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Gielgud. however. is not one to shirk
his duty as he sees it. Back in the
1929-1930 season he played the full,
uncut version of Hamlet" for
awhile at the Old Vic in London
That is where the audience, too, shows
its endurance. Think what a catas-
trophe it would be If Gielgud ever
forgot himself and went through the
complete version in New York. 1t
runs something like five hours:
Strange Interlude" is a curtain raiser
by comparison.
John Barrymore. OF course. didn't
do so badly when he did Hamlet" in
1929. He performed the role 10l
times, to 60 one over Edwin Booth S
mark.
WHAT with all the people who have
tried to get in to see the Folies
Parisienne revue and After the Thin
Man" at the Capitol and failed, the
show is on an earlier schedule for the
remainder Of the week. Doors open
at GAS and the first showing Of the
fllm Is at 10 am.
+ 4
MAIL orders for the premiere next
AA Monday night Of Franz Lehar's
new operetta. "Frederika," are pop
ping in in droves and the poor people
up at the National Theater box Office
are hopping about like mad things
trying to get every one the proper seat.
The new musical piece by the COM
poser of THE Merry Widow" has
Denis King. Helen Gleason and Ernest
Truck in the leading roles. Because
Of the domination in this country
of the saxophone and jazz, according
to the producers, it has been five
years getting here from Europe, where
it has been being presented success,
fully for the last half decade.
Former Local Actor Isham Keith.
according to fairly reliable grapevine
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Louis Hayward
Is the most per-
sistent visitor on
c o ! u m b ! a s
weather or No"
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terest. Ida Lupino, is working there
Chico Marx was telling some
friends that Gregory Ratof1 is COM
pletely crazy-because "he sits by the
radio all day waiting to conduct Jas
cha Heifetz's concerts" Ronald
Colman in Palm Springs, recuperating
from the relief of finally completing
his role in Lost Horizon"
Capt. Darcy Rutherford, who came
10 Hollywood to look after his young
would be- -film-actor friend, the Earl
of Warwick. probably will appear on
the screen before the latter. He has
made a 14-hour test for M-G-M-
price to the studio, s3,000-and has
been offered part in Eddie Could
ing's next flicker, THAT Certain Wom-
an" Rutherford has an excellent
speaking voice and outwardly resen1-
bles William Powell-only he Is much
better looking.
my new picture is called The
Woman Between" said Anton Litvak
to the lady he loves-Miriam Hopkins.
1T sounds like d sandwich" said
Miriam Garbo's old suite at
M-G-M has been transformed into
three dressing rooms for small-part-
ers Anna May Wong received long
distance New Year greetings from the
son of the Vice President of the
Philippine Islands The newest
screen stand-ins are stuffed black
cat for sequences in Seventh Heaven"
and a life-sized plaster race horse
model for the Marx brothers "A
bay at the Races" Jack Oakie
describes butterflies as enlarged
moths done in technicolor"
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year ago Barbara Stanwyck was on
her way out of Hollywood. Then came
her loudly ballyhooed romance with
Robert Taylor. Producers took an
other look at her, scratched their
heads, said. What has she got that
we overlooked" They gave her an
other chance. This time Barbara
struck it lucky, and today she is sit
ting pretty, at the top of her profess
sion. David Niven Is another to prove
the truth of the old adage, "if you
must fall in love. make it well-known
screen star" His association with
Merle Oberon boosted his screen value
to the point where Goldwyn gave him
contract and chance to show he
could set as well as make love. Now
that Miss Oberon has transferred her
affections to Brian Aherne, it will be
interesting to see what happens to
Niven's career.
Mary Astor and Daughter Marylyn
were prominent spectators at the
Pasadena New Year day parade (.
According to Richard Dix, 60 rela-
tives are visiting his Topango Canyon
ranch The recent severe storm
broke several windows in the Palos
Verdes home of Producer Merriam
Cooper and wife, Dorothy Jordan {.
Director woody" Van Dyke had the
misfortune to awaken the other morn
ing at o'clock and was surprised to
see the street lamps still illuminated.
you've no right to be burning at
this hour" he said sternly, and blew
with all the power of his lungs. They
were Immediately eXtinguished. This
is the sort of thing that happens once
in mans lifetime.
