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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
GENERAL DIES AT PALACE
M owl F.
CLOCK

PALACE-Gary Cooper, THE
General Died At Dawn" IL
a. M, LOS, $40, $40, 1926,
9:35 p. m.
BELASCO-"The House of Roths-
child" 1908, 2:07, 4:01, 8, 8,
9:55 p. m.
COLUMBIA-"Charlie Chan At
the Race Track" IL, 2, 4, 5:55,
1853, $50 p. m.
EARLE-Cedric Hardwicke, Mine
Days a Queen" II a. m, 1885,
4:25, 7:15, 10 p. m. Stage, 1910
$3.50, 6:15, 9:05 p. m.
Ad-
verse;" $50, 1850 a. m. 2:15,
4:45, ITO, 9:35 p. m.
CAPITOL-Warner Baxter, "The
Road to Glory" 10:40 a. m,
1870, 4:20, ITO, 10 p. m. Stage,
1890, 800, 6:10, 9 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Ginger Rogers,
Swing Time" 1854 a. m: 2:18
4:42, 7:06, $50 p. m.
LITTLE-"The Informer," 11:16
a. m, 1:21, 1928, 5:31, 1886,
Gal p. m.
HOW ARD-Kay Francis, 1.-THE
White Angel" 1915, 2:45, Sis,
7:45, 1918 p. m. Stage, Leroy
Smith and his orchestra, las,
AIS, 6:45, 9:15 p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

AS mentioned above Akin Tami.
rolf plays the menacing General
Yang for very ounce of it's sinister
value. Porter Hall plays a sim.
pering villain effectively, and
there is an excellent contribution
by j. M. Kerrigan. The reliable
veteran, Dudley Digges, makes up
as Mr.. WI and gets away with his
Chinese nicely.
Direction is excellent, photog.
raphy fine and production Al, in
fact, General Died at Dawn is
10, 20 and 80 melodrama, richly
trimmed and served.
On the supplementary program
is an Our Gang comedy, Bored
of Education, which is good, if
you like Our Gang. A Betty Boop
animated cartoon and an excel
lent issue of the Hearst Metrotone
news completes a program up to
the high Palace average.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

with a SympaJnetlc cOnVlcIlon.
The film is unusual in its cast
in that brings together three
outstanding male stars. Warner
Baxter, Lionel Barrymore and
Fredric March, to say nothing Of
Gregory Ratoff, who does a
swell job as the hardboiled SER
geant.
The film also serves to intro
duce June Lang. a winsome bit Of
fluff, who carries the heart in
tereSt of this saga. This young
lady, playing the feminine lead
with three outstanding male
stars, is in a bit Of a spot, as
one may easily see. Yet she
acquits herself adequately, though
a trifle more Of maturity seems
indicated by the role.
War Is Background
The war and its horrors really
make the main motive of this
story, which is rich in thrilling
incidents. The three main char
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

the progress of her star pupil and
is urging Miss Shearer to continue
her dancing.
II had estimated conservatively
that it would require three months
to teach Miss Shearer to dance"
said Miss de Mile. She learned
it in as many weeks.
Miss Shearer has every qualifi.
cation of a brilliant dancer. She
combines grace, pose and a supple
body with keen intelligence and
remarkable ability to concentrate.
Without question, she is the most
amazing pupil I have ever had"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

miss Madeleine CarrolD an I'M
willing accomplice in the perfidy.
Cooper is captured, escapes and
the money is juggled back and
forth in a manner that will keep
you dizzy following it. When it
looks as though Yang was about
to take the pot, a surprise finish
turns the table on the fighting
general.
The finish of General Died at
Dawn" is a lalapaloosa if you can
swallow it without choking. All
of Yang's cutthroats kill them
selves through humiliation over
having permitted their chief to
suffer a mortal wound. BY this
time Gary Cooper and Madeleine
Carroll understand each other bet
ter, melt into loving arms.
The acting in this feature is no.
table for skilled character portraits.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
Julie"
Third Week:

Romeo and Juliet" begins a
third and final week at the Ma.
tional Theater tomorrow night
If Norma Shearer hadn't chosen
the screen for a career, she would
have been a great dancer.
This is the opinion of Agnes de
Mile, who has been inStructing
the star in the romantic "Passa.
caglia," fifteenth century Italian
dance, for the ball room scene in
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer's "R o m o
and Juliet" which opens Sunday
night at $3.50 o'clock at the Ma
tional Theater.
Miss de Mile is enthusiastic oyev
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

