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The Washington times., 1935-07-11
Moore Going Fast

Grace Moore's new picture wins
q third week at Radio City Music
Hall and is one of the reasons why
Columbia stock is hopping up
ward merrily in Wall Street. There
is talk of a stock dividend. Love
Me Forever" goes into the Earle
Theater here tomorrow, but even
though it smashes all July records,
the Earle's permanent one-week
policy will not be disturbed.
Henry Dunn, who comes to the
Earle tomorrow as the stage head
liner with his partner Alan Cross,
is a singing discovery of Happy
Robinson, the Washington Her
AIDS circulation boss. Dunn was
peddling papers at the South Sta
ton in Boston when Happy in
duced him to try vaudeville and
got him an addition with Keith's.
A Charity Cruise
With the Variety Clubs first
annual showboat cruise scheduled
to sail Saturday evening, July 20,
Skipper Carter Barron, Loew's
divisional manager and chairman
of the showboat committee, an
nounced last night that one of
the two big name bands booked
for dance and entertainment is
Jolly Coburn and his Rainbow
Room Orchestra.
This orchestra has been one of
the reigning bands over the Ma
tional Broadcasting System dur
The Washington times., 1935-07-11
SOME AMUSEMENT GLEANINGS
National Theater Will Show
Warner Bros. Special Film
In Late October
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Thursday roundup of loose items Warner Bros have
definitely decided show the Max Renhardt produc-
ton of Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream 1t opens
The Washington times., 1935-07-11

FOX-Robert Taylor, Jean
Parker in Murder in the
Fleet" 10:45 a. M, 1870, 4:20,
7:10, 10 p. m. Stage shows at
1926, 3:25, 6:15 and 9 p. m.
PALACE-William Powell, Luise
Rainer in "Escapade," 11:05
a. m, ITO, 3:45, 5:25, 7:30,
9:40 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Marlene Dietrich
in 1.-The Devil Is a Woman"
11:15 a. m, 1:05, $50, ABS,
$40, $40, 9:55 p. m.
EARLE Warren VILLA m,
Claire Dodd in Don't Bet on
Blondes" 11:15, las, 4:30,
tbs, 1905 p. m. Stage,
12:45, 3:35, $40, 9:05 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Bert Wheel
er, Robert Woolsey in Nit
wits" 1885 a. m, 1::35, 1885,
5:35, 7:35, 9:35 p. m.
RKO-KEITH'S - Helen Gaha-
gan, Randolph Scott in "She,"
1876 a. M, 1877, $40, 5:42,
7:44 and 9:46 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-07-11
Cover HOl yWOOd

replied, II am" "Nevertheless,"
quoth Mr.. Borzage, some day I
will find a really fine part for
you in a picture" At the moment
that prophesy has come true
in Warner Brothers Anchors
Aweigh." Borzage took a very
small part and increased its size
to the most sympathetic part in
the whole picture, just by way of
keeping his promise to young
Arledge. Fred Astaire and his sis
ter Adele (who is now Lady Caven-
disO once headed vaudeville bill
in a Midwest theater where
dog act was one of the attractions.
The dogs were installed in the star
dressing room, so he and his sis
had to climb a ladder to the loft
to don their grease paint.
Eddie Cantor, who maintains
a radio conSultant's office, re-
Gently charged a manufacturer
ten thousand dollars for advising
him not to put his product on the
air and was paid gratefully. Such
a business. Omar Kiam, Samuel
Goldwyn'S costume designer, de-
spite his Persian name (Which
incidentally is the real Mccoy
was born in Mexico of American
parents of pre-Civil War stock,
lived his youth in Texas, and de-
scends from d famous old family
of AlSace.I,orraine. Round about
The Washington times., 1935-07-11

Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce,
Mady Christians, Reginald Owen,
Henry Travers and Laura Hope
Crews.
Robert z. Leonard directed this
film which is based on Walter
Reich's German stage hit, Mas
querade," and which is a gay
blending of many happy ingredi.
The Washington times., 1935-07-11
= HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
BeIasco Plans
To Reopen

