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The Washington times., 1936-03-12
'Porgy and Bess' Seat
Sale Opened Today

The box office sale of seats for
George Gershwin's American folk
opera, "Porgy and BesS," which
the Theater Guild brings to Wash.
ington the week of March 16,
opened today at the National
Theater.
Judging from the way mail
orders and telephone inquiries
have been pouring in, it appears
as if "Porgy and BeSs" would du.
plicate the success of the Guilds
present attraction at the National,
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontannne
in idiots Delight"
The Washington times., 1936-03-12

fiSted, come hither songs Of the
old shouter days. Park Avenue
has taken up this attraction.
I trust that this will lead to a
"vindication" booking in her ma
tive city. Last time Ann Suter
played the Earle she was fresh
from the Continent. Her routine
of songs which bowled over the
English 'alls was much too tabasco
for the local stage. She bowed out
after doing two shows.
Since that disastrous mistake
in choice of material Ann Suter
hasn't played Washington. She
is a girl with a great talent for
comedy songs and with the right
numbers could click like a million
on F Street. I hope she gets an
other opportunity to show Wash
i n G t oni an S some of her lusty
antics.
BERLIN ON TOP AGAIN
1t looks very much as though
Irving Berlin has done it again.
That is. turned out a bunch of
hit tunes in Follow the Fleet"
Variety reports the No. / tune
(played most over the radio and
requested most of dance bands)
Is I'm Putting All My Eggs in
One Basket" from the Astaire-
Rogers picture. The No. 7 tune
is Lets Face the Music and
Dance" from the same picture,
with I'VE Saw the Sea" also in
cluded among the nations ia
Vorites.
Composer Berlin seems to have
the knack. He received $4,000
per picture, plus percentages, for
Top Hat" and Follow the
Fleet" and gave each feature
plenty of hit melody.
At the moment he is >on the
goth Century-Fox lot collaborat-
ing on a new musical comedy
story in which he will furnish the
songs. For this assignment he
will receive flat guarantee and
percentage. Composer Berlin likes
Hollywood so much he has &C
quired permanent home in the
movie city.
Might I add that the latest ex-
ample of Berlin tune wizardry
may be heard at RKO Keith's,
where Follow the Fleet" is play
ing to fancy box office business?
COHAN's PLAY TO CLOSE
George M. Cohan in Dear Old
Darling" will close Saturday night
in New York. They liked George
M, but not his play. It lasted
but two weeks.
Raymond Bell sends six pack
ages OF gelatine as a reminder that
Jack Benny comes to the Fox to-
morrow. Evidently wants me 20
shake all over with anticipation.
This afternoon from 3 to s
o'clock, the critics and others will
toast June Knight at a Hotel
Carlton. cocktail party. One of
those gatherings which produces
much conversation but rarely q
news nuggets Still the Earle's
headliner for next week is easy
to look at.
GRANOFF SINGS
Bert Granoff. Washington's
most popular tenor, will be feat
ured in a special overture by the
Earle Theater Concert Orchestra,
with Freddie Clark as conductor,
on Friday Mr.. Granoff will sing
three popular melodies, please
Believe Me-" Lovely Lady" and
Life Begins When You're in
Love-"
The Washington times., 1936-03-12
OBACCO ROAD COMING
Henry Hull As Jeeter Lester to
Appear at National, April 5;
Ann Suter Scores
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Washington will get Tobacco Road" for Holy Week. the
gagement beginning Sunday night April and running
through and including Easter Sunday.
Henry Hull who originated the role of Jeeter Lester in the
New York company will be the star of the Erkine Caldwell
drama when it opens here.
Representatives of the United States District Attorney
Tobacco Road" during recent engagement in Baltimore,
with the same company that will offer the play Street
Up has been indication of official interference
with the local booking Cities including Chicago have
harre tho
The Washington times., 1936-03-12
Prize Comics
ForGoyety

Diamond and Fay, known as
kings of Floogle Street, will make
their temperance at the Gay.
ETY. this coming Sunday in an all,
new show.
They are called the greatest
comedy combination to play this
famous burlesque theater since
the days of the famous Clark and
Mccullough.
Mile. Renee, French sumner,
will head the beauty parade.
The Washington times., 1936-03-12
BY LLOYD PANTAGES

