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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-18

New YORK. ...... Ks
Runs batted in--Dickey. Lazzeri. Di-
Two-base hit Gehrig. Home runs
Dickey. Lazzeri. Sacrifice hit--Crosetti.
Double play--Myer to Travis to Kuhel.
Left on bases - Washington. Z: New
York, s. Bases on balls-Off Gomez, 4;
off Appleton, 1: off Chase. 7. Struck
out--By Appleton. s: by Chase. 4: by
Gomez. 8. Umpires-Aubbard. Dineen
and Kolls. Time-1:55.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-18
HUBBELL TO FACE
AS BEES
BATTLE GIANTS
BY LAYTON CARVER

By LAYTON CARVER
International News Service Sports Writer
Back in the National League
pennant race which q week ago
seemed to have passed them by,
the Giants today found themselves
only three games behind the Chi
cago Cubs and were to send Carl
Hubbell and his annoying left
handed screwball against Lou
Fette and the Boston Bees.
It was Just q little earlier than
this time last year that the Giants
turned on the heat, meaning Hub
bell, and came steaming in with
the flag, and they are banking
again on the slim and solemn man
from Meeker, Okla, to get them
to the wire in front.
He will be given some help, no
doubt, such as that Of yesterday
when Lefty Melton held the Bees
to five hits and beat them by 4
to !, but Hubbell Is the standby
as the Giants earnestly so about
the business Of trying to keep
the tide turned in their favor.
He was to seek his seventeenth
victor today against six defeats,
and possibly continue toward beat.
ing his performance Of last season
when he won 26 and lost 8, al.
though the man who was to op-
pose him today currently has the
best won and lost record in the
circuit. Fette has won IA and
lost 4.
TO SHOOT ACE TODAY
The Cubs, who lost yesterday to
the Pittsburgh Pirates, likewise
were slated to shoot with their
ace against those same Pirates to-
day. They were to call on Clay
Bryant, current sensation with
seven wins against one defeat, his
opponent and probable victim to
be big Jim Weaver, credited with
six victories and two losses.
The American League race
again took on the aspects Of a
runaway yesterday, when the
Yanks snapped out Of their three
game slump to sweep q double
header with the Washington
Senators and thus move 1012
games to the front.
Lefty Vernon Gomez bravely
won the first by 8 to o after learn
ing that his mother had died in
California. He allowed the Sen
ators only three hits, and Bill
Dickey and Tony LaZzeri belted
homers.
WIN NTGHTCAP, TOO
The Yanks took the nightcap
by 8 to with five runs in the
eighth, Dickey hitting another cir.
cult blow to make it % for the sea-
son. Hadley was credited with
the win.
York, Foxx and Gehringer all
hit homerS for the Detroit Tigers
who took the upper hand in the
battle with the Chicago White Sox
for second place by beating the
latter, II to Z. The Boston Red
Sox beat the Philadelphia Athlet-
les, 6 to /, with the Cleveland In.
dams and st. Louis Browns were
rained out.
Back in the National League,
the Philadelphia Phillies climbed
to seventh place and pushed the
Brooklyn Dodgers into the cellar
by beating the latter, II to /, while
in a night game at Cincinnati, the
Cardinals scored a front-running
win over the Rads A IN A
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Coming Attractions
Hit Plays on Local
Legitim tie
Scene.

IlY ITCH YOUR WAGON" a
new comedy, by Bernard
c. Schoenfeld, will be pre-
L 4 sented by Malcolm L.
Pearson and Donald E. Baruch at the
Belasco Theater for q week, starting
tomorrow night. prior to its Broadway
opening. George Cruzon, who was
brought to this country last season to
play ''Parnell," is cast in one Of the
leading roles in Hitch Your Wagon"
and others in important parts will be
Dennie Moore, Joseph Greenwald,
Dora WeiSsman and Kenneth Roberts,
the Well-known radio announcer.
The comedy has been directed by
Carson Kanin, who has been produc-
ton assistant to George Abbott for the
last two years.
THE Great Waltz" the mammoth
Max Gordon-produced spectacle based
upon the life OF Johann Strauss, pere
ct f1ls, returns to the National Thea
ter tomorrow night for q second week
in washington. The musical, which
features much of the famed Strauss
music, now is in its fourth successful
year Cincluding two years at the Gen.
ter Theater in New York; and it still
Is being played by the original cast
Evening star., 1937-03-28

