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The Washington times., 1937-11-06

Lamb import flock of movie stars for stnight personal
appearances. -
Your correspondent then editing the Camp Meade Herald
iourneyed town the W. B. A. managed to wangle
couple passes from Larry Beas then happy over
being selected manager of Washngton rtzy movie cathe
dra Angie Ratio his assistant and Ernie johnson
the first cymbalbeaer for the Loew magnificence
Quite delegation of movie stars came from New York to
fill the boxes at the premiere There Carlyle Blackwell
one of the silent screens favore Romeo; Lila Lee Gladys
Leslie Frank Looms (who was heO and Charlie Ray
The show opened with the singing of "StarSpanged Ban
ner with Julia Kelety Winter Garden soprano, leading the
audience Theodore Vail conducting the orchestra Them
now, few knew all the words Of the anthem
Next Rita Jovet, survivor of the Lusitania tragedy
stepped from the wings to center stage told OF the sea horror
requested the audience to pay onemnute silent tribute to
Americas fighting and remembrance to the lnno
cent who persisted victims of wars ruthlessness
Artist James Montgomery Fagg announced that he had
painted picture of Miss Jovet which hanging in the
lobby, and that it would be auctoned off the following week
proceeds go the United Welfare fund The noabe had
the spotlight rays to battle in
Molly King brought the show back to entertainment with
spirited dance the curtain dropped for the feature
picture Johanna Enists starring the industy greatest
celebrity, Mary Pickford.
Prices were Is and 20 cents morning and afternoons Is
2 and So cents after D. Few suspected then that what
destined be the most successful theaer operation
the United States has started the opening chapter.
Keths vaudeville house the most successful heater in
Washington at the time with Lew Dockstade and the Duncan
sisters the type attractions for the week Underlined
was the coming of Lillian Russell in SKETCH Some
where With Pershing."
For Ninth Street as movie opposition the new enterprise
the Strand offering Cornne Griffith (now Mrs George
P Marsha the of Girl of Today" The Garden
featuring Gladys Leslie in Binding Passion and the Leader
took generous advertising space in the newspapers to broad
cast about "The Kaiser's Finish"
On Street the Columbia announcing, latter
tions and redecoraon opening with Douglas Fair
banks in HE Comes Up Smiling" Crandall's up to then
the No theater the movie booming official
films prepared by George Crees bureau and called Amer
lea s Answer"
Down Polls Theater the Avenue soldiers from Camp
Megs presenting musical comedy, alta Boy" and
the National Theaer offering Mary Ryan in The Little
Teacher week later came the armistice.
Congratulations then to Loews Palace celebrating the
nineteenth anniversary
1t has always lived Prosperity Street is the No. theaer
Loew's black profit ledgers.
Biggest weeks receipts in history: Mae Vests I'm No
Angel with 1345 in 1885, including extra selou mid
night opening. Lowest week. make Way For Tomorrow, in
1887, receipts $1,000.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06

The Paramount casting de-
partment is looking for a stand
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
By HARRISON CARROLL
Copyright. 1887, by International
News Service)

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5.-Ar-
rangementS were made today
by Warner Brothers for a record
train to bring back from loca-
ton the Adventures of Robin
Hood" company. Twenty Pull
man, 16 baggage cars and nu-
merouS horse cars and flat cars
will run in two sections, leav-
ing Chico, Cal, 900 miles to the
north.
More than 400 persons, 100
horses and numerous trained
animals, such as deer, squirrels,
dogs and three owls, were sent
north to film Sherwood Forest"
scenes for the picture, all to be
done in technicolor.
Five huge technicolor cam
eras, nearly half the entire num-
Der in the world, have been in
use at Chico, with Tony Gaudio,
1886 academy award winner, in
charge of all photography.
Everv available hotel, auto
court and boarding house room
in Chico and the vicinity was
preempted to accommodate the
invading force.
An extremely thoughtful man
is Director Ernst LubitSch.
When production started on
P ar a cunt is "Bluebeard'S
The Washington times., 1937-11-06

