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The Washington times., 1936-04-15

Now for the last questions:
II. "Oh Gee, Oh JOY" from
Resale" Since this show, the
dancing comedian who sang the
tune has died, but he is still re-
membered.
IL. "ol Man River" from
"Show Boat" No one will forget
the great Negro baritone who in
troduced what has become an
American classic.
10. It was in "Follies Of 1921"
that q paid Of comedians intro
duced a song which was to sweep
the country. It had the same title
as their names-11ow, don't you
know?
IA. Maxim Whoopee," from
''Whoopee." Another real easy
one-or don't you think so?
IS. Tulip Time" from "Follies
Of 1919" This number was q duet,
sung BY a still 'well-known tenor
and a girl who shone brilliantly
for a short time on the theatrical
sky.
The Washington times., 1936-04-15
Love on q Bel"
Is Coming

Motion pictures have been
woven around all kinds Of tri-
angles, but Love On a Bet" is the
first to present a transcontinental
love. triangle.
Gene Raymond. wendy Barrie
and Helen Broderick form the
three sides of this romantic trio
who make a 3,000-mile jaunt Of
unusual love-making and spar
king comedy.
A half-clad Raymond energies
from a sumptuous limousine in
New York's Central Park and ar
riveS in Hollywood 10 days later,
the winner of a $4,000 wager by
reaching the West Coast CARRIED
in a new suit, 500 richer and
engaged to a beautiful WigA
The fulfillment of the rOsNaetfc
specification Of his bet looks hope
less, however, with both angles
Of the triangle against him.
Playing opposite Gene Ray.
mond is Wendy Barrie, who came
to this country from England and
within a year achieved a popu.
larity which rivals that of many
Of our own fair screen heroines.
From such Broadway successes as
Band Wagon" and "As Thou.
sands Cheer" Helen Broderick
plays her third screen role in
Love On a Bet" Her debut
appearance in TOP Hat" with
Fred AStaire and Ginger Rogers,
was an immediate hit.
In other important roles of the
picture are William Collier, ST.,
Morgan Wallace and Eddie Crib.
bon, here graduated from the two.
real comedies
The Washington times., 1936-04-15

That old red barn which gave
blase Washington such a. surprise
kick q season ago win throw open
those traditional tests Of marks
manship-doors to you-to the
summer entertainment seekers on
Monday, June is, when the Road
side Theater inaugurateS its third
season with the dramatization Of
one of the worlds most famous
stories, Julec Verne's around the
World in Eighty Days"
AS has been their custom for the
past two years, the Roadside board
win hold open tryouts for the en-
tire season. The dates for these
tryouts are April 20. 81 and %.
They will take place in Room %
of Building H, George Washington
University, at 8 p. m.
The festival season is scheduled
to run IA weeks, with each produc-
ton playing q fortnight. The seem
ingly ever-popular melodramas and
REVEALS, such. as "Trilby" and
''The Henrietta" which scored so
heavily last summer, viii conSti-
tute the bulk Of the players roper
toire.
The theater will be under the
same management as before, the
managing board consisting Of
Anton Hardt and Harold Vein
berger, play directors; Edith ].
Allen; Richard p. Crekye, busi-
ness manager; Edwin H. Etz.
treasurer; Catherine Prichard,
publicity director, and Walter
Pick.
SMEET THE WIFE"
Now that their presentation Of
Lynn starling's ''Meet the Wife,
is history-and memorable his
tory, too-the Pierce Hall Play
ers are concentrating their entire
forces upon the production Of
Percy MacKaye's poetic drama,
1.-THE Scarecrow," scheduled for
presentation about the middle Of
May.
Considered by critics generally
as Mr.. MacKaye's most Signifi-
cant contribution to American
dramaturgy, "The Scarecrow; or
the Glass Of Truth: A Tragedy
of the Ludicrous''-to give the
play its full title-presentS prob.
lens in casting and staging Of
almost insurmountable magni-
tude. Under the direction Of Ina
L. Halves, however, the Players
are going ahead valantly. meet
The Washington times., 1936-04-15

