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The Washington times., 1938-10-29

ROBUST COMEDY
It's the story of a stableboy
who has acquired a race horse
too sick to run. AS a broken
down veterinarian, wanted by
the police and barred from the
track, Berry plays one of those
loveable-vagabond roles in
which he comes to the aid of
the boy by working a surgical
miracle on the ailing horse.
The two adopt each other
and eventually bring the horse
back to the track. The manner
in which they work to provide
suitable quarters for the animal
and the hardships they undergo
provide the basic elements Of
the narrative.
There is 8 grand finish with
Rooney riding the horse in the
big race and Berry facing the
music for his past Skirmishes
with the police.
It isn't the oft-told story
which holds interest, but rather
the splendid portrayals turned
in by the stars. Both Rooney
and Beery are excellent, with
the former showing a slight
tendency to overdo his fearful
scenes.
Beery carries the picture over
several of the rough spots by
means Of his sly, guSty humor.
The scenes with Margaret Ham
ilton at a hymn meeting are
particularly enjoyable, with
Beery taking up a collection
every time his hostess leaves the
room.
HAAKON ON STAGE
Dance-lovers will find this
weeks stage show an erninently
satisfactory piece of entertain.
ment. Ballet Dancer Paul
Haakon heads the bill, and
where he lets off, lovely Eunice
Healey takes UP with the dane
ing chore. ..
It seems rather strange to see
Haaken unaccompanied by his
usual chorus of toe-and-leap spe-
cialiSts but it is a tribute to his
artistry to watch the ease with
which he holds the audience in
his SoloeS on the huge Capitol
stage.
A Spanish folk-dance, his IA
nous Portuguese Sailor creation
and the Russian Sailor clack-
dance from THE Red Poppy"
are his main contributions. This
last is a whirling, leaping, in
tensively-paced Interpretation in
which he beats his own rhythm
with hand-clacks, miniature
combinations of cymbals and
caStanetS.
Eunice Healey is seen in an
all-too-brief appearance, tapping
and tOe-dancing as though she
really liked it. Her style is free
and easy, her stage presence re-
freShing, and the audience re-
warded her with several bursts
Of applause.
The Frazee Sisters reveal a.
flair for harmony and rhythm
in their song interludeS and
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before beginning his senior year
at v. M. l., who gets most OF
the laughs. For poor Bing is
catapulted into a trance, when
he hears a blessed event is on
the way that may cost him a
diploma, is horribly distressed
at the thought of fatherhood,
loses the fast ball which was
his mainstay as V. M. rs star
pitcher.
COMET is FAST
To complicate matters, Bing
gets involved in some Of the
escapades of his roommate,
Billy Randolph CWayne Morris),
is confronted with flunking in
chemistry, forfeits his chance to
be chosen v. M. rs top athlete.
Wayne Morris as Billy Ran
dolph gets most of the choice
lines is the apex Of most OF the
comedy situations. He has the
youth and the vitality for the
role, but lacks the sense OF fun,
and the devil-may-care spirit, to
exhaust it's possibilities.
Ronald Regan is the third
Brother Rat" involved in stu
dent difficulties and serves
capably in maintaining the rol-
licking pace.
The heart interest is provided
by Priscilla Lane, Jane Wyman
and Jane Bryan as the three
nice girl friends of the boys in
gray. On -Four Daughters"
Miss Lane would rate a more
important assignment, but her
hit was as sudden as lightning,
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= ROONEY-BEERY AT CAPT.
Mickey Rooney -WoIIy Beery,
Are Stors of "StobIemotes";;
Paul Hookon Dances

If "Stabemates" does nothing ese it definitely decides the
Mugging Championship of Hollywood.
By virtue of several tricky facial contortons which the
former champ, Wallace Berry is unable to match Mickey
Rooney becomes the ehoder with what amounts to
lifetenure looming ahead.
Designed to the nsstent demand for Rooney pictures
at the box office where Mickey is presently hot pep
the film contains great deal of hokum and sentiment
but should popular with the great of movie fans
due to the taentsrutng opportunity gives the stars
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were the pleasant surprise Of
yesterdays bill. George Beatty
makes an amiable master Of
ceremonies and the Chester
Hale Girls are up to their usual
good standard.
Robert Benchley's "How to
Watch Football" is a short to
make you believe motion pic
lures are your best entertain
ment-it'S that hilarious!
r. ON.
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G-Men Will Present
Pollock S "Enenny"

