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Evening star., 1933-08-20
Trends in Film Stories

II they're good, they'll go--any time,
any place. If they're not good, it's no
fault Of subject matter or time element.
There are three general types Of
stories that can never fail II they're
well done-a Western, q sea story or a
war story. A weapon, a horse and
boat are the three major symbols of
high adventure This is inherently and
everlastingly true, because back in the
dim beginnings Of things man with
horse rode places, came back and prob
ably lied about what he saw and did.
Nevertheless, because he had the horse
and could 60 places and do things he
was an object Of interest, admiration
and envy.
THE man who had boat held the
same advantage. He sailed out to sea-
saw things and did things, and upon
his return told tall tales. Also. the man
who had club, bow and arrow, a long
knife. or, later on, gun. could and did
do things to demand attention, gain
wealth and power or put himself In
well with hoi-polloi by doing Robin
Hood.
NO good love story can fail. The
same holds true Of any good religious
story. And they don't have to be new
stories. All they need is goodness As
a matter Of fact, there is no such thing
as new story which is good All good
stories are old They're old because
they're good. And we'll still be using
them thousand years from today. II
you hear that some one has a new
story. bet that it's no good and make
yourself some money. A new story iS
simply yarn that somebody found out
was no good a thousand year ago. II
it were any good it would be old.
The fact that a story is old does
not mean that a new rendition of it Is
not different from any version that's
ever been told. Out of the millions of
people alive today there are no identical
handwritinRs
Evening star., 1933-08-20
Guest Performer.
7 YMAN s. McCRARY, organt

7 YMAN s. McCRARY, organist and
choir director at Epworth M. E.
Church, will be the guest organist at
the evening bells service at the National
City Christian Church tonight at 8
o'clock.
MI. McCrary, who attended the West
minister Choir School in ithaca, N. Y,
where he had q course In choir con-
Quoting with DR.. John Finley William
son, Is also . member Of the District Of
Columbia Guild Of Organists and had
the honor Of appearing as organist with
the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra at
the recent guild convention, when he
played the organ part Of Seth Bingham's
suite, Memories of France" The pro-
gram tonight will be as follows:
"Marche Flnebre ct Chant, Sera-
phique" (Gullmart), "Giant Fugue.
We All Believe in One God" (Bach) ;
chorale, Deck Thyself, My Soul With
Gladness" (Brahms), "Ronde des prin-
ceases" (stravinsky), Choral" from
symphonic Romano" (Widor), "Ronde
frAncaise" (Boellmann), piece hero
ique" (FfAnck). Mrs. B. D. Shreve, So
prano soloist Of the National City
Christian Church, will be the singer for
the program.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
BAND CONCERTS

The following schedule Of concerts
will be played by the United States
Navy Band during the week beginning
Monday, August 81:
Monday 10 am, Hour Of Memories. 4"
at the Navy Yard.
Monday. 7:so pm, East Front Of the
tuesday, 8 pm, at the Navy Yard.
Tuesday. 1880 pm. Lincoln Park.
East Capitol and Eleventh streets.
Wednesday, 1880 pm, at the Navy
Thursday, 1890 am, at the Navy
Thursday, $50 pm, tuberculosis
Hospital.
Friday, pm, St. Enzabeth's Hos
Friday, Q pm, at the Navy Yard.
The schedule Of the United States
Marine Band for the coming week will
include the following concert dates:
Monday. August 81, at 8 pm. concert
at the Marine Barracks.
Tuesday, August 22, at II am, con-
cert at the Marine Barracks; operate
hour.
tuesday, August ~, a 7 pm, concert
at Mount Alto Hospital.
concert at the United States Capitol.
Thursday, August "a, at 7:3o pm,
concert at the District Of Columbia War
Memorial
friday, August as, at II an, con-
cert at the Marine Barracks; patriotic
shut-ins hour.
Friday. August rs. at 3 pm, concert
at the Naval Hospital.
The schedule of the United States
Army Band for the coming week Is as
follows:
Monday, August 81. concert at the
District Of Columbia World War Memo
rial, Potomac Park, 7:30 pm.
Tuesday. August %. Music Of the
Americas Program" broadcast from the
Army War College. 1890 am. Concert
at st. Elizabeth's Hospital, 2 pm. Con-
cert at the Army Medical Center. Walter
Reed General Hospital. $50 pm.
Thursday, August "a. radio concert
broadcast. from the Army War College,
3 pm. Radio concert broadcast, from
the Army War College, 1890 pm.
Friday. August rs. radio concert
broadcast, from the Army War College,
$3.50 pm. Concert at the Capitol,
1880 pm.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
DY MOLLrE MERRICK.

