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The Washington times., 1937-01-26
Charlotte Greenwood
Goinq Big in Chicago

Charlotte Greenwood is Chi
cago's standout box-office bet in
extending a welcome to 1887. The
premiere comedienne of tn e
American theater has been doing
capacity business for the past six
weeks in the second city of the
nation.
Her new play is Wilbur Daniel
Steele and Norman Mitchell's
comedy, The Post Road" Under
that title it ran 200 nights in New
York, Miss Greenwood for her use,
rechristened it, and it is now ad-
vertiSed as Leaning On Lefty"
Miss Greenwood staged the play
in Chicago just prior to Thanks
giving, and ever since has been
turning the populace away at
every performance-just an hon.
est-to-goodness awakening of in
terest in the legitimate stage in
dustry.
The Washington times., 1937-01-26

Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor
arrive at our Union Station at
8:35 a. m. on Friday. There,
boys and girls, is your chance for
a real closeup and if the crowd
is big Commissioner Aliens smile
will be bigger. The stars are
coming, of course, as M-G-MS
contribution to the Presidents
Birthday Ball.
LEONA AS ACROBAT
I can't imagine Leona Powers do
ing handsprings but here's the teS-
timony:
Dear Mr.. Kelley:
"Just to let you know Tin case
you do not already have the in
fOrmatiOn) that our mutual
friend and a Washington favor
ite, Leona Powers, is starting
rehearsals today in a new play,
The Meal Ticket comedy pro-
duced by Aldrich and Meyer and
directed by Harry Wagstaff
Gribble.
"Leona has one of the three
choice parts, that of 62-year-
old grandmother, one member Of
The Washington times., 1937-01-26
Popeye Movie
For Earle

Popeye the Sailor comes to the
Earle Theater screen Friday, jan
uary 90, in the longest cartoon
picture yet released. The featur-
cite is in full color.
"Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad
the Sailor" is the name of this
tWo-reel Paramount release, in
which Popeye swaggers and fights
his way through a three-dimen-
sional world of color. Max Fleis-
cher, who brought Popeye to the
screen originally, created the pro-
cess which gives Sindbad'S island
and other backgrounds the illu-
sion of depth.
BLACK Legion" Warner Bros.
thrill-filled drama, is the Earle's
screen feature starting Friday.
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which will come to RKO-Keith's s
screen soon.
Those who like their drama
stark, ugly and with a Eugene
O'Neill SomberneSs, will revel in
it's gray mood. There is no reliev-
ing laughter, just binding sorrow
and pitiful heartbreak.
Eddie Taylor (played by Henry
Fonda) is a jailbird who tries to
60 straight for the love of his Joan
played by Sylvia Sidney. a Sec
retary with more emotion than
good sense.
HAS A FINE PICTURE
She marries Eddie but soon he
finds difficulty in escaping from
his past, loses his job, is accused
of a bank holdup of which he is
innocent. Sentenced to die, his
hours in the death house are
graphically pictured. A commuta-
ton arrives too late.
Eddie makes his escape-by
some extravagant scheming-kills
the prison chaplain on his way
to freedom, is rejoined by Joan
in a delicate condition, piles new
crime on his record in his flight
for the right to live. Police bullets
spell the finish for Eddie and
Joan.
1t strikes me that Director Fritz
Lang (who made 'Fury'D is Holly
woods present champion of social
justice, and master of creating
grim mood and suspense.
Here he hammers home his mes
sage with battering blows, and no
compromise such as weakened
Fury" Skipping over some
slightly preposterous incidents, he
shows with livid reality that the
criminal who tries to reform is
often a forlorn and hunted crea-
ture, who gets little sympathy in
his plea for a new chance.
With this powerfully directed
story of unrelenting tragedy are
acting performances that are
worthy of merit awards. Henry
Fonda, with fixed expression of
desperation and woe, does the
first good acting have seen him
give the screen. Sylvia Sidney is
tremendously moving as the girl
who gave everything in this world
to be by the side of her one and
only love.
I call you Only Live Once"
adult, intelligent and provocative
Hollywood, but definitely drab and
depressing,
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KELLEYGRAMS

