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and Mrs william j. Harris, the gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve Board and
Mrs Eugene Meyer, Mrs. Charles Acker
Mrs Joseph H. Bradley and Mrs. Jacob
Leander Loose.
Among others who will attend are:
Senator and Mrs. Hiram Bingham, As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. bowman, Capt and Mrs. Frank
Berrien, Col. and Mrs. B. B. Bierer,
Mrs. Edward Bogert, Mrs. Benjamin H
Buckingham, Mrs. Gordon Cumming,
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chairman, and Miss Betty Edison Is
chairman of the Debutante Floor Com
mittee.
Mrs. Re Barney Phillips, Mrs. Arthur
Macarthur, Mrs. Lester Wilson, Mrs.
Eugene Thompson and Mrs. Helen Fay
Hagner will receive the guests.
Among those who have taken boxes
are: The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr..
Mellon: the Bishop of Washington and
Mrs. James E. Freeman, the Rev. Dr.
and Mrs. Re Barney Phillips, Senator
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Old Pohick Church, near Mount Vernon
the Rev. c. A. Langston off1ciating. The
announcement of the wedding comes as
a surprise to many friends of the couple
the details for the wedding having been
simply arranged and only few close
friends witnessed the ceremony.
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Mrs. Stone was formerly Miss Ruth
Barclay Of North Carolina, and in the
past several years has divided her time
between Alexandria and the mountains
of North Carolina
Mrs. M de Glare Berry entertained at
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were the Minister Of Nicarac,,a and
Sonora de Recinos, the first secretary
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Of the Chilean embassy, Senior Don
Oscar Blanco Wei; the secretary Of the
CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
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Vice President and Sister
To Attend Church Home Ban.

The Epiphany Church Home ball, fo-
the beneflt of the aged women, will be
q very brilliant affair. The Vice Presi-
dent, Mr.. and Mrs. Gam and their
party will arrive at ii o'clock and be
escorted to their boxes by the Floor
Committee, Mr.. Bowman Macarthur
being chairman and Mr.. Fulton Lewis,
ir, vice chairman. Mrs. Alfons Landa
Is chairman of the Girls Floor Com
mtttee and Miss Rahel Davies vice
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Continued From Second Page)
mis- evening in the ball rooms Of the
Nayfiower.
Evening star., 1930-06-15
To Bar "Green Pastures

IT seems that our 1880 Pulitzer Prize
play. Green Pastures" may be
barred in London. According to Han
nen Swaffer, London dramatic critic.
this is more than likely.
In an article written for the New
York Herald Tribune Mr.. Swaffer says
Lord Cromer, the British censor. will
shortly have a shock Marc Connolly.
American dramatist, arrived on April l6
to submit to him The Green Pastures,
which has marked an epoch in New
York, although the Lord appears in it
in frock coat, white tie and a tall
hat
English people will find it almost
incredible to believe that a play in
which God managing the spheres from
a roll-top desk and telling the sun not
to be so hot. says to the Archangel Ga
briel, Being God is no bed of roses,
could be treated so reverently that 1t is
being used as the theme of hundreds OF
sermons, and that it is spoken of as
the most deeply religious play seen for
years.
Now, what can Lord Cromer do?
When 'Everyman' was acted l heard
the voice of God coming from behind
the organ screen in st. Anne's, Soho
and in st. Paul's Convent Garden ]
have seen Christ represented as a boy
with his father and mother, while in
Evening star., 1930-06-15
ManneriSnnS.

THAT colorful. engaging, totally
luminous pack Of cards on which
are stamped the visages of the National
Players have been shuffied and tossed
about by the director, Clifford Brooke,
until some of them have become blurred
in their own image. Blurred. however,
as they may be, due to the shutting,
they wax more and more familiar even
under the Disgusting grease paint, no
matter how submerged beneath the
cloak of Thespian TRANSPORTATION they
may be, by the give-away of a favorite
mannerism.
Thus when Romaine Calender, a
quarter of a moon ago, was draped and
sewed into the accoutrements of Count
Dracula, due to what might be called
foot work" or the process of walking
about the stage, one became aware i'm
mediately that it was Romano and no
one else. Again, last week Walter Gill
bert, although completely metamor-
phosed beneath a sylvan wig and pro-
tuberant mustache. could be spotted
at once by a slight lethargy of the
hands, without which he would never
be Walter Gilbert.
Even Marion Wells, whose footlight
moods are as variant as the clustered
pansies In Lafayette Square, may be
recognized, even though adorned with
Evening star., 1930-06-15

