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The Washington times., 1934-12-12
Texas Aids Curb
On Illegal Oil
By international News Service

Completion of a State-Federal
combination to restrict shipments
of alleged illegally-produced oil
from East TexaA appeared near
today with announcement of a
plan to hedge shipments within
states, as we'll as those interstate
now checked by the Federal
Tender Board.
Effective today Texas authori
ties applied an intra-state tender
system similar to that now operat
ing on interstate shipments.
The Washington times., 1934-12-12
Magician's Kit
Offers Allure

Outfits for magic and sleight-ot-
hand tricks will delight the older
children.
Many of the tricks are amaZ-
ingly simple after they have been
explained. Others are more COM
plicated. All are great fun.
The Washington times., 1934-12-12
Toy Trains Lure
All BOys--and Dads

Never forget that all small boys
(and most big ones) love trains.
Toy firms produce them to fit
every age and every pocketbook.
A "choo-choo" car of some kind
should occupy place beneath the
tree of every boy.
The Washington times., 1934-12-12
ROCKET PISTOL LIKED

bang" and anti-aircraft guns. All
the devices of modern warfare
are offered.
incidentally, the "best seller"
in the toy line this year has been
the rocket pistol,
The Washington times., 1934-12-12
STOPPED FUNERAL

COLOMBO. G.N.S.).-A man in
Chilaw awoke to find himself in
a coffin, and about to be buried.
He had taken an overdose of Sleep
ing draught and remained asleep
for so long that his relatives
thought he was dead.
The Washington times., 1934-12-12
Mother Restores
Youths Memory

Doctors are convinced that
Jack Moody. 20-year-old Dart
mouth amnesia victim, will re-
cover. After recognizing his
mother, who had rushed to his
side here from her home in
Derry, N. H., the boy showed
rapid signs of improvement.
Moody is said to be suffering
from a football injury.
The Washington times., 1934-12-12
Musical Stand
For That Tree

There is an electric musical
stand for the tree in the shops
this year that will be just that
added touch your tree will need.
1t plays two beautiful Christmas
carols as the tree revolves.
The Washington times., 1934-12-12
Babies Will Like
New Crying Ball

A crying ball will delight the
infant still in the crib. Turn 1t,
roll it, the crying voice accom-
panies every move. It is made of
strong celluloid guaranteed not to
break.
The Washington times., 1934-12-12
FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

For the budding young artists
there are miniature drawing easels,
modelling sets, water and oil color
paints and boxes of crayons.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Universal Signs Tracy.

CARL LAEMMLE, Jr., is carrying
out his expressed intention of in
creasing the star power at Universal
City. Yesterday he signed Lee Tracy
to a long-tern1 contract. Tracy, who
has Just completed the starring role
in Universal's "I'n Tell the World"
will therefore be associated with Uni
versal studios for the next five years,
during which time he will probably
make pictures at the rate Of four
year.
The signing Of Tracy is the latest
move Of Universars young general
manager to add to his imposing roster
Of screen names. Already during the
past year he acquired the services Of
Margaret SULLIVAN, and placed her in
a position where millions are await
ing her next appearance. Last week
he signed up Jane Wyatt, another
Broadway player. He believes Miss
Wyatt Is destined to be as great a
sensation as Margaret SULLIVAN. Lee
Tracy, SULLIVAN and Wyatt are re-
garded by Laemmle, jr., as a fitting
trio to be added to the group that
now includes Edmund Lowe. Chester
Morris, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart.
Lew Ayres, Slim Summerville, zasu
Pitts, June Knight, Claude Rains,
Roger Pryor, Russ Columbo and many
others.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
lane CO,UI Comes
To the National
In q NeaU Play

