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Evening star., 1934-03-09
Several Comedians Have
Roles in '"The Poor Rich"
Edward Everett Horton and Edna May Oliver,
However, Furnish Most of the Fun in
Rialto Feature-Thelma Todd Featured
poor rich! Not a decla-
nation of sorrow for those
who have what it takes to
fall into the classification of

TINE poor rich! Not a decla-
nation of sorrow for those
who have what it takes to
L fall into the classification of
richness, but an actual state
of affairs in which Edward Everett
Horton and Miss Edna May Oliver
find themselve in the beginning of
"The Poor Rich," current at the Rialto,
paradoxical as it all may seem. They
did not even have the wherewithal to
tip the county sheriff for bringing over
the luggage, only to end up with
fortune in antique furniture and
chicken "joint" because Al cars passed
by road in an hour.
The drolleries Of Mr.. Horton and
Miss Oliver have always been the
spice of any entertainment, and in
this Universal farce in which they
have been co-starred they are at the
peak in their kind Of presentation de-
spite an occasional situation where
comedy becomes slapstick and Of the
singing type. Even then they are
able to be original enough to make 1t
all seem quite right and funny.
All the comedians on the Universal
lot have been incorporated into "The
Poor Rich" including the recently di-
vorced Thelma Todd. who unfortu-
nately may be remembered as co-star
in short comedies with Zasu Pitts.
Even few who did not hitherto en-
joy the popularity of comedy roles
have been placed into them. Una
CCavalcade") Connor has all too
small a part. as is the case with Miss
Todd, the major roles falling to Mr.
Horton, Miss Oliver, Andy Devine,
Grant Mitchell and Leila Hyams.
The rehabilitation Of Spottiswood
Manor (for that's what 1t is all
about in the hands of these actors
and actresses not only becomes one of
the most important homecomings OF
the year, but also near catastrophe
And had it not been for the efforts of
Devine, Grant Mitchell and Miss Hy-
ans there may not have been any
Spottiswood Manor. for Mr.. Horton
and Miss Oliver would sooner or later
have reduced it to mere heap of
ashes. what with using the fence rails
for firewood and setting the house
afire
1t all began with Miss Oliver invit-
Evening star., 1934-03-09
TWO BATTLE ICE
IN CANVAS CANOE
Young Men Reach Memphis in
Hazardous Trip From
Chicago.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. March O.
After a hazardous trip from Chicago,
during which they had to battle their
way through ice on more than one
occasion, Jack Broberg and Don
Hughes reached here yesterday IN
their l7-foot canvas canoe.
I'VE had some sensational expert
ences just out of Chicago" the SUM-
tanned 22-year-old Broberg said with
q grin. Il got this tan after we got
south of st. Louis, but before then
there wasn't enough sun to tan any
thing.
Some places the ice was pretty
tough to get around. For a while we
carried our boat over the ice On our
shoulders. Then Don and I devised
a sled, and that made things little
easier
Getting through that ice wasn't
easy, and once or twice things looked
bad for us and our trip as well. We
both padded away with full force,
however, and eventually found our
~ay through.
I'VE expect to start out for New
Orleans in the morning From New
Orleans we'll paddle around the
Florida coast and then to New York
and up the Hudson. We hope to be
back in Chicago about the middle Of
August"
Evening star., 1934-03-09

Mr.. JolSon'S return to the films IN
1.-THE Wonder Bar" has given him
new life. Ills voice is fresh and clear
again, and he has wisely returned to
the field which made him famous
good old nanny singing" Say
what you will, there is no one this
wide world over who, when he puts
his mind to it. can get so genuinely
and majestically pathetic. When his
right knee touches the ground and
his two hands fly heavenward, he Is
reaching heights known only to a
giant opera queen (Mme. JeritZa, for
instance, when she sings that "Tosca'
aria lying fiat on her stomach, or TO
some symphony maestro who rings
magic out of his orchestra.
When Mr.. Jolson launches into
"April Showers you are hitting the
high-spot of pre-Vallee singerS-the
singers who can open their mouths
and shout and invigorate you by their
might as we'll as by what a g,and
gentleman of the old school used 10
call their "mooings."
The Warner Bros. have brought
Jolson back with bang. They nave
given him the right songs, the right
makeup (black occasionally and the
will to come out and below. AIS
home town (don't forget he's a local
boy) should greet him with cheer
when he makes his cinema return In
the near future And since hes IN
New York at this very moment, why
not a little visit from him in person?
Perhaps a member of his family Will
be so good as to tell him that we'll
Evening star., 1934-03-09

