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The Washington times., 1934-09-24

Chicago Bears .........3 14-24
Green Bay.............0 DO
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ., Hewitt
Goldenberg. Field goals-Manders. Mon
nett (place kicks). Points after touch
DAYTON, Ohio. Sept. 24.-The
Chicago Cardinals defeated the
Cincinnati Reds, 9 to o, before
5000 fans here yesterday. Doug
Russell, ex-Kansas State halfback
now with the Cardinals, snatched
the opening kickoff and threaded
his way 1O2 yards to score. Cook
booted a 39-yard field goal in the
third quarter. Summaries:
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SCORE BY PERIODS


Chicago Cardinals. .... 6 0 8 %
Cincinnati. ..... ....;,. ~
Touchdown--Russell. Field goals
Cook (plaCemenO.
Substitutions - Cardinals: Hughes,
Greene Mehringer. Griffiths, Horstman,
Timpton, Hinchman, Smith, Murphy,
Creighton, Kiejei, Smith, Coppoletti,
Colarie, Isaacson. Cincinnati: Wilglng,
Wilkerson, Howell, Aspalore, bunker,
Grant, Hanson, Vokaty, Lefebvre, Pope,
Bushby, Sohn.
Referee-Durfee (Columbus). Umpire
-Tehan (CincinnatD. Head linesman--
Smith (Chicago). Field judge-Cutler
(Dayton). Time of quarters-15 minutes.
DETROIT, Sept. 24.-The De-
troit Lions made an impressive
start in the National Professional
Football League, turning back the
New York Giants, 80, here yester-
day. Dutch Clark put the Lions
ahead by booting a 11-yard drop
kick in the second quarter. The
final scoring came when Roy
Father" Lumpkin intercepted
pass in the fourth quarter. Lineup
and summary:
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Clark (drop kick).
ions-Giants-Backs: Rich
ards, Danowski Clancy, Norby. Krause.
Tackles: Morgan, owen, Scheur. Guards:
Gibson, Cannella. Center: Randolph.
Detroit-Backs: Christensen, Presnell.
Rowe Ends: Mitchell, Schneider.
Tackles: Knox, limerick.
Referee-Bob Karns Umpire-Bob
Carsh. Linesman-M. J. Meyers. Field
judge. ]. Widder.
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DeMiIIe to Film
StaIIinss Book

