Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 16

16 GAINS IN FEMINIST MOVEMENT GITED Inter-American Commission| Creation Emphasized in Annual Report. Two important advapces in the femi- nist movement during the past year | were cited by Miss Mahcl Vernon. ex- ling by nature” he says, “and crowd TREES HAVE CHARACTER. Naturalist Cites Growth to Prove His Ideas. NEW YORK (#).—Naturalists are studying trees to determine whether they have personalities which might have some influence on molding their shapes, says Dr. Forman T. McLean of the New York Botanical Garden. “Doogwoods and sassafras are retir- closely together. Might this huddling be called a personality trait something like timidity?™ He calls the oak portly, the elm flirtatious with gracefully outward | sweeping limbs, and spruces, hemlocks and bare-limbed larches trees that possess the appearance of “stepping| out boldly." ecutive secretary of the National Wom- an’s Party, in her annual report to the | the national council which met here | this afterndon. These - achievements, | she said, were the creation of the In- | ter-American Commission of Women ! and the recognition of equal rights as | 8 national political issue in the presi- dential campaign. Miss Vernon added that the Inter- American Commission was -created by ths Pan-American Conference in Hay ba because of the work of the Woman's Party and Miss Stevens, chairman of the committee on international action, was made chairman, 1929 Program Discussed. Plans for the legislative program for 1029 were discussed by the council fol lowing Miss Vernon's report. Passage of the Porto Rican suffrage bill granting | enfranchisement to the women of that country will be urged as an immediate ROVER APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED IN SENATE, Becon‘ms United States Attorney for District—Has Been Acting Attorney for Year. Acting promptly upon a favorable re- | port of the judiciary committee, the | Senate, in executive session late yester- | ay, confirmed Leo A. Rover as United | States attorney for the Distriet of Co- | lumbia. Mr. Rover has been acting dis- | choral festival concert to be presented | of pojsonous alcohol have been imbibed, |the Covenant, Gunton-Temple, Wallace | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. TUESDAY, JA ARY 15, 1929. CHORAL REHEARSAL TOBEHELD TONIGHT Church Music Council and D. C. Clubs to Present Concert in May. ‘ The first. rehearsal for the massed | here in May under joint auspices of the | Church Music Council and the District Federation of Music Clubs will be held in the Central High School auditorium tonight under the direction of Frederick Alexander of Ypsilanti, Mich,, director of music in the Michigan State Normal School, who will lead the final concert. Once a month until the concert Mr. Alexander will come to Washington to direct the rehearsals of the massed musical organizations. Miss Charlotte | Klein, accompanist for the concert, will play at the rehearsals, which are to be | held Wednesday nights, and Mrs. Helen M. Bellthan will be the accompanist at the Tuesday night, rehearsals. The following church choirs, clubs | and choruses are participating in_the rehearsals for the concert: Church of Memorial Prosbyterian, St. Thomas' Episcopal, Calvary Baptist, Rockville Methodist, Bethany Baptist, All-Sah\tS[ (Chevy Chase), Chevy Chase Baptist, First _Congregational, Chevy Chase SPEAKER VOICES ALARM | ON ALCOHOL BLINDNESS | Loss of Vision Follows Drinking in Large Amounts in Two or Three Days, He Says. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 15.—Alcohol of | the variety consumed in this country has been causing an alarming amount of blindness, Dr. Frederick F. Litsinger, Chicago, yesterday told the Illinois State Society of Optometrists in con- vention here. “In the dominions of Great Britain alcoholic amblyopia is almost unknown.” | he said, “while here when large amounts | blindness may follow within two or three days. The partial vision often returns after a week, sometimes after months, leaving large defects about the central field. When taken in smaller amounts the defect will be slower in making its appearance.” “HOOT” GIBSON SUED. Film Star's Wife Charges Desertion | in Divorce Suit. LOS ANGELES, January 15 (P).