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Evening star., 1937-08-07
YACHT RACE SCENES
FEATURE TRANS-LUX
Spectacular Shots of Sailing Clas-
sic Compiled-Chinese War
fare Sketched.

Spectacular Shots of Sailing Clas-
sic Compiled-Chinese War
fare Sketched.
THE races between Endeavour II
and Ranger for the America S Cup.
premier trophy of yacht racing, and
the conflict in China have waged one
Of those proverbial nip-and-tuck bat
ties for front-page space during the
past week. but the water sport seems
to have the definite better OF 1t in
the newsreel compilation being pre-
sented at the Trans-Lux this week.
There are striking shots taken through
the light clouds overhanging the
course, views of the massed spectator
craft at anchor in Newport harbor,
close-ups from the water of the COM
petitors as they point for mark.
The disturbance in the Far East is
represented by footaee showing Japa-
nese advances and views of Nine.
SAlldie IAdl-ollch, NllS Vi NllIld
leader and guiding spirit of modern
Chinese womanhood Among the
items accorded treatment by the va
rious contributors to the Trans-Lux
collection OF clips" are the reception
given in Moscow TO the Russian North
Pole flyers, Henry Ford celebrating
his 74th birthday anniversary by in
spectlng his plant, the burning of the
steamer City of Baltimore, corn being
grown In a penthouse, that sweeping
big apple dance craze, freckle con-
test, a lion riding surfboard che
doesn't appear TO enjoy it too much),
elephants uprooting trees, Coney
Island beauty contest and many,
many more, as the saying goes.
The short subject lineup is not
quite so noteworthy as usual-but the
quartet of subsidiary bits are accept
able enough, particularly, as might
be expected, the Mickey Mouse SUBJ
ject, which is concerned with the per-
sonable rodents performance as
magician on an unnamed stage. The
others are Hindu Holiday, Riding the
Waves tall kinds of boats and Pathe
Topics (acrobats and blood cells
C. A. M.
Evening star., 1937-08-07
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing.

Keith's-"The Toast o! New York, I"
Jim Fisk makes and loses millions, at
1l:25 am, 1:25, 1928, 525, 7:25 and
925 pm.
Palace-"Ihe Good Earth" superb
translation OF Pearl Bucks novel to
the screen, at ii am, l:35, 4:l0, 6:45
and $50 pm.
Capitol-"Topper," the cinema goes
hilarious with Thorne Smith novel,
at IL am, lao, 4:25, 7:05 and 9:45
pm. Stage shows at l2:45, $3.50, 6:lO
and 8:55 pm.
Earle-"San Quentin" drama in a
prison and a tough criminal is tanned,
at IL am, .35, 4:25, 7:l5 and 10: :05
pm. Stage shows at 12:40, $50, $40
and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Easy Living" full of
comedy Just for the fun OF it, At IL AS
am, l:45, 3:45, S45, 7:45 and s:45
pm.
MetropolitAn-"Ever Since Eve"
Marion Davies latest venture into the
fields OF modern movie humor. at
1920 am, l:25. 3:25, $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Riaho-"Dreaming Lips" Elisabeth
Bergner, torn between two loves, at II,
1;55, 3;55. $50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Little-"Maedchen in Uniform" an
outstanding success revived, at HIS
am, l, 2:45, 4:3o, e:25, $40 and
9:55 pm.
Trans -Lu1-News and shorts. Show
runs l hour and IS minutes, continu-
ous from 10 am. until midnight.
Ambassador-"Betv Two Wom-
en-" an interne, an heiress and q
nurse, at /, $40, 535. 7:35 and
9:35 pm
Penn-"Super Sleuth." bright comic
satire on detective thrillers, at l:5O,
4:05, $40, and $50 pm.
Sheridan-"Pick a Star" girl goes
to Hollywood and fame, at :35, $50,
s, 7:55 and $50 pm.
Tivoh-"super sleuth," at 1:55, 4,
sos, 7:55 and s:45 pm.
Up+own-"Way Out West" Laurel
and Hardy take to the open spaces,
at 2:05, AIS, 6:l5, sos and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1937-08-07

