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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
If RanShee Shows Up
It's Worth $4,000

until I was within q foot Of her.
None Of US spoke and each of
US was separated from the other
by about two feet.
"The face Of the figure was
concealed by the drapery and it
provided its own light. watched
It for about 10 seconds and then,
instantly, 1t was gone. / believe
I should have spoken; certainly
/ was not alarmed. We turned
instinctiveIy and there, in the
bedroom going down through
the floor rapidly, was the figure,
then up to its chest"
Pretty said his sons chum de
clined thenceforth to sleep in the
fiat. Dunninger commented:
''It would be worth the $4,000
to meet q real live ghost. have
always been able to prove them
frauds"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
Dr.. KnechteI Headed
Survey Field Force

Hugh D. Miser, chief Of the fuel
section of the Geological Survey,
today said DR.. Knetchel was head
Of a field force working the Little
Rocky Mountain area in Mon
tana.
DR.. Knechtel, he said, lives at
1921 Newark Ave. N. w. MiSer
said he had been informed Of the
three mems death and that one
more man was still missing. He
said he thought Rowles was a
temporary worker hired by DR..
Knetchel for the work.
Mrs. Knetchel was not at home
this morning, according to MiSer.
He said she may be staying with
friends.
Miser added that Brockunier
and Baker were planning to OBJ
tain their doctors degrees through
the work Of the expedition. He
said he understood searcherS are
still looking for the missing man
and that the bodies of the dead
men had been taken to a Harve
(Mont.) undertaking establish.
ment,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
G0ER|NG HOST.
T0L|NDBERGH
AT DINNER
Air Minister
Plans Boar Hunt
For Filler

BERLIN, July % G.N.s).-Col.
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
had luncheon today at the home
of Air Minister General Hermann
with elm Goering, Chancellor
Adolf Hitler's right hand man.
If Colonel Lindbergh accepts
General Goering's second invita-
ton as he did the first, he will
become a hunter Of wild boar, for
the air minister asked the Ameri-
can flier to accompany him on
future hunt.
After the luncheon the two in
spected Goering's extensive hunt
ing collection, including boar head
trophies and long spears with
which they are killed.
Colonel Lindbergh was much
impressed by the hunting collec-
ton, and also by Goering's pet
lion, with which he played in the
basement.
Hostess was General Goering's
attractive blonde wife, the for.
mer actress, Emmy Sonneman.
High Reich air officials and lead
ing members of the American
colony and their wives were
guests.
Among those present were State
Secretary Koerner, Generals Chris
Hansen and Won Gronau, and Col.
Bodenschatz, Of German official
dom, and Major Truman Smith,
United States military attache,
Capt. Theodore J. Koenig, his as
sistant, and other American at
tacheS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
Southeast Business
Group Plans Outing

Featuring swimming, dancing
and athletic contests for which
prizes will be given, the eighth an
nual outing Of the Southeast Bust
ness Mems Association will be
held tomorrow at Chapel Point,
Md. Buses and automobiles will
leave Eighth and Pennsylvania
Avenue Southeast at 8 q. m, and
the steamer Potomac will leave
the wharf at Water and L Streets
Southwest at the same time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
Barcelona Reports
Order Restored

BARCELONA, July % U.N.SJ.
This syndicaliSt stronghold was
quiet today, with workers commit.
tees ruling the city, controlling
food and clothing problems and
otherwise administering govern.
ment.
With order restored in BARGE
Iona, government militiamen
turned to neighboring areas con.
trolled by insurgents. One column
was reported nearing SaragosSa,
to the west, intent on blasting out
the insurgents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
MAN
ESCAPES FIRE

Continued from Page u
Zortman. Hundreds Of workmen
from nearby mining camps and
farms were called to fight the
fire.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
Townsend Predicts
Woman President

