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who faced him to pay court costs
of SO.
Indignant over this, Mrs. H. T.
Campion, a newcomer to Fails
Church and one o fthose fined,
said:
II had always heard Of Wiz.
ginia hospitality and how
friendly people were here. I do
not find that true in this case.
I feel l have been very badly
treated"
Mrs. Louise H. Galleher, an
other who was fined, said:
"ThiS is an uncalIed for &C.
ton. 1 have lived here 10 years
and have never failed to pur-
chase a dog license.
"The tags are not sold in Falls
Church, but it is necessary to
60 to Fairfax to obtain them. I
delayed in getting my tags mere
ly because l was waiting until it
was necessary to go to Fairfax,
and consider this penalty unjuS-
titled"
Unless the tags are purchased
the dogs will be seized and exc
cuted, officials said.
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NEW CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT.

BELLE PLANE, Kan, April /.
The first man in the United
States to announce his candidacy
for the presidency in the next
election came to light here to-
day when Chester Albert Shewal-
ter, of this community, threw
in his hat for the honor.
Mr.. Shewalter will lead a new
political body into the 1886 scram-
BILE, having been chosen to seek
office by the All-American Ma
tionalist party.
According to the candidate, the
new party has been accepted by
a majority of the States of the
Union, all but five having per-
mitted his party's name on its
voting ballots.
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VICTIM Of DOPE,
GIRL ASKS JAIL

SEATTLE, April 1 CU.sJ.
Praying for disqualification, or
even a prison term if it will cure
her of the curse of morphine,
blonde Patricia Sullivan, %, was
held in the city Jail for safekeep-
ing here today. She declared:
81 would 70 anything to get
off the dope habit. I'm sick.
Desperately sick. 1 can't battle
it alone. And look what it has
done to me-"
The girl told police she got
started on the dope habit when a
doctor gave her morphine to allay
pains of a stomach ailment.
Police said she comes from an
excellent family, is a high school
graduate and had two years in a
finishing school.
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Do You Remember?

One month ago the tollotD-
ing names tIere in the head
lines: Can you recall them?
William E. Belknap.
Patrick ]. Hurley.
Frank F. Merriam.
John ]. RaskOb.
Alvin KarpiS.
(AnS1DerS on Page ~
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CHERRY BLOOMS
UNFRAMED BY
DRENCH|NG
$4,000 Crowd Basin Sunday;
Weather Men Promise End
Of Rain by Tomorrow

j. Pluvius was doing his best to-
day to spoil the annual show put
on by the cherry blossoms. But
the weather man, after looking
at his instruments, promised a
Surcease from the rain tomorrow
afternoon. The blossoms still held
most of their freshness. although
showing signs of drenching.
Just little under an inch has
fallen since the storm started
Saturday night, and it will rain
all day, tonight and perhaps to-
morrow morning, the forecaster
said.
River Normal
The fall was gentle, however,
and no flood conditions are ex-
pected. A survey showed thu the
river and its tributaries are list
about normal.
Meanwhile, the blossoms around
the Tidal Basin are fully out. but
few persons braved the elements
to see them today.
Yesterday some 10000 automo.
biles, carrying about 10000 per-
sons, cruised around the basin,
but police said that only about
300 persons got out to walk be-
meath the blossoms.
Many Wait Fete
The present storm is due to
generally unsettled conditions in
the East and Southeast. While it
was mild here, a local tornado
swept through Mississippi yester-
day, claiming at least four lives
and leaving destruction in its
path.
The end of the storm tomorrow
was hailed with joy by those plan
ming on attending the annual sun.
rise cherry blossom festival, sched-
uled for Wednesday morning,
when Mrs. Roosevelt, the Japanese
ambassador, and other distin.
guished persons will be present.
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Prince Matchabelli
Dead in New York

