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HYDE SAYS RELIEF ~ PROBLEMS SOLVED Explains Seed Loan Rider to Chairman Wood as Avoiding Dole. By the Associated Press. Secretary Hyde, who will ldmlnistgr the relief agreement which broke a deadlock between the administration and a congressional coalition, described the measure last night as one which “avoids doles or direct charity from the Federal Treasury, or any implication thereof.” A letter from him to Chairman Wood of the House Appropriations Committee was read in the House by Wood. ' The letter outlined the methods by which the Secretary plans to distribute the funds and told of the banking sit- uations to. be met to rehabilitate the farmers. Held Credit Problem. The letter follows: “Dear Mr. Wood: Your request for my views upon the pending amendment to the seed loan appropriation has been Teceived. “The proposed mieasure is intended to take care of another phase of the credit problem in the drought-stricken arca which is economic in character and not covered by other services. “The critical situation in the drought area arises not only from the drought but also from the weakened banking situation. There are two phases of the whole problem: “First, relief to the distressed who have no resources and, therefore, no security to offer for loans. “Second, the provision of adequate | credit for those who can offer security for loans to ensble them to carry on their usual operations. Red Cross Aid “Adequate.” “The Red Cross is adequately caring for the needs of the first class. The appropriation already made of $45,- ,000 for seed, feed and fertilizer loans, to be secured by liens on the . will provide for a large number of the second class. “There remains the general problem of furnishing essential ‘credit to those who have security, but who cannot ob- tain it because of the breakdown of normal credit facilities. “The requirements are to be met ih two_ways: “First, secured by loans to inaividuals of capital to assist them to strengthen the existing egricultural credit corpo- rations or to s°t up new agencies which can in turn operate through the inter- mediate credit banks, and second, by other emergency loans on adequate se- curity to be made by the Secretary of Agriculture, System Has Collapsed. “A part of the normal agricultural creait operation in ths drought area consists in financing from month to month by the landlord of his tenants. ‘This financing go°s to buy food and clothing, as well as for other purposes. It is principally this system which, due to a weakened banking structure, has broken down, thus d:-priving the com- munity of the credit essential to eco- nomic resovery. “The provision in the pending bill would answer the necds of all of these ‘who can offer security. It will rilieve the burden upon charity by aiding to restore normal credit con itions. It leaves to the Red Cross the respon- sibility in the field as agent for human Telief to those who do not have security and to whom Government loans for food such as were at one time proposed woulu have been mere charity by creat- obH tions from large groups far eir ability to pay. Bill Has 3 E*.g' “This situation was Joreseen last September when the President cal'ed a conferencz of bankers in. th> drought- stricken States and recommended that agricultural cre- it corporations be formed to fungtion under the inter- mediate credit system. The bzankers undertook to assist in the creation of such corporations and a numnber of them were formed, but not to the num- ber or strength which s now necessary. “The present bill rounds out the program much better fashion than the legisla- of economic rehabilitation in tive proposals heretofore made. f It fills out the pattern of measures necessary in the drought territory: “First, human rellef by the Red Cross to farmers and to industrial people who have no r:sources in the drought region. “Ssconc, loans for sezd and fertilizer lecuked lg:fln‘t th> coming crop. “And finally, this last provision a'med to restore credit facilities for those who | have security to offer. “This program avoids doles or dircct charity from the Federal Treasury, or any l.mpllcam)n l.hereo! 4 TAXPAYERS TO PLAN LEVY BASIS REVISION 'Will Meet Again to Study Theory of “Ability to Pay” Dues. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 7.