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points oversize o-qt.
kettle, installed in the
top of the range, which
has brought new econ.
omy and convenience
10 electric cookery.
Evening star., 1938-07-31
The Pioneers Step
Out of History
Onto the Screen.

~OuT Of the pages of history onto
the talking screen are stepping
historically true characters of Amer
ica's pioneer days Some famous, a
few infamous, most of them universally
known but some vague memories, they
are bringing the screen a new type OF
character-men who lived by Drawn
or guns.
Best known of them today is one
Maj Robert Rogers, who remained al
most forgotten until Kenneth Roberts
made him the most talked-of char
acter Of the year in Northwest Pas
sage" Maj. Roberts, in all his swag-
gering, Indian killing reality, will be
portrayed by Spencer Tracy, best ac-
tor Of 1887. Actors will be playing
a lot Of other Indians and soldiers
whose names may be found in history
books. Robert Taylor will be the fic-
titious Langdon Towne
A trend, based partly on the popu-
larity of historical films and novels and
partly on the huge success of such
favored pictures as Bad
Man of Birthstone" has brought these
characters into the cinematic lime
light.
Tyrone Power. fresh from Marie
Antoinette," will play Jesse James,
bandit of Oklahoma, Missouri and
Kansas. Henry Fonda will be one of
the brothers. Wayne Morris is slated
to enact Kit Carson. Indian fighter
and guide. James Cagney will be a
composite of several Southwestern
bandits in THE Oklahoma Kid"
k'Dodge City, will recreate that early
city Of gunmen, while Texas Jack will
be portrayed In Union Pacific
Evening star., 1938-07-31
The Insurance Firms
Also Have Their
Talent Scouts.

I IKE the major motion picture
- studios. the leading insurance
companies today have their Hollywood
talent scouts.
The function of these insurance
scouts is to discover potential big ac-
counts among youngsters with prom
ising screen futures.
One Of the pioneers Of this craft
spotted Wayne Morris back in the
days when Wayne was an unknown
amateur at the Pasadena Playhouse.
His first $4,000 annuity Is paid of.
Now he's paying on four more like
the first.
Morris account nets a neat profit
to the insurance-talent scout who an
ticipated his success and is worth
thousands In annual premiums to his
company. It all started from the
$20-a-week saving plan Wayne signed
shortly before he received his Warner
Bros contract.
The insurance scout who handles
Wayne's account has Priscilla Lane,
playing opposite Morris in Brother
Rat; Bonita Granville, Johnnie Davis
and other promising youngsters on
his list
Insurance company scouting" is
valuable to both sides. The company
builds a big account. The youngster
launches plan to insure his future.
Evening star., 1938-07-31
Todoy's Film Schedule

Chickens film Of the Kate
Douglas Wiggin 1885, 5:55 7:50 and $50
film adolescence
and problems: 2 So sos tbs and $50
2:2o 4:4o SIS
9l5
CAPITO-"IM seeks friend
pm. Stage 3:45 $50 s15
rackes they
g. 1885, $50 so and $50
coLUMB1A-"Fast Company"
555 75O and $40
Gom famous legend becomes film: 4:o5 7:5o
GAS
Evening star., 1938-07-31
Hollywood Discovers Drama
In the American Family;
Now a Cycle Looms
Current Screen Attractions Show
Picture Makers a Bit Tardy
Finding Folks Are Interesting.
By Jay Carm0dy.