The alterations of the Belasco
Theater are progressing rapidly,
according to reports from the man.
agement, and plans are being
whipped into share for the open
ing, scheduled about Labor Day.
The curtain raiser for the Be-
lasco's new season will be the Eng
lish production, Loves of a Die
tator," starring Give Brook and
Madeleine Carroll, a powerful his
torical drama and romance Of
Sixteenth Century Denmark. Su-
perbly dressed and acted, Loves
of q Dictator" received stars and
plaudits from the critical fra
ternity in New York and enthuSi-
aStic acclaim from record audi
enceS.
Besides Loves of a Dictator"
as the opening attraction, the
management reports the following
productions for early showing at
the Belasco: George ArliSS Is
making his first modern picture
in some time in England. 1t is
still untitled, but it will be up to
the Arliss and GB standard.
An untitled picture starring
Conrad Veidt (rem e m b r
"Power?") is scheduled. And
also Peter Lore and Nova Pill
beam in THE Man Who Knew
Too Much; Marta Eggerth
(blond beauty of "The Unfin.
ished Symphony'D and Jan Kie-
pura in MY Heart Is Calling;
Jan Kiepura in another musical
my Song For Your; Evelyn Laye
in "Evensong," and many others
which will be announced shortly.
The Washington times., 1935-07-11

ing the past year and has just
closed a lengthy engagement at
the Rainbow Room at the Rookie
teller Center in New York.
Coburn will introduce during
the course of the evening Kath.
leen Wells, late star of the Max
well House Showboat program and
Jack Pearls hour.
All committeeman connected
with the showboat cruise have
been working long hours to put
this novel cruise over. Moneys de
rived will be used for charitable
work in Washington.
Under the present plans, the
Wilson Line steamer will sail at
midnight, returning to Washing
ton about 3 a. m. Sunday morning,
Everything to satisfy ones enter
tainment palate has been arranged
by those in charge. Tickets are
being sold at 50 per person.
Some July Tricks
The heat, vacation checks and
the broad highway are raising hob
with the theater box offices all
over the U. S. A., but here are
some of the things that alert
movie exhibitors are doing to keep
them coming:
In Amarillo, Tex, the manager
advertised for one girl to sit in
the darkened theater all by her
self at midnight and see "Wer
wolf" screened. Then she got $1C
for writing her reaction. More
than 1000 applied for the job.
When "NitwitS" was shown al
Dallas, Tex, the manager of the
Melba Theater offered free passes
The Washington times., 1935-07-11

