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Evening star., 1936-02-09

prefer the carols OF Mr.. Behrman to-
the dirges of Mr.. O'Neill that spy a
similar preference in the Guild. At
any rate. its lighter productions seem
to be done with more satisfaction TO
itself, if not to its audience. than are
the moodier items. It is at its best
when pensively optimistic, as it is In
Call 1t Day"
THE Guild, however, appears to have
had little to do with this saga
cious entertainment, except to spon-
sor it. which. after all, is great deal.
1t is produced in association with its
owner, Mr. Lee Ephraim, who dis
covered and bought it in London; and
it Is directed, not by the deft Mr..
Philip Moeller, but by Mr.. Tyrone
Guthrie, scion of one of the royal
families of the English stage. Its set
tings are from the Guild studios by
Mr. Lee Simonson and are therefore a
complete background" for the nine
chapters of its story. It's audiences
are composed of the dramas most
azure subscribers; and its stars are
Miss Gladys Cooper and Mr.. Philip
Merivale, to whose acting, except in
the plays Of Shakespeare, I tip my hat.
The cast is out of the theater's jewel
box, so beautifully does it ornament
the comedy, which, by the way, is by
Miss Dodie Smith.
HINIyE - ~,
podb. is to show you a group Of
Interestingly innocent and virtuous
persons in safe contact with sex's
perilous fints. Mr. Merivale is a pure
and prosperous London business man
who has never cast romantic eye on
any woman, for the good and sufficient
reasons provided by her (Miss Cooper. D..
She, a smart though continent matron,
has been oblivious to the charms Of
other men, as ignorant as he is of the
urge to experiment. One of their
daughters miss Florence Williams)
casts herself ingenuously into the arms
Of an Arctic painter (Mr. Glen
Anders), and another falls childishly
In love with the poems Of Shelly and
the paintings of Rossetti. Their CAL
low son succumbs to the leggy siren
next door, and even Terry, their lady
bulldog. strays upon the lawn in quest
Of sentiment. OF course, Mr.. Merivale
meets an actress miss Claudia Nor
GAM, who seduces him temporarily;
and Miss Cooper encounters man
(Mr. George Grossmith) who wishes
to kiss her; while their children, their
servants and their dogs are confront
ing similar crises-au in a day.
1T IS q dexterous essay about the
little fires that are quickly trodden
out" humorously and tenderly consid-
cred and written by Miss Smith and
played sincerely by the good company
at the Broadhurst. To me the most
enticing incident in the performance
Is that In which the passionate in
genue poses for her portrait, while the
cool and knowing wife of the artist
miss Frances Williams) delicately
manipulates the indelicate situation.
"Are you going to seduce the girl?" she
inquiries, casually, as she knits a
sweater. If you do, I think her
parents won't like ii" The play is
full of such cunning punctuations.
When, for instance, poetic little Ann
(Miss Jeanne Dante), in order to
soothe her seething sisters misery,
gives up her precious Rossetti picture,
she consoles herself in the fact that
she still has a photograph Of Leslie
Howard.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
"Uncle Toms Cabin. "
NEW version of "Uncle Ton

A NEW version Of Uncle Tom 8
= Cabin" based upon Harriet
Beecher Stoves famous story and
using Mrs. Stoves own words, but re-
written and rearranged by Rebecca
Tarwater. will be presented at the
King Smith Playhouse for one week,
beginning Monday, February "a.
The production of the play viii
mark the formal opening of the Play
house to drama lovers of the city and
will mark the beginning of success
sion of plays to be presented there
under the direction of Caroline Nc
Kinley, with Hugo linden as technical
director and August King-Smith as
musical director. The drama depart
ment of the playhouse will assist in
the productions.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Film Premiere Here.

CAPT. JOHN B. NOEL'S latest pic
ture, Saint Bernadette and the
Miracle of Lourdes," will have its
American premiere at Constitution
Hall on Monday evening, February IT..
As official photographer and chroni-
cler of the famous Mount Everest ex-
pedition, Capt. Noel won new laurels
as nature photographer. He has
travelled all over the world in quest
of pictures and is well known in Wash
ington as lecturer for the National
Geographic Society.
One of the high lights of the pic
ture is the seven-hour service held by
Pope Plus XI in pronouncing the little
peasant girl, Bernadette, a saint be-
fore throng of 100000 people. in
Guiding papal and civil courtiers,
guards and soldiers and diplomats of
all nations.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Arliss' Next.

