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Evening star., 1932-10-23
R-K-O KEITH'S-"Washing Merry.
Go-Round.'

THE much-discussed picture, Wash
ington Merry Co Round" is continu
ing at R-K-O Keiths after a special
pre-view opening on Wednesday last.
Produced by Columbia Pictures this fea-
ture depicting Washington's inner work.
ings is attracting notably large audi
ences and winning new laurels for Lee
Tracy the featured player of the pic
ture, as we'll as Constance Cummings,
Alan Dinehart and Walter Connolly.
Described as daring expose" ruth
less" frank" fearless" by those who
have viewed the picture. Washingtonians
are being given a chance to form their
own opinion as to conditions behind this
Government of ours.
James Cruze handled the direction.
Evening star., 1932-10-23
Opening Next Sunday.
THE CAT AND THE FIDDLE"

lax GORDON'S musical mas
M terpiece, The Cat and the
V Fiddle" will open an engage
1 i ment of one week, including
one matinee Saturday, at
the National Theater on Sunday, Oc-
tober 80.
This modern operetta has been an
outstanding musical success in New
Evening star., 1932-10-23
METROPOLITAN-"Life Begins"

~ IFE BEGINS is the current screen
- attraction at Warner Bros Metro
politan Theater. Picturing hospitals
maternity ward. the film is said to
carry its dramatic punch not in one
story but in the stories of the several
women who are confined to this ward.
Each of their life's stories are re-
flected through the happenings in the
ward. Doctors and nurses, too, come
in for their share of dramatic treat
ment. The delicate subject it deals
with has been tactfully, yet effectively
handled by the producers. The cast
is headed by Loretta Young, Eric Lin
den and Aline MacMahon, and consists
of Preston Foster, Dorothy Peterson,
Glenda Farrell Frank McHugh, Gloria
Shea, Elizabeth Patterson, Walter
Walker, Reginald Mason, Gilbert Ro-
land. Vivienne Osborne, Clara Blan-
dick and Hale Hamilton.
The Complementary program consists
Of new Vitaphone technicolor musicale,
Picking Winner: new song car
toon, Il Wish I had Wings" and the
newest issue Of the Paramount Sound
News.
Evening star., 1932-10-23
NATIONAL@"Forward March,"
EW BROWN and Ray Henders

7 EW BROWN and Ray Henderson.
will make their debut in Wash
ington as producers of their
IL own show tonight at the Ma
tional Theater with their new
revue, Forward March," prior to its
premiere on Broadway a week later
at the Selwyn Theater The music
and lyrics, needless to say, are by the
Evening star., 1932-10-23
EARLE-"Madison Square Garden

THE circus is in town. Fifteen big
acts with rs people and 20 clowns
comprises the circus week entertain
ment now on the stage at Warner
Bros Earle Theater 1t is the first
time that real circus has ever been
seen in Washington under one roof
The current screen attraction is Para
mounts production of Madison Square
Garden" with Jack Oakie, Thomas
Meighan. Marian Nixon and others.
Fred Bradna's Circus, which consti-
tuteS the entire stage program. is
genuine three-ring circus. Included in
the long list of international circus
stars are Maybelles elephants, Nine
Bradna and her school of trained dogs
ana pigeons, the Flying Comedies,
Palidor and Lewis, pantomimists; Chief
Washington, Three De Kos, Rose Mil
lette, Don Francisco, Mickey King,
Belle Trio, Davenport Troupe, Merle
Evans, famous circus band leader; Fred
Bradna, noted ringmaster, and a score
Of clowns.
Madison Square Garden" the screen
feature deals with group of people
who slip briefly in under the roof of
the greatest arena in the world, and
then out again, their lives changed by
events in which they have participated.
The cast consists of Jack Oakie,
Thomas Meighan, Marian Nixon, Will
liam Collier, sr: Lew Cody, Robert
Elliott, zasu Pitts and William Boyd.
The program is completed by the
Graham MacNamee Newsreel and the
Earle orchestral prelude.
Evening star., 1932-10-23
On the Way.
EARL CARROLL'S "VANITIES"

