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The Washington times., 1935-03-22
WITH SUBURBS
|. TOTAL WILL Be
100000
Figures Predicted BY Census
Bureau Show Big Gains in
Outlying Sections

With the suburbs of Washing
ton showing an unusual growth
in recent years, the population Of
the metropolitan area, including
the outlying districts and ada
cent Maryland and Virginia coun-
ties, is expected to reach 100000
by July, Census Bureau experts
predicted today.
In 1880, when the last official
census was taken, the population
in the metropolitan area was only
621 ,059, and the large anticipated
increase is predicated on the fact
that Government employees and
others have penetrated farther
and farther into the suburbs.
1t is expected that Washington's
population will reach 505,000 by
July l, as compared with 486,0OO
in 1880 and the estimated 497'.
900 in 1884.
BY far the greater percentage
of growth has been shown in the
suburbs, as government employees
and others have etra ted
farther and farther into adjacent
states.
Will Reach zoo. 900
The gain from 1920 to 1880 in
Washington was II per cent, but
the suburban areas in the Metro
politan area gained 81 per cent,
growing from 86,898 in 1920 to
134,19 in 1880. The suburban
population is expected to reach
100000 by July /, this year.
Some credit for the recent
rapid rise in population was at.
tributed to the vast army of New
DealistS who have descended on
the city, yet the figures do not
fail to show steady gain over
the last decade or more.
Specific population figures for
the four counties adjacent to
Washington - Montgomery and
Prince Georges in Maryland and
Fairfax and Arlington in Virginia
are not available.
The bureau classified as part
of the metropolitan area the towns
of Berwyn Heights, Bladensburg,
Hyattsville, Riverdale, Boulevard
Heights, Bowie, Capital Heights,
Cottage City, Fairmount Heights,
Glen Echo, Kensington, Mt. Rain.
ier, Brentwood, Riverdale Heights,
Berwyn, College Park, Rockville,
Takoma Park, Somerset, Seat
Pleasant and Bethesda, all in
Maryland, and Vienna, Falls
Church. Fairfax, Herndon and
Alexandria, in Virginia.
Considered in Area
There are numerous other
towns in between those named
and Washington that also are in.
cluded in the Metropolitan area.
Revelation of the Capitals rapid
growth came in connection with
Secretary of Commerce Roper's
announcement that he plans to
employ an additional 5000 per-
sons in the Census Bureau here
if the plan for the proposed 1885
national census goes through Con.
gress with the Observation-Disclosures
works relief measure.
The Traffic Bureau asserts that
automobile registration for 1885
is certain to pass the 100000
mark, as compared to 188,026 last
year.
The Washington times., 1935-03-22
TO AID LOAN FUND

The Jewish Student Loan Fund
a group organized to assist stu
dents by loaning them money for
their tuition, will sponsor a dance
tomorrow night at the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
@ Streets Northwest.
Evening star., 1935-11-03

Fashionable World. Or if you can't won you
are bringing our children up according to your
precepts. and tell us the truth?
us this society of names advertised and
rated by where they walk in the parade and
where head waiter seats themn restaurant.
or by published list of ten first gentlemen
or ten best dressed ladies, also your society?
Just why this subject has suddenly got me,
l don't know l have never cared about it
before and don't care now except in the
sense of coming suddenly upon a devastated
region where believed was city of beauty
The wagon ruts in Pompeii affected me in
the same sudden way. And so - will you
answer me? Is the admirable world of Society
that have thought l could read between the
lines of what you write, real, or do you make
it up?'
In answer to this letter then. let me say at
once: No, l do not make up" the people of
whom write nor the society that define as
best. But admit that the reassuring glossary
you ask for is almost as difficult to make clear
as it would be to separate each color that has
gone into the painting of a picture.
: In the general picture Of this modern day
the smart and the near smart, the distin-
guished and the merely conspicuous, the real
and the sham, and the unknown general public
are all mixed up together. The walls that used
to enclose the world that was fashionable are
all down. Even the car tracks that divided
cities into smart and not smart sections are
torn up.
On the other hand, there are countless mi-
vate houses whose walls are standing intact
and whose shades are pulled down when the
Evening star., 1935-11-03

