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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05

Full of Action.
The picture is chuck full of
action-one of those thrillers that
could be weepingly melodramatic
but for skillful direction and act.
ing.
That Lew Cody person, who
used to be so debonnair and often
times a bit wicked, steers clear OF
the sinister and steps gracefully
into the chair of an up-and-going
big town city editor.
The staff in this picture con
sists chiefly of the Broadway
Tattler, a Walter Winchell model
which introduces Wallace Ford, a
young man who can, with his
embellishments, be cool as a muir
der suspect, gentle as a big
brother and breezy as a lover.
Sally Blame is the heart inter.
est and she's really cute. The
villain is two-gun Fred Kohler,
who shoots for a principle.
Good Stage Show
The Five Races" Idea on the
stage, with Les Stevens and the
Diplomats, is a gem, including
representative acts of each of the
races, and Frank jerks, a fire
cracker master of ceremonies.
Miss White is just as flip as
she can be. She sings, dances
and whoops it up with plenty of
gusto.
Chief Clearsky, all decked up
la Indian. sings with a fine
tenor and puts the 100 per cent
American idea of originality of
jerky dancing to shame. Barr
and Davis, pair of dark-Skinned
mamas, sing with all their ma
tive fervor. The Adams Sisters,
representing the brown race, in
a graceful waltz number; the
Kanawava Troupe, a set of orig.
inal tumblers, and Jimmy Had
reas, a light-tooted hoofer, com
plete the program.-JA ABB.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05

ARLENE JUDGE ignores Cne ne
cessity of building up appeal for
his "bad boy" You see Eddle
Brand completely absorbed IN
winning the national oratorlcal
contest as a high school student;
He loses in the competition and
the disappointment drives him
first to mild dissipation, to petty
thievery and eventually to muir
der for a bottle of liquor.
Whatever audience sympathy
might have been created tol
Eddie is dissipated at his trial
when he tells his lawyer to take
a back seat, becomes a wise
cracking hunter of trial head
lines and finds himself the no,
torious courtroom star, tangled
in a web of deceit and headed
for the electric chair.
Excites Only Pity
Like Clyde Griffiths, of "Ameri'
can Tragedy" this Eddie seldom
excites other than a cold pity
He befriends a mongrel dog-h1s
friendliest gesture-but sh S
down a defenseless old delica
lessen keeper who denies him
liquor, a vicious homicide justl
fled only by alcoholic frenzy
So it's hard to cry with Eddie
He was a bad egg for no good
reason except bad companions.
Guild Actor Stars
Eric Linden, one of the Thea
ter Guilds proteges, endows this
depressing type OF unbridled
youth with a reckless bravado'
a sneering contempt for police
efficiency, a lust for notoriety
and an adolescent conceit. Quite
an order, but Actor Linden fills
it. Watch this young man. He's
screen conner.
Ben Alexander is another up
and coming juvenile who has
mastered the art of expressing
emotions with an intelligent face
| Arlene Judge and Rochelle Hud
son play ingenue roles effec
lively. and Beryl Mercer is the
grandmother who suffers.
Fond Of Symbolism
Director Ruggles is fond OF
symbolical whirlwinds and ser
monies for his fade-out, but his
direction generally is moving and
he never let's his narrative be
come dull. I still believe, how
ever, good directors do better
work with the other fellows
story.
Bobby Clark and, Paul McCul
Tough have a nonsenSical slap
stick, "A Melon Drama" which
the bespectacled comic makes
highly amusing. There is Ton
and Jerry cartoon and Post
master Mooney delivers a Christ
mas message to those inclined
to be tardy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05
"Frankenstein" Is
On Its Third Week

"Frankenstein," held over for
third week at the Rialto thea
ter is the first picture since
"Cimmaron" to win this distinc-
ton in 1881.
This Universal story made from
Shelley's thriller has succeeded
in retaining the shuddering hor-
ror of weird fiction and its eerie
effect is enhanced by a fantasti.
cally effective performance by
Boris Karloff as the monster
who roams the countryside.
Excellent support is provided
by Colin Give as FrankenSteln
and by that grouchy old English
actor, Frederick Kerr, as Baron
Frankenstein. John Boles and
Mae Clarke are supposed to pro-
vide a romantic interest but the
love theme is negative. What
'Frankenstein" is terrifying
curiosity and morbid interest:
On the supplemental program
is the latest issue of the Univer-
sal News and a short comedy.
L. E. E.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05
WILD YOUTH FILM REVIEWED kc T~s".s @ % 5
Stage
News From
New York

