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Evening star., 1938-02-23
Play Authored by
Sinclair Lewis.

SINCLAIR LEWIS. who apparently
will take issue with Dale Carnegie
IN his address at Constitution Hall
tomorrow night, inasmuch as the au-
thor OF "Babbitt," Main Street" and
"Arrowsmith" has entitled his ad-
dress How to Make Friends Go Like
the Wind" has written a play. It
is his first play written without q
collaboration, although Mr.. Lewis is no
stranger to stagecraft, having assisted
in the adaptation of two of his novels
to dramatic presentation. "Dods-
worth" and 1T Can't Happen Here"
His new work has been labeled
Publish Glad Tidings" and is by way
of opposition to Communism. Guth-
rie McClintic Is reading the effort and
contemplating production.
Mr.. Lewis. who won his Nobel prize
in the novel-writing department,
snorts at the suggestion that he is q
novice in the theater. Says he: my
earliest experience in the theater was
as member of the mob in The Lit
tie Minister a presentation by New
Haven stock company, and my first
appearance. was cast similarly in
Wilton Lackaye's The Pit and my
third role was as butler in q poetic
one-act drama in St. Paul, MINI. The
drama critics were my friends and no
printed line appraised my work. but
later friend said to me: For some
time now there has been . discussion
as to who is the worlds worst actor.
The discussion now Is closed"
Mr.. Lewis is lecturing here before
the Washington Forum.
Evening star., 1938-02-23
Song Writer'S Lot
Not All Roses.

ITO THOSE on the outside looking
in. most jobs in the Aim studios
appear to be more fun than work. and
the song writer's lot has the semblance
Of being the happiest one Of all. But,
on the word of Moe Jerome and Jack
Scholl, who should know. for the COM
position Of words and music is their
staff of life, song writer's spend a lot
of time singing the blues because they
cannot get the inspiration to write
them.
Most people picture U.s." according
to Jerome, the spokesman for the two,
after a hasty glance into the popular
mind" as couple Of happy-go-lucky
guys who sit around from 9 to playing
the piano, singing and having q grand
time. But try turning out a couple
of hundred tunes a year.
Just picture US coming in some
morning 1t $50 after q night before
and being ordered to turn out 4
snappy, laughing song. Try to lilt and
lyricize when your head Is spinning
and your eyes are dropping.
"Of course, it's almost as bad when
you come in feeling as clipper as the
top of the morning, fit as fiddle and
sprightly as spring. and the boss re-
quests something sad and droopy."
Evening star., 1938-02-23
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time OF Showing.

National-"Edna, His Wife," Cor
nelia Otis SINNERS new woman
drama: 2:3o and $50 pm.
Earle-"Gold Is Where You Find It, !"
an empire builders story in techni-
color: II am, 1885, 4:25, 7:10 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 12:45, $50,
$40 and 9:05 pm.
Capitol - "The Baroness and the
Butler" Annabella in her first Ameri-
can-made filul with william Powell:
IL am, 1884, 4:25, 7:15 and 1905 pm.
Stage shows: l2:40, $3.50. '6:l5 and
9:05 pm.
Metropolitan-"Boy of the Streets" /"
. grown-up, fighting Jackie Cooper:
1l:40 am, 1:40, $40, $40, TAO and
$40 pm.
Columbia-"Everybody Sing" Misses
Garland and Brice and MIR. Jones do:
HAS am, 1:45, 3:45. 5:45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Palace-"A Yank at Oxford" Robert
Taylor at the English school: IL noon,
2:25, 4:45, 7:10 and $50 pm.
Keith's - Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs," film historys greatest
sensation-that's all: $50, 1l:l6 am;
1902, 2:48, 4:34, $40, 8:06 and 9:52
pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight.
Little-"Nauehty Marietta" another
revival OF the famed filmusical: IL
am. lis, $40, Sis, 1880 and $40
pm.
Evening star., 1938-02-23
Religious Here.