HOLLYWOOD, March lZ.-OuQ
bits of press agentry. Now that
Mickey Mouse is signed up with
RKO Il mean for the releasing
of his products), he will be the
first star to appear on commercial
televiSion.
AS chronicled here before: 1rv'
ing Thalberg did sign a new 10
year contract with M-G-M. Under
the present Set-up he has the most
powerful position of anyone afflll'
ated with the motion picture in
dustry. Under his terms, he can
take any player, writer or dlrec,
tor from M-G-M for his own unit
and, furthermore, he has com
plete say on whether or not the
studios contract people shall or
shall not be loaned out to other
studios. The salary, by the by on
this new 10-year deal, is SO lucra'
tive that it is to collapse to know
that one person could have that
much earning capacity.
A firm in England has offered
Paramount six million dollars for
the purchase of their controlled
theater interests over thar. They'll
probably sell if they'll make it a
cash,and-carry proposition.
Before Douglas Fairbanks sr.,
took off from Hollywood recently,
he confided to friends that he
was madly in love with Lady
Ashley, so under the circum
stances, their marriage should jell.
Marion Talley has been chris
tened with bottle of hair dye
to turn her crowning glory into
an auburn shade for her cinema
debut which she is making at
Republic. BY the by, getting
ready to debut for Miss Talley
was anything but a picnic. She
was on a strict diet for avoirdu-
pois reasons, took every type of
conceivable lesson to timber one
up for the movies, and last but
The Washington times., 1936-03-12

Play Derived From Erskine Caldwell Novel |
Booked for the National
The Washington times., 1936-03-12
Old Friends

William Powell and Jean Arthur
are appearing together for the first
time since "The Green Murder
Case" in a new mystery drama,
tentatively titled "One to Two" at
RKO-Radio.
The Washington times., 1936-03-12
Stepin Fetchit
At Howard

Beginning Friday, the Howard
presents on stage, direct from
Hollywood, the screen and COM
edy star and the worlds LATEST
man in person, "Stepin Fetchit." "
He presents his Hollywood
The Washington times., 1936-03-12

revue with a cast of so enter
tainerS.
Featured on the screen will be
Jean Arthur, Herbert Marshall
and Leo Garlic in If You Could
Only Cook"
Gala midnight show Saturday
with reserved seats.
The Washington times., 1936-03-12

HULL IS THE STAR
Producer Sam H. Grisman feels
certain that the New York engage
ment Of Tobacco Road" will sur
pass for length of stay "Abie'S
Irish Rose" which holds the long
distance record for consecutive
performances. It has been run
ming continuously since December
4, 1898, and yesterday sold the
1,000,000th ticket. 1t will have to
run 18 months more to take the
cable" record.
Singularly enough when ITO
bacco Road" opened only the crit
les liked it. For a few weeks it
appeared certain to die Of box
office anemia and all of the cast
took a cut in pay to help keep it
going. Then it started to click
and Henry Hull, who accepted a
percentage of the gross in lieu of
salary, found that he had made
a bargain contract.
Most of the critics seemed to
feel that nobody but Henry Hull
could play. Jeeter Lester. When
Hull was summoned to Hollywood,
James Barton took over the role
and has been equally successful,
James Kirkwood has also played
Jeeter Lester in a road company
and the troupe now touring the
South has Slim Timblin in the
lead. Timblin, like James Barton,
was vaudeville comedian before
he took this acting job.
Tobacco Road" is Jack Kirk,
lands dramatization of Erskine
Caldwell's novel about low-down
white trash. Stage magazine calls
it "Erskine Caldwell's advertise
ment for human nature in the
raw"
KATE VS.. MAJOR
Few of the headline stars of
radio like to buck Major Bowes'
hour on Sunday night for it is
conceded that the Master of the
Gong gets more listener atten-
tion for his amateurs than any
other network attraction. "Op-
poSite Bowes" is a hard hour for
rival radio to sell on Sunday
night.
Washington's Kate Smith will
tackle the Major next Sunday and
try to sell another kind of java.
Kate will have sparkling array
of names to back her up, includ-
ing Ray Noble, Block and Sully,
Bob Burns, Eva LaGallienne, Doc
Rockwell. Dick Powell, Harry
Reser and his Cliquot Eskimos,
James Melton, Raymond Paige,
the Romany Singers, Ted Husing,
the Rise of the Goldbergs and the
A65P Gypsies.
That kind Of a program would
cost a vaudeville theater at least
$4,000 for a week. I wonder
if it can outdraw the amateurs?
ANN SUTER HITS
Ann Suter, Washington girl,
who after vaudeville triumphs all
over Europe, came to the home
land in 1882 to plump into a
variety slump and censorship
troubles, is doing a grand come
back in New York.
Miss Suter is the bright partic-
ular star of the cuckoo and slight
ly mad entertainment which is
being presented at the American
Music Hall by Harry Bannister,
John Krimsky and Lucius Beebe
The program includes presenta-
ton of Murder In the Old Red
Barn." that creaking antique
thriller, but it is the in-between
embroidery which engages the
Suter talents. She sings the two
& 0A
Evening star., 1936-07-21

