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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
CARROLL

In "The Great Ziegfeld," opening Sunday at the Carroll theater, mo- tion pictures have picked up the torch where the late Florenz Zieg- field laid 1t down and have succeed ed in out-ziegfelding the great Ziegfeld himself.
 "The Great Ziegfeld" has every- thing that a great musical picture should have. It has, in the life of ziegfeld, most gripping and per- feet dramatic story. In its musical numbers, never before produced on such scale of grandeur, it has many of the most dazzling scenes ever seen in pictures.
 The story opens in Ziegfeld's youth in the dazzling Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893. It progresses, as Ziegfeld himself progressed, massing fortunes, to lose them and build other fortunes. But always in the foreground are the spectacular Ziegfeld productions and his amaz- ingly beautiful Show-girls.
 The dance numbers never before have been equalled. The direction of Robert 2. Leonard places him among the kings of directors and the photography of Ollie Marsh and George Folsey is pictorial mas terpiece.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
Promising Pictures Feature Programs Of Local 7heaers
CRITICS SLAM "STAGE DOOR, :,
 BUT NOT IN PUBLIC'S FACE
Kaumaneber Comedy Of Broadway Life Is On Threshold Of Success

scenery provided.
 
 Speaking of scenery, Norman Bel GeddeS, producer O. Mir. Kingsley's Dead End' has brought us play entitled Iron Men" which deals with the fellows who build our sky-scrapers. Being a scenic en- thllsiast, MT. Geddes has shot the works, ercting on the stage of the Longacre Theater as credible rep lica of 8 towering super-structure las you are ever likely to see within the confines of playhouse.
 But it leaves the impression that MT. Bel Geddes had such a wonder full time with his giant erector set that he forgot to see if he had a play there.
 Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson. who happily collaborated on Sailor Beware" have reunited to give us another extravagant and ofttime hilarious comedy, Swing Your Lady," comic lowdown on the wrestling racket. This one, no more and no less naughtical than the other is about the Greek "grunter" booked to rassle an Anna zon of the OzarkS only to find that he loves her. In conclusion, a wrest- ling match is tossed onstage and produces as many laughs as real brawl on the mat in Madison Square Garden. Hope Emerson acts the brawny maid of the Ozarks and John Alexander, formerly a Shake- spearean actor, the Athenian Samp- son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
ALHAMBRA

They haven't got the coyotes sing ing Hi-Di-Ho, but in almost every other way the old west has gone swing in Bing Crosby's latest, Rhythm on the Range" scheduled to open Sunday at the Alhambra theater with Crosby, Frances Farmer and Bob Burns in central roles.
 Rhythm on the Range" makes a cowman out of Burns, and opens. it's story when the crooner buys a prize bull at rodeo in New York's Mad ison Square garden, then starts west with the animal in a box car. In the reels that follow, a rollicking romance is punctuated by the ba- ooka-playing of Burns, swing music by Louis Prima's world-famed band western songs, and the antics of Crosby, Burns, the bull, Miss Farmer and Martha Rave, new screen com edienne find"
 Bob Burns has his screen debut as Crosby's cowboy pal, who is taken by storm by the dynamite Miss Rave. Their romance, too, has a transcontinental touch. It begins aboard passenger train in which Burns is heading for the same ranch.
 Rhythm on the Range" intro duces such song hits as T Can't Escape From You" "The House That Jack Built for Jill," "If You Can't Sing It sYou1l Have To Swing It" Empty Saddles" I'm An Old Cow Hand From the Rio Grande" and Roundup Lullaby"
 The co-feature is Charlie Chan at the Racetrack" with Warner Oland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
SING BABY SING ATSTRAND TODAY
Four Days Engagement Ends Tomorrow; "The
 GeOrgeOus Hussy"

