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The Washington times., 1933-02-28
Boots MALLORY,
Dunn Star at
Columbia

Handle With Care" the new Co
lumbia film, is distinctly a juve-
nile piece, both in story and treat
ment. James Dunn and Boots
Mallory are the particular satel-
lites, and both do as we'll as could
be expected with the material in
hand.
1t has to do with young girl,
who is raising two children (not
her OWN and looking after numer-
Gus others in department store
playroom. She meets an old
flame, now assistant district attor-
ney, and the pair Immediately do
the expected thing. The kids (who
turn out to be a couple of rather
obnoxious youngsters) do not take
much of fancy to their prospec-
tive male guardian and torment
and plague him in very objection
able manner.
The young man is prosecuting a
case against one of our many pub
lie enemies, and two henchmen,
take it into their heads to put the
enterprising lawyer on what is
commonly known as 1.-The spot"
They go to his apartment, to
which the two boys also come.
Then matters wax fast and furious
with a finale seldom seen outside
of an "Our Gang" comedy. Oh,
yes, everything comes out all
right.
Altogether, the impression is
gained that here was material for
a two reel human interest film,
which the producers tried to
stretch, and not too successfully
into a full-length feature.
James Dunn, whose histronic
ability is not disputed. has very
little opportunity to demonstrate
it. Boots Mallory is pretty
young thing with a decided lack
of the same gift. Ell Brendel has a
small part, and Buster Phelps and
George Ernest are the girls wards.
Victor Jory, the memorable "con-
ceSSion man" of Estate Fair" con,
tributes also.
A Moran and Mack comedy, a
do You Remembers" reel, and
the newsreel are the remaining
subjects.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

invention, and in an incredibly
few years becomes enormously
wealthy. He strays from the
hearth now and then but is al
ways welcomed back by the ever
forgiving wife and child.
Failing under the spell Of a
New York siren (played by one
Gwili Andre with a heavy accent)
he finally tries to break away
completely from his wife but she
steadfastly refuses to release him.
realizing that he is just a big
boy" Desperate. the millionaire
at last goes to unbelievable
lengths to gain his freedom.
He hires tricky lawyers and
bribes the servants to swear. in
court % his wife's infidelities.. In
a tense courtroom scene, in an
hysterical effort to win the
custody of her child Irene Dunno
rises to the emotional heights and
displays the fine acting for
which she is deservedly re-
knoWned.
A hilariously funny comedy, an
animated cartoon, a highly in
tereSting Strange AS It May
Seem" novelty and a newsreel are
subsidiary features.-E. C. P.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
When The Feature Is
Shown On The Screen

R-K-O KEITH'S-Irene Dunno
in mo Other Woman" at IL m,
1853, 1856, 5:54, 1852 and $50
p. m.
COLUMBIA-Boots Mallory in
Handle With Care" at 1855 a,
m, 1:55, $50, $50, 7:45 and
GAS p. m.
FOX-Buster Keaton in Whit!
No Beer!' at II a. m. 1882. 4:24,
7:16 and 1908 p. m. Stage shows
at 1927, 3:19. GIL and 9:03 p m.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ar
liss in The Kings Vacation" at
II a. m. 1880. 2:4O, 4:30, CHS.
sos and 9:55 p m
EARLE-Nancy Carroll IN The
Woman Accused" at 11:15 a. m,
1887, 4:19 7;01 and GAS y m
Stage -hows at 1880. 3::33 6:15
and $3.50 p m.
PALACE-A! Jolson in Halle
lujah I'm Bum" at 1920, 2:40,
5, tbs and 9:35 p. m.
RIALTO--Lee Tracy in Private
JONES'" at 11:3G a. M, 1882. 1892,
5:32, 1882 and 9:32 p. m.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
L ate Stage News
Direct From
Broadway

NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-Elmer
Rices play, 1--WE, the People, +"
which was scheduled to close at
the Empire on Saturday night
will continue with the company
on cooperative basis. Mr..
Rice has agreed not to take any
profit, and the production will
be managed hereafter by the 54
members of the company, with
the cooperation of James F.
Reilly, manager of the theater.
A revival of Young Sinners"
is being rehearsed by Thomas
Fitzpatrick and will open at the
Ambassador on March 6. The
Elmer Harris comedy originally
played on Broadway from No
vember, 1929, to September, 1880.
Dorothy Appleby will play the
leading role which she created,
having returned from Hollywood.
Charles Hopkins has obtained
the rights to a new play by Sam
son Raphaelson called THE
Magnificent Heel" He plans a
spring and summer try-out and
will offer It here next fall. Three
other dramas are on Mr.. Hop
kinS' schedule for next season,
Katherine Clugston's Curtain
CALI; Growth" by Dana Bur-
nett and Randall Hoyt, and
Strange Orchestra" by Rodney
Ackland.
The cast for the Lee Shubert
production of "A Trip to Press
burg" has been assembled. The
show will open in Philadelphia
March 6 and will arrive here
two weeks later. The principal
members of the company are:
Roger Pryor and katherine Will
son, who are featured; Albert
Van Decker, Charles Dalton,
John E. Hazard, Egon Brecher,
Maude Ream Stover, Lillian
Gahagan, Beatrice Swan n,
John Galladet and May Ediss.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
The Middle Watch"
Is Next Guild PIa\

