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Evening star., 1936-10-18
lHLDER TO DISCUSS
HOUSING SITUATION
Monday Evening Club Discussion
to Follow Dinner-Pretty-
man Will Preside.

Problems in connection with the
housing of low-income families will
be discussed by John Ihlder. execu-
tive officer of the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority, at the opening meeting OF
the fortieth year of the Monday Eve
ming Club at the Y. w. c. A. Build
ing, Seventeenth and K streets, to-
morrow evening.
The discussion. part Of a Fall
roundup" will follow dinner at
$50 pm E. Barrett Prettyman, for
mer District corporation counsel, pres
tdent of the club, will preside.
Evening star., 1936-10-18
Washington Pioneer.

George Washington was the first to
use the word administration" in its
modern American political sense. 1t
is said
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-13

wardrobe, set and incidental operations, ano
also governs the hiring of personnel.
At another section of the lot the art depart
ment functions almost as romantically. In the
art building housed architects, draughts-
men, artist -sketchers and interior decorators
men and women who literally provide the
beauty and color that distinguishes most good
pictures from the bad.
The construction mill, with its hundreds of
carpenters, paperhangers, plasterers, bricklay-
ers, ETC.. loses little time in building the sets.
Sometimes a four or five-room set is put up
over night and this takes considerable organi-
zation. Like gnomes at work in some fairyand
toy factory, these employees dart and dash
about with bewildering speed. One group sets
up the framework another the doors and win
dows and the minute they through the plas-
terers come in with their rapid-drying materials
to be followed by the paperhangers and paint
ers. And hardly are they cleared from the scene
when rugs, furniture and bric-a-brac are
dumped into the room to be arranged pleas
ingly few minutes later by an expert deco
rator.
THE moment player is engaged, he or she
/ is sent to the wardrobe department. Then
begins a series of fittings that may go on for
weeks. In a sense, this department is clothing
factory, with it's banks of sewing cutting but
tonhole machines and staff of 40 filters, seam
stresses and designers.
Almost important and equally as busy as
the agencies mentioned, are the electrical de-
partment which must rig up hundreds of lights
which make indoor photography possible; the
camera section, which must assign cnematog
raphers to posts and problems to which they
are best suited the makeup crew. which at
times must spend weeks making wigs or ex-
perimenting with various shades and grades of
cosmetics and the cutting room, whose unsung
heroes assemble hundreds of thousands of feet
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-13

of film into the highly concentrated entertain
ment that reaches the screens of the worlds
largest theaters
The public may not realize this, but there
paint, plaster, blacksmithing, hardware,
foundry, lumber drapery barber and plumbing
shops scattered about the studo-and each has
its own important function Then again, there
is a music department of some 30 composers,
lyricists, conductors and librarians, who concoct
the theme numbers and musical phrases that go
behind love scenes
There is a printing shop with hundreds OF
fonts which duplicate the hometown newspaper
as well as it's metropolitan brother a hair
dressing establishment; several power houses;
corps of gardeners telegraph office which
provides constant contact with the home Office
in New York; an insurance and purchasing de-
partment; new and secondhand lumber yards;
eight fully equipped theaters projection rooms)
and host of other minor agencies.
THE value of the chief cameraman is obvious.
| A story may be the best ever written, the
direction unexcelled and the acting perfect but
if the camera work is poor no amount of per-
suasion and barking will lure crowds to
that picture.
Thus cameraman is highly placed in the
business and he is next in Importance to the
director and writer. With him it isn't a matter
of focusing subject and grinding away.
His medium is as exact as science and as diff
cult to learn and master. He must understand
the fundamentals of optical phenomena; guage
the sensitivity and gradation of lights, and
possess artists eye for composition.
Artists use plaster or paints as their media
of expression Writers have words to fashion;
directors, people, and the cameraman has a
more elusive material - lights. He paints his
scenes with giant sun lamps and induced shad-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-13

