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Evening star., 1934-04-17
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Belasco-"The Green Bay Tree" at
$50 pm.
Palace-"Nana, at 1915, 2:35, 4:55,
tbs and $50 pm.
Rialto-"Glamour," at II am,
12:47, 2:34, 4:21, 6:08, 7:55 and e:43
pm.
Fox-"Men in White" at l0:45 am,
lis. 4:l0. ITO and $50 pm. Stage
shows at 1920, 3:l5. 6:15 and
ass pm.
Gayety-'Madcap Review" at IL
noon. 2:15 and 8:15 pm.
Columbia-"She Made Her Bed" at
HOS am, 1880, 2:4o. 4:25. Sis. sos
and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-'Wonder Bar" at
1l:20 am, 1:50. 4:25, and $50 pm.
R-K-O Keith's s-"Catherine the
Great" at 11:41 am, Al, 3:4l, Sal,
TAI and Gal pm.
Earle-"Death Takes q Holiday" at
IL am, las, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows at 1885, 3:35, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Tivoli-"Journal Of a Crime" at
2:40. 4:30, 6:l5. 8 and $50 pm.
Ambassador-"Death Takes a Holi-
day" at 6:15. 8:05 and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
IN MUSIC PROGRAM.

A varied program was given last
evening in the auditorium of Holy
Trinity Church, at Thirty sixth and
o streets. when a number of soloists
of Washington were heard. The
Georgetown University Glee Club
opened and closed the program and
the soloistS were Agnes Whelan Nc
Loughlin. soprano. accompanied by
Christopher Tenley; Mary ODono-
ghue, mezzo-soprano, accompanied by
Evelyn Thomaides: Bernard T. FftZ-
gerald, tenor, Matt Horn at the piano; !;
Anton Kaspar. violinist, accompanied
by his daughter Priska Kaspar, who
also played piano solos; Edythe Mar
mion Brosius, harpist, and George
O'Connor Matt Horn at the piano, in
several popular songs of today and
yesterday.
The program was Of familiar and
popular compositions. the soloists as
well as the Glee Club responding to
encores. K. B.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
TWO MUSIC PUPILS
ARE GIVEN DEGREES
Rewarded Last Night at Recital
Held at the Willard
Hotel.
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

II L [AAASL - A<AsSG'A1A-'s
The thirtieth anniversary of the
founding of the Won UnSchuld Univer-
sity of Music was celebrated last eve
ming at the Willard by recital by
the pupils of the university and a
reception following the concert. De-
grees of bachelor of music were con-
ferred on Elwood Backenstoss of the
piano artist course and on Virginia
Lee Coffman of the piano teachers
training course. An address to the
graduates was made by Mrs. Harold
L. Ickes, who spoke of the pleasure
for themselves and for others their
chosen profession would bring.
The program opened with Virginia
Coffman's playing of the Beethoven
Concerto in C Major op. Is" with
Nine. Won Unschuld at the second
piano. Miss Coffman showed a high
order of musicianship in both her
technical and interpretive rendition
of the concerto. Mr.. Backenstoss, as
the final number on the program,
played Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor,
op. 49" and Rubenstein's Concert
Etude in G Major" With artistic re-
pOoc al IAS pIdylIlS Ol tIle CQOplIl
Fantasy" Mr.. Backenstoss demon
strated a virtuoso talent and brilliancy
of execution in the Rubenstein "Etude''
that points the way to an artistic
career of value.
Two young pianists of arresting
talent, Innis Skinner, who played
LISTS Hungarian Rhapsody" and
Nelson Hart, in a scintillating delivery
of Grieg's March of the Dwarfs," won
enthusiastic applause from the audi
ence. Other students who gave pleas
ure with their promising ability were
Adele Merriam in LISTS I'll Sopiro,
and Chopin's "Etude in G Flat
Major; Elizabeth Gates in the Liszt
arrangement of Wagner's "Isolda S
Liebstod" and Chopins Storm Etude, u
and Laurette Martin in Liszt's "Lieb-
straum."
The other departments of the school
were represented by katherine Mahon,
who gave Huber's "Andante Religi-
oso" as harp solo; Elsie Schulze, who
sang Brahms "Botschaft' and
Tschaikowskys "Nur wer die Schens-
Evening star., 1934-04-17
ORGAN RECITAL.

