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French singer, who never gave up
her love for ziggy, even after their
divorce, is outstanding.
MIR. Powell's delineation of the
leading role was done excellently
His mannerisms and eccentricities
were pres mt e d artistically. Few
other film players could have ham
died the part as well.
Miss 10y made a perfect Billie
Burke. That Miss Burke heartily
approved of Miss Logs characteri-
cation is praise enough.
Frank Morgan Is Hit
Frank Morgan as Billings put
another gem in this top-notch
comedians crown. But one can
not judge stars In this picture as
one might judge them in the usual
movie. 1t is something much high
er than the mere celluloid story
telling and part-portraying the
screen heretofore has attempted.
1.-The Great ziegfeld" was an in
spiration to the entire movie in
dustry, a lasting memorial to the
stages great Snowman.
Yes, we feel that Ziggy himself
would haxe approved this produc-
tlon-that is all except those ex-
ira steps on the staircase in the
finale. We agree, Mr.. ziegfeld,
there should have been few more,
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much for the aging Rhodes and he
dies with the words:
$50 much to do and so little
DONE"
LaudS Entire Cast
Rhodes" is not entirely Mr.. Hus-
tons picture. The work of Oscar
Homolka as Kruger will probably
stand out as one of the best char
acterizations of the season. Surpris-
ingly good is Ndansia Kumalo, of
Matabeleland, who plays the part
of King Lobengula OF that coun-
try. The. old king really goes
through some fine emoting.
Although the film, a British pro-
duction, drags at times the fault
probably can be laid to the differ
ence in the British and American
psychology in telling story. Like
wise, Anna Carpenter (played by
Peggy Ashcroft), the nearest thing
to heroine that Rhodes" con-
tains, is not what the American
public demands as a heroine.
!. But as an epic film, telling a
great story about a great man, one
can hardly imagine a nobler pro-
duction than the Gaumont- British
Co. has filmed.
Gertrude Michael Termed Find"
The Circle offers, as an additional
treat on this weeks program, a
delightful spy story, Till We Meet
Again" 1t boasts of the appear
ance of Herbert Marshall and the
debut of Gertrude Michael, who
this writer believes to be grandest
find" of 1886.
The story has to do with a British
actor and an Austrian actress,
whose love affair is blasted when
both are called into the intelligence
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him failure, gave them box seats
to "Whoopee," Rio Rita" Three
Muskateers" and "Showboat."
Market Crash Spells End
When the stock market crashed,
ziggy crashed with it. His shows
closed and he was sent to bed, sick.
Billie went back to work. One eve
ming, just after visit from Billings,
also wiped out in the crash, ziggy
died-a white gardenia dropping
from his hand, symbolical of the
love of beauty he held so close to
his heart, the display of beauty he
had so completely mastered.
1.-THE Great ziegfeld" was not
alone fine biography of the show
mans life. 1t has captured. the
mood, the atmosphere which sur
rounded ziegfeld's life. Much less
than routine movies was it limited
by the confines of the screen. 1t
seemed to speak, sing and play it's
way into ones heart.
To list the many production num-
bers is needless. All have been done
superbly. Most lavish was the finale
of the first act, "a Lovely Girl Is
Like Melody number. Such Sc
quences, and there are several, only
can be appreciated by being seen.
His Stars Appear
"The Great ziegfeld" cast con-
tanned number of actual Ziegfeld
stars, including Fannie Brice, Ray
Bolger, new dancer who is destined
to go far on the screen, and Har-
riett Hector, the ballerine seen for
the first time in the film.
Of the stars, it was little Miss
Luise Rainier, as Anna Held, who
captured first acting honors. Her
| a w eSS characterization of tbe
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valorg (Ross Alexander), with his
painting. OF course, she is accused
by gossipers of being in love with
him. When Erik confesses his love
for her, and is killed accidentally
while drunk, gossip becomes SO
malicious she can remain in Will
liamsburg no longer.
Failure of the city's "best families"
to concern themselves with the ILL
ness of a poor Swedish woman and
her former servant, Bea Sorenson
louise Fazenda), lessons her de-
sire to be accepted by Williamsburg
society.
Chooses Separation
Defeated and discouraged, she
tries the one way out she sees
separation from a devoted husband
whom she loves. The separation
works-to bring her back to him,
classified ard more tolerant of
Main Street." which, in this case,
is williamsburg.
Together for the first time since
their successful "Oil for the Lamps
of China" Mr.. O'Brien's and Miss
Hutchinson'S reunion is a happy
one for admirers of both players,
AS a team they play together nat
urally and effectively. We hope to
see them together more frequently.
With his characteristic, youthful
enthusiasm, Ross Alexander plays
the role of reckless, indealistic Erik
Competent players, including Guy
Kibbee, Olin Rowland, Margaret
Irving and Ray Mayer, have sup
porting roles. (By r. Nd
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paint. The Turner's concluded it
would be best for all to put Claras
worthless husband in q private
sanitarium.
Here Charley could express him
self, the result of which was paint
ing hailed by critics as master
piece. Overnight he was famous,
and Clara, of course, discovered
a new regard for her shiftless hus-
bard. But Charley had fallen in
love with Melodie, another SANTA
rum inmate.
In the Federal Players cast are
to be Ned LIE Fevre, Betty Anne
Brown, Alice Arnold, Jack Duval,
Ira B. Klein, Bernice Wood, Gene
Britain, Paul S. Rouse, Hal Hawkes.
and William Schneider.
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Mr.. Ellington's aggregation is
best in its adaptation of his famous
composition, Solitude" Here is
the essence of Negro music, played
as only they can play it.
Strut Fast Steps
Along with the band, the Lyric
is presenting a group of Negro
vaudeville acts. First to show is
quartet of youngsters, billed as the
Step Brothers. Their dancing is
excellent in it's line, and the boys
have the knack of getting the
audience to applaud at will.
Another dance team, Cook and
Brown, has its best moments while
the smaller member of the duo does
his best to shake himself apart.
The inevitable appearance of the
popular girl songstress, Ivy Ander-
son, always takes well with Lyric
fans. This year she sings several
of her novelty numbers and ends her
act with the vocal part of "Soli-
tude."
Band FIashiiy Dressed
The band is Respondent this sea-
son in white dinner jackets, red
trousers and bright red leather
shoes. There is the usual amount of
"hot" trumpeting, "skat'' singing
and all the trimmings of the tradi-
tional "torrid" music program. Mr..
Ellington's organization stands high
in this classification.
On the Lyric screen is "The
Country Beyond" starring Rochelle
Hudson and Paul Kelly with a new
leading man, Robert Kent.
The story concerns a recruit of
the Royal Canadian Mounted police,
played by Mr.. Kent, who is sent to
the Black River outpost by his
father, police commissioner.
Snowslide Injuries Lovers
There he meets and falls in love
with Jean Allison miss Hudson)
who makes him keep his distance by
calling in her huge dog, Buck.
On case of stolen goods, a vet
eran "Mountie" kelly, chases the
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fail. So he builds his empire around
the Beers.
But, cut off from the rich South
by the Transvaal, his northern
troops, led by his friend, DR.. Jane
son, face starvation or death at
the hands of waring natives. jane
son, on his own initiative, turns his
guns on the natives, and in the
wake of blootlshed, Pounds the new
country, Rhodesia.
Jameson attempts to aid the Eng
lish who have settled in Transvaal
and are being prosecuted by Kruger.
Without Rhodes consent, he sets
out with 600 men and walks into
a Boer trap. Rhodes resigns his
post as prime minister of South
Africa and president of the char
tered trading company, and goes
to Kruger to beg for the lives of
his men. Kruger relents and turns
them loose. The trip, made on
horseback to see Kruger, is too
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Derby Might
Dance Planned
Race Track Atmosphere to
Pervade Ballroom.

