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Evening star., 1935-09-08

ellos, Arthur Treacher, Henry O'Neill
and Gordon Westcott. Busby Ber-
kelley directed. Three new songs are
introduced in the movie, she Was
an Acrobat's Daughter" You're an
Eyeful of Heaven" and "Toddlin'
Along With You"
The Salici Puppets. guided by a
group of skilled puppeteers, will offer
a new and different program of nov
city entertainment on the stage.
Others on the bill will be Foy, Tucker
and johnson in "Aristocrats of the
Dance" featuring Jinette Vallon and
Jack Seymour: the Radio Aces, and
Paul Sydell and Spotty.
THE Girl Friend" with Ann Soth-
ern, Jack Haley ana Roger Pryor in
leading roles, comes to the Metro
politan next Friday. Three pennileSs
Broa dwayites who become involved in
rural theatricals by impersonating a
famous impresario and his assistants
provide the theme of the comedy. The
supporting cast includes Thurston
Hall, Victor Killian, Ray Walker and
others. Music and lyrics for THE
Girl Friend" were written by Gus
Kahn and Arthur Johnston. 1.-TWO
Together" the number which recurs
throughout the film, is expected to be
a hit.
Keystone Hotel" revival of an
old-time comedy, which Warner Bros.
have made with number of stars of
the old Mack Sennett Keystone COM
edies, including Ben Turpin, Marie
Provost, Hank Mann and Ford Ster-
ling, also will be on the Metropolitan's
bill.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
Next Weeks Films

"CTEAMBOAT ROUND THE
- BEND" one of the two unre-
leased Will Rogers films. follows
"Anna Karenina" at the Palace. The
picture is a yarn of river life in the
South, and, besides Rogers, has Irving
Cobb, Ann Shirley Eugene Palette
and a lot of other people who are
good.
"Redheads on Parade" Jesse Lasky
musical with John Boles, Dixie Lee,
Jack Haley and Account 'em-46
redheads moves into Loew's Fox next
Friday. "Redheads' is tale of back
stage life, delving into the trials which
beset an independent movie producer
attempting to do an extravaganza.
The romance is between Mr.. Boles
and Miss Lee, with John singing to
his love on proper occasions.
The stage half of the bill features
al Trahan and has also the Three
Long Brothers and other acts.
"Top Hat" stays at Keith's, of
course. When and If Fifteenth street
gets its fill of Fred Astaire, Ginger
Rogers and the Berlin music, "Dia-
mond jim" Universal photoplay
starring Edward Arnold, moves in.
Contrasts adding spice to life, the
Belasco follows its present attraction,
the pleasant, amiable and tuneful
"My Heart Is Calling" with a sinister
and thrilling melodrama, THE Man
Who Knew Too Much" Peter LORE,
who recently made his American film
debut, has the central role, playing
the ruthless, cold -blooded kidnaper
and murderer with a natural ease
which bespeaks either experience or
wealth of dramatic talent. Nova Pill
beam, young sensation of Little
Friend; Edna Best and Leslie Banks
have supporting roles.
bright Lights" musical comedy in
which Joe E. Brown clowns, dances
and sings, will be the screen attrac-
ton at the Earle starting next Friday.
The man with the mouth has one of
the best roles of his career in Bright
Lights" the story of q burlesque
comedian who becomes a Broadway
sensation. Chief supporting roles are
played by Ann Dvorak and Patricia
Ellis and the cast includes William
Gargan, Joseph Cawthorn. the Max
Evening star., 1935-09-08
Local plavers.

