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The Washington times., 1931-10-21
JACK WILL FIGHT
FOR S750,000.

If anyone has $3.50, 900 they
don't care much about and wants
to become a prizefight promoter,
we have q swell tip for them.
Jack Dempsey. He really is
serious about making a come
back, and that is his price. He
viii sign right now for 1882, and
you can name SchHneling or
Carnera or Sharkey or anybody.
He would prefer Sharkey, Of
course. Privately, John thinks
Sharkey is one guy he can al
ways lick.
Maybe you could get him for ,
even $SOO,OOO. He might con-
slider It.
But $75O,0OO is his asking price.
Eastern Representatives are ready
to do business right now on that
figure.
The line forms to the right.
and it must be cash.
The Washington times., 1931-10-21
IRooUoIs A. C. DRILLS

The Iroquois 1875 Founders Of
this city will work out tonight at
1880 o'clock. at Seventeenth and B
streets northwest. For games call
Atlantic 2O99.
The Washington times., 1931-10-21
ACES PRACTICE

The. Washington Aces basket
ball team will hold it's initial drill
at Central High School gym to-
night at $3.50. Old and new mem
bers are urged to report.
The Washington times., 1931-10-21


Petworth engages Hyattsville1
in the District League match.
The Pets, tied for second place,
can come within one game of the
leading Temples, by making q
clean sweep over their Hyatts-
vile rivals.
HyattSville, on the other hand,
can improve its position greatly,
by winning two games, as 1t
trails in a second division posi-
tion in the standings with every
thing to gain and hardly any.
thing to lose.
Watch Guilt
Rendezvous and Kingpin meet
in the Ladies District League
match. All eyes viii be on Lor-
raine GULL, captain Of the King.
pins, who has an average Of 11S
for IL games to date.
The Kingpins can cause quite
an embarrassing situation by
winning over the Rendezvous,
who hold Q slim lead at this
writing. The Kingpins are in
second place.
National Pale Drys won in
their National Capital League
match against Barnes Auto last
night, but not until after the
Automen had injected a scare
into the order Of things.
With two new men In their line
up, namely, Sam Del VeechiQ and
Ray. Ward, the Automen ran wild
to take the first game by a score
of 621. The Drys came back,
however, in the final two games
to win by scores Of 619 and SAL.
Nativity Team Wins
It was Wards baptism in a
big league match, incidentally.
This youngster totaled o 124
game and . $40 set to help his
new team win its first game. Del
Veechio turned in o game Of 14O
as his standout effort In this
1lrSC game.
Nativity Club bowlerS won an
interesting match from the St.
JerOmeS I'm the Holy Name
League. All Of the winning
players turned In goOd scores,
West being high nlan with
game Of 129. ...,,
Grasso rolled games Of 120, 80,
and 121 to be high-Set man, .334,
while Charlie Warren aided his
team a little by games Of 108. 81,
and 102. for q set Of S07. Hugh
Crawley's 341 set was best for st.
Jerome's. The match:
HOLY NAME LEAGUE
west. t.... 81 81 12s crwiy,Jr. i13 lS4 1ot
Warren. 1Os q 1Os Joyes.... 90 1I2 g.
Reichardt - Quail. 9S 100 81
Sullivan. SO a. % B.Sheehy 125 SO ia
Rebholts 1Os 9s % CrOwly,Sr. 50 11S lis
Grasso.. 120 90 121
10
The Washington times., 1931-10-21
ALCOVAS WORK

Charlie Deuterman'S Alcova
gridders will practice tomorrow
night at 8 o'clock on the Airing
ton Fire Department field. All
players must report or they will
not be allowed to appear in Sum
days game at Richmond, Va.
The Washington times., 1931-10-21
TEAM
SPRINGS A .
.SURPR|SE.
By GARRETT WATERS