Keep that routine standing" So the
same actor plays the same role in the
same story over and over again until
pretty soon the magnate sees the re-
ports from the theaters that are writ
ten out in an attractive shade of red
and he figures he'd better be looking
around for some new talent.
OF course, this sticking to routine is
necessary in the case of most movie
stars, because they're one-part actors
That's all they can do, and they have
to keep doing it until they drop.
But that doesn't apply to you. Will
You can do anything. I've seen you
do 1t.
I'LL never forget that show Three
Cheers" that you stepped into to
pinch-hit for your friend. Fred Stone
You sang and danced and tumbled and
told about a million jokes, all good. And
you put on a different performance
every night.
A person could see Three Cheers" at
the Wednesday matinee and then come
back and see it again in the evening
and not know 1t was the same show
Between performances you'd read some
thing in the papers that caused you to
rewrite your entire part.
The doorman at the Globe Theater
used to complain about you because it
was his job to tell chauffeurs of pri-
vate cars what time they should come
back after the show He never knew
what to say, because some nights you'd
ring down the final curtain at 10 past
II, and other times. when you were in
really talkative mood, you'd keep the
audience in their seats and hollering
for more until midnight.
That was why so many people came
again and again to see Three Cheers"
If any one ever had any doubts as
to the wide variety of your appeal he
would have had them knocked out bv
taking look at the gang that came
to your dressing room to congratulate
you on the night Three Cheers"
opened.
That gang was a typical Rogers
group, consisting of Tommy Hitchcock.
the prominent polo player: William S,
Hart, the prominent Westerner: James
Montgomery Flagg, the prominent ar
tist; Ina Claire, the prominent actress
and wife; Gordon Lamont, the pron1i-
nent banker Ring Lardner, the promi-
nent wag, and Charles A. Lindbergh.
There isn't anybody else I know of
in the world who could have got such
a gathering into one back stage dress
ing room.
That gathering was just a specimen
OF your audience, Will-all kinds, all
tastes, all degrees.
So don't let them try to turn you
into a specialist, limited to variations
of the same old gag. Don't let them
make you out series" star, like Will
Rogers in Egypt. Will Rogers on the
Lower Mississippi, Will Rogers among
the Gorillas, Will Rogers at Yale.
Don't listen to the movie magnates
when they tell you the public demands
you keep on working in travel comedies.
Believe me, Will. those magnates only
want to take you for a ride.
With kindest best wishes from an old
admirer.
tCopyrigft, ie3o)
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Theater's Pot Boiling.

z P. DUNNE'S worthy world COL
umn gives interesting deductions
reached by Brock Pemberton, Broadway
impressario. Mr.. Pembsrton says:
"A six weeks trip across the continent
and back with a company of Strictly
Dishonorable,' half of that period spent
in Hollywood city of intermittent
blondes and perpetual sunshine, has led
me to certain definite conclusions about
the theater and its future.
Business in every line is bad from
here TO the Pacific and naturally show
business is bad too.
THE road is not dead for plays the
public has heard about and has con-
fdence in. But under the present con-
ditions 1t takes a greater effort to at
tract the public.
THE legitimate theater has lost some
Of its patronage to the talkies, not be-
cause the majority prefer the latter, but
because of economic pressure, 1t cannot
afford the former.
when the picture makers gave the
screen a voice they at once paid the
stage the greatest compliment and
mined their own position. For the
talkie is a pallid imitation of the stage,
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Detective Stories.

DETECTIVE and mystery stories said
- to be the most universally popular
of all fiction today, are the product of
the last generation. This fact was re-
vealed during research work for THE
Return of DR.. Flu Manchu."
Although the originator of modern
detective tales, Edgar Allen Poe, wrote
his famous Dupin stories more than two
generations ago. the universal vogue of
detective and mystery stories is COM
paratively recent.
1t is generally accepted that the be-
ginning OF mystery stories as a type
came in the United States with Anna
Katharine Green's The Leavenworth
Case" in England with Arthur Conan
Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and in
France with Gaboriau's police tales.
Detective and mystery stories meet
the recreational needs of all classes of
humanity from the college professor,
the scholar, the diplomat and the scien-
tist down to the most primitive and un-
tutored reader" according to Florence
Ryerson, who collaborated with Lloyd
Corrigan in their adaptation of the Sax
Rohmer thriller.
The University of Chicago recently
demonstrated scientifically that such
stories are a good tonic for tired nerves,
while it is an admitted psychological
truth that mankind always has delight
ed in self-torment. The frightening Of
ones self by reading mysteries does
just that"
Evening star., 1930-06-15
"Cimarron" Under Way.

