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Evening star., 1935-06-09

marked that. while of uneven texture,
it might well be a welcome addition
to the lean fare Of the Manhattan
moment. Already surfeited with seri-
Gus plays. plays with social mes
sage" opaganda plays and utterly
dead-pan plays, New York can very
we'll stand something frivolous and
tuneful, and looks to Mr.. Carroll to
supply it.
DOBERT SHERWOOD. author Of
~ The Petrifed Forest" is in far
of Latvia on romance bent, and soon
he will be basking luxuriously with
his bride on the riviera's sybaritic
sands. 1t is, therefore. not time to
call his attention TO a slight flaw in
what seems to be his otherwise flaw
less melodrama. The error which he
should endeavor to rectify when and if
he returns to earth and Broadway is
his false idea OF the soldiers Of the
American Legion, who at times try to
afford comic relief in his good Wild
West tragedy. He pictures them as
lOAEll anu 4lilIOCEiiL ACLlONST d4CccCu
in ridiculous baby-blue uniforms, and
exuding shiny patriotism from every
pore. They drill in the manner Of
tin1id tin soldiers and reminisce like
Boy Scouts over counterfeit camp
fires. That. one ventures TO inform
Mr. Sherwood. is not a fair representa-
tion Of our eX-defenders The Aneri-
can Legionnaire, Mr. Sherwood should
know, is husky demander, enforcing
his wishes stoutly and bringing many
courageous politicians abjectly to their
knees. The efhgies of these desert
Arizona warriors. pracing and primp-
ing as life goes on, are not conducive
to illusion, and they detract from the
theatrical integrity Of Mr.. Sherwood's
transcript Of life in a desert Arizona
gas station.
Evening star., 1935-06-09
Next Weeks s Films.
Ou FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA,

"OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA
~ Alice TiSdale Hobart's St-selllng
novel of American pioneers in the
Orient, comes to the Earle Theater on
Friday. June IA. in the perturbation
made by Cosmopolitan Productions for
Warner Bros release. Pat O'Brien.
josephine Hutchinson. Lyle Talbot,
Jean Muir, John Eldredge and Arthur
Byron are prominent in the all-star
cast. which was directed by Mervyn
Leroy. On the stage the Earle will
present Mitzi Mayfair. young dancing
star. who has appeared in the Ziegfeld
Follies; Raphael. star Of the con-
certina; the Stewart Sisters and the
Delcos, High Flyers"
Warner Baxter is smiling, hard
riding Argentine Goucho in Under
the Pampas Moon which Loew's Fox
Theater will feature on its screen
starting next Friday. On the stage
there will be diversified program
headlined by the first personal ap-
pearances on any stage of Henry
Armetta.
Wiley Post. famous round-the-world
flyer. makes his motion picture debut
in Air Hawks" a Columbia picture,
with Ralph Bellamy, Tala Birell,
Douglas Dumbrille and Billie Seward.
The picture opens at Warner Bros.
Metropolitan Friday. Polly Morgan in
Pretty Polly: a new variety reel.
Broadway Highlights," and Is minutes
of new events complete the program.
R-K-O Keiths is anticipating
another musical hit in the next at
traction, "Hooray for Love" In the
cast are Gene Raymond, Ann Sother,
Marie (Roxy's Gamby) Gambrelli,
Dancing Bill" Robinson. Pert Kelton
and the colored comedian. Fats
Waller.
Mae West will carry on in her own
inimitable manner for a third down.
town week when her hilarious Coin
to Town" returns to Loew's Columbia
next Friday. Paul Cavanagh. Ivan
Lebedeff. Tito Coral, Gilbert Emery,
and Fred Kohler, sr., are the men who
Grant Withers and Fred Kohler, ST.,
are the men who enter into Macs life
only one, of course, remaining.
Loew's Palace will present as its
next feature mo More Ladies'" a
widely heralded Metro Goldwyn- Mayer
production, that brings together the
stellar trio, Joan Crawford. Robert
Montgomery and Franchot Tone.
Charles Ruggles and Edna May Oliver,
two of screendom's funniest charac-
tiers. add spice to the story. Edward
H. Griffith directed.
Evening star., 1935-06-09


