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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Local BouDl

California has its Rose Bowl,
the South the Cotton Bowl and
Sun Bowl. Why can't we Wash
ingtonians have a bowl game?
OF course, its proper name
would be the Political Bowl.
II. 3.
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1T sounds like a
fairy story to me.
Even if business
were improved to a
high degree, it
seems hardly pos
sible that a laborer
or a worker like
myself would be
paid around SIT a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14

that high, at least, not unless
there were an artificial boost in
business. The dollar would be
worth less in actual buying
power"
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week for his work. Store clerks
and taxi drivers and truck driv-
ers, all average family heads,
would not be worth that much to
a business unless money was de-
VALIDATED. There are too many
out of work who are willing to
work for any salary"
X X
Mrs. H. c. Burns, College
porlx MD ho1,Snu,ife.
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This salary is a
great deal of money
for the income Of
an average person
nowadays. Even If
business conditions
show a great i'm
provement, incomes
for all f Mile s
could not Jump
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January 1, 1888. Is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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People
SOCRATES.
By Frank Romer
MEYERBEER

NOTHING helped him
~ to compose his Won
derfuI music so much as
a thunderstorm. He would
abruptly leave a dinner,
or gathering, upon the
first clap Of thunder, in
spired to an outpouring OF
melody that often held
him enthraIIed in his
work for days.
Ct. M. Res. U. s. Pat. OFF, $50
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Experienced Memel

WE DON'T know but we should think the people least
w excited over Mernels impending change of owner
shin would be the Memeltes or Memellanders or what
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-14
The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

An annual income of $4,000
for every family was envisioned
by the American Federation of
Labor in a recent monthly bust
ness survey. Do you think such
incomes are possible in today'S
business competition?
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

200 WORDS Names addresses Of
will be omitted
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THE ANSWERS

Miss Alice Hubers, 1900 block
Massachusetts, Ave. N. W., ste
nographer:
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MIS-. H. u OUIAAS'
Park, Md, housewife:
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-11-16
kJ
TSports Sputterings
By Cliff Cocki1l
By Cliff Cockill

Tn fed up football broadcasters. .Phooey
them. .......Bi11 Stern is lousy, TED Husing is
1ouster and Tony Nakeman is the lousiest.........
Furthermore, do not think there is man living
who clearly and accurately describe football
game. ........We have the who Celebrates
on the technical phases of the matter
of fact he is SO specialized that veteran
coach would have difficulty following the game as
this Simple Simon behind the microphone gives his
account of triple wing back ions, submarine
tackles and other foggy Then have
the guys whose word pictures something like
this "Rl ikehelus takes the ball.. he shakes off
one, two, three tacllers. .hes getting out into
the open. and is finally driven out of bounds
after picking up TWO BIG YARDS. Amt it
Wful7..........Ke also have the boys who contin-
ual1y beef about the PA. you
will listen closely you will discover that the
radio guy gets all his dope from the PA. guy and
then squawks because the P A. is drowning him OUT.
Then have the gentlemen who get excited........
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-11-16
Basket Ball League

The Greenbelt Basketball League played the second
Of their schedule last Wednesday night tn the
Eton boys from Block defeating Dartmouth from Block
by score "a to % for their second straight
Glory. Juniata Block J, then took the floor
against Columbia Of Block and set back by the
sided Of 80 to mainly due to the absence
player Col dfadden. Buclnell, Of Block
A and B, then their second straight by sinking
Carnegie the tune of &c to Boote again getting
credit for l6 points by sinking field goals, and
establ shing himself the leading of this
early In the final game, Brown, of Block B,
took it the chin in dull uninteresting game from
Joliet, of Block J, by the of Is to II. Out
standing players the evening dwell of Eton
who scored l6 points for his team, Cockil1 of Dart
mouth, who scored Is points, Rorl of Columbia. who
took second hi gh honors with points, and Boote Of
Bucknell, who also scored Is points.
The third round will be played next Friday ,Novem
Der 49, starting at 1880 Pm. in the gym. Come and
root for your team.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-11-16

