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The Washington times., 1937-02-10
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
rAIrAIr ~ TmO tzr P
I Cover HOIl yWOOd

Nplored blind, deaf and dumb by
practically everyone, he will i'm
prove his shining hours while
there in exploring the headwaters
of the Orinoco River, keeping a
sharp eye out for the white In
dians in the district. incidentally
when Enrol returns from his jaunt
he has more pictures waiting for
him than any other Warner star,
since they are all ready for him
with Robin Hood" his own story
The White Rajah," a remake OF
The Sea Hawk" which was so
great success when Milton Sills
portrayed it, a play by Somerset
Vaughan. entitled Caesars
Wife" which Warmers made be-
fore some years ago, and a story
Of maritime striker on the nine.
teenth century style, entitled THE
Mutineer."
We now have another profes
sional ribber in town, in open com
petition with the terrifying Mr.
Vince Barnett, and life is not safe
at any point, as a result. Robert
Leonard, the director, has been the
impresario to this one, by the
name of Albert NORM, who drove
everyone on the Marx Brothers
epic, "A Day at the Races" all
but out of their heads, as If the
Marx Brothers by themselves, and
quite unaided, weren't enough to
throw you for a loss for days
First, during "On Blue Venetian
Waters" the spectacular song
number in the film, NORM told
Allen Jones his high notes were all
sour. Next, he told Franz Wax
man. the orchestra conductor, that
his whole playing of the number
was dreadboom. His last crime
was telling the sound man the
electricity was off, and not a word
has been recorded. AS a result
Jones refused to sing, Waxman re.
fused to conduct, and the sound
man tore out his hair until bald
ness threatened, so by that time
it was decided to reveal to all OF
them that this was supposed to be
screamingly funny, on which many
of the opinions at Metro differ
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
3-Stor Movie
For Met

Richard Dix, Dolores Del Rio
and Chester Morris are the three
stars in THE Devils Playground, :"
the Columbia picture coming to
the Metropolitan Theater, Friday,
February IL.
A submarine rammed IN a fog
ridden sea, a desperate crash
dive" for safety and the heroic
efforts of divers to carry life
saving air line to the trapped men
serve as the spectacular climax
to this fast-paced melodrama,
which Erie C. Kenton directed.
Romance and comedy also are
included in the new film, which
was adapted to the screen by
Liam O'Flaherty, Jerome Chodo-
rov and Dalton Arumbo.
A talented supporting cast is in.
cluded in this new production,
which has some of the most thrill
ing undersea photography ever
presented on the screen.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
KELLEYGRAMS

Manager L. Stoddard Taylor is
greeting folks again at the Belasco
as the representative of the Messrs.
Shubert who still control the La
fayette Square playhouse.
Jack Garrison is house manager
for the Leventhal interests. new
lessees. In the box office, Frank
Young; leader of the orchestra,
Paul schwartz and official tub
thum1~r, Lee Holland.
"I,tr Diddle Diddle" has not
been disturbed by the authorities,
StDl registers as the snappieSt ex-
DO q of Hollywood this season.
Anne Nichols is here making re.
visions and Playwright Bartlett
Cormack was observed last night
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Treacher Explains
Stav From Enqland

Arthur Treacher. the nearly six
and a half feet of actor who Is
currently starring in goth Century
Fox step Lively, Jeeves," has had
a great many things to talk over
with his mother, Mrs. Alice Mary
Treacher, since she arrived in
Hollywood from England to spend
several months. It had been IL
years since they had seen each
other.
1--WE been in the United States
or Canada all through these
years." Treacher said, "but either
I've been working or, If not that,
haven't had the money for a
trip home"
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Philadelphia Bors "MuIotto,
Booked For Shubert-BeIosco
Week of February y
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Philadelphia is raising bit of hob over The Muatto"-in
fact Mayor Wilson says the play can't in that
city.
This all very Washington because Producer
Jack nIo booked the Lanson Hughes play with James
Krkwoo and Robert Bishop featured for the week OF Feb
ruary - the Shuhcr BeascO Theater.
Mayor Wilson deemed the play highly Objectionable and
particularly the approach of Lent He told the
of Locust Theater that they would offer the
play their peril and there performance Monday
night in accordance with his ruling The producers
sought the for injunction which would continue the
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Dance Ace Returns
To Office Boy Job

