davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-06-17
BROADCASTERS SAILING
Mrs. Railing and H. v. Kalten'
born Given. Engagements.

Going to Europe this Summer to do
some American style" broadcasting
there are at least two notables OF
American radio. Mrs. Curtis B.
Railing, known for her writings and
interpretations of Negro life in her
native South Carolina and heard in
various roles on N. B. c.. sailed last
week to I'LL an engagement with the
British Broadcasting Corporation. She
will do sketches Of Southern life on
the British network, taking to London
several students of her dramatic
school.
H. v. Kaltenborn, the Columbia
commentator, will lead group Of
Americans on Q visit to Russia, sail
ing June 20.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
National Guard Camp
Training Orders Issued
Most of Units Will Go to Camp Richie at
Cascade, Md. Coast Artillery to
Have Road March,

is commanding officer Of the unit,
First Lieut.. Harry L. Keaton is sup
ply and mess oficer, Second Lieut..
Herman B. Hubbard, ordnance Of
ficer, and Second Lieut.. Beutz r.
Howard, jr., Is personnel officer and
in charge Of athletics.
This company, which is part Of
the 29th Division, recently received
one of the highest ratings in the
Federal armory inspection.
Corpl. George c. Prentiss has been
ordered reduced to the grade of pri-
vate in the Headquarters Detachment
and Combat Train, 260th Coast Ar
tillery.
Pvt. (First Glass; Park F. Ander-
son has been ordered promoted to
sergeant and Pvt. (First Glass; VIII
liam F. Edmonds to corporal in the
Headquarters Detachment and Com
bat Train, 260th Coast Artillery.
Corpl. Carson NJ Newell has been
promoted to sergeant in Battery A,
260th Coast Artillery.
In Company D, 12lst Engineers,
Pvt. Irving D. Oliff has been ordered
promoted to corporal, and Corpl. Vim
cent I. Sharpe has been ordered re-
duced to private in the same COM
mand.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
Meetings This Week.

Monday-Vincent B. Costello
Post Drum and Bugle Corps, Ma
tional Guard Armory, 8 pm.
Quentin Roosevelt Post, No. IL,
Potomac Boat Club House, 8 pm.
Lincoln Post, No. IT, Riggs Bank
Building, 14th street and Park
road, 8 pm.
Tuesday-Vincent B. Costello
Post, No. Is, Board Room, Dis
trict Building, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1934-06-17

The Supreme Temple, Daughters of
the Nile, at the recent national con-
vention held in San Diego, Calf.
elected Mrs. Florence K. Lee of 2809
Chesterfield place as Supreme Princess
Badoura, which leads to the Supreme
Queens chair.
When Samla Temple, No. 81. was
instituted in Washington five years
ago she was given the honor of going
in among charter members as Princess
TirZah and rose to the office of queen
OF that temple. She Is also an officer
of Washington Centennial Chapter,
o. E. S., and a member of the Ladies'
Oriental Shrine. being a past high
priestess of Su zu Court, No. 81, of
that order in Washington.
The national convention will be
held here in 1887.
Evening star., 1934-06-17

Corpl. Carson NJ Newell has been
promoted TO sergeant in Battery A,
260th Coast Artillery.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Cue and Curtain Play.

CUE AND CURTAIN DRAMATIC
CLUB of George Washington Uni
versity, will present on March ] and
at $50 pm. at the Wardman Park
Theater Three Cornered Moon" This
Is the organizations second produc-
ton of the season.
Three Cornered Moon" finds the
organization again presenting q fast
modern comedy with a bid for equal
success. The comedy of a nutty
Brooklyn family was written by Ger
Tude Tonkonogy, and was one Of the
best of last season on Broadway. It
later made happy motion picture fare,
as presented here in October.
Ruth Molyneaux, Adele Gusack and
Karl Gay, all stars Of former Cue and
Curtain shows, play the leading roles.
Others in the cast are Walter Pick,
Joe Danzansky, Edgar Saugstad,
Leonard Stevens, Ann Beach and
Elizabeth Orth. Miss Constance Con-
nor Brown, director Of dramatics at
George Washington, Is directing.
The production department Of the
organization, under the direction Of
Newell Lusby and Karl Gay, is work
ing daily on the set, which will be a
replica Of that used in the original
production.
The business staff Is under the d.
rection Of Floyd Sparks.
Evening star., 1934-02-25

