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The Washington times., 1935-11-04
'Barbary Coast
Is Coming

The Samuel Goldwyn produc-
ton Of "Barbary Coast" follows
Dark Angel" into Loew's Palace
Theater.
"Barbary Coast" is star studded.
It's cast is composed Of Miriam
Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson,
Joel McCrea, Walter Brennon,
Frank Craven. Clyde Cook, Matt
McHugh, Donald Meek and other
grade A players.
Directed by Howard Hawks, this
screen play is the work of Charles
Macarthur and Ben Hecht. 1t is
the story of the early days of the
gold rush of San Francisco, a
roistering lawless town where
colony Sprang into being, the
"Barbary Coast" No white
woman, no woman of gentility,
inhabited this colony until Mary
Rutledge, played by Miriam Hop
kins, arrived
"Barbary Coast" is said to be
fast moving and filled with ro-
nance. adventure and excitement.
Added attractions include a
new Laurel and Hardy comedy,
Thicker Than Water" a Metro
cartoon in color, "Old Plantation"
and the Metrotone News.
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
Johnny Payette Crows a Little
About Dream Business

Not since the lamented Mr.
Ziegfeld passed to his reward can
1 recall such degree of telegram
tits as caught Washington man
ayers and executives last week, all
adding to the dividends of the
wire companies and keeping
dramatic editors busy opening
envelopes.
Zone manager Payette, OF
Warner Bros. read the weeks
business on Midsummer Nights
Dream" forthwith summoned a
messenger and dispatched this
two-page bulletin:
With the closing Of the box
office Saturday night at the Ma
tional Theater it was found that
the combination of William Shake.
Speare, Max Reinhardt and the
Warner Bros. had in "A Mid
summer Nights Dream" set two
fold standard.
First, that the picture crossed
more than any other tWo-a-day
motion picture attraction for the
past 20 years and, second, that
William Shakespeare is not an un-
known quantity but an actual box
office draw.
The treasurers Of the National
have been kept busy all week sell
ing tickets in advance and each
matinee has been greater than the
one before.
Evening audiences have also
grown in proportion as the week
advanced, resulting in Saturday
matinee and evening attendance
that filled the theater to capacity
even to upper balcony boxes.
The result has been the best
gross since Birth of a Nation"
which was released in 1915.
The Dream goes into its second
week with big advance sale thus
proving concluSively how much
washington audiences have en-
joyed the picture.
1t is an axiom of show business
that audiences will not buy pic
ture they do not like regardless
of the effort put forth to sell the
attraction.
In the Dream constantly grow
ing audiences prove that Shake
speare and Reinhardt have those
essentials the public desires.
JOHN J. PAYETE.
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
6. B. De Mile Starts
Search For 'DeIiIah'

Find this woman!
That is the order issued from
Cecil B. De Miles office. And
sketches Of the woman have been
rushed to all corners of the world.
She is wanted for the role of
Delilah in Samson and Delilah," :"
which De Mile is to make follow
ing THE CruSades," if the script
is finished in time. If not, he will
start shooting on Buffalo Bill"
"I am convinced that the girl
who can play Delilah is not in
Hollywood" said De Mile. "She
must, of course, be beautiful, with
a figure as lovely as her face. She
must have snake-like fascination in
her wide eyes and a repressed bru-
tality about the mouth. And with
all she must have the allure of all
the fatal sirens of the great leg
ends. In short, the woman want
for the role must be a beautiful
brute"
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
Helen Hayes as Queen Victoria
In New Play, Victoria Regina,
Opens Here, December Is
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Those mad ane the Marx brothers. cutting up again
on SCREEN taking good usty sapsck pokes grand
operas culture and dignity in crazy hodgepodge of their
own particular kind of stuff and
Loew's, Inc, evidently felt that Washngtons critical
fraternity could stand few giggles and outlaws for they
transported Pullman load of scribe Baltimore Saturday
afternoon for late matinee Century Theaer showing of GA
Night at the Opera"
The Marx boys-now down to Groucho Harpo and Chico,
since Zeppo quit the prank quartet to become Hollywood
agen-dever heapg screenfu of dizzy and hilarious
ddoes They tried of their cuckoo stuff stage
audiences along the West Coast and they reasonably
before ground in the
studios they shooting straight for the fun target
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
Newman Here
November "a

