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The Washington times., 1932-03-12
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BY GARRETT WATERS
TImes Staff Correspondent

BILOXI, Miss, March 12.-It's
all aboard for the Griffmen today
as final preparations are on the
program for tomorrow's opening
exhibition game.
Facing a busy time of it from
now on, these same Griffmen are
hopeful that a warmer brand OF
weather will greet them than has
been thrown their way during
the last five days.
Naturally any sort of bad
weather retards training. In the
Griffmen's case it's liable toi
prove very dangerous because
everyone in camp has trained 20
well, not to mention the fact that
all on hand have gotten them
selves in the ready right now"
class for the coming season.
Practice Held Up
Practice again was held up
two hours yesterday because Of
the winter like atmosphere. Only
a short workout is on the pro-
gram today, which may be cut
still shorter, even though tomor-
rows game is on schedule.
"ThiS is the worst weather
Biloxi has ever had," said Tony
Ragusin, secretary to the cham.
ber of commerce. "But we
don't feel bad over it, for 1t Is
the same throughout the cOun-
try"
Ragusin has promised better
weather in the near future. A
turn for the better must come
soon or the players might as well
pack their trunks and wait around
Washington until the a.son
opens.
Fox Movietone men were pres
ent at yesterdays practice, taking
shots of everything that hap.
pened. Of course, Nick and AL
performed, much to the delight Of
the faithful few who braved the
cold winds.
Manager johnson plans sticking
to the lineup announced yeSter-
day for tomorrow's game. Heinie
Manush. Carl Reynolds and Ossie
Bluege will not play long, how
ever. In fact, the pitchers will
not be asked to do too much il
the weather is not more season
able, which, it doesn't seem likely
to be.
Bolton and Maple will divide the
catching behind the bat. Spencer
is not to break into the game at
all unless it's as a pinch-hitter.
Manager Johnson plans nursing
the veteran along all spring be-
cause of the real work ahead Of
him once the regular season
starts.
Busy Week
The Griffs will be a busy team
next week. Games are scheduled
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. The Baltimore Orioles
will be engaged at Gulfport
Wednesday. The Louisville Colo
nels are to come to Biloxi on Fri
day, while this same team is to be
met at Mobile on Saturday and
Sunday. A reserve Griff team is
to be left in Biloxi for special"
game Sunday against the Biloxi
State champions. Most of the
lineup will be comprised Of
pitchers.
Secretary Tony Ragusin has ar.
ranged a gala program for tomor-
rows contest. According to the
plans the mayor of Gulfport will
throw out the first ball to the
mayor of Biloxi. An orchestra
will also be on hand to help lend
color to the occasion.
Moe Berg, the newly signed
catcher. arrived late last night.
Dave Harris, the big outfielder.
is expected some time today. The
presence Of these players, as soon
as Harris checks in. will complete
the list of those supposed to un.
der Manager Johnson's training
whip this year.
Tox~a Mo
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
"Y" MATMEN WIN

The Y. M. C. A. wrestlers white
washed Gallaudet College, 80,
in their matches last night in the
''Y" gym.
The Washington times., 1932-03-12
No Depression Here
Say Baseball, Folks
Reservations Soar

Here is why we are able to
hand Old Man Depression a
knockout punch this crisp
March Saturday.
Evening star., 1932-06-19
Ideal Actress.
SURVEY of the featured pla

4 SURVEY of the featured players
Z at the Fox Studio leads to the
conclusion that the ideal screen actress
for that company's coming motion pic
ture season is a dainty miss 5 feet
3 inches tall with reddish brown hair,
brown eyes, and weighing 113 pounds.
Although in her early twenties she has
had several seasons of stage training
for her work before the camera. She
has a good singing voice, can dance
acceptably and her outdoor pleasures
include swimming and riding. Her
preference in roles runs to romantic
leads.
Her leading man has dark brown hair
and blue eyes. He measures an even
feet in height, tips the beam at I'll
pounds and. like his feminine counter
part, has been recruited to pictures from
the stage. He favors outdoor recrea-
tions, particularly hunting and SWIM
ming.
OF the II featured actresses not one
has black hair Red is the predominant
color, 6 having tresses of that shade
They range in intensity from the bright
Titan of Clara Bow and Peggy
Shannon. through the autumnal tints
of the coiffures of Janet Gaynor and
Sally Eilers, down to the sherry color
possessed by Marion Burns and Irene
Ware.
Evening star., 1932-06-19
Jungle Cameras.
IT would seem that the problem

