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The Washington times., 1933-03-15
Ben Bernie Tells
About Art Of
'Maestro-ins'
By BEN BERNIE

Back to washington a1Cer all
these years-boy, what a thrill.
And what memories that brings
back to the Old Maestro.
Memories of "two-a-day" at the
good old Chase Theater; memo
ries of President Wilson sending
a wonderful note Of commenda-
ton on the act; memories of
fine audiences, sincere and gen.
erous.
Yes, these and many more, for
washington has always been a
choice spot on the show circuits.
To play washington was our aim.
And to play Washington was still
our aim when we started this
tour.
The Old Maestro can go quite
ways back in memory about
Washington theaters. How far?
Please don't ask me my age; I'm
a bit shy about giving it-as a
rule, about 10 years shy, I would
say.
Fo'give me, please. Fo'give me.
Things have changed some
since those days. Remember
when I was all alone on that
big stage, me and my fiddle? I
never did get that opening num-
ber finished, did I.
Boy, those were the days
yes, those we're the days-may
they never come back.
After that we came to you a
double-Bernie and Baker, re-
member? That was Phil Baker.
We worked a stooge act together
then. When I got band,
though, Phil got a flock of
Stooges of his own and what a
name he has made for himself
since then-good old Phil. I'm
certainly proud of him.
Orchestra Bug
Yes, I got the orchestra bug.
We've had pretty good luck, we
have, the Old Maestro and all
the lads. Life's been pretty good
to us. And Washington has been
mighty good, too. We were here
last about four or five years ago.
Maybe a little more. washington
audiences were just as fine then
as they are now. We're very
happy here.
We've been having fine luck
over at the Earle Theater this
week, too. Washington people
have caught the right spirit. They
are backing the President in this
terrific crisis right to the limit
and they have confidence in him.
That's great-wonderful, when a
smart people can look crisis in
the eye, see it's solution, and then
keep their minds fit and ready to
cope with it by relaxation and
diversion. We've been having Won
derful crowds at the Earle.
I see an old friend of mine has
finally gotten to Washington, too,
after talking about it for a long
while. He's so darned busy doing
all those things he's been saying
he was going to do guess-that
I haven't had much time to visit
with him. I'm speaking of Eddie
Cantor, of course. Good old Eddie
the lucky stiff. He got that va
cation in Florida alright. I didn't
get there this year-but at that,
when me both get the grease-paint
on, you can't tell whether he's
more tanned than am.
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
Real Animals on
Display at RiaIto

If you hear a loud roar and
prolonged snort as you step up
to the Rialto Theater box office
to buy tickets for THE Big
Cage" you may accept the COM
motion as a real circus welcome
from the two important guests
on display in the lobby.
Carl Laemmle and Rodney
Collier, Mr.. Laemmle's Washing
ton manager, have established the
real thing in the way of atmos-
phere for the showing of this
remarkable film featuring Clyde
Beatty, the illustrious animal
trainer. The lobby guests are a
Gagged lion-who might we'll be
the twin of Nero, the jungle king
who is featured in "The Big
Cage"-and an elephant.
They are in charge of a keeper
and their feeding hours are,
daily l, 7 and 9 p. m.
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

