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The Washington times., 1933-09-09
Glen Echo Ends
Season Sunday

Today and tomorrow are the
last days of the season for Glen
Echo, popular amusement resort.
At closing time tomorrow night
the season will end. The man.
agement is highly pleased with
the records which have been set
in attendance this year.
The coaster dips, midway, car
rousel and o other we'll known
amuSements will be running full
blast, however, till closing time.
The crystal pool will be open,
and tonight at the Spanish ball
room Dave MacWilliams and his
orchestra will conclude their
dancing programs till another
year.
The picnic groves provide a
convenient setting for last fam
lily outing at the resort.
The Washington times., 1933-09-09
Bartfie|d Players
Plan Wilde Comedy

Oscar Wilde's famous comedy,
''The Importance of Being Earn
est" will be the first fall produc-
tion of the Bartfield Players. The
play will be presented September
IS at Powell Junior High School,
Lamont and Hiatt Streets North
west.
Howard Whitfield has staged
the play with the following cast:
Romaine Stevens. Mary Etts Cal
1ahan, John Sikken, Byron Fields,
Jon Anderson, Jean Smith, Gym
thia Hathaway, Barry Mulllgan
and Frank Abeel.
The Washington times., 1933-09-09
RonaId's Last Film

"The Masquerader" will be Ron.
aid Colman's last picture for many
months. After the completion Of
the famous dual personality film
at Loew'S Palace Theater. Colman
said good-by to Hollywood for a
long trip around the world thai
will include a summers sailing
cruise around the Aegean Sea.
Friends say that Colman will re-
turn to the legitimate stage for a
while before the screen sees him
again.
The Washington times., 1933-09-09
Quick Glimpses

Who saye Hollywood is not the
soul of propriety? Charles Rogers
will send 40 girls on location to
Arrowhead Lake for Eight Girls
in a Boat" and he insists on 40
chaperons. Every week, Cary
Grant bundles up all the local
comic strips and sends them to his
brother, Eric Leach, in Bristol,
England.
George Raft postcards a change
of plans. He'll leave the new car
The Washington times., 1933-09-09

Andrew R. Kelley ater this week
Rates a diadem Of stars.
On the stage Joe Laurie, jr.,
the perennial half pint, leads a
humping fine group of old tim
ers who besides offering enter
tainment that brims with senti-
mental appeal show the stage
stunts that had grandpa and
grandma beating palms.
Excellent POrtrayals
Director w. S. Van Dyke had
smooth acting cast and the main
figures of Penthouse" as brought
to life by Warner Baxter, Myrna
10y, Charles Butterworth, c.
Henry Gordon, Phillips Holmes,
Nat Pendleton, George E. Stone
and Robert Emmett O'Connor
and Mae Clarke contrive to COM
pound interest in a tale that grips
from the start.
Penthouse" sets forth in
rather graphic fashion what hap.
pens when a brilliant criminal
lawyer gets mixed up, socially and
professionally, with some of his
undesirable clients. Attorney
jackson Durant (Warner Baxter)
is called upon to solve a most
mysterious capital crime which in
wolves Tom Siddel phillips
Holiness, a society youth who had
Just won away the tickle fiancee
of the LAWYER. Siddel, innocent
of the crime, faces first-degree
charge until the smart advocate
agrees to take his case and t1nd
the real culprit.
Penthouse" reaches the Solu-
tion through some ingenious and
skilled detective work in which the
lawyers urcef u n eSs is
matched against the brains of an
underworld king &C. Henry Cor
dom. An attractive ally OF the
lawyer in this battle of wits is
Gertrude Waxted (Myrna Loy),
and he is also given some valuable
aid by Tony Gazotti (Nat Pendle-
toni.
Some fine acting is disclosed in
"Penthouse," with the story told
against those rich Park Avenue
backgrounds which make striking
settings. Warner Baxter plays
with his usual ease and assurance
O legal role that fits him neatly.
He is capitally supported by the
alluring Myrna 10y who makes a
charming heroine and Nat Pendle-
ton as tough mugg offers the
most striking portrait he has yet
given the screen. The incidental
roles are all nicely handled and
penthouse" ia des out to a
happy finish as first-class enter
tainment.
"Vet" Stars en- Bill
The veteran headliners on the
star act include w. c. Handy
who wrote "St. Louis Blues" Dave
Genaro. originator of the cake
walk, Tommy Harris who proves
arteries don't harden if you dance
every day, Emma Francis who
used to cavort with Pat Rooney,
Gus Hill, the renowned club swing
er; ]. Rosamond johnson, Annie
Hart, Bill Swami, Lizzie Wilson
and Harry Brooks. A corking fine
turn, we'll handled by the breezy
Mr.. Laurie.
Paul Tisen's gypsy orchestra
with June and Holland as dane
ing stars and Maria George, bal
1erina, click in a smart opening
turn. Ray Hulin and his trained
sea and Harry Ross and Eddie
Edwards round out
The Movietone completes pro-
gram that is a whopping amuse-
ment bargain.
The Washington times., 1933-09-09