— Diverse groups of national interests, brought together by a common opposition to theI general property tax, were commitied yesterday to a joint sfudy of ‘taxation Wwith a view to revamping the present system on the theory of “ability to National representatives of industry railroads, banking, real estate, agricul- ture, electric power and women's organ- izations—yesterday concluded a two-day conference, first of its kind. with reso- lutions to press for committees of tax- payers, appointed by each State, to study tax systems, “especially the gen- eral property tax. ‘The conference authorized a commit- tee to plan a program for another conference within three or four months to be called, as this one was, by the American Farm Bureau Federation, The Resolutions upon the Indiana Taxpayers® Associ- ation's plans of budgeting in recom- mending publication of pronosed local budgets and bond issues, with provision for appeal to a quasi-cflicial State tax board if taxpayers Drobe “PRINTED FILTH” DRIVE RENEWED IN CHICAGO By the Assoclated Pre CHICAGO, February 7—Rev. Philip Yarrow, supertnkndent of the Illinois Vigilance Association, yesterday started another drive against “printed filth.” As & result of a raid led by Yarrow Albert Goldman, owner of a book store, was arraigned, pleaded guilly to pos- sessing and offering for sale books and pictures which the Vigilance Association obscene and was fined $100. Books valued at $1,000 were confiscated. Following the usual custom, the court :wnded hal(Bol the fine 'io tende itx‘l(or'g‘ rown, employ y T, ', Yarrow announced his new cam- paign y in a letter addressed to newspapers and press associations. He said t he had been libeled fre- ntly du his previous drives and “turned tl e tnher cheek,” but that from now on d “no other cheek remaining” lnd would prosecute any 1ibel vigorousl: Among the boolu confiscated by order ot the court were “udy Chetterly" Zovers,” by the late D. H. Lawrence Life and b} Committee . drew | | THE SUND. Reviews and News of Wullindton's Theaters. Lupe Velez at the Rialto Impressive in “Resurrection.” HEN a story carries one through the open door that leads from Western Russia into Siberia, an inevitable element in its force is the vastness of the back- ground against which the human pygmy is to be seen. Nature seems have con- tributed to the weight of au- tocracy in that ever mysterious land. This im- pression is espe- clally marked in “Resurrec- tion,” born as a Tolstoy mas- terplece, into a incident of the career of Blanche Walsh and now L ucn’med T tes. major under- Boe Vel taking of the Universal Studios. Its fabric is a composite of emo- tions, and it is ranked as one of the great dramas, because & writer who pdssessed genius gave form to the conception of the dual disaster presented when a woman's destruc- tion is brought home after the lapse of time, to torment the orig- inal cause of her anguish umder the buffeting inflicted by th> world. Capacity . for sustained emotion is easlly assoclated with the tem- peramental personality of Lupe Velez, and it is quite likely that her conc:ption of the character of Katusha, the abandoned, will be rcmembored as one which rose above the common run of screen revivels: of classic productions. As a foil to her striking character, John Boles, with th: ease of one who has achieved much in effective motion picture leads, makes realistic the part of an army officer whose adventurous nature long resists any attacks of conscience that might be expected under such cir- cumstances as those presented in “Resurrection.” Other esteem:d. members of the acting profession Who are seen in the cast include the famous Nance O'N"U Willam Keighley, Rose Tal Grac: Cunard, Michael M ylva Nadina, Edward Cecil and Vhlln Winston. The photog- raphy is excelient and there is wide variety in the scenes. The Rialto also offers the short ccmedy, “Three Hollywood Girls”; Otto F. Beck at the organ, a Strauss feature in the music master series and Graham McNamee's Dne'::! Eeel. Lightner-Brown Picture and Kate Smith at Earle. .WITH ‘Winnie Lightner as the owner and directress of a health gymnasium, Joe Brown as her assistanc, ghoe-Joe, the tiger,” takes some terrific falls and punches in “Si. Tight,” the picture featured this weeiz 20 the Earie. The popularity of the two stars, as well as the appearance on the stage of Kale Smith, after an ab- snce of a year and a half from Washington, ‘was perhaps responsi- ble for the extraordinary audience at_each performance yesterday. Those who are fond of the “hard- boiled” sporting picture, featuring knockouts, Joe Brown’s laugh and ‘Winnie Lightner’s “tough guy talk,” will find “Sit Tight” & highly amus- ing picture. ‘The story opens with a