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Evening star., 1936-02-08
Star Returns
In Fine Role
At the Earle
Ruth Chatterton Fur
nishes Pace and Mood
for Lady of Secrets"

THE young lady portrayed by Miss
Ruth Chatterton in the Earle
Theater's new film, Lady of Sc
crets," bears so many woes and sor'
rows en- her trim shoulders and L
such a good sport about it all it i:
quite natural she arouses not only
the utmost sympathy, but admiration
even affection. Even were she moi
made such a winning person by the
script she certainly would be made
so by Miss Chatterton's sincere and
correctly attuned Characterization.
Miss Chatterton has been away
from the screen far too long. It's
good to have her back for it is one
of the major pleasures provided by
Hollywood to watch as she deftly
creates a character. In Lady of
Secrets" she is cool and dignified and
sensitive Except for several scenes
which call for high emotional tan
trums, and then she is warm and
dignified and sensitive). Her en-
chanting personality dominates the
entire film and provides it with its
pace, its mood and probably its chief
raison d'etre.
Not that Lady of Secrets" is not
a good film in itself. 1t is. The
story is human and attacks the emo
tions with just the right shade of
slightly melodramatic exaggeration to
make it highly effective entertain
ment. There no doubt will be many
a tear in the eyes of more sensitive
feminine filmgoers before the picture
completes its run at the Earle, in
spite of the fact everything works out
beautifully in the end.
The tale follows the accepted eS-
cape story pattern of putting the
heroine in a spot, getting her out of
the first frying pan into a hotter
fire and then continuing the process
until logic will permit true love to
rear its beautiful head and accom-
plish happy ending.
Lady of Secrets" however, is put
together more adeptly than the aver
age film which follows the same pat
tern and it tells a different story in
an interesting manner. Ruth Chat
terton is marvellous.
Otto Kruger, playing opposite Miss
Chatterton, also does splendidly and
turns in performance, quite in keep
ing with that of the star. Lionel At
will effectively is the meanest menace
of the month and Marion Marsh and
Lloyd Nolan are in the supporting
cast.
Ricardo CorteZ, the most popular
villain on the screen and one of the
best-liked leading men, headlines the
Earle stage bill. He does one brief
dramatic bit from one of his films
and for the rest of the time he oc-
cupies the stage confines himself to
tossing banter about with a stooge.
He seems to be what is known as an
call right guy" and the Earle audiences
grant him rousing welcome. Mr..
Cortez knows, too, the comedy trick
which put Jack Benny where he is
and allows himself to be made the
butt of the humor.
The vaudeville program has also
TheIma Leeds, who is a treat to the
eye and whose subtle chantings fall
sweetly upon the ear; the Three
Nonchalants, one of the better rough
and tumble teams. and Harry King
and the Sinclair Twins, all of whom
are experts at tapping toes and heels
TO rhythm. Bert Granoff is singing
with the overture at each show. too,
which is another item on the profit
side of the Earle's ledger. H. M.
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heidi" SOLD OUT.

When Heidi" comes to the
National Theater, Saturday morn
ing, February Is, all previous
records for a capacity crowd will
be broken, for every available
space will be jammed with tiny
bits of humanity, eager to meet
in the flesh a well-known and
loved little friend. And sad to re-
late-it is estimated that almost
an equal number of little ones are
doomed to the disappointment Of
not seeing Heidi" in the play
this year. This has been a ban
ner year for the Children's
Theater.
= Only two more plays remain
in this years repertory. They
are Frances Hodgson Burnett's
"The Secret Garden" Saturday,
March %, and Beauty and the
Beast" Saturday, April 18. Tick
cts for these are on sale now at
theWomen's International League,
532 Seventeenth street northwest.
Evening star., 1936-02-08

is Jackie "Underlip" Cooper and the
dog a diverting juvenile pooch named
Rim Tin Tin, jr. Before Mr.. Calleia
feels the ennobling influence Of their
companionship he Is not very ap-
pealing fellow, being wont to shoot
people who argue with him about any
thing at all. but he responds hand
somely to few weeks in the open air
away from cigarettes, machine guns
and the other sinister toys of movie
gangsterdom. Eventually the re-
modelled killer winds up on the side
Of Jackie and Rim Tin Tin. jr., fight
ing his own gang and thereby re-
deeming his past sins.
Ere that dulcet moment arrives
there is some very exciting stuff
in Tough Guy"-a first-claSs man
hunt. several scenes in which various
people think it would be a good idea
to shoot Jackie Cooper, but don't the
gets mixed up with the Calleia mob
while hooking a ride on the back
end Of a truck they are using In a
robbery, and some primitive sequences
wherein Rim Tin Tin, jr., deftly chews
up a couple Of villains. The latter
incidents will be particularly appre-
ciated by those who like to watch wild
animals eat people alive, or vice versa.
In a large portion of his role, Rim Tin
Tin. jr., is civilized to the point of
canine effeteness, but when he gets
mad he also gets very rough. The
veneer, as they say, falls aside.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

