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The Washington times., 1931-04-01
DAILY WEATHER REPORT

For the District of Columbia-Rain
tonight: Thursday generally fair with
rising temperature; lowest temperature
tonight about IS degrees; fresh to
strong northeast winds, shifting 10
northwest late tonight or Thursday.
For Maryland-Rain in east and CEN
trail and snow in extreme west portion
tonight; Thursday mostly cloudy, prob
ably snow flurries in extreme west por-
tion: slightly warmer in west ana CEN
trail portions Thursday; strong north-
east winds, shifting to northwest Ia'e
tonight .or Thursday
For Virginia-Rain in east and cen
trail and snow in extreme west portion
tonight; Thursday generally falr, WIN
rising temperature In north anu W.
ing to northwest late tonight or Ihurs-
day. .p,rs
Today-High tides. Sal a. m. and
1909 p. m.; low tides, 100 a. m. and
Tomorrow- High tides 1891 a. IN. and
$500 D. M; low tides. 1:49 a. IN. and
-'i' p THE sun AND MOON
The sun rose today at 5:5S a. m''
and sets at $3.50 p. m.
The sun rises Thursday at 5:SS a. m''
nd sets at 6:31 p. m.
The moon rises today at 5:21 p. m,
and sets at 5:19 a. m.
The moon rises Thursday at 6:Ss
D. M, and sets at 5:45 a. m.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
YESTERDAY TO-DAY
n m....... 45I4 a. m.......... 81
8 D. m........ 44IS a. m......... Al
Midnight ....... 41lNoon. ........... "A
DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess of temperature
since January /, 1881, 1S9.
Deficiency of temperature since March
/, 1881, 81.
Accumulated deficiency of precipits-
ton since January I. 1881. 4.23.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
WOMAN WHIPS
UNION MAN

Charles E. Haury, IS, business
manager of the Hosting Engi-
neers Local Union No. 81, was
horsewhipped by the irate wife
of an unemployed member Of the
union last night as he stepped
from his office at ITO Carpenters
Building, Tenth and K Streets
Northwest. Then Mr.. Haury was
manhandled by several men who
were standing nearby.
Police who were called to the
scene said that Mr.. Haury was
rescued by another official Of
the union. The man was badly
bruised. they reported.
Officers said that warrants for
the arrest of the assailants of
the man would probably be sworn
today,
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Small Boys Succeed
Best As Fur Sellers

Small boys are the most sue.
cessful fur sellers. according to
Paul Kellogg Of the New. York
State College of Agriculture. They
have no overhead costs for breed.
ing, feeding and housing, as do
the fur farmers.
The animals take care Of the
1eedlng and housing, and are
quite obliging about the breeding
END OF the enterprise, he says.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Child Chest Clinic
At Hi0hL1ndS April 8

VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, Va,
April 1.-Dr. H. A. Latane, chest
specialist of Alexandria, will hold
a chest clinic at the Virginia
Highlands health center April 9,
from 9 a. m. till / p. m.
DIR. Chichester, county health
officer, urges parents to bring in
all children who are rundown or
underweight, as the tuberculin
test will also be given at this
time,
The Washington times., 1931-04-01
Colleges Report Lack
OF HOu6inn Facilities

Shortage of housing facilities
for students exsist at many Of
the SO land grant colleges in
the country, according to a sur
vey of the Office of Education,
Department of the Interior. Sev.
eral colleges. it reported, are wait
ing State appropriations.
The Washington times., 1931-04-01

Deficiency of precipitation since March
1, 1881, 80.
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Doris KENYON Sills.
DoRIs KENYoN's return to

nORIS KENYONS return to the
screen has been one of the most
successful in theatrical history. Her
career was halted for several years
which she devoted to the care of her
husband, Milton Stills, and their son,
Kenyon, now z years old
The sudden passing of Mr.. Sills, just
when his health seemed restored to the
point when he might resume his en-
viable screen position, left Doris Ken
yon the alternatives of life devoted
solely to the boy, or return to the work
in which she had been successful.
The advent of the talkies had made
possible the use of one of her most ex-
ceptional Professionalism voice. For
years she had been studying singing
and languages. incidentally. she is
booked for a European concert tour for
the coming year. Miss Kenyon's return
to the screen is marked by four widely
divergent roles, which demonstrate the
range of her emotional genius, and
which hare elected praise from press
and public.
She is now to be seen at Warner
Bros Earle Theater in "The Road to
Singapore" Her performance is marked
by passionate sincerity.
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Scenic Creations

