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The Washington times., 1938-04-12

for the best three entries, 10
other writer's of colorful super
Sitions will each win a pair Of
guest tickets to see the big and
joy filled Easter entertainment
starting Friday at Loew's Capt.
tol.
1.-THE Adventures Of Tom
Sawyer" is considered one Of
the grandest movie entertain
ments ever made. It is presented
in technicolor, and is produced
by the same man who made
David Corperfield," Nothing
Sacred" viva Villa" Prisoner
of Zenda," Little Lord 'Fauntle-
roy" and others.
On the stage the Capitol will
present Sylvia FooS, Patricia
Bowman, Paul Gerritte and
others in a huge Easter Parade.
VOTE FOR OUTRAGE APRIL So
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NIOAIEAH At AATT0AAI Bo
Sex "a
Lois Wilson Heads Cast of IS,
Exclusively Feminine, Of a
Diverting Species
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Clare Boothe playwright is savage and cynical and
downright clever, in dealing with the gentler sex.
In "The Women" which unveiled at the National
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frank Some will find cruel in its revelations, devastating
and daring in it's steady flow of cocktail wsecracks, too
realistic for comfort But those who seek only entertain
ent and don't take the ntmacies too personal will vote
- in he
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PURR AND SCRATCH
Mrs. Haines, a trifle too SNUG
and secure, is not disturbed
when she learns from the cosby
Park Avenue set her husband,
handsome Stephen Haines, is
playing around. Meanwhile his
affair with a perfume Salesgirl
becomes the table talk OF the
afternoon bridge players.
Mary'S wise old mamma ad-
vises her to forget it, inasmuch
as she passed through a similar
crisis 80 years before, and all
ended happily. But chattering
tongues send the still loving
wife to Reno, where she learns
considerable about marital diff
culties, waits in vain for a last
minute reconciliation.
After two years OF liberty,
Mary Haines has a chance to
even the score with her rival,
win her Stephen back from the
second Mrs. HaineS. BY this time
you imagine the little lady
knows all the tricks of keeping
a husband.
WISECRACK LOADED
These gibble gabble-gobble
women make a fine set of con-
trasting characters. Everybody's
there from the so-called Park
Avenue "pushover" to the in
dolent millionaireSs. The nifties
drop thick and fast.
you should relax completely,
Mrs. Potter, from the chin up"
the exercise inStructreSS tells
one of these scandal chatter
boxes. Sound advice, though it
gets a large laugh.
Even Maggie, in Mary HaineS'
pantry, gets the fever. Says
she: THE first man who can
think up a good explanation how
he can be in love with his wife
and another woman is goin' to
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The washington Times, IN
conjunction with the Loew's
Capitol Theater offers three
cash prizes of SIS, $40 and IS,
and 10 pairs Of guest tickets to
see the technicolor production
Of 1.-THE Adventures Of Tom
Sawyer for the most interesting
SuperstitionS submitted.
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When Metro oldWyn-Mayer
eventually screens THE Wom-
en-" it will be Norma Shearer
who plays the role of Mary
Haines, filled at the National
Theater this week by Lois Will
son Norma also is Sched-
uled for the Gertrude Lawrence
role in the screen version of
Susan and God" A party
that will be worth taking in
will occur on the day the Ring
ling Brothers circus arrives in
Washington for the three-day en-
gagement in May Frank
Portillo will be host to all of
the clowns of the big top, and
thanks for the invitation to
meet these Punchinellos
Tommy Riggs and his Betty
Lou, coming to the Earle Thea
ter soon in person, are Rudy
Vallee's proteges They have
been on his radio program regu-
larly for six months, have just
finished a Universal picture,
Goodbye Broadway" Just
as a good many still think there
is an actual Charlie Mccarthy,
so do others think Betty Lou is
a precocious child, instead of the
creation of Tommy Riggs voice
Rudy Vallee thinks the
mythical Betty Lou is destined
for a popularity to equal young
Squarehead Mccarthy.
ON MOVIE NUISANCES
Haven't seen movie nuiSances
more neatly compressed into 20
words, than the way Irving
Hoffman in the Hollywood Re.
porter stacked 'em up. AS fol
lows:
SEAT SPRAWLERS.
GIRL MAULERS.
BUBBLE GUMMERS.
LATE COMERS.
MOVIE MUSHERS.
PAPER CRUSHERS.
CANDY MUNCHERS.
ARM PUNCHERS.
ELBOW.JABBERS.
PLOT BLABBERS.
WESTERN THRILLERS.
DOUBLE BTLLERS.
SOUND SNORERS.
LOUD LAWMAKERS.
SAME OLD FACES.
SAME OLD CHASES.
BANKO, BINKO.
PICTURES STINKO.
AND-YOU SAID 1T.
LONG SCREEN CREDIT.
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HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
BY ED SULLIVAN
The Weeks Wash
Hollywood, April IL.

