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jST.inniq rn.qT-nicDAtr.H PAGET? -MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1926s 3T.L0UIS POST-DISPATCH GUEST AT lUNCHEON TUNEFUL PROGRAM FCH VELL VARIED BILL ''pmuij New Films SECOND CONCERT Clara Rabinovttch. Ptanlt. Is Solo AT THE ORPHEUM CRUNDEN TO WED fESTUSIWADE JR. Ceremony Jan- 20 Engage- ment Announced at Harry French Knight Home. By JilE.

AT the moment of galloping to press we can't recall the rea- right to one of California's, seats of learning and got the real thing. The result is a comedy which fairly bubbles with youth and high spirits and which is amusing and entertaining every foot of the way. And just In passing let it be said that professional football is in danger of losing Its main asset, for Red Grange Is a movie star of the first water and from now on is going to be kept pretty busy working in the films. on a time there was a good cattle rustler who fell in love with a cattleman's daughter and saved her from his former outlaw buddies and after many ponies have galloped over the mesquite this is just what happens. Up bobs Jack with a Colt in his hand, beats the vll-lian to the draw and saves the gal.

It is an unusually fine Colt with a carved ivory handle. The forlorn river is especially good, also. And so. by the way. is the vaudeville.

son why," as a boy, never marrying Into the leading steel circles of Pittaburg. High Life on Long Island. IT is something of a relief, then, to see "The Great Gatsby" at the Missouri. Here we can leave behind the soiled face mill workers and spend an hour, with the best people In their bathing pools while they make love to other men's wives and engage In the other simple pleasures of the Idle rich. For air.

Gatsby has made millions out of bootlegging, and Long Island's fast set accepts his hospitality without taking the trouble to find out that he had been nothing but a second louie In the late war. Hungarian Violinist and Jack Norworth in a One-Act Farce Share. Honors. ky. vV'j K'4.

A- ffe got much entertainment out of a steel mill, but some how or ruthr out early education regarding fiery furnaces was confined to an occasional Sunday Veading of the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego and a more persistent set of visits to the coal slitd to supply the demands of that daddy of the present day furnace, a Baltimore Another Good One. TINNING the Grand Central's offering a close second Is "There Tou Are" down at At an attractive tea given yesterday Mr- and Mrs- Harry Hall Knisrht at the home of Knight's father, Mr. Harry lynch Knisnt. on the Warsoir and yLgtr roads, a show place of Lotti County, announcement FROM the sublime to the ridiculous is no mere figure of speech this week at the Orpheum with Duel de Kerekjarto, Hungarian violin virtuoso, providing the one, and Jack Norworth and Dorothy Adelphi and Bert Hanlon and d.isoy is a seir-made man. one of Heater.

As we grew up we still nraiei. va we grew up we Slllll failed to see the amusement possi- 1 wh would meet the Lxjew's. The reason for the name Is not explained but It is a fast moving farce with a lot of clever wise cracking sub titles and some very funny situations. Conrad Nagel, wolf at the door and be wearing a ist With Symphony Orchestra in Sunday Afternoon Offering. A light, tuneful program, directed at the senses rather tha to, minds of Us hearers, yesterday afternoon gave patrons of the second popular concert of the Symphony Orchestra a session of ear-filling entertainment.

Th! soloist was Clara Rablno-vitch. a pianist who gave the larghetto and allegro movements of Chopin's "Second Concerto In Minor." in pleasing style, and offered a Valse of the Polish composer for an The orchestra opened the program with Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the "Midsummer Night's Dream" and followed it with Thomas' Inconsequential "Carnival of Venice" overture. The soulful "Adagio Pathetlque" of Goddard swinging waltzes from "The Gypsy Baron" by Johsnn Strauss, the younger, and two numbers from Moszowsky's "Lau-rin" ballet, completed the regular program, which was augmented by "Malaguena" and ierne's "Petite Gavotte." mauu others supplying the rest, Norworth, Louise Crunden. deD. and Pectus J.