AAAAAS&SAS4
Generally speaking, it is risky
business trying to figure out
sports happenings among the
scholastics. Yesterdays 6-to-O tri,
umph by Central over Eastern Of
fers q characteristic example.
The Mount Pleasanters were
supposed to have blanketed East
ern under an avalanche Of touch
downs. Butthey didn't or couldn't,
and as q result several points Of
reasoning are taken off Centtal's
chances Of beating Tech out for
series honorS.
Tech Plays Friday
In other words, even though
Tech has not made its debut as
yet, the Manual Trainers appear
as title winners once more, for no
other reason than that it is hard
to believe Coach Coggins' men
win be able to stand UP against
so powerful q rated team as the
Manual Trainers. At least that's
the conclusion taken after Cen
trails showing Of yesterday.
Tech makes its initial appear.
ance in the series Friday, when
Western 10 met. The latter club
won from Business In the
'1eague's" opener last week,
Maybe it's q fortunate thing
that Tech Is not listed against
Central until Friday, October 80.
For the simple reason that the
Mount PleaSanterS may have
time to get together and play
the football expected of them
In the preseason dope by that
date.
The Mount Pleasanters Ger.
tainly did not look like the team
which has played so powerfully
against Washington and Lee
High, Newport News and others
in the recent past.
They made numerous mistakes,
their attack was weak, and worst
Of all they fImbled, miScued, but
terfingered, or what-have-y0u, at
times when proper handling Of
the ball would have netted them
many a gain, and probably the
"two or three touchdown" they
were expected to total in the
pre-game dope.
Central Finally Scores
The weak attack Of the Lincoln
ParkerS really saved the day for
Coach CogginS' men. Time after
time Eastern held the ball, only
to lose 1t by downs because the
punch was not there for a touch
down. Their showing was Just
another Of those surprising things
so characteristic Of scholastic
sports events.
Central finally got its attack
working In the fourth quarter.
In fact, it began to show signs
Of functiOning I'm the third
quarter, although . score could
not be registered.
A pass from Whitley Cumber-
land to Emmett Buscher, netting
10 yards, opened the way for the
only marker Of the game. It
placed the ball on Eastern's 9.yard
line.
A sweeping end run by Frank
Koscis a few moments later was
good for a touchdown when the
charging Frank elude6 all tack.
lers to cross the Eastern goal
line. Cumberland's try from
placement for the extra point
failed. y
The Washington times., 1931-10-21
"CENTS" IN WORKOUT

The Centennials practice to-
night at 2 o'clock on the field at
Seventeenth and B streets north
west.
The Washington times., 1931-10-21
Two Interesting Matches
Top Bowling Card

Several interesting matches tonghts bowling pro-
gram.
And oddly enough two Of them feature the District and
The Washington times., 1931-10-21

BY CHESTER HORTON

Always be careful not to try
to steer the ball when you
make a shot which involves a
carry over a stiff hazard. Play
The Washington times., 1931-10-21

Transportation worries can be. over
come economically through the pur-
the many COED BUYS listed In today,s
Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-10-21
PETWORTH TO DRILL

Petworth Pennants will hold a
practice session tonight at 1880
o'clock at the Iowa Fairgrounds.
The Washington times., 1931-10-21

Nativity Club bewIers won an
interesting match from the st.
JerOmes i'm the Holy Name
League. All Of the winning
players turned In goOd scores,
West being high man with .
game Of 120. t..,.
The Washington times., 1931-10-21
Tech Plays Friday

Tech makes its initial appear
ance in the series Friday, when
Western 10 met. The latter club
won from Business In the
"league's" opener last week,
Is to %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
On the New York Stage
By Percy Hammond

yoked to the much-belabored American
business man so favored by contem-
porary literary fashion.
Anyhow, the husband adores his wife
right enough. The other man is a
physician psychologist, a brilliant
young scientist, who comes to give a
course of lectures at the college in their
home town. Hotels are bad and the
distinguished stranger lives as o guest
for several weeks in the house Of the
young people. The rest, so far as the
mere story goes, follows the familiar
course of such situations In novels and
plays. =
Miss zita Johann, who win be re-
membered for her performance in
'Machinal' year or two ago, and
Herbert Marshall as the scientist-lover
both give the material intrusted to them
the distinguished Interpretation called
for in the circumstance. Harvey Red
man is admirably downright and true
as the husband. Osgood Perkins, In
the role of a sort of valet-Secretary to
the visiting scientist, acts the part Of
dry and knowing commentator on the
drama which he sees going on before
him, but in which he takes no active
part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
JACK AKlE ond JEAN ARTHUR
IN Ute Gonq Buster" R.KOKe+hS
To Boost or Not to Boost
By w. H. Landvoist.

