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Evening star., 1936-11-16
Capitals Drama Groups
Copying an Ell Greco Just Minor Task to
These Boys Of the Property Department.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

School will present their Fall musical,
Eastern Cruise"
Portrait Of busy days in the local
theater:
Constance Connor Brown Is using
scenes from kind Lady" for study
and rehearsal at her Studio of Theater
Arts -. and students at the school
will be understudies for the Civic
Theater production of the Chodorov-
Walpole play this week {. A group Of
the Washington Players will be in New
York this Friday afternoon to appear
at Town Hall in the half hour series
of dramatic episodes, six Characters"
which they presented here last year
under the auspices Of the meeting
for the mobilization of human needs
-. Kate Tomlinson, Yerby Pannill,
Ann Ives, Audrey Wolfe, Maurice
Jarvis, Ted Freter and Harry Blut-
stein will make the New York jaunt,
and Bess Schreiner is directing the
sketches E. The Blackfriars' Guild is
rehearsing "A Joyous Season." with
Mary Olive O'Connell directing :.
Frances Starr looked in on the Civic
Theateris Kind Lady" rehearsal last
night ). gave Director Day Tuttle q
few hints on the production
She's played in the drama at several
Of the leading Summer theaters =
Grumpy" four-act mystery comedy
by Horace Hodges and T. Wigney
Percyval, will be presented by the
Pierce Hall Players next week
The Stella Maris Club opens its tenth
season next week. playing You're
Telling Mel" Students at the
King-Smith Playhouse are rehearsing
Moor Born" under the guidance of
Wesley Mckee, the new director of
the school will present it De-
cember IL Outward Bound" will
be played here early in December by
the Players Club Of Central Com
munity Center.
Evening star., 1936-11-16
Future Full of Elephants
And Gold Diggers Looms
And Also by Way Of Entertainment, Los
Rollers Will Shoot Shoreham
Pool Rapids.
BY JAY CARMODY.

MONDAY might aheao future
representatives pointing
I J things
~ would usbut particularly
breathing the backs Of
Evening star., 1936-11-16
Patience Chief Virtue
For Stardom Hopefuls
Long Records of Waiting at Hollywood
Made by Some of Most Brilliant Among
AchieverS of Screen Fame.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

November (NANA)-The actress
- signature contract guaranteeing salary OF
monthwith options She flew Hollywood
played goh
oback joined exclusive cband the interim wondered
the salary paid by the studio godmother
Of
Evening star., 1936-11-16

most of the present-day top-notch
screen emoters. all of whom-from
Garbo to Simone Simon-learned
early in their studio lives that patience
is the one virtue necessary for film
stardom.
THERE Is the strange case Of Inez
Gorman, a beautiful songstress,
who created a sensation singing with
the Cincinnati Philharmonic Orches-
ira. Twentieth Century-Fox signed
her to a contract last Spring. but Miss
German is still ignorant Of how it
feels to appear before the camera.
Clifton Webb was brought to the
coast with a loud fanfare Of pub
licity, signed to a years contract and
given a fat salary. But don't get too
excited at the prospect of seeing him
in movies. You probably know more
about the inside of q studio than he
does. The actor Is now back on the
New York stage.
A wealthier, but wiser, Shirley Ross
was under contract to M-G-M two
years without getting within hailing
Evening star., 1936-11-16
GAYETY SHOW EQUAL
TO BEST THIS WEEK
Blond Jean Lee, Dark Haired
Evelyn Whitney and Georgia

OAoAu -vSuA ASe, oAA AAoAAe0
Evelyn Whitney and Georgia
Clyne Features.
WITH Ann Corio come and gone,
=" 1t might be expected that the
Gayety would coast for . week "
80, but such Is far from the case.
Offering large cast uniformly adept
ut its various chores. the current show
compares quite well with the best
the season has had to offer to date.
The talents of song. dance and bur-
lesque's peculiar high point are rep
resented in completely satisfying man
ner.
Pulchritude Is supplied In large
measure by blond Jean Lee, dark
haired Evelyn whitney and Georgia
Clyne. The last scored highest with
the first-show house, her energetic
and speedy style winning the devotees.
Known only as "Conchita," the fea-
tured dancer offers a be-feathered
zulu" number with q contribution
to the speciality array in addition.
Birdie" happens to be the feminine
half Of the dance team who, with her
equally agile partner. Johnny Patchen,
does some stacatto stepping that is Of
the better Sort Whence have come
the succession of smooth foot-workers
on the circuit this season is unim-
portant; for their continued process
sion, however, the I. B. A. merits the
good word. Birdie" and Patchen
are not the least Of the contingent.
Harry Evanson and the reliable
Billy Fields supply the laughs. which
are frequent and lusty, with principal
work in the straight" line done by
Conny Ryan and Jess Mack, the
former also handling his songs well.
Billy Ferber steps in as foil on occa-
sion with q musical specially and
song part Of his assignment, too. De-
serving Of more than usual attention
Is the chorus. Including many new
faces. the line is called upon for q
series Of interesting routines. and the
girls execute them with educated
underpinning. The first act finale Il
novel, q minstrel show pattern being
utilized. &C. A. M.
Evening star., 1936-11-16

