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Evening star., 1935-02-16
ARTISTS PAID LESS
THAN THEIR MODELS
Average Figures Include Some
With Incomes Running Into
Ten Thousand.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February Let may
be the artist who wins immortality
but it is the subject of the painting
who most easily maintains the habit
Of eating three meals a day, figures
compiled by the Artists Equity of
America indicate.
Immortality and 10 cents will buy q
loaf of bread, E. W. Adams, president
Of the equity intimated. when he
disclosed that the average commercial
artist received 48 cents per hour for
his labors during the last year.
This average" he pointed out
included some artists whose incomes
run into five figures and others who
would have Jared better if they had
applied for a relief dole"
On the other hand, models receive
rs cents per hour for class posing.
and they fare even better if they
photograph well. The standard rate
Of pay for Photographic models is
So for the first hour and 50 per
hour thereafter. with a movement
on foot to boost the rate.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
1,700 U. S. EMPLOYEES
PAID CASH IN TEST
War Department Workers Are
Used to Try Feasibility of
Pay Roll Plan.

The War Department yesterday paid
about 1,700 employees in cash instead
of the checks they formerly had re-
ceived.
This was done as an experiment,
it was explained, to determine the
feasibility of paying cash to employees
in other Government departments and
establishments. The experiment was
confined to the War Department, but
probably will be extended to some
others next pay day. officials explained.
The move follows suggestions from
many trade interests.
The dividing line between cash and
checks at the War Department was
placed at that group of persons in
clerical and fiscal grade 4, under the
classification act They all received
cash instead of checks, and all per-
sons in the lower paid brackets be-
low that grade also received cash.
CAT 4 has a salary range of from
$1,000 to $2,160. There are some
other persons in CAT whose pay
overlaps these figures, so this caused
persons in CAT to get cash.. while
others in CAT receiving the same
salaries got checks.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
"BENGAL LANCERS" BACK
FOR WEEK AT COLUMBIA
Popular Picture, Which Does Not
Have a Romance, on T
Street Again.

It hardly is necessary to say more
about Lives of Bengal Lancer" than
it has returned to the Columbia. It's
a superb film, as you we'll know if you
have seen it. If not, you have been
missing something.
Lives of a Bengal Lancer" is so
vigorous and so excellently played
that it couldn't help but be grand
entertainment The story is thor
oughly exciting one about the 41st
Bengal Lancers and their difficulties
with hostile tribes in India or some
such isolated part of the globe. 1t
has suspense. humor and drama. 1t
has everything you should ask of
motion picture except love affair, but
it is such grand picture you won't
realize until long after it is over that
there was no blond for romance.
Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone and
Richard Cromwell interpret three
young officers of the Lancers who
have a struggle to fit themselves into
the mold required by their command
ing officer. Their variations in per-
sonality, character and mood
Cooper's audacity, Tones indomita-
BILE humor and Cromwell's youth-are
the result of fine acting. c. Aubrey
Smith and Sir Guy Standing are two
others who contribute very much to
the success of the piece.
The camera work is excellent: the
story is excellent; the direction is ex-
cellent, and so is anything else con-
nected with the production. Put
Bengal Dancers" on your must list,
and if you already have seen it. see it
again.
The Columbia's program this week
includes the first release of The
March of Time" and a very happy
color cartoon. H. M.
Evening star., 1935-02-16