1o news of the week Holywoods
of
IL the idea of
turned out hfhearted, pictures
lnacatns some feeling that there possibly might
oonss OF father mother the kids relatives When Hollywood
or prosperity in 1929 For au ts ~ ranfat tt ~ Nc VIC ] sun al s lung,
scale in apparently dramatic values
OF hurricanes yphoons roughhouse sarong
Nelson Eddy singing to jeanette Macdonald
The simple family cohesion huterng of
adoescent ca
beset the compared
spectacle Miriam
McCe) a
What apparently of things
fans hoped for long before
patrons waiting for
sttraetons D''' '''' "'' giving 'Oe" S''ee"
Illustrative the genuine
Finds Andy Hardy went through before finding the Palace
the Capitol Critical general reaction
that spite OF its humble origin picture that millions
behind humble)
with anything the
busy Hardy opus
occupied production
Mother Chickens
speaking the latter
The finished product constitutes the achivement sneak
that ambition
family a whole
THE history Love Hardy
without
feeling that just the fourth episode the of serial
family Family life which
undoubtedly
upon something better than that to be sure 1t could not have done
otherwise
had class which
did
MOST
this week that of w.
quickly the
the
the
makers all
rarely given credit for uperaive accomplishments.
that Mortified spell
a
world-for
little while at least.
WHICH Tonight
allowed Well
might of the Ony Theaer has Fu Oak
Heart which
all about, "Fumed Oak"
tells family
he
the brittle Brions awful
Astonished
malicious Coward critics the
Hamlet thought should
havebee
Evening star., 1938-07-31
Harold Lloyd
Film Is Due
This Week
By Harry MacArfhur.

~ IGHT at the moment, on the
- day when July is drifting
N humidly to its end. it Is not
L \ to be expected that there will
be too much that is exciting on the
cinema front. But the future looks
bright for all Of the fact that the
midsummer doldrums are supposed to
be here, and there seem to be a num-
Der of Hollywood's more carefully
made and more publicized items on
the way.
Most important Of the pictures on
the immediate horizon. at least from
the standpoint Of anticipatory inter-
est. would seem to be the new Harold
(See MACARTHUR, Page F-2.)
Evening star., 1938-07-31

by George Brent Constance Worth,
two weeks: June Lang-Vice Orsatti,
two months: Martha Raye-Buddy
Westmore. three months.
The unlucky number for Joan Ben
nett's marital plunges is five-her
marriage to John Marion Fox lasted
(See GRAHAM, Page F-2)
Evening star., 1938-07-31

in action-merely those to which
END" has been added.
Only two of the 35 divorced cou-
piles scored Is years apiece-William
Powell. who married Mrs Julie Powell
in 19l5-the divorce came in 1890
And Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair
banks-wed 1920, divorced 1885.
The briefest marriages were scored
Evening star., 1938-07-31
Walter Wanger's Blockade
May Be the Picture Which
Will Start Something
Out of the Interest in 1t Has Grown
A Serious Campaign to Free
The Screen From Escapism.
Bv DOuqlnS ". ChurchW
By Douglas ". Churchill.


UT the situation Of
extreme sensiviy Within recent days there
fire.. tn. movies from the burden of restrictive dn & unu M % way 10
medium
The other night
bodies launch determined campaign in behalf Of
screen liberated from political censorship
often get far the calb Of the
interested give promise of making stir
attitudes as the Congress
of Parents Teachers Ek Freenasons
c. o. w. A. Federation of Protestant Churches Peace
Mothers Movement Federated Church Broterhd Congress
with representatives OF $4,000 members of the Writer'S
Guilds The banning Of Blockade
Of the Film Library the
Critics of the
around the delegates there
indications that this Hollywood
reluctance Of the
exhibitors office
has been possible for any organized minority
Utilizing Picture Artists Committee compoed If the non
executive the
organizations throughout the effort to
create formidable national
to producers exhibit
significance are attacked by boycott and
WHILE scene vexng details
ANNOYED of the towns personalities Flynn
permitted FYvnn to r-trn to San r1nc ~ Nv a m S % n anu % %
1t seemed laden with hokum
separated.
After this apprehensve lest
Studios must be careful
in public esteem he failed
Brigade scheduled to have
adeout reactions had
indicated that the customers dpasd
With public indignation decided
to original Flynn together
ending and having been v Fnn he
the inevitable cnch
Unless he the final will ship
for the studio does not
consider reflection the girl
unhappy ending
STORIES implications in their regard
for economic situations
m minor ons in dialogue White Collars which by
Metro the good
today it when presented n
remember that it the
struggle between
play deals
peculiar were
dismissed
middle class and
would nv
more belvabe Besides $50 900
in
In 1928 chickens but
The applicability
treats with middle
amusing being told b Young Ruth
ibbee
HOLLYWOOD Pine and
the
Tombstone Az has offered sell its entire
camp
Of so although
1000 at its height has sale Walter
the Tombstone Eptaph
Every attempted rehabIia the coou town
legendary When Harry
his Hopong
Of selling the widest
spinning
Evening star., 1938-07-31
Miss Skinner
Feels Ready
For Stage
By Ira WOlferf.
NEW YORK