whose opinions you so often refer to as au-
thoritative? Or was there lis there another
Best Society, which must have been shamed
into seeking greater and greater privacy?
And yet this doesn't follow through, because
the names figuring conspicuously in several
front-page scandals have been those of fam
lilies whose prestige has always been looked up
to as representative of Americas Best.
II have been trying to think why should
care think it is this: Reformers of sorts may
write all they please about the bad taste of
Hollywood, but we, the countless middle
class people of the nation, look there for en-
tertainment and not for the patterns of highest
social and ethical traditions. But we not only
look to, but are as nation represented by
those who are assumed to comprise not only
our richest but our highest social class.
LAS you see from the stamping on my let
ter paper, l live far from New York and am
complete outsider. And if l. who am so far
removed from the superrich and super smart
of a far-off city of super-size, can feel so
strongly about this disloyalty to all sense of
noblesse oblige on the part of those who are
thought to be the top, because holding the
foremost social citadel of the nation, what
must you feel who are Of the social world of
New York?
II have never written to you before, and
perhaps you won't answer me perhaps you
can't. Perhaps the society as depicted by
these others is what that of all great cities
has come to. But if you can, do wish you
o,x
ing glossary for such terms as Best Society,",
Best People, People of Quality People of
Taste The Smart or the Modern, or the
Evening star., 1935-11-03

ingly frank article about the publicity craving
of what the author evidently believes New
Yorks smartest modern society.
"As finished this story about nothing but
the fantastic supposition that head walters
can bestowsocial position with ringside tables,
said to myself: And so what1 Who cares
whether the so-and-s SOS are given front-row
table in high priced restaurant, or whether
they eat at cafeteriar
But to my own surprise l find myself sud-
denly caring very much because it is assumed
that the rest of us are satisfied to have these
same social headliners represent the American
social ideal. And at the library this afternoon
read parts of new book about New York
Society's Golden Age. had at least supposed
that society of yesterday represented every
thing that was cultured and choice
This book describes world that is pre-
tentious and vapid and vulgar. And no one
so far as know is saying word in Societys
defense? Or has it no defense? I'd like to know
the truth, Mrs Post; that 8 why I'm writing
to you.
"Is it true that these people have been
reading about are the same ones as those
Evening star., 1935-11-03

labeled good variety even though
they are all grown from seeds that came
in the same packet and have been given
the same cultivation. But carefully choose
the most perfect individual blooms can find
This figure of speech perhaps explains how it
can happen that certain Elaine Eminent can
perhaps have not single characteristic that
one labeled with that name should have.
In other words. to return to our glossary.
Best Society Best People, or People of Quail
ity can all be defined as people of cultivation.
courtesy, ,tasteand kindness. But when you ask
for the meaning of smart, fashionable and
modern. the qualities implied may include fas-
tidious taste, alert perceptions, appreciative
knowledge of every ward-looking move
ment of the day.; it may mean creative genius;
or on the other hand it may mean no more
than flair for the trend of the moment.
On the one hand, one can be smarter than
smart and top of the world of fashion, and at
the same time have all the highest qualities
of ethical and intelligent and human excel
lence. Or one can be in not one trait of
character admirable. So you can see how hard
it is to try to explain who's who let alone
the much harder what what A fact should
like to bring out, is that the rating by super
fetal appearance or the accident of publicity
has little to do with an accurate appraisal of
intrinsic worth or wort hlessness. Real value
is something back of and apart from publicity
value. There is allthe difference between climb
ing on the band-wagon in order to be noticed
by the public standing on the side lines, and
impulsively jumping on board because one can
Copyright. 1895, by Emily Post
Evening star., 1935-11-03
November 3, i925

