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Evening star., 1938-12-04

rushes Of his United Artists picture,
''The Duke Of West Point"
Now that he Is back in the vicinity
Of Broadway, Carlson, between max
ing personal appearances with his
picture, is looking for q temporary
Job again acting on the stage.
Il still like to consider myself a
writer, and I'm still writing plays"
he said as he discussed the failure Of
his western Waters" And he
smiled ruefully over that, for the
critics said that it was good writing,
but hampered by weak spots in the
production.
Il haven't found a play yet that
I'd like to act in he said. at rlay
be that like writing 50 mrcl TIT
I'm just trying to persuade r...-lf
to write another play. and in t.,is
one I'll write role for myself. Ten
If fail I'll know, at least, to whom
to complain"
The top success of new faces that
Broadway has inherited from Holly
wood this season is Nary Martin, the
plaintive and comic SINGER VINO
couldn't succeed on the movie lots
and who has become the most &C.
claimed find on the musical comedy
stage in months.
Singing her delightful "Hy Heart
Belongs to Daddy" she is roc,,.inc the
Rialto with laughter and love in
Vinton Freedley's musical hit,
Leave 1t to Me" And it was in the
shadow OF the movie lots thpt Freed
ley discovered her singing in a
cabaret.
Blond Doris Nolan is another who
has dropped her Hollywood knitting
tasks for Broadway play. this in
support Of Philip Merivale in Lore
| lei"
Evening star., 1938-12-04
Jessie Matthews
Likes SOnnie
Better

made in England. But there was
yet another outside commitment to
fulflll-"Rembrandt"- Alexander
Korda. He did this. and then he
and Director Erich Pommer formed
Mayflower Pictures Corp, with head
quarters at Elstree.
The company's first production,
The Beachcomber," adapted from
Somerset Maugham's story, Vessel
OF WRATH" Is about to be released
In this country by Paramount. After
viewing it at a preview recently, one
instinctively feels that Laughton-
the petulant Nero of De Miles Sign
OF the Cross" the domineering Bligh
Of 'Mutiny on the Bounty" the ter
rifying father of Irving Thalberg's
The Barretts of Wimpole Street, +"
the ,unforgetable English gentle
mans gentleman of "Ruggles OF Red
Gap with his unprecedented de-
livery Of Lincoln's Gettysburg
speechD-is lost to American pic
lures forever.
TWO more pictures are on schedule
at Lne Ldughton-P Pommer Studios
but still Hollywood hasn't given UP
hope Of retaining him. Frank
Lloyd, for one, cherishes a hope of
doing another sea story with him.
In her current biography, Charles
Laughton and l." Elsa Manchester
writes that the death of Irving Thai
berg, the actors closest friend and
most trusted adviser in America,
proved such shock that it Changed
Charles whole future and led to
the formation of the Mayflower Film
Co. with Erich Pommer." Her chap
ter on Hollywood, relating the dis
appointments and Establishments
they encountered here, is q force
full indicator, too. of the couple S
intention to remain away.
So. If you're a Laughton, a Donat
or Matthews fan, you may as well
accustom yourself now to viewing
their antics under English banners.
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Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1938-12-04

anu CO4uc OOOO1uB up again, ID Duck
in town to play the leading role in
The American Way" and already
he Is running into headaches again.
This George 8. Kaufman-Moss Hart
play was expected to open by Christ
mas, but there are rehearsal troubles
and now 1t Is postponed until about
January is.
March came back to the stage last
season, and picked a pale valentine
called "Yr. Obedient Husband" :"
which the critics soundly whacked
and which closed almost immedi-
ately. The unperturbed Mr.. March
inserted an advertisement which
merely pictured a couple of trapeze
performers missing catching one an
other in m1dair. Underneath was a
caption which said: oops! Sorry.
Fredric March"
Another who is back after taking
a humping in this neighborhood is
26-year-old Richard Carlson, who
retreated to Hollywood to lick his
wounds and now returns In a status
that points to stardom.
Carlson is handsome, blond
young man who was a student Eng
lish instructor at the University of
Minnesota. He wanted to be a play
wright and came to Broadway a cou-
pie Of seasons ago with his first
drama, western Waters It was
failure, so he turned to acting and
supported Ethel Barrymore in THE
Ghost OF Yankee Doodle" But Play
wright Sidney Howard had seen
western Waters" thought it was
good writing and suggested to Hol-
lywood that he be signed as a writer
Hollywood signed him as writer
actor director, but he has done lit
tie except act since they saw him in
Evening star., 1938-12-04
lane Withers
Doll Expert
Her Collection
Now Numbers
800
Bv Hubbard Kenvv.
By Hubbard Keavy.
Associated Press Stan Writer.