HOLLYWOOD. June Para
mount has purchased from Max,
we'll Anderson and Laurence Stall
lingS their play "Buccaneer,"
which will be filmed by Cecil B.
DeMille with an all-star cast as
his next production for the COM
pany. The story is based on the
life of Sir Henry Morgan, most
notorious pirate in sea history.
Paramount also has purchased
Goddess" a story by Paul Hervey
Fox; Outrage" by Beulah Marie
Dix and Bertram Millhauser;
Target" by Stephen Morehouse
Avery, in which the studio plans
to feature Sir Guy Standing
Richard Arlen, Evelyn Venablei
Roscoe Harms, William Frawley
and Gail Patrick; and ITO the
Ladies'" by George s. kaufman
and Marc Connolly, which will be
filmed as q George Bancroft
starring picture under the title
Ladies First" and under Gilbert
Pratt's direction.
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phone with Frank Davis. .Monta
Belly M-G-M associate producer,
was once a newspaper man in
Washington, D. c., and quite &C
cidentally selected Maxine Doyle,
who was mistress Of ceremonies
for 1872 consecutive weeks at the
Earle Theater in washington. for
the leading femme role in STU
dent Tour"
lettings Of the boulevard. -.
Paul NUM- is trying to arrange
his cinema matters so he can do
Sam Harris play Of NijinSki. {.
oliver C"Babe") Hardy had a
terrible time when some fan sent
him a gila monster as a pet. 1t
required steel gauntlets and a
long fork to feed the poisonous
lizard. Ollie finally got q local
ZOO to come and get it. It's a
girl for the Earl Baldwins.
Although actual production is
many months away, the Warner
plant has started scenaristS to
work on 1.-THE Gold Diggers Of
1885," which will feature most
of the company'S stars. al Jol-
son has cut Ruby Keeler'S picture
deal with Warmers from three
to two per year. He wants more
time to take her around to see
things.
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Some jottingS of Jim's musings:
When Geraldine Farrar and Lou
Tellegen sat in the barber chairs
and rehearsed their scenes-for
hours and hours. Bill Hart used
to wander in with Willard Mack
and John Gilbert They made UP
a barber shop quartet" including
Geraldine, who insisted that Harris
voice was the worst in the world,
but she sang with him
Tom Moore, Pauline Frederick
and Jean HerSholt hung around
and listened Helene Chadwick
was the naughty star in those days
e. Will Rogers once tried his rope
act and jokes in the barber shop
and nearly wrecked the place with
both :.
Roy Stewart, Alma Rubens and
Norman Kerry used to match pen
MES together to see who would
pay for haircuts, manicures and
shaves Nobody paid any atten-
ton to Joan Crawford when she
came on the lot and jim said
something about cutting CARLOS
hair =.
The RKO flicker factory was in
very much Of a other the other
day. Two girls who looked enough
alike to be sisters were needed for
a scene in Were Rich Again"
Hundreds Of photographs were
compared. Joan Marsh and Gloria
Shea were. finally selected, while
real sisters like the Gale girls and
Sally Blame and Polly Ann Young
failed to click.
Odds and ends Cor beginnings
If you like) If. Charles Laughton,
winner of the 1888 Academy
award for the best acting of the
year, refused to permit any cere-
mony with the presentation of the
bronze Statuette. Lola Lane is
burning the midnight oil by writ
ing a book, Lines and Rhymes"
. . Howard Hughes, the. movie
producer, is still cashing in on the
discarded air scenes from "Hell's
Angels" Nat Levine, independent
producer, has purchased first
rights to all this waste material
about two million feet of celluloid
Paul Gould, who warbled with
Paul Ash and Roger Wolf Kahn,
landed a Warner ticket and Is to
be groomed for featured roles
along with vocal chord stuff. ).
Kinema knick-knacks. Dolores
Del Rio and Fay Wray have sail
ed away for Honolulu. Irving
Rapper, formerly associated with
Gilbert Miller, gets his directorial
chance at M-G-M with "Forsak-
ing An Others" starring Loretta
Gonna 1Xins will hold thu maGa~'
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Natural Acting
Is Borzase Rule

HOLLYWOOD, June BE
natural"
Every actor and actress who
took part in making the Universal
picture, Little Man, What NoW?"
heard that simple instruction
spoken many times. The man
who spoke it was the veteran
director, Frank Borzage. Natural
ness is his creed in directing
pictures.
In merely insisting that his
players act naturally, Bonzage is
unlike many of the directors in
Hollywood. More often than not
q director has some very elabor-
ate . system for actors and &C
tresses to follow. There Is fire.
quently much "emoting" and
theatricaliSm.
But not with Borzage. He in
sists upon down to earth, every"
day naturalness. That his
method has its good points is
shown in the fact that he has
twice won the Photoplay Mag
azine gold medal for the best
picture of the year and also the
gold Statuette awarded by the
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences.
While directing Little Man,
What Now?" at Universal City,
Borzage found it more than ever
essential that his actors play
their parts like people in real
life. The story itself demanded
IL.
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with this list before you, you may
take your own examination to de-
eide if you have a chance in Holly
wood.
Here is the Hinsden quiz:
Have you had experience? This
Il to test the acquired poise
which comes from meeting people,
whether behind footlights or a
shop counter.
Do you like people? This Is q
necessity to give an inside into all
types Of character.
Have you a Photographic mind?
Meaning, can you remember what
strangers look like, what group
of people are wearing. how a room
looked?
Can you initiate?
How far did you 60 with your
schooling? Wide reading, biog-
raphy, preferred and acquaintance
with the cultural arts helps q lot.
Have you any physical dis
ability? They want only normal
healthy folk for pictures.
Do you have talent or are you
after easy money? s
How is your voice? While you
answer that one, Director Hinsdell
tests it for tinlbye and Hepburn
qualities.
Ara Hou aleEt 10 What Gons On
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LaernmIe Buys New
Book By Thorne Smith