Rains ana young IN adaglo ana Otner
kinds of muscular dancing.
And Bert Granof sings bits of
New Moon" better than we have ever
heard him sing before.
***
THE general impression seems to be
that when David Copperfield,"
the years best film. now in it's second
week at the Palace, gets to its half
way mark it loses ground This is
due not only to David growing up.
but to the fact that as he shoots
into manhood young Freddie Bar
tholemew also goes out the window,
leaving David in the hands of Frank
Lawton.
Mr.. Lawton Is a clever actor who
is surprisingly like his younger self
in this film. He is also very good
actor. However, he does not bring
to the picture that wistful something
or other which the younger David has.
and he also is probably handicapped
by those scenes with Maureen O'Sulli-
van. a pretty young lady who is nev-
ertheleSS too much the actress to be
the fragile, unworthy Dora she is
meant to be.
If the picture really loses ground,
and you don't want to blame either
Mr. Dickens or the adapters, then
blame Master Bartholomew for per-
formance that leaves the average
spectator so choked that whatever
follows necessarily falls fiat.
Personally. We enjoyed the whole
business, but upon being reminded
that the last half drags little and
that the scenes are shuttled too fast
one into the other, then upon fur
ther reflection, this theory is probably
right. Don't, however, stay away
from it on that account. If the end
is not up to the beginning that is be-
cause the beginning is probably more
human and more faithful to its or
iginal than anything you have ever
seen. The sight of the wind bouncing
Edna May divers skirt in all four
directions in that very first scene is
something to remember always.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
World VAR
FILM SHOWS
BIG BATTLES
Picture at Metropolitan
Gathered From Files of
the Various Nations.

Dedicated to the "extras"-the men
who fought and died in this au-
thentic movie-and to the camera
men, who stood on shell-swept battle
fields, submarine decks and revolu-
tion-filled streets to grind out Aim
record of the four-year struggle of
the nations Of the earth, THE First
World War" as edited by Laurence
Stallings, paradoxically presents the
itself. 1t is being shown at the
Metropolitan.
The film is filled with war-~war In
the bullet -riddled trenches, the gas
swept backgrounds. the torpedo-in-
tested seas and even the snow-capped
Alps.
1t is not uplifting nice, amusing or
entertaining, because war is not.
There Is not laugh to the whole
so minutes of it, but that does not
mean you will be bored. Rather you
will be thrilled and awed and SPELL
bound by the broad viewpoint and
realism it gives to this four-year page
out Of the worlds history.
Starting at the turn Of the century,
the. film shows Germany preparing
its great war machine, and the other
central powers following suit. 1t
graphically pictures events leading
up to and the background of the
struggle, and then with the cameras
of dozen different nations on land
sea and air swinging from scene to
scene it pictures the destruction. hor-
ror and ruthlessness which went to
make up mans greatest struggle to
date.
Marvellous shots of Italian-Austrian
fighting in the Alps. of the propitious
victory of the English feet over the
German Navy at Jutland, Of the great
Germany advance, its check and the
counter allied attack, and remark
able scenes of U-boats sinking numer-
Gus warships and merchant vessels are
outstanding bits of the huge picture
the film presents.
1t is filled with pictures OF the great
men of the time. names which will
go down in history. Ku;g George of
England, the former Kaiser, Won Hin
denberg, Woodrow Wilson and the
kings, queens and war lords Of other
nations are its principal actors Its
scenes are real and its battlef1elds
and fighting episodes make Hollywood
attempts look small.
Some scenes Of the Russian revo-
luton, one shot taken in an observa-
tion ballon being attacked by a Ger
man plane, others of British boats
bombarding the Hellespont and the
shots Of dead and wounded are note
worthy as probably the only on record
And through 1t all, the cool. i'm
preSsive voice of Laurence Stallings
follows the scenes with comments
explanations and remarks to make
the film more understandable.
A technicolor comedv. What, No
Men?", with tongue-tied FL brendel
and several bevies of not-hard-to-
look-at chorus girls; vaudeville short
and the Paramount newsreel complete
the Metropolitan program.
NJ W. B.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
SURVEY OF ALEUTIAN
ISLANDS TO CONTINUE

The Navy this Summer will con-
tinue its survey of the Aleutian
Islands, with an eye to Astrological
and photographic facts.
The Navy Department said these
six vessels of the Mine Force will
conduct the survey: Oglala, Quail.
Tanager, Kingfisher. Gannet and
Sandpiper. The department said that
the expedition will carry forward the
work of previous years "in gathering
complete photographic information
and weather data of this American
archipelago"
Comdr. Francis E. Cogswel, COM
manGing officer of the Oglala, will be
in charge of the expedition. which
will At out In West Coast ports. The
vessels will sail pprth early in May.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
MINSTREL REVUE.

