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The Washington times., 1936-08-18
KELLEYGRAMS

A washington visitor yesterday
was Louis K. Sidney. Of LoeW's
Inc. and managing director OF
radio station WIN in New York
Mr.. Sidney was present to once
over the Capitol's Going Native"
revue for which he gets program
credit as general supervisor. What
he did was to okay Gene Ford'S
production plans, budgets and re-
vue ideas. 1t was an important
inspection for the cast of Going
Native" since those youthful en-
tertainers who happen to impress
Mr.. Sidney have splendid oppor-
tunity for big things in radio and
even an M-G-M movie test. /
can't say now who Mr.. Sidney
liked, for his telephone interview
with this department was con-
cluded before he saw the revue
and planed back to New York. e.
To me Louis K. Sidney is the one
hope of restoring to its former
greatness what remains Of vaude'
vile. For years he produced the
Capitol Theater shows and then
sent them over a circuit Of some
20 theaters, in which Loew's Pal
ace was the Washington unit.
They were fine one-hour shows,
employing for the most part estab-
lished headliners and promising
beginners, utilizing a well trained
and youthful chorus, invariably Of
fering smart production value {.
Gene Ford was his righthand
man. Then pictures became so
important that vaudeville became
a Stepchild with the Loew organi-
Zation Louis K. Sidney devoted
more and more of his time to "a
dio and to making station WIN a
dominant unit in the national net
work. . 1t was from Mr.. Sidney
that Major Bowes got his anna
teur idea. For WIN is the father
Of the radio beginner movement,
still uses it to discover and develop
talent Fortunate is the young
entertainer who strikes his fancy,
for Louis K. Sidney has a col
legiate enthusiasm for "discov-
cries." pushes along, with all of
his influences, those whom he be-
lieves possess what it takes.
GREAT is "CAVALCADE"
High up on the list of all-time
"best seller" movies is Noel
Coward's "Cavalcade," now enjoy
ing revival booking at the Little
Theater. L am among those who
would vote it the greatest motion
picture ever made. At least I en-
joyed it more than any picture
that has passed under my review
ing eyes y. For story idea, acting
and direction, I can't think of any
picture to touch it Originally an
English play, Winnie Sheehan saw
1t on visit to London and de-
cided to transfer it to the screen.
He had to overcome opposition in
the Fox company over what looked
like tremendous expense for a
production with limited box office
appeal. For "Cavalcade" had a
social message. It tried, and l
think, did prove that civilization
lost something in the last genera
ton, that a madcap age, with wars
and jazz, had destroyed some of
The Washington times., 1936-08-18
M OWE
O'CLOCK

METROPOLITAN THE Green
Pastures" HOO am, los, $40,
$40, 1880, 9:35 pm.
EARLE-Edward Arnold, "Meet
Nero Wolf" II a. m; 1885, 4:30,
7:25, 1905 p. m. Stage, 1910,
3:35, 6:35, 9:05 p. m.
CAPITOL - Robert Montgomery
"Piccadilly jim" 10:40 a. M;
1870, 4:25, 7:15. 1910 p. m
Stage, 1925. 2:15. 6:10, 9:05
p. m.
PALACE-Warner Baxter, ITO
Mary With Love-" 11:15 a. m;
1920, 1925, $50. 7:35, $40 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Jean Harlow in
"Suzy," II a. m; ITO, 3:20,
$50, 7:40, $50 p. m.
RKO MISUNDERSTANDING Hep,
burn, Mary of Scotland" 11:15
a. m; 1:49, 4:23, 6:57, 9:31 p. m.
LITTLE-"C avalcade," 1900 a. m.
1903, 3:16, 5:24, TAO p. m.
The Washington times., 1936-08-18