"s HOLLYWOOD.
All I know about dolls is what Jane
Withers just told me. That is con-
siderable. as she is an expert.
Jane has the doll situation we'll in
hand. She has more dolls than you
can say ''boo!" to, if you were the
kind of person who goes around say
ing things like that. 1 was flabber-
gasted. All could say was "ooh!"
Jane told me that when she had
amassed a collection of 81, she was
pretty well satisfied because she just
knew there weren't any more kinds
to be had.
Then the word got out and folks
began selding Jane dolls like no.
body's business. Eskimo dolls came
from you know where and Negro
dolls from below the Mason Dixon
line. Two Shirley Temples moved
in from some place. And were well
coined.
Some were the old fashioned sort
with china heads and feet. And
some were these new-fangled up
starts that wiggle their mfddles, or
roll their eyes, or perform in such
a way that an occasional change OF
garment is necessary.
James bedroom was cluttered up
like living room on Christmas
morning. Dolls smiled at her, leered
at her, winked at her. Mrs. Walter
Withers said dolls were getting in
her soup and almost driving her
nuts. You can imagine. -
But the dolls continued to arrive.
When the number reached about
400-which probably was more dolls
than any girl ever owned-Jane
again concluded she had all the dolls
there were.
Her reckoning then was so per cent
incorrect. Jane now has 800 dolls.
1t didn't occur to the Withers, I
am certain, that these dolls might
support them in James old age, but
they are supporting the dolls in a
manner to which the latter were not
accustomed. The collection has its
own room, the largest in the COM
bination rumpus-room- guest house.
A dozen cases, as large as store win
dow displays, were built in with
painted backgrounds. Jane groups
her dolls appropriately in these.
The winter dressed dolls cavort
on cotton hills. The Dionnes, with q
DR.. Dafoe to look after them, take
up q large case. Adjoining it Is the
forecourt Of = Hollywood theater,
nlled with diminutive ikenesses Of
the movie great. Wild West dolls
have their rodeo and representatives
OF the Southern States are at rest on
the lawn OF q plantation house. But
there are scores Of other little men
and women-of every size, color, ma
terial and expression-which don't
mt any place on dozens of shelves.
Only Jane arranges, dresses and
repairs her playthings. She knows
every one by its first name and last,
can tell you where she got it and its
age. Clark Gable and Tyrone Pow
er and Sonia Henie are among the
doll-givers.
Jane isn't quite sure what her COL
lection will lead to. She thinks it
will 60 on growing. Mother .Withers
is very proud Of her daughters in
genuity and interest.
When Father Withers took q
gander at the set-up, he rushed
right out and bought . 5000 insur-
ance policy on his little daughters
little people-and bought her
another doll.
Evening star., 1938-12-04
Swingsters Swing Swing
RIGHT Out of This World
Even Benny Goodman Now Admits
The Hotter. .Than.Hot Boys Will
Have to Cool OFF

(EHditors note: Hearing whisper
end woodnds D pardon n-hat boisterous suing
passing W. W. Anderson ,oent sleuino IT ure
truth in the He found three
rent and section the musical word He solued
his You read his solution below
Gently major mystery in parts OF these United Statcs
Evening star., 1938-12-04
Opposite Nelson

Virginia Bruce will be Nelson
Eddy's leading lady in Song of the
West" M-G-M musical production.
Miss Bruce returns to a musical film
In this picture for the first time since
Born to Dance" Hers Is not to be
a singing role, but a straight dra-
matte one similar to that she played
In Bad Man of Birthstone" Lionel
Barrymore has been cast as Eddy's
father in this Western romance. The
cast also includes Victor McLaglen,
Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, H. B.
Warner and Raymond Walburn,
with Jack Conway to direct.
Evening star., 1938-12-04
By W. ". anderson,
Associated Press Stan Writer.


The swing is dead! Long swing!
Now all erbugs hunt another
stands while the
can take the cotton
That instrumental cacophony hearing
these months
Evening star., 1938-12-04

still leaves me on the verge of
throwing my het into the air.
"Soliloquy," by Victor Victor.
proved to be an extensive Juvenile
delinquency which did not last long
enough to interfere with John
Beal's Hollywood duties.
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Newspaper Alliance. Inc,
Evening star., 1938-12-04
Once More the Stage Lures
Players From Screen
Fredric Marches Are Back Again
And So Is Richard Carlson
After His Film Triumph
By Mark Barron,
Associated Press stan Writer.
NEW YORK.


