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The Washington times., 1936-10-29

Italian Seaplanes have been as
SembIed and fueled there for
widespread raids"
A formal statement by the
embassy asserted that a vast
contingent" of Italian troops was
awaiting orders for the attack
due next Tuesday or Wednesday,
and would be aided by eight
italian submarines and several
destroyerS.
The italian plan was to aid the
Spanish insurgents, said the EN-.
bassy, by cutting off Barcelona
from communications wit h
Madrid.
The Washington times., 1936-10-29
Year S Death Toll IS
In WyominQ Mines

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Oct. 90
S0.-Wyoming has recorded
its thirteenth coal-mine death Of
the year. Andrew Tarris, jr., As,
was crushed by a rock while at
work in Union Pacific Mine No. 4
here
The Washington times., 1936-10-29
Protest Yale News
Stand on President

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct. %
TN.S.) Editorial support given
President Roosevelt by the Yale
Daily News today had been pro
tested by eight members of next
years editorial board. A letter
sent to Potter Stewart, of Cincin-
natl, chairman of the 1896 board,
protesting the support was printed
in yesterdays issue at the direction
of the present chairman.
The protesting students an,
nounced they intended to vote for
Landon and resented the implica-
ton that the entire board agrees
with the pro-Roosevelt editorial at
titude.
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MADRID0PENS
OFFENSIVE
CONTINUED from Page u

NNUuG1UuGU 1EUEn rage ~
is not an international practice
TO grant asylum to political refu
gees, with which Latin-American
diplomats took issue. No decision
was reached.
Caballero issued his orders for
an offensive as insurgent aircraft
bombed Madrid's last remaining
highways, trying to close by air
the wide gaps in their siege lines.
Caballero proclaimed:
"YOu must attack now to lib
crate Madrid, the supreme
stronghold Of the worlds strug-
gle against faSciSm. The hour
for decisive efforts has struck.
All means for victory are avail
able. We will take no steps
backwards, but there must be
iron discipline"
HOSTAGES PRESERVED
Although Caballero this week
rejected Britain's appeal for an
exchange of hostages, the pre-
mier's decree warned:
81 order you to respect the
lives of prisoners"
AS the loyalistS formed for their
counter-drive, action around the
Madrid front was limited to in
decisive clashes in the Escorial,
Navalcarnero and Illescas sectors.
The inSurgent forces from To-
ledo, who repeatedly reached the
Madrid suburb of Getafe, fell
back again to Pinto, farther
south, today.
Bombing of Madrid's roads,
plus the apparent lack of any
insurgent big push" led today
to belief that the insurgents are
either waiting for a reply to
their demand for Madrid's sur
render-which now had "a hours
to go-or are planning to starve
out the capital.
Gen. Francisco Frances "ulti-
matum" warned that suffering"
would follow failure to surrender
but whether punishment would
take the form of bombardment
or hunger, he did not specify.
It was significant also that in
surgent radio broadcastS today
mentioned no major fighting. The
Corunna station referring only to
the furious aerial bombardments
of all highways leading across the
semiarid Madrid plain to the pro-
ductive fields towards Valencia
and Tarancon. All Madrid's rail
outlets had already been cut.
Food For 3 Months
The capital, although food al
ready is being rationed, could pull
through a siege for three months,
authorities said.
Gen. Queipo de Llano's broad
cast from Seville also mentioned
no fighting, but he charged that
the Mediterranean coast is now
the victim of a roign Of terror. p"
Murders, he said, are continuing
in Barcelona, where $4,000 have
been shot in the last three months.
At Oviedo, however, the loyalists
claimed their forces captured part
of the suburbs.
ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France, Oct.
20 G.N.SO.-With 5000 prisoners
in one jail alone, mass arrests are
still continuing in Madrid, Spanish
refugees said today.
Seven Americans were evacuated
from the province of Vizcaya by
the British destroyer Exmouth.
The Washington times., 1936-10-29

