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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-14

duction. Many of those listed as
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Evening star., 1937-09-11

cient, Director Walter Lang has tossed
In a few part falls here and there,
evidently strokes of genius, for they
seemed very funny to the first audi
ence yesterday. Our own giggles were
saved for the sequences where every
body went about scrubbing and slap
ping on white masks in preparation
for a surgical operation, bath of pre-
liminaries which henceforth will for
ever remind us of the Marx brothers.
THE Capitol stage bill again has
Johnny Perkins as m. C. this week.
but Mr.. Perkins, playing his third
straight at the Loew house, enjoys
no particular luck with his supporting
cast, or even his own jokes. June
Carr's dizzy antics are good for few
laughs; the Carr Brothers (no reIa-
tom and Betty show a quite decent
comedy-acrobatic turn; the Four
Carolinians open weak with some in
expert spotting Of their song numbers
Zone Of which could have been a wow
and an act named Geraldine and Joe
probably will give the screaming hap
pies to those who recall Noel Cow
ards skit, The Red Peppers"
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R-K-O Keith's, starring Deanna Dur
bin apd Leopold Stokowski.
Little Miss Durbin and Mr. Stokow-
ski are probably la creme de ls crop
IN their respective fields If there is
in this, or any other land. any lass
going on is who is more gifted than
Deanna, she has not yet shown her
face before the cameras or behind
footllghts. And for our money you
can pit any conductor you wish against
MIR. StokoWski and we will give you
cards, spades and two extra men in
'the brass section and still not worry
about who will come out ahead.
These two people combine their
talents here into a grand and glorious
musical treat that is one Of the must"
f1lms of the year. Deanna is in excel
lent voice. She has several songs to
sing and into each of them she injects
an emotional quality that brings
lump into your throat. Her tones are
full and sure and true and when she
bangs high c between the ewes she
does 1t so thrillingly you'll feel tears
yelling up. And that is something.
Stokowski turns movie actor to prove
once and for all that classical music
has definite place in cinema enter
tainment. And if you are prone to
doubt 1t 1t will not cost you much to
md out you are wrong Wagners
"Lohengrin," the Second Liszt
Rhapsody" Tschaikowsky's Fifth
Symphony" Mozart's "Alleluia" and
Verdi's La Traviata" provide some
Of the thrilling musical moments con-
jured up from the orchestra by Mr..
StokoWskis fluent and expressive
hands. These are moments that are
well worth the price of admission and
would still be even if they we're not
incorporated in film that is a grand
entertainment anyway.
It probably is no easy task to weave
stories around a 14-year- girl. but
100 Men and Girl" is a complete
success. From an original yarn bv
Hans Kraly and directed deftly by
Henry Roster it is an appealing, hu-
man, ever-interesting story, with an
occasional honest tug at the heart
strings and many a light-hearted
laugh in between. Miss Durbin's songs
and Mr.. Stokowski's symphonies are
skillfully blended into the history of
a little girls eager and finally success
full attempts to find place in the
sun for 100 unemployed musicians, and
it's true delight from beginning to
end. In addition to all the de-
served praise that must be heaped
upon Miss Durbin and Mr.. Stokowski.
there should be some acknowledgment
made, too. of the excellent support
rendered by MIR. Adolphe Menjou as
the girls father and the fine comic
contributions made by Mischa Auer
and Frank jerks
March of Time" occupies itself
solely with warfare In the Orient
it pokes its cameras around the sham
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tlOn OF 1nferlOr NTH that was the Le-
gion's greatest service to the cinema
1t would. of course, be silly to delete
from motion pictures all references
to matters sexual or immoral (the two
being too often confused That would
amount to boycott of all moral prob
lens also, and problems in manners,
morals and emotions are the adult
food of the theater.
Perhaps this is much too serious an
approach to a flippant little story
about wife whose doctor husband
