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The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Enemy Prizes
Announced

Mrs. j. L. Albright, Of 1913
White Pl. S. E., by virtue Of her
highly intriguing entry in the
Beloved Enemy Contest" has
been awarded first prize Of SIS
in the contest conducted jointly
by the Loew'S Capitol Theater
and this newspaper.
Second prize of $40 has been
divided between Russell Willard,
jr., and John MacCord, both Of
Bulls Academy, Silver Spring,
Md, each Of whom will receive
$500 in cash.
Third prize also Of IS is
awarded to Helen A. Smith, of
2701 Fourteenth st. N. w.
In view Of the tardinesS sur
rounding the announcement Of the
winners, tickets will be awarded
to the following 10 persons to see
the new show starting Friday at
Loew's Capitol Theater. Lucky
guest ticket winners will see Ray
Noble and hear the music Of his
internationally favorite orchestra
as well as witness the new screen
drama romance, "Outcast," with
Warren William, Karen Morley
and Lewis Stone. Ticket winners
are:
A. A. Belts, 1924 W st. N. W.;
Mrs. Sadie Witt, ITS California
st. N. W.; Mrs. Laza Lewis, 1908
Montana Ave. N. E.: Mrs. D. M.
Mcpherson, 104 West Thornapple
st., Chevy Chase, Md; Julia E.
Young, 1430 Belmont st. N. W.;
Pauline Sorem, 321s Wisconsin
Ave. N. W.; Edith Collins, Mont
gomery Avenue, Rockville, Md;
James WasSerman, 3700 MaSSa-
chusettS Ave. N. W.; Thomas j.
Clark, sos Somerset Pl. N. W., and
Mildred Smith of 2420 K st. N. w
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Long Mustache Siege

Reginald Owen sat in the make
up chair exactly one hour and q
half every morning while a very
complicated lip adornment was ar-
piled for his role in Dangerous
Number"
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

the drinks? hate reporters
who ask stupid questions.
loathe reporters who make notes.
Where were we?
II don't mind being mis-
quoted. Everybody misquotes
me. Every one of you here
will misquote me. And why
not? Sometimes 1 have given
what / thought were fine in
terviews to handsome gentle
men of the press and when
the story appeared it was
tripe. Then some unshaven
mug, a shrimp, would come back
stage and wouldn't give him
two minutes attention.
$50 he goes away muttering
that Tallulah Bankhead hasn't
said anything and he may as
well make up a story. And he
does. And it's perfectly bril-
liant. And I get a reputation
for being a wit. And 1 adore
1t. I'm certainly glad I've got
you all here together. I'd lOathe
going through this alone with
each of you. There's a phone
call for me. l hate to break
this up. I'm having such won
derful time. / think you're all
perfectly marvellous. My God,
Edie, let's get out of here"
So what do Tallulah Bankhead's S
managers do to herald her arrival
in Reflected Glory" at the Ma
tional Theater next week. They
schedule a cocktail party and in
vite the gentlemen Of the press to
be the honored guests.
YOU CAN'T ROOT
About 10 days ago Director Eddie
Sutherland of Paramount was host
at Carlton cocktail party. Be
tween the Scotch and sodas he re
marked that every successful mo
tion picture had good story that
a good story was one in which the
audience could root for something
preferably the stars of the feature
I thought of Eddie Sutherland
after seeing You Only Live Once,
the Sylvia Sidney-Henry Fonda pic
ture. current at R.K-O.Keith's. be
cause here is grim and morbic
story exceptionally we'll done BY
Director Fritz Lang, but one ir
which the audience has nobody tx
root for. That's the trouble.
You certainly can't root TO,
Henry Fonda who has done a
couple of stretches in the pen be
fore you are introduced to him
To be sure his first bit" was TO,
thrashing a youngster who killed
a romantic bull frog and his las
was an unjust sentence to tht
death chair on flimsy circumstan
tial evidence.
Eddie Taylor kills the prison
chaplain in escaping from injus
tice, is joined by Sylvia Sidne!
and in their attempt to retain lib
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
BY LLOYD PANTAGES
Copyright, 1887. by King Features
Syndicate. Incl


HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 3.-Para-
mount, on one picture, Claudette
Colbert's II Met Him in Paris,
has not only the nearest but the
farthest location spots away. The
nearest is right across the street,
at the ice skating rink, and the
fartheSt is in Idaho at Sun Valley
in Ketchum.
While speaking of Ketchum, it
is apparently going to be decidedly
pleasant, working under Wesley
RuggleS with Colbert, Robert
Young and Melvyn Douglas. They
are now building a 100-foot bar,
made Of blocks of solid ice, with all
the walters mounted on ice skates.
Also, everyone there is Sunbathing
like mad, stripped to the neither
portions the gentlemen), and
swimming in the Hot Springs pool.
Meanwhile, with no snow here at
all, we Shiver in furS.
And still on this film, Robert
Young, shaky but firm on runners
at last, whizzed on skates about
the rink the day before the com
pany left here, head thrown back
scarf flying, wind whiStling. Miss
Claudette Colbert, having been
tutored by one Dane, two Swedes
and a Norwegian, not to mention
some of the old AlpenStock, closed
her eyes, breathed the heady all
and swung forth. When they got
up, both were badly bumped here
and there.
Since Warner GLAND goes on
forever with his Charlie Chan
series, the Halperin brothers and
Fulton Oursler, the writer, are
going to raise goth Century-Fox
a couple of dozen, and call them
Fulton will write the stories, and
the detective, in the Halperin in.
dependent series, will not only be
Chinese actually, emitting wis.
dom in pearls like Cartier, but
will also be female, and Anna
May Wong which should be
amazing. Perhaps they will call
her Charlie Channa."
Love Is blind, and apparently
so are some Of our producers.
Vera Engels never got beyond
kissing at the heroine in reel
three in this country, but in
Europe, she was the biggest star
in the continent all last year,
made Tobis a fortune, and now
has reduced them to tears, since
she has been purloined by all the
bankers in Vienna. hurrying to
throw her their safety deposit
vaults and asking her to produce
herself into a film or two with
them. She will.
Mary Garden, who really ought
to know, says if you want to hear
honeyed accents, exquisite enuncia.
tion, perfect diction and remark,
able timbre of a pure American
sort, just listen to Cecil B. de Mile
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

'LULLAH SPEAKS UP
Hooray for Tullulah Bankhead,
who calls the mass press interview
exactly what it should be called
stupid and futile I would go
further and say that these group
intervieWers whether they are dis
guised as cocktail parties, or mere
receptions, are the most unproduc-
tive sources of news imaginable.
Invariably the star submits to a
quiz that includes routine and bor-
ing biographical questions that are
answered in the Motion Picture
Almanac Or the Billboard Index.
Not once in a hundred times-un-
less the star has a good news sense
like Helen HayeS-doeS one of
these round robins conceive any
thing that pleaSeS anybody-when
set into type-except the press
agent.
Tallulah cracked out with a
straight right to the Fourth Estate
jaw in Philadelphia last week and
it makes better reading than hav-
ing her answer whether she ex-
poets to play Scarlett O'Hara in
Gone With the Wind" Said the
daughter of Speaker Bankhead to
the assembled scribeS:
"Edie, darling, give the gentle
man a drink. Give everybody a
drink. What's the matter with
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

Began as Double
Una Merkel began her film
career as a double for Lillian Gish.
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
SOME AMUSEMENT GLEANINGS
ToITuIoh Bonkheod Admits
She Loothes Reporters in
"Too, Too Divine" Quiz
Bv ANDREW R. KELLEY

Odds and ends With desire to start something with
Hollywood and colmnists the facts that
Beatrice Lille has had previous tries the
before she signed the Paramount contract last week
Lady Peel was with M-G-M make Exit Smiling" did
another short for Fox made what designed full
length feature Warner Bros When W. B. decided the
Lille feature dud they tried to release of the
numbers in program short Beatrice Lille stopped
that with a court action All of which refutes the Cali
fornia storle about HOLLYWOOD Just discovering Bee"
The Washington times., 1937-02-03
Earle to Play
Horse Star

Washingtonians who saw the
famous "Folies des Femmes, .
which opened the season at the
French Casino in New York, will
recall one of that shows outstand-
ing entertainers-Cilly Feindt, the
only horse conductor" in the
world.
Miss Feindt, with Bobby" her
horse, will come to the Earle
Theater stage Friday, February
II, presenting an act which is
said to be completely different
from anything that has been pre-
sented here. John ]. Payette,
Warmers general zone manager,
announced her booking.
Blonde, charming and only %
years old, Miss Feindt is a student
of symphonic music and form.
She spent patient hours with
Bobby her favorite horse, train
ing him in the intricate rhythms
of musical score, adopting the
principles of conducting to the
presentation of her act.
Bobby" takes his cues from
Miss Feindt, but so smooth is the
action that the spectator is often
deceived into believing that the
horse has some superior mentality.
Other entertainers on the Earle
stage starting Friday IL will in
clude Americas premier mimics.
the Radio RamblerS; Leila Moore,
in her unusual dramatic dance
presentation; THE Dance of the
Lovers" and the Balabanow Five
in their Mayfair Accordian Revue
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

