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The Washington times., 1938-06-29
KELLEYGRAMS

Why worry about the delay in
production Of "GOne With the
Wind? . Margaret MitcheIls
best seller will be as good a story
In February, 1889, as it is today
And the story of "JeZebel,"
remOdeled from the Owen Davis
play for Bette Davis, is a pot
boiler when compared to the
Characterization and substance
fOun d in the Mitchell novel
Producer David o. Selznick
didn't find "David COpperfield"
Of Charles Dickens dated, and
stale of Two Cities" was around
. long time before it reached
the studios So, for that
matter, was the fable of robin
Hood" A good story is a good
story any time And, as MIR.
Selznick and you and / know,
Norma Shearer and Clark Gable
have enough marquee value to
make any picture in which they
appear important The big
gest exploitation blunder of the
"GOne With the Wind" prelimi.
nary campaign was the stupid
announcement that some "un.
known light play Scarlet
O'Hara When everybody in
Hollywood, and elsewhere on the
RialtO, knew it was a cruel pub
licity hoax, that only served to
delude those with Hollywood
dreams.
GREAT NEGRO SCIENTIST
Pete Smith strikes me as the
No. / personality of the short
feature, with the happy faculty
of making anything on the
screen to which he applies his
voice, interesting.
In "The Story of DR.. Carver, :"
which was screened yesterday
he tells in a fascinating way
about one of the greatest of
contemporary scientists, George
Washington Carver, Negro edu-
Gator of TuSkegee Institute.
AS an infant in arms, DR..
Carver was sold in slavery, never
saw his parents again. He was
fortunate to have a master who
encouraged his liking for books
and study. Young Carver worked
his way through high school and
college, showed such an aptitude
for agricultural research and
experiment. he was elected to
the faculty of Iowa State Col
lege. He was later awarded a
D. S. by Simpson College.
The sceen shows how he went
10 Alabama and helped the farm
ers to rehabilitate depleted soil
for cotton crops, by growing pea,
nuts. When he eventually allied
The Washington times., 1938-06-29

little face and, when you see him
first, an immense cavity where
a front tooth once repoSed. Big
appealing eyes, and an inferi-
ority complex because of his
undersize, Master Kilburn strikes
your fancy because of his Coster
dialect, his absolute devotion to
Freddy Bartholomew, whom he
picks as the schools hero No. /,
They don't give Master Kill
burn any too much to do be-
cause, suspect, they recognize
he might sWipe the high honor
from the juvenile team of Bar
tholomew and Rooney. What he
does has more than enough to
win him a long term contract
with M-G-M. He's the son of an
English bus driver.
FREDDY is TOPS
Story of Lord jeff" is slender
in plot, but rich in the Lord Nell
son tradition and, what seems
like aut h n tic atmosphere.
Freddy Bartholomew, young
aide to pair of jewel thieves, is
caught on a London job, while
his grown-up pals escape. Freddy
is committed to the school,
where likely young orphans are
trained for the naval reserves.
Sullen and snobbish, he is
thoroughly disliked by his COM
panions, and it is young Mickey
Rooney who is assigned the task
of getting him resigned to dis
cipline. Before he becomes cock
swain of the crew for the big
race, Freddy absorbs a first class
pummeling from Mickey, is given
Chill" or sent to Coventry by
his mates, just escapes being
transferred to reform school.
Lord Jeff" is grand enter.
tainment, although there is not
a speck of the boy-meets-girl
formula. Tip top performances
are contributed by Charles Co.
burn, Emma Dunn and Herbert
Mundin in the more mature
roles, and Sam Woods direction
is flaWless.
AS a followup on "Yank at
Oxford" it appears that Holly
wood is really going after the
Picadilly trade. London, I
think, will cheer for Lord jeff"
and it's certainly Okay for Amer
icas
The Washington times., 1938-06-29

| CLOCK

CAPITOL-Loretta Young, Joel
McCrea, Three Blind Mice"
II a. m, las, 4:3O, 7:15, 9:55
p. m. Stage, 1855, $40, 6:25,
$40 p. m.
PALACE-Luise Rainer, Robert
Young, "Toy Wife," 1905,
2:3O, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 p. m.
COLUMBIA Robert Mont
gomery, Virginia Bruce, "Yel-
low Jack" 11:15 a. M, 1:20,
$3.50, 5:35, 7:4O, $50 p. m.
R-K-O-KEITHS Danielle Dar-
rieux, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
1.-THE Rage of Paris" 11:15
a. M. l, 2:45, 4:35, $40, $40,
9:55 p. m.
EARLE-Fay BANTER, Claude
Rains, Kay johnson, white
Banners" II a. M, 1:4O, 4:25,
7:O5, $50 p. m. Stage,
"Adriana Caseloth, Harry
Stockwell," 12:45. $3.50, 6:15.
9 p. m.
METROPOLITAN John Litel,
Ann Sheridan, Little Miss
Thoroughbred" 1850 a. M,
1:50, $3.50, $50, 1850 $50
p. m.
LITTLE-Ursula Jeans, Rex
Harrison, Storm in a Tea
cup" II a. m, 12:45, 2:35,
4:2O, 6:10, 8. 9:45 p. m.
TRANS-LUX - Newsreels and
Shorts, 10, 11:45 a. M, 1890
1:45, 8, 4:15, $50, 6:45. 8,
9:15. 10:45 D. m.
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Crime School,
Second Week