ments, and has Colbert ever grinned
with more becoming honesty?
The practice of loaning out players
has recently helped many a minor
company into becoming a major one.
But is it also perhaps helping to pro-
mote major company into a minor
one2
There Is a certain flavor Of COM
pany ownership which has gone on
for years. You can never think of
Gary Cooper as being anything but
a Paramount star Nor does Jean
Harlow mean anything except straight
Metro Goldwyn Mayer. You will
probably never see Richard Barthele-
mess outside of a Warner lot, and
you know for certainty that Kath-
crime Hepburn means 100 per cent
R-K-O.
If these good players are allowed
to roam beyond their domains, If
they begin to see that fortune favors
them in strange parts, will they not
eventually seek a permanent holding
there and forget the studio that
groomed them up to certain point
and then allowed them to wither?
There is a certain lassitude that
creeps over studios sometimes Of which
they apparently are not aware. When
they have clinched good player they
set him down as A, or c, and then
keep him nicely parked in the roles
for which they originally hired him.
Little experimenting is done - little
imagination is used. Mr.. x is Mr.. x,
say they, and we'll let him 60 at that.
This was brought to our attention
in Hollywood when Ernst Lubitsch
said to us: "Now take the case Of Gary
Cooper. Cooper is a good actor. But
nobody knows it. Why? Because they
have let him alone. Most directors
haven't taken any trouble with him.
He's big and tall and handsome, and
that's enough. That boys got more
stuff than any one dreams. Some day
some one will come along and get it
out of him. They have been lazy with
him, that's all"
This laziness in the matter of cast
ing is something that the Columbia
company evidently is not suffering
from. They had a good story, two
good parts-they wanted Gable and
Colbert and they got them. The re-
suit? A good picture. Now Para
mount and M-G-M had better watch
their step, or they'll have hard time
keeping the boys down on the farm.
Evening star., 1934-02-25

act curtain Of frying at the stake is
out"
Inclined to Stay Home.
Earl Carroll and his Murder at
the Vanities" troupe don't think much
of the idea of completing their ar
rangementS for appearing in London,
Paris and European centers after
their Hollywood run Is finished.
CogniZant of the state Of affairs,
the local resort owners have been
holding meetings to try and secure
this Stay-at-home patronage for them
selves. Gay colorful booklets advising
OF the charms of the homeland are
finding their way around the studios
There are many places close by not
yet visited by the movie great. The
rate of exchange had merely made the
European trip home alluring for our
cinemaites before guns began splitting.
To travel in year when your dol
lar Is worth only a percentage of its
value yesterday, merely adds a FLIP
to the cinema actors luxurious
appetite.
Ye actor and actress Of big income
doesn't mind a nick in the purse.
not at all. But nick In the neck
perhaps. .ah, that's another thing!
(Copyright 1894 BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. nc)
Evening star., 1934-02-25

