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Evening star., 1936-06-24

The progress of he proposed Demo-
cratic platform plank to give District
residents national representation and
the privilege of voting in the electoral
college will be described by Commits
sioner George E. Allen in special
program over WJSV from to 6:15
pm. John B. Colpoys, chairman of
the District delegation at Philadelphia,
also will speak.
Lavender and Old Lace will inaugu-
rate its third consecutive year on the
air with the 105th broadcast tonight
at 7:30 over WMAL. The program
features Frank Mum, tenor; Lucy
Monroe. soprano; the Amsterdam Cho-
rus; William Meeder, organist, and
Gus Haenschen's Orchestra
Lily Pons, coloratura soprano, will
Evening star., 1936-06-24
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TOEAy

1ObAG.
Luncheon, zonta Club, Y. w. c. A.,
] pm.
Luncheon. Rotary Club, Willard Ho-
bel, 1890 pm.
Meeting. Washington Philatelic So
etety. Carlton Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Life Underwriters Associa-
Gon, Willard Hotel, pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon. Cosmopolitan Club, Carl
ton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting. Central Business Mems As
ISOLATION, Burlington Hotel, 1890 pm.
Card party, Washington Retreat
House, 1000 Harewood road northeast,
Sis pm.
Meeting, Northwest Union. w. c. r.
O., 2l3 Walnut street, Takoma Park,
pm.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Loew's Fox-"The King of Bur-
lesque," at 10:40 am, 1:45, 4:25,
7:1O and $50 pm. Stage shows at
i2:35, $3.50, 6:15 and 9 pm.
Earle-"Collegiate," at 10 am. 1920,
2:4o. S, 7:3o and $50 pm. Stage
shows at 1870 am, 1:50, AIS. $40
and s:o5 pm.
RKO-Keith's - "I Dream Too
Much" at 1874 am, 1875, 1886, 5:37,
7:39 and $40 pm.
Palace-"The -Littlest Rebel" at
1l:l5 am, 1:2o, 3;25, $50, 7:3S and
Gas pm.
Metropolitan-"Show Them No
Mercy" at 1920 am, 1:25, $3.50,
s:35, 7:4o and GAS pm.
Columbia-"In Old Kentucky" at
1l:25 am, 1880, 3:35, $40. TAO and
e:45 pm.
Belasco-"The New CULVER" at
1928, 2:21, 4:19, GIT, 8:15 and 1913
pm.
Tivoli-"Mutiny on the Bounty"
at 2, 4:30, 7:05 and 9:20 pm.
Ambassador 1.-THE Rainmakers,"
at 2, 4, 6, 7:50 and GAS pm.
Little-"One Night of Love-" at
ii am, 1858, 2:2s, 4:22, sos, 1852
and 9:46 pm.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Jack Oakie
Featuredin
New Film
King of Burlesque''
Also Stars Baxter
and Alice Faye.
.HIS is Jack Oakie week in town.

THIS is Jack Oakie week in town.
Although The King of Bur-
lesque," able, tuneful and
L agreeable musical film now
playing at Loew's Fox, stars Warner
Baxter. and a very good Baxter at
that, the kind you remember from the
days of "42nd Street." since Mr.. Oakie
Is playing in two new films at once
it is evident that Oakie-ism Is the
main factor in the weeks entertain
ments, and next to Lily Pons is prob
ably the seasons greatest surprise.
There was a time, not so long back.
when it was apparant that the great
Oakie was slipping. His cheeks had
spun apart and jagged jowls had made
their somewhat unwanted appearance.
Females said he lacked what it takes,
and the huskier race began to think
him less comical than in his earlier
days.
Now suddenly Oakie pops up again
as bright as a new dime and an I'm.
portant factor to any film which
might happen to have him. While
in THE King of Buriesque" he does
not step on Mr.. Baxter's excellent
toes, he does give bang-up perform
ance-and we, for one. are inclined to
wish him from now on health, happi-
ness and more and more cinemas. At
the risk of q leer from the intelli-
gentsia, We may almost 60 so far as
to say that one Of these days Oakie
Gf he keeps himself DOWN may be-
come one of the really important
actors.
The new film in which he and Bax-
ter and lot OF other nice stars ap-
pear this week at the Fox has mucic
that will last. Fats Waller, who also
will last; Alice Fay. who, while she
may not last, at least is easy to look
upon; Nick Long. jr., who dances like
nobody's business; a night club which
is probably the peer of all such things,
and Baxter as the despairing producer
who time and time again gets it in
the neck. The combination of all
these people and things, plus a good
enough story and Mr.. Baxter's per-
suasive manner, makes the film some
thing that you will definitely want TO
see.
The stage show presents Leon Ma
vara and his orchestra in music and
whatnot that rings the gong with a
vengeance: Charlie Chaplin, as done
by Frank Conville, which Is just about
as good as the gentleman in person;
the Lynn Burno Revue, which has
some good dancing done by Dorothy
Arden, Florence Hedges, Violet West
and Teddy Wren-and-here the boys
from the sports world are having their
inning-Al Saskatchewan, comic and
whatnot-in an act that people want
more and more and more Of. Mr..
Schacht also plays base ball.
Z. de s. M
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Jury ENDS PROBE
|NM|SS|NG BONDS
No Criminal Prosecution Is
Planned, U. S. Attorney
Says.

