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Evening star., 1935-03-24
Pemberton Premiere.
ONE of the most important premieres

ONE of the most important premieres
of the Spring theatrical season
will take place next Monday evening,
April /, at the National Theater,
his latest production, Ceiling Zero,
by Frank Wead.
Mr.. Wead, formerly a commander
in the United States Navy Aviation
Corps, has written a stirring drama
of the lives and loves of the pioneers
of the skyways and their bewilder-
ment and problems in world which
recognizes flying as a science rather
than individual featS of bravery and
resourcefulness.
Staged by Antoinette Perry and Mr..
Pemberton, whose most recent WASH
ington premiere was with Strictly
Dishonorable," Ceiling Zero" has an
exceptionally large cast of distin-
guished players.
Margaret Perry has the leading
feminine role and Cagood Perkins,
recently featured in Point Valaine,"
portrays the wartime aviator who
could adapt himself to changing con-
ditions, but who can imagine no fu-
ture which does not include his two
buddies of more reckless days, neither
of whom has been able to orient him.
self to the demands of modern in
dustry. The other two of these three
musketeers of the sky are played by
John D. Mtel and G. Albert Smith.
Ceiling Zero" will remain at the
National for one week, after which
it will have its New York opening.
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it shows a thunderstorm. Instead of
a closeup love scene between the
principals, it shows a frantic stall
lion. The hero'S hope of an heir is
depicted by the planting and growth
of a wheat field, out of which the
faces of the heroine and her infant
miraculously appear. 1t is f1lm in
which trick photography seems to
have gone mad, with no real gain
in speed and with much loss of con-
vincing power.
I'm Budapest there is much excite
ment over the new opera, The Venus
de Milo by Eugen Hubey, who has
taught many Of the greatest musi-
ciahs of Europe and who now, resid-
ing in Brussels at the age of rs,
is the idol of them all. 1t was pre-
sented for the first time this week
and the author was here. He took at
least dozen curtain calls.
Along with it went a fantastic
ballet, with music by Leo WeIner.
winner of the musical prize of 1888
of the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Foundation in Washington
The one thoroughly original film
that I have seen is Frederick Chopin,
an Austrian product in which the
very finest music, that of Chopin,
Liszt. etc. is blended with the fast
moving story in such way as to
take away ones breath. 1t is a Won
derful historical picture, with all kinds
of usually totally disassociated history
running smoothly along together.
1T is really the love story of the
novelist George Sand, and the COM
poser Chopin. But is is a story that
gets its full meaning from its con-
nection with the struggle of Poland
for independence from Russia in
1882 and from the pulsing literary
world of the Paris Of the same period.
There is one incredibly stirring
scene. Chopin, Just beginning to at
tract attention, is invited to play be.
fore the most distinguished audience
in Psrs. AS he is about to enter the
salon he is shown a newspaper ac-
count of the suppression of rebellion
in Warsaw, which he knows means
the death of his relatives and friends,
who were instigators. In a daze he
goes to the piano, strikes few cords
of the piece which he had intended
to play and begins improvising under
the sway of his emotions. One sees
the keyboard burst into flame as the
stirring music unfolds and along with
the vision at the keyboard one sees
the tottering. fire-swept Warsaw.
1T is a picture which would be
stirring anywhere, but here in Central
Europe, where Just such conf1agra-
tions and rebellions have been very
recent and still threaten to reappear
at any time, the picture simply hyp-
notices.
There are a large number OF
American films all over Europe, of
course They are kept down, however,
by the increasingly strict quota sys-
tenn, by which a film house is al
lowed to show only certain per-
centage of foreign pictures.
Tom Mix is the American literary
idol of Europe. Little books in the
style of the story of the three bears
are seen on all book stalls, with Tom
Mix as author of Wild West expert
ences. He is depicted, in the highly
colored covers, in Indian war clothes,
not cowboy regalia.'
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BERT LAIR,

lyricist on Broadway. Its sketches
were written principally by David
Freedman. And. finally, the direc-
ton and lighting by John Murray
Anderson guarantees finished show
with a great deal of revolutionary
innovations in lighting and staging.
A double revolving stage is one Of
the features Of Andersons staging
and it is said that for the first time
on a musical stage the lighting. the
music and the motion of the re-
volving stages are integrated and CO.
ordinated so that there Is an exciting
rhythm and unity to the whole pro-
duction.
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Next Weeks Films.