scene in ‘Winnie's gymnasium. Joe, her as- sistant, is continually bragging of his prowess &s a fighter and wrestler. His bluff is socn called by the “gen- tlemen friend” of & lldy visitor to the g mnasium. is ntl:man frienc” is rapidly making a boneless body out of Joe, at the same time slowly strangling him to death, when Joe is rescued by Tom, a young man who, through a tilt with his sweet- heart, Sally, has just given up his position in office of Sally’s fathc! ‘Tom arrives at Winnie's gymnasium, seeking a job, just as Joe is about to gasp his last breath. Winnie comes into the room as Tom knocks out Joe's assailant, and see- ing in him the possibilities of a champion, she' offers to train him 1 forthcoming championship g bout. acoopts andhds about to start °n his sweetheart looks his forgiv-ness and bt ‘o give up wrestling. As he has signed his contract, Tom is unable to do as she asks and gocs forward with his training. The night of the bout Tom is kidnapped by order of Sally's father, who hopes by so doing to please his daughter. ‘Winnie has staked her all on Tom, and when, shortly ‘before the bout is called, he is missing from- his room, pandemonium reigns. How- ever, Winnie is confident that Tom will show up for the bout, and while sparring for time she arranges for Joe to wrestle with a masked stranger, Joe consents, thinking the stranger is of no consequence, but after he is in the ring he discovers his op- ponent is the man who had nearl; choked him to death. With aid of a burning cigar butt, thrown into the ring by an on-looker, Joe throws his man and wins the bout. Just then Tom, having escaped his kidnapers, makes his appearance. He also is victorious, and the play ends with Winnie and Joe and Tom and Sally in loving embraces. On the stage, Washington's own Kate Smith, in her popular husky manner, sings several songs; Burns and Kissen, comedians, present sev- eral clever song parodies; the Mis- sissippi Misses, in lovely costumes, do some trio singing; Irene Vermil- lion demonstrates some\remlrhbly agile acrobatic dancing, 'and Signor Friscoe, with his Guatemalan ma- rimba band, plays some attractive music, both American jazz and Spanish_tangoes. In addition, several short reel pic- tures are offered on the A&R;n.s Mr. Tibbett and Miss Moore In “New Moon” at Palace. PPRECIATION of the quality in- herent in the voices of Lawrence Tibbett ana Grace Moore, operatic performers, is undiminished as their tones are reproduesd in connection with the screen version of “New Moon,” which opened yesterday at the Palace, sharing honors with the stage presentation for the week. Notable strength in the output of these two singers is utilized without loss of melodious effect, an achieve- ment which made it possible for them to be heard both in the close- ups and at a distance with equal satisfaction. In fact, it is a pleas- ure to recognize their carrying pow- er, as the more distant selections have a direct bearing on dramatic periods in the play. On the dnm-uc side of the formance,t he scenes in Eas rn Europe are particularly adapted to splendid eumplen of the scenic in motion-picture production. Yo little uwnmwmmuneflecto(un tic moment when Lieut. Dmitri, the part played by Mr. Tib- bett, who is '.hmm to have been l'.‘l‘ls 1 his mmn? L] among , 85 song contes to & ":I?nl garrison, lu the ~ princes, who has become his wife, meets him 80 that the sounds of their voices are mingled. Music is em- ployed to give dramatic force. Solos and duets by the principals are numerous, liyluding “Lover Come Back to Me,” "We'll Stand To- gether,” an appeal for military action, and several others. The choral sing- ing by soldiers employs some well trained_voices. The Palace stage program is orig- inal in form, presenting a miniature revue which has several new ideas under the general title of “Rackets of 1931, led by Jans and Whalen. Made up largely of comedy, music -and dancing, it includes the acts of Rosette and Luttman, Betty Rees, ‘Toma Genaro and the Chester Hale Girls, with the Palace orcsesg-.c Colman at Columbia In “The Devil to Pay.” COLMANIIEB or lady admirers of Ronald Colman, will not be disappointed in his latst talking picture, “The Devil to Pay,” pre- sented this week at Loew’s Columbia. Colman has rarely appeared to bet- tel vantage than in this light- hearted, clean and amusing comedy, in which he plays the part of a care- free, irresponsible and wholly lovable younger son of an English lord. Talking pictures have enhanced Mr. Colman’s charm as one of the screen’s