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Evening star., 1936-10-07
PIERCE PLAYERS SEEN
IN "ALIAS THE DEACON"
Accomplished New Company Car
ries Mounting Standard of Unit
Into New Season.

Accomplished A New Company Car
ries Mounting Standard of Unit
Into New Season.
A LAS THE DEACON" comedy
drama by John B. Hymer and
Leroy Clemens. occupying the initial
spot on the production schedule Of the
Pierce Hall Players, has been intrusted
to q new but accomplished company
which carries the mounting standard
of the group into another season and
raises hopes for things to come"
Faces new to the Harvard street corner
take this story Of the affable card
shark in cleric's guise and make 1t the
entertaining evening that the piece
itself portends.
Charles c. Barry Is the deacon-the
suaveiy predatory man Of the cloth
who comes to small Kansas town
for his health, financial rather than
physical, and remains to utilize his
artistry In bringing happiness to the
boy and girl In love who met him and
each other first in refrigerator car
some time before; succeeds. too, in
removing the boy from suspicion Of
robbery. Barry endows his character.
ization with the utmost In authenticity.
A fine performance. marred only by an
undisguised call OF 'Line!"
Arthur M. Sammeth. in the role Of
one Mr. Bull Moran, pugilist, and
r. Truitt Miller, as his manager and
the ultimately exposed crook. turn In
two superb efforts. to which any in the
audience familiar with such gentry
viii attest. Sammeth's stimulation Of
inebriation prompted applause that
was fully deserved.
Rogers Albritton displays fine stage
presence and accomplished reading for
his years In playing the son of the
hotel keeper, with the mother ably
done by Devee K. Fisher. The garage
helper who fights for love is not paid
of and goes to work on the promoter,
sees Charles Stofberg acquitting him
self in fine fashion. while Stanley
Rider, well cast as the business man,
finds the task to his liking and per-
formed 1t we'll. Other worthy efforts
are those of Harry Bozof. Peggy Bell
Cthe girl in the case), Bernice Kay
and Carol Hogan.
Atlas the Deacon" will be repeated
this evening In Pierce Hall. Curtain
at $50. . &C. A. M.
Evening star., 1936-10-07

unless he marries Loretta Young soon,
he will be a qualified inmate OF a
lunatic asylum Ronald Colman
injured his right elbow when he
slipped the other day and will not
compete in the mems doubles tourna-
ment at the West Side Tennis Club.
Mrs. George kaufman lost Is pounds
worrying over the publicity given her
mate with the publication of tidbits
from Mary Astor's diary . When
Simone Simon was hailed the other
evening at the Trocadero by the see
narist Of one Of her scripts, she turned
to her companion, lisped. do have
to talk to writers outside the studio?"
and swept past the astonished scribe.
Mae West is working on q story
idea with the title Home Work"
She is also said to be working on
sertion Of Frank Wallace that he Is
her husband. Strange how Mr.. WAL
lace always pops into publicity when
West picture is scheduled for re-
lease-in this instance Go West.
Young Man" The Earl Of
Warwick, expected shortly in Holly
wood for picture making with M-G-M.
is planning a divorce from his wife.
Incidentally, directly word reached
Lady Rose that her noble husband
was actually on his way to the fllm
city she packed her bags and depart
ed for England via New York When
the divorce Is q fait accompli she will
marry Bill Fiske. wealthy American
play boy.
According to J. P. Morgan. per-
son can afford yacht only when he
doesn't have to worry whether he
Evening star., 1936-10-07

OF a decadent matinee idol, the scene
between Karen Morley and Edmund
Lowe in the latter's office, Billie
Burke's endless and aimless futter-
ing, any and all scenes in which Jean
Harlow appears (this was the best
performance of that lady's career.
and she should do 1t over and over
again in preference to some of her
later chores. the moments when
Marie Dressler is on stage. that won-
derful exit of Lionel Barrymore's
when he says you're not fooling
me" to the doctor who has been try
ing to conceal from him the fact
that he is a dying man.
Cynical, shrewd, clever a Ia the
Kaufman style, sentimental in a nice
way. Dinner at Eight" is still re-
quired reading Frankly. I thought
it better the second time than the
first. r. B. p. Jr.
Evening star., 1936-10-07

