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Evening star., 1937-03-05

wanders into the garden, in which
myriads of blue lamps are aplng
moonlight. The place is chock-a-block
with VanderbiltS (Alfred GWynne
sister, Mimi Baker. and mother, Mar
garet Emerson and Whitneys Sonny.
Joan Whitney Payson, Jock and wife
Liz-the latter rarity in Hollywood,
and many film star guests don't know
her from the next woman.
Ginger Rogers Floats BY.
Ginger Rogers, wearing a fas-
cinating brown striped gown. floats
by in Cary Grants arms Cary is deep
in the torment of love, and stays close
to Ginger the entire evening. :. Film
partner Fred Astaire is among the
few not dancing. A stranger is
ex-boxer Gene Tunney. who doubtless
is discussing Shakespeare with Spen-
Ger Tracy in the corner. Tracy's tux
edo looks wrong on his broad shoul-
ders
Jock Whitney explains the system
of auctioning tickets for the morrow S
race Dye understand" he asks
his guests-most of whom are now
sitting on the floor. No" choruses
the crowd. Neither do l." he con-
fesses David Selznick takes over and
is doing well until Fredric March
demands. who's going to play Rhett
Butler in Gone With the Wind'?'
Every one except March," replies the
producer.
The party is still going strong at
430. but your weary correspondent
has had enough and departs for home
and bed
Copyright. 1887, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. lncJ
Evening star., 1937-03-05

century,, Europe so disposed of 10000.
That New England village of Salem
in the picture, incidentally, is located
at Santa Cruz, Calf. The 80 houses
comprising the setting are going to
be left intact. They are expected to
last several centuries; long enough to
give an awful start to archeologiStS
who may swing pick into the roof
of one at some distant future.
DAY TUTTLE is not at home today.
Won't be, indeed, for three weeks.
The director of the Civic Theater left
Washington yesterday for California.
Talent scouting is the object of the
journey. Mr. Tuttle expects to line
up picture players for work in Sum-
mer stock at the Westchester Play
house, Mount Kisco, N. Y. He and
Richard Skinner will operate the
house for the eighth season this year.
Constance Connor Brown has taken
over direction of Girls in Uniform"
next Civic Theater play. 1t is sched-
uled for March 81.
X X
CLAUDE GRENEKER springs the
news from New York that Milton
Shubert, just returned from England,
"contemplateS doing season of
George Bernard Shaw plays" next
September. The report that Shubert
acquired control of ShaWS plays
brought hasty and emphatic denial
from the American producer &.
Katharine Hepburn is a Phi Beta
Kappa. Thoda Cocroft reminds this
department. And she is doing Jane
Eyre" and will do it in Washington
come the week of March % A
sort of H. G. Wells prophecy of the
future, expressed in music and with
modernistic furniture is Top of the
Town" which has just been completed
by Universal Doris Nolan whose pic
ture formerly hung on the drama de-
partment's wall until some one skunk
away with it probably in a high
powered carr, will play the lead d.
Crazy Rhythm is the name of the
revue which will spread a total of 40
persons on the stage of the Howard
Theater for a week, beginning today
Edith Wilson who helped make Lew
Leslie's BlackbirdS memorable is
among the featured players :. Speak
ing of institutions named Howard, the
university may not have Todd Duncan
as voice instructor after this year.
The man whose voice gave so much
luster to "Porgy and Bess' may 60 to
Hollywood to do the show in pictures.
Hollywood is not likely to let him get
away Der Muede Theodor
German comedy will be the film at
traction at Pierce Hall today and to-
morrow. 1t is offered under the aus
pices of the Foreign Cinema League.
1t starts at pm. Tech High
vocalists are working hard these days
on THE Pirates of Penzance" which
will be presented March 18 and 20
"Yiddle With His Fiddle" with
Molly Picon. comes to the Jewish Com
munity Center on March IA .
Southeast Community Players have
chosen "Dulcy" as their April play.
Miss Marie E. Walcott is the new di-
rector.
Evening star., 1937-03-05
CHEVY CHASE FRANTICS
DELIGHTS WITH SATIRE
Annual Musical Brings to Light
Some Good Stage Talent

