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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25
PEARSONS GIVE.
ABELL The SLIP
IN ROW FOR SON
Board Ship for N. Y. as
Father Wins in Court

LONDON, Aug. rs G.N.S0.-Mr.
and Mrs. Drew Pearson and
George Abel broke even, in theory
at least, in their battle for the
custody of Mrs. Parsons son,
Tyler, today.
But the PearsonS held a distinct
advantage with possession Of the
5t-year-old boy aboard the French
liner De GraSse, which they
boarded at Cowes Roads enroute
to New York by hiring a private
tender.
Abel, Mrs. Pearson's first hus-
band and father of the boy, OBJ
tanned what satisfaction he could
out Of dismissal of the Injunction
the Pearsons had obtained.
TO TRAIL THEM DOWN
Abel, highly indignant and
Vowing to track the Pearsons
around the globe If need be, went
before Judge Frederic Wrottesley
of the vacation section Of the
high court of justice and had the
injunction dismissed.
The judge said it was
granted" Abel declared, with
the definite understanding
Tyler was not to be removed
from protection Of the court.
He considered the Pearsons'
action in fleeing as contempt of
court. He was exceedingly
angry over their failure to APP
pear"
Pearson, washington column
list, obtained the injunction
order on Monday.
The trouble dates back to q
Reno divorce ruling which allowed
Abel custody of the child for
: six weeks Of each year. The Pear
sons claim the ruling also forbade
either parent to take Tyler out
Of America.
The Pearsons flew the child
from Sark to London, followed
In another plane by the angry
father.
After the PearsonS and the
child boarded the liner, Abel told
International News Service:
II may decide to catch the
liner Normandie, but that de-
ponds on the outcome of the
court hearing. They slipped me
this time, but I am still de-
termined to get satisfaction"
TO USE FISTS
What will happen when Abel
and Pearson do meet is clear in
Abell'S mind. He declared:
when I meet Pearson I will
know how to use my fists"
The PearSonS are travelling I'm.
der the names of Alan Russell,
Lucy Russell and Master Robert
Russell. Just before boarding the
ship, Mrs. Pearson said:
I'm glad it's all over. I am
simply worn out by this terrible
time and this rushing around.
Abel will never get another op.
portunity Of taking Tyler from
me-"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25
BAN ON NOISE

READING, Pa, Aug. 24.-ReSi-
dents who like to get their beauty
nap have been given q break by
Police Chief Walter s. Schearer.
The police head put a ban on all
contemplating trucks, calliopes
and loud speakers. Several weeks
ago q ban was placed on noisy we'd
ding PROFESSIONS.
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HOW TO SAVE POSTAGE

PORTLAND, Ore. Q.N.SJ.-The
city manager Of Sacramento saved
three cents by sending a letter to
Mayor Carson Of Portland by ire
lay, post" The letter was carried
here from Sacramento by three
boys who were members of a relay
team,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25

Clarence Keller Young, jr., Evelyn
Hampel Young, James Anderson Young.
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CHANCE SOCIAL
GOSSIP BRINGS
.BIGAMY CHARGE
Wives Exchange Notes
At College Function

TOLEDO, O., Aug. IS (C.TP.S0.
A chance meeting Of two women
Of the same name at University
of Toledo function several months
ago which revealed they apparent
ly had married the same man, has
resulted in a bigamy warrant be-
ing issued for Francis A. Simonet,
~, as well as two warrants charg-
ing non-support of minor children.
The bigamy warrant was sworn
out by Ruth McGonigle Simonet,
daughter of DR.. M. B. McDonigle,
prominent Toledo physician.
NON-SUPPORT WRITS
She also swore out non-support
warrants as did Rosebella Street
man Simonet, alleged by police to
be Simonet's second wife.
Police said Simonet married the
physicians daughter while attend
ing Columbia University. They
now have a two-year-old daughter.
Later he came with his wife to
Toledo and entered the University
Of Toledo. While studying phar.
macy and living at the McGonigle
home, he met and married, the
warrant charges, Rosebella street
man. In April of this year she
obtained a divorce and custody Of
their young daughter, Judith
Belle.
EXCHANGE NOTES
Police said the two wives at.
tended a university function and
noticed a similarity of names.
They described their husbands"
The description Tailed. They
showed each other pictures of
their husband" and then, police
said, they learned they had mar
ried the same man. Ruth Nc
Gonigle Simonet said she never
had been legally separated from
her husband when he married Miss
Streetman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-25