Performances today and tomorrow conclude the engagement of Sing Baby Sing" with Alice Faye, Adolph Menjou and a host of other Holly wood celebrities, also "A Son Comes Home" with Mary Roland and Don- aid Woods, current attractions at Warmers Strand theater.
 Unquestionably the most emotion ally appealing, dramatically dynamic and photographically arresting mo- tion picture in which Joan Craw- ford has ever appeared is "The Gorgeous Hussy" which comes to the Strand theater Sunday for four days.
 For here we have Samuel Hop kins Adams dramatic story of a girl who started out as the daugh- ter of a Washington innkeeper in the tumultuous and picturesque period of American history in which Andrew Jackson was to be elected seventh President of the United States, and who ultimately became the topic of every wagging tongue in the nations capitol.
 Not only is Joan Crawford per- fectly cast as Peggy ONeal, the inn keepers daughter who became the Frst Lady of Democracy, but her teaming with the sensational Robert Taylor, as Bow" Timberlake, officer on the U. s. s. Constitution, brigns forth romantic team that makes most others seem pale in compar- ison.
 AS though this were not enough 'The Gorgeous Hussy" offers its entranced onlookers Lionel Barry more in a fascinating and remark. ably accurate makeup and charact- erization as Andrew Jackson: Fran chot Tone as John Eaton; Melvyn Douglas as John Randolph, the senator from Virginia; James Stew art as "Rowdy" Dow, Washington newspaper reporter; Alison Skip worth as the gossipy Mrs. Beall; Louis Calhern as Sunderland; Beu- lah Bondi as Rachel Jackson and a score or more of expert minor char acterizations.
 All of these players perform to the hilt in story crammed with dramatic excitement, humorous in- terludes and emotional intensity which holds its audience spellbound and makes the final fadeout come all too soon.
 The companion feature will be Walking On Air, the riotous story of headstrong heiress who tried to find the short cut to love. Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern have the leading roles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
JACQUES

The burlesque attraction at Jacques theater this week is called ''The Babes of Broadway" and it has four very clever burlesquers at the head of the production, Margot Lopez, the Spanish dancing beauty, Billy Ainsley, the boob" comedian, and those two Italian comics Pinto and Della, who are show by them
 selves. Among those of special prominence in the company of 50 singers, comedians, dancers and speciality artists are Ada Lilyan,. Es-
 telle Gibson, Nazzaro Halo, Marion Mason, Doris Leigh, Mada King. Joe Young, Paul LeRoy, Harry AL len, Levine and LaVadis. Sunday another vaudeville show consisting of ten headline acts will be offered at Jacques at the matinee at D. m., and at the continuous perform
 ances from 6 D. m., until II p. m. Ginger Girls" will be the cleo tion weeks attraction, and the company is headed by that Vien- nese dancer, Dorothy Dee, consid- cred the best dancer on the h. dependent Burlesque Circuit of The aters. Miss Dee will be supported
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
DOUBLE FEATURE
 AT STATE TODAY
"Give Me Your Heart" With Kay Francis Head=
 lines Bill

"Give Me Your Heart" which has its locale premiere at Warner Brothers State theater today, will hold audiences spellbound with its beauty, enhancement and the shear power of its dynamic drama.
 The picture, based on the smash ing stage hit by Jay Mallory, was custom made for Kay Francis. The intensely emotional situations of the play offer her the finest dramatic opportunity of her career, and she rises to them with all the brilliant artistry for which she is famous.
 There is a remarkably brilliant supporting cast which includes such famous players of stage and screen as George Brent, Roland Young Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Helen Flint, and Halliwell Hobbes.
 The play is ultra modern with a stertlingly daring plot, which is handled with the utmost sincerity and delicacy.
 The story tells of forbidden love between Miss Francis, as young English girl, and an English noble man already possessed of an invalid wife. Events that transpire in this strange love triangle. . Miss Francis journey to America where she marries an American business man her longing for her child, which the noblemans wife had adopted when she left England, and other startling events make for grand entertainment superbly en- acted by brilliant cast whose delft and deep understanding of the story is felt in every scene portrayed.
 George Brent has the role Of the American husband of Miss Francis ard gives sterling performance, as also do Roland Young as the play wright and Patric Knowles as the nobleman involved in the romance. Frieda Inescort has created are markable character in the noble mans life who adopts the other Woman's child as her own.
 Henry Stephenson is excellent In the role of the English lord and grandfather of the child he plans to make his heir, as also is Halliweu Hobbes, father of Miss Francis.
 The companion feature is "Mur- der With Pictures" featuring Lew Ayres and Gail Patrick. Forty wit nesses say the killing but not one could pick the killer! Police accuse a woman of this baffling crime. but two devil-may-car newspaper men provide more thrilling solu- ton to the years most startling murder mystery.
 Get the State habit :. follow the big parade of hits at this popular theater! Tuesdays all new show will include Victor McLaglen with Bin nie Barnes and Jean Dixon in "The Magnificent Brute" also Hollywood Boulevard" with John Halliday Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings and twenty movie stars of former years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30

