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Evening star., 1934-02-13
IN SEVENTEEN"

Booth Tarkington's Seventeen"
presented by the st. Pauls Players
at the st. Pauls Academy last night.
was as interesting as it was a true
conception of boys who are too old to
be children and too young to be men.
With the scenery Of a high stand
ard the players were able to exploit
their abilities with unusual effect.
Mastery of the roles gave the audi
ence an Interpretation of Tarking-
tons idea of youth.
Richard Finnin, as the young man
of the world. overshadowed others of
the cast. His efforts were paralIeled
by his friend, John Meenehan, who.
together with Marshall Marks, COM
pleted the trio. Louise Shea, as the
sister. and Charlotte Knott, as the
visiting girl, gave splendid examples
of the trials that almost every boy
has to undertake. The parents, en-
acted by Martin Meenahan and Mar
garet Collins, were as perplexed as
they should have been. Mary Cath
crime Connell, Leo Brady, Marshall
Marks, Arthur Harvey, Richard Har-
vey. Dorothy Marsh, Jack O'Keefe and
Rita Bennett completed the cast.
F. L. c.
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Love Triangle Film Theme
Passe, Declares Executive
Warner Story Department Chief Asserts Public
Wants Something They Can Get
Their Teeth Into"

houette that I've ever seen. Saunter-
ing along a sound stage at Paramount
recently, saw a very slim woman
who reminded me vaguely Of some one
or other. II know" I said finally,
that girls is like very thin Mary
Boland."
That is Mary Boland," said my
guide.
Sure enough it was. Mary Boland
down to 110 pounds, looking healthy
as trout, blue eyes bright, skin
firm and lovely, beaming with graft
f1cation when any one passes her by.
Shows I've become another per-
son." she gloats. 1--WE certainly be-
come another person so far as my
dreSSmaker is concerned. Two sizes
smaller-two whole sizes-think of It,"
am thinking of it. It's about 8
inches less in girth if remember cor
rectly. And so much increase in
beautyl OF all the Hollywood re-
ductions I've seen, this is one of the
most dramatic and satisfying.
(Copyright. 1894. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Incl
Evening star., 1934-02-13
Dramatic POrtrayals Delve
Into Centuries of Long Ago
Cornelia Otis SINNERS interpretations Vividly
Show The Loves of Charles Ire
markable Character Sketches.
BY e. de S. MELCHER.

~ORNEIlIA OTIS SKINNER, originator the dramatic
sequence" daughter of of great actors writer
historical psychologist returned to the Ma
- Ona last night in the third Of her dramatic portrayas
Indifferent. She played The Loves of Charles IT. before
large and definitely dlSteuSned audience winch as usual
Evening star., 1934-02-13
ST. ANDREWS CHOIR
HEARD IN CONCERT
Organization Wins Enthusiastic
Applause From a Large
Audience.

