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The Washington times., 1934-09-06
Ann Harding as a Sacrificing
Heroine in The Fountain
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

The blonde Ann Harding seems
to be always around when stories
crop out about self-sacrificing,
love suffering, noble women. She
gets another one of those mourn
full roles in the movie, "The Foun-
tain" made from the best seller
novel by Charles Morgan.
To one who has always liked
patrician Ann Harding this critic
must confess that she appears to
lack the necessary quality to well
tears. Her plight in "The Foun-
tain" and just recently in "Vergie
Winters" projected a tormented
soul who deserved mite of SYM
pathy but somehow the movement
towards the handkerchief never
developed. And I cry easily.
Inclined to Words
Perhaps the fault of 1.-THE
Fountain" is the fact that it is
very, very wordy and never trans
poses these long exchanges of
dialogue into dramatic action.
Without the background provided
by reading the book I can imagine
that the novel was filled with long
and tender literary passages that
held a romantic interest. In the
screen version Director John
Cromwe and Jane Murfin'S
adaptation fail to conjure this
romantic appeal and the grip that
the author unquestionably must
have conceived.
About the story Of the new
picture on the RKO Keith screen
Julie, wife of a German officer
fighting at the front, is interned
in a Holland castle. To this
neutral retreat they bring a
group of English prisoners,
among them Captain Alison, an
old flame of jules They meet
and their old love is rekindled
while she plays soft passages on
the piano and he reciteS poetry
Their peace Of mind Is disturbed
when news comes that jules
husband has been seriously
wounded and will soon be in
Valided home. Husband, wife
and lover. It is q familiar theme
worked out rather effectively with
the husband coming to a real
ization that his shattered health
stands in the way of complete
happiness for Julie. So he con.
veniently fades out for . happy
ending.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
No More Ladies Returns To
New York; Due Here Oct. I

Aance of the cast included Bradley
Cass, Roy Gordon, Boyd Davis,
John Bramall, Ann Dere and 1Sa'
bel Delehanty.
mo More Ladies" concerns it
self with the tale of two young,
personable people of the smalt t
set who decide to venture into mar
riage, and who having done so be-
come victims of the usual ex,
marital complications. A. E.
Thomas, a seasoned and brilliant
dramatist, manages, however, to
keep his story going at a furious
pace, studding it with swift lines
and several characters who pro.
vide more than their share of
comic relief.
Rehearsals were conducted by
Peter Davis and the finishing
touches were supplied by Harry
Wagstaff Gribble, who staged the
original production. Watson Bar
rats settings were provocative of
more than one appreciative MUIR
muir during the performance.
Mr.. Thomas, the author, could
not be present as he is in London
supervising the staging of the
British production.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06

mo More Ladies'" the A. E.
Thomas comedy that delighted
playgoers the better part of last
season, resumed its run at the
Morosco Theater with q matinee
performance Monday, September
3, after q lay-off during the hot
weather. The engagement is linn
tied to four weeks, as mo More
Ladies" on october / begins in
Washington a tour under the aus
pices of the American Theater So
ciety.
Mary Sargent handled the role
of Fanny Townsend, the grand
old lady of the play, with a stac-
cato brilliance that set the part
off to its best advantage. Miss
Sargent appeared in this part sew
eral times last season and more
recently played the role in West
Falmouth.
Walter Pidgeon and Daphne
Warren Wilson as the young
modern couple who essay marriage
against their own cynical good
judgment played with a deft,
fluent command.
Other newcomers were Nicholas
Joy as The Earl of Moulton !;
Robert Loves as James Salston
and Betty Lincley as Diana. Mar.
celia Swanson was seen in the role
she created last year. The bal
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
Recital
Set OniQht

Several lovely ensemble mum
bers with Marian Chace as the
central figure will be offered by
the dance group under her direc'
tion Thursday evening at 8
o'clock in the National Sylvan
Theater at the Washington Monu-
ment, preceded by a half hour
Of instrumental music by the
U. S. Marine Band, beginning
promptly at 1880 to be conducted
by Second Leader Arthur S.
Witcomb.
The concert is sponsored by
the summer festival committee
of the Community Center Depart
ment and the Office Of National
Capital Parks.
Miss Chace and the members
Of the senior group will present
Hender'S Zine Sommernacht am
Mer," and, assisted by Betty
Gray, Helen Hoyem, Katya Mirkin
and Ruth Raine, Miss Chace will
present Schumann's Soaring" as
the finale of the program, which
will include a wide variety Of
solo and ensemble numbers Gre
ated by Miss Chace, or adapted
from dance creations by Ruth st.
Denis, by Miss Chace and Lester
Shafer.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
OperettoMoVie
In Production

