Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1931, Page 4

A—4 = SUFFRAGE SPREAD SEENBY MRS AT Feminist Declares Spanish, Movement Will Set Pace for South Europée. | | B the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, October 3.—~Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt., American woman suf- frage leader, sald yesterday that with Spain granting woman suffrage, all Southern Europe would soon fall in line. In 25 years, she predicted, women in all countries of the world would be casting their votes in at least the general elec- tions of their nations. Woman suffrage first came into being in the State of Wyoming in 1869, but New Zealand was the first entire coun- try to give women equal voting rights with men. That was in 1893. Austra- lia was next, in June, 1902. Spain Leads Way. Mrs. Catt, who traveled eight months | in 1922 and 1923 through many coun- tries in Europe and South America, said today that over half the countries in the world now had woman suffrage. Spain is the first of the South European coun- tries to recognize women in politics, she sai She thought after her trip, that France and Italy would be next to fol- low suit. but Italy has done nothing to put its feminine division on a voting par with men, France's Senats has de- nied women the ballot though the Chamber of Deputies has voiced appro- val of such a move. Turkey has prom- is2d women a full franchise within four years if it has to amend its constitution to do s0 In Germany women are granted equality by the constitution, but their leaders argue it is only “paper” equal- itv. They are now demanding there be no diserimination against them in civil service appointments and ask their Temuneration rank with that of men. Serve in Polish Parliament. Women are already serving as Depu- ties in the Polish Parliament, and Portuguese women, who already have the right to vote in municipal elections, are fighting for the privilege of casting parliamentary ballots. The Union of South Africa gave women the franchise in parliamentary ana provincial elec- tions in June, this year. Before the World War only four countries had womar: suffrage. In 1928 ractically all of the principal countries ad adopted the practice except France, Italy and Spain. The United States won suffrage for women 1 1919. Other countries which have suffrage for women are Great Britain, Ireland. Canada, Burma. Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Esthonia, Pinland, | Latvia, Lithuania. Czechoslovakia, Hun- | gary, Rumania (municipal only), Hol- tand, Rhodesia, Belgium, India, Luxem- burg, Bermuda, Austria, Newfoundland, Ukraine, some parts of Brazil. some parts of Chine and some parts of Mexico EDITOR'S THROAT CUT IN POOL ROOM FIGHT Encounter Follows Editorial on Suspension of Daily Founded by Heflin Supporter. By the Associated Press DQTHAN. Ala.. October 3.—L. Smith| Dealy veteran Dothan newspaper man and editor of the Weekly Wire Grass Jourhal, was critically wounded yester- day in an encounter with a man police i was J. F. Elmore, who was held pending the outcome of the editor's wounds. Police said Deal’s throat was siashed after he and Elmore met in a pool room. Deal recently wrote an editorial on the suspension of the Birmingham In- | dependent. a daily newspaper founded by Hunter Golson, one of the leaders in Senator Thomas J. Heflin's unsuc- cessful campaign for re-election last | Fall. Elmore, a_Heflin supporter. replied by letter and Deal answered with another | editorial. The encounter followed when they met yesterday. LONDON STOCKS EASIER Business E;;-mely T:imited Pend- ing Political Developments. LONDON, October 3 (#).—The tend- ency on the London stock market was easier today with business extremely limited, pending political developments. A sharp reaction in sterling, with| quotations on the dollar varying be- tween 3.86 and 3.89, caused a setback in several giltedge stocks. The British war loan 5 per cents were down half a point to 97 and the conversion 3'2 per cents and the consols 4 per eents and 2', per cents suffered similar de- clines. Grape Hijackers Kill Driver. NEW YORK, October 3 (#).—Slain, police said, by rival grape racketeers, a bedy believed to be that of Joseph | Labarbera, 40, a chauffeur. was found slumped over the wheel of his ex- press truck in Queens last night. Police expressed the opinion that hijackers had killed him and taken a load of grapes from his truck. ARMY ORDERS Chaplain Edward E. Lane, at Fort | Missoula, Mont.. has been ordered to | his home to await retirement; Capt. J. R. Bowles, Infantry, has been trans- ferred from Fort Sheridan, IlL, to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Maj. E. F. Thode, Medical Corps, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., to examination for retirement; Capt. B. M. Creel, Cavalry, from Den- ver. Colo., to Fort Bliss, Tex.: Capt. W. | McB. Garrison, Field Artillery, from | Denver, Colo, to Fort Warren, Wyo.: | Capt. C. K. Krams, Infantry, from Fort Douglas, Utah, to the South Dakota College of Agriculture at Brookings. Science Chipmunk Catches and Eats Bulifrog. A chipmunk that eats frogs has just been reported to the American Soclety of Mammalogists. i The animal was observed from a Boston University Summer camp at a lake near Peterboro, N. H., according