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Evening star., 1934-04-15

Death Watch" unionized labor and
the drama lovers passion for dirt,
which Mr.. Tyler was loath to crafty.
Perhaps am prejudiced in favor of
Mr.. Tyler's memoirs because he and I
began our not-that-it-matters careers
in Chillicothe, Ohio; he on the Re-
publican newspaper Of that city, I on
the Democratic. In those days his
ambition was to be a Snowman, mine
to be a destroyer Of showmen, a pro-
tector and an avenger of audiences.
When in our few friendly moments
he would read to me extracts from
"Spartacus the Gladiator" or Rich
ard III" I would complain that they
were neither adequate nor convincing.
He went his way, went mine; he
on a freight train with his fathers
curse, I on Pullman palace car paid
for gayly by an uncle who was pleased
to be rid Of me. We met years later
In the Hotel Cavour, in Milan, where
Mr.. Harrington sarcastically discov-
cred us. Mr. Tyler says he had with
him in his Milanese gold and green
salon as travelling companion a jovial
and learned American professional
dramatic critic, who had, upon oc-
casion, done much to ruin promising
ventures Of Mr.. Tyler's, and also of
mine, and would in the future give
rein to his destructive propensities
where our interests were concerned,
but the accompanying brilliant black
shadow of this journalistic probity
could not dim the cherubic humor of
a Tyler He was merry; he was gen
tie, and he believed in art, beauty and
heaven"
All Of this, I know, is odiously per-
sonal, but I continue. Before started
with Mr.. Tyler on a motor journey
from Cherbourg to Naples Julian
Street had said: He will go so fast
that cathedral spires will seem like
telegraph poles" But he paused
sentimentally for a week In Marseille,
just to look from his balcony upon
the Chateau DIFF. wherein James
O'Neill was imprisoned. as the Count
Of Monte Cristo; and he couldn't be
stirred from Blois until he had had
his reminiscent fill Of Kyrle Bellew,
fighting through its dark castles and
alleys as "A Gentleman of France"
Whatever goes up does not neces-
sarily come down in this blithe and
acid autobiography of the theater's
most gallant adventurer. 1t is the
modestly vivid story of proud, vain
and intrepid idealist of the show busi-
ness, at present in eclipse; and if you
care for honest recollections Of the
theater's heyday advise you to
read 1t.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Ruskin Play Coming.

THE KING OF THE GOLDEN
RIVER" John Ruskin's famous
fairy tale, comes to the National The
ater Saturday morning. April %. for a
single performance. This will be the
sixth and last play in the series Of six
children's classics which the Chill
dren's Theater has presented here in
this its second Washington season.
In spite Of the fact that 1.-The King
Of the Golden River" lacks only seven
years of the century mark. its popu-
larity is as great today as it was dur
ing the lifetime of its creator. Rus
kin was only % when he wrote 1t, but
even then he was a mature writer
and a recognized genius. a.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
PLAY Tournament.

THE religious drama tournament. to
be conducted in Foundry Meth
odist Church drama hall, Sixteenth
and P streets. beginning May /, by the
Committee on Religious Drama of the
Washington Federation Of Churches,
will mark the first time that such q
succession Of play contests has been
held in this city, and many well known
church groups will participate in the
event. Only one-act plays of a re-
ligious nature will be accepted for the
tournament. and registrations will
close April II, it is announced by the
committee in charge, which includes
Miss Rhoda Watkins, Miss Nell M.
Burgha; and Francis Hoffheins. Ap-
plications for entrance in this tourna-
nient must be sent at once to the Re
lgious Drama Committee. at the Office
OF the Washington Federation OF
Churches, in the McLachlen Build
ing, Tenth and G streets northwest.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

