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THEATER STIES
' AT RADIO PEI
Producers to Ban Use of
Music and Keep Stars
Off Air.
Special Ulspatch to The Star.
NBW YORK, January 3.—Roused
tiy the acclaim with which the radio
broadcasting performances of John
McCormack and Mme. Borl were
bailed, the theatrical producers and
managers comprising the Managers
lYotective Association are planning
steps to prevent their musical comedy
scores being broadcast by making
the composers retain the copyrights
to their compositions.
"The most dangerous element the
theatrical managers have to face in
connection with the radio broadcast
ing craze," Arthur Hammerstein
president of the Managers' Protective
Association, said tonight, “is the fact
that, in the past, musical authors
l ave turned over their rights in the
copyright on their compositions to
the publishers. This practice must be
reformed at once, and rut association
will take the necessary steps to see
that it is done.
"About 99 out of every 100 com
posers have contracts with their pub- |
Ushers by which the latter control j
the copyrights. These publishers ;
t ow turn the music over to the big j
radio stations and they broadcast the |
scores of our shows at the same j
rime the shows are being produced j
throughout the country." •
Will Guard Contracts.
Mr. Hammerstein predicted that
his association would take the stand
that no contract would be made with
a composer unless he' retained the
copyright so that radio companies
could be prohibited from broadcast
ing his tunes.
I. Lawrence Weber, another official
of the Managers’ Protective Associa
tion also said that all future con
tracts with actors and actresses
would contain a clause- prohibiting
them from broadcasting without per
mission.
“The present scare can be likened
to the flurry caused by the Introduc
tion of the first moving pictures, and |
will soon pass," Mr. Hammerstein
said. "We still have a commodity
that the public wants and neither
the moving pictures or the radio can
replace the theater, where you can !
both see and hear the artist.”
As an instance of the situation
created by the development of the
radio, it was said today that at
tempts of the Keith Vaudeville Circuit
to get Vincent Lopez and his or
chestra back had failed, because
Lopez refused to give up his contract
for broadcasting his concerts from
the Pennsylvania Hotel.
Remands Compromise.
"1 would not give up radio broad
casting for anything," said Lopez
tonight, “not even to go back with
Keith's. If they want me they will
have to make a compromise.”
Mr. Lopez also declared that the
radio will he the means of developing
the musical education of America and
that he had already started a school
to teach piano playing and broadcast
a lesson to his pupils once a month.
In a letter, which he sent to Wil
liam Brady, theatrical manager, con
cerning Mr. Brady’s remark that
radio was causing the death of the
theater, William C. Alley, associate
editor of Radio Retailing, aeks Mr.
Brady to ’’stop and think a moment
and you will realize that theatrical
managers are cutting their own
throats.”
He then . cites the present-day
prices of theater admission, $3 to 16
a seat, and declares they are pro
hibitive. Secondly, he states that
nine out of ten times when he does
want to go to the theater he can
not get tickets at the box office, but
must pay an agency a "still further
Increase over the already high box
office price," or if the box office
does happen to have tickets, he says,
they are always the back rows or
balcony seats and he has to go to
the agencies again for the choice
locations.
"Theatrical managers took to high
prices and the ticket agencies com
mitted suicide with them," he writes.
"Radio is not to blame, Mr. Brady.”
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GUANTANAMO’S MAYOR
VICTIM OF ASSASSIN
Executive of Cuban City Shot
Dead —Officials Ignorant
of Cause.
By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, January 3. —Manuel Salas,
mayor of Guantanamo, a town near
the American naval base of Guantan
amo Bay, was shot to death last
night on his way home by Jose Cor
reoso, who was being sought today
by the rural guard, according to offi
cial reports to the secretary of in
terior. Authorities professed ignor
ance of the cause of the shooting, but
said President Luque of the city coun
cil had taken the office of mayor and
that the situation was tranquil. Salas
was shot three times, his assailant
stepping out from the ruins of a hotel,
which recently was destroyed by fire.
NICARAGUAN PRESIDENT,
INAUGURATED, LAUDS U. S.
Solorzano Bespeaks Continued Aid
and Friendship of This
Country.
