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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13

But at last his keeper refused to
put an apple In the box unless and
until Achilles guessed right. That
was too much for this pig.
THE animal" said DR.. Howard
Scott Liddell Of Cornell, who reported
the study, was forced to come to
q decision and to act on It,"
A few days of these hair-trigger
decisions and Achilles had the nerv-
GUS breakdown. It was a whopper.
He would lay his snout on the cover,
close his eyes and stand rigid growl-
Ing for q whole hour. In these hours"
Of indecision even placing an apple
on his nose failed to make Achilles
stir or eat.
The scientific purpose is to dis
cover the causes of human break
downs. Previously DR.. Liddell proved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
EVENING WASHINGTON D. c., THURSDAY 49,

while considering. certain problems
of food. An apple was the direct
cause of his downfall. In his scien-
tif1c pen was box with closed lid,
and an apple in 1t: But the apple
was like three sometimes
1t was there, sometimes It wasn't
Achilles had to decide by listening
to q buzzer and by now and then
feeling a slight electric tingle from
a wire fastened to his leg. BY various
combinations these told him that
sometimes the apple was there, some
times 1t wasn't. He could have the
apple by lifting the lid with his
snout.
Achilles was hungry and in plain
English didn't give a damn" about
the signals for long time He took
4 chance and often won an apple.
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that sheep break down when faced
with too difficult decisions. He proved
also that this too great mental effort
permanently damaged the sleeps
brains and nerves
Pigs having highly complicated
nervous systems as compared with
sheep were chosen for the second
step.
I'VE believe" said DR.. Liddell, that
the experimental neurosis is caused
by the equivalent Of human conflict
situation.
I'm mental disorder (human) the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Pie Has Nervous Breakdown
And 4 pple Caused 1t All
Cornell Scientists Reveal animals Mind
Collapsed Under Strain of Con.
sidering Food Problem.

today, because he couldn't make up
his mind, when placed in pen
scientifically arranged to appear as
difficult to Achilles as the world of
mems problems appears to human be-
ings at the time they have nervous
breakdowrs.
Achilles mind went back on him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,

Associated Press Science Editor.
PITTSBURGH. May 13.-Achilles,
a pig at Cornell University, has de-
veloped a nervous breakdown, the
first ever recorded in a pig
Achilles broke down, the American
Psychiatric Association was informed,
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Evening star., 1937-08-24
Capital Is Ribbed Again
In Revived "TeXaS Steer''
Roadside Players Resurrect Hoyt's Uproar.
ious Farce of Decades Ago and
Make It Gay Affair.
BY ROBERT d, PHILLIPs. Jr.


ORsAK1N0 the
Players
entitled "A Steer which
with guy humor might q
politics. with hammer and
Evening star., 1937-08-24
| Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Capitol-"Wee Willie Winkie," with
Shirley Temple in the central role in
the Kipling story: lo:45 am. 1885,
4:25, 7:l5 and 1905 pm Going
Native" on stage, 1890, 800, Sis
and 9:05 pm.
Earle-"Artists and Models" Jack
Benny in new beauty-packed musi-
cal: II am, 1:35. 4:20. 7:05 and $50
pm. Stage shows at 1855, $40, 6:25
and $40 pm.
Palace Broadway Melody Of 1888"
latest in the line of bright musicals: :
1875 am, 2:05. 4:35, 7;o5 and 9:35
pm.
"Borneo," the late Martin
johnson and his wife on another
jungle jaunt: 1850 am. l:50, 3:55,
5:55. 7:55 and 10 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Great Gam
bini," mindreader predicts a murder
too we'll: l1:40 am, l:40, $40, 5:45,
7:45 and GAS pm.
Columbia-"Slave Ship" consider
able excitement on the last OF the
"slavers": ll:l5 am. l:20, $3.50, $50,
7:35 and s:45 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Show
runs hour and Is minutes, continuous
from 10 am. until midnight.
Ratio Transatlantic Merry-Go-
Round" Jack Benny involved in mys-
terry and a musical: ll:40 am, 1:40
3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Little-"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 2"
revival of the Gary Cooper hit: II I'M,
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Leopard's Just a Kitten
When It's Perfumed
Mr. Carmody Finds Even the Atomizer Part
of Hollywoods Magic-Mr. Melcher
Finally Returns From That Vacation.
BY JAY CARMODY.