THE last novel, and one of the great
- est, written by Charles Dickens,
will follow Man of Aran," when the
latter's engagement is ended at the
Belasco. Dickens novel, The Mys-
terry of Edwin Brood" was uncom-
pleted at the authors death, but COM
pleted later. as much as possible, in
the spirit of the original. 1t stars
Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery,
Heather Angel and David Manners.
Shirley Temple will gain a second
week on F street, for next Friday.
''The Little Colonel" which just closed
record week at the Fox, will open
q weeks engagement at LOew,S Co.
lumbia.
Triple headline entertainment is
scheduled for Loew's Fox Theater,
starting next Friday, with George
Whites 1885 Scandals on the
screen, Benny Davis and his future
stars revue on the stage and Phil
Lampkin's anniversary overture aug
mented by choir of Is voices.
George Whites 1885 Scandals"
boasts of a cast consisting of Alice
Faye, James Dunn, Ned Sparks, LYDIA
Roberti, Cliff Edwards, Airline Judge,
Eleanor Powell, Benny Rubin, Emma
Dunn, Charles Richman, Roger
1mhof, Jed Prouty. Fuzzy Knight,
Jack Mulhall. the Boop Sisters, the
Dos Four Gals and George White
himself, and in addition, the Scan
dals beauties in numerous and spec
tacular dance numbers.
Columbia Pictures will present T'ullio
Carminati in new and romantic
production, Lets Live Tonight" next
Friday at the Earle Theater. Lillian
Harvey is Carminati's leading lady.
The supporting cast includes Janet
Beecher, Hugh Williams, Luis Alberni
and Tala Birell. Mitzi Green will be
seen and heard in songs and in her
famous impressions of Hollywood's
notables. including George Arliss and
many others.
Bing Crosby, radios prince Of
crooners, and w. C. Fields, the prime
minister of comedy, will waltz their
way onto the screen of Loew's Palace
Theater in mississippi" the screen
attraction following Life Begins
at 40"
"It Happened One Night" the pic
ture that won five of the coveted
awards offered annually by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences, will return to Warner Bros. ,
Metropolitan Theater, Friday, for a
special repeat engagement. The pro-
duction has been booked as the result
of the many hequests from patrons
who missed seeing the film when it
was originally presented as well as
the many who want to see it again.
Besides Clark Gable and Claudette
Colbert the cast includes Walter Con-
molly, Roscoe Karns and Jameson
Thomas.
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Kelly in Musical.

DAISY KELLY, one of the best
known condolences of stage and
screen, has been signed for leading
comedy role in -Four Stars For Love, "
The new Felix Young musical picture
to be made by R-K-O Radio.
Walter Lang will direct -Four Stars
For Love-" which will have several
thrilling Negro dance numbers staged
by Earl Dancer. Fred Keating and
Lionel Stander are already signed for
the white cast.
Evening star., 1935-03-24

Among other clues in "Panic's"
symbolic mazes Is hushed plea for
tolerance in criticism of the afflicted
bankers Of the United States Of Amer
lea. That abused fraternity, cursed
by all the political evangels from
Mayor La Guardia TO Father Coughlin,
gets a friendly break from Mr.. Mac
Leish, who pictures them as pitiable
victims Of an unseen force. He shows
them up as stupid rather than vii
famous, unable either to understand
the causes of the catastrophe or to
cope with it. His hero, Mr.. McGaff-
erty, is a likable Colossus, bestriding
the financial world, POLITICALLY and
with courage. Even if Mr.. MacLeish
does provide him with a woman who
visits him during Office hours in eve
ming dress, he is a comparatively
honest, efficient and durable capitalist.
1t is personal impression that Banker
McGafferty would not have COM
mitted suicide had he not seen the
chorus that represented the meek and
windy proletariat in the play. That
ballet in its affected elocution and
its meaningless postures was enough
to drive the strongest figure of finance
or the pioneer stage to oself-destruction.
WHILE strolling, as o. o. Mcintyre
w might say. through the Times
Square dramas the ther night, was
overcome by sense of the debt the
United States theater-lovers owe to
foreign lands. To Great Britain are
We especially obligated, since it gives
us its most luminous actors, and asks
from us little in return. We may send
them, via the cinema, our Jimmie
Cagneys and our Joan Blondells, but
they always reciprocate with an Arliss
or a Diana Wynyard. Now and then
the British fail us, as when, for in
stance, Ronald Colman plays "Clive Of
India" as If that historic figure were
not a human being, but ham actor
in a sloppy Hollywood photograph
cheapening and falsifying great
events.
PUT what would Robert Sherwoods
- successful The Petrifled Forest"
be without Leslie Howard's obvious
magic or "Laburnum Grove" without
Edmund Gwenn's egregious imperson-
ating of q suburban counterfeiter?
Where would Accent on Youth" be
we're it not for Nicholas Hannen, a
Evening star., 1935-03-24

