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Evening star., 1938-10-20
Pangborn Art
Rates High
In Films
Agents Forced to
Add Phones to
Say NO.
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.


Boyer and Macarthur, talent agents.
installed a switchboard In their Vine
street offces the other day-all on
account of Franklin Pangborn, the
movie comic.
Every day for the past several
months the single phone had been
ringing necessarily, and the two agents
got pretty tired explaining to i'm
patient casting directors that their
star client wasn't available for a pic
ure assignment-and wouldn't be for
another six months. Now the switch
board operator passes along the in
formation, leaving Messrs Beyer and
Macarthur to concentrate on the af-
fairs of a dozen other but much less
active performers under their wing.
Boyer and Macarthur would like
to sign up a dozen more Franklin
Pangborns. So would any temper
center" in Hollywood. because. right at
this moment, Pangborn is the hottest
free-lancing bet in pictures.
In 1887, Pangborn enlivened q pic
lures with his effeminate comedy an
tics. but, when he counts his scat
tered performances for 1898. the num-
Der will be nearly twice that high.
1t isn't uncommon for him to be
playing in four pictures at the same
time.
Eccentric silly-dillies have been
Pangborn's forte for the past five
years, but he really bounded into the
spotlight and became a commanding
fan figure early last year when Holly
wood began cutting loose with its bar
rage Of screwball feature comedies.
Floor walkers, radio chatterers, or
chestra leaders, hotel managers, rib
bon clerks and fashion shop managers
are only a few of many assignments
right up Pangborn's alley: In each
he Is a perfect representation of Of
Tended dignity and utter bewilder-
ment.
The discovery that he was a comedian
and not 4 tragedian was an almost de-
vastating disillusionment for Pang-
born way back in 1918, when he was
playing stock in Buffalo and Detroit
for the late Jessie Bonstelle.
I had been playing dramatic roles
up to the time Bonnie decided to put
on Bunker Bean" Pangborn recalled.
'Short-handed, she made me play a
comedy hick wearing loud clothes. 1
thought it would be the finish of me.
But. after the first nights show, when
all the leads had taken their curtain
calls, the audience kept on applaud
ing. Bonnie turned to me and said,
You step out, Pangie: maybe it's YOU
they want I was horrified. but I cot
out there somehow-and found out I
was 4 comedian. They gave me 4
great hand"
Nevertheless, after all those years of
stage and screen ahsurdities, Pangborn
Is still looking for that serious role.
When, as a young man. he worked for
an insurance company In his home
town OF Newark, N. j., he was known
to his associates As Hamlet"
And hope some day to play It,"
he said seriously. I'm still in re-
hearsal."
Evening star., 1938-10-20
Gone With the Wind MAY
Go in a Gale of Laughter
There's Report That Glare Boothe
Satire on the Film May Be
Made Into Picture.
BY JAY CARMODY.

malicious
doodb" what think has
the right ceuloid
horrendous little satire Gone With the Wind"
Evening star., 1938-10-20