library of "a OOO-odd books; an armory boasting
the largest collection of small arms in the world,
and plaster iron roasting, drapery and precision
machine shops.
The publics conception of a motion picture
studio is sketchy. Generally speaking laymen
picture a studio as a sort of fairyland Of toy
houses with a hodge-podge of mysterious sound
stages fantastic sets and maze of exotic for
eign streets peopled by whirling mobs of extras
This popular portrait of film studio is ro-
manticaly correct, it truthfully rose-tints
the whole and synthetizes it's physical appear
ance and hustle. But the nquisitive visitor, after
the initial glamour has worn off, yearns to poke
into obscure buildings and corners for glimpse
of the real machinery behind production.
The making of picture starts with the pur'
chase of a story after it has been read and
re-read countless times. With only few scat
tered exceptions, stories are purchased with
definite star names in mind, although Daryl
Zanuck vice president in charge of production,
will give preference to story with timely
values, as witness the Dionne quintuplet series
"A /HEN a story is purchased, the chances
wv are that it will not be produced until at
least six months later but work on this story
commences a few days after it is bought. The
writing and Juggling of production details goes
on steadily until a satisfactory treatment is
completed, when work on that vehicle suspends
temporarily until this picture-to-be gets its
number and place in the release schedule. This
setting of release dates is more complicated
than it would seem.
AS soon as preliminary production plans are
set the New York distributing organization is
notified This organization is concerned with
the selling of pictures and it is an extremely
practical branch 1t has its fingers on the pulse
of the worlds box-offces knows what is good
for Seattle in November and bad for Brnling
ham in June
The production department sets the cost of
production and budgets the salaries of the ac-
tors, regulates the maximum cost of sound
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-13
BY Linda Lane

[ grows old-musty and cob
II webby and dark-in five minutes!
Now YOU see it, the studio I mean-bright
and new It's a city with nice brass -buttoned
police (more than most towns with 100000
population) sunshiny, and then-poof! direc-
tor speaks, machines click, and as II black
ominous fairy waved an ebon wand-r there
ARE black ominous fairies-the studio is dark
covered with cobwebs, and Time" has shrouded
its youth with age.
HOLLYWOOD, the land of magic, does perform
miracles!
Old-world buildings dank and musty, are
reproduced on sets in a few days time Cob
webby rooms that would take spiders years TO
cover with their even fine threads, are MADE
by machines in few hours Ugly ducklngs
of yesterday are groomed and "re-made ana
become the reigning stars of today
For close to 20 years Hollywood has been
presented to the world as a super-romantic idyl
a fairyland of place whose orange-scented
nights glow with myriad premieres ana studlo
lights; and whose palm studded streets resound
to the thudding feet of stars marching blithely
on to success.
ONLY those who persist in viewing Hollywood
from a distance and through rose-tinted glasses
pet this idealized portrait of the city. But dis
tance is sometimes deceptive; charming mar
Remove the fancy glasses get into the city
elbow deep rub off the gloss and the ballyhoo
and YOU see something else again-a place IN
a nerpetual state of perspiration, with factories,
belching chimney stacks and overalled people
who make movies
Romance and imagination are its sources OF
,ou,er and its tools the talents of men with
which is woven numberless plots out OF the
weaknesses and the virtues of mankind Inc
making of pictures is no sordid, routine matter,
although it rambles through endless mechanical
channels Each production has its separate lOo
or 40 worries and headaches, and there are no
stock solutions or remedies for any of them.
T THE 20th Century-Fox studios-the larg
a est motion picture plant in the world the
few weeks consumed in photographing story
are but thin slice of the actual work required
to complete film. Months of e-production
labor are involved.
To carry on this work of production at 10th
Century-Fox some SO departments are involved.
Thus the studio is dotted with some A large
buildings. ranging from a three-story admins
tration building with $50 Offices, down to a
dozen S2OoOO0 stages and technical buildings.
This lot like all the others in Hollywood is
completely self f-contained. That is, the need To
on outside for services and materials has been
reduced TO a ba.e minimum. Thus, this plant
boasts a plant for the generation of electricity;
furniture and clothing factories; several mills;
three restaurants air-conditioning plants; de-
veloping and printing laboratories; short
wave radio station; two nurseries police and
fire force of SO men; three fire engines a
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-13