| the house tops-and those quiet, gray
little people who go about their busi-
ness intelligently and honorably sell
dom getting their due. So it is with
respect that we bring the author of
The House of Rothschild" to your
attention. man who prefers Boston
and his library to Hollywood and its
Malibu. There is certainly great virtue
in that.
TOMORROW nights Green Bay
Tree" at the Belasco, should
prove thing or two. In the first
place it should determine whether or
not it takes a Jed Harris to make
this a success. whether the play can
stand by itself without the elegance
of Broadway setting, and whether it
is the sort of play that will appeal
to an average audience.
Frankly, We doubt it, in spite Of the
fact that 1t is one of the most curl
ously and best wrought of modern
plays, and that in so far as drama
turgy is concerned those who know
say that it is flawlesS. Its theme, how
ever, no matter how you look at 1t
land great many people have looked
at it in great many ways, is not by
any means happy one. Whether
such chronicle of weakness and de-
spair will appeal as mere entertain
ment" is something that can best be
ascertained here-some place, at any
rate, outside of Broadway and Lon
don.
Jed Harris changed the original
London script when he presented the
play in New York. BY doing this he
eliminated a small sequence that
would surely have offended Broadway
audiences. He directed the play very
carefully himself, making certain that
the older man was smooth but not
too smooth, that the flowers were in
their proper bowls, that white gloves
were in order and that the music ma
chine was placed where the boys voice
could be heard to best advantage. He
did everything with taste and discre-
tion. And when he was done his work
was well done.
Without this master touch and the
sure knowledge of the plays business,
We wonder just how far it will sue
ceed. Rumor has 1t that the company
which will present it tomorrow night
at the BelaSco is very good company
and that it has struck the same pitch
of reality that marked its predecessors.
We hope so. Shabbily done, the play
would be impossible. AS it is, you
have to swallow hard on a good many
things, but you have to admire its
craftsmanship and its courage all the
same.
Go to it not in the spirit of seeking
sensationalism. but to find a modern
play that has been about as well put
together as any modern play.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

But there were tnoSe VINO cuJoyco
this gloomy silhouette Of the menage
at Haworth and its occupants. Three
actresses of renown, Miss Gahagan,
Miss Starr and Miss Barrett, moved
them to raptures by their translations
Of Emily, Charlotte and Anne; while
Glen Anders, as the dissolute and
delirious Branhall, moved them to
tears. I wish that I could have joined
them, and I tried my best to do so.
All that I could find in Moor Born" :"
however, was a pious charade, giving
hints of the earlier and least interest,"
ing aspects Of the Bronte household
grim, provincial parsonage inhabited
by three scribbling virgins and their
brother. Some Of my most intelligent
acquaintance are addicted to 1t, as
they are, when I come to think Of It.,
to the collection Of postage stamps or
birds eggs.
CEORGE C. TYLER'S memoirs are
~ now published in book form, their
caption a little changed from Not
That It Matters" to the equally pessi-
mistic Whatever Goes Up" They
make, in my opinion, the most lumi-
nous history of the American stage
that has ever come to print. Die
tated by Mr.. Tyler to an eloquent and
understanding amanuensis, j. c. Fur
mas, they tell the enchanting story Of
the impresario who has wrought more
for the theater in the U. S. A. than
all the other managers and institu-
tions. past and present. put together.
He was a Sacrificial pioneer Of Duse,
Bernhardt, Shaw, Zangwill. Ffske and
a host of others when they were at
their greatest and least successful. and
of the Abbey Theater when 1t was
first rate instead of second. Viola
Allen, Eleanor Robson. Elsie Janis and
Helen Hayes were product of his en-
thusiasm in list that is as long and
colorful as a seed catalog. Years ago
Mr.. Tyler told me with a smile Of
qualification that his winning enter
prises had earned him 5000, 900, and
that his failures had lost him just as
much.
Booth Harrington, II Of whose plays
Mr.. Tyler has produced. writes a
preface to whatever Goes Up"
surveying the Tyler scene something
in the manner Of humorously melan-
choly Jacques. He explains why Mr..
Tyler now broods amiably upon the
side lines, attributing his banishment
from the active arena to numerous
causes, all Of them reasonable and in
teresting. He mentions, among these.
Hollywood, bridge, the new radio, the
country club, the New York first-night
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Rosenblatt Film.

CANTOR JOSEPH ROSENBLATT,
~ famous singer of the synagogues.
made a posthumous appearance on
the screen at the Masonic Temple
auditorium yesterday in 1.-THE Dream
of His People" talking singing pic
ture of the Holy Land. The film will
be repeated today. with continuous
shows from 8 to IL pm.
1t was at the completion Of this
picture that Cantor Rosenblatt died.
Earlier the same day he sang his last
song before the camera and micro
phone, which is recorded in the film.
The picture, however, is mainly an
epic of the new Palestine. Scenes
never before photographed are shown,
holy, historical spots that have
weathered centuries,
Evening star., 1934-04-15
1.-THE Green. Bay Tree"

civilized existence that he has been
enjoying.
There may be those who prefer to
detect some pathological significance
in the circumstances of the plot, but
the fundamental clash Of wills and
the desperate, genuine struggle which
goes on within the soul of one char
acter are sufficient unto themselves as
strong drama. THE Green Bay Tree
provides a delicate subject that is
handled with deft deicacy of direc-
fipr
Evening star., 1934-04-15