NEW YORK, Dec. S. - Ben
Smith, Elizabeth Love and Sid
ney Smith will have reading roles
in Lula Vollmer's play, Shining
Blackness," which the new firm
Of Bachelor & Dare has placed in
rehearsal. The play, which deals
with the South, is announced to
open on Broadway Christmas
night.
Irving Hopkins, Ruth Peterson.
Lillian Butler and Gordon Fallows
win be the white players in The
Second COMM" the play by
George Bryant, opening next
Tuesday evening at the Province
town Theater. Otherwise the cast
will be composed of Negroes.
Additions to the cast of the
Brian Hooker-Vincent YoumanS
musical version Of "Smilin'
Through" scheduled to open at
the Manhattan Theater on Jan.
uary II, are Marion Ballou, last
seen on Broadway four years ago
in MY Maryland" and Caryl
Bergman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05
PoIIock's Drama
Opens Monday
At BeIasco

"The House Beautiful" Chan
ming Pollock's stirring drama, will
be seen at the Belasco Theater
f. one week beginning Monday
night under the auspices of the
Professional Players and Crosby
Gaige.
In th.H his latest play, Mr.. Pol
lock writes of idealism as more
convincing than realism. His
story of a man and woman and
a faith that carries them happily
through the trials that confront
men and women today is a
theme of optimism easily &C
copied in this day and age.
The cast and Crosby Cages pro-
duction is more thar adequate.
The leading roles are enacted
by Mary Philips and James Bell
and a company including Ray
mond Walburn, Roy Gordon,
Jane Seymour, Sidney Riggs,
Jack Easton, Virginia Curley,
Helen Namur, Lionel Stander,
Gladys Thornton, and Joe Nc
Clarity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05
Guild Actor

Eric Linden, whose first picture
is Are These Our Children"
and which is sensationally sue
cessfull currently at R-K-O-
Keith's Theater, is one Of the
most successful young actors in
the country. For three years he
was featured with the interna-
tionally renowned Theater Guild
players of New York.
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AHIn q Day
-By-
--By--
MARK HELLlNCER

NEW 1ORh dec. D.
Whenever think back the list of men who enjoyed
flash of fame as night club spenders l manage to give
myself slight chuckle. 1t to check them one
by one-and realize that almost without exception they
prove be frscass phOneys in the org rum speak at
the moment of course only of the spenders in the last
10 II years. Although don't doubt that the same con-
dtiOn existed in any period. .
= The that the spender is able to ENJOY himself
vastly without Interruption is because nobody asks ques
tions when a man throwing his dough around 1t
when dough drops off that the boys begin to wonder
And it's when the spender finally through with
bum check that boys go into action At this point
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05

dIlO q oCOAC
M ks t h e
Spot" W hich
opened We ster-
day at the Fox
Theater, is SUI
perfine e n t e r.
tainment. But
it doesn'Ffor a
m i n u e over
S h a d ow t h e
m a g n iii cent
Fanchon a n d
Marco a g e
show, featuring
Marjorie White,
v i v a C i o u S
blonde S C reen
oo~onIiornn
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05
''Our Gang" Graduate

Remember the "Our Gang"
children of several years ago;
particularly the little leading
lady? Taller now, and a bit more
sophisticated by virtue of her
maturer years, Mary Kornman,
who was the romantic interest in
"Our Gang" is seen in her first
grown-up part in Are These
Our Children" now at R-K-O'
Keith'S.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05

sage with con-
Summate skill,
and if you r
forte is good
acting, I com
mend the. per-
form a n ce of
Eric Linden and
Ben Alexander
They help to
m Ike "A + e
These Our Chill
dren" Grade A
product.
In his zeal
to preach, ALL
thor r u g g les
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05
Youthful Actors

,aturing cast Of eight
youngsters, none of whom is over
20 year. of age, R-K-O-Radio Pic
lures Are These Our Children"
now at R-K-O-Keith's Theater, is
expected tc initiate a new era of
fill S dealing with modern youth.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05