t01 4h0ok bOt ouoPCSt 44Olx4 tA1C
above that 1.-THE Shining Hour" is
but lesson in psychology, unrelieved
by stirring examples. Although its
author Is more concerned with anal
ogies than he Is with emotion, he fuses
the two with an easy and unostenta-
tious skill in play that should excite
the tepid showgoer as well as the
alert. A lovely lady miss Adrianne
Allen), having lost her husband Gray
mond Massey to her sister-in-law
miss Gladys Cooper, walks calmly
out into the barnyard and goes to
her death in buring cow-pyre, which,
I hope, Is Yorkshire for stable"
There Is no stacy fuss or bluster about
this catastrophe. You wouldn't know
that it had happened did not Derek
Williams, acting as brash rural
playboy, tells you Of 1t in scene in
which every word and every sob
sounds the right theater note Of agony
Later, Mr.. Massey, haunted and hys-
terical, slams the tea dishes upon the
floor and in an honest delirium curses
his dead wife for her self-sacrifice,
afterward apologizing to her for his
explicable frenzies. What more can
the dramas greedy gods desire than
such apetizing side-dishes as these?
Miss Cooper, who has held herself
too long aloof from these pagan
shores, is in THE Shining Hour" q
strange beauty, half Dutch, half Eng
lish, married casually to stolid
British empire man, met somewhere
by chance in the fantastic East. He
brings her to Yorkshire, there to settle
down with the COWS, the chickens
and the fertile acres of his family.
A bit bored by and superior to their
provincial dissipations, she is awak-
ened one twilight by Mr.. Massey as
upon his piano his fingers drift idly
in q Rachmaninof concerto. THAT"
she says, If ! do not nisquote her,
rs the happiest music in the world"
At once they begin to gaze furtively
into each others eyes and to prepare
themselves and the spectators for
subtle problems and calamities.
Miss Cooper, in the play, Is a cool
and beautiful markswoman who, see
ing her target, aims at it and hits it.
She proceeds toward her destruction
when she discovers 1t, in the quickest
way, disregarding detours and hurdles.
The eternal triangle, IN her trigo-
nometry, consists Of three straight
lines, all Of them describing and limit
ing directly the cosmic firtations.
"The Shining Hour" as all dramas
do, stops suddenly and leaves you to
worry about what will happen to its
roles after you and your newspaper
have gone to bed. But In its perfect
performance by its English cast at the
Booth Theater it gives evidence that
it is comparatively lasting entertain
ment, full Of viscera and brains. It
tries, more or less efficiently, to ex-
plain the differing honesties" Of its
roles and gracefully to picture a hap
py and tragic Yorkshire farmstead in
the throes Of life and the drama.
The Shining Hour" Is played quietly
and emphaticaIly by distinguished
English actors, who, if may be per-
mitted to say so, are as complete and
satisfactory as any of the drama,
ancient or up-to-date, that I have
seen this season.
WHAT else has occurred, you may
" ask me, since last we spoke with
each other about the Broadway shows.
Evening star., 1934-02-25

ever, seem like two natural, normal
human beings who love each other
very much" and who go about their
business with zest in their first film.
They remind you vaguely OF those
sensational Bushman-Bayne days,
when no chocolate box was complete
without an amorous pose Of the pair
on the cover, and when you could
count on seeing them go right on
making love week in and week out
Not that this will be the case with
Gable and Colbert, but they are well
suited, since they are bruSque, rude,
cordially unkind to each other and
at the same time have that nice,
smoldering affection which is bound
to set fire to both of them before the
final curtain.
Frank Capra deserves to be con-
graduated for having thrown them
together. Heretofore, Mr.. Gable has
done service mostly with blondS,
dropping unexpectedly into the lives
of Jean Harlow and such like, and
-shouldering dark-haired ladies,
because his hair is dark, too. Direc-
tor Capra saw, however, the possibili-
ties of a red-hot siege between Para
mounts ace Cleopatra and one Of
M-G-M's chief lions and startled
most of the film world by snatching
them from their home plates.
Miss Colbert is unquestionably more
expert at promoting love than most
Of her sister sirens, and Gable Is no
slouch at this racket himself. When,
then, they are placed side by side in
an amusing film in which the lines
snort with sarcasm and the situations
reek Of rollicking romance, then you
know that Hollywood has chalked up
something in its favor. ut Hap
pened One Night" may not be a great
film, but it is jolly good one, as our
cousins would say, and 1t revives the
sometimes lost art of romancing in
and out of bus.
X 4
WHAT, now, do the Paramount and
w Metro Goldwyn-M Mayer studios
think Of having their sons and daugh-
ters most successful beyond their own
horizons? Do they feel kindly at the
pleasant fate which has tossed them
roses in an enemy lot? Can they
nurse kindly affections for company
which suddenly reveals qualities in
its borrowed players which apparently
the home folks never saw before?
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Anna Stem s Next.