10 De uIlkIlOWu DOIn Ill your TOOHl-
ing house and in your Office after a
quarter of a century seems to us to
be something Of a feat. 1t is both
q gesture of defiance at the world
and an indication that the man finds
the world very much to his liking.
BY escaping crowds, he has more time
for reflection, and by reflection about
those he doesn't know, he probably
sometimes gets as clear an insight
into their idiosyncrasies as he would
II he chewed the rag with them for
IA hours daily.
Mr.. Westley Of the Boston Tran
script is, nevertheless, now we'll known
in cinema circles in spite of himself,
his story of the Rothschild family
being one of those rare screen scripts
1t is possible to brag about. Appar-
emily he is a shy little man who works
most OF the day in the Boston Public
Library. He dresses inconspicuously
and neatly; has a clipped gray NOUS
tache and library pallor from long
hours over newspaper files" Che sends
in his copy from his room): "a diff
fldent soft voice, nervous hands. He
is bit f1ustered now. At the end
Of long row of years he has been
made famous by wave of the Holly
wood wand, but he has no intention
Of deserting the quiet routine habits
Of his Bostonian way of living. The
room he lives in has the simplicity
of a hermit's. 1t is a sunny back
room on the third floor and the fur
nishings consist of bed, table, a
rnifn1a nf n6oirc hic fxyrot1rritor ood
a row of books-historica not f1ipant.
Back in 1881, this quiet, gray little
recluse wrote a play about the house
mary Of it to George ArliSs. Surpris-
ingly, he received a reply from the
distinguished actor asking to see the
play in full. Westley sent it along
and ArliSs accepted it, the firm of
Warner Brothers, to whom Arliss was
under contract at the time. sending
check and taking full rights to the
play.
That was in 1881. Two long years
elapsed-long for the author. Arliss
moved from Warner Brothers to the
newly organized Twentieth Century
Studios, which purchased the story
for this star from Warmers. Not hav-
ing had any direct contact with West
ley, the Twentieth Century organiza-
ton knew nothing more of the man
who had written the original story
than that he lived in Boston.
Encouraged by the sale of his first
play. Westley has since written an
other called The Belle of Baltimore
which is now being read in Holly
wood"
The reason we have mentioned all
this is because there is something
vaguely romantic about 1t, this age
being prone to blast its wizards from
Evening star., 1934-04-15

A MOVING study Of the disinte-
~ grafton of a weakling youth is
~ offered in the presentation of
THE Green Bay Tree" by
Maudaunt Sharp, which comes
TO the Shubert-Belasco Theater to-
morrow evening. The production
proved 10 be one Of this seasons out
standing successes on Broadway,
where it ran for a total Of los per-
formances, while London, too. ac-
claimed it during a seven-month run.
1.-THE Green Bay Tree" is said to be
as true as die in its psychological
penetration. 1t tells the story Of a
young man who has been reared by an
elderly guardian. a rich hothouse
sybarite. to depend upon life of re-
fined luxury and who is confronted
by the greatest crisis of his life when
the time comes for him to make his
choice between marriage with the girl
he loves, with its future of shabbiness
and austerity of a life that is not
heavily endowed, and the continual
ton of the luxurious. graceful, over
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Astaire Returning.

FRED ASTAIRE, whose clever char
aCteri2ation and deft dancing
created a sensation in R-K-O Radios
Flying Down to Rio" and whom
many critics have credited with
stealing" the picture, will return to
Hollywood to resume his screen ca
reer. Present plans call for Astaire
to sail from England in time to
reach California on May Is. on which
date production is scheduled to start
on "The Gay Divorce"
Evening star., 1934-04-15
New Broadway Play And
Book About the Theater
Moor Born" Is Story of the Three Bronte
Sisters in Gloomy Sllhouette-Ceorge c.
Tyler's Memoirs of the Stage.
BY PERCY HAMMOND.

ROM the published confessions Of Dan Totheroh learns
l. that he exclusively for his souls delight
neither expecting much desiring that it would fill his
purse shrvelng fruitfuy for time in Hoywood
fires" Mr. Toheroh decided that he had earned
outing and visit the Bronte family of
relaxation. "Riches hold in light esteem ne sang with Miss
he proceeded to have good
somewhat selfish with them regardless of the
took with him lot OF companions
who not quite eventess vacation the
and wndrdden Yorkshire fens These judging from their
in the daily press bored Bronte
by Mr. Toroh and disposed to request him to write here
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Looking Up the Chap Who
Wrote of the ROthschilds
One Finds Him "a Little Gray Fellow, Hidden
Away in Boston" This Green Bay Tree"
and How It May Be Taken
BY e. de S. MELCHER.

