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T157 4 vf-o'F -i i if i THE TACOMA DAILY LEDGER MONDAY MARCH 24 1930 Bu Monte Barrett and Frank EUls Helping the i Homemaker a 1- I By Leslie Wan Dr Alder Says Most People Who Accomplish Great Things Have Had Great Inferiority Feelings Hollywood in Person Review Filip Offerings Clemans Wtittra far Tha Tacoma Ledger and tba Sorth Amaricaa Heviyaper Alliance By Mollie Merrick Hollywood Cau March Tha Grand Duke Alexander of Russia arrived in movieland for an exceedingly brief stay And a group of Slavic gentles who have based their chief claim to greatness on the fact that they were aides in the ducal IdVl uiab vucj wuam 7 II suite generals in the imperial army and otherwise high in the Itujsian court shenanigans suddenly discov ered that they had to very hard along about train time Nothing smaller than an ex-gen-eraL ex-princess and ex-duchess has come to Hollywood's films from the land of Peter the Great Handsome enameled decorations garnish the tales these colorful people tell of UaihA Af nA I tlieir days of splendor Some of the i uieir -tv- decorations have been run to tartn and proved themselves the product of hi jruVCU iiioiiiaoivva the hock shop or the work of the professional fakirs who manufacture such things ad infinitum Most of the genuine titles of Hollywood are buried under plain mister or their owders having long ago discovered that they were hindrance rather than a help AT GAMES and little quaint jokes vJ ar part of tho local entertainment system Now that the professional lnaulter has become too well known throughout the colony to further serve the purpose of fun-making the phoney radio program is one of the chief means of entertainment James Cruze is oast master in this I cruze is van znaBier um a 5 game He has nis home wired so drawingrooAUinfum And that a radio program can be with announcements made from his garage by one his confreres ftcbi ago vj viio MWHii VASA a a very funny if not the butt of the joke But you can't write stories and 'shoot pictures all the time Relaxation takes its various forms Noted Stage Star Is Seen InNewFilm Like old win in new bottle the film' offering at the Fox Colonial this week takes on new tang The picture is called Steps and is a comedy-romance based on the old stage success Family It has also beeA made in the silent film but this new sound edition takes on many agreeable qualities which were lacking in the former screen presentation The plot has been changed in some minor respects the dialog given a new humor and there is a richness evolved that increases tha enjoyment of this old story And is an old story in mors ways than one It is a simple tale of the average family their daily life their love tribulations and their happier moment' And it has been directed in a heart-warming intimate fashion that is human throughout In fact so human Is It that one will probably remark to the next seat occupant just how my or wife William Collier Sr (father of Buster) for years a well known and well like stage star is cast as the hen-pecked but firm kind and philosophic father who has a hard time governing his wife and their two quarrelsome children His portrayal of this role Is a work of art and receives the most of the laughs for his remarkable delivery of his ironic line There is a sweet little romance between Marguerite Churchill who plays the aider daughter appealingly and occasionally -with fire and Rex Bell as her bank clerk lover There is also a dramatic clash of wills when this romance Is threatened by the meddlesome efforts of her gossipy mother to prevent her marriage This mother role is excellently por trayed by Elisabeth Patterson while Eaton and Charlotte Henry Charles are effective as the two children of the household Steps can be recommended to the entire family for its penetrating human drama and spontaneous clean-cut humor It is an unusually well done plctur GOUXDINGt AS AVTXOB Edmund Goulding has written the adaplatlonjpf his own original which goes into production soon at the Paramount studio with Nancy Carroll starred Goulding will direct why the Irish took over the sheik business at last! Mulhall is now to be seen at the Blue Mouse theated in his latest First National-Vitaphone 100 per cent talking pictur Beds1 Alfred Santell directed the riotous screen version of the stage