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The Washington times., 1931-03-18
When The Feature Is
Stown On The Screen

RIALTO-Nancy Carroll in
Stolen Heaven" at HAS a. NJ,
1;45, 3:45, 5:45, 7;45 and 9'45
p. m.
R-K-O KEIIH'S-Barbara Stan,
wyck in "Ten Cents Dance" at
1889 a. M; 1889, 3:39, $50,
1889 and $50 p. m.
EARLE-Ben Lyon in '"The Hot
Heiress," at 1850 a. m; 2:I5,
4:40, 7:45 and 1910 p. m. Stage
shows at 1:15, $40, 6:45 and
9:O5 p. m.
PALACE-George Bancroft in
"Scandell Sheet" at 1850 a. M;
2:10, 4:36; 7:29 and 9:55 p. IN.
Stage shows at lila, $40, S:23
and $50 p. m.
X-Victor MacLaglen in
Three Rogues," at 1915, 2:36,
4:46, 1852 and 1902 p. m. Stage
shows at las, 1856, 1902 and 0:12
p. m. '
COLU UMBIA-Douglas Fair
banks in Reaching for the
Moon2 at II a. M, 1, $40, Sis,
1920 and $50 p. m.
NATI0NAL-"Trader Horn" at
2;3o andsS:3o p. m.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
THREE OPERAS
FOR NETS
SEASON

With three famous stars in
each of the three grand opera
casts to be heard here in April,
in the Metropolitan Operas Cit
tie season" at the Fox Theater,
the public is finding it difficult
to make choice for a single
opera. Season tickets are now on
sale at the concert bureau of
Mrs. Wilson-Greene where much
satisfaction is being expressed at
the novelty of this seasons roper
tory for Washington, with an
advance sale that is without
precedence in opera history here.
Lauri Volpi, tenor, is the third
great voice to be heard in the
opening opera, Puccini's "Tosca," p"
that brings Jeritza in her great
dramatic role, and Lawrence Tib-
bett as that incompatible william,
Scarpia. Lauri Volpi belongs to
the great dramatic tenors that
Italy alone seems to produce. He
will be remembered for his fine
singing of Radames to Rosa Pom
selle's Aida" two years ago.
"TOsca" to Open
"Tosca" opens Tuesday evening
at $50, April IA. "Mignon," with
Bori, Gigli and Lily Pons, is the
Wednesday matinee, at o'clock,
April Is, and Peter Ibbetson,"
with Bori, johnson and TibbetC,
closes the series on Thursday
evening at $50, April 16.
"Ibbetson," as the great new
American OPERA has found the
city keen to both see and hear
this novel-play-opera that Deems
Taylor has made into a true
music drama, with appeal to the
theater-goer as well as to the
music lover. For never on an
opera stage, it is said, has a
drama so captured the heart as
has this Du Maurier story, with
it's three great stars, whose parts
were given in the play by Con-
stance Collier and John and
Lionel Barrimore. But both
"Tosca" and "Peter Ibbetson" are
dramatic masterpieces as well as
great operas.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
BRADY SHOUTS
;. FOR PRIZE
~>. DRAMA
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Young Bill Brady is here drum,
ming up business for his dads
smash hit, "Street Scene," which
opens at the Belasco Theater on
Sunday night.
The youthful Brady was form.
erly allied with Dwight Deere
Wimans and that enterprising
young firm sponsored the highly
successful Jane Cowl play, 'Rroad
to Rome" and followed it up
with the sophisticated smash, the
first Little Show. Then they
split. He thinks show business is
"lousy" but like his father,
having once tasted the rich nee
tar of success couldn't be pulled
6 away with a yoke of oxen. Not
while there's the chance of nab
bing another hit.
He comes as advance courier
for Street Scene" because Alta
May Coleman was stricken i'll on
her arrival here and was rushed
to the hospital, She's on the
mend. william A. Brady is all
ing, but manages to get on the
long distance telephone daily to
see how things are going with
his pet show.
It was young Me. Brady's secret
ambition to have President Hoo
yer break his record tor a non
attendance at theater admir- istra-
ton by dropping in on Street
Scene" The Chief Executives
journey to the Virgin Is'ancs and
points South spoiled thai w. A.
il. is son of Grace George, and
that actress has had the greatest
season in her distinguished career
on the road as the star OF The
First Mrs. Fraser" His wife is
Katherine Alexander, one of the
foremost young leading women of
Broadway.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Specs Buy Jolson