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, July 28.
AS DR.. Francis e. Townsend
headed for Illinois today, his fol.
lowers here was puzzled by his re.
mark that I'VE won't have an
ideal candidate in the White
House until a woman is there"
He failed to enlarge on his state.
ment. He warned:
'If we don't assure security.
this country may soon face q
situation like that in Spain to-
day"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
Bank Of England Fire
Damages Gold Vault

LONDON, July 2s.-Fire broke
out in the gold vaults Of the Bank
of England yesterday. apparently
from a short circuit. Throngs
gathered in the streets as firemen
wearing gas masks extinguished
the flames.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-28
Newell Must Idle

Bob Newell. left-fielder and
manager Of the Mt. Rainier
GrayS, is out Of Providence Hos
pital where he has been con-
fined for the last two weeks. A
350-pound casting fell on his foot
and he had to have his center
toe amputated.
Evening star., 1936-11-21

rangSand shows the actor-once a
saxophonist-the tricks of the trade.
Director Mitchell LeiSen-one of the
towns best dancerS-gyrates rhyth-
mically with the hot" music. Being
a night club, the air is thick with
smoke Carole Lombard coughs. The
actress has shed pounds of weight and
looks far from we'll. II have some
sort of streptococci in my throat" "
Carole tells me- And it hurts. My
doctor wants me to give up smoking.
He says one or the other will kill me"
Janet Gaynor is eating lunch with
Director William Wellman on the side
lines of "A Star Is Born" Not caviar
and champagne, as you might expect,
but milk and sandwich. Miss GAY
nor plays the role of a film-struck
waitress who meets a famous star
Fredric March-marries him. becomes
film luminary. But while she Is
going up, her husband goes down. The
end of the story is not written yet
March may stage a comeback-or
shoot himself-it all depends on
Scripters Dorothy Parker and Alan
Campbell.
Lunch over, shooting begins in the
kitchen of Owen Moore. playing the
part of a director. In reply to a re-
mark from Waitress Gaynor, Mr.
March has to drop and break plate.
They're real china and cost IS
apiece" agonizes the prop man-after
the scene is shot 10 times and eight
plates are broken.
Waiting for her cue is Newcomer
Elizabeth Jenns, who is very nervous,
but won't admit it. Miss Gaynor helps
with sympathy and advice. 'T feel
such a veteran in the business" she
tells me- 1--WE been in it 9 or 10 years
But I'll never forget how nervous l
was when I started"
Would it trouble you ladies very
much if we returned to work?' in
quireS Wellman, with deceptive sweet
ness. And your correspondent departs
hurriedly.
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Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1936-11-21

headlines the vaudeville bill, con-
tributing her outstanding number in
the form of THE One Rose" reputed
To be Washington's favorite senti-
mental tune at this particular tick
of the clock. That, ard Miss Good
elle's three other numbers, seemed to
be quite all right with the audience.
Second spot on the vaudeville bill
goes to Cappy Barra and his har-
monica swing ensemble. a natural
amalgamation of the newly popular
wind instrument and the latest con-
ception of what should be done to
jazz up jazz. That's not to imply
that the group plays only jazz, for
the act reaches its climax with THE
Flight Of the Bundle Bee" that bit
of classical swing which, Mr.. Barra
says, his band alone has mastered.
The Maganinis, a couple of men
with muscles, got quite hand for
the strength and rhythm of their act.
Cookie Bowers, Lew Dutkers and
Jean and Joan completed the stage
show, which did not have to be out
standing in view of the picture.
THINGS one learns in the course
of a day: Every one is invited
down to see the Gold Diggers"-12,
count them, 12-when they land
here at II o'clock Tuesday morning
at Washington Airport as the guests
of Warner Bros. The girls are going
to be on view, on the air and on the
stage before they leave town :. The
stage is all set. and the tables soon
will be, for the Variety Clubs third
annual dinner and dance at the Will
lard starting at 1880 tonight. Arthur
De T'itta has arranged the seating of
the 500 guests so that every one
will be at the ringside Dorothea
Lewis, who insists every one shall know
the Civic Theater, is giving two per-
formances of Kind Lady today at
Wardman; one this afternoon at bar
gain prices, the other tonight at
regular prices Irene. Carter Bar
rons secretary, looks nice nibbling
chocolate ice cream cones The
Blackfriars' Guild is giving a "friar
fair tonight at Guild Hall.
Evening star., 1936-11-21
MCKINLEY FALL PLAY
SPRIGHTLY PORTRAYED
"Rollo's Wild Oat" About Rich
Young Man Who Wants to
Play Role of Hamlet.