hit and Patsy Ruth Miller Gertrude Aator Alice Lake Zasu Pitts and Edward ribbon appear in support Offerings at The Theaters BETTE Jack Mulhall in FOX COLON! William lier Sr in Steps Out" FOX William Haines in Girl Said RXO Vaudeville and Billie Dove in Other Tomorrow" Jack Holt in English Life Presented In Delightfully diverting and absorbing drama of life In an English trading post In West Africa opened at the Riviera theater last night It ia a Columbia all-talking picture with Jack Holt and Dorothy Revier and directed by Archie Mayo The story is well knit together and the dialogue Is to the point Mead-liam the man who has for several years been in charge of the trading post has asked the London office for relief In answer to this request Charles Summers is sent out He arrives with his young and charming red for his poor her to suen an wife He is judgment ntense antagon-nd Summers because of Summers' poor judgment in handling the native Summers' wife breaks under the strain of her cruelty and the ravages of the tropical climate She appeals to Meadham They fall In love The complications that result from this situation complete the action of one -of the most absorbing stories of the tropics ever screened The stars and the supporting cast consisting of Phillip Strange and George Pearce render skillful performance IRISH SHEIKS IN LIMELIGHT The Spanish or Latin type of film sheik may have seen his heyday dawn and fade but the Irish lover is still with That la the opinion of Jack Mulhall an Irish gentleman of the film who will battle anyone over the definition of 1 They've cleaned 'em up Jack say from soiled and sweaty tribesmen of the desert until the term is a synonym for masculine pulchritude That's I SOMERSET CAXB FOB DXENZE Breakfast Chilled Grapefruit French Toast and Syrup Broiled Bacon Coffee XflUMlMOB Creamed Pease and Carrots Bread Currant Jelly Fruit Cookies Tea Dinner Sliced Roast Beef Hashed Browned Potatoes Bread Plum Jam Pear Salad and Mayonnaise Somerset Cake Coffee Mayonnaise 2 egg yolks 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar teaspoon dry mustard teaspoon paprika teaspoon celery salt 1 cup chilled oil 3 tablespoons lemon juice Chill all utensils and ingredient Place the egg yolks in the bottom of a small deep bowl add the salt sugar mustard paprika and celery salt Beat with a spiral egg beater Slowly add 3 tablespoons of ths chilled oil and beat while adding the oil Add another tablespoons of oil Slowly alternats tba rest of the oil and the lemon jute Beat until Very thick and creamy ChilL somerset Cake 1-3 cup fat 1 cup sugar 2-3cup canned pineapple Juice 1 teaspoon lemon extract teaspoon salt 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Cream the fat and sugar Add ths rest of the ingredients and beat for 3 minutes Pour into 2 layer cake pans which have been lined with waxed paper Bake for 20 minutes In a moderate oven Add the filling ruling 4 cup sugar 3 tablespoons flour 3 tablespoons lemon Juice teaspoon salt ii cup water 1 egg 1-3 cup diced pineapple 2 tablespoons butter Blend the sugar and flour Add a watM atari aww the lemon juice' salt water and egg Cook slowly stl: rrlng constantly until the mixture thickens Add other Ingredient Beat for 1 minute Cool and use as a flUluMvm the baked cake layer Sprinkle the top and aides of the cake with sugar Bridge Tsa Man Shrimp Salad Graham Bread Sandwiches Angel Food Cak topped with Strawberries and Vanilla lea Cream Coffee Salted Nuts they reproduce faithfully just what goes into the i (TBAHAN NOW TICXXJNO) TOU CAN SEE HEAR KANT YOURSELF SICK MONDAY AFTER NOON NIOXT TUESDAY AFTXBNOON NIOXT WEDNESDAY AFTBRNOON NIOXT THURSDAY AFTERNOON ft NIOXT FRIDAY AFTXRXOOH ft XZOHT BUT AFTER THAT GONE! 