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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04

only diffsrencc is that im u4AA'n case it is . matter of high hIs- triouic art.
 Tn cover the HiIl,v Dunn fa again teamed with his 'sBad. oizz@ sweetheart Sally EllerB. MAs Marsh, beloved star of such silent films as "The Birth of a Nati0m's and ''Interolerance." ig also fea&tr- ed in the role of ssMa." Itfs the first picture Miss Marsh has played in in twelve years, having retired to private life upon completion of her last silent picture, "The White Rose." s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04

To-day marks the end of the successful run of "The Ruling Voice." the First National picture featuring Walter Huston, at the Lyric theater. This sensational indictment of those parasites who live on the food supplies of the country and grow rich by raising prices of foods and even by crush. ing competition at the expense of children's lives-is 8 thrilling story magnifcently presented and played, Others in the cast are Loretta Young, Doris Kenyon, David Man. ners, John Halliday, Dudley Digges, Gilbert Emery, Willard Robertson and the child actor, Douglas Scott. Don't miss "The Ruling Voice."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-04

Dwight Frye as Gives dwarf as- sistant. John Boles and Mae Clarke do all that is expected or them, but somehow or other their roles seem unimportant.
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Of the plot. Others who share in
the production are George e. Stone,
Ona Munson, Boris Karloff, Oscar
APPEL. Robert Elliott, Purnell Pratt,
David Terrence, Gladys Lloyd,
Evelyn Hall and Harold Waidridge,
all with real roles. It is good en-
tertainment but utterly false.
D. c. G.
Pagan Lady" at RiaItO
Is Tale from Tropics.
NrTHE lust of the world Is but
grain of sand compared to
cnes immortal SOUL" Justify pro-
claims the ardent reformer in Pagan
Lady" at the Rialto this week. And
a few moments later that somewhat
dripping tropical fable moves to a
conclusion in which both the grain
of sand and the immortal soul are
properly rewarded, which everyone
agreed was much better than having
the immortal soulers get the better
of the lusters, or vice versa, as such
dramas of conflict are prone 70 end.
Since it concerns a fallen lady
with heart of gold, Pagan Lady"
passes through the customary bar
room scenes until the "demi" meets
a bright. strong man also possessed
of a heart of gold beneath his rough
exterior. and he decides to take her
away from 1t. all-but not very far
away.
No sooner has her muscle bound
swain departed to close a business
deal-regarding some Scotch and rye
and other goods-than the gilded
pagan, Oct Hunter Evelyn Brent)
becomes lightly entangled with an
earnest young missionary. The
evangelical gent has had inward
limitations that all Is not we'll with
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porting company Is so well selected
that its contribution would be at
tractive, even without strong plot,
which the play possesses.
Assuming that q newspaper such
as Is here depicted would come
within the classification of those
things which are not done, and that
II there were such things they would
come within the group of enterprises
OF the suhnormal, for the Subnormal
and by the subnormal, 1t is possible
to separat2 . fascinating story from
its background and to enjoy the
romance of young couple arriving
at the marriage day, while the town
goSSipS about the experience of the
brides mother, two decades into the
past. The older woman was ac-
quilted of crime, but Robinson, as
the circulation hound, under orders
OF superior, who poses as a re-
former but is purely commercial,
rakeS up the old story with damag-
ing results. The loyalty of the
bridegroom Is the most impressive
thing in the tale.
Marian Marsh, as the bride,
should be credited with both the
ability to create the evidence of
wrought-up mind and the capacity
to display the finer qualities of a
refined and buoyant young woman.
Her lover is played by Anthony
Bushell with good poise. and Aline
MacMahon, as secretary. Is an
effective member of the cast, with
a variety of moods to her credit.
The contributions of Frances Starr
and H. B. Warner, as the older
couple, are in the admirable tone
that should be expected of these
famous stage figures, and it is ex-
tremely fortunate that they have a
fairly large part in the development
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his immortal soul on account Of the
emotional starvation of his mortal
being, and when he sees the titilla-
tive Miss Hunter, 1t requires only the
conventional rainStorm to drive him
into hut with her.
Although he does not fall from
grace, apparently the prospect ap-
peals to him, for he abandons his
career as 8 preachifier and announces
that he will lawfully wed the way
ward pagan. The shrewd, though
shameless Hunter, agrees to this, as
she can easily see that otherwise
