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THEWEATHER INDIANA FsIrjT Mnnda Tuesda) unsettled with Know or rain In south and mow In north portion founded IS FORT WAYNE JOURNAL GAZETTE 77TS5 THE PEOrLirjS PAt Ell FORT WAYNE AND NORTHERN IM I ANA'S LEADING HOME NEWSPAPER AND WANT AD MEDIUM MONDAY MORNING JNUARY 30. 1922 (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) (NEWS OF THE WORLD) PRICE THREE CENTS 107 DEAD IN THEATER DISASTER CONGRESSMANWHOESCAPED BRITISH EXPLORER GIVES DETAILS OF CRASH, DEAD IN ANTARCTIC Sir Ernest Shackleton Passed Representative John H. Smithwick, Florida, Away on Board Ship Paints Vivid Pir.tnrp. nf Whir.h Januar 5 I UAn MANY AnUCWTllRFQl Stilled by Collapse of Snow Laden Roof CRAWLS THROUGH WRECKAGE Christciisen Visits Lenin The Associated Press) VI ASIUNGTON January 29 An avalanche of broken VV plaster, bricks, snow, splintered wooden and twisted steel beams, catapulting upon the audience while the orchestra played and a comedv film ground out, is the description of the Knickerbocker theater disaster, given today by Representative John Smithwick, of Pensacola, Tla He was in the balcony when the roof collapsed under its weight of snow and escaped unaided just how he cannot recall with more or less serious hurts "The orchestra was playing beautiful music and a comic film was running," said Mr. Smithwick, lying in his bed bam'aged and with his face and hands covered with "Suddenly there was a sharp crack I looked up and saw a great fissuie running across the ceiling.

It was right over my head I realized what ws happening The plaster began to fall, dropping down in laige and small chunks all over the theater, it seemed to me While I was looking up, a great pieoe, right over royi head, started to fall. The plec truck the aeat right where I had been elltlng The fore broken by the tout It pinned me under when I as crouching The nolae wua awful It waa a great treinemloue roar It waa slmp ly Indescribable I never can forget It In the inidat of the roaring were shrieks and cries of women and chll Uren and few shouts of men There ere crlea for help groans and worst ull the moan, of those In terrible pain ll ful 1 cant des ribe ll I see It all the time those poor children and men and women There were only a few of us In the balcony Luckily there were no mor The baltony gave way and crushed soon after the celling; bt gon crying and brounlng th Great French Newspaper Fans Spirit of Displeasure Throughout Country PARIS BLAMES GERMANY Country Drifting Towards Isolation Declares She Is Misunderstood BY WILLIAM BIRD Special Cable ti The Journal Ga (Cepyrialrt. IM? TH. SaiMta) PAHItf Jan 211 Kcmntn enl Against America Is sweeping I rain like a prairie fire ll la I 1 fm lied by a great newspaper 1 Matin This paper until recently supported Mr Brlund but It nw nii de termlnod to show JYi nl 1 ulncar that tt can be more ilUt than i king The Immediate csuse of tho resent ment agulnst America 1h tho reso lutlnn fntrndu. ed In th Washington by Mr urmlck, of Illinois, demanding to know the ex act stale of European fln.im.ea and tho amount being expended on arm amenta It la realised here that be hind thla resolution Hex an American pubUo opinion blaminn; France for th failure of certain features of Ihe Washington eonfertneu program The existence of this opinion Is con firmed by Heiretary Hoover analy six of the various steps necessary to European letonstructt i French opinion may bo sum mat feed thus America does understand France A merit view the wot Id from the lewpolnt tf dollar and nU America thinks armaments ure a needless ex Ira italic tihe believes that a disarm viorld could thereby opening niarkt i American Industry But France uined by the war must Insist that I ltc these attractive theories tht nlnll have first seeurlt against tenewed at tacks nd second, proper reparation of damage done 11 iiit a hel guarantee these and i will help re construct Europe and pay our debts It la also fieely suggested beu that American optnl hit, bee tnt? the victim of insldl ui (1 i man piop Uganda ttilt does Frantt ui hi part un derstand Arnerl Thai Is a fair question One answer Is that Iheie are more than 60 Aui lean newspa per correspondents cabling dally from 1'aris.

