Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1931, Page 12

Y ¢ i ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 19 lARIES |N HI.MS IMILLIONAIRE POET TO PUBLISH |shis. o it te. soees ™ | WAR AGAINST GANGS ON | isdeckeesd Jt misnt by Police Com | [xheyns shoving o, quarier, and| etherJast weck prompted the new order \ When his father died, he became vice D 7. hrough Acting Detective Chief John | for any. L Lo | BRRES. police said. ] president of the firm, an pressure . Sullivan, the comm!| ner said: “We are going pu ese people Detectives believe the VOLUME OF LIGHT VERSE SOON |sregident of, the frm. and to snyihing | Mulrooney Orders No Quarter Be| .S eiid: G SOREmOnt SIS o | out of Dusimese” of . Know why. T A | & me e ibeeve the murders prasage else, Then Dr. Wagnalls died, and Mr. Given Th A dug out of their holes like rats. Dig | we're going to put their places out of R, o e Tt becamo Seceint. S S S— them out and bring them in, and we'll | business, wnether they be speakeasies or | But a poet's a poet, and three years| NEW YORK, February 23 (#).—Swift | mug (photograph) them, fingerprint | night clubs or hideaways. More than 21,500,000 acres in Argen- g | ago he couldn’t resist penning a little | War against murderers and gangsters' them and clap them into jail if we can.| Three killings within 30 hours of each ' tina were planted to wheat this season. Began by Sendmg Poems to Newspaper Seve and RenEing 1t bo 8 eolImm | e B O N e L some more, then more and more. He [ —————" B k C selis verse to at least elght leading Gradually Gives Way to 00 oncern. magazines now. He keeps the money earned at it in a separate -bank account. His book is dedicated to Eleanor, otherwis Player Interest. By the Assoclateq Press. was the head of a staid publishing v e o o e — et AMERICAN SECURITY SERVICES By the Associated Press. lro Shulneat menf o SARTeRyER K | Began Writing Early. only of business; sometimes they write HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 23.— | | But Mr. Funk was a poet before he | The high-salaried motion picture stars | poetry. was a business man, and now he writes: FORD SALESMEN are coming back into their own. The| At least one of them does. He 15| over my ledger I can see i studios buzz with talk of $2500 to|Wilfred J. Funk, 47, who publishes con- ) ' the bay, 346 Pa. Ave. N.W. $8,000 a week, and one featured player | cordances, a dictionary and a maga-| And % stk ik 18 to receive $30,000 a week for a short | zine and who now has turned author | period. of a volume of light verse. It ccmes| When the talkies arrived producers ' off the press this week. edited and wrote light verse for the % experimented with the idea that “the' The publishers are Robert M Mc-;nmary magazine there. His father, play's the thing.” They made pistures | Bride & Co, it being considered bad | the late Dr. Isaac Funk, who founded | with stage actors and actresses whose | taste for a publisher—for Mr. Funk |Funk & Wagnalls with the late Dr. names were little known to movie fans. |is president of the Funk & Wagnalls |Adam Wagnalls, brought him to the | MDVES &STORES Tl’l l'l fi ]J k. ffi }1 A = Many of the luminaries of the silent | CO.—to sponsor himself. "Manhattans.Ithernry Digest as editor of the poetry | roug ve an mg othces the merican screen faded and a few disappeared en- | Bronxes and Queens” is the title. department. | FURNITURE OFALLKINDS tirely. For a time it seemed the few | Much of the verse has been printed | =His verse was not the kind that Funk | I &) . d T d = f et big siars would be replaced by a con- |in magazines and columns, with no one | & Wagnalls could publish, so the young | P'['%zgt& 3;5‘4‘{“3'4’& ecurity an rust Gompany extends 1ts tacilities Columnist—Is Himself Head of Tecovered rom s Hurprise and penng | ‘ stellation of minor ones. The big sal- | guessing that the satirist behind them | Mr. Funk let his talent lie dormant | aries were going, too. Player Gets Attention. s But the industry could not shake off _ i H e = #s” havits of centering publicity and offers to the people of Washmgton a financial serv- advertising on the players. The play usually came second. New stars were created. The fans demanded to see more of them and producers bid for | - | OODWARD OTHROP Ccmpetition has been keenest between & Warner Brothers-First National and O™ LI™ F anD G STREETS # o % Paramount. Ruth Chatterton, in leay- o Each office is equlpped with the departments of 87,500 a week, studio reports say, and Wilam Fowell, who woes over’ this a modcrn. Weu-organized bank such as savings. act approximaicly L4 [ F 5 g fiiglfilfififl? “fanciatly by tae 0 nce-a- Yea r Sa vin gs in ! commercial and safe deposit, and is backed by the Consta, Bennett Gets Most. 1 1 1 . experience and resources of the entire organiza~- ° S The 51st A rsar sgreement_with Radio-Pathe will run v 1 Detween $6,000 and $8,000 a week, it is e S nn l e sa tion. snnounced.” Constance Bennett tops the list of the permanently employed. Dur- ing a “vacation” period allowed her by Pathe she will make %o pictures for arner Brothers, receiving $150,000 3 1 each, equivalent to $30,000 a week. = T}xe OECCI‘S at any branch Wlll I)C glad to have John McCormack, the Irish teror, 1s : | wi receiving 00,000 for 1 1 mz-sd.l e e you call and dlSCuSS your banklng problems Wltl’l mu with the earnings of such stars of silent film as Colleen Moore, Corinne th Griffith and Jack Gilbert, which ran as \ g high as $500,000 a year. They since have appeared in talkies. Independent players like Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford | and Douglas Fairbanks equaled or sur- | Ppassed this figure. for the convenience of five distinct localities and ice consistent with the practices of sound banking. WOMAN FALLS DEAD onsters o crunon o A= Nl (] /AMERICAN SECURIT _—— Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner Strick- AND TRUST COMDP. ° en Shortly After Complaining of Pains About Her Heart. — " 15th and Penna. 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