EVERY name, including cities, sug-
- gests definite type of music to
jeanette Macdonald. Her musical de-
scriptions of cities of the world are:
London, an old melodeon; New York,
saxophone; Chicago, mechanical piano;
Philadelphia, a symphony; Los An
geles, mission bells; San Francisco,
cymbals; Washington, q spiritual;
Cincinnati, river calliope; Vienna. vio-
lin; Bombay, reed pipes, and Toronto,
woodwindS.
Evening star., 1938-02-23

romance with Mary Wollstonecraft
Goodwin finally enjoyed the benefit Of
clergy. OF course, Shelley figures
very prominently in it with the en-
phasis upon the unforgettable ro-
nance, but still it is a play about Will
liam Goodwin.
Heading the cast, as Goodwin, is
Charles Waldron, who was the terrible
father Of the Barrett's of Wimpole
street. Then, as Shelley, there's Frank
Lawton, the young actor who was
always thought to be an Englishman
until last summer when he pointed
out his father was an American, who
found the acting SO good in England
he identified himself with it for life.
Linda Watkins will play the irresist-
ible Mary and Viola Roache with the
"e" please. everybody will be in the
cast because the Theater Guild was
sweet about lending her out to Alfred
de Liagre, jr., producer of Il Am My
Youth"
Incidentally, If one may criticize in
advance. the title does not seem to be
the ultimate in happy choices. We
don't know why. 1t just does not.
X X X
WAITS and strays: Father Mala-
chy's Miracle" which was the
best religious play on Broadway until
Shadow and Substance" came along
Is going to move out right away now.
-. But Washington won't see it unless
present plans are changed. :. Pitts
burgh gets it, then Chicago. :. Roscoe
Aites whose act is being handsomely
received by Capitol Theater fans this
week is not going to remain in the
personal appearance business any
longer at this time. It's Holly
wood for him Immediately upon the
close of his present engagement
But, apparently it isn't Hollywood for
Annabella any longer. Her first
American picture. The Baroness and
the Butler" an amusing affair-and a
lot better than her adieu number in
England-is going to be her last in
this cSuntry. No one says whether
it is loneliness. or temperament. or
what. That dreamy look which
Clark Gable achieves of the screen
every so often has nothing to do with
Rhett Butler. but rather with the yen
to shoot big game in Africa. >. From
the stream of publicity which has
flowed around him for the past few
weeks, one would think Hollywood had
just discovered Akin Tamiroff.
Discriminating movie goers found him
a long time ago. . 1t was Tamiroff,
not the press agents, who really made
America Tamirof conscious.
Evening star., 1938-02-23

Then Sonia appeared in Thin Ice"
and knocked over more records e.
This is her third and again Zanuck
has lavished beautiful sets. many
skaters and strong supporting cast
=. :. Today Sonia stands eighth in box
Office popularity poll, and current
personal appearance skating tour
wrecking all marks for an inside
amusement attraction-points to top
spot in 1888 tabulation.
Again Jean Hersholt plays Sonja'S
father in story, and, for leading man,
Don Ameche, who played opposite
her in first film. was chosen
Bit roles of Billy Gilbert Gas waiter)
and Ell Brendel (band leader stand
out Effect of Sonjas pictures
is being felt in ice Kinks throughout
country America is becoming
skate-mad and skaters 60 to see her
pictures over and over to pick up new
tricks.
"PARAD1sE FOR THREE"-M-G-M
here treated Robert Young and
Florence Rice to free skating lessons
-. They had to skate and make love
at same time . Frank Morgan went
in for skating-and Director Eddie
Buzzell didn't have to fake spills
:. Morgan also had characterization
new to him making love to Mary
Astor Also went in for bit of
fancy dancing :. Reginald Owen.
English line-fumbler, had strenuous
time. roll calling for him to defeat
Morgan repeatedly at ping pong-and
Morgan is much better player
Herman Bing rolls his RS so comically
ne quit opera singing to become
Evening star., 1938-02-23

