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The Washington times., 1936-09-25
Great ZieqfeId' at the Palace

The cast Of "The Great Zieg-
feld," which begins its first run at
popular prices at Loew's Palace to-
day, is so stupendous thatany mum,
Der of outstanding celebrities had
to be left out.
In preparing the picture for
production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
duplicated the profligacy Of Zieg-
field himself, using 16 reels and
$1,000 feet of film, and diScarding
enough almost to make another
feature picture.
Unfortunately. many people en-
gagged for the picture do not ap-
pear. Even famous names are
among the missing, not because of
inadequacy, but because the enter
prise has been so large that much
material had to be discarded to in
sure the perfection of the produc-
tion as whole.
In spite of the fact that some
of the personalities originally
signed are missing, the picture
aboundS with names, stars and
talent. Constituting one Of the
greatest casts Of famous stage
and screen names ever recruited
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NJ OWE
CLOCK

PALACE-William Powell, "The
Great Ziegfeld," 1920 a. m,
2:40, 800, 9:20 p. m.
CAPITOL-FranciS Lederer, MY
American Wife" 10:45 a. M,
1875, 4:25, 7:10, 1000 p. m.
Stage-12:35, 1925, 6:15, 900
p. m.
COLUMBIA Jean Crawl or d.
Gorgeous Hussy," 11:00 a. m,
ITO, 3:20, 500, 7:35, GAS p. m.
EARLE-Fred MacMurray, THE
Texas Rangers" 10:45 a. m,
1870, 4:20, ITO, 1000 p. m.
Stage-12:40, $50, $40, 9:10
p. m.
RKO KEITHS-Fred AStaire,
Swing Time" 1882 a. M, 1882
1892, 5:32, 1882, 9:32 p. m.
BELASCO-JesSie Matthews, "Fri-
day the Thirteenth" 1908, 2:03,
4:O3, 6:03, 8:03. 1903 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-"Anthony Ad-
verse;" $50, 11:50 a. M. 2:15.
4:45, 7:10. 9:35 p. m.
LITTLE-Conrad Veidt, Power, "
11:15 a. m. 1:2l, 1926, 5:31,
1885, 9:41 p. m.
HOWARD-"The Return Of
Sophie Lang" 1915, 2:45, 5:l5,
7:45 10:15 p. m. Stage-FatS
Waller and his orchestra, 1:45
AIS, 6:45, 9:15 p. m.
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London Garden Grows
On Hollywood STAGE

Five thousand square feet Of
genuine sod was laid on a sound
stage at the R-K-O Radio studios
for an English garden scene in the
new Katharine Hepburn Herbert
Marshall picture. Portrait Of a
Rebel"
An artificial lake 20 feet in
diameter also was sunk in the cen
ter of the garden and planted
with real water lilies. Real trees,
hedges and flower pots were in
stalled likewise.
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of the late John Noonan, whose
public spirited work in behalf Of
school children and other civic
causes, left behind a treasured
memory. Mrs. Miller made
WaShington'S movie circles con-
scious of her entry into the ex-
hibitor field by taking the Little
Theater and turning it into a
successful bijou ariStocrat movie
Her installation of new spring
back upholstered chairs with am
pie room between rows has re-
duced the capacity Of the Rialto
to about 1900 but increased its
comfort. Her policy will be
Bring Back the Good Ones"
and the operation is on the
theory that a super picture Of
1888 or thereabout is still good
picture Through the coopera-
tion of the Will Hays office the
Rialto has been able to get code
seals on many favorities which
have not been seen since the
revival policy became popular
1t has contracted for Suffi-
cient fine product to keep going
until next summer when the
theater will have a modern cool
ing system. In the remodeling
of the theater all steps in the
orchestra have been eliminated.
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Judy Garland, 13, has been
signed to a new long-term contract
by -Goldwyn-Mayer studios.
She made her first appearance in
a musical, Every Sunday"
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
Mickey Has q
Birthday

