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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
KELLEYGRAMS

lneXt picture. .Mabelle Jennings,
Columbia'S gem of the mike, and
Betty Hynes, were quite won by
their adorable dimples. Eddie
Melcher, with the bloom of Holly
wood on his cheeks, Immediately
began to discuss what kind Of
makeup they used in their pic
lures and other details, for the
local critic has had 10 minutes
experience before the camera in a
Joan Crawford picture. The vet
eran. They arrived in Hollywood
via radio. Worked for N. B. C. in
air dramas and were invited to
make a movie test for the role of
the boy Anthony, in Anthony
Adverse" They made it at Flat
bush and were ordered to come at
once to the Hollywood studio. l..
Author Hervey Allen thinks young
Billy did the best acting in the
picture. yesterday was filled with
sightseeing and I imagine Billy
and Bobby were glad when the
critics got through with their queS-
tions for they were anxious to go
down and meet the Omen and j.
Edgar Hoover-Mons. Frank La
Falce had the entire Warner
Brothers publicity department
busy in the Earle'S club room with
Messrs. 'Gerrell and Ewing serving
as head walters.
MR.. SOLOMONOFF ARRIVES
Division Manager Carter Bar
ron of Loew'S will play host at
Variety Club today for Sonia Sol
omonoff. Atlanta ballet master,
who is locating in Washington.
Among the distinguished Solo,
monoff pupils have been Dixie
Dunbar, who graduated from the
Ziegfeld Follies into the movies,
Jane WitherS. young cut-up of the
Fox studios. Hardie Meakin is
trying to win that new car before
the Astaire-Rogers Swing Time"
leaves R-K-O-Keith'S. Managers
making the best showing in the
movie-radio-automobile tieup will
get one of the 1887 models.
MAGICIAN AT CHURCH
Henry Haviland, local magician,
will present a program of magic
and illusion at $3.50 p. m. Tuesday,
September Is, at the Foundry M
E. Church, Sixteenth and @ Streets
Northwest.
Haviland will present a full eve,
ming program assisted by his en-,
tire company with Edward Stahl
| as stage manager.
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CLOCK

EARLE-Pat O'Brien in China
Clipper" 11:00 a. m, 1885, 4:25,
1920, $50 p. m.
Stage-12:5O, $40, 1925, 9:05
p. m.
BELASCO IT Stand Con
den1ned," 1880 a. M, 1913, 1904,
4:55, 6:38, 1929, 1920 p. m.
CAPITOL-George Raft, yours
For the Asking" 1900 a. M,
1870, AIS, 7:O5, 9:55 p. m.
Stage-l2:40, $40, els. 9:O5
p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Ginger Rogers,
Swing Time" 9:56, 1852 a. M,
LAB, 3:44, $40, 1885, 9:32 p. m.
COLUMBIAN ebert Montgom-
cry, "Piccadilly JIM" ii a. m,
LOS, $40, $40, 1928, 9:35 p. m.
ROPOLITAN-Randolph
Scott, "And Sudden DEATH" II
a. m, 12:45, 2:35, 4:25, 6:15,
8:05, 9:55 p. m.
PALACE-Joan Crawford "Gor
geous HusSy," 1890 a. M, 1910
2:55, sos, 1920, 9:35 p. m.
TTLE-"B Broadway Bill" at
11:18 a. m, 1928, 3:29, 5:35, TAI
and 9:47 p. m.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS G. Robinson,
Bullets or Ballots" 1915. 2:45,
Sis, 7:45, 1915 p. m.
Stage-"SWing Rhythm Revue "
las, AIS, 6:45, 9:15 p. m.
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name once a week, Sammy has
now dug up barbed wire with rub
Der barbs on it, so his actors won't
get scratched. Thoughtful, say we.
Saddest note of the week con-
Germs BeSS Meredith who, after
weeks Of being q master mind
while writing a detective novel,
has now miSlaid the entire manu-
script of the opus, and cannot un-
earth single clue as to its where
abouts. Since she had made no
carbon copies, she is in consider
able of a pet, and is about to find
herself a detective to find her de-
tective novel.
Jack Oakie, of the Sartorial
splendor and the jewel box to
rival Peggy Joyce, started his ca
reer as a wall Street brokerage
clerk, and had such a reputation
as a wisecrack artist that his
stocky and bondSy conferes ran
for miles when they saw him COM
ing. Now the fans run to listen to
him, so you never can tell.
A fan in Hope, Arkansas, sent
Guy Kibbee hundred-and-forty-
five-pound watermelon. He wasn't
around, so they gave it to Sybil
Jason, who weighs just one-third
that much, and is slightly smaller.
So she handed it out to the kid
dies on the film 1.-THE Making of
O'Malley" at Warner Brothers. .
On the other finger, now that the
epic is finished, Pat O'Brien, its
star, gave a barbecue Sunday at
his Brentwood home for the whole
company, for which the invita-
tions asked all and sundry to O
Baking of O'Malley." A pun, no
doubt.
The wonders of the screen will
never cease. 1t took four people
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L Cover HOu yWOOd