Beatrice Lille Gets a Fourth
Try at Fame In Hollywood
The Washington times., 1937-02-03

Marxes to Tour Aqain
The Marx Brothers plan to tour
the South and Southwest in a mu-
Sical show as soon as they com.
plete their new picture, "A Day at
the Races"
The Washington times., 1937-01-28
IVA RULING IS
HELD LEGAL

A House Judiciary Subcommit-
tee yesterday reported that Fed
eral Judge John Gore, Of Ten
nesSee. did not defy the Supreme
Court in granting a sweeping
preliminary Injunction halting
expansion activities Of the Ten
neSsee Valley Authority.
The subcommittee was CON-
posed of Representative Walter
DO, of Pennsylvania, Represen-
tative Hobbs (DD, of Alabama
and Representative Michener
(R0, of Michigan.
The subcommittee, comparing
a Supreme Court decision in the
AShwander case and Judge Cores
injunction, found they did not
conflict. The investigation was
made on demand of Representa-
tive Rankin Cd, of Mississippi,
who charged Gore flagrantly
flouted the Supreme Court.
The Washington times., 1937-01-28
EDIS0N'S POST
CONFIRMED

The Senate yesterday confirmed
the nominations Of Roswell Magill,
of New York, as Undersecretary
of the Treasury and Charles Ed
son, son of the great inventor. as
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
The Senate also confirmed the
nomination Of Frank E. DeKay,
of Idaho, as register of the Land
office at Blackfoot, Idaho; Justin
Miller, of North Carolina. member
of the Board of Tax Appeals; For
est Parrott, of Oklahoma, as State
director of the National Emer-
gency Council; George H. Combs,
jr., of New York, State director OF
the NEG; Mrs. Anna Dickie Ole
sen, of Minnesota, State director
of the MEG. and Eugene S. Leg
gett, of Michigan, as acting execu-
tive director of the MEG.
The Washington times., 1937-01-28
FLOOD FUNDS
PASS QUOTA

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. %.
Heeding Admiral Cary T. Gray
sons message to intensity your
campaign efforts" the Red Cross
drive here for funds to relieve suf-
fering in the flood-damaged Ohio
River Valley went over the $4,000
mark today, five times the city's
original quota.
At the same time, volunteers
here continued busy collecting
foodStuffs and clothing to be sent
to the flooded areas from a Wash
ington central office. Trucks had
carried five loads to Washington
under direction of w. w. De
maine, jr., volunteer collection
chairman.
The largest contributions to the
drive here yesterday were made
by the Hebrew Congregation and
Ladies Auxiliary, 500; the AL
exandria Rotary Club, $110, and
the A. B. and w. Bus Company,
500.
Use Of two additional trucks
was donated today for the collec-
ton of food and clothing by
Frank Michelbach and Walter S.
Smith, Red Cross Chairman Clyde
c. Lamond, jr, announced. Trucks
or messengers will be sent to resi-
dents who call Alexandria IA.
To aid the drive, the Alexan-
dria American Legion Post will
contribute all funds received from
its weekly dance tomorrow night
at Gadsby'S Tavern, John A. Nu-
gent, commander, announced.
The Washington times., 1937-01-28
Il NEN WASAINGTONIS Ia
SsS Heroes 1nBZUe @
Holy Hill Gang and Crazed Dope Fiend Pass
But Retired Police Hero Lives Here
Quietly and Happily with Wife

In all the 80 years he served in
the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment, Hilary M. Smith served In
only two precincts, the Third and
the Seventh.
Born in the District in 1870, his
first job was on the old Wisconsin
Avenue car line. But he wanted
to be a policeman, so in December.
1892, joined the force, and retired
in December, 1922, just 30 years
to the day.
He had several narrow escapes
from death. Once he was assaulted
by gang on Holy Hill in George
town and lost his cap and badge,
but managed to capture Tough
Bill" the gang leader, and his
chief lieutenant.
Another narrow escape was
when he was menaced by a crazed
dope fiend armed with a shotgun,
but he managed to diSarm the
man,
For long time he was on duty
at Chain Bridge to enforce the
fishing laws when the shad were
running, and he recalls the days
when the shad presented almost a
solid mass in the river.
Not content to be idle after re-
tirement, he established a real
estate business on Wisconsin Ave.
The Washington times., 1937-01-28

Nazis Imprison 20 Reds
ERLIN, Jan. % Q.N.S).
Charged with plotting against the
city, 20 Communists today were
to long prison terms
The Washington times., 1937-01-28

