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Otner IMAM complete retirement is to
yield to progress and appear with
dialogue. AS it stands now, he is
through; if he fails as a talking actor
he will be in a worse position, for there
is no doubt that he will lose his posi-
ton as one Of the great legendary
figures of the screen. However, it is
chance he must take and he wants to
fortify himself with story 50 strong
that regardless of his own contribu-
ton, the picture will succeed.
&HORTS, saddest of all the screens
so-called entertainment, are under
going healthy rejuvenation which
Hollywood hopes will make them Gus
toner bait rather than elements to
drive the patrons from the theaters.
Spurred by the success of Walt Disney,
some lots are investing their shorts
with an interest and quality that
exceeds that of many Of the fea-
lures. Outstanding in this field is
Metro, where several units under Jack
Chertok are turning out two-reelers
that are the most engaging part of
many programs. There are the Pete
Smith shorts which mix humor with
fact, the What Do You Think"
series which deal with strange phases
OF civilization, some historical mys-
teries concerned with points in dis
pute, Crime Does Not Pay" series,
as well as incidental subjects.
Chertok has access to the minor
names on the studios roster and he
attempts to fashion his program so
that he can use sets from major
pictures as soon as they are COM
pleted. Thus. an embellishment Is
possible that could not 5e secured II
the cost Of sets and players came
under customary budget limitations.
Iupapaoo," q short dealing with q
native curse in which . cruel sea
captain builds house In . native
cemetery, was filmed In one Of the
buildings constructed for yellow
Jack" A tropical bungalow was used
and for the climax Of the film it was
destroyed by fire. Joaquin Murietta,
the early California bandit, whose
death is still a matter Of argument,
was the central character in one short
which was filmed on the sets used for
'"The Robin Hood Of FL Dorado"
Chertok runs afoul Of various forces
now and then. The current Ma
gician's Daughter" alarmed the ma.
gicians' association aud they sent .
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A New Star
Now Comes
To Town
Olympic Bradna to
Face Her Public
Thursday.
By Harry MacArthur.