The program to be given by Char
lotte lockwood, organist at the First
Congregational Church, tomorrow
evening at 8:15 o'clock will be as
follows:
Allegro Maestoso from Sonata In G.. .Egar
variations tons. on the chorale; Thou Prince
0htOtkc III .CdmueI wesley
Fantasie and fugue on the chiorale. How
Brightly Shines the Morning Star
Max Roger
The Soul Of the Lake.. .Karg-EIert
Scherzo from Sonata. Horatio Parker
Choral, improvisation on I'm Duici Jul
bio" .Karg- Ebert
The concert is sponsored by the
District Of Columbia Chapter of the
American Guild of Organists.
Evening star., 1934-04-17

n II ORDAUNT SHAIRP'S "The
M Green Bay Tree"-not Louis
Ivv Bromflelds-came to Wash
4 L ington last night and played
to large and inquisitive
audience at the -Belasco.
Whether the audience was satisfied
with it or not we don't know. We
do know, however, that it seemed to
us very much in the nature of a dress
rehearsal While Robert Wallsten
and Mary Arbenz played their roles
with a sensitiveness that quite outdid
their Broadway predecessors, Paul
McGrath, in the al-important role
of Dulcimer, shouted out his lungs
and burlesqued the part until 1t be-
came genuinely silly. Added to this,
that tense and emotional moment,
where Dulcimer turns on the phono-
graph and listens to the 12-year-old
voice of the boy he has brought up
and spoiled, was ruined by a record
that growled and snapped, like a
spaniel "a jarring note that certainly
should have been avoided, and the
luxurious home of Mr.. Dulcimer was
about as luxurious as a first-class
Paris pension"
Such maladjustments destroying the
extraordinarily fragile temperament
of the play. it was difficult to enjoy
it even at its face value. Mr.. Sharp
has written bitter, but sentative
story about a young man who was
Evening star., 1934-04-17

the picture admirably and it's side
splitting comedy that Is done with
genuine art. 1t is one of the knockout
pictures of the year.
Constance Bennett is the Duchess of
Florence, if you care. There are those
who will. She was decorative and suf-
ficiently self-centered and irritating to
make the role excellent.
When Berta Singerman, famous
throughout Latin America as great
artist of poetic recitations-a some
what neglected and forgotten field
gave a recital in Los Angeles, it
amazed one to find that many of the
gelatin world were there to pay
homage. Dolores Del Rio and husband,
Cedric Gibbons. clapped their hands
off, so did Jean NeguleSco, the artist;
Raoul Roulien, Conchita Montenegro,
and score of the musical and brainy
group of picture folks.
Singerman, who will make a Spanish
picture with Fox, thrilled the audience
with her exquisite voice and intuitive
understanding of rhythms and dy-
manic values. 1t is rare and exquisite
work.
The studios which couldn't see their
way clear to give Karl Dane picture
work any more-since they felt he
was not a drawing card in talkies-
have kept him from paupers grave.
M. G. NJ, for whom he played
knockout part in THE Big Parade"
will bury the Danish actor whose sud-
den fall from a big salary and the
worlds applause ended in poverty and
suicide.
Copyright. 1884, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1934-04-17
Differences Of Tastes +.
Separate Doug and Mary
Frank Morgan Makes Hit as Duke of Florence
in The Firebrand." Outshining March a
and Constance Bennett. kE
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, April II (N.ANA)-Now it that
- Douglas Fairbanks he home and sit by
reside because, if did, he wouldn't Doug Fairbanks
4 And if Mary Pckford hunting big Africa,
about dear old London and otherwise made world figure
of herself instead Hollywood institution apparently
wouldn't be Mary Pckford.
All of which leads that
of other people who fell in love married
exgences gelatin coast
and :ndiv taste themSe
Evening star., 1934-04-17

