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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Washington's Players
What Various Dramatic Organizations Are Doing
and Propose to Do.
nd Propose to Do.

reation Center, to which all adults de-
string opportunity for acting, stage
lighting and design. coStuming, play
reading and all technical branches OF
the modern stage are invited.
Ruth Harsha Mckenzie, profess
sional player and director. with 10
years experience In stock and repertory
companies on the East and the West
Coasts of the United States, who spent
last season at the Yale Theater work.
ing with George Pierce Baker, will be
the director of the new group. which is
expected to affiliate with the Com
munity Drama Guild of Washington
when its organization is completed.
Mrs. Mckenzie has played leading
roles in many dramas including "A
Woman Of No Importance" Arms and
the Man." The Thief" and others.
She has been associated with the
Philadelphia Civic Theater and with
plays and Players" there, with the
Maitland Players of San Francisco and
other Little Theater companies in Cali
fornia, and has played also In stock in
Boston and with a repertory group
touring New England.
The new dramatic group is being
sponsored by the Community Center
Department, represented by Mrs. A. L.
Irving. community secretary at Mac
farland Center, from whom all infor-
nation may be obtained Mrs. Irvings
telephone call is Cleveland 5003.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Coming Attractions

and a man is killed. Two home-going
policemen aboard the train quickly
subdue the fight and summon medical
examiner. What looked like common,
ordinary homicide turns out to be a
most ingenious murder which necesSi-
tates the calling of detectives to solve.
Each passenger Is subject to an ex-
animation until the guilty person is
finally found. 1t all goes to make first
rate drama, punctuated with many
laughs and dramatic situations.
Besides Leo Curley, who is seen as
the inspector, others who take promi-
Virginia Curley, Maria Pettis, William
T. Hayes, Edward Everett Hale, Wall
Spence, James Young and Maud Nolan
"DIMPLED DARLINGS."
Under the alluring title of "Dimplec
Darlings," a smart, fast moving
show, comes to the Gayety Theater next
week, Offering laughable comedy, plenty
of pretty girls, talented comedians and
specialists in the line of song, dance
diversity and art, with all the ingredi-
entS mixed by experts from the fields
of musical comedy and vaudeville.
The two featured players are Bob
Startzman and Fritzie White. Other
principals include Lee Hickman, tramp
comedian Harry Connors, juvenile;
Evelyn Dubois, soubrette; Marcia
Compton, ingenue; I. j. Irving, straight
man and magician; Jack Strauss, black
face comedian and singer, and the
vaudeville headliners, Robert, Bent and
Driscoll. 1.-TWO Hops and Miss" trio
of versatile entertainers, as well as a
good looking, housekeeping chorus.
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ST. GABRIEL's PLAYERS. Tomorrow.

