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Evening star., 1933-01-05

America at prices far beneath American
production costs.
Within the last so days, American
manufacturers have complained bitterly
to the White House over the avalanche
of foreign-made deprecated price COM
moditieS upon this country. President
Hoover requested the Tariff Commits
sion to investigate. He named 16 COM
moditieS, ranging from tooth brushes
and cutlery to chemicals, iron and
steel and incandescent lamps, which 1t
was alleged were being dumped in this
country. To date the Tariff Commits
sion has authorized hearings. but has
set no dates to go into the alleged
dumping of incandescent bulbs, frozen
fish, rag and grass rugs, tooth brushes
and hair brushes.
Figures Reveal Extent.
A glance at official figures of the
United States Customs Bureau reveals
the extent to which goods from depre-
ciated currency countries, including the
United Kingdom, Japan, Canada and
the Scandinavian nations. are entering
American markets. During the first 10
months of 1881, the percentage of total
American imports received from colln-
tries off the gold standard was 52.1, and
in the same period in 1882, it was 52.2.
In the first 10 months of 1881, i'm
ports from these non-gold standard
countries totaled $930,844, ,699, while in
the same period in 1882, they amounted
to $585, 1885, ,402. If the 1882 imports
however, had been valued at par of cur
rency, they would have been worth
S845, 1929, a decrease of only go per
cent from the 1881 total
On the other side of the picture,
countries remaining on the gold stand
ard, such as Italy, Germany and Bel
gium, between the 10 months period in
1881 and 1882 saw their imports to
the United States drop 81 per cent, or
from $856,536,831 to 1886, ,736,837.
A study of the official customs figures
for the comparative period Of January
through August, 1881, and 1882, shows
almost invariably that, wherever the
unit value of commodities from the
non-gold standard countries has de-
creased, the imports of these COM
modities into the United States have
shown large increases.
Hits Other Commodities.
This is true in such commodities as
iron and STEEL incandescent lights, pig
iron, fish, linseed oil cake, cattle hides,
cement, yarns, ammonium nitrate, rub
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Der footwear, golf balls and various
other commodities.
Whereas betting leather decreased
512 per cent in value, the United
Kingdoms exports to the United States
increased 1857 per cent. United King
dom reptile leather decreased 866 per
cent in value. but the exports to this
country increased 206 per cent. Candy
dropped $50 per cent in value, and ex-
ports to America increased 219.7 per
cent. United Kingdom raw cotton, l Is
to 13s inch staple, dropped in value
1873 per cent, and exports to the United
States increased 1923 per cent, or from
371 ,742 pounds to 4.565, ,391 pounds.
Raw cotton over 13s-inch staple
dropped in value 30.3 per cent and its
imports into America increased 1888
per cent. Flax, hacked, dropped 20
per cent in value and the imports of
the United States increased 1872 per
cent United Kingdom Portland cement
dropped SOL per cent in value and
the exports to America increased 271.6
per cent. Pig iron imports. off 1877 per
cent in price, increased Gil per cent.
From Canada, fresh pork decreased
in value 51.8 per cent, but Canadian
exports to this country jumped 237.9
per cent. Canadian cream. which
showed an increase in value of 7.3 per
cent, increased its exports here 200
per cent, or from 30,217 gallons in the
January August period Of 1881 to 80 SAB
gallons in the same period In 1882.
Canadian butter decreased in value
319 per cent, but imports here in
creased 125 per cent, or from 29,675
pounds to 112, ,221 pounds.
Canadian Imports Gain
Canadian fish imports to this coun-
try decreased 63.8 per cent in value,
but the volume increased 4669.9 per
cent, or from 92,922 pounds to 4,432,-
275 pounds.
japanese salmon exports to the
United States decreased in value ST per
cent, but the quantity increased by 2511
per cent. Tuna and other fish in oil
dropped 34.6 in value, but increased $50
per cent in volume.
Rubber footwear decreased 20.3 per
cent in value, but American imports in
creased by 1897 per cent, or from
1,074,096 pairs in the January August
period, 1881, to 2,467, ,646 pairs during
the same period in 1882.
Japanese incandescent lamps in
creased in value 542 per cent, but i'm
ports Of this commodity into the United
States increased 1863 per cent over the
period studied. Canned mushrooms de-
creased SO per cent in value and 1419
in imports. Non metal combs dropped
SO per cent. In value and imports in
creased 220.1 per cent. Linseed oil
cake and oil cake meal dropped In
value 25 per cent. but imports in
creased sos per cent, or from $3.50, 900
to 12,384,98 pounds.
Shipments Much Heavier.
So far as Norway, Denmark and Por-
tugal are concerned, the imports show
decreased values on sardineS and Salted
cod and haddock, with greatly increased
shipments to the United States.
Portugals sardines decreased 1884
per cent in value, and shipments to
this country increased 1904 per cent;
Evening star., 1933-01-05
BY MERWIN H. BROWNE.