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 G.N.sO.
More than a thousand industrial
and academic physicists from all
parts of the country attended the
opening session here today of the
American Institute of Physics.
The Washington times., 1936-10-29
WASHINGTON NOW RANKS AS tn

DIAGRAM illustrating the
position of Washington in
population among the IL
leading cities of the country.
The figure for the District of
Columbia is the Census Blu
reau's estimate for 1886.
The Washington times., 1936-10-29
Treasury Condition

International News Service
Treasury balance October 27: ST.
BOT ,438,58708; internal revenue,
1898, 1902; customs receipts,
$34, 984,31821.
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ST. JEAN DE LUZ, France, Oct.
20 UN.S).-With 5000 prisoners
in one jail alone, mass arrests are
still continuing in Madrid, Spanish
refugees said today.
Seven Americans were evacuated
from the province of Vizcaya by
the British destroyer Exmouth.
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PHYSICISTS in Session

VOTE AMERICAN
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The Washington times., 1936-09-15
NJ OWE
O'CLOCK

BELASCO Jan Kiepura, "Give
Us This Night" 1915, 2:13,
4:10, 6:07, 8:04, and 1901 p. m.
EARLE-"Anthony Adverse" 9:15.
11:4O, a. m, 2:10, 4:30, 7:05,
9:35 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Ginger Rogers,
Swing Time" 1854 a. m: 2:1S
4:42, 1908, $3.50 p. m.
CAPITOL-Randolph Scott. THE
Last Of the Mohicans," 10:45
a. m. 1880, AIS, 7:05, $50 p.
m. Stage-12:40, 3:25. 6:10,
900 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Will Rogers,
state Fair" 11:00 a. M; los,
3:15, $40, 1880, 9:35 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Mary Boland, "A
Son Comes Home" 1910, 2:05,
400. sos, 1850, 9:45 p. m.
PALACE-Joan Crawford Cor
geous Hussy," 1920 a. M, 1910,
2:55, sos, 1920. 9:35 p. m.
LITTLE-"The Informer," 11:16
a. m, 1921, 1925, 5:31, 1885,
9:41 p. m.
HOWARD - Margaret Lindsay,
THE Law in Her Hand" 1915,
2:45, Sis, 7:45, 1918 p. m.
Stage Claude Hopkins and his
orchestra, las. AIS. 6:45, 9:15
D. m.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
I Cover HOLLYWOOD

well for his genius. He also
shows proves elsewhere, since he
landed a 140-pound Marlin sword
fish the other day in 20 minutes.
Even though Fred MacMurray
hasn't found his new home yet,
he at least has a stove for it.
Since he used to work for the
Malleable Iron Company in Bea-
yer Dam, Wis. they retaliated by
sending on to their famous ex-
employe the little utensil so
necessary to the kitchen.
Claudette Colbert'S greatest diff
ficulty in Maid of Salem" was
to be able to execute the gavotte.
In the days the picture is laid in,
Puritan maids were supposed to
be not too graceful, or good dane
erS, so she had to learn to do her
dance ungracefully. =.
For our invention department,
Fanchon and Marco, who have Just
signed Jack Dunn, the amazing
English skater, to go on a tour for
them, have devised and patented
new kind Of concentrated cake
icing, which can be put down on
a stage in 20 minutes, dries in
seven more, comes up easily, is
cheap and works even better than
real ice for Mr.. Dunn to do his
skating act on.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1885, by King Features
syndicate. Inc !