most popular masculine stars. His voice is attractive and his diction excellent. The lines of “The Devil to Pay” are scintillating with wit and clever repartee. Loretta Young, more than usually lovely in the most becoming gowns, makes an ideal “opposite” for Mr. Colman, and the entire cast, from the growling, big-hearted old father ," who mee's the son returning to England from a two year's sojourn in Africa, are splen- didly chosen and add to the success of the picture. Although “The Devil to Pay” is a lighter, more frivolous vehicle than is frequently selected by Mr. Col- man, it is highly entertaining, offers plenty of laughs, and is not so laden with romance to be sentimental. Briefly, the story revolves about Willie Hale, whose lordly father has given him 10 chances to make good, and with each one he fails. After his tenth failure, he returns to Eng- land, and, instead of his gruff old father “kicking him out,” as he has threatened to do, he gives Willie a hundred pounds, promptly taken by the prodigal son to the races, where he acquires a small fortune betting. ‘There is a beautiful actress in the story, and she has been Willie's lady love until he meets Dorothy, the best friend of his sister Susan. Dorothy is engaged to a Russian grand duke when she meets Willle, and it is a match strongly desired by Dorothy’s Flnnfl However, Dorothy falls in ove with Willle, who reciprocates her affection. A slight misunder- stand arises over Willie's actress friend, but that is soon cleared away and the curtain falls upon a happy ending. “The Devil to Pay,” is one of those all too rare cinematic entertain- ments, which leave one with a light- er heart and the regret that the pic- ture is ended. Several short-reel pictures, includ- ing a Hal Roach comedy and a news reel, complete LheG cgmédy. “Charley’s Aunt” Shown On Metropolitan Screen. ¢ YHARLEY'S AUNT,” that seem- ingly immortal comedy of three English college students and the troubles encountered, by them when one student’s aunt fails to ap- pear, and when another student is enlisted to play the part of the ab- sent aunt, never falls short of con- vulsing an audience, however small or large. The recent talkie version of this comedy, now current at Warnr Brothers’ Metropolitan Theater, still retains its popularity and adheres to that convulsing tradition. Many of the audience probably were viewing Charles Ruggles’ “auntics” for the second timc during the past few months. Ruggles’ acting in this particular version does not quite come up to that of Syd Chaplin, al- though it does run a very close second. This is perhaps due to the fact that Chaplin first introduced “Charley’s Aunt” to-the screen way back in the good old days of th “si‘ent drama” or comedy. June Collyer, playing with Ruggles, is nearly buried, having the part of h's almost imaginary swe-th-art, and coming into physical being only in the last f'w minutes of the picture. A Universal Newsreel and Oswald cartoon round out the prognm. J. N GLAND SPECIALIST TO LOCATE IN MEXICO Dr. Brinkley Says He Has Received Permission to Build 50,000- ‘Watt Station. } By the Assoclated Press. MILFORD, K‘ February 7.—Dr. J. R. Brinkley, mt gland” specialist whose radio station here has been barred from the air, announced today he had received permission to build a 50,000-watt radio broadcasting station in Mexico. ‘The announcement was made upon | Brinkley's return from Mexico City by | alrplane. The Federal Radio Commission's re- fusal of a license renewal for the Mil- ford station recently was upheld by a District of Columbia court. Condfl,mnll sale of the station to a Wichita in- surance company has been announced. Dr. Brinkley did not reveal definitely where he had planned to establish a station in Mexico. He said, however, he had visited owners of Radio Station XED at Reyn Dr Brlnlley said he also had gone 'y to form a “Mexican com- p-ny He did not Teveal definitely the company’s purpose, but intimated he was considering establishment of a hospital in connection with his pro- Jected new radio station. * The physician’s license to practice medicine and surgery in Kansas was re- voked last Summer on the grounds of fraud and professional misconduct. the Kansas primary last August he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Gover- nor. His name was not on the ballot hu:e he polled about 185,000 “write-in" votes. Dr Brinkley said the Mexican station would be operated ‘along the same policies as those of KFKB, here Pro- grams will be given in both English and