while not one larls paper reg. ularly publishes any corresf ondei.ee from America except abbreviated agency reports genera ly treating a subject In a fragment fashion trance further falls understand she waa notthe only countrj damaged by the war In fact Drltlah today is autrenng lose Page Cetumn 4 They we lower floor ght the worst In balL.onv were more fortunate I guess thero was a lapse of 0 seconds hardly more before the bal ny fell Funny but It spun around (Continued en Page f. Column Believe Pont1' Will Be Elected by Next Saturday (liv the Associated Ires) IIOMIS Jan 2 The 81st pontiff of the Human Catholic church will be letted ly next Saturday accord lug to the consensus of opinion as expressed by the prelates arriving to the conctue they expect that the edition will be reached on the third or fourth ballot The conclave opens Thuiaday American und English dignitaries onslder it a certainty that the choice will lull ui un Italian They be lit th bent chances lie with Ctu linal Maffl Rnttl Lega and La ftintalne A prominent English prel ate dedared it would be a great inla take to eluct foielgn cardinal, as that would lead to disappointment and dissatisfaction In the United tUate Ureal Hrltian and Franca, all of whom probably felt that they niurlled high office wliereaa the se lection of an Italian would be triable to alL Neither France Spain nor Auutria, the conclave a choice a privilege which these countries have hereto fore enjoyed Former Hoosier Is Theater Victim a broken pelvis and of 8 Freeman formerly of Houth Internal injuries Mrs. Hheughnessy Bend, Ind waa tonight Identified WASHINGTON Jan JTh body suffering ft rx a tvuman gWrnariv nt Mouth Internal Inji sustained 1 hud both other daughter waa bruised. (our of the five members of the family of Oscai a Kens ton, 1847 North Winchester street, Chicago on of the victims of the Knicker bocker theater disaster II sa a musician In the theater orchestra and was caught ilk a mi lu a trap llii her from South Wend several years ago, having played lu Iheal i itieetra there bdward II Bhaughness) of Chicago, second assistant postmaster general Mr.

Uhaughuessy and their two daughters Myrtle and Ruth, were injured, Mrs, Whaughneaay aert oualy, la the crash At th Walter Iteet) hospital wher Mr Bhaurh aeasy waa taken. It a a found that asstant postiwsui general was Kaitstoii who cair connection with ork for the ru the disaster her recently In nporary Disco ered South Magnetic Pole in 1906 on his First Voyage (By The Associated lr MOMbVlUFO rugua) Jan 2 sir I rnest Mia kleton the British expl rtr dted January 6 on board the Nteamnhtp Quest on which he waa making another expedition Into the antarctic regions It wan ascertained that the Quests voyage from Klo Janeiro to South Georgia was uneventful The health of the commander uppeared robust On the night of January 4 Shackle ton complained of feeling ill and re tired to bed The medical officer Captain Hueee passed the nlgat in Shackleton cabin The end came luddenly despite all the efforts of the att tiding hysiclan who re lieed the seriousness of tt)t attack jut waa not prepared for such a lapld end The authorities of South Georgia gave permission for th Is nuance of a certificate of death in or ler that the body could be embarked or England The body was placed a sine shell which wa her metlcal sealed by Dr wy and, afterward encased in a wooden cof to can led by the Quest for araer renclea. The body remained aboard irom January 5 until January 17 nhen It was transferred to the Norwegian ateamer Professor Cruvel The steamer Professor Cruvel left Houth Georgia the same da Sarrlvlng At Montevideo this morning Th tody wilt ba embalmed and plseed In the British, cemetery her waiting transport to England Hlr Lrneii shackleton wua born In 117. il iu a third iteuteaaa 4s British national antarctic exp wJlhtn tT miles of tha, mwiiIS ru ila. Ifi third quest of (ha ool ta 1114.

