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Evening star., 1932-02-02
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington s Theaters.

author and trained actors skirtlng
the edge CT Chesterfeldian regula-
ton. 1t is all very casual, like the
whole production but, meeting the
mood of the observer, is something
new. That is chiefly what the audi
ence wants. Its verdict. on the
whole, is that here is something dll-
ferent. Just as different as all
other things that represent the
cream of what has been e11ectlVe
before, with a little salad cream or
table sauce added to change the
taste.
All the time The Band Wagon
is digging up the essence OF that
form Of entertainment which Is 700
keen to be romantic. but deals WIN
music that touches the SenSlbllltleS'
and sparkling ideas which repre-
sent about the only form OF regu-
larity displayed in this magnetlcc
piece Of ebullitiOn. Is 1t SaJlreE
1t would be just as good under any
other name Probably 1t Is luSt tEe
high StanZa in the career OF George
S Kaufman. abettCd by the Slnl-
larly artistic and knowing Howard
Dietz, with an attempt at harmon.
izing. through the musical talent OF
Arthur Schwartz.
Up in the so-called Metropolis
Mr.. Kaufman must be known as
the town Joker. His mind moves in
a rarefied atmosphere which puts
humor into all the frCn2ied blutt OF
life among the ambitious but rud-
derless devOtees of public appeal.
He sees them all in futuristic shapes.
The curtain that hides, then re-
yeals the numberlcSS scenes OF
The Band Wagon" makes that kind
of curtain. Those who are not
familiar with this school of art may
accent it on faith. but will agree
Evening star., 1932-02-02

that in its striking quality 1t har-
monizes with the show.
Among the entertainers are Fred
and Adele Astaire, who hold high
place among our excellent exponents
of motion and dance. Their under
standing of the elements Of rhythm
is devoted to the cause of making
the recognized principles illuminate
a funny world. They are graceful
and give the impression that they
have just arrived, have the trunk
all packed, and are ready to move
out with the first train going to
nowhere in particular. Among their
interesting numbers are Sweet Mu-
sic" Hoops" and White Heat"
They have their proper place in the
play, for their sense of humor Is
noticeable
Burlesque with distinction is the
contribution Of Frank Morgan and
Helen BrOderick. The latter must
have been born to musical comedy
and farce, for her calm and indif-
ferent capability is one of the most
effective of the several interpreta-
JlOIlS Vi IllS kaufman llIlllu MI.
Morgan has that commanding pres
ence that makes him the guiding
spirit. and in his several contribu-
tionS he is the kind of performer
that impresSeS a vigorous person.
ality upon all beholders. Their
Joint little sketch, when the Rain
Goes Pitter- -Patter," waiting for a
taxicab, is one of the gems of the
piece.
Others who have their parts in
the story are Mary 10 Matthews,
Jay Wilson, Philip Loeb, Francis
Pierlot, John Barker, Ed Jerome
and Lillian Duncan, with numerous
others. The revolving stage is pre-
tentious, the ensemble numbers are
notable for grace and melody and
the opening hodge-podge is startling.
Among the more pretentious num-
bers are High and Low" and For
Good Old Nectar" The dancing
feature, "ConfesSion," is extremely
artistic. The orchestra, an impor-
tant part of the show, reveals that
enthusiasm that gives the best pos
Evening star., 1932-02-02
STRICTER TEST URGED
FOR TAXI DRIVERS
Sixteenth Street Highlands Citi-
zens Also Call for Brighter
Lighting.

