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The Washington times., 1936-09-26

easily as the top performance Of
great picture.
William Powell's ziegfeld is
alert and fine grained. gathering
force and vigor after the first
early Sandow scenes which
seemed to me too prolonged.
One sees in the myriad Of en-
gaging incidents how ziegfeld en-
gagged in friendly rivalry with Dill
lingham, how he wooed and won
Billy Burke after his first ro-
nance went amiss, how he plucked
Fannie Brice from burlesque,
how he was caught in the market
and was wiped out, how he died in
a hotel suite across thes treet from
the theater that bore his name in
flashing lights and how his
thoughts of coming back" were
destined to failure.
GOOD ACTING
1.-THE Great Ziegfeld" has both
beauty and spendthrift splendor
in its musical numbers. Nothing
has ever been placed upon the
screen to equal "a Pretty Girl is
Like a Melody" with it's whirling
staircases and it's panoramic
scenes Of staggering brilliance.
You will like, feel sure, Fannie
Brice's brief but highly effective
comedy, Ray Bolger's rubber leg
hoofing, the grace and talent of
Harriet Hoctor'S ballets, Buddy
Doyle a very able 1mpersonation
Of Eddie Cantor, Myrna Logs
characterization Of Billie Burke,
Frank Morgan's very clever i'm
personation Of Dillingham;, the
butter of Ernest Coosart, the Zieg-
field manager portrayed by Regi-
nald owen, and, by all means, the
Sandow of Nat Pedleton. Virginia
Bruce plays FollieS show girl and
A. A. Trimble does an impression
Of Will Rogers uncanny in its like
ness to the original.
It was enduring music that
went into the ziegfeld musicals.
Still pleasant for the ears are "I
Wish You'd Come and Play With
Me-" wait for the Silver Lin
ing" "It's Delightful to Be Mar
The Washington times., 1936-09-26
Swing Times
Final Week

"Swing-time," beginning a fourth
consecutive week at Keith's The
ater, continues to draw the
crowds to the Fifteenth Street
house, as Fred Astaire and Gin
ger Rogers dance their way
through another hit.
Each success offers them more
opportunity to prove ability at
acting as we'll as dancing, and
so "Swing-time" turns out an
other engaging show. AStaire does
novelty dance, "Bojangles, I"
which puts Harlem stepping right
at the top, and the duo num-
bers several excellent offerings
as we'll.
Despite the appeal which the
Rogers-AStaire team rates, top
honorS may also go to Victor
Moore and Helen Broderick for
some of the cleverest, droll COM
edy the screen has furnished in
many a day. Moore is simply
great and with the always jolly
Helen to help along, they alone
keep things humming.
Such catchy tunes as "a Fine
Romance" "Pick Yourself Up"
and Never Gonna Dance"
coupled with the highly enter
tanning comedy and superb terpsi-
chore insure success.
Pathe News brings pictures of
the American Legionnaires in
Cleveland and the Civil War vet
Grams here in Washington, along
with wide range of interesting
events of the week,-H, K,
The Washington times., 1936-09-26

>ried" and other melodies which
awaken memories.
Robert 2. Leonard's direction
is well paced and compounds in
terest and everybody stays until
the final flash, which is a tribute
to the compelling interest of the
story.
In all "The Great Ziegfeld''
looms as the most formidable
contender for the title, Best
Picture Made and Released in
1885," To miss it is to miss the
finest screen musical up to this
day and date.
The Washington times., 1936-09-26
Stars Go HiIIbiIIy
On Sierra Location

William Powell and Myrna 10y
went completely hillbilly, while
on location in the High Sierras
for fishing sequences in Metro
Goldywn-Mayer's "Libeled Lady"
Evenings had become a little
monotonous, so it was Miss Logs
suggestion that they throw an old
fashioned hillbilly barbecue.
A deep barbecue pit was dug
amid the huge boulders on the
mountain slope behind their
cabins. A truck was sent eight
miles further into the mountains
for load of tamarack, the best
wood for barbecued meats.
The Washington times., 1936-09-26
TEXAS RANGERS AT EARLE
Lederer-StOne,
BOWes Stars
At Capitol