IT would seem that the problem Of
camera lighting would be non
existent in an area where the sun
shines all day. But the theory proved
just another rumor to the camera men
who went to Siam with Frank Buck
to take animal pictures for his Bring
En- Back Alive" which film Incl
dentally. is to open at the R-K-o
Keith's next Friday.
The cameramen found that the
equatorial sun rays have a definite
yellowish cast and require plenty Of
exposure. The actinic value of light
Is definitely weaker because a ray
that beats down directly on the earth
bounds back" In the temperate areas
the suns rays strike the earth and are
slightly DETECTED.
The humidity. too, contributes to ths,
difficulties Of jungle photography, but
Carl Berger and Nick Cavaliere, the
cameramen for the expedition, were
forewarned by the employees Of an
American film manufacturing firm
which maintains a large branch in
Singapore. Humidity has a doubly bad
effect In that 1t obscures the lighting
and also rusts the iron parts Of the
camera, which had to be oiled every day.
Scenes in the jungle were photo
graphed from blinds erected whenever
possible against the wind to prevent the
human scent from blowing toward the
animals. Elephants, the camera hunters
reported. are especially dangerous in
that respect. Their sight Is undevelope0
- a lHxv,nnnanuAaSk8nnA
Evening star., 1932-06-19
O'Neill Story Bought.

EUGENE O'NEILL. Americas fore
II most dramatist, has been added to
the list of important writer's who will
figure in World Wide Pictures lineup
of product for the new season. World
Wide has acquired the screen rights to
Eugene O'Neills play "Recklessness,"
which will be produced by the Tiffany
unit under the title Gambling in
SOILS"
This World Wide production will be
the third work by the great dramatist
t, reach the screen. His masterful
Anna Christie was the first and
Strange Interlude" has just been
adapted to the screen by M-G-M.
Negotiations for the acquisition OF
the play on which Gambling in Souls
will be based were carried on with
O'Neill in the South, where he is at
present engaged in writing a new play.
Evening star., 1932-06-19
Bringing the Reviewer
And His Public Together
Suggestions That Are Merely Suggestions and
Not to Be Taken Seriously y-Lttle Items
That May Influence the Review.
By E. de S. Melcher.

looked fine on the beach. The pic
ture had some nlce-looking clothes
in it-and there udS q leading man
playing opposite Miss Lombard.
,The anSlrer to this one is that
il the tooth hadn't ached so much
the repieuer might hare realized
that this man uaS Chester MorriS)
Or again
Anent this meek's WEEK ENDS
ONLY-Why is it that Uhen a
young man paints he is hero? And
1rhen he starues at painting he is
euen more OF q hero? And 1chy is
it that honest young girls Gludys
Uork in speakeasies and that this
is meant not to be such q nice thing
to do?
(This 1rds reuieDed just before
dinner. The reuieuer Uanted his
dinner, but the stage ShOU took so
long he missed both the soup and
the meat course Do you blame him
tor getting a little grouchy about q
film which is really pretty good in
spots?)
The more we think about this
system the better it seems. After
awhile a reviewer might be able
to get his audiences crying-if he
hasn't already. BY bringing in
short sketches of Auntie Zilch or
Mocher Machree he might play
on peoples emotions to such an
extent that they might write him
long epistles telling of their own
troubles. In this way the great
est bond in the world could be
drawn up between cinema en-
thusiasts and reviewer. Imagine,
for instance, the tremendous en-
thusiasm that would be aroused
by a reviewer saying that he saw
LAS You Desire Me" after waving
good-by to Miss Garbo from a
Manhattan pier as she set sail
for sunny Sweden? Interest would
undoubtedly center more on what
Miss Garbo looked like, and were
her feet really as big as battle
ships-than on the review; but
certainly, maybe for the first time
in his life, the reviewer would be
bound to have a fleet of readers.
Then. again, to be able to say that
you thought Grand Hotel was
fine when you went with your
mother-in-l would be bound to
make it wonderful picture
(Which it Isl, and the public
would undoubtedly flock to it with
in-laWS or without.
Such possibilities are endless
But then the censor would be
bound to step in sooner or later
and take out all the fun. After
all, a reviewer wouldn't be able to
tell everything-so. if he can't tell
everything, why tell anything?
Evening star., 1932-06-19

