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The Washington times., 1936-09-22

Moviegoers are paying in
creased prices at the box office
without grumbling. Loew's will
raise the Palace Theater morn
ing and afternoon scale for "The
Great ziegfeld" TO 40 cents, with
the night prices as usual. War
ner Bros. has tilted the ante at
the Metropolitan Theater for
Anthony Adverse" and got a
higher scale for this picture at
the Ambassador At the Eight
eenth and Columbia Road aristo-
crat of movies not single kick
was registered over the advanced
scale. 1t is Mrs. Sam Davis
opinion positively not mlne)
that the Earle should drop vau-
deville for good and give us
movies like Anthony Adverse"
all of the time. Freddy Clark
and myself will get out on a
soapbox and campaign on the
street corners before we'll let
them do this to vaudeville AS
a matter of fact vaudeville put
the Earle in the money and be-
sides they can't get box office
pictures like Anthony Adverse"
every week. nor even every
month.
VARIETY'S LUNCHEON
Variety Clubs first annual fall
luncheon yesterday was a hum
dinger. With Attorney General
Homer s. Cummings providing the
forensics and Don zelaya as the
entertainer headliner Carter
Barron tried his best to open the
first course promptly at p. m. so
that the exit gavel would come
down at sharp. He lost out by
IL minutes but it was a good start
Johnny Payette, a trifle wan
but recovered from his recent op-
Grafton, was at the head table .
The guest of honor had an almost
spill getting down from the
speakers table but escaped with
out losing his nose glasses Mr..
Cummings was amused to see both
exhibitors and distributors break
ing bread harmoniously. Usually
these movie factions are at each
others throats when their troubles
arrive at the Department of Justice
dooIs Division Manager Sam
CALAMITY, of Columbia, has bet
$500 against $1,000 on Roosevelt.
Is looking for more at the same
odds Attorney General Com.
mings closed by wishing the movie
men all kinds of luck, promising
to have the Weather Bureau co.
operate and hoped the critical
fraternity will be kind Well
the critical fraternity has one
member in the Dog House" now
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright. 1895, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc }

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 22.-The
untimely demise of Irving Thai
berg has more than upset many
of the plans at M.-G.-M. The Marx
brothers picture, and, as you may
remember, he was the reason for
their return to the screen, is com.
pletely up in the air, with no guild
ing hand to lead them. May
time" which was being vaguely
shot off the cuff, is also being
held up, as is Marie Antoinette," !"
depending entirely on whether
Miss Shearer decides she will ever
again return to the screen, which
we sincerely hope she will, be-
cause work is the greatest anodyne
for grief.
The Cuban government is cen
Soring all neWSreel shots Of the
Spanish rebellion, for a very good
reason. They don't want to fire
their own temperamentally mind
ed people with similar ideas, with
a repeat of some Of their own revo-
lutions they have had there in the
past.
The English Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals is
far more rigid than our American
organization. It cut all the Sc
quences from Bing Crosby's
Rhythm on the Range" showing
the bulldogging of steers. A few
years ago, as you may remember,
a complete rodeo was taken to
London as a great novelty, and
was cancelled Immediately after
the first days performance, be-
cause the society felt that the ami
mails were being maltreated. Eng
land, however, is the great fox
hunting country.
valiant is the Word for Car,
rie" turns out to be one Of the
really great pictures, which is a
tribute to Wesley Ruggles, the dl-
rector, and to Gladys George and
Airline Judge, the stars. When it
was first previewed up north, in
Burlingame, over-length, the au-
dience was asked on their preview
cards to designate what they
thought could best be cut out.
Ninety-eight per cent of the replies
said that, if even so much as a
foot was cut out, they would feel
that Paramount had lost its mind.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
Grey Mare With Sex
Appeal Has Film Bid

Wanted: One dappled grey
mare with sex appeal. Must be
beautiful, spirited, and have lot
of personality. If found, commu-
nicate with Chester Franklin,
Paramount director, at Para
mounts Hollywood studio.
And that is no kidding. Frank
lin has a motion picture contract
in his pocket for such an animal.
He needs the mare for his lead
ing lady" in his coming picture,
wilderness"
It turns out that Franklin has
tentatively selected his equine
hero-but he has yet to find the
love interest.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
Miss Hepburn to Age
TWENTY Years in Film

