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The Washington times., 1933-12-05
RUM LICENSES
SOUGHT EARLY
IN COUNTY
Prince Georges Business Men
Anxious for Permits to
"CaSh In" Quickly

Business men of nearby Prince
Georges county today sought early
consideration of their applications
for liquor permits. at meeting
of the board of license commits
sioners tomorrow, in order to cash
il on a new gold mine"
Thousands of residents of the
District are expected to travel over
the State line in order to legally
purchase whiskies and wines be-
tween the time it is legalized in
Maryland and the date when sales
may be made in the District, a
difference of several months.
Will Make Fortunes"
If the boom is anything like it
was when beer became legal, small
fortunes will be made in month
by dealers close to the District
Line, it is agreed.
Meantime, Harry Morris, chair
man of the board, announced tenn
porary permits will be issued by
the board after applications have
been made for permanent licenses.
Hard liquor licenses, however, will
expire next April l, with the rate
of the license set in proportion
to what the annual license costs.
Temporary licenses will expire in
so days. "Off sale" will be $500;
ION sale" $3.50.
Temporary Licenses
While temporary licenses will
permit the sale of liquors., ma
chinery will be set in motion to
advertise the applications, hold
hearing two weeks later. and then
authorize the clerk of the Circuit
Court to issue a permanent
license.
With the report, the county dele.
cation in the Maryland legislature
favored sales by the drink, res
taurants and hotel dealers, who
had shown little interest in the
act up to date, began early this
morning to ask for application
blanks, printed yesterday by the
commissioners. Their licenses may
cost about $3.50 to handle liquor
until next April however, and this
fact was a strong restrictive
measure.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
FOES
HEAR HINT Of
VIOLENCE
Eastern Shore Delegates at
Annapolis Angered Over De.
mand to Legislature

ANNAPOLIS, Dec. 5.-Guarded
by police after reports that trouble
was brewing among Eastern Shore
representatives in the general
assembly, Bernard AIDES, Balti-
more attorney, and a band of
Communist followers, paid a sur
prise visit here yesterday to urge
anti-lynching legislation.
AIDES and his supporters, inClud-
ing many negroes, arrived by bus
and marched into the State
House. They said they had come
to confer with Senator E. Milton
Altfeld and Delegate Alexander
Goodman, to ask that an anti
lynching bill be introduced I'M
mediately.
Threats Reported
Soon after their presence be-
came known to the Eastern Shore
delegates, threats were reported
to have been made, and several
of the shoremen were said to nave
attempted to strike AIDES.
The group was finally sur
rounded by detectives and police
and they were rushed to the
cellar of the State House and
into a secluded committee room.
There Senator Altfeld and Dele
gate Goodman talked with them.
After the conference, a squad
of Annapolis police was called
and the group was escorted back
to their bus and out OF the city.
Ritchie ASSailed
In the meantime. AIDES, who
was vigorously denounced on the
Eastern Shore for defending Fuel
Lee, recently executed for the
murder of a family of four, is
sued a statement demanding the
impeachment of Governor Ritchle.
The demand was read to the as
Sembly after AIDES group had
started back to Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
BAL T1MOE REDS GUARDED AT STATE HOUSE CONERENC
Civic Groups Ponder
Watson Charges

} stadium in front Of the school
building. The new building is
badly needed to relieve Western
High School, which is so greatly
overcrowded, it faces the pros
pect of going on two shifts. A
special committee composed Of
Mrs. Wilbur La Roe, E. C. Potter,
and F. c. Cissel, was appointed
to confer with Superintendent Of
Schools Frank w. Ballou, and
the District Commissioners on
the matter.
A letter received from Repre-
sentative Virginia E. JenckS, from
Indiana, transmitting charges
made against George S. Watson,
Chief of the District Fire Depart
ment, by Paul E. Jamison, at
torney for D. C. Fire Department,
was referred to special COM
/ .ittee, of which Col. John V.
Richards, is chairman, for in
vestigation. A report on the
matter will be made at the next
meeting.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
WOMAN HEALTH
ROLE TOPIC