The choir of st. Andrews Episcopal
Church, under the direction of Min
ME Volkmann, gave benefit concert
last evening in the ball room of
Meridian Mansions, 2400 Sixteenth
street. The room was we'll filled and
the audience was enthusiastic. The
choir was assisted by Catherine Too
mey, contralto, and Dorothy Andrews
played all of the accomplishments, an
undertaking which she accomplished
with apparent ease and good effect.
The choir is well balanced and sings
with good tone and shading. The
program opened with the singing of
MendelSsohn'S cantata, Hear My
Prayer" In which Miss Volkmann
sang the solo part. She has a clear
soprano voice and sang the closing
aria, % for the Wings of a Dove"
with even rhythm and clear high
tones soaring above the choir.
Katharine Poole. soprano, sang the
solo part in 3izet's "AgnuS Del"
showing a voice of wide range and of
dramatic quality. An outstanding and
very delightful part of the work of
these soloiStS and the choir was the
clear enunciation. The second part of
the program was the singing of
quartet, Marie Powell soprano; Mar
guerite Gilner, contralto; John Hall,
tenor, and Stanislaw Matejski, BARI
tone. They were all voices of pleas
ing quality and blended well together.
Miss Toomey sang the aria Amour
VienS Alder" from Saint-Saens'
Samson and Delilah," showing
voice of wide range and much rich
ness, and she has dramatic fire and
a pleasing and gracious manners In
the second half of the program she
sang group of lighter songs and on
both appearances she was generous
in her encores responding to the en-
thllSiaStiC applause. The closing
number was THE Heavens Are Tell
ing" from Haydn's Creation" which
the choir sang with splendid volume
which would have been better in a
larger place. K.B.
Evening star., 1934-02-13
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, February 13.
1t takes more than the idea of a
man and woman in love-either hap
PLY or unhappily-or more than the
triangle which interested the world
for many, many years to keep
motion picture audience in their seats
these days.
Jacob Wilk, chief of Warner
Bros. story department, the man
responsible for the purchase of We
hicles on which so many of the
Warner stars have ridden to fame,
assured me that the picture of to-
morrow is vastly more interesting
than the theme of today or yesterday.
According to Jacob Wilk, the pub
lie mind has begun to turn over In
an amazing fashion. We've got to
give them things they can get their
teeth into" he said, referring to the
material being bought for tomorrows
release, that Is why we are going
into such things as Oil for the Lamps
of China'-the story of big oil cor
poration in the Orient, with its at
tendant social and political problems.
In such stories that are away
from the trend of the days political
and business news, we are giving our
audiences things like AS the Earth
Turns the very simple tale of
family on a farm through the four
seasons. Nothing more peaceful,
tdyllic and remote from the fury Of
the present-day world could be
thought of than this tale of people
close to the soil.
I'VE do our best to study the
trend of the public mind and the
tidal direction of mass thought. We
have never been able to explain salts
factorily to ourselves how the public
smells out story as being good as
against another which may have as
attractive a title.
AT one time, in New York, we
had a picture playing to practically
an empty house. One night at $50
this picture came of and Public
Enemy a film presenting the then
almost unknown James Cagney, was
scheduled to come on. Half an hour
before Public Enemy opened, the
lobby was so jammed with people
the street outside so full of the crowd
attempting to get into the theater
and up to the box Office window
that we we're forced to call out police
aid to routine the mob and save
time and annoyance. We never could
find out how the general public be-
came SO eager to see this story which
had little preliminary ballyhoo. Such
things are among the mysteries of
Dictllre making
I'VE make some 70 pictures a year.
and We feel we have done a good
seasons work If we have IA out
standing ones. We deal in intangi-
bilities and instinct must guide us
frequently where deliberation wouldn't
get us anywhere"
Jacob Wilk, who has been for a
fortnight in conference with Warner
heads, returned to New York yes
terday to resume the Eastern end of
the firms activities.
Mary Boland represents the most
complete revolution in feminine sill
Evening star., 1934-02-13
Small Wildcat Caught,

A wildcat, measuring 381a inches
from tip to tip, has been caught In
Badenoch, Scotland.
Evening star., 1934-02-13
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening in Stanley Hall at
$50 o'clock. John S. M. thinner
mann. bandmaster; Anton Pointner,
assistant.
March, Battle of the Waves. Hall
Overture, Norma. a".......... .Bellini
Several Indian melodies. ..... Lake
Scalp Dance" from Cherokee and
Apache melodies.
can Indian Love Song"
Scenes from the opera Love Tales
Of Count Hoffman. .Offenbach
Entr'acte. "You May. .Gruenwald
"Ylang Ylang". "............A Anthony
Waltz suite, Roses From the South"
Strauss
Finale, "Looney Coons2. ...... Hall
THE Star Spansleo Banner"
Evening star., 1934-02-13
NEW ORCHESTRA.

A new community orchestra to be
conducted by Bailey F. Alart will meet
tonight at 8 o'clock in Central Com
munity Center, Thirteenth and Clifton
streets northwest, to complete plans
for organization and to hold additions
for musicians desiring to join. There
will be no expense attached to becom-
ing members Of this new musical
group and an invitation is extended
by the Community Center department
to musicians to attend tonight's meet
ing. Strings, brasSes, wood winds and
percussion instruments are desired. 1t
is the plan to use this new orchestra
in connection with Community Center
programs and at Slvan Theater pro-
grams in the Summer.
Evening star., 1934-02-13
Roth Quartet Creates
Rich, Glowing Effect
First of Five Concerts at Library of Con-
gress Marked by Fine
interpretations.
lnterpreta tons.
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

TIME first of of the Roth Quartet be
given this week at the Library of Congress introduced
swimming quartets Coolidge
daton.Albert Roussel and Walter Piston gave as
finale MOZarS Quartet in G. The members of the quartet
Anal vonists; Molnar violist SchoIz
ceSt are ever welcome additions the musical and the
admiration the
Evening star., 1934-02-13