In the renewed and auent
HOLLYWOOD Not only the veterans having nostgc but
hitherto little shutting
continent pictures behind the
successful; for others 1t q tragic experiment.
Evening star., 1938-02-12
SILVER SPRING AREA
BUILDING LAGS
Twenty-Three Permits Issued for
Total Of $4,000 in Con.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING, Md, Feb. 12.-
Twenty-three permits were issued for
building last month in the eastern
suburban area of Montgomery County
totaling $4,000, as compared with 80
permits, amounting to S228.000, in
January. 1887, according to a report
Of Gerald Warthen, building inspector
for this area.
Twelve of the permits were for one
family dwellings costing $7525O and
another was for two stores with an
apartment above valued at $4,000.
Mr.. Warthen said the decrease con-
tlnues a downward trend extending
through the last six months of 1887.
and predicted that February would
show decrease of 100000 over the
previous year unless permit for some
large project was issued.
Several new developments have
been completed during the past 30
days or are nearing completion. The
$4,000 building constructed on Coles
Vile road west Of Georgia avenue by
Walsh Motor Co., Inc, will be ready
Tor occupancy early in March. The
structure will house the automobile
company's activities and a number of
offices. Warner E. Pumphrey has re-
opened his funeral home, which was
remodeled at the cost of about S35.-
600.
Evening star., 1938-02-12
Construction Savings.

habits
Construction Savings.
The Architectural Forum survey
also revealed that savings of 10 to 35
per cent in construction costs are pos
sible, depending upon the number
Of dwelling units erected, and that
virtually the only successful large
scale operations in the last seven
tSee BUILDING, Page BAD
Evening star., 1938-02-12
PARLEY Y7ODEBATE
HOME LOAN SPEED
Operative Problems Will Be
High Lighted at Institute
Session in Columbus.

Simplifying and speeding up the
process of paying out money to an
applicant for building loan, without
discarding any of the precautions
necessary to assure him a soundly-
built house. will be the object of
full afternoons session of the Ameri-
can Savings and Loan Institutes
national midwinter conference, Co.
lumbus. Ohio, February 2l-22. John
"A. Sierocinski, Chicago. president, an
ticipates an attendance of 200 to 300
savings, building and loan association
men and women for meeting devoted
exclusively to operative problems of
the business.
Dean Charles S. Tippetts Of the
University of Pittsburgh School of
Business, addressing the conference
banquet February 81. will be the only
speaker from outside the savings,
building and loan field. Prominent
speakers will be Fermor S. Cannon,
president of the Railroad Mems Fed
eral Savings and Loan Association,
Indianapolis; Morton Bodfish, execu-
tive vice president of the United States
Building and Loan League, Chicago;
James A. Devine. Columbus. secretary
Of the Ohio Building Association
League Herbert N. Faulkner. vice
president of the Federal Home Loan
Bank of Boston. and Joseph Holzka,
New York, vice president Of the insti-
tute.
Besides the afternoon devoted to
construction loans. attention of the
conferees will be centered on account
ing practices and customer contacts
to reconvince America of the ad-
vantages of saving money and owning
homes. A morning session will be
given over to the technical problems
of running the night schools for saw
ings. building and loan training which
the institute sponsors in some go diff
ferent cities
Majority Of the delegates, accord
ing to Mr.. Sierocinski, are junior
in their respective thrift
and home financing institutions rather
than the men with top responsibilities,
who are the usual convention-goers.
Most of them are themselves going to
school to learn better ways to do their
jobs or have graduated from courses
like these.
Evening star., 1938-02-12
Houses Built to Rent Seen
Factor in Next Building Boom
Statement Based on Surrey Sho,cing
Decline in Number of Persons Able
to Pay $50 Per'MOntL.

OF its income for the overall costs Of
its home.
This means that the group which
pays between $50 and $50 month
earns between 81 400 and s2,400 a
year. 1t is, in short, group which,
in communities large enough to sup
port large-scale projects. generally
rents its homes. And it is certainly
a group which has to scratch to find
enough money for the down payment
on house for sale.
TO build homes for sale for this
income group might we'll prove a poor
investment, but homes for rent could
be filled without changing by one
Evening star., 1938-02-12
BUILDERS APPLAUD
REV|S|0NS VOTED
IN HOUSING ACT
Measure Has Brought About
Change in Sentiment,
Editor Holds.
PUTS IT NEAR TOP
OF NEW DEALS WORKS
Many Features, Declared Little
Appreciated, Are Discussed
by Writer.