Charles Owens, the studio page
boy selected by Dance Director
Seymour Felix as Alice Faye's
partner in one Of the biggest
dance numbers of Irving Berlin's
goth Century-Fox musical, ION
the Avenue" has completed his
screen work and returned to his
old job.
There was no difficulty about
Charles return to his former
duties for he had wisely not re-
signed but merely taken leave of
absence, Dick Powell, Madeleine
Carroll, Alice Faye and the Ritz
Brothers top the cast of "On the
Avenue"
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
BY LLOYD PANTAGES

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 10.-Here,
there, and in your hair. Ray
Milland has been invited to ride as
one of the personal guard of escort
at the coronation this spring OF
King George vi, since in the past
he was an officer Of the British
royal household guard. However,
he cannot accept, being too busy
with pictures.
Carlo, who is usually hung like
a Christmas tree in films with
precious stones, will not wear a
single jewel in M-G-M's Countess
Walewska," since it seems that,
historically, Madame lie ComteSse
was allergic to such baubles.
While on the subject of jewels,
Myrna 10y became so fond of the
canoes she wears as Katie O'Shea
in Metros "Parnell," that she
bought the lot of them from the
sudio to bedeck herself personally.
On THE Last of Mrs. Cheyney, I"
every one of Joan Crawford's cos
tunes was cleaned nightly, so that
she would be fresh and dainty for
the next days take.
Eddie Lowe, coincidental with
his buying up all the horses in
sight offered for sale at Santa
Anita, has announced that here
after he will domicile himself on
his thousand-acre estate and farm
in santa Cruz county. Also, by
way of being bit pixilated, he has
hired an agent in London to buy
him every new type of hat which
appears on the market, since hats
are his hobby.
Miri Rel, originally the second
lead in the late Frederic Murnau's
"Tabu," and more recently in Bing
Crosby's waikiki Wedding" has
the strangest movie contract yet
on record. Originally placed u1l-
der personal contract by William
cambridge in Honolulu, she had
a stipulation in the document that,
should she be shot down by gang
sters while in Hollywood, she must
be cremated at Bambridge's ex'
penSe and her ashes shipped home
to her native heath. However,
since none of our bad men evinced
the slightest interest in humping
her off, she Is now going home in
the flesh, and all in one piece.
Enrol Flynn, having finally fin
ished in THE Prince and the Pau
per-" and thereby earned his prom
ised three months vacation, has
changed his mind about going to
Borneo and the South Seas, and
will go instead to South America.
Since the Amazon has been ex'
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Tobacco Road
Here Sunday

Tobacco Road" which broke
many boXoffice records here last
season, has been booked for its
third engagement in Washington,
this time at the Shubert-Be
starting Sunday night and contin-
uing for the week.
Taylor Holmes, a Washington
favorite in stage plays, motion pic
lures, radio artist and as a vaude
vile headliner, will be seen in the
central role of Jeeter Lester.
Written by Jack Kirkland ane
based on Erskine CaldWell's cele
brated novel of the same name.
Tobacco Road" is now in its
The Washington times., 1937-02-10

"OLD MAID" COMING
Oddly enough Philadelphia
finds nothing Objectionable in
Tobacco Road" and Jack KIRK.
lands play has enjoyed long
engagements there. But Tobacco
Road" is barred in Chicago al
though the Windy City authori.
ties permitted The Mulatto" to
run six months.
Mayor Wilson got the low-doWn
on The Mulatto" from his secre
tary. Louis w. Wilgarde, who saw
the play in New York last April
as a member Of Philadelphis's
Board of Censors.
The Mulatto" is a rather frank
exposition of sex life in the South.
It ran a full season at the Am
baSSadOr Theater.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Dead End Has
8 P. M. Start

Norman Bel Geddes' production
of Dead End" by Sidney Kings
ley, will play a one week engage
ment in Washington at the Ma
tiona1 Theater commencing Mon
day evening, February Is.
In conformance to the District
child labor laws, the play will start
at s p. m.
This play is now we'll into its
second year at the Belasco Theater,
in New York, and has been hailed
by the critics and public alike as
one of the most outstanding
American dramas of the past dec
ade. With a setting by the pro
Queer, Norman Bel Geddes, which
has been the recipient of almost
as much praise as the play itself,
and with direction by the author,
Sidney Kingsley, this production
has been heralded as one of the
most exciting in the American
theater.
Dead End" takes place at the
dead end of New York street at
the point where it runs into the
East River. There the towering
River Terrace Apartment rears its
posing heights Immediately
next door to dingy tenements lit
orally infested with humanity.
The audience is theo ical y
placed in the middle of the East
River, and the orchestra pit Of the
National will become the river
itself for the run of this play
The kids who live in the tene,
ments must use the river for their
swimming hole and the street FOR
their playground. Unusual com
edy and exciting drama result i'll
the juxtapositior of such extremes
in wealth and poverty.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10

