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Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
HEWES WILL
TALK FRIDAY

Rural electriilcation will be dis
cussed by Evan t. Hewes, presi-
dent of the Imperial Irrigation
District board of directors, at the
first monthly meeting of the Nc
Cabe Farm Cer1ter Friday night
at the McCabe school. The meet
ing starts at 7:45.
George L. Winwright, assistant
county agent, will speak on "Elec.
tricity on the Farm"
Full attendance is expected at
the meeting as the Center will hold
an election of officers for the en-
suing year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
PACT SIGNED
FOR LEASING
6 WARSHIPS

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. q. CUP)
"A newspaper here said today that
a contract leasing six over-age Unit
ed States warships to Brazil was
signed Saturday in Washington by
Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian ambas-
sador and Sumner Welles. assistant
secretary of state.
The newspaper claimed to have
learned that details would be ar
ranged after congress had been in
formed but that meanwhile the yes
sells would be sent on a visit to
Brazil remaining until approval had
been reached.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Aunt Kate Former Cattle
Queen, Lies in Pauber Grace

returned to ner hospital duties with
her three small children. struggled
against heavy odds and became su-
perintendent of a large New York
hospital.
Whenever she fould a homeless
waif in need of a mother, she took
the child home with her. In 25
years at the hospital, she adopt
ed 10 boys and two girls and sent
some through college. Fourteen of
her children still live in the Unit
ed States. One died several years
ann
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Shippers Urged to
Fight Rail Rate Raise

SACRAMENTO. Cal. Oct. 81.
(UP)-Sacramento Valley shippers
today were asked to oppose an in
crease in California freight rates,
in hearings before the State Rail-
road commission here Nov. 8.
W. G. Stone, manager of the
State Chamber of Commences indus
trial and transportation department,
asserted the proposed advance in
rate schedules would virtually force
small shippers into the trucking
business.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
When Pretty Miss Goes Shopping- :.

-Post-Press phOto-engraving
Here's what she brings home. Ju-
nior Ten Thousand club mem
bers give you a peek ut the
loot. Pretty ravishing, eh? We
mean the clothes. not the gals.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

Many Imperial Valley folk regis
tered for the dinner in honor of
jim Farley in Los Angeles Thursday.
Among those scheduled TO make
the trip were: Mr.. and Mrs. John
Carroll, James J. Baxter, and Depu-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

ty United States Marshal T. A.
Eggleston of Calexico; Mr.. and Mrs.
L. E. Harris and Mark Rose of Holt
vile; Mr.. and Mrs. D. j. McChristy
and Mr.. and Mrs. T. d. Mccall of
Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

right, Miss Gladys Ikenberry,
Miss Helen Van Fleet and Mrs.
Jack Pulliam. Lower photo, left
to right: Miss Shirley McAllister
and Miss Eloise Richardson.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

Oh well, make il vice versa. But
this is just a preview of the
styles arranged for a fashion
parade Thursday night at the
club rooms. Top photo. left to
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
SIS Reward

win be paid by the manufacturer
for any Corn GREAT CHRISTIE
PHER POSITIVE Corn Cure cam
not remove. Also removes Warts
and Callouses. 35c at Clements
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Shrine Club Will
Holds Stag Dinner
At Hotel Nov. 2

The Imperial Valley Shrine club
n social organization composed OF
members of the Mystic Shrine, will
have their first party Nov. 2 at the
Barbara Worth hotel, Ell Centre,
President Langston j. Goree. jr.,
announced. The affair will be a
stag dinner, which will be served
at 7 o'clock and will be open to
all Shriners whether members OF
AL Bahr Temple or not. No ere
oentials will be necessary, accord
ing to President Goree and any
Shrine member affiliated with any
Shrine Temple will be most heart
lily welcome.
1t is expected that the Al Bahr
Temple famous quartette of San
Diego will attend. In addition there
will be a number of entertainment
features.
At the stag party plans will be
made for attending the joint cere-
monial of the San Diego and Phoe-
nix Temple at Phoenix late in Nov
ember Special trains from San
Diego, Ell Centre and Los Angeles
will convey the Mobiles to Phoenix.
The local club urged all members
of the Shrine to notify any MEM
ber of the committee of any visiting
Mobiles who should be invited and
special invitation will be sent
to them. Those in charge of the
stag party are, in addition to Presi-
dent Goree. w. A. Tondro, Warren
Currier, William L. Bennington,
Chas. H. II. Small Robert Hays,
Ernest Y. Edwards, Wayne j. FL
wander. Manuel F. Guerra, Louis
S. Hausman, and J. Herbert Mccoy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
DEATH CHANGES TOAST