stumped when he tried to give
lessons to Cecilia Parker on how
a silly girl would act All the
portable dressing-room sets on
the Everybody Sing" set have
been equipped with radios, but
Director Edwin L. Marin has
had a control switch put in so
he can turn them off when the
cameras and sound turn on
Courtney Foote, the writer, and
Oscar Radin, veteran orchestra
conductor, who used to know
each other right we'll on Broad
way, had a reunion the other
day Director w. S. Van
Dyke likes the new scent stamp
right well because it has West
Point scene on it and he's max
ing a picture with much West
Point locale John Beal is
the most dilligent gentleman
here, working on his French les
sons >. Phyllis WEIGH has taken
up writing
The Paramount casting de-
partment is looking for a stand
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
Hollywood = By Ed Sullivan

stage. I never knew exactly
what I most wanted to do until
1T Happened One Night So
Frank Capra not only started
me off in 1927-he cleared I'D
my whole future in 1885 by
showing me what comedy can
achieve. I want to have, say.
four comedies out of every six
pictures, with perhaps one spec.
tacle picture, and one drama"
At that moment, word came
back to the dressing room that
MeSSrs. Lubitsch and Cooper
would like to have Miss Colbert
Scram back to the department.
store counter. "Goodby. funny.
face" said she.
Copyright, 1887 by Chicago Tribuna.
N. =. News Syndicate, Incl
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Continued from Page 1877
play, having triumphed over the
dynamo and won the love of
Anders, I had to stare at the
dynamo and say, in all serious
ness: Dynamo, 1 love YOU
Well, you can imagine what the
Broadway wise-crackers did to
me and that line. 1t aroused
so much teasing and kidding
that eventually I was afraid to
walk down Broadway. Even to-
day, when 1 look at a moving
picture camera, I shudder."
Her future? 1T have five years
more, probably, in the movies,
and the parts I'd like to play
on the screen are those light
comedy parts which Ina Claire
and Lynn Fontanne play on the
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
The MiIIion-DoIIor Story
CONTINUED from Page 2O)

of their blood-she would abdicate And with that
single threat the catastrophe averd but bring
the death Of her beloved Albert for in redraftng note to
the United States the Prince Consort contracted chill which
to develop into fatal Illness the being that two
weeks later he was taken from Victoria.
No one knowing through what travail they had passed.
could witness her grief without weeping with her This strug
gle within the soul of whose solitary grandeur
made her alone amid the millions of her subjects than
the humbest of them.
Here surely thought is truth vital than fiction
Here certainly is great love story So took it to the
makers of motion pictures started tell them about Vic
toria and Albert but seldom got beyond the mention of
her
Faith kndled faith and flared into supreme effort an
effort not common to all who produce pictures whether in
Hollywood or in British studios
The Washington times., 1937-11-06
BEHIND THE SILVER SCREEN

in for Cecil B. De Mile. The
producer-director is to turn
actor for a short Herbert Moul-
ton is making to introduce Fran
ciska Gaal, whom De Mile stars
opposite Fredric March in
THE Buccaneer. Production
of the short will introduce the
novelty of De Mile taking direc-
ton, instead of giving it, and
from Moulton, a former press
agent of his.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06