my American Wife," current
at Loew's Capitol, is a none too
happy mixture of drama ana
farce, not that it doesn't have its
moments, widely spaced though
they may be. This film, based on
a story by Elmer Davis, follows
! fairly closely "The Ruggles Of
Red Gap" motif.
The story Of a Hungarian, or
Australian Git really doesn't mat
teri, count tranSplanted to West
ern America, where the pioneering
spirit still ran strong in the older
generation, offers some interludeS
of high and worth while drama,
In the main, however, it vacillates
between mediocre humor and pure
huncombe.
Worthy Cast Assembled
For the rendition Of this strange
mixture Hollywood has assembled
q cast worthy of far better things.
Francis Lederer, as Count Ferdi-
nand Won und Zun Reindenach, is
none too happily cast and one can
not escape the suspicion that Mr..
Lederer feels much the same way
about it.
Fred Stone, as Lafe Cantillon,
the tobacco chewing, rough-necked
old pioneer despite his millions,
overacts until it is painful, al
though the role and direction are
obviously more at fault than is
Mr.. Stone.
Ann Sothern, always an appeal.
ing bit of fluff, is still appealing
but in a characterization that
lacks plausibility.
Billie Burke is quite successful
in her usual stunt, doing the
fluttering and ambitious mother
Grant Mitchell and Ernest
Cossart, in two of the minor
roles, win my vote on the acting
honors.
BOwes Unit on Stage
The stage show presents unit
of the Major BoweS' amateurs,
the featured attraction being Ted
Mack and his band. The band
numbers are composed Of fast,
swinging tunes that are highly
enjoyable, although one number,
II Want to Lead a Band" I sug-
gest be eliminated for something
else-anything else.
Sid Raymond, looking very
much like Edward G. Robinson,
the subject of one of his i'm
presentations, does a highly sue
cessful chore Of taking off" some
of the screen notableS.
Frances White puts on a fuSil-
lade of tap dancing that ranks
high as such things go.
The Lightning Three, two young
men and gorgeous looking girl,
put on roller skating act that is
furiously fast and as good as it is
speedy.
Three Virginia Hams, a trio of
colored boys, mix little rhythm
and tap dancing to the huge de,
light of the audience.
There are various other special
ties offered by the young folks, in
Guiding a song by FRITZ Robbins,
an eye-appealing blonde, who
sings well nevertheless.
Subsidiary film entertainment
includes a comedy featuring Patsy
Kelly, LYDIA Roberti and Toby
Wing. This ridiculous bit Of non.
sense I recommend in the strong.
est terms. It's a sure cure for the
blues. The usual news reel, in.
cluding our old friend, Lew Lehr,
| rounds out the program.
u w 2
The Washington times., 1936-09-26

IHarlem. Two tap dance teams
don the floor this week and both
trioS are good. Ford, Marshall
and Jones mixed acrobatic stunts
and comics with their end of the
bill, while the Three Cyclones just
hoof their way into the heart OF
the audience. All in all, the bill
is good and fast, too.
On the screen "The Return OF
Sophie Lang" is featured. Special
midnight show tonight.-W. R.
The Washington times., 1936-09-26
William Powell, Luise Roiner,
Myrno 10y Are Stars of
GIitterinq Movie
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

"The Great Zegfed" is musical that has
thing Call it gorgeous gigantic glorious and grand and you
won't overdo describing M-GM's musical feature which
began Street engagement yesterday at Loews Palace
Theater
When it was shown at the National this amable study Of
the heaers musical comedy Snowman for three
hours still does for MGM decided it precious to
The Washington times., 1936-09-26

a type of picture which appears
to be growing in popularity.
There is no reason to change
last seasons opinion that Leo Car
rillo is the Smoothest monologuiSt
in what is left of vaudeville. He
strolls nonchalantly from the wings
and launches into a couple Of
The Washington times., 1936-09-26
Jack Ookie in Texas Rangers
Stars on Earle Screen,
Leo CorriIIo on Stage

Jack Oae gets fate and funnier He dominates Texas
Rangers so much that this meodrama of the Texas
handle country has as many laughs it has excitement and
thrills.
By an odd bit of casting the Eares feature picture has
the pucksh Mr. Oa border bandit who holds up stage
coaches rstles cattle with the aid OF two daring pals
Fred MacMurray and Lloyd Nolan.
The Washington times., 1936-09-26

OAKIE IS STAR
Finally, when the Texas Rangers
are organized to enforce law and
order, these prairie highwaymen
sign up in order to get first-hand
information on gold shipments
and other things to aid their law
leSSneSS.
1t happens that the first big as
The Washington times., 1936-09-26
"THE GREAT zIEGFELD"