in School.
roth political parties, all govern
mental matters, foreign dictators.
taxes and the general state Of the
country's affairs all came in for their
share of merry jibes in last nights
presentation at the Wardman Park
Theater Of "1492 or What Have YOU"
the 1887 edition of the Chevy Chase
Frantics.
Produced under the direction of
Maurice Greet. from the book by Isa-
belle harrington, with original music
and lyrics by Barbara Bramwell, this
years version of the annual musical
satire by the girls of Chevy Chase
School had much that delighted the
near-capacity audience.
That school out on Connecticut ave-
nue. must be fairly bulging at the seams
with handsome specimens OF young
girlhood and a lot of them possess
goodly amount Of stage talent. 1t may
not be exactly fair to single out any Of
them, but there's no dLsputing the fact
that Billie Jeanne Storer stopped the
show more than once She has a knack
for comedy and she can dance Also
the program credits her with all the
choreography of the show. so she's
one Of the more talented of the stu
dents.
Jean Thompson has something, too,
in that deep blues voice and there were
other notable singing, dancing and
talking contributions by Elizabeth
Woodbury.. Neysa Mather, Sammie
Ives, Florence Fawick, Betty Berly,
Rita Sanford. Evelyn Stonehouse.
Dorothy Harris, Tita Costa and Marian
Carnrite. H M.
Evening star., 1937-03-05
ALEXANDRIANS PRESENT
CART AND MRS. BOTTLE
Little Theater Performance Well
Received by an Enthusias-
tic Audience.

A RT AND MRS. BOTTLE" three
act comedy of the "fixer" type,
by Benn w. Levy, was presented last
evening as its third production of the
season by the Little Theater of Alex
andria The customarily enthusiastic
audience in Lyceum Hall saw an ef-
fort which had its moments, as the
cliche is, most of them credited to
George G. Fuller, but fell somewhat
below the creditable standard estab-
lished by the group. 1t provided an
entertaining session of histrionics.
hoWever-the weaknesses were not
glaring.
What Mr.. Levy has here is one of
those opuses in which some one comes
upon the scene to straighten out the
difficulties of several other people. The
salutary influence is Celia Bottle, who
left her husband for an artist, shifted
to a nobleman who died, so back to
be wrong with the family, but Celia
discovers and disposes of sons love
for model and daughters love for that
same artist man. Marguerite Barton
played Celia, presenting a character
ization of not a little plausibility.
shocking hubby with matter-of f-fact
nonchalance. 1t was George Fuller,
however, who snatched top honors in
the role of George Bottle-a clever and
amusing treatment of pompousness
and uncomprehending bluster.
The services of Prompter Mary Whit
ton Leef were enlisted frequently,
Josephine Orendorff and Joseph Blair
dropping lines-but there were others
They gave otherwise adequate portray
ais of the sore hearted offspring. how
ever. John F. Hauber contributed a
noteworthy bit as the philandering
painter. with Donald King playing a
bucolic suitor; Mariana Bloch, the
model; Helen Cruikshank, the maid.
The production, boasting an attractive
get by dependable c. David Persina,
was directed by Brown Rolston.
&C. A. M.
Evening star., 1937-03-05
WILL SING "GALLIA"
National Capital Choir Will Civ

National Capital Choir Will Give
Presentation Sunday.
THE National Capital Choir, under
the direction Of DR.. Albert w.
Harmed, will sing Gounod,s "Gallia"
at musical service at the Universal
ist National Memorial Church on SUM-
DAY, in the morning. This biblical
elegy" was composed by Gounod in
London, where he had been forced to
flee because of the invasion of France
by the Germans during the Franco
Prussian War. 1t was first performed
at the Inauguration of the Royal
Albert Hall in London. Gounod took
the words of "Gallia" from the first
chapter Of Lamentations to express
his grief over the plight of Paris. then
being laid seige to by the Prussians.
Irene Koehl, soprano, will be the
Boloist.
Evening star., 1937-03-05
STUDENTS IN RECITAL

11eIeH 0PdSUH 20 TTtStNC UTOup
Tomorrow Afternoon.
HELEN SPASOFF, graduate teacher
: = of the Peabody Conservatory of
Music. is presenting group of her
younger students in a piano recital
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock The
recital will be held in the assembly
room on the fourth floor of the
Y. w. C. A., Seventeenth and K streets
northwest. The students participating
are Clara Lee, Doris and Margaret
Lohmeyer, Cloyd Marvin. jr.; Robert
Butman and John Lundquist. Frances
Jackson, soprano, will be the guest
artist. The public is cordially invited.
Evening star., 1937-03-05

want to say. IT
met Marlene Diet
rich" when they
re turn home
gaZeS without eX-
preston after the
retreating form
Of escort D ug
Marlene is a
devotee of t h e
prevailing white
face fashion. 1t
does not suit her
Virgi n ! a
B ruce. another
W h i t e-f a C e. is
m ore attractive
minus rouge,
Evening star., 1937-03-05