No criminal prosecution will result
from the grand jury investigation
into the disappearance two years ago
Of $1,000 in bonds from the local
hotel room of Henry o. Hart, former
accountant for G. Bryan Pitts, it WAS
announced yesterday.
Assistant United States Attorney
Charles B. Murray said the jury was
unable to determine whether the
bonds were stolen, or, If stolen, who
was responsible.
Shortly after the jury completed
its quiz of Mrs. Lucille Fuller. long
sought witness, yesterday afternoon,
Hart was called into the jury room.
He had testified at length some time
ago. When the jury finished with
him, Murray announced the investi-
cation was closed. He later divulged
that no grounds for indictment had
been found.
Bonds Found in Baltimore.
The bonds disappeared in Febru-
ary, 1894, while Hart was i'll. Hart
reported the loss to police but heard
nothing OF the securities until last
October, when they were located in
Baltimore in the possession OF en- at
torney there.
They were traced back through sew
eral hands, Murray said. but no crimi-
nal action could be shown.
Witness Comes From Miami.
Mrs. Fuller came here from Miami,
Fla, to testify. Hart accompanied
her to the court house and waited
outside the closed doors of the grand
Jury room while she was being cues.
toned.
The bonds in question were part OF
a $4,000 lot Hart said he purchased
from the F. H. Smith Co.. which col
lapsed several years ago, bringing loss
to thousands of investors. Pitts, its
president, was imprisoned for IA
year term.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

should think would rouse all hand
some Schoolmistresses to small II not
larger fury.
Paramount has also collared that
cagy clown, Ned Sparks, called him
"sour-puss" and flung him into the
midst of this charm school" His
reactions to his unfamiliar environ
ments are among the best things in
the film. And as he treads around
on the heels of Messrs. Penner, Oakie
and Lynn Overman, the cup OF fun
in this lively charade seems to be
overflowing and you understand why
there is not only standing room only"
advertised outside the theater, but
also why there is not even standing
room only inside.
In other words, Mr.. Payette's Earle
has what is known as a bowling sue
cess on its hands this week.
DART of this is due, of course, to
the presence of Stepin Fetchit in
person on the stage-one Of the Fox
film company's most popular people.
Mr.. Fetchit, you will recall, has never
moved faster than snail during his
film career and the mere effort to
raise his voice has often plunged him
into sorrow. When he isn't sleeping
according to his creed) he Is wishing
that he was sleeping and the chances
are that his most popular role would
be one in which he could nod gently
throughout the entire film.
Mr.. Fetchit (who off stage Is prob
ably, as alive as any one else) exhibits
evidences of life in his appearance
this week at the Earle and had only
to walk out on the stage to receive
the kind of reception that even the
great Garbo might envy. His act, too.
was not the disillusioning kind. Keep
ing very much in character he behaved
the way he does in his cinemas, only
once doing a dance to show that he
really can hurry when necessary. His
encores consisted Of sending out his
valet to bow for him!
Another excellent act was presented
by the Pollygogs who come from the
French Casino. They deserve every
bit of the enthusiasm shown them
yesterday. A handsome young singer,
a dancing act, and bright-eyed Miss
Seiber complete the bill.
X
WE have also heard this very
minute that the Paramount
Newsreel boys pulled "a fast one" on
their brethren and that they not only
got the Presidents speech last night
up to New York by 1880, but that if
you go to the Earle or the Metropolitan
right now you will see and hear
snatches from it. That's what we call
nice and fast goingi
Evening star., 1936-01-04