The third production by the
Drama Guild of Washington for
this season will be "The Middle
Watch" a romance Of the British
Navy by Ian Hay and Stephen
klng-Hall. This play will be pre-
Sented at Wardman Park Thea
ter on Thursday and Friday even
lngs, March 16 and IT. In offer
ing THE Middle Watch" the
Drama Guild has selected a play
which was received with great en-
thusiasm when it had it's Amer
lean premiere here in 1929. It was
brought direct from London.
Robert Halsted. for many years
director of the Woodlothian Play.
ers, will direct his first play for
the Drama Guild. The complete
cast has not been announced, but
1T is known that it will include
Maude Howell Smith, Thomas Ca
hill, Maurice Jarvis. Bethine Coe.
Brad Holmes, Leonore Romney
and other favorites of Drama
Guild audiences.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
George Raft Has
Difficulties With
Paramount
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate Inc

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb. %.
In case George Raft and Para
mount agree to forget and for
give, his next picture will bear
the appropriate title, "On Proba-
tion."
It is melodrama about a woman
probation officer (Wynne Gibson)
and a prisoner who is receiving
the mercy of the law (Rraft) =.
Howard Spellman, formerly on
the district attorneys staff IN
New York got the idea and Rian
James will do the adapting.
The general feeling around
Hollywood is that Raft and the
studio will patch up their differ
ences, probably with concessions
on both sides. Several days ago,
George invited the press to his
agents office to receive a state
ment. None developed but, talk
ing informally, the star said:
II don't think I'm a great
actor, but I'm in this business
for the money and 1 think
that part in "The Story of
Temple Drake" would ruin any
one who played it. made my
living before / got in pictures
and 1 think 1 could again.
Certainly, Hollywood could get
along without me-"
George says he hasn't made
much money in the films, in fact
he's broke.
The sta made a favorable
impression upon the scribes, most
of whom have liked him from
the first.
Many Londoners have spoken
of it, but Bill Conselman tells a
story that illustrates the point
exactly.
During his stay in the British
capital, he attended a certain
revue. He was much surprised to
hear a mediocre player applauded
strongly. She came back for an
encore and they applauded her
again.
Turning to his companion, an
Englishman, Conselman asked:
"Why do they do that?"
"You see," the man replied,
she was great favorite here,
10 years ago."
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
Daniel Frohmdn Schedules a $40
Per Seat Show

| Gang" the play decided to con-
tinue with another actor in the
star role.
Almost Immediately business
fell off to such an alarming de-
gree the Elmer Rice production
was speedily closed. When MUM
completed his Hollywood chores
he resumed in "CounSellor-at-LaW"
and once more business showed a
profit, in fact it has never had
a losing week with MUM in the
role.
The National Council of Teach
ers of English hopes to introduce
the study of photoplays in the
nations schools and invites me
to serve as one of the judges in
the experiment.
1t seems to me an excellent
plan and I am delighted to take
even a small part in what looks
like another noble experiment.
More than 80 per cent of the en-,
rollment in the Washington
schools attend the movies regu-
larly, is pretty well up on the
dominant figures in the realm of
screen entertainment.
School boys and girls, too,
know more about the picture
stars, their personal habits, likes
and dislikes, than their parents
do in many cases. Then why not
take up the subject of the photo
play in it's serious phases and
aspects?
I'VE need several well-known
experts like yourself to fill out
some of our experimental rating
scales. in order to set up criteria
against which to measure the
judgment of the students" says
the invitation from Newark, N.
j., signed by Secretary William
Levin.
In. offering to cooperate it is
understood that the acceptance
involves nothing that takes on
the character of censorship.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
New Stars Shine
At the MadriIIon