when due, his indorSer must.
There is no gainSaying that. But
how about the situation in the
theater, if the play falls short of
the press agents promises and
the confidence he has inspired in
press and public goes on the
rocks? Who then makes good the
loss? True, the waste of the cost
Of seat may mean little or moth
ing to the individual who buys it
in good faith. But does the mat
ter end there? How is it with the
newspaper or the magazine which
has helped to mislead? Is conf
dence in its judgment, If not in its
honesty, increased? Will it's opin-
ion in matters generally gain in
weight and in reliability there
after? And what of the writer who
thus betrayS his journal, 18th the
perfectly commendable Intention
and effort to help the good cause
along? If the public may not
depend upon him as a fair, COM
petent and humanity reliable re-
porter, of what use is he? If plays,
or pictures for that matter, that
reflect crime and debasement and
unholy suggestion are lauded for
worth and quality by the critic
in yielding to the spirit OF
boosting Observation-Disclosures, be
it added, in this instance with the
sole result of lining the pockets of
the producer or the manager, no
matter how unSavory his play, or
his production-what then is to
become of our theater? Is that
also to be sacrificed to Moloch to
bring back prosperity to its mis-
guided or its deliberately erring
Workmen, who care little or moth !
ing for its art, and its educational
or its cultural value to its patrons?
TT would thus seem really that
there are times when it is not
wise, when 1t Is even criminal, to
be a good fellow, booster and a
coaxer-back of the sunshine for
which all the world so earnestly
longs. The world that thinks and
that profits by its thoughts and its
varied experiences has long since
discovered what it is pleased vari-
ously to call virtues, or principles.
whose practice and observance are
Indispensable to true happiness.
And these virtues, these principles,
belong in all institutions which
cater to man, especially In his
laxer moments, whether to dis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

TIME Broadway week was unevent-
full, only the Leu Holtz musical
show, You Said It." an un-
Il pretentious string of vaudeville
turns grouped round a routine
musical comedy story, being added to
things already disclosed.
Mr.. Holtz'S cockSure style is familiar
to vaudeville audiences; he seems to en-
Joy working, and scmetimeS-aS, for ex-
ample, when he gives his Jewish
comedian version of smoewhat la-de-
dab Englishman-he is really funny.
Stanley Smith, well known in the talk
les; Mary Lawlor, Peggy Bernier, Hughie
Clarke, Kendall Capps and the three
Slate Brothers are others in the cast.
A newcomer to Broadway, LYDIA
Roberti, said to be the daughter of a
Polish circus clown, and to have knocked
pretty much all over the earth as q
bareback rider and high trapeze artist
before she was caught in Russia by the
revolution, and made her way after
dire adventures through Siberia and
China to the United States, nearly
stopped the show with her version of
the song Sweet and Hot" She took the
part in You Said IT. of a rather rough
and very ready "Polak" town girl in the
college town in which the scene was
laid and her verve, quaint accent, and
really fresh and ingenious style were de-
cidedly hkable. Not show to get
excited about, but brisk and amusing
enough, nevertheless.
X X **
DHILIP BARRY'S Tomorrow and
Tomorrow" launched the preced-
ing week. was received with almost
unanimous critical approval, and stands
as one of the comparatively few plays
of the season which combine serious
ness of intent, dramatic effectiveness
and the quality of beauty.
Young Mr.. Barry, who divides his
time between his own country and the
French Rivera, had already revealed
himself as one Of the cleverest of the
younger playwrights. There was no
question of the brilliance of the dia-
logue in Paris Bound" Holiday" and
Hotel Universe" but there was also in
these plays a certain rather self-con-
scious bravura, the slightly up-stage at
titude of the clever youngster who feels
that he can run circles around the
average mentality, which some specta-
tors found slightly irritating. There is
very little of this attitude in Mr. Barry's
new play and more genuine feeling and
tenderness
But the story, on its surface so
theatrical in the deprecating sense of
that word, with such possibilities of the
melodramatic and even banal, is told
with such occasional flashes of wit
and nonsensical humor that it is trans
formed into something quite else than
1t otherwise might be.
y II
The woman is the daughter of q
professor of romance languages and
she Is married to a nice young manu-
facturer and lives in an Indiana town.
Just how she happened to fall in love
in the first place with her well meaning,
but dull young husband is not alto
gether clear; still such things happen
the author has put into the making of
her radiant personality, the pair do not
differ from the restless American wife
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
HENRY B. WAET4AL-
In lie RWHo1oM5hon'
Rialto

