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that she ever saw a Southern colonel
doing an Irish Jig or the carioca tC
keep fit. but that did not deter her
from launching herself as a dancer
at the tender age of u.
After only a few months Of study
she was signed for an engagement
at a ST. Louis theater, far enough from
her Texas home to ease the shock to
the local tongue wagging talent
Saws she knew so little about dancing
at that point it is a wonder they
didn't give her the hook in st. Louis
They didn't. Apparently the combi-
nation of youth and natural grace
saved the day. She went ahead with
her study-developing every concelv-
able type of terpischore which might
be of use to her. Consequently, by
the time she had grown up, she was
topping bills on Keith's and other
circuits. carrying with her large
contingent of performers billed usu-
ally as Marion wilkins and Co. That
distinction, incidentally, placed her IN
the decidedly limited list OF female
vaudeville headliners.
Miss Wilkins is or that restleSs
disposition. theatrically, which cuSto-
marily produces the greatest successes
because it is a complement of untlr-
ing ambition. She has proSpered as a
dancer, now she is turning to dra-
matte parts. So is Jack Meyers, the
1.-the gentleman who is her dancing
partner. They have both been out
to Hollywood of late, working in films.
A Broadway show offer is their next
interest. They will dance and have
speaking parts also, which fits in per-
fectly with the training schedule.
If you remember Miss wilkins last
appearance here, your first sight of
her this time may have been a slight
surprise. Her type" has been changed
entirely. Hollywood did it. The ex-
perts saw possibilities in her as a
Spanish beauty, and got their wish.
Formerly, she wore her hair in sort
of fuzzy ringlets. looked more pert
than Latin. The movie seal doubtless
will stick.
BY the way, ever hear Of the
carioca glide? wilkins and Meyers
invented it. R. B. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-09-25

told he might have a vacation leave
had telephoned friends in the East
and arranged dinner party at his
New York apartment for last Satur-
day night. Lois Moran was to be
there. And Whitney Bourne, who re-
Gently played in the echt-MacArthur
picture, Crime Without Passion 4"
Then, after dinner, Montgomery had
tickets planned for Life Begins at
8:40," after which they were all to
go on to new night spot for which
he had arranged a ringside table all
by telephone.
Came the word that he would have
to go into rehearsal and makeup
tests instead of jumping into the
plane. Montgomery decided he would
go out to Universal and plead with
his employers. But he had no car
His mother had taken his car and
the chauffeur had the other one and
could not be reached. He phoned for
taxi; when it didn't come at the
end of half an hour he realized that
the driver had become lost in the
maze of hillside streets.
Time was getting short. Mont
gomery rushed out to the street and
hailed passing milk truck, which
would take him down to the boule-
vard-and the taxicab stands. The
driver wouldn't stop for him on the
steep hillside. But neighbor's S
luncheon guest was more friendly
She rushed the beleaguered young
man down TO taxi. He hurried out
to Laemmleville and persuaded his
employers that it would be a heart
less thing to wreck such an evening
OF festivity for him in gay Manhat-
tan. He was on that plane. But he
had given a promise to be on the set
Wednesday morning with his lines
learned and ready to go.
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Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
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PRESENTING PLAY.

"The Violin Maker of Cremona'
will be presented at the first meeting
of the season Of the Takoma Park,
Md, Little Theater group, October g.
at Maryland School. In addition,
readings and musical selections will
augment the short business session OF
the group.
Characters in the one-act play in
clude Miss Clara Mae Tarbett and
H. M. Smythe. NJ Elwin Caskey and
Percy L. GreaveS.
Officers for the coming season in
clude J. G. Sutton, formerly head OF
the LitAe Theater of Quincy. III.
president; Mrs. Bobbie Bray Hayes
vice president; Mrs. Franc Caskey
secretary, and viii Carleton. acting
treasurer.
Evening star., 1934-09-25