Killed by q WOOlIy RhinOcerOs. A
Dramatic Incident In the Life Of Our
Caveman Ancestors PORTRAYED BY the
Distinguished Artist-Scientist, Charles
r. Knight, and Reproduced In Full
Color in The American Weekly, with
Sundays Warrington Herald.
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Fired 'SChOOlmarm'
Gets Test for Films
Cocktail Party Story
False, She Says !

NEW YORK, Aug. rs (C.TP.S0.
A small, peat blonde with face
like q Christmas doll and q per-
sonality calculated to make movie
producers rush forward en- masse,
contract in hand, is stopping at
the Tudor Towers these gray days,
resting on the content that must
come Of being the most talked
about school teacher in the United
States.
Miss Isabel Hallin pronounced
Halleen) is in town, being movie
tested for Twentieth Century.Fox,
with an idea of going into what
she prefers to term sophisticated
comedy"
CENTER OF ROW
Hiss Hallin is the school marin
who was accused Of serving cock
tails to her dramatics class stu
dents in SauguS, Mass.
The towns good people got wind
Of the rumor, and the upshot Of
the whole thing, after trials for
SANDER and hints Of contribution
to juvenile delinquency, was the
loss of the pert Miss Hallin's job.
To say the least, she's not suf-
fering by it. She says:
"Of course, don't like this
kind Of PUBLICITY mean I'd
like to be on the screen or stage,
and all that, but the idea Of
capitalizing on that thing
doesn't appeal to me much.
However, I've done a little radio
work and appeared with the
summer theater in Kennebunk-
port, Me-, so the thought Of dra-
mates isn't exactly new to me-"
ORIGIN OF STORY
Asked how the whole story Of
the cocktail party came about, she
said, with a shrug, that she wished
she knew.
IT really mean I don't know
how the whole thing started.
Unless" she paused shyly, lit
was just that-well, you know,
sometimes people are sort Of re-
sentful Of people who do any
thing outstanding"
Miss Hallin had nothing deroga-
Evening star., 1937-08-01

dramatic career in Jean Muir's Little
Theater. Has appeared in Kid Gala
had" and Confession" Under con-
tract to Warner Bros.
Phyllis Brooks, % years old, used
to model for McClelland Barclay,
Bradshaw Crandall and John La
Gatta, and is a native daughter of
Boise, Idaho. Lived also in Chicago,
st. Paul. Grand Rapids, Milwaukee
and New York, attending private
school in Westchester Signed acting
contract with Universal, refused to
remain and returned to New York for
the play Stage Door" Scout for
Twentieth Century-Fox signed her.
She has just completed You Can't
Have Everything"
Sigrid Gurie, % years old, discov-
cred in London by Samuel Goldwyn
and refused to come to Hollywood
Changed her mind later and got role,
her first in movies, with Gary Cooper
in The Adventures OF Marco Polo"
Born in Oslo. Norway Under contract
to Goldwyn Studio.
Helen Troy. n years old and moth
er Of two children. is radio star. but
began in a small way in Hollywood.
Born in San Francisco, her family
moved to Traverse City, Mich, and
later Helen got q job as a Detroit
theater orsanist. Played Sally on the
Sally and Cecil' radio program. Got
her best break as the gabby phone
girl in Born to Dance" for M. G. NJ.
where's she's under contract.
Betty James. l6 years old, was born
In Chicago, living at various times
in st. Louis, Buffalo, Grand Rapids
and Miami as Betty Schultz She's a
Phi Beta from Chicago University,
and is singer Under contract to
M-G-M
Barbara Read. 20 years old. is a ma
tive OF Port Arthur, Canada. ORA
Evening star., 1937-08-01
New High in Villainy.