WRITTEN IN COLLEGE
It so happens that Playwright
Philip Barry did the polishing Of
the script and possibly added the
technical fineSSe which gave it, in
manuscript, the aspects Of a hit
but why ignore Eleanor Gordon as
the author of the original idea?
Publicist Bill Fields, a truthful
gentleman at all times, says
Spring Dance" by Philip Barry
had every appearance Of having
what is needed for Broadway sue
cess when tried out at the Cape
Playhouse of Raymond Moore at
Dennis, Mass. Consequently, on to
New York, with Ruth Gordon as
its star.
Mr.. Fields further describes
Spring Dance" as a college com
edy, with the cast Of the piece
numbering an even dozen boys and
girls, only one Of whom is over %,
and all Of them practically un'
known to the stage.
Now for Eleanor Gordon's part
in the play as described in an in.
terview published in. the local
prints on Sunday. She wrote
Spring Dance" while she was a
student at Smith College and as
a vehicle for the schools drama
workshop.
Miss Gordon and a college
mate, Eloise Barrangon, revised
the comedy to make it available
for professional purposes, sent it
on a round of the play agents.
It was discouraging process until
a copy of the play fell into the
hands of Ruth Gordon and she
was captured at once by its posi-
bilities. She turned it over to Jed
Harris and that producer has
been playing with the idea OF put
ting it on the boards for several
seasons. Finally it reached pro-
duction in the summer theater q
month ago and rang the bell.
To quote Miss Gordon on Play
wright Barry:
"He did a magnificent job. 1t
gave me a queer feeling when
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"Green Pastures" Movie Fable.
Now Showing at THE Met"

ception of heaven, by a simple peo-
pie, makes up the plan.
The sincerity and honesty Of a
deep and understanding depletion
of the early books of the Bible as
the old Negro pastor sees it can
not be questioned. Despite this.
the ending finds dissatisfaction,
a feeling that Green Pastures" is
perhaps even when delicately and
nobly treated, a bit too much Of a
venture into realms which are
somehow ones own.
The supplemental program in.
cludes a news release, and several
short subjects, one especially in
teresting, a short biography OF the
writer of the McGuffey Reader.
H. K.
The Washington times., 1936-08-18
| COVER HOLLYWOOD

wiser, thousands Of feet Of film
shot in China, and hundreds of
props imported from our Oriental
friends, to have gone amiss in
their authenticity. {. 1t would
seem, with all the studios going
musical-mad at the moment, that
we are having a shortage of
chorines and choristers. Some of
the studios are even signing them
upon the long term contracts.
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
and Mrs. Halle Flanagan will be
out here before you can say New
Deal" to give the WPA projects
particularly the theatrical one, the
once over, and not lightly.
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Picture to Be Made
Around Trailer Fad

The current popularity Of the
automobile trailers will form the
basis of a story, Its All Free" "
which Paramount has just pur-
chased. Production will sta TT
within a month with Fred Stone,
Eleanore Whitney, John Howard,
Robert Cummings, Martha Raye
and George Barber slated for
leading roles.
The Washington times., 1936-08-18

the finer things in life. Frank
Lloyd directed the picture with in
telligence and symathetic feeling,
and both Diana Wynard and Give
Brook contributed brilliant per-
formanceS. .Sheehan's judgment
was indicated, for "Cavalcade"
has crossed more than 100000
and is still raking in the shekels
:. More than any other picture it
shamed England into becoming an
active competitor of Hollywood.
British producers really felt en-
barrassed that an American COM
pany could do such a brilliant job
with an al-English idea.
THE FIGHT PICTURES
Izzy Rappaport bulletins from
Baltimore that he will be showing
the official Sharkey-Louis fight
pictures at the Hippodrome Thea
ter beginning Friday :. So I sup
pose will Henry Hiser at Bethesda,
although I haven't heard from
him Will Osborne, who brings
his band to the Earle Theater
August %, promises to introduce
something new - slide m u c.
Nothing like swing, but Maestro
Osborne says it is equally hard to
d # inc Pilot LaVerne w.
Browne, who has been flying
movie stars back and forth from
the Coast, attracted the attention
of Producer B. P. Schulberg. The
TWA pilot was offered a seven
year contract and quit TWA lines
to become movie star, perhaps.
From the picture he sends to this
desk, Airman Browne appears to
have the requisites for a juvenile
leading man. A good looking boy.
WELL DIRECTED SCENE
MARY of Scotland" at Keith's
has created demand for Mary
Stuart books Most Of them, I
am afraid, will not give as glori-
fled a portrait of Elizabeth's rival
as Maxwell Anderson painted in
his play, from which Katharine
Hepburn's movie was derived {.
In Froude'S History of England,
the CHASTITY details of Mary's exc
cution say the axeman exposed to
the crowd, THE features of
grizzled. wrinkled old woman" {.
AS between that and death with
bagpipeS I prefer Maxwell Ander-
sons version, as Hollywood did }. (.
Best acted and best directed scene
observed in August so far is John
Cromwell's handling of the first
big domestic row between Myrna
10y and Warner Baxter in ITO
Mary, With Love-" at Loew's Pal
ace. In fact, I think the same
picture has the months best
dialogue, for it is so engagingly
written it cleverly conceals an or
binary triangle story. Only at the
finish does it sag, when Ian
Hunter delivers a long-winded,
preachy sermon that stamps him
more of a meddling buSybody than
noble sufferer Myrna Logs
last scene in this picture also dis
closes the most terrible looking
piece of millinery I have ever seen
mounted on her pretty head. If
this is fall style. Ill take last
years model.
The Washington times., 1936-08-18

VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-08-18

AS soon as Isabel Jewell has a
space from her cinema
work she will definitely become
Mrs. Owen Crump. He is a radio
executive.
The Washington times., 1936-08-18
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
(CopySight, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate Inc

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.-1ch
diem. The recently separated Jack
Doyle, the prizefighter, and Judith
Allen, the actress. are doing all in
their power to have reconcilia-
ton. At least, in his power, as he
is the one who is trying to be for
given. Let us hope it all works
out. They're charming people.
The most famous chase in re-
cent years-that of Ariel" Elaine
Barry after "Caliban" John Blyth
Barrymore-is at an end, it would
seem. Miss B. is tired of romping
about the country, tired of too
much publicity, and tired of Mr..
Barrymore being in the hospital
with a nervous breakdown. so she
has broken her engagement and
will devote her future to theSpian-
izing at M.-G.-M., where she is un-
der contract. Sad for the news
hawks. They were such good
copy.
AS soon as Isabel Jewell has a
breathing space from her cinema
work she will definitely become
Mrs. Owen Crump. He is radio
executive.
Which reminds one that it was
extraordinary that this leap year
saw fewer June weddings Of Hol-
lywooditeS than ever before. Fred
MacMurray was practically the
only male Of Importance, and then
there was Corinne Griffith, who
committed matrimony with George
Preston Marshall, who, we are re-
liably informed, is millionaire
socialite and laundryman.
All Is not too Wonderbar on the
valiant Is the Word for Carrie"
location. The cows, used as pas
toral background, made such a
din that the actors lines were
drowned out. So Director Wesley
Ruggles had moo muzzleS put on
all the COWS so they couldn't even
open their mouths, and then
camouflaged them so they didn't
show. How drear.
There is a wild rumor going
about that the ending of 1.-The
Good Earth" was being re-Shot, to
comply more with Chinese cos
tums. It isn't. They have been
far too careful all the way through,
what with a Chinese technical ad.
The Washington times., 1936-08-18
ON PROGRAM CREDIT
College Drama Written by q
Senator'S Secretary Gets
Broadway Showing
BY ANDREW R. KELLEY

of my neighbours darhared Eleanor Gordon, of 1901
Sixteenth ST. n w. secretary in Senator McAdoos office is
credited with being the playwright responsible for Producer
Jed Harris first drama of the Spring Dance
Always interested in helping out local talent resident
genius this department is little perpexed because the first
bulletins from the Jed Harris office Philip Barry
the author Spring Dance with word about Eleanor
Gordon
The Washington times., 1936-08-18
-VOTE AME RTCAN-
Graduates

Thirty-two recent high school
graduates found good use for their
graduating gowns and suits when
they were hired as film players
for commencement scenes of
RKO Radios Don't Turn En-
Loose"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
QUITS ROOSEVELT WHILE CHAL-
LENGING LANDON

