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The Washington times., 1932-07-06
LISTEN, WORLD!
-By Elsie Robinson

this poem means? Read it
through and I'll tell you.
Gee! It's He'll to be at leisure, =
Loafin's round the whole day
long
When hard work has been your
pleasure
An you're willin' an you're
strong.
You get tired of sittin', sittin',>
Thinkin', thinkin', till you're
WILD!
An sometimes you feel like
quittin',
But-'tain't fair to wife an
child.
Lookin' want ads over'n over;
Askin' here an pleadin' there;
Just a hungry, haunted rover,
Only askin' for a share.
Comm home at night is killin'!
Wife meets me in the block;
Knows the news I've got amt
thrillin'-
She can tell it by my walk.
Told 'em that I had my dinner;
Buddy treated me, at the
; Greeks.
Hope I don't keep gettin'
thinner,
Or they'll know I've lied for
weeks.
Wonder if those guys with
money
Ever felt a hidden pain
Gnawin', gnawin' in. the tummy,
Drivin' one insane, INSANE!
Hello, Bruiser! How'd you
know it?
Knew I'd weaken? Yes, I'm
BEAT!
They're in bed. I'll help you
blow it,
Wife an kid has GOT TO
EAT!
- s L. Mack
And now-that next to the last
line-'I'll help you blow it,"
The Meaning
Know what that means?
That means crime.
That means the last, des-
perate device of a man who is
barred from money-the DYNA-
MITE DEVICE.
Have you ever come to such
a pass that you were prepared
to steal, perhaps to kill: pre-
pared to sell your soul for all
eternity, rather than look again
into the eyes of your starving
child.
Perhaps YOU haven't r.'
I've sat on a bench, as this
man sat on a bench. I've felt
that gnawing. i've felt that
goading. And if the breaks
hadn't come in time, God only
knows what I would have done.
And so I'm passing Mack's
verses on to you. Maybe they
aren't great poetry, BUT THEY
ARE HELL'S OWN TRUTH
AND I'M TELLING YOU
IT'S A SHAMEFUL THING
THAT ANY MAN IN AMER
ICA SHOULD BE DRIVEN TO
WRITE SUCH LINES.
(copyrisht, 1882. King Features
Syndicates Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-07-06

ing back the most vivid pages
of history.
There are wonderful trips
out of Quebec. Montmofency
Falls, not far from the city,
is well worth the visit. It is
awe-inspring, yet sublime, with
its gushing torrents of water
rushing over a precipice, more
than 100 feet higher than Nj
agara Falls.
Worth q Visit
Twenty minutes by ferry
from Quebec. down the majestic
st.. Lawrence and we come to
the Island Of Orleans, an en-.
chanting spot, fun Of Old World
charm and flavor. Somehow.
time has stood still and one is
transported back hundreds of
years. Tidy farms run by. farm.
ers who retain the exact farm
ing methods of their ancestors,
the original settlers. Old houses,
some of them 800 years old,
old churches, where the faith
full have gathered through the
years, happy in their simple
faith, old customs, all these
combine to present a wonder.
full picture of Old France.
Back in Quebec, one varies
the trips to nearby places, with
sightseeing In the city itself.
Kent House, the summer resi-.
dence of the Duke # Kent,
father of Queen Victoria, is well
worth a visit. We stroll on
Dufferin Terrace and watch the
broad river as it flows rnajeS-
tically past the old city and the
new.
We visit the wonderful
churches and we arrange for
the trip to st. Anne de Beau.
pre-, the LourdeS Of the New
World. It Is just about the
most interesting trip that this
traveller can recommend.
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II o 10 Cne ELSIE
stump of a pencil. ..
The mark of rain lay on the
paper, when it came to me; and
other marks-perhaps tears.
Weeping is not supposed to
be a manly indulgence, but
men are weeping in America
today. Men are waking at
night with their hearts ham
mering against their gaunt
ribs, and with something in
them screaming for death
which will help them escape
from a hopeless dawn.
A Strong Verse
And men are doing-other
things. Do you know what
the next to the last line in
The Washington times., 1932-07-06
MARRY-GO-ROUND
-RY Helen ROWIand