mediate upon the possibility. 1t Is
dificult to conceive of more hilarious
ending for the whole &C. w. T. W."
incident than that some one should
produce a picture on the imposSibility
of producing picture called Gone
With the Wind" The playwright and
the producing company should carve
permanent inches for themselves in the
history Of the Republic for bringing to
an end in one gigantic gale OF laugh
ter the Nations long and acute travail
over the Scarlet issue.
Some rusty ethic Of motion picture
procedure may rise to frustrate the
dream. of course But we can dream
it for little while, can't we7
4 X y
Miss Mary Pickford may be here
for the purpose of donating to the
National Archives = print Of her pic
ture THE New York Hat" a pretty
ancient number as pictures go, but
Miss Pickford can pack a press party
as no current glamour lady has been
able to do in Washington. If there
was any newspaper man, woman or
child who missed her party at the
Carlton yesterday afternoon, it was
the fellow who was selling 4 subscrip-
tion to the family that just moved
here from Atlanta. There were beauty
editors, fashion editors, home-cooking
experts, cosmetic columnists, society
scribes, 4 political commentator. police
reporters, lady and gent photogra-
pliers. and plain drama reporters. II
any angle of Miss Pickfords visit re-
manned uncovered, 1t must have been
sports.
Yet with all that talent assembled
In single room, the prize remark of
the session was that of a waiter on
hors d'oeuvres duty who walked up to
one Of his fellow workers and asked:
Say. what are these things just in
case any one should insist upon know
lne?"
The number of questions asked Miss
Pickford il laid end to end would
reach farther than any other thing
laid end to end, but she answered them
all without the slightest sign OF fall
terine.
To this department she admitted
her major concern at the moment is
getting down to work. Work no longer
is movie making nor anything con-
cerned with it. She wants to write
books, short stories, everything. But
writing takes time and a place to sit
alone, and Miss Pickford has a ter
rible time trying to find either, Just
when she thinks she has them they
elude her.
She might even become a daily COL
umnist. 1t is just a bare possibility
however. for daily columning strikes
her as one of the most terrifying nose
to-Rrindstone functions man can as
sumo. Seven days week look like
Evening star., 1938-10-20

ried?" (Why any one should want to
keep a marriage secret will never be
able to understand. 1t used to be
the other way around) Paulette
Goddard decided to give her new
friends, the Aldous Huxleys. a treat
and took them with Mr.. Chaplin to
the hottest Of the very warm local
burlesque theaters. The party left
when an enterprising photographer
tried to snap them Wally Vernon
has insured with Lloyds OF London
Evening star., 1938-10-20

surprised. L II e
more likely reason
for the jaunt Is
that Cary wants
to settle his Brit
ish affairs with q
view to becoming
an American citi-
zen.
X II II X
George Cukor.
who receives So
500 q week, is
credited with gen.
erosity because he
charges nothing
for the gratuitous
acting he puts in
Evening star., 1938-10-20

| with Phyllis Brooks-as rumored in
Hollywood. for one, will be very
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Santa Rita-State No / c NW3 SW1 36-346W
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New Locations--Kevin-Su

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Evening star., 1938-02-15

was testimony that milk il being shipped
in here from the States ~ = bootleg"
product, the inference being that it was
not up to the standards fixed for pro-
ducers in this milk shed who daily ship
their product here. However, the
charges were not supported by any
evidence, although there was a demand
for it.
The charge was made that this boot
leg milk was shipped into the city
ostensibly for use in the manufacture
of ice cream, but in reality much OF 1t
found its way into the channels of fluid
milk. Just how the regulations were
relaxed to let questionable milk in here
for ice cream and why it was unfit for
fluid consumption does not appear from
the reports Of the hearing. However
that may be, it is difficult for the lay
man to understand how milk unsuited
for fluid consumption is any better if
made into ice cream.
But whatever the distinction may be,
Washington is entitled to complete and
thorough investigation and immediate
action which will give full assurance
that this important food product will be
surrounded with safeguards insuring
that no illness can be traced to this
cause.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field.
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

through a hole in the South Pole. He
asserts furthermore that the U. S. sloop
Peacock actually had been fitted out by
the Navy for this voyage. which was can
celed after it aroused the suspicious of
Andrew Jackson when the plans were
presented to him for approval Navy
records. however, do not support the
statement.
But. Peale insists. the Wilkes eXpedi-
ton was the outcome of this fiasco If so
there is quite direct link between Edgar
Allen Poe and the National Museum.
coming shortly after the gift of James
Smlthson, which was to result in the
establishment of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition. the expedition marks the first
Iarge-scale scientific undertaking of the
Federal Government.
IL visited, among other places, TERRA
del Fuego. Chile, Peru, the Paumotu
Islands. Tahiti, Tutuila. the Samoan
Islands, New South Wales, the Antarctic
regions, New Zealand. the Fiji Islands,
Hawaii and the Philippines. Perhaps it's
outstanding accomplishment was the
geographic discovery made on the Ant
arctic continent, claim which long was
disputed but which now Is generally rec
ognized.
very large collections were made. They
were.brought back to Washington and
eventually became the nucleus of the
Natlonal Museum collections. Few of the
specimens now could be considered
unique. At the time, however, they
PROBABLY constituted as comprehensive
representation OF the natural history
OF large part of the globe as was in
existence, and furnished a considerable
impetus to the American interest in
science. A1
columbus sailors, it is reported, were
AFRAID OF sailing over the edge of the
ocean into nothingness. One wonders
about some of the ideas of Wilkes sail
oIs, familiar with the hole in the Pole"
tneory, as the expedition sailed into the
ICEBERG filled waters of the Antarctic
lnelr lmaginations might have been
stirred as strongly as was that of Poe
s, ano one may assume that they were de-
cloeoly fortable-hesitating tn he-
neVe any assurances of the officers that
no sucn exploit was contemplated.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
|'Reported Improved"

