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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
ROBERT DOWNING in Classical
ReViValS.

Henri Gressitt, manager well known
for his past association with many Of
the most famous theatrical stars and
attractions, will present the distin-
guiShed actor. Robert Downing, and his
company at the Washington Auditorium
for week, beginning Monday, March
IL, in q noteworthy revival of classical
dramas
Damon and Pythias," the story of
brotherly love, first produced in Wash
ington, D. c., and on which was found
ed the great order Of the Knights Of
Pythias, will be presented the first three
days of the engagement. For the last
half of the week. the immortal love
story. "Ingomar." translated from the
German by Maria Lowell, with its locale
in the ancient 0recian city of Syracuse,
will be the offering.
1t was in "Ingomar" that Mary An
derson, as Parthenia, became the idol
OF American playgoers before her mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09

cording to Secretary Of Labor Davis,
and the higher sugar tariff: was it the
result OF logrolling? The remainder Of
the time viii be given to a review of
the most critical developments in for
eign affairs for the past week.
The talk VIII be given In the Masonic
Temple, thirteenth street and New
York avenue. at 1o:45 O'Clock.
"THE CHARM SCHOOL" Saturday.
THE Charm School," a comedy by
Alice Duer Miller and Robert Milton,
Will be presented by Kannp Kahlert
Kouncn in Barker Hall, Young Wom-
ems Christian Association, Seventeenth
and K streets, Saturday night at
o'clock, under the direction of Alice
Sigworth Morse, director OF drama for
the Y. w. G. A. in this city.
A cast Of 20 girls viii play the parts
in the comedy, which is in three acts,
with special settings and costumes de-
signed by Mrs. Morse and committees
Of girls in the kouncil. Amy VeerhoR
will appear as an auto salesman, Eliza
beth Morrow as young student of the
law Doris Tucker as an expert ac-
countant, Frances Pope and Margaret
Hedgecock as Tim and Jim, those who
toll not and have no thought of spin
Ming" and That's Spencer as Homer
the piece, Elise Benedotti.
Helen Middleton has been cast as
Elise, the president of the seniors at
the Charm School; Elizabeth Jenkins
as Miss Hays, the schools principal,
and Maybelle Boyce as Miss Curtis, the
schools secretary. Reba Barton, Eliza
beth Findlay, Martha Limbaugh, Peggy
RinRrose, Betty Alexander, Jane Almon,
Eleanor McRae and Dorothy Fiske will
play other roles.
Tickets are on sale at the Y. w. G. A.,
at Seventeenth and K streets.
BURTON HOLMES-March 20.
Burton Holmes will presently be with
us again. This time-his tfirty-Second
season in Washington promises, as
his contribution to popular knowledge
and wholesome entertainment, pro-
vocative and colorful picture resume of
modern travel in Europe and the Near
East. AS usual, the place of preSer1ta.
ton will be the National Theater, and
the series will consist of five Thursday
afternoons, beginning March 20. A
booking arrangement makes it possible
to run the Washington course currently
with courses in Pittsburgh, Philadel-
phia and Baltimore.
AS the theme for his first revue, the
gifted world traveller will offer THE
1929 Season In and About London"
Mr. Holmes says, London isn't London
any more for one who has not seen the
city for four or five years. Not only
has she changed her face architectural
ly, but customs, too, have changed"
The London revue is said to con.
sist Of entirely new f1lmings, many Of
which were made during the social
season of last June and viii reveal
much of the pomp and pageantry Of Q
typical London season." This will be
followed through successive Thursday
afternoons with Motoring Through
France" "preSent-day Travel in Ger
many" ~ New Mediterranean Cruise"
and Venice and North Italy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
End of the Rainbow.