fans who listen in to the Allen broadcasts regularly, and among the many is the now famous talking bird, which refused recently to talk to Fred Allen. This bird is specie of the crow family and very rare. Its performance is extraordinary Others who will appear in this gig antic bill are the Four Dukes of Swing, doing name band impersona- tionS, Vincent Perrone, hailed as 8 future Rubinoff, Jimmy Bolster, master of tap-dancing, in the Hal Le Roy manner, Tommy Curran and Mickey Kopel, those harmonica wizards, Larry Raymond and Charlie Began, the heaven sent voices. Then for the feminine part of the enter tainment, there is Margie Kay, eX. otic blue singer, Lillian De. Christo and many others.
 The Fred Allen Revue carries it's own special scenery and one of the scenes, that you will see is an exact duplicate of the radio broadcasting station, from which the Allen pro- gram emenates weekly.
 Augmenting the regular group of Fred Allen entertainers, and which total 40 performers, including the stage band, will be group of the very best of local performers, who will compete for an opportunity Of appearing on the Town Hall Tonite program of Wednesday evening, November, 4th, and if successful on this show of winning will be given an engagement with the Town Tall Revue, on the road. Waterbury will be the only Connecticut appearance of ths great radio show, now made into the greatest of stage shows.
 In addition to the above stage show there will be the regular screen program, and the attraction that has been booked, is one of the outstanding films of the season, Lawrence Tibbett, Wendie Barrie, Gregory Ratoff and other stars of this magnitude in 8 delightful mus ical film, "Under Your Spelr' and in addition to the above there will be a program of selected shorts making all in all wonderful stage and screen show, and best of all there will be no advance from the regular prices of the theatre.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
BY GEORGE ROSS NEA Service Staff COresnOnden

n
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 New York Stage Door" is the new George s. Kauf- man-Edna Ferber play that brought the talented Marga- ret Sullavan back to Broad way from Hollywood and which, after a coolish critical reception, swung into "smash hit" business. What it proves. apparently, is that Broadway is not immune to glamor and a sentimental story.
 Spacious as "Stage Door" may be as 8 drama, the notion is heart warming and the characters engag- ing. The Kaufman-Ferber wit flies fast ever the footlights and their comments about Broadway and Hollywood are pertinent and in- elusive. Stage Door" may not be a great work, but the majority of playgoers, I venture, will find it great entertainment.
 
 This time, MT. Kaufman and Miss Ferber write about the young act resses who live at 8 club residence All of them are seeking employment on Broadway and once in a long while it happens that one of their number is drafted for stardom in Hollywood.
 But Margaret Sullavan is the young woman whose life and heart and ambition are sealed to the the ater. No Hollywood offers can lure her and neither can a radical play wright who goes the way of all flesh, as scenario writer. Not even near-starvation can tempt her from becoming a Bernhardt, which she well nigh is about to achieve at curtain-fall.
 There in couple of paragraphs in the. story, and as you can readily see, it is infused with Broadway color, allowing audiences a peek in- to the private tragedies, hopes and pecadilloeS of our assorted glamor girls. Perhaps you can see the back stage hokum in 1t, also, and readily forgive it. As for Miss Sullavan, she is superb, defylng the theme by showing that her Hollywood career has not harmed her unique talent; and Phyllis Brooks deserves to be pointed out for superb perform ance as the girl who made good in the movies.
 Broadway has just heard from Sidney Kingsley again in Ten Mill lion Ghosts" an intensely anti-war drama at the St. James Theater. That its sincerity does not result in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
CAMEO

