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The Washington times., 1931-09-24

Five new motion pictures al
rive for the new programs which
open tomorrow and Saturday.
Here's the lineup:
METROPOLITAN-George Ar
liss in the screen version OF his
famous play, Alexander Hamil-
ton," holds over for a second
week beginning Saturday. In this
engaging historical fiction, the
story of the First Secretary OF
the Treasury is interestingly told
with romance figuring in the ac-
ton. Doris kenyon. Montagu
Love, June Collyer, Lionel Bel
more and a strong supporting
cast. On the supplementary pro-
gram is a Ripley Believe 1t or
Not" Paramount's Screen SouV-
enirS and the news reel.
FOX-Ruth Chatterton's latest
picture, The Magnificent Lie"
comes as the main screen attrac-
ton opening Friday. Ralph Bel
lamy and Stuart Erwin are prom
inent in the supporting cast. Miss
Chatterton plays the role of a
cabaret entertainer. On the stage
will be FanchUn and Marcos Car
nival Idea, With Raynor Lehr and
company. The Andresens, Teddy,
the trained bear, and Louise E.
Goody, Cropley and Violet, and
the Carla Torney dancers. The
Movietone news reel and AL
Mitchell's Band in a popular over
ture will complete the program.
COLUMBIA-Elmer Rice's prize
play, Street Scene" in its Gin
ematic version holds for a second
week beginning Saturday. This
graphic screen drama directed by
King Vidor enlists Sylvia Sidney,
William Collier. ir., Beulah Bondi,
David Landau, Estelle Taylor and
a huge supporting cast. On the
supplementary program is the
last of the William Tilden tennis
lessons, a short comedy featuring
Zazu Pitts and Thelrra Todd and
the Paramount news reel.
R-K-O-KEITH'S - Evelyn Brent
in Smart Woman" a movie made
from Myron Fagan's stage sue
cess, "Nancy'S Private Affair" :"
comes as the main screen attrac-
ton opening Friday. Mary Astor,
Edward Everett Horton, Robert
Ames, John Halliday and Noel
francis are among the prominent
players in the cast. AS an added
feature in addition to the Pathe
news, a Grantland Rice spotlight
and a cartoon comedy, the sup
Elemental program will include
a tWo-reel Clark and Mccullough
comedy, featuring the musical
comedy comedians.
PALACE.-Cecil De Miles pro-
duction of the famous stage sue
cess, The Squaw Man." comes
The Washington times., 1931-09-24

Will provide the
main screen at
traction open
ing S a turday.
This is a pic
ture directed by
George Melford
and said to tell
an exciting and
p a r C VI arly
timely S t ory
about police de.
partment meth
ods and the
war on racket
eerS. N GA h
Beery, Russell
The Washington times., 1931-09-24
Big Glen Echo Pool
Will Close SUNDAY

This is the last week for
swimming fans to enjoy the
Crystal Pool at Glen Echo Park,
as the management announces
it's closing for the season next
Sunday at 1870 p. m.
The warm weather now prev
alent is expected to swell the
attendance to unusual proper
tiOnS,
The Washington times., 1931-09-24


gets going full speed ahead next
Monday night when both the Ma
tional and the Belasco will be
lighted for new attractions.
BELASCO The new season
will begin auspiciously on Mon
day night with the presentation
of George S. Kaufman and Max
Hart's satirical comedy of Hol-
lywood, "Once In a Lifetime" ?"
It comes after 400 performances
on Broadway and with the same
cast, including Jean Dixon, Hugh
O'Connell, Charles Haiton, Mar
jorie Wood, Ruthelma Stevens,
Grant Mills and others. The play
has seven scenes and a total cast
numbering more than so play
erS.
NATIONAL - Madge Kennedy
and Otto Kruger in Noel CoWard's
fastidious comedy, Private Lives" :"
opens Monday night. This is the
sparkling romantic frolic which
created a sensation on Broad
way and an even greater success
in London. It is called a smart,
sophisticated evening of rollick-
ing fun with delightful love
story ingeniously woven into the
action. This is the No. l com
pany of Private Lives" and
Producer Sedwyn promises a sup
porting company of merit for
the featured stars.
GAYETY-Joe Leavitt's Dixie
Beauties" will be the next Colum-
bia burlesque attraction opening
Sunday matinee. Jack Hunt and
Clyde Bates are the featured
comedians with Kitty Warren
heading the feminine contingent.
Others of prominence in the
cast which will present skits,
songs and dance are Eddie Innes,
Doris Sennett, Margie Block,
Ann Mitchell and Evelyn Burke.
The chorus is said to be ex-
tremely worth while for looks
and agility.
The Washington times., 1931-09-24