NEW YORK.
Y y AVING been one of those sedate
birds of passage known to the
trade as monologists for a
L L number of years now, Cornelia
Otis Skinner feels ready to restore the
family name to the Broadway theater.
Beau Strategem"-a restoration
drama described by Miss Skinner as
dirty in a very nice. refined way
will be the vehicle. Brian Aherne the
leading man, october the approxi-
mate date and daddy. up in Wood
stock, VT, is beginning to get ex-
cited.
Daddy. Of course. is 80-year-old
(See WOLFERT, Page F-2)
Evening star., 1938-07-31
. .3.enchley Reads.

Nov at work on his comedy, How
to Read" Robert Benchley plans
to follow this one-reeler Immediately
with one titled How to Spend Your
Lunch Hour"
Evening star., 1938-07-31
Four Years Is the Average
Statistics Show Many Hollywood
Marriages Don't Take.
By SheiIah Graham.

Hollywood lasts eight months IA
/ days
This figure based IS movand mariases-al Of which
them lasted
(which the ddn who will divorce)
a 70
The Washington times., 1938-12-26
= HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
GuIitry Film
Opens at
BeIQsCo

Once in a great while a real
genius flashes across the cinema
horizon. One, at least, is from
this country. Charles Chaplin,
Of course. Then there are two
Europeans in the Super-intel.
lectual class. Luis Trenker is
one-Another Sacha Guitry.
Now the question arises, what
Is a movie genius. Well, Il such
a comparison will be explana-
tory, a movie genius is a Noel
Coward-in celluloid. It Is one
thing to be a fine director. Or
an actor. Or perhaps an author.
But these three, Chaplin, Trenker
and Guitry, do all these. They
write, direct and star.
"STORY OF A CHEAT"
All this is by way Of leading
up to M. Guitry's latest epic,
"The Story Of a Cheat" which
had its Washington premiere
yesterday at the Belasco The
ater.
The story is a strange one. A
provincial lad Is punished for q
small theft. The punishment is
as the hand Of god-or the
devils. For the lad Is deprived
Of his supper. A griSly feast,
for in the soup are poisonous
mushrooms. Eleven members Of
the family die, only the boy is
spared.
Orphaned, the boy realizes
that he is alive only because he
sinned. He philosophers q
queer, twisted sort of way-that
his family died only because
they were honest. With this
perverted outlook he faces life.
Conscious Of his inherent tend
ency to cheat, the boy, now
grown to manhood, fits from
job to job. He tries to lead an
honest life only to be unjuStly
accused Of chicanery.
STRUCK BY IRONY
Struck by the irony Of the
paradox ne deliberately learns
to become a card shark and
cheat.
There's an ending that would
be spoiled if revealed here. Need
less to say, only Guitry could
contrive such q denouement.
The picture is spoken in
French with English titles by
John ErSkine. Marguerit e
Moreno, Jacqueline Delubac and
Rosine Derean are adequate in
support Of M. Guitry.
R.,
The Washington times., 1938-12-26
oBoYs FROM SYRACUSE"

It is an amazing idea to take
Shakespeare's Comedy Of Er-
rors" and turn it into a musical
comedy. For that is what Boys
From Syracuse" at the Alvin
Theater is, with a book by
George Abbott and Rodgers and
Hart tunes.
This, they tell me, is the hard
est show in town to get good
tickets for, unless you patronize
the spectators. They expect it
to run through the World Fair
next summer.
On Christmas Eve it was
packed to the last inch and yet
it never seemed to inspire that
enthusiastic applause which to
me spells smash hit!"
Jimmy Savo, of River Stay
Away From My Door" fame, is
the principal comic, with Teddy
Hart and Wynn Murray
featured. was more interested
in Eddie Albert (who stole the
high honorS Of Brother Rat" in
the screen version), and it is a
pleasure to record he is just as
good on the stage as he was act
ing for Warner Brothers,
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

