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the SloW-witted Christian in the bal
cony interlude, and half dozen other
speeches bring down a grateful and
appreciative house with tumult and
uproar, for all the world as though
they wanted q whole scene acted over
again. 1t is conceivable that starred
performance in Hamlet" might re-
sent such an interruption at, say. the
conclusion Of the most celebrated of
that plays soliloquies, but Mr. Hamp-
den seems unruf1ed by it in "Cyrano" "
One is forced to the conclusion that
you can't offend an acter with ap-
plauSe.
WHAT really is puzzling New York
theatergoers about the return Of
"Cyrano" is Mr.. Hampden's assertion
that it Is his farewell appearance in
the Brian Hooker version of Rostand' S
play. It is generally agreed that the
long -nosed Gascon is his best char
acterization. His Hamlet and Capon-
sacchi have had their following; there
have been critical shifts at his
Servant in the House" and his last
Autumn's appearance as an elephant
trainer in blackface, in q nonpareil
the title of which this department
disremembers, bordered on the farcical
But every one admits that he is a
good, roaring, staggering and ro-
mantle "Cyrano" 1t is a long, hard,
exacting job of work and Mr.. Hamp-
den lends it distinction by playing it
for all the script provides, and perhaps
more. It is safe to say that his
"Cyrano" will be remembered along
Broadway when his melancholy Dane
is quite forgotten, but what does the
fellow do, forsooth, but threaten to
resign forever his most successful and
gratifying part? Perhaps, however,
like William Gillette and others be-
fore him, he will have a long success
sion of positively last final, definitely
ultimate appearances, with as many
farewell tours in "Cyrano" as Mr..
Gillette in Sherlock Holmes"
WHETHER the long-continued sue
w cess of First Lady" is to be
attributed to its pertinence as a
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duced plays for the dramatic club
plus another year at oxford, contrib
uted to the savoir faire and casual
good breeding, so rare as to be i'm
pressive to the ladies of Hollywood.
His first job, as assistant stage man.
ager to Claude Rains, under the aegis
of Granville Barker, paid him $25
a week. Ernest Cossart, who recent
ly finished Palm Springs" for Wan
ger, and o. P. Heggie were members
of this company. Next came the Mar
berry Stock Co., which, at the time,
included Irene Castle and Jane Cowl.
At the age Of 20, Wanger set up
shop on his own and produced "'Cep-
ton Shoals" with Nazimova as the
first Of his subsequent long line of
stars.
Then came the war, and Wanger
was sent to Italy as a flyer. After
smashing up five Italian planes, he
was nick med 'the Austrian ace"
Il was nearly court-martialed,"
Wanger recalls, but, with my usual
good luck, the war ended just in time
for a getaway"
tCopyright, 1885. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1936-05-03
NazinnOVa'S
Play Opens
Tomorrow
Revival of "Ghosts'
Set for Week
at National.

ONE Of the most widely heralded at
- fractions of the current theater
season, Nazimova's production of Hen
rik Ibsen's Ghosts" opens its one
week engagement at the National The
ater with tomorrow evenings per-
formance.
Nazimova, firm in her convictions
that all sections of the country should
have an opportunity to enjoy offerings
which often are confined to few of
the larger cities, now is completing a
countrywide tour in Ghosts" The
tour was arranged by cutting to a few
weeks the New York engagement
which probably could have been ex-
tended throughout the rest of the sea-
son.
The star, who first popularized Ibsen
in America by playing the leading roles
in THE Wild Duck" The Dolls
House," "Hedda Gabler" and THE
Master Builder" has not appeared in
Washington for some time. During
the last five or six years she has been
playing important roles in various
Theater Guild productions, including
"a Month in the Century" Mourning
Becomes Electra" THE Good Earth"
and THE Simpleton of Unexpected
Isles
Nazimovas supporting company is
headed by Mckay Morris, Harry Eller-
be, Beatrice de Neergaard and Ray
mond O'Brien. and the star herself di-
rected the play. The stage setting was
designed by Stewart Chaney.
It is expected that Nazimova will be
greeted here, as she has been else
where, by capacity audiences. Ghosts, !"
when it first was produced, was con-
sidered the most daring of dramas and
aroused considerable controversy both
on the continent and In England.
Evening star., 1936-05-03