By the Associated Press.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 3. —
Carlos Solorzano was inaugurated
President of Nicaragua Tuesday for
a term of four years. The ceremony
took place here before a joint ses
sion of Congress, and was attended
by the diplomatic and consular corps,
distinguished foreigners and many of
the. populace.
In his inaugural address President
3olorzano paid a splendid tribute to
th# United States, and said he hoped
for a continuance of the aid and
friendship of that nation.
President Solorzano. who was elect
ed by a largo majority on a coalition
ticket, is a retired capitalist, and is
59 years of age.
FOX SUSPECTS TAKEN.
Two of Three Men Identified as
Bandits.
NEW YORK, January 3.—Three of
the four men suspected of having
held up and robbed Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Fox In the vestibule of their
apartment house on New Year morn
ing. were arrested today. They were
held without ball.
The robbery was particularly
brutal, one of the thugs tearing rings
from the woman’s hand with his
teeth.
Tlie prisoners described themselves
as James Meehan, Charles Adcock
and Murray’ Friedman, all of New
York.
The elevator man of tlie apart
ment identified Meehan and Adcock
as two of those in the hold-up.
Ts you need work, read, th* want
columns of The Star*
66 Slighted Sweetie”
Brings Grief and
Police to His Door
James R. Mothershead will tell
the world that the author of that
"Hard-Hearted Hannah" classic had
nothing on him when it comes to
cold-blooded sweeties.
Imagine your best "lady friend”
tipping off the police as to your
whereabouts out of r-r-revenge
for a broken date. According to
the polioe, wiio arrested James
Friday- at the home of a friend
on Four-and-a-Half street, that is
Just what happened in his own
ease.
The worst of it was that Mothers
head broke that date because he
had a pressing and unexpected en
gagement at Baltimore polioe head
quarters the same evening to
answer a charge of having bur
glarised a Pennsylvania avenue
store here recently. He was re
turned here, in company with
James R. Gamer, wanted for the
same charge, but escaped at the
entrance to No. 6 Police Station.
"I suppose I’m good for 10 years
now,” Mothershead remarked to
Detectives Cole, Dowd and Flaherty
on being taken inti custody. "And
just think how mad she’ll be when
you Rhow up for that date 10 years
from now,” the detectives reflected.
In Police Court yesterday Mothers
head listened very attentively to
the reading of tlie warrant by
Deputy Clerk Gawler. He then In
sisted on reading It, and In a few
minutes after scanning the sheet,
said, "Oh. that’s all right, I'm
guilty.”
lie was held for the action of
the grand jury on a bond of $3,000.
James Garnet, co-defendant In the
alleged housebreaking case, in
which the home of Moses A. Serby
was entered and articles of cloth
ing taken, was held for the grand
jury when brought before Judge
McMahon Friday. His bond was the
same.
DIAL SCORES PARTY
FOR G.D.P. VICTORY
Pays High Tribute to Cool
idge—Says Democrats
Have Gone Astray.
Tlie verdict of the November elec
tion was against Democratic members
of Congress, and not against John W.
Davis, Senator Dial. Democrat, South
Carolina, declared yesterday in an ex
tended speech, declaring his party had
failed to- adhere to its principles.
Senator Dial said the real Issue In
November was the efTort of th© Dem
ocratic party to “serve up some kind
of shambling, shame-faced compro
mise of so-oalled democracy auid for
eign-born Socialism. Bolshevism and
Communism.”
"It is a mortifying bitter truth.” he
said, "that the quiet and close thinker
in the White House is a better Demo
crat in many essentials. I honor the
courage and respect the wisdom
which have moved him to clean
house in his own party.
"The Democratic party, as It is, has
suffered successive defeats and dis
asters in appeals to the people, be
cause it has ceased to be democratic,"
said Dial. "Like sheep gone astray,
we have forgotten and neglected the
principles and purposes on which our
party was founded.
"It is time for us Democrats to face
the music. We have been beaten in
two successive campaigns by huge
and Increasing majorities. Either the
people are wrong or we Democrats In
Congress, who have made the party's
record, are wrong. For one, I confess
myself deeply shamed when I read
that customers are rushing to Wall
Street to buy stocks, feeling assured
of prosperity because the Democratic
party has been beaten by 7,000,000
majority.”