the star Of Tobacco Road" con.
fessed he mumbled on the open
ing night, blurred his lines. His
alibi: the fact that script changes
eliminating profanity made him
uncertain and nervous. But
others humble without any abb.
YATES SISTERS ARRIVE
Observed at the Fox yesterday
afternoon were the Three Yates
sisters-Jerry, Carol and Lynn
watching Patricia Bowmans "Dy-
ing Swan dance and marvehng
at her artistry.
The little Yates girls, all Wash
ington entertainers, are the head
liners of the floor show at the
Shoreham this week. They have
just finished q Vitaphone Melodie
Master short for Warner Brothers
and before that were featured
with Harry ReSer'S EskimoS in
another tworeeler.
Your scribe gets o little kick
out Of their success since their
first press notices appeared here
and I was able to advise them
in the early steps Of their pro-
fessional career. They appeared q
number of times at TimeS-Herald
banquets and their first profes-
sional engagement was in the Fox
All-WaShington Summer Revue.
Good luck then to Jerry, Carol
and Lynn and customers at L.
Gardner Moore'S after dark enter
tainment may be assured they are
applauding hometown talent
when they give the Yates sisters
the big hand they deserve.
I hope to lead the cheering to-
night from a ringside table with
Patricia Bowman and Everett
Marshall as the hosts.
HOW COME 'eFAUNTLEROY"
E. M. Med" Holmes of the Tor
folk Ledger-Dispatch has been
writing a daily column for q
years. So one who has just
started his ninth annual on the
theater page bows low to . real
veteran.
While attending the H. G. Wells
Things to Come preview dinner
last week Columnist Holmes con"
fided that the man who inspired
Frances Hodgson Burnett to write
Little Lord Fauntleroy" is now
living in Norfolk.
He is, writes Ned Holmes, Albert
E. Hodgson, q nephew of the ALL
thor, and more than SO years ago
he encouraged his aunt to put
down on paper the story she out
lined to him in the parlor Of his
Norfolk home. She took his adj
vice and sold the story first to .
monthly magazine.
1t will please Mr.. Hodgson then
to know that the current screen
edition of Little Lord Fauntleroy"
will make more money and achieve
greater success than all other
"Fauntleroy's" Of stage and screen,
combined.
DEMOCRATS TO ACT
Washington young Democrats
are going on the stage in a big
way. They have hired the Ma.
tional Theater for the week Of
June 3, and will present "Kapital
Kapers'' q musical revue.
Last night the D. c. Division Of
Young Democratic Clubs Of Amer
lea met at the willard to make the
preliminary arrangements for this
semipolitical stage frolic.
The entire cast of 200 will be
chosen from the club membership
Of 1000. All members interested
please communicate with Miss
HOFFMAN, Room 202, Albee Build
ing, Fifteenth and G Streets.
The production, brought from
New York intact and supervised
by the Jerome Cargill Enterprises,
will be under the personal direc-
ton of William Holbrook, whose
intriguing dance routines In
'Venus in Silk" and the "Hasty
Pudding" revues delighted Wash
ington audiences this current
season.
The Washington times., 1936-04-15
Drama School Pupils
Are Hanpden 'Supes'

Steve Cochran has engaged q
number Of students and graduates
Of the National Academy Of Stage
Training to appear with Walter
Hampden in Cyrano de Bergerac
at the National Theater this week.
Those in the cast are Dollie
Slaughter, Catherine Ryan, John
Edmonston, Charles Grove, David
Levine, Edward FinlaySon, Pete
Dickinson and Charles Walker.
The Washington times., 1936-04-15

lows WISHES YOU HAPPY HOLIDAYS
The Washington times., 1936-09-08
HUNT PRESSED
FOR BANKER