Calling time out from his pre-
parations for Benny Goodman's
one-night engagement week hence
Tom Devine, Indiana Roof manager,
has organized a Derby Night"
dance for tonight.
A feature is to be a miniature
derby race. 1t is to differ from this
afternoons classic in that there axe
to be only six entries: Bien Joli,
Tintagel, Brevity, Grand Slam,
Hollywood and The Fighter. Two Of
the Roofs f1oormen are TO roll large
wooden dice to direct the progress
of the miniature thoroughbredss
mounted on a 12-foot track.
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Just as Main Street" ridiculed
society to make millions of COM
placent Americans feel a little I'M
comfortable, SO does 81 Married a
Doctor" make us pause to wonder
if human nature shouldn't undergo
an uplift movement But Miss
Hutchinson, as Mrs. Kennicott, in
IT Married a Doctor" makes the
mistake of trying to remodel the
towns architecture when its con-
science needs retouching, perhaps
a complete overhauling.
AS stranger to Williamsburg,
typical mid Western county seat,
her failure to give the city French
provincial atmosphere by changing
its architecture is inevitable, but it
does make her realize that reform
is no business for an outsider, and
helps her to find a place in her
husbands circle of friends.
Wins Towns Prize Bachelor
Mrs. Kennicott comes to William
burg from large city with the ire
menous handicap of stealing the
towns most eligible bachelor, DR..
Kennicott (Mr. O'Brien). Then too,
she is young and beautiful, much
younger and far more attractive
than her associates at the bridge
tables. Unfailing devotion of her
male friends, of course,
does little, to make their wives like
her more.
With her social position so in
secure, Mrs. Kennicott unfortunate
ly encourages a young artist, Erik
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driven to Africa by the crowded
streets of London which had no
outlet for his vast dreams, Cecil
Rhodes, already near death, be-
comes a part of the horde of dia-
mond prospectors in the region later
occupied by the Kimberley mines.
His love of conquest and determi-
nation TO give England a place in
which to expand aids him to rise
to the top of the heap. His last
adversary is Barney Barnato, first
an enemy then his friend. To his
hoard of directors, Mr.. Rhodes, now
in complete control of all the dia-
monds in Africa, outlines his plans
for the establishment of an empire
in Africa, reaching from the Cape
to Cairo. Before his oratory, they
can only consent.
Bore War Included
Only the Transvaal, the Dutch
Boer country, stands in Rhodes
way. His attempts to arbitrate with
the country's president, Paul Kruger,
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service of their respective countries.
When they meet as enemies, and
decide to face death together rather
than betray each other, the film
reaches it's climax. 1t contains ex-
cellent acting and fine entertain
ment with Lionel Atwill sneering
again as the villain who this time
unites the lovers in the end. (By
j. w. To
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girls father as one of the suspects.
Kent chaseS the girl. The couple
is marooned in cabin after being
injured in snowslide. Buck and
Kelly save them. Buck bounds hap
PLY aboard the train which takes
Kent and Miss Hudson on their
honeymoon, while Kelly is left holds
ing the bag.
It's fairly good far-North melo-
drama with routine performance by
the cast, which includes Alan Dine
hart and Alan Hale. (By j. w. T0s
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ZEGFELD RANKED As ONE OF GREATEST MUSICAL MOVIES
WHERE, WHAT, WHEN