DOUBEN MAMOULIAN recently ar
N rived in New York to meet Sam
uel Goldwyn and Maxwell Anderson
for conferences on Anna Stems Sec
ond American picture. Anderson has
Just been signed to make a new
transcription of Resurrection" to fol-
low the Mana" that launched Miss
Sten as Hollywood star.
The Resurrection" that GoldWyn,
MamoLian and Anderson are plan
ming as Miss Stems second picture
will differ completely from the earlier
adaptations Of the Tolstoy story. It
will not be the simple love story that
has already found its way to the
screen three times, but a broader
drama of social revolution and pro-
test and the story Of the resurrection
Of a mans soul.
Frederic March will play the role
of Nekludov; Miss Stem as Katusha
has something out OF her own nature
and slavic peasant background.
Goldwyn expects to get "'Resurrec-
ton under way before April 1
and the picture will be released by
United Artists.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
In Colman Film.

CHARLES BUTTERwORTH, noted
comedy star, was today signed
for an important role with Ronald
Colman In Bulldog Drummond
Strikes Back" which Roy Del Ruth
will direct for Joseph M. Schenck and
Daryl zanuck's Twentieth Century
Pictures.
Butterworth will play the role of
Lord Algy in this adaptation of a
new novel by H. c. McNeile, who
also wrote Ronald Colman's previous
Bulldog Drummond" mystery thriller.
The picture, which will be Colman's
first under his new contract with
Twentieth Century, is being adapted
to the screen by Nunnally johnson,
former columnist and magazine hu-
morist, who IS becoming one of the
company's leading script writer's.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Lupe With Durante.

7 UPE VELEz has signed to play op-
- posite her Broadway vis-a-viS,
Jimmy Durante, in Strictly Dyna-
mite" R-K-O Radio informs us, and
the story goes on to remind us that
Lupe and "schnoule" clicked plenty
on Broadway in Strike Me Pink"
and that this betokens something to
look forward to in explosive entertain
ment In the aforesaid Strictly Dyna-
mite" film.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
precautions taken by Pari-
sian fashion designers to pre-
vent copying Of their creations
L are as nothing to those of a


