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The Washington times., 1935-03-09

The excess footage is devoted to
a double march of mannikins
bedecked in fashion creations
that had the matinee audience
yesterday gasping, with admira.
ton. SO the extra minutes prob
ably check as pure delight for
Wilma LaVille's public.
Full of Tunes
1t is a satisfaction, too, to re-
port that Mr.. Astaire does an ad.
mirable chore as light comedian.
Playing a role that your critic
previously saw well handled on
the stage by such veteran come
dianS as Bob Hope and Marty
May, he emerges with fun score
card entirely worthy.
Irene Dunno plays Stefanie, the
little Russian princess and gown
designer, with all Of the whole
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
Robinson and
BOsWeHS at
Earle

For screen and vaudeville en-.
tertainment this week it will be
hard to equal the program at the
Earle.
The feature film, "The Whole
Towns Talking" is another
grand slam for Columbia Pictures.
It has everything-a good story,
thrills, suspense, romance, laughs
galore and Edward G.. Robinson.
And on the stage none other
than the Boswell sisters, who for
years have retained their popu-
larity with radio audiences, sing
ing the kind of songs that they
sing so well.
Robinson plays two roles in
''The Whole Towns Talking" the
mildest of mild-mannered clerks
and the most vicious of gangster
killers.
During much of the film the
two characters are together and
the sharp contrast is another
demonstration of the remarkable
versatility of Little Caesar"
The story briefly is about one
Arthur Ferguson Jones, timid
bookkeeper who is suddenly cata-
paulted to fame because of his
resemblance to the notorious
KILLER" Mannion. Jones is
third-degreed by the police and
identified as the bandit. despite
his protestations. He finally is
released, but hardly dares appear
on the streets for fear he will
be picked up again. The story
of his resemblance to the out
law is given great prominence
by the newspapers and the up
shot of it all is that he is visited
by "Killer" Mannion who has de-
vised a scheme to make use of
his double" while preying upon
banks and shooting up the
citizenry.
Jones, afraid to expose his un'
welcome guest, lives in constant
terror. Various amusing compli'
cations arise, such as the police
showing KILLER Mannion the
greatest courtesy and giving him
a safe escort, and Jones about to
enter a bank with half a hun
dred guns trained upon him.
The outlaw of course falls VIC
tim to his own trickery and re-
elves his just deserts, while the
meek clerk inherits the reward
and the beautiful girl.
Jean Arthur as the girl who
tries to make a he-man out OF
Jones gives first rate perform
ance in a wise-cracking role. Ex'
cellent support is also provided by
j. Farrell Macdonald, Donald
Meek, Arthur Byron, Wallace Ford
and others.
Back to the stage show. The
Boswell sisters do a half dozen
numbers. Among the best are
"Rock and Roll" "Dinah," and
Down That Lonesome TRAIL
particularly the last.
Vine, De Quincy and Lewis give
a ludicrous burlesque OF stage
dances in which the two men
throw their female partner
around with abandon. A very
skillful trio.
A nifty ventriloquist act and
some talented tumblers, the Royal
Uzenos, round out the entertain
ment.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09

Based on the notable work
from the pen of Lion FeuchC-
wanger, the British-Gaumont
production, Power" at the Be-
lasco, lifts from the written
page the moving story of Josef
"Suss" Oppenheimer, a sensi-
tive, subtle Hebrew, born and
raised in the Ghetto of Wurt-
temberg.
In his early youth the obses-
sion for political power seizes
his mind as he witnesses his peo-
pie suffer hunger and stoning
and countless harsh tyrannies
which were the current order in
the German province of the
Eighteenth century.
To that end he sacrifices
everything, wealth, honor and
lastly the woman he loves, all
for the love of favor from the
soft hand of the royal weak
The Washington times., 1935-03-09

