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Evening star., 1937-09-18

smoking maestro, Ben Bernie. The
food here is the best in q bad food
town.
Wednesday At the Trocadero
with Landon Laird, drama editor Of
the Kansas City Star. (Some one
should sign him up for the movies.
He's good looking-and nice) Pro-
ducers Fanchon and Marco are enter
tanning 100 members of the Thrill Of
a Lifetime" cast with the idea of
popularizing the big apple dance ritual.
Johnny Downs and Eleanore Whitney
warm up the crowd. while Larry Crabbe
makes strange noises at the micro
phone Then Judy Canova, the
hill-billy girl who claims Charley
Mccarthy was the wooden hearted
triangle in her romance with Edgar
Bergen, struts her stun aided by 20
wriggling big apple" exponents. When
the excitement subsidies, the orchestra
strikes up Happy Birthday to Bob
Benchley." It's the humorist's 48th
birthday anniversary and he's having
fun with the David Selznick's, Simone
Simon, Gene Markey and beauteous
damsel from the East. The band plays,
Darling, You Are Growing Older"
Thursday -. To dinner with Freddie
Bartholomew and Aunt Cissy. I'm
prepared to take Freddie back to Lon
don If M-G-M does not keep the ver-
bal promise of paying him $2,500 a
week." states Miss Bartholomew. Fred
dies first Hollywood salary was $l35
weekly
Copyright, 1897. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1937-09-18
Sports Shots Top
TranS.Lux Bill.

MOST footage to sports this week
at the Trans-Lux, with recrea-
tlonai activity, some of which smacks
strongly OF work, receiving extensive
ceilulold treatment on both news and
snort subject sides of the program.
sports Greatest Thrills" presents
action shots of polo, rodeo. auto and
motor cycle racing and stunting in
alrplanes. Fencing" brings out the
nne points OF this form OF contest as
demonstrated by members OF the
olympic championship team. Current
snots include the National Cup Stee-
plechase, the Narragansett Special
loot ball practice across the Nation
soft ball game, women wrestlers.
the District boat regatta.
Among the news topics of this coun-
try are the calling of a special cabinet
meeting by the President; United
states Army recruits sailing for China
New York City preparing for the
american Legion convention; obsery-
ance OF the 150th anniversary of the
constitution; expose of an American
Na1 organization; the Chicago epi-
oemic forcing teaching by radio; an
interview with Miss America: the
newest styles in headdress. Abroad
war In the Orient holds its top posi-
tlon, but there are gymnastics in Aus.
tralla and a Cuban celebration te
oi1er relief. Novelties are present.
The opening Of Clara Bows "It" Cafe;
bottle cafeteria for pups; tractors
being used to hunt alligators in Flori.
da; record salmon run hating worl
on a dam.
Completing a quartet of shorts ar.
q film tour through Paris, shown,
al the objects OF tourist interest, ane
"Scary Crows" a refreshing Colo,
'hapSooy cartoon. G. A. M.
Evening star., 1937-09-18

as an intelligent and witty farce. a
reversal Of form no doubt due to the
minlstrations of screen writer named
Herman j. Mankiewicz.
my Dear Miss Aldrich" was written
directly for Edna May Oliver, and in
1t that skilled comedienne lays aside
some of the trite exaggerations which
have marred her more recent screen
appearances. Here she snorts and dith-
ers in the best Ia Oliver manner, set
ting a pace that keeps every moment Of
the film foolish II not alive. Miss
Oliver also contributes handsomely to
the script writer's intentions by pok-
ing proper amount of impatient sar-
casm at the cinemas concepts OF news
paper life.
While none might suspect from
It's title, MY Dear Miss Aldrich" is
a newspaper comedy -melodrama, q
phrase that recently has struck fear
and some nausea into the souls OF the
more ardent believers in the cinema
1t is, however, acutely leavened with
irony, ribbing the gaudy socks off most
of Hollywood's great and inaccuraute
masterpieces about newspaper work.
Assisting in this very decent bit of
tarring and feathering are Walter
Pidgeon and Maureen O'Sullivan, the
former obviously one of the more useful
leading men on the coast today. and
Miss O'Sullivan. like her senior COL
league, Miss Oliver, at last found in a
reasonable role. Janet Beecher and
Paul Harvey have small roles, and
there is not night club scene in the
whole darned picture. Not night
club, that is, where the room is full of
bad jokes, smoke and torch singers.
Evening star., 1937-09-18
Second Week
For Deanna'S
Picture
100 Men and Girl"
Remains at
Keith'S.