ly I will admit to you that in Ger
tain ways 1t has lacked excitement.
1t has not, for example, offered one
OF those dynamic and beautifully
paced Negro revues that used to
provide an electric quality in the
days before 1929 started to act up
Even in those times there were dys-
peptic fellows who snarled at such
shows because, the contention was,
they lacked a true racial quality
They were, said the obiectors, pat
and servile limitations of the conven-
tional Broadway works, rather than
reflections OF the Negro genius. They
were not, you gathered, filled with
the proper atmosphere OF the Congo
and the plantation.
The proper reply, 1t always seemed
to me, was that these were not sup
posed to be cotton-fleld shows or in
the Green Pastures" tradition. Har-
lem, not the deep South, was their
inspiration, and it was proper that
they should reflect the Broadway
influence as it was filtered through
the Harlem mind, rather than any
world of departed plantation culture.
or COURSE it might be answered
at the present day that one reason
why the Negro revues could not pos
sibly be regarded as limitations of
Broadway is that Broadway hasn't
any rapidly paced revues of its own.
But it happens that there aren't any
Negro stage shows, either. There
was an attempt at one at the begin
ming OF the season, but that had
better be forgotten. Anyway, I seem
to have felt the lack instinctively,
and so, with characteristic diligence,
set out to find what had happened.
In the interest of discovery 1 even
decided to make my annual pilgrim
age to night clubs, and now I can
bring back an answer. Like almost
every other form of the theater,
the substance has changed a bit, but
not the spirit. The Negro revue has
merely moved over, taps, pace,
rhythm and all, to the night clubs
You will find it, in its best tradition
Evening star., 1937-03-28

Clldt VIC tAlCntA AIekl PAoNdNCA0 AAAAA
decide to devour Hollywood, instead
Of permitting group Of cloak-and-
suit statesmen to indulge in the DELI
cious banquet for themselves. What
Is obvious is that II the Broadway
managers had decided to take over
the rich gold mine Of the motion pic
ture they would have been no more
concerned with the supposed deli
cacieS of the rarif1ed theater than the
crude fellows who did adopt the photo
play. 1t was all a matter Of economics,
not artistic integrity. To put 1t with
proper crudeness, they pay of bet
ter in Hollywood, and any sage capt.
talist who had a financial interest
in both stage and screen would OBJ
viously be more concerned with the
latter. You have to blame the eco
nCknic system for that
There have been many excellent
replies to Mr.. Hopkins, with the
understanding Mr. Burns Mantle as
the most sane and coolly logical Of
them all. But I must confess that
at one point found even Mr.. Man
tie more than a trif1e unconvincing
1t was his contention that, while
a great stage actress might play to
a far smaller public than Greta Garbo,
the nom Hollywood girl would supply
a higher type Of spiritual and esthetic
satisfaction to her limited audience.
IT SEEMS to me curiously blind not
to confess that the emotional stim-
ulation supplied by Miss Garbo is
Incompatible as to quality as we'll as
quantity. But what would like to
remind Mr.. Hopkins is that it may
possibly be good thing for us the
ater addicts that all the producers
didn't rush of to Hollywood and
leave us unescorted In our drama
pilgrimages. And it might add to
his tolerance If he realized that es-
thetically-and Mr.. Hopkins is al
ways interested in esthetics-the
stage has done plenty Of harm to
the screen. The films are so i'm
pressed by the elegance of the the
ater that they insist on initiating 1t,
instead of striking out boldly in
their own field The result is that,
despite everything, the cinema still
is the stages timid little stepbrother,
rather than the possessor of a bold
and original personality of its own.
THIS pulpit will not accept any sug-
gestion that the current season
In the theater has failed to be a
fine and successful one. But secret
Evening star., 1937-03-28

and Its finest spirit, at the Cotton
Club. which to the comfort Of those
OF us who find 1t easier to get to
West China than to 125th street,
has moved into what is left Of the
theatrical district.
IHE heroine of these shows, in
their heyday, was the magnificent
Miss Florence Mills, and when she
died something irretrievable went
out OF them. But, fortunately, Miss
Ethel Waters survives to carry on
the tradition Of gayety, gallantry
and smiling but sad-eyed pathos.
1t is Miss Waters who heads the
show at the Cotton Club. and she is
one Of the genuinely distinguished
women Of the modern theater.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
"Marine" Due Soon.

