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Evening star., 1936-01-17
AIR RECORD CLAIMED

Anew speed record for service planes
flying between the Pensacola Naval Air
Station and Anacostia Naval Air Sta
ton was claimed today for Maj. Harold
c. Major, Marine Corps aviator on
duty in the Bureau Of Aeronautics here
Major took of about 9:15 am. yes
terday on the 800-mile flight, oficials
said, and reached Washington about
1880 pm. This represented a speed OF
almost 200 miles an hour for the whole
distance.
Evening star., 1936-01-17

to H. g. Thomp-
son, telephone
company man
ager of Austin,
Mimi, according
to the Associated
Press.
Rumors Of the
annulment we're
confirmed yester-
ay by her
m o ther, Mrs.
John Hander, in
Chatheld, MINI.
Mrs. Hsnder said
her daughter viii
60 to Chin q.
probably In the
Evening star., 1936-01-17
SMOKE LAW CHARGES
Two Forfeit $40 Collateral for
Alleged Violations.

Two alleged violators of the new
smoke nuisance law, an apartment
mouse owner and laundry proprietor,
forfeited $40 collateral each in Police
Court today.
They were the B. F. Saul Co, owner
of the Newark Apartments. and Joseph
T. Gibson. proprietor of a laundry at
2627 K street. Information against
them was furnished by D. G. Malcolm,
Health Department inspector.
The smoke law Is administered by
the Health Department pending ap-
preparation for establishment of
special staff, under a smoke engineer.
Evening star., 1936-01-17

@IfNc carly IuH
year. today in
formed the Com
missioners he will
resign on March
II, two days be-
fore his 10th
birthday ami
versary, when he
would automat-
ically retire.
Richards h a S
Deen opposed 10
the District re-
tirement system
for several years
and because Of
this stand will
Evening star., 1936-01-17
DANCES TOMORROW

Three Community Centers An
nounce Saturday Programs.
A community dance under sponsor
ship of the Burroughs Taft Commu-
nifty Center will be held tomorrow at
8 pm. in the assembly hall Of Taft
Junior High School Another dance
will be held at $3.50 o'clock In the
armory at Eastern High School, un-
der sponsorship of the East Washing
ton Community Center.
The Southeast Recreational Club
offers tomorrow an evening of games,
dancing. plays and athletic events at
the Southeast Community Center in
Buchanan School. The program will
begin at 1880 o'clock.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
Man Stricken on Street Dies.

Found unconscious last night at
Fourth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast, Samuel Vaughn, 66, OF
329 e street southeast, died Q few
minutes after he was taken to Gal
ltnger Hospital. Police were told he
had been suffering from heart trouble.
Evening star., 1936-01-17

Spring, to accept q position as q
nurse.
The couple was married in Decorah,
Iowa, last Fall while the nurse was
visiting in Chat1eld after participate
ing in air races in the Middle West.
The former Miss Gardner, who was
attached to Naval Hospital, left here
about a year ago. She was the only
woman transport pilot licensed from
Washington during her stay here.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
Rev. B. E. Mays to Speak.

Rev. Benjamin E. Mays, dean of the
School Of Religion, Howard Univer-
sity, will speak at IL am. Sunday at
the all-university religious service,
In Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
Rhode Island Group to Meet.

The Rhode Island State Society
will hold . baked bean supper tomor-
row at the home Of Mrs. Ada Riley,
1877 Church street. D.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
MARRIAGE ANNULED
BY FLYING NURSE
Former D. c. Woman Sewers
Marital Ties With Min
nesota Man.

Edna Gardner, the flying nurse"
who won many aeronautical honors
during her residence here. has OBJ
tanned an annulment Of her marriage
Evening star., 1936-01-17
WOMAN DRIVER FINED
Miss Melissa Fl. Riess Charged
With Reckless Driving.

Miss Melissa H. Riess, about 40, of
1924 Upton street, was fined 500 in
Traffic Court today on charges Of
reckless driving.
She was arrested on Wisconsin ave-
nue. by of1cer 8. r. Smith of the first
precinct.
Evening star., 1936-01-17
RICHARDS TO RESIGN
TAX POST MARCH IL
Assessor to Step Out Before Re.
tirement Benefits Are
Effective.