The ticket SPECTATORS called
the turn on Al Jolson's Wonder
Bar" by a buy for 16. weeks at
$3.50. This positively assures
a run until July at least. :.
Trader Horn" say D. C. show.
men was the best exploited and
publicized road show picture to
hit Washington since Birth of
a Nation" Bill Ferguson. Mike
Cullen and Dewey Bloom take
the bows. All the movie houses
will pass the hat Easter week for
the National Vaudeville Artists,
N. V. A. week. Proceeds will
support the actors sanitarium at
Saransc., The District Commits
sioners will welcome the National
Players to Washington on March
81 and the Ad Club will sponsor
a National Press Club glad hand
luncheon on the same date.
One of Impresario Cochran's
surprises for the stock customers
will be a knockout two-piano
team in the Nationals orchestra
nit ..,..
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
AdUenturers' Club
HOnOrS Director

Signal honor was paid w. S.
Van Dyke, director of Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer's jungle dventure e
drama, Trader Horn," now play
ing at the National Theater,
when he returned from the U.s.
OOO-mile trek on which the pic
ture was made.
He was guest Of honor Of the
Adventures Club, composed of
famous EMPLOYERS and adven-
turers, and pres sente d with a
medal in view of his achievements
in taking the first and only sound
recording apparatus into the den
sest jungles of Africa. Harry
Carey, Duncan Renaldo and Ed
wilma Booth play principal roles
in the hugh production.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
AU THOR FINDS
HOLLYWOOD
IS TAME
BY HARRISON CARROLL

copyright, 1881, Premier Syndicate)
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, March
18.-Moss Hart, who with George
S. kaufman wrote "Once In a
Lifetime" before he had ever
seen Hollywood, finds the film
colony does not improve upon
acquaintance.
THE celebrated Hollywood
parties" accuses the young play
wright, ARE excessively dull.
About 10 o'clock, they all de-
generate into circles of people
with everybody trying to find
out how he stands with the boss.
when you 60 into the Beverly
Hills homes, you feel the trunk
isn't unpacked upstairs.
'"The main impression you get
out of Hollywood is a sense of
instability. Everybody is working
from option to option. Nobody
comes out with a frank opinion
for fear it will be carried to the
ears Of an overlord. All is
politics. The number Of Rasputins
to each studio is appalling"
Mr.. Hart doesn't think the
talkies are good for young writ
ers. you get work accepted that
is below the standard you should
turn out" he explains, land it
does something permanent to
you." ..... ....
OF course, if the movie moguls
want to buy "Once in a Lifetime"
and satirize themselves, that's an
other thing. And I don't care
what they do with it," processes
Hart, 80 long as I get that old
daVil check"
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Elsie Janis Talk
In DOuqs Picture

Elsie Janis, internationally known
as a stage star, contributed ad.
ditional bright, sophisticated dia-
Iogue to the Douglas Fairbanks
rev United Artists picture,
"Rcac', NJ for the Moon" that is
~01 c'@2w.ng ct Loew's Columbia
TT t..
The story and direction of the
picture were done by Edmund
Goulding, who, because of Miss
Janis talent asked her to do ad,
ditional dialogue for certain
scenes.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18

PickedOHD.C.
Air Channels
BY BrOGdcGster-

The st. Patrick's party at the
National Press Club last night
served as a refreshing diversion
from the strict formality Of
regular radio features. 1t would
be impossible to attribute the sue
cess of the show to any one per-
son, although Eddie Dowling's
mastering of ceremonies was
superb.
When he announced MS
personal disagreement with Mr..
VolStead he brought to a head
the whole spirit Of the party,
which, starting in the most
orderly manner, grew more
hilarious as the program con-
tinued. A galaxy Of radio and
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Lunts for Movies

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
who come here next Monday
night with tha Theater Guild
show, Elizabeth, the Q0een," )"
are sought by Paramount and
another large picture company.
They will make talkie this sum-
mer, but will stick to Guild dur
ing the regular season having no
intention of quitting the stage.
Edgar Waite, new publicist at
the Fox Theater. is a former Los
Angeles dramatic and movie editor
and knows all of the stars he
writes about by their first names.
And he wins the title of hand
soonest Washington press agent
without contest. His rivals take
one look and concedo it Bill
Cunningham of the Boston Post,
divorced his wife and then re-
married her. He was telling of
the romance on the r. K, o. lot
and the true confessions yarn so
impressed radio executives-or one
in particular-he was given a
honeymoon check of $4,000 for
supplying a real story idea A
letter from Sam Rubin, now bally-
hooing the Publix chain of the
aters in Detroit reads as though
the former Loew nress agent here
has an acute attack of the F
Street blr-~ =. e u Nfi''"'' he
inst rctur.>',' - TIE U. S. A. after
crossing tie Ntlentic for the
i3Oth tim" ~ reports London
only sur. Eugene QNeill's
"Stranao IL. :, f3c" to the extent
Of a five cement. which
can be c." r, as a Hop.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Romping Around
Radio Dial