E. M. Newman. master traveller
after an absence of two years
from the stage, returns to us
shortly to celebrate his twenty
fifth anniversary as a Travel
talker. His brief season will con-
sist of a series of three Journeys"
instead of the usual five and his
right up-to-the-minute pictures
and stories will expertly cover
Italy" Ethiopia" The South
Seas and Cannibal Isles"
These countries, now bristling
with interest, have been thor
oughly covered N a recently taken
group of still color and motion
pictures and will be presented at
the National Theater on the three
consecutive Sunday afternoons, be-
ginning November "a.
One Of the high spots in Italy
is Alborabello where the inhab-
itants still live as hey did in the
Stone Age. Another is the Vale
of D'Aosta. Those and many
other parts of Italy that have
never appeared in a Traveltalk
will be included with Rome, Flor
ence, the new Venice with it's
motor cars, unusual "shotS" of
Mussolini and all other points of
interest.
Since Ethiopia came into the
spotlight we have awaited a com.
plete and comprehensive de-
scription Of that country. New
man has the story from all
angles, and he promises intimate
glimpses of Ethiopian villages,
their homes, customs and habits.
He will show how their laws work,
their slaves and their general
condition. 1t is Newman's pur-
pose to show what Ethiopia and
it's people are like.
The visit to the South Seas and
Cannibal Islands is thrilling and
adventurous. It includes the
Cocos Islands-hideout of pirates
and bandits - the Galapagos
group, the Marquesas, Tahiti and
Moorea with all the romance Of
the South Seas including the IA
nous Mid-Ocean Bar. Then
Raratonga, Raiatea and the Cook
Islands and Samoa where Rain"
was written and a visit to Apia to
pay homage to Robert Louis
Stevenson. The journey ends at
the Fijiis and New Guinea
where we mingle with the saw
ages and watch their ceremonialS
and queer dances.
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
Paramount Conducts
New Color Venture

Elaborate experiments with a
new secret color photography are
being conducted at Paramount
studios.
The experiments have been 60
ing on for some time and have
embraced, principally, the study
of lighting and its relationship to
the amount of makeup necessary
on the players. One process needs
less makeup that a woman wears
on the street, it was learned.
The tests have b-anched out
into the field of settings with
Paramount purchasing many new
pigments for the manufacture Of
paints for use on sets.
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
Anything Goes Is
400 Shows Old Friday

Anything Goes" Vinton Freed.
ley's musical hit starring William
Gaxton and Victor Moore. will
celebrate its four-hundredth New
York performance Friday eve
ming, November /.
Neither Gaxton nor Moore has
missed a single appearance since
the premiere, November of last
year. Through cold weather and
warm the Freedley show has CON
t1nued uninterruptedly, aschiev.
ing the longest Broadway run of
any musical production in sew
eral seasons,
With its New York cast intact,
Anything Goes" arrives at the
National Theater December 2 for
weeks engagement.
The Washington times., 1935-11-04

