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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
P|ML|CO HORSES
BURNED T0DEATH
Fire Sweeps 44-StaII Stable
Number of Racers Lost
Unknown,
BY the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, May Sire swept
44-stall shed at the Phmlico track
tonight. killing an undetermined
number of horses and at one time
threatening the grandstand at Mary
lands foremost racing plant.
Early estimates of the number at
horses burned to death ranged a.
high as IA. but Matt L. Dagger, sec
rotary Of the Maryland Jockey Club
operators OF the track, said he did not
believe that many persisted.
Dagger said an accurate check could
not be made until the surviving
horses. some of them painfully
burned, were herded together and
counted. He said this might not
be done until tomorrow morning.
There were IS horses in the shed
when the fire broke out. Dagger said
the owners and the number of
horses they had in the shed were
j. w. Y. Martin, II; c. P. Miles, 4;
Dick Johnson, 8, and E. G Brennan, 3.
Horses Driven Out.
The horses were driven from the
stalls as soon as possible after the
fire was discovered. Great confusion
followed as they charged out and
were driven into the inf1eld.
Martins Triple Action, only Freak
ness candidate quartered here, was
saved, as were his Dark Hope and
Miles Master Lad. Dark Hope ran
today in the Dixie Handicap, a race
in which he holds the record jointly
with Gallant Knight.
Dalger said there would be plenty
OF room in other stables for the horses
coming here next week for the Freak
ness, which will be run next Saturday.
Near Betting Booths.
The stalls swept by the flames were
located about 200 feet from the betting
booths behind the grandstand. The
roof of the shed was destroyed.
The fire broke out shortly before
8 O'Clock, about two hours after the
days program had ended.
Four quick alarms summoned fire.
men to the track and they had the
blaze under control half an hour after
the fire broke out.
Thousands of spectators were at
tracted by the blaze.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
Seal Proposes District Resume
Minimum Wage Law on July l
To Recommend Fund Be Appropriated for Board
to Administer Measure Revived bv
Sunreme COnrt
Supreme Court.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
The Districts original minimum
mage law for ,Don,en and children
Uas inudliddted by the Supreme
Court in 1923 in the non famous
Adkins case. This decision, Which
had prevented seuerdl States from
endcting similar legislation, re-
NAMED in effect until the recent
ruling by the high court on the
Washington State minimum, wage
legislation, Which specifically re-
Uersed the Adkins case decision.
Administration OF the District min
imum wage law for women and minors
would be resumed on July next after
q 14-year lapse, under plans to be
recommended to the District Com
missioners by Elwood Seal, corporation
counsel.
The plans call for:
l. A request that Congress include
in the pending District appropria-
ton bill q. moderate" sum-perhaps
less than $15,000-for administrative
expenses during the next fiscal year
Of = yet-to-b created Minimum Wage
Board.
2. A working test" OF the old law
before consideration of notifications
to bring It up to date, II necessary.
3. A study Of the advisability Of q
new law governing minimum wages
Of men, to be administered by the
board under an amplification Of its
powers.
To Submit Plans.
Seal said yesterday he will lay
these plans before the Commissioners
1t an early date.
The corporation counsel,s action
viii be the first definite Official move
since President Roosevelt's request,
more than month ago, that appoint
ment OF the Minimum Wage Board be
delayed until It could be determined
whether amendment Of the old law Is
necessary.
Earlier the President had indicated
. desire that attention be given the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09

after leading from the start to the
finish
There never was much, II any
doubt about the outcome As War Ad-
miral beat Pompoon by two length,
ana Reaping Reward by 10 length.
before near record crowd OF $4,000
spectators who acclaimed new
3-year-old equine king with an ear
splitting ovation.
War Admiral, the favorite at ap-
provimately to 2. stepped the mile
and quarter under the guidance of
Louisville's own Charley Kurtsinger in
Continued on Page BIS, Column -
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TAX ON BUSINESS
TO YIELD $2,9)O,0|)D
CONSIDERED HERE
D. c. Commissioners May
Ask House Group for
Privilege" Levy.
PROPOSAL TO ASSESS
INCOMES is RETAINED
Revenue From All Measures Sug.
gested by City Heads Would Elk.
coed Needs by $4,000, 900.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Radical revision of the District
tar structure was recommended bv
Chairman Collins OF the House Dis
trtct Subcommittee on Appropria-
tons after the District budget, as
passed by the House, indicated
minimum deficit Of Sc, 100 900. With
the budget bill pending before the
Senate, the Kennedy subcommittee
OF the House has been holding
hearings on numerous measures
proposed to meet the threatened
deficit,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
C. 0.P.A|DPLEDGED
TO CUT SPENDING
Country Facing Initiation in
Big Expenditures,
Smell Says.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Alarmed by falling tar receipts
and apprehensiue of an imitation
dry Increment, President Roosevelt
called on Congress and department
heads last month for stringent
economy in governmental erpen-
ditures. Result has been House
proposal for Is per cent dis
cretiondry cut in appropriations,
President to exercise the discretion,
and a Senate movement for fiat
10 per cent cut in all appropriation
bills except those couerino fired
charges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
Troops Hunt Convict.

