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Evening star., 1935-01-27

ARBARA STANWYCK is now
at the Earle Theater in THE
n Secret Bride" her latest star
D ring vehicle. On the stage,
Rubinoff-and his violin-ap-
pear as the headline act of variety
program. 1.-THE secret Bride" is a
thrilling drama of political plots, in
yolving murder, suicide and the i'm
peachment of the Governor OF the
State. A talented supporting cast
appears in THE Secret Bride" includ-
ing Warren William, Glenda Farrell,
Douglas Dumbrille, Grant Mitchell
and Arthur Byron. William Dieterle
directed.
Rubinof plays his celebrated solos
from the Earle stage on one OF the
most precious instruments in the
world-a Stradivarius violin valued
at $1O0,000-a violin 202 years old.
Others on the stage bill include the
Radio Aces; Mann, Robinson and Mar
tin, rhythmic dancers, and Pansy the
"Wonder Horse" presented by Flor
ence Mayo.
EDMUND LOWE and Jack Holt are
- teamed for the first time in "The
Best Man Wins" current screen fea-
ture at Warner Bros Metropolitan.
Ethel Hill and Bruce Manning wrote
the screen play from the original
story by Ben Kofn, playwright and
author. Erie Kenton directed. Flor
ence Rice Is presented in her first
important featured role opposite the
two male stars. Bella Lugosi, the
unforgettable horror man; Bradley
Page, Mitchell Lewis and j. Farrell
Macdonald are other well known
names in the cast The sensational
underwater scenes which comprise
good deal of the films breath-taking
action we're filmed In the waters of
Santa Catalina Island Channel. 1t
is the first subSea motion picture,
authorities hold, to present night
scenes, which were made possible
and also Strikingly beautifully the
newly developed underwater illumina-
ton accomplished by studio tech
nicians. The second of E. M. New
mans "See America First" travel
reels, "The Boston Tea Party; other
selected shorts and Is minutes of
news events complete the Metropoli-
tan program.
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1.-THE LIVES OF A BENGAL
l LANCER" one of the most un-
usual pictures to come from the
cinema capital, Is currently being
shown at Loew's Palace Theater.
Gary Cooper. playing the type of role
which first earned him screen en-
inence; Franchot Tone, offering easily
his outstanding portrayal; c. Aubrey
Smith, Sir Guy Standing and Rich
ard Cromwell hold the pivotal roles
in this remarkable saga of four great
soldiers. The story revolves about
the emotional conflicts between a
crusty, hard-bitten army colonel and
three of his officers, one of them his
own son. The story itself has been
based on one suggested by the book
of Francis Yeats-Brown.
T OEW'S Columbia Theater this week
~ is showing return engagement
of Will Rogers in ''The County Chair
man." This was written by George
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Film "Anythins Goes.

4 NYTHING GOES" for which New
"A York has paid scalpers' prices
ever since its November opening, has
been bought by Paramount for the
screen. The deal is considered to be
the major theatrical buy of the sea-
son. Under present plans w. c. Fields
will re-create the part played by Vic
tor Moore; Bing Crosby will assume
the role played by William Gaxton
and Queenie Smith is up for the Ethel
Norman part. Cole Porter's music,
including You're the Top" is a part
of the purchase, with Porter con-
tracted to write three new numbers
for the screen presentation.
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Pictures of the Week
Screen Attractions and Vaudeville Programs
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at Downtown Theaters

Ade and was a sensation on the
stage. viii actually lives the central
role of a lovable, f1re-eating war
horse of a small town who knows
how to capture votes and is hot to
handle in a political fight, but who
readily gives his all to guide the love
OF two young romancerS whose lives
are almost ruined by a political battle.
Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor
are the young lovers, Stepin Fetchit
is his uproarious and easy-going self,
Louise Dresser the lovable woman
who was stolen" from Will by his
hated rival, Burton Churchill; Frank
Melton, Robert McWade and Charles
Middleton are in support.
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THE NIGHT is YOUNG" a glamor-
GUS new musical hit that tells
the story of an impetuous young arch
duke who falls in love with a Vien-
nese dancer, brings Ramon Novarro
and the well known English star,
Evelyn Laye, to the screen of Loew's
Fox Theater this week This film is
based on a story by Vicki Baum and
its songs are the work of Oscar Ham
merstein, I'd, and Sigmund Romberg.
Comedy honors are divided by Edward
Everett Horton and Charles Butter
worth, with Una Merkel managing
to ccntrive added gayety, aided and
abetted further by Herman Bing,
Rosalind Russell, Henry Stephenson,
Donald Cock, Charles Judels and Al
bert Cont
On the stage the Fox this week
presents Phil Baker, whose name is
familiar to radio. screen and stage
audiences. Aiding him are Mabel
Albertson, Chin Ling Foo, jr., and his
Oriental aides, the Three RS, and
Beetle and Harry (Bottle) McNaugh-
ton.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

