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The Washington times., 1936-06-20

HOLLYWOOD, June 20.-Pur-
chase by Columbia Studios Of
eight new story properties during
the past five days brings that COM
pany's seasonal buys to 81, to set
an all-time Hollywood record for
activity in the story market.
All Of these purchases were
made within the past 60 days.
Indications are that the rich
harvest for authors and their
agents is not yet over, for all
Hollywood studios are planning
increased production for the COM
ing season, and the total output
of featurelength pictures during
the year is expected to surpass
500 for the first time.
Columbia'S buys, in addition to
those recently announced, include
Meredith NicholSon's romantic
story of Andrew Jackson. Cavalier
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

Bing Crosby wandered into
one of the desert cafes at Lone
Pine for breakfast instead of go
ing to the eating house operated
by Jack Voshell, business man.
ager of the Rhythm on the
Range" company.
"Give me some buttered toast
and a cup of Coffee" he said to
the waitress.
A few minutes later she de-
The Washington times., 1936-06-20
Wins a. HOIIy.UOOd Plum

That picture will have worldwide ready y-made audience
The Warner Brothers backed stage production and
it has successfully in England and Australia well
all America with five road companies.
"We suppose you're going to that high pitched
goofy laugh of yours in Three Men On Horse" my
friends have been saying. suppose The only picture
in which didn't have to "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" It's become sort of trademark like Edna May
divers snuffles Hughie Herberts twddng fingers or
ZaZu Pitts wrthing hands.
It Mervyn Leroy who discovered that laugh and he
is going to make this picture, suppose he'll want
use it. We making "Top Speed" starring Joe E.
Brown in $780, when chanced to tell the cast between
story about souse, and used the laugh to illus
trate his condition.
In my next Mervyn said, "Now Frank, give us
that laugh!" I didn't know what he talking about
He said THAT laugh used when you told the jag ory
retod the story and used the laugh at its proper spot
and in every picture thereafter director wanted it.
I've often wanted to get rid of it, but guess I never
will. And anyhow, think it will fit right into few
scenes in ''Three Men On Horse"
Now I'll be looking forward my visit to Washington
Andy-see if you pick out cool spell for me.
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

posted a plate of toast and some
butter before him.
Say, I ordered buttered toast" I"
complained Crosby.
Your arm amt broke. Butter
it yourself" she snapped.
James Burke relates one about
the Hollywood movie crook who
took a sea voyage, but landed
where he started from cause he
The Washington times., 1936-06-20
WINS THE SCREEN ROLE ALL HOLLYWOOD COMEDIANS CRAVE
Katharine CorneIPs Version of
Romeo and juliet Dropped in
Favor OF Shakespeare

HOLLYWOOD June 2O-With several versions of Romeo
and Juliet from which to choose the has determined
on Shakespeare's original script
It practical tribute, lacking sentiment from the
to the playwright In the parlance of the newspaper craft
the critics convinced that Shakespeare d
glove copy years ago. meaning that required editing
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

show business
It's been many a long
year since I've been back
IN the National Capital,
Andy, and 1 want to visit
there this summer if l can
squeeze out a few days of
vacation. If 1 can I will,
for l have a sentimental
Irish regard for the place.
Twas probably long be-
fore your time when a
hokum melodrama called
Human Hearts" had what
now would be called its
world premiere in Washing
ton. That was in 1898, the
year of the Spanish-Amer-
lean War. The play was
written by Hal Reid, whose
son, the late Wallace Reid,
became one of the most pop
ular movie actors in the days
of the silent screen.
The leading man and
leading woman at that pre-
miere were my parents, Ed
and Catherine MeHugh, and
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

''I trust that we shall get along
very nicely, Ada" said Mrs.
Brown to the maid she had just
engaged; "for I am not at all diff
cult to please"
mo, ma am" replied the maid,
"that's what I thought as soon
as ever I saw your husband"
The Washington times., 1936-06-20
He Will Be Erwin TroWbridoe
In Three Men on a Horse
And Is He Happy
Dear Andy Kelley:

