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The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Kiddies' Days
OnWiIson Line

Anchors aweigh for Wilson Line
Kiddies' Days! Under the direc-
tion of Skipper Joe Brown, popu-
lar local radio announcer, the first
of series Of IL "Kiddyland Show
boat Cruises" will be held on the
modern Wilson Line steamer "City
of washington" Monday, June %,
and every Monday thereafter.
Happy will be the kiddies at
tending these cruises, for there
will be amateur contests Of all
kinds, clowns, popcorn, peanuts,
gangplank prizes, and many other
features that will pack the day
with fun galore for both kiddieS
and adults.
The good ship "City of Washing
ton" leaves the Wilson Line pier
promptly at 1000 a. m, and
cruises to MarShau Hal ParR,
where special novelty program
has been arranged for the entire
day. All rides and devices, includ-
ing the ferris wheel, merry-go-
round, and roller coaster, will be
half-rate for the day.
This will be the second season
Skipper Joe Brown has presented
"Kiddyland Showboat Cruises" on
the Wilson Line, and it will mark
the beginning Of special rate days
every Monday and Friday, both on
the boat and at Marshall Hall
Park, during the remainder of the
season. Riddles under IL will be
carried on the cruise for 10 cents
to Marshall Hall and return, and
adults for Is cents.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
IS Picnics For
Glen Echo
"A picnic a day"

n plClllC u udy.
That's rank understatement out
at Glen Echo these days. TWO or
three or four or five or six big
Sunday school or organization pic
MICS are being staged at Glen Echo
every day.
With all this going on, naturally
all previous general attendance
records at this most popular amuSe-
ment park have been cracked like
victrola records. Booking of or
ganization excursions and picnicS
have registered a new high for
this time Of year, too. And that in
cludeS those topnotch marks
scored in the boom years.
No less than Is Of these parties
are on the Glen Echo schedule this
week. They include:
st. Georges Episcopal Church
Of Clarendon, Va; the Baptist
churches of Clarendon, Va, and
Ballston, Va, who are holding a
double-h header picnic on the same
day; Damascus, Md, High School;
st. Adams Church of Georgetown;
AnacoStia Methodist Episcopal
Church; Emanuel Protestant Epis-
copal Church of Anacostia;
Georgetown Presbyterian Church;
Glen Echo Episcopal Chapel;
Church of Our Savior; Presbyter-
ian Church of Riverdale, Md;
Union Church Of Bancroft, Va;
Baptist Church Of KenSington,
Md; Presbyterian Church of Falls
Church, Va, and Trinity Metho-
dist Episcopal Church.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Drama Pupils
Act Tonight

Steve Cochran presents the stu
dents of the National Academy of
Stage Training tonight in a per-
formance at the National Theater
at $50.
The diversified dramatic pro-
gram has been directed by Maui
rice Greet and Mildred Coleman.
It includes two one-act plays, "On
the Air" and "It's a Long Lane,
and scenes from Turn to the
Right" and Daddy Long-Legs".
The dancing department of the
academy will offer a program of
10 numbers created and directed
by Marion D. Venable, director Of
the department.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16


