Evening Star Newspaper, February 1, 1931, Page 22

"B—6 * ANDERBILT STICKS | T0 SILENT POLICY, | Refers to 1926 Interviews| With Mussolini, but Ignores Butler Case. By the Assoclated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, January 31—The | sllence Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr.. has | maintained over a remark attributed to | him, in which Premier Mussolini of Italy was pictured as a hii-and-run | driver, was broken briefly today in a denial of a statement from the Italian | foreign office that he never had met Mussolini. Vanderbilt declined dire.t comment on his meeting with Il Duce but men- | tioned two cables from Rome in 1926 referring to the meeting and said “they ‘were true.” Continues Silence. | “Any one has cnly to look up news- | per files of 1926 he siia. “My terview with Mussolini was copy- righted. It was true. The story from Rome of my talk with Mussolini was copyrighted, and it was true.” He again reiterated his intention to say nothing about a story related by several persons in which he was said to have told a group of men that while driving with Mussolini the premier ran ' over a child and did not stop to give aid. The story was repeated by Maj. Gen. Smedley D, Butler in Philadelphia, re- sulting in an official apology to Italy from the United States and a com- mand to Butler to appear for court | martial. Vanderbilt referred all questicners m> his attorney. Frank C. Smith. who said Vanderbilt had advised the State De- partment about the situation. Smith said he had warned Vanderbilt nct to talk. Ready to Appear. Vanderbilt’s Quty as a citizen, Smith said, was to refrain from any com- ment in view of the wmphcnnnns that have arisen. Smith agreed Vander- bilt's silence might infer the story was told by his client but added: “Although I am not prepared to say whether he did or did not say it. if the statement were made by him you can bet it was true. He indicated Vanderbilt would appear #f summoned for the court martial of Butler, and in that event might be willing to make a public statement. Reperts Vanderbilt had armed him- self because of threats brought a reply from him that “there is not a word of truth in it.” BUTLER AWAITS CHARGES. Preparations for Court-Martial Move | Slowly as Sellers Drafts Accusations. Ry the Associated Press. Plans for the court-martial proceed- | ings against Maj. Gen. Smedley D. But- | ler moved slowly ahead yesterday as the | Navy prepared specific charges on_ the basis of utterances which provoked an | Americen apology to Premier Mus:olini. Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, ]udge advocate general of the Navy, declined to see newspaper men, but busied him- | gelf in the task of getting charges re-d) { for lpp\‘uvll of Secretary Adams. “first of the week” was the ln-‘ deflmu' answer to questions as to when | indictments would be announced. Await Specifications. i Legal counsel of Gen. Butler awaited | gervice of specifications on their client. Maj. Henry Le nard, Washington law- yer and elose friend of Butler during | years of shoulder-to-shoul ith him in the corps, definitely was aligned in his defense. “We are working in the dark no Leonard said. “There is nothing we can do until charges have been served on Gen. Butler.” No word had been received from New | York concerning the possibility that! John W. Davis would sarve with Maj. Lecnard. Butler has asked the one-| time Demoeratic nominee for President | to join his legal staff. Probably in Philadelphia. Secretary Adams has not announced the time and place for the couit- martial, but in some quarters it was| believed the court would be convened the third week in February at Phila- delphia Among the reasons listed were that Butler’s speech was made in Philacel- i2 and most witnesses reside there. Capt. Wiltiam C. Watts, 2cution counsel, als) was in Philadeiphia as chief of staff of the 4th Naval District Gen. Butler bided his time, a self- guarded prisoner within the confines of Quantico. A COPELAND BLAMES DISTRESS ON G. 0. P‘ PERFORMERS AT A group of dancers who will perform at the Arts Club Bal Boheme to be held at the Willard THE SUNDAY THE BAL BOHEME TOMORROW NIGHT Hotel tomorrow might. From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. “Aloha,” Drama Frem IPPING into the South Sea storehous® of human con- trasts, “Aloha,” played 2t the Rialty, presents a story ‘of sufficient force, suspense and conflict of emotional charac- ters to furnish interesting drema. It alco has the scenic ‘emel- lishments that are to be ex- pected at the island szlected by the author, with _incidents on shipboard, including the rescue of & child who has fallen overboard, and at the c max the inevi- table fate cf those who are D -ought into the clutches of an Bén Lyon. active volcano. \ As a means of contributing to the récord of Ben Lyon and Raquel Torres, “Aloha” ias been well chosen. Miss Torres represents a young woman who is the froduct of a mixed morriage, but whose loya'ty turns to that part of her ancestry which is from the United States. ' Her own marriege to the son of a promi- nent_business man of this coun- try is the foundation cf a series of family disaster. at The young hus- band furnishes the rile for Mr. Lyon. At sea and on land the bat- tle rages, none the less fierce be- cause it is a battle of social conven- tions and not of ordinary weapons. The difference in racial charac- terictics, as affecting the develop- ment of & romance, is treated With fidelity to the picture avhich might ezsily be presented in real life, and emoloys with effect the differing tal:nts of the two leaders cf the cast. A matter which might be a subject of comment is that the role of the unyielding parent in dealing with the elien wife is payed by Rotert Bdeson. whose record as a star was mode notable partly through his appearance in the title role of “Stroncheart.” which in- volved comlicat ons similar to those cf the ply rt the Pialt). Others in the excel'ent c:st are Thelma Todd 5 a young women of fashion Dickie Moore in a we'l 2~ted child Mereia Harris as a cold-blooded rness, Mavian Douglas. Alan Hale, Otis Harlan, T. Roy Barnes, Robert Ellis, Donald Reed. Al St John, Addie McPhail, Phyllis Crane and Rita Rey. Besides the chief feature, George Sidney and Charles Murray appear typical nonsense fim and Gnhnm McNamee presents his news D.C.C } Benny Rubin Stars Says Admmlsmmon Has Failes to Deal Effectively With Crisis. ] By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 31.—Blaming economic distress cn the Republican administraticn Senator Copeland. Dem- ocrat, New York, todav predicted a Democratic victcry in 1932 He called upon his party, however to present a “workabl~” prcgram in order that it may deserve victory and make it lasting Speaking before the Nati-nal Demo- cratic Club, Coneland said: “All in- formed persons look upon the present administration at Washingtcn as a fail- o “Today's economic distress” he said. | *4s the fault of the Republican adminis- tration. 1 do not sav and n-ve" have said that President Hoover brought on the panic, nor that he is resnonsib' for what happened original'y. Thet would be silly “But I do sav it has been imnoscible to deal effectively with the situation be- cause the Republican sdministrati~n has_denied, belittled and dodged the truth. There has heen no frank ad- mision of the facts.” | Copelend said. however. the Demo- cratic party should not win in 1932 “by defau't.” THREE IN FAMILY HURT | IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH and Mrs. and Charles Cannon Figure Mr. Edwm F. Cannon in Accident in Virginia. Mrs. Helen Cannon, 18, of 519 Girault avenue, Virginia Highlands, Va., is in a serious condition at Emergency Ho pital and her husband, Edwin F. Can- non, 22, and brother-in-law, Cherles | Cannon, 18, suffered less severe in:uries in an automobile accident on the Alex- | andria-Washington highway, near Vir- ginia Highlands last night. The small roadster in which the trio were riding, driven by Edwin Cannon, struck the parked auto of Jacoh W. Zucker of New York City and over- turned. The roadster was demolished. Mrs. Cannon was thrown through the windshield of the car and suffered vere lacerations in addition to other un- determined injuries. Her husband suf- fered cuts to the face and ssvere shock, while Charles Cannon was less severely cut. They were taken to Emergency Hospital by Ernest Bailey of Arlington, Va. County Policeman Edward Duncan investigated the accident. b, « this d In Earle Presentation. LTHOUGH the new film at the Farle, “Illizit,” i no doubt meent to be a penetrating study in the psychology of this modern age as regards the marriege bond, it seems 2s though the best part of it is Charles Butte'worth's sketch of a scatter-braned man a'wavs on the lookont for an al~oholir tonic This film is said to have cvoked great cheers fn certain quarters of the glcbe for jts frenkness and del- icacy in the handling of a subiect thet skates on ie that our grand- mothers wouldn't