dialogue he brought forth honey.
Actually the triumphs of fledgling
dramatists are so commonplace that
o neophyte who fails to enrich him.
self and his sponsors the first time
out is regarded as very unlikely ma
terial for the future. Willard Keefe,
an able scholar of Broadway history,
has lately compiled a list of the
novitiates who rang the bell in round
one. 1t may surprise you to behold
some Of tho names thereon, and if
you are not in the least astounded,
can I help it?
Only last year chap named Law
renee Riley and a lady playwright,
yclept Lillian Hellman, knocked the
stem for loop with the farce Per-
sonal Appearance" and the tragic
'Children's Hour" respectively, both
premiere productions for those
authors. Furthermore, almost every
season in this century has seen some
new white-haired boy pop up around
the managers Offices loaded down
with a package of genius for sale.
Eugene O'Neill, who had cut his
teeth on some splendid one-act plays
manufactured for the Provincetown
Players, took Broadway by storm with
his Beyond the Horizon" Elmer
Rice, while still a struggling lawyer,
as the phrase goes, dashed off "On
Trial" about 20 years ago and
promptly made himself a gentleman
of leisure, spared enough time from
bread-winning to turn out such
smashes as Street Scene" and "Coun-
sellor at Law"
his student days and at once found
himself an established WOW in the
comedy field. George S. Kaufman
and Marc Connolly struck it rich and
deep the first time they attempted
celebration on "Dulcy." Laurence
Stallings and Maxwell Anderson made
plenty of what it takes with their
first bit Of teamwork, What Price
Glory" although their later collabora-
tions Jared poorly and Anderson hit
out alone to reach the pinnacles of
artistic success.
George Kelly was a skit scribbler
for vaudeville when he decided to
hazard a full-length play. 1t was
called THE Torchbearers," and you
know the rest. Kenyon Nicholson
won his most elaborate rewards from
the ticket tills with a bright trif1e
Evening star., 1936-05-03

known as 'The Barker" the No. l
attempt in his career. S. N Behrman
had done very little except work with
Nicholson on one-act playlets until
he tossed off 1.-The Second Man" and
became an overnight riot.
George Abbott's wizardry as play
doctor and collaboration has lifted
three aspirants from obscurity to the
list of the 10 most successful authors
in various seasons. He transformed
Broadway" by a musical comedy
stage manager named Philip Dun
ming, into one of the big melodra-
matte hits of the last decade; he
worked on "Coquette" after a girl
named Ann Preston BridgerS, who
was playing a small role in Broad
way" had conceived the idea, and as
late as 1885 he had hand in Three
Men on A Horse" an original by a
young actor named John Cecil Holm.
Another pair Of bit players who
found the pen mightier than the cue
were Sidney Kingsley and Clifford
Odets. Both were lolling about in in
finitesmial roles until the Group The
ater produced Kingsley's Men in
White" and, a season later, vaulted
Odets into the limelight with Awake
and Sing" John Wexley was some-
time actor and a mere boy when he
hit the high road with THE Last
Mile" and Moss Hart had never seen
his name on the lobby billing until
he worked with George kaufman on
"Once in a Lifetime"
The list goes on for several more
yards and embraces quite a few OF
our British cousins. Noel Coward
stirred up great furore with THE
Vortex" even if all the remarks
weren't kindly; John Van Druten's
Young Woodley," r. C. Sherrih's
Journeys End" and many another
found breaking the ice great fun. 1t
might also be recalled that Robert
Sherwood changed from critic to
capitalist with THE Road to Rome;
that Maurine Watkins was a news
scribe before she thought of Chicago"
and that Charlie Macarthur was not
at all expensive before he tried his
wings on Lulu Belle"
Now, if you still think Mr.. Shaw's
maiden triumph an eighth wonder OF
the world, I could name-what.
enough already? How easily you tire.
Evening star., 1936-05-03
Coming Attractions.