who has to produce anything from a
Victorian antimacassar to an ancient
Egyptian vase.
After these apparently simple mat
ters are settled, think how the men,
bers Of the picture personnel feel II
their art" is neglected in putting a
story together. Imagine how the
dance man" feels if enough convinc-
ing spots aren't made for his perfectly
drilled Hollywood beauties. He'll fight
for three minutes in the picture, be-
cause his job may depend on it.
Then we have the talented ones
who write music for pictures. They
feel that the picture should really be
written to display the charm of their
musical numbers.
The men and women who create
screen wardrobes are another group
who consider their work mighty i'm
portant And rightly so. What would
some of the film great look like If
they weren't dressed by artists? These
people study the defects of the beau
ties they dress and do everything in
their power to hide them, while they
bring out the charms that might be
hidden if their clothes weren't de-
signed by artists.
Makeup is Important.
Makeup artists. too, play an i'm
portant part in films. Many an ordi-
nary looking person has been trans
formed into a youthful, raging beauty
by the man who, patiently and with
great art, paints a face on her and
gives her those luxurious eyelashes
that nature may have forgotten to add
to her charms.
If this gives you rough idea of just
why Hollywood studio workers are en-
titled to long vacation or a minor
nervous breakdown once year, you'll
be step nearer the inside of a lot
than you have been before.
After all these things are fought out
and settled, after estimates have been
handed in and scenes and plot cut
down to fit them. we have the present.
day motion picture as a result. And
it's something that we may be Justly
proud of in the end. Perhaps all this
striving and bargaining helps to make
a finished film the smooth, well-bal-
anced product it is. At any rate, it's
Hollywood. with never a dull moment
for any one even remotely connected
with pictures.
(Copyright. 1885. By The North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Woman Starves
With Food Nearby,
$4,000 in Bank
BrOther.in.Ia,u Is Found
Near Death in an Ad.
Joining Room.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 4.-More than
$4,000 in the bank and a plentiful
supply of food nearby. Mrs. Anna
Cloutier, go, was found dead Of Starva.
tion yesterday in her three-story
Bronx home.
The shrunken body was found in q
bed in an unheated room.
In an adjoining room, unable to
leave his own bed, her brother n-law,
Amedee Cloutier, go, was found shaken
with palsy and near death from star
vation.
They were discovered when neigh
bors summoned police after water
pipes burst In the Cloutier basement
and began flooding Easements.
It was believed that during the cold
wave, both were taken i'll and neither
was able to help the other.
There was supply Of bread. meat
and milk in the kitchen. but appar.
entity neither was strong enough to
reach it.
Evening star., 1936-01-04

scripts to the heads OF various de-
partments is known around the Holly
wood lots as breaking down" script.
Before the wheels of production can
turn, all the skill and ingenuity Of Q
score or more departments may be
called upon to find Just what their
particular parts Of the story will cost
the company when the Dm is made.
Imagine, for instance, what . tre-
mendous task 1t was to break down"
the script Of Anthony Adverse" !"
Here's the way it's done:
As soon as the stenographic depart
ment finishes copying the script,
copies are sent to the following de-
partments: Camera, casting, electrical,
location, sound, property, transporta-
ton, dance, music, wardrobe. makeup.
cutting, publicity and perhaps one or
two others that I have forgotten.
Each Plots Activity.
The head of each department pro-
ceeds to read the script and make
plots" of his particular activity in the
story. The cameraman, for instance,
Is interested in day or night scenes.
It may make lot of difference in the
cost, whether day scenes are such
that they have to be filmed at night
on a stage land this has often hap
pened), or whether the scenes call for
certain lamps and changes OF light
during the action. He must consider
walls and the costumes that will be
photographed against them. He must
understand how to place his camera
angles and just how much this action
will cost, both in workers and equip
ment.
The casting director gets the script
and proceeds to visualize it as ne
reads. Trooping through the script
are "old men," bankers" social
dowagers," "cutthroatS," "toughs, )"
Cowboys" etc. He makes list of
the people he thinks might do these
parts well and proceeds to call them
and dicker about financial arrange
ments before he suggests their names
as possible players in the picture.
Why? Because he knows the costs Of
his particular department must be
kept down to a certain amount.
Other Problems Involved.
Imagine, then, the problems that
confront the location man." who has
to find typical outdoor scenes to Mt
the story; the sound man." who must
reproduce whatever sound effects the
plot calls for; the property man"
Evening star., 1936-01-04
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira at Stanley Hall at $50 pm. today.
John s. M. Zimmerman. bandmaster;
Anton Pointner, associate leader
March, Arms Of America," Pryor
Overture. Flying Artillery"
Borgennoltz
Entr'Acte, (a) "Reve Apros lie Bal"
("Dream After the Balr0 -Boustot
(b) Polish National Dance"
No. Sch warenka
Excerpts from musical comedy, The
Band Wagon" Schwartz
Characteristic, March Of the Dancing
Ooio ------------------ -----CopD
Waltz suite, Spring, Beautiful
Spring" Ljncke
Finale. THE American Legion"
Vandersleet
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1936-01-04