ager, is going up to New York pretty
soon to pick up a passel of elephants
and things because child patrons of
the Capitol (ranging in age up to SD
insist upon another circus like last
years. Mr.. Barron will also arrange
for a caliope and other items that
60 with tanbark.
Nearer in time, and maybe in some
hearts desires, is the prospective ar
rival of a whole planeload of Gold
Diggers of 1887" Warner Bros John
J. Payette is bringing them here No.
vember "a for-what a coincidence
"a hours. There will be three prin-
cipals and an even dozen Of Busby
Berkeley's "hand-picked" gold diggers.
(When they start picking gold diggers
by machine, one of the most delight
full of crafts apparently will have
died) The three principals are Jeanne
Madden, Rosalind Marquis and Fred
Lawrence. The program includes a
reception with various civic and busi-
ness leaders, a luncheon, dinner, a
stage appearance at the Earle, chat
with the press. etc.
X
IF GOLD DIGGERS in the flesh don't
appeal, you might like to see the
waters of the Shoreham's marble pool
churned to frightful foam by real
log-roller It's scheduled for
Tuesday afternoon and the real log
roller is worlds champion Henry De
Leyea His assistant foam-churner
will be Harry Wilson, No. rival for
the De Leyea crown If you are
wondering who De Leyea and Wilson
are and what they are doing in town,
they both are Idaho boys and appear
in the picture Come and Get It"
which opens at the Palace Thursday.
The first 400 persons who ask Lans-
burgh's for tickets can see the log
rolling exhibition for nothing.
Evening star., 1936-11-16

distance Of q movie camera. Para
mount finally rescued her from the
doom of salaried oblivion. borrowing
her for singing role in THE Big
Broadcast of 1887"
When June knight came to Holly
wood 10 double for Garbo in the dance
sequences Of "Mata Hari," the studio
wanted to put her under contract
but Miss Knight was too smart for
them. I'll die down here posing in
Miss Knight returned to M-G-M q
few months ago, an established
actress-and is still waiting for her
big screen chance.
GERTRUDE MICHAEL was ap-
pearing in the stage version Of
Rachel Crothers' Caught Wet" when
a Paramount talent scout signed her
to a six months film contract. A
year went by before cynicism corroded
enthusiasm. She had 65 cents and
railroad ticket to Alabama in her
pocket when Paramount awakened
to her film possibilities and gave her
a part in I'm No Angel" with Mae
West
Robert Taylor had to wait eight
months before his classical features
were projected on screen. But. in
his case, the period Of waiting proved
worth while. In between champings
on the bit of impatience, Bob was
taught how to use his voice, hands
and eyes.
Simone Simon Is another Aim star
who filled the fleeing year with self
improvement. She learned to speak
English.
Nelson Eddy was merely voice to
his studio for two years-and not q
very outstanding voice, at that-be-
Evening star., 1936-11-16

Dorothea Lewis, master-no. mis-
tress-of the snappy answer, tells this
column that Frances Starr is right
here in Washington watching re-
hearsals of Kind Lady" which will be
the Civic Theater's second offering
and which will open Wednesday night
at Wardman. Miss Starr, who played
the lead in Kind Lady" will be there
for the opening and SO will lot Of
others who cannot have forgotten how
well Day Tuttle's group did Caesar
and Cleopatra"
T OOKING ahead, without the as
sistance of anybody's press rep
resentative. is Kenneth Anderson who.
maybe you did not know, is Maxwell
Anderson's brother. What K. Ander-
son Is looking forward to, Of course.
is "The Wingless Victory" which will
exhibit Katharine Cornelrs and his
brothers combined genius at the Ma.
tional Theater next week. Kenneth
Anderson, with the Anderson talent
III q QlnCiCAJ llClQ, OCdio Will tllC
profundities that daily engage the
staff Of the Brookings Institution.
Wonder which Anderson dominates the
conversation when the brothers get
together?
Reunion" with the five greatest
actresses of their kind in the world,
the Dionne quintuplets, which will
be screened at the Fox exchange
Tuesday afternoon, has set one WASH
ingtonian to thinking. He is thinking
that he would like to see the Dionnes
in film story in which the incipient
breakup between the young husband
and wife was frustrated by the birth
of quintuplets at the psychologist mo-
ment. THAT" he says, would really
be colossal"
Evening star., 1936-11-16