Inc man VINO usually provides Ile
studio with dogs had few high-priced
actors getting from SIS to $50 and SIS
a day-English bulls, Great Danes, fox
terriers, scotties, settlers and pointers
and other pampered dog talent.
Alexander Hall sent two boys out
for strays. But strayS with camera
appeal The net result is more than
satisfying. The pay is low. The sat-
isfaction is high. The only difficulty
is the war between the two-legged
actors and actresses on the lot as to
who will have what dog when the
picture is over and the extra talent
is turned loose.
That a new "Tarzan" superspecial
is being planned comes as good news
to Johnny W'eissmuller enthusiasts.
This time it will be "Tarzan" with a
difference. 1t will not be filmed on
the back lots. The picture, it is
hinted may be made in darkest Africa
And pretty Miss Maureen O'Sullivan
will be the leading lady. All of which
would take her far from John Farrow,
her fiance, and for a considerable
length of time
The last African trek made by this
studio-the Trader Horn" picture
had disastrous results. Woody Van
Dyke-one of the most satisfactory
directors in the world today-car-
ried the company through almost in
superable difficulties and brought
them all back alive, although he was
bit haggard himself as a conse-
quence.
Some time later lawsuits galore on
the part of EdWina Booth. the beau
tiful supernumerary who was chosen
for the lead role when Camilla Horn
frankly refused to risk her lovely
white body in the African jungle,
threw the studio into lot of hot
water and rather spoiled its taste for
such type location trips.
Here's a real Hollywood story for
ycu Douglass Montgomery had
closed his house and had his luggage
all packed for the 4 pm. fast plane
10 New York, few days ago. At
noon he received word that picture
assignment had been given him that
would keep him in Hollywood.
Now Montgomery. when he had been
Evening star., 1934-09-25
CHOIR PROGRAM.

Eva Jessye and her choir Will give
a presentation of The Music Hour
Saturday evening at the Lincoln Tenn
pie Congregational Church, Eleventh
and R streets northwest, at $3.50 pm
Miss JeSsye trained the singers fo1
Gertrude STEMS -Four Saints IN Ihree
Acts" and she and her choir have
appeared on numerous theatrical and
concert stages. She has directed ano
produced several radio programs, the
most recent being Thoughts at Sun
set" a half-hour broadcast over the
N. B. c. network. On the screen Miss
Jessye trained and directed the sing
ers for King Vidors "Hallelujah.'
Evening star., 1934-09-25
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band. at the bandstand, this evening
at $50 o'clock John S. NJ. Zimmer-
mann, bandmaster; Anton Pontner,
associate leader.
March, "Grandioso'. '............ Seitz
Overture. "Masaniello" ....... Auber
Humoresque, Three Blind Mice"
Lotter
Scenes from the opera Macbeth,
Verdi
Two popular songs
Little Grey Home in the West" .Lohr
There's Green Hill by the Sea- Lohr
Valse Lente, "L'Amour Defendu",
Dawson
Finale, "The Gallant Seventh,
Brockenshire
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1934-09-25
Troupers
Glimpses of Stage Folk
in Washington

MARION WILKINS was the child
l"1 of one of those good old South
ern families which would rather
beat the family retainer than be with
out a prejudice against the stage. 1t
is not uncommon for women of these
clans to remark sweetly. speaking of
the gorgeous Throckmorton girl who
Evening star., 1934-09-25

MAE VESTS new picture, which
-'A was revealed ahead of time to
the local drama departments last
night tafter a rare Warner Bros.
banquet at the Variety Club presided
over by Frank La Falce, Bill Ewing,
Manager Harry Lohmeyer of the Earle
and Dan Terrell. who IS now sworn
Warner-ite and barkS whenever
Loew's is mentioned) should do a lot
for the kind of hat We have been
waiting for Last season Miss West
put the hustle on the market, and
this season she should give the
plumed bonnet a boost Too long now
have saucepans and spotted turrets
of nondeScript design clouded the
brow of the fairer race. Half the
feminine head has been in danger
of being rained on for the past six
months. In Belle of the Nmeties,
however. Miss West reveals that a
great big hat with a mess of plunes
on it can do Just as well-Saving the
tresses from a heavenly wetting and
looking a darn sight better than only
half a hat With a giant gadget like
that on her head. il is no wonder
that she pretty well mOps up New
Orleans in this picture and that the
BOYS dish out diamonds to her every
time she takes a breath-and what
a breath!
7 AIDES were admitted to Variety
IL Club luncheon for the first time
Yesterday. Kings For A Day" Nat
GlaSser and George Crouch are re-
spOnSible for this feat. The ladies
came and conquered. And no wonder
they had a good time-DiCk Powell
Crooned at them and Messrs. CHASER
and Crouch gave them champagne
as mementos.
X
WE'VE only just dipped into the
Nv envelope that Rodney tRlalto)
Collier left for us which is marked
Nelson Bell and find that 1t con-
tains valued information about Adolph
Meniou. who will appear at the RialtO
Thursday in The Human Side II
Mr.. Bell has an envelope which isn't
marked Nelson Bell. will he kindly
heave it at us and We will dip further
and find out what Mr.. Collier really
wanted us to know. (NIr Bells en-
velope marked Mr Bell is herewith
dispatched to him.
THE Warner Bros. would like US to
know that one of the features Of
Belle of the Nineties' is a lavish
and opulent chamber'-a room that
contained dozens of articles which
were dear to the heart Of grandma" "
Here is the list: "One bedstead,
one box spring, one mattress, two cot
ton sheets. two silk sheets, two silk
Evening star., 1934-09-25