The UTtbAI LILuT IIU
A Metro O-GOldwyn-Mayer picture.
At LOew's Palace Theater. Pro-
ducer, Hunt StFOmberg. Director,
Robert Y. Leonard. Story and
screen play by william Anthony
Mcclure. Dances and ensembles
staged by Seymour Felix. Special
music and lyrics by Walter Donald
son and Harold AdamsOn. Musical
direction by Arthur Lange.
THE CAST
The Washington times., 1936-09-26
NATIONAL SYMPHONY

HANS KINDLER. Founder and Conductor
Announces Its Sirth Season
12 SUNDAY CONCERTS. First concert
Oct. rs. SOlOists include Tito Schipa,
Harold Bauer, Myra Hess, Roman Totem
berg, Winifred Cecil, Jacqueline SalOmOns
Bartlett and Robertson.
8 MID-WEEK CONCERTS. First concert
Nov. 4. SOIOists include Guimar NOvaes,
Monte Carlo Ballet Russo, LOtte Lehman,
Joseph SZigeti, George Gershwin.
Because of the many outstanding at
| fractions single ticket prices had to /
be GdUdnced, but season tickets re-
main the same as last year
Sunday series: $5 to $15 for II concerts.
Mid-week series: So to $1S for concerts
Reservations are now being taken at
National Symphony Orchestra Association
office. lib Woodward Building. MA. $40.
Box office opens Thursday, Oct. l, in
Julius Garfinckel & Co. Store. Ma. 7730.
c. C. CAPPEL, Manager.
The Washington times., 1936-09-26

-VOTE AN RIGA.
The Washington times., 1936-09-26

Metro-CoIdwyn-Mayer Musical
Begins F Street Run at Palace
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
DRY HOPES REVIVE

The tide is turning in favor OF
complete legal abolition of the liquor
traffic and ahead lies a new era OF
far-reaching progress which no
propaganda of Misrepresentation or
political alliance with liquor and cor
ruption can permanently prevent or
defeat, Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith OF
Evanston, ILL.,, president OF the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, declared in her annual
address to the sixty-second conven-
ton in session at Tulsa, Oklahoma
on Saturday.
This change of sentiment against
legalized liquor grows out of new
program of education and out of the
fruits of repeal. Marshaling facts
and figures to back up her contention
that cases of drunkenness and alco-
holism have increased since repeal,
Mrs. Smith charged that liquors ad-
vertising experts frankly aim at
youth and women and with such re-
suits that in 1885, IT per cent of the
women patients at famous institu-
ton for the treatment of alcoholism
were housewives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CAMP

Rural young people in 40 States,
members of All clubs, are sending
representatives to the tenth national
All club camp which opens in Wash
ington, D. c., June II, for weeks
session. Each State may send two
girls and two boys to represent them
at the camp. State extension staff
members will accompany the dele
gates.
Both delegates and State club
leaders will meet each day of camp
for discussions. This year the gen.
eral theme will be the conservation
of rural resources, such as the soil,
wild life, forests, and human re-
sources.
Nearly a million rural girls and
boys are now members of All clubs.
Enrolment for 1895 was more than
$4,000, all pledged to devote head,
hands, heart and health, the four
HIS, to improvement in rural living.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
G. O. p. GUSTS OLD GUARD

The old guard, reactionary ele-
ment that has controlled the Repub-
lican party for years and dictated its
policies. was ousted at the national
convention at Cleveland last week,
and forced into the background.
Younger blood was injected into the
party veins and assumed complete
control.
The new element was so well or
ganized that it had no difficulty in
nominating the man they had picked
to head the presidential ticket, Gov
ernor ALT M. Landon, of Kansas.
Col. Frank Knox, a Chicago news
paper man, was selected as Landon's
running-mate and nominated for
vice-president.
The platform builders had the
biggest task in shaping declaration
of principle that would be pleasing to
the widely different factions of the
party. The old guard reactionaries
were forced to give ground in this
fight also, and swallow the dose pre-
scribed by more progressive ele-
ment
The shake-up of the party con-
tinued when John d. M. Hamilton,
the Landon campaign manager, was
chosen chairman of the Republican
National Committee, and the center
of gravity of the Republican party
has been moved bodily from the
conservative East to the West, and
the new managers promise to make
things hum for the rejuvenated
G.. o. P.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
HEADS FEDERAL SURPLUS COM
MODITIES CORPORATION