|ONIG HT the Montgomery
Players will present the next
play in their current season.
u Owen Davis mystery thriller,
The Ninth Guest" The cast includes
Jane Plummer Rice, Martha Roberts
Pogge. Helen Kerby, Harrison Hatha-
way, Edmund Soper. Harold S. Nor
ton. Frank S. Fowler, Fred M. Kerby
and Frederick Fryer. Robert Warfield
directed and J. A. Bishop has executed
the modernistic setting used. The
time is $50 pm. and the place is
Leland Junior High School, Forty
fourth and Elm streets, Chevy Chase.
The Columbia Players, with an ever
wary eye for publicity tie-ups and
production assistance, have uncovered
real Sailor of Cattaro. He is Prof
Josef Solterer. of Georgetown Uni
versity, who, it seems, was an Aus
trian naval officer stationed in the
Bay of Cattaro for more than a year
and on duty at nearby Pola when the
fleet received sealed orders to sail to
Cattaro and put down the mutiny,
which is the basis for THE Sailors
of Cattaro." The Columbia Players
who will present the drama February
l9 and 20 at Pierce Hall, have had
lot of assistance in technical de-
tails from Prof Solterer and hope
to make the play as exact in detail
as it is in history.
Frank Miller, William Driscoll. Eu-
gene Dunno, John Donnelly, Charles
Coburn. Brandon lyman and Tom
Quinn are prominently cast in The
Fools Bauble," to be presented Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday nights
at CASTOR Hall by students of George
town University. The stage at the
hall had to be especially equipped
to take care of the eight scenes of
the production, the most elaborate
ever attempted at the school. VIII
liam E. Shea, dramatic director at
Georgetown, is directing the large
cast and DR.. Leo Donovan, director
of music. is arranging the musical
score.
Private Hicks" by Albert Maltz, a
one-dct play about National Guards
man who refuses to shoot down a
striker, which was banned from the
one-act play tournament, will be pre-
sented next Friday at the Press Club
auditorium by the New Theater Group
The st. Stephens Players will give
third performance of The Family
Upstairs" next Monday evening at St.
Stephens School, Twenty-fourth and
K streets =. The cast includes Claude
Haren. Mabel Mccarthy, Christine
Thayer, Robert w. O'Connor, Charles
w. Knee. Peggy Herrlein, Bernie
Haren, Mary Repetti and Woodrow
Chagnon . A new version of Uncle
Toms Cabin" adapted by Rebecca
Tarwater from Harriet Beecher
Stoves famous story, will be present.
ed at the King Smith Studio Playhouse
Monday, February "a, and ~ill con-
tinue several other nights that week
-. There will be a special matinee
Saturday, February 20 Luigi Pi-
six Characters in Search
of an Author" (which looks like a
winner in the longest title-of-the-
season contest) will be done February
Is and 26 at the Wardman Park Thea
ter by the Studio of Theater Arts >.
It's the second play on the studios
season :. c. David Per-
sina, Joseph H. Orendorff and Malcolm
Ross are directing the three one-act
plays to be presented March 6 by the
Evening star., 1936-02-08
WORLD PREMIERE.

THE Theater Guild announces
that the world premiere of
Robert E. Sherwood's new play.
Idiots Delight" with Alfred
Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the
leading roles will take place at
the National Theater here on
March 9. The engagement will
be for one week only as the play
will open in New York after
week in Pittsburgh. which imme-
diately follows the Washington
engagement.
The Lunts are at present COM
pleting a subscription run in
Chicago, but will return to New
York February 16 for rehearsals
Of Idiots Delight"
Thus far the supporting cast
contains many of the same actors
who are with the LuntS in Shake
speare's comedy. They include
Sidney Greenstreet. George
Meader, Richard Whorf, Bre-
taigne Windust. Dorothy Mathews.
Horace Sinclair, Barry Thomson
and 80 others.
Evening star., 1936-02-08

literally forced on
those e ar n ! n &
$4,000 a year or
more. Prohibitive
State and Fed
eral taxation is
the other half of
he threatening
S t i C k, bounding
film folk out of
c alifornia to
other States and
ou n t ries. in
order that t h e y
might have some
thing beyond the
remembrance of
fame to show for
Evening star., 1936-02-08
TEXANS PLANT ONIONS

