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Greece. Just the same, the Temple
talent is of an order to take such
well-worked theme and give it the
going-over that makes 1t her best
picture since The Little Colonel"
Happily for the leading lady OF the
American box Office, her employers
this time have given her an oppor-
tunity to be something resembling a
child with a flair for acting. True,
she does have an interlude where she
sings a torch song and another in
which she dances like Ginger Rogers
with dummy Fred Astaire, but she
does not spend her whole time imi-
tating her interiors. Box-office infe-
viors, one means.
Most of the time she is little
girl with a laugh for the ways of
the world, little girl who can keep
tears trembling on her lashes. little
girl who can feel JOY, terror. Won
derment, trust and other things that
so with being an actress.
Moreover. in "Stowaway" she speaks
Chinese. At least that is what it is
supposed to be. Whether it is good
or bad Chinese makes no difference.
1t is refreshing note in the Temple
saga of progress.
X X
ITO SELECT the outstanding feature
of her performance one will have
to name it as her very evident COM
plete understanding Of her part. The
presence of the director just beyond
the range of the camera lens is not
sensed in the better moments of her
work as it is in the case Of so many
OF her elders.
There are others in the cast OF
"Stowaway," but it is difficult to reach
them as it always is in any review.
Robert Young is one Of these. He
gives one of his more convincing per-
fornances as the rich young sinner,
caught in Shirley's spell and made a
better man for it. Better, indeed Per-
feet! There is Alice Faye, too. TO look
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languidly lovely. sing sadly. and end
up as Shirley's adopted mother.
Arthur Treacher Is a butler once
more, and far and way the most
comic butler Hollywood has found.
There are some excellent sequences
in "Stowaway." one of which shows
Shirley and Young in Jail, she at
tempting to goad their fellow prisoners
to riot at Young's suggestion and be-
cause he is unable to speak the neces-
sary Chinese. Another just as good
is one which shows Shirley as a Reno
divorce case witness.
There is never a moment in the film
when you do not know just how it
is going to come out, but young Miss
Temple makes all its familiar turn
ings and twistings quite diverting.
ON THE stage at the Capitol this
week, there Is blackstone, the
magician. If the National Press
Building should disappear while he is
in town. it patiently will be up Black
stones sleeve. 1t should have lot Of
company there, too, for as the act
went off yesterday afternoon, there
must be several bird cages and as
many birds. one woman sawed in half,
several others who disappeared and a
lot of other items up the msgician's
sleeve.
It is a big show which Blackstone
stages, with 40 persons to help him
and miscellany of birds and beasts
to make the whole thing much more
battling.
Best Of the legerdemain in its
trickery-or what have you, Black
stone?-was the levitation bit. This is
the one, of course, ir which woman
does her sleeping in midair with no
visible means Of support. 1t is quite
imposing as it always has been.
If you like magic at all, you are
bound to like the Blackstone brand
which covers just about the entire
field.
Evening star., 1937-01-23
COMEDY AT THE "MET"
HAS RUGGLES AND BRADY
Stars and the Boy Scouts Are
Recommended In Mind Your
Own Business"

wv IL ouS1uCoo'
THE story of Mind Your Own Busl-
"a ness" is that of birds and beasts
his daily stint into gossip column.
Since the wild life scribbler is Charlie
Ruggles, and Alice Brady is his wife,
who gets the idea for the gossip angle
IN the first place, this would sound like
q natural as a comic screen script.
Like many another cinema idea that
seemed a WOW when the boys first
thought of 1t, the story at the Metro
politan is spread exceedingly thin be-
fore it finishes.
F$ Ruggles fans, whose names are
iegion, and the equally ardent adher-
ents of Miss Brady, the picture may
be recommended strictly on the parti-
san basis. To others it will probably
seem a mild and harmless farce, Sc
yious only when 1t gives three whoops
and a cheer for the virtues Of the Boy
Scouts.
That Boy Scout business is no gag,
FOR the story Is constructed more or
less to prove the value of knowing
how to wig-wag in the woods, and
does good job of selling the idea.
Maybe we should enlarge the recon-
n1endation to say that the picture has
appeal for fans of Ruggles, Brady and
the B. S. A. There is a bit of melo-
drama, some good clean fun in news
paper Office, and some of our other old
pals of the Hollywood scenarios mixed
into the broth also.
In addition the Metropolitan fea-
kures lot of shorts, most of them a
pleasure to miss. r. B. P, Jr.
Evening star., 1937-01-23
"C0LLEGE HOLIDAY"
BACK AT COLUMBIA