ball of a spouse, and send $40
a week home.
Rose Kahler hung around.
AS a matter of record, she
went to that domestic rela-
tions court every day for three
weeks and four days. No twist,
eh? Prjewski VS.. Prjewski, and
no twist? In the end Rose
Kahler got patience's reward.
A probation officer entered the
court that twenty-sixth day of
the Kahler watch, and he was
pushing John Prjewski along.
The judge looked severe.
whats the matter, officer?"
he asked the probation man.
HAS John been bothering his
wife again - welching on
money!"
The probation officer shook
his head. "I've brought him
in for release from probation,
your honor" he said. You
see, his wife is dead. He can't
be held for paying alimony to
a dead wife"
The judge scratched his head.
That was true. He did not
notice, until she was at his
elbow murmuring volubly and
passionately in his ear, that a
young woman spectator had
committed the enormity of
leaping from her seat to invade
the sacred bench. Rose Kahler
was advocating her plan.
Plea to Judge
Don't let him off, judge.
Don't let that brute get off that
easy. Oh, know you can't hold
him for murder but you know as
we'll as I do that he killed that
little 9O-pound woman. She was
dying of her ill-treatment when
she came in three weeks ago.
Make him keep up those ali
mony payments, judge. Make
him buy her the finest grave
stone we can get and come
through until it's paid for"
The judge had been on the
point of summoning baiiiff to
eject this unseemly intruder,
guilty certainly of the crime of
seeking to influence a court.
But he paused, considered, and
smiled, and his gavel remained
in midair.
what" he asked Rose Kah-
Ter, what would you say would
be the sentiment to order en-
graved on the stone?"
ITO Mary" promptly fur
nished Rose, "from her loving
husband, john"
She made that the last line of
the yarn she turned in that
night to the editor of City News,
where she had job.
Mr.. Horner should be
warned, however, that the salary
was $11 per week.
Rose kahler is the wife, now,
of Ben Hecht, the playwright.
Mr.. Horner can scarcely hope
to match that achievement.
However, the lady has had other
successes, more pertinent to the
success-story theme. She writes
also for Broadway, her most re-
cent assignment having been for
Jed Harris, the producer, the
adaptation of Tchekov's "Uncle
Vanya."
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

United States will start a Navy
program which will compel
peace throughout the world,
because anybody will be afraid
to start a war. Thus he accom-
plishes disarmament, world So
lutions of problems, by the sim
pie device of eliminating the
jealOusieS which prompt mar
&ial competition.
SUPERB FINALE
"The Covenant Of Washing
ton is signed. His work is
done. How Gabriel, Messenger
of Revelations from God to
Man, accOmplishes the final
ending of the story must be
seen, not described. All of
this with a simplicity which
battles description.
"Credit for the production of
Gabriel goes first to the
anonymous author of the novel,
then to Walter Wanger, the
M-G-M producer this being
his first picture there) for
having the courage to make
the picture, to Carey Wilson
for his fine script, to Gregory
LaCava for his unusually fine
direction, to Walter Huston for
the greatest performance we
have seen for some time, to
Karen Morley and FranchOt
Tone for excellent acting, and
to Cosmopolitan Productions
and Metro GOldwyn-Mayer for
producing it,"
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
Alice Brady Is
Ready for First
Sound Film
BY HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

YWOOD, March IS.
Some visitors may find Hollywood
a quiet place, but to Alice Brady
it's breath-taking.
She got in Monday night. On
Wednesday, the players voted to
take a so per cent cut. On Fri.
day, came the earthquake.
The stage star was in the
midst of signing the salary slash
agreement when the M-G-M studio
began to rock. She went into a
mild case of Mysteries and
rushed to the street.
Interviewed yesterday, she said:
1--WE been a big fool all my
life. I've always thought / liked
new experiences. But don't
give me any more like that
One."
The star, surrounded by a
swirl of terriers and scotties, is
rushing from one end of the
studio to the other preparing for
her first talkie, when Ladies
Meet"
"I've seen my test" she said,
"and I feel like a diSembodied
face. They assure me was
hired as an actress and not as
a beauty, but 1 am bewildered.'
"And look at my eyebrows"
she excla i'm d. They've
plucked them"
A pronounced brunette and
full of nervous energy, Miss
Brady looks very much the same
as she did when she, Robert War.
wick, Holbrook Blinn and Clara
Kimball Young were doing silent
pictures for the old World Com
pany and for Paramount.
She came to Hollywood because
everyone told her it was the
thing to do and because she had
seen 1.-The Guardsman" and Cav
alcade."
She was going to take a house,
but decided the responsibility was
too great. A bungalow at the
Beverly Hills Hotel serves her
wisely.
Is she going to stay? She
doesn't know.
"Things are so exciting out
here" she said weakly.
Having been through several
earthquakes. John Barrymore
didn't lose his sharp-edged wit.
Checking over the reactions Of
people on the set, someone asked
him what Director Sidney Frank
lin did.
"He saved himself" replied
Barrymore with a sardonic grin
But you should have caught me-
going down three flights of stairs
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

screen aCCraC'
ton beginning
Friday. T h e
story concerns
a eW ! ,v-rich
American girl
married to a
t t / e d E N g.
lishman, W h o
proves unfaith-
full. Minor Wat
son, we'll
S t a g e player,
Gilbert Roland,
Anita Louise,
Grant Mitchell,
Violet Kemble-
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
By JAMES WHITAKER

