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The Washington times., 1931-05-14
NEW PROGRAMS FOR THEATERS

Society Circus" will introduce
the Harris Twins, Tabor and
Greene, Betty, Irene and Sylvia,
Rose Marie Carter, Weddings
Half Pints and the Sunkist Beau
ties. Bob Hamilton at the organ,
BruSiloff'S music master and the
Movietone news reel will com
plete the program.
COLUMBIA - ''DiShcnored," ,"
starring Marlene DIETRICH, comes
as the main screen attraction be-
ginning Saturday. In this Para
mount picture, directed by Josef
Won Sternberg; Miss DIETRICH takes
the role of a beautiful spy who
meets with success at every turn
except when she tries to glaan
information from Victor MacLag-
len. seen as an officer in the Rus
sian army. Lew Cody, Gustav
Won Seyferrtitz, Warner GLAND
and Barry Norton. Selected short
OuDJCSUo C1I1N Vic 1 OIL dlkAN 'u!IL AAO w .
reel will complete the program.
PALACE-Gary Cooper's latest
starring vehicle for Paramount,
"City Streets" comes as the main
screen attraction opening Satur
day. Sylvia Sidney plays the
chief supporting role in b story
which deals with the adventure
of Westerner in a crime-ridden
city. Paul Lukas, William Boyd,
Guy Kibbe and Wynne Gibson
have prominent parts in the &C.
ton. On the stage the entertain.
ment will be provided by "Riviera
RevelS," revue in which Mitchell
and Durant, Dolores, Douglas and
Eddy are featured. The HearHr'
Metrotone news reel, selected
short subjects and music by the
Palace Syncopators completes the
program.
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Sweet are the featured attrac-
tions beginning Saturday. James
Rennie, Donald Cook, Dorothy
Peterson, Mary Doran and others
are in the supporting cast.
Blanche Sweets act is called
"SnobbiShneSs." Jack Kendall
and company, Jean Renee and
Alice Logan, Helen Lind and Gale
Mays, Dave Kramer and Jack
Boyle and Maxine Doyle feature
the stage bill. Freddy Clark's
music, selected short subjects and
the newsreel will complete the
program.
RK-O KEITH'S-"Subway EX-
press" a picture made from the
sensational mystery play, comes
as the main screen attraction
opening Friday. Jack Holt plays
the stars role, that Of detective
who solves a most battling crime
in the' underground tunnel.
Aileen Pringle, Fred Kelsey, Allan
Roscoe and Jason RobardS play
the featured parts. On the sup
Elemental program will be the
latest issue of the Pathe news
reel, selected short subjects and
organ music by William R.
Bishop.
. FOX-"Young Sinners" which
was one of Broadway's successes
this season, has been made into
an exciting and interesting fillo
feature with Thomas, Meighan
and Dorothy Jordan featured. 1t
opens Friday. In the supporting
cast are Hardie Albright, Cecilia
Lotus, Edmund BreeSe, James
Kirkwood and Eddie Nugent. On
the stage the special attraction
will be Johnny Marvin, the
ukulele crooner, who makes his
debut as master of ceremonies.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14


air, Los Angeles, to the bleak
regions of the south pole. De-
signed to show that these great
blimps are practical for explora,
ton purposes as we'll as essen
tialS in the nations defense plans,
the film serves excellently as light
er than air propaganda.
Marvellous Air Shots
Lieut.. Comdr. Frank Wead,
who wrote the story for "Dirig-
ible," has patterned his tale
after the earlier Flight" and
Submarine" features in which
intrepid and courageous men of
the service fight for glory and
a woman'S smiles. In weaving
his romance Author Wead has
traversed familiar grooves and so
the fiction lacks the suspense of
the earlier screen epics and, if
the truth must be told, it grows
a trifle narrowing, not to say.
draggy. However, there are mar
velous camera shots of air ma
neuvers on a certain Navy Day
at kehurst and spectacles
which impress because they bear
the label of authenticity.
Good Cast Seen
Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Ho-
bart Bosworth and Fay Wray,
play the important roles we'll
and Frank Capra's direction is
generally moving and effective.
The opening performance was
preceded by remarks from Assist
ant Secretary of Commerce for
Aeronautics William P. Mac
Cracken and Assistant Secretary
of the Navy David S. ingalls,. Guy
wonders presided for these pre-
Iminaries. ' J.
The supplementary program in
CludeS a Graham MacNamee news
reel and a Silly Symphony, strict
ly juvenile.
"Dirigible" is being shown twice
daily, at 2::3o and $50 p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
Times Sketches
On VOL Tonight

