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The Washington times., 1934-08-13
British Movie Bosses Not Showmen,
Ayers Writer Back From Eng and

too-lavish following of the novel
or play on which the screen play
is based, because they do not
realize the difference in the me-
diums, and are too conservative
to make the necessary changes.
BY the same token, the English
producer will also continue to star
a stage favorite or even an estab-
lished screen player, after the &C
tors usefulness and drawing pow
err have vanished. This is, Of
course, very pleasant condition
for the individual actor, but makes
it hard for the general British
motion picture industry and the
individual company concerned. If
Hollywood and London could COM
bine on a happy medium Of
loyalty, both picture centers
would benefit.
''It is only the last couple of
years." continued Taylor, 9Th t
England has been training people
directly for the screen. Hereto
fore all the actors, writer's and di-
rectors came from the stage.
I'm one of the early comedies,
which I wrote abroad, asked for
two gagmen to help me. Nobody
there had ever heard of a gag
man, but finally convinced them
of their potential value and es-
gagged song writer and a column
ist to train for this job: today
practically every English studio
has a staff of gagmen or comedy
conStructionistS."
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
Newspaper Man

Starting a newspaper, 1.-THE
Miami Beach Tribune" in Flor
ida last winter. Schemed to
catch the Yankee tourist trade
it had more syndicated column
writer's than crowd the Angon-
quin, Sardi's and The Tavern
of a rainy evening. The journ-
alistic beaters missed a bet.
They should have been in Miami
instead of New York, because 1t
was there, free from espionage,
that the celebrities were going
native.
Going to Hollywood to direct
and prepare Follow Thru" for
the screen. After two weeks
work I had what is often known
as "the screen treatment" fin
ished. took the script to
Schulberg. He didn't open 1t
but balanced it on his out
spread finger tips as if weigh
ing it. cts too long," he said.
Producing my first dramatic
show back in 1925, with Frank
Mandel and Horace Liveright
as my partners. 1t was "The
Firebrand," and it ran for some
40 weeks. In it appeared two
unknown actors who have since
achieved considerable fame both
on stage and screen-Edward
G. Robinson and Frank Morgan.
Before "The Firebrand" Frank
Morgan was only known as
Ralph MOrgan's brother.
Returning to the theater after
an absence of IA months ex"
lied myself in Miami because
"Take a Chance" long run
hit, failed to make money-to
produce Hide and Seek" which
I will uncork next week at the
Mansfield. No more musical
shows for me. At least, not
with my money.
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
Color Carton Oh
Earle Program

AS an added feature to the
program which has Housewife. "
as the screen feature, at Warner
Bros. Earle Theater this week, a
Betty Boop cartoon, entitled Poor
Cinderella" will be shown.
There is nothing unusual in
showing Betty Boop cartoons, as
they have been regular short sub
iect attractions at the Earle for
the past two years. But in Poor
Cinderella" the Betty Boop car
toons inaugurate the new all
Technicolor series.
The Washington times., 1934-08-13

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4.-De-
spite the high artistic standards
and box office success of Henry
the Eighth" and catherine the
Great" the average British-made
picture does not compare from
either standpoint with the aver
age American production. Yet a
great interest has been generally
aroused in British productions,
and Hollywood is sending more
and more of it's leading stars and
technicians to the London studios.
Rex Taylor, the Wel[knoWn
scenarist, who is now adapting
"Heldorado" for Jesse L. Lasky-
Fox release. recently returned to
the local film colony after many
years as a leading screen play
wright in England.
England, he says, "haS great
actors, competent directors, ex-
cellent technical equipment and
some of the worlds best authors.
But they have been handicapped
by inexperienced executives and
screen adapters in the native
ranks.
"The average British execu-
tive" Taylor explains, "does not
possess that type Of shoWmanship
which picks the proper vehicles
for various actors. And after he
has bought a story, he does not
know how to work with the writer
in developing it to suit the spe-
cific talents Of his cast.
The principal handicap is a
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
ROckslide Alters
Horseshoe Falls