BERNARDSVILLE, N. j., Sept.
8 O.N.SO Search for Russell F.
Randolph, 6S, retired banker and
insurance broker, who has been
missing from his daughters home
here since September 3, was con-
tinued today without any clues as
to his probable whereabouts.
At the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Vernon j. Tiger, it was said
that, since receiving reports on
Sunday that Randolph had been
seen walking along a road in Penn
sylvania, nothing has been heard
from him.
Members Of the family are in.
clined to the belief he may have
decided to take a walking trip to
Roanoke, Va, where he spent
much of his boyhood on his grand
fathers plantation. Recently, it
was said at the Tiger home, he has
talked of his days on the planta-
tion and has expressed the desire
to visit the surroundings of his
bOyhOOd,
The Washington times., 1936-09-08

tered at the Mayflower Hotel yes
terday.
He is general secretary of the
Royal Institution of Netherlands
Engineers and has been chief
adviser supervising harbor and
railroad construction in Holland
and the Dutch East Indies.
Immediately following the con-
ference, he will begin tour of
the country's outstanding dams to
gain information relative to dixie
construction and power harness
ing in his own country. The prog
ress of aviation has made a ire
mendous impression on him, and
his words of praise for the Sim
pie family way that people use the
airwayS in America" is a picture
he declares indelibly imprinted in
his memory.
The Washington times., 1936-09-08
By EARL GOODWIN

Heads of Washington's civic and
social and professional organiza-
tions who today are being invited
to attend the dinner to the dele
gates to the World Power Confer
ence can take the word of Presi-
dent Roosevelt that there prob
ably will not be another feast like
this one-not for long time any
how. The President discussed the
dinner with Morris L. Cooke,
rural electric administrator and
chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the power conference at
the White House yesterday. Said
Mr.. Cooke:
"The President says this din.
ner is certainly going to be a
thrilling occasion. The PreSi-
dent is interested. in the fact
that the Union Station is being
transformed into Hall Of
Transportation" which is a
credit to the railroad officials
and the members of the local
committee. The PreSid dent
stresses the fact that the dinner
is not only good dinner with a
fine program but it will be the
occasion for seating the largest
number of foreign delegates
ever to dine together in this
city. 1t is an occasion to be re-
membered."
Local, ARRANGEMENTS
The executive committee of the
conference is inviting members Of
the Board of Trade of the Dis
trict, the United States Chamber
of Commerce, and of other civic
and professional groups in this
city to attend.
Although the dinner has both
a national and international char
acter, the arrangements have
been made largely by Washing
tonians, the entertainment commit
tee being headed by DR.. William
Mcclellan, president of the Po-
tomac Electric Power Company,
who has been assisted by c. Mel
vim Sharpe, of that company.
There will be more diplomats
and foreign decorations at that
dinner than one sees anywhere out
side a coronation of a king, it
would seem from the general de-
Scriptions now being issued. Nearly
a hundred members of the diplo-
matte corps have signified their in
tnntiO0 Of attending
The serious and important ma
ture of this dinner may be seen
from the fact that Victor A. l..
Mallet, councillor Of the British
Embassy and charge de'affaireS in
the absence of Sir Ronald Lindsay,
will attend as a special guest of the
United States Government. He
will take his place with other men,
bers of the diplomatic corps, while
special tables have been arranged
for members of the embassy staff
and the British delegation.
Sir Harold Hartley, heading the
British delegation, will be host to
officials of the British Embassy,
his guests including Commercial
Counsel H. o. Chalkley, c. M. G.,
C. B. E., and Mrs. Chalkley;
First Secretary Philip Mainwaring
Broadmead. M. c.; Capt. F. c.
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Power Parley Dinner
Unique i'm Capital

Bradley, r. NJ, naval attache and
Mrs. Bradley, and Sir Archibald
Page.
Women Delegates
At Sir Harold's table will be
some of the women delegates from
England, including Miss Caroline
Hazlett, director of the Electrical
Association for Women; Mrs. Cert
rude Ruth ziani de Ferrenti; Wis
countess Falmouth and DR.. Mar
garet Miller.
Other tables are being arranged
for other groups.
Groups of interpreters will see
to it that the guests will get
where they belong. Large illu.
mined signs in four languages will
point the way around the Hall
Of transportation" Half a hun
dred washington young men will
act as ushers. There will be flags
by the hundred; musical flares and
ruffleS for every distinguished
guest. The speakers will be es-
corted to the roStrum by marine
SergeantS and flags of their proper
nations. Guests will assemble in
the Presidents reception room,
and their grand entrance to the
dining hall will be greeted by
music.
The Washington times., 1936-09-08
POWER PARLEY
HEARS HULL'S
PEACEPLEA
Neutrality-suspicious.
Is on Brink Of New
War Holocaust
International News Service