Spanish, A OIS $1 BUYING POWER GAINS Now Purchases Almost as Much as $1.25 Year Ago. NEW YORK, February 7 ()--If you have fewer dollars in your pocket than you had a year it may some comfort to know that, theoreue ally at least, each dollar you have to- day is almost as good in raw commodity purchasing power as a dollar and a quarter was & year ago. Bradstreet’s Monthly Commodity price index, as announced today for February 1, showed a decline of about zperl’cem (nvtm ng;y 1, u]tfig;e than 19 per cent from February 1, A cent from and f G R ' AY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., 1| ScoRepBY chuRcH M. E. Board of Temperance Denies Prohibition Is In- centive to Gangs. By the Associated Press. A warning to Southern and Western Democrats to “swallow the abysmal ignorance of wet politiclans who make their headquarters in or around Ho- boken” was published yesterday by the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temper- ance in its weekly clip-sheet. In the same sheet the board attacked “the distinguished Mr. Capone,” Chi- cago gangster. It contended the ‘“re- peal of prohibition would not in any way wipe out gangs, eliminate gangsters or stop racketeering.” ‘Wet Leaders Warned. The leading editorial asserted South- ern Democratic leaders now were being told the next presidential election will result in a Democratic victory if they consent to the nomination.of an anti- prohibition candidate. It added New York political experts were saying the South “opposed Gov. Al Smith because he was a Roman Catholic and not be- cause of his wet views and will accept a wet candidate if he is a Protestant.” “These people (workers in the South and West) may be despised by the men who control the national Democratic organization; they may be held to be so unintelligent and spiritless that they can be herded like sheep into following a wet machine candidate,” it said, “but it will not be safe for the locq‘ leaders to hold them in such contempt.” Rackets Held Near Dry. The board quoted Al Capone as say- ing ‘“prohibition has caused nothing but trouble,” to which the editarial added “and so it has—trouble for him.” It was contended bootlegging produced not more than 20 per cent of the in- come of Chicago gangsters. “When Chicago is served by a police force, by a judiciary, and by prohibition agents united and determined to crush gangsterism, that bloodsucking business will be crushed and not before,” the editorial continued. “Prohibition has nothing to do with the liquor traffic {mls l](“s to do with it'than most people hini FASTER OCEAN SPEED BY DIRIGIBLE IS SEEN Head of Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. Supports Bill for Regular Service Over Atlantic. By the Associated Press. P:zxres to show the dirigible can in- creafe the speed of transoceanic travel as much as did the steamship were laid before the Senate Commerce Commit- tee today by officials of the Goodyear- Zeppelin Co. P. W. Litchfield, president of the Akron, Ohio, company, said, however, it would not be possible to establish a regular transoceanic service without as- surance of airmail cont . He appeared in support of the Mc- Nary bill %o provide for the “establish- ment and development of American air- transport overseas.” Pioneer work, he sald, “has so dem- onstrated the feasibility of this type of transportation thav we are willing to take the risk of building $5, WO 000 ships for this service without risk or obligation to the Oovernment o J. C. Hunsaker, vice president, out- lined plans for a ship to carry 10,000 tons of mail, in nddmon to 80 passen- gers, a crew of 50 and a pay load of freight. He submitted figures showing the possibility of a 2)5-day service be- tween Paris and New York. SPORTSMAN DIES Norvin T. Harris, Sr., Expires at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, La., February 7 (#). —Norvin Trent Harris, sr., 69, sports- man, died at his home here today after & two-week illness with pneumonia. He was known throughout the coun- try for his fine horses and champion bird dogs, bred at the family estates near Louisville, Ky, and Charlottes- ville, Va. A world traveler, he served for years as a judge in the natlonal field trials and entered horses and dogs in events throughout the country. He is sur- vived by his widow, two daughters, and a son, Norvin Trent Harris, jr. FEBRUARY 8. WICKERSHAM HTS WORLD COURTLAG He Tells G. W. U. That U. S. Should Join Now—Silent on Dry Law Report. By the Associated Press. Chairman Wickersham of the Law Enforcement Commission