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Two of Youngest
Ministers Start
Revival In Athens
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REV, DAVID HALL.
Two of the world's youngest or-
dained ministers, one 18 years old,
and the other 16, will begin a se
ries of union revival services in
council chamber at City Hall to
morrow night. .
The ten nightly services, which
begin at 7:45 ('clock, will be con
ducted by Rev. David Hall and his
younger brother, Rev. Homer Hall,
A third brother, Neal Hall, will
be song director and an 11-year
old siter, Frances Hall will sing
and pray at the various services.
The last member of the family to
participate will be Rev. Wilburn
Hall, guitar soloist.
The Hall family is originally
from Tennessee but have moved
to Athens to take up permanment
residence. They are living at 380
Bloomfield street and have been
here about a month. With Ath
ens ds a base of operations, the
family will ‘hold revival services
in many towns in the state, Rev.
David Hall said today.
The two young ministers have
conducted more than 200 success
ful revivals in the South. Both
were ordained at Pine Bluff, Ar
kansas and Rev. David Hall has
been condueting revival services
. {Continued on. page-two.)
Mrs. Jack Martin
Dies Here Today;
Funeral Thursday
Mrs. Mary Ann Martin, 25, wife
of Jack Martin, died this morning
in a local Twospital after an iil
ness of two years. Funeral serv
ices will be held Thursday aft
ernoon at 4:30 o'clock from Bern
stein’s Chapel wity the Rev.
George Acree, pastor of First
Methodist church, in charge of
servi
Mr: rtin was born in Jack
son ¢ y and had been a resi
dent of Athens for 16 years. Fun
eral arrangements are under the
direction of Bernstein . Funeral
Home and burial will take place
in Oconee Hill Cemetersq§ This
young woman possessed a cheerful
disposition and a noble character
and leaves a - large number ol
friends who are grieved to learn
of her death.
Pallbearers are F. E. McHugh,
A. Lynne Brannen, E. R. Hale,
L.. W. Nelson, J. W, Wilson, T.
A. Suliivan, E. O. Kinnebrew and
H. G. Gates.
. Bhe is survived by her husband,
Jack Martin; one daughter, little
Dolores Martin; her mother, Mrs.
J. W. Hardy; four sisters, Mrs.
8. L.. Hale, and Mrs. R. E. Clarke
Athens; Mrs. William Oliver and
Mrs. Harvey Seagers, Barberton
Ohio; two brothers, Ben Hardy
Barberton, Ohio; Tom Hardy, Sa
vannah, Ga.
CEORGIA HEAD OF
STERCH! STORES IS
MADE A DIRECTOR
W. M. Hicks, vice presi t of
Sterchi Bros. Stores, Inc., _in
charge of Georgia stores, was elag
ted to the board of dlrectors“
the company at the regular meet
ing of stockholders held at the main
office of the company in Knoxville,
Tenn., February 24,
Other members of the board
elected were C. C. Rutherford, Gil
bert Sterchi, C. S. Laßue, C. E
Rutherford, ©. C. Bowden, J. L
Pagen and Mitchell Long.
Officers elected at .the meeting
for the ensuing year are C. C.
Rutherford, president; W. M. Hicks,
iAtlanta, vice president; C. S. La-
Rue, secretary-treasurer and C. J.
Alexander, assistant gecretary.
The directors declared a dividend
of 75 cenis per share on the 6 per
cent ecumulative first preferred
stock for the first quarter of 1936,
payable on March 31 to stockhold
ers of record March 14.
Operating profit of the company,
before federal income taxeg for
1936, was $185,230, which compares
with a profit of $100,557.13 for the
year 1934. The earnings for 1934
were the largest the company has
e P since 1929. t sales
7935 were $4.890.26i. Thtal as.
fi ‘aggregate 'fl.l:?gs 4t Dec
ember 21, 1935, which coun
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
(larke County Fails to Get Money “rue=Certificates
Row Flares Up Today Owver Roosevelt Tax Program
CONGRESS LIKELY T 0
MAKE BIG REVIS!ON
W PIAN ADVANCED
%Republicans Assail Plan
. As ““Assault on Thrift”
| But ‘“‘Dealers’ Hail It
ONLY “SUGGESTION”
Congress Still “‘Stunned”
By Gigantic Proposal
Of President
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
| (Associated Press Staif Writer)
WIASHINGTON-— (#) —Power
ful Democrats hinted today that
congress may make drastic changes
’in President Roosevelt’s tax pro
{gram, under which the government
fwould dip into corporation profits
land stockholders’ dividends to pay
la $620,000,000 annual hill for farm
|subzidies and the soldiers’ bonus.
| Congress swiftly divided into
‘bltterly warring camps over the
jexecutive's call for this sweeping
}revision of the corporate tax struc
| ture.