Wade Jr. Still With Us. THE Vltaphone and "Don Juan" are still plodding along at the Capitol where the higher admission prices, or something else, has succeeded in keeping the picture fans away in droves from the Sixth Street playhouse. Syd Chaplin in "The Better 'Ole" and a new list of Vitaphone artists are to be substituted presently. Biarritz Casino Bars Golf Togs.

Bv the. Associated Preaa. BIARRITZ. Nov. 15.

Nobody is welcome at the Casino in golf togs even If he loses money at the gaming tables. Evening, clothes must be worn. Albert Loewenstein. financier, is being prosecuted lie-cause of a row with the doorman. There was a fight when the sen-ry referred to nifty links togs a gunny sack." who Is determined to become a screen comedian, is the star and while he Is not yet a Harold Lloyd he Is bright and clever In this film.

His long line of serious parts, before he decided to be a funny man, makes it hard for the fans to accept his buffonery and every mo ns engagement is of unusual in-IlLt because of the social proml-Zm of the two families. Miss JLndMi haa chosen Jan. 20 as the Hefner wedding, which will be of the most important of the -winter social events. The cere-lU take place at the Crun-7. ihonie 4426 Westminster, place.

Til reception will follow at the ment expect him to turn serious and do something heroic. "There MISS CHIUSTTNE GEStPi. MISS GEMPP. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward S. Gempp, was the guest of honor at a. luncheon given today by Mrs. Oempp at their home in Sappington. amiable veteran of many stages, has a peculiarly titillating bit.

a bedroom farce of a different kind virtually the same act which W. C. Fields and Edna Leedom gave with great effect in Ziegfeld's "Follies." The curtain rises on a man and his wife in bed. He wants to sleep, she wants to quarrel "and so far into the night." De Kerekjarto is one of the few really fine masters of the violin who can hold a popular audience without recourse to cheapness. His program in judiciously chosen for melody, and ranges from the flashy sweetness of "Song of the Nightingale" to the throbbing ecstasy of the "Hungarian Rhapsody." For eicore he plays an improvisation bilities in a lot of molten metal splashing around on a dirt floor and threatening every minue to engulf the puddlers, as we believe the gentlemen are called who pick this as their favorite indoor sport'.

Cnder the circumstances then we approach a review of the picture, "Men of Steel," at the Ambassador Theater, sadly in need of the technical knowledge with which the true and conscientious critic should be equipped and experts may possibly pick flaws in our statement that it is a pretty good movie of a steel mill with red hot metal It is really colored red in the film splashing and splattering arf over the place. It is, as a matter of fact, exactly what we nave always imagined the inside of a steel mill to be like, but at the same time, we also find it to be as devoid of entertainment and amusement as Jie have pictured. Movie fans who lust Tou Are 'is good screen entertain ment and Gus Edwards has a stage The Knt home was beautifully i.v. r.lln vt rficpa anil 11 ctea wiui new iur coat a few minutes later. All of this and most of the rest of Scott Fitzgerald's splendid story Is brought out In the picture, but somewhere.

In the translation Into a mile of celluloid, the finer parts of the typed version have been lost. As a spoken drama. "The Great Gatsby" is said to have missed fire and as a movie it just falls short, somehow of being satisfying. But the people who have cried long and loud for fewer happy endings will have no cause to complain here. "The Great Gatsby" ends with a funeral In a rainstorm.

Incidentally. If you want to see "The Great Gatsby" you will have to hurry, for it comes off after tomorrow night, to make "way for a 10-day showing of "We're in the Navy Now." which starts Wednesday at the Missouri. Collegiate. THE best picture of the week is "One Minute to Play." in which Mr. Red Grange is starring at the Grand Central Theater.

It is, as might be suspected, a college story about, or around, a football game. For some unknown and highly revolutionary reason, the producer didn't pick his college offering which is pleasing, but unhappily Mr. Edwards doesn't know when to stop. An acceptable way to shorten It would be to dispense with Mr. Edwards' tiresome song in which he showers praise upon Mr.