With the houses there are patios
where the owners spend their days
and into which intimate friends 90
at their pleasure. But out in the
big concourse where the reporters
gather with their cameras, the
crowd is the same public one that
goes to the races, or to the restau-
rants or to the night clubs.
There is nowhere to see Best
Society on parade. Because parad-
ing is one thing that Best Society
does not Intentionally do. And yet
it is true and this is one of the
things hardest to make clear that
in the forefront of the public
parade are to be found a certain
few who are really best. But they
are best in spite of (and not be-
causeoD the publicity they attract.
Therefore. the only way for one
who must for one reason or an
other consider the question of
whether this or that group is rep
resentative is to make ones own
appraisal, and from those whom
one considers admirable. to make
ones individual selection, andthe
to define that selection as Society
that most nearly meets ones own
idea.
BY this | mean. instead of say
ing as one could have done a.
number ofyears ago - that all the
Oldnames and the Toploftys and
the Gildings and the Eminents and
so on represented Best Society,
one would have to make a selec-
tion not by family name but by
individual qualification.
For example. when | say that
people of taste do this. or think
that" | naturally have in mind
definite people whose taste is, in
my own opinion. the most nearly
perfect among all those whom |
know. Or on occasion, perhaps.
go back in memory to the precepts
of those whose excellence has re-
mained anideal Or perhaps Iapply
recognized standards of measure
like those of the Ancient Greeks.
In OF her words. when | write of
people of quality or fashion or
taste, l always select the individual
people whoideally serveas models.
exactly as select flowers in my
garden which are to be put in
certain bowl or vase in a certain
room. Or perhaps the illustration
will be clearer if | suppose that l
am choosing the best varieties to
be exhibited at the flower show. |
certainly don't 60 into the garden
and pick half a dozen blooms of the
first plant that happens to be
a good variety even though
all grown from seeds that came
me packet and have been given
But | carefully choose
Evening star., 1935-11-03

W a mt to
print this
letter at full

length, neeQS no eX-
planation. Dear
Mrs. Post: w hile
waiting my turn in a
doctors office, l hap
pened to read in one
of Americas greatest
magazines an amaz-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate)
HOLLYWOOD. March z.

HOLLYWOOD, March I.
Pardon me for again bringing
up the Voltaire fire, but a little in
cident has just come to light that
may intrigue those with daredevil
spirit. The writer, Dwight Taylor,
a tenant of the jernt, was among
those present when the conflagra-
ton broke loose. He rushed out
of the inferno with nothing but
his sleeping raiment and the
script for the new Fred Astaire
picture, TOP Hat" which he was
adapting. When quite clear of
the flames clutches, he discover
ed, much to his anguish, that he
had left one entire sequence in
his apartment, which if destroyed
would have cost him an extra
months work and a large-s1zed
headache. So, with the speed of
an antelope he flew back into the
apartment house and rescued his
sequence just as the roof col.
lapsed which, possibly because of
guardian angel, missed him by
that much.
And now as long as the fire
has again been mentioned, let it
be known that a brief case full
of very valuable papers, lost by
Alan Hale in the mad scramble,
was found in the care of Alan'S
police dog. The faithful canine
had carried it to safety and was
standing guard over it. No
amount of cOaxing from the po-
licemen or firemen could induce
the pup to let go Of his treasure.
The following bit, if true, should
sadden the hearts of all movie
fans: Helen Hayes has politely but
firmly announced that, at the COM
pletion of her present M-G-M con-
tract, she will give the celluloid
back to the cans and devote the
rest of her existence to her hus-
band, Charlie Macarthur and their
daughter. In her spare time she
will be seen in the flesh on the
New York stage. Such a decision
will naturally be the theater's
gain, but horrible loss to the
cinema and all those who will be
unable to visit New York yearly to
see Miss Hayes work.
One nice thing about Para
mount, when they plug a pic.
%vurn %hnv NIUE IL C0nSAmuNmfIv
we must deal with "Crusades"
until unconscious. The latest
news pertaining to this epic is
that for two months now Henry
Wicoxon has had to give all his
spare time to making friends
with the falcons used therein,
so they will recognize him as a
pal when the actual shooting
takes place and sit upon his
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of the Fox, grows sentimental and
conjures up romantic memories
whenever Naughty Marietta" is
mentioned. In 1924 he staged a
production of the Victor Herbert
piece for the st. Louis Municipal
Opera in the great open air audi
forum.
The principal who sang Failing
in Love With Some One" struck
Director Ford as all that was per-
feet in beauty, talent and charm.
Before the engagement was over
he had proposed and was accepted.
So when they became Mr.. and Mrs.
Gene Ford, the organist played
Sweet Mystery of Life" instead
of the customary wedding march.
They call it their engagement
song, and Naughty Marietta" is
still their favorite of all musicals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
"UncIe Vanya"
Planned

