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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

- UMNfER used to be a season when
artists of the theater, pros
trated by their Winter ardors,
~ sought rest in the languorous
arms of inactivity. 1t was once
a time consecrated to inertia, wherein
the dropping playwrights, players. pro-
ducers and critics refreshed them
selves with invigorating draughts OF
leisure. Now, it seems, they are as
busy in July as they are in December,
seldom pausing to take breath OF
recuperation. All over the land the
drama is at work, creating new mas
terpieces, reviving old ones and. by its
gallant efforts to keep the torch affame.
giving its fellow industries an example
of hope, thrift and exertion. In this
neighborhood, at least, few suburbs
are without their Summer stock COM
panies From Skowhegan, Me, to
Montauk Point the drama has pitched
its tents under which prominent per-
formers of the so-called Broadway
stage continue their endeavors to show
us the subtle differences between Art
and Life
Their lot, though onerous, is less SO
than that OF the producers. Here are
the Shubert Brothers, for instance,
desperately ransacking Europe for en-
tertainments suitable to American
audiences-Mr. Lee searching for SER
touS dramas, Mr.. j. j. for musical eX-
travaganZas. Al H. Woods and Gilbert
Miller have their noses to the grind
stone in Paris and London; and other
continental capitals are thronged with
American managers in quest of mar
ketable shows. 1t is a hard life, the
stage, and no part of it is harder then
that of the impresarioS. Only the dra-
matte critics escape the cruel rigors.
When, in the Summer time, all the
other officials and executives of the
play are up and doing you will find
the reviewers in idleness, but prepar-
ing to leap venomously upon their VIC
Tins as a rattle-snake leaps upon one
who innocently offends it.
Among the producers who have given
me cause for envy is John Golden.
Rich, young, handsome and versatile,
he can play golf and the piano as pro-
ficiently as he can select a successful
comedy and cast its characters. Mr..
Golden, I thought, has an easy time.
It was my impression that all he
had to do was to wave his wand, and
q hit would appear. Arthur Hopkins
was another manager whose career I
coveted. imagining that he presented
rewarding plays automatically, with
out much personal travail. I discovered
Mr.. Hopkins yesterday, gasping among
the enervating fumes of Times Square,
coat of, shirt-sleeved and perSpiring,
with a manuscript before him. It was
his habit, he said. to read plays every
day, Spring Summer. Autumn and
Winter. In the hope that he might come
upon a miracle.
Mr.. Golden was engaged in a SIM
liar exploration. To his Office. he told
me, $500 manuscripts are delivered an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Only Four Real Stars
Reside in Hollywood
At Least, This Is the Opinion of Producer, Who
Names the Quartet-Pubic Seems Puzzled
as to What It Really Wants.
By Robert E. Sherwood.

ways with the philosopaic reflection
that life goes on
have already seen one such pic
ture. It is called Transatlantic" and
it should have been good, but isn't.
Edmund Lowe appears as a dressy
crook who boards an ocean greyhound
for the same reason that Baron Won
Gaigern registered at the Grand Hotel.
He goes to commit grand larceny and
remains to make love.
The big punch in Transatlantic" is
gun duel in the engine room. 1t
continues for a long time, uninter-
rupted by the officers or stokerS, who
are conSiderate enough to look the
other way while the numerous shots
are being fired.
Another odd thing about Transit
lantic" is that the ship which delivers
the excited characters in Europe is
not the same ship on which they had
embarked from New York. There was
obviously a sensational shift Of locale
somewhere in midocean, but unfortu-
nately this feat is not shown.
TO return to the oracle In the Raw
erly Hills patio:
We've got to make 700 feature pic
lures year" said the mighty mag
nate. DO you think we can make TOO
good pictures"
No" I replied, as I was not his
employe.
''Well-we can't" He was definite
about that. And what's more. We
don't have to. If We turned out as
many as so good ones a year the public
would die with amazement and there'd
be no audience left. All We need to
do is to produce one big hit a month
that figures out to about per cent of
the total product. If we could keep
up that average. the industry would
be prosperous. Imagine It! Imagine
where the automobile business would
be if 80 per cent of the cars 1t manu-
featured were punk But that's the
way it is with us. If we can give the
public 10 good ones a year, We can
make enough money to pay for the
$50 hopS."
The figuring was becoming much too
difhcult for me to follow. so inquired
Will there be 10 big hits this year?"
He slowly arose from the wicker
chair and walked across the lawn and
disappeared beneath the blue surface
Of the swimming pool. For all 1 know
he may still be there. reclining on the
bottom muttering to himself, The pub
lie don't know what they want, and
even If they did. and we gave it to EN-,
they wouldn't like it. So what's the
use?"
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