THE National Press Club auditorium
will become continental Music
Hail. when the Willard Players open
the fifth week of their hilarious East
Lynne" lampoonings next Wednesday
evening.
The innovation, brought about be-
cause beer is q warm weather bev-
erage and warm weather seems to
have become something to remember.
will bring a reduction in the price
of table seats and will allow those
in the audience to order whatever
they desire. The new prices will be
IS cents for all seats. except those
in the first row, which will be Sl.l0.
A menu will be included with the
program and patrons of the arts
now may imbibe in bit of ginger
ale or a demi-tasse while enjoying
the now famous tear-jerker and the
equally famous olio arrangements.
The cast of East Lynne" includes
Robert G. Pitkin, Catherine Dierkin,
Richard Midgley, Lucille Bartram,
Isham Keith, Harriet Borden, Forney
Reese, Catherine McCord, Harry
Schonrank and Etherl Hayden. Eliza
beth Gatlin Pritchard directed and
Hugo linden did the looney scenery.
The Roadside Theater opens one
week revival of ITO Die at Dawn"
tomorrow night at $40. The rip
roaring melodrama of counterfeiting,
unbelievable villainies, both perpe-
trated and attempted, and the trials
undergone by the best gal in Ken
lucky" was one of the outstanding
successes of the present Roadside
season when played earlier in the
Summer. The cast will be much the
same as when the melodrama was
Evening star., 1935-09-08

is no denying the effect would have
been electric. 1t so happens most of
these persons had long been featured
in revues and musical comedies before
they took to the air, and seldom were
they willing to look at q strenuous
week in a movie palace for less than
the price of a new Peggy Hopkins
Joyce gas buggy.
Oddly enough, in return for these
favors the radio has supplied some
of the few box office names the
stage presentations have been able to
muster in those seasons when movie
stars were not in migratory. or per-
sonal appearance, moods. Many ot
the names C. B. S. and N. B. c.
created have later paid off hand
somely when booked in stage shows.
Their assistance, and all else, was
insufficient in many spots, however
The impresarios involved scratched
their heads and tried once more to
guess what it was the public wanted
A very limited number of available
acts always good for round Of pad
dywhacking and cheers played the
same houses time and again. Still
the booking Offices pondered, still they
searched for more and better talent
that would consider q variety career
seriously.
AS sort of despairing gesture they
began sending out numerous radio
name bands" bringing their own
entertainers with them and playing
tunes sweet, new and popular. An
orchestra that could, with its Incl
dental entertainers. occupy 80 to 40
minutes of a stage BILL at least solved
the problem of finding something to
fill the required time. It turned out
that people enjoyed seeing in person
their favorite baton wielders and hot
trumpet tooters.
For local managers. at least, that
solution has been satisfactory for
year or so. Seldom a week passes out
that one or two big musical units
hit town. Some are splendid acts,
some are merely good dance bands
working on the stage, a few are not
even that and cause the managers
themselves to wonder when they hear
what they have bought, whatever in
spired any one to call Joe Smulch's
Racketeers a vaudeville act.
AS long as the orchestras hold out
and few eternally pleasing perform
ers like Paul Draper, Paul Gerrits,
Park and Clifford, Moore and Revel,
Block and Sully, Cardini, Herb Will
liams, AL Trahan, Will Mahoney and
others of their class can be persuaded
to stick to the old game. Or return
to it regularly. local vaude fans are
set. Nevertheless, the business as
whole is gently but firmly kicking the
bucket, and whosoever has a remedy.
patent or otherwise, will be welcomed
with loud clinking of knives and great
huZZahs when the final, inevitable
operation is performed on the aillng
one,
Evening star., 1935-09-08

clusters and punches Of fruit. Report
ing on the progress Of Jubilee" re-
hearsals is a dificult task because the
management shrouds its every move in
profound secrecy. and fearsome rumor
has it that the premises Of the Music
Box are patrolled by armed guards
and auxiliary bloodhounds. Because
of the almost fevered interest Of the
public in what is reputed to be the
revue of the generation, Forty fifth
street fairly seethes with drama re-
porters, but most of them prudently
remain in the safety Of Sardi's bar,
snatching at waits and strays of boot
legged information. A tip on Mary
Boland's protest against the way Mer-
cedes D'Acosta's name is pronounced
was stop-press news one day last
week, and the whole vicinity has the
tense atmosphere of big doings in ges-
tation.
An impaSsioned protest has reached
this department over its remarks a
week or so since on the comparative
merits of the performances last Winter
Of the American School of the Ballet
and the Monte Carlo troupe Of dane
ers. An indignant Miss Neff had
about our ears with suggestions Of
mendacity, possible crapulousness and
almost certain subornation by the
affluent Messrs. KRISTEN and War
burg in the interest Of the native
dance. From the salon of the pala-
tial yacht we purchased with part Of
our dishonest pelf, we reply airly that,
anyway, the American ballet didn't
have patches in the seats of their
smalls, which is more than may be
said for the distinguished artists from
abroad.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
Lukas Cast.