counties was damaged beyond re-
covery despite rains, but that the pre-
cipitation would help produce abund-
ant forage. Crop observers expected
corn to revive elsewhere in the State
but predicted reduced yields.
In Nebraska the rains were de-
scribed as insufficient so far tc relieve
the drought condition and farmers
said it was too late to replant corn
and feed crops.
Officials said the Southern Mime
sofa corn belt was helped by rain, but
not be estimated pending further
observation Of crops. In some sections
farmers planted millet for late forage.
State Resettlement Director Howard
Wood said North Dakota rains were
negligible from cash crop viewpoint.
No rain had fallen in the worst sec
ton. the southwestern part Of the
State, he said. He predicted the
northern and eastern sections would
have feed crops, but no cash crops.
In Oklahoma water for livestock
was seen as the vital need, with feed
a secondary consideration. In the
southern part of the State farmers
were ready to plant millet. sudan,
canes and grain sorghum If good rains
materialized. The w. p. A. planned
work for $4,000 farmers to begin in
a week or 10 days and the Reset.le-
ment Administration mailed subsist-
ence checks to 900 families
Evening star., 1936-07-21
DISTRICT MEN OFF
FORLAND0N RALLY
ColIaday Heads Group Going
to Nominees Notifica-
ton Exercises.

Edward F. Colladay, Republican ma
tional committeeman for the District:
James Wilkes. chairman of the Re
publican State Committee for the Dis-
trict, and Galen TAFT, former collector
Of internal revenue for Maryland. left
Washington last night for Topeka,
Kans., to attend the Landon notifica-
ton exercises there Thursday night.
Colladay.> District representative on
the committee to notify Landon of his
Republican presidential nomination,
expected to attend a series Of confer
ences with Ifndon leaders in Kansas
City and Chicago before returning to
Washington. He left for Kansas
after his return from q Today trip
to Maine in the interest of the Lam
don campaign.
Colladay said he was greatly heart
ened by reports he received on his
Maine trip, during which he spoke
at meetings In Fort Fairfield and
Caribou, and addressed q radio au-
dience over a Statewide broadcasting
hook-up. While devoting most of his
attention TO Gov. Landon and Col.
Frank Knox, he also urged the cleo
tion Of Senator White. Representative
Brewster and the State Republican
nominees His trip was arranged by
Miss Marian Martin, national commit
teewoman for Maine.
Wilkes was expected to return from
Topeka on Friday.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
SPAN ISSUE STUDIED
BY SENATOR GLASS
He Has Report With Figures on
Chain Bridge Replace.
ment Plan.

Senator Carter Glass OF Virginia.
ranking member of the Senate Dis
trict Committee. today was studying
a report containing new figures for
the discussion being waged over the
capacity of the proposed new bridge to
connect the District and Virginia.
The figures were included in a re-
port Of a recent traffic count. taken
and submitted by Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer, and showed
traffic over the antiquated Chain
Bridge on Sunday, July IL, averaged
a vehicle every 10 seconds and that
the rush-hour average was one every
seconds.
Glass office has been following
closely the controversy over whether
Chain Bridge should be replaced by
another two-lane type of bridge or
whether the new bridge should have
four lanes or more.
Chain Bridge suffered extensive
damage in last Winters floods and
Congress authorized an expenditure
of $350000 to replace it.
The type, capacity and location Of
the proposed new bridge have been the
subject of discussion both in the Dis
trict and Northern Virginia ever since
the expenditure was authorized.
Numerous communications have
been directed to Senator Glass re-
Gently. including one from the Fair
fax County Chamber of Commerce.
vigorously advocating a larger bridge.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
500 SLAIN AT BARCELONA.
Loyalists Capture City after B0mbard
ment, Report Says.