~ NE of the most interesting
events Of the late Winter
theatrical season will take
~ place tomorrow evening when
Jane Cowl comes to the
stage of the National Theater in
Sweet Bells tangled" the new play
by Reginald Lawrence, which is be-
ing presented by Seldom Bennett and
Shepard Traube.
Many intriguing rumors have
reached Washington concerning the
unusual plot of this play. which had
an opening in Wilmington Saturday
evening prior to the engagement at
the National. 1t is said to hold an
entirely new angle on the triangle sit
uation of man and two women.
Miss Cowl, one Of Americas most
popular actresses, who Is remembered
for her performances in "Smilin'
Through" Lilac Time" Romeo and
Juliet" " 1.-The Road to Rome" Jenny"
Twelfth Night" and many other sue
cesses, will be supported by cast of
well-known players. Mary Philips,
last seen here In Both Your Houses" I"
and Minor Watson, who appeared in
Reunion in Vienna" both Theater
Guild productions, head Miss Cowl's
supporting company. Others in the
cast are Clyde Franklyn, who was in
1.-THE Good Earth" last Winter, and
who has had an important role this
year in the New York production of
Peace on Earth; Eugene Sigaloff,
Florence Edney and Harold Webster.
The setting has been designed by
Donald Oenslager
Evening star., 1934-03-18
BelascO Theater
Reoper,s Monday
At Popular Prices

TINE reopening Of the Shubert-
Belasco Theater tomorrow eve
ming, with its new policy Of
L presenting stage successes at a
popular price scale, brings to
Washington the comedy hit. Three
and One" following its recent run on
Broadway, which in turn was pre-
ceded by an engagement Of two years
in Paris.
In the starring role will be seen
Jacqueline Logan, widely known screen
celebrity, while Mana Bryant, King
Calder and Sherling Oliver will ap-
pear in featured roles.
An adaptation from the French Of
Denys Amiel by Lewis Galantiere and
John Houseman, Three and One"
revolves about q rather unusual
family Lois Valois, famous Partisan
dancer in her younger days, has &C
quired, through the medium Of several
marriages, three sons who, following
the characteristics of their fathers,
are, respectively, poet, flnancier and
athlete.
Into their midst at a country villa
comes devastating young widow and
each son is convinced that she is
interested in his particular type of
charm. With its racy dialogue, gay
innuendoes, frank statements and
risque humor. Three and One" is
said to be adult entertainment of a
highly entertaining nature.
The carefully selected cast is claimed
to add keen enjoyment to the play.
In addition to the quartet Of princi-
pal artists, the company also COM
prises Don Darcy, Richard S. Bishop,
Ethel Wilson and G. Swayne Gordon.
Theodore Viehman directed the pro-
duction.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
First Musical Show.

AN INTERESTING event of the
theatrical season is scheduled for
the National Theater Monday night,
March 26, when the Messrs. Shubert
will present Nine. Maria Jeritza in
her first musical show. The vehicle
for this auspicious occasion is a new
musical romance by Rudolf Friml
bearing the title of "Annina." 1t is
Friml's first full-length musical score
in nearly three years. The book is an
original work by Rowland Leigh and
william Thiele Leigh is an English
man who was brought to this country
a year ago to write and direct "Du
Barry" and lately has been In Holly
wood. Thiele Is a Viennese, who is
reputed to stand alongside of Rein
hardt and Lubitsch among stage di-
rectors. The story Is chiefly modern
in tone, set in romantic Venice.
Evening star., 1934-03-18