1T Is witless thing, perhaps, to ex-
pect that apostle of nonsense, Jack
Benny, to be sensible. Yet, while it is
his professional practice to specialize
in chaotic comedy, he seems to overdo
it in college Holiday" his latest pic
ture, which took up second F street
stand at the Columbia yesterday.
Generally speaking, college Hoh-
day" is a merry thing. 1t would have
to be, with Benny, Martha Ray, George
Burns. Oracle Allen and Ben Blue 60
ing nuts in their varied, inimitable
ways. 1t also has its musical mo-
ments, too, with the music provided
by Marsha Hunt (almost a local girD
and Lief Erickson.
You will find enough in college
History" to justify your interest. even
If you feel that some spots of it are
neednessly protracted j. C.
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day for Britannia. And he has lot
OF fun. too, subtly kidding the pompolls
brother.
THE brightest moment Of the Earle's
stage bill is contributed by Dick
and Edith Barstow. Their first dance,
the tap number. is clever enough and
executed well enough, but they show
their real skill when they come back
for that toe-tap routine, which IS
something OF a novelty and which
shows that difficult things can be done
with seeming ease. 1t almost got one
audience yesterday afternoon in a
mood to get up and yell for more If
applause didn't get more.
The most interesting portion of the
act presented by the feature attrac-
ton. Ken Murray, is that provided
by the original Dixieland Jazz Band.
They are introduced as the people who
started it all back in 1915 (started
swing" If you're interested in tossing
bombs) and they show that the jazz
they started is just the same as the
swing of today.
AS for Murray, himself, sometimes
ne is good and sometimes he is not
He starts out with a couple of gags
that are the Joint property of every
comic in the business, but he gradu
ally warns up until the customers
get very happy with him. He is as
sisted by Oswald. who promulgated
that "Oh. yeah" growl. and by Marlyn
Stuart, who sings sweetly.
The bill is opened with some clever
acrobatics by the LeLong Sisters, who
are as good as any Of the male aero
batic trios and better than some.
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actor Is Drought lnJO DOlQ TelleI WneH
he is seen creating two widely differing
characters at once.
In one half of the dual portrayal,
Mr.. ArliSs Is one Lord Dunchester,
pompous, not-too-bright and humor-
less head of the foreign office. In the
other half he plays his brother
Richard, happy fellow who is dis
tinctly a failure in life, according to
Dunchester's way of thinking. Prob
ably because Richard has q good time
with life.
"A RLISS makes Lord Dunchester
- Just as much impressed with his
own Importance. just as dull. just as
lacking in the knowledge of laughter
as he should be. You don't like him
definitely On the other hand he
makes a thoroughly likable chap Of
Richard, the sort of a fellow whose
neck is not stiff and who has much
fun living. And when an actor can
make you dislike him in one role and
be all for him in another at the same
time, he is doing thoroughly credit
able Job of make-believe.
Man of Affairs" was made by Gau-
mont British, but it has none of the
characteristics which mark some Eng
ash productions. There isn't Sonny
Hale-ish comic to be seen and the WIT
Is good and the pace is right. There's
Q lot of good humor to the tale.
ArliSs, of course, is responsible for
much of it, if not all of it. He has
plenty Of opportunity for that comedy
which has marked some Of his Ameri-
Can film successes when he Is playing
the happy-go-lucky brother, who kid
maps the other one, takes his place
In the foreign Office and saves the
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job. Binnie Barnes decorates the piece
and Alice Brady, Charles Winninger,
Mischa Auer and Ernest Cossart are
the principal contributors Of the hu-
NOR As you would expect, they con-
tribute plenty of it.
The bill at Keith's also includes an
exceedingly interesting bit of delying
into the private life of the F. B. l.,
You Can't Get Away With It." and
Pathes complete news reel coverage Of
the inauguration. bringing the whole
Of the days ceremonies in out Of the
rain. H M.
Evening star., 1937-01-23

Railways of India report a marked
increase in earnings in 1886.
Evening star., 1937-01-23
George Arliss in Dual
Role in MAN of Affairs .
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

extremely interesting watch George A in Man OF Affairs
1 lin at Without
anything other than trick photography
i picture.
exceedingly interesting to
slightly skilled
Evening star., 1937-01-23
Voice
Thrills in
Keith Film
"Three Smart Girls
Brings Deanna
Durbin.