the Idea OF establishing the National
lneatef Players. he did something that
many before him had dreamed of doing,
out mad never accomplished. He got
together the nucleus of an organization
tnat was, In the years to come, to be
What Is known as IAN institution"
This. looking backward, was the result
OF foresight on the part of a native
Washingtonian who was reared in the
theater. Manager of the National
Theater in the Winter, Mr.. Cochran
thought, at first. it would be a good
thing to extend the season" beyond
that period when road shows folded
up for the regular theatrical season.
So he picked the Summer, the Spring,
as the starter, for giving native Wash
ingtonians chance to see Broadway
attractions. The idea took on i'm
mediately, and this week the National
Theater Players put the crowning
touches to eight active seasons.
In those eight seasons, back of the
scenes there has been more activity
than meets the eye, and the average
theatergoer may be pardoned II he has
not always recognized the vast amount
Of work that has gone into these
productions. Truly, the National Theater
Players Is a one-man organization, in
the sense that Mr.. Cochran is their
sponsor. that he begins his managerial
duties about the first week in January
Of each year, preparing for the opening
Spring play, and carries on-without
the financial or physical help of any
other person. except an Office helper
until the final bills are paid, about this
time of each year, after q full 10-week
run
In other cities in the land, notably
in Detroit and Cincinnati, the populace
itself turns out and gets actively be-
hind its Summer theater. In Detroit,
where the Jesse Bonste1le Civic Theater
holds forth, an actual subsidy makes
possible the continual operation Of the
speaking stage. In Cincinnati Mrs.
Charles P. Taft led list of crusaders
bent on saving the theater and ended
with pledges of 1854, 900, which keeps
the Stuart Walker Players running sea-
son after season. With the National
Theater Players rated as equal, II not
surprising. any Of these companies. It
is interesting to note that one theater-
man guarantees first-class theater to
Washington. 1t is, too. rather a feat
Of magic. when the vicissitudes of the
general theater are considered; but Mr..
Cochran has managed. In more ~wsys
than one.
Evening star., 1932-06-19

levels behind or above those in which
the dialogue of the moment IS taking
place. of the two motifs of love and
military glory.
Tie acting and elocution, handicapped
by the vast space Of the Broadway
Theater left more to be desired. Even
with amplifers 1t was hard to hear mast
Of the company, only a few Of whom.
naturally, were trained In the robust
Shakespearean tradition. Miss Edith
Barrett was the Cressida and Jerome
Lawler the Troilus, and the other parts
were taken by Otis Skinner, Charles
Coburn, Eugene Powers and Herbert
Ransom, not to mention the amiable
amateurs from the Players Club ranks
who volunteered to wear armor and
spears.
THE weeks only new offering was a
piece called Back Fire" presented
by a group of actors and actresses
known as the "Broome Stagers." It
was a dull opus about lady with a
past" with little story. humor. sus-
pense, excitement or other means for
Ravin0 He b - SneAGpA tn
Evening star., 1932-06-19
New York Has Twenty
Shows for the Summer
Lower Number Than Usual, but Few of Them
Rank Shakespeare Bad"
Play Is Well Staged.
By Percy Hammond.

to be about all. Shakespeare also had
his "fops."
cover, even in the lively. vivid and
workmanlke production The Players
gave the old play. 1t isn't a play even
in the sense that Romeo and Juliet
is still perennial romance and Ham
let" an interesting character sketch and
an occasionally exciting melodrama, but
a hodgepodge Of scenes. excursions and
"alarums' in which about the only uni
fyine forces are the magnificent Shake
spearean rhetoric and the authors mo-
mentary disgust and disillusion with the
inner essence of practically the entire
human race.
Love IS sensuality. Military glory the
Trojans, except possibly Hector. have
any heroic impulses. About the only
characters who have any brains" are
the wretched go-between. "Pandarus, y
and the scavenger, Thersites, to whom
everything is only wars and lechery;
nothing else holds fashion,
Cressida, in her love for Troilus,
might be another Juliet, so far as any
thing IS said in the lines to the con-
trary, yet no sooner Is she put across
| the lines into the Greek camp, in eX-
change for a Trojan prisoner, than she
| Is off with Troilus and on with Dlo-
medes, even to laughing at the lover
to whom she has just sworn eternal
faithfulness in the most moonlit Shake
Spearean rhetoric and giving her new
admirer Troilus' last gift. And this Is
not done with any apparent artistic OF
other purpose, but without rhyme OF
reason, and altogether to the spectators
bewilderment and dismay Not ever
| Shakespeare-or possibly 1t were better
to say Shakespeare least of all-can
afford thus to break the rules.
But there are some beautiful speeches
| in the play, and some, especially those
about war and military glory, which are
curicusly modern. Indeed, 1t is the adult
satirist rather than dramatist who Is
writing for the most part in this play
From "Troilus and Cressida" comes that
lone touch Of nature makes the whole
world kin" speech, and that other re-
mark of Ulysses that Time hath. my
lord, q wallet at his back, whereon he
puts aims for oblivion. Those scrap.
are good deeds past, devoured as soor
as they are made, forgot as soon a!
DONE" And 1t is Troilus, speaking o.
Helen, who says that "she Is a pear
whose price has launched q thousane
ships and turned crowned kings to mer.
! chants"
The Players production was fine. anc
brilliant in all that met the eyer
the costumes, the sensitive lighting, tn,
ingenious dovetailing, through the us'
OF mkc wA g '0omne ws0 -
Evening star., 1932-06-19