1HE ninth edition of Earl Carroll
"Vanities," with the original New
York cast and production, is coming to
the National Theater the week begin
ming Sunday night, November 6. This
is the show which was produced in New
York last year and continued over
seven months on Broadway.
In his principal comedians, Mr. Car
roll has the material for royal good
humor, and he makes excellent use of
Al Trahan, who has just returned to
this country from a tour of the Eu-
ropean capitals and his command per-
formance for King George in London.
He has also staged Mitchell and Du-
rant in various comedy sketches which
give full scope to the hilarious and ri
oiculouS antics of this pair of vigorous
acrcb2ic comedians. The featured
cancer is Lucille Fage, whose dance
with the prehistoric dinosaur is an OUT
standing sensation. The outstanding
scenic features are The Prehistoric
Curtain" over 800 feet in length,
magnificent staging of Ravels famous
Bolero, and the first Neon electric cur
tain ever used on the stage.
Evening star., 1932-10-23
"CYNARA" COMING.

ONE of the outstanding dramatic
~ plays of last season, "Cynora," with
the distinguished star, Philip Merivale,
and Sir Guy Standing, Phoebe Foster
and Nancy Sheridan in the cast of 80
or more players. will come to the Ma
tional Theater for one weeks stay. be-
ginning Monday, November IA, under
the auspices of the American Theater
Society.
Evening star., 1932-10-23
PALACE-"Movie Crazy"

HAROLD LLOYD'S 350th picture
L Movie Crazy" is the feature Of
fering this week at Loew's Palace The
ater Featured with the famous come
dian is Constance Cummings, said by
many persons to be his most successful
leading lady since Bebe Daniels.
Movie Crazy" is a Paramount pic
ture, directed by Lloyd himself. 1t was
the comedian likewise who selected the
vehicle and did the principal work in
casting. Louise Closer Hale, veteran
of the films and stage, shares honors
with Lloyd in some of the funniest
scenes Of the production. Kenneth
Thompson, himself a leading man of
note, has another one of the chief
roles.
The story concerns youth from a
small town who is movie struck" and
has secret ambition to be film star
He goes to Hollywood, crashes the gate
and gets into all sorts of complications
before he finally wanders on a sound
set
Agnes Christine johnson, Felix Adler
and John Grey collaborated with Lloyd
on the story and the screen play. The
dialogue was the work of Vincent
Lawrence, Broadway playwright.
Short subjects and q Hearst-Metro-
tone News complete the program.
Evening star., 1932-10-23
COLUMBIA-"The Crooked Circle"

CAID to be the best picture to play at
- Loews Columbia Theater since the
change of policy and lowering of prices
last Spring, THE Crooked Circle" a
comedy-mystery with a splendid cast,
is enjoying good run at the F street
playhouse. Heading the cast of players
in the picture are Ben Lyon, Zasu Pitts,
James Gleason and Irene Purcell. In
supporting roles are such well known
character actors and actresses as c.
Henry Gordon, Raymond Hatton. Ber-
ton Churchill, Ethel Clayton, Robert
Frazier and Roscoe Karns.
Ralph Spence, author of THE CO.
rilla," is responsible for the film. He
offers battling mystery, with thrills
and chills, but he writes with his
tongue in his cheek. The story deals
with the conflict of club of amateur
criminologists, known as the Sphinx
Club" when they cross the path of an
organized gang of villains known only
as THE Crooked Circle" The Ma
rauders take possession of an old
haunted house and many weird and
interesting events take place.
Evening star., 1932-10-23

whole, the criti- theater these
petty TRADES trivia
for GnndL uhen
Evening star., 1932-06-20
RAIL FREIGHT INFLUX
DUE IN WASHINGTON
Materials for Federal Building Pro
gram Will Afford Consider
able Business.

The immediate future looks promis-
ing for an appreciable influx of rail-
road business into the National Capt.
tai, j. G. Nettleton. washington repre-
sentative of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
told The Star today. The carriers COM
ing into the city, he said, will share in
the big business to be created by the
Government building program here.
Some $500 carloads of limestone and
granite are scheduled to come into
Washington within the next two years,
he pointed out.
There will be at least 5000 carloads
of other material, steel, interior trim
and other construction supplies, Mr..
Nettleton said.
The railroad executive asserted that
about SO per cent of this material
will come in from the North. That
coming from Southern points will be
shipped into Potomac Yards.
Some $50 carloads Of stone will reach
Washington for the interior of the De-
partment of Justice alone. he said.
Some granite will be brought in from
the South, steel will arrive from the
Pittsburgh district and limestone will
be transported from Indiana and Rock
wood. Ala
Granite will arrive here for the Gov
ernment building program from New
England and the South. In addition to
the railroad business thus created there
will be employment given in trucking
and other lines incident to the con-
structicn work
Evening star., 1932-06-20
MYSTERY SHOOTING
CLUES ARE SOUGHT
Police Believe Couple in Parked
Car Wounded by Men Who
Knew Them.

