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The Washington times., 1935-04-15
SOVIET HORROR STORIES ARE CONFIRMED

their bodies. There was not a
sign of a human garment. Ones
heart was bruised to the dep'''s S.
So this is the first sight to greet
us in the land which has been ad-
vel Used all over the world as the
hearth of happiness!
The train stopped at the sta
ton of Dno I pushed my way to
the windows of the Carriage. I
wanted to see the place where II
1917 the Cars train was stopped
and Nichol..5 II was forced to sign
his historic act Ct abdication.
Only I, the visitor, display I'd
any interest in the locality. My
fellow travellers, Soviet citizens,
were Indifferent.
Where was the joy of revolu.
to-? I tried to speak to someone.
All eyes ooked at me witt the
stare Of ! ger. All conversation
was only of bread, bread:
"Khlieb, KhIit -
Tune of Hunger
The same tune followed me in
the streets of Leningrad, the tune
of hunger, the cry for bread.
Day and night thousands of
people we're waiting in lines; they
were waiting for bread.
What were they talking about?
One was looking forward to ra.
ton of quarter of a pound; an
other hoped to get half a pound.
1t all depended upon ones stand
ing on the Soviet social ladder.
1t took Communism to demon
strate that even a land of hunger
can be divided into classes.
And it was more than a famine
of bread.
There was hunger for milk, as
we'll as for bread; for kerosene,
as well as for butter; for paper,
as we'll as for meat; and even for
cloth to make shrouds for the
dead.
Such were the facts we found
in the cities.
In the villages there was an
utter lack of everything. Every
thing but death.
Already in Leningrad I heard
of what was going on in the vii
lagos. I was free to circulate
among the people. Every day I
would spend a couple of hours on
guided tour, like every other
visitor.
I absorbed all the stereotyped
lectures, all the smooth descrip-
tions fed to the tourists. And then
I would go off to some friends,
and through them to their friends,
and would be taken inside homes,
factories, offices, wherever the
peoples life flowed in all its
pathos.
Aided BY BOrah
Perhaps I owe it to Senator
Borah, who had kindly supplied
me with a letter of introduction
that I was permitted to see Rus
sian life in its true light, to pene-
trate under the cloak of famine
/ and to look death in the face.
I had no difficulty getting my
Soviet visa in Germany, because
of Senator Borah's letter.
Then my friends in Soviet Rus
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is trying to remake the entire
world.
MY Americanism had influenced
tolerance that the principles of
American democracy stand for.
My familiarity with the theories
and practice of the labor move
ment equipped me especially to
Judge correctly what was going
on under the Communist flag.
How much happiness has
been provided for the greatest
number of people?" was the ques-
ton to which I sought an answer.
The whole world has been saying
that they are building Socialism
there.
Well, how does it look? Every
body has been talking of the ire
mendous successes of the five-year-
plans and the collectivization Of
the peasants.
Well, how then does the new
Russian people fare after these
achievements?
1t was the beginning of Septem-
Der, 1888, on the way to Lenin-
grad. A murky dampness per-
meated the air. The fields looked
barren. There was no movement
in the countryside. The roads
were deserted. No one stirred in
the villages. The train would
stop at stations. Here, on wet
ground, hundreds of peasants,
men and women, were huddled to-
gether.
Surrounding them were mud
stained bundles and children. All
were blue from cold.
Heart Is Touched
There was a drizzling rain, and
the peasants with their belong
ings and children were like a pet
rified mass. They did not rise,
they did not turn to look at the
train.
I observed their garments. Mud
encrusted rags instead of boots
covered their feet. Filthy = .eces
of sackin5 served as clothing for
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In the office of Soviet func-
tionary I saw a poster on the
wall which struck my attention.
1t showed the picture of a mother
in distress, with a swollen child
at her feet, and over the picture
was the inscription:
Eating of dead children is
barbarism."
I wondered what was the pur.
pose OF such poster? The
Soviet official explained to me:
ut is one of our methods Of
educating the people. We dis
tributed such posters in hun
dredS Of villages, especially in
the Ukraine. We had to-"
"Is the situation that bad.
Are people really in such a
condition as to eat their chill
dren'S cOrpseS?"
The official was silent. It was
a painful, disturbing silence.
mot all of our people are
enlightened"
But I went down to Ukraine
and saw with my own eyes the
destruction wrought there, the
Wreckage of a great country. I
might have gone back to America
after seeing Moscow and Lenin-
grad. I had obtained a sufficient
grasp of what life is under a
dictatorship. 1 had seen the
chaSm between the Russia as
she is painted abroad by the
Soviet propaganda machine and
the true Russia, unhappy, tor
cured, bleeding.
(This is the first of a series of
articles on the great Russian
tragedy by Mr.. Lang. The sec.
Ond Wiu appear in an early is
sue.)
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Do You Remember?

