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rrcnoif thrm THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1936 xi ki .1 Lederer Chooses As His Most World Peace Important Hobby New Clothes mperor glimpses of rowan mGisdmix Chorpenning Believe What You Can't See CKilRLHS H.2UBSR. 'Sywawii jaiigsaiaiMaaBsasasaai I asi: sv I v' A' 'Si' Hobby? Whenever this question Is asked about a movie star, the answer can almost be guessed in advance. It will be tennis, riding, swimming, oj perhaps photography. Almost the only really unusual hobby in Hollywood is that of Francis Lederer, European star, who appeals with Ann Sothern In the film romance, "My American Wife," at Keith'a Theater. Lederer's hobby and he wouldn't call It that is world peace.

The star who admittedly wears a uniform with more charm than any other male movie aotoi is a persistent, ardent campaigner for peace. He is founder of the World Peace Federation, which today claims a signed membership of 48,000 pel sons. All his spare time goes into dcising ways and means for advancing the aims of the federation. Lederer, one of filmdom's must colorful personalities, is a native of Prague, C.echosloaliia, the son of a poor leather merchant. He I.I "I i With Buskin And Lyre satisfactory to himself, and that ha practically agreed with Adams that Shakespeare at his best was too aubtlo to be presented adequately on the stage.

Prominent in the cast of "King Henry IV." supporting Hacketta Falstaff. during this engagement were G. H. Barrett as the Prince of Wales, Mr. Foster as Hotspur, Mr.

Williams as the Earl of Worcester, Mr. Logan as Francis, and Mrs. Stuart as Lady Perry. Mr. Hackett's engagement closed with performances on June 11, 12, and 13, his plays being "Rip Van Winkle," "A Man of the World." and "The Merry Wives of Windsor," In the order named.

During the summer season the People's Theater presented several attractions, Including Herr Herrmann, a magician, and the comedies, "Rendezvous" and "Simpson and Company." At the National during this period tho outstanding; offerings were "Alice," with Mr. Dean, Sol Smith, Mrs. Stuart, and Miss Petrie, on August 28, and "Richard III." on September with Mr. Neafie as Richard and Miss Petrie as Lady Anne. Henry Placide, another star, who, Smith intimates, was insulted by the meagerness of his audiences, had at this time been prominent on the stage for many years, having made his first appearance about 1815, being early an adept at pantonine, an art practically lost to modern players.

Writing of thla accomplished actor, who opened to $7.75 In hla famous Grandfather Whitehead during this season, Ireland, In his "Records of the New York Stage," wrote: "Who, like him, as Fathom, ever divided the applauses of an audience with Fanny Komblc? Or drew awsy attention from Tyrono Power's 1'at Rooney through the simplicity of little torn Dodds? Or excelled the Irish gentlemen, McShane and O'Doherty, by tho perfection of hia Aspen and Frederick Or whose Dr. Calus (in "Merry Wives of ever interfered with the Impressions of a Falstaff? Who has ever approached him aa Iord Ogleby, or Grandfather Whitehead, or Charles or Jean Jacques Frisaquc, or Frank Oat-land Farmer Ashfield, or 100 other parts?" And this is tho artist to whom local theater enthusiasts tendered a "testimonial benefit" that netted him $47! The Emperor at last had positive proof that his wife was not stupid. (The Empress, played by Helen Carr, and the Emperor, Joseph Dixon.) By Charlotte Emperor's New Clothes" Is a popular production on Broadway of the Children's Theiiter, which is a division of the Federal Theater. Like most plays resigned for the younper element, it is reatiy a satiric frolic which can be bent appieeiated by the adrlt mind. The leading members of the cast are: 8am Ben-riell, Zan; Jules Dassin, Zar; Joseph Dixon, The Kmperor: Helen Carrm.

The Kmpress; I'hilip Robinson, Han, and 'Vayne Arey, The General. "The Kmperor's New Clothes" Is being presented at the Adelphi Theater.) TITO use asking how Zan and I Zar got there. J- Got where? Into the Street of the Weavers. Where is the Street of the Weavers? It's hard to say. Who are Zan and Zar? That's still harder to say.

