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Evening star., 1937-12-27

childhood attacks OF chorea, or st.
Vitus' dance.
He described a typical case as tina.
OF a girl who began to show signs of
going crazy at Is, after having had
st. Vitus' dance at 6. She imagined
persons were conspiring against her.
became seclusive, and had occasional
outbreaks Of swearing. Taken to the
insane hospital, she spent most Of her
time mumbling and laughing to her,
self. At times she refused food.
The case was diagnosed as dementia
precox. Under treatment she inn
proved and was discharged. Six years
later she was brought back in a worse
condition that ever. Nothing could be
done for her. She remained in the
asylum for rs years, when she dropped
dead of rheumatic heart disease. Au-
topsy showed evidence that the rheu-
matte condition had flared up every
now and then since the childhood St
tack Of chorea and that these recur-
rences were probably coincidental vita
her mental crises.
Psychiatrists at Odds.
The experimental work was CON-
Quoted under grant from the Scottish
Rite Masons, who are financing in
tensive studies of dementia precox
all over the United States. Psychia-
trists are badly at odds over what
causes the condition. Many say that it
results from the failure of the indi-
vidual to meet the complex situations
OF modern civilization. others that it
always has some organic cause.
II it is simply mental escape from
trouble, DR.. Bruetsch said, it should
have increased markedly during and
after the World War in Central Eu-
rope. Recent study Of the records BY
European psychiatrists have failed to
show any such increase and they
have largely abandoned the theory.
He believes other chronic infections
besides rheumatism may We shown
to lead to a similar syndrome, that in
some cases the disease may have 4
hereditary factor, and that In others
the. whole mechanism may be mental.
More Patent Rat Poison.
A rat poison, relatively harmless
to dogs, cats and men, which is 100
times more toxic than the powder
ordinarily used, was described to the
association today by DR.. Floyd J. La
Blanc of South Dakota State College
The most popular rat poison is =
powdered form of the bulb of an Eu-
ropean plant, red squill This Is
sprinkled over food and placed around
. rat-infested building. II can be
eaten by . child or dog with relative
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associate with table models It's powerful g. tube American
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year through.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Civic Casts In
One-Act Plays

For its first Workshop produc-
tion the Washington Civic Thea
ter will present an evening of one
act plays at the Gordon Junior
High School tonight. No adm1s-
sion will be charged for the per-
formance, which will begin at 8:15
o'clock and which will be open to
the general public.
The Gordon High School audi
torium will be used by special ar
rangement with Mrs. Elizabeth K.
Peoples of the Community Center.
The three plays will be Supper
for the Dead" by Paul Green;
Knives from Syria" by Lynn
Riggs, and Release" by Edward
H. Smith.
The directors and casts for the
plays are as follows: Supper for
the Dead" directed by Elizabeth
Giles, and the members Of the
cast are Leonard Levinson, Helen
Jackson, Linda Flesch, Janet
Hartz, Fay Kaplan, and Gay
Hess; "Knives from Syria" di-
rected by Yvonne Kushner, with
members of the cast consisting Of
Olga Dryden, Edith Sognier, Nal
vim Plunkett, and James Kelley;
Release" directed by Constance
Connor Brown, and the cast made
up Of John Rappolt, James RawS,
Donald Hoffend, William Wald-
man, and Edgar Kloten.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Variety Plans
Irish Cruise

Harry Somerville, genial man
aging director Of the Willard Ho.
tel, won't know the place by the
time the night Of March II rolls
around!
In case we need tell you that
date is st. Patrick's Day!
Briefly here is the story: variety
Club, in which is enrolled most
everybody of the motion picture
industry as represented in WASH
ington. is to launch an imaginary
cruise to Ireland.
The club quarters and, in TACT,
the entire first floor Of the hotel
on which these quarters are
located, is being revamped as the
side of a boat with the dock and
everything pertai nj g thereto.
Why Capt. Frank Shyne, local
bone-twister and in charge Of the
cruise, has even dug up a peg-leg-
ged sailor for atmosphere. No
dock was even a dock if there
wasn't a peg-legged sailor thereon.
Elaborate plans are being made
for the entertainment Of those on
the cruise. There will be an ex-
cellent buffet supper for those who
lay the $1.50 cost of a passport
on the line.
This mythical cruise is the first
staged by any organization in
Washington though the idea is
not new one and has been staged
by DR.. Shyne in other cities with
Gll those participating declaring
it the best idea yet.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Guild Warns
On Hepburn