suggested the set,-a colorfNl, broken
Kaleidoscope design, and this was car
ried out with unique curtailed pieces of
scenery, finished out with colored
lights.
The costumes for the March Of
Time" suggested that setting. They
were astronomical and called for stars
Mr.. Carroll suggested large stars with
girls in them, the stars to be moved
around. The moving of the stars was
merely mechanical problem, worked
out by counter weights and with steel
framework and wire for safety Of the
girls incased in the stars. The light
ing was another mechanical problem,
but an intricate one. It required con-
siderable experimentation for perfec-
ton. The electrical staff worked at
various times five weeks on the light
effect for this set.
The finale of the first act was worked
out entirely by Mr.. Carroll, who merely
directed the staging and picturing Of
several tableaux and an unusual cur
tain as the means by which to reveal
them, was worked out in detail by his
staff.
Mr.. Carroll is said to be as familiar
with the mechanics of the stage as any
Of his technical staff, and he spends a
great deal of his time back stage
mastering details Of production. He
depends less upon others for scenic
effects than any other producer and
has yet to purchase a piece of scenery
or effect from abroad. He has sold in
seven years, more than a dozen novelty
scenic effects to London and Partisan
producers.
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n I
w h hh6ldo a more Tee Etre RSPes
theaters, having sailed
glibly through seven days OF cine
matte fortiSSimo, now IND them
selves frightening those seven
DAYS with seven more, and one
NAV find Devotion" Five Star
FINAL and Monkey Business" all
over again during the week.
Each of these films has its pc
culiar merit. Five Star Final
because it is one of the most fear
less pictures the industry has pro-
duced; Devotion" because OF the
excellent services of Ann Harding
and Leslie Howard, and Monkey
Business" because the Marx
Brothers. antics are inimitable
and never by any chance dull.
give Star Final is, however. a
genuine achievement. 1t would be
! Important in any year. 1t Is not
only ruthless in its theme, but 1t
has actors who definitely know
their business. 1t strikes out boldly
where few have dared to strike
before and it hammers home a
moral which many will be CRATE
full for.
There are perhaps some who
even at this late date do not real
ize that Author Louis Weitzen-
korn, who wrote the play from
which this has been taken, was
at one time stepped deep in the
mires of which he writes. A man
who has welded the policies OF a
metropolitan tabloid for the daily
increase of his bread and butter,
he has battled for and against
and smirched and been Smirched,
and he beat haSty retreat from
it all just as Edward G. Robinson
does in the film. 1t is, therefore,
not surprising to find such bit
terneSs and such acid treatment
of subject which has been han
died before with fervor, but never
with such malice aforethought.
Mr.. Weitzenkorn'S thesis leaves
nothing to the imagination. In
bold and glazing letters it points
and it destroys. It's use of words is
in no way soft-soaped. Many have
been Mortified by its brutality.
Many have insisted that there is
no truth in it's sermon. But the
upshot of the matter is that it IS
both brutal and truthful and that
the bottom of its soul is as genu-
inc as the ire or the man who
wrote it.
Added to the fact that it is re-
plete with some of the venom Of
this age, it remains something to
be seen. AS bitter, as cruel, as
sharply sarcastic as it is, it is yet
excellent entertainment. There
are plenty of laughs and plenty of
tears, the sum total having such
a nice balance that even the timid
and the shy will not find them
selves too much on the "outs" after
having viewed it.
Fundamentally sound in it's
theme and in its treatment by the
director, there remains but the
actors who have a hand in it. Mr..
Robinson is, of course, the be-all
and the end-all of it. His acting
remains as natural and as unaf-
fected as it was on the day he was
viewed here at the Belasco in a
plav called 1.-THE Racket" One of
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Literary Craftsmanship.


