Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 31

1928. oT STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 18 OBSTACLES TO PASSAGE 'I‘h‘ House to agree to changes made in| Representative Swing, Republican, | the costs shall be charged against the | ALL[ED MOTORS ELECTS. !noLi‘ Weatherproof Body Co. and the | the measure by the Senate. California, coauthor of the bill, said 1lw:d:fl§s:°fll;mfl i e i) | van sicklen Corporation. OF DAM BILL CRUMBLING| stortly after this decision by the|most of the changes that had been|s5000,000 of the cost of the dam ha¢ | Wilson, Formerly With mdge| Wilson, formerly associated With & % | committee, Represéntative Douglas, | made by the Senate were designed 0| poon allocated to flood control, with | | Dodge Brothers, was vice president of | NATIONAL—“Beaux’ Stratagem.’ Democrat, Arizona, one of the most | make the proposal cox'x(onnim themr:{ the provision that it shall be repaid | Firm, Named President. the Irving National Bank of New Yori: | Frequently, when an “all-star” cast| By the Associated Press. | vigorous opponents the measure ha;.‘ port of the board of engineers from the sutplus profits of the power | and Iater president of the Guardian is announced, there is a certain ele- The last congressional obstruction to had in the House, announced he wouldiscud(ed it last Summer. s & plant, ‘ CHICAGO, December 18 (#) —Wll-‘anL Co. of Detroit and was president ment of fiction mingled with the facts % ! not seek to have the House disagree| The All-American canal, desighe % i liam Robert Wilson was elected presi-|of the Maxwell Motor Co. when it wa of the program. There are usually a|the Swing-johnson -Boulder Canyon o the Senate revisions. At the same | carry water into Southern California. dent of the Allied Motors Industries, |reorganized in 1921. A year ago Mr THE EVENING few piasers who, while held in artistic | Dam bill appeared to be crumbling yes- | time, however, Douglas made clear he | has been segregated financially from | France's yearly production of shoes Inc. vesterday. The fim is holding Wilson was president and chairman ¢ the cost of the dam and power plant, | has dropped in the past few sears {fom | company for the Great Lakes Aircraft | the board of the Murray Corporation of 100,000,000 pairs to about 60,000,000 | | spect, would Scarcely be accredited | terday with the unanimous decision of | was no whit less opposed to the legis- y > H tion that he had been. he said, with the further provision that Corporation, Henney Motor Co. of Illi- | America. Proof That U. S. Is Not “Bluffing” Held Necessary to Improve British Feeling. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. \ From = quarter in Washington in po- | culated to reveal, in spirited contrast, sition to reflect British sentiment with |one player after another compelled to some authority comes the prediction | pause and interrupt the play until the that Senate passage of the pending crui- « ser bill wil ipave the way to an Anglo- American naval understanding. The view is advanced that as soon as Uncle Sam shows he is not “bluffing” in_the | with the el Bl matter of naval parity with John Bull,| Gt Those mehor e at. | the British government will see the wis dom of a mutually satisfactory. agree- ment. That agreement, it is foreshadowed, will be virtually the one which_the | United States proposed and G t Brit- \ ain rejected at the unsuccessful Geneva conference of 1927. ‘Thus, in the opin- jon of the authority in question, a m ure of American naval expansion maj promptly turn out to be a means of | Anglo-American naval limitation. It was America’s great battleship program in full operation in 1921, which induced Great Britain at the Washington con- ference to surrender her ancient pre- \ tension to supremacy of the sea. Attention suddenly has been drawn in ‘Washington to the del y of the Anglo-American _relations. use a moderate description of them—by the amazing remarks uttered by Senator Prederick H. Gillett, Republican, of Mas- sachusetts in the Senate on December 15. The former Speaker of the House hitherto has opposed building additional | cruisers. He told the Senate his mil was chahged by something recently said | by Dr. Inge, “the gloomy" dean” of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. Dr. Inge sug- | gested that Great Britain some day ould unite with other European na- | tions “to draw Shylock’s teeth’—a ref- erence to the United States’ expectation A that Europe- will pay its war debts to this country. Senator Gillett informed the Senate he is no longer in any doubt that America must strengthen herself at sea against the peril which the dean of St. Paul's so unblushingly depicts. Relations Can Be Improved. The Gillett-Inge incident is mainly #mportant as a straw which shows how the Anglo-American wind is_blowing. There is not a statesman in Washing- ton, American or British, who does not know, and who will not privately admit, that relations between the two coun- tries are at the present moment capable 4+ Of a good deal of improvement. It is naval affairs which have poisoned them. TUntil statesmanship on one side of the ocean, or on both sides, comes to grips with the cruiser proposition, there is every indication that Anglo-American relations will remain in a deadlock of mutual suspicion and bad feeling. Out of such a deadlock, as statesmen know, unpleasant situations sometimes develop. % Allen W. Dulles, lately of the Ameri- can - foreign service and one of our diplomatic representatives at the Ge- neva limitation conferences of both 1926 and 1927, contributes a constructive sug- gestion to the January number of Foreign Affairs. He proposes that the British should abandon the contention that the United States “restrict its cruiser force chiefly to the small type of cruiser, or shape its own naval pro- E‘nm to_suit the asserted needs of the ritish Empire for this type.” On the other hand, Mr. Dulles suggests, “the United States might'properly be asked to consider the British claim that