have sRated on Somehow or other. in the divulging of the theme. which is meant to try to elinch the ‘mnerishab’eness of the hrmr and the fact that elthoueh a girl thinks astapdt-py ‘the. monot ried life. it s really a wenderful seher ~mehow in which vet an hour 8 half ta teh), time eits preity I flv_on the shoul t 8 m st B on_excellent p; s James Renn'e, and al- though ?1r. Butierworth is sice- splitting in his moronic wanderings, a trifle tired of the s. For the story of a s that life in a “flat” with her hucband just a s the iceal exist- av- a Stan- e of act- by herself, ~homnagne and the paper, all this has been proved s often to be a vapid form of * that if the movies seize on it again one is like'y to howl. Some of the film is extraordinarily good. And s y py. But it is the long in-betweens that one really minds—long stretches of social columns that deal with the stuffed lives of one would prefer to have permznently stuffed. Most notable of anything within the e“1s. of course, Benny Ru- bin, one of the best clowns on and off the siage and the films, who Keeps his audience in fairly contin- ual roars. Others on the bll in- clude Dave Genaro, the Dance Aris- tocrats, ete. E. de 8. M. “The Easiest Way” Is Turned Into a Talkie. 'XCEPT for the ending, “The Easiest 'Way,” the ancient stage drama resurrected for screen pur- poses this week at the Palace, is fairly easy to understand. When, however, at the very close, the blonde and lithsome and extravagantly handsome Constance Bennett trots info her sister's house midst the strains of a Christmas hymn, one is inclined to wonder why the curtains came to a close just at that particu- lar momert. Up until then Miss Bennett had been blandly living the life of the idle in a modernistic apartment, with the unwedded Adolph Menjou, whilst her boy lover—Robert Montgomery —made a career for himself by ge! ting scoops on the Argentine revo- lution. Then, presto, out into the cold went the young lady. after the boy had come back from there, found his girl in the apartment of this sleek and possessive man, and thrown her down with a thud that must have frozen the Washington Monument. Cold and worn and liv- ing a life that one hates to think about, Miss Bennett finally sneaks out to her sister's home in Pelham or the Bronx and presses her nose up against the window pane just as the Christmas tree is being illumi- nated and the little fots are running around singing “Noel.” In the midst of this familiar story about the girl who had to choose be- tween a tinsel lover and a real one, there are some splendid moments provided, not only by the comely Miss Bennett but by Adolphe Men- jou and Robert Montgomery. Mar- jorie Rambeau, too, appears briefly as a_ demi-mondaine whose life is about as uncertain as a chicken’s. On the whole, however, it is all too ‘full of “dramatics” and the kind of moral painting that brought a flush back in the gay nineties, but has since gone the way of mothballs and camphor. And the ending is dreary and finds impressionable ladies of the audience caught unexpectedly with their handkerchiefs wiping away the tears around about their eyes. On. the stage there is just about average vaudeville provided, with Bert Gordon, Vera Kingston. Eileen Dougall and the Melody Boys bring- ing home most of the bacon. Also comedies and newsreels. E. deS. M. Dressler-Moran “Reduce” for Second Week. ] ¥ Reducing.” the Marie Dressler- Polly Moran farce, which is roll- ing along at Loew’s Columbia for an- other week, the cinema moguls have concocted what to most seems to be a furiously amusing comedv. Un- fortunately, to this easual cbserver. it seems a Jimn ~=A ol - -t tomfoolery, with no redeeming fea- tur 1 expert facial marwm erings. In spite of the treasonable aspect of such a remark, one would like to add that Miss Moran does not add one jot or one iota to it. Just why she has to be linked with Miss Dres- sler is a mystery, since by herself, and with the help of no one, the lat- ter lady has created during the past season some of the finest bits of character study in the films. When they scramble together such a hodge- podge of inanities, all one can say is that it is just too bad. There seems to be an_iron-bound rule that for half the picture these ladies shall be adoring sisters, or suchlike. that for the most of the otiier half they shall be tearing each other’s hair out, and that in the end they shall be crying all over each other. “Reducing” offers no novelties in the unraveling of th's plot. It goes