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The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Band at
The Howard

Harold Woods and his orchestra
provide the stage attraction at
the Howard Theater this week
and judging from it's reception
yesterday this musician group
will attain wide popularity on it's
first Washington visit.
The Woods band comes from
the Gibson house, Cincinnati, and
enjoys an enviable reputation in
the Middle West. It's routine fea.
lures novelty hot rhythms and
melody syncopation. Among the
enjoyable moments of the pro-
gram are the limitations of the
famous radio orcheStras and their
peculiar musical eccentricities.
Vocal numbers and dancing make
the Woods offering exceedingly
worthwhile.
On the screen is a Columbia
picture, 1.-THE Best Man Wins"
with Jack Holy. Edmund Lowe
and Florence Rice featured. It is
story of tangled romance that
offers many stirring incidents.
There will be a midnight show to-
night with reserved seats.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Harlow Is Next
At Palace

Jean Harlow and William Powell,
two of screendom's most favored
stars, join their talents for the
first time in Reckless" a dy-
manic musical melodrama which
Loew's Palace will unfold for the
first time next Friday.
Thrilling and colorful, "Reck-
less" offers the story of a beauti.
full blonde dancer who rises from
a carnival dancer to become one
of Broadway's most noted dane
ers, marries playboy millionaire
and captures society, becomes tan
gled in the murder of her hus-
band, fights for her child and is
aided by the one man who has
always helped and loved her.
Miss Harlow appears for the
first time as a singing and dane
ing star, introduces three out
standing new numbers, and is
seen in several dancing sensa-
tions.
Franchot Tone, May Robson,
Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton and
Robert Light are cast in principal
support,
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Glen Echo Opens for Season
On Saturday, April II

The lure and magic of outdoor
wonderland is promised Saturday
afternoon, April q, when Glen
Echo Park, inaugurating the 1885
season, resounds with the roar of
the roller coaster and other amuse-
ment devices that provide recrea-
ton for Washingtonians.
The 100000 swimming pool, one
of the major attractions at the
park, will begin operation May Is.
The same low prices as last year
will prevail this season, with swim
ming popular during night opera
ton as during daylight hours.
Among the new surprises prom
ised by the management is the
"pretzel," named by reason of an
electrically propelled car travers-
ing bonded steel rails laid in the
shape of a pretzel and running in
the darkness.
Prominent among many i'm.
provements recently completed at
Glen Echo is additional parking
space for automobiles.
Leonard B. Schloss, who is
rounding out Is years as manager
of Glen Echo, said yesterday: 1.-The
same refined standards will again
predominant at Glen Echo, and
all patrons may depend on recrea-
ton of the highest caliber through
the medium of more than so up
to-date amusement attractions in
Q setting of scenic splendor."
The Spanish Garden Ballroom
popular dance rendezvous at Glrn
Echo. will again feature Dave
McWilliams' 12-piece orchestra. It
will be the orchestra's ninth con-
secutive year at the park.
A large number of bookings
from churches, Government asso-
Citations and fraternal organiza.
tions have already been received,
thus indicating a record season.
In addition to local organizations.
many out-of-town churches, clubs
and schools have made reserva-
lions for picnics during the 5um.
mer months.
The park staff of 200. many
who point to an unbroken record
of more than 20 years at Glen
Echo, have been notified to re-
port for duty April q.
Mr.. Schloss announced yeSter-
day that there will be no increase
in prices to the various attrac.
tions at Glen Echo. Admission
to the park this summer, as in
the past, will be free.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13