seeing that play twice and at
both performances the action Of
the play was temporarily held
while LeOna received her ap.
plauSe.
"As yet it is undecided as to
when or where this play will
open but 1 think it would be
grand, Mr.. Kelley, if you could
come up to see it.
with the best of wishes al
ways, Sincerely yours,
JOSEPHINE LEWIS,
Hotel Bristol, 129 West 48th
St., New York City.
MURRAY FOR FILMS
Ken Murray, whose headline act
at the Earle Theater this week is
the best of his career, yesterday
received an offer to star in a new
Universal motion picture. Agent
Louis Shurr's wire states that the
Murray role calls for him to imper-
senate Billie Rose. The comedian
deferred an anSWed until next
month when he arrives in Holly
wood for his new radio program.
DOYLE CARTE CHANGES
To those who are interested in
what changes D'Oyly Carte has
made in the original Gilbert and
Sullivan scripts, or how the word
"Elkton" crept into The Mikado"
libretto, here is the answer:
Since Gilbert's death. no words
have been altered or added to any
of the libretti, with the following
exceptions:
The word dances" has been
substituted for the word "waltzes"
in "Ko-Ko'S" first song in 1.-The
Mikado" and the word "prohibi,
zionist" substituted for Lady
Novelist" in the same song. Gil
bert authorized the varying of
"Nanki-Poo's" address to any To-
cality that seemed topical and
amusing.
JOE E. BEARING GIFTS
Joe E. Brown is coming to Wash.
ington for the Birthday Ball. well
fortified with gifts for President
Roosevelt.
In one hand he will have a
birthday cake. which, he tells
Harry Hites, he baked himself
In the other a horoscope OF
F. D. R. which forecasts more
happy days for the White House
1t is just a coincidence that his
new picture is called "When's
Your Birthday"
The Washington times., 1937-01-26
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
Bockstoge News and Gossip
Gathered BY Bill HoyIe

Selling phonograph records l6'
years ago in Batterman's Depart
ment Store, Graham and Broad
way Steets, Brooklyn, a young
clerk named Doncourt saved from
his SIS per week pay check to
buy his first clarinet, $19 whole
sale-and on time. With only
nine lessons as starter he memo
rized the more difficurt lingering
from recordings by the famed
Dixieland Jazz Band, of "St. Louis
Blues" and Home Again Blues,
particularly noting the hot clari-
net as played by Larry Shields,
ace tunester with this original
outfit.
This week in the stars dress
ing room, backstage Earle, an
expensive French-built clarinet
worth a century note lies unused,
while every show on stage, Ken
Murray-alias Music Salesman
Doncourt-plays his $19 original
favorite. And in the Dixieland
Jazz Band which he leads. and
has assembled again for the first
time since those yeSteryears, is
the same clarinetiSt, Larry Shields,
unknoWingly Ken's music master
of the earlier days.
Watchful Washington show
goerS will recall Oswald" by the
real tag of Tony Labriola in the
standard comedy turn Of Jack
Mcclellan and Sarah, when he
filled the spot formerly occupied
by Fred Sanborn-noted comic
xylophonist. At the age of IA
Tony played accordion for his
initial footlight appearance on the
stage of Proctor's Theater, N. Y.
c. A few years back he played
in, and scored the music for,
Night Shadows" produced by
Britain's Archie Nettlefold.
On this Earle bill the De Long
sisters are in reality the Long
sisters, but this stage name has
been carried for half a century
behind the footlights by their
father, Fred DeLong, of the aero
The Washington times., 1937-01-26
LLOYD PANTAGES
copyright, 1897. by King Features
Syndicate Tncl