! Some Republicans assailed the
}plan ag an ‘“‘assault on thrift” and
ia menace to business confidence;
‘some Democrats also frowned on
it.
Hailed by New Deal
New Dealers hailed it as a means
to speed the velocity of money
‘turnover, force ‘“‘distribution of
|wealth” and hasten recovery.
Administration leaders emphasi
zed the plan was only a “sugges
{tion” to congress. As a seven-man
{house ways and means sub-com
| mittee gathered to discuss the pro
i posal behind locked doors, there
[was much talk in congressional
| coridors of revisiong in the pro
| gram.,
l Congress was still somewhat
| stunned over the breadth of the
iproposal. The president suggested
ithat present corporate income tax
les and other related levies be wip
ed out. In their stead he would
slap a drastic tax on profits which
‘corporaticns hold in their treas
uries as surplus instead of dis
[tributing as dividends.
Administration adviserg indicat
‘ed this graduated tax might aver
age 38 1-2 per cent. This, it is
lheld, would tend to drive such
funds into the hands of stockhold
ers as dividends. (Stocks jumped
$1 to $5 a share in New York yes
terday as traders hear of the pres
ident’s message.) :
Subject to Normal Rate
Once in the hands of stockhold
ers, the money would be subject
to the normal income tax rate of
4 per cent and the graduated sur
tax. At present a stockholder pays
(Continued on Page Two.)
F.D.R. Inaugurated
3 Years Ago Today
WASHINGTON— (#) —This is
the third anniversary of President
Roosevelt’'s inauguration, but con
siderably more than wnree quarters
of his term has expired.
His present term will end at noon
on January 20, 1937—less than 11
months hence. This is because of
the Norris “lame duck” amendment
to the constitution which was ad
opted in 1933, It shortens the in
| erval between the national election
land the dates when congress and
‘the president take office.
l After the present, shortened term.
presidents will again serve full,
Ifour-year terms.
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press =
i ATLANTA —Ernest G. Cross, |
; 42, brother of Miss Bessie Cross of |
! Columbus, Ga., died yvesterday at
lsthe U. S. veterans base hospital.
Funeral services were set for to
day. i
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Classes in|
braille for the blind and lip-i
*reading for the deaf have been|
started here as part of the emer- |
’gency educational program of the‘
Works Progress Administration. -
White stadents are engaged at
present in making telephone books‘
for the wealthy blind in Sava.nnah.|
! ABBEVILLE, Ga.—The contest-l
|ed election of L. W. Pearce as
Wilcox county sheriff by a 50-vote
/margin in last week's primary to
{\day had been affirmed again by
the county Democratic executive
. Defeaeed by the half-hundred
Miss Jane McKinnon and
John Bond Are Winners
Of Popularity Contest
John Bond of Toccoa and Miss
Jane McKinnon of Brunswick yes
terday were named the University
of Georgia’'s most popular stu-’
dents in an annual Senior Round
Table election,
Runners-up were Harry Baxter of
Ashburn and Miss Elleen Star|
Davis of Gainesville. |
Bond was co-captain gs the 1935
foothall team, and is president oi!
the Y. M. C. A.. He is & 04«
ber of Sigma Nu social fratemltyl
and of Sphinx, Omicron Delta
Kappa and other honor socleties.
Miss McKinon s @ past president
of Phi Mu socia] sorority, presenll
vice-president of the Y. W. C'i
A., and has been in the Pandora
beauty section for three years. l
Baxter is editor of the Pandora
He is a past precident of Demos
thenian Literary soclety, and a
member of several honor clubs.
Miss Davis is a transfer from
Brenau college and prominent in
social affairs.