True, it's a murder mystery
But the corpus deficit is only that
of a newspaper columnist, and so
his Staying really doesn't interfere
with the fun. Perhaps, even, It
adds to the hilarity by way of
wish fulfillment.
In any event, here again we
have million-dollar Bill Powell as
the bibbing barrister who sleuths
about on the fringe of the Grim
inal world, and Ginger Rogers
plays Miss Watson to Bills Sher-
lock. So, between drinks, the pair
finds itself involved in the disap-
pearance of an actress, the murder
of a columnist and the income tax
case which threatens to incar'
cerate that old wooden-gun whit
tier, Paul Kelly.
Dumb Detectives
Now such a piece must, Of
necessity. feature a couple of
dumb Dicks, and in this offering
they are nobly portrayed by j..
Farrell Macdonald and Robert
Emmett O'Connor, either of whom
would brighten even the densest
wrong-doer from any hotel lobby,
for copper" is written large on
the paunch of each. There must
be suspects, too, and here the line
up includes Leslie Fenton, Gene
Lockhart, Ralph Morgan, Vivien
Oakland, the entire cast, indeed
save the corpse nd the cops.
Both director and dialogue
writer's have pointed the whole
piece for comedy, and crisp
lines plus amusing situations
more than make amends for any
slight delirium of plot entangle-
ment. There's a surprise, too, in
the finale, for the solution of
the crime comes from an un-
expected angle.
Is Well Cast
The players are all excellent,
but Mr.. Powell is best. Ginger
Rogers shows a fine flair for
comedy, and, Of course, MesSrs.
Macdonald and O'Connor con-
tribute to the hilarity, while Les
lie Fenton and Russell Hopton
are good to the last drop. .'aul
Kelly gives good gangster por-
trayal, and Director Stephen
Roberts fulfills more than ever
before the high promise which
many of his movies have regis
tered. In this type of tale he
seems to have found his meter.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
BILL POWELL AT KEITHS
Crosby Fields
Win Second
Week

Mississippi" Bing Crosby's lat
test opus, being held over for a sec.
ond week at Loew's Palace, pro-
vides a new and different type of
story background for the popular
crooner. The locale is Dixie,
shortly after civil war days, and
Bing's role is that of a Yankee
idealist who, through a miSunder-
standing with his Southern fiancee,
becomes a show boat singer, gain
ing reputation, quite innocently,
as a KILLER"
The production is beautifully
staged and photographed.
w. C. Fields takes over every
sequence in which he appears and
makes them his very own. 1t was
generally thought that Fields had
reached his pinnacle in David
Copperfield," but the success of his
present performance foretells
many future "pinnacles" for this
comedian.
The four song numbers, all OF
which Bing renders in excellent
voice, as Soon" Grated by the
radio networks as the hit of the
week., cts Easy to Remember, D."
Down BY the River" and a beau,
tiful version of "Swanee River"
Joan Benefits beauty has never
shown to better advantage, and,
although think the public would
prefer Bing's vis-a-vis to be able to
reciprocate in song, the youngest
Bennett girl is a real pictorial
asset to the picture. other cast
members are Queenie Smith (mak-
ing a rather inauspicious movie
debut, Gail Patrick Zone of this
years Paramount candidates for
future stardom), Claude Gilling'
water and John MILAN.
The first of a Crime Does Not
Pay" series, made by M.-G.-M., is
one of the most engrossing shorts
recently screened. Others are a
neWsreel, Grantland Rice Sports
Reel and Mickey Mouse"
M. B,
The Washington times., 1935-04-13

stage history, following, as it in,
tends to do, in the path made
open by "Ah, Wilderness" and
Mary of Scotland"
S. N. Behrman is the author.
Philip Moeller directed it and Lee
Simonson has provided the elabo-
rate settings. The play is
comedy, dealing with the hui.
morous side of quaint notions
that often become problems in
the minds of the populace. Miss
Cowl is said to give an infinitely
accomplished performance.
John Halliday returns to the
stage from Hollywood to portray
an exiled music critic like an
actor and a gentleman.
The dialogue is credited by
critics as being "double-edge>."
In many circles Rain From
Heaven" is declared to be the
best of the Behrman works. It
could be called a radiant pro-
test" with an aromatic gracious.
ness of wit and Well-distilled
wording"
Supporting Miss Cowl and Mr..
Halliday are Lily Cahill, Jay Fas-
sett, Judson Laire, Jose Ruben.
Hancey Castle, Marshall Grant.
Stats Cotsworth and Alice John.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13

