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The Washington times., 1936-11-27
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1885, by King Feature
Syndicate, Inc.

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 27.-MaSSa-
ere of the turkeys, or happy
Thanksgiving to you. Now that
Marlene Dietrich is in Europe,
KEITH Gallian turns out to be our
most exciting glamor girl. -Four
weeks ago, she got stuck in the
Palm Spring Indian sand bath, and
had to be eXtricated. Two weeks
ago, she was in a cafe bit Of
gaiety which resulted in cham
payne being tossed about, and last
weekend, she was escorted by no
less than 15-don't> count them
gentlemen for the entire weekend
in Palm Springs.
An old woman in Nebraska, hear
ing of Warmers production of
Three Men on Horse" promptly
dispatched them an indignant
letter, protesting that it was In
human to put such a load on a
poor horse. The latest Yuma
Ruma concerns Jean Muir and her
leading man in Lords Of the
Land" Gordon Oliver, to the point
where they are having to deny
having already Yuma-ed and wed.
Elizabeth Allan jumps right
over everybody into the top role
of Michael Strogoff" at r. K. o.,
in which she will be seen with the
new Viennese sensation, Anton
Walbrook, and Margot Grahame,
the English Sizzler. Also in the
same epic will be Fay Banter
whose option for further screen
work was taken up Immediately
by Pan Berman after seeing her
splendid work in Hepburn'S DUAL
ity Street." At the rate she is 60
ing, she won't be back on the New
York stage before spring.
Fred MacMurray has certainly
truned out to be a battle-scarred
veteran. He has had IA fights
in the IA pictures he has made
in rapid succession since he was
discovered last year with the
California collegians. The latest
and toughest is in Swing High,
Swing Low" with Carole Lom-
bard, in which, in a Panama
cafe scene, he is knocked down
six times, with most of the melee
taking place on the floor, with
the result that he, Miss Lombard
and all the others will be skin
less on their knees for part of
the season anyway.
The next Frank Lloyd produc-
ton at Paramount. with Maid of
Salem" safely launched, will be
Il, James Lewis" adapted from
the book by Gilbert Gabriel, and
starring Claudette Colbert. Mr..
Lloyd is certainly following up his
own words, that there are always
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L Cover HOlI yWOOd

emotion picture plots to be found
in your little primary grades his
tory book. This picture is laid in
the nineteenth century, and con-
Germs the great expeditions sent
out by John Jacob Aston the first,
which opened UP so much of the
Pacific Northwest, and founded
the city of Astoria up north while
they were about it.
To get the local citizenry we'll
into the spirit of Christmas, Holly
wood Boulevard is already deco
rated with tin Christmas trees
that look like ice cream cones up
side down. All of which is not
quite as bad this year as a couple
of Yuletides back, when the tin
trees were embelliShed with all of
Disney's Mickey and Minnie
Mouses and silly symphony carica-
lures, or the Yule previous, when
the trees were topped with huge
medallions done in oil of all the
movie stars, unrecognizable in
every case, and looking generally
like slaughter in a ten cent store.
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In makeup and comedy clothes
Comedian Perkins spends his time
rushing between the Capitol The
alter and Providence Hospital
He makes audiences laugh on
F Street, half an hour later is
kissing away his wife's tears and
reassuring her that all will be well
and that the family will enjoy the
Christmas tree Three-year-old
Cracker Barron, pride of the
Carter Barrons, rompS around the
managers office Johnny Per-
kinS picks him up and caresses
him fondly Yes, it's Thanks
giving with holiday greetings and
talk of turkeys and cranberry
sauce But not for Johnny Per
kins His Thanksgiving will
come when DR.. Flynn tells him his
boy is through the crisis and on
the mend Then he can laugh
and mean it. A real thanksgiving
For this is life, as we live it,
and here is a modern Pagliacci.
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.oIpoIe Talks
Here Dec. 3

There is no greater favorite
among the lecturers who come to
Washington, with local audiences,
than the genial and witty Brit
Usher, Hugh Walpole. Mr.. Walpole
will come to Constitution Hall
next Thursday night, December
3, to tell about some of his per
sonal experiences since he went
to Hollywood to live.
Everybody likes to hear about
the motion picture capital and the
business of making pictures. To
combine such information with
the clever personality that is Hugh
Walpole, promises an especially
entertaining evening.
1.-THE Novel and the Film
Some erSonal Adventures in
Both" is Mr.. Walpole'S title and
certainly no other writer of today
knows more about both parts of
that title than does Mr.. Walpole.
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CORNELL CRACKING RECORDS
Johnny Perkins Laughs Though
His Heart Is Heavy at
Holiday Shows
BY ANDREW z. KELLEY

