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Evening star., 1936-04-03

s1,OOOO00. She Is married to Ben
Bard.
Corinne Griffith. wife of Walter
Morosco, is another shrewd ex-film
star who sank her money in the buy
ing and selling of houses.
Harry Carey has successfully bridged
the gap between past and present and
does a great piece of work as Kit Car
son in Suffers Gold"
Norma Talmadge. married to George
Jessel. has been making personal ap-
pearances. Her sister. Constance Tall
madge, is married to Townsend Netch-
er and lives in domestic tranquility In
Santa Monica.
Tom Moore Away.
Tom Moore's last screen role was a
small bit with Edmund Lowe at Uni
versal. His present whereabouts are
unknown. Owen Moore is dead. and
Matt Moore. a pathetic figure dwelling
on his past glory. lives at Santa
Monica.
Antonio Moreno. who played in both
the English and Spanish versions of
Storm Over the Andes" at present is
travelling in Spain :. Lloyd Hughes,
recently seen by film fans in The Man
Who Reclaimed His Head" OCCASION
ally works in pictures. but has been
spending much of his time on the
stage Douglas MacLean is
motion picture producer at Paramount
. Dorothy and Lillian Gish are on
the stage.
Thomas Meighan made a fortune
during the Florida real estate boom,
and is mixing with the horsey set on
Long Island . Alice Joyce has re-
tired from the screen for a permanent
role as Mrs Clarence Brown May
MacAvoy MRS. Harry Tierney), and
Viola Dana (Mrs. Jimmy Thomson
wife of the golf professionally are also
in the contented home-girl category.
William Haines, who retired" from
pictures with the advent of talkies,
conducts highly profitable interior
decorating business in Hollywood
Dorothy Davenport MRS. Wallace
Evening star., 1936-04-03
FIRST 0PERETTA GIVEN
BY DEAL JUNIOR HIGH
HTea House of Sing Lo" Has Open
ing-To Be Repeated at
School This Evening.

THE Alice Deal Junior High School
gave its first operetta, THE Tea
House of Sing Lo," last evening at
8:15 in the school auditorium. It will
be repeated tonight. One hundred
and sixty-f1ve students made up the
cast and orchestra. Over a thousand
tickets were sold.
In the operetta ancient China and
modern America match wits. Business
Is dull at the tea house of Sing Lo,
played by John Wright, due to the
cinServatiSm of the owner, who de-
tests modern advertising methods. J.
Mortimer Maxwell, proprietor of the
"Sho-Glo Electric Signs" portrayed
by Lowell Cooper, arrives to capture
the China market. He Is accompanied
by his wife and daughter June and
q salesman, Bert Mckee, who succeeds
in selling an electric sign to Sing
Lo," wins June as his bride and as
sures the prosperity of the tea house.
Daughter June is Katie Rutherford
and Mama Maxwell is Annabel James.
Richard Pollock plays the part of en-
terprising Mckee.
Evening star., 1936-04-03
1.-THE POOR NUT" GOES
BIG AT EASTERN HIGH
Ernest Wilson, in Title Role, and
Betty Stevenson, as Vamp,
Feature,

THE POOR NUT" which also Is
the name Of the play presented
last night by the Eastern High School
students and written by Elliot Nugent,
conquered his inferiority complex,
caused by noodle soup. and became
our hero when he won his event in the
track meet for Ohio State against
Wisconsin.
All those that braved the stormy
weather to expose themselves to a Sc
ries Of faux pas and timid soul antics
Of THE Poor Nut" serious minded
Phi Beta Kappa aspirant cleverly
acted by Ernest Wilson, contracted
severe case of laughter. He squirmed
and blushed through two and a half
acts under high pressure exerted by
the an-headed college vamp, Betty
Stevenson. who wooed him and wooed
him only 20 have him marry the SYM
pathetic. blue-eyed dream girl, Louise
Whitfield.
The acting honors were carried off
by Miss Stevenson, who possessed all
the fire and temperament people with
red hair are supposed to possess, plus
the nack of portraying a yamp, as
she should be- Mr.. Wilson and Miss
Whitfield also exhibited creditable tai
ent. They were ably supported by
Charles Dalryumple. professor; David
Fegan, captain of Wisconsin team; Joe
Weyrick. Ohio State captain; Letcher
Connell, cheer leader; Harold Leroy,
coach; Vernon Acree and William
Guerrant, students; Jack Balsinger,
trainer; Neill Raab and others.
Miss Pauline Knee has guided her
players through their roles in fine
style. The costumes and scenery were
unusually good. The lighting arrange
ment was very impressive The Or
chestra was under the direction of
Mrs. Carrie " Byram and Max Kobre
was concert meister.
The performance will be repeated
tonight at o'clock. with substitutions
in leading roles, the players being
double cast because of the number of
dramatic enthusiasts. F. G. K.
Evening star., 1936-04-03

