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Evening star., 1937-01-05
FIRE SWEEPS ROOFS

A blaze Of undetermined origin swept
the attics and roofs Of buildings at
1127, 1929 and 1131 Fourteenth street
last night, while flre apparatus tied
up street cars and other trafic for
nearly an hour.
The blaze, origin Of which was un-
determined, started In an unoccupied
third-floor room. A passerby turned
IN an alarm.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
Prison Goods Act Upheld.

The 1885 Ashurst-Sumners act for
bidding transportation Of prison-made
goods into States that bar their sale
and requiring that such products be
labeled Is convict-msnufactured
wherever shipped also was held con-
StitutionAl by unanimous vote.
Chief Justice Hughes delivered the
opinion which affirmed . ruling by the
Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals hold
ing the legislation valid.
The Kentucky Whip dk Collar Co.,
. manufacturer Of horse collars and
harness at the Eddyville, KY. State
PenitentiAry challenged the legisla-
ton. It sought to compel the Illinois
Central Railroad Co. to accept rs
shipments that did not comply with
the act.
Hughes said that Congress 'is Is
free as the States to recognize the
fundamental interests Of free labor" /"
He added that in this legislation
Congress had not attempted to DELE
gate its authority to the States. .
The Congress" he added, has not
sought to exercise . power not granted
or to usurp the police powers Of the
States. It has not acted on any
assumption Of . power enlarged by
virtue Of State action. The Congress
has exercised its plenary power which
Is subject to no Limitation other than
that which 10 found in the Constitu.
ton itself. The Congress has formu-
lated its own policy and established its
own rule.
Tax Case Appeal.
In the A. A. A. tax case the court
declined to pass on an appeal fled
by Continental Mills, Inc, Of Phila-
delphia, in an effort to recover $3.50
paid on its stock Of cotton yarn on
hand on August l, 1888.
The Court Of Claims dismissed the
petition on the ground that the re.
quired proof had not been submitted.
1T Is impossible" the company told
the Supreme Court, Ito demonstrate
the effect upon the selling price Of
any particular element Of cost"
In agreeing to . review, the Gov
ernment said 250 similar cases were
pending In lower courts. It added
that I'VE entertain no doubt as to the
ability Of the commissioner Of internal
revenue to determine, with consider
able accuracy, whether or not the
petitioner bore the burden Of the tax"
The legislation also bars suits for
recovery until 10 months after . claim
has been filed with the commissioner
unless he renders an earlier ruling.
Evening star., 1937-01-05

for the coming session Of Congress.
The Commissioners eliminated It.
however, after almost unanimous Oh.
lection registered by representatives
Of dry and reform organizations 1t
. public hearing . week ago. Only
one voice was raised IN approval Of
the bill Ut the public hearing-thst
was the voice Of an agent Of Q res.
taurant and night club where liquor
is sold by the drink.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
SUNDAY LIQUOR
. PLAN ABANDONED
Dirksen to Seek Saturday
Midnight Sales Extension,
However.

Representative Dirksen, Republican,
Of Illinois, today abandoned his plan
to seek modification Of the District
liquor control act 20 that hard"
beverages could be sold by the drink
on Sundays in hotels, restaurants and
clubs and other places holding "on-
sale" licenses.
Satisfied that sentiment in WASH
ington Is opposed to the sale Of liquor
on Sunday, Dirksen said his principal
objective at the new session Of Con-
gress would be to extend the IL O'Clock
midnight Saturday closing Of bars
in "on-sale" establishments to An.
Sunday.
DirksenS original bill which was
stricken from the tentative legislative
program of the Commissioners be-
cause Of vigorous opposition, would
permit liquor to be sold by the drink
on Sundays from / pm. to IL O'Clock
midnight, and extend the IL midnight
deadline on Saturdays to 2 am. Sun
days.
Bill to Be Modified.
It is Dirksen's intention to reintro-
duce the bill in q modified form within
the next few days, but he will remove
the Sunday sale provision. The new
measure will be designed to permit
sale by the drink from IL midnight
Saturday to 2 An. Sunday.
II never have been strongly In
favor Of the sale of liquor on SUM-
day." said Dirksen. Il wrote the pro-
vision that would have permitted it
INTO my original bill by request. Since
public opinion In Washington Is op-
posed TO the sale Of liquor on Sunday
I will remove that provision in my
new bill.
II will, however. tight for elimina-
tion Of the barrier that prevents
liquor from being sold0by the drink
between IL midnight Saturday and
2 am. Sunday-the sanie as any other
day in the week. I do not believe
the present law requiring bars to
close at IL midnight on Saturday Is
conducive to temperance.
In the first place, Saturday night
Evening star., 1937-01-05