Why Mr. Fred Horner of Yonkers should get into
the newspaper business and why should be elected to tell
him how matters which pass all understanding If Mr.
Horner make anything out of the following, he is well
come.
The story is told-thought is probably apochrypha-
that Mr. Arthur Brisbane got into the newspaper business
by handing the New York city morguekeeper box of
Havana cigars; the morguekeeper responding by sharing
with Mr. Brisbane alone, the truth about the identity of
terrfcay important corpse, and the knowledge bar
tered for the First Columnsts first Job
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
On Quiet Beat

They looked Rose over and de-
cided to Shunt her over to the
domestic relations beat, partly
because Rose had large, sympa-
thetic eyes that looked like they
could cry easy, but principally
because nothing much ever hap
pens in domestic relations
court.
Just as the editor had some
what maliciously supposed.
nothing happened in domestic
relations that day-that is,
nothing happened.
Rose Kahler listened open
mouthed. She did not know
what the editor knew, that, for
lack of "twist"-a variation
on the common woeful theme
these instances of the marital
tragedy that is never new were
never news. She listened to
the story told the judge by
Mary Prjewski, wife of John,
agape and aghast and then
went somewhere and wrote it
up in half a book. She put the
bulky masterpiece on the edi-
tors desk and stood by. He read
q paragraph on page /, a line
on page IL, and a number at
the top of page 80.
1T hasn't got a twist" he ex-
planned, trying to be kind.
Rose went away. She did not
come back for a month; and
the editor didn't mourn.
Rose Kahler went back to do
mestic relations court, watched.
figured it out. She had a bit of
stubborness. So her story Of
Mary and John PrjeWski didn't
have a twist, huh? She would
wait and see.
Usual Verdict
The court had made the
usual disposition in the case of
Prjewski VS.. Prjewski. The
husband was found guilty of
wife-beating, ordered to stay
away from his martyred foot
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

Corpse Story.
Gene Fowler, the author of
''The Great Mouthpiece" and
1.-THE Great Magoo," likewise
used a corpse as entree into
the noble profession. Having
been nominated by a friendly
Denver undertaken as travel
escort of a New York lady who
had become defunct in Den
yer hotel, Gene duly delivered
his charge to an upstate family
having newspaper investments,
and Gene just naturally went
from the funeral to the edi-
torial room.
Then, lest it be deducted
from these two instances that
the paths of newspaper glory
lead but from a grave, there is
my own experience-that Of be-
ing pie-eyed in a Chicago bar
one night when a managing
editor happened to be at
the same bar drinking down a
desperation born of the fact
that the Chicago Opera season
was opening that night and he
forgot to hire a music critic.
But the incest "he-got-the-
job" story out of a news plant
that I know of (and it is proc
ably the one Mr.. Horner wants
to hear is the one about how
Rose Kahler got the Chicago
Domestic Relations judge to
sentence a wastrel husband to
pay alimony to dead wife.
Rose Kahler was gawlSy
school girl at the time and
there was something about a
death in the family which made
it very desirable that she should
get herself, pronto, a job. She
was a student in the famous
English class of Robert Herrick
at Chicago University, and she
went to that great man for
counsel. He did this much
he called up an editor of the
City News Bureau and told
him that skinny girl named
Rose, with a large mouth, was
coming down to see him and
needed a job.
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

more in a story
of the events at
the Russian I'm
perial cour t
during the reign
of the deSpotic
m o n k a S a d =
visor. r a ! p h
Morgan has the
role of the czar,
Tad Alexander
is seen as the
nelr 10 I n e
throne and Di-
ana w yn a r d
plays an impe-
,'ial lady-in-W
ing. The Hearst
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

W i'll be the
main screen at
traction start
ing Fri d ay.
F. r a noes Dee
and Irvi n g
Pichel h a v e
other roles in a
tale of a jungle
man of Africa
who is brought
to civilizat ton.
On the stage,
there will be
Ray B ol G e r
dancing comic
of the "Scan-
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