ject-then back in Latin-in case
they don't. But it sounds like a
lot of Greek to me-" says Director
Woody Van Dyke.
Tyrone Power, the romantic hero
Of the story (his role was finished
three weeks ago. has dropped over to
see how things are going on. Stay
for tea" Miss Shearer tells him.
Sorry" seys Tyrone. I've got to
get back to my fiddle Nor 'Alexan-
der's Ragtime Band at Fox" :.
Joseph Schildkraut, resplendent as
the Duke D'Orleans, is not as happy
as his raiment. These clothes look
all right" he grumbles, "but, by the
middle Of the afternoon, you want
to take them off-they weigh ton"
THE only person on the set who does
not grumble is Norma Shearer, whose
clothes outweigh all the others)
Line up for the bridal procession"
yells the assistant director. What,
again!" means Mr.. Morley. We've
been doing it all day-from every
conceivable angle''-but the right one,
procession is John Barrymore Uouis
XV)-in powder blue velvet.
Terrible crowd" mutters 12-year-
old girl to one 10 years old at the water
cooler on the Three Comrades" set.
Yeah" says the other, stopping water
down the front of her cheap dress d.
A realistic riot is in progress. with
hungry looking men and women carry
ing banners that ask for a clean, new
Germany. Any man who laughs
needs not report for work tomorrow"
Director Frank Borzage warns during
lull. A tough guy smirks into the
camera as he brings his stick down
on the head of another extra. (He
will not be there on the morrow
Comrade Franchot Tone thinks the
fight is over, turns around, and his
Evening star., 1938-02-23

face receives the fist Of an extra
but hard!
Scott Fitzgerald, who adapted the
original Remarque novel from the
r. c. Sheriff. script, is an inter-
ested onlooker. But he almost faints
when Borzage asks his opinion on
q piece of business. ct has never
been done before, that the fdirector
asks the advice of the man who wrote
the story) incidentally, there is only
one Sheriff line left in the dialogue
something like this, land remember,
at the opera, you don't pick your
teeth with your thumb, but with your
forefnger." (The British are so del
icateD
A large hen with an ultra-protrud-
Ing "tummy' smokes a cigarette on
the gay Mexican market place set in
Tropic Holiday" Another look, and
the hen turns out to be Martha Raye.
She is tired, tries to sit on an ordinary
chair-With no luck at all. Stool"
she hollers, who's got a stool?' One
is placed underneath her, and the hen
stares pensively at nothing in particu-
lar -. Several Mexicans seize the lull
to take a real MEXICAN siesta. But
Bob Burns, portraying a Senator
from Oklahoma. is wide-awake and
laxative. He wants yacation-three
months-so he can go to Alaska. He
Is very frank-tells me he is not
interested in art at all-"only money"
Copyrisht, 1888. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc)
Evening star., 1938-02-23
operate Program
To Be Repeated.

A T THE requests Of the many who
were unable to attend the pres
entation of grand opera arias and
choruses two weeks ago. the Agricul-
ture Chorus will repeat this popular
program Saturday at $50 in the Ag-
riculture auditorium. This perform
ance, which played to full house on
February IL. presents such favorites
as the Habanera from Carmen" "
Miserere scene from III Trovatore,"
Sextet from Lucia" Soldiers Cho-
rus from Faust" Toreador Song from
Carmen" Anvil Chorus from III
Trovatore" and Barcarolle from Tales
Of Hoffman"
Soloists will include Kathryn Camp
bell. Eleanor J. Carter. Prudence
Jackson. Hilda Nelson, May Dele
Sandstrom and Katharine Warren, So
pranos: Irene L. Bartlett, Theresa
Hammelman, sMrs. Alpha G. Knight
and Doris Menter. altos: Leonard KEEP
hart. Ralph Marston, Walter H. Redit
and Paul Wartenbe, tenors, and Rob-
ert Frederick Freund. Roy B. Gray,
Irwin Quigg and John NJ Wilson.
basses. Robert Frederick Freund will
direct and Victor Neal will be at the
piano. The public Is invited.
Evening star., 1938-02-23

