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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Play to Premiere
At National

Pola Negri will open in the con-
tinental success, "A Trip to Press
burg" at the National Theater to-
night, prior to the New York pre-
miere.
In the cast Of the play, which
is being produced by Lee Shubert,
and directed by Dunning and Alb
bolt, are Richard Whorf. Clarence
Derwent, Eduardo Cianelli, Janr
Bramley, Florence Edney and
many others.
"A Trip to Pressburg" is the
fourth play of the American The.
alter Society and the Theater
Guilds subscription season. The
usual Wednesday and Saturday
matineeS viii be given.
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from Vera Cruz to England, will
finish the final manuscript. 1t Is
titled. It's Another Story deals
with the life of a motion picture
star and has a tragic ending. II
it's a success in. London, I shall
take it to Paris. But I don't ex-
pect to produce it in the United
States because. in motif and
treatment, it was written only
for continental appreciation"
Those who know the young
Mexican star for his idealism and
almost visionary aspirations, may
be surprised to know that there
is a very practical element In
Ramon's personality, which prob
ably accounts for the fact that,
since his first starring role eleven
years ago. he has steadily main
tanned his prestige and popularity.
And few stars have exercised
the foresight in planning their
futures as he has In his home
he has a fully equipped little
theater," where he has produced
dramatic gems for several years,
and he enters this new venture
BY No means unprepAre6
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stage life faScinateS me. I've
answered all the wires and letters
Of cOngratulatiOn. find myself
losing that seIf-conscious feeling
when I step into the spotlight
but the thrill is just as big. Two
inquiries about where do buy
my gowns. That's another story.
Wednesday, November s. An
other round Of beauty shops,
gown shops, shoe shops getting
ready for next week. Also new
acts to meet and introduce. What
q kick 1 will get out Of meeting
Guy LOmbardO. He's always been
my favOrite on the air and now
1 am going to meet him. work
with him and see him from back
of the fOOtlights instead of from
the front. What = thrill for
any girl. 1 still think that I am
dreaming. Am 1?
Thursday, November 9. The
last day of my first weeks ex
perience as . professional.
don't know whether 20 feel glad
or sorry. But, I know that
would be sorry If it were really
the last and there was not an
other thrill-packed week ahead
Next week will bring new faces
in the audiences and new faces
on the stage. I could really fill
a book with my thoughts and my
dreams Of what is to come. But,
once again must slip into an.
other dress and get back on the
stage to announce the next act.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Warners' Hold
157 Contracts

The largest contract list of the
major producers in Hollywood is
claimed by Warner Bros, a stu
dio which previously has kept its
personnel at a minimum. Studio
at present has 157 players, writ
ers, directors and executives
under contract.
Player group has the largest
roster with II stars, 80 featured
players, II junior stars and 40
contract players. making a total
of 101 artists. Latter are chorus
and bit players, of which the
studio has Is on $50 weekly pacts
with the hope that some Of them
may develop into better screen
material.
Junior star class is made up of
girls who have graduated from
the chorus and have made good
when intrusted with bits. Studio
is grooming them for featured
parts, with those of the contract
players who make good replacing
them on the junior star list.
Writing list is the longest the
studio has had in years, with 80
writer's doing their daily dozen
on company typewriters. The
writing staff has heretofore been
kept down with rarely over IS
on the payroll. Directors con-
tracted total ID.
Five associate producers and
three contract executives COM
plete the list.
Studio will probably weed out
the player group as soon as mus
icals have settled down to steady
production, or have been claSsed
as just a cycle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
American Debut

There is wide interest in "A
Trip to PreSsburg," this weeks at
traction at the National, because
Of the prominence of the star,
Pola Negri, who makes her Ameri-
can debut in the continental sue
cess. This is her first dramatic
venture on the American stage,
thought she had gained promi-
hence under the direction of the
famous Max Reinhardt in Euro
pean productions before she for
sock the dramatic stage for NOV
ing pictures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Angles Birthday

