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The Washington times., 1931-09-18
- MARK HELLINGER
Stage
News From
Broadway

NEW YORK, Sept. 1S.-"sing
High, Sing Low" which was
scheduled to open at the Sam H.
! Harris Theater next Wednesday
evening, will instead close Temporal
rily after Saturday nights per.
formance at the Majestic Thea
ter, Brooklyn, for cast changes
and revision. The Broadway
premiere probably will be several
weeks hence.
Shepard Traube, who was asso
ciated with the production Of
precedent" and Max Sonino,
casting agent and play broker,
have formed a new producing
firm and have taken over the
Provincetown Playhouse. Their
first production there, opening
late next month, will be "No More
Frontier" by Talbot Jennings.
The play was tried out recently
at the Pasadena (CalifO Com
munity Playhouse, with Irving
Pichel in a prominent role.
Robert E. Sherwood's play, RE
union at Vienna" opening in
Pittsburgh on october IL and
coming to New York a week later
as the second Theater Guild pro-
duction of the season, has gone
into rehearsal under the direc-
ton of Worthington Miner. Besides
Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt,
the cast includes Helen WeStley,
Henry Travers and Eduardo Clan
nelli.
Payment Deferred" will be
seen in Wilmington, Del, next
Monday and Tuesday evenings
before it's presentation at the
Lyceum Theater a week from to-
night as Gilbert Miller's first
production of the season.
Mack Gordon and Harry Revel,
according to announcement, will
write the music and lyrics of the
forthcoming show for Fred and
Paula Stone, Smiling Faces" In
addition to their numbers in the
Ziegfeld "Follies," Gordon and
Revel provided much of the score
for Fast and Furious" the new
negro revue at the New Yorker.
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Latest Gossip

Latest Gossip
Rex Bell is in town, trying to
sell Clara Bows Beverly Hills
house. She will continue to live
on the ranch. Ernest Lubitsch
has dieted off 80 pounds. .Bess
Meredyth and Michael Curtiz are
furnishing their new home. They
The Washington times., 1931-09-18
Fox Bad Boy

While there is a good behavior
clause in all of the Hollywood
contracts, Fox didn't invoke it
when James Dunn, catapaulted
into film glory with Bad Girl, -
threatened to succumb to the
temptations which go with fame.
Instead, they summoned his moth
er from New York and the re-
ports from the coast now read
"All's we'll"
William De Mile has made
'The Squaw Man" for the movies
three times. his last being the
talking version which comes to
Loew'S Palace next Friday. It
was one of William FaverSham' S
greatest successes as stage play
and Richard Bennett was acting
in the Faversham company when
the baby was born who was des-
tined to become the $30,000-a-
week Constance Bennett.
When you agree that Beulah
Bondi gives a grand performance
as the doorstep gossip in Street
Scene" don't forget that she
played this role more than 1000
times on the stage. The picture
which opens today at the Colum-
bia is the first real smash hit of
the 1881 United Artists release.
The Washington times., 1931-09-18
Real FineSSe

Real FineSSe
Someone was saying that in
Hollywood they pat you on the
back and then stab you.
Its worse than that" said
Mervyn Leroy, they even feel
for a soft spot to stick the
knife in.''
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damsel was sitting on a chair
and looking at him.
The director blinked at her.
And as he blinked he shud-
dered. She was a Strange-look-
ing woman, and she had a face
that would have stopped every
clock in the Tribune Tower.
"Oh, my head" moaned the
director. cts killing me. I'm
going to die, I tell you."
Listen, lady" he muttered.
"you can believe me when I tell
you that I don't know who you
are or what you're doing here.
Will you please go away and
permit me to die in peace"
The woman shook her head.
Not a chance, pardner," she
stated. II like you. Maybe your
memory is not so good, but
we've been travelin' around Chi
cago for q coupla days now.
I've taken pretty good care OF
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Magicians Say o. X.