At last! A tale of the Fourth
Estate that doesn't make a bug
bear out of the poor, miSunder-
stood newspaper reporter.
And with loving, murder
and score of thrills, TX
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05

II think it's best I don't come
around to see you no more, ne
wrote, in part, because JUS a
little too tough on me. I don't
blame you for not picking out
the kind of a mug they call
Twenty-Dollar Charlie. I'm only
sorry I had to go and fall IN
To- with you.
I'm going to stick to my own
business now, and cut out this
idea of hitting the cafe. 1 only
did it around four times a year
but I'm through with it alto
gether now. I hope you'll be
very happy, Mildred, and I
think we could have done okay
together-but there's no use
talking about that now. So
long, s-7eet girl"
You never know what dog
gone damsel will do. She car
ried that letter to the cafe
owner that night, and asked
him. if he knew where she
could reach Charlie. He said
he didn't-and asked her why.
81 think I'd like to marry
him." was her simply reply.
EVEN though he's a big rack
eteer, there's something terri
bly, sweet about him. I think
I could have reformed him.
Cots His Bullet
About five months later Mil
dred arose one morning and
picked up her favorite paper.
There, on the front page, was
Charles picture. He had been
shot in a stickup, and was dy-
ing in a certain hospital.
II knew it," muttered Mil
dred. "It's the way they all
CO."
She dressed hastily and
rushed to the hospital. 1t was,
she thought. the least sh1
could do. She arrived a few
minutes too late. An attend
ant told her that Charlie had
just died.
That attendant was very nice
to Mildred. He said he knew
Charlie very well, and that the
entire shooting was a great
shame. Mildred agreed, but
talked on her favorite philoso-
ply.
Those racketeers must 20"
she sighed. Poor Charlie was
no exception"
The hospital attendant wrin-
kle.- is brow.
"Racketeer," he murmured.
Charlie wasn't no racketeer.
He worked night here in this
hospital for four years-and
he got a hundred dollars
month and board"
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By ANDREW r. KELLEY

BY ANDREW r. KELLEY
Wesley Rugles, who directed
Cimmaron"-greatest of Radio
pictureS-blossomS as auth o r
director of Are These Our Chill
dren," an exciting screen sermon
on the younger generation and
what may happen when it gets
beyond control.
Director Ruggles chose the cast
of juveniles to project his mes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05
John Martin to Give
Second Dance Lecture

The second lecture on the mod
ern dance by John Martin, New
York critic, will take place Thurs
day, December 10, at the Caroline
Mckinley Studio, 1871 I st.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05
Eric Linden
Shines in
eature

ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN"
At R-K-O-keiths: Directed ny
Wesley Ruggles from his own
original story. Adapted by How
ard EstabroOk. A Radio picture.
THE CAST:
Eddie Brand Eric Llnien
Mary. ........... ROcnelle HUDSON
Florence Carnes. $50. Arilne Judge
Nick Crosby ...... Ben Alexander
Bonnie Gray ...... Robert Qutrk
GiggIes .............R Roberta Gale
Dumbell ........ Mary KOrnman
Heinie Krantz. William Orlamond
Grandmother Morton. Beryl Mercer
Bobby Brand. ........ Billy BUTTS
Sam Kong ..........J Jimmy Wang
Taxi Driver Robert Mackenzie
Charlie ... Earl Plngee
sam ,... Russell Powell
Defense Attorney Harry Shutan
Prosecutor. ......... Ralt Harolue
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Turns Him Down

In due time Charlie asked
Mildred to marry him. Her
answer was in the negative
and for the reason I have al
ready outlined. She didn't tell
him the actual reason because
she imagined that he would
understand. Charlie evidently
didn't. Because he left her
that night and sent her a letter
q few days later.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1931-12-05

