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The Washington times., 1935-06-08
Patricia Ellis Is Flashing Ring
From Jackie Coogan

HOLLYWOOD, June 8.-Film-
land is wondering whether Pa
tricia Ellis and Jackie Coogan
really we're kidding about their
elopement, or whether there is a
serious romance between the two.
There's the matter Of dia-
mond studded ring, for instance.
The story goes back to several
night ago when the young film
couple were visiting the Fred
Stone home. 1t was night and
it was cold, but someone sug-
gested a swim in the pool.
Patricia and Jackie were the
only ones to go in.
A few minutes later she was
taken with a cramp and he
helped her get on the bank.
One of the group of young
sters said:
"He saved your life, Patricia.
Why don't you marry him?"
The next thing they were talk
ing about Yuma and, reliable
parties insist, the elopement came
q lot nearer taking place than
anyone will now admit.
Yesterday on the Broadway
Joe" set at Warmers, Patricia
confessed she still has the ring
but denies any engagement. She
said:
Jackie and / have been good
friends for years. That's how
1t still stands"
A close friend of the couple
The Washington times., 1935-06-08
Caruso's Voice Will Be Heard
In M-G-M's MASQUERADE

p AS a result, opera lovers will be
able to sit in motion pictures and
once more hear the greatest of all
tenors sing the arias "Questa o
Quella" and La Donna Mobile"
from "Rigolletto."
It has been decided that no
actor will impersonate the dead
star on the screen. He will appear
only as q shadow on a curtain.
But his voice will be reproduced
with the full range Of the new
high.fidelity recording systems, and
enhanced by the music of a SYM
phony orchestra which the studio
will dub into the Sound-track.
The result, film men predict,
will be an improvement even on
master records.
The Washington times., 1935-06-08
By Jimmu Starr
THE GLASS KEY"
Rating: Good

(dI1uS OUOu
Produced by Paramount. Starring
George Raft. Directed by Frank Tuttle
story by Dashlell Hammett. Screen play
Additional dialogue by Harry Ruskin
Photographed by Henry Sharp. e. Lloyd
Sheldon; associate producer.
George Rats fans can look for
ward to 1.-THE Glass Key" as the
best picture this sleek-haired per-
former has appeared in since
"Scarface." But it lacks the
amazing speed and suspense.filled
tempo of the latter film.
However, Paramount has man
aged rather we'll with Raft. At
least, the studio has supplied
some supporting talent that is
worth raving about, especially Ed
ward Arnold, who turns in another
sterling bit of work, as fine and
as brilliant in histrionics as his
muchly.heralded contribution to
Sadie Mckee"
Too bad that Megaphonist Tut
tie slipped with a too slow method
of telling his story. His individual
scenes are swell, but lapse into
dullness solely through lack OF
criSpneSS. >.
The story itself doesn't permit
a careful analysis, due to several
obvious holes. It also Is fairly
easy to guess the murderer
yeah, it's a mystery-long before
an audience should be permitted
such a trick. The yarn concerns
a towns political boss who at
tempts to cover up a murder
while his tough henchmen (Raft)
does some of his own sleuthing.
Raft, while not in the role OF
q regular detective, does q nice
Job of unraveling the crime, and
in his usual sleek manner. Out
standing is Quinn (Big Boy) vii
liams in a killer Characterization
I like this new find" RoSalind
Keith. She seems to have "Some
thing" to give to the screen. ]
think you'll hear a great deal OF
her.
Tammany Young comes through
with bit of good comedy, while
Claire Dodd, Ray Milland, Charles
Richman, Emma Dunn, Robert
CHECKER and Harry Tyler lend ex
cellent support.
The Washington times., 1935-06-08
Paula Stone to
Join R-K-O

Paula Stone, pretty daughter
of the famous Fred Stone, has
been signed by RKO Radio Pic
lures for leading singing and
dancing role in a new musical
featurette.
With her distinguished dad ap.
pearing in a leading role in the
new Katharine Hepburn picture,
"Alice Adams" on the same lot,
Paula's engagement marks the
first time father and one of his
The Washington times., 1935-06-08
BY HARRISON CARROLL,

international news service HOLY WUVU
Correspondent
Copyright, 1885 International News
SerVice)
HOLLYWOOD, June 8 UN.SO.
American movie audiences are
soon to hear the golden voice Of
Enrico Caruso, who has been dead
for II years.
This bit Of magic will be accom-
plished by sound engineers for the
Metro GoldWyn Mayer p let u e,
Masquerade"
For weeks the film company has
been negotiating with a record
manufacturer for the use of the
master discus of two Caruso ariaS.
The deal was finally closed yeSter-
day.
The Washington times., 1935-06-08
Mae Works Again

