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The Washington times., 1934-11-30
MI O v II
CLOCK

EOA...
ANNA STEM in
GIVE LIVE AGAIN"
II A. NJ, las, 4:32, 7:1s,
1904 P. M. Stage shows at
12:42, 3:28, 6:14, 9P. M.
PALACE. :.
GRETA GARBO in
"THE PAINTED VEIL"
II A. NJ, los, 3:15, 5:25,
1885, 9:45 P. M.
COLUMBIA. ..
KAREN MORLEY in
''OUR DAILY BREAD"
1910, 2:1O, 4:o4, 6:05,
$40 P. M.
EARLE.
JAMES CAGNEY in
est. LOUIS KID"
10 A. M, IL 20, 2 40, 5, TAO,
1905 P. NJ. Stage shows at
1920, 1:45, 4:O5, 6:45,
9:O5 P. M.
METROPOLITAN.
RANDOLPH SCOTT in
"WAGON WHEELS"
II A. M, 1880, 2:4O, 4:3O,
6:20, $40, 9:55 P. M.
RKO KEITH'S.
ANNE SHIRLEY in
"ANNE OF GREEN
GABLES"
:43 A. NJ, l :46, 3:49, 5 so,
7:55, 9:58 P. M.
HOWARD.
DUKE ELLINGTON at
2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 9:20 P. M.
Screen feature at 1890,
3 rs, 6, 1886, 1890 P. NJ.
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mands and so Here Comes the
Navy" with others will have to
wait until somebody asks for the
best IS Of 1884.
Defends Profanity
A slap on the wrist comes from
one of this corners constant read
ers who shall be identified by the
signature he attaches, Mac"
Mac" objects to my obServa'
tions about profanity on tn" stage
and particularly the phrases,
"evil smelling and sounding
words" as voiced in footlight
productions.
Says he:
"Now the fact is that pic
turesque profanity has just IS
much right in the vocabulary Of
the average man as any other
type of expression. Don't con-
sign to the gutter language that
is common each day at the Cap
itOl, in governmental depart
mentS and in our best prOfeS-
SionaI and business offices.
Nor that is common each night
in the drawing rooms Of our
finest homes"
Well, Mac, it would take more
than a certificate of decency
from the most exclusive society
to make profanity and obscenity
other than low down and degrad-
ing. If such language is heard
each night in cultured circles I
agree with you it is common" in
every sense of the word, and those
who use it must be bracketed with
the i'll bred, regardless Of whether
their names are in the Social
Register or their Bradstreet rat
ing is of the highest.
What I objected to in stage pro-
ductions was unnecessary profan-
ity inserted purely for shock pur-
poses. still do. About it's fright"
in the vocabulary the statutes take
care of that. Which is why the
police department dropped in
Tuesday night and requested the
Theater Guild to scrub valley
Forge" a little or else.
Maxwell Anderson is a great
playwright-some concede him the
No. niche regardless of Eugene
O'Neill-and too talented in my
humble judgment for the devices
that attract the novice writer.
The same goes for George s.
Kaufman and his "shockerS" in
"Merrily We Roll Along"
De Wolfe Settings
Elsie De Wolfe will design the
settings for lode to Liberty"
which Ina Claire brings to Wash.
in 6 ton, December g.. Howard
Benedict writes that Kathryn
Mullowney, a Washington girl, is
one Of the leading dancers in Max
Gordon's production of 'T h e
Great Waltz" The rain yester-
day was worth not less than $10,-
600 to the downtown movie box Of
fices. Globe Trotter Arthur
Reilly will be stage manager and
producer of the KiWaniS ladies'
night at the Mayflower next week.
It is now Col. Orangelo Ratio
Of Loew's Palace Theater by grace
of Governor Ruby Laffoon, Of Ken
lucky. Okay colonel. A Kentucky
breakfast at the Variety Club saw
the title officially bestowed by
George Jessen yesterday with
Mussolini forwarding a cable of
congratulations to the nobleSt
Roman of F Street.
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H9l + 6I 69IlrYw; 90 {; G'fS D!
By JIMMY STARR

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 29-Hello. Only in Hollywood and
the movies could such thing happenDirector Dudley
Murphys option his future services at MeroGoldwyn
Mayer up at Monday Somebody forgot to send
the legal document necessary retain him. and Dudley
believing that the situation the studio wished it, had
made ARRANGEMENTS 90 elsewhere.
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Great Collection