r HOLLYWOOD, Calf, August 10
- (N.A.NA).-A wag once said
that Q girl had to be young
i i to please Ziegfeld, but far. far
younger to please Sam 0oldwyn.
"Why," he explained, "for Sam they
have to be 20 tender that the meat
will slip right of the bones"
I couldn't help thinking Of this silly
sally when I looked the Goldwyn girls
over. The meat is ready to slip right
of the bones all right.
what three qualifications do you de-
mand?" asked the clever producer
for Sam ooldwyn hits the bull's-eye
9 times out Of 10, q very high average
tically unequaled in the colony.
They must be young, fresh and
sweet" was his reply.
Beautiful" said.
well" he countered, there's lot
Of beautiful material I don't want.
don't want Broadway toughies or Holly
wood softies. Manhattan showgirls are
too skilled in showing themselves of
they take on a professional flair. And
dolls from the casting ofdce are banned
for pretty much the same reason"
Candidates came for the Goldwyn girls
In droves from all parts Of the compass.
1Hey 90 VtlB every year. nAIu-UOicO
chorus girls looked genuinely perplexed
when told they were ito physical" And
q pretty little cutie from Grand Rapids
was shocked when the casting director
told her she looked. Just like another
Hollywood blond. Some were passed
by because they looked too athletic
some because they appeared to be too
laxy"-some because they were "too
wise" But some others were chosen, and
III tell you about few of them:
Dorothy Stevens, who was the inter-
scholastic golf champion Of the North
west, charmed them with her red eye
brows Her home used to be in Port
land, but she's in the movies now.
don't know that the color Of her eye
brows will matter at all in the films.
but 1t motivated In her favor In the
choosing.
From Clarksville, Tenn, came Helen
Wood. Miss Personality" to represent
Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky in
Hollywood Goldwyn doubts If she'll
ever 60 South again after seeing her
screen test
Myra Bratton. from South Of the
Mason-D Dixon line-to be exact, from
Montgomery, Ala, hitch-hiked her way
over here when her family got her q
job in . salve factory.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
Local Notes.