After a weeks interlude in the
production of the Hal Roach
M-G-M feature, Babes in Toy
land" resulting from a leg injury
suffered by Stan Laurel, who,
with Oliver Hardy. is starred in
the picture, filming of the Victor
Herbert opus was resumed Mon.
day, with the sad-faced comic
entirely recovered from the acci-
dent.
Declared to be the most pre-.
tentious production of its type to
be attempted in the film capital,
in recent years, the perturbation
Of the famed operetta will bring
to the screen host Of glorious
voices to interpret the various
numbers which made BABES in
Toyland" an immortal stage pres
entation
Likewise, it will serve to intro.
duce Laurel and Hardy in myth.
ical characterizations and sans
the derby hats that have trade.
marked them in so many of
their fun films. 1t is anticipated
that the feature will be released
prior to the holiday season.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06

p1dACS WIFI q UuASA VI MUS"
Grace Bradley, the vampish
lady, copped the femme lead in
"The Code of the west" one OF
those Zane Grey horse operas.
Jackie Coogan is slated for a
featured role, and now Toby Wing,
who seems to be the MATCH for
Jackie's torch, is bothering all the
Paramount exec for role oppo'
site him. And, what's more, her
persistence is apt to land it for
her Ronald Colman was the "tall
and handsome" attraction at Ar
rowhead Springs over the week
end. And, of course, Rena Borzage
and her mob of madcaps had the
time of their lives with barbecues.
Badminton and bathing!..
A bit Of off.stage stuff by
Jesse M. Harriss:
The scenario writer rushed up
to the critic In q theater lobby,
screaming:
GOOD heavens! My 3-year-
old son has torn up my last
script"
Remarkable" said the critic,
"that a child Of that age knows
how to read!"
Wanderings around Hollywood
.. Funny, but Jack Yellen had
just rented a Beverly Hills palace
and sent for his family to join
him. No sooner said than Fox
ordered him back to New York to
work with George White on the
next Scandals" film $50 there's
to be another one of thoseD-and
Jack is so UPSET he doesn't
know which way to turn, or how
to explain to his family.
Mary Treen is "doubling"-by
days she's in a new Warner film,
and by night at the Hollywood
Theater for a play, Man of
Ideas" .Minna Gombell is the
latest to get an offer from the
British film producers which would
take her boating it in october. .
Rosita Moreno Is back from Santa
Barbara, where che rested for
weeks after that appendix dis
miSSal.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
Gilbert to London

Gilbert to London
John Gilbert is going to Lon
don to star in a feature. And
regular readers of the movie
columns can make their own de-
ductionS about this momentouS
news. Sam Rubin, who used to
write publicity for Loew's F Street
houses postcards from Cairo,
Egypt, which shows how some
folks get around. There is talk
that Arthur Godfrey will be on
Loew's Fox Theater anniversary
bill the week Of September 81.
Although the Carter Barron bull
letin merely announces that there
will be a bangup show that week,
having in mind that Dick Powell
will be dragging the flappers into
the Earle that particular seven
day session. Claude Grenecker
sends word that 'No More Ladies"
has been booked to open at the
National Theater the week OF
October /. It will be the first
subscription play of the Ameri,
can Theater Society and will
probably open the regular E
Street season.
Irish Protest
canon de Valera, president Of
the Irish Free State, states that
his government will not be re-
sponsible for several Of the plays
by Synge and O'Casey which the
Abbey Theater Players will pre-
sent on their American tour, the
itinerary including a January
date in Washington. There have
been protests, the dispatch re.
ports, from Irish citizens Of
America who object to the spirit
of these plays. Away back in
1914 the Celts of Boston called
out the cops for "Playboy Of the
Western World" and the opposi-
ton in New York was for 'The
Whited Haired Boy. But those
who find offenSe also hamper
the finest repertoire organization
in the civilized world and one
that reflects the highest credit
on Erin and its appreciation Of
the cultured arts.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
Mary Pickford Is for National
Academy Of Drama With
Headquarters Here
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Thursday reflections and opnons One of the local boot
legge-yes they still hriveooked that $4,000 attend
at the Marty Gallagher fight and Observed Now know
why they left those so tickets in doorway and why paid
for them Mary Pickford in New York opnes for inter-
viewers that would be nice she and Eva LIE Gaene could
open national academy of dramatic art with headquarters in
Washington Yes it would be nice and especially nice
Mary could dreaming on nave Katharine Cornell May Rob
son. George Ariss and Walter Hampden its board of d
But little afraid that America onetime sweet
heart little bewdered because the Broadway reporters
finding it longer news failed to ask her one question
The Washington times., 1934-09-06