This week, the local office Of
the Theater Guild and American
Theater Society in the National
Theater will accept advance sub
scriptions for Jane Eyre" with
Katharine Hepburn, which plays
here the week of March 20. Wash
ington subscribers today received
subscription blanks which they are
asked to send in without delay II
they desire their regular seats for
the play.
Miss Lucille Luttrell, the New
York office manager Of the The
ater Guild, will arrive here on
Thursday morning to take charge
of issuing the tickets to Washing.
ton subscribers, assisting BesS
Davis Schreiner, who is in charge
of the Washington office of the
American Theater Society.
Subscribers are notified that
they may have their regular seats
at their regular subscription rate,
if they apply this week. The letter
from the New York office contains
full information for filling the or
ders for Jane Eyre subscriptions,
which must be received not later
than Saturday, March 13, at the
A. T. S. office in the National
Theater, as the regular box-office
sale begins the following week.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Film Makers Cause
SHORTAGE Of Cloth

Hollywood today is feeling the
effects of a cheesecloth famine.
The Paramount studio bought
all it could find and then threw
it away.
The material was used during
the production of waikiki Wed
ding" to remove the makeup from
the faces and legs of the dancers
and other characters in the pic
ture.
Each dancer and extra was
allotted three feet of it daily and
before the picture was finished
q. 900 feet had been used.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
I Cover HOl yWOOd

lhanded her q whole new crew,
she never squawked a murmur =.
Bartlett C"The Rackett") Cor
mack is leaving for London to
script Somerset Vaughan
story which will be produced by
Erich Pommer for Charles Laugh
ton. He expects to remain in
London for sometime.
Virginia Pine who becomes
more beautiful by the day, is on
diet to put on weight, which
is just the reverse Of usual. AS far
as her romance with George Raft
is concerned, it still remains in the
same category, but can progress
no further because Mrs. Raft re-
fuses steadfastly to grant a divorce
to the husband from whom she
has been estranged for years.
The Ginger Rogers-Alfred Van
derbilt Rollerdrome party brought
out the entire town. More about
the casualties of those unused to
wheels later. We wonder, by the
bye, if it has been insured, as was
CaroIe Lombard'S fun-house party,
so none of the guests can sue.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Stars Swap Ranch
Tales Durind Work

Two of Hollywood's better known
ranch owners are getting together
these days during the making Of
Paramount's "1nternes Can't Take
Money" and are discussing high
taxes, the prices of feed for live
stock and giving each other help
full advice.
They're Joel McCrea, proprietor
of a l,0O0-acre ranch near Chats
worth, on which he is raising 500
head of cattle-the cold weather
made it necessary to buy 10 tons
of hay-and Barbara Stanwyck,
his costar, who has 125 acres for
breeding horses in partnership
with Zeppo Marx in the same San
Fernando Valley.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1887, by King Features
Syndicate. Incl

HOLLYWOOD, March 9.-Here,
there, and in your hair. One of
the prime reasons that Frances
Marion turned producereSs is so
that she may bring again to the
fore the talents of her great
friend, Gloria Swanson. Which
might sound little vague, since
Miss Swanson will be under con-
tract to M. G. M. for awhile. and
Miss Marion will be doing her
producing at Columbia. Never
theless, in the very near future,
you may expect to see Gloria
either on loan or under contract
at Columbia. in a personally pro-
duced epic by Miss Marion.
Rumor has it that the M. G. M.
shares left to Norma Shearer by
Irving Thalberg were not sold as
reported, but are now up to be
sold to outside interests. The
ruHnor further carries on that
there is a feud in progress be-
tween Miss Shearer and Louis B.
Mayer, since he wishes to buy the
shares personally, or have some
one else in the studio purchase
them. My guess is that Nicholas
Schenck will be the purchaser.
.Garbo is becoming so calm it
is almost ominous. She couldn't
get the cameraman and set crew
she has had on every picture for
the past II years and when they
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
Man Dies in Blaze