American workers in many factories
and in many lines of industry are in
effect sharing their work benches with
foreign worknen.
There may not be enough work to
go around. The American worker may
be on a part-time basis, at reduced
wages, earning scarcely enough to sup
port himself and his family; but the
sharing continues, and probably will,
so long as the purchasing public buys
foreign goods manufactured by poorly
paid labor, to the detriment of Ameri-
can production.
It is suggested that perhaps the
ironic part of the situation, from the
viewpoint of the American worker, is
that he does not realize he is constantly
Shadowed by foreign counterpart who
duplicates every move he makes. The
foreigner does not live. as well, nor
does he enjoy luXurieS guaranteed the
American workman under standard
chances are that he will be at the bench
before the American arrives in the
morning and will be toiling there after
the American leaves at night.
This is the literal effect of the flood
ing of American markets with foreign
made goods, and the purchasing of these
goods by the American consumer.
Undersell Americans.
1t is a fact today that, due to the
deprecated currences of nearly 80
European and South American coun-
tries, hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of imports are enabled to scale
the highest tariff inposts of this coun-
try and foreign manufacturers are able
to undersell American concerns in the
domestic market.
1t was reported recently to President
Hoover that, since the depression began,
more than 100000 aliens, who might
now be looking for jobs in this country
and displacing American workers, have
been denied American entry. But with
the tariff walls crumbled by deprecated
curTencies, the effect of the iinmigra-
ton bar is also nullif1ed.
The foreign workman Is prevented
from working in America, yet under
these circumstances he is permitted to
make his product abroad and sell it in
Evening star., 1933-01-05
Seek Marriage Law Change.

SACRAMENTO, Calf, January S Lp).
Repeal of California'S s three-day mar
riage law was asked in bill filed in the
State Assembly by Percy @. West,
Sacramento.
Asseinblyman West declared the wait
Of three days between application for
a marriage license and issuance of the
license had caused a material decrease
in the number of marriages in the
State. Couples. who are unwilling to
wait three days now cross the border
into Nevada and oregon, West declared.
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Blakey. They surrended and reported
the staying Monday night.
Ernest Crook said that Harry Ross.
Is. Negro farmer, attempted to attack
girl at his home and that he "iny
suited" her when she fed. In a signed
statement B. c. Crook said he shot the
colored man when the latter jumped
from their car and ran
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TRIO HELD IN SLAYlNG

Three Charged With Killing Al
legged Attacker on Way to Jail.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, January S OP.-
Three white men have been charged
with murder for the Staying of a
colored man they said they we're bring
ing to jail for an attempted criminal
attack. ......
Tney are Ernest Crook, his son, B.
Y. CToo., eld his son-in-laW. W z
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grass and rag rugs, incandescent lamps.
canned sea foods canvas-topped rubber
soled shoes. cement, porcelain and china
and matches are landing in the United
States, duty paid. articles which are
being sold below the cost of production
to American manufacturers.
(Copyright, le33)
Evening star., 1933-01-05

The manufacturer of good ciga-
rettes does not depend on any
one years crop. He knows that
to keep up the quality of his
brand, he has to carry ON hand
at all times a large stock of the
right kinds of tobacco from sew.
eral years crops.
The domestic tobaccos are kept
in large hogsheads, each contain
ing about 1000 pounds, and are
allowed to age for two full years
in other words, natures method
of curing the tobaccos. Something
like ageing wine.
Liggett & Myers has about four
and a half miles of warehouses
used for storing leaf tobacco, to
Evening star., 1933-01-05
AMERICAN WORKMEN FORGED
TOSTIARE PAY WITH FOREIGNERS
Goods Manufactured by Cheap Labor
Abroad Hurdle Hig hest D. S.
Tariff Walls.