Marian Mansfield, the local
radio birdie, who warbled her
self q Ia Bing Crosby (she was
billed as the female Bing) into
a Paramount contract, now gets
the big thrill Of her Nfe-a sing
ing roll opposite Bing in Lady
Beware" (tho new cleanup cap
tiOn for "SailOr Beware")...
Boulevard buzzings. Bud Ernst
is back from seeing Broadway
mazdaS flicker and Molly O'Day's
glad. Jack Durant and Frank
Mitchell had their Fox option
picked up-are they happy!. I. i.
Billy Glason, youngest old-timer
Of the nearly-forgotten vaudeville
days, has teamed up with Paula
Smith, one of Hollywood'S own,
auditioned for big national ra-
dio hook-up, and things are look-
ing ROSY!. Miriam Hopkins
salary was too much for Jock
Whitney's Beck Sharp" techni.
color special, so there's a deal on
to borrow Myrna 10y from MGM.
odds and dS-With hot
flashes. It's all so silly, this re-
ported romance between Louise
Latimer and Peter Arno. The
chap in Louise'S life would really
SURPRISE you-if you knew. &.
Cupid is shooting arrows at Vic
Orsatti and Cecilia Parker!..
Roger Marchetti tossed off a
nifty cocktail party for Peggy
Gottler Thursday. Ona Brown, as
gay as ever; Kay Parker, Carl
BriSson, as gallant as ever; B. P.
Schulberg without Sylvia Sid.
ney-which IS newsD Nita Mar
tin and many others made it quite
gay. Like Corinne Griffith and
Walter Morosco since separating,
Alan Crosland and Natalie Moor
head have been doing the jolly
places together.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06

Ann Harding plays her love
scenes with sensitive restraint
and they are made warm, mov-
ing and dignified by the much
improved Brian Ahearne, an Eng
lish actor who appeared to have
beauty fright which froze him stiff
when first observed as the Mar
lene Dietrich leading man. Paul
Lukas does one of his excep-
tionally fine chores as the self.
effacing husband. The oth,r
very important role is beautifully
acted by Jean Hersholt.
The Pathe news reel has an
interesting forum on the textile
strike and Mickey Mouse turns
Gulliver'S Travels into a comedy
cartoon.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
''Men In White'

Sidney Kingsley, author Of the
Pulitzer prize play, Men in
White" has signed a contract to
write for Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
The playwright arrived on the
West Coast yesterday and his first
assignment is to be announced
shortly. Men in White" which
ran all of last season at the Broad
hurst Theater, was subsequently
brought to the screen by Metro
GoldWyn- -Mayer.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
on Broadway

Reopening of the Hollywood
theater, Broadway at Fifty.first
Street, is being planned by War
ner-First National, which will pre-
sent members of its Coast studio
stock company in plays.
idea is understood to be to
allow players to keep in touch
with direct audience reaction and
get the personal feeling" of the
audience.
AL Jolson and Ruby Keeler
may appear in the initial produc-
ton. Tentative plan is to have
a 20-week season, with shows
changing every two weeks. The
Hollywood is now being redeco-
rated,
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
HUT :: 3 3: From
HOLLYWOOD!
By JIMMY STARR

