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Evening star., 1937-02-23
FAIRBANKS ACTS LIKE
SWASHBUCKLING PATER
"The Amateur Gentleman" Makes
Local Bow on Double Bill
at Rialto.

pRESENTTNG a Douglas Fairbanks,
jr., whose appearance and screen
conduct are strikingly reminiscent Of
his swashbuckling progenitor, 1.-The
Amateur Gentleman" Criterion Film
Productions perturbation of the JET
frey Farnol novel, makes its local bow
this week at the Rialto on a double
feature bill which boasts Duck Soup"
with all four Marx Brothers (Zeppo is
an agent now, you know as reminder
of the usual revival policy. Represent
ing British cinema manufacture in its
more impressive moments, the younger
Doug's latest vehicle Is kinetic piece,
welding amusing and dramatic ele-
ments into an entertaining chronicle
Of purposeful masquerade.
Irate at the thought of law which,
in 1910, England fixed hanging as the
penalty for even an Insignificant theft,
Fairbanks, the son Of an ex-champion
boxer, turned innkeeper, comes face
to face with the statute when his father
is unjustly accused and convicted. sets
forth to determine and expose the
guilty one by posing as quality" His
charm and air of mystery win him ac-
cess to London's most exclusive social
circles, secure him royal favor. The
Amateur Gentleman" bests the then
champ in . boxing exhibition during
Evening star., 1937-02-23
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.
Nati0nal-"Pride and Prejudice, !"
at $50 pm.

NationaI-"Pride and Prejudice" I"
at $50 pm
Belasco-"Mulatto," at $50 pm.
Capitol-.Love Is News" at 10:15
am, 1885, 2:55, $40, and 1920
pm. Stage shows at 40 am, 2:05,
! 4:25, 7:05 and 9:25 pm.
Earle-"Green Light" at 9:15 am,
1915, 2:25, sos, TAO and 1920 pm.
Stage shows at 11:o5 am, 1:40, 4:20,
6:55 and 9:35 pm.
MetropQlitan-"Penrod and SAM" at
11:10 am, 1, 2:45, 4:3O, 500, 8:05 and
$50 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Sea Devils" at
l1:35 am, 1888, 3:41, 5:44, 7:47 and
$50 pm.
Palace-"Lloyds Of London" at
1885 am, 2:05, 4:30, 7 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"The Plainsman," at
1875 am, 2:o5, 4:30, 7:05 and $50
pm.
Rialt0-''The Amateur Gentleman" 4"
11:43; Duck Soup" 1:2O; "The ANA
teur Gentleman" 2:39; Duck Soup"
4:16; THE Amateur Gentleman" SAB:
''Duck Soup" 7:20: 1.-THE Amateur
Gentleman" 8:47; Duck Soup" 1924.
Little-"A Tale Of Two Cities" at
II am, 1:04, 3:14, 5:18, 1929 and
9:40 pm.
Tivoli-"Stowaway," at 2:2o, 4:05,
5:55, TAO and 9:35 pm.
Ambassador-"Green Light" at
6, 1855 and $50 pm.
Uptown-"College Holiday" at 2,
1855, 5:45, 7:35 and $50 pm.
Howard-"Smart Blonde" at 1915,
2:45, $40, 7:35 and 1890 pm. Stage
shows at 1880, 3:55, $40 and 9:15 pm.
Evening star., 1937-02-23
TaylOr Outclasses Gable
For Autobiography Sale
Jumps Price to $4,000 When Told Rival
Was Offered $4,000 by London
Publication.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

HOLLYWOOD February % Robert Taylor discovered
- Gable had offered $4,000 publication
he jumped his
Holywoods
conac-fom the President
Evening star., 1937-02-23