WINDSOR, VT, May P.-Na-
tional Guardsmen were called out to
hunt for Robert Cook, 70, Of Enos-
burg, who escaped today from Windsor
State Prison after attacking and
slightly injuring Warden James Nc
Dermott.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
BY ALAN GOULD

Associated Press Sports Editor.
CHURCHILL DOWNS. LOUIS
VILE, KY, May war Admiral. 4
chip OF the old Thoroughbred block,
ran one of the biggest of all Kentucky
Derby fields dizzy under balmy skies
this afternoon with The second fast
est triumph in the 63-year history of
Americas most colorful horse racing
spectacle
The little brown son OF Man O.
War came home in front a-galloping,
just the way his daddy used to do.
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(see WAGE Page A-5)
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(See HINDENBURG, Page A-s0
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(See CORONATION, Page A-16.,
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(See ABATTO1R, Page A-3.)
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(See TAXES, Page AS,
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(See ECONOMY, Page A-4.)
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Topo' the Town
For Keith's

R-K.O Keith's next attraction is
Universal's spectacular musical
production, "Top of the Town,
with a long list Of screen and
stage favorites and a number OF
songs that have already developed
into the hit class. =,
Produced on an eXtravagant
scale, top of the Town" features
Universal's new feminine star,
Doris Nolan in addition to George
Murphy, Hugh Herbert, Gregory
Ratoff, Gertrude Nisen, Ella
Logan, Henry Arm eta, Ray
Mayer, Mischa Auer, the Three
Sailors, Peggy Ryan, Gerald Oliver
Smith, Jack Smart, the California
CollegianS, Claude Gillingwater
Ernest Cossart and a bevy Of gor'
geous girls.
The music was written by jim
my McHugh and Harold AdamSon
and includes such already estab'
lished hits over the airways as
top of the Town" "JambQree,
where Are You" and Blame 1t
On the Rhumba."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-05

The clock was turned back half
a century or more yesterday, and
the audience at the Gayety The
alter had a view of the burlesque
that their fathers and grand.
fathers saw in the horse and
buggy" days.
And it was a grand show, for it
brought back to the Washington
stage none other than Billy Beef
Trust" Watson, aided and allotted
by Billy Spencer" Grogan-not
to mention the real beef trust"
chorus.
It was new to many Of the audi
ence, although there were quite a
number of grey heads there to see
their favorites Of other years, and
they enjoyed it and were generous
in their applause.
Three score years and eleven is
Billy Watson, while Bill Grogan
admits to three score and ten, but
their comedy has all the sparkle
it had in other years.
There they were, the Dutchnlan
and his belligerent Irish neighbor
in "Krausmeyer's Alley" with their
friendly fighting and comedy lines
that brought howls Of laughter.
There was the "beefy" chorus,
singing 1.-THE Sidewalks Of New
York." "Sally in Our Alley" and
other favorites of by-gone years
After the show was overland
it's one Of the best seen at the
Gayety in many a day-Col
James jeremiah Lake, himself 6
veteran of many years in bur
leSque, came out on the stage anc
threw his arms around his two
old pals, and there were cheers
for all three from the audience.
The performance was q real his
tory of burlesque, for it gave moi
only the old form, with its hefty
chorus girls, who do not lack fol
grace despite their size, right down
to the very latest wrinkle in strip
perS.
There is plenty of spice, plenty
Of dancing, singing and comedy
on the program. But the stars oi
today must take back seat fol
this time in favor Of Billy Watson
and Billy Grogan, with their dead
cats, their old time songs and thu
chorus girls Of the type Of othel
years.
Outstanding specialties are pro
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BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1897. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc }


HOLLYWOOD, April '5.-Lotie
lehman came to Los Angeles
for one concert. principally in
hopes of meeting Greta Carlo.
Beforehand, she wrote every Ger
man and Swede she knew in
town, to arrange same, please, but
as far as we can ferret out, Miss
Lehmann's trip was in vain, with
the exception that she made a
colossal success with her public.
The Billy Seymours CMary Kirk
Brown had an escapade last Sun
day which lit both them and
their auto around a fire hydrant,
and subsequently in the Beverly
Hills Jail, and from thence to a
months suspended sentence for
hilarious behavior, but 1t isn't
turning out too well. Mary Kirk
hoped a train quickly Monday
night for Florida and her ma.
where reports would have 1t that
she will remain permanently.
Which would be unfortunate,
since they are a nice couple, and
well liked in these parts.
Eddie Lowe, now en- route to q
picture in London, carries with
him an invitation from Mayor
Angelo ]. RoSsi Of San Francisco
to the lord mayor Of London, to
attend the opening of their
golden gate bridge on May 81.
That should be something, since
all the celebrities in town plan
to go. '
We told you that w. c. Fields
was all well again, but now we
have details. He is up and out
house hunting in the San Fer
nando Valley. and as soon as he
finds the place he wants, will
leave Los Angeles Sanitarium for
good. He is in splendid physical
trim, and his old brilliant self
mentally, and although still Is
pounds underweight, is gaining
fast. Bag of Tricks his next
Paramount starring picture, has
been postponed and won't start
for at least six weeks, so that, in
the meantime, to get into his
stride, Bill will be free to do a
speciality act in 1.-THE Big Broad
cast Of 1885," which starts in
about 10 days. He won't be
starred, but will do his own in
imitable stuff for one act to get
the feel Of things again, as 'twere.
Dorothy McNulty in the same
picture is turning out so well
that Wanger is seriously con-
sidering putt g her under a five
year contract, and starring her as
a Coincidence. Hedda Hopper is
having her big screen comeback.
and taking plenty Of advantage
Of 1t. She was wandering around
in a dream creation by Omar
Kiam that will make the ladies
green with envy, a faSchia colored
coat trimmed with five blue
foxes, a small toque in fuschia
shades, and fuSchia flowers
abreast.
The Walter Wanger 'Vogues OF
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M OVIE
CLOCK

Observation-Disclosures Nor
riS, Helen Mack, Il Promise to
Pay" 1880, a. m. 1880, S:35,
$40, 7:45 9:45 p. m.
CAPITOL-Simone Simon, James
Stewart, Seventh Heaven"
1890 a. M, 1920, AIS, 7:05, 10
p. m. Stage, 1890, $3.50, els.
9:05 p. m.
R-K.O-KEITH'S Jean Arthur,
Charles Boyer, History is Made
at Night" 1895, a. M, 1885, 1886,
5:36, 9:36 p. m.
PALACE - Jeanette Macdonald,
Nelson Eddy, "Maytime," II,
a. M, 1885, 4:1O. $40, $3.50 p. m.
COLUMBIA Arthur Preacher.
Patricia Ellis, "Step Lively,
Jeeves," 11:15 a. M. 1:05, 2:55,
4:45; 6:25, 8:15, 10 p. m.
EARLE - Carole Lombard, Fred
MacMurray, Swing High, Swing
Low" 10:45 a. M, 1880, 4:20,
7:1O, 10 p. m. Stage, 1890, 1920
o:40, S:U0 y. III.
LITTLE-Victor McLaglen, Mar
got Grahame, 1.-The Informer,
1923 a. m, 1881, 1874, 5:37,
TAO, 9:44 p. m.
RIALTO-Leslie Howard, Bette
Davis, "Of Human Bondage
11:15 a. m, 2:17, 5:19, 8:2S
p. m. THE Robber Sym
phony," 1888, 3:35. 6:3S, 9:5S
p. m.
TRANS-LUX - Continuous shows
Is minutes. 10 q. m. to IL p. m.
HOWARD-Lee Tracy, Margot
Grahame, Criminal Lawyer,
1890, 2:45, 5, 1870, 1910 p. m
Stage, Lucky Millinder, 1:40
1855, 6:10, $40 p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-05

