Los Angeles Evening Post-Record from Los Angeles, California • 1

Los An tj mAKE it your favorite wi Pastme to call Circu- lotion Manager if you do not get The Record delivered jiatAKE it your favorite IrJL Pa8me to caM Circulation Manager if you do not get The Record delivered TUcker 1121 TUcker 1121 Jnside 'Page One Published Dally Except- Sunday at Record Building 612 Hall Street MONDAY JANUARY 5 1925 Entered at I Angeles postoffice as sec- Inside Page One oud-cluMi mail under act March 3 1879 NO INQUEST IN KILLING OF FACE CROP STARS WAMPAS PICK 1925 OF BABY SCREEN 'll TROOPS PATROL STREETS OF ROME THREE DIE TRAFFIC WRECKS Mae Murray Dances in Merry Thirteen little girls of filmdom were happy today following announcement that they had been chosen from among hundreds of ambitious screen debutantes as the Wampas Baby Stars of 1925 The honor is one for which there is keen rivalry each year in motion picture circles Choice as a Wampas Baby Star gives impetus to any girl seeking advancement on the screen By DON and other feature pictures Anne Cornwall with dark brown eyes and hair was! bom in Fort Ham- ilton She was educated at I FRIEND Ted LeBerthon the subli- "8 1 Wm mated press agent was interviewing Mae Murray talking to her about books and men write them trying to draw her out on the eternal verity of the absolutely unconscious Presently he would go to his office and write his own story representing Miss Murray to be what she is not: an erudite and thoughtful creature behind her rouged and bee-stung upper lip If my other friend who used to be a baseball writer before he became a press agent for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had conducted the interview he would have represented Mae Murray as an ardent advocate of clean sports This is the bunk I reflected as I sat In uniform dangling my sabre between my legs waiting waiting for I knew not what for them to begin making the scene in the royal box yes This is the bunk and I am seven times a fool to be working in the movies The stage itself is empty and hollow I reflected out of my experience but the movies are the shadow of something that is only a shadow' itself The pale shadow' of an unsubstantial shade her family and who discovered her She has appeared in many Universal productions She recently terminated the important role of Masked in "The Phantom of the Opera" She comes from a theatrical family her mother being related to James the famous tragedian and Anno thq celebrated dancer DEATH ATTEMPT FUTILE Ernest Cotrell 40 Is in the psyco-pathlc ward Monday after a suicide attempt made in Huntington Park Sunday acording to a report by the suburban police It seems that Cotrell was brooding over a separation from his wife and decided to cut his w'rist arteries as the most effective means of protest OPEN FACE HOSPITAL Drs Sydney Broadbent and Wm Balsinger have found the face-reconditloning business a regular gold mine it Is evident with the announcement that the two countenance-sculptors have started a big hospital of their own at 1601 North El Centro Hollywood CITY INSPECTORS MOAN Anguished cries were heard in city hall Monday when city inspector aloud that they wre losing a whole pay under a new ruling Formerly they received two and one-half pay for holiday work The new rule allows one and one-half pay Hence the moans AND then while I steeped myself in pessimism the movies like a man pulling a rabbit out of a high hat produced a piece of art We were litting in the royal box the cynical and depraved Prince of Monteblanco the young and handsome Prince Danilo the aged and diseased Baron de Sa-doja and the two adjutants of which I was one Readers already know the Crown Prince and his handsome cousin Let me introduce the Baron de Sadoja who has not entered "The Merry Widow" before this writing Tully Marshall is playing him He is a creation of Erich von Stroheim's perhaps his best To understand him you must know' Von Stroheim an artist who finds beauty in contrast in ugliness in being ugly as life itself is ugly The baron has locomotor ataxia He walks like a crawling thing holding himself erect on two ebony canes His face is chalky And when he looks at a woman he sees only her feet Coroner IVank Nance will sign death certificates of murder and suicide in the case of Ds La A ergne Hogue Mrs Alpha Hogue and their son Glenn Hogue 3 without the formality of an Inquest it was announced Monday body that of bis wife and