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Evening star., 1937-07-03
PERMITS DOUBLE
PREVIOUS WEEK
D. c. to Build Four Houses
at Glenn Da|e-Ware-
house to Cost 100000.

Swinging up sharply in comparison
with figures for the previous two
weeks, permits for new building, re-
pairs and other types of construction
in the Capital issued during the past
week totaled s757,979, according to
report by Building Inspector John
W. Oehmann. This practically
doubled the total for the week ending
June 26.
OF particular interest was permit
issued to the District of Columbia for
construction of four 2-story brick,
cement. tile and frame dwellings at
the District Of Columbia tuberculosis
Sanitarium. Glenn Dale. Md, at a
cost of $4,000 The buildings, which
will house staff physicians. will be
constructed by J. Calvin Owens Of
Bethesda, Md.
The Metropolitan Warehouse Co.,
so Florida avenue northeast, was
granted a permit to erect three STORY
tile, brick and concrete warehouse at
230l Lawrence street northeast at
cost of 100000.
National Insured Homes Corp. OBJ
tained permit to construct eighteen
2-story brick and concrete dwellings
at 30l-335 Thirty-fourth street north
east. They will cost $4,000 and will
be designed by George T. Santmyers.
Other important permits issued fol-
low:
Nathan Reiskin, 81 Florida avenue,
owner and builder; George T. SAINT
myers, architect; to erect five 2-story
brick and cinder block dwellings, 434
to 446 Mellon street southeast; to cost
$4,000.
National Insured Homes Corp,
Washington Building, owner and
builder; George T. Santmyers, archi-
tect; to erect twelve 2-story brick and
concrete dwellings, 401-423 Thirty
fourth street northeast; to cost $50, 900.
R. w. Mathis, owner and builder;
George T. Santmyers, architect; to
erect three 2-story brick and cinder
block apartments, 4033, 4O37 and 404l
Seventh street northeast; to cost $780,
900.
James Stephanson. Twenty-third
street and Pennsylvania avenue south
east, owner; Mccormick Co., archi-
tect; Essex Construction Co., s05
Chandler Building, builder; to erect
(See PERMITS, Page C-4D
Evening star., 1937-07-03
SILVER SPRING BANK
WILL BE ENLARGED
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SILVER SPRINGS. Md. July g.
Remodeling and enlarging OF the Sill
yer Spring National Bank will be
started about the middle of this
month, according to an announce
ment yesterday by bank officials.
The contract for the work was let
this week to the Tilghman Meyer Co.
Of Allentown, Pa, firm Of architects
and engineers who specialize in the
design and construction of ONCE build
ings. 1t is planned to finish the
project by November Is.
The present building will be ex-
tended Is feet in the front and the
same distance in the rear, with an
extension of about 3 feet on the south
side. The outside Of the front OF
the building will be finished In In
diana limestone with bronze doors
and trimmings.
The entrance will be on the street
level, with steps leading to CEN
tral lobby, which will have a ter
Evening star., 1937-07-03

others. Prominent In this group
are the delphinium, sweet William
perennial dianthus and pyrethrum
If second bloom from these peren.
mails is desired, gardeners are ad-
vised to cut off the flower stalk
shortly after the bloom has passed
its prime. Should 1t be desired Il
use the flower of the perennial a!
house decoration, it should be Gu
OF when in its prime.
Another question is. how to pluck
The great majority Of flowers shoule
Evening star., 1937-07-03

razo floor. Six teller's wickets will
be on either side and the bookkeep-
ing Offices and the board room will
occupy the rear Of the structure
Three additional Offices will be built
on the second floor.
Ofacers of the bank said that more
than 1900 new accounts have been
opened at the bank during the past
lS months, making more space i'm
perative.
Evening star., 1937-07-03

be cut with scissors or knife. With
viola, pansy and nasturtium, it is
best to trace the flower stem to its
base, and break it there. The sweet
pea can literally be plucked by pull
ing the flower stem upward and back
ward from the axil from which it
springs, at the same time holding firm
the portions of the vine nearby.
Evening star., 1937-07-03
APARTMENT BOUGHT

