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Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21

A line-painting machine, capable of
marking around thirty miles Of high
way per day, has been placed in SER
vice by the State Roads Commission.
The machine was designed and con-
structed in the Southern Avenue
shops Of the Commission in Balti-
more.
First tests Of the new device in
Southern Maryland have been highly
satisfactory, according to State roads
engineers. Replacing a laborious and
expensive hand operation in the paint
ing of center-lines, it is expected that
it will prove a boon to motorists on
highways all over the State. Because
of the narrowness and crookedness of
many of the States main arteries,
they are difficult to follow at night,
and particularly in fog, without CEN
ter-lines.
The line-painter is mounted on a
small truck. It has three paint tanks
of 55-gallon capacity each-one for
white, one for yellow and one for
black paint. Selection of colors can
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
P. T. A. Pleased With
Recent Production At
Rockville High School

The Parent Teachers Association
of the Richard Montgomery High
School and the Rockville Elementary
School wishes to thank the people
of the community for their hearty
cooperation in making "The Circus"
such q success.
Credit on the work side is due 10
the cast of fine public-spirited
young folks, assisted by Wizard
Paris and Leo Hocl1stetter, under the
capable guidance of s. Murray Ham
ilton and the company's director,
Miss Marguerite Mckinley; the pub
iicity chairman, Mrs. Frank Marshall
and the marvellous cooperation OF
our teachers.
The president wishes to add her
personal thanks 10 the organization
for the lovely flowers given her each
evening of the performance.
Anyone in the community who Is
interested enough in the Association
is entitled to become a member. An
nual dues are $1.0O. Monthly meet
ings are held in the school audi
torium the third Tuesday at 8 Pm.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21

Memory takes me back to my old
home town. try to recall it as ]
knew it in my happy childhood days
not as it is today, and / find myself
after fifty years have passed wishing
that had kept diary from day to
day-but I did motif the children
only knew the joy it would bring to
them in years to come how eager they
would be to keep the daily record.
After the lapse of many years
changes come, which removes all land
marks-changes so great that one
finds themselves struggling to recall
intimate incidents Of life-especially
where changes have been as great as
those which have taken place in Rock.
ville-in fact you find yourself won.
dering if they ever really existed.
Last June 1 returned to Rockville
the old home where / was born, the
home of my grandfather-the old
Presbyterian Church, England's store
old pear trees which
stood in our back yard-the high
board fence in the rear Of England's
store where David Warfeld, then a
young man, used to stand and tease
by brothers and myself into throwing
pears at him. The picture is vivid but
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
Albert A. Ady Instails
At Germantown Grange

Under direction Of Albert A. Ady,
lecturer of the Maryland State
Grange, the recently elected officers
Of the Germantown Grange were In
stalled Tuesday night as follows:
James D. King, master; Jacob Lea
mon, overseer; Albert A. Ady, lee
turer; J. u. Leaman, steward; VIII
liam Miles, assistant steward; Mrs.
Ethel Kirby, chaplain; Mrs. Ethel
Browning, treasurer; Miss Rebecca
Leaman, secretary; Frank Schaeffer,
gatekeeper; Miss Irene King, ceres;
Miss Viola Shank, pomona; Mrs. John
Hargett, flora; and Miss Margaret
Hargett, lady assistant steward.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
AS WE SEE TT
THE LATEST REGULATIONS Of
By MONTCO

THE LATEST REGULATIONS of
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles in
'clude four drastic rulings. Minimum
suspensions of five days will be CIV
en- offenders who fail to stop for bou-
levard signs, who do not obey traffic
signals, who drive recklessly and
who exceed the speed limits. Very
severe regulations. But, as Mr.. Walter
Rudy points out, something drastic
must be done right away. Nothing
has been said about courtesy of the
road, but we think that it is one of
the most important items to be con-
sidered. Three-way traffic lanes also
constitute great driving menace.
But the worst infraction, which oc-
ours at night, is improper headlights,
Binding light are still the deadliest
menace on the road. Automobile man
a1facturers have never solved the
problem. The police have never suffic-
iently checked up on the matter.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
James Hepbron To
Address Meeting
OF Woman Voters
Harry Greenstein Also Sched-
uled To Talk At Rockville
Friday

