Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1929, Page 5

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Demaris Dore, who was quoted as | saying she had witnessed the shooting | of Thomas (Fatty) Walsh in a Miami, | Fla, hotel last week, also told police | | she knew Arnold Rothstein, who was | { fatally shot in the Park Central Hotel | here ‘November 3, Walsh was Roth- stein's bodyguard. Police Commission Whalen, who took | personal charge of the examination of the girl wh rought to potice rday, was lmm‘z‘sscdl ed with information,” s She has proved a mine of | information about th> Wi She knew Rothstein and all hi tes.” He said for her own sake he could what had been learncd from g that her information coin- cided with what New York detectives had_lcarned in Mizmi regarding the slaying of Walsh. Tells of Rendezvous. The girl told police she had been a frequenter of Lin staurant_and | a night club known he Silver Slip- per, which Roihstein and hi 15 vonized. Tt was st Lindy's that Roth- stein received the telephone message calling him to the hotel room where he was shot, George A. McManus, who police said engaged the room, is {in_the Tombs awailng trial on an indictment charging murder in the first degree for the killing of Rothstein. Whalen said the girl told of meeting many well known Broadway gamblers when she went to Miami several weeks ago, some of whom were being sought for questioning in the Rothstein case. She denied meeting Hymen Biller, who also is under indictment for the Killing of Rothstein. Biller disappeared soon after the shooting and has evaded arrest. | Miss Dore, blonde and petite, entered police headquarters with cheerful mien and self a Ten hours later she | was near hysteria when detectives ended their questioning for the day and sent her to a hotel to spend the night, ac- companled by a police matron. ‘Whalen Withholds Facts. Mr. Whalen would not say whether | she had told detectives of witnessing | the shooting of Walsh. She had been | quoted as saying Walsh was shot by | one of his companions as the result of a sudden quarrel. She refused to iden- { tify the man who did the shooting. Miami police are seeking Eddie Wil- son, a gambler, in connection with_the killing of Walsh. Arthur L. Clark, New York gambler, who was wounded in the arm when Walsh was shot, is being held in a Miami hospital as a material witness, ———— | AMUSEMENTS POLI'S—“Ned McCobb’s Daughter.” “Down East” character, famous in song and story for its close dealing but rugged honesty, meets a severe test in “Ned McCobb's Daughter,” last night's offering of the New York The- ater Guild Repertory Co., - which is playing a week's engagement at Polis. ‘The test is almost too difficult for the daughter and her devoted parent, cap- tain of & ferryboat at Merrybay in | Maine. 'The latter succumbs to a stroke of apoplexy, but his determined child | solves the problem, demonstrating her superiority, mentally and morally, over two New York jailbirds, one of whom tis her husband and the other his brother. The brother, Babe Callahan, is a modern bootlegger. He stops at the home of the McCobbs in search of a base of operations and there meets George Callahan, his long-lost relative, | who has married Capt. McCobb's daugh- ter Carrie, About the same time Lawyer Grover, !attorney for the ferryboat company, | visits the house with Ben McCobb, brother of Carrie and a member of the State police, and informs George, who checks autos on the ferry, that the company has discovered his pecula- tions. Two thousand dollars by noon next day or jail is the lawyer's edict. Carrie has been conducting a res- taurant and has just arranged for an extension of her dining room at a cost of $1,200. While denouncing George, Capt. Cobb | collapses and expires. Up to this time the bootlegger has concealed his busi- ness. He promptly offers to aid Carrie if she will consent to the use of her barn as a liquor cache. In her dilemma she agrees. He gives her the $2,000 for the ferryboat company and subse- quently $1,200 for the restaurant exten- sion. In the meantime she has discov- ered that her husband has been un- faithful with her serving maid and orders both of them from the house. ‘The play ends with Carrie sending for Federal dry agents. On_their ap- pearance she writes out an I O U for the money she has obtained from the bootlegger, tells him she will repay it in a year and then threatens to furn him over to the authorities unless he leaves at once. The bootlegger slips away, as does her husband, but she relents enough to keep the maid in view of the fact that she expects increased business and needs her help. The play is the work of Sidney Howard. It contains occasional clever lines but seems to filled with incident for the simple story. The villainy of George is convincingly set forth through his theft from the ferryboat company and the extra incident of his affair witia the serving maid has the appearance of an unnecessary plece of business. It also gives excuse for the interpolation of lines decidedly out of place in so called polite drama, Nobody expects a bootlegger to speak excellent English or 10 be a Chesterfield in deportment, but there is surely no reason for some of the expressions used by the “Babe” in his expose of his brother George's secret love affair. Elizabeth Risdon wins acting honors in the role of Carrie McCobb. Her stage personality and voice are pleasing, but she has apparent difficulty with the Down East method of speech. Lawrence Leslie, as Babe Callahan, presents a picture of what we are led to believe is a modern bootlegger. He emphasizes his importance by announcing proudly that he has spent three years in a “Federal penitentiary at Atlanta,” with the accent upon “Federal.” Others in the cast worthy of mention were Peg Ent- wistle, as Jenny, the scrving maid; Brandon Evans, as Capt. Cobb; Neal Caldwell, as George Callahan, and Alan Mowi y, as Ben McCobb. The settings were interesting and attractive. NATIONAL THEATER.—“Madame X.” The age-old story of mother love of & vainglorious husband who mistook false pride for love, was superbly told at the National last night by National Theater Players in “Madame X." the French story by Alexandre Bisson adapted by John Raphael. ‘The mother role, an intensely emo- tional one from her first appearance to the thundering applause of the final curtain, was admirably played by Mary Newton, who was seen as the repentant mother who had left h husband and son for another lover. The story the vent a blackmail scheme against her husband and son, now a struggling lawyer. Her greatest work was in the court- room scene, where, charged with mur- der, she preserved a stony silence, chaneing conviction for murder rather than disclose her identity and thus re- veal herself to her son. The story is | too well known for repetition here; it is Mary Newton's characterization of Jaqueline Floriot that concerned thea- ter-goers last night. She was heads | above the average stock player, and she | was ably supported, assuring excellent | entertainment to drama devotees. “Madame X" calls for “heavy"” on the part of the cast. but it did not | prove too heavy for Mary Newton, nor | for J. Glvnn McFarlane, as her hus- | wor | 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 12. 1929. band; nor for Wilfred Lytell as her son, It is around their lives that the play is woven, and they live their parts. Aside from hearty applause, stagefolk have two other means of sounding out their audiences. One is by being able to effect an absolute silence; the other | by moving their hearers to tears. The | National Theater Players did both last night, Every member of the cast acquitted himself or herself well, particularly Freddie Sherman as the droll porter of | the Hotel of the Three Crowns; Arthur | B. White, president of the trial court, and Robert Brister as the unscrupulous Frederic Laroque. Others deserving of praise are Adelaide Hibbard, Maurice Jarvis, Charles Hampden, Dennis Con- This is the third of a series of personal talks by “Me” on a matter of vital interest to “you.” [ i Thousands of Men Have Availed Themselves of This NEW BUDGET PAYMENT PLAN OF PURCHASING CLOTHING ““Cash Too Limited to Do Much By Itself Will Often Work Wonders When Used Intelligently on a Budg- et System of Deferred Payments.” nell, Arthur Rhodes, Helen Wallace, Betty Kent, J. M. Scranage, Claus Bogel and Frank Peck. POLL PLAN TABLED. 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