his were found by deputy sheriffs In a lonely spot near Aland tos Heights on the eastern outskirts of Long Beach Saturday morning A shell shocked veteran mind has been failing for some time and the night before he had threatened to kill his wife and child Mrs Hogue though importuned by relatives refused to leave her husband About midnight Friday Hogue's mind finally snapped according to the evidence After shooting his son he shot his wife then "turned the smoking weapon himself One ahot for each sufficed Hogue was a brother-in-law of A and iC A Patton and at one time had a deputy badge This was taken away from him when his mind begun to fail and he threatened to shoot Undersheriff Biscailuz The dead man waby trado a printer TENOR GIVES RECITAL Joseph Conlln in recital at Phil-harmonic auditorium Sunday afternoon proved the eternal adage concerning the length of art and the shortness of life However as Conlln is a yoww Winger and a tenor at that It were well to remember that art has a habit of capitulating to tenor voices and young throats Conlln found himself In the more lyric and less ponderable parts of the program especially the ballad style of singing His Italian diction was regrettable and the operatic arias taxed his light voice to strains far from healthy This young voice Is Ideally suited to church work and to light equipment ONE DEAD IN FIRE Boston Mass Jan One woman lost her life In a fire which destroyed the Sc obey hospital hers yesterday DENIES MARRIAGE Johnny Greer 19 saya be Is married to Leslie Marsh 17 niece of Mae Marsh film star Miss Leslie Marsh says that Johnny is mistaken She declares she never heard anything about her rying Johnny So there choice you are Take your ZIONIST IJKVDEK 11 ERE Bernard Stone Zionist leader is here tu interest local Jews in Palestine He will speak Monday afternoon at ML Sinai temple and Monday night at Temple Eamanual dub ADVERTISERS HONOR SECRETARY Raymond executive secretary for the Advertising club will be honored at the regular Tuesday meeting of the organization Alt the Biltmore hotel BURY PIONEER AA' Mrs Elizabeth Sturgess Dozier who lived here for 44 years was buried today In Forest Lawn cemetery after serv-f ices in the Little Church of the Flowers Glendale City finance committee i opera two musical jurisdictions scheduled to step into the manding much the same delivery and MAE MURRAY was to dance She looked beautiful seen from the box softened in the special lighting dressed in the almost nothing of beads and satin wearing the long blond wig that so becomes her breach late Monday and adjudicate the situation 5 ARCHITECTS OFFER city services free Five architects well known in Los Angeles Monday told city council that they would supervise the Civic Center Plan without cost to the city This work they said could be accomplished within three weeks The architects are John Austin Ashley A C- Martin and John and Donald Parkinson They said that they would do this work three wreeks although the Allied architects had taken eleven months to submit their plana REPLACE SHUTTLE CARS First there w'ere shots of the members of the royal party In the box Von Stroheim touches A shot of Danilo who sees only her face a shot of the Crown who sees only her body and a shot of Sadoja who sees only her feet Then Mae Murray danced With a breath-taking flight like that of a swallow she dived from a tall pedestal into the arms of her partner And across the darkly-hung stage this couple moved in softly graceful postures that melted like snow from one shape into another that was like heavenly geometry I was astonished I had not known Mae Murray she used to dance in the Broadway shows a hoofer I had seen her Jioofins it in many pictures dancing jazz stuff But this she was doing with young Harvey Karels on the make-believe stage that was like a real one this was aerial adagio the most difficult achievement of the ballet By THOMAS MORGAN (United 1'reirt Staff Correspondent) Rome Jan 5 Militia equipped With machine guns patrolled the streets of Rome today as the during which in a dramatic threat made in the chamber of deputies Saturday Premier Mussolini promised to the whole situutiou came to a close The Fascist leader today accepted the resignation of the liberal members of the cabinet Sarrochi and Casati an act described by the opposition as weakening the fascist There is no doubt that Mussolini has all Italy guessing All day yesterday troops equipped in