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The Washington times., 1936-02-24
By LLOYD PANTAGEs

HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 24.-For
more reasons than one, Laurence
Housman (the English author OF
Victoria Regina)" claims to be
the most censored man on all the
British Isles. Up to date, he's had
80 Of his plays banned there be-
cause they dealt with members Of
the royal family. I gas they
couldn't take it.
Raoul Walsh and Douglas Fair
banks, ST., leave March / on the
China Clipper to shoot some ex'
teriors for Doug's picture, Marco
Polo" They'll be four days IN
the air Gin case you didn't know
and then will stay only couple OF
weeks in the Orient. The rest Of
the picture will be shot right in
Hollywood.
Hear tell that one Of our major
studios has sent instructions to all
Of its writer's to lay off putting any
thing in their scripts concerning
insane people because 1t might Of
fend the audiences. In most cases
1t is the picture itself that is often
sive-so why?
Nice to know that MGM finally
cracked out and gave Jean Parker
q new contract. Up to the present
moment she's been laboring along
on the very small stipend Of SIS a
week, and that, in any key,
couldn't be called big dough. Doug
Fairbanks, jr., flew to New York
to attend the opening of his pic
ture, "The Amateur Gentleman,
and then he'll fly right back again
to start another picture.
"The Trail of the Lonesome
Pine" (entirely in technicolor) is
so amazing and so beautiful that
you can expect to see colossal
rush Of color to our screens in the
near future. You see, the pro
ducing companies out here are
more or less like sheep: They fol.
low in the trail Of every one elSe's
success.
For no apparent reason in the
world, q gentleman out here has
unearthed q horse that can tap
dance. Mind you. and what's more
it will do its tapping Cor tap-on
hood-aS one might call IT'D in onC
The Washington times., 1936-02-24

Mr.. Chaplin. Again in sucn cum
bersome and heavy props as fac
tory machinery he finds lurking
the germs Of laughter.
The story Of Modern Times" Is
as thin aS orphanage soup. Rather
is it Q series Of comic episodes,
loosely strung together, but serv-
ing to give his harmless derelict
real audience appeal, since here
he befriendS a little gamin, just
as he did the blind girl in City
Lights" ana Jackie Coogan in
'The Kid" However the cops
may push Charlie around, you al
ways know that beneath tn a t
ragged garb lies an l8-carat heart,
CHARLIE SINGS
Does he take O crack at the
machine age and modern efficiency
which makes automatonS Of work
ers? I doubt If that Is his pur-
pose in showing his tramp as q
factory time server Tightening
bolts as they come flying past
on a belt conveyor. Charlie finds
q screw loose in his head and
goes slightly Nuts" the nervous
disturbance having him flit
around flywheels and dynamos
like a ballet dancer chasing
spring. He even takes a merry-go,
round ride through the cog.
wheels and bowels of the machine
that drove him beserk.
Some bulging foreheads and
deep dish critics may see Moscow
implications in the fact that he
picks up the red warning flag
dropped from q speeding truck, in.
nocently finds himself leading a
parade Of radicals pursued by the
police. To me it is another price
less gag without political signifi'
eance.
Audiences will howl when his
successful hunt for a shipyard
wedge sends a yacht down the
ways to the river bottom; they
will, I am sure, find noisy glee
when Chaplin in jail gets a huge
The Washington times., 1936-02-24
Riley Farley
And Music

"The Music Goes Round" Co
lurnhia'S musical comedy, and
Mike Riley and I'd Farley. the
boys who wrote '"The Music Goes
Round and Round" viii be fea-
tured at the Earle Theater next
week, started February 90.
Harry Richman, one Of Broad.
ways favorite entertainers, plays
the leading role in Music Goes
Round" Rochelle Hudson and
Walter Connolly are featured in
the supporting cast, which includes
Lionel Stander, Douglass Dunn
brille, and Farley and Riley, the
songwriting musicians. and their
band.
Victor Schertzinger directed
"The Music Goes Round" which
Is the story Of a New York stage
headliner who discovers the com
edy sensation of the day when he
joins a stowboat troupe in Mis-.
SiSsippi. He also finds romance
and q full excuse for singing Life
Begins When You're In Love-
and the six other popular melodies
In the film.
In addition to presenting their
song hit in the picture-aided by
interpretations made by Richman,
Herman Bing and Michael Bart
lett-Mike Riley and Ed Farley
will appear in person on the
Earle stage with their Onyx Club
Band. These pioneers of swing
music will offer q program Of
typical, swing-ey rhythms.
The newSreel and short sub
jects will round out the Earle's
gala "round and round" program.
The Washington times., 1936-02-24
Howord's Play
At Western