William P Richards. District tax
assessor, who announced some time
ago that he would quit the District
Evening star., 1936-04-19

one of the stars of THE Great zieg-
field" Showing how adeptly a few
salient facts may be woven like tiny
thread into the warp of a publicity
yarn, he writes To-day Harriet Hoe
tor, who appears in the new film. The
Great ziegfeld,' opening for the first
time at the National Theater tonight,
twice daily thereafter, matinees at
2:3O sharp, evenings at $3.50 sharp,
stands at the very top Of dancing
fame" surely as subtle and painless
an injection of knowledge as one could
want.
THIS is not by any stretch Of the
Imagination to be regarded as an
essay in scorn, for no one more deeply
respects the authors Of the above
mentioned manuscripts. Most of them
we're newspaper men themselves be-
fore they grew up and displayed such
burning zeal and dexterity in the pro-
fession that they were lured to higher
things by the movie companies.
Richer than reporters and so wise in
the ways of show business that their
names are known wherever Variety
readers cluster, they disseminate the
truth and bushels Of gaudy adjectives
anent Hollywood, and in the Spring
time, I trust you will agree, if you
have read the quotations from their
works, they sometimes exhibit a great
gift for being funny.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

Life Basis
Of Picture
Film to Have Gala
Opening Tonight
at National.

TONIGHT Washington gets Its first
L view of Metro Goldwyn-Mayer's
spectacular musical film, THE Great
Ziegfeld." starring William Powell.
Myrna 10y and Luise Rainer, scheduled
to open at $50 o'clock with a gala
premiere comparable to the famous
opening nights of Hollywood and New
York.
DISTINGUISHED first -nighters" repre-
senting the social. official and diplo-
matte circles of the Nations Capital,
will enter the theater under battery
of f1oodlights, and a corps of police
men will be stationed to handle the
crowds.
THE Great Ziegfeld," which is three
hours in length, will be shown twice
daily at the National, at 2:30 and
$50 pm, after the opening tonight.
Seats for all performances will be
reserved.
The photoplay is perturbation OF
the high lights in the career OF Florenz
Ziegfeld, with William Powell in the
leading role as the great Snowman.
Miss 10y and Miss Rainer will appear
as his two wives, Billie Burke and
Anna Held, and the huge cast will in
clude Virginia Bruce, Frank Morgan.
Fannie Brice, Ray Bolger, Nat Pendle-
ton, Harriet Hoctor, Joseph Cawthorn,
Ernest Cossart, Reginald owen, Ray
mond Walburn and scores OF others
William Anthony Mcguire wrote the
photoplay and Robert z. Leonard
directed THE Great Ziegfeld." Hunt
Stromberg is the producer. The film
will not be shown at any other Wash
ington theater this season.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

In lieu of cropping reflections on
the hidden social philosophy in "Mr.
Deeds Goes to Town" or the historical
vaguries of THE Great Ziegfeld," re-
ceive therefore these harbingers OF
Spring, emblems of the happy hallu-
cinations that blossom among the
practitioners of press agentry when
the bud is bursting atop the tree.
Cd A note from the Warner Bros.
news staff, reporting with strictest
accuracy that Ndanisa Kumalo, a
South African chieftain gone movie
actor in Rhodes" lately asked prop
man or some other useful citizen On
the Gaumont British lot, "Oh, white
man, man who has made so many
wonders, why have you not yet con-
ouered death?" and if Gaumont
British had an answer, this handout
does not include it.
It continues, however, with several
other witticisms Ndanisa let fall from
his lips, among them: Comments on a
steamship, described as "a canoe with
out oars; of subway he said, ''to go
underneath the earth is to become a
mole; of city traffic and African
rivers, he cracked "the torrent sub
sides but traffic is incessant"; of
women he mused, their place is in
the fields" and If you do not think
Ndanisa learned all those maXims at
the knee of his press agent, then the
madness of the March hare is upon
you.
CD Warning an expectant city of
the approach of Ray Noble and his
orchestra come Friday, April "a, a
message from the Fox Theater boldly
asserts that Mr. Noble lis deemed
Englands foremost musician and COM
poser" which would be news among
the leading deemers of the British
Empire.
90 Mr.. Devon Francis, whose lit
erary output often goes humming
across the Nation on the wires OF the
Associated Press, writes from New
York that a young lady named Miss
Cilly Feindt is currently riding a
WIllUC lIOISc III 1NCW 4Olh L16iV
club. The funny thing about this is
that Miss Deindt wears in her act a
feminine version of a tuxedo, which
puts her one up on Lady Godiva, in a
way. Mr.. Francis notes that Miss
Feindt's horse Elegante has been
taught to waltz to 1.-THE Blue Danube"
and fox trot to fox trots, but learned
to rhumba without any instruction
whatsoever, an observation that should
be forwarded to Cuba.
"a From R-K-O Keith's comes a
fascinating tid-bit about Miss Ann
Harding, the screen heroine who aint
ever been wrong. It has been widely
mentioned that Miss Harding has a
daughter, Jane Bannister, but never
before has the word been spread that
the star of The Witness Chair"
Coming to Keith's on May y is also
a godmother, to the offspring of her
screen stand-in. For that matter, it
probably will never be mentioned
again.
(5) One of the foremost tub thump-
ers in all the East adds stylistic note
to this collection in a reader covering
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Coming Attractions.