&uuoPCog VA MdlCIl 4, llc says.
ain Berlin, Prague, Vienna and
Budapest I have noticed an interest
ing struggle between the classical and
the comic in the amusement world
There have been many excellent pres
entationS in both lines, but the
classical seems to have a little lead
in popular support.
The very heavy operas CLohen-
grin and 'Rhinegold' in Berlin, for
instance) attract capacity houses. But
at the same time such frivolous plays
as 'Waltz-Paradice' have been well
received, particularly in Vienna, where
oscar Strauss. nephew, 1 believe, of
the great waltz Strauss, has created
number of excellent musical COM
edies.
In spite of all that one hears about
the misery of Middle Europe, people
continue to amuse themselves in ex-
pensive ways such as theater- going
and night clubs. l have become &C
cuStomed to that surprising fact. I
have not yet managed, however, to
understand the basic idea Gf there
is one) relative to correct dress on
biggest opera, felt positively foppiSh
in a dinner coat, although there were
dozens of people who were dressed in
that manner. Most of the audience
were in business clothes, and few
were even in golfing clothes. Yet a few
nights later l was refused admission
at another function because l only
had my dinner coat Vienna is
equally casual about dressing for the
theater. Budapest takes its opera
very seriously so far as apparel is
concerned.
However, Berlin and Vienna are
very dressy, even magnificent, when it
comes to any affair where there is an
element of eXclusiveness, which, of
course, does not apply to the theater
Central Europe, indeed, seems quite
informal, not to say sloppy, at most
public events, but when it does turn
formal it does it with bang Night
clubs show the same eccentricities in
dress as do the shows, the same place
being very dreSsy one night and very
casual the next.
But to get back to some of the
actual shows over here: The funniest
thing I have seen is the U. F. A. film
The Sea Lion, the story of which
turns on the resemblance between a
very frivolous king of tiny little ma
tion and a very serious porter in that
same kingdom. The title comes from
the dropping (sea lion) mustaches of
the pair, and the fun begins when
they, to get the king out of trouble
some situation, swap places.
Another funny one is the Austrian
film The Face Litter, in which a
beauty doctor and his male secretary
get into endless trouble as result of
the secretary's mistake in taking a
beautiful English dancing girl twho
knew no Germany for very homely
English girl who was seeking the aid
of the beauty specialist. He met the
wrong one at the train, and the we'll
sustained complications were endleSsly
hilarious, without being forced.
"The Czechoslovakian film Sym
phony of Love- which is to be, or has
been shown in America under the
title Ecstasy is very popular, very
sentimental and fairly good. 1t is
supposed to use a new technique
that of parallel implication. Instead
OF burst of passion in the heroine.
Evening star., 1935-03-24
Press Agent Gargan.
WILLIAM GARGAN will play q

WILLIAM GARGAN will play a
press agent in Broadway Con-
doner," Dick Powells big musical
starring picture for Warner Bros, in
which Joan Blondell will have the
feminine lead. And Louise Fazenda
will appear as Mrs. F1agenheimer,
owner of a large cheese concern. Other
principals will be announced within
the next few days and the picture will
60 into production next week. Broad
way Gondolier" Is being planned as
the most lavish and spectacular of
all the Warner Bros. and First Ma
tional musical films up to the present
time.
Evening star., 1935-03-24
Milestone With Paramount

T EWIS MILESTONE, director Of "All
- Quiet on the Western Front
1.-THE Front Page" 1.-TWO Arabian
Knights" and several others memoir
able in Hollywood, has signed two
wear contract with Paramount. The
deal Is the result of his current
handling of Paris in Spring" which
Paramount is co-starring Mary Ellis
and Tullio Carminati.
Evening star., 1935-03-24

Silent Films Remain.
Six hundred of the 1900 motion
picture theaters in Argentina still show
silent films.
Evening star., 1935-03-24