Tomorrow at 3 pm. and on Mon
day and Tuesday evenings at 8:15
pm. under the auspices of the Shrine
of the Sacred Heart branch Of the
Holy Name Society. and for the bene-
fit of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart,
a musical minstrel revue will be given
at the Sacred Heart School Hall.
1925 Park road northwest.
The revue is entitled The Isle of
GaZam" and features Johnny Baldwin
and his Nativity minStrelS.
Marian Mccarthy, young concert
singer, will be one of the stellar at
fractions. Others include Mildred
Bargagni. dancer; Pete Slevin, Irish
tenor: Frank O'Neil. tap dance
tai Sister and Ed rhythmic dancers
The program is under the personal
supervision of the Rev. John Spence.
spiritual director Of the Sacred Heart
branch of the Holy Name Society.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
An OLD TALE
OF NEWSPAPER
YORK At FOX
"Atter Office Hours'' Is
Direrting Story, but
Very Improbable.

Under the dime-novel title. AFTER
Office Hours" Metro Goldwyn-M Mayer
has strung together diverting fable
about newspaper life as it is not lived
and all the better for you that it isn't.
The film on display at the Fox this
week is decorated with fulsome as
sortment of handsome ornaments, in
cluding Clark Gable and Miss Con-
stance Bennett, written with what
passes for trenchant wit around Holly
wood, and is whatwithal rather a
nifty in the program picture line.
The brain child of former tabloid
editor whose travail amid the ink pots
left him seething with cinema plots
(witness Five Star Final" by the
same penman), After Office Hours
relates the adventures of bold young
news executive gifted with the COM
bined talents of a Winchell of the
night clubs, Philo Vance Of crime in
vestigators, Cholly Knickerbocker OF
society prattle. A rascal willing to lie
to his sweetheart's mother or tell tales
OuI Vi III OIdC1 W oSA W AAAo ~
loved public the honest dirt, the gay
crusader impersonated by Mr.. Gable
nevertheless bears his secret crosses.
His publisher prefers to leave unadver-
tised the foibles of rich but errlng
friends. His lamb pot pie, Miss Ben
nett, deeply deplores and views with
alarm his gathering TACTICS,
which are, as the bards say, unethical.
Both these difficulties disappear, to
be sure, in a cloud of wise cracks
and melodrama as the enterpriSing
Mr.. Gable solves the murder Of a
bankers wife, pins the blame on
playboy who has been his chief rival
in romance, gets a clean beat on the
story for his paper. Oh, yes, and
marries the girl
The author and director Of After
Office Hours" demonstrate in their
collaboration a wholesome, yea, lusty,
irreverence of everything from bankers
to college oarSmen, that quality alone
saving the picture from banallty.
Stuart Erwin and Billie Burke, two
of the really flrst-rate comedians now
practicing in Hollywood, lend their
sparkling abilities to the cast, and
Henry Armetta turns in a notable
bit as daffy dog-wagon proprietor
who knows what's what in radio The
others are Harvey Stephens, Kather-
Inc Alexander, Henry Travers and
Hale Hamilton.
The Fox stage show this week is
headlined by Lita Grey Chaplin, who
sings pleasantly enough some of the
popular ditties Of the moment. Char
lie Davis and his orchestra are the
secondary feature on the current bill
A competent band rather uneven in
its sallies into incidental entertain
ment, the aggregation is assisted by
Frank Parrish, Sally Gay. the Rusty
Hinge Trio and "Blubber," a gar
gantuan tuba player.
The other acts are Stuart and Lash
comedians, who garnered a lions
share Of applause at the opening
show yesterday: Francis Wills, eccen-
trio dancer, and her Ambassadors, >
who include dancing partner and g
trio of young men addicted to hoofing
Miss Wills is excellent.
Phil Lampkin's overture and the
customary newsreel complete the pro-
gram. r. B. p, jr.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
PRO ARTE QUARTET
IN SIXTH CONCERT
Beethoven Music by String En-
semble at Congressional Lii
brary Yesterday.