FORTSON, WRIGHT T 0
SPEM 10§ CIE
POB HERE TONIEHT
Advocate and Critic of
New Deal to Discuss
| AAA Decisions
- Judge Blanton Fortson, advocate
‘of the New Deal and other policies
of President Roosevelt, and Gra
ham Wright, of Rome, a severe
critie, will discuss the minority
and wmajority ¢piniong of the Su
preme Court in its AAA decision,
at a joint meeting tonight of Ath
ens Kiwanis, Lions and Pilots
clubs, at the Georgian hotel at
7:30 o'clock.
Judge Fortson will discuss the
“Minority Opinion” of the ecourt,
and Mr. Wright will discuss the
“Majority Opinion”. Their discus
sions are expected to be of much
interest to members of the three
civie clubs, due to the nation-wide
effect of the AAA decision.
The Kiwanis club is sponsoring
the discussions, the second in less
than a year by the two outstand
ing Georgians. Harry 1.. Brown,
director of extension service at
the University of Georgia, and
president of the Kiwanis club, and
Prof. John T. Whee€ler, chairman
of a special committee in charge
of arrangementg for the discussi
ons, have completed plans for the
meeting tonight.
Last summer, Judge Fortson and
Mr., Wright discussed the Roose
velt administration in Atlanta, at
a meeting sponsored by the Geor
gia Laegue of Women Voters, and
their discussions received much{‘
commgnt, Tonight's discusslon;l
however, are on one of the most
important declsions ever rendered
bythe Supreme Court, and inter
est is higher than at the other
meeting.
Both speakers are thoroughly
acquainted with affairs of the Na
tional government, and are well
versed on law. Judge Fortson, a
prominent jurist ,and Mr. Wright,
past president of the Georgia Bar
Association, now an attorney in
Rome, are certain to give their
audience informatiun that wil
make the AAA decision much
clearer.
The decisions have been c‘harac-l
terized by President Roosevelt a,sl
two of the most remarkable ever
(Continued on Page Three)
votes, Mrs. O. L. Smith, one of
three candidates in the race, has
asked the committee for a hearing
on the assertion the election was
not fair.
The committee had previously
affirmed the election.
MILAN, Ga— Telfair county—
home of Governor Eugéne Tal-i
madge—was ready today to close
its schools on Friday, three months
in advance of their regular closing
because of what officials said was
lack of cash with which to operate.
Approximately 2,700 pupils and
93 teachers will be affected.
“In closing at the end of six
months,” the board of education
said in an open letter to the pub
lic, “we shall owe to teachers past
due salaries amounting to SIO,OOO
which sum is equal to the entire
(Continued on Page Two)
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Athens, Ga., Wednesday, March 4, 1936.
Local Chapter of DeMolay to Install
New Officers With Services Tonight
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Above are the three principal officers in the Athens DeMolay chapter, which will hold installation
cerviceg tonight. Harry Davis, jr., (center) will bejin his second term as Master Councillor; Thomas
Wier (left) will be installed as Senior Councillor; and Ralph Bell (right) will become Junior Council
lor. All three have been prominent in DeMolay work for several years.
NATIONALHEAD OF
DAV, VISITS HERE
Luncheon for Comman
der M. A. Harlan to Be
Given at Ceorgian Friday
Marvin A, Harlan, = national
Commander of the Disabled Amer
jcan Veterans of the World War,
will be entertained at a luncheon
at the Georgian hotel Friday at 1
o'clock. -
National Commander Harlan, on
a speaking tour of the United
States, will be in Atlanta Friday
night where he will address the
Atlanta chapter of Disabled Vete
rans on the roof garden of the
Ansley hotel,
Today he is speaking in Augusta
and at the request of Athenians he
included the Classic City in his
itinerary. He will not make any
address while here, but will speak
evtemporaneously at the luncheon
held in his honor.
Luther W. Nelson, commander of
the Joe Brown Connolly chapter
here, will preside at the luncheon
Friday. With the assistance of
Grace B. Cook, vice-commander;
Frank Mitchell, service officer; and
Prestiss Conaway. Mr. Nelson
has been outstanding in making
arrangements for Mr. Harlan.
Commander Harlan has been ac-
(Continued on page two.)