1.-THE Role Of Womanhood in
the Nations Health" is the sub
ject to be discussed by DR.. I.
Edward Jones, assistant surgeon
at Freedmen's Hospital
before social workers. teachers
and nurses in the second of a
series of lectures at the Howard
Medical School auditorium to-
night at $50 o'clock.
The lectures, which are being
presented under auspices of
Freedmen's Hospital and the
Howard Medical School. will be
continued weekly until January 9.
DR.. E. Y. Williams will speak
next week on Problems of Men
tai Health" DR.. Hugh Simmons
will preside. Other speakers to
follow include DR.. Dorothy Bould-
ing Ferebee and DR.. c. Wendell
Freeman.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

worked by the women volunteers,
no piece of clothing is returned
to the same school whence it
came, with the result that there
is no chance of the former pos
SCISSOR of the garment recognizing
it on some unfortunate child,
thus precluding all possibility OF
embarrassment.
Although the bulk of their
clothing is gathered from the
school children in the District,
the Community Chest pays for re-
pairs to shoes and buys all the
rubbers the workers need to carry
on their work.
Wednesday is the regular day
for distributing clothes at the
Bureau of Health Education
Building but the ladies are pre-
pared to give them out when any
emergency arises.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Cathedral Civic Meeting
Supports Quebec Rum Law

Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park Citizens Association, meet
ing last night in st. Adams guild
hall, passed resolutions favoring
the Quebec liquor law for the
District.
The Civil Works Administra-
ton will be notified of all minor
street improvements needed in
the associations territory. This
was in answer to a letter received
from the D. C. Highway Depart
ment. Six new members were
admitted.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Forrest Hills Citizens
Score School Delay

Forest Hills Citizens Associa-
ton last night passed resolutions
asking that the liqucr control in
the District of Columbia be Sc
lected from legal residents OF
Washington.
The association criticized the
delay in the construction of the
Woodrow Wilson High School
The resolution stated funds were
appropriated II months ago and
as yet nothing has been done.
1t was stated original plans were
abandoned in order to place a
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Citizens Association
To GiUe One-Act PLau

THE Nut" a one-act play, will
be given for the entertainment of
the members of the Sligo Park
Hills Citizens Association, at their
next regular meeting, to be neld
in the auditorium of the East Sill
yer Spring School, Wednesday,
December 13.
The cast of the play includes
Mrs. Robert S. Pilgram, Mrs. E.
Francis McDevitt, Richard Barker,
Vernon Brewster, Davir Hodger
and E. Francis McDevitt.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
BOY BREAKS ANKLE.

Injured while playing soccer on
the playground of the Stuart Jun
ior High School with fellow stu
dents shortly before noon today,
Clark johnson, IA. of the 100
block Park Pl. N. E., was taken to
Casualty Hospital. He was treated
for q broken ankle,
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
Jobs Daughters Will
Observe Church Dau

Bethel Chapter, No. l, Jobs
Daughters. of Clarendon, Va, will
observe GO to Church Sunday
on December 10 by attending in
q body services at two Arlington
county churches.
In the morning they will at
tend st. Georges Episcopal Church
at Clarendon and in the evening
will attend the Cherrydale M. P.
Church.
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(continued from Page 1S)

CONTINUED from Pdge I'D
over the Pennsylvania and Balti-
more and Ohio railroad tracks at
New York Avenue Northeast. The
Baltimore and Ohio will be urged
to bridge over Franklin Street
Northeast.
The association tabled a letter
placed before it by Representative
Virginia E. Jenckes, of Indiana,
in which charges we're preferred
against George S. Watson, chief
of the fire department.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
GROUP To F|GHT
MORTGAGES

To extend the fight of Gov AL
pert C. Ritchie into Prince
Georges county against the threat
of mortgages to farmers is the
purpose of a meeting to be held
Friday at the offices of w. B.
Posey, county farm agent. Of the
county agricultural Cancellation
committee.
The committee is composed of
c. M. Roberts, of Landover; Will.
liam S. Hill, of Upper Marlboro;
W. E. Penn, Clinton, and Mr.. Po-
sey as eX officio secretary.
After this initial meeting for
organization purposes and a sur
vey of its problem, a State repre-
sentative will meet with the COM
mittee to begin the actual work
of refinancing farm mortgages.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses we're issued
at pper Marlboro yesterday to
Louis Levy, 81, 1000 block Third
st. N. w., and Mary B. Patton.
18. 1900 block Irving st. N. W.;
and George F.. Miller, 81, 1000
Gault Pl. N. w. and Mary M.
Atwell, 10, 2700 block Naylor Rd.
& F.
The Washington times., 1933-12-05
WOMAN WRITER DIVORCED

