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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-27
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-27

kBatterleS. Wilson and peSaut-
en- Galehouse. HUMPHREYS, Hud
III and Hemsley.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-Abbey Theater Players IN
1.-THE Far-Off Hills: $3.50 pm.
Earle-"Beloved Brat" Meanie Bo-
nita Granville in her first starring
role: IL am, lis, 1886, 5:55, o:lo
and 1926 pm. Stage shows: l2:2o,
2:4O, S, 7:20 and $40 pm.
Capitol-"Stolen Heaven" in which
Miss Bradna gets kissed by Gene Ray.
mond: IL am, lao, 4:25, 7:lO ana
10 pm. Stage shows: 12:4O, 3:3O,
6:15 and pm.
Metropolitan-"Tip-Of Girls" all
about the highway hijacking racket:
II am, 12:45, 2:35, 4:25, 6:15, sos
and 9:55 pm.
Palace-"Test Pilot" Gable. 10y
Tracy in a sky thriller: 11:15 am
1:5o, 4:25, 7 and 9:35 pm.
CoIumbia-"In Old Chicago" Mr.
Zanucks spectacle starring the grea,
fire: 11:40 am, 2:10, 4:4O, 7:lo ano
$40 pm.
Keith's - Mad About Music
Deanna Durbin sings: 11:15 am, l:2O
1925. $50, 7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Belasco-"The Girl Was Young,
Nova Pilbeam's latest: 1:50, 4:4O
6:25, 8:15 and 10 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
| tinuous from 10 am. to m1dnlght.
Little-"China Strikes Back: 11:05
am, los, 3:05, sos, 7:o5 and sos
pm. "Ruggles of Red Cap: 1l:25
1925, 1925, 5:25, 7:25 and $50 pm
Evening star., 1938-05-16

will eliminate lot Of expense in the
editing of the film before Washington
and other audiences get a chance to
see it.
To this end. IL weeks Of intelligence
and energy went into the prepara-
ton of the working script after the
so-called final script was delivered.
In spite of the elaborate prepara-
tions. one discovers that it is not with
out trepidation that a studio enters
upon the production of film Of such
stature. If Were King" falls into
the category Of costume pictures, and
that type does not always create q
frenzy Of excitement on the part OF
the customers. There is cycle OF
them starting. however, among them
Robin Hood" which may be at the
Earle right at this moment (and again
it may not-Ed). That one has at
tracted no end of interest, which helps
Paramounts confidence. Also helping
it is the fact that Mr.. Lloyd did right
we'll with wells Fargo" that he Gre
ated one of the four big money earners
of all time in "Cavalcade," and that
he has a positive scad Of other sue
cesses to his credit
X X X
\ FTER Mr. Lloyd goes away from
ones table one encounters Ted
Lesser. Mr.. Lesser is Washington
boy, was one at any rate, who is now
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Starlet Brings Flowers
To Show What Speed Is
Paramount's Marion Weldon Also
Brings an Airplane for
MIR. Jim Farley.
Nv HARRY MACARTHUR.

yesterday
Paramounts bit the celebration
Weldon The starle for whom her
the thrills
the face imposing of
cameras a notable reception committee.
McAdo home State Hee Branch Second
Evening star., 1938-05-16

temporary. and the things they have
to say are not the inventions OF an
author, but are actual quotations OF
things the characters represented have
said or written.
In the Civic Theater's production
of ". one third of nation . :"
there will be no attempt to have the
players speak or look like the persons
they represent, because Mr.. Strickland
points out that an imitation on the
stage always looks like carlcature
and it is not the intent Of the Living
Newspaper or the Civic Theater to
ridicule any one The sole emphasis
is on accuracy, both in the duplication
of the events depicted and in the spirit
In which the material is presented.
The editors Of ". one third OF a
nation :" mote that it is editors
and not writers) have sprinkled the
script with footnoes and the bibli-
ography runs into three pages. Chief
pride is that any statement made In
the play can be proved.
A Living Newspaper, being con-
temporary, is in need of constant
script revision that it may be news"
and not history" Only Saturday
Mr. Strickland received the latest re-
visions from New York and for the
production here he has added special
Evening star., 1938-05-16