"EAST MEETS WEST" will be the
next starring vehicle for George
Arliss for Gaumont- British, accord
ing to an announcement this week
by Arthur A. Lee, vice president Of
the company. East Meets West" Is
q story of despotism and sinister in
trigue in the Far East Arliss will
impersonate a modern Malay mon
arch who Is finally outwitted by his
oxford-bred son and the latter's Eng
lsh sweetheart.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Holmes on Ethiopia.

RURTON HOLMES current season
of pictured travel revues will be
brought to close at the National
Theater next Tuesday afternoon with
the talk and screen portrayal, What
I Saw in Ethiopia" MIR. Holmes will
attempt to present living picture of
the last Of Africa's independent ma
tionS, so his hearers may be given a
visual and vital record of this strange,
semi-barbarous civilization, which
seems doomed to disappear, whatever
the outcome of the present conflict.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Singer Signed.

HARRIET HILLIARD. singing star
IL who has Just made her screen
debut In R-K-O Radios Follow the
Fleet" has been signed to q five-year
contract, and will soon leave New York
for Hollywood for her next picture as
signment.
+ At present Miss Hilliard is singing
In New York with the orchestra con-
Quoted by her husband, Ozzie Nelson.
R-K-O Radio has not yet definitely
decided on her next picture.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

bpltc VI CilS 1dCU LldI many Iduy HAS,
blushed to take her fellowman to what
she thought would be marshmallow-
like show and was greatly relieved
when at the end Of the performance
he jumped up and said that Pride
and Prejudice was elegant.
In New York the same thing Is
happening, and hoStesses are no long
er afraid to take their Tarzans to the
theater where instead of Broadway"
Tobacco Road" or "Of Thee I Sing"
she knows her escort will be quite
content with seeing Queen Victoria
wheeled out onto that balcony, or be-
come acutely satisfied at the lady
with the checkbook who in Call 1t
Day reaches some kind of new high
A IL of this also brings forth the
fact that as far as this year is
concerned audiences like simple real
ism in their emotions rather than
violent upheavals. No play pattern
was ever gentler than the one de-
vised by Dodie Smith in her new
comedy. In glaring contrast we give
you something like Swing Your
Lady" which swung out of the thea
ter mainly because its fiction was
stronger and stranger and shabbier
than truth.
The same may be said for Julie
the Great" although here we find an
other situation.
It was our own National Theater's
Mr.. Steve Cochran who reminded us,
when this show was tobogganing into
extinction, that the public is no longer
interested in what goes on in back
OF the stage. The days when the Sc
crets of great actresses were revealed
when Mollie the Magnificent was
shown in her dressing room breath
lessly gulping down a bottle of beer
and wickedly flicking cigarette ash
out Of the window-these days are no
more. The public has become tired
OF seeing imperfect habits flung across
the footlightS, and it is no longer
an exciting revelation to be told that
Joan Crawford paints her flngernails
red.
That is why, perhaps, Julie the
Great" sailed into the beyond Gn its
current version, anyway and found
yawns where it had planned on find
ing tears. The story of the actress
who gives and gives and then loses
has been told before, and people knew
where the story was going even be-
fore it had started.
The same might perhaps be said
about Call 1t Day" Certainly its
progressions were not overly surpris-
ing. And yet here the author was
dealing with average people, who live
decent, normal lives. Here, while there
was no amazing amount of righteous
ness, there was still only the naught-
iness that most people are apt to find
just around the corner. Here in place
of the whiting, wooing actress, the lady
of the house was just the sort of per-
son you planned to have a cup Of
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Tracy in "San Francisco" "

SPENCER TRACY Is to be starred
- with Clark Gable and Jeanette
Macdonald in Metro Goldwyn- Mayors
dramatic musical, San Francisco"
Tracy joins the Gable-MacD Donald
starring team in a role as different
from his usual characterizations as
day is from night. He dons the robes
of priest, born and raised amid sin
on the Barbary Coast, and who rises
to heights as the Coasts" savior.
w. s. Van Dyke is to direct San
Francisco" his third dramatic mu-
sical with Miss Macdonald, and Ber-
nard Hyman and John Emerson are
the producers. From the screen play
by Anita Loos, the picture is to revive
many historical incidents prior and
through the disastrous fire which lev
eled San Francisco in 1905.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
New Grace Moore Film.
THE KING STEPS OUT will bt

HE KING STEPS OUT VIII be
the title of the Grace Moore
vehicle now in production at Columbia
Studios under the direction of Josef
Won Sternberg.
Franchot Tone plays opposite Miss
Moore and among the outstanding
performers are Walter Connolly, Elisa
beth Risdon. Victor Jory, Mana Bryant,
Raymond Walburn. George Hassel,
Herman Bing, Johnny Arthur, Frieda
Inescourt, Barnett Parker, AL Shean,
E. E. Give and Thurston Hall.
"The King Steps Out" contains
music by Fritz Kreisler. The lyrics
are by Dorothy Fields The screen
play is by Sidney Buchanan.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
New Karlof Thriller.