Passage Of the 1888 amendment to
the National Housing Act has already
brought about complete change Of
sentiment in the building industry,
both in cities and in rural areas" de-
clares Joseph B. Mason, Eastern editor
OF American Builder, in q digest OF
the Housing Act released today.
Builders. lumber dealers and mate
rial manufacturers consider this 1.-The
most far-reaching recovery measure"
Of the New Deal.
Hundreds of operative builders are
busy on plans and specifications for
what they predict will be a lively
spring market, he reports.
Examination Of Act.
Close examination Of the act reveals
many features not commonly appre-
ciated, such as those pertaining to
rural modernizing and construction
and the building of small groups of
homes for rent or sale by operative
builders, the American Builder digest
shows. Important points are sum-
married as follows:
Operative Builders-The new act
(See HOITSING poe MY
Evening star., 1938-02-12

A major factor in the next building
boom must be houses built for rent
and not for sale. the Architectural
Forum magazine declares today in its
February issue
This statement is based upon the
results of an Architectural Forum re-
search, which showed that although
most of the building in the last seven
years has produced homes for sale
with an overyall cost of more than $50
a month, the number of persons able
to pay more than S50-either in rent
or in mortgage and interest payments
declined from 329 per cent of the
total population in 1880 to 98 per cent
in 1887.
The remaining 231 per cent had
slipped down into the under-s $50 class
and it is instructive to bring this
group into somewhat sharper focus" >"
the Forum states According to the
Department of Commerce, the average
family in 81 cities pays 23.7 per cent
Evening star., 1938-02-12
HOME BUILDING IN U. S.
UP SLIGHTLY IN 1887
Reports to Home Loan Bank
Board Show 16S,O33 Family
Dwellings Authorized.

A slight increase In residential build
ings provided for in the United States
during the last year as compared with
1885 was reported today by the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board, which
supervises the worlds largest home
mortgage credit reserve system.
Reports Of the board showed that
l68,033 family dwelling units, costing
s669,l73,000, were authorized during
1887, as compared with 16O.589 at a
cost of s664845, 800 during the previous
year. During December 1887 resi-
Dental units were provided for, or
nearly 1000 more than in the preced-
ing month.
Officials Of the board pointed out
that residential building still lags far
behind what is considered necessary
Tor the adequate housing of Americas s
population. For this purpose, it has
been estimated that during the next
nve years a housing program provid-
ing 100000 new urban dwelling units
annually will be required,
Evening star., 1938-02-12
Route for Reaching
Ridgewood Village
Silver Star Home

The third Silver Star Home
of the year, which will be
opened tomorrow at 1927 Green
vale road, Ridgewood Village,
may be reached by driving out
Sixteenth street to Sherill drive,
opposite the entrance to Waiter
Reed Hospital. Then turn west,
or left, on Sherill drive to Beach
drive. and right on Beach to
Leland street. The home over
looks this intersection. An al
ternate route is by way of Con-
necticut avenue to Chevy Chase
Circle and east on Western ave-
nue. to Brookville road, out
Brookville road to Leland street
and along Leland to Beach drive.
Built by Randolph Jennings,
the new home was designed by
Dana B. Johannes. 1t is at
tractively furnished by Hilda N.
Miller. The home will be opened
at 10 tomorrow morning and will
continue on exhibition under
The Stars sponsorship for 80
days.
Evening star., 1938-02-12

tSee HOUSING, Page B-3)
Evening star., 1938-02-12
January Building
In Prince Georges
Put at $l23,22O
Special Dispatch to The Star

HYATTSVILLE. Nd, Feb. 12.-
Construction in the metropolitan
area Of Prince Georges County for
the month Of January was a de-
cided increase over the last
months Of 1897.
Permits for 33 new dwellings
were issued, 10 garages and a new
eating place at College Park, also
a building at College Park which
will house the new post Office
there, the cost Of which is listed
at $4,000. Total construction for
the month is listed at s123, ,22O,
according to records at the build
ing inspectors Office here, with
Herbert Roby in charge.
Evening star., 1938-02-21

