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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-01
MRS. KERCHNER
DIES HERE AT
AGE OF IA

Mrs. Harry A. Kerchner, mother
Of Mrs. Helen Essary, Washington
Times columnist, died suddenly
last night at her home in 230s
Ashmead p. N. W., Of heart dis.
ease. She was "a.
Funeral services will. be held
tomorrow at Mrs. Essary's home,
1921 Newark st. N. w., at 10 a. m,
followed by burial in Western
Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Kerchner, who before her
marriage was Belle Foreman,
comes of a distinguished Mary
land family. Her father was Fran.
els Foreman, prominent Eastern
Shore attorney.
Surviving he, in addition to her
husband, are three daughters,
Mrs. Fred J. Essary, whose hus-
band Is Washington correspond
net Of the Baltimore Sun: Mrs.
Walter Heyer, Of New York; and
Mrs. Isabel Croswell, Of Philadel.
phia, and a brother, DR.. Samuel
e. Foreman, and five grandchil-
dren.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-01
MRS. ROsANNA FARLEY

Funeral services for Mrs. Ros-
anna Farley, who died Sunday at
Mount Alto Hospital, viii be held
tonight at the w. w. Chambers
funeral home at 400 Chaplin st.
N. w., at 8 O'Clock, attended by
the U. s. s. Jacob Jones Post No.
2, American Legion. Burial will
be tomorrow at 3 p. m. in Airing.
ton National Cemetery.
Mrs. Farley is survived by her
son. Edward J. Farley, Of 1924
Florida Ave. N. w.
HASKELL ARTHUR GARDNER
Funeral services for Haskell
Arthur Gardner, IS, who died
Monday at his home, 815 Ran.
dolph st. N. w. will be held to.
morrow at the w. w. Chambers
funeral home, 1400 Chaplin st.
N. w. at $3.50 p. m. Interment
will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Gardner, q salesman with
thePlunkett Chemical Company
Of Chicago, was born IN Terre
Haute, Ind, but had lived in
washington for many years.
Surviving him are his widow,
Isabella Gardner, two daughters,
Isabella and Helen; two sons,
John and Elvin Gardner and
three grandchildren.
LEROY STAFFORD BOYD
Funeral services for Leroy Stat
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-01

ROBERTS, JUNE ALINE-On Wednesday.
April /. 1896, at Children's Hospital.
JUNE ALINE ROBERTS. beloved daugh-
ter of John A. and Marion e. Roberts and
sister of Charles A. Roberts
Remains resting at the W. W. Chambers
Company Southeast funeral home, SIT
Eleventh Street Southeast.
Notice of funeral services and 1nterment
hereafter
Evening star., 1936-09-19
ArlisS Film
Is Feature
At BelaScO

THE Belasco had double reason for
making the story Of the Roths-
childs its first revival this season. It
again affords an opportunity to see
George Arliss, who has too long been
absent from the screen. And 1t Is
probably Arliss' most successful dress
suit" role.
'"rhe House of .Rothschild" Is the
history Of great banking concern and
the relation Of five great bankers to
the history of nations. It also tells the
story Of the tradition of a family and
the tradition of race.
Twentieth Century has filmed the
story Of the Rothschilds with dignity,
a few inaccuracies. the Arliss senti-
ment, and splendid cast.
Arliss plays Rothschild pere, and
Nathan, eldest Rothschild fils. There
is, of course, the eternal argument:
Did N, r.. Disraeli, and the other per-
sonages Arliss has portrayed, really
look like George Arliss? Does he use
ArliSs mannerisms in his parts? Or
did they use Ariiss gestures when they
lived? These persons, long dead, prob
ably would have liked nothing better
than to appear the way Arliss does
when he interprets them on the screen.
So say some fans.
G. Aubrey Smith, happily cast as
wellington minus that gentleman's
profanity, blows and bellows with
gusto. Helen Wesley is splendid as
matriarch and Alan Mowbray and
Boris Karloff are quite satisfactory in
their scenes. Loretta Young and Rob-
ert Young as youthful romance tri-
umphing over stock exchanges and
pogroms complete the cast.
The Belasco does its bit in making
us music conscious, with q short in
which 0ounod's Ave Marie is well
played, and visually accompanied by
the serenity Of twilight scenes at Can
terbury.
The rest of the program includes q
couple Of Irving Cobbis favorite Jokes
cleaned from newspapers. and some
scenes In Yellowstone Park-with Ma
Natures own sound effects. Or 20 the
commentator says. NV.
Evening star., 1936-09-19
ASTAIRE-ROGERS FILM
GOES INTO THIRD WEEK

