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Evening star., 1934-11-17
Loy-Powell Team Starred
In New Picture at the Fox
Less Diverting Than The Thin Man" the Film
Is Made Interesting by the Players.
A Well-Rounded Stage Show.

nursery, but unfortunately Evelyn
Prentice forgot that excellent maxim
do and say what you please, but
don't never writ letter"
When everything was about to be set
Alright at the Prentice hearth, she
sought to recover her letters from her
wayward songbird, who promptly tried
his hand at blackmail. She threatened
him with his own pistol. Thereupon
the bard handed over the notes and
hit her on the jaw The gun went of
She fed from his apartment. At that
moment another Nell, by whom the
young man had done everything but
right, arrived. She was found stand
ing over his lifeless body, holding his
gun in her hand.
This forsaken blond, Judith Will
son, by name, was tried for the muir
der of Lawrence Kennard, and she
was by way of being convicted de-
spite the legal ministrations of Mr..
Prentice himself, when the noble
Evelyn stepped forth and confessed
in the court room. Thereafter the
predicament of all concerned dis
solved itself quite ingeniously. in a
manner it will be worth your while
to discover.
1t should not be forgotten that Miss
Una Merkel is among those present
and we'll accounted for in the cast of
this film, while Miss Isabel Jewell,
at times treated brutally by the
camera, hits an enviable peak of line
reading in the court room scene.
The Fox stage show this week is a
horse of another color. A gay, di-
verse and well-rounded affair, it runs
the gamut of amusement from A at
least through w, offering half an
alphabet of the always clever Dun
can Sisterns. One of the best-known
teams in all show business, the ladies
Duncan have not been content to
coast along on earned increment, in
stead refreshing their act from the
better Broadway sources and their
own fertile imaginations. They still
play at Topsy and Eva, but they keep
| the game up-to-date. You will en-
joy them.
The Three Diamond boys are an
other name act still going strong
When better and funnier ways to tear
limb from limb are invented, they
probably will discover them Also
recommended to your attention are
the melodies sung by Charles Fogarty,
tenor from the West, and the young
people who dance very well in the
program opener.
The Phil Lampkin overture and the
uSllal news reel rom nlete the hill
r. B. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Troupers
Glimpses of Stage Folk
in Washington.

About two minutes after We had
slipped into an orchestra chair at the
National the other night, the lady on
our left said wistfully, Il wish he
could sing and dance little"
She was watching George M. Cohan,
conceded to be Americas first actor,
tussle amiably and expertly with the
role of small town parent in Eugene
O-Neills "Ah, Wilderness" The per-
formance seemed to please her well
enough, but still, Mr.. ONeill just
might have remembered to work in a
little clog and tune for Mr.. Cohan!
While the lady's reluctance to let
Mr Cohan forget his songs and dances
Evening star., 1934-11-17
RACE TRICK
TOUT AND THE
USUAL BABY
Screen Story Must Hare
fOungster, SO RunyOn
Tale Holds to Form.

In one of those famous meetings of
the Hollywood intelligentsia, commonly
known as story conferences, it obvi-
ously was decided several months ago
that no man in a film yarn could be
a race track tout, a convict, a fruit
peddler or the King of Egomania with
out having a small, bright child the
enobling influence in his life. Conse-
quently Damon Runyon's excellent
story of "The Lemon Drop Kid" or
the screen this week at the Metropoli-
tan, has Baby LIE Roy tackled on to il
for the purpose of ripping your heart
loose from its moorings.
Since children have become as COM
monplace in the cinema as around the
house, you need not necessarily pay a
vast amount of attention to their an
tics. 1t is your privilege to go right
on enjoying or sorrowing over the his
tories of Sundry adults, and 1.-THE
Lemon Drop Kid will supply you with
one OF the better sagas of their strange
ways.
The tale about the city slicker who
found his soul in small-town domes-
ITCHY, as opposed to the ribald Gus.
toms of the metropolis, is not pre-
cisely new one, but in the hands oil
Mr.. Runyon, Lee Tracy and the able
troupe of Thespians who aid and abet
them, this particular version will serve
until another magazine Shakespeare
comes along.
II you missed the printed record OF
the activities of the young man who
hung around tracks, telling the tale
on improbable winners to suckers
willing to pay cash for misinforma-
ton, be advised that the Lemon Drop
Kid" was one of that lowly breed
Gifted with a sense of humor and a
penchant for popping lemon drops
into his mouth without the slightest
provocation, the kid once persuaded a
rheumatic old Skinf1int to bet S1OO-
"a century" in the language of the
people-on horse. Any horse. Take
No. g. for instance When No. 2 won
and the wheelchair orge discovered he
had been f1imflammed, the kid had tc
leave in a great hurry, closely fol-
lowed by two policemen He won.
Or, rather, he lost, for he landed
in a nearby village. fell in love with
the local drunkard's daughter, went
to work in a country store and mar
ried her. When their first child was
born, she died.
He had been warned in advance
that she shoulG have the care of spe-
cialists. When his tight -fisted boss
he seemed to have knack for getting
mixed up with gentlemen who had a
strangle-hold on their dollars-re-
fused to loan him money to take her
to the city before the birth of his
child, he held up the store, got the
cash-and found he was too late. He
was convicted of the robbery, went to
prison bitter man and hard GUS
toner to handle.
Then the warden led in the Lemon
Drop Kid, jr";; the paternal effect
worked like magic, and there you are.
AS simple as that tale may sound, the
dynamic Mr.. Tracy, dialogue by Mr..
Runyon and j. P McEvoy and the
efforts of Henry B. Walthall, Helen
Mack, William Frawley and assorted
others supply a competent builder
upper. The sum is good freside film
food.
There are also two musical shorts
an elaborate newsreel sequence and a
splendid Betty Boop cartoon on the
Met schedule. R. B. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
MRS. WICGS
BACK AGAIN
AS CINEMA
Story, Once Best.SeHer.
Is Wholesome, Home.
spun Screen Play.