p ONALD CoLMAN himself acknowl-
edges it and it is a well known
fact In Hollywood that literary crafts
manship has made his career compare
lively easy. Not that Colman does not
work hard. He does. But the success
sive screen plays in which he has been
starred by Samuel Goldwyn were spon-
sored by group of distinguished liter
airy lights.
Three Of these were earlier Colman
successes Bulldog Drummond," RAJ
f1es" and Condemned" Later successes
were THE Devil to Pay" by Frederick
Lonsdale. and THE Unholy Garden,
by Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur,
the latter picture being the current Of
fering at Loew's Palace Theater. Now
on the horizon, and undoubtedly soon
to be seen in Washington, Is arrow
smith," by Sinclair Lewis.
Speaking of this literary craftsman
ship. Colman says: "a fine example
was The Devil to Pay If Lonsdales
lines had not the airy lightness, the
sharp, crisp touch which they undoupt-
edly had, his seemingly frivolous title
would perhaps appear to be just a
trifie, a spurious sentimentalism and
unattractive sophistication.
Colman believes that 1.-The Unholy
Garden" might be considered an ex-
aggerated story but for the clever dia-
1ogue Of Mr.. Hecht and Mr.. Macarthur
He gives great credit, too, to the direc-
ton by George Fitzmaurice. Incl
dentally, "The Unholy Garden" reveals
Colman minus his Chesterfieldian man.
ners. In this picture he is the willy
| genius Of murder crew, unshaven
and disheveled. 1t Is a known fact that
Colman loves the story even more than
he loved his Beau GeSte."
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the most kind-hearted villains of
the screen, he has developed into
the most eloquent bad man of the
screen, for whom children cry as
much as they used to for a GER
tain patent medicine. His acting
IN this is notably among the high
lights Of the acting year. OF the
others, H. B. Warner is splendid
In the midst of his bereavement
and Marion Marsh might have
been, too, If she hadn't started
on so badly as a super-giggling
MISS HARDING'S acting in
Devotion" is so Silken and
her leading man, Leslie Howard,
Is SO Splendidly sincere that many
OF the obvious faults which the
MIN has can be overlooked. It is
extraordinary that considering
the comparatively few pictures
made by Miss Harding she should
be able to keep on with such q
vast army of worshipful Eyes
men," That she will continue to
do this is evident, too. She has
never yet disappointed her audi
ence-and she probably never will.
THE Marx Brothers film is good
for any hour or any mood. A
tribute to the comic powers of
these gentlemen is the fact that
they can amuSe for hours and
hours without having either
rhyme or reason at their elbow.
They never get anywhere and they
never start anywhere. They rank
somewhere to the left of Charlie
Chaplin. In other wordS-try to
define their humor!
A MONG those things which we
may anticipate with pleasure
are: The glib histronics of Carlotta
Montenegro as a wild mountain
cabaret lasSie in THE Cisco Kid"
which will come in time to the
Fox Theater. Miss Montenegro is
something more than a mere fe-
male in this film and is pursued
with fervor by MeSsrs. Baxter and
Lowe up and down the cactus
rancho country dts grand pic
ture); the sensational emotions of
Helen TwelvetreeS in next weeks
film, bad Company" at Keith's,
and the rumor that a certain
Buddy Rogers is scheduled for one
of the local theaters, with or with
out orchestra.
Why, for instance, are the
United Artists studios going to
close down for three months start
ing November /? Why did Charlie
Chaplin laugh so hard when he
talked to Gandhi? Why is the
Fox Theater going to have a bale
of cotton in its lobby?
1t seems that the great chiefs
in deciding the fate of Tallulah
Bankhead have agreed that Tai
lulah was not being done justice
to photographically. So in her
latest picture they have given her
the best available camera man,
who will concentrate particularly
on her svelte beauty. All this, even,
after Tallulah has knocked hun
dred thousand or more dead by
some Of her 'looks" in my Sin"
And what local Lady Winchell
says "payssionate" for passionate?
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London Supplies Demand
Of Washington Theaters
During Week Just Passed
But the First Offering of the Professional Players
Did Not Find Easy Going in the Capital.
Barrie Fantasy Scores at National.
By w. H. Landvoigt.