U. 5. NEUTRALITY 15
DISCUSSED BY BUELL
President of Foreign Poli
cy Association |s Univer
sity Speaker
! The United States obviously
wishes to keep out of war and to
’prevent war from taking place, Dr.
Raymond Leslie Buell, president of
'the Foreign Policy Association, said
in a University of Georgia Institute
of Public Affairs address yester
day, :
~ “Toward this end,” Dr. Buell ad
ded, “we should refuse to sell muni
tiong and raw materials to a state
going to war in violation of its
international obligaions. i
“So far as the Ethiopian war lsl
concerned, the present neutrality
act is satisfactory, provided that
it be amended as to give the presi
dent power to embargo raw mat
erfals to belligerants.
“If the League succeeds in est
ablishing a just peace in Ethiopia,
and if a new league develops, then
the United States should adopt a
policy ®iving the president power]
to cooperate with peace machinery
to prevent war and to dlscrimlnatfll
against the aggressor.”
~ Dr. Buell also sald: 1
‘, “It is even more important to
remove the underlying economic
tensions which have hastened the
advent of fierce dictatorships.
“Secretary of State Hull has
steadfastly pursued a course ol
bringing down trade barriers by
means which do not injure any le
gitimate American interest. These
efforts deserve the support of every
American,
“Currency stabilization, reduc
(Continued on Page Two)
Harry Davis, Jr., Is Master
Councillor; Wier, Beli
Other High Officers
Harry Davis, jr., son of Mr, and
Mrs, H. J. Davis, will be install
ed as Master Councillor of the
Frank Hardemgn chapter, Order
of DeMolay, tonight, to begin his
second successive term in that
capacity. §
i i&mn Wier, sen of Mr. and
Mre. John Wier, will be installed
Senior Councillor and Ralph Bell,
son of Mr., and Mrs, F. G. Bell,
will be inducted into the office of
Junior Councillor. -Bell and Wier
' succeed one another in office.
All other officers will be in
' stalled tonight, at services to be
"held at the Masonic Temple, at 8!
o'clock. Special music for servicesl
will be furnigshed by Louis andi
' Hugh MecGarity.
Abit Nix will be Grand Insta]l-~
ing Officer and -assisting him
will be Tom FElder, Senior install- |
ing officer; Gasper Pnlm‘isano.l
Junior installing officer; J. W.|
Henry, Standard bearer; and D.
Weaver Bridges, Marshall {
Following a procedure unusual
in DeMolay circles, Mr, Davis was |
re-elected for a second term as |
Master Councillor some time ago.{
Officers are elected three times
each year by the DeMolays, and!
this is the first time anyone hasi
been named to head the chapter
two terms in over a decade. .l
All three high officials are
prominent in DeMolay, and are
well known in Athens. Mr. Davis
and Mr. Bell are both members!
of the University of Georgia stu
dent body, while Mr. Wier is em
ployed by the Webb-Crawford
‘company. They have been mem- |
bers of the DeMolays for some
time, and have had an active part
in all projects undertaken by the|
Frank Hardeman chapter. i
Officers to be installed, other
than the three highest officials,
are Julian Stephenson, senior dea
con; L. E. Rast, jr.,, junjor dea
con: John Wier, chaplain; Oscar
Mcßae, marshal; Howard Huff,
genior steward; Boyce Wilder,
junior steward; Richard Breed
love, sentinel; Thomas Wier, treas
urer; Burton Chandler, scribe; Jim
Barrow, first preceptor; Laucius
Drewry, second preceptor; Frank
lin Scheider, third preceptor; Ned
Guild, fourth preceptor; Dennis
Penney, jr., fifth preceptor; Calvin
(Continued on page two.)
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Average March rainfall,... 5.21
Total since January 1......19.63
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HAMILTON BRANDS
* THLNADEE DESPOT
Ousted Treasurer Flays
| Financial “Dictatorship™
| In Decatur Speech
DECATUR, Ga. ~ P — Gover
nor Kugene Talmadge was des
cribed as a “tyrannical despot who
‘has gone mad with egotism” by
George B. Hamilton, ousted state
treasurer, in an address here last
night.
! “I shall fight to the last to see
Ithat the law shall rule,” Hamilton
'said, promising to carry hig fight
for reinstatement to the legislature
'and to the electorate, in necessary.
