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The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Muni Next in
DR., Socrates

"Dr. Socrates" Paul Muni's
new production for Warner
Bros, will open on Friday at the
Earle Theater. On the stage, Bar.
ney Rapp and his New Englanders
will head a variety bill.
The picture is based on the
popular novel by w. R. Burnett,
author Of Little Caesar" and
presents Mum in the role Of q
small town physician who proves
smarter than the nations smart
est bandits. For the first time
since "Scarface," Ann Dvorak ap-
pears in Muni'S supporting cast.
Others seen in the picture,
which was directed by William
Dieterle, include Barton MacLane,
Henry O'Neill, Robert Barrat,
Hobart Cavanagh and Helen
Lowell.
Barney Rapp and his New
EnglanderS, who headline the
stage program, will present mirth
and melody. Fifteen entertainers
are included in the New England
ers, with Ruby Wright featured.
Others on the bill will include
Dick and Edith Barstow, interna-
tional favoriteS, and Ferry Cor
wey, the popular musical clown"
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
'CandIeIi9ht' Is
In Rehearsal

The Columbia Players work
shop is running full tilt.
The first play Of the season,
"Candlelight," \ delicious comedy
translated from the German by
p. G. Wodehouse, is now in re-
hearsal under Orris Holland for
production on November and 7.
Casting for the second play,
"InheritorS," by Susan GlaSpell.
begins on october % under the
direction of Yvonne KuShner.
Meanwhile, 2 stage crew is
buSily at work on the first stage
set under the direction of G. De-
Witt Miller. Many new members
are working with the crew. Jane
LaSater Rubey, technical director,
who will design all of the Players
sets, is continuing the lectures on
stage craft which she began last
year.
New players are preparing for
their evening of entertaining the
old members and incidentally
showing what they can do in act
ing, directing, writing, producing,
on November Is.
A portable light board is being
designed for the group for con-
struction this season.
And, most important Of all,
subscription memberships at So
for five plays are now on sale.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Gayety Offers
Ace Show

"Burlesk Stars" current Gayety
offering opening yesterday at
Col. James Lakes Ninth Street
house, Is one Of the best produc-
tions to grace the local burlesque
stage in several seasons. Ace
comedian with this excellent
troupe is George Broadhurst,
Broadway funster, and he has lost
none Of his ability to captivate
and amuse an audience.
Mr.. Broadhurst and his male
and female colleagues in this revue
have the advantage of some ex-
cellent staging and chorus that
is drilled to the last word. The
chorus routines and costuming
top anything Of the season.
Especially enjoyable also is the
tap dancing of the Mack Sisters
and Eddie Grey. Ann Shirley
Mack, one of the sisters, stages
q gorgeous fan dance.
I. B. Hamp, comic, who talks
like a machine gun, ably seconds
Broadhurst in the fun Of the eve
ming.
The distaff portion Of the cast
is especially noteworthy.
These women who do the bur-
lesque routines are really beau
tiful. Peggy Hill, an auburn
beauty, is given the top, but Ina
Thomas, a delectable platinum
blonde, and Jerri Sargent COM
mand high mention.
Frank Blyler, tenor, furnishes
some very fine vocal divertiSe-
ment, as does the singing of Ger
trude Beck and Airline Melbourne.
The troupe as a whole are by
far the finest aggregation of en-
tertainers to appear so far. The
show moves with brilliant timing
throughout its colorful and tune
full course.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