The fall presentation Of the
FBIs Theater Group was unani-
mously agreed upon last week at
their monthly meeting. Chan
ming Pollock's vital drama, "The
Enemy" is considered to be the
most dramatic effort the Group
has yet undertaken.
Scheduled to be given Decem-
ber Is, tryoutS will be held to-
night.
The play is a powerful indict-
ment against war and its time
illness and emotional strength
were two reasons for its accept
ance.
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from It, which opened at the Earle Theater
yesterday.
What Warner Bros. have made from the
play of Fred F. Finkelhoffe and John
Monk, jr, is a lively collegiate frolic, in
which the opening scenes of military for
nation give way to campus romance and
student caperS.
Quite unexpectedly, the one Broadway
actor imported for the picture steals the high
honors from the better-known, and more
experienced Hollywood players. He is
Eddie Albert who played Bing Edwards in
the stage production. and whose year of
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BROTHER RAT OPENS =
Eddie Albert Steals Picture
From Warner Juveniles;
Herbie Koye's Band
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Down at Virginia Military Institute the affeconate term
for fellow cassmen is Brother Rat which accounts for the
title of the Broadway play and the comedy derived
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Andrew r. Kelle!

trouping with the Abbott players taught him how to get
effects by repressed technique
II is Rinn Edwards who married his Kate secretly, lust
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S DE LUKE SHOWS-OPEN 10 A. M
STAGE AT 11:5O, 2:1O, 4:40, 1900, S:2C
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Campus Comedy Built AroundV.M,k
Activities Is Full of Fun and Action
The Washington times., 1938-01-26

ma City, one of the most fasci-
mating, exciting spots in the
world-Spanish, cosmopolitan
and Oriental. The streets Of
shops are as Oriental as any we
have seen in Calcutta or Egypt.
THIS THERE'S BALBOA
A short distance away is Bal
boa, American town at the Pa.
cific end of the canal, where
all is administrative order and
efficiency, a grand contrast to
Panama City and Colon. The
latter town, at the Atlantic end
of the canal, is also a marvellous
place for the traveller in search
of the exotic and different.
People from the ends of the
earth stroll through its squares
and avenues and shop along
Front Street, one Of the finest
shopping streets in the world, a
street that yields amazing bar
gains If the shopper has a shrewd
eye and can match the store
keeper in Oriental guile and
keenness.
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wondering and losing life and
love while she waits how
silly she looks when we put her
in print! But how common she
is in real life how near to
all of us!
How many hours you and I
have wasted, how much joy and
pride you and I have passed up,
waiting and wondering, trying
to be sure TESTING OUR
LIVES BY SOME IMAGINARY
STANDARD OF FEELING.
There is no such standard.
There is no set reaction which
determines love or adventure.
No two Of us ever feel alike
about anything on earth. Love
may come with flame and ecstasy
to one and with common.
place content to another. Oppor.
tunity may cover one man with
goose pimples and cause another
to simply shift his wad Of gum.
You never can tell and you
shouldn't try.
This business of trying to feel
like everyone else-it's the bunk.
Take yourself as you are, and
of your life as it comes-and
stop waiting for omens and
signs.
And this applies to more than
personal romance and adven.
ture. We must learn to depend
on our own THOUGHTS, our
own DECISIONS. in abstract
problems as we'll as in private,
emotional tangles.
You complain that life Is
dull that it no longer holds
adventures and surprises. But
can't you see why2 LIFE IS
DULL BECAUSE YOU NEVER
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT.
LIFE HAS NO ADVENTURES
BECAUSE YOU NEVER DARE
TO BE CURIOUS, NEVER
DREAM OF REBELLING.
Stop waiting until you think
or feel like somebody else. DARE
RIGHT NOW TO FEEL AND
THINK FOR YOURELF AND
ACCEPT YOUR OWN FIND
INGS.
Stop trying to be an echo
PUT YOUR BETS ON EX-
HIBIT A!
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Congress Acts