Th expedition In which he waa engaged when he died was to hav cov flc and th antarctic i On board the Quest a tie 200 ton ship Sir tmet set sail from ngland last boptember on what waa to have been a two year voya. La.rge crowds gathered on the docks iu Iondoii to wish the party a successful voyage Th voyage had as Its objective not only oceanographlc research but th exploration of a petrified forest and th location of a "lost" Island Tuanakl th adjacent waters of which had not been sailed for more than 90 years In addition soundings were to ha been taken of the oceaii plateau surrounding Cough Island in an effort to determine the truth regarding a supposed under water continental connection between Africa and America Sir Ernest for" his distinguished service was mad a knight In 109 arlous societies throughout the world honored him for his work. The Quest left Rio Janeiro Decern ber 11 for South Oeorgla Island. sir Ernest was an Irishman. He as educated at Dulwlch college and ler graduation went to sea.

choo (Continued en Psg t. Column .) LATE POPE EULOGIZED BY RABBIWEINSTEJN Local Minister Praises Humanitarian Qualities of Pontiff THE DEAD Pope lienodlct XV was eulogised and the activities of hi reign were praised by Rabbi A Welnsteln of the Achduth Vosholem temple West Wayne street" in his sermon "The I ope and the Papacy yesterday Rabbi Welnsteln called attention to the great humanitarian activities of the late head of the Catholic church and In this connection referred to his relations with th Jews of th world, quoting extracts from a letter issued in lvie. caning ror a halt to pereeci tlon of Jew In various parts of th world at that time Th late pope, itaoui vteinsiein aaia. in an actloiia showed his humanitarian qualities and waa particularly active to secure religious ireeaom tor au denominations Th minister reviewed th career of th pontiff and emphasised hi peculiar position during th late war lie praised th Dopes efforts In be half of th suffering people of Europe and stressed th action which resulted In an agreement for th ex change of wounded prisoners of war ALLEGED LIQUOR RING STIRS BLUFFT0N BLUFFTON, Ind Jan. t.

Thsr has been considerable agitation her this week over th surged bootleg ging Including reports that a special grana jury migm uaiiea. coincident wiLh th rebruarr term of court. aluatlou tu convene a week from Monday Tb of the Intel slat Mimmercv touunl Urn la her for drawing th circuit aion went last night to th play aurt Jury and Jury commissioners nous wua nis wit nis two aaugn state mac iney nave nee. no instruc tera. Helm.

11 and Anvln and his I Huns to draw a arand Jury son Grant 11 Only the boy s.apd. A general stir waa caused this Th body of JVlru. Viiglnla, week when John Shafer resigned a sister of Julio tilunihr Uautamalanldeputy sheriff when Sheriff Noah minister to th United aHataa, was Krauhlgr told him suspoctsd that Identified tonight among tho of he. Wbafer, hadlpp4 tU a proposed ui vu.uui rata on ooitvggtu ilaHanfaHF aatfCf VaasH asBBBBBBsf' LsK ''Mm gaBBBa! aassaBtBlMPM JfFt iel SB.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.IK. aHHLwaHeSVBvHaf saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHsasBBBBB Bsj BH gagsgaY 'rff4 7 aaasBHsaasaWsril ILIST MOUNTS AS RESCUE HINDERS RESCUERSIWORKERS EXPLORE DEBRIS This photo Just received from shows P.

F. ChrUtanaen, th Farm Labor party preeiaentiai caaaiaat at the last election, conierrina with fenin. CbxlsUansen la making tour of Russia, WASHINGTON. Jan, t. Identified dead In the Knickerbocker theate a.taaLrophe are rorjrfar Jiepreeentativ 4 Barohfold formerly of PiUsburgn.

Mn Joseph ftaJfcj WUHfera th aaHM rvepreevntatlv J6sy Oarvirw7eSErt rV 1 chaancvv Hralnerd. Trashing ton correspondent of th Brooklyn Dak Eagle, and wife nurred Broeseau Nortn Aaams aae student at Georgetown uni ity Mlse Margaret Dutch I udington Mich Ouv a Elldrlae. Salt Lake City brother in law of Senator Hmoot, of Utah Miss Yrsrnla Farraud. sister or Minister Biauchl. of Guatemala Conston Chicago, his wife and two daughters.

Helen and Any Ho Cutler LaWn. Jr aged it, mcagR Miss Nannt Lee Lambert, former ly of Ashhoro John Murray Tne nains a Vt Summon of Noming stu dent at George Washington unit entity L. Schoolfleld, Danvlll a InvM rn Rnroul aaed 17 hicaro. nephew of Representative rlliott Sproul of Illinois. Ktepnenson oosion Lewis Strsyer Washington corre pendent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch II Conroy ance and wife rred erlcksburg, Va.