who attempts to write a patriotic
play in episode form, for God
and England.
The news is that Victoria Re
gina, warmly patriotic for all the
objections of the Lord Chamber.
lain in London, is a full-length
biography in play form which
builds dramatically through 80
excellent scenes, Theatrical with.
out employing theatrics, it need
not be bracketed with Cavalcade
as a panorama of the empires
growth.
Victoria Regina Is richer in
characterization and color, and
it is satisfying to know that
Helen Hayes will play it in New
York this year.
This is a historical play in
which nobody is made to look
particularly heroic. Victoria is a
self-centered, suave, ambitious
little lady, and it is evident that
Mr.. Housman loves her in exact
ly the right way.
1t is this amazing understand
ing which gives the blood of life
to the play, and prevents it
from becoming peopled with
statues. You become intimately
acquainted here with about so
persons, all very much alive.
1t will be a hard job for the
actors to live up to them, and to
catch Mr.. Housman's insight into
character will out bludgeoning
the subtleties.
You find an extraordinary Pal
merston, not college-textbook
creation, battling with Lord John
Russell in Downing Street. You
see the frustrated Queen Mother
trying to regain her place in the
sun which the cool, independent
Victoria has usurped. And on the
lawn of Balmoral Castle you dis
cover tragic, half-mad old states
man-one of the finest and most
beautifully imagined portraits in
Victoria Regina-Who bears little
resemblance to the man we have
been taught, by Louis N. Parker'S
play, to know as Disraeli.
The plays substance derives
from the theme: Victoria in ccn-
flict with her mother, with Al
bert, with Palmerston, with the
prejudices of the world, with all
that sought to disturb her rules
of living, and finally with her own
old age. 1t makes a strong and
continuous thread.
Gable Is Invited
The wires are hot to Hollywood
and Clark Gable, all beseeching a
personal appearance in Washing
ton when "Mutiny On the Bounty
is released for late November
movie patronage. Mr.. Gable will
be East about that time and is
thinking it over.
On his last personals" at the
Capitol Theater in New York and
at Baltimore, the dimpled male
M. G. M. star was so over
whelmed with attention and
adulation it was almost annoy
ing. Particularly when he dis
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
Live Ny Life
Returns

One week of Joan Crawford
and Brian Aherne in It Live My
Life" was not enough for Wash
ingtonians so this attraction has
been booked into Loew's Colum-
bia starting next Friday.
Interesting romance, a child of
wealth and a lover of moderate
circumstances, have careers
blended in a smart sophisticated
comedy drama, in which support
ing cast acting honors are shared
by Frank Morgan, Aline Mac
Mahon, Eric Blore, Arthur
Treacher and Jessie Ralph.
In addition the Columbia will
present a comedy cartoon and
news.
The Washington times., 1935-11-04

entirely surrounded by customers
with a full sense of humor, the
screening began for the ENJOYS Of
sorrow.
Loew's had to pay the $100.
But Exploitation Manager Pyle
felt it was worth it when one OF
the prize winners confessed: you
see, I was really laughing inside
and up my sleeves, for I never
made such an easy $40. My face
was lifted five years ago and it's
frozen that way. 1 couldn't laugh
if you made it a million" Most
OF the others blamed it on the de-
preston and bad health.
No such killjoys were around
Saturday matinee. In fact the
theater rocked with what Carter
Barron prefers to call a mirth-
quake. Harpo Marx swinging la
Tarzan on rope in the fly loft of
the opera house and tumbling
down scenery and sand bags on a
high-hat tenor, is as funny a Sc
quence as the pop-eyed red-head
has ever made.
George S. Kaufman and Morris
Ryskind who wrote "Of Thee I
Sing" composed this nutty cha.
rade although Groucho Marx prob.
ably tossed in a few nifties we'll
suited to his black-moustached
technique. He insults and shocks
the socially ambitious doWager for
whom he is presumed to be a
financial guide, drives the opera
house impreSsario into mental
hysteriacs by his insane cloWning.
The Marx Brothers having put
the party in proper mood, filet
mignon dinner with the right
appetizers was served at the
Lord Baltimore Hotel. Your critic
drew a round honey-dew melon
as an extra favor and a Sunday
souvenir of a pleasant cavalcade.
Barring quakes and hurricane,
"a Night At the Opera" will be
coming along to F Street in time
for movie goers to enjoy it after
the Thanksgiving turkey and
cranberries.
Helen Hayes Coming
Some weeks ago this depart
ment foretold that Helen Hayes
was putting on weight for her
art, the extra poundage being
added to enact Queen Victoria
in a new play for Producer
Gilbert Miller, scheduled to have
its first performance in Wash
ington. The National Theater to-
day confirms this and announces
the specific date for the pre-
miere. December 16.
That will be the week before
Christmas, thus testifying that
Mr.. Miller has no fear of a pre-
holiday slump in the E Street
box office. Miss Hayes, now
serving the radio weekly, will
continue her loud speaker
activity, there being no Tuesday
performance while she works out
the ether wave contract.
Not much specific information
On casting is available about
Victoria Regina" which is the
new Helen Hayes vehicle. It is
called a dramatic biography from
the pen of Laurence HouSman
and the October STAGE has this
to say about it.
Laurence HouSman has over.
come the dragon which crouches
tp the path OF every st, George
The Washington times., 1935-11-04

