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Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15
Children OF MANY
Salute u. S. Flag
By DR.. Clifford Gessler

A MERICA'S melting pot, Not New York
~ Chicago San Francisco, but that integral
part of America that is separated from the
North American continent by 2000 miles of blue
seas - Honolulu Hawaii Here, indeed, is the
great American melting pot where races fuse
in strange combinations or retain their pure
strain, but where no prejudices exist and all
are Americans.
A visit to a Honolulu school is a revelation.
Looking over the garden of faces before him,
the visitor sees every shade of skin tinting from
rosy white through pale tan to deep brown.
Every kind of hair too, but most of it tawny-
dark and wavy, or black and straight.
particular visitor, interested, once told me
that he looked at the panorama of healthy
young faces in a school one day, listening to the
children sing their opening morning exercise.
There were more than dozen racial heritages
in the room. He smiled at first as he heard the
words of the song; then, in afterthought his
face grew serious with heightened interest
Land of the Pilgrims pride,
Land tchere our fathers died. :"
Did they mean that he wondered, these boys
and girls whose ancestors had toiled in the rice
paddles of China or the muck of Hawaiian taro
fields, along with those blonde haired, bue-eyed
ones some of whose forefathers really had been
among the New England pilgrims as well as
those whose forebears had come to America
long after the Mayfower had mouldered away
He watched as they rose and executed, in
neat precision of evolution, drill, each with
small American flag. When it was finished, all
saluted gravely the larger Stars and Stripes at
the head of the assembly hall.
Later, In history class in that school, the
visitor was introduced as tourist from Great
Britain. To test the students knowledge of his
tory he asked them few questions
What" he inquired, looking around the
room as his glance fell on picture of Corn
wallis surrender at Yorktown, Pa, what hap
pened at Yorktown"
hand waved eagerly.
That" said youngster, lis where
cestors licked your ancestors"
And what is your name, my little man ?" in
quired the visitor.
George Washington Wong"
Anyhow that's the way they tell the story,
and it may well be true. For there is nothing
strange to these little Americans in the Terri
tory of Hawaii in the thought that the deeds of
Bunker Hill and Valley Forge and Yorktown are
a part of their heritage. Born in the Territory,
accustomed to study day by day in American
schools the same subjects as their counterparts
in the mainland states, it never occurs to them
that they are different in any way from children
in mainland schools.
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were the labor backbone of the islands for many
years
4 MEANWHILE. other races also trickled ln'
M A few thousand South Sea Islanders
proved a disappointment. and that experiment
was abandoned. Portuguese from Azores and
Madeira Islands did better. In the latter part OF
the last century, it found that Japanese
made good field hands, and number of them
came in, up to about 1907, along with few
Koreans and fewer Spaniards and Puerto
Ricans
Few of any of these are, however, on the
plantations today. Some of the Portuguese re-
manned to become field overseers; many more
moved to town and entered business. So did the
Chinese and the Japanese. Or, remaining on
the plantations they grew old, and their sons
and daughters went to the city.
Then immigration stopped United States ex-
cusion laws prevented new foreign labor from
coming in Filipinos were discovered. The Philip
pines being at that time under United States
control there was no obstacle to their immigra
ton and they proved to be among the best
workmen Hawaiian planters had ever had
Many of them are still there, but thousands
have been sent back to their own islands
Their places are being taken by American cit
izens born in the islands. Sometimes it is diff
cult to tell to just what race their ancestry be-
longs For in the course of time they have be-
come amazingly mixed. Today there are almost
twice many part-Hawaiians at those of full
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

economy to the new one of industry and busi-
of the world it was necessary to produce some
thing that the rest of the world would buy. Al
first it was sandalwood fragrant wood IN
the mountain forests. There was a big trade in
that for a few years. But there was no con-
servation in those early days. hundred years
and more ago. Soon the sandalwood was gone
People began casting about for something more
dependable.
Many crops were tried For while the islands
supplied grain and vegetables to the gold hunt
ers of California and food of many kinds to the
whaleships. But petroleum replaced whale oil,
and whaleships came no more. and California
began raising its own grain and vegetables
Gradually farmers settled down to grow
things that the mainland couldn't grow; things
that could be grown best in the islands. such as
sugar, pineapple, Coffee rice bananas
AS industry grew, however there was not
enough labor to till the fields. Hawaiians never
took kindly to that kind of work. They had not
been fitted for it by their background of simple
communal existence. Moreover. they had not
yet begun to thrive under the changed environ
ment Labor would have to be brought from
outside.
First to come in considerable numbers were
Chinese few were already there In fact, 1t
was a Chinese who had made the first sugar IN
the islands. A frugal and Woodworking lot, they
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Parade OF Nations Found In Hawaiian Schools

