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Evening star., 1934-09-02
Mrs. Wigs Props.

pITY the poor propman. Thirty
one pages of single-spaced type
represents the list of properties that
Stanley Goldsmith had to gather for
the filming of Paramount's Mrs
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
Page l lists, among other things. "a
few old medicine bottles, knotted
string, bucket of water, cracked mir
ror, rag doll, two duplicate stew pans,
ragged suit of underwear, one news
paper"
Between are any number of peculiar
objects among them ''well-worn Bible,
small scissors, Al large turkey wish
bones and six doubles, Pickering oil
lamp, washing machine ad from 1901
paper, ironing wax, box of moth balls,
clock reading 25 minutes to II, small,
fiat, wooden box with empty tin cans
to shove under stove; one real fly for
Stubbins' nose, corkscrew, doctors
thermometer, two pairs lorgnettes,
load kindling wood, railroad map of
Southern Ohio, mouth organ, sausage
and liver to make animals do stunts,
alfalfa for horse"
But the toughest object on the
whole list was an "old-fashioned
alarm clock" Goldsmith went through
a dozen secondhand stores before he
found one that met the approval of
Director Norman Taurog. The one
selected matched exactly the picture
Of such a clock in an old mail-order
catalogue which was used to deter
mine the authenticity of all props
used.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

LICEGENE CARVER, soprano, will
"a be the guest soloist at the IL
o'clock service this morning in St
Johns Episcopal Church on Lafay-
cite Square She will sing for the
offertory Odoardo Barri's 1.-THE
Good Shepherd" Mary c. D. john
son, organist, was in charge of the
volunteer choir at st. Johns Church
through the month of August when
A. Harlan Castle, tenor, was the guest
soloist.
Ruby Smith Stahl, who has been
vacationing for several weeks in
California and Denver, has returned
and is receiving applications for
membership in the A Cappella
Choir, which begins its seasons re-
hearsals next Saturday evening.
Howard Moore, baritone, of Wash
ington, was the guest soloist at
Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. at
last Sunday mornings service, when
he sang Consider and Hear Me, y
by Wooler. Mrs. Howard Blandy,
choir director, was at the organ.
Mr. Moore has just returned from
his vacation, which included a weeks
visit to the Century of Progress.
Bringing to a close the series of
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Veteran Director

Alice Joyce and Marshall Neilan, but
lost all his money in the company.
Given a fairly good, human script
with emotional values not too dis
torted, the director must know in
stinctively and quickly just what people
should be cast. Again, the director
must take these people and bring
fo-. n from them what he needs for
the pictures color and life and en-
phasis.
In The World Moves On this
merging of values and of conflicts
into one unified effort presented itself
as the outstanding problem of pro-
duction. Possibly it was because there
were so many nations, so many tenn
peraments and ideals involved. Per-
hapS it was the particularly large cast
and the shifting in time of life through
so many generations and viewpoints.
Whatever the reason, this picture de-
manded a type of direction which took
strength from the helm as no other
I have ever directed"
Ford's career in films is one marked
by basic experience gained from
the ground up. He was graduated
from the University of Maine and
headed for a business job, when his
brother Francis success on the Coast
inspired him to a similar life He
boarded train for the West almost
a week after he had received his diplo-
ma, and took an assistants assistant
post on the Universal lot, soon STEP
ping into assistant direction and final
ly full responsibility, directing over
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Fireproof Gloves for Airmen.

Asbestos gloves are being supplied
in large quantities to the Royal Air
Force of Great Britain. 1t Is believed
that they will prove valuable in cases
in which an airplane bursts into flames
after a crash. Stringent tests of the
gloves were made before the air min
istry ordered them. The tests in
cluded grasping red hot half Inch
steel bars and holding the gloved hand
in the forced draught of forge fire
for 80 seconds. The tests were passed
satisfactorily.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