After the holiday gossip Katharine Cornels Wingless
Victory had 20 vacant seats at the Thanksgiving matinee
they will be the only empty pushes during the engage
Tonight and tomorrow night the ticket racks are as
clean hounds TOOTH Or is hounds tooth really clean
The Columbia is due for Christmas present. Loew will
give the venerable Street heater face lifting just preceding
the holly and mistletoe week The Theaer Guild will send
in "The Two Mrs CAROLS" for the New Years trade
Street opening December The Cornell Runaway trade
has made business brisk for night clubs with Hegh
Ho chaking up close capacity nightly The French Casino
booked for the Capitol for Christmas week With the
fahy we'll covered for the Washington visit and much
of the humor given fit bath Business last night SELL
out both in the downtown and neghborhood movies.
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MOVIE
O'CLOCK

PALACE-Clark Gable, Love On
The Run" 11:05 a. m, 1:l2, 1920,
5:23, 1928, 9:33 p. m.
BELASCO-Dolly Haas, Broken
Blossoms" 1900, 2:O8, 4:O7,
6:06, sos, 1904, P. M.
r. X. o. KEITH'S- Burgess Mere
dith, "Winterset," 1924 a. M,
ITO, 1855, 4:42, 6:2s, S:14, 1000
p. m.
EARLE Joan Blondell, Three
Men On a Horse" 11:O0 a. M,
1885, 4:25, 7:15, 1000 p. m.
Stage: 1885, $3.50, $40, 9:05
p. m.
METROPOLITAN - Enrol Flynn,
charge of The Light Brigade"
1890 a. m, 1910, $50, sos,
1920, $50 p. m.
RIAL TONI. Deeds Goes to
Town." at ait, 4:38, 7:04 and
9:32 p. m.
COLUMBIA-William Powell,
Jean Harlow, ''Libeled Lady,
11:10 a. M, 1:15, 500, 5:25, 1880,
9:35 p. m.
CAPITOL-Warner Baxter, Head
Hunter" 1900, a. m, 1885, 4:25,
7:10, 1000 p. m. Stage-12:20,
sos, 5:55, $40 p. m.
HOWARD-Ralph Bellamy, 1.-THE
Man Who Lived Twice." 1890,
800, $50, 800, 1920 p. m.
Stage-Claude Hopkins, 1:4O,
4:10, $40, 9:10 p. m.
Notwithstanding Hepburn, "A
Bill of Divorcement," 11:47, A.
M. 1852, 1857, 5:54, 7:51, 9:48
P. M.
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renee read so many nice things
about herself that she must re-
gard it as Coronation week-for
an amusement queen Five New
York newspapers sent reporters
down to the Potomac to cover the
Katharine Cornell opening. With
three critics present from Balti-
more-Norman Clark, Don Kirk
ley and Gilbert Kanour-it meant
the journalistic verdict was rem
dered by some 10 official first
nighters. Cornell got the decision
by a vote of IL to one, so over
whelming that the Broadway
ticket agents are ready to buy
'Wingless Victory" until next
June or longer and Stars
Remain" the Clifton Webb-Helen
Gahagan play, will close on Sat
urday night after seven weeks in
New York. The Theater Guild will
probably record it in the books as
a failure.
WEINBERGER IN MOVIES
Harold Weinberger, office man
ager of Metro Goldwyn-Mayer in
the Washington territory, is going
to Hollywood In the produc-
ton department He leaves in
January and I know he is happy
as is Rudy Berger, his boss and
exchange manager, who recon-
mended him for the job .. I have
watched Harold Weinberger as a
stage director and actor at the
Roadside theater AS an actor
I should say both Clark Gable and
Robert Taylor need not fear this
new competition, if any, but as an
idea man in the MG-M production
department, Mr.. Weinberger is
good one to keep an eye on {.
He loves the mechanics of the en-
tertainment business, the unseen
things that make a play move
smoothly and a movie seem gen.
uine In other words, the
skilled craftsmanship and the ap-
piled arts that the audience never
sees, and only senses must be
there, when the finished enter
tainment is both serene and COM
plete Good luck then to Harold
Weinberger May he go as far
as Norman KraSna, graduate Of
flee boy; Pandro S. Berman, who
began answering bells when the
boss pushed the button; L. Monta
Bell, who wrapped papers in the
Washington Herald's mailing room
and moved up to a $500 a week
salary Rudy Berger gave me
the news Thanksgiving morning,
with joy in his voice that one of
his Subordinates was moving up
The same sweet and gentle
Rudy Berger who figures that if
it's an M-G-M picture it must be
as good as Paramount's, no matter
what Harry Hunter says Best
of luck then to Harold Weinber-
ger, and here's hoping to see his
name soon on the credit screen.
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KELLEYGRAMS