A cast of local favorites will
play the parts enacted on the
Broadway stage by some OF the
foremost actors of this country.
when the Columbia Players pre-.
sent Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" at
Pierce Hall on March Is and IA.
Eileen Fowler as Helena, and
Wayne Bobst as Uncle Vanya will
have the roles played by Lillian
Gish and Walter Connolly when
Jed Harris produced the play in
New York five years ago. The
role played by Osgood Perkins in
the Broadway production will be
taken by Arthur Westover in the
local presentation, and Dorothea
Lewis, as Sonia, will play the
Johanna Roos part. Joe Bourne,
Wade Robinson, Bess Dyer and
Dorothy M. White complete the
Columbia Players cast.
The production is in charge Of
Aurora Poston, with Jane Lasater
Rubey as technical director. The
costumes, which are of the late
1905, have been designed by
Maria Toward, formerly costume
designer for the Munich Civic
Theater. Mrs Howard is also
supervising the making of the cos.
tunes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
M OVIF
CLOCK

EARLE-Kay Francis and
George Brent in Living on
Velvet" II a. m, 1870, 4:2O,
7:05, $50 p. m. Stage, 1910,
$3.50, 6:15, 9 p. m.
Observation-Disclosures Gag.
ney and Pat O'Brien in Devil
Dogs of the Air." 11:15 a. M,
1920, 800, 5:25, 1880, $50
p. m.
FOX-Janet Gaynor and War
ner Baxter in zone More
Spring" 10:45 a. IN, 1870,
4:20, 7:05, 9:55 p. m. Stage.
1925, 3:15, 900, $50 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Leslie Howard,
Merle Oberon in THE Scarlet
Pimpernel," 11:15 a. M, 1:15,
3:15, 5:57, 7:15, 9:15 p. m.
PALACE-Ronald Colman and
Loretta Young in "Clive of
india" 1915 a. m, 2.35. 4:55.
7:15, 9:35 p. m.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES GLAND and
Mary Brian in Charlie Chan
In Paris" 11:15 a. m, 1:O5,
2:50, 4:4O, $40, $40, 10 p. m.
BELASCO-"Power" with Con-
rad Veidt, 11:44 a. m, 1:43,
3:42, SAL, TAO and 9:39
p. m.
HOWARD-Jean Muir, Ricardo
Cortez in THE White Cock
atoo." 1890 a. m, $40, 7:05,
1910 p. m. Stage, 2:40, $50,
9:05 p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
BosWells Favor
"Heebie Ieebies"

When the Boswell sisters, radio
aces, appear at the Earle Theater,
there's one song that is certain to
be on their program. It's "The
Heebie Jeebies," which Connie, Vet
and Martha regard as their good
luck song.
In every addition for a radio
program which they have sung,
the song has been on the program;
in every stage appearance they
have made they have always sung
the song at the first performance
whether or not it was changed
afterward.
That's the only superstition the
girls from New Orleans have.
When they left their Dixie home
six years ago, the song was popu-
lar. They worked up "hot" ar
rangement of it. When they made
their disastrous theatrical bow in
Chicago they didn't use it. But
when they went to the Coast to try
out for pictures, they sang the song
and landed a job. When they
made their bow as radio perform
ers in Los Angeles, the song was
used, and they were a success.
Even when Harry Leedy, their
manager, brought them East to
New York for their first coast-to.
coast chain appearance, they sang
the song. They were on CONNER
cial programs for more than two
years, taking one program as rap
idly as the old one ran out.
The song contains some Of the
Boswell gibberish," which is
"trible talk" worked into the
lyrics of the comedy song. It was
one of the first examples of "Bos-
we'll rhythm" and they hold the
song in high esteem.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
'VANITIES' TO PLAY FOX -
Nelson Eddy Arrives in District
For Naughty Marietta
Preview Show
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Thursday roundup Of loose items: Ken Murray special
deliveries from Akron Ohio that Earl Carols Vanties
tabloid sze will positively play the Fox Theater here the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07


hasn't given Hardie Meakn at Keith evidently
thinks the movie public smell out the good He will
open the doors of the Fifteenth Street theatr nine
Friday and Saturday. will start grinding out his first show
at 8 Is for the .tRobertaN early birds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
Began in Musical