full regalia of war marched through the principal streets guarded railway stations Despite this the situation was outwardly calm although innumerable forecasts of drastic measures were afloat No newspapers appeared yesterday or this morning and because of that Mussolini was able to maneuver without disturbing public tranquility by the announcement of sensational news The resignations of Sarrochi and Casati came as a mild surprise It Is believed the men resigned under pressure and that had not the tone of speech been so severe a resignation of the entire cabinet might have followed Rumors that De Nava another liberal might leave the cabinet were current today Raid Newspapers I nitrtl 1 res Landes Jan 5 The radical newspapers wni have been criticizing the fascist) -egime have been raided says the Rome correspondent of the Daily Express Mussolini's threat Ul i he chamber of deputies Saturday has bc-n lowed by martial hi tie correspondent says A dlsptU 1 to the Times from Naples declarer that troops wrere called out to e- the streets when disorders lowed a fascist demonstra- tion BUILD PLAYGROUND The playground department Monday asked city council to vacate 118th street between Nebraska avenue and Missouri streets in Sawtelle The department has obtained five acres on each side of this street for playground purposes so wants the streets bisecting the property vacated EXPECT CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT TO LOSE New York Jan A poll conducted here shows that the child trbor amendment to the constitution will iail of ratification by a sufficient number of Gates BANDITS NAB THREE Three holdups were reported early 'Iotii i two of individuals and the other was that of a chop suey parlor Georg Wilson 1022 Wellington vas ro bed at Twenty-fifth and Santa Fe I four men In a car They took -75 iers 417 South Boyle- as herd up and robbed it the ea nd of the Fourth street bridge by tbo same htgftwztytm He gave up $85 The Yokohama Chop Suey parlo West Twenty-ninth street wa hild ip and robbed by a lone band: He secured $81 BANK OFFICIAL DIES John Cook who after making a fortune in hardware duplicated it In citrus growing in Whittier la dead Monday after a long illness He was president of both the Whittier Savings and the local First National banks and a director in the Whittier Citrus association Cook leaves a widow and two sons KING WON HUGE SUMS Berlin Jan 5 In connection with the Investigation into the banking policies pursued by the Prussian state bank it was revealed today that King Edward Vll when he was Prince of Wales once won 2900000 marks from a son of one of the leaders in Prussian demi-royalty MORE WOMEN STUDY Women are entering colleges in greater numbers now than ever says Miss JeantiJcan Cole head mistress of Mt Vernon seminary Washington who Is here on a brief vacation THIS LIFE HE ENDS IT The new Wampas Baby Stars will be the guests of honor at the Wampas Frolic to be held at the Hotel Ambassador's new auditorium February 5 Virtually all of the celebrated figures of filmdom will be there The lucky thtrteens of other years will also be present to welcome the newest group of Wampas proteges Here's a short closeup of each of the Wampas Baby Stars of 1925: Betty Arlen a chestnut haired demure little miss of 18 years who was born in Providence Ky She began her professional career as a dancer This was her introduction to Los Angeles and the film industry Since deserting the stage for an assault on the cinematic citadel she played small parts at several studios Her beauty and her vivacious personality were w'hat convinced the AVampas of her prospects for advancement in pictures Violet Avon Is a of Laura La Plante a Wampas Baby Star of 1923 Violet changed her name on the film screen to avoid conflict with her sister's career She was born in St Louis Mo Violet was calling upon his sister at Universal City one day when the casting met her and offer- violet Aron ed her a small part Since then she has worked for Stuart Blackton at Vitagraph in She was leading lady for Ben Wilson In Majesty the has played leads In several other Western pictures and has appeared in This and Clean She Is a personable blonde with light hair and blue eyes Olive Borden 18 years old was bom in Richmond ra and was raised there and in Norfolk She has long black hair and her eyes are dark brown She attended a convent In Baltimore and came to Los Angeles a little more than a year ago with her