PROVING that not even a wobbly
story and moronic comedy se-
quences can dim the luster of popu-
lar approval which attends every pic
ture made by Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers, Swing Time" went into q
third week at R-K-O Keith's yester-
day. Music Is by Jerome Kern. with
three duo routines by the best dance
team in America, and q solo number
by Mr.. Astaire called "Bojangles OF
Harlem" which outshines anything
seen so far in the Astaire Rogers
cinema series.
Victor Moore and Helen Broderick
are the comedians assigned to wrestle
with the stupid gag sequences, and
Eric Blore and George Metaxa have
minor roles. The dancers swing II
hot, sweet, and in waltz time on vari-
Gus occasions. and they. after all, are
the ones who count. Two of Mr.
Kerns ditties are already in the hit
class on radio programs. and at the
Nations night spots. R. B. p. Jr.
Evening star., 1936-09-19

ME moral OF the ldIeSL SildIuc
Chan adventure seems to be.
Don't be a race-horse." For
If you are a race horse the
nasty gambling rings will get hold Of
you and will infict upon you untold
discomforts, such as letting monkey
you don't like, get in your stall. max
ing you very nervous; such as blaming
you for murder; such as building fire
in the hold of the ship in which you're
travelling, so you can be switched with
another horse; such as painting you all
up so nobody will know the switch has
been made; such as whamming you in
the shoulder with dart when you try
to win a race anyhow.
Charlie discovers all these things In
Charlie Chan at the Race Track" !"
which yesterday opened at the Colum-
bia, and which Is an exciting enough
and diverting enough whodunit to give
you an hour or 50 Of entertainment.
OF Avalanche, Avalanche. Who's got
Avalanehe?" comes when the owner Of
the bangtail, friend of Charles 1.-THE
owner, not Avalanche, Is the friend)
Is killed in the horses stall, on Q boat
en- route from Australia to the United
States. At Hawaii, Charlie comes
aboard, finds evidence that points to
murder, and says Avalanche didn't do
the deed. Then, in due course, he un-
covers all this sleight of hand by which
Avalanche and another race horse are
switched by the gamblers and then
painted up so each one looks like the
other one did before. 1t Is slightly
more Of a mystery why these poor, mis-
treated steeds didn't die of painters
cholic before the big race than it Is q
mistery who killed Maj. Kent, because
the murderer is q little more obvious
than the criminals Charlie chases usu-
ally are. OF course, Charlie may have
known all the time and kept it a secret
just SO the picture would run the re-
quired length.
Warner GLAND is, Of course, the prin-
cipal person in the cast, playing Chan
with the same skill with which he used
to play the cleverer Charlie Chan
about whom Earl Derr Biggers used to
write. The others in major roles are
Keye Luke, Gavin Muir, Thomas Beck,
Helen Wood, Alan Dinehart and Jona-
than Hale. HIN.
Evening star., 1936-09-19
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Loew's Capitol Road to
Glory" at 10:40, 1880, 4:20, 7:1O
and 10 pm. Stage shows at 1880,
$40, $40 and . pm.
Palace-"The, General Died at
Dawn" at IL am, 1:e5, $40, $40,
7:25 and Gas pm. '+
Columbia-"Charlie Chan at the
Race Track" at IL. 2. 4, 5:55, 7:55
and $50 pm. ~
R-K-O Keith's-"Swing Time at
1l:54 am, 2:18. 4:42, 7:o6 and $50
pm. March of Time" at ll:24 am.
1:48, 4:12. $3.50 and Q pm.
Warmers Earle-"Nine Days q
Queen" at IL Am, /: :35, 4:25. 7:lo ana
1905 pm. Stage shows at l2:4U, 3:3U,
6:15 and sos pm.
Observation-Disclosures Adverse" f"
at $50 and 1850 am, 2:15. 4:45, 7:l0
and $50 pm.
Belasco-''The House Of Rothchild, :"
at IL, 2:05, 4, 6, 7:50 and 9:55 pm.
Lttle-"The Informer," at 11:16
am, l:21, 1926, 5:3l. 1885 and s:4l
pm.
Tivoli-"Meet Nero Wolfe," at 2,
4:o5, sos. 7:55 and $50 pm.
Readside-"Arizona, at $40 pm.
Evening star., 1936-09-19