Fate and playwrtght's dramatic VOL
canoes. Validly acted by Miss Gladys
Cooper, Miss Adrienne Allen, Derek
Williams, Raymond Massey and others,
1t is the seasons best and most in
telligent theater.
Richard Of Bordeaux" CEmpire)-
Wherein the exquisite Dennis King
pretends gorgeously to be the pacifist
Richard II Unexpectedly and beauti-
fully in a drama less poetic perhaps
than Shakespeare's version Of a SINH
lar theme. The theatrical ceremonies
Of Richard Of Bordeaux" should not
irk you, but possibly they will, as they
did me.
Sailor Beware" Gyce MA
funny, atmospheric farce, glorifytng
the sailors of the United States Navy
in their triumphs over embattled
girlhood.
She Loves Me Not" Forty-sixth
Street)-Princeton boys, laughably
attempting to be men of the world,
become nobly involved with a fan
dancer and hide her in their apart
ments. They get away with it in as
delirious a work of dramatic art as
you will see this season. This is the
play in which Miss Florence Rice ap-
pears as the steadily humorous
daughter Of the Dean.
mo More Ladies" (Morosco)-As
smooth a comedy as A. z. Thomas
ever wrote, which may or may not be
an expression Of enthusiasm. The
scene is one Of Long Islands more
NrO1IITlf11N1IS Stlae he rh
are the luxurious inhabitants thereof.
They sin wittily and are sorry and
glad in their insular way for their
tranSgresSions. AS Mr.. Thomas him.
self might say, it is a dark play,
covered with a bright veneer.
"Dodsworth'-Walte Huston and
Miss Fay Banter doing well in their
limitations of Sinclair Lewis charac-
ters in a light dramatization Of Sid
ney Howard Of one Of Mr.. Lewis
most overdowing novels.
Her Masters Voice" CThe Plym-
outh)-Wherein Miss Claire Kun
mer relieves herself skillfully of some
of her farce ideas about the boys and
girls, adult and immature. The SEN
tentious Roland Young is in it, and
so is the bubbling Miss Laura Hope
Crews. But the honest acting in the
play is done by others.
The Perfumed Lady" (AmbaSsa-
dora slowly humorous evening with
the modern nymphs and fauns COL
lected by Harm Wagstaff Gribble from
the sex-zoos of Syracuse, Rochester
and Manhattan.
Evening star., 1934-03-18

tant, because IL brings Jane COWl 10
town. The second, because it is
new play. And the thAS. because it
introduces new producing krm to
the public, this being MeSsrs. Seldom
Bennett and Shepard Traubes initial
venture into theatric production
realms.
The play, Sweet Bells tangled" is
the work of Reginald Lawrence, and
the only town that so far has wit
messed it is Wilmington, where last
night it was christened at its first
and last Wilmington performance.
Washington, which has always
been proud to give Miss Cowl a giant
welcome, Is further interested In the
play because at the top of the cast
are such popular players is Minor
Watson, called by local impreSario,
"the best actor in the world" (well,
next to the unanimously chosen
George M. Cohan) and Mary Philips,
who has shone locally in many promi-
nent productions.
Further than that, and to begin at
the beginning again, Miss Cowl Is an
actress for whom both the public and
the theater has every respect. While
her successes have been numerous,
she has not recently appeared in any
thing that was theatric cloudburSt.
her strength lying In such artistic
success as Romeo and Juliet" and
other plays of worth Yet, in spite
of the fact that she hasn't had a
colossal hit, she has weathered the
past few seasons calmly and intelli-
gently, eschewing the cinema, where
possibly she could have made a small
fortune. and keeping strictly to thea
ter for which she has the greatest
admiration.
THIS week marks the beginning of
new experiment in Washington.
The Belasco, starting tomorrow, will
be turned over to Messrs. Wee and
Leventhal, producing firm, which
trots its companies from Boston to
Philadelphia to Washington-playin
week-by-week engagements in sort
OF stock company way. BY shuffling
its casts and its plays the BelaSco
is planning on something new each
week, so that there is nothing reminis-
cent of the National Players in this
new move. 1t will rather test local
theater audiences as to whether they
will go to see plays done in a less
expensive manner and charged for
accordingly. After tomorrow's Three
and One" the attractions will In
clude THE Dark Tower" by Alex
ander Woolcott and George Kauf-
man; Pauline Frederick in Her
Majesty, the Widow; Biography,
with Irene PurcelHand it is rumored
even THE Green Bay Tree"-minus,
however, the original Jed Harris cast.
All of which means-well, we shall
see what we shall see.
Evening star., 1934-03-18