Another coming attraction at
the BelaSco is the Pulitzer Prize
play, The Old Maid" which has
never played Washington.
THE Old Maid" employs a num-
Der of children in the cast and
for that reason decided not to
come here in previous seasons and
risk the rigid child labor law.
Since acquiring the Pulitzer
Prize The Old Maid" was pur.
chased by Paramount Pictures
1t is on the production schedule
in Hollywood awaiting only the
services of actresses to play the
roles encompassed on the stage
by Helen Mencken and Judith
Anderson.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Fiqhter Sees Stars

What happens when a dub"
prize fighter sets himself up as a
professional astrologer and begins
to hand out predictions to host
of trusting clients is revealed in,
"When's Your Birthday?" David
Loew's comedy which RKO will re-
lease with Joe E. Brown starring.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10

fourth year on Broadway, break
ing all long run records in the
history of the American theater
with the exception of that held by
"Abie's Irish Rose" It has been
seen in more than one hundred of
the major cities of the country
and the special touring organiza.
tion to be seen here has appeared
this season in Philadelphia, st.
Louis, Cleveland, Newark and Gu
lumbuS.
The company to be seen here
will include, in addition to Taylor
Holmes, such prominent Broadway
artists as Florence Gerald, Winnie
Phillips, Pitt Herbert Sally San
derson, Meryll Boyden, Lillian Ar
dell, Dick Lee, Walter Ayers, Harry
Townes and William Bishop.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Handmade, JeWeIed
Head-dress Finished

Jeanette Macdonald will wear
an elaborate headdress in May
time" that. hand-embroiderers at
Metro-G Goldwyn,Mayer completed
today after six weeks work. The
ornament Is fashioned from tur.
uuoise velvet, heavily embroidered
in gold thread and seed pearls.
Bangs Of pearls, in Scallop form,
hang across her forehead. The
item was designed by Adrian.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Furs in Summer

jeanette Macdonald once served
as Photographic model to
weather an otherwise jobless sum-
mer at the start of her career,
posing all during hot summer days
in furs.
The Washington times., 1937-02-10
Slow Finish

Jed Prouty, head man Of the
Jones family, of Twentieth Cen
tury-Fox film fame. was abed three
days following his wild horse race
scenes in "Off to the Races"
Evening star., 1937-09-03

The service will be carried over
VOL, the station over which he broad
cast his weekly mission programs for
years.
Those who can 60 are expected to
crowd the church at Eighth and H
streets. They'll come from the civic
organizations in which Mr.. Bennett
took an active interest and from the
seamy corners Of the city, where they
felt they knew him. best.
Nobody = Bum" to Him.
Nobody, they'll tell you down In
those sections, was ever a bum" to
him, They were only men who needed
help.
Maj. William H. Ramsey, a member
70 the Board of Directors OF the Gen.
trail Union Mission, has been identified
with it for so years, ever since it held
its nightly religious meetings in small
upstairs room at 900 Pennsylvania
avenue. He thus paid tribute to Mr..
Bennett:
He did a great work. Men would
come to him with every conceivable
problem-men who felt they had lost
everything-and ne always found some
way to help them"
The religious services-which are
the prime purpose OF the mission
still are held there every night
There's converts club, and it has q
Evening star., 1937-09-03
ABOLITION OF R. A.
|SHA|LED BY BYRD
Sees Chance to Salvage
Millions for Return to
U. S. Treasury.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Va. September s.
Senator Harry F. Byrd, Democrat. OF
Virginia declared abolition Of the Re-
settlement Administration was "a
welcome, although somewhat belated,
recognition" of an unparalleled
waste" of public funds.
Pointing out that he had been CALL
Ing attention to expenditures of the
agency for long time. Senator Byrd
expressed the belief many millions
could be salvaged and returned to the
Treasury by survey and immediate
dlscontinuance of resettlement units
on which construction is not fully
under way
Secretary Wallace announced abo-
lition of the agency yesterday and
substitution of the Farm Security
Administration, which. unlike the
r. A., will not deal with public con-
struction projects. Wallace said, how
ever. resettlement projects already
under way would be completed.
Operations Called Fantastic"
Senator Byrd said the expenditure
OF. s450,000,000 by the old agency had
resulted in fantastic and astound-
ing" operations previously unknown
TO government.
With home units which he said
cost from $4,000 to $4,000 in re-
settlement projects. he predicted the
Government would be Landlord of
these costly ventures indefinitely" and
would be compelled to appropriate
mere funds for their maintenance
and operation.
His statement follows.
The announcement by Secretary
wallace of the abolition of the Re-
settlement Administration, as created
Gy DR.. TugWell. is welcome. although
somewhat belated recognition of this
unparalleled waste of public funds, to
which I have been calling attention
Tor a long time.
Uncle Sam as Landlord
The expenditure of S45O,O 900 bv
the Resettlement Administration has
resulted in such fantastic and as
founding operations as have never
before been undertaken by any gov
ernment. Home units. costing from
$4,000 to $4,000 each. are being
built in 232 resettlement projects all
over the country, and are to be rented
to those of small incomes, who natu-
rally will be unable to pay rentals on
such costs.
Uncle Sam will be a landlord of
these costly ventures indefinitely, and
Will be compelled to appropriate still
further sums for the maintenance and
operation of the nearly 10000 homes
proposed to be built under this Tug
Wellian scheme.
Many millions can yet be salvaeed
and returned to the Treasury by a
survey and an immediate dlscontln-
uance of the dwellings on which con-
struction has not been substantially
started"
CONFERENCE GOES ON.
Evening star., 1937-09-03

