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The Washington times., 1938-09-13
Fother Divine
On Screen

The joy, peace, and harmony
of Father Divine's noisy, joyous,
singing and effervescent flock
in their newest Promised
Land" is the subject of Father
Divine'S Deal" one of the fea-
tured episodes in the new issue
of the March of Time, coming
at RKO Keith's with "The AZ
fairs of Annabel," the next at
traction.
MARCH OF TIME
This new March of Time is
the story of Father Divine's
overnight Transformation from
Harlem Messiah into Hudson
River Squire and it unveils
Father Divine's magic over his
growing flock of ANGELS"
March of Times cameras have
caught the mystery of Father
Divine, and in the film is dis
closed the strange power of his
periphrastic Speechmaking on
his followers and their lusty en-
thusiaSm and Thanksgiving for
his generous handing out Of
blessings.
INTO HEAVEN
The film goes inside Father
Divine'S Harlem Heavens"
shows how Divine supplies the
Faithful" with two free ban
uuets of fried chicken and pork
chops daily, and reveals how the
center Of Divine glories is his
Promised Lands" wher
"Angel" and "ArchangeI" can
join and work in cooperative
communities, or seek surcease
from the worlds cares. Diviue's
brand of peace and joy is
demonstrated not only in his
followers lusty cries of Thank
you, Father" aud Peace" but
in odd road warnings, painted
barn doors, and cornfield signs
which all bear this same unique
message.
Showing how the sale Of
Crum Elbow came to be made
to the industrious Negr 0
Messiah, March of Time reveals
this Promised Land" as a new
center Of joy and recreation for
weary angels"
The Washington times., 1938-09-13

run at the box office while my
five-bOO hOO-get only long
runs in their stockings.
Dear Mr.. Kelley:
1 read with great interest your
article appearing in The Times
one night last week. 1 happened
to be at my desk at the time
and I took a few minutes to jot
down some of the names of the
old time artists that appeared in
the two-a-day some years ago.
You can give this list to Fred
die Clark, and you might supply
him with a handkerchief to dry
his tears.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Barry,
Fadette Ladies Symphony Or
chestra, Empire City -Four, Six
Brown Brothers, Black Face
Eddie Ross. The Musical CuttyS,
Melville Ellis, Maude Fuller,
Villa Holt Wakefield, Roy SAM
uels, Toots Papka, Sam Hearn,
Harry Cooper, Bert Melrose,
Williams and Walker. Moran
and Mack, Milo, Frances White,
Eva Tanguay. Toto, SliverS,
Horace Golden, Roger Bros,
Valeska Suratt, Kitty Gordon,
Chas. Kellogg, Gus Edwards.
MANY OTHERS
Jack Norworth, Nora Hayes,
Charlie King. Belle Story,
Vaughn Comfort, Honeyboy
Evans, Ida May Weeks, George
MacFarland, Withers Opera,
Herman Timberg, Lasky's Red
Heads, Petro, George Monroe,
Carroll and Fisher, Ruth st.
Dennis, Nine. Daisy, Mike Don
lin, Mabel Hite, Queenie Smith,
Courtney Sisters, Frank Dod-
son, Joe Cook, Robbins, Gus
Van, Van and Schenk. Bert
Fitzgesons, Roger Imhoff and
Company, Harry Guilfoilye,
Harry Fox, Herb Williams,
Eddie Foy, Belle Baker, Fannie
Brice, Trixie Friganza, Frankie
Bailey, The Dooley Family,
Montgom cry (ventriloquist),
Bernie and Baker, and The -Four
Mortons.
These, as I recall, were all
standard old time vaudeville
acts. Funny how easy it is to
remember. I sincerely hope it
won't be long before the old
variety form Of entertainment
will be back. Sincerely yours,
CHAS. E. SLAGLE,
Mgr, George Mason Hotel.
The Washington times., 1938-09-13