ELIE EDISON. whose lectures on
- Sarah Bernhardt, John Drew, La
Barrymore and other famed theatic
muses. have become what is known
as "the rage" around town, last night
threw his mitten into the field
and announced in the midst of q
fine lecture before a large audience
at the University Club that it is high
time Washington availed itself Of a
Little Theater." Mr.. Edison, after
telling his audience that it was not
true that the Divine Sarah carried a
coffin with her in those IA baggage
cars she had on one of her farewell
| tours, bespoke himself freely of all
the good dramatic talent that turks
within the Capitals walls. and then
suddenly announced that he was all
for a movement which would knit
small units into large one-such a
one as, for instance, Mrs. Poston, Mrs.
Adolph Torovsky, Miss Dorothea
Lewis and others spoke to us about
only the other day-and championing
the cause of the spoken word re-
minded his listeners that such Little
Theaters are the current hope of the
theater. Mr.. Edison disagreed charm
ingly with Booth Harrington, who
has said the theater is dying. and
even more charmingly with Elmer
Rice, who has said that the theater
is dead-and planted many a cheer
full note into an address that was
thick with kind thoughts and good
sayings.
Evening star., 1934-03-09
K|DNAP.T TORTURE BANDIT
GETS DEATH SENTENCE
Is Second Man Ordered Hanged
in Robbery of Los Angeles
Lawyer.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 9-Harry
Brooks, the second of two bandits
convicted of the kidnap-torture rob-
berry of Henry Bodkin, lawyer, was
sentenced yesterday by Judge Charles
F'ricke to hang May IL.
Judge Fricke last week sentenced
William Tanner, the other convicted
bandit, to a similar death the same
day. Notice of an appeal was filed
by Brooks counsel
James j. Hill, third man indicted
for the robbery, in which sl,700 worth
Of jewels and s43 cash was obtained,
pleaded guilty, turned States witness
and was sentenced to from five years
to life.
Evening star., 1934-03-09

ing Lord and Lady Featherstone down
for the week end. There they were,
with musty old house, no servants
and absolutely helpless. With the help
Of Mr.. Devine, who cooks; Miss Hy-
ans. antique furniture scout, who
turns maid, and Grant Mitchell,
county sheriff, who pays of the at
tachment on the furniture and be-
comes butler, everything turns out ex-
actly as you would expect.
However, on finding the Feather
stones as poor as themselves, they
turn the mansion into a chicken
Joint" Mr.. Horton becomes the hus-
band Of Miss Hyams (this despite the
efforts Of Miss Todd, who thought he
had money!; Mr.. Devine Is seen with
his arm around Miss Todd and all Is
well, at least for the time being
J, N. H.
Evening star., 1934-03-09
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Marine Band
this afternoon at o'clock in the
auditorium, Marine Barracks; Capt.
Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur S.
Witcomb, second leader.
Grand march, THE Pilgrim" l.. . Lake
Overture. Zine Faust" .... Wagner
"Dance of the Fire Spirits" from
"The Perfect Fool ...... Hoist
Invitation to the Dance. Weber
Fantasy. The Selfish Giant. Afford
Grand scenes from "Ernani". =. Verdi
Overture, Secrets of Suzanne"
Wolf-Ferrari
Marines Hymn, The Halls of Mon
teZuma"
"The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1934-03-09
HULL HOUSE GETS FUND
Miss Mary Rozet Smith Leaves
Settlement $4,000.

CHICAGO, March 9 (P).-Miss
Mary Rozet Smith, one of the found
ers of Hull House, bequeathed $4,000
to that settlement and $4,000 to Miss
Jane Addams, its director for many
years.
Miss Smith died February %, aged
IS, leaving an estate worth s230,OOO.
Most of it was left to relatives. A
friend, Harriet Herick Of Boston, was
bequeathed an annuity of $4,000; a
$4,000 bequest was made to Cornelia
Lee Niver, Baltimore, and two broth
ers sharing the bulk of the estate
are Charles Frederick Mather Smith
of Oakland, Fla, and Francis D.
Smith of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Evening star., 1934-03-09
Television Machine Soon Ready

FORT ERIE. Ontario, March 9 (P).
The worlds largest television ma
chine, being built at the Horton Steel
Works here, will be ready for dem
onstrations at the reopening of the
Century of Progress Exhibition at
Chicago May l. The builder. U. A.
Sanabria of Chicago, said yesterday
the machine would have a 30-foot
screen and its transmitter would weigh
more than 5000 pounds.
Evening star., 1934-03-09
HELEN MORGAN SIGNS
TO APPEAR IN PLAY
Blues Singing Star of "ShoW
Boat" Will Have Dramatic
Role in Memory"