mark more than two years ago in New
York, it wasn't even considered a sue
cess. But now, after its thousandth
performance, Tobacco Road" is ad-
vertised with the phrase, Last years
Better Hurry!"
Advertising catch lines may change.
but ''the plays the thing" as time
marches on!'
THE New York Drama Critic Circle
will hold its first annual dinner at
the Hotel Algonquin next Sunday
when Maxwell Anderson will receive
the critics award for his drama, Win
terset," the current attraction at the
National Theater. In addition to the
dramatist and the II members of the
circle, the guests at the dinner will
include Guthrie McClintic, producer
and director of "Winterset"; 10 Mel
ziner, who designed settings for the
play; Burgess Meredith and Margo,
who have the leading roles, and Henry
Varnum Poor, who designed the silver
plaque to be awarded for 1.-The best
American play of the year"
At 1890 o'clock Sunday night there
will be a coast-to- coast broadcast over
the blue network of the National
Broadcasting Co.
y X y
WE KNOW it's Spring because Ina
w Ray Hutton and her "Melodears"
are just around the corner. Miss
Hutton, whose annual visit here is
timed to coincide with the blooming
of the Potomac's banks. is getting set
to make a whirlwind appearance at
the Earle next week.
You know Ina. She's the one that
made that Variety Club outing on the
Potomac such a roaring success last
Summer. She's small and blond and
very much like an animated female
Stokowski. She raises the roof with
her orchestra and never gets away un-
der dozen encores. Her appearances
here are devaStating-especially to the
younger boys in the older colleges.
Her stage door is invariably riot of
budding sophomoreS. Last season she
signed more autographs than Buddy
Rogers. She's cagy showwoman.
X
NORMAN PYLE has worked this
town up into an absolute fever
pitch over The Great Ziegfeld." When
it opens up Sunday night, April 19, at
the National. there won't be an empty
seat in the house if noise and confu-
sion and eager questions have any,
thing to do with it. Yesterday five
people called, wanting to know when
the film was coming. Late in the
afternoon John Worth appeared with
two bottles of pop labeled, The Great
ziegfeld-50 stars-300 girls" 1t
sounds swell.
Evening star., 1936-04-03

