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however, WlleH MISS elCCS begins IC
fail the air with her hands and voice
In her perfectly created illusion that
she is about to drown in the vicissitudes
of this world (At late hour last
night, the Earle notified this depart
ment that there would be five shows
today In order to satisfy the public
demand for Miss Pitts)
My Bill is a picture which changes
Miss Francis role somewhat in that
1t asks her to come to grips with life
instead of merely with the coutouriers
whom she has conquered so Splendidly
in the past with her inspired way of
wearing clothes. She appears as the
widowed mother of four children, an
improvident. impulsive, gallant widow
whose three older children are hope
lessly nasty bratS, who desert the
family ship when it is sinking in a sea
Of debt The fourth child, her Bill
"a Allied to overfowing with the loyalty
and courage that is so sadly missing
In the other three He sticks with his
mother through thick and thin, mostly
thick, until at last his kindness and
consideration cause the grouchy old
lady next door to leave him a fortune
thus rescuing the family from the en-
veloping hand Of poverty and degrade
ton.
The story of faithful son and his
rescue of his beautiful but dumb
mother ought to be a pretty moving
thing. MY Bill" is that in spots. Miss
Francis. maybe because her scripts
have held her too long aloof from the
world, is somewhat too restrained to
make the mother role convincing. AS
for the boy, young Dickie Moore. the
script writer's Undoubtedly thought
they were doing him big favor when
they permitted him to call his mother
Sweetheart" in the most manly way
1t sounds like good idea, too, at first
coming a downright affectation. It
bobs up often enough to spoil some
of the genuine comic sequences of the
picture. and some others which should
be truly poignant.
One of the most interesting Incl
dental features of My Bill" is that it
presents Bobby Jordan in poor-little-
rich-boy role. Bobby, of course. is one
of the finest flowers of the sewer dis
trict which introduced the Dead End"
kids to the movie public To hear
him talking CIVILIZED" is one Of the
strangest and most piquant expert
ences you will find in movie this
season. If you don't sit there momen-
tarily expecting the other five men,
bers of the Dead End" gang to come
In and tear off those pretty clothes
he is wearing, then My Bill is more
diverting than it seemed to at least
one pair of eyes.
The picture makes use of several
other of the more prominent Warner
Bros. players, among them Anita LOU
ise, who is very pretty tas usuaD in
the role of spoiled older daughter;
Bonita Granville as another daughter
who needs a spanking badly; Elisabeth
Risdon as stern, righteous old aunt,
and John Litel, who. instead of being
the usual bad man, is kindly banker.
Director John Farrow points up the
picture nicely here and there, but My
Bill" still is not his best work.
X
QUT, as we said many paragraphs
ago. there is Miss Pitts Working
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q SoAASo S66 LII eeAioAo oouAS
goggle-eyed at Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Astaire and Herbert Marshall They
overlook the couple at the table next
to them-Vilma Banky and husband
Rod La ROGUE.
Wednesday Jean Arthur on
Cover street in her usual slacks,
practicing the big apple while wait
ing for her car . The head barber
on the Metro lot is gloomy. With SO
many costume pictures no one cuts
his hair or gets a shave any more"
he explains.
Thursday :. Bing Crosby wears his
brightest silk shirt-green, yellow and
red, in large leaf pattern-for his
final broadcast rehearsal. For good
measure the cuff of one trouser leg is
torn and drags over his shoe. Il
would like picture of you, Mr.. Cros-
by" says lad with candid camera
Il can't see why" replies Bing-but
he obliges. What's the price of boxes
at your Del Mar race track?" horse
minded stranger asks Il don't know.
I'm only one of the poor owners of
the track" replies Bing. What are
you giving away on opening day?" the
other persists. Pencils with my auto
graph engraved on them" Whose idea
was that?" continues the curious one.
How should I know" says Bing-
almost losing his extreme good nature.
X X X
Friday Reading lesson The
Southwest Blue Book Only five
picture-ites are listed-Cecil B. De
Mile, his son-in-law, Anthony Quinn:
Harold Lloyd, Douglas Montgomery
and John Wayne, hero of dubious
Westerns Those not in include
Mary Garden, Douglas Fairbanks, sr. :;
his wife, the former Lady Ashley;
John Barrymore. the Countess di Fras-
so, the Earl of Warwick and Mrs.
Basil Rathbone. (How come, Ouida y
Racing week end William Pow
ell, with gray felt hat tilted over one
eye la Thin Man" style, does some
shadow boxing for his 15-year- -old son
in Myron Selznick's box .. The most
conspicuous figure at the race meet
Constance Bennett, in white tailored
suit, brown off-the-face hat smothered
in brown veil reaching almost to her
knees. AS each horse gets into the
lead Connie roots for him-or her.
Whats the idea?" demands Boy
Friend Gilbert Roland. I've got tick
cts on every horse in this race" shouts
Miss Bennett.
(Copyrisht. 1893, By tbs North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.)
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AIMS New Ticket.
NEW term contracts have