In Tne General DleQ AZ OaWn.
All the familiar props Of the
Shanghai Express" and Shanghai
this and Shanghai-that are present in
the picture at the Palace this week,
yet they have been wrought into a
fresh mold, made more tense and
moving by the injection of credible
motives into the persons of the leading
players. The tall, handsome lad
(Gary Cooper, who smuggles NUM-
tions, is not an empty adventurer, but
one who chooses to enrich and amuse
himself by aiding the oppressed thou
sands in q Chinese province to over
throw their ruthless, greedy war lord.
The sinister Gen. Yang, himself, Is
no meanie for the sport of the thing,
but, because he has an abiding faith
in q creed of self-worship, Of his des-
tiny as q great and powerful man.
Even the heroine is not brought down
from the stock shelf, being Q moody
young lady in decidedly unhappy
straits when the tale begins, and
emerging to embrace the perils of true
love only after she has suffered q
narrowing beating, emotionally and
physically.
Thus, while it adheres to the ada
mant principles of melodrama, wind
ing up with benign And so they
lived happily ever after" or some
thing. this picture is no penny dread
ful. Dwelling patiently, and perhaps
overlong, on the interesting task Of
developing its more picturesque char
acters, the scenario Is compelled to
finish in burst Of almost cyclonic
action, during which the tables are
turned so often as to resemble Q
merry-go-round, yet the integrity of
personal temperament and proclivity
Is not violated even by q spasm Of
plotitis.
Clifford Odets, the boy Trotsky Of
Broadway drama, makes his debut
as q scenarist with THE General
Died at Dawn" and q major share
of its virtues must be attributed to
his treatment Of the original story
and to the vivid direction accorded
by Lewis Milestone. Mr.. Odets is
very hot potato at writing dialogue
for the stage or screen and, happily,
his inclination to lead his favorite
characters down front for . nice.
long lecture to the audience creates
no serious difficulties here. CThey are
fine speeches all right, but they
might come in handler in other
places)
As q thoroughly rejuvenated and
remodeled actor, Gary Cooper con-
tinues to perch comfortably on that
pinnacle Of acclaim to which "Mr
Deeds" catapulted him. His work
in 1.-THE General" Is sharp and dis
Evening star., 1936-09-19

Director Howard Hawks has blended
action, tense drama and humor with
a deft hand in making THE Road to
Glory" There's a scene where Mr..
March sits banging at a piano while
German bombs drop all about him
which, for some reason seems utterly
hilarious. and Gregory Ratoff has
some fine moments, particularly the
sequence where he and Barrymore
blow an official order in to a fire SO
they can say 1t never has been re-
ceived. and the scene where he sits
in a dugout being mined by the Ger
mans and says, "Hah, we sit on
mine and they send us steel hats for
our heads" The directorial deftness
is noted, too. when Mr.. Hawks
wastes what seems like too much film
on o battle sequence. but you see his
point when he breaks suddenly to o
cathedral and the mood is heightened
by q sharp contrast with the one
proceeding 1t.
THE Capitol celsarates its ninth
anniversary (including eight years
and eleven or 50 months as the Fox)
with an attractive stage revue. There
are dances by the Eiida Ballet, in
Guiding . nice fantasy about six
ballet dancers, with interpretations and
a song by Lew Davie, and a clever
disappearing fan" number: there is
comedy in abundance by Red Donohue
and his mule, U-No. and there are
ball room dances Of the smoothest
sort by Florence and Alvarez. whose
bolero is beauty. H. M.
Evening star., 1936-09-19