PERPIGNAN. France. July 81 tP).-
Bitter conflict between rebel soldiers
and loyal government forces in Bar
celona left at least 800 dead, 1t was
said in reports reaching the border
today.
After government planes bombarded
the principal city of Northeastern
Spain Sunday night, dispatches Mon
day said the combat persisted with
many buildings afire.
Border advlces tonight stated loyal
guards had captured the central tele-
phone office and the Grand Palace in
the heart Of the city, ousting 1000
rebel officers and soldiers.
The situation was becoming more
quiet, late reports said.
The rebels, who attempted to seize
power Sunday were said to have been
subjected to an aerial bombardment of
more than 200 projectiles. while So
cialists and Communists fought them
on the ground.
Clouds of smoke billowed over the
city yesterday from half a hundred
fires. Other structures were burned
in the continuing conflict. but the
aerial attack at length was halted.
The ground fighting was reported
concentrated about government posts
where insurgent soldiers had estab-
lished headquarters.
The Leftists were believed pressing
their efforts to dislodge the rebels
completely after the government plane
barrage.
Most churches and converts suf-
fered from the aerial fire but the
cathedral was spared.
Evening star., 1936-07-21

and an undetermined number of in
sureents had been slain
The aviators also dropped mani,-
festoes signed by Gen. Francisco
Franco. the rebel commander in chief,
calling upon the Popular Front to sur
render and declaring its cause to be
lost.
Vera was occupied by a small de-
tachment OF troops who made the city
military headquarters for Northern
Navarro.
The mayor of Vera turned his
powers over Immediately to The rebel
colonel when the column entered the
town and the colonel took over The
town hall.
Jubilant rebel soldiers, swarming
into the provinces. declared the Ma
drid government had officially turned
its powers over to trade union COM
mittees for public defense"
Loyal carabineros abandoned Span
ish frontier posts east of Hcndave,
leaving the border open.
500 SLAIN AT BARCELONA.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
RerOuting
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Continued From First Page.)
to accommodate three cars instead Of
one.
The platforms on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. at Fifteenth street will be moved
west to East Executive avenue to pre-
vent cars from piling up at that point.
Van Duzer explained Other changes
are likely on Fourteenth street at H
street and at New York avenue.
Richmond B. Keech, acting chair
man Of the District Public Utilities
Commission. said today, after complet-
ing q survey Of conditions in the con-
gested area, that some changes may
be made later, but that nothing could
be done until the rerouting had been
in operation for some time under nor
NAL conditions.
The changes being made were pro-
posed about q year ago and were
thrown out somewhat by dropping the
Chevy Chase street cars and substi-
tuting busses." Keech said.
System Not Permanent.
''The traffic situation here is a COM
plicated affair and any change in
one route will inevitably necessitate
changes in other routes. The rerout-
ing as 1t Is today Is an intermediate
change and will not be made perma.
nent until we have had q chance to
observe conditions when the street
construction is completed and every
thing has been smoothed out as much
as possible"
A trafic jam at Seventeenth and
Pennsylvania avenue resulted this
morning from a repair project which
narrowed vehicle traffic between the
landing platform and curb to one lane
and resulted in many cars driving
inside the platform on the car tracks
and delaying loading and unloading.
In many places vehicle traffic and
pedestrian lanes were partially blocked
of to permit recently applied paint to
dry. but the restrictions were removed
during the day. ...
Evening star., 1936-07-21

MARIENBAD. Czechoslovakia. July
al (RD.-Although former King Alfonso
had an airplane ready for instant use
today, he said the present rebellion in
Spain is not being fought for the
sake Of the monarchy.
THE Monarchists and Republicans,
he declared. ARE fighting together
against the Leftist regime. The pres
ent revolutionary movement in Spain
is not a fight Of Monarchists or of
Republicans for or against restoration
(of the Bourbon throne). 1t is a ma
tional movement"
Alfonso said he hoped for Spain's
rescue from the Leftist government
and from a regime of daily murders
and disorders"
My only desire" he stated. sis the
Inauguration of a regime of peace and
order and the coming to power of a
Rightist government supported by the
army"
Evening star., 1936-07-21

