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Evening star., 1936-04-14

MISCELLANY from other points :. {.
AVA work already has been started
on conditioning the Gold Cup course
at Warrenton preparatory to the
meeting of May 2 larger purses,
ranging from $1,500 down to $500,
being offered there this year .
which doubtless will mean even larger
and better fields Col. w. w. TORI
of the British Embassy and Sterling
Larrabee will judge Fort Myers final
indoor show tonight. William Col
Inns of Chevy Chase, Md, will be
one of the saddle horse and pony
judges at the Atlantic City Horse
Show May 1916 V. P. Lester
writes that the Columbus Horse Show
will expand into a two-day affair
this year, running off 80 classes on
June 81 and % our scouts at the
Mitchell sale Saturday morning re-
port some of the WeirdeSt bidding
in years with valuable saddlery,
blankets, etc, going quite reasonably
:. and distinctly secondhand equip
ment bringing better than retail
prices then there were the three
fellows from Fairfax County who
went to the sale and bid one another
up and out of sight on things they
could have had for half the price by
bit of pre-arranged policy . the
Fairfax Horse Show Committee would
have its potential exhibitors know
that the conditions Of the middle and
heavyweight hunter class, reading
performance only to count" were
incorrectly printed should be
performance, etc. rs per cent, con-
formation, 25 per cent"
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118zN3 '17uRs ~ 2SS2

jump timber handsomely, but has
little respect for brush . this one
has won over post and rail, but per-
formed more than one dive through
the sticks Saturday he jumped
raggedly all the way in the William
Skinner Memorial, and finally hit a
barrier so hard Noel Laing was shaken
loose .. and that takes some shaking
Jim Ryan's smile as he saluted
the Judges was about two inches
broader after he brought in each OF
his three winners.
Evening star., 1936-04-14
SOD IS DECLARED
FINEST IN YEARS
Mackenzie to Seek National
Open Berth in Prelim
at Jacksonville.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

v " WASHINGTON golf courses
w s:: s::. :s@s ::ss,:e $ !: 3 Il i: s.ss ;s:':
long year this year of 1886.
In case you haven't had a round of
golf yet, or haven't noticed, what with
Winter rules in use, if you will glance
around you will see that your favorite
links pasture even now is in better
condition than it has been for many,
many years.
From every club and from every
greenkeeper comes word that the local
golf courses are in for banner year.
Notwithstanding. or perhaps because
of, the bad Winter of unlamented
memory.
Opening days for many of the clubs
will be held late in April or early in
May, when Winter rules will be aban-
doned and the ball again will be
played where it comes to rest, without
the advantage of preferred lies.
Evening star., 1936-04-14
Greenkeepers Jubilant.

PUT even now, so good are the
~ courses around Washington, that
Summer rules could be put back into
use without any one suffering. A little
more sunshine, few more warm days
and you hardly will know your own
golf course
Just as the greenkeepers predicted
last Winter when snow covered the
courses for so many weeks, the golf
layouts around Washington have bene-
fitted greatly by the severe Winter.
Unprecedented frost conditions and
heavy snow improved the subsoil areas,
furnished limitlesS subterranean sup
plies of moisture and kept the grass
roots in good condition. Today the
courses are showing the results SO
that greenkeepers are jubilant, facing
what they expect to be their best sea-
son, in so far as course upkeep is con-
cerned. A few putting greens suffered
from what is technically known as
winter kill but such conditions
don't worry greenkeepers any more.
They simply resod the bare spots and
within few days the greens are back
in their original shape. All in all
you can look for your favorite course
to be in topnotch shape this year.
Evening star., 1936-11-30
GAYETY GOES ORIENTAL
IN NEW PRODUCTION
Blond and Winsome "Baby Doll
Of Burlesque" Also Adds
to Weeks Bill.