Mr.. France. He hired him and. despite
the fact that he is proud to have
Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone,
William Haade and a number Of other
prominent players. he regards the ac-
quisition of France as his masterpiece.
While the negotiations were in
progress for the services of the elderly
Englishman, Mr.. Lloyd did not know
it but Somerset Maugham's latest
book, The Summing Up" was con-
firming his judgment all the time.
That autobiographical work dealing
with Maugham's long association with
the stage and players pauses to mem
ton but one actor by name and to
set the name in the midst of glowingly
complimentary words. 1t is the name
of c. v. France, of course.
Another thing Mr.. Lloyd has to talk
about, quite as if you were an old
friend of his, is new method to be
used in the making Of If I Were
King"
Hollywood, even more than lot OF
other places. feels that cost cutting
is very important thing in the world
as 1t is going today. Accordingly
this big picture is not going to be
made, as so many have been, with
the idea that it will be all right at the
end to leave 80 per cent excess or
the cutting room floor. 1t is Mr.
Lloyd's theory that proper preparation
Evening star., 1938-05-16

Assistant Postmaster General, Ambrose
O'Connell, executive assistant to the
Postmaster General, and his handsome
daughter Jean. For Miss Weldon
brought with her 2-foot scale
model Of the old De Haviland planes
which flew the mail pair Of decades
ago, to be presented to Postmaster
General Farley; brought with her also
q tree, the name of which we forget.
Anyhow it Is some sort Of an evergreen.
for which Altadena, Calf, is famed
and which is sent by the Altadena
Chamber of Commerce to be planted
as q memorial to the airmail pilots.
It will be the only one Of its kind in
town.
Miss Weldon brought other things,
too, enough other things that her
handful of baggage checks when she
landed looked like deck Of cards.
She brought. for instance, greetings
from Adolph Zukor and Terry De Lapp,
Paramounts publicity chief, by way
Of flowers for the drama press, just
to show Paramount has no hard feel
ings about any Of the things which
may have been said about couple
Of those musicals that slipped. So
yesterday the local "cricks" were deco
rated with fresh posies which were
abloom on their plants Saturday aft
ernoon in California, matter of speed
which awed us every time We stopped
to think about it. That white bouton-
Mere adorning the lapel OF the Carl
tons Frank Swadley yesterday aft
ernoon was one Of them, too.
Marion (after riding all over town
yesterday morning and then break
fasting in the Swadley apartment with
her she probably won't mind small
touch of familiarity like that brought
also a tremendous enthusiasm for the
Nations Capital on her first visit.
Thrilled as any contest winner sent
to Washington was Marion on that
ride to deliver the flowers, when she
was shown the Capitol. the White
House, the Monument and the views
from here and there.
It's q sort of infectious enthusiasm.
too, and you begin liking the young
lady right away, go on liking her more
and more and end up full of good
wishes for her picture career She
photographs like million dollars
even for news cameras. gadgets
which are noted for being more honest
than flattering Her current film
chore is her fourth, role in Men
With Wings" the Paramount aviation
epic, which we can recommend right
Evening star., 1938-05-16

in charge of Paramount's talent de-
partment. He will not talk about
talent, however. Wants to talk about
Washington. when he was an assistant
at Keith's under Roland Robbins. At
this point the reunion is expanded
to include Don King (Vesta Cum
mings please note), who worked at
Keith's at the same time. They have
been working together at Paramount
for some time. Mr.. King in the pub
licity department, and each has
thought the others face and name
were familiar. They did not think
to compare pasts. however, until
Washington was brought up as a
much more interesting subject. to
them. than Hollywood.
Mr.. Lesser was chagrined to learn
that Central High School is not win
ming all the athletic championships. as
it did when he was q boy. learning
how to be a successful Paramount
talent director.
MOTE to Charles Boyer fans: Mr.
4 Boyer is known to his associates
as Butch
Note to any one who has read this
far: There's an R-K-O car down.
stairs waiting to take us over to where
Katharine Hepburn used to work be-
fore she and the bosses had that re-
cent fight.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Melodrama to Open
A Varied Season
At Roadside.