TINE st. Gabriel's Players. OPEN
ing their sixth season. will pre-
sent THE Cat and the Canary"
l. tomorrow night and Tuesday at
st. Patrick'S Hall, Tenth and G
streets northwest. This years Offering
is expected to be of special interest to
amateur dramatic groups here, as it
will be real test of ability for the
non-professional.
Effective production of this play re-
quires def stage management, lighting
and shifting to make the spook ridden
old mansion of the story convincing.
Past performances of these players.
doubtless, while an assurance of good
results now, prove of value to the play
ers in their somewhat difficult prob
lem this year. Good work may always
be expected from Justin Wrinkle, Mary
Mccarthy and Paul Murphy, along with
others who will guide the play through
the throeS of mystery.
These young people are working ulti-
mately for the building fund of the
new st. Gabriel's Church in Petworth.
Full of surprises, action and unusual
turns, the story unfolds in an old,
spook ridden mansion one stormy night.
The cast includes Kathleen Baker,
Dorothy Collif1ower, Richard Collins.
Kenneth Collins, Matt Fenton, Harold
Hamill. Margaret Frawley. Paul Muir
ply, Mary Mccarthy, George and
Justin Wrinkle.
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ter patrons of this city The play will
mark Mr.. Belasco's 375th production, a
long and honorable record which PROB
ably will not be surpassed.
For the central character Mr.. BelaSco
has been indeed fortunate in securing
the services of Helen Gahagan, who has
been in Italy studying music for the
past three years, having abandoned the
stage in 1928 to embark on contem-
plated operate career. She sang in
gala performances in Central Europe
during the past Spring and Summer,
but Cancelled all other engagements
when Mr. Belasco finally persuaded her
to return to America.
Although the play is written around
the life of an opera star, Mr.. Belasco
is the authority for the statement that
its plot does not concern the tempera-
ment and tantrums of an opera prima
DONNA but the play will rely solely on
its love story and dramatic interest.
An exceptional cast selected to sup
port Miss Gahagan includes Melvyn
Douglas, Ferdinand GottSchalk, War
burton Gamble, Robert Greig, Kath-
crime Stewart, Greta Meyer and Ed
mund LoeWe.
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an of Passion" starring Norma Tai
madge, with Conrad Nagel, William
Farnum and Hobart Bosworth in sup
porting roles of prominence. a United
Artists production, will come to Loew's
Palace, and will have Harry Santrey and
his band as supporting stage attrac-
ton.
To Warmers Earle will come 1.-THE
Truth About Youth" First National
Vitaphone production, featuring Loretta
Young, Conway Tearle, David Manners
and Myrna 10y, along with stage show
featuring Borrah Minevitch and His
Rascals and Aunt Jemima.
"Whoopee,"' Samuel Goldwyn and.
United Artists screen counterpart of
Florenz ziegfeld's notable joymaker of
the stage legitimate, will follow BILLY
the Kid" at Loew's Columbia, with
Eddie Cantor doing his usual in the
audible screen production.
Manager Corbin SHIELD has 1.-THE Sill
yer Horde" featuring Louis Wolheim and
Evelyn Brent, Radio picture, under
lined" at R.-K.-O. Keith's.
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Variety Is the Spice.

Ut MUST have q new leading woman
in each of my pictures" says Maui
rice Chevalier. 1T would be terrible
to be accused of a lack of Imagination
in lovemaking. This would surely hap
pen If played opposite the same lady
every time. For each woman must be
made love to in different way. But
the method, the technique, can never
be changed for the same woman. You
see what I mean?"
Chevalier's rule is proved by his rec
ord. Sylvia Beecher played with him
in his first American picture, limo
cents of Paris; jeanette Macdonald
was the Queen in 1.-The Love Parade;
Evelyn Brent was his romantic inspira-
ton in Paramount on Parade" and in
1.-The Big Pond" it was Claudette Col
bert. In his newest picture, "Playboy
Of Paris" he has Frances Dee, Holly
woods newest discovery among the ex-
ira girls.
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Lubitsch on Screen Airs.

SONGS and fine music need not be ex-
cused when introduced into film
stories. It is only when the songs are
attempted by people who cannot sing
and when the music is inferior that
apologies should be made by the pro-
Queer of the picture. So says Ernst
Lubitsch, maker of the currently sue
cessful Love Parade" In that picture,
Lubitsch had Jack Buchanan and jean
cite Macdonald sing when and where
ever it seemed to him that song would
fit nicely.
1T is as reasonable to expect players
with talent for singing to sing from
the screen as it is to expect newsboys
with talent for whistling to whistle on
the street." Lubitsch feels. I'VE go to
the theater to see musical play and
we do not question it when the prima
donna, apropos of nothing at all bursts
into song.
If the story has to wait until that
little song is over, well-then the story
shall wait"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
The "chart" Of photoplay
attractions in Washington
theaters this week appears
on page 8 Of this section.
Play to the First Row.