Although her latest picture,
"Goin' to Town." has just been
released, Mae West already is at
work writing the screen play for
her next film.
The Washington times., 1935-06-08

actress daughters have worked to-
gether in Hollywood.
Stones eldest daughter, Doro-
thy, toured in the revue hit, LAS
Thousands Cheer" this season,
while Carol, a dramatic actress,
was seen on Broadway in "Jay'
hawker," in which her father
starred.
The Washington times., 1935-06-08
In Cooper Cast

Marcella Corday and Adrienne
D'Ambricourt have been signed for
featured roles in the Gary Cooper
Ann Harding picture. Peter 1bbet-
SON."
The Washington times., 1935-06-08
In BARRYMORE Show

Virginia Weidler, 7-year-old
contract player. began her film
career at the age Of 2 when she
played a baby role with John
Barrymore in ''Mohy Dick"
The Washington times., 1935-06-08
Act on Roof

Fully a fourth Of the action in
Paris in Spring" occurs on the
slate roof of a French castle, with
Mary Ellis and Tullio Carminau
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
DenOrt Them All!

Exposure by the Hearst newspapers of the Labor Depart
men refusal to deport hundreds of criminal aiensn
pete defiance of mandatory deportation awscs for prompt
and drastic action by Congress.
AS the findings published thus far have shown awless nd
vduas Of the worst type such convicted dealers in illicit
narcotics confirmed drug addct perurers thieves and other
crooks, permitted to remain here ALTHOUGH THEIR
DEPORTATION HAS BEEN ORDERED BY STATUTE
And this permission has been extended by the Labor De-
partmen in what only be termed arbitrary usupaon
Of authority.
The of the department has been that could intervene
In where deportation would Hardship
And upon this basis act Of Congress has been virtually
nulified
Not only that but legislation is sought to grant the
Labor Department wider powers than those which has
assumed
The effect of this proposal if adopted would be to wreck
the quota system Of immigration.
In times like these when the country is swamped with aliens
who have entered Illegally and when both poverty and crime
rampant the Labor Departments attitude incredible
Every foreign criminal in this country ought to be rounded
up and shipped home forthwith.
Every Government agency which blocks that process ought
to be reorganized forthwith.
Is investigation due?
Well say isa year two overdue-and think that
both Houses of Congress will agree.
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROWIand

mons time. It was Solomon,
HIMSELF, who went forth Gin
all his glory''-not his wives and
girl friends! Solomon did not
let the woman steal his stuff.
And the fact that he knew his
Sartor Resartus and was the
snappy dresser Of his day did
not detract from his dignity,
but has added to his prestige
down the years. In fact, all
down through history the brav-
est have been the most pictur-
esque, and the wisest have often
been the dapperest.
Why, then, should modern
men continue to get themselves
UP like pallbearers? How and
when did they GET that way?
Why shouldn't they indulge their
secret love of vivid colors and
artistic chromatic effects? Why
shouldn't they EXPRESS them
selves sartorially? For, believe
it or not, a man loves bright
cheerful colors even more than
a woman does. And nothing,
not even prayer, can give him
more mental and spiritual UP
life than a gay canary-colored
cravat under his chin.
Oh, yes, getting himself up
attractively and properly is good
for a mans morale. knowing
that he looks distinguished and
pleasing to the eye gives him
self-confidence and savoir faire.
Clothes may not make the man,
but they certainly make him
easier to love. SO, if men are
going gay this summer, I'm FOR
it! Courage, men, COURAGE!
Louder and gaudier! Give the
girls a treat!
copyright, 1898, King Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
The Human Side of the News
Blu Edwin C.. Hill