FARMERSVILLE, Tex. (P.-In the
rich North Texas black lands farmers
are planting their annual 100000
''friend in need" crop.
During the slack pre-Spring season
farmers rely for welcome cash upon
the Bermuda onion crop. which ma
lures in early Spring, allowing replant-
ing In other crops.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
Run Over Budgets Often

My chief difficulty is to make my
clients keep to the budget" Mr.. Rog-
ers declared. When they run over,
1t is generally on miscellaneous per-
sonal expenditure and wardrobe
particularly If woman. Also. high
priced cars are a continual tempta-
ton.
If only could make them realize
that five years at top salary is all they
can hope to get out of the movies!
Take girl who starts on contract of
$500 week. The next year she may
get $3.50, then 81 900, followed by 81, 500.
Then something happens. She is
dropped. But she usually still wants to
maintain her $4,000 standard of living.
She sells her jewels, cars and treasures
to do so. She is soon glad to earn 81 a
day."
(Copyright 1898 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncD
Evening star., 1936-02-08
Capitals Drama Groups
Montgomery Players in ''The Ninth Guest
Tonight-Real Sailor of Cattaro Found.

Little Theater Of Alexandria The
Blackfriars' Guild production Of The
First Legion" will be presented twice
tomorrow at st. Pauls auditorium .
The matinee will be at 2:30 and the
evening performance at $50.
Evening star., 1936-02-08
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Soldiers Home Band Or
chestra, in Stanley Hall. at $50 pm.
today. John S. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster; Anton Pointner, associate
leader
March, "The Whip" Hoffman
Hungarian overture, The Two
HuSsars" Doppler
Adagiotto, from The Fifth
Symphony" -Mahlor
Scenes from the comic opera.
Bcccaccio' ---------Von Suppe
Characteristic, by the Japanese Sea, "
Hauenschild
Waltz suite, "Elyshia" -Braham
Finale, Where Do We Go From
Here (requested) Wenrich
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1936-02-08
Margaret SullavanStars
In an Interesting Film
"Next Time We Love" Opens at Keith's With
Splendid Performances by Miss
SULLIVAN and James Stewart
BY E. de S. MELCHER.

<<N LOVE" appealing and sensitive hm is
superlatvey SULLIVAN and newcomer to
" treats the little poignant
pecd things life well that when and you realize that
performed nothing that is either
startling you why you enjoyed SO much.
Yesterday, Keihs
Evening star., 1936-02-08

anu marriage anu
temperament and
ambition an d
are ers of a
widely diverging
nature. w h e n
I h e re fore Mr..
Stewart, a news
paper man whose
highest dreams
haunt the distant
capitols appoint
ed to foreign cor
res on d e n ce,
marries a college
girl whose one
idea is to become
the shadow of
Evening star., 1936-02-08
High Paid Movie Players
Have Financial Troubles
$500 a Week More Desirable Than $4,000
Because of Greater Expenses and
Taxes With Top Salaries.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oLLYWooD February MANAo-Here the question now exr
minds of all film folk Hollywood the choice
salary a which would
a stupid
sight.
writers
Evening star., 1936-02-08
.Racketeer, Boy and Dog
Give Plot to Tough Guy
Joseph Calleia, Jackie Cooper and Rim Tin
Tin, Jr., Provide Some Very
Exciting Stuff.
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, JR.

OF
the A
trade with especial
and policemen OF all kinds
Tough Guy that what he really
Of time to loaf around the
Evening star., 1936-02-08

III ID uII dOVuuI IuOC VlIat HIIIlI sVoI :
81 900 q week are worse of than those
only making quarter that amount.
The chief reason behind this strange
anomaly is the high standard of living
Evening star., 1936-02-08

IItdUIIIB HICH 1Wo
and ruined with sorrow.
The picture is not. however, by any
means a tragedy. 1t concerns youth
Evening star., 1936-12-04

Of these metals goes on, there Is equal
care to prevent supplies from falling
into the hands Of potential enemies.
Recently, France placed a ban on the
expectation of filings and scraps Of
copper, lead, tin. zinc and nickel.
Those three-lead, tin and zinc
are also strategic war materials, al-
though not classed among the ferro-
alloys. The United States, with sum-
cient lead and xinc. must depend
upon Bolivia's tin. Consequently,
Congress last February forbade the
expectation Of all tin-plate scrap.
Germany Leads Way.
In the matter Of substitutes Ger
many-because she is hardest pressed
and has q superb scientific corps
leads the way. Recently she discovered
new stainless steel which does not
require nickel. The Usual stainless
steel contains iron plus about l8 per
cent Of chromium and per cent of
nickel. The German product, "roneu-
Sill" is declared to be just as good. It
uses IL per cent manganese as a sub
stitute for the nickel.
Recently, too, Germany's ministry
Of economics decreed that the con-
sumption Of tin in milk cans must be
Evening star., 1936-12-04

