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Evening star., 1938-01-11
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing.

National-"If I Were You" new
comedy starring Constance Cummings: :
$3.50 pm.
Palace-"Hu Hurricane" Mr.. Goldwyn
introduces Jon Hall in q South Seas
drama: 11:55 am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 and
9:35 pm.
keith's - "Damsel in Distress. "
dances by Astaire to music by Gersh-
win: II, 2:25. 4:50. 7:10 and 9:35
pm. Panay films: 1::35 am, 2, 4:25.
Gas and 9:10 pm.
Capitol-"The Bad Man of Brim-
stone" Wallace Beery starred in q
Western: II am, las, 4:3O, tbs and
$3.50 pm. Stage shows: 1855, 3:44,
6:25 and 9:10 pm.
Earle-"Wells Fargo" the screen
treats again of the winning of the
West: 10:45 am, 1:25, 4:10, 7:05 and
$3.50 pm. Stage shows: 1880, 3::35.
$50 and s:15 pm.
Metropolitan-"Dr. SYM" George
Arliss as a pirate: 1925 am, 1:25.
$3.50. $50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Man-proof," Mr.. Tone
proves Miss 10y otherwise: IL, 2, 3:55.
$50, 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Show
runs l hour and Is minutes, continu-
ously from 10 am. to midnight.
Little-"The Scoundrel," another
revival for the Noel Coward film:
HAS am, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and
GAS pm.
Ambassador-"Wells Fargo: S. 7:10
and $50 pm.
Penn-"Ebb Tide" romance in
technicolor in the South Seas: 3, $50.
$40, 7:35 and 9:25 pm.
Sheridan-"Double Wedding" ro-
mantle comedy with more than a dash
of the slapstick: las, 3:25, 5:25, 1880
and $50 pm.
TivoIi-"The Firefly," operetta and
jeanette MacDonald,s songs: 2, 4:25.
6:55 and 9:25 pm.
Uptown-"Double Wedding: 2,
1855, 5:55, 1855 and 9:55 pm.
Howard -" You're Only Young
Once" Lewis Stone and Cecilia Parker
in one for the family trade: 12:l5,
2:45, Sis, 7:45 and 1920 pm. Stage
shows: 1870, 4, $3.50 and s:15 pm.
Evening star., 1938-01-11
New Ballet Coming.

Making a flying visit to Washington
yesterday, Martha Graham, noted
American dancer and teacher, an
nounced that she will present a new
ballet entitled American Lyric, a
Dance Of Assembly," when she comes
here at the Rialto Theater for con-
cert on January 81. Her appearance
with the group she has made inter-
nationally famous will be sponsored by
the Smith College Club of Washington,
which will donate the proceeds to its
scholarship fund
This will be Miss Graham's first
presentation in Washington in several
years and, therefore, many of the
other numbers on her program will
be novel to local audiences, although
they have been presented elsewhere.
These will include Frontier, American
Perspective Of the Plains," and Lam
entation, Dance of Sorrow" both solos
"Celebration," by the dance group;
"American Provincials," divided into
"Act Of Piety" and Act of Judgment, "
danced by Miss Graham and her COM
pany, and portions of her famed ballet
Of the World War. entitled "Chron-
icle." From this quite long number
she will select "Masque," Steps in
the Street" and prelude to Action"
While In the city yesterday Miss
Graham was guest Of honor at a tea
where she spoke briefly to members
Of the Smith College Club.
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in the shape Of worthwhile role, We
understand that Luise will give Holly
wood the go-by for play in New York.
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Sylvia Sidney has bought q $4,000
acre farm near Pennington, N. j. And
will visit FINLAND as seldom as pos
sible Some one should tell that
romantic male star to stop waving his
false teeth during parties. The can
did cameraists will get him one of these
days, and then. boy. oh, boy! ). Irene
Dunne's adopted daughter plaques her
with the question: What do you work
at, Mom?" Miss Dunno has tried to
explain the business of being an ac-
tress, but 50 far without conviction or
success. It's pretty difficult, when you
come to think Of it.
The whole town is giggling over the
Earl Of Wsrwick's lawsuit against the
kind studio that paid him $3.50 a week
for doing nothing at all except have
good time Another studio paid him
$500 a week. Warwick now returns to
his native England. sadder and wiser
young man When Lii Damita
voyages on Husband Enrol Flynn's
yacht, she never fails to pose for min
utes at a time against the sails.
Neither does she forget to use powder
pun and comb on average intervals of
three minutes Olivia De Havilland
makes no secret of her liking for
George Brent.
Joan Crawford's studio bosses beg
her on an average OF once day to
gain more weight. But I eat every
thing can" Joan walls in reply In
the old days. Joan overdieted, with
the result that her digestion has gone
on a permanent strike. and she re-
mains slender =. Bill Gargan, who
is still in his early 30s, has to dye
his gray hair dark for the screen :.
Groucho Marx was so impressed by
Walt Disney's Snow White" he is
complaining that Disney Is unfair to
organized actors.
Cary Grant says that Katharine
Hepburn Is swell person to work
with-if you treat her right. What
do you mean by right?" he was
Evening star., 1938-01-11
'"Robin Hood" Set
For Tonight.