New show at Cameo starting Sunday. Headlining the program is a fast-moving story of adventure, intrigue and romance in modern war torn China, "The General Died at Dawn"
 The picture presents Gary Coop CT again in a soldier of fortune role, one which has added greatly to his stature as one of flmdom's outstanding stars. Playing oppo- site him-is beautiful blonde Made
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30

by Joe De Rita, the ace of comedi- ans; Dorothy Sevier, a dancer who recently appeared in Jumbo" at the Forth Worth, Texas Centennial ; Wade and Wade, two Ethiopian dancers, Bobby Burns, Harry Jack son, Harry Myers, Joan De Lee, Max Deval, Bobby Faye, Whitey Roberts and company and a chorus of twenty beautiful girls. On Elec- tion day, Tuesday, the Jacques theater will offer its patrons three complete shows of the Ginger Girls" at no increase in the regu- lar scale of prices. The matinee will be presented at 2:30, the first show at 8:15 and a special mid- night show to start at 11:30 p. m., when the presidential and state election returns will be read from the stage. A ladies matinee is giv- en every day at popular prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30
TOWN HALL REVUE
 ON POLI'S STAGE
Aliens Famous Troupe
 Opens Engagement This Afternoon

Fred Aliens famous Town Hall to- night revue, of the air, opens at the Poh Theatre today, for a 4 day en- gagement, on the stage, coming to the end of its local showings on Monday night. Performances will be given daily at 3-6-9 P. M. This is the same program that is heard over the air every Wednesday night, and those that tuned in last Wednes- day evening, no doubt heard of how this attraction would be here today, it consists of 15 all-star acts, with 30 people in the cast, and is a fast- moving revue written especially for the Fred Allen group of entertain CTS.
 Among the fifteen acts presented will be many familiar to Waterbury
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30

leine Carroll.
 The film is based on the struggle between modern China and the predatory war-lords who are laying the coutnry waste. On the one side is General Yang, ambitious war-lord intent upon crushing China under his iron heel. On the other is a growing peoples move- ment. Cooper Is in the ranks of this movement.
 The part of General Yang is played by Akim Tamiroff, skilled depicter of sinister oriental roles.
 The companion feature is Yours For The Asking" a comedy romance featuring George Raft and Dolores Costello Barrymore with Ida Lu- pino, James Gleason, Lynne Over man and Edgar Kennedy. Also "They Met in Taxi" with Chester Morris.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30

an all-engrossing, bitter, vitriolic and exciting drama. is the regretful verdict of f1rst-nighters.
 For MT. Kingsley, the young play wright who brilliantly conceived Men in White" and Dead End" in "Ten Million Ghosts" indicts the munition na.5ers, among whom Sir
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30

own compositions. Where a town has small-powered broadcasting station, it is not unusual for local appearance of the Joe Haynes orchestra to be followed by series of broadcasts all made up of tram scriptions of favorite Haynes tunes and arrangements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30

Basil Zaharof is easily recognizable and with documentary evidence shows how the armiStice of the World War was delayed two years Dy arms manufacturers.
 But the regrettable fact is that the play is inadequate for the big subject, and the magnificent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23
HOUSE WILL ACT
OND. c. MEASURES
Passage of Delinquent Tax
and Police Property
Bills Seen.

The House will be called on to-
morrow, the fifth so-called District
day" of the present session, to con-
slider only two District bills.
The most important is one already
passed by the Senate to give the Dis
trict clear title to property bid in at
public auction for delinquent taxes.
The other is designed to aid the Police
Department to dispose of an accumu-
lation of unclaimed property without
court order. Specifically, it would
authorize the property clerk to sell at
auction all unclaimed property having
a value of 500 or less.
: These two measures were reported
favorably last week by the District
Committee, which also authorized its
police and fire subcommittee to report
a bill to permit police officials to as
sign officers to detective work without
advancing them to the rank of detec-
tive sergeant as now required with
additional compensation of $500 a
year.
The subcommittee, however, is
Withholding its report pending confer
ence with members of the detective
force as to the wisdom of the change.
House action. therefore, will be de-
layed until the next District day."
March 2.
The Ellenbogen bill to revive the
wartime rent commission also is on
the House calendar, but Chairman
Norton of the District Committee
does not intend to call it up tomor-
row. Renewed pressure is being put
on the committee, especially from la
Dor organizations, for consideration
of this measure, and Ellenbogen pre-
diets House action on 1t before adj
journment.
No opposition Is expected to either
Of the two bills the House will be
called on to consider. The one to give
the District clear titles to property
1t has bid in at auction will have the
support of Representative Blanton,
Democrat, Of Texas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23