that last year only 20 per cent OF
| the American requirements came from
American mines.
It is estimated that, by thus con-
serving the supply, the United States
may possibly have four-year supply
for its munitions industry If all i'm
ports were cut of by war. This re-
serve is in idaho, Montana, New Mex
leo and few other States. And there
1t will stay, If the American Army
has anything to say about the matter.
There was an attempt last Spring
to help preparedness by an Army
sponsored bill, heavy with significance.
It would have called on foreign ma
tions to repay their war debts In stocks
of manganese, chrome and those other
strategic alloy metals which Uncle
Sam lacks Seriously-in contrast to
his enviable position in most other
resources.
President Roosevelt, himself SYM
pathetic with preparedness ideas.
thought well of the plan. But the
bill died. Secretary of State Hull
said such a program would cause a
hue and cry among foreign powers,
fearing that America was arming with
something definite and sinister in
mind.
Rare Metals Eagerly Sought.
Meanwhile, those lands still new
In exploitation of resources are eagerly
seeking the rare metals. This Summer,
new discoveries of nickel were jubi-
lantly proclaimed in Canada and
Japan. India announced she had
found big vanadium deposit. Russia
countered by discovering a new mine
Of niobium-so rare that the world
produced only is tons of the metal
in 1882.
These rare metals which nature has
scattered so lightly through the world
number 10 - manganese, nickel,
chromium, cobalt, molybdenum, vana-
dunn, titanium, tungsten, mercury
and antimony.
As the picture stands, England is
very fortunate, with many deposits
scattered throughout her empire, and
guarded with steel. The United States
has q monopoly of one one of the
known alloy neutrality-suspicious..
Peru has strong control on vana-
dium. Canada supplies the worlds
nickel. The Belgian Congo and French
Morocco have most of the cobalt.
China and Burma share q monopoly
Of tungsten. Turkey and Russia have
the greater share of chromium. Rus
sia has at least half the manganese
and most Of the titanium. Italy and
Spain share the mercury. And China
has the ntimony-another japanese
temptation.
Tungsten Steel Requisite.
Metals like these have revolution
lied modern steel production. Tung-
sten, for instance, is the common
requisite for high-speed steel-neces-
sary to tools which will keep their
edge though red-hot. Nickel and
chromium together provide the STAIN
less steel, which will not rust. Vari-
Gus combinations of alloy materials
are producing lightweight steels which
are already vying with aluminium
While the search for new supplies
Evening star., 1936-12-04

cut by 50 per cent. Chemists went to
work. Two practical answers are the
result: A special stainless steel and
aluminium cans.
In Germany the program calls not
only for making the citizens use sub
stitutes, but cajoling them to save
their junk. Thus. all German prod
ucts put up in tin cans contain a slip
with the following appeal:
please do not throw the empty
can away. It is made Of metal which
we urgently need and must import
partly from foreign countries. Save
the empty can. which Is of no value
to you. and give it to your material
collector. He will make 1t available
for reclamation and you will help
save the nation"
tcopyright. 1886 BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc)
Evening star., 1936-12-04
CLOTHING STORE
WILL PAY BONUS
Raleigh Haberdashe's En-
pIoyes to Receive Gifts
Ranging Up to $35.

Raleigh Haberdasher Joined the
Christmas bonus parade today with
an announcement Of holiday gifts to
employees ranging from $3.50 to $35
per person.
In appreciation Of the helpful CO.
operation during the last year of the
employees Of the Raleigh Haberdasher,
all of them, irrespective of their posi-
tions, will receive a cash Christmas
bonus on Saturday, December H." the
firms announcement read.
The maximum gift of $35 will be
paid those who have been in continu-
Evening star., 1936-12-04

Colvin, Francis Silver, Milton werts,
Forrest Anderson and Richard Fox.
vice presidents: Archie Mccoy. treas
urer; William Burke, recording secre-
tary; Ruth May Adair, corresponding
secretary, and Ben Barnett, director
Of publicity.
Evening star., 1936-12-04
BY WILLIAM GILMAN.