Mans CuriOSity-and WOman'S
Women are gradually losing
their inordinate curiosity about
unimportant things" declares
a psychologist, chivalrously.
But any married woman would
like to know just why woman
has for so long, been exclu-
s;vely credited with all the
CURIOSITY in the world. How
and when did woman come to
b. known as "the curious sex?"
It is mans overWeening in
quisitiveness that has made
men discoverers and scientists
and inventors, ever since the
beginning of time. Eve may
have taken the first bite of the
apple-but it is a well known
fact that Adam swallowed the
rest of it so greedily that it
stuck in his throat.
A man always wants to know
what makes the wheels go
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he is never satisfied until he
finds out what makes the
wheels go round!
AS far as woman is con-
cerned, the North Pole, the
South Pole and the Equator
might have stayed there, for
ever, and she would never
have bothered to look for
them. Unless, of course, she
suspected that her husband
was hanging around one Of
them, evenings!
Copyright. 1882, King Features
Syndicate. lnc.)
The Washington times., 1932-07-06

round" He is always taking
his watch or his gun or his car
apart to "see how it works"
But a woman doesn't care how
the radio or the vacuum cleaner
or the electric clock works-just
so it WORKS!
No little girl ever asked as
many questions in a week, as a
small boy can ask in fifteen
minutes. And, if you will look
over the crowd around any win.
dow, where a new device or a
new hair tonic is being dem
onstrated," you will find at
least ten men to one woman,
watching to "see what's going
on"
The truth is that woman Is
perfectly frank about her curl
osity, while a man always cam.
ouflageS his with that "I'm-only-
interested-in-your.welfare" atti-
tude, which every man r1obly
assumes when he wants to know
what's in his wife's letters, or
to find out what she is doing
with her money or her time.
When a woman wants to
know what's in a suspicious
looking mauve envelope, which
she has found in her husbands
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dictate them
to his pri-
vate s. ecr E.
tary.
He huddled
on a p a. k
bench, with
d r z Il. y
rain seeping
through his
ragged shirt,
and scNbbled
these lin e S
with a. hand
almost too
linn p with
hunger to.
hnld he,
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pocket, she deliberately opens
it and reads it. But a man
sidles casually around back of
his wife's chair and SnatcheS
glances at her mothers let
ters over her shoulders.
So long as there is plenty
of money coming in and her
husband gives her all she
wants or needs, a woman never
asks a man what he does
with the rest of his salary or
his income. It's HIS, isn't it?
But did you ever know a man,
who could let a woman handle
her own money, without put
ting her through a question
naire and demanding to know
what she'd DONE with every
dollar of it?
No woman ever snoops
through a mans office desk
as a man snoops through her
kitchen ice-box. She doesn't
want to know how he runs his
business. But he is nightly
concerned to know how she's
running the house.
True, a woman always wants
to know where a man has
BEEN, where he's going, what
he's doing and if he still loves
her. But the difference be-
tween masculine curiosity and
feminine curiosity is not a mat
ter Of quantity. but a matter
of quality.
A woman is curious only
about the things that concern
her heart, her vanity and her
happiness, while a man is cur
iouS about EVERYTHING! And
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It's Hell To Be at Leisure
A man wrote the following
verses the other day.
He did not sit down in
beautifully equipped office or
a costly furnished studio and
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Reading a poor book is an
opportunity lost Of reading a
good one.
When the hostess is hand
some, the wine Is good.
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Words From the Lips of Wise Men

OF all the days, that one Is
most wasted on which one has
not laughed.
A sound mind in q sound
body, grant us, o Lord!
Evening star., 1932-07-24
Plot Out.

IN writing for the screen too much
stress should not be laid on plot
That is Leslie Howards advice to en-
bryo and other writer's, according tc
Donald Henderson Clarke.
Howard, who has returned from the
New York stage to join the cast of the
new Norma Shearer starring vehicle
"Smilin Through" is qualified to speak
on dramatic construction from many
angles. He is not only one Of the lead
ing acting artists. He directs, pro-
duces, writes and adapts plays
The art of constructing plots today
for both screen and stage, is not to
overburden the story with plot" says
Howard "A good play on the surface
would seem to be working around and
away from the plot. then at the criti-
cal time something happens which
brings out the point OF the plot action
Always be interesting. but let the
interest on the things which pertain to
the plot rest on the things. But do not
let the salient points of your plot pro-
trude through the action.
Audiences today do not worry about
plot as they did in the days of lurid
meloorama. Treatment is what counts
and truth IN Characterization. But It
must be presented freshly and In way
to excite interest
by this 1 do not mean that the plot
development should be ignored. Rather
it should be concealed 1t should be
kept in mind, and emphasized just often
enough to let your audience know where
you and your players are going. Watch
a we'll constructed and well written
modern play and you will see that this
Is So
Evening star., 1932-07-24

Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fairbanks. jr
Lee Tracy and Frances Dee, will be the
screen attraction.
Supplementing Little Jack Little on
the stage. who will render cycle OF
new melodies, will be Rosette and Lut-
man in a dance revue. assisted by
Grace and Beatrice Wylie: Howard
Fine and Howard, comedians; Chap
pelle and Carlton in a novelty presen-
tation, and Maxine Doyle, mistress OF
ceremonies.
Love Is Racket" a Warner Bros
and Vitaphone comedy drama. con-
Germs itself with the biggest racket OF
all time-Love. The picture is said tt
be replete with wisecracks and gags
Specially selected short subjects in.
Guiding the Graham McNamee News
reel and the Earle orchestral prelude
will complete the program.
GEORGE BANCROFT, in his newest
picture, The World and the Flesh.
will come to Warner Bros Metropolitan
Theater for one week starting Friday
Miriam Hopkins. who was skyrocketed
to fame as result Of her brilliant per.
formanceS In DIR. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde and Smiling Lieutenant" ha.
the leading feminine role This is q
story of Russian who falls in love
with dancer. The story is said to be
a swiftly moving drama.
Specially selected short subjects. in
cluding the Paramount Sound News
will round out the bill.
Evening star., 1932-07-24
Supported $50 Artists.

DEMONSTRATING the fact that
II France knows how 10 hold onto
her noted artists in the hour Of q
national emergency and provide ma
terial help for some part at least OF
her ex-service men or their survivors
after a great war. it Is pointed out by
Harry NJ Crandall, head Of the
organization now exhibiting lie
Pantheon de Ia Guerre" at the new
Panorama building, New jersey ave
nue. at c street, this city. that the his
toric canvas has already done notable
service to such an end.
From the facts and figures avail
able" said Mr.. Crandall. "it is ap-
parent that the panorama created by
the French beginning with the date Of
the Battle Of the Marne and ending
as soon as the armistice was signed
four years later, supported $50 able
artists and their dependents for about
IL years and in addition netted for
each of their families neat competence
when their interests were finally sold,
which amounted to q small fortune
as reckoned IN francs.
Allowing an average Of four de-
pendents for every man enlisted in the
work of creating LIE Pantheon de 10
Guerre.' some having very large
families and others none at all, the
records show that at least 900 individ-
uals were cared for by the great
canvas itself from the day the work
was started until 1t was finished
Evening star., 1932-07-24
Veterans of Foreign Wars

for a new bus terminal. The following
department officers spoke: Department
Comdr. Hollingsworth. Senior Vice
Comdr Davis, Junior Vice Comdr Gar
della, Quartermaster Boehm, Inspector
Belt, Deputy Inspector Ryan and Com
rade Biggins Of Front Line Post.
Police and Firemen Post, No. 2249
held Its regular meeting at the Ham
ilton Hotel last Wednesday evening,
with Comdr J. D. Bennett presiding
Members congratulated the commander
on having been Endorsed by lots Of his
comrades from New York for Repre-
sentative from his home town.
The Veterans Of Foreign Wars Over
seas Military Band held its regular re-
hearsal at the National Guard Armory
Wednesday, Comdr Lorig reports that
the band had been out twice in the
last 10 days and the drum and bugle
corps the same. The band will par
ticipate in the parade with the Ameri-
can Legion July 26. the night of the
opening of the latter's annual depart
ment convention.
Evening star., 1932-07-24
Hung Is No. Hanged.

ALL bandits are hung in Manchu-
"A ria! But it is not the result OF
a police or Judicial efficiency 1t il
merely because the word for bandits
in the Manchurian dialect is hung
hutze"
The derivation Of this name is oi
interest. Translated literally, it means
"red-beard" and was first applied to
the bands of marauding Russians who
used to pillage the border towns in
the eighteenth century. The term wa,
later applied to all bandits.
Wesley Ruggles uncovered this in
teresting bit Of etymology during the
making of THE Roar of the Dragon
in which Richard Dix is starred on the
current bill at R-K-O Keith's. The
film is a dramatic story of American
and Russian refugees in outlaw ridden
Manchuria with Richard Dix battling
his way through hordes of hung
hutzes."
Evening star., 1932-07-24
Life Lines-Georse Arliss.