Two of Beethoven's string quartets.
one in "E Flat Major. Opus 127," and
the other in ia Minor, Opus 95."
were presented by the Pro Arte String
Quartet of Brussels as the sixth con-
cert in the cycle Of Beethoven's
quartets being presented by the
Columbia Broadeasting System through
the courtesy of Elizabeth Sprague
Coolidge. The seventh concert in the
cycle will be given tomorrow, and the
eighth and last Of the series will be
given Friday afternoon. February %,
in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Auditorium in the Library Of Congress.
The Pro Arte Quartet has done
such beautiful work during this cycle,
each musician playing with rich. warm
tones and the four blending as one
in the ensemble playing, that the
ever SO slight a thinness OF tone
noticed yesterday in the first violin,
was marked. However, the richness
of the cello offset this, particularly
in the work in the first movement Of
the Quartet in E Flat Major" when
the ensemble had almost the volume
as well as the depth Of tone OF
small orchestra. K. b.
Evening star., 1935-02-16


looking lad whom the women will
adore. He sings in a manner not un-
like Rudy Vallee and he got a good
fat contract from M.-G.-M- the
moment they saw and heard his test.
BY the same token. Nacio Herb
Brown and Arthur Freed signed to
remain on this lot, which leads one
to believe that things musical are on
the up and up and not on the wane,
as some peSsimistS would have is
believe.
Lucille Watson, May Robson, Con-
stance Collier are all after the ON
the DiStaff Side" list of possibilities
None of them could do it in the
manner of the lovely Sybil Thorn
dyke. 1t calls for a softness and
gentleness of beauty none of these fine
troopers possess. It's a grand play
ing role-as, indeed, the entire play
presents such opportunities. May
Robson would be marvellous as the
doughty old grandmother who rules
the house Of women with a rod
of iron.
Lionel Barrymore will, no doubt,
play the George Cohan role in "Ah
Wilderness and Cecilia Parker and
Junior Durkin are two more named
for this one which Clarence Brown
will begin the moment Anna
Karenina" is finished. Fredric March
abandoned all hope this morning
when final confirmation of his ap-
pointment to the role opposite Garbo
went through. He had been holding
out. hoping that he would not have
to play the part, March has had to
wear long hair since last August, due
to costume roles: he wants to play
in a modern picture.
It's raining again, and the flu
victims include Kay Francis, who is
making a picture with George Brent
and who was giving a huge party on
Saturday night which will have to
be called off.
(Copyright 1885 by North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncJ
Evening star., 1935-02-16
PRESIDENT THANKS
WARTIME INVENTOR
Government Grateful to Charles
Holmes, 65, Who Developed
Sub-Chaser Motor.
BY the Associated Press.

Ds tIic ASSOIIdIcO
NEW YORK, February 16.-A long
forgotten wartime service by Charles
tDenison Holmes. IS, an inventor now
seriously i'll with arthritis at Mystic,
Conn, was recognized yesterday in a
letter sent by President Roosevelt.
II feel that it is fitting" the Presi-
dent wrote in a letter dated February
13, that should express to you the
thanks of this Government as well as
my own for your part in the develop
ment of a new type of military equip
ment."
When the United States entered the
war Holmes, already the designer of
a motor used widely in the United
States Lifesaving Service, applied him.
self to the development of a compact,
powerful motor for submarine chasers
and similar craft. It was a further
development on the engine he made
for submarine chasers that won the
thanks of the Chief Executive.
Evening star., 1935-02-16

PLAYERS IN
3 DRAMAS
Little Theater Increment
Is Ciuen Boost by
Virginia Actors.

