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Evening star., 1933-01-15
Disappearance of Theater
Is Hopkins Sad Lament
But He Fails to Admit, Says Reviewer, That the
Cinema Has Brought New Generation Better
Plays, Better Acting and Better Production.
By Percy Hammond.

" YHEN Arthur Hopkins is sad,
~ then indeed is there cause
~ for melancholy, since nei-
ther as man or Snowman is
he given to unreasonable
repining Few producers have faced
more smilingly the drawn dagger of the
capricious public'S taste and few have
defled it with greater optimism. But
now dark thoughts his gallant spirit
shroud and persuade him to compose
for Alfred E. Smiths New outlook a
requiem lamenting the disappearance
of the theater. In that plaintive
nocturne he celebrates the dramas
golden days when it was a thing of
dreams and beauty, and he mourns its
downfall at the ugly hands of realism.
Forty years ago, he means, the theater'S
glorious unrealities swept playgoers
heavenward in ecstatic flights and
brought them back again with dazed
eyes and swelling hearts Ibsen then
intruded with his intellectual media
tions on sorrow and misfortune, and
since that time his initators have kept
the evil cauldronS of realistic drama
boiling. The stenches exuding there
from, according to Mr.. Hopkins, have
driven the multitude to other forms of
recreation, rendering the theater we'll
nigh obsolete.
ONE of the troubles with Mr.. Hop
kins' cypres murmurings Is that
they do not admit that the cinema is
as much, the theater as is its ancestor,
the nicRnamed Legitimate" drama.
Change is the playgoers' nature, and
they have turned from o1d-fashioned
forms to the improvements offered by
the camera. 1t is not true that, as
Mr.. Hopkins says, ''in great sections of
the country there is new generation
that has never seen play" The fact
is that in great sections of the country
the present generation Is seeing better
plays, better acting and better produc-
ton than its forebears did 1t seems
to be Mr.. Hopkins impression that
when people attend the screen perform
ance of "A Farewell to Arms" "Caval-
cade" or THE Sign of the Cross" they
are not theatergoers. But they are. It
may surprise him to learn that the
cinema is the theater of today, not the
Legitimate" of yesterday, and that its
plays postulate, in the words of Mr..
Walkley. the dramas essential conflict
OF individual wills, the sudden crises
and catastrophes of character in ac-
ton. Its playheuses have the magic
atmosphere of the theater and all its
fascinating paraphernalia of ticket
brokers, uShers, lights, color and music.
And Its audiences are not to be pitted,
though Mr.. Hopkins says they are, for
they are far happier and less unintel-
ligent than those Of 40 years ago, when
he and I sat in the galleries and ate
peanuts and popcorn while we were
stupefled by the dreams and beauty OF
such hypnotic unrealities as rip van
Evening star., 1933-01-15

has room completely filled with hum
oreds OF the celluloid figures dressed
IN every conceivable kind of costume,
When Ramon NoVarro was a child
MS mother presented him with a set
OF mar1onetteS which fascinated the
young Mexican. Now he has complete
theater facilities built into his modern-
Istic home. As a youngster Robert
Montgomery falls off a Shetland ponv.
ana now Bob" dashes around a poio
held with the best of the mallet WELD
ers; Buster Keaton never forgot his
Wloe-eyed amazement and delight at
seeing his first automobile when a
youngster on the vaudeville stage. He
determined then he would some dav
or1ve the finest car on the road. That
wish was realized when he purchased
complete nome on wheels containing
luxurious living quarters.
When William Haines was a kid he
wanted the Oldest furniture in his room
SO he could kick it around all he
pleased. Now "BiIl' is the Heading
antique expert in Hollywood and gets
fancy prices for his old-fashioned
knick knacks.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Raft In Faulkner Drama.