But something must be known about Zar and Zan! Well, they're a couple of Puckish young adventurers, sly youths with prominent noses and bright eyes, and they have a habit of unexpect-ently turning handsprings, and assuming, grotesue positions when they decide to think. One day this was when they found themselves in the Street of the Weaversthey were thinking on the top of their heads, so to speak, because they had a grave problem to solve. They had just heard a sad tale. It seemed that on this street lived a group of the most skilled weavers in the country. They were the craftsmen who wove the fine cloth that the Emperor Used for his robes.

For generations these weavers had lived contentedly in their old homes, earning sufficient to keep them in comfort and glorying in the distinction which their labors brought them. Then the Emperor acquired a new Master of the Robes, or Minister of the Emperor's Robes, who was a cunning and unscrupulous devil. Han was his name, and evil was his regular disposition. He instituted the practice of selecting and buying the monarch's cloths and paying weavers only half of the fTnrchase price. The balance he pocketed.

This went on for some time until the weavers rebelled against the graft and refused to sell Han any more material. "We will show our wares only to the Emperor," the said. This made Han furious. "Then I'll see to it," said he, "that the Emperor will buy no more cloth from you. I will have your bolts confiscated, torn to shreds.

And when I have done this I will have you driven from your homes. I have absolute influence over the Emperor and you know I can do this. You asked for it, and now you have it." Han didn't perhaps use these very words, but ha meant what they mean, and the weavers were cast into sorrow. They knew Han could carry out his threat. They knew he practiced a system that was as efficient as it was timeless.

And, sure enough, they soon heard the bad news from the court. They had been eliminated from the loyal favor. That was the reason Zan and Zar atood on their heads. "Well," urged Zan to Zar, "why don't you get an idea? We've got to do something for these people." "Right," responded Zar, "but the Idea won't come." So he shifted from the right ear to the left oar and suddenly squealed. Yes.

an idea had arrived. What was it? They would go to the Emperor and tell that they could weave for him the finest cloth in the world; cloth so fine that it would be invisible. Then they would ask for gold and silver to weave into the cloth, and this gold and silver lots of it they would give to the ousted weavers. A good plan, thought Zan, but how would they make cloth so fine as to be invisible? They could not even make cloth that was visible. Zar laughed loud and long.

Of course they couldn't make cloth, visible or invisible. In fact, there would be no cloth at all. They would merely tell the Emperor that, ft St-. Man Godfrey" (headed for the Pnlare) brings Carole Lombard and William Powell bark together again. However, screen marriages aren't recognized, no the tiro are still as good as divorced! However, they do form a charming couple on screen I -1 0 i studied at the Prague Academy of Dramatic Art, winning high honors.

His stage debut was In a Prague theater, where he earned $120 a week and did odd jobs outside to make enough to live on. His rise to fame was literally phenomenal; his genius was recognized in Prague, and he went to Budapest, Vienna, Breslau, and Berlin as guest artist. He scored a sensational success In Berlin, with Elizabeth Bergncr in "Romeo and Juliet," a Max Reln-hardt production, "Wunderbar" and "Autumn Crocus'' followed, making him the toast of Europe and then America. A stickler for realism, a slave to various small superstitions, and a combination of idealism, romanticism and practicality, Lederer Is still not quit understood by the film colony. One of tho West Coast writers has dubbed him neatly "a mixture of gunpowder and incense." On the personal si.le, Lederer likes women, particularly intelligent women with charm.

Ha insists that he has fallen in love with each of the 200 he has played opposite, including Ann Sot hern. .1 1- -JI Conservatory Registration for the seventieth anniversary session at the Conservatory of Music will open Thursday, and will last three days, with classes In all departments convening September 14. Scholarship examinations In all departments will be conducted Friday and Saturday. The Alumna! Association has announced that the Clara Baur Memorial Scholarship, most valuable of tho numerous awards, will be given this year to a student of voire, and that examinations will be held in the drawing rooms at 9:30 o'clock Saturday morning. Candidates must have had at least three semesters' previous training at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and must be working toward a degree.

