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The Washington times., 1933-03-11
The Pop-Eyed Comedian Is Star
OF a Pretentious Musical Revue
ye Ole Maestro,
CaroIe Lombard
Head Earle

Yowsah! Keep that profile
turned to your audience, Ben,
and you might even fool Win.
chelIS own mother! YoWsah!
The Old Maestro himself, in per-
son, not a motion picture, is hold
ing forth at Warner Brothers
Earle Theater currently and what
come hither personality that
maIt-king has; using his violin as
only an aid (we'd like to hear
some tunes from the Strad, BenD
Maestro Bernie leads the lads
through a clear-cut program of
gems we all like to hear, tossing
IN some smart tap dancing, a
song or two and the Ben Bernie
technique! He's o. K!
There - others, Violet Carl.
son, com1que, and the three Vic.
TOR Girls, doing difficult turns on
Ghe bars, with the dainty Maxine
holdlng her own little fashion
show.
The screen has an entertaining
feature which is a mixture of
Grand Hotel" all the track pic.
lures you've ever seen, and some
lovely girls wandering about the
pace, apparently without reason.
from Hell to Heaven" is a COM
poSlte picture which starts out to
oe several things and ends with
a showdown for justice, love and
oio KING hokum. The very blonde
Caroie Lombard, wearing a Carlo
mp. Is rather lost on this; Ad.
reinne rem Ames, David Manners, the
Wise-cracking Jack Okie, and a
summer, more Subdued Sidney
Blackmer, make up cast which
exert all efforts to please and
they do. GA"
Freddy Clark and his boys mod
ernlze the immortal melodies of
Faust" and the newsreel gives us
GIt9Se-qps Ieea of the new occupant of
1oOO Pennsylvania Ave. N. w
YoWSah! It's a couple of hours
we'll spent. --001o
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
Eddie Cantor Guest
AtC. ofC. Luncheon

Government and city officials
will play host to Eddie Cantor,
"banjo-eyed" screen, stage and
radio comedian, at a special
luncheon sponsored by the Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce at
the Willard Hotel at noon Mon
day.
Among those invited are mem
bers of the Presidents Cabinet,
his secretaries, the District of Co.
lumbia officials and others.
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
Late Stage News
From Broadway

NEW YORK, March 11.-Gale
F Sondergaard will assume Leons
: Hogarth's role in American
: Dream" tonight. This change
will give Miss Sondergaard a
part in each of the three cpl.
sodes in the George O'Neill play
at the Guild Theater. Incl
dentally, Miss Sondergaard will
oe the only member of the cast
to act through the entire play.
Miss Hogarth has entered the
cast Of Far Away Horses"
Max Gordon, producer of DE
sign for Living" returned yester-
day from a business trip to Holly
wood.
Rex Evans has been engaged
for "The Three-Penny OPERA"
the musical play based on "The
Beggar's OPERA" which is now
In rehearsal under the direction
OF Francesca Won Mendelssohn.
Plans for the production of
Little Old Boy" a play by AL.
oert Bein, at the Provincetown
Playhouse, have been Cancelled
Instead, the play, which will go
nto rehearsal on March 20, will
open at a Broadway house, as
yet unsolicited, according to the
author.
Effie Shannon and George
Graham are late additions to the
cast of 'The Party's Over" open
ing at the Vanderbilt Theater
during the week of March 20.
The Theater Guild announces
that it has acquired new play
by A. A. Milne called Sarah Sim
ple." There is a possibility that
it will be presented late this
season as the Guild still owes two
productions to its subscribers. The
irm has already offered three
lays by Mr.. Milne, Mr.. PIN
asses BY" "The Lucky One," and
Arladne."
The Washington times., 1933-03-11

Fox Tn e a I e !
this week.
The pop-eyed
comic has be.
come a radio
celebrity since
his last appear
ances in Wash.
ington, and his
h u m orS ar e
studded W i t h
r e f e renceS to
Rubinoff, h / S
S u n day night
studio con1pan'
ion.
Altog e t h e r
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
BY JAMES WHITAKER

They co. they vanish, they die off and, if you will
phase take note, they not being repacedthe eagles
a high finance. Kruger of Sweden, Lowensten of Ho
to the dispatches from Monte Carlo Sir Basil Zaharoff Of
England France Monaco-Greece. They all departed
the wing and they have left hatchlngs behind
It is decimation Unless the signs fall it is extinction
of breed The has far that it begins to
ho bictor
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
What Luxurv!