They love all kinds Of
clothes. from fur-trimmed
i suits to evening gowns. but
when it comes TO hats, it's
another story.
This is the observation Of Mildred
Morrison. expert milliner for the
Metro Goldwyn-M Mayer studios. Mil
dred takes Adrian's designs for the
hats of such stars as Norma Shearer,
Joan Crawford. Greta Garbo and Jean
Harlow and transforms them into
realities of velvet, silk and straw.
Her workshop in the wardrobe de-
partment of the studio is mass OF
strange, facelesS heads with the names
Of the various stars scrawled across
them in pencil. Some of the heads
have hats on. A peculiar, green velvet
bonnet with a lace-edged veil is wait
ing to be fitted on Garbo. A finished
white felt sports hat for Joan Craw-
ford sits at a gaga angle on another
Of the heads. Period hats and those
of the most modern French design
mingle in dizzy profuSion.
The hardest part of any woman's
wardrobe Is the hat" Mildred will
tell you. mo two hats can be equally
becoming. I make at least four hats
for every costume. Sometimes none
of these will make the star feel abso-
Evening star., 1935-06-09

Only one Of the Pulitzer judges, to
be sure, was born a New Yorker, and
that was John Erskine. Stark Young
hailed from the Deep South OF so
Red the Rose" and Billy Phelps. be-
fore he pitched his tent in New Haven,
stemmed from Hartford and the i'm
mediate precincts Of Sam Clemens,
where he was brought up in the Pres
byterian atmosphere which was later,
perhaps, to make The Children's S
Hour" so outrageous to his taste. But
to be captured by the historic atmoS-
phere of New York, whether 1t be in
| the era Of Light Fensibles and fire.
mems parades or in a latter time OF
| the leg o. mutton skirts and han
sum kerridges of o. Henry, Is not
necessarily to be a New Yorker. Just
as many professional Gothamites are
sprung from the less urban purlieus of
Galipolis, Ohio: Lynnfleld Center,
Mass, or Medicine Hat, 80 1t Is apt
to be an emigrant aficionado Of the
towns characteristics that is most sus-
ceptihle to the charm Of It's ante
cedent years.
An interesting sidelight on the for
tunes of The Old Maid and The
Petrified Forest" its rival for Pulitzer
honors in the minds of many play
goers, which opened the same night
in January, is their parallel longevity
The Old Maid" in the face Of a
Leslie Howard opening, was content
with the attentions of second-string
play reviewers and, even at the En-
pire, slightly less de luxe audience
than the Robert Sherwood piece at
| the Broadhurst The Petrified For
est" has not by any means run its
possible course. but Mr.. Howard signs
! for the green uplands of England and
it is closing at the end Of the month.
The Old Maid has captured the
Pulitzer award and shows promise Of
going on yet while.
! THE closing and reluctant departure
from the Broadway scene Of The
Great Waltz" from the city's most
| gorgeous of drama pavilions, the Cen
/ ter Theater, where it has been playing
/ since the final week in December of
/ IdSL year, MAY llOJ COIlIOOIlQ lI4c DIOdO-
way wiseacres who prophesied no good
for this monster musical, but it ought
| to- AS a matter of fact, the Main
Stem doubters should have learned
their lesson when, after all their wise
cracks at the expense Of the Rocke-
fellers at the opening Of the Radio
City Music Hall, the whole shebang
turned out to be a monster success.
1t was the same way with the Center.
The wise money gave The Great
Waltz a few tottering weeks at best
and lived to see it standing them up
six months after its premiere.
Max Gordon, its producer, Is an
astute fellow. caring little for the
dolorous forecasts Of his envious imi-
tators. He said, in effect: Let there
be light. also tuneful music. pretty
girls handsome show prop and cheap
prices. He also. by peculiarly astute
magic of his own. evolved a mail order
trade from parts suburban.
Evening star., 1935-06-09

REALTY. fortunately. is something
which is becoming more and more
popular IN the films The story is no
longer a mere thread on which the
stars are hung. The stars must fit
their talents 10 the story, or. as the
university men say. No soap"
Break OF Hearts" was garbled
version OF a familiar theme which
might have been all right if things
hadn't begun TO happen all at once
The TWO leading characters, as the
author proved with some success at
the outset. were nice people with
music IT their souls and a profitable
way OF exploiting 1t on the side
NJ. Boyer was Dr. Kinder. a swell
baton maestro. dear 10 the hearts
q the music-loving public and a
bear on TschaikoWski. While Miss
Fepburns talents blushed more or less
unseen, she could write music with
honest melody and talk to her friend
IN any key in which he happened
to be.
Then suddenly out popped un-
reality. These two artistic tempera-
ments, stepped in good and kind and
generous living, suddenly discovered
each other dining out with each
others best friend. And with that, all
reason. all music, all sense. ran away
from them. and they became two
theatric puppies, blinded with jealousy
and crazy with the heat" No mat
ter how we'll Miss Hepburn acted, or
Evening star., 1935-06-09