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 15.-The
fifth estate. Jessie Matthews. one
of the top box-office stars in Eng
land, is SO desperately i'll that her
latest film, with only three days
more shooting before it would
have been finished, has now had
to be shelved until she recuperates.
Also. her plans to come out for
an M-G-M picture will have to
wait until she is on the mend.
Which reminds one that I am
still amazed that Oracle Fields,
England's greatest star, who gets
two hundred and fifty thousand a
picture and whose pictures only
take two weeks to make, never has
her films released in America.
Anyone worth that much is worth
our attention, methinking.
Eddie Cantor'S new radio tieup
calls for a half million dollars
worth of publicity before he even
sets larynx to the ether. Mr.. C.
is now affiliated with Twentieth
Century-Fox, and as we said be-
fore, will make as his first film
an opus based on his life.
At Paramount, since it is pretty
much of a certainty that Carole
Lombard will not do you and
Me-" may we tactfully suggest that
Airline Judge and John Howard be
teamed again, to repeat the sue
cess they are having in Valiant
Is the Word for Carrie"
Virginia Cherrill, the ex-Mrs.
Cary Grant, will be Lady Jersey
any minute now. Her fiance is
one of the richest BritisherS over
there. -
Whenever Bob Taylor and Bar
bara Stanwyck get mobbed by
their public when they step out,
which is practically all the time,
Missy s. retires to the check room,
so Bob can take all the bows. It
must be love.
British International is trying
to purchase the rights to Beau
Geste," so that Herbert Brenon,
now there, can do a remake Of it.
In case you have forgotten, it
was his most successful movie.
Perc WeStmore did all the wig
gerry and makeup for "Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" at the Holly.
wood Bowl last summer, and also
for the Warner movie. This
year he is doing the same for
"Everyman" in the Bowl, and also
again for Warmers when they
make it as a picture. Speaks
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
Final Week AT
Roadside

WaShington'S barn-theater-g going
days are nearly over.
The Roadside Theater last night
began a final week, winds up its
third season with a repeat offer
ing of the summers outstanding
revival success, Augustus Thomas
famous westerner, Arizona"
A 14-week season, the longest
of any purely summer theater, has
presented melodrama, still the
favorite entertainment in this the
third year of its inclusion on the
Roadside schedule; a brand new
comedy-Satire which proved the
most successful manuscript pro
duction of the Roadsiders to date;
and revival productions of the
popular hits of a generation ago,
whose popularity with Roadside
audiences would indicate that that
older generations enthusiasm for
them was well founded.
Arizona" was first presented in
1899 with such famous actors as
Theodore Roberts, Arthur Byron,
and Lionel Barrymore, it con-
tinued as a top-notch road and
stock play for many years. It is
considered by many theater COM
mentatorS as the finest of Angus
tus Thomas many great plays.
In the return engagement are
George harrington, Virginia True,
Lansing Hall, Richard Kreuzberg,
J. Edmond Veitch, Elinor Cox
Marstein, Betty Gray, Milton
Jean Smith, Fred Has
kin, jr.; Harrison Libbsy, Edward
Stevlingson, Frank Koonce, and
Michael Mcknight, all in their
original roles. Ralph Fowler re-
placed Marvin Beers, Charles
Grunwell and Don ShankS re-
placed Deane Bryant and Clar-
ence Moore, respectively, in the
only changes necessitated by vaca-
lions and previous commitments
by those three of the original cast.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15

two seats for the opening night,
Monday, September %, for "St,
Helena"
The names of the judges in this
essay contest will be announced to-
morrow.
The winning essay will be read
from the stage after the opening
night of "St. Helena"
Now about "St. Helena" Max
Gordon's production will ring up
the curtain on Washington'S
dramatic season on Monday eve
ming, September %. The play has
been based by r. c. Sheriff.
author of Journeys End" and
Jeanne de CasaliS, on the last
days of Napoleon.
GREAT PLAY PROMISED
Maurice Evans. who scored q
great personal success last season
playing opposite katharine Cor
nell in Romeo and Juliet" and
Saint JOAN" will enact the role
of the exiled emperor. Previous
to his New York debut Mr.. Evans
had been acclaimed as one Of the
leading young British actors
through his performances as Ham.
let and Richard II at the Old Wv.
He played the role Of young
Raleigh throughout the London
engagement of Journeys End"
Rosamond Pinchot will have the
feminine lead.
"St. Helena" will be directed by
Robert B. Sinclair and designed
by 10 Mielziner. Sinclair has
staged such outstanding produc-
tons as "Dodsworth" and pride
and Prejudice" while Mielziner
was responsible for the settings of
'Dodsworth," THE Barretts of
Wimpole Street." pride and
Prejudice" Romeo and Juliet"
and Saint JOAN" to name only 0
few productions. "St. Helena"
will be the third Max Gordon pro.
duction on which they have cox
Elaborated.
The Washington engagement Of
est. Helena" will be limited to one
week at the National TheateE
prior to the New York premier.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15

