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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
POLICE SEEK CYCLIST

A hit-and-run bicyclist was sought by
police today after he struck and injured
a pedestrian near the Chevy Chase
Country Club last night.
william p. Drinkard, s63 years old, OF
21l6 X street, was walking along the
roadway near the clnp when an. uni
Identified cyclist strIfsk him, inflicting
decorations OF the forehead. Drinkard
was treated at Emergency Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
RESERVE DANCE SEATS

Students of Two Studios to Wit
ness Performance at Mckinley.
Students of the Evelyn Davis School
OF Dancing and the King Smith Studios
have reserved large number of seats
for the recital to be given at the Nc
Ktnley auditorium Thursday night by
Doris Humphrey Charles Weidman and
other concert dancers twas announced
today.
f1cialS Of the Community Institute. un-
der whose auspices the recital viii be
given. Both Miss Humphrey and Mr..
Weidman are described IS "pioneers in
the modern spirit of the dance, (" and
their recitals are said to be interes ing
as well as novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
FILES AS BANKRUPT

Edward Voigt, jeweler, 727 Seventh
street. today filed petition in volun-
tary bankruptcy in the District Supreme
Court.
He lists his debt at $42, 196.02 and
estimates his assets at $37,16510. OF
the assets $35, 900 is scheduled as the
value of real estate. Attorney Law
renee ]. Heller, appears for the mer-
chant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
FAUCET TO SPEAK

Tonight's meeting of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers. to be
held at o'clock at the Cosmos Club,
will be addressed by I. T. Faucet, high
voltage engineering director of the Gen
eral Cable Corporation. He will de-
scribe the trend in the development of
insulated power cables, illustrating his
talk with slides and motion pictures.
DR.. G. w. Vinal, chairman of the
Washington section of the institute, will
preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
CLUB PLANS STAG NIGHT
Addresses and Entertainment on
War Veterans Program.

Addresses and several entertainment
numbers, including music and dancing,
will feature stag night" meeting Of
the Hay-Adams House, Sixteenth and
H streets, tonight at $3.50 o'clock.
Judge Robert E. Mattingly and Isaac
Cans will speak and musical and dane
ing numbers will be given by a group
from Phil Haydens Studio.
Officers Of the club are in charge of
arrangements for the affair. They are
Ralph Cusick, president; Mai. Roy
Hughes, vice president; DR.. Albert Par
ham, treasurer, and S. H. WoIberg,
secretary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
U. S. WORKERS HEAD
NOW CRITICALLY ILL
Robert H. Alcorn Fights Influenza
at His Northeast Resi-
dence.

Robert II. AIcorn. chairman Of the
Joint Committee on Civil Service Retire
ment Legislation, composed of some 20
organizations of Government workers
e critically III with influenza in his
home, 1908 Second street northeast.
For more than 20 years, Alcorn has
led the appeal to Congress for progress
ment act, and in getting subsequent
measures through Congress to iron out
tnjustices and inequalities found In this
leeislation during operation Of the law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
Fess Would Place
Wasllington's Face
On New Quarters

A bill to place the portrait of
George Washington on quarters
minted next year was introduced
in the Senate yesterday by Sena-
tor Fess, Republican, of Ohio.
The likeness would be placed
on the coins to commemorate
Washington's 200th birthday an
niversary, which occurs in 1882.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
COURT WARNS JURY
Tells Grand Panel It Must Enforce
Local Option Law.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, February TO-
No matter what they personally think
about the prohibition law, Judge Frank
G.. Wagaman in his charge to the new
grand jury today, reminded its men,
bers that Washington County had a
local option law that must be enforced
and he expected them to do so.
The court said there is general appre-
hension of its widespread violation, and
that 1t was the jury's duty to strive
to enforce this law and all others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

Meeting, Society Of American Bacte-
biologists, washington branch, Naval
Medical School, Twenty-third and z
streets, 8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
LOYAL LEGION PLANS
LINCOLN MEMORIAL RITES
Representative Fish to Speak at
Services at Noon Thursday, With
Marine Band Playing.