Edwards. Holt's Colt. tav Hiss Horence Wade, sister of 'prospective bridegroom and Tadleg Hrs. on the, theme of "Carry Me uacK rf the honor suesw Miss Crunden is a graduate of institute and Foxcroft School ZANE GREY westerner In to Old Virginia." Middieburg, va. on 4tboi several seasons ago at a e- love steel mills may not agree with that statement either.

Certalnlv Beautifully carved Tilt-Top Tables of dull or highly polished woods. Some have exquisite inlays of contrasting wood or materials. A necessary piece of fumi' ture for the smartly furnished apartment and cozy home. of dinners ai me uuuioi" rnnntrv Club. She is a mem.

Milton Sills proves that an honest heart can beat under the hairy chest of a poor but struggling JX which there Is a lot of riding across horizons by Sheriffs posses, cattle rustlers and Jack Holt will amuse audiences this week at the St. Louis. It Is called "Forlorn River," and like Grey's deserts, purple sages, prairies and mountains th" river ha.s nothing to do with the plot. For that matter, neither has Holt. The plot wanders about enjoying the scenery wet the Imperial and Is the preset secretary of the Junior League.

ste Crunden is fond of horseback puddler and that if you drive back the anarchistically inclined workmen single-handed and save the boss lovely daughter from a hot finish in a tank of liquid fire, you rtaing, and is one 01 me ie of the side saddle. She 1 1' ''''i i.nimn i.i LOIRE'S Interior Decorator and Farniehera Hanlon, a most engaging -lowr wanders in and out of the -hew as master of ceremonies. The program includes: George Dormonde and Partner, equilibrists on mono-cycles: Lionel (Mike) an amateur thespian from the University of Michigan rather more Lionel than Mike, though, because he is a female impersonator: the Blue Slickers, a jazz band with a-kazoo, made more than bearable by the dancing of attractive Marie White; Eddie Allen and Doris Canfield in wild and noisy nonsense; and TjO-tie Atherton. closing the bill, wnose bid for fame is a clog dance lone while she stands on her head. ibo plays an excellent gime of golf.

Teasdale, Miss Jjorothy Crumbak-er. Mrs. Stanley Sample and Miss J. F. Donovan will comprise a group serving at the tea table.

MANY CREEDS JOINlANDS UNDER 'FLAG OF TOLERANCE' Port Huron (Mich.) Klan Gave Banner, Jew tlie Negro Rained It and Catholic Spoke. Br the A.o,iai-i PORT HURON, Nov. 15. A "flag of tolerance" waves today from a pole in the yard of th First Methodist Episcopal Church. The flag was donated by the Port Huron Ku Klux Klan to the church the pastor of which, iy.

Russell Brady, has been a open foe of the klan. The mast from which the flag flies was presented to the church by S. Goldman, a Jew. The flag was raised by Archibald Wayner, Negro war veteran, and the dedicatory address was made by Mgr. Patrick R.

Dunigan, Catholic To 10,000 persons who gathered for the ceremony yesterday. Mgr. Dunigan said: This observance, with its diversity of elements assembled so obvi- Washington at Spring Av, can be reasonably sure of becom- Mr Wade is one 01 me vu.tr the Mercantile Trust ij-pes irom among tne chorus-men while Jack makes love to Arietta i ng the owner of the place and extras around Hollywood, but wentMarschal. It seems that once up- I of which his father Is president. He ct TiiiI University, and Kts graduated from Yale in 19 23.

served overseas with the Jnrelrtn riem a nr. and was cited tor Dravery un- Utr fire. He is a niemoer oi me BUYS LOST HOLBEIN PAINTING St Louis Country. Racquet, ana University Clubs. By unusual coincidence.

Ii33 'fWir1aTl flTKl her brother. Arthur, 0 Pay over a period of months, on our dignified IBP Plan, at trifling added cost. Detroit Institute of Art Purchases NOMMMtfU to be married the same month. Hitherto Mis-placed Work. By th- Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15. The De JLouij' LaroQert cWomenir ofaeQialty ofiiop far. Crunden's wedding to Aiis3 iTiristine Wallace Crane of ew troit Institute of Arts has pur Lort will take place Jan. o.

Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Allen ar- vuiy tor me common good, means chased a hitherto lost -painting by Hans Holbein, sixteenth century master. It is announced. Only two other public galleries in this country the Metrooolitan Museum of ed in St.

Louis from their home nothing if not the convincing burial Paris last night to be the guests the winter with Mrs. Allen Paris Vouches for the Authenticity, of These Goats Heavil I aden With For mother, Mrs. Henry b. rurner, Pershing avenue. They landed Art here and the Toledo Art Mu seum are known to contain exam pies of Holbein's work.

in Sew York Saturday and came lirwtSy to St. Louis. Mrs. Turner or the bitterness of bigotry in this community." In spite of a warning Pastor Brady received last week that 400 ment would be present "to see' that the service was never carried ouT there was no sign of disorder. The entire Police Department.

augmented by a. company of National Guardsmen under arms, was The picture is a portrait of Sir Henry Guildford, a equiry to Henry pyt a dinner party for them last night and much entertaining will fet rfvMi for them durlnsr their VIII. The art dealers announced they had found the painting in Europe after studying references to it in literature about Holbein and Tw. Mrs. Allen was Mrs.

Ma rion limer Lambert before her engravings made from the original by Wenzel Hollar in 1647. Cards have been sent by Mrs. H. JC Kirkpatrlck of 6301 Washington In a Specially Underpriced Group for Tuesday at STATUE TO CHOPIN UNVEILED imUevard, and Mrs. T.

F. Kirkpat-wk, for a luncheon bridge at the Missouri Athletic Association, Nov. Effort Made to Impress World if vl D. Composer Was of Polish Birth. Bv the Associated PresF.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Green WARSAW, Nov. 15.

As part of 1 47 Westmoreland place, will de- the three days ceremonies in hon frt tomorrow for a visit in New Vk. or of Frederic rancois Chopin, a statue of the famous composer has George 11. Sewcll, Editor, Is Dead. Bv the A.qsociatfvi Pre-ss CARTHAGE. Nov.

H. Sewell. 67 years old. veteran newspaper man of Southwest Missouri, is dead of heart disease here. Mr.

Sewell was vice-president of the Press Publishing Co. of Carthage, and a brother W. J. Sewell. president of the con-pany.

He was a member of the board of the Missouri Fruit Exp -ment station at Mountain Grve, former president of the Ozark is-trict Fair Association, and nr 15 years was head of the Jasper County Boys Corn Show, which he founded. Before coming to hs-thage. 27 years ago, Mr. Sewell published the Virden, 111. for 15 years.

-Formal announcement has been been unveiled here. Representatives of musical organizations in we or the engagement of Miss irparet Shaw Chandler, daughter several countries were invited, to impress upon them that Chopin Warren M. Chandler of 5247 was a Polish composer, despite his German avenue, and Claude i fa naSrlM French name. Snghast Porter of St. Louis, of Chicaeo.

Th. nwc a On account of the great distance, America was not represented, but at a oartv c-U-pn Rafnrflav delegations came from all Europe hy Mr. and Mrs. Garneau 'Id at their new home on the except Germany, and also from Ja pan. The delegations deposited nsrer road Miss Chandler was educated at Collects Funds for Dry Ireland.

Contributions for a local prohibi wrea'hs, among them the soviet delegation, whose wreath was the tirst soviet floral offering at any institute and Miss Wright's Itol at Rrrn Mo-r -r t- tion campaign In the north of Ire Polish ceremony. land were received by the Rev. Dr. E. J.

McKee of Dublin, who we death of her mother, three iiiss Chandler did not preached yesterday in the First I lira La, Plante Is Married. By the Associated PTe. LOS ANGELES. Nov. 15.

Presbyterian Church. An attempt is being made to vote Belfast and a iormal debut. She is popu-ciaily and is a member of Junior Leaeuc Pnrtr Laura La Plante. film actress, and the surrounding region dry, under I red in the World War a local option laws similar to those William A. Seiter, motion picture director, were married here yes prevailing in American States be- aximerv.