Combining all the daring and
skill of tracking down desperate
and clever criminals in a police
drag-net of Statewide scope with
brilliant performance by play
ers lending finesse to the closely
interviewer sub-plots, Gar SO" is
well above the average gangSter
picture. When such consumate
artists as Sir Guy Standing, Will
liam Frawley, Fred MacMurray,
Frank Craven, and Ann Sheridan,
contribute their talents, the re-
suit is fore-ordained a success. Sir
Guy as Professor Anthony, who
is in fact leader of one of the
smartest outlaw gangs in the
country, is excellent, while Fraw-
ley's Interpretation of the hard
boiled police sergeant, is show
in itself. Though the action may
be bit tense or over-drawn, the
result is mighty interesting.
Heading the stage program,
Oracle Barrie and Eddie Peabody
vie for honors and come out pref
ty even, judging by the applause.
Miss Barrie, very charming in a
green ensemble, sings several of
her most popular numbers. Eddie
Peabody, who can play just about
every stringed instrument, is re-
called again and again.
GaSs, Mack, Owen and TopSy,
those comedian tumblers make
merry to the very evident delight
of a large audience and Lew
Duthers, Jean and Joan, dancers
extraordinary, round out a splen-
did program. Miss Aubrey Sieber
is mistress of ceremonies. Fred
die Clark's orchestra offers as
overture Rhythm" which with a
widely diversified group of short
subjects, completes an excellent
bill. H. K.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
"AII Kings Horses"
Next at Columbia

"All The Kings Horses" boast
ing delightful story, five new
hit tunes and general all-round
comedy that vies for principal in
terest with it's two stars, Carl Bris-
son and Mary Ellis, is the attrac-
ton that will tenant LoeW'S Column
bia Theater the week starting Fri
day April 18th.
Brisson is that new screen IA
vorite who made Cocktails For
Two" a nations favorite while
Miss Ellis was the singing star OF
"Rose Marie" an all-time favorite.
Edward Everett Horton, Kath-
crime DeMille, Eugene Palette and
many others appear in support.
"All The Kings Horses" is de-
ligtful musical romance offering
the artful comedy of the king who
shaved off his beard and learned
to Groom so that mis- queen and his
kingdom could get thrill.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Bride of Frankenstein'
Is Next at Keith S

The strangest pair of lovers in
the history of the screen are to
be seen in "The Bride of Frank.
enstein," the next attraction at
RKO-Keith's. It is a sequel to
"Frankenstein" which was an al
most sensational success at prac-
tically every theater in the world.
In the new picture the monster
demands a bride and the two
scientist who created him create
his bride. The picture is candidly
planned to create chilly thrills and
if the producers are as successful
with this sequel as with the first
picture then RKO-Keith's will be
set for another long run.
Karloff again appears in his
original role as the monster while
Elsa Manchester is the bride. 2"
Others in the cast are Colin Give,
Valerie Hobson, and Una O'Con-
nor.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
'Rugg|es' Held
At the Met

BY popular demand the com
edy success "Ruggles of Red Gap"
is held over for its second record
week. This is a Paramount pro
duction based on the story of
the same name by Harry Leon
Wilson and is on view at the
Metropolitan. If you enjoy good
humor this is your evenings en-
tertainment solution.
Briefly, the story concerns the
perils, trials and tribulations
that beset a bland Englishman
trained as a servant and thrust
into the wild freedom of the
Woolly West. Marmaduke Rug
giles, gentleman's gentleman
is won by Egbert Flowd, oil-rich
millionaire. Ruggles follows Egg.
bert and his wife back to their
home in Red Gap. From then
on his fortunes gallop.
Charles Laughton turns in q
marvellous piece of comedy acting
in direct contrast to his old roles
of sadistic villainy. The remain
ing company of Mary Boland
Charles Ruggles, Maude Eburne
and zasu Pitts prove able support
in delivering the hilarious comedy
lines that follow one after another
The picture retains a full flavor
of life in the early nineties, whe1l
anything foreign was looked upon
as affectation.
A Paramount News, a novelty
Rimax Rhumba orchestra, and q
Paramount Variety are the re
naming bill. D. M.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
M OV I F.
CLOCK