CARSON CITY, New. Dec. S
U.S0.-Charges of cruelty, heard
today at a secret session by Judge
Clark Guild, obtained a divorce
for Claire Spencer Smith, we'll
known novelist, from Oliver Har"
riSon Smith
The Washington times., 1933-12-05

If you have a room. house, apartment
or automobile to sell or rent . ad-
vertise it, Use the WANT AID SEC
TlON Of this newspaper to reach our
great reader audience. Phone District
$500. Ask for ad-taker.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
.aeWest Comes
Back to Met

That vixen Of the beer7halls.
Lady Lou, personified by Mae
West, is back in town in "She
Done Him Wrong" and again at
the Metropolitan.
The saga of this lady is prac'
tically history by now. how she
was wooed by many admirers, all
of whom contributed to her collec.
ton of diamonds, and how she was
finally won by a poor but honest
mission worker.
Her why don't you come up
some time?" is as famous as the
Gettysburg address, and her walk
has been initiated by every blonde
from here to cal-eye-forn-eye-a.
With Cary Grant, Gulbert Ro-
land, Noah Beery and David Ian.
dau as her more immediate low
erS, and an entire chorus in the
background, Mae West StrollS
through the film, singing FRANKIE
and Johnnie" and leaving a trail
of laughs and gaSps behind her.
And evidently people like to laugh
and gasp, as witness the success
of the picture.
ThR news and short subjects
conclude the program.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
Actors Doubles Are
Used in Fox Picture

Schnozzles that pass in the
night will not always pass in
the daytime. Give Brook, Helen
Vinson and their two respective
doubles found that out during
the filming Of E. Phillips Open
helms Midnight Club" in which
they are cofeatured with George
Raft, and Alison Skipworth, now
at LoeW's Fox Theater.
Their doubles, needed for a
thrilling sequence in the story,
has been presented with new
Streamlined noses by the studio
makeup department, in order to
more closely resemble the prin-
cipals. Under studio lights at
night, it was impossible to tell
the actor and his double apart.
But once they stepped out into
the sunlight, they looked entirely
different.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
Next Programs
At the Theaters

FOX-Stage- Harold Arlen,
composer of Stormy Weather" !"
and Ben Blue. Screen-James
Dunn, Joan Bennett, Arizona to
Broadway"
METROPOLITAN-Screen YER
sion of w. Somerset Maugham's
THE Narrow Corner" with Doug
las Fairbanks, jr., Patricia Ellis,
and others.
RKO KEITH'S-Latest Richard
Dix starring vehicle, mo Marri-
age Ties" with Elizabeth Allen
and Doris Kenyon in the support
ing cast.
PALACE-Marie Dressler and
Wallace Beery in Tug BIO a t
Annie" with Robert Young,
Maureen O'Sullivan, frankie
Darro and others.
EARLE-Sc een-W i liam
Powell in Private Detective g."
with Margaret Lindsey, Ruth Don
nelly. Stage Vaughn DeLeath
and Walter Wahl.
COLUMBIA-John Wayne and
Duke" in Haunted Gold" mys-
terry tale Of the West, with Sheila
Terry and others. Opens Monday,
August IL.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
YESTERDAYS OPENINGS AT DOWNTOWN MOVIE THEATERs
Arliss Superb
As "VoItaire !"
at Earle

The subtle perfection Of George
ArllSs is a dignity of which any
film or play may we'll boast, and
the creative genius of his inter-
pretationS are a far cry from
the everyday mimicry Of screen
dom. This week he brings to the
Earle the historical figure of Vol
taire; in fact, hated as much as
he was esteemed, but in Mr.. Ar
llSS, softened humaniZed Ver-
sion of wit and brilliance, of vi
tality that defied a deathbed to
further his cause.
Mr.. ArliSs Slaps us so gently
with the highlightS of the career
Of this firebrand of the dissolute
French court, SO moldS and vevi-
fies the character that pure his
torical significance needs must
take back seat against the per-
sonality of the man, Voltaire.
In the face of the superb his
trionics of George Arliss, Miss
Doris Kenyon lends a pictorial
beauty to the film if not an out.
standing dramatic bit. Her af-
fectations are too plainly marked.
her diction too Stilted to achieve
the necessary power.
Reginald Owen gives us
jovial Louis, weak and indulgent,
and if not such stickler to fact,
q delightful character. Alan
Mowbray injects the role of De
Sarnac with a nicely Of cunning
and intrigue. Margaret Lindsay
and Theodore Newton serve we'll
in minor parts.
Nick Lucas heads the stage bill
with his familiar grooming of pop
ular numbers including Il Have
To Pass BY Your House To Get
To My House," a silly title for
this plaintive tune, and new
one, 1.-The Great American
Home" Personally we like Mr..
Lucas as himself without aid OF
microphone.
Ralph Olsen and Company pre-
sent a group of agile youngsters
in song, dance and impersona-
tions, most noteworthy of which
was the George Arliss take-off,
but Mr.. Olsen, couldn't you
change the subject matter?
Boice and Marsh, originally
scheduled for the bill, we're in
disposed and Don zelaya. we'll
known pianist was substituted.
The fishboWl magics of Mr..
Gwynne completed the footlight
antics, with the charming Miss
Doyle and the able Mr.. Clarke
contributing.
Universal News and a comedy,
'The Double Crossing of Colum-
bus" are the only subsidiary fea-
lures, with the name George Ar
liss the only necessary recon-
mendation. H. w.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
Film Costume Is
Worrv to PLAYER