" CIMARRON, Edna Ferbers novel
now being converted into a mo-
ton picture epic of the rise of Okla
homa, is on the march toward realiza-
tion.
Forges are blazing, grimy blacksmiths
are hammering metal wheel tires into
shape, wheelwrights and wagonwrightS
are cooperating with movie playwrights,
pioneer Oklahoma towns are blooming
into being. and Wesley Ruggles, direc-
tor-in-chief of huge staff of assistant
directors and cameramen, is sitting like
some great Indian chieftain on his
throne at the Radio Pictures ranch in
Hollywood, selecting hordes of Indians,
cowboys, MeXicans, Spaniards, char
acter actors and others as they pass in
review, literally in thousands, for his
production.
Max Rec, Radio Pictures art director,
has already assigned huge staff to the
task of supplying costumes by the thou
sands for "Cimarron." while architects,
builders and mechanics of all sorts are
busily engaged in carrying out his
plans for authentic sets
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Fox Lowers Prices.

EFFECTIVE from last Friday is the
following Summer scale of admis-
sion prices announced by Manager
Hardy Meakin at the Fox Theater
From the opening hour at IL am.
until l pm, seats for any part of the
theater will be 25 cents; from pm. to
pm. seats in the balcony and the
balcony loges will be 25 cents and seats
in the entire mezzanine floor and the
orchestra will be 35 cents; evening
prices, commencing at 6 pm, will be
for balcony and balcony loges, 35 cents,
and for the entire mezzanine floor and
the orchestra, so cents. These prices,
it is stated, will prevail all day Sunday
and holidays.
An added feature invites parents to
bring their children to any and all per-
fornances for the modest admission fee
Of Is cents.
The announcement explains that
these reductions will prevail only dur
ing the Summer months, and adds that
there will be no curtailiug of the pro-
grams, rather, it B promised, they viii
be bigger and better.
Evening star., 1930-06-15

eyeglasses and the more detrimental or
namentS to her sex, by the pensive ex-
preston she assumes when pressing her
left forehnger up against her mouth and
adding something like Well. I'm not
quite sure"
Others who disclose themselves after
the parting of the curtain are Edith
Gresham, who has a single note in her
voice which breaks and is shattered be-
fore the word is completed; Frsddie
Sherman, whose smile is a contagion
necessary to any or all of his roles:
Dudley Hawley whom motion pictures
have now engraved more firmly on the
mind, and Marion Sterly, easily de-
tected in bib and tucker by the express
sion of her eyes
All, in fact. whether allotted the role
of a prince or the role of a pauper.
have an apriori manuerism that clings
most pleasantly. But even with the
most potent glasses, even with sixth
sense, even with a gift of insight sur
passing the great Buddha, Adelaide
Hibbard. as Sne appeared last week.
gorgeously disguised in a serpentine
wig, seductively leaning over an Italian
balcony, speaking to the moon. defied
the world
And who will gainSay her?
Evening star., 1930-06-15

and must compete with it on its own
terms.
Most of the dramatiSts doing time In
Hollywood will be back on Broadway
before long / have talked to scores Of
dramatists who have been lured by gold
10 Hollywood. This is the burden Of
their song: I'm doing 1t for the wife
and the kiddies. Will be back? Just
wait till the last options over
The talkies have destroyed the arro-
CANT, ignorant, vicious hierarchy that
was the Hollywood OF silent pictures.
When the microphone appeared and the
movie mines opened their mouths
strange noises came forth. Most of the
pretty, vacuous faces have gone back
to the counter and oblivion Read the
cast Of any talkie and you will read q
roster of names from the dramatic
stage.
This cleaning of the Augean stables
has left Hollywood nice. quiet place in
which to live These are
the observations of one who hated the
silent photoplay and has found pleasure
in such talkies as The Broadway Mel
ody' and AN Quiet on the Western
Front
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Vaudeville Finds a Home.