Oreat OOlleCtlOn
/. Little Women.
2. Thin Man.
8. The House of Rothschild.
4. Dinner At Eight.
5. One Night of Love.
8. Men in White.
Z. It Happened One Night.
8. Judge Priest.
8. Only Yesterday.
10. Lit e Miss Marker.
I should be inclined to wager
that Little Women" will top the
list when the 400 ballots from the
motion picture critics of the coun'
try are duly tabulated by Film
Daily. It eserves the honor
apart from the mere reason of
superiority.
For more than even the move.
ment to clean up the screen Little
Women was responsible for in
noculating Hollywood producers
with the idea that wholesomeness
was still a profitable screen COM
modify.
1.-The Thin Man" was the most
delightful and sophisticated blend
of mystery and comedy ever pro-
duced.
1.-THE House of Rothschild." A
literate and beautifully acted por-
trait of a famous financier by
George ArliSS.
Dinner at Eight" earns a place
because of its gilt-edged cast, its
unusual episode story and direc'
ton.
lone Night Of Love" was the
finest exhibit of topnotch record
ing of classical and popular mu-
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PICKING THE TEN BEST ::
"LittIe Women" Placed at Head
Of List With Thin Man"
In the No. 2 Position
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Film Daily annual request for this critics selection of the
TEN BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR arrived just after the
Thanksgiving bird had been consumed Gancng the list
of egbes struck that the task of voting smpfied
by the small group features which outstanding Here
list:
Evening star., 1934-10-07
S5.95 FIGURED SPIRAL DRAPES
sZl.74

Luxurious rayonand-cotton damask peated and lined
to make them hang in rh graceful folds so inches wide
2 yards long CHATS almost the floor at most windows
Red, green, gold blue, woodrose.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
TAILORED NET CURTAINS, s1.84

Graceful Duncan Phyfe design-hand-
rubbed until it fairly CLEANS. 4ON48-inch
top (open) seats 6 comfortably. Roomy
drawer for siNerl (Sketched lefty
LANsBURGHs-FIFTH FLooR-DRAPERIEs. FL
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SUITS

Single breasted, Double
breasted, Eze-S Swings
included. Tailored of
fine Shetlands. Wor-
Steds, rough H arris-
type Tweeds and Flan-
nelS.
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You'll be amazed ct the
fine quality and delicious
flavor Of these candies. 10
sell for such Q low price.
A tempting assortment q
RiaYors.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

has subsidized. Mr. HusS has had
the little notoriety which he courted
and has been remanded to oblivion.
Lotta is one of the best advertised
actresses on the stage She is SO
much liked that she gets notice with
out the aid of managers, and plenty
Of it, too. On her going to Europe
this year her mother said she would
take vacation of at least two years
and would probably retire from the
stage altogether. Her voice has been
failing and she has gone abroad for
its treatment. II she RECEIVERS it she
will probably come back to her pro-
fession. If she doesn't she still has
enough to live upon, and her persent
income will keep up very respect
able establishment LOtta is one of
the few actresses who save money
She has for many years made an
average of $4,000 a year and she
is worth today over half a million
She and her mother run their finances
together and most of these savings
have been invested in her mothers
name Lottas father is a worse
spendthrift than wilkins McCawber,
and his daughter keeps him in Eng
land on an allowance. He gets, I am
told, S25 week on condition that ne
does not bother her.
Lotta's father is, you know. an Eng
lishman, her mother an American.
Lotta was born in New York 81 years
ago. She began her stage life very
young, as Jig dancer in a San
Francisco theater. She there learned
to play the banjo, and began to act
in comedy pieces A few years later
She came east. stopping at St. Louis,
where she had a moderate success.
and then coming to New York, where
she appeared at "Niblo'S." Here
Len Grover saw her and took her
up. Through him Broughton adapted
the old Curiosity Shop" for her
She came out as Little Nell, made a
great hit, and since that time she
has had a continued success.
A reminiscence of Thomas Corwin.
the great Ohio statesman. which is
worth preservation, is told by Gen.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