Eighth Wife," the studio, as is
its custom, furnished a special
chair for Gary Cooper to occupy
on the set.
Yesterday LubitSch appeared
on the set with a second chair
with Cooper'S name on it. The
first chair, he explained, will
henceforth be for Cooper, and
the second one for Cooper'S feet.
I want the members of my
cast to be comfortable and no
man who is six feet, three inches
tall can be comfortable in one
chair" he said. Wise man, this
LubitSch.
Speaking again of directors
Cecil B. De Mile, who made
riding breeches and boots the
symbols of directorial sartorial
Splendor, has a new wrinkle in
dress. He appeared yesterday
on the set of THE Buccaneer,"
in which he is re-creating events
of the war of 1872, with a suede
necktie in solid color. He says
he has variety of them. Also
that it takes three men and a
boy to get them knotted in
the morning. However, they're
very elegant, if he doesn't get
choked to death some one of
these foggy mornings.
This and that-Young SUI
anne Larson is recipient of a
charm bracelet from school
chums in Minneapolis q. George
Seitz, the director, really was
The Washington times., 1937-11-06

slstent rumors of an ap-
preaching armistice. The
aters were in a mood indigo.
They had been dark for
"heatless" Mondays, with
doors closed, and the Palace
premiere had been delayed
three weeks by Nick Schenck,
of Loew's, Inc, because of
the ravaging ''flu" epidemic.
Auto rides forbidden on Sun
days to conserve gasoline.
Roland Robbins was stop
ping his vaudeville perform
ances at Keith's nightly at 8
p. M, turning down the lights
and leading the audience in
80 seconds Of silent prayer
for the boys overseas. Min
ute men were breaking in on
the movie shows for three
minute talks on the Liberty
Loan.
But now there was talk of
peace. So Nick Schenck and
w a liter Brownley, then
Loew's division manager, de.
cided to issue the invitations
light up the imposing cinema
designed by Thomas W.
The Washington times., 1937-11-06

Gleanings
and
Screenings

By Andrew R. Kelley

Turn back the calendar to the night of November 1918
and the glamorOus opening of Loew Palace Teaer
Street
Washington alive with talk mingled with the per-
Evening star., 1937-10-14
WELLS SCHEDULED
FOR OPEN FORUM
"A View of Things to Come to
Be Historians Theme on First
American T0ur.

Washington audiences will have an
opportunity during the Winter to hear
lectures by five outstanding thinkers
Of the day, starting with H. G..
Wells, the Washington Open Forum
announced today.
The famous British historian and
novelist will speak at Constitution
Hall the night of November on "A
View Of Things to Come" Mr.. Wells
has just arrived in New York to start
his first American lecture tour.
Other speakers will appear in the
order named, the dates of their lee
lures to be announced later: Dale
Carnegie, human relations counselor.
author Of How to Win Friends and
influence People; Count Raoul de
Sales, noted French journalist, who will
speak on The International Situa-
ton; Sinclair Lewis, the American
novelist, whose subject will be How
to Make Friends Go Like the Wind"
and Thomas Mann, German novelist.
Both Mann and Lewis are Nobel
Prize winners for literature. and De
Sales recently was awarded the
Swartzburg Prize for outstanding
work in promoting a better under
standing between France and Amer
ica."
Jesse H. Knight is chairman of the
Forum, and the directors include DR..
Norman Gerstenfeld and Mrs. j. D.
Craig.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
BISHOP RHINElANDER|
SEMINARY TRUSTEE.
Elected With Is Others to Gen.
eral Theological Board of
P. E. Church.

The Right Rev. Philip M. Rhine
lander, former head Of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania,
who lives at 3510 Woodley road, was
elected one of Is trustees of the Gen.
eral Theological Seminary, New York,
at the convention OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church yesterday, accord
ing to an Associated Press dispatch
from Cincinnati.
Bishop Rhinelander retired as head
OF the Pennsylvania diocese in May,
1928.
Other trustees chosen we're:
The Right Rev. John c. Ward,
Bishop of Erie, Pa; the Right Rev.
Charles Clingman. Bishop of Ken
lucky; the Right Rev. John T. Dallas,
Bishop of New Hampshire; the Right
Rev. Robert E. Gribbin, Bishop of
Western North Carolina; the Rev. DR..
William Way of Charleston, S. c.: the
Rev. Arthur B. Cummings of Rich
mond Hill, Long Island; the Rev. Rob-
ert Williams of Princeton, N. j.; the
Rev. Rolf Brooks of New York, the
Rev. DR.. Charles A. Jessup of Buffalo,
N. Y; Judge Origen S. Seymour OF
Litchfield. Conn.,. and Samuel Hoff-
man. Col. George w. Burleigh, Edward
]. Warren and William Harrison, all
Of New York.
Evening star., 1937-10-14