can afford 1t or not. So the follow
ing movie folk yacht owners must
be in the million-dollar class: Warren
William-Pegasus is the title of his
ocean plaything; Allan Jones, whose
yacht is named Arlene, a combina-
ton Of Allan and Irene; Lewis Stone 3
Serena; Johnny Weismuller's The
Santa Guadalupe; Lee Tracy's
Adoree, complete with radio and tele.
phone; Preston Fosters Zoa III, the
fastest on the coast: Buck Jones'
Sataris; Cecil B De Miles Seaword,
one Of the most luxurious on the Pa
ciflc; Ann Dvorak and husband Les
lie Fenton. who can sleep six on their
sailboat; John Barrymore's The In
fanta, and the contraption belonging
to w. c. Fields. called a yacht, but
which follows the form OF q rowboat,
William Powell is probably the most
delicate of all masculine film stars,
and has been on the sick list several
times within the last few months. An
eye infection is the latest malady to
confine him to his home Esther
Ralston and Tom Moore. old time
stars, are playing small parts in Twen-
tieth Century-Fox's Reunion"
Miriam Hopkins is bringing back from
England a Bedlington terrier and q
Persian cat named "Goody Goody."
Eddie Lowe and his wife again re-
ported near the parting of the marital
ways Carole Lombard and Clark
Gable are reconciled for publicity pur-
poses only {. Dixie Dunbar Is called
"Beetle-Puss" by Ned Sparks 80.
Dorothy Parker was asked for her
opinion on a recently previewed pic
ture. Its saga by a guy who
wrote an epic" she replied.
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Newspaper Alliance incJ
Evening star., 1936-10-07

Schenck . Kay
Francis and Enrol
Flynn narrowly
escaped injury on
| oca tton with
Another Dawn"
when . heav y
prop palm tree
fell b e t W e e n
them.
Evening star., 1936-10-07

NAV have erred here and there and
taken the wrong man to Glen Echo
Park, have nevertheless at most times
souared themselves in the end. Few
leading ladies in days gone by would
have dared to be left in the lurch. If
Valentino had said "fiddlesticks" to
Nita Naldi way back in another era,
the theater would probably have been
torn down. And as for Mary Pick
ford. If she had played Dodsworth's
wife, the entire population would un-
doubtedly have risen up and Drained
him.
Nevertheless, two of the best films
that have come out in some time
leave their women in pickle. Mrs.
Craig not only loses her husband but
her maids, nieces and best china vases
walk out. And Mrs. Dodsworth, as
YOU remember from the play, is left
uuite alone in the veranda cafe OF
a steamer while her husband trots
back to his ideal woman, and the
man she has been about to marry, and
who is a good deal younger than sne
is, suddenly recalls that she is
grandmother.
The topic of the moment, there
fore, concerns Rosalinde Russell-she
plays Craigs wife-and Ruth Chat
terton, who plays the Lady Dodsworth
Both of them have surpassed them
selves in any work they may have
done on the screen: And both OF
La q
assignments.
NX1E SAW Miss Russell while she
' was playing Mrs. Craig. She was
frankly in stew nice stew-but
still in q stew. Between scenes she
heath her brow and vowed that after
such a role she would have no more
public" Which, fortunately, is not
the case. For after you have seen the
film you will unquestionably have the
greatest admiration for Miss Russell's
clear and forceful conception Of the
part.
1t took a long while. too, for Mr.
Goldwyn to persuade Ruth Chatter
ton that Mrs. Dodsworth wouldn't
wreck her career. Wreck it! II
should certainly make 1t. For the
role, treacherous as it is, has been
built along the lines that Fay Balm
ter first drew, and it is long, bitter,
dificult role which Miss Chatterton
has studied to great advantage and
which she plays with an amazing un-
derstanding of the ambitious OLD
frau from Zenith who refuses to
grow old.
Both OF these films we urge you
30 see. Hustons Dodsworth is one
of the best things things Of his
Evening star., 1936-10-07

Alice Faye's
hair has right
about turn e d
from red to blond
.. Eddie Suth-
erland Is telling
intimafes th at
Evening star., 1936-10-07
GUILD LISTS OPEN

subscriptions Received Today for
Remaining Plays.
THE Theater Guild and American
Theater Society with $500 sub
scribers for the 1867 season at the
National Theater, will start today to
receive subscriptions for the five re-
manning plays of the present season.
The remainder of the Theater
Guild-A. T. S. season will present
End of Summer" with Ina Claire
and Osgood Perkins: Jane Eyre" !"
with Katharine Hepburn: THE Chill
dren's Hour" Lady Precious Stream"
and one more play, to be announced
in the near future.
1t is expected that the third play
in the series will be given next month
and the others In December and
January.
Evening star., 1936-10-07