hero" OF that
well remembered story in which
young man inherits girls school and
remodels it according to the swift,
agreeable methods of the day. In
stead Of prodding the young ladies'
craniums with reading, writing and
arithmetic, the svelte young things
are instilled in the art of "rythmic"
(whatever that Isl and taught how to
Groom, holler and neigh like Al Jolson,
Rudy Vallee or even Mr. Oakie HIM
self, who at one particular moment
might be Mr. Jolson himself.
Mr.. Oakie behaves himself very well
In the girls school except for one
dreadful moment, when, believing
that Miss Langford doesn't really care
for him, he reaches for bottle, and
is caught putting away pint by the
horror stricken heroine in person.
Apart from this maddening misde-
meanor, he goes glibly through the
various dormitories followed by the
Messrs. Sparks, Penner. Gordon and
Revel (tunemakers) and the cop who
wants to know who the dickens Joe
Penner is. When Joe Penner finds
out at last that he is Joe Penner the
plot is practically solved.
Paramount has fingered this theme
with the utmost devotion. For the
sweet young head of the school they
have borrowed Frances Langford from
the radio and made her one OF the
new young starlets whose face from
now on will probably adorn many a
Central High students dressing bu-
reau. From somewhere else they have
seized upon that new small bombshell,
Betty Cradle, who we imagine may
be the angel of many a Western High
students dream. And from some
where else they have hired the most
hideous collection of old hens in the
world and typified them as school
fnarm-a state of being which we
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Capitals Drama Groups
Cash Prizes to Be Offered in One-Act Play
Tourney benevolent BlackmaiP
to Be Done at Roosevelt.

Edith I. Allen and Harold A. Vein
berger is directing the play.
The Columbia Players are all ex-
cited over having their first repertory
play in rehearsal, which, after all, is
something to merit bit of excite
ment. The play is Chekhov's Uncle
Vanya," to be presented at Pierce
Hall, January Is and Is, almost a
year after the players original pro-
duction of the drama.
Aurora Poston is directing and
Eileen Fowler. Dorothea Lewis,
Dorothy M. White. Elizabeth Dyer,
Arthur Westover, Wayne Bobst, Wade
Robinson, Joe Bourne and Oliver
Anderson are in the cast, which is
the same personnel as in last years
production. Jane Lasater Rubeys
sets are the same and Maria Howard's
costumes are the original ones, SO it's
real repertory.
The Pierce Hall Players are forming
the first Washington Verse Speaking
Choir, under the direction of Elinor
Cox Karsten, next Tuesday evening at
Pierce Hail. At this first meeting
Miss Karsten will outline her plans
and there will be a brief talk by
Elizabeth Shepherd, who will tell of
her experience with choral groups in
Europe.
Miss Karsten. who is well known
here for her acting work with various
local groups and with the National
Theater Players, has just completed
a special training course in choral
speaking in New York, studying under
Miss Marjorie Gullan of London,
founder and developer of this branch
of dramatic expression in Scotland
and England.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
NURSERY SCHOOLS
AWAIT PERSONNEL
Qualified Workers on Relief List
Lacking-Ten Centers Were
Being Operated.

Reopening of District nursery
schools as program financed Ly the
Works Progress Administration has
been postponed until Monday, due to
delays In finding sufficient number of
qualified workers on the relief list for
assignment. ofiicials announced yes
terday.
Ten nursery centers, five white and
five 'colored, formerly were operated
by the District out Of its relief funds.
They were abandoned In November,
however. to save funds. Officials say
10 dieticians, 10 teachers and 10
nurses are needed. Seven teachers,
three dietitians and four nurses have
been found on the relief list.
The number Of nursery schools to be
opened will depend on approval by
the Board Of Education of using prac-
tical dietitians and nurses to fill out
the force, officials said.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
HEIGH-HO,

HE1GH-HO.
CTENOGRAPHERS in the miscel-
- laneous tax unit of the Bureau OF
Internal Revenue are making many
and varied guesses as to why a rep
resentative of Uncle Sam should want
to know their exact heighth.
One pert miss surmised that the Of
ficials wanted to know how many
yards Of stenographers are employed.
Others, with hopeful gleam in their
eyes, feel that the statistician may
have been scout" from the .'Follies"
or the Scandals"
+
NOM"
John A. REMON, general manager
" of the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. tells q story about two
small boys, about 10 years old, who
recently went into one of the dial ex-
changes and asked to be shown
through the office.
The chief operator, thinking to put
them at their ease, and incidentally
learn how much they already knew
about the telephone. asked them If
they had dial telephones at home.
"Yes'm," they replied in unison.
The chief operator hesitated about
her next question and decided to make
it as simple as possible.
do you dial your own numbers?"
she asked.
"No'rn vas the answer
"You don't?"
"No'm-other peoples"
X \
Evening star., 1936-01-04
MERCY MAKES MUSIC.