One Sunday morning the insurance
salesman invaded Stones ranch.
Hello, Just the man I wanted to
See," said Stone as he led the insurance
man toward his stables. They came to
box stall. Now here" said Stone,
is the finest horse in the San Fer
nando Valley, sound OF wind. perfect
for polo, gentle disposition, fine pedi-
gree, and I'll sell him to you for half
Of what he Is worth" He went into a
perfect sales talk. The insurance man
tried time and again to interrupt, but
Stone would have none of it. He con-
tinued to sing his paean of praise for
this particular piece of horsefiesh.
Finally the salesman got a word in
edgewiSe.
But" he gasped, Il tell you I don't
want horse. I can't afford to buy
him, to say nothing of the fact that
can't afford to feed him I can't ride,
so how could possibly be interested
in the thing at all!'
Stone grinned. "All right, my boy,
we'll drop the subject. Now maybe
you'll understand how feel about that
insurance you're forever bounding me
for" Both of them had a laugh, but
the salesman has steered clear of Lewis
Stone as prospect since.
Friendship has frequently led the
stars to disaster. Wallace Beery met
a banker at a club where both liked
to shoot. After several weeks of play
ing and talking together, the banker
said casually: Say, Wally, why don't
you put your money In my bank?"
why don't ~" said Wally. "I think
that's fine idea" So he nut his
money in his friends bank. But it
wasn't such good idea because it was
wiped out in Hollywood's most sensa-
! tional bank smash.
Helen Hayes says on one of those
rare occasions when an investment
adviser got hold of her she fell for
stock In defunct gold mine, al
though Reg Denny has faith in his
gold mine stock and expects any day
to uncover rich lode.
Charles Bickford bought an auto
mobile service station only to find that
he couldn't make a go of 1t and now
he can't give it away.
Buster Keaton was an easy mark
for lots Of real estate sharks. When
they tried him on a new project lust
before he left for Paris, he remarked:
ASK me one-tenth of that price, then
I'll come through with a very hand
some offer!'
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Evening star., 1934-09-02
Final Outdoor Festival.

THE FORTY THIEVES" a pantO-
mime dance version of the Ara
bian Nights" tale of Ali Baba, ar
ranged for outdoor production at the
Sylvan Theater here by Bess Schrein-
er, will be presented by the Wash
ington Community Players September
II and Is at the Monument grounds
as the final event in the 1884 season
OF Summer festivals under the Joint
auspices of the Community Center
Department and the Office of National
Capital parks.
A specially arranged musical back
ground will be played by the United
States Army Band, conducted by
Capt. William J. Stannard, at both
performances, and the incidental
music of the various episodes will be
played by Edith H Hunter at the
piano, who is the musical director OF
the forthcoming production. Lisa
Gardiner will be the dance and pan
tomime director; George Harrington
the stage director; Esther Galbraith
the costume director; Robert Wick
the designer of the setting and prop
critics, which are based somewhat
upon suggestions made by Harold
Snyder OF the Community Center De-
partment
Dorothy CroiSsant has designed the
majority Of the Oriental costumes tc
be worn in The Forty Thieves" The
dance costumes, however, will be de-
signed by Miss Gardiner and Chris
tine Stewart Of the Lisa Gardner
studio. On the Production Committee
are also Sahara Herbal, formerly o.
the Neighborhood Playhouse in New
York City, and Howard Whitfield, di.
| rector Of the Bartfleld Players o.
Washington; Louise Wynne of The
| Community Center Department, anc
other well known production author
tiles. Bess Davis Schreiner is thu
production director.
Among those who will appear II
leading roles in The Forty Thieves
are Miss Gardiner, John Lloyd Sikken
Maurice Jarvis, Jesse Veitch, Ken
Dyer, Harry Angelica, Robert Halsted
Edward E. Muth, Chester Ring, james
RaWls, Stanley Protheroe, H. r
Baukhage, Howard Whitfield, Mauric,
Lanman, Jesse Chain, John Kendrick
w. P Kilgore, George Wilcox. Joh1
Brasil and other members of the
! Community Players.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Palestinian Actors Work.

The Palestinian players who are now
touring Europe, are all recruited from
the peasants of Palestine. Nine. Dag
anith, one Of the principals, was dis
covered by Moshe Halevy. the man
ager, while she was breaking stones on
a road of Tel-Aviv. Halevy heard her
singing the old Hebrew tunes as she
worked, and engaged her at once. All
the members of the troupe are obliged
to work with their hands part of the
year on the rebuilding of Palestine.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Service Band Concerts.