ANSWERS to questions on
page 8:
Better known as Dutch"
Schultz, Flegenheimer ap-
peared in Federal court in
New York to ask dismissal of
income tax violation indict-
ments.
Walter w. Emerson figured
in a sensational wife-Swap-
ping case in California which
electrified the divorce courts.
Funeral services were held
in New York for Richard B.
Harrison, VIII o played de
Lawd" in Green Pastures.
Mr.. De la Cierva, inventor
of the autOgyrO airplane, an
nOunced the perfection of a
new type of plane which will
take off without a run.
Commissioner of Internal
Revenue HeIvering reported
income tax returns were far
in excess of last years.
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STA, among whom were many
Soviet officials, knew only toe
well that 1 did not come to look
for journalistic sensations, that
my interests we're more literary.
But found myself driven by
my surroundings, by the great
calamity which pervaded the
land. 1 saw a great people led by
false prophets into a wilderness
and there degraded and reduced
to a state of serfdom and Starva
ton.
I was in a home in Leningrad
in the presence of a family of
three generations, a grandmother
with her children and grandchil
dren. They were all educated
people, employed as government
officials in Soviet industry. The
conversation was on world con
ditionS.
Grandmother Speaks
I made some remarks about
the bright future of Soviet Rus
STA in a manner of the American
friends of the Soviet Union. The
grandmother interrupted me:
THAT is not the way to look
at Russia! You are talking
about the new life which will
come later, about the happiness
of all in the future. Now, look
at us here! In the beginning
of the revolution it was said
that 1 of the old generation, 1
alone must be sacrificed, that 1
must be permitted to perish SO
that my children shall have
food and happiness. Then it
was said to my children that it
is they that must make sacri-
ficeS, make way for the new
generation, for the good of
their children. And now look
at my grandson here!"
With a trembling hand she
pointed at a student boy:
"And now they are telling
him already that he must not
eat, must not have clothes, be-
cause the land must be rebuilt!
=. But there will be no rebuilt
land! Here we are, three gen.
erations before you, look at us;
not one of US will live to see a
better day. From day to day,
from week to week, from year
to year, it has been getting
worse and worse.
RUSSIA TO PERISH
People are perishing from
hunger, breaking down like sick
stray dogs. 1t is Russia that
will perish!"
I Shuddered. What a terrible
prophecy. Her sons and daugh.
tiers and grandchildren grew pale.
They were frightened over her
words, and remained silent.
And when I went out into the
streets of Leningrad, the people
I passed looked like the peasants
that I had seen wallowing on the
wet earth at the railroad stations.
Then came Moscow.
With the exception Of the few
main streets, there was revealed
to me again a people in the
throes of hunger.
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learn all the details of the famine
in Russia, especially in the south
ern, once fertile territory Of the
Ukraine.
1t was a famine that did moi
spring from drought, from floods
from any act of nature. It was
a man-made famine, a planned
famine.
While travelling in Soviet Rus
STA, I often asked myself:
what has happened to civil
izatiOn? We have a press boast
ing of its far-flung system Of
facilities unsurpassed in his
tory. We have the technical
marvelS of biography and radio
which in a few minutes bring
the news of the least event in a
remote corner of the globe to
the whole wide world. And yet
we have also developed systems
of modern dictatorship which
can prevent the starvation of
millions of people, such as has
occurred in Soviet Russia, from
becoming known"
PRAISE FOR WALKER
It is true, there were authors
like william Henry Chamberlin
who have endeavored in Their
books to tell the truth and depic'
the horrors of life in Soviet
PRUSSIA.
But Walker was the first tc
CARRY by word and by picture
that truth to many millions Of
readers.
do not know anything about
Mr.. Walker. I have never had
the pleasure of meeting him. But
do know the truth of his re
ports. To him belongs the credit
for tearing off the veil of Sc
crecy with which Bolshevism has
enshrouded a land of one hun
dred and sixty million n
turned it into one vast concen
tration camp.
I had to dip my pen into the
blood of my heart to try to de
scribe in my Forward articles
what I saw in Russia.
saw the harvest of famine
the crop of death.
I saw people swollen from
starvation, collapsing in tn
streets from hunger. And I feel
that the least I can do is to pay
this tribute in the ma m e OF
truth to the walker articles
which appeared in the Hearst
press.
I went to Soviet Russia as q
free-lance writer. I had no as
Signments, no duties to perform
no promises to fulfill. From
country to country I Travelled
with one aim: To observe how
people lived, to see where there
is pain and where there is joy
I LOOKED FOR JOY IN so
WET RUSSIA.
I am a Jew, and harbored moth
ing but hatred for the Russia o
the Cars where my people hac
suffered so much. Full of hope
I was now going to the new
Russia to see the system which
The Washington times., 1935-07-09
Dog Is Cast for
Shakes peare