TO those VINO Drought b DlaCk
widow spider. Variety doesn't say
how many responded, but 1t prob
ably kept good customers away.
Out in Omaha, the Orpheum
Theater staged an Honor System"
preview at midnight. The doors
were open and anybody could
walk in. After the show those who
were satisfied filed through a line
past the box-office window and
deposited the regular admission.
Of 814 who attended, 765 pleased
the manager by coming across.
Honest people!
Another smart exhibitor, says
Epes w. Sargent, of Variety, who
keeps track of such stunts, touted
his theater and his cooling SyS-
them by inviting hay fever suf.
ferers. Didn't promise a cure,
but did promise that a couple OF
hours of cool, washed air would
help.
Earl Carroll will hold a special
candid camera matinee at the
Winter Garden in New York next
Monday afternoon. All the lens
hounds are advised they can
shoot Sketch Book" scenes and
principals to their hearts con-
tent.
Norman Lewis of Philadelphia
has found his neighborhood so
loaded with dishes as a result
of the frequent giveaways by the
aters that he has gone into re-
verse and is now offering prizes
to get them back again.
He advertises Bring Back
Night"
The gag is that he gives
dime for each dish returned in
good condition, and he has an
arrangements with a jobber who
takes the crockery for use else.
where.
A July Winner
Benay Venuta, Al Jolson's voice
discovery on the Coast, whom he
brought East for his radio pro-
gram, clicked so sensationally on
the air she has been given Ethel
Merman's role in Broadway's big.
gest musical comedy hit, ANY
thing Goes" even though she has
had no stage experience. Miss
Norman goes to Hollywood, July
20, for Eddie Cantor's new pic
ture They are calling LuiSe
Rainer the greatest movie discov-
cry since Katharine Hepburn, and
all because of her work in one
picture, "Escapade," currently at
the Palace. "Escapade," on its
showing for the first two weeks Of
the national release, looks like
one of M-G-M's surprise and SEN
sational money makers. Even
Pittsburgh went to town for the
new star. Myrna 10y walked out
on the role which Miss Rainer
played, as mot good enough"
Eager for TriIby
The Roadside Theater expects
TO roll up a granQ week WITH
"Trilby," when the venerable dra-
matte classic is pulled out Of
the moth balls for late July and
early August in the Red Barn.
Movie-goerS will recall "Trilby"
for John Barrymore's Svengai to
little Marion Marsh's Trilby. ..
Those with gray boards may re-
member when Blanche Walsh
was Trilby for the greatest of
all Svengalis, Wilton Lackaye. . .
Paramount has just emerged from
its receivership troubles and the
legal bills are being presented.
Up to date the fees requested by
the lawyers are $3,220,30O. Why
be a movie star when it's cheaper
to go to law school
5000 at Monument
"A Midsummer Nights Dream"
attracted $4,000 to the Monument
last night, proving they like Shake
speare at the right time. The pro.
ductiOn will be repeated tnni0ht
The Washington times., 1935-07-11

sequences featuring the recorded
voice of the immortal Enrico Ca,
ruso.
"Sprucin' Up" Our Gang Com
edy, a Walt Disney Silly Sym
phony, water Babies" that's
hailed as one of the best, and
news events complete the Palace
program.
The Washington times., 1935-07-11
5000 at Monument

"A Midsummer Nights Dream"
attracted $4,000 to the Monument
last night, proving they like Shake
Speare at the right time. The pro-
duction will be repeated tonight.
The Washington times., 1935-07-11
Will Hays has caused a l

mays July
Andre" r. Kelley ton in Hollywood by refusing okay kid
napng pictures MG Fox caught by the ban both
having snatch stories ready for production Mr. Hays ruling
may really be blessing for frstcass screen fiction that
reenacted the Lndbergh without the tragic nsh and
released three years didn't make enough to off
the production The Hollywood idea to show that
kdnapers wind up either in the morgue the hot seat
Jack Dempsey has made such of being restaurant
gree they figure his popularity will extend to the movie
He will be starred in picture called Sweet Sur
render with Frank Parker favore radio TENOR sharing the
billing
The Washington times., 1935-07-11

No? Furthermore he started
out to be an Army officer instead
of a dress designer and as long
as Kiam was actually his real
name, he borrowed his first one,
Omar, from his favorite poet.
The Washington times., 1935-07-11

OctODer at the HO11yWOOu IntaLef IN New
York and will be shown at the National The
ater here on a reserved seat, $150 top basis,
on October 81 Behind it they expect to place
the greatest ballyhoo given a picture since
"Birth of Nation". Which reminds Of
D. w. Griffith who is at the moment in
England prepared to remake his "Broken
Blossoms with Dolly Haas "a German ac-
tress) and the English Emlyn Williams in the
roles originally played by Lillian Gish and
Richard Barthelmess.
Evening star., 1935-10-08
Chinese Student, Aided by Sse
And Eight Others, Gets Job

out funds to complete his final
semester. He wrote a frank appeal
to DR.. Sac Ke Alfred SEE, the Chinese
Ambassador.
The Ambassador said today that
while he did not know the youth he
was impressed by his letter OF appeal
and inquired into his record.
ST learned he was deserving, hard
working and ambitious" the Ambas-
sador said. "In China, we need edu-
Gated young men of this type to de-
velop our country. I wrote to the
student, saying that while no govern
ment funds were available would
personally contribute If he could Sc
cure other friends to complete the
fund.
1T seems the young man had
friends among the Americans, both In
Milwaukee and in California. They
agreed to assist him and I am glad
indeed that such help as we could
give enabled him to complete his
course. -
'I wish him much success In his
chosen field"
Evening star., 1935-10-08
HOWARD ASSURED
OF new BUILDINGS
$550,000 Allotted by President
for Construction of New
DorInitories.

