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I Events of the Week in Pictures 'BYRD'S POLAR SHIP ART SUBJECT I NO STAGE DOOR JOHNNIES FOR HER MAY MOVE CHAIR TO WHITE HOUSE RISKS LIFE TO SAVE LIONESS V f .J IS fesgSats H"-- A water color of Commander Richard E. Byrd'a South Polo ex .ptdition vesstl, the Samson, which is being fitted out for ita trip into the Antarctic in the lute summer. It is the work of Charles Itosncr, marine artist, of New York City. . ALABAMA STOPS CONVICT LEASING "f! .vnr' - ' IhE. P.iCHfST CHOGUf" CiiftL IN THE VVOliUD HAS y. Despite her beauty there are no stage-door Johnnies hanging round to invite Miss Barbara Hatch, New York chorus girl, out to cupper after the show. Barbara is quite able to buy her own sup pers for she's reputed to be the richest chorus girl in the world. Barbara is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Payson Hatch, of Green wich, Conn., New York, and Newport, a relative of the Vanderbilts, and an heiress to fortunes and titles in the United States and Europe. ' .. ' Governor Smith's "fourth term chair" may be tb only piece of furniture he'll move to the White House at Washfngton if he is elected president in November. It is the last of the governor's personal tokens of his office as chief executive of New York state. He has given three of his chairs to his children. It has historical value in that is supercedes in historical precedent the "third term chair" of Governor Dcwitt Clinton, 100 years ago. TWo Demo cratic nominee is shown above with the chair. Because Mrs. Nancy Lee Nanctti, of Oakland, Cal., fearlessly put her hand and arm into the jaws and down the throat of her giant lioness pet, "Princess," the animal is olive today. Princess came to grief 'when a sharp bone became lodged in her throat. Unable to get a doctor, Mrs. Nnnetti thrust her arm down the beast's throat a'nd managed to shove the bone so far that it slipped Into its stom ach, from where it was extracted later by an animal surgeon. Above, Mrs. Nanetti and her grateful pet. SCHOOLGIRL' SETS AIR RECORD jf,. j t h iv? fei 4- :-U iv .r:r. Convict leasing, denounced for years and finally bamfed by tho state legislature of Alabama has passed out of existence in the state with the closing of Elat Top prison camp near Birmingham, where prisoners were worked in a coal mine. Photo above shows an air iew of the prison camp with arrow pointing to a laundry vat where tho state charged that James Knox, a prisoner, died while being forcibly held by a band of "straw bosses." Tho death of Knox led to tho trial of Charles R. Davis, former warden, who was c guitUd of a charge of murder in the case. CONVICTS LEAVE COAL MINES SMITH'S PICTURESQUE CAMPAIGNER DEATH CLAIMS STAGE QUARTET fMF-fMl. ROBERT MANTBLL ..'C'KV A V.! .2 7- Although most student flyers are not allowed to do solo flying until they have had 10 hours in the air, with an instructor. Miss Kathryn Fall, 16-year-old high school girl of Alliance, O-i above, flew alone after but two and one-half hours In the air A new and striking photo of Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, Democratic nominee for the presidency, showing him in a characteristic speaking pose. LOEWENSTEIN MAN OF MYSTERY HOLBRDOK BLIJSTCI SHAW MAKES AMERICAN DEBUT I - iu Above, convict are seen leaving the stockade surrounding tho Aldrich. coal mines at Aldrich, Ala., never to return. They no longer arc compelled to work in the mines since tho legislature lias 'bolithcd tho old policy of leasing th convicts to mine owners j . v ' George Bernard Shaw, famous English writer, makes his American j debut, in u talking movie production shown in New York City. I Shaw is leea giving an Imitation of tho Mussolini icowL. " " trp '5. LEO D1TRICHSTEIN During recent weeks death has come to four men, identified with the development of the theater in the United States. Holbrook Blinn, one of the most popular of actors, died from injuries re ceived in fa.'iini; from his horse; Leo Ditrichstein, dramatist-actor, passed away in Vienna; Robert Mantel), Shakespearean artist, sue- cumbed after an' illness, and Avery Hopwood, author of many bed room farces, youngest- of tho four, was drowned while bathing at Nice, France. CO-ED TAKES MILITARY HONORS n -rH A characteristic pose of the Belgian financier, Capt Alfred LocvJ. enitcin, whoso disappearance from one of his private' airplanes as it flew across the English channel toward France rocked the stock markets of Europe, Throughout the past school var, M Lr.tvcrsiiy ot Vta.hington, Seattle, ha Training Camp drill, thp first nf As a result she has been honored wi V citcr s nobby is rifle shooting. .1 iss Alyee Wester, .,. VU a the been taking Reseri-. n(t,.,..i sex to dare it on the campul th the rank of colonel. Mism i
