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Evening star., 1933-04-09
Arliss Going Abroad.

"VOLTAIRE," George Arliss' newest
starring picture, is now in mid
production at the Warner Bros. Burbank
studios and will probably be completed
within the next 10 days. AS soon as
the picture is finished Mr.. Arliss will
take train for New York and will
shortly thereafter sail for England tc
spend his annual vacation in his native
land He will NOT return to the United
States before next october. "Voltaire"
is his third picture made since last
Autumn. The first was THE Kings
Vacation" the second, 'The Adopted
Father" which has not yet been re-
leased. His supporting cast in THE
Adopted Father" includes Bette Davis
In the principal feminine role, Hardie
Albright, j. Farrell Macdonald, Theo-
dore Newton and numerous others. In
"Voltaire" he is supported by Doris
Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay, Alan Now
bray, Theodore Newton, Reginald Owen.
David Terrence, Helena Phillips. Murray
Kinnell and Leonard Nude. The film
is based on play by George Gibbs and
Lawrence Dudley, which has been
adapted for screen production by Maude
T. Howell and Paul Green, the Pulitzer
prize dramatist.
Evening star., 1933-04-09
ALiterary Background
e IA L 70

ing house was run. They must know
what galley looked like, they must
speak their lines with conviction, as
thought they had been associated with
the business all their lives. What was
more logical then, Miss Wood told them,
than to take them through one of the
better known publishing houses in New
York and let them spend several hours
observing how the business of the day
was discharged And SO the complete
cast of BEST Seller" spent the better
part of day in the offices of famous
New York publisher. They handled
proof copies and galleys and manu-
scripts. They met half dozen authors,
sundry poets and essayists. They
bathed for a day in the atmosphere of
books and book publishers and when
they returned to their rehearsals not a
one but felt that he understood his
part and the play more.
This efficiency and clear-headed dis
patch with which Miss Wood handled
this. affair is indicative of her whole
life's training She was a girl brought
UP to regard as normal all the little
annoying habits one must form If one
is to be of more than average ability
and intelligence when maturity comes
It is that training that has made her
today one of the best rounded and
intelligent actresses of the English
speaking stage.
Evening star., 1933-04-09
National Players Open
Season Late This Month
Monday, April 81, Has Been Selected by Manager
Cochran as the Date for His First Play-Actors
and Actresses Who Form the 1888 Company.
By E. de S. Melcher.

is a genius. Last season he was
better than that as an inebriate
in Leslie Howard'S play, Murray
Hill"
KATHRYN GIvNEY-A tall,
well-built lady of the theater who
usually is cast in menace" roles.
Miss Givney is not, however, a
menace. She is handsome, bright
and well worth knowing on stage
as well as off. When she growls,
the stage quakeS. But when she
laughs, in the words Of Broad
way, there is music in the air."
ADELAIDE HIBBARD, Wash
ington's most popular actress
"Addie" is the mother Of the
troupe. She is fond of pulling
down her hair and being a vii
lainess as well as doing a knit
and-sitting mother role. One of
her greatest triumphs was in
Strange Interlude." She is one
of the grand ladies" Of the the
alter.
ROMAINE CALENDER - He
wasn't with the troupe last sea-
son. But this was because he
was still busy with Grand
Hotel" A veteran and capable
Broadway actor, whose good no
tices" are legion, he still gets
great kick out of coming to
Washington as a National
Player.
FORREST ORR-Tall, round
and good-natured. One of the
most genial of all troupers. He
was splendid as good old Charlie"
in Strange Interlude." He Is the
real comic of the company. He
gets more laughs than any one.
BURKE CLARKE - Veteran
character actor who plays roles
from middle-age to grandfather
hood all in the batting of an eye.
Although he gets only one or two
fat" roles a season, you can al
ways count on him as delivering
the goods.
KARL NELSON and FRANK
PECK complete the roster" of
this "all-star" company-being
two pleasant gentlemen who do
more offstage than they do on.
That is, they are managers and
directors and lend their services
at the same time to lesser stage
roles. They are, however, most of
the brains of the troupe-and but
for them there would probably be
no troupe at all.
WHILE the list of plays which
these actors will appear in
hasn't as yet been made final, it
is almost certain that Impre-
sario Cochran and Director
Brooke will open the season with
the Frank Craven T O m m v
Mitchell comedy success, Riddle
Me This" and that this will be
followed by Ina Claire's former
starring vehicle, Grounds for
Divorce; "Good-by Again." which
Haywood Broun has said is a
much better and much funnier
comedy than Design for Living, !"
and Mr.. Coward's Hay Fever" :"
Other plays will be announced
later.
Now all that remains is for
Washington to sit up and take
notice and give these players a
great big hand. They are, after
all, the only legitimate theater
left to us, until the early Fall
brings Broadway back. known
for their wisdom and their wit,
they deserve all the support that
can be given them.
Evening star., 1933-04-09
Mr.. Shaw Talks Harshly
And Miss Harding Weeps
But This Critic Points Out That There Is No Occa
sion for Star to Consider the Remarks Too
SeriousIy-Other Barking by Author.
By Percy Hammond.