WHEN Sweeney Todd commits his
w dastardly crimes on the stage
of the Roadside Theater, June 13. he
starts the ball rolling for a l4-week
season of action. drama, mystery. ro-
nance, bloodshed, comedy, intrigue,
and naturally great deal OF melo-
drama, in the hayloft of the old red
barn on the Rockville pike. From
June 13 to Is Sweeney Todd or
THE Demon Barber Of Fleet Street"
will be the attraction.
Another play by Tom Taylor. whose
"Our American Cousin" was last
season hit. is second on the sched-
ule, playing June 27-July 8. 1t Is
pilot and Passion" melodramatic
tale of the intrigues of Fouche, head
of Napoleon's secret police. After
month of chills and thrills the barn
theater players will offer w. S. Gill
bert's non-musical farce, Engaged"
July 1923.
It's back to melodrama Of the ITO
Die at Dawn and Among the Moon
sinners" type, with the fourth Offer
ing 1.-The Miners Daughter" or "The
Fatal Confession" Here are melo-
dramas favorite characters. the beau-
tiful heroine, the noble hero the self
sacrificing parents and the villain
who holds the "papeh." July Is
August 6 is the run. The sensational
English hit, 1.-THE Frog" will be on
tho hnards from August 800. Ian
Hays dramatization of Edgar Hays
dramatization of Edgar Wallace's sus-
pense- -crammed mystery thriller makes
its American debut with the Road
sides production.
The popularity Of Augustus Thomas
famous old state" dramas, Arizona"
and In Mizzoura," made the pres
entation of the equally notable ala
bama" q must for this summer. The
march of the Iron Horse in the
South, q widow threatened with dis
honor, tangled romances and the
color Of Dixie, combined to make this
one of the favorite plays of the '90s.
The Roadside revival Is August o.
September 3.
The seasons climax comes with the
final offering, Eugene Aram." Based
on actual criminal records as was
Murder in the Red Barn." this tale
has the same elements that made
that ancient meller the Roadside's
Al hit. September 5-17 are the
nights.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

now just for Marion's eyes in techni-
color.
Miss Weldon, born in Duluth, was
taken to California when something
like 3 years old, not to be q film
moppet, but to be little girl growing
up. She is headed for the stage, or
was headed for it by way Of little
theaters. with no interest in pictures.
But one day she accompanied a girl
friend who was being interviewed for
screen test, the cinema mogul cast
an appraising glance at the blond
Miss Weldon and forgot the girl
friend And it is our guess that you
will become more and more familiar
with Marion's face on the screen as
time goes on.
MISS WELDON, of course, is not
A'A the only one Of the cinema's
people you quite possibly might run
into on F street today. There's that
fine Irish family which has taken
over room 3O5 at the Capitol Thea.
ter. Room 305 is the one with the
telephone, even If 1t doesn't have a
star on the door, and this week it Is
occupied by the Phil Regan encourage
Mr.. and Mrs. and daughters Joan
Ann and Marilyn. These two charm
ing lassies are having fine time on
this trip about the country with pop
They were a bit worried when they
first saw the head man on the stage,
though, having seen that film where
a singer was pelted with tomatoes. No
tomatoes were tossed at Mr.. Regan,
however, SO now the girls worry no
more. content themselves with sitting
out front at every show and applaud
ing as loudly as they can.
Phil Is having a fine time on his
trip. too. He is fellow who gets
pretty tired Of doing his singing into
q black box for apathetic studio tech
nicians and every once in a while ht
has to break away from the movie
mills to sing to some real people
Not that studio craftsmen are not
real people. but they are never SC
enthusiastic as the audiences Mr.
Regan finds in vaudeville houses Phi
likes people. too, has to have them
around. And people like him, so II
makes his personal appearance jaunts
completely pleasant affairs.
Another thing about which Mr.
Regan is happy at the moment is that
he is free man as of yesterday. May
Is. AS Of yesterday his legal troubles
are at an end. and he no longer Is
tied to an unsatisfactory movie con.
tract, Is free for other offers.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

scene dealing with local conditions.
a. one third of a nation :" makes
its bow at the Wardman Park The
ater tonight and tomorrow night in
two benefit performances for the
League of Women Voters and the
American Association of University
Women. opens for the general public
next Sunday night.
THE weeks activities include two
plays. Tonight you may see one
of Noel Coward's Fighter moments at
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, his
Hay Fever" being presented by the
Dramatic Club. The cast. being di-
rected by Gordon Page, includes
Elaine Wilkinson, Adelaide Heard,
Catherine Bixler, Barbara Page, Dor
othy Rivers, Barron Shields. William
Stansbury. Rolf Williams and Mr..
Page.
The Pierce Hall Players will stage
Leslie Howard's Murray Hill" Wednes-
day and Thursday nights, with Jean
Darier, Ruth Taylor, Winona Baker,
Paul Alexander, Mabel Hunt and
James Parker heading the cast.
Howard Wentworth is doing the di-
recting. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Little Has Comedy
And Timely Item.