NEW YORK, April 1.-Prince
Georges Matchabelli, -, descend
ant of the Royal House Of Georgia
in Transcaucasia. perfumer and
long active in social events of New
York died of pneumonia yeSter.
day in his home. Princess Nor.
ina Matchabelli, his former wife,
who flew here from California
several weeks ago when he be.
came i'll was at his bedside. Last
night she said:
eve were never separated.
We were great friends. was
divorced from him, If you must
use the modern, technical no
menclature. But where there
has been no real separation,
there was no need Of a reconcile
atiOn."
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l Killed, Hurt
AS Scar Hits Horse

BINGHAM, Ariz., April 1.
G.N.S0.-A sedan, bound from
Oklahoma to Los Angeles, Cal,
struck a horse on the highway
near here and overturned, killing
one man and injuring two others.
The dead man was identified as
F. A. Ashworth Of Elk City, Okla.
Albert Jacobson, owner of the
car, suffered a broken back, but
may live. Lon Lutz was cut and
bruised,
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Movies Defense
Shown in Protest

PASADENA, Calf, April 1
W.SO.-Protests against proposed
State taxation threatening to drive
the motion picture industry out of
California were sent assembly
men at Sacramento today by the
Pasadena Realty Board.
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O'CLOCK

BELASCO-"The Mystery OF
Edwin Brood" Feature at 1880,
1913, 500, 4:45. 6:28, SIT, 1905
p. m. Out, 11:30 p. m.
FOX-Feature, Alice Faye and
James Dunn in George
Whites 1885 Scandals" 10:45
a. M, 1870, 4:2O, tbs, 10 p. m.
Stage, 1890, 3:15, 6:10, 8 p. m
PALACE-will Rogers and
Rochelle Hudson in Life Be
gins at 49," II a. M, 1:05,
3:15, $40, 7:30, $40 p. m.
EARLE-Tullio Carminati and
Lillian Harvey in Lets Live
Tonight" II a. M, 1870,
4:20, 7:05, 9:55 p. m. Stage
1885, 1925: 6:l0, 9 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - Claudette
Colbert and Clark Gable in
ut Happened One Night"
1885 a. M, 2. 4:25, $50 9:15
COLUMBIA-Shirley Tenn pie
and Lionel Barrymore in
"The Little Colonel" 1925
a. m, 1870. 3:35. $40, 7:45.
$50 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Fred Astaire
and Ginger Rogers in "Ro-
bertt.," 1882 a. m, 1874,
3:36, 5:3S, TAO, 9:42 p. m.
HOWARD-"School For Girls,
1885, 4, 7, 10 p. m. Stage.
2:40, 6, 8 p. m.
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Capra La n d S
TopHonor

Frank Capra, who has long
been regarded as one Of the
worlds greatest directors, has at
last received official recognition
Of his genius. The Motion Pic
ture denny of Arts and
Sciences has awarded him the
prize for the best direction of
the year, based on 1T Happened
One Night" Columbia picture,
now showing at the Metropolitan
Theater.
For the last five years Capra
has been making one sensational
picture after another. "Subma-
rine," Flight" "Dirigible,"
American Madness" THE Bitter
Tea of General Yen" Lady for
a Day" and now 1T Happened
One Night outstanding pro-
auctions in every way, all directed
by Capra. You'd think him a
venerable fellow with a twinkle
in his fading eyes, instead of the
young man he really is. full of
snap, ingenuity and finesse.
Capra was born in Palermo,
Italy and came to New York when
he was three years old. He was a
little youthful for directing pic
lures, so he made up his mind to
wait awhile! When he was ten,
he was selling newspapers on the
street. Later, he worked his way
through high school by playing
the banjo in dance orchestras;
still later, his vocation changed to
waiting on tables, to enable him
to earn enough to get him through
the California Institute of Tech
nology. He is graduate chemi-
cal engineer.
When the World War broke out,
Capra was among the first to go
but when he returned he found
himself out of a job. Anxious to
correct the situation, he tried his
hand at writing screen stories,
and was successful. His rise was
steady after that film cutter,
assistant director, director, great
director. The prize given him by
the Academy tops things off
nicely.
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Six New Features Are Listed
For Movie Programs