THE United States Navy Band, under
the direction of Lieut.. Charles
Benter, will play the following sched-
ule of concerts beginning Tuesday,
September 4:
Tuesday, 10 am.-"Patriotic Halt
Hour" at the sail loft, navy yard.
Wednesday, 7:30 pm.-At the band
stand, navy yard.
Thursday, 1880 am-"Patriotic
Half Hour" at the sail loft, navy yard
Thursday. pm.-Naval Hospital
Friday, 2 pm.-St. EliZabeth's Hos
pital.
Concert schedule of the United
States Marine Band. Capt. Taylor
Branson, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb
second leader:
Tuesday, September 4, at $50 pm
Concert, Army Medical Center, Wal
ter Reed General Hospital.
Wednesday. September 5. at 7:3C
p.m.-Concert, United States Capitol
Thursday, September 6, at 1880 pm
Concert at the Sylvan Theater
sponsored by the Community Center
Department
Friday, September 7, at 10 am
Concert, Marine Barracks, Patriotic
Shut-ins Dream Hour.
Friday, September 7, at pm
Concert, Naval Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Chace Dances at Sylvan.

ON THURSDAY evening of this
~ week, at 8 o'clock, in the National
Sylvan Theater e. the Washington
Monument, the Marian Chace Dance
Group will present their spectacular
Summer festival program of dances
accompanied by Edward Dawson,
Washington composer pianist, and
preceded at 730 o'clock by a spe-
cially arranged concert by the United
States Marine Band conducted by
Second Leader Arthur S. Witcomb.
The dance concert which was origi-
nally scheduled to take place last
month at the Sylvan Theatre, but
which because of continued inclement
weather was given in Central High
School Auditorium, is being repeated
by demand.
Miss Chace will dance Scriabine S
Prelude and Etude assisted by Katya
Mirkin and Ruth Raine, and also as
sisted by the entire ensemble, will
be seen in "Sommernacht am Mer, u
composed by Henders. A Ravel waltz
suite by Miss Chace and Miss Raine;
an Edwardian ballad by Miss Chace
alone, and the finale. Soaring" in
which Miss Chace will be assisted by
Betty Gray, Helen Hoyem, Katya
Mirkin and Ruth Raine, are among
the numbers planned.
Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique"
will be one of the highlights of the
concert.
Miss Preische with the junior group
will be seen in ''Siamese" to music by
Berger, and the junior group will also
dance a plastique, led by Virgins
Elmendorf. Three members Of the
junior group, notably Eleanor King
daughter of Senator and Mrs William
H. King: Virginia Elmendorf, anc
Marian Lester Shafer, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Shafer (Mariar
Chace) will be seen in "Betty's Music
Box" with waltz.
Edward Dawson, the pianist, viii
be represented on the program by
two dance compositions-"Dy Dynamic,
by the ensemble as the opening mum
ber, and Suite for Trio" including
prelude Joyeuse," Lament" anc
"Madrigal"
Chair privilege tickets are nov
available at the A. A. A. Ticket Blu
reau, the Hotel Willard news stand
the Hotel Washington news stanC
and the Community Center Depart
ment, Franklin Administration Build
ing.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