Denver of Ohio. "Corwin's good will
was unbounded," he says He would
give any one a recommendation who
asked him. When Meredith was
Secretary Of the Treasury, a man
whom we will call Smith came to Cor
win and asked him to indorSe his
papers, requesting an appointment in
the Treasury Department Corwin
looked them over, and as usual wrote
very fiattering Endorsement upon
them. Smith applied for the position,
but failed to get it. Well, time went
on. The administration changed
Taylor went out and Fillmore came
in. William NJ. Meredith's place IN
the new cabinet was taken by Thomas
Corwin. Smith now thought he was
sure of an appointment. He called
upon the new secretary. and showed
several letters. well indorsed, asking
for the position CorWin read them
and asked if he had any more He
replied that he had one more Hand
it over, said Corwin.
THE man handed him his own
flattering letter to Meredith. Mr..
Corwin looked at it and thought a
moment. Then he said. This, my
friend. is strong letter. And did
this not get you a position when you
applied?'
MOI was the reply.
Well. Mr.. Smith. if this had not
enough effect to put you in the Treas
ury under Mr.. Meredith, it certainly
will not do so under me. Good day,
sir.
Gen. Scott.
Gen. Winfield Scott was conceited.
says Gen. Denver, who served under
him in the Mexican War He thought
all men should listen when he spoke.
and his memoirs are full of the big
~ and the little you" His egotism
was the cause of his falling out with
Gen. Worth. During the earlier part
OF the war Worth and he were great
friends, and continued SO up to the
time that Scott gave a dinner to his
officers. At this dinner Scott sat at
the head Of the table and Worth had
Evening star., 1934-06-24

be little doubt but that a systematic
brokerage of Government positions eX-
isted. But if such did exist, it was
unknown to the Government. The con-
Stant recurrence of such advertise
mentS leads to the presumption that
they are answered. and l have heard
of cases where assistance so gained
has been attended with success. The
success, however, was due not to the
influence of the assistant, but to the
fact that he understood how to use
the applicants recommendation to
the best advantage. In these, as in
other cases. the assistant was dead
beat, who bled the applicant as long
as possible.
The advertisements make interesting
reading. The following were clipped
from the advertising pages OF the
two most respectable Washington pa
pers during a single month:
WANTED-By a young lady. a posi-
tion in any of the Government offices
at a salary of $75 per month. Any
person obtaining such Will receive the
amount of SIS each month as long
as said party doth remain. Address
Miss Mabel, City Post Office.
WANTED-By a lady. situation in
Government department.; will pay
$25 cash and 10 per cent of salary
as long as retained. Address Office,
City Post Office.
WANTED-A reliable gentleman will
furnish the best political papers and
will pay $3.50 to any one who Will
help him secure a position of any
kind in Washington. Address in con-
fidence, Capt. A. Y. R. Devere, Phil
adelphia, Pa.
WANTED-A Government clerkship at
a salary of not less than 81 900 per
annum; will give 500 to any one
securing me such position. Ad-
dress Box GO, Star office.
AN EDUCATED and highly respecta-
BILE lady desires a position in one
of the Government departments; will
pay 40 per cent of salary for the same.
Address B. A. M, Post Office, Wash
ington.
WANTED-A position in Govern
men bindery by a lady; will give half
first months pay and $50 after in
monthly payments. Address Mrs,
A. B. NJ, Republican office.
s1eO-WILL GIVE 500 for place
as clerk or messenger in any OF the
departments; first-clasS references.
Address Confidence, Republican office.
WANTED-By two young ladies sit
uations in. Government office; will give
first months pay and $40 monthly
as long as retained. Address A. B..
and L. x, Georgetown Post Office.
WANTED-S200 will be given for Gov
ernment situation that will pay from
S55 to $65 per month; no clerkship
wanted. Address c. F. M, Star office.
WANTED-A young lady will give
$50 to 5000 to ny one securing her
a position in any of the departments
paying from $50 to SOS per month;
capable in every respect. Address
Discretion, Star office.
WANTED-A Government clerkship
at a salary of not less than $1,000
per annum; will give 500 to any one
securing such position. Address Box
68. Star office
1 might multiply these advertise
mentS, ad libitum, by reference to
the paper files, but an idea can be
gotten from the above. The stories
read between the lines in the Wash
ington papers are legion. One stum-
bles upon curiosities on every page.
The gossip about the actress Lotta's
supposed marriage here this week
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Old Peking's Palace Halls Empty,
But Ghost of City Lingers On