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug.
13.-Thousands of tons of rock
crumbled and fell from the lip Of
Horseshoe Falls, on the Canadian
side, today, changing the entire
contour of the cataract. The rocky
mass plunged down with a roar
audible above the thunder of the
falls, a mass about 100 yards long
and 20 yards deep, splintering
into thousands of fragments as it
crashed,
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
By Mark HeIIinser

asserted, and you needn't worry
about your speech. Just say
you're sorry!'"
add this to your definitions
Of bachelor" suggests Fred
KoSzalka.
"a bachelor is a chap who
believes it is better to have
loved and lost-than never to
be free again!"
mo question about it," OBJ
serves Bill Higgins, walt Dis
ney certainly proves the truth
of that old adage. He's just
another instance of the man
who built better mouse-Strlp
than his neighbour"
"Have you heard" inquiries
Irv Mansfield, "about the pure
and simple maiden who went
to a masquerade party dressed
as a telephone operator?
well it seems that, before
the party was over, she had
three close calls"
The Washington times., 1934-08-13

and that the results were pref
ty sad.
HE sat at a table with some
Of the Broadway boys, and
worried about his personal ap-
pearance the following night.
"'I don't know how they'll
take me as a romantic hero
he frowned, and I'm frightened
about that audience when I take
my bow. If I make a speech,
what shall I Say?'
"A neWSpaperman smiled hap
PLY.
"I saw your picture in the
projection room yesterday he
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
Army to Mobilize;
That Is--On Paper

Plans are going ahead for a
paper "test mobilization" of GER
tain Army corps, War Department
officials said last night. No men
actually will be called. All ma
neuvers will be theoretical, with
movements on paper only.
Officials said all parts Of the
First, Second, Third, Fifth and
Sixth Corps would participate, in
Guiding portions Of the National
Guard.
The Washington times., 1934-08-13

bill may be adopted as the uni
form regulatory measure of this
kind.
The local bar committee on I'M
authorized practice of law, Of
which Kenneth Parkinson is chair
man, has not been derelict in its
duties in urging passage of the
measure during the last Congress,
but the legislative jam was too
much for the committee and Sen
ator King, who has been pressing
for action on his bill.
Dorsey Offutt, who is just
about the newest member of the
bar association, goes in for va
cations in a big way when he
The Washington times., 1934-08-13

Meets Teddy"
Enlisting in the Navy the day
the United States entered the
war bounced into the Harvard
Club very superior in my new
uniform. A vigorous and virile
gentleman stepped up and
punched me on the shoulder.
well, son." he said, "how is it
so far?' "All right so far" 1
answered. You'll be all right"
he said, punching me again. It
was Theodore Roosevelt, eager
to organize his own regiment
and proceed to France at once.
1 had written the synopsis
for Sweet Little DeviP' and
was on the lookout for a gentle
man who could write a Satisfac-
tory librettO. 1 phOned Max
DreyfuSS at Harms, asking if he
knew a gentleman who could
help me out. He said, "Tl
send just the man you need
right over. Shortly there ar
rived a young man, clothes dis
heveled, hair unbruShed and
wearing unmatched socks. Fear
ing a touch 1 was about to dis
miss him when he said that
DreyfuSs had sent him. He was
Frank Mandel, and that was
the beginning of an association
as author and producer that
endured through "Sweet Little
Devil" Queen High" "The
Firebrand," 1.-THE Desert Song"
"Good News" "FOllOw Thru"
"New Moon," "America'S Sweet
heart" and EAST Wind" The
least said about the last two
the better.
Returning to the campus in
1928 to direct the HGSty Pudding
Show at Harvnrd. TWo of the
players in this collegiate cdper
1Uere John Mason BroWn, the
critic, and Donald OenSlGger, the
scenic designer. BrolOn bur-
lesqued a ShdkeSpearian chGrGc-
ter and his high moment came
When he exploded a balloon car
ried by another character tOith
a lighted cigarette.
My only experience as an
actor. I played a war CORE
spondent in fraternity show at
Harvard very spiffy in white
ducks, field glasses, and a
The Washington times., 1934-08-13

make wide Dorsey offutt
loop through the Canadian
Rockies, down the West coast,
through portion of Mexico,
swing across Texas with its for
ests of oil we'll derricks, and
up the Atlantic seaboard to
home.
1t wasn't a great big fee that
made the trip possible, the travel
ing lawyer said. 1t was lots of
small ones,
The Washington times., 1934-08-13

