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Evening star., 1938-12-16
TOMORROW.

Dancing class, Children of the
Moose, 1414 I street NV, 2:30 pm.
Meeting, Gridiron Club, Willard
Hotel, IL pm.
= Dinner, Gridiron Club, Willard
Hotel, tbs pm.
Dance, Sigma Epsilon Sorority,
Lafayette Hotel, 9pm.
Meeting, Philosophical Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, 8:15 pm.
Dance, italian Club, Carlton Hotel,
10 pm.
Dinner-dance, Riggs National
Bank, Wardman Park Hotel, 7:3o
pm.
Dance, Washington College of
Law, Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm
Initiation and supper, Sigma Phi
Gamma Sorority, Wardman Park
Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1938-12-16

Certainly a most welcome
gift for any home! Chimes
every quarter hour, strikes
on the hour. Mahogany
veneered case, with easy
to-read dial, raised numer-
ais. Pierced hands. Fully
guaranteed.
Clocks-Mdin Floor.
Evening star., 1938-12-16
City News in Brief

Buffet supper, Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology Society, La
fayette Hotel, 5 pm.
Meeting, Jefferson Davis Chapter,
q. D. c., Willard Hotel, 4 pm.
. Christmas party, Kappa Sigma
fraternity, 1903 Nineteenth street
NV, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Washington Greeters,
Mayfiower Hotel, pm.
Initiation, Beta Sigma Phi, May
flower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Philosophical Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, 8:15 pm.
Performance. Washington Civic
Theater, Wardman Park Hotel, $50
pm.
Dance, Notre Dame Alumnae As
sociation, Willard Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, National Savings and Trust
Co. Club, Willard Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, North Carolina State So
ciety, Shoreham Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, Athletic Association of the
Railroad Retirement Board, Carlton
Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, West Virginia State So
ciety, Raleigh Hotel, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1938-12-16

Try your skill ut
shooting marbles
pull q plunger. see
il you can put the
marbles into holes.
Wire screen pre-
vents loss Of mar
bles.
Tops-Third Floor
Evening star., 1938-12-16
Tots AU.W0OL Pull0ver

Cunning little affairs for
tots l to 3 years. Dainty
pastel shades as we'll as
the more service able
darker shades. Some with
slide fasteners.
Infdnts-Mdin Floor.
Evening star., 1938-12-16
Little Tots Washable Rayom Tafefa

Perfectly adorable styles to
pretty up. the little girls on
Christmas day. Lovely pastel
shades, with clever details sure
to delight the to 8 year miss,
and 3 to 61z.
Infdnfs-Main Floor.
Evening star., 1938-12-16

She always has need for slips, especia
when they're as lovely as these Cali
fornia top style, with adjustable shoul-
der straps. Bias cut for better fit. Tea
rose. Choice Of many lace-laden styles
Sizes 80 to A.
Liroerie-Mdin Floor.
Evening star., 1938-02-05
Dance Bill at
National
Varied
Programs Dullness
At Start Mars
Total Effect.
BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS. Jr.