PE1P1NG, China.--Despite the cha
os and revolution which are China's
today. despite the clash between mod
ern institutions and antiquity, which
robs cities like Shanghai and Nanking
OF unified character, the old historic
Peking lives on.
1t may be only ghost of its for
mer self-but the ghost is hard to lay
New ways certainly are changing
the old capital. Evidences of mo-
dernity encroach more and more upon
ancient customs. You hear radios
blarlng forth in Chinese shops far
from the foreign sections. There are
girls with bobbed hair at the univer-
sites. Movie houses show the latest
Hollywood f1lms-many of which, in
cidentally. serve to decrease the high
respect with which enlightened Chi
nese have viewed America.
Moreover, Imperial palace halls are
empty and numbers of the old temple
buildings are gradually going to ruin,
due to their neglect since the revolu-
ton of 1911.
But you tend to disregard facts like
those when you are in Peiping. Where
as in Shanghai or Marking you think
more of the future than about the
past. Peiping is more likely to turn
your thoughts to days long gone.
From the moment you leave the
train you sense the difference. even
if the passage a few minutes earlier
under pair of the city's mighty walls,
looming silver gray under the moon
light, has not prepared you for it. On
the platform slender women in black
fur coats are greeting each other slow
ly and sedately, bowling again and
again with the grace of ancient Gus
tom
There is no rushing here, not many
Evening star., 1934-06-24

travellers. You decide to walk to youl
hotel, instead of taking a car, al
though the hotel is mile away, for
the Winter air of Peking (every one
calls it that despite the official change
to Peiping) is potent bracer
You take your way through the
legation quarter. stately and still al
this hour of night. with gray COM
pound walls. spacious houses of nine
teenth century European designs
shadowy gardens. If you are walking
with a friend you find yourself speak
ing in low tones; loud talk. you have
felt instinctively, would be out OF
place in Peiping
Now and then the faint footballs oi
ricksha runners are heard. When
they pass in the clear moonlight you
admire the shining spokes and pol
ished black and bronze of their silent
equipages. In cities to the south
rickshas are by no means so grand
or clean as these; so Peiping scores
again.
Next morning as you stand by
your WINDOW a procession OF camelS
passes on a wide paved street across
a wooded parkway before you. They
are carrying loads of coal on their
backs. treading patiently and slowly
and looking not bit out of place
as they do so. Peiping itself. with all
its change, is in no hurry about it,
Perhaps its imperial power will
never return. Perhaps it will remain
as it Is today politically unimportant
excepting for the embassies. Perhaps
its temples and its historic culture are
doomed-but they are in any case
taking their decline with dignity and
constant looks backward to what old
fashioned Chinese consider were the
golden ages OF Cathay.
(Copyright, 1934)
Evening star., 1934-06-24
BY Z. c. HARDWOOD.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 20 IN A
N.A)-In his apparently unofficial ca
pacity as adviser to the President, DR.
John Maynard Keynes, through an ar
ticle given to The Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance, has
recommended certain courses of
action which he believes will expedite
the recovery process. When so emf
nent a visitor as this British econo-
mist is willing to give us the benefit
of his advice, we should indeed be
grateful. However, it does not follow
that the prescribed medicine should
be taken without first considering its
nature and probable effects.
1t is in no carpingly critical spirit
that an analysis of this advice is
undertaken. Rather is such scrutiny
dictated by necessity; by the need for
choosing between the conflicting
recommendations offered by the dis
agreeing doctors, here and abroad.
Even in DR.. Keynes own country
there are experts" who differ, and
recovery proceeds without adoption of
his remedies.
DR.. Keynes is too good an econo-
mist. too thoroughly grounded in the
fundamentals of general theory, to
be misled by the extravagant claims
which have been made for the N. r.
A. That he is right about the un-
suitability of a restrictionist phil
osophy as applied to industrial pro-
duction, the complexity and regimen
tation involved, and the difficulties
inherent in price-fixing. is all too
apparent. Even the code authorities
in Washington are beginning to real
ize the impracticability of bureau
cratic control of business, or SO the
recent abandonment of codes for
smaller businesses would indicate.
That permanent recovery is de-
pendent upon the normal functioning
of business enterprise likewise seems
obvious. However, the reasons given
for its failure so far to accomplish
the task seem to be incompletely
stated. DR.. Keynes cites lack of
confidence due to labor troubles and
fear of the unknown as one of the
explanations. Is it not appropriate
to point out that one Of the chief
causes Of labor troubles Is Q rising
Evening star., 1934-06-24