Fairbanks, sr, did some years ago
in the BLACK Pirate" when he
had a sun dial on the deck of
the pirate ship to tell the time!
Warner Brothers had two eX-
carpenters for quite a while who
did no more than shake trains.
All railroads twitter a bit while
moving, as you may have noticed,
so train sets are built on rockers,
and these huSkieS spent their
days bouncing the actors.
Here, there, and in your hair,
Bing Crosby has politely but
firmly informed his studio para
mounD that beginning with
Christmas Day up to the middle
of February. they need not cast
him in any picture because he
won't be there. He'll be at the
races at Santa Anita every day
to watch his and other ponies
run. His only actual work will
be his presence at his weekly
broadcast, knowing Mr.. C. to be
a gentleman of his word, a COM
pletely new schedule has been
arranged so he will be all fin
ished with his quota by come the
holidays. You've got to be i'm
portant to rate such 1eniency.
It begins to look as though
Mae West was fast becoming a
running gag in this column
(She'S written about so frequent
ly), but when you discover a
lady with such a colorful career,
what can you do? Anyhow, to
get to the pernt, La WeStie is
having a fine time getting her
self photographed in her new
epic, 'Klondike Lou" The camera
is placed at all times above her
head, shooting down so her head
appears more narrow. The effect
is slenderizing, but it makes
her look shorter than she usually
appears and, as she is now prac-
tically standing on her toes with
those five-inch heels on her slip
pers, there is really nothing that
can be done about it,
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
ICOVeE HOu uyWOOd
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 21.-Com-
petition for the squeak tester
told youse some weeks ago
about the Lucky Pierre who does
nothing whatever but jump around
on stage floors to see if there are
any squeaks about, lest they
should record and ruin the film.
He isn't the only one in these
parts who acts like he's crazy.
There is - Mr.. Piccori, whose
sole mission in life is to make a
noise like a Muezzin, the gentle
who calls all good Mohammedans
to their prayers. He is so con-
vinced, they have to keep the visit
ing Rajahs out of earshot, on &C
count of they might think it was
time to kneel down right then and
there, knock off work for the day,
and have their dinners.
There is the ingenious Mister
Witte, at Twentieth Century-FoX,
who shares honors with the fly
swatter we told you about. Mr..
Witte had a grand time on
Dante's Inferno, whipping up a
lake Of fire and birthstone, rain
of flames, a group Of human souls
half turned into trees growing
dismally from the internal soil,
and such miracles, and in the
finished product all so successful
and convincing that many a little
heart found doubts about its va
riouS behaviors in the past.
This Mr.. w. is also he who
beat the black widows at their
own game. 1t takes a spider
hours to run up a web with all
modern convenienceS, but not so
our hero. He takes small elec-
trio fan, and pours-of all things
glue into it, and out of the
front of the fan there comes yards
of perfect cobwebs, for the aging
of too new-looking settings. Half
the spiders in California have
already died of envy at his antics.
There are even gentlemen who
have to supply snow on order to
the caprices of directors, authors
and other unreasonable people.
They have these on every lot,
complete with warehouses of
bleached corn flakes (fancy having
your breakfast fall into your
hairD, filter, tinsel, marble dust,
little white feathers, and an ice
clipper that chips so much ice
so fast it looks just like a bliz-
zard.
That, however, is far from all
the novel ways to earn wages
there are out here. At the
Brethren Warmers, there is the
very expensive and well-known
Dwight Franklin, who is working
both on Captain Blood and An
thony Adverse, that unabridged
dictionary among novels. Mr..
Franklin makes models of every
thing antique you can think of,
and knows more about the ships
of any century you wish, than
we do about what it is in our
own Kitchens. He will never
make the mistake that Douglas
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
M OWE
A'ACLOCK

PALACETacK Benny, in
Broadway Melody of 1885,"
10:30 a. M, 1910 2:50, sos,
7:15, $50 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Clark Gable. Lor-
eta Young in Call Of the
Wild" 11:15 a. m, 1:20, 1925,
$50, 1885, 9:40 p. m.
FOX-Jack Benny. Una Merkel
in "It's In The Air." 1850
a. M, 1870, 4:25, tbs, 10 p. m.
Stage-12:30, 800, Sis, 1855
EARLE-Kay Francis, George
Brent, Goose and the Gan
der" II a. m, 1:25, 4:30,
7:35. 1915 p. m. Stage
1915, 1925, 6:25, 9:05 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Bette Davis.
George Brent in Special
Agent" 11:45 a. m, 1850, 3:55,
$50, 7:45, $40 p. m.
LITTLE-Irene Dunno in anne
Vickers," 10 a. m, 1850,
1:5O. $40, $40, 7:35, $50
p. m.
BELASCO- Edmund G W n n,
Elizabeth Allan, in Java
Head" 1912, 2:14, AIS, 6:18,
$40, 1922 p. m.
RKO-KEITH'S - Alan Hale,
Dorothy Wilson in THE Last
Days Of Pompeii," 1887 a. m,
1897. 3:37. 5:37, 1887 and 9:37
p. m.
HOWARD Joan Blondell,
Glenda Farrell in Were In
The Money" 1890, 800, $3.50,
500, 1890 p. m. Stage
Duke Ellington and his orches-
ira, 1:45, AIS, 6:45, 9:15 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