~ lor as the Prince Of Wales.
His first sage appearance was as a
super" with the Elephant and Castle
Stock Co. in London in a melodrama,
Saved from the Sea"
He was 81 when he married Florence
Montgomery, who was studying dra-
mates at the Thorn School in London.
They are extremely happy and he
gives her credit for most of the favor
able decisions in his life.
One was his decision to come to
America with Mrs. Patrick Campbell on
lengthy tour.
His stage career in America has
taken up 20 years.
When in Hollywood he rents a home
/ which must have garden.
His form of Hollywood exercise Is
taxing a long walk every day
In New York City he rents cooper
ative apartment.
In England he owns a cottage at st.
Margaret's Bay on the Cliffs of Kent.
In his early career he once played
season in musical comedy-admitS that
his singing was terrible.
He was more amazed than any one
else when his first picture, "Dlsrael1,
was a huge financial success.
He is never seen without his monocle.
He does not carry cane.
He smokes gold-tipped cigarettes
made especially for him.
He is suspicious of press agents.
He is easily upset at the idea of being
interviewed by the so-called sob sis
ter"
He is reticent regarding his personal
life and he will not discuss 1t with
newspaper people.
He is a lover Of good books and likes
the writings of John Galsworthy.
He is extremely fond of the theater
and greatly enjoys q good play.
He did not like silent motion pic
lures and regarded them as primitive
form of entertainment.
Is greatly interested in English poll
tics.
He thinks that the English spoken by
the educated Americans is superior 10
the extreme Oxford accent.
Must have eight hours sleep every
night.
Usually walks four miles day.
He is a rabid vegetarian and has not
eaten meat or fowl since he was a
youth.
He is a very good bridge player.
It is simple for him to learn his lines
and he learned one entire role at "a
hours notice.
He is a collector of etchings and an
authority on antique watches.
In his picture Alexander Hamilton
he wore q watch $50 years old. and de-
clares it keeps better time than any
other clock he owns.
He owns parrot who refuses 10 re-
cite God Save the King but loves
Hail, Columbia"
Evening star., 1932-07-24
Movie Actresses Who Are
ETHEREAL" and Otherwise
Cecil B. De Mile Talks on the Subject and Tells
of His Plans to Use ELISA Landi-Type
Players Of the Past and Present.
By Mollie Merrick.

ity as Americas Sweetheart" posi-
ton that has really never been reached
by any one else Others of Mary Pick
ford's time who had this quality in a
lesser degree, says De Mile, are Lillian
Gish, Marguerite De La Motto, Flor
ence Vidor and Carol Dempster.
OF the present-day film stars, De
Mile chooses Norma Shearer as being
second to ELISA Landi in possessing the
fundamental qualities of 'etherealism. y
He does think, however, that her early
pictures reveal an entirely diffrent gill
than her more recent successes, such as
"A Free Soul or Strange Interlude.'
But this doesn't mean that she has sac
rificed her original sympathetic appeal
by bringing a quality of sophistication
to her screen portrayals.
Janet Gayncr is another girl who was
made popular by her characterization
Of Diane in Seventh Heaven" a role
that brought out her ethereal qualities
more than any part she has had since.
Ann Harding. De Mile points out
won her screen iaurels by portraying
the ethereal type Of girl in such pic
lures as Holiday" and Devotion, u
and Helen Hayes is also an actress OF
this type. as shown by her work IN The
Sin of Madelon Claudet" and "Arrow-
smith" In Helen Hayes next picture
"A Farewell to Arms" 1t is his quail
ity that will help her make the role OF
Catherine Barclay, the war nurse, in
teresting.
4 Don't mistake what mean when
refer to the ethereal type" says d.
Mile. Il don't mean the vapid in
genue type. but rather girl who COM
! bines physical allure with cert all
quality of spirituality. Helen Chandler
for instance, gave just such a perform
ance in Outward Bound Dorothy
Jordan had this quality when she ap-
peared with Ramon Novarro in Devi
May Care
There was something Of the etherea
about Frances Dee when she portrayed
George Bancroft's daughter in Rich
Mans Folly and Marguerite Churchill
had this loneliness in her face in The
Big Trail
AS to ELISA Landi, I am convinced
that she is endowed with the rare quail.
ity Of etherealism more than any girl
in Hollywood today. and. though this Is
complete reversal of type for her,
am sure that she will make the success,
OF her screen career with her character
ization Of Mercia. the Christian martyr
And seeing the years of screen ex-
ought to know.
Copyright. 1882. bv North American News.
paper Alliance 1nc.)
Evening star., 1932-07-24