Gus to mention" thanks to an error Ia
the composing room. That stuff, says
Mr.. Stevens. meant nothing to her.
Only the uncivil remarks of Mr.. Nc
Intrye were OF consequence. Later In
the evening Mr.. Stevens called in his
search for truths on Nazimova In "The
Cherry Orchard" which, as Miss Rosa.
mond Lehman observes, is lovely, but
too full Of samovars and procrastina.
ton. Ashton" said she, "of all the
uncountable columns that have been
written about my acting, I remember
cnly the bad notices.
sisterhood, has been softsned by timid.
caressing American criticism. Colse-
quently when she was introduced to
Mr.. Shaw in Hollywood she expected
him to say, I'm pleased to meet you,
and think your performance was won-
derful." Such meeting suggested vel.
vet urbanites, with the old British playA
wright and critic lifting his plumed
hat and kissing the fingers of a young
artistic who was proud that she had
helped to decorate one of his elaborate
frescoes. Miss Harding, I believe, was
foolish when she allowed Mr.. Shaw to
break her hsart with his discourtesy,
and trust that soon she will dry her
eyes. Bernhardt was not crushed when
he told her that she was like gaudy,
sentimental old New England spinster,
dancing on the keys of cheap Ameri-
can melodeon. To Mrs Patrick Camp-
bell he once said that, ''as bad as your
play Is you playing in it Is worse-it
Is a masterpiece Of failure" Writing
Of the performance of Miss Winifred
Emery MRS. Cyril Maude) In The
Little Minister" Mr. Shaw observed
that "it Is the worst bit Of acting the
world has ever SEEN" When Miss Janet
Achurch, pious high -priestess of the
serious drama, irlpersonated Cleopatra,
he said to her that the laceratinp dis
cord OF your wailings In my tormented
ears reconciles me to the grave"
All OF these and many ether victims
OF MIR. Shaw's slrgecning impoliteness
survived and were made. the better by
1t. He was and still is the Erdrnan Of
drama critics, cruel only to be kind.
He said "Boo!" to Miss Harding and
sent her hurt and weeping to her tent.
frightened by the bad man I have an
lmpish ambition to be present on the
side-lines when and If, during his stay
In America, Mr.. Shaw has a chance Ia
be brusque with Miss Barrymore. Miss
Taylor, Miss Judith Anderson. Miss
June Walker or Miss Ruth Gordon.
And warn him that If he Is insolent
to our most popular French marquise,
Miss Connie Bennett, she will pull his
nose and make him regret 1t.
Evening star., 1933-04-09
Acting Is Characterizins." "

As far as acting is concerned Carols
Lombard believes that Shaw has ths
right idea, Be natural. says the illus.
trious g. B S. Don't try a lot of antics,
Don't overact.
Miss Lombard says: In the old
melodrama days. acting was a great
business. 1t had tricks and style and
a lot Of bombast. Plays of that day
called for that very thing.
To-day Is the day of realism. Nat.
uralism. And the actress must get un.
der role and bring it out just as In
the olden day she coated q role with
kind Of enloti onal makeup.
'Mr. Shaw he's said to actors: Don't
act. Jus. say my lines. Give them to
me. natu- ally. That's enough. My lines
are very exaellant ones, filled with
meaning, filed with character
"And playwrights are learning what
Shaw urges. They are asking for lines,
yet those lines must be good, sound.
provocative ones.
Pilots are useless. Characterization
the thing. All the possible plot comhi-
nations were exhausted in Shakcspeares
day. All we've been doing since Is re-
writing the outlines.
Acting Is charac.erizing. When
you've said that you have said eyery-
thing"
Evening star., 1933-04-09
In Washington Theaters This Week