THE Gayety goes Oriental this week,
= with Amy Fong, from the land OF
chopsticks and lanterns, taking the
featured spot. The exotic charmer
represents that something different"
that Col. Lake strives for and fire.
ouently attains, and the customers re-
ceive her revelatory performance ami
ably-or, at least, did so yesterday
afternoon. 1t is also probable that no
strenuous protest will be raised to
the frequent recurrence of Louise
Phelps name on the program. A
"irst-timer" locally, blond and win
some Miss Phelps is properly known
as the "baby doll of burlesque"-her
specially style rates with the best.
The department in charge of jokes,
funny situations, ETC., is presided over
currently by a completely capable trio
comprising Jack Lamont, AL Hitler
and Billy Wallace. These care-ban-
ishing gentlemen handle their re-
spective chores quite satisfactorily,
with the hotel scene rating designa-
ton as a panic" "wow," etc. The
straight men are Harry Ryan and
Johnny Head, both accomplished
feeders" Head doubling as the male
singer and caring for the latter task
with an acceptable baritone.
Two young people by the names Of
Sunny Day and Jerry Brandow offer
the various types of dancing required.
Brandcw impresses particularly with
his solo work, though the duo is a
smooth-working combination. &C. M
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-"Naughty Marietta" at
$50. pm.
Capitol-"The White Hunter" at II
am, 1:30, 4:25. 7:15 and 10 pm.
Stage shows at 1875, 3:25, $40 and
9 pm.
Earle-"Theodora Goes Wild" at
1880 am, LIS, AIS, and $50 pm.
Stage shows at 1926, $3.50, 6:15 and
9:05 pm.
: R-K-O Keith's - "Winterset," at
11:24 am. ITO, 2:56, 4:42, 6:25, 8:14
and 10 pm.
Palace-"Love on the Run" at 11:10
am, lis, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:35
pm.
Belasco - Broken Blossoms" at
1900. 2:Os, 4:o7. 6:o6, sos and
1904 pm.
Columbia-"Libeled Lady," at 11:1o
am, 1:15, 3:20, 5:25. 7:30 and 9:35
pm.
Metropolitan-"Charge of the Light
Brigade" at 10:30 am, 12:40, 2:50.
sos, 1920 and $50 pm.
Rialto-"Roberta," at 2:30, 4:45,
7:08 and 9:31 pm.
Little-"Of Human Bondage at
IL am, 1852, 2:43, ABA, 6:26, 8:18
and 1901 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Goes Wild"
at 6:15, 8 and $50 pm.
Uptown-"Dodsworth," at 2, 4, SIS,
7:57 and 10 pm.
Howard-"The Man Who Lived
Twice." at 1890; 3, $50, and 1920
pm. Stage shows at lao, 4:10. $40
and 9:10 pm.
Evening star., 1936-11-30

Thursday evening. too, staging John
Emerson and Anito Loos' The Whole
Towns Talking" at the parish house,
st. Paurs Church, Third and Allison
streets The play will be a benefit for
the Building Fund Of the Episcopal
Home for Children.
Mary Pickens, Catharine Parsone,
De Wee Fisher. Gertrude Cowsill,
Hannah Hanway. Lois Viancour,
Kathleen Norris, Clark Brown, Doug
las Pickens. Bernard Joy, Harry
Sigourney and George w. Baumann.
jr., are in the cast, and ]. Fred Par
sons is directing.
The st. Stephens Players will pre-
sent MY Mother-in-Law" next Mon
day and Tuesday nights at the St.
Stephens Auditorium. fourth
and X streets William A. Coleman
is directing the comedy about the
cartoonist who gets ideas from the
habits and peculiarities of his mother
in-law. H. M.
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Rhett Butler. Among them were Vir-
ginia Phelan, Lansing Hall, Marian
Anderson, Joan Archer, Jean Smith,
Mary 10 Day, Eileen McCrann, Yerby
Pannill, Barbara Pierce, Betty Rice,
Bunny Skinner, Virginia Rand. Maud
Howell Smith, Janet Coon, Ruth Per-
rott. Dorothea Lewis, Edward Stew
lingson, Richard Kreuzberg, Marvin
Beers, Robert NJ Miller, Lucy Howard,
William E. Shea. Paul Walter and a
host of others.
From the afternoons labors, Miss
Brown admitted there had emerged
what might be termed discovery"
She wouldn't give out any names, but
she did say it was the first talent that
might be used which had been dis
covered on the trip, and she's going
to advise her boss that a screen test
for this local player would be pretty
smart thing.
Saturday night Miss Brown, Mr..
Bundsman and the entourage paid a
visit to the National-not to see if
Katharine Cornell would do for Me-
lanie, but to see what Mr.. Maxwell
Anderson had in his THE Wingless
Victory" Miss Brown again wouldn't
talk
And she wouldn't talk later, when
found after the theater at the Pail
Mall room. She might have just gone
for relaxation, but the fact remains
that Bill Owens and Dorothy Howe,
who sing there. had been sneaked into
the Gone With the Wind" readings
during the afternoon. Miss Brown
might have been there for another
look at one Of them: you never can
tell about such things.
Evening star., 1936-11-30

