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Evening star., 1936-12-14

man, Marguerets Nordstrom, Leo
Brady, Henry Quirk, John Chadwick
and Edgar Kloten.
4 = 4
THE American University Dramatic
Club Is putting finishing touches
on Dear Brutus," the Barrie play to
be presented tomorrow night at the
gymnasium on the campus.
Jean Miller, o Western High School
graduate and now q freshman al
American u, will play the feminine
lead and Samuel Kicker win appear
opposite her. Others taking part will
be Nellie Strong, Richard Hummer,
Betty Stephan. Catherine Knockey,
Virginia ONO, Homer Patton and Ed
ward Thrasher. The cast Is being
directed by VIII Hutchins, professor Of
art and dramatic coach.
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THE program marking the end Of
the Fall term Of the National
Academy Of Stage Training will be
presented In the Academy Theater
Thursday, Friday and Saturday eve
nings. Short plays, monologues and
pantomime by the students win be
on the bill the flrst two evenings, and
Saturday night will be devoted to o
dance Interpretation by the physical
grace class and to the Russian ballet
group OF the dance department.
STUDENTS Of the King-Smith
Studio School will entertain 200
children from the Fairgrounds and
Neighborhood House Wednesday after
noon with . workshop performance
of "Pinocchio," popular marionette
play The Washington Players,
who were invited by the Community
Center Department to repeat their
playing OF Dickens "A Christmas
Carol" this year, have decided to
postpone the production until next
season Members Of the city,s
drama groups have been invited by
the Chapel Players to take part in
the 1896 presentations Of THE Other
Wise Man." to be staged for the
twelfth consecutive year at Luther
Place Memorial Church, December a.,
20 and 20 -. The Washington Civic
Theater has obtained exclusive WASH
ington rights to Sinclair Lewis con-
troversial play. "It Can't Happen
Here" which Hollywood bought and
then dropped in fear and trembling
and will present the play during
Inauguration week Students of
the National Academy Of Stage Train
ing are planning to present q play
every week during the next term.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Internationally" at $50 pm.
Capitol-"Banjo on My Knee" at
i0:45 am, 1885, 4:25, tbs and 1905
pm. Stage shows at 1885, 1925, 6:15
and 9:o5 pm.
Earle-"Pennies From Heaven" at
ii am, 1885, 4:20, tbs and 1905
pm. Stage shows at 1890, 800, 6:15
and 9 pm.
Palace-"Born to Dance" at 11:55
en-, 2:2o, 4:5O, tbs and $40 pm.
Belasco-"Love in Exile" at 1880
an. 1:1S, 3:23, 5:33, 7:43 and 9:53
pm. "Life Of Edward VIII" at 1920,
e:3o, 4:40. $50, 9 and 11:10 pm.
R-K.O Keith's-"Rembrandt," at
aI:57 am, 1:4o, 3:43, 5:46, TAO and
e:52 pm.
Columbia-"Come and Get It." at
30, 7:25, 4:50, 7:10 and 9:S5 pm.
Metropolitan Theodore Goes
Wild" at IL am, 1:o5, 3:15, $40,
R:3o and $40 pm.
Rialto-"There's Always Tomor-
row." at 2:1o, 3:59, SAB, 7:48 and
p:48 pm.
Lhtle-"Berkeley Square," at II
an, 12:48. 2:36, 4:24, 6:12, 8 and
p:3s pm.
Ambassador pennies From
Heaven" at 6:15. 8 and Gas pm.
Tfvoli-"Libeled Lady," at 2, 3:55,
$50, 7:50 and GAS pm.
H0ward-'The Captains Kid" at
1850. 3, $50, 8 and 1920 pm. Stage
shows ut lao, 4:10, $40 and 9:10 pm.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Civic Theater Dramatists
Brave 'Petrified Forest
Newest of Capitals Drama Groups Brings
Leslie Howard Vehicle First
Time in Stage Form.
BY HARRY MaeARTHUR.