An ingloriouS and bloody chap
ter of English history is unfolded
on the screen at the Earle Theater
this week in the Gaumont-British
production of Mine Days a
Queen"
Skillfully directed by Robert
Stevenson, produced on a lavish
scale with a capable cast of
English actors the tragic story of
Lady Jane Grey is forceful drama
and worthy sequel to the
spectacular Private Lives of
Henry VIII"
The scenes if anything are too
magnificent, the costumes too new
and shiny. The ladies and gentle
men of the court and even the sol
diers and pikesmen are always
logged out in their finest lace and
armor.
Deathbed Scene
We liked best the early part of
the film, the political maneuvers
of Warwick that led up to the
brief reign and the tragic end of
Lady Jane. The deathbed scene
of Henry VIII is marvelously well
done. So, too, does the boy King
Edward VI acquit himself nobly
in the banquet hall scene in de-
nouncing Warwick for the execu-
ton of his uncle.
The execution scenes are well
staged, the rumbling of the drums
and the booming of the cannon
telling the populace that another
head has fallen.
Nova Pilbeam, as Lady Jane,
walks to her doom bravely, almost
without a sign of emotion, and
perhaps with just little too much
restraint in acting.
Cedric Hardwicke does an ex-
ceedingly fine job as the schem-
ing Warwick, and Desmond Tester
as the boy King Edward.
The romance of Lady Jane and
Warwick's son is we'll done, but
makes only brief episode in the
film. Most of the love interest,
we fear, was left on the floor of
the cutting room
The Cuban FOIIies
A sparkling revue, the Cuban
Follies," accounts for the stage
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

FULL OF ACTION
It has a gilt-edged cast, with
Gary Cooper, as an adventurous
munitions runner, having quite
a struggle to keep a heavy char
acter actor, Akin Tamiroff, from
stealing the high honors.
Gary Cooper is the courageous
daredevil who lines up with the
down-trodden Chinese of a little
province that has been ravished
by General Yang's buccaneers.
Cooper is entrusted with an i'm
mense sum of money raised by
the terror-stricken people to buy
guns and munitions.
It happens that General Yang's
spies find out about this fortune
being Smuggled out of Shanghai,
chiefly through being able to lure
Mr.. Cooper with a lovely decoy |
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
Third Week of
Swing Time

"Swing Time" began a third
week at RKO-Keith's Theater
yesterday, thus living up to the
Astaire- Rogers hold over tradi-
ton.
Here is the worlds greatest
screen dancing couple and their
main difficulty is that everybody
expects them to surpaSs Top
Hat" and Roberta"
They don't do exactly that in
Swing Time" but they do offer
some of the sparkling dancing
that has brought them fame and
at least two numbers that can
stand comparison with their best
previous gems.
These are Fred AStaire's solo,
"BojangleS, in which he donS
blackface and goes through a
smart routine accompanied by
two silhouettes. Never Gonna
Dance" has sweet swing tempo
and is danced beautifully by the
stars with Pick Yourself Up"
another sizzler.
The music of Swing Time" is
by Jerome Kern with lyrics by
Dorothy Fields. Most tuneful
numbers are "A Fine Romance"
and the Swing Waltz"
Victor Moore and Helen Brod-
erick are big helps in maintain
ing the comedy at high speed,
with Eric Blore also assisting.
The story is frothy bit Of fluff,
well strung out and made paSsa-
BILE by the fast tempo.
On the supplementary program
is March of Time and the latest
issue of the Pathe news reel.
A. r. K.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
Clifford Odets' Screen PIoy
Offers Madeline Carroll
In Exciting Story
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Good old rp-snorting melodrama in Chinese red setting
General Died at DAWN which opened at Loews Palace
Theater yesterday,
Clifford Odets Broadways parlor pink playwright is the
author of the story and Lewis Milestone directed
There talk of helping oppressed peoples against the
ambitions of selfish .tds but excitement is the domi-
Of this feature rather than social propaganda
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
Popular

John Arledge, young character
juvenile. will appear prominently
in two forthcoming R-K-O Radio
films, Don't Turn EN- Loose" and
The Big Game"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
Nine Days q Queen at Earle,
Cuban FoIIies on STAGE

