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Jane COwl Coming

to resignation in his predicament.
He is bitter cynic on the subject
of friendship, since an old friend in
Germany condoned his sentence to a
concentration camp. Suddenly he
falls in love with Lady Violet and
she with him. But just when they
seem to discover a sympathetic un-
derstanding they realize that there is
little understanding between them.
Although fighter in some respects,
she is the kind who is content to
"muddle through" He isn't Awak-
ening to reality, he is determined to
go back to Germany in search of in
tellectual freedom and individuality.
Mr.. Behrman's skill at sharp and
unhackneyed phrasing is again ap-
parent in Rain From Heaven" 1t
is, as matter of fact. the outstand-
ing feature Of the play.
The supporting cast includes Lily
Cahill, Jay Fassett, Jose Ruben, Jud-
son Laire. Hancey Castle. Alice John,
Marshall Grant and Stats Cotsworth.
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Today's Film Schedule

EARLE-"Car 9e." at 800,
Sis, TAO and 9:55. Stage
show at 2:l0, AIS, $50
and 9:l0 pm.
PALACE Mississippi" at
2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Ruggl
of Red Gap" at 2, $50,
5:45, TAO and 9:35 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Life Begins at
49," at 2. 3:55, SIS, 7:50
and $50 pm.
R-K-O KEITH'S-" Star of
Midnight" at 2, $50, $40,
7::30 and $50 pm.
BELASCO-" Road to Life"
at 500, Sill, 7:13 and 9:15
pm.
LOEW'S FOX-"The Casino
Murder Case" on the
screen and Spices of 1885,
on the stage. Continuous
from las pm.
Evening star., 1935-04-14

THE latest screen title to pucker the
brows Of both the learned and the
unlearned is Les Miserables." Please
so help me. won't somebody come
along and say what pronunciation
Hollywood has given to this film
adaptation of a great book! Known
to be one of the most potent yarns
that has so far come out of the West
Coast, and all indications pointing to
its having great success, no two people
so far have pronounced the title the
same way-and if dictator isn't ap-
pointed soon to settle the matter, bed
lam is apt to break loose.
Take the first pronunciation that
has hit this desk: Less Miserables."
with the accent on the less" and no
thought at all to the rest except a
sort of tumble so as to get the word
over with. That probably will be the
most popular pronunciation. Then
the lady who had one year Of high
school French has vouchsafed: "Lais
Miserables," with the "Miserables"
going the same way. Then the lady
with two years of French, and prob
able weekend in Paris has volun-
teered: "Lais Miser-ahbles," with the
"ahbles' sticking out all over the
place. And finally. the young girl
who was polished in Miss So-and-So's
school of refinement has cracked out
a mean "Lais Meeserables," doing it
all so quietly that you knew at once
that she had hit the nail on the head.
Hollywood must, however, make up
its mind exactly what it is going to
call this film What, for instance.
will Sam Goldwyn say? What will
Shirley Temple, and Gary Cooper,
and Mae West and Jean Harlow and
the Four Marx Brothers call it? If
mean" is taken, we'll take Shirley
Temples way of saying it. After all.
she'll have the shortest cut and GER
tainly the simplest method. With
Shirley to guide us. We can't possibly
go wrong on Less Miserables," or
'Lais MeeserableS." or whatever you've
made up your mind to say already.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Glen Echo to Open.

THE lure and magic of wonderland
will be revived Saturday after
noon, April 27, when Glen Echo Park,
inaugurating the 1885 season, re-
sounds with the roar of the roller
coaster and other amusement devices
that provide unrivaled recreation for
Washingtouians.
The swimming pool, one of the
major attractions at the park, will
begin operation May 25. The same
low prices as last year will prevail
this season, with swimming as popular
during night operation as during day
light hours.
Among the new surprises promised
by the management is the "pretzel," !"
named by reason of an electrically
propelled car traversing bonded steel
rails laid in the shape of a pretZel
and running in the darkness. These
cars go every which way, twisting and
turning like pretZel, and offering a
new hilarious sensation. The pretzel
Is the very latest in thrill providers.
Prominent among many improve
ments recently completed at Glen
Echo is additional parking space for
automobiles. Located directly north
OF the park and covering more than
an acre of ground, the new parking
area will provide adequate facilities
for thousands of visitors.
Leonard B. Schloss. who is round
ing out Is years as manager of Glen
Echo. said yesterday: "The same re-
fined standards will again predom-
mate at Glen Echo, and all patrons
may depend on recreation of the
highest calibre through the medium
Of more than so up-to-date amuse-
ment attractions in a setting of
scenic splendor"
The Spanish garden ball room, pop
ular dance rendezvous at Glen Echo,
will again feature Dave McWilliams
12-piece orchestra.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Cast of Henry VIII"