ny nobEnl n. fHlLAlIS, Jr,
TT is long dance concert that has
no turning. but for quite a while
the audience at the National The
a ater yesterday afternoon must
have doubted it. For at that theater
Miriam Winslow and her dancers pre-
sented as the first half of their pro-
gram group of numbers undeniably
variegated in content, yet equally
overshadoWed by sort of lack-luster
pail. Not until after the intermission
WAS that sense Of liStless gloom dis
slpated, permitting the performers to
emerge in the full brillance of their
powers,
Miss WinsloW is not an ultramodern
dancer, and certainly cannot be ac-
cused- OF an excessively abstract ap-
proach to the dance. Constant mis-
understanding Of vague choreography
and music could be expected, of course,
to produce sense of monotony in anv
audience. Ennui sprang not from that
source yesterday. The musical sele-
tions ranged from Saties restrained
and subtle "Infanta" to a spirited
'Passepied," by Fischer and the i'm
pudent Lully-Purcell "Hornpipe.' BY
these adjectives one would assume
that it was lively and colorful ses-
sion Of the dance. enhanced by the
addition of free and gracile Chopin
Prelude" vividly stylistic Sara
bande' Of Muffat and the gentle
dignity OF Gibbons "Threnody"
These qualities were there. you
understand, but they made them
selves evident mildly and as from afar.
Since no one episode offered a COM
plete satisfaction or a directly pro-
vocative jolt-with the possible ex-
ception Of Jacqueline Magrath's solo
"1nfanta seemed to share the
same misty identity. The series
merged into an almost complete empti-
ness
This temporary failure certainly was
not due to Miss WinsloW's lack of great
persona! skill. for she is free and
imaginative performer. 1t might have
been in part blamed upon certain tech
nical deficiencies, or limitations of
experience, within the supporting
group, but that alone should not have
defeated every other positive quality
IN the dancing. Perhaps there is no
way to analyze the case properly. ex-
cept to put it down as one of those
occasions on which a capable cast of
players suddenly found themselves
letting good show die on its feet
At least it is high time to forget the
less fortunate part OF the WinsloW
recital and acknowledge that from the
curtain-raiser. Little Women after
the intermission. up to the very last
beat of the last dance, that section
OF the program was exciting, witty,
as inspired as its counterpart had been
apathetic. There was brusque strength
IN Boy Crusader" light-heartedness
IN Brittany Peasant Dance"-which
earned an encore for its principals,
Barbara Benzaquin and Christine
Maynard-Miss Winslows extraordi-
nary Interpretation of "Leprechaun,"
by the modern Russian Shostakovitch,
and the splendid group numbers,
"zingari" and Largo" were so COM
pletely successful that one felt it
great loss that the scheduled Cam
bodian Court Dance" and EAST Indian
Dances" had been omitted.
So now We have first wailing and
crying against it all, and then crying
for more.
Evening star., 1938-02-05
Love and Kisses"
At the Columbia.

HERE still is feudin' goin' on in the
hills hereabouts, Love and Kisses"
having moved into the Columbia so
that Mr.. w Winchell and Mr.. B.
Bernie may continue to castigate one
another upon an F. street screen. This
particular "feud," of course is pretty
much cold turkey to any one who
reads the papers or listens to the radio,
but 1t does provide a springboard here
for a diverting musical entertainment.
The feud OF the picture is over a
singer. Mr.. Bernie attempting to. and
almost succeeding in pulling a fast
one on Mr.. Winchell. who ends It all
up by turning the tables.
1t really isn't much of story. but
its told divertingly, with some frothy
dialogue, and it provides an opportu-
nifty for the inclusion of the various
vaudeville specialties by which a
Daryl Zanuck filmuSical is made. 1t
also permits Miss Simon Simone to
sing, and sing very pleasantly, too, and
1t gives her a role which fits her far
better than anything Hollywood has
provided yet. Then there are Joan
Davis and Bert Lahr. to play the
dafflest romantic team the movies
have discovered, and between them all
they account for lot of fun. H NJ.
Evening star., 1938-02-05
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-"Once Is Enough" new
comedy with Ina Claire: 2:3O and 8 80
pm.
Earle-"You're Only Young Once" ="
spirited young actors in a story of first
love: 1915 am, 1885, 2:55, 5:l5, 7:40
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 11:4O am,
2, 4:25, 6:45 and 9:O5 pm.
Capitol-"Everybody Sing song
fest with Judy Garland and Allan
Jones: II am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and
10 pm. Stage shows at 2:55, $40,
6:25 and 9:10 pm.
Metropolitan "Penitentiary, an
other big house" drama: 11:40 am,
1:40, $40, $40, TAO and $40 pm.
Columbia-"Love and Hisses," a IA
nous feud comes to the screen: 1850
am, 1:50, $50, $50, 7:50 and $50
pm.
Palace-'The Buccaneer," Fredric
March stars in the story of pirate
who helped to save the Nation: Ills
am, 1:50, 4:25, Z and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"Radio City Reve1s," host
of air favorites in screen vaudeville
show: 11:46 am, 1:46, 3:46, 5:46,
7.46 and 9:46 pm.
Trans-Lux-NeWs and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight.
LittIe-''The Story of Louis Pasteur," !"
film biography with Paul NUM-: 11:25
am, 1:30, $3.50, 5:55, 1880 and $50
pm.
Hitting a New High" !"
Lily Pons' singing, Jack Oakie's clown
ing: 2, 1855, $50, 7:45 and $40 pm.
Calvert-"Sh! the Octopus" the
most insanely funny screen mystery
to date: l, 3, S, 6:35, $40 and 10 pm.
Penn-"52nd Street." a staid street
becomes swings main stem: LAS, $50,
5:55, 7:45 and 9:35 pm.
Uptown-"52nd Street: 1:4o, 3:5o,
5:55, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Sheridan-"Sh! the Octopus" l, 3,
5, $40, 8:25 and 1905 pm.
Tivoli-"The Last Gangster," Mr.
Robinson is a nasty man again: 1:45,
4, 6:05, 8 and $50 pm.
Howard-"Charlie Chan at Monte
Carlo" the Oriental sleuth solves an
other: 1890, $3.50. 5:55. $40 and
10:3o pm. Stage shows: 2, 4:40, 7:05
and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1938-02-05
Met Showing
Grim StOrv
OF Prison .
q
"Penitentiary"
Is a Routine
Treatment.
. HEY have another prison picture
at the Metropolitan this week,

