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The Washington times., 1935-02-08

English Stars
England has some first-class
movie stars who are completely
unknown to America. Jessie
Matthews, to name one. Miss
Matthews is a musical comedy
star of the top rung in Piccadilly,
but has never appeared on the
Broadway stage or screen.
Her picture, Evergreen" is
said to be the finest musical yet
turned out by John Bull. But it
died as a business getter when
shown at Radio City Music Hall.
So American exhibitors want Jes'
sic Matthews at bargain price
until such time as the domestic
movie audience becomes ac-
quainted.
Jack Hubert is another English
favorite. Gaumont-British calls
him the greatest comedy find
since Charlie Chaplin. That's
spreading it a mite thick, don't
you think? Rawther. At any
rate, though the tops in the mar
malade sector, he is being intro
duced to the Broadway screen this
week in Jack Ahoy."
For juveniles England offers
Nova Pilbeam, a 14-year-old kid,
who is said to be sensation. Her
picture is Little Friend" but few
in America ever heard of Nova
Pilbeam.
These are some of the reasons
why Gaumont-British has leased
the Belasco Theater and plans to
go after the American market and
particularly Washington movie
customers. They think the Eng
liSh pictures have reached that
stage of perfection where they
can compete with Hollywood.
Coffee and Toast
Speaking of victuals and the
movies, the Fox Theater is plan
ming a continental breakfast per-
torrance for next Thursday
morning.
It's a brand-new idea. born
when Carter Barron's 12-cylinder
brain was sparkling smoothly yes
terday. This 7 a. m. movie show
would serve to introduce After
Office Hours" to Government en-
ployes and store workers who
must punch the time clock by
9 a. m.
The early risers for the Con-
stance Bennett-Clark Gable pic
ture would be treated to coffee
and toast and a dab of jam, eh
what. It is planned to have the
breakfast and film menu COM
pleted so that the audience could
be dismissed in time to meet the
daily work routine. The tariff
for all this entertainment would
be Is cents. A New Deal bar
gain.
After Office Hours" was writ
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ten from an original story of
Laurence Stallings and Dal Van
Every. 1t marks Connie Ben
nett's first direction on the NJ
GIN lot and her first appearance
with Clark Gable.
1t will be a sort of Laurence
Stallings week on F. Street. His
First World War" picture will
be showing at the Metropolitan
Theater and, of course, he is rep
resented in the Fox Movietone
newsreel as its editor.
Big Earle Night
Tonight will be Marine Night"
at the Earle Theater, when a mill.
tary premiere will be accorded
Devil Dogs of the Air" the new
Cosmopolitan production, made
with the cooperation of the United
States Marine Corps and the Navy
Department.
Gen. John H. Russell, comman-
dant of the Marine Corps, and
Gen. Douglas C. McDougal, assis-
tant commandant, head the list
of guests. The theater will be
decorated with flags and bunting,
the orchestra will present a special
arrangement of Marine and other
military melodies, and a color
guard of Marines will stand guard
at the entrance.
Other prominent guests include
five Congressman who were for
mer members of the Marine
Corps-Representatives Melville J.
Moss, Minnesota; C. w. Darden,
Virginia; Lawrence E. Imhoff,
Ohio; j. w. Houston, Kansas, and
j. w. Tenroy, New York.
Other members of the corps in
clude Gen. Hugh Matthews, Gen.
David D. Porter, Col. Harold C.
Reislinger, Col. Joseph Fegan, Col.
Ralph j. Mitchell, technical ad-
wiser on the film, and Col. E. F.
Archer; Col. w. P. Upshur, Col.
C. B. Vogel. Colonel Geiger, Comdr.
Robert Monroe, aide to the Secre-
tary of the Navy; Major John w.
Thomason. aide to the Secretary
Of the Navy, and Col. John Mar
Ston.
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Picture
for Keith's