Katharine Hepburn will bridge
the gap between 18 and 38 years
in her current RKO Radio pic
ture, Portrait of a Rebel" in
which she costars with Herbert
Marshall.
The transition will be made
through the medium of hair-dress.
ing, costuming and subtle lines
and shadows, which mature but
do not age a woman'S face dur
ing those years from youth to
full womanhood.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
KELLEYGRAMS

80 I recommend a BE Kind to
Critics" week for exhibitors
Anyway, it was a bang-up luncheon
with a record turnout as a tribute
to Carter Barron, who was the
King-for Day.
FORREST ORR WINS
Congratulations to Forrest Orr,
of the Steve Cochran alumni,
who got himself a nice fat role
in RED Hot and Blue" the Ethel
Merman-Jimmy Durante musical
which expects to go the full sea-
son on Broadway and opens Octo-
Der 81. .Leneta Lane, another Of
the Cochran alumni opened in
Timber House" at the Longacre
Theater on Saturday night. Leneta
got some nice notices, but the
show was panned. .Theater-goers
who lick Gilbert Miller produc-
tions will have a chance to see
his latest by journeying to Balti-
more next week. It is an English
importation called "ToraVich," "
with John Halliday in the leading
role. Arthur Hopkins promises
Washington and the National The
ater a glimpse Of his first play
of the new season. This would be
the Sophie Treadwell play about
Edgar Allan Poe with Henry Hull
in the title role. It is called "Nep-
enthe" and Is due here November
q. Playwright Sophie Treadwell
is the widow Of Bill Mcclellan,
famous New York sports writer.
ZELAYA AS GUEST
Harry s. Brown of Grand Ma
tional Pictures writes that Holly
wood Scribblers and this corner
are all wet in saying that I'm His
Steps," will have another name
when it shows on the screen. The
picture made from the famous
Sheldon book is completed and
will be released under its original
title. Branch manager Brown
hopes to show it to critics within
a few days. Don Zelaya will be
the honor guest at a Mexican EN-
bassy reception on Thursday
afternoon. A high toned head
liner, no less. Harry Richman
is scheduled to tell the folks all
about his cross the ocean flight
on the Ken Murray radio pro
gram at 7:30 tonight . The long
legged boys tried out the Rialto's
new seats yesterday 1t twilight
Glen D. Holiday of 2503 Four
teenth stretched his six foot eight
and one-half inches without touch
ing the next door neighbor. He
won a season pass for two for be
ing farthest from the ground.
Runner-up was Maurice Baer g1ver
a pass for one.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22

SOME CHANGES COMING
Last years winners were in this
order:
l. Shirley Temple.
2. Will Rogers.
3. Clark Gable.
4. Fred AStaire and Ginger
Rogers.
5. Joan Crawford.
6. Claudette Colbert.
7. Dick Powell.
8. Wallace Beery.
8. Joe. E. Brown.
10. James Cagney.
If one may be forgiven for doing
a bit of prognosticating it looks as
though Shirley Temple and AS
taire and Rogers will be found
fighting it out for top honors this
year.
The baby Duse'S pictures draw
top business not only in first run
houses but in the neighborhood To-
cations. Astaire and Rogers are
also pets of the small town patron
age.
Somebody will have to move
down the list and give Jeanette
Macdonald a place in the top
brackets. San Francisco" and
Rose Marie" have doomed her
stock with exhibitors.
William Powell was No. Is last
year and there is every indication
he will move up to the coveted cir
Gle. Myrna 10y was No. % last
year and is also scheduled to ad-
vance.
Mr.. Deeds Goes to Town" will,
according to the dopesterS, ride
Gary Cooper higher in the list. He
was 81 last poll.
Interesting will be the result of
the exhibitors poll on Robert
Taylor. He didn't get one vote in
last years poll. But to tell the
truth the current feminine rage
had only been seen in the Crime
Doesn't Pay" series Of shorts and
in some inconsequential pictures,
in which he played unimportant
roles. Today Mr.. Taylor'S name
means something on the marquee.
The late Will Rogers NAV per-
form the amazing feat OF remain
ing on the list through the reissue
CT his pictures. The Will Rogers
features are still tremendously
popular everywhere, and partic-
ularly in the small towns. In fact,
the Twentieth Century-Fox COM
pany demands percentages on
"State Fair" just as though it
we're a new release. Not only de-
mands these terms, but gets them.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
PICKING THE WINNERS
Temple, Astoire and Rogers
Are Battling for the Lead
In Annual Movie Poll
BY ANDREW R. KELLEY