CLOCK

CAPITOL-Lew Ayres, Lynne
Carver, Young DR.. Kildare"
II a. M, las, 4:25, 7:10,
9:55 p. m. Stage, "solici Pup
pets," 12:45, 7:1O, 9:55 p. m.
PALACE-Janet Gaynor, "The
Young in Heart" IL a. M,
1:05, 3:15. $40, 1880,
COLUMBIA Luise Rainer,
Minna Gombell, "The Great
Waltz" 1850 a. M, 2::20, 4:45,
7:45, 9:45 p. m.
EARL E-Errol Flynn, David
Nivan, Dawn Patrol" II a.
m, lao. 4:20, 7:05, $50 p. m.
Stage. "Michou's," 1880, 3:35,
6:15, 9 p. m.
METROPOLITAN-Penny Sin.
gleton. Arthur Locker, "Blon-
die" 11:5O a. M, 1:150, $50,
$50, 7:50, $50 p. m.
R.K.O. KEITH'S-Freddie Bar
tholomew, Judy Garland, "Iis-
ten Darling" 11:15 a. m, 1:O3,
2:5l, 4:39, 6:27. 8:15, 1908
p. m.
T ANS. .LUX-"News and
Shorts" 10 a. m. to midnight
shows IS minutes.
LITTLE-Nelson Eddy, Jeanette
Macdonald, Naughty Mari.
etta," 1910, $40 $40, GAS
p. m. "Scrooge," 1l:3O a. m.
2:30. $50, 8::35 p. m.
BELASCO-Sacha Guitry, Jac.
queline Dehebac, "The story OF
a Christ" AIS, 6:O5, 8, $50
p. m.
The Washington times., 1938-12-26
Goyety Offers Al Holiday Bill

hands Of Johnny Barry and
George Murray. These two boys
have lots to offer in the way of
amusing and original comedy.
Evelyn Brooks and Frank Smith
add much to the comedy Sc
quences abounding throughout
the production.
Narden and Rogge form a
dance team that introduces some
new novel, and clever dance
routineS to local patrons. Their
eccentric dance is one Of the
highlights on a fine bill.
An unusually good looking
line Of girls make up the chorus,
while the settings and lighting
effects of the entire production
are quite in keeping with the
Lake manner Of presentation.
T. j. r.
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

All you do is cut out the head
of Dick Powell from a picture
which appears with this article
and paste it on some other
photograph appearing in today's
issue of The Times. You can
get some mighty funny effects
that way. and the funniest
photos will be the prize winners.
Then clip the pictures Of
Anita Louise and Allen jenkins,
which will appear in The Times
tomorrow and Wednesday, and
do the same thing with them.
When you have thus made all
three of your Funny FotoS, ''
send them to the Going Places
Funny Eoto Contest Editor,
care Of The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1938-12-26
BY. ED SULLIVAN
Merry Christmas

Hollywood Calf Dec 2s
finds you or whatever the Merry Per-
perhaps extent
Of Christmas will be cheap meal in Bowery ophoue with
right; perhaps will read this propped hospital
the day carry with it cheer and
the lights the Christmas their warmth right
that hSny This one day day the
fear in hearts and their hands Even the stone walls
heading Devils Island; prizes locks
rue opon of a ns s and sS on
and since generated in stable at Bethlehem
Christmas" "''''
In Hollywood tt the entire countryside is flame Of
color homes and even sparkling with
# you dV out BoIey Be or WTo 1he I
hsdes dotted with lighted Christmas Within those
no o no E & few o ago Of those
cheer into the lives Of 5000 children Of the migratory work
s They took vUrs w them og The o1
Santa Claus as composite MELVIN Douglas musace Edward
eyes brought Christmas shar
1t is great day.
is the day Of the which those of
believe in Santa Claus look back regretfu the
learned that there Santa Claus On that day had
cation we to tobrdse that US to faith fro%
@ aH r e sso 1on e
keeper drove sharp bargain and the world has been paying off
Today under the spell of the holiday memory goes plunging
back desperately against time
hood before Is slides Again kids
ing through locked doors to the rustic
wondering Saint Nicholas already is at work Again strain
ing hear the tnkle of reindeer gaopng
light Year after
curiosity match for drowsness and heard
bells the reindeer Sihouetted against the
There $3.50 year. only "a hours
be spared for Christmas
2 the next ngbOrs could
be persuaded to yield their identity
one is only foyer to Christmas and the other exit
they have prestige maintain write
letter to my Congressman.
Before the 24o deadne has been crossed let wish
Oldest wish and quite the incest Merry Christmas Let's
toast to all the kids Of the word-a that
pledge that those whom Santa
Claus and reindeer and tnkng midnight bells
that toast all the dctS world
it the hope that the year will be kinder
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