The new Zebulon Apartment House
at 6420 Fourteenth street, has just
heen purchased by local investor fol
s125,OOo, it WAS announced by the j
A. McKeever Co., who sold the prop
erty for Harry H. Brodie.
The building, completed less than 8
year ago, has three stories and q
apartments.
Evening star., 1937-07-03
California Scene on Wall,

A breakfast nook in a recently ex-
hibited model home has walls painted
with typical California scenes-moun-
tains in the background and eucalyptus
trees in the foreground. The colors
used were gray-green and a very pale
buff.
Evening star., 1937-12-21

children's chorus was made up Of the
st. Cecilia Choir Of st. Abans.
Evelyn Davis was Herodias, her
dance before Herod being one Of the
high points Of the performance. The
parts Of the slave girls were taken
by Lois Bowen and Betty Hill Ward
well. The chorus which was heard
In the first part Of the program in
. Fantasia on Christmas Carols" by
r. Vaughan Williams, with Mr.. Steffe
as soloist, was a large one, singing
with splendid precision and tonal
quality. Between the two vocal parts
OF the program the orchestra played
the Dream Pantomime" from "Haen-
sci und Greter' excellently.
Mr.. Ross deserves great credit for
his fine direction, which carried the
performance along with smoothness,
and for the work of the chorus,
which shows the effect of his train
ing as conductor of the National
Choral Union. The staging was SIM
pie and the costumes colorful, the
latter, together with the lighting,
being the work Of Lita Graham of New
York.
The National Theater was filled
with distinguished audience, which
several times interrupted the con-
tinuity of the performance with en-
thusiastic applause. The National
Choral Union has made musical his
tory in Washington with its presenta-
ton Of last evening.
Evening star., 1937-12-21

the slightly fetched" characters in
you Can't Take It With You"
Columbia has not yet begun to cast
the picture, for which it already has
spent some $350,000 for story and
director. But with such a story and
Capra to WELD the megaphone it
probably is justified in feeling that
1t has no cause for worry.
X X X
A LOT of sleeping memories should
be awakened in the Capitol The
ater next week. That's because
John Steele, ziegfelds tenor discov-
cry of almost two decades ago, will
be heading the stage show. Mr.
Steele. who recently demonstrated
mere that he still has a great deal
OF voice, will sing not merely some of
the newer melodies but great many
OF the older ones that made him
famous i. But, by way of wiping
away any tears that Steele's songs
may bring to your eyes, Carter Bar
ron and Charles Kurtzman have Just
booked an extra added attraction in
the form of Dewey Barton and George
Mann. -. Mr.. Barton and his part
ner are billed as "the kings Of laugh
ter Speaking of laughter, it
Is too bad Mary Dees' act is not
written to permit her to laugh for
audiences. . 1t is one of the most
pleasantly Infectious things you've
ever heard Misc nonc
Is at the Earle in dramatic skit with
Monte Blue, is the glamorous blond
who took Jean Harlow's place in
saratoga" And did such
good job OF it that she is now on her
way to fame not only in her own
name but on her own beauty.
y X X
THERE being two sides to every
question, Gladys George comes
smack out with the statement that
it Is men movie customers who make
stars. ). Not women, as you've al
ways heard Even if the M-G-M
publicity department inspired the
statement. Miss George lays down a
subject on which you can argue
throughout an evening. A cor
respondent whose initials are T. w.
and who lives on Reno road is going
to put up with no more women who
wear their hats in movie theaters.
He will teach them by leaving
on his own hat. He figures, his
letter says, that men have as much
right to wear their headgear under
the circumstances as any other sex.
Myrna 10y. who led the grown
up girls in the latest movie poll by
Box Office, even though she ranked
10th in the poll by Motion Picture
Herald, already is being referred to
by Ray Bell as Queen Myrna." :.
The Grecianly beautiful blond who
sang with Sonny Kendis' Orchestra
on the spur of the moment Satur-
day highland got such a large hand
for it's Lillian Keller. pupil Of Roma
Swarthout. Remember you heard
her, for the story goes that in three
or four years you will be glad to say
OF her, ''Why, remember when"
Sonny already is practicing how
to say 1t,
Evening star., 1937-12-21