DAT O'BRIEN and Josephin e
Hutchinson, who co-starred so
successfully last year in "Oil for the
Lamps of China" will be seen together
again in II Married a Doctor" War
ner Bros. drama based on Sinclair
Lewis Main Street." which comes
TO the Earle Theater next Friday.
Archie L. Mayo, who recently scored
with THE Petrified Forest" has
directed this film, and the supporting
cast includes Ross Alexander, Guy
Kibbee and Louise FaZenda. Bill
Robinson, recently seen in a number
of motion pictures and long considered
Americas ace tap dancer, will head
line the vaudeville bill. Lester Cole
and his Soldiers Of Fortune" Ray
and Sunshine, and the Kitaros also
will be on the stage program.
Four Of Hollywoods accomplished
child actors have leading roles in
TOO Many Parents" a study Of boy
hood with military school as the
locale, which comes to Warmers
current run of Rhodes" The boys
Buster Phelps, George Ernest, Sher-
wood Bailey and Douglas Scott, were
directed by Robert MacGowan. who
has been directing young players
since 1921, making many Of the Our
Gang" comedies.
One of Will Rogers outstanding
films, the perturbation Of the Marx
Twain satire, "a Connecticut Yankee
is to be revived, opening its new en-
gagement at R-K-O Keith's Theatel
next Friday. Myrna 10y and Maureer
O'Sullivan head the supporting cast
and the film was directed by David
Butler.
Margaret SULLIVAN becomes fiery
and tosses plates about in her next
picture, THE Moons Our Home" a
comedy romance allowing her to de-
velop a pet hate for Henry Fonda
Evening star., 1936-04-19

which comes to Loew's Fox Theater
next week, opening Friday. Charles
Butterworth is in the cast. For its
stage bill the Fox will present, for
the first time In Washington, Ray
Noble, England's foremost composer
of popular music, and his world famed
orchestra. whose recordings and radio
broadcasts are among the most pop
ular in the country today.
The widely discussed photoplay
prophecy of the shape Of the world
and its affairs. 100 years from now,
H. G. Wells Things to Come" opens
its local engagement next Friday at
Loew's Palace Theater. The film, re-
Evening star., 1936-04-19

Gently previewed here. is Mr.. Wells
description of the probable course
of events in the next century opening
with the next war; telling of the vast
destruction which follows and of the
rebuilding of the world on scientific
lines.
"Little Lord Fauntleroy," Freddie
Bartholomew latest picture, which
recently had a successful week at the
Fox, returns to F street next Friday
for second downtown week at Loew's
Columbia Theater. Dolores Costello
Barrymore makes her return to the
screen in the perturbation of the
Frances Hodgson Burnett story.
zone Night Of Love-" the musical
Evening star., 1936-04-19

hit which began the opera film cycle
and established Grace Moore as a
motion picture star, will be again
revived, opening today at the Little
Theater. Arias from Carmen" Ira
viata," Nine. Butterfly" and other
spectacular musical numbers are in
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Press Agents Gambols
Merriest of the Spring
African Chieftains, Ziegfeld Dancers, God.
mothers and Waiting Horses Are
Subjects of Their Essays.
Bv Robert B. Phillips, T.

NcE the silly season upon US that period Of the year "nen
their little warmer
Sabbath to baoor you WIN
~ the sincerity Permit instead TO
the pile OF bAet
the where
Evening star., 1936-04-19
cluded in the score, you will remember.