also crazy aOOuC
that young in
terne in a Chi
cago hospital.
His name is
Maurice Hill
and he's a grad
uate of the Uni
versity of Wis
consin.
"There are
eight girls to
every man in
HOllywO o d."
excIaimS Fiji.
81 had to go
to Chicago to
find mine!"
The Washington times., 1933-09-09
MELODRAMA AT EARLE
Primo Camera Misses His Fovorite
Film Actress, Norma Sheorer
By HARRISON CARROLL.
Copyright. 1893. King Features Syndicate,

HOLLYWOOD Sept S-Haf the beauties of HOLLYWOOD have
visited the Primo CarneraMax Baer set at MetroGoldwvn.
Mayer but the Venetian today confessed his disappon
ment The actress he wanted his favor
not been among them
She is Norma Shearer.
Sitting beside the ring his massive hands bound with tape
the world champion humble FAM expressed the hop
that he may Miss Shearer before he completes his pctu
work on Saturday.
The Washington times., 1933-09-09

Friday or Sat-
urday Now
that Toby Wing
has recovered
+ r o m t h e
mumpS, she'll
be graduating
from the Para
mount school
soon. Y'know,
if they're un-
der 18 in Cali
lorna, t n e Y
have to keep
on with their
studies. T h e
P a ra noun +
The Washington times., 1933-09-09

m o p o l ! t a n
M a g a z i n e
S er / a !. AS a
c S m opolitan
Pro d u C t ions
pic ture the
narrative pre-
serves all the
CT e ver plot
5 / tu a t ! on S,
tenseneSS a n d
excitement of
the orig i n a !
script and so
the main screen
a t ira ction at
the Fox The
The Washington times., 1933-09-09
Warner Baxter
Heads Great
Film Cast
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

Arthur Somers Roche's novel,
Penthouse" made fascinating
and absorbing mystery as a Cos
The Washington times., 1933-09-09

teacher is a credited inStructCt
and Toby will receive nisn
school diploma.
Jacqueline Francelle and Maui
rice Chevalier are gloomy because
she has to return to France to
do a play. They were at the
Cocoanut Grove the other eve
ming, very much tete-a-tete
Maybe it's because of his grow
ing family, but John Barrymore
has bought the house next to
his and will connect the two
buildings with a loggia,
The Washington times., 1933-09-09

Did You Know
That the telephone bills In
major studios often run from
$500 to $4,000 a month?
The Washington times., 1933-09-09

in Chicago and fly to New York
The Washington times., 1933-09-09

PENTHOUSE" the M-G-M Cosmopolitan picturiza-
ton of Arthur Somers Roches brilliant novel, is now
showing on the SCREEN Warner Baxter Myrna 10y,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
VANDALISM

A big high school in Chicago was dam
aged to the extent of about 10, 900 recently,
apparently by students prank. The
young jokers broke in at night, stopped up
water outlets with sponges and turned on
two or three dozen faucets, mostly in lab
oratories. One whole wing of the school
was flooded. Large areas of plaster were
ruined. Floors, furniture and equipment
were harmed.
This in an egregious example of what
has been happening in hundreds of Ameri-
can communities lately. There has been
a growing wave of vandalism among boys
and young men. Windows are smashed,
the walls of buildings are damaged, trees,
shrubs and statues in public parks are
wrecked, to an extent never seen before.
This may be phase of the depression.
At least, the idleness and general loss of
sense Of values, human and material,
which came with the BIZ ness collapse, has
made it worse. Scoldll. md sermonizing
don't do much good. The best remedy
for Juvenile destructiveness would be con-
structive work Boys who are engaged in
making things seldom find fun in destroy
ing things.
Jobs for boys are as important as jobs
for men, When the most urgent demands
of mature wage-earners have been met,
there ought to be drive to get boys con-
structively busy somehow. u"
The experience of Germany suggests
what may come from prolonged failure to
do this. The private army of violent and
irresponsible young men that has carried
Hitler to power and kept him there is COM
posed of boys growing up since the war,
who have never lad any work to do.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