The Washington Community
Players canine member. ugly"
belonging to Park Policeman P. J.
Tierney, had his first rehearsal
this year with the players at the
Sylvan Theater yesterday, pre-
paratory to his treading the
boards on Wednesday night, when
Shakespeare's "A M ID summer
Nights Dream" is staged as one
of the weeks summer festival pro
grams, sponsored by the Commu.
nifty Center Department and the
Office of National Capital Parks.
ugly" will play a leading role
in the comedy scenes in which the
play abounds, playing opposite"
as it we're, to Paul w. Murphy in
the character of Starveling, a
tailor, who, with other horny
handed men of Athens" present
the "Pyramus and Thisbe" inter.
Jude in the Dream" In this de-
lightful absurdity, J. Edmond
Veitch appears as Pyramus. James
M. Rawls as Thisbe, Paul Murphy
as MoonShine, Harry Grow as
Lion, and J. Stanley Protheroe as
Wall.
Fairies, led by Nancy Hall as
Titania, Robert Duke as Oberon,
and Howard Whitfield as Puck,
will be Alice Louise Hunter as
PeaSeblossom, Polly Prickett as
Cobweb, Marian Walberg as Moth,
and Marjorie McGann as Mustard
Seed. Other members of the fairy
band are Muriel Ann Matthews,
Sally Mae Graham, Eleanor Par
ker, Jean Hoke, Laura Allen,
Gloria MaSgoret, Jacqueline Mes,
tikin. Gertrude Elmendorf, Shirley
Rowe, Catherine Shea and Carol
Shea.
The Washington times., 1935-07-09
Roadside PLAY
Second Week