GEORGE RAFT, who has just COM
pleted the final engagements in
New York OF a series of cross country
personal appearances, has returned to
Hollywood to appear with Miriam Hop
kins at the head of the cast of The
Story Of Temple Drake" tentative title
for a william Faulkner drama.
Lee Kohlmar, creator of the Marks
Pasinsky character in the famous Pot
ash and Perlmutter plays, has joined
Mae West in the latter's starring pic
ture, "She Done Him Wrong"
Leo Robin, lyricist on Maurice Cheva-
ier's first film hit song, Louise" has
been assigned to write lyrics for that
stars next picture, "a Bedtime Story"
Mary Philips, Broadway stage actress,
who scored personal success as the
friend Of Helen Hayes in "a Farewell to
Arms" has returned to New York to re-
sumo her theatrical career.
Herman j. Mankiewicz will supervise
production of the Four Marx Brothers
new comedy, tentatively titled Cracked
Ice"
Supernatural" Victor and Edward
Halperin's first independent picture for
Paramount viii be adapted to the
screen by Garnett Weston, its author.
Weston, who recently joined the studio
staff, is author OF of.'White Zonbie."
Billy Fletcher. diminutive screen
comedian. has been signed for role in
Good Company" with Alison skip
worth, Roland Young and Sari Martha
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Gloria Coming to Hollywood.

GLORIA SWANSON will not make
~ second picture in Europe, as it was
announced from London she would, 1t
has been revealed In cabled advices
from the star.
The next story, as yet untitled, will
be photographed for the most part In
Hollywood, but scenes contributing to
it will be "shot" in the Basque country,
on the borders of France and Spain.
The story will concern itself with the
Basques. and most, of the atmosphere
shots will be taken in the proper To-
Gale
Some sequences Of Perfect Under
standing" which Miss Swanson has
Just completed in Europe. were taken
in France these being photographed at
Cannes and other points on the French
Riviera But most of the picture was
shot" at the Ealing studios, outside
London. Perfect Understanding" will
be seen upon Broadway in January or
February.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
In Washington Theaters This Week.

NATIoNAI-"Desgn for Living" evening at 800
o'clock.
GAYETYL"OrentaI Girls" This afternoon and evening.
R-K-O KEITHS+"The Bitter Tea of General Yen' This
afternoon and evening.
LOEWS FOX-"Flesh" and vaudeville This afternoon and
evening.
EARLE-"The Billion Scandal" and vaudeville. This
afternoon and evening
PALACE-No Her own" This afternoon and evening
RIALTO-"Laughter in Hell" This afternoon and evening
COLUMBIA-"Red Aib" This afternoon and evening
METRoPoIITAN-"2ooo Sing sing" afternoon
and evening. s.SiASss
Evening star., 1933-01-15
NATIONAL Design for Living
. EGINNING tomorrow night at
- the National Theater Max Cor
| don will present Alfred Lunt.
. Lynn Fontanne and Noel Cow

tn EGINNING tomorrow night at
- the National Theater Max Cor
don will present Alfred Lunt,
IL Lynn Fontanne and Noel Cow
ard in Design for Living" Mr.
Coward's new play, which will be seen
here prior to its Broadway opening.
Mr. Coward describes this play as a
comedy about three people who love
each other very much" In it he makes
his fourth appearance on the Ameri-
can stage. He was also seen previously
in this country in The Vortex" This
Year of Grace" and Private Lives" !"
In addition to the three stars, the cast
includes Campbell Gullan, Gladys Hen
son, Phyllis Connard, Ethel Borden,
Alan Campbell. Ward Bishop, Philip
Tonge and Macleary Stinette
The play has been directed by Mr..
Coward and the settings have been de-
signed by G. E. Calthrop.
GAYETY-"Oriental Girls"
HEADING the cast of oriental
Girls" the new offering at the
Gayety, which has its first perform
ance today at the regular matinee,
will be the new guest star, Carita,
a beauty OF the Spanish type, who
WhA aPpCaA III oOAlSo dIlO QdAlCco
of her native Spain. She will be sup
ported by many favorites, among whom
will be found Gladys Smith, blues
singer; Violet Jordan, prima donna,
and Max Dix, well-known burlesque en-
tertainer. Monday is gift night,
Wednesday is money night and Friday
is amateur night at the Gayety.
R-K-O KEITHS-"The Bitter Tea of
General YEN"
p-K-O KEITHS THEATER is cur
~ rently Offering Barbara Stanwyck
In the Columbia perturbation Of Grace
Earring Stone novel, THE Bitter Tea
of General Yen" This picture OF
present day conditions in China has as
an unusual love story which concerns
New England missionary who jour-
neys to that country. Nils Asther. now
thoroughly master of the English Ian
guage, portrays General YEN" who
captures this missionary girl and woos
her in his Oriental fashion.
In the cast are such well known
players as Walter Connolly, Gavin Cor
don and the new Chinese player of
whom great things are predicted,
Toshia Mori.
PALACE-"No Man Of Her Own"
CLARK GABLE Is starred in mo Man
- Of Her own" the current offering
at Loew's Palace Theater. Borrowed
from his own company, Metro Goldwyn-
Mayer. by Paramount especially for this
picture, Gable, although he is given
sturdy opposition for the honors by his
leading women, Carole Lombard and
Dorothy Mackaill, in the role of Jerry
Evening star., 1933-01-15
II Cover the Waterfront. :"