talented alien, in the role of middle
aged playwright still seductive to thea
trical young women? The season has
been enriched by Hugh Sinclair's cruel
characterization Of a nice artistic rat
in Miss Bergner's Escape Me Never"
and by the dignified Dame Sybil
Thorndike as she supervises, ins "The
Distaff Side" an interesting and we'll
acted hen house. Robert Lorraine. Rex
O'Malley, Ernest Cosart. Lionel Pape,
Miss Lynn Fontanne, Ernest Lawford,
Basil Rathbone, Brian Ahern and
scores Of others from across the seas
have been of great assistance in max
ing the recent Broadway dramas at
tendable. A chauvinist at heart, risk
my reputation as a patriot by in
quiring what American actor could
have played George Washington so
faithfully as Philip Merivale, an Eng
lishman, played him in the Theater
Guilds unsuccessful production of
Maxwell Anderson's valley Forge"
George M. Cohan, Walter Hampden,
Walter Huston and Alfred Lunt, all of
them expert specialists in credible
transformations, might have fumbled
the role of the Father and made 1t
perhaps more of a platform puppet
than Mr.. Merivale did. At any rate,
this has been another season in which
the Mother Country has bestowed upon
us its friendly and esthetic benefac-
tions. 1t has been said, and truly, I
believe, that the best Of the American
actors are British.
Evening star., 1935-03-24
THE New York Winter Garden revue,

THE New York Winter Garden revue,
Life Begins at $40" which
comes to the National Theater to-
morrow night for a weeks engage
ment, is headed by such stellar per-
formers as Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger,
Luella Gear and Frances Williams.
1t also has large group of Charles
Weidman dancers, go beautiful chorus
girls and settings by Albert johnson.
The revue's music was written by
Harold Arlen. Its lyrics are the work
of Ira Gershwin, famous brother of
famous George, and E. Y. Harburg,
the most successful and prolific
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"Panic," a Poetical Drama,
Goes Back to the Library
New York Will Have None of This Speculation
on Prosperity Downfall-A Word or
Two of England's Actor Group.
By Percy Hammond.

FER three experimental performances the Phoenix
Theater Inc, Archibald MacLeishs Panic"
~ been retired to the library there to be enjoyed book
for its vigorously poetcal specuations
pertyS downfall proud example of the haystack drama
all the New critics of literature business
search Of the needles hidden therein with dscouragng results
of the investigators nothing except verse;
explanation of the five years terror This many have ad
is the ravageS of fear which, like dragon erite silently
invsby and dstrucvey has gnawed the structure
MacLeish (hmself Pulitzer
Of to md Katy Dos
Evening star., 1935-03-24
Musical and Theatrical
Affairs of Central Europe
A Washington Traveller Makes Note of Plays,
Operas Films and Customs in Vienna, Prague.
Berlin and Buda pest-The Popular Movies.
By E. de S. MeIcher.

~ ANDOLPH LEIGH ION long European tour going far
East as Asia Minor has stopped long enough in his inter-
esting peregrinatons write theatrical
doings in those continental hinterlands. Writing from
on March he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11

leather shoes which any Ethiopian buys when he first deserts bare feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
MAN WALKS INTO
 POLICE TROUBLE
Asks Nights Lodging But Held for WallingfOrd
 Burglary Charge

When Jasper Mccarthy walked into the police station last night to ask for a nights lodging, he walked into 8 whole mess of trouble. As things turned out, Jasper would have done better if he picked out park bench.
 Jasper, who is 37, and gave his address as North Leonard street, approached the desk at headquar- ters to ask if he could spend the night in the police lookup. His name had just been written down on the lodging list when he was spotted by Detective John Calvin.
 Detective Calvin boked Jasper on suspecion, so he got his lodging for the night. Technically, though, he was a prisoner and not 8 lodger. This morning, Jasper's neighbors neighbors who were lodgers got up and left the station. But not Jasper he had to stay there.
 And just before noon, Oficers Dorey and McMahon of the Wall- ingford police department took cus- tody of Jasper, and brought him back to Wallingford with him. Jas- per is wanted, they said, for break ing and entering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
TRAFFIC ITEMS
 IN ADDS ABABA
Sidewalks Full of Sharp Stones and Mud in Odd
 Capitol City

>Addis Ababa UP) Dung fire smoke seeping from 10000 thatch- ed ridgepoles at dusk rings down a gray-blue curtain on the color of an Addis Ababa day.
 The streets empty of mules, don keys, human beings and smells. The shiny American taxis again can move at more than ten miles an hour. During the day it is i'm possible.
 No one walks on the sidewalks of the city, chiefly because they are sharp stones, and at this sea- son, mud. It is much more pleas ant to stroll in the street.
 There are the chiefs, black cloaked and -helmeted, ambling along on their mules surrounded by rifemen. There are the tiny. hunched-over Gala women moving along somehow under shoulder loads of grass or faggots even larger than those of the burros. The latter as just about invisible under their burdens.
 Boys Hawk Wares.
 There are the boys hawking silver crosses and ear spoons, spear heads and swords, five to ten thal- CTS each if you don't know the game, one or two if you do. There are firewood carriers, bundles of l5-foot eucalyptus poles balanced on head, getting in everyone's way.
 Debtor and creditors march a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
JEWISH FEAST TO
 OPEN AT SUNDOWN
Succoth to Be Observed By Waterburians-Spe=
 Cial Services Planned