"Crime School" returned yes
terday to the Metropolitan Thea
ter for its second week down
town.
Effectively utilizing the tai
ents of the New York boys who
became famous in both stage
and screen versions of Dead
End" as well as such adult
players as Humphrey Bogart
and Gale Page, the latter a
beautiful newcomer to the
screen from radio, the new
Warner picture makes a strong
case Of its basic theme-that
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
Youthful Songstress
In FootbaII-MusicaI

Pretty Ruth Terry, the youth
full songstress who is making a
steady ascent of the ladder of
Hollywood fame, is to be given
another golden opportunity in
the rollicking Twentieth Century
Fox football musical, Hold That
Coed"
Also added to the cast were
Johnny Downs, personable young
player, and Paul Hurst, veteran
character actor who won &C
claim from the critics for his
memorable Characterization as
the good.natured bartender In
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
The Washington times., 1938-06-29

Of upright conduct, loyalty and
good example for his mates, and
with a brogue like a Galway
man.
Freddy Bartholomew is the
snobbish young crook, reformed
by the discipline and clean liv.
ing of the training school fam.
lily, pulling a hawser on the
Cunard liner at the fade-out, as
Q reward for his detour to the
path of righteousness.
About that new youngster,
Terry Kilburn. He has a funny
The Washington times., 1938-06-29

Do you realize how easy 1t ls to buy q
good used ear? Turn to tOday's Classified
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
Gle a min gs
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

Producer Sam Wood of oGoldwyn Mayer sponsored
Holywoods best Tong shot" in 1887 1t "Navy Blue
and God modest little entry that praise, and
gathered more dollars than of the superspeclas
1t looks though Producer Wood has done again In
lord jeff which unfurIed for movie critics the Fox
Film Exchange yesterday matinee he is close the center of
the hit target.
Freddy Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney and Charles Co.
burn the important in the picture but London
kid Terry Kburn, periousy being the seasons
prize scene steaer. He's bit of all right. Quite.
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
Rogers, KeIIard in
Next Withers Film

Jean Rogers and Robert Kel-
lard proved such a successful
team in Meridian 1922" that
the youthful Twentieth Century
Fox players have been assigned
to the romantic leads in Jane
Withers' next starring picture,
Down to Earth" which is now
before the cameras.
Down to Earth" will be d.
rected by Joseph Santley from
the screen play by Karen De
Wolf and Robert Chaplin.
The Washington times., 1938-06-29
New Program
At rons-Lux

Important, if not tops, of the
shorts in the new show at the
Trans-Lux Theater beginning
Friday, July l, is Friendly
Neighbors," a travelog in color,
on Canada.
OF course, Niagara Falls is
visited, and also the home of
the Dionne quintuplets, and
there are scenes of matchless
splendor and intense interest,
proving it a veritable sports
mans, and particularly a fish
erman's, paradise.
These shorts as usual are
supplementary to the dominat.
ing news section of current
news happenings as garnered
by the five newsreel producers.
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the old type of boys reforma-
tory is in fact a Crime School,"
Lewis Seller directed this fast
moving, mighty entertaining War
ner Bros. production, in which
the Dead End Kids" are said
to be even better than they were
in the stage and screen produc-
ton that made them famous.
Other players include Weldon
Hepburn, Cy Kendall, Paul Por-
caSi, Spencer Charters and
Helen MacKellar.
Evening star., 1938-04-15