ucht kent" accompanied by Nine. Won
Unschuld, and Vivianne Shinn and
Victor johnson in Campagnoli's "Ro-
nance" for two violins, with Miss
Gates at the piano.
The concert ended with two request
numbers by Nine. Won Unschuld,
Schubert-Liszt THE Wanderer" and
LISTS Hungarian Rhapsody XII"
Nine. Won Unschuld again demon
strated the fine artistry that has made
her an outstanding soloist, and the
sincerity of purpose and ideals of mu-
sical standard that has made it pos
sible to develop such talents as is
found in the two students who re-
ceived their degrees, and the others
who took part in the program.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
WORKERS MISS BOAT

JERSEY CITY, N. j., April II (P).
-Plowing southwark through the At
lantic to New Orleans, the Russian
motorship Kim Sunday left behind
her disappointed group of workers
who had planned to present to Capt
August Ulman and his crew portrait
plaque Of Alexander Troyanovsky,
Soviet Ambassador.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
Casino Dividends Drop.

MONTE CARLO, April II R.-
Huge dividends OF the Monte Carlo
Casino, gambling center, dropped
sharply in 1888, the Board of Direc-
tors was informed yesterday. Dividends
Tor the year amounted to 13 per cent
on par value stock. as compared to 1875
per cent in 1929. The same board
was reelected.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
Opening of The Green Bay
Tree Resembles Rehearsal
Fragile Temperament of the Play Injured by
Stage Technique-One Actor
Burlesques His Role.
BY E. de s. MELCHER.

brought up to lose the battle he
should have won. A difficult play
at best, and sometimes a most dis
agreeable one, 1t nevertheless deserves
the whole-hearted support and SYM
pathy Of all concerned. II II was
accorded that last night we missed 1t.
1t was played well enough, but not
superlatively. Without that super
touch it does not bear repetition.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band in Stanley Hall this evening at
$50 o'clock. John S. NJ. Zimmer-
mann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner,
assistant.
March, Saddle and Sabre. Bennett
Overture, "Samiramido' 80. .Rossini
Entr'Acto. "A Finnish Lullabye,'
Krook
"a Serenade". ...... Saint -Saens
Excerpts from comic opera, Boo
CdCClO Ouppc
Chinese one-step. "Sing-Lng Ting"
Cobb
Waltz intermezzo, "Springtime,"
Drumm
Finale. "Step With Pep. Kaufman
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1934-04-17

Daryl Zanuck presents Fredric
March and Constance Bennett, so the
credit sheet reads, in "The Firebrand," :"
with Frank Morgan and Fay Wray in
far smaller type. OF course, when
you've finished seeing the picture you
are so agog over Frank Morgan's mag
niflcent performance as AllesSandro,
the doty old Duke of Florence, that
you don't much care who else Is in
the picture. You don't even care who
did the magnificent stage sets
although Richard Day should get long
and loud praise for some of the most
consistently lovely backgrounds any
picture ever had.
You're so happy to think that Frank
Morgan-who had the nerve to pass up
part at R-K-O when they asked him
to play second fiddle to John Barry
more in "Topaze." the role which
Frank Morgan created and for which
he became justly famous in the eyes
of the worlds severest critics - has
stolen part away from a pair of box
Office names regarded as foolproof in
Hollywood.
Your second loudest cheer Is for
Daryl Zanuck, who had the wit to
leave the role of Allessandro untouched
when he must have seen that his char
acter actor had outstripped his stars.
Perhaps zanuck had a sneaking sus-
picion that his character actor would
outstrip the others anyway. What he
wants is a fine picture and three cheers
to him for getting one.
Not that Fredric March isn't excel
lent as Benvenuto Cellini. It's just
that you don't care much about any
one else, you're so lost in the Morgan
role. Gregory LaCava has directed
Evening star., 1934-04-17
Selznick Sued for Rent.