News events, comedy, and short
subjects complete the current Palace
entertainment.
"CAROLINA," the stirring drama Of
the regeneration Of a decadent
family Of the South, with Janet Gay
nor and Lionel Barrymore heading
an impressive cast, has returned to
downtown Washington and Is current
ly being exhibited at Loew's Columbia
Theater. The cast also features Robert
Young, Richard Cromwell, Henrietta
Crosman, Mona Barrie, Stepin Fetchit.
Russell Simpson and others. Based
on the Paul Green stage hit "The
House Of Connolly" this picture
graphically relates the life Of this
proud family of the South who lives
only in the past. The production was
directed by Henry King from an
adaptation Of the Green play by
Reginald Berkeley.
7 OEW'S Fox Theater is now pre-
senting The Mystery of Mr. X"
with Robert Montgomery as suave
gentleman crook. Adapted from
Philip MacDonald's sensational Crime
Club novel. "The Mystery of the Dead
Police" this Metro Mayer
production is full Of suspense and
clever characterizations. The story
centers about the fiendish machina-
tions of Mr.. x, who cortrives to kill
one London policeman for each one
of the IS years that he has been i'm
prisoned. Behind this high adventure
is very delicate love story in this
picture which Edgar Selwyn has
given excellent direction. Elizabeth
Allen. Lewis Stone, Ralph Forbes,
Henry Stephenson and Forester
Harvey are cast in principal roles.
Supplementing this screen feature
is stage program that offers for the
first time on any stage Sid Gary in
The Broadway Roundup" Sup
porting the star are those Broadway
comics, Stuart and Lash; Harrison
and Fisher, the dancing stars of the
stage hit Strike Me Pink; Melissa
Mason, housekeeping kicker, and the
Capitol Theater ballet corps in mod
ernistic dance conceptions.
WARNER BROS Metropolitan The
ater is offering the second week
of its new entertainment and price
policy with two-and-a-half- hour
show, including a f1rst-run feature
and variety program Of short reels.
The feature is United Artists advice
to the Lovelorn," starring Lee Tracy.
The complementary program consists
of two Vitaphone comedies, q song
reel, a pictorial and Is minutes of
news. In Advice to the Lovelorn"
wise-cracking Lee Tracy is seen as a
flip young reporter on a Los Angles
daily whose propensity for hard liquor
causes him to muff the biggest story
Of the year by sleeping peacefully
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Where and When
In Local Theaters

NATIONAL-Jane Cowl in Sweet
Bells tangled" Tomorrow night
at 500 o'clock.
BELASCO-"Three and One"
with Jacqueline Logan. To-
morrow night at $40 o'clock.
GAYETY-Burlesque. Today at
2:15 and 8:15 pm.
EARLE-"Let's Fall in Love" at
2, 4:40, 7::2O and 1905 pm.
Stage show, with Sophie
Tucker, at $40, 6;25 and s:lO
pm.
PALACE-Will Rogers in David
Harum," at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10
pm.
RIALTo-"I Like 1t That Way"
at 2, $50, 5:03, GAS, 8:29 and
1912 pm.
LOEW'S FOX-"The Mystery Of
Mr.. X" at 2, 4:40, 7:20 and
10 pm. Stage shows at $40,
6:25 and 9:05 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Carolina," at 2,
$50, $40, 7:35 and s:35 pm.
KEITH'S-"It Happened One
Night" This afternoon and
evening.
METROPOLITAN - Advice to
the Lovelorn." This afternoon
and evening.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
~ ETS FALL IN LOVE" screen
feature based on the IA
| nous song hit, and Sophie
IL Tucker, last Of the red-hot