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TURNER & CLARK,
Basement,
1233 New York Ave.
r ' 1 ggggj i 3s ii
You’ll Get a
Stenographer
Quickly
—through a Star Classi
fied ad because those
who are seeking a po
sition closely scan The
Star’s Help Wanted col- g
umns for available po- I
sitions.
The Star prints
• MORE Classified ads
every day than all the
other papers here
combined because it is
recognized as tlie
great clearing house
for those wanting
help and those want
ing positions.
“Around the Corner” is
a Star Branch Office
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 1). U., JANUARY 4, 1925-PART 1.
PLANS ARE LAID
FOR YJ.H.A. DRIVE
Mass Meeting Tonight to
Start Campaign to Double
Membership.
Final plans for the 1925 member
ship campaign of the. Washington
Y. M. H. A. were laid at a dinner
meeting held under the auspices of
the Elis, a newly created dining
club, at Harvey's last night.
A group of Y members had con
tributed SI,OOO toward the upkeep of
the association, it was announced,
and as an added' stimulus to the
drive tor 1,000 members. There are
now approximately 500 young men
enrolled.
Those whij contributed to this fund
Include: Harry Vlner, Morris Cafritz,
J. B. Shapiro, Isidore Freund, Julius
Peyser, Harry Sherby, Jacob Heck
man, Fred S. Gichner, Ben Ourisman,
Milton King, Morris Wittlin, Joseph
Witt, Joseph A. Wllner, Isidore
Young. Isaac Furman, Morris Mazo,
Fred Pelzman, Max Uohen, Arnold
Htrsch, William Rosendorf. Dr. Wil
liam Ogus. Barnett H. Siman, Louis
J. Siegel, Morris Gewirz and Maurice
Bisgyer.
Talks were given last night by
David Wiener, chairman of the cam-
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Antique Furniture
Is Proffered for
White House IJie
Recurring offers of antique fur
niture for equipping certain rooms
in the White House In the style of
American historical periods have
led Senator Spencer, Republican,
Missouri, to offer a joint resolu
tion authorizing acceptance of
such donations.
The officer In charge of public
buildings and grounds in the Dis
trict of Columbia would be
charged with the duty of deter
mining whether the proffered arti
cles were real antiques and of "the
correct period.”
paign, urging the drive workers to
enroll every eligible youth in the
city, and Maurice Bisgyer, director
of the Jewish Community Center,
soon to be erected in Washington,
who revealed the part the V. M. H. A.
will play in the new $300,000 center.
Isidore Hershfleld, president of the
Elis, promised the support of his or
ganization and gave an amusing dis
sertation on the "Mythological I'ast
of the Elis.” Musical entertainment
was supplied during the dinner.
The campaign will actually get
started tonight at a mass meeting
of members to be held at the Y
building. A one-act skit will be pre
sented by the Crescent Girls’ Club,
and a monologue by Max Kahn will
be an added feature of the evening’s
festivities.
A week of intense campaigning
will follow tonight's rally.
FOREIGN MISSION
SESSION PLANNED
Convention to Be Held Here
to Be Largest in
25 Years.
Arrangements are being completed
for a great gathering in the interest
of foreign missions to be held In
Washington January 28 to February
2. This meeting is being organized
on behalf of the foreign mission
boards and societies of the different
Protestant denominations of Canada
and the United States. It will be
known as the Foreign Missions Con
vention. More than 75 organizations
will be represented. President Cool
klge will speak on the opening day.
The meeting, according to leaders,
will be the greatest interdenomina
tional missionary gathering held in
this country during the last 25 years.
Preceding conferences of similar char
acter have been held as follows: The
Missionary Conference In London in
1888, the Ecumenical Conference in
New York In 1900, the World Mission
ary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910.