Rising taxes
and threats of
higher rates, to-
gether with the
difficulty of fl
nancing a d e.
quate modern
ization of old
buildings in the
commercial dis
trict, have con-
spired to rob
property ow n
ars of a great
deal Of sleep in
The past fe W
years until
he parking lot
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
Enormous Profit

Getting a little light in the
head when Bill Kelley, my audi
tor, reported to me that the
profits for the New Year week
in 1928 from three Good News"
companies, two Desert Song"
companies, and New Moon"
were $55,809.44. Getting little
light in the head again in O.
tober of the next year when the
boxoffice statements showed
that the receipts for Follow
The Washington times., 1934-08-13

t a k e S t h e m.
M or e o yer, he
adheres to the
m a Xi i'm "See
America First"
T o m o r
row, he and
Mrs. Offut t
leave for a
seven W e e k s.
trip. First At
! a n tic City,
then Chicago,
and the Cen
fury of Pro
greSS.
Then t h e y
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
Movie Star

There was a picture star in
town a few weeks ago." writes
Fred Miller, who came here
for the opening of his new
film. Reports from the Coast
had it that the star had
switched his style Of playing.
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
SIovenIy Dresser

1.-THE late Duke of Norfolk
Premier Peer of the Realm,
if you please-was known as
the most slovenly dresser in
England. He cared nothing at
all about his personal appear
ance.
His trousers were never
creased. His coat was always
wrinkled. His sox were a holy
terror. And his shoes always
harbored a spoon or two of the
royal soup. But he was happy,
and the situation worried him
not at all.
Exactly the opposite was his
friend, the Earl of Derby. Visit
ing the Dukes home for a
weekend, the Earl of Derby
was very much concerned over
his hosts lack of respect for
correct attire.
HE said nothing about it,
however, until they walked
through the village one after
noon. Lord Norfolk, greatly
loved, was greeted with affec-
ton and courtesy by his neigh
borS. And the Earl of Derby
finally spoke his mind.
MY dear fellow he said,
you seem to be greatly ad-
mired. I am happy to see it.
But I must tell you that your
rig-out is a disgrace. Why don't
you do something about it?
Surely you know it is be-
coming for gentleman to dress
properly. Why don't you change
your ways? You look like a
tramp!'
Lord Norfolk smiled easily.
1t doesn't really matter he
replied. After all, everyone
knows me here
"A year later, Norfolk visited
Derby'S estate in India. The
Earl looked at his friend and
shook his head sadly.
" Haven't changed a bit, I
see,' he asserted. Even in In
dia, your clothes are slovenly'
Lord Norfolk shrugged his
shoulders.
"'It doesn't really matter
was his reply. After all, no
body knows me here"
"A chap from a nudist colony
recently came to this CITY,"
writes DR.. C. W. Jackman, of
Chicago, Ito see the wonders of
the Fair.
And would you believe it,
Mark, he spent practically all of
his money at the peep show!"
I'm sorry" apologies Eddie
Carr, that I gave you wrong
steer by saying that it's a wo-
mans privilege to change your
mind
II just happened to overhear
several of my married friends
discussing how closely their
wives guard the family excheq-
uer-and I've come to the con-
clusion that it's a woman's priv.
lege to mind your change"
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
Fired For Singing

Francis Lederer, Czechoslovakian
star, now in Pursuit of Happi-
ness" was fired from a job in
a Ieather-maker's shop as a youth
because he sang while he worked.
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
Louis SObOl-
Down Memory Lane!
with Laurence Schwab)

Cutting my eyeteeth in the theater Fresh from
the campus at Cambridge l was engaged as scout
Wilmer and Vincent. Visiting Loew's Greeley
Square Theater was impressed by two gentlemen
who offered Is minutes of talking and dancing.
In my report to the office wrote: "They should
do more dancing and less talking" Their comedy
was blood-curdng. But how they could dance!
novlo ond nixOn
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
Cleopatra Idea Copied

Modern women, when using
kohl to brighten up their eyes, are
using a beauty aid created by
Cleopatra, says Claudette Colbert,
who has the title role in C. B. De-
Miles CLEOPATRA.
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
All In a Day = -
In Which the Customers Do the Work