William Walters. Brooklyn student at Georgetown university The following Identified dead reside in vvasningtont Aiary finei AtRin ler. WlUlam Csaibv. Ure. OorelL Croitmr Vlnmnn baubert, Thomas M.

Dorsey, Mies Helen Dnrsch A. Bldrldge and wiie, it, brnesc, hcu "arr vnris tian Feige, John Memlng Miss Mary Iee Fleming Thomas lemlng G. Freeman Miss Clyde, Geor hart If. Hall. Douglass Hlllyer William Hughes Daniel K.

Jack son Miss Elisabeth Jeffries John Jeffries. Howard Kneeal, L. Lehmer Leroy Lehmer and wife. Da vld Lyman Uyatt McKlnnl Julian Mcicenne Ernest is uatelllo Mrs Norman Martindale Mia Agnes Meiion Mrs Jean Mlrsky Miss Ver onlca Murohv Miss Vivian Os den II ODonnell and wife. Miss Lois Pitcher Miss Hssel Price Mrs Marie Russell Mrs Cora Slgourney Miss juane ri pmitn victor bturgln Mrs Gertrude Taylor William Tra re Miss Gladys Thomas Charles tJoyles Tucker and wife Jacob dong and wife Louis I all) ntlne ana wiie juiss uiiarexl wairord Walker and wife Captain Ullam iv.

vvarner quartermaster corps army and wife Mra Charles Wesson wife of Colonel Wesson, ordnance department A Ivaji White nnd Miss Blkle. THE INJURED Mrs Komasso Aasereto, third secretary of the Italian embassy June Bergman Mrs Hasel Huenler Bowen and wiie Mrs liernard bresslau Miss Sadie Breae lau James Bruce, Elliott Brum bauo Gilbert CaDlai. H. Castney Mra. Mary Chalmers, Claflln Mis Und Mrs L.

DurUnd Mrs Guy a Lldrldge Miss Mary Forsytbe Mis Ruth Foul WlUlam A Gallowtiy Dr Clyde Gear hart Normal I Gibson snd sister Mrs Haley, Hugh Glenn Mo Gold Dr Curtis Lee Hall and wife, ivy Hamilton Dr lu fc. Hay dan, his wife and two children Wsr ren Help hen Mrs Doug Us Hlllyer Captain Hills. A and wife Peri Hill Mies Helen Hopkins Margaret John, John Klenner, Mrs Howard Kneesi, Henry Lacey, Lee Clarence Long lohn A. argot Orest MaUllo Ulliam Masse John Mc Ever ley Mr Juhun Mo Kinney Mertle Jonas Mich aleas and wife Monahan Wakeneld, R. 1.

Soott Montgomery John A Moreen It Moses Her bert and Mildred Nash John and Katharine Nesblt Clarence Newklrk. Mrs Iu Pasuuale Alice Pasuual' Henry Peason Miss Mrginla Poole Misa Ruth Postley Mr Henry Powell, Henry Wilson and Miss Fdllln Wilson John Prexloso Marl Rhea Belle Rembo, Fdward Sacks, New York City Harry Sacy Walter Lrd Saey Mrs Mattle Schwab Shaugnessy second assistant postmaster general his wife and two daughters Representative John A. Bmithwlck of rlorida Al bert R. Sward Martha Strayer Mrs Gertrude Taylor Lieutenant Colonel Taylor USA leonard and Elixa beth Theunlsaen Christiana Thorn son Lata Underwood Caroline Up Shaw Nathan I Urdong Alphoneo Van Poucke Colonel Wesson USA Nancy Wesson Miss Mac Lean White Edward A WllUama Mrs Juliette Webb Miss Ines Woodruff LJward A Williams Miss Marie Young Mrs Joe Younger Christian Science Church Turned Into Temporary Morgue and Hospital SERVICE MEN ARE CALLED Family Groups Predominate in Ill Fated Washington Audience (B) is Associated Press) I AHHINOTuV Jan 29 Reco ered from the wreck and horror if ruined Knickerbocker ineainr niMfui irHin nt mansled bodies i dead and living flowed all last night and today Into the lower rooms of a l. hiistlan Science church a few hun it id aids aa At the first word of the disaster the Isce was thrown open to those stricken folk and the hundreds of others who came to search for their dead or injured As full weight of the losses became known the dead monopolixed tho pace crowding the injured in in ait too small rooms.