Metrotone News will also be
shown on the bill.
GAYETY-"Jingle Jingle Is
the title of next weeks Empire
Circuit burlesque show at the
Gayety. Said to be combination
of good comedy and fast dancing,
the show features Billy Hagen,
Jules Howard and Lew Costello on
the comedy end, while Kitty Ellis,
Jean Williams, Ruby Foreman
and Helen Howard are the leading
feminine entertainers. A chorus
of 18 will also be in view, plus
several other principals. The bill
will open on Sunday matinee.
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

pre- sent day,
has been an
nounced for a
second week at
this theater. In
it, Diana Wyn-
yard and Give
Brook portray
members of a
British family,
whose deStinies
are fol lowed
t n r 0ugn Cne
many joys and
sorrows t h a t
beset t h e m
during the CEN
tI1rv lila,
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

Joe Penner and
Olive Olsen are
featured in the
p cd u C t i o n,
which includes
many song hits
in it's core.
They will be as
sisted by a large
cast and chorus.
"B r o a d w a y
Bad" with Joan
B IN dell and
Ricardo CorteZ,
will be the main
screen fare, in
a story of a diff
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
Stars Reunited

Richard Bennett and Helen
Freeman, featured in "The Song
of Songs" starring Marlene Diet
rich, appeared as leading man
and woman in the Broadway
stage production of Eugene
O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon"
Is years ago.
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

see it in Men
M u st Fight,
ON | n g t o
Loew's Palace
Theater very
soon. For Holly
wood brain n S
have been busy
on an imagina-
tive ide a of
W h a t W oul d
happen should
enemy air raid
erS descend on
New York city
and start she'll
ing the ace Of
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

Long Tack Sam and his troupe
of Oriental artists: Annie, Judy
and Zeke, the Georgia Crack
ers;" Picard and Seal, and Max
inc Doyle. The orchestral prelude,
and the news events are the other
features.
R-K-O S-Constance
Benefits latest starring vehicle,
"Our Betters," will be the main
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
HOLLYWOOD Parade

Hollywood Parade
Impervious to human fear, a
motor-driven camera caught a re-
markable picture Of the Los An
geles earthquake. Later, they
showed it in the projection room.
You see a scene in progress, sud-
denly, the dialogue stops. The
lights go dim, the figures, in sill
houette, rush around shouting,
the sides of the set begin to weave
and shake. AS cool-headed
sound man continues to record,
you even get the roar and rattle
of the shock. An amazing bit of
film. Doubtless, you'll see it in
the neWsreels.
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

" AN' SkySCTdPeTS.
Bombs hit their mark and the
big building crumbles, creating,
you may be sure, all kinds of
hurly-burly and terror in the
streets below. Men Must Fight"
has thoughtful story, too. weak
ened a little bit because the
authors apparently got frightened
over a theme that looked too
much like peace propaganda.
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

ferent side of JOAN BLONDELL
Broadway and it's by-streets. Gin
ger Rogers, Allen Vincent, Victor
Jory and Adrienne Ames have
other parts.
PALACE-Eeginning Friday. the
management announces the first
popular price engagement of "Ras-
putin and The Empress" starring
Ethel, John and Lionel Barry
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

Constance Bennett Cooper are in
the cast. Short subjects and
news events round out the pro-
gram.
COLUMBIA-Carveth Wells,
African adventurer, is the pro-
ducer and lecturer in "The
Jungle Killer" opening Monday
at the Columbia. Mr.. Wells is
an avowed enemy of the so-called
sportsman hunters, and a con-
slant debunker of the ''perils ard
dangers" they recount. zetta
Roberts is his talking foil, "nd
his shots are said to include
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
Do You Know

That since stories went out that
Cary Grant and Randy Scott
Bach, together, much of their fan
mail comes addressed to the two
of them?
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

Jeans, Una O'Connor, John War
burton, Herbert Mundin, Frank
Lawton, Irene Browne and many
others are seen in the several cpl
sodes of the picture.
EARLE-"King of the Jungle" !"
featuring Buster Crabbe, swim
ming star, as THE Lion Man"
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
King Kong Turns
Monster Loose
on New York
By ANDREW r. KELLEY

They are giving AL Smiths
Empire State Building plenty of
attention in the movies. You will
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
G
sLp
Next Weeks Line-up p Has Repeat
For 'CovdIcode, 7 Other Films