. ICHARD ARLEN and Ernest Tor
IN renee will have the principal male
roles in IT Cover the Waterfront" the
adaptation of the Max Miller best
seller. which Edward Small Is doing
for United Artists release. it was an
nounced from Hollywood Tuesday.
James Cruze, who is directing, is now
negotiating with feminine star for
the principal feminine role, and this
assignment will be announced shortly.
"I Cover the Waterfront" Is the first
Of four pictures which Small will do
on the United Artists lot in associa-
ton with Joseph M Schenck. The book
is now in its tenth printing.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Janet Richards Talk.

MISS JANET RICHARDS at her
~ weekly review tomorrow morning of
Affairs Political and Interna-
tionar' will speak first of the perplex-
tiles, contentious, delays and political
cross-currents besetting the last days
of the lame duck" Congress, and
why; followed by an attempted eluci-
dation of the mysteries of the farm
allotment" plan and the alleged objec-
tions to the Glass banking BILL Recent
important developments In foreign af-
fairs will also be reviewed. These talks
are given every Monday morning at II
in the red parlor Of the Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Dowley Marione.tes.
l1AJ. DowLEY win present his fame

MAJ. DOWLEY will present his famed
Marionettes at the Masonic Au-
ditorium next Saturday morning and
afternoon at 1890 am. and 2:30 pm.
Maj. Dowley will present the colorful
Capt Kidd and His Jolly Pirates"
The performance is under the man
agement of T. Arthur Smith Concert
Bureau
Evening star., 1933-01-15

y
ings of Hollywood motion picture
celebrities.
Marion Davies lived next to a fire
station when she was a youngster and
even now she almost has nervous pros
tration trying to control her impulse to
follow every fire engine that rushes
past her. Wallace Beery's interest in
mechanical operations that was ex-
pressed when he worked in a railroad
yard as boy has been glorified in his
mature years by an intense enthusiasm
for aviation which has led him to own
ing and flying plane
Clark Gable used to hunt rabbits as
youngster in Hopedale and dream
OF the day when he could go after
big game. Now Clark owns some eight
different kinds of rifles, and goes deer
hunting every year, meanwhile nursing
the hope of some day bringing down
an African lion. Joan Crawford liked
dolls very much as a child and now
Evening star., 1933-01-15

