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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14
DEGREE TEAM
TOINSTALL
AT POMONA
Seventh Degree to Take Over
ceremonies at the Annual
Meeting at Vale; Gavel In
creases Interest

Routon County POMONA grange
moi with Whitstran grange last
Saturday. December 9th. All Of
f;cers were present with the ex-
.ention of the three graces and
the lady Assistant Stewart. There
we're 81 present when the meeting
was called to order by Master Nc
Lean.
The afternoon session was taken
up with the regular order of bus
mess and appointment of commit
tees for the annual meeting to be
held at Vale, Saturday, January
"a plans are underway to make
this one of the best annual meet
ings ever held.
In place Of having an outside in
Sailing officer this year the
committee has decided to have the
18th degree members to do the in
stalling ]. R. Ayers, Hover, has
consented to be the installing Of
ficer. Other 7th degree members
will take care of work of the chap
lain, marshal and bearers. Plans
are underway to secure F. 3. Bal
mer, Director of Extension for the
State, as the main speaker of the
evening.
Report of subordinate oranges
show that all the oranges are ac-
tive with interest increasing in
practically every grange. The
gavel program seems to be in
creasing interest as it is taken
from grange to grange. The gas
stations are still reporting consid-
cradle sales and the county now
seems to be well covered as far as
facilities are for distributing is
concerned. Practically all oranges
report donation to the Kegley Me-
mortal Fund as well as acting fav-
orably upon continuation of the
Pennsylvania plan. The special
attention is going to be given to
entertainment of all 7th degree
members attending the annual
meeting. Every 7th degree menu
Der in the county is especially in
vited to attend the annual meet
ing and assist in special features.
The charter was draped in MEM
DRY of D. Hartman, whose death
occurred during ahe last month. A
quartet consisting of Knute Hill,
Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Lampson and Mr..
Roger provided the vocal number
Tor this ceremony.
The special feature of the sup
per hour was turkey dinner for
which were provided by Represent.
alive Knute Hill. Mr.. Hill also took
an active part in the program and
N several cases contributed to the
part of the host for the evening,
ne being a member of the Whit
stran grange.
The lecturer hour program was
as follows: A Thanksgiving song,
Russell Snowden; "Bees," 1. Swain
2 very interesting talk by an old
zee Keeper; male quartet, j. An
anerson, M. Farris, I. Swain and P.
noyer; reading "When Angelina
sonnson Comes Swinging Down
. sne Lane, Mrs. Ed Hamilton; skit,
Inc Old Maids Prayer" Mrs. H.
rasten and Mrs. c. Shields, with
mrs. Hill doing the reading. Scotch
songs, I Love a Lassie." Male
quartet, Little Brown Church in
the Vale.n
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14
New Variety Store
Opens for Business

The Beasley Variety store, Ken
newick's newest business institu-
tion, opened it's doors today. All
kinds Of small novelty goods have
been stocked and are on display.
Christmas goods are featured at
present, Of course, and the general
public is invited to inspect the
new place. It is located in the Ho-
yer block next door to the post
office.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

apnns, Horticulture L, club held their
At tsa Christmas party Monday
Firs. nome of Mrs. Alex Bier on
dinns,a avenue. A real Christmas
IN r. was served with turkey and
aad n. i1lngs. A Christmas tree
follow;sex exchange of gifts was held
~lng the dinner.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Whittemore

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Whittemore
entertained with a dinner party
Tuesday evening. Covers were
laid for eight. Bridge was the di-
version of the evening with hon.
ors going to Mr.. and Mrs. c. II.
Eakin and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Matthews.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

Bill Graves and Bobby Johnson
have been named for positions on
the district all-star high school
football team by committee COM
posed of coaches and sport writers.
Harrington received hon orable
mention.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Carpenter
who were recently married in Yak
ina were given a miscellaneous
surprise shower for their new
home Wednesday evening. The
guests were neighbors in the
Garden Tracts.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14
School Operetta to Be
at Liberty, December 20

The high school operetta "Wood-
en- Shoe Christmas" will be given
at the Liberty theatre Wednesday
Of next week at 2:30. There will
be no admission charge and pa
irons of the district are invited TO
attend the performance.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

te, ~: and Mrs. T. E. cotman en-
Wed a,aea with a dinner party on
co,anesday evening honoring Mr..
mar mother, Mrs, l.. J. Cot
lais :. On her birthday. Covers were
"a c. al eight :; at a prettily appoint
'andle-fghted table.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