Marine Band Playing.
A program Of exercises in commence
ration of the birthday anniversary of
President Lincoln will be conducted
under the auspices of the District of
Columbia Commandery of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion at the Lin
coin Memorial Thursday at noon.
An address is to be delivered at the
exercises by Representative Hamilton
Fish, jr., of New York and wreaths are
to be placed at the Memorial by repre-
sentatives of a number of patriotic
organizations. Music will be furnished
by the United States Marine Band.
The Loyal Legion group requests the
cooperation of all patriotic organi-
zations, urging that each organization
send at least three representatives
carrying a flag or emblem and bearing a
wreath to be placed at the Memorial
during the exercises.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

Meeting, District Retail Druggists
Association, Raleigh Hotel, 1880 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

Card party, Boosters Club, 1850 Mas
sachusetts avenue, $3.50 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
DRIVE TO BOOST STATE
Maryland Conservation Commission
Advocates. Plan at Hagerstown.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, February 10
Swepson Earle, conservation commits
sioner of Maryland, spoke last night at
a meeting held in Masonic Temple in
the interest of the proposed $4,000
appropriation for a campaign to adver-
tise advantages Of Maryland, its his
toric points Of interest, etc, aimed at
bringing tourists in the State.
Many Baltimore organizations, as well
as Chambers of Commerce, are spon-
soring the measure soon to be intro
duced in the General Assembly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

Party and dance, Western Union EN-.
ployes' Association, Swanee ball room
Thirteenth and z streets, 8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

Masquerade ball, Boveglia Club, City
Club, o pm.
Meeting. Society for Philosophical In
Quiry, New National Museum, 4:45 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

Card party, St James Catholic
Church. Thirty-seventh street and
Rhode Island avenue. northeast, 8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.


Masquerade ball, Boveglia Club, City
Club, Q pm.
Meeting, Society for Philosophical In
quiry, New National Museum, 4:45 pm.
Meeting, Society Of American Bacte-
biologists. Washington branch, Naval
streets, pm.
Meeting, District Retail Druggists
Association, Raleigh Hotel. 1880 pm.
Card party. Boosters Club, 1850 Mas
sachusetts avenue, $50 pm.
Party and dance, Western Union En-
ployes' Association, Swanee ball room,
Thirteenth and z streets, pm.
Card party, st. James Catholic
Church, Thirty-seventh street and
Rhode Island avenue, northeast, 8 pm
Meeting, Burleith Citizens Associa-
ton, Gordon Junior High School, 8 pm
Meeting. Sixteenth street Heights Cit
izens' Association, Northminster Chapel
Alaska avenue and Kalmia road, pm.
Dance, Eagle Tent, No. 2, Rechabites,
Logan Hall, 1902 Tenth street, Q pm.
Lecture and buffet supper. Phi Beta
Gamma, Ambassador Hotel, 8 pm.
FUTURE.
Luncheon, Lions Club, MayfloweT
Hotel, tomorrow, 1880 pm.
Luncheon, Optimist Club, Hamilton
Hotel, tomorrow, IL pm.
Luncheon, Monarch Club, Hamilton
Hotel, tomorrow, IL pm.
Meeting, Mira Mccoy Andres Day
Nursery, tomorrow, 1880 pm.
Meeting, Ladies Auxiliary, Jewish
Consumptiyes' Relief Society of Denver
Colo, Jewish Community Center, to-
morrow, a:3O pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

Meeting, Burleith Citizens Associa-
ton, Gordon Junior High School, 8 pm.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
STAGE
NEWS FROM
NEW YORK

AS an expression of thanks for
his work during the last three
years to exempt actors from the
provisions of the Wales paddock
law, State Assemblyman Langdon
w. Post has been made an hon
orary life member of the Actors
Equity Association. After a long
legislative struggle the Buckley
Post bill was recently approved
by Governor Roosevelt.
Edward Childs Carpenter, Try.
ing Caesar and Sigmund Rom
berg announce that they have
Joined forces to collaborate on a
play with music, the title of which
has not yet been chosen. This is
said to be Mr.. Carpenters first
connection with a musical produc-
ton.
Several requirements in the
cast of you Said It," the musical
comedy at Chanin's Forty-sixth
Street Theater, will be made this
week. Mary Lawlor, Jerry Golf
and Kendall Capps will be sue
ceeded by June O'Dea, Alan
Davis and Florence Robertson,
respectively.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
A Surprise Winner

Walter Hampden, who recently
harpooned the Broadway critics,
must be among those having a
quiet grin over the Pulitzer prize
play award.
The laurel for the best Ameri-
can drama offered in the season
Of 1930-31 goes to Susan Glas-
pell's opus, "Allison's House."
which was produced by Eva La
Galliene and must be numbered
among the minor successes of con-
temporary producers.
A majority of the critics picked
Philip Barry's Tomorrow and
Tomorrow" as the oddS-on favor
ite for the Pulitzer prize derby.
It was ballyhooed into a hit show
by rave notices and Paramount
bought the movie rights as a
future vehicle for Ruth Chatter
ton. In spite Of this the
Pulitzer judges passed it up and
I think with rare good judgment,
for to me it stands as the most
overrated second class imitation
Of Strange Interlude" ever
foisted on a paying public. And I
further feel it will be one Of
Chatterton's prize flops if she
ever consents to star in it as a
movie.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