her bootlegger Lothario Is going to
make pulp of the ecclesiastical youth
when this hut peccadillo Is dis
covered. Restrained by respect for
the word marriage, the rum runner
permits Dot and her religious swain
TO embark unmolested in the direc-
ton Of license bureau.
On the way they pass a church
and Ernie, the missionary, upon
hearing the dulcet organ music and
the sweet, 3onorous serpnonizing,
snorts like an old f1rehorse at the
sound of a third alarm. Heartily
urged by his erstwhile flancee, he
promptly tumbles back into the
clustered folds of the moral life.
while Dot sadly contemplates leaving
the rough but worthy mug she
loves.
That noble soul is tipped of that
the marriage plot was only Dots
trick to preserve the preacher, and
Immediately sets out to find her
which he does in time fer a grin
ming fadeout with his pagan lady in
his arms and his heart pledged
against further participation in the
uncouth Scotch and rye business.
Ghosts of Sadie Thompson fit
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YOUTHS FORM OWN
. THEATRICAL GROUP
is Under 20 Organized to Try
Out Theories of Stage
Production.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 3.-Fifteen
ambitious youths with an Idea" have.
taken over an old tradition-f1lled the
alter on the fringe Of Broadway and
are stalking their all on motto OF
success or starvation"
Their Idea" is a youthful one from
beginning to end. They plan to get
plays written about youth and by youth,
and produce them with youthful cast,
youthful directors and under the man
agement of their own very youthful
organization.
Not one Of the Is collaborators in
the idea has had a twenty-ninth birth
day yet. Their average age Is %.
Some recently have come from college
drama schools. bubbling with the
oretical ideas, but many gave up worth
while jobs in the theater to join the
group, and accordingly knew before
they started how hard 1t would be to
compete with "big-time" Broadway.
Cooperative Group.
Marvin S. BoroWsky executive direc-
tor of the group, known as the Mid
town Players, explained the project to-
day as he sat in the Princess Theater
in a chair once occupied by Morris
Gest when the playhouse was In its
heyday
Were entirely a cooperative group"
he said. Our permanent organiza-
ton includes playwrights, directors,
executives, a technical department,
costume and scenery designers. And
everyone else essential for the produc-
ton of a play except the cast.
I'VE are drawing little, If any sal
aries, now.
One of our chief ideas is to give
youth chance. Youthful actors,
actresses and playwrights. who haven't
yet established a reputation have a
hard time breaking In We aim to
give them their big opportunity"
Get Experienced Aid.
Then he disclosed that Midtown
Players intends, as soon as their sue
cess has been assured, to answer the
call of actors equity for some producer
to subsidize promising young play
wrights.
Among the Is organizers are Jerome
Mayer. who left the Theater Guild to
join the group; Harriet Taylor, who
was manager Of the Little Theater in
Niagara Falls, N. Y; Maxine Levy,
who was with the Goodman Theater
in Chicago and Rea Mooney, for three
years assistant director of the Civic
Repertory Theater and for six years
an actress with the Abbey Theater of
Dublin.
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kind of life which makes visiting
Harvard gentry shudder with fright
and yearn to get them back on the
pedeStals which they obviously once
commanded.
Before this can be done (and an
honest old gentleman who travels
In Oil has volunteered to accomplish
it,, the silken Tallulah shoots dead
her erstwhile husband. whereupon
Mr.. March, tossing his bottle to the
winds. resumes his practice as an
alma mater lawyer and wins the case
for her by proving that every one
else In the same predicament would
have done this same thing. Then,
presto. as the lady prepares to en-
gulf her freedom from the law by
tossing down a glass of poison, In
comes Mr.. March to say, "Stop-you
must be crazy" and tells her
that the old gal she was is dead
and that she must be somebody new
Ann Trevor, for instance, living
in New York-her old self denied
and forgotten.
So she goes to New York on the
wings of $1,000, which the generous
Mr.. March has given her-and in a
jiffy is a successful interior decora-
lOr living OH ILle ldI VI TIC Adllu, anu
having won the affections of a So
cial-register lad who dabbleS in mil
lions as a stock broker. All goes
we'll until her past-in the form of
young Fredric-comes back and hits
her in the face Cthe past, not Mr..
March, and she realizes that such
a social-register existence would not
have been square. The upshot OF 1t
all is-Well. figure 1t out,
This sounds perhaps a good deal
like plain and simple hokum. And
it is. But it is distinctly palatable
through the eloquent services Of
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From the Front Roy
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters.