LOS ANGELES, April IT (R.-Col-
leen Moore sued David o. Selznick,
motion picture producer. for $500
rent yesterday. The actress said Selz-
nick occupied her residence from No.
vember 6. 1888, to December 6, and
did not pay the rent upon demand.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
EMBASSY OFFICIAL ENRAGED.
Promises "SOck on Jaw" for Col.
HutchiSOn.

LONDON. May 5 CP).-An enraged
official Of the Belgian embassy in Lon
don today invited Col. Graham Seton
Hutchison to come there and repeat
his story of King Albert's death
promising HutchisOn a sock on the
jaw" if he does so.
Indignantly saying he was ready to
tell this Col. HutChiSon he is a liar"
an embassy spokesman fumed at word
from Nottingham that HutchiSOn had
said the late Belgian monarch was
slain and did not really die an acci-
dental death while mountain climbing.
If he will come to this embassy
and dare to repeat it to me. I will
give him punch on the jaw and tell
him it is the most scandalous thing
ever heard" the spokesman declared.
IF ones worst enemy wished to
invent a beaStly lie about one that is
the kind Of scandalous thing he would
invent.
There is not a single person in
Belgium who does not know the real
facts about how our beloved king met
his death.
There are some people who-to
get little notoriety-will invent the
most horrible lies.
This man, who have never heard
Of. obviously is one of them.
All deCent-minded people through
out the world will, I am sure, treat
such a statement with contempt as
being unworthy of any gentleman.
1T is an outrage on the dead"
Evening star., 1934-05-05
LEGAL FRATERNITY
DINNER is TONIGHT
Washington Barrister and John
Marshall Inns of Phi Delta Phi
to Hold Annual Event.

The annual dinner of the Wash
ington BarriSter and John Marshall
Inns of Phi Delta Phi International
Legal Fraternity will be held this eve
ming at the University Club.
Those who have received special
invitations include Senator Dickinson
Of Iowa, Justice Jennings Bailey of the
District Supreme Court. Col. Walter c.
Clephane, professor of law at George
Washington University: Col. Edward
Clifford. former Assistant Secretary
Of the Treasury; Representative
Eicher of Iowa, Dean w. C. Van
Week of the George Washington Uni
versity Law School. j. Will Pless, jr.
president of Phi Delta Phi; Gilbert
L. Hall, president of the Washington
Barrister Inn; Capt. Edward A. Jar
neau, U. S A; Robert N. McMillen,
chairman of the Federal Trade Com
mission Board of Review; George
Hamilton McNeill, Clarence A. Miller.
general counsel of the American Short
Line Railroad Association; Represen-
tative Studley of New York and WAL
ter Wyatt. general counsel of the Fed
eral Reserve Board.
The Committee on Arrangements for
the banquet is composed of Charles
L. Smoot, chairman; Neal J. Huff. w.
B. Kerkam, jr: Fred H. Korth, Dom
aid Sherbondy, James P. MullenS and
Z. H. Lorenz.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
MARKET CONTROL
BILL COMPROMISE
Is LIKELY TODAY

