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The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Suffers GOLD AT KEITH'S
Suffers Gold
Has Arnold
At Keith's

Suffers Gold," current at
RKO Keith's, is q picture you
will want to see. It is entertain.
ing, even gripping at times, and,
whatever its. faults, it still stands
far above the average run Of
screen fare.
"Sutter's Gold" falls Just short
of greatness and yet the touches
Of, genius are there; genius that
can take q fantastic story and
character almost as fantastic,
and make them both as real as
everyday.
ARNOLD SHINES
I am not prepared to say II
this story is true to the histori-
cal facts or not. It really makes
but little difference so long as
one Is entertained.
And yet I would venture to say
that the character Of Sutter is
pretty close to the truth. No di-
rector nor author would dare
conceive such a contradictory
hodge-podge-but that Is exactly
the way most characters are.
While an analysis Of Suffers
character, as revealed by the
play, would reveal the sort Of
person it is hard to be interested
In, or sympathetic with, yet one
Is interested. And there Is an
epic touch in the tragedy Of this
central figure and the wealth he
could not hold.
sutter does Just about every
thing that the central figure in q
moving picture should not do, and
yet he holds your undivided in.
terest.
The story is played against the
background Of California in the
gold rush days. It is bizarre and
colorful.
Edward Arnold, who plays the
central character Of Johann
Augustus Sutter, does magnifi-
cent portrayal. I would venture
to say that this veteran trouper
has never had a more difficult
role. Yet he makes this unreal
character and its successive trag-
edieS seem very much alive.
Lee Tracy, doing a most excel
lent job in a straight dramatic
role, plays the part Of Pete Perkin,
pal Of Sutter. He adds nightly
to the film.
SHORT SUBJECTS
Binnie Barnes is capable as the
heart interest, q siren Of the gold
rush days.
Harry Carey, q veteran Of the
screen, does nohly in q sequence
as Kit Carson.
Besides those mentioned. the
play employs a huge cast. Among
others are: Katharine Alexander,
rs Mrs. Sutter; Montagu Love,
John MILAN, Nan Gray, William
Jenney and Morgan Wallace.
The film was directed ~ James
Cruze.
The news reel and various short
subjects complete a very outstand-
ing cinema program. j. w. B.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
'FAUNTLEROY AT THE FOX
Potricio Bowman and Ballet,
Everett Marshall, Bunchuk,
Top Good Stage Show
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Little Lord Fauntleroy with Freddie Bartholomew has
all the good TASTE wholesome charm and quaint appeal that
made Little Women sensational success picture
In revising Frances Hodgson Burnett novel of another
generation, Author Hugh Wapoe has been careful to
give its juvenile hero manly speeches. you may approach
without fear that lace and velvet suit boy with long cur
will always do mamma says.
Master Bartholomew Eton clothes, is thoroughly
masculine polite and tremendously engaging he lives the
troubles that beset the young nobleman until he acquires his
heritage His dction-as in David Copperfelds delight
The Washington times., 1936-04-11

FULL OF SENTIMENT
Sharing the highest honors is
c. Aubrey Smith as the grumpy
Earl Of Dorincourt, who is trans
formed by affection for the boy
into a kind hearted and gruff
English landlord. This veteran
actor has never caught up with q
richer part in Hollywood nor one
IN which his canny sense for char
acterization has been better served.
You will, I think, enjoy his every
minute.
Dolores Costello Barrymore, sad
eyed and wistful, makes a most
impressive return to the screen in
the role Of Dearest" the widowed
mother Of the Brooklyn boy who
was heir to the noble name and
estate. 1t is not an exacting part
but, on the other hand, it could
readily become cloyingly sweet
without the application of re-
Straiat. Dolores Costello, let us
hope, will get bigger and better
roles.
In a long supporting cast there
S excellent support from Henry
Stephenson, Guy Gibbee CMr.
Hobbs, the Grocer, Mickey
Rooney, Jessie Ralph (Apple
Woman) ;. Constance Collier, C. C..
Give, Gilbert Emery and Lionel
Belmore.
Director John Cromwell pro
ceeds with a leisurely pace that
seems to fit the lavender and old
fashioned mood of the story and
The Washington times., 1936-04-11