If McHugh can't address few words to Kelley,
then who can ask you2 And especially if the Kelley is in
Washington D. c., where the McHugh got his start in
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

they to play Human Hearts, for 13 continuous
years. although there five brief layof for mother
when she presented Dad with Ed, Jr Matt, Jimmie
self and Kitty, in the order named.
There part for a small boy in the playa young
ster about sand each Of the McHugh youngsters
arriving the proper age, played it. We chanced to be
playing again in Washington when my turn Yes,
Kitty played it, though the character boy The
MHugh certainly kept every possible salary right in the
family sock.
All the Family Actors
Most of the McHughs are still troupng Ed has been
Ethel Barrymore stage director for years. Matt aernates
between the stage and the SCREEN and Kitty makes
sional appearances behind the footlights.
It's the McHugh tradition suppose when am asked
my attitude toward my youngsters Peter, Susan and
Michael going stage screen say that if they want
to (maybe ten years from now it's OK with Let
them carry Show business has given very happy
lfe-especialy the pctures-and want to stay with 1t
long I can
I've made something 40 pictures for Warner Bros
during the past six years. The present is big musical
extravaganza called "Stage Struck, with Dick Powell
Joan Blonde the Four Yacht Club Boys, Warren William
and couple of hundred Busby Berkeley dancers.
But have to make terrible confession about "Stage
Struck" They make sing song in it! Imagine
solo from McHugh! All right, Mr. POWELL look to your
aurel-at least far volume of voice is concerned.
The show we're to make after this, though, is pic
turzaion Of what believe to be the funniest stage pro-
duction saw-''Three Men On Horse that story
about the meek, humble little clerk who has
planabe knack of guessing the winners of and who
falls into the hands of gangters who make him select the
winners for their benefit
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

Lou Naye insists that the G-men
are making things so bad for the
gangsters and racketeers that the
poor fellows are having a difficult
time making a dishonest livingI
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

The Extra Girl Says: "The
man who seeks a girl who's hun
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

Hjust couldn't help double-crosSing
the ocean.
The Washington times., 1936-06-20

CRY for love, usually winds I
with a girl who's just hungry "
Evening star., 1936-01-29

Amt you got no idea who it wasp
several asked.
mo. 1t was dark"
THE two boys, Franz and Carl, came
to the house through the gath
ering darkness. Carl was holding his
hand over his stomach and groaning
in pain.
Whats wrong now?" asked his
mother.
Il g-guess it's the green apples I
tasted
"Tasted?" scofted Franz. He ct
three whole apples"
YEARLY Martha rose. mo rest
with these boys" And she COM
menced doctoring him with herb tea
and honey remedies. Later. when
night prayers we're said Anton asked
a special prayer for the protection
/ Of his family.
Martha looked at him searchingly,
little fearfully. What had come over
him? But concerned with the sick
child, she only said: You'd better
go upstairs with Franz tonight. I'll
keep this little one with me in case
he gets sick again.
Anton kissed her and the baby,
/ picked up the shot gun and ascended
| the steep stairs.
Toward morning Martha was awak-
ened by pressure on her foot. Sleepily
she kicked out. Some one has let
the kitten in the house." she thought.
THE pressure was repeated firmly.
She was suddenly awake. filled
with a vague terror. Her heart was
beating painfully, her mouth dry, her
eyes staring about the dim room lit
only by little night lamp. Beside
her lay the form of her sleeping boy.
At the side of the bed was the cradle
where the baby girl slept. But there it
was-at the foot of the cradle, that
big dark form! Slowly it rose and
leaned around the cradle toward her.
Dear God! Save mel she whim-
pered. Then remembrance came. Hol-
iday! No market! Anton was home!
Anton Anton" she screamed.
The form rose and hesitated as
though deciding whether to stay or
run Suddenly shot from the head
of the stairway and the form dropped,
clutching at his thigh.
Later, when the furor had ended and
the neighhors, attracted by the shots,
had taken the bum away Martha was
trembling still in Anton's arms.
"Oh. if you had not ben here what
would have become of us?"
His voice came to her soothingly
with childlike simplicity:
You see. dear, when we keep the
the faith, nothing can harm U.s."
fCopyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-01-29