Irish eyes are smiling at the
Madrillon this week with those
two colleens, Kathleen Scanlon
and Peggy O'Neal, added to Senor
Peter Borras' floor show.
Kathleen Scanlan halls from
County Cork, but goes in for in
ternational d a n C ing. Peggy
O'NeaPs torch swinging is strictly
of the brand born of the broken
hearts of Manhattan's flippant
forties.
The Hart Sisters, agile and
lovely, will continue to be fea-
tured in their vibrant tap num-
bers, also a new acrobatic waltz
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
By ANDREW r. KELLEY


Daniel Frohman, veteran di-
rector of the Actors Fun recognizes
no depression. For the first seven
rows of the Belasco Theater's bene-
fit fund show next Sunday night
the tariff will be $40 seat. The
other chairs will be scaled accord
ingly.
For such a price scale the
Actors Fund promises to produce
more stars and celebrities than
have ever before graced a Wash
ington stage in a single perform
ance, headed by Noel Coward and
including Jack Pearl, Cecilia Lof-
tus, Beatrice Lille, Amos n Andy,
Jack Dempsey, to mention just
few. The fund expects that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will make his first
appearance as the White House
boss by dropping across the street
and occupying stage box. His
Cabinet also is expected.
A promised novelty is a short
comedy skit, "The Lovers" written
by Daniel Frohman and Walter
Damrosch and employing a cast
from Washington society in which
Louise Harrison GWynne, 1sham
Keith, George Calvert and Thomas
Bell Sweeney, jr., will have
featured roles. Mr.. Frohman will
direct this himself.
won't you stop calling them
cinemas" postcards w. D. S. 1T
ought to be easy. You don't like
English pictures. Then why use
a purely British word"
The point is we'll taken and I
promise not to offend again.
Until such time as it becomes
necessary to use a synonym for
motion picture theater, or Holly
wood shrine or celluloid cathe-
dral, or flicker emporium, or tenn
pie of sound, or just plain picture
house.
OF course 1 do like a variety
of words. Just as I'd like to see
an impression of Greta Garbo
that didn't include a throaty "Ay
Tank Ay Go Home Now" or an
impression of Zasu Pitts that had
more than fluttering hands and
"Oh My-yys;;" or an imitator of
Chevalier who saw more to it
than sticking out the lower lip
and wearing straw hat side
ways.
When Forward March" was
here in the late fall it struck me
that the Brown and Henderson
musical comedy had too many
good things to permanently per
lsh. True it did need comedy,
and badly, it needed name enter
tainers instead of the young hope
fuls who were full of budding
talent in process of development.
After sinking 100000 in their
production Brown and Hender-
son laid it aside until such time
as they could recruit a new cast.
This includes the famed long
noSed comic, Jimmy Durante,
the Mexican pepper pot, Lupe
Velez, the idol of Park Avenue,
Hope Williams. Lesser lights are
Eddie Carr and Oracle Barry.
The revamped musical looks
good enough to attempt Broad
way at $4.40 top. This is a lotta
money to ask, even in New York,
but Strike Me Pink" (the new
tltle) looks as though IT, can pet
1t. A try out week in Newark
produced $50 900.
How much does an actor mean
to a play? A great deal in
most cases. With "Counsellor-At-
Law" almost everything.
For when Paul Mum went to
Hollywood last season to act in
I'm a Fugitive From a Chain
~&: 6LWays . better show st..
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

