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The Washington times., 1935-11-27

Hollywood. She learned the busi.
ness of getting laughs long be-
fore California called her.
In the various Earl Carroll
frivolities with w. c. Fields and
Will Mahoney, in Wonderbar with
Al Jolson and in other so-called
s. luSical comedies Patsy more
than held her own as a come
dienne. Before that in vaudeville
as a Stooge for Frank Fay the
same Patsy was q fun riot.
It is no secret in Hollywood
that most stars are scared to
death of Jack Oakie and Patsy
Kelly. Afraid, I mean, that given
half an inch Of rope they will
stretch it until they steal the
picture. They're cute that way.
For instance Call Of the Wild"
was Jack Oakie's picture when
they pre-viewed it first. Since
It would never do to have him
Swipe one from Clark Gable, quite
q bit of Oakie was ScisSored out.
At that a good many voted Oakie
No. / in this feature.
Patsy has been held down SINH
larly in many a picture, although
In Every Night at Eight" she
managed a touchdown though
George Raft was the star.
Now as to Stardom. Pictures for
comedy stars are hard to find.
You will hear . it from Charlie
Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Eddie
Cantor, w. C. Fields, the Marx
brothers, Jimmy Durante, Jack
Pearl, Joe Penner and other rec.
ognized fun makers. All except
Lloyd learned the business of tick
ling an audience by direct contact
in the theater. They know every
trick in the fun book-and there
are quite a few-still they can't
find good comedy stories without
months of research and the aid
Of every writer who owns a joke
book.
On the other hand an incidental
comedy character generally finds
its way into every Hollywood story.
This is where Patsy Kelly and
Jack Oakie come in. They have,
to be sure, only "Bit" parts, for
which they are highly paid, but
they have none Of the respon-
sibility of carrying a picture and
being blamed for its failure or
Glorified for its success.
I really feel sorry when I see
Patsy Kelly wasted in some Of the
Slapstick hokum two reelers, which
are generally pretty labored and
pure machine = m d comedies.
Nevertheless I think she is smart,
will be richer in wealth and
reputation by just taking Bits"
providing the laughs and letting
q more glamorous star revel in the
main spotlight.
"MUTINY" A WINNER
''Mutiny On the Bounty wins
O third week at Loew's Palace. It
Is the first triple threat picture
on F Street since David Copper.
field" Before that "The Thin
Man"
GETS MONEY BACK
Manager Fred Greenway is
pinch-hitttng for Gene Ford at the
Fox this week. On Monday night a
sober-faced individual walked into
his office and requested money
back" as per the guarantee re-
fund to those who couldn't laugh
at the Marx brothers picture "a
Night at the Opera"
Asked if he didn't squeeze out at
least a chuckle the unhappy Gus
toner said No" It wasn't ane.
The Washington times., 1935-11-27
Gets Lucky Break

Betty Burgess won a "Cinder.
ella Girl" contest in Los Angeles
when she was IS and at 1S be-
came an actual Cinderella Girl"
of films. Her first role is leading
woman in Coronado"
Evening star., 1935-09-25
Hollywood Shakespeare.

Basil Dean, speaking for British actors,
says that it made his blood boil' to hear
that Max Reinhardt had adapted Mid
summer Nights Dream" to Hollywood
use. Some Americans-perhaps a con-
siderable number of them-will be apt
to share the resentment. The artistic
standards of the photoplay czars are a
matter of good deal of skepticism and
reports to the effect that the producer
has put much of his own genius" into
the work have served to confirm natural
doubt concerning the final result.
Press agents for the film, however, in
sist that there is no question as to its
artistic merit" Reinhardt, they argue.
"is absolute" And the producer himself
declares: II shall 60 beyond reality. I
shall penetrate the realms of fantasy
and rip the wells which shroud the world
Evening star., 1935-09-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