R..K..O. KEITH'S - Constance
Bennett, in Born to Love" At
11:40, 1:40, $40, $40, TAO and
$40 p. m.
RIALTO-Lew Ayres, in Iron
Man" At 11:45 a. M, 1:45, 3:45,
5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 p. m.
PALACE-Wallace Beery, in
THE Secret Six" At IL, 2:16,
ABS, 7:21 and 9:42. Stage shows
at 1875, 1856, 6:41 and 9:02 p. m.
FOX-Loretta Young. in Three
Girls Lost" At 1857 a. M, 2:29,
4:44, TAT and 1908 p. m. Stage
shows at 1870, 3:45, 6:4S and 9:O3
p. m.
METROPOLITAN-William Far.
mum, in Ten Nights in q Bar
room" At II, 12:45, 2:35, 4:2o,
6:10. 8 and 9:45 pm.
COLUMBIA - Trader Horn. "
At 1920, 1875, $50, sos, tbs,
9:25 p. m.
EARLE-George Arliss, in The
Millionaire. At 1870. 2:06, 4:50,
TAO and 1O:11 p. m. Stage shows
at ITO, 3:37, $40 and Oil p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
TENNIS LEADS
WITH STARS
AS SPORT
By HARRISON CARROLL

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, May G..
In their constant fight to keep
fit, Hollywood stars of both sexes
have turned to tennis as the most
pleasant form of competitive ex-
ercise.
Wynn Mace and Norval Craig,
instructors at the Los Angeles
Tennis Club, and Harvey Snod-
grass, out in Beverly Hills, have
dozens of film celebrities as their
pupils.
Among the actors, Theodore
Won Eltz is perhaps the best
tennis player. william De Mile
and Frank Tuttle rank high
among the directors.
Even Charlie Chaplin takes
lessons. He is the only person
whom Mace teaches at home.
The rest of the stars so to the
club, many of them early in the
morning. For more than a year
and half, Cedric Gibbons, M.
G. M. art director and husband
of Dolores Del Rio, has showed
up at 7 a. m. several times a
week.
Mitzi Green, despite her chunl.i-
ness, is said to have the makings
of a star player. And Conrad
Nagel, according to Craig. has
more tennis smartness than anJ
other actor he has taught the
game.
Billie Dove. Colleen Moore
(when she is here) and Carole
Lombard go to school to Harvey
SnodgrasS. Naturally, William
Powell trails along after Carole
Billie Dove also is taking golf
lessons.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Waite Sells One

Edgar Waite, chief of Fox pub
licity forces on F Street. is taking
bows as an author. having sold a
story to be printed in the June
American Magazine. Jack Oakie
is off the Paramount payroll due
to the contractural difficulty over
salary. Paramount wants John
Barrymore to make "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde" and Hamlet Jack
has retorted the cost will be
$25, 900 a week. zukor forces are
thinking it over Barrymore has
one more picture to make for
Warner Brothers. The quickest
rise to stardom in recent months
is credited to James Cagney, un-
known until THE Public Enemy
was shown. He made such a hit
that other producers began bid
ding and Warner Brothers led
him up tight to a long-term con-
tract Cagney is said to be the
toughest of all the gangsters. a
fit candidate to contest for the
racketeer championship wi h
Wallace Beery and Eddie Robin
son.
I have seen Jean Harlow, So
called platinum blonde of Holly
wood. in three pictures and the
report card adds up a big zero
as al actress. Joan Marsh,
another alluring blonde of the
same type to be seen in Three
Girls Lost" at the Fox this week
certainly seems to know more of
what it's all about.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Scouts Look Her Over