T HEY have another prison picture
at the Metropolitan this week,
Unfortunately, that is about all
4 there is to say. In other words.
for there must be a few more words
under the rules. "Penitentiary" is not
particularly distinguished "big
house" drama. Only at rare intervals
does 1t shake off the sluggishness that
is its most evident shortcoming. Those
who enjoy anything and everything
pertaining to prisons when it is pre-
sented to them in celluloid, will enjoy
this item. Amateur psychologists will
like it, too, for the anguish of stif1ed
mind is portrayed in satisfying fashion
by John Howard.
Mr.. Howard is placed in the steel
chateau because he was so indiscreet
as to crown another patron with a
bottle in an eating and drinking estab-
lishment. The district attorney who
obtained his conviction becomes the
warden after six years in the jute mill
has taken its toll of Howards bodv
and brain, makes him a trusty, takes
steps to obtain q parole.
Everything turns out for the best
which is as it should be. TIE love
story doesn't get much attention.
grumbling prisoners and harsh guards
get most Of the attention, 10 Jean
Parker. playing the warden's daughter,
contributes nothing important to the
chronicle of screen history. Walter
Connolly manages to overcome his
feelings at being thrust into this opus
and John Howard, as has been said,
is excellent. C. AN
Evening star., 1938-02-05

tne rOOI WIN ner IrlckS as comic,
and done we'll by a cast that includes
Billie Burke Reginald Owen, Lynne
Carver, Allan Jones and Reginald
Gardiner.
Well carry you to this halfway
mark with an unqualified recommen-
dation for the picture. Miss Garlands
Down on Melody Farm" is a knock
out. Miss Brice gets more fun out of
talking about four squads than bum
would have eating them for dinner
Miss Burke goes dizzy at her giddiest
pace. The others play the farcical
story right down the groove But after
that bus scene, the film is yours. And
take it away, Graham. In the left
over package. you'll get one swell
rendition of The One 1 Love" from
pearly- -toothed Mr.. Jones. Miss Brice
will hand you couple of numbers
called "Qainty. Dainty Me" and Baby
Snooks,' which will roll you in the
aisle, either with JOY or anguish, de-
pending on how these things hit you.
The other performers probably will
get in your hair with their constant
Mysteries, for at the point his yarn
began to wear trifle thin. Director
Edward Marin evidently decided that
situations not funny enough in them
selves could be made funnier if louder.
x
"FVERYBODY SING is a story
about little girl who gets kicked
out of school for singing The Spring
Song in swingtime. Back home, she
finds her playwright father broke, her
actress mother getting temperamental
about a ham actor, the chef in love
with her sister, and Fanny Brice (the
housemaid) going crazy over the whole
menagerie. Anxious to get her daft
family shipshape again, the kid enlists
Evening star., 1938-02-05

UOlldlS WOTtH Ol SCeIllC UlOIlSLTOSlLy.
You're Only Young Once" is an
other human episode in the lives of
those same people (from Aurania
Rouverors ''Skidding." if the memory
isn't playing tricks who made "A
Family Affair" the satisfying enter
tainment it was This time the son
and daughter become involved in a
pair Of vacation romances" and have
to be Strengthened out by few wise
words from pop. Then there's the
business Of mortgage. with papa judge
pulling trick out of the bag to save
the old homestead. That doesn't
sound like much, to be sure, but it
all becomes human and very real
through the ministrations of the people
involved.
Lewis Stone and Fay Holden are
pair of dependable performers who
can bring to life any role suited to
their talents and here they make the
Judge and his wife couple of natural
people who might have lived in the
next block back in your home town.
Then there is young Mickey Rooney,
VINO, Tor our money at any rate, is
the only true-to-life adolescent in the
films. And Cecilia Parker is on hand
to be the attractive daughter of that
family down in the next block land
probably the reason why you re-
membered the family.
You're Only Young Once" owes
much OF its success as an entertain
ment, also to Director George B. Seitz
whose skillful blending of everything
involved has made this mighty salts
Tying photoplay. Mr.. Seitz has been
around long enough to know a cliche
when he sees it coming and thus is
Evening star., 1938-02-05
Business Meeting
In News Films.