A special studio car carries
Baby Leroy daily from his home
in Altadena to Paramount studios,
where the infant is being featured
with Maurice Chevalier in "A Bed
time Story"
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
Shirley Gets Role

snlrley Grey has been signed tn
enact the leading feminine mart
IN Dead Reckoning" She re-.
ptaces Carole Lombard who will
START production soon on "Super.
natural" "peA
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
MarIene Is CirIish

Marlene Dietrich, who wears
trousered suits in public, will wear
26 of the most feminine garments
imaginable for her role in her
new film, "The Song of Songs"
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
Mother Rarity


There is retrospect already
on the golden eagle race. We
shall have to stuff one with
scrip, did somebody suggestO
and put him in the big building
on Central Park West at Seven
ty-ninth Street, beside the
mammoth and the five-toed
horse.
Did we call them eagles
once? Let's take that back.
They are the human dodos-
the dough-dough birds.
Sir Basil Zaharoff, reported
dying in his Monte Carlo, is
one Of the last, and not without
his points, as those unimagina-
tive money-gluttons used to go.
In fact, he did have imagina-
ton, and did one of those
things you might think up as
an answer to a questionable:
eff you had a hundred trillion
dollars, what would you do?"
Sir Basil did it. Being some
what hampered in other parts
Of Europe in the conduct of a
card game he was carrying on,
Serially, with a. few stout fel-
lows who could match his
stakes, he bought Monte Carlo,
Just to have a quiet place
where he could cut a deck with
O couple of old pals.
When Sir Basil, stuffed to
his adenoids with wartime
profits from the English Maxim
machine gun works, cast an ac-
quiSitive eye on Monte Carlo,
=, he found that there was to be
some competition in the bid
ding. In theory, the principal
ity Of Monaco, of which Monte
Carlo is the capital and only
city, is a liberalized monarchy
ruled by an hereditary prince,
at present a Louis. In fact, it
is a landed corporation, gov
erned by a board of directors
the regents of the famous
Casino. The prince lends the
place the air. The Casino
regents lend it-come to think
of it, they lend it nothing, not
a nickel. The money current is
the other way about.
Money War On
At the. time when Zaharoff
made his furious and winning
fight to acquire a controlling
interest in Monte Carlo, a group
of Frenchmen gave him chal-
lenge. The usual incidents of a
money war ensued. The rival
factions ferreted out the drift
ing shares, each coming close
to, control. but neither quite
achieving it.
Zaharoff's purse was longer
than that Of the French syndi-
cate. The syndicate resorted to
tactics which may or may not
be considered fair. They brought
up the impertinent issue of Sir
Basil's blood. zaharoff's title,
of course, being British and
manifestly bought, was dis
missed as inconsequential. It
would be unseemly argued the
Frenchmen, for aristocratic
Monte Carlo to be controlled by
a person of such dubious origin
as this emergent Greek who,,
possibly, might trace his line
back to Jove, butts Jove in the
Almanac de Gotha? The
answer is: No, he isn't even in
the telephone book.
The objection was serious
enough to endanger Zaharoff's
chances of capturing a majority
stock vote. He met the issue
with typical financial finesse-
by putting up straw man. His
choice fell on Prince RadZiwill,
impoverished scion of an old
Polish family, both royal and
noble.
Prince Radziwill was put up
by the Zaharoff faction for the
post of chairman of the Monte
Carlo board. He won.
SWeIIed Head
Events which followed the in
stallation of Prince Radziwill as
00vnrrjnC director 0f Monte
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
RROADWAYS
Of The WORLD
By Mark HeIIinger

During Mark Helinges sojourn inaccessible parts
of the Oorld, this column is being conducted By James
Whitaker, movelist and critic.
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
Secret Entrance

One evening, preparing for an
entertainment which was to
enliven the hours after mid
night in his apartment. Prince
Radziwill received in his draw
ing room q young man, almost
a boy, you might say, who had
been introduced into that same
room several times before, al
ways through a private entrance
practiced when the prince took
lodging in the hotel, so that
he and his friends might come
and go without passing through
the public lobby.
The boy, as described by the
frightened watchman who re-
ported later to the police, was
dressed in workman's clothes,
wore a large cap and was strik-
ingly effeminate in movements
and face. The "boy" was
Marthe d'Albane, who, for rea-
sons never made clear, adopted
the travesty disguise whenever
she had occasion to come down
from Paris in person to report
to her distinguished client.
Some hours passed, and guests
invited by Radziwill for the mid
night supper gathered, became
uneasy, inquired for their host,
finally decided to break into
his room. He was dead on his
bed. Of what he died none
ever knew, except the Monte
Carlo medical examiner. who
withheld the official report.
That night, still in her boys
clothes, Marthe d'Albane was
quietly conducted over the
Monte Carlo border and sent
on her way.
The Washington times., 1933-03-11