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Bfc JACK MKDHT TACOMA painter awarded Guggenheim Memorial foun-dation fellowship Thomas Handforth Thomas Scofield Handforth internationally known Tacoma etcher and painter has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim memorial foundation according to a report received fro mNew York Saturday Under -the terms of the award Handforth will go to the Dutch East Indies to do creative work in etching The artist was in Tacoma until the first of the year when he left for the west coast of Mexico where he is now working on a group of characteristic etchings Handforth recognized as one of America's greatest artists also works In oils and water colors but his black and whito work is the medium which gave him a world wide artistic reputation Ha has exhibited In London Paris Florence Chicago Washington and New York and examples of Ills work has been purchased by tba Metropolitan Museum of New York the Academy of Arts Honolu the Seattle Fine Arts society and the Maharajah of Mysoro who acquired a number of etchings for a comparative collection of oriental and occidental art for tho museum at Madras India During 1928 Handforth won the first prize for etching of the Seattle Acedcmy of Fine Arts and the Emil Fuchs prise jan annual award of the Brooklyn Society of Etchers The last Tacoma exhibit of work was held at the Ferry Museum last June in conjunction with an auction of his entire collection races xmzo LOS ANGELES March 23 CP) Kenneth Stoddard 24 died tonight in a Glendale Cal hospital of ln- uries he received several hours earlier when his racing car turned over on a turn as he was negotiating the 67th lap of a 100 mile race at the American Legion speedway' Rims SLAVS CHAMPS MIAMI Fla March 23 (JT The Reds evened the series with the world champion Athletics here today taking the fourth exhibition encounter 1 to 0 Walker scored the one tally on a double steal when Schang threw high to second making Williams return late to the plate RAVGXB8 AST ARCS NEW YORK March 23 The New York Rangers advanced to the semi-finals of the play-offs for the Stanley cup tonight by defeating the Ottawa eSnators 6 to 2 In the second and last game of the series between the third place teams of the National Hockey league Combined with a 1-1 tie In the first encounter tonight's victory gave the Rangers a margin of 6 goals to three for the series $804484 PROFIT NEW YORK March (JP) Gim-ble Bros Inc operating department stores in New York Philadelphia Milwaukee and Pittsburgh reports net profits of $804484 for 1929 con-trssted with loss of 909795 in 1928 MssSid i if ir- i 4 7: i i I 'i 1 1 i i It a -i 1 1 i i i i I 'll it ii i ii- 5 il ilj 1 Li A a (Written Exclualrrly for The Ledjrcr and tha North Anricii Kempapcr Alliance) NEW YORK March 23 People Ilka tha philosophy of Dr Alfred Adler tha Vienneaa psychologist now-visiting here Xtas so comfortable It brings peace of mind to baffled Americana attending his lectures- Dr Adler says that most people who accomplish great things have had great inferiority feelings That pleases listeners who haven't accomplished much It is nice to fee) that persons of distinction have attained position because in reality they are worth little Also such ideas rekindle the hopes of ambitious persons who feel inferior The doctor also says that Inferior persons often excel at the game of bridge That doesn't' bother the bridge champions because they are too busy winning On the other hand it gratifies the poor 'players According to the psychologist men and women become expert at bridge because it is a comparatively easy way to gain an artificial synse of being superior This visitor from Vienna declares that the lucky Indlvidals are the ones with an inferiority complex and the courage to overcome it Dr Adler short thick-set competent affords proof of this in himself Ho was ill from birth until two years old lie plugged away at life ana won lie says that holdup men suicides great lovers social snobs and many smoking and drinking women are examples of persons having the Inferiority complex without the strength to fight it down in a rational way HARBOR COUPLES SEEK DIVORCES MOXTESANO March 23 (Special) Suits for divorce have been filed In superior court here by Edith Mae against Quentin Allen: Evelyn against lYederick Faulkner Edna against William Powell Beatrice against Pa mu el Hess Hilda against Charles Lavulin Helen against Chester Grindrod Fran against John Ellis Nina against I Miller James against Elolse Engelson Emil against Nellie Kokc Eda against Alfred Bell Jane against Alva Dees Interlocutory decrees have been granted DeLora from Robert Murray iAiwrence against Hazel Eaton Leo against Victoria Zieman Fllna against Alex Nleml Final decrees have been granted to Eleanor from Walter Schulz Doris from Gunnar Enbom and Clarlotte Compton from Claude Dowler In New De Luxe Coaches is PORTLAND TO SAN FRANCISCO Extremely low coach fare good on the "Shasta" "West Coast" "Oregonian" and "Klamath" Only one night on the train to San Francisco Good in Tourist Sleepers Coach fares have also been made good for use in Tourist Sleeping tars This permits Between an unusual saving Portland and San Franci rranciscou for example the coach and fa Tourist fare ticket saves nearly half the regular cost Southern PaeiSie ANDREWS A 1403 4th Are Seattle Wash PbntELtti)6j my baby came I was so nervous and tired that I felt miserable One day a booklet was left at our door and after reading it I decided to try Lydia Vegetable Compound I am now on my fourth bottle and I feel much stronger Please publish this letter because the Vegetable Compound has helped me in every way and I feel sure that other women in rundown condition will pick up if they will only take a few Mrs Lloyd Biasing 115 So Ohio Sl Anaheim California Diversified Program at RKO House Billie Dove In "The Other is the current cinema feature at the RKO house this week arriving as schedule Saturday afternoon To be perfectly fair about it Billie Dove has been seen in much better stories but no story can fail to Interest as long as the beautiful star is exploited The story is old-fashioned slow moving but nevertheless of sufficient worth to appeal to a large percentage of the patrons of this theater In the present offering we again find the (or Is it in- fernal) in which the southern honor is at stake Running throughout the entire film is an excellent preachment against gossip but as the aforesaid gossips seldom take these lessons to them' selves there is not much danger of pir" this picture doing much to stamp out this social evil In this particular case the gossiping characters are well drawn They succeed in wrecking- one home and almost have to answer for an innocent death The only excitement occuring in the picture Is the clash In the last reel when right triumphs over might and is then coated over with a very saccharine ending Miss Dove as is beautiful and interesting Grant Withers registers as the country lad of a Georgia town who is the Innocent cause of the trouble which ensue But the acting honors must go to Kenneth Thomson for a splendid portrayal of band who misinterprets a jealous hus' his friendship for her old lover I do not remember when I have seen a more perfect interpretation of this class of role Other la recommended as old-fashioned melodrama which will appeal to Miss admirer On the vaudeville stage is a very interesting bill Tlnova and Baikoff offer a dancing act of superior quality Both are splendid terpsichorean exponents and both radiate a large amount of genial personality Their routine is exceptionally fine They are assisted 4n the Interludes by Fred Martin one of the best eccentric dancers I have seen Chesleigh and Gibbs have a skit which they term Cat Meets which offers them an opportunity to wise-crack at each othera expense in a way and to use a goodly amount of hokum that seems to fall short of the mark Al Trahan is in third spot And from his entrance till the conclusion of his conglomeration of music comedy and hokum he radiates sunshine And this radiation is participated in by Miss Cameron who is not only good to look upon but has a very nice singing voice Rut the 1 offering is very cleverly put over and without offense which is indeed something rare In this class of an act -We doff our hat to Mr Trahan dosing the show Six Galeanoa have an acrobatic offering of high standard They work with speed and enl with a climax that will cause you to gasp at ita dangerous tendency BRING) TOUR CHOF-STZCN8 There ia fine musician dance also served real American dishes also soma Chicken Chaw mein and Chop Chuy because we hire a famous Chinese Cook for whom he came from the United States it will serve every evening from five thirty to Midnight In a Managua (Nicaragua) paper I COLONIAL A LAUGH TREAT For the Whole Family STEPS A FOX MOVIETONE OF A OXRL AND HER LOVES -with- William Collier Sr Marguerite Churchill CHARLIE CHASE In His Latest Comedy Triumph "WHISPERING WHOOPEE" burned up Stepping to a phone she called the station and acidly suggested they inform' the announcer her correct name Alice Gentle was tricked to a fine turn The announcer in presenting her made flattering comments as to her singing status said she had delightful personality but suggested that she was