4 GALA performance by the Shake
"A speare Society of Washington of
Henry VIII" will be given on May 9
in Roosevelt auditorium, under the
auspices of the Community Center
Department and under the direction
of Arthur Rhodes, with a cast of the
most experienced players of classical
roles in the Capital City.
The play, which has been IN re-
hearsal for, the past six weeks, will
be offered with a cast including
Maurice Jarvis, Jesse Veitch, John
Sikken, Kent Dyer, John Victory,
Milton Hirschfield, Charles Bell,
Joseph Haltigan, Thomas Cahill,
Theodore Freter. Stanley Protheroe,
John Chadwick, Henry K Bradford,
Ada Louise Townsend, Sylvia Bahar,
Christine Irish and Mabel Owens
Wilcox.
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There was a gentle British comedy
"Laburnum Grove" which many
people cared for because Edmund
Gwenn and a man named Cooper
Melville, not Gary-acted it far better
than it deserved. There was a week
of Gilbert and Sullivan. with Martin
Green and that lady with the dimples.
playing most everything except Ralph
Rackstraw and Little Buttercup. And
there was something called Gather
Ye Rosebuds," a play which for some
strange reason lured Walter Connolly
back from Hollywood.
Then there was las Thousands
Cheer" with about as much of the
original LAS Thousands Cheer" cast
left in it as there were "As Thousands
Cheer" people in "Abies Irish Rose" "
There was comedy called Bring on
the Girls which had the fortune, or
the misfortune, of having one of the
best first acts around. There was "Ah,
Wilderness" with George M Cohan
giving one Of the greatest performances
of his career (even if he did overdo
that cold-in- -the-throat business)
There was "A Farmer Takes a Wife"
which had great possibilities, plus
June Walker and man who is going
to make his mark in the movies, Henry
Fonda. There was Walter Hampden,
with his good old company, and Burton
Holmes taking you off to foreign
countries, and the Monte Carlo Ballet
with those 16-year-old girls who looked
go when you saw them offstage and
backstage afterward.
There were only one or two other
things. Not a great season certainly
not even good one-because VAL
ley Forge" for instance, which should
have been very fine. was somehow
disappointing, and even Fred Stones
magnificent first speech in the Sim
clair Lewis play. "Jayhawker," j"
couldn't convince audiences that he
was doing anything except play at the
Civil War with ammunition that
sounded like stores toy department.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Final Children's S PLAY.

"A LADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL
"A Lamp" will bring to a close the
third season of the Children's Thea
ter of New York, which Washington
has enjoyed According to Mrs.
Major, the director and founder of
the Children's Theater. this has
proved to be "the most popular play
in the theater's repertoire"
Wendell! Whitten. well known in
Washington for several outstanding
characters of the past three seasons,
and for his Dick Wilmington of
this, will be welcomed back in the
title role. He will be supported by
a fine cast, composed of several fa-
vorites seen here earlier in the sea-
son-notably, John O'Connor, as the
Magician, and Philippa Bevans. as
the Princess. Tickets are available
at the Women's International League,
ut the National box Office and at the
agencies. -.- 49,. e..
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time, entertaining plays OF
the present season, will
come to the National Theater on
Monday, April %. for a weeks stay.
1t is S. N. Behrman's Rain From
Heaven" The Theater Guild pro-
duced it. with Jane Cowl and John
Halliday in the featured roles.
Mr.. Behrman in Rain From
Heaven" has made the stage cogni-
zant Of what's going on in the world.
He discussed the international unrest
and maladjustment in the terms of
individuals.
Applying himself in an attempt to
diagnose-shall we say?-the cosmic
ailments, MIR. Behrman is said to
have composed an exhilarating mental
tonic. Examining the plight of the
men without country taking refuge
in the home of an English noble
woman with fine humanitarian in
stinct, Mr.. Behrman sees slight
promise of an immediate solution of
the current tangled insecurity.
Fear and suspicion he regards as
the most destructive of the worlds
ills. And he holds scant hope of
an amicable international relation
ship. The allegorical conclusion of
Rain From Heaven" conveys his be-
lief that nationalism will prevail. I'VE
are all shut in by little fences" muses.
his heroine at the final curtain.
In Lady Violets house near Lon
don exiles from Russia and Germany
have found a haven. One of the
exiles is music critic with speck
of Jewish blood" who has been kicked
out of Germany because of 4 satiric
fantasy he wrote. In his pamphlet
he described a kingdom where all
the Jews had been killed but one.
The rulers, threatened with the pros
pect of no scapegoats, endowed 1.-The
last Jew" with magnificent subsidy.
The story OF the play, in the main,
concerns the music critic and Lady
Violet. He cannot reconcile himself
Evening star., 1935-04-14
S.ar on Loan.