TT LOOKS like busy week ahead
for the people whose business 1t is
to follow in the footsteps of visit
L ing screen celebrities and for the
people who make it their business to
dog the footsteps of visiting screen
celebrities.
Come Thursday morning bright and
early all of these people will repair
to Union Station, there greet Para
mounts new white hope. Miss Olympic
Bradna, pronounced as though you
were Alladin calling the genie-O-
Lamp. Paramount is determined that
Miss Bradna shall be star, SO she is
being transported about the county
in order that she may be introduced to
fans who managed to miss her in such
items as college Holiday" Three
Cheers for Love" and Last Train From
Madrid"
Miss Bradna was discovered" by
George Raft while she was appearing
in the show at the French Casino or
the Casino de Paree or some such place
in New York. She halls from Paris and
has been on the stage since she was
18 months old. After growing up and
playing theaters all over Europe SIM
ultaneously she came over here with
"Folies Bergere" troupe. Then Mr..
Raft saw her, got Director Henry
Hathaway to arrange for a test, and
she made her Hollywood debut in
Souls at Sea-"
What We want to ask Miss Bradna
Thursday is how it feels to be known
as the girl who has never been kissed.
At least that's what all Of Paramount's
publicity says she is.
And incidentally, it probably would
not make the local Loew organization
at all angry if we mentioned right here
that Miss Bradna's first starring pic
ture, Stolen Heaven" Games to the
Capitol Friday.
So mention of the Capitol's new bill
Friday brings up another subject. a
subject dear to the hearts of all local
purveyors of steak sandwiches. For
Mr.. Phil Regan comes to town Friday
to headline the Capitol's new stage bill
and Mr.. Regan is fellow who eats
more steak sandwiches than any three
people you know. Mr.. Regan also Is
quite a speechmaker. So don't be
alarmed If some one suddenly rises
from the tonneau of a sleek con-
vertible phaeton and begins to de.
(see MACARTHUR, Page F-2)
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"Why did Mary Pickford and Mar
guerite Clark last such long time on
the screen? Because they never made
pictures in which there was the slight
est suggestion of risque situations. Z"
Rogers believes that the careers of all
the up-and-coming adolescents will
last much longer If they appear only
in clean" pictures.
nEANNA DURBIN Cunder contract
to Rogers has at least another 10
years in pictures ahead of her. We
have a definite program prepared for
her. The keynote is 'wholesomeness. >
In her past three pictures not only
have we kept sex out of Deanna's life,
but also any suggestiveness from the
adults with her. We have given her a
background that causes every mother
to say, that's the kind of daughter
I'd love to have
"Of course, we realize Deanna IS
approaching the awkward age. Sooner
or later the public will want romance
for her. We've solved that difficulty
by planning to have Deanna grow up
with her pictures. She will portray the
love that goes with her age. For in
stance, in Mad About Music We just
touched on her awakening toward the
opposite sex. She was conscious of the
boy without getting very excited about
him. In her next picture, That Ger
tain Age she will 60 little further.
There are two boys interested in her,
but no real love story-just the calf
love enjoyed by girls Of Is. 'Cinder-
ella gives Deanna her first grown-up
romance. But that viii be q fairy
tale-and very deiicately handled"
MIR. ROGERS believes there is more
A'A money to be made out Of pictures
starring adolescents (once considered
the finale to a child's emotional Ca
reer) than the rest of the Hollywood
product put together
But they must have the right
stories-it's no good to buy ready
made children,s stories, either. They
must be written to order for them.
The public Is pretty sick Of those hack
neyed children-in-t the-orphange pic
lures. And they mustn't do too many
films year or they get killed of.
Deanna makes two q year only. Helen
Parrish will make three. We have q
(see GRAHAM, Page F-2.)
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Shaw Revival
Still Timely
Comment
'Heartbreak House
Brought Back by
Mercury Group.
By Mark Barron.
~ the Associated Press.

NEW YORK
- EORGE BERNARD SHAW,
who will be 80 years old next
I July 26. finds his prophetic
~ "Heartbreak House" again
appearing at moment when it seems
to be timely Shavian comment on cur
rent world events. Today, when Euro
pean borders are rumbling with threats
>f war, the youthful and stimulating
Mercury Theater Players have revived
this drama Shaw voluntarily sup
pressed during the World War because
he feared it might have a depressing
effect upon the morale of the British
people.
As he explained when he abandoned
production Of the play in 1914. you
cannot fight war and your neighbor
, at the same time"
50 it was not until in 1919, after
the armistice, that he finally allowed
the play to be staged.
Since then it has been seen on
Broadway several times and now the
Mercury Players bring it back in an
exciting production just as war clouds
In reality are seemingly as threaten
ing In Europe as they were when Shaw
wrote and suppressed the play quar-
Ter century ago.
This is a drama which Shaw wrote
,as warning to the moneyed, leisure
class Of Great Britain. They must,
he chided them from his Shavian pull
pit, give up their aimless, witty. futile
lives and steer a straight, determined
course. Otherwise, enemies from for
eign shores would take advantage OF
their weakness and rain death upon
them from the skies. They must
either learn . better way Of life or
die, he warned
III men will not learn until their
lessons are written in blood" one Of
his characters summarizes, why
blood they must have. their own BY
preference"
THE awarding. of the Pulitzer Prize
= to the drama; Our Town." Is q
double triumph, for it is the first full
length play written by the novelist,
Thornton Wilder, and it is also 4 hit
production Of Jed Harris, who returned
highly successful to the Broadway
theater last season after q lengthy abb
sence. -
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Now Charlie May Talk
MIR. Chaplin at the Crossroads.
Other Filmland News.
By Douglas ". Churchill.