Don't forget to tune in
The Washington Times
regular Thursday night pro-
gram offered at GAS over
station VOL. More of the
old songs have been re-
quested and Miss Dorothy
Reddish has made herself
very popular among radio
fans by the way she sings
these old numbers. She will
be accompanied by Margaret
Morgan Harry. And we
might even have a piano
solo by Miss Harry.
The sketch will be read by
JAG Downs, and promises to
be very interesting, since it
concerns one of The Times
most noted contributors.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14

NATIONAL - Frank Craven'S s
comedy of American life, That's
Gratitude" will be the next at
traction for the National Players.
The play gets it's Washington
premiere Monday night. Nancy
Sheridan, Stanley Ridges, Mrs
Hibbard, John Warburton, Daphne
Warren-Wilson, Roberta Beatty,
Raymond Bramley, Forrest Orr
and Burke Clarke all have excel
lent roles in this comedy, rated
by Burns Mantle among the 10
best plays of 1930-31 season.
RIALTO-"Seed," the picture
made from Charles Norris best
seller novel, comes as the main
screen attraction opening Satur-
Cay. John Boles appears for the
first time in straight dramatic
role with Genevieve Tobin and
Lois Wilson and Bette Davis play
ing the other important char
acterizations. Raymond Hackett,
Frances Dade, Richard Tucker
and Zazu Pitts are also seen to
advantage. Little Dickie Moore,
a 6-year-old actor, gives what is
called a remarkable performance.
On the supplementary program
will be a Universal neWsreel with
Graham MacNamee announcing,
selected short subjects and Otto
Becks organ music.
METROPOLITAN - Columbia's
exciting air picture, "Dirigible," )"
begins a tWo-a-day showing en-
gagement beginning with today's
matinee. Performances are at
2:30 and $50 p. m. "Dirigible"
is a graphic tale which carries its
audiences on hazardous adventure
from Lakehurst to the South
Pole. Jack Holt, Ralph Graves
and Fay Wray are featured in a
moving story which has a we'll
woven thread of romance. Ho-
bart Bosworth, Roscoe Kairns, Al
Roscoe and Emmett Corrigan
have the chief supporting roles.
On the supplementary program
will be selected short subjects and
a newSreel.
EARLE-Dorothy Mackaill in
her latest picture, Party Illus
band" and the personal appear,
ance on the stage of Blanche
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
NEWS-GOSSIP
OF RADIO
WORLD
BY BROADCASTER

A Victor Herbert memorial
program will be broadcast over
an extensive NB.C. network un.
der auspices of N. B. C. and the
Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers, from the grand
ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton,
Sunday night, May "a, between
Z and 8 o'clock.
The program will feature Sc
lectionS made muSically immortal
by the late beloved composer
Gene Buck, president of the So
ciety of Composers. Authors and
Publishers, will preside as mas.
ter of ceremonies.
Marlene Dietrich, German &C.
treSs, who has scored a sensa-
tional success in American films,
will make her second radio ap-
pearance in the broadcast of
Musical Cocktail from Los An
geleS over the Columbia network,
Wednesday, May 20, at $50
p. m. The star will be inter
viewed by Louella Parsons, mo-
tion picture critic and writer.
Miss Dietrich has not been
heard over a radio network since
her debut on the Paramount
Publix program April IL, 1880.
two days after her arrival in this
country.
For the second time this spring
Japan will become a radio neigh
Dor OF America when NB.C. ex.
changes broadcaStS between To
kyo and this country on Memorial
Day, Saturday, May 30.
w. Cameron Forbes, United
States ambassador to Japan, and
Vincent Kentra Kaneko will
speak from the Japanese city.
The American national anthem
and native music will be played
by the Japanese navy band. The
Tokyo program will last 20 min
utes, to be followed by 10 minutes
of music, including the japanese
anthem, played in the NB.C. San
Francisco studios.
The program will be carried
over an NB.C.-WJZ network be,
tween 8:15 and 8:45 a. M,
E. D. T, May 80.
The final rounds of the ma
tional open golf championship of
the United States on the links of
the Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio,
will be described over the
WABC-Columbia network by Ted
Husing on Friday, July 3, and
Saturday, July 4.
Husing will follow the worlds
greatest golfers with a portable
short-wave transmitter strapped
to his back. His stroke-by-stroke
description will be picked up at
ground station in the club
house and relayed by ground
wires to station WSPD, Toledo
whence it will be relayed to the
network. No times have yet been
set for the broadcasts.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
hid Ynm Knnw