IN the words of Dick Mansfield, the
Happy Days" cartoonist, who re-
members when the last tenant moved
out Of the old vaudeville theater and
they put up the sign Closed for Good p"
Well, the sign was blunder. Vaude-
vile has not been closed out for good"
News comes from I. H. Herk, the bur-
lesque magnate, that vaudeville has
been formally adopted by burlesque and
that next season a new partnership sign
will read "BurleSque g. Vaudeville" and
will adorn the ornate front of every
palace heretofore devoted to burlesque
throughout the length and breadth of
the Mutual Circuit.
All of which goes to prove that it is
as hard to kill off a good thing as it is
to down a good man.
Mr.. Herk has more to announce
host Of good things that will tickle the
emotions and risibilities of fans of the
primitive theater from the first Of the
coming September until the pussy will
lows bud on their long bare stems in
the Spring of the year beyond.
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Burton Holmes Talkies.

RURTON HOLMES, whose annual
travel-talks in Washington for
many years have delighted vast audi
ences, has been signed by the talkies.
Word comes that Metro Goldwyn- Mayer
will release IS one-reel travel subjects
designed by Mr.. Holmes for It's coming
seasons output.
The subjects to be included in this
series are: China. Japan, England,
Spain and Morocco, and throughout
each picture the audience will see Mr..
Holmes and hear his explanatory re-
marks in much the same manner that
the recent Martin johnson film was
accompanied by the explorers own
scene-by-scene story of his adventures.
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Watch the Shorts" "

WATCH for the shorts" this week
Particularly appetizing are said
to be the additional subjects tagged to
the feature films at Warner Bros Earle
and Metropolitan Theaters.
At the Earle the development of the
motion picture, from the penny-in the
slot period to the latest jazz riot of the
moment will be shown under the cap
ton Evolution" And at the Metropol-
itan a picture called "Yamekraw" re-
veals Edmund Du Par's new photo
graphic medium for the screen
Evening star., 1930-06-15

Eighty vaudeville acts for the Mutual
Circuit are to be signed up by William
Morris, the great vaudeville purveyor,
and As of these have already been
cinched. Only comedy, singing and
dancing specialties are being employed,
says Mr.. Morris, animal and acrobatic
acts being excluded
In the selection of the principals for
the various shows, Mr.. Herk explains,
preference IS being given to those play
ers who know and can deliver the things
typical of burlesque, particularly the
feminine performers. Those who have
an acceptable speciality are given the
first chance. 1t isn't proposed that in
the merger of burlesque and vaudeville
either type of entertainment Is to
be permitted to suffer. Rather each
type is to be brought up TO the highest
degree of excellence.
Monday, September /, the new season
will open in As theaters constituting the
Mutual wheel, although. it is added,
several of the houses will have two or
more weeks of preliminary entertain
ment TO break their hands in.
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Hollywood a Music Center.

HOLLYWOOD is visioning itself as the
future popular music center of the
world, says Richard A. Whiting, COM
poser of japanese Sandman and It'll
We Meet Again"
Most of the popular music of the
future will be written for motion pic
lures" said Whiting recently. The hit
songs of today are practically all from
musical shows Of the stage or screen.
The films, because of their immeasur-
ably larger audience range, are a far
better medium than the stage for in
PRODUCING popular melodies"
Whiting wrote the melodies for Para
mounts Safety in Numbers"
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Robson to PLAY America.

THE London production Of "Othello, "
with Paul Robson, American Ne
gro. in the title role will probably be
brought to New York in the Fall, ac-
cording to a radio address delivered by
the actor at the beginning of the week.
Prom all I can hear, the present
production will come to America" said
Mr. Robson. IT certainly do want to
play "Othello" in the land of my birth,
especially in New York, the scene of
my first artistic endeavors.
Il am positive that in the enlight-
ened sections of the United States there
can be only one question: Is this a
worthy Interpretation of one of the
great plays of all times? I sincerely
trust that I shall see you in October .
Evening star., 1930-06-15
The Moving Picture cAlbum
By Robert E. Sherwood.