NEW term contracts have been
given to Ann Sheridan, lovely
red-headed leading lady, and James
Stephenson, featured player at the
Warner Bros. studios, according to a
dispatch from the Burbank, Calf,
plant. Miss Sheridan, who has come
rapidly to the fore in the past year,
recently completed work in the leading
feminine role in Cowboy From Brook
lyn,' with Dick Powell starred. Steph-
enson. an English import, will be seen
next in an important part in Garden
Of the Moon," in which Pat O'Brien.
Margaret Lindsay and John Payne
head the cast.
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w ~
tic friends" who surrounded him on
his yacht that he became a tramp
to try to find an honest emotion in
humanity. There Is wealth of op-
portunity, also, In the doings that
follow the millionaire 'tramp's" re-
mark that he would give a million
francs for one act Of true kindness,
statement that got about in the
public prints and made the Riviera
hobO's paradise
But somewhere along these por-
tions OF the tale where the citizens
OF the town are outdoing one another
being kind to tramps on the theory
that any one of them might be the
millionaire, the film bogs down. 1t
probably is combination OF both
direction and script, but whatever is
at fault, the fact remains that I'll
Give Million is not as sprightly as
it should have been with this thesis
for basis. For one thing Mr.. Warner
Baxter, who plays the millionaire,
just wanders around morosely con-
sidering the frailties of the human
race, when he should be having the
time sof his life over the Juror he
has caused among the populace.
x
RUT for all of that "Ill Give a
Million" has goodly quota of
laughs and is played gracefully enough
by those principally concerned that
it becomes one of the more enjoyable
Of the light entertainments among
Hollywood's hot-weather offerings. Mr..
Baxter may not seem to be completely
at home some Of the time in his role
Of fellow trying to find if all man
kind is all wrong. but he endoWs
everything he does with a quality of
honesty not attained by many of
the cinema's leading men. He's good
here, even if he has had better things
to test his mettle.
The young lady of the piece, who
becomes enamored. as they say, OF
the young 'vagabond" and who would
make a. man of him. thus teaching
him there is at least one honest emo
ton left, is Marjorie Weaver. Miss
Weaver, whose cinema carer dates
back only short time, is coming right
along and contributes attractively to
her current vehicle. The real acting
of III Give Million" however, is
done by one Of the supporting players
fellow named Peter Lore Mr.
LORE plays the simple, child-minded
beach-comber who first encounters the
millionaire and who passes along the
word that there is a fellow loose In
the town who will give 100000 francs
for kind deed and he plays him
with such skill that you forget every
one and everything else when the
cameras are focused on him.
Other people. too-Jean Hersholt
j. Edward Bromberk, John Carradine
and some others-contribute skillfully
to the making Of a film that enter
tains even as it disappoints, if that
makes sense.
THE Capitol's stage bill has much
that you should find diverting. II
is topped, of course, by the Andrew.
Sisters. who sang b NJ B. D. S." onto
record and became probably the bes,
known singing trio in the land at the
moment. They're generous with theil
clever swing arrangements Of dittie.
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Joan Gets Role.
WITH shooting sche

WITH shooting scheduled to start
this week on the Lanny Ross
starring picture, THE Lady Objects" "
Columbia signed Joan Marsh for a fea-
tured role in the production. Gloria
Stuart will have the feminine lead.
Gladys Lehman and Charles Kenyon
wrote the screen play from which Erie
Kenton will direct. The voice of
Lanny Ross, which has achieved such
popularity over the radio, will be heard
in numerous selections through the
picture.
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Sabu. Learns.