THE Little Theater now scoops the
town once more in bringing cine
ma fans timely features having to do
with this world We live in. Main item
on the revival houses bill this week Is
no revival, but the discussed
featurette. China Strikes Back" the
pictorial item Of current history de-
voted to the doings Of China's famed
9th Route Army, the Communist out
fit which swung into action and came
to the Chinese governments aid.
The other half of the Little's pro-
gram is something of contrast. 1t
is, in fact. complete contrast, for re-
vived again you will find "Ruggles Of
Red Cap" which was one of the best
entertainments of its time. or any
other time for that matter. You
haven't forgotten Mr. Charles Laugh
ton, Of course. in his memorable reci-
tation Of Lincoln's Gettysburg address
and in his hilarious comic moments.
You also should remember Charles
Ruggles Mary Boland, Roland Young
and Zasu Pitts, among other people
about.
We still think Mr.. Laughton in that
riding outfit is one of the unrivaled
wonders of the world. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Guild Season Seats
Are Now on Sale.

OPTIONS on all seat locations as Of
" the 1878 season of the The
ater Guild and the American Theater
Society expired yesterday. Up to a
late hour on Saturday night the re-
sponse was the largest in the history
of the subscription season in Wash
ington. Fully one-half of the past
seasons subscribers had sent in their
renewals for 1859, and a large
number Of new subscribers have al
ready made tentative reservations Tor
the coming year.
In order to give every possible OPP
portunity to the members to take ad-
vantage of their options, however,
the customary three days Of grace"
will be allowed delinquents. and it is
announced that all requests for re-
newal of seat locations for 1888
received through Wednesday Of this
week will be accepted before the new
reservations are assigned.
The public is now invited to enter
its subscription requests for next
winters series of six plays to be pre-
sented in the National Theater by the
Theater Guild and the american
Theater Society. Subscription blanks
will be mailed upon request to all
persons interested in the new SUBJ
scription season or may be obtained
at the National Theater.
In addition to the three already
announced attractions for next sea-
sons series, including the Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne production OF
THE Sea Gull" John Steinbeck's
powerful play, "Of Mice and Men, u
and the Mercury Theater's production
of Five Kings" the guild will be
represented in the list also by two
productions by the guilds new acting
company, with Worthington Minor as
director and Theresa Helburn and
Lawrence LANCER as production di-
rectors.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
British Film
Filled with
Suspense
Hitchcock Manner
Marks The Girl
Was Young
TIME old master of suspense is al

"HE old master of suspense is al
1t again, and at it very handily,
too. The newest contribution
of Great Britain's Mr.. Alfred
Hitchcock, The Girl Was Young,
the Belascos new film attraction. is
fabricated from a good many OF those
same elements which made his "39
Steps" and other pictures the successes
they we're.
Mr. Hitchcock is one director who
can take a trite script, and by his
expert handling Of players and cam
eras turn it into something worth
watching. Here he has undertaken to
tell the story of a lad suspected OF
murder, his escape and escapades with
the chief constable's daughter while
irving to find the evidence which will
clear him. 1t could have been pretty
dreary stuff, and one or two times 1t Is.
But it is not dreary very often. Most
of the time it is taut and suspenseful
and Mr.. Hitchcock has welded his
well known and highly appreciated
change of pace with the utmost skill.
"The Girl Was Young" may seem a
bit too slow in some of its romantic
and less thrilling sequences, but the
moments when it does drag make only
for better contrast with the brisk and
melodramatic cops-and-robbers chases.
And this Hitchcock fellow is probably
the only director in the world who
can lay out a dramatic sequence so
full of suspense that it hurts and drag
it on and on until you are ready to yell.
"Ihe Girl Was Young" has its COM
edy moments, too, to add some more
counterpoint to the melodrama OF it..
And it is well-performed film. with
Nova Pilbeam in the leading role
showing she has not forgotten how to
act while she has been about the
business of growing up. She's in
tensely sincere and convincing about
80 per cent of the time. though we did
think she had one or two uncomfort-
able moments and If that be mutiny
make the most of it. Fellow named
Derrick de Marney plays the male
lead much more than just capably
and the others are able Britons whose
names probably wouldn't mean thing
to you. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
If You'd See Stars, Just Hang Around the Food
Studio Proves the Spot to See Famed Faces
And Talk to Producer Frank Lloyd.
Nv Jay CARMODY.
OLLYWOOD, May 16.-Studlo
commiSsaries, or restaurants
IL ono prefers. are among the