r OLLO'S WILD OAT," being the
tribulations of rich young man
who wants to play Hamlet, as chron-
icled by Clare Hummer, was this years
choice of the Mckinley High Dramatic
Club for its Fall production, and the
players acquitted themselves in ade-
quate fashion last evening. While the
performers did not always adhere to
the accepted tenets of infection, the
production provided an entertaining
evening as the histrionic aspirations
of Rollo Webster, their partial realiza-
tion and subsequent discard were por-
trayed in sprightly fashion.
The prosperous fellow with the yen
to do a Gielgud (or a Howard) was
the concern of John Zearfoss, and his
was an acceptable, though quite une-
motional, enactment. Money enables
the youth to essay the gloomy Dane
easily enough, but grandfather disap-
proves and telegram yanks our hero
from the middle of a first-night per-
formance to rush to the side of his
supposedly moribund progenitor When
the ruse is discovered. a decision is
made to forget the boards and con-
centrate on marriage with Goldie
MacDuff, who would rather embroider
initials than play Ophelia, anyway.
The latter timorous thespian found
Sylvia Feldman turning In a thor
oughly plausible effort, with the same
estimate merited of Jack McNiels
work as the theatrical manager,
though dialect was an off-and-on af-
falr-l1ttle lost by forgetting it. The
hypochondrial grandparent enabled
Syndor Hodges to deliver one of the
best-acting bits of the evening. while
other capable performances were con-
tributed by Addison Clay as the ur-
bane "gentleman's gentleman" Flea
nor Hayton, playing Rollo's sister, Sue
Burnett, Nora Horton, Raymond Skel-
ton, Bruce Rowzie, Virginia Petty and
Sidney Clark.
"Rollo's Wild Goat" will be repeated
this evening in the school auditorium,
with musical selections furnished by
an accomplished Mckinley orchestra,
under direction Of Dore Walten. Cur
tain at y. c. A. M.
Evening star., 1936-11-21
WESTERN STUDENTS
PRESENT I'm Already"
Two-Act Operetta Entertaining
Story With Delightful Musi-
cal Numbers.

"TN ARCADY," a two-act operetta
was entertainingly presented
Thursday night by the Music Depart
ment of Western High School. The
production, story not unlike many
others, proved to be delightful offer
ing. thanks largely to several talented
vocaliSts.
Already is an ancestral estate trans
formed into model farm by Congress
man James Woodbine. with college
Among these, laboring incog, is Jack
Hunter who is seeking a simple country
girl to love him for what he is and
not his money. Although under sus-
picion. Jack is shielded from Constable
Bean by Prudence Briar, town postmis-
tress, and her niece Jane, telephone
operator.
Woodbine arrives from washington
with his daughter and a bevy of young
lady clerks. Confiding in Jack, he ex-
presses desire for his daughter Vir-
ginia 10 marry a farmer, presumably
Ebenezer Riggs, the scientific farmer.
Virginia and Jack lead the way,
clearing the complications and them
selves uniting for the happy ending.
Alfred Stokes vocal performance was
particularly noteworthy with Mar
garetta Eckloff and Eleanor Bucci
rendering commendable contributions.
Most entertaining was the scene,
Honeymoon Trail" as performed by
Luis De Bayle and Meliscent Graeff.
E. S. K.
Evening star., 1936-11-21