Columbia will feature on its screen
starting next Friday.
In the mystery-laden Orient,
Charlie Chan, in the person of the
suave and willy Warner GLAND,
finds himself on the trail of a new
adventure that makes for absorb
ing entertaining. OF course, there
is a romance, and a capable cast
in support.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Those That Fail

Those That Fail
Hollywood, by the way, saw sew
eral of its play investments
knocked colder than Max Baer by
New York indifference. Bright
Star" which had Lee Tracy and
Julie Hayden as co-stars. was put
on by Arthur Hopkins with Para
mount funds, folded forever after
six performances.
Earlier in the week another
Paramount venture, the dramatiza-
ton of Humphrey Cobb's best
seller novel, Paths of Glory" died
from box office blight. Paramount
will go ahead with the plans for
q picture from the book, pointing
out that Ernest Hemmingway'S
Farewell to Arms" periShed from
Q non-attendance chill VIII IN
shown as a stage vehicle, became
one Of the most successful features
in screen history when transferred
to celluloid.
Warner Brothers took a pound
ing, too, after an ambitious stage
try. The Herman Shumlin produc-
tion of "Sweet Mystery of Life"
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

given over to a dress rehearsal
What he found was that the National Thea
ter box office had $4,000 in advance cash
a nice bundle of money for any new play
testifying to the strength of his Adrienne AL
len-Lucille Watson-Helen Chandler Colin Keith
Johnson cast, or perhaps it's from those who
read Jane Austen's novel and want to see
the Helen Jerome dramatization.
By now it is no secret that Producer Cor
don operates with movie cash. Metro-G Gold
wyn-Mayer supplied close to $175,OOO for the
seasons first smash musical hit ".Inhilee -
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

uf'" Asus' which the producer landed the Imperial
stage in association with Sam Harris Jubilee" seems set for
full season in New York
Last Max Gordon tried two here One was dismal
failure-Gather Ye Rosebudshe other Farmer Takes
Wife, could be called hit if you particular Again
the movies saved Mr. Gordon investment for thew panked
down abe to get the Erie play for Janet Gavnor
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

folded. Still w. B. are away ahead
Of the game on last season. They
stuck only about $4,000 into the
purchase of so per cent of Three
Men on a Horse" Up to date
they have cashed 1000 per cent
on this investment with the pic
ture profits still to be realized.
Things like this make Hollywood
susceptible to Broadway argu-
ment.
Il ed HeaIy Hits
Ted Healy is what I call a Yes
and No comedian. Some movie
goers say they can't stand him
while others like him in double
doses. Jimmy Durante had the
same kind of divided following as
Q movie player.
I have never seen Comedian
Healy do a better job than he does
in "It's in the Air" at the Fox,
although he always reminds me
Of the fellow who touches your
arm, panhand1eS ten cents for
"cllppercaWfee."
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
MOVIES BACK LOSERS.
Max Gordon With One BuIIseye
Hit Hopes for Another in
Pride and Prejudice
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Producer Max Gordon and his pride and Prejudice
pany arrived yesterday for rehearsas for the play
inc nght the National Theater Tonight will be
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Take your Missus or the othe
fellow will"
MabeIIe on Air

So Auntie Mabelle Jennings
leaves the ranks Of the critical
fraternity flat to become a sort OF
Mrs. Alexander Woollcott on the
Columbia broadcast. Twice week
ly beginning October 90. In be-
tween times a scenario or two and
the magazine pieces she has been
talking about.
She leaves the suffragettes rep
resented in the passing parade Of
motion picture critics by such
able deputies as Kay Marlborough,
Helen Kinyon. Hattie Wise, Isabel
Hartman, Dorothea Lewis, Julia
Bonwit, Mary Harris, and others
we'll fitted to air the feminine
point Of view. Good luck, Mabelle,
and best wishes of the Monday
nighters. May your first picture
script be good enough for two
weeks at Loew'S Palace and a re-
peat at the Columbia.
The Herald's dramatic desk will
be occupied from now on by
Mason Peters jr. He is a hustling
and colorful young editor, born
to the flavor of printers ink,
for his dad was long a critic and
connoisseur of plays and pictures
that reached the Washington ter
ritory,
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
She Cot a Job