the dlm TO be mace from tne novel;
and casting aspersions at the sug-
gestions which Hollywood has made
on the same subject.
David o. Selznick. who nabbed the
book for photoplay production. soon
found he had job on his hands.
The "Gone With the Wind" con-
stituency definitely was not going to
permit Scarlet O'Hara to be played
by any Susie PAmour, who probably
never got any further South than
the Irving Place Burlesque Theater.
It seemed as If at least seven out
of every 10 persons who read the book
took a sudden and intense interest
in making 1t into a film. They began
to write letters by droves-not only
to the editor, but to Mr.. Selznick and
every one connected with Selznick
International. Dire things were pre-
dicted If Gone With the Wind" were
not played with the authenticity it
demanded.
WHEREUPoN Miss Katharine
w Brown, head of Selznick's story
department in New York, had an
idea. Look" said she to Mr.. S.
There's a constant howl for new
talent. Here's the chance. Let's in
vestigate and see if the little thea
tiers have any real Southerners we can
use in Gone With the Wind"
Selznick agreed so fast that Miss
Brown, who was not sure she'd be
taken seriously. isn't over it yet.
Fine" he said. so you have a
new job. You are head of the special
talent department and you shall i'm
mediately man an expedition and set
forth into the unexplored South and
prospect for Scarlet O'Haras or
whatever you expect to find. Have
the people read scenes from the
photoplay script and if you find some
thing that looks good, send back by
carrier pigeon photographs, explana-
tory notes and maps showing where
your discovery may be located. Then
we'll think Of screen tests in New
York"
So Miss Brown took Anton Bunds-
man, chief of Selznicks' screen test
department, in tow and set out. She
was in Baltimore Friday and came
to Washington Saturday.
Here she contacted Day Tuttle.
whom she knew by reputation for his
various well-known Summer Theater
efforts. She had him round up such
members of the Washington Civic
Theater's acting group as he thought
might stand a chance, and Saturday
afternoon she and Tony Bundsman
labored long and thoughtfully at the
theater's workshop.
TONY sat of in a corner the whole
afternoon, listening as some Is or
80 of the towns thespians for a mo-
ment played Scarlet or Ashley or
Evening star., 1936-11-30
Capitals Drama Groups
"See Naples and Die" and Spanish
Operetta on Weeks School Programs.

The yellow Jack" cast took time
out for Thanksgiving. but now every
one is back at work on the play, which,
because of its special stage and light
ing effects, is tough assignment for
any school group to take on.
Adele Gusack, whose sister Is in Cue
and Curtains "See Naples and Die" "
is in New York, in the cast of Peter
Lorre's Napoleon"
The Estelle Wentworth Opera Group
will present Martha" tomorrow night
at 8:15 o'clock at Roosevelt High
School auditorium-the first revival
Of the opera here since it was done
IL years ago, under the direction Of
Miss Wentworth.
Virginia Weldon, Nina Norman,
Harry Crow, Walter Perry and Ray
Baine will siHg the leading roles, and
the remainder Of the cast will be COM
posed of regular members Of the
group. many of whom have been with
Miss Wentworth since she began her
light opera productions here.
The Arts Club will have an Irish
Evening Thursday night. There will
be the regular dinner and the fea-
lures of the program will be a talk
on Irish culture by Robert Brennan
and the presentation of the play.
"Cathleen Nj Houlihan."
The Rock Creek Players will be busy
Evening star., 1936-11-30

