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Evening star., 1937-11-27
Where and When
|Current Theater Attraction.
and Time of Showing.

National-"To Be Continued" new
comedy with Luella Gear, 2:30 and
$3.50 pm
Palace-"The Firehy," jeanette Mac
Donald in the Friml operetta: Ii an,
1885, AIS, 6:55 and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"Stage Door," Hepburn,
Rogers, story of Broadwa.' called bet
ter than that of the play: 11:15 am,
1921, 1927, 5:37, 7:39 and Gas pm.
Capitol-"Second Honeymoon" ro-
nance in two doses: 1920 am, IL SIS,
3:20. 5:45, $40 and 1926 pm. Stage
shows: 1l:55 am, 2:25, 4:50, tbs and
$40 pm
Earle-"I'll Take Romance" Grace
Moore's singing: IL am, lao, 4:25,
7:10 and 9:55 pm. Stage shows: /,
3:45, $50 and 9:15.
Metropolitan "Alcatraz Island
drama against backdrop of prison
bars and walls: l1:55 am, 2, 4, 5:55,
7:55, $50 pm.
CoIumbia-"Ali Baba Goes to Town. II
Eddie Cantor nonsense under a tur-
ban: 1855 am, 1:55, 3:55. 1855 and
9:55 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Show
runs / hour and Is minutes continu-
ously from 10 am. to midnight.
Little-"ShoWboat revival of the
Jerome Kern-Edna Ferber musical.
IL am, los, $40, $40, 725 and $3.50
pm.
Ambassador-"Heidi Temple and
Hersholt: 2, 4:10, 6:15. and $50 pm
Penn-"Breakfast for Two" love
with fisticuffs: 2, 4:10, 6:15, sos and
$50 pm.
Sheridan-'Lancer Spy" LORE, Del
Rio, World War espionage: /, 3:20
5:35, 7:30 and $50 pm
Breakfast for Two: /, $50
4:45, GAO, 8:l5 and $50 pm.
Breakfast for Two: !
3, 5, $40, $40 and $50 pm.
HOward-"West of Shanghai" a
Boris Karloff thriller: 1890, 3:55, 1905
and 1910 pm. Stage shows: 2::3O
$50 and 9:l0 pm.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Cantor Film Back
At Columbia.

"A Ii BABA GOES TO TOWN." a
fanciful farce with more than a
nod toward the New Deal in its kid
ding, brought Eddie Cantor back to F
street and the Columbia yesterday for
another week. This product of Twen-
tieth Century-Fox is played in a spirit
Of high and dizzy comedy, and for all
the tales you may have heard of it's
being lusty satire, it is nothing of the
kind. 1t may be that in trying to
avoid that tendency its producers and
players lost some of the entertainment
value. Whatever the reason, it is not
superlative Cantor. though not without
its elements Of giddy humor.
A number of talented people help
Cantor to give the drama its verve,
the most helpful of the lot turning out
to be Roland Young. Mr.. Young is
the bewildered Pshah, or something,
of very depressed Baghdad. who ac-
cepts with alacrity Cantor's New Deal
formula for getting his country out of
the red, the dumps, or whatever it
was in.
Modern political verbiage sounds
funny coming from men in togas and
turbans, but not too dreadfully funny.
j. C..
Evening star., 1937-11-27