DEATH CHANGES TOAST
BUDAPEST. UP)-Heinrich Weiss
invited a group of friends to a
village inn where they were to cele-
brate his 55th birthday. A friend
stood to wish a long life to the
host, whereupon weiss fell dead
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

CHEMISTRY STUDENTS RISE
PHILADELPHIA (UP)-A gain of
more than SO per cent in registra-
ton during the last five years for
courses in the chemistry depart
ment is reported by the University
of Pennsylvania.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

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~ ability with AZ progressive improvements, the 1888
all with distinguished styling inside and OUT o
beautiful Dodge Of them ALL
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

See this Dodge today and learn how switch to
Dodge money! And remembDodge still delivers for
just a few dollars than lowest priced cars
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Love No Longer Is All
In Hollywood Art
Even the Press Department
Ignores Kissing Technique;
Civic Theater Plans.
By Jay CarmOdy.

guilty conscience like wisdom toothache
~ slowly Only Holly-
wood has it dawned
who might have
how love | -
We the pictures the making We saw sch
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dramas OF few seasons ago. 1t takes
otherwise unnecessary characters to
hurl his hero into the year 1902 and
the whole thing Is so unwieldy that
one Immediately remembers how much
simpler and more effective it was in
Berkeley Square" when the mere
opening Of door permitted Mr.. Les
lie Howard to walk from the twentieth
century into the London of DR.. john
son. There was something enormously
moving about that excursion through
the centuries that the flat-footed de-
vice of Mr. Anderson never achieves
Nevertheless. think that could have
forgiven even the clumsineSS of the
time machine if the new play hadn't
permitted its pompous and undiStin-
guished striving for intellectual i'm
port to talk the dramatic simplicity
of the central narrative into futility
Slowly but with grim inevitability the
gentle charm that should have been
the great Joy of ''The Star Wagon"
slipped away, and l don't think that
things were helped when it was made
clear that Mr.. Anderson's great philo-
sophlcal point was that if you had
your chance to live your life over
again you should still marry for love.
IF THE STAR WAGON" becomes
one Of the great hits OF the sea-
son. as seems likely from the early
box office returns, then the acting will
certainly be chiefly responsible. 1t
can't be necessary to talk about Bur
CESS Meredith again, because every
one who writes about the theater has
gone into proper raptures about this
brilliant young player frequently
enough. 1t need only be said that
the new play offers one Of his finest
performances and that he even makes
the ancient inventor of the present.
day sequences Of the work believable.
And imagine that by now he is play
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plays headed this way from London
are said to deal with the topic, which
may indicate that the Einstein period
IN the drama is about to set in. But
1t should be reasonably clear by now
that works dealing with the meta
physical conceptions of time either
should be Intellectually provocative in
their treatment or should toss the en-
tire matter casually over their shoul-
der and get on with their story. My
fear is that Mr. Anderson does
neither. His thinking seems at the
same time superficial and obscure and
when, on the occasion of the plays
first night, we were puzzling our heads
over the meaning of the mystical
scrub woman's lines. we were likewise
troubled by the growing conviction
that the import of her speech wasn't
worth the bother Of ferreting out its
possible significance. Yet he refuses
to let us take his contention that all
of time happens simultaneously with
out the rather pompous theorizlng
that he feels must go with it. Thus
we end by enjoying neither the nos
talgic pleasures of a rueful excursion
into the past nor any striking investi-
cation Of relativitys bypaths.
Mr.. Anderson must be blamed also
for giving us such numbering device
to carry his narrative into the past.
His Star Wagon" is clumsy vehicle
in every way and 1t operates in blaze
OF electrical effects that reminds us
of one of those death-house melo-
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ing the one scene in which the in
ventOr, having q chance to live his
life over again, becomes a disillu-
stoned rich man, more surefootedly
than he did on the opening night.
AS for Miss Lillian Gish, she certainly
has never been SO lovely and so NOV
ing, and it can now be safely said
that she stands among the distin-
gulshed players of the stage There
is fine portrayal, too, by Russell Col
Inns as the heros soliloquizing friend,
and Miss Mildred NatWick'S charac-
terization of 1902 matron is a calm
and transformations delight.
a MOTHER tragic death took place
: in the theater last week, although
lew people not closely connected with
the stage can realize how great a loss
it is. Ray Henderson, press agent for
Miss Katharine Cornell, was killed in
an airplane accident in Athens, while
flying around the world to arrange
for Miss Cornells proposed tour. Mr..
Henderson was called press agent,
but it is paying no dsrespect to those
valuable ladies and gentlemen to say
he was far more than that.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Four Events
Are Set for
New Series
National Concert
Group Starts
Campaign.