thing youI have say about the Washington Civic The
afraid Of beas-or plays written especially the
L .
It rather generally Peined
with Leslie Civic
Evening star., 1936-12-14
GETS JOB IN MOVIES
AFTER TWO STRIKES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf. December Il.
June Martel, pretty New York mu-
sical comedy player, failed twice to
break into the movies. But now she
has succeeded and Is signed to 0
contract.
Born in Chicago, she made her
professional debut as Q night club
singer. Then she came to Hollywood.
Her option was allowed to expire after
. frst picture. She got another job,
and again. she said. she failed to
register.
After several years absence. she has
been brought back for THE Love
Trap" q B. p. Schulberg picture. and
has gone under contract to Para
mount.
Everybody gets three strikes" Miss
Martel philosophical.
Evening star., 1936-12-14

the audience. The moon has q black
velvet back which cannot be seen
from where you are sitting. It keeps
Lady Peel as snug and safe as she
would be in her London home. Every
one can stop worrying, for Mr.. Min
nelii is never going to have star fall
out Of a moon. 1t would be bad as
stronomy, but even worse business In
view of his current stake In Miss
Lille.
ExCEPT in fiction, or journalism
school lectures, you never heard
Of newspaper man who just could
not stop writing when the days work
was done. Not even in fiction have
you read of q blacksmith who went
on shoeing horses for the sheer fun
Of it. But professional dancers go
right on dancing. The nice and tai
ented Vernons, for example. The
Pail Mall rooms Jim and Elizabeth
were the two who danced until dawn
at Pete Macias' Heigh-Ho Sunday
morning. They are the pair who
trucked and hoped and did everything
else so well that Localities stopped eat
ing, dancing. ETC., to applaud. A young
man bound for New York in a dinner
jacket stayed home to watch, was
rewarded by learning how to do a
backward truck, spent the early dawn
practicing on the broad, deserted pave
ment of Connecticut avenue.
Irene Juno was there, smiling every
time any one said anything nice about
Miss Betty Hartz. Smiling constantly,
so to speak.
TO THE dancing, singing, comedy,
and whimsicality current on local
screens, seriousness will be added to-
morrow. It will be at Keith's and 1t
is called I'VE Who Are About to Die"
It is based upon David Lamson's book
Of the same name. The book was
written while Lamson was in prison
on the charge of wife-murder, for
which he was convicted once. later
freed.
Then, Of course, there Is Walter
Huston in "Othello" at the National
tonight. That's serious, too. And
likely to be a sellout.
BY Friday those who feel q craving
for laughter again can drop into
Loew's Capitol. George Beatty will
be there. He's the man who calls him
self "half-singer, half-wit." Capitol
audiences, starting today, will be asked
to vote on such entertainment fea-
lures as community sings, organlogues,
and masters of ceremonies. The lat
ter is otherwise known as Johnny
Perkins.
A S TO music, the Rialto is offering
= gobs Of 1t this week, and by local
talent. The Chesapeake g. Potomac
Telephone Co.'S Glee Club sings to-
morrow night. Other groups will be
the Mckinley High School Boys Glee
Club, the Schubert Singers, the Amer
ican University Mixed Chorus and the
Woodrow Wilson High School Girls
Glee Club. (Abe Toxins will not pre-
sent a musical thing recorded In his
studio by a couple of lads the other
night. He presented the record to them
Immediately afterward, thereby closing
the incident. They are gratefully
Evening star., 1936-12-14
GLADYS MCCORMACK
PAGES GAYETY BILL
Stepping Stars" Possesses its
Misunderstanding Bits
Well Executed.

A THOUGH the Independent Bur-
lesque Association fell somewhat
short on stepping Stars" current
tenant Of Col. James j. Lakes incom-
parable amusement center known as
the Gayety Theater, the show does
possess Its moments, two OF which are
provided by Gladys Mccormack,
syelte, spirited expositor of reyelatory
technique. Acceptable Of voice, she
sings two personality songs and
proves well-versed as to the most
effective manner in which to "sell'
them. Without the name" of q
Corio, Wausau or Nadia, Miss
Mccormack is, nevertheless. one Of
the better speciality stylists.
Sam Raynor and Harry (Jake)
Fields work hard for the laughs, with
Murray Briscoe and Billy De Shon
abetting in the straight" positions,
the boys coming through with several
sufficiently hilarious scenes, though
the percentage of ancient material is
unfortunately above the average.
Raynor also oficiates from time to
time as o master of ceremonies, with
a night club revue finale employed in
the first act.
Ailene Dale, thin Of voice but
flashing q smile of the sort usually
referred to as winning" contributes
strutting and stepping of the speedier
sort, teaming on occasion with Jules
Diamond, with the latter also scoring
in his solo spots. Albeit the show
appraised in its entirety Is . bit weak,
the I. B. A. has declined to fall down
in the dancing department. Rose
Heatherly, petite and youthful dan
seuse, aids here. appearing with the
ensemble in airily executed gypsy and
toe routines and an acrobatic turn.
Completing the cast Is Madeline
Moore, featured singer Of adequate
voice. &C. A. M.
Evening star., 1936-12-14