to guard a novel idea.
Where the designer has only one
thing to worry about-clothes-
producer has many and many a more
serious headache besetting him. Not
only costumes, but comedy situations,
sets, songs, dance routines and dance
ideas are as zealously hidden as any
design by Patou.
Take, for instance, the case Of "The
Follies" at Fox Film-a musical pic
ture with a novel idea.
Six months or so ago Will Rogers
thought Of the plot behind the pro-
duction. No one heard Of Rogers
plan, even around the Fox lot, until
the story went into production.
Artists designed the settings secretly.
carefully kept out even employees of
the Fox Film organization.
The same thing happened for cos
TUNES. Chorus girls dressed in the
seclusion Of the women's wardrobe.
then donned specially made capes for
their walk to the stage. Some Of the
secrecy might be laid to the rivalry
between Lew Brown, associate pro-
ducer Of "The Follies," and his one
time teammates of Broadway, Lew
Henderson and B. q. (Buddy) De
Sylvia, both Of whom are working on
other musicals at Fox also. At any
rate, Brown ordered the cloaks, and
when the days shooting was done,
the chorus costumes were locked In
trunks for the night.
Rehearsals for the dances, under
the direction of Sammy Lee, were held
IN log cabin used once as set. The
cabin Is situated In q far corner OF
the huge Fox lot, and only Brown
Lee and the assistant dance directors
were allowed inside. Actual shooting
OF scenes, Of course, was equally as
private.
About the only sequences to leak out
because Of lack of secrecy are those
Evening star., 1934-02-25
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, February "a
N.AN.A).-Summer plans, made
long since and with completed book
ings, are being Cancelled right and
left IN Hollywood.
Our cinema lords and ladies aren't
going over to Europe to be possible
targets in current riots between
royaHsts and rebels, Socialists and
what-not- lists.
They've had papier-mache bricks
falling on them, fake guns booming
at them and plenty Of make-believe
troubles of that sort during the pic
ture year. Therefore the Hollywood
trade is turning its eye elsewhere.
When such headlines as Police
drive back 1000 reds under arms
Machine guns kill 10 in fire on
Paris mob" and "San Franciscan
beaten in Vienna riot flashed across
our local horizon the wou1d-be trav-
elers gathered in knots and compared
notes.
Richard Arlen and Obyna Ralston
through with their original plan. They
sail from these shores as soon as
Come on Marines" is finished. And
they're not at all afraid they can't
handle the situation. That perhaps
arises from the fact that "Dick"
Arlen has played the fearless Marine
so often.
Carole Lombard Cancels.
When Carole Lombard dashed onto
the set one morning all in a dither
with a newspaper waving in her
hand and shouted Get that guy from
the travel bureau for me, I'm cancel
ing my Riviera and Paris sneak and
don't forget It'll"
Every one gasped. when did you
plan to go?"
II forgot It was q secret. Well,
I'm not going now, so it can all be
told. I didn't tell any one because
I wanted rest and, nice as you all
are, we've had year of it. I've given
hospital parties and had the guests
all served cots on which to rest
while dinner was given them on
trays, I've been officially out of town
and officially il-but I want a sus-
tanned vacation without having to
hide from the gay and rested one.
However. I'm not going to dodge
bullets on my holiday and that's
that"
Marlene Dietrich who recently con-
fided in friends that she was scheduled
for a Max Reinhardt release of THE
Scarlet Express" can now be seen
sending and receiving cablegrams
apprising her of conditions over
there. She has just about made up
her mind not to go.
George Raft is another would-be
traveller whose notion of dancing tri-
umphs in London night clubs and
Paris cafes has gone a-glimmering
with the rat-tat-tat of machine guns.
Raft knows his nimble feet are his
stock in trade but he doesn't want to
Use them In getting out Of the way
of steel-jacketed bullets.
Mae West swears nothing will stop
her from going over to Europe. "I'll
60 over there and be the girl Of the
regiment-a sort of modern Joan of
Arc, maybe" says Mae, but that last
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Lahr as "Tarzan." :"

RERT GRANET, one Of the young
est motion picture authors in New
York, is preparing an original story,
"Mr. America" to feature Bert Lahr
for the R-K-O Van Beuren musical
comedies produced by Meyer Davis.
The story is a satire on the annual
bathing beauty contests to select Miss
America, with men instead of girls
competing for the national honor.
Lahr is selected the winner, Is award
ed a motion picture contract and
goes to Hollywood, where he portrays
a "TarZan" character in his first
picture. The story will go into
production at New York studio in
about three weeks.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Filming a "Follies"

requiring the use Of several hundred
wild animals collected from half q
dozen different ZOOS and circuses.
Both Brown and Director Hamilton
MacFadden admitted that they were
stumped when it came to trying to
hide this aggregation. With one Of
the musical numbers photographed
and recorded, the secrecy became
worse. Orders were issued that no
one other than Winfield Sheehan, vice
president and general manager of pro-
duction, as well as producer Of "The
Follies" himself, Director MacFadden
and Lee were to view the scenes as
shot. Primarily, this was because of
the work done by 4-year-old Shirley
Temple. Just what the child does is
a mystery. Whatever it is, she won a
contract for it, and Brown Is pro-
claiming that he's made another child
find"
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Tone Gets Lead.