IcdNy, Historically WUOOcIl atmosphere z
Of Scotland" should have been a great
motion picture.
If you saw Nova Pilbeam in Little
Friend" you know that her face is the
most honest face in pictures. The brow
Is broad, the eyes are wide apart, the
mouth Is sensitive and the hair is light
and invariably arranged at its best.
Although she Is only Is years of age,
she plays her scenes with a mature
judgment which is nothing short of
amazing. And when in that final Bit
ter chapter she goes to the chopping
block and sacrifices her head for the
sake of government and history, it is
not hard to see why there is scarcely
a dry eye in the house and why you
definitely know that as soon as she
comes to town again you will be GER
tainly at her elbow.
The story of Lady Jane Grey in
this tragic little yarn Of Edward the
Eighths offsprings is told with a
fidelity that puts to rest the rumors
that no motion picture can be &C
curate. Even those who doubt that
Mary Tudor paid surprise visit tc
Jane in her dungeon cell and believe
that this scene has been based on a
similar incident in Maxwell Ander-
sons play when Elizabeth barges in
on Nary will find that the authors
have been right. History comes out
Evening star., 1936-09-19

ground OF the late war to end all
wars"
The picture Is pretty much Warner
Baxter's all the way through. AS the
French army captain, who drives his
men with an iron will and makes
them love him for it. who loves a
handsome French lass and loses her
through no fault of his or hers, and
who goes out to die willingly, almost
eagerly, when he feels he has nounng
more to live for. Baxter again proves
himself one of the more accomplished
people on the Hollywood scene.
The story of THE Road to Glory
centers principally around Mr.. Bax-
ter's captain and his career as the
gallant officer who led his company
into the trenches time after time, set
ting up an enviable record, and who,
in the end, blinded by q wound and
bereft Of the girl he loved. went to an
observation outpost to direct an artil-
lery barrage, knowing full well that
he and his father, with him, were
directly in the line Of fire.
T IoNEL BARRYMORE does an
other of his excellent acting chores
as the father-a man who dyed his
hair and lied about his age to fight
for France. One Of the best scenes
In the picture Is his, In the moment
where he is so overcome by blind
terror out in no mans land that he
tosses grenade at other members Of
his own scouting party.
Fredric March, Gregory Ratoh and
June Lang are the others
concerned and they ac-
quit themselves nobly.
Evening star., 1936-09-19

as bright as a penny and the actors
interpret their respective roles with
skill and understanding.
Besides Miss Pilbeam there is
Cedric Hardwicke as the Earle of War
wick, John Mills as Lord Dudley
(Jane's husband), Desmond Tester as
the young Kink Edward and Sybil
Thorndike as James companion Ellen.
And it would be hard to choose which
is the best. Possibly the young King
there, at any rate, is young actor
who will someday grow up to great
things. Even now he's head and
shoulders above others Of his clan.
Each of these talented actors con-
tribute their bit towards making this
one of the most interesting films Of
the season. Be sure that you see it!
The stage show Is colorful affair
this week called Cuban Follies.' -
1t stars Giro Rimac and his orchester,
Singer Tito Coral who is in excellent
voice, the always welcome Don Zelaya.
Joe Arena and company and 16 South
American beauties. who happen to
be Just that. It's sprightly carnival
of fun and music which you will enjoy.
Nava Pilbeam. however, tops them
all and that, at 18. Is a definite
achievement.
Evening star., 1936-09-19

tinctive. q description much too weak
to cover the marvels Of Akin Tami-
roff's impersonation Of the dread
Gen. Yang. Madeleine Carroll up
holds her reputation as the most
beautiful and sombre Of our long
suffering leading ladies 1--WE have
seen her in no less than q brace Of
films recently in which she was
enamoured Of some bold chap who
was forever being shot att and Porter
Hall does his best work since The
Petrified Forest" as Ia Carrou's sniv-
elling, cheap-skate father.
Dudley Rigges. william Frawley
and ]. M. Kerrigan are the other
three on the honor roll for this week
and the novelist, John O'Hara, ap-
pears in q single scene. long enough
to convince every one that his talent
Is writing.
Evening star., 1936-09-19
Met. Takes
Anthony and
Public
Allen Story, A La
Hollywood, Set for
Long Run.