- ONE day, not so far in the
future, Deanna Durbin is going
to be a great singer. Making
~ a statement like that on the
Evening star., 1937-01-23
"Champagne Waltz" Seen
At Brilliant Premiere
Gladys Swarthout, Government Officials
and Local Celebrities Present as
Pleasing Film Is Revealed.
BY ROBERT 3. PHILLIPS, Jr.

setting Hollywood itself might have designed but never would nave
musical launched night
a
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
Three Minute Journeys.

land smelling plants give it wealth.
but is rolling moors, it's dales and
valleys, its spas, it's coast resorts
and its castles and abbeys give it
glory and beauty. Minister is not
the only beautiful church in York.
shire; its beauty is rivaled by that
Of Beverley Minister, said to be
the most beautiful Gothic build
ing in England, and Ripon Cathe-
dral.
No county in England contains
more important monaStic remains
those Of the CiStercian abbeys
being unequalled in Europe. Foun-
tainS abbey, the monastery of Jer.
vaulx, Rievaulx abbey, Bolton alb.
bey, Bylands, Whitby and Selby
are all worth visit.
VARIED SCENERY
For mountains and moors, there
is the Pennine area, in the West
Riding of Yorkshire. Incidentally,
Yorkshire is divided into three
Ridings-the name is derived
from the Old English "thriding,"
or third.
And in the West Riding we find
the Ebbing and Flowing well,
which, although in the interior,
ebbs and flows with the tides Of
the distant sea. Then there il
Mother Shipton'S petrifying well
at Knaresborough. on the beauti.
full river Nidd. The castle at
KnareSborough is worth visit.
too.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
YORKSHIRE

The recent announcements Of
the Archbishop of York about the
abdication of former King Edward
VIII have turned many eyes in the
direction of Yorkshire, and it's
capital, York. And many people
have been astonished to discover
that Of the two English Archbishop
RIGS. York and Canterbury, York,
is the older, dating back to the
year 100 A. D.
It was at Roman York, known
as Eboracum to the legions, that
Constantine the Great, who made
the Roman Empire a Christian one,
was proclaimed emperor. And not
only is York an historic city but
it is one Of the most beautiful in
all England.
CASTLE AND ABBEYS
York is England'S last link with
the Middle Ages. That era still
exists in York in the three miles
Of gray walls that have surrounded
the city since the fourteenth cen.
tury: in the Minister, the largest
medieval cathedral in England; in
the narrow streets and in build.
ings like st. Peters School. which
has been in existence since 71s
A. D.
Yorkshire, in the northeast OF
England, is one of the finest coun'
ties, as well as one of the richest
and most important shires. Its
woolen industries and its coal, iron
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
MadisOn's Memorial
By y. T. Williams, Jr.
ime within two foremost. Il

foremost. independence would
probably have failed without him.
His leadership was hardly less es-
sential to the adoption Of the Con-
stitution.
After Washington, in the order
of the time at which their influ-
ence was most effective, came
Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson and
Marshall.
All of these Founders, save only
jefferson and Madison, have long
been honored with memorials in
the Federal city. The jefferson
Memorial has finally been author"
lied and its construction will soon
start. There remains only Madt.
son; and his memory will not
longer be neglected if Congress
will harken to the appeal of the
junior Senator from Madison'S
own State of Virginia.
1t was Madison who presented
to the Federal convention the so
called Virginia plan of which he
was the chief author. And this was
the plan on which the great de-
bates in the convention were based,
1t was Madison who contributed
what great chief Justice of the
United States has declared to be
the root idea Of national govern.
ment operating directly upon the
people and not simply upon the
States"
1t was Madison who explained
this idea when he described th0
government which he proposed as
national with regard to the oper.
alton of its powers" but limited
in "the extent of these powers"
It was Madison who contributed
to the Virginia Plan its outStand.
ing provision that a National Leg.
islature, National Executive and
q National Judiciary" should bS
established.
DEVOTED SERVICE
This, as the historian says, was
"the supreme act of creative
craftsmanship which made our
country what it is"
And it is to James Madison that
the American people "owe this
grand and luminous conception Of
the two co-eXisting and 1armoni.
GUS spheres of government"
But "the Father of the Constitu.
tion" is deserving Of honor not
only by reason of what he did but
also because he was what he was.
The integrity Of his character, the
modesty Of his bearing, the reality
of his religious convictions and the
devoted service he rendered the
great cause Of religious freedom
all these entitle him to high place
among the Founders Of the Ameri-
can Union.
The nation will honor Itself Ia
bearing witness, as Senator Byrd
proposes, to its enduring gratitude
for the example Of Madison's life
| and work.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17