Cauaht beneath the falling beams which had been designed to act as traverse supports for th roof scores ere taken to hospitals suffering Ith broken limbs or severe internal injuries. Many were glvn immediate medfeal attention at Improvised sta tlon hastily erected near the scene of th disaster The Knickerbocker one of the newest and largest of th capital motion picture houses was rated as one of the most exclusive drawing Its patronage from ihe northwest residential section ffn the vicinity of upper Connecticut avenue tamlly groups predominated In the audience which rat he red last nfght to watch the showing of a rollicking comedy and tt was upon tneae mat uie tool backed tons of et snow descended with barely a whispered warning In the entlro audience but one person was found who had be come aware of Impending domii in time to reach an exit A number of others worked their way to safety through cantopnlnlathawTok Flremen fought their way through. heaping snowdrirts in answer to general alarm Police patrols filled with men, churned and skidded through the whit muck and In an swer lo a summons marines from the barracks clear acroas th city came at double time panting through the heavy going At Fort Myer acroas the river the cavalry was turned out and started In truck loads to the rescue only to find roads blocked with mow Th men shov riled their way frantically but finally called At the scene of the disaster there was wild confusion for a time Those who first mede their way to the au Utorium do saw before them a dim, mysterious heap of wreckage falntlv llsrhted a strins of colored electrics on the stag that still stood lnact and by the reflected glow from the leaden skies above th void wher the roof had been. Ml nut hv ml nut the crowds about the door thickened. Th crash of the falling roof had drawn many some who had relatives in that mass of ruin and melting snow inside.

Th clang of fire apparatus brought otner hundreds and until tha marines earn panting up th polic war power lees to fight off the crowd rlremen plunged Into the wreck 134 Injured, 14 seriously, as Washington Movie House Collapses Under Three Foot Load of Snow; 92 Bodies Identified; Exaot Number in Theater at Time Unknown RED CROSS RESPONDS TO CALLAT CAPITAL Two Little Girls Sleep Peacefully In Ruins at Theater All Night (Br Th, Aaaoclatad Pr.s WABUINQTON, Jan. SWwp. Ing pMMtully bansath tha debris la th, wr.ck.cl Rnlrk.rbockar tli.sUr, two tlttl, girls, agsd about 4 and wsr, found aarly today by cusrs. It hour, ad.r tha ulayhouaa roof had fallan In. Apparently u.lthar of th chlldron waa badly hurt Thar war, takan to a hospital without Identification.

Four hours earlier 1 year old girl waa found unhurt, eated between the ibodiee of two eeeta and the protection glvsn her or th bodlea of the two women, bo w.r. killed besid her Borne of th dead were allv who, resaue work began, but died before th aarlng hands oould reakb tbem. On girl child, pinned under a beam. (Oenllnuii Celums ARTHUR ZASPEL DIES AT HDPEMETHODIST Widow and Family on Way to United States from Germany Arthur Zaapel 81 years old, died at th Hopa Mwthodlst hospital at 60 o't lock last night from blood poisoning after making a brav fight to Uv until could seo his wLf and two children who are on th Alia ntlo ocean on their way to th United Bta tea. Tb family will coin direct to Fort Wayne.

Zaapel contracted blood poisoning after Injuring his hand several weeks tng plant har at th tim was taken 111. II knew for several days before th end that could Dot posslUy Hv long Th wlf and children will arrive In New York luesday Zaspel was born la Uwrmany and has bn In Ainerka only a short time Th body was taken to th KUubn 4 Bon morgu. wher It wilt held pending th arrival of lb famllf. Csntlnwed en ff, Clumn 1 EXPERIENCE IN MIMES SAVES ONEMAN'S LIFE Beats Falling Debns to Door in Dash for Safety in Theater Crash Hv Tfcdt AaaoctAlad Pri WASHINGTON Jan 2 Long vnir ia.nrew In r.nia.1 mines enabled Morris, a 63 ar old retired coal mine manager of Buckhanon West lrglnla, to escape from th death trap in tn center oi me vnicv I was in th lghth row from th front Mr Morris said today whn 1 heard a crack a sort of ripping aound exactly Uk that which th slat roof of a ooal measure makes when it is going to let go It was more Instinct than anything els that brought in to my feet with on thought flashing tnrougn my mine cheatra leader baton waving with th mualo and a little whit cloud coming down above his head. Then I ra.n tin tha avlale.