~ My about a dozen legitimate
4 playhouses still keep their
doors open on Broadway, and
~ the season enters its Summer
doldrums. (Trippers arriving
in London these June days will find,
on the contrary, some 40 plays to
choose from. but June Is, of course, the
height of the London social season.)
The plants set out in the Broadway
garden at this time of the year wilt SO
quickly, as a rule, that it is a trife
unsafe to speak Of a new piece, lest it
has already gone hence, but among the
more vigorous blossoms intended for
the Summer trade would appear to be
the revue Hey. Nonny. Nonny!" with
Frank Moran. Richie Craig, jr.: Ann
Seymour, Dorothy McNulty. Jack Nc
Cauley and various others more or less
we'll known in musical comedy and
vaudeville.
Hey, Nonny. Nonny!" is certainly no
"Of Thee I Sing" or Face the Music"
but an informal collection Of some 25
sketches and satirical "black-outs" crisp
and clever enough to make an enter
tanning evening. There is really anus
ing burlesque of Mourning Becomes
Eugene O'Neils," and another good bit,
spoofing the troubles of the Metropol-
itan Opera Co.
In the latter, the burlesque Otto
Kahn and his collaborators, decide to
call in the Minsky brothers, and so We
have Carmen" as the Minskys would
do it, with "hot strip tease" and a
candy butcher bowling his wares up the
aisle. In the Mourning Becomes Elec-
ira" burlesque, Mr.. Morgan plays the
author, and at the end is shot at, but
happily saves himself by having the
manuscript of his new playa tele-
phone book-in his breast pocket. There
are a number of puns. At one point
they tell about man who was Ill and
the doctors advised him to go some
where where he would have quiet and
be left completely alone-"so they put
him in business"
CHAKESPEARE'S "Troilus and Cres-
sida" Is bad play, but it has some
lovely rhetoric and number of famous
lines. and The Players revival Of the
unfamiliar relic was a labor Of love for
which those who saw it had every rea-
son to be grateful
But for an amateur performance of
the tragi-comedy at Yale In 1916, this
is said to be the first time "Troilus and
Cressida" has been produced on the
Western Continent. There have been
some half dozen productions in England
in the more than 800 years Of the plays
life, and one or two Of late years tp
kEfance and oezman5s md taae seem
Evening star., 1932-06-19

his money, soon
dies of despair,
leaving her penni-
less. wit h ut
means of support.
she bravely goes
out job hunting and
encounters h e r
fathers form e r
butler. who is the
manager Of the
city's most exclu-
sive speakeasy.
The butler real
ICES the value the
girls social po-
sition would lend
to the establish
ment and hires her
as hostess. Here
she meets Lyon and
Evening star., 1932-06-19

the old theater has
been rated by critics
and public alike as
the best group
OF troupers ever as
senbled under the
banner of the Ma
t l on a ] Theater
Players. Without
doubt, 1t is the
best all-round resi-
dent company ever
gathered together
by the originator
>llu sponsor OF tQe
,ompany on view
It the National,
). E. Cochran.
Eight years ago.
" h en- "C I o " ."
Evening star., 1932-06-19

= ATURDAY night next, when the
~ National Theater Players stage
4 the final performance Of las
Husbands Co." marks the ending
of another epoch in Washington
theaterdom. On that occasion the Ma
tional Theater Players bring to close
their eighth annual Spring and Sum-
mer season.
The current company keeping the fire
of drama burning on the hearth OF
Evening star., 1932-06-19
Weeks Pictures Cover
Especially Wide Range
Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Bennett, Kay Francis.
George O'Bren and Zasu Pitts Lead the List
of Stars IN Downtown Theaters.