4 DVICES from First Nationals
West Coast studios have it that
Dick PoWell's new starring picture,
THE Singing Marine" will be COM
pleted by the end of this month. Ray
Enright is directing the dramatic por-
tions of the production. with Busby
Berkeley as director of musical num-
bers, the songs having been written
by the ver-reliable team of Harry
Warren and AL Dublin Doris Weston,
newly come from radio, Is Mr. PoWell's
leading lady. Some Of the other
headliners are Hugh Herbert, Allen
jenkins and Lee Dixon. THE Sing
ing Marine" is being filmed from an
original story and screen play by Del
mar Dawes.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

set which NJ. Gravel has to sell-and
which he sells so adroitly.
X X
DEsP1TE the established odiousness
of comparisons, there is an ex-
cellent chance to make one without
moving more than two blocks along
theater row in Washington this week.
The comparison is that between THE
Great Waltz" at the National and
"Maytime" at Loew's Palace. Each is
among the best achievements Of its
kind. Those who believe that Holly
wood has taken over the big musical
show completely from the theater can
stage a grand battle with those who
refuse to give credence to any such
report.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
TODAY'S FILM SCHEDULE

WARMERS EARLE - THE
King and the Chorus Girl" at
2:4O, sos, 1880 and 9::55 pm.
Stage shows at 2, 4:25, $50
and 9:15 pm.
R-K-O KEITH'S - Quality
Street" at 2, 3:55, 5:55, 7:50
and $50 pm.
METROPOLITAN NO Man
of Her own" at 2, 1855, $50,
7:45 and $40 pm.
CAPITOL-"A Family Affair"
at 2, 4::35, 7:05 and 9:25 pm.
Stage shows at $40, 545 and
1922 pm.
PALACE - "Maytime," at 2,
4:20, 6::55 and $50 pm.
COLUMBIA-"On the Avenue"
at 2:55, sos, tbs and $50
pm.
LITTLE-"Escape Me Never"
at 2, 1858, 5:46, 7::50 and 9:44
pm.
RIALTO-"Ambassador Bill" at
3:05, 5:25, 7:50 and 1915 pm.
.'Stand Up and Cheer" at 2,
AIS, 6::35 and 9:05 pm.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Cinema Houses Book
Films for Next
Week.

~ ETRO GOODWIN May
M ER'S cinema version OF Pearl
|V S. Bucks The Good Earth"
i comes to town week from
today to open a road-show engage
ment at the National Theater. The
film, already much-praised, has Luise
Rainer and Paul NUM- in the leading
roles. There will be two screenings
of the picture daily, at 230 and $50
pm, during this first local engage
ment.
Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur are
the newest romantic team introduced
by the films, playing the leads in
Walter Wanger's History Is Made
at Night" which comes to Keith's
following the current engagement OF
Katharine Hepburn's Quality Street
Carole Lombard and Fred Mac
Murray, together in Hands Across the
Table" and The Princess Comes
Across" are teamed again in 'Swing
High, Swing Low" which comes to
the Earle Friday. Swing High, Swing
Low" tale of night club life IN which
Carole sings, has also Dorothy Lamour
and Charlie Butterworth. The stage
show will be headlined by Bert Gra-
nof, returning to the Earle from a
long string of Chicago successes.
"Torrid love" is probably what
they'll advertise for the Capitols
next feature film It's to be Personal
Property" cc-starring for the first
time Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor.
The picture, which opens Friday,
will be accompanied by variety stage
bill.
IT Promise to Pay" Columbia Pic
lures expose dealing with loan shark
racketeers, Is scheduled for the Metro
politan next Friday. Chester Morris
Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack and Thomas
Mitchell are the featured players in
the cast.
"On the Avenue" the Madeleine
Carroll-Dick Powell musical with all
that Irving Berlin music, returns to
F street Friday to play third down.
town week at Loew's Columbia.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
LUISE RAINER

Guy Robertson and Vivien Fay have
the principal roles.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

"On the Avenue" the Madeleine
Carroll-Dick Powell musical with all
that Irving Berlin music, returns to
F street Friday to play third down.
town week at Loew's Columbia
Evening star., 1937-03-28

Virginia Phelan and Mary 10 Day
will alternate in the leading role in
Girls in Uniform" to be presented by
the Washington Civic Theater, start
ing Wednesday night and running
through Saturday. There will be
additional performances, presented as
sponsored benefits, tomorrow, Tues
day and next Sunday nights.
The play has been directed by Con-
stance Connor Brown.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

r ETRO GOODWIN May
ER'S cinema version OF Pearl
S. Bucks The Good Earth"
i comes to town week from
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Fine Theater Season
Lacks Dynamic Quality
Admirers of Stage Make Reply to Mr.. Hop
kins on Triumphant Victory Of Screen.
Night Clubs and Harlem Talent.
Bv Richard Watts, Jr.