Hollywood, April -.
Bin added millions dollars to moving picture stock values 2O
IoeWs eaped 81 share hoped and ali others
fractional Hollywood caught stfOotsd iigns
with simoDe snon starting Frenehs option
oaf PSse Of
s he friends nsistp Paul Mum has turned down he ses
Wolf will the rough draft Of Macmillan" for two
turn here BY May JACK MsTneas Honolulu Patricia
description Of HOLLYWOOD: Where No. star has to be in
sured against termites."
o T aSs sSa shs @ b 81
Der fearing the boys will get too playful bgges
the SqusGh you rather have storm
and Wesley usges FFieda and Ben Redman Peg
o oh and Norm Anthony Susan HAYWARD and Bruce
Warmers studios Before he flew back whitney and
play Georgia Brown and then poured
on the and pa sead T De p
aration. N NN
At Waves Shirley Ross and Ken Joan
and Mac Mack l%p Gordon ths clever Ellis and
and Mcha Auer his holding the tango So they
PLAYED P6GUt . Hsh :a n Pauss Goddard wiz
Dawes Adams and Roland Young viii be- in
for Hal Roach carole PToducer Milton
It, and then eating with cheese Say it sounds good.
e S6 fire BPows Joker My who sent to Edgar
with split Of champagne 5oth birthday consrats to Al
CToday Am NAM Lghtmann And wedding
graatonS to the Archie MayoS Nick
at $3.50 this morning for important studio
clans can't get over Johnny Davis and working
warner lou In harmony Their first scuffle at Adrian
Broadway highght so many Davis
teeth that Johnny couldn't the trumpet Warng for
months Veda Ann Borg and Bob Ritchie twosome . Mrs
Edward G. Robinson writing for thank
" -
The croonerS took awful chance
Wsnre last night machine welded lovers
could nave wiped out Bng Crosby Dick Powell Kenny
Parker Tony Martin Ozze Nelson and
Rudy Vaee Buddy Clark STAYED the
East The crooner convention publicity stunt
gneered by Mack Ma
Phil Regain Jackie Heller Jerry overlooked
Ten Best list 49,
This town. in the dodrums for weeks is hopeful stock
Will be resumed when he here after Miami vacation
Tiny Rufner will be sagdnnered at Victor Hugos CLAM.
our Notes. Bob Taylor snaileater and Mary
Brian an item Sonia Hene still with Richard
Green Ethel Norman with Cesar Romero Parsons
Cne hospital Tor inspection The Edward Marins
oany Mrs Ted Lewis mother died from mastoid operation
In the movie premiere Of boy Warmers viii plug
Errol Flynn's next flicker on the theatre marquee
Movie fans will like this Banners" will flash on the screen
without credit sheet The cast and credits AFTER
the picture Theatre people will gggle story of
Cne Theatre cashier which read in
Inc cashier was repmanded by the theatre
PACK patron who had forgotten his change II tried
PACK SAID the cashier II pounded the with
sponge censors don't object American get
eye!ul OF anelle DarT1euxS charms in her first
yanks OFF her dress in Doug office The
eyetul the
STRANDED on Broadway when the show fails
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AVOIDS DOCTOR ROW

Warner Brothers h ave
scratched my Life Is in Your
Hands" from their production
list, thereby pleasing DR.. Frank
Shyne, the eminent local osteo-
path, and others who charged
the picture would be offensive
propaganda. The script had
the Endorsement of the Ameri'
can Medical Society and DR..
Morris Fishbein, and the latter
was expected to help out as tech
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Easter Show
For Earle