Orangelo Ratio, house manager
at the Palace, began his twen-
tieth year as a Loew executive on
Saturday. It looks like a steady
job.
angie" as chief of Washing
tons prize habit" theater, knows
more than 10000 of the Palace
regulars. That is he has better
than a bowling acquaintance with
that many. When picture like
Mae Vests attracts 100000 Gus
toners in a fortnight he discov-
ers it's a small world after all
and quite a few strange faces ap-
pear at Thirteenth and r SITS.
Manager Ratio has become so
expert at gauging the pull of a
picture on opening day he can
tell within a very few dollars
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NEGRT PLAY OPENS TONIGHT
RKO-Keith's Has
Bennett in a
Spy Story

Constance Bennett is a Russian
spy in her latest picture, Under
Cover" which opened yesterday at
Keith's. All the glamour and al.
lure which the blonde Constance
bequeaths to the screen is wasted
trying to cover up the trite quality
of the story provided by Jane
Murfin.
This is routine spy story No. 1.
About the Russian girl who be-
comes K-14 in the secret service,
crosses over to the Austrian lines
and carries on her espionage work
as cabaret singer, dressmaker and
Red Cross nurse. She falls in
love with an Austrian officer,
Colbert Roland) and it is he who
is called upon to find out where
the information leak is located.
He catches up with the fair Con.
stance and is almost confronted
with standing her up against the
wall when 10, the Armistice
comes. What a blessing that
Armistice was for authors puzzled
about the right ending for war
stories.
In order to make Constance
Bennett appear smart they make
the Austrian officers appear very
stupid. This destroys the ele-
ment of credibility, there is a com.
plete absence of suspense, and Di-
rector George Archainbaud fails
to get any real dramatic excite
ment into his big moment, that
when Miss Benefits sweetheart
learns that she is of the enemy.
Constance Bennett tries hard,
even sings a song C'Buy A Kiss')
but the story is too big a hurdle
for any actress. Gilbert Roland
is still and colorless as the Aus
trian officer.
On the supplementary program
Clark and Mccullough in Fits In
A Fiddle" a collection of slapstick
gags, A Krazy Kat cartoon, the
Pathe news reel and a humorous
golf short fill in an entertaining
half -hour.-ANDREW r. KELLEY
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
News Reel Theater?

Washington may soon have a
newsreel theater, an enterprise
which many showmen think
would succeed if spotted in the
right downtown location.
The washington building at
Fifteenth st. and New York Ave.
is the latest contemplated loca-
ton for a movie featuring the
news shorts such as the Embassy
Theater and Trans-Lux show in
New York. Entrances would be
on New York Ave. and G st.
Another neighborhood movie,
costly and elaborate and catering
strictly to class trade, is under
discussion for Connecticut Ave.
and Macomb st.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Fifty Players in Cast

The widely heralded Continental
success, "A Trip to PreSsburg," "
with Pola Negri, now at the
National, has so players in the
cast, including the favorably
known Richard Whorf, Clarence
Derwent, Eduardo Cianelli, Flor
ence Edney, Roy Gordon, Percy
Ames, Jane Bramley, Charlotte
Andrews. Harold Johnsrud, DON
aid Randolph, Freya Leigh, Juan
de la Cruz, Edward Fielding, Eva
Emerson, Harold Thomas. Evan
geline Raleigh, June Leslie, Ed
ward Colebrook, Gilbert Squarey,
Walden Boyle, and others.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
First Road Show
Q pens at Gayety

New Ideas of 1888" inaugural
ed the first week of road shows
at the Gayety yesterday and did
it quite well. The show does get
off on a rather slow foot, but
it isn't long before vivaciouS, red.
headed Gladys Smith appears.
The show is not lacking in femi.
nine beauty. In addition to the
irrepressible Miss Smith, the
Bates Sisters, Peggy Smith, Mary
Wilson, Gloria Lee and Kay Barry
add much to the merriment of
the occasion.
The unquestioned hit of the en-
tire show, and deservedly so, were
The Three ELS, a trio of sisters
whose voices blended so beauti-
fully that they literally stopped
the show. Their number, if the
opinion of this reviewer is worth
anything, is by far the best the
Gayety has had this season.
Gloria Lee, an exotic blonde
with a surplus of It, appears in
two numbers and brings the house
down.
The comedy is rather weak. The
producers evidently went in for
flesh more than fun. Harry Sey-
mour and Jack Rosen assay the
humorous and both might do
better if presented a reasonable
opportunity.
The chorus of about twenty
girls, outside of the fact that they
either can't sing or won't, makes
very commendable showing.
They are thoroughly drilled
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13