missed unexpect.
edly by the Re-
publican caucus
yesterday because
it was the opin-
ion Of the men,
bers that they
N e ed you n 9
blood" His job
pays 81 $40.
Ken n e d y, "a,
and prematurely
aged by years OF
lingering illness,
has been in the
service of the Re-
publican men,
bership of the
Evening star., 1937-02-09
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.
National-"Refected Glory" at $50

National-"Reflected Glory" at $50
pm.
Belasco-"Hey Diddle Diddle." at
$50 pm.
Keith's-"Great Guy" at 1901,
2:01, 4:01, Sol, S:o1 and 1901 pm.
Earie-"Stolen Holiday" at II am,
las, AIS, 7:05 and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows at 12:40, $3.50, $40 and 9:10 pm.
Capitol-"Outcast," at II am, las.
4:30, 7:20, and 10:05 pm. Stage
shows at 1855, $40, $50 and 9:15
pm.
Palace-"The Plainsman," at HAS
am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:05 and s:35 pm.
Metropolitan-"Bulldog Drummond
Escapes" at 1850 am, 1:50, $50,
$50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"Stowaway," at 11:15
am. 1:20, 3:25, $50, TAO and $40
pm.
Rialto-"Monte Carlo" at 2:03,
ABS, 7:16 and 9:54 pm.
Little-"As You Like It." at 1927
am, 1923, 1888, 5:35, TAO and 9:43
pm.
Ambassador-"Stolen Holiday" at
6:15, sos and 9:55 pm.
Tivoli-"That Girl from Paris" at
las, $40, $40, TAO and $40 pm.
Uptown-"After the Thin Man." at
1870, $3.50. $50, 7:35 and 9:35 pm.
Howard-"Sing Me Love Song" at
1890, 3:25, $40 and 9:15 pm. Stage
shows at 2:10, sos, 8 and 1c:40 pm.
Evening star., 1937-02-09

is said in Bartlett Cormack's slightly
passe script about the antics OF the
Hollywood people.
Frankly. Hey Diddle Diddle" seemed
to be a static rehash of "Jarnegan."
"Once in a Lifetime" and boy Meets
Girl" combining the themes and few
of the virtues of each of those play
lets, and possessing no especial quality
of its own. Perhaps you will have a
wonderful time hardening unto the
woes of a phony director. a comic
strip producer and some rather agree
able extra girls who have secret yen
for the good. clean domestic life; but
the chances are you will not be writing
letters home about the whole affair.
Whatever debt for entertainment
you may owe at the end of the evening
will surely be payable to the Misses
Ball, Sleeper and White, and to Messrs.
Tearle, Hardie and a chap named
Don Beddoe. At the moment they
may be described as six characters
in search Of an author.
While the credit list Is being drawn
it may be just to mention Alfred
Whites Gayety Theater Interpretation
of a burlesque Hollywood producer
and the courteous contributions OF
Adele Rowland and William Faye in
minor roles.
Evening star., 1937-02-09
unfair. This Blue Horizon" sequence

