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Evening star., 1938-05-15


Hills fabled spots. Yet the spacious
house and the beautiful surrounding
acres are not its principal features
visitor is more impressed by two things:
''livability" and play equipment In Harold s
library the chairs are comfortable; the books
are bright and readable. Outdoors there are
swimming pool tennis court, squash court
and glass-inclosed house that is one vast
playroom. Even in the main house, down.
cellar in the vast furnace room but we'll
come to that later.
Love of home and play are no mystery in
Harold. He was born in Nebraska just before
the great panic of the Nneties His earliest
memory is of the family moving, moving,
moving - and of having to work without let
up. He can remember more than thirty odd
jobs at which he served, summers and after
school, as small boy
Much of his odd job money went for magic
paraphernalia. That hobby has outlasted
all Others.
Harold hadn't read TON Sawyer" but
could have modelled for the part He divided
his magic lore into two sections: the very
valuable secrets and the $3.50 ones When he
had yard to clean up, he divided that, too.
For tidying so many square feet. the assistant
received one magic secret. In each succeeding
nelghborhood. Harold's capital store of knowl-
edge served as good as new
About this time he wrote and produced a
basement drama. His father cherishes the
original manuscript, in Harold's handwriting:
TON Morgan. the Cowboy of the West.
Scene-A Salon in Dead Ouch. Colorado"
Harold cast himself as Jack Dalton, the
Meanest Cowboy of the West
The boys imagination had widened from
magic to everything theatrical. Even his odd
jobs took that flavor. He stooged for travelling
medicine men and, with fine histrionic flair,
for hypnotists. then the rage.
Harold developed a lively knack for prac-
tical joking "a vice he's since largely con-
quered, though few years ago he did ice the
Beverly Hills pool for a diving contestD
This boyhood conversation occurred:
Harold, did that fellow really hypnotic
you last night, when he told you you had feas.
and you scratched, and all that?"
Sure. And he taught me how to do it,
Go uawn! dare you to hypnotic me-
iii do better III teach you how to hypno-
tie me. Then I'll do everything you say
Password and hocus- pocus we're impaired.
The game went fine for thirty minutes
Harold climbed trees. stuck out his tongue,
Evening star., 1938-05-15

cornered, and then you'd fall in the holes
Mother had some sense, so the next day
reached the studio in one of my own white
school dresses, with hat to match Hal and
Harold stared Then they shamefacedly tore
up the first contract"
Miss Davis worked in a picture called
Temporary Marriage. Shortly after its COM
pletion she married Harold. Proving that the
title didn't mean anything, the home circle
now includes Gloria, Ia, Peggy, IL, and Harold
Jr.,7.
Harold Jr. received an electric train last
Christmas, and kept it nearly all one day.
Now it is expanded to several hundred feet of
track, with forty-odd switches, winding all
over the furnace room. There's map and a
central control board with lever to operate
each switch. The game is to conduct train
over given route, without mishap, against
stop-watch. Harold holds the stop-watch!
As writer producer actor salesman for his
pictures, Harold works as hard as he plays.
He has to be on the lot whether he's in scene
or not. All knotty problems come to him.
He enjoys it. though. Eight of his staff have
been with him fifteen years or more. Every
body calls the boss Harold, and the place is
Evening star., 1938-05-15
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