COHlOuld llUIl Ol lie ana she. mere
was a time when it was daring, fresh
and, upon occasion. COMIC But grad
ually it is becoming nothing more
than a downright bore, as overworked
as the custard pie gag back in the
era of our unsophistication.
So far as this department is con-
cerned, the main bout between the
sexes was fought in Nothing Sa-
cred" In that picture. it will not be
forgotten, Fredric March and Carole
Lombard staged battle that should
have resulted in several years of COM
plete tranquility between the sexes.
Each of them, and vicariously the
spectators, should have had enough
satisfaction out of that wild swinging
Of fists to let the matter rest for a
long, long time.
But it is not resting. Even now,
out in Hollywood the Warner Bros.
publicity staff is wild with excitement,
and typeWriters. over the situation
which finds gentle Olivia De Haviland
required to sock fellow player, male.
In the teeth. Last week, or maybe it
was several weeks ago, it was the
R-K-O press department that had its
moment Of wild, primitive joy over
the effect Of Helen Broderick's slams
on the snoot of Milton Berle THAT
it was Mr.. Berle did offer some justi-
flcation for the feeling of elation in
duced by the crack of the Broderick
palm againSt the Berle jaw
Even the Civic Theater last week
was caught up in the spell of the let
him-have-it movement. 1t was done,
in that case, in the traditional tech
nique, the old don't-you are-kiss- me
sir spirit. That, of course, made it
different, almost refreshing. Would
that Hollywood would go back to
using the sock in the same spirit. 1t
would be nice remedy for audiences
growing boredom and fine for the teeth
Of expensive players.
Are you listening, Hollywood?
X
DHYLLIS PERLMAN, who special
ICES in confirming nothing this de-
partment suspects. does it again in
connection with II Am My Youth
which comes to the National next
week. The suspicion which Miss PERL
man refuses to confirm at the partic-
ular moment is that way to write q
successful play about Shelley is to
write about some one else, pulling the
poet into it from the wings, SO to
speak.
1t is not true at all, Miss Perlman
insists. The play really is about Will
liam Goodwin, who became tardily the
father-in-law of Shelley when his
Evening star., 1938-02-23
They're Off"

JUST when it would appear that
Hollywood has done about every
thing imaginable, up pops some one
to put rubber heels on horses 1t
actually happened on the Girl of the
Golden West" set during the filming of
the "Mariachi'' number in which q
dozen Arabian horses had to do q
ballet. To prevent the horses slipping
on the glazed floor. each animal was
equipped with rubber horseshoes.
Evening star., 1938-02-23
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Meeting, Agriculture Branch, Local
No. 2, N. F. F. E., South Agriculture
Building, 4:45 pm.
Dinners. Barristers Club, Willard
Hotel, $50 pm.
Dinner meeting, Beta Theta Phi,
Cosmos Club. 6 pm.
Dinner, Washington Round Table,
Lafayette Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Catholic Thought Associa-
ton, Willard Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Sons of the Revolution,
Willard Hotel 8 pm.
Card party, Sunshine and Com
munity Club, Shoreham Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Capital Casting Club, Of
flee of Harry B. Hawes, Transporta-
ton Building, 8 pm.
Meeting. Washington Philatelic So
ciety, Carlton Hotel. 8 pm.
Dance, Immaculate Seminary,
Wardman Park Hotel. 10 pm
Dance, Loyalty Council. No. 10,
Daughters of America, Eighth and F
streets NE, 9 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Mayflower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, League of Women Voters,
Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Dinner, Areme Chapter, o. E. s.,
Almas Temple, 1918 K street NV,
SPIN.
Dinner, Samson United Corps, Will
ard HOTEL 6 pm.
Dinner, Cosmopolitan Club, Carlton
Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, American Institute of
Chemists, Wardman Park Hotel, Z
pm.
Dinner and dance, Rotary Club
Ladies' Night. Willard Hotel, pm.
Dinner, Washington Credit Mems
Association, MaSflower Hotel, pm.
Dinner. Columbia Heights Business
Mems Association, Shoreham Hotel,
7:30 pm.
Dinner and dance, Carroll Council
Knights Of Columbus, Lafayette Hotel
pm.
Meeting, Kallipolis Grotto, Raleigh
Hotel, 8 pm.
Dinner dance, Tacomis Club
Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Tau Phi Sorority, Ward
man Park Hotel, 8 pm
Dance. Acacia Chapter. o. E. S.,
Wardman Park Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, Southern Society, Shoreham
Hotel, 9 pm.
Dance, Department of Labor, May
flower Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1938-02-23