ESTELLE WENTWORTH, who has
played the leading role in Regi-
nald De Koven's Robin Hood at least
400 times on professional stages, will
present her first production Of the
light opera tonight at 8:15 o'clock at
Roosevelt High School auditorium.
Nina Norman will sing the Maid
Marian role which Miss Wentworth
played until her Interpretation became
traditional. and Robin Hood will be
sung by Ray Baine. Others in leading
parts will be Richard Hill, j. Edmund
Veitch, Harry Yeide, Melville Veitch,
Maxine de Silvia, Virginia Weldon and
Alice Brennan. There will be a sup
porting chorus Of IS voices.
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which gives the impression that the
experiment under way looks toward the
discovery of powerful sleeping potion.
1t almost achieves that effect before
things really begin to move toward a
sec ond scene that is much, much more
dramatic and moving. Maybe it Is
because you have to creep up on ideas
so elfin. but it seemed the play might
be better if you did not. From the
moment of the actual exchange of
bodies, things accelerate with only
an occasional slackening of pace to
let players and audience catch their
breath.
Miss Cummings. in the character of
the wife who became the husband,
gives valiant performance in a part
that must be pretty bewildering when
you come to think Of it. There are
times when you feel that she is not
letting herself go as Thorne Smith
heroine would, but it probably is due
10 the fact that Mr.. Smith was more
fantastic than Miss Cummings can
be, especially just of1hand like that.
Mr.. Bernard Lee, young English
actor playing his first part in this
country, is cast as the husband wife,
If you get what We mean. Qf you don't
1t is more the fault of our I. Q. than
yourso Mr.. Lee may have been the
especial victim Of that torpid opening
scene. but his caution in feeling his
way through it left an impression
that his subsequent lighter and hap
pier moments never quite effaced.
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A PART from the principals, one can
60 into practical paens over the
portrayal Of the Irish maid by Betty
Field. If you are not careful, her
conviction that witchcraft Is the ulti.
mate truth and science the bunk will
carry you right along with it.
j. Malcolm Dunn manages with
Characteristic neatness the part of an
lrascible, elderly educator from Scot.
land. playing it sharply down to the
last "r' on his burr. Another veteran
whose experience tells is Harold Ver-
milyea, who gives lusty portrayal
of a surgeon whose libido is in worse
shape than the organs Of his patients.
Raymond Sovey designed the two
sets which constitute the background
for the six scenes Of If I Were You"
and did 1t more capably than bril-
liantly.
That those concerned with the
whole enterprise will not capture and
tame the idea of the play is prophecy
hardly justified at this time. You
can't tell what might happen if the
authors started using their pencils to
draw lines dnstead of writing words)
and decided to drop couple of char
acters. But you probably can if they
don't do that.
Evening star., 1938-01-11