Is the air pouch concealed under his
chin, q leftover now useless, from
some remote evolutionary period when
he was more reptile than Stork.
Other species of the stork family
are Summer visitors in Europe, where
househOlders welcome them as omens
OF good luck and even erect platforms
or raise old wagon wheels on which
the birds build huge nests of sticks.
The one true stork native of the
New World lives in South America.
The adjutants are only years old,
although spectators can scarcely be-
lieve this In India they are semi
domesticated, like the European stork
They feed on fish. frogs and small
reptiles and are sometimes valuable
as scavengers to inhabitants of native
river villages.
The stork migrates north for the
nesting season. They fly at high alti-
tudes with their long legs trailing
behind them.
Tomorrow: The polar bear
father OF the Zoos famous hybrid
cubs.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
TOWNSEND QUITS
HEARING ON PLAN
ITS None of Your Business
He Tells Attorney TAX
ing Dispositions.
b" the Associated Press.

. fA'ooSAatcu
CLEVELAND, July 2l.-Dr. Francis
z. Townsend walked out of a deposition
hearing on the Townsend plan today,
telling Benjamin F. Sacharow, attorney
conducting the hearing, Its none Of
your business"
Sacharow was taking depoSitions in
D suit he filed Friday in behalf Of Rev.
Alfred j. Wright of Cleveland, deposed
Townsend regional leader. He had
uueried DR.. Townsend concerning ad-
Vertisements for pills, appearing in q
weekly Townsend publication.
AS DR.. Townsend left the attorneys
office. his attorney. Sheridan Downey,
asserted, Its another walkout"
Wright's suit named DR.. Townsend
and other officers of the Townsend
organization as defendants, and asked
removal Of DR.. Townsend and trustees
OF Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd,
accounting of more than $1,000, 900 in
the organizations funds, and appoint
nent Of new trustees and a receiver.
Sacharow threatened to have Dr.
Townsend cited for contempt by Com
mon Pleas Court, if the pension leader
did not return today.
DR.. Townsend said he intended to
60 to Erie, Pa, to keep speaking en-
gagement tonight.
Evening star., 1936-07-21
Navarro and Guipuzcoa Fall After
Heavy Fight.


Heavy Fight.
Copyright, 1895. by the Associated Press.)
VERA, Spain, July 2l.-All Of
Navarro and Guipuzcoa Provinces In
Northern Spain, including the City OF
San Sebastian, were reported tonight
to have fallen into the hands of rebels
from Pamplona.
Ambassador Claude G. Bowers of
the United States and other American
diplomats have been reported in Sum-
mer residence at San Sebastian.
The Rightist rebels swept into San
Sebastian after many had been killed
and wounded in bitter fighting outside
the city.
Martial Law Proclaimed.
Martial law was proclaimed by the
victorious insurgents throughout both
provinces.
The occupying column of rebels
numbered approximately 5000, more
than 1,00G OF whom were cavalrymen
The civil governors Of the two prov
inces fled into France.
The Popular Front Militia retreated
to an old fort on q mountain overlook
ing the city.
1t was believed they planned to shell
San Sebastian.
Shortly before the rebel column
reached San Sebastian two military
planes manned by insurgents fiew low
over the city, spraying Popular Front
militiamen with machine guns in the
streets.
The Governor Of Guipuzcoa, fleeing
the country, said more than. q score
were killed or wounded.
Planes Drop Manifestoes.
Reports of previous battle in the
Rightist advance stated a. carabineros
Evening star., 1936-07-21
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, JR.

These bald, homely and solemn
looking lesser adjutants are neither
as old or as dignified as they would
appear at first glance.
Upon occasion they are apt to snap
their beakS. clap their heels together
several times and break into dance,
like giddy high school kids perform
ing to swing music.
But don't waste any time hanging
around the bird house waiting for a
stork to dance. They're too bashful
to show off In public Usually they
dance only in the Spring. during the
mating season, and then in the Sc
clusion of their home swamps or river
banks.
These two adjutants are natives Of
India
They are capable Of gobbling half
a dozen butterfish day and stand
about 5 feet tall-when not kneeling,
that is This latter form of resting
gives them a very devout appearance
indeed.
Another popularity Of the adjutant