Berkeley Square," the Leslie
Howard success of a few years
back, will be presented by the
Dramatic Club of the Western
High School on February %
and 20.
The production is sponsored by
the Home and School Association
Of Western and is featured by the
presence of several alumni mem
bers Of the Dramatic Club. In
the cast, Austin Gattis, Of the
1884 class. will play the Leslie
Howard role.
A leap-year dance. for which the
Home and School Association has
provided the music, will follow
each performance Of the play.
The Washington times., 1936-02-24
FAST AND FURIOUS

FAST AND FURIOUS
As watched Modern Times"
screened at Loew's Century The
ater in Baltimore on Saturday 1t
was easy to understand the rea'
sons why Comedian Chaplin sticks
to the 1925 model regardless OF
free wheeling and knee action
studio improvements. They are:
Ca If Charlie Chaplin made his
flat screen image audible his
Cockney accent would not fit the
derby, cane and oversize shoes Of
his tramp character. (b) His new
picture has at least 100 good
gags, whereas with dialogue 1t
couldn't possibly have half as
many. Sound and dialogue slowed
up comedies, slowed them UP terri.
bly,, and Silly Symphonies and
Mickey Mouses raced right past
Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd,
Harry Langdon, and others whose
fun wallop depended largely on
speed. Charlie Chaplin says
nOLnlng, DuJ neS Close 10 the ueoIa
Of Walt Disney as q screen
SpeedSter.
It took Charlie Chaplin five
years to bring out Modern
Times" don't wonder. For ne
has thought out and executed
some of the. most hilarious funny
business I have ever seen. Some
may contend that the supreme
Chaplin gag was the swallowed
whistle Of "City Lights" but I'll
take the automatic feeding ma
chine which he unveils in Mod
ern Times"
This gadget feeder has all the
mad quality of Ed Wynn's choic.
est inventions, Joe Cooks insan-
tiles and clocks q laugh q second
while it confounds the amazed
The Washington times., 1936-02-24
Henry Fonda Draws
"African Intrioue'

african Intrigue" Q novel by
Alfred Batson, will be brought to
the screen as Henry Fonda's next
starring vehicle to be produced BY
Walter Wanger.
The story, laid in 1911, deals
with four Germans who are sent
to explore a French Afric a n
jungle. Roy Hargrave, Walter Pid-
geon and Alan Baxter complete
the quartet around whom the
story revolves.
The Washington times., 1936-02-24
Modern Times Registers With
Your Critic as Greatest Film
From King of testers
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

Charlie Chapns Modern Times is the best comedy he has
ever made As the last of the Hollywood dehards he Cngs
to the venerable rky silent echnique but for fun
content picture has the stimulating quality kick and the
warm glow Of wine poured from duscOvered cobwebby Jug
Now have subscribed to the belief that Charlie Chap
lin was genius of pathos, canny philosopher,
sly and clever preacher of social propaganda via the
To me- he has always merely the king of pantomme esers
He
The Washington times., 1936-02-24
Hometown Girl

Julie Hayden, blonde player
who next appears in End Of the
World" came to Hollywood when
she was 7 years old and has lived
in the film capital ever since.
Evening star., 1936-10-26
Crippled U.S.. Ship Asks Help,
With Rudder Lost IN High Seas

The tugs Alexandra and Brockie-
hurst were to start from the Mersey
River at pm. (S am, Eastern stand
ard time) to tow the ship to Liver
pool.
The American Shipper. 7.430-ton
vessel, carried % passengers and q
cargo which included 5000 cases OF
Scotch whisky.
The United States Line denied the
ship sent out an S o s last night
Ofiicials said the liner wirelessed Its
own company asking for assistance
after it had lost its rudder.
The ship left Liverpool Saturday,
en- route to New York, and called OF
Belfast yesterday.
Evening star., 1936-10-26

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. October
26.-Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican
resident commissioner to Washing
ton, was shot and wounded slightly
last night while speaking to a crowd
in the plaza at Mayaguez.
Police arrested Domingo Santaliz
Crespo, IS, who. the municipal judge
said, admitted the shooting and said
he had gone to the meeting with the
idea of killing Iglesias, who is a can
didate to succeed himself as resident
commissioner.
Crespo declared he was national
ist and sergeant in the cadets of
the republic" nationalist organiza-
ton.
A temporary charge Of carrying a
weapon was lodged against him.
Iglesias was taken to hospital, where
physicians said his condition was not
serious.
Since his Washington denuncia-
tion of the killing of Col. E. Francis
Riggs, insular police chief, by ma
tionalists last February, Iglesias has
been reported on a list Of officials
against whom nationalist extremists
supposedly had designs.
Others on the list, authorities con-
tend, are Gov Blanton WinShip and
United States District Judge Robert
Cooper.
Since the commissioners return
from Washington. police have con-
(See IGLESIAS, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1936-10-26

