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Evening star., 1937-04-22
ESTERDAY afternoon Lady
I Marler, wife Of the Minister
Of Canada, was hostess to a
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" Marler, wife of the Minister
Of Canada, was hostess to a
lerge gathering Of ladies. No
one realized until they arrived at the
tea that it was "for ladies only" and
several gentlemen from Washington's
residential circle arrived only to climb
the great wide stairs to the second
floor and quickly turn tail and run
out of the legation!
Lady Marler, wearing a simple and
very becoming black and white printed
dress, received her guests in the door,
way or the large drawing room which
leads of the stately hallway with its
heavy carved panneling. The Canadian
Legation lends itself to large enter
tainments and in spite Of the numer-
GUS guests there was at all times plenty
Of space and always q quite spot and
empty chair or sofa available.
Alternating at the long tea table
in the dining room were Nine.
Cantacuzene, Mrs. Frank Haywood of
the British Embassy, Mrs. L. M. c.
Smith, Miss Harriet Winslow and
several former Canadians, Mrs. Paul
Evening star., 1937-04-22
Dinner and Lecture
At ARTS Club TOni6ht

Mr.. Gideon A. Lyon will give an
illustrated talk at the Arts Club this
evening, taking as his subject Beauty
Through the Lens; Camera Hunting
in Four Continents and Some Islands"
covering the Far East, as we'll as
Europe and the United States, where
his many travels have taken him.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Leisenring will
be host and hostess for the dinner
when Mr.. Lyon will be honor guest,
Evening star., 1937-04-22
Society Holds Dinner,

The District of Columbia Circle, l78,
of the Daughters Of Isabella will hold
dinner for the members of the
circle this evening at o'clock at the
Hamilton Hotel.
Evening star., 1937-04-22

most prominent and important women
representing the diplomatic, oficial
and residential circles.
Evening star., 1937-04-22
Functions
OF State
Societies
Groups Plan Parties
for D. A. r.
Delegates.

sofa and their friends are
J invited to the Spring dance
OF the Minnesota State So
ciety and University of Minnesota
Alumni Association, which will be
held tonight from to o'clock at
the Wardman Park Hotel.
Nearly the entire congressional
delegation, and many prominent Min
nesota officials in Washington, are
planning to attend the dance.
All 1887 members will be admitted
free and tickets will be available at
the door.
THE Missouri Society in the District
of Columbia will give a reception
and dance in honor of the Missouri
delegates to the Forty-sixth D. A. r.
Congress in the grand ball room of
the Hotel Mayflower tonight at
O'Clock. The Floor Committee in
charge of the dance consists of Judge
c. Jasper Bell, chairman, Mr. E. E.
Mclean, Mr.. F. F. Espenschied, Mr..
Albert E. Conradis, Mr.. Camden R.
McAtee, Col. Carl Ristine and DR..
George B. Tribe.
Miss Jane Froman, who is now ap-
pearing at one of the local theaters,
formerly Of Columbia, Mo-, and
graduate of the University of Mis-
souri, School of Journalism, class of
1928. has been invited to be present
as one of the guests of honor. A
number of Miss Froman's Kappa
Gamma Sorority sisters will be present
to greet her
Mr.. Joseph B. Shannon of the fifth
Missouri district will make a 20-min-
ute address to the D. A. RS immedi-
ately following the reception. His
theme will be Thomas Jefferson" the
original monument from whose grave
stands on the campus of the Univer-
sity of Missouri in recognition of the
TACT that it was the first State uni
versity founded in the Louisiana
Purchase.
Miss Evangeline Tully, dramatic
soprano, will sing. accompanied by
Mrs. Charles INLAY.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE So
GETTY will hold its D. A. R. night
and last dance Of the season tonight
in the west ball room OF the Shore
ham Hotel at $50 o'clock
The president of the North Caro-
lima State Society is Mr.. G. Y. New
ton. Secretary-treasurer is Mrs. w.
H. Hessick. jr.
Tickets may be obtained from the
secretary-treasurer, Mrs. William H.
Hessick, jr., 1925 Thlrty-eighth street
northwest, or at the door.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