HELEN KANE W1CI UCIIII141So
On the Palace stage will be
Helen Kane in person in Boop
Boop-a-doop songs, Walter Dare
Wahl and other Loew acts. The
Hearst Metrotone News and mu
sic by the Syncopators completes
the program.
The Washington times., 1931-09-24

Saturday with
Warner Baxter
and Lupe Velez
featured. In the
supporting cast
of this Western
drama Eleanor
B o a r d m a n
Charles Bick-
ford, Rol a n d
Y oun G, Paul
Cavanaugh, j.
Farrell McDon-
old, Raymond
Hatton and De
Witt Jennings,
The Washington times., 1931-09-24
Late Stage News
Direct From
Broadway

NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-Max
Gordon promises to be the busiest
musical show producer in town
this season. In addition to the
Harbach-Kern operetta, The Cat
and the Fiddle" which opened a
try-out tour in Philadelphia last
night, and "Waltzes From
Vienna" the English musical
show which Sir Oswald Stoll will
supervise for him in mid-winter,
the producer will sponsor in
January a new musical offering
by Howard Dietz, with a score by
Arthur Schwartz. The show is
called THE Three Cornered Hat"
and is an adaptation of Spanish
folk classic by Pedro Antonio de
Alarcon.
The Washington times., 1931-09-24

e II \ IdlIlIIlSIlI
has come to
stay, why not
take advantage
of its ballyhoo
possibilities for
promotion, Jay
the managers.
So what.
Well. LoeW'S
Palace is going
on WMAL for
probably -four r
sessions a week,
three during
the day and
n n o evening
The Washington times., 1931-09-24

third degree. Including the Dis
trict grand jury. George Don
aldson is now business agent for
the stage hands. an office filled
for many years by the late
Tommy Trundle.
The Washington times., 1931-09-24
What Price Divorce

mot at ALL" I assured her.
please go on. will you?"
She almost took the skin from
my left thumb with a piece OF
pumice stone.
well" she continued dubi.
ously. Il married my second
husband as soon as we arrived
in New York. Please don't ask
me if I divorced my first hus-
band because everybody asks
me that. Just let's say that l
did"
"Oh, sure" I agreed hur-
ridely. Let's just say so.
What's a husband more or less
these days, anyhow"
That's what I always said,
she asserted. well. I found it
hard to get along because my
second husband died only a few
months after our marriage. !
didn't get married again until
almost year later"
Itch, tch, tch," I sympa-
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The Washington times., 1931-09-24
THEATERS ADOPT RADIO =
Five New Pictures Offered on
Coming Movie Programs

) RIALTO-Mary Brian and Leo
GARLIC in THE Homicide SQUAD"
The Washington times., 1931-09-24
Watson With Guild


The Theater Guild has engaged
Minor Watson for an important
role in Reunion in Vienna" the
Robert e. Sherwood play that
will be the Guilds second offer
ing of the season. Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne will have the
chief parts and rehearSals are in
progress with a New York pre-
miere scheduled for october 10
at the Martin Beck Theater.
Saul z. Martell has purchased
four plays for production here
abouts this season, he announces.
The first to reach Broadway will
be a drama called Rainy Days."
by Claire Green. Rehearsals are
to begin next week. After this
Mr.. Martell will sponsor a farce
by Mark Linder, :'Triplets,"
play by Carl Henkle called THE
Revenue Man." tried out some
seasons ago,
The Washington times., 1931-09-24
HeadIiners
or Stage to
Appear
By ANDREW r. KELLEY