PITTSBURGH, March 9 GN.SJ
Trapped in his home, Mark Robb,
so, was burned to death. He was
alone in the house.
The Washington times., 1937-03-09
DouqIas Returns Home

Cutting short his visit to New
York City, Melvyn Douglas has re-
turned to Hollywood to discuss
plans for his appearance in new
film play at M-G-M. ...
The Washington times., 1937-06-01
The Human Side of the News

'biochemists study the genes. Here
is a door unlocked late in the days
of the 97-year-old John D. Rookie
Teller. In the life cell is the chro-
mosome, which is a bagful Of
genes. The genes are like the
colored balls on a Chinese abacus,
which your Chinese laundryman
slips up and down to add up your
bill. Their arrangement determines
the color of your hair and eyes,
your mental, physical and emo
tional heritage from this parent or
that, or both of them, or Shadowy
ancestors far back in the dim
pathways of heredity.
1.-THE cargo Of heredity," Mr..
FOsdick calls them in his report,
carrying, cOmpacted in their
minuteneSs, the whole load Of in
heritance from one generation to
the next"
The foundation studies the hor-
mones, SecretionS Of the ductless
glands which rule the chemistra-
ton Of the body and, in the light
of recent research, the mind. They
The Washington times., 1937-06-01

surplus millions have explored Is
more profoundly changed than the
world of machines and energies
which nurtured, rewarded and, in
turn, profited by his financial
genius.
The young Rockefeller could
have comprehended the latter
vision, but probably neither he nor
any other man Of his age could
have even vaguely glimpsed the
labyrinth of scientific wonders to
which his gold was to be the
sesame.
Foundation scientists, Daniel
Boones of the sub-microscopic
wilderness, study chlorophyll, the
green coloring matter of plants.
Here is the Eight trap" the point
of transition from inanimate to
animate matter, from the inor-
ganic to the organic. Here, per-
haps, is the portal of life, the gate
way to the ultimate secret.
The planetary outreach Of the
Rockefeller fortune ranges inward
to the infiniteSimal. Rockefeller
The Washington times., 1937-06-01
School Bus Folly

NKARYLANDERS should be shocked into action by
N1 an authenticated report which to The Wash
ngton Times of dangerous and reckless speeding by
school bus in a nearby county.
An observant subscriber reports that recently while
driving the Defense Highway he paced school bus
heavily loaded with children, for about five miles
THE BUS MAINTAINED FOR THE FIVE MILES
A SPEED OF FIFTY-TWO MILES AN HOUR.
Operation of bus loaded with children or anyone
else in that manner is an outrage.
There are no circumstances which would warrant
driver in taking such chances.
It is inconceivable that school authorities or parents
would for moment countenance such a wanton disre
gard of safety as this.
County authorities in Maryland would be well ad-
vsed to make checkup all drivers of school buses
to find out which ones are so willing to hazard the
lives Of their young charges.
Fortunately there tragic outcome to the burst
of speed reported by the correspondent of The Times
But the danger was there and it is always on the
seat beside driver who pushes bus (and this one
was not particularly modern) over the road at fifty
two miles hour.
The Washington times., 1937-06-01
ANOTHER TEST

Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie
are pretty brave fellows, as their
trips back and forth across the
Atlantic prove.
For their enterprise and vail.
ance they we're presented medals
by the Army and Navy Union in
honor of Aviation Day. Just be.
fore the presentation, someone
mentioned casually that the pre-
sentation would be broadcast.
Merrill pricked up his ears and
asked:
do 1 have to say something
in front of a micrOphOne?"
When his question was an
swered in the affirmative he pro-
tested:
But 1 can't. Absolutely.
When 1 get in front of micro
phone go SPECIFICS"
"Ah, come on now; you'll just
have to do it," he was told.
Imagine" he grOaned. I've
just flown across the Atlantic
twice and never had bad mo-
ment and I've got to fall down
right here in the willard Hotel"
His sense of humor came to his
aid, however, and he made the
grade again, this time across Q
horrible microphone that looked
bigger to him than double the ex-
panSe of the Atlantic.
The Washington times., 1937-06-01
By Edwin C.. Hill