Seated in the back row of the
Belasco Theater Monday night was
a production scout from Para
mounts Astoria studio. He was
watching closely the performance
Of Margaret Sullivan. ingenue star
Of "A Modern Virgin" Out of it
may come one of those priced
movie contracts for the young &C
tress.
It seems that the motion picture
trade conventions were held at At
1antic City last week, and the crit
1cal eye Of a scout fell upon the
acting of the ingenue in the new
Harris play.
The movies. incidentally, have
no trouble whatsoever in Turing
any and whom they please from
Broadway. The average Broadway
contract guarantees only a 20
week season, whereas filmland
can dangle a Six-months paper
with options. higher salary, and
greater possibilities. Under the
circumstances almost every lead
ing woman who is locker" has
hied toward the studios and it is
one Of the play producers major
problems this finding expert
enced girls.
Pretty ingenues are cents
dozen around any studio, but
ingenues who can act are some
thing else. That makes Margaret
SULLIVAN stand out. She may
have the good luck which has de-
scended on Sylvia Sidney and
Helen Twelvetrees, both shooting
to film heights after a short
Broadway career.
Outside of stock company ex-
perience with C. C. Give in
Boston and a season with Brock
Pemberton's Southern company of
strictly Dishonorable" as under
study. Miss Sullivan never at
tracted type attention. AS under
study she got a chance to play
the lead for six weeks and made
the folks sit up. Out of this part
came her present assignment.
Roger Pryor, who closed with
"Up Pops the Devil when that
play ended the season on Sat
urday night, was observed Mon
day night watching "a Modern
Virgin" at the BelaSco. Watching
1t closely, too,. as he is going into
1t. And so are Alfred Kappeler,
Marcella Swanson and Claudia
Morgan. The requirements be-
The Washington times., 1931-05-06

gin when the play hits the Flat,
bush Theater in Brooklyn next
week.
The Earle Theater will open
The Public Enemy" with a mid
night show Friday night. Just
a tip-off that they think it's
mighty good.
The Metropolitan Theater will
go two-a-day, reserved seats, be-
ginning May IA. when the screen
attractions will be Columbia's
"Dirigible."
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
Don't Miss These

3 o. m.-KeepinE up with The
Times. News flashes by Paul
KeOuRh. WRC.
$3.50 .. MINNIE. Frances Aida.
WRC.
p. m.-Pryor's Band. WMAL.
Bobby Jones Golf interview. WRC.
1870 q. m.-LOuellA Parson In.
terviews Eddie Cantor. WMAL.,
$3.50 p. m.-Paul Oliver and
Olive Palmer.
1918 p. m.-washinEtOn's MIS-
icaI Art Gallery. The Metro
politan Quartet and Florence Ne
Gill KeefeF. WMAL.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06

studios has attracted cash Gus
toners in such paying volume as
have these features which turn
the spotlight on society's unde-
sirables.
Predictions of this kind are as
sincere and close to the truth as
the laments heard occasionally
that the talkies are far behind
the silent celluloidS in entertain
ment value. Generally it is a
faded star or one unable to fit
the 1881 demands who Sighs for
the good old days.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
.RADIONEWS AND GOSSIP
By BROADCAsTER

This is officially Music Week
and so Q voluminous letter from
one who signs himself "Volun.
teer" may, with your indulgence,
be printed under the label Dis
cords"
Volunteer" spanks all radio
editors. and this one in particu.
lar, but the spring weather is
fine, the Pimlico program looks
inviting and it's payday, so un-
der the circumstances I can't feel
bad.
There are many radio enter.
tainers-and perhaps more list
eners-who may enjoy seeing an
editor placed upon the critical
gridiron and roasted to a we'll
brown turn. Accordingly may I
introduce volunteer" with some
vagrant observations on How the
Job Should Be Done" which you
may find interesting:
Dear Broadcaster:
Your column in tonight's Times
is fairly good. Mostly they're
fairly dull. Now don't get warm
around the collar. Most Of the
other radio columns are, too. 1t
isn't your fault. You probably
have other things to do. You
can't stick around the house every
night listening to programs so
you content yourself and miss the
human interest.
What does the public want?
Why the little things they notice
most. If you're an observant
newspaper man, then you know
they're most interested in the
things they've seen or heard
themselves They'd rather read
the details of an inconsequential
accident they saw on the road
last Sunday than the full details
of the abdication Of the King
of Spain. You want an illustra,
ton:
Well, couple of months ago,
as you may remember, Amos
n Andy listeners noticed that
the orchestra repeated THE Song
of Songs" at the opening several
times, then there was a stage
wait and finally Hay, the an.
nounce1. gave the conventional
opening but choked over every
word as Though he were struggling
for breath. Unimportant? Yes,
yet thousands noticed it. One
local editor took the trouble to
give the explanation a few days
later-that Hay for once didn't
realize that it was time for the
pair to go on the air and barely
made it. Trivial, but intensely
interesting.
Oh. l know you're sore and
ready to fight but why shouldn't
radio get criticism like the thea.
ter or pictures? The Good Lord
knows it needs it. And don't
you radio editors get too self
sufficient in foisting your own
opinions and prejudices. You do,
you know!
Now you are fairly boiling. But
I'm not going to stop. I'm
going ahead (and entirely without
the benefit Of the handouts and
various forms of publicity with
which your desk is at present
fairly groaning) and write-right
out of my own head-my idea of
the things I would like to see in
column and which I myself
might write if I had the time
and inclination and If I listened
The Washington times., 1931-05-06