at least q muffler or an improvised
shelter to protect them from the chill
The hunting dogs had an advantage
over other entries less Injured to the
hardships Of the out Of doors.
Over 500 Entries.
More than 800 entries had been
lined up before the judging started this
morning. The program includes .
dog auction, = contest determined the
tr1ckiest dog and another in which the
blowers of fox horns will compete
The dog mart was revived 10 years
ago by the local Chamber Of Com
merce, after an old custom here prac-
ticed by the Indians aud early settlers
Before 100 the settlers and the red
skins named . day each Nil to bring
dogs together for barter ID trads.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
FIDELITY CONTRACT
TO GO TO COURT SOON
Treasury to Ask Approval Of Pro.
posed Sale Of Building and
Loan Assets.

The contract for sale of Fidelity
Building IL Loan Association assets
70 the new First Federal Savings Il
Loan Association probably will be sub
mitted to. court for approval early
next week.
This was the prospect today, follow
Ing approval yesterday of the form of
the contract by all three agencies
concerned, the FIRST Federal board of
directors, the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board and the controller of the
currency, who Is in charge of Fidelity,
through his receiver, James H. Nolan
A petition is being prepared at the
Treasury Department to ask court
approval of the proposed sale. To-
gether with the contract, the petition
will be presented to court by the re-
ceiver, represented by counsel. Under
regular procedure. it is expected the
court will then set date for a public
hearing on the proposal. Ordinarily
the court sets date about 10 days
or two weeks ahead.
Evening star., 1937-10-14

packs Of fox hounds to show at the
mart was Andrew Jackson, colored, 64,
Of near Spottsylvania, veteran hunter
whose rough and ready dogs are known
to farmers for miles around for their
stamina and trailing ability. Jackson,
who won the fox horn blowing contest
last year, came equipped with . huge
horn from 4 Texas steer, scraped thin
1T the big end, with which he hoped to
retain his championship.
Judges of the show include Walter
JOHNSON, former base ball star; Ford
E. Young and George Berner Of the
Old Dominion Kennel Club, s. A.
Woolner Of the Washington Kennel
Club, James Jones, Richmond sports
writer; Mac Hart, Virginia State Game
Commission socrdRry, and G. B. Car.
michaie Of Eredaveksburg.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
FREE HOT LUNCHES
PLAN TO Be PUSHED
Workers Tonight to Report
Progress on Starting of
Project on Monday.
Room Isl. MoyAower Hotel

Progress will be reported an plans
co-ordihated for service Of free hot
lunches to 5000 undernourished school
children Monday at = joint meeting
of all workers on the project at
o'clock tonight at Wesley Hall, 1903
K street.
According to reports from Mrs.
James NJ Doran, treasurer of the
Citizens Emergency Committee. funds
have risen to about $4,000 today, leav-
ing $4,000 more to be raised before
the project can be started. The Works
Progress Administration, which pro-
vides the labor costs of the lunch
service, has fixed $4,000 as the
amount necessary for the community
to raise to cover food costs for q
three-month project. Food and other
non-labor costs for the year which
the committee is working 10 raise total
$67,500.
Mrs. Doran said she expected .
large sum to come in from the series
of vanishing teas which are now well
under way.
Tomorrow night the Younk Demo-
Gratis Of the District are to stage .
benefit dance for tue fund at the
Old Dominion Boat Club in Alex
andria and 7-cent lunch will be
given by the T. Arthur Smith Con-
cert Bureau for every ticket sold fol
the opera "Rigoletto" at the Rialte
Theater Tuesday night.
The committee urged all merchant,
to cooperate in the Silent Guest
campaign by placing \ milk bottle ir
plainly visible place with . sigr
urging Take 4 hungry child tt
lunch today-it only costs cents.
Receipts should be sent in to com.
mittee headquarters at the Mayfiowel
according to Mrs. John Boyle, jr.
chairman,
Evening star., 1937-10-14
'Clorified JUNK Is Offered
For Sale at Arts Club Fete
Members Haze Dug Into Carrots to
Provide articles for La FOire
Aux CrOuteS.

