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Evening star., 1933-03-12
Curious Changes Noted
In the Amusement World
Operate Singers on Vaudeville Stage, Marionettes
in Legitimate Theater and Radio Stars as
added Attra s'-Where Will This Lead?
By E. de S. Melcher.

doesn't seem to be any way of
getting them back together again.
A certain public wants its legiti-
mate theater and still persists in
its Victorian belief that the
cinema is a disciple of the devil.
A certain public goes to the
movies merely for the stage shows.
A certain public has gotten to the
point where it will no longer be
bothered with 10-minute inter-
missions, and with that hectic
moment (Which is just as bad at
the talkies) when you have to
rise and try to retain your balance
as your left-hand neighbor goes
breezing by after his or her
smoke.
The amusement world is a con-
fused unit which has more heads
than the ancient Hydra. When
you tell grandmama that you are
going to the theater tonight" you
no longer mean a swift trip to a
play (any kind of a play and a
return home to discuss the merits
of the plays players. You mean
that you may have seen most of
Follow Through" Coming here
soon) on moving picture stage;
that in this you may have heard
anybody from AL Jolson down;
that Grace Moore may have been
there as IAN extra added attrac-
tion" (Which local theater al
ways announces-whether it has
have had Ethel Barrymore and
Mitzi Green in it, and that as
you came out yoL may have stop
ped a moment to see an exhibi-
ton of how near-beer is served
in the theater lobby.
THE question now is: Will stage
shows win out over the
movies, and will the movies be-
come briefer and worse? Will
such laugh king as Eddie Can
tor devote himself exclusively to
the radio (where he has risen to
unheard-of heights, dawdling
about in the interim on motion
picture theater stages? Will the
legitimate theater play a play for
a few minutes on Broadway and
then launch as much of it as
there is time for on a movie
stage? Will, in other words, the
entire amusement world soon
pitch its tent for once and all
behind the giant spotlights of
the motion picture theaters?
This Is what is happening be-
yond the fringes of Broadway
and even on Broadway last week
you could go to the Capitol The
ater and see a good bit of "Show
Boat" with some Of the original
cast and the original scenery be-
fore you were launched into Miss
Vests "She Done Him Wrong"
There is hope, however, that at
least one theater in every town
will devote itself exclusively to
plays" Just as we swell with
some pride over the fact that our
National Theater Is full to the
bursting point when a Design for
Living" or a Green Pastures"
comes along, 50 other cities In
Evening star., 1933-03-12
In Washington Theaters This Week.

Tomorrow evening at $3.50 o'clock
GAYETY-Power Puff Revue" This afternoon and evening
LoEWS FoX-The Crime Century" and Eddie Cantor
the stage. This afternoon and evening. str.
EARLE-From Heaven to He and Ben Bernie the stage
This afternoon and evening.
R-KO KETHS-So This Africa" This afternoon and
ming
RIALTO-"The Big Cage" This afternoon and evening.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Street. This afternoon and evening"
CoLUABIA-Luxury Liner, tomorrow. Second Hand Wife,.
~ today. -
Evening star., 1933-03-12

T OLLYWOOD, Calf, March IL.
II There Is an end to every
gold rush, finish to every Ell
i i Dorado, a time when every
mine. however rich, plays out
Of pay dirt" and becomes too lean for
the miners toll When this time comes
the boys who have been living in camp
pack up their frying pans and gold
mining apparatus and go back to
normal prices-and to the life of cities
where men do a days work for q
normal pitSance.
Hollywood has been the largest gold
strike in the worlds history. Today
thin, the mine has become sort Of
glory hole which promised indefinite
riches, but which Is proving itself
merely a means of livlihood after ALL
Hollywood will never be the same
producers, the novelists who have
made it. Hollywood will never be the
same because picture making when
this furry is over, will proceed on a
normal basis. It will have passed from
q gold rush to an industry. Hollywood
viii have stabilized incomes and these
incomes will compare with those made
by people of talent in other sections
Of the country.
The. pulse Of Hollywood is beating
feebly. Men who came out of base
ments where they sewed the tough
pelts Of furs until their fingers ached,
their backs were agonizing and their
eyes dim, men who once ran nickelo-
deons, cannot believe that their han
ding of the greatest amusement busi-
ness has been a failure. A1addin's all,
their magic lamp, has lost its virtue.
Few Of the men who produce pictures
have backgrounds beyond the simplest
of avocations, the most primitive prep
arations for the handling of these vast
sums which banks have confidently
intrusted to them. For years they made
money, made millions despite the ter
rifle waste, despite the grandiose mania
which infected them all. They made
millions where billions should have
been, made had pictures been handled
in q fbusiness-like ws- by men with
background,
Comparing and vying with one an
other to build up box office stars, they
have seized all sorts of talent, some Of
it worthy and some worthless, and put
thousands Of people under long-term
contracts. Those thousands have drawn
salaries whether or not they were
working. Thus, when the stock market
crashed and money became something
to work for, not to pick up blindly as
Hollywood had been doing, the meth
DDS used for years by Hollywood pro-
ducers In gold-rush times failed them.
Evening star., 1933-03-12
A Fish Harbor Film.