A full scholarship in composition is offered this year by Dr. Carl Hugo Grimm, and Is open to any Btudent working for a degree with composition major. The winner will bo adjudged the merits of three compositions submitted. The complete schodule of scholarship examinations is as follows: piano, Friday, 9:30 o'clock; string instruments (violin, viola, 'cello, Friday afternoon, 2 o'clock; voice, Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock; woodwind and brass Instruments, Saturday, 2 o'clock; organ, Saturday, 4:30 o'clock. The curriculum of the seventieth anniversary term will feature several innovations.

In response to a demand it is believed, will become even more Insistent within a few years, a department of Muslcology is being instituted, comprising courses leading to the Master of Music degree In Music-ology. Though designed for students not wishing to continue their specialized work in applied music or In composition as a major, any of the classes offered In this field will be open to any candidates for the Master's degree, but not to undergraduates. Muslcology, as It will he taught at the Conservatory, Is the scientific study of musical facts In all their ramifications (such as history, aesthetics, psychology, acoustics, etc.) in contrast to composition, performance, or pedagogy. It will be conducted at the Conservatory by senior members of the faculty, assisted by visiting lecturers from the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Cincinnati. Among the latter will be Dr.

Robert C. Gowdy, professor of physics, who will lecture on the science of music, specifically acoustics and other phases of the physics of sound; Dr. Gordon Henderickson, associate professor of education, who will lecture on psychology as related to music; and Dr. Van Meter Ames, associate professor of philosophy, on the aesthetics of music. Muuic criticism will be directed by Dr.

James G. Heller. Likewise new in the curriculum this fall will be the course in rhoral conducting, taught, by Dr. John A. Hoffmann, dean of the faculty, comprising not only routine and technique, but also practical experience in directing choral organizations.

In the department of dramatic art, a two-year course for professional dramatic training will be conducted by Owen Phillips and Reba Gill Borland, intended especially for those who wish to prepare for professional stage work Vaudeville Unit Ruth Foerstel. days ago Anton Sclbllia, producer, came here in search for talent for his show. A private audition was arranged by Mr. Sien and after watching these two talented girls go through their routines offered them both contracts. More Hard-Luck Stories Of 1844 ITH William Macready and Edwin Forrest, two of the greatest actors of the period, playing to poor business at the National Theater In April and May, 1844, It was scarcely to be expected that less famous stars In which category James H.

Hackett, still -regarded the finest American Falstaff of all time, Is not Included would make as good and certainly not a better ahowlng than the famous players who had just finished disappointing engagements. That this deduction was sound was fully established by Sol Smith, who managed the theater during that depressing period. In his "Theatrical Management In the West and South," following his wall over the financial disappointments of the Macready and Forrest visits, he writes: "Is not this a pitiful beginning of a season? But worse remained behind. After the departure of the great stars the business fell down to almost nothing. Henry Plarida played his great character of Grandfather Whitehead to Miss Nelson opened to $19! Hackett opened in his great Falstaff to $113.

and played 'Rip Van Winkle' to $70! Henry Placlde's benefit was $47. Hackett's $124." But "Old Sol," as he was effec-tlonately known throughout the West and South, was no quitter. Writing further, he said, "You may be sure I was not idle during tho engagements of the tragic stars, neither were tho artists and carpenters, for they were working day and night on which was eventually brought out. with entirely new and gorgeous scenery by Lehr, machinery by Ellsworth, and 200 new dresses to a house of next night $111, and the run of the plrce continued without attracting any better houses. 'Cherry and the Fair Star' followed, equally well put upon the stage, and the first night yielded but $81.

A. Logan, a very popular actor and resident of Cincinnati, took a benefit, and was honored with a house counting $(il. J. M. Weston, another favorite, had $42; and Miss Randolph, a chnrmlng girl and a good actress, $52.