DAUL LUKAS, instead of Warren
William, will. play one of the two
male leads opposite Kay Francis in
II Found Stella Parrish" Ian Hunter
will play the other. William, who had
been announced previously for the
part of Steven Norman, has been
given a leave of absence, in order to
take a much-needed vacation follow
ing several months Of steady work at
the First National Studios. Other
players assigned to the new film are
Sybil Jason, Harry Beresford and
Jessie Ralph. Mervyn lie Roy will
direct the picture.
Evening star., 1935-09-08

and most of them began thumbing'
the telephone book, looking up a good
undertaken.
The mortal blow dealt variety en-
tertainment fell with the announce
ment that the Loew circuit, formerly
one of the two largest in America,
had decided to drop stage shows in
most Of its houses. No change was
indicated in the policy Of the local
outlet, Loew's Fox, but in New York
only the Capitol is to continue pre-
senting dancers comics, musicians,
magicians, trained animals and
trapeze artists in the flesh. In Phila-
delphia the only presentation house is
affected.
Obviously there are other circuits
besides Loew's. but when this clever
group of showmen decide vaudeville
pays only In certain special spots, the
chances are that they have figures to
prove it. Washington happens to be
one Of the towns exempt from their
edict 1t is probable the best acts
will continue to play the Fox and at
Warner Bros. Earle for many seasons
TO come. and ours will automatically
become q unique show town for that
reason.
When the legitimate theater's some
what presumptuous mourners began
wailing Who killed Cock Robin?" a
few seasons past, lusty chorus
promptly chanted in reply. The
movies. The Hollywood pirates"
On the contrary and to the surprise
Of every one, the legit raised its
feeble head, looked about and took on
new life last season. A pot of Holly
wood gold was scattered about to en-
courage the revival. If movie money
backed not one opus that threatens to
Join the American classical drama
(whatever that means in this coun-
try, at least it helped revive a neces-
sary and pleasant form of entertain
ment.
At present those who are indulging
In sweeping ante-mortems for vaude-
vile are likewise saying bitter things
about the movies. The Eleanor
Powells, Bill Robinsons, Ethel Mer-
mans, Fred Stones, Will Rogers, W..
c. Fields and scores of others who
could be depended upon to enliven
anybody's stage were snatched up by
the cinema Many a skating act,
acrobatic turn, comedy team and
dance duo has been spoiled by brief,
vell-paid cinema experience in major
productions or short subjects, and
thereafter preferred to wait for occa-
sional celluloid assignments rather
than troupe the four-a-day more
often.
Another prosperous pirate of vaude-
ville's ranks has been the radio. II
Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Fred Allen,
Jack Pearl, half a dozen noted Groom
ers and assorted others could have
been persuaded to forsake the ether
50 many months year to play
vaudeville at plausible salaries there
Evening star., 1935-09-08

done the first time at the barn thea
ter, with Gail Dennis. Harold Stepler.
Ralph Fowler. Bill Phillips and others
seen in their original roles. There
will be two notable additions, how
ever, in the presence of Eugene
Kressin, who is one Of the villains
of the piece, but who reforms in
the end. and Frances Brunt, the
Roadside's stellar heroine of last year,
who returned to do the lead in
American Songbird." which was can
celed.
There will be two entracte per-
formances, one the pantomime done
by Bill Phillips, and the other a
typical Roadside quartet number.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
Astaire's $ Next.

ERED ASTAIRE, the films premiere
dancing star. has left New York
after a two-month vacation to begin
work at the R-K-O Radio studios
in Hollywood on his next film, Follow
the Fleet" in which he will again be
co-starred with the popular Ginger
Rogers.
Follow the Fleet" will have a COM
plete musical score by Irving Berlin,
as has Top Hat"
Evening star., 1935-09-08
Henry s Wives.