GAYETY-Back White Revue" buresque. This after
noon and evening.
METROPOIITAN-"M "Maedchen in Uniform" This afternoon
and evening
LOEWs FOX-"Salors Luck" and stage, Desert Song
This afternoon and evening
EAELE-"Air Hostess" vaudeville Galloway
his orchestra. This afternoon and evening.
KEITHS-"Chrstopher Strong" This afternoon
evening.
RIALTO-"Virtue" This afternoon and evening.
UNDERSTANDING This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA"The Vampire Bat" starts times
today Internal Machine"
Evening star., 1933-04-09
Universal to Film Hale Epic.
T UNIVERSAL PICTURES announced

UNIVERSAL PICTURES announced
" this week a special production Of
Edward Everett Hales epic, "The
Man Without Country" No expense
said Carl Laemmle would be spared in
making the Hale story one of the biggest
and greatest of the pictures he will pro-
duce during his % years in the in
dustry.
Mr. Laemmle's decision to make spe-
cial production Of THE Man Without A
Country" came suddenly but not with
out full and exhaustive consideration.
To discuss the plans for this timely pro-
duction was one of the objects OF his
recent business trip to New York.
Evening star., 1933-04-09

Peggy Wood as the star of the
i new Edouard Bourdet play,
"Best Seller" which is to have
its American premiere at the National
Theater on April II. The Bourdet
play concerns itself with the publish
ing business and the political log-roll-
ing that goes on behind the scenes OF
several important Paris publishers be-
fore the coveted Zola award is to be
announced. The characters in the play
are publishers, writers, poets. The lines
include more than a bit of the jargon
associated with book publishers. In
short, there is a distinct literary air
about the plot and the characters.
Now it so happens that of all possible
subjects for a play the literary and
publishing scene is the one that Miss
Wood is best acquainted with. Her
father IVES a writer who contributed to
the leading magazines of America and
London and whose books gained wide
circulation. Miss Woods husband is
one Of the best known poets in the
United States. His name Is John " A.
Weaver, and he is the author OF Joy
Girl" long narrative poem, and
Trial Balance" both of which were
published in England as well as in the
States" And to make the picture
er of recognized merit; her articles
and stories have been mainly concerned
with the theater "A Splendid Gypsy"
which was built around the life Of
John Drew, and her series of articles
called ACTORS and People" were hailed
by dramatic and literary critics alike
as keen and sympathetic studies OF the
atrical life and people.
Miss Woods private life is spent
more with book people than with stage
people. She is known in literary circles
almost as well as she is known in the
theater. Thus when she learned the
subject Of the Bourdet play, BEST
Seller" she could say with conviction,
There's one play can feel at home
in"
More than that it made Miss Wood
feel that her supporting players should
learn something about how a publish
Evening star., 1933-04-09
French Plays to Be Given.

~ E PETIT THEATRE, a recently
formed group of native French
amateurs Will give two contemporary
one-act plays Gin French) at the Arts
Club Auditorium on Wednesday eve
ming. The plays are I'm Arriviste," by
Miguel Zamacois. and la Dame de
Bronze ct lie Monsieur de Crystal" by
Henri Duvernois.
The group is under the direction of
Felian Garzia and among the players
are DR.. Beneteau of the Catholic Uni
versity, Prof Dostert OF Georgetown
University, Mime. Beneteau, Nine. Denise
Alberti, Nine. D'Anjou and Mime. Felian
Garxia.
Evening star., 1933-04-09
Bebe Daniels Latest.
PEBE DANIELS will addsanother in

pEBE DANIELS will addeanother i'm
- portant feature to her list of star
ring vehicles when she portrays the
principal role in Columbias Cocktail
Hour" for which part she was signed
this week. A famous American woman
illustrator Is said to be the prototype
of Miss Daniels screen character.
James Kevin McGuinness wrote the
story, which Gertrude Purcell adapted
to the screen. Victor Schertzinger will
direct.
Miss Daniels will also have an op-
portunity to use her rich, contralto
voice in Cocktail Hour" She will
sing several soSgs written specially for
her by Schertzinger, the composer
director.
Evening star., 1933-04-09
Rogers, The Last Adam. "

THE Fox Film Corporation announces
that Will Rogers next production
will be the adaptation of James Gould
Cozzens' novel, THE Last ADAM" for
three months best seller on the Book
of the Month Club list. Paul Green,
Pulitzer prize winner for In Abra-
hams Bosom" will adapt it, and John
Ford. who did "Arrowsmith," will
direct.
Evening star., 1933-04-09