brainy young men. who were drafted
in serried ranks into the New Deal in
1898. He had much to do with writing
the securities and exchange act. of which
he now becomes the chief administrator.
In collaboration with Prof. Frankfurter,
the securities chairman wrote book en-
titled The Business of the Supreme
Court"
There is fair agreement on one point
among Republican leaders now assem-
bled in Washington for their National
Executive Committee pow-wow, viz, that
the party has not yet developed an out
standing personality likely to make the
kind of a fight that will have to be
waged to bring presidential victory to
the G. O. P. There is no dearth Of
favorite sons. but among them looms
none who boasts of strong popular ap-
peal Borah comes nearest to measur-
ing up to that requisite. He is the weak
est in the conservative East. though his
aggressive stand for constitutionalism
creates friendships among stalwarts who
dislike the Idahoan'S monetary and pro-
hibitionist views. The great Republican
enigma is Hoover. Until the Californian
does or does not definitely choose to
run. Landon. Knox, Vandenberg, Hoff-
man. Dickinson, Steiwer, Fish, Lowden,
Smell. McNary. Wadsworth. Mills and
all the rest of the receptive or avowed
brethren feel that the situation will re-
main more or less befogged. Talk Of
candidates is officially taboo at Chair
man Fletchers council of war. but 1t is
on everybody'S lips for all that.
*
Representative Cleveland Dear, Demo-
crat. of Louisiana. who aspires to the
governorship of the State and leader
ship OF an organization pledged to swing
Huey Longs late realm back into the
Roosevelt camp, is filling his second
term in Congress. First elected in 1882
without opposition and reelected last
year under similar conditions, he is a
native of the cane country, having been
born in the appropriately named COM
munity OF Sugartown. Dear is Al years
old. After serving throughout the
World War as lieutenant of artillery.
he made a brilliant record as a parish
district attorney in Louisiana before en-
tering Congress in 1888 with the New
Deal, of which he has been consistent
supporter.
\ u
Nutmeg State Republicans have formed
1.-THE Potato Men of Connecticut" on
the model of the Revolutionary Minute
Men, to oppose New Deal potato con-
troll. They pledge themselves to plant
a crop Of spuds next season and defy
Government supervision. If prosecuted
they highly resolve to resist to the con-
stitutional limit.
\
Alexei Fedorovich Neymann, first Sec
retary of the Soviet Embassy in Wash
ington, has been transferred to the for
eign office of Moscow. He was one OF
the first u S. S. r. representatives sent
to the United States after recognition,
following tours of duty in London, Paris
and Berlin. The young diplomat re-
grets pulling up stakes after only twenty
months of American residence. He
thinks a foreigner needs at least five
years to know Uncle Sam.
Copyright. 1889
Evening star., 1935-09-25

beyond. shall take the audience up to
the stars, out to the uttermost realms Of
imagining. I shall blend the real and the
unreal" But, it may be suggested, what
will become of Shakespeare. The Bard,
safely dead more than three centuries
and therefore powerless to protest as well
as incompetent to collect royalties, can
not defend the integrity Of his effort.
Instead, he must submit to being i'm
proved upon. Reinhardt has supple
mented him with his own cosmic con-
ceptions, ripping wells among the num-
ber.
Also, certain popular cinema players
have been introduced into the cast to
insure the attendance Of those fans who
customarily follow such idols. 1t is ex-
planned that their enthusiasts will come
to see Shakespeare in order to see them,
when nothing else in the world would
bring them into the theater." The trick,
of course may be legitimate in the ethics
of Hollywood and the public may not
object. Yet 1t is fair to ask: Will not
the mannerisms thus imported mar the
authentic honesty of the play? That
happened when Mary Pickford and
Douglas Fairbanks essayed film edition
of The Tanning of the Shrew," and there
is nothing to guarantee that it will not
occur again in the Reinhardt enterprise.
But the picture itself will decide its
fate. Soon to be released, it will be ap-
proved or disapproved in consonance
with whatever artistic ideals audiences
have. For Shakespeare's sake it may be
hoped that it will be a success. Other
wise producers with less skill than Rein
hardt may be tempted to try hand at
bringing him up to date.
Evening star., 1935-09-25
Man.COst and Need.