y OLLYWOOD, May 16.-Studio
commiSSarieS, or restaurants
if one prefers, are among the
L i most fascinating spots IN
Hollywood. Look up from your min
ute steak and corn saute in any one
of them and you can see the faces
that daily launch billion reveries
and dreams.
At Paramount, for instance, there
IS Dorothy Lamour, the Swarthy,
.shapely lass who turned life into
sarong-draped idyll for more Amer
1cans probably than voted for Roose-
welt. Down the line few tables
away sits Franciska Gaal, q blond pint
Of smouldering fire to whom Heaven
gave the gift Of too much tempera-
ment or to whom the studio gave too
much publicity for her own current
good.
OF males who f1utter the Nations
heart, one sees Bing Crosby, who looks
as intense and self-conscious as a
sleeping mongrel pup: Ray Milland,
the young Irishman. who apparently
survived that 12-reel fate worse than
death. Her jungle Love-; John Bar
rymore, David Niven and a dozen
others whom Adonis might shoot in
an enviouS rage.
There was even a platinum blond
angel, whom no one seemed to know.
nor apparently cared to know in spite
of the fact that she was doing more
%rlo loE wit 1,or ~ u,,hbopl
can do with baseball.
But none of these. including the
platinum angel with the rolling eyes,
excited the least bit of interest. The
air of excitement hanging over the
room was caused by bushy- -broWed,
stopped man Of middle age, whose
pulchritude quotient is as low as his
intelligence quotient is high. The man
was Frank Lloyd. ace producer-direc-
tor, who has lived through several
ages Of stars-stars such as those
which Illuminated the commissary at
that particular moment.
Mr.. Lloyd, who was born in Scot
land and looks not too much unlike
one of its shrewd and gentle sheep
dogs, was the object of interest because
he is about to start Paramounts next
big epic, IF Were King" And
whereas every one else seems very
intense about it, Mr.. Lloyd could not
be more calm if he were going out
to pick a bouquet of violets.
Only time he showed the least trace
of emotion about the whole affair was
when he talked about the acquisition
Of c. v. France, veteran English actor
to play the part of the priest. 1t was
the hardest character of the picture
to cast, the director says. In setting
1t, he thought of practically all the
actors in the world. finally came to the
conclusion that the ideal player was
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Local Drama Groups
There's Fact for Every Word
In the Living Newspaper.

things Living Newspaper technique thai
director would have
which Strickland
often forgotten that all the
The majority
historical
Evening star., 1938-05-16
New BOrO Theater
Opens Thursday.

THE new Boro Theater will be
opened in Bethesda, Md, Thurs
day, according to Sidney B. Lust,
under whose direction the cinema
house will be operated.
An air-conditioning plant will pro-
vide q healthful temperature the yea
round. Installation Of the newest
type High Fidelity Sound systems as
sures perfect sound reproduction.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Tickets Sell Fast.

Over 10000 season tickets to the
Empire Exhibition in Glasgow. Scot
land, were sold before the gates
epsnsd.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Peat Fire Two Miles Long.

Burning several feet underground, q
fire is eating its way through a peat
bog near Watten, Scotland, its 2-mile
course 10 far being apparent only by
smoke and Q trail Of hot peat ashes on
the surface.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-01-10
HENDERSON MEETS
'WARRENTON TEAMS
Miller and Harrison Press
ing Teams for Coming
Conflicts Wednesday =

Henderson high school basketball
teams began drilling today forsA twin
bill with Warrenton here Wednesday
night. ~ ~ xste e4fx.r. <gg8sz
Coaches Bing Miller and Bob Har-
rison were pleased with their twin
victory over Aycock. teams last Fri
day, and were printing them for an
other dual victory.
Coach Harrison had little to say to-
day of his team. The aggregation has
made fine start, two consecutive
wins in two starts, and the players
continue to improve as the season pro
crosses.
Miller said his team needs lots o.
work on guarding, and he intends to
pay most of his attention to that
weakness. The team lacks experience
and the excitement of conflict throws
them off form. The mentor is expert
menting with two systems, fast
break and set attack, and will chose
the one his boys do better.
Miller would like another good for
ward and a guard, Captain Edwards
continues to handle the center post adj
mirably. In, his quest for the best
combination, Miller had LeMay anc