AUsE and effect make good
4 stories.
I For instance. passerby at
~ 2ll2 F street occasionally
hear the notes of a well-played ac-
Gordon these days. all because some
years ago a young Utah school teacher
played good Samaritan to q sheep
herder.
The latter was marooned on a
mountain side, unable to move port
able camping outfit which turned out
to be not so portable as 1t was de-
clared to be. The school teacher gave
him and his outfit a lift, at the end
of which the sheepherder insisted
upon some form of payment. He fixed
upon his accordion as a medium of
exchange, and nothing could change
his mind.
The girl finally took it. in the
mood if not with the manner of one
acquiring a white elephant.
To make a long story just one par
agraph longer she took it home,
tCdIhCo W Pidy IL. ACPAdSCo ~
with one costing $3.50. moved to Wash
ington, is studying with one of the
country's best teachers, and practices
regularlyk-and pleasantly.
PLOT?
Many OF the parents in the
Broadmoor Apartments still are
wondering whether they Uere the
uictims Thursday OF ntsunder-
standing or carefully laid juvenile
plot. The Christmas pacdtton
ended on that day for most OF
Wdshington's school children, but q
number of those pho liue in the
Broadmoor apparently had told
their parents hoD fortunate they
pere in having the rest of the
Deek.
The dark plot came to light uhen
the cDenin1 papers t1ere delipered.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

A n ONEY, which always has had
Nu some uncanny manner OF
wv stimulating interest, is doing
4 L just that for the 1886 one
act play tournament. Cash prizes
are being offered this year for the
four plays entering the finals OF the
tourney, and there also will be special
honors for players giving outstanding
performances in the preliminary con-
tests.
The tournament will open at Roose-
yelt Auditorium Tuesday, February 4,
and the entrants will continue to pa
rade their wares on February 6, 3, ii
and 13. The finals will take place
February IS.
Maud Howell Smith is arranging for
Judges for the preliminaries, and
Dorothea j. Lewis, chairman OF this
years Tournament Committee, Is ar
ranging for judges for the finals. Mrs.
E. K. Peoples, director OF the Com
munity Center, is chairman ex ofticlo
OF the committee.
Applications should be entered at
once, as they will not be accepted later
than Monday, and provisions can be
made for acceptance of only the first
20 registrations received.
Even before they got to the dress
rehearsal stage the people in charge
of the play had to find larger theater
for Benevolent Blackmail." 1t seems
State societies and organizations with
In Government circles evinced so much
interest in the drama about job jug
Cling and other political whatnot that
an auditorium had to be found with
more seats than the one first selected,
so the play will have its world premiere
January 81 at Roosevelt High School
auditorium.
Mrs. Miles c. Allgood, wife of the
former Representative from Alabama,
has been recently added to the cast,
which is headed by William E. Bryant
and Paulette Parent. Howard F. Went
worth is assisting Technical Director
Evening star., 1936-01-04
CAUSE AND CURE OF WAR
PARLEY TO DRAW MANY
Delegates From IL National
women's Organizations Will 3
Attend Conference Here.

Delegates from II national women's
organizations will attend the eleventh
annual conference on the Cause and
Cure of War, to be held here from
January 21 through January "A.
Roads to Peace will be the gen.
eral topic for the conference, accord
ing to Miss Josephine Schain, chair
man of the Conference Committee.
Mrs. Kendall Emerson is program
chairman.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be
a speaker at q conference banquet on
the evening of the opening day. Other
banquet speakers will be Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, honorary chairman Of
the conference, and Miss Kathleen d.
Courtney. acting president of the Dis
armament Committee of Women's In
ternational Organizations at Geneva
and head Of the British Women's
Peace Crusade.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Named Bible Glass Teacher.

James Solt, grand master of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
has been appointed teacher of the
newly organized Mel's Bible Glass Of
Atonement Lutheran Church. The
first meeting of the class will be held
at 9:45 am. tomorrow. The group,
organized by Martin A. McGrory, has
. membership of IS.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
Wife Divorces Film Actor.

LOS ANGELES, January P.-
Rita Carewe Mason won divorce
yesterday from Leroy Franklin Mason
film actor. after she testified he would
drink and then start fiourishing one
of his several guns.
Mrs. Mason is the daughter of Ed
win Carewe, film producer.