More careful investigation of the per-
sOnal character Of applicants for hack
erS' licenses was urged last night by the
Sixteenth Street Highlands Citizens
Association meeting III the Sixth Pres
byterian Church, Sixteenth and Ken
uedy streets
The association directed that letter
be sent to the traffic director stating
that it would be desirable if the same
personal character qualifications were
required of applicants for licenses to
drive taXicabS as are required of Candi-
dates for the police force. 1t also was
suggested that Stricter requirements be
placed on applicants for licenses to
drive trucks
The present length of the amber
fash in street traffic signals was con-
sdered too short by the citizens and
they recommended that the interval be
heightened as a safety measure for
pedestrians.
Another resolution, requesting bright
er lighting of the streets within bound
aries of the territory taken in by the
association, was adopted.
DR.. Lewis J. Battle presided
Evening star., 1932-02-02

man, who has done our little Nell
foul, and on a certain "crooner,"
whose songs are anathema to him,
he very nearly gets his pass to the
next world at the click OF a re-
yolVer
While all this may sound compL-
cated-the thesis at hand Is far from
that. 1t is merely nice little skele-
ton upon which to hang the troubles
OF tabloid Broadway wise-cracker.
The acting like the setting,
is distinctly top-notch, Roger Prior,
as the much maligned columnist
who very nearly gets what is
coming to him for blessed eventing'
too much, is 100 per cent perfect in
his part-handling it in the swift
Evening star., 1932-02-02
CHICAGO THEATERS
PROFIT AT So "TOP"
Play Prices Cut, While Loop Is
Called Best Show District
in United States.
B. the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press
CHICAGO February 2.-From the
viewpoint of the profit side of the
ledger. Chicago was named the best
show town in the United States right
now by those in the theatrical know.
Legitimate shows here were reported
to be ringing the cash registers con-
sistently-and loud enough to be heard
on Broadway New York the
atrical producers to turn longing eyes
westward.
The representative of one theater
corporation, operators of a string of
theaters in the loop, said proceeds from
its pIayhouSeS were resulting in entries
under a column headed profits"
TIE average top price in Chicago
now is $500 The best seat in the
house last year cost $3.50 Other seats
that last year sold for $685. to $40
can now be had for $3.50. Prices
then scale down to S1OO and so cents.
Evening star., 1932-02-02
FUNERAL RITES HELD

Special Dispatch 70 The Star
LANHAM, Nd, February 2-The
funeral of Richard Austin DoWneS. 81
years old, postmaster and Pennsylvania
Railroad station agent here for IA years,
who died suddenly early Saturday
morning at his home here, the result
of A stroke Of paralysis, was held yes
terday from his late residence.
Rev. w. E. Nelson pastor of Whit
field Methodist Episcopal Chapel, and
Rev. Roland, a former pastor. Off
Ciated. Interment was in Whitfield
Cemetery
Evening star., 1932-02-02
THE Band Wagon"
At the National Theater.

NJ USIC and action, unham-
M pered by trivialities of plot
V or goal. flash by in aban-
1 Y i doned but harmonious dis
array while The Band
Wagon" proceeds on the stage OF
the National Theater.
Flourish and bang! There is a
design in color or some odd shape
Evening star., 1932-02-02

paced, restless Lee Tracy manner.
Lee Patrick, as the motion picture
critic, is more than satisfying
are Charles D. Brown, Isabel Jewel,
Jean Adair (the motheD and Ralph
Locke. Next to Mr.. Prior, however,
1t seemed as II Linda Carlon won
the golden apple-her work being
nothing short of magnificent.
E. de S. MELCHER.
Evening star., 1932-02-02

of the old phrases that once stirred
the gallery and some Of the new
ones Just an interlude, mixing
burleSque sorrows with penetrating
pleasures. A view of the serious
ness of what was once life from the
pinnacle of disdain. Holding the
mirror up to human tragedy that
has long since ceased to be tragedy.
More flourish and bang! Repeat
ing an idea with insolently intimate
remarks which are not wicked
enough to mean anything Clever
Evening star., 1932-02-02

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Evening star., 1932-02-02
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Evening star., 1932-02-02

l ii d L I IL CItlS,
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Evening star., 1932-02-02

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Evening star., 1932-02-02
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Evening star., 1932-02-02
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Evening star., 1932-05-10
THREE TO BE ORDAINED
BY CAPITAL PRESBYTERY
Action Approved for Harper Lu-
Glen Kerns, Robert C. Simmons
and Joseph T. Holmes.