Molly Pearson, as Mrs. Bennett,
must make the mothers Of today feel
like members of almost another spe-
cies. She does it, Of course, by the
kind of acting which showed mothers
of Miss Austen's day to be ravening
matrimonial wolves disguised as cling
ing vines. Miss Jerome wrote the
part with high dramatic skill, but it
still left Miss Pearson with deal Of
Interpretation to do. She does it well.
The same thing goes for Helen
Strickland. Hers Is the task of por-
traying Lady Catherine in all the
bigoted regality of her day. What
woman, Miss Strickland's Lady Cath
crime
This, of course, could go on all day.
Miss Jerome's play having as many
characters as it does. 1t will not, for
it is simpler and less time consuming
to say that the rest Of the cast is
good, with notable performances
turned in by Lowell Gilmore as Darcy,
Robert Conness as Mr.. Bennett. Philip
Tonge as Mr.. Collins and Evelyn Byrd
(of the Virginia and Antarctica
Byrds) as Lydia.
THE current show Is dressed as well
as the original, and that is well
dressed. The three sisters never
looked lovelier, and as for the men.
probably most Of the women in the
theater gazed upon them with regret
that mems styles have changed.
10 Mielziner, without whom 1t
seems impossible to produce a play
this season, is responsible for the
costumes and the settings. If it is
true, as National Theater programs
have implied since November, that he
is the only one left in the setting and
costume business, it is the result Of
sheer merit. Mr.. Mielziner has ceased
merely to achieve authenticity. He
has become it.
For those who did not see Pride
and Prejudice" when it opened here,
the present production Is practically
a must. Yes, even for those who saw
1t the last time.
Evening star., 1937-02-23

the course Of his detecting, brings the
real culprit to justice. saves his parent,
and. of course, falls willing prey to
cupid.
The role Is what the boys call q
natural for Fairbanks, and he does
not miss fire, while a radiant ELISA
Landi delivers meritorious co-opera-
tion in the co-starring position. An
excellent supporting cast has Frank
Pettingill as the unfortunate father,
Hugh Williams playing the despicable
one and Gordon Harker abetting as q
pseudo-lackey to the clever champion
Of justice, providing pecuniary aid to
the success of the venture The Rialto's
f1rst-run try, therefore, is enjoyable
celluloid; the revival is pure nonsense
but thoroughly acceptable Marx
Brothers nonsense-wherein Groucho
becomes a dictator and funny things
are said and done. CA M.
Evening star., 1937-02-23

Rhett Butler in "Gone With the
Wind" He Is also probably the only
person in the United States who found
1t impossible to continue beyond the
first five pages Of the book Paul
cite Goddard tells the story of her
embarrassment during q recent visit
to Bali. The day was hot and she
decided to wear shorts. While walking
in a native street she found herself the
object Of amused giggles from the
masculine portion of the population
and Mortified exclamations from the
feminine. Her guide informed her she
had committed a social faux pas by
exposing her legs-which, incidentally,
are better looking than those Of Die
trich's-to the native gaze. Miss God
dard herself was a little scandalized,
because those selfsame prudish Bali
ladies were completely nude from the
waist up!
Rochelle Week. Hud-
son now prefers Jack Young of the
wealthy food market family
Evening star., 1937-02-23
"A TALE OF TWO CITIES"
Revived AT LITTLE
Dickens Novel Skillfully Tran
scribed to the Screen by
M-G-M.

MOST of the time the film pro-
AA ducers of. Hollywood must feel
they are living lives between the devil
and, to paraphrase the old saying, the
deep, red sea- The devil, of course,
is a composite picture of the motion
picture critics of the land, who, having
never produced photoplay, are ready
at any time to tell just how photo
play should be made, and the deep,
red sea is filled with the waves of red
ink which often await the cinema
maker who follows the critics advice.
The studio which made "A Tale
of Two Cities" which now is being
revived at the Little, managed to cap
ture both the cash of the masses and
the plaudits Of the critics, however.
The Metro o-Goldwyn-Mayer people
have transcribed the outstanding
Dickens work to the screen hand
somely and powerfully, in manner
to prove that there is at times a place
for the classics in the cinema and
to prove that the motion picture does
not have to stick to the -meets-girl
formula to do nobly at the box Office.
When "a Tale of Two Cities" first
was released, more than year ago,
any number of critics took to their
housetops to hail the arrival of one
of the 10 best of 1886. And that's
what It turned out to be. It's a pic
ture you can see once and then see
again and still enjoy. Jack Conway
handled his players with something
akin to inspired feeling and allowed
the force of Dickens story of chap
who gave his all for the girl he loved
to live on the screen with undimin-
ished force.
The film is practically aglow with
smooth, accurate and sympathetic
characterizations. Ronald Colman, 1t
has been generally agreed, turned in
one of the best pieces of acting in
his cinema career, and Blanche
Yurka's work is a masterpiece. Isabel
Jewell has q brief moment, also, but
brief or not, it Is enough to prove she's
one of the most accomplished people
in Hollywood. There, too, are Eliza
beth Allen, Donald Woods, H. B.
Warner, Basil Rathbone, Edna Mae
Oliver and a host Of others. H. M.
Evening star., 1937-02-23