Did You Know
That Don Jose Mojica'S Spanish
version pictures are breaking rec
ords in Sweden? 1t seems that
Sweden is one place where the
musicals still are in vogue.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
STAGE
NEWS FROM
NEW YORK
Perfectly Scandalous." lew
by Hutcheson Boyd, will
open at the Hudosn Theater.

comedy by Hutcheson Boyd, will
open at the Hudosn Theater.
The premiere for "a Modern
Virgin" by Elmer Harris, has
been set for next Wednesday
night at a theater to be an
nounced later. In the cast will
be Herbert Rawlinson, Rogec
Pryer, Margaret Sullivan, Mich
olas Joy and Lola Raine.
Sid Silvers will be among those
to write material for the forth
coming edition of the "Follies." :"
The Ziegfeld office also an
nounceS that Reri, the South Sea
Island girl who is being brought
here to appear in the show, will
arrive on the Twentieth Century
on Friday morning.
Vera Marsh, a comedienne now
appearing in Americas Sweet
heart" has been engaged by
Schwab and Mandel for their
next musical show, Free for AL" "
Edmond Donald and John Hib-
bard have been added to the
cast of Gasoline Gypsies," the
comedy by Charles Conger Stew
art, which is expected to arrive
at the Lyric late this month or
early in June.
Frances Williams, the singing
comedienne, who closed recently
in The New Workers." has been
signed for a vaudeville tour over
LoeWS circuit.
High Hat" comedy by Viva
Tattersall and Sidney Toler,
known as "Ritzy" when first pro,
duced on Broadway last season,
will begin road tour in Boston
late this month before going to
Chicago. The leading players will
be Lynne Overman, Edna :dib-
bard and James Spottswood.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
Jingle Jingle Girls"
Are Next at GGyety

Jingle Jingle Girls"
is the name of the new burlesque
revue which opens Sunday matt
nee. Featured will be Harry Sey.
mour. Virginia Jones, Kitty War
rem, Tommy Miller, John Grant,
Helen Forest, Edna Noble and
others. Special features are:
Monday, gift night; Wednesday,
auction night, and Friday, anna
teur night.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
FREE SOUL IS
TRIUMPH FOR
BARRYMORE
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1881. Premier
Syndicate, Incl


HOLLYWOOD, Calf, May IA.
Reports of pre-view scouts who
saw "a Free Soul" have wrecked
whatever hopes Lionel Barrymore
may have had Of going back to
his directing.
Electrified by the praise given
the veteran actors performance,
Metro Goldwyn- Mayer already has
assigned him to the lead in
Guilty Hands," a mystery pic.
ture, to be written and directed
by Bayard WELLER. The author OF
The Trial of Mary Dugan" now
is completing the script and will
be in production before long.
Previous to "a Free Soul, "
Barrymore hadn't acted since
The Mysterious Island" He di-
rected several pictures, the best
known being Lawrence Tibbett's
Rogue Song" 1t took the grand
role of the attorney in Adela
Rogers Hyland's novel to persuade
him to come out Of his retire
ment.
1t develops that WELLER is not
making his debut as a director
in the new film. Back in 1921,
he was head of the old Metro
scenario department, and, later,
became a director. The reason
why he quit pictures at that time
is unchronicled.
Quite an Order
Another proof of the import
ance of punctuation is brought in
by Lew Cody, recently, while
breaking in his new coupe, Hol-
lywood's favorite man-about-town
saw the following sign on a far
mer's gatepost:
Eggs Blow Your Horn"
Latest Gossip
The recent appearance of Jack
Gilbert and Joan Bennett to-
gether have set the tongues along
the boulevard a-Wagging . Like
wise, the interest Kathryn Craw-
ford and Danny Banker are show
ing in each other. Wesley Rug
giles used to be Kathryn's steady
E. "A threatened breakdown kept
BesS Meredyth away from the
studio for a week, but she's back
now. Ben Lyon is being the
hard-hearted landlord to Director
Billy Wellman. He's asking Billy
to move to another of the Lyon
Daniels houses, so that Pola Negri
can move into the old one. An
employe of the First National
Studio recently stopped to offer a
lift to a man walking across the
pass from Hollywood. To his
amazement, it was George Arliss
you're the tenth man who has
offered me a ride" said Arliss
plaintively. II want to walk"
incidentally, it was a four-mile
hike. After being the subject of
no end of marital rumorS in Hon
olulu, Dorothy Mackaill is due
back here Friday and doubtless
will laugh them all off.
CapriciOuS Fiji
Speaking of engagements, Fiji
Dorsay has broken hers to Ter
renee Ray, the Fox actor. HE
is too young" says Fiji, besides I
like man who worries about me
more. Last night he called up for
the first time in a week, and ]
told him he needn't bother again. -
Fiji reveals her relations with Fox
are not going smoothly either. She
wants her release, so she can keep
buster. Eight pictures in two
years are not enough for her. The
French-Canadian actress recently
went to Catalina to address a
luncheon at a Rotary convention
and ended up by staying two days
and playing every performance.
Did You Know
That Don Jose Mojica's Spanish
version pictures are breaking rec
ords in Sweden? 1t seems thai
The Washington times., 1931-05-14