The Roadside Players, that Sc
riouS group of young actors, en-
tered into the second weeks
presentation of the new play,
Grand Gesture" at the Barn
Theater near Rockville, last
night, and again proved that
however adept an organization
may be in it's lines and business,
it cannot atone for the shortcom-
ings of the author. True, the
dialogue is often sparkling, yet
at times it descends into the
category of ''ta1kiness."
It is a romance, in fact a
double romance, involving the in
tended marriage of a father with
a girl Of the age of his own
daughter who, in turn, is en-
gagged to q man of her own
years. But the double wedding
does not come about for the
father realizes that his fiancee is
really in love with another and,
in one of the best passages of
the play, sacrifices his happiness
for her.
In the outstanding role, that
of the father, Dennis O'Connell,
a veteran of both Washington'S
amateur and professional stages,
acquitS himself with high honor.
The principal feminine roles are
portrayed by attractive Virginia
Rand as his fiancee and the
equally charming Adele GuSack
as his daughter. Others of i'm
portance are Paul Bradbury Wal
ter. Richard Stringfellow, Doro-
thy Dietz, Ed Stevlingson, Jane
R. Duenner and Sylvia Donovitt.
The settings reflect great credit.
While Grand Gesture" is far
from a great play, certainly the
ambitious efforts of the players
in this unique setting where cool
breezeS blow is entitled to Wash
ington patronage.
The Washington times., 1935-07-09
; Paramounts
For Loew's

Three exceptional Paramount
pictures are scheduled for an early
showing at Loew's, Washington,
the first of which, Men Without
Names" opens at L,oew's Fox this
Friday. This is a story of the De-
partment of Justice investigators
and their fight to wipe out gang.
sters. It stars Fred MacMurray,
Madge Evans. Lynne Overman and
David Jack Holt.
W. C. Fields newest screen
scream, Everything Happens at
Once" with Mary Ellis, noted
opera singer, as his feminine lead,
and Shanghai" starring Charles
Boyer, Loretta Young, Warner
GLAND, Alison Skipworth and Fred
Heating, is the third Of these
pictures.
The Washington times., 1935-07-09
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate. Incl

HOLLYWOOD, July g. The
kiddies are still popping some left
over firecrackers even though the
Fourth is behind us, and I don't
mean maybe, but as 1 always say
take sudden surprise with Zest,
so here goes: Just because a group
of the young set who do not work
in pictures for a living took it
upon themselves to do one days
extra work, purely for fun, in
Raoul Walsh's Every Night At
Eight" such a hue and cry has
been raised by the various casting
agencies that you'd have thought
we had all committed forgery. It
would seem that someone had told
them that the checks were to go
to charity, the charity for actors
out Of work, which is in itself q
mighty worthy cause, but they
neglected to inquire into the old
adage, charity begins at home. "
So endeth the squawk.
The new Marion Davies comedy,
Page Miss Glory" had one of the
most spectacular previews this
little berg has had in many a
month. The audience laughed so
hard you couldn't hear the dia-
logue. Those statistical minded
claim it's take at the box-office
will be super-special colossal, and
right they will be.
Miss Evelyn Venable, the
cinema's gift to vegetarianism,
opened on the first leg of a road
tour, hanging off the balcony as
The Washington times., 1935-07-09
Ml0NV1:ILE

FOX-Robert Taylor, Jean Parker
in Murder in the Fleet" 10:45
a. M, 1870, 1870, 7:10, 1000
p. m. Stage shows at 1885,
1925, 6:15 and 9 p. m.
PALACE-William Powell, Luise
Rainier in "Escapade," 11:05
a. M, ITO, 3:45, 5:25, 1880,
$40 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Marlene Dietrich in
1.-THE Devil Is a Woman" 11:15
am, 1:05, $3.50, 4:35, $40, $40,
9:55 p. m.
EARLE Warren william,
Claire Dodd in Don't Bet on
Blondes" 11:15, 1:45, 4:30,
7:15, 1905 p. m. Stage,
12:45, 1885, $40, 9:05 p. m.
NETROPOLITAN-Bert Wheeler
Robert WoolSey in "Nitwits.'
1875 a. M, 1885, 1885, $3.50
7:35, 9:35 p. m.
RKO.KEITH'S-Helen Gahagan,
Randolph Scott in She" 1885
am, 1877, $40, 5:42, 7:44 and
9:46 b. m.
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Sylvia Sidney Dons
Unioue Film ake-UC