= oLYwooD Aft sight
L and motion pictures the days,
could something
Bringing Baby which Katharine Hepburn
the foster mother of a leopard
all this do with the
Evening star., 1937-08-24

played 1t its opening last night. but
withstood the faults Of its performers
to emerge as one of the gayest az
fairs Of the hayrick season. THE
Texas Steer. or Money Makes the
Mare Go" was the masthead Charles
Hoyt put above his opus Of some
decades past, but few Of its witticisms
have aged and none Of the moral has
been lost in a tale OF q Texas cattle
baron who becomes = Congressman by
accident dt was strictly honest elec-
ton, all the votes having been paid
for in advance) and descend, upon
the Washington scene to cut a wide
and family gaudy swath in national
politics.
Mr.. Hoyt ribbed the Senator's, the
Supreme Court justices, the Repre-
sentatives, the social ladies. the people
who made them all what they are to-
day. and did 1t in vigorous fashion,
his play emerging in these days rs a
dramatic fossil that Is strangely not
antiquated.
Histrionic heroes Of the production
today are the Texas edition of the
Marx brothers-Maj. Yell, Col. Bragg
and Col. Blow, native hardboots whose
antics are even more amusing than
the names are punny. That infallibly
clever local performer, Anne Ives
Whose voice has an uncanny re-
semblance to Ethel Barrymore's). also
acquits herself with what we call ac-
customed ease as the wife OF the cat
tie baron, Maverick Brander, and
Harry Westcott matches her work
stride for stride in his delineation OF
the noble soul OF one Brassy Gall,
ESQ., a lobbyist-hisssssss, boo!
Onicial heroine Of the evening is
Lansing Hall, as the Brander heiress
while her hero is an Indifferent citi-
zen named Capt. Fairleigh Bright,
U. S. A. If you can stand up longer
under this barrage Of puns, we will
reveal that the colored amenuensis of
the Brander household in Washing
ton is yclept Othello, and that Mr..
Brander's private secretary Is none
other than Knott limit. All these
roles are dutifully undertaken. and in
the instance OF Othello Orchard
Wakh), achieve some success with
the audience.
The costumes and settings OF "A
Texas Steer" are worthy Of an honor
able mention, although neither Is
extraordinary in any way, but the
Evening star., 1937-08-24

they needed day in the open spaces
astride hoss.
First casualty in the chap and spur
clad outfit came when Harry Brats-
burg's mount SHE'D at an automobile
and tossed him in the ditch. The
boys took Harry (you remember him
In the Civic Theater's production OF
"Petrif1ed Forest") to the hospital
had him stitched up in the necessary
spots and the ride went on Then on
the way home Henry Fonda (who
came East from Hollywood to appear
in the play came to grief when his
horse spied an automobile. Instead
OF shying away, Hanks horse dove
right into the cars windshield. 1t was
Mr.. Fondas turn to be hauled to the
hospital
Injuries were not serious enough,
though, to keep Mr.. Fonda and Mr..
Bratsburg from getting up on the
stage that night and blazing away at
each other with six-shooters.
Joris 1vens, the noted Dutch direc-
tor who made The Spanish Earth"
from Ernest Hemingway's narrative,
will personally escort the print of the
hlm here for its showing at the Ma
tional Press Club tomorrow night.
THE Spanish Earth" derived from
an idea Of Ivens' to show the actual
day-to-day life Of an actual family
along the road between Madrid and
Valencia :. THE Late Christopher
Bean" has been held over by the
Crossroads Players and will be played
for the last time tonight George
R. Ogden, l707 Columbia road, won
second prize in the Nationwide con-
test carried on by Loew's for count
ing the number Of times Romeo kisses
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet"
The press release making this an
nouncement neglects to say just how
many times Romeo Gid kiss Juliet,
which seems like pertinent informa-
tion If such serious matter is to be
considered at all Vivien Fave.
the dancer seen here on the stage in
THE Great Waltz" and in the Marx
brothers picture, "A Day at the
Races" has been signed to a. con-
tract by M-G-M >. Arthur Westover,
who has appeared in a lot of local
plays to the plays benefit. leaves this
week for New York for the booking
office ordeal.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