Once upon a time show bust
ness looked upon radio as healthy
opposition. But now since the air
The Washington times., 1931-09-24
BeIasco Re-opens
For Season
Monday

Washington's dramatic season
gets going full speed ahead next
Monday night when both the Ma
tional and the Belasco will be
lighted for new attractions.
The Washington times., 1931-09-24

-Four times until now!" I
calculated. How did that hap
.pen?"
She shrugged her shoulders.
tits not as exciting as it
sounds" she went on. IT was
born in Italy and was first
married when I was only Is
years of age. My father and
my husband had terrible
fight about that because my
father wanted me to come back
to him, and my husband said
he wouldn't let me.
About eight months of that
and I grew pretty tired. So I
solved the whole thing by run
ming away to America with
another man"
I swallowed hard but man.
aged a hard-boiled smile.
Very simple" 1 murmured.
"And what happened after
that?"
She hesitated.
You're just kidding me, Mr..
Hellinger," she insisted. I'm
just making fool of myself by
telling you all this"
The Washington times., 1931-09-24

Five new motion pictures ar
rive for the new programs which
open tomorrow and Saturday.
Here's the lineup:
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
JUDGE CAY7ON
RENAMED

President Hoover today rSnomi,
mated Nathan Cayton as a judge
Of the Municipal Court Of the
District.
The appointment was sent to
the Senate early this afternoon
and was referred to the Senate
Judiciary Committee. His con-
firmation is expected without op-
position.
Judge Cayton threw a bomb
shell into local legal circles a
year or more ago by a speech
upon The Jewish Crime Wave"
which he delivered from the Sixth
Street Synagogue pulpit.
The jurist alleged that many
young Jews are being led into
gangster and racketeering prac-
tices and called upon Hebrew
parents to be more strict in the
moral training of their offspring.
Prompt challenge to his allega-
tionS was given by many leading
Jews of Washington, including
Rabbi Abram Simon, and Judge
Cayton was accused Of having
'libeled" his own race.
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
LehIbach Says Parties
Must Face Dry Issue

Any political party which re-
fuses to face the prohibition issue
squarely in the 1882 national cleo
tions will go down to defeat,
Representative Lehlbach (RO Of
New Jersey, predicted in the
House today. He said:
"The party that would per
petrate q stupendOuS hoax on
the American people by nOmi-
mating a wet candidate for
president on , a repeal platform
and at the same time give pri-
vate assurance to its adherents
in prohibition sections, that
through their representatives
in Congress they would be per
mitted to block a submission to
the people of any proposition
for a change, would forfeit the
confidence of the American
people for a generation to
come"
He urged Congress Immediately
to submit his proposed Constitu-
tional amendment repeating the
Eighteenth Amendment, but pro-
viding for protection of dry
States, to the country next sum-
n1er.
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
JURY WILL TRY
POLICEMAN .

Policeman Joseph H. Dellinger,
OF the Eleventh precinct, will face
. Police Court jury Wednesday
when he goes on trial charged
with assaulting Oscar A. Raba, l9,
Of Boulevard Heights, Md.
Dellinger was arraigned today
before Judge Gus A. Schuldt and
pleaded not guilty and demanded
q jury trial. His bond was fixed
at $500. In the meantime he has
been suspended from duty as a
policeman.
The policeman is accused Of
having struck young Raba with an
automobile crank after he had
chased the youth for some dis
tance, in the north and southeast
ern portion of the city. The boy
was given a suspended sentence
for speeding in Traffic Court last
Monday.
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
BLAINE DEGREES
CROOKED DRYS