This department had two
Thanksgiving Day dinners yester-
day, one thanks to George Et-
finger, of the United Artists pub
licity forces 1t was Mr.. Et-
fingers idea, and not such a bad
one, that I could learn more about
Charles Laughton as REM
brandt" the celebrated Dutch
painter, if I was gnawing on a
dark meat leg favored with cram
berry sauce Mr.. Laughton is
not one Of my favorites but I do
like Gertrude Lawrence, who ap-
pears in his new picture J.. . It is
an Alexander Korda production,
(perhaps the King will make all
the colunnists smart by naming
him Sir Alexander Korda), and
over in England they are raving
about it . There are no genuine
Rembrandts at the call Of press
agent, but Mr.. Ettinger has round
ed up some fine copies and they
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JOHNNY is SAD
It's Thanksgiving day and the
show must go on or must 1t?
There are people in the Capt.
toll Theater looking for laughter
and there is Johnny Perkins who
is expected to supply it Plump
Johnny Perkins, a jolly fat man
.. Full of fun, as we see him, and
life is song But is it? {.
This rotund Falstaff is worried
to death but covers his anxiety
with a comedy mask His four
year-old son, the joy of his life,
is desperately i'll A bad cold
has developed into a mastoid con-
dition that requires an immediate
operation Mrs. Perkins ar
ranges for a bed at Providence
Hospital and soothes the little fell
low, racked with pain Be
tween shows Johnny Perkins ar
ranges for pajamas and personal
linen for his wife and baby 1.
The mother will occupy a room
next door to her one and only
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Cartoon Fun
At TivoIi

Special all-cartoon shows will
be presented tomorrow Saturday
at two Warner Bros. Neighbor-
hood Theaters-the Penn, Penn
Sylvania Avenue at Seventh Street
S. E., and the Tivoli, Park Road
at Fourteenth Street N. w. Both
theaters will begin their programs
at 1890 a. m.
Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Donald
Duck, Betty Boop, and other popu-
lar cartoon stars will play prom
inent parts in this program, which
includes some of their best and
most popular reels.
The Washington times., 1936-11-27
Marine Etchinqs Now

Lionel Barrymore, who is very
famous for the steel etchings that
he has made in the past, will make
some marine etchings while on
location with the Captains Cour.
ageouS" company.
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Back to New York

Lenore Uric hastens forthwith
right back to New York, when she
finished her final scene with Greta
Carlo and Robert Taylor in
Camille"
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are on display at Woodward and
Lothrop's. Meanwhile. I think
Gertrude Lawrence, after her
splendid impression in the Noel
Coward canoes, will draw quite a
few carriage trade and limousine
customers to R-K-O-Keith's next
week when Rembrandt" opens
80. I saw Gertie make a picture at
the Paramount studios in Astoria
some years ago called "The Battle
of Paris" It was a gosh awful fea-
ture, in fact, I think it was the
low of all sound pictures d.. Cert
rude Lawrence happens to be one
Of the best actresses I have ever
seen and so I am looking forward
to a screen appearance worthy of
her AS for Mr.. Laughton, he
has construed his personal con-
tact with the late Irving Thalberg
as abrogated by death. Plans to
make all his future pictures in
England. .Laughton believes that
the film will help to destroy the
tissue of lies which has grown up
about Rembrandt-that he was
ignorant. foolish, avaricious. AS
he energies on the screen in the
gifted hands of Laughton, Rem
brandt is a vigorous, square-set
Dutchman, careless, good-na-
tured, magnanimouS and AFRO
CANT.
COWARD GETS DECISION
Noel Coward checked in at the
National theater in New York with
an almost perfect set of notices
from the critics So good that
his plan to spend only three
months on Broadway has already
been revised to a 16 weeks stay
The English Gertrude Law
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Chimp As Gift

Maureen O'Sullivan received a
gift of a baby chimpanzee from an
admirer, which she says she is
going to train for the next Tar
Zan" picture.
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Director Has Estate

Director George Cukor has pur.
chased the two scenic acres adjoin.
ing his Beverly Hills estate and is
having them Handicapped with
promenades, grape arbors, dog ken
nelS and an orchard.
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FARLEY |NFERS
LANDON IS WEAK
Predicts Governor "of a
Typical Prairie State"
to Be Nominee.
By the Associated Press.