Another world war, on the edge
of which Europe is teetering, may
unloose forces that will destroy
civilization itself.
This sober warning was ad-
dressed today by Secretary OF
State Cordell Hull to leaders in
scientific and engineering achieve
ment from So nations, assembled
here at the third world power con-
ference.
Hull called on the scientific
geniuses of the world to apply their
knowledge to the preservation Of
peace. He declared:
"The fabric of peace has been
worn periIOusly thin. If it is
again torn asunder by the bloody
hands Of war it may never be
repaired"
PEACE UP TO PEOPLE
The responsibility for maintain
ing peace does not rest with gov
ernment alone, Hull declared.
"This responsibility rests to
even a great degree upon the
shoulders of the thinking peO-
pie Of each land"
He deplored what he described
as "a lamentable absence of ap-
probation by many responsible
and influential statesmen that
these present warlike tendencies
can lead only to a world holo-
caust."
Reviews Past Wars
Sketching a black picture of
past wars, with the world labor
ing back to the sanity Of peace"
after each one, Hull added that
the next world war will be
fought not along by uniformed
armies and navies, but by the
entire populations of the coun-
tries involved"
The Washington times., 1936-09-08
LADY HARTLEY
LIKES 'FIXIN'S'

Comforts which Americans take
for granted would be remarkable
innovation" in British equipment
for the home and travelling.
This was implied today In
statements from Sir Harold and
Lady Hartley, distinguished visi-
tors who came from London to
attend the Third World Power
Conference meeting here.
Said Lady Hartley, a grand
mother:
"YOur kitchens are so far ad-
vanced. Why, in our country
place in BuckinghamShire we
don't have either an icebox or
a refrigerator"
Revealing that an electric re-
frigerator does, however, grace
the kitchen of their town house
in Westminster, London, Lady
Hartley declared their country
home, only 25 miles from the
British capital, lacks gas and
those "gadgets" found in even
humble American homes.
Sir Harold, vice president of the
London, Midland and Scottish
Railroad and head of the Fuel Re
search Board of Great Britain,
disclosed that British trains, noted
for their speed, have air-condition-
ing only on a few Sleepers. The
reSence of air-conditioning
throughout all cars on most Amer
ican express trains led Sir Harold
on one occasion, he admitted
smilingly, to take a railroad trip
"juSt to be comfortable" during a
hot spell last summer while he was
in New York.
Sir Harold comes to the United
States every year or so to confer
with American industrialists on
power questions, he said, but this
is Lady Hartley's first visit.
Although she has been in the
United States more than a week,
Lady Hartley revealed she had
seen little of the country because,
on her arrival at New York, she
was whisked by friends to a sum-
mer camp in New Hampshire.
Most impressive of the sights
she has witnessed here, she de-
clared, are the tourist camps,
which she said are 80 clean
and pretty" Her ambition, she
added, is to return to the United
States next summer and roam in
an automobile and trailer with
her son, Christopher Hartley, an
undergraduate at oxford Univer-
Sity.
The Washington times., 1936-09-08
EXPERTS HOLD 5 SESSIONS HERE TODAY
Conference PE'OQrNnOj

ginia Electric g. Power Com
pany, Richmond, Va.
Associate Chairman-CarlOS
HOerning (Chile), Vice Chair.
man, Chilean Delegation.
General RepOrter-COl. VIII
liam H. England, Assistant
Chief Economist, Federal Trade
Commission.
Commerce Auditorium
Paper No. determination
of the Production, TranspOrta-
tion and Distribution of Nat
ural and Manufactured Cas-"
Chairman-Walter C. Beck.
ford, Vice President and General
manager, Columbia Gas g. Elec-
trio Corp.
Associate Chairman-AuguSt
SerruyS (Belgium), Chief Engi.
neer and Director, Central OF.
flee of Electricity and Electro
mechanics.
General Representatives. r.
Weaver, Chief, Gas Division,
u. S. Bureau of Standards.
The Washington times., 1936-09-08