danes of the Renaissance, on
whom RubenS used such vast
quantities of pink paint, were the
lucious Towering of an age OF
vitality, of a great surge of crea-
tive forces. of zest, adventure,
conquest, boldness, and chal-
lenge.
It was in the lean, timorouS,
poverty-stricken medieval CEN
turtles that scrawyn women were
idealized. The gals of those old
parchments and bas-reliefs were
long, lank, dank, melancholy
creatures, looking a whole lot
like the old-time before taking"
patent medicine advertisements.
When mischievous old Fra
Lippo Lippi began to bootleg
few curves into his pictures;
when the argosies of the Baltic
city states began to bring back
their Levantine loot, along
with tales of buxom charmers
at the Sultan's party; when
the De Medicis began to pick
the third from the end, and
the Italian Primitives turned
from the concave to the convex
then it was that the five
hundred-year depression was
over and the Renaissance was
was just around the corner
right there, in fact.
That was quite a Renaissance
in America, too, when "Betcha
Million" Gates and all the new
moguls of steel rails, barbed
wire and packing houses
swarmed into New York. And
the standing query of the day
was why do men marry
Lillian Russell?" Marry her,
they did. The plump Lillian,
beautiful and engaging, queened
it for years, and as an all
around charmer she's still more
than one up on the best of the
anaemic lettuce nibblers of to-
day. And these Floradora Sextet
girls didn't live on bird seed,
either. In those roaring days
the burlesque queens ran from
ITS pounds up.
STANDARDS CHANGE
I. find that quite a lot has
been written by scientists about
these changing standards Of
feminine beauty. There is, OF
course, plenty of sound sanction
for diet and exercise, and trim,
fit figure is obviously more beau
tiful than the too-fleshy form.
Nothing, of course, can be said
for obesity, in spite of the jolly
old Sybarites of the near East.
Some writer's have associated
the cult of emaciation with deca-
dence. Others have observed 1t
as a postwar phenomenon.
Writing in 1909, Pierre van
Vleet, of Belgium, offered vast
historical research to show that
a craze for slenderness followed
wars-some disturbance of the
life hormones due to the killing
Of men.
Copyright, 1898, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-06

Bouguerau, the great French
painter, who died in 1905, crit"
cized for painting too many
plump women, wrote an in
formed and plausible defense of
the bulkier charmers in life and
art. That was before the mod
ern craze of slendernesS. He
said these cults would come
and go, but that in the long
run curves would prevail over
angles in all sound appraisalS
of feminine beauty.
Specialists in clothes and
Identification usually can see a
little farther ahead than other
people, and sometimes they
help bring about the change.
The question whether Stylists
make or follow the mode is
wide open, but it is true, his"
torically, that these trends
seem to be paced to human or
social forces that we know
little about.
FAVOR CURVES
Esteem for SlenderneSs or
plumpness varies in different
lands and different ages, but,
taking the historical verdict OF
painters, sculptors, courtiers and
great lovers, the plump girls
seem to have the best of it.
And one finds among biologists
and anthropologists ample testl-
mony that the cultivation of ex-
IRENE SlendernesS goes with
racial decadence.
On the whole, the fat girls
seem to have been bit smarter
than the thin ones. Of all the
wives of Henry the Eighth, the
only one who outwitted him and
saved her head was the buxom
Anne of Cleves. She was no
great beauty. Holbein's por-
trait, reaching Henry in advance
of Anne, slicked her a lot. Henry
was pretty sore about it
thought Holbein had tricked him
but Anne kept her head IN
more ways than one.
She looked dumb, but she
really out-smarted Henry. When
she played cards with him she
took every trick, knowing Henry
liked q winner. His less astute
wives had made the mistake OF
trying to placate him by letting
him beat them.
Cleopatra was just plain fat
but a fluter of her eyelids would
knock over the men in windows.
The Venus of Milo was no
featherweight, and the farther
back you go in archaic Greek
sculpture-the best of Greece
say many artists-the hettler
they are. The beauteous Fatlma
was surely an eyeful, and the
Turks and ArabianS held aVolr'
dupois in high esteem. In China
a chivalrous or gracious person
says, my but you're looking 1aC
today"
A mans wealth, dignity, and
prestige are apt to be measured
by the lateral yardage Of his as
sembIed womenfolk. The ample
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
Id = = By Elsie Robinson

crueler than any the Blackfeet
ever devised.
Life does not pierce a child'S
flesh with a thong, nor weight
it with a buffalo skull. But
there are more agonizing pierc.
ings, heavier weightings. Lone
illness. Change. Adjustment to
strange surroundings. Fear. Be-
tryal by those one has trusted.
These ordeals lacerate the
spirit and burden the brain far
more viciously than the Black
feet's tests. Yet they must be
faced, inevitably.
NO ALTERNATIVE
CAN YOU TAKE THEM?
Then you're fit for adult life
you've proven your ability
to carry a grown-up job.
OR ARE THEY TOO MUCH
FOR YOU? Must you seek a
safer, softer spot? Then life
will punish you as surely as the
Blackfeet punished a cowardly
lad. You may not have to wear
women's clothes-as he did.
You may seemingly enjoy full
recognition as an adult. But
every day in a thousand ways
your fellow man will show that
he "has your number"
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
Are Men Going Gay