Z " Mr.. Shaw barked at
u Miss Ann Harding the other
" day that sensitive artistic fed
in tears to her studio, there
Evening star., 1933-04-09
Directors Side Shows

follows the action of the players with
his head.
Tod Browning likes something In his
mouth to chew on, straw, piece Of
grass, a pencil.
Evening star., 1933-04-09

.HERE are half dozen coinci-
dences involved in the choice of
Peggy Wood as the star of the
l new Edouard Bourdet play,
"ReSt Seller" which is to have
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-15
WILSON
To HEAR CASE

Judge Emmett Wilson is compe-
tent and qualified to hear evidence
in the suit brought by the Imperial
Irrigation district to validate the
All-American canal contract, ac-
cording to Judge Warren B. Tyron
of Del Norte who made his decision
yesterday afternoon.
News of his decision was COR
tanned in a telegram sent the coun-
ty clerks office yesterday afternoon
and the document containing his
decision filed this morning in the
county clerks office.
Question of Judge Wilson'S quail
ficaUions was brought up by attor-
neys for the Coachella Valley Coun-
ty Water district opposing valida-
ton OF the contract, who contended
that Judge Wilson, as resident of
the Metropolitan Water district, has
an interest in the canal contract.
Judge Tyron has been hearing ar
guments of opposing attorneys and
made his decision yesterday.
Trial of the case is set for Thurs
day and Judge Wilson was to have
been informed in sufficient time as
to his qualification so that he would
be ready to hear the case tomor-
row.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-15
DRY LEADER
DEGREES BEER

WASHINGTON, March Is. UP)-
E. Scott Mcbride, head of the Anti
Saloon League, is not to be outdone
by President Roosevelt's breyity on
beer.
Mr.. Roosevelt used only 70 words
to ask congress to pass the beer
bill. Mcbride replied with 72 words
opposing it, The dry leaders
statement follows:
''Legalized beer containing suffi-
cient alcohol to create a new bev-
erage industry would be strong
enough to create countless alcoholic
appetiteS, especially among young
people.
mo government has moral
right to officially approve the man
ufacture and sale of narcotic
habit-fcrming poison.
Beer would unbalance millions
of family budgets, make millions
of automobiles more dangerous,
take millions from other industries,
and again make the brewers the
political masters of this nation"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-15
Youth Who Killed
Father Captured

LOS ANGELES. March Is. U.P)-
Accused of Staying his father the
day after Christmas last year, Miles
Green, IT. was held in the county
Jail today for officers from Pal
myra, o.
His father "got what was COM
ing to him." Young Green told
sheriff's officers, they reported
HE didn't want me to go coon
hunting; he didn't want me to do
anything" the youth added.
After shooting his father, the
youth took his parents purse con-
tanning $18 and made his way to
Florida and then to Southern Cal
ifornia by freight trains, according
to his story to officers who arrested
him in Ell Monte, where he was
traced through a letter sent to his
mother, Mrs. Pearl Green, of But
Ter, O., who was estranged from
the father.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-15
PLAN REFORM
IN BUILDINGS

SACRAMENTO, March Is. W.P)-
A campaign to insist upon recon-
struction of sound and stable build
ings in Southern CALIFORNIA; earth
quake area was launched today by
Colonel Carlos w. Huntington,
state registrar of contractors.
Huntington even considered sug-
gesting legislation compelling con-
struction of quake-proof buildings
TO replace the ruined structures in
Long Beach. Compton and other
stricken cities.
A staff of inspectors has been
assigned by the. registrar to oversee
the quake area and prevent the
public from being duped by what
he termed carpet bag contractors
in the rebuilding of homes and
business properties.
I'VE are cooperating to the full
est extent with the legitimate con-
tractor and building organizations, "
Huntington said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-15

of the petition. he said, and won
c,ered why Dermody had failed to
put them in the safe with the
others. He then locked the three
IN the safe.
Tuesday morning between 9 and
10 o'clock McIver and Dermody
took the great register and the re-
call petitions from the safe to
continue working on them.
1t was then they noticed that IL
sections were missing. McIver said
each thought the other had placed
the missing II in the safe.
The loss was reported immedi-
ately to the district legal depart
ment, the district attorney and the
board of directors. A careful and
repeated search of headquarters
was instituted.
McIver was able to certify that
the petitions were sufficient be-
cause he already had completed his
tabulation and had the tabulation
in his possession. He checked the
original petitions, he explained,
with the great register and he has
q copy of all names on the petit
tions and also work sheets COM
piled during the original check.
He said today there were ISL
names on the petitions, 38 were
discarded. and four had withdraw
ais filed against them prior to the
filing of petitions. This left 800
accepted names. 1t was necessary
20 have $40 acceptable names before
q recall election could be called
against Adams.
The certification of sufficiency
of the petitions was in process of
preparation today, McIver said.
Elmer Heald, district attorney,
said today that theft of the petit
tions was covered in a special sec
ton of the penal code, section CAB
The taking of the petitions is a
r1isdemeanor, he said, and con-
viction carried Jail sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-15
SITUATION IN
EUROPE TENSE
War Talk And Troop Move
ments Combine To Fan Old
Flames OF Fear And Hatred.