If James Hilton does not transcribe
beautifully to the screen, then the
Broadway drama reporters all went
mad at the same time.
1t will not be until late in April that
Washington will have opportunity to
see the picture. The Good Earth"
M-G-M's epic built upon the novel Of
Pearl Buck, will precede it. The
length of the latter's tenure has not
been set. 1t opens at the National
early in April and until it closes Lost
Horizon" will find no room in WASH
ington.
In the meantime, the thousands who
were fascinated by the beauty of Hill
tons story in novel form and the
thousands of others who always
planned to read it, can cogitate the
enthusiastic words of:
Howard Barnes, New York Herald
Tribune: 1T is a triumph of screen
ingenuity and integrity that the film
has retained so much of the brooding
spell of its original in richly satisfy
ing entertainment"
Frank Nugent, New York Times:
* There is no denying the opu-
lence of the production, the impress
siveneSs of the sets. the richness of
the costuming. the satisfying attention
to large and small detail which makes
Hollywood at its best such a generous
entertainer"
Regina Crewe, American: "1t is
droy Of
Bland JohaneSon Of the Daily Mir
ror describes it as an "eXhilarating
film"
Others of the critical estimates of
Columbias achievement are of a piece
with these.
The company is reported to have
spent $2,000,000 in the making of
Lost Horizon" 1t should have been
able to buy something pretty grand
for that much money. Apparently it
has.
IT LOOKS like a musical Spring
the thermometer, not the calen-
dar Spring. at the Earle. Starting
today with Grace Moore's When
You're in Love-" the theater will go
steadily melodious for several weeks.
Even Carole Lombard, who never
sang before on stage or screen, will
warble sweetly in Swing High, Swing
Low" Jessie Matthews, who has sung,
but only the music of English COM
posers. will chant 100 per cent Ameri-
can notes in Head Over Heels in
Love" The King and the Chorus
Girl" introducing Fernand Gravel,
French idol, to his first American au-
dience, will not sing but his picture
will. 1t will utilize the voice of Kenny
Baker. who has sung everything but
'The Bee" on Jack Benny's radio pro-
gram.
THOSE who come out of the Capitol
Theater feeling pretty badly about
the practice of early Americans in
hanging witches after seeing Maid of
Salem" during the next week can find
one consolation. 1t has been dug up
by the research department of Para
mount. which found that while only
19 witches were hanged in this country
during the period 0ate seventeenth
Evening star., 1937-03-05
MRS SIMON TO SPEAK
Will Address International Club
on Sunday Evening.

" address the Washington Inter-
national Club, 1903 New Hampshire
avenue, this Sunday evening. Her
subject will be Clara Schumanu,
Artist and Woman"
Evening star., 1937-03-05

David o. Selznick, Mervin LIE Roy.
Daryl zanuch and Sam Goldwyn-
plus several New York playboys, who
Evening star., 1937-03-05
Queen to Be Patron.

Queen Mary has consented to be-
come a patron of the Young Women's
Christian Association of Great Britain.
Evening star., 1937-03-05
''LOst Horizon" EvOkes
Gotham Critics Praises
Picture Not Yet Scheduled for Washington
Showing-Musical Interlude Looms
Ahead at the Earle.
BY JAY CARMODY.

CT HORIZON has passed the acid test New York criticism
a the cinema critics OF Gotham nave
adectival find words which
the O
long at the
Evening star., 1937-10-08
u. S. EXPENSES CUT
is URGED BY ADAMS
Ways Of Raising Revenue Must
Be Considered at Same Time,
Senator Asserts.