the production has been beauti.
fully staged. In all, would call
it an ideal Easter week picture.
In keeping with the high tone
of it's screen attraction, the Fox
stage this week offers class enter
tainment. It opens with an East
er overture directed by Yascha
Bunthuk, who seems to WELD 9
charmed baton over the Fox musi-
clans. "A musical medley that Of.
fers snatcheS of the Bolero, a cello
obligato from the conductor, with
the blaring braSseS and organ
swell called into action for the
finale Pilgrims chorus from
Tannhauser, is skillfully present
ed. A mixed chorus of 16 voices
adds effectively to this musical
crescendo.
CLASSY STAGE SHOW
Patricia Bowman. dancing head
liner. offers the Pavlowa classic,
''The Dying Swan" with all the
artistry and grace of the finished
oallerina, to a cello accompani-
nent by Mr.. Bunchuk. Later,
packed up by the Elida ballet "a
beautifully trained group OF
aesthetes), and against a classic
Greek background. the dancer Of.
'ers an interpretive "She Shall
Have Music" interlude, that con"
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Al JoIson in The Singing Kid,
'MeI-o-Deurs' at Earle

he Singing Kid" offers generous slice of AL Joson enter
tanment packed with music and fun all done Grade
A style. a..r '.*."-
In the Bowie vernacua the king of the Nanny singers gets
off flying start with popourr of his old song favores
including "Apr Showers "Sonny Boy" "Swanee" "Cali-
forna Here Come -sags little at the half way mark but
pounds into the stretch with good production numbers
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
able Tennis Champ

Marsha Hunt, young Paramount
actress who plays the lead oppo-
site Larry Crabbe in desert
Gold," once won the school table
tennis championship while attend
ing Horace Mann School in New
York.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Radio Raid.

Twenty masked raiders, says the Asso-
ciated Press, seized radio station OAX4M
at Lima, Peru, last night. The plot
apparently was carefully planned and
successfully executed. Engineers, an
nouncers, artists and onlookers were held
at bay while Leftist propaganda was
poured into the air through a defense
less microphone. But the invaders fed
after only ten minutes, doubtless because
they realized that counter attack might
be expected. The incident, therefore,
had only momentary significance.
But the world may be interested to
consider the larger meaning of such an
event. Demonstrating, as it certainly
does, the power Of broadcasting as an
opinion-making force, it suggests the
necessity for guarding the ether against
misuse. A gang, it must be evident, has
no more right to intrude on a power
which creates government than it has
to violate government itself. Only by
intellectual concession to lawlessness can
capture of any social mechanism or in
strument for selfish political purposes
be excused. Wherever and whenever
the schools, the press and the theater
have been ravished by rebels . basic
Evening star., 1936-01-09

principle of human morality has been
transgressed. History brims with proof
of the resentment which invariably and
universally Is felt toward crimes Of that
character.
And the same may be asserted Of those
perversions of truth of which responsible
officials occasionally are guilty. Die
tators who destroy their critics deserve
the condemnation of the race they thus
betray. The institutions and the imple-
ments which mankind develops for cul-
tural ends should be immune from arbi-
trary interference. To illustrate the
point, the question may be asked: What
would the Peruvian Leftists think Of
their conservative enemies If they by
chance we're to raid a radical radio
station?
Probably what Is wanted throughout
the world Is q system of ethics which
would recognize a fundamental exemp-
ton Of civilization from partisan assault
In a thousand years, perhaps, that
highly desirable objective may be
achieved.
Evening star., 1936-01-09