Of customs cuts on Czechoslovakian
shoes. State Department ofncials said
their pposition is retarding the agree
ment with that country.
Position Of Hull.
Secretary Hull has asserted it Is
not his principle to reduce tariffs on
goods that will harm American pro-
ducers; that some concessions on i'm
ports must be made in order to receive
concessions on exports, and that the
whole Nation stands to benefit from
increase trade
The British trade agreement will
be the most important yet discussed.
The combined foreign trade OF the two
countries. said Secretary Hull, is over
one-fourth the total world commerce
Britain takes Is per cent of the United
States exports and supplies it with
8 per cent OF Americas imports.
Evening star., 1938-02-21
BATTLE FORECAST
ON TRADE TREATY
Many Eager to Appear at
Hearings Opening in
Three Weeks.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
A mass of briefs and applications
to testify presaged today formidable
battle over Secretary Hull's prospec-
tive Anglo-American trade treaty. on
which public hearings will begin in
three weeks.
State Department aides said they
expected the flood Of documents to
continue during the last week of the
nling period
Secretary Hull was en- route back to
the Capital after his speech Saturday
night at Des Moines. Iowa, in which
re criticized opponents of his reci-
procity program.
Mr.. Hull told the farmers of the
Midwest:
"You and the rest of our people
have been subjected to a veritable
barrage of sinister propaganda de-
signed. for narrow and selfish rea-
sons, to wreck the most important
policy which our country can pursue
to promote its economic well-being
and peace"
Radio Debate.
The week end also saw a radio debate
between Representative Treadway, Re-
publican, of Massachusetts, and Henry
F. Grady. vice chairman of the United
States Tariff Commission and one of
the authors of the trade agreements
act
Mr.. Grady said Republicans as well
as Democrats logically could support
the reciprocity agreements. but Mr..
Treadway responded that the agree
ments were not really reciprocal on
the ground that the United States gave
more than it received
The British trade delegation Is ex-
pected in Washington shortly. but ne
gotiations will not start until the
public hearings have been completed.
The principal opposition to the Brit
ish agreement is coming from New
England, largely against any reduc-
ton of duties on British textiles, both
wool and cotton.
Some New England manufacturers
also are objecting to the possibility
Evening star., 1938-02-21
THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON D.
DEATH HELD SUICIDE

w oman dAQ LeapeQ from monu-
ment in Baltimore.
A verdict Of suicide was returned
today in the death Of Miss Georgia
Conway, q. Of Baltimore, who leaped
from a 160-fcot observation platform
atop the Washington Monument in
Baltimore Saturday
Coroner Samuel B. Wolfe of Balti-
more criticized the Park Board for
not having followed his recommends
ton last August to inclose the lofty
observation platform, the Associated
Press reported.
Miss Conaway, said 10 be relative
Of Miss Olive Moore, 2022 G street
NV, left note addressed to Miss
Moore.
Evening star., 1938-05-25

"Mr. and Mrs. Quack have left the
Smiling Pool and Jerry wouldn't tell
me where they have gone"
Mrs. Peter laughed. rs that what
makes you so short-tempered? I don't
see what business it is of yours where
Mr.. and Mrs. Quack have gone. Prob
ably they want to keep it secret
and that is why Jerry wouldn't tell.
I am glad that there IS some one
who can keep a secret" said she.
Peter looked at her sharply to see
if she meant to hint that he couldn't
keep q secret, but she was innocently
looking out across the Green Meadows,
and he decided that she couldn't have
meant anything by the remark. II
think he might have told me-" grum-
bled Peter In q grieved tone. He
knows that I am their friend and
that I wouldn't do anything 70 ct
Evening star., 1938-05-25

HE wouldn't tell me, either" "
snapped Sammy Jay. Said it was a
secret and If he told me it wouldn't
be a secret. Just as If I can't keep
a secret as we'll as he can! I think
I ought to know where Mr.. and Mrs.
Quack have gone If any one does.
seeing that was the one who found
Mr.. Quack. I'll get even with Jerry
Muskrat one of these days"
Are you sure that Jerry does know
himself?" asked little Mrs. Peter.
Perhaps he's just pretending so as
to tease you folks"
II hadn't thought Of that" ex-
claimed Sammy. I'm going straight
back there and pretend don't believe
he knows at all. If he really thinks
I don't believe he knows perhaps he
will tell II he really does know"
on went Sammy - fast - his
Evening star., 1938-05-25
Taximen Protected.

Robbing and injuring taxi drivers
must be stopped. according to M.
Langeron, head of the Paris police.
He has ruled that a driver may re-
fuse to carry fares not willing to
show credentials proving they are
law-abiding. And even if a fare is
accepted and the taximan becomes
suspicious he may drive to the near
est police station and leave his money.
Drivers also may refuse to drive any
one outside the city limits.
Evening star., 1938-05-25

them into any more trouble. He said
that they had gone to build home,
but I don't see where they can have
gone to do that. because Mr.. Quack
can't fly. shouldn't think they would
have gone out to the Big River be-
cause of the danger from hunters
there, but I don't see where else they
can have gone. Hello. here comes
Sammy Jay! Perhaps he knows"
Sammy dropped into little tree in
the dear old Briar Patch. Both began
to speak at once.
do you know" said Peter.
do you know" said Sammy.
Then both stopped. Each knew
just what the other was going to ask.
WELL" said Sammy after q pause, do
you know"
NO" said Peter. "Jerry Muskrat
wouldn't tell ma"