Launc ching an experiment.
unique in the annals Of broadcast
ing, which links the piano in the
home with practical self-helps in
piano playing from the studio, M.
H. Aylesworth, president of the
National BroadcaSting Company,
has set Saturday, March %, as
the date for the first demonstra-
ton of the new plan. -..
On this program, John Erskine,
noted author and head of the
Juilliard Musical Foundation, will
be the first of a number of dis
tinguiShed musical amateurs who
will show how easy it is for the
average person, young or old,
to play simple tunes and accom-
paniments for his own pleasure
and satisfaction.
The course, which will not be
in any sense an attempt to teach
piano playing, but which Is de.
signed merely to awaken a de-
sire for self.expression in music
and to reinstate the piano as
the rallying point Of home social
life, will consist of 20 programs,
equally divided between the
N.B.C.-WEAF and NB.C..WJZ
networks. With the aid Of
charts on their pianos, listeners
will be able readily to find the
keys indicated by the director
in the studio and will thus learn
simultaneously the rudiments of
the keyboard and easy tunes, the
music of which also will be
printed with explanations on the
charts.
The new type of programs will
be heard in the Keys to Happi-
ness" broadcast on Saturday morn
ings, starting March %, over
WEAF and associated stations.
It will be under the direction of
Sigmund Spaeth, we'll known for
his contributions to the country's
lore of folk-music.
Oh! Oh!
DR.. Swango, of jackson, KY,
wires in that Mr.. and Mrs. Levi
Deaton, of that town, to whose
home he has just accompanied the
stork, have named their new
triplets Amos and Andy and
Madame Queen.
Don Ball is the youngest vet
eran in the ranks of Columbia's
announcerS. He is only 26 now,
and has been at this microphone
business for eight years. At 13,
when he was a freshman at Brown
University, his classmates used
to huddle around the earphones
of crystal sets and listen to Don
put on one-man radio shows from
station WEAN in Providence.
Maria Jeritza, Viennese prima
donna of the Metropolitan Opera
Company and perhaps the best
known member of that organiza-
ton since Caruso,. will be the
soloist on the Simmons program
to be broadcast over WABC and
a coast-to-coast hook-up of the
Columbia Broadcasting System
from $50 to 9 ps m.,. EST,
Monday, March %.
Jeritza will sing seven numbers.
She has included in her program
the well-known waltz from
Suppes operetta "Boccaccio," :"
which was revived this season By
the Metropolitan Opera Company
with Jeritza in the title role.
Norma Shearer will make her
first appearance over a nation
wide network during the broad
cast of the Sunkist Musical
Cocktail from Los Angeles on
Wednesday,, March %, from $3.50
to 9 p. m. The picture star will
be interviewed for 10 minutes by
Louella Parsons.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Laughing Villain

It was as a laughing villain
that George Bancroft first
achieved fame in the movies. The
picture that brought him the
greatest early renown in this type
Characterization was The Pony
Express. The talkies have en-
hanced the value Of his merry.
roar nannses
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Fay Wray Is Doctor

Fay Wray, the leading lady
for Victor McLaglen in Three
Rogues," at the Fox Theater, is
a graduate of McGill University
in Canada and is a doctor of
medicine. She began her film
career in a two-reeler at the Fox
Stl1diO.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
MI Won Knoy

That James Gleason, the nervy
guy, ran away from home when
he. was 16 years old because his
mother refused to let him become
q detectiveP
The Washington times., 1931-03-18

BEST BETS TONIGHT
Musical Cocktail, with Bud
dy Rogers, WMAL, at 1890.
PaImOlive Hour, WRC, at
$3.50.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
He Didn't Ask Much

Add to the queer requests made
of film stars the letter received
by Eddie Cantor from a man in
Philadelphia.
=. Il. read in o. 0. McIntyre's
column" write the Quaker City
fan, that you .ara bne of the
beSt-dressed s1sel 81 New York.
Won't you send me a
silk hat. \ sized SSaNefl and one
eight. 4 1,}attsnd T. number of
weddings and funerals, and it
is practically my only form of
entertainment. -...... Z
Owing to stock market losses
Cantor turned the letter over tc
George Jessel, who sent the man
the hat.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Today's Radio Programs