about it and summons him back
for picture. Could it be that he
doesn't want to play again with
Mae West.
Pretty Jean Parker and Tom
Brown have signed a pledge that
neither will be married before S
years. Whoever fails to live up to
the agreement forfeits $1,000.
Even stranger than this, Jean has
signed another pledge that she
WILL marry Pancho Lucas at the
end of the five years. He's the
former Metro-G oldwyn-Mayer Of
flee boy who was picked to play
the bandit Pancho Villa as a boy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13

t he Highland
Springs Ranch
In the noun
t a ms, n e ar
Banning, :" S h e
blit h ely ex-
planned. you
see, I'd never
been on a farm
and, in 'As the
Earth Turns I
am to play a
farmers daugh-
ter; so, mixing
business with
p ] e a S u re, I
thought I'd bet
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13

p e r S Onal ap-
pearances. Hill
stays behind to
study acting.
Jack Oakie'S
ma is entertain
ing Mr.. and
Mrs. Virgil E.
Neal Of Nice,
F a nc e. Mr..
Neal is a poet,
and used to go
to school to
Jacks mother
back in N e W
York, p e tt te
Sidney Fox and
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n IL IA Mar Ellen Dix OneY
PayWih
Miss Sullivan, New Star, individual;
News Reel Theater Discussed For
Downtown Washington

van festival to Thanksgiving week
:. The Charge d'Affaires and
Nine. Sokolowa of Poland will
tender a luncheon to Pola Negri
at the legation on Thursday.
That is if Pola is well enough to
attend Montana claims the
Irish tenor, John Fogarty singing
at the Fox. He comes from Butte.
Tonight Senator Erickson takes
him on a sightseeing tour. To
MORO, night the Montana State
Society will attend in a body the
show at the Fox. On Wednesday
night a Montana dinner at the
Hotel Hamilton with Tenor Fo-
garty the guest of honor.
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ter get caught Constance Cummings
up on my neglected farm life or
they might give the role to some
one else."
Palm Springs seems to have
an affinity for Hollywood folk
with babies. Louise Fazenda, her
baby and nurse, are the latest
edition to the colony Of movie
parents and progeny at the re-
sort. They are guests at the
Desert Inn, and other proud papas
and mamas who frequent Palm
Springs are the Sidney Lanfields,
the Richard Arlens, the Bling
CrosbyS, the Ben Lyons and the
SkeetS GallagherS.
without benefit-if any-of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13

One of the better stories of the
week is told by Ken Maynard
about two extra men on his set
at Universal.
The first extra read a headline
out loud:
America comes to the fork in
the road"
"Yeah," replied the other,
well / hope there's some food
en- it."
On IS minutes notice, Cary
Grant decided to fly to New York
last night. His sudden departure
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13

r e 6 u l a r NOV
i e g o e r is
puzzled a bit
in finding a
reigning star
with whom to
campare her.
One seasoned
film sitter says
the brilliant &C.
treSs of "Only
Yesterday" is
the 1888 edition
of Anita Stew
art. T h a It's
reaching away
ok to the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13

and ne YOU S
manner started
q hot rum or
that he and
Virginia Cher
rill were elop-
ing. Apparent
ly, however, he
b o a r d e d the
plane lon e.
The low down
is that Cary
really is headed
for Europe and
wants t get
aboard a ship
efore the
studio finds olIt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Follies Is Coming

Steve Cochran, back after
counting up a monster $1,000 for
the Boston week of Corinne Grit.
fifth in Design for Living" says
the Ziegfeld Follies plays the Ma
tional week of December 4. That
moves up the Gilbert and SulI-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13

what it will attract to the box
office during the week. His judg-
ment is formed on the type of
audience, number of men and
women, young and old, who show
up. He is pretty accurate, too, at
judging the weather.
In his spare moments Manager
Ratio plays the accordion. He is
also a composer, having penned
"Give Me a Smile" which the
Loew's Palace orchestra featured
one week as an overture.
Loew's Palace celebrates it's fiji
tenth birthday next week. can
gle" began with Loew's four years
before the Palace was opened. He
has refused several promotions be-
cause he likes the people and sur
roundings of Thirteenth and F
SITS.
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not only be the
author, but the
producer. direc.
tor and the
star as well.
I'm going to
satisfy a yearn-
ing to appear
on the legiti-
mate S a G e."
sa i d R a m o n.
First, I will go
to Mexico, ap'
pearing in five
or six of the
lor0er cities in
concerts a n d,
an the VOVage
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Quick GlimpSes