IL Tucker, last Of the red-hot
mamas, share screen and
stage honors at Warner Bros Earle
Theater.
From a circus concession attendant
to a glamorous motion picture star!
That Is the Transformation undergone
by Ann Sothern, newest Columbia
screen discovery, in the romantic
Hollywood musical, Lets Fall in
Love-" Proving that Hollywood can
be fooled, Edmund Lowe, cast as a
motion picture director in this capti-
waiting production, finds Miss Sothern
working in circus. She Is the type
he needs for a certain picture, but
he realizes she won't have a chance
unless she is given huge build-up. So
he teaches her Swedish buys her a
stunning wardrobe, introduces her as
"off the boat" and an enviable motion
picture contract results.
Miriam Jordan, Tala Birell, Gregory
Ratoff and Arthur Jarrett enact the
featured supporting roles.
Sophie Tucker, hailed as the first
and last of the red-hot mamas, re-
turns to Washington after an absence
Of six years to headline the vaudeville
bill. Her program includes many of
her famous old songs and several new
ones. Other acts are Ross and Ben
nett In "No Sense and Nonsense;
Gaudsmith Brothers with their canine
crew in "A Round Trip of Fun" and
Van Horn and Inez, with Betty Lytle,
Americas premier skaters.
THE successor to Universal's Moon
l. light and Pretzels," the new mu-
steal film production, IT Like 1t That
Way" is playing at the Rialto Thea
ter, with Gloria Stuart and Roger
Pryor as the stars. Pryor, film pa
irons will recall, became an overnight
screen favorite for his splendid work
In Moonlight and Pretzels." Miss
Stuart was recently seen as a co-star
with John Boles in Beloved" Harry
Lachman directed II Like 1t That
Way" from story written by
Chandler Sprangue, Harry Sauber and
Joseph Santley. and in the supporting
cast are Marian Marsh, Shirley Grey,
Noel Madison, Mae Busch, Clarence
Wilson, John Darrow, Lucille Gleason,
Gloria Shea, and Merna Kennedy.
Conrad, Mitchell and Gottler wrote the
songs. Max Sheck staged the num-
bers and the dances.
nAVID HARUM" is now showing at
Loew's Palace Theater, with
the inimitable Will Rogers playing the
title role. Will Rogers has rarely
been seen on the screen to better ad-
vantage than in this role of the
shrewd but chivalrous, keen but kindly,
horse trader, who swaps wisecracks
as he drives sharp bargains, and
breeds thoroughbreds while he fosters
delightful romance
Kent Taylor, Evelyn Venable, Louise
Dresser, Stepin Fetchit, Noah Beery
and Roger Imhof are also in the cast.
James Cruze directed the film.
Evening star., 1934-03-18

Thus it goes, day in, day out, the
rehearsal of certain truiSms which
torment the daily chronicler in the
perusance of his duties. and which
makes him feveriSh and anxious in
the early dawn when it becomes ap-
parent that it is time for him to pre-
pare something for the daily mill.
So We mustn't write about blonds.
Why? Well, because there are GER
tain brunettes who would like to be
written about. We don't blame them.
They should be written about. But,
in the meantime, if you are familiar
with cameras and Hollywood heads
and faces, if you have strolled down
Hollywood Boulevard and observed
the faminine passersby; if you have
ducked under lights and mechanical
gadgetS in the studios and come out
suddenly on that vast sound set where
hundreds Of females are Scurrying
about in their paint and powder; if
you have muscled into those Malibu
Beach breakers or caught fish over at
Catalina, you will know that while
you have glimpsed here and there a
chocolate haired Venus, while one or
GWo nave
in and out of sight, while you may
have had that supreme privilege of
seeing Dolores De Rio at close range
the truth of the matter is that for
every brunette you have seen a thou
sand blondS, and we defy you to line
up one Hollywood brunette against
thousand blonds!
When, therefore, the oracles an
nounce that the perfect woman must
be dark, we shall begin tremendous
campaign in her favor. In the mean
time, however, since Miss Garbo
(there we go again) is light, and Miss
Dietrich is straight gold, and Miss
Crawford's handsome tresses are
touched with cool red, and Miss Davis
dts impossible not to- happens to
have made her fame by being white
like Miss NARROW, and Miss Pickford
still retains her American curls-who
are We to speak more Of the Kay
Francis, or the Del Rios, or some of
the lesser sisters of the cinema who
go right on being dark in the very
teeth of fashion?
AS for mentioning Mr.. Tone, Miss
Crawford, Miss Davis, Mr.. Novarro,
Miss Garbo, Miss Hepburn-and we
forgot another one, the locally as
well as nationally celebrated Miss
Frances Fuller-We do that because
we happen to like them. And since it
Ii much pleaSanter to write about
people you like than about people you
don't like, We shall probably go right
on doing it. After ALL Mr. Tone, Miss
Crawford, Miss Davis, Mr.. Novarro,
Miss Garbo, Miss Hepburn and Miss
Fuller are very important citizens.
X X
TOMORROW nights play at the
National is interesting for three
reasons. The first, and most impor-
Evening star., 1934-03-18
With Grace Moore.