loan BENNETT is the fascinating
lass with the wide-eyed stare anc
the innocent look who breaks ar
amazing jewel-thieving racket wide
open in big Brown Eyes" next film
attraction at Loew's Fox Theater
starting Friday. Cary Grant is CO.
starred as the plain clothes man who
falls in love with her, ard Isabel Jewel
is in the supporting cast. Mitchell
, and Durant, knockabout screen comics,
will appear in person to headline the
vaudeville bill. Others on the foot.
lights program will be Bryant, Raines
and Young, in dance diversions; Capt
Willie Mauss, war ace, in a novelty
act, and, as an added feature, the
Fred East Trio.
Merle Oberon, Joel McRae and Mir
lam Hopkins are the stars OF "These
Three" motion picture based on
famous New York stage success, which
will follow Trail of the Lonesome
Pine" at Loew's Palace Theater.
Shirley Temples latest picture.
Captain January" which recently
ran two successful weeks at the Pal
ace, will return downtown for third
week, opening Friday at Loew's Co.
lumbia Theater. Guy Kibbee and Slim
Summerville head the tiny stars sup
porting cast and her new dancing
partner is Buddy Ebsen.
Thirteen Hours by Air" new Para
mount film telling the story of a
group of people aboard a transcon-
tinental airliner, with Fred MacMur-
ray and Joan Bennett in the leading
roles, will open Friday at Warmers
Earle Theater. zasu Pitts, John How
ard, Alan Baxter, Brian Donlevy and
Fred Keating are in the supporting
cast. The Earle's stage entertain
ment will be provided by Ted Flo
Rito and his orchestra, with spe-
cialties by Muzzy Marcellino, the
Three Debutantes, Stanley Hickman
and Candy" all known to the Flo
Rito radio audiences.
Times Square Playboy," new War
ner Bros comedy, adapted from
George M. Cohan's Broadway hit
Home Towners," will be the next
screen attraction at the METROPOLITAN
following the current run of "Mr,
Deeds Goes to Town" Warren VIII
liam, June Travis, Barton MacLane
and Gene and Kathleen Lockhart
have the leading roles.
Murder mystery, comedy and ro-
nance will be mixed in the individual
manner in which William Powell
mixes them in THE Ex-Mrs. Brad
ford,' scheduled to open at R-K-O
keith's Theater next Friday. Jean
Arthur, who also has had a lot OF
previous experience with cinema mys-
teries, IS co-starred, and the cast will
include Eric Blore, James Gleason,
Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ralph Morgan,
Lucille Gleason and Lila Lee.
Elisabeth Bergner's Escape Me
Never" Is to be revived for one week
at the Little Theater, starting today.
Charles B. Cochran, who brought
Sarah Bernhardt, Elinora Duse and
Bergner to America, says of her: 81
introduced all three of these great
foreign artists to the English-speaking
theater but the greatest Of the
tnree Is Elisabeth Bergner."
Evening star., 1936-05-03

curtain calls. Nothing like 1t had
been seen at the Empire in decade,
and Mrs. Alving," Harry Ellerbe
and Mckay Morris bowed and bowed
for an audinece which fingered for 10
minutes to cheer and toss posies for
a play generally considered as dead as
Salvini
Presented as a study in what
amounted almost to dramatic under
statement, her Ghosts" constituted
the principal classical production of
the season and was widely hailed as
having revived the whole Ibsen ira
dition. 1t also marked the theatrical
achievement of his majority on the
part of Mr.. Ellerbe, who abdicated as
a handsome juvenile in favor of be-
coming an authentic trouper and
played an Oswald Of importance. The
return engagement of Ghosts" which
impends next week, would seem to
show that Ibsen, removed from high
school theatricals, is still family ami
mate and, in the hands of experts,
entirely plausible stage fare.
THE death of Percy Hammond re-
moved from his accustomed aisle
seat the most widely recognized Of
the towns first-nighters,and provoked
universal mourning among his COL
leagues. 1t also diminished materially
the tradition of scholarly courtliness
in the calling of play reviewing For,
more than anything else, Mr.. Ham
mond represented "urbanus" as con-
trasted with "rusticus" and smart-alec
f1ippancy in the business Of notice
writing.
Evening star., 1936-05-03
Today's Film Schedule