Whatever the theme, the picture
tells its story simply, forcefully and
you are made to feel it deeply every
minute.
The characters come alive on the
screen both because Mrs. Buck made
them that kind of characters and be-
cause they have been portrayed with
such integrity. Lulse Rainer's play
ing of O-Lan, there is little doubt
at the moment, is going to win her
the top honors for the year. Seldom
has the screen been graced by acting
OF such sincerity and understanding.
Miss Ralner almost makes the beauty
.of O-Lans soul the theme of The
Good Earth" no matter what Pearl
Buck intended
To support Miss Rainer there is
|. Paul Munis Wang, while not quite
as deeply into the spirit as Miss
Rainer's portrayal still fine charac-
terization. Also there are Walter
Connolly, Jessie Ralph, Charles
Grapewin and a number of others
10 lend authenticity and life to the
Subordinate characters.
Technically, too The Good Earth"
directed by Sidney Franklin), is a
splendid photoplay. 1t has been
photographed handsomely and the
locust plague is one of Hollywood's S
technical achievements. H. M.
Evening star., 1937-08-07

Got his roots back IN the good solid
productive earth on which he thrived,
has been translated to this new me-
dium with fidelity that keeps faith
with every spirit of the words she
wrote. There's beauty here and the
dramatic force Of simple, human
story
The Good Earth as a novel,
painted an accurate and memorable
picture of the people and land with
which it dealt. and the Metro-Gold-
vyn-Mayer people, happily, have not
been tempted to gloss over the cinema
version with any of Hollywood's falte
tinsel, We have heard a number *
intelligent Chinese. who should k1ok
speak highly of the portrait Of
certain class of China's people
by the film.
This statement that Hollywood NJ
not CLOSED over The Good EARTH
does not mean there is not bealoty
here. That there is and plenty He
Is a certain beauty in the sim 81
of the tie that binds man and
There, too, is the beauty of all vol
kind, as personified in O-Lan, thesd
voted wife of Wang Lung, who to16
beside him in the fields. gives HIN
his children, remains faithful when
he strays from his foundations in the
earth, and is there, a loving wife,
when he is brought back.
Watching The Good Earth" you
will feel somehow exultant to be
part of human race that produces
women like O-Lan, whose beauty is
strong and eternal and not a smile
and a trim ankle, and you will feel
a thrill at living their lives with
Wang Lung and his O-Lan
Whether the theme of The Good
Earth" is womans devotion to her
man, mankind's connection to and
dependence upon the earth or the
story of China does not matter.
Evening star., 1937-08-07
"EASY LIVING" RETURNS
TO TICKLE DISCOVERIES
Hilarious Farce Has Old Appeal,
It's Delightful Cast Including
Arnold and Jean Arthur.

Arnold and Jean Arthur.
"EASY LIVING" is picture that
never had real chance in
Washington. Maybe its return to the
Columbia yesterday will give 1t one.
Opening against some of the toughest
competition ever seen on F street, it
was forgotten amidst shouts for a
film that had the old box-ofice ap-
peal but not half the insouciance. the
originality or the spirit that Mitchell
Leisen, the director, and Edward
Arnold, Jean Arthur, Ray Milland,
Mary Nash and other members Of the
cast inject into this farcical fable.
Easy Living varies from high
inventiveness to low comedy in its
routine, is really an hilarious elonga-
ton of ahoestring of farce The
shoestring consists of the fact that
bad-tempered multimillionaire hap
pens to toss = $4,000 coat out the
window because he is angry at his
wife for buying it. The coat falls
on a girl, the girl meets the man. the
mans Son meets the girl-you get it.
Luis Alberni, many times stereo-
typed in his dialect comicalities, has
a lush part in the proceedings, Mr.
Arnold does a fine job Of burlesquing
all those tycoons he has impersonated
in his recent films, and Miss Arthur
and Mr.. Milland are as nice a love
team as you'd want. II you want any
love teams at all. r. B. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1937-08-07