stare at people. Mothers are wrong
about things like that, for Maxine is
very nice to stare at
IT is at Maxine's house, which lies
at the bottom of the Alp on top
Of which Mr.. Melcher lives, that you
learn Ohrough her questioning) he
has just finished his first screen play.
1t is called The Rolling Stones"
Helen Broderick and Victor Moore
will do the picture with Joe Santley
directing. It is set to go into produce
ton soon. Mr.. Melcher Is very happy
about it. He Is so happy, indeed, that
he forgets he will have to scale that
Alp afoot later in the evening, an
urgency created by the circumstance
that his car is not working again.
Mr.. Melcher, who knows his Holly
wood so much better than We know
ours, thinks we ought to see the West
Side Tennis Club and Frank Shields,
which are practically synonymous.
1t is the place where Robert Mont
gomery, Enrol Flynn, Groucho Marx
and lots of other big names on mar
quees dncluding Charlie Chaplin go
out to play tennis. Maybe we can
see them out there, Mr.. Melcher
thinks, so, leaving Maxine, who has
to get up at 6 in the morning (but
so does Gordon Hittenmark), we 70
out to the West Side Tennis Club.
Shields Is there. just as Mr. Melcher
said. He Is Just back from, of all
heresies, a round OF golf A glance
at Shields, who IS as big as Lookout
Mountain and not half so foggy,
lends lot Of conviction to the rumor
you always are hearing out here that
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Two Films
PreVieWed
By Warmers
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

If THE first day Of the Warner Bros,
two-day preview of cross section
Of the studios Fall releases is any
indication, then the Warner Bros.
are going to provide lot of enter
tainment in the coming months at
that show house down at Thirteenth
and E streets. The films were Bette
Davis THAT Certain Woman" and
Dick Powells new musical, Varsity
Show
1t will not be violating this depart
ment's rule against reviewing motion
pictures before they open to tell you
that Miss Davis is given a meaty
role in That Certain Woman; that
Director Edmund Goulding (who also
wrote the story has guided her
through a fine, restrained perform
ance; that at least two critics were
complete mental and physical wrecks
(no cracks, please) at the finish of the
heroics, from the nervous suspense OF
fearing that the Lady OF Sorrows was
again going to be forced to walk down
An alley all alone in the end. We won't
tell you whether she does or not. You
can suffer. too. when the picture
comes to the Earle.
AS for Mr.. Powells film-well, in
the words Of one of the songs in 1t.
the Warner Bros, have something there
Varsity Show" for one thing, gives
Dick better vehicle than he's had
in long time and some brilliant sup
port from topnotch cast. 1t also is
notable for introducing to film fans
Rosemary and Priscilla Lane, two of
the most delectable damsels to smile
and sing before the cameras since
way back when. We heard Mr.. Dan
Terrell remark Of Rosemary In one
scene, Boy, she really looks like a
million dollars" only to be repri-
manded by some one for setting the
figure 50 low.
Today, starting at $50, which prob
ably was far too early for any of the
critical fraternity to be at the Am
bassador Theater, Warmers went on
with the Fall show. Back in Circu-
lation," cts Love I'm After" and
THE Life of Emile Zola" were on the
program.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
F. B. |. TO PRESENT PLAY
TOMORROW NIGHT

Because Of cold weather. the per-
Torrance Of The Man Who Mar.
ried Dumb Wife" by the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation Theater
Group, will be presented tomorrow at
8 pm. instead Of tonight. The play
s by Anatole Frarce.
Two more programs are to be given
at the Sylvan Theater this season
under auspices Of the Community
Center Department and National Cap.
ital Parks.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

in his last American picture with
Grace Moore. is just recently back
from England. He made his most
recent picture over there, liked Eng
land very much, thank you, but is
glad to be back in Hollywood, which
Is another town in which he cannot
beat Shields playing tennis.
Shields thinks it would be nice
idea to be quoted on the subject Of
the fitness of film players. If his own
fitness is criterion, they must be
awfully At, so you listen while he tells
you that it is all the bunk about this
playing around you read about in
Evening star., 1937-08-24

the papers. Making pictures. he says,
is hard work, requiring lot OF good
health Mike Bartlett says the same
thing and so do Phil and Mrs. Neer,
he being the one who used to win
so many tennis honors in the Billy
Johnston Bill Tilden era.
Having heard the same thing from
Gladys George and various other per-
sons, this department is convinced
that there must be something in it.
And that the West Side Club Is Just
the place for It,
Hearing them talk about it makes
you wish you, too, were healthy!
Evening star., 1937-08-24