Someone gets off on long run. So Mr.
forgets all about his public and gives forth with
a series of 1usty bellows, viii CHI is very bad
John Pub1icts spart1 arly If ne would
be so bold want to know who is scoring the
touchdown for whom. This type announcer has
caused than beautiful console to get kick
ed to pieces. could go deeper
into this public nuisance but the deeper go the
1ouster they get......................1 offer as
remedy a Saturday afternoon broadcast something
like this: O'Clock the army band to swing
up will be given by Lowell Thomas. .....to be fol
lowed by of recorded Mildred Bailey song
.....The half is about Nv. Ka1 tenborn,
comes forward and gives a Of the action up
to date. Then, Mildred Bailey
and finally, Ka1tenborn again wi tn the
final informant That would be my IDEA
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-11-16

of splendid afternoon You might skip
the band Thomas and Kal tenborn long az you
ala than the recent orson Felles Broadcast.....
Just imagine what would happen if they would turn
That would be the
Have few winners: tern Notre
Dame. Harvard Yale. Columbia Syra
Ohio State Mich gan. and Army
Prince ton.
Evening star., 1938-08-12

refuses to participate personally In
the negotiations. The latest explana-
ton Of his attitude that I have heard
is that he expects Lord Runciman
to call on him.. II this Il true, then
Henlein does not realize that he u
playing into the hands Of the Czech
government.
At 5 O'Clock yesterday afternoon the
C0echs and Germans held . conference
in Premier Hodzas ONCE. With Hodza
in the chair, i've Sudeten Germans. all
cabinet ministers. and eight members
Of the government coalition committee
participated
Three members Of the government
coalition committee explained their
views on both the proposed nationality
statute. and the sudeten German
memorandum recently delivered to the
Praha government. Thereupon the
Sudeten German delegates declared
that they would formulate their views
anew at their next conference, which
1t was agreed would be held August IT,
(Copyrisht. 1888. BY Chicaso Daily News.
Inc)
Evening star., 1938-08-12
DAMAGE DELAYS
FLIGHT TO BERLIN
Quick Return of Germany's
Plane After 3,942-Mi|e
Hon to U. S. Abandoned.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug 12.-Minor DAM
age to the propeller and an engine
cowling of the 19-ton German plane
Brandenburg delayed the start OF the
huge ships homeward flight across
the Atlantic Ocean.
A quick turn-around trip had been
planned but this idea was dropped
soon after the four-man crew brought
the 24-passenger transport skimming
into Floyd Bennett Field yesterday at
the end of a record-breaking trip from
Berlin. 1t was the first West-East
linking of Berlin and New York and
the 3,942 miles were covered in "a
hours 81 minutes.
Spouting oil betrayed the damage
as the plane rolled to a stop. Alfred
Henke, blond and taciturn captain OF
the Brandenburg's crew, said the dam
age was trivial and that, If necessary,
the plane could have started home i'm
mediately. But there was no rush and
New York had shown them such
splendid welcome" he said, that the
flyers wanted to stay "a day or two"
Departure Time Undecided.
Capt Henke would not commit him.
self on the hour of takeoff, but lin
any case" he said, it would not be to-
day.
Capt Henke and his flying mates,
Rudolph Won Moreau. co-pilot; Paul
Dierberg, flight engineer and Fritz
Kober radio operator, were completely
casual about the flight.
I'VE expected to make the trip in
something like "a or 26 hours" Henke
commented, "and now we've done it,"
He described the trip as Smooth"
with the exception Of the mid-Atlantic
headwinds that have been the bane
of every flyer who attempted the
westward crossing.
The Brandenburg made the un-
heralded flight as q demonstration Of
Germany's readiness to institute mail
Evening star., 1938-08-12

the Brandenburg's achievement pos
sible.
Nonstop flights from Berlin to New
York soon will become regular flx-
tures," he added.
German aviation circles expressed
the opinion that In the future Atlantic
flying belongs to land planes because
Of their greater speed and longer
range.
Those in the know about the Bran
denburg's plans said the reason the
flight was kept secret until long after
the take-or was that much heralded
flight to Cairo and back last June did
not 90 of as scheduled.
Evening star., 1938-08-12

the Atlantic by the transport mono
plane Brandenburg.
"The dream Of generations has come
true" was the universal comment.
Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor OF
Italian Libya, who is here to inspect
Germanys air force, declared to Ger
man newspaper men:
This achievement shows that pre-
paratory stages are past and the point
has been reached where regular North
Atlantic air traffic appears 4 GER
tainty."
The italian marshal, however, ex-
pressed the opinion that, while all
seemed ready for establishment of
regular airmail service to North Amer
lea, passenger traffic would take some
time to develop.
Wolfgang Won Gronau. president Of
German Air Clubs, described the flight
from Berlin to New York As q mile
stone in the history Of aviation. He
said q rare combination Of technical
perfection and personal ability made
Evening star., 1938-08-12
.RUNCIMAN SCORES
. SUDETEN SUCCESS
Brings Czechs and Germans
Around Conference Table
in Praha.
BY M. w. FODOR.


Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
PRAHA, Aug. 12.-Viscount Walter
Runciman can now boast Of his flrst
success as British adviser in the Czech
minority dispute. He has brought the
Czechs and Sudeten Germans to-
gether around the conference table,
although the latter had intended to
avoid direct negotiation and wished to
deal with Premier Milan Hodza,s gov
ernment only through Lord Runci-
mans mediation.
1t is dificult to follow the Sudeten
Germans game Of chess and even
more difficult to understand the atti-
tude of Konrad Henlein, who has re-
tired to his home town, Asch, and
Evening star., 1938-08-12

and passenger service between Ger
many and the United States. Henke
pointed out, however, that oceanic
passenger flights in such ships as the
four-motored low-winged Brandenburg
probably would be impracticable be-
cause OF the big fuel load necessary.
I'VE could not have carried more
than two more persons" he said.
Nevertheless, aviation officials ac-
claimed the flight as an outstanding
Achievement AL Williams, one of avi-
atoms pioneers, described it as "one
of the most significant developments
in modern flying" stressing the fact
that the Brandenburg is landplane
of standard type.
The flight was sponsored by the
Focke-Wulf Co., which manufactured
the plane.
BERLIN. Aug. IL (P.-There was
jubilation in Germany last night over
successful completion of the first Ger
man east-West nonstop flight across
Evening star., 1938-08-12

neglected part Of an automobile.
He will make a complete 1ubri-
cation check-up of all friction
points. Whore fabrication 10
faulty or inadequate he will apply
Veedol Motor Oils and Greases
with modern equipment and
at modest cost.
Get your free ty.Chsck to-
day! And also be sure to get q
supply of that great new Tydol
Gasoline. It's the finest Tydol ever
made to sell at regular gas price
-. And it's especially refined to
give full power and higher
anti-knock performance 10 your
modern high compression nnesor.
Evening star., 1938-11-29
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

NationalE"Golden Boy" Clifford
Odets' play about the frustrated vio-
hnist turned fighter: $50 pm.
Capitol-"There Goes My Heart" )"
romantic tale in the comedy mood:
II am, 1:45, 4::30. tbs and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 1850, 3:35, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Earle-"Angels With Dirty Faces" :"
Thug Jimmy Cagney gets his just
desserts: II am, 1:35, AIS, 7:05
and 9:55 pm. Stage shows: 12:45,
3:25, 6:10 and 8 pm.
Palace-"The Great Waltz" screen
version of the stage musical, full Of
Strauss music: 1920 am, 1:50, 4:25,
Z and 9:35 pm.
Belasco-"Orage," Charles Boyer's
newest film: 4:25, 6:15, sos and
9:55 pm.
Keith's-"Peck's Bad Boy With
the Circus" Tommy Kelly and Ann
Gillis have adventure under the big
top: 11:40 am, LIS, sos, 4:50, $50,
s:20 and 1905 pm. March of
Time: 11:15 am, 1885, 2:40, 4:25,
6:10, 1855 and 9:35 pm.
Metropolitan-"Girls' School," tale
Of the difficulties adolescents face:
1l:25 am, 1:30, 3:35, 5:35, TAO and
9:45 pm.
Columbia-"Just Around the Cor
ner," and there Shirley Temple
meets prosperity: 11:45 am, las.
3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Little-"Janosik," Czechoslovakian
Aim story Of patriot who freed his
people from oppression: II am,
1880, 71o. 4:1o. 8, 7:5o and go.
Evening star., 1938-11-29

casting Of the drama since this
department first saw it in New
York a year ago. One of the most
notable is that Lee J. Cobb has
replaced Morris Carnovsky as Pere
Boneparte, a circumstance that
clamors for attention not because
Mr.. Cobb Is not satisfactory so
much as because Mr.. Carnovsky and
the group theater are practically
synonymous.
Other members of the company
do Mr.. Odets the honor of inter
preting his play as he wrote it. If
one may compare their perform
ances with the original. The II
scenes which carry the audience
through the grimness of the play
wright's sense of life are the same
as the original and owe their fit
ness to Mordecai Gorelik.
Golden Boy is not pretty in
spite of its name, but it is very
worthy drama.
Evening star., 1938-11-29
Gilbert and Sullivan
At High School