No ambitious young actor,
struggling with his first spear
carrying job on the legitimate
stage, ever had more trouble with
his props" than Theodore New
ton, playing a romantic young
French officer of Louis XV'S
court, had with his sword.
While rehears.ng for his part
in the new Warner Bros. George
ArlisS picture, "Vol5aire," now
playing its world premiere at
Warner Bros. Earle Theater, New
ton neglected to practice the art
of striding about with a dangling
sword Side-swiping his heels.
When he found himself tangled
up in the elaborate uniform Of
the part, he realized his mistake.
He stumbled through his first
scene, and once it was over, re-
paired to the Sidelines to prac-
tice.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
Hollywood Revue
At Howard

Hollywood on Parade" is the
title Of the stage presentation
which opens today at the How
ard. Ray Moore is the master
of ceremonies of the production,
which is said to be one Of the
most unusual shows ever given
at the T Street theater.
In it, many doubles Of Holly
wood stars are seen, each pre-
senting a special routine. A fast
dancing chorus also has an i'm,
portant part, with a poppy band
to furnish the musical accom-
paniment. Altogether, 40 people
take part in the proceedings.
The screen attraction is THE
Big Brain" being shown for
the first time in Washington.
Fay Wray, Phillips Holmes and
George E. Stone have the prin-
cipal roles in the film, which de-
scribes the rise and fall Of a
Napoleon of criminals.
Amateurs are given tn ei r
chance on Wednesday night, and
on Friday a midnight show is
presented,
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
Midnight Qu6,'
Harlem Revue
PLAYS Fox
BY GEORGE SPELVIN

IL IS next to Impossible 10 1lS-
ure out the theater. In fact, I
might 60 even farther than that
and say it is impossible. When
you know that an elaborate re-
vue is offered on the stage bill,
you may be forgiven for suspect
ing that the movie might not be
so hot. But that is how Garter
Barron crosses you up at the Fox
this week, for his stage show is
top-notch and the movie, Mid
night Club" is a faSt-moving OPP
penheim melodrama that keeps up
it's pace to the finish.
An entertaining show all the
way through, boys and gals, and
here's what it is all about.
The Mills Brothers, Of course,
are the main attraction of the
revue. The boy with the guitar is
to the Mills Brothers what
Groucho is to the Marx Brothers,
and he has that glug in his voice
that has made many hummer
famous. However, Myra Johnson
is bit of SongStreSS too, some
thing of the Ethel Waters type,
with a dash of Josephine Baker
for good meaSuere, and torrid no
end.
Then there are Don Redman
and his orchestra, with plenty
of hOt-cha, and believe it or not,
three lads who style themselves
Pete, Peaches and Duke, though
they are really King, King and
King, in a Harlem edition. A
duo of eccentric dancers who
rate billing and don't get it, and
a bevy of sepia dancing girls
with lots of pep are also in the
lineup. The routine is still ap-
parently in the experimental
stage, but there is a lot of good
material when the show is set.
Now for the movie. Midnight
Club" tells the quaint tale of a
foursome of gentlemanly-and
ladylike-crookS who use a night
club as a rendezvous, and a flock
of doubles to provide alibiS, when
they are off on their nefarious
business. Robinhoodly, they rob
the rich for the benefit of the
poor, in this instance themselves.
An American detective, by
posing as a crook and joining the
gang, eventually breaks it up and
marries the gel. Yes, gel is right,
for she is an English gel, and not
to be confused with American
gals.
Give Brook is leader and most
gentlemanly of the crooks, others
being Alan MoWbray, who looks
appalingly sinister, and Ferdi-
nand Gottschalk, amazingly be-
nignant. Helen Vinson, a new
conner, is the gel, most alluri4g in
unconventional costume. Raft, as
usual, uses atrocious English, pre-
sumably to identify him as an
American, and Alison Skipworth,
as Lady Something-or-such, loses
her jewels.
1t is of interest to see Sir Guy
Standing, looking young and up
and-coming, as a Scotland Yarder,
and Billy Bevan as a subordinate.
A Mickey Mcguire comedy and
Aesop Fable are added, and the
news reel shows Vines collapsing
in the international tennis
matches.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05