THE weeks opening Of note. and in
fact only opening, is one of Earl
Carrolls choral and choreographic con-
fections called Earl Carrroll's Sketch
Book" 1t reaches Broadway too late
for mention in this gazette. but Va
riety, in its out-of-town dispatch, re-
Evening star., 1935-06-09
NATIONAL CLOSES FOR SEASON NEWS OF CINEMA
Dramas of Old New York
Have Been Quite eSuccessful
The Writer Cites "The Old Maid" and
"Streets of New York; -"The Great Waltz"
Closes and "Sketch Book Opens.
By Percy Hammond.

VY YHEN tumult and the shouting the Pulitzer
play award died the fire of controversy sunk
w the dunes and headands of Longacre Square the
that THE Old Maid will still be playing at
Empire in atmosphere wistfuly recalling the little old
York of the 30s And conceivable that in this scene
which inclined the high tribunal of the drama
signal Period design and atmoS
phere plays particularly when they concern generation not
the immediate here to only yesterday
exercise compelling charm playgoers
reporter for example has been recurrent fascinated by
such plays with Netherlands settings Little Old New
fragrant The Streets of New York of Dion
Bouau which the New York Reperoy Co. staged four years
since by The Old Maid" itself
Evening star., 1935-06-09
French Star Siened.

FOX FILM has signed a running
mate for Partisan KEITH Gallian.
She is Simone, vivacious French star,
and will make .ner American bow in
Under Two Flags" early in the Fall.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

Second girl (oh, so innocently)-
These? Oh. these are some Penn
sylvania blossoms We brought down
here to compare with the japanese
kind. You can have them now, if you
want them.
Policeman (chastened tone) K Oh!
Policeman sinks of to keep vigil
over the glory of Japan as curtain
falls.
SPACE TO PLAY.
~HERE are "a all-the-year-r round
Fairgrounds in Washington,
comprising 1921 acres of land.
Twenty-three are for white and IL
for the colored population.
WORRY FOR THE ADMIRAL.
EVEN the Nays highest ranking
r., officer has a hard time keeping
up with the alphabetical abb
breviations of Washington's manifold
governmental organizations.
At a recent press conference with
Secretary Swanson the question of
funds for the National Advisory Com
mittee on AeronauticS came up
which the newspaper men referred to
as N. A. c. A.
Admiral William H. Standley. chief
Evening star., 1935-04-17
COUNCIL FAVORS
ENLARG|NG SCHOOL
Southeast Group Backs
Plan for More Space
at Eastern High.

The improving and enlarging Of
Eastern High School as called for un-
der . plan advanced by A. H. Gregory.
president of the Home and School
Association at the school. was favored
last night by the Southeast Council
of Citizens Associations.
Gregory explained his plan to the
council at meeting in the Buchanan
School, Thirteenth and D streets
southeast. Under the plan, he said.
the gymnasium would be transformed
into group Of class rooms, and new
stairways would be built. The plan
also would do away with the soccer
courts. thus providing sufficient space
to build an addition to the school.
The council made plans, at Greg
ory's request, to send three repre-
sentatives to appear with other civic
group representatives before the
Board of Education to urge adoption
Of the proposals. Gregory said he
would set meeting date with the
board. Chairman William A. Maio of
the council appointed the following
members on this special committee:
DR.. E. E. Richardson, Vernis Absher
and Fred Marshall.
Dazzling" automobile lights were
criticised in a resolution requesting
District officials to enforce existing
regulations.
Retention of the street car tracks
on Pennsylvania avenue southeast,
between Eighth and Seventeenth
streets, was urged in another resolu-
ton which also asked the present
tracks be repaired. Construction of
comfort station and waiting room
at Seventeenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast, an established
transfer point. was requested.
Improvement of the center park
ing area on southeast Pennsylvania
avenue was urged in a resolution au-
thorilng the secretary to call the
matter to the attention of c. Marshall
Finnan. superintendent of the Ma
tional Capital Parks. Members said
the trees. hedges. shrubs and grass
In this area are in bad shape.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

see what thrill it is to drive -. and what
delight to ride in!
Do the same with the other low-priced
cars And let that tell the story. But do it before
you sign up. or make any deposit.
This is the only way you can knov the tre-
mendous extra value of Plymouth's genuine
hydraulic brakes and all-steel body. the
Evening star., 1935-04-17
LAFF0ON NAMES SEVEN
C0LONELS FROM D. c.
J. Z. Hoover and Post Office De-
partment Chiefs Appointed
to Kentucky staff.