Might Life of the Gods" the best
selling fantasy by Thorne Smith,
was last week acquired by Uni
verSal for one OF its 40 produc-
tionS on the 1934-35 program.
This book, now in it's twelfth edi-
ton, Is one which Carl Laemmle,
jr., believes will make a distinctly
unique screen offering.
The story reveals the nocturnal
adventures Of a group of museum
statues, representing the gods,
who are miraculouSly brought to
life. Lowell Sherman will in all
probability produce it. At the
same time he purchased might
Life Of the Gods" Carl Laemmle,
jr., also took an option on
Topper. another novel By
sIsaosna Smith,
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RosamondPinchot
In Films at Last

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June !.
After refusing all motion picture
offers since her memorable per-
Torrance as the nun in Max Rein
hsrdt's THE Miracle" Rosamund
Pinchot has attached her signature
to a long-term Metro Goldwyn'
Mayer contract.
Miss Pinchot, the niece Of Gov.
Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
recently was q house guest Of Zoo
Atkins, the playwright, and it was
Miss Atkins who finally persuaded
Miss Pinchot to consent to Q
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lis Brains, Not Beauty, Gamers
Contracts to M-G-M School

around you? You have to know
the latest done to stay in the pa
rade.
Can you stand hard work? This
is very important.
Can you concentrate? You'll
need it to learn lines on the set
while they change setups.
Do you possess an imaginative
mind?
Oliver Hinsdell doesn't expect
a perfect score on the quiz, but
you've got to answer the majority
of the questions correctly to get a
chance.
Some of the M.-G.M. girls who
gave the hight answers are Mary
Carlisle, Irene Hervey, Martha
Sleeper, Shirley Ross, Ruth Chan
ming, Muriel Evans and Jean
Howard.
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Caruso Jr. Sings,
Double Denied

oLLYWOoD, June L.
Silliest of the rumors to gain cur
rency here was that Enrico
CaruSo, jr. had a voice double for
the ariaS in his Spanish version
Of "The Fortune Teller"
The young Warner star was so
upset that he invited music
critics to hear him sing the same
ariaS in & private concert. This
was held at the home Of his
teacher, Adolpfo de Ia Huerta,
and the guardians Of the public
went away convinced.
It is a true story that the son
Of the great tenor never sang un-
til three years ago. He was born
in Italy. but went to school at
the very American Culver Mill.
tary academy where he played
football and basketball,
During the war he enlisted in
the Italian army and served three
years.
It was not until he was about
80 that De Ia Huerta, former
president Of Mexico, and now q
well known voice teacher, per-
suaded young CaruSo to follow 4
singing career.
He is now described by those
who know him as ambitious but
modest. One Of his most per-
siStent pleas to the Warner
Brothers studio is for his private
Lie not to h. nHhlieiRad
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university grad.
uate with an
engineers de-
gree, S p e a x S
four languages,
has owned a
European i'm
port company,
was purchasing
agent for the
United States
in Spain dur
ing the war,
can talk eco.
nomicS W It'll
professors and
holds q chess
championship 2
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HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June l..
One of the surprising things about
the examination given prospects
for Metro-G oldwyn-Mayer's screen
training school is that beauty is
not at the head Of the require
ments, is not even listed in the
dozen tests applied by the studio
before it decides whether the
applicant is potential star mate
rial.
Oliver Hinsdell, the dramatic
coach of the school. has a list OF
questions he puts before the can
didate is taken on. Sitting down
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the local riding academies where
a polo player took one look at her
horse and said it was his. He had
been trying to find it ever since
he got back from Europe after
leaving it in charge of his man
who decamped with the keep
money and q few other things.
Pert gasped when the owner
told her it was worth $500 but
promptly sold it back to him for
$3.50, which leaves her an hours
ride and $3.50 to boot.
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taken up riding,
went out to a
stable in the
country t h e
other day to
buy a nag. The
man sold her a
horse W hic h
had been left
there over a
year by a man
who disappear
ed without pay.
ing the board
bill. Pert got it
for $50.
Her first ride
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Harms Becomes Man
On Flying Trapeze

Unlike most persons in this dis
turbing year. 1884, Roscoe Harms
can legitimately boast that his az
fairs are on the rise-in fact,
very much on the UP and up.
This comedian, in the few weeks
he has been working in "Shoot
the Works." has been a high
trapese performer twioe and once
q f1agnola- SltEen
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much annoyed
at stories that
he refused to
return to Cali,
fornia without
Gertrude Law
renee.
Also at the
many innuendoS
r e 6 q I'd / n 9
the differences
in their ages.
II you can be-
lieVe the B e
s uric eS, Ger
trude was mar
ried and had her
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HOT 8: !: /: From,
HOLLYWOOD!