A MOTION picture contract REP
~ resents the height Of success
~ to the average girl with screen
4 \ ambitions.
But. take 1t from Alice Armand
one of the most photographed girls
in the world, it doesn't mean a thing
unless you get your face on the screen
when you get your name on the con-
tract.
Six months ago Alice came to Holly
wood from New York with q Twen-
tieth Century-Fox contract In her
makeup box. All of the friends she
had made while posing for John
Powers and the smart magazine
photographers congratulated her on
her lucky break"
At the end of six months she had
been given nothing but bits and
extra work and had her trunks packed
ready to return to Broadway. But
the studio wanted her to stay. They
offered her another six-month con-
tract.
I'LL stay" said the lady from
Broadway, providing you'll give me
just one speaking line in one picture
so can show you what can do"
The studio put such clause In her
contract for the first time In Holly
woods history and made good their
promise by casting her for q minor
role in Charlie Chan ut Monte
Carlo"
Keep your eyes on Alice Armand.
She's the type who'll get along in
this business where the answer is
usually 'yes" instead Of no."
Evening star., 1937-11-07
AMERICANS PRAY FOR PEACE
Most Shadowed Armce Day Since 1913 Finds United States
Determined Avoid War-Selection and Burial of
Unknown Soldier in 1921 Is Recalled.

head for safe anchorage, to shun the
whirlpool of war.
They are telling their leaders in
Washington to look up from their
desks to the hills of Arlington and to
remember the agony in which he died
on alien ground.
The White House, members of Con-
gress, officials great and small are
hearing from the people in an ever
mounting tide. From the four corners
Of the land Americans of all ranks and
conditions are demanding the main
tenance Of peace.
Never have the people been so artic-
ulate, never have they voiced COM
mand to Washington more strongly,
never have they made it palmer that
they wish to mark no new Armistice
days.
Sixteen years ago America brought
home the body of its Unknown Soldier.
He was one of the tens Of thousands
of Americans who died on foreign soil,
1000 miles from their native country.
He had been thrown i-- n a maelstrom
which cost 100000 human lives,
wounded and manned another 20,000,-
900; brought untold suffering to hum
dreds of millions of helpless noncom-
batant men, women and children. His
life had been snuffed out in a struggle
which destroyed 100000 every hour.
The ideal for which his Nation
fought has long since been forgotten
by a world resounding to the shrill,
impassioned cries Of new PHILOSOPHERS
and to the tramp of endless legions
Of men who were children when the
Unknown Soldier found final rest.
But America has not forgotten, and
on this Armistice Day recalls the whole
moving story.
On the simple Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier are craven these words:
Here Rests in Honored Glory an
American Soldier known But to God. "
TOD alone knows where he came
from. and who he was. From some
part of the United States he came,
from city. town or village, from office,
shop or field, to take his place on a
battle front thousands of miles from
home.
Only this is known: He was young
man, for youth alone is deemed fit to
serve where the fire is hottest. And
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Sonia Henie Plans
Huge Ice Show.

ONE of the biggest show troupes to
travel the country will be under
way in three months when Sonia
Henie will leave on her skating exhi-
bition tour after finishing Happy
Ending at Twentieth Century-Fox
Because Of the size Of the troupe
she will take a special train will be
needed The chorus Of Zoe boys and
girls which are now being rehearsed
for the skating numbers in Happy
Ending" are being simultaneously
hired to travel with Sonia on her tour.
Beside this number. there will be
wardrobe attendants, technicians, her
mother. manager and others who
will bring the number closer to 120
persons. Sonia expects to make this
the greatest ice show this generation
has seen.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

within q few years he had re-
couped his fortune. During his life
time Booth made and lost several for
tunes. His drawing power was tre-
mendous, and without benefit Of many
modern improvements" in the line of
publicity (of which he always was
frankly and openly disdainful. usually
refusing even to read critiques) he
played to packed houses wherever he
appeared.
All those who knew Booth intimate
ly never failed to emphasize the gen.
erosity of his nature, his sympathy,
his understanding. Artist though he
was to his finger tips, he never al
lowed temperament to run away with
him or to affect his character. He was,
from first to last, kindly.
Booth had remarked in 1869. But
this happiness, too, was to be of rela-
lively brief duration, and in 1881 he
again was widowered He made his
last appearance on the stage in April,
1891, and on June 8, 1898. he died.
Booth was national figure. He was
part Of the American scene for dec
AIDES; he revealed not only to America
but to the world that the fiedgling
nation was not dependent upon Eu-
rope for its artistic inspiration. He
gave to this country an art worthy Of
comparison with that Of Garriek. Due
recognition came not only here but
abroad as we'll.
Thousands recall the tours of the
famous Booth and Barrett combina-
ton, formed in 1887. His association
with Lawrence Barrett was sufficient
answer to some critics who asserted
that Booth always surrounded himself
with an inferior company to empha-
size his own greatness. At one time or
another Booth appeared in association
not only with Barrett, but with Char
lotte Cushman, Henry Irving, Salvini,
Modjeska, Janauschek and many
others.
Booth was marvellous craftsman
and in so far as it was humanity pos
sible he endeavored to bring the same
perfection to every role he essayed
Not being superhuman, in this he
failed. He himself largely deprecated
his Romeo. However, as Richelieu he
never has been approached by any
actor. Either as Othello or Ia8o he
was superb and his Brutus likewise
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Your Name Morgan,
Mr.. Wupperman?