Seven Washington men. five Of them
Government ofiicials, have been made
honorary colonies on the staff Of Gov.
Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky.
They are J. Edgar Hoover. director
Of the Justice Departments Bureau
Of Investigation; Clinton B. Eilenber-
ger. Third Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral: Charles C. Wenrich, superin-
,tendent of the Division Of Postmasters
Post ONCE Department; Frank j.
Buckley, Deputy Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General; l.. Yorke de
Zychlinski, attached to the office OF
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General;
Leonard B. Schloss. amusement park
manager, and z. M. Mottsman, mer-
chandise broker,
Evening star., 1935-04-17

"Why, no." the attendant replied
blandly. We've found nothing un-
usual in any Of the bundles today ex-
cept q live kitten"
Evening star., 1935-04-17
CHILDREN'S ROOMS
PLAN IS ENDORSED
Columbia Heights Group to Con.
tact Organizations for Rec
reation Facilities.

A plan submitted to the Citizens
Forum of Columbia Heights by its
Education Committee. suggesting that
churches, parish houses and similar
places in Columbia Heights be con-
tacted in an effort to secure recre-
ational rooms for children. was ap-
proved last night by the forum.
The plan of Peoples Counsel Will
liam A. Roberts for smoke control here,
which would authorize the District
Commissioners to make their own
smoke control regulations, was in
dorsed.
A resolution sponsored by the
Citizens Association of Takoma. ask
ing for a reduction in gas rates. was
approved. Vernon L. Brown, chair
man Of the forums Public Utilities
Committee, was appointed to attend
the Public Utility Commission hear
ings on May IS.
A resolution sponsored by the
Mount Pleasant Citizens Association.
asking that traffic light be placed
at the intersection Of Park road,
Mount Pleasant street and Seventeenth
street. was Endorsed.
H. c. Phillips. president, and Oliver
E. Foulke. secretary. presided at the
meeting held in the Powell Junior
High School.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
PENNSYLVANIA BUDS.

- GENE: A bank of the Tidal Ba-
sin, tinged roseate with fragile
japanese cherry blossoms. on
~ stage cen be heard the belch
of exhausts, the blare Of horns
and the rest of the Cacophony Of
automobiles at play.
As the curtain rises four young and
pretty girls are giggling and tittering
as they carry large punches of the
blossoms to their coupe. which bears
Pennsylvania license tags. They put
some of the blooms on the back of
the seat and hang large branch on
the rear-view mirror. Then all four
climb in the coupe just as a park
policeman hove into view.
Policeman-Hey!
First girl Gin anxious Whisper
Maybe it's because we're riding four
in one seat. Louder as officer ap-
proaches) What is it, officer?
Policeman-Its against the law
breaking of blossoms.
Second girl taghast-Why. we
wouldn't think of breaking of any Of
the cherry blossoms. They are too
beautiful.
Policeman tSarcastically) What
are those you have there in the car?
Evening star., 1935-04-17

ingtons largest laundries the tele-
phone set up its noisy jangle.
One of the men employees an
swered.
What was that again, madam" he
asked in Q rather perplexed tone. Then
II came-clear and straight.
BY any chance, has q set Of upper
teeth been found in the bundle Of
laundry I sent you today?"
Evening star., 1935-04-17
DR.. ]. B. SCOTT H0NORED

Dr.. James Brown Scott, director Of
the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace, was decorated py the
Yugoslav government yesterday with
the Grand Gordon Of the Order Of st.
Sava In recognition Of his services in
the field Of international law and for
promotion Of friendly relationship be-
tween Yugoslavia and the United
States.
The award was made at the Yugo.
slav Legation by B. p. Stoianovitch.
charge d'affaires.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

A Special Invitation to
drivethis Beautiful, Big
new Plymouth
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Plymouth has always urged you to COM
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more people than ever before are choosing
the beautiful new Plymouth!
Special Ride Invitation
Now we give you direct, personal invitation
plymouth dealers are holding "Ride
Month" Take one Of these big, fast new
Plymouths. Get out on the road with it,.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Only Plymouth has Al Foar
/. GENUINE HYDRAULIC BRAkEs
2. sAFETY.sTEEl BODY
3, WEIGHT RE. DISTRIBUTION
4. I2S TO 2oS LESS GAS & OIL

luxury of Plymouth's Floating Ride. the
thrilling speed and power this big car gives
you on 1870 to 20% less gas and oil.
Seeyour Chrysler, Dodge or De Soto dealer
He'll gladly arrange for you to take
Plymouth out-and drive it -. and he'll ex-
plain the convenient terms offered by the off,
cial Chrysler Motors Commercial Credit Plan.
Evening star., 1935-04-17

woman and child in the United States.
Or this much: Born in rs AID, soon
after the suicide of Nero, you could
have started spending money at the
rate of IS . minute and kept 1t up
to the present moment before you
blew In the last five-spot.
Evening star., 1935-04-17
Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.