into the major part Of, the drama.
Another effective bit was the intro
duction Of simple dance by q group
Of children and there were many
other small points, simple in them
selves but deeply significant in the
way in which the story was unraveled
The music is thoroughly descriptive
and fluently written.
X X Il
The cast was a large one, with the
three most important parts. that OF
the Virgin Mary, Joseph and the An
gel Gabriel, sung by Dorothy Seegar
Edwin Steffe and Ina Holtzscheiter
Miss Seegar, who also had charge OF
the stage direction, gave highly de-
votional portrayal of the Virgin, play
ing the part with rapt exaltation
and singing it with purity and beauty
of tone. Mr.. Steffe's splendid voice
gave character to the role of Joseph,
while his action was dignifled and
reverent. A particularly lovely note
was the singing of Miss Holtzscheiter
as Gabriel
Others in the cast, all of whom
gave noteworthy performances, were
George Myers as Herod; Philip Bax-
ter, Harcourt Sontag and Byron Ros-
bon as the shepherds; Harlan Ran
dali, John Hall and w. Edwards DEM
ing as the three kings: Pauline Hol-
comb as the believer and George
Anderson as the unbeliever and Ed
gar Kidwell as the herald. The roles
Of two angels were sung by Elizabeth
Everett and Elsa Radle, while the
Tuesday Evening Music Club formed a
chorus of angels singing the Gloria
in Excelsis" with lovely effect. The
Evening star., 1937-12-21

CnurcneS ana group OF dancers
from the Evelyn Davis Studios COM
prised the cast while an orchestra
of symphony players accompanied the
singers.
The entire production was highly
artistic, beautifully sung and acted.
In the nature of the old Nativity
plays, the reverent spirit was not
once lost throughout the three scenes
and the finished manner in which the
principals acted out their roles was
revelation OF the superior quality
and the abundance OF talent among
the local musicians. It was as fine
a presentation as has ever been given
here. interesting and entertaining and
with no amateurish touch to mar the
loveliness Of the story and the music.
Mr.. Boughton is an Englishman
with vision and a particular affinity
for the choral music drama, of which
several dealing with the period of
King Arthur and the Round Table
have been produced. To carry out
his ideas. he organized a company,
partly professional and partly anna
teur, which worked together in the
fulfillment Of an artistic ideal. They
were known as the Glastonbury Fes-
tival Players, under the direction of
Mr.. Boughton. So successful were
the performances, which included his
opera, "The Immortal Hour; his
choral music-dramas, THE Birth of
Arthur" and Bethlehem" that he
took his company to London, where
his fame as composer became es-
tablished
Bethlehem" an adaptation of the
medieval Coventry play, was first
performed in London at Christmas,
1928. The work is real inspiration
particularly in the manner in which
he has emphasized the simplicity and
the tender nature of the story. He
has brought it home to the present
day by the interjection of several
sacred and secular carols touchingly
fitting in the way he has woven them
Evening star., 1937-12-21
| Where and When
ICurrent Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing.