Congress and the President will have
b consider both a reduction of ex-
penses and ways of increasing revenue
If the administration is to accomplish
Its aim of balanced budget at the
next session, in the opinion of Senator
Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, men,
ber OF the Appropriations Committee.
While any changes in taxation would
have to be determined by Congress,
Adams believes reduction of expenses
could be accomplished more easily by
the President, through the process of
calling in his cabinet members and
directing them to save a certain per-
centsge of the total appropriated for
their respective departments, to be
left in the Treasury.
From his experience in handling
supply bills, Adams pointed out it is
not easy to accomplish reductions
while the bills are being enacted He
mentioned rs per cent saving in out
80 because, he said, that was in the
economy plank of the Democratic 1882
platform. He added, however, he
would not advocate a fiat percentage
cut In all appropriation items, point
ing out that there are some fixed
charges that cannot be cut and be-
cause some activities could not stand
as much of q cut as others.
Asked If he thought the budget
balancing goal of the administration
would be reached next year, Adams
said "it is financial possibility, and
desirable, but economy always brings
protests" Drafting new tax laws also
Is q difhcult task, he said, since there
\"is no pleasant way Of raising revenue" +"
Evening star., 1937-10-08

Weeks. now dead, was . member Of
this class.
While the entire class did not 70
through with the Navy, many OF them
stepping out into other walks Of life,
their surviving comrades claim that
Annapolis never has turned out such
q galaxy Of talent. Some of them
came to be the finest engineers in
civil life. Others adorned the arts
and professions, their Navy class
mates declare.
From now until Sunday, the class
OF 81 hopes to hobnob here in WASH
ington. There will be q luncheon this
afternoon at the home Of a daughter
Of an old classmate, Secretary Of War
Weeks. She is Mrs. John w. Davidge
-"Katherine" to the boys. This gath.
ering will take place at her Rock
Creek Drive residence.
Tomorrow night will be the big
fanfest, with a formal banquet a,
the Metropolitan Club and a roomfu
Of yarns right out of the old Navy
Those who have checked in, SO far
for the 1881 class reunion are: Robert
Pierpont Forshew, William Henry
Stayton, Henry Braid Wilson, James
Hall Colwell, Henry Laird Ballentine
Ovington Eugene Weller, William
Leroy Emmett, William Henry Cart
ley, Con Marrast Perkins, Isaac Brown
Parsons, Daniel Morgan and Lloyc
| Bankson.
Evening star., 1937-10-08

are going to Annapolis tomorrow to
see the Navy eleven play Virginia.
This morning at 10 o'clock the old
grads Of Annapolis journeyed over to
Arlington ito visit our little plot ="
First Group Arrives.
Last night the first contingent ar
rived at headquarters in the Lafayette
Hotel and started right in to rem
inisce. They recalled that only %
members OF the class are now living.
out Of 155 who started out as mid
shipmen so years ago. They were
boys then between the ages of 16
and 18. Now the youngest man is
76, but they are all strong and hearty.
And they came from as far away as
California.
In the course of the first gathering
last night, over the coffee cups, it was
brought out that the class of 1881
boasts Of three admirals. a full gen.
eral Of United States Marines, and
one who was adjutant general Of Ma
rines during the World War. The
admirals are John Adrian Hoogewerff
deceased; Edward Everett Capehart
retired, and Henry Braid Wilson, for
mer head Of the Naval Academy. The
general Of Marines was the late
George Barnett. The adjutant gen.
eral was the late Charles Henry
Lauchheimer. 1t also was recalled
that the former United States Senator
and later Secretary Of War, John w
Evening star., 1937-10-08
SOVIET Halls j. s.
'AGGRESSOR' VIEW
Press Welcomes Readiness
to Take Active Part in
Joint Efforts.
Ey the Associated Press


MOSCOW, October 8.-Full Soviet
support Of decisive action against war
making nations was promised today
by the newspapers Izvestia and
Pravda, government mouthpieces.
They welcomed the readiness OF
the United States to take an active
part in joint efforts"
Izvestia, regretting that an effective
quarantine against Fascist aggres-
sion" could not be expected, said some
governments need to change their
words into action"
This remark seemed to be directed
against Britain and France as well as
the United States.
"Roosevelt's declaration represents
q very significant step forward along
this line Izvestia commented. The
near future will show whether further
steps will be made in this direction.
Needless to say, steps toward prac-
tical collective counteraction to law
less, criminal. military aggressions
will meet the full support Of the Soviet
nation"
One measure suggested by the Soviet
press was revision Of the American
neutrality act.
Mr.. Roosevelts conclusion that
neutrality in the present interna-
tional situation cannot be realized and
there is no protection against war;"
1zvestia said, indicates a tendency
growing in American public opinion
to revise the policy which has been
maintained up to now
Evening star., 1937-10-08
THANK GOD" SAYS WIFE.
Knew Spanish Insurgent General
Would Keep Promise.