Harry Greenstein, former chairman
of the Board of State Aid and Char
tiles and an official of the Hebrew
Charities of Baltimore, and James
Hepbron, of the Baltimore Criminal
Justice Commission, will address ar
open meeting of the Montgomery
County League of Women Voters
Friday afternoon in the commission.
ers' hearing room of the Rockville
Courthouse.
Mr.. Greenstein will discuss specia
Legislation pending before the Mary.
land General Assembly while prison
legislation to be considered by the
assembly will be outlined by Mr.
Hepbron.
The meeting will be open to the
public to permit county citizens To
hear the discussion of these important
subjects by authorities on the mat
ters. A short business session at
P. M, will precede the speakers whose
program will start at 2:30. Mrs. Ray
mond Clapper, president of tbs
league will preside.
Three study groups also are being
organized in the county. A group In
Bethesda will study reciprocal trade
agreements under the direction Of
Mrs. v. L. Ellicott, while group in
Chevy Chase will study neutrality
The third group now is being orga-
nized in Gaithersburg. A course in the
study of county government will soon
be started.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
POOlesville Asks
More Rooms For
School Building
Board OF Education Also Sets
Dates For Annual Field
Events

The Board of Education received a
delegation from the Poolesville COM
munity, requesting that provision be
made for an enlarged assembly room
and two class rooms to the Poolesville
building; a representative delegation
from the Woman's Club of Chevy
Chase requesting the Board to secure
an appropriation for the improvement
of the athletic field to the Bethesda
Chevy Chase Senior High School; a
representative delegation from Rock
vile P. T. A. requesting Improvement
to the Rockville building, especially
lin, connection with the showers and
sanitary conditions in the building
Arthur L. Smith, representing the
Glenmont Community, requested the
Board to secure an appropriation for
the improvement and enlargement of
the Glenmont school grounds.
A communication was received by
the Board from the P. T. A. of Chevy
Chase in support Of the increase in
teachers salaries. The Rockville
Chamber of Commerce presented a
communication requesting that auth
orization be secured for improvement
of the grounds and the addition Of
two class rooms to the elementary
school on the Fair Grounds in Rock
vile. The colored high school P. T. A.
presented a petition for addition of
four class rooms and an auditorium
to the colored high school. A COM
munication was received from the
Citizens Association, Section 8 Of
Chevy Chase in support of an effort
to secure sidewalks on the East-West
Highway to the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School building.
The Board approved April 26 for
the colored meet and May 2l for the
white Annual Field Meet held in CO.
operation with the Public Playground
Athletic League of Baltimore.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21

gone. The old house occupied by Miss
Agnes Nolan and her brother Jake
and other neighbors who were so kind
and indulgent to us boys-Mrs. ANNE
Moulden, Mr.. John England, the
Offutts-and those two boys Edward
England and Anderson Offutt, the
memory of both / have always treas
ured-gone. The old bakery shop of
Mrs. Morfnger-I can hear the tingle
of the little bell over the door where
we would buy our ginger bread
"horsecakes" / shall never forget
them--I can in my imagination smell
their enticing odor today, and l am
sure / taste them after all these
years they were so good and large
The old ice house and home of DR..
Maddox-what an event it was, each
winter-when they would cut ice tt
fill the same-the old Court House lot
across the way where we boys would
coast on our sleds down past Tuck
Rabbits, Mrs. Mamie Byers and on
down to Cousin David Bouic's store
and the old court house, with It's two
wings-the floors of which were COW
cred with old cord carpet--and the
little old building which stood off q
piece occupied by the superintendent
Of schools-with the picket fence
around the lot-gone.-The old Mont.
gomery House across the street
where my father-Sheriff John Kel.
elmer, Clerk John Carter, and other
older citizens used to gather to take
Continued on page 81
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
Assembly To Make
Detailed Study OF
Relief Sources
Radio Tax Proposed-Gassaway.
Marbury Would Cut
Session, Raise Pay


The Maryland General Assembly, IN
its search for sources to raise relied
revenue, is considering q proposal to
levy an annual license tax Of So on
every radio receiving set within IL
boundaries. The idea Is said to have
arisen from a letter written by .
friend of State Senator J, Allan Coad,
head Of the Senate Finance Commit.
tee.
It is estimated that the sum Of
$1,50O,OOO might thus be realized for
aid and welfare work. Other sugges.
tions are also to be considered by the
Senate Finance Committee.
Relief and welfare officials Of the
State told the Senate COMMITTEES be-
fore the Legislature adjourned, that
an adequate but conservative" pro-
gram for the next two and a half
years, up to the end Of the next
budgetary period. October /, 1889,
would require Maryland to contribute
at least $6,5OO,OOO annually.
Relief taxes now in effect-on beer
whiskey, admissions, corporations,
cosmetics and automobile titling-are
estimated to produce a maximum Of
$S,60O,0OO in twelve-month period.
This would leave balance of ST.
100000 to be found in new revenue,
provided the taxes now on the books
are continued and the Legislature
grants the request of the Board Of
State Aid and Charities for the full
program it has presented.
There have been suggestions for .
sales tax, bill for State income tax
of two per cent. has been introduced
in the Senate, and Governor Nice has
announced he will have series Of
recommendations in his budget mes
sage.
Among the bills introduced this
week is one by Delegates Griggs
Gassaway, of Howard County and
Charles c. Marbury, Of Prince
Georges County, cutting the legisla-
tive session to sixty days and rais-
ing the pay Of members from $5 to
$40. This would necessitate a consti-
tutional amendment. The matter has
been taken up in the past number
of times but the idea is seldom car
ried to the extent of being introduced
as an amendment.
After adjourning Wednesday for
the Inaugural ceremonies in Washing
ton, the Assembly today was sched-
uled to resume its deliberations at
Annapolis.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
ID. A. r. Chapter Will
Meet On January 26