Earth" we'll reflected in the elo-
quence and dignity with which
the picture artisans have told this
pastoral folk tale.
O-Lan is the kitchen slave whom
Wang-Lung took from the Great
House to bear him two sons and
daughter. Their mutual love for
the soil and for each other, suS-
tains the narrative through melo-
dramatic episodes, at times thrill
ing, and always emotionally STIR
ring.
You see them in the fields deS-
perately striving to harvest the
crops before the rains come: you
see O-Lan laboring with the work
ers until the dramatic moment
when she feels the call of child;
they live through the horrors of
famine; join the trek of starving
people to the South; are immersed
in the revolution which sacks pal.
aces and gives Wang-Lung the
start of his eventual wealth, stolen
jewels; his rise from peasant to
rich land owner and acquisition of
q second wife. the Lotus flower;
the growth of his sons and the Sor-
rows and joys they bring; the re-
volt Of the coolies and, as a final
Tremendous thrill, the fight Of the
village against Natures assault
with swarm Of locusts.
This war on the locustS is some.
thing beyond Pearl Bucks con-
ception, but it has been so spec.
tacularly filmed, with rollin 6
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-05
KELLEYGRAMS

! the Belasco Theater is dark this
week.
There are plenty of midgets
available for these child parts. But
Producer Leventhal could find nc
midgets capable of acting like
children.
JANE FROMAN COMING
Jane Froman, Radios Lovliest
Lark" will headline the Earle
Theater'S stage program the
week Of April Is, according to an
announcement made today by
Warner Bros. General Zone Man
ager John j. Payette.
A radio headliner for several
seasons and feature last year
of the ziegfeld "Follies," Miss
Frohman originally studied for
grand opera but deserted that
field for newspaper work. A song
she sang at a party gave her the
first chance she had at a radio
program-and the result was i'm
mediate success.
At the Earle, Miss Froman will
offer special arrangements of
some of her favorite songs, and
those for which radio listeners
have made the greatest number
Of requests.
ALEXANDRIA MINSTRELS
An old-fashioned minstrel is to
be presented by the Knights Of
Columbus, Fitzgerald Council No
459, and the Students Mission Cru
SADIE for the benefit Of charity or
Wednesday and Thursday, April
and 8, at the Lyceum Hall, Alexan
dria.
Charles West, the director, anc
the committees in charge have
corraled an array Of talent ano
expect to unveil a super show.
Mike Mcfarland will be inter
locutor. Tap dancers have beer
loaned through the courtesy Of the
Charles Demma Studios. Amone
musical features to be presented
are barber'Shop quartet and 6
girls trio.
S. E. Cochran, former manager
Of the National Theater anc
founder Of the National Academy
OF Stage Training, has taken up hi
, option on the "Woodlawn Lodge,
a beautiful summer estate on tn.
Columbia Pike to Baltimore, be
tween Olney and Ashton.
"Woodlawn Lodge" was operated
last summer as restaurant, anC
Mr.. Cochran will shortly reoper
it on this basis pending the com
pletion Of his plans for a summel
} theater and dramtic school,
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Two Pictures
On Program
At RiQIto

It was good to see the Rialtc
Theater's orchestra pit filled tc
overlooking with live musicians.
There are so Of the tnstru
mentalists and when they all find
seats Composer Friedrich Feher
emerges and takes his place on
the podium.
Leader Feher, a handsome man
Of erect carriage and dignified
manner, poised his baton and then
waved his players into the first
movement of his own symphonic
suite.
This is fine music that fills the
Ninth Street cinema with swelling
melody. The Viennese composer
is leading his own "Robber Sym
phony." The introduction and
adagio expressive, the Picturesque
and the valse Symphonique, "Sehn-
sucht mach Wien."
The audience, slim in size, made
up in enthusiasm what 1t lacked
in numbers. They gave the or
chestra an ovation. These in
formal opening concerts ended
last night.
AS for the picture, THE Rob
Der Symphony" it is a CONT
mental fairy tale, told with a mini
mum Of words, and well acted.
Throughout the action is woven
a background Of symphonic music
by Feher, who wrote, composed
and directed the picture.
It is, as the program says, a
highly creative whimsical film in
which music most successfully di-
reefs the visual images through
imaginative adventures. The story
content has the wonder pattern of
a classical fairy tale-uniQue plot
of a piano, donkey, a dog and
boy-of how they met the Black
Devil and his band of robbers, and
what came Of 1t. Every emotion
receives the vital experience that
begetS the ultimate happiness. A
superb achievement. It will have
a long life in motion picture art.
Hans Feher, boy star Of the
film, his black dog, Sultan, and
Magda Sonia, who plays the lads
are making personal ap
pearances this week following the
screening Of the feature.
AS a supplementary screen at
traction, the Rialto is offering
Bette Davis and Leslie Howard In
"Of Human Bondage"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-05