A par excellence Glen Echo,
NV with its famous rides, its
blood-curdling thrillers, its
peaceful Old Mill with its
musical journey and scenes picturesque,
where the flying airplane and the willy
Dodge'em are never weary, is Mecca
for the modern party in search OF a
days pleasant outing under the tall
trees in peace or amid the merry throng
in search of wilder enjoyment.
This year, however, the mammoth
new Crystal Pool, with it's seaside sandy
beaches and everything to delight the
heart of the quiet wader or the daring
swimmer, is the big popular novelty.
Starting promptly at o'clock tomor-
row evening. and sponsored by the c. A.
A. u. registered swimmers and divers
will enter into the stirring competition
of a swimming meet. For men there
will be the 60-yard ee-style, the
120-yard backstroke and the 240-yard
relay races. For the women. the 60
yard free-style. the 60-yard breaststroke,
the 240-yard relay and a 60-yard free
style competition for boys. Fancy div
ing, high board for men and women;
running plain front, plain back, run
ming forward with half screw and back
jack dives all will engage the con-
testants.
And for the winners there will be
gold. silver and bronze medals for first,
second and third places. respectively,
with team trophies for relay winners.
SEASIDE PARK.
SEASIDE PARK-they are calling it
~ the gem of Chesapeake Bays
boasting of the thousands from Balti-
more, Washington and nearby points
who are availing themselves of its facil-
tiles for happy days outing, week end
picnic, call it what you will.
There is fast and frequent service to
this haven of rest and recreation from
the District line. Every Saturday is
carnival night" especially for the
dancers. who seem to be getting fonder
of Bill Strickland's "Seasiders." At
other times the airplane swings, the
coaster and the miniature railway, along
with the fishing, canoeing and SWIM
ming delights all contribute to make
one forget the cares of life-and, says
the announcement, the sweeping
breezes from the bay make life heav-
enly."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
WILSON LINE OUTINGS.
Balm in Gilead.

MARION DAVIES was "good-news'
4VA girl in Hollywood's army of extras
when Five and Ten" was filmed.
In the perturbation of the Fannie
Hurst novel several hundred extra play
ers were used in the various scenes,
offering genuine relief to the unem-
pIoyrnent situation that is being keenly
felt in the extra ranks.
According to the casting ONCE, the
number of extra people used in the
picture totaled more than 10 times the
number usually appearing in sound fea-
lures
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MARSHALL HALL.

nOWN the historic Potomac, three
~ times daily, to famous old Marshall
Hall plows the gallant steamer Charles
Manchester, with its merry crowds upon
enjoyment bent. Aside from the ride,
which is always delightful, the Hall
supplies the outing or picnic party, as
we'll as the lone seeker for peace, with
much to bring forgetfulness or an elysi-
UNI of delight. There are Fairgrounds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

lure, Is SdlQ 10 DC
replete with come
dy situations that
provide Ruggles all
sorts of the COM
plications neces-
sary for an hour
of laughter and
joy. AS q wealthy
bachelor a bou t
town whose atten-
tive habits where
girls are concerned
bounce back at
him when he gives
up the chase of all
girls and decides
to center his devo-
tons on one girl, to
whom he becomes
engaged, outlines
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