The January meeting of the Colonel
Tench Tilghman Chapter D. A. r. will
be held at 1870 P. NJ, Tuesday, jan
uary 26, at the home of Mrs. Richard
Cunningham, Asp Ridge st., Chevy
Chase.
The meeting is later than usual ow-
ing to Inaugural plans. Donations for
Ellis Island will be received at this
meeting.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
Charles Lee Watkins
Very Ill AT His Home

Charles Lee Watkins, of Gathers
burg, is reported holding his owr
after very severe attack of illness
Mr.. Watkins is suffering from com
plication of ailments. He is the faith
er of the popular Clerk of the Cir
cult Court, Clayton K. Watkins.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
Horse Show Date
Set For May "a

Announcement was made this
week by D. s. Gittings, publicity
agent for the Doughoregan Manor
Horse Show that the annual event
will be held this year on Saturday,
May %. Mrs. Edwin Warfeld, Jr,
and Mrs. Howard Bruce are on the
II H,rse Show Committee and the
Howard County Public Health
Association is the beneficiary.
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21
William Garner BOuic Relates
Impressions of Rockville As
He Remembers so Years Auo
Former Resident Of Rockville Now Living In Arkansas
RecOunts Many Interesting Incidents Of
His BoyhoOd Day

EDITORS Note: Mr.. William Garner
Bouic, a brother of Albert M. Bouic,
well known Rockville attorney, is q
member of the law firm of Bouic and
Land, located at Hot Springs Nation
al Park, Arkansas.)
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21

DELEGATE KENT MULLIKIN is
to be commended for his attitude to-
ward the question of legalizing book
making now uppermost in the delib-
erations of the Maryland General
Assembly. The subject is a delicate
one and if not handled carefully, ii
is one fraught with many perils.
"Would legalized bookmaxing en-
danger Maryland racing through di-
version of the betting-or would
wholesale gambling become so popu-
lar and it's effects so demoralizing
that an aroused opinion would later on
drive both bookmaking and racing
from the State?
"What has been or is the exper-
ience in other States? These are some
of the questions on which / and, I am
sure, other members of the Legisla-
ture will welcome information and
public reaction.
"I should like to see the question
divorced from the acute need of addi-
tional revenue. Is Maryland so hard
up that we must sacrifice social
values for dollars and cents? Will the
result be increased defalcations and
increased neglect of business Will
betting and the convenient and legal
'bookie' become so popular that many
more will become addicts?
"Will the women folk take it up in
stead of bridge? The question should
be weighed in the light of such con-
siderations as these-and not just be-
cause it looks like easy money to the
State, money which may ultimately
prove to be fools gold.
$50 let's be steady bit. Maryland
is not bankrupt after all. Is book
making necessary from the standpoint
of State income? Is it desirable from
the standpoint of social values? What
may be the ultimate cost of this easy
money! cost in actual dollars and
cents in human values.
"Let's be liberals, yes-but let's be
realistic. Let's not be stampeded
Let's think this through"
Montgomery County sentinel., 1937-01-21

st. Mary's Church To -
Hold Card Party Feb. 3

The Ladies' Aid Society Of Saint
Mary's Catholic Church will hold
card party in Saint Mary's Hall,
Rockville, on Wednesday, February 8,
at 8 p. M.
Evening star., 1937-10-22

Luis Alberni has been signed by
Paramount for a featured role In
"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife"
Evening star., 1937-10-22
Guild Subscriber
List Still Open.