After an investigation of living con-
ditions at Howard University it was
announced today that President
Roosevelt had approved a s525, 900
allotment from cid P. w. A. funds for
construction of equipment of two
mems dormitories on the campus.
Construction Of these dormitories,
it was said, will solve a problem that
has worried Howard officials for many
years. They will replace Clark Hall,
built 65 years ago, which is the only
mems dormitory at the university.
AS far back as 1928 the United
States Bureau of Education called
attention to the fact Clark Hall
should be replaced due to its lack of
modern equipment. Nothing was
done, however, until recently when
Secretary Ickes became interested.
He ordered the survey made at a
time when the university was receiv-
ing large sums from P. w. A. for a
new building program The old
dormitory, inspected by men from the
District building inspectors Office and
engineers of the National Park Serv-
ice, was declared to be a fire hazard.
While officials of Howard Univer-
sity today were unable to give details
Of the two proposed new buildings,
they said application for the funds
had been made some time ago.
Evening star., 1935-10-08
MOTOR CARRIERS
BUREAU MAPPED
UNDER NEW LAW
Ten Sections Being Set Up
Here, With Is Districts
Operating in U. S.
13 KEY MEN APPOINTED
TO ADMINISTER PLANS
Staff Eventually to Have 600,
Half in D. C.~-Pay Roll
Near 81, 100000.

Outlining the organization for the
new Bureau of Motor Carriers, which
will have jurisdiction over the inter-
state operation of trucks and buses
under the motor cartier act, passed by
the last Congress, the Interstate Com
merce Commission today announced
the bureau will have 10 sections here
and a field force operating in l6 dis
tricts over the country. The an
nouncement also carried the appoint
ment of 13 Of the key men who will
administer the law.
1t is estimated the bureau will have
a staff of about eco employes-half
here and the rest in the field. The
pay roll will run aroand sl,0oo,ooo per
year.
The commission already has advised
carriers to file thei,- applications for
certificates of convenience and neces-
sity October IS, and has allowed them
until December to file tariffs. The
act gives it the power to decide If the
rates of interstate commerce carriers
are reasonable and to fix minimum
rates for interstate contract carriers.
Scope Of Wark Large.
The bureau sections here will deal
with certificates ano insurance, traffic,
accounts, complaints, finance, safety,
research, statistics, legal and enforce
ment matters and administrative mat
tiers. This part o. the organization
will be under general supervision Of
an assistant director, while each Sec
ton will be headed by chief Of Sec
ton.
The field organization also will be
headed by an assistant director. In
each district district director will be
In charge and he will be assisted by
a joint board agent, one or more rate
and tariff agents, one or more ac-
countants, several supervisors and the
usual stenographic and clerical help.
Appointments Announced.
The appointments announced TO-
day-all of them roen experienced in
the work they are to undertake-in-
clude the following:
Park M. Smith Of Illinois and W..
Y. Blaming Of Pennsylvania, assistant
directors; H. M. Roberts, Kansas,
chief of section of certificates and in
surance; Henry L. Callahan, New
York, assistant chief; Walter H. Hayes,
Illinois. chief of section of traffic; w.
A. Hill, District of Columbia, chief
section of cOmDlaintS. Maurice z
Sheehan, Illinois, chief section of &C.
counts: ]. Edward Davey, New York,
chief section of finance; Grover l..
Swink, District of Columbia, assistant
chief; H. H. Kelly, Ohio. chief section
safety; George w, Wellington, Rhode
Island. assistant chief; Jack G. Scott,
Colorado, chief legal and enforcement
section, and George A. Casey Of Mas
sachusetts, assistant to the director.
Hill, Swink and Casey already are
on the commission.
Evening star., 1935-10-08
Meal Check Signing for Liquor
Ruled Out by 4. B. e. Board