{Copyright. 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
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about them at the end of the second
act, and again in the third, where
they sit bereft in the ruins of their
dream, they play with sureness that
has the appeal of rare thing.
1t is no easy theme to handle. but
Miss Revere and Miss Emery keep 1t
always on the artistic side.
THE lesser parts are equally well
handled. Blaine Cordner is ex-
cellent as the young physician. fiance
of the more feminine Of the school
mistresses. Aline McDermott is the
same in a role that makes her an
ex-ham actress, whose affectation stops
short only OF her wrinkles and what
remains of her figure. She is the
aunt of Miss Dobie and, next to the
horrible little liar, the least appeal
ing character Miss Hellman created
for THE Children'S, Hour"
Edmonia Motley and Katherine
Emmet, the latter the elderly woman
who is responsible for spreading the
evil allegation, are two others who
are vital cogs in the smooth-running
machine which produces such a fine
evening of. detection over the ways
of the human race. Margaret Eng
lish is another who could not be left
unmentioned.
4 u
THERE is no laughter to bring mo-
mentary release to the audience
in this play which Miss Hellman
fashioned out of theme which gets
rare mention in so-called polite So
ciety. 1t is impossible to think that
anything could be more out of place
than laughter. Whatever mirth 1t
evokes is grim and harsh, and even
that type is infrequent.
Other emotions have the call this
week at the National. Between the
rise and fall of the curtain on The
Children's Hour" they will be strained
pretty heavily. If, however, last
nights audience is a criterion, a great
many Washingtonians are looking for
that kind of evening in the theater.
OF this kind there are few more pow
erful.
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between them, attending the preyiew
Of 1.-THE Green Light" together. Are
the gentlemen of Hollywood short
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BABIES. AND ANIMALS
TOPS IN Temperament
npee,sr p,spstch TO The Star.

Special pispatch TO The Star.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, january s.
Hollywood's champions Of tempera.
ment are not the Carlos, Hepburns.
tederers and Simones.
Instead, the blue ribbon goes to the
babies and animals used IN motion
pictures.
There Is no tougher directorial Is
signment than that Of placating an
angry infant or inducing q stubborn
animal. And, OF the two, baby boys
and girls are even more tempera-
mental than full-grown leopards.
Louis King, who in the course OF
his directing job for over 40 films has
come face to face with virtually every
type Of temperament there is, shudders
when the script he reads calls for .
child less than q year old, or for any
animal. He knows.
Kings latest bout with tempera-
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CONCLUSION Oh ldSL LlSIlI OpcIllllS pei :
formance here. They merited it. There
will be no laughter in the National
this week, but there will be plenty of
well-deserved applause.
'"T11e Children's Hour" is frank
drama; and deadly serious. 1t is.con-
cerned with the terrible force of a
malicious lie turned loose within the
walls Of girls school to create living
death for group OF innocent persons.
The lie is built around the morals of
the two young women who have
brought the school to the door of sue
cess only to see that door closed in
their faces by the ghastly falsehoods
of student who is the repository OF
all that is mean, ugly and evil. About
children. as this much Of the story
should indicate, the play distinctly is
not for them. If you are not familiar
with it, don't be confused by the title.
THE perfect illustration Of the quail
= ity of the acting in "The Chill
dren's Hour" is that provided by
Florence MCGEE. AS Mary Tilford,
author of the lie, she is called upon
to be reptilian in every move she
makes In the action of the play. Is
is difficult to conceive of more
thoroughly vile child-or adult, for
that matter-yet so artistically does
Miss MCGEE do her awful work that
her performance wins its share OF the
generous applause. To be so good at
anything so terrible is quite an accom-
plishment for any actress.
The other two major characterize
tions are those entrusted to Ann
Revere, as Martha Dobie, and Kath-
crime Emery, as Karen Wright.
Theirs are the roles of the young
women who start the private school,
build 1t up to point where it en-
rolls the Tilford brat, and then see the
institution and themselves wrecked
by her malicious, vengeful lies. 1t is
q heavy, emotional burden which Lii
lian Hellman has laid upon these two
young actresses, recruited from col
lege drama groups, but their talents
are strong enough to carry it. When
they come face to face with the first
explosive effect of the false story
Evening star., 1937-01-05
Marital Shoals in Path
Of Bruce Cabot and Wife
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

ToLLYWooD January NANA)-Buce Cabot and wife Adenne
quarrelng another marital break
upthis time finals shortly Caudette Colbert
finishing Maid
style
in mi with
John Ford thrilled with the prospect Of directing Shirley Temple
Willie Wke" than when he made The nmer Janet aynor
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Sweet are the uses Of publicity. 4
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"Children's Hour" Potent
If Unpleasant in Theme
Drama at National Has Rare Frankness
But Performance Gives It's Ugly
Story Odd Appeal
BY Jay CARMODY.

