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The Washington times., 1936-05-06
Play
Here Sunday

The seat sale for Alex Yokel's
popular American comedy, Three
Men on Horse" by John Cecil
Holm and George Abbott, will open
at the National Theater Thursday.
The engagement at this theater
begins Sunday night bringing the
cast and production that for nine
solid months set new records at
the Harris Theater, Chicago.
The local premiere Of Three
Men on a Horse" is another mile
stone in the history Of a stage
production that is fast becoming
a national institution. At this mo-
ment it is a current hit in both
New York and Philadelphia, Holly
wood, New England and Buffalo,
and with the event of its opening
here, it will be presented Simultane-
ouSly in five cities in America;
by a sixth company in England
and a seventh in Australia.
Three Men on a Horse" Is the
story of Erwin Trowbridge who
writes greeting card verses and
who is practically kidnapped by
gangsters who see a gold mine in
his hobby of being able to dope
winners in the race tracks. A
chance encounter in bar opens
visions of quick wealth for the
impecunious toughs. Their efforts
to exploit the poets handicapping
talents, lead to embarrassing COM
plications, for the writer who
never bets; and who has business
and domestic responsibilities not
easy to escape.
The cast includes Jack Sheehan,
Ruth Lee, Matt Briggs, Harry
Davenport, Owen Martin, Mary
Loane, Grandon Rhodes, William
Foran, Saul z. Martell, Eleanor
Audley, Harold Grau, ChandoS
Sweet, Leigh Whipper and others.
George Abbott coauthored the
play and is responsible for the
stage direction. Matinees are
scheduled for Wednesday and Fri
day.
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Redskins Supply
Necessary Realism

Lloyd Corrigan, director. de-
manded and insisted upon having
a thoroughly blood-curdling In
dian war-whoop for Pioneer Pic
lures new Technicolor feature,
Dancing Pirate"
So the casting office supplied
him an assortment Of Redskins,
including Pueblos, Hopis, Apaches,
Cherokees, Blackfeet, Sioux and
Iroquois, to work in a scene with
Charles Collins and Steffi Duna.
Corrigan waxed enthusiastic
over the rehearSalS. But on the
final take" when urged to be
realistic, the Indians yelled so
loud that they shattered the
delicate sound recording appara-
tuS!
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shall, a newcomer to the group,
will be seen as Richard Talbot,
Esq, fiance of Rachael.
The full complement Of players
has been selected and the Strenu-
Gus rehearSalS are progressing un.
der the capable direction of Ina
L. Halves.
Additions recently to the cast
are Dan Boddie, earlier slated for
a spot in Meet the Wife," but
who postponed his debut until
this time; Arthur Morley. remem-
bered for his work as the second
husband in the Lynn Startling
opus; Carl Pribek, who has had
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lights in that particular box, the
rest of the house being in total
darkness.
This strategy was too much.
The party slowly filed from the
box and the house, and probably
received its money back. 1 don't
know about that, neither do 1
know what the young wife told
the girl, NazimOva, about the
facts of life. I've always been
curious about that.
Florence YOder, sister Of J.
Paul YOder and now widow Of
Leigh Wilson, once managing
editor of The Times, was dra-
matte editor at the time. / re-
lated the story to her and a
couple of paragraphs appeared
Exclusively in our news col
umnS next day, but it could
not have conveyed the real dra-
matte effect Of the incident on
the audience that night.
If StOddard Taylor sees this
he will undoubtedly recall it as
one of his most troubled mo-
mentS in his long theatrical
career, and If ALA NazimOva
sees it she will remember it as
perhaps one Of the most annoy
ing audience-interruptiOns she
ever had. But she did look
appealing in that tattered bath
ing suit she wore in the first
act, arms and legs glistening
with oil to give the water-effect.
But 1 still wonder what the
young wife told NaZimOva. Re-
member, that was q most daring
passage back in 1915 or II,
when biological discussions just
weren't being done!
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RATED THE BEST
There will be, I think, but
minor disagreement over the &C
tors and actresses that the
STAGE chooses for the golden
crowns. Only the relative stand
ing may inspire debate.
Katharine Cornell is nominated
for the highest honors. Both for
her "Juliet" and her perform
ance as George Bernard Shaw's
saint JOAN"
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon-
tame are jointly decorated for
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stellar performances in the
Guilds idiots Delight"
Helen Hayes for her Queen Vic
toria.
in Ghosts" Currently at the Ma
tional Theater.
Pauline Lord, Ruth Gordon
and Raymond Massey as the
tragic New Englanders Of Owen
Davis "Ethan Frome."
It strikes your daily commenta.
tor that washington has been
singularly fortunate in having
witnessed both the Pulitzer prize
play and the Critics coronation
drama before they were singled
out for national distinction.
Fortunate, too, in having seen
most Of the gilt-edged perform
ances crowned with laurels by
the stage except the Cornell
"Joan" and tA9As in ETHAN
Frome." This latter play is
scheduled to open the 1936-37
season at the National in mid
September.
If one on the washington side
lines may be permitted to add to
the stage list, 7 would respect
fully include the following in an
amendment:
Burgess Meredith, for his per-
formance. as Mic in "WinterSet."
Elizabeth Allan, as the lovely
star of pride and Prejudice"
Jeanne Dante, the Spellbinding
little ingenue of "Call 1t Day."
who slipped through with eight
performances in Washington, al
though she was only 13.
Guthrie McClintic, who directed
both the Cornell "Romeo and
Juliet" and saint JOAN" "Par-
nell" and ETHAN Frome," is nomi-
mated by Stage as the best di-
) rector. and who will challenge this
selection?
Joe Mielziner, the stage de-
signer responsible for the set
tings of 10 Broadway plays, is ac-
. claimed as the greatest in the
field Of decor.
RANG DOWN CURTAIN
Bad manners in the theater
have become a problem in New
York, and recurring incidents of
thoughtleSsneSs and plain rude
ness on the part Of those who
should know better have set some
Of the critics to offering lessons
in Chesterfieldian conduct at the
+. play.
Thank heaven we have no such
acute problem here. But there
have been occasions in the past
when audience department called
for drastic measures. 1t is one of
; these memorable nights, with
NaZimova as the heroine of the
revolt, which Archie Onyun re-
calls in the following first-hand
account from his memory ar
ChiveS:
Dear Andrew:
The return of Ala NaZimOva
to Washington this week recalls
one Of the most dramatic scenes
] have ever witnessed in the
theater, not called for by the
script.
1t was back in 1916 or II at
the BelascO. 1t was in the
middle Of the week and 1 was
probably the only newspaper
man present. The production
was "CeptiOn Shoals" and its
scene was laid on a small rock
bound island off the coast of
California far from any settle
mentS, and bare Of almost every.
thing except the lighthouse
guarding the shoals.
There lived the eccentric
lighthouse keeper with a grand.
daughter whom he guarded jeal-
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BEST PERFORMANCES
Nozimovo in Coveted Circle
. For BriIIionce Of Acting in,
Ibsen's Ghosts
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