mitted to Prettyman, along with the
boards request. He will also be asked
to decide on the point of discrimina-
tion against night clubs and restau-
rants in case meal check signatures
are accepted legally as registrations.
AS a result of the dispute, Maj.
Jerome l.. JohnStone, chief inspector
for the board, who has been acting
also as prosecutor, asked to be re-
lieved from further work of presenting
cases. His request was granted, and
he will continue in the capacity Of
chief inspector only. The prosecution
of cases hereafter will be in the
hands of Rice Hooe, assistant corpora
ton counsel.
A possibility that the mo credit"
clause may be thrown out of the law
in its entirely was seen as result If
Prettyman rules that both hotels and
restaurants may charge to meal
buying registered" guests.
Evening star., 1935-10-08
MARRIAGE CLAUSE
DECISION AWAITED
Board to Decide Whether En-
ploye Who Resigned Must Com
ply With Present Rules.

Whether married employe Of the
Board Of Education who resigned
under the marriage clause of the ma
tional economy act may be reinstated
under the boards rules in effect at
the time, or must comply with pres
ent rules to regain appointment. will
be decided by the board probably at
its meeting a week from tomorrow.
Mrs. E. Y. Taylor, employed as a
clerk in the colored schools, resigned
because her husband was employed in
the Post Office Department. Later,
the corporation counsel held the mar
riage clause did not apply to the Dis
trict schools.
The board has held that all such
designations were voluntarily, and
that any one affected by the economy
act would have to apply as an out
slider and could not ask for REIN
statement.
w. L. Houston, attorney, appeared
before the Personnel Committee of
the board yesterday and argued that
the board had violated its own rules
In barring Mrs. Taylor. The case was
taken under advisement, and another
meeting will be held next Monday
afternoon. A small number Of such
cases is pending.
Evening star., 1935-10-08
ARLINGTON COUNTY
TELEPHONE RATES.
ORDERED REDUCED
Lower Fees Will Permit
. $1,000 Annual Saving
by 1900 Users.
NEW SCHEDULE TAKES
EFFECT NOVEMBER Fl
Zones 2, 8, 4 and Mileage Rates
Involved-0ther Cuts
Planned.
BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