bit too carefully modelled after Benny
Goodman's great stage performances
the Arnheim crew will click with those
who have not seen or do not remem-
her too clearly the king of swing To
others their limitation will be appar-
ent and lacking in the necessary
punch. One thing Arnheim has that
Goodman lacked-a first-rate singer,
June Robbins, who builds something
out of every number allowed her. The
Arnhelm quarter, the drummer boy
antics in certain pieces, are not so
legible on the credit sheet.
The vaudeville bill also boasts the
presence of Charles slim" Timblin,
one of the great oldtimers of mono
logue, dialogue and whatever it be-
comes after you get up to three people
talking on the stage at the same time.
This turn is always sure bet for
the customers. They love it.
Opener on the bill is an aerial
affair called Don Francisco" which
we didn't get to see on account the
vaudeville came on ahead of schedule.
The stage manager said it was good,
however, and he should know.
Evening star., 1937-08-07

there's q howl of tortured tires and
the escape car careens into the ditch,
just as the law arrives.
That double crossing gag, believe it
or not, me hearties, is one Of the
high moments of San Quentin" the
new Warner Bros. excursion into the
fields of melodrama now on display at
the Earle. We half expected, when
the bandit car pulled in front of the
train, to see flashed on the screen the
legend, Continued next week" Or to
see Buck Jones and the United States
Marines drop from the sky in para
chutes to save the day or whatever
should nave been saved at the mo-
ment
The hokum is not that thick in all
of San Quentin" to be sure, but it
has been spread about lavishly. II
you want action Of the good, old cow
boys Indians, copS-and-robbers
school, you will find it in this tale OF
an Army captain sent to run a prison
and of the tough citizen he almost
renovates. You will find plenty OF
action. with convicts rioting and strik-
ing people shooting at other people,
with tense moments hyped up to such
intensity they aren't tense any more,
with good conquering and evil losing.
FH
THERE are lot Of things that COM
pensate for the over rmelodramatlc
spots in the film. For one thing, Di-
rector Lloyd Bacon has maintained ex-
citement at high pitch that keeps
things fairly interesting. Also he has
injected lot of what appears to be
authenticity in the prison sequences.
San Quentin"t on the credit side
as far as the playing goes, too. with
Pat OBrien and Humphrey Bogart
on hand to carry most OF the burden
of the acting. Both are capable Of
rising above thesstory enough TO lend
it some believability. Pat is cast as
the captain of the guard and Bogart
is the prisoner to whom he tries TO
restore a proper slant on life, and both
are properly vigorous
There's Ann Sheridan, a pleasant
young newcomer, too, to supply the
romance nicely enough as the girl the
captain loves and the sister of the
convict "a relationship which compli-
Gates things for Mr. OBrien as you
can readily see). There also is a
young lady named Veda Ann, Borg.
who helped the convicts escape and
who still is at large in case you are
interested.
MAJ HALLETr and His Orchestra
headline tie Earle stage show
and lass named Teddy Grace head
lines the Hallett turn. She has that
something in her throaty, tantalizing
voice that shows you what swing is
and makes you want to shout hide hi
and get up and sing with her. She's
good and plenty. The rest OF the
Hallett appearance is devoted prin-
cipally to tossing of tunes Of the mo-
ment in slick and occasionally
mighty torrid manner, and to the
presenting Of various specialties by
the drummer, pianist and bass beater.
This all is good, too. And there's a
Evening star., 1937-08-07