Drank MORGAN has received a
a letter that is getting a lot Of
chuckles out of the cast of "A Matter
Of Pride" at Metro o-Goldwyn-Mayer. 1t
is from a firm whose business it is to
tear family trees limb from limb and
establish distinguished ancestry.
I'VE have reason to believe" said
the letter, that you are descended
from Sir Henry Morgan, the pirate,
who was knighted for his services to
England on the Spanish Main. Our
research fee is ESQ if you wish to look
further into the matter"
The actors family name Is Wup-
perman.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

team and has always had an authennc
and original talent as q light come
dienne. Now, by her portrayal Of
the role Of Miss Hepburn's sardonic
roommate and heckler, q sort Of ey-
tention Of the part Miss Lee Patrick
played so we'll on the stage, she proves
conclusively that her gift for comedy
playing is deft and delightful. In par
ticular I recommend to you the scene
IN which she gets slightly In her cups
while passing an evening in Adolphe
Menjou's penthouse. 1t Is the sort Of
thing that Is rarely done without
either excessive vulgarity or a complete
lack Of credibility. But Miss Rogers
succeeds in making the girl seem both
alcoholic and entirely charming, and
that is nothing short of an epic feat.
I SUSPECT that it is something Of
a commentary on the theater.
among other things, that right in the
middle Of the dramatic season I should
be writing about motion pictures. NY
only excuse is that this matter of the
respective qualities of stage and
screen, as represented by such an
admirable picture as "Stage Door"
strikes me as more interesting than
anything that took place in the drama
during the calm week preceding the
arrival Of "Amphitryon 49," I'D
Rather Be Right" and Golden Boy"
But my interest in films has perhaps
been a bit accelerated by noting how
two such stanch stage advocates as
Mr.. George Jean Nathan dn Scrib-
ner's) and Mr.. Edumund Wilson, jr.,
Gin the New Republic) jump all over
Mr.. Alva Johnson merely because he
wrote book on Samuel Goldwyn.
Granting that there is vast truth In
what both of them say against the
motion picture, still do not quite see
why the writing Of an amusing and
racy book about an amusing and racy
American phenomenon indicates Mr..
Johnston has sold out to Hollywood.
1t is still possible to be in love with
the theater and yet like the films
just little.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
By Herbert HolIander.

~ 18th fervent prayer in its
a heart, all America this
AN week will stand in spirit
v Y before q plain white tomb
which clings to a Virginia hillside
overlooking the National Capital.
The tomb is that of the Unknown
Soldier. The prayer will be a prayer
for peace.
Nineteen years ago this week, or
November II, 1918, the world greeted
the first Armistice Day determined
that never again should war ravisf
the face of the earth.
On November IL, 1921, America
tenderly, tearfully buried its Unknown
Soldier. In the cortege walked Presi-
dents and princes, rich and poor. all
united in the bond of common hope
and desire.
This week as the people of America
once again join in tribute to the
nameless one who lies enshrined in
Arlington National Cemetery, war
again stalks the world, and fear of it
grips people everywhere. In London,
Ill TdIlS, Ill ol uSoClo, LII DCl LILA, Ai
Vienna, in almost every great capital
silent throngs will gather about the
last resting place of an Unknown
Soldier.
In each instance the first rites were
pitched upon note of high hope and
devotion to a new ideal of peace. The
last will echo the despair and disillu-
sionment of the succeeding years, cul-
nninating in this, the most shadowed
Armistice Day since 1918.
America marks this Armistice Day
h peace.
And with an unshakable determi-
nation that this country shall remain
ct peace.
Below the heights Of Arlington
stands Washington, which has heard
and is endeavoring sincerely to heed
the Nations command that another
Of its sons shall not become an Un-
known Soldier.
INTO the National Capital the peo-
pie Of America are pouring their
petitions to those who guide the ship
Of state to stay out of troubled waters,
10 keep clear of the danger zone, to
Evening star., 1937-11-07

Booth Was Crushed by His Brothers Assassination of
Lincoln Here and Never Afterward Could Be
Persuaded to Play in Washington.