stood on his hands - obeyed all orders The
other boy. running out of ideas grew weary
He used the dissolving password
The "hypnotee" stayed hypnotized He still
would do anything commanded, maintaining
fixed, trancelike stare and rigid body.
MIR. Lloyd, attracted by the near -hysteria
of Harold's guest came out and de-hypno-
tized Harold in the old-fashioned way.
Having such name as Harold, and being
slight of figure he learned boxing because he
had to. In Denver he was good enough to
become city-wide amateur champion at his
weight. Then Mrs Lloyd put her foot down.
and Harold's gloves were put away.
Interest concentrated on the theater Jobs
as usher. Jobs carrying spear Jobs even as
janitor. Harold began the study of makeup.
at which today he is recognized expert
Mrs. Lloyd needed a boarder to balance her
budget. Harold proudly brought home the
leading man of Omaha's principal stock COM
pany - and soon the Omaha papers we're
heralding a new juvenile actor
It's like cinema sequences at this point:
Leading man goes West Mr. Lloyd in
herits little money. wants to 60 East =.
Harold pleads for San Diego j.. Mr. Lloyd
tosses coin =. Broadway loses star.
Harold reached movie lot outside Los
Angeles because he needed So a day. Weeks
passed; he was unable to see casting director.
Harold noticed that the extras in costume,
weren't checked when they returned from
lunch. Carefully made up as Yaqui Indian.
he filed in with the others, signed the pay roll.
Hal Roach. another extra, wanted to start
company of his own. Harold's head was
buzzing with comedy ideas. Big business!
Roach, as president, paid himself $35 week.
Harold drew SIS day, when he worked.
Within three years Harold was star. The
company needed beautiful blonde. Mrs.
Harold Lloyd (the former Mildred Davis, still
pretty enough for any pictures leading wom-
am sits now in the Beverly Hills library and
laughs:
Il had worked in one picture, gone home to
Seattle and school. Hal and Harold saw
print of my one effort, and decided I'd do
They wired me-
Little brother Jack, mother and took the
train. borrowed mothers fanciest clothes.
and arrived at the studio in purple velvet
dress that swept the ground, topped by hat
with purple feather curling under my chin.
Hal looked at Harold and Harold looked
at Hal. They gave me contract. Some con-
tracts have to be read up and down as we'll as
sideways. That one had to be read cater
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
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The Washington times., 1938-10-21
1000 CITIZENS
TO HEAR TALK
ON POWER PLAN.
Civic Group Sponsors
Va. Discussion

ARLINGTON, Va, Oct. 81
More than 1000 citizens of Arling
ton county, most of whom are dis
satisfied with the present electric
rates charged by the Virginia Pub
lie Service Company, are expected
to meet in the auditorium OF
Westinghouse High School to,
night at 8 o'clock to hear a dis,
cussion on municipal ownership
Of an electric power plant.
Sponsored by the county Civic
Federation, tonight's meeting will
be divided between those for and
against the proposal, with the
municipal ownership plan being
led my Victor Won Gemmingen,
town manager of Culpeper, where
a municipal plant has proven
highly successful. Leading the
di\ussion against the plan will
be j. Byron Brooks, a member OF
the federation, who will discuss
his personal views.
FAVOR OWNERSHIP
Members of the federation as a
whole, however, have gone on rec
ord favoring ownership OF a munlc-
ipal plant. Tonight's meeting,
it was emphasized, is being held
to afford the general public an op-
portunity to hear discussions from
both sides.
Principal information to be pre-
sented those attending the meet.
ing tonight will be summary OF
a recent countrywide survey made
by the engineering firm of Wiley
e. Wilson, Lynchburg, Va, who
studied the local situation from
the standpoint of installing a
municipal electric plant.
NOT CONCLUSIVE
Although the report submitted
by the Lynchburg firm is not con-
elusive, those making the survey
expressed the opinion that Airing
ton could substantially reduce
the present electric rates and still
make a profit.
While a greater majority OF the
electric consumers of the county
are now served by the Virginia
Public Service Company, a small
portion of the populace is served
by the Braddock Light and Power
Co., a subsidiary of the Potomac
Electric and Power Company. A
petition from a number of citizens
of the county requesting that the
Braddock Company be permitted
to extend their lines throughout
the county was denied by the
State Corporation Commission.
EIGHT REDUCTIONS
During the past five years, how
ever, the Virginia Public Service
Company had put into effect eight
separate reductions, with the most
recent to become effective Janu-
ary l.
Contending that residents Of
Arlington county have been given
more reductions in their electric
rates than any other community
in Virginia, officials of the utility
now serving the county point to
the fact that since November, 1884,
the cost of electric service has
been reduced more than so per
cent.
The new reductions about to
be made, it was added by utility
officials, will bring about another
10 per cent decline in present
rates for the average consumer
of the county.
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
SlayerPdyS
With Life
Chair

JOLIET, ILL.,, Oct. Fl
U.N.SD.-JOhn Jelliga, 80,
paid with his life in the
electric chair early today for
the hOldup Staying Of Ed
ward PanSa, q farmer, last
December.
Jelliga and Michael Mum
gas also seriously wounded
Pansa's wife, Huldah, when
the farmer resisted the inva-
sion of his home near Crete,
Ill.
The ded woman
crawled nearly a half-mile
through the snow for help
and a quickly organized
posse trapped Jelliga in his
home at Whiting, Ind, the
same night. Mungas was
captured later and hanged
himself in jail.
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
Vicente Roast