A. M
1915. woL-Publtc Service Man.
WMAL-Melody Parade.
1880. WMAL-"Spring Houseclean n
Your Windows"
wJSV-Business and Professional
Women's Club of Alexandria.
WOL-Request Program.
10:4S wMAL-Sewing Circle.
11:00. WMAL-"Redu
wRC-Health Talk.
WJSV-Sacred Hour.
11:15. 'wMAL-Ben and Helen.
WRC-Radio Household 1nsti-
1880 WMAL-Lenten Bible Study Hour.
Has WRC-sweet and Low Down.
1900. WRC-On Wings of Song,
WJSV-National Farm News Pro
gram. H. B. Derr, Faixfax Coun-
ty Agricultural Program.
WOL-Lenten Services from First
Congregational Church.
P. M
1880. WOL-Paul D. Gable, organtst.
WRC-Farm and Home Hour.
WMAL-Ensemble Program.
WJSV-Musical Program.
12:46 WMAL-Columbia Revue.
1:OO-wMAL-Orche
1880. Harry fuckers Orchestra.
WRC-Blue Blazers:
1900. wRC-Organ Recital.
wMAL-Barbara Maurel, con-
tralto, and Crane Calder, bass.
wJsv-Dorothy Finch KIN g.
$3.50. WRc~Talk by George l. still
WMAL-American School Of the
Air, House of Seven Gables
2:45. WRC-Melody Three.
800. WMAL-Columbia Salon Orches-
WRC-"Mammy" Stories by
Lucine Finch.
WJsV-Melodic Moments,
3:15. WRC-Good Neighbor Hour.
2.S0 WPC-Padio Pill
WMAL-Syncopated silhouettes'
WJSV-Whoopee Party
3:45 WOL-Dee Shannon. imperso-
400. WMAL-U. s. Navy Band Con-
WRC-Eastman School symphony
Orchestra.
WOL-Jerry Jernixan. pianist.
4:15. WOL-WaltZ Time.
4:30 wRC-Mabel WAYNE Orchestra.
WJSV-Wander Smile Children.
wOL-Alvin Thaden and His Uke.
4:46 wRC-"Keeping workers at
Work" by Col Arthur Woods.
WOL-Variety hour.
500 w Primer for Town
Farmers.
WRC-Lady Next Door.
WOL-MarCh OF Music.
WJSN-Science and History.
$40 WMAL~Asbury Park Orchestra.
Sis WOL-Edward Dawson. pianist.
WMAL--Burrus Williams. pianist.
WJSV-Along Route so.
$50 wMAL-Male quartet
WRC-Fanous Paintings In Many
woL-opportuurfss: -
%:4S wMAL-c@Rdy csAtsSA
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Latest Gossip

James Fiddler, Hollywood pub
hcity man who recently married
Dorothy. Lee, has turned writer,
and will adapt a story for R-K-O
While he is in the throes of com.
position, Dorothy plans six.week
trip to New York. Joseph
Schenck's Filipino valet is bound
for Manila to visit his sister for
the first time in ten years. He
asked a leave of absence, but the
film chief paid for the round
trip ticket, and gave him his ex
penses e.. Irene Rich has a worn
memorandum book containing the
starting date. finishing date and
the salary she received on every
picture of her career. The nota'
tions go back to the days Wien
she was a So a day extra. Col
umnist John P. Medbury is to
work with Eddie Cantor on the
latter's new picture Universal
will make a talkie version OF
Under Two Flags" that old mel
od"ana il which Priscilla Dean
and T-hcc-2r Oakucn once acted
The Washington times., 1931-03-18
Good Brook Role

Give Brook, fresh from his sue
cessful appearance in "Anybody's
Woman" is gaining new laurels
for himself in George Bancroft's
latest starring production, Scan
dal Sheet" now current at Loew's
Palace Theater. Kay Francis is
also in the role cast.
The Washington times., 1931-03-18

A small down payment and q low
monthly rental will make you the owner
of your own home. Consult the Real
Estate Columns in tOday's Classified
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-18
TEXAS CUNAN IS REALLY ANGRY AT
 LONDON ACTIONS
They Are Trying to Keep Her Gut of the Night Clubs Over There, But She May G0 Across