Continued From First Page)
bill. the Reserve Board would be in
charge of margins.
Commission from the Senate bills
margin section Of any ngure to guide
the board in determination of mar
gins.
Proof Up TO Plaintiff.
The Senate bills provision that
in suits for recovery under the mis-
leading information clause the burden
of proof rests with the plaintiff.
Consideration of Senator Fletcher's
notifications of the securities act
at this session was viewed as Ger
tain because of the plan to offer them
as an amendment to the stock mar
ket control bill.
The amendments would transfer
jurisdiction of the law from the
Federal Trade Commission to the
proposed Federal Securities Exchange
Commission, which would regulate the
stock exchanges under the Senate
market control bill.
Presentation of the proposed modifl-
cations climaXed NationWi cam
palgn by business and banking leaders
for changes in the law which they
contend was holding up recovery par
ticularly in the tagging capital goods
lnouStry.
Under the proposed new liability
provisions:
A person who sued for damages re-
sulting from a misleading statement
would have to prove that his purchase
Of the security was made in reliance
on the false or misleading statement.
Exceptions of Liability.
An officer or director of a corpora
ton would not, if he acted in good
faith, be liable for a mistake or mis-
representation of an expert on whose
authority he relied. No liability would
attach if the expert was carefully Sc
lected and the officer or director had
no ground to believe the statement
misleading.
No one could recover damages If
the defendant proved the damages
had no relation to his misconduct.
The time in which damage suits
could be filed would be reduced from
10 to 5 years after purchase and
from two TO one year after discovery
of the false statement
Persons suing for damages could
be compelled to post bond to cover
expenses of the action, to be awarded
by the Judge if he decided the case
had no merit.
An underwater would be permitted
to limit his total liability for all suits
to the extent of the public offering
price of the securities he underWrote.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
NEW YORK PRESSES
SEARCH FOR KILLERS
Entire Police Department Kept
ION Call Until Two Sets of
Thugs Are Caught.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 5.-Police Com
missioner Organ said today the en-
tire Police Department would remain
'on CALI until two sets of thugs whose
guns yesterday killed a patrOlman and
wounded others arc brought in dead
or alive
Patrolman Arthur P. Rasmussen
lost his life in the East Side shooting
yesterday afternoon He was on a
crowded street corner when he saw
three men run from grocery store,
which they had robbed.
Rasmussen drew his gun and ran
after the three men, who climbed into
an automobile. They shot him down.
Their bullets also hit a 10-month-Old
baby, a l6-year-old girl and a IT.
year-old boy.
In East Harlem two patrOlmen were
wounded by three men they discovered
lettering in a doorway. A grip car
ried by one Of them contained a can
of gasoline. it was discovered later,
and the men were believed to be mem
berS Of an arson ring.
As the men fed they fired at bar
Der, critically Wounding him.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
CRIME MEASURES
SPEEDED BY HOUSE
Part of Cummings 12-Point
Program to Be Taken
Up Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House sacrificed its Saturday
holiday today to speed action on bills
to put powerful anti-crime weapons
into the hands of the Attorney
General
The bills were part of the 12-point
crime control program handed to
Congress early this session by At
torney General Cummings.
Despite Senate action on eight of
them, they languished in the House
Judiciary Committee until elusive
John Dillinger, Midwestern desperate,
started his latest reign of terror
Then the committee began approx
ing one or two a day. 1t still has
couple to vote on.
Measures Crowded Out.
House leaders have been awaiting
chance to bring the legislation up
for an expected quick passage But
the stock exchange control bill and
other must legislation have kept
crowding it out. With full sched-
ule sighted next week, today'S ses-
sion was decided upon.
Here are some of the things the
measures would do:
Make it a Federal crime to kill or
assault a Government law enforce
ment agent while on duty.
70 - n
imprisonment persons sending kidnap-
ing threats or ransom requests across
State boundaries.
Permit death verdicts in kidnapping
cases unless the victim were liberated
unharmed.
Subject to $1,000 fine or five years
Imprisonment persons fleeing across
State lines to escape prosecution.
Escape Aid Penalty.
Provide 10 years imprisonment for
any one who aids in an escape, helps
incite riot or takes part in supplying
Federal prisoners with firearms.
Make it Federal crime to transport
interstate or TO receive stolen goods.
securities or money valued at S5, 900 or
more.
Permit the Justice Department to
offer rewards for capture of criminals
dead or alive
Meanwhile. an amendment to the
"Llndbergh' kidnapping law to permit
a death sentence for holding a kid
naped person for more than 70 hours,
or subjecting one to physical torture
or injury. was introduced yesterday by
Senator Gore, Democrat, Of Okla
hOma.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
AIR FIRM DROPS
G MAJOR ROUTES
Non-MaiI Service Cut From
Operations of American
AirIineS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 5.-American Air
lines has discontinued all service on
six major routes not included il
awarding Of airmail contracts.
Asserting that the discontinuances
would constitute a great loss" in
the investments Of the company,
President Lester D. Seymour an
nounced last night that the airlines
and four without, the latter to be
covered until further notice.
The mail routes continuing opera
tion are Chicago. Detroit. Buffalo
and Newark: Newark Hartford and
Boston: Louisville. Phoenix, Tucson,
Douglas. FL Paso. Big Springs,
Abiline and Fort Worth.
Non-mail routes: Chicago-St. Louis;
Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati;
Charleston w. VaD and Washing
ton: Detroit Cleveland. and Boston,
Springfield (MaSs). Albany Buffalo,
Cleveland, Columbus. Cincinnati,
Louisville. Nashville, Memphis. Little
Rock. Texarka ma, Dallas and Fort
Worth.
Seymour said the bids entered by
his company, although in some cases
more than twice as high as competl-
tors, were based on more than five
years OF continuous operation and
represented the lowest figure on
which this experience has proved it
possible to maintain present stand
ards of service and equipment"
Arrangements were being made,
Seymour ADDED, for the removal Of
company personnel and equipment on
the discontinued routes.
Evening star., 1934-05-05
STREET REPAIRS
ASKED BY CITIZENS
Chillum Heights Group Wants
Eastern Avenue Opened
Soon.