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, March 9-Helen
Morgan, blues singer of musical COM
edy and night club fame, has signed a
contract to become a dramatic actress.
She will appear in Memory written
by Myron Pagan, who also will direct.
Miss Morgan leaves next week for
Los Angeles, where the play will have
its premier on April %. 1t will open
on Broadway in September.
A former Follies' chorus girl. Miss
Morgan became musical comedy star
with her role of Julie in Show Boat"
Evening star., 1934-03-09
RELIGIOUS CODE URGED
AT KIWANIS MEETING
Homer Rodeheaver Says Spiritu,
Revival Must Precede
Recovery.

heCOVeTy.
Members of the Kiwanis Club
their regular weekly meeting yester-
day in the Mayf1ower Hotel were tolo
by Homer Rodeheaver. revivalist, that
the professional and business men O.
this country ought to form code foi
religion
There can be no permanent ma
terial recovery until there has been q
spiritual revival in this country
Rodeheaver said. He led a SONG
service at the start of the meeting
w. Ray Garrett announced there
will be a bridge tournament between
members of civic clubs here, and
urged Kiwanis bridge players to meet
at the Continental Hotel next week
to organize their teams.
Rev. John c. Palmer read resolu
tion Of sympathy for the late Alberl
M. Briggs. The resolution was adopt
ed unanimously. President Lewis T.
Breuninger presided.
Evening star., 1934-03-09
Lemons Shipped to Florida

SAN DIEGO, Calf, March 9 (P).-
San Diego County lemons are being
shipped to Florida in increasing guam
titles, replacing imported Sicilian
lemons, Robert Mclean, county agri-
culture commissioner, reported yes
terday. This year 125 carloads will
be shipped to Florida, compared to
100 last year,
Evening star., 1934-03-09
Tattoo Shows Identity.

SALT LAKE CITY, March 9 (H1.-
w. L. Turpin is his own ide"tif7"o'ion
card. He was brought to hospital
badly injured and se.A. -CU.4a,--~>- .----.
an automobile accident. Tattooed on
his right forearm were these words
In case of accident. please notify
Mrs. w. L. Turpin at Fairview, Utah. u
The police found her promptly.
Evening star., 1934-03-09
BUSINESS INCREASES

Activity in Pittsburgh Area
Shows 1.8 Per Cent Gain.
PITTSBURGH, March 8 (R.-Busi-
ness activity in the rich Pittsburgh
area gained 1.8 per cent during the
week ending March 3, as compared
with the week previous.
This was announced last night by
the Bureau of Business Research at
the University of Pittsburgh. which
bases its figures on iron, steel, power
and coal production, department store
sales, bank debts and clearings, ETC.,
in IL Western Pennsylvania counties.
Activity for the week was 633 per
cent, the highest since last July.
Evening star., 1934-03-09
Story of Napoleon to Bring
New Personalities to Front
Miss Teasdale Warmers Choice for Beautiful
JOSEF phine-Another Costume
Picture.
BY MOLLIE NERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD Calf, March NANA)-If you ask any one
~ question out at Warner Bros they glance at you with
| hay look in the and mutter tier ..oo oo. .. ,,o
L Say did Napoleon blue green coat at Jena
do you know"
of Stephanie Bonaparte?"
Or Say, what Auserltz anyway?'
s all account of how the guys in the technical depart
gotta get things right to quote my eager informant who
wanted know that things usually click along at pleasant
Evening star., 1934-03-09
New Picture Is Comeback
Vehicle for Singer Jolson
Last Nights Radio Venture Shows AL Returning
to the Stage Scheme of Other Days.
wonder Bar" Credited With Change.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

w YHEN popular player, after few dodrum seasons
\A gets back harness and cracks out with great pig
wv comeback S hardhearted
reviewers to sit up and cheer. Those OF you who
listened last night to AL JosonS nanny
warbngs must been struck by the sudden buoyancy
his voice and the JOY that seemed to announce newly in
vigorated being. - ~,
Evening star., 1934-03-09
HUNDRED DAYS IN JAIL
GIVEN FOR ASSAULT
Wife Charges Raymond Hutchin-
son Bought Whisky With
Emergency Aid Money.