Dream Opens
Second Week

Midsummer Nights Dream"
Shakespearean classic filmed by
Warner Bros. is now in its second
week at the National Theater.
Once in a blue moon the movies
turn out such a film as this
unbelievably beautiful and so
deftly done that the mechanics Of
the artist never obtrude.
1t is such a film that an artist
might dream Of, but despair of
creating on cold celluloid. But
the miracle has been performed.
Here is film so mystic with awe,
so quivering with beauty that it
is a magnificent privilege to be-
hold it.
This work, which definitely
represents Hollywood at its high
est and best, was directed by Max
Reinhardt who was assisted by
William Deiterle.
A Hollywood cast Of notables
was assembled, in which Joe E.
Brown, as Flute the Bellows
Mender, takes high honor for be-
ing one Of the funniest clowns
ever to appear in Shakespeare
on stage or screen. The raviShing
Olivia de Haviland is regal and
splendid as Hernia. Mickey Roo
ney, an elfin-appearing little lad,
is happily cast as Puck.
Others in this notable array in
clude Jean Muir as Helena, Ross
Alexander as Demetrius, Hugh
Herbert as Snout, Frank McHugh
as Ounce, Victor Jory as Oberon,
AnitO Louise as Titania and Verre
Teasdale as Hippolyta.
A superb arrangement Of Men
delssohn's music forms a back
ground for this magnificent mas
terpiece Of the screen.
y w, B,
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
High-SPeed Cameras
Record 1ap Dancino

Dancing the fastest step ever at
tempted before a motion picture
camera, 18-year-old Eleanor Whit
ney recently embarrassed Para
mounts camera department no
end.
According to Leroy Prinz, dance
director, Miss Whitney accom-
plishes close to so individual taps
within four seconds. So fast do
her feet ny that Harry Fishbeck,
cameraman on Millions in the
Air" was unable to stop" the &C.
tion with an ordinary camera.
He solved the problem by getting
special highspeed equipment
The Washington times., 1935-11-04

the banks closing on their
fortunes with snap, they have
found other things for which to
spend their money, and which.
while looking extravagant. really
are a splendid investment, and
more apt to increase than
Amalgamated oysters, preferred.
Bijoux, ice and the like. Mae
West is not the only girl. in these
here parts, who can string herself
with diamonds like a Christmas
tree when the spirit moves her.
There are others besides Mae who
feel that lady cannot have too
many jewels. and that not only
are they a good investment, but
that they are constantly useful as
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
MOVIE
CLOCK