throne is gun to play with. 1t
nearly stops his weak heart but
the lads joy over his new play
thing makes one of the most
touching scenes in the picture.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, consid-
cred by many England's No. /
actor and knighted as such in
1884, plays the Earl Of Warwick
and gives magnificent perform
ance.
ENGLAND CAN CROW
Romance and tragedy have been
deity blended in the scenario and
a very able cast of all-English
actors give this story both power
and the genuine illusion of real
ity. They are helped by some
striking palace sets and hundreds
of period costumes.
Robert Stevenson's direction Is
lively and is constantly capable
in maintaining an atmosphere of
dignity and manners and in bal
ancing moods.
Nine Days a Queen" is ex-
tremely likely to get on most Of
the Ten Best Lists of 1886. Eng
land crows so often over mere
china eggs am happy to see
them produce one that has SUBJ
stance. The picture comes to the
Earle theater for a weeks en-
gagement Friday.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
Chan
Due Friday

"Charlie Chan at the Race
Track" Twentieth Century-Fox
Picture, opens Friday at Loew's
Columbia Theater.
Hailed as one of the most thrill
ing of Charlie Chan pictures, War
ner GLAND again plays Earl Derr
Biggers' willy detective, with Keyo
Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck,
Alan Dinehart and Gavin Muir
also featured in the cast.
The film opens with roar of
excitement at the Melbourne race
track in Australia where Ava
lanche, the odds-on favorite, loses
the sweepstakes through the opera
tons of a huge gambling syndicate.
Faced with the most battling
case of his career, Charlie Chan
races neck and neck with death
to the finish line-in a climax
said to be the most exciting and
thrill packed of all the Charlie
Chan adventures.
H. Bruce Thunderstorm directed
"Charlie Chan at the Race Track"
with John Stone associate pro-
Queer.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15


Ever since December Z, 1885,
the National Theater has had its
doors open to the finest the
drama has had to offer and prac-
tically every artist Of stage re-
nown has trod its boards.
In commemoration Of the years
devoted to the theatergoerS of
Washington, The w shin g ton
Times, in association with the
National Theater, will conduct an
essay contest on the subject:
THE NATIONAL THEATER-
WHAT IT HAS MEANT TO
WASHINGTON TIL z T ERGO
Frs and THE REASON THE
WING, SPEAKING STAGE,
WILL ALWAYS BE WITH U.s."
The contest is open to everyone
excepting the employees OF The
Washington Times and the thea
ter, the essays not to exceed 200
words, to be neatly written, and
mailed to s. e. Cochran, Manager,
National Theater. Closing date
for entries is midnight, September
%.
WRITE SHORT ESSAY
Those interested in the essay
will naturally, be theatergoers, so
it has Appropriately been decided
that the writer Of the best essay
selected by a jury of prominent
citizens, will be awarded a season
pass emitting him or her to two
seats in every play presented dur
ing the season.
There will be a second prize of
two seats for each Of the first 10
plays.
Third prize will call for two
seats to the first five plays.
Fourth prize two seats for the
first two plays, and for the next
six best essays. approved by the
judges, the winners will receive
The Washington times., 1936-09-15