AS simple story we'll told, "Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" reaches
hitherto uninterrupted heights for films
with simplicity and unpretentiousness
as their keynote. While undistin-
guished, the new Palace cinema yet
manages to project such a wholesome
type of homespun entertainment as
would warm the heart of the most
hardened playgoer.
In depicting the poverty stricken
yet happy family of the simple Mrs.
Wigs and her geography-named Off
spring, Hollywood forgot for once it's
mania for ornamentation and luxuri-
business, stuck to the little things and
produced a moving drama with hardly
more than one set and an extra ward
robe.
Coming right in the midst of the
Community Chest drive, next door to
Thanksgiving and right around the
corner from Christmas Mrs. Wigs"
Is thrice welcome as entertainment
and as forceful reminder of other
similar families having as hard time
of it today as she did in 1900.
With natural and simple grace,
Pauline Lord makes Mrs. Wigs one
of the outstanding film characters of
the year. Her sly and modest man
nerisms will have you both laughing
and sad as the sincere tale unfolds
while she somehow succeeds in hold
ing her little family together and
helping others at the same time.
In case you've forgotten, the Cab
bage Patch is the slum section of a
small Ohio town, in which the Wigs
and several other unfortunates, in
cluding Miss Hazy (zasu Pitts), live
in homemade houses. A pair of young
rich folk of the town-Evelyn Venable
and Kent Taylor-help the Wigs
through most of their difficulties, and
w. c. Fields, who can get more
laughs out of becoming tangled in a
wire fence than dentist can from his
gas, adds to the general fun by get
ting engaged to Miss Hazy by means
of matrimonial catalogue.
The three little girls, Asia, Europena
and Australia; Jim, the sick son; old
Mr.. Wigs, who mostly thinks, and
even Cuby, the horse, are all part and
parcel Of the piece
The added features include a trav.
elogue, Edwin c. Hill newsrecl and
comedy. M. w. B.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
OUTSTANDING PLAYERS
IN THE FORTY THIEVES
Lisa Gardiner Dancers in Splen-
did Performance, While ANA
teurs Do Very Well.

teurs Do Very Well.
Even though his was a compara-
lively small part, Theodore Freter was
the outstanding performer last night
at Central High School. where the
Washington Community Players pre-
sented an arrangement of ALI Baba
and the Forty Thieves" by Bess Davis
Schreiner. His was the part of Mus
tafa, a cobbler, who helped bury the
body of Kasim Baba after Ali Baba
had brought his brothers dismem-
bered body from the robbers cave,
and who unknowingly helped the rob-
bers find the house of Ali Baba when
they returned for vengeance. He
played the palsied old cobbler to per-
fection, quaking, shivering and creep
ing along as though each step would
be his last.
Lisa Gardiner and her dancers
added an air of Oriental rhythm and
color to this cleverly arranged pro-
duction. They were especially effec-
tive in the finale, where their gay
costumes and mystic dancing won the
hearts of their audience. Miss Gard
iner did well in one of the leading
roles, that of Morgiana, a slave girl
in love with Ali Baba.
John Sikken as Ali Baba, the poor
wood gatherer, also turned out GOOD
performance His elation at discover
ing the hidden stores of the thieves,
the horror with which he discovered
his brothers mutilated body. and espe-
cially his dancing in the last act. LETT
nothing to be desired.
Another actor worthy Of mention Is
Jesse Veitch. He played convincing
role as robber captain. Such deep
dyed villain and heartless murderer as
he portrayed, well deserved the fate
which finally overcame him.
Edith H. Hunter is to be compll-
mented for her excellent piano accom-
paniment. For the extremely realistic
settings, both in the forest and court
yard scenes, credit goes to Robert
Wick, who devised them.
The Washington Community Players
will present ALI Baba and the Forty
Thieves" again this afternoon at 2:30,
and tonight at 8:15, in the Central
High School auditorium. G. E. H.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Where and When|
ICurrent Theater Attractions
I and Time of Showing.