"Ecstacy," the Czechoslovakian mo-
ton picture which last September wa
banned from exhibition in the United
States, now has passed the censors and
will be shown at the Belasco Theater
starting next Saturday.
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tune" sketch. He liked Mr.. Myers
band and engaged it for his trip
through the theaters and night
clubs. The tour lasted more than a
year and extended into Canada and
Mexico.
When Mr.. Santry gave up his
personal appearances Mr.. Myers and
band organized their own shows
and retraced their steps and re-
visited the spots where they had
played on the first trip.
But Chic found out that his men
liked to play dance engagements
better than straight theater music
and he has returned to his original
field. Before they left Indianapolis
the boys had played practically all
the local night clubs and entertain
ment spots.
Besides Don Baldwin and Don
Terrell, Myers regular vocalists, the
band is to feature the singing of
the Three Southern Co-eds, girl
harmony trio which recently joined
the Myers outfit.
Tonight, tomorrow waltz Night)
and Friday are to be the regular
ladies nights at the ballroom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-11
WPA Theater Provides New
Entertainment for Negroes
Walk Together Chiun Is First of Plays to Be Staget
in New York Under Federal Project.

superciliousness both of some whites
and of some of their own race, was
what swept the house with spon-
taneous laughter or shrugs and
grunts.
When Gus Smith, playing the role
of a leader of Southern group
brought North as laborers, first
hears the bland, conciliatory advice
of Oliver Foster, playing the edu-
Gated parson, he snorts and says:
Preachers amt no better than
anybody else. Jest got job like
me-"
The audience enjoyed that. 1t en-
joyed anything that put into the
players speech the pent-up rebel
lion of race which has felt set
apart.
1t enjoyed enormously, too, the
come-uppance administered to Mar
tina Ray Browne, cast as the snooty
social worker. Some of the smiles
out front were as broad, then. as
the gay, derisive ones on the stage.
Accent of Professionals
Back-stage, between acts, the
players came out of their parts as
imperturbably as those playing
Broadway. The Southern accent
faded away, the inf1exion was that
of any able professional.
You see," Mr.. Houseman said,
I'VE had talent to work with. These
people learn lines, and the way to
say lines as quickly as any I've
ever seen"
That is one reason why the next
PWA play they are going to have
there in the entertainment center
of Harlem will be Macbeth"
"They take to blank verse like
ducks to water" the manager pro-
Queer said.
So he, and all the others so en-
Enthusiastically at work in what they
hope to be permanent contribu-
ton to the theater of America, feel
that they are off to happy start.
They are willing to work long
hours to give the Negro theater the
dignity of an institution to last
even after they are no longer back
of the footlights.
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CRY Girl Plays
in Lyric Show
LueI|a Schi|Iy Is Drummer
in Berni Vici Band.

If you attended Shortridge High
School a few years back and have
attended the Lyric Theater this week
you may have thought that the girl
who plays the drums in Count Berni
Vici's orchestra looked familiar.
And we'll she might. For Luella
Schilly who calls Indianapolis her
home town, in 1927 was made a
member of the Shortridge chapter
of the National Honor Society as a
reward for her scholastic ability.
Zero weather or not, she said she
was glad to get back to town, after
having been across the continent
and back with Count Berni Vici
and his band.
And Indianapolis has not forgot
ten Miss Schilly. For no sooner had
she landed here than Ted Nicholas,
Lyric manager, began to get cards
sand letters telling him that a for
mer Shortridge student was on his
stage.
In Love With Her Work
Although Miss Schilly is in love
with her work, and thinks there is
nothing quite as thrilling as beating
drum, she also is an ardent sports
woman, and when time allows
(Which isn't often), she likes to beat
her opponents at tennis or handball
She played basketball at Shortridge
but says she hasn't seen much of a
basketball court since.
Louella's mother, Mrs. Pearl Pat
terson, lives in indianapolis, and is
playing happy hostess to her
daughter at her home, 1877 N. New
Jersey-st, this week.
At the conclusion of the present
engagement at the Lyric, Louella
will travel eastward with the band
for a series of appearances in the
aters. Later in the spring she will
accompany the orchestra on a Eu-
ropean tour.
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acknowledgment that shot just
completed of him is satisfactory.
Let's wrap it up-Grace Brad
leys way of saying Lets quit
work"
Clark Gable has tea every after
noon at 4 o'clock on the set. With
his tea he has pound cake. After
weeks of eating pound cake, it may
be that Mr.. Gable would like a nice
crisp wafer, or a sandwich, or some
other kind of cake.
Mr.. Gable is gallant about it,
though, because the pound cake is
provided by 15-year-old admirer
named Katherine Minnick, who
also happens to be the daughter OF
M-G-M's fire chief and thus has &C
cess to the studio.
She bakes one every afternoon
labor of Observation-Disclosures
rushes it to the lot. Katherine her
self worries a good deal about the
monotony of Mr.. Gables tea-time
diet, but it happens that pound cake
is the only thing she knows how
to bake.
w. G. Fields says he always want
ed to be banker because he heard
they never went to work before 10
o'clock in the morning. That,
though, was before he thought about
the theater. He switched to acting
when he realized that matlnees don't
begin until afternoon.
Henry Wilcoxon once was a tai
lor's helper, but that doesn't make
him the best-dressed man in Holly
wood. Charles Bickford went around
the world as a coal-passer with
Teddy Roosevelt's fleet.
Barbara Stanwyck went to work
at IA as a pattern cutter, and was
fired when her boss found she had
never cut pattern. Now he's proud
of having discharged her and in
vites her to luncheon every time she
! goes to New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-11
French Star Picks
Hollywood Leaders