MADELEINE CARROLL'S first
American production, "The World
Moves On" will have Franchot Tone
In the leading male role
The Fox production will introduce
the British star to cinema audiences
in film that will be as elaborately
produced as was "Cavalcade" It was
written by Reginald Berkeley and will
be directed by John Ford.
Evening star., 1934-02-25

Drake, William Frawley and Gertrude
Michael are also featured.
Completing the program are short
reel subjects, including a color version
of a cartoon song reel, Honeymoon
Hotel" the new issue of the Graham
McNamee news reel and the Earle
orchestral prelude.
1.-THE LAST ROUNDUP" a Para
mount perturbation of Zane
Grey's popular novel 1.-THE Border
Legion" and based on the popular
radio and stage tune "The Last
Roundup" is the current screen
attraction at Warner Bros Metro
poitan Theater.
Randolph Scott, Barbara Fritchie,
newcomer to Hollywood in her first
picture; Monte Blue, Fred Kohler
and Fuzzy knight head the cast. The
story Is a vivid account Of the thiev-
ing border legion
Selected short subjects, including
0pugs and Kisses" a vitaphone short,
starring Charles Jude1s: Borah Mime
witch and his rascals, and the latest
issue of the Paramount sound news
complete the program.
sRY POPULAR demand Blanche CAL
loway, queen of syncopation,' -
and her orchestra returns to the
Howard, headlining the musical re-
Vue. Many of Harlems favorite
stars are in the supporting cast, Of
fering new song hits, comedy and
novelties in dancing. The screen fea-
lures Richard Barthelmess in Mas
sacre."
CLARK GABLE and Claudette COL
bert are teamed together for the
first time In the Columbia picture
ut Happened One Night" currently
showing at R-K-O Keith's. In the
supporting cast, directed by Frank
Capra, who also was responsible for
Lady for Day." are Roscoe Karns
and Walter Connolly. The new Keith
program Is augmented by the second
Amos n Andy animated cartoon and
the Pathe News
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Treated With Disrespect.

SHFS not as young as she used to
be-not by a good many years.
She creaks here and there. She's
venerable.
But hard-hearted property men
cursed her and production officials
glared at her, and she was treated
with distinct disrespect when she re-
fused to perform in a scene for 1.-THE
Cat and the Fiddle"
To put it mildly, they were rude to
Teresa, but 1t didn't do any good.
She wouldn't go through with 1t until,
with gentle smile and a dexterous
twist Of his wrist, Novarro got her to
perform and the scene went on.
Teresa is an ancient Belgian taxi
cab. And with the comical Henry
Armetta in the driving seat it affords
patrons some highly amusing mo-
ments. Teresa joins a notable cast
in "The Cat and the Fiddle" and is
the only one in the cast who doesn't
appreciate the lifting music in this
romantic picture.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
In Local Theaters

GAYETY-Bozo Snyder and his
burlesque revue, today at 2:15
and 8:l5 pm.
LOEW'S FOX-Ramon Novarro
in person and on the screen,
with Jeannette Macdonald, in
The Cat and the Fiddle"
Film at 3, $40, TAO and 1905
pm. Stage show at 2:l5, ABS,
7 and 9:20 pm.
-"Bolero," at 2, 4:40.
7:20 and 10 pm. Stage show
at 3:35, 6:25 and 9 pm.
RIALTO-"Beloved," at 2:35,
Ala, 6:O2, 7:50 and 9:39 pm.
PALACE-"Queen Christina" at
$3.50, 5:45, TAO and 9:35 pm.
COLUMBIA-"The Lone Cow
boy" at 2:35, 4:25, 6:l5, 8 and
$50 pm.
R-K-O KEITHS-"It Happened
One Night, this afternoon and
evening.
METROPOLITAN "The Last
Roundup" at ESQ, ABS, $40,
sos and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Lending Players May Aid
Both Studio and Picture
Taking the Case of Clark Gable as an Example.
Claudette Colbert Does Very Well
Opposite the Star.
Opposite the Star.
BY E. de s. MELCHER.

w YHEN Jericho topple in "It Happened One
IA presumably neatly tucked in
w the Gable thereby bringing to close an
engaging film as well as situation which had been
anticipated
combination, Gable Colbert reminds that
love in the films seldom well matched the lady either being
such very great that nobody attention to the
man (witn
dynamo that nobody pays attention to the lady