CTARTING camera work after several
- weeks preparation, two production
units from the United Artists Studios
in Hollywood are busy at Fish Harbor,
In San Pedro, Calf, for the opening
scenes Of II Cover the Water Front, "
the adaptation Of the Max Miller best
seller.
While one unit Of the Reliance pro-
duction filmed street action. with Clau-
dette ColbJkt in the starring role, an
other unit worked aboard q ship with
Ben Lyon, who plays the newspaper re-
porter In the story.
James Cyuze Is directing, and other
prominent roles are being filled by Er-
nest Terrence, Charles Beresford, Pur-
nell Pratt and Burr Mcintosh. Wells
Root adapted the story and Ray June,
face" cameraman, heads the photog-
Fraphy battery. June, who recently COM
pleted work on Mary. Pickford's 'ee-
|mets," was runner-up IN the recent
awerds In Hollywood Of the Academy
Fo6 Motiou Picture Arts and Sciences
Evening star., 1933-03-12

dicate that they can hold one
theater attraction-but not much
more than that.
The world, of course, is still q
stage, but the biggest stage now
belongs to the "fillums," and the
"f1llums" are cornering much Of
the entertainment market. AS
loyal as we are to the "legit,"
we have to admit that the curious
ly hodge-podge entertainments
which are being offered occasion
ally on local movie theater stages
are pretty good. These are, how
ever. on the upgrade only when
the Grace Moores, and the Amos n
Andys, and the Eddie Cantors
and Ben Bernies come along.
Vaudeville acts are usually lost
under these giant prosceniums,
Evening star., 1933-03-12

The motion picture industry. rich
enough to withstand normal hard
times, was too badly managed to wealth
er a national storm. So, picture its
moguls, today faced with the realization
that their entire system Of picture max
ing will have to undergo a change If
they will continue to make pictures
when this crisis is over.
Hollywood. in its opening days of
bank holiday" has two big premieres
scheduled. II New York can get S1l
the seat for Alfred Lunt. Lynn Fontanne
and Noel Coward's opening in Design
for Living" why can't Hollywood get
IS at the Chinese or a mere 81 at the
Warner Brothers Theater? Players
scribbling their I. o. US at local cafes,
wonder If the thousands of them who
have made the worlds amusement in
the worlds most amusing locality will
be able to continue scribbling indefi-
nitely.
While Louis B. Mayer makes the
statement that only national issuance
Of scrip can keep the studios running
because q Statewide issuance will not
provide sufficient funds from the studio
banks here to keep the pay roll alive,
one Of the heads Of the institution,
Irving Thalberg, is on his way for a
four month jaunt in Europe. Thalberg's
jaunt has been occasioned by illness
illness produced by overwork. His salary.
I am told on authority which should
make 1t an unquestionable truth. Is
$1,000 week.
Can any one man give . corporation
So, 900 worth Of his time and brain power
and be efhcient all Of the 50 weeks for
which he is being paid? doubt it.
It seems part of the power complex
which rules Hollywood for men to want
to be dictators at unheard of salaries.
rather than cooperative members Of
directoral board at salaries which
make motion picture-making possible
and under pressure which means health
possibility also. am not questioning
the seriousness of Thalberg's illness-I
am questioning the system which makes
such supreme power posSible-such
fabulous salaries actual-and such holi-
days at q time when, If ever, he Is
needed-imperattve.
II the motion picture industry Is to
remain the worlds great entertainment
source-if It is to continue functioning
and Hollywood Is to remain Hollywood
instead Of ghost camp where prospec-
tors once mined gelatin gold, some
thing will have to happen when the
banks are on q sound basis once more.
Sterilization of this industry will not
be effected in day; some Of its ruling
brains will have to be stabilized hrst.
(copyr,ght. 1888. by North American News
paper Alliance, 1nco
Evening star., 1933-03-12
Hollywood Reaches Turn
In the Prosperity Road
Entire Change of Methods Necessary in Order to
Keep the Studios Open-Pulse of the
Cinema Colony Is Beating Feeby.
By Mollie Merrick.