lamenting the urbanity and mellow
charm OF Europe. Tor one Of those re-
bellious immigrants to whom policemen
and newspaper editorial writer's say,
We'll, II you don't like it here, why
don't you go back to where you came
from?" And the fatherland, although 1t
still has its good beer, isn't all that 1t
used to be. The depression about which
Americans SO universally wall is mild
compared to the economic ordeal which
Germans OF nearly all classes have been
dragged through in the last Is years.
However all that may be- Miss Baum
seems both to have caught on. in a
material sense, and to feel at home as
well. Possibly We shouldn't be fiattered
by this gifted foreigners liking but
should take it as matter OF course, as
do the French. who. always preferring
to stay in their own country to travelling
anywhere else, assume that all for
eigners would prefer to dwell in the
City Of Light rather than in New York
or Buencs Aires or Rio, If they could.
But Miss Baum's transfer OF allegiance
is rare enough. especially among artists,
to be pleasant novelty, nevertheless.
**
ELMER RICE'S Counselor at Law"
- closed for the Summer a week ago,
after nearly 800 performances, to open
again in September Just why this par
ticular piece, although pleasant
enough evenings entertainment. should
enjoy such unusual success, is Just an
other of those examples which prove
that there is such a thing as luck, or
something that cannot readily be ac-
counted for. in the theater "Abie's Irish
Rose" is. of course. the prize example of
that mysterious fourth dimension al
though We do not mean to hint any
thing so dire as that the former and
Mr.. Rices play belong In the same gal
lery.
In any case, Mr. Rice might easily
prolong his European travels infinitely
if he wanted to, but. instead is coming
back to New York, to launch mere new
plays, doubtless and also it is reported,
launch himself as producer in the re-
vival of some of his own works He al
ready has tried his hand at production
In this seasons Left Bank'-which
has been hawked about in vain. ii Is
said, among the regular Broadway pro-
ducers-and Left Bank a much mo-e
( intellectually grCwn-up play than
Counsellor -atLaw," also had a long
run although not quite so lcng as the
comedy about the ambitious young East
Side LAWYER
Evening star., 1932-07-24

A LONE, tile play, outpost Of the
n new ecason or straggler from
IA that Just past, wandered into
4 \ the Masque Theater last week
as the only new example of the
spoken drama to appear on Broadway
in several weeks.
THE Chameleon" was It's name, and
1t told the inane story CT movie"
stars desperate efforts to make the grGf
head doctor of . hospital pay some at
tention to her. She had come to visit
her Aunt Regina, who was patient In
the hospital, and. hearing that DR..
Peters never locked twice at the pref
tiest woman, just had to stay and see
what could be done about 1t.
There was much giggling and gurgling
and certain amount OF undressing and
the movie" star pretended that she had
appendicitis.
1t was that sort of a play. and as
crudely acted as 1t was written. The
from the Hungarian" reference in the
program must be taken with a certain
amount Of relativity. The author may
be Hungarian, but in a letter signed
"hopelessly yours" and protesting
against the manhandling that his piece
had received at the hands Of producer
and cast. he appeared to be dwelling
in New York and to be able to write
passable English.
MISS vICKI BAUM. the German au-
4'A thoress Ct Grand Hotel" not ONLY
gave US one of the most entertaining
plays of recent years, but proposes TO
give us herself as well. Miss Baum. who
is the wife Of Richard Lert, general
n music director of the Berlin State Opera,
recently returned from a visit to her
native land and announced that she
intended to live hereafter in the United
States and wanted her two sons, Welt
gang and Peter, to grow up here. When
she went to Germany again, Miss Baum
said. she would go as visitor.
OF course. there were solid reasons for
Miss Baum's favorable impression of
America in addition to our bright eyes,
as the French say. Grand Hotel" what
with its year in New York and the
movie" rights that followed that sue
cess, must have brought her very tidy
fortune. Her plays have been backed
up with several novels, which have been
well received both by the vulgar public
and more fastldiouS critics. Magazine
editors are delighted to have her consent
to contribute something. She is not one
Of those tender minded foreigners who
spend their time in exile in America