million per cent better than in her
first picture and positively beautiful
in some scenes, and because of her
lothario-this March man-seems an
excellent foil for her. The others
don't matter much.
The audience seemed to like it
every bit of it-so perhaps the story
isn't so bad. Certainly the two
principals aren't.
Prominent on this weeks stage
show is a boisterous mule, which
comes near stealing the bill Tin
Happy Harrison's CircuS); the BoS-
well Sisters. loudly acclaimed; Joe
Browning, and Betty g. Jerry
Browne in rs That Funny?" which
isnt-very. E. de S. MELCHER.
Artificial News Drama, at
Metropolitan, Has Good Cast.
AN outlaw newspaper furnishes
the latest step in the progress
sion of the dynamic movie inquire
bearing the name of Edward G.
Robinson. His selection for the
Final" the story of a so-called
scandal sheet" at the Metropolitan.
represents a step in his recession
AtOAA 1AiC oOAaAOoPAACAS "a "AAS 6~..o
SterS and racketeerS, but retains the
effect of the man of foBceful action.
In fact, his acting In this magma
tive production is worthy Of atten-
ton, and from the standpoint of
the seeker for diversion achieves the
result of gripping the mind in a
way that carries the attention from
one invention to another without
giving too great offense. There are
two suicides and an attempted pistol
assault which grow out of the ruth
less handling of printed material,
but they are momentary incidents
and the two deaths are only sug-
gested without accompanying agony.
There is some crudeneSs in the dia-
logue, for the benefit of those who
enjoy sardonic laugh. The sup
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through every scene Of Pagan
Lady" as it is equipped with tropics,
the reformer-t rollope sequence, the
scornful hero and the wise know-all.
hear-aIl, see-all doctor. Unfortunate
ly none OF the more pleasant shades
OF Rain" seem to have been notified
OF the disguised revival of that
saga.
The alleged comedies on the pro-
gram are dull. r. B. p. .Jr.
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vIRGINIANS BARRED
FROM CIVIL SERVICE
D. c. and Maryland Also Over
Quota for Typists and
Stenographers.

By the Associated Press
The Civil Service Commission yes
terday repeated an oft-sung song.
Virginia is nearly three times over its
quota Of civil service appointments and
residents of the Old Dominion need
not apply for jobs as stenographers
and typistS, examinations for which
will be held soon.
On the basis of population, Virginia
was allotted ISL places on the civil
service list. Today there are 2.226 Vir-
ginianS holding civil service jobs.
Residents of the District of Columbia
and Maryland also are barred from
appointments because the quota has
been passed.
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the same spot Is
the wonderfully
fair Miss Bank
head, who sings
noisy "hey-hey"
patters in night
clubs, and who
is followed here
and there by a
husband" who
demands half
h is "wife's"
earnings ny
time and every
time she has
any earnings at
h a n d. B OF h
these form er
handsome and
loose youn &
things live the
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GRADE CROSSING CASE
TO BE HEARD OCTOBER 13
Special Dispatch to The sta.

0peclai DlSpatch to The StaEA
RICHMOND. Va, october 3.-Hear-
ing of case Of the Washington and
Old Dominion Railway Co. against
henry @. Shirley, State highway COM
missioner, is scheduled to be heard
before the State Corporation Commits
sion October 13.
This is case in which the company
Is seeking to be relieved of the expense
OF paying proportionate share Of the
cost OF grade crossing over its line
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Bankhead and March
Excel in my SIM"

I'm my SIN" the new Bankhead-
March film at the Earle, Fredric
March may be seen as Har-
L ward alumnus and one-time
foot ball hero Che has gained
poundage to prove the latter who
has gone aground in the limpid
cafes OF Panama. Also aground in
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
WE'RE A SMALL GALAXY
Astronomer Tells Us
We're Not so
Exclusive

The galactic system, meaning
an island universe consisting of
billions of stars, in which we
live, is not exceptionally large, as
univerSes 90.
We have to content ourselves
with belonging to an ordinary,
not an extraordinary, stellar r
galaxy. The BELIEF held by the
astronomers so far that our
galaxy is much larger than the
average galaxieS or nebulae has
no real basis.
This follows from recent studies
made by DR.. Frederick H. Seares,
assistant director of Mt. Wilson
Observatory. According to his re.
port made to the Carnegie Insti-
tuition Of Washington, DR.. Seares
believes that we shall have to re-.
wise our previous estimates of the
size Of our island universe.
Astronomers have calculated
that the diameter of our island
universe in the longer direction,
the line of the Milky Way, is
something like 100000 light years
or 1900, ,O00, 900, 600, 900 900 m / e S.
Travelling with the speed of light,
more than 10000 miles per Sec
ond, it takes 200, 900 years to go
from one end of the universe to
the other.
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
CURB
COUNTY AIM
7Harris-Ewing Photo