Are men going gay? Gay,
sartorially, I mean! Is it true
that they have at last taken
their courage in their hands and
revolted against the humiliating
position of playing drab back
ground to the vainer sex?
If all reports from the style
leaders are right, they ARE and
they HAVE. And that is this
springs answer to a columnist's
prayer!
And now comes the promise
of a springtime made gay and
dazzling by men in bright haber-
dashery and suits of many col
ors. And of a summer made
even more glamorous by blaz-
ers and sweaters brighter than
a lovers hopes, polo shirts that
will shame the aurora borealis.
evening suits of wine-color and
mulberry, dlnner coaCS OF pow
der blue and polka dotted silk
lapels.
Most startling of all, the dash.
ing Beau Brummel of 1885 will
bind a broad, bright silk sash
around his waist, Toreador fash
ion. And what woman can re-
sist an old Spanish costume like
that! Not THIS one!
Men, after all, are the only
thing women HAVE, to fall in
love with. And they should CO.
operate by making themselves
as picturesque and attractive as
possible. Why should the fe-
male of the species grab all the
plumage and do all the heavy
charming?
1t was not so in King Solo,
The Washington times., 1935-04-06

him because he believes that
the present form OF Govern
n1ent should be firmly MAN.
tanned and should be run by
the people.
Burdick has a background
that may explain his position.
His family is a combination
of Norwegian, Scotch, Irish,
French and Bohemian.
His ancestors came to this
land in 1861, landing at Plym"
outh.
They later became involved in
a religious feud with the Pill
grims and went to Rhode Island
with Roger Williams.
So, says Burdick:
1--WE have been insurgents
ever SINCE"
Copyright, 1895, The Washington
Times)
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
Citizenship Training
BY James T. Williams, Jr.

powerful natiOn-muSt be the
people, trained to reasonable eff
ficiency in the use Of arms in
order that they may be able to
defend their country effectively
in time of need.
Incidentally the training Is
training for life, for with the
spirit Of service for the Nation
in time Of war goes the spirit Of
service for the Nation and the
community in time Of peace.
A general acceptance of the
Plattsburg Idea means the build.
ing up of a spirit of real Ameri.
caniSm, a spirit which will be
strong to make America what
she must be If she is going to
endure-a real melting pot, in
which the various, and often
discOrdant, elements will be
fused into one common mass Of
Americanism. 1t means a Ma
ton animated and actuated by
a strong national spirit"
BIRTHRIGHT
The Citizens Military Train.
ing Camp, as General Macarthur
has said, offers to the sons Of
the poor an opportunity to train
with the Colors for that ma
tional citizenship. The sons Of
the well-to-do, with enough pa
triotism in them to volunteer
for such training, can go to
military school; they can go to
land grant colleges; they can
go to all institutions of higher
learning where this training is
given, provided they can earn
the money to go or their parents
can afford to send them.
But the poor man." said
General Macarthur, rich though
he be in his endowment Of 10y.
atty to the Flag and in devO-
ton to the country it repre-
sentS, "whO cannot afford to send
his boy further than to the pub
lie schools, has no way of get
ting military training for his
son except through the Citizens
Military Training Camps"
Let it be remembered to the
credit of the Chief of Staff of
the Army and the Senate that
they did their best to provide
for tho training this year of as
many young men from the
homes Of the poor as have ever
been trained in any one year in
the Citizens Military Training
camps.
The day will come when the
normal strength of the Citi-
zens Military Training camps
will never be less in any one
year than 100000. But that
day will not come until Con.
gress is purged of those pork
barrel politicians who insist
upon keeping their feet in the
trough" even though it means
cheating the son of the poor Of
that training with the ColorS
for national citizenship, which
is the birthright of every able
bodied young American, whether
his parents be rich or poor.
Copyright, 1885. The Washington
Tmes)
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
SATURDAY, APRIL s, 1895
Fire!
Fire!