by Cecil B. De Mile and of the
disclosure of her marriage to Gus
Sonnenburg, the wrestler, Judith
Aliens best friend and confidante
has been stenographer, Jean Kerr
whom she met in a restaurant
shortly after her arrival in Los
Angeles Even the Weissmuller
shoulders are not so impressive as
those of Max Baer, the fighter.
incidentally, Baer wears a size 13
shoe, into which he can stuff two
pairs of boxing trunks and two
pairs of socks.
Despite waning public in.
terest, the bicycle fad still con,
tinues at the Metro-G -Goldwyn-
Mayer studio where SO machines
are racked every day.
Mrs. Paul Mum never misses
a day on her husbands motion
picture set. .Achmed Abdullah
is the umpteenth writer to be
assigned to do a screen version
of Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
It's been two years since Ernest
SchoedSack made atmosphere
shots for this picture in the
Orient. and Rachel Smith, the
Paramount school teacher, now
has only two charges. Baby LIE
Roi and the eye-filling Toby
Wing.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
Ann Harding Started
Elm PLAYER to Fame

Theodore Newton, who has an
important role with George Arl1ss
in "Voltaire," now playing its
world premiere at Warner Broth
ers Earl Theater, is a native OF
Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and a
graduate of Princeton. His the
atrical career started through his
acquaintance with Ann Harding
who was instrumental in getting
him a contract with the Hedge
row Theater in Philadelphia where
he remained for three years. His
next step was to New York, where
he appeared in Elmer the Great" :"
with Walter Huston. a part he
landed through the friendship Of
Grant Mitchell.
Warner Brothers spotted him in
the New York production and
gave him a screen test. He was
signed for a part in The Work
ing Man" Mr.. Arliss liked the
young mans work so we'll that he
was again assigned to play with
him in "Voltaire."
The Washington times., 1933-08-05

OAVAHoS "1EINEA. L liz
only other woman director in the
business is DOROTHY ARZNER
who is also under contract to Para
mount.
ANN MEREDITH'S BEAUTY
PARLOR 1DdS recently the scene
of q rather UNIQUE BATTLE. A
certain beauty operator does the
hGir-dreSsing for both LILYAN
EASTMAN and CONSTANCE
BENNETT, but on account OF
those tho haze had a teud on
these past ttOo gears, CONNIE
has been having the operator
come to her house. WELL, KID
DIES, Just to make matters more
beud-like, LA BENNETT breezed
suddenly into the parlor and DE.
MANDED the operator WHILE
LILYAN WAS IN THE MIDST
OF A HAIR WAVE! The CON-
motion could haze been heard for
miles. But EASTMAN ended as
the VICTOR, as BENNETT made
O diOe for her automobile and
aDhiszed GUGy!
SALLY EHERS visits the bed
side of HOOT GIBSON daily, but
will give no ANNOUNCEMENT of
Impending DIVORCE. Page WILL
LIAM RHINELANDER STUART.
The Washington times., 1933-08-05
Seaside to Play
Special Acts

Starting tonight and continu-
ing throughout the season Seaside
Park will offer every Saturday
night an unusual floor show en-
tertainment in the Boardwalk Ball
room. In addition there will be
lucky spot" dances and prize
waltzes to enliven the evening.
Tomorrow night one of fea-
tured artists will be Charles
Welch, clever contortionist, who
will attempt to esape from a
strait-jacket while handcuffed.
Helen McHale and Maxine
Stevenin, accomplished acrobatic
and eccentric dancers, will be
presented at II p. m. Earlier in
the evening Miss Stevenin will be
seen in an unusual Spanish tango.
One of the largest outings OF
the season will be held today at
Seaside when the members Of the
Washington and Maryland coun-
ellis of the Junior Order Of United
American Mechanics gather at the
hav resort.