Tale on Fox
Screen

"X MARKS THE SPOT"
At the Fox Theater. DIRECTED
by Earle c. Kenton. A Tittany
Picture.
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WARNER BROS. THEATRES
The Washington times., 1931-08-13

appear at the gate on a certain night?"
could l." chimes Mary.Ann, "have
watched for the post-man with a stopped
heart, with a special delivery from that
person with fat face, fat nose and an
ego to match?" A.well-a-day! What
woman is there who does not ponder
upon that stranger who was herself
some one who may closely approach q
caricature to her now? The man she
loves now and has married may be bald
on top and fat, too-but he doesn't look
like THAT-at least not to her.
Perhaps the boys get out their memory
albums, too, and shake their heads over
your braids and shrt-waists and sailor
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could it,. thought the. girl,
standing there alone.
The field was vocal with &C.
tivity. The plane, in readiness,
was Of a. twin-motored cabin
type, carrying. eight passengers
including pilot mechanic and
steward. The girl walked to-
ward it just as the office man.
ager turned from his desk to
greet the last arrival who came
up in a painting taxi.
Presently
Pink Tea Manner
The passengers climbed in
settling themselves. Mr.. Eames
arranged his party fuSsily. The
office manager standing on the
field made the introductions,
Mr.. Eames, his wife and son
acknowledged the presence of
Miss Smith" They looked
conscious that she had only
Joined the party by a f,llke,
the failure of their own friends
to make the trip. The last pas
senger was also a woman; a
young woman. She climbed in,.
taking her place beside the soil.
tary girl. She casually looked
at her and then smiled suddenly
with obvious delight:
why, Fanchon Meredith!"
she exclaimed, who in the
world would have thought Of
seeing you here!"
Mrs. Eames was getting her
self settled with jerky ges-
lures. You know each other"
she beamed. .. "how NIGEL" Her
manner was very pink tea.
The girl called Miss Smith,
who had just been addressed
as Fanchon Meredith mur.
INJURED something. She had
flushed and her heart was
beating unSteadily. The other
girl supplied the date.
"Of course -. we came to
San Francisco from Hawaii on
the same boat, months ago."
she said, and added reproach.
fully, why didn't you look
me up; you said you would"
Fanchon Meredith lifted her
turquoise blue eyes, briefly
I've been so busy 80" she
said.
Contact!
so have I-only imagine"
the other girl began when
suddenly there was a shout -.
a call -. high, clear, triumph
ant, after the fieldman's sig.
nal.
The engines turned over,
the plane skinned the ground,
rose without a Jar. We'll"
said Mrs. Eames, spreading her
skirts. Great, isn't it?" her
husband asked her. and added.
worth the money"
They were off on the long
trip.
Continued Tomorrow
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Fast-Movins Storyof Girl
WHO Craved Hish Life

and slept with her and had
done so for these last few
hideous days.
A newsboy jumped on the
running board as they slowed
up in traffic with early editions.
"All About the Mystery Wo,
man." he howled, get your
paper-all about the big gang
killing. -"
The cab went onward with
Jerk. The newsboy dropped
off. Now Miss Smith" was
perfectly white, white to the
lips.
If someone should see her
49,? recognize her. 80? as
"Tony's girl?"
She mustn't think of herself.
She must think Of Tony. Must
pray that he get off. safe. :.
scot-free. No matter what he
, had done, no matter how mis-
taken she had been in him
she laughed aloud, thinking OF
the gullible girl who had come
to San Francisco from Hawaii
eight short months ago-no
matter how things had turned
out, he had been good to her
after his fashion; had even
loved her-after his fashion.
And she had loved him, in a
thoughtless, thrilled. unthink-
ing sort of way. in the way
of first love, careless and sweet.
That was all over now.
Last-Minute Plans
She sat quite still trying to
think of all his last directions.
She was to go to this flying
field. 1t was one owned by a
small commercial company.
They operated planes for pri-
vate charter. One had been
chartered by a rich man and
his family, to make a two-stop
flight to New York. At the
last minute two of the passen-
gers had been unable to come;
one place had quickly been
filled; Tony had heard of the
final vacancy, in his under
ground fashion. How Tony
heard things, she never knew,
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never had known. So he had
reserved the place, in the name
Of Miss Smith.
They we're at the field now.
She got out of the cab and
paid her driver. She walked
over to the little office. A
plane was just landing. Another
was tuning up. She looked at
it, DULY. It was, she thought,
the one which would take her.
Once-oh, a hundred years ago,
the prospect of the long flight
would have filled her with
adventurous rapture. Not now.
Just a means to an end. Just
an escape. An escape .. from
peering faces, from newspaper
headlines, from some stolid
faced man. stranger, handing
her a subpoena. from men
who would try to win from her
all her knowledge of Tony, his
means of living, his method of
business, his whereabouts. :.
Just FOrmalities
An escape.
At the office the formalities
were completed, the money
paid. Miss Smiths name was
crossed off the list. The over.
night stops explained to her;
the route which would be
taken. There was a refresh
ment stand nearby, a mush.
room-like growth. She could
have coffee there. the man in
the office told her. She re-
fused, forcing a smile. She
had had early breakfast at her
hotel. Mr.. Eames and his
party had arrived, she was told.
They were waiting for one
more passenger I'VE expect her
at any moment now," said the
office manager.
The girl left the office, stood
for a moment at the barriers to
the field. An elderly man, a
fat, comfort Die woman and a
young man stood together, their
luggage about them, talking ex-
citedly. It was a very wind
less, warm day in summer. The
sky was without q cloud. The
sun shons b<aIlantly, How
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A beautiful Spanish woman know said,
fluttering immense dark eyes, 81 falle in
loave with a beootifool AHmerrrecan cow
boy vance when l was seexteen, Bot
mathe by ES-capeW
The Gloriettes and Mary.Anns get out
either their actual or their memory por.
traits and snapshots sometimes, and mar
vel upon their escapes. Wonder at their
former intensities. Smile upon their ad-
mirations, their anxieties, their rapt i'm
terest in the looks, the conversation, the
doings, of these then.romantic and now
impossible young men of their teens.
could have ever worried" says
Gloriette, "over whether that boy with
the snub nose and the big teeth would
The Washington times., 1931-08-13
Your Health
and Diet
BY DR.. Logan CIendening