THE National Concert Association
begins tomorrow its campaign for
memberships for the four-eve pro-
gram to be held here this season
under the auspices of the Community
Center Department. Admission is to
be on the group plan, with no tickets
sold for single programs.
The first event, scheduled for No.
vember 3 at Roosevelt High School
Auditorium, where all the programs
are TO be held, will be the concert
appearance of Margaret Speaks. The
tall, blond soprano, well known the
country over for her radio broad
casts, will be making her first personal
appearance in Washington.
The Ballet Caravan, a group of
young Americans who have studied
under Russian masters and who are
members of the ballet at the Metro
politan Opera House, will be pre-
sented December / in a program of
new ballets.
On February % Juliet Deli comes
to town. Miss Deli IS the dark-eyed
lass whose talents as a mime enable
her to turn from an eloquent rendi-
ton of the balcony scene in Romeo
and Juliet" to a hilarious impersona.
ton of a Hollywood comic. 1t is te
be her first appearance in Wash.
tngton.
The final program, to be presented
March %, will be the local debut fol
oV1l vY,H,x
enthusiastically acclaimed by critic,
last season in New York for theil
interpretive dances.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Children's Theater
PLAYERS to Guild.

SEVERAL years ago Glare Tree
Major, founder and director of the
Children's Theater of New York, which
opens its season at the National next
Saturday morning with Daddy Long
legs" raided the Broadway stage to
cast her plays. Now that the theater
is again looking up. Broadway is re-
turning the compliment, with the
Theater Guild joining in.
Viola RoacEe. the popular English
actress, seen here last week in Nine.
Bovary" and last year in Katharine
Hepburn's Jane Eyre" has long been
associated with the Childrens Theater,
both as player and as friend and
advisor of Mrs. Major
Two other regular Children's
Theater players who appeared here
in Jane Eyre" were Phillipa Bevans
and John O'Connor, daughter and
son-in-law of Viola Roache. Mr..
O'Connor is at present one Of the
stage managers of the Nine. Bovary"
company. The other is Irving Nor
row, who designs the sets for the
children's plays
Daddy Longlegs" will be followed
by five other equally attractive dramas
for children.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

Gary Cooper will co-star with
Claudette Colbert in Ernst Lubitsch's
production OF "Bluebeards Eighth
WIFE"
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Four Dance Groups
Are Booked.

-FOUR dance programs will be pre-
sented here this season by William
A. Albaugh, all to be afternoon events,
presented at 4:30 o'clock at the Ma
tional Theater. Three of the groups
have appeared here before and are
being brought back in response to
large number of requests. These are
Shan-Kar, the Hindu dancer, to be
seen December 9; Trudi Schoop and
her comic ballet, coming January IA,
and the Jooss Ballet. making its ap-
pearance February 25.
The other group, new to this series
but presented here with the National
Symphony in Summer program, will
be the Miriam Winslow Dancers. This
American dance group will present
the first program in the series No.
vember S.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