lis played by Virginia Weider and
others featured are Charlotte
Henry, Donald Crisp, Willard Rob-
ertson and Dorothy Peterson. Sc
lected short subjects and the
Pathe news reel will complete the
program.
COLUMBIA-"The Great Hotel
Murder" with Edmund Lowe and
Victor MacLaglen will be the
main screen attraction beginning
Friday. The supporting cast in
cludes Rosemary AmeS, Mary Car
Isle, Henry O'Neill, C. Henry
Gordon, Herman Bing, Madge
Bellamy and John Wray. A COM
edy, cartoon and news reel will
be on the short subjects program
Bright Eyes," a new
burlesque attraction featuring
Billy Foster and Leonard Kramer,
will be the new show opening
Sunday matinee. In the support
ing cast are Billie Diamond, Lola
Pierce, Margie Bartell, Kay John
son, JAMES Francis, jr.. Eddie
Innes, Lew White and Harry
Stratton. A large chorus assists
in the song and dance numbers.
HOWARD-"Creole Bellies, fea-
turing the comedy team of Butter
beans and Susie, will be the new
stage attraction opening Friday.
Featured in the one hour revue
are Paulus and Pearl, Myra John
son, Eddie Hunter and Billy Hig-
gins, the Lucky Seven and sixteen
dancing queens. The screen at
traction will be Warner Bros. Gold
DiggerS of 1885" with Dick Powell
and Adolphe Menjou.
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Radio Prize Is
Fox Week

Presentation of the weekly
winner of the National Capital
Radio amateur show, broadcast
over WJSV on Saturday nights,
has been arranged for by Gene
Radio amateur Shok, broadcast
and Arthur Godfrey. master of
ceremonies of the air waves show,
it was announced last night.
Under the present arrange
ments, the winner will be pre-
sented at the last show at the
Fox on Thursday nights. Last
weeks winner, Irving Hacker
man, of 731 Quebec Pl. N. w..
a singer, will be this Thursday
evening.
Each week for the next 10
weeks, the winner will go on at
one performance at the Fox
Theater. The grand winner will
receive a weeks engagement at
the Fox, with the possibility that
he will be booked for other stage
engagements.
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BY LLOYD PANTAGES
copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)

HOLLYWOOD, April 81
couldn't be sorrier about having
written that Marilyn Miller and
her husband, Chester O'Brien,
were practically at the parting
of the ways, for Immediately
after it reached print, I received
a wire from her saying that as
soon as she and her husband
finished with some business Ill
New York, they will be California
bound for belated honeymoon.
So excuSee mwah O'BrienS and
public. With all the talk about
moving the industry, there is one
little thing still unsettled before
they pack the studios in an old
trunk for shipping. 1t would
seem, at the moment, that each
producer has his own particular
favorite State into which he
would like to move and unless
the boys get together and decide
on one spot, we will probably
remain in this land Of fruit and
flowers.
Sadness story: Sven Hugo Borg,
now doing a small role in Cru
sades," originally came to Holly
wood for a screen career having
been a Scandinavian actor Of
note, but instead of acting he
was Immediately rushed into the
job Of interpreter an pal to
Greta Carlo, who had just ar.
rived in deeS kontry. For three
years Mr.. Borg completely sub
merged his personality by be-
coming the Greta's mouthpiece,
which he claims ruined his
chances on the screen because
he is thought Of only as an in
terpreter and not an actor.
Short, but to the point: The
tennis tournament at the Charlie
Farrell, Ralph Bellamy Tennis
Club in Palm Springs, dragged
out but everybody to wave a
racquet for a cup. In the near
future, her mothers health per
hitting, Mary Boland will fly to
New York to brush up on some
Broadway play-going {. C o n rad
Nagel is resting easy after a
yanked appendix. For autograph
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Audience Vote
Is SoughtOn
Comedies

