The Washington times., 1936-06-09
BALTIMORE DEPRESSION


bad to worse insofar as business
for the first-run movie houses Is
concerned. Izzy Rappaport, after
looking over some Of the pictures
available for his Hippodrome The
alter, has decided to shut down the
house and reopen in September.
He can't buck summer heat, even
in an air-conditioned house, with
out good screen product. Closing
of the Hippodrome will leave
Loew's Century the only first-run
theater in Baltimore playing
vaudeville.
ATLANTIC CITY JOTTINGS
Sam Stratton, the veteran cir
Gus advance man, is parked for
the summer in the office Of chief
of publicity for Atlantic City's
Steel Pier. Sam invites us to come
down and enjoy an ocean picnic
and the rs pier attractions he is
boosting. Next year, he adds, he
will be ahead of the white tops
once more Incidentally Allan
tic City's Garden Pier Theater
thinks some Of the Boardwalk's
huge summer crowds can be
coaxed up to the box office.
George White will reopen his
Scandals" there late in June with
Willie and Eugene Howard and
Helen Morgan as his. headliners.
The pier also will play Three
Men on a Horse" and boy Meets
Girl" Norman Pyle arrived at
the Shore resort yesterday to do
some tub humping for 1.-THE
Great Ziegfeld," which is sched-
uled for the Apollo Theater within
a fortnight.
SKIT WRITERS WANTED
WE'LL skit writer's of Washing
ton. you now have your chance.
Loew's has taken this depart
ment's suggestion and hung up a
$50 prize for the best skit submit
ted for the All-Washington Revue |
at the Fox in mid-August. In addi- |
ton to the prize, the winning skit |
will earn a royalty the week it |
plays the F Street house.
Any other short sketches or
black-outs chosen by Gene Ford
and the board Of judges, will be
paid royalty if used in the re-
vue. The rights to further pro-
duction will be given back to the |
authors after the All.Washington
revue is completed.
In addition to skits Mr.. Ford |
wishes to hear from young song
writer's who either have or can
write special songs that may be |
used in the all-iocal show.
Entries must be received by |
either Mr.. Ford at the Fox
Theater or the drama editors of
the five Washington Newspapers |
by midnight July 18th.
ABOUT "THE PLOW"
Dear Editor Kelley:
In one of your recent columns
mention Is made of the film,
"The Pillow That Broke the
Palms." a ReSettlement Admins.
tratiOn picture now playing at
the BelaScO Theater. You re-
count the fact that the Govern
ment was unable to get the regu.
lar film distributing companies
to give the picture circulation.
You quote Mr.. Martin Quigley
of Motion Picture Herald, at
some length. MIR. Quigley'S loud
below seems to have been
brought about for no other rea-
son than that the film was Of
fered for display in our cinema
palaces.
Now if any effort had been
made on the part of the Govern
ment to cOerce the film industry
into taking this film none would
be quicker than / to say that
Mr.. Quigley could pull out his
hair with full justification. But
no such effort has been made.
The picture was offered. 1t was,
in effect, refused. So what?
SO-one of the best films of its
kind ever produced, a work of
art displaying graphically what
has happened to our Western
plains country, a film that gives
us the genesis of the dust storms,
will never be seen by large seq.
ments of the population.
Mr.. Quigley, in his trepida-
ton, seems to smell Democratic
propaganda in this film. But
since when has a plain preSen-
tatiOn Of cold and indisputable
facts been propaganda?
The film compares favorabIy
with anything that has ever
come out Of Hollywood and I,
for one, can see little justifica-
ton for the film industry's fail
ure to make the most of this film
and no justification at all for
Mr.. Quigley's petulant and child.
iSh OutburSt.
Let ma sign mvSAlP