Waterbury Jewry to-day was pre- pared to mark the observance of Succoth, beginning at sundown to- night. The feast day will be cele- brated by Jews all over the world.
 At 8 o'clock tonight, the Young Israel organization, which success fully held youth services during the recent high holy-day season, will hold Succoth services at the Water b:ry Hebrew Institute. Irving Rieg- e. will act as guide, and Sol Fucker as cantor. A special Succahoh, com- memorating the habitations the Jews used in their return from the wilderness, has been erected in the rear of the institute.
 Prior to the Young Israel services tonight, the students at the Wa terbury Hebrew Institute will hold services.
 Succoth services will also be held tonight at Beth Israel and Sharis Israel Synagogues. Rabbi Moses D. Sheinkopf will deliver address to- morrow morning at Sharis Israel and Sunday morning at Beth Israel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
TERCENTENARY EVENTS Cities and Towns of State in Friendly Rivalry to Show Pride in Connecticuts 3OOth Birthday Celebration.

East Hartford-Presentat of a pageant depicting local history, in the open air theater.
 Hartford-Afternoon reception to official delegations of state and nation at the State Library, 2:30 to 4:30 D. m.: formal dinner at the Hartford Club at D. m.; pub lie meeting at Bushnell Memorial hall at S:30 p. m.
 Norwich-Display of ecclesiasti- cal pewter and furniture and his torical program at the United Congregational church at 8 p. m.
 Hartford-Polish day tercenten- ary celebration at the State the ater.
 Saturday, October 12
 East Hartford - Street dance and carnival of nations at Church Corners.
 Hartford-Connecti tercen. tenary parade at 10:30 a. m.; fire. works at Pope park at 8 p. m.
 Hartford-Reunion of the Gee: family at the Hotel Bond.
 New Haven-Military' ball, with representatives and colors from many states at the State Armory. Goffe street at 9 D. m.
 Prospect-Old-time town meet ing with speeches and music in the afternoon and band concert in the evening.
 Prospect October 12-Sunday October 13-Exhibit of farm tools, household furniture and in- dustries of the town at the Town Hall; exhibit of silver. china, coin and stamp collections, quilts, coverlets, and embroidery at the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-11
Mrs. Roosevelt Will Open Forum In N. Y.
Current Problems to Be Discussed Next Week; Trade
 and Peace" Theme of Secretary of State

tion, will give the keynote speech. Mrs. Irita Van Doren, literary ed- itor of the New York Herald Trib- une will speak on Trends of Lit erature"; Edward Johnson, director of the Metropolitan Opera on "The Place of Opera in American Life; Reuben Mamoulian, motion picture producer on "The Worlds / Latest True Art" and the session will close with a talk by Royal Cortissoz, art editor of the New York Herald Tribune.
 Speeches On Propaganda
 Propaganda; a Force for Good or Evil" will bring this much dis cussed subject to the Forum at the fifth session.
 Dr. Harwood L. Childs of Prince ton university will give the first speech on "The Science of PropaA ganda"; Edward L. Bernays, public relations counsel will talk on Moulding Public Opinion; Colonel William F. Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News on Freedom of the Press; David Sarnoff, pres- idcnt of the Radio Corporation of America on Radio and Public Opinion" and Dorothy Thompson, international journalist on Govern ment by Propaganda. Two former presidents of the General Fedora tion of Women's clubs will address this session, Mrs. Thomas G. Win ter on '"The Movies of Public Opin- ion" and Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole on Propaganda and Organized Wo- men,"
 The sixth session, the final one, will be opened by Dr. Glenn Frank, President of the University of Wis consin who will deliver the keynote speech. The sessions topic will be What Americans Should Know of the New Philosophies of Govern ment". Speakers will include Dr. Harold w. Dodds, President of Princeton University on "The Amer ican Philosophy of Government" i; Dr. Frederick L. Schuman, assistant professor of Political Science at the university Of Chicago on National Socialism; Menace or Promise?";; Cover Clark, advisor on the Far East Social Science Research Coun- ell on "Philosophies of Government in the Far East" and Dr. Bruce Hopper of Harvard University on Russian Philosophies of Govern ment".
 Although the Forum was original ly organized and is still planned primarily for club women and wo- mems colleges, it has been extended to include also men leaders in va rious fields, notably education, so- cial science, economics, information al relations and the arts. The great demand for tickets makes it neces- sary to narrow the list to those who would most benefit ia their organ ization work by attendance,