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 26.-We
will have to hand it to goth Cen
tury Fox and Daryl Zanuck for
their courage in bringing hitherto
unknown performers to the screen,
and making them successful over
night. They started out with the
Yacht Club boys, then the Ritz
brothers, then Gypsy Rose Lee.
Last but not least, the most i'm
portant of all is Oracle Fields. the
rather plain-looking English come
dienne.
Director Gregory La Cava has
been getting daily telephone COM
munications from the East from
Miss Doris Nolan. It must be love.
Richard Boleslawski's m any
friends paid their last homage to
him by filling the chapel with
naught but orchid and gardenia
flower pieces.
After shooting Sam Jaffe, then
Walter Connolly and at last David
Terrence, in the entire role of
THE Grand Lama" in Lost
Horizon" which was costing a
pretty penny while Columbia were
making up their minds, the role
now reverts to the original actor
in the party, Mr.. Jaffe, whose per-
formance is said to be something
out of another world.
Roly Leigh, the writer, cock
tailed the entire town in honor "
Sophie Tucker, and Oliver MesSel,
whom you may remember is the
young gentleman who designed
lots of the costumes for Romeo
and Juliet" and the costumes and
sets for the Ruth Gordon New
York and London stage hit, The
Country Wife"
Constance Collier. one of Eng
lands most famous actresses,
trains in on Sunday for our Holly
wood movies. You will remember
her as the headmistress in Girls
Dormitory," which brought TO
light the talents of Simone Simon.
Skippy. the little dog now so
famous as Asia. the wire-haired in
The Thin Man" and then in
after the Thin Man" has been
signed on long term starring con-
tract for RKO. and as his first
epic he will be featured in China
Passage"
incidentally, in the same film,
Constance Worth, the little Aus
tralian gal who was marooned
here by the maritime strike, and
went into films for lack of better
to do, has become so enchanted
with our village, to say nothing of
our movies and their resultant
pots of gold, that she will apply
for citizenship papers, go to Tia
Juana in old Mexico, and re-enter
on the quota of future Americans
from there.
Leave it to Hugh Herbert to dc
something uncanny for his own
amazement. Having just discov
The Washington times., 1937-01-26

THE LADY DECLINES
There were a number of ques
tions I would have liked to have
asked Sylvia while she was hang
ing on to the French telephone
5000 miles away. Such for ex
ample as:
Is Hollywood laughing or cry
ing over the petition for alimOny
submitted to the court by the
latest Mrs. John Barrymore?
When a Hollywood columnist
has nothing else to write about
does he find a new romantic
partner for Junior Laemmle?
Is Katie Hepburn on the level
with her alOOfneSS and her per-
siStent rudeness to the Fourth
Estate? Or is she trying again
to create a pose that will get
her more negative publicity?
How long are SelZnick and
Director George CukOr going to
keep up the guessing contest on
who will play Scarlet O'Hara in
"GOne With the Wind" when
everybody in the know feels the
role is =" in the bag" for Tallulah
Bankhead?
What does Hollywood think
about Walter HuStOn's flop as
OthellO? And, by all means,
what are the TrOcaderO and the
Brown Derby folks saying about
Leslie Howard losing the Broad
way battle of the Hamlets?
1 might have asked these queS-
tions, but instead 1 inquired who
suffered most poignantly, her,
Rose Maurrant OF Street Scene"
or Joan Taylor of you Only Live
Once" Both girls were terrible
victims of circumstance and en-
vironment.
Miss Sylvia Sidney replied that
she felt Joan Taylor suffered most
inasmuch as she gave up her life
for the man of her heart. You
may agree with Sylvia after you
see her latest picture.
My second question was: Who
gave the best acting performances
on the screen in 1886, excluding
Mickey Mouse?
Replied Miss Sidney: I didn't
see enough pictures to answer
that question.
There were other questions
from other scribes, but at this
point, perhaps Hardie Meakin
and Ed Gallner of United Artists
would prefer more discussion
about 'You Only Live Once"
The Washington times., 1937-01-26
EAST MEETS WEST BY PHONE
"You Only Live Once" Is Tragic
Story, Powerfully Directed,
Brilliantly Acted
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