public wants, interested patriots
must determine for themselves.
In either event, it promises to add
to the worlds supply Of dramatic
critics, which may or may not be
so good. Would it not be less
costly, if not wiser, plan to ask
the critics in advance to deSig-
nate a committee to read SUBJ
mitted plays in advance Of their
production? There has long been
a notion in the world Of thought
spectators that change should
be made ins the advance play
reading departments of the pro-
ducerS, where so many smashing
hits" have been tossed aside as
worthless because the play read
ers were not familiar with the
names of the playwrights. Look
at "Abie's Irish Rose" for in
stance! Why should playwright,
after completing his play, be re-
quired to do an eight-day walking
match in search of a producer,
and only, when utterly worn out
in body and soul, to be forced to
produce it himself? Why not find
an open door" for new play
WrightS? There seems to be no
doubt that the stage needs them.
X X
IN discussing Paul Green's 1.-THE
House of Connolly" a current
play in the metropolis, which is
said to possess unusual merit, j.
Brooks Atkinson of the New York
Times refers to factors who can
evoke imagery, rather than those
who merely project imagery"
This is the very essence of the
demand of playgoers in the back
woods for "the original New York
cast" They want to see players
who can illumine their character
izations with real Theatre art, not
imitatorS who simply act their
parts. Many a distinct New York
hit has started out with banners
flying and good reputation as a
box office success only to be over
come with hip disease when it
strikes the public pike, and for the
very reason to which Mr.. Atkin-
son calls attention. There is a
world of difference between the
artist who can impart the divine
af1atuS and the ham who merely
"acts." True, the skyline of Man
haitian, which has lured so MANY,
not to mention the creature COM
forts to be found in the City of
the Great White Way, are sore
temptations even to the brilliant
artist who holds his art above all
else, and with his temperamental
and fastidiouS tastes he naturally
rebels at exile, even if his produc-
ing manager dareS to sacrifice
anything to recover the patronage
Of the road, which in other days
was said to be a vital asset of the
theater. Occasionally Washing
ton, even now, is permitted to see
fine artists in a play, but it longs,
oh, how it longs, to extend its
vision in this respect. A bad play
in the keeping of a great cast has
often won success that has been
denied a good play with a cast of
"hams"-meaning no diSreSpect to
the profession.
DIETER FLIES HIGH" landed
last night for repairs. A
most competent mechanic, no less
than Frank Craven; will try his
hand at fixing the damaged plane.
And rumor says there Is hope for
Peter yet in the not far-distant
future.
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Jungles as Thew Are.

r EALISTIC Ceylonese jungles were
AZ created on the thousand-acre ranch
Of Warner Bros. for scenes on "The
Road to Singapore" starring William
Powell. now at Warner Brss.' Earle
Theater.
Bamboo from Panama, grass thatch-
ing from the Philippine Islands, birds
and monkeys from South America,
palms, moses and quantity Ct jugs,
skins and tomtoms complete the trop-
icsl background of the rain-drenched
darkly glamorous roma nce-all are in
evidence, 1t is declared.
Roland Pertwee, famous British play
wright, wrote 1.-THE Road to Sing pore"
1t is the story of a nurse who comes
to Ceylon to marry a physician she
had known at home. Married to him,
his absorption in the needs of his pa
tients, leaves her desolate, and so she
falls under the spell of Hugh Dawltry, a
suave and worldly profligate. Drama
naturally springs from it. all.
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When the scenery Of a theatrical
production, especially gorgeous crea-
lions devised for musical comedies and
revues, is so surprising as to make the
spectators gasp, there is always story
behind it. How and by whom were the
settings created?
Scenic artists are seldom wholly re-
sponsible for the creations. This fact
is said to be exemplified in the edition
of Earl Carroll "Vanities", now pre-
scented in Washington.
Each of the sixty sets of "Vanities" !,
it is announced, was suggested, devised
or created by Earl Carroll himself. The
details were worked out by his art and
technical director, Bernard II. Lob
muller, and credit Is given on the pro-
gram to Hugh Willoughby. Even in
this complex arrangement, Mr.. Carroll
and Mr.. Lohmuller disavow honor for
the scenic beauty-paradoxica they
assert the ideas came from melodies,
flashes from a subconscious desire for
certain harmonious effects and other
sources. Mr.. Lohmuller says the ideas
practically drop out of a clear sky into
their lap.
The opening curtain of "Vanities"
is a decided novelty, the only one of
its kind in the world. 1t rises and
draws off stage at both sides at the
same time. An inventor brought the
idea to Mr.. Carroll and he purchased
outright the patented traveller. An
artist was engaged to work out a design
on canvas in color, and this was trans
ferred to the curtain.
A scene designated as Field Of
Daisies, in which flowers move over
the back and two side walls, never fails
to elicit gasps of astonishment. Mr..
Carroll is said to have conceived the
scene and impaired the idea to Mr..
Lohmuller who worked out the general
plan, which was turned over to Max
Teuber. who evolved an apparatus to
show the moving flowers. Mr.. Teuber
in his laboratory studio experiments
with novelty scenic effects, always hav-
ing q number on hand in advance.
When Harold Arlen and Ted Koeler
submitted the lyrics and music of
"Hittin' the Bottle, the melody itself
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Why Worry? Says Joe Cook