HOLLYWOOD, CAL, Sept 6.-Helo Sylvia Sidney's been
dancing the Miramar-and if you knew with whom you
STILL say she ALONE. cause she's set for the lead
in "The Sea Girl The RKO film factory ordered Seff
Duna stay the beach and get Reggie Denny
carrying big correspondence in miniature air.
nth hn,rn Of
The Washington times., 1934-09-06

est box office week for him In
the history of the National Play
ers. Audiences like the home
spun sweety-sweety stuff if it
happens to be we'll done. Those
who doubt it can check up on
Little Women" which will prob
ably be 1934s winner as the
best movie of the year.
Invitation Opening
Maynard Madden, manager Of
the Warner Brothers Central
Theater is a pappy again. The
popularity test between Shirley
Temple and David Jack Holt be-
ing conducted by Loew's Fox
Theater showed today 1928 for
the little girl and 1921 for the
boy star. Baby LIE Roy has pett.
toned for a recount, and asks
why he was not nominated. -.
Carter Barron busted off the in
vitation list for "The World Moves
On Friday night, and will have
Cabinet members, Government Of
ficials, diplomats and Congress
Sional guests in the reserved Sec
ton. Marcus Loew was five years
dead yesterday and the executives
of his enterprises paid their an
nual visit to his grave. Bing
Crosby's picture will pass $40, 900
at the Earle, which makes the
crooner the weeks film champion.
The Washington times., 1934-09-06
Mrs. Wigs Prospers

Some of the coast reviewers ex-
press their doubts about how the
nation will accept. Mrs. Wigs of
the Cabbage Patch" with Pauline
Lord as its featured star and
Zasu Pitts as the Hollywood
name expected to sell the Para
mount picture. Well, Steve Coch-
ran down at the National Thea
ter will tell you audiences will
buy this story. It did the great
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-25
A Revival of Building.
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch.)

The terrific stump suffered by the construction industry in the last five years offers a glimpse of how devastating the depression has been, and points out at the same time how essential it's revival is with respect to the country's economic recovery.
 The slump in building may be accounted a blessing by some observers. in view of the supposed rebuilding" of America In respects, it is true that country is over-but We have too many hotels, too many sumptuous apartments, per- haps too many factories, at least until mass buying power is considerably stimulated We do not, how ever have too many homes for persons of moderate income
 Allied to the construction field the matters of grade crossing elimination and flood control in both of which there remains vast deal to be done. Together they would need thousands of men and billions of dollars before the tasks are finished. The removal of the countrys 2100O0 grade cross ings alone would cost $10,OOOOOO00O and mean thousands of jobs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-25
TAMMANY HALL BEGINS
 REHABILITATION.

When the Executive Committee of Tammany Hall recently dethroned John F. Curry from his position as Chief of the Ha it took the flrst ana most essential step toward restoring itself to pupnc esteem and political power in New York City. Under Curry it went doyn to one of it's most inglorious defeats last November, after series of blows that began with the resignation of Mayor Jimmy Walker under fire for alleged graft and misconduct in office Its prestige was shaken by the Seabury Investigation that led to Walkers downfall and that of many lesser figures in the municipal gov ernment.
 Boss" Curry ruled the Hall for five years. His reign began in 1929 when Judge George w. Olvany, one of the ceanest and finest leaders the Hall ever had resigned because, it was said, he could not stomach the Curry school of politics which was becoming and more dominant in Tammany. With the ascension of Curry, the organization turned it's back on the advice of such leaders as ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith, Surrogate Foley, George Gordon Battle and Judge Olvany. With each succeeding year it became bolder in it's defy to decent govern men It forget the lessons of the Tweed and Croker exposes and in the end history repeated itself in it's overthrow.
 AS it has done in the past Tammany will again come into power in New York City. But it will not be under the guidance of such leaders as Curry It must seek it's leadership from men like Mir Smith if it is to restore itself in the eyes of the public not only in New York but in the nation at large. Mir Smith would make great chief for the organization. No step it could take would advance it's more quickly or further It would be a great thing for Tammany if it could persuade him to accept the post, and an even greater achievement for the city itself.
 While Tammany under Curry has been consist ently fought for many months by many of the metropolitan newspapers, to none is credit due more for his downfall than the New York Word-Tele- gram That progressive journal started vigorous attack on Curry two years ago and in many power ful editorials directed against his policies declared "Crrryism Must Col" before New Workers could be content. It can very properly be proud of the public service it has rendered in this case, as in number of others.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-25
c War for Armament Makers.
Daily Journal of Commerce. seattle.l