Ever hear of a hot-water ice cuber?
There is at least one of them. 1t is
one Of the many surprises turned up
by members of the Arts Club in a
hunt through their garrets and dusty
shelves for odds and ends which they
were tired Of having around the house
The collection-including such stuff
as a set Of sachets with the sachet all
gone and an already squeezed tube Of
Yardleys tof London) complexion
cream-has its place in La Foire aux
Croutes (The Fair of the Crusts)
which opens today for three-day run
at the Arts Club. 20l7 1 street.
1t was started on the idea that
everybody has a lot of white ele-
plants" lying about the house and
would be glad Of a chance to get rid
Of them. But no one foresaw the odd
Assortment that would result, such as:
An egg cup from Jerusalem, . mask
Of Gertrude Stein, couple of pairs of
ladies' used bed room slippers, q chair
back with no seat, perfume bottle
candlestick with the perfume half
gone, a used toothbrush, two slightly
Clipped soap dishes. a nicked knitting
needle, . wine bottle with an inside
built-in bottle for ice, an old clock
that won't run, 4 set OF flowered and
runed window curtains, etc.
Evening star., 1937-10-14

The hot-water ice cuber is about
the trickiest gadget Of the lot A relic
Of the pre-electric refrigerator era,
it has space at the top for hot water,
with cube receptacles at the bottom.
The idea is to fill it with hot water,
then hold it down on big cake of ice
and wait for the heated aluminium to
cut out ice cubes.
All the white elephants" have been
dumped in ''glorified junk sale" booth
at the fair. If anybody is willing to
pay money for them, the proceeds will
go into fund for a new fire alarm
system and new balcony on the rear
Of the club house
There Is much more to the fair, of
course. 1t is advertised as echoing
the "joie de vivre" of the popular mar
kets and fairs of old Paris.
The fair was to begin at 2 pm. to-
day and will be open from 2 to 10
pm. each day through Saturday. A
sidewalk cafe will offer ices and other
refreshments, waffle shop will op-
crate in the garden, a book stall is
stocked with variety Of books. and
all manner of art objects produced
by members of the club are on sale.
The Arts Club Follies" will be pre-
sented on the club house stage each
evening at 7:45 and again at 9 o'clock.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
Isoak Walton League Charts
National Slaughter House Fight
Countrywide Driue Planned to Back
Bill to Tax Industry for Excess
Sewerage Costs.