I to act one daughter TO Katie Hep
burn in Portrait of a Rebel"
Marilyn French portrayed her at
the age of one. Bonnie June Nc
Namara, winner of a Canadian
beauty contest, at the age of 5,
enacted her at that period. Mari
Ign Knowlden, who was the little
Angela in Anthony Adverse, ="
plays her at 10, and Doris Dudley
is the gal at 10. With the wonder
workings of the wizards of R-K-O's
wigs and paints, all four will re-
semble La Hep when they are
through with them Further
nonsense of the day includes Nine.
Mariska Aldrich, who played the
abbeSs in THE Miracle" both in
this country and abroad, who, in
CARLOS Camille" Sprained both
her ankles upholding the enormous
billowing skirts of her own cos
tune, and now has to keep them
tapped up at all times, and wear
ribbons around them.
Since the substitute for hot
water and gin in the Carlo diet
is carrot juice and milk, and since
rabbits who eat same are noted
for their abundant freshness, et-
cetera, this accounts for all her
recent exuberance The
career of the century, methinkS,
belongs to Claudette Colbert. From
Poppaea bathing in milk, to Cleo
patra on little yacht that made
the Normandie look sick, to a
hitch-hiker in 1T Happened One
Night" and now to a slab-sided
butter churn, a spinning wheel, no
bangs on her forehead, and primly
depressing guimperie in a house
in which, if you kept the pig in
the parlor it would also be in the
kitchen and the bedroom, all being
one. Such is her life up to the
present broomstick-and-pussy epic,
Maid of Salem"
The oldest mixup in recent
years concerns Rex Ingram, the
famous director who deserted us
for Europe for so long, and then
deserted Europe for Morocco and
Mohammedanism. The Othello-
ish gentleman who played de LaWd
in 1.-THE Green Pastures" unfor-
tunately sports the same moniker,
with the result that Rex the white
has been getting fan mail and
mash notes galore from the Nu-
bians, the SenegambianS, and the
Africans.
BY the bye, Rex assures me that
not only is he not going to do a
picture for Metro, no matter what
golden herrings they trail across
his path, he isn't going to do one
for anybody at this time. He and
Mrs. l., the perennially dazzling
Alice Terry, are taking off for the
South Seas in a big way on tour
to carry them to all the isles of
any interest whatever, eventually
landing them in Bali. Sounds
marvellous. . Betty FurneSs has
been cycling another of the Ca
mile" hats, this time a huge bon.
net like an upended, woven raffia
waste basket, tied under the chin
with a vast velvet bow, dangling
therefrom practically to the floor.
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Pennsylvania Avenue was, as one
historian put it, "in the winter
and spring a vast quagmire
through which vehicles toiled with
extreme difficulty; Slush was king,
and mud monarch" Besides it
cost $40 for the round trip to go
from the fashionable residential
section to the theater in a hack"
Then on March S, 1845, fire
Quilted the edifice. Again revert
ing to the NATIONAL INTELL&-
GENCER we find this account Of
the blaze:
"An unusually destrutive fire
occurred in this city last night,
between eight and nine o'clock,
which consumed the handsome
edifice, erected but a few years
ago, known as the National
Theater, besides some seven or
eight dwelling houses, situated
on the southeast corner of the
same square, and fronting on
Pennsylvania Avenue and Thir-
tenth street, in addition, we be-
lieve, to several stables and
other buildings which stood in
the alleys that pass through the
square"
SHAKESPEARE IN 1885
That, boys and girls, is telling
the whole story in the first para
graph, just as the city editor prob
ably ordered. An audience watch
ing Beauty and the Beast" a
burletta, was dismissed without &C
cident for the INTELL1GENCER
they were appriSed OF
their danger and filed out orderly.
They rebuilt the theater and
opened it again as the New Ma
TIONAL Hall on December Is,
1850. The attraction was Jenny
Lind and for the second night of
her engagement President Willard
Fillmore and his Cabinet, the
Vice President and the Members
of the Supreme Court attended in
a body. "a remarkable tribute to
a great artistic" the ntelligencer
called it.
Since then the National has
been torn down, Quilted by fire,
remodeled and rebuilt half a
dozen times. the last transforma-
ton coming with the opening OF
the present modern and fireproof
in 1922.
So Mr.. Steve Cochran is, there
fore, quite right in saying that the
National Theater begins a second
century of drama on the night of
%, when "St. Helena"
will be the attraction and there
will be whoopee and more.
And just a coincidence. Shakes
peare held the boards in 1885 for
JuniuS BrutuS Booth had a high
ly prosperous engagement in
Hamlet" A century later the
Bard of Avon still rules on E
Street with Romeo and Juliet"
in the new magical entertainment
form, the screen, as the first at
traction.
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Max Gordon's
st. Helena
Sept. %

