Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1933, Page 23

DIPERTSLOSEHOPE OF CORN GASDLNE Mcohol Would Enrich Farmer apd Speed Traffic, But Proves Unfeasible. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, January 27.—Another dream of agricultural scientists—that of a corn-made alcohol that would help power the Nation's automobiles—ap- peared today to have been shattered. This time research specialists of the petroleum industry have disturbed the THE EVENING From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. By E. de S. MELCHER Walter Hampden At the Nationul. 10,” came to the National last night with his tried and true pro- duction of “Caponsacchi.” A “modern” play, which the posters say has been given more than 400 times up and down the land, it seemed to pleace a large and devout audience which sat before Mr. Hampden with attention and reverence and listened to each “honeyed” word morrow. Miss (“Doomed-Battalion”) Birell will reappear at the Rialto as, or in “Nagana.” PPROACHING & harder task than would be offered by a play which shows development _along simple theatrical lines, the Drama Guild of Washington, last evening at the Wardman Park Theater, per- formed cleverly in Ferenc Molnar's “Olympia,” whose Success is depend- ent more on quality of acting than STAR, WASHINGTON, Having set a mark for conceptions involving the emotional side of life in which there is a conflict with con- ventlons, end having worked out most of his plots with that tragic idea furnishing exalted climaxes, the writer here appears to have moved forward to the position of one who sees life as an assortment of experi- ences in which the observer, de- tached from the intensity of feeling, views the whole thing as a plece maneuvering toward soclal effects. His variety in characterizations is as impressive as in his more serious writings, and the dialogue is as bril- liant as ever; but the people on the stage are just a part of the show, and the cynic may find delight in their thoroughly uninspired attitude on moral questions. 1t is intellectual farce, with more value in the play of personalities than in the progress of the plot. One particular incident is the scene involving two persons at the table on which a meal is being served. It is thoroughly original in D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1933. sation becomes more important to the strength of the drama. Highly descriptive of human lives is the assembling of these repre- sentatives of the fringe of royal respective acting styles are admi- rably fitted to the tasks they have here undertaken. The pleasure is in knowing that they carry with them the sympathy of an audience, and the surprise in the fact that, in so0 brief a production, they have attained the professional in their Barclay Wilson, while Paul Brad- bury Walter plays opposite her— two persons who are centers of in- terest, remain the satire of the piece. initial period of attempts to estab- lish harmony with the main cur- rent of action, they step into the proper e and forward ueelhnr:limu. ~ forsn ‘The performance will be repeated this evening at the WardmaD n Park. interesting vision of farm relief through with joy. on the ordinary devices of the stage. | the idea of having two persons in | work. Royal Arch G in & new outlets for farm production. Four wn’fi'e Mr. As & produgt of the Molnar pen, their seats at the table, facing the semi-military role, llcm( of years ago it was the paper manufac- 4 Hampden's play ‘Olympia” is unique, even among the | audience, and carrying on a vital the oddness that must have been in turers with more cheaply produced % is modern in & writings of that distinguished play- conversation, while gradually the the mind of the author, while wares, who upset the scheme to supply d sente, it also | _Wrisht. up grows larger and the conver- line McKinley, as & conventional the country with corn stalk paper. treads the toes Very recently. agricultural college of the classics, authorities were intrigued with the pos- since its lan- sibility of making alcohol out of corn A guage is lyrical, cheaply enough to provide a fuel that its substance r could be added to gasoline to increase derived from its T;nti-gnzock qualities. Browning and ey figured that if one gallon anne: o R O T atisr Mammien é":e?ent:ugxl\ lons of motor fuel, about 500,000,000| mcre in the vein of yesteryear. It bushels of corn could be consumed| moves, however, toward the end yearly. Once that happened, farm re- | with speed and some excitement, SEVENTH AND K lief in the corn belt might become a| and when the lovely Lady Pompelia mere memory. lies wounded, disheveled and near Blend Used Abroad. e o L e Torcrell. you.are I . . s the Big News in Sports Dresses Note th “;; ib. Gir?";nfl:mm‘» isr:”tlhe $ 5 ‘95 lished. Suggestion