Among those who looked over
''The Spider" Eddie loves new
picture, very carefully was the
American Society of Magicians
This organization is jealous in
guarding legerdemain secrets
and the tricks of the quicker
than-the-eye artists.
The hOcus-pocus men agreed
that Edmund Lowe made a good
mystifier on the screen and pro-
tected their wizardry art. Hence
you can watch the picture open,
ing at the Fox today knowing it
has the approval of Thurston,
Keating and Blackstone as o. K
in magic. 1t took Actor Lowe
two weeks to get down the tricks
he performs in THE Spider"
The Shuberts are experiment.
ing with Saturday night openings
for new plays in Chicago.
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PRODUCER TO ACT
Dra m a to
Open Here
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

Unless Producer Gilbert Miller
changes his mind he will act a
role in Helen Hayes new play,
"The Good Fairy" when that
satirical comedy of modern city
morals by Ferenc Molnar has its
opening performance here at the
Belasco in late october or early
November.
Usually Mr.. Miller can be found
close to- the front in the orches-
ira with either Frank P. Morse
or George P. Marshall when
his shows debut in Washington.
Between acts he. buttonholes
critics and gets personal low
down on the chances of his new
opus. He invites frankness and
is not disposed to become apo
plectic when the opinion is un-
favorable. Last season he left
Lafayette Square almost con-
vinced he had flop on his hands
in Tomorrow and Tomorrow,
only to have the D. C. verdict re-
versed on Broadway where the
Philip Barry play became a smash
hit.
Another last season show, Mar
seilles," Mr.. Miller readily con-
ceded was a lost effort, while his
last Helen Hayes show, Petit
coat Influence" was a mild hit.
The new Molnar show has been
delayed in rehearsal while Helen
Hayes acts with Ronald Coleman
in "Arrowsmith" for the movies.
Mr.. Miller's part in the new play
is described as small but impor-
Hant. Away in the dim past
there is a record of Actor Gilbert
Miller on the London stage in
small role with the comedy Julie
Bon Bon" but Colonel Morse
knows more about this than your
critic.
The Washington times., 1931-09-18
AnIn q Day
By
: MARK HELLlNCER"-

NEW YORK. Sept. 18.
1t may sound like gag, but happen to know that
the story is true Most of the true stories sound like
gags anyhow so I've decided to stop worrying about that
angle OF the column Let's get into the yarn then, with
out further ado
motion picture director he's one of the very
best in the busnesshad been hitting the bottle rather
heavily in Hollywood. His company didn't want to give
him the air because they knew that any of three
rival concerns would grab him in moment. But they
couldn't find way to remedy the situation. When the
director was on of his periodic bats he was abso
lutely no good to anyone. And when he SOBER ne
was liable to go off on stew at any time So what
to do?
The Washington times., 1931-09-18
By HARRISON CARROLL

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1.-THE
big break has been a long time
coming for Sally Eilers, but Bad
Girl" seems to have opened the
way.
Fox will give her the lead in
'The Devils Lottery" and is
looking for a story to follow up
Bad Girl" James Dunn, of
course, will be her teammate
when they find one.
In some respects, Devils Lot
terry" is like Grand Hotel" and
the recent film, Transatlantic. :"
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luck since he
portrays a magi-
clan, and so
has the fates
a t his m
mand.
Besides, Lois
Moran is fea-
tured With him,
and her lucky
number is 13.
TX no W in G
ThursGon per-
Sonally was the
closest I ever
came to being
a m a 6 ic ian,"
Lowe saws, "but
The Washington times., 1931-09-18
Edmund Lowe In
Role of Magician

Edmund Lowe plays his thir-
teenth talking picture role in THE
Spider" Fox mystery thriller,
opening at the Fox Theater to-
day, but he's not afraid of bad
The Washington times., 1931-09-18

It follows the
fortunes of a
number of i'm
portant charac-
t erS, all of
W h o m a r e
g a t h er ed TO-
gether at the
start of the
action. The as
Sociation does
not continue,
however, as in
the Vicki Baum
play and the
w lila m K.
H oW ard pic
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Sally EiIers Will Be Given Choice
Roles in OK Pictures

are importing antiques from
Europe, and will have the living
room rug woven in China. Z.
Yachting over the weekend were
Joseph M. Schenck, Jack Gilbert,
Edmund Goulding, George Fitz
maurice and Buster Keaton.
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Discuss What to Do