Charles
little and will talk revived This
week Konad Bercovic
planning adaptation
aware OF the fact that his position
1other film in which he silent
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1t Makes the Actress
She Must Have Had Emotional
Experience to Register 1t.
By Sheilah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.


ACTRESS studo-or hersefnless
she fair knowledge what about This,
ladies' startling Charles the
y o Pictures
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CONTINUED on Pass Y-3.)
Evening star., 1938-10-27

nasnt, therefore, hnds It all the more
difacult to reconcile itself to . situa-
ton In which American nationals must
contend With continuing tnwarranted
interference with their rights at the
hands Of the Japanese authorities in
China and with Jap1ness actions and
policies which operate to deprive
American trade and enterprise 0
equality Of opportunity in China. It
Is also pertinent to mention that
in Japan, too, American trads and
other interests are undergoing severe
hardships ~ 4 result Of the tndust
trial, trade, exchange and other con-
trolls which the japanese government
has imposed incident to IT. military
operations in China. .,-
While American interests In the Far
East have been thus treated at the
hands Of the japanese authorities, the
Government Of the United States has
not sought either in its own territory
or in the territory Of third countries to
establish or influence the establish
ment Of embargoes. import prohibi-
tions, exchange controls, preferential
restrictions, monopolies or special COM
panies designed to eliminate or having
the effect Of eliminating Japanese trade
and enterprise. In It's treatment Of
japanese nationals and their trade and
enterprise, the American Government
Evening star., 1938-10-27

has been guided not only BY the letter
and spirit Of the Japanese-American
commercial treaty Of 1911 but b. those
fundamental principles Of interna-
tioua1 law and order which have
formed the basis Of It's policy IN regard
70 all peoples and their interests, and
japanese commerce and enterprise
have continued to enjoy IN the United
statss equality Of opportunity.
Your excellency cannot fail to recog-
niss the existence Of = great and grow-
ing disparity between the treatment
accorded American nationals and their
trade and enterprise BY japanese au-
thoritaes IN China and Japan and the
treatment accorded japanese nationals
ana their trade and enterprise by the
Government OF the United States In
areas within it, Jurisdiction.
In the light Of the situation herein
reviewed, the Government Of the
United States asks that the Japanese
government implement it, assurances
already given with regard to the main.
tenance Of the open door and to nom
interference with American rights by
taking prompt and effective measures
to cause:
ID The discontinuance Of discrimi-
natory exchange control and Of other
measures imposed In areas in China
under japanese control which operate
Evening star., 1938-10-27

either directly Of indirectly to discrim.
jnate against American trade and en-.
terpgise:
az The discontinuance Of any mo-
nopoiy or Of any preference which,
would deprive American nationals Of
the right Of undertaking thy legitimate
trade or industry in China, or Of any
arrangement which might purport 10
establish in favor Of japanese interests
any general superiority Of rights with
regard to commercial or economic de.
velopment In any region Of China;
and
(3) The discontinuance Of interfer-
ence by japanese authorities In China
With American property and other
rights including such forms Of inter-
ference as censorship Of American mail
ana telesrams. and restrictions upon
residence and travel by Americans ana
upon American trade and shipping.
The Government Of the United
States believes that in the interest of
relations between the United States
and Japan an early reply would be
helpful,
Evening star., 1938-10-27