n company OF one, ana a
wv great many wigs and cos
tunes, Miss Cornelia Otis
Skinner is going about the
country teaching history and, pre-
sumably, promoting new vogue. At
least she has done just that with her
previous dramatic sequences. When
she presented her sketches of the wives
of Henry VIII there was renaissance
of interest in the Tudor period. Peo-
pie began thumbing dusty volumes
about that colorful era, and authors
hastened to supply fresh comments on
the times. Even the styles began to
assume vague traces of period ele-
gance.
Next Miss Skinner did 1.-THE En-
press Eugenie." And there were Eu
genie parties, Eugene hats and Eu-
genie novels. Theater critics once
more polished of their incest ad-
jectives for the daughter of the dean
of the American stage. And again
Miss Skinner reached back into his
tory, plucking out "The Loves of
Charles H. for another dramatic Sc
quence.
Since the time that she decided to
find some new form of dramatic ex-
preston, instead of continuing as
regular play-actress. Miss Skinner has
been a theater unto herself. She
writes her own plays, rehearses them
by herself, chooses the incidental
music and supervises the designing of
costumes. She is star and company
in one, and goes wherever she pleases,
prefering long tours, with only few
weeks in New York each year. After
deciding to portray Henrys wives she
immersed herself for months in Tudor
history, Tudor literature, art and
music Then she gamely sailed for
England to try her work on the people
who naturally would be most critical
of all. It was a triumph. Later she
faced Broadway during the sorriest
season in living memory, played eight
crowded weeks, and finally had to
leave on tour.
For some time Miss Skinner has
been considering an adventure into
the period following the return OF
Charles II to England's throne. The
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personation Of a nice beast in love
with an attractive woman is gently
explicable and appealing to all who
are fond of animals. Although he be-
longs in ZOO, he is more or less
at home in the drama, which, as cynics
have said, Is but a menagerie of wild
beasts, Gagged behind the stages barred
three walls.
A CCLAIMED near and far as one of
"a the dramas foremost wonder girls,
Miss Elisabeth Bergner was in
rather q hot spot last Monday night
as she faced her first American
audience at the Shubert. Not only
was she herself on trial for her repu-
tation, but her famous play, Escape
Me Never!" celebrated in London as
a classic, was up for judgment be-
fore the stages highest court. the
Theater Guild subscribers. II had
been bruited about that Miss Bergner,
a modest artist, was in a dither over
the ordeal and was fearful that the
expectations aroused by her vogue in
Europe and Hollywood would fail to
be realized when put to real test.
She should not have worried much.
For both she and Miss Margaret Ken
nedy's solicitouS second-rater seemed
to overcome the handicap Of their
rumored glories and they won the
decision by a small pluarlity.
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MISS BERGNER, in the somewhat
AA rickety bouquet, was a trampled
harebell, breathing a theatrical fra
GRANGE all about her. A fascinating
waif, she had fallen into the arms of
members of the Sanger circus, hereto
fore made known to the public by Miss
Kennedy's 1.-The Constant Nymph." +"
One of them, Caryl Sanger, was approv-
able. but the other. Sebastian, in the
explicit performance of Mr.. Hugh
Sinclair, was a thoroughbred rat, the
son of his father. 1t was to the
charming but ignoble Sebastian that
Gemma Jones Miss Bergner) gave
her all. No matter how bitterly he
ill-treated her and her llegitimate in
FAINT by another sweetheart. she clung
to him, proving anew that the rot
tener the ruin, the closer the vine.
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Tournament Plays.