O'Bryan Snlrley Temple Is emu
lating the former Prince Of Wales by
falling of each time she mounts the
Shetland pony given her by Joseph
Evening star., 1936-10-07
GREET SCHOOL CREATED

ONE Of the last requests of Sir
Philip Ben Greet was for the es-
tablishment of a school of classic
drama in his favorite city, Washing
ton, and the establishment by his
nephew. Maurice Greet, of the Great
Academy of Dramatic Art, in the
La Sale Building, is the fulflllment
of that wish.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
Merle OberOn Goes Abroad
But Picture Holds Niven
Shirley Temple Unable to Stay on Her Gift
Horse Mae West Plots New
Film, "Home Work"
by SHEILAH GRAHAM.

r NANA)-Mere oberon sails
but David Nven, who
Hollywood take advantage
important role Miriam
Womans Touch" Julie Haydon Is the latest OF long List
Ngueos attentions
Evening star., 1936-10-07

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1936-10-07
Unlovely Heroines Seize.
Honors in Two New Films
Ruth Chatterton and Rosalind Russell Splen'
did in Unusual Roles-"In His
Steps" Seen at PrevieW.
by T.. de S. MELCHER.

screen bad Or maybe
unfortunate Universal Pictures
has film Of "Craigs Wife and
in favor OF Mr. Sam Godwyns DOGS
Forth" will be a short time
frustrated
theme
Evening star., 1936-12-20
Woman Keeps Her Secret
By Staying IN Jail 3h Years

II am perfectly sane" she retorted.
"I never authorized any person to
suggest such an examination and
will not submit to 1t. I will not be
q party to a release by a trick or
methods not strictly in accord with
the law"
Mrs. Tegtmeyer became involved in
litigation when relatives OF her hus-
band, Edward, suddenly appeared after
his death and demanded TO know
what she had done with $4,000 of the
estate of her father-in-law, Henry
Tegtmeyer OF Des Moines, Iowa. They
claimed the money had been tntrusted
to her husband to be divided among
Henry Tegtmeyer's heirs.
Then they discovered Edward Tegt-
meyer had made shrewd investments,
had prospered in stock market ven
lures and had built up the original
$4,000 to about $4,000. Attorney
George L. Wire, representing the reIa-
tiyes, filed suit for their share Of
the profits.
The suit dragged through the courts,
high and low, for several years. Finally
Judge Hugo Friend ordered Daisy
Tegtmeyer TO make an accounting
or 60 to jail. She went to Jail. She
Evening star., 1936-12-20
Wife Reads Paper,
So Husband Faces
Charge of Bigamy
Alleges Spouse Gaze Her
Vacation, and Then .
We'd Again.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SNOW HILL, Md, December 49,
The trouble started when 74-year-old
Mrs. Ida Altman Barton read a news
paper account of her husbands we'd
ding. His wedding, that is, to some
one else.
Today, as a result, Harry E. Barton,
So, of Salisbury, faced grand jury
action on a charge of bigamy. Unable
to raise $1,000 bail, he remained in the
Worcester County jail.
Mrs. Barton alleged that her spouse
suggested she take a vacation" to
Baltimore in November. While she was
away, she asserts, Barton journeyed to
Pocomoke City and, after a "whirl-
wind" courtship, married Miss Mary
M. Grandee. :.
While the first Mrs. Barton still was
In Baltimore, Barton removed some of
the furniture from his Salisbury home
and moved to Pocomoke City to live
with his second wife.
Last week, the first Mrs. Barton read
the newspaper account of the wedding.
Returning to Snow Hill. she checked
the county records. Yesterday she
swore out a warrant for Barton's
arrest before Magistrate Walter w.
Price.
, Barton and the first Mrs. Barton
yere married in 1918.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
Secret Service Agents Proud
Of Presidential Guard Record
GennericHs Death Brings to Surface
Incidents Typical of Euents Since
First assignment in 1901.