mother She has played leading roles at several comedy studios and for the past Olive Borden year has been a featured player at the Hal Roach studios Mary Brian 16 with brown eyes and brown hair was bora in Cor-slcana Tex Her mother took her to Oklahoma City Ok la where they resided for two years and then to Dallas Tex They came to Los Angeles for Mary to study art Shortly after her arrival she woh a newspaper beauty contest This brought bi-Im her to the attention of film producers and she was chosen for the important rale of in She Is now under a long term contract with Paramount swwBf Virginia Lee Corbin is not unknown to film fans she was celebrated as a child star for several years But Miss Corbin is a young lady now of 16 summers and is coming to the fore as a leading woman of great promise She has appeared in of That Never Virginia Corbin -J RYAN irony o- BOY ROBBER SHOT Bakersfield Jan 5 Shot through the chest Elmer Rose 19 of San Francisco is in a critical condition In a local hospital today Rose was shot by Edward Morey proprietor of a service station the youth attempted to rob BIG CHICAGO FIRE By United frni Chicago Jan 5 Fire department officials today investigated to determine the cause of the fire which last night destroyed the Chicago Packing company plant doing damage estimated at $400000 LABOR BUREAU I1AS BUSY YE AR The local bureau of the stale labor commission reports that it found jobs for 474000 seekers and collected $1000000 wages due for complainants during the year HEADS BETTER HOMES WEEK Marian Tracy Whiting local woman has been chosen by Secretary of Commerce Hoover to head Better Homes Week in Los Angeles beginning May 10 Three persons arc dead and six maj1 die Monday as the result of traffic accidents in the city during the M-hour period ending at midnight Just after the crowd at Aimee Semple temple made is way out after the Sunday night services George 13 Benz 3870 Second avenue drove his car Into a group of women standing under the Glendale boulevard bridge injured two possibly fatally and causing painful injuries to four others lieekless Driving Benz who it is alleged was intoxicated attempted to get away tut was prevented when two husky sailors intercepted his attempt to climb into his machine He was charged with reckless driving In tse one or both of his victims die charges will be changed to man-Ga tighter Thort who were injured by machine re Mrs Frances Johnson 61 oPhgnii avenue Monterey Park both legs broken and back sprained Mrs Birdie Crawford 52 312 Gleason streckt both legs broken and probable internal injuries Mrs 56 12rvltivier street Hopkinson minor 58 hip praiind Mrs Mark jVlIIiams 6333 East street left knee fractured Mrs ReVento Hutchinson 3453 East Second street broken knee sprained Couple Killed Mrs Amelia Connley 75 of 237 riouth Bunker Hill avenue died from injuries she received when the machine in which she was riding collided with a Eos Angeles railway street car at Thirty-first and Grand avenue Phoebe Casey 70 of 9 14 Mi White Knoll street also an occcupant of the car suffered internal injuries and is not expected to live Cecil Burrows and Miss Nellie Spencer 16 of Alhambra were killed when their machine overturned near San Juan Capistrano Hazel Harmon 16 and William Clayton 18 who were in the same car suffered injuries which may prove fatal Juan Bispo 70 was struck down by an automobile In front of 600 Siauson avenue Thg driver fled Ilispo may die from a skull fracture Mrs Jessie Taylor 44 of 7554 Santa Monica boulevard suffered a broken neck in an automobile collision at Santa Monica boulevard and La Brea avenue She has a chance to recover MAY DIE FROM FALL Mrs Katie Harowitz 53 wardrobe mistress at the Elko studio suffered injuries which may cause her death Monday as the result of falling three stories through an air-shaft at the Bon Air apartments 30o2 Sunset boulevard Mrs Harowitz arose intending to go on a fishing trip with friends She climbed to the roof for a breath of the morning air According to her story she lost her balance and fell NABBED FOR DOPE Leon Cleveland 1421 Wilson street was arrested on a charge of violating the state poison law when Officers Sheffield and Randolph found him in possession of 10 bin-iles of morphine HISTORIANS MEET Historical Society of Southern California will meet Tuesday evening at the board of education rooms Security building FREE Theater Tickets -for- Record Readers SEE State Greatest