Christmas Bellies" an attrac-
ton that is well studded with
good entertainment, is the
Christmas treat being served
Gayety Theater patrons by its
genial manager, Col. Jimmy
Lake.
one Of the real outstanding
features of the current bill is
Miss June Taylor. We found this
charming personality to be one
of the prettiest, Shapeliest. and
attractive girls to play this house.
II there was ever q damsel who
could consider herself a rival
of Ann Corio. June Taylor Is
that person.
The laugh portion Of the bill
has been placed In the capable
The Washington times., 1938-12-26
"Racket'' Admitted

So the reporter went out and
did a little investigating OF his
own. He picked out the first prof.
ect he came across. And. lined
around for the space Of two blocks.
he found nothing but AUTOMOBILES
whose owners were spade-rest1ng
on the project!
Racketeering is admitted. Hop
kins, himself, admits it. But ne
says it is relatively unimportant.
He declares that for every instance
of chiseling unveiled there Is q
vast preponderance Of evidence 10
the effect that without such public
assistance millions would be starV:
ing-and that the revolution would
be here!
Summing up at this stage, the
Government Is carrying the most
of the load-which means that
you and I are carrying the most
of the load. Under present conol'
tions the churches. community
chests and other agencies carry q
relatively small part Of the burden.
Which means that you pay and I
pay for the Governments ph1lan-
thropy through taxes.
We also pay thrugh private
agencies-but the flow which
keeps the stream at flood comes In
little and big checks-all Of them
however, too big in comparison
with income-made payable to the
Collector of Internal Revenue.
Ito be continued tomorrow
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

Penny Singleton is exactly
right as Mrs. Bumstead and so
is Arthur Lake as her amiable
but perpetually befuddled hus-
band. Doggone if Mr.. Lake
doesn't look like the Dagwood
of the cartoon strip that ap-
pears daily in The Times.
Richard Flournoy has evolved
an amusing, Smartly contrived
story for this first Of a series Of
Bumstead films. If Blonde,
Dagwood, Baby and Daisy can
continue to be as funny as they
are in this Introductory picture
there's huge success ahead for
the Blonde" series.
Dagwood has foolishly in
dorsed a note for an acquaint-
ance who skips off and leaves
him with a debt Of $500 to pay
just about the time Blonde buys
5000 worth of furniture as q sur.
prise gift on their fifth wedding
anniversary. Desperate for
money Dagwood prevails upon
his boss to let him try to OBJ
tain that big account from the
rich c. P. HaZlip, whom nobody
has been able to sell. PhewI
The troubles that befall Dag.
wood!
BLONDE JEALOUS
He's accused Of everything
from thievery to assault and
battery. Not only that, but poor
Blonde thinks he lis having an
affair with q girl named Elsie.
and Dagwood is as pure as the
snow in a Christmas garden
before the children, the cat and
the dog climb into it.
Blonde" will put you in : .
gay mood for the holidays
Tx. 49,.
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