Eleven thousand independent movie exhibitors of the United
States voting the Ten Best Money Making Stars
determined by the theater box offices from September
1885 to September l, 1886
Every in Hollywood wants to get in the charmed ten
circle high up this list 1t contracts generally
revised upwards for the lucky who win public favor
Motion Picture Herald takes this poll annually and the
Hollywood acting world it is important than all the COM
bined straw ballots the national election.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22
Prison Riot

One of the most sensational
prison riots ever filmed is a high
light of the dramatic "We Who
Are About To Die" RKO Radio
film featuring Preston Foster and
Ann DVorak.
The Washington times., 1936-09-22

so I recommend a BE Kind to
Critics" week for exhibitors {.
Anyway, it was bang-up luncheon
with a record turnout as q, tribute
to Carter Barron, who was the
King-for Day.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
ANTHRACITE
PACT LOOMS

NEW YORK, April "a GN.S0.
Predictions of success in current
negotiations to replace the pres
ent work-wage anthracite pact
were voiced today by participants
m the extended conferences be-
tween mine union representatives
and operators which have been
in progress more than two months.
Inability of the conferees to ap-
prove an agreement to supplant
the contract which expired March
81 resulted in an extension of that
contract to April 30.
A. B. Jessup, vice president Of
Of Jeddo- Highland Coal Company,
a member of the operators COM
mittee, said that the confereeS
are now working on new agree
ment, terms of which he declined
to disclose, and that "the chances
are that it will be accepted"
John L. Lewis, international
vice president Of the United Mine
workers of America, previously
had said the miners would not
agree to another extension Of the
expired contract. In this connec-
ton, JeSSup said:
Zone thing is certain, and
that is that we are going to
get somewhere soon. There isn't
going to be any suspension in
the industry if we can help it.
The suspension of 1925 was too
awful. Everything was shut
: down for six months"
Demands of the miners include
a wage increase, 30-hour week,
equalization of working time and
a union checkoff.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES

Muse and his contemporaries for
their unseemly criticism directed
at our First Lady.
They choose such an under.
handed and malicious way. trying
to play on the ignorance and
narrow-mindedness Of our South
ern people (if any are that ig.
norant). 1t makes my Southern
blood boil with rage that one hail
ing from this sunny land should
stoop to such IneanneSS. Chivalry
has long been q tradition here, and
such a blow 1t sometimes suffers
at the hands Of such unScruplous
persons puts the Southerner at o
disadvantage.
He boasts Of the supremacy Of
the white race. Supremacy in
deed! No egotiSt Is supreme.
Are we then a race Of bigoted
cyclists that we can't be seen with
our colored brethren. who are. even
as we, a manifestation of Life?
Mrs. Roosevelt is so far above
such mean attacks that no harm
will be done. Quite the contrary.
It viii serve as q boomerang, point
her out and set her aside as one
of the greatest humanitarianS this
country has ever produced. In the
words Of one Of the great philoSo-
pliers, the truly great. such as Mrs.
Roosevelt, needs no race or creed.
(Mrs.) r. c. SELF.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
IMPORTS
INDICATEU.S.
RECOVERY
International New, Service

INTERNATIONAL NeWS service
The United States Chamber OF
Commerce today reported ere.
covery indicator" in the list OF
American imports for last year
It was diamonds-the diamond
imports. The report said:
indicative Of recovery in the
United States may be found in
the record imports Of dia-
mOnds, both for adornment
and for industrial purposes.
Our imports for 1885 amounted
to 1865 caratS, by far the
largest quantity ever imported"
Three factors were largely re-
SponSible for the heavy increase
in Americas import trade last
year, the chamber said. They
were non-resort by this country
to wide arbitrary controls of i'm
port trade; returning domestic
industrial activity, and the scare
ity and high price levels Of some
foodStuffs.
The chamber said that meas
ured by value. nearly 90 per cent
of 100 chief imports were larger
than in 1884. Measured by guam
tity. Sc per cent Of our leading
imports exceeded the 1884 fig
ureS. A number Of all-time high
marks were established by indi-
vidual commodities during the
year, MANY of the increases were
in agricultural products.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
Indignant Ooer DirkSen
Parking Suggestion