Carole Lombard and Fernand
Gravel come to the Earle Thea
ter Friday, April Is, in Fools
For Scandal" new Warner Bros.
comedy. On the stage, easter
Parade" a colorful revue, will
feature Judy Canova and a host
of others.
Fools For Scandal" is the
gay, light-hearted story of an
American movie star, visiting
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Theater last night, with cast of 80 lovelies,
and no males, she unsheathes the claws Of
her puppets, lets them figuratively meow,
brashly shows the feline in them.
In story of hearts and husbands, of girls
on the make and take, nothing is sacred
with this playwright.
She follows her characters into the fitting
rooms of the smart Fifth Avenue shops, the
beauty parlors the retiring sanctuaries, the
maternity ward of hospital and-prepare
to blush-into the seclusion of the bathroom
for casual additions
Yes, "The Women" is both saucy and
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$50 in Cash, Theoter Tickets
In ON SAWYER" Contest

The quaint folk of Mark Twains Hannibal" did not have
the superstions market 1t appears that from
time mmemoral both young and old folk have harbored pet
myths.
Perhaps you have favorite superstition to which you
enaciousy cling perhaps you've heard of very odd
habits that ought to be revealed What are they7
The Washington times., 1938-05-03
LURES
MISSING BOYS

The lure of the circus for chill.
dren the world over caused Wash,
ington parents some anxious mo-
mentS today, with the telephone
switchboard at Police Headquar-
ters buzzing busily for missing
boys.
OF the scores who ducked un-
der the big top and stayed too
long last night only two were
still reported missing from their
homes at noon: 12-year-old John
Best, of 5238 Sherrier Pl. N. W.,
and William E. Whalen. jr., IT,
of 631 Eleventh st. N. E.
Johnnie's mother, Mrs. Lulu
Best, reported his absence and
William E. Whalen. ST., was look
ing for Bill.
Police said the number of miss
ing" boys always mounts when
the circus comes to town, but
nothing more serious usually re-
suits than a tummy-ache from too
much pink lemonade and pea
nuts. The center of attraction
this week is the Wild West Show
at Fifth Street and Florida Ave
nue. northeast.
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Higher Rates
For Taxis
Nearer

That 2O-cent cab fare you like
so much will soon go the way of
the horse car, the horse and
buggy, and the wooden sailing
ship, it was indicated today.
Public utility commissioners,
the cab companies and the drivers
were all set to go into a huddle on
cab fares in general as soon as
the House acts on the conference
report requiring all cab operators
to carry liability insurance Tor
the protection of passengers and
other drivers.
Chairman Vincent L. PalIni-
Sano, of the House District Com
mittee, said he would try to have
the report accepted by the House
today, and felt certain the vote
would be favorable.
Washington "cabbies" say they
can't pay the insurance without
increasing the fares.
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ID. c. revenue
BILL AGREED ON
BY CONFEREEs
Early O. X. Likely
In Congress

Less than an hour was required
today for House and Senate con-
ferees to reach a final agreement
on the 1889 Budget tax bill, de-
signed to raise $5, ,100, 900 in addi-
ton to revenue now in sight.
Members of the conference COM
mittees predicted acceptance of
their report in a day or two by
both branches of Congress.
An eleventh-hour concession was
made to the business community
when the conferees raised the SEN
ate'S $1,000 exemption from the
business privilege tax to $4,000, re-
storing it to the present level.
EFFECTIVE JULY
The business privilege tax,
ranging from one-tenth to four
tenthS per cent on gross profits,
as written into the bill by the Sen
ate, becomes effective July /.
Provisions of the new bill re-
quire all professional and business
men and all firms and corpora
tlons doing business in the Dis
trict, whether or not engaged in
interstate commerce, to obtain a
license to do business in the Dis
trict.
Applications for licenses must
be made in May and the new
licenses will be issued as of June
30, 1t was announced by District
Auditor Daniel j. Donovan.
ESTIMATED YIELD
The estimated yield from the
several major provisions of the
bill follows:
l. Retention Of the $1.75 real
estate tax rate, an increase of
Is cents over the regular tax,
continuing the higher rate for
another year. to yield $3,00O,O0O.
2. The new business privilege
tax Is expected to produce ST.
100000. This is 100000 less
than the estimate of yield from
the Senate bill as originally
passed and is accounted for by
the raising of the exemption
from $1,000 to $4,000.
8. A tax of so cents a barrel
on beer, to yield 100000.
These three items are expected
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POLICE UNDERGO
PHYSICAL TEST

ALI officials of the Metropolitan
Police Department who have
passed the fifty.fifth milestone
are undergoing the annual depart
mental health inspection today
and tomorrow.
Superintendent Ernest w.
Brown and Inspector Bernard w.
Thompson were among the first
in line.
There are 1O6 members of the
force who have reached or passed
the age of SIS. This makes them
eligible for retirement. Half of
these officers will be examined to-
day and the other half tomorrow.
The examinations are being
staged at No. 3 Engine House, on
Thirteenth Street Northwest be-
tween K and L Streets.
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FLIGHT INCLUDED
ENJOYS Aide Guest
OF Polish Society