instantly and Mr.. Roosevelt suffered
slight knee injury.
Heart Attack Takes Another.
Another member of the detail who
died while serving the President was
James Hollinger, Secret Service vet
eran. Hollinger suffered a heart at
tack aboard the Coast Guard cutter
Pontchartrain while 1t was convoy
ing Roosevelt's vessel on a cruise to
Passamaquoddy, Me, last Summer.
Agents in the White House detail
never talk about their work to out
siders. and it is the pride Of the
service that none has ever attempted
to commercialize his experience by
writing Of it.
Those assigned to the President are
chosen with painstaking care, and al
ways are veterans who have attained
brilliant regulations for fearlessness,
foresight and trustworthiness.
They are crack shots, but their
training leads them to foresee and
avert situations which might necessi-
tate shooting. They carry .38-caliber
revolvers. These are never displayed
unnecessarily.
Wearing plain clothes, the agents
are seldom noticed by the crowds
that watch the President. Some times,
when crowds push too close to the
Executive agents are bruised or cut
in holding back the onlookers, but
none has ever been seriously hurt in
this way.
Bodyguard Custom Changed.
Until Mr. Roosevelt was elected, 1t
had been the custom for the head of
the White House detail to serve as
the Presidents personal bodyguard,
standing always close to the Execu-
tive and ready in an instant to act
If danger threatened.
But Gennerich had guarded Mr..
Roosevelt when the. latter was Gov
ernor of New York and he was
brought to Washington as a trusted
friend. He was appointed Secret
Service agent so he could continue
to serve the President.
Besides the agent who always stays
near the President, one member of
the White House detail usually is
chosen to act as advance man" for
the Executive when he travels.
This position, necessitating tact and
efficiency in making arrangements for
policing and presidential appearances
in various cities, is one Of high re-
sponsibility.
In addition to the plainclothes men,
the Secret Service has charge of the
White House police, who wear uni
forms and maintain constant vigilance
over the White House grounds.
These men are picked officers from
the Washington and park police force
Evening star., 1936-12-20
.AMPHIBIAN BREAKS
WORLD SPEED MARK
1904 Miles an Hour Flown by
De Seversky Over Bis
cayne Bay.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, December ia new
world speed record for light amphi-
bians of 209.4 miles an hour was
established today by Mai. Alexander
P. De Seversky In 100-kilometer
closed circuit over Biscayne Bay.
Deprived of a record last night be-
cause official observers were not pres
ent at the outlying marker when ne
few 203.28 miles an hour, De Sever
sky sent his plane over the course
again to better the standard by IS
miles an hour.
Boris Sergieffsky, test pilot for the
Sikorsky Co., set the accepted record
of 174 miles an hour some 18 months
ago. De Seversky was flying a mono
pane of his own design, weighing
1000 pounds. He few alone.
The Russian aircraft designer said
tonight he probably would return to
New York by commercial airliner, re-
turning next week to fly his own
plane north. A projected Havana
Washingtors-New York speed dash
has been indefinitely postponed, De
Seversky said. The change In plans
was caused by need for thorough over
haul of the aznphibian.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
CONFEDERATE VETERAN
TO CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FRANKLIN, w. Va.-December 10.
George w. Hammer, one of the three
surviving Confederate veterans in
Pendleton County, will celebrate his
e3d birthday anniversary the coming
week.
Despite his age, his health is good
and he maintains an active interest in
his farm near here.
Hammer was a member of Co. F.
62d Regiment, Mounted Infantry,
commanded by Col. George H. Smith
of Imboden's Brigade, Army of North
ern Virginia, which gained fame for
its gallantry on many battlehelds.
Hammer enlisted before he was 18,
took part in IS battles and is now the
last surviving member of his company.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
O. {. S. CHAPTER ELECTS

Mrs. Stats Chosen Matron at
Seat Pleasant.
By 0 stan Correspondent OF The Star.
SEAT PLEASANT. Nd, December
19.-Mrs. Sarah Stats has been
chosen worthy matron of local chap
ter. Order Of the Eastern Star.
Other officers include Ferdinand
Colmus. worth patron; Mrs. Martha
Marrow, associate matron: John Ball,
associate patron; Mrs. Martha Kraft,
conductress; Mrs. Gladys Lanham, as
sociate conductress; Miss Gwen Kali
endack, secretary, and Mrs. Agnes
Smith, treasurer. Installation will be
held January IL.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
BY the Associated Press.