Sad Little Story
Vanessa was in love with her
cousin Benjie Herries, and he
with her, though he loved ad.
venture more. So Benjie departs
on a gypsy trip promising the
wedding on his return. It hap
pens that his homecoming de-
velops a quarrel (not properly
justified in the screen adapta-
ton, and Benjie marries a bar.
maid.
Venessa weds another wealthy
but half.cracked admirer, and
spends almost a lifetime of mis-.
cry with him. Eventually the
two lovers are reunited after the
road to happiness is well moist
Lened with tears.
I The charm and sad little laugh
of Helen Hayes give "Vanessa" an
appealing, wistful quality and mo-
ments that are genuinely moving.
Robert Montgomery, wearing side
whiskers, has a role that is sober
and without the high comedy
chances he appears to favor,
though he acts capably.
Otto Kruger enacts the very diff
ficult role of the morose introvert
who marries Vanessa. There is a
crotchety old grandma, with just
a scene or two, but May Robson
contriveS to make them among the
really delightful interludes of this
picture.
The stage this week has the
widely advertised Casino De Paree
revue, with rIilton Berle cracking
the whip as Emcee to keep it
moving at lively pace.
A Fast Revue
Comedian Berle is not one OF
this corners favorites, although
he has abandoned the night CLUB
motif temporarily for more Sedate
F. street behavior. Energetic. he
is, with mimicing Harry Richman
Eddie Cantor, and spoofing of the
better known network programs
when he is not introducing other
entertainers.
Class with a capital C. is pro
vided for this show by Cardini
whose deft manipulation of light
ed cigarettes and playing cards is
mingled with Park Avenue show
manship. Barbara Jason sings
the topical songs that once were
Oracle Barrie'S with Chiffon and
Thomas (who almost stole won
der Bar" from AL Jolson opening
night providing some hot-cha
dancing. There is a chorus OF
pretty girls, discreetly draped, ana
some nice lighting and setting
The only burlesque odor notec
was beef trust sextette that was
as heavy handed in humor as il
was heavy footed.
The Fox Movietone news rec
with shots from the baseball
training camps rounds out ar
extra length program, that denies
Phil Lampkin his regular bows
Andrew r. Kelley.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
MOVIE
A'ACLOCK

EARLE-Edward G. Robinson
and Jean Arthur in "The
Whole Towns Talking" 10:45
a. M, 1:25, Ais, 7:05, 9:55.
stage, 1910, $3.50, $40 and
9:05 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Ba arbara
Stanwyck and Gene Ray
mond in Women In Red"
11:15 a. M, /, 2:45, 4:35,
$40, sos, $50 p. m.
FOX-Helen Hayes and Robert
Montgomery in "Vanessa,"
ll:45 a. M, 1928. Alb, ITO,
1910 p. m. Stage, 1911,
3:O1, 5:53, .8:43 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Ginger Rogers
and Fred Astaire in "Ro.
berta," 9::32 a. m, 1884,
1886, 1888, $40, 7:42, 9:44
p. m.
PALACE-Claud e tie Colbert
and Fred McMurray in 'The
Gilded Lily" 11:15 a. m,
1920, 1925, $50, 7:35, $40
p. m.
COLUMBIA-Mr. and Mrs.
johnson in "Baboona," 1880
a. m, 1:40, $3.50, 5:45, 1855,
1:1O p. m. Stage, 1:25, 1855,
7:4O, 9:55.
BELASCO-Conrad Veidt in
"Power," 11:44 a. M, 1:43,
3:42, SAL, TAO, 9:39 p. m.
HOWARD-Josephine Hutchin-
son and George Brent in
"The Right to Live" 1890,
S:55, 7:O5, 1910 p. m. State,
2:4Q, $50, 9:05 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
lie GaIIienne
In "L'AiqIon"

"L'Aiglon" (The Eaglet), with
Eva LIE Gallienne, and the New
York Civic Repertory Company,
will open at the National Theater
Monday night, March 18, for one
week, with Wednesday and Satur-
day matinees.
In "L'Aiglon," Miss LIE Gal
lienne will be seen as the Duke
of Reichstadt.
Richard Addinsell has COM
posed a musical score that will
be used throughout the play.
CIemence Dane, the English play
wright, has made a free adapta-
ton of Rostand'S drama for this
production.
"L'Aiglon" was first presented
in Paris by Sarah Bernhardt on
March IS, 1900, at Madison
Square Garden, New York, with
herself and Coquelin. In the
same year Maude Adams acted
the play at the Knickerbocker
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
in
Person With
"Baboona"

Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,
intrepid jungle explorers, make
their new picture, "Baboona," "
vital, interesting and thrilling
by a delightful little explanatory
talk which precedes the screen
ing at the Columbia Theater,
where it opened yesterday.
This time the Johnsons did
Africa by air, in Sikorsky am
phibians, to be exact. Each had
a separate plane; Mr.. JohnSon's
ship, decorated to look like a
giraffe, was dubbed THE Spirit
of Africa"
And with a pilot and a movie
sound man included in the reti-
nue., the aerial safari covered
some 10000 miles in 20 months.
Call Their Shots
Unlike the old primitive days,
therefore, the explorers were able
to call their Photographic shots.
Swooping over the plains, they
could select the place best suited
to set up cameras. Glancing
down from the heights they
could see (and film) territory
that would before have been in
accessible. And in the way of
comfort, they could use their
safely shut-in planes for head
quarters when they either didn't
want or judged it might be in
advisable to build a camp.
So, while Mr.. Johnson's voice
accompanies the film with run
ming comments on the trip, one
is shown bird'seye views of vii
lagos, lakes, mountains, natives
and assorted animals. The ami
mails, it should be reported, are
only mildly perturbed by the
sound of the motors. The ma
tives, however, evinced a greater
curiosity.
CIOse-ups OF Herds
Close-ups filmed on the ground
present large herds of elephants,
lions, zebras, giraffes, hippoS,
rhinos and any number of other
jungle inhabitants. There are
shots of lions calmly devouring
their kill outside the plane win
dows; rhinos being speared by ma.
tive warriors; crocodileS slithering
about the lakes; flamingos flut.
tering on the water; baby cheetahs
being fed by Mrs. Johnson;
hyenas Sinking through the
bushes, and battle between a
warthog and a leopard.
The climax, from which the pic
ture gets its name, takes place in
a colony of balloons which are
chased out of their stronghold oy
a leopard and then, settling down
on another spot, are fought off by
a gang of much smaller monkeys
Since the movie sound man was
along, the picture reproduces all
the SrarlS, roars, howls, screecheS
chirps and grunts of the animal
actors. There are in addition, the
customary shots of natives, here
heard talking, going through thell
tribal ceremonies and dances and
during one of their stops, the
Johnsons are greeted by their old
friends. the pygmies. It's an IN
teresting and picturesque trav
elogue. r. E. P.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09

courtouriere, encompassed in the
footlight original by Fay Temple
ton. In this comparison the honor
goes to the stage artist. Likewise
Ferdinand Munier could not touch
the portly Sydney GreenStreet
when it came to portraying Lord
Delves. Randolph Scott, imported
from the wide open space films
for a romantic lead serves accept
ably. ,
Roberta" to sum up, is musical
Hollywood singing and dancing in
high. It means also that movie
goers are living in the popularity
reign of Fred AStaire.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09

guished because of its dancing
TO be sure, it has Jerome Kerns melodies,
including the haunting "Smoke Gets in Your
Eyes," and it parades the most ravishing dis
play of gowns on well-curved models that l
have even seen on the screen.
But when all is said and done, the assets
totalled, the fast-flying feet of Fred Astaire,
sometimes accompanied by the pedals of Gin
ger Rogers, bulk as the most important fea-
ture in a blithe musical
''Roberta' is a trifle long-winded in reach
ing the end of the Otto Harbach story of an
American football player who took over a
Paris dressmakinp shop and made it a success.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
"If You Could Cool"
Next For Colbert

Columbia is using Claudette
Colbert in "If You Could Only
Cook" as her next picture away
from Paramount. The story is
by F. Hugh Herbert and Al San
tell will direct as his first as
signment on the Columbia lot.
Adaptation is being done by
Gertrude Purcell, just given a
new six-month contract at CO.
lumbia,
The Washington times., 1935-03-09

ling, Karl Alexander, through
whom finally "Suss" dominates
the study.
Then after even his young
daughter is lost to him, with
dramatic Swiftness he unwinds
the machine that bore him up
and resigns himself to the dun
geon and a felon'S death.
Conrad Veidt, though play
ing a more mellow Jew Suss
than FeuchtWanger wrote, mag
nificently catches the brooding
designs, the embittered resent
ment of the Jew, to the very
last cry he makes on the gal
lows.
Frank Vosper plays the dis
solute duke excellently: Gerald
du Maurier, Cedric Harwicke,
Pamela Ostrer and Bonita
Hume all contribute earnest in
terpretationS.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
Helen Hayes in "Vanessa"
Star on the Fox Screen

Novelist Hugh Walpole wrote four volumes about the
ancient Heres family of the Cumberland region of England
Vanessa, Her Love Story the last of the saga and
provides the latest character for Helen Hayes
AS unodd the Fox Theater yesterday Vanessa
lahrymose tale that pods through considerable heart
break before the breaks through for happy ending
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
Ida Writes Poetry

Ida Lupin sometimes jumps
out of bed in the middle of the
night to write down bits of verse
that come into her mind in her
dreams.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
Cub at Heart

Elliott Nugent writes all the
newspaper inserts in Paramount
pictures he directs just to prove
that he was a reporter on a Co.
lumbus paper during his college
days.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
Stars Brother Arrives