EAhLE-IeOTge 6d1L, OOdn Dell
nett "She Couldn't Take It."
II a. M, 1875, 4:20, 7:15, 1905
p. m, Stage-12:35, 1925, $40,
9:05 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - Warren vii.
liam, Patricia Ellis in lease of
the Lucky Legs" 11:40 a. M,
lao, $40, $40, 9:40 p. m.
LITTLE-George Arliss, in "The
House of Rothchild," 1910 and
1859 a. M, 1:48, 3:37, 5:26, 7:15
and 9:04 p. m.
R-K-O-KEITH'S-M argot Ora
hame, Moroni Olsen in THE
Three Musketeers," 11:15 a. m,
1923, $3.50, 5:38, 7:45, 9:53 p. m.
FOX-Rochelle Hudson, Henry
Fonda in Way Down East"
10:45 a. m. 1:35, 4:25, 7:15
p. m. Stage-12:35, 1925, 6:15,
9:05 p. m.
PALACE-Frederic March, Merle
Oberon in "The Dark Angel" "
1905, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Jack Benny, Eleanor
Powell in Broadway Melody of
1885," 1850 a. m, 2:15, 4:40,
7:05, 9:25 p. m.
BELASCO-"The Passing Of the
Third Floor Back" At 1921,
2:3O, 4:39, 6:4S, S:57 and 11:06
p. m.
HOWARD-Kay Francis, George
Brent in THE Goose and the
Gander," 1890, $50. 7:05,
1910 p. M, Stage-3:40, $50,
9:10 D, m.
The Washington times., 1935-11-04

They're Slightly Nuts
City Manager Billy SaXton and
Norman Pyle got a bright idea on
the Marx brothers exploitation.
They offered 500 in new $40 bills
to any 10 Baltimoreans who could
witness a screening of "A Night at
the Opera" without letting their
faces slip into laughter or at least
Q grin.
Well, about 100 responded for
the Gloomy Gus test. They were
as varied a collection of gloom
carriers, house haunters and crepe
wearers as could be assembled in
any key city. Deposited in seats
of vantage in the mezzanine, and
The Washington times., 1935-11-04

covered in Baltimore that a group
of ardent and courageous admir-
ers had Surreptitiously crept into
a hotel freight elevator and found
their way to the doorway of his
suite. When he welcomed these
autograph hounds he was further
surprised by having two more
venturesome of his fair public
suddenly climb into his reception
room from the fire escape. There
after guard was posted.
Nevertheless Loew'S executive
force is entreating him to come
to Washington. He may do it for
Managing-Director Gene Ford, Of
the Fox, whom he counts among
his Warmest friends.
The Washington times., 1935-11-04
By LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1888, by King Features
SyudfaafaN

SSHulChteI
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4-Holes
burned in their pockets. Nobody
ever saw an actor who saved his
money for a rainy day. That
would be another freak to add to
our collection in the Hollywoods,
if anyone could find one. If
after years of struggling. you
begin to get a salary that sounds
like the public debt, you are too
apt to go crazy and spend it as
fast as it comes. The oldest
part about this our town is that
our actors and actorines are as
thrifty as they are.
In the good old days they used
to be among the best customers
for stocks and bonds, and spent
the day watching the tickers. But
since they got stung at that,
and some got badly bitten by
, 1935-09-22
DO NOT CASH
CHECKS FOR
=.

or issue "A check To a stranger CHI nn
order as often times these checks
have been altered" and later cash
ed by an innocent party. just re-
Gently two men and two women pass
eel many worthless checks un cur
Brownsville citizens.
, 1935-09-22

TO q stranger on an order -. too Of
ter the customer never receives any
thing for the cash advanced
, 1935-09-22
IN MANY CASES :.

and according to Police Records
lack or caution On the part cf the
hcuseEclderB has resulted in cost
" property losses and bitter expert
ences. The ~Ttinerant Peddler today
may be N spotter or locator for tina
professional criminal on tomorrow.
, 1935-09-22
IN CASE YOU n
SUSPICIOUS

Phone the police at once . call
police WY. . DO not delay FRI this aB Az
will aid the police 10 locate the Itin-
Grant Pedd1er at once.
, 1935-09-22
Truth About Buying That
Every Woman Should Know