on true to form, even up to the final blurb of tears. And when it is over, one yearns to see Miss Dressler again as she was in “Min and Bill,” or in “Let Us Be Gay.” or in “Anna Christie.” For, although she can probably throw 'a mud pie at some- body with funnier effecis that any- body around the cinema lot, there are those Who preier her aading day by day to her inimitable gallery of characier studies Anita Page is E anc ins pid azugate nd Sally Eilers is the “other” ghier, about all the luss 18 made. E. de Huston at Metropolitan In minal Code.” ] )BAMATIC incidents within prison walls are shown in “The Crim- inal Code,” the pho.oplay attraction ofiered at the Metropolitan Theater. With a strong cast, headed by Wal- tez Huston and including Constance Cummings, Phillips Ho.mes, Mary D-ran, Boris Karlofl and Arthur Hoyt, it presents some thrilling mo- meats in the life of a man who has served as prosecuting attorney and then becomes warden of a prison. Tlluminating scenes from the prison give force to the plot. There is & unique u.udexual romance SURGEON APPOINTED NEW YORK, January 31 P).—D George J. Houer, surgical director of tae Cincinnati G ncral _Hospital, and Holl professor in the medical col- leze of the University of Cincinnati, has cn appointed surgeon-in-chief of New ory Hospital and professor of surgery in’ Corn I Uny rsity, to. take efiect July 1, 1931, He will undertake or- ganization of the surgical department | the association’s medical center which is expected to be opened in 1932 Dr. H uer will succeed Dr. Charles L. ‘Gihean, who has been member of the Cornell Medical College faculty more than 30 years and who is retir- | ing. Auto Show Sllel llue. CHICAGO, January 31 (#).—The | Chicago automobile show closed tonight with dealers reporting that sales this year exceeded those of last year by 25 per cent. The total for the 1930 show was es- timated by officials aj between $2,000,- 000 and $2,500,000. i i for | POLICE HELD PRIVILEGED | Judge Dismisses Traffic Charge, | Fines Complainant. EVANSTON, "Ill, January 31 (®).— John L. Hamilion willingly paid a traf- fic law fine for the privilege of report- ing that the policemen who took him to the station drove through two stop lights on th: way. He preferred charges against the of- ficers and appeared in court today with an anticipatory grin on his face, bu‘— There’s a difference.” said the judge. “Policemen must be allowed some lee- way for duty. Case dismissed.” “I might have known,” sighed Mr. | Hamilton. Telephone STAR. WASHINGTON D.. C., —~Harris-Ewing Photo. | Charles | Helen Colhoun and Mrs. I'r 15 Dorlge Brotllers Lel Lest \vay to Stimlllate Lusl-ncss i! to Ofl‘er the public more for its dollars — to meet giving real advancements without in- crease in cost. » The new Dmlge Six and E;Sllt are better cars, not clleapcr cars. Tlxey represent a great stride forward in l)eauty, size, comfort and power. And Decatur 1910 to 1913 Gardner-Stuart Motors, Inc., 620 H St. N.E. |Kaplan & Crawford, Inc., 2329 Champlain St. N.W. Galloway Garage, Great Mills, Md. CAST ASSENBLED FOR BAL BOREM “Masque of the Moon” Fea- ture Has Formidable Ar- ray of Personalities. Acting for the Arts Club, William F. Baker, chairman of the Bal Boheme Executive Committee, has assembled the cast to attend upon King Looney XIII and the Silver Queen in the “Masque of the Moon,” which will be presented as the principal feature of the Bal Bo- heme tomorrow night at the Willard Hotel. Harry Welker will be King Looney and Louise Rochon Hoover will be the Silver Queen. the ladies in waiting are Minna Niemann, Hester Beall, Helen Griffith and Elizabeth Grill. Charles T Tittmann, Maurice Jarvis, Harold Allen, Arthur White and Genevieve Hendricks will be in the royal en- tourage. The Lisa Gardiner Dancers will ap- pear as Snow Maidens and the Donna ‘Taggart Dancers as vestals. James Otis Porter will be Jupiter, and his attend- ants include Mrs. James Otis Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Stanwood Cohb, Lawrence Carson and others. Jack Perry will be Mars, attended by Frank Kemon, George Davis, Rowland Lyon, Charles Watts and Lawrence Safford. Char- lotte Patterson as Venus will have as attendants Mildred Bargani, Olive Bir- mingham, Anita Callahan, Alva Bea- vers and Myrtle Watts. Will Represent Saturn. John Paul Jones will be Saturn, at- tended by Philip Notes, Lucile Sangsted, Hoover, Duff Merrick and Comdr. Lewis P. Clephane. Leslie Waudby will appear as Neptune, his attendants being Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dunn, Mrs. Frank W. Smith, Mrs Lewis Clephane. Marie Fisher, Mrs, Gladys _ McCarthy, William Walter, Samuel Kim- berly. Virginia Rutty will be a mer- maid. Mercury will be enacted by Leslie F. Brownton, who will be attended by Harry Newman, Frank McCarthy, Alex- ander Hopkins, Grace Walton, Virginia Lawrence. Robert Read and Olga Helm. The Marjorie Webster girls will |appear as the milkmaids of the Milky Way, with Lyle Brookover and Fred- erick Chesley appearing as the “cow that jumped over the moon.” ‘The Egyptian group will include Karl Langenback as a high priest, with the Denishawn Dancers of Washington as temple girls. The medieval group in- cludes Josselyn Giffin, Marjorie Lowe, ef t]’lat t]'le 1931_PART ONE. L. F. Brownton, Edwin Ellison and Vir- ginia Lyle. Edward E. Muth is cast as Victorian Hypnotist, surrounded group. of the Lisa Gardiner girls, in- cluding Eda Vromatchka, Lenore Bell Jumps, Virginia Hortenstein and Fran- ces McCown. Producer and Groups. Denis E. Connell, as a Broadway pro- ducer, will be accompanied by two gr the Broadway Beauties, includ- ing tty Richards, Mary Stuart Bird- sall, Frances Morse, Louise Turner, Jean n, Evelyn Howe, Devereux Green, Virginia Glazebrook, Marjene Musser, Elizabeth Edson and Alberta ley; and the Broadway Chorines, being & group chosen from the Tro badours of George Washington Uni- versity. Pluto will be played by Carlton Van Valkenburg. with two attendants in the persons of Theodore Tiller, ir., and Eu- gene White. e,signs of the Zodiac— 12 of theth—also will attend the ‘Masque of the Moon” as the special guests of Looney XIII. J. Milnor Dorey is directing the ml.squc OVERPOWERED IN HOME AND ROBBED BY TWO Milo McDonald Reports $46 Taken and Gives Police Name of Former Emploge., Milo McDonald, 60 years old, 2908 Chestnut street northeast, reported to police last night that two men had en- tered his house, overpowered him. robbed him of $46 and some small change. and fled. Neither of his assail- ants was armed. Mr. McDonald said he recognized one of the men as & former employe, and gave his name to police. - The suspect is said to live in Co'mar Manor, Prince Georges County, Md. Maryland authorities were notified. According to the story told by Mc- Donald, he was in his house, in which he lives alone, when some one knocked at the door. When he opened it, two men entered. the first one shouting “stick them up.” The pair then seized him, emptied his pockets, and ran. Mc- Donald went to a neighbor’s house and called police, but by the time they ar- rived the men had disappeared. ~Mc- Donald is a gmdnor by occupauon HOOVER T0 GET DOG NEW YORK. !nnunry 21 (P)—A Norwegian elkhound, 2 months old, will arrive Monday from Norway to be pre- sented to President Hoover by the Nor- wegian Elkhound Association of America. The puppy was selected from one of the best kennels in its native country. It is gray, with an overtone of black on_the back and ‘sides. Probably there are not more than 30 of the dogs in the United States. MRS WILLEBRANDT ANSWERS CHARGES Writes La Guardia to Deny She Approved Practice of Wire Tapping. By the Associated Press. The oppositiori of Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt to wire tapping by prohi- bition agents and her refusal while assistant attorney general to argue a wire tapping case before the Supreme Court here were recalled today by Rep- resentative La Guardia, Republican, New York. “But I did not approve of wire tap- ping,” the former enforcement prose- cutor wrote La Guardia. “In fact, I so disapproved that I re- fused to carry up the so-called Olm- stead whispering wire case to the Su- preme Court of the United States. “I informed Mr. Mitchell, the s)lici- tor general, now the attorney gereral, that I was unwilling to argue, the point justifying prohibition agtats' wire tapping, and as a consequence he hired outside counsel—a friend of his from St. Paul—to argue the case before the Supreme Court.” La Guardia said Mrs. Willebrand:'s letter, written to him under date of January 28, showed that charges made in the House that the former Justice Department official was responsible for wire tapping were “entirely unfounded.” said the New Yorker, “in opposing a provision on the prohibition %ill forbidding wire tapping, stressed the I t that this provision was being fos- 'd only by wets and insinuated that }n' vlolnlors were urging such legis- ation.” On Flight to Panama. 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