socially hampered by an unnegotiable husband Words to that effect if not exactly worded that way Miss Gentle' froze James Cruse stepped to (he Phone and told the announcer that he would please cease Insulting his guests or answer to him The phone had been plugged in to the garage that afternoon Bat ill IV IUO BR1 0 mhs ma wuwwm it took the guests a long tlmt to awaken to the fact that they were being hazed yHEN there's the Fllntrldge gentle- man who has a trick house including a bar which Is concealed In the basement something like the organ ccneole Ip a movie theater At a touch of the button the room is converted into the good old-time type of merriment-haunt with a brass rail for dainty-shod feet The house is full of charming hideaways Screened corners and Inviting chesterfields on romantic balconies a hidden away near every one of them And when someone promising goes romanticking the mike is connected up and a loud speaker retails' ns conversation into Dmitri tompkins who was brought to this coast from Russia to show Hollywood picture makers how the spirit of jass could IimRCin nun tjp dignified by musicanly treitment now departs pn a concert tour of the continent to show Europeans how Hollywood handles the classical theme in its own Jazty way All of which comes under the head of versatility QUEER TRICK IN PICTURE up a voice coming through a dictaphone and recording It in motion picture film one of the strangest tricks ever tried In talking pictures was accomplished for the first time during the making of Girl Said William Haines new picture now playing at the Fox Rialto theater The scene shows Leila Hyams as secretary announcing Haines in ait di office dictaphone to Wilbur Macii and his voice coming through the loud speaker to admit the visitor A regular office dictaphone was set up on a sound stage and used Just as in an office After experiment the microphones of the talkie apparatus were so distanced that the fee effect was perfect The new picture which Sam Wood directed shows Haines as a college graduate faring the first year of business life Miss Hyams Francis Bushman Jr Polly Moran and Marie Dressier have prominent roles CITY NEWS IN BRIEF Sr Bpeer to Speak Dr Robert Speer of New York prominent in religious work of the Presbyterian church will be the principal speaker Tuesday at a noon luncheon to be held at thv First Presbyterian church Dr Speer in addition to having been a leader in missionary work has written several books To Compliment Mem bera of the West End Improvement club will meet on tho evening of ifl March 81'at the Franklin school to compliment their president A Mecklem who will leave Tacoma soon to make his home near Bellingham ART WINNERS NAMES NEW YORK March 23 The National Academy of Design today announced the selection of prize winning paintings and sculptures in its 105th annual exhibition Among the winners were Theodore eli Van Soelen of Sante Fe M- who received the $1000 first Altman prise for landscape and Francis Chapin Kenilworth lilM second Julius Hall1 garten prise of $300 for oil painting SAN FRANCISCO PIRATES SPLIT SAN FRANCISCO March 23 UD The Pittsburgh Plretea and the San Francisco Seals split a double- header In a pre-sea son' exhibition! at nl here Recreation pant here today the locals taking the morning game 2 to 1 and the visitors winning the nightcap 6 to 5 Both teams used extra pitchers in the afternoon fracas Melne and Petty pitching to Hemsley for' the Pirates and Milju Davis and Perry hurling to Gaston for the Seal Clark Pirate third sacker hit a home run to put the game on Ice Art McDougal southpaw hurler on the staff was the whole show in the morning game He held the Pirates to three safe hits while his teammates found Land and Sanders for eight bingle STERLING COX AND HART WIN MATCH Sterling Cox and Hart with a low tall of 75 won the competition ft Meadow park Sunday with a net 019 Dr CL Moore and Archie Genin took second place' with C5 Meadow park members are urged to attend a rally at the clubhouse Thursday night at 8 Flrcrest postponed the Sunday tournament due to rain BEOCXOEESCK DRAW RYDERWOOD Wash March 23 Eddie Brock ContraUa battler and Soldier Ted Gesch of Fort Lewis fought to a six-round draw In the main event of a fight card- staged Friday night for the benefit of the high school athletic fund Happy Chapman Centralis