AIu h brightness dOOut IL, ClueInd
in the flyweight class, mayhap, but
still a champion in its class. 1t is
we'll acted, skillfully directed and has
q freshness which keeps 1t always di-
verting.
1t is the plot that keeps Second
Honeymoon" down in the flyweight
bracket, the plot having to do with
gal who marries and marries again,
only to find she was right the first
time and didn't know it. Loretta
Young is lass divorced from her
happy-go- lucky first husband, mar
ried to a sturdy, dependable chap.
In Miami she runs into the first hus-
band, impersonated by Tyrone Power,
and there are lot of high jinks, and
If you have to be told again that ro-
nance always conquers dependability
in the movies, don't expect us to tell
you.
But this framework is frightened
and brought to life by q slick script.
embellished by some clever dialogue
with the surface glitter of Hollywoods
best Null Cahrd manner. 1t has been
given considerable zest by Director
Walter Lang, who has kept things
moving swiftly and has always come
through when things have begun to
lag, interfering scenes for the laughs
there are in them, whether they have
any particular connection with the
story or not. This, of course, is not
exactly a recommended practice, but
1t works with Second Honeymoon"
All Of the principal players involved
also have much to do with making
Second Honeymoon" q pleasant diver
sion. Miss Young is one young lady
about whom that 'never-looked-
lovelier" line can be used in all sin
cerity and she has, as her career has
progressed. become more and more
facile with light comedy. Mr.. Power
Evening star., 1937-11-27

to make good taste an essential ele-
ment in good pictures and still draw
the public to the box Office Now
the fine support of that very purpose
has proved conclusively We were right.
"All over the country there are
committees interested in our efforts
for the betterment of films-socially
minded citizens who recognize the
power of pictures to entertain in an
honest fashion. The result has been
constant rising of picture support,
until people who never used to go
to the movies have joined the first
film fans.
Pictures of the quality of 'Zola,
In Old Chicago 'Buccaneer.' Stage
Door The Awful Truth Conquest,
Prisoner of zenda, One Hundred
Men and Girl 'Vogues of 1885,
Heidi and Hurricane have tapped
strata of audiences that were never
dreamed of at one time. Almost
every one now visits the movies.
With opportunity has come an
equal measure of responsibility. We
regard it as our duty and privilege
to serve that opportunity
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Evening star., 1937-11-27
Trans.Lux
Varied Shorts.
PARTICULARLY

short-subject array features the
Trans-Lux bill this week. Music, CON-
edy, travel and scientific novelties are
represented with each item, proving to
be one of the better efforts in its par
ticular line. Cliff (Ukulele Ike) Ed
wards is starred in Pacific Paradise -
with the Royal Hawaiian Orchestra
abetting in the production of island
rhythm. Lowell Thomas takes the au-
dience to Pitcairn Island. refuge of
the survivors Of the Bounty mutiny
The Popular Science release treats of
such subjects as delicate operations
for the removal of foreign matter from
the human body and the raising of
Angora rabbits. A Merrie Melody car
toon completes this portion of the pro-
gram.
Aeronautics take prominent place in
the neWsreels, with shots of Navy
bombers over the Pacific, Navy blnnps
over New York City, French battle
planes being setn to the Orient ane
Paris new modern airport being in
cluded Across the seas the camera
has caught President Cardenas inspect
ing Spanish war orphan village in
Mexico, Peiping under japanese rule
spectacular fire in Sydney, Australia
At home the footage depicts a nom
skid device for bridges, New York In
dians receiving yards of cloth under
terms of an old treaty. Park avenue
taking up the Big Apple, a 9-year-o
local publisher. ice skating at Rookie
feller Center, toys being made for the
Christmas trade, device designed to
halt speeding auto drivers, a day in
the training of War Admiral. the lat
est football thrills. launching of the
largest welded ship, a moving noun
tain in Los Angeles. the use of choco-
late milk as a sun-tan lotion.
c. A. NJ.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
First "Pearl Blond"
Is Betty Cradle.