and years old, who we're catching
crayfish in the shallow water. Said
Anton dreamily:
Just 10 years today since we
reached this country and bought our
home in this so beautiful Kentucky
valley"
Martha answered rather proudly:
And if we all stay well and the
crops are good it will be paid for
in two more years"
X X X X
4 NTON'S brow wrinkled bit
Cousin Fritz and the men in
the market place tell me I'm fool
for not gathering vegetables and ber
ries on Sunday for Monday market
and for not driving TO market on
holidays. They say that the stuff
gets overripe and is wasted. But
answer: Waste Or no waste, ripe or
no ripe, We keep our holidays His
voice rose obstinately as he spoke.
Martha said: I'm glad tomorrow
is holiday We won't have to get
heat this Summer makes me SO tired
what with the housework and chill
dren and helping in the garden. Not
that I amt glad to help you all
can" she added hastily
Theirs was funny, boXlike, two
story house, just one room above the
other, with a stairway running up
steeply in full view and a little
kitchen jutting out at the back. But
a proud little house in it white paint
and green window frames. over which
the red balsam and cypress vines
trained in Summer.
Inside there was only the most nee
essary furniture, but all SO very clean.
This, in spite of the fact that Martha
worked in the field almost the whole
day, transplanting. wedding and gath
ering vegetables or picking berries in
season.
Il only wish we could see the neigh
bors' houses from here" Anton said.
L hate to leave you and the chill
dren alone nights"
x K X X
MARTHA looked concerned, as she
had never heard Anton make
such a remark before.
But I know how to fire the shot
gun and two quick shots are the
signal for sickness or trouble in the
neighborhood. And this is a peace
full country. Why, is something
Wrong?" she asked, wonderingly.
mol Mo-" Why frighten her, he
thought. But he remembered the
scene at the market place where the
truck gardeners stood in little groups
on the wooden runway against which
their wagons were backed waiting for
commission men and grocers to come
and buy their goods, invitingly dis
played at each wagon
The men were chewing tobacco or
smoking and exchanging neighbor-
hood gossip, for which exchange thier
womenfolk would later have to take
the blame.
A late conner joined the group where
Anton was standing and this new
Evening star., 1936-01-29
HORTICULTURAL CLUB
HEARS DR.. J. A. GAMBLE
q. S. Official Speaks at Takoma.
Annual Banquet Set for
February IL.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TAKOMA PARK. Md, January 90
DR.. ]. A. Gamble of the United
States Department of Agriculture and
president of the Potomac Rose So
ciety. was the. guest speaker at a
meeting of the Takoma Horticultural
Club last night in the Takoma Pub
lie Library.
The speaker told of his observations
in the principal rose gardens of Eu-
rope. DR.. Gamble was introduced by
c. M. Purves, the newly-elected presi-
dent of the club
Announcement was made that ar
rangements are being completed for
the annual banquet to be held Feb
ruary IL in Masonic Hall. 1t will be
the twentieth anniversary of the club
and the committee in charge is urging
all of the charter members to attend
Fred L. Harries is in charge of the
dinner details
The club joined the American Rose
Society and members were urged to
compete for some of the medals
awarded annually. The annual
pruning demonstration will be held
on Washingtons birthday.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

and Mrs. Rosa Jones directors to
serve three years, Mrs. King to sue
ceed herself and the others in the
places of Mrs. Chester F. Clagett and
Mrs. Frank Gladhill.
The holdover directors are Mrs.
Julian B. Waters, Mrs. Clarence
Offutt, Mrs. A. D. Oursler, Mrs. Bowie
F.. Waters, Mrs. Carl Kline and Mrs.
John Davis. The directors will choose
officers at an early meeting.
The group was addressed by Mrs.
Mary Rokahr. home management spe-
cialist of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, who discussed
Keeping Accounts"
Evening star., 1936-01-29
DAILY SHORT STORY
FAITH ALONE

arrival was pale
and tense. One arm
was in a heavy
bandage.
You have been
in a war - some
one shouted.
Worse than that.
l oversight t h 3
mornin'. I'm in the
barn an hour late
hitchin' up and
am just about to
pull out When l
hear the missus
scream. I runs
back and just as I
get to the door a
fellow jumps out. !
makes a grab for
him, but he has a
knife in his hand
and cuts me a cash
right through my
left arm. 1t hurt
so I had to let go.
Well, by the time
H. Was hand9ped
Evening star., 1936-01-29
A N TON a n d

A N ON a n d
Martha Weber
were sitting on the
stoop of their home
where the after
glow of sunset cast
it's soothing magic
over them. Anton,
tall and strong,
had his c h a i r
tilted back against
the house, a look
of content on his
race. Marina SAT
in a low, rustic
rocker holding on
her lap a 9-month-
old girl who was
Growing with de-
light as she ratified
some beans in a
little baking pow
der can.
From the Bear
Grass Greek, SO
feet away, came
the excited shouts
Evening star., 1936-01-29

vile, Monday afternoon. All coou-
pants Of the dwelling were absent at
the time.
Accokeek firemen, called too late to
damage at $4,000
The house was one Of several struc-
lures on the farm where Melvin Un-
derWood, former Prince Georges
County sheriff, shot and killed him
self and his wife as the aftermath of
an argument over a card game last
Fall.
1t was occupied by three Of the
couples sons, Norman. David and AL
bert Underwood, and the latter,s wife.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
PUPILS ADVANCE
TO SENIOR HIGHS
81 Graduates of Six EIe.
mentary Schools to Move
Up on Friday.