Clothes From PhiIIy
Charlie Ruggles, in Murder in
the Zoo," orders his clothes by
mail from tailor in Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
EDDIE CANTOR AT THE FOX
Fine Talent Aids
Star in Breezy
Diversion
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

Eddie Cantor in person, with
his own vaudeville revue, is the
attraction which is packing the
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
Sir Guy Has Travelled

SIR Guy Standing, who will
make MS screen debut in The
story OF Temple Drake" has been
IN all the 48 States ~
The Washington times., 1933-03-11

E. Phillips Oppenheim, veteran
concocter of Monte Carlo tales,
has never dared to include in
one of his fictions. Radziwill
was your typical wastrel Of an
expiring inbred line. His newly
acquired solvency went to what
seems to have been a peculiarly
light and princely head.
His quarters in the hotel ad-
jacent to the Casino on the
Monte Carlo esplanade became
the setting for a series of orgies
as fantastic as ever frightened
a night watchman into fits.
Radziwill became the patron
of one Martha d'Albane, of Paris,
a strange creature who then
piled land those still, for all we
know an ancient profession,
with a new name. She was one
of the guild of Paris business
ladies, euphemistically called
Social Relations Guides" who
conduct licensed bureaus where
gentlemen in search Of adven-
ture may secure adventures
home telephone number, even
her photograph, age and weight
Marthe d'Albane, for a period,
supplied the prince in Monte
Carlo with the personnel Of his
entertainments.
The Washington times., 1933-03-11
Head

Events which followed the in
stallation of Prince Radziwill as
governing director of Monte
Carlo took an upswing into ex-
travagant melodrama such as
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
New Dog Cannot Replace
Lux, Says Sen. Schall

i There can be no LUX the Sec
ond" in the heart of Senator
Thomas D. Schall, blind Mime
sofa Senator.
The Senator's faithful friend
and patient guide" a German
shepherd dog, died last month.
The LaSalle Kennels, where he
was trained, have offered a sec
ond dog to be known as LUX the
Second"
The dog will be accepted, but
Senator Schall says:
'NO other dog can take the
place of Lux in my affections.
He was completely mine and
none but the blind can under
stand the full significance of
this statement. Seeing persons
no matter how kindly, grow
irked at waiting but time was
never too long for him."
The Senator speaks of "Lux's"
beautiful training as a guide for
the blind but says:
''That, however, is not the
thing I miss. It is his devotion,
, his single hearted attachment,
his companiOnShip and the fact
that he never let me forget
ehat was the one who made
his life"
At present friends of Senator
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
Al { ExANDR|ANS
STICK To pop

Despite the fact that the city
council, nearly all city officials
and a great majority of the resi-
dents of Alexandria would like to
see beer sold in the city tomor-
row will be just another day to
Alexandrians, who will continue
to drink pop, near beer and Po-
tomac river "cawn."
Police Captain Arnold said TO-
day that the local police will not
change their system of patrolling
the streets, and will not make
any additional effort to catch
persons bringing a few bottles of
brew to their homes, but that
they will be arrested if they hap
pen to be caught, as is the Gus
tom now.
The Virginia law prohibits al
coholic contents in excess of one
half of l per cent in beer, but
allows home made wine.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
HOTEL R0BBER
Gets GUN, S76

A solemn faced, pug-nosed stick
up man early today held up
Anthony D. Cotts, night manager
of the Plaza Hotel, 800 block
First st. N. E. and took from a
cash register $76 and a As calibre
pistol, kept for protection against
such happenings.
Bolts was forced back of a
partition while the cash drawer
was looted.
Thieves last night showed little
regard for patriotism as displayed
on a bronze marker in the
grounds of the Congressional
Library.
Clothing valued at $S1 was
stolen from the General Cleaning
and Pressing Company, 400 block
P st. N. w., by thieves who broke
a glass window early today.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
NAVY YARDS PUT
On OLD STATUS