i'm p or an e Senator O'MahOney
that it was debated briefly but
heatedly in the Senate recently,
while the Senator from Texas
was attempting to have that body
accept a gift from Andrew w.
Mellon of $50, 1000, 900 in art works
and a $40, 100000 gallery to house
them in.
The second half of the problem
came up for consideration when
Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of
Wyoming answered a sarcastic ad-
dress Of the Texan, who inferred
that some Senators might want
one of their constituents to paint
the pictures of the members of the
Senate to hang in the National
Gallery.
Senator O'Mahoney declaimed
that if he ever had anything to do
with selecting the paintings of the
SO Senators, he hoped they would
all look like the Senator from
Texas, so the people would know
what a great statesman looked
like.
Senator Connally retorted that
when the Senator from Wyoming
was serious it was all right, but
when he tried to be funny he
didn't amount to much.
There were too many smiles on
the faces of the speakers during
the interchange to assume that
they really were aggrieved.
The discussion over the grape
fruit came near the conclusion OF
the debate on the art gallery bill
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida
suggested a change in the Dill
Senator Connally objected with
the remark that if the Senator
from Florida wanted to exhibit
some Florida grapefruit he woulc
not want anyone putting inferior
grades in with them.
Senator Pepper replied that NJ
thought he caught the drift OF the
Senator's reasoning, which wa!
that the Florida grapefruit was 8
work Of art, while the Texas specie
was-well, just grapefruit.
In the midst Of the argument
Senator william Gibbs McAdoC
felt surge of sectional pride anc
he arose to declaim loudly tha'
the California grapefruit waS
something Of . winner, too. Sen
The Washington times., 1937-03-17

myself as really am
want to discover all the truth
Which it is possible for me to
discover.
I want to ask questions
And test out my answers, even
if they are wrong.
want the courage to defy every
thing, even myself.
In my search for the true life
No matter what it costs!
\ 4
I know it will cost plenty.
Plenty of pain and discomfort.
But I fear comfort far more
than discomfort.
I have seen men so trapped by
comfort
So fooled by success -. SO ham,
strung by happiness 49,.
I don't want to be cheated that
way,
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
Gag-WOrnan

YOU'VE heard of gag-men of course but this is prob
i ably the first you ever knew Of a gag-woman.
There is one-Miss Mabel Albertson-and she keeps
her jokes on file in steel cabinet She violates all known
rules on gag-wrters by laughing at her own humor
Take it from Miss Albertson-she doesn't think her
business is strange one for women. She likes it.
There may be more serious professions for women,
but none quite profitable for her at present.
Oh, yes She has husband and she has two children
She worries about the children, all mothers do and
fuses over them, but still has time for her work.
just goes to show that no field of endeavor strange
to the modern young American woman Of these days
They know their stuff-and do it.
That incidentally, is no gag.
The Washington times., 1937-03-17

For the second time within two
years Congress has been called
upon to authorize the building in
the Federal City of a suitable me-
mortal to James MadiSon-"the
Father of the Constitution.
Senator Byrd has again intro
duced the joint resolution that
was before the Congress several
years ago. 1t provides for the ap-
pointment Of the James Madison
Memorial Commission. It's duty
would be to prepare and submit to
the Congress plans for a Madison
Memorial within the Federal City.
Appropriately enough this reso-
luton is under consideration in
committee in the very week in
which Madison was born 1856 years
ago March 16).
And no less appropriately this
appeal comes to Congress in the
year in which the nation starts the
Sesquicentennial celebration of
the adoption Of the Constitution
$50 years ago, the seventeenth of
ACAI OCpGCAlRSIs
FOREMOST PART
1t would seem that Senator
Byrd's request that the age-long
neglect of Madison's memory be
ended is altogether reasonable.
The fact that Madison is the only
one among the five men "diStin-
guished above all others" in the
building and launching of the Ma
tional Government without a
memorial at its headquarters must
be due to an oversight. For the
record is there to prove that in
the Constitutional Convention
which drafted the Constitution
Madison earned the title that John
Fiske has given him of "the Con-
structive Statesman"
madison" asserts this histo-
rian, twas the constructive
thinker who played the foremost
part among the men who made
the Constitution, besides con-
tributing powerfully with tongue
and pen to the arguments which
secured its ratification.
I'm this work of advocacy, and
then in the work of practical
construction, of setting the new
Government into operation,
Hamilton, with his financial
measures, took the lead.
"But the bOldness of HamiI.
toms policy alarmed many peo-
pie To create the needed
confidence to show the dOubters
and ScOffers on the one hand
that the new Government was
really a government Of the peO-
pie by the people and for the
people, and on the other hand
that such a government can be
as orderly and conservative as
any Other-this was the noble
work Of Jefferson"
OF these five founders, Washing.
ton Of course was the first and
The Washington times., 1937-03-17