6TOaQWdys Ills was WHICH, Vic Ccl -
sey Lily was not flower but reign
Ing star. This banner of success was
frequently and proudly flung from the
marques housing many of the finest
from the Frohmans.
Think of it, 100 nights on Broad
way" before the advent of the dragon
that was to devour, in one fell gulp,
the spoken drama. This Fafner from
FINLAND who, like an amoeba, was
to divide into additional destructive
forces of the theater, which came to
be known as radio and television. And
now that the theater has been par
TALLY ruined by this march OF the
machine age across the boards OF the
spoken drama, what do we find? A
long, loud laugh from twentieth CEN
tury theatrical producers for the for
mer high-water mark of long runs.
"A hunded nights on Broadway"
Let us, as former popular American
said, look at the record" of the
theater, after it was infected by the
lethal bite of dat ole debbil," cinema.
Rearing their heads high above the
ridiculous post-movie Signpost OF sue
cess, "one hundred nights on Broad
way" are hundreds of plays. Most
of them, without any great shouting,
achieved well over 500 nights on
Broadway, and some over thousand
nights on Broadway. Heading the list
is the pacemaker, "Abie's Irish Rose, Z"
with over $500 performances. followed
by 'Lightnin'," with over half that
amount, followed closely by the only
living contender and ascendant of the
rungs of records on the theatrical
ladder of fame, Tobacco Road"
On the oath of March Tobacco
Road" which is now in it's third year
on Broadway, reached the thousand
performance mark. The millionth
ticket for this epic American folk play
has been sold on Broadway. But to
the million that have seen it in New
York, must be added the hundreds of
thousands who have seen Henry Hull,
the original New York star. on the
tour which brings him to Washington,
said trek" having been inaugurated
over one year ago on the West Coast
and having played to well over an
other half-million people. To this
must be added an additional quarter
of million souls who have been either
purified or debased by the doin's of the
Testers and their neighbors along To
bacco Road" through the efforts of a
third company which started trouping
the country last Summer from coast
to coast and are playing at this writing
in Albany, N. Y.
"One hundred nights on Broadway"
Why, when Tobacco Road" chalked
up this once widely ballyhooed century
Evening star., 1936-04-03
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Army Band, in the Army
Band Auditorium at AIS pm. today.
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy. conducting.
PROGRAM.
"Our Director" march -Bigelow
THE Three Bears" phantasy- Coates
From the fairy story. "Goldilocks
and the Three Bears"
where the Silvery Colorado Wends
Its Way" -Avril
Played as a cornet solo by Ralph
OStrom
I'm Putting All My Eggs in One
Basket" from Follow the Fleet"
Berlin
THE Mill" Jensen
Alpine Sunset" waltz King
Tenth Olympiad." rlarch--De Luca
THE Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1936-04-03
FRENCH FILM FEATURED

q" E PASTEUR," a French film made
in France, particularly interest
ing because OF the current success OF
The Story of Louis Pasteur," will be
the feature at the Foreign Cinema
League in Pierce Hall tomorrow eve
ming at o'clock. The outstanding
French actor. Sascha Guitry, plays
the title role
The French is spoken slowly and
clearly, but there are subtitles in Eng
lish. lie Sud" short subject also
in French. will supplement the fea-
ture.
Evening star., 1936-04-03

to have provided
for the future.
Grace Cunard.
t a m Gus serial
queen Of silent
days, is retired
and living on a
small ranch IN
the San Fernando
Valley. She is
married to Jack
Shannon. horse
trainer and movie
stunt man.
Billie Dove. wife
of Robert G. Ken
a S on, rancher
o~J noarabor 0f
Evening star., 1936-04-03
BOYS AND GIRLS IN PLAY
Park View Performers to Appear
This Evening.

4ul6 evening"
FORTY children of Park View Com
munity Center will present a new
music play with dances entitled The
Sealed Secret" written and directed
by Miss Beryl Shannon this evening
at 8 o'clock in Park View Auditorium,
Newton and Warder streets northwest
Dances in the play will be under the
direction of Miss Margaret Carmody.
The group is known as the Park View
Performers.
Among the boys and girls taking
part in the play are Estelle Cheswick,
Silvia Pons. Theresa Pons, Norma
Yonteff, Esther Berman, Esther Kra-
mer, Dorothy Gosselin, Pearl Marcus,
Henrietta Kishter, Michael Condor,
Frank Condor, Milton Rosenfield,
Freddie Kramer, Marie Wellens, Mat
tie Baxter. Margaret Mcdowell. May
Tenn, Esther Rose, Dorothy Erich
and many others.
Evening star., 1936-04-03

Reid is a producer and writer at
Republic Studio.
Madge Bellamy. one Of the most
beautiful screen actresses of 10 years
ago, lives with her father, ]. M. Phil
pot, at Santa Monica old-timer
Charlie Chaplin is still keeping to
the forefront in Modern Times .
Laura La Plante. now Mrs. Irving
Asher. has been making pictures in
England.
tCopyrisht. 1896. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1936-04-03
Medal-or Death.