kinson, members OF the board OF direc-
tors Of the mission: Col. E. w. STAR
ling, Clark Griffith, lie Roy Mark,
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, Page NICK.
Etchison, DR.. G. N. Chapman, George
Mangan, Judge Gus A. Schuldt, DR..
Paris E. Brengle, Pinckney A. Harman,
DR.. c. o. Goodpasture, Albert B. Van
Voorhees,. DR.. George D. Kirkpatrick,
Harry G. Kimball, Dewey Zirkin,
Justin Lawrie. Lewis T. Breuninger,
Bynum E. Hinton, Edward D. Shaw,
Rev. Simpson B. Daugherty, Bruce
Baird. Rev. John c. Palmer, Rev. G. E.
Schnabel, Isaac Cans, James Mac
Farquhar and others representing the
Kiwanis Club and representing the
Masonic fraternity.
New Jerusalem Lodge, No. Q, F. A.
A. M, will hold Masonic rites at the
grave.
Mr. Bennett died Wednesday after
serving the mission % years.
Evening star., 1937-09-03
Change in Resettlement Administra-
ton Anticipated in Blacksburg.

BLACKSBURG, Va, September 3
tP).-Despite the change of its name
from the Resettlement Administra-
lion to the Farm Security Administra-
zion the program of the annual State
conference of more than 100 super
visors of the Security Administra-
ton which is being held at Virginia
Tech went on yesterday.
The change announced in Wash
ington had been anticipated, H. H.
Gorden, State supervisor, explained.
The new organization, he said, is to
carry out the provisions of the farm
tenancy act passed recently by Con-
gress.
j. B. Slack, assistant regional di-
rector. spoke last night at a Joint
meeting of the farm management and
home management sections about
problems of the regional loan office.
L. H. Halto. Tennessee Rural Re-
Mobilization director, told of the meth
eds used in that State. E. r. Price
agricultural extension editor at v. P.
l., gave suggestions for making cir
eulars effective.
Evening star., 1937-09-03
Do'vn-and-Outers He Helped
Grieued by Bennett's Death
Many Whose Liues He Mended, Climb
ing Comeback Trail, Volunteer Serr-
ices to Central Union Mission.

He's big. tough-looking man, and
re drives a taxi.
A few years ago he drifted into
Washington without a dime or
friend or prospect. He didn't know
what to do. A policeman told him to
drop by the Central Union Mission.
The wanderer did, and he found a
staunch friend and later Job.
He's never forgotten the friend, and
when he learned that John S. Bennett,
veteran superintendent of the mission,
was dead. this "hard-boiled" taxi
driver stopped by the mission at 624
Indiana avenue.
Isn't there something can do?"
he asked the man at the desk You
know, some way can help-tfe family
or somebody. Gosh. wish there was.
Why that man did more good than
anybody in town"
Others Volunteer Services.
There were others who dropped in,
wishing there was some comfort they
could bring his widow, some aid they
could give the mission
One Of them has substantial busi-
ness of his own. But 10 years ago he
thought life had knocked him down
for the count The mission man per-
suaded him that he still had chance
to win and got him on his feet before
the referee could count 10.
And to the boys and girls who found
refuge in the Children's Emergency
Home of the mission while the courses
of their lives were being charted. he
was always Daddy" Bennett
One of them, a 12-year-old girl,
hearing he was critically i'll, wrote him
two days before his death: I'VE can't
understand why God can't make you
we'll"
Known in Wide Realm.
News of the passing Of Mr.. Bennet
has brought his widow. Mrs Ada Jean
Bennett-long associated with him in
the work and acting superintendent
during his illness-stacks Of kilograms
Evening star., 1937-09-03