Worst evidence seen or heard
Of Christmas bad taste: Turn
ing on the hotel radio and get
ting "Adeste FideleS" in the
swing version.
The Messrs. Shubert are
highly interested in a proposal
to bring down "Hellzapoppin"
for a single performance in
Washington in the near future.
Among those observed in the
orchestra plushes at oscar
Wilde" was my distinguished
Friday first critical aide, Robert
S. O'Neill, who is here for solid
week OF play viewing.
Must be a pleasant engage.
ment for Gladys Cooper in
Spring Meeting" at the Mo-
roSco Theater. At the Fulton
Theater on the next street, her
son is playing in oscar Wilde"
His stage name is John Buck
master, and you may recall that
he played with his mother in
"Call It A Day" at the Ma
tonal Theater two seasons ago.
Tickets for he Christmas
Monday matinee of Leave It
To Me" were sold out 48 hours
after they were put on sale.
This is the Victor Moore William
Gaxton musical that is New
York's class draw. Through
the good offices of Mrs. William
Gaxton Madeline Cameron
your critic managed to get
choice locations.
More and more I am i'm.
pressed with the fact that
the best English actors are
students Of diction. Notice
say "beSt," because within the
last 4S hours I have seen and
heard a number of other
theSpianS from Picadilly who
are almost unintelligible because
Of accent, rushed lines and
slurTed words, worse than any
beginner.
When you hear actors like
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, John
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

The funniest group Of three
photos will win a prize Of SIS:
next funniest, $40, and third
funniest, S.. Next IS runnerSup
will each win a pair Of guest
tickets to see Powell, Anita Lou
ise, Jenkins and the rest Of the
cast in Going Places" the COM
edy with music which opens
Friday. December 80, at the
Earle.
All entries must be received
at The Times before noon on
Friday, December 30. The
judges decision as to the win
ners will be final. Start in now
On today'S Funny Foto," and
watch for the picture of Anita
Louise which will appear on this
page tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1938-12-26
Blonde Just
AsFunnyos
Connic:StriD

Translating q popular comic
strip to the stage or screen is
not always attended by happy
results-but the film now show.
ing at the Metropolitan based
on Chic Young's famous news
paper characters OF Blonde,
Dagwood and Baby Dumping
may be conservatively called a
WOW.
Oh, yes, Daisy, the dog, is
there, too, and he is one cute
trick. A most hilarious moment
of the picture comes when Baby
Dumping hangs his head for
telling a fib to his mother-and
Daisy hangs his, also.
When Baby has to sit in the
corner on a chair because he
has misbehaved, Daisy gets up
there, too-for wherever the
Dumping goes, the dog goes
with him.
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

this characterization of a bril-
liant abnormal generates more
pity than repulsion. AS he por-
trays the unfortunate genius,
who was the victim Of his He
donist impulses and emotions,
he arouses definite sympathy, if
not appeal.
When you see oscar Wilde, "
you realize that his magnificent
portrait Of an impotent king in
Norma Shearer's Marie Antoin-
cite" was no mere accident, but
the cleancut artistry Of a SenSi-
tive actor with a superb under
standing of his role.
Iwould not call oscar Wilde"
for all the fulminationS of New
York critics, as clever or well
written a play on a similar sub
Ject as Mordaunt Shairp'S "The
Green Bay Tree" It deals with
the historically true story of q
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

Guardla S monster tree IN Lon
organ tones rolling out, owe
sacred songs.
Late Christmas Eve on Fifth
Avenue, the chimes of st.
Nichols Church pealing Silent
Night" and the devout throngs
hurrying into st. Patrick'S
Cathedral for midnight mass,
conjure a seasonal picture that
spells joy and happiness.
However, to the plays.
All but the last two rows were
filled at the Saturday matinee
performance of Leslie and Sewell
Stokes oscar Wilde" which
has the English actor, Robert
Morley, as its scintillating star.
MORLEY SCORES AGAIN
This is a beautifully written
play on a morbid subject, and
an unpleasant personality. I am
assured by Company Manager
Herman Bernstein that Wash
tngton will probably see it before
the season is over, for Actor
Morley has agreed to play 10
weeks on the road. Not one in
Boston, I can assure you.
1 think it is a high tribute to
the art of a fine actor that
The Washington times., 1938-12-26

Gielgud, Maurice Evans, Gladys
Cooper, Philip Merivale and
Robert Morley. one of the joys
is their fine delivery. They
bite their words off sharp and
distinctly, place the emphasis
where it belongs, usually speak
so that the top rows of the gal.
lery get their every syllable.