pal Church, under the direction of
the Rev. John w. Rustin. pastor.
One OF the picturesque open-air
Easter services will be vespers COM
vocation held by the Boy Scouts CT
the District, Maryland and Virginia in
the Sylvan Theater from 4 to S pm.
Sunday The speaker will be the Rev.
A. P. Wilson, vice president of the
Federation Of Churches. There will
be music by the Metropolitan Police
Boys Club Band, Leon Brusiloff, con-
ductor, and a chorus of $50 Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts and members of
the Metropolitan Police Boys Club.
under direction of Rock Kirkam. This
is planned as the first local all-youth
Easter service.
Sir John Stainer's sacred contata.
THE CruciflXion," will be sung at
Francis Asbury Methodist Church
South, Sixteenth street between Irving
and Lamont streets NV. at o'clock
tonight by choir of 80 voices and q
solo quartet composed of Fannie
s'iiASNC AASoi toiIl, IlSIcil MAI 1T hOOLllZ,
Harvey T. Townsend and Fred c.
Schaefer. with Edith 3. Athey at the
organ and Stuart j. Dewey as di-
rector.
Good Friday services will be held in
Lutheran Church at s o'clock this
evening. with the sermon by the
Rev Gerhard E. Lenski. pastor, and
special music by the choir, directed by
Erich Mees, with Miss Marian Ran
berg at the organ
The stations of the cross were to be
conducted from to pm. today in
Franklin Park, Fourteenth and K
streets NV, under the auspices of the
Washington Catholic Evidence Guild.
The Rev. Charles A. Hart of Catholic
University will be in charge of the
ceremonies, assisted by the Rev. Joseph
A. Cook of London, Ontario; the Rev.
John A. Jordan of the Dominican
House of Studies and the Rev. John
Ellis OF the Sulpician Seminary. A
vested choir of IS clerical students
from religious houses associated with
Catholic University will chant the
hymns of Good Friday and portions of
the Requiem Mass"
Evening star., 1938-04-15
ID. C.. Taxes
Continued From First PAGE J

gross receipts of all concerns or per-
sons working for themselves, the busi-
ness privilege tax was estimated to
produce S3,000,0OO, but fell far short
OF that figure. Latest estimates are
tnat 1t is trlnging in this year about
Sl,o40, 700, and this difference is a
factor in swelling the deficit for the
coming year.
Deduction Changed.
Even with a graduated rate schedula
ranging from one-tenth to four-tenths
OF per cent substituted for the pres
ent nat rate, the revised gross receipts
plan is still calculated to raise more
than is coming in this year, mainly
because the bill as rewritten Yesterday
takes out the deduction taxpayers were
allowed to make this year for tangible
personal property taxes. While no
official estimates were available. if is
believed in some sources that the re-
peal OF this deduction would account
for about $l,000000 of the total estj-
mated yield of the new plan. Another
factor is the lowering of the exemption
to be allowed from $4,000 to $1,000
In other words, the rewritten bill
would tax gross receipts in excess of
$1,000.
While the new tax would be applied
IN all cases to concerns gross
receipts, the rate would depend on the
spread between gross receipts and
gross profit.
Consideration of the new tax bill
prompted Senator Copeland, Democrat
of New York, to suggest anew tina
Congress should enact legislation
giving the Commissioners greater au.
thority over the preparation of the
local budget and revenue-raisins
measures. Congress would have t,
continue to assume its responsibility
Of passing on the recommendation.
Of the Commissioners, the New Yorl
Senator said, but he believes the cit,
heads should be allowed to submit
their annual fiscal programs direct II
Congress without going through thu
Federal Budget Bureau.
Evening star., 1938-04-15
S. A. R. WILL INSTALL
new LEADERS TUESDAY

The District of Columbia Society.
Sons of the American Revolution, will
install newly elected officers at the
annual meeting Tuesday at 8 pm. at
the Raleigh Hotel.
o. r. Mcguire of the General Ac-
counting Office legal staff will speak
on The Executive Power of the
United States" Music will be fur
nished by the Imperial Male Quartet
and Edgar Robey.
Officers for the coming year include
c. Seymour Mcconnell. president; Dr.
Louis Charles Smith, first vice presi-
dent; w. Harvey Wise. secretary, and
Col. Charles Y. Latimer, treasurer.
Clifton P. Clark is the retiring presi-
dent.
Evening star., 1938-04-15
Pauline Starke Gets Divorce.

RENO, April Is (P.-Pauline
starke silent day screen star, divorced
George S. Sherwood here yesterday
She charged cruelty.
Miss Starke and Sherwood, New
York play producer and actor, were
married secretly at Coytesville, N. j.,
May IA, 1885.
Evening star., 1938-04-15

BENNY IiOOUndn
and his entire band will play for the
dance. Other entertainers will include
Joaquin Tarriba. Miss RieSenfeld's
partner at the Havana Club in New
York, where they are now dancing,
and Vincente Gomez, guitarist
Miss Riesenfeld toured much of the
Spanish war zone as interpreter for
a newspaper correspondent. Her re-
Gently published book. Dancer in
Madrid" tells of her experiences on
the battlefields and in that city.
Evening star., 1938-04-15

heaviest s II e l l.
fire. and who re-
turned to t h / S
country to write
q book on her eX-
periences, will be
the featured en-
t e r t a / ner at a
dance to be given
by the Friends of
Spanish Democ-
racy at the Ra-
leigh Hotel Sum-
day at 9 pm. for
benefit Of t h e
S p a n ! S h Milk
Fund.
Evening star., 1938-04-15
NOTED MADRID DANCER
TO APPEAR AT Benefit
Janet Riesenfeld to Be Main
Entertainer at Dance Here
for Spanish Loyalists.