TWO wives of the Merry Monarch in
The Private Life of Henry VIII"
have been assigned roles opposite Rob-
ert Donat in the new Alexander korda
production, THE Ghost Goes West"
now before the cameras at the studios
of London Films. They are Elsa Lam
chester, who was seen as Anne of
Cleves, and Everley Gregg, who played
the role of Catherine Parr.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
Studious Norma.

NORMA SHEARER has studied more
than 400 volumes and 1S famous
stage versions of Romeo and Juliet"
in preparation for her screen role of
Juliet in the Shakespearean classic,
which Irving G. Thalberg is producing
at M-G-M.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
Regan IN Stars"

cast of Stars Over Broadway"
and will begin work in that produc-
tion as soon as he completes his
present assignment in Broadway
Hostess" at the Warner Bros. Studios.
He will be featured in Stars Over
Broadway in one of the two produc-
ton numbers to be directed by BuSby
Berkeley.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
Home.Made.

ERED ASTAIRE created all Of the
dances which he does in Top
Hat" now playing R-K-O Keiths
He designed them TO fit the tunes of
Irving Berlin, who wrote the complete
musical score for the gay and romantic
screen story.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
STAGE SHOWS BEATEN ELSEWHERE CONTINUE HERE
Freedley Says Next Season
Can't Be Better-fOr Him
Producer of Anything Goes" Found Film
Story Conferences Crazy as Rumor
Reported Them.
Bv Lucius Beebe.

suave ahabe and cultivated Vnon Freddy is at heir to
the tradition OF Winthrop Ames gentleman
coup who coves rake in impressive winnings
he
better heater
other producers convaby be better for
Evening star., 1935-09-08

Salmon Visit Many Streams.
All the streams on the North Pacific
coast draining into the ocean are
visited by salmon.
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Washington RatedUnique
For Vaudeville Audiences
New York and Philadelphia Loew Offices Cut
Down on Variety Programs.
Acts Scarce
Bv Robert B. PHILLIPS. Jr.

time the doctors at the bedside Of vaudeville issued another
the patient sinking down. down. down.
- passed the lips Of the
Evening star., 1935-01-13
COURT RESULTS
Local Teams.