With ali the important premiers
Of superpictures lately, the Ma
tional will have a very important
legitimate stage play premiere
when the one hundred and first
season at the famous old E Street
playhouse begins on Monday night,
September %. The occasion will
be Max Gordon's first production
of the new theatrical year, "St.
Helena" founded on the last days
of the Little CorporaPS exile on
the island.
Maurice Evans, last seen here
as Romeo to Katharine Cornell's
Juliet, comes over from London to
play Napoleon.
The play is now in rehearsal
under the direction of Robert B.
Sinclair, who staged Pride and
Prejudice" for Mr.. Gordon last
year. Incidentally, Pride and
Prejudice" also was Mr.. Gordon'S
first production last season and
premiered at the National on a
TUESDAY nlgnC. MT. SOIuOAA ID
surely taking the place Of the
"Belasco and Charles Frohman
Washington premieres," so "sold"
on this city is Americas foremost
producer that he has signified
his intention of opening all OF his
plays at the National.
The premiere of "St. Helena"
will be followed a little later on
by his second venture, Women"
more details of which are to
come. A Max Gordon premiere
has come to mean another New
York success" Many New York
erS will make the trip down for
a uncover before the play goes
into the big city.
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Max GendeI parked at the edi-'
tors desk yesterday First adj
vance agent of the new dramatic
season and emisSary of Producer
Max Gordon He opened his
brief case and deposited pictures
and memoranda on est. Helena"
a play about Napoleon, which will
have it's first American perform
ance at the National Theater on
the night of September %.
It comes from the pen of R. c.
Sheriff and you need know no
more about this author than that
he wrote the greatest OF war
plays, Journeys End" Now,
about "St. Helena" 1t was
opened early in 1885, at the Old
Vic Theater, a tiny playhouse in
the London suburbs, caused no
particular commotion until Win
ston Churchill saw it and wrote
a letter of protest to the London
Times that such a dramatic gem
should be permitted to anguish
in the obscure sticks So the
play was brought to London,
made an instantaneous hit, and
Max Gordon acquired the Ameri-
can rights Maurice Evans
will be the Napoleon. Same Actor
Evans who served katharine Cor
nell last season as Romeo" to
her Juliet" Society editors
will be interested in the fact that
Rosamond Pinchot of The
Pinchots will have prominent
role On est. Helena" Pro
Queer Gordon will lavish a ton
of money. He is importing many
actors for the cast, hopes it will
run full season in New York,
where it goes after the washing
ton try-out performances.
TWO CLEVER TWINS
Billy and Bobby Mauch, 11-year-
old twins, are the youngest Holly
woodites have ever interviewed
Billy was blowing bubbles
through the straws in his lemon
ade Yesterday while the critics
munched ladyfingerS and petite
sandwiches, preparing for the
round robin quiz. The boys look
as though they might have
stepped out of the pages of a
Booth Harrington novel. Hand
some American lads all dressed up
and ready for Sunday school. J..
They will play Tarkington's Pen
rod and Sam for Warner Brothers
after t hey have completed
prince and the Pauper," their
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Ginger Rogers Most
PubIicized Actress

Ginger Rogers is currently the
possessor of what is probably the
all-time record for motion picture
star publicity.
In the eight weeks preceding
and during her personal appear
ance at the Texas Centennial cele-
bration, two leading Dallas papers
ran 1914 pictures of the RKO Ra-
dio dancing star. Other Texas
newspapers contributed heavily to
the newsprint and photograph vel
come. literally giving the star hun
dreds of feet of space that could
not be bought for money.
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.otobIes For
Premiere