IN ADDITION to the three original
plays announced to be given in the
forthcoming District of Columbia
one-act play tournament, opening
February at Roosevelt Auditorium,
under the direction of the Community
Center Department, the Jewish Com
munity Center Dramatic Society will
likewise present an original play, His
Children" by Rufus Learsi. to be di-
rected by Hannah Stolar.
The Washington Community Play
ers will present brief fantasy, -Four
Who Were Blind" by Colin Campbell
Clements, formerly of DR.. George
Pierce Bakers Al Workshop. The
play is acted by five men, directed
by Frank Baer. Both this play and
the Jewish Community Center's offer
ing will be given the second week
of the preliminary contests.
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tnOugnC ana Scr0ICQeO, anu SuQQcIlly |
hit upon Roland Young-a good actor |
who, on the surface, seemed totally in !
adequate, and yet who, being good |
actor, has more than proved that they |
were right in their choice.
Every actor underacts his role-a
virtue which is rare in any art. Even |
the strong hearted Lionel Barrymore
doesn't allow himself to do Barry !
more all over the place-fitting In so
neatly into that Peggotty household,
that you are inclined to forget that he
was at any way prominent in the cast.
A bit of melodrama has been added
(the Steerforth death episode being
slightly out of gear), a few shrubs do
not look quite SO fresh as you may
think Aunt Betsy Trotwood's shrubs
should have looked. One or two many
whacks are administered to the dom
keys than necessary. But If you know
Copperfield at all, if you are stepped
in the legends and fond of the char
acters, you will not find that the screen
has been unjust to them.
Edna May Oliver as Betsy, little
Joseph Bartholomew as Little David,
Fields as Micawber, Roland Young as
Uriah, Lewis Stone as Agnes father,
Madge Evans as Agnes, Hugh Williams
as Steerforth, and so on and so on, will
walk out of Dickens pages as though
they had been waiting to do that since
l849.
Somehow, the "Forsaking All
Others" and suchlike look awfully
small in comparison.
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IF YOU think that the local theater
is playing you foul this Winter
and this you shouldn't after last
weeks dron Three on a Horse" and
a few others-hark to what is COM
| ing in the next few weeks:
Cornelia Otis Skinner, in her own
inimitable sketches National, tomor-
row.. You have seen her as THE
Wives of Henry VIII" all of them.
You have seen her as 1.-THE Loves of
Charles II"-and all of those. But
you haven't seen her as the heroine,
and probably all the character of
Mansion on the Hudson" a play
of American life which she is show
ing here for the first time. (And,
please, Miss Skinner, let us have that
brief skit of the Philadelphia matron
doing the "mawbles" problem with her
small boy)
"Dodsworth" follows Miss Skinner
into the National, with Walter Huston
and Fay Banter and Nan Sutherland
(Mrs Walter Huston) in the princi-
pal roles. This has the same cast and
the same staging (its a revolving
stage) that it had this season and last
on Broadway. It's an excellent play
and worth anybody's while.
"As Thousands Cheer" will be next
at the NationaIminus some of the
Broadway cast but up to the brim
with some of the best Skits on rec
ord and some of the finest scenic ef-
fects. limitations of every one from
Queen Mary to Joan Crawford are
exhibited-and there's something in
it for verybody-including good music.
good-looking girls and song by the
Statue of Liberty!
The D'Oyly Carte Co. from London
is the last definite booking" on the
list If you're a Gilbert and Sullivan
fan you'll go every night. If you're
not you'll probably 60 ever other night
anyway. It's the best Of its kind.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

The universal success that will un-
doubtedly be Mr.. Copperfields should
not fool producers into believing that
the word Dickens necessarily spells
success"
David Copperfield" is a very good
picture, because it has been done with
the greatest care, with the utmost in
telligence, and with actors who fit
each role like a glove.
We have only to remind you that
that book, which you see only very
briefly in one of the scenes, and
which, as we remember. is held in
Agnes hand, is a book which Howard
Estabrook, the main adapter. found
last Summer in London-a book
which was published at the time
Copperf1eld was written-and book
which might either have been owned
by the boy, or if he had been an
actual person (as he probably was),
could easily have been written by
him.
Such meticulouS care, when under
taken with each scene, with each OBJ
ject, with each person, mounts up
into an imposing whole, and the
total product is of such genuine merit
that you cannot help but be grateful
to producers who were so obviously
willing to give of their blood to make
this classic right
COPPERFIELD'S brilliance is due,
~ not only to the cast, but to the
way the adapters have gone about
disposing of David. While some OF
the scenes are too short, and a few
too long, the story, in the main, has
been preserved with the utmost
fidelity, and you will not find David
marrying Agnes before he marrles
Dora, Just because the public might
have wanted him to; or Mr.. Murd-
stone not beating David, just because
the sponsor might have feared some
kind of league against violence.
It has, of course, been necessary to
telescope some of the scenes and to
hurry David along through one school
instead of two. His mother dies
rather more quickly than you expect,
and no reference is made to his hav-
ing gone to Salem House.
Yet, as much as you may believe
you will miss these chapters in
Davids life, when you think the film
over (after you have seen it, soon, at
the Palace, you will realize that the
producers have done this only for the
best, and that if they had added a
little here and a little there, it might
have turned the whole product over
on its ear.
MOTHER one of the amazing things
"A about the picture is the way the
actors have not exaggerated theil
roles. Dickens characters are the
easiest in the world to burlesque
"Barkis Is Willing" can be made into
o country pumpkin; Micawber can be
the joy of any burlesque house, and
Mr.. Murstone would be splendid as
chief villain in any melodrama COM
pany today.
Then again, when the part of Uriah
Heep came up for discussion, while at
first it was hoped that Director James
would play the role (this we were told
by Mr.. Walpole himselD, when it was
found that he couldn't do it. instead
of getting some obvious Hollywood
character actor, some Lon CLANCY
who would roll his eyes and gnaSh his
teeth, they scratched and thought, and
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Mae S Maid Scores.