Five hundred Washingtonians
crowded the cinder platform OF the
ancient, red wooden Langdon Station
this morning to greet the nine-car
Sunfower Special carrying Gov. All
M. Landon in from the West and on
to Baltimore.
They hoped the Republican presi-
Dental candidate would speak. There
was no promise that he would do SO,
however, and his District admirers
left the Baltimore & Ohio station at
Twenty-fourth and Douglas streets
northeast without having seen him.
Gov. Harry Nice of Maryland
stepped out on the rear platform to
wave to the throng. as did former
Gov. Henry j. Allen of Kansas, q
close Landon political adviser, who
explained to the impatient, shouting
assemblage:
'I want to apologize for the Gov
ernor. He can't come out. There are
a good many reasons why man
can't come out at this time Of day,
and I'll let you select your own rea-
sons"
Later it was said that Landon's
sore throat made it inadvisable for
him to appear.
Evening star., 1936-10-26
MADRID ISOLATED,
T0EALL IN 10DAyS,
REBELS ANNOUNCE
Two important Rail Ter
minaIS Are EnCirCled
by insurgents.
AZANA is AWAITING
SOVIET AID, is REPORT
Loyalists Speed New Militia to
Tighten Lines After Latest
Gains by Foe.
BY the Associated Press.

6s lHc hooOCidtco fASSS'
LISBON, Portugal, october 90
The Fascist Spanish government at
Burgos announced today Madrid had
been completely isolated from the
rest of Spain and predicted it would
fall to the insurgent armies within
3 to 10 days"
A communique, issued at Burgos.
said Ell Escorial, northwest of Madrid,
and Aranjuez, to the southeast, both
important railway terminals. had
been encircled. cutting them of from
Madrid.
From Madrid, the railway through
Aranjuez leads to vital southeastern
seaports such as Valencia.
Earlier, refugees from the Spanish
war had declared authorities of auton-
omous Catalonia, where President
Manuel Azana of Spain has estab-
lished offices, were awaiting the ar
rival of 10000 Russian volunteers.
Soviet Aid Held Ready.
Portuguese citizens, arriving here
from Barcelona, Spain, said the Soviet
brigades were ready to embark from
Black Sea ports and were expected
shortly to join the Catalonian forces
against the Spanish Fascists.
CUnconf1rmed reports in Paris said
Russia had requsted use of French
ports should Moscow decide to inter-
vene actively in the Spanish civil war.
The newspaper Echo de Paris said
the Soviet was believed to want free
disposal to French ports for their war
feet and merchant feet"
(Yvon Delbos, French foreign min
lister. the reports said. telephoned the
British foreign Office in London and
opposed the rumored request.
No Requests Says Turkey.
(Turkish authorities at Istanbul said
they had received no Russian re-
quests for authorization to send the
Soviet feet into the Mediterranean
through the Dardanelles.)
Other Portuguese returning from
Spain said two Russian freighters un-
loaded tanks. aircraft and other mu-
nitions at Alicante several days ago.
Gen. Gonzalo Queipo de Llano,
Spanish insurgent commander. broad
(see SPAIN. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1936-10-26
PRESIDENT READY
FOR FINAL DRIVE
Starts NorthWard Tomorrow
After Speech at Howard
University Today.
~ the Associated Press,

~ the ASSOCIATED FteSs.
Aside from a speech to Negro stu
dents and educators, President Roose-
welt devoted most of today to prepar-
ing for his final campaign swing into
some of the East's most populous dis
tricts.
The only public appearance on the
days program was talk at the dedi-
cation Of a chemistry building at
Howard University, Negro institution
of higher education. Funds of P. w. A.
financed the structure. This talk was
scheduled for 4:30 pm.
The White House declared that to-
days address was non-political in
character.
Will Leave Tomorrow.
Fortified for his final push by q
restful week end at the White House.
broken only by a Sunday morning
trip to church, the President will move
North by special train tomorrow night
for a speaking tour in New York.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela-
ware. Together, these States repre-
sent 1o2 electoral votes.
Another address described as nom
political, to be given at the Statue OF
Liberty's fiftieth birthday celebration
on Bedloe's Island in New York
Harbor, will open the tour Wednes.
day night.
With agriculture as his topic. he
(See ROOSEVEIT. Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1936-10-26