o EPORTS from q French newspaper
~ at st. Raphael note the success of
a dance performance given by Mad
eleine Won Unschuld Lasard, daughter
Of Nine. M. v. Unschuld Of Washington,
as q solo artist in the Russian ballet
now on tour In Southern France.
Julia e. schelltng. music lecturer and
teacher, has returned to Washington
after an extended visit to the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
Mrs. Florence Howard and Mrs.
Miriam Hilton Of Washington have been
attending the folk song festival at
Whitetop Mountain, Va, and taking
course Of study Of folk music under
the American composer, John Powell.
The Estelle Wentworth Opera Group.
which has been heard twice in Gilbert
& Sullivan operettas during the Sum-
mer at the Sylvan Theater. under the
direction Of the Summer Festivals Com
mittee, will open the Winter season in
doors, with q presentation Of H. M.
S. Pinafore" in late October, with the
chorus group and soloists who have been
working under Miss Wentworths direc-
ton.
Following the performance Of H. M.
S. Pinafore" the group will at once be-
gin rehearsals of Bohemian Girl for
Midwinter, and later will take up the
study of "Erminie" and Of Robin
Hood" the latter having been requested
for next seasons Summer Festival series
at the Monument.
Virginia Sellars. soprano, will be the
solobt at the morning services Of
the Ingram Memorial Congregational
Church, Tenth street and Massachusetts,
avenue northeast. Victor Neal. organist.
Miss Sellars will sing My Heart Ever
Faithful" by Bach. and How Beautiful
Upon the Mountains" by Harker.
Lyman S. McCrary will be the guest
organist at the evening bells service of
the National City Christian Church to-
night at o'clock Mrs. B. D. Shreve,
soprano, will assist in the program.
Elsie Jorss Reilley. soprano, and
Gladys Roberts, contralto, will sing
Mendelssohn's IT Waited for the Lord"
as duet at the IL o'clock service at the
Church Of st. Stephen and Incarnation
this morning. The canticles and hymns
are sung by q choir Of adults. under the
direction Of Claudine Ferguson, organ
ist and director for the Summer months.
In September the full choir Of men and
boys, under the direction of the Rev.
John F. Robertson, assistant rector Or
ganist and choir master, will resume
their ministry Of music.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
September
Concert.

WITH the United States Navy Band
providing the instrumental por-
ton Of the program and Hector De
Lara. Mexican baritone, the vocal part.
the sixty-eighth concert Of Latin
American music sponsored by the Pam
American Union will be given Wednes-
day night, September 6, on the Es-
planade.
The first hour Of the concert will be
broadcast by the National Broao,casting
Co. network. and the General Electric
Co. and Westinghouse Co. will relay the
music to Latin America through their
short wave transmitters.
Special arrangements of Latin Amer
ican melodies for solos. duets and trios
will feature the band performance under
the direction OF Lieut.. Charles Benter.
Songs from many countries will be
played and included In the groups sung
by Senor De Lara Among them will
be several compositions receiving their
first public rendition.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
|Show Girls Who Getin Films
Must Be Young and Sweet
Producer Says Many Beautiful Ones Ar. Unde-
sirable. Some Because Too Skilled
in Showing Selves OF.

From Wilmington. Del, by motor
cycle, with her husband riding beside
her, came Gigi Parrish. She Is the
one who will wear q wig made en-
tirely out of little silver bells
Ruth Stovall has done lot Of things
among them she has been in the
ticket booth Of Brooklyn theater, and
she has been salesgirl in San Diego
bakery. Then she became model;
our cigarette posters-a very well-known
brand. Greensboro, N. c., was her
home.
As Chicago's fairest coed, Jane Vance
was Beauty Queen" Of Northwestern
University. Paul Whiteman had her
singing the blues when Sam Goldwyn
talked her into trying the movies.
Marcia Sweet sold a famous old Co.
lonial four-poster bed and arrived in
Hollywood In style on the proceeds.
She had enough money to last her for
a year. but now she's got Job, too,
with the girls
6andra Shaw has been in pictures
for some time, and you possibly know
her for two things, her beauty, which
is very much like that of Ann Hard
niece Of Cedric Gibbons, one Of the
ace art directors Of the colony.
Jane Hamilton was carried along from
the Cantor girls Of last year. She
comes from the Beverly HILLS High
School. She never got to play in the
first picture. although cast for part.
She was taken Ill on the day produc-
tion started, 50 gets her innings this
time.
One hundred girls were all selected,
and the show was ready to 60 when
q stately beauty, who had been ticket
taker at Los Angeles theater. walked
in and got the 101st part. She'll stand
next to Eddie Cantor in a Roman
chariot and contribute beauty to the
scene.
So, you see, they're not from chorus
ranks, nor out of faded Broadway
shows They've not been tramping up
and down the Hollywood lots learn
ing the "Sez you" Of disappointment
and the curling lip which comes from
genuine disgust at some Of the sugges-
tions offered. They're young, fresh
and sweet" all right, and beauty, which
was a second thought seems to be the
| first asset when you begin to look them
over That's because Sam Goldwyn,
keeping other things in mind, had an
eye cut for loveliness also.
| Copyright, 1898. BY North American News.
paper Alliance. 1nc.)
Evening star., 1933-08-20
TMELY stories are not Away
good, but good stories are always
timely. according to William
L SlAvens McNutt. war CORE