cropped out that| Some tears, which the lady in front corn distilleries could be established in| of us had been preparing for for local communities and new industry| some time. created. Dr. Charles E. Friley, dean of Mr. Hampden last night was industrial science at Towa State College, | Tichly rewarded for his services by pointed out that 17 countries now use| prolonged applause at the end of a blend of alcohol and gasoline to make | his piece. He had played his play their cars run. with ease and with that manner of But now the Standard Oil Co. of In-| speaking his words distinctly and diana presents a research report on al-| sonorously which has placed him at cohol-gasoline possibilities. The com-| the head of his profession. peny asserted that its position on the The play, of course, is too_well question is neutral inasmuch as it| known to need description. It is readily could manufacture alcohol to be [ DOt an after-dinner morsel to be blended with gasoline, but added that| confused with lighter moments in “on study of the alcohol motor fuel| Our theater, such as the rich and question, the company’s specialists have | Tibald Noel Coward might provide. discerned complications which make the | And perhaps it suffered a mite last idea interesting as it, in a theoretical | Right from the too near shades of way, looks highly impractical.” the Lunts, who, it seemed, had been It was pointed out that experience in | lolling about on that left-hand sofa countries that import gasoline and| ODly & minute before, discussing manufacture alcohol was not applicable | Ireighters and Norwegians and islands hi y where gaso big and small. It suffered, t0o, from e countey where gasoline is cheaply | - '8 C0i 6ss which some of the lesser N s characters brought to it. You could, Oil Scientists® View. once or twice, almost hear the stage The oil industry sclentists said: S0 tests were made and results pub- | treated to some nice chagrin and to clever model shown! Even if you never went in. for sportwear before— you'll weaken when you see these adorable new Spring 1933 frocks. Soft rabbit’s hair in luscious shades of pimento, hyacinth, riviera green, jonquil yellow, rosy tans, Belgian blue, etc.—with metal, wood and Angora trims that make them excitingly different. One and manager shoo on his crowds with a “*The current selling price of gasoline| SWwitch and wave them off with a lusty 8t North Central States refineries isless | &rm motion. than 5 cents per gallon. Opposed to However, all in all, for those who this, the actual cost of manufacturing| 8re fond of their Caponsacchi, this alcohol of 95 per cent purity from the| 1S an event in the theater which is present cheap molasses is about 20 cents | Well worth supporting. And this is per gallon and the selling price is 30| due entirely to Mr. Hampden. For two piece versions, with big sleeves, high necklines Dt o e Mam® extravagant | the remainder of his cast is nothing P g » g claims as to the low cost of alcohol| !0 shout about—it obstructs rather 1 and fitted lines that recall the “Gibson Girl's” sil- manufactured from excess farm prod-| than aids traffic, although Esther ¢ d = ucts have been made. Mifchell is a graceful Pompilia, 1 ouette. “Actually. the process costs, exclusive | Ernest Rowan a believable bad man, of raw material cost, are greater than| 8nd Whitford Kiane a genulnely when using molasses as raw material, | 8musing Canon Conti. ‘The new result is that in order to nfan- | Kate Smith’s New Film iaratac iy coaring a0 icant Deieh | [0 e e A lon, the price that can be paid for corn HNOUNCEMENT, ins heen made is only 20 to 25 cents per bushel at the “Hello, Eve 5. will be the fea~ W euk ture at the Earle, starting next Fri- Sizes 14 to 20 The New Goldenberg's—Second Floor. Add Real Pep to Tired Wardrobes! One of these crisp new crystal straw hats with downward slant and new bandeau back will have a tonic effect on Winter wardrobes! ‘ : Turbans, too—in fact, many shapes and colors for both misses and youthful matrons—at only 79c! $1 Values 22 and 23 in. head sizes ‘The New Goldenberg's—Second Floor. “In other words, this is squarely a propasition of mixing an inferior diluent | d2%....Did you know that Anatole oosting 25 cents per gallon with & prod- endland. who today may be seen uct worth only 5 cents and finding| 8% Loew's Fox sponsoring 24 hand- gome one to bear the added cost.” e g gt iy ck and Mae Clark for proteges? s . Walter Hampden will play = o Hamlet tomorrow afternoon . . . $20,000 ASKED IN SUIT Our own Laura Barratt will be in L4 the cast . . . The Shoreham is try- P ing something new—it will present ‘The Capital Traction Co. was sued | “pames” rather than “faces” at its for $20,000 damages in the District | night club sessions . . . 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