TINE singing from the house
tops you have heard this last
week about the vicinity of Fiji
"A teenth and F streets has en-
anated from Hardie Meakin. Mr.
Meakin is doing his singing and shout
ing his huzZahs because, in case you
haven't heard, his Keith's Theater is
the home now for a second week OF
one of the finest grand and glorious
musical cinemas Hollywood has turned
out.
The title of it, of course, is 100
Men and Girl" and the stellar con-
tributors Of its music are Deanna
Durham and Leopold Stokowski, who
have no peers in their respective
fields. And the film story the Uni
versal people have woven about their
talents is thoroughly enjoyable right
down to its dregs-a yarn that is
warm and human and has many a
tug at the heart-strings.
You will thrill to every moment OF
the story OF an appealingly, attractive
14-year-old girl and her struggles to
find a place in the sun for her out
of-work musician father and SO OF
his out-of- work friends. You'll praise
the story, but more than that you'll
want to throw your hat in the air
and cheer Henry Roster for his di-
rection. Not once has he interrupted
the proceedings, said figuratively, Nov
we will stop and have musical num-
ber." The music here is an integral
part OF the plot.
And it is music that is glorious
treat. 1t includes Tschaikowski's s
Fifth Symphony" ''Liszt's Second
Hungarian Rhapsody" the introduce
ton to the third act Of "Lohengrin
and maybe a few other things, by
Leopold Stokowski and the Philadel-
phia Symphony, and if anybody can
play things of that sort better we'd
like to hear them. Other delightful
music is contributed by Miss Durbin
who gives her clear-toned, true and
thrilling voice to Mozart's "Alleluja,
THE Drinking Song" from La Ira
viata" and popular tune written
especially for her.
There's q lot more to be said for
100 Men and Girl" but the prin-
cipal thing to be said is that you
had better not pass it up. H. M.
Evening star., 1937-09-18

~ BC1 iIltO SpOtS, LleTe were OLlerS
into which they let old wrinkles come.
That was bad, as bad as the para
phrase Of Shakespeare attempted In
that last sentence.
Valiant is the word for the attempt
that has been made to freshen up the
story OF Double or Nothing" 1t is
decked out with some pretty trick
stuff thought up by Hollywood's art
ful situation creators, and even trick
Ter stuff worked out by the director
and camera crew. The combination,
one supposes, is responsible for the
final effect in which huge revolving
stage is used to move a night club
into the building next door just as
the sheriff is about to take over the
original site. Think of that!
Double or Nothing" which won't
surprise any one a bit, casts Crosby
rs wandering, wistful troubador-
= boy with laugh in his heart, a
tear in his voice and an ambition to
own night club. The action is diff
ferent this time, in that his desire
to own night club springs from the
fact that If he can double his $4,000
with it he will get million dollars
extra from an eccentric old gent who
is watching it all, presumably, from
heaven. Three others are in on the
scheme with Bing. And four members
Of the eccentric's family are pitted
against Bing and his pals. You guess
the rest of it.
THE suspense of Double or Moth
ing" is an intermittent thing. The
interval in which it is best maintained
Is when a golf pro starts shooting for
the $4,000 hole-in-one prize on a golf
range which the fortune seeking quar-
tet uses as one device to double the
$4,000. That is good idea which
you haven't seen before.
Evening star., 1937-09-18