If the factor of need rather than that
of "man-cost" governs, there should be
no doubt of the success of the effort of
Senator King of Utah, chairman Of the
Senate District Committee, to secure
from the President an ALLEGATION OF
P. w. A. funds to construct the three
minor District courts buildings on Judici
ary Square for which repeated applica-
ton has been made. This remnant of
the Municipal Center plan represents
one of the most urgent necessities ever
faced by the District government. Every
body agrees that the present courts
equipment of the National Capital is
disgracefully inadequate. The conges-
tion is such that the business of the
courts is delayed and blocked. This re-
acts upon the public harmfully. virtu-
ally nullifying certain laws and impos-
ing heavy burden upon those who are
required to attend court.
1t is needless to point out the merits
of the Districts appeal The project
of a Municipal Center has been pend
ing long enough for everybody to un-
derstand it. 1t grew out of a long-a
cumulating list of necessities, with a
clear indication that the solution lay in
the concentration of the required struc-
lures upon a central site, sufficiently
commodious to provide for the entire
municipal establishment. The land was
bought and partly cleared. That
brought the enterprise to an end. Re-
vision of the plans was undertaken, with
the suggestion that the Federal Gov
ernment should take over for its own
uses at an equitable allowance a por-
ton of the District-owned property.
Nohing was done. Nothing, indeed, has
ever been done with the land save to
make it, through partial clearance, a
hideout blot on the Capital scene, nor
with the buildings remaining beyond
renting them out to private uses and
squeezing into some Of them needy
branches of the District administration.
Now it is proposed to solve the prob
lem, in part, by erecting three courts
buildings on Judiciary Square. Con-
gress has fiddled with the proposition and
has failed to take action. 1t is ad-
ministratively possible to allocate sufi-
ficient money from the general P. w. A.
funds to effect this greatly needed ad-
dition to the municipal equipment. Some
quirk of calculation has raised the ques-
tion of whether this proposed and vitally
necessary work falls into the category
of permissible objects of such ALLEGATION.
The District needs the buildings. There
are idle men who need employment.
The ratio Of cost per man once set is
not an irrevocable element. 1t is greatly
to be hoped that Senator King may be
able to persuade those in high authority
that this allotment should be made.
Evening star., 1935-09-25
The Winner.

While the fisticuffs of last night in
New York did not directly and immedi-
ately affect the heavyweight champion
ship, nevertheless the winner of the fight
Is already hailed as virtually assured Of
the crown of pugilism. The present
holder of the title. James Braddock. is
regarded generally as merely a stopgap
who can hardly be expected to defend
his crown against the remarkable young
ster who has just qualified for the right
to challenge him. Braddock is eight
years older than Louis and on the basis
of the fights the two have fought with
Baer there would seem to be little ground
for doubt Of the superiority of the new,
prospective challenger.
AS for last nights encounter, it was in
accord with general expectation. The
result confirmed the judgment of those
best qualified for prediction, as expressed
in the betting, which strongly favored
Louis. 1t was, indeed, surprising only
in the brevity of the encounter and the
promptness with which the younger man
assumed the offensive. The "playboy" of
the ring, careless of his responsibility,
Indifferent to the rules of training, had
wasted himself in diversions and was
lacking in the fine coordination of mind
and muscle which makes the great boxer
He was easy to hit and he found his own
blows efficiently parried. That told the
whole story and the end came with mer-
ciful promptness.
This new aspirant for fistic supremacy
is one of the youngest ever to stand forth
in the championship class. He has just
turned twenty -one and II he bears him.
self as judiciously and soberly hereafter
Evening star., 1935-09-25
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Millions for the Manly Art of Self
Defense.
Both gallant men and ladies fair
Arrived that feStal night
To see meath the electric glare
A million-dollar fight.
If We expect the wealth to share,
Perhaps it's only right
For those who have it to prepare
A million dollar fight.
And business gayly is aware
OF better times in sight
When folks for this have cash to spare
A million dollar fight.
Evening star., 1935-09-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