Tomorrow morning at o'clock
it is expected that several thou
sand of Washington's Mickey
Mouse fans will beat a path to
Loew's Palace Theater to join in
the special cartoon matinee in
celebration of Mickey's eighth
birthday.
Eight of Walt Disney's brightest
Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony
subjects will be shown at this Gin
ema birthday party, which is one
of many being staged all over the
world in Mickey's honor.
Mickey owes his continued and
useful existence to not only his
creator, Walt Disney, but to an
extremely Jealous staff Of 400 at
the Disney Hollywood studios, .
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ANTIQUE NEWS REEL
Mrs. George R. Holmes dropped
in with q party Of friends to
wish the socialite theater pro-
prietor success. SO did Peter
Carter, who just beat the rain
drops. also Mrs. Ralph D. Pal
mer and Mrs. Don Craig Harry
Hunter of Paramount came over,
and Harry Browne of Grand Ma
tional Pictures, the industry'S
newest company, looked over the
redecorated theater. Grand Ma
tional has not yet closed a deal
for its product which includes
the James Cagney features and
In His Steps," ready for release
Both Keith's and the Belasco
are dickering for Grand National
and the Rialto also will probably
go after this first run product
=. Mrs. Miller unreeled 25-year-
old news reel for guests with
shots of McKinley's Inaugural
Parade, Teddy Roosevelt and the
Bowery in the days of Steve
Brodie. The opening feature
will be Grand Hotel"
HAS GOOD PRODUCT
The new Rialto Theater starts
off with oceans of good will for
Washington's only distaff movie
exhibitor She is the daughter
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Ward Morehouse, New York
Suns Broadway colunniSt, is at
the shoreham while he is doing
a couple of Potomac After Dark
pieces. One of them will be on
the Nationals beginning Of the
second century ColumniSt More
house likes to travel and this sum-
mer did so columns from various
points in the United States and
Canada. i. When he came back he
drew down a $1,000 cash bonus.
Steve Cochran permitted the New
York visitor to take his little red
book which gives the National
Theater history from 1885 to
1885. This priceless volume Mons.
Cochran loans only to those he
calls "Pals" . Incidentally, ticket
buyers for est. Helena" are de-
lighted to find their names will
be in Monday nights program
and that their gold tickets may be
retained as souvenirs Of mo-
mentouS occasion.
MABELLE MOVES UP
A pleasure indeed to learn that
Mabelle Jennings, graduate dra-
matte editor and critic, will be
the radio headliner on the first
commercial program to originate
to q basic network from Washing
ton. She will be on the air on
Tuesday and Thursday at l p. m.
for Is minutes in a program that
will be carried by IL stations of
the Columbia Broadcasting SyS-
tenn. Auntie Mabelle will be a
big soft soap girl. Pardon me, I
mean her sponsors sell CASTLE
soap products but Miss Jennings
will take a portable microphone
to various Washington vantage
points and ask the ladies on the
scene, What's On Your Mind?"
1 know not what Mabelle will do
with the answers but I venture
she will manage to make them in
tereSting AT any rate it is re.
freShing to discover that the net
works are becoming aware we
have some real talent in Wash
ington worthy of reaching beyond
local stations.
BEST BOWES AMATEUR
Washington listeners on the
Major Bowes program last night
gave a majority to Frank Mata.
lane, a mimic versatile enough to
initiate the sound of rolling
dice He joins the Major
BoWes dance band unit which
opened at the Capitol Theater to
day Personally my vote
went for the Bowes artists on
the twin pianos, who provide
such excellent accompaniments
but it happens they are not eligi,
BILE I like, also, Announcer
Dan Seymour, who is a close voice
double for Graham MacNamee
Perhaps that's one of the
reasons why Announcer Seymour
drags down $3.50 each show, a
salary which takes him out OF
the amateur ranks The win,
ner, Frank Matalane, has been
working on his uncle's farm in
Baltimore, has also been a chauf
feur and has ambitions to be a
commercial artist. That in,
duced Felix Mahony, of the ia
tional School of Fine and Applied
Arts to tender the struggling
artist a scholarship A big
night for this amateur and out OF
it should come the start of some
kind of a career The Capi
tolls special telephone operators
handled about 1000 telephone
calls and the winner received
about half of the ballots
Second was Blanche Fielder, who
gave limitations Of Burns and AL
len, Beatrice Lille and LYDIA Ro
berti Rooerti Is not wei
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RIALTO THEATER INSPECTED
Frank MotoIone Wins Vote
OfWoshington as Best
BoWes Amateur
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Critics stretched their legs sumped down in their chairs
and found for their feet voted the Rato Theaer
the comfortable movie in town. All of this yesterday
at twilight when Mrs. Louise Noonan Miller unveiled her
Ninth Street cinema with cocktails and hOrs dOuvres for in
vted guests The bar set up the flower decorated
lobby from which the carpenters and painters had been
elected Mrs NoOnan Miller assisted in receiving by her
three and her mother Mrs John Noonan fine looking
family by unanimous vote Manager Abe Toxins sent out
CTS invitations for the opening Saturday and without all
of the replies in had acceptances which would exhaust the
capacity of the heater So guests have been notified only
60 with each invitation Smart Manager Toxins
wants repetition of the Metropolitan Theaer in Boston
thoughes That cinema magnificence sent out 10000
house could seat but 5000 5000 left standing in the
yet though the opening five years ago.
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KELLEYGRAMS