kayoed Soldier Diaz In the third round of a scheduled six-round semi-windup event In the fastest fight on the card Billy Rhodes of Winlock took a hairline decision from Young Cochran of Vader in four rounds TEU3XN WINS TITER CANNES France March 23 Iff) Bill Tllden easily defeated the ambl-dexterous Italian Giorgio de Stefanl 6-4 6-3 8-4 in the finals of the Cannes tennis tournament today The doubles title also fell Into Tllden hands he and Wilbur Coen conquering the Japanese Take! chi Harada and Toshiro Ohta 6-3 6-0 1-6 6-3 The garage being In a position to command the main entrance of the house the jokesters get a line on who Is dropping in to afternoon tea or Sunday night supper Then when someone casually turns on the radio strange announcements come forth The first to fall for this trag was Ana in ok iv wii vi Betty Compson Jim Cruse's wife When the radio announcer in one speech consecutively referred to her as Miss Betty Bronson then Betty Bronson then 3etty she RAY CLARK TO HEAD NEW YAKIMA HOTEL Ray Clark well known Tacoma hotel man who Is now manager of the new Cascadian hotel in Wenatchee has been chosen to manage the new million dollar hotel planned at Yakima it was learned here to-day Mr Clark formerly manager of the Hotel Winthrop here has served in similar capacities in Portland and Seattle where he is a familiar figure He will exercise joint supervision over his present institution and the Yakima venture The new hotel one of several to be built in the state during this spring and summer will contain 250 rooms and will be 14 stories high CRAVE OF BABY PROBED BY POLICE SEATTLE Ercll 13 IAT Deep burrs which coroner's deputies said might have caused death were found following an autopsy today on the body of an infant excavated last night from a shallow grave In the basement of an abandoned house on the highway about 12 miles south of Seattle The grave was discovered yesterday by two residents of the neighborhood who had visited the Isolated house The infant a boy about 8 months old had been dead abont three months the coroner estimated The house had been vacant-for more than a year' The only clue to identity of the persons who buried tha body officials said was a blanket of distinctive pattern in which it had been burled MELLON USUAL" ON HIS BIRTHDAY PITTSBURGH March 23- birthday even Ms 75th is "Just one of those to Andrew Mellon secretary of the treasury who is to celebrate his birthday tomorrow just one of those things that come around every year whether you wish them to or he said when asked for a statement on his anniversary The day too will be just another day for the secretary It will differ from the usualy only In a small private dinner party given by Pittsburgh friends The remainder of the day will be devoted to conferences on the muddled political situation of Pennsylvania PERSICTS on TARIFF 9klV MarCh 23 Wirt Franklin of Ardmore president the Independent Petroleum Association of America who led the unsuccessful oil tariff fight In Washington predicted today that the independent oil campaign would bring a duty on petroleum imports lost the tariff fight" he said fr from being licked We begun to fight for our Iff? wlU 80 BEATXN IN RIOT' PITTSBURGH Pa March OF) Twenty or more men were beaten severely and six were arrested as a right between opposing factions tm porarily disrupted a meeting of atrik Ing taxicab drivers her etoday Ths nSfSAMSSa a prisoners arrested by members of the Tailffa'101 chtarged with inciting to riot AIR CRASH FATAXi a- March VEt31 Thomas son Jr 20 of 'Vhiteyille was killed and his father 54 injured severely when their airplane fell near here today 8 SIX IN TRAIN WBXCX MANSFIELD March 23 Engineer Charles A Bell was lulled and Fireman Jenson was badly scalded when the engine of a westbound Pennsylvania rullman train left the rails six miles west of here early today dragging two baggage coaches and an express car after it ABERDEEN CONFESS WED MONTESANO March (Special) Allwardt and Clara Neil and John Rlkstad and Ruth Boleaen all of Aberdeen and Edward A Ben! diet of Hoqulam and Hasel Wilson of Aberdeen were married before Justice Arthur Furnia here Saturday DOVIE tfheJmnsMo Charming Beauty tiedmm TOMORROW ATTRACTION RKO-TACOMA TIMES HARMONICA CONTEST 0:80 NIGHTLY DOROTHYvmriu1 RIEVIEEl Romance! 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