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seeped through enforcement Of
this lava law which has no
justification in morals or In
righteous conduct"
Blaine Hits Drys
Senator Blaine declared:
There Is no more gruesOme
picture in the most debauched
nations Of history which will
compare with the corruption
which has been brought about
by the prohibition law"
Corruption extended into the
office Of the Attorney General
and into the Coast Guard service
when those agencies were charged
with enforcement of the dry law
Senator Blaine asserted. He de,
clared that the serpent wormed
its Shiny body into every agency
of the Government which has to
do with the prohibition law.
This Shiny serpent, he asserted,
has gotten into the customs
border patrol and that now the
patrol is as corrupt as the pro
hibition department.
Cites Lack Of Respect
Describing prohibition as "a
cancerous growth spreading cor
ruption everywhere, the Senator
declared that today there is little
respect for any law.
Senator James j. Davis (RO OF
Pennsylvania, pointed out that
the customs border patrol is not
the agency which has charge OF
enforcing the immigration law
Senator Smith w. Brookhart
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
Butler Maps Own
Defense Plans

From his military prison" at
the Marines base at Quantico,
Va, Major Gen. Smedley D.
Butler assumed the direction to-
day of his own defense against
the charges that he prejudiced
the good order and military dis
cipline of the Marine Corps by
accusing Premier Mussolini of
italy of being a hit-and run
driver
Major Henry Leonard, an old
companion in the Boxer cam
paign, will act as General Buffers
chief counsel, but those who know
the volatile general have no doubt
as to who is to be the. moving
spirit of the defense. That will
be General Butler himself.
Not only did General Butler
admit describing Mussolini hit
and-run driver, when called on
for an explanation, but he plans
to give all the evidence to sup
port it a public airing, according
to his friends. Whether this can
be accomplished, however, de-
pends upon the decision of the
seven Judges who will consider
his case at the general court
martial. The judges, six rear ad.
mIrslS of the Navy, and one re-
tired major general of the Marine
Corps will decide whether the
ccurt-martial is to be opened to
the public or held behind closed
door&
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
BUTLER PLANS
OWN DEFENSE
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., in the
presence of General Butler and
a group of lyceum managers
in New York last November.
"The incident as told by
Vanderbilt occurred while Mus
sOlini and Vanderbilt were rid
ing alone in the premier'S car.
After the child was run over,
Vanderbilt said, he started up
and looked back to see what
had happened, whereupOn Mus
sOlini, driving straight ahead,
said:
"Mr. Vanderbilt, it is a rule
of my life never to look back
wards. 1 always look ahead"
Vanderbilt, it was said, told
of interviewing many prominent
people and said that he secured
his interview with MuSSOlini
under an assumed name in
order to win a wager.
"After the interview he said
he told the premier who he
was, and MussOlini invited him
to take an automobile ride the
following day.
Vanderbilt is said to have
declared he rode along with
the Italian leader, who drove
the car and who habitually
drives at go or 70 miles an
hour"
ut was just as the car round
ed q sharp curve while going
through a small village that the
child ran into the road and was
run over, Vanderbilt was quoted
as saying. MusSOlini did not
slacken speed of his machine
and never looked back to see
fate of the child"
Vanderbilt was said to have
told the incident at a meeting
of managers which was hearing
synopsis of lectures from a mum
Der of people who were seeking
bookings for the 1930-31 season.
Mr.. Bridges added that Genera
Butler had at that time sent II
his resignation from the Marine
Corps to be effective February
and had concluded his interview
with the managers and was still
nj the rooon when Vanderbilt wa
speaking.
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
OFFICER GR|LLS
WIFE IN TRIAL
International Newsreel