10y LIZ AVSdl OACNUSNlNX
Interesting studies have been
made in large industrial plants
to discover whether accidents
happen more frequently to
some people than to others.
Everyone probably knows of
some person who appears to be
contitutionally unlucky about
accidents.
A person who is always fall
ing upstairs or tripping over
rugs or running needles into
the fingers, or hitting the
thumb with a hammer.
Maybe So, But
Well, it appears that these
people are deficient in "aesthe,
to-kinetic coordination" What
ever that means! It does mean
something and an attempt will
be made to explain it.
In the meantime the accident
receivers will be happy to know
that the tests show that the
higher intellectual processes
are not deficient, that indeed
the reasoning powers are some
what higher in those who are
prone to accident.
Industrial Accidents
Studies have been made in
several plants by keeping care
full tabulation Of the number
Of accidents each worker has in
the course of a year.
Naturally most of the repeat
ing accidents are of a minor
character. One man had "a in
a year, while workers close to
him had none. The average
number of accidents was IA
per worker. But SO men
had more than six accidents
each.
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hats, and think, "What was it I adored?"
"Was this the face, the freckled little
face, that launched a thousand ships of
fancy for me?"
Some of our portraits Of callow 70.
nance hung in the long corridor we can
turn and look back through, are smiled
at-but not ridiculed. Others are frankly
something 10 feel a bit of shamed relief
over, shamed because there was that in
US that could have felt sentimental over
some one unworthy or unmanly, relieved
because of our good fortune to escape
alliance with such. Some we still have an
amused tenderness for, some nothing but
aversion and a song in the heart that he
isn't ours NOW! NELL BRINKLEY.
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Stick to School, Boys!

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am a young man of 10 and
I need advice rather badly. I
was going with a girl who hap
pens to have been born in a
foreign country, and this made
my mother object to my keep
ing company with her. 1 went
around with her for two years
and we were planning to be
married as soon as I finished
my schooling, but I decided to
leave school and go to work,
which I did. This all happened
back in December past. After
I had left school about two
weeks my girl friend told me
that she could not go with a fel-
low who had no education and
we broke up our friendship.
This girl has since mentioned
me to my friends as "the boy
who is going to be a bum all the
rest of his life" I admitted to
her folks and to mine that I
was wrong when left school
and told them that I was going
back to finish school in the fall.
I love this girl and would like to
know how to win her back.
When meet her on the street
she will not even speak to me.
But her mother always speaks.
I have always been a gentleman
while was going with her. I
hope you will give me some real
good advice. G1GOLO.
The best advice I can give
you is to go back to school and
get yourself a good education.