GRAND LITTLE ACTRESS
Lady Jane Grey was the little
queen who reigned for nine days
over the destinies of England,
between the death of the pitiful
boy monarch, Edward VI, and the
accession Of Bloody Mary. The
gentle and sweet Lady Jane
marched bravely to the gullotine
when the Earl Of Warwick's coup
d'etat turned out to be high
treason.
Gaumont- British gives us sixteen
year-old Nova Pilbeam to play the
unhappy girl queen. She is
petite actress of tremendous gifts
but little beauty. Her dark eyes
are set far apart, she has a large
mouth, uneven teeth and a not
too pretty nose. But she has
oddles of personality and the pre-
ciouS art of being able to visualize
emotion as though she really felt
them.
Then again you may see the
first boy to come along who really
offers a challenge to the cultured
youth, Freddy Bartholomew. This
new juvenile is Desmond Tester,
a youngster whose speech is just
as precise and refined as Freddy's.
He is the most unSpoiled and ma
tural little king you ever saw and
they permit him to express him
self as boy might.
First thing King Edward VI
wants when he aScendS to the
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
Industry Sustains IrreparabIe Loss
In Death of Irving c. ThaIberq

stars to share honors in their fea-
lures.
It was Irving Thalberg who
Steered his wife'S deStinies and
the most flattering tribute to his
success in this labor of love is
that Norma Shearer has never
made an unsuccessful picture
either artiStically or financially
can lay legitimate claims to the
title First Lady of Hollywood, :"
with her entry as Juliet.
UNIVERSALLY RESPECTED
1t would be possible to fill pages
with truthful words Of praise for
Irving Thalberg, since he was gen.
orally recognized as the modest
power behind the production
throne of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer,
whose work was glorieusly reflected
on the profit pages Of his COM
pany's ledgers.
Uncle Carl Lemmle once told me
over quick breakfast about the
brilliant talents Of his son. "He
has," said Carl, ST., great eXecu-
tive ability, can delegate work,
recognizes stars in the bud, knows
production costs and has learned
this business from the bottom up.
The Senior Laemmle paused in his
peroration of Junior, thought a
minute, and then added. You
know some day he's going to be
another Thalberg. 1t was the
highest possible hope a father
could express for a beloved son.
That was how the motion pic
ture industry and rival producers
regarded Irving G. Thalberg. He
will, indeed, be missed.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
This and That

Gold tickets for everybody at
the opening of the 101st season of
the National Theater, Monday
night, September %.
Zone Manager John j. Payette,
of Warner Bros, returned to his
desk for a few hours yesterday,
took a trip down the river. Com
pletely recovered. Congratula-
lions.
Katharine Cornell's opening
here in Maxwell Anderson's
"Wingless Victory" has been
moved back to November "a. It
will be the first performance of
the play.
Ran into Judge Mattingly's
birthday ice cream twice yester
day. And each time very tasty.
Long live the judge.
For the souvenir, booklet, pic
ture frame and album combined
many thanks Frank La Falce.
Messrs. Payette ct ais. A perma-
nent memento of the Anthony
Adverse" Congressional Country
Club preview well worth saving.
Within several weeks the worlds
mot famous rodent, Mickey
Mouse, will be eight years old.
Since Mickey is such a univer-
sally loved character, organizations
throughout the world are planning
Loew's PAIGE Theater is plan
ming a special Mickey Mouse
birthday party for local kiddies,
and adults, too. This event will
take the form of a matinee on
Saturday, September 26,
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
ZaSu Pitts Signed To
Top |DanqIinq Pearl

Officials at RKO Radio scored
a ten-Strike in the field of fun re-
Gently when they signed ZaSu
Pitts, Hollywood's famous "jittery
coincidence" for the top role op-
posite Jimmy Gleason in THE
Riddle of the Dangling Pearl"
She will play the role of Hide
garde Withers, first brought to
the screen by Edna May Oliver,
with Gleason once again appear
ing as Inspector Oscar Piper.
THE Riddle of the Dangling
Pearl" adapted to the screen by
Jack Townley and Clarence Up
son Young, is another farce MUIR
der mystery in the popular series
authored by Stuart Palmer.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
'Informer'o at
The Little