"DLAY to the first row rather than
l the last" That is the advice
which Harry D'ArraSt, author and d.
rector of Laughter" Nancy CAROLS
starring piece, gave his actors.
D'Arrast employed cast three men,
bers of which (F.rederic March, Frank
Morgan and Glenn Anders) are both
stage and screen actors.
For this reason he stressed at all
times the fact that repression of ex-
preston is absolutely essential in mo-
ton pictures.
Stage actors need to be told more
than anything else to- forget the ira
ditional back row, when they change
over to the screen medium" he ex-
planned. There are no back rows,
technically speaking, in motion picture
houses. The slightest gesture, the
fainteSt infection is caught by every
body in the house."
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Wynn-Hoctor, Co-StarS.

the New York public that she won rec
ignition, and after two years she was
engaged for the Review la Carte"
When this production opened in Bos-
ton, Florence Ziegfeld saw her. Straight
away he engaged her for 1.-The Three
Musketeers" and later for THE Show
Girl" She scored such triumphs that
her contract was prolonged in Simple
Simon" When Ed Wynn purchased
this production from Florenz Ziegfeld
for a road tour, he Immediately re-
engaged Miss Hector. And Ed CO.
starred Harriet.
Miss Hector was recently chosen for
the second year in succession as the
best "ballerina" in the country by six
leading professional dance directors in
the "all-American choice of dancing"
for 1880, held by the Dance Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
SUBWAY EXPRESS"

"CUBWAY EXPRESS" a mystery
- play, opens a weeks engagement
at the National Theater next Monday
evening, November 3. 1t ran for eight
months in New York last season and
was hailed as the best detective thriller
Of the year. 1t was written by Eva Kay
Flint and Martha Madison. two young
women Of the theater, and staged by
Chester Erskin, and is novel in a way
for all the three acts take place in
subway car.
When the curtain rises this car part
of a 10-car New York subway train, is
leaving the Brooklyn end Of the subway
and running under the East River. It's
an express train and makes only desig-
mated express stops. But a half dozen
people are in the car when it is first
seen, but by the time it reaches Times
Square all the seats are taken and there
are many standees. AS the train is
pulling out of Times Square two half
tipsy men start fight, a shot is fired
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Tracv Has New Role.

7 EO TRACY has been signed by
- James Cruze Productions for the
leading role in "She Got What She
Wanted" the first Tiffany special
under the direction of Cruze
Tracy has received recognition for his
portrayals in "Lilliom," and Big
Time" He also has many stage ap-
pearances to his credit, including
Broadway" and THE Front Page"
The cast of "She Got What She
Wanted" includes Betty Compson,
CASTOR Glass, Alan Hale and Dorothy
Christy. The story Is adapted from
the stage production Of the same title
by George Roosner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

Tor the first time since Ed Wynn
became a full-flledged star, he has
condescended, in Simple Simon" to per-
init equal billing for another artist
He has insisted that Harriet Hector be
co-starred, and so she is. And who
Is she?
Well, it seems that at the age of IL
she was astonishing the people in
Hoosick Falls. N. Y, by her ability to
stand on her toes An aunt happened
to visit her one day, took an interest
in Miss Hooters pronounced ability, be-
gan to give her lessons and later sent
her to New York to study.
After five years Of study, Miss Hector
gained a place in the ballet of Sunny"
Then she toured in Keith vaudeville,
finally breaking into Broadway In
"Topsy and Eva" which so delighted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
COLUMBIA PLAYERS.

THE Columbia Players will present
"Bellairs" at the Wardman Park
Theater in December.
The title role of "Bellairs" will be
played by H. r. Baukhage. Aurora Pos
ton will play Mrs. Bellairs and Helen
Burton, Dorothy, the daughter, Barclay,
the keeper of the pub" has been as
signed to Charles Dickson; Giovanni,
the young Italian in love with Dorothy,
will be played by Willard Miller; Morti-
mer Scrope, the minister, by George
Odell, and Diana Martin by Elizabeth
Dyer. The part of Betty, the inn
keepers daughter, had not yet been as
signed when the announcement was
made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

r a q o entertain
ment in more elab-
crate, more dra-
matte and, If posi-
BILE, more comic
form, with sight as
we'll as oun d.
Caught in the in
tricAte meshes of
their taxicab bust
ness, harried by
d a t e S with the
sweet women, Ruby
and Nine. Queen;
bothered by their
lodge duties, advis-
ed in the making
Of millions by the
aStute Kingfish,
a m u S e d by the
ShiftleSS and dila-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Elsie and Edmund,