iinwarrantsd restrictions placed b.
ths Japanese military authoeities upon
American nationals In China-notwith-
standing the existence Of American
treaty rights In China and the re-
peated assurances Of the Japanese
government that steps had been taken
which would insure the American m.
tionah, Interests and properties would
not b subject 70 unlawful tntsrfer-
sncs BY japanese authorities-further
subject American interests to continu.
ing serious Inconvenience and hard
ship. Reference II made especially
to the restrictions placed by the
japanese military upon American ma
tionals who desire to re-enter and re-
occupy properties from which they
have been driven by the hostilities
and Of which the japanese military
have been or still are In occupation,
Mention may also be made Of the
japanese censorship Of and interfer-
ence with American mail and tele.
grams at Shanghai, and Of restric-
ttons upon freedom of trade. resi-
dence and travel by Americans. in
cluding the use Of railways, shipping,
and other facilities. While japanese
merchant vessels are carrying jap
anese merchandise between Shanghai
and Marking, those vessels decline to
carry merchandise Of other countries.
and American and other nom Jap
anese shipping II excluded from the
lower Yangtse on the grounds Of
military necessity. Applications by
American nationals for passes which
would allow them to return to Ger,
tain areas In the lower Yangtze VAL
ley have been denied by the japanese
authorities ON the ground that peace
and order have not been sufficiently
restored, although many japanese
merchants and their families are
known to be in those areas.
American nationals and their in
terests have suffered serious losses tn
the Esr East arising from causes
directly attributable to the present
conflict between Japan and China,
and even under the most favorable
conditions An early rehabilitation Of
American enterprise in China and Of
American trade With China cannot
b expected. The American Govern
Evening star., 1938-10-27
ully respect the principle Of equal

fully respect the principle Of equal
opportunity.
Notwithstanding theses assurances,
the provisional regime in Peiping an
nounced on July 80 the inaugura ation
as Of the following day Of the China
Telephone 6 Telegraph Co., the re-
ported purpose Of this organisation
being to control and to have sxcluxive
operation Of telephone and telegraph
communications In North China.
There was organised in Shanghai on
July 81 the Central China Telecom-
munications Co., and the special serv-
Ice section Of the japanese Army has
informed foreign cable and telegraph
companies that the new company pro-
poses to control all the telecommunica-
tions In Central China. According to
. semi-ofncial Japanese press report,
there was organized ut Shanghai on
July 1s the Shanghai Inland Naviga-
tion Steamship Co., to be controlled by
japanese. the reported object OF which
y TO control water transportation in
the Shanghai delta area. According to
Information which has reached my
government, 4 japanese company has
been organized to take over and operate
the wharves 1T Tsinstao, which have
hitherto been publicly owned and op-
Grated. Should such Z DEVELOPMENT
occur. all shipping. Of whatever ma
tionality, would become dependent
upon . japanese agency for allotments
OF space and stevedoring facilities. The
wool trade in North China. Is now re-
ported to be . japanese monopoly, and
. tobacco monopoly in that area il
reported toabe in process OF formation.
Moreover, according to numerous re-
ports which have been reaching my
government. the japanese government
u proceeding with the organization Of
TWO special promotion companies which
1t has chartered and which it will con-
troll With the object Of investing in,
unifying, and regulating the admins
tration of certain large sectors Of eco
nomic enterprise in China.
The developments Of which have
made mention are illustrative Of the
apparent trend Of Japanese policy in
China and indicate clearly that the
japanese authorities are seeking to
establish In areas which have come
under japanese military occupation
general preferences for, and superiority
OF, japanese interests, an inevitable
eject OF which Win be to frustrate
the practical application Of the prin-
ciple Of the open door and deprive
American nationals Of equal oppor-
tunity.
I desire also to call your excel
lency,G attention to thu fact that
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those authorities in position to thwart
equality Of opportunity or free COM
petition between Japan and the United
States in that area. In such . sit
uation, imports from and exports to
the United States, ~ we'll As the choice
of dealers in North China. would be
entirely subjected to the dispensation
of the Japanese authorities.
Notwithstanding the short time
that exchange control has been en-
forced in Tsingtao, two cases Of in
discrimination have already been
brought to the attention Of the Gov
eminent Of the United States. In
one instance an American dealer in
= staple commodity has been unable
to export to the United States because
japanese authorities there have in
sisted his export bills be sold to . jap
anese bank ut . rate 20 far below the
current rate Of exchange Of the Chinese
currency In the open market that such
transactions would involve loss rather
than q profit: but = Japanese COM
petitor recently completed = large
shipment invoiced At = price in United
States dollars which was equivalent
to the local market price calculated
at the current open market rate. In
the other instance, an American flrm
was prevented from purchasing to-
bacco in Shantung unless it should
purchase so-called federal reserve
notes or yen currency with foreign
exchange and at An arbitrary and low
rate Of exchange, conditions not i'm
posed upon the company's Japanese
or Chinese competitors.
Illegal Action Charged.
The Government Of the United
States has already pointed out to the
Japanese government that alterations
Of the Chinese customs tarif by the
regimes functioning In those portions
Of China occupied by japanese armed
forces and for which the Japanese
government has formally assured its
support are arbitrary and illegal as
sumptions Of authority for which the
japanese government has an ines
capable responsibility. 1t is hardly
necessary to add that there can be no
equality Of opportunity or open door
in China 10 long As the ultimate au-
thority to regulate. tax, or prohibit
trade IS exercised, whether directly or
indirectly, by the authorities of one
foreign power in furtherance Of the
interests Of that power.
1t would appear to be self evident
that fundamental prerequisite of .
condition Of equality Of opportunity or
open door in China is the absence in
the economic life of that country Of
preferences or monopolistic rights op-
Grating directly or indirectly in favor
OF any foreign country or its nationals.
On July 4, spoke to Gen. Ueaki Of
the desire Of the American Govern
ment that there be avoided such re-
strictions and obstacles to American
trade and other enterprises as might
result from the setting up of special
companies and monopolies in China.
The Minister was 10 good as to state
that the open door in China would be
maintained and that the Government
OF the United States might rest assured
that the Japanese government would
Evening star., 1938-10-27
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Text of US. Note to Japan
Warning on Violation of Open Door
Principle in China Issued by Grew.
h the Associated Press.