La Cucaracha," featuring
Steffi Duna, most recently seen
here in THE Dancing Pirate, ="
heads the list of short subjects at
the Little Theater. where THE
Informer" inaugurates the first
anniversary of the original re-
vival house.
The first picture made in the
newly-perfected Technicolor pro-
cess (Which was later utilized in
Becky Sharpe" and The Dane
The Washington times., 1936-09-15
ENGLAND SENDS GOOD ONE
Nova PiIbeom as Girl Queen,
Sir Cedric Hordwicke, Star
In Grade A Picture
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

"Nine Days Queen" the best picture have
issue from England.
everything except lot of hghpowered movie for the
Earle Theaters electric signs All the actors in it better
known the House of Parliament than they Thirteenth
Street.
Let commend the story Of Lady Jane Grey the highest
degree liked much better than the Overraed burlesque
of pomp and pageantry called Private Life of Henry WILL
and HOLLYWOOD studio would be proud to own it.
The Washington times., 1936-09-15

I never met Irving G. Thalberg,
out in 10 years of reviewing his
Hollywood effort I came to know
his mark as synonymous with
merit.
Few will dispute that the No. l
production post Of the motion pic.
ture industry has been left vacant
by his untimely passing.
Metro Goldwyn Mayors vice
president in charge of production
was q remarkable man in many
respects. The much abused word,
genius, might well describe his
abundant talent. Yet in close to
10 years as motion picture editor
I never knew Irving Thalberg to
seek or induce personal puff
for himself. And he might readily
have had pages of flattering words
by making the slightest gesture.
He seemed to prefer having his
screen product establish the Thai
berg hallmark.
Irving Thalberg began his movie
career as the secretary or Stenog-
rapher to Carl Laemmle, of Uni
versal. In the STRIPPING youth,
Laemmle recognized an amazing
ability and soon he was general
manager and director Of the Uni
versal studio.
Greater opportunity led him
to ally with Louis B. Mayer, of
M-G-M, and it proved a happy and
prosperous association. Under the
guiding hand of Thalberg the
studios produced such epics as
1.-THE Big Parade" "Barretts of
Wimpole Street." David Copper
field" "Mutiny on the Bounty"
and the current success, Romeo
and Juliet"
AMAZED INDUSTRY
However, it was in the establish
ment of policies destined to take
his company to the greatest
heights that the name Thalberg
spelled achievement. He was the
first sponsor of the "Re-Take."
This was the costly but successful
plan of revising pictures after the
studio preview and polishing up
apparent flaws.
Most companies completed pic
lures, dismissed the cast and. good
or bad, releaS ed them to ex-
hibitors. The Thalberg method re-
vised all this. Either they were
good enough to bear the M-G-M
label or they stayed on the shelf.
The practical value of his re-take
or re-make policy was well illus
trated with "Sin of Madelon Clau-
det." AS first completed by the
studio this Helen Hayes starring
feature was a terrific diSappoint-
ment. With careful re-editlng and
new scenes it became one Of the
company's greatest successes, won
Miss Hayes the Academy gold
medal.
Caught Short" another Polly
Moran-Marie DresSler feature,
was another transformed by the
Thalberg magic from dust gath
erer on the shelf to a sensation
ally successful comedy.
Thalberg, it was, who changed
the accepted Hollywood idea that
one good star was enough for
any feature. He recognized early
that the burden of carrying a
picture to success is an acting
way required more than the aver
age star could contribute. So
again he amazed the industry by
grouping stars. putting five and
six top flight names in a single
celluloid and turning out such
glittering marquee flashes as
"Grand HOTEL" utilizing Carlo.
Crawford Berry, etc.
Actors and actresses enjoyed
working under the Thalberg ban
ner, for it invariably assured a
gilt-edged supporting cast. Other
companies envied the M-G-M sue
cess in inducing temperamental