A BIT farther downtown but still
away up in public interest
Anthony Adverse swung into its
second week locally at the Metropoli-
tan Theater last night. AS in the case
of Hervey Aliens 1870 page book on
which the film Is based, it looks as if
it would be long time before WASH
ington is through with the Hollywood
transcription Of M. Adverse's story.
Like the book, the film is long
more footage for your money than
you are likely to get in long time.
But, in spite Of its length, there are
those who will say that the Warner
Bros version of the work has the
aspects Of a synopsis; that it is sketchy
and that it twists into bypaths which
amount to q distortion of Aliens
story.
All these allegations are true but
they ignore the circumstance that
the Hollywood medium for telling the
story Is quite unlike that Of which
Mr.. Allen made use. If ones favorite
episode, therefore, is missing from the
film, one might reflect judiciously
upon the fact that the transcribers
were confronted with one of the most
monumental editing tasks ever UNDER
taken. To state the case succinctly.
Hollywood takes hours and Is
minutes to tell story which Allen
used years TO write and the average
American required months to read.
If some of the incident is missing,
it can well be forgotten in the knowl-
edge that the essence and the mood Of
the 1888 best seller have been retained.
Eighteenth century and Europe with
its Napoleonic flavor is pictured quite
as vividly as Allen painted it, and in
far less time. The African slave
trade episode in the career of the ad-
venturous Anthony is narrated with
far greater emphasis. The Cuban in
terlude, with the slave beating scene
highlight one is not likely soon to
forget, comes to Adverse fans with
nothing lost in transit.
With so many persons having lived
for SO long with the characters of the
story (remember the months it took
to read it?) those charged with the
Interpretation of the various roles
labor under tremendous handicap In
conforming to every ones conception
of what Anthony, Angela, Faith, Don
Luis, ETC., should be.
Frederic March, looking a bit old
as the adolescent Anthony but cutie
up to book specifications before the
film is half over, deals with q huge
and demanding part quite capably;
Olivia de Haviland is an ornamental,
If repressed and vocally imperfect
Angela; Stefii Duna does Faith with
finesse II not fidelity to the Allen
characters dimensions. and the
Mauch twin does the boy Anthony
with the appearance Of an angel and
the deftness Of talented child actor.
|; Claude Rains as Don Luis, Edmund
Gwenn as Bonnyfeather, and Anita
Louise as the tragic mother Of the
films major character are fairly
beyond criticism.
You can quarrel with what has
happened TO Anthony Adverse In
Hollywood II you want to. but Hervey
Allen did not. You probably viii not
II you remember that stories change
when told In q different medium.
r. J. g.
Evening star., 1936-09-19
COMICS BRIDE SUES

LOS ANGELES, September 19 @.-
Ted Healy, fllm comedian, was sued
for divorce yesterday by his wife,
Betty Hickman Healy. former coed at
the University of California at Los
Angeles.
The couple were married at Yuma,
Ariz.. last May Is, and parted August
28, Mrs. Healy's complaint stated.
Evening star., 1936-09-19