Pirates OF Penzance," Gilbert and
Sullivan light opera, will be pre-
sented In the Roosevelt High School
auditorium Thursday and Friday at
8 pm. by cast of rs students, under
the direction of Emma Louise
Thompson, Esther E. Galbraith and
Maude H. Horre.
In order to extend to as many
students as possible the opportunity
to play a leading part, duplicate
casts are being trained. The cast is
as follows: Frederick, Richard An
derson and Fred Pavay; the pirate
chief, Jack Lansdale: Maj. Stanley,
David Sickles; Mabel, Audrey Curtis
and Betty Duncan; Samuel, Rich
ard Swartz and Pete Vito; Ruth,
Mary Conlon and Mabel Klebold;
Edward, Tom Collingwood and
Jimmy Reed; young ladies. Jean
Wells, Virginia Duncan, Dorothy
Wollett and Elinor Jacobs.
The chorus Is made up Of selected
members from the glee clubs and
advanced chorus class. The hign
school orchestra will play. accom-
panied by Cornelia Grothe.
Evening star., 1938-11-29

which stars Miss Frances Farmer
and Ella Kazan, combination
which recommends 1t to the atten-
ton of everyone who is interested In
the theater as a mirror of what goes
on in the world as it relates to Ger
tain types Of human beings.
There is little sweetness, and less
of light, in Mr.. Odets' Golden Boy"
as 1t sheds its glow upon what goes
on in this best Of all possible worlds.
But that makes little difference from
the standpoint of its excellence as
entertainment. Well acted - the
Group theater seeing to that with
an almost religious fanaticism-it
is a play which quickly and clearly
demonstrates its right to have en-
joyed a long run in New York and
ready acceptance, later. in London.
There are moments in the course of
the drama when it turns virtually
purple with eloquence, with purple"
used in the most eloquent sense of
the word, but they do not change
the fact that Mr.. Odets had some-
Evening star., 1938-11-29
Lew Ayres Marks Fifth Film
On His Comeback Trail
Joan Crawford Skates Beplumed;
Garbo Becomes a Wax EMgy;
Mr.. Ratof Plays Cards
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Enrol Flynn demanded from his studio special trailer for his
Modesto CahD latest weuSpung
reading lamp cold And he got it, Nice
making his fifth picture four
Broadway Macdonald And five
months hadn't made pictures two years. Lew
Evening star., 1938-11-29

thing to say which almost justified
that manner Of saying it.
It Is his thesis in Golden Boy"
that circumstance is responsible for
what the individual turns out to be.
His protagonist is Joe Boneparte
It was the idea of Joe's father, and
Of Joe, too. that the boy should be
concert violinist. Instead the lad
turns out to be prize fighter. As a
substitute for the beauty Of music,
Joe's career is filled with vicious
racketeers, cheap gamblers and the
various other uglinesses that go with
a career In the ring. Most poignant
of the uglinesses is that which in
PRODUCES the champion-to-be to the
mistress of his manager. a girl cut
out for better things, but unable to
achieve them because life happens
to be arranged in different groove.
The ultimate defeat for the Bone
parte lad, his love and his parents
comes in what the sports pages call
his greatest victory. In defeating
the lightweight champion of the
world. he breaks his hand. nullifying
any chance, any yearning, he might
have had to be a real violinist.
There is but one answer to that.
which Mr.. Odets supplies in his
own fashion, and which deserves to
be heard in his own words-the
slightly purple ones mentioned
previously.
Golden Boy" is even more deserv-
ing than that. There is about 1t a
warmth, a compassion. and for
lorn hope that gives it an importance
which is not to be implied in
mere recital of its character and
situation.
Its people acquire an importance
in the manner Of their Interpretation
that you may not be willing to con-
cede without having seen it. AS the
hard, bitter girl whose hardness and
bitterness were the products of
circumstance and not heredity, Miss
Farmer gives a performance that
is one of the most impressive of the
local dramatic season. Equally vital
is the portrait of the frustrated Jew
ish youth, the potential violin yir-
tuoso, offered by Ella KaZan. The
part originally was played by Luther
Adler, ace of the Group Theater's
leading men. but this department is
more than willing to accept Mr..
Kazan's as substitute. Mr.. Kazan
looks even more like youth who
might have been either a worlds
champion lightweight, or Jascha
Heifetz. His Interpretation is one Of
the most attractive of a season
which has not lacked of excellent
male performances.
X X X
An echo of the Washington Civic
Theater's first season is to be found
in the excellent playing of Harry
Bratsburg as a typical prize ring
figure, lightweight who is that in
the harshest sense Of the word. Mr..
Bratsburg will. or will not, be re-
membered as the young man who
played Duke Mantee in the civics
production of THE Petrified Forest"
two years ago.
There have been changes in the
Evening star., 1938-11-29
Golden Boy at National
Is Worthy Entertainment
Frances Farmer and Ella Kazan
Give Odets Drama It's Full
And Tragic Meaning
By JAY CARMODY.