ing its presentation in Washington,
about the other members of the cast,
Walter Abel, Myron Mccormick, Eff
fie Shannon and the others They
are splendid. She feels that each
performance perfected the tightening
up process which all plays undergo
in their early stages. She feels that
the first one was the worst. of the
week-on her part, not that of other
members of the cast.
The play, so outwardly irreverent,
is deeply religious, she insists. She
will argue that point with any one. 1t
is irreverant not toward the essence
of Christianity, but to the practice of
it which loses the essential ideal. 1t
is, she believes, sermon of transcend
ent beauty, eloquence and power.
So, such a moment makes one feel,
is Katharine Cornell!
k* x
HOLLYWOOD, as a novelist sees 1t,
= will be disSected for curious WASH
ingtonians on Thursday night by no
less IAN authority on Hollywood than
Hugh Walpole. Mr.. Walpole, speak,
ing at Constitution Hall under the
auspices of the T. Arthur Smith Bu-
reau' comes here direct. from the
motion picture capital. where he has
been working for some months, most
recently upon the scenario of the
much-discussed Kim" Sir Willmott
Lewis, fellow Englishman, will intro
duce Mr. Walpole If you are
twins you can get into Loew's Capitol
on your face to see "Our Relations" !"
which opens on Friday and stars
Laurei and Hardy First glimpse
of Flee nor Powell in Born to Dance"
will be vouchsafed by the press to-
morrow. The new M-GM film will
follow Love on the Run" at the
Palace Ethel Waters, last seen
here in Anything Goes" will head
line the Capitol's vaudeville bill next
week The Wigs and Queues Dra-
matte Club will give Eyes of Love, :"
comedy drama in three acts, as its
December play Frank La
Falce thinks you ought to know
there's no villain in Mae Vests
comedy, Go West Young Man"
which opens at the Earle on Friday.
Warren William, the nearest thing to
a villain, is really only sort of
negligible fly in the West type of
ointment Laughton's Rem
brandt" next at Keith's, returns Ger
trude Lawrence to Washington in
role in which she likes very much
and hopes you will do the same :.
When Dolly Hass is through proselyt-
ing among the local Bargner cult
in her performance in Broken Bios
sons" the screen at the Belasco
will be turned over to "Gypsies," the
new Russian picture which, if there's
enough gypsy music in it, is going to
please lot of persons greatly :.
Two musicians from another night club
danced with sweet abandon at Pete
Macias' "Heigho Club" as dawn came
UP like thunder out of Chesapeake
Bay Sunday morning.
Evening star., 1936-11-30
Chief Hemp Areas,

Minnesota, Wisconsin. Illinois and
the coastal section of Texas are the
chief hemp-producing areas Of the
United States. ai
Evening star., 1936-11-30

The aMsk and Bauble Club has Or
ganized special orchestra to provide
the incidental music for its production
of yellow Jack" A special musical
score has been arranged for the play.
too
Evening star., 1936-11-30