TMELY stories are not Away.
good, but good stories are always
timely. according to William
i SlAvens McNutt, war corre-
spondent, novelist, playwright
and film scenarist, who, with Grover
Jones, wrote the script OF "One Sunday
Afternoon" Gary Cooper's next starring
film.
In pictures, as in novels. magazines
and on the stage, no good story ever
suffers, and only rarely does a bad
story get licking solely because Of its
timeliness More than 20 years ago
quit writing Western stories for maga-
zines because I was convinced that the
passed. Since that time have grown
dizzy watching the procession Of writer's
On their way to wealth and fame via
the western story route.
Years ago picture studios, theatrical
managers, magazine and book publish
ers called an everlasting end to stories.
plays or pictures Of the World War.
Since that time . picture called All
Quiet on the Western Front was made
and didn't do badly. It was an
adaptation Of q novel that also attracted
world wide attention. Journeys End
is another case in point. remember,
too, when We came to the absolute
finish of the gangster story in pictures.
Every one agreed that the public was
completely fed up on the stuff. Then a
picture came out called 'Scarface.
What was actually true about gang
ster pictures was that time came when
it was no longer possible to do bad
gangster pictures and get away with
them. A good gangster picture is good
any time, either before or after a run
Of similar films or in between. The
same il true of war stories and West
ems It's true Of slapstick and musicals.
Ifs true Of love stories and adventure
stories and costume stories, Emall-
town stories, city stories drawing room
comedies, tragedies and what-have- you.
Evening star., 1933-08-20

YOHN CHARLES THOMAS, noted
Metropolitan Opera baritone, has
Just been engaged for a solo ap-
~ pearance with the National Sym
phony Orchestra, Hans Kinder.
conductor, during the coming concert
season, according to @. G. Cappel, man
ager of the orchestra. The exact date
Of the performance will be announced
later. The baritone sang here with the
National Symphony last october before
one of the largest audiences OF the en-
tire concert season and his re-engage-
ment comes as the result Of demand for
his return on the part OF numerous
Washington music lovers.
American artists and American mu-
sic will be favored by Mr. Kinder and
the National Symphony next season" :"
Mr. Cappel has stated. In addition to
Mr. Thomas, We have booked for her
Washington debut Rose hampton, young
American contralto of the metropolitan
Opera: John Powell, Virginia composer
pianist, who will play one OF his own
compositions with the orchestra Albert
Spalding, American violinist, and
Sophie Braslau, American-born Metro
politan Opera contralto
South America will be represented
ian pianist. She is said to have all the
predominating qualities Of the great
pianists of Latin America, and on her
extensive concert tour last season was
acclaimed as one Of the greatest pianists
Of all time"
American music will come in for con-
siderable, but not exclusive, attention
from DR.. Kinder. Among the works
to be included in coming programs are
an arrangement of Bach's Prelude and
Fugue.' by Edgar T. Paul of Baltimore: :
American Symphony" by Randall
Thompson: orchestral variations Of
Hassler's "Chorale," by Templeton
Strong, an American living at present
in Geneva, and one Of John Powell's s
own distictively American compositions.
A new work by La Sale Spier, Wash
ington composer. is being considered.
Among the noteworthy new foreign
works to be played in the near future
are Chabriers Fantastic Bourree," q
Summer Concerto" by Pizetti. and .
"Sarabande," by Debussy. recently or
chestrated by Maurice RAvel Of "Bo-
lero" fame This will mark the first
performance Of the latter piece in
Washington.
John Charles Thomas was born in q
small Pennsylvania town and began
his musical studies at the Peabody Con-
servatory In Baltimore. where he was
scholarship pupil of Adelin Fermin.
All Of his musical training was received
in this country. His first professional
work was in singing church music. For
the past few years he has devoted 6
Evening star., 1933-08-20