MARGARET SULLIVAN. Universal
contract star. will be borrowed by
Paramount for the Stark Young
drama, so Red the Rose" through
negotiations now under way between
the studios. Pauline Lord and Fred
Stone will be co-featured. King Vidor
will direct the production as his first
under his newly signed Paramount
contract. Maxwell Anderson wrote
the screen play.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Battle of the Blends

T OLLYWOOD. Calif.-The most
- coveted role available in
Hollywood right now seems to
be that of leading lady to
Robert Donat, the English
star Of "The Count of Monte Cristo, "
who Is to make his American screen
debut shortly in the title role of
Captain Blood for Warner Bros.
No less than five important actresses,
all blond, are fighting for the priv
ilege of playing the role Of Arabella,
heroine of the Sabatini romance. They
are Bette Davis, Jean Muir, Loretta
Young, Joan Bennett and Anita Louise !!
When plans for the production we're
first formed at the Warner studio,
Jean Muir alone was considered by
executives for the part. But it soon
became apparent that she wouldn't
get it without struggle. Bette Davis
got hold of a copy of the script, de-
cided that here was role right down
her alley" and put in an ardent plea
for the part. The rumor spread that
Arabella was a role among roles for
any ambitious young actress, and Miss
Young, Miss Bennett and Miss Louise
followed Bette's example.
Director Michael CurtiZ and Super
visor Harry Joe Brown obligingly threw
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Russian in broadcast.

4 KIM TAMrROFF, recently signed
to Paramount contract, has been
assigned to the cast of THE Big
Broadcast of 1885," which Norman
Taurog is to direct Tamiroff, former
Moscow Art Theater star and with the
New York Theater Guild for two
years, has appeared in 25 Hollywood
productions since his arrival here 1s
months ago.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Sylvia Sidnev's Story.

II ETS GET MARRIED" a script
from book by Howard Buck,
has been purchased by Paramount
from R-K-O studios. The production
Is planned for Sylvia Sidney and Fred
MacMurray. Ray Harris, author Of
the script. today joined the Para
mount writing staff to do further work
on the story.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
At the Gavetv.

ROASTING one of the largest and
- most talented casts ever to appear
in single burlesque production, the
Gayety Theater will present for the
week beginning today "Messin'
Around" another presentation of the
Independent Burlesque Association.
producers of travelling road shows. In
featured roles will be Billie Holmes,
Sally O'Day. Wilma Jossy. Jewel Soth-
ern. Fred Binder, Phil Stone. Wen
Miller, Lou Devine, Billy Lee and
Jackie Burns.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Motor Cycle Skis Given Tests.

Ten motor cycles fitted with ski
attachments were tested recently in a
run over the snow and ice from Mos
cow to Leningrad, Russia. Three
automobiles participated in the event.
The run lasted % hours road time
and finished 2 minutes ahead of
schedule
Evening star., 1935-04-14

and Clayton Hamilton. Though We
shall miss the sage decisions Of those
reliable pundits. We can look forward
with curiosity at least to the verdicts
Of their successors Prof. Phelps has
definitely registered himself in these
columns as against The Petrified
Forest" and correspondents write me
that in a lecture to the Town Hall
Club he said that The Children's
Hour" is not his idea Of Pulitzer en-
tertainment. With Prof. Phelps op-
posed to two of the most popular
dramas in town. the difficulties of
final judgment are increased. 1t is a
ribald. though a humble suggestion,
prompted by a sketch in last weeks
Dutch Treat Club revue. that they put
Mickey Mouse upon the throne, and
thereby have their decree ratified
unanimously.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
New York Takes a Glance
At Miss COrnell's Drama
Flowers of the Forest" Is Anti-War Play,
and the Star Shines Bright htly-Awaiting the
Awards by Pulitzer "Theater Court"
BY Percy Ham mOnd.