the type OF sport. Preparations for his
marriage are bhghted by the appear
ance of an ex-fiame with a package of
love letters. To get these letters, he
goes to her apartment. where her ieal-
Gus husband, a tough gangster. finds
them, and ensuing events keep the hot
water" boiling, until fate turns of the
gas.
The cast includes Tamara Geva. Sue
Conroy, Margaret Dumont, Allen Jen-
kins, Donald Meek. Douglas Gilmore,
Jerome Daley and Betty Garde.
The final chapter of Vitaphone's "Ad-
ventures in Africa" entitled "Uncon-
quered Africa; and the Graham NC
Nance Talking News Reel complete the
program.
COLUMBIA-"Five and Ten"
THE Fannie Hurst story, Five and
- Ten" with Marion Davies as its star,
supported by Leslie Howard, Irene Rich.
Richard Bennett, Kent Douglass and
Mary Duncan, and as directed by
Robert T. Leonard. is the current screen
attraction at Loew'S Columbia.
The Fannie Hurst heroine is a far
cry from the light comedy types usually
portrayed by the Metro oldwyn- Mayer
actress in Five and Ten" Many who
have read the story will recall that it
the family Of a five-and-ten-cent store
baron to achieve happiness despite the
barriers of New York social snobbish-
ness. An attractive daughter is tole-
rated by the So-called -four hundred"
only because of her fathers millions.
When she falls in love with a poor but
social register architect. it would seem
that her money and his social standing
would be a perfect combination. Life,
y De 49, Ill 49,
and the girl discovers ironically enough
that her money is her greatest handicap
when the man she loves is convinced
she Is trying to buy" him.
PALACE-"The Man In Possession"
p OBERT MONTGOMERY began his
going TO prison. In his new Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer picture, THE Man in
Possession" he emerges from jail in the
opening scene.
His shocked family's attempts to get
him out of the country start the COM
plications, which finally wind up With
a number of hilarious situations, when
Montgomery poses as butler in the
home of an attractive but penniless
widow who is trying to marry his brother
for money.
Sam Wood directed the production,
which is adapted from the play by H.
M. Harwood. Charlotte Greenwood is
featured as a cockney maid who gets
into all sorts of difficulties with the
fresh butler. Irene Purcell who was
seen last week In Just a Gigolo," Is
Montgoraery's leading woman. The
sAst a.po includes Beryl Mercer, G. Au-
prev Smith. Reginald Owen and Alan
Mowbray.
on the Palace stage will be presented
"Revue Modern" q Capitol Theater
New York; revue. Rome and Gault,
Douglas Stanbury, Don Cummings,
Ivan Triesault, The Modernettes and
other acts are listed on this bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

Theater for the
new week begin
ming next Satur-
day. The stag e
show viii C m e
from the Capitol
Theater Of New
York, but its title
has not been given
for publication.
"Dud e Ranch"
OVERLOOKING wit h
stellar brilliancy.
in C lu d ing Jack
Oakie. Stuart Err
win. Mitzi Green.
E u gen e Palette
and June Collier.
will follow Five
and Ten" at Loew's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

4NAeAA AOAA N0tH'HS7 E1S
ture moves out.
Confessions of a Co-Ed." described
as a daring drama of college life, as the
leading screen attraction. and Anatole
Friedlands Twentieth Century Revue"
a novel dance revue musical. for the
stage show feature. will be the high
lights of the new bill at Warner Bros
Earle Theater Saturday. Phillips Holmes,
Sylvia Sidney, Norman Foster and
Claudia Hall in the screen drama. which
is said to have been written from the
diary Of q college girl.
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EARLE-"Night Nurse."

BARBARA sTANWYCK is said to
rise to new heights" in her Warner
Bros. -Vitaphone picture, Night Nurse"
which is featured this week at Warner
Bros Earle Theater. Kitty Doner.
musical comedy star, heads the stage
attraction.
Night Nurse" said to picture the &C.
tual experience Of Dora Macy the au-
thoresS. is declared one of the most
dramatic Of all Barbara Stanwyck
screen vehicles. She appears as Lora
Hart. whose experiences as a nurse
force her to combat temptation, love,
fear and doubt
The cast includes Ben Lyon, Joan
Blondell. wise-cracking Coincidence:
Clarke Gable, Rolf Harolde and Blanche
Friderici.
Kitty Doner, who heads the stage
bill. is known everywhere as Americas
greatest male impersonator" She will
be heard in songs and patter. Other
luminaries include Teck Murdoch in
Movie Mad" assisted by Rose Kessner,
Monte Morrison, Adelaide Kaiser, AIDE
laide Lorraine and Charlie Randolph:
Will Aubrey, a modern troubadour Of
fun; the Powell Troupe, novelty workers.
and Maxine Doyle, mistress Of cere-
monies
The seventh Of the Bobby Jones How
I Play Golf" series. called The Spoon"
and the latest issue of the McNan1ee
Talking Newsreel complete the enter
tainment.
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On the Horizon
Pictures Announced to Fol-
low Current Attractions

GGXX1OMEN LOVE ONCE" with Paul
w Lukas and Eleanor Boardman as
it's bright particular points Of human
interest. Is billed for Loew'S Palace
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Observation-Disclosures