Palace-"Nothing Sacred" Lombard
and March say it with fists in this
one: 1885 am, l:35, $40, $40, 7:45
and $50 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Merry-Go-
Round" another musical screen va
riety show: 11:24, 1:29, 3:34, 5:3e
7:44 and $40 pm.
Capitol-"52nd Street." a once dig
nified street becomes the main STEM
OF swing: II am, 1:45, 4:34, 7:2O
and 1908 pm. Stage shows: 1885,
S:l5, 6:15 and $3.50 pm.
Earle-"The Barrier" filmization OF
the Rex Beach novel: II am, 1880
4:25, 7:15 and 10 pm. Stage shows
12:45, 3:35, $50 and s:15 pm.
Observation-Disclosures Witnesses ~
breaking up the protection" racket:
11:4o am, las, 3:45, $50, 7:5o and
$50 pm.
Columbia-"Doubie Wedding" Low
steals Powell to save" her sister !.
11:45 am, las. 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and
GAS pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Show
runs ! hour and Is minutes, continu-
ously from 10 am. to midnight.
Little-"The Crusades," revival of
the stirring De Mile film: II a.m, 1875,
4:15, $50 and $50 pm. 1.-The River:
!, 3:35, 6:15 and 1855 pm.
Ambassador-"The Barrier: 6:15,
7:55 and 9:45 pm.
Sheridan-"Ah Baba Goes to Town. /"
bringing the new deal to Bagdad:
1928. 4:10, 6, 7:45 and 9:35 pm.
Penn-"Conquest," Garbo and Boyer
in Napoleon's love story: 2:25, 4:4o, :
and 800 pm.
Tivoli &c Conquest; 2:25, 4:45
7:05 and $50 pm.
Uptown-"Conquest":: 2:25. 4:45
7:o5 and 9:25 pm.
Howard-'Trapped by G-Men," Mr.
Hoover's men go to town again: 1890
4. 7:05 and 1910 pm. Stage shows
1880. $50 and 9:05 pm.
Evening star., 1937-12-21

for long time" she finally managed
to say. It's nice to know that film
stars are fans of film stars Mrs
Temple tells intimates that she was
determined her Shirley should be a
film actress before she had finished
growing her first curl Prince"
Mike Romanoff was rushing so fast
to Warmers for his bit in Food for
Scandal he was stopped by the police
three times and handed that Irritating
slip of paper for speeding Janet
Beecher says: Hollywood is the final
test of the soul. You find heaven or
hell"
Irwin Cobb tells this story Shortly
after the war he found Charlie Chap
lin sitting disconsolately in the lounge
Of the Ritz Hotel in New York. Char
lie had just arrived from Hollywood
and told Cobb he did not know a soul
in the big city and was so lonely he
could cry. For heavens sake, find
some one-any one-to have dinner
with me-" he begged. He was famous
and could have dined with any person
ne named-but just didn't know it.
tCopyright. 1887. BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1937-12-21

incidentally, hillside homes in Holly
wood cost nearly as much to reinforce
against possible mountain slides as to
build. Ginger's home cost approxi-
mately $1,000 of which $50 900 went
into protective wall.
Lew Ayres and Phil Ormsby are part
owners Of the new Palm Springs Ten
mis- Club, intended to force out of
business the club formerly owned by
Ralph Bellamy and Charles Farrell
We understand that Bellamy has sold
out his interest to Farrell. Since
Ralph's success in THE Owful Truth" 3"
he has been flooded with picture offers
and he will now devote all his time
to f1lm making i. Joan Blondell has
bought her Christmas present for Dick
Powell-a leather bound book con-
tanning photographs from all his pic
lures . In that last Charlie Chan
picture, one Of the leading actors
suffered from loss of application and
one sequence was shot IS times.
(Now We know why pictures cost so
much)
Deanna Durbin was so thrilled when
she met Herbert Marshall-her lead
ing man in Mad About Music"-she
could not 60 into her scene. please,
Mr.. Marshall, may I just look at you
Evening star., 1937-12-21
Four More Added
To "Antoinette."