tract his thought from grueling
cares and worries, or merely to
amuSe and to entertain him. 1t is
in those lax moments that he is
most susceptible to good and bad
alike. When the editorial columns
Of both newspaper and magazine
are being opened to criticism of
the playhouse and its products,
when even the players themselves
are calling attention to the deplor-
able things that are happening in
the theater, has not the time come
fer producers and managers to
take heed and mend their ways?
1t is they who must act and act
rightly. This is not the time for
coaxing and cajoling the critic to
be a good fellow and help boost
the good cause along" nor is it
the season facetiouSly to gloss
over serious faults and manifest
evils merely to bring back pros
perity to an unworthy theater.
THESE lines may "jangle like
sweet bells out of tune" in the
temple of the drama, but they are
let loose for what they are worth,
what they may, perhaps, accom-
pliSh in the effort to bring back
the American theater to what it
should be, to what the entire
amuSement-loving world hopes it
may be, Of it is to continue at all.
WHETHER there be a need to
w overhaul the producing de-
partment of the theater, or not, in,
order to strike the normal gait
again, it iS doubtful If any who
saw Green Grow the LilacS" dur
ing the past week could feel that
the suggestion in any way applies
to the New York Theater Guild,
whose fine production of the Lynn
Riggs classic of Indian Territory,
now the proud State of Oklahoma,
so far as the art of the theater
is concerned, will rank with the
masterpieces of the stage. The
close observer noted that in giving
slice of the rough and rugged
life of the earlier American from
tier, with its Earring, outSpoken
vernacular, there was never an
instance where either was en-
phaSized for the sake of SenSa-
ton, nor any wavering disposition
to compromise truth. 1t is in just
this very particular that the the
ater's art as presented on the
stage seems to depart from pre-
vious efforts of the talking
screen, which seldom, If ever,
show a desire to sacrifice SenSa-
ton for art. The casting of the
play was maSterful. Personality
in Characterization was put over
the footlights with gripping in
tensity of outline and in detail as
clearly and as effectively as in a
cameo finely cut. There were also
other evidences of fine culture and
artistic experience manifest in the
production that were gratefully
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

lust before John Golden sailed for
> Cuba he signed contracts with
Rachel Crothers for the production Of
her new play, las Husbands GO, (which
will go into New York about March is.
The annual play by, Miss Crothers Is
getting to be practically taken for
granted, and the fact that this is to be
her twenty third production rather
goes to prove the adage that HE Cor
she, of courseJ travels fastest who
travels alone"
The list Of those dramatists who have
brought forth works in collaboration
with others Is long, but, aside from
O'Neil, Conan, Craven, Kelly and Barry.
there are few who work alone.
Rachel Crothers stands as the only
woman playwright In the, world with
anything like her enormous output,
which, added to the fact that she stages
her plays herself, does the casting, d.
recting, designing of scenery and
clothes, makes her a unique and excepr
tional figure in the American theater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
EDWAPDG.ROBINSON-
MMZ/He Cesar"
Metropolitan
Jackie at Takoma Park.