conscience, she decided TO return 10
the theater and leave Hollywood to
her less impatient colleagues. At the
airport she received an artful message,
Evening star., 1936-11-16

fore he was given starring oppor-
tunity in Naughty Marietta" with
jeanette Macdonald.
The classical case Of Gladys George
Is too well known for repetition. but
for the addition Of postscript. Ac-
cording to M-G-M, Miss George waited
for q year and half before screen
debuting in Paramount's Valiant Is
the Word for Carrie" because, in
spite of the odd s99 writer's in Holly
wood, not one could author q suitable
story for her.
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Newspaper Alliance, Ine.)
Evening star., 1936-11-16
PRESS AGENT WHITTLES

CHICAGO @.-Art Goldie, Chi
cago press agent, whittles and whit
ties, anywhere. any time and he's
been doing 1t since he was kid.
Art goes around with a pocketful
Of wood, . knife, sandpaper and q
bottle Of disinfectant for cut fingers.
He leaves . trail Of chips wherever he
goes.
Evening star., 1936-11-16
FILM JUVENILE WEDS

HOLLYWOOD, November 16 (R.-
William Henry, film juvenile, and
Grace Durkin, actress, sister of the
late Junior Durkin, disclosed TO
friends yesterday they were married
Saturday at Ensenada, Lower Cali
fornia.
They met two years ago when both
were members Of the cast Of a pro-
duction at the Pasadena Community
Playhouse.
Henry is foster brother Of Duke
Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer.
Evening star., 1936-11-16

demanding h er
m m e d late re-
turn, with bait in
the S h ape of
higher salary and
the promise of q
definite assign
ment. That was
five months ago.
The young ac-
tress has still to
make her debut
before the cam
era.
A similar expe-
rience, varying
only In detail,
has happened to
Evening star., 1936-11-16
MARGARET SULLIVAN
WEEDS new YORKER
By the Associated Press.

6y the AssOClhtcu FIcoos
NEWPORT, r. l., November 16.-
Margaret Garland Sullivan, motion
picture star and now the leading lady
of "1he Stage Door," current New
York play, was married here yesterday
to Leland Hayward Of New York.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. Fred w. Knickrehm at the par
sonage Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The bridegroom Is business man.
ager for several screen actresses.
NEW YORK, November 16 R)-
Both Leland Hayward and Margaret
SULLIVAN. stage and screen actress, who
were married at Newport, were mar
ried before.
Hayward was twice the husband oil
Lola Gibbs, Park avenue debutante
Evening star., 1936-11-16

ADJUSTMENTS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
Can't We Stop It?

There just isn't any to the ctys calm accept
of the fact that during the school year which starts
next week approximately twenty children will be killed
in traffic accidents.
The recent statement Of the Keystone Automobile Club
to the effect that of the children will meet death
seems at first glance to be rather brutal and caous
thing.
But it's not nearly as brutal and caous as are the
automobile drivers the traffic authorities the parents
of the children who knowing that the clubs statement
is true, will let the prophecy be fulfilled.
Probably the deaths of all these children will be de-
scribed by the coroners juries which will view the
broken bodies accidents '. ''.-
They won't be accidents.
The dictionary says that an accident is "anything
occurring unexpectedly.
These deaths aren't going to unexpectedly.
THEY ARE KNOWN IN ADVANCE AND THERE
FORE THEY CAN'T BE ACCIDENTAL.
EVERY ONE OF THEM CAN BE PREVENTED.
Isn't there enough intelligence in this city to put
stop to child killing?
Isn't there enough energy and ability In the consh
tuted authorities to prevent 1t?
Isn't there enough decency and sympathy on the part
Of drivers to bring it to an end?
Nobody wants to think that he has been involved in
the death of child though the death is not trace
able to his own responsibility.
YET, BEFORE NEXT SUMMER COMES, AT LEAST
TWENTY OF US WILL HAVE IT BRANDED INTO
OUR MEMORIES, THERE TO REMAIN FOREVER,
THAT HE WAS DRIVING A MACHINE THAT
KILLED LITTLE BOY OR GIRL
Cant we prevent it?
We know it is going to happen unless something Is
done
What is that something and who will do it?
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But what good does the right to think and ex-
press our opinions at the polls do US if we do
not use that right?
"The great end in life is not knowledge, but
ACTION" wrote Thomas Huxley Once
think clearly through to the truth, our knowledge
does us no good unless we ACT upon our
knowledge.
Freedom breeds clear thinking; for that rea-
son, America should produce clear thinkers. But
too much prosperity makes mems minds grow
fat, soft and lazy-"how many never think, who
think they do?"
That's what has happened in America; pros
perity softened u.s. dumped us into the depression
with minds too feeble to think our way out.
Bewildered, respondent, we were ready to saddle
our troubles upon the shoulders Of anybody who
offered to bear the burden.
An eloquent Federal Administration offered
to shoulder the of every American, and
every soft American leaped at the chance.
But we forget that WE must carry the Gov
eminent that has eloquently offered to carry
our burdens. Clear thinking would have cut
through that deception.
More than anything else, America today needs
clear thinking leaders and clear thinking
VOTERS to follow, but not follow blindly.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
A LIBERAL