First, it sounds from the tree in front,
then from the tree to one side, then at
the rear.
1t is here, there and everywhere, so
that no lone walker, unless he be pa
tient, can hope to spot it.
Only the bright moonlight makes the
thing possible. At last one is practically
certain he sees him-and. sure enough,
there he is. There is no doubt about it,
because the laughing, braying cry arises
from the same spot.
"A brave attempt has been made, in
recent years, to illuminate the garden
at night.
Every one knows how really beautiful
flowers are in the headlights of motor
cars.
Every one who has driven up the home
driveway and kept his eyes open for
something more than the mere running
| OF car has noticed the fine color and
texture, caused by shadows which arise
when the powerful lights shine for a
few brief moments on the flower borders
So an attempt has been made to boost
the use of spotlights in home gardens,
but mostly 1t has fallen fiat. not only
due to the trouble Of installation, but
also because even the most hard boiled
person feels that artificial illumination
is very much out of place in the garden.
The average mans garden today
usually is, as it ought to be, his place
of refuge from the mechanical world
all about him. Nothing more than a
lawn mower ought to have the right to
enter, in the mechanical way.
Sunlight and moonlight and starlight
these are the best garden illuminants,
tried over the centuries and not found
wanting.
A garden is an ever-changing picture,
best seen in those perfect lights which
Nature handles so well, since she has
had so much experience.
Night, with it's inky shadows, is as
much part of this eye drama as any
other part Of the day. 1t is an integral
| part of the most famous and beautiful
dissolving picture in the world. Man,
with the magic of his electricity and
colored lights. offers nothing quite so
immensely simple as this. Its beauty
lies in this essential simplicity. All de-
pendS upon what We accept as the
SIdHUdIU. IL IIle BaIlSIl Qudllty VI QuIChly
changing lights is ones standard, then
one perhaps will see very little in dawn
and twilight. The subtle changes of the
| "a hours in regard to natural light, will
mean little.
But to the person who appreciates
what is, because it has such an immensely
of time behind it, to say nothing of the
whole creation behind it, there is no
play in the world more interesting and
beautiful than this one of natural light
| and its many forms and changes.
1t is such common thing in our lives,
so always with us, that We tend in time
| to accept it along with breathing and
| the other automatic forces that SO Won
/ derfully guide us on our essentially mys-
terious way. We come in time to dis
| regard all these, but have only to stop
! at any moment, as now, to realize them
in all their mighty portend. Sunlight
and moonlight and starlight are our real
| lights in the best and true sense. The
| rest are only limitations.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

Did you notice the moonlight recently7
It was Of such witness that 1t re-
sembled snow on the ground.
Early risers rubbed sleepy eyes, won-
dering If Nature had blanketed the land
scape out Of season, To see that scene,
one had to arise about 4:30 am.
Not many city residents get up then,
but some do, Of course. and these are
the beneficiaries of things unique in the
weather line.
Nature reserves her choicest sights for
early risers.
In her amplitude Of time, there is
no such thing as early or late.
Big brown rabbits eat constantly all
night long.
If you want to see them on your lawn,
nibbling your choicest flowers. you must
look out the window at the right time.
This is just as likely to be 3 as s
o'clock.
At first the brown shape, motionless,
will not be noticed in the shadows. He
has heard something and is very, very
quiet.
Then he moves, ever so slightly. You
see him at last.
Maybe you will get as much of a thrill
out of seeing real rabbit in your. garden
as some persons do watching their choice
come galloping down the stretch.
II
To the friend of animals the rabbit is
one of the most innocent of all creatures
in appearance. Yet the whole world
seems to conspire to harry it. Fleas and
ticks select i: as host and dogs and even
cats chase and kill it, if possible. Man
abuses it on every hand.
Yet this innocent vegetarian goes its
| way, feeding in the moonlight, keeping
a wary eye open for its natural and
unnatural enemies. 1t knows nothing of
the fact that its food may turn out to
be a priced flower of some human.
Wherefore the gardener who prizes all
Nature, not just a selfish little part of
1t he chooses. is glad for the beasties
| that come to his yard. They may make
themselves at home there, as far as he
is concerned.
There are in the world at any one
| time. many persons who, for one reason
| or other, find it impossible to sleep
upon occasion.
| If they would sit at the window and
watch the night, it would be a great
| deal better than fussing and fuming
because they cannot go to sleep.
| They might find. as Ben Franklin did,
| that nothing is better in such predica-
ment than a bodily cooling off process.
| To sleep too warm is almost worse than
too cool; the actual lowering of the tenn
| perature of the skin by contact with
| fresh night air is good for the nerves
1t is the one best way, however, to
watch the night life of the garden.
Listening to 1t is not exactly enough.
Mournful cries of the owl become alto
gether different when one spots the bird
| itself.
One may specify the owl, rather
| than an owl. because one is practi-
cally sure in time that it is the same
creature.
This is the most difficult of birds to
find in the trees.
It's lugubrious cries, long drawn out,
| leave no doubt of its presence. but its
location is an entirely different matter.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