National-"Ah, Wilderness" at 2:2o
and $40 pm.
Earle-"A Lost Lady," at IL am,
1:10, 800, $50, 7:55 and 10:O5 pm
Stage shows at 1920, 2:30, 4:4O, TOO
and 9:15 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Evelyn Prentice at
II am, 1:40, 4:20, ITO and 10 pm:
Stage shows at 1885, 3:15, 6:Oo and
1855 pm.
R-K-O Keith's Great Expecta-
tions," at 1888 am, 1888, 1888, 5:33,
1888 and 9:33 pm.
Palace-"Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch" at 11:15 am, 1;20, 3:2o, o:3O,
TBS and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan 1.-The Lemon Drop
Kid" at 11:10 am, lis, 3:2o, $50,
1885 and Gas pm.
Columbia 1865 Nights in Holly
wood" at 1910, 2:10, 4:05, 6, 8 and
9:55 pm.
TivoIi-"Six-Day Bike Rider" at
2:15. 4:20, $40, sos and $50 pm.
Ambassador-"Have Heart" at 2,
4:05, 6, 7:45 and 9:35 pm.
Evening star., 1934-11-17


ated from the hoofer class he always
injected into his own plays an inter-
lude wherein he twirled through few
steps, sang a bit. The audience ate
it up, perhaps sensing certain hu-
mility in this preferred reminder of
the stars humble beginnings.
The origins and early history of
George M. Cohan, however, are small
beer in comparison to the Importance
of his later theatrical career. He has
written some of the most unique plays
ever devised by the hand of man, and
played in all of them himself. Some
people consider his Tavern" one of
the funniest comedies penned in
America, but it was based on deadly
serious melodrama of the type that
used to stir the prim hearts of ladies
and gentlemen in the COS and early
19o0s He merely exaggerated at the
right spots, and added mysterious
stranger who roams through the story
confounding every one and managing
to seem highly significant, of what
no one knows
The role of the mysterious stranger
obviously is the Cohan favorite, when
he nvents his own dramas.
He is never very clearly explained
in Gambling" wherein he appears
once more as man quantity unfettered
by the customary motives and at
titudes Of people living in society. His
greatest record for exposition of the
stranger in our midst was established
in the recent Pigeons and People" in
which he remained on the stage for
approximately two hours and half
delivering himself of witticisms
epigrams and relevant commentary on
human conduct
AS you probably know. Mr.. Cohan
Is also a song writer, the most en-
ergetically patriotic in the business. His
ditties are dignified by the fact that
he wrote them, but some who have not
proper respect for the crown of the
thespian hero insist they are very sac
stuff. No one ever has had the nerve
to say that about his acting.
r. B. P, jr.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