To the Editor Of The Times:
For Washington's Public En-
envy No. /, I nominate a Con.
gresham named Dirksen who
proposes, apparently seriously, to
turn Franklin Square and other
downtown parks into parking
lots.
II any one can offer a less in.
telligent proposal than that one
I should like to know what it is.
Four hundred and Fifty thou.
sand WaShingtonians are to swell
ter in the summer suns latter
Representative Dirksen has gone
home) deprived of shade and the
oxygen purifying balm of trees
in order that q few dozen own
erS Of SuperfluouS cars may have
cheap parking at public expense.
I do not know who or what
Representative DirkSen repre-
sentS or what section of the
country he comes from, but am
sure that the sooner he returns
to it permanently the better
Washington residents will be
pleased.
It is a commentary on our
grotesque system Of local gov
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
VA. u. STUDENT
IS DEAD

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April
24.-Mann Page, 81, nephew of
DR.. Thomas Walker Page, of
Washington, D. c., member of the
United States Tariff Commission
and q first-year student in the
medical department at the Uni
versity of Virginia, died early
today in University Hospital
from an infection resulting from
maStoiditis.
He&was the second son of Mrs.
Eleanor Page and the late DR..
James Morris Page, who, for many
years, was dean of the university.
Besides his mother, he is survived
by Mrs. Robert Parrish, of Rich
mond. Mrs. Nelson Daniel, of New
port News, and Miss Anne Page,
sisters; and John Cary Page, a
pupil in Episcopal High School.
at Alexandria, and John Morris
Page, jr.. of Caspar, Wyo., brothers.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
4 YOUTHS HELD
IN ROBBERY

Four colored juveniles were ar
rested last night by Fourth pre-
cinct police after they are alleged
to have knocked down and robbed
a 61-year-old man in the 800 block
E st. S. w. All were booked for
investigation and sent to the Re-
ceiving Home.
They are said to have knocked
down Arthur F. Elmendorf, 81, a
carpenter, of I'LL Park Pl. N. E.,
and robbed him of So. Policemen
j. A. Moore and H. w. Beechner,
Fourth precinct radio car crew.
saw the boys running and took
them into custody. They said the
money was recovered.
Richard H. Anderson was held
up and robbed of $40 by four
men who drove into the gasoline
station Anderson manages at
4812 Conduit Rd., late yesterday.
One of the men was armed.
They escaped in an automobile.
Two colored men armed with
knives held up Lloyd Snyder, As,
in front Of his home at 1850
Tenth st. N. w. last night and
robbed him of $31.
Edward j. Wright, Sc, Of 461
P st. N. w.. was robbed of $4.73
and a gold watch early today by
two colored men, one holding
him while the other went through
his pockets.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
LEGION BACKS
ALIEN EXILE

The executive committee Of the
District Of Columbia Department
of the American Legion, meeting
last night in the board room of
the District Building, unanimous.
ly Endorsed the Reynolds-Starnes
bill, which makes mandatory the
deportion Of alien criminals.
The committee set the trail for
legion posts throughout the coun-
try by being the first to indorse
this bill in lieu of the Kerr-Cool-
idge bill, which would set up an
inter-departmental board to pass
on deportation cases.
The resolution indorsing the
Reynolds bill was introduced by
Lieut.. Horace w. Lineburg, of the
police crime-prevention bureau,
who is chairman of the local
legion Americanization committee.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24
Transport Pilot
Backs Airport Drive

To the Editor Of The Times:
read with interest your edi-
torials on the need Of a decent
airport here in Washington. They
are very good, and I sincerely hope
you continue to publish such arti-
cles.
Being q transport pilot, I, no
doubt, appreciate your interest in
seeing to it that the unfavorable
conditions at Washington Hoover
Airport are eliminated.
w. D. OWENS.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24

eminent that q person so lack
ing in q sense Of relative values
should be in q public position to
even offer his preposterous sug-
gestion.,
II no other consideration were
involved except property values
does he not realize that literally
millions of dollars Of deprecia-
ton Of down town property
would follow this automatic
Transforming Of whole regions
into slum areaS2
II Mr.. Dirksen wants to do
something constructive to justify
his position on the District Com
mittee let him use his influence
to get an adequate maintenance
fund to tend and preserve our
parks.
To weed and water and trim
and clean them. and likewise to
clean our disgracefully dirty
streets, which incidentally would
help materially to reduce the
unemployment problem by put
ting a small army Of men at
useful and continuous work.
THERESA RUSSELL.
The Washington times., 1936-04-24

