Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1925, Page 19

EQUITY SUPPORTS DRAMATISTS' MOVE Organ of Actors’ Union De- cares Plays Threatened by Fox Maneuver. By the Aesociated Press. 1 NEW YORK, December 17.—The | reported desire of leading dramatists | 1o Join the Actors’ Equity Assoclation | A3 protection against a motion plcture | fnvasion of the New York theater Is | commented upon favorably today in | an official publication of the | fation. Two articles in the magazine dis- | cuss the proposed addition of dram- | atists to the association’s membership and comment upon reports of an agree- l ment between th> Fox Film Corpora- tion and five producing which were responsible for r.m.enmfl action on the part of the other pro-| ducers. |a “no true bill” on charges of murder plendld plays could not pass | requirements (under the | contract).” the leading ar- | he barred from hat reason lly the dramatic au- ned with the prospect | with alarm the pos- | 1s throush an son and Rich- | b suild Authors’ League of America ‘«]x the Fox alliance was brought to isht “These two authors complained to | )f thelr success. “Is Zat So!™ fam Fox for $100,000. al- though they had received higher offers from other motion picture producing interests. * . ‘\'nr\ defl v the integrity of the le ate sta is threatened as it | as seldom been in its long and hon- | orable history.” | Runaways Wed managers | George W. After Auto Crash And Train Flight Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 17.—After fleeing frate parents in an automobile at 3 o'clock ihis morning, wrecking thelr automo- bile and riding into Hagerstown on a train, Gilbert King, 21 years old, and Hellen Willam, 18, both of Bellefontalne, Pa., were married here. Bandaged from cuts and hrifee suffered when their auto plunged into a telephone pole near ik.: burg, Pa., the young couple smiled as the knot was tied and wired their parents for forgiveness. WOMAN EXONERATED Gnnd Jury Falls to Indict Mrs. Gill in Read Death. SHREVEPORT, La., December 17 (#).—Mrs. Adel Parsons Gill, wife of GIll of Crowley, was ex- onerated by a Caddo Parish grand jury here yesterday when it returned in connection with the death of Rob- ert Read, a student, for which homi- cide her husbannd now is serving a Denitentiary sentence following his plea of Ity Gill was a Loyola law student. Read, a student of Centenary Col- lege, slain in a struggle in the | water of Old River on the nizht of June 10. Gill was exted the fol. lowing day and admitted havir | a fight with Read In the water in the presence of his wife. Rend wa leged to have been a former admirer | of Mrs Gl “ask for Horlick's The ORIGINAL \ Malted Milk | Brown Schaol, | the work of the Natic THE EVENING CITIZENS ADDRESSED BY PARKS’ OFFICIAL Maj. Brown Outlines Work of Com- mission to Chevy Chase Association. Maj. Carey H. Brown of the office of | ; buildings and public grounds ssed the Chevy Chase Citizens' for at a meeting in the E. Connecticut McKinley street, last night, vital Par Commission and proposed amendmen to be made to the fonal Capital ark Commission a | should be bona fide residents of the | District of Columbi sentative Frederick X chairman of the House District com- mittee, urging that efforts be exerted to keep in the appropriation bill for STAR, ;| Steinem. | been overcome by ol Zihlman, | WASHIN the District an item providing for a Iibrarian at the E. V. Brown School Library at a salary of $1,680 per year. It was pointed out that the library is much in demand {n this section and that its present short hours for serv- ice are inadequate. Request for the raising of the curb- Ing on the Kling! Ford Bridge has | been denied, the soclation being in- formed by letter from the Commis- sioners t a her curb line would result in to automobile hub caps and wheels ¢ members clected were: Mrs Mrs. H. G. ]w)']i'. Ll('ul. ('lhm(lf’. G. Robertson, F. D. Allen and A. President Francls J. Moore | presided. % i E | ‘Woman and Baby Rescued. | NEW ORLEANS, December 17 (). An unidentified woman who had smoke was rescued t night y Dan‘Gallbraith. Her baby was re- | moved from the building by an’un identified man. Damage estimated at | more than $70,000 was caused by the blaze, which destroyed a garage, 47 au- from a rooming house here iTON, D. €., THURSDAY, SEES RAILROADS SUFFER. HAMMOND, 1Ind., December 17 (#).—Considerably more than half of the class one raflroads in Western ter- ritory have pald their stockholders no dividends for years, C. D. Morris, rep- resenting the Western rallways com- mittee on_public relations, told the chamber of commerce today. ““The net operating revenues of class one railroads,” he said vere $202,000 day less in 1924 than in 1916.” If It Is Rentable 1 Can Rent ll J. LEO KOLB 923 N. Y. Ave. 1237 Wis. Ave. g — Main 5027 1 wua—rifintfi!?filikéil - teade quichfy for - Studebaker ! Puuier urafflllfufimsh tomobiles and other property. L. 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