The Star yesterday printed a brief
report to the effect that Dorothy La Roe,
sixteen years of age, a patient in Emer-
gency Hospital since January a, was
reported improved" 1t was announced
by her physicians that she had regained
consciousness after eighteen days of
living death. The news brought relief to
countless strangers as well as to in
Vulnerable friends. Her parents long
held in high esteem and kind affection
IN Washington, have had the sympathy
of all their neighbors during their ordeal
of waiting.
But the lesson of the experience
should not be lost to the community.
Dorothy's injuries resulted from an au-
tomobile accident following high school
dance. Somebody "gambled" with safety,
and she has paid the price OF that per-
sons foolhardiness. Remembering the
agony through which she and her FAM
lily have passed, it may be hoped that
other young people will cultivate the
habit of being cautious in their use of
streets and highways in which the Grim
Reaper rarely, if ever, takes any holiday
Evening star., 1938-02-15

Maybe it's long call from THE Manu-
script Found in Bottle" and the United
States National Museum-but, on the
other hand. they may be connected by
very fantastic chain of events
A little more than century ago, the
father-in-law of President William Henry
Harrison an eccentric Army Ottcer
named Symes, was expoundlng curl
Gus theory-thst the world was hollow,
that in ali probability folks lived inside
1t, and that there were holes in the top
and bottom through which ships might
sail into the interior.
Untold riches, Symes believed awaited
the nation which would discover and
take possession of the lands inside the
globe. Some aspects Of the theory were
not entirely illogical. in view of the
state of geophysical knowledge in that
Gay, once Symes' premises were granted.
The idea appealed to a good many per-
sons and at last one bill providing for
an expedition actually was presented to
Congress, which did not consider it seri-
ously.
1t had two important results. One was
that it stirred the imagination Of young
man named Edgar Allen Poe. He wrote
a story based on it which won first prize
in a magazine contest and launched him
on his Inflated literary career. It also
got Congress and the American people
expedition minded so that, a few years
later, the idea of sending an exploring
expedition around the world received
hospitable reception.
This is the hundredtf anniversary Of
that expedition which. under the COM
mand of 1t. Charles Wilkes-who later
established the Naval Observatory
sailed from Norfolk in August, 1888, was
gone for five years, discovered the Ant
arctic Continent, and made the very
large natural history collections which
formed the nucleus of the present U. 8.
National Museum.
This expedition was accompanied by
corps of scientists. They didn't get along
very well with the Navy personnel The
chickering's are described in an unpub-
lished manuscript, now in the museum
vaults, written by the mamalogist and
ornithologist Of the expedition, Titan
Peale of Philadelphia, son of Charles
Wilson Peale, the celebrated portrait
painter.
Peale tells strange story. The truth
Of it would be impossible to ascertain-at
least without great deal Of historical re-
search-today and the whole may have
been exaggerated by the naturslist's own
headache" over the whole affair. But
he declares that he was first approached
IN 1929 with an offer to head group of
scientists on government sponsored
expedition into the interior of the earth
Evening star., 1938-02-15
Rear Admiral Crayson.