Il lowing verses for sketch
which was presented sub
sequently by Miss Beatrice Lille
in New York:
(The scene is a garden, the
CHORUS, male and female, are
standing about in OdriouS stages
OF seIf-conSciouS eGSe.J
FIRST CHORUS GIRL-ISnt
this a delightful garden, Lady
Nora?
SECOND GIRL Gin stilted
tones Yes, indeed, it is, Lady
Angela.
THIRD GIRL-They say dear
Kitty tends each flower with her
own fair hands.
FIRST CHORUS BOY-HoW
topping.
comes Lady Kitty.
fThe orchestra strikes up the
Introductory bars Of her song and
Lady Kitty enters laughing girl
ishlg, and carrying basket OF
roses in cne hand and Dery
fufp pcrasoI in the other. She
fs rather fat, NTH metallic golden
hair. her dress is extremely
ebitty," ,oith rosebuds and small
botos tUhereDer they are humanity
possible As she reaches the CEN
ter of the stage the music stops
and the chorus cluster around her,
all talking at once. As she
speaks they form large SENT
circle round her.
LADY KITTY (vivaciously) =
Isn't it all just too beautiful for
words
FIRST BOY (self- f-conscious, and
extremely cockney) oh, Lady
Kitty, you are fairer than all the
blooms in your lovely garden.
LADY KITTY Laughing music
ally -Ah! Flatterer, see, I have
q rose for every one OF you so
that none shall be jealous.
SECOND BOY-Oh! Lady Kitty,
you are a tantalizing little rogue.
LADY KITTY know, know,
but that's just my way.
(Cue for song.)
| Verse /.
/ LADY KITTY
I'm a naughty little lady,
Full of winSome, girlish tricks,
Though I'm rather past my
heyday
I began with Seymour Hicks;
With the Chorus Boys behind
me
I'm sight you can't forget,
Though the years have rather
lined me
am still firm Soubrette.
CHORUS BOYS
Tell us why, tell us which,
Tell us what, tell us how,
Tell us when, tell us soon,
Tell us NOW.
Refrain 7.
LADY KITTY-They call me
Kitty
CHORUS-Why?
LADY KITTY-Because I'm
pretty.
CHORUS-Ah!
LADY KITTY-And because I
have a dainty curl.
CHORUS-Naughty girl!
LADY KITTY
They preserve me and WOO me
and ask me to dine,
But I'm always in bed by a
quarter past nine,
I'm awfully sporty,
And I'll be forty
CHDRUS-When?
LADY KITTY-On October the
twenty-third.
What bird!
LADY KITTY-Though there
may be one or two notes that l
can't quite get,
CHORUS-Well-
LADY KITTY-There's life in
the old girl yet.
TEN years have passed since
refreshingly new Beatrice
Lille hove onto the scene and IN
one OF Charlot'S Revues took staid
Manhattan completely by storm
by reciting these verses. And
there's life in the old girl yeti"
And-there's life in Mr. Coward
yet. In fact, judging from his
accomplishments since he first
put lingles together and first
made up his mind to be a play
wright, life has bubbled up in him
each season with more of u burst.
BY the time he's of Bernard Shaw
vintage-and, we trust, a trifle
mellower-he will still probably be
barging around the world on
freighters, giving voice 70 song
and merriment in his own PLAYS,
tossing off revue while he has a
cold, writing love song while
he shaves, and running back and
forth from England to America
doing his splendid trio act with
Evening star., 1933-01-15

the film feature, where he meets and
marries, Karen Morley, an American
girl who has been abandoned by her
dancing partner, Ricardo Cortez. He
becomes wrestling champion of Ger
many, and then comes to the United
States to seek the world title The
story is an original one by Edmund
Goulding
Others on the stage are Betty Jane
Cooper and Lathrop Bros, in six Feet
With a Single Thought; the juvenile
comedian, Jerome Mann, in his "One
Mann Revue" and Jest Acrobatics,"
Mady and partner, complete the vaude-
vile program.
Phil Lampkin and the Loew's Fox
Concert Orchestra are presenting the
weekly overture.
COLUMBIA-.Red-H Haired Alibi."
I'd ED-HAIRED ALIBI," from the
novel by the same title, written
by Wilson Collision, is now playing at
Loew's Columbia Theater, starring
Theodore Won Eltz and Merna Kennedy
Mr.. Won Eltz portrays a man of the
world who Is not so conscientious as to
be hindered by moral scruples. Merna
Kennedy in the title role, Is Q red
haired country girl who learns about the
city from one of its leading racketeers.
Others in the cast are Huntley Gordon,
Purnell Pral, Fred Kelsey and Arthur
Hoyt.
The program consists also of
comedy, pictorial reel and the Para
mount News
Evening star., 1933-01-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 900 Years in
Sing Sing"

''TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN
SING SING First Nationals pic
turization of Warden Lewis E. Lawes'
human document Of the same name,
has been held over for second weeks
showing at Warmers Metropolitan Thea
ter. This condenses into one story the
most dramatic and spectacular Incl
dents in the career Of a warden. These
include the humorous and the romantic
side of the prisoners as well as thrill
ing episodes and the grim tragedies in
the lives of the leading personalities
whom Sing Sing has housed.
An exceptional array of short subjects
supplement the feature, including Ed
die Cantor in Getting Ticket; Vita
phones "Old Time Thrills" with Ted
Husing. ace sport announcer, broadcast
ing the descriptive dialogue, and the
Paramount Sound News.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Now That They're Older.

TITLE Willie's yearning to throw
a brick through window that
persists till he grows UP and
4 socks a golf ball has its counter
Evening star., 1933-01-15

YHEN Wrinkle"
I n is
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i CJnc Tom"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-18
SQUIRRELS in TIGHT
BRITCHES" BRING ON
ARREST AND FINE

ASHEVILLE Dec. Is. - Two
dead squirrels that were used in
presentation of the play, Tight
Britches," here recently caused
the arrest Saturday of Clarence
Taylor, property man of the show.
E F. Sorrells, county game
warden, arrested Taylor when he
found him with the squirrels. AL
tho Taylor protested and claimed
the squirrels were purchased OF
November %. two days before
the season closed on squirrels, he
was taken before Magistrate f.
NJ. Mitchell and taxed with the
costs of the case.
He appealed to general county
court and the case is expected to
be heard today. Sorrels, who is
paid fee for all arrests he makes
for game law violations, gave Tay-
lor a permit" to take the SPUR
rels to HenderSonville, where the
show was given Saturday night.
Taylor had taken the animals
from a cold storage plant and was
on his way to his automobile to
go to Hendersonville when he was
arrested.
The squirrels were used By one
of the characters in a scene IN the
play.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-18
lee A. BLACK
PASSES HERE
Terre Haute Man Had
Made This His Home for
Past 28 Years

Lee A. Black, age 80, who had
lived at the Hunthurst here for
the last % years, died there at
10 o'clock last night. He had
long suffered from chronic heart
trouble but had been seriously
i'll only about 10 days.
Mr.. Black came here from
Terra Haute, Ind, and in the 2S
wears had been out of town only
once, it was said. j. A. Black, a
nephew, was to arrive from Terre
Haute at noon today to return
the body to Terre Haute, leaving
on the Carolina Special this eve
ming. No services were to be held
here. In addition to j. A. Black,
the deceased is survived by an
other nephew, L. A. Black, a
niece, Mrs. Merle Stimson. and a
sister-in-law, Mrs. James Black,
all of Terre Haute. Ind. He had
never married.
Mr.. Black was a merchant at
Terre Haute before coming to
Hendersonville for the benefit of
hi health. While he did not en-
gage in activities here, he was
we'll known and held in high re-
gard.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-18
CLINIC
| OPENS DEC. e
Nill Be Conducted at Pat
ton Memorial Hospital
for One Week