Hportion of the Earle bill this week.
The Cuban orchestra, directed by
Giro Rilnac, introduces among
other things new kind of rhythm,
inspired by the jungle, that goes
jazz one better. Tito Coral, a
Latin Bing Crosby, does La Gu
caracha" and several other popu-
lar numbers.
That ardent crusader against
jazz, Don zelaya, the Nicaraguan
pianist who claims Washington as
his home. provides the highlight
of the revue. Although his act is
familiar, patrons of the Earle
never tire of Don zelaya. His
playing of "Chopin's Funeral
March" to jazz tempo and his
demonstration of a mother putting
her baby to sleep by oompah,
oompah rythym bring down the
house. Joe Arena & Co., two
tumblers: a trick dog, and Giro
Rimac and Charlie Boy are others
featured in song and dance num-
bers on the bill. A chorus of a
dozen or more South American
beauties provides colorful back
ground for the acts. A newsreel
travelogue and a technicolor car
toon comedy conclude the pro-
gram. T. L.
VOTE AMERICAN
New Team
Helen Broderick and Victor
Moore, top-ranking laugh stars,
form new and hilarious team in
Swing Time" new Fred Astaire'
Ginger Rogers musical.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
Rood to Glory" at Capitol
With Good Stage Show
On Birthday Program

"The Road to Glory current at the Capitol Theaer is war
picture but much than just another picture has
good story with unusual angles and directed and enacted
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
THE GENERAL DIED AT
nAWNO

A Paramount picture directed by
Lewis Milestone. Screen play by
Clifford Odets. At LOew's Palace
TheateF,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

ROAD TO GLORY"
Directed by Howard Hawks. "A
Twentieth Century.FOx picture.
At the Capitol Theater.
THE CAST
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

VOTE AMERICAN
Evening star., 1936-10-28
9 and IL foot Carpeting

Get it while Anniversary low prices
ore still in order. It's woven Of
deep, 3-pIy hord-spun yarn so it
won't fluff os ordinoY broodlooms
do. 7 important colors: jade
green, royal blue, burgundy, rose
toupe, walnut brown, cedar ond
soee green.
The Washington times., 1936-05-22
HONORED BY STATE

Senator Rose Mcconnell Long,
who shares the billing with Mrs.
Hattie Caraway as the only two
lady performers in the Senate,
runs second only to Mrs. Caraway
in honors bestowed on her by her
State.
Mrs. Long was sworn in again
Tuesday. This time to fill the
unexpired term of her late hus-
band, Senator Huey P. Long, TO
which she was elected. She has
been serving under an appoint
ment.
Mrs. Caraway was also first ap-
pointed to the Senate, then elected
to fill the unexpired term OF her
late husband and then elected to
a full term on her own.
The Washington times., 1936-05-22

one of the bet Sen. Hiram johnson
ter mouthpieces for California
can say a word or two and Fran
co.'s Villon probably got his start
with a travelling show in Mar
settles.
Put them all together and You
have a combination that is di.
rect challenge to the best in the
business not barring megaphone
or microphone.
With reverse English on the ball
Senator johnson held the spot
for a little more than three min
utes recently to tell how much
he didn't think of the London
Naval Treaty, Here it is in one
deep breath:
"On a historic occasion in
this body concerning another
treaty, which, in the language
of the distinguished Senator
from Illinois (Mr. Lewis, led
us into the portals of hope and
made possible that millennium
that we all trust may come to
us and the peace that we all
seek in days that are to come,
I spoke of that treaty then
before this body that was
lauded all over the world as
the beginning of the end of
fratricidal strife, the beginning
Of the end of any conflict be-
tween peoples after its execu-
ton and the beginning with
us Of the glory and the hope
Of peace on earth and good
will to men-a treaty more
hOnOred since in the breach
than in observance spoke
concerning that treaty in the
language of Francois Villon,
who wrote concerning friend
Of his thus:
"'TO Messire Noel, named the
neat
BY those who love him,
bequeath
A helmlesS ship, a houSeless
street,
A wordleSs book, a SwordleSs
sheath,
An hourIess clock, a leafIess
wreath,
A bed sans sheet, a board sans
meat,
A bell sans tongue, a saw sans
teeth,
To make his nOthingless COM
plete.'
"And 1 vote for this treaty,
The Washington times., 1936-05-22
KASHMIR