MISS Wdo
appearing in Personal Appearance,
and signed her there and then for
the difficult role.
"For the sake Of picture morality
I had to change the ending of the
story-Carrie will be punished for
her misdeeds, but this does not af-
feet the picture. II it is unsuccessful,
you can blame me. But don't for
get-if it is good, YOU can blame
me for that, tool"
During his 10 years as q prominent
member of the picture industry, Rug
giles, brother of comedian Charles.
has developed and discovered many
of the screens top-notch stars. Fred
MacMurray owes his present promin-
ence to the director, who risked an
important picture, "The Gilded Lily. "
starring Claudette Colbert, by giving
the then unknown actor the leading
masculine role.
Fred was terribly nervous. He
didn't know what it was all about, y
said his discoverer. "But he proved
nv judgment was right. He was
helped a great deal, naturally. by
appearing with Claudette Colbert.
Miss Colbert has brains, Is pliable,
knows her business, and has a great
sense of dramatization."
The plump Jack Oakie was dis
covered by Ruggles way back In
1928 and given an important part in
Flinders Keepers" He was thinner
In those days." commented the di-
rector. But then, as now, he never
worried. In some ways, he reminds
me Of a nice-dispositioned, contented
cow"
Ann Harding, whom Ruggles di-
fected in CONDEMNED" is not particu-
larly easy to get along with. "She
insists on every one treating her as
O super star However, succeeded
in breaking down several Of her lofty
notions of histrionics, for which ]
have been thanked by subsequent
directors"
Ronald Colman is q reticent, bashful
individual, who Is somewhat of an
enigma to his director. According to
Ruggles, there Is no warm response
to Observation-Disclosures, in the final
analysis, he comes through with ster-
ling performances, which, after all, is
what counts"
OF Richard Dix, the man who di-
rected him in "Cimarron" had this
to say: Hes a swell guy. He does
not profess to be Charles Laughton,
but nevertheless can give q per-
formance that will match the best OF
them-as witness 'Cimarron.'
Ruggles enjoyed directing Irene
Dunno in the same picture. "She is
q hard, indefatigable worker who gives
her all to achieve the best results"
Carole Lombard-Her pictures for
Ruggles include "Bolero" and mo
Man OF Her OWNS real pal and
q good soldier. She viii act as prop
boy, If necessary. IL order to assist
her director In getting good picture" I"
\
George Raft preplexes the man who
directed him In "Bolero"-"but he Is
Q good trouper, willing to do whatever
the director asks. He Is quiet and
soft-spoken during work"
CLARK Gable (megaphoned by
Ruggles in mo Man Of Her OWN
Is q real he-man. both on and on the
screen, who really can run the gamut
Of emotions and knows what acting
Is all about. He Is pleasure to
direct n
Rugries refused to dlsihlss the screen
Evening star., 1936-09-19

performances Of his wife. Arlene
Judge, from whom he vas finally
separated last week.
tcopyrisht. 1886. By tFe North American
Newspaper AIlIsske, fne.)
Evening star., 1936-09-19
Father. Son Win Contest.

MCKINNEY. Tex. lR.-Forrest Dunn
OF Dallas won baby show here az
years ago. Recently he entered Rich
ard Forrest, his son. In the same event.
The baby won.
Evening star., 1936-09-19
General Died at Dawn
Held Ideal Screen Plot
Film at Palace Made More Tense by
Credible Motives of Leading
Characters.
Characters.
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, yr.

Is often connded that edama the cnemas most natural
therefore, Its most effective form Of expression Essentially medium Of
opposed situation
melodrama
Evening star., 1936-09-19
Miss George to Achieve
Fame, Director Predicts
by SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oLYWOOD, 10 NANADnector Wesley Ruggles has
and
that look and make you
cry" who scored tremendous
valiant Word
Evening star., 1936-09-19
Warner Baxter Is Star
Of 1.-THE Road to Glory"
Again Proves His Ability in War Drama at
Capitol-Anniversary
Revue on Stage.

rs been long time since there was war hm to inspire memories
Price
which
exceedingly interesting
others before the bloody back
Evening star., 1936-09-19

Is the best I've
dire C t e d, and
Miss George Is
Just a little bet
ter tn an the
film" r u 6 6 les
en- g a g e d t h e
actress for the
part of Carrie
after testing or
trying to 6 e t
every big femi-
nine name IN
Hollywood, with
out success. He
flew to S a n
Francisco, where
Miss George was