I, $40, Sis, 7.25 and e:35 pm.
Ambassador-"Artis ana Models'
s, 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
Penn-"Saratoga" Jean Harlow's
last picture: 2, $50, $40, 730 and
9:25 pm.
Sheridan-"A Day at the Races,
the mad Marxes at their maddest
l:30, $50, $50, 7:35 and 935 pm.
Saratoga: 2, 3:55, $50
7:45 and $40 pm.
Uptown-"A Day at the Races"
2:30, 4:50, 7:l0 and $50 pm
Roadside-"A Texas Steer" the
famed old satire is revived: $50 p.m
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Silent Film Actress She,

Silent Film Actress Sues.
LOS ANGELES, August "a (R.-
Alice White. a movie star during the
late '20s, yesterday sued Sidney S.
Bartlett, scenarist, for divorce. She
asks $1,000 month alimony.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

he is the best looking guy in pic
lures. He is very glad to see you
and you sit on a terrace overlooking
lot of perspiring tennis players and
talk of pictures, the Chevy Chase
Clubs invitation tennis tournament,
in which Shields used to play; bridge,
Donald Budges victories at Wimble-
don, and maybe how to win friends
and influence people.
1t is an amiable. quiet moment
which becomes even more amiable
when Michael Bartlett pulls up a
chair. Bartlett, whose speaking voice
is as pleasant as the one he sang with
Evening star., 1937-08-24

A batch of press clippings from up
Mount Kisco way, forwarded by Ruth
Perrott, report the sad story OF the
hospitalized performance Of THE Vir-
ginian," presented last week at Day
Tuttle and Dick SINNERS Westchester
Playhouse. All because the people In
the play, evidently urged on by the
cowboy trappings and the six-guns
that go with THE Virginian," decided
Evening star., 1937-08-24

real prize for technical invention
should go to the master minds who
thought up those boards for Mai. Yell
and the Col. B. and B. They are
masterpieces-the boards as well as
the characters.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

Ewing Scott, who directed "1gloo"
and Little America" the latter q
picturlzation Of the Admiral Byrd
expedition, directed George O'Brien's
latest starring picture, "Windjammer." !"
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
VICTIM
T0TESTIFY

DETROIT, July Q Q.N.S0.
United Automobile workers Union
Organizer Richard Merriweather,
who spent a month in a hospital
after the May Is Ford Motor Com
pany riot, today was to testify
before the National Labor Rela-
tons Board as it entered the third
day of its probe into charges Of
Wagner Act violations against the
Ford Company.
Merriweather was one Of a score
Of U. A. w. men beaten when they
attempted to distribute union liter
allure to Ford workers.
The is men named in assault
warrants issued Tuesday by the
one-man grand jury investigating
the Ford riot were charged specific
ally with beating Merriweather.
Yesterday eight newspaper men
and photographers, teStifying over
the objections of Ford Attorney
Louis j. Colombo, ST., told what
they saw at the plant during the
riot.
Reporter Fred Collins said q
Ford Company official told him
before the riot that, although nei-
ther the Ford Company nor its
service department force would in
terfere with the distribution of
literature, some of its loyal en-
ployeS might"
The Washington times., 1937-07-09

Richard G. Wadford, %, a
beauty operator, Of 1444 Fairmont
st. N. W., saw the flaming cup
strike the pavement as he passed
on his way to work.
Dashing up the stairs, Wadford
said he was met on the first land.
ing by Mrs. johnson, whose hair
and face were ablaze and flames
were fast spreading over the rest
of her body. Wadford said he
first smothered the fire and then
summoned Emergency Hospital
ambulance and the Fire Depart
ment. Fire in the bedroom was
extinguished with slight damage
to furnishings.
At Emergency, Mrs. Johnson's
burns were described as first and
second degree and her condition
was termed critical. Her arms,
head, face, back, chest and legs
were badly scared, physicians
said.
Firemen were told she had been
cleaning some beds with the fluid,
which she had set on small table.
She turned to find the gasoline
afire and in endeavoring to throw
it to the Street, splashed the liquid
fire on herself. She is the mother
of two children, neither Of whom
was home at the time. i.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
Father SluSs Youth,
Named BY Girl. .