Manhattan. 80: Georgetown. u.
Wilson Teachers, 80; New Jersey
State Teachers. l3.
Baltimore University. 40; Gallau-
det. 18.
Catholic u, 80; Loyola (Balti-
more), 19.
Howard, so: Hpamden. q.
Armstrong, 35; Howard Jayvees, %
Other Scores.
Minnesota, 81: Michigan. "a.
Temple, As; Pittsburgh, 38.
Notre Dame, 80; Butler, 29.
Kent State, AZ. Hiram. 80.
Baldwin Wallace, "a; Akron, %.
Michigan State. "a; Western Re-
serve. 33.
South Carolina, 80; the Citadel, II
Oberlin, 27; Denison. IS.
Emory and Henry. 80; Lynch
burg, 80.
Defiance, Al; Cedarville, %.
Richmond. So; Hampden Sgd
ney. %.
Findlay, As: Toledo (St. John's). a.
Ohio University, "a: Miami, 81.
Marietta, 40: Capitol, "a.
St. Johns, IS: Elon, Is.
Washington College. SO; Western
Maryland, 26.
Tennessee, 20: Tulane. 81.
Iowa, 38; Northwestern. IS.
Ithaca, A.; Bloomsbury Teach
ers. Il.
Wisconsin, 30; Indiana, 20.
Princeton, 20; Cornell. 81.
Purdue. 80: Chicago, 81.
Clemson, 43: Georgia Tech, 29.
North Carolina, 90; Virginia
Tech, 9.
Illinois, A; Ohio. %.
Army. 80: Colgate, 26.
Randolph Macon, Al; American
University, II.
Vanderbilt, Al; Auburn, "a.
Yale. Al; Pen Military. %.
North Dakota State, 81; Morning
side. "a.
Pennsylvania, 30: Dartmouth, ~.
Concordia. Al; st. Mary's, 81.
Western State, 81; Ball State, "a.
Cornell College, 81; Iowa State
Teachers, IS.
Ashland, "a; MuSklngum, 80.
Buena Vista, Al; Upper Iowa. 35.
Ohio Wesleyan, A; Dayton, 81.
Knox, 80; Coe. %.
Dickinson. 81: Lehigh, 80.
Penn State. 80: Juniata. %.
Muhlenberg. 81: Lafayette, IL.
Franklin and Marshall, IL: Leb-
anon Valley, Is.
Westminster. So: Waynesburg. 20.
West Virginia. 81; Salem, "a.
California Teachers, 50; Indiana
Teachers, Is.
Edinboro Teachers, a: Clarion
Teachers, 20.
Carroll, AZ; George williams (Chi-
cago), 20.
Creighton, 81: Washington, 20.
Mankato Teachers, 81; Bemidji
Teachers, 20.
Columbia College, So; Central, 20.
Duluth Teachers, 43; Duluth Junior
College, 26.
Lake Forest, "a; Lawrence, ~.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
YOUNG PROS TOP
AT Los ANGELES
Ghezzi, RevoIta Score 68s
PoreIIi, MeItz Just One
Stroke Away.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Y OS ANGELES COUNTRY CLUB
los ANGELES, January 12.-
Golf stars in their 20's domi-
mated the play in the opening
round of the Los Angeles open today
Vic Ghezzi, raw-boned pro from the
Deal, N. j., Golf Club, and Johnny
Revolta, haired, but straight
shooting pro from Milwaukee, Wis.
tied for the lead with scores of g.
two under par.
Tied for second place we're two other
youngsters, John Perelli, Lake Tahoe,
and Dick Metz, bronzed Chicagoan,
They Travelled the Is holes at SO
clip.
Only 4 of the field of 1870 starters
took old man par into camp, but
Stanley Kertes. Los Angeles; Willie
Goggin, San Francisco, and Jimmy
Hines, veteran Long Islander. slugged
it out on even terms with 70 blows
each.
.Runyan in II Group.
Tied at II were AL Kreuger, Beloit,
Wis; Henry Kaiser, Racine. Wis:
Horton Smith, Oak Park, ILL.,, and
Paul Runyan, White Plains, N. Y,
P. G. A. champion.
The initial round was played under
a brilliant sun, but recent rains made
the going heavy and there was little
roll on the ball. The players were
handicapped, too, in many cases by
having to putt with mud on their
balls, a rule being inforced against
cleaning balls on the greens.
Some first class performers were
bracketed in the "a rung, including
Gene Sarazen, Olin Dutra, national
open champion, and Denny Shute, for
mer British open champion.
Mackenzie Takes . IA.
Don Erickson CT Los Angeles, public
links player, also scored u to lead
the amateurs. AL Zimmerman, Port
land, Oreg, and Les Madison, Holly
wood, completed the 70 bracket.
Macdonald Smith, who has won the
championship 1our times, was off to
an Indifferent start with "a. He was
in good company in this position.
Walter Hagen, Craig Wood, KY Laffoon,
Roland Mackenzie, Willie Hunter, Ted
Longworth, Emory Zimmerman, Ray
Mangrum, Mike Murra, Orville White
and Dave Martin had the same score.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
U. S. Event LISTED
IN D. C. TANK MEET
220- Yard Breast Stroke Contest
for National Junior Title
Slated February !.

EEATURING a swimming meet to
Il be held February / in the
Shoreham Pool under auspices
of the District of Columbia A. A. u.
will be the mems junior national 220-
yard breast stroke championship.
The meet will start at pm. and
will include three other events for
men-100-yard free style, 220-yard
free style and 3-meter fancy dive-and
four events for women-50-yard free
style, 220-ysrd free style, 100-yard
breast stroke and l5O-yard individual
medley.
The entry fee for each contestant
in the national 220-yard breast stroke
event is 81, but there is no fee for
any of the other tests listed. In the
national event there will be appro-
pirate medals and gold. silver and
bronze medals will be awarded in the
other events.
Entries will close midnight January
% with A. Earle Weeks, 1927 T street.
Meeks is chairman of the District A.
A. U Swimming Committee.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
Want Coaches of Faculty.