enough known outside Of New
York to merit mimicing ANA
teur impersonators should bear
in mind that their carbons go
best when listeners know the
artist initiated Also aspiring
pianists should know that a flash
or hot piano is what goes on the
air Classical music is out so
far as getting votes In other
words, swing it.
DAY FUTILE ARRIVES
Day Tuttle, director of the new
Washington Civic Theater, was
luncheon host to critics yesterday
at the Raleigh, with Dorothea
Lewis as hostess &. He found that
100 had applied for parts in the
groups first production, Caesar
and Cleopatra" He has taken
a home in Georgetown for Mrs.
Tuttle and his four offspring ..
Kenneth Clark gets a Six-weeks'
trip to Hollywood to study movie
technique in the studios, with the
Will Hays office okaying the ex,
pense vouchers. Now amt that
Sumfin .. .. The Dionne quintupletS'
latest news reel pictures will be
shown Sunday, Monday and Tues
day at the Warner Bros. Penn
Theater. On Thursday and Friday
of next week they will be at Tivoli
and at the Savoy Theater Octo-
ber 4 and 5. Phil Lampkin pays
his tribute to George M. Cohan
in the Capitol Theater's overture
this week :. The offering is called
Evolution of Broadway" and traces
the origin and subsequent develop
ment of Cohan's "Give My Re
CARDS to Broadway" Leon Brusi
lofts band will play the Presidents S
Cup Regatta banquet at the Ma
tional Press Club 0morroW night
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! Cover Hollywood

ebuilt, Of the entire island on
wheels, with boulders, trees, earth,
ct al, so it could be turned and
shot at any angle. Query-couldn't
the cameras have been moved
around the island, without the
island being moved around the
cameras?
Since the critics all started raw
ing about Valiant is the Word For
Carrie" Twentieth Century-Fox
has moved Airline Judge up from
second lead to the lead, opposite
Adolphe Menjou. At last they've
realized the girl has talent.
While in John Bulls territory,
we find Neil Hamilton, who has
been away from us more than a
year, so popular that, should he
care, he could devote the rest Of
his life and histrionics to the Eng
liSh films.
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 25.-Law-
renee Tibbett, now finished with
his Twentieth Century-Fox picture,
Under Your SPELL" departed
Monday for the East, where he will
appear in a one-act opera version
of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
M.-G.M. is making a sort of
peace offering to the city of San
Francisco snice it agitated the
Chamber of Commerce by giving
out with such tasty earthquake
in the picture, San Francisco"
For the sequel to THE Thin Man" J."
now on location there, they are
hiring all San Franciscans as ex-
ira talent and great gobs of the
city's wardrobe to dress them up
in. Which reminds one that a
current rumor is that the city it.
self put up $125,OO0 to insure the
filming of the picture, because
they wanted publicity. They got
it.
Lily PonS turns out to be our
premier girl scoutess. She is going
to give a free concert to raise
funds to keep the Los Angeles Phil.
harmonic Orchestra intact next
season. That's a mighty fine
gesture.
It is rumored that "The Plains
man" will be Cecil B. De Miles
last picture for Paramount, and
that he will possibly move his put
tees and megaphone over to United
Artists, where he will head his
own unit.
Speaking Of THE Plainsman,'
they became technical to the point
of great expense to do up that
little epic. For the studio shots OF
the battle of Beecher's Island, De
Mile had the worlds heaviest SET
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Mrs. Louise Noonan Miller Is Host
ess for Formal Pre-VieW Gathering
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VOTE AME ERIcAN
The Washington times., 1936-09-25

for motion picture. The Great
ziegfeld" boasts such stars as
William Powell, Myrna 10y, Luise
Rainer, Reginald Owen, Frank
Morgan, Fannie Brice, Virginia
Bruce, Nat Pendleton, Ray Bolger,
Joseph Cawthorne, Ernest Cos
sart, Harriet Hoctor and many
others, including the most beau
tiful girls in the world, some
200 in the chorus. The picture
has a profusion of elaborate set
tings and musical incidents and
recreates with fidelity the atmos-
phere of the show world that
was glorified by the late great
glorifier.
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13-Year-OId Slams

VOTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-09-25
Goyety Books
Billy Hagen

The Gayety's attraction for the
coming week will be none other
than Washington's own comedian
Billy Cheese and Crackers
Hagen, and his own burlesque COM
pany.
The featured female star is Mile.
Vernee, called the Spanish sensa-
ton.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-12-24
Foreign Words
und Phrases

Ad ibitum. N) At will; as
much as one pleases.
Bambino. Qt.) A little boy;
more especially the Christ child.
Celia va sans dire. CD That
goes without saying; it is obvious.
Desunt caetera. (L.) The rest is
wanting; the citation is incom-
plete.
Salus populi suprema est lex.
L.) The welfare of the people is
the supreme law. motto of Mis-
souri.)
Laudator temporis acti. U.)
One who praises bygone times.
Naivete. CD Native simplicity.
Quantum Tibet. (L.) AS much as
you please.
Rara avis. (L) A rare. bird, a
strange prodigy.
Observation-Disclosures. (Ger.)
High treason.
Elixir vitae. N) Elixir of life.
Pari passu. U) With equal
pace; side by side.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-12-24
Styles in Women's Hats.

H-AVE you noticed those sub-divi-
l. L sional hats the women are
wearing this season?If not, kindly
do so. It'll distract your attention
from the part-time frocks some of
them are wearing.
The average woman is wearing
what looks like part of a hat-say
one-half to tWo-thirds. I've heard
the more of the original hat the
milliner chopped off, the higher
went the price for what was left.
l suppose with hats, as in the case
of a good clean appendix opera
ton, if they'd cut the entire thing
away, only very wealthy women
could afford to go bare-headed.
Even SO, the wearer has some
thing to do with the effect. I ran
into the lovely Mrs. Clark Gable
and she had on one of the new
fractional hats and it was power
fully becoming to her. But I'll bet
it would look like the very dickens
on me or Jimmy Durante.
IRWIN S. COBB.
rirI4
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-12-24
Making a Choice
~ independence and Loneliness or
" Dependence With Ties of Affection

variably meet with our approval,
whether expressed or uneX-
pressed.
1t is when we learn to permit
personal differences without CEN
sure that companionship, in the
home or out of it, develops best.
Even when children are young,
they must be allowed a modicum
of such freedom or when older
they will long to break away, and
if they do then there is loneliness
in store for the youth, and sadness
left in the home.
Divorce.
Married couples, when they con-
template divorce, have the choice
between independence plus lone
liness, or dependence, each on
the other with affection restored,
or remaining less than could be
desired. It may be there is incon-
patability, but it should be re-
membered that no two persons,
married or single, can live to-
gether under the same roof and
always be congenial. However,
this does not signify that at heart
affection is gone. Separation
means loneliness for one or both
of them.
Families.
Within a family there is sure to
be some dissension at times
young folk may quarrel and adults
dispute. But when these times are
over, the ties of affection, the as
sociations that intertwine, and the
fabric of their lives so closely
woven together, should prove a
firm foundation for continued COM
panionship. The door to loneliness
should remain barred.
g Bell Syndcate.-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-12-24

ITO MOST persons there comes
l. sometime in their lives the
opportunity for choice between
independence and loneliness or ties
and affection. The wise mature
person thinks long before choosing
the former above the latter. There
are many young people, however,
who feel so sure of themselves
and their ability to "get along
all right that they are irked by
the least restraint. They throw it
off, only to discover later in life
that affection is worth the curtail-
ing restraint and dependence en-
tailed. Companionship has been
their portion up to the time of
their decision that dependence is
what they must have, at any cost.
They have no idea of what lone
lineSS means.
Separation.
The adult who is separated from
his family because of distance,
oOl11SoL1S SoC1 Oil SAAiSAASs VI WIZ
has outlived the other members,
realizes to the full what it means
to be alone. It is when estrange-
ment causes the separation that
there are times when the alone
ness is bearable or agreeable, but
these times are interrupted by
hours when the feeling of loneli-
ness creeps over him Cor her),
and companionship, though with
but a small degree of affection, is
craved.
Individuality.
Human nature is so constituted
that people cannot live in the same
atmosphere and always see eye to
eye. There is wisdom in this plan.
Individuality would be quelled if
what any person thought Chow
ever beloved) could always be
accepted without dissent by those
around him Cor her). Nor can ac-
tions of even those dear to us, in
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-12-24