A bit of drama was staged at
Police Trial Board today when
Policeman Leroy E. Bachelor, Of
the Fourteenth precinct, went on
trial on charges prejudicial to
the police force and acted as his
own attorney during the absence
of Harry T. Whelan, defense
counsel.
Policeman Bachelor, immecu-
lately dressed, assumed all the
poise of a prosecuting attorney
in subjecting his father-in-law,
Lieut.. Edward T. Harney, Harbor
precinct, to a whitening cross
examination. Lieutenant Harvey
had accused his son-in-laW of
firing a fusillade of shots into
his home January Is, when re-
fused permission to see Mrs.
Bachelor at Alcova Heights.
Defendant Denies Charge
Policeman Bachelor denies he
fired the shots. He will take the
stand in his defense next Satur-
day when other defense witnesses
will be called.
When Mrs. Margaret Bachelor,
pretty 22-year-old wife of the po-
liceman, took the stand and con-
fronted her husband. Bachelor
asked of Assistant Corporation
Counsel Robert Lynch:
Wife Takes Stand
II should like to ask the wit
ness one question before you
proceed"
Mr.. Lynch nodded his head in
the affirmative and the Police
man asked Mrs. Bachelor:
81 should like to ask you
whether you wish to stand on
your constitutional rights in
refusing to testify against me?"
Mrs. Bachelor replied.
II wish to testify"
The policeman-attorney looked
his wife steadily in the eye and
asked whether she believed the
man who fired the shots into
her home was her husband. She
said he was.
The Washington times., 1931-01-31

(R.) of Iowa, denied that there
was corruption in the immigra-
ton service.
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
DOAK ACCUSES
CONTRACTORS

Secretary Of Labor William E.
Doak told the House Labor Com
mittee today that some contrac-
tors are taking advantage OF the
unemployment situation and cut
ting wages on Government con-
tracts. Doak said:
1--WE have found that some
building contracts are being let
to contractors who want 70
import cheap labor and In e.
feet we are having wage levels
reduced in these communities.
This is contrary to the an
nOunced policy Of the Admins
tratiOn and its agreement with
business to maintain present
wage scales"
He urged Congress adopt the
measure of Representative Bacon
CRD, of New York, which would
require contractors on Govern
ment work to pay the wages pre-
vailing in the locality in which
the building is built and If there
is any dispute it be decided By
lthe Secretary Of EaooA
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance, January 90:
$lSe,021, ,950.43: expenditures, S.
S60,0S8.03; customs receipts, S26,'
A47,s37.97.
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
PERILED
BY CONGRESS
BATTLE !
Hopeless Deadlock Looms Be-
tween Two Houses Over
$25,000,000 Drought Bill