Since for box office and annual award the 1885
season the legitimate theaer has reached the closing chapter
interesting check the best performances nominated
in the May issue of STAGE magazine.
Controversies will whether the Pulitzer prize for
Robert E. Sherwoods Idiots Delight the Critics Circle
gold medal Maxwell Andersons "Winterse the best
play represent conflicting schools of thought or merely the
expression of professional pique jealousy.
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Broadway Hit to Be
HOLLYWOOD Picture

"B e hold the Bridegroom"
George Kelly's play which had an
unusually successful run on Broad
way a few years ago, has been
purchased as a co-Starring vehicle
for Herbert Marshall and Bar
bara Stanwyck. Gertrude Purcell
has been assigned to write the
screen version,
The Washington times., 1936-05-06
By LLOYD PANTAGES

HOLLYWOOD, May 6.-Here,
there, and in your hair. The deal
that Clifton Webb is ironing out
with a studio is at Paramount.
He may star there on long-term
contract and, if he does, his first
epic is very apt to be Idiots De
light" the current Lunt-Fontaine
New York stage success.
It is sad to report that W. C.
Fields has had a relapse and is
very much on the sick list again.
Let us hope that rest and quiet
will assure his returning to the
screen.
The return Eleanor Powell pic
ture to M.-G.-M. will be a Cole Por-
ter ditty based on the Sea-or the
Navy, as it were. AS a matter of
fact, in one of the sequences
Frances Langford drops her pc.
kingese overheard and three sailors
reStrieve it for her Hear tell
that Sally Rand (minus her FAM
will return to C. DeMille cher
original discoverer) to play Ca
lamity Jane" in This Breed of
Men,"
At Paramount. Norman Taylor
(who is doing extra work in Three
Cheers for Love" and mighty glad
to get it) happens to be the same
Norman Taylor of the team of
Taylor and Howard (vaudevil-
lians) who took the first sound
test for films. It was in 1913 and
for Thomas A. Edison.
Since the illness of W. c. Fields
has been so widely publicized his
fan mail has doubled. Fans write
in offering suggestions. condo
lenceS, ETC., which just goes to
prove you never know what peo-
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Repeats