Three young men, Harper Lucien
Kerns, Robert Cook Simmons and
Joseph T. Holmes, were voted ordina-
ton in the Presbyterian Church yester-
day at a meeting of Washington City
Presbytery at New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church.
Proposed Federal regulation Of mo-
ton pictures was reported on by Miss
Maude M. Aldrich, who presented the
work of the Federal Motion Picture
Council of America. The annual per
capita apportionment of 30 cents for
the Home for the Aged was approved.
The six commissioners to the General
Assembly were voted credentials to
attend the pre-aSsembly conference on
evangelism to be held In Denver this
month. They include three ministers,
Revs. A. E. Barrows, George M. Cum
mingS and w. Keith Gusts, and three
elders, John D. Secrest, DR.. Harry C.
Davis and Chester R. Smith.
Ordination of the new ministers Is
planned fer late next month. Kerns
and Simmons, both members of Takoma
Park Presbyterian Church, are to
graduate this week from Union Semi
nary New York
Evening star., 1932-05-10
DISTRICT TO NAME
HOOVER AND CURTIS
Republican State Convention
to Oppose Wage Cuts
Tomorrow Night.

Resolutions will be adopted at the
Republican State convention here to-
morrow night which will give whole
hearted Endorsement to Herbert Hoover
and Charles Curtis for denomination.
The resolutions also will express ap-
proval Of proposed governmental econo-
my for balancing the budget, but will
voice strong opposition to any reduc-
ton OF salaries of employees of the Gov
ernment and urge national representa-
ton for the District of Columbia.
The convention also Is expected to
elect as delegates to the Republican
national convention Edgar c. Snyder,
United States marshal for the District,
and Rev. William H Jernagin, pastor
Of Mount Carmel Baptist Church.
Final plans for the convention were
made at a meeting last night of the
Republican State Committee for the
District. The convention will open at
8 o'clock in the auditorium Of the Ma
tional Capital Republican Club, Six
teenth street and Scott Circle
Samuel j. Prescott, chairman Of the
State Committee, will preside, and after
the AZ men and women duly elected as
delegates at primaries recently held in
Washington have qualified, they in turn
will elect AZ delegates at large.
The convention also will elect MEM
bers Of the Republican State Committee
and Republican National committeeman
and committeewoman and will select
committee chairmen to conduct the ma
tional campaign in this city and to
make arrangements for the attendance
OF the local delegation at the Chicago
convention.
Addresses will be made by Represent
atlVe Royal G. johnson of South Dakota
Edward F. Colladay, Republican ma
tional committeeman. and Mrs. Virginia
White Speel, national committeewoman
Evening star., 1932-05-10
CANTATA, WRITTEN
HERE, TO Be GIVEN
BicentenniaI Work of Two
WaShingtonians, viii Be
Sung Tomorrow.

