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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1924
Page
13
The American Railway Association reports unprecedented cost savings for 1924 due to improved operations and equipment spending. Dividends rose to 303 million while railroads paid nearly 359 million in taxes. public freight rates fell, and systemwide advisory boards expanded to boost shipper cooperation and regulation.
Edith Day returns with Woodfin and Bernard Gorcey in a lively reevaluation of Wildflower. The show blends music and comedy with strong singing from Quy Robertson and a confident cast. A prior big New York run and Washington reception affirm its enduring appeal and stage vitality.
The film adapts Leonid Andreyev’s grim drama with Lon Chaney Norma Shearer and John Gilbert in lead roles. The production is praised for artistic scale strong performances vivid characterizations and skillful direction. Auxiliary features include Larry Langdon and Pathé News.
The Strand presents Pinte and Hoyle as top acts with music and humor. Boyle shines in vocals while his partner performs guitar numbers. Arthur Jarrett and company stage Gupid's Close-Ups a one act satire on married life. Bohemian Life features strong dancing and singing, with middling instrumental work. Hubert Dyer & Co open, Birdie Kraemer does musical instrument imitations. Photoplay My Husband's Wives stars Shirley Mason with Bryant Washburn and Paulette Duval.
Burton Holmes presented a final travelogue at the National theater detailing Swiss life in Geneva, the Matterhorn and Jungfrau scenery, rock climbing and ski jumping exploits, and a novelty of stills interpreting Roseiny’s Wilhelm Toll overture. The program featured dramatic cloud motion on the Matterhorn and Alpiniers ascending the waterfall sight.
The Rialto shows The Inferno directed by William Fox with Ralph Lewis Howard Gaye Pauline Starke Lawson Butt and others. The production blends modern melodrama with Dante's world of the damned and features a Will Rogers sketch and a musical interlude by J Hum Bird Duffy as crowds fill the theater.
One of the season’s most interesting burlesque showings plays this week at Mutual theater with Hello Jake Girls starring Harry Flaida and Dixie Magon. The acts, aided by a 3 strong chorus and a stellar cast, received unanimous audience approval and include a special midnight performance on Wednesday.
The Big Show at the Gayety features Harry Steppe and Harry O Neal in a lively vaudeville program. Cast includes Vic Casmore Jolly Hite Mabel Reflow George Rose Roger Duffin Lela Pierce Rube Walman Carmen Sisters George McClennan Maude DeForrest. A chorus of pretty dancers draws applause and encore.
The Ambassador theater opens the week with Clif Bowes guiding a short reel program including Watch Your Pep and shore-reels. Otto F Beck provides organ music as the holiday amusements unfold with Parmount star Connie Talmadge in a comedy pairing and a full bill of merriment plus a review of the feature.
The Central theater features the drama Reaying Rails with a Lloyd Hamilton comedy Jonah Jones as a companion. Harry Carey stars in Rourne Rails portraying a heroic locomotive rescue. The program adds short camera subjects and pipe organ accompaniment with Abddeliby and Thompson providing interludes.
Rudolph Valentine opens the week at the Tivoli in A Painted Devil noted for his strong Argentina setting and a four member supporting cast including Nus Naldi Helen DAlcy Dagmar Fio ldowsky and George Seigman The play blends South American scenes with Valentine in romantic scenes while the production is enhanced by Patha News reel and a Hodge-Podge Crazy Quilt of Travel segment.
The New Year week program features Sir James M Barries Peter Pan at Loews Columbia with Betty Bronag y as Petey Pan. Miss Bronagons performance plus Maude Adams crocodile and Virginia Browne Faire as Tinker Bell highlight a lavish screen live adaptation praised for its visual charm.
One man was killed and another wounded in a daylight saloon brawl. Nally and King fled, prompting a citywide manhunt. Detectives raided homes and garages, questioned witnesses, and traced a possible hideout to Penhuret apartments. Maryland authorities sought to question the pair over a December 18 armed robbery totaling $22,500.
The Knights of Columbus hosted a Christmas party for city orphans with entertainment by the K of C band and clown band. Santa Claus, impersonated by Herman Braatz, distributed gifts after performances directed by I Paul Ratcliffe, with many officers and volunteers listed among organizers.
Leaders from Standard Oil, Bankers Association, copper and utilities sectors foresee a strong 1925 1928 cycle. They cite political stability, improved credit, ample plant capacity, and rising consumer buying power as drivers while noting overproduction and storage concerns in oil and the need for labor dispute regulation containment.
London December 28 Special Cable Dispatch reports that the London market conducted an almost unprecedented volume of Christmas week business as peace and goodwill prevail in political Europe. Marocco and Albania remain the only fractious areas, while bankers in full dividend tone pursued conservative campaigns before holidays. With subdued Greek loan trading, top operators absorbed the small bidders, but foreigners did not fully recover from the festive market mood and the usual post issue wobble persists.
New York December 28 The first public offering of German industrial securities in the United States will take place Monday when 10 million dollars of five year 7 percent notes for the Krupp works of Germany will be placed on the market Negotiations for the loan were dominated last week by Goldman Sachs Co heading an international banking group in charge of the financing The issue will be offered at 99 and interest to yield 7.4 percent.
Davies Warfield, seven and a half years president of the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities, asks to be relieved while remaining on committees. He notes the body's historic role in transportation and its growth from 2 billion to 10.6 billion in raised securities since its Baltimore founding in 1917. James R. Sheffield to travel to Florida for health recovery for three weeks.
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