T IBBY TAYLOR, Mae Vests maid,
who proved her worth as an
actress in the two West productions in
which she appeared. has gone ION her
own" She signed for part in Para
mounts Mississippi" featuring Bing
Crosby. w. c. Fields and Joan Bennett
Edward Sutherland is directing.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

THE scene to which Mr.. Coward es-
corts us in Point Valaine" is pro-
Life in sultry atmosphere, and the
persons to whom he introduces us
are strange in familiar way. was
rather pleased to meet them last week
at Miss Ethel Barrymore's theater,
although felt that we should never
be more than distant acquaintances.
For there seems to be something
about Point Valaine" that is not quite
on the up-and-up-that its sinceri-
ties are tricky and that it is good
gadget rather than a good drama.
Eugene O'Neill, Sidney Howard or
Robert Sherwood might be excused for
a similar transgression of the Upper
Theater's laws and orders, but Mr..
Coward, whenever he errs, is sum-
moned to the bar, there to be accused
Of imperfection. My Scotch verdict
is that he is guilty Of writing little
! play and big show in Point Va
laine," and that since it Is per-
formed by actors of extraordinary
talents it is an entertainment which
should not be avoided.
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YOU will enjoy, as connoiSSeur OF
acting, Miss Fontanne's frank and
slinky impersonation of a castaway
on a tropic isle The daughter of
English missionaries to the heather
West Indians she is left alone, after
they have gone to paradise, to fend
for herself on a rock in the Atlantic
She is. when Mr.. Coward discovers
her. between 35 and As years of age,
with a poetic figure, faded red hair
and the enticing personality Of an
ambushed Lynn Fontanne. She wears
horn-rimmed spectacleS and dresses
| which repel rather than beckon. Yet
she exercises subtle and tragic allure.
Her head waiter CMr. Lunt) leaps
into the sea for love of her and is
devoured by sharks, and the heart
of her amorous young airman (Mr.
Hayward) is broken as he learns that
she has been unchaste. Mr. Perkins,
meanwhile, as the shopping Vaughan
novelist, has been perking sympa-
thetically at the tragedy and offering
sane and sophisticated counsel to all
concerned.
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DERHApS we expect too much from
Mr. Coward's most recent attempt
| to harmonic drama and life. We may
| well complain that he encumbers
Point Valaine" with horde of puppet
! tourists who caricature the art of
travelling too obviously with their bur-
lesque gable and who are outside
the real innards of its tragedy; that
he transacts the business of a show
man, in these details. too specifically
| to be conscientious either as an artist
or a tradesman. Mr.. Lunt plays wildly
as the ape-lover in Point Valaine, u
exhibiting in his performance the
famous Lunt bare feet, made notorious
in Mr.. Coward's Design for Living
This time his toes are tragic rather
than comic, in their nudity. His i'm
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Donat as Ibbetson.

pOBERT DONAT. English actor, who
N scored one of the seasons indi-
vidual triumphs in THE Count of
Monte Cristo." will play the name role
in Paramount's production of Peter
IbbetSon."
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Mail Orders for Cheer"

MAIL orders are now being received
- for the engagement of "As
Thousands Cheer" the big Broadway
revue which comes to the National
Theater for one week, with usual mat
inees, beginning Sunday, February 10.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

Additional Theater News
on Page Six.
Evening star., 1935-01-27

" WITH her small but adequate
company of one, and a
wv great many wigs and cos
tunes, Miss Cornelia Otis
Evening star., 1935-01-27
Noel COward's New Play
Provokes Varied Comment
Point Valaine" Has Excellent Cast. but Is
Perhaps" Good Cadset Rather
Than Good Drama"
BY PERCY HAMMOND.