Andrew X. Kelley Theater last
night attains eminence through
Playwright Rice's facility for pen
ming sharp and incisive dialogue,
for casting of cosmopolitan char
acters that seem vigorously gen.
uine, for steady series of hu
man touches that lend vitality
and appeal to his dramatic pan
Drama.
AS in his earlier "Street Scene"
Mr.. Rice is a keen observer. He
notes carefully the seemingly in
consequential little details which
reveal character and when he
applies them to his types, to the
men and women who pass
through this success story they
take on Importance and add to
the interest value of his drama.
HOratiO AIger Boy
Attorney George Simon (as
played by Paul Numb is i Second
Avenue boy who has risen to
riches and reputation by judi
cious knowledge of how to blend
Blackstone and politics. Impress
ing the court of appeals with legal
lore is matter he leaves to Har-
ward law school juniors, while he
devotes his time to headline muir
der trials, unSavory breach of
promise suits, tariff matters and
such cases as involve fat fees and
require a more extended knowl-
edge of the world than of law
books.
Occasionally he dips into minor
causes to help out old Second Ave
nue. neighbors. He steps out Of
his social class to contract an i'm
pulSive marriage with a snobby
Puritan divorce with two snippy
children, tells the Democratic boss
who should be nominated for
judge, takes little flyer in the
market, lives at the rate of $780,
900 a year. Attorney Simon is
riding high.
At the peak of his glory an old
misdeed arises to torment him. In
the early days of his career an
unethical piece of deceit freed one
Of his clients. An influential enc
my learns of the trickery and
moves for disbarment. Another
piece of unethical business frees
him from this embarrassment,
paves the way for a solution of
his domestic unhappiness and
more fat retainers.
This is bald outline of a
story which is studded with fas-
cinating character miniatures
that lend color and the power
to grip your interest.
MUM Is Superb
Dominating all three acts is
Paul MUM as a not too scrupulous
member of the bar; a fellow of
many charms, generous to a fault
with the less fortunate, blind to
the suppressed devotion of his
secretary, cold and calculating in
dealing with his enemies, weak
in his capacity to take reverses
but intensely sincere and likeable.
AS Paul Mum plays this lawyer
the character gathers stature and
certain nobility.
1t is performance rich in
variety of expression, graced with
careful infection of voice and
emphasized by assurance and
forceful gesture that makes a
tender and moving portrait it is
delight to watch. MUM is truly
great actor.
Assisting the star with a compe-
tence that frequently won indi-
dual acclaim were Jennie Mos
cowitz, Dorothy Day, j. Ham
mond Daley, Martin Wolfson,
John M. Qualen, Angela Jacobs,
Regina Wallace, Sam Bonnell, T.
H. Manning and Malka Korn-
stein.
Last nights performance was
a testimonial to Manager Stod-
dard Taylor, of the Belasco, and
a close to capacity audience wit
messed the Elmer Rice play.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

private office
of one of New
York's celebrat-
ed Grim in a |
lawyers, pre-.
SentS a play
easy to group
with the sea-
sons fin e S t,
with a perform
ance of surpasS-
i n G brilliance
by Paul NUM-.
&C ou nSellor-
At-Law" as it
was offered at
t he National
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
Actors Fund Benefit

Inauguration Benefit to be held at
BELASCO THEATER
NEXT SUNDAY EVE. at $3.50
The Greatest Stars of the Theatre
Box Office Now Open at BelascO
MANAGEMENT .. .. of .aGs n, Daniel FrohmaR
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

'ItNcuIS SulClu6S.
mon characteristics of all safe
robberieS and do not summon
a crackmen's reserves of in,
spiration and artistry. 1t was
the tin-smithing which was
Frenchy's youthful contribution
to the art which had claimed
him,
He became an ace Of tin
smiths. The master smith
bowed to his apprentices su.
perior talent and fell into the
habit of leaving the underling
in charge of the shop, which
arrangement was one of
French's minor objectives. The
major objective was the work
of fine art in tin-smithing
which Frenchy was producing
secretly in a far recess of the
cellar work-room.
As Simple As That!
1t was, in essence, Shell-like
duplicate of the safe in the
Bank next door, having meas
urements an inch or so greater
all around than the solid steel
box it counterfeited.
The measurements of the
safe we're easy to get," ex-
planned Frenchy off-hand. "Tri
angulation, you know-with a
pencil and a foot rule. And I
kept my savings in the bank
but I got them back"
The hollow tin duplicate of
the bank safe was cut down
into leaves and hinged to-
gether, as a last process. 1t
was the most delicate process
of all, for each leaf had to be
hinged to the next with pre-
cision which would make detec-
ton of the joint by the naked
eye unlikely-and each point of
contact of tin with tin had to
be artfully fitted with strips of
felt to eliminate rattle.
Manufacture of the contrap-
ton took three months. The
setting up of the snoring in the
cellar under the bank also took
time-and the study of the
habits of watchmen, city patrol
men and citizens of the neigh
borhood which gave Frenchy
his timetable.
On this time table were
marked the four minutes,
shortly after l a. M, during
which, cuStOmarily, neither
watchman, nor cop on beat,
nor passing citizen, was likely
to have the safe under Obser-
vatiOn.
The thing tells itself more or
less as it was done; three
months of preparation, three
minutes of execution. At the
zero minute of the H night,
Frenchy sent up through a
hole in the floor under the safe
a small and slippery apprentice
jockey he had hired as accom-
plice. The monkey boy, we'll
rehearsed for his part, dragged
the tin shell up after him,
deployed it in dozen rapid
motions and fitted it around
the safe. Then he came down
as he had got up, got his fee
and went back to the races.
Frenchy simply released a few
levers and wedges and the safe
dropped, so to speak, in his
arms.
300 Seconds
The tin shell, however, re-
mained securely in place over
head. And all through the
night which Frenchy improved
in the cellar by a leisurely job
of dull safe-cracking, the
Watchman and the city police
and the unconsciously cooper
ating passing citizen continued
to keep faithful watch, above.
OIl CIldC piece OF Tin under those
four baby spot-lights.
In Tombs Prison. where
the guards plume themselves
on the surveillance which pre-
vents suicides, Frenchy waited
one night last year until the
lights were out and then took
his trousers belt and ringed his
neck with it. illuminating the
spot where a hole for the catch
would produce a loop tight
enough to strangle him. He
bored hole at this point with
hob-nail from his shoe.
he Middle Ma+cb"
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