happened to like and depend upon a
nurse working in his Office. Some
how, by sort of Al Woods bed room
comedy technique, the director has
made the yarn take on the guise of
a not very nice or especially funny
joke. Besides the poor jokes, there is
also very fine joker. This is the plot
twist by which it is decided eventually
that Warner Baxter needs Miss Lo-
retta Young in his home as his wife
and Virginia Bruce in his office as
nurse and assistant. Nice for Mr..
Baxter If it could be arranged but it
is doubtful that one woman in 10 in
the audience will believe such a solu-
ton plausible after the rivalry be-
tween the two females has come into
the open.
The members of the cast in wife.
Doctor and Nurse" try to pass lightly
over the risque angles of the matter.
Mr.. Baxter burying himself busily in
his talents for looking like a long
suffering husband, Miss Young prac-
ticing her fair for light comedy, and
Miss Bruce turning all at once Sc
rious upon us, quite the handsomest
laboratory technician of the year.
When these diversions are not S11fR-
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y
ferday afternoons audience hyped up
to the mood of a Rose Bowl crowd
watching the star halfback of the
home team scoring a last-minute
touchdown. That 1t did Just that
goes to show how canny Warner Bros.
are in making pictures to fit seasons
and events, a Prince and the Pau
per" for coronation time, a Varsity
Show when the skies rain foot balls.
With every one in a mood to get
back to the campus after the long.
hot Summer, Varsity Show" prob
ably could be lot less carefully made
than it is without any one feeling
chagrined. 1t has enough of a story
on which to hang great many vocal.
dancing and orchestral specialties, all
of them done with enough eclat to
inspire old grads to go back to home
coming this year
Even more rampant than Powell on
the campus at Winfied College is
Fred Waring. The old Penn State
maestro is right in his element and
instead of just waving a baton or
footing horns, he and his bandsmen
get right into the thick of the pic
ture. Waring plays the part of pro-
fessor and the boys are continually
dropping their instruments all over
the place to rush over and give fra
ternlty pins 10 lovely make-believe CO.
eds.
THE story of Varsity Show" if you
care to be bothered with it, con-
Germs Powell's return to "collitch" to
stage the big annual revue There's
q lot of opposition on the part of the
tory faculty TO his Broadway show
technique and in the resultant jam
the students stick to Powell, strike,
and generally act like adolescents anx-
ious TO put their elders on a spot.
The show finally lands in New York
via college fiivver, turns out to be a
tremendous success, and establishes
Chuck Haley (PowelD as a big-time
producer.
Best scene in Varsity Show" is
that in which the students take over
a dark theater and refuse to be ousteo
when the owner comes around to get
sore about it all Riot squad after
riot squad is called to evict the troupe
but as each comes in, it is beguilec
into sitting down to watch the dress
rehearsal. With the entire New Yorl
police force already sitting in the the
ater, the owner finally succeeds il
having the National Guard called ou
only to find the guardsmen, too, ar,
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suckers for good musical. It is fun.
Loudest applause is evoked by a
medley of college numbers which
range from Yale's "Boola- -Boola''
number through "On Wisconsin" and
up to Anchors Aweigh." The latter
virtually brought down the house. in
dicating that lot of persons probably
are going to be disappointed if Navy is
weak this year on the gridiron.
4 X *
oracle BARRIE, the once local
girl who headlines the stage bill.
could not have asked for a better in
PRODUCTION than the picture provided
Tor her. She might have just been
voted the most popular coed in COL
lege for the applause which greeted
her appearance. She could have stop
ped the show even longer than she
did. Miss Barrie is an even better
song saleslady than she used to be
and from Sweet Jelani" to "It Looks
Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane, "
the people loved her. &c.
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New Comedy at Capitol
Has Accent on Sex
"Wife, Doctor and Nurse"
Is Farce Without
Much HumOr
JUNE CARR,
BY ROBERT r. PHILLIPS Ir