! Bradley, R. NJ, naval attache ano
Mrs. Bradley, and Sir Archibald
Page.
The Washington times., 1936-09-08
FORENOON
Government Auditorium


Paper No. 2.-"Significant
Trends in the Development and
Utilization Of Power Resources"
Chairman-GanO Dunn, Presi-
dent, J. G. White Engineering
Corp, New York City.
Associate Chairman-Ludwig
Kallir (AuStria) Member, Board
Of Directors, A. E. G. Electric
Power Association, Federation
Of Austrian Industries.
General RepOrter-R. T.
Beall, Associate Economist,
Rural Electrification Admins
tratiOn.
AFTERNOON
Government Auditorium
Paper No. determination
Of Private Electric and Gas
Utilities"
Chairman-J. G. HOIzcIaw,
Vice President, Edison Electric
Institute, and President, Vir-
The Washington times., 1936-09-08
HOTELS FILLED
ASREAL WORK
STARTS
1900 Delegates Busy
At Conferences in
Three Halls
Continued from Page u

NOUNGuuUCW IIUHI IdBG II
q program of identification of rail-
roads is now 76 per cent completed.
Caution Is Advised
The Washington times., 1936-09-08

one group was meeting in the De-
partment of Commerce audi
torium to listen to papers on COR
ganization of the Production,
Transportation and Distribution
of Natural and Manufactured
Cas-" while another group was
meeting in the Government Audi
torium on Organization Of Pri-
vate Electric and Gas Utilities"
Headquarters for both confer.
enceS, which will meet throughout
the week. have been set up in the
Hotel MayfloWer.
The Washington times., 1936-09-08
D. c. Bars Impress
Power Delegate

FOWeF UeIegdte
"Ah, / say, sir, / was very much
struck with the many fine bars
and saloons upon my revisit to
America. The last time I came,
in 1920, you know, you people
had prohibition"
The speaker was Wouter Cool
tall, dignified chief of the Neither
lands delegation to the Third
World Power Conference, who
made the observation as he regis
The Washington times., 1936-11-24
NEW BROKEN BLOSSOMS"

NEW BROKEN BLOSSOMS"
I saw an interesting new screen
personality yesterday twilight in
the Fox exchange screening room.
She is Dolly Haas, a German girl,
in Hollywood at the moment, and
the star of the English version OF
Broken Blossoms"
About 20 years ago I have rec
objection of sitting in a theater
and crying my eyes out over Lii
Ian Gish's plight as the unhappy
Lucy Burrows, watching the up
and-coming acting of the youth
full Richard Barthelmess as Chen
the cultured Chinese boy. raging
over the monStrouSly cruel Bat
ting Burrows, played by Donald
Crisp.
Well, they all live again on the
screen in the new version OF
Broken Blossoms, which, like the
D. W. Griffith exhibit, derives
from Thomas Burke's story in
Limehouse Tales, 1.-THE Chink and
the Child"
once more are the emotions
stirred and the tear ducts opened
in pity for wisp of a child being
cruelty beaten and abused by a
sadiStic brute. AS in the earlier
picture it is this scene of inhuman
horror that figuratively tears your
heart out in sympathy.
Dolly Haas plays it for every
ounce of it's worth. She cringeS
and crawlS under the lash, pleads
for mercy in a tortured voice that
would move a stone. means in SUI
fering until life departs from her
broken body. Then comes Chen
to strangle the monster who in
flicted such punishment on an in
nocent child.
I like Dolly Haas. She reminds
me much of the Mary Pickford
of the Adolph Zukor days. She
has a juvenile face and figure and
is a splendid little actress. I can't
say as much for Arthur Marget-
son, who plays the brutal prize
fighter. It seemed to me that he
was guilty of overacting, perhaps
because his character is so in
tensely overwritten to bring out
his vicious traits, it appeared un-
real.
Enlyn Williams, good English
actor, wrote the scenario of this
Broken Blossoms" and acts the
role of Chen. He doesn't look as
Chinese as Richard BarthelmesS
did, but he acts with vigor and
carries through the powerful finale
with its traditional sacrifice mag
nificently.
Broken Blossoms" opens at the
Belasco Theater on Thanksgiving
Eve with a special performance
sponsored by the Newspaper Wo-
mems Club.
The Washington times., 1936-11-24