reached the topmost rung Of genius In
feeling and execution. AS Macbeth,
Booth is universally declared to have
brought to this tremendous tragedy q
new high quality which succeeding
artists have been unable to achieve.
His Hamlet was his masterpiece.
Booth took his company far from
the beaten path, in years which
travel was not so easy, when train
service was faulty, hotels poor and
theaters-where they could be so des-
ignated-stifling in summer and cold
and drafty in winter. The tempera-
mental trouper Of today who SHES
away from . weeks stand In q mod
ern. luxurious temple Of the cinema,
probably would collapse at q mere
glance at the itinerary on which
Booth took his company in a single
year 4 generation ago.
A colorful incident in Booths life
was an attempt to assassinate him by
misguided youth named Mark Gray
1t took place In Chicago. With quaint
humor, Booth found one of the bull
lets aimed at him and had 1t inscribed
From Mark Gray to Edwin Booth"
The actor used the bullet as a watch
charm ever after.
Booth never played Washington
D. c., after the terrible night Of April
IA when his deluded brother shot
President Lincoln.
1t was appropriate that Booths last
appearance on the stage should have
been In his greatest role, that of Ham,
let. The place was Brooklyn Academy
of Music.
BY an odd quirk Of fate Booth out
lived Barrett, despite the fact that the
former had been stricken with par
tial paralysis while playing with Bar
rett several years before. On that oc-
casion Barrett, choked by emotion
said in a curtain speech that Booth
could not go on and that those pres
ent undoubtedly had seen the great
tragedian's last performance. How
ever, Booth later recovered sufficiently
to continue acting until April 1891
while Barrett died in March Of the
same year.
Booth passed the last years of his
life at the Players, his home, in which
he reserved the upper floor for him.
self. He lived quietly, secure in the
affection and esteem of legion of ad-
mirers both here and abroad.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Most Photographed
Title to Shirley.

CHIRLEY TEMPLE this week
clinched her title as 1.-The most
photographed little girl in the world"
when Anthony Ugrin, the still pho
tographer attached to her production
unit at Twentieth Century-Fox, re-
vealed that during the current Tenn
pie picture, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm he exposed the -thousandth
negative of the curly headed starlet.
Ugrin has pressed the bulb for
every production still made of Shirley
during the past three and one-half
years and has made numerous pictures
Of her activities between pictures. His
work represents a Photographic record
which stands unique in modern Amer
icana as visual biography of the
"best-known" youngster.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

somewhere and somehow he met death.
He met death as thousands of others
had met it and are meeting it in SINH
lar circumstances today, bravely, per-
haps questioningly.
With many of his comrades, he was
picked up and carried behind the lines
Then fate, in the person of Sergt. Ed
ward F. Younger, selected him to rep
resent all of the 2,079 of the Nations
unidentified dead in France.
In the City Hall of the little town Of
Chalons-sur-Mar Sergt. Younger
paced slowly between rows of flag.
draped caskets. Upon one he dropped
bunch of white roses.
That casket bore the remains Of
Americas Unknown Soldier
On Armistice Day in 1921, he was
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Golden Days of Living Stage Are Recalled Birthday
Of Edwin Booth, Worlds Most Inspired Hamlet,
Is Celebrated All Over America.

Palmer, John Malone, Henry Goldman
Potter, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, e. G..
Stedmsn, william Bispham, Charles
E. Carryl, Stephen H. Olin. Joseph
F. DAILY, Chauncey M. Depew, Daniel
Frohman, Richard w. Glider, Elbridge
T. Gerry, A. s. Hewitt, Laurence Hut
ton, ]. Henry Harper, A. Hayman,
Barton Hill, Carroll Beckwith, Angus
tus st. Gaudens. w. ]. Le Moyne,
Parke Goodwin, Henry Irving, Brander
Matthews, F. F. Mackay, John D.
Crimmins, Horace Porter, James F.
Ruggles, Sol Smith Russell, e. H.
Southern, Frank w. Sanger, Louis
Aldrich, Charles Scribner, Charles s.
Smith, E. s. Willard, Stanford White,
Francis Wilson, w. E. D. Scott, F.
Hopkinson Smith, Thomas j. Mckee,
Stuart Robson, George E. woodberry
and Francis ]. Quinlan.
ROOTHS greatest roles were those
Of Shakespeare's plays, and of
these his Hamlet was by far the finest
The actors life itself was cast In 4
melancholy shade, strongly reminis-
cent of the career Of the Prince Of
Denmark. Some one once said Of
Booth that "he does not act Hamlet;
he is Hamlet
Despite his success, Booths life
was full Of SORROW. Perhaps the most
crushing blow Of all came in 1865,
when his brother, John Wilkes Booth,
fatally shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's
Theater in Washington. Edwin Booth,
sickened by the enormity Of his
brothers crime, went into retirement
Immediately, and it was only upon
the earnest importuning Of his many
friends that more than a year later
he agreed to act again.
Booth was born November 13, 1888,
on farm near Belair, Md. He was
the son of Junius Brutus Booth, him.
self a distinguished and internation-
ally famous actor. From his earliest
years he came in contact with the
stage and its people and he deter
mined to follow in his fathers foot
steps. His first appearance on the
stage was at the Boston Museum in
1849. A year later he made his debut
in New York at the National Theater.
1t is recorded that he was unimpres-
sive on both occasions.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Lionel Stander Set
For might Before" 4"