Elk ar its handsome little hydra head the the
vaudeville OF Wife
week So obvious its
luch that here the
this picture
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Barbara Stanwyck Plays
At Best in New Film
Coldwyn's Selection of Actress for
Stella Dallas" Proves Wise One.
Picture Well Done
BY JAY CARMODY.

A that
~ Barbara Stanwyck
Stella Dallas" there
the skepcs
yesterday final
knew MS business 1t S of habit
The GodwynStanwyck the books as
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~AcSNA w llcl masterpiece INdn MS,
but 1t is picture that will have a
wide appeal. Contributing even more
10 its merlS than that of its star IS
the work of young Anne Shirley. She
plays Laurel Dallas, the daughter
whose love for fine things could never
intrude upon her love for her mother.
The mother, of course, is not one of
the finer things of life. in one manner
OF speaking, although she does con-
trive beautiful and gallant martyr
dom in stepping aside that the child
may go on to better things. Miss
Shirley obviously knows what acting is
about.
Stella Dallas" is tear jerking drama
at its most fearful, and the Goldwyn
reissue of the old film faces that fact
with what amounts to grim deter
mlnation to get the last tear out of
the audience. 1t is the pictures weak
ness, although not-too serious one.
that nearly every one connected with
its production has seen fit to under
score its more emotional moments, as
If otherwise there might be a dry eve
in the house.
X
THERE is. for instance, the sequence
in which Stella, in her most garish
gown and wearing enough bracelets to
supply a whole tribe of Zulus, makes
her appearance in the midst of her
daughters society playmates. That it
should take the laughter and wise
cracks of regiment of young people
to emphasize the humiliation of it all
for the daughter seemed a little bit
excessive. So does the accent on sew
eral other intervals in Stella's clank-
ing, colorful march to martyrdom.
Miss Stanwyck, who has made a
speciality of emoting in the grand
manner, finds the role of Stella an
approximately perfect medium for ex-
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pressing the Stanwyck talents. AS
the little girl who lived east of the
railroad tracks and married into the
set which lived on the other side.
she has rich opportunity to be tinged
with toughness, inlaid with stridency
and oblivious of the niceties but al
together admirable in her sacrificial
love for her beautiful daughter. Gold
wyn was absolutely right. 1t is very
nice part for Miss Stanwyck and she
merits all the happier things that
are going to be said for her as a
result of playing it so well.
X X x
HAPPY casting is to be found, in
deed, in every nook and Granny
of the drama John Boles, who has
not been over-blessed with telling roles
in recent months, is an effectively re-
served Stephen Dallas. Alan Hale
gets proper volume of lusty ribaldry
into the character of Ed Mum, the
gent whose florid ways matched those
of the noisy Stella.
The comedy relief is expertly woven
into Hale's appearances before the
camera. 1t reaches its apex in his
drunken efforts to cook a mammoth
Christmas turkey by the simple
process of jamming the fowl into an
oven, lighting the gas and then fall
ing on his face to wait for what
should be the happy dinner.
Barbara O'Neil does her usual eff
cient job in the part of the dignifed
widow whom Stephen Dallas should
have married in the first place.
On the whole, Stella Dallas" is
a picture which bears the Goldwyn
hallmark too definitely to be other
than the success the great man
counted upon. Audiences are not 60
ing to mind if it tips occasionally in
the direction of too much hysteria
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bles that is Shanghai. then looks back
into China's history, tracing the
country's rise up through the career
of Gen. Chang Kai-shek to the bloody
problem on young Chinas doorstep
today. The other warfare treated by
the new edition of March of Time"
is the warfare being carried on in this
country by the Department of Agri-
culture, fighting to eradicate insect
destroyers of crops. The boys have
done another intelligent and interest
ing job on both battles.
Other Theater Reviews Page AT.
Evening star., 1937-09-11
Music a Glorious Treat
In 100 Men and a Girl"
Deanna Durbin and Leopold
StokOwski Combine Their
Talents in Keith's Film
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

WITHOUT 100 chorus girls pIang in floral patterns without
\
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o Universal
at
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Earle Film Starts Grid
Season With Eclat
VARSITY Show" With Dick Powell,
Teens With Rah.Rah Mood.
Oracle Barrie Sings

YOU would IKE large draught of the rahh spirit
season Tor
IL is there quantity to
OF Dick Powels picture
VARSITY ' : f ~
Varsity Show musical designed ball season off to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
PeeVed COIOniSt from MatanuSka
 Now in Seattle
Ruddell Dodges Authorities, Goes South
 Under Assumed Name

SEATTLE, Feb. l0.-Traveling under an assumed name. Charles Ruddcll, dicontented Matanuska Colonist, is enroute to the east to complain of conditions to the Fed eral authorities.
 Ruddell said he came south from Seward aboard the Gen. w. c. Cor gas as Emil Mintz" because a Deputy U. S. Marshal was trying to keep him from boarding the ship. The Government recently started action to dispossess him. He is armed with l25 affidavits from oth- CT colonists and carries his evidence in a suitcase He also has four horseshoes he said that cost him $129.
 Ruddell said that after occupying a five acre farm for l8 months, with his family of seven. he owes the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation the sum of $12,500.
 He said the family was on monthly subsistence that totalled SIT a month and that when the Colony management suggested he economize, he and other farmers suggested the management econo- mize too, by cutting down the staff colony.
 The management recently term ed Ruddell the most expensive col onist. Ruddell expected to draw his war bonus at the end of the week and proceed to Washington
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
STUDENTS TO BEGIN WORK ON ANNUAL TAKU; NEW OFFICERS