We're off on a trip round "The
Good Earth"
The Times today inaugurates an
entertaining contest sponsored in
connection with the road-show en-.
gagement at the National Theater
of Metro Goldwyn- Mayors picturi-
zation Of Pearl Bucks prize-win-
ming novel, 1.-THE Good Earth" It's
your opportunity to win a valuable
prize!
See the photographs above?
Well, every day for five days The
Times will publish a similar set OF
two serially numbered photo
graphs. They will be pictures Of
international landmarks and inter
nationally known perSonages.
To qualify for a prize, all you'll
have to do is identify the pictures,
and when the entire set Of 10
photographs has been printed,
match up the pictures and submit
your entry. For example, the pic
lures that will match Niagara
Falls will be one of some famous
American, the picture that win
match Queen Mary will be that OF
some well-known English land.
mark. Get the idea?
First prize will be a silver loving
cup from Paul MUM and LuiSe
Rainier, the stars of the picture.
second and third prizes will be
Round the Good Earth" globe
radios, fourth prize SIS in cash,
fifth, $40 in cash, and the 20 next
best entries will each receive a pair
of guest tickets to see '"The Good
Earth" at the National Theater.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-05
I Cover HOll yWOOd

1898" set of the dressmaking
establishment, all being done in
color, is really something to see.
Those IL advertising models are
such beauties, they are a chinch
to go far. Warner Baxter looks
so magnificent in technicolor that
he would like to confine all his
movie activities to technicolor
from now on. Joan BENEFITS
new technicolor makeup, which
makes her look like an angel, is
practically nil, as makeup goes.
Just a little Hpstick, a tiny bit
Of rouge, a light powder and q
dab of mascara.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-05
Oracle Fields Pens
Is Postcards Daily

Oracle Fields, newly-arrived
British comedienne who last year
was chosen the most popular &C
tresS in the empire, is proving a
boon to the. postcard printers.
En- route across the-country, she
alighted from the train every day
to buy SO Of them, and once in
Hollywood, she placed a standing
order for Is every day. She is
sending them to her friends In
England as a means of saving the
time that letters would take.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-05

The next tWo-a-day picture will
be Metro-G oldwyn.Mayer's Cap
tains Courageous" The Rudyard
Kipling feature loked so good
at the ,preview it was Immediately
scheduled for reserved seat show
ing.
Captains Courageous" has
Spencer Tracy and Freddy Barthol
omew as its featured players and,
like "Mutiny on the Bounty" is
unique because it has no conven
tional love story.
So enthusiastic was the re
Spouse to the first Kipling story
that M-G.M bought the rights to
kim" This story has been held
by Maude Adams for long time
with the retired stage star plan
ming to make her debut as a pro
ducer in color. Evidently Maude
Adams has changed her plans.
Captains courageous" will have
Its first road show at the Locust
Theater in Philadelphia. April ID
THE TWO BILLIES
For more than a quarter of a
century burlesque fans have been
confusing the two Billy Watsons
much to the chagrin of Beef Trust
Billy, currently at the Gayety
Theater, and bringing in the
sheaves right merrily.
Beef Trust Billy actually has a
priority right. The other, Sliding
Billy Watson, took the name after
he had served a season as pinch
hitter.
=. His real name was Shapiro,
scowled Billy. And he worked fol
me. When had to take a season
off to get my own theater il
Paterson, N. j., going l sent Slid
ing Billy out on the road in m!
place. He was just an employ,
and I don't want to be confuseC
with him"
Still, to this day, amusemen
seekers confuse the two comics.
NUNS SEE SHOW
Nuns from the Holy Name an
Holy Comforter converts wer
among those who enjoyed weeE
end screenings Of ''Maytime."
was the first motion picture the
had seen in several years and tn
Mother Superior told Manager Al
gle Ratio they thoroughly el
joyed the picture.
BELASCO is DARK
The Pulitzer prize play, 9Th
Old Maid" was unable to get
permit for juvenile actors and S
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-05
Nice Pal

A five-foot California garter
snake was recently found in the
upholstery of a car in which Irene
Dunno and Director Reuben Nam.
oulian had ridden for two hours,
returning from High, Wide and
Handsome" location at Chino.