And today when the older resi-
dents of the small Ohio town re-
call when the Friedman boy left
home their eyes perhaps wander
to a prominent sign at the en-
trance to the village reading:
"Circleville, the Home of Ted
Lewis"
Thirty years ago Herb Williams
gave up his accounting job to
make a temporary living as a one
piece orchestra, playing piano for
a vaudeville bill from the pit of
the Orpheum Theater, Martins
burg, w. Va. Soon he started a
routine of his own and with his
wife, a telephone operator in the
same town, they received their
first bookings on the old Gus Sun
circuit of the Midwest, as the
team of Williams and Wolfus, in
From Soup to Nuts"
In 1909, just when the six-a-day
grind became too much and this
new act had decided against the
footlights, they received tn heir
first offer to come East and play
the Cosmos, a new house, just
opening here. On this initial
bill were the Marx Brothers, a
young harmony trio without a
trace of comedy; James r.
Waters, an Italian dialect comic,
who today might be- recognized
as the father in the Goldberg
family Of. radio fame, and the
opening act was the acrobatic
team of Brown and Provost, the
starting off spot for Joe E..
Brown.
Two years ago Herb played his
first legitimate role in "The
Farmer Takes a Wife" which
opened at the National here. This
show went into New York and
stayed as a hit. This characteri-
zation not only earned him the
blue ribbon for the season from
Stage magazine but also a con-
tract from Paramount for Rose
OF the RancAO.
Both Herb and Willie Howard,
musical comedy veterans, worked
in this film for the first time and
together they journeyed to the
Coast with a contract paying
more than either had ever re.
ceived. Arriving there it was
three weeks before anyone at the
home studio knew what they had
come for, and not until four
weeks later did they receive q
script to read.
And Talbot Hasslett, young
Alexandria (Va.) songster on the
Fox bill, cheriShes a folio of mu,
sic lessons by the late Herbert
Witherspoon, noted Met Opera
bass and shortly before his death
managing director of the Met
Opera Company. Two years ago
Talbot won a scholarship to the
famous star and when he left
New York for a vaudeville tour
with Evelyn Tyner. well known
local pianist, WitherSpoon con
tinued to teach him by mail-the
only pupil he has ever taught in
this manner.
After Herbert Witherspon be
came managing director of the
company he gave up every pupil
but Talbot, and continued to send
out his favorite students music
until his death just two short
months after his dictatorship.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
LUNT-FONTANNE MOVIE

LUNT-FONTANNE MOVIE
Lunt and F'ontanne are dyna-
mite on Broadway, at the National
and wherever a town supports q
legitimate theater. Yet they were
not sought by Hollywood after
making one picture. Alfred and
Lynn were paid $50,O0O by Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer for 1.-The Guards
man" and it is a right smart pic
ture. Full of witty stuff and
beautifully acted by the stars and
by Roland Young, the latter a
master in playing light farce and
a genius with expressions. 1t is
still a fine picture but it didn't
make a dime for M-G-M. And in
Hollywood if your pictures fail to
make money it doesn't matter
what Broadway or the Theater
Guild think of you. "The Guards
man" is making more money now
for the Belasco as a five-year-old
revival than it made in its first
F. Street run.
Hardie Meakin looked over the
R-K-O-Keith audience at noon
yesterday and found that he had
more paying customers for "Show
Boat" than he had the same day
two weeks ago. What can you do
with picture that pulls like
that? Why, hold it over. That's
exactly what Mr.. Meakin is think.
ing of doing.
Angie Ratio made a quick week
end trip up to Loew's Palace to
find out how Fury was doing.
He found it was doing okay and
only escaped being a sensational
draw because women find it's scar
ing indictment of mob violence is
a bit too strong. Then the conva-
lescing Mr.. Ratio hoped right
down to Beverly Beach for more
building-up and rest.
NINTH STREET TO FOLLIES
Col. James Jackson Lake, of the
Gayety, has alreday departed for
New York and the Schmeling-
Louis fight, so biographical data
on Gypsy Rose Lee must be post
poned. Gypsy Rose Lee was a fea-
tured headliner on Ninth Street
this season and has been promoted
right out of the burlesque ranks
to a featured spot in the ziegfeld
Follies. She joins the Shubert,
Billie Burke musical when it re-
opens in Chicago and will be pres
ent when the show plays Wash.
tngton. Off-hand the only bur.
lesque beauties I can recall who
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS
The Roadsiders treat Thomas
Wood Stevens dramatization of
the globe trotter's adventures in
a spirit of high burlesque. They
kid the turbanS and the Indian
feathers off this venerable foot
light saga and trim it up with
some of their own extravagenceS
not found in the original script.
For sheer energy and perspir-
ing enthusiasm around the
World" is the most ambitious at
tempt Of the Roadsiders, if it is
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Players Of Red Barn Present
"Round World in 80 Days"
With All the Fixin's
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Out the old Red Barn the Rockville Pike the Roadside
Players last night launched the haymOw drama with
noisy presentation of "Around the World in Eighty Days.
When Jules Verne wrote of Phneas Foggs hop skip and
jump around the GLOBE away back the it considered
marvellous tribute rapid transit Today the apane makes
so days seem like iaunt in low speed.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
BUCK ONEILL, FARMER