Seldom does a motion picture
audience or newspaper reader
have the opportunity of picking
out the subjects they would like
to see on the screen, but Man
ager o. j. Ratio, Of Loew's
Palace Theater, is deviating from
the old custom and is asking that
readers pick out their own sub
jectS to be shown at the special
Walt Disney-Mickey Mouse-Silly
Symphony show to be held at
the Palace on the morning of
Monday, April %.
Under the current arrange
ments, the doors to the theater
will be opened at $50 in the
morning Of the above mentioned
date. The show will begin at
9:15 or $50. Admission will be
Is cents to everyone.
The idea of the management
is this. From the list printed
in this column, check off 10
subjects that you would like to
have shown. Send this clipping
to Mr.. Ratio at the Palace.
From these answers, the most
popular subjects will be counted
and those receiving the largest
total will be shown.
Try and get your answers in
within the next 10 days, because
it is planned to publish list
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-03
Benny Davis Show
On the Air Tonight

The old maestro of songs,
Benny Davis. appearing currently
at Loew's Fox Theater, will take
his star revue to WMAL tonight
at 1920 for a 15-minute broad.
cast and by doing so will give
Washington radio fans an uneX-
pected program of entertainment.
Mr.. Davis is we'll known as one
of the nations leading song
writer's. He has turned out such
hit numbers as ''Margie." Baby
Face" Il Still Get Thrill Think
ing of YOU" "Oh How I Miss You
Tonight" Make Believe" Good
bye Broadway, Hello France, p"
'Nobody's Baby" and a score Of
others.
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PALACE-Blng Crosby and w.
c. Fields in mississippi" will be
the main screen attraction begin
ming Friday. This is a romantic
story of the old South with Joan
Bennett and Gail Bennett help
ing in the romantic interest.
Crosby has a number of good
songs including Down BY The
River" and a special arrangement
of "Swannee." The supplementary
program includes selected shorts
and the HearSt-Metrotone news
reel.
FOX-Wallace Berry in screen
comedy drama Of flying, West
Point Of the Air" will provide the
main screen attraction beginning
Friday. The romance of an alb
sorbing story is carried by Maui
reen O'Sullivan and Robert
Young. On the stage will be Cab
Galloway Chi-de-hi.ho-de-ho) and
his Harlem hot-cha band. The
Fox Movietone news reel, selected
shorts and a Phil Lampkin over
ture complete the program.
EARLE-Joan Blondell and
Hugh Herbert in a rollicking
screen farce, Travelling Sales
lady" will be the main screen at
traction beginning Friday. On
the stage will be Hugh Herbert in
person offering a one-act sketch
Retaliation" An extra attrac'
ton is the return of Oracle Barrie
offering a potpourri of popular
song. Selected short subjects and
a Freddy Clark overture will COM
plete the bill.
HETEROGENEOUS of the
finest screen comedies of the year
"Ruggles of Red Cap" plays q
return screen engagement opening
Friday. In this picture Charles
Laughton has his best screen role
in some time and he is ably as
sisted by Charlie Ruggles, Mary
Boland and Roland Young. Sc
lected short subjects and Is mi
nutes of news reels are on the
supplementary program.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will
hold for fifth week, thus equal
ing the long-run record achieved
by ut Happened One Night.
This Max Gordon musical has the
dancing of Fred Astaire and Gin
ger Rogers, the soprano voice and
acting of Irene Dunno and Jerome
Kern's choicest tunes. A program
of supplementary features will in
clude the Pathe news reel.
BELASCO-Ben w. Levy's must
cal Evergreen" with the English
singing and dancing star, Jessie
Matthews, comes to the screen on
Thursday. In the supporting cast
is Sonnie Hale, England's best
light comedian and Barrie Mckay.
On the supplementary program
will "Lot In Sodom," produced by
DR.. James S. Watson and Melville
Weber, selected short subjects
and a news reel.
RKO.KEITH'S - Gene STRAIT
ton Porter's "Laddie," a book
which has been read by 10000, 900
people, will provide the main
screen attraction Friday with
John Beal and Gloria Stuart In
the lead roles. The little sister"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-03
NEW THEATER PROGRAMS
ICOVer HOII yWOOd