cOf0IOrlGIS, TWO SILK SpISduS- tllltt Sllh
pillows and one silk pillowcase." Oh,
Grandma!
ONE OF the most loyal members OF
~ the theater clan in town is Mrs.
Catherine Macdonald of 1920 Twenty
second street northeast. Mrs. Mac
Donald has been the superintendent
of Keith's for the past % years. She
gets there every morning at $50.
Knows every nook and Granny by
heart In the good old days she had
a whole feet of helpers. Now she
does most of the work there herself.
She has the flags that were on the
Wilson box. She'll show them to you
if you ask her Hardie Meakin used
them when the Wilson plaque was
given to Keiths. For % years she has
watched the tide of entertainment
seen vaudeville pass and The Count
of Monte Cristo" bloom once more
into favor. She knows Keith's better
than Kelth's knows itself.
*
THE correct way TO pronounce Rob-
ert Donat's name in 'Doan-at'
not "doughnut' the way the
wise guys have been saying Vivian
Fay is not only a swell dancer. but
a swell person Dick Powell is
going 10 toss some kind of a polite
brawl for his company either tomor-
row night or the night after why
wouldn't the Timbergs and the
RooneyS attend the Variety Club
luncheon yesterday? Great things
are predicted for William Brady. the
Silver Spring Bing Crosby, who is
one of the high lights of the Loew's
Fox stage show this week Mr.
Brady. who is but 81. was picked up
not so long ago by Marc Silvers OF
the United Artists office, and ac-
Cording to rumor Mr.. Silver plans to
present him over the radio and then
on the screen after the lad has had
a screen test Mr.. Brady. who
really has way of singing all his
own, goes to Richmond next week
after Miriam Hopkins in The
Richest Girl in the World" which
ought to follow a third week OF
Monte Cristo," Keith's will present
The Age of Innocence" Girl OF
the Limberlost," The Gay Divorce. >
The Captain Hates the Sea" anC
that dreadfully titled film. Orchids
and Onions which has. however. a
swell cast Lucius Beebe, drama
writer for the Herald-Tribune, is
writing a book about Boston
The Dawn Comes Early" Pendletor
Hogans latest. comes out October
10 Henry Fonda. who come;
here with "A Farmer Takes a Wife.
formerly played with the Junior The.
alter his wife is, or was, Margaret
SULLIVAN.
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went on the stage,
she really is
quite well spoken
and polite. even
if she is an act
ress.
Miss wilkins
was aware of all
this long before
she began learn
ing the tWirls
performed so ad-
mirably this week
on the E a + ! e
stage. She could
-C~1n1oN lNoT-
Evening star., 1934-09-25
Mae West Threatens to
Change Millinery Styles
Her New Picture, Belle of the Ninetles'
Pre-Viewed by Drama Writers-Charhe
Chaplin Calls His Film Number 5.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

AE WEST thought she'd be smart and not call her new
M picture anything. Charlie Chaplin has been Just as
will sell his cinema So he is going to call 1t
simply Picture Number s. and let at that This morning
United dispatches from Hollywood tell us that Willy Pogany
artists techncanS the con-
rucon Number s.; that Pauette Goddard to be Mr.
Chapns and that there unusual
roles Chaplin little himself and
kind Of talent that has never been uneartned
before Nobody knows when the picture will be hnshed
Evening star., 1934-09-25
SUIT UNDER AMUSEMENT 7
Former Mrs. Bancroft Asks Main
tenance From Actor.


LOS ANGELES. September 25 (P).-
The request of Mrs. Edna Brothers
Bancroft that George Bancroft, screen
villain, be ordered to support her,
pending her suit for separate main
tenance, was taken under advisement
Yesterday by Superior Judge Dudley
S. Valentine.
Judge Valentine previously had de-
MED the woman temporary allmony
but granted here $4,000 attorneys
fees and $500 court costs. Bancroft
claims he obtained a divorce from her
in New York, but her lawyers say
there is no record of the divorce IN
that State. Bancroft later married
Octavia BroSke, stage actress. and has
an l8-year-old daughter by her.
Evening star., 1934-09-25
Steak Signs Up Actors
In Animal Store Scenes
Stray Pups Recruited for Film Pampered
Talent Idles in Pens" Tarzan"
n May Go to Africa.
BY MOLLIE NIERRICK.