YHO "The Rothschild" the George Arl
"a film coming here the week of May 4? The
Wv Bernard Simon of the goth
lures Corporation who that it George Henbert
Westey unobusive little his SIXTIES
his uvarng daily habits that he unknown the people
lived the rooming house with him
of the a
tributor"-and past 26 wears
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Mining Firms Formed.
Many new mining companies are
being organized in South Africa.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
DANCING.

DANCING.
PROF. AND MRS. ACHER-33d Yr.; Studio,
1927 10th st. NV. Class and dancing every
Friday. $50 to I1:30 PM, with orchestra
Private lessons by appointment. MET. Al 80.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Current Attractions

MARCH in Para
- mounts amazing drama, Death
Takes Holiday" is the current
Il screen attraction at Warner
Evening star., 1934-04-15
National Theater
Players Opening

\ EFINITE announcement that
\ the tenth annual season Of
the National Players will get
y under way on Monday night.
April 80. was made yesterday
The Indianapolis times., 1934-01-03
SENATEPROBES
DETROIT BANKS
Examiners Warned Against
Use of Group Stock
as Collateral.
BIZ limited PrcSs

ny Z HtteU IFtSH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.+Senate
Investigators read documents today
showing that National bank exam
iners warned unit banks in the
Guardian Detroit Union group in
1929 that their practice of carrying
group stock as collateral for loans
amounted to "circumvention of the
law"
Bert K. Patterson, former execu-
tive vice-president of the Detroit
group, testified he was chief Ma
tional bank examiner for the Mich
igan district in April, 1929, when a
field examiner took exception to
$2,029,015 in loans by the National
Bank of Commerce, which were Sc
cured by 1888 shares of Union Com
merce Investment Company, hold
ing concern which owned virtually
all of the bank stock
Mr.. Patterson said he signed the
report "as matter of office rou-
tine" He said he disagreed with
his subordinate criticism, but ad-
mitted he did not advise the comp
troller of currency of his disagree
ment.
Another examination was made of
the bank in October, 1929, after Mr.
Patterson had become an officer of
the group. The second report also
protested loans of $2,294,910 collat-
eralized by 1865 shares of holding
company stock.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-01-03
PARENTS BACK
IMMUN|zATI0N
Association to Launch Vac
CinatiOn Drive at
Once.

Cooperation in the CITY, wide
drive for vaccination of children
against smallpox and incubation
against diphtheria was resolved at
a meeting of the indianapolis Fed
Grafton of Parent Teacher Associa
tionS' executive board today.
Individual contact will be estab-
liShed Immediately with the ninety
one associations, the board decided
During the week, all children whose
parents can not afford the protec-
ton will be immunized free of
charge Physicians will donate their
services and the state health depart
ment will provide the materials
Ministers will join in the cam
paign, urging parents to take their
children to the physician next week
The Marion County Medical Society
has pledged its support to the
movement as its first public health
movement.
Parent-teacher committee in
charge includes Mrs Edward T.
Thompson. Mrs. Austin j. Edwards
Mrs. Charles D. Perrine, Mrs. Carl
j. Manthei, Mrs. Glenn Parrish
Ms. A F. Westland, Mrs. Frank
A White, Mrs. Chester O. Martin
Mrs. Robert Mason and Mrs. E. L.
Norris.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-01-03

With the traditional pomp and
ceremony of q new congress begin
ming it's work, the senate was raped
to order promptly at noon by its
president, Vice President, John
Nance Garner.
The appearance of President
Roosevelt to deliver his message in
person in the house before a joint
session of congress drew most of
the throng to that wing of the
Capitol.
But the senate. coming together
for brief formalities before march
ing to the house chamber, played it's
opening scene to scores of interested
spectators.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-01-03
City Cops
Delay Car
TagDrive
State Police Begin Arrests
for Displaying 1888
License Plates.