as heretofore he is likely to have q long
reign as king Of the ring, assuming that
he is to gain that title from Braddock.
A glance at the records will not be amiss:
John L. Sullivan, ten years of champion
ship: James j. Corbett, five years; Bob
Fitzsimmons, two years; James j. JEFF
fries, seven years; Tommy Burns, two
years; Jack johnson, seven years; Jess
willard, four years; Jack Dempsey, seven
years; Gene Tunney, two years; Max
Schmeling, two years, and Jack Sharkey,
Primo Carnera and Max Baer, one year
each, with Braddock likely to hold the
title little If any more than year. 1t
may be that Louis will join the ranks of
the longer reigning kings of the ring.
To those who follow the fistic game
with pleasure the fight last night was
somewhat of a disappointment in that
the defense was feeble and lacking in
the fire and spirit supposedly the quality
of a first-class boxer. But, after all, the
result is the test of a prize fight, rather
than the duration. The dramatic climax
is supplied by a surprise, as in the case
of Corbett's defeat of Sullivan and Tun-
neys defeat of Dempsey. There really
was no surprise last night. The defeated
man had forfeited public support by his
clownish performances and the winner
had won it by his earnest concentration
upon the job in hand, which is champion
ship strategy in any line of human en-
deavor.
Evening star., 1935-09-25
The Boss Problem.

Such is the way of human pride
In every time and nation.
Men battle fiercely to decide
Who'll boss q situation.
And then where deadly perils dwell
Mid human gains and losses
They have a bigger fight to tell
Who's going to boss the bosses.
Evening star., 1935-09-25
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Silvered Day.

Day of shadows, quiet, blest.
Silvered skies and mountain crest,
Streams that flow in tides of gray,
Shining, silent as the day;
Dusky trees that cast no shade
On my footpath thru the glade.
Winds that echo the far cry
OF an eagle flying high,
Skyline drowned in purple haze
One of natures gray-hued days.
I stretch my arms to you under these
skies
That give the earth the color Of your
,eyesl
Evening star., 1935-09-25

General Charles Dawes would do great
world service if he could appear at a
Geneva conference and revive the influ-
ence of the historic utterance, Let's get
together and get somewhere"
Evening star., 1935-09-25

In utilizing natural resources, coal
mining goes back of horse and buggy
days to the pick and shovel. 1t repre-
sents low standards Of living as matter
of physical location as well as in eco
nomic relationships.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

Respect for the established United
States Constitution is complete when a
man of so much forceful originality as
Senator Borah stands before the world
and admits that he could not write a
better one.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

There are professional jealousies in
the highest walks of life. Even die
tators may become envious of the acclaim
which constitutes the measurement Of
glory.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

Secretary Ickes appears to be one OF
those old-fashioned persons who think
that so long as people are spending
money they might as well be getting
something for it.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

Education is being systematized to
degree that starts at the very beginning
and teaches youngsters how to get to
school without being run over in the
street.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

Munitions makers are represented as
looking for profits that may result in
little beyond more work for accountants
and income tax collectors.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

The shock Of World War has already
been studied with scientific care. It
Jared the budgets of nations terrifcally
out of balance.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

1t is put on the record that what
President Roosevelt toasted for corre-
spondents in genial picnic spirit were
plain old sausages and not bologna.
Evening star., 1935-09-25
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Original Crisis.

what was the greatest political crisis
in human affairs?"
"The one that occurred in the shade
of the old apple tree in the Garden of
Eden" said Senator Sorghum. Adam
and Eve might have adjusted their diff
ferences if it had not been for the in
trusion Of third party"
Jud Tunkins says one Of the things
he can't understand is what we're going
to do with our problems when they beat
the billions and 60 into trillions.
Evening star., 1935-09-25
No Gang.

No Gang.
"Any gang men in Crimson Gulch?"
mo" said Mesa Bill. "A gang is out
of the question. Feeling is so bitter that
nobody is willing to associate with any
body else"
Evening star., 1935-09-25

Many eminent women have written on
household topics and given true literary
status to the arts of apple sauce.
Evening star., 1935-09-25
Easy Tasks.

From the Indiana polls Star.
Life is extremely simple for many foot
ball coaches who merely are required to
win all the games on the schedule.
Evening star., 1935-09-25

Encouragement Of art should pay espe-
cial attention to sculpture. The demand
for monuments to the departed great
was never so urgent.