Tie nOtel management. during q
pause in the program Mrs. Townsend
read congratulatory messages from
Mrs Roosevelt, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs Taft
and Mrs. Hoover and from prominent
artists like Toscanini, Edward John
son and Mary Garden. At the end an
armful Of flowers from admirers and
we'll wishers was passed over the foot
lights to Mrs. Townsend.
The program served to introduce to
America young Czech pianist, Ruda
Firkusny, who has but recently arrived
in this country. Sharing the honors
with him was Nine. Gertrud Wetter-
gren, contralto of the Metropolitan
Opera. who sang here for the first
time last season.
From the very outset Mr.. Firkusny
showed that his approach to music is
that Of poet. His entire technical
equipment seemed trained to this end,
which he companions with a particu-
larly sensitive feeling for infection and
color. There is therefore no startling
bravura display, although he has the
ability did he so desire. His tendency
Is to give the most in poetic utterance
and with this end in view the stormier
passages still hold velvety quality,
while his scale work is as clear and
delicate as matched pearls. What is
more to the point, however, is that it
is his wish to infuse his playing with
an intonation that is the outcome of
a warm temperament and for such he
should be welcomed as a valuable ad-
dition to the pianistic ranks.
The lyric stamp Of his playing was
best exemplified in the lovely I'm
promptu No. 4, Op. 60" by Schubert.
and IN Dvorak's "Silhouetta. He
managed also to give an individual
reading to the Chopin "Scherzo in B
Flat Minor. No. g." contrasting the
more dramatic moments with periods
Of tonal singing. The fiuidity of his
tone had full sway in the seldom heard
"Etude in c Major" by Chopin, which
was given together with another in
E fiat major. The two compositions
which he chose by Smetana, the
Polka in A Fiat" and "Furiant," were
charming numbers played with alb
sorption and feeling by compatriot.
While carrying no thunderbolts in
his art, the young pianist is a sincere
and thorough musician who has some-
thing Of his own to say. The i'm
preston he made on his audience was
a flattering one and he was recalled
for encores after his final group.
Nine. Wettergren's program was
entirely of songs, but the requests
to hear her in the "Habanera" from
Carmen" her great operatic success,
were so many that she gave it in her
last group, omitting the first sched-
uled song. Nine. Wettergren Is pre-
eminently an opera singer for she
does not possess sufficient breath and
Evening star., 1938-01-11
Katharine Hepburn
Studies Slu99in9.

ATHARINE HEPBURN is noted
~ for her prowess in golf, tennis
and other athletic sports. but even
her closest friends will be surprised to
learn that she's currently taking box
ing lessons!
The script of her new comedy,
RKO Radios Bringing Up Baby -
calls for Miss Hepburn, after consid-
cradle sparring, to land solid left
hook on Walter Catlett's jaw.
Evening star., 1938-01-11

being on the sick list-are enjoying
more than usual robust health-unless
you call . peeve 4 disease. Frank
Evening star., 1938-01-11

SO I gave them each a script anyway
and told them to read 1t that Saturday
night. When Joel finished it, he said,
Frances, here's q wonderful part for
you-you ought to do it," Then
Frances said, Joel, here's . wonderful
part for you-you've got to do It,"
And. Joel being a peace-loving hus-
band-they both did it.
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Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-01-11

"ould OC AooAAAoAAy. 3SAoASoSSAp wiz
chase itself is an amusing spectacle,
a thing of sufficient merriment per-
haps to atone for the barren intervals
when 1t seems that the idea is about
to escape forever.
If Were You" is free adaptation
Of a mad notion which the authors,
Paul Hervey Fox and Benn w. Levy,
ran across in Thorne Smiths fanciful
tale called Turn About" Its origin
may explain its elusiveness, for Mr..
Smith. you know, was never novelist
to deal with subjects more handleable
than mercury. Natural law meant
nothing to him, but it rose up on
occasion last night to circumvent Con-
stance Cummings. Bernard Lee and
the supporting cast assembled to make
Mr.. Smith comprehensive through
the medium of the theater.
The mercurial thought with which
the farce of Messrs. Fox and Levy
deals is that it might be darned funny
If science actually achieved some Of
its research ends. specifically the one
Of sex determiniSm. The scientist
working on the project (Mr. Lee)
does not put it over. but his Irish
maid from Connemara concocts a
potion out of book of witchcraft
recipes that does In the dark of the
night, the scientific genius and his wife
change bodies; he becomes she, she
becomes he. You can imagine the
consterna ton that creates for the Lees.
and the complexities! Existence be-
comes a thing of fabulous embarrass-
ments, some of which do not lend
themselves to revelation in the COL
umns of journals dedicated to pure en-
joyment by every member of the FAM
lily. But, like a great many other
things that cannot be mentioned too
freely, they are vastly amusing in
many, many instances.
THE suspense element in this ar
rangement is induced by the dis
appearance Of the Connemara miracle
worker. The scientist, casting aside all
his laboratory magic, admits the maid
is their sole hope for a re-exchange Of
bodies. And what happens? First the
maid goes to an insane asylum, then
she escapes, and finally she is reported
drowned.
If ever the stuff of which farce is
made was better concocted than that
We have not seen it. But in spite of
the fact that the authors of IF
Were You" have sprinkled the situa-
ton with a great deal of bright, clever,
laughable dialogue, it lacks the deft-
ness and charm of Thorne Smith
original. One of the spots where the
drama seems to miss most profoundly
is in its opening scene In this interval
there is lot Of scientific palavar-
interlarded with protracted silences-
Evening star., 1938-01-11
IF | Were You' Embodies
Perfect Farce Idea
But Play With Constance Cummings
At the National Never Catches
Firm Hold on Subject.
By JAY CARMODY.

idea for farce played hide and seek with couple
~ during
~ fomanoe If Were YOU the National
\ still hiding
the
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tonal control to give the proper color
to songs. Her voice is a superb one
OF wide range and healthy timbre, but
it does not lend itself to finer nuances.
She is prodigal of it in songs which
are effective in numbers like Strauss
"Caecilie," but not appropriate for
such songs as Rogers "Maria's Wieg-
enlied." In addition to the five songs
which she sang on her last years
program, there were Melartin's Glib
mir dein Hertz" Schubert's An die
Musk" Schumann's "Widmung' and
Lindberg's wal Soker Du Pa Stran-
den?" Efficiently balanced accom-
paniments were played for Nine Wet
tergren by Fritz Kitzinger.
Evening star., 1938-01-11
Twizzler Answer.

The dealer needs a straight flush
to beat your four aces. Therefore he
must be counting on drawing to a
straight flush unless he already has it.
If he already has it you are beaten
but If he has stacked the deck so that
he can draw you can keep three aces
and draw two cards. This will spoil
his chance Of drawing to either end
OF his straight flush.
Evening star., 1938-01-11
Burton Holmes New
Series to Start.

BURTON HOLMES opens his new
series of travel talks at Roosevelt
High School auditorium tomorrow
night at 8:l5 o'clock. His first topic
will be "A 1887 Motor Tour in
Brightest South Africa" recount
ing of the information he picked up on
his tour there last summer.
Mr.. Holmes will accompany his talk,
As usual. with films taken on the
expedition. He will be introduced to-
morrow night by Mr.. Ralph Close,
Minister from the Union of South
Africa.
Four other new travel talks will
follow weekly.
Evening star., 1938-01-11
Pianist Charms Audience
with Poetic Moods
Ruda Firkusny Sustains Quality of His
Art in Stormy Passages Nine.
Wettergren Offers Songs Group.
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

morning musicale at the Mayhower Hotel gala
occasion marking the hundredh
Townsend has presented the sponsorship
OF this outstanding
wed hundred American
twned golden
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asked. Don't take too much notice
OF her." replied Cary Director
Frank Lloyd tells the story of how he
persuaded Joel McCrea and Frances
Dee to appear jointly in wells
Fargo" ne Of the best pictures Of the
new season. They both said no. it
would be bad for them as husband
and wife to appear in the same picture.
Evening star., 1938-01-11
Hollywood Takes Marriage
With Grain of Salt
Unwilling to Believe Colman
And Bonita Hume Wedding,
Reported in London Press.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

IoLLYWoOD. JAN IL ANAJThe Ronald n-Benia
wedding
IN Hollywood sn
bachelor enjoy an
Intelligent attractive
Evening star., 1938-01-11

Inns ailment be-
gan when he dis
approved of the
script Of Marie
A n t o n e tte,'
which will now
be directed by
w. 8. Van Dyke.
And Miss Rainer
became oh, 50
sick, when her
bosses wished her
to appear In pic
lures size consid-
cred detrimental
to her popularity.
Unless M-G-M
annlins medicine
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solving a long-standing problem.
They point out that flue-cured to-
bacco raisers and rice growers al
so voted on the question, and
turned down government control.
Some students of government
insist that the question goes much
deeper than the immediate rem
edy for the farm situation. They
want to know whether new de-
vice has been discovered-a new
instrument forged - for govern
ment.
They believe the evidence irdi-
Gates that the answer is in the
affirmative. But they don't know
yet whether democracy is finding
a new and efficient way to make
itself work, Or whether it is Great
ing new and undemocratic con-
trolls.
They say our children will
know that answer.
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Mas1a. -Ri14e Lam

ma, 3,
That the st. Nicholas whom
you see
In Buckley's window-is lock-
ed in
And probably can't get out
agin.
-f-f-
Holiday greetings to Spickie
Frank
Who'll push the people down
the aisles
At a wedding this Christmas
while the wiles
Of his girl, as a bridesmaid, are
displayed
In a gown of teal blue, nicely
made.
"The dress must be ducky,"
said his pals.
AS Spik described the gown to
the gals.
Teal blue-ducky," they said
to him
But Spik didn't get this
minds grown dim.
49,
The best of the season and a
pick-me-up-quicker
Should go to Redwood Falls
champion ticker,
Lee P. Winter, the mail-carrier-
away
Who moistened ITO stamps in
one day.
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Locate Missing
BOYS At LuVerne

Pipestone - Sunny chimes and
adventure held more allure for
two Pipestone boys, II and Is
years of age, than did home and
school work, but they are back at
their books.
While walking on a country
road near Luverne they met Car
roll Winkler, a nine-year old lad
who was headed for school with
a basket of lunch under his arm.
The boys offered the lad a pair
of field glasses, a telescope, two
20 yos and a f1ashlight for the
lunch, but it was no sale. Carroll
told them to stop down the road
at his farm home and see his
mother.
They did, but Mrs. Winkler,
thinking that if the boys had
skipped away from home, the
best way to cure them would be
to let them 60 hungry. After they
left, she called authorities at Lu-
verne and the boys were rounded
up.
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LEAVE CHURCH SERVICE
TO NAB THIEVES

Edna, Kans. - Up - When it
comes to capturing the interest of
a church congregation, chicken
thieves are too much competition
for the pastor of the Trenton
United Brethren church.
During Sunday evening services
a woman entered while a hymn
was being sung and whispered,
They're stealing Jim Christ
more'S chickens"
Before the hymn ended all the
male members of the congrega-
ton were on their way to the
Christmore hen coop where they
interrupted the task of two men
who were emptying the roosts.
The men fled by dropping their
bag Of chickens, but abandoning
an old car.
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5 YEARS AGO

The CWA payroll in Redwood
county reached $4,000. - Mrs.
Peter Mcpherson, 70, died. -
James A. Baikie was appointed
federal census supervisor in this
section.-Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Hale
planned to celebrate their six
teenth anniversary Christmas day.
The latest in burglar equipment
was installed to protect the Citi-
Zens State bank from thugs
Paul Froelich, 81, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Froelich died at Pie
ping, China where he was guard
at the American legation. - Ted
Ahrens was reelected president
of the Alumni association.-The
first federal corn loans in Red
wood county were approved. Far
mers received As cents bushel.-
Canned goods were stolen from
the basement sof Ernest and Ed
Kohls and Mrs. H. Fish at Bel
view.-There were small fires at
the Walter Hill home and Douglas
Stewart farm.
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A New Slant

But the farmer is an Individual,
not a state. Heretofore he has had
the individuals right to plant
what he pleases on his land. And
right there, the New Deal tried
new kink in the democratic proc
esS in the United States, for better
or for worse.
The farm control act of 1888
gives the farmer the privilege of
voting in an election in his county
on the question of Federal aid, if
the surplus of an important crop
such as cotton-reaches the
danger point.
Thus, with their eye on Federal
aid, the cotton farmers voted to
limit their production last spring.
In return they received about
$300,000,000 in Federal benefits
and loans.
The loans helped keep the price
of cotton up close to nine cents a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-12-22
COWBOY PREFERS BUGGY
WHILE ON SPREE

Butte, Mont R - Horseflesh
has one big advantage over gas
buggieS, a Montana cowboy phil
osophically told the judge.
"When you get too much fire
water under your belt boss has
sense enough to take you home"
he said. AN automobile takes you
to Jail"
Charged with drunken driving,
the cowpoke said he came to town
to paint it red; traded his horse
for a jallopie after two drinks
and ''got myself arrested
The judge gave him 20 days
and suggested he swap. car for
horse when he gets out.
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BLUSHING BRIDE
is "a YEARS OLD

Bloomington, Ind.-(P)-People
apparently never get too old to
fall into love.
1--WE know from experience that
love knows no age limits" said
John R. Hacker, 83, as he ard his
blushing bride-elect, Ida May
Stewart, "a, both of Bloomington,
signed marriage license applica-
tons. The ceremony was perform
ed shortly afterwards.
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9achlz*aa@ GA<sce4

neapolis.-Levi Truesdell sold his
harness stock to w. A. French and
Company = the Company being
William Pitts Tenney. Leonard
Pryor was spending his Univer-
sity vacation with his parents
]. A. Schmahl who was reporting
for the st. Paul News ate his
Christmas turkey under the pat
ernal roof.-The mystery of the
Killarney club was solved with
visit to its rooms at the back of
Washington and Second street
flat. The whole thing was planned
by that Redwood Falls Plato E. R.
Duerre. Literary, instrumental
and vocal pursuits occupied club
members. Their walls were decor
ated with pictures of renowned
Partisan artists.