prominen: The bes: by siarva among oth portion of h!