morality play of the same cinema. 1t
will leave EN- laughing and, after
ward. thinking about a thing or two.
Most obvious histrionic phenomenon
In the show is Constance Benefits S
sudden determination to become a
Carole Lombard girl, trick she turns
with fair success, strictly along the
lines of Miss Lombard's My Man
Godfrey" Hero is Cary Grant, a nice
Job smartly done, and the name part
goes to Roland Young, who plays it
to the hilt. There are those who,
thinking what Charlie Ruggles might
have done to the same role will con-
clude that the whole sword would
have been used up in that gentleman's
performance
Best minor work: BY Alan Now
bray as an imaginative butler in the
Cosmo Topper household.
Most obvious stuff and nonsense:
Billie Burke's limning of the role of
Mrs. Topper and the plot business
that centers around her social ambi-
tlons.
* x x y,
HEADLINER Of the Capitol stage
show this week is Gus Arnheim
and his music. Presenting an act a
Evening star., 1937-08-07
"San Quentin" at Earle,
An ActiOn-Packed Yarn
Starring Pat O'Brien-Teddy Grace and
Hallett Band Top Stage Bill.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

escaped conv are in full flight Close at the heels their roadster
legion police
the Of their the hounds
rolls
Evening star., 1937-08-07
FEVER SINCE EVE" BACK
TO PLAY METROPOLITAN
Marion Davies Latest Comedy
Now in Second Week, Co-Stars
Bob Montgomery.

~ " w All otIOllu " eth. SO-oldIS
Bob Montgomery.
Nov that Marion Davies Ever
Since Eve" has come to the Metro
polltan for a second week downtown,
1t probably is time for what appears
to be the Minority Report Depart
ment to make another statement of
its stand.
Well, the M. R. D is willing to
admit that Marion Davies has a large
number of fans who apparently are
enchanted by her actions upon the
screen and that this is personal
matter. In other words, if you like
Miss Davies and her pictures, you go
right to the Metropolitan and enjoy
Ever Since Eve" with our blessings
and with no hard feelings. We will
admit also that Ever Since Eve"
must have something on the ball as a
comedy for 1t certainly did bang up
business the week it played the Earle.
The NJ r. d. however. wishes to
reafflrm its opinion that this is not a
very funny photoplay; that its
dialogue If none too bright that Miss
Davies acting is stilted, that she GER
tainly has looked lovelier that Robert
S-G's"wc~" walH- through tho who'll
thing as though he were pretty tired
Of It all We also say again that Patsy
Kelly, Allen Jenkins and Frank Nc
Hugh manage TO garner some laughs
during the proceedings
SO that's the situation II you arc
IN the market for story about a girl
who donS a Wig and glasses TO get a
lob and then takes them of TO get n
man, with Marion Davies PLAYING a
.Ignr COMEDY Ingenue IN the manner
she has played light comedy ingenues
al theSe years, Ever Since Eve" is
for you TEM
Evening star., 1937-08-07
Pup Double Sought.

HOLLYWOOD. August LP.-Pet
shops were searched yesterday for a
double of Louie, IS collie pup, whose
death by hlt-run driver halted pro-
duction Of million dollar movie
Louie. brought here from a loca ton
trip to Mount Baker, Wash, escaped
from the studio lot. In his haste to
see Hollywood. he dashed in front of
speeding automobile.
Director Leslie Seelander said sew
eral important sequences could not be
filmed until Louies double was found.
Evening star., 1937-08-07
TAKE 'EM OFF

IN THE screening room at Twen-
tieth Century-Fox studios. Gregory
Ratoff was watching Lancer Spy,
his first directorial effort.
The laboratory has stabbed me In
the heart" he moaned They've
printed my picture too dark. It's
ruined"
Sitting nearby was Daryl F Zan-
uck, studio production chief. He
scribbled a note and passed it to
Ratoff:
The picture will look better II
you take of your sun glasses"
Evening star., 1937-08-07
Soviet Girls Fly High.

Two Soviet girl aviators, Trina
Vishnevskaya, aged %, and Katua
Mednokova, aged 20. few light air.
plane to a height of 1883 feet, sc-
cording to a report issued in Moscow.
Both girls are instructors at the Gen.
tral Aero Club Of the U. S. s. r.
Evening star., 1937-08-07

young lad named Jerry Perkin with
the orchestra who has = voice that's
sweet and pleasant to the ear.
The other high light of the bill is
that clever novelty act contributed
by Don Cummings, 4 chap who knows
how to keep audiences awake and
watching him. The program is opened
by the Titan Trio, three lads who do
as graceful = turn of equilibristics
(or whatever you call it, as you've
ever seen. There are ball room dances
by Frances and Carroll.
Evening star., 1937-08-07
Matrimony Ahead.