Edna May Oliver and Jimmie
Gleason are to be seen at RKO-
Keith's beginning Saturday, Feb
ruary 9, in another of the mys-
terry farces in which this team
is being starred, Murder on
Honeymoon"
Based on the best selling novel.
THE Puzzle Of the Pepper Tree" I"
this latest of the Oliver-Gleason
mystery farces is of the type
which holds patrons mystified
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until the final curtain, and which
gives no inkling of the real
cause of all the trouble" until
the final footage of the film.
Many Keith patrons will re-
member Edna May Oliver and
Jimmy Gleason in the first of
this series of mystery farces,
Murder on the Blackboard"
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ouSAI NGlCAS are DIdIluSQ Dy
Hollywood as freaks" as those
to whom they are addressed
merely dismiss them as so much
wasted energy on the part of the
sender-and the bearer.
But Lady Luck, in all her shin
ing glory, focused the spotlight
of approval upon one such bearer,
William Wells, a youngish Joel
McCrea type lad of the Detroit
little theater, who brought with
great confidence, no leSS) the
Northumberland espistle to
Director John Cromwell.
There was something about the
tone of the letter which caused
Cromwell to make a test of young
Mr.. WellS-and now Mr.. Wells is
under contract to R-K-O. and he
also has a role in Mr.. Cromwell's
current film, "A Village Tale"
And that's life in Hollywood!
George Burns, the nuttier
part of Burns and Allen, tells
of AdOlphe MenjOu's muStache,
the Santa Anita Race Track
and just how the horses are
running.
When AdOIphe wins, the
corners of his mustache are
up. When he loses, they are
down. Saturday, one corner
was up and one corner was
down. He broke even!
:. One of the swellest battles be-
tween a former star and her cur
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Aur" " Ae"S BeaSco has eXhblted pictures universal
'Hunchback of Nore Dame had successful wo-a-day
there in the silent And did HScaramouche. ~
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Noted Novelist At
Paramount Studios

Maxwell Anderson, noted novel
ist. author of the new Broadway
hit, valley Forge" has arrived
at the Paramount studios in FIol-
lywood. to work on the screen
adaptation of the Stark Young
novel, 80 Red the Rose" which
is being prepared for Pauline
Lords next starring film.
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Film True Story

Francis Yeats Brown, author
of Paramount's Lives of a
Bengal Lancer" wrote his story
from actual experiences, gathered
as an officer with the famous
India regiment.
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By JIMMY STARR

HOLLYWOOD, Feb Hello. Perhaps other town in
the world is the cnterng point for many ocaed frok
letters notes of introduction to various directors
writers and in fact everyone in the movie business at
time other a recipient message which asks that
the bearer he given a chance the films
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Pickering screen dramas.
The Fine Arts Commission was asked to ap-
prove the design yesterday and gave it an
official okay. l hear rumors that the Belasco s
lounge will have tea and crumpets hour daily
when Lafayette Square surrenders to the cellu-
loid art and probably they re true.
Under its movie regime the Belasco's second
balcony will be closed. Unless George Arliss'
Iron Duke" and other Gaumont-B British pic
lures develop such popularity they unlock the
doors.
incidentally this is not the first time the
Dol ovbibi+oJ TT,o;1, n .
Evening star., 1935-12-01
Beauty B,revities
by MARTHA LEAVITT

the ages, are still one of the most express
sive of attributes. Joan Crawford's large
violet-blue eyes are startling in their
beauty Natural, long black lashes, with
touch of mascara - but no eyeshadow or
eyebrow pencil - form the perfect frame
to enhance them.
When June Knight sings, her mobile
bright lips disclose white, even teeth
She values natures thoughtfulness and
takes excellent care of them to show her
appreciation.
Garbo's slender hands, with long taper
ing fingers, need no rings to add to their
expressiveness. A lotion, rubbed into the
hands after washing them, gives that
smooth much coveted look.
And, last but by no means least, let us
acclaimt thelight dancing feet ofthe talented
Eleanor Powell. Because she is gracefully
alert she cannot help expressing charm and
beauty. Each day she does special setting
up exercises - for lone can never be too
1.-THE"
Evening star., 1935-12-01

~vERY lovely woman has some spe-
- cial art to teach us. If she is truly
beautiful she knows how to use to
@ best advantage the natural gifts
that contribute visually to the graceful art
of modern living.
There is Madge Evans. Her flawless
complexion tells of healthy, sensible mode
of life plenty of fresh air and exercise
and a knowledge of the importance of
well-balanced, correct diet An old story,
but how many of us actually take it to
hearth
For beautiful hair, Norma Shearer rightly
deserves halo. She brushes her chestnut
waves each night and morning and takes
great delight in arranging her coiffwe ac-
cording to her mood. One day it may be
back off her ears in carefree manner, for
she needs have no fear of showing her
small, well-shaped ears. Another time the
caprice of the moment is for the statuesque.
Then coronet graces her proud head.
Eyes, which poets extolled down through
Evening star., 1935-12-01

would be had Mrs. Jones written "Mr and
Mrs. by hand. Nevertheless it would be in
much better taste to choose this form instead:
MIR. and Mrs. William Jones
Wish you Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.
Putting the names at the top is the conven-
tional third person form and is in unques-
tionably good taste MIR. or Mrs. or Miss as
part of a signature is never quite right even
when excused by engraving. On the other
Evening star., 1935-12-01