satin, lined with
the same num-
ber Of yards Of
ermine; 40 yards
Of net. 6 dozen
b u n c h es o I
flowers and 12O
gross Of beads.
T h ere Is no
rouge on her face
only W hite
powder and mas
cara. The cee-
mony is per-
formed first in
Latin then in
English, in case
the cenSors OBJ
Evening star., 1938-02-23
Casting Resumed
On "NeWSDaper."

CYLVIA MILROD, director of the
Washington New Theater, an
nounces that tonight marks the end
of the Living Newspaper casts short
vacation. Tonight rehearsals begin
again. Open casting will be concluded
on the final act of the play, and all
those interested are invited for this
weeks nightly casting rehearsals at
$50 at $40 F street.
Evening star., 1938-02-23
Double Shift.

BUDDY EBSEN is bemoaning the
fact that he has to act at home
evenings as much as at the studio
during the day. His brother-in-law.
John Cambridge, is writing play,
and, in the evenings, Buddy and his
wife act out the scenes Cambridge
writes during the day.
Evening star., 1938-02-23
MarcOni Memorial
Benefit Tonight.

\ NGELO PILOTTO, leading BARI
tone of La Scala Opera of Milan,
Italy, and Clelia Fioravanti. mezzo-
soprano of the Washington Popular
Opera, who appeared together in THE
Barber of Seville" performance at
Constitution Hall last November, will
give a benefit concert for the Mar
conf Monumental Memorial tonight in
the Raleigh Hotel ballroom. Benefit
tickets will be sold at the door.
Evening star., 1938-02-23

movie specialist-and now that single
novelty gets him all the work he
can handle-at about $1,000 a week
{. Edna May Oliver goes slapstick
in snow comedy, taking falls, faints
and fits Lost pounds during
filming
(Copyright 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncD
Evening star., 1938-02-23

SINCLAIR LEWIS,
Who has deserted his usual
field, novel 1Oriting, to present
the case against Communism
in a play, "PubliSh Glad lid
7ngS," nO1U commanding the
eye OF Producer Guthrie Nc
Clintic.
Evening star., 1938-02-23
Films War Between Sexes
OVERRIDING Slugging
Every Picture Must Have Its Sock,
Hollywood Thinks, but Maybe
It Isn't Really So.
By Jay CARMODY.

MoN the days which may look forward IN this most
I'll which
~ the sldence laughs the
Hollywood rapidly
Evening star., 1938-02-23

Nicaragua mined and shipped abroad
over SOC, ,000. in gold In 1887.
Evening star., 1938-02-23
u. S. Becoming Skate>Mad
All Because of Sonia
Would.Be Experts Go to See
Her Pictures, Then Try
To Emulate Star.
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

oLLYWooD Feb 20 !NANAo-Behnd scenes of the films
i Happy Landng'-Just and half blond
wgan girl named Sonia Hnie Hollywood
the movies skae-conscous Daryl F. Zanuck
tract and roundly criticized
"One a Million"
Evening star., 1938-02-23
Oceans of Satin and Net
make Bridal Gown
Norma Shearer Beauty
Is Dramatized by Garb
OF "Marie AntOinette."
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.