Anthony Zenardi-Landi, with
Mrs. Zenardi-Landi and their five
year-old daughter. Elizabeth, has
arrived in Los Angeles from Eng
land for an extended visit with his
sister, ELISA Landi.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
Fred Astaire's Dancing Tops
Feature With Irene Dunno
and Ginger Rogers
Bv ANDREW R. KELLEY

Robrta" the Jerome Kern operea in the version
is Fred Asaires picture Which is another way of sayir
that the feature RKO Keith both gay and dstn
The Washington times., 1935-03-09

Executive Visits
Armando Menciay de Arms, of
the League of Nations secretariat,
was a visitor recently at Holly
wood.
The Washington times., 1935-03-09
Macs Gowns Weighty

One of the IS costumes Mae
West wears in her new picture,
How Am I Doin'?" is a metal.
cloth evening gown weighing 40
pounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
DISTRIBUTION COST-AGAIN

THE 6OO-odd lawsuits challenging Triple AS
Il processing taxes have brought counter
fire upon the professors, in Administration
support of proposed Federal Trade Commits
sion study of the whole subject of getting food
from the farm TO the kitchen
Under Triple AS theory, taxes levied upon
professors in behalf of farmers to be
passed by professors on to the consumers.
Many professors claim they have had to alb
serb the taxes, and that therefore, Triple A is
unjust and discriminatory. In view of their
wholesale court assault upon the Administra-
tons farm program, revival of investigation
resolutions in Congress is not surprising.
Since absorption of the processing taxes is
the crllx of the legal battles against Triple A
an expert study appears to be in order, and the
commission should make this its first order of
business. If the commission finds the pro-
testing professors are right, obviously Triple A
must change its operation. If not, there will
remain little public support for their COM
plants.
Involved, too, is the larger economics of
food distribution. How vital this problem is
the Senate and House Agricultural Commit
tees, III reports 1aNOIlug Tie lHVeSllgdIlOIl,
only indicate. They quote estimates that
Out of 10 billion dollars paid by consumers
in 1882 for five major farm products, the
farmers received only 7la billions, while the
distributors and professors got 111z billions;
In 1928 the farmer got AZ cents of the con-
sumer's dollar, while in January, 1884, the
farmer got only SO cents. Thus if every citi-
zen pays the farmers about 81 a week for food,
he pays the middlemen nearly So;
financing, stock-watering and prof
steering keep food prices up Some huge food
handling firms paid big dividends on inflated
values even during the depression. While the
farmer was getting less and less, many large
food concerns handling his output paid larger
dividends, larger salaries, larger bonuses to
their officials throughout the depression"
AT least one-tenth of the annual value of
farm products is lost to the farmers through
improper grading"
The problem Of distribution has plagued
producers and consumers for years. If the
Forthcoming investigation can answer Triple
AS problem and shed light on this one, too,
it Will serve double purpose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
BOTTLE-RARREL BATTLE

THE battle OF bottles VS.. barrels proceeds
apsc. ct the Capitol behind the closed
doors Of 4 conference committee. House con-
ferees are doing their bit for oak slaves, and
Senate conferees are standing by the visible
containers.
What the conferees agree on will become
law, and the liquor traffic problem will be
solved-except, of course, for such incidental
matters of administration and enforcement
through the years to follow
The lawmakers from cooperage districts
argued persUasively that the whisky trust and
the bottle trust are in an unholy but sue
cessful conspiracy to make inordinate profits
by selling at pegged prices "the worst liquor
IL history in the prettiest bottles in history"
True it is that liquor prices since repeal
have been kept at levels that make boot
Logging a profitable business.
But with impressive unanimity, spokesman
for the national Administration and for state
administrations declared that liquor enforce
ment difficulties would be multiplied by legal
ization of barrel sales Of bulk whisky. They
said that a return Of the old barrel-house
days would cause an intermingling of the
legal liquor trade and the bootleg liquor trade
and the products of both, and consequent
loss Of millions of tax dollars to the Federal
and state treasures
Let us hope that the congressional con-
ferees in this matter quit thinking in terms
of bottles VS.. barrels, and heed the apparently
unanimous opinion of those who are charged
with the responsibility Of collecting the taxes
and making the liquor clean.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
THE FIRST BILLION