"Dear Mark" writes June Ryan, of Rochester,
N Y. otis about time, I think, that you turned
from crooks and gangsters, and added touch of
class to the column. Here's little story about the
Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Derby that should
fit the bill verv nicely,
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
PARKING LOTS
AID REVENUE
GUT TAXES
BY DICK BAKER

Washington property owners
are learning the knack of killing
two birds with one stone in grand
fashion
The Washington times., 1934-08-13
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The Washington times., 1934-08-13

My only experience as an
actor. I played a war CORE
spondent in a fraternity show at
Harvard very spiffy in white
ducks, field glasses, and a
The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-12
DOCTOR DIES NEW YORK
 YEARSOF AGE
lBy The Associated Pressl

(By The Associated Press)
 NEW YORK, Dec II - Dr. Theo- bald, Smith, seventy-five year old President of the Rockefeller Insti- ute for Medical Research, who op-
The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-12
$9O5,OOO WOULD PROVIDE ALASKA * 0
 HANDING FIELDS
ESTIMATES AND LIST OF TEN TATIyE FIELDS NEEDED
 PREPARED BY A. R. 0.

For the comparative low cost o1 $905,000 Alaska could be supplied with airplane landing fields in prac- tically every location needed by air transportation lines, which would cover the Territory over five main routes and twenty-five branch rout- es, according to estimates and. fgur- es prepared through the cooperation of the Alaska Road Commission for Murray Hall, Aeronautics Inspector for Alaska for the United States De partment of Commerce.
 Together with the estimated cost, long list of needed airfelds in the Territory both emergency and Class "A" has been prepared for Capt. Hall aand was forwarded to him this week by Hawley w. Sterling, Assistant Chief Engineer for the Alaska Road Commission.
 Total of 119 Fields This list, to be used as tentative program, contains total of 119 fields, including 70 fields now exist ing. Of the new ones proposed, AZ should be built as, emergency fields, while seven are recommended as Class "A" fields, and 13 fields now fexisting should be improved to the Class "A" standard, according to the proposed program.
 If carried out, this program would involve an expenditure of approxi- mately $905,000 for construction of new fields and improvement of old ones, the estimates made by MT. Sterling revealed.
 New Class "A" fields are suggest ed for Talkeetna, Boundary, Iliam- na, Dillingham;, Skwentna, South Fork and Bethel.
 Alaska has been divided into five main air routes on this program with 25 branch routes off the var ious main lines. This would pro-
The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-12
TREASURY TO. FLOAT LOAN
 THIS . MONTH
PUBLIC DEBT TO GO TO NEW HIGH AND CHIEFS OF INDUS TRY TO HELP BATTLEsAGAIDsST DEPRESSION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 = With the announcement today by the fed eral government of plans to borrow $9O0, ,OOO, ,OOO, thus pushing the public debt to new high for all time, the statement was made by business in- terests that eminent chieftainS of industry are gathering in New York to hold this week one of the biggest pow-wows in years with view of taking place on President ..ROOse- velt's All-American economic recov- cry team to defeat the depression. Debt of $28,OOO, ,OOO, 900 With the borrowing of $900, ,000, ,00C this month, the public debt will be more than $2s, s,5OO, 900, 900. which,ti: equivalent to about $266 for every person in the United States. Thi! figure of $28, 500, 100000 is some s.. 500,000,000 short of the 1000, ,000,' 900 that President Roosevelt estimat ed the public debt would be at the conclusion of the present fiscal year which ends next June 30.
 The borrowing is part of financ- ing operation totaling almost $2,OO0- 000,000, which amount of new mon- ey is expected to meet all needs to next March Is.
 At the meeting of leaders of in- dustry in New York this week, a program will be formulated to com bat the economic depression. The meeting is sponsored by the Nation al Association of Manufacturers which issued the call or the assem- bling of the Congress of American Industry
 To Stand Unitedly
 The program to be formulated will be one on which industry can stand unitedly.
 . Cooperation with the Roosevelt Administration will be the keynote, but while stressing willingness to cooperate, the program of the con clave' will call for consideration of a number of New Deal aspects which, many business leaders assert, tend to obstruct private industry in it's efforts to take up slack.
The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-12