Rafel Lepkowski, second secre-
tary of the Polish Embassy, will
address the Polish Club of Wash
ington tonight at a dinner in
Wardman Park Hotel. The event
is in celebration of Polish Consti-
tuition Day.
Musical entertainment will be
rendered by Madame Orlicz-Dres-
zer, accompanied at the piano by
Professor Osborne.
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These Here S0ldierS---
Well, They're HOss-Traders

Thar'S been some might tricky
hoss tradin' goin' on in the War
Department lately, podner, and
now Mrs. Agnes H. Allen, of New
York, has got the law on them
generals.
Mrs. Allen, wealthy New York
racing enthusiast, filed suit in
District Court today to compel
the War Department to return her
famous stallion, Wander Pool.
The War Department has been
keeping Wander Pool at its Front
Royal (Va.) remount depot for
the past five years, Mrs. Allen
alleges, and refuses to surrender
him without a court order.
TELLS OF PURCHASE
Mrs. Allen says she bought Van
der Pool at the yearling sale at
Saratoga in 1929. For the next
two years Wander Pool burned up
the racetracks and became so valu-
able his life was insured for
$25, 1000.
Now the ArIny's hoss traders
are always on the lookout for a
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valuable stallion like Wander Pool,
SO when he was offered for sale
in 1888, they leaped to consum-
mate good bargain.
Mrs. Allen says the man who
sold Wander Pool did not own him
and therefore could not sell him.
The Army said the man signed
an affidavit that he owned Wander
Pool and anyway the Army had
paid good money for the stallion
and intended to keep him.
"HE'S MY HORsE!"
Mrs. Allen says she has pre-
sented iron-clad proof of her
ownership of Wander Pool to the
War Department, but the hoss
tradin' generals told her in effect
to tell it to the judge"
The War Department explained
that once the Government consum-
mates a deal only a court order
can set it aside.
And, it was added, the Army GER
tainly would hate to loose Wander
Pool.
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Says Boake Carter

property nor loss of millions of dollars of business
nor loss of life.
or course, if Fannie'S orders are carried out,
Nick, the Hollywood cobbler, will be carted back
to Russia. The Communists, having no love for
White Russians, will promptly stand the ex-gen.
eraI OF the old Imperial Army up against the wall
They may not even be that nice and clean. The
commlssars may just "liquidate" him, as between
oOOO and 10000 luckless people have been lioui
oated IN the purgeS of the last 18 months
There is no law in this country which nro.
CLAIMS moral turpitude" is punishable by death
II that were the case then there are a right
smart handful of candidates in Washington who
can qualify tomorrow
IL seems miserable and thoroughly distorted
sense OF justice which on the one hand slits the
throat of an elderly man, once general officer
VINO gave up his best years fighting for his conn.
CrV' principles and Christianity, now STRUGGLING
shoemaker earning his bread by hard labor,
peacefully and hurting no one, and, on the other
mouycoddles noncitizen whose orders and dic.
tums have contributed greatly to the wreckaga
OF The merchant marine and loss of millions NJ
collars OF American business.
1t just doesn't make sense
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the great dictators of Europe by large majority.
How much wiser this thinking ones way out Of
trouble" is than rushing full speed ahead threat
ening you will do this or that if the other fellow
doesn't think as you want him to-!
This is what "Pretty-Boy' Eden was trying to
do, which would undoubtedly, in my opinion
have brought on horrible war very quickly. The
time is past when people in high authority can
threaten and say the word MUST without dire
results Civilization is beginning to wake up to
the fact that this world was created for men,
rich and poor alike, and it is only by appealing
to the good common sense and the fair play of
the man on the street that we are going to get
anywhere.
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Unless you want to bury
your head in the sands of
optimism and wish-thinking,
you had better note that now
ALL business indexes are de-
clining. Also it now seems
clear that some indexes are
falling below the low levels
made during the earlier New
Deal recessions in 1884 and the
fall of 1888.
It is all gradual. No panic
Is to be feared. In fact, as a
people we have ourselves under
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rencymanaging delusions, 1t was necessary
to prove that the pumpprimers and currency
managers can't stop depressions or make pros
perity.
Last week. steel production sagged little
closer to 80 per cent of capacity. Not only is
demand from farmequipment manufacturers
smaller, but also we find oil producers, can
manufacturers and foreign buyers ordering less
steel.
Some signs of weakening tin plate prices
are reported, as might be expected with the
can business so low. Steel scrap markets have
shown further weakness; for who wants to buy
the raw material when the products made of
it can't be sold?
Under these. general conditions, the hoped-for
gain in building activity is hardly to be expected
Despite Government propaganda, not much
progress is apparent. The lumber producers
naturally feel the results, and, while they have
been able to reduce their inventories, their new
orders are running considerably below production.
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Concert Planned
By CardOzO Group