r YHAT promising expedition imagine than
the remoter West Indies with Noel Coward whtn
Wv like Mr. Maugham he seeks in dsolate places to find
specimens OF the drama? Mr. Coward IS an alert and
eyes little that exciting Disembarkng for
instance, Point Vaane foreign e in the Caribbean he
the andlady
of its hotel involved usfu though epid with Alfred
Lunt her hafSavage hafame head waiter Also Osgood
Perkins sadly humorous novelist of the Vaughan type and
sentimental young British aviator lLOuis HAYWARD.
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coors to suit the Taste of the happy
youth and their conser vative elders.
English cloth for suitiEgs.
These are some of The many low
priced articles we are carrying.
Drop in and see our stock.
AIMEE DE CHABERr
Evening star., 1935-03-27

further rent on the old quarters, at 500
New Jersey avenue, now deserted.
The new edifice. the property and
the shops, where donated articles are
made over by men who apply to the
Salvation Army for aid, have all been
paid for through the sale Of renovated
articles. Brig. John MCGEE is making
direct appeal to Washington resi-
dents for recreation equipment with
which to furnish the play rooms in the
new building.
The new telephone numbers are Dis
trict 1923, 1924 and 8025. Those who
wish to contribute to this social service
work are asked to call and trucks will
be sent to collect the materials.
Evening star., 1935-03-27
CATHOLICS SEEK
PROBE OF MEXICO
Most Rev. M. ]. Curley, at
Mass Meeting, Asserts
Plans Frustrated.

Catholics OF Washington Monday
night called upon the government 10
investigate conditions In Mexico.
This action was taken at a mass
meeting. which packed Gonzaga Hall,
and heard Most Rev. Michael j. Cur
ley, Archbishop of Baltimore, assert
that the administration has given in
structions to frustrate" efforts for an
investigation of charges Of widespread
persecution of Catholics in Mexico.
In this connection it was recalled that
Senator Borah, Republican. of Idaho
several weeks ago introduced a reso-
luton providing for such an inquiry.
'Iet there be no doubt about it."
the archbishop continued, ''the admin
istration has given instructions to
frustrate further efforts either in be-
half Of prosecuted Christians in Mex
leo. or with regard to fair, impartial
investigation of alleged violation Of
American rights"
Many Protests Cited.
Archbishop Curley said it had been
estimated a million resolutions and
letters of protest against the alleged
prosecutions had been sent President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hull.
rs it possible" he continued. that
silence and opposition will be the only
response to these petitions?
I'm the first place, it must be made
clear that there is no excuse for the
apathy and inactivity of the United
States Department of State"
Resolution Presented.
The resolution. setting forth the
charges against the Mexican govern
ment, was introduced by Miss Agnes
Marceron.
The meeting was held under the
auspices Of the Sodality Union, with
Miss Mary Mattingly. the president,
presiding
Besides the archbishop, other speak
ers wer. Rev. Joseph " Buckley. Rev.
William A. Nelligan and Mrs. Harry
J. KiR.
Evening star., 1935-03-27

Marguerite Merigold, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Inez Sheldon Tyler, second
vice president: Miss Clara Mander.
schied, recording secretary; Miss
Myrta Ethel Cawood, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Nellie Walker Irish,
treasurer; Mrs. Gadrum A. Hurja,
historian; Miss Margaret Jean Baily,
registrar; Mrs. Anne Wagenhurst
Manchester, librarian, and Mrs.
Maude G. Jukens, auditor.
Evening star., 1935-03-27

acclaim Col. George H. Calvert, jr.
Washington and Maryland attorney
and descendant Of the Calverts who
founded Maryland. Col Calvert has
served seven terms as president Of the
Maryland State Society here.
Prior to the dance, an address was
made by H. c. Byrd, vice president
and director Of athletics at the Uni
versity Of Maryland. The university's
Glee Club gave q concert.
Evening star., 1935-03-27
PEN WOMEN ELECT
Mrs. Bess Heath olmstead Is
Chosen President.

Mrs. Bess Heath Olmstead was
elected president of the board Of di-
rectors Of the District League Of
American Pen Women at the annual
meeting Monday night in the Bur-
lington Hotel. She succeeds DIR.
Frances Moon Butts, who was named
parliamentarian
Other officers elected were Miss
Evening star., 1935-03-27
SALVATION ARMY UNIT
TAKES NEW QUARTERS
Social Service Center Body Moves
to Avoid Paying Further Rent
on Old Site.

The Salvation Army Social Service
Center moved into its new building at
First and F streets yesterday, in spite
of the fact 1t will not be finished until
April IA. This was to avoid paying
Evening star., 1935-03-27
CALVERT FOR GOVERNOR
FEATURES Meeting
Demonstration Held by Members
Of Maryland State Society
at Dance.

A Calvert for Governor" demon
stration Monday night was feature of
the Maryland Society's reception and
dance at the Kennedy-Warren Apart
ments in celebration Of Maryland day.
The guests indorsed by popular