He and Mrs. Smith reside at 4001
Van Ness st. N. W., where they re-
Gently observed their forty-eighth
wedding anniversary.
The Washington times., 1937-01-28
Furniture -Rugs-FIoor Coverings, Etc

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it. 6x9 IT. and 9x9 it., in @ Or
cluding Pabco & Neponset V@'~S
$40 ROOM SIZE RUGS; Hodges"
fibre and heavy broadloom ca OK
type felt rugs: 9xl2 ft....... '"~~
Asc FELT BASE FLOOR COVERING;
part rolls up to 20 so. yds.; for 76H
rooms, halls. etc. ....... SO. I'd. %>F
SOC FELT BASE HALL RUNNER; mill
lengths to 10 yds.; good OSH
patterns and colorings. %~S
$6s.SO LIVING ROOM SUITE; only:
sofa and club chair: Gao TX
floor sample ......--..... YS~"S
Evening star., 1937-07-21
Housework for Men.

Men should do the heavy housework
OF the Nations homes. Such was the
declaration of DR.. Robert Hoppock of
the National Occupational Conference
to the National Federation of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs, in
convention assembled at Atlantic City.
Cooking, washing clothes, scrubbing
floors, ETC., the speaker insisted, sis heavy
labor which ought to be assigned to
the male members of the family.
And doubtless there is merit in the
proposition. History might be quoted in
its behalf. Also, the natural chivalry of
the race inclines toward making dolls
out of women. The average man, if he
could choose, would dearly love to pro-
vide that his wife should be a beautiful
toy instead of practical helpmate. He
knows instinctively that hard work robs
the 'girl friend" he has married OF the
charms which prompted him to seek her
hand.
But an ordinary husband likewise is
familiar with the fact that a wife who
never exercises is apt to develop mental
Evening star., 1937-07-21

as we'll as physical disabilities which
cannot be viewed with satisfaction. Too
much rest, he believes, is almost as
dangerous as too little. A woman needs
domestic employment, if only as 8 cor
rective for overindulgence in sleep, shop
ping, bridge and movies.
Meanwhile mechanical science ad-
mittedly is taking the misery out of
most household effort. The modern
home is vastly different place than
its equivalent of fifty years ago. Elec-
trio stoves, ice boxes, washers, driers,
ironing devices, sweepers, sewing ma
chimes and other automatic contrivances
have eliminated the element of drudgery
from literally millions of houses. The
telephone is a convenience which can
not be overestimated, and the radio as
slsts in its capacity as a purveyor of
entertainment. Indeed, it may be sug-
gested that wives as a class enjoy q
considerable environmental advantage
over husbands. For example, they are
not obliged to ride to their duties in
buses.
Possibly, however, the experiment
might be attempted. Let the ladies go
to business and the men stay home for,
say, six months. BY the end of that
time DR.. Hoppock himself may be
willing to return to ''normalcy"
Evening star., 1937-07-21
Rescued From Ruin.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art In
New York recently has placed on exhi-
bition an Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian
gold head dress of marvellous beauty. It
represents reconstruction almost
equally wonderful Originally as it
came to America it was a ruin-a COL
lection OF eight hundred and nineteen
rosettes and curious top piece"
formed to fit over human skull. Under
the direction of H. E. Winlock, the frag-
ments were reassembled more or less in
the JlgsaW puzzle manner. Infinite pa
tlence was needed for the task, but the
result has justified the effort.
Such enterprises, obviously, have an
Importance of high social Significance.
They testify for the creative character of
human genius; they demonstrate both
the antiquity of esthetic culture and
the continuity of appreciation for things
innately lovely. A similar labor, it will
be remembered, restored the famous
Portland vase after it had been shat
tered by a lunatic. 1t was found In 1850
in an imperial tomb of the third CEN
tury AID, but probably belongs to q
period at lease two hundred years earlier.
Dark blue in color, overlaid with an
opal glaze, 1t was chiseled or cut by its
maker to show groups of figures in relief.
Seeing 1t today In the British Museum,
its charm is as compelling as ever it
was in its pristine condition. Yet it
has had the experience of being wrecked
and resurrected. Also. by courtesy OF
Josiah Wedgwood. greatest OF potters, It
Evening star., 1937-07-21