Raymond Hutchinson, 80, 200 block
of Seventh street southwest, went to
Jail for 100 days yesterday, when he
pleaded guilty to assault and intoxi-
cation charges in Police Court.
According to Hutchinson'S wife,
the man had been receiving money
from the Emergency Relief Fund, un-
known to her, and using it to buy
whisky. Wednesday, she said, he
came home drunk and went to sleep.
While he was asleep she called police.
and when Policeman Spottswood F.
Gravely responded, Hutchinson at
tackled him, the policeman testified
He was sentenced to serve 80 days
on the assault charge and 10 for in
toxication. Judge Ralph Given recon-
mended hospital treatment.
Evening star., 1934-03-09

They don't make a Napoleon"
every day, with Eddie Robinson in
the title role. And, what's more,
Daryl Zanuck has just made a
House of Rothschild' that, for tech
nical quality, stands pretty high. So
Warmers want to follow right along
with as good or better, if it can be
done.
Inside of 80 days the story of the
little Corsican lieutenant will be
started. Verree Teasdale and Jean
Muir will be in the cast. Teasdale
should make a beautiful Josephine.
And the Muir girl is building every
day; fast becoming one of the Holly
wood personalities to reckon with.
This follows right along in the
plague of costume pictures-I call it
plague because the contagion has
spread from studio to studio until the
production of such an opus becomes
more of a hazard than a job these
days.
Right on the heels of the costume
picture, the studios are turning to
mystery stories. Radio has just put
one out with that excellent actor,
Otto Kruger, called "The Perfect
Crime" Bob Montgomery is mystery
ing-it in a picture called "Mr. X"
And the movies have seized on the
author of The Postman Always
Whistles Twice"-or rings" twice
and put his scenarizing stories.
Inside of six months we'll all be
amateur detectives And there'n be
no getting our mysteries remote
enough what with our sharpened
faculties.
Evening star., 1934-03-09

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LABOR LEADERS
AWAIT PERKINS,
FARLEY SPEECH
Secretary to Explain New
Deal to Critical
Group.

By United PresR
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 5.-Fran-
ces Perkins, secretary Of labor. came
before the American Federation Of
Labor convention today 70 face a
militant labor group somewhat criti-
cal and suspicious Of many Of the
workings Of the New Deal in which
sire is a foremost figure.
Labor leaders look 20 the only
woman member Of President Roose-
velt's cabinet TO explain what the
new setup In the NRA holds for the
workingman.
They also seek 20 learn the ad-
ministration attitude on the thirty
hour week. the paramount plank in
the federation platform for indus
trial recovery, and on how far the
administration will go toward pro-
tecting the established unions under
the collective bargaining provisions
Of Section IA Of the national indus
trial recovery act.
The A. F. Of L. leadership has
chosen not to act in either direc-
tion-commendatory or critical-on
many resolutions pertaining TO the
NRA and the New Deal until Miss
Perkins has addressed the conven-
ton.
On the eve Of her appearance, T.
z. Rickert. spokesman for the
powerful United Garment Workers
Of America, laid the latest criticism
OF the New Deal before the conven-
ton in charging that the proposed
government plan TO enter the gar
Matchmaking field threatens the
jobs Of persons already employed.
Most Of labor's attitude is con-
tanned in the 215 resolutions still be
ing debated before the resolutions
committee and due for consideration
on the floor next week.
Meanwhile. the battle lines are
forming rapidly over the fight bee
tween advocates Of the craft type of
union. the foundation stone of the
A. F. Of l.. and those who feel that
the federation should place more
emphasis on industrial unions.
John L. Lewis. most powerful sin
gle factor in the convention with
his 1900 votes from the United Mine
Workers Of America, has found wide
support on his proposal to extend
industrial unions. Among those re-
ported supporting the militant min
ers chieftain are Charles P. Howard
Of the typographers, Thomas Nc
MahOn of the textile workers, John
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ARRANGE DANCE

L. MOriarity Mildred Phillips
st. GATHERINGS Dramatic Club
will open its fall season Of dances
with a party tomorrow night at
the Knights of Columbus hall
with music provided by the In
diana Vagabonds Miss Mildred
Phillips and John Gillespie are
on the committee arranging the
affair.
Other members Of the commit
tee are the Misses Rose Mary So
land, Mary Roche. Catherine
Houppert, Thelma Hall, Janet
Flashkamp, Margaret Alerding,
Phyllis Dichman, Catherine Giles
pie and Tim O'Connor, Cliff
Schuck, Ed Mertz. Leonard Mort
arity, Albert Alhand, Ed Staub
ana Jss Stoner.
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Obergfell Of the brewery workers,
and the petroleum unions.
On the other side are said to be
aligned such leading labor figures
as Dan Tobin of the teamsters, Will
liam Hutchinson of the carpenters,
Matthew VOL of the label trades
and John Frey Of the metal trades.
Lewis also is gaining new sup
porters for his resolution to increase
the size of the executive council
from eleven to twenty-five. Advo-
Gates urge the plan as permitting
new and more aggressive blood to
enter the group which guides direct
" labors destinies. Opponents fear
the newer blood will steer labor from
the conservatism, which the late
Samuel Gcmpers made traditional.
There will be no convention ses-
sions tomorrow as the delegates,
seeking to set an example for in
dustry, adopted a six-hour day, five
day week schedule.
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PRISONER SAWS BARS
AND FLEES TO ARMS
OF DEPUTY MARSHAL