GENEVA, March Is. W.P)-War
talk and troop movements at three
danger spots In Europe sped pre-
parations today for a significant
meeting between Prime Minister
Ramsay Macdonald and Benito
Mussolini, Italian premier who many
believe controls the balance of
power in Europe.
The meeting will be held over the
weekend i'll Rome. Officially its
purpose will be to seek a formula
under which the disarmament con-
ference now in session here can
avoid collapse. Similar conversa-
tionS have been held between Mac
Donald and Premier Daladier of
France.
Startling development of the past
few days must of necessity alter its
import. On key fronts, in critical
danger zones, tenseness is increas-
ing, armed forces are in motion.
The Iahineland, the Polish Corridor
and Austria, all bitter with mem
cries of postwar tragedy, have
stirred simultaneously with the rise
of Adolf Hitler and the reappear-
ance of Germanys imperial flag.
The growth of a militant, Fascist
Germany has famed old flames of
fear and hatred in Europe.
Should Italy give widened NOR
al support TO the new German
spirit, militant Fascist bloc would
exist across all central Europe, is
olating France from her soundest
allies, Poland and the little entente.
France would have no recourse
other than to encourage Polish ag-
gression against Danzig in the Po-
lish Corridor and would doubly
fear the German threat along the
Rhine.
Berlin newspapers today report
ed heavy Polish troop concentra-
tions at Gdynia, Poland'S new port
near DanZig.
Officials at Warsaw categorical
ly denied all reports of such con-
centrations.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-15
mM1e R1~'~
0lss1 EeEAusht Syndicate. Inc
CITY RESUMES
BANK ACTIVITY

Banking resumed in Ell Centro
today after a vacation of nearly
Two weeks and resumed with
bang.
Officials and members of the
hank staffs, who have been having
a vacation of sorts during the per-
iod the banks were closed had
nothing like a vacation today, with
crowded lines of patrons in front
OF every available window from the
time of opening this morning until
well past noon
The Bank of America opened at
$3.50 in order to accommodate pa
irons, and soon found itself head
over heels in work
Bank officials in both places ad-
vised that deposits were heavy and
that what Withdrawals we're being
made we're for legitimate purposes
and not for boarding, on which
the banks, cooperating with the
government have drawn strict re-
StrictionS.
Clerks faced a long day of it but
accepted the situation good-natured-
~, as did patrons who were forced
to stand for a long time in line
until their turns came to transact
business.
Optimism seemed to be the pre-
vailing note at both banks and
there was no doubt that the city
sincerely welcomed the opportunity
to jingle a few coins or feel the
crisp greenbacks once more after
such long time jingling keys.
Reaction, to the bank opening
was felt in business houses and
stores, which have felt the decrease
in business during the time the
banks were closed. 1t was not difficui
to follow bank customers down the
street and watch them disappear in
TO stores, to purchase or to pay for
goods received ON credit during the
past two weeks.
Numerous stores in the business
section reported that business was
more active today than it has been
for several weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-15
NAZ| FORCES
PLAYING WAR

STRASBOURG, Alsace, March Is.
U.P)-Musket fire echoed along the
Rhine in pre-dawn hours today ss
Nazi forces staged all night man
euvers on the low mountains near
F'ribourg. Many French sources
considered the maneuvers open vi
olation of the treaty of Versailles.
Frances official protest to Berlin
had been expected to end this dis-
play IN the zone which the treaty
definitely demilitarized, but today
the Nazi demonstrations were in
full swing.
The all night maneuyerS were
executed by two groups. the black
clad Nazi known as the "SS', or
the home protection force. and
khaki clad Nazi known as "SA',,
or storm troops.
Bands of 100 men each, suppos-
edly commercial travellers, arrived
ct Fribourg recently and disappear
ed into the hills, where they dom
ned uniforms.
They spent yesterday and last
night in patrols and night marches
and imaginative warfare, in which
they fired their rifles as in wartime
operations. No weapons larger
than rifles are possessed by the
men, however.