has dedicated its screen for a
time to abdication, liveliest
- news topic Of the day. The
combined program consists of "The
Life of Edward VIII" a newsreel COM
pilation, making up an exceedingly
interesting history of the recent pub
lie life Of Britain's ex-monarch, and
q Gaumont- British motion picture
entitled, for some reason, Love in
Exile" about a king who abdicates.
THE Life of Edward VIII" is, by
far. the more interesting half of the
double bill, detailing pictorially a re-
vue Of the outstanding events in the
life of the Prince of Wales, from back
in the war days to his ascension to
the throne.
There are shots Of the Prince as
soldier, as q sportsman, riding to
the hounds and galloping in on
steeplechase winners, as a flyer and as
England's No. ! salesman and am
bassador of good will, visiting the
United States, South America, Africa
and all the empires far-fiung COL
onies. 1t was a busy public life the
Prince Of Wales had, and the film Is
fine review Of it.
The Belasco's Movietone newsreel
Evening star., 1936-12-14
MOVIE MUSIC CHIEF
SEES TASTES CLIMBING
Contends "Artistic ostriches" Fail
to See That Film Patrons Like
Good Compositions.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, December 14-The
world of music Is full Of artistic
ostriches," says Boris Morris, bald
pated former director Of the Imperial
Russian Symphony.
"Too many artistic ostriches have
buried their heads in the sand Of
classicism and refuse to see what good
things are being done in music today"
said Morris, chief Of the Paramount
music department.
"The public definitely Is acquiring
an appetite for good music and Holly
wood is doing everything possible to
increase it. Leopold Stokowski is the
latest great master to recognize this" +"
Morris said Stokowski had deep
misgivings" about bringing his Or
chestra to the studios for "The Big
Broadcast Of 1887"
"He was afraid movie audiences
wouldn't understand his music But
they loved 1t. We sandwiched Sto-
kowski between q swing band and a
blues shouter, and what happened?
His was one Of the biggest hits in the
picture"
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Errol Recalls the Band
He Gave Famed Physicist
Stage and Screen Star Talks of Nicholson
and Chorus Girls; Backstage at
"The Show Is On.''
BY lay CARMODY.

EoN ERRoLs name has worn out lot light bulbs since nrst
thae himself still
strong total Of five he worked the other
- lot
dancing but dressing
Evening star., 1936-12-14

takes up where The Life Of Edward
VIII" leaves OF. with latest pictures
Of England's newest King and PrinsA
cess Elizabeth.
Love in Exile" h fiction. The
king abdicates (a) because he d in
love with a girl who is not Of royal
birth, or (b) because some people can
make better business deal about
some oil concessions II they install a
dictator. Anyhow, he abdicates.
He does not have any love in exile,
though, because the girl he loves goes
20 Holland instead Of meeting him
after his abdication. So all he does
in exile Is sit In very swank hotel
on the Riviera and send his valet out
to hook the crown jewels. The theater
has made a mistake. They should
have hooked the picture and dis.
played the crown jewels.
Finally, after he has hooked every.
thing but a watch, which he kept for
sentimental reasons and. because 1t
was only dollar watch no pawn
broker would have. anyway, the king
goes back to his country and gets back
his throne and his love. Give Brook
Is the king, Helen Vinson Is the girl,
Mary Carlisle is another girl and
viii Fyfe does a comedy part that
helps lot. H. M.
Evening star., 1936-12-14