Hawaiian blood. They are about equally divided
between "Caucasian-H Hawaiian" and "Asiauc-
Hawaiian"
THESE two are the most prominent mixtures
! But it is not uncommon to find half a dozen
or more national strains in the ancestry Oh one
little island American Not only have Chnese
and Europeans married Hawaiians, put SO nave
Koreans and Puerto Ricans and even Japanese
The latter have been popularity credited with
strong racial sense that kept them to them
selves but in the territory this has not continued
to be uniformly the case. study OF vital stP
tistics for the past few years shows an lncreA
ing number of marriages of island-porn peopie
of Japanese parentage with those of other races
Growing up together, sitting side by side IN
school. mingling on the playground, it is natural
that this should be Race preJudlce Is un-
known in Hawaii Early mixtures have mar
ried other mixtures, so that caretul record Oh
a given persons ancestry may show bewilder-
ing count of eights and sixteenths OF different
bloods.
Not that that is anything unusual in these
United States Not many Americans on the
mainland today count in their genealogies only
a single national strain. All Europe and dash
of American Indian, has gone into our makeup
The territory of Hawaii in like manner has
melted together Europe and Asia and the South
Seas.
Scientists who have studied the matter re-
port tndL the mixtures oul "Ciy "oii' ~
depends mainly. they say, on the indlVldual
qualities of the parents themselves not on race.
human hybrid often exhibits the best quail
ties of all his racial hertages, as the English
people compounded of German and Gallo and
Morse tribes, with a seasoning of Roman and
Celt and Iberian and Pict, have become one of
the leading nations of the world
"A /ILL1AM ATHERToN DU PUY, in boo
wv Hawaii and It's Race Problem" pdA
lished by the United States Department of the
Interior has given interesting picture of
what he conceives the Hawaiian American of
the future will be like. THE ultimate Hawaiian
American" he writes, will be about as swarthy
as a Scilian, straight haired stocky, physically
fit industrious efficient, athletic. His women will
be known around the world for a peculiar
beauty found nowhere else"
Mr. Du Puy, of course, does not mean his an
alyss to be taken too literally or too sweepingly
generalized There will always be, no doubt,
representatives of pure" racial strains remain
ing in the Territory. The white" population of
some 10000 has shown in late years less ten
dency to intermarry with other races than have
other elements in the citizenry. But he emissions
his handsome, athletic, swarthy Hawaiian
American as the form to which the mass is ap-
preaching. The real point of his findings is that
these people are Americans, as truly and thor
oughly as any descendant of English, Scotch,
German, Italian, Slavic or whatever blood has
filtered into country since the days when
the New England Pilgrims and the Virginia
cavaliers landed on the Atlantic coast to found
the land for which our fathers died.
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Nd in essentials, they not different.
u They grow up with the same ideals, the
same civic standards, as the rest of us In fact,
when you come right down to it, rather few of
our ancestors actually were present at York
town. either. More than likely, our families
few generations back were Germans, or Italians,
or Irish or Swedes. AS someone has stated the
case with extraordinary neatness: IAN immi-
grant is somebody elses grandfather"
The visitor in the story was moved, as many
other visitors have been, to inquire just how
these little offsprings of pilgrims had come to-
gether under the flag in such bewildering
variety.
The brown ones with the straight noses, wav-
ing dark hair and big luminous eyes, were easy
to place They were the Hawaiians. They were
there first, as the American Indians were first
on the mainland It's their country. Was their
country you correct? 1t still is. The Hawaiian
vote is still the largest unit when ballots are
counted in the Territory. They never were con-
ouered. Out of their traditional hospitality. they
opened their doors and their hearts wide to the
white strangers from over the sea, and though
their own social and economic system crumbled
away at the impact of the more complex civili-
zation those white strangers introduced, here
they are with the same kind hospitable ira
dtion
The others here result of the work.
ings of that change from the old fsh-and-poi
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