One of the Fire Trucks of the Efficient
Fire Department of the Movie Company.
ows. He knows the correct lighting combination
that will round out hollow cheeks, reduce double
chins and soften harsh profiles If he is good
cinematographer he can make hovel look like
a palace, and a matron appear young a
lass of TO-
The sound recorder also plays an important
part. With him the recording of voices is a
science He must see to it that the mcrophone
is so placed that it favors the voices of the
people in whom he is most interested at the
time His greatest sin is to so place the mike
that its shadow falls on some portion of the
set to be photographed
Already harassed with the problems of story,
release and casting the director-if he is at all
conscientious-makes regular check of the
work that is speeding him into production. He
confers regularly with the property department
head, who may have to produce everything from
a frozen lake to life-size reproduction of
Mississippi River flood.
He must check costumes, time his complete
script so that it comes within the practical limi-
tations of theater entertainment; personally
visit locations; check the elements of mood sus-
pense, story and Characterization which are
the backbone of his prospective film drama and
help select his production staff.
A GOOD director is as careful about his per-
~ SOndl stan as ne is about his actors. A
director is only as good his assistant and
chief cameraman. While this may seem to be
stretching the Importance of these workers a
bit too far, there is little doubt concerning their
great value. The assistant takes all the sub
worries and details on his shouders-and thew
are plenty. 1t is his job to put the drive and the
tempo in the actual job of filming; he must
rout sleepy actors out of their early-morning
beds He works average of 20 hours a
day.
After the picture is made it is sent to the
cutting to be assembled Perhaps 10000
to 100000 feet of film have been shot The
cutter assigned that particular film must con-
dense it down to from 1000 to $500 feet of
sustained action and story. A difficult problem
When it seems that the picture is as good as
man can make it with the material at hand
it is sent to the music department.
There a group of composers set to work.
creating background music for various scenesA
and when this music has passed both the pro
ducer and the director, it is dubbed" onto the
original sound track, which combines dialogue
and music in the proper volume
This done, print is made of the master"
negative and this is previewed at one of the
Hollywood theaters for the benefit of critics
The master" negative is then sent to the
distributing center in New York where some
300 to 800 prints are made for distribution to
frst-run theaters in key centers. After the pic.
ture is in theater, production is a forgotten
issue. The studio remembers it only as job
done And the wheels keep going on endlessly
in the creation of new screen plays
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11
JURY TO DROP
T0DDCASE

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. II 0N.S).
AS the grand jury today appar-
emily had dropped its investiga-
ton into her mystery death, it
was learned that Thelma Todd,
glamorous film star, had cut her
husband out of her will with only
a 81 bequeSt.
Although the document, on file
here today, was dated September
10, 1888, time when the blonde
actress was still living with her
former husband, PaSquale Pat"
Di Cicco., he will receive only the
dollar. The remainder of her es-
tate, estimated at between $780,
900 and $4,000, goes to her
mother, Mrs. Alice Elizabeth Todd.
Meanwhile the jury. in meeting
yesterday, failed to call any wit
neSSeS in the Todd case, and it
was thought jurymen will let the
matter drop, assuming the stars
death was either accidental or
suicidal.
Members of the jury have said
no definite evidence of foul play
has developed since Miss Todd'S
Silken clad body was found dead
of carbon monoxide poisoning in
her garage December l6.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11