ROADSIDE villains have been no.
torious for their fiendish modes
Of torturing their victims. In last
S miners Among the Moonshiners. -"
audiences believed they had witnessed
the ultimate villain who fed the
hero on salt mackerel and no water!
But they haven't seen anything yet!
For in The Haunted Mill" opening
Monday. August 9, there is a pleasant
chap who pours small doses OF poison
down the throat OF his unwilling wife
and keeps her a prisoner in an old
mill!
1t would not satisfy him to give her
the whole bottle at once-no. he must
dot it gradually! This Squire Corrigan
can join William Corder. LAWYER
Cribs. George Drake, Richard Knatch-
bull and William Mosby black
hearted menaces OF other old time
'mellers" at Road adside-in the thor
cughness and variety of his villainy.
For while he is poisoning his wife. he
is seeking to force the heroine to marry
him or be cast into the streets che
holds the mortgage he plots to rid
himself OF his partner in crime, and
he finally kidnaps the girl!
As in all good melodramas, the
forces OF good are more than equal to
the villajny. There is Jack Dalton.
a brave young American who has won
the heart OF the beautiful Irish COL
leen; there is a Scotland Yard de-
tective, and there is the inevitable Irish
comedian who, in his laundering way,
manages to be at the right place at
the right time!
The Haunted Mill" was penned bv
Bernard Francis Moore.
Evening star., 1937-08-01

matte experience was with IAgunA
Beach Players and first cast in movies
as one OF the Three Smart Girls"
starring Deanna Durbin. Under con-
tract to Universal.
MARY RUSSELL, % years old, is
from Oskaloosa, Iowa, and used
to be Mary Marcia Won Kalbach. Edu-
Gated at Piedmont, Calf, High
School and graduate OF the Univer-
sity OF California, she later became
accessory adviser and wedding coun-
selor" at a San Francisco department.
store. PLAYED in stock On Western
Coast and did the picture, Park Ave-
nue. Dame" for Columbia.
Jacqueline Wells, % years old. is a
native daughter of Denver Her thea
trical training was as a dancer with
Theodore koSloff and she became
well-known child actress. Recently
had role with Otto Kruger in Co.
lumbia's Counsel for Crime"
Franciska Gaal, 25 years old. was
born in Budapest, and got her training
at the Hungarian State Stage Acad-
emy. Played with Helen Hayes in
Victoria Regina" in New York and
has had notable European theater ca
reer. Played in foreign films and was
given role recently in Cecil B, De
Miles new production, The Bucca.
neer."
Those are your baby stars for 1875
the lucky l3-as chosen by the casting
heads Of Hollywood. the men who are
paid well-very well-for their ability
10 pick talent. They haven't been very
wrong in the past, so check up one
year hence and see how many of their
lucky l3" selections go over the top.
tcopyriaht, 1897, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc.l
Evening star., 1937-08-01

just yesterday. Mr.. Washburn is the
agile gentleman who keeps the world,
especially the press, informed of the
doings of George Abbott.
His elfln piece, full OF optimism and
adjectives, points out that the Abbott
road season is going to open early
this year and that Washington will
be right behind Boston In the sched-
ule for Brother Rat" So far, the
play Is booked as the first OF the local
season. opening September 13. There
are hints, however, OF an August IA
opening, which sounds like a movie,
Could it be Paramounts High. Wide
and Handsome" which deals with the
Pennsylvania oil boom in terms OF
Irene Dunno and Randolph Scott?
incidentally, as was anticipated,
Washington legitimate followers tthat
would be the Nationals audience)
have accepted with apparent complete
understanding the theater's new
policy with regard to gallery seats.
Under that policy, there will be no
more season reservations OF seats in
the second balcony.
The decision was not hasty one,
the theater's management took care to
assure applicants for seats, but was
arrived at after careful consideration
of all factors involved.
The greatest good OF the greatest
number could be served it was con-
cluded, il the seats were reservable
on show-to-show basis, giving every
theater enthusiast in the lower price
bracket more even opportunity.
STELLA ADLER may have been one
Of the 10 foremost legitimate
actresses in the country, but that did
not prevent Hollywood from changing
her name when she signed a picture
contract. From now on Miss Adler
is to be Stella Ardler. 1t is one of
those things which seems incompre-
hensible, but for which its sponsors
undoubtedly have % ready justifi-
cations.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
Today's Film Schedule