Secretary of Navy Claude A.
Swanson today ordered all Navy
Yards to operate on a 512-day
week basis. His order. which af-
fects thousands of civilians, Of
ficers and enlisted men through
out the nation, went into effect
as Of last Sunday.
It will result in saving approx
mately 80 per cent of personnel
salaries threatened under the
combined act of March 3, 1881,
and the new economy act. The
Navy Yards were on a 5-day
basis.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
Citizens Meet Tonight
To Protest School Cut

Citizenry of ashington,
aroused over the $3,500,OoO slash
in the school estimates, will meet
in Roosevelt High School tonight
to protest the reduction and to
outline ways and means of fight
ing the measure.
Hearings To Be Asked
At the same time, the Board Of
Education, cropping for a pro-
gram to keep within the pro-
posed curtailed budget, will ask
the Senate District Appropria.
tions subcommittee for hearings,
which were denied when the
measure was in the House.
The school budget, as passed
yesterday by the House, is for
$8,528,813, while the current ap-
preparation is $12,162,730. Under
these estimates, there is no ap-
preparation for construction Of
new school buildings, which are
greatly needed at the present
Time IN view OF Cne congestion III
schools throughout the city, DR..
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools, told the school body
at a meeting yesterday.
The borad of Education will
meet in executive session later in
the day to devise ways and means
of keeping within the budget, in
the event the Senate fails to deal
more kindly with the school
system.
Director of the Budget Lewis
Douglas will be invited to attend
the mass meeting tonight, t'hich
is being sponsored by the District
Congress Of Parents and Teachers.
The meeting will be attended by
representatives of parent-teacher,
trade and civic groups.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
POLICE PUSHING
DEATHPR0BE

Further investigation into the
death of Mrs. Eva Cumberland,
SO, who was found unconscious
Sunday in an alley near her
home, TOO block Ninth st. S. E.,
has led to postponement of an
inquest while police question two
persons who are held.
Detective sergt. Harry K. Will
son, homicide squad head, believes
the woman was pushed or fell
on a brick pile where she was
found. Mrs. Cumberland's skull
was fractured behind the right
ear. Police have a brick with a
quantity Of hair stuck to it.
Those being held for question
ing are Edward Taylor, 80, 900
block Potomac Ave s. E., and
Wilbur Allen, "a. of Camp Springs,
Md. Another man and Taylor's
wife have been released.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
ARMY DAY FE.TE
r REVIEWED BY
PRESIDENT
81 Units Parade on Sixteenth
Anniversary of u. S.
Entry Into War >~

President Roosevelt and other
national leaders today reviewed
the annual Army parade COM
memorating the achievement Of
Americas armed forces in peace
and war. It also marks the six
teenth anniversary Of the Ma
tion's entry into the World, War.
To relieve the President Of the
strain attendant upon saluting
each individual flag, colors of the
various units were massed at
the head of the column, COM
prised of 50 marching military
units.
Starts Near Capitol
The parade began at 1880
p m. in the Peace Monument
area. Units from the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps and the
high school corps, along with va
rious civilian organizations, were
in the line of march.
The parade moved from the
Capitol, along Constitution Ave
nue. to Pennsylvania Avenue, to
Fifteenth Street, south to Con-
stitution Avenue, and west to
Seventeenth Street, where it will
disband. The reviewing stand
was at Sixteenth Street and Con-
stitution Avenue.
Four Divisions
Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, COM
manding officer of the Third
Corps Area, was grand mar
shall. The column will be in four
divisions headed by Brig. Gen.
Perry L. Miles, Maj. Gen. Anton
Stephan, Lieut.. Col. G.. E. Ijams
and Brig. Gen. William E. Hor-
ton.
All traffic along the parade
route was halted. Parking in
the area east of the Capitol will
be forbidden.
The parade is being sponsored
by the Military Order of the
World War. Observance OF Army
Day will close with a formal ban
quet tonight at 1880 in the May
flower Hotel.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
RULE To AFFECT
METER CABS

Peoples Counsel Richmond B.
Keech today asked the Public
Utilities Commission to adopt a
regulation which would compel
operators of meter taxicabs to
identity their cabs plainly as
meter cabs.
Mr.. Keech said he has received
complaints from persons who
have boarded cabs under the i'm
preston that they operate on a
zone basis only to find that they
must pay a meter fare.
He pointed out that the confu-
sion is heightened by the fact
that many cabs which actually
operate on zone basis are
equipped with meters, thus max
ing the physical presence Of a
meter no guide to patrons seeking
a zone cab.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
Revival Disturbance
BrinQs Fines to Pair