Life Clifford odes sees Is grim thing swirl OF energy and
ode life stood with
other should removed last night with opening
which
Evening star., 1938-11-29
Role for Anne

Anne Shirley's performance in
R-K-O Radios "A Man to Remem-
ber" so impressed Director Carson
Kanin that he has selected her for
the leading feminine role opposite
James Ellison in Sorority House"
This will be his third directorial
effort Kanin's second is The
Great Man Votes" with John
Barrymore and young Peter Holden
in the chief roles.
Evening star., 1938-11-29

Joan CRAWFORD wears a Train nearly
40 yards long, covered with ostrich
plumes, in The Ice Follies.' And
she actually skates in it! Doesn't
anything faze you, Joan? At the
same time. she wears a diamond
Evening star., 1938-11-29

told me. My real age is "a, but the
studio wants me to say l am o."
Maybe her arithmetic is just bad
Now. don't ask me my age, because
I shall lie like mad.
Garbo is now a wax efhgy in a
Paris museum, with life-like meas
urements, even unto her long bob.
Talking about that bob, recently
styled unfair to American hair
dressers" by an irate bunch of the
latter, Greta is only one of many
stars who are sticking to shoulder
length hair. The locks Of Norma
Shearer, Joan Crawford. Hedy La
MARI, Irene Dunno and Paulette
Goddard get nearer their waistlines
every day.
Gregory Ratoff earns $4,000 a
week. But he loses exactly half Of
it in those week END poker games
with Daryl Zanuck, the kind gen.
tleman paying Ratoff the super
salary. Smart? -. have to hand
it to Bette Davis. She is a gal
with one heap big notion of fair
play. After lowering toward a rec
onciliation with Husband Ham
Nelson, she decided in favor of q
divorce. But told Nelson that, as
she was the one who wanted to be
free-he didn't-that it was only
fair for him to divorce her.
Zasu Pitts, now making an un-
willing picture comeback (she was
all set to retire after her personal
appearance trip, but found herself
signing a new contract instea6 :,
tells. me that she is allergic to
jewelry. She says she positively
cannot wear the smallest of jewels
without getting sick. You wouldn't
be kidding me, would you, Zasu?
Evening star., 1938-11-29
Clair Film Next

"A Nous la Liberte,' popular
French comedy film. begins a two
day run at the Little Theater tomor-
row as the second picture Of the
International Cinema Festival. 1t
is a Rene Clair production starring
Henri Marchand and Rolla France,
and its story is of the pattern fol-
lowed by Charlie Chaplin's Modern
Times"
Evening star., 1938-11-29

tldTa DuL l
have been in
formed on the
b est authority
that Joan will
not SIX a t e on
that.
Luise Rainer,
who has just be-
come an Ameri-
can citize n,
stated in h e r
n a t u r a alization
papers that she
is % years old.
Two years ago,
W h en- I inter-
viewed her, she
Evening star., 1938-02-23

is definitely considering "stumping
the country" against the present gov
ernment. On the other hand, he is
being appealed to. as so often has
happened in the past. to play the
game with your own crowd"
Prime Minister Chamberlains dis
avowal Of collective security and the
League of Nations in yesterdays
speech in the House Of Commons has
left a nasty taste in the mouth OF
the country, if not in his own, and
strengthened the belief that his at
tempt to reach an agreement with
Premier Benito Mussolini and Reichs-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler amounts to COM
plete surrender of all those principles
which he and his government have
presumably supported in the past.
Points to Be Cleared Up.
He still has to make 1t clear whether
or not he actually did rush into ne
gotiations with Italy in response to
"now-or-never" ultimatum from
Mussolini-a point on which he and
Mr.. Eden are In complete dispute
Mr.. Eden may clear up the matter
Friday evening, when he Is scheduled
to make speech to his constituency
Another mystery which deserve,
clearing up is the identity of the
mysterious friend Of Grandi" italian
Ambassador Count Dino GrandD, who
according to the prime minister's ad.
mission to the House of Commons
informed him Sunday morning that
Mussolini had agreed to the British
formulate for the evacuation of troop
from Spain.
tCopyright, 1898. by the Chicago Dali,
News, Inc.)