last night criticized failure of the United States to adhere to the World Court as & “striking example of a great lagging on our part.” In his first public statement since the commission completed its much-dis- cussed dry law report, Wickersham said nothing whatever about prohibition. He addressed the annual dinner of the George Washington University Law School. The energetic, 72-year-old former lmomey General devoted much of his r to an explanation of the techni- cu ities arising under the five reserva- tions to American adherence, voted by the Senate in 1926. He dealt particu- larly with the fifth, containing Senate restrictions to “advisory opinions” by the court, Is Last Obstacle. “All this pother over ad ions,” Wickersham said, “is the ob~ stacle in the way of full American rec- ognition of this grept court, which largely is the product of the genius of our own statesmen, and the fulfiliment of recommendations made by seven Presidents and five Secretaries of State of the United States.” The Senate's five provisions, voted five years ago, have been embodied in a protocol supplemental w the oflm protocol of the Court. n accepted by President Hoeve'r and is now before the Senate. “The sum and substance of the mat- ter therefore is this,” Wickersham ex- plained. “Under the fifth reservation, accepted by the signatories, if the United States objects on the grounds it has, or claims an interest in the sub- ject of the inquiry, and is unwilling that the court should act on the request, that ends the matter. Lauds Paris Pact. “But when a proposal to submit a question to the Court comes up in the (League of Nations) Council or As- sembly, notice shall be given to the United States and an exchange of views had. The objection of the United States to requesting the opinion is to be given the same force and affect as that of ‘nf' other state represented in the Council or Assembly. If unanimity is required, objection by the United Siates would end the matter.” The commission chairman said the United States had made a ‘“prodigious start” toward the abolition of war by accepting the terms of the pact of Paris. He added, “It surely cannot af- ford longer to hesitate at and acceptance of such ial bunal for the dewnmmuon of interna- tional controveri PARIS STYLE EXHIBITS CATER TO ALL PURSES Unstable Conditions Bring Display of Simple and Costly Garments. Financial By the Associated Press. PARIS, February 7.—Costly silks and fur-draped satins for women of wealth were exhibited in marked contrast to simple wools and plain cottons for pwrer pockztboon by Parisian cou- today. é dressmakers, striving to both the rich and the poor in & sea- :‘:’lfl l:‘ed“um flnlm.'hl oonamnm yed evel wraps and daytime coats furred in sable IM ermlne in ad- dition to simple two-piece suits of {1”’ and pique with washable cotton One exhibitor of the more costly glmmu sprang a silhouette surprise th dancing frocks which revealed the mkl- Heretofore evening gowns have brushed the floor. Some white crepc gzm were unm idered in gold asters. lack and midnight blue chiffons were worn over shimmering pink satin slips. For garden party wear there were black and white flowered chiffons made with skirts six inches from the floor trimmed with large rosettes of black lace and accompanied by drooping black picture hats and lace parasols. There also were rose and blue flowered crepes, accompanied by blue milan pic- ture hats and parasols covered with ruffies. Music and Musicians Reviews and News of Capital's Programs. Thomas Recital in Constitution Hall. JOHN CHARLES THOMAS, bari- tone, gave a delightful recital last evening in Constitution Hall before an audience which more than made up in its enthusiasm what it lacked in numbers. Mr. Thomas was in particularly good voice and won his audience as much with his ease and informality of manner as with his_exquisite art. His voice is rich end beautiful and he sings with the ubandon and ease of a true artist, particularly evident in his legato, finished phrhses and the delicacy of nis mezzo voice. Mr. Thomas opened his recital with two old Italian numbers, fol- lowed immediately by more modern German lieder, the former giving opportunity for short colcratura phrases, delicately done, and the lat- ul' flashes of the singer’s dramstic ability. His encore was the familiar “Zueignung” of Strauss. ‘The artist's second appearance was for a group of four numbers, three of them in French, the last the great aria “Vision Fugitive” from Massenet’s “Herodiade,” a thrilling climax