opened his amateur program last
night he recruited a new headliner
for the vaudeville unit now show
ing at Loew'S Fox Theater. She's
a mimic, and if she has the same
assurance and what it takes" be-
fore a stage audience that she
disclosed in the NB.C. studio for
Major BoweS, the little girl is
worth a bet. Her name is Sarar
Berner.
To hear Miss Berner tell it, she
is jobless salesgirl, fired because
she was caught mimicking a Gus
toner who wanted Isle stockings.
So she mimicked this customer
and that for the microphone,
added Edna Mae Oliver, Oracle
Allen and Mae West to her i'm.
preSSionS and then departed to
wait while the votes were counted.
The telephone ballots came in
so fast that before they were
counted Majcr Bowes invited her
to pack her bag for Washington
and open at the Fox, Monday
matinee. On the last official tabu-
lation she had 4,759 votes and
they were still coming in.
Little Miss Berner is not only
clever but she had a very smart
line Of chatter to pour into the
Mike" In fact, her Mae West
stuff was so good I venture some
of the army Of curvaceous Macs
imitators have Swiped it ere this.
TiIler on Broadway
Young Theodore Tiller, Wash
ington's marionette king, play.
wright and actor, is about to make
his Broadway debut as a knight
Of the sock and buskin. He and
Richard Midgeley, another Capt.
tolian, are in the cast Of Bertha,
the Sewing Machine Girl" first
Of the revivalS Of old time plays
to be presented by Jack Stern
and George Damroth at the Fifth
Avenue Theater.
Well, saw another playwright
make his Broadway acting debut
on the very same stage. It was
George Kelly playing in his own
one act sketch, "The Flattering
Word" Best can wish young Mr..
Tiller is that he tread the same
paths to fame, glory and Pulitzer
prizes that George Kelly did.
Then we can shout hooray for
the Drama Guild and the Road
siders.
Blonde and lovely Ona MunSon,
National stock graduate ingenue,
last heard of in "Petticoat Fever"
with Denis King, has signed with
Nazimova for a very important
role in the revival Of IbSen's
Ghosts" Opens in Philadelphia
in two weeks.
Thank you, Warner Payette
LaFalce for that beautiful bound
volume of Shakespeareis mid
summer Nights Dream" with
pictures taken from the screen
feature. I'll have to read it again.
Ethel Does 0. K.
That fellow dancing in the
street was Steve Cochran after
reading a telegram that Ethel
Barrymore's last three one night
ers in Ohio crossed S., 400 and fur.
ther word she was moving on to
two sell-out performances in Louis
vile on Saturday.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Latest Charlie Chan
Is Next at Columbia

Filmdom's ace sleuth finds new
and mysterious avenues to pene-
trate in Charlie Chan in Shang-
hal" the exciting story that Loew'S
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Carbo and CiggIes

One Of the Hollywood on Parade
readers wants to know why a les
son in mythology which presumed
to give the origin Of the name
"Garbo," was placed in the giggles
column.
"Garbo," it was revealed, is a
Norwegian word meaning "a mys-
terious being that comes out in
the night to dance in the moon.
light"
Well, If Kay Marlborough will
forgive me, it struck me as funny.
No other reason.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21
Nancy Has Fun

Being in a frivolous mood 1t also
impressed me as amusing the
manner in which smart Dick Ma.
ney let the New York playgoers
in on the fact that Producer Billy
Rose was dealing in Jumbo"
tickets with the spectators. Says
his ad:
"At night there are 372 seats at
S4. They shouldn't interest the
public much. Let the spectators
play around with them"
Another bright Nancy line:
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

That fellow dancing in the
street was Steve Cochran after
reading a telegram that Ethel
Barrymore's last three one night
erS in Ohio crossed $5, 400 and fur
ther word she was moving on to
two sell-out performances in Louis
vile on Saturday.
The Washington times., 1935-10-21

Three Plays Put On With
HOLLYWOOD Cash Fail on Broadway
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-20
CONTRACT BRIDGE
 By VIM. E. MCKINNEY Secretary of the American Bridge League
Play Safe To Wn-By Trying To Catch Opponents King
 Declarer Deprves Himself of Two Good Tricks
By VIM. E.
Solution to Previous Contract
 Problem