—A suit for divorce, charging desertion, was | filed yesterday in Superior Court by Mrs. Helen Gibson, wife of the cowboy film'star, “Hoot” Gibson. Mrs. Gibson asserted that her hus- band left their home more than a ye: ago. Sam Wolf, Gibson's attorney, in- dicated that the movie star would not contest the suit, and added that Gib- son’s strenuous film work caused his AMUSEMENTS NATIONAL—Dennis King. Grown wise in the ways of the world, and with the sophistication and poise born of success, Dennis King and his three musketeers returned to the scene of theif theatric birth at the National Theater last night and marked their homecoming with a performance that will live long in the memory of those who witnessed it. When this brave company left Washington a little more than a year ago to try its luck in New York, Washington had wished it well and predicted great things for it. Such things have come to pass. The return of “The Three Musketees” last night was in the nature of a demonstration to prove that all the happy forecasts were true, and to explain why. No one need have wondered in the first place. Dumas’ swift. dashing story of “The Three Musketeers,” clothed in the gorgeous raiment with which Zieg- feld adorns his productions, and enacted by Dennis King and a company who master ther rolies with a deft precision beautiful to watch—all of these ele- ments combine to put on the stage one of the theater’s oustanding spectacles. Those wholove color and action and beauty flash before them with the skill and smoothness of a machine that never misses a click must see this return of “The Three Musketees.” Dennis King, in a curtain speech at the close of the performance last night, ventured the opinion that the three musketees will never die.' As long as print and paper live they cannot die. But the hope of admirers of this fa- mous trio is that whenever they leave the printed page to come, with the swish of flashing swords, upon the stage, there will trailing along_be- hind them such a D'Artagnan as Den- nis King _has created. Withqut a D'Artagnan the three musketeers would merely be three mortals. It is D'Artagnan who has made them im- mortal. And we shall always need a Dennis King to breathe into the soul of D'Artagnan the fire that flashes from his eyes and keeps him alive. : Detmar Poppen. Douglas R. Dumbrille and Joseph McCaulay as Porthos, Athos and Aramis, respectively, are the same three rollicking musketeers in voice and action that they always were. Constance Bonacieux is made more lovely than ever by Vivienne Segal and Ruth Lyons as Lady de Winter makes her audience appreciate full well the reasons why D'Artagnan was at_times a bit too sus- ceptible. Yvonne D'Arle gave strength and beauty to her part as Anne, Queen of France. while Reginal Owens’ Richelieu is an interesting and well con- ceived study of a character grown fa- en before the three musketeers were fighting the members of his guard. Lester Allen’s tumbling, as well as the rolling of his eyes and the contortions of his abbreviated figure, make a comi- cal Planchet, who is never at a loss to bring a laugh. ‘The settings and the dancing in “The ‘Three Musketeers” have, within the short space of a year, already become traditional. There are few scenes on any stage more beautiful than scene 5 in the Garden of the Tuilleries. Har- riet Hoctor's exquisite dancing, with that of the Rasch dancers, is worthy of all the acclaim they received last night.| D.R. GRENFELL TO SPEAK. Famous Labrador ?hyslélan will Visit Baltimore. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 15.—Dr. Wil- fred—now Sir Winfred—will be in Balti- | more Thursday and Friday, undet the | auspices of the local Grenfell Associa- | tion. During his brief visit he is to speak twice at the Johns Hopkins Med- ical School and also address a public meeting. ng. Dr. Grenfell, as he is still better thood recently conferred upon him, has achieved inter- national recognition for his work among known in spite of the knigh the fisher folk of Labrador and New- foundland and he will speak here upon the activities of his medical mission Holland's 60,000,000 inhabitants in- clude 2,000,000 Catholics. Gas, Electric, Oil and Gasoline HEATERS in a great variety of styles & makes, g Prompt Delivery on all TELEPHONE ORDERS $MUDDIMANS, 709 13th Street N. W. Main 140-8436. | trict atorney since Justice Peyton Gor- don, his