WITH the signing of Lionel stander.
Columbia's noted comedian, to
feature role, cameras started grind
ing under the direction of Harry Lach-
man on THE Night Before" screen
adaptation of the Paul Calico story,
Twas the Night Before Christmas"
Mary Astor and Richard Arlen have
the leads.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
BY Mary Jane Moore.

~ rCH memories Of glorious
l. nights in the theater will be
IN stirred t. this week for Or thou, s,,',
do willing honor to the genius OF
Edwin Booth, foremost tragedian and
one Of the great figures Of the stage
of all time, on the occasion OF the
celebration OF the anniversary Of his
birth.
During the many years that Booth
Travelled up and down the land he
brought the greatest classics Of the
drama to hundreds Of cities and
towns Today in many Of these there
still live many who recall the appear
ance OF Booth as a matchless expert
ence.
But the veteran play-goers will not
Be alone in their veneration Of the
memory of Edwin Booth. Even a
generation which has witnessed the
stage only in its decline, and in the
ascendency Of Hollywood, will feel
moved to make some slight obeisance
before the perfection Of Booths art.
Most interesting among the COM
memorative exercises to be held in
Booths honor this week will be those
Of The Players Club, the organization
founded by Booth, and to which he
gave his own home for clubhouse.
This headquarters the club still main
tains at No. Is Gramercy Park. New
York. 1t is a treasure house Of Booth
lore.
Forty years ago, just few months
after Booths death, The Players held
the first commemorative exercises OF
this nature. They were held at his
toric Madison Square Garden, and the
names of those who spoke or attended
reads like Who's Who of the famous
Of that day. Joseph Jefferson, Parke
Goodwin, Henry Miller, and the great
Salvini were among those who took
prominent parts in the proceedings
which voiced the sentiment of the
Nation toward the man who had
brought such high distinction to the
American stage.
To many, the following names of
the members Of the general commit
tee in charge Of arrangements will
evoke colorful recollections: A. M.
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buried at Arlington after his body had
laid in state at the Capitol. Harding
and ex-President Wilson, host of dig
nitaries of this and other countries,
walked or rode in the procession and
paid tribute to an unknown youth
who had died long way from home.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

In 1860 Booth married and three
years later was heartbroken by his
wife's death In 1869 he sunk hum
dreds of thousands of dollars in
Booths Theater, the finest New York
had seen up to that time. He ran it
for four years under his own manage
ment, achieving the fullest measure
Of artistic success and financial sup
port as well. But due to a succession
of unfortunate events the actor was
forced into bankruptcy in 1874.
Booth then took to the road and
Evening star., 1937-11-07
For the First Time.

For the first time in her entire
screen career Claudette Colbert
will be cast as girl of her native
country, France. when she appears
with Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch's
production, 'Bluebeard's Eighth Wife"
Gary plays the role of an American
multi millionaire.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

There followed then a long tour Of
the West with his father, who died in
1854. Edwin Booth travelled as far
as Australia and the Samoan Islands,
steadily developing his art along his
own lines
Junius Brutus Booth was rather a
violent" actor. and did much to set
the fashion for that school of his
trionics. His most talented son, how
ever, was Of a different nature, more
reserved, more spiritual, possessed of
deeper wells of emotion and meaning
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Pete Studies X.Ray.

pETE SMITH is taking five days
away from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
and studio duties to study the x-ray
at Los Angeles and Hollywood hos
pitals. He is preparing to film ''Ro-
nance Of the X-Ray."
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Screen Shows Its Merit
In "Stage Door" Film
Photoplay Version Is Called
Superior to Play Which
Was Its Basis.
By Richard Watts. ir,

tne arest known modern man motion
picture OF that better than the
undenbe that the
superior to the comedy which
work lively glib
criouy