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" Noel
Coward's stirring panorama of
English life from 1899 to the
The Washington times., 1933-03-15
ROADWAYS
OF The WORLD
BY Mark HeIIinger

During Mark HelngerS Sojourn inaccessible
critic
The Washington times., 1933-03-15

many unusual scenes in the wilds
of the Dark Continent, where
the only weapon used was the
camera.
FOX-"Follow Through" New
York musical comedy success, will
be the stage attraction on Friday.
The Washington times., 1933-08-22
RELIEF
CHANGES DUE

Plans for reorganization of the
local emergency relief division to
conform with recommendations of
the Federal Relief Administrator
were discussed today at confer
ence between the District Com.
missioners and officials of the
Board of Public Welfare.
Employees who are now being
paid from private funds by the
District Committee on Unemploy-
ment will be transferred to the
payroll of the Board of Public
Welfare. Several new positions
may be created.
The action followed opinion by
the Federal Relief Administration
that local relief personnel is in
sufficient and charity units here
should be consolidated.
Difficulty has been experienced
in selecting sites for poor relief
stations to supplement present Of
fices at John Marshall Place and
C st. N. w. The only site def
nitely chosen is the old Banneker
School, 1000 block of Third st.
N w
The Washington times., 1933-08-22
JAM IN SCHOOLS
LOOMS AGAIN

Every Junior and senior high
school in the Washington public
school system will be crowded to
capacity and some beyond their
capacity when school convenes
September 18, it was said today
by Stephen E. Kramer, acting su-
perintendent.
Eastern High School, which was
unusually crowded last year, will
be placed on a staggered" sys-
tenn, Kramer said.
The staggered" classes we're in
effect last year and due to the
heavy enrolment anticipated for
this coming semester, the plan is
being used again.
1t is understood that school Of
ficials asked for a high school to
relieve the congestion at Eastern
in the school estimates now before
the Commissioners.
The Washington times., 1933-08-22
ARMORY PARLEY.
SET TODAY

A discussion of plans for an
armory here will take place this
afternoon in the office of the
head of the Park Service. Federal
officials and representatives of
the District National Guard will
participate in the parley. The
Interior Department, it is under.
stood, favors use of the old Pen
sion Building, now the General
Accounting Office.
The District Commissioner
have requested the Federal Gov.
ernment to grant $2,5O0,000 for
an armory, but no site is avail.
able. and it is thought unlikely,
therefore, that public works funds
will be obtainable for the project.
A real estate firm has Sug.
9ested a site at Camp Meigs. but
no action has been taken on this
proposal.
The Washington times., 1933-08-22
POLICE To POST
BADGE BONDS

Special policemen Of Takoma
Park, Md, must post So collateral
for their badges, it was decided
last night at a meeting of the
mayor and town council. The fee
will be returned when they re-
turn their shields.
The council also decided that
the town will participate in the
golden anniversary of the found
ing # the community November
a.
The volunteer fire department
was refused an added appropri-
alton of $500. The town already
ntributes $1,000 to the fire COM
pany, it was pointed out.
The Washington times., 1933-08-22
SUCCESS MEETS
HOME LOANS

Workers in the District branch
of the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration are beginning to see
daylight around the edges, it
was announced pridefully today
by Charles A. Jones, manager, at
the local offices, 800 block Fiji
teenth st. N. w.
A routine has been established
and is in working order, he said.
A number of the applications for
loans have been approved and
now are merely waiting title re-
ports before the loans actually
are made.
There is a spirit of cooperation
apparent on the part of mort
gage holders and in no case has
there been a foreclosure on an
owner-occupied home in which
the corporation has sought to
aid, Mr.. Jones said.
The Washington times., 1933-08-22
BUDCE 7 KEEPS
JAIL JOB OPEN

Preparation of budget estimates
for the fiscal year 1885 will delay
the appointment of superintend-
ent of Lorton Reformatory, it was
indicated today by George S. Will
son, Director of the Board of
Public Welfare.
Wilson said the meeting of the
board tonight, which was to have
considered appointment of a
prison head, will be occupied with
budget estimates.
Major Daniel j. Donovan,
Auditor and Budget Officer for
the District, has directed all de-
partment heads to have their
budget estimates in his hands not
later than September Is.
Several of the smaller depart
ments have submitted estimates
but none of the larger ones have
vet done so.