In this group Of players there is not
only unity of tone color, but unity Of
temperament of such a fine quality
that to say that they play as one
instrument but family describes the
satisfying effect they achieve. 1t is
the refinement of Interpretation
where the mechanical and emotional
are combined to such fine point
that there is no intrusion Of one over
the other.
The Mozart Quartet was the out
standing example of this type of their
playing as well as their expertnesS in
working together, the graceful fila
gree of each movement beautifully
outlined first by one instrument and
with almost identical effect by an
other until the entire design was ap-
parent to the minutest detail. The
pattern of the music was further
enhanced by the richness of tone and
the glowing feeling that the Roth
Quartet seems to have in abundance.
The same artistic ideal was brought
to bear on the quartetS by RouSsel
and Piston, although the material
content of both was less fertile in
moments of beauty. Roussel has
planned his work we'll and executed it
conscientiously, not allowing himself,
however, too great flights of imagina-
ton or emotion. There is a dryness
and brittlenesS throughout that only
in the adagio becomes softer and
more plant 1t is said that through
the period of his service as a naval
officer Roussel found much inspira-
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ton in the moods of the ocean, and,
If one wished, the soft, undulating
motion Of the sea and its calmneSs
could be recognized in this movement.
The allegro vivo and the allegro
moderate had a certain brilliant
charm without any new departure of
idea.
Piston's Quartet in c" began at
once with an original turn Of decided
freshness and vitality. This arresting
quality was maintained through the
four movements and seemed to dis
close a talent worthy of serious at
tention. There Is youth, imagery and
sentiment combined with real skill
and a quaintness of outlook that is
new and refreshing. The andante
was full of poetry. nlusive and deli
cate as air, and surely a movement
that would suffer much If not in
terpreted by such rare artists as the
members of the Roth Quartet. This
quartet even more than the Roussel
received generous applause from the
audience.
Evening star., 1934-02-13

Prior to her venture into the past,
she presented three of her character
sketches, including an amusing Skit
about a Nebraskan's presentation at
court, an American in Paris on the
eve of her departure for New York
and something called the lynch
party" which customers whispered
during the intermission was a very,
very brave thing for Miss Skinner to
do. In fact, most of them whispered
that she had no business doing it all,
in spite of her zeal and the fact that
the topic was timely, sincere and ex-
ceedingly we'll written. Personally
We enjoyed it no end and believe it
to be a brilliantly sordid interlude
in the otherwise brilliantly comical
series of her character studies. But,
say those who know, Miss Skinner
must never trot this over and beyond
the Potomac.
x x x X
WHILE THE Loves of Charles II"
w have not the warmth or the
feeling of royal pageantry and pathoS
that was evident in The Wives of
Henry VIII or The Empress Eu-
genie" this series of ladies Of favor
are nevertheless handsome duplicates
of their originals, modelled after them
selves both in oils and in print, and
nodded together into that sort of en-
tertainment which Miss Skinner has
raised into popular and intelligent
recreation.
The reason that they necessarily
can never be so ingratiating to the
public at large as their Henry VIII
predecessors is that neither their
King nor their times are as vitally
alive today as the others, and that,
while the ladies were all naughty and
f1ashy and incredibly greedy-except
for Nell Gwynn, one OF the nolsiest
and incest of all royal ENTERTAINERS
they have not been passed down to us
with that spirit of roughhouse good
humor and caustic backstairs wit
which have made Henry'S wives live
today almost as they did yesterday.
Miss Skinner has written her six
ladies, however, with that keen in
sight and that wit which Mr.. Pepy5
has told us most of them had. AL
though she includes Charles lis
mother at the outset, as also Cath
arine of Braganza, his wife, in the
finale, two figures who were far from
happy or favored beings, thus stamp
ing the dramatic sequences with that
tragedy which dogged the footsteps of
Evening star., 1934-02-13
TEACHERS TO MEET.