crime gorillas
or gangsters.
It all sounds
very much like
sour grap e S.
Tor beginning
with The Big
H o u e" a n d
! u n n / n g
through Door
way to Hell, ;"
Little Caesar, "
The S e ecr e t
Six" and "The
Public Enemy"
nothing turned
out in the last
wear by the
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
WAVE LENGTHS

as often as the average-which
certainly do not!
Now you made q nasty crack
about Uncle Abe and David when
they were dropped off the air
a week ago. That was just be-
cause you had never become in
terested in them yourself. You
are accustomed to turning the
radio on when you are dining
and want soft music. Converse
ton disturbs you. 1t does me,
too, when I'm not concentrating.
But you had no right to refer
to Uncle Abe as "vinegary.
There was never more whole
some character created than he.
Even if you think Phillips Lord
is better as Seth Parker, Uncle
Abe was good, too, and his de-
parture is a distinct loss to the
worthwhile things Of radio. Even
if he couldn't pay out for his
sponsors, N.BC. might well carry
the feature as suStainer, once
a week at least.
There's another you probably
don't like, yet abounding IN some
of the best and most sharply
limned characters. presume you
don't like it although don't know.
Anyway one of your female con-
temporaries gave it quite knock
a few weeks ago. I mean Vollmer's
Moonlight and Honeysuckle." A
real classic.
Then 1 think I'd comment on
the Sunday night coffee program
which boasts about the absence OF
rancidity from its program, then
makes it's program rancid with the
silly prattle Of Cheval1er.
I'd drop in a paragraph about
the manner WRC masSacres the
Black and Gold Room Orchestra
in favor of commercials-some'
times we have only four minutes.
I'd hammer away for The Stun.
her Hour" on week nights and
even if it is only 80 minutes IN
New York now, I'd hammer away
anyhow.
I'd ride WRC until they did
something with that Selt-attected
announcer who is so meticul-
Gus in his enunciation that he
is a real pest - washington
Da-a.a-r-y Council" for instance;
or "S-h-h-n-n-y-d-e-r's Bread" I'd
let him sing, if he must. with the
Rialto organ, for he's much bet
ter vocalist. Announcers should
be a complement to the program,
not intrusive or obtrusive.
Maybe I'd drop in a sly little
dig about the competitor that so
vaingloriously announced about
two months ago that it published
the complete radio programs "in
detail" only to drop them two or
three weeks later, despite the spe-
cial announcement Of the self
opinionated young man that the
Evening Scuffle thought it's read
ers were entitled to everything.
I'd get up early enough to say
a word about the human interest
in the Tower broadcasts. the
charm of Gene and Glenn, and I
wouldn't be silly enough to pan
Cheerio simply because it was
piffle to me and overlooking the
fact that it was a God-Send to
tens of thousands Of Shut-ins and
didn't interfere with the regular
broadcaSting time anyway.
Maybe I'd do all these things
to brighten the column I'd edit,
then maybe I'd only keep it up
three days and then start rewrit,
ing handouts. Oh. well, don't
worry; you can keep your job
VOLUNTEER.
The Washington times., 1931-05-06
UNDERWORLDS
ARE LIKED
BY PUBLIC
BY ANDREW R. KELLEY

Those producers who have no
underworld pictures for sale to
exhibitors are among the leaders
in protesting loudly that the pub
lie is fed ZIP on the doings of
The Washington times., 1931-05-06

wRC-La Sale Dance OrehSStFa,
wMAL-Weather Report.
wJSV-weather Report.
12:3o-WRC-Tea Garden Dance Or
The Washington times., 1931-05-06

as often as the average-which
I certairlv dn n0tl
The Coolidge examiner., 1931-03-13
MUCH WATER NOW
IN COOLIDGE DAM

With 171,000 acre feet of
available water now stored
in the San Carlos lake behind
Coolidge dam, the water le-
vel has reached the highest
point in the eXistance of the
dam.
Rains in the mountains
Sunday added to the run-off
from the storms of the previ-
Gus week, bringing about
5000 acre feet to the lake in
three days. More benefit
from Sundays is expected,
however, with the beginning
of warm weather as the rain
turned to snow in the higher
regions. The total gain dur
ing the week from Wednes-
day morning to Wednesday
morning, was IL, 900 acre ft.
Various conflicting reports
concerning the contents of
the dam were carried by the
daily papers after last weeks
storm, several of the reports
indicating that the high
mark of last year had been
reached several days before
it actually was. This was
due to the fact that allow
ance was not made for the
dead storage of about $4,000
acre feet that lies below the
penstock.- Messen-
ger.