A NTIWAR dramas nooriousy futile as peacemakers
Y and Mr.. Van Druen's Flowers of the Forest" will
~ probably stfe battle cries and Sheahe
Playgong patriots who shifted at the warnings of AN
EnglShmanS Home Molochto only neglected
prophets be deaf dare not dumb and blind to its
reminders Like critics.
Strucve while seeking destroy worlds habit
offers practical in which it. He suggests possibly
that should be experiment that
has been tried in this neighborhood with few
Without STOPPING propagandSs eXaggeratOn.
he gives in Flowers of the Forest view of the wrought
muerous hatred and fear of each nation for the other
fails prescribe
owe to fight for
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I am convinced that Mr.. van Druten
in his new play believes that war is
4 hell and that the peoples of the earth
should lay down their arms and dwell
In amity. He would abolish envy,
greed, anger. patriotism and the stu
p.dity Of statesmen, and he would
change the inhabitants of puny
asteroid into heavenly seraphim. 1t
would be good trick if he could do it.
1t is now long past time to speak
again in worshipful terms of Miss
Katharine Cornell and her part in the
performance of Flowers of the
Forest" Although other actors in the
play do as good, if not better. jobs
of characterization, it is Miss Cornell
who dominates it and makes it much
more than a sober Broadway show.
To Miss Cornell's mind the drama is
not racket, but mission. and she.
as one OF its noblest and subtlest
practitioners, knows all about the COM
promises that the art of the theater
must make to its patrons. AS Naomi
Jacklin, daughter of hide bound
priest of the Church of England
(Charles Waldron), she falls in love
with sturdy poet and soldier Hugh
Williams. and just before he embarks
for the slaughterhouse she gives her
self to him. He has looked upon
Britannia as a beautiful empire, and
a nurse of warriors eager to spring
to her advantage or defense. But
after he has slept in Flanders fields
with the corpses of his comrades and
has bayoneted docile German or two
he comes back to her a reformed
idealist.
Miss Cornell in all her scenes is de-
lightfully background star. permit
ting her associates to glitter bril-
liantly. She let's them go in an ex-
hibition of graphic histrionism. while,
with the lift of an eyebrow or the ac-
cent of a syllable. she forces you to
look upon her rather than upon them.
Her face and her figure are dramas
in themselves. and despite her inten-
ton to be merely a cog in Mr.. van
! Druten'S wheel she is the most con-
Spicuous gadget in its machinery
l sympathize with her, as here and
there the electrician throws stacy
spotlights upon her vivid features in
tableaux that she might prefer TO be
private.
AT THIS time of year Broadway's
breath is bated as it awaits the
verdict of the Pulitzer Prize supreme
court. Upon the decision of that
bench rests the fame and reputation
of several dramas. ranging from The
Childrens Hour" with its gentle per-
versions. and those serious antics.
Three Men on a Horse" and Fly
Away Home" Clifford Odet's dra-
matte complaints. Awake and Sing
and Waiting for Lefty" are candi-
dates. and so is Alfred MaltzS remon-
STRANGE against conditions in the ccal
mines, BLACK Pit" Maxwell Ander-
sons Valley Forge" hWmn to
George Washington and the fathers
of our country. though a flop in the
Theater Guilds program. is still a
distinguished, if unpopular. nominee.
There are others whose names are
forgotten for the moment, that are
entitled to be considered in the jury S
deliberations.
The Pulitzer court this Spring Is
composed. according to Times Square
rumors, of William Lyon Phelps. John
Erskine and Stark Young who have
replaced the dissatisfied and indignant
Walter Prichard Eaton, Austin Strong
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Going Back Over Capitals
Season of Dramatic Effort
Three or Four Plays Stand Out, but as Whole
the Fall and Winter Did Not Bring Anything
to Stand Up and Cheer About.
By E. de s. Me[cher.