Francis R. Wilcox, associate d.
rector of the Division of Marketing
and Marketing Agreements Of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration, has been elected president
of the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corporation, it was announced today.
The Federal Surplus Commodities
Corporation, established in October
1898, as the Federal Surplus Relief
Corporation, is concerned with the
utilization of price depressing agri-
cultural SURPRISES for relief distribu-
ton through accredited state and
local agencies on such basis as will
not interfere with regular CONNER
cial purchases.
Since the middle of November,
1895, when the charter of the cor
poration was amended to make GER
tain changes including a change in
name, the Federal Surplus Com
modities Corporation has distributed
for relief use in the states large
quantities of surplus agricultural
commodities which if sold on COM
mercial markets would have serious
ly depressed prices. These COM
modities were made available in ad-
dition to, rather than in substitution
for, other forms of direct relief avail
able from welfare agencies. Through
this program, it has been possible,
in great many instances, to prevent
waste of surplus farm products, i'm
prove returns to producers, and
bring about an increase in domestic
consumption through the diversion
of the SURPRISES from normal chan
nels Of trade.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
SLOW-POKE DRIVER A MENACE

The slow-poke driver is on lne
griddle of automobile club criticism.
Hes a menace" says Garrison P.
Knox, Manager of the Keystone Au-
tomobile Club of Maryland, adding:
While statisticians have busted
themselves with proving the hazards
Of fast driving, the pokey driver has
escaped all blame, whereas, he is in
directly responsible for many crashes
attributed to other causes"
The Automobile Club executive
doesn't want to be understood as
advocating high speed. Reasonable
speed within the legal limits, gov
erned at all times by road and
traffic conditions, is what we believe
to be necessary and desirable" he
said. There is nothing reasonable
or safe, for example, about Sunday
driver who dawdles along at Is to
20 miles an hour on the open road,
holding up a long line of vehicles in
his wake.
"This type of highway pest takes
all the joy out of motoring. He
holds traffic to the unreasonable
slow pace he has adopted, and in so
doing he creates innumerable haz-
ards. With other drivers chatting at
the delay, attempts are made to pass
him in the face of heavy oncoming
traffic with serious results. Thus,
the slow-poke may have his Sunday
afternoon drive in perfect safety to
himself, unmindful of the michief he
has done in causing other operators
to take chances in passing and in
travelling at high speed to make up
for the time lost unnecessarily while
held in the slow line"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
LIQUOR AND SCHOOLS

Material sent out by liquor-propa-
ganda agencies to public schools and
colleges receiving funds from liquor
taxes is being studied by research
workers under the direction of the
stats of ten of the large American
universities-in California, Illinois,
Tennessee, Ohio, Washington, Wy
oming, Michigan, Florida and
Georgia.
On May 6, 1886, the United States
Bureau of Education reported that
legal action in at least ten states had
linked the support of public educa-
ton with liquor revenue. In other
words, that the schools of these
states are dependent, to a greater or
less degree, upon the amount of
liquor the citizens drink.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
FARMERS TO BENEFIT FROM
LAWS PASSED AT LEGISLA-
TIVE SESSION

Maryland farmers, as well as agri-
culture of the country generally,
Jared we'll at the hands of the Ma
tional Congress in the session which
is lust closing, according to w. R.
Ogg, acting secretary of the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation. While
major attention has been centered
around a national program for agri-
culture, as represented by the Soils
Conservation measure, organized
farmers have secured recognition in
several other situations, Mr.. Ogg re-
ported.
For years organized farmers have
been fighting for control of commod-
ity exchanges dealing with products
of the farm Mr.. Ogg reports. "On
May 20, the Senate passed the COM
modify exchange bill which will fur
rher control speculation on commod-
lty exchanges and restrict them to
proper functions. Future markets
are essential to provide hedging
operations, but regulation of gamb-
ling interests is necessary to pro-
tect farmers interests in price levels
of their products. This is provided
in the new measure which was
sponsored by the farm bureau or
sanitation"
Two other measures of value to
farmers were also listed by Mr.. Ogg.
One of these is the extension of the
u per cent interest rate on farm
mortgages of the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration for an additional year,
starting July l. This measure, ac-
cording to Mr.. Ogg will guarantee
The advantages of present low in
terest rates of the general market to
agriculture. The inclusion of excise
taxes on imported fats and oils in
the general tax bill gives further
protection to the interests of the
dairy farmer, and is of particular
interest to Maryland where dairying
is prominent, according to the Ma
rional Farm Bureau official.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19