the Fall of 1885, but you still can
not believe it.
Jane Austen being adapted to the
stage in this advanced period" you
feel like saying. How funny!"
Your darned right, funny. One Of
the funniest things you've ever seen,
and in the finest sense of the word.
If only the building inspectors Office
will forgive it, and not take it literally,
one could report that the walls of the
theater fairly bulged yesterday after
noon with a crowd that absolutely
would not have been anywhere else.
1t is a road company that plays
"Pride and Prejudice" this time. The
one that opened the show here those
long months ago, however, was no bet
ter man for man and woman for
woman. The new cast stepped right
back into Miss Austen's time and
manners and gave the present
dramatic treat it received with an
almost courtly gratitude.
Don't worry about Miss Jerome's
adaptation of Miss Austen's novel be-
Ing done to just the r1gnt turn. Inere
are some in the present cast who do
even better than the originals. Or Is
that merely because this presentation
Is the fresher in mind?
X
A T ANY rate, no one could be better
than Muriel Kirkland as Eliza
beth. That sly Miss Austen, remem-
ber, created Elizabeth to hold the
touch which was to light the way for
woman's emancipation. Elizabeth's wit
and intelligence were designed by Miss
Austen to make men Squirm, and if
Miss Kirkland missed squirm at yes
terdays holiday matinee, it was not
visible to the naked eye.
Lovely Sister Jane, the nearest
thing to an angel in appearance and
disposition in the fiction Of her period,
Is played ethereally enough by Eu-
genia Rawls to break every heart in
the house. You wouldn't believe 1t
was the same Miss RaWlS who was
here so recently in THE Children's
Hour" (That's the stage for you,
though; from brat to angel in less
than 60 days.)
Evening star., 1937-02-23

Norma Shearer attended a concert
q few evenings ago and asked the
camermen to abstain from photo
graphing her. They all complied to
the wish Of the recently bereaved
actress with the exception of one, an
ambitious newcomer. Whereupon Miss
Shearer's escort, burly Roland Brown.
writer. removed the slide from the
camera and smashed it before the
eyes Of the disgruntled operator :.
Both Dick Powell and Joan Blondell
are sick with ptomaine poisoning . :.
Jean HerSholt'S collection Of first edi-
tions and rare books is insured for
$65, 900 by Lloyds.
tCopyright, 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncJ
Evening star., 1937-02-23
u, S. Exhibits Urged.

Americans are being urged to exhibit
at the international exposition of coal
consuming appliances to be held at
Ankara, Turkey.
Evening star., 1937-02-23

Powell, vacation
ing from picture
making in q
yacht of the
Mexican coast
M a rlene Die
trich's nanicureS
cost her from So
to $12 per time,
d e p e n d 1 n g on
whether she uses
false fngernails.
Robert Mont
gomery is the
only actor in Hol-
lywood. who does
not want to play
Evening star., 1937-02-23

occupied by David o. Selznick and
demanding In o loud voice, who Is
that woman?" It was Merlene Die
trich. This will give you some idea
Of the difference between the lady,s
screen and real life appearance.
Evening star., 1937-02-23

IC6V 6CdICb 70 VIC ICuoV III
lderling at the studio q.
,lman, with Buddy William
Evening star., 1937-02-23