-FOUR more players were added tc
the cast of Norma Shearer's next
M-G-M starring picture, Marie An.
toinette," when Joseph Calleia, Regi.
maid Gardiner, Shepperd Strudwick
ana Henry Stephenson joined the
supporting cast which already in.
cluded Melvyn Douglas, Maureer
OSullivan and Robert Morley.
Calleia will play Drouet, historic
villain; Gardiner is cast as the foppist
Prince Artois, Stephenson is assigned
the Count Mercy role and Strudwick
recently brought to Hollywood from
Broadway, will play the heroic Toulau
part.
Evening star., 1937-12-21

Marion Davies has not had baby
in any of her fllms-practically a
record in Hollywood . . Sight OF
the week: Marlene Dietrich publicly
kissing Jon Hall "for your great per-
Torrance in Hurricane 1t is
not all beer and skittles being a
movie star at Christmas time. Here
are just a few of the people who
figure on the must" present lists:
Hairdressers,> cameramen, studio
police, prop men, grips, electricians,
gatemen and publicity boys . "a. A
canny gentleman who owns a foot OF
land between the old and new Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer studios is demanding
$4,000 for his property :. Did you
know that "Disraeli'' very nearly was
not made into picture because a
studio executive said, "It's abou two
men arguing over a ditch?
X X X
Ginger Rogers received all the mir
rors in her new house as present for
posing against them commercially.
Evening star., 1937-12-21

january Is, the occasion being the
local showing of his 1887 work, "The
Buccaneer."
In De Miles honor, so the still un-
confirmed story goes, Washington will
have a typical Hollywood preview of
the picture. A typical Hollywood pre-
view in this case will include lots of
searchlights, radio hook-ups and
personal appearances by the lion of
the occasion, Akin Tamiroff (villain)
Margot Grahame, Evelyn Keyes, and
maybe some other members of the
cast.
Frederic Marsh, the buccaneer him
self, will not be among those present.
He is busy at the moment in a stage
play in which he and Mrs. March,
Florence Eldridge, are headed for
Broadway. And Franciska Gaal, the
lovely heroine, will be busy in Holly
wood on another picture. worse luck!
X X * x
SOMEWHERE out in the desert near
Palm Springs, Calf, where writer's,
musicians and other creative persons
keep tryst with their respective
muses., Robert Riskin is working to-
day on the script of what will be
Frank Capras next picture. "You
Can't Take 1t With You" is the chore
on which Mr.. Riskin is busy, and
before he finishes it is this corners
guess that he will have to stick a lot
closer to the George Kaufman-Moss
Hart script than was the case in the
adaptation of Stage Door" for screen
purposes. In the latter Kaufman and
his collaboration missed rather widely
on the matter of writing Hollywood S
adapters into corner from which
tnere was no escape. They not only
escaped, but they came back with
something better than the stage YER
sion. They dug deeper with their
story than Kaufman and Edna Ferber
did with the parent stage Door"
It is difficult to see how Riskin
can achieve similar success even
If that dream has been inspired in
the hearts of Columbia pictures. He
Is working on play that is full of
mad people doing mad things, a
comedy that delights the heart. one
composed in the best Hollywood ira
dltion OF pleasant insanity, and one
which requires no elisions to keep it
from stinging those who make pic
lures. The original of Stage Door"
was not so happily created. for, if
you will remember, the Kaufman
Ferber team was pretty furious about
HollyWoods raiding the stage of it's
players and writer's and could not
keep from showing it in their COM
position.
The fact that Mr.. Capra has made
his peace with Columbia and will
direct the screen version of the Pu-
liter prize-winning play OF last year
Is something that will be hailed
rather widely with what amounts to
downright glee. The dana is one
That can do very well with the
Capra touch, the Capra touch beina
one favored with sufficient subtlety
to conform to the requirements of
Evening star., 1937-12-21
Tracy Signs Anew.

CPENCER TRACY has signed a new
starring contract with Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer and moved into a
star dressing room at the studio.
Tracy, now starring with Clark Ga
BILE and Myrna 10y in TEST Pilot" :"
will next co-star with Robert Taylor
in Northwest Passage"
Evening star., 1937-12-21
New Italian Film.