A summer in India does seem a
terrifying thought, but if one has
to be in India at that. time. there
is a summer resort that will de-
light and enchant the visitor.
This is Kashmir, place neg
lected by many tourists who think
that they have done" India and
leave without visiting the banks
of the Jhelum.
The frontier mail train meets
the steamer at Bombay every Fri
day and takes passengers to Raw
alpindi. north of the Punjab, the
nearest railroad station for KaSh'
mir. 1t is two-day journey, and
from there the trip is by car, about
200 miles to Srinagar.
STRANGE CONTRAST
The scenery is bleak and hard
and the Jhelum swirls below
rocky pinnacleS that mark the en-
trance to the beautiful Kashmir
valley. 1t is a strange contrast
to the valley itself with its deep
blue mountains, capped with snow
it's fields of wild purple iris, vel
low mustard and young green
corn. A pleasant resort is this
Kashmir and one finds it difficult
to believe that it is India anc
summer.
Srinagar is the capital, strag
Cling town along the Jhelum
river. The crowded native city is
interesting with its golden domec
temples, its shattered shops anc
The Washington times., 1936-05-22

day IN scores EASio hOOihsOH
of ways you do thingS-withOut
a moments wOrry-which are far
more disgusting and an infinitely
greater menace to your health
and life!
Meaning what?
Meaning your MENTAL HY,
GIENE.
A poisonous drain, stagnant
pool, tainted food-these things
are all matters of physical hygiene
which affect our bodies. But
thoughts affect our bodies as
directly and powerfully as food or
germs.
Fear can kill as surely as filth.
Hate can Sicken you as surely
as slime.
Secret envy and self-pity -
stored. grief or reSentment-can
faint your life more foully than
maggoty meat.
Mental hygiene is far more i'm
portant than physical hygiene
You can run many a risk OF the
flesh and yet survive, for the body
has power to cleanse and cure it.
self.
But you cannot clutter your
mind Nth trash, nor corrupt it
Nth 11GStineSS, nor mess 1t up
Oith malice, Without sure and
painful penalty.
Fate, you may feel, has done
you dirt. You've possibly list n
complaints as long as your arm
You may even have suffered great
tragedy and injustice you neVel
The Washington times., 1936-05-22
Modern Life Insurance Evolves From Bet
Made In Sixteenth Century Tavern

just a few decades later, that the
newly discovered anaesthetics
were quite as vigorously con-
demned by righteous persons as
a contravention of good morals,
with the contention that God
had ordained human suffering
and it must continue.
The first permanent insurance
business established in America
was the Philadelphia Contribu.
tionship, a big name for a small
fire insurance company, orga-
nized in 1852. Benjamin Frank,
lin was on the board of direc,
tors. In 1859 the Presbyterian
The Washington times., 1936-05-22

WILL 4AAAA ~ A~---
that he would not live a year.
The wager was 400 pounds, the
stakes being pooled by the merry
makers.
That was in 1888. The ruddy
and jovial Gibbons, who would
have fooled a modern actuary,
died 20 days before the end of the
year. Four hundred pounds was
a lot of money then as now, and
the lads at the ale house decided
to welsh.
They refused payment to Glib
bons' heirs on the ground that a
12-month year was IL times four
weeks at % days, and that, there
fore, Gibbons had died just nine
days too late.
1t was novel case in the courts.
BlackStone's cue in the world
drama wasn't due for nearly 200
years, and the common law had
not then enunciated the principle
that the law cannot enforce a
gambling contract. So the judges
went into a long and distressed
huddle and came out with de-
cision for the Gibbons heirs.
The shareholders paid up, and
on that date there was recorded
the first payment of a life in
surance policy.
GAMBLING "TAINT"
That Drury pothouse and the
goingS on there were right smack
in the human side of the news, and
no less is an actuary's table and
all the dessicated detail of mod
ern life insurance if one could
trace it back to its beginnings.
Our Puritanical ancestors were
doubtful, if not actually hostile
about life insurance. The Gibbons
episode started lot of gambling
on longevity, and there were IN
stances in which bettors were suS
pected of being accessories to fate
In the eighteenth century a
court had prohibited all wager
ing policies" The early-day
Massachusetts, courts were slow
in coming to an acceptance Of
the principle of life insurance
even when it was advanced by
thoroughly respectable and bust
nesslike persons. The association
of gambling chung to it. Whether
life insurance was legal and moi
"repugnant to sound morals was
the issue of a famous case fought
out in the Massachusetts, courts
in 1909.
Incidentally, it was in Boston
The Washington times., 1936-05-22