He is Juate of the Universitv of Wis- terday. ore national prohibition. IS a member of the Cty and Stack clubs. The 6 far One might easily deprecate the possibility of finding a satis' factory Coat at a price so low before looking at this collection but not afterwards. How we can provide Coats which delight women who expected to pay $85 to $100 is a secret of our buying contacts.

LWred. 1301 been Famed for Endurance and for Speed Garland's FUR COATS Are Endowed With PARIS SMARTNESS You'll seeCarland Fur Coats wherever smart omtn gather and you can distinguish them, too, from the "ordinary run" of Fur Coati. One nice thing about a Garland Fur Coat i the asur ance of "inbuilt quality that factor in a Coat which you cannot see, except in the character of the service it renders. Jw J- Curby of 4 compli- Before You Buy. ret the facts.

A VVs.hinr Machine should be purchased. V- The New 1927 Wonder Model GravbaR onlv after oarer I ana -woo piers. Zrl -f Frederick R. 2, Waterman avenue. thorough investigation.

We invite you to visit mir store and the 1927 In this Tuesday sale you will see several hundred of the mid' season's most correct models, in the shades and fabrics which will be favored for sport or dress wear. Many hand' somely tailored Craigleigh Coats are included. A few of the fur trims and fabrics are: -r ueoutante of the season, o' nr Oraybar wasner ne-fcre you decide on any and then decide -what Wash t-Vu Same for Western Electric) Electric Washer 350,000 in Use Made and backed by a world- a er you are io-tnz to buy. meaier tne party fvHotel Chas- The guest "jW be made up of eight de- and their escorts. Wood will de- great electrical organization i ror Chicago to visit th absence of Mr.

Mexico where he is with a Or hnr a. A marvelous new model the ttnest all of 18 years of Electric veritable wonder in safety and conrenience. Come and see it. Get the facts at first hand. Can Bm Pjurchaied on Term at Slight Increase in Cott (Tl 3 W1B 8UC51 J.

JT Scullta of St. Louis. St. Louieans who will Plat. Wolf Beaver Squirrel Vicinia Fox Caracul Min Tails, etc.

Juilpoint Glowana Duvbloom Yolanda TAontebello Velverette, etc. low aa Misses' Sport Models 139.50 to 289.50 Young women who enjoy ths comfort of a Fur 'Coat and wish to pay cloth coat prices are finding this selection of youths uis far above the average. if i "K1 27 to see the 1 Down MV 0ftball game are Mr. i Emmpt M. Meyers of 4925 boulevard and Col.

and Montblr Payments 1 0: Be of Llndell boule Buy Now and Receive tmi irs. Men win join TP my officers and their -a win be their guests. rftrty will be given to Z'r "rold Maxwell of the Arir'mfTiti nmntlmen DRAin-E-Z TUBS Free 1 daughter. Miss Dorothy the Exquisite Fur Coats 189.50 to 1889 The price ranpe and the variety i so wide that every tate and every purte. is admirably met.

fur Salon Third FJcor. Ton fill them at tbt faucet, roll them where rvul la. Youthful lines are emphasized in wrappy, straightline or bloused models. Collars, cuffs and borders are the newest and the furs are of exceptional quality. Petites Misses WomefTs Extra Sizes Catf Tkri Titer v.

TOU nt them, empty mm -wo of these work-avin Dram Tuba ot. Two given tomorrow by free with your wonaer absolutely ara 14y Itae of 6S3J Serving rFnlrl V4' In honor of Mrs ft; A- 'ten. wife of Con-, and Miss Carolyi There will be niMti 3454 3455 ace STIA Xhl 1X uPfy. Mrs. Leland rcr.

Mrs. W. W. Hennessy and "wm 1 W. GARLAND, Broadway and Sixth, Between Locust and St.

JJ "omniniu Will BSBiai 04 PINE ST. ts and Miss Margaret.

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