When Judge Casey overruled the
motion and assessed the fine, Arthur
g. ERODE, his attorney, gave notice he
will file an application for a writ of
error with the District Court of APP
peals. # the writ is granted, the
higher court will call on the Police
Court for the records In the case to
determine the merits of the appeal.
Bond was fixed at 500 in each case,
pending perusal by the Appellate
Court.
Misconduct CHARGED.
James w. Lauderdale, assistant cor
poration counsel, whom Zioncheck
charged with misconduct" In his
motion for new trial, defended the
courts original decision, contending
afidavits made by a man who occu-
pied the cell next to the Representa-
tive In The precinct jail and by others,
all introduced as additional avidence,
was no sufacient grounds on which
to grant new trial.
As zioncheck and Brode started to
leave the court room, bailif had to
cali order several times before the
representatives vociferous protests
could be silenced.
WHY did you send me to jail?" he
asked Brode as they left the court
room. and again the bailin had to call
the Washington Democrat to order
Tor putting on his hat Ia the court
room. X
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23
RANKIN SHELVES
P.V. A. PROPOSAL
Mississippian Proposes to
Keep Measure Before
Committee.

In the face of growing opposition to
his plan for establishing little T. v.
A. in the Potomac River Valley, Rep
resentative Rankin, Democrat, of
Mississippi yesterday announced he
was shelving his bill for the remainder
OF this session.
While indicating the futility of try
ing to seek its passage over President
Roosevelt's opposition to applying the
T. v. A. theory locally, Rankin pro-
posed, however, to keep it before the
committee for future study.
About the time Rankin prepared a
statement to this effect, Chairman
King of the Senate District Committee
went on record against the proposed
Potomac Valley Authority. He said he
did not regard the proposal as neces-
sary and would oppose it.
Rankin, whose bill is now before the
Rivers and Harbors Committee, made
his own position clear in the following
statement:
''If the bill which / have introduced
for the development of the Potomac
River is not in accord with the Presi-
dents program, it will not be pushed
at this session of Congress, but will
remain with the committee for study
and investigation.
"As I said before, I am in perfect
accord with the President on the power
question:" Rankin continued. HE has
done more for the consumers of elec-
trio light and power than any other
President or all other Presidents put
together" -..
The President, at his Friday press
conference, virtually blasted all hope
advocates of the proposed Potomac
Valley Authority may have. had for
securing its enactment during the
present session. The President said
then he had no desire to develop every
major river into another r. v. A. and
added that the plan was not feasible
of development locally. Rankin ex-
planned afterward that he would have
no objection to accepting any amend
ment that would make his bill con-
form to the administrations plans.
But he commended he did believe the
construction Of dams and power plants
are essential and would not mar the
beauty Of Great Falls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23
MYSTERY UNSOLvED
IN APARTMENT FIRE
Flames Char Room and Ruin
Antique Heirlooms-Damage
Put at $1,000.

Mystery Of the origin Of the fire
which caused $4,000 damage IN the
Iroquois Apartments, 1410 M street,
was unsolved last night.
The flames charred one room of the
apartment of Blair Bennett and DAM
aged beyond repair antique heirlooms.
including pictures, portieres and fur
niture.
The fire, confined to the Bennett
apartment, began in the rear room
occupied by Alexander F. Jankowski,
a tenant who was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for burns about the
face and arms. ..~
The early morning alarm filled with
temporary panic the $50 sleeping ten
ants of the apartment house, as flames
licking the fire escape cut of that
exit.
Bennett, who had no insurance,
said he had occupied his apartment,
3o5. since 1916. Jankowski. a roomer
since November, had not returned
last night.