SOUND pictures have meant the end
- of the rainbow to Ludwig Berger
German director and a unique ngure
in Hollywood.
Educated at the University of Munich
Berger has dreamed always Of the per-
feet form Of art combined with enter
tainment. In music, in fiction, in ORA.
matte writing, both on the stage ano
the silent film he has sought 1t. In
the sound picture he believes he mas
found it.
He made a reputation as stage di-
rector and producer at the Berlin thea
tiers. From the stage he entered the
screen game and directed 1.-THE Woman
from Moscow" starring Pola Negri, ano
then Emil Jannings in "Sins of the
Fathers"
He was assigned to direct Dennis
King in THE Vagabond King" which
will soon be released and is awaiting
the verdict.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09

HOLLYWOOD rain doesn't even
IL dampen the ardor OF some Of the
acute lamentations of the inhabitants.
Take, for instance, Director Frank
futile, who, besides waving his baton
over the heads of his celluloid puppets,
has time for such profound thought as
this. Says futile: Motion pictures
are easily comparable to musical COM
positions. Screen comedies are fox
trots, character dramas are marches,
society dramas are minuets, romantic
pictures are sonatas, tragedies are dirges
and mystery stories are concert SYM
phonies."
In embroidering his last assertion Mr..
TIttle adds that a detective story is
like q concert symphony because there
are pianissimo, staccatto, crescendo, al
legro and grandioso movements in o
rhythmic order"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
Friml's Valuable Hands.

. UDoLPH FRIN1L has insured his
~ hands to the extent of a million
dollars. The details of this insurance
policy, which is the largest in cinema
history, reveals the fact that Friml
values his right hand more than his left,
the one being 10 per cent more valuable
than the other, and his thumbs are
listed as his most valuable digits.
With this news sizzling the torrid
pavements of Hollywood comes an even
greater Sunstroke In the form Of q
statement which says that Harry Tier
ney, another promoter of the song in
cubator, has insured his ear drums for
100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
Belasco's Comedy.

"TT'S Wise Child" David Belasco's
comedy, which opened the New
York season August 5, has smashed all
previous attendance records for a six
month period, and still continues to at
tract capacity audiences, is a sophisti-
Gated comedy, which grows out of the
endeavor of a modern girl to rid herself
Of an elderly sutton. An interfamily
scandal results, which bids fair for q
iceman.
The comedy situations, under Mr..
BelaSco'S delicate handling, are said to
be laughable without overstepping the
bounds Of the conventions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
RIALTo CLOSES FOR A WHILE.

Announcement has been received that
the Rialto Theater, on Ninth street near
@ northwest, will close for repairs, reno
walton and sound treatment but will
reopen within few weeks with a talk
ing, singing extravaganza largely col
orchestra. This, the announcement
states, will be followed by "All Quiet on
the western Front" and then by Mar
sellaiSe," starring John Boles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
FRENCH MODELS" AHEAD.

French Models" with the splendor
and speed of modern burlesque, promises
more than usual treat at the Gayety
Theater next week. This will be the
fifth appearance here of the show, with
its fun and song and dance surprises.
Viola Elliott and Jim Bennett head
the cast. Others include Ella Sears,
Billy Sullivan, Alice Sohn, Jack Rey-
nolds, Irving Witt, frankie Clark and
a chorus of girlish glee that contributes
TO the fun and beauty of the three most
pretentiouS scenes, THE Red Dance,
1.-The Poem of Flowers" and the CHECK
Must Be Paid"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
Variety of Attractions in
The Capital Playhouses

NATIONAL-"AM Month in the Country -
The New York Theater Guild viii
7 bring Tirgenev's comedy "a Month in
the Country" to the National Theater
, tomorrow night for an engagement lin
tied to one week This will be the first
performance of this play in the United
States. The comedy was recently given
q successful London production and it
has long been in the repretory of the
Moscow Art Theater. "A Month in the
Country" Is announced as the greatest
play of gifted dramatist who is equally
famous as novelist It has had tri-
Moscow and Leningrad. Like all Of
his plays, "A Month in the Country
was originally written for the stage with
particular actors in mind. Turgenev
spent most Of his life in Paris, where he
was a constant theatergoer, though he
drew his materials from his native Rus
sian background. The theme, like Bal
Eac's ''Maratre," is the struggle between
. girl and mature woman for young
mans affections.
. The lacework of the psychology Of
love, which Turgenev weaves in such a
mastery fashion, demands a brilliant
ensemble. Accordingly, the Theater
Guild viii present the Theater Guild
Acting Co. In the play, with cast in
Guiding ALA Nazimova, Dudley Digges,
Elliot Cabot, Alexander Kirkland, Henry
Travers, Hortense Alden, Douglass Dunn
brille, Eunice Stoddard, Eda Heine-
mann, M1nna Philips, Charles Kraus,
Louis Veda and Edward Wragge.
The production has been staged by
Reuben MamOulian with settings from
the original Russian designs Of Dodu-
schinsh by Raymond Sovey.
GAYETY.-"Step Lively, Girls"
The Mutual burlesque attraction,
"Step Lively, Girls" which Is playing
this week at the Gayety Theater, Is an
nounced as "just one illustration OF why
mutual shows click. This attraction is
said to be filling its mission OF fun, and
with q lavish presentation OF all the
most advanced ideas in burlesque.
Among the responsible players pre-
sented In bill Of laughter and surprise
are Elsie Burgere, tngenue soubrette,
singer and dancer, and Harry Bentley,
Dutch comic, late of the New York
Winter Garden fame, both Of whom are
featured. Others are George Levy,
comedian and dancer; Jack Le Due,
fashion plate, straight man; Johnnie
Baker and Muriel Curtis, acrobatic
dancing and speciality team, late of a
'sdit the Deck company; Cecil Shell
don, Jack Teeters, acrobatic Soubrette,
and Don Killarney, who is called "the
Al JolSon of burlesque."
A colorful chorus Of singers and
dancers contributes to make the two big
scenes, "a Pirates Den" and Southern
Plantation" the funny skits they are.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
JANET acknowledgements.