Cubans to Get Jobs.
The Cuban government will replace
West Indians by Cubans on sugar
plantations.
Evening star., 1937-12-04
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Cornell Professor Pro.
duces 'Cyclopean Mon.
sters' in Laboratory.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON

w YE MUSH along through a
\n/ managed economy into a
w managed biology. A new.
and presumably totalitar-
ian, "glandocracy" is blue-printed by
DR.. Charles r. Stockard, for 2s years
professor Of anatomy and biology at
Cornell University. He invites the
economists in. He finds that the
endocrine influences reach out be-
yond the single individual to integrate
behayiors between the sexes ana
among the different life periods in
perpetuating the vast social scale"
He thinks these integrating mech
anisns are Of deep concern not only
to neurologists and general physicians,
but also to sociologists, political econ
omists and all of us"
DR.. Stockard is distinguished
leader of the geneticists and biolo-
gists who, in recent years, have dis
covered that the life plasm is ex-
ceedingly plastic and that it might
be worked up into some interesting
variants from the late model homo
sapiens. That might be good idea,
but, in his laboratory, DR.. Stockard
produces "Cyclopean monsters" in
his own phrase, and, judging from
Homer's account Of those one-eyed
cannibals, it might be Just as we'll
to forget about them. Dr. Logan
Clendenning has written that geneti-
cists easily could produce a race Of
people with pink scales and bright
plumes on their heads, but adds.
What's the use? People are funny
enough as they are"
The profoundly serious import of
DR.. Stocksrds address before the New
York Academy of Medicine is that any
advance in effective social controls
must be measured by improvement in
the raw material Of society-individua
human personality. He thinks the
endocrine glands. in their functioning,
provide clue to the mechanics of per-
sonality and effective personal adjust
ments to society, and, therefore, finds
profoundly important social deriva-
tives of his laboratory work.
He has always been intent on the
social lmpllcatlons OF his research. In
the days when other schoolmen were
dutifully booting John Barleycorn
around, and it wasn't any too safe to
do anything else, he maintained to all
corners that, moderately used, alcohol
had food value, was useful stin-
ulant and increased resistance to dis
ease.
He is the son of a country doctor.
born in Washington Miss, in 1879,
and educated at the Mississippi Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Arts College.
Columbia, the University Of Wurzberg.
where he obtained his doctors degree.
and the University of Cincinnati. THE
physical basis of personality" pub
lished in 1881, is one of the most IN
teresting of his many books, treatises
and special studies
tCcpyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-04

New Deal principle
temporary resort to the much-abud direct
There question at all that provided
unemployment problem
on the w. p AS moderately relief
public
and municipalities for distribution
the three be worked
the President has strong dislike for direct relief NTH
betting that he m choose the State method
pth extensions OF the W. p A. and p w. A.
advantages OF this giving direct relief
that it is cheaper suited to
suddenly
Whatever
study for October showed
men relief experts that
men and who had jobs Labor
half starving
During the last depression
OF by undesired experience
rapidly than they did October promptly
workers been discharged a
letters
OF
orders down nothing mpoby
The results already be Observed
1om IN such
prosperity until recently and
Places the picture
yet been disclosed
One reason that Christmas
retail trade Will enjoy something although
Evening star., 1937-12-04