Mrs. w. S. Hulet entertained at
a prettily appointed afternoon
party at her home Tuesday, honor
ing her co-workers during the past
year as Worthy Matron Of the
Eastern Star. Each guest was
presented a handkerchief
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Keene and
daughter, Edna, were guests at
Plowman's birthday party Sunday
evening. Lloyd Keene and his bride
were also members of the party.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

Margaret Crawford went to Ia
coma for ten-day stay Monday
evening. She will take care Of the
office work at the DeSota Cream
cry there while Mr.. Spreen is in
Kennewick attending to details
connected with the Christmas
trade at the Twin City Creamery.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

A meeting of creamery and poul-
trymen was held at Plowman's on
Wednesday evening to discuss the
application Of the NRA to their
business. Representatives from
Spokane were present, guests Of
Mr.. Spreen and Mr. johnson.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-12-14

The members of the Bethlehem
Lutheran church have put a new
shingled roof on the parsonage
and remodeled the kitchen.
Evening star., 1933-06-04

wood Broun were in the Springtime of
their youth. Instead of playing Uncle
Tom" as it should now be played with
the theater'S new advantages, they pre-
sent it as it was presented away back
in 1854 with its furniture frescoed on
the back drop, and a sextet orchestra
singing Dixie" and MY Old Ken
lucky Home" My guess is that tt would
have been more interesting If the Play
ers had done Uncle Toms Cabin" as
it would be done today, without the
old-fashioned articles, affectations and
expedients of yesterdays theater. My
complaints, however, are captiouS and
trivial. Nevertheless, may register O
regret that the Players made George
Harris stand against the bailiffs a lu-
dicrous monkey-shine when 1t should
bloodhounds that pursued Eliza as she
crossed the ice were but amicable pup
pies from the Litchfield County KEN
nels, neither barking nor biting. I wish
that had hours and space to tell you
OF Miss Fay Bainter'S comic values as
Topsy, and of other explicit imper-
sonations, including those of Miss
Cecilia LOTUS and Miss Stella Mayhem,
who, as she Is put upon the auction
block. brings a lot of withers.
Now that the Players have proudly
bowed down to Uncle Tom, think that
they might do well next year If they
attempted to revive an obsolete play
by Clyde Fitch, Pinero Alfred Sutro
or Bronson Howard. Then indeed shall
we fall from our aisle seats and be sue
cumbed with urban laughter.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Peggy Joyce Says.

4 CTRESSES are developed, not born,
but they must have Imagination to
be capable of development, according to
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, star Of stage and
musical comedy productions, who is
making her talking picture debut in
Paramount's international House"
Imagination, she says, Is the only es-
sential quality which cannot be taught.
Poise, personality, beauty, memory, die
tion-all these can be developed, but a
faculty for imagination cannot be
drilled into the mind.
Imagination" Miss Joyce explains,
"is the ability in an actress to place
herself in any given scene or situation
and enact it convincingly. 1t is the
ability to forget that camera is turn
ing or that there is an audience out
front. 1t Is the quality that turns a
mechanical performance into reality.
Il do not mean that any one with
imagination is automatically an actress.
That would be as untrue as to say
lemons are yellow, therefore anything
yellow Is lemon Imagination is
merely the essential ingredient from
which an actress can be developed
I'VE learn diction in schools. We
can develop beauty through treatments.
lotions, etc. We learn poise. We i'm
prove our memories through study. 1t
| Is even possible to create, deliberately,
a personality. But without imagination
the result Of all this is merely an au-
tomaton."
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Jeanette's s British Film.

HAVING been signed to direct Jea-
IL nette MacDonald's first picture for
British and Dominions Pictures tCorpo-
ration, Sam Taylor, ace Hollywood di-
rector, has left New York on the United
States liner Manhattan on his way
from California to London.
The picture, tentatively titled "The
Queen" will have Herbert Marshall as
leading man, and will be released
throughout the world by United Artists.
Which will be no new experience for
Taylor, for he has directed several pic
lures for United Artists release, in
Guiding the Pickford- Fairbanks Tanning
Of the Shrew" and several Mary Pick
ford starring vehicles.
Already on the high seas is Eddie
Cronjager, veteran Hollywood camera
man, who will have charge of the
photographing of THE Queen" It was
Cronjager, it will be recalled, who gave
Jeanette Macdonald her first screen
test for THE Love Parade
Arthur Schwartz, who was respon-
sible for ''Three'S Crowd" Band
Wagon" and other Broadway musical
successes, is engaged in writing the
songs for the Macdonald picture. And
the screen treatment, as previously an
nounced, is by Samson Raphaelson,
Hollywood scenarist Which Just about
makes The Queen" an American pro-
duction.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Popular in Shabby Attire.

1T is one of the tricks of contrary
fate that Douglas Fairbanks, jr.,
who loves gold braid and uniforms,
should be more popular with his fans
in roles which call for him to appear
in shabby attire.
This is just one of those minor dis
appointments in life which young Doug
is going to have to swallow all through
his professional career, if the signs OF
the times are to be believed. The pub
lie just doesn't like to see Doug as a
short haired, heel clicking aristocrat as
we'll as it likes to see him grin out from
under a slouched fedora and through a
stubble beard. Certainly the fans liked
him better as a tramp in Union Depot"
than as Russian nobleman in Scar
let Dawn"
And So since the public's will is law
with a picture star and with the pro-
ducer, Doug has had to forget about his
glorious looking uniforms and wear the
clothes dictated by the script of most
unusual down-to-earth story. In his
latest Warner Bros. picture, "The Life
of Jimmy Dolan," he goes from riches
to rags without the benefit of any cloth
ing more pretentious than boxing trunks
and patched trousers.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
England Bound

as he is today, will mean the loss of
thousands of dollars.
Money means little to this actor, in
dependence everything. He has i'm
pressed this fact upon Hollywood pro-
ducers for two years now, and still
they think he can be bought off with
pieces of gold.
In the strictest sense his desertion
of HOLLYWOOD for the old country is
another example of Howard'S senti-
mentalism. Gilbert Miller helped him
in the early days when the Howard
name meant very little. Now that
that name flashes on thousand of
theater marques throughout the world
the actor feels that he is more than
ever in a position to be OF real aid
to his friend.
Shortly upon his arrival in Lon
don with his family Leslie Howard will
appear in Miller's stage production of
Riviera" and then in a motion pic
ture to be decided upon when the two
have their first business meeting. 1t
is probable that Constance Cummings
will play the feminine lead.
When these two engagements are
over he will come back to America
and Hollywood, ready to listen to hang
overs from the rain of offers now
deluging him.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
BEBE DANIELS
SIDNEY BLACKMER
MCOCkTAIL HOUR"
x Eth s
Two Southerners Meet.

4 TALE Of paths crossed and re-
crossed. sounding very much like
the product of a scenario writer's brain,
came to light recently during the film
ing of Cocktail Hour"
What seemed to be a casual meeting
of two of the players, Randolph Scott
and Sidney Blackmer, was in reality
the first encounter between two South
erners who had spent their childhood
days in the same neighborhood and
had attended the same college, with
out knowing each other, only to come
together in the film capital 5000 miles
away-and many years later.
When Scott was very young his FAM
lily moved from Virginia to the North
Carolina town of Salisbury, where
Blackmer resided. Oddly enough, the
youngsters never met
NO" laughed Blackmer, ct have no
recollection of tall, lanky, STRIPPING
called Randy, who was greatly addicted
to horseback riding And Scott is un-
able to recollect a rather huskily built
lad nicknamed Bunny" who could
swim under water faster than any Of
the other boys.
With the approach of young man.
hood Blackmer was sent to prep
school In Pennsylvania, while Scott at
tended one of the local institutions.
Then Blackmer, with his eyes upon a
law degree, returned to his native
State and enrolled in the University of
North Carolina. Scott followed him
into the same institution to study en-
gineering.
Once again those two neighbors were
0f0llQht
they continued to remain unaware of
each other.
Blackmer was active in dramatics
and staged many of the shows of the
North Carolina Playmakers, one of the
pest dramatic groups in Eastern COL
lege circles. He also took part in stu
oent government affairs and earned the
nickname of Senator" for his ora
torical efforts. Scott, on the other
hand. devoted most of his spare time to
athletics.
When Scott finished college he went
INTO his fathers business of structural
engineering, while Blackmer. after
snort period as a lawyer went to New
York to try his luck. Scott became
restless and journeyed to Europe and
on MS return went back to business
BENG OF a nomadic disposition he be-
gan wandering all over the United
States and finally landed in HOLLYWOOD
Blackmer made use of his talent for
acting In New York and in a few wears
was an important figure on the Broad
way stage. When the exodus to Holly
Wooo began he made the Westward
Journey with the others and was soon
engaged in acting before the camera
scott had entered motion pictures for
the fun of it and had remained to be-
come successful and to like the work
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Monte Cristo to Be Filmed
''THE COUNT OF MONTE CRIsTo." !"

famed Dumas classic, will be
brought to the screen by United Artists
this year in talking picture, it was an
nounced in Hollywood recently by Ed
ward Small, vice president in charge of
production of Art Cinema-Reliance Pic
lures, Inc.
Screen treatment is now under way,
and production will be started immedi-
ately after the completion of Joe Pa
looka," Reliance's second picture, in
which Jimmy Durante and Stuart Err
win have been announced as the lead
ing players.
In announcing his new plans, Small
declared that he believes the time is
ripe to create IN ambitious talking pic
ture from the story known throughout
the civilized world, and he added that
the story's entertainment ingredients
are as elemental and wn-to-earth to-
day as they were the year they were
written. Negotiations are. now on foot
for the signing of a famous Hollywood
star for the title role.
Monte CriSto" has been brought to
the screen twice by American produc-
ers. Paramount did it back in 1918,
with James ONeill, stage star, in the
leading role, and John Gilbert did it
for Fox in 1922.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Buzzell to Direct.

GIVING Eddie Buzzell a Iong-term
contract as a Universal director.
Carl Laemmle, jr., has announced that
ms hrst assignment will be Love.
honor and Oh, Babyl' co-starring
Slim Summerville and zaSu Pitts.
Love, Honor and Oh. Baby!" will
be adapted from the Edith Fitzgerald
broadway play "Oh, Promise Me-" and
will present the sober faced comedians
in vehicle decidedly different from
anything they have had previously.
Adaptors Of the Fitzgerald play will be
assigned within few days, according
to Mr. Laemmle, jr.
Buzzell, star of seven Broadway mu-
sical comedies before he came into
talking pictures in 1929, has recently
been at Columbia studios as a writer
and director. Summerville and Miss
Pitts are now completing their fourth
Universal co-starring screen play,
Salt Water" under the direction Of
William Wyler.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Poor Old Uncle Tom and
His Famous Cabin Revived
Otis Skinner, Fay BANTER. Stella Mayhem and
Cecilia LOTUS, Accompanied by the Bayins
Hounds, Entertain New York Audiences
By Percy Hammond.

TINE seasons twilight is at hand
and the evening bells tell us, in
the argot of the theater, that
i it Is time to wash up and call
it Gay. Now that the hour of
rest hath come to us, we wonder, as
usual, if we shall find leisure's downy
pillow hard, or if we shall be content
with "Sleepe after toyle and port
after stormie seas" Does our year of
playgoing leave us in the red or have
its labors given us profit? Cold sta
tistics indicate that for every gainful
evening spent recently in the theater
there were IL that were, as Phineas
Fletcher would say, tee-total loss.
While we may have prospered through
Design for Living" Dinner at Eight"
Biography" twentieth Century or
Both Your Houses" numerous other
enterprises have embogged us in
deficit. Shall we therefore put the
shutters up and retire from the busi-
ness of drama loving or shall we hang
on in the hope that thrifty days will
come again? This Friendly Adviser"
to borrow a term from one of the more
obnoxious of the radios, suggests that
hereafter We govern our theatergoing
with the same wisdom that we do our
roulette and horse betting. Let us re-
solve that hereafter we shall invest in
no play unless it has the unanimous
guarantee of the drama critics.
X
WHATEVER doubts one may have
had about Mr.. SINNERS status as
a good actor were dispelled last week
by his impersonation in the Players
Club Tom-show. Environed, as his de
luxe companions were, by temptations
to be a ham, he resisted them all and
gave deep, sincere and dramatic pic
ture of the heroic and humble Negro
in the most prejudiced and potent of
the mission plays. I have seen scores
of Uncle Toms in my career as
drama lover, and Mr.. Skinner Is the
only one of the number that did not
make me envious of Simon Legree and
his whip. Mr.. Chalmers subtle char
acterization of Legree, by the way, sug-
gested, to modern mood. that the
slave driver was not merely blood
thirsty merchant operating in Negro
bodies for gain. He was, as Eugene
O'Neil might have drawn him for the
Theater Guild, a Kraft-Ebbings fagel-
liant, deriving sadistic pleasures from
his applications of the lash. The au-
dience failed Mr.. Chalmers Monday
night when it snickered as. in his cups,
he soliloquized sentimentally about his
deceased mother and a lock of golden
hair. This first-night audience, Incl
dentally, composed of the urban intel
ligentsia, was, as usual, more naive
than the entertainment upon the plat
form.
THE Players production of "Uncle
Toms Cabin" disclosed the vigorous
veteran as it was disclosed when I be-
gan my cradle pulings, and George
Nathan, the Roberts Garland and
Benchley), Acton Davies, Hillary Bell,
Franklin Fyles, Walter Prichard Eaton,
John Corbin, William Winter and Hey
Evening star., 1933-06-04

