Show M AlES AlES' CROWD CROO BERLIN STAGES Rose Marie Spreads Across Atlantic BERLIN DERLIN Oot Got 24 2 AP AP Marles Maries are in high favor among the stage directors of Berlin Not 2 only Is the popular refrain of or the American operetta op Opt op- op eretta Rose Marie winning nightly night nIght- ly applause In numerous music halls but the Thalia ThaUa theatre is now presenting presenting pre pre- Grosse Anne Marie at the us Marie 1 Marie Is the musical hit of ot a revue en entitled entitled entitled en- en titled For You In From A to Z Za a song called Good Night Marie closes the performance and at the Admiral an amorous swain adoringly sings sines You Have the Most Beautiful Neck Marie Who Vho Is going gorn to rescue us from this epidemic of or Maries Manes Is the question raised by one of the Berlin Berlin DerlIn Ber Der- lin newspapers An unusual case of Is occupying the attention of or the courts of Bernburg In Anhalt where a teacher named Drost claim claim- to be an occult detective has been arraigned on a charge charse of Il Illegally illegally il- il legally practicing occultism for money Drost actually has has' been able t tp convince the chief expert testifying against him Dr that only the possession of second sight could enable him to make certain discoveries with which he Is credited One sample of this has been brought out A large larse quantity of laundry was stolen from fron the tle garret of a house in the town of f Calbe twenty miles north of Bern Bernburg Al Although Although Al Al- though Neighbor Drost nor his medIum medium medium me me- has over ever seen Calbe albe the medi medium me me- di m on being put Into a. a a trance described exactly the clothes lines Unes on which the laundry was suspended suspend suspend- ed when It was stolen the kind of clothes pins used and the character character charac charac- ter of the clothes on th the line The owner of ot the missing laundry did not himself know all aU these details but they later proved to be true trueS The medium next named the thief and the place where the the laundry was was was' hidden The thief was caught and confessed This is said sold to be only one of several cases of clam clair conducted by Drost and his medium which are puzzling the experts The consumption of cordials in Germany today is only on one of ot that of war pre-war days according to toa toa toa a confidential report compiled byone by byone one of the leading distilleries DurIng During During Dur Dur- ing the last few years before belore the World war the av average rage annual consumption consumption consumption con con- of ot cordials for each head of ot population was more more than three quarts It Is is now less than ne quart The principal reasons for this de decline de- de dine cline is economic as the prices of are are now too high for per- per eons of ot moderate te means This retrogression ret ret- regression in the consumption of heavy drinks i is somewhat offset by bythe bythe bythe the fact tact that light wines are being consumed more than b before rore the war owing chiefly to th the low prices ol of wines Imported from countries in which the currencies have depreciated depre dere depreciated such as France |