In the Hollywood Washington telephone interview with
Sylvia Sidney supplying the answers to five movie critics
terday the Variety Club nothing developed which
will help the strike situation in Michigan abae the floods
1t all part of the game of movie ballyhOO
The questions polite routine the quick and
fairly informative
For this collective quiz supposed to confne ques
tions the picture which had been screened You Only
Live Once which SYLVIA of the wistfu smile and ready
tears died for the love Of Henry Fonda
The Washington times., 1937-01-26

Adolphe Menjou, Jean Hersholt,
Ned Sparks, Don Ameche, the
Ritz Brothers. Airline Judge, and
many others. .
The story of lone in Million"
has to do with stranded vaude-
vile troupe in Swiss hotel, op-
Grated by Hersholt, who is train
ing his daughter to capture the
Olympic title.
Several hit tunes are introduced
in the picture and were written
by Lew Pollack and Sidney D.
Mitchell. The ensemble number
led by Miss Henie is beautifully
executed and the first ever done
on ice skates.
The Washington times., 1937-01-26
I Cover HOu uyWOOd

} cred surrealist art, which is mo-
mentarily horrifying the country,
he has bought beret, Smock,
easel and pallett, with naturally
a few paints and brushes, and is
now working on a masterpiece to
be called Startled BY a Faun on
the Subway Escalator."
If it is as weird as he hopes, he
will send it with his compliments
to the head surrealist, Salvador
Dali, as an expression of what he
thinks of the whole movement.
But that is just the beginning Of
the bad. SurrealiSm has entered
MGM, but not in paintings.
Amused by the current craze for
it. the stars have been trying to
describe one another Surrealisti,
cally. The results are-Robert Tay-
lor, bomb in basket of valen-
tines.
Robert Spencer, one Of the
rapidly increasing crop of newcom.
CID dG O4llNCAOdA, GuI4O OuU W 4A1FC
been Ginger Rogers dancing part.
ner when they won the Texas
charleston contest together, which
zoomed Ginger to fame.
Jean Harlow, a bolt of cotton
on peach. Frank Morgan, pair
of scissors with the jitters. William
Powell, chromium ice pick wear
ing a top hat. The Marx Brothers.
three eggs thrown into an electric
fan. Carole Lombard. Venus De
Milo in jello. You get the idea, no
doubt, so now 60 home and have
some nice bad dreams.
The Washington times., 1937-01-26
Tracy a Lawyer

Lee Tracy, currently being CO.
featured with Margot Grahame in
his second successive Radio pic.
ture, Criminal Lawyer" plays the
most dramatic role of his career.
He is torn between his love for a
girl and the eXacting duties of dis
trict attorney.
The Washington times., 1937-01-26
Skating Star
For Columbia

Introducing Sonia Henie for the
first time to movie-goers, "One in
a Million" brings the worlds cham
pion figure skater back to the Co.
lumbia Friday for a repeat en-
gagement, following a weeks run
at the Capitol.
In addition to Miss Henie, the
cast includes such faVoriteS as
The Washington times., 1937-01-26

the acrObatic trio around which
the action of the play is written
and she is learning to do hand
springs for it. The other mem
bers of the trio are Charles King
and James Carson, both Of
whom have played in pictures
in Hollywood.
"LeOna is quickly earning an
important place for herself here
on Broadway. She had a most
important part in her last play,
aged 26,' which only closed last
Saturday. ! had the pleasure of
The Washington times., 1937-01-26

Sylvia Sidney In California Submits
To Washington Editorial Qulzz
The Washington times., 1937-01-26

Leave it to Hugh Herbert to do
something uncanny for his own
amazement. Having just discov-
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
INCOME OF u. 5.
RISES Is P. {.