A straw ride and "weenie" roast
will be staged by the choir OF
the Dumbarton Methodist Epis-
copal Church at 1880 p. m. to
night and proceeds will be used
to purchase new music and choral
eQuipment.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

thing bothers me-my golf." Mr..
Fields Is not as gloomy as he sounds.
Far from 1t. He has Just won the
first round In his doctors lawsuit
for $82 900 and hands out cigars to
celebrate his victory. In fact, every
thing Is flne until Bill catches sight
Of the large notice OUTSIDE Charlie
McCarthy's dressing room Eyes, he
has . real dressing room with q
little staircase). The notice reads:
wv. G. Fields and other >termites
please keep out"
"Song Of the West" Between
takes Nelson Eddy practices gun
spinning and huns I'm q rootin',
tootin' cowboy" The golden-haired
boy of the movies has been in
dulging In calisthenics--not that he
has put on weight, but to improve
his posture. Leading Lady Vir-
ginia Bruce works on q reminiscent
piece of needlework. Silently she
shows me the tag-"This is one year
DID,"
i 4
'Torchy Runs for Mayor"
The sixth of the series. TITS pen
sion for life," says Torchy-Glenda
Farrell. At the back Of her chair
Is printed Madame Mayor" She
holds that position for North Hol-
lywood. Mayor novelties include
Bob Burns, for Canoga Park; Al
Jolson, Encino; Richard Arlen, To-
luca Lake; Hugh Herbert, Studio
City. Their duties are easy-al
they have to do Is to look pretty
and contribute to this or that char.
table cause.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

one Of the Oldest legends in the
language.
'"The Citadel" making most Of
the 10-best lists which critics now
are submitting for the edification-
or confusion-of every one will re-
turn to the Columbia on Friday J..
This corner, incidentally, is one
that selected the picture on its 10
best list and is willing to argue about
it "Sweethearts," which offers
jeanette Macdonald and Nelson
Eddy in technicolor and Victor
Herbert's music, will open at the
Palace on Thursday If you ever
have wondered who originated the
word, or is it phrase, "Pul-leeze," i"
is credited to Beatrice Lille .
The point is made, without reference
to its publicity value, of course, by
the press agent who reveals once
more that Miss Lille will be here
January 8 in "Set to Music" 1t
is by Noel Coward and the Wash
ington performance will not be a
premiere :. Boston will have seen
it before Washington does .
Whatever it may mean, and it can
hardly mean sustained admiration
for their work, this department S
Christmas cards from Hollywood
have covered most Of the Dead
End" kids One picture in which
they act like little Lord Fauntleroys,
instead of themselves, and we shall
be back on the preferred fan list.
AS the first American author who
wrote subtitles in the spirit Of a
foreign f1lm, John Erskine merits
special attention locally these days
The subtitles are to be found
in 1.-THE Story Of a Cheat" at the
Belasco It is not well known,
however, that Mr.. Erskine's first
effort was rejected, his titles being
regarded as too long The re-
write, which he did very graciously,
is practically perfect . Visiting
in Washington yesterday was
Charles Meredith, currently director
of the Dock Street Theater in
Charleston, once of the Dallas Little
Theater and the winner of more
prizes in that field than almost any
one you, or we, could name The
Maryland race track which is re-
produced in Going Places" the
Earle's next attraction, has a Cali
fornia locale, but the Warner studio
is betting that you would not have
known had you not been told .
The picture, incidentally, is the one
which brings Maxine Sullivan to the
screen with the addenda to "Loch
Lomond," the song that made her
famous and vice versa.
Aside to M. Proser, press repre-
sentative of Richard Barthelmess:
Your clients work in Spy Of Ma
poleon" will not influence our judg-
ment of plane A." his next. but we
still think Spy of Napoleon" was
! terrible.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

am, las, 4:25, ITO and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 12:45, $3.50, 6:15 and
8 pm.
Metropolitan-"Blondie, the COM
ic strip characters come to the
screen: 11:50 am, 1:50, $50. $50,
7::50 and $50 pm.
Columbia THE Great Waltz" -"
snowy and full of Strauss music !:
1850 am, 2:20, 4:45, tbs and GAS
pm.
Little-"Tales of the Vienna
Woods" Strauss music in an old
Viennese setting: II am, 1880,
2:40, '4:25, 6:15, sos and $50 pm.
Belasco-"Story of Cheat"
bright and impudent French satire:
Ais, sos, 8 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