VERY one else In the world seems have taken sock at Arthur
q to
-
ALL
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Popular!

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND. beautiful
Young star. has just received her
5,000th marriage proposal since the re-
lease Of Captain Blood"
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Luise Rainer Bids Again
For Highest Acting Honor
Performance in '"The Good EARTH Is Chal-
lenge to Finest in Hollywood's Feminine
Players Hepburn's Voice.
Bv Jaw CarmOdv.

ITO HAVE made two pictures and with them have won capital awards
accomplish
realm of possibility Rainer
Hollywood with
of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-26
THE DUCKTOWN FIASCO

AT this distance 1--WE followed carefully
reports of the trial printed in detail in the
newspapers the result of the trial at Duck
town, Tennessee, of three men charged
with the killing of D. w. McFadden OF
Asheville, appears to be one of the worst
miscarriages of justice ever recorded in
southern state.
The entire weight of the evidence given
at the hearing supported the States con-
tention that McFadden was waylayed and,
as one of the lawyers for the prosecution
expressed it, "shot down like a dog" All
TESTIMONY produced at the trial supported
this view, with the exception of the testi-
niony of the three men charged with the
crime, who claimed that McFadden was
killed in self defense as he was shooting
at GaddiS.
Strange to say, no gun of any kind was
found in McFadden's car after the killing
and no gun has since been found and none
was produced in court, that could possibly
have been in possession of McFadden.
1t is little hard to understand how Nc
FaQQen cOulu nave SllOl dI Haliuio eiiu hiS
friends when he had nothing to shoot with.
Another thing, the most damaging evil
dence given in the trial was that of three
citizens of Georgia, who happened to be
riding through the Ducktown section and
were unwilling witnesses of the killing.
They testified that McFadden was first
shot through the windshield of his car and
that, badly wounded, he crawled out of his
car with his hands above his head, and
was then shot several times by Gaddis, two
or three times as he lay on the ground al
ready dead.
Strange to say, all the additional evil
dence produced-except that of the three
men on trial-corroborated the testimony
of the Georgians.
! Tennessee stands indicted at the bar Of
public opinion as a result of this shameful
failure of law enforcement and miscar-
riage of justice, although it appears that
certain officers and the court were reason
ably active and determined in efforts to
enforce the law 1t is only another object
lesson showing how trial by jury absolute.
~ breaks down in many cases and regis
ters complete failure.
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trying to sell ne a certain labor
saving appliance which is efficient
and popular.
~ would not have it rs a gift
! tell my friend. 81 have the time
to do that work and l need the
exercise and the occupation of
which your device would deprive
me-"
One crchant deliberately
muses. up the department in
which he finds a clerk idle; he
pulls down bolts Of cloth and UNI
rolls them, or scatters articles on
the counters. Another man tells
his employees, 81 want YOU to
keep busy. That is the way to
keep out OF mischief. If | find
one of you idle, | shall assume |
have one more employee than |
need. | will let him go, and di-
vide his duties among the rest of
you"
We are nearly all praying for
blessings, but We should bear in
mind that il takes sound sense to
use blessings, or they may easily
be perverted into curses. The
more privileges and advantages we
have. the greater our responsible
ties and obligations.
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and deaths.
All of which reminds us that the big
fight to extend the flood of booze IN North
Carolina is now on. The vets are deter
mined to increase booze territory by the
county option plan. The drys demand a
Statewide referendum.
The vets believe there are counties
| which can be opened up to the legalized
booze business, in addition to the IL coun-
| ties in which sale is now permitted II a
third or half of the counties can be made
wet in this way the liquor business VIII
fairly cover the State, as the dry counties
can obtain their booze in the wet counties,
and under the present system this will be
highly profitable to the counties permitting
the sale.
On the other hand, the vets are bitterly
and everlastingly opposed to Statewide
vote on the liquor issue, because they serl-
ously doubt that the State can be carried
by the vets; and if they lost the election 1t
would mean that the liquor business as at
present conducted in Is counties would be
knocked out.
A public hearing before Judiciary COM
mittee No. / of the House will begin in
Raleigh at two o'clock next Thursday aft
ernoon This is hearing on Representa-
tive Hutchins' bill providing for State
wide referendum.
The Hutchins bill ought to be adopted
by the Legislature. The Legislature ought
to be entirely willing to adopt the Demo-
cratic plan of allowing the people OF North
Carolina to decide this issue in an election
not hooked up with or complicated by poll
tics or personal issues.
The liquor issue is no more local or
county problem than schools or roads. We
have State school system and State
highway system and the whole tendency
of the State is toward Statewide plans for
almost all our problems. Why not State
wide plan for the booze business?
Well, the answer to this question is that
the vets do not believe they can lick the
drys in a Statewide election. The drys
are confident they can lick the vets and
they want the chance.
Regardless of what the outcome of
Statewide referendum might be, this news
paper believes that is the fair, reasonable
and Democratic way to settle the question.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
REGULATING TRUCKS