By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 11.-Charles
Boyer, French film star, today joined
the ranks of movie personalities
picking the most interesting persons
in Hollywood.
The actor did not attempt to pick
any interesting men, but devoted his
list to 10 women headed by Pat Pat
terson, his actress wife.
Others on the list were Claudette
Colbert, Merle Oberon, Mrs. Samuel
Goldwyn, Ginger Rogers, Katharine
Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Mar
garet SULLIVAN, Ruth Chatterton
and Mrs. Marcella Bannet Rabwin,
United Artists studio executive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-11
Our Gang Juveniles
to Tour Middle West

Times Special
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 11.-Movie
fans of the Middle West are to see
the famous juveniles who comprise
Our Gang" when Hal Roach's "ras-
GALS open a brief personal appear
ance tour beginning April II and
visit Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit
and a few other key cities.
Those in the act are to be
"Spanky" Mcfarland, Darla Hood,
Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, cal
falfa" and Harold Switzer. They
are to be accompanied by Joe Cobb,
fat boy of the original Our Gang
now grown up, and Mrs. Fern Car
ter, who has acted as teacher to the
various generations" of juvenile
actors since the troupe's inception,
Is years ago.
At the conclusion of the tour the
youngsters are to return to Holly
wood to begin work on new series
of screen shorts.
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BY WILLIAM ENGLE
Times Special Writer

In that part of Harlem where the
first floor show opens at midnight
and the last at 3 a. m, new means
of entertainment was offered this
week by the Federal government,
and nightly, now, fair-sized audi
ence goes to the Lafayette Theater
to see Walk Together Chillun, "
first of the plays TO be produced by
the New York Federal Theater
Project under the WPA.
They came the first night" quiet,
respectable people with middle
class look, most of them Negroes,
and they witnessed something Har-
lem has not had before-a Negro
theater. Not hot spot for Negroes
and whites. Instead, serious, Wig
orous effort to establish the drama
for homogeneous audiences, with
Negroes comprising the cast and
production crews.
Red-capped, blue gowned Negro
girls ushered the patrons to their
seats. A Negro orchestra played.
And the dramas message-frankly
an imprisoned mesSage-was di-
rected sharply to Negro clientele.
Frank Wilson, whose perform
ances in ''Porgy" and In Abra-
hams Bosom" were outstanding,
wrote it and John Houseman, the
managing producer for the PWA
project, has put. it on with fidelity
to the playwright's hope. 1t is by
Negroes and for Negroes, a fervent
dramatization of the struggle be-
tween working class with white
overlords.
Although the plot was trite, there
was something electric about the
thing.
Stirs Audience
1t stirred the audience to robust
applause. Il elected every once in
while little waves of murmured
appreciation or disdain.
But it was not in the climatic
moments that emotion in the audi
ence ran at peak. The homely
depletion OF happy Negro traits, of
customary Negro reaction to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-11

There is a great future for this
orchestra - that is my sincere
opinion" said the distinguished
director, as he removed his over
coat, looked through his scores and
gave instructions to librarian Sam
Bremen.
ut needs some slight improve
ment, to be sure, but every orches-
ira does, even the big ones. A con-
ductor coming to New York or
Philadelphia would tell you the
same thing"
He smiled toward the assembled
players, and continued in his rapid
and highly Russian favored English: