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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Some Reflections on Movies Greatest Year
Period Indusrys Campaign Has Brought Many Brilliantly
Simple Films Where Its 'Supers Have Been Dull

plain
cshcatons loose that they little
the subject pictures
ert Benchys estimate of Russian comedy owit If this
comedy laughing at the things all ife)
whatever they called the studios excellent
months with
Daughters Brother Rat Hold That CoEd Boys Town.
Stablemates
King Love Finds Andy Hardy" Others
They indeed have their best they adhered
tale told simply. None list falls
the class and with exceptions they represented
fabulous budgets They have had quality sincerity honesty and
earthn that vastly appealing than Of the
than all Of found
people living lives found
audiences people such pictures.
Writing cakes Quality
OF Recent uper-FilmS.
department artistic failure
when Aims which have been the
ndurys bayhooed contributions to its greatest
creation
virtues writer's
the creating worth the money
photograph the Or maybe they driven berserk by
demands Of producers who wanted worth brace Of millions
Marie Antonee" exception the that author Is
suspicion in failure Of big pictures.
criticism of the productions Washington
that the stories hardly live the
picture the customer
dramatic narrative somewhat poporioned
festooney Suz reasonably meet that
Wings falls of catching the spirit
airplanes development
Ragtime another a
daon It expensive thing charming cavalcade popular
music that deserved better writing and playing than
that write strong
the producing gnuses of the industry In industry
successful pictures make
fered entertainment millions people who will trade
Andy Hardy" -Four Daughters any day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
By Harold Hefernam.


Ballyhoo, once regarded as the
life blood of Hollywood, is on trial.
The gentle art of making big stars
out of little ones is being put to the
test by the gentlemen who make
movies and operate the race tracks
and race horses in Southern Cali
fornia.
An announcement just made by
Warner Bros. First National Studios
states that James Cagney's new pic
ture, Angels With Dirty Faces" will
be presented to the public without
benefit of advance fanfare. Which
means that Hollywood's press agents
will not have to hammer at news
paper, magazine and radio column
lists for free space on this particular
cinema-opera.
The Warner statement came on
the day after the National Labor
Board had certified the Publicists'
Guild, q union comprising press
agents, advertising and exploitation
and trailer men in almost every
studio In the filin city.
Whether the plan is merely meant
to frighten the publicity men, or Is
IN tndicatiout that the producers ara
gotns 70 oppose recognition oe thu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
The Boys Have a Worry
Tub. Thumpers Fear No.Publicity
Plan May Be Trend

Publicists' Guild, the smart men Of
the town won't say.
Nevertheless, Hollywood sages, al
ways anxious to put this and that
together, see i'll days in store for the
20O-odd publicists in the film indus
try.
If these wiseacres are correct in
their sprmises, the future Of the
press agent rests upon the ultimate
box office success of Mr.. Cagney's
picture.
One can condemn and praise this
mobile ZOO, in a single breath. The
majority of the individuals In the
clarifying business are responsible
citizens, good writer's and truthful
writer's. However, there. are too
many who spend their waking hours
endeavoring to dream up silly ex-
ploitation ideas or ridiculous stories
that may be planted with unwary
members of the press.
It was only q short time ago, when
Eleanor Powell was doing q sailor
picture, that her press agent tried
to foist upon unsuspecting corre-
spondents q story that the biggest
studio in Hollywood had bought out
right one Of Uncle Sans battleships,
was dismantling 1t at Wilmington,
and would put 1t together on the
(eee HEfTERNAN, Pa9e f-3J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
By Jaw Carm0dy.


Mr. Frank LaFalce idea a
Motion Publicity
might like to refer
value OF the pictures released usual LaFaces idea
seems entirely reasonable the free the
suggestion that personally thinks
and hopes feel with the
two months old and destined to another weeks should
this time
been ones greatest entertainment Admitting frankly that should
we still must confess that do noan adequacy which
the fact that not
The $4,000 principal prize in the contest which the
acceptable definition of the phrase is of the
and the bang subjects meditation challenge
the mind In connection with the
thing else middle
magnificent and might be paralyzing
Greatest" Entertainment" having friendne
Of familiar things should something
OF their by the people
ably will find yourself mental third that will
the
again.
dvertng
instantly challenge casual effort
entertainment Books
list be extended indefinitely Infinitely Nothing
will be the individuals greatest entertainment for cannot be
defined. And that perhaps is not too sad
Majority o. Films
Win Vote Of Approval
jumping the spirit the meaning
into akin to that of letter find occasion
considerable degree number movies
Contemplating % which mind quickly
disappoval OF the
distinctly estimate quality
called bilious dypepc stupid various other unfatterng things
pictures thus catalogued varied greatly They
musicals comedies musical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Home Is Not
Hollywood
To Stars
Far From Studios
Are the Houses
OF Film Folk
By SheiIah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD

HULL WOOD.
Step aboard, folks-we are going
on q tour of movie stars homes.
Ten years ago we should have had
to 60 no further than Hollywood
and Beverly Hills. Today, there Just
aren't any stars living in Hollywood
and very few in Beverly Hills: Some
have their permanent homes as far
afield as Connecticut-Robert Mont
gomery; observation-disclosures Gag
ney, and Pennsylvania - Claude
Rains. But even those in the So
called film city live as far away
from 1t as possible,
The newest and most popular Sec
ton for stars-the Northridge dis
trict in the San Fernando Valley
is drive Of IS minutes from the
Metro studio. But it is a trip worth
taking, oh, my readers. Here we find
Clark Gable living in the old Rex
Ingram place-and living very
cheaply, by star standards-paying
$500 a month in rent. On the estate
are two houses-one for servants;
the other, rambling and ranch-like,
for Clark. Chief item in the latter
Is large living room decorated with
prints Of horses. And only one bed
room and bathroom (both smalD.
That house on the knob of the
hill, set in % acres, belongs to the
other front-ranking heartbreaker of
the screen, Robert Taylor. There
are seven or eight rooms. But Bob
isn't here today, folks. We will find
him today and almost every otter
day-a stones throw away-at the
Barbara Stanwyck mansion-a more
elaborate affair, with swimming pool
and tennis court (Barbaras last
birthday present from Bob. The
Ito acres are shared with the Zeppo
Makes, who live close by on another
hill. Between 60 and 20 horses are
housed Ia the elaborate stables tin
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
TODAY'S FILM SCHEDULES

EARLEen With Wings aviation from Kitty Hawk to today IN
Technicolor; 1885, 75 and 955 Stage shows 345 $50
and 9:10 PM
CAPITOust the where Shirley Temple finds
prosperity 1885, 1885, 720 and 1905 Stage shows $40 625
and 905 pm.
and Frankenstein" Booh l5o 425 and
9:35 pm.
PAACE-Suez Power De Iesseps digs famous ditch;
2, APO, SIS and $50
Army West Point and true love
triumph; 255 Sis, 1880 and $50 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Too Handle" Gable and Myrna 10y
find adventure the newsreels 1885, ITO and $40
LT1LEThree End" tender romance $780,
$780, TAO and 9:35
TRANs-LUx shorts continuous from o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

able. At least there is a biblioe
raphy for them.
His chief adviser in the pla,
(Hery Oscar seems to be a mix
ture Of many Nazi chieftains. A
bold, tall bundle of neuroses he is.
playing the piano like Putzi Hanf-
staengel, disdainfully inspiring the
leaders speeches like Goebbels
coarse and crafty like Goering, an
intriguer~ like Himmler and borrow
ing fabric of pathology from many
others-a love for inflicting and suf-
fering pain. homosexuality, a SEN
sual delight in enduring danger,
completely self-seeking and cor
rupt. He is a whole shelf Of case
histories.
With two such fascinatingly
loathSome creatures to carry the
burden of the play it does not seem
that it could have missed so badly.
But the fact is characters in work
of art cannot be built Of newspaper
clippings. More than statements of
purported fact are needed to make
an actor seem alive behind the
footlights.
The plays incidents are melo-
dramatic, but not nearly so incred-
ible as those the newspapers have
reported from Berlin. The drama
starts in the leaders airplane i'm
mediately after the famous Nazi
purge Of 1884. The pilot is a young
Na1 idealist, shattered by the i'm
plications of the purge and deter
mined to kill the leader for betray-
ing the revolution. He is dissuaded
from his desperate course by the
dictator. TIE second act concerns
the intrigues surrounding the die
tator, the desperate schemes of
high-ups losing favor in the mans
eyes, the sly and whispered plots
of those anxious to buttress their
high positions with the bodies Of
OF their rivals. In the third act .
revolutionary plot by Nazis Is foiled
by the leader himself, who has not
only the plotter but the one ideal
list near him shot down.
Although playgoers will recognize
all this as antique hokum, the re-
cent newspapers have taught that
yesterdays hokum is today's truth.
The plays failure is deeper than
that. I think it goes as deep as
that politics and art are uncom-
Portable bedfellows.
tcopyrisha 1855. ~ the North Amsric ~
lswpapss Alliance. Ins.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

for the sum of 100000. At that
time only Cooper was mentioned,
but when Goth Century-Fox dis
covered that they owned a story
called Lawyer of the West" Powers
name was injected, and as Ameche
always gets the roles Power does
not do his name began to be
banded about. The harmlessness
II the situation seems to have been
lost, and there is a definite threat
that Power, who has never been
stumped by any historical figure.
may be seen as the emancipation.
Four or five years ago Wallace
Berry typified all the great figures
of the past to Daryl Zanuck, head
OF Goth Century. Beery's place in
the producers affections has re-
Gently been taken by Power, who
new epitomizes all the great in
history. 1t will be remembered that
it was Power who really put Lloyd's
on its feet as an insurance concern
in "Lloyd's of London" and that
Lord Nelson really was indebted to
him for winning the battle Of
Trafalgar. Since then he has been
responsible for the Chicago fire, he
almost re-wrote French history as
Count de Fersen in Marie
Antoinette," he not only typified
but was the history of American
music in "Alexander's Ragtime
Band" he pushed fact into the back
ground when he built the canal in
"Suez," and recently he has rendered
. strange conception of one of
Americas most colorful outlaws in
"Jesse James" Lincoln should be
nothing for him, nothing at all.
o. There are some in Hollywood who
feel that they have no responsibility
to fact. History can be completely
disregarded and the industry's de-
tense is that nothing matters so
long as a picture is entertaining. It
Is possible that this mad attitude
viii be ended if some genius casts
> Power or Ameche or Henry Fonda
rs Lincoln, for such an act should
start rebellion. Criticism OF The
loose treatment of actuahties has
been increasing in recent months:
and it is quite conceivable that IN
ignorant and irreverent treatment
of Lincoln will cause the inevitable
explosion.
On the screen, as in life, Lincoln
occupies a unique position. In a
world survey q few years ago to
sAetermine the 10 outstanding Amer.
leans In foreign consciousnesses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

he was second to Buffalo Bill. OF
all world figures only Napoleon has
had more biographies written. There
have been SO representations of
Lincoln made in films since 1914
when Frank McGlynn was first
seen in the characterization. A
man by the name of Hennabury
portrayed him in D. c. Grimth's
Birth of Nation" and Walter
Huston played the role in the later
Abraham Lincoln" Some enter
prising statistician has unearthed
the fact that 80 men and one woman
earn their living throughout the
United States impersonating the
great American.
Offsetting this fast and loose
attitude is the treatment being
accorded the film story of the lives
of Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Castle,
which R-K-O is making with Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers under
the title of 1.-The Castles" The or
thodoxy of the Hollywood scenario
writers is being completely disre-
garded and an earnest attempt at
biography is being made. The story
covers that period from 1911 to 1918
when the Castles were the greatest
entertainment figures in America.
Formula has been violated in two
places; the leading characters are
married in the third reel, and in
stead of distorting fact, to provide
a happy ending, Vernon Castle will
be killed at the conclusion of the
picture as he was in real life.
The matter of producing the
sound of a cyclone for THE Wizard
of o." which Metro is filming, has
solved without any great to-do by
Douglas Shearer and his recording
technicians. AS q matter of fact,
the noise of the hurricane Is being
produced silently. The action viii
show farmhouse being lifted from
its foundations and hurled across
the State of Kansas. This has been
done with miniatures and it was
found difficult to synchronize the
ordinary wind making machines
with the movement produced by the
tiny objects. After some expert
mentatioh, Shearer discovered that
all that was necessary was to run
q slow alternating current through
the recording machine and photo
graph this current on the sound
track. BY varying the volume and
frequency of the current the rising
and the bowling Of the wind was
achieved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Stage Lures
Professors
|ToActing
From the COLLEGES
They Come,
And Stay
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
Where it has long been the Gus
tom Of hundreds of comely goods
to trip from college campuses to the
chorus lines of Broadway musical
shows, the rule today is more and
more tending to the professors
themselves who are getting the urge
to perform about the footlights.
Thornton Wilder, once a profess
sor at the University Of Chicago
before he gave up teaching to write
his Pulitzer Prize novels and plays
is now definitely decided that he will
remain an actor as well as continue
to write. Wilder did rather well in
his first effort, that when he went
into the leading role Of his own
play, "Our Town." to pinch hit for
Frank Craven.
Craven is back now, 50 Wilder is
looking around for another role
and even determined to write one
for himself If he doesn't ind 1t in
q play by another author.
This sudden hankering of profess
sors to perform in makeup first
appeared about eight years ago
when Prof. Monty Woolley deserted
his Yale classes to direct the musical
revue. Fifty Million Freshmen.'
Prof. Woolley's method of directing
was to get out and act their parts
for each individual actor and he
could do that eloquently without
makeup for q luxuriant, WIDE
spreading, red beard almost hides
his face. He was such = good per-
former that he gave up directing
and in recent seasons has performed
in many motion pictures and mu-
steal shows.
Incidentally, when he was teach
ing At Yale Woo1ley's pupils in.
cluded Cole Porter, composer Of
Might and Day; George Abbott
producer and author. Of many
de fk6lEyS6k9, Pa4o ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06