OLLYWOOD Calf, March motion industry
u There withstand
gold
i time when every national
Evening star., 1933-03-12
NHE fact that Grace Moore
Is singing in vaudeville;
that the National Theater


Is singing in vaudeville;
that the National Theater
last week was devoted to
marionettes Zone of the clevereSt
of the seasons entertainments !;
that Mae West is a riot in Holly
wood; that Tallulah Bankhead is
a smash chit" in one of the years
worst plays; that Amos n Andy
are funnier in white face on the
stage than they are in black face
presumably over the radio; that
AL Jolson'S singing is not getting
him anywhere on the screen, and
that Katherine Hepburn, a girl
with little Of past, should be
one OF the successful screen
celebrities of the year-proveS
that the amusement world is hav-
ing a shake-up.
A year ago Miss Moore had at
tained her peak as an operatic
singer of exceptional merit, whose
concert at the Townsend musi-
Gale, for instance, was one occa-
sion when all local sableS and
feathered bonnets wagged pleas
ant "aa's" at the same time. A
year ago, marionettes were pooh
poohed by the intelligentsia lex
cept those who know their
Champs Elysees and the swell
Punch -and-Judy shows blossom
ing midst its benches and trees)
and relegated mainly to children's
birthday parties at S in the after
noon. A year ago Tallulah Bank
head, with Bond street cheers
still ringing in her ears, was be-
ginning a tempestuouS career in
the talkies which threatened to
hustle her right back to London
again. A year ago the jittering
but convincing Mae West was
doing her Constant Sinner" act
to the whistle Of police maestros
and the hootings of certain local
and foreign judges. A year ago
Amos n Andy were progressing
nicely out OF sight of the public.
A year ago AL JolSon was having
q field day in "The Wonder Bar"
A year ago Katherine Hepburn,
until she appeared in "The War
rior's Husband" was a promising
nobody. A year ago things were
going along as everybody more
or less supposed that they would.
Now suddenly, everything is
happening which nobody ever
dreamed Of. Gwen the current
Mr.. Cantor must admit Of a. GER
tain surprise at finding himself
on the stage of Loew's Fox.) And
by tomorrow it is possible that
Will Rogers may be doing his
fope-act for the circus, that Mr..
Cantor may be grooming in place
OF Rudy Vallee (please) that Mae
West may be playing Camille"
and that Janet Gaynor may be
doing a blatant Diamond Lii"
II
THE theater is frankly not itself.
And the fact remains that
the theater's eyes are, at the
minute, curiously reminiscent of
certain moments of Mr.. Cantor's
when one goes one way and the
ether goes the other-and there
Evening star., 1933-03-12
Next Hepburn Picture.

K ATHARINE HEPBURN Is 90 great
~ q bet that Merriam G. Cooper, ex-
ecutive vice president In charge Of all
R-K-O Radio production, IS giving her
the very best material he has, for her
next picture.
He has assigned Howard J.. Green,
writer, who 'scripted' Blessed Event"
and I'm q Fugitive" to prepare the
screen play for Zoe Akins' story,
Morning Glory. to be the Hepburn
vehicle upon her return from q New
York vacation on March s.
Evening star., 1933-03-12
Warburton's Next.
IOHN WARBURTON,

TOHN wARBURTON, who played
> Edward Marryot In "Cavalcade"
and as the bridegroom on the fa&esvl
Titanic provided one Of the most trag-
ically beautiful moments the screen has
ever known, has been signed for an I'M
portant role In the World W3deS adap-
tation Of the famous Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle Sherlock Holmes story, "a Study
in Scarlet" -
Evening star., 1933-03-12

THE theater is frankly not itself.
And the fact remains that
the theater's eyes are, at the
minute, curiously reminiscent of
certain moments of Mr.. Cantor'S
when one goes one way and the
ether goes the other-aud there
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REV. FORD HOME FOR
SUNDAYS SERVICES

Rev. William Herschcl Ford,
pastor Of the First Baptist
church, will return Saturday from
Salisbury, where he has been en-
gagged in a revival meeting. He
will preach at both services Sun
day. The morning subject will
be, "Thc Worlds Greatest Bust
ness" and the subject for the
evening hour will be, "This Is a
Faithful Saying"
Next week will be spent by
members of the church III prep
aration for the revival to begin
on Sunday, June II. DR.. i. R.
Scarborough of Fort Worth,
Texas, will preach twice daily
during this revival.
Daily prayer meetings will be
held by the w. NJ. /. circle
throughout the week with a spe-
cial prayer service at the church
on Wdnsday night.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