Attempts to "buy of" three wit
nesses in the investigation Of police
bonding racket in Prince Georges
County, Nd, have been made since the
inquiry opened in Upper Marlboro, last
week, it was charged today.
Failing to identify persons they said
approached them, the witnesses told
Keystone Automobile Club attorneys
selecting evidence for presentation to
the grand jury of the attempted
bribery.
Only one of the witnesses, Raymond
r. Iannucci of 308 Sixth street, has
testified before the jury. Iannucci
told Attorney Harvey Cobb that a man
came to his home last night and Of
fered payment of $140 if the COM
plainant would drop suit filed last
Saturday.
One Of the other witnesses revealed
that q stranger offered him $500 for
return of certain receipts" The third
witness said that a man offered 70
make it worth his while" if he would
refuse to testify in the investigation.
Attorney Louis Lebowitz, one OF
three lawyers who have collected evi-
dence, was approached several weeks
ago by "a prominent county citizen, ''
the attorney said today. The attempt to
buy of" Lebowitz was made shortly
after he began a study of police records
Told in Cobb's Office.
Iannucci's story of the attempted
bribe was made in Cobb's National
Press Building of1ice in the presence
of Star reporter early this afternoon.
The witness declared he had mo in
tention" of dropping his suit and he
reiterated that he would go before the
grand jury again if requested.
Meanwhile the grand jury. after a
weeks investigation Of charges that
Washington motorists had been VIC
timized through police-bonding COL
lusions. prepared to submit its re-
port in Upper Marlboro this after
noon. Although the group may not
recess until tomorrow, it is expected
(See "RACKET." Page A-2)
Evening star., 1936-10-26
Crowd of 500 " asF,in gtonians
Fails to Get Glimpse of Landon
d. C. Republican Leaders Board "Sun'
Ao,Oer SPeciop at Brief Stop
in Capital.

Nice and rs other Maryland Re
publicanS, who had just arrived from
Baltimore on q westbound train,
boarded the Landon special with Ed
ward F. Colladay and Mrs. Virginia
White Speel, members Of the Re-
publican National Committee for the
District; James c. Wilkes, chairman
of the State Republican Committee
for the District, and Clyde D. Garrett,
secretary to the committee.
A black-and-yellow banner Of the
"Landon-Le Gore" Club waved In the
breeze by the track when the big
green engine President Hayes" pulled
the train into Langdon at $50 am
At once there was a shout Of Ian
donl Landon! Landon! Yeah, Lam
don!" and the more energetic of the
crowd climbed telephone poles and
scrambled atop freight cars to see
their hero.
State Senator Harry lie Gore, who
Is Republican congressional candidate
from the sixth Maryland district,
Montgomery County, had boarded the
train at Cumberland. Md, last night
with his manager, Earl w. Shinn.
Evening star., 1936-10-26
SIMPSON DIVORCE
DECREE DUE TODAY
Hearing Follows 2 Criminal
and 2 Civil Cases in Ips-
Wich Court.
BY the Associated Press.

IPSWICH, Ent'and. October 26.-
Marital freedom-presumably fore
gone conclusion-lay just ahead for
Mrs. Ernest ("Wallie") Simpson to-
day.
The svelte, dark-eyed friend Of iKng
Edward waited anxiously for Justice
Sir John Anthony Hawke to pass
judgment on two criminal and two
civil cases listed on the assizes docket
before her case could be heard.
Crowds stood expectantly around the
grim, tower-f1anked entrance Of the
old Ipswich court house, eager for a
glimpse of the sleek-haired American
woman whose name has been linked
with that of Great Britain's 42-year-
old bachelor monarch in q thousand
fantastic rumors, reports and frag-
ments of inside information"
Marriage Question to Town.
The townsfolk-fnally aware their
little Old World town has been chosen
as the scene Of possibly momentous
romantic cross-roads-posed the ques-
tion whose answer probably nobody
on earth knows except King Edward
and Mrs. Simpson.
will she marry him7 Or won't
she?"
In any event, the first step in Mrs.
Simpsons attempt to cast of the
shackles Of her second matrimonial
venture was expected to be reached
late this afternoon-as soon as the
stern-visaged Mr. Justice Hawke could
dispose of the four cases docketed
ahead of the half-dozen divorce
actions on the calendar.
The "affaire Simpson" came first
on the list, with the pretty and "age-
less" Mrs. Simpsons her friends
have described her, recalling her debut
to Baltimore society some 20-odd years
ago-expected to tell her story of al
legged misconduct on the part of her
husband to a sharply-restricted court
room audience.
10-Minute Procedure Expected.
No jury, 1t was reliably said, would
examine the merits of "Wallie's" as
sertions Of infidelity by her former
guardsman husband. In fact, the
whole case, which has attracted news
paper men from continental Europe
by the dozen, as we'll American re-
porters, was expected to be over within
10 minutes.
Then, if the decree nisi were
granted, Mrs. Simpson would enter 9
six-month probation" period under
the technical scrutiny of a Kings
proctor before the divorce would be
made absolute-leaving her free tc
answer the question which. in the
last few weeks, has threatened to tor
the centuries-old riddle Of the SPHINX
in worldwide curiosity.
Evening star., 1936-10-26