Ny favorte burglar is 'Frenchy" Levine was, rather
for the poor devil is very much in the past tense having
evaded fourthoffnse penalty under the Baume law by
ending his life with amazing dextery and originality in
Tombs Prison. where the guards plume themselves
system of surveillance which prevents suicides
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
"COUNSELLOR-ATLAW" OPENS =
Paul Mum Gives
Performance Of
BriIIiance

BY ANDREW r. KELLEY
Elmer Rice's' searching study
of the legal profession as seen
through the reception room and
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

~
The suicide was Frenchy's
supreme safe-cracking job. He
looted New York State Of his
soul. 1t was only to be eX
pected that the dexterity and
originality which had served
him for 25 years would serve
him again in the end. 1 can
imagine him going about his
preparations for that brilliant
and astounding suicide under
the eyes of the TombS night
guard with great relish, and a
gleam of mocking humor in
his large light blue eyes.
Being the artist he was, he
would have lost count, that
night in the Tombs, of the ulti-
mate fact that he was going to
die before dawn; what would
have urged him on, as he made
the hole in his belt with a nail
from the sole of his shoe,
would be the thought that the
Tombs guards claimed it
couldn't be done and in the
morning they would have to re-
duCe that claim.
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
.ROADWAYS
Of The WORLD
By JAMES WHITAKER
BY Mark HeIIinger

During Mark Helingers Sojourn inaccessible parts of
1Dord this column is beng conducted by James Whitaker
The Washington times., 1933-02-28
An Arrogant Safe


his cracking, back in the first
decade of this century, of the
''inviolable" safe in the branch
bank of the Credit LyonnaiS
in his native Boulogne-sur-
Seine proves the claim.
The safe-Frenchy told us
had bothered and taunted him
ever since he was 60 high. He
was born right around the cor
ner from the branch bank
premises where it stood and
when he became a thief at
maturity, sentimental attach
ment for childhood scenes Sug-
gested to his mind that he
make an attempt to crack it,
this despite the drawbacks,
which we're that the safe was
very difficult to- crack and not
likely to prove worth cracking
if you cracked it.
But the artist and the senti.
mentalist in Frenchy gOaded
him on.
The safe was a difficult prob
lem, not because it was strong
or hedged about with modern
thief-catching devices. but be-
cause of another factor visi-
bility.
These inventions for rein
forcing and protecting safes
don't stop US" explained
Frenchy. There is no steel
that can't be cut by something
like butter. And I'll tell you
one trick for outwitting anything
like the Holmes Patrol or any
Of those centralized electrical
signaling services: Just drop a
small bomb in the street man
hole nearest to the place you're
going to rob and all the
burglar alarms of the neighbor-
hood go off-and then how is
your patrol service to decide
which premises, in say a thou
sand, are being Tifled?
Learning a Trade
AS Frenchy described the
place containing the safe, it
was one of those flat-iron buSi-
ness corners, the banking floor
being the one on street level.
Plate glass enclosed it all
around and the visibility of the
safe was made perfect by its
location in the dead center of
the floor, inside a wire cage
which ran to the ceiling, where
four baby spot-lights played
down on the safe during the
night.
Very clever" admired
Frenchy. Somebody who knew
something about my business
made those arrangements. Give
me night. unobserved, with
any safe in the world and ! can
crack it. But if I can't work
unobserved-"
"How?" we obliged.
Il became a tin-smith."
The tin-smithy in which
Frenchy served three-month
apprenticeship adjoined the
bank premises and had forge
room and storage cellars which
went back under the bank floor.
Frenchy told with brief scorn
of the arrangements to shore
up the cellar under the bank
and then cut through until only
a thin layer of tiling stood be-
tween the burroWers beneath
and the safe overhead. Such
things, after all, are the com
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

How much does an actor mean
to play? A great deal in
most cases. With "Counsellor-At-
Law" almost everything.
For when Paul MUM went to
Hollywood last season to act in
I'm a Fugitive From a Chain
The Washington times., 1933-02-28

Elmer Rice Offers ForcefuI Study Of
Brilliant New York Criminal LAWYER