Ghose on which your name is to be engraved
and prefxed with title), they should be put
above the message and NOT below, because
MIR. and Mrs. should NOT prefix signature.
For instance, the following error is made time
and time again and by absolutely well-bred
people:
A Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
Mr. and Mrs. William Jones
1t is quite true that the names when en-
graved are much less of an offense than they
Evening star., 1935-12-01

countrywide trenQ
toward broadened and more friendly social
relationship.
There is, furthermore, tendency toward
making the cards we send less formal and
more personal. Even when they are to be sent
to those whom not many years ago we would
have considered rather formal acquaintance,
we are more likely than not to add a word or
two by hand. Writing by hand spoils the effect
of the engraving that is true. And yet on a
card reading:
>Mr. and Mrs. Jones wish you Merry
Christmas and a prosperous New Year
it would add to the personal message should
Mr.. Jones write after the words New Year"
"-a at last" In the same way on formal
card one always writes to intimate friends,
Love from Mary" - without regard to the
engraved names on the same page - just as
one writes Love from Mary" on the face of
ones visiting card.
But it would seem sensible to order several
varieties of cards If one can One variety
that is formal - and left unmarried by hand
writing. One with an informal message printed
and possibly few especial ones for those
who are sorrowful or i'll, upon which ones
name is written only by hand
As concerns the etiquette of sending Christ
mas cards there are almost no rules of
propriety to keep us from sending them to
whomever we like. We may send them not
only to merest acquaintance as well as to
friends, but we may equally well send them to
total strangers - if they can be classified as
professionally in the public eye. In short, fan
Christmas cards are at present considered
quite conventional expressions of good will.
But if there are almost no restrictions as
to whom they may be sent, it need not be
pointed out that sentimentality or anything
suggestive of a personal approach is in worst
possible taste, when sent by woman to
man or for that matter in bad taste from
man to a woman. In short, message to
stranger must be impersonal - unless the age
of the person written to precludes all posi-
bility of romantic sentiment.
A fan card should if possible, have some
association with personality or the profession,
or best of all with an incident connected with
the person to whom it is sent. The great diff
ference between fan cards and cards sent to
personal friends is that the first MUST be
impersonal as to ourselves, and the second on
the contrary can not be too personal.
A card sent to woman should be signed
with full name and address. A card intended
by young woman for singer or an actor
is better not sent at all. But if she must send
it, then let us hope she signs it E. Smith and
gives him reason to suppose that might as
well stand for Edward as for Elsa. Cards sent
to members of the administration or to any of
those for whom you have voted or intend
again to vote would be signed in full.
All people like to get messages of good will
from their constituents or their audience or
their readers or their listeners or from those
who in any other way follow their careers. A
word of approval for something done or en-
couragement to continue on courseofthought
or action is greatly priced - obviously.
But now let us consider the few definite
rules that are exacted in regard to names and
signatures If you are sending formal cards
Evening star., 1935-12-01

Ohr1StmaS CARDS as
messages of friend
ship and good will is
plainly not a mere
caprice of fashion,
but evidence of a
countrywide trend
Evening star., 1935-12-01

hor of Equee: The Blue Book Of Social Usage "7Ae
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-22
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Emergency Council director for In
diana.
Mr.. Manion said the meeting has
been called by Frank Walker, NEG
executive director, and that several
Federal officials from Washington
would be present to hear the reports
on progress OF the Federal program
in Indiana.
The Indiana congressional dele
CATION and all Indiana mayors have
been invited to attend. There are
to be approximately As speakers.
A series of charts is being pre-
pared by the agency heads to show
what Indiana has done. Exhibits
will include several from Goshen
and Tippecanoe County, selected as
the model city and county on the
basis of community improvements
undertaken with Federal aid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-22
UNIQUE SHOW GIVEN
FOR LOCAL AUTO MEN
Novel School of instruction Held for
Enrd nna Inrc

4NNFNI DNFTUUI Ut IIISIFUCIIOT FpIU TOT
Ford Dealers.
one group of indianapolis auto
service men went about their duties
today with new precision and meth
od, the result of a novel school of
instruction.
Ford dealers and service men
formed the audience" yesterday
when a dramatic sketch was pre-
sented at the Indianapolis branch
plant. Wrong and right methods
were demonstrated by the actors,
all Ford employees.
Guests at the unique production
were members of the Ford overseas
organiza ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-22
FEDERAL RULE
Of LAND BANKS
HIT AT FARLEY
Return to Old Setup Urged
by Leader of Indiana
Farm Loan Group.