more important than the stars and
takes longer to choose them.
The next scene features Clark
Gable in hanson cab drawn by two
tired looking nags. One horse is hum
cry and incites his companion to
make a dash for food Whoa, Bev-
erly Hills" cries Mr.. Gable. This in
suit halts the runaways. CBeverly
Hills" was the name of the Gable
race horse that established a record
last season at Santa Anita, always
romping home-laSt.) Clark is sport
ing sideburns and a mustache-but
no beaver. The studio decided against
whiskers despite the historical fact
that Kitty O'Shea, the lady for whom
Parnell surrendered his political ca
reer, adored them.
On the set of Paramount's Swing
High, Swing Iowa low dive in
MacMurray is playing
a trumpet. a feat more difficult than
appears at first glance, because Fred
is not really playing the instrument.
He is only going through the motions
of cheek flexing and finger twiddling.
The real music is coming from a
"play back" machine. An expert
trumpet player stands in front of
- outside the cameras
Evening star., 1936-11-21

all the time. I'm afraid it is quite
out of the question. You know you
can't juggle a child around as if he
were puppet. from one pair of hands
to another. When he starts in one
school, you can't take him from there
and put him in another for a few
months more. No, it wouldn't work
out. He is my son. too, and I love
him. ! want his childhood to be as
happy as possible. There is only one
way"
What is it?"
For Jackie himself to decide which
one he cares to live with-the other
to visit him at intervals"
Now Mary, you're being cruel.
How can you expect a 10-year-old
boy to make such decision. I
wouldn't think of even mentioning
such thing to him"
Jackie had not waited to hear
his fathers answer. Bewildered, he
had wandered out on the lawn again.
Gosh, how could fellow ever choose
between his mother and dad? At least
a mother and dad like he had. He
just couldn't do it-that was all. Why
couldn't he have them both-why
couldn't things be. Gee, he'd forgot
ten all about the dog-and there he
was out in the middle of the road, the
cars soaring him half to death
He'd have to get him in a hurry
Daddy's birthday present.
THERE was that sudden ominous
crash, the sharp pain in his head,
then everything was black He felt
strange waking up, his head felt so
light, except for that pain, and he
was so very. very tired Daddy and
Nom were there-gOSh, they were
crying-Mom had her head on Daddys
shoulder and he had his arm around
her. Old DOC" Mills was there-he
couldn't be crying, too, but he sure
looked like it. Must have a cold. He
hadn't cried when he'd taken out his
tonsils. 1t was his birthday today
his 10th birthday. Daddy had given
him a dog-a wonderful dog-but he
didn't want Daddy to 60 away again.
"Mom?"
Eyes. dear"
"How's my dog?,
Your dog? Why, he's just fine,
dear"
"Daddy?"
Eyes, son."
''You won't leave any more-you1l
stay with me all the time now?"
"I'll never go away again, Jackie, I
promise you"
Nom, too?"
eyes. dear, Nom. too"
What a birthday present! If only
his head didn't hurt so, but he was
so happy and so sleepy
It was some hours later that DR..
Mills spoke to the silent figures sitting
by the bedside John! Mary! I'm
afraid the boy Is gone"
DR.. Mills was an old man and he
had seen death many times. Now he
was seeing 1t again, but he was also
the resurrection OF some
thing very beautiful.
ecopyrisht, Pss.,
Evening star., 1936-11-21