Z
BUCK O'NEILL, FARMER
Browsing around the Olney
Road yesterday in quest of a para
graph about Steve Cochran's sum-
mer enterprise, turned into the
Darby farm which has a sign on
the lawn saying Garden of
Eatin'". Not a bad name for a
rural restaurant. I saw Steve's
bulldog on the back porch but no
sign of hammers flying or building
activity.
One Of the Cochran neighbors
will be Frank Buck O'Neill, the
Times baseball expert, who has be-
come a gentleman farmer and pur-
chased an ancestral estate at Nor
wood. I observed also that the
O'Neill youngsters can enjoy an
old-faShioned Fourth of July. The
fireworks huts are being stocked
along the road to Olney.
POLIO CRAB FEAST
Managing director r. L. Polio
of the Mayflower has sent out in
vitations for an old-fashioned crab
feast for July 2. He will play
host to members Of Washington 5
newspaper corps and ought to have
an S. r. o. audience, for Mr..
Polio knows how to put it on. It
will be a high-toned crab feast,
too, since it will be staged in the
Garden of the Mayflower where
anything less than a plush lined
club to beat the inoffensive crabs
would seem out of place.
HOYLE FOR MAYOR
For mayor of Montgomery
county's impending Broadway, on
the Olney Pike: Bill Hoyle. He is
a next-door neighbor to Mrs.
Downey's Olney Inn, a former press
agent for the gentleman farmer.
Brooke Johns, occasionally crashes
the gate at the National, manages
VIC OCSO 441CdGCI dG 0l1NC1 OPL L1B
and is a back7stage veteran. All
he needs is the Roadside vote to
get the nomination by acclaim.
Walt Disney has been trying for
three years to get a successor to
Three Little Pigs" without great
luck. Now he claims he has. it in
Three Little Wolves" which
Radio City Music Hall held over
for three weeks. It is booked into
Loew's Palace Theater with "Pri-
vate Number"
The Cocanut Groves new show,
says Bill Merriam, involves a
pretty Penny" Okay, skip it.
But it brings back memory of
one of the greatest acts that ever
played Keith vaudeville, the six,
foot-six banjo plucking, Brooke
Johns, and Ann Pennington dane,
ing on top of a white piano. The
long and short Of musical comedy
and q class combination.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
I Cover HOll yWOOd

'glve-out, as the Madonna IN a pic
ture but years ago. Her last couple
of pictures, all very fine, have put
her up among the big 10 in box
office attractions. She deserves
the position-she'S worked hard
enough for it.
The Britishers are that intrigued
with Dick Arlen's democracy, mas
much as he prefers playing on the
public courses to the swanky
jernts, where he has been given
cards. "A gentleman by the name
Of Hal Wallace, paid by the Span
iSh government, is in our midst to
spread propaganda that all movie
stars vacation in Spain. It so
happens it isn't completely true,
because Spain is slightly far away.
However, though the stars might
relish a change from SpaniSh-Cali-
fornian brands of atmosphere, it
is still a romantic idea.
In The Son Comes Home" II
you don't drop your program and
look quickly enough, you will see
doing atmospheric work two eX-
miilionaires and one who has not
lost his all as yet. The gentlemen
are Sol S. Simons, an ex-oil well
posseSsor; Joe McFarlan, ex-expen.
Sive real estater, and Charles Mid
dleton, who still retains his hold
in the financial world, and this is
how it all came about. Some
years ago, he gave his wife money
to purchase beach frontage for a
house. En- route to the beach, she
encountered an Oil promoter, who
sold her an oil well. Unusual as
it may seem, the oil well gushed
so beautifully it has been provid-
ing the Middleton exchequer with
countless thousands of barrels a
day.
Fanchon, of Fanchon and
Marco, is the new technical adviser
on all musicals at Paramount. She
ought to know her business. She
has turned out thousands of Fan
chon and Marco units And
last, but not least, Paramount'S
Buffalo Bill" was title-changed
to This Breed of Men," then "The
Plainsman." What's wrong with
Buffalo Bill? He was pretty well
known in his dow
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

not their best. It employs a cast
of some 80 principals and super
numeraries, not counting the
battalion Of scene shifters.
They are not stumped for a
PhineaS Fogg minute by the
problem of creating an elephant
for rescuing the travellers from
the menace of India; neither
does the holdup of the Union
Pacific by savage redskins Of
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