A ND now the pearl blond"
She is lovely Betty Cradle, re-
Gently elevated to stardom by Para
mount for her singing, dancing and
acting in Thrill of Lifetime"
The unusual blond shade of Bettys
treSses attracted SO much attention on
the Paramount lot that Wally West
more, makeup and hair-dress expert,
attempted to match her hair and de-
scribe it.
The Cradle locks matched only with
strands of pearls, hence Betty is to
be known as the pearl blond" and a
new shade of blond hair is in demand
in Hollywood.
Evening star., 1937-11-27

finale of the third act Of Martha"
and duet from Madame Butter
fly" None Of these is dragged in by
the heels, song interludes seeming
always to spring full grown from the
script in Columbia productions, but
the last of the sequences mentioned
brings about startling revelation.
Miss Moore. thoroughly skilled in her
camera technique now and better
actress than most singers ever hope
to be, is decidedly awkward in the
scene she plays ION stage" with Frank
Forest, who sings the role of Pinker-
ton in Butterfly" This may be a
result of the inevitable temptation to
fall back into operate habits and
attitudes, or it may have been brought
on by Mr. Forests awkward manner
isms. Whatever the cause, one gets
that round and round the mulberry
bush sensation from seeing singer
who learned to act for the films
reverting to type in an opera photo
graphed as a part of cinema (if
you're still theah). Might also men,
tion that the storys wit gets ex-
tremely tired toward the end.
The other arias and gavottings
come off smoothly enough, with the
bit from "Manon" rather the best of
them. Incidental music includes IN
Take Romance" ballad by Ben
Oakland and Oscar Hammerstein, I'd,
and an old folk song entitled She II
Be Comm Round the Mountain"
X X X
SUPPLEMENTARY items at the
Earle: A short subject based on
Edward Everett Hale's The Man
Without a Country" in which every
body wears too much makeup for
the technicolor camera; Gomez and
Winona. first-rate dance team, which
is still only second best on the vaude-
vile bill; Kirby and Duval, comics,
who dig some good laughs out of
even post-holiday audiences; the
Honey family, who are honeys at ac-
robatics and teeter- board work
Evening star., 1937-11-27

pretty interesting until put to Mr..
Hays.
Mr. Hays has not been controlling
the big and little shots of the film
industry for nothing these last is
years. The Indiana lawyer, former
chairman of the Republican National
Committee and Postmaster General,
is past master at creating your ques-
tions and his answers. And after he
had smiled away the beginning of
my conversation, our interview began
with the question:
What are the most important func-
tionS Of the Motion Picture Producers
and Distributors of America, Inc? ?"
THE title of a picture comes first
Do we'll discuss it first" replied Mr..
Hays. MANY films begin by having
more than one title under considera-
ton. Usually all of these are registered
and consequently there are more titles
than films produced The same title
cannot be registered but once, but in
the old days there was confusion
of -near-duplication that might
be misleading to audiences. Some of
the titles were in bad taste We regu-
late this nowadays with department
Tor title registration. Before a title is
accepted for final registration, it
must pass eight different people. This
service is open to non-members as
well as members. Whoever registers
the title first gets it. OF course, there
are conflicts, even now, but these are
settled by arbitration. The producer
is given a maximum of 18 months
protection on registered title, and if
after that time, production has not
started. the title may be used else
where"
Before detailing the part played by
the Hays Office in motion picture ad-
'vertising, the president explained that
this branch of work was inStigated by
the advertisers themselves. The Ad.
vertising Advisory Council consists o.
advertising and publicity representa-.
tives of each motion picture company
"The all-important essential sait
Mr.. Hayes, lis to keep the STANDARD
of advertising as high as the stand
ard of pictures. If sign outside {
theater promises that the sights in
side are guaranteed to be bad-th,
public has been cheated twice.
And now we come to our part il
the picture itself" At this point il
the interview the subject became to'
large to keep Mr.. Hays in his chair
Gesticulating, emphasizing his points
he continued: THE picture naturall,
is our most important job. Imagine
man daily watching road 27,00|
miles long, Well, there are 27,00|
miles of our film passing every da.
through the exchanges in this countr,
alone, purposed to severe with prope
and now necessary entertainment tn
100000 men, women and children
who daily in America 60 to tn
movies"
X X
I'm the early days Of this organ
ization," he continued, there wer
those who insisted 1t as impossibl
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Critics Will Honor
FOREIGN PlaV.