breathing easily ana taking 1reely.
He talked about everything from
the Alps to chorus girls, from dane
ing shoes to scientists. At least, he
spoke of one scientist, who happens
TO have been in the same hospital in
Chicago the time when Enrol broke
both ankles.
The scientist in question was Dr.
Albert A. Nicholson, Nobel Prize-win-
ming physicist. AS the best story Of
an hour of reminisence, Enrol related
how he filled DR.. Michelson's lonely
moments with the mournful but
melodious music Of an Hawaiian
band.
His room was just few doors
down the corridor from mine" Enrol
says. MY nurse had told me about
1t, but I thought nothing of it until
one afternoon when the band and q
few of the boys and girls were whoop-
ing 1t up pretty loudly and suddenly
remembered DR.. Nicholson. Unable
to stop the band and the noise, at
least ordered the door closed.
Would you believe it, his nurse
appeared in q few minutes and asked
II we would mind leaving the door
open-that DR.. Nicholson liked the
music and the revelry? I felt so good
about it that sent him the band"
Il y
IRON DR.. Nicholson, Enrol switched
to chorus girls. (And magicians
can only pull rabbits out Of hatsD
Particularly, he switched to the IL
chorus girls who do that dizzy dance
which splatters them all over the
stage as they try to mimic Errofs
steps. A foot ball game is mild in
comparison. Crowds like it, Enrol
says. The girls don't. Not always.
It Is o pretty bruising affair. Those
falls really splinter the stage. And
sometimes the splinters sort OF
splinter the girls. Enrol figures if he
can do it after all these years. the
chorus ought to be able to do it, too.
THAT'S a fine show of Vincent
- Minnsli's; quite as interesting
backstage' as out front. Peeking
around corners of curtains. carpen-
ters' kits and chorus girls, one finds
out q lot OF things. For instance,
that Oracle Barrie is glad to be
Washington's sweetheart. Washing
tons her sweetheart, too. Not
George, us. All of us. She likes to
be In 1.-THE Snow Is On" as. she wants
10 know, who wouldn't? We could
not think of a soul who wouldn't, but
we went right on thinking, stub
bornly, that they could have given
Oracle better songs to sing. She has
had better ones, but not lovelier cos
TUNES. And she was easily the incest
person backstage. The prettiest, too,
although the associate who suppered
Mitzi Mayfair Saturday evening will
not think 50.
That fall which Reginald Gardiner
does upon the conclusion of his
'Strawcuffski' burlesque is never
going TO hurt him. He lands on two
mattresses. Lands in cloud Of dust
because the mattresses apparently
contain clouds of dust.
Speaking Of falls, Beatrice Lille is
never going to fall out of that moon
no matter how long she swings over
Evening star., 1936-12-14

France plans to suppress about 20
taxes in 1887.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Huston at National
Tonight in "Othello''

MAX GORDON brings the
~ Robert Edmond Jones pro-
duction of Shakespeare's
"Othello" to the National The
ater tonight to open a one-week
engagement prior to the New
York premiere.
1t has long been an ambition
Of Huston's to play "Othello" and
he took time of from his role
in the successful "Dodsworth" to
play the Shakespearean drama
at the dramatic festival at Gen.
tral City, Colo, two years ago.
Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston)
will appear opposite her husband
as Desdemona and other leading
roles will be played by Robert
Keith, Natalie Hall and Edward
Fielding.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
BROWN A COLONEL

HOLLYWOOD, December IA (P.-
The movie colony is knee-deep in
Kentucky colonies, but the first hon.
orary Massachusetts, colonel has just
received notice of appointment.
He is Joe e. Brown. the man with
the mouth.
Brown said his friendship with Gov
James M. Curley began during World
War days.
Evening star., 1936-12-14
Edw ard's S
Life on Bill
At BelaScO
"Love in Exile" Is
Fiction Half of
Program.

TINE Belasco, starting Saturday,
has dedicated its screen for a
time to abdication, liveliest
a news topic of the day. The
Evening star., 1936-10-05

direct investor in one case and the indi-
rect investor in the other.
Although present negotiations are di-
rected primarily at the Tennessee Valley
region where the T. v. A. and the Com
monwealth and Southern Corporation
are covering the same territory, the
eventual settlement undoubtedly will
provide basis for similar agreements
in areas where other Federal "yardstick"
projects are nearing completion.
There are many variations of pooled"
utilities. some Of them already illustrated
in such noticeably successful set-ups as
the Pennsylvania-New Jersey pool, the
Connecticut Valley exchange, the On
tario Hydro Electric pool and the fire.
quently cited British Grid system.
A salient feature of each OF these ex-
amples is the autonomy preserved by
each participating unit while in con-
tractual agreement with other partici-
pants. In administration, methods range
from public corporations or authorities
to simple co-ordinated contracts regard
ing production and distribution of power.
Their outstanding achievement, in all
cases, is avoidance of duplication of IA
cilities, with consequent saving in costs
and maintenance of a lower rate level
In the instance under debate a basis
for permanent pooling agreement exists
in temporary provision for distribution
of T. v. A. power over Commonwealth
and Southern lines. On this foundation
1t is to be hoped that the objective of
cheap and widely distributed power will
be served without recourse to a continu-
ing sacrifice of public and private funds.
Evening star., 1936-10-05
A Step Forward.