Carter Barron in a spotlesS ice
cream suit wonders how much Of
the bonus millions will find it's
way to theater box offices. My
guess is, like plank in a political
platform, vague and indefinite:
PLENTY"
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Just Some Gossip and Opinions

made the leap to the Ziegfeld
musical magnificences are Ethel
Shutta and Fannie Brice.
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

These are the June days when
the Washington columnists theme
song is: "I Got Plenty of Nuttin."
The Washington times., 1936-06-16

Summer Entertainment with the
Drama Enjoys an AusPicious Start
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
Bock-Stoge News and Gossi p
Gathered by Bill! HoyIe

for over 35 per cent of the worlds
ether stations.
And today when the older resi-
dents of the small Ohio town re-
call when the Friedman boy left
home their eyes perhaps wander
to a prominent sign at the en-
trance to the village reading:
"Circleville, the Home of Ted
Lewis"
The Washington times., 1936-06-16
By Feg Murray

owns A 4O-AcRE RANCH NEAR eAkEasFELo CAL.
FROM WHICH SHE SELLS Fresh MSTAaES 70 MSNs coFSSAV
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27
How Montana Counties Were Named

Observation-Disclosures for the rock
which resembles the head of a beaver.
First seen by the Lewis and Clark
party.
Big Horn-Big Horn sheep once in
habited the region.
Blaine-Named for James G.. Blaine.
Observation-Disclosures for Col. Arthur
B~roadWater. a Montana pioneer. An
other authority says the name was
given because Of the broad eXpanse of
the Missouri river which flows through
the county.
Carbon-So called because of the coal
deposits found there.
Carter-Named for Thomas H. Car
ter, Montana,s first representative in
congress in 1891, and late United States
senator.
Cascade-Name derived from the
great falls of the Missouri.
Chouteau-Pierre Chouteau was a
trader with the American Fur Co. of
St. Louis who operated in this area.
Custer-Named for the famous In
dian fighter.
Daniels-Mansfield A. Daniels was a
pioneer rancher and s~torekeeper.
Dawson-Named for Major Andrew
Dawson. a Scotch fur trader Of the
American Fur Co.
Deer LOdge-Takes its name from
the mound at Warm Springs which
has a hot spring on its top and gives
off a stream of Wapor. From a distance
it resembles an Indian lodge with
smoke coming from its apex. Many deer
grazed near its base, hence the name.
Fallon-Benjamin OFallon was an
early-day United States Indian agent.
Fergus-In 1879 James Fergus organ
lied the Montana Stockgrowers as
ISOLATION.
Flathead-From the Flathead tribe
of Indians. A misnomer, however, as
this tribe did not practice the Pacific
coast Indian custom of flattening the
frontal bone of the forehead of in
fantS.
GalIatin-Lewis and Clark named
the river for Albert Gallatin, then Sec
rotary of the treasury. The county was
named for the river.
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couraged both Indians and white men
to kill the buffalo, the elk and the
deer, so that the Indians, deprived of
their livelihood, could the sooner be
brought into submission.
LaMott was born in New York and
came to Montana in 1868, when but 81
years of age. For several years he was
trapper, trader, hunter and freighter
for I. G.. Baker & Co., pioneer trading
firm of Fort Benton. He freighted from
Benton to Fort Whoopup, Fort Stand
off, Lethbridge, to Medicine Rock, and
he took the first %freighting outfit from
Benton into Fort Macleod.
Medicine Rock q Grab Bag
The Medicine Rock mentioned is on
the Marias river in Montana and is
nj of the almost forgotten historic
its name from a large boulder located
two miles west of where the Great
Northern railroad now crosses the
MariaS.
This rock was formerly considered
by the Indians as the abiding place of
the spirit of n of their chiefs who
had been buried nearby, and upon it
rifices to the Great Spirit. The gifts
were accompanied by prayers asking
long life for the giver and the members
of his family. Saddles, blankets, robes.
beads. anything the passing Indian
thought he could spare, were to be
found in the collection.
To the Indians the place and the
sacrifices were sacred and the gifts
were molested by them. White
travellers, however, had no such scruples
and we're in the habit of helping them
selves to any useful article they might
find there.
The rock stood originally high up on
a hill side. Erosion of the hill caused
it gradually to travel down the decliv-
ity until it rested upon more level
ground, where its migration ceased.
1. G. Baker & Co. had a trading
post at Medicine Rock as late as 1868,
built for them by the late Gen. S. c.
Ashby of Helena.
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Interest is nothing new. Those
who borrow have paid it from time
immemOrial. And for as long as
that it has been applied in many,
and sometimes devious, ways. A
party of early-day Montana hunt
ers and trappers knew that, and
that was why, when a band OF
wandering Indians came upon the
of 103 coyotes about the
dead body, of a buffalo which the
white hunters had set as poisoned
bait, and stripped off and carried
away the skins, the white hunters
followed them, recovered the 103
coyote skins they considered their
own, and many more which hap
pened to be in the collection.
In the winter of 1872-73, John Ii
Mott. q squaw nan who lived fol
many years afterward On the Black.
feet Indian reservation: Poker Brown
who died later in Alaska: Dan Lavalli
for many years engaged in the sheer
business near Miles City, and w. B
Smith, who long ago left Montana tc
live on the coast, were all hunting anc
trapping through the northern part Of
territory.
The four decided to throw in
together and cross into Canada fol
wolves. Their system was to kill a buff
falo. poison the carcass with strych-
nine and return next day to skin theil
kill. They had outfitted with dogs anc
sleds and had excellent success.
One day, returning to where they
had left bait the day before, they
found that a band of Indians hao
beat them to it." One hundred anG
three skinned carcasses around the
dead and poisoned body of the buffalo
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27
Asanniboines Had First Experience With Interest When
Trappes, Finding Their Kill Of Coyotes Skinned, Traled
Raiders Into Camp and Redeemed Their Losses SevenfOld