High taxation, which lessons the
peoples resources and cartails
spending, has drained in q very
serious degree the sources Of pri-
waite charity.
The poor we have always with
rs, but now the old poor are very
largely augmented by the new
poor. Thousands Of citizens who
in former years made their con-
tributions TO charity find them
selves on the verge Of want and
are being forced to the reluctant
view that Charity Begins a.
Home
There are others who should
give directly or indirectly. but
don't They have Jet 70 learn
that IL Is more blessed 20 give than
10 receive.
Let as have no illusions. Bur-
dens lightly borne in times Of
prosperity assume a different as
peet during times Of depression.
The burden~of taxes. serious 81 al
times. bears more heavily in
'times like these.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
SELLING 70 FARMERS

Business men of the country spend
$50 million dollars year for advertising
to reach city jewellers, but only 80 million
in reaching the farmers, according to Sam
uel r. McKelvie, formerly CT tt Federal
Farm Board.
He added that this disproportion in
advertising efforts was all the more strik-
ing when it is considered th II the farmers
of the country have a normal purchasing
power of ten billion dollars annually.
He might have gone further by stating
that no class of prospective customers are
more responsive to honest advertising than
farmers and farmers wives. Generally they
take fewer newspapers and other periodi-
Gals than city jewellers and consequently
-ead those they do take more thoroughly
Merchants would do well to give more
consideration to newspapers which reach
the rural population.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
BUILDING SPREADS PROSPERITY

The vital Importance of building in
business recovery is shown in report from
a big American construction company
which recently completed factory in New
York State. The building cost $4,000, of
which $402, 900, or nearly so percent, went
for labor in producing, transporting and
putting together the materials used. The
expenditure was spread over 20 states The
company finds that If the plant had been
erected in Illinois it would have drawn up
on 27 states for labor and materials; if in
Missouri, on % states.
1T is apparent saws w. j. Austin,
president of the company, that any sus-
tanned national recovery program must
take into consideration the capital goods
industries. which normally employ approx
imately 40 percent of the nations indus
trial workers. Until these men are employ
ed on substantial basis, no permanent re-
covery is possible"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
WEATHER CONDITIONS

The disturbance that was GEN.
trail Saturday morning over the
upper Mississippi Valley moved
eastward to the Canadian Mari
time Provinces. Eastport, Me-,
29.OS inches. causing high winds
and rain or snow during the last
"a hours in the southeastern Lake
region, upper Ohio Valley, and
Atlantic States southwark over
North Carolina. Another disturb
ance has moved in over the upper
Mississippi Valley, Duluth and
Minneapolis. Mimi, 29.3s inches,
and pressure continues high in the
Gulf States. Temperatures are
considerably below normal this
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
TODAY'S WEATHER

morning over most sections from
the Mississippi Valley eastward.
with readings below zero in north
ern Michigan, and below freezing
southwark into northern Georgia;
while mild weather for the season
prevails in the Plains States and
portions of the Rocky Mountain
region.
G. S. KENNEDY,
Official in Charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
POETRY

There's never any accounting for
poetry, especially amateur poetry. But here
is stanza from an alleged poem, appear
ing seriously in a newspaper column, which
seems little more unaccountable than
usual:
4 wcald that country folk could
slowly know,
That claim the dearest prize of
sight,
That eye unframed but on the
lus,i-lit wood
Knows not the everything of
night"
The meaning of this gem might be a
good subject Tor prize contest. There
could be special prize for definition of
"lush-lit wood And isn't d pretty large
order to ask country folk. or anv other kind
of folk. to understand sthe everything of
night?"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
MANY QUESTIONS
ASKED RELATIVE
TO BRAIN TRUST
NEW GOLD POLICY OF PREsI-
DENT RoosEvELT's KEEPS
WASHINGTON OBSERVERS
STILL GUESSING
By HERBERT PLUMMER
my Associated Press)