There used to exist in the Austrian
Army medal given only to officers
who, for some good reason. disobeyed
a higher command on the field of bat
tle-and succeeded. But if he failed
instead of medal, he was shot.
Evening star., 1936-04-03
Actress Is Stricken.

HOLLYWOOD, April 3 (P).-Toni
Lanier, known as "the girl with the
million-dollar legs" underwent an
emergency appendicitis operation yes
terday. She was stricken while work.
ing in "The Great Ziegfeld."
Evening star., 1936-04-03
Old Times Of Screen
Found in Varied Careers
Clara Bow Still Ranching, Kerrigan Lives at
Ease, Billy Dove Happy in Domes-
ticity-Some Are Rich.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oLLYWoOD April NANA)-What the old-timers doing
| happily
to ranching
Evening star., 1936-04-03
Over Million Tickets
Sold for Tobacco Road"
Play Coming Here Next Week Has Also
Played Over One Thousand Per-
fOrmances-Hull Starred
BY F. de S. MELCHER,

following article written by Norman Maxwell one-tme MGM
tell that Tobacco Road" coming
is o reminds Nationals
/ weeks is Maxwell
that 100 nights Broadway! the
tng sgnalze
Evening star., 1936-04-03

Inc covered wagon ana many OH
Hollywood and watches filmdom's pass
ing parade. satisfied with full career
of achievement. He is one of the few
old time stars with sufficient acumen
Evening star., 1936-12-04
AIMEE PICTURED
AS THREAT TARGET
Attorney Says Attempt to
Declare Her Insane
May Be Made.
~ the Associated Press.

~ TIC AeoOCAatco EAV~'
LOS ANGELES, December A.
Aimee Semple Mcpherson. blond
pastor of strife-swept Angelus Tenn
pie, was pictured by her attorney to.
day as the target of threats to declare
her insane and usurp control OF her
Foursquare Gospel Church.
The threats alleged Lawyer Willedd
Andrews, were made by Jacob Model,
red-haired former counsel for the tenn
pie and reputed suitor of Mrs. Nc
Pherson's daughter, Roberta Semple.
Answering $l50,000 SANDER suit
hled against him by Roberta. Andrews
charged in special defense that:
disclosures concerning Mrs. McPher.
sons kidnapping years ago, when she
said she was seized at Los Angeles
beach and held captive in Mexican
hideout.
2. Model demanded Sister Aimee
fire Giles Knight. temple business
manager. and name Roberta presi-
dent with herself only as treasurer.
Andrews dismissal was to be required,
with Model, Roberta and Rheba
Crawford, associate pastor, receiving
long-term contracts.
8. Unless Mrs. Mcpherson complied,
she was threatened with suits to place
Angelus Temple in receivership. de-
clare her insane and set aside $780,
900 note and trust deed she holds.
Fifty persons. 1t was asserted. would
sue to quiet title to the temple prop
erty.
As result of the assorted threats,
Andrews stated, he was discharged as
Mrs. McPherson's attorney and she
signed the contracts. but these since
have been terminated and he has been
re-employed.
Sister Aimee is expected to appear
before Miss Crawford's attorney to-
morrow to give a deposition in the
$10S0,0 900 slander suit brought
against her by her former pulpit aide
and one-time Angel Of Broadway"
Evening star., 1936-12-04
|W.P.A. RO[LSS[ASH
||SUP PTOROOSEvE[T
Mayors Cable for Aid in
Blocking Reduction Due
December IS.