music as has this informal reg
ular Saturday night broadcast
which originates over its parent
station, WIS in Chicago.
Cowbells, fiddles, guitars,
banjos, harmonicas, musical
washboard and even tune-boxes
made out Of tin cans and rubber
bands all have their place in
this novel, colorful program.
That the old-fashioned songs
which are so dominant on this
program are the nations heart
favorites, is a fact proved time
and again by Station WIS
which introduced the National
Barn Dance as an experiment
to determine exactly what type
of entertainment listeners liked
best.
This cuttingup, merry, side
splitting and honey program
won instant favor. Letters
came in by the buShel and have
been pouring in steadily for
years. "Give us more of that
barn dance" the nation has
written and so the National
Barn Dance broadcast hasn't
missed a Saturday night ether
engagement in IA years.
Virtually all Of the favoriteS
of this broadcast, including the
enormously popular Lulu Belle
and Scotty, will be on the Capt.
tol stage on Friday ready to give
Washington one of the darndeSt.
smack-bang, guitar.playin', shut-
film and tootin', singin' and
swingin' show it's ever seen.
The personal appearance OF
the National Barn Dance, with
it's more than 20 talented par
ticipantS, will be as a COM
panion to the Capitols new
screen feature, Boys Town
with Mickey Rooney ano
Spencer Tracy.
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
Femme Star Turns
Laundress in Film

Franciska Gaal was scheduled
to finish her washing today.
The diminutive Hungarian
star spent all one day washing
a suit of wooden underwear in
a stream for a scene in Paris
Honeymoon" at Paramount.
Shooting of the scenes was
not completed and she spent
another day today standing in
the brook with a washing board
and the suit of underwear.
When the company, headed
by Bing Crosby, Miss Gaal, and
Shirley Ross, completed the
scene at a mountain stream
the underwear had shrunk 18
inches. Now Director Frank
Tuttle is afraid it won't match
an earlier Sceen in which the
garment first appears.
The Washington times., 1938-09-13

Some of the constantly recur-
ring legends and myths about
Hollywood and the stage that
irk, when they don't amuse, are:
That every Lizzie Glutz who
makes the society page has a
chance to be Scarlett O'Hara.
That Sam Goldwyn says every
new girl prospect he signs for
the movies is colosSal-in a
small way.
That every girl who has
ever registered at Central Cast
ing as an extra, Immediately
becomes a movie star in the
headlines-if she is arrested
for speeding, shoplifting, or in
o love nest.
That every Hollywood star
who makes the grade is convent
educated. And browSeS in a
large library.
That movie stars go to the
English studios because they re-
sent the American income tax.
Nuts. They go because they
can't get a job in Hollywood,
at their agents price. With very
few exceptions.
That anybody pays any atten-
ton to the marathon list Of
screen credits that Hollywood
tacks on to each picture. Only
the director and the players
count.
That pulling the pants off
an actor for a laugh is a new
idea. They did it in Shakes
peare's time, though some
Hollywood directors haven't
discovered it yet.
That there's something
wrong with me because Laurel
and Hardy chase me to the
nearest exit.
That every Spanish dancer
with a patent-leather haircomb
has an old lady on Park Ave
nue. who buys him nice things
That such stars Of nudeness
as Gypsy Rose Lee and Sally
Rand have any art to sell tc
the movies. That amt what
Will Hays calls it.
That every Broadway hit
bought at . colossal price BY
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
Barn Dance Is
Due Friday

Radios oldest show, and said
to be one of its most popular,
the National Barn Dance, moves
part and parcel to Loew's
Capitol stage on Friday for its
first personal appearance in the
Capital, and one Of its few in
any theater in this country.
This rustic broadcast rave
celebrated its fourteenth birth
day last April. Perhaps no other
program on the air has done as
much to preserve and maintain
interest in real American folk
The Washington times., 1938-09-13