THE Drama Critics Circle announces
that, in addition to its established
annual prize award to the years best
new American play, it will henceforth
award honorary citation to the best
new foreign play to be presented in
English each season on the New York
stage.
Inasmuch as the American theater,
more than any other. has become in
creasingly international in scope, the
circle believes that the new and added
tribute is the proper gesture away from
provincialism. The new award will
be predicated upon the same voting
system as obtains in the American
play award and will be announced 81
m mlltaneously with the latter at each
seasons end.
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Warmers Purchase
Adams Story.

WARNER BROS have obtained mo-
ton picture rights to another
story by Samuel Hopkins Adams, au-
thor of such cinema successes as 1T
Happened One Night" and The Per-
feet Specimen" The new story is
The Clarion" the exciting novel in
which Adams crusaded for pure food
and drug laws.
1t tells the story of a newspaper
editor who went on the warpath
against a patent medicine manufac-
turer, and is regarded as particularly
timely in view of the recent patent
medicine incident in which many died
Vincent Sherman will adapt the story
to the screen.
Evening star., 1937-11-27

public a right to
the private lives
of the S t a r So"
What is the fu-
ture Of films
It e C h n | color,
three d dimension
al, etc. 2" Does
bad a n d good
taste in pictures
v airy W 1t h the
years?" How do
you keep the film
moguls in order?"
Whom do you
have to please?"
And lots of others
[ h at seem e d
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Loves a Laughing Thing
In Capitol's New Film
"Second Honeymoon" Stars Loretta
Young and Tyrone Power.
Dave Apollon or Stage.
By HARRY MacARTHUR.

makers carefree individuals continue
adopted that laughing
handmaden Of bright moonlight
have much Of it, but Second
This spontaneiy
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Singer, Juggler Divide
HOnOrs at the Earle
Grace Moore Is Cinema's Star,
But Kavanagh Upholds an
Old Art on Stage.
By ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr.

HE Earle 1ha this week has two major points in Its
Moore
film I'll Romance The other the dexerity
While
Evening star., 1937-11-27
.Selznick Acts to Protect
"G0ne With Wind" Plot
Investigates to Determine if
"Jezebel" Film Will
Infringe on Novel.
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

HOLLYWOOD Nov q NANA)-Open
producers alleged infringement
along the Hollywood front declared
his from New
the Warner Brothers production Of be
l his valuable rights to Gone the
Disclosures this the Warner version of
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Hays Credits Higher Film
Standards to Public
Movie "Czar' Sees Fight
To Elevate Plane of
Pictures as Justified.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oLLYwooD Nov, 27 tNANAo-Pu to yourselves long room
table fanked Hollywood
of the Association of Motion Picture words
Hays office people
brunette
kindly
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Twizzler Answer.

Cruise No. took 94l4, cruise No
2 7414. cruise No. Al. and cruise
No 231..
Evening star., 1937-11-27
Buy Molnar Play.

nEL1LA," new Ferenc Molnar play,
has been purchased by M-G-M
Studios for early screen production
Evening star., 1937-11-27

consented to be interviewed .
Your correspondent has prepared
q list of questions, including Has the
Evening star., 1937-11-27

Scattered sights and sounds: To
counteract the beautiful Robert Tay-
lor" publicity engulfing their cham
pion Adonis M.-G.-M. plans a rough
and-tumble, herman picture for Tay-
lor to start work on as soon as he
returns from England in two weeks,
The Washington times., 1937-06-07
[ A N S | N 6
H | 7 B Y
STRIKE
Auto Plants, Stores
And City Hall
- Are Closed

