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PAGE TWO Resume of Theatrical Pro ductions Is Given I For 1929 By DE3IINO SETMOCR (AP Fetnr service Writer)) NEW YORK (AP) The year IS 29 In the theatre had a distinct ly better temper than the year which preceded It. It it brought forth new play of the dimensions of O'Nelll'i "Strange Interlude," dominant ex hibit of 1928, it brought a wider range of good play ana a definite reaction from the slump, both fa play writing? and play-going, which made 1828 t dull year on the ttage. Seldom has there been each unanimity as that with which cri tics and playgoers ratified the Pulitzer committee's selection of Elmer Rice's "Street Scene" for the drama prize of the year, for above other Americas plays of Its season It stood head and shoulders. Yet had the award not been limited to American plays. "Street Scene" would hare encountered a sturdy rival in "Journey's End," by E. C. Sheriff, indisputably the great world war play of England. Because it deals simply with ba sic human emotions "Journey's ' End" may outlive, in the drama tic Ifraratnra nt war that rather bettert heatrical exhibit, "What Price Glory?" America's greatest war drama. Perhaps the moat hopeful de velopment of the year was the appearance of two excellent Am erican comedies, just at a time when critics were lamenting the apparent lack of native play wrights who could write eftec- I tirely in the comic vein. They were "Juae Moon." by King Lardner and George S Kaufman, and "Strictly Dishon orable,' by Preston St urges the one a riotous lampoon aimed in ' general at the great American boob and in particular at the writ ers of our oonular masie. the oth er a sheer and trivial bit of fun exquisitely wrought. Around the metaphysical no tion of the relativity of time ' John Ik Balderston, American newspaperman in London, wrote one of the meatiest serious plays of the year, "Berkeley Square, The Most active playwright of the year was Martin Flsvia, with three plays and by far the most notable was "The Criminal Code," which pictured penal conditions to point a moral without being , preachy or maudlin. Two players unfamiliar with the art of acting did major roles Atah1w TTsavftw n ASAsaf 1fe1 nvtwiAa SSwaMV .-. m j sVi7V a a. ( btvmv time leader of Broadway dance orchestras, as the piano pounder In, "June Moon"; and Siegfried Rumana, lately a yodeler la Yorkville beer garden, as the Ger man lieutenant of Alexander Woollcott's -The Channel Road." Bat If some thought this indi cated that acting was an art eas ily learned, they needed but to to up Broadway a block or two to ee George M. Cohan making his own play "Gambling,: one of the ' hits of the town by sheer dint of his fine portrayal of a gambler In an only so-so melodrama; or down the street to see Arthur By ron give stature to the prison warden's role in "The Criminal Code." In musical entertainment, the year offered, beyond the usual sumptuous run, a notable piece of Intimate entertainment in The Little Show. A musical event, too, was the importation from London of Noel Coward's operette, "Bitter Sweet." Audiences came to , praise this 'new evidence of the versatility of . Coward and staved to cheer Eve lyn Laye, a blonde English girl who sang and acted its principal role in snoh fashion as to make herself the sweetheart of the town : and the outstanding discovery of the year. The best musie of the year was Jerome Kern's seore tor "Sweet Adeline," in which ho and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote a notewor thy successor to their own "Show BoatT Of crime plays these was a flood, bat tew survived. The- moat notable was "Subway Express." an Ingenious tabs of murder on the underground rapid transit lines, which owed distinction to its viv idness of setting. Three events weroeoeanieaous In the field of revivals: Too re turn of William Gillette, to play for the last time bis Memorable role In '"Sherlock Holmes;" the reincarnation of the operettas of Victor Herbert and his contem poraries by Milton. Abo rn 'a reper tory company and the Baubert revival of Johann 8trau3S "Die Fledermaua." In the revival of Herbert's "Mademoiselle Modiste" Frttzi Scheff, long absent from the New York stage, tang again the role of rifi which she created In 1905. Outside New York "the road" 4 