A sales and advertising campaign to put the annual Taku over again this year is getting under way this week following decision of the teaching staff to encourage the pro- position.
 The following staff was chosen to manage the forthcoming issues ' business manager. Jennie Johnson; assistant manager, Jackie Sey; Edi- tor, Ruth Langseth; assistant edi- tor, Helen Edwards; circulation edi- tor. Mary Spain.
 It is the aim of the staff to bc able to place the Taku on sale the last week in April. using the money made off the Breeze and advance sales receipts to help finance the book
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
RECORDS FALL BEFORE TUBES,
 RINGERS TILTS
Crocodiles Swallow Prairie Dogs, Treetoads Win,
 Mustangs Carry On

Cracking one tourney record and equalling another, Carey Tubbs ran away from the Ringers pack at the Elks' alleys last night. In his op- ening game Tubbs betterei by two pins the single game mark of 235 set up last week by Gunnar Blom- gren, then added second game of 228 and finished with match to- tai of 632 to equal the score rolled by Ed Radde last week.
 Meanwhile his Crocodile team mates added enough pins of their own to take two games from Radde and his Prairie Dogs and to roll up the high team match total of the night, l,729, which included a team game total of 600 even.
 i Jimmy Barragar corraled second honors for the evening with a to- tai of SIS as he led the Armadillos in determined but futile defense against the assault of the high striding Mustangs; the Mustange winning out in the deciding game.
 The odd game in the first match went to Fred Henning and the Tree Toads, but not without a fight that brought the losing Ali gators to within five points of the victors in the team match totals.
 The Elks' Alleys enjoy respite from the pounding of the tourney teams tonight, before being given over to the Orioles tomorrow.
 Scores last night were:
 TREE TOADS
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NESTELL PUTS LEvINSKY OUT
 IN 10TH ROUND
Young Heavyweight Hope Has King on Floor Four
 Times During Bout

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. TO- - With capacity crowd of 10,40o fans yelling, Young Bob Nestel., heavyweight hope, slowed away King Levinsky last night in the closing seconds of the tenth round
 Nestell sank Levinsky for tie fourth time in the bout with a right to the jaw.
 In the first round, Nestell floored Levinsky for the count of eight
 This is Nestell's tenth straig..t t win since turning pro thirteen months ago.
 Nestell weighed 191 pounds and Levinsky weighed 200 pounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
LEN0RE M. BALL BECOMES BRIDE,
 CLARENCE WISE
Arrival from Seattle Weeds Lynda Hotel Proprietor
 This Morning

Lenore M. Ball and Clarence Wise were married at 7:30 o'clock this morning in the Bishops Chap el by the Rev. w. G. La vasseur.
 MT. and Mrs. s. Zynda witnessed the ceremony.
 The bride, former resident of Seattle. arrived on the Princess Norah last night.
 MT. Wise recently purchased the zynda Hotel which he is now op- erating.
 MT. and Mrs. Wise will make their home at the Zynda.
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Alaska Western Radio
 Incorporated, Olympia

OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 10.-The Alaska Western Radio, Inc, of Se- attle, has been incorporated, arti- cles having been filed here. The new concern is to deal in all kinds of electrical instruments or opera tions. The concern is capitalized at $500 and the incorporators are P. J. McCue, c. E. McCue and P. T. Merritt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
DOUGLAS NEVIS
HAYNES TEAM COMING s
 FOR WEEKEND GAME

Superintendent Martin Pedersen is in receipt of a radio from the Haines high school basketball team that it is coming down on the Forn- ance tomorrow and game with the Douglas high school is desired. By return radio, he assured the team it would be accommodated either Friday or Saturday night as would suit their convenience.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
CHARGES MADE : AGAINST COACH
 MADICAN NOW
Committee of St. Mary s
 Bondholders Seeking an Accounting

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 10. "A committee representing the bondholders of St. Mary's College, charges that football coach Slip Madigan has retained $38,234 of the proceeds of the St. Mary's Fordham football game. The committee ad- mitted that. s36,40O was due Madi- gan in commissions.
 Madigan said he acted with the approval of Brother Albert, pres ident of the college.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
MAYOR OF SKAGWAY
 ILL, SAN FRANCISCO

w. J. Mulvihill, Mayor of Skag- way and Chief Train Dispatcher of the White Pass and Yukon Route, is reported seriously ill in San Fran cisco as the result of pneumonia. Advices of MT. Mulvihill's condition were received last night on the Princess Norah.
 MT. Mulvihill. accompanied by his wife. went south several weeks ago and had visited Southern Cal ifornia and was returning north when pneumonia developed at San Francisco.
 V. w. Mulvihill, agent of the Can- adian Pacific in Juneau, and w. B. Mulvihill, American Express Com pany Agent here, sons of the Mayor, radioed today for later advices as to their fathers condition. Try The Empire classifieds for r0cf1lfc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
F|REMEN SINK
 DEMOLAYS IN
 FINAL RALLY
Gravesme Drop Close Fought Court Contest
 to Douglas Last Night