Janet Riesenfeld.. New York dancer
who entertained in the night clubs of
Madrid while the city was under its
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
WEDNESDAY, JUNE15
By E0alw Walsh Mclean

charges, about other fees. Little does she dream
that she is paying three or four times the actual
value of the refrigerator.
She keeps on paying regularly, Then her hus-
band is laid off. No more payments. This COM
pany gets judgment against her husband. They
don't do it right away. They wait until he goes
back to work again and take his first weeks pay.
Also they take the refrigerator and they sell it to
somebody else. This little item of the loss Of the
refrigerator doesn't matter. The poor woman has
signed paper and she has got to keep on paying
the balance due whenever her husband gets job.
All she has had is her poor little refrigerator for
short time, then loses it, with endless hours of
agony to keep up the payments on it, without any,
thing but scrap of paper to show in the end.
It goes on like this, the poor souls borrowing
money from loan company on their furniture,
quite likely losing that; because they have missed
one payment the entire balance comes due.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
TCHILD, WEDGED'
between CURB.
TRUCK, INJURED.
onditionUndetermined
At Hospital

Four-year-old Vincent Howard,
of 627 I st. N. W., was wound
wedged between the curb and the
wheel Of an electric bakery de-
livery truck today, parked in the
6C0 block of I St. N. w.
At Casualty Hospital, where he
was taken in a passing taxi cab,
the boys condition was described
as undetermined" He was
treated for possible fractured ribs,
and multiple contusionS.
CHASED FROM CAB
Grover T. Smith, driver of the
truck, of 429 Georgia Ave. N. W.,
tolo police that he parked the
machine to make a delivery to
the store at 624 I st. He looked
from the store, he said, and saw
Vincent inside Of the truck, play
ing with the controls.
Smith rushed from the store and
chased the child from the truck,
he told police. He returned to
finish his business, but upon
finally leaving the store, he saw
Vincent on the ground between
the curb and truck wheel.
TWO HIT BY CAR
A sister and brother, one leav-
ing home for school, the other for
work, were struck by an automo-
bile today on Bladensburg Road
Northeast, near Twenty-fourth
Place, and were taken to Sibley
Memorial Hospital for emergency
treatment.
James Hensley, II, a student
at Steuart Junior High School,
was treated for a possible frac-
tured ankle, brush burns. and a
sprained back. His sister, Alice,
18, an employe of a cleaning estab.
liShment, was treated for shock.
Both live at 2035 Bladensburg
Rd. N. e.
Police are holding a colored
man, driver of the car, in connec"
ton with the accident.
Mildred Morris, 35, of Edmon-
Ston, Md, remained in a serious
condition in George Washington
University Hospital today from
conclusion and shock received
yesterday when she was struck by
an automobile at Fourteenth and
II Streets Northwest.
Edward Brooks, colored, 6, of
the 1000 block of Fourth st. N. W.,
received a fractured left thigh
when he was struck by an auto
mobile near his home. He was
treated at Children'S Hospital.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
SYNOPSIS

Tommy Dorsey and his band
are about to leaUe the small COL
Lege totU7l t0here they had played
at the prom the night before
There a local colIegian,
E1loUn as Btft Brown, had Gre
Gted q sensation Nth his SlUingy
clarinet 10hen permitted to do a
number 1Dith DorSey'S unit. Bitt
had begged the maestro to giUe
him a job Dith the band, but
Dorsey urged him to stay in
school. 1t developed that Bits
girl, Harriet CGrdGle, q coed and
serious music student, is much
opposed to suing and Bitf'S am
bition in that direction. She
introduced herself to Dorsey at
the railroad station, and their
spirited debate over suing, and
Bits future, lasted until the
train drriUed. The bGndnrGSter
could not SWdy HGrrietS anti
suing conUictio1lS.
Copyright. 1898, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1938-06-15

my band to our original Giving"
of Marie" and Who"
At this time also we began to
interest our audiences with
whacky orcheStrationS of clasSi-
cal numbers like Song of India
"Liebestraum," Melody in F."
and Spring Song" We were
one of the first bands to start
the current mania for remodel
ling the classics.
We also started recording and
did about eight sides a month.
Our waxing of Marie" became
a best seller. The band was now
in demand for personal appear
ances at theaters, for the big
college promS at Yale, Harvard
and Princeton, and for ultra
exclusive private parties on Sut-
ton Place and Park Avenue in
New York city.
NOT A TOM CAT
So if I forgot about Biff-in
spite of his amazing talent-it
wasn't because had a short
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
Factory Employment Off