"Some Of you older people may re-
member the Mexican War in 1845, If
you do, I'm going to ask you to forget
it, because it has absolutely nothing
whatever to do with the reason ride
bicycle.
ITO begin at the beginning and for
getting my grandfather and my wealth
for the time being, might say that
I began my professional career at the
age of 10 as juggler with a patent
medicine outfit that skirmished through
Ohio and Indiana, under the guardian
ship of one DR.. Amos johnson, who
was disposing of his elixir of Youth"
to the yokelry of that territory. The
ingredients consisted Of quinine, alco-
hol and a physic. It was recommended
for both internal and external ills.
MY compensation was SO per week
and board. In return for that exer-
cised on platform with flock of In
dian clubs to entice the more timid Of
the citizenry to vantage points, where
the doctor later would confound them
with the merits of his cure-all.
Dropping into more serious vein,
purely to show my versatility as a
writer, may say that came into this
vale of vicissitudes as Joe Lopez, the
son of a Spanish father. My father.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
DIETER FLIES HIGH" land
Comedy From Phila.

PHILADELPHIA, frequently designated
as Quakertown. has done a lot for
the stage, to which the Quakers are
additionally opposed. And the city has
contributed many merrymakers to the
theater.
The native ancestry of Philadelphia
established a deliberate manner of
speaking with peculiar drawl. To all
other parts of the country this drawl is
humorous. Many of the descendants
have cashed in on this knowledge.
among them w. C. Fields. the Dooleys.
of whom Johnny Dooley was one of
the famous: Frank Tinney. Florence
Moore, Leo Donnelly and many others.
The Philadelphia who is expected
to be most prominent as a comedian
this season, however. is Herb" VIII
liams, who tops the list in the current
road edition of the Earl Carroll Vani-
ties.
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell.
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL, tn

MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL, the
celebrated English actress, will be
seen in America for the first time since
1925 in Gilbert Miller's production Of
THE Sex Fable" by Edouard Bourdet,
at the Shubert-Belasco Theater tomor-
row evening
Mrs. Campbell, one Of the greatest
names of the European stage, who is
usually grouped with Sarah Bernhardt
and Eleanora DuSe as one of the three
greatest actresses Of the modern stage,
will be best remembered by her Amer
lean audiences for her Eliza in Bern
ard Shaw's "Pygmalion" She created
the role of Paula in 1.-THE Second Mrs
Tanqueray" and scored one of her great
personal triumphs in "The Notorious
Mrs. Ebbsmith."
Among notable roles that Mrs.
Campbell has played during her bril-
liant career on two continents are
Lady Teazle in 1.-The School for
Scandal" Rosalie in THE Thirteenth
Chair" Mrs. Chepstow in Bella
Donna" Magda, Melisande and Lady
Macbeth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11

an artist, married an Irish-American
girl from Pierceton, Indiana, and
shortly afterward migrated to Grand
Rapids, Mich, where he established an
art studio. This venture proving I'M
profitable, they moved to Evansville,
Ind, and thence to Chicago, where
was born. When was three years of
age my father was drowned and almost
Immediately afterward my mother died
from the shock. With an older brother
Leo, I was adopted by an Evansville
family named Cook.
cat the age of IA left Evansville and
the medicine shows behind me, and
staked my all on a railroad ticket to
New York. For several m0rffs2Es I picked
up a scant living by parading my
repertoire Of stunts at amateur night
performances at vaudeville houses, and,
when necessity demanded, giving side
walk exhibitions for small change
tossed my way.
Finally, broke into legitimate
vaudeville, and remained in 1t for IS
years. My act has taken various forms
at various times. Eight or nine seasons
ago 1t turned into the "One-Ma1
Vaudeville Show"
Then the silver lining. But why
Worry?."
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Great as a Woman and
SINGER.

NINE. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES first
Az great success, after years of
struggles and babies, came when she
sang at benefit performance in Ber-
lin, receiving 80 marks for her ap-
pearance, but the newspaper critics
suddenly awoke to the discovery of a
new, contralto in their midst.
Shortly afterward Nine. Schumann-
Heink was summoned to appear in the
place Of displeased prima donna who
was to have sung Carmen" at the
Hamburg Opera. She achieved a great
triumph and was asked to become first
contralto Of the Berlin Royal Opera.
The great woman and singer now will
make her first appearance in Gilbert
and Sullivan opera in this country.
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TRETCHING public wants, interested patriot
English cousins must determine Tor hemSeVe
are either event. promises to ad