ARE beginning to produce them
synthetically, along with the
engines, equally mysterious and
potent instruments of the life
chemistry.
The foundation gives grants and
stimulates research among many,
many universities and research
institutions. Among them are
Johns Hopkins University; the In
stitute of Child Welfare Of the
University of California: the In
stitute for PsychoanalysiS in Chi
cago; the Institute of Human
Geneties at the University OF Co
penhagen; the National Commit
tee for Mental Hygiene; Cation
Laboratory; University of London;
Maudsley Hospital, London; Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons
of Columbia University; Worcester
State Hospital, Massachusetts,: the
University Of Amsterdam, and the
University of Leyden. Netherlands.
Merchant princes of the Byzan-
tine empire and the Italian city
states left marmoreal SplendorS to
acclaim and perpetuate their fame,
and, incidentally, released the
great art upSurge Of the Renais'
sance. The great Elizabethan
magnificoS gave tremendous but
incidental stimulus to learning and
the arts, as did the respondent
Indian rajahs, but the modern in
dustrial age marks the first diver
sion for the secrets of widespread
human well-being. And the world
outreach of the Rockefeller Foun-
dalton is the apex of this endeavor.
HUMBLE INSTRUMENT
There is a planetary systole and
diastole here. In the days Of
plenty Of elbow-room, we reached
out for continents. Now we seek
out the genes. We heed Ecclesi-
aSteS; and, with all our getting,
we try to get understanding. Ger.
many can't get colonies and turns
to electrons, hoping to find there
a creative wizardry which will free
her from trade and tariff con-
striction.
It is interesting to note that the
oil of the first Pennsylvania ooze
and the supreme organizing
genius of John D. Rockefeller
came out Of Times suspense file
together; and that oil hastened
the stalemate in the continent
grabbing, and that John D. Rookie
feller's oil fortune makes possible
a new synthesis of life by which
we no longer have to loot CONT
nentS to live.
It will be long, long time be-
fore the philosophers and the sci
entists give the final accounting
Of the life and deeds Of the be.
nign old man who distributed
dimes and homilieS, with never a
word about genes and engines
and pineal glands and hormones
and chlorophyll. He, himself. no
doubt would have said he was
merely the humble instrument OF
divine plan.
| Syndicate, Incl
(COpyrlghtp 1884, King Features -~
The Washington times., 1937-06-01

in Teneck. and the Kid Daugh.
ter was doing herself proud with
that new art assignment. and
the Little Irish Wife was prettier
than the day they'd married.
Only a careless, neighborly
note. But looking out, into the
night, you see a tired man bend
ing over his desk. Staying in q
cluttered, deserted office because
your copy's late. Pounding out
those Steadying, kindly words be-
cause he knows you need a hand.
Putting aside his own worry to
serve yours. Soothing away your
terror and giving you FAITH in.
stead faith to believe in your
self because Sam believed in you'll
WIDER VISION
Just Sam! Suddenly, as though
the tears had washed your eyes
clean for wider vision, you see
that vast throng of other SANS
who also serve through the long
night. Patient, adoring mothers :.
loving, unselfish fathers. gallant
youngsters, sacrificing their own
chances to give someone a better
break.
Common folk-leading lives that
may never make the Front Page.
And yet, what was it He saddle
Who knew best the beauty and
valor of simple service? Greater
love hath no man than this, that
a man lay down his life for his
friends"
Clear through the night in q
shining TRAIL more splendid than
gold, more glorious than precious
jewels, these unknown ones pro.
coed upon their gentle way. ;.
laying down." hour by hour, their
constant gift of FAITH and
CHEER and UNDERSTANDING
TENDERNESS. giving them
selves that others, distraught and
bewildered, may live!
Just Sam? Dear Sams-all Of
you-what would this world be
without you!
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1937-06-01