PASTRY IDEAS FOR THANKSGIVING
Let Martha Meade's new book, 80 Praise Winning
Pastries" /" help you make this Thanksgiving dinner
course in all kinds Of pastry making. New Pumpkin
Pies on pages 20. II. and "A: Minee Pies on pages
IS and 36 and many other desser, ideas: Chap
ter on Dos. and Don's" and Uses for Leftover
aeisy-send for . sopy in time for Thsnkssiyinsi
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

A MERICA'S melting pot! Not New York,
~ Chicago San Francisco but that integral
part of America that is separated from the
North American continent by 2000 miles of blue
seas - Honolulu Hawaii. Here, indeed is the
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
Wiggin Story
In Movies

'"Timothy'S Quest" an "all-
family picture that is said to
possess all of the warmth and
appeal of such pictures as MRS.
Wigs of the Cabbage Path" and
Little Women" will be the next
screen attraction at Loew'S Co
lumbia Theater.
Based on Kate Douglas Virgins
book, the story deals with a lad
and his sister who escape from a
cruel couple trading in homeless
children. The youngsters find a
home with a grim spinSter in q
small village. Timothy, wise be-
yond his years, proves instru-
mental in furthering a romance
between the spinster'S niece and
her sweetheart.
Dickie Moore and Virginia
Weidler portray the fugitive
youngsters, while Eleanore Whit
ney, last seen in Millions in the
Air." and Tom Keene furnish the
romance.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
PIoy
March 28

When the "Secret Garden:'
comes to the National Theater
Saturday morning, March %, as
the next to the last play in the
current series, John O'Connor
popular with Children's Theater
audiences for the last four years
will have the difficult and at
tractive role Of Dickson"
Dickson is a difficult role, be
cause of the Strang Yorkshire
speech, but John O'Connor is
said to be equal to it. Remem.
bered happily by Washington for
the many roles he has played
here in the past seasons Of the
Children's Theater Of New York,
Mr.. O'Connor had played in sup
port Of Helen Hayes and Osgood
Perkins, as well as other Broad.
way stars, before joining the
Children's Theater. A graduate
Of Dartmouth he was a member
Of the Dartmouth debating team,
which defeated teams from both
oxford and Cambridge.
Only one more play after "The
Secret Garden" remains in the
current season Of children's plays.
It is Beauty and the Beast, "
which comes to the National
Theater Saturday morning, April
18. Reservations should be made
now at the Women's Interna-
tional League, $50 Seventeenth St.
N. w.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
VI

EARLE-Antia Louise in Brides
Are Like That" II a. m, 1880
4:2O, 7:10, 10 p. m. Stage-12:25,
$40. 6:10, 8 p. m.
FOX-Irvin S. Cobb in. every
body'S Old Man." II a. m, 1885
4:25, 7:10, 10 p. m. Stage
12:45, S:35, $40. 9:1O p. m.
PALACE Charlie Chaplin m
Modern Times" 1910, 2:3O,
4:50, 7:10, $3.50 p. m.
METROPOLITAN p ul Muni
"Story Of Louis PaSteur," 11:1O
a. M, lis, 1920, $40, 1925,
$3.50 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Bing Crosby In
Anything Goes" 11:42 a. m.
l:42. 3:42, 5:42, 7:42, 9:42 p. m
KEITHS-Fred Astaire. Ginger
Rogers in Follow The Fleet
l1:44 a. M, 2:13, 4:42, TIL
9:40 p. m. March Of Time
1922 a. m. 1851, 4:2O, 6:49
9:19 p. m.
LITTLE-Greta Garbo in
"Queen Christina" 1927 a. m.
1871, 1884, 5:38, 7:41, GAS p. m
HOWARD-Paul NUM-, "ThE
Story Of Louis Pasteur," 1890
1855, 7:05, 1910 p. m.
Stage-Andy Kirk and his or
cheStra, 2:40, $3.50. 9:10 p. m.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
Frank K. Silk
At Goyety