In a totalitarian land-it ought to
furnish food for thought.
Mr.. Garrett has dipped an active
ear into the stream of small talk
about Hitler and his aides. Also,
his portrait Of a regime does not
neglect the psychological factors, and
they deserve weight in land where
the wills Of certain individuals are
Of decisive Importance.
But despite all, it's a poor play,
hitting not tenth so hard as the
half-column of type on the front
page that told of 1000 Jews dragged
to trains and bayoneted across the
border as retaliation for q diplo-
matte maneuver in a foreign CAPT.
tai, or the news from the spy trial
in New York that describes what a
comedy Nazi party hacks have made
of the German intelligence service.
A lot of debate has been devoted
to. why competent dramatists have
failed so many times to make a
drama out of the Nazis, and more
Of the same is particularly pertinent
about a play which grabs at so much
of the Nazi movement. Through
Waltz in Goose Step" go fateful
figures of the worlds nightmare
the aborted revolutionaries, the be-
trayed idealists, the perverts, in
triguers, adventures, jobseekers, the
sadists and the masochists, the
stricken Jew, the frightened CAPT.
talist, the outraged militarist and
enraged Christian, the frightened
and the thrilled, the contemptuous,
the Indifferent and q fair sample of
that startling melange Of parvenu
mentalities flung into jewels and
evening dress and lobster parties by
the coming of the "outs" into power.
The dictator (played by Leo Chal-
zeD Is described as an unbalanced
man, q physical coward with q
habit Of shouting speeches at in
dividuals, sexless, q bully with Z
taste for cruelty and q stomach fol
all means to an end. His sincerity
even when selling out is unques.
tionable, because, of course, he be-
lieves his well-being and his ma
tons are inextricably intertwined
This dictator is not very bright and
is in the desperate situation Of
having to lean heavily on advisers
whom he must continually mis-.
trust. He has great contempt fol
the masses he can inflame so sue.
cessfully, and, as anyone who ha.
read Hitler's autobiography and tn,
news from Germany since 1898 mus
know, these charges are Ill support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Two L0athsome Fellows
Do Not Make a Drama
Politics and Art Uncomfortable
Bedfellows in New Play
About Dictator
Bv Ira WOferf.
By Ira Wolferf.
NEW YORK.

The atmosphere surrounding the Nazt
Germany Oliver Garrett
Waltz in Goose Step"
The atmosphere
sandwich but there
not abreast Of the latest gossip about Naz high
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Portrayal Of Abe Lincoln
May Fall to Tyrone Power
Hollywood Feels, However, That Any
Irreverent Treatment of the
Emancipation Will Be Fatal
By Douglas ". Churchill.
HOLLYWOOD.