Six elementary schools of the Dis
trict will send total of 81 graduates
of their eighth-grade classes directly
TO senior high schools at the end Of
the present semester Friday.
Most of the elementary schools Of
the District are limited to six grades,
but the group of six still have eight
Grades. Thus their graduates skip
Junior high school.
Forty-eight of the eighth-grade
graduates will go to Central High
School, 43 from the John Quincy
Adams School and five from the Web
ster School.
Western will get "a from three
schools-21 from John Quincy Adams,
from the John Eaton School and 6
from the Industrial Home School.
The Webster School will send one
to Eastern.
Cardozo High School will get seven
from the Birney School and one from
Garfield.
The graduates are as follows:
Evening star., 1936-01-29
ACCOKEEK FARM HOUSE
is DESTROYED BY FIRE
Overheated Stove Blamed for
$4,000 Blaze at Underwood
Home.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ACCOKEEK, Md, January %
Fire, believed caused by an overheated
stove, totally destroyed a five-room
farmhouse belonging to the estate of
Melvin Underwood near Sharpers-
Evening star., 1936-01-29
FARM WOMEN'S MARKET
DIRECTORS ARE CHOSEN
Montgomery Cooperative Group
Also Hears Address by Home
Management Expert.

Management Expert.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
Rockville, Md, January %
The stockholders of the Montgomery
Farm Women's Cooperative Market
held their annual meeting here yes
terday afternoon and elected Mrs.
James D. King, Mrs. Raymond Kemp
Evening star., 1936-01-29

NOBODY can tell Miss Lucia Car
ruthers, 81, to go whistle for
living: she already does. Whistling.
says the pretty Seattle, Wash, girl
Is an art. So she has opened up a
whistling studio in the university
district and is building up groups
of hobby whistlers and professional
whistlers. She starts with the scale
and breathing exercises, then pro-
crosses to bird calls and obligatos,
with concert work the final STEP
"Whistlers. like singers, must be born
with a certain fexibility of the
tongue," she said. I've whistled all
my life, but it's only in recent years
that I've whistled seriously" AS a
background for professional whistling,
Miss Carruthers studied music at
Washington State College and in Los
Angeles.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
OWNER CLAIMS TRAP
BELONGED TO STANDISH
Steel Device Found Buried in
Wisconsin Believed to Have
Migrated With Indians.

By the Associated Press.
MONDOVI. Wis. January 29.-Let
history reckon with ttis-a double
spring wolf trap, found buried near
here, which. its owner says, might be
OF Miles StandiSh ownership.
w. l.. Standish, 81, a descendant of
the Pilgrim and who paid Farmer
Henry Kent So for the trap, said it
might have reached these parts during
some Indian migration.
On one spring of the rusted steel
appears the stamped name, M. Stand
lsh," in 18 or 20 point Gothic.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
U. S. Soil Honors Pilsudski

Soil from each of the SO States,
Territories and possessions Of the
United States has been added TO the
Pilsudski mound at Cracow, Poland.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

II you know OF any one engaged
IN some odd Job or hobby, please
send your story or tip to the Odd
Job Editor of The Star.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
graduates are as follows:
dams TO Central.