| d ldDSe VI StNSldl ycdIc, Will dOuUI-
less be welcomed by music lovers.
Other Sunday concerts will be CIV
en- October 81, December 16, January
27, March 10 and March 81 All OF
the Sunday concerts will begin at
pm.
Until the box Office opens in Gar
| finckel's, orders for season tickets are
being accepted at the National SYM
phony Orchestra's offices in the
Woodward Building.
Season admissions for the Sunday
series of 10 concerts can be obtained
from 81 to s13. Season tickets for
the Thursday series range from
SO to $18.
IRON their breeze-swept Summer
home high in the Austrian Tyrol
comes word that the Wiener Saen-
gerknaben-Vienna Boys Choir, in
English-Will bring a roster of %
singers to the United States this COM
ing season, when the choir will make
it's third annual tour of the United
States and, incidentally, make its
third annual appearance at Constitu-
ton Hall on Sunday afternoon, jan
uary 20 next, as the third attraction
of Dorothy Hodgkin DorSey's first
Sunday afternoon recital series.
The political disturbances which
have swept Vienna during the present
Summer have affected the Vienna
Boys Choir in no particular. For one
thing, the boys have been away all
Summer at their Alpine farm, raising
grapes and other farm products and
playing host to Summer boarderS, all
for the sake of choir revenue, for no
longer does the Austrian government
find it possible to support this 400
year-old choir.
The American tours of the Vienna
Boys Choir are the outcome of sew
eral successful European concert tours
that were taken as part of the effort
of the choir to support itself, now
that the Austrian state has been
forced by economic circumstances to
withdraw its state support. The boys
will be in charge of their musical
director, DR.. George Gruber, while
on the stage. Off the stage they are
in charge of their spiritual director,
the Rev. Joseph Schnitt.
The programs of the choir are
usually divided into three parts-a
group of church songs, five or six in
number; an operetta in which the
boys play both masculine and fem
mine roles Git is amazing how they
manage to affect coyness and demure
charm in these feminine roles and
how the costumes help them look the
par0, such as Offenbach's Wedding
by Lanternlight, which they gave
here last Winter and, finally, a group
of secular songs of Vienna origin and
charm.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

Jean Hersholt was director Of a
bank in the years before he became
identified with the acting profession.
He has made many sound and sens
ible investments, but he admits that
the gilded promises of a salesman
about a bit of beach property sold
him into making one of the poorest
investments of his career.
Reginald Denny has a ranch that
he has put on a paying basis and at
tends to his other business affairs
with sound judgment, yet he admits
that line of ''Wallingford" chatter
tripped him once.
AS for Bill Powell: "Say," he
laughed, ct have five acres out in The
San Fernando Valley with a small
house on it. I have a tenant also
but he hasn't paid any rent in two
years. What can I do? The poor
guy is broke. I can't sell the land
I've tried that Possibly I couldn't
give it away. And I didn't want it
when I bought it, just got tired OF
being persuaded"
They'd been comparing notes In
this fashion-these three-when Her
sholt remarked: 1T occurs to me that
We actors who ought to recognize
good acting when we see it, don't do
so. We take high pressure salesman
ship seriously, when we ought to stop
and realize that they are playing roles
Just like we are. We see Lee Tracy
playing a fast-talking salesman on
the screen and know it's a swell piece
0f acting and that tho nhara cter
doesn't mean a word he says.
But we'll go right out and listen
to a real salesman who is acting just
as Tracy was on the screen and we
fall for it,"
This is the reason for the elusive
ness of stars. 1t is why the famous
are like frightened deer when they
hear some successful promoter is
after them. The average citizen with
his low-preSsure emotionalism, his
experience in looking at things in a
sensible hard-headed way, his re-
sistance to the snowy, the dramatic
and the worldly impressive, is not
easy prey for the Southern California
promoter. But the star, sensitive to
the dramatic and the emotional is a
"cinch" If the promoter can get to
him.
OF course, there are exceptions, and
Stone was dogged for days by an in
surance salesman. He explained that
he wanted no insurance-had more
than he could use-but the persistent
one kept after him.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
One Minute Interview.

CIDNEY FOX weights "a pounds,
sometimes, after heavy meal,
but a brief interview with this dininu-
tive star of the R-K-O Radio musical
extravaganza, Down to Their Last
Yacht" soon revealed that the "wisest
things come in small packages"
There will be no mortgaged homes,
no repossessed automobiles and no
wolves in my young life" vowed Sid
ney, with a determined perk Of her
dainty lips.
"Once I was a stenographer and
once I was a newspaper woman.
wrote Advice to the Lovelorn.'
She giggled when she said that, but
swore that it was true.
And made good job OF it, she
continued, 'even though had yet to
encounter my first big crush.
while was doing that I learned
to live very comfortably on small
salary. Now that I am receiving a
very much larger one, well see
no use in spending it months before I
get 1t.
Il live, really, much as lived in
those days. From my manager, at
my own request, receive small al
lowance, just enough to provide COM
fort and a few minor luxuries, such as
small car. The rest is banked for a
rainy day.
I'm such small person, you know,
with such big singing voice. There's
only one Lily Pons. Sometimes my big,
high notes lift me right up on my tip
toes. There's no telling when it will
soar right on up, leaving me behind
"As a matter of fact, rather en-
joy the practice of sensible economy
1t makes me feel part of the world
and keeps me on speaking terms with
life beyond the walls of FINLAND.
design most Of my own clothes and
have them made in New York where !
best know the places one can econom-
ize and yet buy good values"
Miss Fox, when IL years of age,
was earning her own living as a ste
nographer. At IA she organized, owned
and operated a Film Fan Club, en-
ploying several women many years
her senior.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