Demand that control of Federal
Land Banks be returned TO the local
associations as was originally in
tended by the farm loan act was
voiced Today by President Joseph T.
Day, Anderson, in opening the an
nual session Of secretary treasurers
and directors Of the National Farm
Loan Associations of Indiana at the
Claypool
Recalling that the associations
representation on the board of di-
rectors Of the land banks have been
reduced from nine to one. Mr.. Day
charged that the land bank system
Is losing its identity as a co-opera-
tive venture and is in danger of be-
ing taken over entirely by the Fed
eral government and operated like
the postoffices. Local associations
are the owners Of the banks but
have little or no voice in their man
agement, he complained.
Reps. w. II. Larrabee and Finly
Gray also were scheduled to speak.
Action was expected during the
day on a resolution favoring the
calling of special session by Gov.
McNutt providing tax laws which
would ease the burden on home
owners and impoverished agricul-
ture' would be considered. The up
ward trend of governmental costs is
condemned in the same resolution
and is blamed for the alarming in
crease of taxation
Reviews History Of Bank
In the beginning board of nine
directors managed affairs of the
Federal Land Bank" Mr.. Day said.
"Of this number six were elected by
the stockholders of the local aSso-
Citations and the other three APP
pointed by the Farm Loan Board of
Washington AS a means of provid-
ing for cooperation and Joint re-
sponSibility this arrangement was
entirely satisfactory to the stock
holders and did not lend itself to
easy manipulations by politicians
and job hunters.
From this position of authority
stockholders have since been jock
eyed and juggled until all semblance
OF cooperative management is lost.
From board of nine directors we
now have seven and of these the
Federal Land Bank stockholders
have left the exalted, munificent
privilege of electing one director.
One director in seven is small COM
fort. How the mighty have fallen,
and the spirit of cooperation be-
comes a forgotten outcast."
Held Position Is Years
AT another point he said
From the evidence at hand l am
forced to the conclusion that the
Federal Land Bank has become an
unconscious but willing victim of
that inSldious, malignant growth of
lust for power, under the delusion
that increase of authority, even at
the expense Of the local associations
will operate for the good and well
fare Of the Farm Loan System"
Mr. Day has been secretary treas
urer of the Madison County Farm
Loan Association Is years.
Curtis G. Hendren, Anderson. sec
rotary treasurer of the Green Coun-
ty Farm Loan Association. is feder-
alton secretary.
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FEDERAL UNITS
HEADS TO MEET
State Wide Coordination
Session Announced for
Next Monday.

A statewide coordination meet
ing of Indiana Federal agency
heads has been announced for Mon
day by Clarence Manion. National
The Washington times., 1935-11-02
ARRANGEMENT OF THE VIOLA
"Vein ofHon ''Teus Story
Of Fi6ht With Poverty

Lmpng through the Of the back to the soi of
recent fiction Ellen Glasgows latest vein Of Iron
The Washington times., 1935-11-02