for the program. He ret\fl'ned and sang a d-uble encore, “The Lamp Lllhtet and “Old Mother ubbard. H"I.zhe last group contained Dlvld Guion's “Home on the Range, which Mr. Thomas explained before he sang is merely a new ver- slon of the very familiar “Home Sweet Home.” He was generous to an insistent audience and sang three encores at the close of the program, “Didn’ It Rain,” “Ma Lindy Lou” and “Ole Man River,” to the last of which he gave new and ef- fective interpretation. Lester Hodges played the accom- paniments as well as a group of solos, showing a large, rich tone and ample technic. The piano was a bit ponderous in one or two of the ac- comlp)llmnymu ;\'M;ull;d :‘: n:iv“I comple overshadow e Ve He played one of the hmm} minuets as an encore after his solos. The con was_one . Wile K. B. _“LUC!A DI LAMMERMOOR,” the most popular of the works’of Donizetti, was the offering of the New York Grand Opera Co. yester- day afternoon in the National The . It was presented bn(m an sp- Fl!cht.\ve lud.lcnee. Everything ran S demned was the habit of the en- semble to march on and off stage in military fashion. This was even carried so far as to take meticulous care to stand in orderly lines dur- ing the course of the scenes, and if some poor individual perchance got out of his lined space, he was promptly subdued with fierce looks and made to asume his original position. Malvena Passmore, the slim bit of feminine beauty, who made such a marked success in her singing of the role of Gilda in “Rigoletto,” sang Lucia. And it would have been hard to find a better. As on the opening night, she created quite a sensation, her delicate appearance and H(hgz rounded tones portraying nicely t! role of the lamentable heroine. The arrogant and self-willed brother is sung by Martino-Rossi, who was likewise in the cast of “Rigoletto.” His singing was of & re- liable type, never deviating from the straight and narrow, while his dra- matic qualities were of the highest. Edgar, impetuous lover of the fair Lucia, is sung by Fernando Bertini. He, too, is an ardent actor. Many a heart beat a little quick- er as the strains of the sextet from this opera were beautifully colored by the conductor, Bulgenzio Guerrieri, lnd an ovation even was given in reciation by the audience. scenery was well placed and set off the opera to advantage, while the costuming was af muve' “La Traviata” Is Evening Success. TH! power of youth is eternal, and it is this power perhaps that makes the performances of the New York Opera Co. so attractive. Last night, following & very successful presentation of “Lucia di Lammer- moor” in the afternoon, this cortage m wll ain bril- erdi “La things proceeded at a fast clip for the remainder of the evening. Ag marked the preceding wr!umane- o Tl 1931—PART ONE. HELIO ‘LOBO SELECTED AS. BRAZIL ENVOY HERE Rio Denies Do Amaral Shift Will ‘ Leave Embassy Without Ambassador. By the Associated Press. mm:mmo February 7.—Re- Ilh!nm that the Bra- zilian mbuly be without — after the transfer of Sil- bassador vi G ldoAmfillelpln, ‘were denied 3 icials at the for- States eml hlz b‘d-h!mlnnmthemb: transfer or retirement of Do 00 DEFY POLICE; ASK 6-GENT BREAD Five Are Arrested as Serious Disorder Breaks Out in ] Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 7.—Serious dis« order broke out tonight when police af wumpt«lwdhpomnaowdo!mm than 500 persons in the Humboldt Park district who had assembled to protest refusal of bakers to lower the price of bread from 10 to 6 cents a loaf. Police charged into the protestors and arrested five of their number—two gians | women, two men and a youth of 14. of Spain are foreigners. claim this to ‘The crowd quickly regathered, how- We not only ever, and thronged through the streeta( mhnmndmcmm 6-cént bread. The outbreak had its inception sev- eral days ago when women of the dis- trict, convinced that 10 cents was too much to pay for bread, began picketing nine bakeries in the vicinity, stopping prospective n:hnun and advising cers lnjunctlon from J\ld‘! Dennis E. Dfllli- van. is afternoon a protest was -mnm in a West Side hall, at- tended by a capacity crowd vociferous in its demands. As the meeting broke up. the eromd assembled in the street and began a march on one of the largest bakeries in the vicinity. It was at this time that police appeared and made their arrests, Any hope that such action would quiet the remaining protesters was dis- pelled by a fresh outbreak near the bakery soon after. 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