to the de- | scription furnished by Earle A. Brooks ; of Newton, Mass. He reports: ' “Some instructors called me just in time to see the frantic struggles of a small bullfrog which they had seen fhe chipmunk capture. Not more than six inches from the shallow water, into which the chipmunk had made a dash to catch one of the numerous young frogs. he was sitting. eagerly devour- ing the frog, which was_still kicking violently. H “With great deliberation and with no apparent fear of the number of per- | £ons who came to see the unusual per- | formance, the chipmunk chewed away ! at his prey. This strange feeding process lasted 15 minutes. In that time he finished eating the frog, bones and ell. To catch the young bullfrog th chi) went into the shallowy at 15 inches.” o THE EVENING From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washindton'h Th;aters. Harding and Howard Make Much of “Devotion.” LTHOUGH, strictly speaking, Devotion,” the current film at Keith's, is not a notable film it is a very delightful one. thanks to Ann Harding and Leslie Howard. It goes to prove that Miss Harding is an actress worth waiting for (her last picture was shown here months ago) and that Mr. Howard is just beginning to show his met- tle as a genuine histrionic crafts- man. For the first time since Holly- ¢ wood annexed him. Howard has a chance to put his best foot for- ward. Portunately placed opposite the handsome Miss Harding, his full-bloom _debut, 0 to speak. is very like what it should be. Be- tween the two of them there is much that is ex- cellent in the midst of a rather ob- vious story. In fact, were it not for these two attractive personages and for others supplied by Actors Robert Williams (late of “Rebound"), Dud- ley Digges, Doris Lloyd, etc.. there might have been tragedy in and amongst Pamela Wynne's slender story, which Director Robert Milton has’ choppd up until some of the sequences are scarcely recognizable Miss Harding. however, submerged in a brown wig. glasses, a cotton dress and with a Cockney accent should not be ed. In the role of a “wallflower.” whose family treat her in lukewarm fashion, she sud- denly walks out of her home in the capacity of governess and into Mr. Howard's flat in the London Temples, where, in a bachelor state, he lives with his boy—minus a wife who had all sorts of odd failings. Love hav- ing smitten her at the first glimpse of Mr. Howard's golden locks, she tries to hide her youth and her pal- pitating heart under her household mufti and is detected only when an artist acquaintance of her employer discovers her blonde hair bubbling forth from under her wig. There- upon Mr. Howard's heart bursts into flames and he woos her assiduously, in the midst of which enters the stormy petrel, his wife. Cries, sighs and misunderstandings follow. But in the end true love triumphs—and the audience goes out into the night full of joy and contentment. It's not really such an impossible little story, but Mr. Milton has made some ‘of it seem worse than it is. All of which doesn't matter, however, when the corn-colored stars” are together—and inciden ally aren't they the happlest “team combination in the cinema kingdom? E. de S. MELCHER. Palace Pins Shiver at “Daughter of the Dragon” THE boom of a gong, a furtive shadow and, amidst rising clouds of incense. the leering face of wicked old Dr. Pu Manchu is once more to be seen in the newesi riental hair-raiser, “Daughter of the Dragon,” at Loew's Palace this week, The famous Chinese archcriminal doubtless had much to do with luring unusual throngs to the the- ater, but likewise, the return, after a long absence. of Sessue Hayakawa, a hero of the silent screen, and the little Chinese, Anna May Wong, doubtless had a share in it ‘yester- day. Perhaps the greatest disappoint- ment in this lateset of the Fu epi- sodes is the early demise of the old blood-curdler, who comcs out of the incense only long enough to intre- duce a daughter, Ling Moy. who vows to carry on her father's work of vengeance against the House of Pe- trie. A builet then cuts short the old man's career. Warner Oland. who for several seasons has caused shivers to run up the spines of shiver lovers. in his interpretation of the insidious doe- tor, brings to the part all the smoothness and subtlety, which has made the character a source of nev- er-ending delight. One sighs, there- fore, when Dr. Fu seems to be brought to a definite end by the bullet of a Scotland Yard detective. This, however, is not Fu Manchu's story. but that of Ling MoV, his daughter, and the two men who love her, Ronald, last of the Petries, and Ah Kee, a Chinese detective of Scotland Yard. Numerous and un- expected complieations arise to bring thrills and chills in rapid succes- sion. In fact. the atmosphere was 50 tense at times that a childs sbrill. agonized voice screamed for ‘mu-ther” at the sight of a menae- ing figure slinking through the shadows on the screen caused the audience to break into a roar of laughter. Those who enjoyed the diabolical machinations of old Pu will not be disappointed in the story of his daughter. Attired in gorgeous gowns, sup- posedly Orientsl. but obviously Hollywood, Anna May Wong.is inter- esting and enticing as Ling Moy, while Sessue Hayakawa, the once popular Japanese actor, shows little change with the passing of time. Short reels, including a “Travel- talk.” a comedy cartoon and a news reel. supplement the screen program, but a distinctly “modern” number is offered when the Chester Hale girls go “bathing beauty” and give clever diving exhibits in a pool tank on the stage. Fritz and Jean Hubert in an_eccentric dance num- ber; Horton Spurr, acrobatic danc- ing, and Carl Emmy's pets, a trained dog act, complete the pro&rnm. . 