EARLE-Dorothy Mackaill in
her latest picture, Party IIus-
band" and the personal appear
ance on the stage of Blanche
The Washington times., 1931-05-14

Quite an Order
Another proof of the import
ance of punctuation is brought in
by Lew Cody, recently, while
breaking in his new coupe, Hol-
lywood's favorite man-about-town
saw the following sign on far
mer's gatepost:
Eggs Blow Your Horn"
The Washington times., 1931-05-14
AIR THRILLSIN
,"DIRTGIBLE"
EXCITING
Rx ANDREW r. KELLEY

'nDirigible," which had a bril-
liant invitation opening perform
ance at .see Metropolitan Theater
last night, has many exciting
thrills built around hazardous ad-
ventures in the air with Uncle
Sans monster helium-filled bags.
The Washington times., 1931-05-14

The first half
of the picture
inspires memo
rieS of the i'll
fated Shenan-
doah since it
shows one OF
these huge diri-
,gibleS breaking
in mid-air and
tumbling 1 n to
the ocean.
I he second
part of the pic
ture concerns a
rescue trip of
the Navy'S Le-
Viathan of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
700 new KY. MINERS FACE FRA NE-UP ON IWW BE7RAYA
OnteVit Police and Hold Steel
Workers Meet on River Banks
Motor Boat With Metal Organizer Chugs Up
River, Addresses Huge Meeting

collected on the river bank awaiting
the speakers. The police also mo-
bilized heavily while Morgan osten-
tatiously shined his club on his
trousers. Company police chased
workers from the McKeesport Tin
Plate mill where the wages Of the
hot mill workers were slashed last
week from ten to thirty per cent,
inside the gates and closed them.
The workers were surprised when
the motor boat chugged up the
river and to the cheers of the steel
workers, Frank Hill opened the
meeting from the boat. Because the
police were taken unawares, no fed
eral harbor police we're available
and the local police could not go out
on the river Their siren shrieked
for a while, thus attracting workers
that the leaflets did not reach, then
burned out, and the meeting con-
tinued to successful finish when
the motor boat chugged away.
Gus McAdee and Reese also spoke.
A big YCL branch was organized as
a result of the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
MASS CONGRESS
WILL MOBILIZE
FOR CAMPAIGN
Election Tag Day S
This Week End to
Push Campaign

The Communist Party calls on all
workers organizations, A. F. of L..
locals and other unions and shops,
to send five delegates for each fiji
teen workers to the Ratification
Congress Friday night September 10
at Central Opera House, 81 Street
and Third Avenue. At this Congress
thousands of workers will voice their
determination to participate actively
in the election campaign of the Com
munist Party. These workers will
voice their determination to bring to
the workers of New York the slogans
of this election campaign which the
Communist Party has raised-Class
Against Glass and Fight Against
Hunger
The funds necessary for the cleo
ton campaign of the only workers
party must come from the workers
themselves. The Communist Party
therefore calls on all workers to par
t.c.pate in the Election Campaign
Tag Days which will be held this
Saturday and Sunday September IS
and 10. All workers organizations
should have their headquarters
available as stations for the tag days
and should have their membership
active 100 per cent in the tag day
collections. The tag days will not
only be a means for carrying on the
campaign but will be one 70 the best
ways for reaching thousands on
thousands of workers with the issues
of this election and with the pro-
gram of the Communist Party as the
party of the working class.
Rally to the Ratification Congress
on Friday night Bring your fellow
workers. Participate actively in the
election campaign.
= L..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 13.-
Speaking from a motor boat on the
Monogahela River to over thous-
and steel workers while the police
burned out their siren in the attempt
to stop them, the Metal Workers In
dustrial League and the Young
Communist League held their first
meeting in McKeesport, where the
terror is extreme. When the siren
proved useless, the police asked the
children present to sing my coun-
try It's of thee" to drown the speak
er's voice, but the children refused.
While the police cursed and shook
their fists, the finest and biggest
meeting ever held here in years
continued. An hour before the
meeting "a lightning distribution of
leaflets calling the workers to the
meeting on the river bank, was or
gained. In five minutes every
street in the town was covered, while
Ray Morgan the local constable
chased through the streets trying to
catch the leaflet distributors, crying,
I'll break this club over somebody's
head"
In less than an hour large crowd
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