Miss Janet Richards will give the last
regular talk of her Winter course to-
morrow morning on Political History
in the Making" when she will review
the Ilighlights in the worlds work for
the past week, both at home and
abroad. Under home affairs, this will
include causes Of unemployment, ac-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09

fects that have excited delight and adj
miration in the past.
The "old guard" will all be on hand.
and, says Manager Cochran, ut Is our
old guard who will build every produc~
ton for our special use. For be 1t re-
membered, we never use old or lett
over material that has seen better
days"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09

riage and retirement with her husband
to England
An excellent group of players is as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Downing, each select
ed for ability and experience to ade-
quately portray classical roles. The
staging and costuming have been care
fully provided. Matinees will be given
Wednesday and Saturday.
Seat sale opens Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09

1 Loose Ankles" the First National and
Vitaphone laughfest, on the screen. and
Nick Lucas, 1.-The grooming troubaoour
of stage and screen fame, on the Earle
stage in person, In a program OF new
| songs.
loose Ankles" features Loretta
Young and Douglas Fairbanks, tr.. in q
clever perturbation OF Sam Janneys
stage comedy about a pretty helress
who outwits her prim maiden aunts 10
marry the man she loves. Under the
terms of a rich uncle's will the girl
will receive no money unless she Weos
| the man of her aunts' choice. In
event of a scandal in the family, the
fortune is to go to a cat and dog
hospital The girl conspires with her
friends to be compromised" in order
to force her aunts to agree to her
choice of husband, thereby preventing
a scandal in the family.
In the cast are Louise Fazenda, Ethel
Wales, Otis Harlan, Daphne Pollard,
Inez Courtney and Eddie Nugent.
Vitaphone Varieties and The Evening
Star Universal and Pathe newsreels VIII
complete the bill.
C0LUMBIA-"The Girl Said MOI"
william Haines is a screen frolic OF
Loews Columbia this week in Metro
Goodwin Mayors talking production,
THE Girl Said MOI"
Haines appears as tn carefree, fresh,
impairment but lovable boy, Just out OF
college, who secures work as bond and
stock salesman. His pranks, however,
cost him his job. incidentally, his
sweetheart, played by Leila Hyams, be-
comes disguised with him and promises
to marry another young man (Francis
x. Bushman, jr.). Haines' father dies,
and, as the family fortune is depleted,
Haines, obliged to seek work, goes back
to the bond house and pleads for his
Job. To get rid of him, they agree to
give back his position, provided he can
sell an issue of stock to woman who
is considered an impossible prospect.
This woman is played by Marie Dressler.
Haines calls on her and finds the doc
tor waiting to see her also. He forces
the doctor to give way, goes in to see the
woman, posing as doctor; finds bot.
tie of alcohol in the doctors satchel
and gives her q dose, and in q very
funny sequence he succeeds in selling
her the issue. Dashing away to the
home Of his sweetheart, he finds her
preparing to be married and kidnapS
her for q happy ending Of the picture.
The Hearst Metrotone News, the Co
lumbia Orchestra and short subjects
complete the program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
FOX--"Happy Days"