In devising plan under which Gov
ernment workers with thirty years serv.
ice could be retired at the age of sixty,
with q modest outlay by the Federal
Treasury, the Civil Service Commission
has gone long way toward advancing
q principle urged by employees.
Undoubtedly there will be critics of
the commission proposal. If for no other
reason than that in giving the employe
the right to retire at sixty. it also vests
a corresponding right in the Government
to require retirement at sixty. which
is two years earlier than existing COM
pulsory retirement In the lowest-age re-
tirement group. The so-called "invol-
untary retirement" plan is never entirely
satisfactory, no matter what age limit
is set. The commission believes, how
ever, that under the projected program
forced designations would be held at q
minimum. and that the liberalization
features would compensate the rank and
file for any possible hardship that might
Evening star., 1936-10-05
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Thumbing a Ride.
Election day will soon be here:
I will draw near.
OF course, won't abandon it.
But way up yonder is a cloud
And Ill be proud
If somehow I can land on it.
I wish Glen Martin would draw nigh
His ship to fly.
With me to keep check on 'er:
I wish that upward I could float
In his big boat
With DR.. Hugo Eckener.
When twilight skies their castles bring,
wish Ben King
Would take me thither graciously
Or Millie Earhart as friend
Would condescend
To bid me soar audaciously.
I fain would be in silent space
When cheers take place
And all the world is rioting.
To yonder cloud I fain would 60
And never know
A tumult SO -disquieting!
Evening star., 1936-10-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Nicholas F. Brady, widow Of the New
York public utility magnate, who will
entertain the eminent churchman on her
famous estate at Manhasset, Long Island.
Mrs. Brady is a papal duchess, her hus-
band having received the highest honor
accorded to Catholic layman, when he
became Vatican duke.
Harry L. Hopkins, w. p. A. Santa
Claus recently took two months off his
dollar scattering job to write New Deal
campaign book. The title, selected by
the President, is Spending to Save
The Complete Story of Relief" The book
will appear on October II. It is obvi-
ously designed to refute the Republicans
cardinal indictment that Rooseveltism
has distinguished itself by spendthrift
record without parallel in American his
tory. The publishers announce that all
references to the Democratic party have
been Studiously deleted from the Hopkins
opus, which will peer into the future,
while reviewing the past. Jeffersonians
think 1t is an altogether appropriate
omission.
Secretary Hull was the recipient Of
especially hearty congratulations on his
recent 65th birthday anniversary from
the newspaper men, American and for
eign, who daily put him on the spot at
State Department press conferences. In
reply, the silver-haired conductor of
Uncle Sans foreign relations said: II
hope each of you men may have
greater number of birthdays than any
other similar group in America" Wash
ington scribes find Judge Hull cautious
and circumspect in spilling international
beans, but invariably straightforward
and helpful.
Foreign diplomats here are still mar
Yelling over the neatness and dispatch
with which the United States, Great
Britain and France fixed up their sta
bilization deal. Most of them, being
familiar with what generally happens
when an international treaty is before
the United States Senate, wonder how
long it would have taken if that august
but loquacious body had had finger in
the currency pie, to reach an agreement.
Overseas ENJOYS are also speculating as
to how much time would have been
wasted II world conference or the
League of Nations had tackled the propo-
sition. They feel that Washington, Lon
don and Paris have chalked up q record
for busineSslike procedure that deserves
to become model for diplomacy.
y 4
During Admiral Sims wartime duty in
Europe, with headquarters at London,
one of the things he was fondest of was
telling American stories with points too
subtle for the average Britisher to get"
without a blueprint. In constant demand
for banquet talks, the Yankee seadog
seldom omitted an opportunity to spin
q yarn that he felt sure would cause
requests for an explanation, which gen.
orally had to be made. Sims, like Wood
row Wilson, was addicted to limericks.
He sometimes would flll o whole after
dinner speech with them.
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