overwhelming choice of foodstuffs, in
practically any combinations which come
to mind, or are available.
Now it is true that millions of persons
have lived and died on such a diet, or,
rather lack Of diet, and have been what
Is called, on the whole, successful and
medlumly happy persons. 1t is likewise
true that they suffered from many dis
eases, and often were half-sick all their
lives. 1t Is amazing what lot of energy
may be manifested by a person Just
dragging himself around.
H*
There seems to be no intelligent reason
why the present cluttered up systems
OF diet could not be simplifed, and a
real scientific approach to universal
question be made for all those persons
who believe that something is wrong
with the eating of human beings.
1t will be done, we are convinced.
Persons who will not wish to avail
themselves of it simply will let it alone,
as they at present pay not the slightest
attention to the discoveries which have
been made in human nutrition.
Ihey Will continue to eat four times
as much protein per day as they need
and thus to throw three times as much
work on the kidneys as those organs
should bear
Ihey will eat prodigiouSly of bread,
whether they need it or not They will
fill the stomach with positively amaz-
ing variety of things, which, whether
really incompatible or not, at least have
no real place together, three -fourths of
them.
A perfected science of human nutri-
ton will tell the willing listener Just
what to eat, how much and why. Let
US insist on the why" Medical men
will have seen long before that the
real drag" OF the quackS, as they choose
to call those who do not agree with them,
was because they took the reader into
their confidence and treated him as one
who might presumably have genuine
interest in himself
Adherents of this new perfected
science OF eating in the future will be
composed mostly OF consumers who feel
that something is wrong.
The perfectly healthy human animal
is never interested in diet.
He simply eats all he wants of eyerv-
thing that tastes good He only begins
W ili4ili IILo CdIOl anu NlJdQlQS Wne0
that sort of system or lack of it puts
his stomach out of condition and begins
to warp his kindness, tolerance and sense
of justice.
In the new day of universal dietetics.
people will eat what has been proved
is what they ought to eat.
They will know why and will be able to
tell others.
Our guess is that their eating habits
will surprisingly approximate those now
used in baby and child feeding.
Two or three foods will be enough at
meal and there will be more meals,
but OF smaller amounts each time.
Perhaps three or four foods will be
used al meal, but surely not more.
And during hot weather. when man is
already too hot, there will be little heat
making foods consumed.
beginning in this diet has been
made by many sensible persons. When
1t gets hot and stays hot. they simply
stop eating SO much and drink more
water.
Evening star., 1937-07-21
Britain Warns Italy.

On the heels of a certain improve
ment in Anglo-Italian relations, For
eign Secretary Eden has taken occasion
to warn Mussolini respecting Fascist as
plrations in the Mediterranean and ad-
Jacent regions. Despite the guarded
tones in which the head of the foreign
Office addressed the House of Commons
on Monday, there is no mistaking the
all concerned that Great Britain will
tolerate no interference with her in
tereSts in the waters that form John
Bulls life line'-the sea lane to India
and the East. In categorical terms Mr..
Eden declares that it always has been
and IS today major British concern
that no great power should establish
itself on the eastern shore of the Red
Sea. 1t is we'll understood that this par
tiCular thrust has reference to reputed
Italian efforts to set up a protectorate
over the Arabian Province of Yemen.
just across the Red Sea from Italy's new
empire in Africa. The British warning
assumes special timeliness, in light of
the proposed partition of Palestine and
the danger that the Italians might seek
to take advantage of Arab hostility to
the territorial new deal in the Holy
Land.
Mr.. Eden was at pains to point out
that the word vendetta has no English
equivalent but, having its Italian origin
in mind, let it be plainly understood
that Great Britain would fight if neces-
sary to defend her vital Mediterranean
position. Europe seems somewhat un-
certain as to just what sudden develop
ment led to so significant a showing
OF the lions teeth. Winston Churchill
and David Lloyd George were prompt
to link it with an unexplained insurgent
military development in Spain. They
limited in Parliament that the surprise
disclosure that General Franco has
mounted heavy guns opposite Gibraltar,
capable Of menacing or destroying that
symbol of British might, may be re-
sponsible for the foreign secretary's
manifesto. Recalling that Mussolini has
described the Mediterranean as an
Italian lake, Lloyd George suggested
that the two Fascist dictators, now SO
ardently identified with the insurgent
cause, must have far-reaching motives
for throwing their energies into it.
Just because a little of the gunpowder
was latterly extracted from the Anglo
Italian atmosphere, London may feel
the moment opportune for firing some
plain truths at Rome, thinking they
will create a deeper impression than If
uttered when Italian public opinion,
under government lash, is stirred to an
Anglophobe boil. The British are not
in mood to court repetition of their
Mediterranean humiliation at Fascist
hands during the Ethiopian conflict.
The foreign secretary's words, bull
Warked by a s7,5oo,OOOO00 realmament
program, speak volumes. They are not
likely to fall on deaf ears in the Palazzo
Venezia, where so fervent an apostle
OF the doctrine of force is enthroned.