AVENUE GRAND-Sunday and Mon
day: Carole Lombard and Fred Mac
Murray in Hands Across the Table" =:
musical. Tuesday and Wednesday:
Preston Foster and Dorothy Wilson in
Last Days of Pompeii'; cartoon. Thurs
day: James Dunn in The Pay-Off'' :;
musical: variety. Friday: Barton Mac
Lane in Man of Iron; variety. Satur.
day: Roger Pryor in Case of the Miss
ing Man: Hugh Herbert in TO Beat
the Band; cartoon.
CENTRAL-sunday and Monday; Pres
ton Foster in Annie Oakley"; Hugh
Herbert in ITO Beat the Sar6"; car
toon. Tuesday and Wednesday,: Walter
Connolly and Randolph Scott in so Red
the Rose; Tom Howard comedy Thurs
day and Friday: Dick Powell and Fred
Allen in Thanks a Million: comedy;
cartoon. Saturday: Hugh Herbert and
Joan Blondell in Miss Pacific Fleet :;
Major Bowes' Amateurs.
COLONY-sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday,; Clark Gable and
Charles l. h ton in "Mutiny On
the BOUNTY" Thursday: Gary Cooper IN
Paul Lukas in "The Three Musketeers"
Crabbe in Nevada" Great Air Mys-
terry" No. 4: sportsreel; cartoon.
HOME-sunday and Monday: The
Marx Brothers in "A Night st the
Opera; Mickey Mouse. Tuesday and
Wednesday: Edward G. Robinson and
Miriam Hopkins in "BArbary Coast ;
cartoon. Thursday and Friday: Carole
Lombard and Fred MacMurray in Hands
Across the Table" Tom Howard COM
edy. Saturday: Alice Faye in Music IS
Magic: Robert Allen in Guard That
Girl; cartoon.
PENN-Sunday, Monday and Tuesday:
Dick Powell and Ann Dvorak in Thanks
a Million, cartoon. Wednesday. Thurs
day and Friday: Henry Wilcoxon and
Loretta Young in 1.-The Crusades." Sat
urday: Spencer Tracey and Myrna 10y
| in "Whipsaw" Laurel and Hardy com.
edy.
SAVOY-sunday and Monday: Lee
| Tracy IN Two Fisted," Charlie Chase
| comedy cartoon. Tuesday and Wednes.
day: Josephine Hutchinson in The Mel
ody fingers On cartoon. Thursday
James Dunn in bad Boy" musical.
headliner Friday: Branded a Coward"
Mickey Mouse. saturday; carole LON.
bard and Fred MacMurray in Hands
Across the Table" comedy.
TIVOLI-sunday and Monday: Dick
Tuesday and Wednesday: Miriam Hop
kns and Joel McCrea in 'Splendor."
Thursday and Friday: Henry Wilcoxon
and Loretta Young in The Crusades."
saturday: Myrna 10y and Spencer Tracy
in "Whipsaw," Our Gang comedy.
YORK-Sunday and Monday: Marga-
ret SULLIVAN and Walter Connolly in 80
Red the Rose" Ell Brendel comedy.
Tuesday and Wednesday: Frederic March
and Merle Oberen in The Dark Angel"
Thursday; Miriam Hopkins and Edward
G. Robinson in "Barbary Coast" car
toon. Friday: James Dunn in Pad Boy"
comedy, cartoon. saturday: Cary Grant
and Gertrude Michael in The Last Out
post Mickey Mouse.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11
Doc Owners Line Up
AT Times Free Clinic

brought in his pet, DR.. Bosley
said:
I'D say the trouble with your
dog is that you feed him too
much"
DiStemper, the scourge Of dog
dom, was given as the most fire.
quent malady. Others were rick
cts. worms and overlooking. The
pets were X-rayed and treated
and their masters received thor
ough instruction in animal care.
Open Tuesday, Friday
Doctor for such famous horses
as Omaha and Gallant Fox and
president of the District of Co
lumbia Veterinary Medical Asso-
citation, DR.. Bosley announced
that The Washington Times Free
Clinic will be open every Tuesday
and Friday from l to 3 o'clock.
He said:
animal owners responded to
The Washington Times invita-
ton even better than / expect
ed. This cOnvinceS me that we
must go on serving Washington
pet lovers. The Washington
Times Free Clinic will do every
thing it can to educate them
in the care of their pets"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11