An army Is no stronger than its
brand of steel
That is why every big nation. is
gathering up every possible supply Of
rare alloy metals in order to be pre-
pared for war with sufficient guam
titles of the materials that make
modern steel tough, lightweight,
high-speed or stainless.
Such steels require much more
than iron ore and scrap iron. The
League of Nations knew this last year
when it clamped sanctions on Italy.
In the list Of II materials whose ship
ment to Mussolini's war machine was
forbidden, 10 were such alloy neces-
sites as manganese, nickel and chro-
MUM.
Italy needed those alloy metals. So
does every power mobilizing for war.
without them, a battleship's armor
plate can be crushed by a shell Of
modern steel; tanks axles would
break in a wild ride over bumpy
terrain; machine-gun barrels would
rust in damp trenches.
Alloys Use Is Expanded.
These alloys are constant marvel
TO the chemist and their use is being
widely heralded as marking the dawn
of a new industrial age. Add q few
shovelfuls of manganese or chromium
to a carload of pig iron, and the char
acter of the resulting steel Is COM
pletely changed.
Italy had to have these alloy metals
In her Ethiopian adventure, and, de-
spite sanctions. found ways Of getting
them This writer has learned from
an unimpeachable source how Italy
got manganese. A cargo of ferro-
manganese was shipped from England
to Marseille, reshipped to Yokohama,
resold to New York firm and finally
arrived in Italy, safe and sound
though q bit expensive as the result
Of so much freight handling.
Another example Of the devious
methods resorted to in obtaining the
rare metals in wartime was given by
Germany. She needed tungsten for
high-speed tools.
When the World War came Ger
many's supply Of tungsten from
Britain's Burma was cut OF. German
scientists then found ways Of sub
stituting molybdenum, from neutral
Norway, for tungsten. But England
came along and bought up Norway's
molybdenum supply. Again German
metallurgists cast about for substi-
tute and found-nickel. This came
from Canada, via Norway. Here
again was an illustration of English
soldiers being slain by their own mu-
nitions.
No Nation Has Enough.
The ferro-alloys, as these rare
metals are called, are unique re-
sources in that no nation has enough
Of all of them.
Manganese is the most precious Of
all Of the alloy materials because 1t
Is necessary as purifying" agent in
the manufacture of ordinary steel as
we'll as strategically useful In FORM
ing new types. Only Russia, with
reserves, and England, by drawing
upon India, are self-sufncient.
Flow charts" prepared by the
United States Bureaus of Mines and
Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
show how much at the mercy Of Rus
sia and Britain the other nations are.
Half of Russia's output is consumed
at home. The other half joins a
stream of manganese from India and
Africa's gold coast. which pours into
"a other consuming nations.
What meager manganese supplies
these other powers have they are stor-
ing in days of peace for emergencies
of war. Uncle Sam, for instance,
frowns on any exploitation of domestic
rnappanese reSod1rcas The raSII1t is
Evening star., 1936-12-04
ARM|NC COUNTRIES
SEEK RARE ALLOYS
Big Nations Gathering Up
All Possible Supplies
of Metals.

The nations race to re1rm on
the industrial front as Germany
and Italy, among the "hape-uot"
powers, push their "selt-suNciency"
programs, spurred on BY the
Fascist Communist cleavage oDer
the ciuh war in Spain. What the
nations are doing to develop syn
thetic rnD materials needed In tDdr
Is discussed here in the sirth OF q
series OF articles BY q ,Dell-knoton
priter Uho ,Dds formerly a ctuilidn
chemist in the U. S. Army Chemi-
cal Warfare Service and toho had
access to confidential documents in
his research.
Evening star., 1936-12-04

GUS employment of the company since
December /, 1929.
Bonuses of $25 will go to those In
such employment since 1881; those
employed since 1888 will receive $40;
those since December /, 1885, will be
given SIS, and those at the store
since June / Of this year, IS. Tenn
porary employees who were taken
on for the present Christmas season
will receive $250 each.
Evening star., 1936-12-04
STATE SOCIETY ELECTS

DIR. Lansing Wells was elected presi-
dent Of the Montana Society at its
annual meeting last night at the Hotel
Roosevelt. He succeeds Troy Car
michael, who presided at the meeting.
Other officers chosen were DR.. H. w.
Evening star., 1936-12-04
STEAMSHIPS.

Luxe service on famous express liners via
the smooth Southern Route
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Evening star., 1936-12-04
Towns Only Horse Dies.

TAMPICO. III. R.-The horse and
buggy era has reached its end In
Tampico. Prince. the towns last
buggy horse, died at the age of 20.
He had been driven almost every day
since he was years old.
Evening star., 1936-12-04
Mouse Lives With Cobras.

A mouse has made his home in q
cage of cobras at the London Zoo, and
was recently seen on q cobra's head
grooming himself, evidently unmind-
full of the fact that the reptiles favor
ite food is dead mice.