CLOCK

CAPITOL-George Murphy,
Marjorie Weaver, Jack Haley,
Hold That Coed" II a. m,
1:46, 4:32, 7:18, 1904 p. m.
Stage, Red Skelton," 1874,
$3.50, 6:16, 900 p. m.
PALACE-Norma Shearer, Ty-
rome Power, Gladys George,
Marie Antoinette," 1925
a. M, 2:40, 6, 9:15 p. m.
COLUMBIA - Randolph Scott,
Joan Bennett, THE Texans, I"
11:15 a. M, 1:20, 1925, $50,
7:35, 9:40 p. m.
EARLE-George Brent, Gloria
Dickson, Humphrey Bogart,
Racket Busters" II a. m.
lao, 4:30, 7:15, 10 p. m. Stage,
Chester Morris, 12:45, $3.50.
$40, 9:05 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - M a d G e
Evans, Preston Foster, Army
Girl" II a. m, los, 3:15,
5:25, 7::35, 9:45 p. m.
R.K.O. KEITH'S-Ginger Rog-
ers, Fred Astaire, Luells Gear.
"Carefree," 1880 a. m. 1:15,
3, 4:4O, 6:25, 8:05, $3.50 p. m.
LITTLE-Darrielle Darr eux,
Charles Boyer, "Mayerling."
11:15, a. m, 1:20, 1925, $50,
1885, 9:40 p. m.
TRANS-LUX-NewS and shorts,
10 a. m, to midnight. shows
IS minutes.
MT. VERNON (Open Air.
Anna Neagle in Victoria the
Great" at 1887 and 1910
d, m.
The Washington times., 1938-09-13

Studio officials and has been
featured in several productions
since them.
Famous for his "scat" songs,
Davis has introduced such hit
tunes as "Old King Cole" and
"Hooray for Hollywood" the
latter in Hollywood Hotel. His
most recent release is Garden
of the Moon.
Now appearing at the Strand
Theater on Broadway, Davis Is
said to be scoring a hit with his
songs, his comedy and his hot
trumpet. He will headline a
variety stage show at the Earle
on September %.
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
KELLEYGRAMS

Hollywood, is improved when
the studio experts get at it. I
can name three made within
a year, that are plain dudS,
won't get back production costs.
That Ginger Rogers and
Fred Astaire want to break up
as a dancing team, because
they don't like each other. The
truth is that neither one is
physically able to stand max
ing more terpsichore features
than they do at present. One
of these dancicals, with its
endless rehearsals and prepara-
tion, take more out or the prin-
cipals than 10 straight drama
tic roles.
That all Hollywood stars can
handle a press interview like
Shirley Temple, or Roosevelt.
Truth is, some Of those here
within the past IL months, need
a press agent, sitting beside, to
kick 'em in the shins, for wrong
anWsers.
That teams like Laurel and
Hardy prosper as well when they
go it alone. Witness, Gaynor-
Farrell, and DreSSler-MOran
That Hollywood should stick
closely to history when making
pictures like Marie Antoinette."
Meaning that Norma Shearer
should be a so-and-So Let En-
Eat Cake queen, instead of a
glamour girl. And who wouldn't
prefer Claudette Colbert to the
real Cleopatra
That all Miss America has to
do is park her toy hat in the
first studio she enters. and be-
come a movie star. In 10 min.
utes she will discover intelli-
gence and personality count far
more than mere beauty.
That motion picture studios
are crowded with executives who
can't read or write, but happen
to be related to the producers.
That Eleanor Powell's pedal
eXtremities are insured with
LloydS for Rockefeller money"
That comedians off the stage
are very sad fellows, allergic to
jest and youthful gaiety, and
keenly anxious to play Hamlet
or Cyrano.
The Washington times., 1938-09-13

which we work is not limited
by any presently established
values. Because-it justifieS TAX
ing a chance on new and COM
paratively unknown talent.
Isn't it a grand feeling when
unknOWnS have come through
With a smash hit? The cast of
comparative wcOm ers in
"FOur Daughters" more than
justified the Warner Bros gam
hle on their comparatively un-
tested ability.
1 predict that every mothers
son will fall in love with the
"'Four Daughters" 1t burns me
up to think that Warmers
"Four Daughters" will get a long
The Washington times., 1938-09-13