Every Washington dog had his
day yesterday as The Washington
Times Free Clinic, under the d.
rection of DR.. Milton A. Bosley,
opened it's doors at 311 Sixth St.
N. W., to scores Of worried pet
owners.
Dogs of all breeds received free
examinations and medical treat,
ment. A half hour before the
clinic began its work, dozens Of
pet lovers were gathering in DR..
BoSley's waiting-room and forming
a line in the street outside.
Ali Dogs Examined
One worried man reported his
dog made funny noises" An
other brought in a threa-legged
mongrel he had just taken IN from
the streets. One colored woman.
who said she had given her puppy
a half pint of castor oil. wcL dered
why he now seemed sick. A little
fellow, with his terrier on a rope.
asked for and received a collar
and leash.
All the dogs brought in were
examined by DR.. Bosley and his
assistants, DR.. L. v. Holdings
worth and James N. Manthos. To
one distressed little boy who
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11
4 WOMEN HELD
IN Staying

HARRISONBURG, Va, Jan. IL,
Four women are being held in
the Harrisonburg Jail for ques-
tioning in connection with the
murder of John H. Loker. Sc,
wealthy recluse farmer, Of Elk
ton, Va, on December 9.
No charges have been placed
against them. The women are:
Mrs. Nellie Williams, her daugh-
tiers, Christine, 10. and May. 10,
and her niece, Virginia, Is.
In the same Jail, Carl Turner
"a. and Lester Loker, 81. are also
being held, charged with the
murder.
The elder Loker. uncle OF
Lester. was robbed of $4,000 at
his home and his body was found
shortly afterwards.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11

lin. Wednesday and Thursday Fredric
March. Merle Oberon and Herbert Mar
urday. Tim Mccoy in The Fighting
Marshall" also Chaper /. The Miracle
Rider" starring Tom Mix.
ROsALIA-sunday and Monday: Joan
Crawford in Il Live My Life with
Chapter 10 New Adventures of Tarzan."
Tuesday, Charles Farrell and June Mar
tel in Fighting Youth" Wednesday
and Thursday: Escape From Devils
Island" with Victor Jory and Florence
Rice. Friday: Frederic March and
Merle Oberon in The Dark Angel
Saturday: Buck. Jones in 'Deadiine;
also, Chapter 10 The Roaring West"
starring Buck Jones.
MOTT-sunday and Monday; Warner
GLAND in Charlie Chan In shanghai
Tuesday: Kermit Maynard in "rimDer
War and "Laddie." Wednesday; Pub,
lie Menace" with Jean Arthur and
Adventures of Tarzan.' Thursday: Pres
ton Foster in strangers Alr' and Span
ish Cape Mystery" Friday: Kay Francis
and George Brent in The Goose ana
The Gander." Saturday: Gene Aubrey in
''Tum bling Tum bleweeds" also. Chap
ter. IL The Roaring West. starring
Buck Jones.
CA ROL.I n A-Sunday and Monday:
Charles Farrell in Fighting Youth:
strangers Alp and Jack Buchanan In
"Brewsters Millions. Thursday and
Friday: Charlotte Henry in Forbidden
Heaven" and Loretta Young in "Shang-
hal" Saturday: Zasu' Pitts in Going
Highbrow" ana Hoot Gibson in Rain
bows End" also, Chapter g.. The New
Adventure of Tarzan."
Crawford and Brian Aherns in Il Live
My Life, Tuesday: Jack. Benny and
Una Merkel in It's in the Air"
Wednesday: Joan Blondell and Hugh
Herbert with Glenda Farrell, in we're
in the Money" Thursday: Paul MUM
and Ann Dvorak in '"Dr. SOcFates.'
Friday: Chester Morris and Sally Etlers
in Pursuit" Saturday: Warner GLAND
and an ali-star cast IN Charlie Chan
in shanghai; also Hoot Gibson In
"Powdersmoke Range; also Call OF
the Savage" Chapter II.
sTATE-sunday and Monday: Fran
els Lederer and Francis Dee in The
day: william Powell and RosaIind Rus
sell in Rendezvous" Thursday and
Friday: Burns and Allen, Jack oakie,
Charlie Ruggles Mary Bolaud and BinR
Crosby, Wendy Barrie, Amos n Andy
cast" Saturday: Walter C. Kelly and
Stepin Fetchit in 1.-The Virginia Judge"
TAKOMA-Sunday and Monday: Car
ole Lombard in Hands Across the
Fable" Tuesday and Wednesday: Ed
mund Low in Great Impersonation !;
also Jean Bennett and George Raft in
''She Couldn't Take It." Thursday and
Friday: Edward G. Robinson and Mir
lam Hopkins in "Rarbary Coast"
Saturday: Jane Withers in "This Is
the Life; also Bill Boyd in Racing
Luck"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11
NEW PEACOCK
CLUE FOUND