unfair. This Blue Horizon" sequence
Is, for some reason, an extremely
pleasant one-a motion picture mo-
ment which has been remembered by
at least a few people ever since way
back in 1880. when the film came out,
and which is just as enjoyable now
when seen again.
Monte Carlo" in addition to the
two or three minutes Of Blue Hori-
zon," Is an affable musical and q
passably enjoyable one In spite Of Its
great age Of nigh onto six and q half
or seven years. OF course, it has its
moments when it approaches unto
dullnesS, but it also has its moments
when 1t has life. The pleasantest fea-
ture of 1t Is the blithe manner in
which Mr.. Lubitsch allows his players
to burst into song at odd times, even
permitting them to sing duets via the
telephone.
Miss Macdonald Is not the rather
lissom Jeanette Macdonald of today
and 1880 styles created no illusions
Of slimness for her, but her voice then
was something to enjoy, as it is today.
Something to enjoy in spite of the
fact that the recording of the dialogue
in Monte Carlo" reminds you on oc-
casion that you owe debt of gratitude
to the technical boys who have
brought sound to the clarity it has
today. H. M.
Evening star., 1937-02-09
MARIAN CHACE DANCERS
APPEAR IN ALEXANDRIA

TNDER the auspices of the Mount
Vernon Chapter of the Daughters
OF the American Revolution, at the
George Washington High School in
Alexandria on Saturday evening, Ma
rian Chace and her dance group were
presented in an interesting and color
full program.
Outstanding on the program was
the Strauss waltz, Thousand and One
Nights" danced by the combined
mems and women's groups. The spirit
OF old Vienna was successfully cap
tured by the dancers, both in their
lifting movements and in the billowy
white costumes of the girls and the
dsshing black hussar uniforms of the
men.
-, Chief among the numbers was the
Brahms Edward Ballade," which was
repeated from a former program by
request.
A new departure for Miss Chace
which received favorable comment was
the Spanish Impression to Music" by
Granados. In an entirely different
mood was Cyril Scott's "Lento,"
danced with the finely shaded subtle
ties which one has learned to expect
Of Miss Chase.
The blues of Rube Bloom" danced
by Mary Williams, introduced a mod
ern note into the program and effec-
lively translated into movement the
mood Of the torch singer. The audi
ence attested its appreciation Of
this phase Of American theater by its
prolonged applause.
In sharp contrast was the finely
executed "Gavotte to Music by Bach,
danced by Jesse Mello, which capti-
waited the audience with its insou-
Glance.
The lovely Maid With the FIaxen
Hair Of Debussy was exquisitely in
terpreted by Karel Vega, and Cyril
Scott's Lotus Land" by Helen Hoyem,
was a delightful composition sugges-
tive Of the East.
Surprising was the Rachmaninoff
number danced by the mems group,
which evidenced their dramatic and
technical development. One rarely
sees outside Of New York such we'll
co-ordinated and extremely virile
dancing by men.
The Junior group was lovely and
expressed the Mendelssohn "Rondo
Capriccio" in a manner worthy of
more mature dancers.
Lyman McCrary accompanied the
dancers superbly.
Evening star., 1937-02-09
CZINNER AND BERGNER
MAKE "AS YOU LIKE IT."

TT PROBABLY is no great surprise
to two groups Of people that the
Paul Czinner production Of William
Shakespeare's "As You Like It." which
recently had fine week at the Rialto,
Is back to continue its local engage
ment at the Little. The two groups
Of people are the numerous fans of
Miss Elisabeth Bergner and the
Shakespeare followers.
The Bergner fans seem to be more
a cult than a group Of admirers Of a
movie star and their allegiance to
their high priestess is almost fanatic
Any one who has fallen under her
spell In Escape Me Never" or Cath
arine the Great" can wax almost un-
believably eloquent over the emotional
qualities Of Elisabeth Bergner's voice,
over some of her more pleasant man
nerisms and over her bewitching com.
bination of grandeur and the canine.
The important thing is that she does
not let her devotees down with her
characterization Of Mr.. Shakespeare's
Rosalind, but instead contributes an
other memorable portrait to her album
Of cinema masterpieces. Bergner is
really q delightful Rosalind, one upon
whom the chap who wrote the play
probably would have placed a seal Of
approval.
The Shakespeare lovers, even
though they be immune to Bergner
(and 1t Is their own misfortune If
they are), still can hardly do anything
but approve highly of Czinner's han
ding Of the bards lusty comedy.
Czinner has followed the original of
the play almost religiously and the
only difference readily noted in the
script is intelligent editing. Czinner
has knack, too, for enhancing the
interest Of any given moment by his
use Of his cameras. His "As You Like
It" is truly creditable job.-H. M.
Evening star., 1937-02-09