AMBASSADOR
Last OF the Pagans," with Mala
z:o5, ITO. lo:is Also o's Desire n ~ with
Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich,
at 1880. 2:30. sos. $50.
APOLLO
II Married a Doctor" with Pat
40 ll:s7, 1877. 1887. 5:s7. 7:s7. and
CIRCLE
It'll We Meet Again" with Herbert
Marshall and Gertrude Michael at
ll:2o, 2;2o, 5:25, and $50. Also
1885. s:35. 6:s5 and $40.
KEITHS
do Unto Others" by Henry x.
Burton, directed by Charles Berkell,
produced by Federal Players. with
Fevre, Ira B. Klein and C'Mari de
Schipper in the cast,
LOEW'S
THE Great Ziegfeld" with William
Powell, t,uise Rainier, Myrna 10y,
Frank Morgan and Ray Bolgar. at
Duke Ellington and his band on
stage at 1857, 1901, sos. 7:1s and
1888. The Country Beyond" with
Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent and
Paul Kelly. at 1888. i:47, 1851, 5:55.
500, and 1923.
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pSOplc anu CIlc
inmates of a pri-
vate asylum, fur
nishing two eX-
trenes of charac-
ter. Charley and
clara Turner's
married life was
unhappy because
Clara'S only in
terest was the
brush business.
Charley, on the
contrary, had no
interest in bust
ness. but liked to
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Rehearses Before Mirror

Gertrude Michael, currently play
ing opposite Herbert Marshall in
Forgotten Faces" always stands in
front of a mirror when she re-
hearseS her lines. She finds this an
important aid in setting" a char
acter.
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Coast Guard Song in Film

The first screen appearance of
"Semper Paratus," official song of
the United States Coast Guard, is
in Border Flight" adventure story
of the Coast Guard air service. with
John Howard and Frances Farmer.
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Comedy to Be
Players Next
Behold This Dreamer to
Open at Keith's Monday.