American Federation Of Labor, who
is familiar with such matters, that the
bill was not written in Congress. In
deed, the statement goes farther. It
says that the two members Of Con-
eress whose names the bill bore as
introducers, Representative Connery
lin the House and Mr.. Black Of Ala
bama in the Senate, had no part in
its preparation.
Since I do not know who wrote the
measure, I cannot know what was in
their minds and cannot fairly char
acterize them. But whatever the in
tention, the effect Of the wage and
hour bill, as originally written, would
be to carry America far toward au-
thoritarian government, particularly
| toward the Nazi variety OF it. Be-
cause authoritarian government Is
ruthlessly jealous Of everything with
| in the state except the state itself,
because authoritarian government de-
| mands that there shall be no institu-
ton or organization within the state,
except itself, to which the citizen can
give allegiance, it follows that author
itarian government rigidly controls or
stamps out labor unions and local
units OF government (as we'll as
churches and other organizations and
institutions.
Curbs State Authority.
The wage and hour bill, as origi-
nally written, tends to reduce the au-
thority and the functioning of the 48
separate States. This is now under
stood and accounts for the opposition
by those who .,rize the continued ex-
istence Of the States. The bill tends
toward destroying labor unions. This
accounts for the opposition by the
American Federation Of Labor, at its
Denver convention in October, adopted
resolutions against the bill.
Even more clearly does the crop
control bill carry us in the authori-
tartan direction. Some four years
ago. when the New Deal was getting
under way and when Prof. Tugwell
had power in the Department Of Agri-
culture. he had as his assistant young
gentleman, passionate acolyte, who
does professional writing under the
name Jay Franklin" Mfr. Franklin,
just before he become Prof. Tugwelrs
assistant, wrote a book called What
We Are About to Receive" In that
proclamation Of promise Mr.. Franklin
wrote:
Sooner or later, we shall discover
as the Roman Church discovered, As
England discovered. as Soviet Russia
discovered-that the pagan. the landed
proprietor. the kulak, is simply 80
much mud in the path OF progress and
must be swept aside If society is to ad-
vance"
Evening star., 1937-12-04

America
connections and academic distinction.
No0 ne has spilled the regard
the NeD Deal reDouion he
order which repacd he alarmed
proposals about the future;
the rugged indUidusnr which
endowment tor the university Which
The cold clear light Harding
gave the country spectacle
Coolidge he observes s
the Yankee traits left make
the world better, fighting much for
normalcy and "have faith Massachusetts,"
public policy. - ~
He discusses Hoover rugged
beginnings saized
and the convincing
primarily administrative Deal
III VIII be easy to how deeply
Roosevelt philosophy familiar was
an attempt to catch and
cuate Government
been accepted by
Tor generation and had by
American legislation. -
This is the nnkindest Nep Deal" says the
professors n directed
topdd preserving cdptalic substituting
another system and the methods
tradition And he quotes PHILOSOPHER of
century There
need to De modified share
NTH prudence in the guidance to dare is
the highest
Evening star., 1937-12-04

the courts for decision because a
magazine editor might take the posi-
ton that where he wants to circulate
his magazine or reprints is his busi-
ness, fully protected under the con-
stitutional freedom Of the press and
that his list of subscribers or his pro-
motion of circulation is his own affair
and not subject to inquiry by any
Federal agency.
The legal problem is, however, not
a simple one because the courts have
ruled in certain types of cases that
information has to be furnished by
the press when sought in criminal
cases though, to be sure, information
as to the source or origin of news has
usually been exempted from Federal
court inquisition.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-04


Gloomier prophets predicting of
Jobess will 100000 without workers On the
of the W.
would bring the would make
100000 ~ ~ ~
The present Federal
unemployment In OF already
desperate With 100000 unemployed districts
Congress rH not bdlk funds
again the only question "HotD
Among conservatives resort to the
cheaper will be
tangible sort OF candy for the voters will
liberals will call
President will get his NAV be
Amerc Newspa
Evening star., 1937-12-04
SCIENCE SERVICE ON AIR

The Columbia Church Of the All
period, to be heard over Station WJsV
from to 1880 pm. tomorrow, vii
be devoted to Christian Science. Th,
program, which will originate in De.
troit, will be presented by Arthur A
Kelkenney, former first reader o.
First Church Of Christ, Scientist. IL
Detroit, and will be under the super.
vision Of the Christian Science Com.
mittee on Publication for the State o,
Michiran
Evening star., 1937-12-04
CHURCH IN PETWORTH
TO END CELEBRATION
Rev. H. J. Smith and Rev. r. P.
Langhorne Will Preach at
Special Baptist Services.