cient work the technical ability
approaching that of Paganini
himself.
There are so many thousands of
modern violin players that have a
technical ability little short of our
best-known artists that one often
wonders just what makes the diff
ference between the accepted vir-
tuoso player and the player who
must be content to sit at the desk
in a symphony orchestra.
The only possible explanation
seems in the difference in the ar
tiStic disposition of the individual
players. The personal quality of
Interpretation rather than any
great difference in technical abil-
ity is apparently the only dividing
line.
Superstitions
There are many Superstitions
surrounding the history of the
violin. The "catgut" strings have
never seen a cat, but are made
from the intestines Of sheep. The
best Italian strings are made in
Germany from sheep raised in
England.
No virtuoso player is content
until he possesses genuine Strad-
ivarius or Guarnerius violin. He
would scott at the idea that a
violin of modern manufacture
could possibly produce as good a
tone as the older instrument. Yet
no one has ever been able to dis
tinguish the difference in tone be-
tween the best modern made in
strument and the old Strads.
Modern violin makers have the
benefit of more accurate tools, a
greater knowledge of selecting and
treating wood; in fact, everything
but superstition is in their favor.
The old instruments were good be-
cause they were made with end
less patience and care. There are
modern makers who are capable
of and who exercise the same
qualities.
It has never been proven that
the varnish used on a violin serves
any other purpose than that for
which it was intended-to pre-
serve the wood. If all parts of
the instrument are correctly pro
portioned and the sound-post is
properly set, the best modern in.
StrumentS will develop as beauti.
full tones in the hands of an artist
as an older instrument.
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left hand frequently moves with
out releasing the string in making
q vibrato.
Wide Range
Thus it will be seen that the
modern performer on the violin
has an instrument that is capable
Of a greater range of expression
than any other instrument. The
viola and larger instruments Of
this family are not quite so tacile
in expressive tones.
The viola, or alto violin, is ap-
proximately one-seventh larger
than the violin. The relative over
all length is 26 inches and 2312
inches, respectively. While the
violin strings are tuned in fifthS
starting with E on the fourth
space of the treble clef, continuing
down to A, D and G. third space
below the clef, the viola is tuned
q fifth lower, starting with the A
string, D, G and C strings.
The viola music is virtually
written on the alto clef on which
middle C is placed on the third
line. The chart accompanying
the picture Of the viola gives a
graphic picture of the relation of
the alto clef to the treble and
bass clefs. BY using the alto
clef, notes for the instrument
need not be placed on as many
added leger lines as would be
required if the music were writ
ten on the treble clef.
The viola is the contralto of
the string section. Its tone is
and adds to the tonal
mass between the second violins
and the deeper-toned violoncel-
los. 1t is seldom used as a solo
instrument, but is occasionally
given solo leads to express GER
tain solemn moods.
The remarkable execution that
has been attained as the COM
mon heritage of thousands of
modern violin players dates from
the time Of Paganini (17S4-184O.
While he did not invent all the
effects that he used, he brought
to his playing an original and
personality and style.
He brought to perfection the
h m o n les, double-harmonics,
long and quick staccatos, and
the left hand piZZitato.
The standard of playing he
set, caused violin teachers to at
tempt similar technic in their
own and their pupils playing.
The accumulated mass of violin
instruction material today as
sures the modern student that
he too may possess with Suffi-
The Washington times., 1935-11-02
Shocking Tale
Peters Out

It is A. & C. Boni, Inc's, first
novel in three years.
It is entitled '"The Old Mans
Place" It was written by John
B. Sanford. 1t is dedicated thus
"This book is for The Cover,
nor"
And 1t is a shocking book.
1t has the flavor of William
Faulkner's Sanctuary" 1t is
brutal. It calls a spade a particu.
lar species of shovel.
1t introduces you first of all
to three characters. The first one
is pretty bad. The second is
worse and the third beats the
other two. The trio go upstate
to THE Old Mans Place" A
farm. The toughest one smacks
everyone around.
II he had been just a little
dunber he would have smacked
at himself in a mirror for a little
exercise in between his regular
beatingS. The littleSt one writes
to a matrimonial agency.
The result of this combination
is not extremely difficult to
imagine. Mr.. Sanford puts as
much realism into it as he can.
"The Old Mans Place" By
John B. Sanford, published By
A. & C. Bont. Inc.J
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Musical
EUenfS

TOMORROW
National symphony Orches-
ira, Constitution Hall, 4 p. m.
Music Hour, Y. w. C. A.,
5 p. m.
MONDAY
John M. williams, Piano
Educator, 1880 G st. N. w"
$3.50 .. m.
Navy Band, Naval Reserve
ArmOry, 1880 a. m.
Candlelight Concert, Wash.
ingtOn Chamber Music So
ciety, 1900 Twenty-first ST..
N. w., 5 p. m.
Army Band, War College
Auditorium, 6 p. m.
TUESDAY
John M. williams, $3.50
a. m.
Navy Band, 1880 a. m.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra, Stanley Hall, $3.50
p. m.
Marine Band, Shut.ins
Dream Hour, Marine Bar.
racks Auditorium, II a. m.
WEDNESDAY
John M. Williams, $3.50
q. m.
Army Band, 1880 a. m.
Fritz KreiSIer, ViOlinist,
Constitution Hall, $3.50 p. m.
Marine Band Symphony
Orchestra, Marine Barracks
Auditorium, 8 p. m.
THURSDAY
John M. Williams, $3.50
q. m.
Navy Band, 1880 a. m.
Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra, $3.50 p. m.
National Symphony Orches.
ira, Constitution Hall, $3.50
p. m.
FRIDAY
John M. williams, $3.50
.. m.
Army Band, 4:3O p. m.
Marine Band, Marine Bar.
racks Auditorium, 3 p. m.
SATURDAY
Soldiers Home Band Or.
chestra, $3.50 p. m.