"A very careful analysis of the comparative values OF a nnmhNrd nnesth goas
sold both through stores and BY cnvasers causes. me to say that there rs sosO,.eS
M question but that women who buy from stores receive more Tor their money.
~Kxeeedngly plausible sales tas have caused many women % hold ne
runcou md cmHy Relief that they on buy more eheapE from agents ina IRON
retail stores"
They ae rfvu the impression that goods sold nj the door cost less because
numhe Of profts ara wiped out. What they IRE not told Is that tn commission pan
the csnvassrb Of necessity much larger than the regular proht or TIT merchant
@H investigations show, and any woma who viii investigate c. prove u TOT
hsrssf that dollar FOR dollar, the retail store gives the greater value"
ALFRED p. HAAKE, Pm. D.
One time Professor Of Economics. University Of Wisconsin
Director f Resesrch-The Simmons Company
National Authority Of Distribution
nmt q ~mmhAms paid ms PAnss m de- order placed
, 1935-09-22
1T IS BETTER TO
BE SAFE THAN


BE sure you know with whom you
are dealing before granting admit
lance 70 your home.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-07-06
Who Owns THE Leader
By Nonad

The FL Association has GER
tainly not gone out of its way to
enlighten the public about who
were the owners of the FL
Leader. as.e
There is no trade name filed
for it with the proper authori-
ties.
No articles of Incorporation
concerning it are to be found in
the files of the Secretary of
States office.
1t has not filed a statement of
ownership with the register of
deeds in Ramsey County as re-
quired by a law sponsored by
Floyd B. Olson, and made into
law by his signature in 1881, for
all newspapers not regularly
qualified. This law makes it a
criminal offense to fail in the
filing of such ownership state
ment.
1t did file an affidavit with the
postal authorities in order to Sc
cure postal rights and privileges.
The affidavit was made by the
papers editor, H. G. Creel, who
swore in it that the owner was the
FL Association. But on the wit
ness stand in the Olson custer
suit, Creel testified he did not
know who its owner was.
With the heavy load of deceits,
falsehoods and libels that canard
generally carries, it is small Won
der that there is such lengthy
effort made to cloak the owner
ship. e.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-07-06

~sss IN
their police departments by put
ting men at the head who were
competent and trustworthy. They
would give these men entire re-
sponsibility and keep them at the
heads of the departments just so
long as they did not violate their
eaths of office. Members of the
departments would have conf
dence in such chiefs and they
would know that so long as they
did their work thoroughly and
properly, they would keep their
jobs. An example of the efici-
ency of this system of appoint
ing a permenent head of de-
Dpartment is shown by the Won
derful work accomplished by the
Bureau of Investigation, u. S.
Department of Justice, under Di-
rector J. Edgar Hoover. An
other example is the police de-
partment of the city of Milwau-
kee, which department has had
only two chiefs of police in the
last 46 years. These departments
because of the policy of keep
ing permanent heads, have the
best records of any law enforc-
ing agencies in the country.
In stepping out of office-with
no regrets and no apologies
want to take this opportunity to
sincerely thank the mayor and
every member of the Minneapolis +!
police department. for the CO.
operation and loyalty they have
given me. I am proud to state
that I have lived up to my oath
of Office.
Yours very truly,
Michael ]. Johannes,
Superintendent of Police.
June g, 1885. |
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1935-07-06

they received their full pay,
A few of the high spots of my
administration are as follows
The establishment of the Meri.
System. Under this system Off
GERS are rated quarterly on their
accomplishments. Promotions un-
der this system are based on
meritorious service, commenda-
tions and honorable mentions.
The police school was estab-
lished to instruct and train the
officers as to how to handle fire.
arms especially machine guns
This school also teaches courtesy
and discipline together with the
various duties of a police officer
I appointed five detective SUI
pervisors, one supervisor for
each of the five districts of the
city. This has resulted in closer
contact between the detective
bureau and the various districts
with a further result of close
cooperation between the detec.
tives themselves.
saw the need of stricter traf