fore Christmas" Bill predicted.
And as if that were not enough, he
suggested that now there would be
nothing to buy for the twins, may
be he could have the moving pic
ture outfit he had wanted so long.
Il hope you don't change your
mind, sweet sisters" he cautioned,
as he proceeded to put huge piece
of pie in his mouth. Il do want
that picture machine pretty bad"
The twins threw scornful glances
in his direction; they couldn't trust
themselves to speak. There were
things they had forgotten when they
made their big resolve to do away
with Christmas preparations. AS
soon as dinner was over, they hur-
ried from the table.
The days that followed were not
very happy. The twins could find
no one interested in their plan to
change the way of keeping Christ
mas. Even the most modern of
their friends laughed them to scorn.
No one was really interested in
advancement, they decided. Here
they were willing and eager to get
a new crusade started, one that
would save time and temper and
money, and no one, not even their
best friends, would lend a hand.
They grew fretful, impatient, even
peeved at each other.
One evening Nadine came home
and found Marian in their mothers
bedroom, peering into some boxes
that had just been delivered. Ma
dine smiled to herself, and hur-
ried from the doorway SO Marian
would not see her.
But next day in the toy depart
ment of Smiths store, things came
to a showdown. The twins ran into
each other, found themselves side
by side clutching for foolish things
that lay on the counter. Brown
eyes challenged blue as they stood
in the crowded aisle. Guilt showed
plainly on both faces.
Then Nadine was speaking,
quickly, incoherently: "You might
as well know, Marian, I'm chuck
ing your silly plan. I'm going to
do like everybody else. I'm going
to make a big fuss about Christ
mas. l want to push through the
croWds-to buy foolish things-to
hang up holly Wreaths-to-to do
just everything! And if I'm
not mistaken, you're just dying to
do the same?"
You're absolutely right" Mari
an answered, utterly careless of
the amused glances thrown in their
direction. We've been pair of
fools, but we're going to have one
grand and glorious time in the two
days that are left We're going
to make the biggest fuss about
Christmas that has ever been made
before"
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-12-24
CROPS AND ELECTIONS

IF THE Democratic party is dubi-
Gus about the 1886 election it
may be because of the drought.
History of our political cam
paigns indicates that the size of
crops has an important bearing on
national elections. In other words,
if there be a scarcity of farm prod
ucts, the party in power is turned
out of office.
None can say that this is an in
fallible rule, yeG there are notable
periods and events which tend to
prove its truth. A seven years
drought, for example, starting in
1888. is the first widespread de-
Struction of crops If which there
is record. At the end of it, Martin
Van Buren was voted out of office
and the Wings came in with a great
show of strength.
A second drought occurred short
ly before the Civil war, but the
latter event dominated, of course,
every trend of political develop
ment for that period. In 1874 there
was a large Republican majority
in the lower branch of congress
but there hac been drought
years Immediately preceding, and
Democratic congressman were
elected in droves.
Beginning in 1887. ten years
showed deficiency of rainfall and
crops naturally suffered. It was
during this period, perhaps more
than in any other, that the kmeri-
can voter practiced aSsiduously his
right to vote parties in and out of
power.
Conditions may be changed today.
The Democratic party, which hap
pens to be in the saddle, has sur
Vived one of the country's worst
crop years, 1894. There are politi-
cal observers who assert that we
are too much an industrial nation
today for Old Man Weather to lay
such a heavy hand on political for
tuHes.
Only time will tell if this estimate
of the situation is correct. When
this is written. however, indications
point clearly that burning, dry
winds have destroyed a large part
of the spring wheat crop in the
Dakotas and Montana.
Industrial nation or not. It is at
least an even bet that when the
campaign warns up particular at
tention will be paid to those three
states by Messrs. Hamilton and
Farley-not to mention Congress.
man Lemke, who halls from that
area himself.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-12-24
Wr0th Silver
Copyright.-WN Service

Ever since the year ITO the par
ishes surrounding Knightlow, Street
ton on Dunsmore, WarWickshire,
have paid Wroth Silver to the Lord
Of the Manor on st. Martins day.
Shortly before sunrise the money is
placed in a nic.e in the remains
of an old stone cross, and then is
collected by the Steward of the
Manor, according to Tit-Bits Mag
azine. The fees are purely nominal,
ranging from one penny to two shill-
ings and threepence-halfpenny. De-
faulterS, however, are dealt with
severely, and have to pay a fine
of twenty shillings for every penny,
as we'll as a white bull with red
ears and a red nose. But there has
been no necessity within living me-
mory to enforce this fine.