SABU, the Indian lad who scored q
- hit in Elephant Boy" and is now
starred in Alexander Korda's Drums" :"
is now at school at Beaconsfeld, lead
ing the life of an average English
schoolboy. Having proved himself
bright at English, he is now learning
French. In his spare time he reads
Horatio Alger stories and schoolboy
thrtllers, rides horses, drives . car,
plSys hockey and u learning beidge.
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OF today and yesterday and 1t Is nice
indeed to have them here.
Also on the bill you will find "Slim"
Timblin, whose daft doings in his
pulpit are none the less enjoyable
because they are familiar; the Five
Reillys, who have something new and
clever in the way of tap dance rou-
tines; the Three Sophisticated Ladies,
who do some bright slapstickerie, and
Jim and Mildred Mulcay, who play
harmonicas, and play them well If
there is degree.
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was my first star
ring picture-no
one else would
make it."
Dick is only 36,
but can retire to-
day and still live
at his present
standard of COM
fort. I've saved
my money" he
explains. Never
got things on
credit. N ev er
lived beyond my
means. But 1
live we'll. Have
a ranch in the
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From the Stage.

II c. POTTER, who is directing
4 IL "The Lady and the Cowboy" for
Samuel Goldwyn, came to Hollywood
after forming a little theater group at
Long Island. which proved 50 success
ful that many Of its shows were later
produced on Broadway.
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There Are Laughs to Be Had
In 'I'll Give a Million
Capitols New Film Is Bright, If It
Does Miss Its Opportunities.
Andrews Sisters Score.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR,

NUNHERALDED and unpretentious
~ studios III a
~ Capitol has turned out be than passaby
cinema comedy The greatest faults
to Its possibilities that i has failed
uniy it had to become outstanding photopay
There that
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Arlen Enters the Diary
With Pioneer Stuff
Dick, Who Went to Hollywood in
1920, No Longer Has to Act, for
I've Saved My Money!
Bv SHEILAH GRAHAM.

T HOLLYWOOD. 80 tNANA)-Dear Monday
II Hollywood
/ / actresses-Who
a
BeeryWaly female
MY first check s75oo work. Dick tells 1T seemed
the
Evening star., 1938-07-30
Comedy of Adolescent Love
Shines on Palace Screen
Fourth Episode of Famous Hardys
Is Corking Laugh Producer,
Starring Mickey Rooney.


GodWynMayer most
pleasant parties of the
even knows just what cokng comedy developing this fourth
chapter Of the of the interesting
Evening star., 1938-07-30
Zasu Pitts Flutters Happily
Atop Earle''s New Program
Movies Most Defenseless Lady Steals
Show From Kay Francis, Starring
In Weeks Screen Feature.
BY JAY CARMODY.

\ ISIS zAzU PITTS Washington this
n/v bewdred will
headlines
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Bright, New
w hodu unit
At Columbia
Fast Company Is
Gay Fun in Thin
Man Manner.

MERE is ample evidence in the
new picture at Loew's Colum-
bla to furnish strong support
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Gang Drama
Tells How to
End 1t All
metropolitan Film
Suggests Trap
For Mobsters.
BY CHRIS MATHISEN.

NHOSE who leave cinema thea
ter considerably invigorated
after seeing unscrupulous peo-
Evening star., 1938-07-30

THE Capitols stage bill has much
that you should find diverting. 1t
is topped. of course, by the Andrews
Sisters. who sang b M. B. D. s." onto
record and became probably the best
known singing trio in the land at the
moment. They're generous with their
clever swing arrangements of ditties
Evening star., 1938-07-18
An Honest Candidate.