Quick GlimpSes
Jean Harlow, another conval-
escent is we'll enough to go to
the mountains with husband Hal
Rosan for a three days honey
moon. George Hill lent them his
cabin near Lake Arrowhead. The
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer crew on the
Laughing Boy" location is due
for quite a shock when they re-
ceive a grand piano to be trans
ported six miles from the rail-
road. It goes to Ramon Novarro,
who'll put it up in his tent.
Ramon plans to compose a song
for this film.
Bidding her fiance, Maurice
Hill, a fearful farewell, Fiji Dor
say is off to Portland to make
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Did You Know
Ramon Novono to Produce lis
Play About Movies, In Europe

male escorts, several members Of
the Domino Club attended the
premiere of 1.-The Late Christie
pher Bean" to see their very good
friend, Charlotte Greenwood. The
theater party included Adele Row.
land. Mary Forbes and MesdameS
Joe E. Brown, Edmond Breese,
Joseph Cawthorne. Victor Dalton
and Charles G.. Miller.
The home of Constance Cum
mings and her playwright hus-
band, Benn w. Levy, was the
scene of a christening last Sun
day, when they officiated as god
parents for the first time. The
honored baby, Marguerite Jane
Turner, is the little daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Turner, Bean
and ~Constance's most intimate
friends.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
BY RENE DAVIES

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 13.-Jean
Muir, who has been missing at
the studio for the past week,
returned Yesterday, Give been at
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Cary Grant Leaves For New York
To Sail on European Voyage;
Stalets Have Strange Pledge
By HARRISON CARROLL



HOLLYWOOD Nov. 13-Gong Marlene Dietrich bet
ter Richard Dix plans to put his little girl in picture with
him before she is out Of her baby dresses.
Maria Seber eight old when she recently made
her debut.
Mary Ellen Dix is only year and few months old and
present plans work OUT she'll appear her fathers next
picture.
Rich says:
can't any objections In fact them to write
part in for Mary Ellen if necessary"
Before this about the will have win the
consent of the former Mrs Dix who Wnfred Coe before
her marriage This shouldn't be hard however for Rich
and his exwe very friendly Not the point of
citation, though, regardless of what you may hear.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
BIZ ANDREW r. KELLY

This new sensation Of the
movies, Margaret Sullivan, seems
to be so individual that the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13

The termination Of the pledge
will find Jean % and Young
Brown Is.
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44C1 II q . y q 44N1
Charles Beahan, are visitors to
the film colony. They'll be here
for a number Of days.
Did You Know
That Victor Jory once worked
as a candy and magazine butcher
on a train?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-13
Ramon Novarro Tells Me

That he will produce his own
play in England while he is there
on his concert tour and he will
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without benefit-if any
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her huS b a nd,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-23
Right Mineral Mixture
In Swine Feeding Lot

The veteran experimental feed
er at the Iowa experimental sta
ton, John M. Evvard, has the fol-
lowing to say about a simple min
eral mixture for pigs:
ut is surprising how well SIM
pie mineral mixture will usually
respond in the swine feeding lot.
1t is surprising that even common
salt may give results that are
greatly superior to those obtained
where no salt is fed. A simple
mixture of salt and wood ashes
often yields wonderfully good re-
suits. OF course when we use salt
and wood ashes we have. q mix
ture that carries a number Of es-
sential nutritional elements. chief
among which are calcium. potas-
SUM, sodium, phosphorus and mag
nesium.
"A very good, simple backbone
mixture which carries the out
standing and main deficiency ele-
ments such as are needed to bal
ance up our ordinary feeds may
be made up per hundred pounds as
follows: Hard wood ashes, GO
pounds; spent bone black or bone
charcoal, 25 pounds; common salt,
Is pounds; potassium iOdide. O.O2
pounds 1.-TWO one-hundredths OF
one-fiftieth of one pound.)
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Latest Clever Conceit
in Use of Wall PAPER