by five. The best moments of RE
union" come when the story is laid
up on the shelf for a time, and the
cameras are focused upon the young
Dionnes. playing acrobat all over the
nursery and having a gay outdoor
tea party.
The rest of the time, however,
Reunion" seems to be devoted to
idolatry and hero-worship of the
doctor, who brought the quintuplets
into the world. DR.. Dafoe is one of
the worlds fine characters, certainly,
but he probably would be the first
to deny that he is the saccharine
citizen Jean Hersholt has to play in
Reunion" Hersholt. of course, does
not portray any one named Dafoe,
but he does play the doctor in little
Canadian village, who officiated at the
birth Of the quins, and that's enough
to make movie audiences identity
him with the real doctor.
THIS North woods doctor character
lied by Hersholt is a deification,
il the movies ever provided one. He
has brought 1000 babies into this
vale of tears. and also laughter and
social security, so the town fathers
arrange a reunion. While the party is
In progress the doctor goes about
smiling benignly, Strengthening out
all the difficulties in the lives of the
people about him-getting his nephew
out of the clutches of the wrong
woman and into the arms of the right
one, reuniting a doctor friend and
his wife; getting a small boy adopted
by governor and spreading sweetness
and light all over the lot.
The comedy in this new quintup-
let's Aim is not in the same clever
vein it was in The Country Doctor, E"
either. This time it's devoted mostly
to the fact that, since the advent of
the quins, the men of the village
shrug at twins and triplets and hope
to beat the record. Hardly in good
taste for movie theater.
Rochelle Hudson, Dorothy Peter
son, Slim Summerville and Helen Vim
son are IN tne supporting cast.
THERE Is an act on the Capitol's
stage bill which is what is known
in the patois as "the nuts" The
name of it is Charles Withers & Co.;
it is one of the few old-time vaude-
vile acts left on the boards and it is
terrific. Mr.. withers and his the
ater" and his stage effect gadgets de-
serve to have survived all of these
years. for his stint is plenty of fun.
The rest of the program is notable
for the presentation of Washington's
piano virtuoso, Glen Carow, who
makes movie audiences appreciate
the classics; for Madelyn Killeen,
who does clever comedy turn. and
for the Elida Dancers. Also this is
the week all the would-be singers in
Evening star., 1936-11-21

sort of sets out to show the world .
that the original loses nothing in the
process of transmutation from flesh
and blood into celluloid. Three Men
on Horse" is no exception to the
rule of more than reasonable sue
cess in this direction.
The original play by John Chase
Holt and George Abbott was sheer
nonsense, the kind that acquires
substance by its close approach to
the pathetic; you know, the one-more-
laugh-and-y -youll-cry kind. Well, so
precisely is the Warner Bros. render
ing of the same tale in the mad
antics of Frank McHugh, Joan
Blondell, Sam Levane, Teddy Hart,
Guy Kibbee and Allen Jenkins. Under
the direction of Mervyn Leroy, the
production keeps the faith with singu-
lar fidelity.
THREE MEN ON A HORSE" is
built around situation in which
the miraculous talent of the verse
writing Erwin for picking winning
horses unfoldS itself in a saloon be-
fore three gambling hacks who have
a desperate need for just that kind
of guy Irwin is the genius they must
have despite the fact that he has
moral ScrupleS against betting of any
kind and follows the horses only as
an inspired innocent hobby. Their
efforts to keep him in their hands
despite his yen to go back to his
home, his wife and his hack job are
iaughably ludicrous, or vice versa.
The five major parts of Three
Men on Horse" require adroit play
ing and the five principals give the
characters just what they need. Nc
Hugh. as Erwin, the bewildered sap
who cannot see the fiscal possibilities
of his great gift for picking horses
because his vision is obscured by his
minor talent for writing rotten rhymes,
is outstanding. Sam Levane as Patsy,
brains of the gambling gang. and
Joan Blondell as the tough-talking
Mabel with the figure of Venus and
q heart of gold also are splendidly
cast.
Neila Goodelle, radio songstress,
Evening star., 1936-11-21
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National I'VE Were Dancing"
"Fumed Oak" and Shadow Play" at
2:3O pm Ways and Means" Still
Life" and Family Album" at $50
pm.
Capitol-"Reunion," at l0:45 am,
1:30, 4:20, tbs and 1905 pm. Stage
shows at 1915. $40, sos and 8;55 p m.
EarIe-"Three Men on a Horse" at
IL am, 1;35. 4:25. 7:15 and 10 pm.
Stage shows at 1875, $50, $40 and
s:05 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Luckiest Girl in
the World" at ll:24 am. I'LL, 2:58,
4:45, 6:32, 8:l9 and 1906 pm.
Palace-"Come and Get It." at ~,
2:20, 4:45. ITO and $50 pm.
Be'asco-"Carnival in Flanders" at
11:55 am, 1855, 3:55. SIS. 7:55 and
9;55 pm.
Columbia-"Pigskin Parade" at
1l:40 am. 1:40. $40. $40, TAO and
$40 pm.
Metropolitan-"Wive Never Know, -
at l1:45 am, las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45
and 9:45 pm.
Ralto-'The Scoundrel." at 2. 356,
$50, 7:48 and 9:45 pm.
Little-"Bill of Divorcement," at
ll:47 am, l:52, 3:57, 5:54, Isl
and s:48 pm.
Ambassador-'The Gay Desperate" T"
at 2, 4, 6, 7:50 and $40 pm.
Tivoli-"The Devil Is a Sissy" at
1:30, $40, 5:45, 7:35 and Gas pm.
Uptown-"Stage Struck" at l:35,
3:45, 5:45, 7;35 and gas pm.
Howard-"Here Comes Carter" at
1890, 3, $50, 8 and 1920 pm. Stage
shows at LAO, 4:l0, $40 and 9:l0 pm.
Evening star., 1936-11-21