EXTRAORDINARY Girl Habit"
~ HARLIE RUGGLES, who scored
heavily as a screen comedian,
has reached stardom, and his
~ first production. THE Girl
Habit" is to be seen this week
at Warner Bros Metropolitan Theater
THE Girl Habit" Paramount pic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
Charm of the Out-of-Doors
Shade Trees-Waters Cool
Banks of the Potomac and Beaches of the Chesa
peake Inviting the Warm and the Weary to
Rest for While.

for the children and grownup toys for
the adult, including the coaster. the
shooting galleries and the breeze swept
pavilion with Roy Boyd's orchestra for
the dancers.
The boat leaves her wharf at the foot
of Seventh street daily at 10 am. 90 30
on Sundays and 230 and $50 in the
afternoon and at eventide.
MoRGANTOWN-O N-POTOMAC.
MORGANTOWN = ON THE POTO-
A'A MAC. which boasts of two water
fronts on the Potomac, is situated on a
narrow strip of wooded land jutting out
into the river. This gave the place its
original name, Lower Cedar Point. On
one side is a sandy beach an eighth of
a mile in length which will care for
any number of batherS: on the other
side is the long wharf and deeper
water, where fish and crabs abound in
great numbers. At the extreme point
is the dancing pavilion that catches
every stray breeze that blows up the
Potomac The place is a fine outing
resort for young and old.
way Of Anacostia. La Plata and Grain
Highway, Al miles from Washington
Four buses will run to Morgantown
until next Labor day.
WILSON LINE OUTINGS.
THE Wilson Line steamer City of
L Washington leaves her wharf every
morning. except Monday. at 9 o'clock,
for Chapel Point and its happy bathing
and amusement grounds. On Wednes-
days, Saturdays and Sundays the trip is
extended to Colonial Beach. 1t returns
each evening in time for its famous
moonlight cruises down the Potomac,
with their joys of music and terpsi-
chore, at 8:45 pm. daily and Sunday.
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FOX-"Annabelle's Affairs"

ONE of the greatest comedy hits of
the season is promised at the Fox
in "Annabelle'S Affairs" starring jean
cite Macdonald, Victor McLaglen and
Roland Young. supported by Sam Hardy,
William Collier, jr.; Ruth Warren and a
host Of others. It came from the Good
Gracious, Annabelle," Clare RUNNERS
play and was directed by Alfred Worker.
The picture concerns a sophisticated
girl of the butterfly type who is forced
into marriage while on a Western trip.
She remembers her husband by the
way he kisses. She comes East, where
said husband sends her an allowance,
which she spends right and left. He
comes East and meets her again. but
she does not remember him. An anus
ing situation arises around the sale of
some stock which she owns In her hus-
bands mine. and the outcome is anus
ing and laugh-provokins.
The stage presentation is Fanchon
and Marcos Love Letters Idea" with
Jerry Coe, Nelson and Knight, Jeanne
Devereaux, Jim French's Aeroplare
Girls, George Ward, Eusenia Reynolds
and Mildred Stencil and the Fe-Mail
Carriers.
Bob Hamilton gives an organ over
ture. Al Mitchell and the Fox Music
Masters are musical adjuncts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
R-K-O KEITH'S-"A Woman Of
Experience"

HELEN TWELVETREES, R-K-O
- Pathe's glamorous star. in "A
Woman of Experience, is the featured
attraction at the R-K-O Keith screen
this week.
With three hits in a row to her
credit, it Is announced this radiant
young personality is taking rank among
the foremost of the screens satellites. ="
Her present picture presents her against
background of the wild gayety and
contrasting tragedy in the colorful
Vienna of war times and deals with
beautiful young woman with a past"
who. becoming involved in an intrigue,
is about to sacrifice herself for her
country, when she meets another fate.
An absorbing drama replete with ro-
nance. stirring action and suspense is
said to result
The cast includes William Blackwell,
Lew Cody, Zasu Pitts, H. B. Warner,
Franklin Pangborn, Nance O'Neill and
George Fawcett. An exceptional vein
Of genuine comedy is said to be intro
duced by zasu Pitts as Katie and
Franklin Panghorn as Hans.
R-K-O Pathe Aesop's Fable. pale
Face Pup; an R-K-O Pathe Fishing
Spotlight, Battling Silver Kings; the
Pathe News, and a CAV girl comedy.
June First" also R-K-O, will be added
attractions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19
GLEN ECHO PARK.

w YASHINGTON'S nearby park
a par excellence, Glen Echo,
NV with its famous rides, its
ood-curdling thrillerS, its
neacefnl Old Mill with its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
ACTION ON BUILDING
FOR JOBLESS URGED
Representative Cannon, Missouri,
Hits Governments "Snaillike"
Construction Pace.