Would Keep Promise.
PARIS, October 8 (P).-Mrs. Harold
z. Dahl answered her telephone at
Cannes, France, heard reporter say
Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco had spared her husbands life
and said, Thank God!"
I'm relieved" she said, but I'm not
surprised
II believe Spanish gentlemen keep
their promises. He Francisco Franco,
cousin and aide of the generaD
wrote to me saying not to lose hope
Of seeing Harold come back to me.
I didn't. But when I heard about the
court-martial it sounded terrible"
Shortly after her husband was cap
tured Mrs. Dahl wrote to Franco from
her temporary home at Cannes, ask
ing that his life be spared. She sent
a photograph of herself along with
the letter. On September % she re-
ceived assurance that her husband
would not be shot.
IF it hadn't been for Frances per-
eonal letter to me-" she said, Il would
have been a complete wreck by this
time. But I knew he meant what he
said.
Since the trial began and ended
without formal announcement of a
verdict I have been running around
in circles. I didn't know what to do.
I didn't know what to think, even
though everybody tried to make me
think IL wasn't serious
Il knew it wasn't, but now take
off my hat to gentleman who doesn't
give girl hopes and then wreck
them
i've been doing everything possible
to get Harold exchanged. I expect
to come 10 Paris soon to see whether
the Spanish government embassy can
offer an exchange of prisoners.
I'm sure now that Harold soon will
be back with me-"
Evening star., 1937-10-08
Speech Puzzles" NaziS.

By the Associated Press
BERLIN, October 8.-The controlled
Nazi press professed last night to be
puzzled over what it described as the
discrepancy between President Roose-
velt's Chicago peace address and large
American arms sales to Soviet Russia.
Mr.. Roosevelt's Chicago speech, the
papers observed editorially, dramati-
cally announced America hates war
and actively engages in search of
peace. Tremendous arms shipments
to the Soviet, it Was added, demon
strate how earnestly the search pro-
ceeds.
The Berliner Boersenzeitung recalled
President Roosevelt said 10 per cent of
the worlds population is menacing
peace and Threatening to break down
all international order"
1t added that since the bolshevism
program of world revolution certainly
aims in this direction "it really is dim
cult to grasp the fact the United States
nevertheless is ready to sell Soviet
Russia war materials which can only
serve the purpose of further destroying
the peace Of the world"
Evening star., 1937-10-08
500 REBELS SLAIN
ON ASTURIAN FRONT
Valencia Forces Repulse Several
Vigorous Attacks and Close,
Up Lines.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, october "a detach-
ment Of 500 insurgent soldiers were
reported today to have been killed in
inconclusive fighting on the Asturian
front in Northwestern Spain where
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is
pounding the government lines In an
effort to avoid q second Winter cam.
paign there.
The casualties occurred when gov
ernment troops repulsed several vigor.
Gus insurgent attacks and finally sue
ceeded in closing a gap which ths
enemy had opened IN their lines.
In the Covsdonga sector Of the
Asturian front the insurgents filtered
through the government lines, but
suffered heavy losses and finally we're
pushed back.
On the Aragon front in Northeastern
Spain, advancing government forces
captured two towns and several other
positions. A unit Of 112 insurgents
surrendered at Casbas de Jaca.
Evening star., 1937-10-08
BOGOMOLOFF DUE
IN NANK|NG SOON
Soviet Envoy to Return
Within Week, Mission to
Moscow Finished.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NANKING, October 8.-The Soviet
Embassy announced today that Dimitri
Bogomoloff, the Soviet Ambassador tc
China, and his military attache, Gen
E. D. Lepin. were expected to return
to Nanking within a week from Their
sudden mission to Moscow.
While Embassy officials declined tc
state the exact object Of the mission
they did not deny it might have beer
connected with possible Russian mill.
tary aid for China.
Foreign observers saw great signifi-
canoe in the J., sudden departure OF
Bogomoloff and Lepin by special air.
planes and their equally swift return
especially as they were summoned
home by the Soviet government.
China's foreign minister, Wang
Chung hui, expressed admiration to-
day for the declaration Of President
Roosevelt against aggressor nations
and the American State Departments
condemnation Of Japan as a treaty
violator.
Although Geneva's resolutions and
decisions fall far short of that action
China believed might be taken under
the League covenant, these steps
clearly demonstrate that the civilized
world is at least spiritually behind
China in her present fight against the
aggressOr," Wang said.
(The League of Nations con-
demned Japanese invasion" Of
China and called for meeting of
the signatories Of the nine power
Washington pack guaranteeing
China's territorial integrity