The newest Fox production, Happy
Days" presenting large group Of noted
screen stars, remains for another week
at the Fox Theater.
Happy Days" is unusual, in that 1t
combines the entertaining ability OF
such stars as Janet Gaynor, Charles
Farrell, Victor McLaglen, Edmund
Lowe, Ell Brendel, Ann Pennington, j.
Harold Murray, Marjorie White, Frank
Richardson, Will Rogers, Warner Bax-
ter, Tom Patricola, Dixie Lee, Walter
Catlett, the Slate brothers, James j.
Corbett and many others.
It is said to be the first Of the screen
revues credited with romantic story.
The stage program, "screenland Mel
odies," announced as one of the best
Of the Fanchon and Marco ideas, also
remains. LAMBERT with def comedy
and musical ability, Karavaeh with
unique dancing. the voices Of Robert c.
Cloy and Sherry Louise, as well as the
artistry Of Jack and Betty yelling and
FRANKLIN and Warner, are its outstand-
ing features. A new issue Of the Fox
Movietone News and the Fox Orchestra
will add to the entertainment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09
R-K-O KEITHS-'Tho Case Of Ser.
Reant GriScha."

"The Case of Sergeant Grischa, "
Radio Pictures screen production OF
Arnold Zweig's novel, continues at Rex
o Keiths for second weeks showing.
The picture, it Is announced, has pro-
voked discussion and has crowded the
theater during the past week to It's Ca
pacity at nearly every performance. IL
is q picture that is enthralling and
gripping. The masterful direction OF
Herbert Brenon has made it into more
than the mere unfolding Of the story,
which follows the book quite faithfully,
and tells the pathetic struggle OF o
young Russian prisoner, Grischa, after
escaping from German prison camp
in trying to avoid the wrongly inflicted
death sentence.
Chester Morris appears In the role Of
Grischa and Betty Compson plays the
featured feminine role. The supporting
cast is excellent and includes Gustav
Won Seyffertitz, Jean Hersholt, Alec b.
Francis, Paul McAllister and Frank Nc
Cormack. THE Case of Sergeant
Grischa" is an outstanding production.
most unusual reel THE Feline
Fighter; an animated cartoon, the
Radio News of current events and
Freddy Clark and his R-K-Olians round
out the program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-09

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EARLE-"LoOSe Ankles"
Hflarity should reign at Warner
BIOS Earle Theater this week, with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
REVOLUTION SETTLES
UNDER SURFACE OF
INDIAN CONGRESS
Capitalists of India Making Left Gestures Capture Masses
From Working Class Leaders in Fight on Imperialism
Fake left" in Cunning Militant Mask; Congress
Important Only Mirror of Revolutionary Tidal
Wave Among Masses

own program Of dominion status,
and while the masses shouted
"Long live the revolution" he dem
agogically cried out "to end the ex-
ploitation of the poor in India" and
went so far as to call himself a
Socialist republican,. Dominion
status, said this old reactionary
who had forced last years Congress
to adopt dominion status is only
"the shadow of authority" He spoke
for complete independence to be at
tanned by a peaceful mass move
ment," which of course is absurd.
London dispatches quote the
"Times" as ridiculing the congress,
saying that it was composed of
"some thousands of unrepresenta-
tive Indians whose brains have been
fermented with ideas of western
democracy" while "nine-tenths of
the population are illiterates not
caring a fig for politics. The latest
demand for complete independence
is, of course, fantastic" The "Times'
of course, is literate, but those ell
literate" Indian masses are wiser
than it thinks, since they know that
only by ousting imperialism can
they be relieved of their miseries,
taxes and tributes, and gain land
for the peasants and rice enough to
live on for the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
g A Political Gesture"
Say Imperialists on
Marking Jan. | Bluff

Marking, China, dispatches reveal
the expected four-flushing about
Chang Kai-shek's announced inten-
ton to "abolish extra terrioriality''
on January /. 1t is now said that
Jan. l is when the process" is to
begin, and how far it will get in the
future is quite another matter.
The callous British, who have no
regard for Marking anyhow, state
from London that "the Chinese ac-
ton is more Of a gesture to keep in
line with Chinese opinion than any
thing else"
At Washington, the Under Secre-
tary of State, Joseph P Cotton, also
declared Markings action was "a
political gesture" and assured some
excited Rabbits that there is moth
ing to worry about"
The Marking government of Chi
ang Kai-shek, thus makes a fake
move on abolition of foreign oppres-
sors' privileges, while having at
tackled with arms the only govern
ment in the world that gave up ex-
tra-territorial privileges voluntarily,
the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
EAST indies
is ALSO ASTIR
With Revolt
Dutch Vainly Repeat
Repressive Raids