Young John D. Rockefeller,
teaching his Sunday class at Cleve-
land, doubtless had no such con-
ception Of the seat of the soul.
But, just a few days before his
death, it was disclosed that in the
last year of his life, the Rookie
Teller Foundation had spent $780,
900 in the study of the pineal
gland and other glands. And, with
all Difference to scientific precls-
ion, it may be said that they, too,
seek the "seat of the SOUL"
Raymond B. Fosdick, president
of the Foundation, refers in his
annual report to the effort to
describe an emotion in terms OF
chemical reaction, or prescribe a
hormone for a mental state"
DUCTLESS GLANDS
Endrocrinology, the study OF the
ductless glands, has been an abb
sorbing interest of the Foundation
since 1929. In that year they be-
gan concentrating on mental n.y.
giene, subsequently spending about
$64,000,0O0 in this research,
through grants to medical schools.
And mental hygiene today means
chiefly glands. And, here, If any
where in the domain of material
istic science, lies the seat Of the
soul.
Rockefeller. the $12-a-Week clerk,
had a vaulting ambition to &C.
cumulate 100000. He gathered
more than a billion and gave
away $3.50, 900 900. One thinks OF
the young mans bewilderment If
some voice of prophecy had whis.
pered that one day he would spend
$64, 000, 900 for knowledge Of some
curious little pellets in the human
body which made a balanced or
chestration Of emotion, thought
and will.
The building Of the Rockefeller
fortune, in the context Of Amer
ica's great industrial era, has been
widely studied and appraised, and
there will be a long journalistic
epilogue to his amazing career
More difficult to weigh or appraise
are the gleanings of scientific
knowledge made possible by his
millions. The world which these
The Washington times., 1937-06-01
LAUGHING IT OFF

Representative Maury Maverick
got a little fed up with the way
the House Of Representatives has
been carrying on lately and
shouted:
81 would like to call attention
to the fact that when people yell
that way they are acting like a
mob, not congressman; and
when they do not listen, it does
not make any difference who is
speaking, you are being disrc-
Spectful to yourselves and to the
person who is talking. And
when people keep on laughing
they are not showing good man.
ners or good order; they are
laughing at themselves"
And all the time he talked the
members rocked with laughter like
historical girls.
The Washington times., 1937-06-01

welt and held Frank NJ. Smith
out her hand, her Joy dubbed all
over the place because the Flrst
Lady spoke to her. She expressed
the hope that the majority in line
would just speak to the President
and shake hands with Vice Presi'
dent Garner. The two Of them
were in the East Room.
Having been singled out by the
First Lady so excited the visitor
she forgot to shake hands with
Mrs. Garner and rushed ahead to
the President.
On the way she thought that
to make her visit completely a
success she must talk to the PreSi-
dent now that the First Lady had
talked to her, so when she reached
him she shook hands anyway
and asked about the cold. And
he said he was feeling fine and
the cold had gone away. So she
was very, very careful then to
shake hands with the Vice Presi-
dent for having missed his wife.
The Washington times., 1937-06-01

United States. Now he's the final
Blue Pencil Authority who checks
copy in my organization. Reads
it over. .polisheS it off. gets it
down to the printers and off to
the paper on schedule, no matter
how late it arrives.
Some job-that! Riding herd
on a hundred more-or-leSs loco
writer's. standing steady when
the lids are popping off!
Does Sam ever, wonder, get
home on time for a meal? Bet
not! Night after night I've seen
him bending over his desk when
everyone else has gone. helping
some poor nut to make a desper-
ate headline.
HARDER TO MANAGE
Being late with your copy
that is bad enough, with empty
space yapping and yelling from
Cape Cod to the Golden Gate.
But there are things still harder
to manage. things that only
Sam knows. Sickness. Times when
the doctor has handed you a
scare that would jolt the Empire
State. Trouble in the family. TWO
operations, a wedding. a baby
and a mortgage coming all at
once. Cripes!-how do they think
you can manage to pay for it
all? And the old heartache that
never heals. Dates that, just re
membering, get you down. That
last smile. . those CHASTITY hours
:. Perhaps if you'd acted sooner
-. done something else -. OH,
GOD, LITTLE KID, MISS YOU
sol
So you write, and write fran
tically . trying to beat the rap.
Feeling it's all tripe. that you'd
better quit.
And then - careless like - in
comes a letter from Sam. Never
mention of work. Just friend
ly ramble about The Gang. q
swell thing he'd heard someone
say. how politics were stacking