Intervention by President Roosevelt
appeared today to be the only means
Of forestalling q scheduled slash In
w. p. A. rolls on December Is. A.
surance has been given. however, by
Audrey williams, acting w. P. A. ad.
ministrator, that such curtailment will
be applied only to non-relief employees,
the administrative staff and workers
having other sources of support.
A plea for the Presidents interces-
sion in the matter was cabled to him
yesterday by a committee of the United
States Conference of Mayors.
Previous to their appeal to the Chief
Executive. the committee conferred
with Williams in protest against cut
Evening star., 1936-12-04
IA CAUGHT IN RAID

One man was charged with permit.
ting gaming. and 13 others with, dis.
orderly conduct after . raid last night
at the Printers Club. 1900 block Of
street.
TIE men were released under bond,
anG were TO be arraisned In Police
Court today. They were arrested by
serets. William ]. Liverman and d. q.
Fletcher.
Evening star., 1936-12-04
tink about 1s4. 900 persons Of the rolls

ting about $4,000 persons OF the rolls
this month.
Amy suggestion Of wholesale dis.
nnissals or substantial reductions at
this time u simply out OF the question"
Mayor La 0uardta Of New York, chair
man, said. Every city Ia carrying tLs
share and more Of the load, and can
not assume additional burdens"
The Mayor admitted, however, that
II the reductions are kept within the
classifications named above it will not
be necessary to discontinue any worth
while projects.
The Conference Of Mayors con.
Evening star., 1936-12-04
Deepest Oil Well.

The Texas Gulf Coasts deepest oil
well-10,5 $50 feet-is located north Of
Galveston. It soon will be drilled
deeper.
Evening star., 1936-12-04

sistently has fought for highest pos
sible Federal relief appropriations.
Evening star., 1936-12-04
10000 Elephants in Uganda.

Uganda, under British protectorate,
in Africa, a land a little bigger than
Minnesota, has, it. is estimated. about
10000 elephants with an annual
killing-off of about 1000.
Evening star., 1936-12-04

Small fox farms are increasing rap
idly in Norway.
The Washington times., 1936-01-10

The. craving train M owe q
faster. The stocky figure was
lost 10 her. She was lost to him.
Lost. lost to everything. to
Gene, to hope, to life! Why had
she come? Why hadn't she said
something? Going to a girls
school. she, Christine Cooper,
who had put childish things be-
hind her; who knew life and
love. :.
Over her head was the emer-
gency cord, the cord you pulled
If you wanted to stop the train,
If you just had to get off,.
She lifted her head to look for
It, out couldn't see. She was
blinded with tears. She brushed
them away with the back of her
gloved hand. A conductor was
passing. He looked at her curl
ously. She was making a show
Of herself, crying in public.
She turned her head, wiped
her eyes carefully. Then she
stepped over the bags and suit
cases that still partially blocked
the vestibule where she had been
standing.
Dad had asked her to go.
without making any fuss.
Maybe, if she did this for him,
then later. -.
Very quietly she walked into
the car, found lower 10.
And so Adolphus Cooper got
around to" sending his girl to a
fashionable school, at last.
"Debutante daughter OF Adolf
plus Cooper. :"
Her piquant little face, with its
mop Of tawny curls in the society
columns.
He visualized it all now. His
friends of the old Klondike days.
few Of whom had made as much
as he, had set up their girls IN
San Francisco society. If it was
the thing to do, he'd do it. too.
But Adolphus had delayed too
long.
Almost before the train was
pulling into Grand Central sta
ton, he, who had never been
sick, had taken to his bed in the
new house in Piedmont,
Before Christie had settled into
the routine of classes and con-
certs, gymnasium and lectures at
Miss Clayton's-on-the-H Hudson, he
was sorry that he had sent her
at all. ,
Perhaps he sensed that his end
was near. He must have fretted
about things that he had left
undone. He got out Of bed, de-
termined to waste no more time.
He collapsed on the stairs, on
the way to the waiting car.
At first Nettie refused to be-
lieve that it was serious.
But he was so well just a few
days ago! And he's always been
so strong. Surely it's just a bad
cold"
But the word pneumonia"
frightened her. She insisted that
they take him to hospital. Pack
of fool nonsense!" Adolphus said,
but he went. He had taken a
fancy to young DR.. Latham.
That was something else to
worry Nettie He was talking
too much, he who had never
talked before, and such COM
MON talk, about gambling joints,
The Washington times., 1936-01-10
" "A Girls Struggle for Enduring Love
''LOVe'S Litany''
Detrauded of Inheritance
Christine Fights Way
To Social Heights
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
BIZ HAZEL LIVINGSTON