R-K-O KEITH's-"The Wit
ness Chair" at 2::39, 4:29,
6:19, 800 and 9:59 pm.
BELASCO-"Ecstasy," at 2::30,
4:18, sos, 7::54 and 9:42 pm.
PALACE-"Trail of the Lone
some Pine" at 2::30, 4::5O, ITO
and $50 pm.
COLUMBIA - "The Country
Doctor" at 3, $40, 7:25 and
$40 pm.
METROPOLITAN-"Mr. Deeds
Goes to Town." at 2::25, 4:45,
7:05 and $50 pm.
LITTLE-"Escape Me Never"
at 2, 1857, 5:53, 7:50 and Gas
pm.
FOX-"The Unguarded Hour"
at 2, 4::50, ITO and 10 pm.
Stage shows at $3.50, $40 and
8 pm.
EARLE-"The Golden Arrow"
at 2, 4:25, 7:20 and 1905 pm.
Stage shows at 3::25, $40,
and 9:05 pm.
Evening star., 1936-05-03

Fox Gets Tyrone Power.
TYRONE POWER, JR., who played
the juvenile lead opposite Kath-
crime Cornell in "St. Joan," has signed
a contract with Twentieth Century,
Fox and Is now en- route to Hollywood.
Evening star., 1936-05-03

women have made
him, in the last
two years, the
most successful
Independent film
producer in town.
"Wanger cour-
age" Is fast be-
coming a by
word In the in
dustry. On the
heels Of t h e
"B e ky Sharp"
technicolor hnan-
cial fiasco, the
good looking pro-
ducer calmly an
nounced he would
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|Cyrano Calmly Played
Despite Gotham Tumult
Hampden Refuses To Be Disturbed AS
Audiences Grow Warm-Ibsen
Revives
BY LUCIUS BEEBE.

GREAT deal the fun Of an evening the New Amsterdam Theater
provided Walter
Hampdens "Cano Edmond
ands classic frequently interrupted by applause that it
sen1bes performance deal of
Evening star., 1936-05-03
TIE PLAYWRIGHTS FREQUENTLY SCALE HEIGHTS
Triumph of First Plays
Rule, Not Exception
Large Number of Today's Famous Drama
fists Scored With Initial Eforts-A
Few Names.
Few Names.
Bv Robert B. PHILLIPS, I.

recently that several several Of OF its members Der % would give read
this mentioned with touch wonder that the drama
author limited
bitter medicine
very writing
Evening star., 1936-05-03
'Wanger Courage Puts
Film Doubters to Flight
Producer Who Has Commanded Success Is
Voted Most Attractive Man
in Hollywood.
in Hollywood.
Bv Sheilah Graham.