The Chillum Heights Citizens As
SOciaJion went on record last night
as favoring the opening of Eastern
avenue from New Hampshire to Riggs
road. and also the continuing and
completion of North Capitol street.
A letter is to be sent to Traffic
Director Van DuZer, asking for
signal light at Riggs and Blair roads
This also has been asked by the
Parent Teacher Association.
Several vacant lots on First street
between Kennedy street and Concord
avenue, were asked to be filled so as
to eliminate mud holes.
E. H. Donaldson. owner of a tract
Of land at Rock Greek Church road
and Shepherd street on which he has
a general store that has been a land
mark in the community for the last
40 years or more, asked the aSsocia-
tions help in attempting to have the
property changed back to a CONNER
cial and industrial zone, instead Of
residential
Donaldson said if he wanted to
make an addition or improvement on
his property he would be refused a
permit on the grounds the property
was Zoned as residential.
The association instructed him to
ask for a public hearing on the
matter
A report on the subsistence gar
dens program was given by Cyrus T
Bright. While there has been no
definite action by the Government in
approving the use of the land located
near Riggs and Rock Greek Church
roads, letter was received by the as
sociation from Capt. Thomas S. Joyce.
U. S. NJ c.. Quantico, Va. offering
the use of his land. located on Long
fellow and North Capitol streets, for
the purpose of garden tracts.
Capt. Joyce offered the land free
of charge. and said it would cause
him great deal of pleasure to see
the ground used for such a purpose
The Better Homes Contest spon-
sored by The Star was indorSed after
a short discussion on the way in
which the contest could be pushed.
1t was announced that the aSsocia-
tion would recess until next october
Evening star., 1934-05-05
F|L|P|NOS SPEED
NEW GOVERNMENT
Legislature Votes to Call
Constitutional Session
for July d.
Ry the Assoclaled Press-
:
MANILA. Philippine Islands May

BY me Associated Press.
MANILA. Philippine Islands, May S
The Philippine Legislature voted
today to speed up establishment of a
commonwealth government for the
islands providing for a constitutional
convention TO meet July 4.
This is nearly three months before
the October | time limit set in the
Tydings- -McDufhe independence act.
and spurred legislators hopes Of hay-
ing a new transition government. with
a Filipino chief executive. functionlng
by January !.
The bill. as passed by both houses
Of the Legislature today. provides for
the election of 2O2 delegates June
26. three weeks after the regular
triennial elections. Women will not
vote, majority leaders explaining there
was no time to register them proper
". but will be enfTanchised next jan
uary /.
AL delegates viii be elected by
popular ballot. except those repre-
senting the Moros and other nom
Christian trbesmen who do not have
the franchise Their delegates will
be appointed by municipal councillors.