"HESE resolutions. with one pro-
posing withdrawal from the
Southern Conference "or any
other organization membership in
which imposes obligations such as
would prevent the offering of such
scholarships" we're presented to the
Board of Visitors by a committee
composed of T. Gibson Hobbs, Lynch
burg. Va: Andrew D. Christian. Rich
mond. Va, and Claude NJ. Bane. Nor
folk, Va.
In indorsing the special athletic re-
port this afternoon the alumni man
ayers group added a special reserva-
ton that no coach be a faculty men,
Der and that the title Of the head Of
the Athletic Department be director
rather than dean, with no credit for
courses in coaching to be given except
toward degrees in education. 1t pro-
posed. too that the Athletic Advisory
Council, as proposed in the report and
including alumni members. hold meet
ings at least four times yearly.
The Alumni Council at the end of
its session elected Julien Hill Of Rich
mond. permanent president: John
Battle Of Charlottesville, vice presi-
dent, and J. Malcolm Luck of the uni
versity, secretary.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
WALDORF CHOSEN
WILDCAT MENTOR
Goes From Kansas State to
Evanston-Ingwerson to
Be Assistant.
BY WILLIAM WEEKES,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

r. VANSTON, ILL.,, January a.
~ Northwestern's search for q
new head foot ball coach
ended today with the selection
of Lynn o. Waldorf Of Kansas State
College.
Waldorfs selection was announced
tonight by Kenneth L. Wilson, North
Westerns athletic director, after a
day of rapid-ire action on the task
Of naming a successor to Richard E.
CDick) Hanley. who resigned several
weeks ago.
At the same time, Wilson said that
Burt Ingwerson, former Iowa head
coach and until recently an assistant
at Louisiana State. would become
Waldorf's first assistant.
Was Star at Syracuse.
"HE new Northwestern coach was
i a star tackle OF Syracuse Uni
versity's powerful l922-23-24
teams, coached by John F. Chick
Meehan. He was named twice on
the late Walter Camps second all
America teams.
After his graduation in 1925, he
became head coach at Oklahoma City
University. He remained there three
years, during which his elevens won
le games, lost 9 and tied 3. He spent
the 1928 season as line coach at
Kansas. but the next year found him
beginning a 5-year stay at Oklahoma
A. & M.
Waldorf's productions at Oklahoma
A. & NJ. won "a aemes. lost 10 and
tied Z, and won tn Oklahoma State
title four times, along with annexing
two Missouri Valley Conference cham
pionships.
Took McMillin's Place.
TIE REPLACED Alvin N. "Bo" Nc
II millin at Kansas State, when
the latter moved on to Indiana
last year. and in his only season
there broke Nebraska's domination OF
the Big Six Conference.
In nine years Of coaching Waldorf,
teams have won go games, lost 81. and
battled to 10 ties.
He is the son of Bishop Ernest Lynn
Waldorf of the Chicago Methods,
Episcopal area, who also is member
of the Northwestern Board Of Trustees
Evening star., 1935-01-13

They are a loyal 1000 but they are
not enough to make professional box
ing a paying proposition. which was
apparent long before now. Wash
ington's first legal fight, a novelty,
attracted 5000 other spectators in ad-
dition to the loyals. but lost Just as
many when Johnny Risko and Matte
Brown staged a waltz instead Of a
fight. The only other big crowd wa
that which attended the second
Marty Gallagher Tony Galento affair
Only the 2,oOs regulars" saw
great scraps like the Pete De
Grasse-Frankie Covelli meetings
because De Grasse and Covelli
mean no more to the average local
citizen than a dare by Lott to
Tilden.
Evening star., 1935-01-13
Phils Will Offer
New Brother Act
PHILADELPHIA. January u Cp).

PHILADELPHIA. January IL up.
L The Phillies of 1885 will pre-
sent a brother act of their own
the Chiozza boys, Lou and Dino,
from Memphis, Tenn.
Gerald Nugent. president of the
local National Leaguers, today
signed Dino, an infielder, to Join
his brother. who performed at Sec
ond base for the Phils last season.
Like Lou. Dino Is an inf1elder.
At present he is down for duties as
utility infielder.
Dino appeared last season with
the Memphis club of the South
ern Association. Eighteen years
old, he weighs ITO pounds, and
bats left or right handed.
Nugent disclosed that Reg Grab
owski. right-hand twirler, has been
released to the Baltimore Inter-
national League Orioles.