Jean Arthur, playing opposite
William Powell in "The Ex-MrS.
Bradford" was with the star in
two previous film mysteries.
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to be careful to bear in mind
that the name refers not to the
atmosphere at all.
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flows as smoothly as does the well
washed 4ir through which it moves.
To hum a hymn of praise to Man
ager Richard S. Butler who con-
ceived ali b. himself the idea of
the rainbow room. To sip a tall
Tom Collins and laugh-forgetful
that you mus. again go forth and
squirm and mop your brow.
y 4
And speaking of browS, let's con-
slider for a trice their relative alti-
tudeS. It's easy to think along
those lines if you watched Ferdi-
nand Pecore and William Green,
at separate dinner parties at the
Shoreham Terrace this week. If
you noticed Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E.
Cammack celebrating their return
from a trip on the Queen Mary at
the same place. If you diScerned
George Marshall and the new Mrs.
Marshall, the former Corinne
Griffith, dining there with Post
master. General Farley, who, &C
cording to political observers, will
have something to do with the
forthcoming political campaign.
BroWs, did you say?
Or mayhaps you spent your eve
ming at Cocoanut Grove. If so, no
doubt intrudes itself into our con-
seriousness to make us think you
have not met the still charming
Mary Nolan, who between perform
anCeS exchanges words with guests
who knew her only as a graceful
shadow on a silver screen, with
guests who knew her then and
recall her now without mis-
giVingS.
Great stuff, Mary.
Or perhaps you puzzle as we
did over the sum of money ex-
pended by the River Bend man
agement for those honey red
candles which flicker on the tables
at that place. One hundred and
ninety dollars were burned up in
that first three month of 1886.
Each taper lasts an evening at a
table and each is 10 inches long
and weighs a trifle over three
ounces. Each taper lasts an eve
ning-harring mishaps. They have
been broken, eaten and mysterious
ly abducted by River Bend enthu-
siasts, but they have also been
watched and commented on.
They'll flicker for you almost any
way you think they ought to.
They've been worth $3.50 to River
Bend. and more.
And at the Lotus, Bill Strick-
land holds forth. In a setting
akin to the North. Where the
sleek polar bears play alone or in
pairs and if you think this is 60
ing to wind up being limerick
you most certainly have no idea of
how highly we value this depart
ment's time.
Go ahead, think Of a last line.
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Ethiopian TripIets
Stop Show, Garry
Off First Pup Prize

NEW YORK, July 11.-Of
course the Ethiopian triplets won.
When they trundled grandly up
before the judges in their chariot
"a wobbly green wicker doll
buggy-poked their sooty black
noses over the side, rolled bleary
blue eyes and Wiped feebly they
stopped the show. So they placed
first yesterday in the annual pet
competition on the roof of the
Educational Alliance.
The triplets would have had a
keener contest if the afternoon
had been cooler. AS it was, Goofus
the giraffe couldn't stand up in
the elevator and the usual hordes
of white mice, tame cockroaches
and such we're radically reduced.
Even so, the tripletS would have
won paws down, it was argued.
They are fat black puppies only a
couple of weeks old, of mixed fox
terrier and chow ancestry, as fat
as butter. as black as ink, and as
identical as the Dionne quin-
tuplets. They were displayed by
their owner, Mildred Brody, whose
turkey red shorts matched the car
riage robe against which the
triplets Struggled.
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beneath our table at Milton Bar
rett'S Dude Ranch, out on the
Baltimore Pike, than any profess
Sional stick-Shaker can shake
stick at.
We are wondering again. This
time, it's if Emory Daugherty is
having as swell. q time IN New
England as are the patrons who
are applauding his successor, AL
Sakol, as maestro at La Paree.
We enjoy thinking so, but we can't
help wondering.
We dote, too, on Dick Davis,
who directs the "MelodiouS Six"
at Boulevard Farms on the Mt.
Vernon Memorial Highway. We
dote on him because we dote at
first he would succeed and now
we know he did. And we dote
often dote, either, darling.
** +
We've just this moment de-
cided that the name, "Hi-Hat"
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By FRANCOIS