7 OLLYWOCD, May NANA)-At a few
- in
for the attractive Hollywood included
Clark Gable Robert Montgomery
Robert Producer
michivous blue romped home winner.
Walter Wanger favorie
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drama satirizing the political times;
to the circumstance that it is witty
charade by George S. Kaufman, who is
a past master in construction of high
! speed comedy, or to the enormous
vitality of Jane Cowl in the leading
part, Is problematical; but this re-
porter inclines to the school of thought
| which believes Miss Cowl is chiefly re-
sponsible for its fashionable longevity.
Revisited for the fourth time, it still
seemed very elegant and fragrant stuff,
the best-mannered comedy venture of
the year and plausible and authentic
dramatic arrangement for an actress
herself often enough nominated as the
| stages first lady. The evening we re-
attended it last week, Mr.. Kaufman,
| backstage prowler and constant
checker-up on his own shows, was
present, as was a very coughy lady
in one Of the rear rows. She hacked
and barked her way through the first
act unmolested, but Mr.. Kaufman was
in fine fury over her. He Stalked the
rear gangway of the Music Box, glar-
| ing at her from various angles and
| approaches and making soundless but
emphatic gestures in the interest of
quiet. Finally the irritating patron
let loose a veritable hurricane of un-
muffled coughs and Mr.. Kaufman.
from the middle of the aisle, roared at
the top of his lungs, Louder, lady,
louder!" That stopped her.
NINE. ALA NAzIMovA and her
Ghosts" company are coming
back to town, after having covered
most Of the States in their road tour,
and in so doing probably having hung
up an all-time record for Ibsen drama.
When she came to the Empire last
Winter, after a whirlwind circuit of
the South, Canada and Boston, she
received an ovation which baff1ed even
her own press agent with the problem
of whether she had received rs or %
Evening star., 1936-05-03

Belgians Speak German.
German dialects prevail in a few
districts OF East and Southwest
Belgium.
Evening star., 1936-05-03

motion pictures box offices throughout
the country and abroad. The same
qualities that make him attractive to
Evening star., 1936-05-03

RORN in San Francisco July IL,
~ 1894, his real name is Feucht-
wanger and he is related to the IA
nous author of Jew Suss." The
boyhood spent roaming through Eu-
rope with his parents, topped by a
year at Dartmouth-where he pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-02
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TAKING UP ESTRAY
ANIMAL


NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN:
That on September Is. 1895 there
was taken up, seized and there is
now confined by us on the premises
known as Charles Balance Ranch
same being located about one mile
West OF Acacia Schoolhouse and
about 212 miles east and one-half
mile South of the County Court
house in Ell Centre, Imperial Coun-
ty, the following described animal:
Bay Mare, age unknown.
no marks or brands-of the
probable value of $4,000.
NOTICE is FURTHER GIVEN
that if said animal is not claimed
and damages paid for such taking
up within thirty days hereof, the
undersigned will notify the Justice
CT the Peace of Judicial Township
No. 2, Imperial County, California,
in which said Township said ami
NAL is now held. requesting him to
sell or cause TO be sold said animal
all as provided for under ection 39l
to 402, inclusive, Of the Agricul-
tural Code.
DATED: December 2. 1886.
JOE MENDIVIL
MRS. j. M. MENDIVIL
(D2-9-16)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
FOR HEARING OF PETITION
FOR PROBATE OF WILL

No. 2716
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and For the
County of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Estate of
CHARLES H. WESTMORELAND,
Deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that Clara Westmoreland and Roy
Westmoreland have filed with the
Clerk of this Court a petition for
the probate of the will of Charles
H. Westmoreland, deceased, and
that Friday the 18th day of Deem
Der, 1896, at the hour of 2 o'clock
p M. of said day. in the court room
of said court in the court house in
the City of Ell Centro, County of
Imperial, State of California, has
been appointed as the time and
place for hearing said petition, when
and where any person interested
may appear and contest the same,
and show cause, if any he has, why
said petition should not be granted.
Dated: November 49, 1886.
EDWARD H. LAW,
Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy.
.fSeaD
HICKCOX g. PROVENCE,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
N3O-Dlo inc
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-02
THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION
CORPS IN CALIFORNIA