:. Dainty Frances Farmer Is the most
radical young lady In Hollywood. Her
political views are too leftist to repro
duce here :. Enrol Flynn's biography,
Beam Ends" is now on the book
stands Joan Crawford brings her
lunch to the studio in q hamper. She
considers the excellent food provided
in the commissary too tough for her
digestive organs. Owing to the epi-
demic Of extortion and kidnapping
threats directed against the stars. Joan
nowadays Is always accompanied by
her personal maid, chauffeur and
music master. Incidentally, Husband
Franchot Tone Is as enthusiastic about
cultivating his singing voice as his
wife and says the only reason he
makes pictures Is to earn enough
money to employ the best vocal
teachers.
When jeanette Macdonald goes
swimming, the pool is emptied Of
other human beings so that her gigan-
tic sheep dog can frolic with her in
the water t. IT,. Lew Ayres is now inter-
ested in collecting first editions. Be-
fore his separation from Ginger
Rogers, Lewis private life craze was
astronomy. Ginger's current hobby is
painting and sketching. and it is diff
cult to move in her dressing room
without getting covered with paint
and crayon.
Wallace Beery visits the Beverly
Hills Brown Derby three times a week
at II at night in order to read the
morning newspapers . 1t is fortunate
for Director Woody" Van Dyke that
j. Maurice Ruddy. British writer, was
on the set Of Personal Property"
when an English butler in an English
country house used the word "eleva-
tor" when referring to q lift"
Hollywood Is wondering If Miriam
Hopkins will find happiness with
Anatol Litvak, whom the actress Is
said to be considering for Husband
No. 3 Gail Patrick Is getting all
Gertrude Michael's former roles at
Paramount, but for much less money
Ariane Borg, French actress,
brought to Hollywood q year ago by
M-G-M because she resembled Greta
Garbo. was kept out Of pictures by
the studio because "she resembled
Garbo," II this makes any sense to
you. However, the disgruntled actress
has Just had her contract renewed,
and Garbo Is again threatening to
return to her castle in Sweden at the
completion Of Madame Walewska,"
80 she is hoping to see the light Of
screen day before the end of 1887 .. {.
Academy Award Receivers John Ford
and Victor McLaglen entertained
Evening star., 1937-02-09

admitted in her curtain speech, she
was not just an actress. She was
Washington girl come home to show
what she has been doing during long
absence. 1t was considerable bur-
den. She carried it lightly, especially
during the second and third acts after
she had warmed to the task.
At all times she was quite COM
pletely the stage star whose yearning
for her art and her instincts as q
woman were constantly getting tan
gled up-a woman whose path to love
was always blocked by self-distrust
and hard-boiled manager who knew
all about those things. Art and the
manager eventually triumph, but what
a battle Miss Bankhead gives theml
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THE manager, incidentally, is played
with lots of what Is called dex-
terity by Clay Clement. What a lot
of cigar-chewing, tough-talking bosses
he must have had in his day! And
how well he must feel avenged when
he holds them up before an audience
in all their surface odiousness!
Elizabeth Dunno and Ann Andrews
are no end of help to the play. The
former is the maid to Miss Bank
heads actress (Muriel Flood and she
makes of the part q fine mixture of
hysteria, high class shopping, and
underlying loyalty to her tempera-
mental mistress. Miss Andrews also
plays an actress, one that life is never
going to deceive again you can bet,
and she, too. is good If you overlook
few seemingly absent-minded mo-
ments.
Alden Chase and Phillip Reed are
the two loves of Muriel Floods life.
One Is an oaf and the other Is
worm Gas Kelly wrote the parts, OF
course), and both are talented actors.
The others are adequate even if space
to mention their names Is not.
Take it all in all, Washington next
Sunday is going to feel that it was
mighty fine to have had Miss Bank
head home again. Yes, even if George
Kelly did not give her the best play
she ever has had.
Evening star., 1937-02-09
Song Recital.