Hurting feminine makeup ira.
ditions to the winds, Wally West
more, makeup chief at the Para
mount studios, has perfected a
new makeup known as cameo
for Sylvia Sidney.
Much darker than any she has
used before, the new makeup
gives an entirely different texture
and shade to the stars face. and
enables the cameraman to throw
additional light on Miss Sidney'S
face for improved Photographic
purposes. Miss Sidney uses this
new makeup for the first time
in her new film, Accent on
Youth"
The Washington times., 1935-07-09
CaryCooper Gives
AWAY Avocado Grove

If there is a charitable organ.
ization which can make good use
of a grove of mature avocado
trees, Gary Cooper has a lot of
them to give away.
The actor has purchased a az.
acre avocado orchard in Brent.
wood on which he plans to build
a house as soon as he is finished
with his current Paramount pic.
ture, Peter Ibbetson." To make
room for the building, Gary will
have to get rid of a good part of
the orchard. He is now trying to
find a worthy organization which
could transplant the trees to good
advantage.
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ICOVer HOLLYWOOD

N. Y. But unfortunately the DAY
he bought it he was signed for the
mew-vies and has been here ever
since, so what can you do?. ..
ELISA Landi's contract for the
Partisan company in "Koenigs'
mark" netted her an unusual
status. Not only did they put her
in as the lead but asked her to
cast the rest of the picture,
100000, up to date, her casting
includes John Lodge and Eric Won
Stroheim. Miriam Hopkins, like
the late Thomas Edison, has
learned the trick of falling asleep
at random which is a great way
to preserve ones energy. Just how
to relax into such a mental coma,
she neglected to say.
Speaking of squawks: Julie Hay
don, whose remarkable work in
THE Scoundrel" landed her a
Paramount contract, is fighting
the powers that be, tooth and nail,
to be kept from decentralization
of her face which will land her
in the usual movie beauty cate
CORY. They're trying to fix her
hair, hang false eyelashes, draw
eyebrows right into her hair, and
various and sundry other little
odd bits Of taking nature. But she
says mo" and mo" I think it will
be-which is sensible Now
really! Veree Teasdale, by way
Of being quaint, calls her spouse,
Adolphe Menjou-"Butch."
To add insult to injury, Freddy
Bartholomew, in his usual gentle
manly little manner, stopped to
pat a Scotty on the head, so the
scotty bit him well in the leg. It's
not too serious but his remedy is
a series of little capsules in diff
ferent colors to disguise that we'll
known oil that children dislike so
thoroughly. Nevertheless Master
Bartholomew is wise to taking his
medicine like man. Incidentally
his home studio has just cracked
out and presented him with a new
automobile as a kind of bonus for
his good work.
DR.. Charles Pabst, the famous
dermatologiSt in Brooklyn, says
heliophileS are those people who
love the sunshine and heliophobes
are those who prefer the shade.
In the former group he places
Del Rio. Crawford. Dvorak, and
in the latter. Glenda Farrell, Diet
rich, Genevieve Tobin and jose
phine Hutchinson. So-electrify
your friends by running about
saying, Are you a heliophobe or
a heliophile?" For those con-
teSt-minded: Two tickets aboard
a French ship to Vancouver and
back win be awarded to the
best title-sender-inner for James
Gleason's latest RKO picture. You
may address your missiles to the
RKO publicity department.
Pinky Tomlin (the object OF my
affection fella) has a new one
now, That's What You Think, :"
for Universal's king Solomon OF
Broadway The only fault can
find with Mr.. Tomlin's musical
inspirations is that they're all
vaguely reminiscent Of his original
object of My Affections" But,
then, of course, I'm not a must
clan, so don't quote me. Ed.
ward G.. Robinson (of course,
you remember Little Squeezer~
has collected the still photographs
of every play and motion picture
in which he has ever appeared,
and, considering his years Of
thespianizing, he'll soon have to
hire a hall to house his collection.
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Juliet. There were those who
thought her rendition a bit Mid
Victorian but then, of course, there
are those who believe in restrain.
ing their emotions, so We'll leave
it to the critics. the most excited
little woman in all the Hollywoods
at the moment is Jean Parker.
At four-thirty p. m. Tuesday, she
was informed that Alexander
Korda wanted her for picture in
London. At four-thirty the next
day she hoped off via plane on
the first hitch of her trip.
Lynn Overman, the gent with
the gravel throat, is definitely not
stuck on this business but rather
stuck in it. His heart lies in his
chicken ranch in Poughkeepsie,
The Washington times., 1935-07-09
Willie Howard Set
For Second Picture