The following article IS the first of a
series showing how industrial conditions
in foreign countries affect American
workmen. Merwin H. Browne, the
writer, is head OF the washington
bureau of the Buffalo Evening News.
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but that can't affect ChesterGeld-why?

Production of tobaccos usabl your
u S. crop average yrs 1927-3D lO91 ,265, $50 lbs.
u S. crop Govt estimate, 1882 -. ISL 16O1 900 lbs.
Estimated shortage 1882 crop 339,664,75O lbs.
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339,664,75O lbs.

make sure that its products are
uniform and are as good as can
be made.
To do this requires great deal
of money-for example, there is
invested in the domestic and Turk
ish tobaccos for Chesterfield Ciga-
rettes over $75,OOO,OOO.
Smokers can be assured, regard
less of the crop conditions, that
Chesterfield will be absolutely
uniform-the same yesterday, to-
day, at all times. The cigarette
that's milder-the cigarette that
tastes better!
Evening star., 1933-06-18
To Return Next Season.
THE Children's Theater of New Yor

THE Children's Theater Of New York,
which closed its first Washington
season with a successful performance
of Little Women" in April, is to re-
turn to Washington with new series
of six plays at the National Theater,
beginning in October.
It Is interesting to note that Of the
six plays chosen for. this new series,
three-"Cinderella," Five Little Pep
pers" and "An Old Fashioned Grip
were the leaders IN a ballot vote taken
in the audience at the last performance
this season at the National, while the
other three were also decidedly popular
with the children of that audience. The
exact schedule for next season will be: :
October 81, Five Little Peppers" by
Margaret Sidney; November Is, "Curdie,
the Princess, and the Goblins," by
George Macdonald; December %, Gin
derella"; February 3, "An Old-Fash-
ioned Girl" by Louisa M. Alcott; March
10. RIP Van Wrinkle" by Washington
Irving; April %, THE King of the
Golden River" by John Ruskin.
AS before, all performances will begin
at 10:30 am. and will be sponsored by
the Women's International League.
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mrs
Harold L. Ickes, Mrs Claude A. Swan
son, Mrs. Henry A. Wallace and Mrs.
William A. Woodin are included among
the patronesses of the series which
should prove most attractive to Wash
ington children.
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narrative Of the noted Mexican bandit
while Hold Your Man" Is a new CO.
starring vehicle for Clark Gable and
Jean Harlow. "TarZan and His Mate
is a Johnny Weissmuller sequel to the
earlier "Tarzan the Ape Man." and
"Bombshell" is new production (not
yet cast and said to have a novel press
agent angle Turn Back the Clock
will be Lee Tracy's new starring film
following his recent hit, "The Nui-
sance."
Strange Rhapsody" is based on Alex
ander Hunyadi's Hungarian play, with
Nils Asther and Kay Francis, anc
Dancing Lady" is new Joan Craw-
ford vehicle, adapted from the Saturday
Evening Post story Of the same name
Greta Garbo is back at the coast studios
after an absence of nine months and
has been busy with final details Of hei
new production, which will have 9
Swedish background but Is not yet OIL
cially titled. Penthouse" based or
Arthur Somers Roche's popular serial
has just gone into production under
direction of w. S. Van Dyke.
Although Ramon Novarro and JEAN
nette Macdonald have not yet returned
from their present European trips to
assume the leading roles, "The Cat and
the Fiddle" has been placed in produc-
ton at the coast, with atmospheric
scenes currently under way. Another
musical now being made at Culver City
Is "The Hollywood Pardy" which has a
varied roster of prominent names and
music by Rodgers and Hart, Nacio Herb
Brown and Arthur Freed.
The lineup Of productions soon to
be launched at the studios includes the
Pulitzer prize novel, Laughing Boy;
Robert E. Sherwoods play, "The Road
to Rome" and the Theater Guild
8. N. Behrman comedy, Biography"
These properties are supplemented by
Soviet" an original story with Q
Russian background; "The Late Chris
topher Beam" which will be a CO.
starring vehicle for Marie Dressler and
Lionel Barrymore, and q musicalized
version Of "The Garden Of Allah" Two
stories with somewhat similar titles.
but Of widely different character, are
"The Education Of a Princess" based
on the autobiographical story Of the
Grand Duchess Marie, and "The Bogus
Prince" an adaptation Of Alva john
ston's New Yorker stories dealing with
the spurious Prince Michael" Ro-
manof and his adventures.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
Broadway's Quiet Broken
By Single Show Opening
Francine Larrimore Appears in Shooting Star, !"
the Story of Stage Star Rise and Fall.
Emil Ludwig's Peace Conferences"
By Percy Hammond.