Dispatches from Java, in the
Dutch East Indies, tell of raids
made by the Dutch imperialists on
Monday throughout the whole Dutch
islands, in a movement to check an
alleged attempt to organize a revolt
on New Years day.
Reports state that a great many
natives were arrested and large
quantities of documents" seized.
Badong is said to have been the
center of propaganda" of the anti
imperialist movement, and many
supposed "agitators" were arrested
there,
Since the 1926 armed revolt of the
Javanese, the Dutch East Indies
have been the scene Of repeated
anti-imperialist movements led by
the Communist Party, which despite
all that is done to suppress it has
won the support of the great masses.
Though hundreds have been shot
and tortured to death by the police,
whose chief is a prominent Social
list" from Holland, and though thous-
ands have been exiled to the hor-
rible prison camps in Dutch Guinea,
the movement has never ceased and
breaks out afresh at every oppor-
tunity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
YartseUa Textile NH
Grows Fast IN 5 Year
Plan; Wages Increased

In this concluding part of a
letter from workers in the loom
department Of the Yartseva tex
tile mill in the Soviet Union, more
Of the achievements of the work.
ers since the Revolution are de-
scribed, especially under. the Five
Year Plan. These workers want
to hear from American mill work.
ers, especially those from the
South. Write 10 them!
*
We are installing new achinery
in our Yartseva textile factory
made in the Soviet Union.
We put in twenty new machines
which were made in the "Karl Marx"
Machine Works, Leningrad. The
workers and foremen talk about this
machinery this way: eve want
more Of this kind of machinery; it
works very fine" The numbers OF
looms in 1913 were 1909; now we
have 1896.
We built a new power station In
the October Revolution celebration
we started a new electric genera
tor of 5000 kilowatts. This was
also made in the USSR.
The factory buildings from yeal
to year grow larger and larger; they
spread rapidly. A few months age
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
Greetings From
u. S. S. r. to /. L, ID.

Continued from Page Onc)
USSR sends in the name of four
million LID members fiery prole-
tartan greetings to the Fourth Con-
gress of the International Labor
Defense and wishes success to it's
work.
"The Plenum is convinced that as
results of the work of the confer
ence the LID will be able to increase
its ranks considerably and become
large mass organization of toilers
embracing most of the oppressed
Negro toiling Masses"
From Mexico, where Yankee i'm
perialism has made itself felt by a
bloody reign of terror against rev.
olutionary workers and peasants,
comes a greeting of intense revolu-
tionary determination and solidarity.
"The serious situation through
which the revolutionary movement
of Mexico is going does not allow
us to send delegates TO the conven-
4 n" the greeting read in part.
"The white terror set up by the gov
eminent of Morrow, Gales, Portes
Gil forces US to keep all of our
forces to struggle against the semi
colonial regime, sold out to Yankee
imperialism and to defend the in
Vulnerable victims of the class
struggle.
"In these moments the Latin
American workers need more than
ever the help and solidarity of their
brothers in the class struggle in the
U. S. A.
"The unity of the oppressed peo-
pie Of Latin America with the pro-
letariat of the U. S. will be the
best guarantee of struggle against
imperialist wars and in tru defense
of the Soviet Union, the socialist
fatherland of the workers of the
world and the asylum of the perse-
cuted"
A greeting was also received
from the caribbean Secretariat Of
the LID, whose delegate Jorge Con-
treras also could not leave the coun-
try because Of the white terror, The
Quatemalan section Of the LID also
sents its revolutionary greeting.
Greetings flooded the convention
from many points in the South, DEM
onstrating the development of the
revolutionary movement and its de-
fn~~a organization during the last
year.
N the newest struggle center
lt his country the Illinois coal
fields, comes greeting from Henry
Corbishley, National Miners Union
organizer, the president of which
had brought greetings personally to
the convention at its opening mass
meeting Saturday night. "No one
can really appreciate the LID until
he gets behind the walls of pri-
son." he writes. "Then it is very
easy to see just what it means to
the workers."