CHICAGO, Jan. II G.N.S0.
Investigation of the murder Of
DR.. SLIDER C. Peacock, eminent
young child specialist took a
fantastic turn today as the
result of a long distance tele-
phone conversation between de-
tectiveS and the physicians
widow who is at her family home
in Bowen, Ill.
Mrs. Peacock revealed her huS-
band had frequently been mis-
taken for another physician of
similar name who apparently, she
said, specialized in. illegal opera
lions and "undercover" treatment
Of gangsterS and bandits.
She said she believed her hus-
band had been slain by gangsters
or by an irate husband who had
mistaken him for the other
physician, who is now dead.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-11

PALM-Sunday, Monday and Tues
day, Il Found Stella Parrish" with
day and Thursday. Thunder in the
Night" with Edmund Lowe and Karen
Morley also. Welcome Home" with
James Dunn: Friday. Metropolis n"
with Lawrence Tibbett; Saturday.
Woman Wanted" with Maureen
o'Sullivan and Joel McCrea. also,
Western attraction.
JESSE-Surday> and Monday, stars
over Broadway" with Pat O'Brien and
Jane Froman; Tuesday and Wednes-
day. Big Broadcast of 1885" with
Jack Oakie and Burns and Allen;
Thursday and Friday. Miss Pacific
Fleet" with Joan BIondell and GIehda
Farrell; Saturday, storm Over the
Barrie, also wings over Ethiopia"
SYLVAN-s II n ay and Monday.
''TTansa tlantic Tunnel with Richard
Dix and Madge Evans: Tuesday and
Wednesday. Il Live My Life" with
Joan Crawford and Brian Aherne:
Thursday and Friday, This Is the
Life" with Jane Withers; Saturday.
The Virginia Judge" with Walter C.
Kelly and stepin Fetchit, also Western
attraction
FAIRLAWN-sunday and Monday.
Rochelle Hudson and Henry Fonda in
Way Down East; Tuesday. Dick
Foran in Moonlight on the Prairie;
Virginia Judge; Thursday. Edmund
Lowe in Great Impersonation"; Fri
day, George O'Brien in Whispering
Smith Speaks: Saturday. Ken May
nard in western Courage" Matinee
only, Chapter No. The Great Air
Mystery"
HOWARD-On stage, In person--wn-
lie Bryant with his orchestra and revue.
On screen, Kay Francis and sybil Jason
in Il Found Stella Parrish"
LINCOLN-January to 1S Cinclusive).
'Mutiny On the Bounty with Clark
Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot
Tone. .,,..
REPUBhIC-January 10 to January 16
Gnclusi"e). Bing Crosby in Two for To-
night" with Joan Bennett and Thelma
Todd.
BOOKER T-January 10 to January Is
fnclusive), Ronald Colman in The Man
Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Monday,
william Powell in Rendezvous" with
Rosalind Russell and Binnie Barnes.
Tarzan" Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, James CaEney in '"ThG Frisco
Kid" with Margaret Lindsay and Bar
ton MacLane. Friday and Saturday, Ken
Maynard in Heir to Trouble" also
Chapter IL, Roaring West" starring
Buck Jones.
RAPHAEI~Sundaya and Monday. "Es-
cape From DEVILS Island" with Victor
Jory and Florence Rice. Tuesday Ed
mund Lowe and Dorothy Page lin King
Solomon Of Broadway" with Pinkye Tom