NAhCAs ~ AOCC Atot 0AAAkAAAy WAC 4ASo-
ton. It merely asks 1t. And after
weeks and weeks Of wondering what
It means, this department has final
ly decided that the single legitimate
answer It:
Bring on 'Pygmalion'."
The idea behind the question is
perfectly legitimate. 1t is, simply,
that Mr.. George Bernard Shaw
wrote the original script which pre-
sumably makes 1t something beyond
the comprehension Of the average
mortal IN average mortal being a
person who has enough money to
pay his way to the movies.
For all its legitimacy, however, the
question implies something patroniz-
ing-as If Mr.. Shaw himself had
written 1t! There is no reason why
every average mortal, the one with
enough money to pay his way to the
movies, should not see and enjoy
"Pygmalion." 1t is merely the Gin
derella legend told once more. That
1t has Mr.. Shaw's by-line cannot fool
any one who is not too awed by Mr..
Shaw to be his own reasoning, think
ing self. Granted that the words in
which it is told are not quite the
same, the story is the old familiar
one. Washington has liked it before.
Washington undoubtedly would like
It again. It really is quite an intel
ugent town, sufficiently intelligent
to take Mr.. Shaw in its (and his)
stride In this particular manifes-
tation.
The story one hears about "Pyg-
malion" as a result Of its tremendous
success In New York is that 1t will
be sent to certain key cities" next
month in order that box office in
terest shall determine whether 1t
will have general release. One Of the
key cities will be Washington. The
theater will be the Palace. One
could hope that Washingtons re-
sponse to Mr.. Shaw, even with less
q person than Leslie Howard in the
comic central role. would be such as
to convince distributors Of the pic
ture that the one great critic did
not become completely abscure when
he turned playwright and rewrote
Evening star., 1938-12-28

mine last week-but remembered
in timel"
1.-THE Lady's From Kentucky"
(This title will be changed-too
reminiscent Of Twentieth Century,
Fox's "Kentucky") Ellen Drew
is Kentucky belle (and, like Lor-
eta Young in Kentucky" the
granddaughter Of an old Kentuck-
ian devoted to horse raising). Ellen
is co-starring with George Raft
whom she described as "a person.
atty" He differs from Ronald Col
man Cher co-actor In IF Were
KingD. who. according to Ellen, "is
an actor" Micky O'Boyle, the
race horse in the picture, has q
standardized Reaper. Micky earns
500 a day. His stand-in, $25 q day
The groom gets 500 q week. His
assistant, SIS a week. The studio
provides food for all four. I think
I'll give up columning and buy q
horse.
"You can't cheat an honest man"
-. Il never thought I'd come to
this" says w. C. Fields, slipping
orange juice. Nov that I don't
drink and barely smoke, only one
Evening star., 1938-12-28

very long at best-you've got to
make money while you can, or
what's the use?"
Director Willie Wyler also has q
grievance-but not yet against Gold
wyn. "It's my wife Margaret Talli-
cheD," he explains. "She's a good
actress, but David Selznick won't
give her good part and he won't
release her from her contract" .
He is giving his wife extensive tests
to show Selznick, so don't be sur
prised if she is soon more than q
face on the cutting room floor .
Wyler explains his current good re-
lationship with Boss Goldwyn the
director has walked out on at least
two Of Sans productions). Every
time we talk, we each put 500 on
the table. Whoever raises his voice
first loses his 500. I nearly lost
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"The Women" as they
were seen by Clare Booths satirical
typewriter: 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Palace-'The Young in Heart
daft adventures of a daft family
II am, los, 3:15, $40, 7:30 and
9:40 pm.
Earle-"Dawn Patrol" adventure
in the air in World War fighting
planes: II am, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05 and
$50 pm. Stage shows: 1880, 3:35,
6:15 and pm.
Keith's-'Listen, Darling" sings
Judy Garland to Freddie Bartholo-
NEW: 11:l5 am, l, $50, ABS, 6:25
8:l5 and 10 pm.
Capitol-"Young DR.. Kildare" a
young inferno starts his career: II
Evening star., 1938-12-28

ance is as leader Of the polka.
think he will be sunk David's
Evening star., 1938-12-28

solennity this
morning, how
ever, has noth-
ing to do with
his role-but is
the result of his
current b q t I'll e
with Boss Gold
wyn for more
pay. i've made
II pictures and
only three Of
them for SAM"
says David. "The
least he can do
is to raise my
salary. Movie
careers don't last,
Evening star., 1938-12-28

mine last week-but remembers
in time!"
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Capital Is Promised Chance
To See Shaw on Screen
January Will Bring 'Pygmalion';
Columbia to Get 'Citadep;
Erskine Rewrote Titles
BY JAY CARMODY.