The Piano Teachers Forum willmeet
Thursday morning at 1890 in the
studios Of the Homer L. Kilt Co.,
1880 G street northwest. Fannie AM
stutz Roberts, director of the Wash
ington College of Music, will address
the teachers on the subject of Teach
ing Theory" in both private and class
lessons after which there will be a
f9e discussion. All piano teachers
are cordially invited.
Evening star., 1934-02-13

most Of the StuartS, she has attended
mostly to the brighter side of life,
giving us brave and naughy words
from the lips of brave and naughty
women who were willingly caught in
the web of King Charles myriad
affections.
THE best of these new neo-queens
is Nell Gwynn. The worst-if
there is such a thing-Louise de
Queroalle, and this only because in
this brief sketch for the first time in
our admiring study of Miss SINNERS
work We heard the clock go round.
Louise de Queroalle was a bright and
attractive woman, who served her Roi
de Soleil by making Charles sign a
treaty, and also being so pleasant to
the latter that he made her the Ouch
ess of Portsmouth. While Miss Skin
ner's portrait of her is pretty and
bright and undoubtedly authentic, it
lacks the excitement which her other
women have and she makes her pos
Sibly too refined to fit in with those
other creatures with whom the King
passed many of his better hours.
All the others, however, are brisk
creatures who make for grand enter
tainment. There is Lady Castelmaine
standing on a pedestal with shield
and bucSler and being painted while
she coughs up her various irrita-
tions against the king; there is the
Dutch tavern wench who gets a ring,
some money and some lace from him.
and there is Nell Gwynn, so like many
Of her portraits, that last nights
night audience burst into applause at
first sight of her.
TONIGHT and tomorrow night Miss
Skinner will revert to THE Wives
of Henry VIII" and Thursday eve
ming she will repeat last seasons The
Empress Eugenie" No matter which
of this historical trilogy you see, you
cannot help but admire the tremen-
douS research, skill and charm with
which the authoress has endowed
each and all of them, and the tre-
mendouS courage which has stimu-
lated her to rise up before multi
tude and carry on as if she we're sur
rounded by fellow players and script
thick with novelty, speed and action.
All of this Miss Skinner has, plus the
will to recreate the past in terms of a
language that is rife with full-blooded
literature.
Evening star., 1934-02-13
GILBERT IN HONOLULU
Myrna 10y Also Arrives on Same
Boat.

HONOLULU, February 10 CP.-
John Gilbert, motion picture actor,
slipped ashore an hour and a half
after the Monterey docked from Les
Angeles yesterday, and went to Wal
kiki, where he left word that his
whereabouts were not to be told.
Myrna 10y, also of the movies, ar
rived on the same ship and became
the guest of Mrs. r. L. Black at Scho-
field Barracks.
John Jacob Astor, 3rd, of New
York, en- route to the Antipodes, also
was a passenger.
Evening star., 1934-02-13
TAX LIEN FILED

Eleanor bcdrdman Assessed on
Her 1881 Earnings.
LOS ANGELES, February IS R).-
A tax lien for $3,203 against Eleanor
Boardman, screen actress, was on
file in Federal court yesterday. John
P. Carter. internal revenue collector,
alleges Miss Boardman, divorced wife
of King Vidor, movie producer, owes
that amount on 1881 earnings.
Others against whom Carter filed
liens are Erich Won Strohein. movie
director, $138 for 1881; Charles B,
Rogers, actor, $3.178 for 1881; Ole
Hanson, former Seattle mayor, $34,-
$40 for 1924 and $24, 4,283 for 1925, and
Lee Deforrest, $3ll for 1881.
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Matchmaker Lloyd Carter reports
that local mat fans are displaying
keen interest in the bout and he be-
lieves the outdoor arena will be well
filled when the two nationally rated
grapplers come to grips.
Strack is expected to provide the
rough Greek with plenty of oppo-
sition. The crack Boston mailman
proved that he knows how to treat
opponents who resort to the rough
style of performance when he IMAM
handled" Lou Plummer here last
Tuesday.
Charlie is popular with the fans.
He is a former United States Olym-
pic wrestler. Zaharias comes to In
dianapolis following a successful in
vasion of west coast rings, where
he was big drawing card. One of
his victories was over Jim Brown
ing.
In other bouts on the card, Big
Boy Davis meets Whitley Hewitt,
and Pat Kelley, a newcomer, OPP
poses Logan Baxter. 1t has been
announced that in case of inclem-
ent weather, the show will be taken
indoors to the Armory.
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to stand the terrific pounding and
checking that a polo game calls 1or.
=
THE coming polo classic will see
II several of these great Amer
ican-bred ponies in action. There
will be the four thoroughbred polo
horses from Carleton Burke's Hid
den valley ranch in California, FL
mer Boesecke's Water Shed and
Puddle Jumper, and Eric Pedley's
famous mare, Alice, fighting for the
west against Chilean mounts, Ste
wart Iglehart's GilStille and Tostoda
and Winston Guests Manuel, carry
ing the casts colors.
The two veterans who will be in
the thick of things, matching their
aging muscles with those of youth
and challenging the ravages of time
are both found on the western
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The opening event for the Labor
day crowd was the Hotel Lockerbie
pace, in which such strong contend
ers as j. E. Vonian, Napoleon Grant
and Miss Abbedale were entered.
Doc Parshall entered J. E. Vonian.
Weather permitting, the first race
was scheduled to start at 1870 p. m.
Horses were to be called at about l
o'clock.
Second event on today's program,
the Mayors trot, also was rich
one, paying $1,000. In this event
were included Angel Child, David
Thornton and Wayne Lee. The
Mayors was 2:17 event, the Lock
erbie 2:11.
Other events on the program
were an Indiana pace for 2-year-
olds, a 2:23 trot, and a claiming
pace-the latter an added event.
All events today were for mile
horses. Victors in Saturdays events
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Jew Ponies and Old Riders to Test EastWest Polo Matches