Hyattsville police today continued
their investigation into the apparently
unprovoked shooting Saturday night Of
young couple parked in an automobile
on Sargent road, across the District
line
Wesley Owens, 18. of So U street, and
Sue Wilmington, 16, of 800 Bryant
street northeast, were wounded by the
same bullet. fired by one of two men
who pulled alongside their car in a
coupe and ordered them out on the
road. Owens, the more seriously wound
ed. was shot through the neck, the bull
let passing through and lodging in the
shoulder of his young companion.
At Sibley Hospital, where they we're
taken for treatment. both told police
they could not recognize their assail-
ants because OF the binding headlights.
but said the men were well dressed. +"
The first theory. that the couple had
been shot by nervous bandits, has been
supplanted by the belief that they were
shot by some cne who knew either
Owens or Miss Wilmington or both.
Owens condition was reported good"
at the hospital. Miss Wilmington was
released after treatment Saturday
night.
Evening star., 1932-06-20
''Mother'' of Bonus
Army and One of
Marchers to Wed
Washtub Banjo Toted to
New York License Office
by ''Him.

Mrs Mary Ewing of Portland, Oreg.,
who came here to look for work at
swimming pools as a floating banjo
player. and later concluded to style
herself "the mother of the Bonus EX-
peditionary Forces" turned up at the
New York City Hall yesterday with
enough nickels and dimes to purchase
marriage license for herself and her
color guard" Adam Landles, 40.
The bride-to-be wore a battered plug
hat and a sash with her mother" title
on it around her shoulders. The pros
pective groom carried his intended's
banjo, which Mrs. Ewing had manu-
factured from an old metal wash tub.
Both gave the Washington head
quarters of the bonus army as their
home address. They said they ex-
pected to be married today.
Mrs Ewing. who is As years old.
linked across the country several
weeks ago and on her arrival here set
out in search of swimming pools, which
might add her to their amusement pro-
gram. Her speciality was playing her
waehtub beuio and mouth harp while
floating on her back in swimming pools.
Evening star., 1932-06-20
FOUR HACKERS ROBBED:
THREE TAXIS STOLEN
Machines Are Recovered After
Being Driven Off by Hold
up Men.

Four taxicab drivers were robbed Of
small amounts early today by bandits
who drove off in three of the cabs in
VolFed. Two of the vehicles were re-
covered by Detective Joseph Sincoyitz
and the third was located by the owner
lew blocks from the scene Of the rob-
berry.
Three colored hackers, Robert F
Jones, 1900 block of Seventh street:
| William H. Jackson. 200 block of M
street southwest. and Charles B. Muir
ray, 1000 block of Georgia avenue.
handed over total of $3.50 to a pair
OF colored men believed to have COM
mitted three of the robberies.
The fourth driver. Harold G. Strick-
land, 1900 block of Kenyon street was
allowed to keep his cab when two white
men held him up near Fort Myer, Va.
Strickland had only 81 to give his
fares" he told police.
Evening star., 1932-06-20
D. c. SINGER KILLED
AND F|ANCE HURT
ON WEDDING TRIP
Miss Beverly O'Brien Fatally
Injured in Auto Crash at
Indianapolis.
ANOTHER WASHINGTON
COUPLE IN SMASH-UP
Bert Bagranoff, G. w. U. Foot Ball
Player, Planned Marriage
in West.