d TIA ROZADA, contralto, assisted
by Dorothy Paul at the piano, will
give a program of lieder and folk
songs on Thursday at $50 pm. at the
Arts Club. Miss Rozada, who special
ICES in folk songs and is well known in
Washington as an interpreter Of this
type of music, has appeared with the
National Symphony Orchestra in q
concert Of music from the Latin coun-
tries. She will sing the French, Span
ish and Cuban melodies in costume,
while her first group will consist Of
compositions by Brahms, Bohm and
Franz.
Evening star., 1937-02-09
"MONTE CARLO" REVIVED
AT THE RIALTO THEATER

Mr.. ERNST LUBITSCH has con-
" tributed to the cinema not few
moments which are remembered out
Of the past. One of these is that Sc
quence in Monte Carlo" Cat the
Rialto for revival, where jeanette
Macdonald, aboard a train bound for
Monte Carlo, sings Beyond the Blue
Horizon" accompanied by the peas
ants working in the fields through
which the train is speeding. Now the
citizens who clamor for realism even
in their filmusicals will maintain this
is very odd for a young lady on q
train and bunch Of peasants in the
fields to sing the same song and no
doubt will cry this is dragging songs
in by the heels to introduce them in
such q manner. But that would be
Evening star., 1937-02-09

malleable and attractive material in
the persons of Misses Lucille Ball and
Martha Sleeper; an energetic if over
ambitious comedienne named Alice
White. erstwhile of the films. and two
other recruits from the cinema ranks,
Conway Tearle and Russell Hardie,
who seemed willing to do honest work
if they had anything to work upon.
"Hey Diddle Diddle" cannot be rec
commended for its scattered laughs. for
even the best Of them can be seen
coming as far of as roundhouse
curve Also a portion of the good.
clean dollars Miss Anne Nichols made
from "Abie's Irish Rose" is being spent
in producing a play that boasts
plethora of the burleycue humor,
which will be a shock to the millions
who paid their cash for A. I. r., pro-
vided they get around to hearing what
Evening star., 1937-02-09

George Kelly. He wrote Renected'
Glory" and it does not seem quite to
come up to the talents of the local
girl who made good in London, New
York and Hollywood.
Mr.. Kelly, of course, can say that
he Is leaving the profundities this sea-
son to Shakespeare and Maxwell An
derson. He could make a pretty good
case for himself along that line, too,
but we still would 60 on longing for
the day when Miss Bankhead will
show her fellow countrymen how she
became the reigning queen of the
London stage.
These lines are not written to convey
the impression that Reflected Glory"
is a pallid or unworthy piece Of
dramatic writing. Mr.. Kelly Is too
good a craftsman to commit that sin.
He makes his play entertaining. a
thing of laughter lightly sprinkled
with tears. He wrote it, too, in such
q way that Miss Bankhead registers
every emotion in the category OF
good actress. She Is q thing of fire
III anger dIlU lONc. 4llCIC dA e AAAOAA1CAAeo
when she is as superficial as fresh
man composition and others when she
Is poised perilously on the brink Of
wisdom and heart-break. There is
not trick of voice which she does not
have a chance to use as all too few
actresses are capable of using them.
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HOW is all this accomplished If
= Kelly's play Is less than perfect?
In effect, it is all done with mirrors.
for Miss Bankhead is cast in the part
of an actress. As q vehicle for the
display Of acting technique. 1t is i'm
possible to conceive of better pattern
than Kelly has followed. Yet little
deeper probing Of the human being
behind the actress probably would
have made it better play.
But who, after all, cares much about
Kelly this week? It Is Tallulah Bank
head in whom the town Is interested,
and she is superb. 1t was no small
task she undertook last night In spite
of seven months, most of it in New
York, in Reflected Glory" Playing
before that National audience, as she
Evening star., 1937-02-09

the South Sea
story, she was
m a de to read
bits from "Par-
nell" IS tella
Dallas" IN fact
everything at the
s t u dio ex-
Hurricane"
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Film Pictorial,
England's leading
fan magazine, Sc
lected Jim m Y
Stewart for star
ring honors in
1C27 Which uyo
heartily indorSe
Evening star., 1937-02-09
Local Girls
Will Sing
In Contest
THE Rialto wants q Jeanette Mac
Donald.