three-judge federal court has held that South
Carolina has not the right to regulate its own high
ways.
At least. that seems to be the inference from a
ruling which meant victory for the motor truckers
II was held by the three-judge court that South
Cardinals regulations are unreasonable.
The dispute arose over statute enacted by the
South Carolina general assembly limiting the
weight of motor trucks to 10000 pounds and their
width to nine feet.
At the time the law was passed most people be-
reved that the statute was good one. Most of us
still think that there should be regulation OF
numbering freight vans which hurtle along the
highways of the state at from so to 60 miles ar
hour--Anderson Is. c. Record.
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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
By WICKES WAMDOLDT

damage 4 splendid privilege will
do to us when diverted from its
excellent possibilities. The motor
vehicle has been made a greater
Scourgc to life and limb than all
ether accident-producinG factors
put together. 1t has been made
TO have n detrimental effect on
the moral affairs of this nation;
it has been so employed as to dis
courage home life, and to cncOur-
age reckless spending and prodi-
gality. But all of those evils arc
not the fault Of the motor vehicle
itself, but of the human beings
who have not sense enough pro-
perry to regard the automobile.
incidentally referring TO Profess
sor Harpcr's major premise, cleo
tricity is an essential factor in the
operation of the automobile.
To make it unnecessary for men
to work in ono direction is harm
full unless they will regard such
release as an opportunity to work
with increased zeal in some Other
direction which offers means of
self or community Improvement.
The human being needs to be
busy. In fact, he will be busy,
either constructivCly or dcstruc-
lively. No matter how much bet
ter some device will do a job than
person will do it. the person had
better perform the task himself
than be idle. If a person has all
the time he needs in which to do
his work and has no better use
for his time, there is no excuse
FOR q labor-saving device for him.
4 friend of mine is constantly
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-26
HEAVY SPENDING

Relief and work relief funds spent in South Car
DINA in the past year by the federal government
totalled $50, 100000.
That was more than was spent by the state gov
eminent for every purpose. yet South Carolina is
small fry among the states in totals expended on
relief.
And the spending of these tremendous sums con-
tinues notwithstanding the obvious progress in gen.
eral business recovery.
Thoughtful citizehs will agree with Sen. Byrnes
that the time has come to curb this spending and
to curb it sharply.-Greenvlle Piedmont.
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By RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service stan Correspondence
Neutrality-suspicious. RooSc-
W welt, the presidents eldest son,
has made his official debut in
Washington at the side of his ia
theron the occasion of the pres
idcntial message to Congress and
again at the ceremonies Of inaug-
uration.
Jimmy will be an assistant, a
secretary, and a companion. To a
certain extent he will attempt to
fill the important place left vacant
by the death of Louis Howe, long
the beloved friend and most in
innate counselor of F. D. R., and
TO a certain extent he will at
tempt to replace the late Gus Gen.
nerich, without performing the
duties of bodyguard.
The presidents loneSomenesS
since the death Of Howe and Gen.
nerich was large factor behind
his request that his son join him
at the White House.
It is also true that Jimmy, who
IS still under 80, has made a pile
of money and has political ambi-
tions which can be nouriShed in
his new job. The president is
sympathetic with those ambitions,
although it's silly to listen to odd
rumors referring to the young
man as a "crown prince" or "heir
apparent" .u. .,rra
Young Roosevelt thus far has
had most of his training under
Gov. Jim Curley Of Massachusetts,,
whom Bay State voters refused
TO send to the Senate last Novem-
Der despite their concurrence in
the Roosevelt landslide.
He will be on the spot in his
position as his fathers confden-
tial handy man, target for jeal-
ousieS and resentments, eyed con-
stantly by both conservatives and
liberals who already are wonder
ing as to the direction in which
his influence will be felt.
The friends and enemies Jimmy
makes in Washington and the type
Of such statesmanlike qualities as
he may exhibit will 60 a long way
,Award determining the extent e