Forgive me if I sound too ex-
uberant, but I just heard that
Congress has passed a bill-the
new stamp issue bill for the
benefit of stamp nuts-after a
six-week special session and
three weeks of the regular ses-
sion. That is certainly action!
What if the wages-hours bill, to
benefit 100000 to 100000
people, is on the shelf? Hasn't
Congress satisfied 100000
stamp collectors? I and 50,000,-
900 other constituents are in
favor of taking this whole Ca
Doodle and giving them the
buns rush. It's abol.S time our
President took a firm hold on
Congress and boosted it into
action. PR.
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you CnlnK
So runs this query-one that
is often put to us. OF course, it
is satisfactory to all those seek
ing something different, but we
have been remarkably fortunate
in our advice, judging by en-
thusiastic letters from those who
followed our advice and spent a.
holiday in the Panama Zone.
We love Cuba and we admire
Bermuda-more British than
Britain, despite its subtropical
vegetation and scenery-but
neither of these spots, in our
estimation, can compare with
Panama. Vivid contrasts, his
torical spots, tropical vegetation,
the amazing canal, always en-
thralling; jungle lands creeping
almost to the edge of cities, Ori.
entail atmosphere, brisk Amer.
ican efficiency-Panama has
them all. And it is within a
short steamer run out of New
York or other Eastern seaboard
harbors or those of the South
and Southwest.
Our friend will surely get
away from it all as he wanders
through Panama Vieja, the old
Panama which h the piratical
Morgan burned and sacked cen.
turies ago. The old church, brood.
ing over the old plaza once the
scene of colorful ceremonies,
tells a mute but vivid story Of a
once important city. The ruins
Of old converts, bridges, houses
and churches all contribute to
this reminder of another era.
In less than an hours drive
over a fine road, the traveller is
back again in the modern Pana-
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perience o perpendicular de-
cline, unemployment becomes
extensive. The national debt in.
creases and new taxes are levied.
All kinds of business is in dis.
tress and our foreign credit is
impaired.
To deal with these problems,
it is obvious that 1t requires
something more than artificial
respiration" or an economic
stimulant to restore the patient
to a normal state. Political
economists and college profes.
sors tell us that depressions or
recessions are the result Of Q
state of mind, brought about
through fear, largely due to the
antics Of the New York stock
market.
If this is true, it is logical to
believe that the only cure for
the present setback" would be
the restoration of confidence.
not by artificial means entirely,
but by a direct appeal to the
people Of our nation to lead
themselves out Of the ruck into
which they have been involved
by the idealistic waste and de-
luded claptrap, arising from
some of our present administra-
tive policies. This is not the
time to quibble about holding
companies" but rather the time
to safeguard our Companies
holdings"
With this in p4ind, we offer
a humble suggestion that the
President Of the United States
issue a proclamation, setting
aside the week of February IL,
the week of Iincoln's birthday,
to be known as National
Prosperity Week"
To make an appeal through
the medium of the radio, press,
pulpit, civic and commercial or
ganizationS, labor, business and
industry, the necessity for a ma.
tion-wide employment and buy
ing campaign. Urge industry
and business to call back its
1929 quota of workers. Appeal
to every man and woman to buy
until it hurts.
The scheme might be termed
by some Of our conservative
intellectuals" as a national
jag" with the possibility Of a
hangover. Even so, it would
be better than another seven.
year headache" We need q
"shot in the arm" and a big one
at that.
CHARLES A. BRACHER.
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Scores Lynch Bill

And so it's come about in the
course of New Deal politics that
the Northern Negro vote must
be fed political sugar at the eX-
pense of the dyed-in-the-wool
Democrats of the Old South!
For when one yanks off the
various pious, humanitarian
wrappings from the anti-lynch
bill, now the bone of contention
in the Senate, that's the heart
of this Administration cabbage!
Now, one doesn't need to be a
born Southerner to understand
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the why of the present sena-
torial filibuster by Southern
Senators.
OF course, the bill is also
backed and ballyhooed by the
reform societies and churchmen
of the North. Standing knee
deep in the moral muck Of their
own communities, these long-dis-
tance reformers feel quite COM
petent to instruct those south
of the Mason and Dixon Line.
Just as they are regarding
the deceptive, regimenting So
called child-labor amendment
while they piously Shrek over
the lack of conscience and hui
manity in State legislators, how
childishly, gullibly, frothingly
they fall for the theory that in
Washington, with its horde OF
bureaucrats, a paternalism abso-
lutely simon pure flows like
river!
So, here's to the filibusterers,
long may they talk. The Ad.
ministration's obstinacy on this
matter may well render this ses-
sion of Congress as barren as
the effort to degrade the Su-
preme Court rendered a previous
one. LESTER TRAVIS.
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Common Sense