LOEW'S FOX-"Week Ends Only"
DAN BENNETT and Ben Lyon are
starred in Week Ends Only" at
LoeW's Fox Theater this week,
~ along with the stage show, Keep
Klowning,' with Collins and
Peterson
Week Ends Only" presents Miss
Bennett as the daughter Of once
wealthy New Yorker who, when losing
Evening star., 1932-06-19
EARLE-"Street of Women"

EARLE-"Street OF Women.
WARNER BROS EARLE THEATER
" celebrates its new Friday open
ing week with an "all-star" program.
including Kay Francis in Street Of
Women" her second starring vehicle
for Warner Bros, and Cliff Edwards,
"Ukulele Ike" singing comedian of the
stage, screen and radio. in person.
In Street of Women" Miss Francis
adds another brilliant portrayal Of the
modern young woman to the gallery Of
the parts she has already created. The
story concerns the difficulties en-
countered when a married man falls in
love with a modiste. whose young
brother is in love with her lovers
daughter The complications bring
both tragedy and joy, eventually set
ting themselves SO that the situation
is smoothed out for both couples. Sup
porting Miss Francis Is distinguished
cast which includes Roland Young.
Allan Dinehart, Adrienne Dore, Allen
Vincent and Gloria Stuart.
The complimentary attraction is Cliff
Edwards, singing comic Of Hollywood,
who headlines the stage activities. Ed
Evening star., 1932-06-19
PALACE-"Thunder Below"

TALLULAH BANKHEAD Is the star
of the powerfully dramatic "Thun-
der Below at Loew's Palace Theater
this week. Supporting Miss Bank
head in this new Paramount produc-
ton are Charles Bickford. Paul Lukas.
Eugene Palette, Ralph Forbes. Leslie
Van Sloan Richard Wallace was the
director and Charles Lang handled the
photography. The story is taken from
Thomas Rourkes novel.
Thunder Below has its settings in
the small town of San Mateo. in
Central America, where the only white
residents are a half dozen men and
one white woman. The men are all
employees of a big American oil COM
pany doing advance work in the heat
and humidity of this tropical locale.
Charles Bickford, the boss of the out
fit, is a VITAL energy-filled engineer.
Tallulah Bankhead Is his wife. Paul
Lukas is BIZ .lford's first assistant and
also his best friend. But. in spite Of
all this, he is in love with Bickfords
wife and she with him. Trouble. re-
morse and other complications ensue.
METROPOLITAN-"Sky Devils"
HSKY DEVILS" the "Cock-Eyed
World Of the air, produced by
Howard Hughes, for laugh purposes
only, will be the major screen. Offering
this week at Warner Brcs.' Metropoli-
tan Theater. Sky Devils" concerns
three flying clowns who violate every
rule of war to have good time. and in
the face Of court-martial for disobedi-
ence accomplish so many accidental
feats Of gallantry that they are deco
rated for their impertinent exploits.
The Sky Devils" are Spencer Tracy,
William Boyd and George Cooper. Also
in the cast are Ann Dvorak. now q First
National star; Billy Bevan, Yola
DAvril, William B. Davidson and Jerry
Miley.
The bill is completed by a supple
mentary program of short-reel subjects,
| including Paramount sound news and
new animated cartoon novelty entitled
'Bosco's Dog Race"
Evening star., 1932-06-19
Stage and Screen Attractions This Week

NATIONAL PLAYERs-"As Husbands Co." Opens tomorrow
GRIFFITH STADIUM-"Aida" grand outdoors Tonight
at $50 o'clock.
SYLVAN THEATER-'The American" outdoor pageant
Tuesday, Wednesday ard Thursday evenings
ON THE SCREEN.
LOEWS FOX-Week Ends Only This afternoon and evening
EARLE-Stree of Women" This afternoon and evening.
PALACE-"Thunder Below" This afternoon and evening.
KEITHS-Strangers Of the Evening" This afternoon and
ming
METROPOLITAN-"Sk Devils This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA-Mystery Ranch. This afternoon and evening
Evening star., 1932-06-19
KEITHS-"Strangers Of the Evening.

UCTRANGERS OF THE EVENING" !"
~ now showing at R-K-O Keith's,
has been taken from the novel. The
Illustrious Corpse" by Tiffany Thayer.
It has cast that includes zasu Pitts,
Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall and
Eugene Palette. The story concerns a
mysterious murder that involves most
everybody and every one in the cast,
and, which though built to produce
the always sought-for thrill, has a
background for II minutes Of outright
laughter.
In addition to Strangers Of the Eve
ming" Keiths is offering as an extra
added feature The Tragedy Of Everest y
This picture depicts the efforts OF an
expedition to climb Everest, an at
tempt that ended eventually in the
deaths of l3 of the party.
The balance of the program consists
of Pathe News and cartoon animated
comedy.