w VILLAIN POWELL and
n Myrna 10y, that urbane
wv pair who gave matrimony
a new film rating by their
charming performances in
1.-THE Thin Man." have been cast
again as husband and wife in the
picture Evelyn Prentice" the cur
rent attraction at Loew's Fox While
they remain the most civilized of
married couples in or out of f1ickers,
the team has this time been mounted
on a less divering vehicle, trap that
never gets very far because it tries
to be all things u.lto all plots.
Three of the most popular pres
ent-day Hollywood yarns have been
jammed together in Evelyn Prem
tice," and, unhappily, they fit to-
gethef like the pieces of a baggy-
trou comedians new suit. First of
all, there is the cute infant, the pro-
geny of Mr.. and Mrs. John Prentice,
who tugs at everybody's heart with
her winsome ways, and holds together
her parents when they are tempted
to stray into alien romance. Then
there is the sinister note, the at
tempted blackmail of innocent Mrs.
Prentice, the mystery shooting. For
good measure. the cinema people have
tossed in that modern favorite, a big
court room scene, which because of
Miss Isabel Jewell and clever plot
twist turns out to be by far the most
effective of the mismatched trio.
The aforesaid harsh words art more
to- 1f Nf
Evelyn Prentice" than those who are
mixed up in it. For their part, they
troup quite gallantly through 1t all,
remaining on the whole more attrac-
tive to behold than many of their
contemporaries performing in the mar
rative masterpiece of the century. If
you never tire of watching the hand
some Miss 10y and smooth Mr.. Pow
ell at work, and few people do, it may
not make you squirm to see them
swamped with so many fruitless COM
plications, emoting heavily rather
than playing handball with such
frothy banter as the Hollywood wits
can invent.
Because he was a busy man, Attor-
ney John Prentice was partially di-
vorced from the moderniStic house
hold in which dwelt beauteous wife
and precocious daughter. He drifted
into mild Irritation without the mat
rimonial gates, and his wife, irked by
rumors of his wanderings. found mea-
ger consolation in the attentions of
very minor poet. Between peccadillos
both of them come home to pay pen
ance with sentimental moments in the
Evening star., 1934-11-17
R0OSEVELT'S KIN URGES
FEDERAL RELIEF LEVY
Cousin of President Declares Bur-
den Can No Longer Be Taken
From Profit.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. November 17-Nicholas
Roosevelt. former Minister to Hungary.
yesterday advocated Federal sales
tax as a solution of the problem OF
maintaining unemployment relief.
Roosevelt, a Republican and cousin
CT, Rf1Sfdent Franklin D. Roosevelt,
spoke before the Executives Club.
Until the administration at Wash
ington settles the relief problem, we
will continue to have uncertainty" he
said. I'VE cannot 60 on paying for
relief out of profits, it must come out
of income. A Federal sales tax would
do the job. Label it a relief tax and
put all relief on a pay-as-you-go
basis"
Roosevelt. who served under the
Hoover administration as vice gov
ernor of the Philippines, told his audi
ence that the greatest danger ahead
is the spending program of the next
Congress.
Evening star., 1934-11-17
CHICKENS IN WRECK

CHICAGO, November II (P. In
blizzard of feathers. scrambled eggs
and squawking chickens, a poultry
truck driven by Francis Maloney, %,
Of Manchester, Iowa, crashed into a
safety island yesterday. Pedestrians
rounded up the runaway fowl and
police arrested Maloney on a reckless
driving charge.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

lllll ScIS Siidll Ut Hldut III COlOTS or all
black and white.
Josef Won Sternberg announces that
only black and white will be used on
his sets in the future. He does make
allowance for gray when he says this
as gray is one of the graduations
blending black to white.
Won Sternberg thinks that it is pos
sible to get more artistic and real
istic result in films by using the black
and white medium, and had all sets
designed accordingly for Marlene
Dietrich's new picture. Caprice Es-
pagnole."
Wesley Ruggles is a director who
disagrees absolutely with this idea.
While the camera records only
black and white values Ruggles
says, Il feel that the use of color in a
setting gives the actor a feeling OF
reality that helps him get into the
spirit of his characterizations.
In my present picture, I have a
very colorful night club scene If ]
had the set painted only in black and
white, feel there would have been a
resultant letdoWn of unreality for the
cast.
BY using brilliant reds and colds
and other hues used in night club
the atmosphere becomes charged with
gayety and liveliness and I find that
it is reflected in the performance of
the actors who are trying to make
their parts alive"
Won Sternberg still insists, however
that unless production is to be made
in technicolor, it is better designed in
straight black and white.
While We don't take sides, We can't
help observing that Josef Won Stern
berg is a great artist with the camera.
Copyright. 1894. by the North American
Evening star., 1934-11-17
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra this evening in Stan
ley Hall at $50 o'clock. John S. M.
Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, associate leader.
March, THE Irish King. "..... Pryor
Overture, THE Hand of Fellowship"
Bigge
Entr'acte. "By the Waters of
Minnetonka" .......... .Lleurance
"Whippoorwill" (intermezzo) Kay
Excerpts from musical comedy This
Year of Grace. coward
Oriental, "Visions d'Arabe" .Fosse
Valse intermezzo, "Pathetique" Baron
Finale, THE Joker. "............ Lake
1.-The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1934-11-17

and merely go on
being the best of
modern actors
m ay ap p e a r
slightly odd, it is
shared in some
degree by Mr..
Cohan himself.
He gained his
first prominence
in show business
by hooflng and
plugging songs
according to the
lights of his dis
tinctly original
mind. For years
f@ H. ~~oI,,
Evening star., 1934-11-17