President Roosevelt last month Of
fered the late Senator Couzens OF
Michigan the chairmanship OF the
Maritime Commission, it was dis
closed at the White House today.
A letter was made public in which
the President, on last September II,
made the offer to the Senator.
Senator Couzens told the President,
according to an accompanying state
ment, that he would talk the matter
over with him after the election. 1t
was explained in Mr.. Roosevelt's letter
that under the Constitution he could
not ask Couzens to serve until after
his term as Senator had expired.
Couzens, who died last Thursday,
Evening star., 1936-10-26
DELAWARE SPLIT
MAY AID NEW DEAL
Republican fractional Row
May Cheat Landon of
3 Electoral Votes.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

WILMINGTON, Del, October 90
Paradoxically, Delaware will cast more
votes for Republican presidential elec-
tors than for the Democratic electors.
but the State is likely to give its
three electoral votes to Roosevelt.
The difficulty arises over split in
the Republican ranks, two sets Of
Republican presidential electors have
been placed on the ballot. One set is
the regular Republican ticket. The
other has been put forward by the L.
Dolphus Short faction of the Repub-
lican party. Both sets of the Re-
publican presidential electors are
pledged to Gov. Landon. Under the
Constitution, however. the voters do
not ballot directly for President. They
cast their vote for presidential electors.
The set of electors receiving the high
est vote will be declared elected. With
the Republican vote divided between
the regular Republicans and the in
dependents, the advantage may well
be with the Democrats.
The split in the G. o. p. arose when
the regular Republican organization
denied Short the Republican nonina-
ton for Governor at the State con-
vention. There is an old tradition in
Delaware that the three counties in
the State, New Castle, Kent and Sus-
sex shall rotate in having the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor. Sussex
turn came four years ago. Because
Gov. Clayton Douglass Buck, a Re-
publican and q du Pont son-in-law,
had been an exceptionally successful
Governor, Sussex waived its turn,
withs the understanding that in 1886
the nomination for Governor should
go to that county.
"Off Horse" in Party.
I. Dolphus Short, successful
banker of Milford, in Sussex County
believed that he should have the Re-
publican nomination. In fact, he
claims that he was promised the nomi-
nation by no less person than Gov,
Buck, when he agreed to stand aside
so that Buck might be nominated In
1882. Short, however, has been an
"off horse" in the Republican party
(See LINCOLN, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1936-10-26
ATTEMPT TO BUY
3W|TNESSEST0L
Effort at Bribery Charged in
Prince Georges Police
Bonding Probe.

The Prince Georges County
grand jury has announced its in
tention of making a thorough in
vestigation of charges being pre-
sented to it by the keystone
Automobile Club involving the
wholesale arrest Of washington
motorists, victims of an alleged
bonding filming racket.
Washington motorists, victims
of the alleged racket, are request
ed to communicate with the clubs
attorney, Harvey L. Cobb, 1l25
National Press Building. National
8608 or National 1915.
Evening star., 1936-10-26
five NORFOLK JAIL
PRISONERS ESCAPE
Keys Are Seized From Elderly
Keeper, Imprisoned in Sup
ply Closet.
b the Associated Press.

ot Jlc nooOSlatCo EASoSs
NORFOLK, Va, october 26.-Nor-
folk police famed out through the
city's streets in speeding squad cars
early today in pursuit of five prisoners
who seized keys from their elderly
keeper and escaped from the city jail
shortly after midnight.
Headed by Paul Linwood (Snake
Eyes, Edwards, given 10 years for
robbery, the prisoners sawed through
a bar in a door and overpowered
Samuel NJ Charlton, night jailer, who
had been lured into the cell block.
Imprisoning him in supply closet,
they unlocked the main exit door, es-
capped, and locked the door behind
them, leaving the keys in the lock.
After a check-up officers said the
following, besides Edwards, had
escaped:
Archie Clyde Childress, "a, jack
sonville, Fla; Arnold Scott, 30; Cecil
Earl Smith, "a, of Norfolk County,
and Clifton Hollowell, "a. Of South
Norfolk.