is ninSrum artist twHknow
Of
o he B-Uih
Evening star., 1936-11-30

Calk, lnSplrlQSly, eIlIIluSldStiCdliy, oiiu'
with a reverent feeling for the art
which she practices so supremely well.
The whole thing is unarranged. 1t
Is Saturday night. The play is over
and the curtain down at the National
Theater. One is curious (two really
are curious, for Betty Hynes is there)
to know if one might drop into Miss
Cornell's dressing room for just mo-
ment to say thank you for THE
Wingless Victory" and the first pre-
miere she ever has given to Washing
ton. One may. One does. And Miss
Cornell, still dressed as Oparre, the
Malay princess of Maxwell Anderson's
play, and still what is known as
"high" with the effect of the per-
formance, takes over the conversation.
She is not interviewed. She talks.
And how she talks!
She has Just seen Mrs. Roosevelt.
She is thrilled with the graciousness
of her recent guest. She is delighted
that Mrs. Roosevelt liked the play.
She was embarrassed when it was
proposed that they be photographed
together She did not want to see the
moment lose any of it's luster by ac-
quiring the ugly face of a publicity
stunt. Mrs. Roosevelt obviated any
such possibility with her gracious OBJ
servation that she would be glad to
pose with Miss Cornell, expressed in
the words, you are the first lady here
tonight" Miss Cornell felt it was
fine, simple, and dramatic and ex-
traordinarily gracious.
MISS CORNELL is enormously
A'A happy in her present part. She
has always wanted to play an Oriental
woman; long has felt that her fea-
lures are sculptured to At that type
character with convincing realism.
There is glorious and meaningful
music, she thinks, in the blank verse
form which Maxwell Anderson has
used to tell his dramatic, tragic story
In THE Wingless Victory" Such
lines are perhaps more difficult to
learn for any actor or actress, but
read correctly they find depths of re-
sponse in listeners which are not
plumbed by traditional stage prose.
Their lyrical effect tends toward a
finer Interpretation.
On the summit Of an emotion to
which she has so freshly climbed.
Miss Cornell rationalizes. Quietly,
eloquently, she takes apart Mr.. An
derson's work and her own. The mo-
ment perceptibly is one not to be for
gotten. Reason seems to have no
place in that tensely emotional en-
vironment where the spell of the
play-and its greatest player-lingers.
Yet there it is, odd and imposing and
unforgettable.
It takes one-half hour. Miss Cor
nell says, to remove the dusky make
up she uses in the part of Oparre.
Could this be ones cue to go? One
rises, apologizing for taking so much
of her time.
don't co. she says, Il want
to talk"
X X X
A ND she talks on about how the
play grew from day to day dur
Evening star., 1936-11-30
.HE university dramatic groups
seem to be the busiest on the
local theater scene at the mo-

TIME university dramatic groups
seem to be the busiest on the
local theater scene at the mo-
\ ment George Washington's
Cue and Curtain Club presents Elmer
Rice's "See Naples and Die" Friday
and Saturday nights. the American
University Spanish Club will stage
the operetta, "Cielito Lindo" Friday
night and members of the Mask and
Bauble Club at Georgetown have Sid
ney Howard and Paul De Kruif's Vel
low jack on the books for produc-
ton next week, December 10.
"See Naples and Die" was first done
back in 1929 in New York. with Clau-
dette Colbert and Roger Pryor in the
leading roles and the author directing
The Cue and Curtain presentation at
the Wardman Park Theater will have
Peggy Gusack and Charles McVick-
ers seeing Naples from the same van
tage points from which Miss Colbert
and Mr.. Pryor did on the professional
stage.
Others in the cast will be Joseph
Klein. Norman Stein, Charles L. Tur-
ner. Hamilton Colt. John Kendrick,
Betty Emerson, Mary Stewart Devore,
Marilyn Miller, Leon S. Elsberg, James
F. Pitt. Maxine Mitchell. Fred Raw
lins and Leonard Lieberman. Marvin
Beers is directing
The son and daughter Of Santiago
Iglesias, resident commissioner from
Porto Rico, will be on hand to lend
authenticity when the Spanish Club
at American U. presents its Latin
American operetta Friday night at the
schol gym Carlos Iglesias will dance
an authentic rhumba with Senorita
Anna Rivera, formerly of Panama, and
his sister, Senorita Luz Iglesias. will
dof solo dance Of her native Porto
Rico.
These extra features Of the operetta
will augment the merrymaking of the
chorus of so and other soloists from
the American U. campus. Sr. Louis j..
Cabrera, instructor in Spanish, who
wrote the show, will be heard in a
solo. Leading roles will be played by
Miss Maxwell Galloway, James Waldo,
Robert Thompson, Margaret Woods
(she's the daughter Of Dean George
B. Woods of the College Of Liberal
Arts), Sue Drager, William Briggs and
Helen Palmer.
The aMsk and Bauble Club has Or
ganized a special orchestra to provide
the incidental music for its production
of yellow Jack" A special musical
, score has been arranged for the play.
Evening star., 1936-11-30
miss Cornell Discusses
New Play and Her Role
in an Eloquent Mood After
Final Curtain Falls.
BY JAY CARMODY.