California Constance
provides
earnings
with Bennett $3oO00 annually
on
engine and boiler Of the sD9at used a1s
Built Scotland 40
has
needed
machinery will be good Tor still
the length
generation that thrilled to Little Women the
that to
cast Include and Paul Lukas
lionel composed several concertos
Evening star., 1933-08-20
Strange Pair.

COPHISTICATION and fashioned
- innocence are to be teammates in
the comedy starring combination of
zasu Pitts and Pert Kelton, announced
by R-K-O Radio Pictures.
Miss Kelton recently scored in her
worldly comedy role in Bed of Roses, +"
which starred Constance Bennett. Since
that time she has been cast in several
other pictures. Merriam Cooper, execu-
tive producer, also announced the as
signment Of Howard Green. who COL
laborated in the adaptation of "The
Morning Glory" and Man Of Two
Worlds for the screen. as associate
producer OF the new Pitts-Kelton COM
edy series. This is Green's first as
signment as q screen producer.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
Gates Mark Tercentary.

10 commemorate the 300th aY1niver-
sary Of the building, gates Of wrought
iron, believed to be the largest In Ulster,
have been dedicated ct the entrance OF
the grounds Of Derry Cathedral in Lon
donderry. The design Is In seventeenth
century. style. The side pillars are OF
following inscription: "To the glory Of
God, these gates were erected BY order
Of the Court Of the Hon. the irish 30
ciety on 22nd November, 1892, to COM
mernofate the tercentenary Of the build
tng Of This Cathedral by the eocisty in
Evening star., 1933-08-20
Character in Two Plays

ish grandee who became a highwayman
as the central figure, but Hugo could
not become interested in the idea. He
said. however. that II d'Ennery wanted
to write such a play he would present
him with the character. D'Ennery ac-
cepted the gift with alacrity and wrote
his Don Cesar de Bazan." The late
James K. Hackett made the last pro-
duction of the play In New York about
80 years ago. and William Faversham
came forward in opposition to him in
another version, entitled "A Royal
Rogue
Walter Hampden will act both char
acters. In the new version of "Ruy
Bias" which Brian Hooker wrote for
him, changes were made in the struc-
ture by which the two form a dual role.
thus giving a wider dramatic and COM
edy range than ever before was afforded
a star in this play. The dual role is
made possible by the striking physical
resemblance existing between Ruy Bias
and Don Cesar.
Evening star., 1933-08-20