amongst us" and attempting Ito extend
an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us"
The Constitution reflected the same
convictions in the language OF its pre-
amble, wherein the objectives of the rep
resentatives of the independent States
are listed as: "A more perfect union"
justice, domestic tranquility, common de-
fense, general welfare and the protection
of "the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity."
In neither pronouncement Of intention
is there any evidence Of confusion as to
basic principles. Without presuming to
argue for unaninity Of opinion as to
ways and means. it surely is clear to any
reader that there was practical concur
renee among the founders as to purposes.
The people of the nascent republic, act
ing through their delegates, were per-
fectly definite in their wish to obtain, to
preserve and to enjoy freedom and social
order. Men like George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Frank
lin were positive characters. They de-
sired individual liberty and security.
During 1886, it is indicated, there will
be many occasions for discovering
whether or not the spiritual descendants
of the founders are concerned with such
ideas. In the event of the citizens pre-
fering other notions, the faith which
Lowell manifested in his reply to Guizot
will be subjected to a serious and prob
ably conclusive test.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Housing Accommodations
For Part Timers Approved
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
I agree with Mr.. Ickes about building
apartment houses or homes or anything
for Senators or Representatives. Think
it would be great relief for Washing
ton not to be bored TO hear Of this rental
situation every year. Soon we will be
hearing from our foreign representative
from Pennsylvania along the same line.
Why should people invest their money
in January to June proposition?
How many Senators or Representatives
keep their apartments for the entire
year?
Why don't the gentleman from
Georgia who can get a whole house for
SIS month stay there. where things are
so cheap, instead of filling up Washington
and making 1t that5 much harder for
people who live here all the year round
to get accommodations?
Or sleep on couch in his offce like
the Florida Representative did-the ofhce
supplied free by Uncle Sam and paid
for by the taxes paid by the "peepul."
Another thing, there are plenty homes
here for sale and these gentlemen can
buy their own homes and become Wash
ington owners Of property and then per-
haps they would appreciate some OF the
indignities we residents put up with.
L. PYLE.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Founders Ideas.

Guizot, the historian, once asked Low
ell, the poet: How long will the Ameri-
can republic endure?" And the answer
to the challenge so postulated was: LAS
long as the ideas of the men who found
ed It,"
But what, some modern inquirer may
wish to know, were the ideas of the
founders? The Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Constitution of the
United States, of course, are formal ex-
pressions of some of them. Signing those
immortal documents, the sponsors of the
new Nation attested their agreement on
fundamental principles which ought to
be familiar to every schoolboy of the
present generation, but which, perhaps,
are not as commonly appreciated, even by
school teachers, as they should be.
In the Declaration the spokesmen of
the Colonies summed up their philosophy
In the words: "We hold these truths to
be self-evident: That all men are Gre
ated equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness" The spe-
ciic injuries and usurpations" against
which they complained included erecting
"a multitude of new Offices to
l1arass our people and eat out their sub
stance" imposing taxes on us without
our consent" "depriving us in many
cases of the benefits Of trial by jury"
taking away our charters, abolishing
our most valuable laws and altering
fundamentally the forms of our govern
ments," exciting domestic insurrection
Evening star., 1936-01-09
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Marriage is booming in the United
States.
In 40 years the number Of married
persons has increased from $50 to Cos
per 1000 population more than Is years
of age.
The increase has been steady-557 per
thousand in 1900. 573 in 1910, $50 in
1920 and COS in 1880. Part of it can be
accounted for from known cauSeS-such
as the steadily increasing average age
of the American population-but at
least half of it Is inexplicable.
Such are some of the conclusions Of
Prof. William F. Ogburn, University Of
Chicago sociologist, from an intensive
study of American marriage statistics.
The marriage increase, he believes, may
have reached its peak Just before the de-
preston and already the curve may have
turned downward This is a matter
which cannot be determined before the
next census.
The birth rate is declining and the
average age Of life is longer. Conse-
quently, there are more persons in the
general population in the marriageable
age groups But this factor is known
and corrections can be made for 1t. 1t
accounts, Prof. Ogburn says, for an
increase of about % thousand in mar
ried persons, compared with a total
increase of So thousand.
This is partially offset by factors tend
ing to decrease slightly the marriage
rate, such as the changes in the relative
proportions of rural and urban popula-
tions. A greater proportion of country
than city people are married. In Amer
lea there has been a drift away from
the farms to the factories. Had the
proportions remained the same during
40 years, discounting all other factors,
there might have been expected three
more persons in wedlock for each
thousand
Another factor which might play a
part is the decrease in immigration, but
it works both ways. Many more men
than women came from Europe each
year, thus increasing the number of
bachelors. But the foreigner was less
likely to remain permanently q bache-
lor, thus increasing the number of mar
riages in the older age groups.
There has been a decrease in the num-
ber of married persons in the youngest
marriageable age group, between is and
20 years of age. The rate was so per
1000 less in 1880 than in 1890. In these
40 years there has been an increase Of
72 per 1000 of married persons in the
20-to-25 age group and of 81 per 1000
in the 25-to-35 group. From IS to As
there has been a decrease of per 1000
in the number of married persons, and
this increase is accentuated in the older
groups.
During the past 10 years there has
been a slowing up of the rate in the 15-
to-20-year groups from 70 to II per
1000. When the sexes are divided, how
ever, q slight increase in married women
is shown from the 18th to the 10Th years,
inclusive, followed by slight decrease
in the Goth, 21st and 22nd years. The
next census, Prof. Ogburn believes. will
show a marked decrease for the younger
age groups. The great depression tended
to delay the marriage age.
4
The percentage of married persons IN
country and city tended to equalize itself
during the last decade reported in the
census returns. The proportionate num-
her ce the farm and village pcpulattous
Evening star., 1936-01-09