Despite the earnest pleas of the District Commissioners
backed by strong statement by Chief Engineer schrom
the Fire Department Congress evidently intent keep
ing the National Capitals fire fighting force what the
Chief calls "a poorhouse basis
has been told many times that the fireghtng apparatus
here below the safety ne that much of the running gear
antquad and of the pieces old that parts cannot
be duplicated when they out except through the
pensve process of making them by hand in the Districts
repair shop. There is not sufficient amount of surplus
hose There not enough firemen.
District Commissioners asked for money last year with
which to bring the Fire Department to strength and
dtion commensurate with the needs Of National Capital
growing rapidly.
Congress allowed just about enough to continue
the poorhouse basis and far this year neither house
Of Congress has fit to treat the Fire Department right
There is not member of Congress who would be
driving automobile old of the motor apparatus
of the National Capital
Many members from towns where civic pride in the
remen and their apparatus rs the citizens point where
they vie with other towns in the excellence of the depart
ment
The way Congress treats the Fire Department of this city
does not reflect credit on its judgment.
The Washington times., 1935-04-06

who saw that test never for
got it.
One by one the elders gath
cred in the Chiefs tent. Griz-
zled old men, lusty young war
riors, proud yearlings with hor-
rified memory still lurking in
their eyes.
Quietly the ceremonial pipe
was passed around. The air
grew dim with coiling smoke.
Only the hiss and flutter of the
little fire broke the heavy ST.
lence.
At last the chief arose, led
the boy forward-a slender,
naked child, who yesterday had
been playing with the other
cuts.
SEVERE TEST
Reaching the center of the
tent. they stood still, the boy
facing the chief, his back turned
to thu watching warriors. The
chilf stopped. His hands plunged
swiftly. He stood back.
The child still stood erect.
But now pain passed, wave
upon shuddering wave, the
length of his thin body. Sweat
dripped-gathered in pools be-
meath glazing eyes an d
clenched lips. But he made no
sound. Slowly he turned.
The watchers eyes narrowed
in approval. Through the boys
tender chest flesh a long thong
of buffalo hide had been laced.
Before him on the ground, tied
fast to the ends of the thong,
lay a huge buffalo skull, heavy
as lead. And along the length
Of that bloody, weighted thong
lay-manhood.
For now, without flinching,
crying out, or touching the
thong with his hands, the boy
must jump until by his own
struggle. he had ripped him
self free of that burden. Could
he do it? Then he became a
Blackfeet Brave. If Motif he
tainted or surrendered-he must
live the rest of his life in
shame, rated and despised as
one of the women.
Nor was this sheer savagery.
The life Of the tribe depended
on the courage and endurance
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
Greatest Show On Earth
Blu John Snure, T.

Senator Carter Glass, the caus-
tic Virginian, who is known to
most of his associates as Little
Carter" doesn't think much of
some of these presS-agented
Government bureaus.
He recently expressed the
opinion, and when be expresses
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
my Country, IT'S of Thee''

Among of projects awaiting the passage Of the Ad
ministratons 4880milon-dolar workrelief
several involving national roads connecting the National
Capital with Eastern National Parks and National Monu-
ments
It is planned to widen Of the existing roads and
possibly provide links between Washington and marvel
Shenandoah National Park, crowned is with the
S,000feet high Skyline Drive.
Let's extend Skyline Drive from the end of the present
road straight through to the southern end of that towering
ridge which skirts the famed Valley Of Virginia Let's
from there all the way down to Great Smoky National Park
The Department of Interior already is planning to extend
the Skyline Drive northward for thirty miles, and eventually
this great Blue Ridge Mountain top road will stretch
northward until it reaches New England
There be better way to acquan the people of this
country with the beauties and grandeur of their native land
than to provide easy to its natural beauty.
It gives deeper meaning to my Country, IT'S of Thee
The Washington times., 1935-04-06
PLATTSBURG IDEA

The Citizens Military Train
ing Camps perpetuate the
Plattsburg Idea" of which Leon
ard Wood was the father in the
days before the United States
entered the great war. He said:
"The Plattsburg Idea is ex-
pressed by the wOrdS-'Prepara-
ton for National Service. The
Plattsburg spirit voices the prin-
ciple of individual obligation for
National Service and an appre-
citation of the fact that with
equality of opportunity and
privilege goes equality Of ObIiga-
ton to the limit of our physical
and mental capacity.
''It is the spirit of patriotism.
1t is not only a call to service,
an appeal to every mans sense
of duty, but it is also the voice
of warning; an attempt to awake
a Slumbering people to a sense
of its soldier responsibility as
citizens of a Democracy, a
Democracy whose main defense
in time of real stress and trouble
i'm case Of an attack by a