The big shots sat around one
of those mahogany tables and
mournfully discussed the status
of this great director.
I'VE must use him on that
new picture" said one execu-
tive, Hes the only one in the
business who can do the job
as it should be done. He should
go into a conference with the
author Immediately. But what
good will anything be if he
goes off on a bat?"
The others nodded sadly.
They discussed ways and means,
and some of the worlds most
fantastic suggestions came to
light. Finally. after an hour
or so, one of the wise men
popped out with an idea that
sounded like something.
"I think" he stated. "that
this Hollywood atmosphere is
what is doing the most harm to
Steve. Everybody knows that
he's the greatest of all directors,
and they're forever toasting
him on that fact. Small
wonder that Steve goes off on
toots.
Il think that we should get
Steve out of Hollywood for
this story conference. Let him
meet the author in some other
spot-say, half way across the
continent.
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Edmund Lowe Lowe says, but
I must make the role as realistic
and convincig as I can. That we
all instinctively want to be fooled
is going to be a great help to
me-"
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Outlaws of Eden
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Observation-Disclosures
By Peter B. Kyne

an give the Circle K and the Bar H
the annual soakin'."
II shall do nothing Of the Sort
Amt you mean, BabSon? If you
took every drop O. water in Eden Valley
Creek from now until May you couldn't
fill your reservoir an until you've filled
1t you can't start to irreigate Forlorn
overflow this Year,"
THE Forlorn Valley irrigation dis
trict IS not comforting any favors on
Nate Tichenor or Lorry Kershaw, Ten
| ney."
THE only reason I asked you," Ten
ney went on patiently, lis because Nate
| an his wife are In Yurrup on their
honeymoon an it don't sort o. look fair
to have to bust up honeymoon to
by the court from divertin' our water
So sort O. figured" he finished sadly
to enjoin you myself"
"How?"
II opened the gates In your tarnation
diversion dam myself this mornin' and
I got couple o. men on guard in the
bresh up the hillside watchin' to see II
gates. II so be somebody comes you
take my word for 1t he amt goin' to
go away under his own horsepower, be-
cause these boys I've engaged most US
ually hits whatever they shoots at"
"A sheriffs posse will close those
gates, Tenney."
''Whereupon I'll kill you for engagin'
Pitt River Charley to bump of Nate
Tichenor"
Babson'S face paled. How long do
you require the flood waters?"
TIL I'm through with EN-" Mr..
Tenney rose and waddled out on his
parenthetical legs.
Meanwhile, beyond RUDE Tenney's
statement to SilaS Babson to the effect
that his employers were honeymoonine
in Euorpe, nothing had been heard
from Nathan Tichenor and LOFTY Ker-
shaw, as Forlorn Valley still continued
to refer to her-as doubtless they al
ways would, since she was much too
much OF parsonage now to lose her
identity through marriage. Although
questioned adroitly by the curious Rube
Tenney remained as uncommunicative
as clam on his frequent trips into
Valley Center.
In June of 1927 the news spread
/ through Forlorn Valley of the return
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Tichenor to
| Eden Valley. Shortly thereafter huge
/ trucks laden with lumber ond buildinp
materials came through Valley Center
from Gold Run, bound for the old Cir
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the Tichenors had erected on the Circle
K a country home that was to cost not
less than a hundred thousand dollars.
There were stables and kennels to be
erected also, grounds to be laid out and
flowers planted. The lunatic Tichenor
was even going to build a nine-hole golf
course and a huge swimming pool.
Crenshaw thought that the pay roll for
labor necessitated in these operations