Under Superintendent of Schools
Edwin w. Broome, Montgomery
county, in 1882. will launch q
pretentious health program in
which study of five phases Of
child well-being will be made.
With the aid of Miss Margaret
Ansdell. Red Cross nutritionist. a
program which will work towards
the positive side of health instead
of merely curing sickness or in
juries, has been drawn up.
Children will be examined for
physical body condition, nuJri-
tional well-being. in which the best
possibilities of the organism are
realized: the ''in-school well-being,"
in which efforts are made to find
the. cause of the child's back,
wardness which may be due to
absence of similar causes: mental
and emotional well-being, in which
reasons for the tenseness of the
nervous system and the strain Of
conflict will be removed and the
social well-being, which deals with
the relations with others. ir an at
tempt to rid the schools Of hully-
ing, nagging. lying and cheating.
In DR.. Broome's scheme the
whole child will respond to all Of
his actions,
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
HOOVERs GREET NEWsBOys NEXT WEEK
Sightseeing Trip and
Banquet Feature
Annual Event

corted to the willard. On their
arrival at the hotel tn Y will be
greeted by Edmund F. Jewell,
publisher Of The Times and Her.
aid. Mr.. Jewell, Mr.. Shelton, o.
R. Lewis, circulation manager Of
The Times and Herald, and L. G.
Leech, director of The Times
Herald Boys Club, compose the
committee in charge.
After breakfast at the Willard
the boys will be taken in busses
to the Navy Yard and Mt. Yer
non. Following the inspection of
the Washington home. four of
the Pilgrims will broadcast at IL
O'Clock from station WJSV, tell
ing of their trip to washington.
Kirk Miller, sports editor of
The Times, will be the toast
master at the banquet at the
Willard Monday night. In addi-
ton to the Pilgrims, 500 mem
bers of The Times Herald Boys
Club will feast there also.
Walter johnson will speak and
give each boy one Of the baseball
games he invented. Senator Ar
thur Capper of Kansas will be
another speaker,
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
BEAVER s BODY
FOUND IN WELL

= STERLING, Va, Dec. 26.-End-
ing a search which began Christ
mas Eve, the shot-riddled body
Of Alfred F. Beavers, dairyman,
was found yesterday in the bottom
Of an abandoned well near here.
Beavers had left his home at
dawn Thursday for the dairy OF
Henry Dekay. Part Of his head
had been shot away. Attention
was attracted to the well when
1t was observed that a pole used
to hold the top in place was
missing.
The fact that Beavers watch
and $27 In cash was missing from
his pockets caused Sheriff E. s.
Adrian to believe that he had
been murdered, with robbery as
the motive.
At Beavers home, it was
learned his wife has been absent
for a month visiting in Gaines
vile with Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
Siebold.
The Beavers have four children,
Raymond T.. ~, Mrs. Lillian
Havenner, 81, Lester, 10, and
Beulah, II.
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
NEW ARLINGTON
COURT RULES
OUTLINED
County Bench to Function on
January |; Committee
Reports Routine

With the new county court
Of Arlington established in a
recent act of the State legisla-
ture, scheduled to operate JAN
uary l, a special committee Of
the Arlington County Bar As
sociation has made an investi-
CATION into the act creating it
and has submitted a report to
the association.
The report advocates that any
appeals from the county court
to the circuit court should be per-
fected within five days after the
judgment Is handed down.
A fee Of 81 for the clerk of
the court is advocated in cases
involving less than $500 and in
cases where sums larger than this
are involved, a fee Of $3.50 would
be allowed.
: The report also advocates that
the bailiff of the court, although
he does not come under the au-
thority Of the sheriff, be given
the full power and authority Of
a police officer, and that the
associate justice, who is to be
appointed. by the Judge. shall not
be disqualified from practicing
law.
A recommendation was also
made that the county provide an
adequate courtroom, offices, and
necessary law books for the jus
tice.
The committee was composed
of B. M. Hedrick, Judge elect Of
of the court; Emery N. Hosmer
and William H. Dudley. Hugh
Reid, author of the act, also sat
in at the sessions of the COM
mittee.
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
D " YE R KILLS
SALARY GUT