ELSIE JANIS, a writer who used to
act, is working with Edmund Could
ing on dialogue that will be heard dur
ing the course of Douglas Fairbanks
Reaching for the Moon" Miss Janis
recently announced that she would de-
vote her time entirely to her pen, type
writer, quill or dictaphone. Many Of
her stories and articles have appeared
in magazines and she is working on .
book now.
Miss Janis and Mr.. Goulding have
elaborated IN at least one notable
prior incident. Love, Thy Magic Spell
Is Everywhere" sung so successfully in
THE Trespasser" by Gloria Swanson,
had its music breathed into it by the
versatile Goulding and its words were
inscribed by the equally versatile Miss
Janis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

Lyon, Lott1 Ioder,
Harry Langdon and
Noah Berry in the
cast, is announced
for Warmers Metro
politan, which also
begins its new week
Friday. It's an
Americana r m v
n-France picture,
with a story by
Vina Delmar, au-
thor of Bad Girl"
For those thea
tiers which begin
their new week on
Saturday, the fol-
lowing announce
ments have been
made:
"DfI BARRY "0y1n.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

when MI. Belasco
will present his
second production
of the season, ITO
night or Never"
written by Lii
Hatvany, the au-
thor Of 1.-The Love
Duel" the English
version being by
Frederic and Fanny
Hatton.
Miss Hatvany is
aid to h av e
evolved q unique
play, which under
the able direction
of Mr.. B e la S C o
S h Guild prove a
happy dramatic
g. A.. AI1&n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
R-K-O KEITH'S-Amos m Andy,
"Check and Double Check"

A MOS m ANDY, pictorially, are in
~ town. Their much heralded
a talkie, Check and Double
4 a Check" is here, lining up the
crowds at R-K-O Keith's
Theater.
Check and Double Check" brings
Amos N Andy to the screen for the
first time. 1t presents their famous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
LITTLE-"Unguarded Girls"
On the Dotted Line.

TALLULAH BANKHEAD, noted young
actress who has won especial dis
tinction on the English stage, has been
signed to a contract by Paramount.
Miss Bankhead, who is at present in
London, where she has been appearing
in Let Us Be Gay" is due in this
country around January l to start her
first Paramount picture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
New Menace" for Xxi"

MARGARET LIVINGSTON, the
blonde menace in Gloria Swan
sons What a Widow" has been as
signed a prominent supporting role in
Mary Pickford's "Kiki"
Nacio Herb Brown. whose Pagan
Love Song" wedding of the Painted
Doll" and "Singin' in the Rain" have
been whistled, quartetted and moaned,
10, these many moons, is composing o
musical number for the Pickford film.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
THE MASKS.

THE MASKS, one of the Oldest dra-
matte groups IN Washington, have
been planning for the annual one-act
play tournament to be held early in
1881. At its first meeting this Fall 1t
decided to have a one-act play tourna-
ment within the group and, at the con-
clusion of this, to choose the best play
to represent the Masks in the city-wide
contest in the Spring.
A one-act play, Suppressed Desires, "
was recently given with success over
WJSV, local broadcasting station. In
the cast were Irma Patterson, Sue
Shorter and Harold Waiter.
The new officers elected for 1890
1881 are: President, Marguerite Paul
vice president, Benjamin Doehrer;
treasurer, Katherine Griffith; secretary,
Dorothy Golladay, and publicity man
ager, Leonora Combs.
THEATER GROUP ORGANIZING.
A LITTLE THEATER group will be
organized this week on Wednesday
evening at Mcfarland Community Rec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

Eddie Cantor may change his mind
about returning to the stage, and this
comes about through his idea that his
movie success can be determined by
stage presentation. That is, he may
try his movie ideas on the stage before
they are taken to HOLLYWOOD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Pictures Announced