The youth could give no
reason for the vicious attack on
the child.
When his father entered the
basement to investigate the girls
cries, young Ardelean feigned
Inconsistencies. Revived" he
said he had attempted to save
the little girl from an attack
by a stranger.
Attack Planned
Medical examination, however,
failed to disclose any injuries to
the youth and police began ques-
tioning him. After a short time
he broke down and admitted the
crime.
Ardelean said he had planned
the attack for several days and
had carried a length of iron pipe
in his pocket last night when he
enticed his victim into the base
ment.
When he heard the girl calling
to one of her playmates he shouted
to her:
"She's down here reading the
funny papers,"
Continuing, he said:
"When she came through the
door I hit her over the head and
locked the basement door,"
Ardelean admitted stabbing the
girl with an ice pick and a pair
of grass shears and viciouSly beat
ing her with the piece of iron pipe
and q monkey wrench.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09

depreciation Of the warning as a
threat of open warfare, pointing
out the government merely was eX.
pressing a determined and justi.
fled attitude in view Of alleged re.
ported violation of Russia's Sover-
eighty by japanese and Manchu.
kuoan troops.
The warning was delivered by
Foreign Commissar Maxim Lit
vino to MamorI Shigemitsu, the
Japanese ambassador. Litvinoff
advised the Nipponese envoy that
Soviet frontier guards had been
instructed under no circum-
stances to allow border violation,
and to repulse Japanese-Manchu-
kuoan troops invading Siberia by
all possible means"
= Litvinoff'S new protest was
founded on the allegation that
Japanese and Manchukuoan mill
tary authorities had violated the
recent agreement for complete
evacuation of Japanese forces from
certain islands in the Amur over
which Moscow claims complete
sovereignty.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09
WRECKS
ARMS PLANT

LONDON, July 9 I.N.S).-A
series Of devastating explosions
rocked the Finnish port of Svea-
borg today when fire starting in
a munitions laboratory spread to
q magazine where thousands of
hand grenades we're stored.
Reports of heavy casualties
carried by the Exchange Tele-
graph Company were discounted
by authorities at Helsinki, cap
ital of Finland.
The ministry Of defense as
serted three persons were wounded
severely and 20 others hurt. Hell
sinki newspapers, however, re-
ported five dead and 80 injured.
The blasts broke thousands Of
windows and were heard as far
away as Helsinki.
The Washington times., 1937-07-09

buckled. The police dragged him
from the room as the father, still
shaking with anger, shouted:
,"And that's not all you're 60
ing to get"
Ardelean, who had already con-
fessed Turing his little neighbor
into the basement where he beat,
stabbed and attacked her, was
brought before the child to estao'
fish Identification.
The youth, a senior at Sem
High School, where he was an
athlete and a brilliant student,
admitted Turing the child into the
basement of a building where his
father, Sam, is the janitor, on the
pretext that one of her playmates
was there reading funny papers. "
UnSuSpecting, the girl went into
the basement where her husky as
sailant attacked and assaulted her
after ripping off her clothes.
Found On Cinder Pile
AICI dCCSu ny GI1C CAAAAN . AAOaAIo,
the elder Ardelean found the girl
unconscious on a pile of cinderS
in the basement. Ardelean imme-
diately notified police and the girl
was rushed to a hospital, where
physicians said her condition was
extremely critical.
Examination disclosed IS
stab wounds on the child'S back.
inflicted by the icepick. and
eight wounds near the heart. A
blunt instrument, probably a
monkey wrench, had been used
by the attacker to batter the
back Of the girls head.
Young Ardelean, after confess
ing, was taken to the scene to
reenact the attack, but police
hurried him back to a cell when
a threatening crowd gathered.