in the married state remained sta
tonary. City marriages increased, but
only for persons more than % years
For the younger age groups the spread
between country and city remained
marked
For all age groups there were GIG mar
ried persons per 900 on the farms COM
pared to 575 in the cities. There Is no
doubt, Prof Ogburn points out. that city
life tends to discourage marriage by a
factor of about Is per cent. The inhibit-
ing factor acts especially against the
marriage of women-cutting down the
rate 20 per cent, as compared with 10
per cent for men.
The rural districts continued to hold
their priority in the marriage rate. Prof.
Ogburn says, because the married
woman on the farm is more Of an eco
nomic asset to the man, while in the city
exactly the opposite may be the case. The
farm wife has the dual status of mother
of the family and business partner of
the husband. The differential would be
greater If it were not for the inclusion
of the villages in the rural population.
There the proportionate rate of unmar-
ried to married is increased by the num-
berS of widows who leave the farm after
the deaths of their husbands, but re-
main as close as possible to their old
neighbors. They are slow to remarry.
Everywhere and in all classes of soci-
ETY., DR.. Ogburn points out in report of
his study in the official organ of the
American Sociological Society, girls tend
to marry younger than men, due to the
almost obvious reason that a man must
first gain the ability to earn living.
The marriage curves everywhere are
about the same for men. but show con-
siderable instability for women. The
number of women married in any group
ing of society depends more on the sup
ply of single men than vice versa. Prof.
Ogburn finds. AS the age group ad-
vances there is a constantly declining
disparity between the number OF single
men and single women-160 to 100 at
80, 148 to 100 at 40, 131 to 100 at so and
us to 100 at 65. Few women marry Tor
the first time after they are 80 years
old, while this age barrier does not exist
for men.
Prof. Ogburn believes that the boom
DAYS of the last decade. when money
came easy, served to increase the mar
riage ratio, and that there is strong
likelihood the next census reports Will
show that the depression has had an
opposite effect.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Mediterranean Naval Moves