Hamilton was forcibly ejected
ifrom office by Talmadge last week
Iwhen he refused to honor a ware
‘rant drawn by the governor in the
absence of a state appropriation
bill. |
| “I will not step outside the law
for any man” Hamilton said, a 1
took an oath of office to uphold
!the laws of Georgia and I do not
intend to violate that oath. |
| “Governor Talmadge’s famous
' proclamation has no legal stand
!ing. It is the most astounding
ithing I ever heard of in any poli
' tical history. No law gives him
!the right to issue executive ordera.
(Continued on Page Six)
3 THIKE MAY SPRAEAD
THROUGHOUT NATION
Building Employes’ Walk
out May Be Extended to
Other Labor Fields
NEW YORK — (#) - A threat
of a nation-wide strike of build
'ing service employes was added
’today to indications by strike lead
ers that the walk-out of building
‘workers in New York might be ex
ténded to other labor fields,
George Scalise, international vice
president of the Building Service
Employes Union, announced re
ceipt from international headquart
ers of the organization in Chicago
of the following telegram:
“If necessary, and at your dis
cretion, we will carry out every
building service employe in the
United States.”
The development came shortly
after Mayor La Guardia voiced be
lief that the strike would be ter=
minated today and James J. Bam
brick, local head of the union, ex
pressed a less optimistic view of
the matter,
“If the real estate hoard contin
ues to show the sane rvotten ar
rogance, I'm going to say ‘let's fight
it out in the streets’)” Bambrick
asserted.
(By the Associated Press) 1
Strikegy slowed the wheels of in
dustry in eight cities today while
editorial workers of a newspaper
‘maintdined ° their walkout in &
ninth,
l The developments:
. NEW YORK—Edward F. Mce-
Grady, assistant secretary of labor.
undertook o adjudicate a walkout
which crippled service in New York
(Continued on page two.)
‘A B C. Paper—Single Conioce e BBe Simday
!Many Counties Holding
| Heated Primaries Today;
| President’s Race “‘Off”
(By the Associated Press)
, Heated primary elections drew
the attention of voters in counties
iin widely scattered sections of the
{sate today but the most interest
ing scheduled event—a presiden
tial preference primary in Pierce
county between President Roose
velt and Governor Talmadge—did
not take place.
| The Pierce county Democratic
committee yesterday ordered the
presidential test postponed inde
finitely—and decided instead to
renew its suggestion to the state
Democratic committee that a state
wide presidential primary be held.
The gtate committee, eontrolled by
Talmadge, has not yet acted.
Appling, Ben Hill, Columbia,
Elbert, Jackson, Marion, Meriweth
er, Paulding Tattnall Pierce and
Jones were among counties wherei
elections were achedwed for to
day, l
HOWARD INTERVIEW
WITH DICTATOR OF
RUSSIA 15 PRINTED
S o e
- NEW' YORK —~ (#) — Russia
under Joseph Stalin Is ready to war
with Japan if necessary to preserve
outer Mongoiia's independence, the
Soviet dictator sald in an inter
view given Roy W. Howard, chair
man of the board of Scripps-How
!ard newspapers, and published to
day under a world copyright by
'the New York World-Telegram. |
“If Japan ventures to attack the
‘Mongolian peoples’ republic and
seeks to destroy its independence,
we have to be able to help that re
public,” Howard quoted Stalin axl
saying in reply to a direct ques
tion,
The interview was held in Stal
in’s office in the Kremlin, in Mos
cow, and lasted for three hours,
in which the soft spoken Soviet
leader discussed the Far East si
tuation, particularly the war threat,
the possibility of war iln central
Europe, and Soviet-American rela
tiona.
In swift transition from Far East
to middle Europe, Howard and
Stalin discussed the possibilities
of German aggression against
Russia,
“The Soviet unlon appears to
believe that Germany and Poland
have aggressive designs against
the Soviet union and are planning
military cooperation,” remarked
Howard in constructing the next
juestion,
“Poland, however, has protested
her unwillingness to permit any
foreign troops to use her territory
as a base for operation against a
third nation. How does the Soviet
union envisage such aggresaion by
Germany? From what position and
in what direction would the Ger
man military forceg operate?”
“History shows,” was Stalin’s re
ply, “that when a state is intent on
war against another state, even
one not adjacent, the aggreasor
seeks an intermediate state whose
frontierg touch those of the object
of her aggression.