January practically inevitable within the next few
calendar Capital this Republic will be turned
into a guinea pig.
nmaed mail which delivered to the
letters which
president which
asks What about 'Pygmauon?"
Evening star., 1938-12-28
Sam Goldwyn and Director
Find Way to Keep Calm
William Wyler and His Boss Fight
No More After They Make
Guarantees of Silence
BY sHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

"Wuhering Heights" Merle looking . with
picturesque climb
garden. help feeling"
through
gae Nven the of the mansion which
his serious role
at me, I'm sunk" His first appear
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-29

came up. That was really dirty weather, that Paris-to-Moscow hop. It was so black and the rain piled up so on the wind shield that I turned off all the lights except on the instrument board
 We had lot of ice at high attitudes and TO de-icers, beca use they would have added about l50 pounds to our weight. Our car burstors never caught a bit of ice though. Che engines were equipped with a new type of an ti-ice carburetors.)
 The ship iced up pretty had ly four or five timss. but the worst was between Paris and Moscow.
 The pilot said he and his com panions used up a lot of oxy- gen. from the ships tanks while they were flying al h.gh alti- tudes.
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-29
Howard Hughes Told Of Flight
 Around World
(Continued From Page One)

NAOIltlI1ucO CIOu age OuSj 175 miles an hour to keep it from mushing (flying tail-heavy) and realized that it would be a close proposition, with the range of the ship. There was barely enough gasoline to get to Paris"
 'Slide-Rule' Pilot
 Then Hughes, who often has been described by other pilots as flying with a side rule in his hand" said he had plotted a curve" 10 indicate what power he could use to get to Paris as his fuel load grew increasingly lighter.
 When We started out," he said i've were using 45 gollons of fuel per hour per engine. At the end of the trip to Paris, l managed to get down to thirtytWo and one half gallons per hour per engine. That's the whole story. It is the only way that plane could be stretched that far.
 ''There was only way to eX tend that range, and so I dropp- ed, toward the end of the trip, to 375 horsepower per motor"
 The two CurtiSs-Wright Cy- clones on his ship are rated al LIDO horsepower.
 The dangers he encountered?
 "The most dangerous part of the whole fight was the takeoff from Floyd Bennett field with that heavy load,'' he answered.
 Fifteen minutes aft terWard he revealed that the danger of that takeoff was far greater than he or any of his companions realiz- ed until their wheels touched the ground of Le Bourget airport at Paris.
 Lund Gets Praise
 .- He said Ed. Lund, the flight engineer, was a wonder" .... .... =. He repaired the tail wheel fit- ting himself," he continued. It's all about that delay we had in Paris when we lost about eight :. Ut started at the takoff from Floyd Bennett field. When I'd taxied to the end of the runway, I thought the runway was too short for a takeoff with that load, so taxied out beyond the end of the runway (they are of concrete construction) on the grass.
 "The tail wheel hit hole in the grass. I felt the ar. What had happened-although we did not know it then-was that the bump that had ruptured the fit ing of the tail wheel to the bulk head of the ship.
 "A French mechanic nosing a. round under the ship found the trouble right away. The biggest danger was that the break was right up close to the elevator controls and interfered with them.
 we and the French, who were grand to us, took a look. They threw up their hands and said
 Gnh6n6nx.,.
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-29

'C'est fini'-it's the end. But not Ed. Lund.
 Tail Wheel Eived
The Nome nugget., 1938-07-29
Soviet Surprises

The flyers encountered a few surprises in Russia, mainly thru the usual language difficulties in a strange land.
 We had arranged for interpre- ters to meet us at Omsk and Va kutsk," he said, but the inter preters didn't show up. Women came to our rescue in both cases. They were both school teachers who spoke English.
 Il made a new map of North ern Siberia as We flew over. We found the U. S. hydropraphic survey maps were wrong on some of the region-you know, a coast looks different from a boat than from an airplane.
 "When we left Yakutsk, the map showed we wouldn't find any mountains higher than 6,50O feet. We'll, the mays were all wrong. We spotted some 9,700 feet high and there was ice on the wings at the time"
 Hughes disclosed that he had been planning this flight for 3 years, adding:
 But, then, I've been thinking about ying ever since l was IA years old.'
 Hughes said it was really his Sperry gyro pilot which did the flying, except for takeoffs and landings.
 "It worked perfectly all the way around" he asserted.
 Weather Was Bad
 There was plenty of bad wea- ther along the way, throughout the three days.
 "We never saw a wave all the way across the Atlantic" he said except for a glimpse of Boston harbor. We sighted Ireland thru a hole in the clouds.
 When we took off from Paris, We went on to the instruments almost as soon as the wheels