Extra fight and clicking passes enabled the Bremen to take their game from the DeMolays last night in the High School Gym by 38-32 score A barrage of buckets in the last five minutes of the game gave the Bremen the victory.
 It was a contest of rallies. Point was matched with point throughout the entire game. At the end of the first quarter the DeMolays held a margin of Is to II but were cut down to two point lead as the half ended g to 20 Slowly but gradually the Fireladdies gained ground and then knotted the score 27 all at the three quarter mark.
 In the final period Art Burke and Tommy Mover guarded like Trojans and fed the leather to Joe Snow, Dutch Behrends and Dewey Baker, resulting in piling up the score to final 38 point total, hold ing the Lodge lads to 32.
 Dutch Behrends was high point man for the winning team with II counters chalked up to his credit while Kinky Bayers led the scor- ing for the DeMolay quintet with 10 points.
 Eagles Beat Gravesmen
 Tn the opening tilt the Douglas Eagles held slight edge over the Gravesmen throughout the game and won by the narrow margin of 34 to 31. Rex Fox, Gordon Mills, Claude Erskine, and Mark Jensen did some nice hoop denting which piled up the score for the Island CTS and T. Niemi stuck to his job as guard, playing fine defensive game.
 Bob McPhee, high point man of the evening, kept the hopes of the Clothiers up throughout the fracas by constantly tossing the ball through the twine for field goals. Ed Atkinson, the new edition to the Graves team also made fine showing, coming through with field goals whenever he got within range and added 8 counters.
 At the end of the first period the Islanders led 10-7 the second period 21-l7. ii,e third period 26-23.
 TIno C,,,,.,,.o~sn~
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DENY FASCIST
 FORCES HAVE CUT HIGHWAY
Censored Madrid Dispatch Claims Capital Is Still
 Linked, Valencia

LONDON, Feb. 10. = A heavily censored dispatch received here this morning says the military com- manders" declare that the Fascist Insurgents" have not succeeded up to last night in cutting the high way" between Madrid and Valen- cia, where the government war supplies are stored.
 Yesterday the Socialist Govern ment also denied the Fascist re- port the highway had been cut and surrender of Madrid was believed near.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
SAILING OF BERG
 REPORTED DELAYED

According to radiogram received by Agent D. B. Femmer, the sail ing of the Evelyn Berg from Sear- tie has been postponed until Fri
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-02-10
AMBERS, DAY IN
 10 ROUND BOUT
 IN N. Y. TONIGHT
Champion to Meet Welter-Stable-
 mate of ChampRoss

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-Lou Am bers, lightweight ruler, meets Da- vey Day of Chicago, stablemate welterweight of Champion Barney Ross, in a ten round overweight bout here tonight.
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TWENTY-THREE
 KILLED, PLUNGE

MANILA, P. l., Feb. 10.-Twenty- three persons were carried to death here today in a plunge of a pas senger bus down 200-foot preci- pice.
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day. February 2G. Needed repairs ol the vessel are taking longer than expected. The Berg was to hayt sailed north Friday night of this week.
 The zapora, scheduled to arrive here Friday, has been posted tc make the second voyage from Seat tie. sailing from there on Friday. February l9.
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WARNER RETURNS
 IN GOOD HEALTH

Jack Warner returned home on the Princess Norah from Seattle last night feeling much improved fol- lowing minor operations and treat
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Explosion of a firecracker in the barracks of Clemson College auto matically subjects the entire cadet corps of the school to discipline.
 There were two separate droughts in the south in 1886.
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HOUSE DIVIDES ON SPEEDING UP
 TRAP MEMORIAL
Committee Reports It Out Without Recommendation
 -WillBe Up Tomorrow
(Continued from Page One)

were: Coffey, Dar Green, Laiblin, Lichtenberg, Rogge, Ross and Nell Scott. Opposing were: Anderson, Davis, McCutcheon, Nerland, Tol- bert Scott, Smith and the Speaker. Representatives Dan Kennedy of the Third and Harry Race of the First were reported absence due to illness.
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ment in the Puget Sound metropo- lis.
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