continued to dwindle as a play market, but the Theater Guild continued Its extensive cultivation of audiences throughout the coun try, with rather narked success This was the third year of the Guild's attempt to establish sea sons In other cities. Definitely . strong la Chicago, with 12,090 subscribers: Philadelphia with. 10.800; Boston with 7,900; and Pittsburgh and Baltimore with 4.000 each, the Guild set out to build np strong lists in St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland and tvasning- ton. ' : , It hat e tour nine plays. In cluding two in "Strange Inter lude." and several of these era- versed territory where "original New York casts" hare become a rarity almost unknown. GENEVA (AP) Press galler ies of the projected new assembly hall of the League of Nations are designed to accommodate ; lot journalists and newspapermen. In the limited space where the lea rue has suet tor years, the report- I O- -WHENCE CAME THIS GIAJfT OF A Chevrolet coach carried a party of westerner to Point Lobos, California, to Inspect tha carcau of an enormous whale which is said to have beea there for centuries. Close Bass Fishing Season To Protect Spawning Period Game Commission Closes Certain Fishing Streams; Other Notes Closing of the season for fca fishing between April IS and July 1 was found necessary by the state gamo commission at its last regular saonthly meeting. Duo to the fact that this is the spawning season for bass It was held imper- auvo mac toe nan be protected. According to Matt Rrckman. superintendent of hatcheries for the game commission, unless the season was closed durine the spawning period bass wooidbe el iminated from Oregon waters In a very few years. "Bass do not spawn like trout but lay their eggs along the shores among grass, fungus and plant growths," says Mr. Ryckman. "These eggs are exposed and it becomes the duty of the male fish to stand IPiEIJ?J Night or Day Open 0,760 Honrc Each Yeas Invite Us To The Blow Out Buy Firestones They Cost Less no mg . WE Use no wgm We no n$9c We have a Cowdrey Dynamic Brake Tester anH Use Firestone Brake Lining ' no ntPosoff.-. The Price Is Low The Car b Clean Tune The guard. This be does with a ven geance, keeping his eyes constant ly on the alert for anything that might disturb the eggs. If anglers are allowed to fish bass the male becomes easy prey during the spawning season. If a spinner or a hook Is dropped In the vicinity of the eggs over which he watch ed he immediately tights It and consequently is hooked. Thus it Is necessary to protect the male If bass are to be kept In our lakes and. sloughs." During the past tew weeks 60, 00 cut throat trout, averaging better than six Inches in length hare been liberated by the state game commission in Washina-ton county, streams that received The Ctatlcn With a bb "aaMMaBwwaBl iaaaaa " aaaaaaaHaaaa, 7 Use GENUINE ALEMrTE Shell 400 It's HIGH TEST Handle The New Firestone m in on the Voice of Firestone 9:00 P. M Mondays .! "Jin" "D3IHn - . Center and Liberty Streets - The Station with a dock 02ZStEI THE DEEPt V. ' 10,000 each were: East Dairy Creek, Tualatin river, Nehalem river, McKay creek. Rock creek and Gales creek. In Yamhill coun ty the Yamhill river and the Wll lamlna each received 10,000 cut throats. Closing of streams had lakes made by the state game commis sion at its March meeting were as follows: Trout creek, Clacka mas county, permanently; all lakes Is Deschutes county holding eastern brook trout closed on Sep tember IS in conformity with oth er lakes having these fuh; In Wal lowa county, wood, Lee, Russ, Crescent and Bear Lakes closed for three years; In Baker county Black and Van Patton lakes dos ed until July 1, 1931s in Union county Glacier and Prospect lakes closed for three years; Ap plegate river la Jackson county and Fish lake closed for two years after August 16. Plantings of Chinese pheasants are now being made from the farms of the state commission. Recently from the Corvallis farm two crates containing 28 S birds were sent to Medford for distribu tion In the Rogue river country. . i n I GEccIi CrtedirtrnlcT, Harelr 23, 1933 iMTEDIlK'ffl SOLVES PriQDLe.tS JERSEY CITY, N. i (AP Cities that hare a traffic crush ean learn from northern New Jersey. This area. Just across the Hud son from New York City and bur