So is that in which Miss Raye, an
old strip-tease girl, goes into her song
and dance and undressing when
bands strike up the old theme song.
The times and places she chooses for
the act make it one of the most anus
ing sequences of the film. 1t Is funny,
even the second time she does it.
Crosby's night club, toward which
the picture always is working, turns
out to be very lavish affair, but
when the floor show comes on 1t some
how seems to fall short of the decora-
tions and the applause of the people
sitting around at the tables. OBJ
viously they can't have been people
who live in towns where vaudeville
still lives, for they would have rec
ognized every act, especially the CAL
gary brothers
THE best speciality OF the night club,
so far as we were concerned, was
the sing band; sing, not swing. The
sing band, which substitutes the hu-
man voice for the various instru-
ments, Stimulates everything you hear
In big bands, including the vibra-
phone. 1t is to the accompaniment
OF this band that Bing sings 1.-The
Moon Got in My Eyes," which ought
to be the hit number of Double or
Nothing" That's Crosby at his old
best, the troubadour with the torch.
THE Natural Thing to Do" and "All
You Want to Do Is Dance" are a cou-
pie OF others which you probably will
like.
II Paramount had pulled the better
moments of Double or Nothing"
closer together by leaving out some of
the dull ones, 1t would have been a
happier picture. But it probably
won't make bit of difference at the
box office
Evening star., 1937-09-18

pACkcU mAtluee mouse.
It Just seemed to us that, while the
ingredients are there, "Its All Yours"
does not seem to jell. 1t has been
compared to some of the memorable
cinema comedies of the last year or so,
but 1t lacks the spontaneous insanity
which marked the delicious humors of
MY Man Godfrey" Theodore" or
Il Met Him in Paris" There's just a
hint Of the mechanical about the man.
ner in which this comedy has been
fabricated.
Perhaps the comparisons which have
been made have led one to expect too
much, for on its own Its All Yours"
is certainly an amiable and carefree
entertainment. For plot ingredients it
has q secretary who has been left 81
000, 900 by her late employer, the play
boy nephew who expected the money
and the fortune e-hunter, who makes a
valiant try for it.
That probably is enough for pleas
ant farcical conceit of this sort. Es-
pecially when the fortune hunter in
the case is young Mr. Mscha Auer
Madeleine Carroll and Francis Lederer
do well enough in the two starring
roles, but 1t is Mr.. Auer's picture. 1t
Is Mr.. Auers picture from the time
he first smells gold until he finally be-
comes so smitten of Miss Carroll he
buys her flowers with his own and not
her money. Whether he is engaged in
trying to explain to Grace Bradley
the difference between yesterday in
China and o'clock as an air trans
port moves into another time belt or
demonstrating the technique of BULL
f1ghting upon a placid COW, the mo-
ments contributed by Mischa are COM
pletely delirious.
~
J>HE Earle's stage show is presented
by Horace Heidi and his Brig
ao4ers, which means it is an entertain
ment which will be approved by all
who like popular music. Notable on
The program is the manner in which
Mr.. Heidi has contrived to brighten
up that old gag Of initiating other
name bands. He makes a guessing
game OF 1T, plays in the manner of
3 or 10 other orchestras and works
the dance band fans up into fine
frenzy Of guessing whether he's aping
Guy Lombardo or Jan CARRIER.
Other bright spots in the Heidi mu-
steal revue (Which is all new except for
the famed toy band number) are the
top-notch taps by Burton Pierce, the
singing guitar selections by Alvino
Rey, the songs by the Four Kings, that
Way Out West on West End Avenue"
number by whoever does it, and the
medley OF hits of the moment by the
band. Not so bright spots are a few
OF the alleged comedy interruptions.
Evening star., 1937-09-18

only three of the
many stage di-
rectors imported
to H oil y W 20 d
have been a sue
cess in pictures
J o h n Cromwell,
George Cukor and
Reuben MamOu-
liam. (He over
looks himself and
picture, Beloved
Enemy" starring
Merle Oberon)..
Groucho M a r x
d | S C us e s the
prospects Of his
lE-Naar-nld cor,
Evening star., 1937-09-18
Witty Farce at Capitol
Kids Newspaper Films
Edna May Oliver Carries Show
To Pinnacle of Laughter.
ID. G.. Team on Stage.
BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, Jr.