The Fourth of July, advertised as. and intended to be, the closing of the season, the Irreslstlblo attraction of 'Aladdin' and 'Cherry and Fair Star' was offered, to play in the daytlmo not yet In use) and at night, and the Clncinnatiana managed to contribute for both performances the enormous sum of $547, and were so elated with such a grand success that a request was got up and extensively signed that the munagcr would consent to the reopening of the house for one night for the purpose of receiving a complimentary benefit! I was fool enough to comply with this request, and waa 'complimented' to the tune of $171." "Old Sol" then adds tho following epilogue to his tale of managerial woe: "I am thus particular In the details of this spring season for the reason that my friends in Cincinnati have since blamed me for not giving their city a fair trial. The total receipts for 63 nights, with a better company than had ever visited tho place, or ever has visited it since, with the best stars and showy pieces, wore $6,098, about $98 per night!" Evidently Mr. Smith's arithmetic was bad -this was Ions before the time nf any adding machine except the Chinese abacus for according to an earlier statement, he gavo Macready and Forrest credit for drawing $5,485 in 17 nights, leaving only $413 to be spread over the other 48 nights, and average of lesa than $10 per night The disastrous spring season, so graphically pictured by Smith, and which ended about July 4, did not entirely stampede him and his partner, Noah Miller Ludlow. Courageously they entered upon the last half of their lease, beginning August 24.

No use. A dead failure, according to Smith, who fell ill and turned the management over to C. A. Logan, while he battled with fever at the home of his brother on Fourth Street. "The Forty Thieves," "The Ice Witch" and other attractive pieces were brought out, but with no signs of Improvement.

The house was closed early in October, several weeks ahead of schedule. Smith's "tag line" In his account of that nightmarish season was "I have not visited Cincinnati, managerlally or professionally, since." James H. Hackett, one nf the sev-, eral financially suffering stars of this barren season, was quite a favorite in Cincinnati, having been an occasional visitor since tho early 1830's, playing engagements at various times at the Columbia Street, Third Street, and National Theaters. During this visit Hackett's outstanding performances were those in "Rip Van Winkle" and as Falstaff in Shakespeare's "King Henry IV." Because of his claim to descent from Dutch nobility, Hackett was humorously referred to In the profession as "Baron." He was a man of fine cultivation and tastes, and he had, In addition, a considerable turn for business. He had been a successful amateur as a youth, and so, whenever his speculative ventures went badly, he lovingly turned his thoughts to tho stage.

He was one of the first American actors to appear In England, playing a short engagement at the Co-vent Garden Theater, London, in 1827. It was' during this stay in London that he acquired a dramatization of "Rip Van Wlnke," which he later produced in America, but not until after C. B. Parsons had given the character its first interpretation in this country at the Columbia Street Theater In this city in 1829. Hackett at various times essayed different Shakespearean roles, among them Hamlet, over which he and President John Quincy Adams had quite an interesting correspondence.

Eventually Hackett admitted that hla own performance of the character waa not Frank Morgan, much in demand, is one of the important members of the ''Great Ziegfehr east, which still persists at the uber I There's talk of an extra week for this production and Morgan's share in the comedy isn't a small one. either as actors or as directors of production. All tho regular departments of the school, of course, will function as in the past, and complete schedules are offered In applied and theoretical music, in conducting, in opera, in radio training, In languages and In dancing. The Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, under Alexander von Kreislcr; the Conservatory Chorus, under Dr. Hoffmann, and the Conservatory Concei Band, under Frank Simon, will be organized shortly after school opens, and a full calendar of activity Is arranged for members of these organizations.

The Conservatory's affiliation with the Columbia Broadcasting System will be resumed October 10, and, beginning that mointng, one-hour programs will be released every Saturday, at 11 o'clock, featuring the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, members of the artist faculty, the Conservatory Chorus, and student Soloists. Alexander von Kreisler, arranger of the programs and conductor of the orchestra, has spent most of tho summer between Cincinnati and New York superintending details of operation and acquiring music for the winter season, and promises a series of programs even finer than of laHt year. These broadcasts are released over a sixty-seven-station network, through tho facilities of WKRC. Katz Studio Several new dances have been added to the teaching schodule of the recently opened Sid Kate Dance Studios. Among the dances which Kats brought hack with him from the convention of the National Association of Professional Dance Instructors is the "Riff and Jibe," styled "Interpretive swing dance," and "The Swing Timo Waltz," which is featured in the new Astaire-Rogers motion picture effort.