7 OCAL city editors have been de-
lighting in the conclave here this
week Of industry's little men," and
the newsreel companies were on the
Job when they presented their views
to President Roosevelt. The shots
are included in the footage being
unreeled q number OF times each day
at the Trans-Lux. Another Capital
clip" Is that devoted to Socialists
advocating boycott on silk, and
Lady Astor, who used to be Nancy
Langhorne OF Virginia, is shown be-
ing feted by feminine members of
Congress.
From all around the Nation come
bits Of celluloid to picture a six-day
bike race in Chicago, the retirement
Of Jim Braddock, Lou Gehrig Begin
ming motion picture career, ice
boating in Wisconsin, the interna-
tional air show in Chicago, new hair
styles for milady, first aid being
rushed to snowbound elk herds, an
artist on w. P. A. rolls receiving
his commission for Apex Building
statuary, Jane Withers eating out OF
doors with deer and dog. Abroad,
Egypts young King takes bride,
air raids take their toll in Barcelona,
Ambassador Bullitt is greeted by
French children.
Lew Lehr's bit deals with a home
made ski slide at a New York City
boys club The short subjects are
"Daffy Duck and Egghead,' clever
Merrie Melodie cartoon; novelties in
the line of winter sports are pic
tured in Snow Foolin": Stock
holm, Pride OF Sweden" is the sub
ject of Lravelogue; Pictorial Revue
shows Chesapeake Bay retrievers in
action and film stars taking to bron-
cho busting. &C. A. M.
Evening star., 1938-02-05

able to skip over it lightly without
tripping. a grace which saves the cur
rent film on occasion. It's deft blend
of common horse-sense and human,
believable humor, and if you don't
want to get out on the sand and lie in
the sun, go on back to your Noel Cow
ard in the drawing room. But don't
say we didn't tell you about this.
TED WEEMS should be thanked
right now for the manner in
which he presents his band on the
Earle's stage. No ordinary name
band" presentation is this. Ted Weems
music is good, but it is used here only
as a brilliant background for some en-
tertaining specialties, which makes the
current stage bill completely pleas
ant diversion.
Best of all we liked the dances by
the attractive Readinger twins, whose
routines are clever and different and
whose execution Of the dances is all
the brighter for the fact the girls have
studied ballet long and hard and know
what to do with themselves on a stage.
ana there are more dances-those
smart, eccentric taps full of rhythm
by Gloria Day.
Songs there are, too, mostly by Perry
Como, With comic vocal diversion con-
trlbuted by Elmo Tanner, whistler and
Wrecker again Of old 81. with the help
OF Red 1ngle. A bit of sleight of hand
by tommy Martin, a few other special
ties by members OF the band, and the
Dill is concluded by the best rendition
yet OF The Martins and the Coys"
You should approve of it all.
Evening star., 1938-02-05
Keith's Film
Is Pleasant
Musical
Radio City Revels'
Better Than It's
Formula.

90 MANY times Hollywood has
turned out something deadly
~ when it starts dangling vaude-
Vile acts from a thin line of
plot that it is little bit startling to
set down the fact that Radio City
ReVels is not another anemic concoc-
tlon OF the same sort Don't leap to
the conclusion that the picture, which
opened at Keith's yesterday, is some
thlng astonishingly robust, but it does
make a nice prelude to Snow White
ETC, which comes along next week.
Radio City Revels" is built around
the good solid foundation of Bob
Burns, who was just the chap for
working out the idea of the story. That
Idea, which ought to be disclosed right
now, is one which introduces Mr..
Burns as would-be song writer who
sings hits in his sleep and then can
not remember a word or a note of
them when he aWakes. He falls into
the clutches of "a couple of sterile
smoothles who snatch words and mu-
sic right out of the Burns dreams and
turn them into vast quantities of gold
and fame. The situation has comic
possibilities and it constantly is being
stormed by such comedians as Victor
Moore, Helen Broderick, Jack Oakie
and Milton Berle. Ben Stoleff, who
directed the picture, say that the STU
alton never slipped away from his cast
even when he was working its men,
bers pretty fast, the latter turning out
TO be one of the more catchy features
of Radio City Revels."
The specialties which are chucked
acceptably, if not with bewildering in
splratlon, into the picture are mainly
the dancing of Ann Miller and the
singing of Kenny Baker and Jane
Froman. Miss Miller, who has been
heralded as threat to Eleanor Pow
ELL Is not unreasonably so regarded. as
she shows in two big numbers, one q
production affair at the climax, which
adroitly sidesteps the gaudy. KENNY
Baker, who, like Leopold Stokowski.
mas become sufficiently a national mu-
slcal figure to play a character called
by his own name, does the kind Of
lyrical job with There's a New Moon
Over the Old Mill" and Good Night.
Angel which his radio and picture
audiences have come to expect.
Miss Froman gives Hollywood a good
kick in the face for not using her
talents more often in her interpreta-
ton of Speak Your Heart" Herb
Magidson and Allie Wrubel, who wrote
the number, did their best single COM
position of the musical to help Miss
F'roman in her utterly worthy cause.
Hal Kemp also has considerable to
do with the music of Radio City Rev.
els" and, as usual, he makes it very
smooth and pleasant to the ear. J.C.
Evening star., 1938-02-05