An audience including distin-
guished representatives of more
than 40 foreign nations will greet
Anthony Adverse" when the long
awaited Warner Bros. production
has its premier at the Earle Thea
ter this Thursday evening (Sept.
100, at 11:15 p. m.
Official delegates to the Third
World Power Conference. repre-
Senting almost every country in
the world, will attend the premier
as the guests of John j. Payette,
Warner Bros. General Zone Man
ager for the Washington territory.
The conference, which opened it's
sessions here on Monday, will hold
its official banquet Thursday eve
ming. At the conclusion of this
dinner, which will be addressed by
Secretary of Interior Ickes, the Of
fetal delegates will adjourn to the
Earle Theater where seats will be
reserved for them.
Although Washington is a city
noted for it's cosmopolitan audi
enceS, never in local theatrical
history has so distinguished q
group been gathered together for
the premiere of motion picture.
Among the guests will be such
outstanding figures as the Right
Hon. Viscount Falmouth, Sir
Harold and Lady Hartley and Sir
Archibald Page, who are included
in the delegation from Great
Britain; Prof. Giancarlo Vallouri,
vice president of the Royal Acad-
envy of Italy; Senior don Julio
Lozano, Minister of Honduras;
DR.. MaSawo Kamo, of Japan; DR..
Charles CamSell, the Deputy Min
lister of Mines, Canada; DR.. Al
fred Bilmanis, Minister of Latvia;
M. Leon Perrier, of the French
delegation, Senator and former
minister; DR.. H. Herman, Luxen-
bourg; Jan Kobza, Counsellor,
the Ministry Of Public Works,
Czechoslovakia; Ing. Karl Angus
tin, Director of Steweag, Austria:
DR.. Ryneldo DeambroSis, Consul
late of Uruguay, and numerous
others.
VOTE AMERICAN
Hobby
Robert Armstrong, who heads
the cast of RKO Radios with
out ORDERS" lists cabinet-making
and carpentry as his main hobby.
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$50 PRIZE POET
The first notice concerning the
National Theater that ever ap-
peared in print, was on November
10, 1885, when the new enterprise
offered $50 in cash for the best
original poetical address to be
spoken on the opening night. A
Mr.. Vose, of Baltimore, proved 10
be the poet laureate.
It must have been quite an open.
ing night for the reporter of the
National Intelligencer began his
story as follows:
"The new and magnificent
establishment was finely patron
lied on Monday evening, Deem
Der 7, 1885, by a very full house.
The parquet and boxes were
filled with ladies and gentlemen,
and the tout ensemble" must
have formed a highly crafty
ing "cOup d'Oeil" to the spirited
manager, precursor, it is hoped,
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of what he may expect through.
i, out the season, provided he
realizes the assurances and
promises which he has made"
: They had quite a time choosing
the E Street site for a minority of
stockholders wanted to locate the
theater near the foot of Capitol
Hill. However the real money
men of the enterprise figured that
the city would grow around the
home of the President, and fought
for the spot closer to the White
House. Certainly these financierS
Of 1885 were men with foresight.
: For ten seasons the theater en-
Joyed periods Of prosperity and
also depression. Some critics
thought the drama was "going to
pot" Probably more responsible
for poor business was the fact that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1895, by King Features
Syndicate Inc

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 9.-De-
mentia Cinematica. You can't
stop the tongues cackling in this,
the HollywoodS. Edward Arnold,
between scenes for Goldwyn's
Come and Get It" was seen three
times running with a beautiful
girl, but despite a marked resem-
blance, no one gave him the bene-
fit of the doubt, or realized it was
his own daughter, Betty.
And, since we are on the sub
ject of Goldwyn films, for Love
Under Fire" the Merle Oberon
thriller of which they change the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
101 Years Ago Dramas Torch
Was Lighted on Site Where
1t Now Burns Brightly
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

The National the forgotten theater last for reached
Tooth anniversary and nobody thought to send garden In
fact they don't believe Managing Director Steve Cochran NOW
when he officially the Street shrine of the drama
is about to begin the 101st
Yet it's fact On this Street site, December T.
1885, the first New National Theate opened The play
The Man of the World with aepece musical farce called
"Tnrn Ont -
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VOTE AMERICAN
Architect

Alfred Santell, currently direct
ing RKO Radios "Winterset,
originally prepared for a career as
an architect.
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n " = VENV"
Hobby

Robert Armstrong, who heads
the cast of RKO Radios with
out ORDERS" lists cabinet-making
and carpentry as his main hobby.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09

The wonders of the screen will
never cease. 1t took four people
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wore AMERICAN
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-12-04
Action Taken to Prevent
Walsh -Healey Act Evasion