sioners undoubtedly will ask Congress
for that protection. 1t would be the
duty Of the Commissioners, in fact,
to require not only this proposed
slaughter house but any other indus
try to bear its share of the expense.
Washington is not a city OF heavy
industries. 1t was never intended to be-
This slaughter house. to my mind,
certainly would be blight upon the
city and,t if possible. it should not be
permitted to operate"
Any assistance that the Izaak WAL
ton League could render to help bring
such industries under proper control
or to keep them from operating in
the National Capital. Mr.. Seal said,
would be welcomed by District Off
cials.
Local Campaign Mapped.
The resolution paving the way for
. local campaign against the Gobel
company was offered by DIR. Lewis
Radcliffe, president of the Regional
Council, representing locals in the
District, Maryland and Virginia. 1t
read:
Whereas any business must depend
on the good will of the community
IN which it operates for success:
And whereas the citizens of this
city generally look with disfavor on
the plans to construct an abattoir
within its limits:
And whereas the citizens expect to
employ every power at their command
to prevent the further pollution of
our waterways;
care Of the waste from this plant
will cost thc taxpayers from SIS 900
to $4,000 annually: Therefore be it
Resolved, That this organization
urges the Gobel company to abandon
its plan to build an abattoir in this
city. Be it further
Resolved, That we urge the citizens
associations, the women's clubs and
other civic organizations to take SINH
lar action to reveal the widespread
opposition to this construction by the
people of this city"
DR.. Radcliffe said he would start
the resolution on its round of citizens
associations tonight.
Frank Bell United States commits
sioner OF fisheries, was prevented by
of1icial duties from attending the
meeting. He had expected to lecture
to the members on strides made IN
the preservation OF game fish. Instead
Milton James of the Bureau of Fish
cries showed motion pictures, THE
Story Of a Trout" the latest reel put
out by the bureau.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
SESSION TO SPEED
FEDERAL PAY BILL
Committees Expected to
Shape Salary Minimum and
LiberaIized Retirement.
BY J. A. O'LEARY.


Pending legislation to fix $1,000
year minimum salary for the Gov
ernment service, and to liberalize the
retirement law for Federal employees
may be expedited as a result of the
call for special session November Is.
While leaders OF both branches of
Congress will concentrate on the meas
ures that prompted the President TO
call the early session, once the law
makers assemble there will be nothing
to prevent committees from holding
hearings and doing preliminary work
on other subjects.
There is little likelihood that either
the House or Senate will have an op-
portunity to act on the Government
salary and retirement measures during
the special session, but If the Civil
Service Committees should succeed in
whipping the bills into shape during
November and December, both meas
ures would be in better position to
obtain consideration on the floor at
the regular session than If Congress
had not returned until January.
Plan Already Recommended.
Raising the lowest salary brackets
under the classification act up to a
$1,000 minimum was recommended
shortly before the August adjourn
ment by the Civil Service Commission,
and was introduced by Representative
Ramspeck OF Georgia and Senator
Bulow of South Dakota, chairmen,
respectively. Of the House and Senate
Civil Service Committees. Six months
earlier Senator McCarran, Democrat,
of Nevada, had opened up the subject
by urging the Government to set a
minimum standard of $500 in its
own service, and to give some increase
in other brackets not exceeding $500
year. The 81 200 bill which the Civil
Service Commission proposed later is
regarded as an administration meas
ure.
The commission also is sponsoring
one plan for revision of the civil serv-
ice retirement law, but it is expected
there will be a number Of other pro-
posals put forward when the subject
is considered. Senator Neely, Demo-
crat, Of West Virginia. had pending q
bill to lower the age limits for optional
retirement. after 30 years of service
before the Civil Service Commission
drew up its proposed revision.
Subcommittee Set Up.
The Senate Civil Service Committee
already has a subcommittee to deal
with retirement changes, composed oi
Senators Nicely, McKellar, Democrat
Of Tennessee, and Gibson, Republican
of Vermont.
Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the
Joint Conference on Retirement OF
Civil Service Employees, expressed hope
today that the Senate Subcommittee
may find it possible to make progress
in the working out OF more liberal
retirement measure during the special
session to be taken up for action In
January. Optional retirement earlier
than under present law is the main
feature under discussion, but the pend
ing bills differ considerably in detailed
conditions.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
BAND CONCERT

BY the Army Band In the audito-
mum at 4:30 pm. today. Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub
ner, assistant.
March, Garry on, Loyola,"
Cupero and Chapman
Overture, "Sakuntala" -Goldmark
Fox trot, THE Shag,"
Nieuberg and Levinson
Cornet solo, Carnival of Venice"
Clarke
Ralph K. Ostrom, soloist.
March, "The Military Maestro"
Becker
Waltz, Chinese Lanterns" -Jaxone
March, Guardians of the District
OF COLUMBIA ------ -----Stephan
THE stakspangled Banner"