Irene DUNES appearance in
Roberta" recalls that your critic
first saw her singing the role of
Magnolia with the Ziegfeld pro.
duction of "Showboat" in its fare.
well footlight performances. It
was during the National engage
ment that she was invited by
Radio pictures to take a screen
test which resulted in her debut
in Leather Neckers" to be fol.
lowed by her big success in
"Cimarron."
She had a slight cast in her eye
Vsomething like Norma Shearer's)
which I felt would bar her from
going far in Hollywood. Instead
the studio camera experts were
able to overcome it just as they
did in the case of Miss Shearer.
Good Pictures
It was Nick schenck who OBJ
served many months ago There's
nothing the matter with this bust
ness that can't be remedied by
good pictures. A very wise OBJ
servation. AS Paramount, after
turning out a group of mediocre
disappointments, suddenly finds
success with such a feature as
"Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
"Gilded Lily" and "Ruggles of
"Red Cap" three bell ringers
everywhere.
I certainly hope that those who
scan Claudette Colbert in "Gilded
Lily" her first picture since the
Academy gold statue for acting
was achieved, will not expect to
see Hollywood's finest actress.
For Claudette has charm, beauty,
figure and voice and may be
the college mans idea of the per-
feet sweetheart. But there are
many in Hollywood who can act
rings around her. Miss Colbert
got a break with ut Happened
One Night" but those who think
she is great must erase the men,
DRY of completely amateurish per-
formances in the De Mile spec
tacles.
"Gilded Lily" comes closer to
capturing the carefree, whimsical
mood of 1T Happened One
Night" than any of the many imi-
tations. The new Palace picture
makes good entertainment for
that reason, and there is strik-
ing first screen performance by
a new leading man, Fred Mac
Murray.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
Prize Writers
Aided Eddie

Based on a w. r. Burnett novel
which ran serially in a national
magazine, THE Whole Towns
Talking" Edward G. Robinson's
first starring production of Co.
lumbia make, at the Earle The
alter, was adapted to the screen
by Columbia's ace scenarists, 10
Swerling and Robert Riskin.
Riskin is credited with such re.
cent hits as Lady for a Day."
1T Happened One Night" and
broadway Bill" while Swerling
prepared such outstanding pro-
auctions as mo Greater Glory"
Mans Castle" and Lady by
Choice" John Ford directed THE
Whole Towns Talking"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP,
ICOVer HOLLYWOOD

arm calmly just as their prede-
cessOrS did with the knights of
old.
This is by no means the end
of his animal kingdom ventures,
for the same procedure had to
be gone through with in the case
of the very high-spirited stall
lion that appears as his favOrite
mount in the picture. When not
busy with the birds he had to
ride the horse at least twice a
day, carry pockets full of sugar
Jumps about with him and gen.
orally make the Steed his palSie
walsie. Mr.. WIS personality
came through with a bang, for
now when he steps on the set
the birds swoop down on him en-
maSSe until he takes on the ap-
pearance of a veritable bird
rock. AS for the stallion, it very
much resembles "Mary's little
lamb" inasmuch as it trails MIR.
w. all over the place.
The following bit of rumor i
only rumor at the moment, 81
don't take it too seriously: I'll
noised about that after Bins
Crosby took a good look at hi
latest opera, mississippi" he in
formed his producers that els'
they did plenty in the way of re
takes he would leave the studio il
high dudgeon and nevermore re
turn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-03-07
100000 For Waltz

Theaters of huge capacity are
wonderful when you have an at
traction to fill them. Comes this
interesting story on volume pa
tronage from Howard S. Bene-
dict, Max Gordon's press agent:
'The Great Waltz" set a new
attendance record in the theater
last Monday evening, when the
500,000th spectator bought a
ticket to the spectacular operetta
which is New York's outstanding
musical hit. In it's first % weeks
at the Center Theater in Radio
City, 1.-THE Great Waltz" has
played to larger audiences than
usually attend a successful show
in an entire year on Broadway.
The 500,000th spectator at Max
Gordon's operetta was Mrs. Ray
mond Stilley, of 457 West Fifty
seventh ST., who received two
free tickets in honor of the occa-
sion. Louis Lotto, treasurer of
the Center Theater, presented
Mrs. Stilley with the tickets and
a corsage of flowers, thereby set
ting precedent for other man.
ayers to follow, if they are for.
tunate enough to have the chance.
Honeymoon Story
That will be quite a pre-view
party which the Fox will toss to-
morrow night for 1000 or more
privileged guests with Naughty
Marietta" the main course of the
screen menu.
Nelson Eddy, who is costarred
with jeanette Macdonald in the
Victor Herbert operetta, arrives
in washington today to lend his
presence. Production Supervisor
Hunt Stromberg and Director
w. S. (Woody) Van Dyke are al
ready here at the Mayflower
awaiting the screening.
Managing Director Gene Ford,