NOMMON sense prevailed in the handling of District
~ matters at the Capitol and in the District Building
yesterday and we are hopeful.
First we want to commend Chairman Vincent Pal
isano, of the District Committee, for his logical de-
cison to fight for restoration of the Federal lump
49, oooooo appropriation to $9,OOOOOO.
$S'OOO,OOO Then we would like to give the Com
Lump Sun, missoners pat the back for their
sensible decision to ask Congress for a
deficiency appropriation to provide hot lunches for
undernourished school children for the remainder of
the year.
We trust Congress will act with justice to support
Mr. Palmisano and the Commissioners.
Restoration of the lump sum appropriation will OBJ
viate the necessity of piling tax upon tax half
million people who have voice in their government
The hunger of 5000 children is all the evidence
needed to expedite passage of the deficiency appro-
priation.
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II h a v e
n e er been
S u perStitious
a b ou t any
thing, even as
a child. I be-
lieve what is
to be will be,
regardless Of
W h. e t her or
not a black
cat eros S eS
your path or
If you drop or
The Washington times., 1938-01-26
Three-Minute JOURNEYS
By l'enaple Manning

ct WANT to get away from it all this winter"
correspondent writes. "I haven't very much
time but do want to steep myself in an atmosphere
that is entirely different to that of my everyday exist
ence, and want complete change of surroundings
Also, do not want to go too far. Friends have sug
gested Havana or Bermuda as my goal What do
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All her life Ella Lou has
dreamed of Love and Mar.
riage frankly admits now
she's an "Old-fashioned girl
who wants a home more than
anything else" And several gen.
tlemen have seemed quite will
ing to furnish her hearts desire.
But-Ella Lou has never been
sure. Yes, they were nice men.
Really wonderful men. And she
liked them. Liked them very
much.
BUT WAS TT LOVE?
How could a girl really tell If
it was truly Love?
Over and over-year after
year-Ella Lou has asked her
self that question.
What did she expect Love to
be? How did she expect Love to
feel. Ella Lou couldn't tell. But
she'd always believed that Love,
when =; came, would be Per-
fectly Wonderful. So marvel
Gus! So sweet! So beautiful
that it took all the hurt and
fear and fullness out Of life and
forever kept you just thrilled n
thrilled n THRILLED.
But hadn't Ella Lou felt like
that with these nice, these really
wonderful men? No-that was
just the trouble-SHE HADN'T.
She'd liked them, particularly
Dick, ever so much. She'd
found herself thinking of them,
particularly Dick, every little
while. Shed longed to sew on
their buttons and cook their bis
cults, particularly Dicks, and
stand waiting for them when
they came home on rainy nights.
But
WAS THAT LOVE?
COULD SHE BE SURE THAT
WAS LOVE?
And Ella LOUIS heart sank as
she asked. For she felt she
knew the answer if she
were REALLY in love, she'd
never wonder at all. Shed be too
excited just swept off her
feet, like those marvellous
beauties you read about or see
on screens. THEY never won.
dered whether they were in love.
THEY KNEW
Poor Ella Lou =. waiting and
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"PrOsperity Week"

There are two contributing fac
tors that make possible the pro-
gress, development and prosper
ity of our nation; employment
and purchasing power. When
these two factors fail to func-
tion, the country's business, in.
dustry and government become
PROSTATE. Commodity prices ex-
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lighting three
cig a re t tes
with the same
match, and I
a m actually
S u perstitious
that it brings
bad luck. /
have no par
ticular re a.
son to be su-
D ers t itiouS
about t h a t,
so I suppose
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Stituon or any
other kind Of
a superstition.
I think super
stitionS are
just S i / ! y
habits t h a t
m o S t people
get into as
c h ii dr. e n.
Why should
the number
13 bring any
one bad luck,
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n o W, but 1
used to have
one. I thought
knocking on
wood was a
good way to
avoid SO m e
bad luck, so
W h e n ever I
t h o u g ht of
so m e t h ing
which might
happen that
I didn't want,
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b l a ck cats
bringing bad
luck if they
cross in front
Of you. I
k n o W one
time when a
b ! a C X cat
b 70 ught me
bad luck. I
was riding a
m o t cycle
and a black
c a t crossed
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Yec11lIzlt<t1eA Nf
People
BY F. Romer
EkFANTIN