fame and his crusade In behalf Of
Capt. Dreyfuss. Joseph Schildkraut,
Erin OBrien-Moore and Gale Son
dergaard are others in the cast. The
Earle's stage bill will be headlined by
Carmela Ponselle, opera and radio
singing star, and Dancers CLANCY and
Fox will be the added ATTRACTION.
CapitOl-'High, Wide and Hand
some" the musical version of the
history and discovery and early vicis-
situdes of oil in Pennsylvania, opens
Friday. Irene Dunno and Randolph
Scott are starred and Dorothy Lamour
mas prominent role in the support
ing cast. The stage show Will be
headlined by Dorothy Stone, Fred
Stones dancing daughter. appearing
in an act with Charles Collins.
keith's-"Breakfast for Two" team
ing Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert
Marshall for the first time. comes
here Friday It's fast-moving COM
edy about wealthy lass and a play
boy who almost sinks financially
the steamship line he inherits but
refuses to manage. Glenda Farrell
Is the other corner of the triangle.
Paiace-"Prisoner of Zenda" is
slated to follow The Bride Wore
Red" which probably will not be
Friday.
Metropolitan-"This Way, Please"
the comedy in which Mary Mrs. Jack
Benny Livingstone makes her screen
debut, is next here, starting Friday.
The romantic leads will be played by
Charles Buddy" Rogers and Betty
Cradle. and Ned Sparks is in the
cast. -Four new song numbers are in
the musical accompaniment.
COiumbia-TWo weeks on F street
apparently have not been enough to
satiate Washington's appetite for
Dead End" for it returns Friday
for third. Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey
Bogart and Joel McCrea play the
leads and the six kids Of the Sidney
Kingsley stage play have their orig
inal roles.
Evening star., 1937-10-10

October 20, is proud of the groups
play list this year. This department,
which has not had a hunch since the
Kentucky Derby four years ago, finds
itself feeling that great many WASH
lngtonians will think along with Mr..
Strickland on the subject.
Excursion" by Victor Wolfson. on
October 20 is just beginning, albeit a
completely happy one. 1t looked for
while as if Washington would have to
wait for long time for this pleasant
fantasy, unless, of course, it journeyed
to New York to catch the Broadway
production. Mr.. Strickland and his
associates saw TO it that the trip was
unnecessary.
Back of Excursion" lies johnny
johnson" the Paul Green work which
might have won the critics prize last
year if Maxwell Anderson had not
written three plays, one of which was
High Tor" War never looked so
badly as it does in its relation to
Green's central character, a natural
man who cannot understand conflicc
in its supposedly noblest terms. Let
the Civic Theater do johnny john
son" we'll and quickly and it will de-
serve the best possible fate at the
hands of those in Washington inter-
ested in fine drama.
A LSO on the list OF probable pro-
ductions is Helen and John"
which sprang from the pen of Elmer
Rice, whose pen has been so busy of
recent years writing angry answers to
Broadway producers and critics. Rice
is too capable a playwright to surren-
der permanently Broadway in favor of
Woodley Road, but it should be to the
credit of the Civic Theater that it
brings one of his plays on the latter
thoroughfare.
Might Over Taos" by Maxwell An
derSon, his first poetic play, incident
ally; The Distaff Side" by John Van
Druten: Andre Obey's comedy. Noah;
yellow Jack" School for Husbands"
and Penny Wise" are the other
dramas over which the Civic Theater
is celebrating.
Brought up in the strict tradition Of
New England. Mr. Strickland has been
taught not to point. but he might be
excused for pointing with pride to the
ambition of the local theater group in
its play layout for the current season
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Today's Film Schedule.

KEITH 'S-"Music for Madame"
by Rudolph Friml and sung
by Nino Martini: 2, 3:55, 5:55.
7:50 and $50 pm. March of
Time: 3:35, 5:35, 7:3O and
$50 pm.
EARLE" Annapolis Salute" a
lad almost tosses away
career for love: 2, 44O, 7:20
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 3.35,
6:15 and 9 pm.
CAPITOL-"Madame x" new
film version of the dramatic
story of woman's secrifice:
2, 4:25, ITO and 9::55 pm.
Stage shows: $40, 6::25 and
9:10 pm.
PALACE-"The Bride Wore Red"
luck tosses a poor cabaret en-
tertainer into made whirl of
society and out again 2;20,
AS, ITO and 9:35 pm.
LIITLE-"AS You Like It." fine
motion picture transcription
Of the Shakespearean play,
with Elisabeth Bergner: 2,
355, $50, 7:45 and 9:40 pm.
METROPOLITAN - Souls at
Sea-" stirring sea drama from
out of history's pages: 2, 3:55,
5;55, 7:55 and $50 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Double or Moth
ing" Bing Crosby's latest
musical: 2, 345, 5 As, 7:45 and
$40 pm.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
Complete show runs / hour
and Is minutes, continuous
from 2 pm.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
Comic to Headline
Gayety Revue.

COMEDY will keynote the new
Gayety revue starting today with
the Sunday matinee when Peanuts
Bohn brings his "Bon-Ton Burles-
quers" to town.
The distaff side has three head
lners-Doris Leland, Nellie Clark and
Helen Vinton-who will be supported
by the usual array of dancers, singers
and the chorus.
Evening star., 1937-10-10
New Pictures
Are Coming
This Week
Downtown Houses
Announce Bills
On the Way.