A cantata which has figured promi-
nently in the various Bicentennial
musical celebrations throughout the
country and which was recently per-
formed at Fort Worth, Tex, BY a
chorus Of 500 voices with a large or
chestra conducted by Sam Lough, is
to be presented tomorrow night at
Constitution Hall, under the auspices
OF the George Washington Bicentennial
Commission.
This cantata, which has been called
Washington" was written for the BIZ
centennial Commission by Edward G.
Potter and r. Deane ShuIe, two Wash
ington composers, both of whom are
identified with prominent musical or
ganizations of this city. Mr.. Shure
wrote the music and Mr.. Potter the
words and orchestration. The cantata
Is said to have been well received in
all OF It's many renditions.
Tomorrow nights performance, one
| OF the many musical events of this
week, Will feature chorus of $50 and
the Marine Band, under the leadership
OF Capt. Taylor Branson. Mrs. Ger
trude Lyons, president of the District
OF Columbia Federation of Music Clubs.
trained the chorus. This is to be the
initial performance Of this work in
Washington.
Another work by Mr.. Shure. "The
Sage Of Mount Vernon" with words
by DR.. Edwin C. Barnes, is to be pre-
sented Friday night by the Junior and
Senior High School Choruses, under
the direction Of DR.. Barnes.
e. de S. MELCHER.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
BONDS HOLD i. S.
|. TO GOLD STANDARD
Billions in Securities Out
standing Are Payable
in Coin.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1o.-The United
States is moored securely to the gold
standard by the fact that a large
amount OF bonds outstanding in this
country are gold bonds, according to
opinion in leading banking quarters.
The total is estimated at many billions
of dollars, payable in gold coin of the
present weight and f1neness, or the
equivalent.
One of the chief arguments ad-
vanced for currency imitation is that
it would lesson the burdens OF debtors
But in the case of debtors who must
pay in dollars of the present gold con-
tent, it is conceivable that their bur-
dens would be increased by deprecia-
ton of the dollar. for they would have
to obtain more of the deprecated dol
lars to pay debts and interest due In
present dollars.
An example Of the way this would
work is shown in the British experience
With the depreciation of the paper cur
rency the value of gold coin increased
Gold sovereigns with a par value of 20
shillings became worth 80 shillings. A
corporation having obligations redeem
able in gold or equivalent, therefore,
would have had to pay about so per
cent more. 1t has not been customary
in England, however, 10 issue gold
bonds, so that handicap was less i'm
portant than it might be here. Great
Britain's obligations in this country
nevertheless, were largely payable in
gold or equivalent, so that it has been
more costly for her to pay interest on
her dollar bonds than before the lapse
from the gold standard.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
TRADE THREATENS
MONEY STABILITY
Durable Monetary System
Hinges on World Commerce,
Banker Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BASEL, May 10.-Unless international
economic relations are radically i'm
proved, Gates w. McGarrah told the
annual meeting of shareholders in the
Bank for International Settlements to-
day, "a durable monetary stability can
not be expected"
IF the relative position Of interna-
tional balances and payments is con-
tinuously to be upset by changes in
tariff barriers" the president said; 'if
the flow of capital from one nation to
another is to be damned by obstacles
which make the fulfillment of con-
tractual obligations virtually impossible,
with consequent destruction Of general
confidence, then an international none
tary system cannot function properly"
Mr.. McGarrah portrayed the fiscal
year which ended March 81 as a series
of financial crises which presented an
opportunity for the World Bank to show
its usefulness as center for tnforma-
ton, counsel and joint financial action.
Bank Shows Profit.
Materially, the bank profited by 49,
600 600 Swiss francs, which was 4,000,-
600 more than in its first year.
The years events, said the president,
emphasize that national monetary sys-
TENS have become interdependent and
that internationalism in monetary mat
ters is an accomplished fact.
The central banks in the World
Banks capital centers and treasures
advanced short-term emergency credits
in 1881 to the sum Of 5000, 100000 Swiss
francs. This permitted liquidation dur
ing the year of more than 80 billions
in short-term indebtedness.
Such vast movement of liquid funds,
Mr.. McGarrah said, played havoc with
the financial world "and the wonder is
that the economic system was able to
withstand such dislocating forces"
The real consequence of the Hoover
moratorium, he said was utilization of
the World Bank as a convenient center
for relatively quick action in the inter
national financial sphere.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
NORTHEAST CITIZENS
DEMAND PLAYGROUND
Protest House Amendment Exclud-
ing Funds for New
Areas.

Opposition to the House amendment
to the District appropriation bill which
would exclude funds for the opening OF
new playground areas in Washington
was voiced in resolution adopted by
the Northeast Citizens Association at a
meeting last night in the Ludlow School.
Declaring that there is greater need
for Fairgrounds in the Northeast than
In any other part of the city, the asso-
citation asked that the amendment be
stricken from the bill.
The civic group asked also that steps
be taken to improve the parks on G
street between Sixteenth and Nine
teenth streets northeast, and that dead
trees in the Northeast section be re-
placed with new ones.
Other resolutions suggested extension
OF bus service from Thirteenth to
Eighteenth streets on c and D streets
northeast
The association recessed until FAN at
the close of the business session.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
Body Returned for Burial.