THAT'S NEWS
Here in Hollywood when one
producer admits that another
producer has a bigger prOduc-
ton than his Own-that'S news.
I hate to confess that the War
ner Bros. production of -Four
Daughters" is a bigger show
than my Five Daughters.
1 don't know when I've seen a
better picture than -Four Daugh-
ters." Every right-thinking men,
ber of this industry owes it to
himself to see this picture. Be
cauSe-it is one of the finest
pictures made this or any other
year. BecauSe-it demonstrates
to us all that the medium with
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
Davis Coming
To Earle

Johnnie Davis, popular young
singer and screen comedian, will
come to the Earle Theater in
person for the week starting
Friday, September %, accord
ing to an announcement made
today by John j. Payette,
general zone manager.
Known as the killer Diller
of Swing, Davis was featured
for several years with Fred
Waring and his orchestra. When
the Warnings went to Hollywood
to make Varsity Show, Davis
won a contract from Warner
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
By Andrew R. Kelley

johnny Payee will lead with his ace when he opens up
+he new Silver Theater Silver Spring Thursday night
Meaning that -Four Daughters will be the screen attrac-
tion first showing in this territory Payee ADDS he mas
a bunch of trumps to play afterwards
Actually Jack Warner thinks much OF this picture,
which stars Lane sisters and Gale Page and presents
John Garfield latest Hollywood find he is spending $!OO
600 his judgment movie critic lie calls the BEST
feature he ever made, in big newspaper ads.
Eddie Cantor is the latest to chip in with boost for
"Four Daughters' Says Popeye, the comic
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
Harpo the Hop

AS a youngster, Harpo Marx
was a bellboy in two New YORK
hotels-which gives him plenty
of background for his current
co-starring appearance win
Brothers Groucho and Chico IN
RKO Radios Room Service,
screen comedy Of New York no"
tel and theatrical life.
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
Reverses Field

The childhood ambition Of
Harold Huber, who plays gang
ster in Going Places" was to be
Q policeman.
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
The Stooqe's Status

How Hollywood "stooges" can
be powerful factors in film
circles is disclosed for the f1rSt
time in "Fugitives for a Night,
RKO Radio picture with Frank
Alberstson and Eleanor Lynn.
Evening star., 1938-04-03

Cradle of the Republic" A large part
OF the book deals with WILLIAMSBURG,
its glorious past. the drab century
when it was allowed to fall into ruin
and decay and its rebirth through the
generosity of John D. Rockefeller, jr.
But Williamsburg is only part of the
book.
The author begins, appropriately,
at Fredericksburg, the gateway to that
historic section of Virginia. He calls
it probably the most historic town
in America" and that Is no small cen.
cession from so avid a student of an
tiquity as Mr.. Stevens. He has an
interesting and complete chapter on
Fredericksburg. but one wonders why
he failed to include a drawing of
Kenmore, one of the most beautiful
Colonial homes in Virginia and one of
the least sketched and photographed.
Leaving Fredericksburg, he travels
down the Rappahannock. past Wake
field and Stratford and other lesser
sfrines and on to Williamsburg. There
are Unusually full and readable ac-
counts Of jamestown and Yorktown.
A day visiting the estates on the south
bank of the James and a day on the
more travelled north bank. and the
reader is returned to Williamsburg
for tour of the restoration build
ings. A special nod to the College
OF William and Mary and Old Bruton
Church and the tour Is ended.
E. T.
Evening star., 1938-04-03
Public Library
THE President Of the United States
has set aside April 6, the eleventh