Yes, sun, you've done a nice
days work
You are the same sun which
yesterday sent a sluggish stream
Of mercury oozing to within an
ace of an all-time high; you are
the same sun which the day before
blstered a Nations Capital and
parched each person there; you
are the same sun which beat
pitilesSly for hours on end on the
heads of people you knew would
fall in farmland still you shine.
Remembering, no doubt, that
you were the same sun which
one day last winter warmed a
shivering human frame and moved
the soul within to audible gaSpS
of thankfulness.
Yes, sun, we've no justified COM
plant.
Nor have the patrons who each
night wander liStlessly from be-
meath your fiendish careSSeS into
the cool confines Of the Hamil-
ton Hotels Rainbow Room to seek
relief and find it. To seek repSite
from heat and glare of day and
revel in Me Baer'S music which
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NEW YORK, July II Q.N.S0.
When Charlotte Lamberton came
here from Hollywood six months
ago to dance at a night club her
talk was clearly ineligible only
to her mother, Mrs. Frank Lamber-
ton, wife of a Los Angeles oil man.
Charlotte was born a deaf mute,
but that did not discourage her
mother. When the child was only
eight months old, Mrs. Lamberton
began attempts to teach her to
speak by a peculiar vibrational
method she devised herself.
Through the years the girl
picked up about 200 words, but
her voice was dull and flat and
her enunciation so poor a
stranger could not understand
her.
All this time she was learning
to dance, and she became so ex-
pert an offer came from New
York.
Here she was taken to DR..
George r. Crozier for treatment
for a spinal ailment. Becoming
interested in her voice, he found
the muscles of the girls mouth
and tongue, though inactive,
we're capable of treatment, and
he kept at work until the vocal
chords were practically remade.
Now she speaks distinctly and
naturally.
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'PEoyboy' Paul MCGEE Set For
Summer Stoy At Chevy
Chase Lake

lif you want to, but remember
there's no prize involved.
At one time or another we have
seen Belle Baker seated atop a
piano. We can't remember where
it was nor who was playing the
piano, but that makes no differ
ence now, because Belle Baker
may be seen all over again at the
S. S. Sho' Boat over in Carlin's
Park in Baltimore.
She may not be seated atop q
piano when you arrive but that will
probably be because q guard has
been posted.
Atop piano or no, Belle Baker
will perform to Joe HaSsan's music
and thereu be others there.
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No one will be atop the piano
at Griffith Farms, where no one
is allowed atop the piano-Where
no one feels the ilightest bit in
clined to climb aboard a piano
where patrons are won't to gorge
themselves with some of the fin
est sea food hereabouts and &C.
company some with drinks, espe-
cially designed to thwart piano
climbing instincts.
And just to give our hero-wor.
shipping public a chance at us,
we are taking time out to an.
nounce that we will be at the
Maryland Club Gardens this eve
ming with all kinds of bells on
everyone Of them ringing.
We've secuted around quite a
bit in preparation for this APP
pearance and have shopped wise
ly and we'll. The bells in which
we will appear will be of the fin
est clarity obtainable and we
only regret we are not permitted
to mention the name of the shop
in which we finally found them.
Come on out and listen.
It has been quite some time
since we last ran into Playboy
Paul MCGEE in making our rounds
of the evening places and ru-
NOR hath it that Paul has holed
in for the summer at Chevy
Chase Lake, at which place, how.
ever, we have been unable to
locate him.
We have inquired as to the
regularity with which tables are
moved at Chevy Chase, thinking
perhaps that Paul became inert
of an evening and retired unno-
ticed by the crowds who sat en-
tranced and danced to Lee
Fields music. We are advised,
though that it cannot be and
we are at wits end. Wits end,
we don't know. Some fun, Ell,
kid?
And that gang of deliciously de-
mented Russians which threw
open the Club Del Rio q week or
so ago is still providing, under the
0elirious direction of Ivan Bori-
soft enough Russian entertain
ment in the chauve souriS manner
to warrant driving to within two
or three miles of Annapolis at
which approximate location these
amazing royaliSts hold forth.
X 4
We wonder if anyone else has
noticed how much like croquet
hoops the doodadS which skirt
Matt Windsor's Russian Roof
Garden look from the forward
deck of a trolley car as she comes
around the circle. We also wonder
if anyone else likes to ride right
up beside the motorman.
More promises to "be in early
tonight" have been tossed into
the air and landed with derisive
crash at our impatient feet as
those feet refused to remain still
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FRENCH FARM
STRIKE FEARED
Continued from Page ~