week low Capitol Theaer nee Loews Fox double the Fox
celebrating
this perhaps the
n rather choice
tncty labeled
when unwrpped uned
Evening star., 1937-09-18
ITS All Yours" Amiable
Cinema Comedy
Mischa Auer's Humor Brightens
New Film at the Earle.
Heidi Music on Stage.
BY HARRY MacARTHyrR

rs AL YOURS the new romantic farce Warmers
one OF those Tight Summer entertainment"
Summer said the
door Perhaps this being bit however for it
have Its bright hy
aroused gooy
Evening star., 1937-09-18

Dungarpur, India, was threatened
by floods recently until the reservoir
dams were cut.
Evening star., 1937-09-18
New Crosby>Raye Film
Has Big Moments
But Better Parts of "Double or
Nothing" Are Placed Against
Some Hackneyed Stuff.
BY JAY CARMODY.

e oas oo urns substituted Andy Devne and made another
bing CROSBY Martha Raye picture
The hm Double Nothing"
those like Bing to
pleased won't make bit of difference
Reed and his cast
Evening star., 1937-09-18
Miriam Hopkins and Litvak
Steal Marlene's Show
Friends Rush to Congratulate
Newlyweds at Preview of angel"
Marc Connolly STAYS.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

OlLYWOOD September 1S NANA)-Dear Diary Saturday
Every
resessy through
Hammett Surprised
Evening star., 1937-09-18

week after next. I'm going back the
week after next" he blandly informs
me. I'll believe it when I don't see
him) Director Hank Potter says
The daily independent., 1937-07-19
Everyday Lining
TOUCH WOOD
By JOSEPH FORT NEWTON
(Copyrisht 1887. BY United Feature Syndicate. lna

What is YOUR pet superstition, good read
er? Of course you have one, even If you 40
look superior and deny it. Honest now, just
between ourselves, what is it that gives you
the shivers?
Are YOU willing to walk under a ladder,
even if there is no one on top of it, or 40
YOU dodge it? If you have not had cold
for months, and happen to speak OF 1t, 40
you knock wood?
If YOU spill salt, do you throw pinch OF
it over the left shoulder, just for luck? Are
YOU quite comfortable if a black cat crosses
the road. or if bird gets into the house?
How about it if bat comes to the win
dow? Does it make the shivers run up and
down YOUR back? Or if you break a mirror,
do YOU begin to look for the awful thing
that is to happen?
All. but that would be telling. And what
nonsense it is, opposed alike to reason and
religion, bit of old chaos in us. Yet half
of NV readers will shake their heads and
say to me:
"That's all very WELL but | remember this
and that. My Uncle Henry, my Aunt Annie,
my cousin Fred, or the people who live two
doors away had run of bad luck after
breaking a mirror.
Then they go into detail, telling how they
watched events, expecting ill fortune, and 1t
turned up. Yes, all sorts of things happen,
and one can pick out facts to fit any theory
or fear.
Often we seem to invite misfortune, and
when it comes we say, 1T is the will of God"
What an awful thought that the will of God
should be associated only, or chiefly, with
dire diSasterl
No. all such idcas-if ideas they can be
called-arc bogies, thin shadows of prlml-
tive fear lurking in the mind. They make
this wonderful world a place of whim, ca
price, and malice.
Let us have done with these old absurdi-
ties and far-dcsccndcd fears. They are both
foolish and faithlcSS. We live in a world OF
law, order, beauty and bcncdiction-lcts be
happy in it!
The daily independent., 1937-07-19