 The March issue of Fortune contained one of the most pointed atices that has yet appeared in America dealing with European armament makers and their system of making and prolonging war. It attempts to show that the armament people, not the communists, the original and dyed-in- the-wool internatonasts.
 The article makes the dealers in war material linternatonasts, but in the words of the New Republic, "nternationalists in the same sense that carrion birds internatonasts. The buzzards gather where the dead thickest it doesn't matter on which side of the trenches.
 At the time wildly patriotic America send ing it's and youth to Europe's hell spots, Germans taking French money for German war supplies which France needed. France was taking German money for equipment which the Germans had to have All that soldiers both sides should die by the million and the steel and chemical industries declare extra profits! Here some instances of World War com merce" mostly taken from the Fortune article
 Germany needed nickel for guns copper for shells, gycerine for high explosives English and French in places of power sympathetically saw to lit that these essential supplies reached Germany in spite of the blockade-else the fighting would have ended too soon.
 Then their friendly enemies, the Germans, paid the favor Barbed wire made in Magdeburg after 1914 exported to France through Switzer land and was strung outside French trenches at Verdun where German soldiers died it in thousands.
 German magnetoes were used in late French army trucks. Krupp detonators, exported through Holland, were used in the shells that rained death on German lines.
 Viewing these and other revelations, it is prob ably in wrong to say that the dead in the World War died in vain. But the armament interna- tionalists would not agree It cost about $25,000 to kill soldier in that
 The important point says Fortune, lis that every time burst shell fragment finds it's way into the body of in the front line, great part of the $25,000, much of it profit, finds it's way into the pockets of the armament maker" Thus the flourished, thus the Krupps flour shed, thus the British and French armament makers became the richest men in Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-25
BONDS AS A BAROMETER.

General business recovery IS like the slow incom- higher. In the progress made there is one spec tacular feature. That is the advance in the price of bonds.
 Before the middle of last year the bond situation was a nightmare. Bankers who had bonds which had always been as good as gold saw their prices slip and fall It necessary to write them down and down For more than six months now the trend has been the other way. The rise in municipal bonds has been unprecedented Where there was doubt and uncertainty, worse; where there was fear, is confidence
 The tremendous wealth of the country is shown by the eagerness with which bonds are snapped up by the investing public The present demand exceeds the supply. Every days stock exchange reports, regardless of what stocks do, show bonds stronger. There has been an almost complete cessation of attractive corporate stock offerings. So money, which ordinarily would have found in- vestment in that direction, has gone into bonds. Yet the main for the tremendous increase in the price of bonds, in some cases as much as 100 per cent in six months, is that we have a happier outlook. In 1882 all of us were down in the depths. Prices reflected mental attitude. They sunk low to be ridiculous We lost all sense of true values exactly still is the case in real estate in most localities
 Now have recovered the gloom which sur rounded is being disspated and the skies are clearing. Bonds as barometer of business show the rise from very stormy" to flair and pleasant. It will be long now, regardless of what happens to the Securities Act, about which much pro- paganda has been circulated, and which probably ought to be amended in respects, before money flows freely into industrial investment, the very heart of recovery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-25
Dollars Still Dollars.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)


 John c. Calhoun, century ago. proposed in a speech in the Senate to "unbank the banks" The country full of wildcat banks whose issues of paper currency often were worth nothing
 Senator Calhouns idea-he was bitterly op- posed to President Jackson was to extend the charter of the Bank of the United States to twelve years. Its issues were good Anywhere in the Union or abroad its bills were worth 100 cents on the dollar By giving the country the assurance of the continuance of the big bank with its sound cur rency the wildcat institutions would be put out of existence, or, as he expressed it, would be "un- banked"
 It was a fine phrase Men still debate the wisdom of President Jackson in destroying the bank. But, in the end after turmoil and trouble the country achieved sound currency.
 Our recent banking troubles were far more acute and distressing thon those of hundred years ago. yet dollar bill still dollar bill It might have been issued by closed national bank but it was still perfectly good. We may have devaued the dollar in terms of gold, but in terms of every day use the dollar is good gold.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-25

as of the end of the January-March quarter This improvement naturally was not cause for astonish ment since the first quarter of 1883 witnessed the bank debacle that ended in the closure of all banks by President Roosevelt
 Another interesting figure shown in the analysis is that resources 1926 per cent of deposits. In the normal year of 1926 the ratio of resources to deposits was 1907. Banks are shown to be hold ing higher percentage of Government bonds. The percentage of deposits in Government securities is stated to be l98.