ENFANlIN
THE man who foresaW,
] and whose engineer
ing skill first attempted
to build the Suez Canal,
wound up in Jail for his
fantastic teaching Of a
new religion, the "Su-
preme Fathers" He be-
Iieved. firmly. that Pros
per Entantin knew all on
any question man can con-
ceive. He planned to
make the language Of in
dustry and finance a form
of poetry!
Copyright. 1888. by =. Romer)
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I'd knock on wood, in the be-
lief it wouldn't happen. AS I
grew older I lost that habit and
I can't remember what caused
me to believe such a thing"
4
Paul George, 1919 L st. N. w.,
shooting gallery attendant:
mo. I haven't a pet super
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Wise Words

A comfortable house is a great
source Of happiness. 1t ranks
Immediately after health and a
good conscience-sydney Smith.
The proper acts of the intel.
lect are intellection, deliberation
and determination or decision.
Sir M. Hale.
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and still there are others who
claim the number brings good
luck? How can an innocent
black cat bring bad luck, ex-
cept by. keeping you awake at
night on the back fence?"
Miss Flora Bouton, 1915 N.
Highland St., Lyon Village, Va,
clerk:
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break your mirror. To my mind,
superstitions Of any kind are
just so much nonsense"
George Sabine, 918 M st. N.
W., florist:
Eyes, I'm superstitious about
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good luck, if
a n y t h i n g,
but so far I
haven't been
able to prove
it. I'm afraid
t h a t omens,
S i g n S and
charms that
people are SUI
p erS t i tiouS
about do not
worry me in
the ! e a S t
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College ScOt "WeDe heard about We Ois to offer
him a scholarship"
Mother Oh I'm proud He has stood first in his class for
four years at high school,"
Scout O don't mean that kind of scholarship We Want the
h1Lfbuck."
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DONATIONS

to colleges by wealthy people. Most of these do
nations with strings attached The Santa Claus
not only wants his tied to the building scholar
;fts With ship he is giving (which is legitimate),
but he also wants to specify how the
o""gS fund is to be used. This messages his
ego delightfully."- but it hurts the college in many
The college has to manage the fund as directed, in
stead of using the money its authorities knowledge
and experience tell them it ought to be used.
'The most desirable endowment of ALL" says DR..
Conant, els completely fluid money" That is obvious.
The best illustration know of is the way that the
Rockefeers subsidize the University of Chicago
We hope the privately endowed independent col
leges like Harvard, Yale Princeton, Columbia, Dart
mouth, Chicago, Amherst, Williams, William and
Long May Mary and so on can ride out the cur,
~, -, rent economic storm; that they will
A"eg "00e never be taken over by the politicians
who control the State colleges to the inevitable hurt of
those institutions. Louisiana State University, for
example, was run mostly to get good football team
to please Huey Long-which didn't help education at
dear old L. S. U.
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in front OF me, and a short time
later I had an accident. This
happens to be the only superSti-
ton have"
X 4
Miss Evelyn Murray, 4216
Fourteenth st. N. W.. cashier:
81 believe black cats bring
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LISTEN, WORLD!
BIZ Elsie Robinson

Copyright 1885, Syndicate.
II LILA LOUIS 80 next month-and she's still won.
~ dering IF SHE IS IN LOVE.
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

addresses Of
write will be omitted
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it is just an idea acquired
from someone else which has
become a habit"
Miss Deborah Freilicoff, 6125
Eighth st. N. W., stenographer:
II don't have a superstition
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Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims In
the District Of Columbia since
January /, 1888. is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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They are Just irrational notions
as far as I am concerned
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THOSE WHOLOAF

through college, VIII be barred from professional
school the presumption that they always will loaf
And maybe when high school loafers will find it next
to impossible to get into college at ALL (This writer,
incidentally, wasted considerable time in college, and
regrets it now)
The question remains: How about those whose men
talities, regardless of their parents money lack
of it, aren't college speed7 We don't know. But
another distinguished college PRESIDENT DR.. Robert
NJ Hutchns, of the University of Chicago, has
Gently remarked in the Saturday Evening Post that
education ought to give person resources for
the deeper enjoyment of the daily eight hours when
he isn't working sleepng-some knowledge of lit
erature, SCIENCE history, art We think the colleges,
and the high and preparatory schools might give
careful thought to DR.. Hutchins ideas this topic.
One specific and important point is made by DR..
Conant. 1t concerns