Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1926, Page 17

ASKS COURT CURB | AAbe Marein Says: | ON OIL COMPANIES Arlington County Fire Body Official Declares Law Is Being Violated. Special Dispatch to The Star LARENDON, Va., August 10.— Certain oil companies of Arlington County are operating in violation of the fire ordinances of the county, the hoard of supervisors was told yester- day at its regular meeting by Robert E. Janson, secretary of the Arlington- Fairfax Volunteer Firemen's Associa- tion. Mr. Janson uged that steps be taken to make the companies comply with the law. Menacing conditions prevail, he said, and these companies should be made to appear in court to show reason why they should not he prosecuted. Commonwealth At- torney Willlam C. Gloth promised to jesue warrants if the firemen would indicate where the law has been dis obeyed. A bill for $990 from Upman and Adams, architects, for preparations and plans for a_new county jai held exorbitant by the bod clerk was instructed to advise architects of the board's refusal to accept the bill. Salary Raises Refused. Salary Increases made by Dr. P. M. Chichester, county health officer, to two emploves of his department disapproved by the board. Dr. chester explained that he had includ ed the amounts in his annual budget, which had been hoard. Supervisor £ Jefferson district, who tion, stated that he would insist that 1he Increases be refunded to the coun- 1y, as they were granted without the approval of the board. Several matters of vital importance to the movement for regional develop- ment of the National Capital and its environs were considered by the Vir- ginia Regional Development Commis- sion, recently appointed by Gov. Byrd to co-operate with the National Capi tal Park and Planning Con; at a me g at the courthous terday. ves- | Boulevard Route Up. Chief amcng these were the pro- posed route of the Lee boulevard, fm provement and beautification of the palisades of the Potomac, the ques- tion of a boulevard through the pali- wades to Great Falls, the question of sewage disposal and the improve- ment of Virginia approaches to the new Arlington Memorial Bridge. Willlam L. Bragg, chairman of the commission, presided. Those attend ing, in addition to Mr. Bragg, were State Senator Frank L. Ball and Earlton Hanes. AMUSEMENT NATIONAL—"Charley’s Aunt.” A great deal of farce has flowed from the pens of playwrights since Brandon Thomas’ facile quill ages | ago produced “Charley’s Aunt,” which the National Players are offer- ing this week, but the hilarious re ception accorded Thomas' work last | Dight seemed to put the old style of play-fun well up on a par with the modern type of farce. n't been greater hilarity Summer ment to those with keen rec of other recent nights at the The fact that last night's audience was young and the play dealt with youthful love and mistaken identity may have had a g it, but no apolozy need be offered in the face of Romaine Callend: ssion, | 17} tone performance as the aunt ! Brazil, “where the nuts come from.” | It was a very big evening for Mr. | | Callendar. He fairly revelled in the ! role, which is gorgeously rich in farce comedy. He approaches the inter pretation of the cccentric million- | afress with a benign smirk so Judi | crous that at one time cven the con pany was on the verge of a collapse No one need be told the story of | the play. All one could ask is how the parts are distributed, and the answer to that s the answer to why the ve a tremend ohn Warner the love- Tier ar roles and B sick Oxford vey and Rhea Diveley in for the opposite sex quartet manages to be delightfully silly which is just what Mr. Thomas had fn mind when he sat down to his desk to write the play The soldlerly shy Sir Francis Ches ney is played with a nice degree fineness by the neverfailing Charles and Hibbard, of excellently by the part . who is forced to 3 see her name made | ridiculous by the bugus Donna Lu cla—Romaine Callendar. Percy Winter, whose Lightnin’ Last week was one of the vivid things of the company’s care cast as Spattigue, the love-torn ancient, who falls for the charms of the bogus aunt. 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