THE President of the United States
has set aside April 6, the eleventh
anniversary Of the entry of the United
States into the World War, to be OBJ
served as Army Day. In connection
with this celebration the Public Ii
brary presents a brief list of books
which might we'll be read by those
seeking information on past and fu-
ture wars. All may be borrowed from
the central building at Eighth and K
streets, where many more volumes In
the same field may be obtained.
The United States entered the war
in its third year. What happened in
the meantime is told in Road to War;
America, l9l4-19l7" by Walter Mills.
In "M-Day. the First Day of War"
Rose NJ. Stein tells how we modified.
Accounts of the American Army in
Europe are given by Gen. John j.
Pershing in the two volumes of his
famous my Experiences in the World
War" and in The American Army in
France, 19l7-19l9," by James G. Har-
bord. Our entry into the conflict is
explained by Newton D. Baker in
why We Went to War" and a
changing attitude Is shown in such
works as "Our Gallant Madness" by
Frederick Palmer and THE Tragic
Fallacy: a Study of Americas War
Policies" by Mauritz A. Hallgren.
What might happen in case of a
new world war is discussed in IT War
Comes by R. Ernest Dupuy and
George Fielding Eliot; in "The Way
Out; Political and Economic Prob
lens That Constitute the World Dam
ger" by Sir George Paish; in "The
United States and World War;" ed
tied by Ernest Minor Patterson for
the American Academy Of Political
Science, and in "On the Rim Of the
Abyss" by James T. Shotwell.
The hope for international CO.
operation, though at present 30 pre-
cariously in the balance, is expressed
in such volumes as "A History Of
Peaceful Change in the Modern
World" by c. r. M. F. Cruttwell;
Peaceful Change; a Study Of In
ternationsl Procedures" by Freder-
ick Sherwood Dunn, and Collective
Security and Peaceful Change, the
Relations Of Order and Progress in
International Society,"" by Pitman B.
Potter.
A thorough study of neutrality in
all its ramifications has been made at
Columbia University and issued by
the University Press in the four VOL
umes of Neutrality. Its History, Eco
nomics and Law" Shorter studies are
available in Neutrality for the United
States" by Edwin Borchard and Will
liam Potter Lage, and in 'The At
tainment and Maintenance of World
Peace" edited by Ernest Minor Pat
terson, with its supplement, Economic
Aspects Of Neutrality" issued by the
American Academy Of Political and
Social Science.
Evening star., 1938-04-03
WEEKS 10 BEST SELLERS IN
OTHER CITIES,
BOSTON.

Fiction-"Action at Aquila,"
Hervey Allan; THE Citadel"
A. J. Cronin; THE Rains Came"
Louis Bromfield; The Dark
Rose" Maurice Walsh: North
west Passage" Kenneth Roberts.
Non-fiction-"The Importance
of Living" Lin Yutang, Madame
Curie," Eve Curie; How to Win
Friends and Influence People"
Dale Carnegie; "R. F. D." Charles
A. Smart; Danger Is My Busi-
ness" John D. Craig.
CHICAGO.
Fiction-"Action at Aquila":
The CITADEL; Northwest Pas
sage; The Pains Came; Joseph
in Egypt" Thomas Mann.
Non-fiction-"The Importance
OF Living; Madame Curie";
u. B. Murphy: Stormy Petrol of
Surgery, Loyal Davis; "R. F.D.":
"Out Of Africa Isak Dinesen.
NEW YORK.
Ffction-'The CITADEL; Action
at Aquila";; Joseph in Egype";;
The Rains Came; Northwest
Passage; This Proud Heart"
Pearl S. Buck.
Non-f1ction-"The Importance
OF Living; Madame Curie":
Hell On Ice," Comdr. Edward
Ellsberg; DRY Guillotine," Rene
Belbenoit; Americas Cook Book"
compiled by the New York Her
ald-Tribune Home Institute.
SAN FRANCISCO.
Fiction-"Northwest Passage;
Joseph in Egypt; THE Cita-
del"; The Rains Came; Dawn
in Lyonesse," Mary Ellen Chase.
on-f1ction-"Out of Africa;
Red Star Over China" Edgar
Snow; "The Summing Up" Som
erset Vaughan; "Helen's Tow,
ers," Harold Nicholson; THE
Tyranny Of Words" Stuart Chase.
tcopyright. 1881
Evening star., 1938-04-03