WASHINGTON. Nov. = 81
President Roosevelt perhaps has
made no announcement since en-
tering the White House which left
Washington observers so be-
wildered as to what it was all
about than his statement of new
policy to value the dollar.
Since March the capitals
newspapermen have become ac-
customed to tough ones. Many
of them appear as familiar with
the intricate and highly technical
phases of the "new deal" as are
the governmental experts them
selves.
But the Presidents new gold
| policy had them stumped. They
flocked to the treasury IN swarms
in an effort to find out what it
| meant. There they learned little
| at first.
! Their accustomed sources of
''off the record" information were
missing. Either they could not
or would not talk.
As To The Brain Trust
| Is President Roosevelt's cele-
brated "brain trust" still in exist
ence or has it passed into
oblivion?
|. There's a difference of opinion
on the question in the capital.
Some contend that it is still alive
and functioning as an important
part of the administration. Others
believe that to all intents and
purposes it passed out of the pic
ture when Prof. Raymond Moley
resigned as assistant secretary OF
state following the Hull Moley in
cident at the London economic
conference.
One of the reputed "brain
trusters," still in the administra-
ton, Prof. A. A. Berle, Jr., has
ideas of his own on the present
status of the trust"
"It ceased to function on March
s." said Berle recently.
Be that as it may, many Wash
ington observers professed to see
| in the Presidents announcement
of a new gold policy, the in
fluence of the "brain trust" He
now appears to be, they point
out, in favor of something close
to the commodity dollar long adj
vocated by such of his advisers as
Prof. George F. Warren of Cor
! nell and Prof. James Harvey
, Rogers of Yale.
Looking To Montevideo?
Establishment by the President
Of a foreign bond holders pro-
tective committee has aroused
: speculation in Washington as ia
whether the move has any connec-
ton with the approaching Pam
American conference at Mon
Itevideo.
II Administration circles are en-
lphatic in their denial and. declare
that some plan for helping the
bond holders has been under con.
sideration for months.
Others point out, however, that
a substantial amount of foreign
bonds held in this country and in
default are Latin American is.
sues. The administration also has
been represented as believing the
: question of debts has no place at
the Montevideo conference in
December. @sf
The setting up of a non-gov.
! ernmental agency to handle the
: situation may avert possible EN-
barTassment TO all concerned.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
Today's
Anniversaries
COMMUNICATIONS

1727--Artemus Ward, Massa-
chusetts' noted soldier, appointed
by Congress the first major-gen-
eral of the Continental Army,
born at Shrewsbury, Mass. Died
there, Oct. 81, 1900.
1746-Robert r. Livingston,
one of the committee of five to
draw up the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, chancellor of New York
and administrator of oath of of
flee to President Washington
patron and partner of Fulton in
steamboat experiment, patron OF
arts and agriculture, born in New
York. Died Feb. &c, 1873.
1785-Henry Wheaton, famed
New York jurist, diplomat, legal
writer and authority on interna'
tional law, born at Providence, r
II. Died in Boston, March IL
184S.
1805-Ralph P. Lowe, Iowa
governor and chief justice, borr
in Warren Co.. Ohio. Died in
Washington, D. c., Dec. %, 1888
1809-Fanny Kemble. noted
English and American actress OF
her day, grandmother of the fam
ed novelist, Owen Wister. born
! Died Jan. 16. 1893.
1S42-Alvey f. Adee, for. al
most 30 years the assistant secre,
tary of state. whose epitaph il
SIT is not too much to say thai
the government has never had 1
more faithful and competent serv
amt" born IN New York. Dice
July %, 1924.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
Today In History
ssesssSeAssseas.eassssss

1S12-Large part of Napoleon's
army lost in Inflated retreat from
Russia.
1S42-Notre Dame University
Indiana, founded.
1S6S-Historic victory of Gen.
Custer over the Indians on the
Washita River.
1925-Great storm ravaged en-
tire west coast of Europe.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
eeeseeesessseesssseeseet
Today's Horoscope

If the native of this day would
avoid filling the life with sorrow.
let him keep the mind from re-
pining. Grief comes to every one,
and II is much better met with a
smile than with misanthropie
means. The nature has a plenty
of fidelity and natural sympathy
with friends if the good traits are
murtured; but keep looking on the
bright side.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
Men have been called all kinds OF

Men have been called all kinds of
things Insects. snakes-in-the-grass. monk
res. jackasses. poor fish. etc, and now on no
less an authority than Al Smith. who has
developed as the big. bad wolf Of the demo-
cratic party. we are designated as guinea
pigs. What in the heck are we. anywayg
Possibly. just saps.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