- HORTLY after the completion OF
Fox Films Berkeley Square in
which he is currently appearing
~ Leslie Howard will walk out of
Hollywood, England bound, and
nothing will stop him.
The actors determination to leave
for home within the next four weeks
is being maintained despite the scores
Of tempting offers that continue to pour
in upon him.
Actually he was offered the most
coveted assignment of the season. But
Howard turned it down because How
ard is going home-and the reason for
this rejection of supreme opportunity
is one that appears utterly senseless
to the Hollywood mob.
He is going to England because he
made a promise year ago to the
famous London stage producer, Gilbert
Miller, that he would appear in both
a play and motion picture for him
whenever called upon to do so.
Now the picture and stage business
in England is not what it Is in Amer
lea. In Hollywood Howard is earning
as much money as any male star within
the past few years. His going home
simply to keep a promise made year
ago when he was not in such demand
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Bv Public Demand.

DUBLIC demand has decided Fox
Film officials to reunite the emf
nently successful team of James Dunn
and Sally Eilers, who have been paired
in five productions including their last.
Hold Me Tight" The sixth film will
be known as sally and Jimmy and
will be put in production as soon as
Miss Eilers returns from her trip
abroad. Dunn has just completed "Ari-
Zona to Broadway" with Joan Bennett.
The forthcoming picture will have a
metropolitan background and will pre-
sent the two popular players in an en-
tirely new Characterization. Marguerite
Roberts and Charlotte Miller. co-au-
thors of Sailors Luck" have been as
signed to the preparation of the screen
play.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Troupers to Close Season.

THE Troupers of East Washington
Community Center, winners of the
1888 District of Columbia one-act
play tournament, will close their pres
ent season June 16, with the perform
ance of The Sap," three-act comedy
by William Grew, which was the star
ring vehicle of Raymond Hitchcock q
few years ago in New York City.
This performance will be given in
honor OF the graduating class and fac
ulty of Eastern High School, a custom
Established two years ago by the troup-
ers, and will take place in the audi
torium of Eastern High School under
the auspices of East Washington Com
munity Center
The cast of players includes Frances
Wilson, Mary Walter. Helen Tucker,
Richard Kreuzburg, Edward Finlayson
and Marshall Baggett, and the comedy
will be produced under the direction of
Arthur Rhodes.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
National Theater Players
Disband and Go Their WAY
Last Night After Short Season-Plays Not Well
Supported by Washington Theatergoers. y
By E. de S. Melcher.

as much as we would part of our
own family. They worked hard
for little profit. They gave their
best under such difficult circum-
stances, that we can only hope
they will be allowed to return
some day when the sun is shin
ing and all is well along this same
street, so that they can see what
real gratitude is.
In their honor and to prove our
respect we bid our own adieux-
briefly and not half so Stoically
as they have.
Evening star., 1933-06-04
Another Language" Players

MINOR WATSON, Margaret Hamil-
- ton, Irene Cattell and Hal K.
Dawson, who played in the New York
stage production of Another Lam
guage," have been signed by Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer to appear in the film
version of Rose Franken's long-run
play. Helen Hayes and Robert Mont
gomery have co-starring roles in this
picture, which will get under way i'm
mediately at the Culver City studios.