We hear these days that man is
subjugated to the machine; that
it moldS our culture, conditions
our living, reshapes our lives.
Here are machines obeying hui
man compulsionS which were
hoary with age when mobs wrecked
the first power loom in England
because it would displace weavers.
It was in 1877 that King John
set up the decree which, in meticu-
lous detail. will govern the Coro-
nation ceremony of May IL. Forty
yards of crimson velvet for the
Lord High Chamberlain, who
robed the king, was one Of the
first StipulationS. The earlier
Lord Ancaster'S velvet was made
by hand looms. The British Court
of Claims, sitting in the wigs and
gowns it has worn for centuries,
solemnly awards the crimson vel
vet to the Lord Ancaster of today.
The fact that machines, rather
than human hands, make the vel
vet does not in the least affect
the courts command, or what is
requisite and fitting when Britain
crowns a king.
The Fourteenth-century Ancas-
ter, and many Of his heirs and as
signs, were awarded the kings
nightgown for dressing him in
shirt, stockings and drawers. :"
The present Lord Ancaster will get,
instead, King Georges pajamas,
an obviously necessary compro-
mise. But only in these enforced
minor details does the Court of
Claims allows the slightest deVi-
alton from the ancient law.
PRICES INCREASE
Getting back to the diamonds.
India will be represented at the
Coronation by native princes with
eye-filling displays of historic
jewels. And that is reminder
that the moment the price of gold
was raised throughout the world,
old market-wiSe India became the
worlds most important buyer of
diamonds. Much Of its gold was
thus converted.
Throuhout centuries Of price
fluctuations, diamonds have re
manned a fairly safe repository o1
value, and never has their price
been fixed by law or fiat.
Compact, easily concealed, easily
transportable, they have been a de.
pendable reflex of world prosperity,
rising in price and gaining in sale
in active eraS, and declining, some
what but never disastrously, in
sluggish ones.
In America, quite independently
of the Coronation, say the experts
they are having a remarkable re
vival.
For stones Of one carat or more
the demand has been rising anc
insistent during the last two years
Prices have increased from 20 tt
30 per cent during the past year.
Copyright. 1887. King Features
Syndicate lnc.)
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
Listen, World!
BY Elsie Robinson
WANT TO LIVE ENOUGH!

And I have seen men strangled
by their own fear
And Smothered in their own
complacency-
So will seek danger, until I can
laugh at fear,
And court humiliation to prick
my complacency-
For no price is too great to pay
For the chance to live enoughl
I don't know whether there iS
another life,
But I do know there is this
one
And though this life is a myS-
terry
And largely beyond my control,
I have observed this much
I can play the game as wilt
Play it safe, or gamble
Take it or leave it alone
Hide away like a gopher
Or strut my stuff as a king
And choose the role of kingl
Then, if I'm two-timed on eter.
nifty,
I'll at least have had the glory
OF living enough for an hour.
I have only one prayer but
it's constant
Keep me alive, while live!
Keep me inquisitive do
fiant
Restless and reckless and hum
cry
Standing the gaff-if only
I can hit on all eight till the
end!
Copyright. 1887, by King Features
syndicate, Ine.)
The Washington times., 1937-03-17
OUTNIODED

Evidence that long ago the Sen
ate passed the "horse and buggy
era is to be found in the subway
Of the Senate office Building.
In a store room there are sew
eral examples of the old subway
cars that were first installed 10
run the Senators from their Of
fices over to the Capitol.
They were closely patterned
after the old buggy and have every.
thing but whip socket. The seats
faced sideward and the operatol
had to change seats every time
he changed direction. They were
run by gasoline.