should go to Valley Center, SO the vice
president Of the Chamber of Com
merce called upon Tichenor to sug-
gest 1t.
"Forlorn Valley in general and VAL
ley Center in particular wishes to for
get the past and be friendly with you,
Mr. Tichenor," he stated. LAS proof
of that feeling I call your attention to
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the fact that we gave you the use of
the freshet waters of Eden Valley Greek
this Spring when we found we couldn't
use them. ourselves, owing to the ne
cessity of concreting our diversion
canal. We didn't have to do that, but
We desired to make a friendly gesture"
MY dear man, ordered those flood
gates opened myself and I had men
guarding them with rifles so that no.
body would close them until our lands
had had their annual soaking. That's
the sort of friendly gesture I made to
Forlorn Valley. was on my honey
moon at the time and didn't want to
bother with the law, so just went back
to the old Eden Valley custom. 1t
worked. And I'll engage no labor from
Valley Center or Fornlorn Valley. I do
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SYNOPSIS
Harry Kershaw and Nate Tichenor:, sole
survivors OF warning families, fnd them
selves thrown together in an irrigation war
in California. Nate comes back TO Eden
Valley wealthy. He and his buddy, owen
Kershaw who was killed in the World War,
had ended the family feud. Nate comes to
the financial assistance of Lorry, whose
sands are about to fall into the clutches OF
EiiaS Babson, a Schenling banker. BabSon
has seen the possibilities of these lands for
q power and irrigation project. Nate arouSes
Babson by organizing power company.
Eorry runs her cattle ranch. she and Nate
fan in love. Bobson hires half-breed to
assassinate Nate, but the attempt fails:
Then Babson organizes mass meeting and
inflames the public mind against Nate, tell
ing the people that he is scheming to rob
them. Nate. addresses the, mass meeting,
and is roughly handled by the crowd. Lorry
saves his life by wounding several of his
aSsailants. Babson seeks to secure the
lands and water by organizing an irrigation
district and floating bonds. Mates attor-
ney. Gagan, warns the people that the at
tempt will be ruinous, but is bowled down.
Nate, who has been settling his affairs in
New York, returns. He and Lorry ny to
Nevada to be married.
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Gle K ranch. Immediately Crenshaw,
the manager of the Valley Center lum-
Der yard, motored up to the Circle K to
see Nate Tichenor and ask for a share
of this new business. He had been re-
ceived courteously and told that no
orders for lumber or building material
! could be given him because SilaS Bah
son was one Of his heaviest stock
holders.
When Crenshaw returned to Valley
Center he informed the local Chamber
of Commerce of the projected outlay OF
great deal of money in Eden Valley
Nate Tichenor and his wife had merged
their ranches, the old Bar H headquar-
! tiers were to be RACED and the old Circle
K log ranch house was to be given over
to RUDE Tenney and his family, after
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not like anybody in that section Of the
county. And here's another message
you can take back with you; within
two years I'll own every acre of For
lorn Valley that is included in the irri-
cation district; I'll fence 1t and run
cattle over it. At least the wells will
supply drinking water for my cattle
And when the. farmers in the district
have been dispossessed there will be no
further necessity for the thriving town
Of Valley Center, so it and the Cham
Der of Commerce will disappear; Valley
Center will then be ghost town, in
habited by ghosts"
The vice president of the Chamber
Of Commerce was irritated, but he was
also amused. us there no way in which
we can escape this horrible fate that
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awaits us?" he pleaded In mock dis