Kathleen Nodmile Sherman and Paul Ijconaid will instruct pupils in the new routine. Westwood Conservatory Registration for the new fall term of the Westwood Conservatory of Musio will begin Tuesday, All classes in adult and children's stage and social dancing, voice, piano, violin, wind Instruments, and dramatic art will begin September 14. Mary Ridgley Jacobs is a new addition to the staff of dancing teachers. Olga Moore, teacher of dramatics, again will head the department of dramatic art and public speaking. Katherlne Trendlcr, directress, will coach singers.

Adult classes In ballroom dancing will begin September 28. Schuster-Martin Studio Registration will be held at the Schuster-Martin School September 16, 17, and 18, day and evening. Children's rlas.ics will resume Saturday, September 111; full and partial courses, September 21. The evening classes will resume Monday, September 21. Helen Tueting, head of the dance deartmcnt, will return to Cincinnati this week.

Miss Tueting spent the past month in Chicago and New York preparing for her work at the school this coming year. Hessler Studio All is in readiness for the opening of Hessler Studio for the new term. The faculty members have all returned from summer studies and travel. A new studio will be opened September 15 in College Hill at the Junior Order Hall with a demonstration by students of thts various departments. MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, Moissaye Boguslawski, Chicago pianist, announces a piano scholarship of $1,000 in memory of the late Dr.

Nathaniel Frutkow, noted bacteriologist who gave his life In scientific research and passed away suddenly after having contracted a germ from a patient he had been treating in Chicago. The scholarship entitles the winner to one full year of tuition under Boguslawski. The contest is open to girls and boys of the ages between 10 and 20 years. The contestants are required to perform one piece each by Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin. Applications can be sent to Miss Winifred Konlgsmark, 323 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, College Of Music Marclnn Thalberg, one of the best known teachers of piano, who was for many years identified with the musical life of Cincinnati, returns to this city to join the faculty of the College of Music.

Thalberg has been teaching in Paris for the past four years, where a class of International character was attracted to his studio. His many American pupils, who were eager to study with the master, but preferred to remain In this country, led him to turn his attention again to Cincinnati, When an invitation from the College of Music to join its faculty came to him he was pleased to accept it. Mr. Thalberg will conclude his work in Paris toward the middle of September and then come direct to Cincinnati. He expects to arrive here October 14.

Already a large number of his former pupils in this country have indicated their desire to resume studies with him. The various members of the Col-lego of Music faculty, who hive been spending their vacations in all parts of the country, aie returning for their season of work at the college. J. H. Thuman, the director of the institution, returned yesterday from a vacation at Les Che-neaux, Mich.

Walter Heermann, Emil Heermann and Robert Korst, are back from Intcrlochen, where they were busy during the summer at the National Muslc Camp. Sidney C. Durst, who spent the hot months in Cape Cod, returned during the past week. Mrs. Lillian Arkoll Rixford, who made her annual trip to Preston, Canada, returns this week.

Signor Albino Gorno, dean of the faculty, spent most of his time at home. Giacinto Gorno had a pleasant time at Ocean City. Other members of the faculty were scattered. Frederick Louis Bach, new member of the piano faculty, comes to Cincinnati this week to establish his home here. Jean ten Have, of the violin faculty, will be home in time from Fiance.

Jtalo Picchi, who sang with the summer opera at the Zoo, went for a brief vacation to Virginia Bench. Sarah Yancey head of the public school music department, motored through Wisconsin and the lake country. Leon Conus, piano pedagogue, whose coming to the College of Music brings to Cincinnati one of the foremost figures In the musical world today, sailed Thursday from Southhampton and will be on hand shortly. The examinations for scholarships in the various branches which are granted each year by the College of Music, will take place Thursday and Friday. Applications have been received from all parts of the country.

These scholarships arc granted upon competitive examination. Golden Studios The professional staff of teachers of the Pep Golden Studio, reopening for Its iall t2rm Saturday, is announced. The dancing staff, In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Pep Golden, Includes Milly Ray and Marion Lowers, and Missouri Kinney as staff pianist.

Roxanne Benauvent, graduate of the College of Music, will be in charge of the piano and voire departments. Virginia Bate-man again will head the dramatic art department. Alma Jackson will devote herself exclusively to piano instruction. Registration for the fall classes in all types of stage and social dancing will start Tuesday. Two Dancers Join Kay Pcllillo.