States Attorney F. Kirk Maddrix of
Somerset County, Maryland, believes a
candidate for Office should be honest
and frank with his prospective con-
stituents. Therefore he minced no words
IN announcing his candidacy for the
gubernatorial nomination in Maryland.
He wants to be Governor, he said in a
prepared statement, because he believes
It is a soft job.
1t seems that Mr. Maddrix visited the
Governors headquarters at Annapolis
not long ago and was overwhelmed by
what he saw. He was so favorably i'm
pressed by the grandeur of things there,
he said, that right away he decided he
would like very much" to live there.
He saw the Governors limousine whizz
down the street with an awe-inspiring
escort of motorcycle policemen, and his
desire to ride In the Governors car be.
came an obsession. He heard about
cocktail parties aboard the Governors
palat!al yacht, and his yearnins for the
Evening star., 1938-07-18
Madagascar as Refuge.

iohi tic LoWell CONFECTIONERY.
Perhaps satirically Alfred Rosenberg
Hltlers right-hand Journalist, recon-
mends that France receive the expatrj-
ated German and Austrian Jews and
settle them on Madagascar. If anv con-
siderable number of them would be
willing to go to huge and thinly pop
ulated island in the Indian Ocean that
might be happy outcome of their exile,
for the French. Madagascar in able
hands, an island of about 325 900 600
square miles, shaped and approximately
equal to our Atlantic Coast States from
Maine to Florida. and with a central
range of mountains higher than our
Appalachians, could easily become one
OF the key nations of the French colonial
empire. Its coastal swamps have given
Madagascar bad name for health and
comfort of European settlers, but the
high plateaus of the interior, from 5000
to 5000 feet above the sea, are said to be
suitable for white mans residence and
to offer abundant resources that an in
dustrious people could easily develop.
II France through German Austrian CO.
operation should hasten the settlement
of Madagascar by sturdy Europeans an
other crimp might be put into the de-
signs of the Berlin Rome Toxic axis.
Both economically and militarily the
Madagascaran nation of the near future
would naturally work in close cahoots
with the South African Union Of British
nations and protectorates. 1t would also
protect the sea routes to Indochina, the
Netherland Indies and Australia.
Evening star., 1938-07-18
Comedy of the Skies.

Those men of science who devote
themselves to the study of weather may
explain the phenomena as they will. A
larger, albeit an amateur public yester-
day must have been interested to watch
the several storms of afternoon and
evening with an enthusiasm all their
own. The successive spectacles repre-
sented celestial comedy in the best
meaning of the phrase-in the sense of
providing pleasure.
For example, thousands of persons
must have remarked that the showers
would afford relief from the heat, a con-
summation devoutly to be wished. Again,
the picture of clouds piling up under the
compulsion of intruding currents of air
strong but not cyclonic breezes-was
fascinating to behold. Thunder and
lightning supplied the sound effects,
like silver trumpets and tympanums of
copper or of heavy brass. When the
wind swept through the trees it was not
difficult tH imagine an audience of mil
lions gratefully applauding
Momentarily, one might have antici-
pated torrential precipitation. The rain,
however, was mannerly in its descent.
1t came as welcome guest, courteoalsly
Evening star., 1938-07-18
Chaos in Coal.
From the Buffalo Evening News,

The National Resources Committee
reports that in the anthracite fields of
Northeastern Pennsylvania there has
been a decline of $4,000 jobs in the
mines, a decrease of % per cent. since
1929. In the opinion of the committee,
there Is little chance that many of
tnese men Will be re-employed.'
competition among the three big
bituminous producing areas, the Appa-
lachlan. the Eastern Interior and the
western, has likewise complicated the
soft coal situation. The committee esti-
mates that a total of $4,000 jobs have
been lost. to say nothing of those who,
because OF the prevailing part-time en-
ployment in the mines, can make only
the most meager living"
The coal industry has been in a bad
way for years. Miners who lost their
Jobs before 1880 were able to find work
In other occupations, but those who we're
dropped after 1880, during the worst of
the depression, have not Jared so well.
Judging from the committees report,
technology has been largely responsible
Tor the increase in unemployment. The
invention Of the mechanical loader. for
example, brought about a reduction in
tne number OF jobs.
The problem Of bringing order out of
the chaos in the coal industry rests
with the commission created under the
Guf1ey Act. In 1t there are factors
beyond their control. For one thing, the
use OF oil as fuel is steadily increasing
IN industry and in the home. A process
OF liquidation would seem to be neces-
sary, one In which both operators and
workers would be subjected to consider
able distress.
Evening star., 1938-07-18
A Spending ''Mania"?

Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee fears the District gov
eminent is developing spending
mania'' under the P. w. A. building
program, recently provided for by Con-
gress. He says he has cautioned the
District Commissioners against getting
too reckless with money for public
works.
Well, after standing by for so long
while other municipalities were cutting
loose with spending sprees for the high
purpose Of aiding national recovery, the
District might be pardoned if the sud-
den invitation to join the party went
to its head.
The alarm viewing attitude of Chair
man King, however. is not justified by
the facts. The p w. A. construction
proposed by the Commissioners is not
hastily thrown together program of dol
lar-dizzy District officials, but carefully
sifted collection of very essential public
projects. Most other cities have had for
years the improvements sought by
Washington citizens under the belated
policy of fair play for the District
adopted by the last Congress. Not one
of the projects contemplated under the
whole $l8,00o,000 P. w. A. program bor-
ders on the unnecessary or frivolous.
Many more millions actually are needed
to provide for all the more desirable
needs of the Capital. but the Commits
sioners sensibly have limited their re-
quests to Improvements deemed abso-
lutely vital to a growing, modern city.
Chairman King is right in reminding
the District that a day of reckoning
will come. He should not forget, how
ever, that the District will be called
upon to make direct repayment of only
SIS per cent of the expenditures incurred
under the P. w. A. program, Whereas,
without the Federal grant, the whole
cost would fall directly on District tax
payers. There is certainly no mania"
in taking advantage of the P. w. A.
grant and loan policy. 1t is simply
common sense.
Evening star., 1938-07-18
Vacations for Judges.

Requests from members of the bar
and other sources that the justices of
the United States District Court shorten
their vacation periods merit the earnest
consideration of the bench.
Counting Saturdays, legal holidays
and vacation periods, the judges are
absent from their courtrooms at least
four months out of the year. While a
liberal vacation period undoubtedly is a
factor in inducing many able lawyers to
accept judgeships, it does not necessarily
follow that judges should not relinquish
some of their vacation time if con-
gestion in their courts threatens to in
terfere with the proper administration
of justice.
When the local judges return in the
fall, the law and equity courts will be
about twenty-one months behind sched-
ule, situation which recalls the old
truism that justice deferred is justice
denied.
1t may be argued that the addition of
three new judges next fall will enable
the court to catch up with it's work. and
that probably is true. Back in 1881,
when the courts were twenty-seven
months behind, three new judgeships
were created and the justices caught up
with their work until they were only
six months behind. That advantage was
lost however, as the volume of work in
creased, and during the past four years
the court has fallen from six to twenty
one months behind.
The District is growing rapidly and in
all probability the volume of work will
continue to increase. Should that prove
to be the case, 1t will be difficult to ad-
vance any convincing reason why the
judges should not spend more time on
the bench.
Evening star., 1938-07-18
overnor's chair increased by leaps ant

Governors chair increased by leaps and
bounds.
Continuing to hold his tongue in his
cheek, Candidate Maddrix said that
while he was sadly deficient" In the
matter Of Temperament, political acu-
men and craftsmanship" he is fully
qualified ITO make political promises and
to do the various maneuvering incidental
to political campaign" He proceeded
to make all kinds of promises, from CIV
ing 500 bonus for each birth to guar
anteeing "a deficit Of huge proportions. !"
The apparent popularity OF deficits, he
pointed out, should insure his election
on his bigger and better deficit" plank,
alone.
The candid attitude of Mr.. Maddrix is
refreshing, not only because 1t affords
measure of comedy relief in season of
too-serious political campaigning, but
because it is not so ridiculous as 1t may
seem on the surface. The vast majority
OF voters know that Mr.. Maddrix is not
the only candidate for political ofiice
who has his tongue in his cheek when
he unburdens himself to his public. Even
If Mr.. Maddrix fails of election, he de-
serves trip aboard that yacht and a
ride behind those motorcycle policemen
as reward for being honest with his
public.