lseekers: Shirley Temple is now
out of the childish printing stage
and can write her name in long
hand. The first day she gave out
with this new discovery, the en-
tire studio turned out to watch
the miracle. Frances Grant, the
ingenue lead with Will Rogers
in Doubling Thomas" is the
second gal (Alice Fays was the
first) to be signed on a contract
and Immediately showed into a
leading part without previous
movie experience.
To amateur writer's, Dashiell
Hammett Gt was he who dished
up The Thin MANI sends this
message: Never rewrite an orig
inal manuscript because it loses
its naturalneSs"-which certainly
is a blasted theory. AS for him.
self, he never makes notes, does
not dictate to a secretary and
if he cannot reach solution to
one of his murder stories, he
forgets it for week. AS an eX-
ample of his skill and speed,
THE Glass Key" was done in So
hours and all at one sitting.
A few casual idiosyncrasieS:
w. C. Fields (and who'd ever
suspect it, has as his particular
hobby, the giving of picnics.
Twould seem he loves to com.
mune with nature and an old
bun. Gary Cooper. when not
too busy, visits the police station
and chats with the cops. Any
one can reach Mae West on the
telephone, which is unusual IN
| this land of private numbers.
| Conrad Nagel still passes the
plate in the Christian Science
Church. Mary Boland does all
of her own marketing. And
Charlie RuggleS likes to drive his
own car.
Ladies, throw away your perox'
ide bottles because the National
Ladies HairdresSerS Association
has just decreed that blondes are
on the wane and redheads will
be the current rage, whom they
claim out-appeal blondes or bru.
nettes. To prove the whole thing,
Dixie Lee, the star in FoX'S "Red.
heads on Parade" has gone titan,
while the chorus is comprised Of
a girl from every State in the
Union either with synthetic or
au naturel red tresSes.
Paramount is doing a rather
tasty thing in sending out ques-
tionnaires to their 5000 odd en-
ployes, asking for information
as to their choice of career, par
ticular ambition, ETC., so that
they will really be able to de.
termine what goes on within the
portals and thereby improve the
status quo of their positions.
And just what is a playboy?
One would presume it means
gentleman who is always :ur-
rounded with gangs of women in
night clubs, but a real playboy
is Bing Crosby, no less, who falls
into the category of liking to play
at many things. F'instance, he
enjoys making pictures Clancy
that, likes to golf, fish and
swim and thoroughly enjoys
horse racing, prizefights and
football. In fact, he gets a big
kick out of everything.
According to Stuart Holmes,
an expert astrologer as we'll as
as an actor, "Crusades,' in which
he is currently appearing, will
be one of the most artistic and
profitable of 1885 and all because,
for the first time in II years the
constellation Jupiter is pointing
in the same direction as it did
when C. N. DeMille made 1.-THE
Sign of the Cross" He also says
that Paramount is one Of three
studios to come under the Zodiac
water sign, which means success
in any key.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-03
Mrs. Hubbard Talks
IN MOdern Theater