At the New York meeting in 1900
addresses were made by William Mc-
Kinley, at that time President of the
United States, and by Theodore Roose
velt, then Governor of New York
State. The honorary president of the
convention was Benjamin Harrison,
former President of the United
States. Leaders state that the Wash
ington convention will undoubtedly
be representative of a greater number
of church bodies than any meeting
ever held in North America.
Purpose Is Outlined.
The purpose of the convention, as
outlined in the official statement, is
“for the information and Inspiration
of the churches of Canada and the
United States. It will be an educa
tional, not a deliberative or legis
lative assembly. It will not deal with
questions and problems of administra
tion on the mission field. Its mes
sages will be designed to enlarge the
Interest and deepen the conviction of
the Christian people at the home base
as to their foreign mission responsi
bilities and obligations."
The meetings will be held In the
new Washington Auditorium, which
has been built for convention pur
poses. They will open on the after
noon of January 28 and close on
the evening of February 2. Attend
ance will be limited to delegates
appointed by the foreign mission
boards of the United States and
Canada. Delegations will include of
ficers and members of foreign mis
sion boards, pastors and laymen and
laywomen, general church officials,
theological and college professors,
editors, foreign missionaries at home
on furlough, student volunteers and
other candidates for the foreign mis
sionary field.
There will be three meetings each
day In the Washington Auditorium,
one in the morning, one In the after
noon aPd one in the evening. In th*
afternoons simultaneous conferences
will be held at which various prob
lems of missionary work will be
discussed.
DR. GEIBEL TO ATTEND
CANTATA RENDITION
Composer of “The Incarnation” to
Supervise Presentation Tuesday
Evening at Central High.
Dr. Adam Geibel, musician-com
poser-lecturer of Philadelphia, will 1
appear at Central High School audito
rium Tuesday evening, in connection
with the rendition of his cantata,
“The Incarnation," by the Highlands
Community Chorus, under the direc
tion of Mrs. Henry Hunt McKee, and
the soloists for the occasion will be
Miss Vivienne Gillmore and Miss
Werdna Bradley. sopranos; Mrs.
Frank Steward and Miss Anita G.
Howard, altos; Bronson Howard,
tenor; Leslie F. Coyle, baritone, and
Richard Miller, bass.
The performance will commence at
8 with a brief organ recital by Dr.
Geibel, to be followed by the cantata,
in two parts, and between the first
and second half the eminent blind
organist and renowned composer of
church and Bible school music will
give a talk on "The Triumph of a
Blind Man."
The Highlands Community Chorus
will be assisted by the members of
the Glee Club of Bliss Electrical
School. Dr. Geibel will himself con
duct the cantata, which Is being given
under the auspices of the Community
Center Department. There will be'
an admission fee of only 10 cents, to
cover necessary expenses.
Dr. Geibel gave a lecture-recital at
the Marjorie Webster School Friday
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night. The cantata will be Rung at
Highlands Community Church thli*t
morning, and tonight he will give
lecture recital at Georgetown Presbyte
rian Church. Tomorrow at 8 o’clock, ag
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church,
I>r. Geibel will again give hla lecture*
recital, and also Tuesday morning nL
the Washington I'lub, but the pro
gram Tuesday evening in Centrajf
High auditorium is to be his largest
public performance while in the clt;,*
2 WOMEN QUESTIONED l
IN ROBBERY FREEtX
Wife and Niece of Convicted Maif*
Bandit Released Without
Charges.
By the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., January 3.--*
Mrs. Ellen Holliday, wife of Herbert
Holliday, convicted Rondout, 111., mai®’
robber, and Miss Helen McNeil,
niece, held here for questioning by*
postal officials, were released thu
afternoon. No charges were placed
against them. Both made statements®
which officials declined to discuss.
Miss McNeil is under SIO,OOO bornf
awaiting action of a federal grand*.
Jury at Kansas City on a charge of
receiving and secreting stolen Gov hi.
ernment property in connection with
the finding of a $21,000 in stolen bonds
in a safety deposit vault there.
Bonds valued at $78,000, said to have*
been the major part of Holiday's*
share of the loot, were recovered yes.
terday in a rural mall box near Littia-
Rock.
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Laws which permitted executions*
by the ax were not repealed in Eng
land until 1747. «