the rest-playing the parts and saying
the things which they actually played
and said in real life.
President Wilson, as the stern ideal
ist and altruistic theorist, fighting al
most single-handed against national
istic selfishness and real-politik Of the
other delegates, is the plays tragic
figure, but even here there Is little or
no dramatization in the sense Of re-
arranging facts or inserting new ones.
The author merely eliminates the nom
spots, permits this individual tragedy to
write itself.
And while Wilson Is the conferences
tragic figure, as he was In real life,
the other principals are in no sense
played down in order to make him the
hero. Clemenceau dominates the play
IN the same degree In which he DOM
mated the conference itself, and his In.
domitable courage, sardonic wit and
single-minded devotion to France mold
the audiences human sympathy Just
as they held that Of the world in the
black days Of 1919, whatever one might
think Of his politics. Indeed, fairer
picture OF the old Tiger, including the
human ikeableness and the nobility Of
his fortitude as well as the hatefulness
of his hate, could scarcely have been
made had the author been, instead .
German, himself a Frenchman.
Lloyd Georges genius for compro-
mise, for bridging chasms and keeping
disputants from leaping at each others
throats, his opportunism and complete
lack of any convictions whatever ex-
cept that he himself must be kept In
office, are brought out pretty relent-
lessly, and yet one would hesitate to
say unfairly, looking back on history
from the viewpoint Of 1888.
AL the others of the cast Of half Q
hundred or more, from such semi
principals as Col. House, Gen. Tasker
Bliss, Balfour, Nsnsen, Paderewski,
Gen. Smuts, Orlando, down to the del
egateS Of various smaller nations, and
the spectators and newspaper men,
play parts following closely those Of
actual record. Ludwig's work Of re-
search must have been enormous, and
his picture on the whole is as witty g
it is objective
Claude Rains, one Of the Guilds
appeared as Clemenceau,
A. p. Kaye as Lloyd Georgs and Rich
ard Hale as President wilson. It Is
possible that the piece will be seen next
Autumn or Winter as one Of the Guilds
regular-season plays.
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TN Shooting Star" the only novelty
of the week, Miss Francine Larri-
more appears as q husky voiced
i wholly self-centered young actress
riding rough-Shod over everybody
and everything that stands In the way
of her becoming a Broadway success.
The producer, as Is customary in
such more or less biographical pieces,
announces that the play is not based
parently initiates. However that may
be, the role in which the Julie Leander
of the play finally makes her great
Broadway hit is pretty accurate
duplicate of the role which made the
late Miss Jeanne Eagles famous. The
play is called Port of Call" instead OF
Rain" Miss Larrimore initiates Miss
Eagles costume and makeup SO closely
that a spontaneous burst Of applause
greeted her first appearance in 1t on
the first night, and the of stage lines
which we hear Julie Leander speak to
the unseen audience duplicate the
sense, If not the precise verbiage, of
those of Sadie Thompson in the Som
erset Vaughan piece.
Julie Leander isn't very sympa-
thettc young person. She deserts her
husband and baby to run off to Broad
way, and she climbs toward success
| over the bodies Of just one man after
another, each Of whom she squeezes
dry of whatever he can contribute to
her advancement. Meanwhile she takes
to drink and dope and, although she
does become Broadway star, her short
life ends dismally.
The play isn't q very good play. It
Is episode and altogether too long
drawn out, and the touch of the au-
thors, Bernard Schoenf1eld and Noel
Pierce, Is rather heavy-handed. A
number Of experienced players are,
however, included in the large cast,
among them Henry ONeill, Robert
Gleckler, Robert c. Fischer, Samuel
and Miss Cora Witherspoon, and Miss
Larrimore herself as sincere and vivid
quite relentless" in fact, in bringing
out all of Julie Leander's hardness and
selfshness. The net effect Is a vast
amount of pother to no very worth
while end.
THE slightly condescending attitude
frequently taken toward the subur-
ban Summer theaters didn't apply at
all to Emil Ludwig's Peace Confer
ence," the ambitious and very inter-
esting production with which Herbert
]. Biberman, formerly one of the
producing directors Of the Theater
Guild, launching his season Of eight
plays at the White Plains Community
Center
Here was company Of over fifty, in
Guiding several Of the Theater Guilds
players, q large audience, including
several of the Guilds directors and
other visitors from Manhattan, an ex-
pertly acted and directed play, in short,
all the usual concomitants of an i'm
portant Midwinter first-night.
The work Of the German author Is
less play, in the routine sense, than
a dramatic condensation of the Yer
sailles Peace Conference. What he
does. in effect. in its eight scenes, Is to
reduce history to q brief acting "se-
quence," with all extraneous matter
cut out and the characters concerned
Wilson. clemenceau, Lloyd George and
Evening star., 1933-06-18
Wonder Bar" Bought.

WARNER BROS. have purchased
" the screen rights to Wonder Bar, "
the international musical comedy sue
cess, and will produce film version
this Summer with an all-star cast,
probably including Adolphe Menjou,
Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Barbara
stanwyck and others. AL Jolson will
also appear in his original role in
Wonder Bar" which he produced in
New York with great success two years
ago. A number of the most celebrated
European stage and cabaret entertain
ers will be brought over by Warner
Bros. to appear in the musical inter-
ludes Of the picture. Agents abroad are
now selecting talent.
Originally produced in Vienna, WON
der Bar" was later staged in Berlin,
Paris and London, as well as in New
York by AL Jolson. Wonder Bar" will
bring AL Jolson back to the Warner
Bros. studios, where he made his first
success in talking pictures in "The
Jazz Singer" THE Singing Fool" and
other well-remembered productions.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
Problem of Where, When
and How to End a Picture
Startling Climax of Gold Dissers" Leaves the
Audience Tense With Fun of the
Film Almost Forgotten.
By E. de S. Melcher.

TT would be interesting to know
what the public thinks Of the
ending of Gold Diggers of
1888" In this rich and only
occasionally ribald musical saga,
which is unquestionably the best
of its kind, there are a multitude
of scenes; pounds, as Shylock
might say, Of flesh, and any
amount of lyric ditties, flung into
an expensive Warner Brothers
atmosphere by expensive players.
The whole film is a light, rollick-
ing musical extravaganza, based
on an Avery Hopwood farce and
made to seem genuinely funny by
the workings of drole Aline Mac
Mahon and the equally deft Guy
Kibbe.
Suddenly, then, as you are pre-
pairing to gather together your
goods and chattels, and after you
have seen the various sets of prin-
cipals happily salted away in each
others arms, you are confronted
with the stern and somewhat bit
ter pageant of THE Forgotten
Man"
What is the result? You are
impressed by the way in which
this has been done. You are sad
dened by its glum mission. You
are shocked by its truth and pre-
pared to roll up your shirt sleeves
In it's defence.
But you have lost the gayety
and the spirit of Gold Diggers." !"
You sit cold and friendless and
dumb as stone as the lights go
on. You are not able to rise up
and say to your neighbor: Now,
wasn't that a nice refreshing bit
Of entertainments"
Which proves what?
Well it proves that the Warner
Brothers did a magnificent job
with this scene. 1t proves that
the actors knew their business and
that Joan Blondell may readily
become tragedienne if she
wants to. It proves that the last
war is still close to the thoughts
of every one, and it proves that
in what has been called this de-
caying era" even the films have a
right to challenge the injustice of
law and man.
Nevertheless, we doubt If such
a stern little preachment, even
though done on such a lavish
scale, should be the films parting
message.
Originally, as it happens, this
scene was set plum in the middle
of the picture. There is preceded
the philanderings of MessrS. Kibbe
and William (Mr. william seems
to us to be miscast). There it
fulfilled its mission not as q red
hot finale, but merely as one OF
those revue scenes which you get
just before you go out for a
smoke.
Executives, viewing the picture,
however, found that the sequence