@NE Broadway product Jane Cow and John Halliday
in Rain From Heaven to be followed by the Nationa!
Players in season. is said, least 16 weeks and
then the legitimate season will have quietly byzby
What have been the highghts? There Ceiling Zero
memorable for ogood Perkins and cast that except for
Bros movie There Life Begins at $40" winner on
the road nasmuch the chorus girls came straight
from Broadway Brooklyn There Three Men Horse
funny rough tumble comedy this And
Evening star., 1935-04-14

w YHAT is credited as being
M one of the most Stimu-
wv lating and. at the same
time, entertaining plays of
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lamps the company sells that
I thought Of"
They ought to have put
your name on the bottom of
the lamps, like a Chinese
chop" said Hester.
"Well, no." answered her
husband, mot in a corporation.
You learn to take pride in
just fitting in. But sometimes"
he added, a little shyly, lit
gives me an awful kick to know
I thought Of them. I can't
quite explain, but once I came
into town at night and saw a
little girl walking down a dark
street carrying one of the
lamps. And, we'll, don't know
it made me feel useful and
I like to keep on introducing
them"
The next morning Stephen
felt invulnerable, and of i'm
portance in the scheme of
things until his return to the
office, where he didn't seem to
be half so important as he had
been the afternoon before.
Swaley took most casually his
going back, as. if he had known
it all the time.
'We're sending you to the
Central China district, Let's
see. The date of your sailing
Your three months at home
are up on the Tenth. All, there
are two ships sailing around
that time from San Francisco.
One the first, one the 18th.
Well, how's the first? Get you
to China, let's see, about the
beginning of April. That suit
you all right? When you reach
Shanghai, they'll tell you
where you're to be stationed"
CHAPTER 18
It was spring when Hester
and Stephen first came to the
rich valley of the Yangtse-
China's Storehouse Of food.
"Oh, look! It's like walking in
green pastures beside still
waters" cried Hester, as they
sat on the deck Of the comfort
able British steamer which was
taking them PARKWAY up the
great river to their station.
"Such quiet! I didn't know a
landscape could be so quiet"
Fascinated, she gazed out over
the valley which, after thou
sands of years Of cultivation,
had lost all the wlidness of ma
ture and become mans intimate
dwelling place.
Hester touched Stephens arm.
"Stephen, feel that if we move,
we'll shatter it. It looks as if
the earth had been brought to
it's fulfillment. Everything is
perfected. There isn't a weed,
as far as you can see. There
isn't an inch Of land that does.
not seem to have some purpose.
Does it make you feel that way,
Stephen?"
"A little" answered Stephen,
since you speak of it, or perhaps
because I know how full the val.
ley is of pepole. They say 20O,.
100000 live in what's called The
Valley-more than in all Amer
lea. It makes me feel if you
put another person into it, it
would be like throwing a mon
key wrench into a machine"
To Be Continued
Copyright, 1894. by Bobbs-MerrilI
Co. Distributed by King Features
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Through the forest, following tracks made by the
three treasure carriers, the two picked their way.
They found no beaten path. Pedro had taken his
men to and from the treasure pit by different
route each time.
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for the Lamps Of China
Western Life, Love Clash With
Ancient Ways Of the
Far East
YThis is sterilization of the Cosmopolitan production
soon to be shown at Warner Brothers Earle Theater)
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

Stephen Chase youthful and ambitious, is field man
h, Mamchuria for the American Oil Company When he
had devoted three to the acor he arranged for ms
furlough during 1Uhich he planned to marry Lucy, his
American Sweetheart.
But 1Ohen the time Lucy refused to 90 through
Nth the MARRIAGE the grounds that Stephen 1Oas no'0
q Ueritdble stranger
Besvidered Stephen arries the first girl he encount
ers in Yokohama 1Oho proVes to be Hester Wentworth
kose father had Just died trip to China and 0ho IS
1ow alone in the Oord The couple start housekeeping
in company hut in Manchua, but Stephen spends most
of his time travelling in the cast Monchurian 'Oastes
He conceives idea to haze the company anuacture
and sell CHEAP lamps to coolies thus Increasing the oil
output tremendously But during his travels he avonders
he had done right by bringing Hester to this terrible
conty ayhere she forced to be alone great part
of the tine
Stephen is informed that he is to open company sub
station in small tonOm in the interior of Manchuria
This means more loneliness for Hester.
Hester loses her baby at birth and Stephen planning
vacation sends her back to the SateS ahead of him.
MANY company changes are runnored.
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Late in the afternoon they heard shouting ana
furious blows. They started running toward the
sounds which undoubtedly came from fight They
were tripped by trailing vine and blinded by moss
Is they struggled to reach the fray.