Mayor Ticer's efforts to cut
the salary OF certain city en-
ployes received its death blow at
the hands of Councilman M. T.
Dwyer at the last meeting of
the Alexandria city council.
Informed by the mayor that
the 10 per cent cut of the sal
aries of the city manager, chief
of police and fire chief and
superintendent of streets would
save the city less than $4,000,
Dwyer moved that no salaries be
cut. He was supported by Vice
Mayor Arthur Herbert and an
other councilman.
The salary cuts, as originally
proposed, were to affect all city
employees drawing over $1,000 a
year but the officials elected by
the people, it was found, could
not be cut except voluntarily and
this left but four employees to
be cut.
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
LEE BOULEVARD
COMP Ii T|ON
/ NECESSARY
George Washington Project
Contingent on Highway
Being Finished

Success or failure Of the ap-
preparation act in the. Virginia
State legislature to provide
funds for the George Washing
ton Memorial Parkway will be
dependent largely upon the ac-
tion of Congress in making the
completion of the Lee Boule-
yard possible.
This is the opinion of members
Of the legislature from Northern
Virginia, it was learned today.
The State of Virginia has
graded the Lee Boulevard from
the. Memorial Bridge to Station
lot, at the boundary Of Fort
Myer. Fort Myer being a Federal
reservation. continuation Of the
work across the reservation is
dependent upon Congress.
Two sessions Of Congress have
passed without the necessary act
being approved, and members Of
the state legislature and the Vir-
ginia Highway Commission are
leaning to the belief that the
Federal Government has not kept
faith with Virginia.
At the time that the boulevard
was started, and when the ap-
preparation bill was introduced
into the State legislature, mem.
bers Of the National Park and
Planning Commission announced
that there would be no trouble
when the boulevard was started
across the Federal reservation.
In view of the failure Of the
Federal Government to go along
on this project, legislators Of
Northern Virginia who will at
tempt to shove the appropriation
bill for the parkway through this
session of the legislature, believe
that failure is inevitable unless
the present Congress takes some
steps to bring the Lee Boulevard
project to q successful conclusion.
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
Motor Tax Boosts
Proposed in Virqin1iU

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 26
G.NS1.-Governor Pollard's ad-
visory committee on motor vehicle
legislation has recommended
that gross receipts of motor
vehicle carriers be taxed 5 per
cent, instead Of the one-half per
cent franchise levy now imposed.
Substantial increases in license
fees and special for hire fees
and tax on other commercial
vehicles of more than two tons
capacity were also recommended
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
White House Recep.
ton Planned for 500
Young Pilgrims

The second annual patriotic
pilgrimage Of the Newspaper Boys
Of America, sponsored by The
Washington Times-Herald Boys
Club, will be held here Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Five hundred newspaper boys
from an area marked on North
west by Butte, Mont; on the
Southwest by Shawnee, Okla: on
the Northeast by Augusta, Me-,
and on the Southeast by Lake
Charles, La, will take part in the
pilgrimage.
President and Mrs. Hoover and
Vice President Curtis, who played
prominent parts in the pilgrimage
last year, will do more this year,
they said, to show their approval.
Reception at White House
The pilgrimage will be closed
Wednesday afternoon with a re.
ception for the boys at the White
House by President and Mrs.
Hoover. Vice President Curtis
will receive the boys at the Capt.
tol Monday afternoon and will at
tend the banquet for them at the
Hotel Willard Monday night.
The main body of the boys will
not reach the District until Mon
day, morning, but Lyle Troxell,
of Shawnee, Okla. representing
the Shawnee Morning News and
Evening Star, arrived this morn
ing. He left Shawnee Thursday
evening.
Two boys from Jamestown, N.
Y, will come tomorrow night.
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
County Fire Fighters
Report Quiet HOLiday

Prince Georges county firemen
in the Hyattsville and Mt. Rainier
area report a quiet Christmas.
While the members of every COM
pany were on the alert for the
usual christmas tree fires" they
did not develop as expected.
BladenSburg Fire Company re-
ported only one small fire that
started in the brush near Land.
over. Members of the Eyatts-
vile company, under orders of
Chief Noble Rushe. will continue
to sleep in the fire house urtil
after the holiday season.
The Washington times., 1931-12-26
Yeggs Get JeUeIry
In Laundru "JOb"

Jewelry valued at $121 was
stolen from the laundry of Bing
Pam Nah, 910 Twelfth st. N. W.,
early today, it was reported to
police. The thieves entered the
establishment through transom
over the front door.