This is the graveyard of TEN THOUSAND MILLION
GOOD AMERICAN DOLLARS. Uncle Sam buried them in
this European grave in the foolish excitement of the big
war, when he had another professor Woodrow Wilson,
dishing out public money.
Uncle Sam used to go to this graveyard sit and think
wondering would get back any Of those 10 billions
Breeze signing through weeping willows, murmured never
more" stealing line from THE Raven
It quiet graveyard, not peep from any corpse
Uncle Sam thought that the peaceful silence would last for
NOTHING lasts forever Look at his startled face
faint yoohoo rises from the grave of billions sent
to France, and voice with foreign accent says:
"How about paying you a feuU hundred thousand
francs, and you lending feuO hundred mil
lion dolLars?"
Perhaps the voice does not quite say all of that but that
is what the 'yoohoo
Uncle Sam had better get out of the graveyard back
his bed as fast he When the debt ghost
begins talking it is time to prepare for trouble.
The Washington times., 1936-05-22
Three-Minute Journeys

its wooden houses with closely lat"
ticed windows. The European
quarter is in marked contrast
to the native cantonment, for
here are wide. clean streets, lined
with poplarS but few houses. For
most of the inhabitants and visi-
tors live in houseboats moored in
the upper reaches of the Jhelum
or on the edges of Dial Lake.
ROMANTIC SPOT
Surely it is romantic and inter
esting to live by a lake on whose
crystal clear waters float gorgeous
lotus lilies, or by the famous gar
dens of Shalimar and Nishat, built
by a Mogul emperor in a more
spacious age.
The households vary in size and
design, but they are always cX-
tremely comfortable and offer a
novel way of living, if one is weary
of summer hotel or villa. Life IN
Srinagar is pleasant and in keep
ing with the idea of dwelling IN a
houseboat by a lotus lake.
Golf courses, polo grounds, a
club with tennis courts, dances at
the hotel and the club by the river,
where everyone gathers on the
terrace in the shade of banyan
tree, all help to make life livaole
for those who tarry in the vale OF
Kashmir. For those who care Tor
plenty of fruit, this place is para
disc. Strawberries, cherries, peach
es, plumbs and other fruits are
large and luscious.
The Washington times., 1936-05-22

lChurch Of New York and Penn
sylvania created "a corporation
for the relief of poor and dis
tressed widows and children of
Presbyterian minister's" an or
ganization which is Still solvent
and useful today.
In the early days of insurance,
they had some quaint ideas of
what constituted a good insurance
risk. A bold and boisterous man
who could down a flagon at a
gulp was considered a better bet
than a cautious and abstemious
citizen.
There is one historic instance of
The Washington times., 1936-05-22

sure
The dirtieSt deals you've euer
had haze been dealt you By
yourself.
The greatest misery you've
eUer suffered has been gene
rated in your otOn head.
No crook or capitalist can ever
rob you as viciously as you rob
yourself of opportunity by your
own cowardice, your own self
indulgence, your own antiSocial
habits.
Death itself can't break your
heart or lay waste your life as
surely as your own cussedness and
conceit.
AS a housekeeper, you're proud
Of your clean and pretty home
aren't you, Mary? AS a business
man you boast of your efficient
modern office, don't you, Bill?
But how clean and pretty are your
THOUGHTS? How modern are
your ATTITUDES?
Often you wonder why life has
fizzled out-why you're so sick
of everything and everybody
why nothing seems worth while
any more-and you try to hang
the blame on this or that. But
it's dollars to doughnuts. stranger
that you yourself are to blame.
CLEAN HOUSE
What does it profit you to
keep a spotless house or model
office if you meanwhile main
tain a public nuisance back OF
your own eyebrows?
Feeling sunk?
THEN GET BUSY AND DO A
HOUSE CLEANING JOB ON
YOURSELF.
You can keep clutter and cor
ruption out of your own mind as
surely as you can keep them out
of your refrigerator or file. Yor
can throw open your spirit to the
cleansing sunshine of healthy
habits as easily as you can throw
open your kitchen or office win
dowS.
And there's no more reason o.
justification for Juggling arounC
yesterdays hates, hurts or heart
breaks than for keeping a deaC
cat on your living room table.
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