Cardozo High School girls
chorus and orchestra of more
than so pieces will give the sixth
annual concert in the Cardozo
auditorium Friday and Saturday
evenings at 8:15 o'clock.
The chorus will be directed BY
Mrs. Ruth w. Sample and the
orchestra by Prof. Felix Weir.
Both the chorus and orchestra
will present selections from Wag-
ner, Mendelssohn, Cadman and
Wilson. More than $50 students
will participate in the program.
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courage and the determination
Of Prime Minister Chamber
lain and the other wise men
who have stood back of him,
there is now the first glimpse
Of light coming out of the
darkened clouds and shining
on war-torn Europe.
The treaty between England
and France is the first real
step in using our heads in
stead of our guns. With this
clever stroke, England and
France together outnumber
The Washington times., 1938-05-03

Harry Bridges, the Australian
born Pacific Coast union
leader, as practically the act
ing governor of California.
Next to President Roosevelt"
Mr.. German said, "he is the
most powerful man in the
u. S. A."-Sydney, Australia.
news dispatch.
1.-THE acting governor of Cali
fornia" is not yet a citizen Of
the United States; was leader
in the 1894 and 1886 Pacific
Coast waterfront strikes which
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Bird Nest Hunter Saved
From Precipice on River

Trapped on a narrow ledge high
above the Potomac River, Alva
Nye, jr., young W shin g n
scientist, was rescued last night
by the Harpers Ferry Fire Depart
ment.
For more than three hours Nye,
a 23-year-old graduate ornitholo-
gist from the University of Penn
sylvania, clung to the rocky ledge,
in constant peril, while other
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By E0alw Walsh Mclean

while England's terrific jump in taxes is almost
entirely for armament.
Just think, in our country in $780, about one
tenth Of our taxes went to help the poor. Now
it is a different story. THIRTY-THREE AND
ONETHIRD PER CENT goes to help the poor.
Compare these two situations and see how well
off America is, even with all her troubles In
England there was no cry of dictatorship or
pump printing, which is about all our people
have been fed on in the last few months.
Of course, am as much Irish as 1 am Ameri
can and everyone knows how the Irish and Eng
lish get along, but nevertheless do believe in
giving the other fellow the credit when he comes
up to scratch, and my admiration for England
grows in leaps and bounds.
Chamberlain has saved England from terrific
war, but don't forget that Baldwin also saved
England from no less terrible moral setback
that would have repudated all the dignity and
fine standards the Royal Family have lived up
to for many years.
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World of Finance By LeeOis Haney

NEW YORK.-Another new low has been
Az registered by the weekly indexes of business
activity. Coming at a time when the peak of
spring trade should be apparent, we will now
have to wait until fall for much recovery.
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members Of his party went back
to Harpers Ferry to obtain help.
Nye, who lives at 5406 Con-
necticut Ave. N. W., had lowered
himself over the precipice to
reach bird nest and was unable
to get back.
The firemen brought search
lights and lowered ropes to Nye,
then helped him to climb back to
safety.
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GIBBONS TO SPEAK

Stephen T. Gibbons, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, and
Representative William T. Byrne
CD of New York, will address
the meeting of the New York
State Democratic Club of Wash
ington at 1900 Rhode Island Ave.
N. w., tonight.
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Some Favorable DeUelopments

HNHE most favorable development last week was
the Supreme Court decision requiring Gov
ernment agencies to hold full and impartial
hearings before condemning business enterprises
I also consider very favorable Mr.. Roosevelt's
come-doWn to such harmless messages as the one
concerning tax exemption of Government bonds.
and the proposal to conduct a general investi-
cation OF monopoly. This is breathing spell
stuff Virtual defeat of the wages and hours
bill is also to the good.