Congress today was a house di.
vided against itself, with Senate
and House locked in what may
be a finish fight over the Robin
son $25, 100000 food relief amend.
ment.
mo compromise" became the
battle cry of a large bloc in both
chambers of Congress. Some
Republican leaders cast about for
a means to avert the forcing Of a
special session after March 4.
Another step in the long drawn
out quarrel was scheduled today,
with Senate and House confereeS
attempting to ease the differences
of the two bodies.
Senate Behind Relief
The Senate is on record by a
big majority for the appropria-
tion Of 100000 for relief in
drought areas and industrial cen
ters, the relief to be administered
by the Red Cross, or if it persists
in refusing to handle the fund,
by the Salvation agencies.
The House demonstrated 1t Is
still standing by President Hoover
when it defeated, 217 to ISL. mo-
ton to agree to the $25, 100000
fund, the fund to be administered
by the President or Red Cross.
Declaring Congress cannot end
its laborS March 4 until December
without bolstering the charitable
organizations now caring for hun
dreds of thousands in drought
areas and more in cities, Senator
Robinson CD Of Arkansas stood
ready to force a special session to
accomplish his purpose.
House Members Firm
And to this Representative Til
son of Connecticut, Republican
leader of the House, replied:
"This is a matter of principle.
For me there is no compromise.
If the Government apprOpriateS.
money for private charity, we
Kill the private charitable Or
ganizatiOnS of The nation"
Senator Moses (R0 Of New
Hampshire also replied bellig-
erently to the Robinson ultima
tum:
"When you have an ultima
tum it usually means war or
surrender. 1t looks like a QueS-
tiOn of whether we accept the
amendment to avoid an extra
session."
Senator McNary (R) of Oregon
was hopeful of finding a COM
promise. One suggestion that
Congress appropriate funds to
match those of the Red Cross.
Both Houses probably will face
votes again on the proposition.
House confereeS were hopeful the
amendment would be taken to
the Senate and the Senate would
recede. If the Senate stands pat,
another vote will be taken in the
House.
Fund Bill Blocked
Linked with the fate of the
$25 100000 amendment is that
of the Interior Department ap-
preparation bill. Carrying funds
to administer the many divisions
Of that department for 1880.
Failure of this and other ap-
preparation bills to pass by March
4 would help force President
Hoover to call special session.
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
SHIP To AVOID.
FLYING At
NIGHT
Do.x Carries 1000 Gallons Of
Gasoline; Lieut.. SchiIdhauer
of U. S., Pilots Ship on Trip
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only about 750 miles in spanning
the water gap between Lisbon and
this place.
Despite her terrific size and
weight the DO-X rose from the
water In. two minutes. She flew
mn the TarguS river, then turned
and disappeared almost immedi-
ately in the fog, followed by one
Portuguese army plane.
Capt, Horst Merz, chief pilot
was at the controls as Capt. Fried
rich Christensen, master OF the
ship, gave the signal for the de-
parture. Lieut.. c. H. Schlld-
hauer. American assistant pilot,
took the controls after the ship
was in the air.
The passengers are Max SaueV
and Hans Stabhagen, technicianS
of the Condor Syndicate; Major
GiacOmO Brenta, Italian aviator;
Stanislow Krakow, representing
JugOslav air interests; Capt. Fritz
Hammer, German air ace and d.
rector of the Condor Air Mail;
and Admiral GagO COutinho, Of
the Portuguese navy.
For Full Trip
The first four will leave the
shin here. Captain Hammer ana
Admiral Coutinho alone contlnu'
ING all the way across the South
Atlantic. f.
Admiral Coutinho carries greet
ings from the Portuguese govern
ment to the Brazilian govern
Seven thousand gallons of gas
oline and 600 gallons Of oil were
in the DO-X tanks at the hop OIL.
American Bar Aboard
Passengers had access to an
American bar where anything
from German beer to French
champagne and Scotch whisky
could be bought.
The ship will await favorable
weather reports before hopping 1or
Porto Praia, Cape Verde Islands,
the next stop. But it Is hoped
that the delay at Las Palmas VIII
not be more than two days.
From Porto Praia the projected
route Is as follows:
Porto Praia to Fernando do
NOrOhna, 1,5OO miles.
Fernando do NOrohna to Natal,
RraziI 15O miles.
Natal, via Bahia. to Rio de
JaneirO, 1,475 miles.
RiO de JaneirO return to Natal,
1,475 miles.
Natal via Pan-American Air
ways route to Miami, with sew
eral stops, $500 miles.
Miami to New York, 1,4OO
miles.
No Hurry Is Needed
No effort will be made to
hurry the flight, which is consid-
cred experimental to test the ser.
viceability of large heavier-than-
air craft for commercial tranSat'
lantic flying.
Even if the flight is success
full it may be at least a month
before the giant ship Is seen in
New York.
No night flying will be at
tempted.
II, on any hop, the DO-x has
not reached her destination by
nightfall, it is planned to descend
on the ocean overnight and con-
tinue the following day,
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
Churchill Charges
India POLicY Futile

MANCHESTER, England, Jan.
81 UN.S0 In a speech here
against the labor government S
Indian policy, Winston Churchill
declared the proposed federal
constitution for India had been
loosely put together and would
not settle any of the "thorny
problems of Indian life or the
real difficulties of machinery"
The Washington times., 1931-01-31
ReU. Peter S. Quinn
To Talk at Services

The Rev. Peter S. Quinn,
preacher of the Marist congre-
CATION, will preach at the I'm
maculate Conception Church,
Eighth and N SITS. N. W., Febru-
ary 9, 10 and IL. This church
contains the grotto of Our Lady
of LourdeS and February IL is
the feast of this saint.