The sudden shock of the passing of
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson will have
repercussions of sorrow the world around
In the role of doctor to three Presidents,
he already was widely famous when, in
1885, he succeeded John Barton Payne
as chairman of the American Red Cross.
His friendships probably were responsible
for his celebrity-because 1t was in them
especially that his genius was most
notably manifest.
1t seems that he was born to the part
he played in the pageant of his time.
His inheritance of chivalrous manners
opened to him the hearts of great per-
sonalities. A certain natural trust
worthiness, similarly inbred, preserved
for him the affection he 30 easily won
among both high and humble. There
were moments when by tactless talk
he might have overturned his country.
But sound judgment, instructive sanity,
kept him silent. Without formal recog-
milton, he was diplomat and q states
man equal in talent to the best of his
contemporaries.
Yet his political career ought not to
obscure his claims to remembrance as
a good physician. He loved the science
Of the healing arts, was deeply read in
their theory and abundantly skilled In
their practice. Also, he believed in
medicine as bulwark for civilization
it was a supplementary religion with
him; he was devoted to it as he was to
his church. Thus it happened that he
raised monument to himself as well as
to Surgeon General William Crawford
Gorgas in his Memorial Institute for
Preventive Medicine and Tropical
Research.
The list of his services is lengthy. To
mention them specifically may not be
necessary. But his patriotism and his
humanitarianism. his faith in America
and in the struggling human race, must
be recorded. Those who knew him most
intimately were amazed on occasion at
his optimism. He maintained his con-
victions, his hopes and his dreams to
the end. And the end has come too
soon. The world that mourns him felt,
if it did not perfectly comprehend, his
worth. He will be appreciated more
sincerely than ever now that, worked
out and weary prematurely, he is gone.
Evening star., 1938-02-15
THIS AND THAT
~ CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

It won't be very long now until the
bluebirds begin to come to certain gar
dens.
A few persons claim to have had these
beauties all winter, but few bird lovers
ever see them.
Few, indeed, ever have them.
There are not many OF the creatures
left, In comparison with the large num-
bers which once inhabited the United
States.
Suburban developments Of all cities
has tended to drive them deeper and
deeper in the woods.
We doubt, personally, whether there
are as many As hundred bluebirds in
the District Of Columbia and nearby
suburbs at any one time.
This Is something to lament, for truly
there Is no finer bird, unless 1t be the
wood thrush.
Our cardinals and bluejays we have
with US always, but the true bluebird is
becoming more rare each year.
Despite intensive feeding and box plac-
ing during the past seven years, we have
had only one pair of bluebirds, in COM
par1son with many score other songsters,
OF more than forty species.
This pair remained just one day, in
early March year before last
That is Our total personal acquaintance
with bluebirds.
There seem to be certain sections Of
the District of Columbia to which these
birds come.
Last year this column presented sew
eral letters from readers residing in what
we called the 'bluebird belt"
There seemed to be no particular rea-
son for these birds being seen in numbers
there except the proximity of Rock
Creek Park. Those living close to this
great natural tract benefit in numbers of
birds, not only in more species, but in
more specimens of the species.
The entire territory of the National
Capital. as far as that goes, with all its
suburbs enjoys far greater amount of
wild life because of the part. There is a
natural flow into it and from it.
sometimes we think of ourselves as res
idents of city areas only, forgetting these
acres set aside for the protection and
preservation Of wild life, including plants,
animals and birds.
Not only birds fly over from the park
and small animals run over, but the seeds
Of plants are blown over
Thus there is a constant interchange
between Rock Creek Park and the city,
with the greatest movement in sections
lying close to it.
No observer, however, no matter how
far he lives from Rock Creek Park. can
be sure that the bird in his garden has
not come from there.
Many queries have come to this desk
this winter as to the whereabouts of
the birds.
I'VE do not have as many birds as
usual?' some one says. Where are
they?"
An open winter as a mild one is called
means that fewer birds will need to seek
seeds and grains put out in bird feeding
devices.
Rock Creek Park, for one, is wide open
to the birds, and there can be little doubt