Christine Cooper II and ovey is the daughter of the
rich and eccentric Adophus Cooper, Uho made has money
IN the Klondke never speaks of the past and hates cities
While he dreams of the great things he w do for Christie
by and b. she becomes secretly engaged to childhood
Sweetheart Gene Dubois Cho promptly breaks her heart
to the city aoithom bidding Christie good,by.
Crushed at first By Genes seeming desert0m Of her,
mental poem from him. Aunt Nettie Adophu second oCe
and Christies late mothers sister, returns from trip '0'th
her daughters Isabelle and Adele Christie does not care
for Aunt Nettie but tries to hide her feelings
As to the girls she does not pretend to like them nor
then her, 1t said that Isabelle the eder ,1os about 49,
eGrs older than Adele Oho blond and pretty and always
SDeaks of herself as GIRL
The Washington times., 1936-01-10


and dance halls, and fights, In
the gold-rush days, even mention
ing Mimi. lat least he could
have spoken of her by her name,
Anne, instead of that cheap nick
nance.
"A great ballad singer. she
was" he was saying one day
when she came into the room
quietly, they fought to hear her.
I remember the times when the
floor would be thick with the
gold they'd throw. AND she'd
stand there by the platform, her
in her pale blue silk dress with
the red peoples at her belt, and
her yellow hair all fluffy. back
of the thick. straight bang she
had, and she'd laugh, and they'd
yell for more"
CHAPTER x
Doctor, you must tell him not
to tire himself. talking so much!"
she had said sharply-too sharply,
and the doctor had smiled. DR..
Latham, to whom she had tried
so hard to give a different i'm.
preston.
Really, Adolphus, DR.. Latham
will misunderstood! You see, my
sister"
You've no call to be ashamed
Of your sister," he had cut in
angrily. "She was a good girl,
Mimi was! yes, a good girl. .
but gay. I kept her down too
much. .Mebbe if I hadn't taken
her up to the mountains she
might have lived longer She had
only the little one for company
she fretted. But I was fool
then; I didn't see it. A jealous
fool. Well. it's done now. It
puts me in mind of the Net
tie, you waitin' for sometime"
It worried her so. DIR. Latham,
Adele's friend, listening to those
awful stories. e.
She didn't have long to worry.
That night Adolphus went into
the sleep-coma, the doctor called
it-from which he was to rouse
only once again.
They sent for Christie then.
She came by plane. A fragile,
white-faced girl in a smart New
York costume, and dark circles
under her eyes. Incredible, the
change that a few short weeks
had made.
She sat by the old mans bed,
in an agony of waiting, for hours
that knew no measure. He lay
like a log, surrounded by nurses,
dollhouse flowers, a nearly hysteri-
cal Nettie, and her two dutiful,
reluctant daughters.
And none of them did he know.
The doctor came and went.
When he came, Adele reused her.
self from her bored turning Of the
pages of a magazine. She fol-
lowed him into the hall, asking
him questions.
Nettie said, "Dr. Latham, Adele's
friend, is a very distinguished
physician. We are very fortunate
to have him."
Hes not doing much!"
Christie! Nobody could do
more! Besides, your fathers age
is against him. I'm sure that if
anything - anything could be
done"
Christie went into the hall.
Adele, pretty, charmingly groomed,
had her hand on the doctors arm,
smiling up at him as she talked.
Christie must have burst upon
them most ungraciously. She
cared nothing for them or what
they thought of her. It was of
the sick man that she was think
ing.
IT want consultation, or what
ever you call it! I want you to
get another doctor to see my
father-lots of them, the best!"
she cried in a voice that was loud
and harsh, and went echoing
alarmingly down the white halls.
(To Be Continued
Copyright, 1896. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1936-01-10
NOW READ ON

She kissed him. Felt his stubby mustache his slightly
bristly cheek "Good-by Dad darling"
Slowly the train moved.
From the platform she watched his stocky dark clad figure
saw the big soft hat the broad expanse of boiled shirt