Adams TO Central.
Bernard ]. Apher Milton F. Barrett
Eugene c. Bouton James Ebert
John G. Cashell David E. Edwards
Eugene A.. Goldhere CLARK w. Hart
Marvin E. Gore, jr Donald F. Mercer
Nelson P. Hart James W Palmer
Robert T. Howard Anthony Panago
William T. Roberts Vincent Gooch Potter
Samuel H. Rogers Cecil E. Spruill
Wm g M rhompson SDon any borothy NJ Hfsisn Bishop
James j. Zuppa Lucy u Mcintosh
Mary E. Bass Pace A Motta
1nez c. Berte!lo Shirley E Roakes
Seena S. Chaser Charlotte A. Ridgewell
Martha B, Myers Elaine Sawaya
Marjorie L. Ranney Christby Stephanson
Barbara l. Thai L. r. Stockslager
JOY Q. Yates Amelia j Stuart
Everett C. Alexis ''
Adams to Western.
William E Burr Marylin A. Shapiro
James 4. EaSon George E. Blandford
Robert M. Gallaeher Bedford B. Brown
Alfred G Howe j. K Cloninger
John G. MCGUIRE Edward r. Padgett
Arthur R. Parker Joseph NJ Parker
Jan Rus s. James E. White
William R Welton Mareuerite Patton
+. NJ, Mccartney Gloria H. Smith
Priscilla A. Roetzel
Webster to Central.
Luis R. Capo Sophie Ottcrbach
MercedeS BuStamenta Plroska A. StaSzny
Chin NJ. Hsalo
Webster to Eastern.
John Glannakis
Eaton TO Western.
Clementine Barshlp Jack E Xanten
MenCent Carow James B Saum
Eddie IeleSias Adellne McAllster
Richard J. Evans
Industrial Home School to Western.
Eugene Luckett Miller o Yates
George H Molloy Loretta F Courtney
Richard Norton Minerva NJ. ONell
Birney to Cardoze.
Lewis F Banks Catherine f. Beal
Purnell w Locks Juanlta c. Green
OGell Stricklan Audrey c. Saunders
Arthur w. TraVers
Garfield to CardOzo.
Philip Brown
Evening star., 1936-01-29

There's a rubber comb
for scalp stimulation
hard rubber disc for body
massage and rubber
cup for general use. With
long cord.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

and drove over and got Hoffman's
oldest boy to stay at the house it
got this late"
Amt you got no idea who it was?"
several asked.
mo. 1t was dark"
Evening star., 1936-01-29

Wash and wave your hair at
home. These dryers have al
ways COOL handles, nichrome
long g-life heating unit. non-rust-
ing screen and underwriters
approved cord; A. c. current
only.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

A few drops of this soothing inhalsnt up
the nose relieves nasal congestion caused
by colds and helps check nasal secretions.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
Grave of Mrs. Jackson.

Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, mother of
President Andrew Jackson. is buried
in an unmarked grave near Charles
ton, s. C.
Evening star., 1936-12-20
FISHERIES TREATY
DELAYED BY SOVIET
Japanese Agreement With Ger.
many in Spanish Situation
Thought Cause.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, December ia renewed
effort to get Russia's signature on a
new Russo japanese fisheries conven-
ton was made today without success.
Mamoru Shigemitsu. Japanese Am
bassador to Russia, called on Maxim
M. Litvinoff, commisar Of foreign af-
fairs, and declared he was instructed
TO urge signing OF the convention.
Litvinoff in reply said the whole
matter was in the hands Of the gov
ernment and he was unable to give any
answer, but he advised the japanese
Ambassador to return within . few
days.
(The fisheries convention would pro-
vide an eight-year renewal Of an
agreement giving japanese the right
to fish in Soviet waters off Eastern ST.
IBERIA. Russia has withheld signature
because of the German-Japanese
agreement pledging cooperation
against Communism)
Observers stated they felt Litvinof's
reply to the japanese Ambassador in
dicated Russia would hold out until
the last against signing the conven-
ton unless the Japanese repudiated
the German-Japanese agreement.
Evening star., 1936-12-20

ton the country is passing through
does not permit me, as the man indi-
Gated to take President Gomez's place,
to make public statements. since, If I
were to make them criticizng the ac-
tions Of President Gomez. it could be
esteemed that I was making them as
I stepped on the heels OF the Presi-
dent on my way to take his place;
and no one would believe me if I
made statements that were favorable
to him"
Pro-army leaders announced earlier
they had drafted and signed impeach-
ment charges against President Gomez
They added, however: I'VE are not
certain that they will be placed
formally before the House"
The President, amid some relaxation
Of the public cry for his official scalp,
received the army-supported bill for
e-cent sugar tax to pay for rural
schools at the palace. and said he
would study it carefully"
Army leaders were confident Gomez
would veto the measure and averred
their belief he should be replaced in
the presidency.
The pro-army congressman met Sc
cretly on the impeachment plan after
the House of Representatives. voting
l06 to 43. had adopted the sugar tax
bill. The drafted charges against the
President. based on his expressed op-
position to the measure before the
House voted on it. were understood to
be that he interfered with legislative
prerogatives.
Col. Fulgencio Batista, the navy's
strong man." conferred during the
day with other military leaders at
Camp Columbia, where anti-Gomez
J sentiment still was running high.