HOLLYWOOD, Calif June Hello. gang Of the movie
village shoppers sn around the barber shop at
MetroGoldwyn Mayer. Jim Adamson the head razorand
cssorman for the past 10 years. got to talking ou know
how BARRIERS like to chatter or don't youD
Well, anyway, Jim unreeing lot Of film town his
ory-hose fond yesterdays those echoes Of the past.
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screen test. The tests were called
excellent by studio executives, and
Miss Pinchot was next urged to
sign the picture contract.
She will arrive in Los Angeles
for her first screen role on Octo-
Der /.
Reinhardt, Germany's outstand-
ing stage producer, discovered"
Miss Pinchot on a boat bound from
Germany to America and was
struck by her charm and beauty.
She has since appeared under his
direction in several plays. She has
also been seen in a series Of plays
staged in Germany and in a roper.
toire Of plays, presented in Ger
man, in New York. Among these
were "Danton" and Midsummer
Nights Dream" For the last year
she has been playing in stock un-
der the direction of George Abbott.
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Gertrude Lawrence baby when she
was IT. Actually, they insist, she
is only three years older than
Doug, j.. And they ara willing to
GaRO> Won nigth danoRs
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Pert Is a Clever
loss Trader

HOLLYWOOD, June Heres
one sof those things that happen
only to Hollywood folk-and other
people. Pert Kelton. who has
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Doug dndGertrude
Almost Same Age

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June /.
London friends Of Douglas Fair
banks, jr., report the actor very
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02
Comic PendIetonI Is
University Grad

HOLLYWOOD, June did
you know that Nat Pendleton,
who plays dumb comics, Is a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-02

OCOCC NnOWS NUeS-
Randolph Scott Is one of the
best billiard PLAYERS in the motion
ApictlnB Cn1nnN
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Calling for Vigilance
Police and the Budget

Westinghouse disturbed and indignant because of
crime conditions in the city They giving their
feelings many ways probably the most spectacular which
is the formation of vigilance committees.
We have suggestion that might be useful to these
mittees.
THAT IS THAT THEY TAKE FEW MINUTES OFF
from BEING v1G1LANT ONE OF THESE DAYS AND
VISIT THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET WHICH HAS RE-
GENTLY BEEN GOING OVER THE ESTIMATES OF THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
When they get to the bureau they their vigilance
and probably will of the of the conditions
upon which they spying.
They will find that despite large increase in the citys
population and the increasing demands being made upon the
Police Department there very little consideration being
given to increasing the funds with which the department
operates.
They will that the estimates of Major Ernest Brown
chief Of police cut by about three thousand dollars be-
fore they reached the bureau
And they will that the Federal officials of the bureau
are preparing to tell the taxpayers of the District
they will not be permitted to spend police
protection as was approved by the District Commissioners
A LITTLE VIGILANCE AT THE BUREAU OF THE
BUDGET WILL COME IN HANDY RIGHT NOW
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the first, and "five" from the
god Wooden, or Thor, or But
tercup, and SO forth, and so
FORTH, but they have never
been able to figure out where
the word three" came from.
A little fellow from the Uni
versity Of Welt discovered it.
He doesn't speak English him.
self, but he is awfully inter-
ested in people who do. It was
during one of these periods Il
should have told you that he
has periods when he looks up
Words that he found out about
the word "three." He was look
ing UP the word 'tree," and
not speaking English we'll, he
thought that it was pronounced
"three." You can see how that
might very well be-.
The word "three" comes to
us direct from the French, COL
lect. The original word was
(and still isl tri. which means
a sorting, or, as in card-playing.
a deal. Thus, one would say:
"Give me a tri," or How is
your trip, meaning "Give me
a DEAL" or How is your deal?'
If one were really speaking in
French, Of course, all the other
words in the sentence would be
French, too: ii. e., "Donnez-moi
l. I'm tri," or "Votre tri-ca
marche?"
Just how the word "tri' got
into the French language is a
mystery which occupies prac-
tically nobody's attention at the
moment. It is supposed to have
come from the Creole patois of
New orleans, and was used to
signify hurry, or lethargy. The
old form of the word was "blo,"
which gradually was shortened
into "tri." Later, the whole word
was dropped from the language
by a rising vote.
The Normans brought the
word into England just before
the Norman conquest. In their
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Democratic fold.
There were two men, however,
who lent their aid to the Sem
ate Democrats and to these
men the victors owe their
thanks.
The contributors were one
Bernard M. Baruch and Ira
Nelson Morris, Of Chicago, close
friend of Senator James Hamil-
ton Lewis, of Illinois.
Baruch has been a power be.
hind the scenes for gears and
in this depression moment
stepped forth again to unlooSe
the purse strings.
Not that he took the lid off
the Golfers entirely. He just
lO0Sed them and let a stream
Of silver through to the needy
and the funds went in all di-
rectiOnS over the country.
1t is not as though he paid
for the campaign or that Nor
ris did.
Despite the fact that they
were the two great contributors,
one good Democrat fastened to
say of them:
Actually the amount they
raised was so negligible that we
hate to mention it."
J. HoDGrd Audrey, Uho is in
charge these days OF the ad-
nliniStrGtion OF Title 2 of the
Federal housing act down at
the Housing Administration,
certainly has a Keen insight
into its workings.
The other eve he summoned
his corps of publicity experts
(and that is comprised of quite
a few folk) to put out a docu-
ment containing instructions rs
to the administration of Title 2.
Mr.. Audrey stayed around. He
wanted to see that the instruc-
tionS were accurate in every
detail.
He wanted each and every
comma in its proper place, the
proper words used and the SEN
fences and paragraphs correct.
No worker was to go home until
the document had been completed
and approved.
At last, Mr.. Audrey gave his
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Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