LANSING, Mich, June 7(I.N.S.)
Rowing crowds of union demonStra-
tors, turned into the streets by
the first general strike call ever
issued by the C. I. O.'s United
Automobile Workers Union, today
completely paralyzed all business
and industry in Michigan's State
capital and seized Governor Frank
Murphy's outer office.
Automobile plants, department
stores, filling stations, grocery
stores, theaters, restaurants, bar
Der shopts, dime stores mad even
the City Hall were closed as q re-
suit of the labor holiday" staged
by the union to protest against the
arrest Of eight union pickets.
$4,000 workers Idle
A total Of more than Is, 900 wage
earnerS we're thrown into idleneSS
by the strike, and traffic was hope
lessly Snarled in the downtown
section as the idle converged on
the State capitol and the city and
county buildings to stage demon
STATIONS. Mayor Max Templeton
sent all workers at the City Hall
home for the day.
Governor Murphy returning
to Lansing from a weekend visit
in Detroit, Immediately called a
conference in his inner office of
Mayor Templeton, the county
prosecutor, the sheriff and police
officials.
Streets in the downtown Sec
ton were Systematically block.
AIDED as the unioniSts parked
their cars across main streets.
All bus and taxicab service was
halted.
Most Stores Closed
Most stores in the city were
closed. witnesses said bands Of
about 100 pickets roved the
streets, entered stores and asked
the owners to close them. In
all cases the owners complied.
Union lea ders said they
wanted to close everything in
Lansing"
Other results of the labor holi-
day. were:
More than 1000 uniOnists
Continued on Page 4, Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-06-07
WIFE DIES
IN PLUNGE
OFF BOAT
Near Place Where
Keene Disappeared
From Steamer

At the mouth of the Potomac
River, between Point Lookout and
Smiths Point, where Charles r.
Keene, '63-year-old Washington
real estate broker, is believed to
have disappeared from the river
steamer District of Columbia the
night of May 10, a Portsmouth
(Va.) woman leaped to her death
from the steamer Northland late
last night.
And by strange coincidence, the
woman, Mrs. Harriet Scott, IS, oc-
cupied cabin 10, the same number
as that occupied by Keene when
he sailed from Washington on
what he k0ld friend s q bush
ness trip TO Norfolk.
Seeking relief after the heat OF
yesterday, scores Of persons
crowded the decks of the North,
land and witnessed Mrs. SCOTS
leap over the rail. 4
Fail to Find Body
The steamer was stopped i'm;
mediately and a life boat launched,
but q search of more than an hour
failed to recover her body and the
vessel continued to Washington.
Mounting to the rail OF the
steamer, Mrs. Scott turned to q
group Of friends and called:
'Do you all want to see .
little act?"
Then, before anyone could pre-
vent her, she threw her purse
into the air and diyed overheard
while spectators screamed IN
horror.
Mother Of Son, Eight
Mrs. Scott, the mother Of an
eight-year-old- son, Herbert Scott,
jr., was coming to washington on
a sightseeing trip with a group
of members Of the Portsmouth
Matron's Sewing Circle. In the
group were her mother. Mrs. j..
w. Larkin, and her sister. Mrs.
Continued on Page 2, Col u
The Washington times., 1937-06-07

NEW YORK, June 7 QN.SO.
The drinker who has to have a
few shots" every day is not suffer
ing from a habit or weakness, but
like the hay fever victim, is SUI
fering from an allergy over which
he has no control.
After Is years Of continuous
study Of chronic alcoholism, that,
today was the conclusion Of DR..
w. D. Silkworth, chief Of staff OF
Charles B. Towns Hospital OF
New York.
DR.. Silkworth, who with his as
sociates, has developed a treat
rnent for habitual drunkards that
Is devoid of opiates or sedatives
contends that nearly every vic
tim Of true alcoholism is allergic
to alcohol. Or. Silkworth said:
The Washington times., 1937-06-07
CALL
MAY YIELD
NEWCLUE
Detectives Are Told
She Has Information
About Mystery