Daddy was coming home for the
first time in months and months
He was coming home because it was
his. Jackie's. 10th birthday and he
was going to bring a present that
would be-well, no one could ever
know just the things little boys
yearned for the way Daddy did.
But then no one ever could quite
compare with Dad in anything-why.
he could bat ball father than any
one Jackie had ever seen-snd hadn't
he been an all-American in college?
And if fellow did everything Dad
told him to do, why, maybe some day
he could be all-American, too-noth-
ing like Dad, of course-no one could
ever be that good.
If only Daddy wouldn't 60 away
again. But he would, he always did,
no matter how he begged or pleaded.
The last time he had even cried like
an old sissy-and Dads eyes had looked
red and watery, too, but all he'd done
was to squeeze his hand awfully tight
and say Keep your chin up, son."
Mons eyes seemed funny. too, that
day, but neither she nor Dad looked
at each other and he'd gone away
again.
IT WAS always that way Nom and
Dad never talked much any more,
except about little things that didn't
seem to mean anything to either one
Of them. Then Nom always said,
'Well, I'll leave you two alone now,"
and never came back until Dad was
saying good-by.
The crunching of gravel under
tire wheels caught the lads atten-
ton. Gosh! Here was Daddy now.
and he had the present with him. 1t
couldn't be-but it was. Now who else
but Daddy could have guessed that
he wanted a dog more than anything
In the world.
Hi there, son! Happy birthday!
Ny, but you're getting to be a big
fellow! Here now, cut that out! Do
you want to strangle your old Pappy?"
How did you know wanted
WAC-IlduCOs DoN0yt INV NAN yOu
know"
"a little bird told me. Now wait
here for me. I'm going to run into
the house for minute, I'll be right
back, fella."
X
Roy, he was really one Dad in a
million, and Nom was pretty
grand. too. There weren't many boys
who were that lucky. Maybe if he
went into the house now. while they
were together, and asked Daddy please
not 60 away. Jackie hesitated at the
door Of the library, the smile dying
on his lips. He could hear voices, his
mothers, calm and cold; his fathers
harsh, filled with emotion.
"I tell you, Mary, I'm tired of this
business. After all, the boy is as
much mine as he is yours. I have as
much right to see him and be with
him as you have. Besides he loves
me and I love him-very dearly.
After all. he Is my son--I'm his father,
can't you see what that means?
There must be some OTTER way"