awaits us?" he pleaded In mock dis
tresS.
Eyes, there Is" Tichenor replied Sc
riously. Get rid of that buzzard Bah
son and start doing your own thinking.
Show an inclination to be fair and I'll
meet you two-thirds Of the way toward
an amicable adjustment Of this water
war. Continue to permit Babson and
his paid newspaper to print lies about
the pieces and own the district. tell
you, when get through with the State
of California the State will be out of
the business Of giving away water 1t
does not own and that document Bah
son got from the State Water Com
mission will be perfectly worthless"
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His visitor gazed upon T1chenoe
humorously What long tail our
cats got" ne murmured. XII
"Oh, I'm only common little bob
cat now" Tichenor replied easily 'Wait
until develop into a tiger-and then
watch my tail swish!"
(To Be Continued.)
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INSTALLNIENT XIV.

~ UBE TENNEY. following the
water news in the columns of
~ the Valley Center Register,
i called upon SilaS BabSon on the
Nf He hpoVa6
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ing positively dissolute in it's ri- baldry. It's laughing at me, went her thoughts. And then she saw an old gentleman who was a friend of her mother. She gave him her brightest smile. Could she have but realized it, it was the sort of smile she should have been offer ing all the younger men. It warmed her face like a lamp suddenly lit from within. The grey eyes un- expectedly lost their limpidity, the mournful little mouth went up at the corners.
 Will you dance with an octoge- marian, Venice?"
 NO, but I'll dance with you, MT. Partridge"
 Why couldn't she say things like that to her contemporaries? Per- haps they made her shy. Whatever it was, she felt awkward when it came to looking straight into their eyes or up into their faces as other girls did. It made her self-con- scious, strangely ill at ease. She felt they knew her lack, mentally criticized her. Older men took her for what she was worth.
 MT. Partridge took her to an ad- joining room for some punch and they sat in a bay window laughing and chatting Venice began to have a lovely time. This was no effort. This was simply being herself MT Partridge had read Cakes and Ale and liked it as much as she did She thought Louis Bromfield's 24 Hours ought to get the Pulitzer prize. He disagreed. They had a spirited and stimulated argument
 Lola wandered up with Jerry Ward and joined them on the broad window seat. The punch helped. It gave her the courage to momentarily rest careless hand on Jerry's arm the way Lola did and to lean across MT. Partridge to look him in the eyes without re- membering to feel foolish. She managed two funny stories. She forgot to wonder if Jerry was men tally examining her. She was about to have her glass refilled when he asked her to dance.
 It was too bad The warm glow
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Chapter 2 TECHNIQUE OF POPULARITY

How-do-you-do,' said Venice, holding out a hand She had firm, strong clasp like boys that was always surprising people It didn't belong to a slim girl with fragile skin and soft, grave eyes
 He was a handsome youth. Black pomaded hair, sleek as a patent leather skull cap upon his head; laughing brown eyes; weak pretty mouth.
 "Ah," he smiled, shaking her hand and not noticing that sur prising grip of hers, you have a lover in the offing who detains you"
 "No. I didn't want to come and my mother made me" Why had she said that? It was so flat and uncompromising and final. What hol' she added desperately.
 Although tardy, it worked. The what ho' made the young man think it had been an artful fib.
 Lets dance," he said and Venice slipped out to the floor with him.
 She danced well. He did not ap- parently want to talk so she hap oily gave herself up to the rhythm and they glided to and fro, this way and that together. The music stopped. Venice looked anxiously about. Was young Reese going to be stuck with her? This fear made her nervous, tongue-tied.
 "Do you like to read?" she final ly managed.
 They started dancing agin. She loved to read. If some one would talk books to her she could be conversational all night.
 Mot in the evening" he said
 Here was her chance for humor- us repartee. She couldn't. Nothing amusing would come into her head Silence. M -s
 "You dance well" he murmured
 aThank you" said Venice.
 Again silence. It pressed dowr on her as heavily as a tangible weight. Around and around. Part. nerless men came from out theil line and danced with other girls Venice and young Reese went or and on. She began to dance badl! through her misery. She could no concentrate on dancing when sh' was trying to concentrate on tactful manner of helping him tx be rid Of her. I can go to thu
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was not firmly enough established within her. It faded quickly and she and Jerry were going around and around indefinitely. She be- came a nervous automaton again, desperately hoping to capture an other partner. Her eyes slid ana lytica1ly about the room examining this girl and that in an effort to discover how they did it. Bea- trix Haskell's head was pressed tight against her partners shoul- der, her eyes closed. No man had ever looked so soulfully con tented when dancing with Venice. Doris Horton was laughing up in to her young mans face with a merry sort of abandon. Before the laugh had faded on her lips an other partner had claimed her. Alice Schuyler was whispering as she danced. Betty Paine was melt ed into her partner. They appeared as one form swaying slowly, tense ly. Some one came to pry them loose. Immediately Bettty was fused into another dinner jacket with all the closeness and inti- macy of the first. Half around the room and another young man de- manded her. fag
 But I couldn't dance like that, thought Venice. I'd die of embar- rassment if I tried. She suddenly attempted to press herself closer to Jerry and raised her face to his with that secret look of Alice Schuylers.
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|LADVw1Aa e RANT
BY HARRIET

dressing room. s-;c thought. The dance seemed endless.
 Here you are" It was Lola in- terrupting with new young man. This is Miss Muir, MT. Parker You know Donny Reese, Ted?"
 Venice went off in the arms of MT. Parker He was fat and per- spring youth who blew in her ear as they danced and pumped her arm up and down like a lever of steady rotation. She could feel her hair at one side getting mussed. It irritated her. But still he was a new partner. WallflowerS cannot be choosers The saxophone grow