A woman who telephoned In,
spector Bernard w. Thompson.
chief Of detectives. that she has
information concerning the BAT.
fling Keene death case was to
be questioned by detectives to.
day.
Detective SergtS. Jerem ia h
Flaherty and Charles Carver. Of
the homicide squad, who are di.
recting the local investigation
into the death of Charles r.
Keene, 63-year-old real ESTATE
broker who disappeared from the
river steamer district Of cbluu.
bia the night OF May ~ ana
whose weighted body was found
in Chesapeake Bay off Smith Is.
land II days later, u spent the
morning questioning another
woman.
dearu cries. she Says
This woman reported she
heard screams on the boat, but
investigation showed she was on
the vessel two days after Keene
disappeared.
With the location of an auto.
mobile formerly owned by Keene,
a new mystery was injected into
the battling case.
When Keene's body was found
a brief case was tied around the
neck, and in the case was an auto
mobile jack, tire iron, hammer
and other articles.
Found by Detectives
Detectives Flaherty and Carver
found the jack intact in the car
formerly owned by Keene, adding
to the mystery as to where the
jack in the brief case came from.
The two detectives. assigned to
the case by Inspector Bernard W.
Thompson. chief of detectives,
have run down a number of clues
here, but so far have unearthed
no evidence that would tend 70
show if Keene was murdered or
ended his life.
In Baltimore, Sergt. Marlin
Brubaker, criminologist of the
Maryland State police, is still
working on a number of angles in
the case. but expects to wind up
the investigation this week and
give a final report to Somerset
county authorities, who have
Jurisdiction.
The Washington times., 1937-06-07
Drunk? No! Tell Wife
You're "'AIIergic''

"We may set it down as a
fundamental proposition that
alcoholism is not a habit and
that drunkenness and alcohol
ism are not synonymous"
There is the type who can't
leave liquor alone, DR.. Silkworth
said, and who have developed GER
tain definite physical symptoms
readily recognizable to the medi'
cal man. He added:
"The inevitable conclusion is
that true alcoholism Is an al.
lergic state, the result Of grad
uaIIy increasing senSitizatiOn by
alcohol over a more or less ex-
tended period Of time. The con-
stancy Of the symptoms and
progress is too fixed to permit
any other explanation"
The Washington times., 1937-06-07
Stock Yards Strike
Leaves Hungry Cattle
As Innocent Victims

EAST ST. LOUIS, H., June Z
IN.S0.-Nearly $4,000 head OF
livestock, with only a handful OF
volunteers to serve them. beloved
and bleated for food and water to-
day as 800 stock handlers of the
st. Louis National Stock Yards
Company, East st. Louis, went on
strike.
The strikers demanded a wage
increase from IS cents an hour to
a basic pay of S. cents an hour. A
company offer to compromise the
demand at AZ cents an hour was re-
jected.
The Washington times., 1937-06-07
GIVES
YARD PUZZLE

LONDON. June 7 UN.S0.
What may prove to be England's
greatest modern kidnapping mys.
terry puzzled Scotland Yard today
with the strange disappearance
of Diana Battye, 21-year-old society
beauty who sought to drop her
gay life among the nobility for a
motion picture career.
Seven anonymous letters threat.
ening abduction were received by
Miss Battye during March and
April-and then on coronation
day there occurred a weird Incl.
dent which Scotland Yard dis.
missed at the time but which is
now linked to her fade-out.
Near the home Of her coronation
hostess, Viscountess Long, the girl
was slashed with a razor twice
over the eye by an unidentified
man.
Posted Letter to Fiance
On June / Miss Battye walked
out of the home fof Viscountess
Long to post letter to her fiance,
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-06-07
ID. G. Doctors to Show
sPsychO-Sul.gery''

tation, nervous indigestion and
hysterical paralysis.
Originally announced by DR..
Egas Moniz, of Lisbon, Portugal,
the technique will be demon
strated at the annual assembly Of
the American Medical Association
here today by Drs. James w.
watts, walter Freeman and Ralph
w. Barris, of George Washington
University Medical School.
OF 20 patients on whom 1t has
been tried, IS per cent were great.
ly improved" and so per cent
moderately improved" it was
claimed.
Some neurologists, after a pre-
view Of the exhibit, were skeptical
and predicted the method would
meet with considerable criticism.