SAGNORA FORTUNA" Italian
motion picture praised by Nino
Martini and ELISA Landi at its present
premiere in New York, will be shown
twice at the Rialto Theater next Sun
Gay night. Complete shows, including
several short subjects, will be screened
at and 9:05 o'clock.
The film is product of the new
Clne-Citta. or Italian Hollywood, in
Rome, and features Rosina Anselmi
and Antonio Gandusio, two of the
comedy stars of the italian theater.
Evening star., 1937-12-21

on the head while
ice skating for
Twentieth Gen.
tury-FoX netted
the studio $25, 900
from the insur-
ers THE proof
of being a good
scenario writer"
says Gene Towne,
sis when you can
re a d - upside
dOWn-the men,
oranda on a pro-
ducer's desk, and
at the same time
tell him a story"
Evening star., 1937-12-21
Maureen O'Sullivan
With Stewart.

MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN and James
Stewart have been cast in the
romantic leads in "Madelon" at the
M-G-M studios. Miss O'Sullivan has
just returned from England, where she
appeared opposite Robert Taylor in
"A Yank at Oxford"
Evening star., 1937-12-21
in Golden West" +"

FRITZ LE1BER, famed stage star.
has Joined the cast of M-G-M's
"Tha Girl Of the Golden West" to
play Father Sienna in support of
Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy.
Evening star., 1937-12-21
Choral Drama, Bethlehem,
Artistically Presented
Music, Acting and Dances
Combine to Make American
Premiere Outstanding.
BY ALICE EvERSMAN.

OF the most beautiful presentations Of the Christmas
produced at the National Thear
premiere OF Rutland Boughons
given The performance the Christmas
The of
solo choses from various
Evening star., 1937-12-21
Anita Louise Hopeful
For English Career
Plans to Sail for London
In April-Studio Collects
On Sonja's Accident.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oLLYWooD Dec 2l IN Louise to Ensan April
- make picture there
banks and Charlie owning
picture
have
Evening star., 1937-12-21
De Mile May Come Here
With Latest Picture
That's Hollywood's Story at Any Rate.
Columbia Starts Initial Work
On Pulitzer Prize PLAY.
BY JAY CARMODY.

$4,000 o personal appeances as this department was Sunday
at least mildly mad Hero the
IN pictures whose in
ONCE Cecil B. De Mile Although
Paramount
Evening star., 1937-12-21

Twizzler Answer.
It took the floorwalker nine strides
to get to the top of the stairs.
Evening star., 1937-12-21

the only star in Hollywood to attain
and keep her box Office status with
"B' pictures Sonia Henie's bang
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-22
LENGTHY SESSION
BEFORE RECORDER
Various Charges, Including
Drunken Driving, Heard
in County Court

A lengthy session was disposed of
at today's session of county court
with Recorder r. E. Clements presid-
ing.
Willie Brockton, Negro, was charg-
ed with possessing illegal whisky for
the purpose of sale. The State took
a mol pros with leave.
Howard Newton went to the roads
for 80 days for being drunk.
Elma BOwles, 19-year old woman
went to Jail for 80 days for being
drunk
Elton Bragg, drew a 3O-day sentence
on the roads for being drunk.
Robert Haley was convicted of driv-
ing an automobile intoxicated and
with driving reckless. He was sent to
the roads for six months, and his Ii
cense to drive was revoked for one
year.
Bryant Abbott was convicted of be
ing drunk and assaulting his wife
Sentence was reserved until March
%, and Abbott is under 5000 for his
appearance on that date.
George Hedgepeth was given so
days on the roads for obtaining goods
under false pretense, commitment not
to issue upon payment of the costs
and reimbursing C. N. Tucker.
Sam Sneed, Negro was not guilty
of stealing corn.
Calvin Sneed and Coleman Sneed,
Negroes, went to the roads for 80 DAYS
each when convicted of stealing corn.