Following United States note Ambassador Joseph
C. Greu addressed concerning Chine:
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why Not National Opera?

TF SOME day you sit in the fourth tier of boxes at
II the American National Opera, and the voice of a
lyric tenor or soprano floats up from the great stage
on which your glasses trained
And if at the end of the final crashing chorus the
vast structure rocks with the enthusiastic applause
of ten thousand lovers of music
WE'LL it may not be altogether dream. 1t may
possibly come to pass And you will remember that
Want Honnou you read piece in the paper IN
Z Washington back in 1888 which
OUernight practically predicted it.
But of course you would have had to be quite young
at the tme-n 1936-for those things don't happen
overnight.
+. Curtain!
(. Once more it rises, this time on a theaer packed
with humanity from floor to roof The Dane is pac-
ing the floor Lines crease his brow. You hear what
are perhaps the best known words spoken on any
stage
To be or not to be,
: That is the question:!
And so to the tragic end of Shakespeares deathless
play.
Z Again the curtan
/ Possible? Listen to Representative William I.
sSrovich of New York. who would create Depart
ment of Science Art and Literature to promote these
subjects in maerialistic age, and who with his col
leagues is drafting bill to accomplish it: o..
"Certainly! Why not? It is necessary. It is done
in everv country of Europe There is national opera
in Vienna, in Paris, in Italy in Russia. Supported by
the government There should be an American opera.
''There should be Federal theater for the same
reason The Federal theater of the WPA has done
splendid work. Absolutely. 1t should be continued.
{ cart and beauty should not be luxuries to be
afforded only by the rich.
! eff we can bring them to the people through the
assistance of the Federal Government, it will be
Cost Would magnificent contribution to Ameri-
can culture The cost would be
BE Small small the retnrn GREAT, It would
be an enduring investment. ts,''...
/ Hearings at which of the headners of stage,
screen and the world of American art appeared,
Quoted during the last two weeks before the House
Patents Committee, laid the foundation for possible
Congressional action to make the dream come true.