Good old-time campaign stories
are as scarce as hens teeth these
days and when the fellows get to-
gether they must turn backward
for examples of how to put it over.
In a group, recently, one remem-
bered a campaign Of several years
ago in which a Westerner was
running for State banking COM
missioner.
He had been giving the audi
ence all he had, when, suddenly,
q long, rangy individual arose and
spoke rather Familiarity. He said:
''UncIe John, what do you
know about money? You're run
ming for banking commissioner,
and we would like to know just
how you stand on the money
question"
Uncle John listened to the ques-
ton intently, raised his eyebrows
a couple Of times, then said:
'"YOu want to know how I
stand on money, do you? Well,
I'll tell you. 1 think there ought
70 be a leetIe more gold. think
there ought to be . leetle more
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
Marry-Go-
Round
BY HELEN ROWLAND

If you have to diagnose the
emotion you feel for a man, it isn't
LOVE; because love is something
as unmistakable as h u n G e r,
rheumatism or a Sprained ankle.
Time, like distance, lends en-
chantment; and the more a man
rhapSodizeS over one of his old
flames, the more confident his
wife feels that, when they meet,
she will turn out to be a stylish
stout with a double chin and a
giggle.
A bridegroom might just as well
be pleasant when his wife'S bills
come in. He will have to pay just
as much, anyhow.
A woman'S nervous headache
may be cured by a doctor; but a
good lawyer can sometimes do it
much more effectually by remov-
ing the husband that is getting on
her nerves.
An adventurer is a man who
lives by his wits; a gigolo is one
who lives by woman'S lack Of
wits.
A gold-digger's work is as pain
less as flattery can make it-only
wife is licensed to operate on
her husbands pocketbook with
out an aneSthetic.
There is something about a
man living alone which appeals
to every woman's mother-instinct;
and no matter how much she
may dislike the husband she's
divorcing, it makes her heart
ache to think of his burning his
own toast, sugaring his own cof'
fee and grumbling at his own
cooking.
Copyright. 1895. BY King Features
SyndboASA InS.)
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sizzling sisters, Shouldn't a girl
hold that position as we'll as a
boy? What's wrong with sport
any sport-for a woman, if she
can qualify? These silly old sex
distinctions went out ages ago I"
But DID they? According to most
of our statute bookS-yes. But
how does the world really feel
about it when it comes right down
to running trunks and spiked
Soles?
Take these Olympic Game girls,
f'rinstance. I've a bunch of photo
graphs on my desk, showing them
in final try-outS.
Amazing sight, those slender
bodies, buoyant as bubbles. {.
whirling, wheeling, soaring, plung-
ing, flashing like shuttleS through
sunlight and shadow.
Lovely-yeS. Yet, looking closer.
one wonders. Under that silky
flesh, muscles taut as steel wire. t.
nerves tauter. Rounded chins
clenched until the neck tendonS
writhe in ridges. Soft young
breasts straining back and back
until the ribs spring stark. Lungs
laboring, eyeballs staring, sweat
breaking like blood.
Pressure . strain -. agonizing
effort. is it, after all, such a
profitable privilege-this new
equality" in sports?"
Yes, I know the answers. Have
made them myself-and. what's
more, agree with most of them,
Teaches 'em good SpOrtsmanShip
and heaven knows they need it.
It does and they do. "MakeS them
able to take it," Also true. Yet
their grandmothers. bearing
babies without aneStheticS. HUNG
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