Miss Beverly O'Brien, 23-year-o
Washington singer, was killed and three
other residents of the Capital-includ-
ing her fiance, Bert Bagranof. 70,
George Washington University foot ball
player-were injured yesterday in a
head-on automobile crash that ended
what was to have been wedding trip
near Indianapolis.
Besides Bagranof, who is an employe
of the American Automobile Associ-
alton, those hurt in the smash-up were
Miss Lucille Leckie. 20. of 3704 S street,
a clerk in the Department of Com
merce. and Kenneth Broderick, 23 OF
3lO5 Garfield street. who holds a SIM
liar position in the District tax col
lector's Office
The two couples, who began their
vacations Saturday, were bound for the
St Louis home Of Bagranofs parents.
Planned Surprise Marriage.
Miss Josephine Noel 1903 New
Hampshire avenue. friend Of Miss
O'Bricn. said today the couple planned
TO be married in ST. Louis and then
notify the brides parents who live in
Highmore. S. Dak.
Miss Leckie. who came here from her
home in Topeka, KanS.. last July. and
Bagranoff were seriously injured. ac-
cording to Associated Press dispatches
from Indianapolis, while BroderIck eS-
capped with minor injuries.
With Broderick at the steering wheel.
the car was struck b. machine driven
BY Thomas OConnor. %. of Indian
apolis. Blood tests revealed O'Connor
was intoxicated. according to Deputy
Coroner E r Wilson. He was arrested
on charge Of Involuntary man
slaughter.
Miss OBrien, graduate OF the Uni
versitv of Nebraska, studied under Her
bert Witierspoon. noted singer. in Chi
cago. She came to the Capital in June.
1890. end made her home with IN
uncle ard aunt. M. and Mrs. Joseph
Wilke. 1888 Franklin street northeast.
Her local instructor was Marjorie Lowe.
Sang in "The GOndoliers."
Both Miss O'Brien and Bagrancf
sang in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera
The Condoliers," presented at the
Belasco Theater last Spring. the former
taking one of the leading roles. She
was the only Washington contralto to
win a place in the last Atwater Kent
concert at the Arts Club less than two
months ago.
Bagranoff lives at the Theta Delta
Chi Fraternity House, 1714 Rhode Island
avenue. He sang in the George Wash
ington University Glee Club.
Miss Leckie was discharged from
Homeopathic Hospital about three weeks
ago after undergoing an appendicitis
operation. Her brother. Melville Leckie
an employe of the W. w. Chambers Co.,
undertakers, left for indianapolis i'm
mediately after receiving word of the
crash.
Broderick, whose parents are dead,
lived with his uncle and aunt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Lees.
Evening star., 1932-06-20
RULING ON VETERAN
REVERSED BY COURT
Administration Wins Appeal Un'
der Decision by Justice
D. L. Groner.

The Veterans Administration today
won a reversal in the District Court OF
Appeals of a judgment against 1t IN
favor Of Filodemo G. Balance, in the
District Supreme Court. In an opinion
by Justice D. Lawrence Groner, the
court held the United States was not
bound by the summary Of facts pre-
sented by the commissioner designated
by the District Supreme Court when it
contained "self-serving" declarations
made by the soldier to doctors concern
ing his condition. To preclude objection
to this summary. the court said. would
be ito entirely ignore the hearsay rule.
and would open the door to fraud in
many cases to make the Government
the victim rather than the guardian"
of the veteran. The case was remanded
for new trial,
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover,
Assistant United States Attorney John
W. Wood and Attorneys C. L. Dawson
and w. C. Pickett appeared for the
Veterans Administration.
Evening star., 1932-06-20
Optimism Barred as Visitors
Arrive for Conference Start
ing Tomorrow.
STABILIZED CONDITIONS
PICTURED BY LEADERS
Collection Percentages Higher Over
U. S., They Aver-Prominent
Speakers Listed on Program.