By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

telegram from Googe. expressing
opposition to the wage-hour bill",
but warns him that the bill will
be passed by the House.
II am strongly opposed to the
measure" Cox wrote, "but it
comes with Administration ap-
proval and, in my Judgment, is
certain to be put through the
House. ] think we might as
well prepare ourselves for this
legislation, as objectionable as it
is. 1t is my idea that it will be
put through in such form as to
make it certain the Court will
hold it unconstitutional"
Administration leaders plan to
use the document to induce Green
to crack down on his lieutenantS;
also as an argument showing the
need for additions to the Supreme
Court in order to ensure the val
idity of the legislation.
Mail Bag
A. j. S., McKeeSport, Penna.-
The Washington residence OF
Postmaster General Farley is the
Mayflower Hotel. {. . B. c. G.,
Wheeling, w. Va.,-Secretary of
Labor Perkins was born in Bos-
ton in 1882. G. F. S., ClarkS-
burg, w. Va.,-The only way that
the Senate, according to it's rules,
can break filibuster is by in
woking cloture If this is done, de-
bate is thereafter limited to one
hour by each member. To invoke
cloture requirs a tWo-thirdS vote,
however, and although it has been
proposed many times, it has act
ually been invoked only four times
since the rule was adopted in
1917. These occasions were: No
vember 13, 1919, on the question
of the German treaty: January
%, 1926, on the World Court;
February Is, 1927, on the Nc
Fadden Banking bill; and Feb
ruary %. 1927, on the bill to create
a Bureau of Customs and Pro-
hibitiOn Cloture has not been in
voked at any time in the past ten
years. j. H., Lamar, Mo-It
is not necessary for a CCC appli-
cant to be a meL'ber IF a family
on relief. Though preference is
given to such cases, others are
admitted if unemployed or in need
of employment. The proportion of
non-relief enrollees varies in diff
ferent States.
The daily independent., 1937-07-19
AN ORIGIN OrFICER

Newark. n. J.. July TO-.
Tommy Linden. %. was iS'."
trouble getting a car "taI'co ~, y
day when police sergeant bG'y !.
Tucker sauntered up. glai'C'' .
the dashboard and lai'2ii'O' b,
Il know what's the trouble. y, '
said. You haven't fol |O"
in the ignition switch. ,..,.
Tommy glanced at the '''D
board. ,rt
THAT'S right" be saLa. .. y
ftshed in his pocket IN.. ~. .. i
shook his head. and S'l'. ....,
guess 1 haven't got tie key ~.
me-" r..,,,.
I've got one" SAID 81 ~
Tucker, handing him KY
this" ,,te;
Linden tried it and j. @2'1@ ,5 Il.
Say. that's swell! Ng saw i,
miringly. "Whcrc'd you T''
key?" ,.,,es...
It's my car" SAID 0'''
Tucker.
The daily independent., 1937-07-19
THE
ONCE OVER
BY
III. I. PHILLIPS
TrOtSky Goes Fishing
Copyright, 1887. by The Asso-
elated NeWspapers.l

lTOtSky OOeS FlSIll1S
(MeXico City. Leon TrotSky
has dropped his cares to 60 fish
ing.-News item)
Your correspondent came upon
Trotsky beside mountain brook
He was standing on a soap box
waving a rod in each hand
f"Rise!"
ANY luck?" asked your cor
respondent.
Luck" sneered the great Red
leader. Luck is not in my scheme
of things. Only the bourgeoisie
speake of luck. One does not ac-
complish things through chance;
one must have a system, a plan,
philosophy. The trouble with the
world today is :"
What l mean is are you get
ting results?" we corrected.
What do you mean by results?"
demanded TrotSky, now holding
both rods in his left hand and
pointing to us with his right. THE
word result is indefinite. All over
the world today the masses
are :"
Are you using worms for bait?"
we interrupted.
"Worms!" exclaimed TrotSky,
now dropping both rods. That's
it. Worms Everywhere are worms.
But some day the worm will turn"
What kind of fish are you aft
er?" we asked.
Red Snapper!" he shouted, his
The daily independent., 1937-07-19
without hardening of the arteries.