OILYWOOD Calf, September 25-Holywood hit
IL low with days falling to this One of
! choice steak, clean bed and bath
Eighteen actors glad to sign for the run
the picture under these terms The actors 8 stray
Director Alexander Hall secuted when he had
Set-up in his picture
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
N. J. Youth Groups
Call Conference To
Fight War, Fascism
State Wide Meeting Is
Endorsed by Labor,
Liberal Leaders

NEWARK. - The Northern New
Jersey Youth Federation, a newly
formed body of youth organizations
from churches, schools, colleges.
fraternal and political organizations,
is calling a state wide conference
against war and Fascism. The con-
/ ference is to take place at Dana
College, 40 Rector St, at 2 p. M,
Sunday, May 9Th.
The Youth Federation calls upon
all its fellows to elect delegates to
a broad conference where effective
steps will be taken in the struggle
against war Among its affiliated
organizations are the Washington
Club of the Y. M. H. A., Social
Problems Clubs and International
Relations Clubs from several high
schools and colleges in the north
ern part of the state, Youth Peace
organizations, Young Circle League,
Young Communist League, and Jack
London Clubs.
The call is endorsed by prominent
liberals and labor leaders among
whom are DR.. Frank L. Kingdom,
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church
of East Orange, Roger M Yancey,
Attorney, N. A. A. C. P, Anthony
Anterio, Pres. Blue Bird Dye Shop
local, A. F. of L. (Paterson) David
Minoff, Y NJ H. A. leader of Pater-
son, Julius Shiskind, Pres. Rutgers
University Liberal Club, Lillian
Salzman, Dana College Liberal Club,
E. H. Zabriskie, Prof. of History,
Dana College, and Charles L. Dore-
mus, Scoutmaster, Troop No. 112,
Boys Scouts of Barnegat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
TUo Open Mlesones in the History of Our Party
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lean working class; it was the fact
that the base of the Party rested
primarily upon the foreign born Sec
lions of the American working class,
which isolated it from the stirring
political life of the country.
IN 1929 our Party received an open
letter from the Communist In
ternational. 1t was this open let
ter which rallied the whole Party
against unprincipled factionalism,
which cleansed our Party of the
Lovestone- Trotskyite renegade ele-
ments. 1t was this open letter which
put a death blow to the theories
of exceptionalism. 1t opened up
broad revolutionary perspectives for
our Party AS the basis for the de-
velopment of our Party into a mass
Communist Party.
AS against the Lovestone theories
of American exceptionalism, the
Open Letter of the CT. rid our
Party of these American bourgeois
theorists. 1t contained the ringing
statement that:
with a distinctness unprece-
dented in history. American cap
italism is exhibiting now the eff
fects Of the memorable laws of
capitalist development, the laws
Of decline and downfall of capt.
talist society. The general crisis of
capitalism is growing more rapid
ly than it may seem at first
glance. The crisis will shape also
the foundations of the power of
American imperialism"
This Open Letter raised before
our Party problems of Bolshevik
mass work. 1t said:
"The Communist Party must
concentrate its attention on the
most important questions of the
revolutionary struggle of the pro-
letariat in America-on the ques-
ton of unemployment, the strug-
gle for social insurance, wages.
working hours, work in the ex-
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isting trade unions, work for the
organization of new unions, strug-
gle against reformism and struggle
against the war danger"
The Seventh Convention of our
Party held in 1880, on the basis of
the Open Letter of the c. I. unified
our Party, purged its ranks of the
remnants of the Lovestone- Trotsky-
lite renegade elements and their
theories. This laid the basis of the
development of the mass work of
the Party, although the past
weighed heavily upon our Party.
However, it found it difficult to rally
all of its forces for Bolshevik mass
work. 1t found it difficult to apply
in practice the line of the C. I. in
building mass Communist Party
in the U. S. A.
WHAT was it in the past Of our
W Party which made it so difficult
for lis to make the turn towards
real mass work, as called for time
and again by the c. l.? What was
the source Of the isolation of our
Party from the decisive sections of
the American proletariat? The
Open Letter of the c. I. in 1929 gave
us that answer when it told the
Party that "The Workers Commun-
ist Party of America has been for
many years an organization of
foreign workers not much connected
with the political life of the coun-
try" 1t is true that the Seventh
Convention of our Party held in
1890 unified our ranks but the Party
found it difficult to break its isola-
ton from the American masses. This
is the central problem that our
Party has been facing since the
Seventh Convention.
While the crisis became sharper
from year to year, and radicaliza-
ticn of the masses has been in
creasirg, the Party did not keep
pace with the revolutionary advance
in the country The Party. not only
did not keep pace with the rapid
development Of the objective condi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-16
The Present Situation on
The Auto Strike Front