vide total mileage on the routes ot 6,295 miles without duplication, MT Sterling declared. The five main routes suggested are:
 CD Ketchikan, Fairbanks, Nome; (2) Boundaray, Anchorage, Flat Nome; (3) Fairbanks, McGrath, Bethel; (4) Cordova, Valdez, Fair banks; (5) Seward, Anchorage to Fairbanks, with the 25 branch rout- es connecting these up with every district off the main lines.
 For the comparatively moderate cost of $905, ,OOO, Alaska would be we'll supplied with landing fields, Uv CT air travel routes which would practically cover the Territory" Mir Sterling declared.
 In preparing the estimates, air routes and lists of needed fields, Mir Sterling drew on his extensive know ledge of the Territory and of the important trade routes and took into the recommendations made by Col H. H. Arnold, com mander of the Army's Alaska Ex- petition during the last summer and others who have studied the Terri tory's aviation needs.
The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-12
Safety Suit For Pliers Tried By
 Paris Woman
(By The Associated Press)

PARIS = A non-infamable and bouyant suit for aviators is the in vention of Mile. Suzanne Biget, who plans to demonstrate it by swimm- ing the English Channel.
 In a demonstration given on the Island of latte, Mile, Biget proved the heat-resisting powers of her in- vention by wearing it when assist ants poured alcohol over her and ig nited it. Later she fioated in the water.
 The invention consists in the inn pregnation of any porous material with a liquid chemical which rend- CTS coth, fire and water proof.
The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-12

ened the way for the conquest of typhoid fever, cholera, malaria and yellow fever died her Monday from heart attack.
 He had been admitted to the hos pital to undergo treatment for nal ignant growth in the intestines.
The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-12
49 SOVIETS ARE BE TRIED OVER
 ASSASSINATION
(Bv The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press)
 MOSCOW, Dec. II = Forty-nine more persons were ordered tried for their lives, charged with prompting terroristic action against Soviet of ficials, in connection with the death of Sergei Kiroff, December 1st.
 Kiroff's murderer, Leonid Micol- if, is still being questioned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
LETNIN ON ROLE OF THE
PABTY'S CENTRAL ORGAN

need been so strongly felt for sup
plementing individual agitation in
the form Of personal influence, local
leaflets, pamphlets, etc, by a gem
eral and regularly conducted agita-
ton, such as can be carried on only
with the assistance of a periodical
press. 1t would be hardly an exag-
geration to say that the frequency
and regularity of the publication
land distribution) of the paper
would serve as an exact measure OF
the extent TO which that primary
and most essential branch of our
militant activities has been firmly
established.
Finally, it is a political paper we
need. Without a political organ, a
political movement deserving that
name is impossible in modern Eu-
rope. Unless we have such a paper.
we shall be absolutely unable to full
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
Yet in my mind

Tt was at the Robert Minor
time Of the Third Congress of the
Communist International at Mos
COW, a hard time Of famine con-
ditions, the introduction of the
N.EP. in the Socialist Republic,
and the defeat of the March Ac-
ton OF the workers in Germany.
TWO MAJOR QUESTIONS
We Americans came to the Cen
gress full of our own problems.
There were two Of these questions
before us-tile legslization of the
American Communist Party, and
the founding Of a daily newspaper
IN the native English language.
The Communist Party was then
entirely Illegal" and, worst OF all,
= considerable portion of the Party
Itself had evolved c whole theory
to the effect that a truly" reyo-
lutionsry Communist Party must
remain underground as long as
capitalism lasted. Another portion
Of The Farty, OF which Max Bedacht,
myself, and another American,
were the representatives, was dc.
termined that the Party should as
quickly as possible come out into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
BY V. L. LENEN

IN OUR OPINION, the starting
point OF all activities, the final
practical step towards creating the
organization we desire, the factor
which will enable US constantly to
develop, broaden and deepen that
organization, is to establish a ma
tional political newspaper.
A paper Is what we need above
all; without 1t we cannot systemat-
ically carry on that extensive and
theoretically sound propaganda and
agitation which Is the principal and
constant duty Of the social-demo-
Gratis in general, and the essential
task Of the present moment In par
ticular, when interest In politics and
in questions Of Socialism has been
aroused among wide sections of the
population. Never before has the