Confusion existing among motor
lists concerning probable arrests for
failure to display 1884 plates was
clarified somewhat today by Chief
Mike Morrissey.
L will not order my men to make
arrests in indianapolis until 1 get
specific orders from the state off,
GERS, said Chief Morrissey. Il have
received no such orders"
Chief Morrissey said that he
would make no arrests in the city
until he was certain that every one
who had made application for 1884
license plates had received tags.
No Arrests Reported
Although Al Feeney, state safety
director, and Captain Matt Leach
Of the state police fatty stated that
the law was in effect today and ar
rests would be made, it was learned
that the state police probably will
make no arrests, at least today, for
failure to display 1884 plates in the
city
Commissioner Feeney said that
he would issue no order to Chief
MorriSSey relative to license plates.
My men have plenty of work to
do in the state" said Mr.. Feeney,
Chief MorriSsey's men are policing
Indianapolis"
No arrests for violations of the
automobile license law had been
reported at state police head
quarters up to noon today, accord
ing to Commissioner Feeney. Penal
ties will depend upon the judge and
the humor in which he happens to
be, it was learned
Injunction Is Considered
Subpenas to apepar in court will
be given offenders by the state po-
lice Reported threats of more
drastic measures, such as the re-
quirement of a large liability in
Surance policy from Offer 'ers, were
not seriously regarded by officials
/ today.
At county court it was reported
that lawyer was seeking to find
basis for asking an injunction to
/ restrain police from making arrests
of persons who failed to display
1884 plates until a more reason
able time" has elapsed.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-01-03
NATION MUST GO F0RWARD,' IS
THEME OF ROOSEVELT SPEECH TO
COMBINED HOUSES OF CONGRESS-
House Ways and Means Committee Agrees
Formally on $55O,OOOOOO Liquor
Taxation Measure
So A GALLON IS LEVY ON SPIRITS
Beer to Yield S. a Barrel to Government,
According to Provisions of
Democrats Bill.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The house ways and means
committee formally agreed today the $55O00000O liquor
tax bill
Chairman DoughtOn said the would be intro
duced in the house later today.
The Democratic members of the committee agreed
unanimously the bill. The nine Republican members,
however, did not vote leaving purely majority party
measure.
Approximately $3.50 900 of the total revenue ex-
pected be raised by the bill would from the sale of
spirits and wines while 900 will be raised by the
levy on beer.
tax of So gallon has been placed spirits S. a
The Indianapolis times., 1934-01-03

donor, with additional advice in
typewriting. 1t urged that the cap
tain initiate the tenaciouSness of
that worm with a similar name,
but spelled differently.
When Captain Leach reached
this point in the letter, he ex-
ploded. In the first place. he
didn't think the gift was fitting
and the letter he considered in
Sulting.
In addition, last week he re-
ceived a letter through the mail
congratulating him highly on the
success of the state police road
blockade. 1t set out that the
writer had stopped and talked to
certain blockade officers while
travelling west of fremont, en-
route to Chicago. They reported
that all was we'll and working
smoothly. the letter set out. 1t
was signed:
John Dillinger."
The Indianapolis times., 1934-01-03

AT any rate the package was
wrapped in holiday style. with red
tissue paper bearing the address
"Kaptain Leach" on one side and
labeled Highly Effervescent' on
the other.
Within was an ancient, we'll
thumbed volume. which in a few
years may become a curio for
antique lovers. The book is titled
How To Be a Detective and was
copyrighted in 1896.
Table of contents carries such
Illuminating chapter heads as
How to Shadow" >" Two Types of
Pickpockets." and Value of Dis
guiSe, Such as Mustache and
Beard"
In the closing chapter, there is
a word of warning TO students of
the book. They never should be-
come vain and puffed up over
their success. it says.
Then there was an accompany
ing letter from the anonymous
The Indianapolis times., 1934-01-03
M'NUTT SLATE WINS
FAIR BOARD BERTHS
Governors BackerS Lose Only One
Candidate in Election.

Members of Governor Paul V.
McNutts slate were successful, with
one exception, this afternoon, in
election of eight members to the
state agriculture board at the
boards reorganization meeting in
the Claypool.
The only administration candi-
date defeated was Professor R. M.
Mikesell, Indiana university, beaten
by Guy Cantwell, Republican, Cos
port, who was reelected from the
Second district.
Others named were c. H. Taylor;
Boonville, First diStrictfi Charles D.
Morris, Salem, third district; E. Cur
tbs White, Indianapolis, Seventh dis
trict; F. J. Claypool, Muncie, Eighth
district; Thomas Grant, Lowell.
Tenth district; U. G.. Brouse, Ken
dallville, Twelfth district, and Levi
P. Moore, Rochester, Thirteenth dis
trict.