-" e@AN @ASSSSAeSSA ASSo'
Under cover of adjournment this
correspondent crept yesterday onto
that political battlefield-the Senate
Chamber-and is able to report the
Democrats have all but surrounded
the Republicans.
Faced with the problem of seating
their rs members, the Democrats have
moved a detachment of desks and
chairs across the no mans land of
the middle aisle and set them up
behind the enemy.
Drawn up like shock troops in a
sort of semi-circle about the Repub-
licans are the seats of the II new
Democrats who won in the November
election.
From a technical standpoint the
whole Senate set-up lends itself to
fierce word fighting and forensic can
nonading.
No longer will it be necessary to
hurl an oratorical bomb across so
feet of the chamber to find target.
BY merely doing an about-1ace, q
soft-voiced Senator can drop q scar
ing invective with full force on an
enemy ear.
Even a mumbled piece Of sarcasm
stands good chance of finding its way
into the front ranks of the opposition.
Scouting up and down the aisle-like
trenches, which win be filled with COM
batants on January 5, this reporter ran
across this additional news from the
front:
The Republican reinforcements-
Senators-elect H. Style Bridges of New
Hampshire and Henry Cabot Lodge,
jr, of Massachusetts-will be stationed
pretty close to the new Democrats.
The Democrats again have in their
front lines, across the carpet from Re
publican big guns, such generals OF
past campaigns as Senators Joseph T.
Robinson of ArkAusas, Key PittmAu
Evening star., 1936-12-20
TELETYPE SYSTEM
SOUGHT BY POLICE
Montgomery Chief Names
Committee to Seek Fund
From Legislature.
Hy 4 Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

Hy STAN CORRESPONDENT OF Inc otai'
ROCKVILLE, Nd, December 1s.-
Appointment of a committee to wage
the Maryland State Police Associ-
atoms fight before the Legislature for.
establishment of a police teletype sys-
tenn has been announced by Chief ].
william Garrett Of Montgomery
County police, president of the asso-
citation.
Chief Garrett became president Of
the association December 7. The
association will again urge the Legis-
lature and Gov. Nice to provide for
the system, having failed to get bill
through the Senate on the final day
of the legislative session last March.
The measure already had passed the
House.
Members of the Legislative Commit
tee named by Chief Garrett are:
Oscar M. Grimes, assistant chief of
police, Towson, chairman: N. H. Hol-
land, chief of police, Salisbury; M. H.
Miles, chief of police, Sparrows Point:
Sergt. George w. Giddens, police de-
partment, Mount Rainier; H. L. Den
ton. superintendent, Baltimore & Ohio
police. Baltimore; Capt. f. NICK.
johnson, Maryland State police Balti-
more; J. Hanson Hooper, chief con-
stable of Peoples Court, Baltimore;
Julius Wosch, chief of police, Ellicott
City; John A. Shipley, sheriff, West
minister; Corp. c. B. Dillinger, Mary
land State police, Hancock; Roy M.
Hiltner, sheriff, Frederick; Clyde E.
Brewer, commissioner of police,
Hagerstown; Earl Huber, chief of po-
lice, Laurel: Thomas A. Basil COM
missioner of police, Annapolis, and J.
Benjamin Ray, chief of police, Aber-
deem.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
NEW ASSESSMENT
HEARINGS SLATED
Series Set in Arlington in Re-
sponse to Request of -
Residents.
BY a STAN Correspondent OF The star.

By STAN Correspondent OF The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,
December 19.-In response to re.
quests of property owners. the Board
of Assessors of Arlington County,
which is completing a reassessment
Of all real estate, will hold series Of
public hearings here between Decem-
Der 26 and 81.
At the hearings, scheduled for De-
cember rs, %, 20. 80 and 81 from
1890 am. to 4:30 pm. property own
ers will be given an opportunity to
discuss with the board the new as
sessment of their real estate, which
becomes effective January !.
Individual assessments. already
complete. may be seen at the office
Evening star., 1936-12-20
b the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. December 1s.-If you
believe that old aphofism that a
woman can't keep a secret, consider
the case of Mrs. Daisy Tegtmeyer. 81.
She's kept one 31a years-and has
been in jail that long for no other
reason.
A Circuit Court Judge remarked:
"She Is her own lookup keeper. She
can't complain on account Of her
present predicament."
She answered adamantly: "If
necessary, I'll stay here until death" "
"The forgotten woman" of the
county Jail stepped behind the bars
in July, 1888, for contempt Of court.
She refused to tell what disposition
was made Of part Of a $4,000 estate.
She had had hearings before nine
judges. Each time she has gone back
to her cell because Of her refusal
to talk.
Several lawyers. friends and rela-
tives have fought for her and with
her over her determination to guard
her secret. In one instance q sanity
test was suggested. but she would
have no part of it.