By inc Absocitteo Ftess.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, May Al
Postmaster General Farley last night
predicted the governor Of q typical
prairie STATE" would be the RepubH-
can Presidential nominee, and then
asserted his election would prove q
"perilous experiment"
Speaking before the Michigan State
Democratic convention, Farley, as
Chairman Of the Democratic National
Committee, did not mention his prob
able" nominee by name. Gov. All M.
Landon Of Kansas Is the only mid
western State Executive now prom
inent In the Republican nominee race.
Farley criticized the man he did
not name as devoid Of experience in
national affairs. and predicted that
II he Is the Republican standard
bearer even Kansas" will not be In
the Roosevelt doubtful column.
Hints DuPonts Back Landon.
The man he predicted would get
the nomination. Farley said. was
scarcely known to the country little
more than q year ago. He said he
guessed" this man would be elevated
because "the DUPONT Liberty League
crowd is less afraid Of him than 1t is
of more widely known and more ex-
perienced statesmen who have been
mentioned in connection with the Re-
publican nomination"
In another section of his speech
Farley said the people were being asked
to believe. lin this progressive section
of the country, at least" that the Re-
publican party is purging itself Of the
old predatory spirit and that 1t means
hereafter under new leaders to 60 for
ward in the path of advancement and
care for the plain people" He added:
do you believe that fairy story?
You know how the Republican party Is
being financed during the present cam
paign. Does 1t seem likely to you-a
hard-headed, practical people-that
the Du Point Liberty League, that COL
lection Of multi -millionaires, and their
satellite lawyers and paid propaganda
lists, is going to back any program that
would run counter to their own inter-
ests, habits and special privileges?
Discusses Candidates.
This group. that has turned every
emergency that had to be faced by our
country into an opportunity to pile
up enormous fortunes, is paying the
bills of any and practically every real
or pretended organization that an
nounces it Is against President Roose-
welt"
Turning to Republican nomination
possibilities, he said:
I'VE do not yet know Just what Re-
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Land Only for Lease.

Title to land in Australia's capital.
Canberra, Is held by the government
and can be acquired only by leese.
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SENATE LIBERALS
VISIT ROOSEVELT.
Politics Stunned in 3.Hour
Conference for General
Chat" They Insist.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A three hour White House confer
ence between President Roosevelt and
a group Of Senators generally desig-
mated as liberals broke up early today
with participants insisting politics was
not mentioned.
"A general chat" was the descrip-
ton given to the long session by the
Senators.
They declared that among the SUBJ
jects under discussion were economics,
government, rural identification, the
Supreme Court and the Guffey de-
cision. The effect Of sun spots on
the weather also was mentioned, said
Senator La Toilette, Progressive, Of
Wisconsin.
Others in on the conference were
Senators Wagner, Democrat, of New
York; Wheeler, Democrat, Of Mon
tana; Schwellenbach, Democrat, Of
Washington; Minton. Democrat, Of
Indiana; Norris, Republican, Of Ne
braska, and Shipstead, Farmer-La-
borite, of Minnesota. Felix Frank
furter of the Harvard Law School, a
presidential consultant, was there also,
but Norris said he was just
Listener"
Norris, who left an hour and
half before the others, said there had
been "a general discussion"
Wagner said I'VE talked about Gov
eminent and lot Of other things.
but it was more of social gathering"
1t was Shipstead who recalled that
something had been said about the
Supreme Courts decision which invali-
dated the Guf1ey coal control act, but
the Farmer-Labor Senator could not
remember what it was.
Hopeful newspaper men then asked
him If any conclusions were reached,
to which he replied, Did you ever see
any conclusions reached at any con-
ference?"
Speculation had been aroused be-
cause of the fact that the Senators,
while representing four parties, all
lean toward the New Deal
There was belief that pending leg
islation was not the principal subject
on the conference agenda because
most of the legislative parleys at the
White House include only Democrats.
Prior to the meeting some Senators
expressed the opinion the President
wanted to talk informally with lib
erals" Of various parties and sections
OF the country on campaign matters.
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publican figure will be put up TO OPP
pose Franklin D. Roosevelt next No
vember. From present indications, 1t
appears probable it will be a gentle
man OF whom none Of you had even
heard . little more than q year ago.
Talk about reckless experiments
in Government, which il one Of our
critics favorite charges against the
administration Could there by any
more perilous experiment than putting
the complex and highly delicate con-
troll of our Government into the hands
of q man destitute Of experience and
devoid of practice in national, still
less in international matters.
You knew Roosevelt. He had been
In public lite from early manhood as
. member of the New York Legisla-
ture. He had been part Of the Wood
row Wilson administration. He had
twice been an erinently successful
Governor Of the most populous State
In the Union. Responsibility was
nothing new to him. The problems
OF administration he had encountered
IN ALMOST every Iofm.
Cites support Of Press.
what do you know about the in
dividual who now appears Is the most
probable candidate of the minority
party?
True. he Is being exalted by the
INSTRUMENTATION press. If we &C
cept this version we have been enter
tanning In obscurity . genius in gov
eminent: another Lincoln, with dashes
Of Coolidge in his composition. I
think all Of US who have any famil-
iarity with politics are cognizant Of
the process Of building up the COM
monplace into the remarkable.
This gentleman may be all his
boosters present him as being. but he
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Lehman
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prompted his return to private activi-
ties.
President Roosevelt yesterday ex-
pressed q hope that Lehman would
see his way clear to run again. He
said he had known for some time
Of the Governors intention.
Chairman James A. Farley Of the
Democratic National Committee said
at Grand Rapids that Lehman's de-
cision meant "a loss to the State and
to the party"
Comment of Wagner.
Senator Wagner, Democrat, OF New
York declared Lehman lis SO indis-
pensable to the State that we've just
got to draft him." while Senator
Copeland, Democrat, of New York said
his decision was q great loss"
Justice Ferdinand Pecora of the
New York Supreme Court expressed
the hope that Lehman can be pre-
vailed upon to reconsider"
Pecora conferred yesterday with the
President. but told reporters that poll
tics was not discussed.
No indication came from the Cover
nor that he might reconsider, however,
and what effect a draft movement
would have remained to be seen.
Chairman Melvin c. Eaton Of the
New York State Republican Com
mittee, said he was mot surprised"
at the announcement. but State Sena.
tor George r. Fearon, mentioned as
a Republican candidate for Governor,
said he was very much surprised"
Whether the New York situation
was discussed last night at a White
House conference attended by several
legislators was not made known Sena-
tor Wagner was among the Senators
who participated in the session.
Other political developments yes
terday included a decision Of Demo-
cratic leaders on Capitol Hill to re-
cess Congress during the national con-
ventions at Cleveland and Philadel-
phia II the session has not already
adjourned. Four years ago Congress
remained In session throughout the
convention period.
Democrats in State convention at
Maryland yesterday formally pledged
the 16 convention votes to President
Roosevelt.
Democrats in Michigan today as
sembled to pick delegates at large.
G. o. P. SEES VICTORY
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Benefit WILL BE HELD
FOR ITALIAN FAMILIES