WHETHER Jackie Coogan appears to
" the grown-ups to be climbing out
of adolescence or not, Jackie is still a
big favorite with the younger patronage
of the theater, especially in the Para
mount picture, Tom Sawyer" Mark
Twain's famous story. The Takoma
Theater, at Takoma Park, D. c., an
nounces that, beginning Wednesday
and continuing through Friday, Tom
Sawyer" in which Jackie Coogan and
the famous little Mitzi Green are fea-
tured, will be shown there, running
continuously, and that for the benefit
Of the school children the performances
will start at $3.50 o'clock in the after
noon every day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Broadway Jester Here.

err" of the Capitol Theater New
York production, Mite Lites," Is APP
pearing in the current stage revue at
Loew's Palace Theater. He was for
merly the principal mirth provoker in
George Whites Scandals" and his
ready wit has entertained Broadway for
many years.
Many, many years ago, as "the
Broadway JESTER" Rose was dared by
his chums to become a contestant in
an amateur performance being pro-
NOTED by theater in his home town.
He never passed a dare, so he entered
the contest. His activities among the
gang kept him too busy to put any
thought into what he was going to do
when he got on the stage. When his
turn finally arrived he had to be showed
before the footlightS. He paced the stage,
trying to escape from either end, but his
exit was blocked by stage hands. Mean
while, during his wandering before the
audience, he was repeating to the
laughing folks out front just what he
thought of his predicament. and his
witty thoughts were sufficient to win
him first prize.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Marlene Sings Also.

true to her nature Failing in Love
Again; Never Wanted To" she sings
Beautiful Lola-is she tickle or is she
not? Who knows? In a beautiful
woman one can forgive almost any
thing.
In spite of the fact that Marlene
plays a part which might in less COM
petent hands sour the sympathy of au-
diences against her one is never an
tagonized by Lola, the cabaret girl
This no doubt Is a true demonstration
of her ability as an actress.
She sings several songs in 1.-THE Blue
Angel" No screschy soprano here
tralto
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Famous Team.
ERNEST LUBITsCH has iiothinE

ERNEST LUBITSCH has nothing on
his old friend Emil Janntngs.
In an earlier day. about six, years
ago. LubitSch and Jannings were one
Of the most impressive teams as actor
and director in all Of Germany. Among
the pictures Jannings made under Luz
bitsch's direction were the now famous
Passion" and Deception"
Then Lubitsch came to America and
attained fame as director OF silent
pictures He went Jannings one better
by showing his proficiency as q director
OF talkies-witneSs THE Love Parade
and Monte Carlo"
But now Jannings has matched his
old teammate for prowess and success
in the new mediums Of English-speak-
first talkie in English, "The Blue An
gel" which is now playing ct the tcx
Theater. ~ yF-'s =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

FAILING IN LOVE AGAIN; NEVER
WANTED TO-" the song which
Marlene Dietrich as Lolo, the cabaret
performer, sings in THE Blue Angel, F"
is one OF the most fetchingly plaintive
ballads Of the talking screen.
Miss Dietrich sings this song several
times In the course of the picture. She
uses it to snare the staid and. unwary
Emil Jannings as Prof. Rath. She uses
it to amuse the customers in the river
front dives where her travelling troupe
is playing. She uses fragments Of 1t at
times as a sort of musical expire sSion
of her own philosophy of life.
She sings her songs, and they are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
Victor Herbert Melodies.

EVERY melody heard in Fanchon &
- Marcos Victor Herbert" idea, now
at the Fox Theater, is the creation of
Victor Herbert, who in his career of 80
years produced more than so operettas
and a host of single compositions.
Fanchon & Marco secured special
permission from the heirs of the Victor
Herbert estate to use any and all of
the famous composers works, and orig
inal dances, striking costumes and gor-
geous sets have all been planned to por-
tray the spirit, moods and colors Of
Herbert's immortal creations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
"Up Pops the Devil"

ZIP POPS THE DEVIL" light
" hearted comedy of modern mar
riage in Greenwich Village, currently
being presented on the New York and
Los Angeles stages, will be produced by
Paramount as a talking picture, CO.
featuring Carole Lombard and Norman
Foster. Worthington Minor, who d.
rected the New York production, is go
ing to Hollywood to direct dialogue for
the picture
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

and generously recognized by the
large audiences that Endorsed 1t
throughout the week. The Anita
Hart and Maurice Braddell farce,
I'm the Fest of Families" making
fun with. a founding and those
who might be suspected in connec-
ton with 1t, very much like farces
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25

that joke at the expense of a
corpse, or find amusement at a
funeral, add but little to the prog
reSs toward the brotherhood of
man, however desirable they may
be as laughing material for those
who can find comedy In such
themes.