T REALIZATION of beer and liquor has
IL brought its first billion dollars in revenue
to Federal, state and local governments. The
lions share of this, more than $500, 900, has
gone to the Federal government in excise,
license and customs revenue. The rest has
gone to state and local governments.
The income from this source is rising
steadily Federal officials believe this is due to
steady work in breaking up bootlegging. The
percentage of bootleg liquor consumed is some
times estimated as high as the normal con-
sumption, but that seems unlikely in view of
the fact that annual revenue from beer and
liquor today is higher than the peak before
prohibition.
The fact that these revenues are badly
needed by Federal and local governments is in
a sense a danger. 1t might we'll lead to a
progressive letting down of the bars of regu-
lation. Every governmental unit. national and
local. must keep constantly in mind that there
must be no relapse into pre-prohibition con-
ditions. The iron hand of control must not be
allowed To weaken because of the golden flood
Of revenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
BORAH ON REPRESSION

THE repressionists now urging Congress to
pass the Tydings- Mccormack military
disafection" and Kramer Russell anti-radical
bills, will get wisdom from the words of one
of the nations abest defenders of the Con-
stitution.
For myself" Senator Borsh recently told
a convention of editors. Il am not a Com
munist 1 abhor its teachings and its prac-
tices alike. They would sink beneath the con-
fused theories of material existence, family,
religion personal liberty, free speech and a
free press-a Sodden existence from which all
spiritual life is excluded. hate no less FaS-
cism, with its cold, brutal absorption of the
average man and woman in the remorseleSs
schemes and ambitions of a Souless state.
But 1 reject. utterly reject, denounce,
as subverSive of everything which We Amer
leans hold sacred, the theory that in fighting
Communism and Fascism, you must surrender
Americanism. 1t is my contention that to
oppose Communism and FasciSm by surrender
ing the very things such as free speech and
the right of assemblage which distinguish
Americanism from Fascism and Communism,
is laundering leadership and unworthy of the
support of true Americans"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
TAX-EXEMPT BONDS
MAY CAUSE TROUBLE
By a Times Reader

By Times Reader
If the Federal credit is to be
maintained, then taxation on scale
adequate to meet expenditures is
not only essential, but absolutely
mandatory. Those who oppose the
feeble attempt of the present Con-
gress to meet expenditures with in
come, must ignore the inevitable
collapse of Federal credit if taxa
ton fails to support the govern
ment.
Soaking the rich, If that is what
the proposed tax bill is supposed to
do, will give way to washing up the
rich, if this little trickle is hailed
as a menace.
The rich are living off the gov
eminent through tax exempt bonds,
rather than the government living
off the rich.
When and If the government
credit fails through indefinite post
ponement of taxing to meet ex-
penSes, then these bonds won't be
the sugar daddy for the rich. These
tax-exempt bonds may readily be-
come the parasite that will destroy
the credit of the government and
the paying ability Of the real wealth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
SLABS POLITICIANS FOR
LAYING 1T ON LINE"
BY Another Reader

By Another Reader
Huey P. Long knows better than
to hope that one of the Senators he
named might possibly be nominated
for the presidency.
While this democracy may be OPP
Grated under a two-party system
that does not signify that the COM
mon people are one of the parties.
The persons who control both major
parties see to it that no one with
ideas different from the ordinary
gets anywhere in politics.
The first qualification for nomina-
ton for Office is rubber stamp
mind. The second is the ability to
lay it on the line, either directly or
indirectly.
AS to the first qualification, the
organization does not go down the
line for any off color candidate, for
whose campaign contributions
could not be asked for and obtained
from the third house, after the
nomination is made. So the names
are sifted to suit the occasion.
Putting it on the line in the
proper place, plus the first qualif1ca-
ton usually delivers the necessary
blocks of ward heeler votes to- in
sure a lead over outside candidates.
The contribution covers the cost of
operating a primary for the selected
nominees. Governor candidates
often donate less than Congress
candidates. So the two-party system
operates the republic. But where
does the democracy come in?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
He Comments ON Freezing

such a place as an employees
cooler.
The unemployed and their fam
lilies have something to say about
being chilled. Suppose they might
miss the next Mae West picture
or the last installment of the
murder mystery?
The young scientist was pretty
vague about who the unemployed
were. I presume that some of our
thrifty" citizens who have in
herited millionaire fortunes would
be eligible to the ice-Lethe.
If some of the specimens did
not respond properly to the re-
vivifying treatment, the Califor-
mia scientist could just toss it off
with a chuckle and say, After all,
it's just an experiment.
If the United States is not very
open-minded about the idea, the
scientist might offer it to Hitler.
The absurd little dictator could
freeze all the war veterans, Ma
sons, Catholics, Jews, Commun
lists and state enemies"
The scheme has immense pos
sibilities, as you can we'll see. How
about freezing the scientist until
the world comes awake to the eff
cacy of his plan?