BILE broke on him and gave a tragic
tone to the already dramatic quality
of his life. A man of romantic ma
ture, more than a little tinctured with
the spirit of the 18th century, he is
seen here through the eyes of one
separated from him by more than a
generation, but seen with sympathy
and sometimes reverence. The con-
trasting viewpoints contribute their
value to the already original quality
of the work.
The book has mellow fascination.
II not, as said, what might be called
a complete biography of its subject,
it is a valuable study in manners
and customs. and a beautiful piece
of writing.
KINGS AND KNAVES IN THE CAM
EROONS. BY Andre Mikhelson.
New York: G. P. Putnams Sons.
THIS is story of modern adventure
in Africa. not of the usual game
hunting kind of excitement however,
but Of the search for valuable metals
by modern engineers. Its author,
Russian emigre, went out as a COM
panion to such French engineer in
quest Of some rather obviously
ed wolfram. Sinister individuals had
very considerable interest in prevent
ing the pair from reaching the scene
Of the supposed mines and began con-
triving, almost from the outset of the
expedition, to circumvent the inveSti-
cation. In the course of these wicked
Vaccinations, the sinister ones made
use of poison, of beautiful female spies,
OF trick letters and good deal else
In the end. however. virtue triumphed
and the engineer reached the spot
There was no wolfram and so it was
all about nothing anyway.
The story here is set down in the
first person, Just as Mr.. Mikhelson
saw it. 1t seems to the reviewer badly
over-emphasized and over-told The
author crosses his is not once but
thrice and dots his is with constella-
tion. Still, there is a great deal of
Africa in the book. and if you like
Africa, this is side of the struggle be-
tween white men In the dark conti-
nent OF which we do not ordinarily
hear. 1t is too bad that so lively an
adventure should be so heavily re-
ported.
WINGED PHARAOH. BY Joan Grant.
New York: Harper e. Bros.
THIS book. presented to us as
novel. is really little more than a
text on ancient Egyptian customs with
the telling placed in the mouth of the
chief character, somewhat in the man.
ner of those schoolbooks wherein an
inhabitant of some foreign country
explains to group of satiably curl
Gus visitors the habits of his native
land. The author is an archeoloeist,
as it happens, and has plainly become
enamoured of the beauty of the past to
which she has devoted herself. She
writes with sensitive style and she
unquestionably possesses impressive
knowledge, but, to the reviewer. there
Is sentimentality in her thinking the
flavor of which blends curiously with
her skill in words and her dusty erudi-
ton.
The character who tells the story is
the daughter of Pharaoh. The story
begins with the dispatching of her soul
to earth by the gods and continues
through her education in the temple
to the time when she rules the land
herself. The motivation back of the
work seems to be the authors wish to
interpret the ancient religion, which
is apt to be put down by unlearned
moderns as an over complicated the
ology, in terms of its human worth
Evening star., 1938-04-03
BEST SELLERS IN WASHING.
TON FOR WEEK ENDING
MARCH 30, 1888.


THE CITADEL. Cronin. Little,
Brown.
ACTION AT AQUILA. Allen.
Farrar g. Rinehart.
REKNOWN. Hough. Carrick q
Evans.
NORTHWEST PASSAGE. Rob-
erts. Doubleday. Doran.
JOSEPH IN EGYPT. Mann.
Knopf.
Nom Fiction.
OUT OF AFRICA. Dinesen.
Random House.
FOLKLORE OF CAPITALISM.
Arnold. Yale.
THE HOUSE THAT HITLER
BUILT. Roberts. Harper.
THE GREEN WOOD HAT. Bar
rle. Scribners.
FIFTY YEARS A COUNTRY
DOCTOR. Mccartney. Dut-
ton.
MADAME CURE. Curie. Dou-
bleday, Doran.
Evening star., 1938-04-03

Two little English girls are twins,
although one is years old and the
other not yet 1. One was born in
February 20. 1885, the other was born.
an hour later on February 2e, 1895.
and hence must wait until 1910 for
. birthday.
Evening star., 1938-04-03
By Mary.Carter Roberts.

A MIRROR TO GENEVA. BY George
slocombe. New York: Henry Holt
& Co.
1NTERMISSION IN EUROPE. BY
Vernon Bartlett. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-09-08

l9OO-Galveston, Tex, tornado took
toll of 5000 lives.