you know Chldrens Hour at the Ma
" play must have something 10 survive TOR %
weeks on Broadway after have seen that this one
has everything except story Chldrens Hour
beauty peculiarly its
something fascinating men,
amounted ovation upon the
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sympathetic and understand
ing" 1t was such a picturesque
pose! His heart was lin the
grave"-and that was an in
centive for every woman to
snatch a spade and begin dig.
ging around for it.
Nowadays, when love dies, no.
body botherS to come to the
funeral-not even the corpse!
It's usually just a simple case Of
malnutrition, anyhow, so an
autopsy is quite unnecessary.
Consequently, there's no grave
yard where a broken-hearted
lover can go to weep amidst the
myrtle. All the old memories
are gone with the wind" the
letters, keepSakeS and memen-
toes have reached the "who-the-
dickens7sent-me-t that" stage,
and the old engagement rings
have been reset and are as good
as new-Sometimes, even better!
Somehow, it would be so much
more artistic and lin character"
If these modern ex-lovers would
not look so cheerful when their
love dies. At least. they might
wait until the curtain was rung
down before they switched out
the lights and rushed for the
exit.
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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appointments he just laughed
and laughed.
A few didn't exactly like that
kind of laughing but they ad-
mitted that just because he
laughed and laughed their Chief
Executive picked up quite a few
votes on his court plan.
But the House members who
are against the court plan, de-
spite the fact he laughs and
laughs, have received this as
surance from Senate opponents:
THERE WILL NOT BE A
VOTE ON THE COURT PLAN
AT THIS SESSION IF THEY
HAVE TO FILIBUSTER UNTIL
DOOMSDAY.
These opponents admit, pri-
vately, that they can be beaten
on a compromise. So, they are
meeting in secret on strategy
and have arranged for a scien-
tific filibuster that will carry
them in session until January.
***
AND SPEAKING OF THE
PRESIDENTS popularity, one
member of Congress tells this
story of friend of his:
The friend who travels for a
business house was driving along
a road when he saw gathering
of workers. He thought they
were C. I. o. members and he
stopped to see Just what it was
all about.
A man was haranguing the
crowd and he said that when he
put a motion to them he wanted
every man to vote aye" He
put the motion. Everyone raised
his hand and shouted aye"
That is, everyone but the Con-
gressmen's friend.
A big, burly fellow standing
beside him turned around and
Snarled:
"Why you no vote aye?"
The man said he was just a.
spectator.
"That don't make no differ
ence. The man said vote aye
Why you no vote 'aye'?"
The visitor hoped to mollify
this belligerent individual so he
asked him what the motion
was. And here was the reply:
81 don't know. That man
that owns the plant rides
around in an automobile. /
don't. President Roosevelt, hes
agOin to make it all the same
SO / can ride in an automobile
toe. That man hes a from the
President. He say vote aye.
Now you vote aye"
The spectator took another
quick look at the brawny
whip and he too voted "aye."
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There are certain vistas, Ger
tain scenes and certain spots in
Paris that always call one back.
Especially is this true of old
Paris, the Paris of history and
romance. Thus, while we enjoy
visiting Notre Dame, we enjoy
even more a visit to the lovely
Church of St. Etienne de Mont.
One of the viStas found in
Paris. is that from the terrace of
Sacre Occur, the great white
church that crowns Montmartre.
To look down on the city. below
at night is a most satisfying
experience. There is romance
and interest everywhere in the
old winding streets of the Mont
martre section.
One of the greatest joys is
to stroll through the streets of
Paris, especially after one has
discovered some special neigh
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almost panicked the audience
came when he was being pinned
down on the type of clubs held
by the police. He finally ex-
planned:
Pm just trying to stick up
for the police department. My
father was a policeman. 1 am
a policeman and l married a
pOliceman'S wife"
Many of the spectators caught
this discrepancy but missed his
correction to "a policeman'S
daughter" later in the hearing.