Denouncing what he described as the
"snatllike pace" of the administration
in pushing construction activities to aid
the unemployed. Representative Cannon
of Missouri said yesterday that 1.-The
urgent need OF the moment is not paper
promises, but prompt performance that
jobless workmen may be given employ
ment."
Cannon's statement was issued through
the Democratic National Committee and
commented upon President Hoovers
prediction that contracts for $500, O00,-
900 in the Federal building program win
have been made by Fall.
OF 758 construction projects contem-
plated by the Federal Government, and
for which $407 .se7, $40 has been allo-
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.CURRAN FORESEES
DRY-WET SHOWDOWN
Says 1882 Will Force Stand by
Presidential and Congress
Candidates.

Candidates for the presidency and
Congress next year viii have to take
a clear-cut stand on the prohibition
issue, in the opinion Of Henry H. Cur
ran, president Of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
voiced in statement today.
He added that the popular verdict
against the dry law now is two to one.
and that the people would vote against
1t IN this number if given chance
The most recent of my regular re-
ports which come from all parts of the
country" he said, indicate that most
people have now quit talking about pro-
inhibition because they have made up
their minds about it,"
Curran questioned II dry candidate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
ARMY TO LIGHT SKIES

The Army is getting ready to try out
its very best night eyes in the skies
above Fort Humphreys, Va, on Satur-
day. when anti-aircraft ssarchlight ex-
ercises will be started
Anti-aircraft searchlight units from
Fort Totten, N Y. Fort Monroe, Va
and Fort Barrancas, Fla, composed of
three officers and IS men each. will use
Is 60-inch searchlights and eight sound
locators in finding night-flying planes.
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WORLD PRESS FARLEY ON

MEXICO CITY, August 10 GP).-The
world press congress, with $50 Ameri-
can delegates in attendance, opened to-
day with program which includes four
days of business meetings, receptions
and sightseeing trips.
The first days program included a
reception by Lamberto Hernandez, SUI
pervisor of the Federal district; the in
augural session in the Esperanto Iris
Theater visits to the Military Academy
and other colleges. and reception by
the National Syndicate Of Newspaper
Men of Mexico
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
CLARK MURDER CASE
EVIDENCE CONTINUES
Los Angeles Defendant in Killing
of Newspaper Man, Faces
Second Week.
~ the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 10.-The
State today prepared to present further
evidence as the second week of the MUIR
der trial of David H. Clark, former
deputy district attorney, got under way.
Clark is charged with the Staying Of
Herbert F. Spencer, former newspaper
man. who. with Charles H. Crawford.
wealthy politician, was shot to death
last May 90. The State has contended
Spencer was slain because he was the
only witness of the shooting of Craw-
ford. Clark is being tried now only for
the murder Of Spencer
Among witnesses to be called during
the day wac Ray Radke, private secre-
tary to Crawford, and Mildred Rohr-
back, his stenographer.
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Gated by Congress during the last four
fiscal years, Cannon asserted. 81 invoiv-
ing O total expenditure of about s25,-
900 900 have been realized.
Obviously at this rate of building :"
he continued. 1.-THE intended relief for
unemployment will be as tragically dis
years as now"
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Of either party for President or Senator
could carry New York, Massachusetts,.
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland,
New Jersey, Ohio or Illinois.
The anti-prohibition leader holly as
sailed what he called the steady dry
chatter of evangelical exhortation from
rail birds of the reverend variety. while
most of the (presidentiaD candidates
themselves are strangely silent on this
subject of prohibition"
"One of the few real politicians whose
tongue is not tied this Summer on the
subject of prohibition" he said. "ap-
pears to be Mr.. Capone of Chicago"
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Fleet Puts in an Montauk.

MONTAUK.N N. Y. August 10 OP).--
The North Atlantic Scouting Fleet-46
vessels with 827 officers and 10000 en-
listed MICHIGAN arriving at Long
Islands tip today for the annual ath-
1etic tournament