George Bowen and Paul Ben.
nett were fined $50 and costs and
placed under $500 peace bond by
Judge Snow in the Alexandria
police court today on disorderly
conduct charges preferred by E.
L. White, 321 South aPtrick St.,
who stated that Bowen and Ben
nett came to his prayer meeting
last night and caused disorder by
brandishing jar of liquor and
breaking a window.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
Emergency Physician
Takes Knife From
Mans Throat

Emergency Hospital physi-
clans expect most anything to
happen-and when it does they
must just call it a days work.
But DR.. William Barnette yes
terday had one of the rarest
cases in the institutions history.
He took a penknife from the
throat of David Rollins. 20, a
porter at the Willard Hotel,
and then set about saving the
would-be suicides life.
Rollins, it was said, stabbed
himself several times in the
throat, in an alley near the Will
lard. Rescue workers at first
could find no weapon. The
knife was located in the
wounded mans esophagps. DR..
Barnette found and removed it.
Rollins was still in a critical
condition today.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
CHIEFS
SEEK WAY To .
KEEP CLERKS
Strive to Ease Hardship By
Other Savings, Holding Dis
missals to Minimum

Federal executives, faced by
the prospect Of new and drastic
budget cuts, are seeking. today
some means of preventing dis
ruption of their working forces
to minimize hardships to en-
ployeS.
There is sentiment in some
quarters in favor Of a proposal
that instead of cutting forces at
this time, every possible economy
be made otherwise and that no
vacancies due to death or retire
ment be filled during the next
few years.
Difficulties Faced
Over a period Of two or three
years, it is thought, q sufficient
reduction in Federal personnel
might be achieved in this man.
ner to cut expenses TO the mini
mum required. The difficulty in
the way of this plan lies in. the
fact that immediate reductions
are demanded.
It was reported today that the
projected new budget cuts have
been ordered by President Roose-
velt.
The budget as sent to Congress
by President Hoover totaled $3,-
AL, ,000, 900, exclusive of the sink
ing fund. It now appears that
the Presidents plan is to keep
normal government expenses
within a limit of $4,000, ,000, ,00Q-
a slash of $841, ,000,00O
Defense Cuts Loom
Of this amount, $40O, 900, 900 is
expected to be saved on payments
to veterans, and $10O, ZOO, 900 by
the Federal pay cut already or.
dered. This leaves $341, ,000, 900
still to be obtained. Army and
Navy cuts now loom ahead. as
well as reductions in the civil
establishment.
Personnel officers met yester-
day afternoon to plan for the
new situation. They expect fur
ther cuts of 20 to Is per cent in
the sums allotted Federal units.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06
FOREST FORCES
RECRUITED

Though many men tried to
enlist in President Roosevelt's
Reforestation Army, to be trained
at Fort Washington for the big
battle ahead, not one rookie got
his marching orders today.
Capt. James Wharton, U. s. A.,
had set up recruiting officers at
$40 Tenth st. N. w., but no new
applications could be received
under a ruling of Leroy A.. Hal
bert, supervisor, Emergency Re
lief Bureau.
Those who are going will be
chosen from the ranks Of men
already registered at emergency
relief headquarters.
This means that about one
man out of every 20 will be ELI
gible. It also means that any
man who answers the call must
volunteer to send certain part
Of his money home.
Hopes to Send 100
Still, the recruiting department
Of the Conservation Corps hopes
to send 100 men out of here to-
morrow-down the river to Fort
washington.
The rules read:
Men must be between the ages
of 18 and IS, unmarried and ur1-
employed.
They must give portion of their
pay to their families, must be
able-bodied and willing to do a
full days work.
They must be citizens.
Also, they must already have
asked for relief.
The Washington times., 1933-04-06

made them dizzy or affected their
vitals in disagreeable ways which
certainly had nothing to do with
what they had been drinking. These
noble fellows will be pleased to learn
they have been right all along, for
two American scientists have found
that alcohol and lack of pure air
particularly of oxygen) produce the
same symptoms, implying that drink
ing in an Theoretically sealed vault
called a speakeasy makes you drunk
twice as fast. Or twice as drunk.
This news comes appropriately at a
time when beer, at least, is coming
into the open air, and all that is left
now is for another group of scientists
to discover whether you get more or
less drunk on Misunderstanding 3.2