dened with the enormous motor traffic of the metropolitan area. has designed a high-speed eleva ted highway that Is expected to carry a burden of 20,400900 ve hicles a year. Starting at the Holland tunnel plaaa in Jersey City, the roadway ascends by means of a viaduct over the yards of the Erie rail road and then darts beneath the streets of Jersey City, which are connected by ramps, to the west erly side of Bergen hill, where the highway passes under the Hudson boulevard. There It emerges and continues by viaduct across the meadows along the southerly edge of New ark to the Newark airport. With exception of two and one half miles between Tonnelo ave nue in Jersey City and a point where it crosses the Lincoln high way west of the Passiae river, the roadway Is opef to traffic. The two and one-half milaap will be dosed with a high level viaduct bridging the Passlac and Hacken taok rivers. - The 135-foot clearance above the water will permit steamers to pass up the river without inter ruption to traffic by opened bridges. Altogether the cost of the via duct and underground passage from the Newark airport to the Holland tunnel connecting with New York City, will be S3 6.0 00. 000 an average of $4,600,000 a mlle.NThe fire and one-half miles completed have been built at a eost of 31S.800.000. The new highway will relieve the heavily burdened streets of the metropolitan area of the through traffic which causes de lays and confusion and is costly to business. Newark, lying directly In the path of New Jersey traffic to New York City, will be espe cially benefited. The elevated roadway Is apart of the new high-speed route be ing constructed across the state from Jersey City to Trenton. Ex- 33 Center H OldsmobilcViking takes pleasure ia ataMuDdaf the ap pontmenc of thai new facta bet of the OldiaobfcVilaag dealer orpntotion. ThisaMrWafirabto by s doss similarity of business ideals, is based fSSTtfalhriV tt enttitwne ! i Hi al. - soo ssaxxe menaszup ot every owner that cerr wMr- maw mmuW of adsmobik M Sales rooms cept tor the high level viaduct be tween Newark and Jersey City it will n virtually eomnleted by the end of the year. - The viaduct is to no eompietw. ta USt. A feature of tfca new highway is a straightaway stretch SO feet wide and- St. miles long between. New. Brunswick and Trenton. - - The elevated highway project was laid out four years sgo un- Am A!iMHAn ht Ifal. W. O. SlOSU then state highway engineer, and now is being completed by his successor. Jacob L. Bauer. 1FI II ANGORA. Portugese, Africa. (AP) The big slump in coffee prices nit thts colony a hard blow. It is estimated that plantations containing several million trees will be forced out of production. Large stocks of coffee are lying in warehouses and the prospects of disposing of it are so poor that It has been seriously suggested that the lower grades be de stroyed. Growers hare made pressing ap peals to the government, but the colony's financial situation is pre carious. This latter phase reached such a muddle that Dr. Cunha Leal was relieved as governor of the Bank of Angola and replaced by Commander. Capaadas, a naval officer without business experi ence but upon whom the home government relies to carry out the orders, of the federal department of finance. The coffee growers must, there fore, rely upon their own re sources tor at least six months as that is the shortest period in which the government says it can straighten out the financial tan gle. Meanwhile there is an in tense economy campaign in offi cial quarters and this has further tightened the' general money sit uation. One of the relief measures for which the coffee men are pressing is a high tariff in Portugal on Bratillan products. Although this and other possessions of. Por tugal make It the second coffee produdng country of the world, it imports hundreds of thousands of tons from Brazil yearly. HI IB) HIT BY PRICE DROP OH Tr fP TfYr$To) ANNOUNCES the Appointment of i?GGs)ia AtmtoniuiS)Iu)i5flf3 I. P. ALEXANDER, Pres. St. adorsement of honest sefitag share service "two of the mast fapftt factors fa OSds Motor Works' pesjew pfc toptocccss. ddaMotor W(&TrcozmtoBX2trtspaa toward ewjr owctr-to &ta co. gesshcly. to build forhfiilly, ta a-fl kriy i to service sioctrely. 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