In the Leagues controversy with Italy
shadow definite action have come and
gone without results that undue impor-
tance will not be attached to the latest
critical" date that has been fixed. The
Council is to be reconvened in Geneva
on January 20, when the long proposed
and oft postponed oil sanction is to come
up for reconsideration The expecta-
ton, but not the certainty, is that at
British instigation, for which the new
foreign secretary, Capt. Anthony Eden,
will receive chief credit, an oil embargo
will be urged as final means OF bring
ing pressure to bear on Mussolini to end
his ill-starred military adventure in
Ethiopia.
Evidently the British and the French
apprehend that grave developments may
flow from such measures. Against that
emergency it is planned to strengthen
Anglo-French naval forces in the
Mediterranean on an extensive scale.
Necessary ship movements are timed to
coincide with the Council meeting ten
days hence. Apart from the impressive
ness of these arrangements in terms of
tons and guns, their unquestionable sig
nificance lies in the revelation that
France has been weaned from her re-
luctance to accord vigorous support to
Great Britain in the event of a clash
with the Fascist fleet. Premier Laval'S
attitude on that score hitherto has been
lukewarm and uncertain. Capt. Eden
seems at length to have pinned the
French down to something more tangible
than lip service to the principle of
collective action.
Britain's already tremendous fleet in
the Mediterranean is now to be strength
ened by the battleships Nelson and Rod
ney, most modern and powerful of their
type in the world; by couple of air
craft carriers, and by an additional de-
stroyer fiotilla. AS usual on such occa-
sions, the admiralty explains that these
movements are ordered in the course of
Spring fleet routine" 1t is further
more described as pure coincidence"
that they are made public at the same
moment that Paris announces the i'm
minent dispatch of two French squad
rons comprising no fewer than 90 ships,
to the Mediterranean.
The stationing of SO overwhelming
mass of British and French naval craft
in the waters surrounding Italy and in
the sea lanes that constitute her lines
of communication with East Africa is,
of course, designed to persuade Musso-
lini of the hopelessness of resisting such
further coercive measures as the League
may decide to invoke. CircumStantial
reports are again current-this time in
more categorical terms than ever before
that II Duce would consider oil sane
tions an act of hostility and cause for
war. Britain and France, whose navies
and armies would bear the brunt of any
conflict provoked by Italy in retaliation,
are plainly convinced that Mussolini
may be goaded into desperate action.
Impending fleet dispositions indicate
that London and Paris do not mean to
be taken unawares by possible warlike
steps on Rome's part, no matter how
hopeless it is for Italy to imagine that
she can Withstand the vastly superior
force that will be hurled against her.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
History Repeats.

Those who looked for fireworks at the
jackson day. sdinner in this city last
night, an occasion proverbially given
over to political pyrotechnics. have been
somewhat disappointed. There was only
one speech, that of the titular head of
the party, its prospective nominee for
the Office of President, which he already
holds. There was every reason to look
for a ringing challenge to the opposition.
But for single circumstance the deliv-
erance would doubtless have been of
that character. That circumstance was
that the keynote of the campaign to
come had already been sounded, five
nights before. in the address to Congress
on the opening of the legislative session.
The four words with which last nights
speech was closed may, however, COM
pensate those who looked for, but did not
find, in the dinner talk the stimulus
which the occasions warranted them to
expect I'VE will not retreat" Com
pared with the aggressive tone of the
address to Congress last Friday night,
this was a somewhat negative utterance.
And such a comparison is inevitable in
the circumstances. For, save for its
opening passages relating to neutrality,
which elected general commendation and
Endorsement, irrespective of party, the
address to Congress has been interpreted
throughout the country as political
expression. Had it been reserved for the
jackson day dinner it would have been
more in keeping with the occasion than
as delivered before the assembled Sem
ators and Representatives.
The occasion invited, even demanded,
q parallel between the political career
and the craftsmanship of the great
Democrat of a hundred years ago and
of the great Democrat of today. The
President drew that parallel with all
propriety and with forceful expression.
1t was appropriate to the occasion and
to the political exigencies of the hour
that that parallel be expressed in terms
of the forces which fought jackson. and
which, according to the formula OF justi-
fication for the extraordinary measures
that have been adopted for the correc-
ton of the countrys ailments, are now
arrayed against his century-later sue
cessor.
1--WE can be thankful" said Mr.. Roose-
welt, that people in all walks Of life
realize more and more that government
Is a living force in their lives" This is
undoubtedly true. AS never before has
government" been brought into the
daily lives of the people, through the
numerous emergency agencies of relief,
of works, of agriculture and industrial
supervision, home building and trade,
and through the taxation required for
these interventions. Government has
become the daily Nationwide directing
force of the activities of millions of
reople. 1t is at this point that the
parallel between the days OF the
eighteen -thirties and the nineteen-thir-
ties ceases. History does not repeat itself
in that respect at least. And 1t is at
that point that the political issue of 1896
takes tangible form.
Evening star., 1936-01-09
Haste.

Clock a-clickin' on de shelf,
Sing dat ragtime song,
Seems to jes' injoy itself
Pushin' time along.
Wait a minute!
Or mebbe two or three!
Can't you see little rest
Is due to you an me?
Sun a-shovin' 'crost de sky
Keep de hours in line.
Daybreak smilin' sweet an shy,
An mex de OIL moon shinel
Wait minute,
Won't you, MiStuh Sun!
One daytime don't seem finished
Fore de next one is begun.