BIZ United Press
PIERRE, S. D., Oct. 5.-Claude
Richards sawed his way through
two sets Of bars in the county jail.
Out on a rural road he hailed
a passing motorist; asked for a
ride.
Imagine his chagrin when he
recognized deputy United States
Marshal George Phipps as the
driver. Phipps recognized him
simultaneously and Richards is
back in Jail. awaiting trial on
postoffice robbery charges.
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Evening star., 1934-01-29
BURLESQUE AUDIENCE
IS WELL ENTERTAINED
Manager Jimmie Lake Produces
Good Show at His Ninth
Street Theater.

Washington burlesque fans seem to
have found what they wanted at the
Gayety show house last night, and II
came in the form of Georgia Sothern
In fact, the entire show, dressed in the
name Of "Laughland Girls did very
nice job Of entertaining.
Manager Jimmie Lake pointed out
with pride his choice from Philadel-
phia chorus, Maxine Breazeale, who &C
cording to the gazers, might soon be in
the bright lights as feature. Slightly
less vivacious than Miss Sothern was
Agnes Nichols. Leonard Kramer and
Billy Foster made a good act OF not
so-good skit Charles Dane, however,
along with little Jackie Burns, put over
some good songs, and, finding them ia
vorable to the audience, gave their all,
which ranked over the usual Ninth
street theater's songsters.
Benny Bernard and Jack OrmSby pick
up the laughs where Kramer and Foster
leave off, and Bebe Tobin, Evelyn Muir
ray, Fanny McEvoy and Miss Nichols
uphold the feminine part of the pro-
gram, what upholding Sothern might
have left. Then there was Dave Rose,
who should not be forgotten for his
team-up with the comedy Skits.
P. N. j.
Evening star., 1934-01-29

Perhaps the Hepburn performance
in 1.-THE Lake" would not seem so green
and faky were 1t not for the very
marvellous work Of two veterans Of the
screen, Frances Starr and Blanche
Bates. The world Of the theater can
thank its lucky stars that the Creel
fortunes are not what they used to be,
for 1t Is that circumstance which
brought Blanche Bates Creel back to
the theater.
The exquisite technique Of Blanche
Bates and Frances Starr throws into
stylism of Miss Hepburn. Since the
beginning Of the play-and perhaps due
to the frankness of New York critics
Katharine Hepburn has had the
katharine" removed from the theater
lights and the Miss" substituted. Also,
the way she treads from her dressing
room to the stage Is shielded by
screens from the gaze Of the multitude.
All Of which you will recognize as being
quite Hollywood.
"The Lake" isn't much shakes as a
play to begin with. 1t works itself up
10 lille llcllLy III IWO uSeo SA4AJ w o.
out on a puff Of very thin smoke IN
the third La Hepburn, whose IN
terpretation OF the somewhat unhappy
role Of Mildred Surrege consists mainly
in holding her shoulders at rlglo
angle and giving a weird little skit from
time to time, speaks in a jerky, orassy
voice much OF the time.
The role is that of a girl unnerVeo
by overmuch family and by the 1act
that her lover is a married man VINO
lust can't see the running g-away-from-lt-
all angle due to the fact that not-too-
objectionable wife holds the purse
strings, She finds an easy way out by
promising Colin Give that she Will
marry him; discovers on the wedding
dav that she is really in love with the
man she has Just married, plays a love
scene which in its exquisite sensitive.
ness and sinceity Is one OF the lovellest
moments of the play and reveals JUST
what this girl can do II she AVOIDS laKy
mannerisms and throws some soul INTO
her performance.
Fom then on she goes into gray
gown and a sort of gray lbsenesQue
other and all ends in comparatively
nothing after much talk OF ghosts,
"kind" and "unkind" And Constance
Pelissier as Lady Stairway. with her
noarse scream Of fish paste. take 1t
away" when the hors d'oeuvres are
served, is a comedy touch not TO be
easily forgotten
All told it was a pleasant evening,
50 I don't know why ! am carrying on
so: perhaps only to establish the 1ac1