1turbi, in his career as soloist, has
extended the ordinary Interpretation of
the word to such a vast degree that it
no longer suffices to describe his posi-
ton among musicians. He is not mere
ly 0 pianist who plays with faultless
skill and taste, but q musician who seeks
for something more. He submits him
self entirely to the power Of the music
he INTERPRETERS, not only to the musical
ideas and structure but to the individ-
uality Of the mind and soul of the
creator. Putting aside his identity, he
becomes the medium through which is
transmitted the vital substance and
poetry Of the originator's genius.
The clearness Of his vision and the
authority of his intentions have en-
deared him to the American public in
the three short years Of their acquaint-
ance with his art. When seated at the
piano, with a preliminary pause of con-
all the sentiment and mentality Of the
composer and recreate them with In
finitesimal care for every nuance. 1t
was this peculiarly individual aptitude
Of his that drew the large audience to
the stadium to see what he would do in
the way Of Interpretation with the
greater resources of an orchestra. For
an artist such as Iturbi. who is en-
dowed with supersensitive feeling for
color, It was but natural that the piano
would eventually become too narrow for
his wide conceptions and that his art
must seek another domain In which to
expand itself and grow.
Mr.. Iturbi made a careful choice for
his program. refusing resolutely to place
o List concerto as his solo among the
Wagner and Beethoven numbers he
had selected. His preference was for
the Emperor concerto to match the
Eroica symphony he had chosen for the
orchestra. However, after protests as
to the length Of the program had been
acoustic powers Of the stadium for the
of Beethovenis Third Concerto in C
Minor" and he finally ceded his OBJ
jections in SO far as to insert 1t as his
solo number The first part of the
program contained the grouped num-
bers. the Tannhauser and Lohengrin
overtures.
The evening was mixture Of artistic
pleasure and artistic disappointment
Mr. Iturbi, with baton In hand, was
forceful figure sure of what he wanted
and how he was to achieve it. Con-
Quoting without score. he was ready
and eager to draw from his larger in
strument the effects that the piano was
too limited to produce. 1t was his posi-
tiveness Of idea and temperamental
exurberance Of lofty feeling that en-
chanted the audience AID brought long
continued applause after the opening
overtures. Th1 Mr.. Iturbi rejoiced in
the pure beaut! - the long Wagnerian
phrases was evIoent from the lingering
care with which he worked out their de-
nouement. And it was in these same
phrases that his inexperience of the re-
actions Of a group Of men to his inter-
pretive plans. in contrast to the i'm
mediate results on the piano, was ap-
parent The sedate men Of the or
chestra took time to warm up the en-
thusiasm Of their conductor and, while
following his tempt with exacitude,
missed the glowing warmth with which
Jturbi, the pianist, would have played
these passages.
In the Eroica Symphony, however.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
With Orchestra This Season

part Of each season to his operate ap-
pearances. At the Theater de la Mon
naie, in Brussels. and at Covent Gar
den, London, he has been singing the
leading baritone roles for the past six
seasons. Such is his popularity in Bel
gium that on the occasion Of the royal
wedding Of Prince Leopold Of Belgium
and Princess Astrid Of Sweden he was
selected to appear in q gala concert
performance at the Royal Opera House.
Since his appearance here with Hans
Kinder and the National Symphony
last season, Mr.. Thomas has been en-
gagged to sing leading roles with the
Metropolitan Opera Co.
Evening star., 1933-08-20
Dream Of Career.

"A NINA NEA0LE was playing IN q
"A revue called wake Up and Dream"
when she discovered that she was
dreaming. 30 she woke up to . desire
to eet out Of the chorus and the next
thing she was playing in Stand up
and Sing"-really standing up and sing
since her portrayal Of sari in the
Alm version Of Noel Coward's operetta,
'Bitter Sweet" she could sit down and
rest on her laurels, but, instead, she Is
Roing to step forth ana star IN q new
picturisation Of "Nell owynn," 20 oe
:eleased. as y "Bitter Sweet" py unHeo
Artists,
Evening star., 1933-08-20
\ ON CESAR DE BAZAN, one Of
\ the outstanding roles In Victor
J Hugo's romantic comedy, "Ruy
Bias" in which Walter Hamp-
Az.. ..ill A.,.a AHA sa0ssaiaaer ann -

BIaS, IN WHICH Waltef HRlnp-
den will tour this coming sea-
son. opening in Montreal october 2,
and In New York October 16, is per-
haps the only fictitious character in
drama who ever became the hero OF
another play not written by the author
who created him In the Hugo play
the two parts, Ruy Bias. high-minded,
serious parsonage, and Don Cesar q
rake and adventurer, are Of almost
equal importance. though at the Com
edie Francaise Tn Paris, and In per-
formances by other companies In which
the star acted Ruy Bias, Don Cesar
necessarily was subordinated.
Adolphe d'Ennery, author Of THE
Two Orphans" felt that Don Cesar
should have q better break. He sug-
eested to Victor Hugo that the great
man write another play with this Span