Of naval operations, who was sitting
beside the Secretary. wrinkled his
brow and repeated N. A. c. A. to
himself, apparently under the i'm
preston 1t was 6ne of the New Deal
alphabetical soup" groups.
The admiral finally had to ask the
reporter what N. A. C. A. meant.
Il Il y X
THE HOUSE Is HUMAN.
T~ORGIVE them, Mr.. President.
Il After all the 435 members Of
the House of Representatives
can't remember everything, and be-
sides, you've kept them SO busy Of late:
Then, too, the mistake might have
been made In their boyiSh enthusiasm
to do honor to that Democratic pred
ecessor Of yours, President Grover
Cleveland.
Here's what happened. Mr.. Presi-
dent:
The House was considering joint
resolution 147, designed to authorize
erection of monument here to Grover
Cleveland. 1t directed that an associa-
ton be organized within two years
to accomplish this and clothed the
Fine Arts Commission, subject to ap-
proval Of the Joint Committee on the
Library. to designate the site ana ap-
prove the model.
Then it adopted this paragraph In
the measure, reading: THAT for the
preparation OF the site and the erec-
ton OF a pedestal upon which to place
the said statue. under the direction
Of the Director OF Public Buildings
and Public Parks OF the National
Capital the sum Of $4,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
authorized to be appropriated out Of
any money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated.
OF course we remember. Mr.. Presi-
dent, that there Is no such person as
the director of public buildings and
public parks of the National Capital.
You abolished that position in August,
1898. when you transferred its work
to the National Park Service Of the
Interior Department.
*+ *A
SURPRISE PACKAGE.
yEVE lost collar buttons under
w the bureau, We've left dollar
bill in suits sent to the cleaner.
But, so far as we know. We haven't
lost anything this way yet.
Amid the hustle of one OF Wash
Evening star., 1935-04-17
CAPT. W. G. CHILD MOVED
Former Anacostia Commander to
Take Over Norfolk Station.

Capt. Warren G. Child, command
ing officer at the Anacostia Naval Air
Station in 1882 and 1888, is to become
commanding officer Of the Norfolk
Naval Air Station in June.
The Navy Department announced
today that Capt. Child. who has been
commanding the aircraft carrier Lang
ley for some time, will be detached to
take over command of the Norfolk
etatiOn
Evening star., 1935-04-17

FOR MATHEMATICIANS ONLY.
4 DID three for the statisticians
~ sharpening their pencils to
teach the rest of us Just how
much money the $4,880, ,000, 900 is that
the papers mention Congress has ap-
propriated for work relief.
" It's this much: At the present aver
age rate of interest on the public
debt, announced recently at ass per
cent, Uncle Sam would have to pay
an annual interest Of $l37 ,080, 600 to
maintain the relief amount.
Or this much: Around $40 to jim
gle In the pockets Of every, man,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-07
Your He a|th
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

Nov that the value of drinking water for health
Y is recognized generally, more and more attention
is being given to the question of securing good
water supply for every community.
When water is absolutely pure. that is to say
chemically pure, it has taste and odor but it
also is exceedingly fiat If air is dubbed through
such water it becomes agreeable.
When drinking water has definite taste, mineral
matter will be found dissolved in it, and frequently
gases also are held in solution.
People who get used to drinking hard water find
that soft water tastes fat, like rain water
IF drinking water has an odor, few human beings
l. will to it, Most of the Objectionable
odorS which develop in water caused by the decay
of various parasites, germs and plant material or
by nteraction of various chemical substances with
such materials.
Sometimes water which tastes bad does so because
of the odor. Our sense of taste is largely ap-
probation of odor Frequently colonization results
in bad taste and a bad odor.
Sometimes the chlorine in the drinking water is
combined chemically with waste materials from i'll
dustral plants This will produce taste and odor
like that of iodoform.
Nowadays, water in large cities is subjected
stantly to analyses and studies by departments of
health, They quick to detect the presence of
foreign substance responsible for taste and odor and
to take steps necessary to remove them.