RORIS KARLOFF, recently signed by
~ Gaumont-British, will star in a
new thriller, THE Man Who Lived
Again." Karloff, the screens spe-
cialist in shiver shockers, was seen re-
Gently on Broadway in 'The Invisible
Ray" Previously he scored outstand-
ing triumphs in "Frankenstein" and
THE Bride of Frankenstein."
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Montgomery Cast.

DOBERT MONTGOMERY will be
starred by Metro-G Goldwyn- Mayer
in its forthcoming production of Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson's Suicide Club"
Rosalind Russell. who played oppo-
site William Powell in Rendezvous, :"
will have the chief feminine role.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

The Theater This Year
Does An About Face
Popular Plays Seen Here in Washington
Suggest That the Stage Is in
Mellow Mood.
By E. de S. MeLcher.

IS senimental-m Looking
Broadways hitsVictoria Regina
Prejudice" a Day" ripe
emotion theatrcaly underwrught
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Theater Guild Comedy
Popular Broadway Hit
"Call It a Day" Well Reviewed in New York.
George Jean Nathan Writes
Letter.
By Percy Hammond.

3.
OMETMES suspected that happier when
smiles in comedy like Call grumbes In
dramas frownng Being a
- solvent honored and
souck
who occasionally its
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
Blame Crash On
Deranged Man On
Fallen. Air Liner

Dallas. Texas. Jan. 21.-(AP)-
The Dallas News SAYS air line Of
ficaIS are investigating a theory
that passenger temporarily
doranScd" or seeking to commit
suicide without invalidating his
insuranc" policies. caused the
crash of the American Air Lines
rIaue in Arkansas last Tuesday
night,
The newspaper said it learned one
"f the passengers had made two at
tcmpts to take out an additional $25.-
Ca0 life insurance after boarding the
plane in New York.
Tho belief held by high up air line
officials. the story says, is that a
Passenger. temporarily deranged, or
merely bent upon killing himself, and
willing to take a host of others to
death with him entered the control
room sluggcd the pilot and co-pilot
and sent the ship crashing into the
Arkansas swamp lands at terrific
speed.
The story pointed out that a pistol
belonging to neither pilot was found
in the wrcckagc and that one tody
WIS found ahead of the bodies OF the
pilot and co-pilot. giving strength 10
the theory that a third person was III
The control room.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
w allace Is
Bitter Over
Tax Rulings
Tears Into Supreme
Court and"Demand
Aestio'nl|::T[. .o Offset Its
Decisions

Washington, Jan. 2I-(AP)-
Questioning "the justice" of the
Supreme Court action yesterday
in ordering return of $2OO,O0O,OOO
of impOunded processing taxes to
manufacturers, Secretary Wallace
said today the time has come
when long suffering patience calls
for practical and immediate ac-
ton by the Congress and the adj
ministration."
Wallace. in a regularly scheduled
address over a national radio net
work, declared that the "AAA is not
dead, and, even more important. the
farm sentiment which built up II
years Of strenuous fighting for equal
ity to agriculture is not dead He
added:
"The great bulk of the farmers of
this country have steadfastly en-
deavored to get for their purposes the
moral, legal and economic equivalent
of what the corporate form of organ
ization and the tariffs give to indus
try
"Since 1921 they have work ed
steadily on this problem. 1t took them
six years to convert both branches of
Congress, and another five years be-
fore they got a President who saw
things their way How much longer
it will take to gain the approval of
the third branch of the government
remains to be seen.
81 will admit that it seems to me
Continued on Page FouI)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
Assistant Al,ornc- General
Goes to Washington for
Justice Depart
men; Duties
HARRY MCMILLAN IS
STEPPED UP HERE
Dewey Dorsett, in;Turn. Be-
comes Head Of Industrial
Commission, and Buren,
Journey, Of Statesville, Is
Made Head Of That Body;
Aids Governor
Daily Dispatch nUrca"
In The Sir Walter lIOte-.
:. Ia a IL ND All.k.