CAPITOL - slave Ship" the
last SLAYER goes down to sea on
wave Of melodrama. at 2,
4:35. 7:25 and 1910 pm. Stage
shows at $40, 6::25 and 9:l5
pm
Exclusive. drama in a
newspaper city room, at 2.
4:40. 1925 and 9:55 pm Stage
shows at 4, 645 and 9:1O pm.
PALACES Saratoga" Jean Har-
lows last picture. at 2, $40,
$40, 1885 and 9:35 pm.
METROPOLITAN - King of
Gamblers, the slot machine
racket gets its due. at 2, 3:55,
S:55. 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
RIALTO - Dreaming Lips"
Elisabeth Bergner's latest cinema
enterprise, at 2, 4, 8, $40 and
1920 pm.
COLUMBIA-"A Day at the
Races the mad Marxes at
their maddest at 2:25, 4:50,
7:l5 and $40 pm.
KEITH'S - The Road Back"
post armistice Germany, at
las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 9;45
pm.
LTTLE-''Maedchen in Uni
FORM" another popular film re-
vived. at 2:35, 4:25. 6:l5, sos
and 9:55 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Show runs l hour and Is min
utes, continuous from pm.
Evening star., 1937-08-01

stroyed in scenes. The list OF spe-
cialists seems endless.
A nice. quiet vacation is hard for
star to achieve. Clark Gable hoped
for one when he left Hollywood by
car to hunt on ranch in Montana.
He was two days late in getting
there. At Brigham City, Utah, he lost
a halliday when he stopped for lunch.
Within 10 minutes there was a three
block traff1c jam around the hotel,
with more than 500 persons there to
shake his hand. When he left town
motor caravan followed him for
miles. Word Of his trip was relayed
ahead Of him and everywhere he
stopped he lost hours. Now he is
hunting.
No longer is it surprising news
when a brother, sister or relative OF
an established player finds himself
thrust into pictures. Latest is James
Ameche, brother OF Don, who has
been signed by Paramount for a lead
ing role In "Ensenada." with Ray
Millana and Dorothy Lamour.
Bruce Cabot, who heads the cast
OF Black Lightning" is veritably the
man who dies for living" He has
risen to fame as villain who always
dies in the final reel. How does he
die? In "Roadhouse Murder" he was
stabbed; poison took him of in
Murder on the Blackboard; bullets
riddled him in Let EN- Have It.; a
tommahaWk finished him in Last of
the Mohicans'; machine gun did its
work in Show Them No Mercy" In
Black Lightning he Is electrocuted.
Two more stars are to enact his
torlcally famous characters on the
screen. Leslie Howard will play the
title role in Lawrence of Arabia" in
London, for Alexander Korda. Claude
Rains will be Maj. Gen. Gorgas whose
fight against yellow fever made pos
slble the building Of the Panama Ca
nal, in a picture called Panama
Canal"
Few stand-inS-those who stand in
front of bright lights while camera
men prepare for scene-have become
actresses in their own right. How
ever the charm seems to have been
broken recently by Jean Chatburn. for
merly stand-in for Barbara Stanwyck.
and Virginia Grey, once Florence
Rice's stand-in. Both now are fea-
tured players. Luise Rainer's stand
In, Dorothy HOFFMAN, has just been
signed by M-G-M and given a part in
Big City" Now Franchot Tone is
grooming Bob Davis, his din, for
career.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
Extra Festival.
JUSTIN HUNTLEY MCCARTHY