HOLLYWOOD. August 7 lP)-
Marriage to Johnny Downs is listed on
Eleanore Whitney,s 1889 calendar of
things to do, she revealed yesterday
as she recuperated from losing a Wis
dom tooth. She and Downs are a
steady combination at FINLAND func-
tiors.
Evening star., 1937-08-07
Sentimental Trvst.

SANTA BARBARA. Calf. August
7 R).-Dolores Del Rio. married seven
years ago in Mission Santa Barbara,
kept a sentimental tryst on the an
niversary here yesterday with her
husband, Cedric Gibbons, film art
director.
The Washington times., 1937-05-15
Luncheon For
Mrs. Stone

Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone,
wife of the Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, will be
the guest in whose honor Mrs.
Wilton J. Lambert will enter
tain at a luncheon next
Wednesday at the Sulgrave
Club.
1t was a real thrill to open an
envelope in the morning mail
today and find within it an
other envelope addressed to
"yours truly" which had been
carried across the Atlantic ON
Dick Merrill's East to West
flight. Gudrun Hurja was the
thoughtful person who sent
Coronation greetings from the
old city on the Thames.
Planning a Decoration Day
holiday, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Mullen will go to Detroit to
visit their son and daughter
in-law, Arthur and Exile
whose host of friends in the
Capital lament that they can.
not live closer to Washing.
ton.
The senior Mullens, follow
ing a trip to Omaha, have
leased a charming suburban
home in Kenwood and Mrs
Mullen says she is now very
much in the throes of getting
settled, for even though it is
completely furnished there are
still those personal things that
need attention to make il
"your own place. 1"
Their attractive, brown-eyed
niece, Rosemarie O'Donnell
who has spent the Winter
with them at the Mayflower
! is enjoying immensely this
The Washington times., 1937-05-15
Mrs. Roosevelt
Honor Guest

Members Of the Seventy.fifth
Congress Club gathered in the
Gold Ballroom at the shoreham
yesterday at q luncheon for Mrs.
Roosevelt. It was a setting Of in.
formality and, as Mrs. John Muir.
dock, president Of the club, ex.
pressed it, a get-acquainted lunch.
con and an opportunity for all
the members Of the club to meet
Mrs. Roosevelt and for her to
meet and know them. The Sew.
enty.fifth Congress Club consists
Of wives Of members serving their
first term in Congress.
Tribute was paid to Mrs. RooSe-
welt throughout the luncheon. AS
she entered the Marine Band
played a new song entitled Flea.
nor Roosevelt, We Honor You"
Members Of the band had orcheS.
trated the song, which was written
by Mrs. Murdoch. The same song
was sung by the members at the
end Of the luncheon and copies Of
the song were souvenirs OF the
event. They had been rolled and
tied and placed at each plate.
Mrs. MOsier Chairman
Special guests Of the club were
Mrs. Daniel A. Reed, president Of
the Congressional Club, and Mrs.
Ford Ross, novelist, Of Annapolis,
Md. Mrs. Ross made a short talk
and she was presented by Mrs.
John Coffee. chairman Of the
committee on arrangements.
Mrs. Harold q. MoSier was
chairman Of the hospitality COM
mittee, and Mrs. II. Jerry VoorhiS
was in charge Of publicity. The
secretary and treasurer Of the
club are, respectively, Mrs. John
j. Sparkman and Mrs. Jerry
O'Connell.
The Washington times., 1937-05-15
7o0v!N!!: !, Topics
Family Reunion
At Convention