Retail credit men from all sections CT
the United States will discuss the coun-
try's retail credit problems at the first
business session here tomorrow Of the
twentieth annual convention of the Ma
tiOnal Retail Credit Mems Association
While officials said today they had
expected approximately 1000 delegates
the conventions registration numbered
at noon only about $50. 1t was esti-
mated that when the retailers begin
their discussions there will be about
$50 delegates in attendance The seS-
sions which will last through Friday,
will be held at the MayfloWer Hotel.
Heartened by Conditions.
Notwithstanding the adverse nature
OF some Of the data now in the hands
CT convention officials. retail credit con-
ditionS in department, furniture. jew
elry, mems clothing, shoes, Women'S
SpecialtleS and electric appliance stores
were said by them to present bright
picture alongside OF other problems
confronting the Nation during this de-
pressed period.
AS an explanation Of the compare
lively stabilized condition OF retail
credit, officials said the credit managers
have adopted themselves to the situa-
ton and have become increasingly etti-
cient.
This has resulted, they said. in keep
ing collection percentages higher. re-
turned merchandise percentages lower.
bad debt losses lower and fraudulent
buying and losses from fraudulent
checks lower than they would other
wise have been
ed this year TO be continuing to meet
their obligations in an orderly manner
and are making new purchases on
charge accounts and installments in
approximately the same proportion to
cash sales as formerly.
Visit Unknown's Tomb.
At 1890 O'Clock this morning a spe-
clal delegation headed by Frank Batty.
president, and Mrs. S. H. Takes, gen.
eral convention chairman laid a wreath
on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Members Of the Board of Directors were
guests at noon of the Associated Retail
Credit Men of Washington at a
luncheon
Dr. Luther Reichelderfer, president of
the Board of District Commissioners.
WILL off1ciany open the business session
tomorrow: Other speakers ON the pro-
gram Will be Assistant Secretary of
Commerce Julius Klein. David j. Wood
lock OF st. Louis, manager-treasurer of
the association; w. W. Everett. vice
president of Woodward & Lothrop de-
partment store: Henry J. Allen. assist
ant to the president OF the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation, and John D.
Reilly, vice president Of the Federal
American National Bank & Trust Co.
Evening star., 1932-06-20
BOOSTERS" LAND
IN EARLY MORNING
TWenty-second Annual Out
ing OF Merchants and Man.
ufacturers Success.

The twenty annual Wash
ington booster" outing Of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Association,
which took a party CT ITO for a two
day cruise of the Chesapeake Bay and
Potomac River, came TO its ending
when the Steamer Southland docked
at its wharf shortly before scheduled
time. at GAS am.
Abed at a reasonable hour last night,
the majority of the party were up this
morning and ready to disenbarl; when
the gangplank was showed aboard.
Mark Lansburgh, president Of the
association, presented flvc-reel mo-
ton picture drama in the salon dur
ing an informal entertainment.
Yesterday afternoon, after leaving
Old Point Comfort. the Southland
steamed out to just beyond the capes
for sight CT the Atlantic, and then
started the homewayd trip.
DR.. NJ. G. Gibbs was general chair
man in charge of arrangements, with
Lewis A. Payne as vice chairman. They
were assisted by James E. Collii1oWer,
entertainment chairman; Charles H.
Frame. itinerary, Bert L. Olmsted
commissery. and Edward D. Shaw
executive secretary of the association.
Evening star., 1932-06-20
CONTRACT
LOST BY COMPANY
Firm Unable to Furnish Bond
for |. c. G. and Labor
Building.

The contract for construction of the
new Interstate Commerce Commission
and Labor Department Building has
been withdrawn from the Great Lakes
Construction Co. of Chicago, which
was unable to furnish a surety bond,
and awarded James Stewart & Co. of
New York City, Treasury Department
officials announced today.
The original contract for construc-
tion of this unit of the Government S
building program was awarded the
Chicago concern last May %, on a low
bid Of S8.846000. The second lowest
bid, submitted By Stewart &; Co, was
s908l 900, and it is for this figure the
building will now be constructed.
Contract Revoked.
1t was said at the Treasury Depart
ment that the Great Lakes Construc-
tion Co.. under the terms of the con-
tract, was required to furnish a per-
Torrance bond within 10 days after
the letting of the contract. When
they had failed to do this by Saturday
afternoon it was decided to revoke the
contract and give 1t to the second low
est bidder
1t was pointed out that the Gov
ernment is now paying about $500. 900
a year rent for the quarters occupied
by the Commerce Commission and
Labor Department and that an early
completion of the new building is i'm
portant in order to save this rent
money.
Heavy Bond Required.
1t was said the usual performance
bond is about one-half the price stip-
ulatsd in the contract Treasury d.
partment officials said they did not
know why the Chicago concern had
been unable to raise the bond 1t was
said the company has done construc-
tlon work for the Government in De-
troit and Atlanta satisfactorily.
The new building is to be erected
along Constitution avenue between
Twelfth and Fourteenth streets.