Cornell reluctant
illusion
pess glare of what might be
publicity merely Legend really myth
happens first lady Of the thear at just the right
n right mood.
Having to
Evening star., 1936-11-30
Local Players Given Tests
For" "Gone With the Wind"
Katharine Brown Pays Call at Civic
Theater Workshop on Her Talent
Quest for Selznick.
BY HARRY MAC ARTHUR.

another contribution to
possibility than probability
/ moment, o
citizens Of the
players
The Indianapolis times., 1936-04-23

Crisp sheer organdiesl Printed lawns! Dotted
and striped lawns! Hanky linens! Crisp piques
Snow whites Ice cream pinks! Cornfower
bluesl Almond greens! Color-mad paids,
checks and novelties! Tuck-in or over-blouse
models :. /. specially purchased and specially
priced! Womens and misses sizes 81 to A.
EsCALAToRs TO Blocks Downstairs Store.
Evening star., 1936-09-11

report yesterday showed expenditures
Of $1.783 600 for June, July and Au-
gust, and contributions Of $2.050,311
during the same period. The balance
in the committee Golfers es Of August
81 was $495, ,341. Total expenditures
during the year were reported at $2.-
544,91e
In another report, the American
Liberty League said today it had
spent $404, ,297 from January through
August 81. Its report showed a bal
ance on January / Of $93,1e8 and re-"
ceipts through August 81 Of $384, BAT.
Expenditures during June. July and
August amounted to $138,929. Re-
ceipts for the same period were $751;
1873, leaving q balance. August 81.
OF $73,748.
Largest contributor to the Demo-
cratic war chest was j. M. Patterson
Of New York, who gave $4,000. Am
bassador Robert w. Bingham Of Louis
vile contributed $4,000.
Other large contributors, who gave
$4,000 each. included: James D.
Mooney, New York: Frank J. Wright
Memphis; Joseph M. Schenck, New
York; F. ]. Lewis, Chicago; Walter
j. Cummings. Chicago, and William
]. Froelich, Chicago.
The committee reported receipts Of
$54.925 from sale of advertising and
1882, TBS from the sale of Democratic
year books. Receipts from sale OF
Evening star., 1936-09-11
JAIL DEATH QUIZ
AWAITS CHEMISTS
Meanwhile Coroner'S Jury
Finds Natural Causes
in Confrey Case.

Special Dispatch to The Star
HYATTSVILLE, Md, September IL.
William Confrey. 50-year-old Ber-
wyn visitor from New Haven, Conn.,,
who died in the local Jail last Sum-
day, was a victim of natural causes,
according to the findings of a coroner's
jury here last night.
The inquest into the death of
Charles c. Martin, 43, former Wash
ington service station operator, who
succumber in the Hyattsville jail
Tuesday night, was postponed until
next Thursday pending a chemical
analysis of his stomach.
Mrs. Mary Martin. his widow. has
said she would demand an investi-
cation" of the death.
Confrey was taken to the local po-
lice station after collapsing at Belts
vile service station. Sergt. Ralph
Brown, of the Prince Georges County
force, testified he believed the victim
had been drinking. When he realized
that Confrey was i'll, about an hour
after the mans collapse, Brown sum-
moned a physician.
DR.. John T. Maloney, who per-
formed the autopsy, said that Confrey
died of pneumonia, malady he had
probably been suffering for almost a
week. The illness had dilated the VIC
TINS heart, he declared.
Martin, whose wife is a local res.
taurant employe, was arrested early
Sunday by Officer Howard Slater al
University Park on charges of driving
under the influence of liquor and
reckless driving. Unable to furnish
bond. the prisoner was committed to
Jail in the basement of the police
station.
'He seemed all right to us then,
Slater said yesterday, although hi
was obviously under the influence ol
liquor. On Tuesday he was appar-
emily suffering some sort of nervous
disorder. summoned DR.. La Vine
who gave him a sedative."
Prisoners in adjacent cells said thai
Martin was "thrashing around all day
and seemed in a highly nervou!
state"