,their convention in White Sui
phur Springs from May &c
through Decoration Day.
Young Jeanie, their cooling
lovable baby, will be with
her Grandfather and Grand
mother Renchard in Trenton
while her parents are enjoy
ing their sojourn in the South.
The vivacious Mrs. Fleming
has all arrangements COM
pleted for the moving Of the
more important household eff
fects from their town house
on Wyoming Avenue to the
residence which they also took
last year in Edgemoor and
after June 2 they will be at
TOOL Fairfax Rd.
Along about the middle of
June all the Fleming family
will congregate at the Law
renceville School to be pres
emit at the graduation of Rob.
ert w. Fleming, who plans to
complete his studies at the
Wharton School of Finance
at the University of Pennsyl.
vania where he will enter in
the Fall.
The United States Minister
to Canada and Mrs. Norman
1 Armour are on the high seas
aboard the lie de France
bound for a holiday on the
Continent and in England.
The Johnny Reyburns are
Just about settled in THEN
new home on Wyoming Ave.
nue. and the former Mary Lii
Macarthur is no end pleased
that now she can face the
Springtime with a great sigh
of relief for she has "a house
in order
The Washington times., 1937-05-15

BIZ Flora Macdonald

Giving in the country" for it
seems to mean early to bed
and early to rise, although we
just can't imagine Rosemarie
ever having an opportunity
to retire very early for she is
just about the. most popular
person in town.
Moving with clocklike pre-
cision, Mrs. Ralph Church so
plans her days that never a
minute is wasted.
This charming wife Of the
Representative from Illinois
attended a luncheon party
yesterday, having her lug
gage accompany her in her
limousine, and following the
affair her chauffeur drove
her directly to the station
where she boarded a train
for New York. She is up in
Gotham for a brief visit and
will return to her home or
Benton Street early next week
There's no doubt about it
Dolly Fleming Renchard
showed a lot of wisdom wher
she said eyes" to a certain
young banker from New York
a couple of years ago. She
hadn't been the daughter Of
the Robert V. Flemings with
out noting that they enjoyed
life pretty much to the full
having a number of interest
ing trips during each year
which came under the head Of
Bankers Conventions"
Well, it so happens that Bill
and Dolly will be in the party
which will include her father
and mother when the District
of Columbia Bankers hole
The Washington times., 1937-05-15

Even h0uSeW0rk doesn't seem TO
do very much in the way Of beauti.
flying the arms, since the electrical
wizards have almost eliminated
the necessity for that primitive in
gredient called "elbow grease"
Nowadays, even the tasks that
cannot be performed by pressing a
button very seldom involve rails
ing the arms to shoulder height.
Dishwashing, sweeping, running
the electric cleaner, cooking they
all use the muscles on the front Of
the arm, but not those on the
upper back Of the arm, where mus
cular activity is need to maintain
firm, round contours.
Now, don't miSunde rStand, we're
not in favor of harder housework.
Far from 1t. But something must
be done about giving these out-of.
the-way tricepS muscles enough ex-
erciSe, so that the arms shall not
become disfigured with ugly hang
ing flesh. Skinny arms need spe-
cial exercise Just as much as arms
that are too fat.
To put the important muscles
to work, the arms must be held
at shoulder level. Here is an ex-
erciSe you will like doing, because
it gives double returnS-it also
beauties the back.
POSITION
Stand about three feet from a
wall, palms braced against wall
with hands turned 50 that fingers
meet.
MOVEMENT
Holding the body as straight
rs possible, bring the trunk for
ward to touch the head to the
backs Of the hands. Return to
upright position and repeat three
times without interrupting the
rhythm.
There's more than one way Of
getting the arms to shoulder.
level, and this exercise is very ef'
fective. Hold the abdominal wall
M and keep the tunmy fiat while
doing the exercise. The entire
body should be stretched up tall.
It will pay you to invest in a
light pair Of dumbbellS. You car
buy these at any department OF
sports shop. and the cost is very
low.
Their use viii aid in normalizine
the bust contour at the same time
the arms are firmed. Here Is an
exercise with the dumbbells, Odt
you can do it by merely clenchinf
the fists hard and going through
the movements:
! Stand erect, arms out straight