The close of the twenty fifth an
niversary services OF Petworth Baptist
Church will be in the form Of special
sermons tomorrow morning by the
Rev. Henry J. Smith. pastor, and in
the evening by the Rev. F. Paul Lang
horne, former pastor, now Of Berwyn,
Ill. Mr.. Smiths subject will be the
stark Grandeaur of Life" Com
munion services will be celebrated
and new members received.
Honor will be paid at the morning
service to Mrs. Anna M. Watkins, who
will be 90 years old that day.
The Yaden Bible Glass will have its
president as presiding ofIicer, Harold
King, who has been absent for four
weeks on trip to Puerto Rico. The
class will hold a business and social
meeting December 8.
Evening star., 1937-12-04
DUMBART0N AVENUE
COMMUNION SERVICE
starting Wrong" Junior Sermon
Topic-Musicale Will Be
Given at PM.

At the Dumbarton Avenue M. E.
Church tomorrow the Rev. Walter
Franklin Atkinson will administer the
sacrament Of holy communion and
receive new members. The Junior
sermon topic will be Starting Wrong" ."
At 8 pm. the senior vested choir
will render a musicale The guest
speaker will be the Rev. Harold Shape,
executive secretary of the Goodwill
Industries, Washington, D. c.
On Tuesday evening a meeting of
the Church School Board will be con-
Quoted in the parsonage. On Thurs
day evening the Sunday school lesson
will be taught by Mrs. Rovilla Fry
Atkinson. The minister will continue
his addresses on the topic THE Back
ground Of Bible Truth"
Evening star., 1937-12-04
ILLUSTRATED ADDRESS
The Rev. A. p. Wilson to Talk on
"Solomon's Temple"

At Columbia Heights Christian
Church tomorrow evening the topic
OF the Rev. A. P. Wilson will be
Despair and Faith" In the evening
he will give an illustrated address on
"Solomon's Temple"
Mrs B. j. Waldo will lead the prayer
meeting Thursday. Her topic will be
THE Deepest Desire Of Humanity"
On December 10 there will be a
dinner for the official boards of the
Disciples Of Christ of the Capital
area. The speaker Of the evening will
be DR.. j. w. Rustin.
Evening star., 1937-12-04
Copyright. 1877

turn to the National Barn Dance With
another Gay Nineties sketch-WAAI,
at 9 o'clock.
TOMMY DORSEY and his orches-
ira are the principal guests on the
Swing Club-WJsV At I o'clock.
CHARLES COWART, former men,
Der Of the ground crew Of the
dirigible Akron, who was rescued a.
he rangled from . guide rope l 200 feet
IN the air. Will be presented over wRc
at 8 O'Clock.
SIR JAMES H. MacBRIEN, commits
sioner Of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, speaks on the Fight
ing Crime program, . WJsv feature
heard at 10:45.
DAT BARNES and his Barnstormers,
including the singing coincidence,
Helen Ford, and Paul Roberts, BARI
tone. take position on the Saturday
schedule beginning tonight-WOL at
O'Clock.
CHARLES KULLMANN, tenor Of
the Metropolitan Opera Co., Is
the guest artist on the Hit Parade pro-
gram-WJsV at 10 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1937-12-04

tells us how far
these bills would
take us q " q y
from the Ameri-
can form of So
ciety and govern
ment in the di-
rection Of the au-
thoritarian con-
ception exempli-
fed by Germany,
Italy and Russia.
Who wrote the
wage and hour
bill, I do not
know. But I have
a statement from
- ~ n
Evening star., 1937-12-04

OF students Will be tainted with the belief
Communism
rosy only Government
with the people and continent - ~
Americas highest educational authority future when
corneo oy persp1ng repbcras
we new need to DO is to quote Prof
as authority simple
constitution prohibits
conditions which channns princnle
Ihee are periods when to dare the
(Copyris
Evening star., 1937-12-04

based on an Alto
gether different
point and one
that will bear ex-
q m / n a t / o n
because it goes to
the root of en-
ployer - enploye
relations.
It's true the La
Dor Board ordered
a magazine editor
to appear before
a trial examiner
and bring books
and records and
It's true the ed
itor had written