nlIlS. ACUOTS, III SplUe Ol
what most folk believe, are the least
important of the picture elements, the
story is fairly important, but your di-
rector is about 10 per cent of the
works." Will replied. And Will Rogers
was never a director.
If that is true. then John Ford, mod
ern veteran of the Hollywood directors,
who is credited with THE World
Moves On" which he calls his career
picture to date, and who recently COM
pleted Judge Priest with Will Rogers,
deserves consideration as a force in
the rise of the film industry.
Recently he interviewed two extras
who applied for work at Fox Movie
tone City. They were soon logged out
in policemen's uniforms, but Ford
knew them by name, for they were
once directors. He has learned much
from others. Frank O'Connor was
one of them, who for many years
played leads for Lasky in the New
York studio and was sent to Holly
wood to direct many Mary Miles Min
ter and May McAvoy films. Deciding
to produce on his own, he went broke
The other eX-director now turned
extra was Pat Hartigan, who acted
and directed for the Kalen Co. many
years ago, becoming part owner of
the enterprise. He directed Ruth Ro-
land in her first pictures, as well as
Evening star., 1934-09-02


great woman virtuosi will be heard
when Myra Hoss plays with the Or
cheStra February 81, and when
Frances Nash makes her appearance
under DR.. Kindler's baton January
10. The fluent technique and tone
control of Myra Hess has won her
many admirers in Washington. She
has played here frequently in the
past, both as recitalist and, less
recently, as a soloist with the Boston
Symphony Frances Nash has recently
given brilliant concerts with the
Philadelphia, San Francisco and Ber-
lin Philharmonic OrcheStras.
The soprano, Olga Averino, whose
appearance here last season at the
Library of Congress will be remem-
bered as a triumph, completes the
list of soloists for the Thursday con-
certs. She will sing December 6.
Thursday concerts are also sched-
uled for November %, February and
February %, completing the series of
eight. All of these concerts, except
the opening one on November |, at
which Bori will sing, and the January
10 concert. at which Frances Nash
will play, will begin at 4:45 pm. The
two exceptions will begin at $50 pm.
For the 10 Sunday concerts listed
for the coming season, artists have
been engaged to appear on different
dates. They are Mischa Elnan who, as
one of the worlds artists of the violin,
needs no introduction. He will play
February "a. Sophie BraSlau, whose
vivid and interesting singing Of the
contralto part in De Fallas "El i..ner
Brajo" with the National Symphony
Orchestra last season before one of
the largest audiences of the year
evoked unanimous praise, will be
soloist, February 10.
Another artist will make her sec
ond appearance with the orchestra
when Gloria Perkins, child violinist,
will play again November 25. Gloria
Perkins made her debut here last
year, playing with an orchestra for
the first time. She has since had
several successful appearances with
other symphonic organizations.
Bartlett and Robertson will be
heard January 49, The engagement
of those British -pianists will not
only bring two splendid virtuosi to
Washington, but will enable concert
goers to hear some seldom heard
music written for two pianos and
orchestra.
Joseph Lhevinne, whose concerts
here have been all too rare, will be
soloist November II. Possessor of a
phenomenal piano technique and a
mastery style, this great artists con-
cert in New York and Paris have
long been major musical events. This
opportunity to hear him here, after
Evening star., 1934-09-02
War on Shorts RACES.

Wearing belts instead of braces was
an American fashion that found great
favor during the hot spells in London
and the war over shirtsleeves was
merely a f1areup from the past. Now,
however, the war on shorts is raging
more flercely than ever. They are
being attacked as "effeminate, curl
ously enough, in view of the fact that
they are the regulation dress for some
of the most strenuous games and that
British soldiers have worn them on
active service.