New York. May 1S.-CUP) Texas Guinan. queen C: the wise crack. sees .'international economics fid- dle-faddle1 behind the campaign in London to keep. her out of the Bri- tish night club field.
 Any time," Texas told the United Press, that big shot like myself appears on the muffin-like horizon of Great Britain, the whole country gets stirred up. They spend all their time over there .yanking nick els out of Yankee tourists. and when q Yankee comes along with an idea for yanking pennies out of their own pockets. they promptly go itno an epileptic state.
 ;. 1T might say that they will have a fine time trying to keep Texas Guinan out of London, and want you to hace look at these cable grams Tn one is an offer from the Kitkat club. This one is an offer from the Murray club-the grand pappy of them all. And this one is from the Picca dilly, Why. they're clamoring for me instead of against me. }.s
 She is sailing May g and plans to take her white horse along. And if the hullabaloo of Keep Texas out" doesn't die. down. ''I may take my white horse, hang lantern aloft in some belfy and do a Paul Revere down the middle of the Strand" Tex added.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-18
Veteran Aviator Speed" Holman, Killed In Most
 Spectacular Of Stunts

Omaha, Neb, May IS. (UP)-The spectacular crash in which Charles N. Speed" Holman, veteran aviator, was killed stunting, appeared des- tined to-day to enter the records as an unsolved tragedy of aeronautics.
 Holman, holder of several avia- tion honors, winner in 1880 of the Thompson trophy race at Chicago. and operations manager of the Northwest Airways of Minneapolis, was killed instantly when he failed to right his plane after diving 2,OOO feet and turning it over as it flashed in front of a grandstand packed with 10000 persons. The 300 horsepower Laird plane, the same in which Holman won his surprice victory at the National ar races last summer. was reduced to a mass of wreckage, rolling over ana over and twisting itself into tan gled heap. His body was found ln- side the wreckage.
 Two general theories were ad- yanced as to the cause of the crash that Holman misjudged his dis tance in attempting to level out aft CT the power dive; and that his safety belt broke. He was only about 50 feet up and travelling at speed of nearly 300 miles an hour when he dropped. Some spectators said he was dangling from the cockpit by a knee brace as the plane reared past the grandstand, upside down. They said he was clutching wildly at the controls and appeared for fraction of a second to grasp them as the plane shot upward then down again.
 Holman was 32 years old. He be- came a mail pilot in 1926, nying with the Northwest Airways Later
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-18
FOUR HURT IN
Given Emergency
 Treatment At The
 Waterbury Hospital
Dodge Colides With Truck at Junction of Watertown Avenue and Robbins Street-BOth Cars Reported Badly Damaged as Result of Impact

was temporarily halted until the cars were removed to one side Of the highway.
 Up to 2:15 o'clock the police de- partment had not received any de- tailed report of the accident or any claims as to the responsibility of the crash.
 The injured included William Walton of Greenfield, Ind, who is a roomer at the Central Y. M. c, A. He suffered an injury to his left hand.
 Everett Grahn. 24. of 92 Wood street, cuts and bruises and a sprained thumb.
 Thomas Nalband, 34, of 36 Fair lawn avenue, injury to left knee and back.
 William Zubriskey, 23, of 20 Greenleaf avenue. decorations over left aye, left elbow and both knees.
 All four were treated in the emer- gency room of the Waterbury hos pital In each instances the attend ing physicians were obliged to close the wounds with stitches. All four later had their injuries X-rayed. They are not considered seriously hurt and permitted to return to their respective homes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-18
FROG JUMPING FAME CAPTURED
 BY BUDWEISER
Veteran Leaper Went the Distance of II Feet and 9 Inches - He Easily Beat All the Others

Angels Camp, Calif, May 1S- OP)-Fame such as has come to no frog since Jim Smiley's marsh denizen was loaded with buckshot and couldn't jump. was heaped to- day upon Budweiser, a veteran leap CT who won the annual Calaveras Jumping contest in 1928 and proved that champions sometimes do come back by winning again at the 193l renewal of the jubilee. As 15,0O0 dwellers of the mother lode country cheered, Budweiser jumped Sunday a distance of II feet. inches, beat ing last years champion, San Joa- quin, easily, and becoming the only frog ever to win the contest twice.
 Budweiser failed, however, to break San Joaquin's all-time record. The veteran, owned by l.. Fisher Of Stockton, won by pure skill, concen- trating on forward movement while the other frogs expended their energy jumping up. Height doesn't count, according to rules laid down by Mark Twain in his classic story of the first jumping contest in which Jim Smiley's frog was beaten aby trickery three-quarters of cen- tury ago. The frog race and the de- dication of monument to twain were highlights of the annual jam boree.