predecessor, was elevated to | the bench nearly a year ago. Prior to | that Rover was an' assistant district Presbyterian, Mount Pleasant Co gregational, ' Vermont Avenue Chri tian, St. Andrew’s, Keller Memori Lutheran, Takoma Park Presby-| jssue In the present session of Congress according to a decision reached by the council members. This bill passed the House in December and was reported absence on location frequentl The Gibson's have a b5-year-old daughter. _Wolf said a property settle- favorably to the Senate from the com- | mittee on insular affairs, headed by Senator Bingham of Connecticut, last Saturday. The women hope to see it | bacome a law before March 4. | Miss Stevens, Mrs. Florence Bayard | Hilles and Mrs. Belle Bortin Ruppa of | Milwawkee will be the speakers at a Ginner given by the officers of the District branch of the Women's Party this evening at headquarters honoring | the national council. Speaks on Experiences. Miss Stevens will speak on her ex- periences during the past few months in France, where she was working to secure an equal rights treaty among mations. Mrs. Ruppa will discuss the | * practical operation of the cqual rights jaw in Wisconsin, the only State in the Union which has adopted it. Mrs. Hilles /has not announced the subject of her address. Members of the council are: Mrs. Clarence M. Smith, of New York City, | chairman; Mrs. Valentine Winters of Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. Edith Ho\lghwnl Hooker, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Dixon and Mrs. Dora G. Ogle of Baltimore, Mrs. | Richard _Wainwright, Mrs. Florence | Brewer Boeckel and Mrs. Harvey W.!| attorney for several years. Born in Washington August 15, 1888, Rover was educated in local schools and studied law at Georgetown University Law School. He began practice here in 1910. “He entered the district attorney's office in 1924, and a year later became principal assistant in charge of all civil litigation to which the United States was a party. Mr. Rover was kept busy today re- celving the congratulations of his as- sistants and members of the bar. As soon as President Coolidge has signed | the commission of Rover he will present | it to the justices of the District Su- preme Court in general term and will again take the oath of office for a term of four years. Rover was sworn in be- fore the court last April, when the jus- tices had designated him to fill the of- fice following the promotion of Peyton Gordon justice of the court. Willey of Washington, Miss Laura Ber- rien of, Georgia, Miss Maud Younger | old. of San' Francisco, Mrs. Burnita Shel- ton Matthews of Mississippi, Miss Emma Wold of Oregon, Miss Stevens of New York, Mrs. Hilles and Miss terian, Washington Heights Presby terian, St. Alban’s Episcopal, Calvary | Methodist South, Hamline Methodist, | McKendree Methodist, Trinity Meths dist Episcopal, Petworth Methodist Episcopal, Emery Methodist South, Epworth Methodist Episcopal, Francis Asbury Methodist South, Metropolitan Baptist, Ingram Congregational, Vienna Music Club, Community Club, Vienna, Va.; Masonic Glee Club, Woman’s City Club, Chaminade Glee Club, Elizabeth Somers Glee Club, Epiphany Church Girls' Friendly Chorus, Y. M. C. A. Chorus and Woman's Chorus, conducted by Louis Thompson. MANUFACFURER DIES. NEW YORK, January 15 (#).—Wil- liam G. Allen, president of the Inde- pendent Aetna Sprinkler Co. of New York and the Automatic Sprinkler Co. of Canada, died yesterday in his suite at the Hotel Plaza. He was 56, years ld. He maintaifed homes in Akron and Cleveland, Ohio. His widow, Mrs. Jessie Bryden Allen, and a daughter, Mrs. Janet Luker of Detroit, Mich., survive Vernon of Wilmington, Del. him. Funeral services will be held he ment had been made “amply providing for his wife and daughter.” - You just can’t beat the original McWilliams O r- chestra. More pep . . . more fun! Dancing every nite. n Watches Mr. Schwartz Says: P Start the Year on “SCHWARTZ” Time EVERY MAN AND WOMAN should wear" accurate time- pieces—and can by paying us $1 a Week. Elgin, Hamilton, Gruen, Longines, Benrus, the world’s best timepieces. Trade Your Old Watch On a New One § Let the old watch vou now wear help pay for a new one— then pay the bhalance $1 a week, as you wear and enjoy GOOD 3 TIME. 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