Little Theater enthusiasts of
Alexandria were initiated into the
intricacies of modern drama as pro-
pounded through the medium of one
act plays by three sterling casts that
dealt out near-tragedy. feminine psy-
chology and mystery comedy to awe
and delight a capacity audience of
more than 800 at Lyceum Hall, in
the neighboring city, last night.
The awe came from the way Hide
garde Thorpe brandished a 10-inch
butcher knife in her near commit
ment Of murder in the first play.
"Sigrid," and from the appearance
of the sinister and foreboding minor
characters who laid the mystery
background OF the last play. The
Travellers" Edith C. Lands talk
Mrs. Sterling McKittricks "strangest
feelings" Courtney Cochran's impish
Interpretation Of an Inner self" and
Paul Arlt's Sicilian courier furnished
the lighter moments in the three
plays.
In support of Mrs. Thorpe's sin
cere portrayal Of a Norwegian immi-
grant in "Sigrid" heavy
drama Of Dakota farm life bearing
evidences of excellent direction by
Ruth Perrot-yeoman service was
rendered by Joseph H. Orendorff as
the husband. Ollie; with able help
being administered by Coleman Gray,
Edith Lands and John Harrison Kirk
in minor roles.
The languid Harriet and her hard
boiled inner self, Hattie, were deftly
handled by Mrs. H. B. Temple and
Sarah Ellen Bowers in Alice Gertsen-
berg's psychology play, "Overtones. j"
The two we're matched by Mrs. Fred
erick A. Ballard and Miss Cochran.
Caroline Minor Ely and Helen Army
Macan developed unusual effects in
their direction.
AS clustering Mr. Roberts. c. Fred
Schreiner united with Mrs. McKittrick
to help with the mystery and comedy
which THE Travellers" dispensed in
large quantities Their antics pro-
vided much relief from the myste.
robustness of the vehicle. Petite Mary
Ellen Cato as their daughter was de-
lightfully naive as she aided the pace
of the piece, while Mrs. John B. How
land, with her Mysteries, and Clement
Conger contributed other worthwhile
roles.
The Sicilian servants. Kenneth
Stabler, Deane Lindsey, Cary j. Ran
dolph and Stanley King, excellently
laid the mystery background for the
plot Of THE Travellers" which was
directed by Marshall Baggett.
Striking lighting and stage effects,
executed by U. S. Lambert, jr.; Allen
Roberts, Horace Wolff, Bennett Moore,
Mrs Stephen McDonough, Miss Sarah
Baker and j. H. Orendort under the
direction of Wesley S. Bessell, were
essential parts of the production.
M. w. B.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
DELEGATION TO ATTEND
DINNER AT PITTSBURGH
Federal Employees Local Will Be
Host to Officials and National
Federation officers.

Federal officials and national Of
ficers of the National Federation OF
Federal Employees tonight will be
guests Of the Pittsburgh local of the
federation at a dinner there.
Among those attending from Wash
ington are Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat, of Nevada, a leader in the pay
fight. and Mrs. McCarran; Gen. Frank
T. Hines, veterans administrator;
Harry B. Mitchell, president of the
Civil Service Commission; Luther C.
Steward, president of the federation;
Miss Gertrude McNally, secretary
treasurer, and Miss Matilda Lindsay,
organizer.
Steward and Miss McNally are ad-
dressing the Pennsylvania State Fed
Grafton OF the N. F. F. E. this after
noon. Last night they were guests of
the Philadelphia local.
Evening star., 1935-02-16
MARYLAND PARK PIT. A.
INDORSES PAY RETURN
Committee Reports Board of Edu-
cation Favors Addition
to School.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEAT PLEASANT, Md. February
15.-The Parent Teacher Association
Of the Maryland Park High School
went on record favoring the restora-
tion of the pay cuts in the teachers
salaries at its meeting here last night.
A committee. consisting of Herman
Schmidt, Fabian Augustine and E. G..
Gentle was appointed to work for the
restoration of the cut.
The Building Committee reported
to the association that they found
the County Board of Education favor
able to an addition to the school. The
P. T. A. Immediately appointed a
committee to arrange a dinner to
raise funds to purchase equipment not
furnished by the county for the ad-
dition.
Evening star., 1935-02-16