would be used to seeing females
go athletic. Then you'd think
wrong-for the idea still steams
up some of us plenty. AS little
Florence Sylvester can testify.
Florence - curl y-headed,
freckled, with one of those twisty
grins-goes to Lyndhurst CNew
Jersey High School. Lyndhurst
Hi, with its 600 boy students,
boasts a baseball team that was
making history until Principal
Edmund Burke up n ousted their
crack center fielder. All because
the center fielder was curly
headed Florence, and Principal
Burke didn't think that center
fielding was a proper job for q
girl.
ROW SPREADS
SO now there's a row that
spreads far beyond the Lyndhurst
diamond.
why" demands Florence,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19

the DlnQ OIL re- "ep' AS"Ap"
lief and put them into business in
order to find them secure niche
to beat the handicap imposed by
their affliction.
The idea was born in Mr.. Ran
dolph's fertile brain while he was
president of the Lions in his home
State. During his incumbency in
that office Representative Ran
dolph toured the State raising a
fund to provide disqualification
and transportation for the blind
at the home situated in Romney,
w. Va. The year in which he
had charge of this campaign the
sight Of five children was restored
by operations.
The results Of this worthwhile
service so impressed the young
Representative that he has di-
rected a great deal of his efforts
since his election toward pushing
through the bill that he will see
in operation in few short
months.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-19
.WO-Minute
Journey
GAsPE PENINSULA

In answer to the many letters
asking for assistance in choosing
a late vacation spot, we suggest a
trip along the Gaspe Peninsula.
And If the vacationists are hunt
ing enthusiasts, then all the bet
ter.
The hunting season for moose
opened September 10, and that for
woodcock, snipe, widegeon, geese,
bustard and gray partridge 10
days earlier.
The villages and little towns of
the Gaspe region are picturesque,
and their inhabitants still retain
many of the traditions and modes
Of living that were brought from
France by their ancestors centuries
ago.
To the American motorist who
includes Gaspe on his holiday itin-
erary the lovely peninsula is filled
with scenic as well as historic in
terest. The recently completed No.
6 highway winds from Sainte Fla
vie, a tiny village 200 miles from
Quebec, through the Matapedia
Valley to Gaspe, eastern limit Of
the peninsula, then around the
northern side back to Sainte Fla
vie, a total of $50 miles.
Along the route are simple but
charming cottages, lovely little
churches and neat little farms.
Gaspe is a land of romance and
interesting stories. Some say GaSpe
was visited by white men long be-
fore the landing Of Jacques Cartier
400 years ago.
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66TRUTH fOreUer on the scGffOld;
L. Wrong forever on the throne"
james Russell L0Weu.

Intelligent men, reading newspapers in these
troubled times, must agree that LoWelPs descrlp-
ton fits the world today like glove.
Everywhere, masses of men submit to the rule
of powerful individuals who feed them false
hoods and lead them to destruction in the name
Of salvation
The INSCRIPTIONS, ruthless few use persuasive
eloquence to shackle the unthinking minds Of the
many.
One great thinker, Carlyle lamented: "Can
there be more horrible object in existence than
an eloquent man not speaking the truth" Truly
such an eloquent deceiver is horrible; and you
would think he would be obvious.
But there are so few clear thinkers that these
eloquent liars get away with their substitution
of eloquence for truth.
Jane Taylor wrote these lines, which fit all too
many of us:
Though man thinking being is defined,
Few use the great prerogative Of mind
How few think Justly Of the thinking few!
How many never think, who THINK they DO"
We fool ourselves with lazy, muddled think
ing; we merely think we think.
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PUP a pretty fair record for taking
it,"
Wonder if these kids will do any
better when it comes to the long
grind that lies ahead for every
woman in any generation. the
months and years when there isn't
any starters gong to start the pace
nor any prize to stir a tagging
spirit. when there's only God to
see you, and He's looking the other
way.
GREATEST CAREER
Wifehood, motherhood, home
making-I'm still set on the no
ton that there's the greatest
career a girl can aim for. But
will mixing in with the boys on
the cinderS help or hurt her when
she eventually tackles that career?
Will she be a more understand
ing wife for having licked the
Big Boy at his own game when
they both were kids together. or
for having learned, early and
hard, what punks humans can be
when they're all racing for the
same tape? Or will she be less
patient, more easily irked by old
John Henry's line?
You can't turn back the clock
put sister into pantalettes and
spit curls again. No one but a
sentimental idiot would want to,
But still-if YOU were training a
spirited, sensitive little filly for
the big race, where'd you place
her first?
Out where the going was tough
est, roughest-and she had to
learn to bite or be bit? Or on
some gentler spot? We're listen
ing!
Copyright, 1898. by King Features
Syndicate. InO.)