Continued from Page II
cerns-to close owing to lack Of
power. This, in turn, would throw
thousands of workers into the
streets.
Newspapers Shut
No newspapers were published
today at Angouleme, where 600
striking printers occupied compos-
ing rooms. News vendors at Havre
refused to sell newspapers.
In defiance of Salengro's edicts
that further occupation strikes
would be broken, if necessary. by
force, strikes continued to spread
in various parts of the province.
But the st. Etienne situation was
considered the most dangerous.
That the French army is
honeycombed by a Communist
campaign, was charged by the
newspaper LIE Temps today in an
attack against a regime of ter
ror, hatred, jealousy and suspi-
cion" which it accused Reds of
establishing with the aim of OBJ
tanning control of the armed
forces.
Petain Suspect of Reds
The paper said the first MIR
pose of the Communists is to
destroy the influence of French
military chiefs, adding that Mar
shall Petain, army chief of staff,
has the honor of appearing on
a list of suspects" which, the
paper claimed, has been drawn
up by the Reds. LIE Temps said:
"The general staffs of the
army, air force and navy are
also included"
The purpose of the Reds, the
paper said, is to break down
every form of defense in France
in preparation for a Communist
coup d'etat.
Revolution Horror Cited
Their system Of working is to
turn the soldiers against their
chiefs by introducing Communist
cells in the armed forces and by
resorting to the lowest forms of
police methods" said the paper.
1t accused the Reds of trying
to precipitate a period like the
worst portion of the French reVo'
luton, and added:
Before it is too late, it is in
diSpenSable to draw attention of
public opinion and the govern
ment to the Communist cam
paign methOdically and auda-
CiOuSly led against cohesion of
our national army"
All forms of French police are
already affected by the Red drive
according to LIE Temps.
Sequel to Deputy Vote
The attack on Communism
was published after the Cham.
Der of Deputies, by giving a vote
of confidence to Socialist Pre-
mier Leon Blum's popular 'front.'
government, sanctioned surrender
of French military secrets to So,
Wet Russia.
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doesn't particularly suit the Am
bassador Hotels cosy lounge in
that we know of no other place
in town where the evening out
put of camaraderie and good
neighborly fun is as plentiful.
And from now on we are going
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But we don't suppose another
soul in Washington even sus-
pected that it did.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-05

Despondent because of the con- dition of his business, Maurice s. Wiliner, about 10, took his own life and that of his 5-months-old son, Joel, early this morning in the garage of his home at 653 Willow street while his wife and two other children narrowly escaped death from carbon monoxide fumes of the car in which Willner sat. The garage is of the basement type, adjoining the house.
 Waking about 1:30 o'clock this morning to find the house filled with gas fumes from the running motor of the car, Mrs. Willner, herself nearly overcome, managed to get Lne other children. Barbara, 2, and Allen 8, safely out of the house.
 Business Reverse
 She told Dr. Harold F. Merrill, assistant medical examiner, that Willner, operator of a pin machine business among drug stores and smoke shops, had suffered losses recently. She said the whole fam fly had retired for the night about 10 o'clock.
 Immediately after awakening she ran down to the garage and pulled her husband out of the car and into the fresh air, but he was be- ycnd aid, as was the baby, lying in the front seat of the car wrapped in a baby blanket.
 Hurrying to the home of Fred erick M. Barrie, of 2 Hecla street, in the rear of her own home, Mrs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-05
Father, Son Victims
 Of Monoxide Fumes
Wife, Two Children Escape Death = Authorities Re-
 port WiIIner's Demise Suicide Over Business

Willner broke windows to arouse the family. Mir. Barrie went with her to carry the two children from the house. Mrs. Willner and the chil- dren were taken to the Barrie home by motor patrolmen, summoned by neighbors. Patrolmen John Murphy Vincent Begg, John Meaney and Thomas Bedding were sent out in answer to the call, with Captain Frank R. Cutting and Patrol Driv- CT John Moynihan arriving shortly afterwards.
 Suffers From Shock
 Both the oldest boy and Mrs Willner were cared for at the Bar rie home, Mrs. Willner suffering from shock and the boy weak from the inhalation of gas fumes.
 The family had moved to the neighborhood less than year ago from A Clinton street.
 Survivors
 Besides his wife and children, Mi Willner is survived by four broth CTS, Israel, Herbert and Nathan of Brooklyn, N. r., and George of New York city; and four sisters, Mrs. H Kisha, of Hackensack, N. J., Mrs. L. Kolsan and Mrs. J. Dolgavin of Brooklyn, N. r., and Mrs. Wilfred Greenblatt of this city. Funeral ser vices were held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the funeral home of Arthur J. Lunny, 25 Central ave- hue, Rabbi Moses D. Sheinkopf off, ficiating. Burial was in Waterbury Hebrew Association cemetery.