National income Of the United
States scared to $1,000 million
dollars in 1895, q gain Of 10 per
cent over the previous years S..
900 millions, the Department OF
Commerce estimated today.
Short al per cent Of the 1920
million dollar national income re-
allied in the boom year 1929,
the department said, however, that
the gain last year:
Represents the largest In
crease for any year Of the re-
cOvery period.
"The net value Of goods and
services produced In the United
States in 1886 was nearly nine
billion dollars more than the
revised estimate for 1885, and
nearly $4,000 millions, or 81 per
cent, above the low point Of the
depression recorded in 1882"
The MY source Of income that
did not keep up Will. the increase
parade was interest, due to the
Governments low interest rate.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
TimeSC a1meR'aC Caravan
Lures Scores of Fans

Harbor, Columbia, and then to
York. Returning over the Mary
land and Pennsylvania railroad
from York to Baltimore, $50 miles
Of scenery will be available.
Many stops will r. made along
the scenic route, enabling photog-
raphers to leave the train, eat
lunches and take pictures. Several
stops will be as long as 80 min
utes.
Ideal Outing
Cost Of the whole days outing
is $3.25 Tickets will soon be avail
able at all Peoples drug stores and
Pennsylvania railroad ticket Off
ces.
Although sponsored to stimulate
interest in photography, this trip
will be ideal for persons wishing
to take an all-day sightseeing trip
by train for only 1925 per person.
Children may go half-fare.
Watch The Times every day for
announcement when tickets will
be put on sale.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
COUNTY LEVY
UNCHANGED

ROCKVILLE, Md, June IA.
The Montgomery county tax levy
for the fiscal year beginning
July l, which despite increased
expenditures Of the county gov.
eminent will maintain the exist
ing tax rate Of $3.50 on the 500
assessed property valuation, will
be presented to the county com.
missioners for signature tomor-
row.
Commissioner Paul M. Cough
Ian today said his personal ap-
peal to members Of the State
Coughlan said he had been
Grafton of their refusal to grant
the county its share of the State
gasoline tax for payment of debt
service charges on its road bond
issue had been unavailing. He is
convinced, Coughlan declared,
that a public hearing will be
necessary to obtain a satisfac-
tory explanation for the COM
missions action.
Coughlan said he had been
informed that the county's share
Of the gas tax, generally allo-
Gated for maintenance Of lateral
roads, will in the future be re-
duced from $4,000 to 500, 900,
although he was unable TO learn
the reason for the reduction.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14

The biggest opportunity Of the
year for all professional, amateur
and junior cameramen, their
friends and families to see the
scenic beauty of $50 miles Of
green valleys, rolling hills and
wooded glens is being offered by
The Washington Times in its
camera caravan June 81.
Scores have already indicated
their desire to have this all-day
outing and q chance to win cash
prizes for best pictures taken on
the 25o-mile trip by train to Co.
lumbia, Pa, and back.
Special Train
Arrangements have been made
for a special Pennsylvania Rail-
road train to leave here that Sun
day at 8 a. M, returning here by
Z p m.
The train will accommodate
nearly 1000 persons - whether
they take photographs or not.
Leaving Union Station, the
train will go to Perryville, thence
to Conowingo, HOLLYWOOD, Safe
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
D. G. Man CIingS
To Upset Boat
Eight Hours

Determined to save his sailboat
and vacation supplies, A. c. Lewis,
Washington advertising m n,
chung to his small overturned
craft in the Potomac River for
more than eight hours rather than
swim ashore.
Lewis was tossed into the river
at Hams Point at Z p. m. Satur'
day by q hit-and-run motorboat.
He drifted in the river until 3
q. m. Sunday, when he was picked
UP Just off the Ford Motor Com
pany wharf in Alexandria.
Leaving the washington Canoe
Club at 1880 a. m. Saturday,
Lewis was bound for Colonial
Beach for his vacation, IS miles
away. Henry Scot. fireman at the
Alexandria Gas Company, heard
the man calling for help, and noti-
fled the Alexandria police, who
obtained boat and went to Lewis
rescue.
The rescuers wer Policeman
Frederick Klaus, Francis c. John
son and Gordon L. Saunders.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
HELL EN- HAYES
WINS PRIZES