TULLIO CARMINATI, noted stage
and screen star, has been signed
by Columbia Pictures to play opposite
Grace Moore in a musical production
based on a play by Charles Beahan
and Dorothy Speare. This Is the
famous Metropolitan Opera star and
screen actress first feature for the
company; the title will shortly be
announced.
Victor Schertzinger, equally promi-
nent as musical composer and d.
rector, will have charge of the pro-
duction, and also contribute some
musical numbers.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Next Week s Films

R-K-O Keith's.
This Man Is Mine" With
Irene Dunno and Constance
Cummings.
Loew's Fox.
"No More Women" With Victor
MacLaglen and Edmund Lowe.
The stage show will feature Phil
Spitalni and his orchestra.
James Cagney in Jimmie the
Gent" Lee Sims and Ilomay
Bailey will be stage headliners.
Rialto.
Slim Summerville and Zasu
Pitts In The Love Birds"
Palace.
"Three on a Honeymoon" With
Sally Eilers, Zasu Pitts and Hen
rietta Crosmann.
Metropolitan.
Fay Wray in "Once to Every
Woman"
Columbia.
Return engagement Of Gal
liant Lady"
Evening star., 1934-03-18

through an earthquake. Sally Blame
plays opposite Tracy. Others featured
are Isabel Jewel, Paul Harvey, Judith
Wood, May Boley, Sterling Holloway,
c. Henry Gordon, Jean Adair, Adalyn
Doyle and Etienne Girardot.
HOLLYWOOD BABIES" new
- idea in burlesque shows and fea-
turing new faces to patrons Of the
Gayety, will be the weeks attraction
at the Ninth street theater, beginning
with today's matinee. Bert Weston,
Karl Bowers, Will Ainsley, Lucky
Darling, Nora Murray and the chorus
are in the cast. The regular amateur
nights will be held as usual.
MO DEFINITE announcement has
been made as to just when Cath
crime the Great" R-K-O Keith's next
feature, will reach the screen of the
Fifteenth street theater. "It Hap
pened One Night" with Clark Gable
and Claudette Colbert, still continues
to break records, and at this date the
R-K-O management Is Sitting ON
the fence" as to change in the tea-
tlIre
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Listing Gotham's Theater
Attractions of the Season
The Professional Playgoer Tells What Is What
and Where Along New York's Drama Row.
Short Reviews of Winter Crop
BY PERCY HAMMOND.

lE yHERE the amateur playgoers often ask profess
~ sionals where shall go edfcaton and
w ment in the heater?" Naivey they inquire whether
Men in White" is better than Roberta" If the
Foies is more pleasing than They Shall Not
these bewdered nqurers append the following bewldeng
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Leila Fowler

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Evening star., 1934-03-18
Just Because There Are
A Few More Movie Blends
That's One Reason Why the Reviewer Writes
More About Them-Jane Cowl Returns
to National With New Play.
BY E. &c S. MELCHER.

~ you always blonds letter from
~ Alexandria you always writing about Franchot
Tone" Short story Maestro Lewis Loften Moneyway
"You are always writing about Joan Crawford" says
gentleman in the ofce Why don't you write about some
"We you Novaro door neghbor,
$50 why stop writing about hm?" Never day by
without your mentioning isn't it time call quits
Katharine Hepburn" you any your mind
Evening star., 1934-03-18
DANCING.

MAURICE WINTHROP TEACHES CARIocA.
Halero Tango and all late ballroom dances
PROF. AND MRS. ACHER-33d Yr.; studio
1125 10th ST. NV. Class and dancing every
friday, $3.50 to 11:30 pm, with orchestra.
Private lessons by appointment. MET. 41SO
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Current Attractions

News events, comedy, and short
subjects complete the current Palace
entertainment.