JUSTIN HUNTLEY McCARTHY'S
IF I were King" will be pre-
sented by the Blackfriers Guild, aug
mented by out-of-town players at
tending the drama institute OF Cath
olic University, as the eighth Sum-
mer Festival Of the season, q special
event arranged for Thursday night
at the Sylvan Theater.
The play has been directed by
the Rev. Urban Nagle, o. P. Local
members of the cast are Austin Cat
tis, Margaret Mary Edmonston, Cath
crime Knocky, Gordon Potter. Jack
Hurley. William Tobin, Loren Freund,
Leo Brady, Edgar Kloten, Gaynor
Bentz, Edgar Ford and Adah May
Brady
Among the out-of- town players are
Frances Mohan of Minneapolis Doro-
thy Flynn of Columbus. Ohio; Virginia
Connen OF Toledo. Ohio; Joseph Hun
ter of New York City, Beatrice Prince
of Portland, Greg; Mary Murray of
Baltimore, Frances Young of Chicago,
Mrs d. S. Blocker of Columbus Ohio
and Harry Quirk of Providence, r. I.
Evening star., 1937-08-01

from an entirely different angle. So
do press agents and critics.
1t was recognition of the distinc-
tiveness OF the extras viewpoint which
impelled Jock Lawrence recently to
conduct a popularity contest concern
Ing the stars among "a extra girls who
have played in pictures with virtually
all OF the brighter lights of Hollywood.
And, to keep you waiting no longer
CT you've been waiting), William
Powell and Gary Cooper led the lis
OF big people with whom the little peo-
pie liked to work That is to say, they
led so far as male stars were concerned
Topping the list among the women was
Marion Davies, with Myrna 10y in
second place.
As for the men, five girls voted each
for Powell and Cooper. Paul NUM- was
the choice of three while Tyrone Power,
Clark Gable, Fredric March, Eddie
Cantor, Warner Baxter and James
Cagney got two votes each Victor
McLaglen, Ronald Colman and John
Boles had single supporter each Six
OF the girls eligible to vote decided
they could not decide.
Among the women, Miss Davies
(Who also was selected as the most
charitable person among the stars,
whatever "charitab bic" means to an
extra) was far in the lead with Is
votes. Miss 10y was runner-up with
five. Others voted upon. from three
down to one ballot, were Rosalind Rus
sell Kay Francis, May Robson, Jean
Parker. Una Merkel, Barbara STAN
uyck and Bette Davis.
The girls who did the balloting we're
cautioned against naming personal IA
vorites. told to consider only demo-
cratic friendlneSs"
X
THE National Theater still lacks
those new seats which are going
TO make customers supercomfortab Bile
this Autumn, but already the pleas
ant hint of the legitimate is in the
atmosphere. So far as this depart
ment is concerned, it drifted out of
an envelope from Charles Washburn
Evening star., 1937-08-01
Those Dietrich Stills

though he can't make out what it Is,
for despite the mechanical Job Of
squeezing rubber bulb and dipping
a plate in chemicals, lot Of glamour,
chic and individuality somehow get
IN. Miss Dietrich is an exponent of
these qualities. however and that ex-
plains much. But many photographers
have tried it without any luck.
Miss Dietrich won't have any other
still man around, II English IS avail
able. Neither will Mae West nor Car
ole Lombard. His worst nightmare
comes when he dreams of all three
acting the same time at Paramount.
English is the perfect camera por-
traitist, but imperfect as to type. He
should be tall, wan and poetic, with
long hair and a flowing tie But he
Is short. athletic. vigorous, and wears
no tie at all. He panks his tripod
down. and drags it away with the
nonchalance, blank face and dropping
cigarette Of . hard-boiled newspaper
photographer, which he was for sew
eral years
For diversion, he wrestles or plays
golf. and he does both with profes-
sional Skill Apart from that, he reads
books on optics and darkroom chem
istry.>
Last year he took 500 photographs
OF Carole Lombard inside Of six weeks,
Then he took one Of W. c. Fields, a
fast, routine snapshot, without think
ing very much.
Good heavens" said Fields when
he saw the photograph. DO I look
SO ladylike?" CDid w. c. really say
Good heaven"
This unnerved English for a mo-
ment. and he thought he had got into
a rut. So for . week he did nothing
but photograph craggy-looking male.
like Henry Wilcox1n, Harry Carey and
Frank Lloyd. and escaped from the
thrall Of the slamorou effect.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
Dancers at Sylvan.