Adelaide Hubbard of the Nat
ional Theater Players is being
kept quite busy these days with
her little talks on The Theater
Of Today"
Last week, she addressed the
Takoma Park Club on Tuesday;
the Soroptimist CLUB on Wednes-
day, and on Friday. she was a
luncheon guest of Mrs. Jean Ben
nett and a party of trends, all
members of the Women's City
Club,
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Meakin hopes it will be, may run four weeks
on Fifteenth Street.
Katharine has one more picture to make be-
fore she tries the stage again. For Miss Hep
burn will not admit the footlights embrace an
art beyond her talents. The star was stung
by the roasts given her work in ''The Lake "
by the New York critics. She feels she took
the onus for poor play and so do I.
Producer Arthur Hopkins will have the dis
tinction of presenting la Hepburn on the stage
next season. Jane Austen's pride and Preju-
dice' will be the play in dramatization made
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Critics Write PLAYS
Likes Plane

Paul Lukas, once a war aviator,
now usese his privately owned
plane for any trip of more than
100 miles. in preference to his
automobile.
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WAY Down East

WAY Down East
When Stephen Erlanger Coch.
ran mentioned to the Century
Play company it might be a good
idea to revive way Down East"
with his National Players, he was
informed that William A. Brady
had sold the sound picture rights
to Fox pictures and that it was
on the 1885 production schedule.
WAY Down East" I am in
formed by Sam Wheeler of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-03
Kiss and Wake UD"

Tom Brown has been assigned
to Fox's kiss and Wake Up"
featuring Edmund Lowe and
Claire Trevor under the direction
Of Allan Dwan.
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About Roberta"


With Roberta" about to end
four highly profitable weeks at
RKO-Keith's it is interesting
to glance back at the history of
this musical which started out
like firstclass flop when first
produced by Max Gordon.
He offered the opening night
at Philadelphia in the fall of.
1888 and the Sleepy City gave
Roberta" a very chilly reception.
So chilly in fact that for two
cents Max Gordon would have
tossed up the venture and en-
tered it in the books as a failure.
However, Smoke Get In Your
Eyes," released for the radio, was
beginning to catch on as a tune.
Roberta" was revised and then
opened at the New Amsterdam in
New York. Its Broadway recep-
ton was lukewarm at the start
and for weeks it was a question
whether to close or continue.
Meanwhile. the hit tune was being
hummed all over the country and,
by Christmas, Roberta" had
turned the corner and was making
money.
When Roberta" finally took to
the road it was without the gor-
geous fashion display and $50. 900
exhibit of furs that charmed and
delighted women playgoerS. The
road didn't seem to miss these
things and Roberta" made
greater dividends on tour than it
made in New York.
Instead Of getting a name
comedian" the picture folks de-
cided to give Roberta" a name
dancer. Here entered Fred AS.
taire and dancing that will put
the screen Roberta" into the
100000 class before 1885 is over.
This will be my last word about
Roberta" for some time. Well,
until the next four weeks picture
comes along to Fifteenth Street.
Mitzi Steals Show
Mitzi Green stole the show at
the Russian Embassy last night
filling in grandly at the musicale
when Lanny Ross, programmed
for the musicale, reported i'll.
Autographed photographs of the
Earle's star will be given to
matinee customers at the theater
today and tomorrow to those who
ask for them.
Barred by Law
Plays which Washington might
have had this season but which
passed the city by because Of its
stupid child labor stage restriction
are 1.-THE First Legion" with Bert
Lytell, 1.-THE Old Maid" with Helen
Menken and Judith Anderson and
Ely Away Home" All of these
plays employ juvenile actors and
Washington is the only large city
in the country where they are
forbidden by law to play.
Critics Write Plays
Motion picture critics who hope
to break into the successful play
wrights class are: William Boeh-
mel, Of the New York World ele.
gram, has written 1.-TWO Doors
Apart" described as something
about romance in Sutton Place.
Joseph B. Click will produce it.
John c. Moffit, OF the Kansas
City Star. is the author Of a news,
paper play, Roaring Girl" which
will be one of next seasons early
entries.
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Andrew r. Kelley

Andrew R. Kelley by Helen Jerome. Katharine will tour for
three months before venturng Broadway and Of the
weeks will spent in Washington. For Miss Hepburn feels
better critical here than other cities which
saw "The Lake. The tour will begin in November.