told of the harvest the Indians had
reaped, to say nothing of smaller num-
berS found in other places.
Four Whites Defy 20 Lodges
The four whites decided they would
stand for no such treatment and after
returning to camp and equipping
themselves for travel, took the trail
of the Indians. They followed it for
more than 300 miles into the valley of
the Red Deer, then known as Elk river.
There they came up with a camp of 10
lodges of Assinniboines, which could
be no other than the Indians who had
stolen their wolf skins. for the trail
had been direct and rapid.
The Indians were comparatively well
armed. They had hidden the stolen
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

pelts beneath their bed robes, and
with their sawed off flintlock guns
concealed under their blankets, they
sat upon their beds.
Loot Hidden in Beds
The white men, however, made war
talk and bluffed the Indians. They
pulled 300 wolf and coyote skins from
their hiding places. loaded them onto
their sleds and hit the back trail. After
an arduous trip made with all possible
speed they reached Fort Benton with
their pelts, where they sold them for
SIS apiece.
LaMott always blamed the govern
ment for the reckless slaughter of the
game on the northern plains in the
'7O's and early sos. He said it en-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27
Wind SWEEPS Woman Il ::
FROM CAR TO HER DEATH

Mrs. Jennie Wennemar, Sc, of From
berg, was instantly killed near Mis-
soula recently when wind jerked her
out of an automobile as she attempted
to shut a half latched door.
George E. Stoddard, her nephew, with
whom she was travelling to Kent, Wash,
to make her home told officials that
as she was whipped out of the machine
the rear wheel Of the car, a small coupe,
passed over her.
The door of the car opened from the
front. Mrs. Wennemar was attempting
to colse it all the way and as she
swung it open preparatory to slamming
it the wind swept the door wide open
and she was pulled out of the machine.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

Plant buds are not "warmblooded."
They are covered with scales, not to
keep warm, but to prevent evapora-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

The first formal record in possession
OF the New York stock exchange is
dated May II, 1892.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

The killing of musk oxen is made a
serious ,offense by the Canadian gov
eminent.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

Nemesis was the Greek goddess of
retribution.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-11-27

AMT any accident that
folks are %stampedin' to
Silver Dollars fine Bour-
bon flavor. It's gettin' as
popular as the drumstick
at Thanksgiving dinner!
"Jest one drink'n show
you why. See how warm an
rich it is. Enjoy its special
sunshiny taste then check
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