A tonsil and adenoid clinic will
+ held at the Patton Memorial
2sgilaI beginning on Tuesday.
T. 26, and continuing through
o,5ay. Jan. /.
This clinic is for the benefit of
Pos unable to pay for such OPP
|latiOns. These clinics have been
'e.t annually for the past few
fears, but the County Medical So
Eety has decided to hold the clinic
llr!ng the Christmas holidays.
Il was pointed out this morn
p that there are a number of
lhl.tren who need this work done.
he charge is SIS, which covers
!. costs
Children to be operated on
|hOgid be at the hospital by Q
|c,0ck in the morning and should
lot eat breakfast that morning.
Doctors to operate and their
|hedule is as follows: DR.. w. o.
l len. Tuesday, Dec. 20; DR.. w.
Bracket. Wednesday, Dec. 81;
;. G. F. Dixon. Thursday. Dec.
z; DR.. A. B. Drafts Friday, Dec.
= DR.. R. C. Sample, Saturday,
Dec 30; DR.. ] L. Wellington,
tGUday. Jan. l.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-18
By SAM KNOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, Dec. 1S.-(UP).-
The last roundup of the gangs
has started.
Underworld warfare and gov
eminent drives already have re-
suited in death Or Imprisonment
of AL Capone, Jack Zuta, Harve
Bailey, Verne Miller, George
Kelly and all the other real lead
ers of the gangs that were so
powerful.
Now, according to a statement
by States Attorney Thomas
Courtney, local federal govern
ments are going to finish the job
by rounding up the remaining
members of the outlaw organlza-
tons.
"But we must cooperate to do
it," said Courtney. who said that
he has been assured of and by
the United States and local po-
lice departments in many sections
of the country.
Melvin H. Purvis of the CHI
cago office of the United States
bureau of investigation represent
ed the government in the Often
sive.
Four of the men to be sought
in the nationwide man-hunt are
Charles Connors, John klutas,
Basil Banghart and John Dllling-
err. They are the most notorious
Of the active survivors Of at least
five once-powerful gangs the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-18
LAST ROUNDUP OF GANGS IS
BEGUN; CHICAGO AS CENTER
Wide Hunt Will Be Staged for Connors, Klutas, Bang
hart and DilInger; Leaders Still at Large

college Gang" of Illinois the
Touhy gang of Chicago, the old
Capone gang, the Bailey-Miller
gang of the southwest, and the
Dillinger gang of Indiana.
Courtney believes that bullets
and prosecutions have wiped out
all the real leaders of the old
gangs, except for a few who re-
tired into more peaceful and
Legitimate occupations. Some of
the underlings are actively free,
however. They include Lombers,
machine gunners, actual kidnap-
ers, sluggers, and "strong-arm"
men who once did the bidding of
their leaders. Most of them were
stronger of body than they were
of brain. They did the real crimi-
nal work as directed by their
more intelligent leaders but when
the first roundups started num-
Der of them escaped because they
were small game and officials
were hunting leaders.
A possible exception, officials
believe, is Klutas,a former State
university student who sllegedly
led a gang of other former stu
dents in a series of kidnapings
thought to have brought them
more than 100000 in ransom.
The Klutas group, commonly call
ed the college Gang" made a
speciality of kidnapping gamblers
and other men whose own motor
iety made them prefer paying
ransom to getting their names in
the newspapers. ..l.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-18
Many Witness
Pageant Here
Fassifern Students Give
Play This Evening

Students of Fassifern School
for Girls last night presented a
Christmas pageant entitled mo
Room in the Inn" to a large gath
ering of patrons and friends OF
the school at the First Presby-
terrain church. -,
The crowd completely filled
the church and chairs were placed
in all available space in the
church. The gathering was prob
ably the largest ever to attend a
service in the church.
The pageant was beautifully
staged by more than so Of the
young ladies Of the school III
elaborate costume. The story was
that of the gathering of the He,
brew families at Bethlehem, ami
of the coming of Joseph and
Mary, only to find no room for
them in the inn except in the
manger.
The pageant depicted the COM
ing to the manger of the shep.
herds, wise men, and men and
women of all ages and nationall-
ties in fulfllment of the prophe-
cies.
Special lighting effects were
used in the pageant and music
was rendered by a chorus of the
young ladies who entered the
church as a professional prior to
the pageant.
Yesterday afternoon at 4:39
o'clock, in keeping with a custom
of several years at the school, the
students gave their recital Of
Christmas carols. A large gather
ing also attended this service.
Carols were sung by students IN
white vestments and the stage
was appropriately decorated with
Christmas candles and decora-
tions. For an hour preceding the
singing of the carols an art eX,
hibit was open to the public at
the school and a number of peo-
pie witnessed this showing of the
work of the students.
This evening at the school au-
ditorium the Dramatic club will
present a play. "The Birds Christ
mas Carol" The hour is 8 o'clock
and the public is invited to at
tend.