From April, 1888, to August, 1886,
there were 92,624 men and youths in
California who were given employment
by the Civilian Conservation Corps, one
of the New Deals most praiseworthy
efforts. That figure alone is enough TO
win praise for the conservation program,
for it took boys and young men in many
instances from the reek of city slums
TO the clean breath of outdoors. and put
them to building for the future of the
state.
The benefits derived by the state as
a whole from the conservation program
are demonstrated as well in another
manner During the same period as
mentioned above, enrolees in CCC camps
allotted to dependents total of $751;
7l3,000 That money was sent to fami-
lies hard pressed for cash, many of
them on relief and without hope 1t went
directly into trade channels, indirectly
giving employment to many more than
were enrolled directly in the conserva-
tion camps
If anything can overshadow the full
filling of human needs, it is the good
work done by those enrolled in CCC.
Statistics may be dry, but they prove
that this program is not merely thing
of the present-that it builds for the
future.
Among projects completed to July l,
1896, were construction of 6ll9 miles OF
telephone lines, largely serving heavily
forested areas building of 6676 miles
of truck trails and minor roads and
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-02
Bruce Cation SayS:>>
Money But a Means to an End : Living

on the same track.
For life is more than mere pro-
cess of getting and spending. It's
highest values are never found in
the pay envelope or in the dividend
coupon
These things-the bits of cash VIC
are able TO win from frequently
stubborn World-are only means to
an end The end is the greater
richness and tullness of living; the
means are important only as they
lead to it.
Everyone is perfectly we'll aware
of this. of course; but how often.
how tragically often, do we get
mixed up about it, Who has not
seen the busy citizen. ambitious, en-
ergetic, and eager to get ahead"
denying himself time with his fami-
| ly, time for those unremunerative
moments of relaxation and medita-
ton that help mans spirit TO ex-
pand, plugging along through youth
and middle age-and then, sud-
denly, dying before he has had a
chance to turn his achievements
into happiness!
| X X X
The world, as Wordsworth re-
marked, is too much with us. To
make life mean what it should we
have to withdraw from it now and
then; we have to get our happiness
as we go along.
If we put it off until some indef-
| mite tomorrow when we NAV have
time, we run the risk of doing as
this New York woman did-starving
with money in the bank
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TAKING UP
ESTRAY ANIMALS

Notice is hereby given that on
September 10Th, 1896, there was
taken up, seized, and there is now
confined by me on the premises
known as Osbornes Service Station,
same being located on the South
side of Highway 80 about two miles
East of the County Court House in
Ell Centre. Imperial County the fol-
lowing described animal:
One white Holstein heifer hav-
ing black ears, age l6 months,
no brand, of the probable value
of $25.00.
Notice is further given that if
said animal is not claimed and
damages paid by such taking up
within 80 days hereof, the under
signed will notify the Justice of the
Peace of Judicial Township No. 2,
Imperial County, California in
which Township said animal is now
held. requesting to sell or cause to
be sold said animal, all as provided
for under sections 391 to 4O2, in
elusive Of the Agricultural Code.
Dated: November 18, 1896.
MARTHA OSBORNE.
N19-26 D3-10
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-02

The queerest stories that ever get
in the newspapers are the ones
which appear every now and then
telling how some miser has died OF
starvation or malnutrition while
hanging on to a hoard of cash that
would have bought enough food for
a regiment.
Typical of these is a case that
recently came to light in New York,
An aging spinster died in a hos
pital after having gone without food
for four weeks. The medical eX-
aminer listed her death as suicide
by starvation"
AS far as could be learned, the
poor old woman had been so OBJ
sessed by an unreaSoning fear OF
destitution that she had been un-
willing to spend any money on food
But she had S5279 in the bank when
she diedl
What agonies of fear, distrust
and anxiety preceded this climax OF
tragic folly We can only imagine
1t must take tremendous pressure
long applied, to turn mind up
side down so that money becomes
more valuable than the things it can
buy-when those things it can buy
are the price of life itself.
But the beginnings of a thing
like that are easy enough to under
stand. You can see them all around
you. Most of us have a hint OF
them in our own lives.
What is involved is simply a ma
tural confusion about the primary
object of living. Every man shares
in it who is too busy at his bread.
and-butter job to spare time for the
fundamental joys of life.
Whenever we get SO busy making
living that We have no time left
for the living itself, we are on the
same melancholy track that this
deluded spinster followed-a long
way behind her, perhaps, but still