EARLE Fred McMurray and
Ann Sheridan, in Car &c."
1918 a. M, 1890, 2:55, $40,
7:45, 10 p. m. Stage, 11:40 a.
m, 2:O5, 4::3O, 6:55, $40 p. m.
FOX-Paul Lukas and Alison
Skipworth, casino Murder
Case" 1880 a. m, 1870, AIS,
7:05, GAS p. m.
PALACE-Bing Crosby and Joan
Bennett, in mississippi"
1875 a. M, 1885, $40, $40,
7:45, $50 p. m.
BELASCO-"Road to Life"
lisa a. m, 1853, 1852, Ssh,
7:50. 9:49 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-William Powell
and Ginger Rogers in "Star
of Midnight" 11:44 a. m,
1:44, 3:44, 5:44, 7:44, 9:44
p. m.
COL UMBIA-Will Rogers in
Life Begins at 40" 11:47 a.
M, 1:4S, 3:49, 5:55, 7:51. 9:52
p. III.
METROPOL ITAN-Mary 3D.
land and Charlie Ruggles in
"Ruggles of Red Gap" 11:1O
a. m, lis, 3:15. $40, 1928.
$50 p. m.
HOW D-"The Best Man
Wins" 1890, $50, 7:O5,
1910 p. m. Stage-2:40, $50,
9:05 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
BartheImess Is
Due Soon

Richard Barthelmess ends a
prolonged screen absence with his
excellent charac e r ization in
-Four Hours To Kill" a clever
and exciting mystery that is
scheduled to be shown at LoeW's
Fox Theater the week starting
Friday, April 10.
Sharing the limelight with the
Barthelmess thriller will be the
widely-awaited stage appearances
of the famous George Olsen and
his equally famous orchestra
highlighted by Ethel Shutta and
other members of this stage and
radio unit.
Joe Morrison, popular young
stage and radio star, Helen Mack
Gertrude Michel, Roscoe Harms
and many others favored by
movie fans support Barthelmesi
in the exciting -Four Hours Tc
Kill" which is an adaptation OF
the stage success, Small Mir
acle." The exciting plot revolves
around a pair of ingenious muir
ders committed in a theater with
the audience unaware of the
drama and thrills that are being
enacted. The story is unusually
novel.
Augmenting the appearance OF
George Olsen, Ethel Shutta and
the Olsen orchestra, will be an
overture by Phil Lampkin and
the Fox orchestra, news events
and short subjects.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13

Detective LukaS is pretty tame
in this formula made movie and
exhibit of muddled story telling.
The most interesting moments
are provided by a screen new
conner. Rosalind Russell, and by
that hardy veteran Alison Skip
worth in brief moments.
Ted Healy and Louise Fazenda
are required to supply the
comedy and they are left high
and dry by the authors. Miss
Fazenda as chronic key hole
pepper does better than Ted who
emerges with a score card COM
pletely minus.
"Casino Murder Case' must
have been made while Irving
Thalberg was out fishing. Though
it bears an M-G-M label it be-
longs on double feature programs.
Count Berni Vici's Spices Of
1895" provides the stage program
with 15-piece girls band
heavy on brasses-which offers
Ravel's Bolero and Tschaikow-
sky's 1912 overture, with screen
and fireworks. Blare and noise
and not much music.
Comedy is provided by Bob
Carney and by the before-men-
toned Garner-Wolf and HakinS
Oocal lads who began their
careers at the jewish Commun-
ity Center) whose efforts are
both vigorous and moist. Dane
ing by De Cont and Romini,
songs by Lester Harding and a
violin interlude by Berni Vici
complete fast stage program.
Fox Movietone shows PreSi-
dent Roosevelt returning from
his Florida vacation somewhat
stouter, and a water splitting sea
lion who is an unconscious come
dian. Phil Lanpkin's overture
offering original arrangements of
Ozark Eyes" stars off this lengthy
program.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Jane CowI in
Guild Play