Although announcing that it cannot "ad-
vocate the reelection of President Roose-
vet," the normally Democratic Baltimore
Sun doesn't do complete about-face in
front-page editorial published yesterday
but says it will support Governor Landon
for the presidency only if he speaks IN
clear and bold terms, facing specific prob
lens and taking his stand unequivocally on
the side of true economic liberalism"
This is The Suns only DETECTION from
Democratic ranks in ninety-nine years with
the exception of its opposition to William
Jennings Bryan. In its current challenge
to Landon as well as its notice of depar-
ture from Roosevelt, the editorial con-
tinues: eff he Qandon) does not speak in
clear terms, The Sun intends to continue
the fight for ideals that it believes to be
sound and viii make the best of situa-
ton in which it cannot advocate the cleo
ton of either candidate"
Thus leaving itself out on limb, presi-
dentially speaking, the Baltimore paper
reasserts its beliefs in many liberal pro-
posals, such as old-age pensions, unem-
ployment insurance, and sick benefits.
These and other similar policies are OF
course part and parcel of the New Deal,
but apparently are not sufficiently strong
to cause The Sun to accept the Roosevelt
program in toto or even in somewhat
smaller measure. With Governor Landon
headed eastward for major address in
barometric Maine, the Baltimore paper
may or may not have long to wait to see
whether the Republican nominee speaks
out boldly enough to suit it. The editorial
pronouncement makes it clear enough that
The Sun hopes he viii.
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depression-fo certainly this 80 per cent
ownership of radios had not been attained
in 1929. g.. "" 80 ."
It is a process that has been going on for
a long time, and will continue to go on for
long time to come.
1t is not very many years since owner
shin of an automobile definitely marked a
man, not merely as comfortable" but as
actually well-to-do. Industry went hunting
for profits, found them-and today, liter
ally, almost everyone owns an auto. --
?. Then, as Mr.. Green points out, there was
the radio. Now it is so widely owned that
it signifies nothing. The mechanical retrlg-
orator follows it, and Mr.. Green foresees a
similar issue 1t is easy to think of other
things-electric lights, telephones, central
heating, bathtubs.
These aids to pleasant living weren't
handed down from above to some all-Wlse
and socially minded government. They
came out of American industry in the nor
NAL course of industry's hunt for profits.
Today's ordinary man owns, as mat
ter of course, things which would have
stamped him as rich man a generation
ago. He owns them because that much
derided social phenomenon, the American
system, has way of grinding them out
for him.
And when you add them all together,
YOU find them making for an easier, hap
pier life.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service stan Correspondent
NEW YORK-What this. cam
~ paign doesn't need most is a
few more animals.
FTP. T. Barnum were alive, one
could imagine the old Snowman
promoting mammoth parade of
these political animals up or down
Fifth Avenue, led by an elephant
and a donkey.
He might have Republican
Chairman John D. NJ. Hamilton
astride the elephant and Demo-
cratic Chairman Jim Farley atop
the donkey-if the donkey were
big and husky enough. ~,
Ten, by rights, should come
the "six million little pigs"-or
was 1t three million?-because
they were the first quadrupeds to
enter the campaign. They, are
still in it, despite a few tons of
statistics and economic data which
Secretary Wallace has on hand 70
prove that their slaughter three
years ago was justified, even if
the price of pork is going up at
this time. -.
. Then the pigs of Ed Pottle up in
Eastport, Me-, Immediately leap to
mind. -. E...
These are the porkers which.
were reported to be eating 800 pies
q day at government expense be-
cause the army had contracted
for the pies to feed Passamaquod-
dy workers who were no longer
there to feed. ...
Inquiry developed that there
had never been any such pies at
Passamaquoddy, raised serious
doubt as to whether Ed Pottle ever
had any pigs, and even left vague
misgivingS as to whether there
was any such person as Ed Pottle.
SOMEWHERE in the line of
~ march should appear that now
celebrated cow skull which the
Resettlement Administration has,
been using in its Photographs of
drouth country.
This skull, according to Repub-
lican publicity, has been carted
, around the Dust Bowl area and
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THE SYSTEM GRINDS OUT A BETTER
LIFE
ERy BRUCE CATION

Man doesn't live by the things he has,
but by the adventures of his spirit and the
growth and activity of his mind. Neverthe-
less, his progress through this vale of tears
is made a good deal easier if he has enough
material possessions to cushion the rough
places.
All this comes to mind through reading
a report by statistician who was ordered
recently to round up some figures for an
arbitration board considering street rail-
waymen's wages in a middle western city.
The statistician - Howard Whipple
Green, one of the best in the business
hadschecked through the households of the
employees to see whether they are now well
paid or otherwise And the interesting
part Of his report is the assertion that pos
session of radio is no longer an indication
of a family's economic status.
II used to be so. The family that owned
a radio definitely had passed that border
line which separates comparative poverty
from comparative ease. But now, says Mr.
Green, 80 per cent of all families own ra'
dos. AS an indicator, the radio is no long
er useful,
Just now, Mr. Green adds, possession OF
a mechanical refrigerator is pretty good
indicator. If you own one, you're fairly
comfortably fixed; if you don't, you aren't
But even that, he warns, won't last long
mechanical refrigerators will presently be
come as common as radios, and the Stats
ticians via have to hook for some Other
notch on their yarastieks. =
What Mr.. Green is really giving US, o
course, is . close-range look at a risinI
standard of living; standard that seem
to have gone on rising right through tn
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BEHIND TIE SCENES
IN THE CAMPAIGN