without hardening Of the arteries.
Good music is the voice of an
angel swing music, the same
angel with laryngitis.
After all, the automobile Is
merely a means of conveyance.
Why must it look like an ambu-
lating bridal suite?
A critic is invariably one who
can't do as well as the artist, but
can tell the artist how he would
have done better.
If men would treat each other
with the contemplative rapture,
the ecstatic thrill, the calm de-
light, or in whatever manner they
greet the first star at night, they
would make the whole world kin
and need no campaign to get them
into church every Sunday.
Lewis Upton.
The daily independent., 1937-07-19

eyes blazing. Next to the red
grunt, the red grouper and the
red salmon there is no fish like
the red snapper. Such a color!"
There are no red snappers in
fresh water" we informed him.
THAT is what YOU say" he
snapped. II do not accept the con-
clusion of Others. I find out for
myself. The trouble with the world
today is that too many people &C
cept precedent as truth"
You have bite" we exclaimed
as one of his bobs went under.
"Where?" he asked, anXiously,
looking down at his chest and
scratching his head. THE capital
istic system is dying. The people
have spoken. The proletariat is on
the march. The trouble with -
quick! You have a fish,
do not interrupt. You seek to
divert me. This is an old capital
istic trick. All over the world mil
lions . .
THE fish is running off with
your line. Are you going to hook
him? Are you going to let him
get away?"
"One question at a time" COM
manded the Red orator.
At this point the fish, in a series
of tugs, took line, rod and reel
downstream.
Whats the matter with you?"
demanded your correspondent.
why don't you watch your rod?
Can't you keep tight line? How
the hell can you catch fish if
you :"
Mr.. Trotaky made a magnifi-
cent gesture of contempt.
"Ah,' he sneered. "A HECK
LER!"
The daily independent., 1937-07-19
JOIN FORWARD MOVEMENT

Lousburg, July 18.-Several ad-
ditional church committees and
sponsors in the Louisburg College
Forward Movement program
from BERTHE County have just re-
ported.
The Windsor Charge reports
Casshie church, Mr.. R. E. Tark-
ington, Woodland; White Oak
church, T. A. Smithwick, Wind
son; Windsor church, Mrs. L. B.
Sutton, Windsor. as head of the
committees which will conduct
the Program within their
churches.
The daily independent., 1937-07-19
THE WHEAT FIELD

Have you SenSed the matches beauty
Of standing field of wheat,
Bowng undulating, waving,
IN the summers ripening heat,
Like some liquid lake of metal,
Gold or other precious ore,
Largess, from some modern Midas,
Poured out from his bounteous store?
And the fleece clouds chase the shadows
Ger the surface in their play
Changing chromes and green's to sepias,
In a sort of Rembrandt way;
Then gentle zephyr kisses
All the heads to rythmic sway,
Tuned to movement, metronomic,
Like the fairies might display
And a bob-o-link from nowhere
Shoots out DER that placid scene;
Hovers, while his notes like raindrops
Fall in song on gold and green;
Then meadowlark so flitful,
With whistle, plantive, grave.
Seeks her chosen spot and quickly
Drops from sight meath golden wave
You nor 1 know not the sign post,
Chosen from the thousands round,
That, unerrlng, told that mother
Where her neStlings could be found:
Oh the charm of such a pastral.
Pictured there by natures stealth.
Form and color, motion, grandeur,
In that standing field of wealth.
RALPH GORDON
The daily independent., 1937-07-19
TO WIDEN HIGHWAY

Tarboro, July 18.-W.P-A
highway bid is under advise
ment to widen the paved road
from Tarboro to the Martin coun-
ty line by four feet.
The additional four feet width
would be laid down on one side of
the road to insure safe driving. 1t
is reported the present road has
been the scene of many side-swipe
accidents due to excessive narrow
ness.