Raleigh, Jan. 21-Thc resignation
of John Aiken, Of Hickory, as assis-
tant attorney general Of North Caro-
lima. to accept a position on the staff
Of the United States attorney gen
eral in Washington, announced late
last night. has given Governor J. G.
3. Ehringhaus an opportunity to re-
shuttle his deck Of appointments here
even if it has not provided New
Deal" For, coincident with the an
nouncement by Attorney General "A.
A. f. Seawell of the resignation OF
Mr.. Aiken. who will become a special
assistant to the. attorney general OF
the United States, in charge of anti
trust litigation, he announced the ap-
pointment of Harry Mcmillan as as
sistant attorney general to succeed
Aiken.
Governor Ehringhaus in turn an
nounccd the designation of Commits
sioncr J. Dewey Dorsctt, of the In
dustrjm Commission, to become lts
chairman and the appointment OF
Burcn Journey, an attorney of States
willie to become a member of the In
CONTINUED Oh Page TWOD
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
Growers Due Difference Be-
tween IL Cents Per Pound
and Prevailing Price
At Sale
e MILLIONS TO BE
NEEDED FOR PAYING
Amounts to About Half of
30 Percent Already Order
ed Set Aside for Purpose
from Country's Receipts
on Tariffs Levied on Inn
ports Into u. S.

Washington, Jan. Fl (AP)-
\ high administration official
said today new legislation will
be necessary before the govern
mcnt can pay southern farm
crs a subsidy on cotton produc-
ed in 1885 under Bankhead al
lotments.
The official said the House Appro-
1riations Committee now is consider
inc a special measure to provide a spe-
cific appropriation from gross Gus
toms receipts to pay the subsidy. The
AAA promised to pay adjustment con-
tract sirners the difference between
II cents a pound and the average
price for cotton on the date of sale.
Funds were to be obtained from 30
percent Of the customs receipts set
aside for the AAA.
It was estimated that the total
amount of the subsidy would be not
more than S55OOO000 or about half
Of the 80 percent allotment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
Inpeaching
OfHoffn1an
ProvedDud
Jersey Governor To
l. e t Hauptrnann
Evidence Speak for
Itself in the End

Trenton, N. j., Jan. 21.-(AP)-The
impeachment bomb which sputtered
threateningly after Governor Harold
G.. Hoffman reprieved Bruno Richard
Hauptmann turned out today to have
been a dud. The governor, whose 30
day respite for the condemned Lind
bergh baby killer stirred his foes to
talk of impeachment, appeared at a
point session of the legislature last
night, was cordially received and read
a special message on social security.
The Hauptmann case was not men,
toned either in the Senate or the AS
senably and the Democratic minority
gave no hint that any open criticism
would be made of the chief executive.
Hoffman's attitude on Hauptmann,
would have chen electrocuted last FRI
day night except for gubernatorial re-
prieve, was somewhat clearer today
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
Family OF King George
.Mourns AT Tiny Church
Beloved Old Sovereign Die Last Midnight, as He
Wished, in Quiet of His Country House at Sand
ring am Will Be Burie by Side of His Father

Sandringham, England, Jan. FL.
-(AP)--Great Britain's royal ia
mily mourned the death of 10
year-Old King George V at a pri-
vate service in Sandringham's lit
tie church today, while the new
monarch, Edward VIII, flew to
London Tor his accession cere-
nlOny.
The beloved old sovereign died as
he had always wished, in the quiet
and peace of his Norfolk country es-
tate, just before midnight last night
with the family he loved at his side.
AN official announcement said the
bereaved Queen Mother Mary was
bearing up with magnificent cour-
age today.
With the vast empire and virtually
the entire world sharing their sorrow,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21

the Princess Royal, only daughter of
King George and Queen Mary, and
other members of the royal household
went to st. Mary of Magadelene's
church this morning for a holy COM
muniOn service.
The service was conducted by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, who only
d few hours before had given a last
blessing to the dying king.
-Four days after he contracted a
sudden illness, His Majesty succum-
bed at 11:55 o'clock (6:55 p. m. east
ern standard time) last night to COM
plications arising from severe cold,
bronchial catarrh and a heart weak
ness.
After comforting his mother, Queen
Mary, the 41-year-old Prince of Wales
conferred with court officials before
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
Eastman Planning
Schemes TO Force
Rail Coordination.

Washington, Jan. FL (AP)-
Transportation Coordination JOS
cDh i. Eastman said today he has
laid the foundation for the appli-
cation of government pressure"
to compel railroad coordination.
Discussinga policy of promoting
cooperation, coordination and
gradual unificatiOn, Eastman said
i'm his annual report that diff
culties in the way of collective ac-
ton sAe so great "the outside
pressure from governmental au-
thOrity is a very necessary ingre-
dent"
"The groundwork has been laid
by the cOOrdinatOr and his staff
for the application of such pres
sure. and from now on i'm stead
ily increasing degree" he cOntin-
ued.
The report revealed conflict be-
tween the views of Eastman and
the Interstate Commerce Conn
mission on the cOOrdinatOr's pro-
posaI to reOrganize the Interstate
Commerce Commit
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
FLOOD IN ROANOKE
WORST SINCE 1912
One Life Already Claimed;
Weekend Rains Swell
Streams to Highs