When Mrs. Stanton engaged an air
plane to go out into space to keep her rem
dezvous with death. it was the first time
in the history Of flying that such a death
was deliberately sought.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

Even Jonah doesn't understand the
difference between initiation, deflation and
relation. With AL Smith, he believes in
sound money, and gives as his reasonthat II
'soundss' good to him.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

Two famous last words are uttered
when the preacher asks the prospective
husband, do you take this woman for your
welded wife?' and the groom answers, II
do.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
WEATHER FORECAST
(Tnl 8 p. M, Tuesday,

Niul p H.s iueSudyt
Key West and Vicinity: Fair
and not quite so cool tonight;
Tuesday fair and warmer; mod
crate north and northeast winds.
Florida: Fair, not quite so cold
tonight; Tuesday fair and warm
er.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits:
Moderate northerly winds beconn-
ing southerly over north portion
Tuesday. and fair weather tonight
and Tuesday.
East Gulf: Moderate north and
northeast winds over south por-
ton and gentle variable becoming
southerly and increasing over
north portion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

When a ball player was once asked
what he thought of the League of Nations,
he replied he didn't think much of minor
leagues. After all. he wasn't so far wrong.
With the detection of the major countries
the League Of Nations is deteriorating into
minor league
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
Andrew voIatead is quoted

AHuTtW VUIstedu Is QuOJtU ds sdyIIEg
that prohibition will come back IN year
or two. Let's see. who was Voistead -
Tampa Tribune. Why he's the fellow
who introduced that anti-drinking law. We
looked it up in book.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

When an advertiser advertises the
fact that he is too busy to write his al it's
a sign that the good old days are here
again at least for this advertiser.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

Charles n opperman. Of New
York. has returned this year TO
spend the winter and is occupying
the cottage ON William street
which he purchased two years ago
from Uric Henson. This viii
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

AThe Tampa Electric Company clipped
an editorial from The Citizen and used it
as copy for an. advertisement, with ac-
acknowledgements, OF course.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

The name Of the new premier of
France is Chaatemps, which means "hot
time''--and that's just what he'll have, if
precedent is criterion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

Investigations, for which the taxpayer
foots the bill, generally end in the accused
being declared innocent with the admoni-
tion not to do it again.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
Eyerybody is a nudist once in his life

And the doctor told the sexton and the
sexton told the belle Then the whole town
found It out.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27
KEY WEST IN
GONE BY


In the dredging operations that
were made in the Key West chan
mel, which has a depth through
the harbor of 261. feet, with one
exception, there was found shoal
with about four feet depth of wa
ter near the old p. and o. dock
The chamber of commerce wired
the United States district engi-
ncer for Florida asking that thjs
dangerous obstruction be removed
An answer was received at once
authorizing Mr.. Brown, local rep.
resentative of the engineers, to
have the Clark Dredging company
do the work as soon as practicable
In several parts of the city resi-.
dents are now actively engaged in
cleaning their premises, having
repairs and painting done and
making preparations for the com
ing winter season. The quick re.
Spouse to the call, published il
The Citizen several days ago, j:
highly gratifying to officials Of
the city and county and they arc
satisfied that the citizenry are
heart and soul with the proposed
plans for identifying the city.
Many complaints have been re
ceived during the last few day!
about the great number of own
erless dogs roaming about thu
streets. During the night the.
turn over garbage reeeptacles
kill chickens, and make the hours
hideeus with their hOwling. Charlie
Wardlow, Eugene Pinder ant
many other citizens have los
chickens and other fowl by thes'
marauding pariahs.
Key West Odd Fellows and Re
bekahs are planning a great tins
next week in Miami. They hav'
been assured of a royal welcom,
when they go to Miami to attens
the convention of the lodges from
the 18th and 10th districts t.
meet in that city December /
This is to be the largest numbei
of members of these organization
to assemble as yet up to this tim,
in this section of the state.
Sunday morning 10 O'Clock tn
regular inspection of the Re.
West Fire Department was hel'
by Chief Pinder and the apparat
US and personnel presented a won
derfully clean and efficient ap
pearanee.
q n II n -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-27

Editorial comment: The road to
the mainland. the first stage of
which was recently authorized by
the people. Is giving Key West
some real advertising. national in
scope.