Jane Cowl and John Halliday,
the first the most glamorous lady
of the stage and the second a
popular cinema star who has a
long rostrum record to his credit,
are coming to the National Thea.
ter for one week, beginning Easter
Monday, April %, in Rain From
Heaven" a Theater Guild produc-
ton that has enjoyed a long and
prosperous run at the Golden
Theater in New York.
This is the third of a cycle of
guild productions that is making
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Oracle Barrie Has
New Song Budget

Oracle Barrie, popular young
songstress who is playing a
second week at Warner Bros.
Earle Theater, presents COM
plete new program of popular
melodies.
Included are the hit song from
Life Begins at 8:4O," you're A
Builder-Upper," THE Words Are
In My Heart" from Gold Dig
gers of 1885,; Whose Honey
Are You" and from Rudy Vallee'S
Sweet Music" the song "Ev'ry
Day."
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Love Recalls Past

Montagu Love, playing a fea-
tured role in Cecil B. De Miles
The Crusades," recalls that in
his first picture. Hearts in Exile"
the now exiled Soviet leader, Leon
Trotsky, was an extra.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Fox Flower Show
PLAYS Second Week

Due to the tremendous appeal
created by the fourth annual gar
den and flower display in the
lobby of Loew's Fox Theater, Car
ter Barron, division manager, an
nounced last night that the dis
play would be held over for a
second week,
The Washington times., 1935-04-13

house time on the stage While Mr.. HeaIy
struggles hard to get a word in edgewise
into the screen s 'Casino Murder Case"
All the goings-on on both stage and screen
will not cause as much discussion or interest
as the lobby show called "Girl In the Gold
fish Bowl" This is really something in the
way of illusion. For peering into tiny
aquarium that has guppies and goldfish you
discover lovely young lady in lounging
array on chase lounge, who waves back at
you. How do they do it? My guess is mir
rors. But see it and roll your own answer.
AS for the "Casino Murder Case" it is
Van Dine mystery story with Paul LukaS
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Car 49, at the Earle Offers
Exciting Police Story
Peabody, Stage Star

Gear 99' the Earle Theater of those thrilling
films packed with action destined to appeal to almost every
type of movie patron Dramatzng the radio patrol police
is exciting apt to unravel in these days
Bros mystery is surefire entertainment.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Jaunty Bill Powell Stars in
Breezy Murder Mystery

Jaunty lghthearted, sprngme entertainment possessing
plenty of that smoothness which distinguished The Thin
Man, the new R-K-O- Keth's is bright bit Of
wit and nonsense the season has seen.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
MYSTERY MOVIE AT FOX
Spices of 1885, Fills Stage
With Gay Song and Dance;
Fish Bowl Girl in Lobby
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Ted ealy former stooges fare much better this week
the Fox program than Ted Heay For the goofy lads
Garner, Wolf and Hakins-squirt and have rough
The Washington times., 1935-04-13

another s. s. Dine mystery story WIN Fau1 IuKas
the famed Phlo Vance 1t offers couple OF murders
wifi nnintinn various members Of the cast.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13
Wears Exclusive Frock

The coat of matched silver foxes
which Gertrude Michael wears in
-Four Hours to KILL" is the only
one of its kind in America.
The Washington times., 1935-04-13

casino Murder Case" Offers Paul
Lukas As Star Of Thrill Story
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
HEARING OPENS
ON SHOE CODE
International News Service