That excellent burlesque comic
Frank K. Silk, and his "SilR
Stocking Revue" hold the stage al
Colonel Lakes Gayety this week
Mr.. Silk, well-known to the regu
lar burleSque fans Of washington
has put together a good program
show in his present review, gather
ing a group of clever performers
Specially numbers and vaudeville
turns throughout the bill add "a
riety and spice to a wellturned
performance.
Assisting Mr.. Silk in the role OF
laugh-gatherer is Fred Binder,
character comedian who does a
pretty swell job. Milt Bronson
and Johnny Cook are the straight
men.
The pulchritudinous end # the
bill has not been overlooked, how.
ever, and Dianne Rowland, a
peppy and flashing bit of fluff,
puts over a devastating number
or two.
Mimi LYNN has moments also
and seemed to rank high in the
regard of the audience yesterday
Iona O'Donnell. Soubrette, has
a fair singing voice and turns in
well rendered solos at times in ad
dition to her work in the regular
scenes.
Tap dance routines offered by
Condo and Allen are well executed
and the cohus, q bunch of good
looking little cuties, can sing and
dance as well as look pleasant.
r. S.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
Cochran Students in Show
At National , March II

S. e. Cochran will offer the STU
dents of the National Academy Of
Stage Training in performance
at the National Theater, Friday
afternoon, March 81, at 4:30
o'clock, marking the completion
of the eleventh term Of the acad-
emy, Of which he is founder.
The performance is under the
direction of Maurice Greet, direc-
tor of the academy, and included
in the program will be the first
act Of CoSmo Gordon Lennox'S
comedy, 'The Marriage of Kitty;
a one-act comedy entitled, Paging
Tito; a one-act drama, "A Mo
ment of Darkness" and a fantasy
entitled, Drama Immortalis."
Students Of the dancing depart
ment of the academy will be seen
in a dance program arranged by
Marion D. Venable, director of the
department.
Given at the end of each 10
week term of the academy, the
student performances offer the
stage aSp1rantS an opportunity
for actual stage experience, as a
part of their studies looking to-
ward graduation. The perform
ances are closely observed by Mr..
Cochran, who is ever looking for
exceptional Washington talent for
the National Theater Players. A
large number of the academy
students have succeeded in max
ing the grade with the players.
It is announced that the spring
term of the academy will Begin
April and that a large enroll
ment is anticipated. The local
school of the drama was estab-
lished three years ago and has
developed rapidly. It is now rec
ognized as the foremost institu-
ton of the kind south of New
York.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
MODERN TIMES" OPENS
Chaplin a Hi
InHis Latest
At Palace

It may be set down at once
that Modern Times" the new
Charlie Chaplin picture at the
Palace, is good. It is very good.
In this, the first Chaplin film
in three or four years, we find
many Of the old Chaplin devices
still working. Also the story is
contrived to present a character
that peculiarly fits Mr.. Chaplin's
idea of what he is best in.
The picture is in brief an old
Chaplin blending of comedy and
pathos. And it is well done. It is
so well done, in fact, that these
devices that we were used to
years ago seem fresh and novel,
as If we had never seen them.
The plot of Modern Times" is
sketchy but it forms a continuous
if tenuous, thread upon which
are hung the comedy gags, and
some Of these gags are ludicrouS
in the extreme.
Yet Chaplin has managed to
inject some real tear-jerking
pathos in many sequences and
the emotions are given quite a
workout right up to the final
scene where the two principal
figures walk out Of sight down
a wide road toward q distant
skyline.
The plot is not complete;
nothing is settled; nothing done;
yet there are elements of ire
mendous dramatic strength in
this film.
The character eSsayed in the
present opus by the comedian is
that Of a futile and timid little
ne'er-do-well working in highly
geared modern industrial plant.
The tremendous speed and pres
sure of his work finally drive the
little man into a nervous break
down.
Mr.. Chaplin has some elegant
support. Paulette Goddard, the
sex interest, is quite q comely
lass and turns out an excellent
characterization. other Holly
wood notables cast in the story
are Chester Conklin, Hank Mann
and Chester Bergman.
Among the highpoints of the
picture it may be mentioned that
Mr.. Chaplin sings a song. The
musical setting of the picture is
quite good. The film has printed
SubtitleS.
In addition to the usual news
reel, the Palace presents a Fitz-
Patrick travel talk, "Gateways to
Canada" and a musical short
in natural color.
In brief, the Palace is present
ing this week one Of the prize
programs Of the year. j. w. B.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23