Factory Employment Off
FACTORY employment of labor fell sharply
and much more than seasonally to new
low. Pay rolls made an even worse showing and,
in New York State, were only 64.4 per cent of
the average in 192527. Very unfavorable reports
came from mems clothing, leather, shoes, cotton
and silk goods, hardware and locomotive shops.
This reduction in earned purchasing power
hurts retail trade. The May sales OF 549 de-
partment stores in 261 cities were down sharply
to 70 per cent of the 1923-25 average, against
SO in April and SO year ago.
I can see two rays of light in the statistics.
First, the quantity of goods shipped to market
has fallen more rapidly than the price average.
Second pig iron production is now down in bal
ance with steel production. That is favorable
and eventually business will recover.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
Glossary Of Swing Words in This Chapter

Gutbucket: every man swing
ing for himself at the same
time.
BarreIhOuse: same as gutbuc-
ket.
Single string work: being
able to pick melodies out
on the guitar in adding to
rhythmic chords.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15

SNSSSNAJ 40 OA4 Va AsSAe
The judge is Joseph A. Gillis,
a good-natured, smiling, kind
man who generally works in
his shirt sleeves. This court is
situated in Wayne County
Building in Detroit, and into
this room come a thousand
wretched men and women
each month, poor souls who
are in debt, whose wages have
been garnisheed, women with
babies in their arms, all Of
them poor victims of the mer-
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
Court a Collection Agency

TT is on account of these tragic conditions that
this Poor Mans Court was established The
court serves as collection agency. It fixes the
amount of the payments based on the mans
salary. The man pays the money directly to the
court clerk, who keeps records of every payment.
The judge fights for these people tells them when
they have bought glass for supposed diamonds,
and in every way gives them chance to carry on
and keep their families together. Ten clerks as
sist him and no case is neglected.
He gets around these wretched creditors by max
ing the payments as small as possible even so
cents, just so they cannot garnishee the poor
mans belongings. This is no man to fool with.
If he had his way he would send all these Shy
locks to jail He tries to make his poor little
court room a home for these poor, heartbroken
souls. He knows they come for justice and he
sees that they get it, simply kindly and with
smile.
Why can't there be court like this in every
city in our country? If ever there was growing
need for such an institution, 1t is here at our
very doorsteps and Judge Gillis's splendid work
should extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
God knows if the human race ever needed help, it
needs it now.
The Washington times., 1938-06-15


About Ship Tie-Up
HERE'S the finale temporary of that little
II piece about the steamship company whose
vessel was tied up in New York for days because
the crew grabbed control Of the vessel, refused
any full pay and discharge when longshoremen
declined to unload so long as that crew remained
aboard:
The company went to court and asked for its
ship back. After 10 days of sitting, the lawyers
made motion for dispossess. Motion was
promptly made by the CIO attorney to delay the
decision for "a hours.
The port captain of the line happened to be a
court spectator. He noticed that the entire crew
of the ship had debarked and were in the court
roonn-also as spectators.
Being a smart fellow, the port captain slid
out of the room, made bee-lne for the pier
There he hauled up the gangways, put the crews
clothes ashore signed on Federation of Labor
crew and steamed out of New York.
The old crew returned. They found no ship,
but all their possessions. Chagrined, they went to
the office and were paid off in full.
Which shows one reason why the American
merchant marine continues to wallow in dismay.
ing confusion and why Jerry Land, Maritime
Commission chairman, was little "off base" on
Merchant Marine Day when he slammed the pub
lie for not patronizing United States vessels.
Copyright. Ledger syndicateI
LBoGEe CdrterS opinions are his oUn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TimeSJ
The Washington times., 1938-06-15
d. G.. Junior Bar
Holds Luncheon

The Junior Bar section Of the
District Bar Association was to
hold its spring luncheon today at
the Hotel Hamilton. Members of
the Woman'S Bar Association and
Junior Bar section of the Ameri-
can Bar Association were to at
tend. Judge Nathan Cayton and
Judge Edward M. Curran were
speakers. George Monk is chair
man of the Junior Bar section.