Ruth Foerstel and Kny Pellillo, students of Jules Sien, have left for Chicago to begin rehearsals for a musical revue, "Folies Bergere," which in to tour the RKO circuit this winter, and will probably show at the Shubert Theater. Several Aa. -m, osv i WPA Federal Theater Photo. be time to expose them. Meanwhile there was always that "but." It was just possible that there really was a cloth, etc.

Now there appeared the Emperor himself, accompanied by the Queen and all his retinue, eager to see his new clothes. Humbly Zan and Zar spread out for him the gorgeous expanse of nothing. The King looked, stared, stared, leaned forward, was about to make an exclamation, and checked himself. It seemed -yet maybe perhaps No, there must be a cloth. It was not possible that he was stupid, that he was unfit for the position! he held! Delightedly he applauded.

It was wonderful! The most wonderful cloth he had ever seen! And as he! spoke the entire court followed him with like adulations. These weav-! ers were the master craftsmen of the world! The master craftsmen thereupon suggested that they pin on the robes to Han and permit the Emperor to see how truly beautiful was the shimmering train. The Emperor immediately agreed, and poor Han had to stand passively and watch 20 empty fingers run busily over his shoulders. At last he was pronounced fully clad and told to walk across the chamber. Everyone was lost in admiration.

The Queen described the colors and the patterns perfectly, and the King at last had proof positive that his wife was not stupid, a revelation for which he thanked Zan and Zar graefully. But now Zan and Zar began td complain that Han was treading on the train. Han caught himself and looked around in bewilderment. The more he tried to be cautious, however, the more Zan and Zar cried that he. was entangling his big feet in the gossamer cloth.

Finally they shrieked and threw themselves at Han's feet. Painfully they extracted something from the floor and held it up sorrowfully. "He has completely ruined the robe!" they wailed. The Emperor's face grew dark. "Wretch!" he cried.

"Bind him!" Han collapsed before the King. "I didn't mean to do it!" he wept "I didn't see it" Even as he uttered these words Han knew he was lost. He had admitted that he hadn't seen the cloth! "So!" observed the King. Not even the King could believe that Han was stupid. Therefore he must be unfit for the position he held! "So," he repeated.

"That Is how we discover the unworthy among us!" "I cannot thank you enough," he said. "You have done me a wonderful service. Name your reward!" At once Zan said that the only reward they would like was the ruby that served as an ornament on the panel. Han blanched even more than he had blanched heretofore. "Not that!" he begged.

"Not that! I will give you ten times its value in money and jewels!" But Zan was firm. The jewel took his fancy and the jewel he would have. Would the Queen graciously bestow it upon him? The Queen graciously went to do so. Her fingers grasped the ruby, gave it a little twist, and behold the panel flew up and revealed the plunder within. All the plunder that la, that was Han's.

The two chesta of gold and silver Zan and Zar had obtained from the King were cunningly hidden. "Here," said Zan, "you can see the fruits of your minister's thievery. He stole from the poor weavers, he cheated them and finally brought them to ruin." Well, after this Han had little to which to look forward. He was driven out of the country while the weavers were restored to the good graces of the monarch. When the happy ceremonies were over, however, Zan and Zar gave the honest workers the gold and silver they had hidden and told them the secret of the wonderful cloth.

The laugh that went up could posBibly have been heard In the sixth street. Zan and Zar laughed the loudest, and so laughing they slipped out of the Street of the Weavers. With their going came to an end the manufacture of the marvelous cloth that only the stupid and the unfit were unable to see. (The. play Is copyrighted by the aviihor and the above story Is released through special arrangement with the producer by Uia Thompson Feature Service, Inc.) though the material they wove was extraordinarily fine, it could bo seen by everyone except those who were stupid or those who were unfit for the position they held, Who would admit he was stupid? Who would admit to his Emperor that he was unfit for the office he held? Perfect! As for the Emperor, he would prove easy to handle.

He was a notorious simpleton, whose only interest in life was handsome dressing. So Zan and Zar spoke to the Emperor and made their astounding offer. The monarch was delighted. Ho gave Zan and Zar two caskets of shredded gold and silver, offered them the use of Han's own sanctum, and told them to get to work. In due time they announced that the Emperor's new clothes were ready.