THE EXPECTED REACTION
to President Roosevelt's little
"at home" on jefferson Island
has now set in on Capitol Hill.
Considering the recent devel-
opments in his press confer
enceS, some members are be-
ginning to think they were
given the razz just like a few
of the newSmen.
One of them said that when
a group of rs or 80 members
tried to pin the President down
on a question Of postmaster
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Dear Elsie Robinson:
INSTEAD of Fostering en-
plOyerS for jobs, why shouldn't
young people start in business
for themselves, using whatever
talents and education they pos
sess. Make, produce, or sell on
their own, be it ShOestrings,
homemade pies, or what not. We
all have at hand the materials
for making a start. This may
call for putting our pride in the
background and getting along
with less until the ball starts
rolling; but once it starts roll
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wants to forget 1t.
But, when a woman is call
ing it a day." she likes to do
it leisurely and gracefully. She
doesn't want to be rushed
through anything-even a fight!
She wants the parting" and
the return of the ring to have
all the dramatic and emotional
touches that she thinks her feel
ings are entitled to at this last,
sad moment. After that, she
lays the dead episode tenderly
away in the roSemary-and-rue of
her memory, to be exhumed and
dreamed over, every now and
then-even after she's happily
married to someone else.
In the sweet, old sentimental
days, when men made effec-
tive gestures like saving the
flower a girl had worn and
pressing it in a volume of Keats,
and keeping locks Of hair or
photographs in the backs of
their warehouses;, everything
was glamorouS and different.
At least, men had a different
technique.
Many a confirmed and thor.
oughly hard-boiled bachelor went
through life posing as the vic
tim of a broken heart-and
got away with it. 1t made all
the other women so kind and
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borhood of interest. For ex-
ample, between the river and
the Boulevard st. German,
then up to the Luxembourg and
over to the Boule Niche. and
the streets and squares around
tat great center of learning,
the Sorbonne, and the Pan
theon. Thus, one strollS and re-
lives stirring history and ro-
nance. OF great interest, too,
is the palace of Richelieu, the
Palais Royal, with its quiet
courtyard, its colonnaded square
of shops, its memories of royalty
and magnificence, and OF the
stirring days prior to the revo-
luton.
1t is amazing to find so many
visitors to Paris who have never
visited the lie de la Cite. the
Lutetia of the Romans.
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velopment on this continent of
a Classics society.
tx
FOR $50 YEARS the United
States spontaneously rejected all
class division because it adhered
as no other nation to its basic
creed of religious tolerance.
There are many in our midst
who do not realize as yet that
the class struggle must carry
with it the seeds of other and
more terrible struggles.
Wherever centralized govern
ment has reared its head, blind
passions have been aroused and
the poison of intolerance has
been let loose.
Wherever government has as
sumed to dictate the CONDUCT
of it's citizens, it had to dictate
the BELIEFS of it's citizens.
The suppression of all liberties
followed, because the liberty of
conScience-the liberty of eX-
pression-is the axis of all free
dom.
The true revolutionists who
established this republic were
fully aware of this danger.
They constantly forewarned
against any abridgement of the
freedom of conscience, knowing
that it would spell the doom OF
democracy.
y X
AMERICA became a magnet
for all the oppressed peoples of
the world because it was founded
upon tolerance. 1t made pos
Sible the rise of a new civiliza-
ton in this hemisphere.
When the old civilization is
crumbling before our eyes, the
achievement of the American
Revolution stands forth as
mans greatest advance in
many centuries.
More than ever the preServa-
ton of America appears to be
the one and only hope of a
confused humanity.
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Those of us who but recently
escaped from the evils of intoler-
ance and from the lash of op-
preston have every reason to
dedicate ourselves anew to the
American ideal of tolerance.
1t is a common misconception
of our times that intolerance is
an evil apart from the other
vices of the day.
The founders of this nation,
immigrants and refugees them
selves, learned from experience
that tyranny and intolerance go
hand in hand. They understood
that tolerance is the soul OF
liberty ana the mother of de-
mocracy.
THE EXPERIENCE of the
modern world demonstrates
once more the truth that cen
tralized government can no more
be divorced from intolerance
than democracy can be separated
from tolerance.