One of the latest clever conceits in
the use Of wall paper, introduced at 8
spring exhibit Of a New York decora.
tor, combines a metal paper with q
scenic.
A model living room was hung In
a brocaded silver paper from base
board to ceiling. And on one wall at
one end of the long room, creating a
vista from the davenport and the ac-
companying grouping of chairs, a
scenic was inserted.
Four strips of the scenic were used
showing springtime panorama In
delicate grayed tones with blue hills
in the distance, misty trees, dropping
bushes Of orchid flowers and little
riffs of yellow fields.
There was feeling of silvery haze
in the Maytime scene that was in per-
feet harmony with the surrounding
silver background on the rest of the
wall. And at the same time the
metal walls were relieved Of monotony.
Not only this, but the perspective In
the scenic gave length to the room.
And one has all the unique value OF
metal paper on the walls, with wide
area of softer tones for relief to
the eyes.
The scenic is bound in a narrow
strip of the same grayed orchid and
green border that finishes the silver
paper at the ceiling and dado lines.
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the house and, like the true colonial,
the plain, rectangular form makes pos.
sible an excellent utilization of space
In the interior arrangement. At the
same time the exterior boasts Of q
lasting attraction, and the home OF
this style will be one Of which the
owner may well feel proud.
This house is % feet long and "a
feet deep, exclusive of the sun parlor
projection. It contains six rooms,
there being the usual trio Of living
room, dining room and kitchen, on the
first floor with an alcove sitting room
off the living room. Then there is the
sun parlor, 13 feet long and feet 6
inches wide, and three good-sized bed
rooms and bathroom on the second floor.
The floor plans show how these rooms
are arranged, and the sizes Of each one.
This is an economical house to build,
as it is of frame construction set on q
concrete foundation with brick steps
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When
CHILDREN
-don't gain weight
don't grow strong
-don't keep well

The stomach is not to blame when
a child is finicky about food. Nor ls
every sluggish girl or boy constl.
pated. Instead Of lot Of medicine.
give a little pure syrup Of hgs,
You'll see a change In twenty-four
hoursi In couple OF weeks your
youngster win have the appetite Of
a young animall
It's true, mothers, for it's Nature.
California syrup Of figs is bottled
health for the little ones.
Pale, sickly children whose tongues
are always coated, and who are
never really hungry, are suffering
from stdsis. That means a sluggish
colon; a colon clogged with waste.
They need the california treat.
menr." You can give this treatment
yourself, any time, anywhere; tie
simple. Every druggist has OalIfor
mia syrup Of figs all bottled, with
full directions Tor q DaDe or TWO
years or child In his teens. Its de-.
licious taste makes it delightful to
use; no child ever tired Of 1t.
Start tonight, giving enough to
cleanse the colon Of every bit Of
poisonous waste. Then a spoonful
or so, every other day, until the
child's appetite, color, weight, and
general health tell you all sluggish
ness or constipation has been con-
Quered.
When a cold or severe sickness
has Slapped a child's strength and
stamina, remember California syrup
Of figs.
II you aDGnt to get real resaIts,
get the real California syrup OF f0s.
DO not accept any bottle sOhich does
not sag CALIFORNIA Syrup Of Fios.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-23
Modern Architecture
Really Not So Modern

/ Americans who journey to Europe
10 view ancient cathedrals and castles
heed do so no more il it is antique
architectural beauty that they really
seek. On this side of the Atlantic
IS an architecture that was great
when England and France were peo-
)led with semi-savages. And, what's
more, it set the key for much so
called modern architecture that is be-
ing developed today.
These are the opinions brought
pack by a group Of American archi-
ects returned from Uxmal, Chichen-
! TIA and other long buried cities of
,lucatan, now being uncovered by
Psychologists Of the Carnegie insti-
luton. Chichen-Itza, once city of
mt least 100000 Mayans, gives evil
Hence Of the highest civilization of
It's period in its magnificent temples,
palaces and other buildings, says Ken
aeth Clark, one of the party, writing
IN American Architect.
"This race Of cultured Indians
wrote the modernists' story on carved
limestone and left ample proof of
their knowledge Of geometrical de-
.ign in ornaments that set mark for
The modernists to shoot at" he de-
lares. "These people created an
architecture from the pure genius of
conception, and that it was great
architecture is amply proven by what
Ties before our eyes,"