Washington, D. G. ILNS) -Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins has issued new
regulations designed to prevent eva
sions of the Walsh Healey act which
sets up wage and working hour stand
ards for firms holding government
contracts of more than $4,000.
The regulations were adopted in
an effort to prevent government con-
tractors from Indirectly evading pro-
visions of the act by having the sup
plies shipped to the government direct
from manufacturer, not party to
the contract, who does not comply
with the wage and hour provisions.
Miss Perkins ruled that when a
dealer, to whom a contract has been
awarded, causes manufacturer to
deliver directly to the government the
materials required under the contract,
such dealer will be deemed the agent
of the manufacturer.
AS the principal of such agent,
the manufacturer will be deemed to
have agreed to the stipulations con-
tanned in the contract" Miss Perkins
ruled.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-12-04
We MUST MASTER
THE MACHINE
Mead Tells A. F. of L. Dele
gates

Tampa, Fla (ILNS) American
Federation of Labor convention dele
gates here are still talking of the
speech of Congressman James M.
Mead, of New York, known from coast
to coast as the friend of the post office
workers. AS always in Meads
speeches, this was shot with humor.
In speaking of the recent campaign,
Mead mentioned the contribution
made by Mr. Hamilton, young
forceful and aggressive leader of the
opposition, when he said before the
election: The trend toward Landon is
unbelievable And really, it was. "
He gave brief sketch of the tur-
bulent world since the war, saying
that whether you call dictatorship
Fascism or Nazism, labor loses; and
that only in Great Britain and Amer
ica, among the larger nations, can
rest be found from the rapacious
rush of oppressive government" He
declared:
"This American plan of 1886 must
Influence the world as did the plan of
l776. We must hold our gains on
every front, and go on to further and
better achievement.
I'VE must stop the exploitation of
! anr children We must protect
American womanhood from the strain
of the machines. We must dignity
American manhood by government
that will insist, not only that men
have the right to organize, but that
they must be accorded that right with
out interference or coercion.
Eve must reduce the hours and in
crease the wages of the toilers, that
they may enjoy the benefits of the
machines with which they labor. We
must clean up our slums, and give
the American people cleaner ano
healthier places to live. We must
master the machine; or we are build
ing Frankenstein that will contro
US"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-12-04
FAIR BOARD
HOLDS ELECTION

John W. Welsh, Fairfield township
defeated Shafer Schenck, Wayne
township, for election to the unexpir-
ed term as director of the Butler
County Agricultural Society at the
annual election held last Saturday at
the courthouse.
Welsh received 90 votes and
Schenck, 81 Welsh will succeed the
late Benjamin Bridges and will serve
for one year.
The election of three full term di-
rectors brought no opposition to the
incumbents, Walter Ralston, Monroe;
Robert Hiltbrand, Seven Mile, and
Thomas Vinnedge, Fairfield township
Due to the lack of opposition to
the full term candidates, the election
aroused but slight interest and only
conducted from II o'clock to 3 o'clock
and was supervised by three judges
and two clerks. The judges were:
Corey Geiger, Robert Skilman ano
Ralph Hunter. The clerks were:
Homer Schul and Earl Hogan.
The directors selected for the full
term will serve for three years from
January 1, 1887. Welsh's term will
expire year from next January.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-12-04
ARTHUR BYRD
Member of the Hamilton
Building Trades Council

1t is with deep sorrow and regret
that we, the members of Hamilton
Building Trades Council, record the
untimely death of our brother, Arthur
Byrd, one Of the most beloved mem
bers, and an untiring worker for the
cause of labor; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That in this hour of
sorrow we, the members of Hamilton
Building Trades Council, extend to the
bereaved family and relatives, our
most sincere sympathy and condol-
ence; and be it further
RESOLVED, That we send a copy
of this resolution to the bereavec
family and relatives, a copy be sent
to the Press, and copy be spread or
our minutes.
Committee,
Joseph Spaulding,
James Solomon,
Edward Dulli,
F. Vidourek
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1936-12-04
ACCIDENTS INCREASE

There were 81 traffic accidents in
Hamilton in November, an increase
of % for the same period last year,
the monthly report of police depart
ment activities showed
The report, by Police Clerk Her
schel Haines, showed last months ac-
cidents caused 21 injuries and two
deaths. Miss Evelyn Katherine True,
age 10, 1902 Sippel avenue, and John
Huentleman, age II, 161 Washington
street, lost their lives.
Police investigated "a offenses in
November, and charges were brought
against 164 persons, 35 less than ir
October