Migration o. shoe factories from
Massachusetts are due to eco.
nOmic causes which arose long
ago, witnesses declared yesterday
at a reopened hearing on the boot
and shoe code. The NRA has
been asked to reopen the shoe
cot for the purpose of eliminat.
ing geographic wage differentials.
Among the witnesses appearing
were: Gov. Lewis j. Brann, of
Maine. and Paul Jones, represent.
II 6 the Commonwealth Shoe and
Leather Company, of Whitman,
Mass. and Gardner, Me.
Governor Brann said Maine
communities were making no in.
ducements to Massachusetts, in.
dustrieS to move their plants,
Shoe workers charge that wage
ditferentialS in the Shoe code are
forcing industries to move from
Massachusetts to Maine and other
States because of lower wage
privileges.
Mr.. Jones told the hearing that
Shoe factories have been moving
out Of Massachusetts, because of
ecopomlc reasons since 1890.
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
Starving Woman
SAVED In Shack
Under Snow

:, BELLMORE, L. l., Jan. 80.
> Patrolman Frank Carpenter, of
the Nassau county police, cruiS-
ing in his roadster, remembered
= Miss Eugenia Van Cott, SO, who
. lives in a shack on a namelesS
lane on his beat.
His car could only go within a
: few hundred yards of the place
:. and Carpenter had to wade
2 on through deep drifts. He found
: one end of the shack caved in
: by the weight of snow.
= Inside Miss Van Cott lay in a
corner, wearing all her clothes, a
: blanket and a mattress wrapped
: around her. Around her stood
: 13 hungary cats.
=, Miss Van Cott was Semi-con-
!. scious and when she had been
= removed by an ambulance to the
.stoWn home, in Hampstead, she
:. recovered rapidly.
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
Is This Too Good
for Your Couch?

Creomulsion may be a better help
than you need. 1t combines seven
helps in one. 1t is made for quick
relief, for safety.
Mild coughs often yield to lesser
helps. No one can tell. No one
knows which factor will do most for
any certain cough. So careful people,
more and more. are using Creomul-
sion for any cough that starts.
The cost is a little more than a
single help. But your druggist is
authorized to guarantee it, so it costs
nothing if it fails to bring you quick
relief. Coughs are danger signals.
For safety's sake. deal with them in
the best way known.
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
FlagstOnes Used
In Houses, Lawns

F1agStones, which have an inter.
esting geological history, are
especially priced for beautifying
formal and informal gardens, ter,
races, or lawns.
Flagstones also can be used in
construction of the house as well
as grounds. They can be used as
copingS for chimneys and walls. as
facing and hearths for fireplaces,
as floors for sun parlors, recrea.
tion rooms, and porches.
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
Of NRA
FACE QUIZ
International News Service

The two men who made the
NRA and then fell out-Gen.
Hugh S. johnson and Donald R..
Richberg-will be called before the
House Labor Committee, Chair
man Connery CD of Massachu-
sets announced today.
Each will be asked to explain
operations of NRA codes, and will
be given a chance to disclose the
reasons which caused the split Of
two former fast friends.
There was a possibility that
they might be asked to face each
other across the table, if their teS-
timony developed conflicting state
mentS of the history of NRA.
The vehicle chosen by Connery
for his proposed investigation Of
NRA is q bill requiring equal rep
reSentation of labor on all code
authorities and all Government
boards having to do with labor.
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
DRIVE To CURB
TRAFFIC TOLL

An intensive campaign to make
Washington traffic conscious was
underway today with the District
Commissioners studying a plan
for city-wide educational lectures
on safety.
Commissioner Melvin c. HAGEN
will confer with Public Welfare
Director Elwood Street, who will
probably map out a publicity cam
paign with the cooperation Of
civic, trade and church organiza-
tionS.
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer, Superintendent of Police
Ernest w. Brown and Corporation
Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman will
study Federal plans for uniform
traffic regulations and the posi-.
bility of extending the program
to this city.
The traffic campaign was
launched in an effort to reduce
the large death toll.