TALLMAN, N. Y, June 14.-An
local attendance records were
broken yesterday at the opening OF
the second division Of judging at
the flower show Of the Rockland
County Garden Clubs being held
at the Ramspo Riding Academy.
Helen Hayes, the actress who lives
at Nyack, won four firsts out OF
six classes In the rose division:
Mrs. Morgan Hamilton, sister OF
]. p. Morgan, won three firsts.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
NAILS RET0RT
TO PRELATE'S
ATTACK

BERLIN, June IA G.N.S0.
Warning of Michael Cardinal
Faulhaber that Catholics in Ger
many must defend themselves
against "enslavement" brought
the sharp official retort today
that parents are opposed to con-
tinuation Of Roman Catholic
schools.
In Cardinal Faulhaber's' own
seat, Munich, 95 per cent of the
parents affirmed in a recent
QUESTIONABLE their preference for
state schools over UNCONVENTIONAL
ones, the official news agency
said.
Cardinal Faulhaber, the Reich's
leading Catholic prelate, again
brought down Nazi anger in a
speech to 5000 pilgrims in the
church at ancient Tutenhausen,
where the streets were decorated
with yellow and white church
flags, but no Nazi swastikas.
Hitler Claim Assailed
With bitter sarcasm, the ven
cradle cardinal assailed Chancel'
lor Hitler's oft-repeated claim
that the Nazis saved Germany
from the atheism of soviet Rus
Sia."
In the most outspoken pro
nouncement yet to emanate from
q high-ranking prelate on the
growing struggle between t he
Nazis and the, church, Cardinal
Faulhaber openly babe the gov
eminent to "look to France
where, he declared, Catholic
schools are not oppressed and
abolished. He added:
I'VE are told to look at Rus
STA. We do look at Russia.
"And for that very reason we
must defend ourselves against
enslavement, against the cur
taiIment of our freedom and
human rights.
LET our Government look at
France, where Jews and Free
MasOns sit in the French gov.
eminent, but where there is new.
ertheIess freedom in the Cath
ole schools"
ELECTION ASSAILED
The Cardinals words were in
terpreted as an expression Of his
opinion that the French Popular
Front" regime headed by Premier
Leon Blum, who is Jewish, is more
tolerant Of Catholic educational
institutions than the Nazi gov
eminent in which Jews and Free
MaSons are not permitted to par
ticipate.
Cardinal Faulhaber concentrat
ed his anti-Nazi utterances on the
elections being held to decide
whether Catholic parochial schools
shall be permitted to. continue
Openly accusing government au
thorities of coercing Catholic par
ents to vote for State-controllec
schools, he declared:
ATTACKS NAZI THESIS
Before God and before his
tory, I affirm that the sO-called
voluntary church elections have
not been voluntary. Many par
ents voted under pressure.
I'VE do not reprOach them.
But, we do reprOach those who
bring discOrd into the souls Of
our parents. this is the way 1t
begins. How will it end?"
The Prelate bluntly attacked thu
Nazi thesis that the state has thu
right to control children. He as
serted:
"The Nazis say the children
should belong first Of all to the
state. That is wrong.
"The children belong first Of
all to their parents. The school
question today is a question Of
the conscience Of our parents, rs
well as a question Of German
loyalty" g.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
Join in Worlds Fair

NEW YORK, June 14.-Twenty-
five States Of the Union have
passed measures providing for
their participation in the New
York World Fair Of 1889 and IA
others have similar measures in
their legislatures awaiting pas
sage.
The Washington times., 1937-06-14
seminarians to Graduate

Commencement exercises OF the
washington Baptist Seminary will
be held tonight at $3.50 at the
second Baptist Church, Third
and I Streets Northwest. DR.. E. G.
smith, pastor Of Metropolitan
Baptist church, will address the
Graduates. DR.. j. L. s. Holloman,
president Of the seminary WILL pre-
side.