Behold This Dreamer" is to be
the Federal Players next Offering,
beginning Moday night at Keith's.
written by Fulton Oursler and Au-
brey Kennedy, the comedy originally
was produced in New York with
Glenn Hunter and Sylvia Field in
leading roles.
Behold This Dreamer" concerns
SNUG, misunderstanding, colorless
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-02
Film, ! Married a
Doctor,' Unites Josephine
Hutchinson, Pat O'Brien
Reviewer Pleased With Screen Version of Main Street,
Notes Slight Use of Material From Sinclair
Lewis Novel OF Which Story Is Based


adaptation the best seller Il Married Doctor at the Apollo
but writer substituted which Pat OBen
leading
iSfvi
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Ellington S Band Entertains
Lyric Patrons With Latest
Brand Of Torrid Hi-de-ho
Best Offering Is Dukes Composition Solitude With Ivy
Anderson Vocaizng; Negro Vaudeville Artists
Aid Bill; Movie Is The Country Beyond

Displaying their newest brand of hi-deho Duke Engons band
debona Duke directing cutting the Lyric stage
n
popularity from
playing
listening orchestra capable good popular music
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Life Story Of Rhodes Provides
Circles Feature Picture Theme
Walter Huston's Interpretation of Leading Role Wins
Praise; Plot Concerns Conquest of Africa.

The monumental character
light the Dark Continent than other
motion
ing the leading role
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-03
IS REFUGE
OF INTRUDER

Police today believed they had
put an end to the recent activities
of a match thief" with the ar
rest last night of a 17-year-old
colored intruder who took refuge
under a bed.
Answering a housebreaking call,
Detective Sergts. Frank Brass,
Paul Ambrose and j. K. Baker,
went to the apartment of Miss
Charlotte Corbin at 149 w st. N.
w. There they found a youth
under a bed who gave his name
as Hamilton Nee, II. of the 1900
block of Corcoran st. N. w.
Police say the youth admitted
three robberieS and several at
tempted robberies. In his pockets
police found about half a box
of kitchen matches and a paper
of safety matches, they said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-11-03
DEATH CHEATS
IN ELECTION

CHEVY CHASE. Md, Nov. 8.
Death stole a Democratic vote
from the oldest voter in this town
today.
The voter, James E. Taylor, 80,
cast his first ballot in 1876 for
Samuel Tilden and ever since then
has taken pride in supporting the
Democratic ticket. Last night, Tay-
lor succeeded in convincing his
stepson, Charles Denett ClugSton,
81. that Roosevelt was the better
man.
III for the past five months, Mr..
Clugston was unable to join Tay-
lor when he took his place in line
at the voting booth at the fire de-
partment. When Taylor called at
the Clugston home later, he found
Clugston's illness had been fatal
Mr.. Clugston, an official of the
Hudson Supply & Equipment Com
pany. of Washington, was a native
of Sturgis, Mich. He is survived
by his wife, Mrs. Alice M. Clug-
ston, and one daughter, Carolyn.
10.
The funeral will be held from
the Hysong parlors, Washington.
Wednesday, at 2 p. M, and burial
will be at Fort Edwards, New
York, Friday.
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Peace Prospects
Brighten on Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 GIN.
S.).-The most promising develop
ment for peace in the West Coast
waterfront strike of $1,000 men
occurred here today when steam
schooner operators began polling
their full association membership
on whether negotiations should be
resumed with the masters, mates
and pilots union.
Edward F. McGrady, assistant
Secretary of Labor, who has been
striving toward this end since mid.
night last Thursday. when the
general walkout of maritime work
erS in Pacific ports was called, con-
sidered the development highly
significant.
Steam schooner operators had
reached tentative agreements with
six Of the seven West Coast mari
time unions before the strike was
ordered. The Masters, Mates and
Pilots Union was the lone dissent
ing group, demanding a $5-per-
month wage increase.
Because the seven unions, In
Guiding Seamen, Longshoremen,
Engineers, Watertenders, Oilers,
Cooks and Stewards are pledged
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Continued from Page ~