Love of with George Behan Calif ornia with Mildred Har-ris MiHers with Colleen Moore Tally's of the with John Gilbert A 1 a and with Florence Vidor Hook through the CLASSIFIED COLUMNS OF THE RECORD Every day The Record publishes five names and invitations to come and get free passes to the West Coast theaters listed above First come first served In other words the first party to come to The Record office with the clipping having their name gets first selection of the five show-s for that day The second arrival gets a selection of four show's and so on Last party gets the remaining passes Simple it? Now look for your name and see a great show' FREE Eat he closes his eyes the mnslc (4 cling Comes laughing: about him and soflty sings The trees whisper the meadows tremble and St seems to him The music touches him with soft hands the music daring about him Is a dance of immortal maidens in flaming eternal rings Catsklll lived in New York a short time and has been In motion pictures in Los Angeles for several years She was on the stage with the Dolly sisters and has played a number of important parts in Anne Cornwall pictures Her latest engagement was as leading lady for Douglas MacLean in his recently completed production of Other pictures in which she has appeared are Seventh Cold and Have and To Madeline Hut bora in Hj lock was 'Wi Federalsburg Md but w'hen she got old enough to get a hankering for the theater she joined a troupe in Philadelphia While visiting a friend in Los An- geles she became interested In pie-I Hires and it was I not long before her beauty led to A the famous Modeling HurlociT vamp roles opposite Ben Turpin for Mack Sennett Her eyes were large and brown her hair black and her complexion of an olive tint Natalie Joyce was born at Nor-folk Va and! spent a great deal of her ea rly youth In Pittsburg Her sister was a member of the ing Show of 1918" Natalie came to California with that company She returned two years later and joined a local revue A1 Christie discovered her and she was engaged Natalie Joyce as leading lady for Neal Burns Joan Meredith was born in Hot Springs Ark SfcJ is a little over five feet tall and weighs 119 lbs Joan was her screen name by the Wampas her real name being Catherine Je lks A beauty contest conducted by a Los Angeles newspaper was woa by Miss Meredith and led io her dabgt In JB Meredith pictures bne appeared in many features- and was leading woman for Iage Conley In a She kn tho niece of a former governor of AWaa Evelyn Pie rce was born in Del Rio Texas 19 years ago- Site went to school in El Paso and began her professional career as a vaudeville dancer This brought her to Los Angeles She applied for work at the Metro-Gold-wyn-M a er studios was given a small part and after a few screen tests was given a long term tract with that organization Dorothy Revler was born April 18 1904 In San Francisco She commenced a dancing career at the age of five which eventually led to her motion picture work She has appeared in Rose of and many other productions Miss Re-vier is a striking brunette with brown eyes and personality plus Duane Thompson was born In Red Oak la In 1905 With dancing ns a foundation for a theatrical career she embarked on what Is apparently leading her to fame and fortune the cinematic journey She has appeared in numerous Christie comedies and is now leading lady Duane Thompueo Walter Hiers Lola Todd became a member of the Todd family 19 years ago at Spuyten DuyvaJ Her hair is of nut brown hue and her eyes are a slightly darker shade Her entry into pictures was made through Carl Laetumie who a friend of ven MAE MURRAY was this as she danced a stanza of Conrad interpreted in flesh and spirit HPL sti xtrnn Wrtvxvnfnrl Vi nwn 4-Iit There here for the book was repeated Tho shuttle car that has been run ning on the Los Angeles Railway West Third street extension between I-nrehmont boulevard and La Brea street was replaced today by through cars on line Approxl-mately half the cars will run to I Brea and the others will run over Laroftmont to Mel rase Six cars are added to the line today making 68 in maximum service The Whittier boulevard end will have eight two-car trains in the morning rash hour and 19 trains In the evening running between Grand avenue and the east terminal ONE OPINION from the pages of which Mae Murray danced was that called Pilgrimage of and was given to me as a Christmas present by that same Ted LeBerthon