THE Theater Guild and the Ameri-
can Theater Society are Issuing
last call to Washingtonians who
wish to join the ranks OF the 5,40o-
plus subscribers before "Tovarich" is
presented at the National the week
of November ].
There are still available few choice
balcony seats for evening perform
ances and Wednesday matinees and
number Of lower floor locations for
evenings other than Monday.
"Tovarich" will be followed on the
subscription list by "Yes, My Darling
Daughter" and two other guild pro-
ductions, possibly S. N. Behrman's
wine Of Choice" and Sidney How
ards 1.-The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. .
Evening star., 1937-10-22
Where and When
lCurrent Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National - "Amphityron 38," the
Lunts in their version of the witty
farce: $3.50 pm.
Palace-"The Prisoner of Zenda."
the exciting tale of romance and ad-
venture in mythical kingdom comes
again to the screen: IL, 2:25, 4:50,
7:15 and 9:35 pm.
Capitol-"Lancer Spy" drama Of
spies and romance: II am, 1 AS. 4:30,
7:lo and 9:55 pm. Stage shows:
1880, 3:35, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Keith's-"Fight for Your Lady"
new romance in the comedy vein:
l1:45 am, 1:30, $40, ASS, 6;35, 8:15
and 10 pm
EarIe-"The Awful Truth" Colum-
bias comedy contribution of the year:
IL am, 1:35, 4:20. 7:o5 and $50 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, 3:35, $40 and
e:05 pm.
Columbia-"Life Begins at College"
mad piece starring the Ritz Broth
ers: 1l:25 am, 1870, $3.50, 5:35, 1886
and 9:40 pm.
MetropoIitan-"The Life of Emile
Zola," Paul MUM and the masterful
film biography stay for another week:
II am, los, $40, $40, 7:25 and e:45
pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Show
runs hour and Is minutes contin-
uously from 10 am. until midnight.
Little THE Wandering Jew" su-
perbly done story of the man who had
to wait centuries for Christ to return
to him: 11:15 am, 1:2O, 1925, $50.
7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Ambassador - The Life of Emile
zola": 2:15, 4:4O, 7 and e:20 pm.
Penn-"Double or Nothing" Bing
Crosby's new musical: 2:15, 405, $50.
TAO and $50 pm.
Sheridan-"Handy Andy" a Will
Rogers success revived: 2:25. 4:l0. g.
7:45 and 9:35 pm.
Howard-"They Won't FORGET" Wig
orous drama Of prejudice and circun-
stantial evidence: 1890, 4. 7:o5 and
1910 pm. Stage shows: 2:3o. and
e:10 pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-22

reels. And the number of palace
guards and trumpeters actually seems
to have increased since real corona
tions gave way to the Hollywood con-
ception of them.
The picture does well, too, by the
remaining architecture of the story OF
that inebriate king and his valiant
cousin, although unfortunately a
cousin not by marriage. The sub
basement of the palace of zenda, with
its lofty, vaulted passageways and
dungeons, is an ideal ring for that
great battle royal between Colman
and Michaels awful henchmen. Even
the hunting lodges have the appear
snce of being every inch palaces.
X X X X
John BALDERSON and Donald Og-
den Stewart, who did the script
and the dialogue of the latest version
of Zenda, have seen to it very def
nitely that the comedy element is
strong enough to provide the escape
of laughter between the tensenesses
of Rassendyll's struggles. The duels
of wits between the redoubtable Ru-
dolph and Hentzau harken back to
the days when the conversations be-
tween heroes and rascals were charm
ing things upon which to eavesdrop.
There is laugh for the audience in at
least every other line. although it
does seem rather far fetched that the
talk could be so light and laughing
in the final swirl of swords. Not that
we mind. nor that any one else will,
but it did seem bit odd that two
men fighting for their lives could in
dulge in badinage including refer
ence to the rather remote playing
fields of Eton." 1t probably is due to
the fact that in melodrama for to-
days enlightened audiences script
writer's are given their heads in in
jecting fun into the proceedings.
Selznick's technical men have been
no end clever in bringing Ronald Col
man face to face with Ronald Colman
in the two parts he plays. The two
Colmans, or is it the one, actually
shake hands, and whatever the trick
in it, the shaking hands are quicker
than the eye.
On the whole The Prisoner of
Evening star., 1937-10-22
Pierce Hall Players
Score in "Boy."