“I do not know what specific
frontiers would be best adapted to
the German purposes, but I think
they would find a people prepared
(Continued on Page Three)
“‘Double Door” Likely to Open
Before Capacity Crowd Here
Promptly at 8:30 o’clock to
morrow evening the curtain wil_ll
rise at Seney-Stovall theater for
the first performance of “Double!
Door,” second University theater‘
presentation during the current'
season, This melodrama is thel
first “thriller” staged in Athens
since “The Cat and the Canary”
two years ago.
Supervised by Edward C. Crouse,
director of the University theater
gince it became the official drama
tic’ unit of the University five
yvears ago, “Double Door” is the
fourteenth play produced by the
group. “Exciting melodrama” was
the comment of the New York Post
when “Double Door” opened on
Broadway, while the New York Sun
described it as a “tight and cun
wing built play.”
_ Barly ticket sales indicate that
this stage show will be one of the
best attended in recent years. Stu
de&p from fraternities, sororities
REGEIPT OF-ERED BY
BY HIGHWA' BOARD
TURNED DOV TODAY
Covernor Had Promised
To Redeem in Cash All
Valid Certificates
$37,000 WAS DUE
Numerous Gther Counties
Present Certificates
During the Day -
Shp . €
ATLANTA, — (#) — Clarke
county commissioners were tin
able today to redeem $37.000
in highway relmburecement cer
tificates, as attorneys for the
state prepared to answer court
action started by Atlanta
banks to determine who is en
titled to custedy of Ceorgia
funds under Governor Tal
madge's one-man fiscal cons
trol,
Tate Wright, attorney of
the Clarke county (Athens)
commission, said the certifi
cates were presented Tuesday.
Highway officials asked for,
detailed information as to the’
county’s finanecial status, y
The Clarke county officialg re
turned with the jnformation today
and were asked .to_leave the cer
tificates and acceot a 3 receipt,
pending payment.
This they refused to do and re
turned to Athens with the certifi
cates. »
{ Governor Talmadge, who as
[ sumed control of. the state’s finan
ces at the beginning of the year.
| announced a few days ago that all
lcount!es or individuals presenting
- valid certificates would be paid
immediately upon . demand. The
certificates are payable March 25.
Chairman W. E. Wilburn of the
highway board said all certificates
would be paid, however. Those
presented today were being cheelk
ed by B. 8. Miller, assistant gt
torney general assigned to ~the
highway department, who is exam
ining details of county indebted
ness before honoring the de
mands, ’ 2
Numeroys counties = presented °
certificates during the day. %
Atlanta banks have refused te
honor warrants drawn by de Tacto
Treasurer J, B. Daniel, and nu
merous other state depositories
over Georgia have taken a similar
stand. The three banks of the At
lanta clearing house association
filed an interpleader suit yester
day asking the Superior court to
determine who was entitled to
(Continued on page two.)
TVA Celebrates as
Norris Dam Finished
NORRIS, Tenn. — (#) — The
Tennessee Valley Authority was
acclaimed today as a national ras
ther than a sectional agency by
speakers who joined in celebrating
the completion of Norris Dam, sec
ond of the hydro-electric develop
mentg on the Tennessee river sysa
tem and first to be constructed by
TVA, R
Thousands of visitors gathered
near the huge barrier to hear the
TVA lauded as a benefactor of the
“masses” and to watch while huge
gates slipped into . place across
sluiceways and the impounding of
the water began. Wilson Dam wag
taken over by TVA in 1933.
and dormitories are forming par
ties to attend the play in large
groups. At the same time numer
ous parties of local citizens are ex
pected to constitute a prinecipal
part of the throngs at both per
formances,
The student players appear to
night at Seney-Stovall theater im
the final dress rehearsal of “Double
Door” before the opening tomor
row evening. Six weeks of ardu
ous practice by ¢ast members-cul
minates :n tonight’s session as the
group completes numerous finer
points in what theater officials
have termed “a most remarkable
play with an exceptionally experi
enced cast.” ”
Rehearsals for the third act have
taken place behind closed doors‘*to
keep the final outcome of the play
secret until after tomorrow night's
performance, The mystery in “Dous