BY q Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ARLINGTON COURTHOUSE, Va,
October 8.-Widespread reduction of
telephone rates in Arlington County
and plans for further reductions CO.
incident with construction of a new
exchange in the Aurora E1ills-Vir-
ginia Highlands section were an
nounced last night at a meeting Of
the Arlington County Public Utilities
Commission.
The new rates, to take effect No
vember 81, provide reductions in zones
2, 3 and ranging from so cents to
81 and substantial reductions" Of
charges in the mileage area beyond
the fat rate zones.
Will Benefit 1900.
The new schedule does not apply to
zone l. which includes Rosslyn,
but the promise Of reduction Of rates
on the Walnut service in this area
together with reductions for both local
and extended service in the area to
be covered by the new exchange Is
containd in the announcement.
Colvin I. Kephart, chairman Of the
Arlington County Public Utilities
Commission, said the rate reductions,
resulting from several months Of nego-
tiations with the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. Of Virginia,
will benefit approximately 1900 sub
scribers in zones 2, and 4 and effect
an annual saving Of approximately
$1,000 to subscribers.
Further reductions. to be made
upon completion Of the new exchange
at a cost of 100000, will affect ap-
proximately 400 subscribers in Aurora
Hills, Virginia Highlands, Arlington
Ridge, South Washington, Oak Crest
and Club Manor, he said. Because of
the comparatively short distance be-
tween the proposed new office and
Alexandria it is expected that the
toll charges between these two ex-
changes will be reduced to cents.
Examples Cited.
Citing examples Of the new rates,
Mr.. Kephart explained:
THE present individual residence
rate of $3.50 for Walnut service will
become $3.50 and the present Walnut
rates of 81 and $3.50 will become S.
The Clarendon individual line resi-
dence rates of $425 and S375 will
become $3.75 and $3.25, respectively.
"Other classes of service in Ger
tain zones" he said, will also be
reduced and mileage charges applying
to service in the area outside of the
fiat rate zones will be substantially
reduced. With establishment of the
Office at Aurora Hills arrangements
will be made in the Clarendon tele-
phone plant and a reduction effected
in the Sc rate on the Walnut service
in the primary zone surrounding the
Clarendon central Office. The exact
amount Of this reduction will be an
nounced later"
Other members of the Arlington
County Public Utilities Commission,
who conducted negotiations with OIL
cials Of the telephone company. are
Paul E. Schaub, chairman Of the
Telephone Committee; G. o. Basham,
James E. Chinn and Albert M. Jones.
Evening star., 1935-10-08
World Is Friendly, If Curious,
7.FoOt e.. u. Instructor Finds
". X. Wimsatt Kno,Us
Ans,Uers to All Ques.
tiOns about Height.
Queries Same Euen IL,
Alier, Languages-a,d
So Are EjaculatiOns.
BY JOHN J. DAILY.

Friendliest place in all this world
Is the land of 7-foot-tall, according
to w. K. Wimsatt, instructor in Eng
lish at Catholic University, who COM
mands that height.
So few men are feet tall, and no
women, it would seem Offhand that
this would be a lonely state of exist
ence, like lone pine overlooking the
shrubbery.
Mr.. WimSatt says "No." He ought
to know. He has found that from
that vantage point the world below
takes on a supreme smile of friendli-
ness, each upturned face poised for q
question.
After 10 years of it-he hit z feet
when he was II. Mr.. Wimsatt knows
all the answers to $4,000 questions
asked him, for the little curiosities on
tallness all run to the same level:
Pardon me, mister, I hate to be
inquisitive, and hope I'm not offen-
Sive, but I'd like to ask just one ques-
ton: How tall are you?"
"Is it raining up there, buddy?"
ana Gnen CnOSe SlQe TeIIldEhS
"Battcha he'll be a lotta help tuh
his mutther when he grows up
Interest Is Kindly.
Only rarely does Mr.. Wimsatt feel
like he'd willingly choke somebody
AS a rule, the general run of men
and women are just kindly and in
terested. When they ask fellow 7
feet tall if he has TO have his clothes
made to order, if he can tuck himself
in a Pullman berth. what size shoes
he wears, and If he has brother who
takes after him, they mean well.
They are showing an interest in life,
and a spark of imagination. They
wonder how it would be with them If
they were feet tall.
To be feet tall Is a distinction
in any land. Even when Mr. WimSatt
went to France he found the same
old questions, the same old gestures,
the same nodding of heads. and the
same amazement written in the eyes
OF the coquetes: "One big giantl"
The street urchins of Paris even
asked him if it were raining up there.
So many times has this 7-foot
specimen of manhood heard the old
questions that he has his answers all
ready. When a stranger approaches
him and begins the litany, Mr.. VIM
Satt answers before the questions are
asked:
Seven feet tall, 200 pounds, %
years old, single, and what else
would you like to know"
The mere fact that he stands z
feet tall has whiled away many an
otherwise lonely hour on railroad
train, travelling across country.
A man 7 feet tall is about foot
and a half above the rest of human
ity, taking it by and large.
When Giant Meets Giant.
Only once in his career has Mr..
Wimsatt met up with a stranger the
same height-on the public highway.
That was one day walking down
Broadway in New York. Ahead Of
him came man, head and shoulders