" ARLE-"Life OF Emile Zola,"
Il Warner Bros masterful film
biography which Paul Mum
~ endows with a distinguished
performance, arrives Friday for its
first engagement at popular prices.
Directed by William Dieterle, who
guided "The Story Of Louis Pasteur, :"
the new NUM- film follows the career
OF Zola through his struggles, his
Evening star., 1937-10-10

advantage OF three exceptionally tlne
performances, of much pleasant nos
talgic sentiment of the horSeless car
riage era and of that air of vague
metaphysical pondering that invari-
ably fatterS playgoer by making him
think he is using his mind. Then,
too, since the first night, it has been
considerably shortened and its most
bewildering character, Mr. Anderson's
mystical scrubwoman, has been de-
prived of her most battling speech.
All of this must have improved The
Star Wagon" considerably but I still
cannot help believing that the new
work must stand among its authors
most disappointing efforts.
The chief virtue that THE Star
Wagon" possesses is certain ro-
mantle simplicity. filled with a gentle
sort of wistfulness. If Mr.. Anderson
had been satisfied to cling to that
quality he would, think. have writ
ten a gracious and charming play,
possessing some of the unashamed
sentimental delicacy of Eugene ONeill's
become a philosopher and something
of mystic. who must always brood
with melancholy lyricism over the
tears of things. He must provide US
with plays that have grave meta
physical import of some kind or an
other and he must appear in the guise
of thinker as we'll as of a dramatist.
Now ! certainly am not criticizing
those qualities Of his. They have
given us so many fine plays, have
made him so eminent a playwright
and have added such stature to the
recent American theater that it would
be absurd to condemn them. Where
Mr.. Anderson errs, l believe, is in
thinking that everything he writes
must be up to its neck in philosophical
import. He really wouldn't be losing
his standing as one of the drama
thinkers if he confined himself to
simplicity and directness when those
were the qualities best suited to his
story. It would be fine idea if he
realized that romantic fantasies were
far more effective when too many
problems OF relatively didn't get in
their way.
OF COURSE, the problem of time
and its meaning seems to be in
escapably fascinating to playwrights
If they have the slightest concern
Evening star., 1937-10-10

OF COURSE, the problem Of time
and its meaning seems to be in
escapably fascinating to playwrights
if they have the slightest concern
for philosophical fancies. At least two
Evening star., 1937-10-10

2 COWLES STRICKLAND the man
from up In the Ethan Frome coun-
try who is whipping the Civic Thea
ter's first production into shape for
Evening star., 1937-10-10
New Play by Anderson
Below His Standard
"The Star Wagon" Loses Nostalgia
Under Theorizing Over
Meaning of Time.
By Richard Watts, Jy.

EsPlE the fact that received critical notices Of the sort known
mixed" Maxwell
Wagon safely installed S
In the
oopuace that
Evening star., 1937-04-24

gang Of similar urchins, whose MAIN
tenance came from stealing and whose
pleasure was coarsely to affront the
unfortunate residents of the vicinity.
When the urge came to try hand
at the sport, an apparently inborn urge
IN all Spanish youth, Belmonte
promptly felt that he was cattle-kill-
er with message" as the saying has
1t. With this conviction he forgot vir-
tually all his previous interests in his
zeal to test his skill and practice on
any COW, bull or calf available
In time, despite a fragile physique,
which created some doubt as to his
ability, he arrived He brushed with
some Of the right" people, who, realiz-
ing q likely investment, promptly adj
vertised him loudly as a revolutionizer
OF the art. And he actually did make
over the art by his new and daring
tactics Of handling the bulls. The
sensation he created is seen in the
records Of his appearances all over
the country, day after day without
respite. A scorner Of vacations and
rests, he made most of his appear
ances while he was i'll enough or dis
abled enough (by virtue Of numerous
gorings) to warrant bed with doctors
care" Ample compensation was Of
fered in the wild acclaim habitually
awarded him as we'll as an opportunity
to travel-so he felt.
Truly an idol, he now rests in re-
tirement and wakes sad over the de-
cline Of that which he firmly believes
an art comparable to music and paint
ing.
The authE surprises with his can
did trsakms&1 Of tos vioorous, yshald