THE Rialto wants q Jeanette Mac
Donald.
Not that the management feels
there is another jeanette MacDon-
aid running around loose, but they
want to find the closest thing locally
to the popular singing star. They
want to find her badly enough to
donate her radio.
It's all in connection with the
showing at the Rialto OF Monte
Carlo" one of Miss MacDonald's early
films, and any local soprano, anna
teur or professional, Is eligible to
enter the contest.
Applicants are to get in touch with
Pearl Hauer at the rheater tonight,
tomorrow or Thursday night between
2 and pm, when an appointment
will be made for the singing OF q
song from the Rialto stage.
Saturday the finals will be held,
and the girl whose voice most closely
resembles Miss MacDonald's will walk
away with the radio.
According to all reports that was
some party the deans Of the local
drama desks, Nelson Bell and Andy
Kelley, tossed at the Variety Club
yesterday at luncheon, when they
were kings for a day. Among other
people there, there were Lucille Ball,
Martha Sleeper and Alice White Of
the Belasco's "Hey Diddle Diddle"
cast and Jack Garrison, the Belasco's
new manager.
Burton Holmes will speak on "New
and Old Japan" tomorrow at 8:15
O'Clock at Roosevelt High School. He
should know what he's talking about,
too, for he has been a regular visitor
to the country since his first trip
there As years ago.
Henry Mullins, the skyscraper mem
ber Of Lowe, Hite and Stanley, the
comedy trio at the Capitol, used to
be a door man for Carter Barron down
at Loew's Fox Theater in Atlanta.
He got too tall even for that job,
though, and went into show business.
He's now well over feet, having at
tanned that stature from q mere S
feet II four years ago.
Kate Douglas Virgins "Rebecca Of
Sunnybrook Farm" will be the next
attraction presented here by the Chill
dren's Theater of New York. It will
be seen at the National Saturday
morning, March 9. H. M.
Evening star., 1937-02-09

Shirley Temple on the set Of "Wee
Willie Winkie" by getting down on
their hands and knees and believing
like water buffaloes-all because the
little star had never heard a water
buffalo below beforel
Evening star., 1937-02-09
Concert Postponed.

TUE to the illness of Frank Harri-
son, it will be necessary to post
pone the fourth concert of the Howard
University series, scheduled for this
evening. The date will be announced
later.
Evening star., 1937-02-09
"HeyDiddle Diddle" Opens
At the BelascO Theater
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr.

impossible situation cried one OF the characters tn
Diddle" at the Belasco 1heaer last
night and for nominated himself
decided sit down and roast
In he
Evening star., 1937-02-09
Tallulah Given Ovation
Bv Audience at National
REFLECTED Glory" an Excellent Vehicle for
Showing Her Mastery of Technique
If Not Depth as Artist
BY JAY CARMODY.

the home folks Splendid perforance at
Bankhad ovation and she responded with
gracious speech delightful evening
there was single fly ointment upon
Evening star., 1937-02-09
William Powell to Ask
100000 for Each Film
May Sign With Independent Producer If
M-G-M Refuses Demands on
New Contract.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

olLYwooD February ANA)Loretta Young escorted to
Rathbone David Niven admer
who is pictre-making England MoM refuses to
william Powell 100000 his contract he
Independent producer
Evening star., 1937-02-09

ONelI, OF Clie Jane Eyre stage pay
flew out here to be screen-tested for,
Sam Goldwyn's Hurricane" In order
to prove her suitability for Q role in