Then they suffered a spasm of fear. What if their faith in human behavior was misplaced? What if their plan should not work out as they thought it would? Then there was the matter of the two caskets of treasure. They wanted to hide them until they had the opportunity to deliver them to the weavers, and their chamber was bare of hiding places. So bare was it that they finally became suspicious and began to scrutinize the walls. On the top of one panel they came across a ruby, and on twisting the stone the panel slid open and revealed a pile of costly cloth and a Btore of money and jewels.

Plainly' this was Han's plunder box. Quickly they added their own plunder to the other treasure. They were Just in time, for a visitor came in to investigate the new wonder cloth. He was the General of the Emperor's army. With amazement the General saw Zan and Zar busy themselves at a loom that contained neither thread nor woven cloth.

It was on the tip of his tongue to ask what on earth they were doing when a cold sweat broke over his forehead. He had just recalled the magical values of the new cloth it could not be seen by the stupid or those who were unfit to hold their positions. True, he was sure he saw nothing at all, that is to say, he was sure there was nothing at all to see. But And here entered that overpow ering, but that has bludgeoned so many humans! But maybe there waa a cloth. Maybe he couldn't see it! Just on that chance he couldn't possibly afford to admit that he couldn't see the Emperor's new clothes.

He couldn't afford to be thought stupid, and certainly he couldn afford to acknowledge him self unfit to command the King's Army. So he began to marvel at the extraordinary texture and beauty of pattern that Zan and Zar 'a cloth possessed. By wily questions per fectly understood by the fake woav- crs he informed himself of what these colors and patterns were. Zan and Zar Invented these magnificently, and the General retired, pleased with his shrewdness and feeling safe in the precautions he had taken. The next visitor was the Queen.

That lady, poor dear, had suffered all her young life from the ImDli- cation that she was not very bright. isne was really an agreeable, sen sible and charming girl, but some people get nicknames and some people are tagged with faults which cling to them no matter what they can do. So it was with the Queen. Han took advantage of this to make the King believe that she was actually a little muddle-headed so as to increase his own influence Tearfully now the Queen con fessed to Zan and Zar that sho wanted to test herself privately to see whether she was really stupid She wanted to look at the new cloth before Han had an opportunity to humiliate her publicly. Zan and Zar instantly took pity on the young woman.

With heavy insinuations they made her under stand just what the colors and pat terns were. More, they made her rehearse the description thoroughly and remember it. Very happily the Queen left them. No one would now consider her stupid. Finally there came Han to see what the Rtrangers had accomplished.

He, too, saw nothing and he, too, like the General, thought It prudent not to admit that he saw nothing. Of course he was dealing with imposters, But there would (Another Installment In this series of nrllcles on the early theater In Cincinnati will appear next Sunday.) Noted Pair Appears In "The Guardsman" "The GuardHman," Molnar's gay, witty comedy, with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanno co-starred, will be the opening attraction of tho season at tho Mairfair, starting Saturday. "The Guardsman" was one of the greatest succcsf.es of this most famous of American stage couples, as well as being tho vehicle that first paired them and started one of tho most remarkable aeries of uninterrupted successes ever enjoyed by any acting team. Tho stage play ran for over a year in New York, with Lunt and Fontanne in the leading roles, and was the natural choice of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the first motion picture starring the popular pair. The picture was chosen as one of the 10 best pictures of its year.

Alfred Lunt plays the part of the hiisbnnd who suspects his wife's fidelity and notes her deslra for romance, and so disguises himself as a Russian guardsman who, while he as husband is supposedly away, makes love to his wifo (Lynn Fontanne). The humorous complications resulting are played with the sparkle and sophistication of touch that only the Lunts can give, Roland Young and Za.u Pitts head a supporting cast that Join In the Lunt gayety. "The Guardsman" is the first of two revivals to be presented at the Mayfalr prior to the opening of It season of new attractions, being following by Lchar'a operetta, "The Merry Widow," featuring Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier. When fortune favors, the honored qne smiles. Robert Taylor, quite the lop of the heap, has the pleasure of seeing his early pictures revived because of his popularity Always Tomorrow," revived at the Grand), 11 r- fe i.