Raleigh, Jan. 21.-(AP)-The heav-
lest flood in the Roanoke river dc
Weldon and below since 1872 was
forecast today as other Eastern
North Carolina rivers overlooked due
to weekend rains. The roanoke has
already claimed one life.
The river stood at 41.6 feet at Wei
don this morning, ten feet above bank
level. and a warning it would crest
at AZ or 48 feet was issued.
Lee A benson, in charge of the
Weather Bureau here, expressed the
opinion considerable damage" was
being done by the stream.
Paul Massey, IS, was drowned when
his boat capsized in the Roanoke yes
terday.
The Tar at Rocky Mount was
slightly above it's banks and was ris-
ing steadily.
The Cape Fear was Al feet, six
inches above it's banks, at Fayetteville
this morning, but was on stand and
<CoptioI1o1 IN D~-o 77-1-N
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
NEW MOVE MIGHT
HAMSTR|NC COURT
Congress Thinks 1t Has
Found Way To Handle
Constitutional Issue
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

Washington, Jan. 81 Congress-
constitutional authorities may have
hit on a scheme for maneuvering the
United States Supreme Court out of
its powers in such cases as MIRA and
AAA without amending the Consti-
tuition itself.
The attempt is likely to be made,
anyway.
If the. thing can be accomplished
by single piece of Congress- own
legislation it will be vastly more sat
isfactory to the administration than
if an amendment must be relied on,
an amendment resolution being so
hard to get favorably acted on by the
lawmakers and so much harder to get
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
France Ignoring
Own Plight With
Death of George

Paris, Jan. FL (AP)-The death
Of King George V of Great Bril-
tain turned Frances attention
temporarily today from the pro-
spectiye fall of the French cabi-
net.
While the domestic situation con
tinued periIous, with fears ex-
pressed of possible financial diff
ficulties following designations of
radical social cabinet members,
indications appeared new min
istcrial combination might be
formed from a coalition of radi-
cal socialists, rightists and leftist
parties.
premier Laval left Geneva for
Paris with the intention, his
friends said, of handing in his re-
signatiOn.)
Newspapers devoted far more
space to the death of the British
monarch than to the cabinet cri-
sis, which was expected to reach
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
ETHIOPIAN DEFEAT
CLAIMED BY ITALY
Loss Of Bombing Plane Ad-
mitted; League Mourns
Georges Death
(By The Associated Press.)

The loss of an Italian bombing
plane and defeat of troops under Ras
Desta Demtu were reported today by
the Italian government
The League Of aNtions Council met
at Geneva, but confined itself to ex-
pressing condolences to Great Britain
over the death of King George.
Premier Mussolini of Italy Informed
Prime Minister Baldwin of Great Bri-
tain that "the italian people heard
with profound emotion the announce
ment of the death of King George V
and sympathize deeply with the
mourning British nation"
The Ethiopian government issued a
call for more troops.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
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Raleigh, Jan. 21-The rains, snow
and freezing weather of the last few
days have done additional damage to
the highways of the State, especially
to the surface treated roads, so that
the problem of repairing these and
other highways is becoming more and
more of problem, according to
Chief Highway Engineer w. Vance
Baise. He is convinced now that more
than $1,000O0O will be required to re-
pair roads which have been damag-
ed by rain, snow and freezing temper
atures during the past 80 days.
"The weather we have had for the
past 30 days is the worst and has
been the hardest on the roads I have
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
Will
Get View of Body
OF Deceased King

Sandringham, England, Jan. Fl.
-(AP)-The body of King George
V was started tonight OH the slow
journey which during the next
few days will permit thousands OF
his subjects to view the face of
the dead sovereign for the Last.
time. TE~
The body was removed from
Sandringham House where George
died at 1855 y. m. yesterday, to
the little parish church.
The body, i'm "A coffin, was taken
on hand bier, escorted by a
detachment of grenadier guards,
through sIeet and rain.
The kings piper played a wall
ing lament as the procession
moved along the church walk.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-01-21
Plan To Begin on
Tobacco Grading

Washington, Jan. FL (AP)-The
deficiency bill introduced today in
Guided $12,500 fer operation of the
new tobacco inspection act.
The money would pay for refer
cndums to determine whether pro-
ducers desired government grading
of their crop before it is sold on
auction warehouse floors.
An item of S25O,OOO is in next
years budget for administration
of the tobacco law, but the $4,000
was asked Immediately in view Of
the early opening of some markets.