Commission as an excuse for the
wage slashes they have prepared.
Railway Age" gives the complete
admission of these wage slash pla---
as follows:
"The margin between income and
outgo must, however, be increased.
Such retrenchments as already
have been made by curtailing en-
plOyment and purchases cannot be
increased on most railways without
serious injury to the properties and
service. The only remaining avail
able means of substantially re-
ducing expenses is to reduce wages.
Unquestionably, therefore, if the
commission refuses to grant an adj
vance in rates, or authorizes only
an inadequate advance, railway
arrangements will be forced imme-
diately to seek reductions of wages"
The railroads have only shown a
return of 219 per cent on their heav-
lily watered investments this year and
wages must be slashed, they say, in
order to increase their rate of profit.
General Attack Will Follow.
Railway Age" further points out
that the slash in the wages of the
railroad workers will be followed by
the general attack on the wages of
the workers throughout the country.
Up to the present time the bosses
have slashed right and left individu-
ally, but the present program of the
capitalist class is for the general at
tack on all of the workers still en-
ployed, to be started by cuts in the
railway and steel industries. This is
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

NEW YORK.-The brutal torture
inflicted on the nine Scotsbtoro Ne
gro boys, whom the bosses have held
since last April within the shadow
of the electric chair, is having its
effect on the mind of 14-year old
Roy Wright. These innocent work.
ing-class children, three of them only
IA years of age, are the victims of the
boss terror against the oppressed Ne
gro national minority without know
ing what it is all about. Dazed and
amazed, they have seen themselves
rushed to the electric chair on a
brazen framed-up charge and saved
only by the mighty protests of the
working class. Eight of the boys are
still held in the death cells in Kilby
Prison, Montgomery, Ala, even
though the filing of an appeal by
the International Labor Defense has
automatically stayed the carrying
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
- Workers
Union Is Smashed
By RacketeerS
Rank and File Meet to
Reorganize Union

The notorious Larry Fay gang of
racketeers who established racket
union of laundry workers, when they
saw that the workers did not allow
them to do what they pleased, sold
out to the bosses and decided to
break the union as they had previ-
ously threatened to do.
At last Thursday nights meeting
in Ebling Casino, 1856 st. and st.
AIMS Ave, the officials of the So
called Greater New York Laundry
Workers Union Inc, Brooks, and
Bloom, carried out the final details
of the sell-out. First they did not
send out any mail for this meeting,
but when they saw workers coming
to the regular weekly meeting, any
way, detectives were sent up to
inform them that no meeting could
be held. The officials, if they had
not framed the whole thing, were
too cowardly to go on with the meet
ing on the flimsy excuse that they
cannot hold union meeting without
the charter which the racketeers
took away, though, as everybody
knows, no charter is necessary for a
meeting. Many members wanted to
hold the meeting anyway by electing
new chairman since the president
was afraid to open the meeting, or
to carry the meeting over to another
hall, but the officials, determined to
break the meeting and with this the
very young union, took small group
with them and went away some
where More than half of the work.
ers present went to another hall
nearby, $50 Prospect Avenue, and
held meeting. After discussing the
critical situation that faced the
laundry workers thus left on the
rocks, a committee of IL was elected
by the members to step into the
{. each and continue to organize a
union for the laundry workers. The
committee is arranging a Mass Meet
ing for Thursday night, September
Is, at 8 pm. at Ambassador Hall,
Claremont Parkway and Bird Avenue
in order to reorganize the workers
into rea frank and file union that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
14>Year Old Roy Wright Sends
Pathetic Letter to the [. L. d.

at 4:30 am. As usual, all day long
you have been on my mind and
also my troubles. 1 haven't slept
much since the last three nights
and just had to drop you a line
or two about myself and my troubles
to kinder ease my pain little and
to get little consolation if there
Is any more in life for me. While
I am trying to write this letter
probably I'll get some.
You know Mr.. Maurer that at
times it is really hard for me TO
get myself together in this place.
At times / believe i am going in
sane. You know have been in
here so long am just tired of this
place. Oh, to think what / am
charged with. If there is a God
as they say he knows 1 am not
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