Willie Howard, noted stage
comedian, who was brought to
Hollywood by Paramount for
"Rose of the Rancho" with Gladys
Swarthout and John Boles, al
ready is lined up for a second
film. He will appear with a stel-
lar cast in Amateur Hour" fol-
lowing his screen debut.
The Washington times., 1935-07-09
Reverts to Tvpe

Sir Guy Standing, appearing in
Annapolis Farewell" a picture
based on life at the Naval Acad.
envy, held a commission in the
British Navy during the World
War and commanded a cruiser.
The Washington times., 1935-07-09

wood grand opera COHsCIOuS.
The movie public created a screen goddess
of song called Grace Moore and Zone Night
of Love" proceeded to roll up quite few
box office records bequeathed to the industry
a merit mark to shoot at in future production.
So the music critics turned out yesterday
for the preview screening of the new Grace
Moore picture, "Love Me Forever" as a
tribute to her voice. The professional screen
scribes can, presume, pass on its entertain
ment value.
Glove Me Forever" looks, and sounds at
The Washington times., 1935-07-09

portray, and making him a spine
less Romeo although he had a
handful of aces for the game OF
love. But Mr.. Allen does neatly
with his sparse opportunity.
Sings Beautifully
Michael Bartlett assists vigor.
ously and tunefully in the final
vocals. ThurSton Hall, Spring
Byington and Douglass Dumbrille
play the other important roles
we'll.
Grace Moore is still defeated
when it comes to speaking lines
and acting them with any great
conviction. Just as long as she
can sing as magnificently as she
does, and look as radiant, others
can do the heavy acting. She is
pictureSquely beautiful IN her op-
cratic costumes but like other
stars, suffers from Hollywood
freak designers.
Most people will ask, "Is it as
good as One Night of Love-. !"
The answer depends upon how
much you like grand opera music.
GARLIC in Person
Leo Garlic, who does such a
talked about chore with Grace
Moore, will be along at the Earle
for a personal appearance the
week of August 2. Incidentally,
Carrillo is a movie notable who is
equally at home on the stage as
on the studio lot. He is a capital
dialect story teller and gives much
more than a kind applause act.
The ScoundreI COMING
Wen, Ben Hecht- Charles Mac
Arthur story of 1.-THE Scoundrel,
starring Noel Coward, will be
shown in Washington the week of
July 10. Loew's Palace Theater
gets the picture.
There will be those who will
contend such a highrbrow picture
must land right on its box-office
ear on F Street. They may be
on the winning side.
On the other hand, I choose
to vote with those who contend
that such pictures ought to find
an outlet in Washington's first
run houses even though they have
limited box-office appeal.
THE Scoundrel" has some of
the best acting you will see on
the screen in 1885 or any other
year. 1t also has some brilliant
smart, cynical anigramatic dia-
logue. Noel Coward and Julie
Hayden do most of the acting.
But Alexander Woollcott also has
a role and some witty sayings.
To those who liked the first
Hecht-MacArthur picture. Crime
without Passion" which had
Claude Rains as it's star, say,
hold open an evening for The
Scoundrel." I think you will
enjoy it more than the July
August hot-cha and frothy farce
celluloid.
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