the use by the United States of its cruiser tonnage for the ecomstruction of the Jarger 8-inch gun cruisers would give combat superiority even though there were tonnage equality; that is, parity of combat strength and not alone parity of tonnage should be considered.” “Menace” Considered Myth. ‘The young American diplomat is con=- fident agreement can be achieved if both countries “take the common sense attitude that neither fleet is a menace to the other.” Mr. Dulles there hits ‘what many Americans and many British consider to be the milk in the naval coconut. In both countries there is a 4 vast reservoir of popular “common sense” opinion that Uncle Sam and John Bull have nothing to quarrel about. In both countries a sentiment nevertheless has grown up that their respective fleets do in fact constitute “a menace” to each other. Many Americans, like many British, blame professional “naval men for ropagating this theory. Those who old that view are convinced that until the statement in London and Washing- ton send the admirals “below” and themselves take the helm, Anglo-Amer- ican relations will not' definitely be divested of gunpowder. (Copyright, 1928.) 0 Flyer Sues Brandy Firm. BOLOGNA, Italy, December 18 . I, —Because his autographed photo- ph was used in advertisements of g::ndy without his permission, Arturo Ferrarin, flyer, is suing for damages. A with stellar prilliancy. The production of “The Beaux’ Stratagem,” which arrived on the stage of the National Theater last night, speaks the punctilious truth in its all- | star announcement. Every member of | the cast has at one time or another held the distinction of being named on the bill boards in lettering at least a foot_high. “The Beaux’ Stratagem” is well cal- “reception” had subsided. The comedy presents familiar ma- terial. It often seems to speak with | the impetuous gayety of a Sheridan, or | These authors have at. tained their own originalities as they built anew with materials which Far. quhar obtained close to their beginnings in the art of story-telling for the early English stage. Perhaps the folding reen, which does so much duty in “School for Scandal” was borrowed | from Farquhar, who probably borrowed it from previous drama. Even authors stigmatized licen- tious, preserved a respect for popular imates of moral obligation and took pains to justify the heroine, when ap- pearances were against her reputation for discreet behavior, and to arrange blissful weddings as conclusions of | great adventures in the tournament of llantries and flirtation. As for the acting: i Among so’ many clean-cut and em- phatic delineations it would be idle to attempt compliment which might im- ply arbitrary assumption of ability to designate precedence. One of the i resistible charms of the presentation is the revelation by means of an old play of talents which later plays have not, according to legitimate standards re- | |wealed at their best. | Frances Starr has hitherto conve; ed | an_impression of almost saintly aus- | terity. In this play she revels in a| sublimation of a comedy complex which | is truly joyous. | Raymond Hitchcock, at' one stride | acrosssthe scene, releases himself from | his relentless record as a musical farce | comedian and enrolls himself as one | who should be eligible to substantial | honors as a Shakespearean clown. Of | course, Farquhar is not Shakespeare. | Yet few things could be imagined more | cheering than a scene with Hitchcock, as he now plays, voicing the words of | Andrew Aguecheck and Taylor | Holmes responding with the solemn | sotticisms of Sir Toby Belch. These players are far apart in the scenes of “The Beaux’ Stratagem.” Yet both are typical of a kind of stalwart fun not easily to be regained. A shadow of regret was cast by the announcement that Taylor Holmes would play in place of James T. Pow- | ers, whose appearance was awaited with 50 much interest and who was unavoid- ably detained by the inartistic impu- dence of a pneumonia germ. Effort for a flippant manner of comment is justified by reports that the condition to which Mr. Powers has been compelled to yield is not regarded as definitely serious. A bit of a warble off-stage sets the audience wondering whether there is to be an operatic interpolation. It is a| prelude to a series of dialogues in which Fritzi Scheff sparkles with all the vivacity of a true comedienne. The term “ingenue” is one which gained its special meaning in old Eng- lish plays. Marie Carroll restores the word in all its ingenuous significance. Adventures broken in fortune have often been met with, But few have been more chivalrously companionable than Wilfred Seagram in his romantic plots, with Wallace Eddinger in the guise of a genial accomplice. Valerie Valaire had a small part— which did not seem at all small while she was playing through brief mo- ments. Henry E. Dixey threw to the winds | his merry past and plaved a rather | villainous role with dutiful seriousness, yet not ‘without a glint of satire. Percy Ames has as the heartless hus- band, driving his wife to other attach- ments, attachments to be so consum- mately hateful that only the great- est respect for are could have per- | suaded him to enact it so well Brandon Tynan has a delicious brogue; John Westley is a tempera- mental expresgion of French dialect in love-making. Minnie Dupree is serene- ly aristocratic. Howard Kyle, William Lorenz and S. Miller Kent each con- énbu(e touches of well studied charac- er. One of the great pleasures of the play is the grace with which the cos- tumes, closely studied for correctness as | to period, are worn. In addition to be= ing a fusillade of wit, this “Beaux’ Stratagem” is a panorama of beauty. ¥ PHILANDER JOHNSON. Philippine Officer Dies. Second Lieut. Jesus Airan, Philippine Scouts, who was graduated from the | West Point Military Academy in August, 1925, died at Camp Stotsenberg, Luzon, P. I, Monday, according to War De- partment advices. He was born at | Toudo, P. 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