While the
Ameche
pubcs
Thursday it providing something
talk all of
negotiations between
The Washington times., 1938-06-08

This paper has brought minor
fame and fortune to Helen Greene
Betty Gray, Blanche Brewer and
many others. Maybe you, too, can
earn headlines and the things that
go with it.
Here's the plot. Instead of hir'
ing professional singer, Oscar OF
the Hi-Hat has generously offered
to addition Washington laSSieS
between the ages of 10 and Is. II
yau can sing and never had a
chance before, this may be your
lucky break. On Monday, WedneS
day and Friday, at 4::3O p. M, you
can drop into the HiHat and go
over your number with the piano
player. On Tuesday and Thurs.
day nights, you will have a public
addition with prizes offered to the
three finalists each night. After
all contestants have been heard
the finals will be held, and the
winner will get an engagement as
songstresS of the Hi-Hat cocktail
lounge. Get it touch with Oscar
this may be your big moment
IL
The Spanish Ballroom at Glen
Echo has yet to offer a flop. Tom
Gentry is sweet-swinging dance
fans into dreamland and next
week Larry Funk comes to town
with his big -time ork. to set your
The Washington times., 1938-06-08
Mountain Magic
Daily Short Story
By EDNA FERGUSON

TT NTH the legacy arrived the day had been heart
u breaking one for Elsie Wallace Several times she had
had to leave typewriter and sneak to the washroom
the other girls the head typlst CRYING!
The Washington times., 1938-06-08

George Stein and his gang whoop
it up right where the bend Of the
Potomac catches every stray
breeze and traps it there.
HN#
The Nightingale which brought
Jimmy Dorsey to town will bring
in another name band shortly.
Meantime Jimmy Candy, the Sui
tan of Swing, has all the hep
characters living all over the floor.
Tonight's swell night for it.
**#
1mpresSario Mednick, who d.
reefs the outdoor revues at Mary.
land Club Gardens, has an easy
task of it these days. He can dunk
his epidermis in the pool while fig,
uring out new programs. His
thoughts run like this:
"Tania and Kirsoff have made
such a sensational hit with their
snake number that the new dag
ger dance should slay the custom.
ers. I'll keep them for the fourth
week. Anybody that wouldn't &c
nuts over that little red-headed
bundle of personality, BabS Raye
is dead, but they don't know it, SC
she can put on new dance routines
and sing a new number. Joe
Ferrarri takes care of the war
bling maybe I'll put him in 9
gondola (wonder If he swims?)
{. and what the hill, the patrons
like the band, the pool, the drinks
and the atmosphere as well as they
like the show so why should ]
kill myself running to New York
for fresh talent" It's a tough
job, Babe I'll be seeing you
around!
The Washington times., 1938-06-08

and your applause, will rate the
IfinalistS, win, place and show. The
Gretch Company has made upward
lof $500 in drum prizes for the
! finaliStS.
Vote for your favorite drummer
whenever you go out!
Farran'S Cafe, out BladenSburg
Road, is the newest spot to go
outdoors. On Friday night this
spot opens with a new ork. and
popular entertainment. Connois'
IseurS of good times will remember
this place with happy thoughts.
lThumbnaiIS-
At the Melody Club:
Jimmy Costello a naughty
lurchin vaccinated with a phono-
graph needle.
Evelyn Allen The bubbles
in good beer, dancing down your
throat and warming your heart.
Keller and Martin Win
chel'S WisecrackS in tap tempo.
Dick Kuhn Musical juleps
made with smooth bourbon and
old brandy tangy, spicy with
out a harsh note in the whole
arrangement.
lat the Casa Grande:
Buster Hewitt :. trimmed
announcements.
The Playboy Revue Tales
from Grimm with modern varia-
ltions.
George Grande Digs. lives
land boom-booms.
At BlankenS the Fourteenth
lStreet HammerStein offers you
Hammond (no eggs a Ia Lee Pot.
ter. A delicious musical dish in
this air cooled eatery.
Bill Strickland's Dixie Land
Swing Band keeps the luncheon
crowds on their toes it's that
Ijitterbuggy type of rhythm.
Bushel Basket Dept:
We've resolved to do something
about the undiscovered talent
that's going to waste in Washing
ton. What's Major BoweS got that
we haven't, outside of ChrySler