(who is Johnny WeiSSmuller, OF
course) there will be another sepa-
ration for him and Lupe on
account of she is going to England
to make a couple of pictures and
he (still sans haircut-he can
almost sit on it now) has to stay
out here to finish his jungle epic
;. Most of the crew on the loca-
ton of "The Good Earth" are liv.
ing in auto trailerS to save them"
selves from getting up too early
in the morning. Living on wheels
to make a picture Of primitive
life-quaint, eh?
Ironic, the career Of ALA Nazl.
nova. She retired from Holly.
wood some years ago, her screen
career at an end and her hail.
fellow-weu met friends barely
speaking to her as a fallen star.
Undaunted she turned to the
New York stage, made a new
success. and is now back here
appearing in Ibsen's Ghosts"
with the most celebrated audi
ence in town in nightly attend
ance with the New York critics
acclaim in back of her as the
greatest actress in America and
the movie moguls all trying to
resign her again now that she
has clicked.
BY the by, Dick Powell will
have to take himselfa rest so he
will not injure his vocal chords.
He has been working steadily for
months now, as you know, and
too much is indeed too much for
such a delicate mechanism O. 0
throat.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
Songster Writes 30
Tunes for New Film

A new song-writing record has
been attained by Frederick Hol-
lander, Hollywood song composer.
Hollander recently penned 80
songs in seven days for the theme
background in Desire" the new
Marlene Dietrich Gary Cooper film,
a Paramount production.
Hollander is the composer Of the
popular "Im Falling in Love
Again." which he did for ''The
Blue Angel" Miss Dietrich's
last foreign-made picture, and
Johnny" which she sang in "Song
Of Songs" He now is working on
the score Of IT Loved a Soldier" ,"
the next Dietrich Charles Boyer
Paramount film.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
King Vidor Awarded
BeIoiunn Film Honor

For his direction of such films
as $50 Red the Rose" and ''Wed-
ding Night" King Vidor has been
awarded diploma Of honor by
the Festival International de Gin
ema of Brussels.
Last year Vidor was given the
first League of Nations Cinema
Award for his direction Of "Our
Daily Bread" and within the
past week the United Daughters
of the Confederacy conferred
upon him the Cross of Honor.
Vidor's next Paramount assign.
ment Is "The Texas Rangers"
starring Gary Cooper.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
Sylvia Sydney Seen
i With Black TaiIIeur

Sylvia Sidney, starring cur
rently in 1.-The Trail Of the Lone
some Pine" is wearing q modiSh
black tailleur with interesting &C
ceSsories. Her hat and shoes are
black but her bag and gloves are
of gold-coIored chamois. Match
ing these smart items is a gold.
colored tailored shirt caught at
the throat with an emerald
studded alligator.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23
ON PUBLIC. NUISANCES
First Birthday Of Major Bowes'
Amateurs Finds Programs
Are Still FIourishinq
By ANDREW R.. KELLEY

One of the Friday afternoon nuisances that find their
into stage show theates snapped clip toward the Fox
orchestra pit and hit Lew Dave Lampkn sost in the eye
1t good luck alone that saved the musician from per-
manent injury. .
dose of City justice might prove the right
tive in such Recently audience out there
noyed by patron who arrived with metal conaner full of
ice cubes insisted upon rattng at the entertainers When
polite requests desst proved ineffective the house
went after the smart aleck with a club.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23

Louis B. Mayer (M.-G.-M.'s head
whip-chacker) has been made an
honorary member Of the ancient
order of HibernianS Can Irish Or
ganiZation), which definitely
makes him Abie'S Irish Rose.
The Washington times., 1936-03-23

The latest Tarzan epic, even
though it's finished, is being sent
back to the studio and one-third
of it will be re-shot. In its original
finished form it stood an epic full
Of animals, but no Story-hence the
doctoring. Speaking Of Tarzan