Wtth the TOOf cracking and falling abov ma As I got to in ooor id scuh hit ra In a wav of wind from be hind, which, literally flung lobby onto th sldswalk" Mr Morris said he was warned by a sound Uk that of a lipping sheet only much louder "1 saw no on els moving as I went up th aisle continued Tn nous arouna waa Dracttcally ftmotv and I when I sat down that I waa th only on In th row Th stuff In falling my Impression Is, must hav gone Into the orcnestra pic iirei i The orchestra leader A res to IS Ma tellio, and several other members of th orchestra were killed Others seated near th alaae eHcaned with Injuiles trior or less serious. The stage broke th full fore jf the faU hefor th tangled debris reached them. Matelllo was formerly direc tor of tb Clrcl theaur orchestra, at COMEDY CHANGED TO TRAGEDY oriHtd WASHINGTON January 30 Otticial police recorda early today placid the dead in the Knickerbocker theater disaster at 107 Elimination of duplicated naraes brought the final total down from the unofficial peak of 112, at which the toll of the catastrophe was placed late last night The list of lniured stood at 134 with 14 listed, as seriously injured The volunteer workers including police, firemen, marines and cavalry from Fort Myer, had practically concluded their earrh of the wreckage at midnight, the only portion of which remaining to be searched being a far corner in which it was not expected additional bodies would be found. The official list according to the authorities contained the names of all those whose bodies had been recovered up to midnight from the rums left when the roof of the theater, overweighted with snow, collapsed on the audience, which had braved the Saturday night storm to witness the comedy' featured on the evening program Ninety two of the victims had been identified when the force of volunteer workers 24 hours after the disaster, approached the of their long search et the debris Nine additional bodies of those who had succumbed to injuries after rescue lay in city hospitals. Senator Capper, of Kansas, a member of the senate District of Columbia committee, announced tonight that as soon as the senate reconvened he would introduce a resolution calling for an investigation of the disaster and also of all large building construction in Washington since the beginning of the war.

Senator Capper said reports had come to him that to a more or less degree the building code of the District of Columbia bad been violated during the rush of construction following the increase in the city's population following the war declaration. The exact number in the theater when the steel and concrete span of the roof buckled and fell under its threfoot load of snow probably will never be known. The stones of perhaps a hundred who got out uninjured have been reported. These account for a few more than 300 in the audience that was roaring in laughter at a filmed comedy whan the roof fell on them like a blanket, carrying down the front of the wide balcony in its crash. Normally the theater has had every seat filled at 3tlt hour and nearly 2,000 persons was its capacity.

The Aaftie unprecedented snowfall which brought death to the venturesome few kept many at home Street car traffic had been abandoned and streets and sidewalks were all but impassable with drifts. There has been no time as yet for official inquiry afeUTthe cause of the disaster The ruins themselves disclose, however, that the entire mass of steel which held concrete that formed the roof had come down. The crash swept the.sup ports out from under the balcony, apparently, and tfeli hinged down at an angle of 45 degrees, adding to the taagjeti mass of wreckage on the floor below The building stands in an acute angle corner at Eighteenth street and Columbia road, northwest, the heart of the" inbst favored residence section of he city. The narrow niche of the itage on which the screen was hung was backed into the comer angle, while to the left from Cite stage, the line'bf the auditorium wall runs in a straight line for some hundred feet down Eighteenth street To the right the wall followed the flow curve of Columbia road for about the same distance, and at the far end, paralleling the stage front, the back wall completes the auditorium proper, also about 200 feet in length. This whole space stood roofless to the sky a monument after the first hissing sound of the breaking roof gave warning above the music of the orchestra.

There is only one survivor thus far who has told of having heard that warning, and seen the first powdery handful of snow fall down over the bead of the orchestra leader, in time to make his escape. From his seat well forward on the main floor he raced for the doors at the back. A great blast of air expelled as the roof came down hurled him out through the doorway to safety. Mrst of the bodies were recovered from the floor of the pit beneath the wreckage of the balcony or from the front of the balcony itself Following the rule of motion picture audionces and with an almost empty house to pick from, thote on the main floor had grouped themselves in rows ef seat just below the front of the balcony. They were back.