sublimated press agent at that very moment engaged in quoting subtleties of which she was never guilty But she could dance Long hours before the tfau ing bar to built that flashing jete-de-tour Weary bendings and twistings to make possible that curving body line lifted aloft Mae Murray is a movie actress but she can dance And now I knew the secret of her youth It was not the baby spot that cheats in favor of her face in every scene It was devotion to the art of youth the reborn cult of the new Diana the dance Working in the movies is unsatisfactory Because nothing is done In toto The gesture begin is halted completed next week But this dance could not be halted It ran on and on and finished as a dance should finish with a climax of beauty and adroitness that brought spontaneous applause from the paid extras Yes after they had ended the applause decreed by the director they broke out again a real tribute to what they had seen Then the illusion of beauty was severed They moved the cameras up tt the stage and began cutting the dance Into fragments: making close-ups cut-backs lap-dissolves I settled back in the royal box to for I knew not what Yet for a moment had beauty shown her face i I that a disturbed reader sends in the hot glow of his righteous wrath Such a one I have as a Christmas token to keep me humble This letter starts out: is too much I in your Seeing as this is a corner where One Man gives his opin ion of life as he finds life seeing as this is by design and so labeled an autobiography to quarrel with the Ingss is as though one quarreled with an arithmetic for having too many figures This is an corner If you prefer geography or jazz to the science of numbers pick an arithmetic for light reading The letter goes through three pages dissecting me and my 'wpork To most of its dissection I do not disagree It then winds up: by searching can discover the mind of By implication the letter leads me to believe that the writer has by searching discovered the mind of God and is at present on terms of equal partnership with the Holy Ghost So then my correspondent knows how to extract the energy of an electron he knows whether Mars is inhaDrtea and if so by what sort of inhabitants He knows what happened to Atlantis and why Th Peruvian pyramids are to him an open book The essential agreement between the doctrine of a free will and the doctrine of Calvin are known to him Whether the body is raised as a body or as an eternal essence is known to him Whether the light of a star 10000 light years away is light from the star or from a 9000-year dead bit of atomic dust is known to him For he knows the mind of God By study he has searched it out and the old time religion has no mysteries for him So then knowing these things and all other things essences laws reactions and penalties all whys and all whatnots this partner in the Trinity aye this nevy partner the new eternal Quartette regards me as egotistic! Such a missive I regard as delicious CO ASION ALLY I gather to myself a delicious letter Predicts Good Weather Father Ricardi justly called the of the for his uncanny predictions of weather conditions hag prophesied from Santa Clara that: 1 The remainder of January will have fair weather with the exception of 2 The period from Monday to Friday and 3 There will be a stormy period from January 18 to 23 with general rains from British Columbia to San Diego Otherwise everything will be lovely concludes the little priest THE RECORD Delivered: By carrier In city 45c per month By agents out side city 45c per month By mail (strictly in advance) 1 month 55c mos $160 6 mos $305 1 year $600 Published daily except Sunday at 612 Wall St Phone TUcker 1121 Entered at Los Angeles Poatofficd ns eecond-olass mall David AVatkin who bore the distinction of being the best manufacturer of wagons in the early days committed suicide because he could no longer bear the thought that automobiles were rapidly shoving the ivagon into oblivion For years the old gentleman bad been an enemy of standardization He told his friends there wasn't craftsmanship exercised in the building of automobiles that machines stamped out the parts and they were hastily thrown together nwchanirally But in the art or wagon making it was different It took skill and craftsmanship Several days ago he lay down and turned on the gas The strange sfory came to light when will wits udmiitcd in probate court NO GOOD' SO WITH G4S mm mm mm Ml".