PROKOPIEVSK, Siberia The "a.
hour journey from NovoSibirsk. capi-
tai of Western Siberia, to Prokopievsk
the lung" Of the new Siberian indus
trial empire, would not have been c
trip in the Soviet Union if something
had not happened to the train. Some
how something always seems to hap.
PEN to a Russian train.
This time it was nothing serious
Two hours out of NovoSibirsk oul
train was tagged to q halt and it was
discovered that the rear coach had
been humping along off the rails fol-
a stretch of two-thirdS of a mile. The
conductor had pulled the emergency
brake but it had failed to work. Mean
While, it was discovered, the under
works of the dining car had managed
to pick up a dynamo which had been
| dropped by a preceding train. The
rear coach was finally uncoupled from
the train, the dynamo removed and on
We went.
Chugging across the Siberian waste
rising here and there to gentle hills,
we pulled into Prokopievsk at o'clock
in the evening, an even 10 hours la:e.
| Our things were piled into a waiting
| sleigh and off we drove behind two
galloping horses to the home of Com
rade Paul Vassilyovitch VaSsilyev,
where we were quartered for our stay.
Important for Its Coal.
Prokopievsk, mining town Of 130,-
900 souls sprawling on plain within
J circle of conical hills, 1000 miles
from Moscow. is one of the most i'm
| pOrtant towns in the entire Soviet
Union and perhaps the most impor-
tant of all towns in the great new
| industrial empire which the Soviet is
building in Siberia. Centering around
| it lies the richest coal district on this
continent. covering an area OF l6,8OO
square miles and containing an eSti-
mated 10000, 900. 600 tons of coal
About As per cent of this coal is
cooking coal" designed for use in
the giant iron and steel mills at Kuz-
netskstroi, right in the district itself,
and MagnitogorSk, 1000 miles away III
the UralS. Without these coal deposits,
and the mines to work them, neither
of those Haunted giants could exist.
In this entire district there are to-
day working 10000 men, of whom
20 900 are in the mines and the re-
mainder above ground, preparing SUI
! perstructures for new mines and con-
structing buildings. This year the
shafts in operation will produce TO-
coo, 900 tons of coal. Next year, with
! the opening of new and highly mech
aniZed shafts, the production should
be 100000 tons and by 1887 it
should reach 20,500,000. While Soviet
plans are often not fulfilled, there is
reason to believe that they will be in
this case. If a second steel mill is
constructed at Kuznetskstroi these
plans may be increased tremendously.
Began With Peasant Digging.
Here in Prokopievsk the mighty
task of digging out this reservoir of
power is already in full swing. In
1917 peasants from two villages in
the vicinity scraped 5000 tons of coal
from shallow pits in the nearby hills.
In 1921, when regular mining opera
tions were undertaken, the annual
production was $4,000 tons. In 1882,
with mechanization fully under way,
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cost OF living engendered by recent
monetary experiments? Furthermore
the unknown which has held a veri-
table sword of DamocleS over the
heads Of business men and capitalists
has been this same monetary policy
or rather its all too dubious results.
That individual investors have been
willing to enter into any long term
contracts at all during this period is
something of a miracle in itself. 1t
is evidence of courageous optimism
or of profound ignorance, possibly
both.
Shortage of New Savings.
The second explanation given by
DR.. Keynes is that interest rates are
high for those who most need to bor-
row. To the extent that this merely
reflects the greater element of risk
involved in loans to the incompetent,
it is both natural and desirable. BY
such means there is obtained. in a
competitive society, a selection of
those businesses best able to serve
the public in order that they may sur
vive. In part. however, high rates
for long-term funds reflect a shortage
of new savings That this is in turn
due to the doubtful wisdom of saving
money when a country has embarked
on an inf1ationary policy seems OBJ
viouS.
DR.. Keynes reasons that this in
evitable delay on the part of business
enterprise can only be counteracted
by the direct stimulus of Government
spending on large scale. One might
ask how it was that this Nation re-
covered from former depressions, or
how it is possible for other nations
to be recovering from this depression
without the benefits alleged for the
'shot in the arm" treatment. Ger
tainly the recoveries during 1922, or
1897, or 1879 occurred, even when
Government spending was diminish
ing. In fact, there appears to be no
record of a government successfully
spending it's way to permanent pros
perity. However, it is possible that
present conditions are different.
1t is argued that Government
spending in such an amount as will
equal 10 per cent of the present ma
tional income may actually increase
the national income by as much as
Is per cent. This assertion is pecu-
liar in that it both minimizes and
exaggerates the possibilities involved.
1t is certain that Government spend
ing Of newly created credit will aug
ment the national income In terms
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