THE auto strike wave is rising powerfully steadily
higher.
It is breaking through every obstacle and trap set
before it by the Roosevelt strike-breaking govern
ment by the cunning National Auto Labor Tribunal
of the government the Millionaire auto corporations
and the corrupt sell-out officials of the A. F. of L.
leadership
The latest reports bring the news that the work
ers of the Seaman Body plant have rejected for
the second time the crafty proposals of company
bosses and the Roosevelt agent, Richard Byrd that
would trick them back to work with the bait of
slight concessions. They stuck to their demand for
20 per cent increase, union recognition, and the
firing of all strike breakers.
This means that strike breaking efforts Of RoOse-
vet the employers, aided by the A F. of L. lead
ership have thus far failed. This means that the
auto workers are learning how to through the
rosy promises of these three forces that are COM
bined to break the back of the auto workers strug-
giles This means that the auto workers are learning
to penetrate through the smooth talk of these three
agencies to the reactionary, strike-breaking heart
beneath Roosevelts strike breaking peace pact"
agreement is breaking down under the blows of the
auto workers.
Faced with this obvious determination of the
auto workers to fight for better wages and for the
recognition of their union the A. of L. leadership
together with the Roosevelt government and the
auto corporations are trying new subtle, schemes to
stab the auto workers in the back.
Every day of delay tends TO weaken the stra-
tegc advantage of the auto workers. Now is the
peak of production Soon the auto employers will
be on the strnger side as far as time is concerned
Now is the time for the auto workers to strike a
powerful blow against the billion dollar Wall Street
corporations Now is the time the blow would hurt
these proft-swOIen exploiters the most
That is why the central purpose of the A. F. of
L. takers is to delay, delay, delay the auto strike
they cannot stop it altogether Now the policy of
the Roosevelt government and the A. F. of L. is to
parley with the auto workers until the slack season
arrives Then the auto corporations will take the
offensive against the workers.
THE strike-breaking treachery OF the A F. of L.
leadership has appeared most glaringly in the
recent auto Developments With the rising struggles
this gear bringing the danger that the Auto Workers
Union and the Mechanics Educational Society would
dominate the field the A. F. of L., which had
gathered thousands of workers into its ranks began
to scheme and manoeuver to stop the struggles and
growth Of the independent organizations.
They appealed to Roosevelt. Roosevelt replied
with his peace agreement" termed by him a new
course in social engineering" In reality, it meant
the egalization of the company union the enforce
ment Of compulsory arbitration, and the increased
use Of open force to break the struggles of the
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tons, but in some respects remained
even stationary.
Did the It'll Convention help us in
the development of mass work, has
the Party carried on and increased
its mass work following the 7th
Convention? Of course it has. But
it was not mass work of a basic
character which would root the
Party among the decisive sections
Of the American proletariat.
A HIGH point in the struggle of
n our Party to carry the line of
the G. I. was the Open Letter adj
dressed to the entire membership
adopted by the Extraordinary Ma
tional Party Conference held July
7 to 10, 1893. What was the
central point in this Open Letter.
That we must once and for all
carry out our own resolutions and
the resolutions of the G. 1. in
order that the Party should de-
velop into mass revolutionary
proletarian Party.
1t placed before the Party as an
imperative task to make a rapid
turn of the Party to revolutionary
mass work among the decisive Sec
tons of the American industrial
proletariat."
Wherein lies the strength of our
eighth convention held just a week
ago? Wherein lies the guarantee
that this convention will strengthen
the mass work of the Party? Pre-
cisely in the fact that for the first
time since our seventh convention,
the Party had begun to carry out
the policy of concentration and of
developing work "among the de-
cisive sections of the American in
dustrial prOletariat"
This 9th Convention registered the
important fact that for the first
time in the history Of our Party
the majority of the delegates came
from sections of the working class
to be found in the decisive industries
Of the country; that the Party
ceased to be primarily IAN organi-