something for F'reddie's future.
Things look brighter We only
have one lawsuit in sight-against
Freddie's parents, who now take 20
per cent of his earnings. 1t isn't fair,
is it? The boy has got to consider
himself The next two years will
tell whether his film career ends with
adolescence If it does-Well. there
won't be much for any one, the way
things are now" master Bartholo-
NEW recently celebrated his 18th
birthday-which is quite old for
movie moppet)
Hes such dear boy" continues
his guardian. Il banged my head on
the set the other day And guess
what he did? He spent his entire
savings-$4-on me-a large box of
chocolates, some perfume and a black
eye-shade to rest my eyes! I don't
know what I'd do without him.
X
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" e.
Tyrone Power, in rookie uniform of
1916, looks smaller and younger-if
that is possible-as he conducts an
imaginary orchestra in the studio re-
production of Y. M. c. A. concert
hall. Opposite Mr.. Power-beyond the
vision of the camera-another man is
going through the motions of con-
ductorship. (When you see the film,
Tyrone will be smiling at the audi
ence. Today, he smiles at the pro-
fessional whose baton waving is
mirror for Tyrone's inexperience.'
(CCpyright 1888. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-02-05

up as Enthusiastically lavish
drama that will stand as another
monument to the De Mile reputation
in giving the public what it wants.
The public" as De Mile conceiveS
and serves it includes all ages and all
classes and The Buccaneer" is no
exception to the rule that his pictures
shall have the greatest appeal to the
greatest number
Mr.. La Fitte's cutthroats are as
fascinating a bunch of devils as ever
were brought to the screen and in
casting Fredric March as their pirate
leader, De Mile placed March in
another of those parts which make
him one of the screens better and
more versatile performers. AS the
swashbuckling, arrogant pirate with
just the right touch of gallantry and
patriotism, he is the ideal film hero.
Both he and the audience must love
1t.
Mr.. March is given substantial
backing by what appears to be
majority of Hollywoods more favored
slldl dSlSl dNUolO. buI IIlOIt lIlIOIIdIll
than any of them, however, is Fran
clska Gaal, Budapest beauty making
her first American film appearance
Miss Gaal, who got into the picture
Via the liberties which the script
writer's took with the history of the
period. plays the part of waif in the
pirates den and does it with fineSse
that never betrays Mr.. De Mile for
having adapted the story to suit her
charm and talent. One suspects that
the Republic will have elected Miss
Gaal to its board of box office queens
before The Buccaneer" goes back to
Paramount's warehouse
* X X
IN WEAVING his drama of the period
of 1872 he has corrected history only
to the extent that he assumed certain
unrelated incidents would make bet
ter story if they could be connected.
Accordingly, while he leaves Andrew
Jackson as a big shot in the rout of
the British at New Orleans he brings
La Fitte into position of co-equality
Certain reSemblances of character be-
tween the piratical Robin Hood and
Old Hickory, which are painted rather
strongly in the violent and dramatic
action of the picture. are Mr.. De
Miles justification for the fusion
One could not graciously ask for any
thing more in view of the highly
entertaining result of putting history
in its place for lacking the dramatic
sense of De Mile.
In the ebb and flow of the films ap-
proach to its climax, the battle of New
Orleans. the direction is invariably
srtful in its switches from the simple