one who waited for death in
the night. Crying-Shuddering
laughing
\ And suddenly forgetting
both snivels and grins. For
something was happening! Deep
down. inside. something was
starting.
1 wasn't alone any more! I
wasn't lost in my own dark
ness, rasslin' with my own
little crouch.
I was back with the "ten
millions'-I was one of them
How is it you put it, Mark,
as you write of them-of that
domain where "lovers meet,
husbands cheat, and wives bleat
the domain of tips, sips,
gyps, pips, lips and hips.
prize fleas, knock knees, book
shops, hook shops, elbow
benders, gossip vendors"
They're your world, lad
yOuIO dAlN AAAAICs
And you tell of them in
Broadway patter with a Broad
way sheer.
But all the time you're hand.
ing out the hard stuff and the
hot stuff, you're giving us the
HEART stuff too-the gentle
ness and decency, the pity and
beauty, the courage and kind
ness that binds us all together
even when the bright lights
go dark.
BIGGER JOB
Just giving us Broadway's
glitter-says YOU.
But you've done a bigger job
than that.
You've brought us together
again-made us feel that we're
"all of a piece"-and thank
God that we are!
AND THAT, AS I SEE TT,
IS ABOUT THE BEST TURN
ONE HUMAN CAN DO FOR
HIS TRIBE IN THESE MAD
MUDDLED DAYS.
So it's jake about the red
nose, son. 1t was worth it all
to find the gang aain. And
here's hopin you do the same
by the rest of them!
ELSIE.
copyright, 1894, by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
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Will We Swallow the Bait?
We Usually Do

The japanese who know what they want and usually get it.
tell the United States that they press their demand for
naval parity provided agree let them have later
Hitherto they have insisted that they have it right
away.
We suppose that amateur statesmen headed by super
amateur Of them al-Norman Davis-w swallow the bait
Then shall find ourselves, few years hence tied up
hard and fast treaty and unable build the kind Navy
need
The to all these bland proposals ought to be NO.
thanks
In spite Of depression outbuld anybody wish
and the money spent would be wasted the
billions shoveed out by the Brain Trusters have BEEN
It would put labor to work and would make this country
safe from foreign aggression.
Both laudable aims than paying for
raising hogs cattlemen for killing their cattle
But few Americans will expect their Government look
e that way
When bargaining with other countries
uuestions-and other questionswe have uniformly
the greatest sucker nation in the world
There little to think that we II spoil that unique
record this time is one distinction that almost
always COUNT on