planted every time the RIA pho
tographer wanted to cake a pic
ture, although the photographer
insists he found it and took a lot
of pictures in the same area,
never moving the skull more than
20 feet or so.
Farmer George Mays of Arcadia,
Mo-, and his six cows must also
be given place of honor, since
they are understood to have been
employed by the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
The G.. o. P. publicists heard
that WPA had built a $4,000
sidewalk system in Arcadia which
was used only by cows, and sent
sound-movie photographers. there
for pictures. No cows being
found on the sidewalk, but only
people, the movie men are said to
have paid Mays $25 to drive his
cows along the sidewalk and also
paid him a dollar minute to
make sound-movie speech about
it.
MAKE way, also, for a Few
A thousand birds from the Car
thage, N. c., quail fam of Julian
T. Bishop, the New York broker
who lives in Greenwich, Conn.,,
and has been so worn down and
oppressed by the New Deal that
he has promised to sell the farm,
quail and all, and move to Can
ada if Roosevelt is reelected.
Thanks to publicity given to the
offer of purchase from a New Deal
fellow who said he would appre-
ciate it the sooner Mr.. Bishop
left, ard to the assertion of Min
lister of Public Welfare David
Croll Of Ontario that Canada
didn't want Mr.. Bishop, those
quail also" have become very
famous.
And of course if one wants to
be liberal as to the entry require
ments, it wcdld be possible to in
clude such celebrated quadrupeds
as Governor Landon's horse and
the White House dog which bit
Senator Hattie Caraway of Ar
kansas in the left leg.
'(CopYriRht 1896. NEA Service, Incl
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Editor, The Times~News:

Editor, The Times-News:
"The lives Of great men oft re-
mind us
"That we, too, can make our lives
sublime,
"And passing, leave behind rs
"Footprints on the sands Of time. ="
How we can see in the above
lines the certain appreciation of
the lives of great men by him
who penned them. and how we can
feel the inspiration they impaired
to him.
"Blow winds, blow, thou wintry
winds,
"Thou art not less unkind
ethan mans ingratitude to man.
How certain it is, too, that the
poets knowledge of one of the
most pathetic and stigmatizing
moral defects of man is portrayed
to us in the lines next above.
How the pages of history are
filled with the sublime efforts of
great men, imbued with the desire
to raise men continually to hap
pier state in this mortal life and
to enable him to go hence with a
fuller knowledge and appreciation
Of the wonders of creation and a
frmer faith in eternal destiny.
How the pages of history are
filled with the story Of great men
who have carried on amidst a
storm Of abuse, in an atmosphere
of mistrust, in a blizzard of in
vectives, with the sting of ingrati-
tude from tongues encased with
SANDER and slime, projected from
hatred and malice, and cartcd on
the wheels of ignorance who have
gone to their graves amidst it all
unaltered in purpose as unrequit-
ted and damned for their works
and ideals. How many have filled
the martyrs grave at the hands
Of bigots nurturcd with greed,
avarice and selfishness? How we
like to eXtol the lives of great
men of the past and lack the abil-
ity to appreciate or discern them
in the present? Now would be a
good time to say word of en-
enlargement to men who arc seek
ing to alleviate suffering, dissipate
fear, create confidence, stimulate
incentive, promote morality, and
direct us to something besides
money as an objective of life. 1t
would be good thing, also, if we
could put in a word Of apprecia-
ton of the work of men, from
constable to president, whom we
have chosen to rule over us, in
administering the laws that were
made by men of our own choos-
ing, and to realize that to a large
extent their shortcomings are our
shortcomings.
Unjust criticism, invectives,
SANDER and what not, may 80 de-
stroy the life of a good man, but
his works will live. When direct
ed at public servants they may
not only destroy the servants but
through continued and ever in
creasing destruction of confidence
destroy the government they ad-
minister.
Let US cultivate a fuller appre-
citation of the lives of great men.
by doing our part in appreciation
of their good works, past and
present, and by building shelters
from the blasting winds of in
gratitude.
JOHN EWRANK.
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II { e q 5 painting
badly"
The man gave
the stranger the
job and got his
h o u S G painted
badly.
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HASN'T SCRATCHED YET

Some persons think they deserve
high places in heaven because
they have never done any harm.
Bv the same reasoning a baby
chick is entitled to celestial hon
ors. 1t takes more than a negative
life to win laurels.