and letters, innumerable phone calls
and personal visits.
Some messages come from points q
thousand miles away.
He helped me when -"
Almost every message told of crisis,
spiritual or material. or both, which
the mission director had helped to
solve.
There were shattered homes he
mended, scattered families he united
and broken lives he patched up. And
none Of them can ever forget. :.
Because 50 many shut-ins-people
sick or crippled, too old or too frail to
leave hospital beds or homes-want to
honor Mr.. Bennett's memory, the
funeral service at Calvary Baptist
Church at II am. tomorrow will be
broadcast
Evening star., 1937-09-03

None turned Away.
No man is ever turned away. II he
has money he can get a private room
for moderate sum. II he Is broke
there is always place for him In the
dormitory. and two good meals a day.
How long he may stay depends on
circumstances-there is no fixed rule
but every effort is made to help him
get job or perhaps return to the
family he has forsaken.
Mai. Ramsey will have a part In
the funeral. Others who will speak
or offer prayers, all personal friends,
are Bishop Arthur j. Moore OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
DR.. Freely Rohrer. pastor Of the Met
ropolitan Presbyterian Church and
President of the ministerial council Of
the Central Union Mission, and DR..
Arson Phelps Stokes, canon of the
Washington Episcopal Cathedral
Homer A. Rodeheaver and the mission
glee club will sing. E. H. De Groot, jr,
president Of the missions Board Of
Directors, will preside. Burial will
take place in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
The body will lie In state in the
church from $50 am. tomorrow until
the time of the funeral.
Among honorary pallbearers will be
Lewis E. Breuninger and Harry Hos
Evening star., 1937-09-03
None Turned Away,

glee club which is familiar to radio
listeners.
Evening star., 1937-09-03
DEATHS UNAVOIDABLE" :"

CASPER, Wyo., September ; (P.-
A Civilian Conservation Corps Board
of Inquiry reported yesterday circum-
stances surrounding the death of IS
persons in the Shoshone National
Forest fire last month we've "unavoid-
able" All OF the victims were fight
ing the blaze.
Evening star., 1937-09-03
Muskrats Lead Law Life.

MIDDLE RIVER. MINI. (P,.-some
OF Minnesota's muskrats aren't build
ing their own houses any more.
c. c. c. camp enrollees cut piles of
brush. thinking the muskrats would
use the material to build houses. But
the animals waited until the water
levels had risen, plastered mud over
the brush piles and moved in.
The Washington times., 1937-01-18
MRS. M0FFETT
T0ASK DECREE

NEW YORK, Jan. 18 0N.S0.
Suit for divorce is to be filed in
Florida by Mrs. James A. Moffett
against her millionaire husband,
oil company executive and former
chairman of the Federal Housing
Administration, it was learned
today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moffett are un-
derstood to have agreed upon the
divorce, and the suit will be un-
contested. They were married here
in November, 1884.
Miss Moffett admitted over the
telephone from her winter home
at Palm Beach. Fla, that she was
preparing divorce papers. She
said:
II am fOnder of him than any
body else in the world. l am
perfectly devoted to him-but
his business separates us so
much that this step seems the
only way. We have come to a
friendly agreement to disagree.
The suit will be filed in Flor
ida, where Mrs. Moffett maintains
her residence, while Moffett re-
mains here at the Hotel Ritz Carl
ton to pursue his duties as chair
man of the board of the Califor.
n1a-TeXas Oil Company.
The decision, something of q
sensation in Park Avenue drawing
rooms, means the beginning of
the end for love that bloomed only
three weeks after the first Mrs.
Moffett plunged to death from her
eighth floor apartment here in
october, 1884.
Tragedy turks around the mar
riage of the Moffetts. The first
Mrs. Moffett died a violent death
during estrangement from her hus-
band. Blues-singing Adelaide, her
beautiful daughter, was married to
Young David "Winkie" Brooks, a
nephew of Lady Astor, last July,
who four months later fell to death
from his honeymoon suite in the
Mayfair House at Park Ave. and
Sixty-fifth st.