THE collective shins OF Hollywood
were skinned again, locally in
that Boy Meets Girl" piece of Bella
and Sam Spewack, which dashed its
febrile way about the Pierce Hall
stage last night. 1t was cast Of
Pierce Hall Players that turned in
the whole hearted and lusty per-
formance in the limited confines Of
the Fifteenth and Harvards streets
emporium of drama.
In the closing performance of their
seasons opening presentation, the
players as a unit functioned like a
well-oiled can of sardines, adhering
role to role with coordination barely
falling short of the impeccable An
agreeable aura of spontaneity which
is, of course. essential to the integrity
of the whole nutty business. lent a
Evening star., 1937-10-22

plots. with weak kings and strong
knaves. with gallant gentlemen and
great ladies. with futile, beautiful
love, in short all the trappings OF
romance. Elements of this kind
properly combined make for fast and
violent action which. in turn, make
good movies. THE Prisoner of zenda''
is one of them.
Mr.. Selznick chose wisely when he
selected Ronald Colman to play the
parts of the valiant Rudolph Rassendyll
and the weak besotted Rudolf OF
Strelsau. 1t is a little strange, but
not unbelievable. to see Colman, who
always has been the strongest man in
the Foreign Legion playing the morally
anemic monarch. 1t merely makes
him look the more like his old self
in the role of Rudolph RaSsendyll,
however, so Colman fans needs not
count upon being disappointed when
.. they see him lying in stupors all
over the kingdom.
Quite as brilliant choice on
selznick's part is that of Douglas
Fairbanks. jr., than whom you may
il, never see a more villainous Rupert OF
Hentzau. The younger Fairbanks
plays the depraved Rupert as II he
had to make every one hate him. That
is the way Rupert should be inter-
preted. as the complete master OF
the double-cross, the guy who steals
= your girl or your kingdom or stabs
you in the back just for the fun Of it
The picture stresses the battle be-
tween Rassendyll and Rupert more
than the traditional one between the
, former and Black Michael. Michael
played by Raymond Massey. is 9
kind Of dark, hazy background figure
, The arrangement does not hurt BIZ
In view of the exceptional vitality
with which Colman and Fairbanks
toss off their roles.
THE Princess F1avia, whom every
one simply must remember as
the girl who gave up her man for
her people (and broke her lovely
heart in the gesture), is impersonated
by Madeline Carroll. She does it more
beautifully in the cosmetic ad than
In the artistic sense, but Flavia really
has only to look sweet because the
way Anthony Hope wrote her she
never did seem very bright.
The Prisoner of Zenda" is a big
bejewelled affair as BELTS its theme
In the spirit of coronations of these
days Selznick has spared no expense
to give the appearance of regality
and reality to his king-making cere-
monies. His cathedral is as big anc
awe inspiring and as full of miters
sectors. crowns, ermines and other
accepted items as If it we're some
thing you saw last June in the news
Evening star., 1937-10-22

bouyancy to the production directly
traceable to Director Howard Went
worth and three members of the
cast in particular.
Picking at random from the trio,
Robert Truitt Miller as Robert Law,
the super-scenarist, assayed his high
powered arm waving antics and gees
wotta-story bombastics with remark
able accuracy, natural in every move.
His partner in enterprise, Benson,
played by Frank S. Koonce, matched
we'll, and between them the two main
tanned the frantic pace of deftly
punchy satire. Peggy Johnston was
eloquent as the extraordinary dumb
Evening star., 1937-10-22

Susie and got off some of the better
lines of the comedy with rare sparkle.
Others there were, of lesser mien,
but who formed vital cogs. A. William
Waldman, egotistic cowboy star
hollywood type 73-A); William A.
Davis, producer type 1-A); Dick
Stringfellow, love-interest from Eng
land, and even little Happy, the child
of circumstance, created definite i'm
pressions Of positive nature. The
same applies for the host of actors
that appeared in the very limited
parts. all of which bodies no evil
for coming Pierce Hall productions.
Us
Evening star., 1937-10-22
New Theater Group
Holds Round Table.

THE New Theater Group will hold
round-table discussion on
New Theater Arts" open to all who
are interested, tonight at the groups
headquarters, $40 F street.
The round table will be held in con-
junction with casting try-outs for
Bury the Dead" slated to begin at
8 o'clock
Evening star., 1937-10-22
Burlesque Fans Get
Midnight Show.

THE new policy at Jimmy Lakes
Gayety Theater adds new show
for Washingtonians who like to stay
up late. Beginning tomorrow there
will be a midnight show every Satur-
day night.
Tomorrow nights show will be the
same burlesque revue that was highly
praised by critics when 1t opened
Sunday, featuring Comic Bob Fergue-
son and Valerie Parks.
Evening star., 1937-10-22
: The Prisoner Of Zenda"
Retains Its Youth
Ronald Colman Stars in Gallant
Tale, Well Retold
At the Palace.
BY JAY CARMODY.

MoNa the items which improve with age and the .siu @ I'M M
n drama looking youth itself back
matter how much the
what writers used to
In plots counter
Evening star., 1937-10-22

Zenda" is picture that can be highly
recommended. 1t is an even more
gallant story than usual the way
Selznick has chosen to tell it.