The Italian Ladies of Charity will
hold their first annual charity ball for
underprivileged Italian families Of the
District at the Willard Hotel Wednes-
day night.
Mrs. Amedeo DeBernardo, presi-
dent of the organization, is honorary
chairman: Mrs. Ralph Colella is act
ing chairman. The committee in
cludes Mrs. Philip Manuel. Mrs. Jere-
miah DeLesio. Mrs Frank Shorty, Mrs.
Arzilio Branca, Miss Grace Manuel
and Mrs. Vincent Metallic. Mrs.
Charles Passero is in charge of pub
licity.
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ALBANY, N. Y, May 81 (R.-
Gov. Lehman's unexpected decision
to decline nomination for o third term
stirred New York's political pot to a
boiling point today, reviving Demo-
cratic talk of draft movement" and
bringing Republican predictions of a
sweeping victory in President Roose-
velts home State this Fall.
Republican State Chairman Melvin
c. Eaton predicted that "the Repub-
Icans not only will elect the Cover.
nor, the Senate and the Assembly, but
will carry the State for the Republic
an candidate for President this Fall"
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Is nearly so years old, and 1t would be
something new II he possessed all the
magnificent qualities Of ADMINISTERS
ton, all the knowledge Of public ques-
lions, all the noble attributes with
which his champions endow him. with
out his fame getting beyond the
borders Of his own State.
IT believe he made . moderate
fortune in the oil business, though
his biographers say he was educated
as q lawyer, but success In oil Is not
generally regarded ~ particularly ut
ting o man or the presidency.
II am not, Of course. in possession
of exact knowledge Of why the Re-
publican party chooses to put him on
q pedestal, but II I were permitted to
guess. I would be inclined to believe
it was because he was elected Gov.
ernor Of . typical State"
fractional Fight Averted.
Michigan Democrats averted an
anticipated factional tight at their pre-
primary convention yesterday by in
dorsing all corners for the major
nominations that will be ut stake In
the primary next September.
Senator James Couzens, Republican,
of Michigan, was one Of six persons
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Endorsed for the Democratic nomina-
ton for United States Senator. His
name was offered ~ "one who cannot
understand the fight Of the Republican
party for the almighty dollar and its
disregard for human rights"