squad. They are RUDE Williams and
Cecil Smith.
If it hadn't been for the with
drawal of Tommy Hitchcock Jr.,
from the contest recently, due to an
injury in a previous match, there
would have been three in this class.
HITCHCOCK has lasted longer
IL than any Of the athletes of his
time, and for thirteen years has
held the highest rating in polo-that
of a 10-goal handicap man. The
old Hitchcock judgment has been
somewhat amisS recently, causing
him several severe accidents. The
latest one. a particularly bad fall
that resulted in brain conclusion,
wound up his career for the season.
RUDE williams has been slipping
for several years, but the very
genius Of his sorties on the field
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makes him the most respected
opponent in polo. RUDE, too, has
lost some of the millionth of a
second timing which so often
allowed him to steal the ball away
from an entire team.
A S for Cecil Smith, like Williams
L y Texan, not age, but pure
wear and tear is his opponent.
Having reached the ten-goal rating,
Smith now faces the handicap of
impaired health.
Sinus trouble and injuries have
threatened the loss of an eye, and
even though this unfortunate
circumstance may not occur, any
impairment of his vision would
have tragic effect upon his polo.
With the veterans of both teams
just a shade removed from their
old-time form, youth will play an
important part in this series.
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THE east, long regarded as the
i cradle and last word in polo
in the United States, for many years
has gone to the ranges of Argentina
for its mounts, apparently under
the assumption that the urbaniza-
ton of our west had ruined the
horse industry.
And it is true that for many years
American-bred polo mounts were
inferior.
But in the last few years Amer
lean breeders have concentrated on
this type of pony. and just as Tom
my Hitchcock revolutionized the
style of polo play with his tremen-
dous hitting, so also has there been
new type Of mount introduced
the polo horse"
The present game requires horses
with the speed of Cavalcade, and
with stamina and endurance enough
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BY MAX RIDDLE

NEW YORK. Sept. 3.-when the
~ East-West polo forces tangle
leather for national supremacy at
Meadowbrook on Sept. 8, there will
be more than a sectional contest at
stake. You'll see a battle among
breeders of polo ponies. and an
other decidedly personal battle of
two remaining veteran polo greats
against the onslaught of time.
The great series at the Onwentsia
Country Club during Chicago's
worlds fair last year taught the
east that polo had moved west
among the common folk. and it was
there TO stay. 1t also advised
eastern players that our own United
States might return to the pinnacle
Of fame it once held as breeder
Of polo ponies
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K. OF C. GOLFERS TO
STAGE ANNUAL MEET

The fourteenth annual golf
tournament of the Indianapolis
council, knights of Columbus, will
be staged at the local Speedway
course next Sunday 1t will be a
handicap tourney, and members,
former members and out-of-town
members, as well as their friends,
will be eligible to take part. How
ever, only members of the knights
Of Columbus will be included in the
prize list.
Entrants are requested to make
their reservations early by telephon-
ing the K. of G. clubhouse, or by
writing
DR.. Gerald Kiley is chairman Of
the affair, and Art Irwin has been
named chief starter.