I HOLLYWOOD. Feb. % tNAN.A):-Toung
- de Frenchman
whose guioined watches the
= marriage of
THE
1e picked American
Norma shearer is fantastcaly beau
Evening star., 1938-02-23

Rhodesia has . good-roads cam
paign.
Evening star., 1938-02-23
Twizzler Answer,

The pole was proportioned this way:
go feet in air, 20 in water and 10 in
mud
Evening star., 1938-02-23

tiful in her bridal gown-20 yards of
white satin, Is yards Of embroidered
Montana labor news., 1938-12-22
Ancient Holly
Still Spreads
Holiday Cheer

In homes throughout America this
Christmas the holly plant will carry
on its age-old duty of spreading
Yuletide spirit, a custom that dates
back to the pagan tribes of CONT
mental Europe.
Originally the holly grew wild in
the United States over a range from
Massachusetts to Missouri and
south to Florida and Texas. But too
much harvesting in northeastern
United States has destroyed much
of the natural growth. Today most
holly is grown from Norfolk, Va, to
Florida within so or 60 miles of the
Atlantic coast, and westward in the
Gulf region to Louisiana.
Current popularity of the holly is
a continuation of the custom of the
Druid feasts which honored the mis-
tletoe and holly in pagan rites. In
Europe the tribes under Roman rule
sent holly branches to each other as
Montana labor news., 1938-12-22
Christmas Celebration
Dates Back TO 354 A.D.,
Roman Records Show

The earliest celebration Of the
birth Of Christ, December Is Of each
year, took place in the Fourth CEN
fury, and the custom spread from
the western to the eastern church.
Before that date the commemora-
ton Of Christ's nativity and baptism
took place January 6.
First mention Of Christmas is
found in a Roman document known
as the "Philocalian calendar" in
the year 354, and the first English
celebration of the festival was in
598, when st. Augustine baptized TO-
900 converts.
In 567, the Council Of Tours,
France, declared a 12-day festival
from Christmas to Epiphany, and
later, from 991 to 1915, the laws Of
Ethelred ordained that all strife
should cease at Christmas. In Ger
many, Christmas was established in
813 by the Synod Of Mainz, and in
Norway by King Hakon the Good, in
$50.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-22

evidence of good will. Homes and
churches were decorated with holly
laden with crimson berries when the
pagans celebrated the feast of Sat
urnalia, the turning on of the SUM-"
Yuletide, the feast made to the
Celtic sun god, Yaioul, finally be-
came the celebration of Christmas,
and the holly tree, known as the
holy tree, became the sacred tree
for decorations at our Christmas
festivals.
A holly does not bear berries IN
til it is five years old. Before that
time the male and female trees can
not be told apart. There are more
than 300 species of the plant, all of
them native to the temperate and
tropical regions of both hemi-
spheres.
Only the American and English
holly trees have rich green leaves.
These are outlined with sharp spines
or teeth, and the fruiting branches
have round crimson berries.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-22
American Turkey
Has Foreign Name

You'll eat your turkey and like Il
this Christmas, but do you know
where this festive bird got its manner
The turkey is the only species Of
poultry native to this country. It's
name is attributed by some to its
call notes, "turk-turk-turk''; others
believe that its head ornaments, e
sembling the fez worn by natives Of
Turkey, gave rise to its name.
Another explanation is seen in the
fact that the first turkeys from
America were sold in Spain, largely
by Hebrew merchants. Since the
bird was frequently confused with
the peacock, it is said that the He
brew traders called 1t ''tukki," their
name for the peacock. With the
widespread use Of this name in
English, it easily became the re-
cent turkey"
Montana labor news., 1938-12-22
LAB0R'5 BOOK SHELF
'Labor's New Millions" by Mary
Heaton Worse. Modern Age
Books. 1898. so cents

Now that the elections are yer
it is well to remind ourselves that
the epic movements of our time are
not the rise or fall of political
parties, the dominance of the Demo-
Gratis or the decline of the Republi-
cans. Neither the full Towering of
Montana labor news., 1938-12-22

constitute two-thirds of the popula-
ton of the United States of America,
can be damned or impounded by the
erection of arbitrary barriers of
restraint"
RICHARD LAKE.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-22

Opinions should be formed with
great caution, and changed with
greater.
Montana labor news., 1938-12-22

the New deal
nor the dis
graceful antics
of those who
seek to sabo-
tage it are
m o e m ents
which m e
with the real
edILIl-o
a d. That
which
the future will
regard as epic
is the march
of a people