Star Goes After Laughs and Gets
'Em in "Theodora Goes Wild"
The Washington times., 1936-11-24
IRENE DUNNE, COMEDIENNE
Broken Blossoms" Presents an
Interesting New Star in
Dolly Haas as Lucy
By ANDREW r. KELLEY

Dunno has escaped from tears and heavy dramas and
literally goes wild in her latest picture They call it apy
"Theodora Goes Wild.''
1t the contention that good actress assml-
late any kind of role Irene Dunno has twinkle in her
but she has been permitted to hell bent for laugh
ter by Hollywood until Columbia made this picture She
makes the grade with
Screened select audience in the Earle bjourium yes
terday Matinee the popular verdict that the suppressed
lady of "Back Street. and the Magnolia Hawks of ShoW
Boat is also a fine light comedienne.
The Washington times., 1936-11-24

KEITHS-"Luckiest Girl in the
World" 1924 a. M, Ill, 2:58'
4:45, 6:32 p. m. Burgess Mere
dith, "Winterset," 8:14, 10 p. m.
EARLE-Joan Blondell, Three
Men on q Horse" II a. M, 1885,
4:10, 7:10, 1910 p. m. Stage,
1875, 3:15, 5:55, $50 p. m.
RIALTO-Jean Arthur, "Mr. Deeds
Goes to Town." 2:17, 4:38, 7:04,
9:32 p. m.
PALACE-Edward Arnold, Come
and Get It." 1900 a. m, 2:20,
4:45, 7:10, $50 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Arline Judge, Pig
skin Parade" 11:40 a. M, lao,
$40, $40, TAO, 9:40 p. m.
CAPITOL Dionne Quintuplets,
Reunion" 10:45 a. m, 1880,
4:3O, tbs, 10:05 p. m. Stage,
1915, $40, 6:05, 1855 p. m.
HOWARD-Ross Alexander, Here
The Washington times., 1936-11-24

is one Englishman who is certain
to be knighted by the new King
although silence is the custom in
such matters until the news is
given out officially u. Incidental
ly, Beatrice Lille has refused to
play Mrs. Simpson in the new
Shubert revue, "The Show Is On"
coming to the National December
Z. There is a skit in the musical
with Reginald Gardiner playing
the part of the British prime min
lister and Vera Allen playing Wally
Simpson, the role Bea Lille turned
down The somewhat impudent
blackout has the King signed up
for a screen role with M-G-M. =.
KEN MURRAY JAZZ
When Ken Murray and Oswald
arrive at the Earle Theater in
January they will have in the act
The Washington times., 1936-11-24

It is DR.. DaFoe who suggests
the title for the next Dionne
quintuplets picture. 1t is you're
the Tots" Marty Radin, Lessee
of the Belasco Theater, enter
tained critics with a Broken Bios
SONS dinner at the Carlton last
evening. All the lads and lassies
ordered turkey and cranberry
sauce showing the Thanksgiving
influence incidentally Mr..
Radin announced that Dolly Haas,
star of the picture, will be in
Washington during the engage
ment and will probably make a
personal appearance Para
mount is dickering with Dolly
Haas at the moment. They want
her for the lead role in National
Velvet" Previously Margaret Sui
lavan and Katharine Hepburn
had been mentioned for this as
signment.
CORNELL PORTRAITS
My first Christmas present ar.
rived from Ray Henderson. It is
the fourth edition of katharine
Cornell: a Gallery of Stage
Portraits" just off the press &.
This booklet contains photographs
The Washington times., 1936-11-24
KELLEYGRAMS

of the actress with her husband
and stage director, Guthrie NC
Clintic, with her mother and il
lustrations showing her in II of
her more famous roles. There is
a biographical sketch of her
career and a description of her
new play, "The Wingless Victory" I"
with a short sketch of the life of
it's author, Maxwell Anderson. E.
The book is sold for the benefit
of The Actors Fund of America.
They do say that Noel Coward