WASHINGTON. - Probably no
other government employe
vii! ever equal the record of The
odore L. Shuey, dean of the Sen
ate's official reporters, who is
dead after 65 years Of service,
during which he didn't miss
single day on the job.
He. first worked in the same
Congress that had impeached and
almost removed Andrew Johnson
from Office. He served from 1865
through the reconstruction criOd.
the heyday of free silv' agita-
ton, the World War y,-TS and
into the new era Of FRANKLIN
Roosevelt.
Shuey used to recall times when
senator's would get up and start
talking for four da, at time,
sometimes including night ses-
sions.
Those were bitter days and
they fought out big political ques-
tons" he rcminisced. There
were lots Of Republicans and only
bare handful of Democrats TO
defend the interests Of the south.
But they used to waste a lot Of
time on oratory. Now they omit
flowers.
If you didn't believe that sem
ator could and would speak for
four days running. Shuey would
cite you such old names as those
Of Garrett Davis of Kentucky and
John A. Logan of Illinois. And
you could look it UP in the Con-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-02
CITY IDENTIFICATION CONTEST
Notes Connected Efforts of Woman Club and Chamber OF
Commerce to Make the Community More Attractive

Those who like to study the
habits of flowers, color, height,
etc, in connection with planting
will be interested in the following
information from Farmers Bulle-
tin No. III. U. Z. Department
of Agriculture:
Flowers salmon or with salmon
varieties: 3 feet, dahlia; 2 IL
feet clarkia; 2 feet, snapdragon
and poppy; l foot, Drummond
phlox. ,
Flowers having varieties mixed
with salmon pink 8 feet, dahlia;
l foot Drummond phlOX!
Flowers scarlet or with scarlet
varieties: 8 feet, dahlia; 2 - feet,
scarlet sage and 2innia; 2 feet,
snapdragon, poppy and four
O'Clock; foot, Drummond phloX,
pinks, dwarf nasturtium, portu-
laca and verbena.
Flowers having varieties mixed
with scarlet: 3 feet, dahlla; 2 feet,
snapdragon and poppy; l foot,
Drummond phloX, pinks and dwarf
nasturtium.
Flowers rose or crimson or with
rose or crimson varieties: 4 feet,
cosmos; 3 feet, princesfeather,
feather cockscomb, sweet-sultan
and spiderflower; 2 IL feet,
clarkia, cornflowers, scabioSa and
zinnia; 2 feet, garden balsam,
Chinaaster, cockscomb and lupine
1 1-2 feet. godetia, fOur-o clock,
globe-amaranth, stock, and candy
tuft; 1 foot, DrummOnd phioX,
petunia and portulaca.
Flowers having varieties mixed
with rose or crimson: | foot,
Drummond phloX and petunia.
The committee in charge of
Identification feels confident that
it will be able to obtain suffici-
ent number Of plants in wide va
riety for those wishing to help
with the Identification work. Any
one desiring plants is requested to
inform the Chamber of Commerce,
telephone 474.
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Wi>1j$.% Z - :=lk1GTON
WITH RODNEY pUICHER

gresslonai Record. for which Shu.
ey had taken it all down.
Like other old congressional
iemploycs he mourned the de.
lparture of the old bosses who
Tended with Boics Pcnrose. But
no one could ever get faithful old
Mr.. Shuey, bent. and shuffling az
he was. to retire or take another
job. He liked "the nice atmos-
phere of the Senate, being sur
rounded by nice gentlemen and
fine personalities"
And every year, on his birth
day-he was 81 on his last one
"a senator would arise TO pay
public tribute to old Mr.. Shuey.
WHITE HOUSE NOTES: Nov
les continue to be shown at the
White House. RooSCvelt'S favor
ties are Mickey Mouse and news
reels. Hooyer's favOrites were
newSreelS.
Inc pltolNCIiI - iiouIANui lul III
Of mind is expressed in many
parts of the White House, chiefly
by hundreds of marine and river
pictures. His office book-ends are
casts Of happening whalermen.
and he tells time by clock in
the form of a many-handled ships
steering wheel which is attached
to desk set bearing a barometer
of similar design.
Roosevelt has a great fondness
for what he calls "chits," brief
notes which lie scribbles on small
pieces Of pad paper and sends to
his cabinet members and other
subordinates off and on during
the day as he sits at his desk.
'CoryriGht. 1888. EFA Service. INC
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Boarding house keepers not
holding membership in the Cham
Der of Commerce naturally desire
a knowledge Of prevailing rates.
If such persons will call at the
Chamber of Commerce, we shall
be glad to favor them with a list
of hotels, boarding houses, camps,
apartments, rooming houses, etc,
as a guide to them in the conduct
of their business.
Quite a number of new residents
are coming to the city as will be
seen by new light and water con-
nections. Within the past few days
persons with whom this office had
correspondence have arrived IN
HenderSonville, the most distant
from the Canal Zone.
Merchants will naturally be in
terested in the application of the
three cent sales tax. We have
written for a copy Of the law and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-02
TWINE COMPANY is
OPEN AFTER STRIKE

ADMISSION, Ala, June q
OUP).-Thc American Net and
Irvine company closed nearly
three weeks by strike, resumed
operations yesterday with 400
employees back at work.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-02
JAMES H. ROGERS,
COMPOSER, is DEAD

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, June
2.-(UP).-The body of James
Henderson Rogers, 81, author of
"America the Beautiful" and
other patriotic songs, was placed
on a train here yesterday for
Scarsdale, N. Y. He died here
after several weeks illness.
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McMath Kidnaper
Adjudged Sane

BARNSTABLE, Mass, June 2.
(UP).-Pronounced sane by ply
sicians at the Bridgewater State
Hospital for the criminal insane,
Kenneth Buck, %. confessed kid
naper Of Peggy McMath, was re-
turned secretly to his cell at
Barrstable county Jail.
He was taken to the State hos
pital Sunday after he became VIC
lent in his cell, tore his hair and
clothing and ranted for several
minutes.
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FIRMS RAISE WAGES

SUMMERVILLE, Ga, June 2.
CUP).-The Trion Mills and the
Berryton mills, both near here,
announced 10 per cent wage in
creases Thursday. Three thou
sand workers were affected by
the Trion raise and 800 by the
BcrytOn action.
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acknowledgements
High Spots in Numerous Activities Of Chamber OF
Commerce as Noted by Its Secretary.

any Interpretation put upon cor
tain features of it by the Revenue
Department. We shall favor our
members with a copy Of this law
as soon as possible. The law be-
comes effective on July first.
The Bon Clarken hotel and as
scmbly grounds arc to have space
in the "Carolinas Magazine" pub
lished in Charlotte and at the re-
quest Of the Rev. William Barley
Lindsay of Charlotte we have for
warded photograph for publicity
purposes.
A number of Chambers of Com
mcrce, motor clubs, and travel bu-
reaus are regularly supplied with
Hendersonville literature upon the
requests Of these organizations.
We have sent new supply in
Guiding page reprints from Golf
Illustrated" and copies of the new
booklet on Accommodations and
rates.
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As DurGy disappeared from
~ sight, he said. Il hope I am
I'll right. The elf declared this
eagle Was as strong as he could
DC.
las long as I'm held in the air
md we ryove onward, | don't care.
out if 3. m dropped. ! know thai
t will be the end of me-"
The other TIMES, left behind.
10 Mister Elf said, You arc
kind - help us try to find The
girls. Well pay you back some
lay"
Then Copy said, "I'd like TO
know just where the eagles 60
ing to CO." The elf replied. ~
only SIRE that it is on its way.
.!NJY guess is. though. that II
w Will race right to the mon
strous giants piece. ] have a
bunch th&: your girl fricnIS ere
pris'ners in the house.
IF rJrncy'S clever. I'm sure he
can fhd q way to sci them Tree.
hope the lad is smart and sneakS
up quiet as a mOEf ~
Far. far away the eagle few,
and hung on to wee Quincy 700.
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get to going, putting idle people to work,
giving their jobs back to them. That pro-
gram if it can be successfully worked out,
will cure unrest and all other troubles of
the United States that have arisen out of
the depression"
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In view of the bicycle-riding craze that
now grips Hollywood, we may expect that
movie actresses will soon be competing
with the farmers in the raising of fat
calves.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-02

France has just honored Adolphe Sax,
who invented the saxophone in 1916.
Verify, the evil that men do lives after
them. ..r. b.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-02

Nine kinds of water are now known to
scientists, reports DR.. David Dietz, science
writer. Many more, however, are known
to Wall Street stock brokers.
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Chicago's Mayor Kelly fired cannon
in a celebration incident to business re-
vival. Well, that certainly should have
produced boom.
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IfJ. P. Morgan ever had to retire from
the banking business, he doubtless could
make big success as an income tax con-
sutant.