CPICES, today, are taken for
- granted. Neatly arrayed, Ia
beled, and within easy reach, they
occupy as essential a space in our
modern kitchen, as does the salt,
or the kitchen range. No cook
can do without them. Yet, because
they are so intimate a part of our
culinary life, they are out of mind
until we reach for them.
In olden times, wars were
fought over spices. New countries
and new trade routes were discov-
cred because of them. Tributes to
Solomon and other mighty mon
archs were paid with them.
These peaceful little spices, so
neatly filed away in our kitchens
were once vivid with deeds OF
bloodshed. History records entire
native populations being massa-
cred by the Portuguese and the
Dutch in order that they might
maintain their control over spices,
and prevent the natives from sell
ing to other countries.
History and Botany
Why, one asks, did spices take
so important a part in the making
of history? Chiefly because of the
fact that food in those early days
was often so poor, because of linn
tied transportation and means of
storing, that it was only by highly
seasoning the food that it could
be eaten. Also, because spices
were considered indispensable in
gradients in the sacred oil of the
tabernacles - and therefore no
matter how rare, or how hazard
GUS to procure, spices must be had
in order to keep the altar fires
burning.
Botanically, as we'll as histori-
cally, spices offer a most interest
ing study. Did it ever occur to you
that the many kinds of spices
which you keep in your kitchen,
represent the various portions OF
their respective plants?
Ginger is the rootstock OF its
plant; cinnamon is the inner bark
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
Housewife, Today, Knows Value of Spices
Which Men of Old Fought Wars For

IMPROVE MODERN DISHES

! of another plant; cloves are the
flower-buds; nutmegs are the
seeds; black peppercorns are the
whole fruits; and sage, thyme,
and other herbs make up the en-
tire upper parts of certain plants.
Their aroma and their value as
spices are contained mainly in
their essential oils.
Kitchen Secrets
The housewife or the cook, who
reaches for the spice cabinet, only
| for baking or for some few other
uses, is cheating herself of ingre-
dients which would transform her
menus from the commonplace to
the intriguing. For it is these
spices which make all of the diff
ference between an uninteresting
dish and one which is unusual and
delicious.
When you bake a ham, for exam
pie, do you take it from the oven
when it is partly cooked, crust 1t
with brown sugar and stud it with
cloves? If you do, the sweet and
the spice permeate the tender It's
sues so that when you slice 1t,
smoking hot, and serve it with ap-
pie sauce or with pears which
have been cooked with cinnamon,
you have meat dish which men
of old would have waged war in
order to eat.
Do you add cinnamon and
dash of nutmeg to your apple pies
so that they emerge from the oven,
flaky, sweet, tart and spicy, with
a fragrance which tells the world
that you've baked apple pie that
is apple pie?
If you wonder what makes those
gay little German cookies which
are frosted with red and green
sugar, so brittle and hard to bite,
but so easy to eat, something en-
tirely different from any other lit
tie cookies in the world-it's
anise.
Know spices, and you will know
many of the secrets of excelleni
cooking
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19

The annual summer meeting of
the Maryland State Poultry Council
and the State Hatchery Association
will be held at Ocean City on July
81 and 20. In addition to the pro-
gram of addresses and discussions by
the poultrymen, arrangements are
being made for entertainment of the
ladies who attend.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19

On May there were 1852 cows
and heifers in Maryland under super
vision In the cooperative Federal
State campaign against Bangs dis
ease In the State.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
ORPHANS COURT

Additional Bond Approved-Edna
M. Lofiand, administrative of Will
liam T. Lofland; first and final ac-
count of Herbert r. Ewing and Leon
V. Ewing, executors of Elizabeth R.
Ewing; first and final preferred &C.
count of Severnia Johnson, executrix
of Eric G. Johnson.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19

Definite improvement is evident in
the building industry in Maryland.
For 1888 the value of building per-
mits in three important cities of the
State stood at $7,733,O00. For 1884
the value rose to $9,596, 900, and for
1895 to $9,SS9,OOO, an increase of
twenty-eight per cent over the 1898
figure.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19

A breathing spell for pastures
pays good dividends in more forage
and better gains in weight of cattle.
according to tests by the Bureau OF
Animal Industry at the Ardmore
field station, Ardmore, South Dakota.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19

Stairs often are a hazard in the
home-too steep stairways, those
with narrow turns, stairs without
guards or handrails, unlighted ones,
especially into the basement. Paint
ing the bottom basement step white
is a good idea.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19
MEET JUDGE PUZZLE

Room and Board" featuring Judge
Puffie, is a hilarious new comic in
colors in the BALTIMORE SUNDAY
AMERICAN. Don't miss this rib
tickling treat. You'll find the Balti-
more American on sale by all news
dealers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-19

Do we realize that some of US
look so much sillier in little paper
cap at banquet than others?