We have today a new crop of
cultivators of class bigotry in
whose train religious and every
other form of bigotry must fol-
low.
We have the sewers of social
and political hatreds VIII oSe
armory is equipped with all the
familiar weapons of fanaticism,
of RECOMMENDATION and of dicta-
torShip.
The builders of the American
system understood that when
government begins tU usurp the
liberties of the people, even
though it may be done for the
general welfare, tolerance is
bound to become a political is
sue.
And when that happens, the
general welfare is bound to be
destroyed.
All RECOMMENDATION begins with
intolerance. 1t may be class in
tolerance. 1t may be religious
intolerance. 1t may be a COM
binatiOn of any of these. In the
end, it leads all the people into
the blind alley of tyranny.
The shadow of intolerance
which has engulfed the greater
part of the old world today is
cast by the triumphant dicta-
tors.
It is a shadow which goes
with the thirst for absolutiSt
power.
Give all the power TO one man
or vne set of men, be it for
economic or social or political
panaceas, and intolerance has
been enthroned.
The trainers of the Declare
ton of Independence appreci-
ated this principle. That is
why. when they we're ready to
erect a new form of government
in the new world, they divided
power.
. The American system of
checks and balances, of the three
separate branches of govern
ment, of decentralized State
rights, was devised as a barrier
against intolerance and as a
guarantee Of the gradual de-
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"I've watched relief work out
in Chicago and Milwaukee" she
cries, land I'm so disguised
with the people on relief 1 would
like to stop the whole business.
At least IS per cent of the peO-
pie OIl relief are there to stay.
They don't want work and won't
work unless compelled to.
Il have tried to get good easy
jobs for four women who were
on relief, but they never even
came in for an interview. When
/ questioned them later their
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Free Mailing

ITO persuade employees of Henry Ford join the United
l. Automobile. Workers. speech by Representative
Maverick, of Texas be mailed under his Congressional
frank
That is incorrectly called FREE MAILING.
1t is not free at ALL but at the EXPENSE OF THE
PEOPLE.
Questioned about this Mr. Maverick said:
Sure, admit it. I am PROUD of it.
1t is entirely proper of course, for Mr. Maverick to give
his views labor to the Ford employees.
We think however he should pay for this propaganda
himself that is paid for by those RESPONSIBLE for it.
We wonder if Mr.. Maverick would be willing to extend
FREE MAILING privileges Henry Ford or to Tom
Grdler of the steel industry.
Thev should NOT have these privileges but they have as
much RIGHT to them their opponents have.
Mr.. Maverick is using his position as Congressman to
get the peopes money behind him in project that is not
Congressional business
That is abuse of PUBLIC TRUST in situation where
the interest the people should be the FIRST consideration
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competition the three
weekly pzetwO of $40 each and of $5must be under
30 years of
upon subject importance to Amer
lean Youth.
S-The letter must not exceed 500 words in length.
-The writer and full and ad
dress, and the each writer awarded prize will be
published.
awarded each Monday letter
pOstmark of the preceding
Saturday.
sole judge Of the merits of letters
submitted in the contest
IConyricht 19S7 bv Feature Syndicate
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson

ELIEF-there's problem which America has never be-
II fore faced Temporary help after great
fire. flood earthquake droughtyes But never before an
organized lasting dole What effect is that dole going to
have American initiative, American self-respect?
Last night in reel, l America marching IN
massed thousands MARCHING IN ANGRY PROTEST
AGAINST WITHDRAWING THE DOLE. Amusement and
disgust swept the faces of the older spectators and
who had known degree of Distress but whose
American PRIDE had held fast against charity help YET
THERE WERE AS MANY CHEERS AS BOOS IN THE
UPROAR THAT GREETED THE FILM!
What wonder is YOUNG AMERICAS reaction Relief
How do healthy hghsprited boys and girls feel about
cepting Relief? Here two letters PRO and CON-
sizzers, both! On which side do YOU votei
First comes JUL EAVES-in favor OF. JUL started life
sitting pretty Left school four years ago with three de-
two original model dresses and taste for expensive
entertainment Struck out for herself and smash into
Ole Man Depression Was offered job ION the lowest rung
of the Relief Administration Staff" Worked in every de-
partmen-fnally earned place fullfedged executive.
And now she's 100 per cent for relief. Why?