To the Editor Of The Times:
I suppose mine will be one Of
many protests aroused by Vance
Evening star., 1936-05-27

among her passengers Count George
Potocki, new Polish Ambassador to the
United States.
The Batory is sister ship to the Pill
sudski, which entered trans Atlantic
service last September. Both ships
were built by Italy on a barter basis
and are being paid for with s6 1000. 900
worth Of coal, to be shipped by Poland
to Italian railways over a fve-year
period.
The liner was scheduled to dock
about pm. Eastern standard time)
The Batory will dock in Hoboken.
Newton D. Baker. Secretary Of War
under President Wilson. will head the
official Reception Committee, with Col.
Edward M. House. Wilson'S adviser, as
honorary chairman. The American
Hostess Committee greeting the ship
Is headed by Secretary of Labor Fran
ces Perkins.
Tomorrow night there will be an
official reception and dinner aboard the
ship. Senator Joseph F. Guffey of
Pennsylvania and Joseph A. Broderick,
governor of the Federal Reserve Board,
are listed as principal speakers.
Evening star., 1936-05-27
JAPAN ASKS RIGHT
TO AMEND TREATY
Seeks to Retain Submarines
Above Limit Allowed
by Pact.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 27.--Japan has
made q conditional demand for the
right to retain the submarines she
built above the limit permitted by the
London naval treaty.
On behalf of his government, Kei-
nosuke Fujii, counsellor of the. Japa-
nese Embassy, presented this demand
yesterday to the British government.
The Japanese act was in answer to
Great Britain's recent request to
Washington and Toxic for permission
to break the treaty's limitations on
destroyers.
The japanese were understood to
have said that If the British retained
10000 excess tens of destroyers Japan
and the other signatories Of the treaty
should have q free hand in dealing
with the excess tonnage they propose
to retain. ....
'(The signatories of the London
naval treaty of 1880 are the United
States. Great Britain, Japan, France
and Italy)
The answer Fujii gave to the for
eign Office concerned the British note
of May in which Great Britain
spoke of her 10000 tons of destroyers
doomed to the scrapheap before De-
ceinber 81 unless Japan and the
United States agreed to waive the
limitations on these auxiliary craft.
Authorities said that If the destroy
er, submarine and cruiser limitations
were waived the 1880 treaty would
become mere scrap of paper, since
1t differed from the Washington treaty
of 1922 in that powers were supposed
to destroy excess tonnage at the end
of the treaty period rather than at
the beginning.
Evening star., 1936-05-27
STEAMSHIPS.

MEDITERRANEAN and all Europe-De
Luxe service on famous express liners via
the smooth Southern Route.
ITALIAN LINE. ga 9Th Ave. New York.
WEST INDIES AND CARIBBEAN GUEST
cruises every week with the Great White
Fleet. II and 1S days. SI.J and I'D. Ap-
ply Travel AGENTS or United Fruit Co.. Pier
3. North River. New York City.
Evening star., 1936-05-27

Argentina Uses Threshers.
Nearly 500 threshing combines were
placed on farms of Argentina in the
last year.
Evening star., 1936-05-27

practically the same number Of people
as In 1929. ."
Walter G. Teagle, president, said
the Standard Oil Co. Of New Jersey
now employed more men than In 1929
and had made no change IN the
hours or wages provided by the code.
Meat Packers Industry.
william Whitfield Woods. president
Of the Institute Of American Meat
Packers: Wage and hour standards
are being maintained. I"
A. L. viles. president Of the Rubber
Manufacturers Association: Rubber
industry generally has maintained
code wages and hours. Several wage
increases made during code period still
In effect and hourly wage rates today
are higher than in 1929. Employment
has increased, ."
s. p. Munroe, assistant to the pres
ident, Cotton Textile Institute: "Gov-
ernment reports and figures evidence
a high degree Of observance of basic
wage and hour standards former code.
Over 80 per cent of the industry Is CO.
operating in such matters"
Evening star., 1936-05-27

cluding two hreboats, fought the
blaze four hours before 1t was sub
dued.
Great clouds Of smoke rolled up
over the southeast section Of the
city Is the flames spread. Ships
anchored in the channel were cut
adrift by their crews as the IRE raced
toward them.
Brennan estimated the damage at
$500, 900, or slightly less.
Rail trafic to peninsula communi-
ties to the south was delayed more
than two hours. Thousands Of COM
muters had to walk or take taxicabs
out of the danger area.