Solution to Previous Contract
 Problem
 Another of the interesting hands submitted to me by R. R. Rich- ards of Detroit, one of the out standing figures in Americas bridge history.
 I hope you will get the same enjoyment out of this hand that I did. When "Dick" as he is known to his friends. submitted this hand, he put notatoln on 1t that, "The dcclarer wanted to catch the kind of diamonds. he did, and lost his contract"
 Before going into the play, jus. word about the bidding. Most players holding 150 aces would bid no trump, but here's hand that can take a lot of tricks against your opponents, or with your partner. The opponents a. vulnerable, so why not give theia chance to step into the bidding? |?
 If you bid no trump, they will know that you have q fine hanc and there is no decided adva ntase in your playing the hand at no trump. You would just as soon have your partner play it at 10 trump, if inc wants to. Therefore, the opening bid of one club is by far the best.
 Of course West, who is vulncr- able, doesn't put in one of those foolish overcalls. correctly pass. ing. When North bids diamond, South should show the strength of his hand by jumping to two no
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-20
PARIS STYLES
By MARY FENTREss

Paris (UP)-Blouses are play ing an important role Tn the spring wardrobe for they can make any number of different outfits out of the same suit. A tailored blouse almost as simple as a mans shirt Is smart for sport and street wear while a frilly blouse of the sheer est organdy makes the same suit take on a very dressed-up air.
 Crisp, white pique, linen and cross-barred dimity are used Il great deal for sport Worth shows one in striped linen in creamy beige shade. It Is high at the neck with turnover collar that is trimmed with tiny bow. The stripes run vertically in the blouse itself but in the yoke and used with the stripes runnfdwlyu in the sleeves the material js used with the stripes running horizontally. The opening down
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-20

1. No living statesman has given the slightest evidence that he has any understanding of his prob- iems of population. or even that he has such problems except that of increasing the mere numbers of his people. The efforts or Hitler, Mussolini and France to increase the numbers of their people irrespective of their quality show an almost childish lack. Of understanding of the biological factors that make nation great and powerful.
 2. Dr W. Beran Wolfe so argues in his delightful book. "A Woman's Best Years" He says to the middle aged woman: DO not spend too much time with mid de aged women who suffer their middle age. Divide your time judi ciously between those who are younger than yourself and those who are older and more experience cd h tha terhninua of being ma
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-20

ture." Excellent advice If a mid- dle aged woman wishes to avoid being middle aged.
 3. If I knew would be the wisest man that ever lived. Psy- chologists and philosophers con- stantly debate this question and imagine can never settle 1t. One school maintains that man Is a mere machine and that free con- trol of, his mind is impossible. The other maintains that he can choose among alternatives" de- termine whether he shall take| this road or that. I am committed In qualified way. to this side o4 the question. Certainly, as VII liam James maintained i've fee as though we decide questions we feel we are in q real fight" and as he elsewhere argues. 1t may bS that this feeling of what is truI and can be put to practical use is itself one test of it's truth. (Copyright John F. Dille Co)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-20

trump. North's bid of three no trump Is q definite sign off.
 The Play
 The opening lead was the jack of spades by West. Now. as Rich- ards says, the declarer wanted to catch the king of diamonds SD he won the first trick in the dummy with the king of spades.
 He then led the queen of dia- monds, East refused to cover 50 the jack was played. Again East refused to cover and the four Cf diamonds was played, the king was played by East, and the ac. won the trick.
 The king of diamonds has been captured, but now the declareI has no entry into the dummy tr make the two good diamonds and therefore must lose his contract.
 To mako the contract, all that the declarer had to do was to wifi the first spade trick. with the ace lead the ace of diamonds and small diamond and he stili has thu king of spades as an entry IT dummy.
 A simple safety play, but on, often overlooked.
 Copyright 1895 NEA Service Inc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-20

was working for Dad. Whats more, he never allowed any whiskey in his place.
 If that's the case how did it happen that ."
 Millicent's voice ceased as she suddenly became aware of the full import of what she was trying to say.
 Exactly" Norman Happ said. That whiskey was brought into his place after he left, doubtless by the person who committed the murder. It's an unusual brand. The probabilities are it was purchased somewhere in the neighborhood. We're going to find out who pur- chased it."
 (To Be COntinued)