(NOuOluuCu 0&O
to protect working seamen. Grange
added.
The strike strategy committee
retaliated by Tightening the screws
on the tie-up. Sailors on West
Coast ships now on the East Coast
were ordered to join the sit down"
at once, instead of returning to the
Pacific Coast. East Coast ship
workers on the Pacific were in
structed to join picket lines there.
r. j. Baker, president Of the
American Steamship Owners AS
ISOLATION, issued a Statment say
ing the collective agreement of
1884 recognizing the I. S. U. as the
seamen'S collective bargaining
agency and providing for the eight
hour day and wage increases, was
still in effect, with notifications
negotiated last March.
100000 Fares Returned
Thirty-two ships, according to
union officials, are tied up in the
port of New York, with 5000 men
idle.
Sailing Of the Panama-Pacific
liner Virginia for San Francisco
was cancelled, and 100000 in fares
returned to $40 passengers. Forty
thousand dollars were returned to
315 passengers of the United
States transatlantic liner Man
haitian.
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Colby Closes Drive
OF 'Jeffersonians

NEW YORK, Nov. 3 G.N.SO
The campaign of the National JEFF
fersonian Democrats against the
reelection of President Roosevelt
was wound up early today by for
mer Secretary of State cambridge
Colby in a radio speech which fol
lowed that of the President. Colby
said:
at looks as If the President
had caught some of the reaction
to his speech of last Saturday.
He seems to have recovered
from his fury"
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Strike Violence
Flares in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 3 IN.S).
A brief furry of violence broke
out here today on the waterfront
when striking seamen stoned a
truck belonging to a shipping com
pany. Police were called to the
scene and quickly quelled the dis
turbance. One man was arrested.
Only a few seamen are partici-
pating in the strike here. What is
known as the old I. L. A. has recog-
nized the strike but the new or
regular I. L. A. has not Joined it.
The old I. L. A. charter was re-
voked some time ago by the head
quarters of the international Long
Shoremen'S Association.
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WHITE GUNS
SHELL MADRID
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CONTINUED from Page IL
Gus army just beyond the villages
of Pinto and Fuenlabrada, dropped
high explosives within the Madrid
suburbs and thereby reminded its
citizens that the end of the red
resistance is at hand.
At the same time. squadronS Of
white airplanes dropped over a
million tiny handbills notifying
the population further fighting is
useless. They read:
This is the beginning Of the
last weeks of red rule. You had
better understand that sur
render will bring peace"
At the same time, ferocious
aerial warfare continued and be-
came steadily worse as Madrid's
Russian planes came into play.
One of them came to Talavera.
was attacked by two white fighters
and down in flames. It's two
pilots attempted to save them
selves by bailing out, but their
parachutes failed and they
crashed.
Further mass bombing by Ma
drid's planes was expected hourly
in principal cities in white terri
tory.
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MINUS CROWN,
KING OPENS
PARLIAMENT
Monarch Also Rides to
House of Lords In
Modern Auto
By CHARLES A. SMITH

LONDON, Nov. 3 ON.S0.-Set-
ting forth an extensive program
of domestic legislation and Euro
pean "appeasement," King Ed
ward VIII today opened in state
the first Parliament Of his reign
with the announcement that he
will visit India after his corona
ton in May.
A slight figure without the
usual crown, the King sat on a
solitary throne in the House of
Lords and read one of the longest
regal speeches in years to bril-
liant aSsemblage of peers and
commons.
He also announced that an i'm.
portant empire conference, SINH
lar to the Ottawa meeting sew.
eral years ago, would be held in
May. He said:
"The foreign policy of my
government will continue to be
based on membership in The
League of Nations. My govern
ment will continue to do all in
its power to further the ap-
basement of Europe"
Reaffirming Britain's determir-
alton to support nonintervention
in Spain, he added:
my ministers will continue to
take every opportunity to nit
igate human suffering and loss
of life in that unhappy country"
The glittering scene in the
House of Lords contrasted with
the disappointing rainfall that re-
suited in cancellation of the State
drive from Buckingham Palace.
Thousands had lined the streets
for a glimpse of the King in his
ancient coach, but the gloomy
downpour forced him to go by
motor car.
Wearing a naval uniform and
blue cloak, Edward drove past
Marlborough House, waving at
Queen Mary, who stood at q
window.