THIS is an open letter to the Hon
Will Rogers of Beverly and Fox
Hills, Calf, who Is a wide-open
Il letter writer himself
Dear Will: You may not re-
member me- but I was kind of CAM
paign manager for you when you were
running as candidate of the Anti-Bunk
party in the big presidential ruckus OF
1928. At least was the one who sent
out the campaign buttons with your
picture on them and the slogan: He
Chews TO Run"
We had a lot of tough luck in that
campaign. VIII. or we'd have had you
in the White House today instead of
in some equally sound-proof studio out
around Hollywood. AS 1t was, you and
the Anti-Bunk party carried the Dis
trict of Columbia, but Congress being
Jealous of you they wouldn't count the
votes.
There was some one else running
about that same time that you may
have forgotten-a man named Smith.
remember that you stole his platform
right from under him, but he's getting
back at you now: he's taken over your
job as political expert. Another thing
he's doing is building the highest sky
scraper in the world with a Zeppelin
mooring mast for the top of it. Up to
now. as he himself would say. he hasn't
been able to arrange for any zeppelins
to use the mast but he's conducting
secret negotiations with certain parties
in Chicago and don't be surprised if
you hear news that the mast Is going
to be used as a permanent parking
place for big Bill Thompson.
However. this isn't what I'm sup
posed to be getting at in this letter,
and I guess you've been wondering what
that is.
Well Will, the real reason I'm writ
ing you is because I want to talk to
you about your work I don't mean
your newspaper or your radio work,
but your performances in these talking
picture contraptions
I'm getting kind of scared that your
boss out there, Mr.. Wintlose-or- draw
Sheehan, is trying to turn you into
movie star. I've been nervously watch
ing the fan magazines every month to
see If they've begun to talk Of you as
Will C"Buddy') Rogers.
A FEW months ago I saw you in one
4 = called They Had to See Paris"
1t was very comical. Then along came
your second picture, so This Is Lon
don," and again laughter was rife.
Your next one, they tell me. is "A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court" the story of which was written
by the other great American humorist.
After that you and a f1ivver will be CO.
featured in "See America First"
The way they're shifting you around
the map any one would think you were
Marco Polo. or the Cohens and Kellys,
or the Notre Dame foot ball team
Not that you aren't good in any part
of the globe. but it's beginning to look
to me as If this travel gag was going to
get TO be a little bit monotonous, and
there isn't anything so fatal as mo-
notony, as lot Of ex-movie stars will
be able to tell you
When a film magnate sees an actor
make good in one routine he says.
Evening star., 1930-06-15

Canterbury Cathedral have seen acted
a nativity play especially written by
John Masefield. Biblical subjects are
supposed to be barred from the London
stage.
Almost invariably the censor jibes
at Biblical subjects. So, of course, The
Green Pastures is far beyond posi-
bility here. It will never come
to London-except in Marc Connolly S
trunk. Maurice Brown will read it, for
it is to come straight to him, and he
will send it to the censor, of course in
duty bound. Then the censor will send
it back"
All of which seems very strange, since
Britishers have heretofore taken every
thing to do with the Negro straight to
their boSoms.
Evening star., 1930-06-15

knows them, went their separate ways
following the Equity settlement.
Now comes word that Cohan and
Harris will not only resume their pro-
ducing partnership, but will invade
Hollywood as a picture producing firm.
Instead of working for the other fell
low. they will work for themselves, re-
leasing their productions through the
major company fortunate enough to
get them"
Evening star., 1930-06-15
COhan and Harris Team.

WITH the taking suddenness
of cyclone comes the report that
Sam Harris and George NJ. Cohan are
to become partners again, thus shatter-
ing one of the most celebrated breaks
and grouches in the history of Ameri-
can show business.
A Hollywood dispatch to the Chicago
News says; Split nine years ago, when
they differed on the outcome of the
famous Equity strike, it has taken al
most full decade to heal the breach.
Successful as flrm-in fact, second to
none-Sam and G. M as Broadway
Evening star., 1930-06-15
Sap From Syracuse" "

FULLY recovered from having had his
appendix shipped and clipped, Jack
Oakie is working night and day starring
for The Sap from Syracuse" at Para
mounts New York studio. Appearing
opposite is Ginger Rogers. who has
packed three important roles into her
brief motion picture career. Others as
sembled by the studio and Director Ed
ward Sutherland are Veree Teasdale
Betty Starbuck and Granville Bates.