With all due regard to Miss STAN
wyck's occasional ability We have to
admit that she's pretty bad in this
and that the film is pretty bad, too.
The New Deal given Miss Gather Is,
in plain language, washout.
ERED WARING and his band make
up for Lost Lady's" failings-
in fact, we'd take Policy McClin-
took any day as an entertainer in
place of Miss Stanwyck. Mr.. Nc
Clintock is that epic basso-profoundo
whose vocal tonsils sound as though
they we're underground. Every time
he opens his mouth a small thunder
cloud escapes from it, and he and
the audience are never so happy as
when he is cackling away while he
assaults that drum at the same time.
Mr.. McClintock and Mr.. Waring are
always welcome visitors to these
shores, and we have sneaking SuS-
picion that this year they are better
then ever before Mr. Warnings ar
rangement of Smoke Gets in Your
Eyes is tops" and there isn't dull
moment from first to last on his pro-
gram. Newcomers include the Lane
Sisters, two grand looking young
ladies, whose singing is only one of
their obvious assets.
X X
DICKENS' most recent gift to Holly
wood Great Expectations" is at
R-K-O Keiths this week He gets
about a $3.50 break in it, the first
scenes being handled with skill and
restraint and the last with fair fidel-
ity, but also with something that ap-
proaches dullness. In spite of the
Evening star., 1934-11-17

aoll Y ONN INV S41Sy NSAAA 4lSAp ~
Here's a picture that refutes the
old idea that there aren't any new
stories This film is certainly not
plot number 6" dressed up in new
costumes. Nor has it anything re-
motely to do with the eternal tri-
angle" situation
The President Vanishes" is really
cleverly prepared picture of the
present-day situation and what might
happen to America should its citizens
become too engrossed with political
issues.
Lest this should sound like a dull
story, let me assure you that it is a
Swift-moving film. well directed by
William Wellman, with a perfect cast
1t was previeWed at a local theater
adjoining one of our universities, and
you probably realize that an audience
of college kids isn't going in for bor-
ing pictures or any story that is overly
sentimental, and when / tell you that
these future bonds statesmen" clapped,
cheered and even hissed, as the drama
unfolded, you should know how thrill
ing the plot becomes.
Arthur Byron, as the President;
Janet Beecher, as his wife; Charley
Grapewin, as capitalist; Osgood Per-
kins, as a secret service man. and Ed
win Arnold, Secretary of War, were
excellent in their parts.
But it remained for Andy Devine,
as the hero-worshiping grocery boy,
and Paul Kelly, as q secret service
man, to win the spontaneous applause
that their clever acting deserved.
Which reminds us that Irene
Franklin did bit as Andy Devine's
mother that was perfect.
One of the big arguments going on
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Woman Killed. Husband Hurt.

TAMPA. Fla, November II P.-
Mrs. Marion M. Miller OF Longton,
Kans., was killed and her husband
escaped injury as their automobile and
truck were in collision yesterday at
highway intersection near Plant
City.
Evening star., 1934-11-17

acting of that excellent Broadway
actor, Henry Hull, who was brought
to Hollywood for that role, the last
half of this film seems less cheering
than the author intended, and you
Will probably find it inconvenient to
go back over the story again the way
Mr.. Hull and, of course, Mr.. Dickens
intended you to do.
The first scenes are, however, very
nice-due to that elegant young
trouper, George Breakstone, and to
Florence Reed, who manages to stamp
around in that wedding dress in the
spider-web room without being alto
gether foolish. Young Breakstone and
later Mr.. Hull steal the show cold
from such Hollywood veterans as
Phillips Holmes. (There is something
disappointing even in the attractive
Jane Wyatt)
And so, in spite of the fact that
Hardie Meakin and the local school
board are all steamed up about this
latest Dickens scenario, we can't
honestly say that we are steamed up,
too. The characters are, for the most,
part able duplicates of the original
but-the book still remains better
entertainment.
X X X
DOOR William Makepeace Thack-
L cray got tough break in these
columns yesterday! His ghost
woke us up in the middle of the night
and, sitting very gently on the edge of
our bed, reminded us that he was the
author of Vanity Fair"-not Charlie
DickenSi
Evening star., 1934-11-17
Villa Gather Novel Loses
Much in the Screen Story
"A Lost Lady" Has Not Been Well Treated b!
the Producers Waring on Earle Stage.
Great Expectations" at Keith S.
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

THOUGH you'll find mention made & at the Earle Earle tins & week
~ Lady, resemblance to the original remains very
much of a secret 80
In this picture Stanwyck has 0round bout with
passion and honeya bout which sadder and
with what probably meant to
happy ending In the meantime however she has loved
wisely fooShy has had boy friend snatched from
day before become her husband has married
herself Frank Morgan has fed with Lyle Talbot been made
finally gets around realizing
that perhaps Frank Morgan is the best of the lot