DANVILLE. Va, May 10 (SpeciaD -
The remains of Henry w. Marsh, vet
eran Southern Railway conductor, who
died on his train near Chatham yester-
day from heart attack, are being
taken to Charlottesville, his home, for
burial
Evening star., 1932-05-10
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Evening star., 1932-05-10
OLD IRONSIDES TO LEAVE

Old Ironsides will leave the Navy
Yard tomorrow morning for Alexandria,
Va, to be a feature of the Masonic
ceremonies there. The vessel will return
to the Navy Yard late Friday.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
Conductor Dies at Post.

DANVILLE, Va. May 10 CIV. H.
Marsh, IS, conductor on the Southern
Railway train between Monroe, Va,
and Greenville, S. c., died at his post
yesterday as the train neared Chatham.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
"HORSES AND H0MESPUN"
FOR FARMER VISIONED
Planters Producing Less for Com
mercial Market, Says U. S.
Specialist.
By the Associated Press.

BY The ASSOcIateu FTeSs.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., May 10
American farmers are returning to
horses and homespun," DR.. Mordecai
Ezekiel, assistant chief economist of the
Federal Farm Board, told an agricul-
tural group at Rutgers University last
night.
Farmers" he said. "are beginning to
produce more for themselves and less
for the commercial market, and If 1t
were not for debts and taxes they would
have less worries for the future than
any other class"
DR.. Jacob G. Lipman, director of the
State agricultural experimental station,
voiced approval 'in principle" of Henry
Ford's plan Of advocating small farming
or gardening for industrial workers.
Evening star., 1932-05-10
PlNEY BRANCH FAVORS
CAPPER MERGER PLAN
Citizens Meeting Approves sena-
tors Minority Report on Street
Railway Measure.

Piney Branch citizens last night ap-
proved the Capper minority report on
the proposed street railway merger bill
Universal free transfers among busses
and between street cars and buses and
provision for control by the Public
Utilities Commission of the rates al
which the Potomac Electric Power Co
sells power to its parent corporation, the
Washington Railway & Electric Co., are
the features distinguishing the Capper
report.
The group also received notice Of and
planned to be represented at a Senate
hearing soon on the erection Of Roose-
welt High School Stadium The meet
ing was held at Hamline M. e. Church
Evening star., 1932-05-10
PARENT-TEACHER AID
ASKED FOR ORCHESTRA
Children's Concerts and Other Fea-
lures of National Symphony
Group Told at Meetings.

Parent-teacher associations at meet
ings this week are being asked to sup
port the National Symphony Orchestra
by subscribing particularly to its chill
dren's concerts. C. C. Cappel, manager
of the orchestra outlined the musical
organizations aims and needs at the
Gage School last night, and he will re-
peat his plea at the John Burroughs
School on Thursday and at the Emery
School on Friday.
A meeting Of the Ludlow School
Parent Teacher Association was held
this morning, another will be at the
National Education Association at 2:3C
pm. tomorrcw and a concluding meet
ing will b. teid at the N. E. A. Thurs.
day mov n5z,s
Evening star., 1932-05-10
INQUIRIES INCREASED
Social Service Exchanges Work
Is Doubled.

An increase Of nearly 100 per cent in
the number of inquiries received by the
Social Service Exchange Committee in
1882, as compared with the correspond
ing period Of last year was reported yes
terday at the annual meeting of the ex-
change, which serves as a clearing
house" for social work agencies. Mrs.
Mary F. C. Leute said the exchange
handled 6,182 inquiries in the first four
months Of this year, as compared with
1881 between January and April, in
elusive, last year. The exchange
answered 52,709 inquiries in 1881, as
compared with 40 1878 in 1880.