gestS Lynn Fontanne from time to
time-but this is a matter of physical
resemblance due largely to coloring
and coiffure than to temperament.
Fontanne is keyed to Slower-and
deadlier-tempo. Ellis has a flexible
dramatic soprano which will be heard
to good advantage in large audi
toriums. although she has pianis-
simo which shows good training and
which does much to emphasize the
dramatic quality Of her songs.
Like Grace Moore in her first
cinema ventures, Mary Ellis fault Is
overacting. In short, when she has
had an opportunity to watch herself
and play down a little more she will
be a different cinema girl. just as
Grace Moore was. I understand that
Ellis work in Two on a Tower"
shows much of this restraint already.
1t would seem that we are going
into the higher realms Of choreog-
raphy with the arrival of Margarete
Wallmann Of Vienna and the plans
M.-G.-M. has for her work. I'm
preSsioniStic balletS and ecStattc
musical interpretations which involve
music without music" quotes my
friend the P. A, who goes on to say
that La Belle Margarete will convince
the audience of. the rhythms of
Strauss waltz without so much as
note being played, since music may
become visual as well as aural.
Tales Of the Vienna Woods" will be
heard-or rather seen and imagined
through the Wallmann's strange
art. She is a one-man show-de-
signing costumes, drilling dancers,
writing her own balletS and produc-
ing them. Still later she will do
some things with-music. but the in
novation will be waltz without
orchestra or accompaniment.
Another singing lad to get a con-
tract is by name Frank Hayes. A
nervous breakdown took him out of
radio ranks in the East and into
California sunshine. He is the son
Evening star., 1935-02-16

ldCG, lIle SIllCkSu SlSlcIS dIc
not around half long enough. Nor is
Mr.. Benny. The latter is in one of
his rarer forms, idling about the stage
with his tongue in his cheek, listening
to Miss Livingston sing the song that
Maxine Doyle introduced to Earl audi
ences and never quite getting to that
violin playing which he has been
promising audiences for 'yars and
yars and vars"
Not having been fortunate enough
to hear all of Mr.. Bennys Sunday
night broadcastS, We possibly do not
appreciate all of his gags quite so much
as that avalanche of youth which yes
terday roared at his smallest syllable.
However, he is still among the top
notch headliners, and it is to be hoped
that he will remain there despite the
pressure of certain publicized food
stuffs which pay him better to stay
with the air"
Mr.. Benny got small ovation at
the end of his act yesterday, and one
which he deserved. particularly because
of that ending. It's an old gag, but its
still a good one.
The picture this week, Carnival"
provides Lee Tracy with a baby,
Jimmy Durante with a circus and
good looking Sally Eilers with hus-
band It's the old, old yarn about the
man who is left to bring up his child
all by himself-and it includes the
usual irate father-in-law. the child
who is called 'Poochy," any number
of circus performers, a circus fire and
q happy ending.
The new note this time is a baby
parade. Dickie Walters is the 2i2-
year-old brat who causes all the fuss
He does his job very well. But some
how we have yet to get in stew over
one of these miniature Barrymores.
After the first thousand they some
how seem very much alike.
The remainder of the stage show is
given up to those acrobatic DanWillS,
who run, jump and spin in the air
better than almost any one: the Siz-
zlers, three singing young men who
got big hand yesterday, and Bryant,