" DMUND LOWE in an ultra-smart
- comedy drama entitled Scot
land Yard" will entertain the
- Fox Theater patrons starting
Friday, with Joan Bennett and
David Torrance in his support and
reinforced by the latest Fanchon-
Marco Idea" as the stage attraction.
"A Soldiers Plaything," a Warner
Bros. Vitaphone production, with Ben
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
TONIGHT OR NEVER"

A NEW Belasco production, always
"A matter of dramatic interest, Is
scheduled for the Shubert Belasco The
alter next Monday evening, November 8,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26
Observation-Disclosures

der the personal supervision of Louis
K. Sidney.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-20
HARDBOILED RED-HEADED PARROT
 WITH TOUCH VOCABULARY, LOSES
 HAPPY HOME; WHAT TO BUY TT?

anyone discovering the range and distinctness of his speech.
 However. as soon as he was nov ed into the limelight of the new Bird House and admiring crowds stood before his cage he began to preen himself and respond fluently to encouragement to talk. But such talk as it was Entirely too clear and distinct Visitors gaSped and looked about to see if others were hearing the same things they were. More than once the attendants had to remove the bird hastily from the cage. But 1t was no use. As soon as he was put back and visitors again began to whistle and call Pretty Polly" he respond ed in hardboiled terms.
 Now the Zoo is looking for a refined, well-educated parrot to en- certain the crowds. ~Yacoob,' talking mynah bird, who formerly spoke Chinese. is being taught to speak discreet English.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-20

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2o.-A red headed parrot at the St Louis Zoo with a vocabulary and repartee of mule driver has talked himself out of a pleasant home in the new Bird House. His language was too strong and too varied in epithets for the ears of women and chil- dren visitors He has been perma- nently removed from the parrot cage and is being kept in solitary confinement in one of the rear rooms until he can be sold or given away
 It is a case of bird not being able to live up to a better environ ment. George Vierheller, director of the Zoo, explained. The parrot came into the possession of the Zoo about a year ago when the psitticosis fright caused many parrot owners to get rid of their pets. The Zoo accepted the bird as gift and he lived in the humble quarters for merly assigned the parrots without
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-20
MAIL PLANE FOUND WITH
 THREE DEAD
IWreckage Located Ending Forty-thfee Hour Search
 Mail Is Intact

BURBANK, Cal, Nov. 20.-Plung- ed nose first into a slope of the Tehachapi Mountain foothills, a Pacific Air Transport night mail plane was found late yesterday.
 The three aboard the plane were dead
 Discovery of the wreckage end- ed a 43-hour search by air and land.
 The plane was not burned and 3l3 pounds of mail the plane was carrying to Oakland from Port land was found intact.
 The dead are:
 Pilot F. A. Donaldson.
 Mechanic George Rogers.
 Miss Jean Markow, aged IS, Of Los Angeles, a passenger.
 It is believed the plane crashed in a fog which descended over the region about the time the plane was flying in the locality where the wreckage was found.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-20
HOOVER OPENS CONFERENCE ON
 CHILD HEALTH
Three Thousand Experts Cather-Task Divided
 Into Three Parts

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20. President Hoover last night open ed the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection with 5000 experts assembled,
 The President divided the task into three categories, protection and stimulation for the normal child, aid to physically defective and han dicapped children, and problems of delinquents.
 President Hoover's purpose in calling the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, according to Dr. Ray Lyman Will bur. Secretary of the Interior and Chairman of the. Conference, is to find out exactly what conditions of child education, health and mental wellbeing prevail and what further steps ought to be taken.
 The United States Public Health Service has recently stated that in these enlightened days, no child need die of smallpox or diphtheria," the Secretary recalls, also that it is possible to guard against typhoid by sanitary control of water and milk supplies; that children bitten by mad dogs may be saved by the Pasteur treatment
 "All this is splendid but as yet not every community knows how to make use of the precautions that are available and much still re- mains to be done in the way of re- search and investigation.
 Tn the findings of the Confer ence there will be given to the people of the United States the answer of the scientific. world to Prsident Hoover's challenge that 1t should produce some formula which will enable all those who care for children to mold the boys and girls of today into the stalwarts to whom we may safely intrust our hopes of the future"