8. 8. “Monkey Business,” A Marxian Treat at Columbla. 'HE new picture of the Four Marx Brothers now on view at Loew's Columbia is the same Marxian “racket.” “Monkey Business” is the surest cure for all manner and forms of depression. Blithely fabricated with- out rime or reason, it neither taxes nor tires, nor comports itself after Any of its more dignified ancesters. It is purely and simply exhilarating nonsense. Or rather sinee the Marx Brothers. when at home, rate high among the country's intelligentsia (happily ensconced on their Sutton place hearth rug, sprinkling the air with pilano and harp music) they are easily among the frst immortal highbrow funsters. This is not to say, however, that Auntiz Zilch from the wide open spaces of a small town, furiously bent on the classics in any art, wiil be stimuiated by the mad cavortings of these gentlemen. She may, in- deed, rather turn her nose up at them. But for those to whom relaxa- tion means a good laugh from the verv center of the diaphragm this picture and its “stars” and its gen- eral =pirit of careless insouciance is recommended to the nth degree. It has, of course, as little reason for its beginning as for its ending. It is sheer foolscap cavorting hither 2nd von throughout. Yet try not to lauzh when Harno pursues that ~t=rnal blond lady (hasn't he pursued the same one in every film?); try to poo-poo Groucho's faculty for saying things the way no one else has ever said them; try not to watch Chico's fingers as they bounce up and down the plano, or Harpo's as they tear wickedly at the harp. Of them all, Beppo. the handsome, is the Jeast essential—and yet ;Uig say that when any kind of a con! has to be drawn up, Beppo is the most essential. ‘The more Marx Brothers films the better, No comedians on the market are more brilliant or more welcome. This latest film is no exception. Go and be assured of a laugh before the depression tumbles darkness all around you. E. de 8. M. “Skyline” And Raguel Torres at Fox. FLIHI'NT! of moving drami ~ scme of it filmed far up toward the clouds amid the perils of build- ing eonstruction in the big illumine “8kyline,” in which t| Theater presents Thomas Meighan under conditions that give play to the talents which have made him conspicuous on the screen. In addition to the sincere work cf the leading member of the cast, this production discloses the emotional quelities of Hardle Albright, in asso- clation also with Myrna Loy and a cost of experienced actors who present & mast effective story. “Skyline” is notable for the quality of its writing and direction, and in connection with an unusually pretentious stage pro- gram, gives distinction to the offer- ing of the Fox for the week. Mr. Meighan represents a success- ful bullder, engaged in the making of the metropolis. His life has been marred by lack of harmony between his own family and his wife. In a misunderstanding the woman dis. Appears. and earnest efforts on his part fail to reveal a trace of her. She becomes the wife of a river cap- tain and her scn by the contractor grows up without knowing the facts as to his parent2ge. The play brings the son, grown to an age when he is making his place in the world, in contact with the father, who recog- nizes him by means of a gift the mather has passed ¢n to the hoy at the time of her death. The son is saved from an unfortunate mar- riage alliance in circumstances that aAppear to make father and son rivals for the same worhan. Disclosure of the facts of parentage is accom- panied by violence, but the story brings the proper conclusion to a tale which is strong in characters and plot. Raquel Torres and the “Great Raymond" share the greater part of the stage program. In their con- trasting forms cf entertainment they give excellent variety to the offer- ings of the Fox. Miss Torres, en- dowed by nature and origin with a distinctive method, is introduced to the audience in such a manner that she retains the charm that has been observed in her dramatic experience Raymond's act, as usual, is one of the most impressive in its exploiting of the tricks of the great magicians. His work is accompanied by striking city, Fox WooDpwARD & LoTHROP STAR, WASHINGTON, selections of a company of young ‘women whcse musical instruments are employed to advantage in alter- nating with the magic, e orches- tra, under Al Mitchell, plays “Three Shades of Blue,” and the short subjects include another episode in the Fox serial “The anishing Legion.” D.C C. Canal Traffic Up Six Ships. BALBOA, Canal Zone, October $ (/) —Ships passing through the Panama Canal in September numbered 396, an | | Increase of six over August, but short | tember, 1930. ‘The Statistics Bureau sald it ex- pected a further increase in October, owing to shipments of fruits from the West Coast. 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