7 ISA GARDINER and her dancers
and the Marine Band conducted
by Capt. Taylor Branson, share honors
on the seventh Summer Festival pro-
gram Of the season, to be presented
Tuesday night at 7:45 o'clock at the
Sylvan Theater.
The dance program Miss Gardi-
ner has arranged is varied one
with number of colorful selections
including DeBussy's "Arabesque" and
the Yaqui Dance by Alvarez. Mary
Day, Ann vucinovich. Eleanor Catch,
Lora Wills, Alice Louise Hunter and
Marian Wolberg are among the dane
ers who will assist Miss Gardiner.
The dancers will b accompanied
BY Edith Il. Hunter.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
4 FTER developing a plate in the
~ Paramount studios dark room
~ early last week, Don English
4 reflected for a moment. then

FlER deVelOpln9 q plate IN the
~ Paramount studios dark room
~ early last week, Don English
a reflected for a moment, then
clapped on his hat. walked up and
down IN the balmy sunshine and gave
himself half-hour holiday. He WAS
celebrating the ten-thousandth time
he had photographed Marlene Diet
rich.
An occasion like this, being unique
deserves some appropriate comment.
Harry Cottrell, head of the photo
department, which prints of a million
or 80 pictures year. responded with: ::
so what? Stars have got to be
photographed, and somebody has to
photograph them"
English. pressed for q bright re-
mark, gave this:
THE first 10000 times are the
hardest"
He hasn't any recipe to give for his
success. He just pushes into the set
when the movie camera isn't turning,
sets up his tripod and lens box, and
points 1t at Miss Dietrich. He knows
what's wanted. and so does she The
diva reclines in her chair, automati-
cally. three quarters face, and English
presses the bulb. He takes her singly
most of the time, and other times
with Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Doug
las or Ernst Lubitsch, who is direct
ing them in Angel
When they are acting, he relaxes in
. chair, and when they let up, or the
lights are being changed, he jumps
up to business again-and always gets
the same effects. He has been getting
the unique Dietrich effect for the last
ftve years. Fifteen thousand papers,
from the Jill Shimbun (Tokio) to the
Novoe Vremya (Petrograd) and the
London Times, run his Dietrich por-
traits.
There must be q trick to his style,
Evening star., 1937-08-01

7 IOLLYWOOD-This is the age
Of specialists and certainly
this city is their haven Here
4 a as nowhere else on earth, need
arises for work that has never been
Done before and those who can create
their own specialties are in demand
A brief trip through the Metro
Goldvvn-Mayer studios proves the
point.
In a set representing William Pow
ellis garrett studio. man Is making
filmy cobwebs with an odd-looking
spray gun. In 80 seconds he creates
more of rubber than nature can
form In a month.
Harold Turburg works on the Broad
way Melody Of 1898" set. He gal
vanizes transparent silk costumes
chorines wear when they rip them
for the material cannot be sewed.
Up in the wardrobe department is
A group of women from Guadalaj lara,
Mexico, with magic in their fingers.
They do nothing but sew beads on
costumes and made dress for Joan
Crawford overnight
Moving casually around the lot is
Tom Ellerton. He carries a long
handled magnet, gathering up thou
sands of nails dropped by set builders.
A man with a WheelbarroW follows
him.
Lunch in the M-G-M cafe and you'll
see Floyd Wittenberg. When some
one is wanted in the cafe he answers
the call and, quietly spotting the
individual wanted goes to that person
and plugs a connection into the near
est spot.
These are only a few One may
point to Myrtle Manning, who keeps
a catalogue file of mustaches and
boards in the makeup department; a
wardrobe worker who does nothing
but sew feathers on costumes; a man
who eliminates squeaks from sound
stage floors; man who bleaches
animal bones to dress sets; those who
paint pictures which are to be de-