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The Washington times., 1938-05-23
ED SULLIVAN
By ED SULLIVAN
Looking Glass
Hollywood, May 23.

Hollywood, May 20.
To weswood for premiere with Robert Mont
goery and Virginia Bruce This fine picture cast brilliantly
in one of his most mpertnenty ngraang opposite
the splendid supporting cast young Alan Curtis
Murphy the Mern LIE Roys and the Harry Raps discussing
Gary coopers the top production spot at uni
versa Pat oBen off for Broadway to see the War Admiral
Eddie Cantor at Graumans Chinese admitting he was
plenty worried over ng f mas b ogood horse show
capitalize his riding skin and voice By turning ming him
roadster since getting back she says
mall the program of Ben Mardens Riviera featuring
Sophie Tucker table Ben for the mite Of August q
sharply as RSndy Scott halls Hey killer That's cabots golf
pan can't Es Sns she
the mind.
that will delight fans because Of its
% ons o he GIBBONS
St Paul boxer commonly supposed to be the s OF the au
Johnny Dundee and Gene Tnney were others Taylor strips
punching bag haven't yet that
he'll be a pleasant surprise.
kidnapped" with Baxter Areen whelan and Freddy
Of recent STovarich 'guccanser
o & 5 pa Of %s1H s
swords together like ham and eggs some when the
always duel on the stairs the villain on the table and the
carried on betvxt the hero and you
Cunevere? asks the hero applying cuass hafNeon
verify thou art rogue replies the villain leading with
Ions Duests of old apparently like the
radio comics always had dialogue written for them
Whan the mancu pointed for stardon by Twentieth
Centox exceptionally pretty and should not be judged on
Robert Louis Stevenson story pretty dreary
stuff handcappng all the players badly and making you wonder
midst of air mail week. plane crashed route to Las
Vegas killing nine.
Rors Hoywoods track. Inglewood has oil
deposits advanced closely Maybe
they'll gushers instead Of sagates In reference to the
appearing recently which listed the billings OF old
vaudeville Lester Goieb calls attention to the British
vaudeville acts the Mutual network The May % show from
HAZEL and Elsie Day Chat Bright Breezy
Coupled Dampier (he epresbe and Turner Layton
and Hal Styles who conducts the famous Help
Thy Neighbor on XIII busngy admits that when
played vaudeville billing Master Archie Collins
Americas Boy Comedian" Ouch What's this about
the Eric BloreS?
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Two Features
At Little

The Titles claim to designa.
ton as WaShington's art thea
ter is receiving Substantiation
during the. current week, at
least, for the double bill being
offered represents a combina-
ton of two films which provides
varying but equally noteworthy
examples of camera art.
OF principal interest is '"The
Wave" Mexican motion picture
presenting a true-tolife nara
tive of the struggle for existence
that is waged by the fishermen
of the nation to the South. One
does not think of Mexico as a
country productive of impressive
cinema efforts, but 1.-THE Wave"
is memorable celluloid, chiefly,
however, because of Paul
Strands work. Strand went
from the United States under
commission of the Mexican De-
partment of Fine Arts, has made
it appear plausible that he is
rated among the worlds great
est photographers.
THE Wave" is a documentary
film with a plot. and the acting
is superb because the characters
are portrayed by themselves
Mexican men who live by what
the sea deigns to offer. The pic
ture is moving, photographically
superb. The struggle against en-
vironment will strike closer to
home than Mexico in the minds
Of most viewers.
Secondary feature at the Lit.
tie this week is Elephant Boy"
This is a revival engagement Of
Robert Flaherty treatment of
Indian jungle life, based on Kip
ling's "Toomai of the Ele-
phants," which has won its
laurelS.
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These are American figures,
but if the receipts from the
London engagement of Robert
TaylOr's "Yank At Oxford" were
included, it would give that
M-G-M picture leadership in
the Piccadilly area.
John Bull has accepted Mr..
Taylor as an Oxford student,
and his picture is still running
strong at the Empire theater,
where, after five weeks, they
label it the greatest cinema hit
in 10 years.
"Yank At Oxford" was the
first picture made by the Louis
B. Mayer organization in the
London studio. Encouraged, Leo
the-Lion Is going ahead with
elaborate plans for A. J.
CrOnin's best seller, 'The Cit
adel."
This will have Robert DOnat
In the star role, with King VidOr
from Hollywood at the direc-
tOrial helm. They are still after
Nora Pilbeam for the ingenue
role.
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Civic Theoter
In Odd Play

OuG GL11Tu VI lhG4Ou.
will hardly please those who
prefer their theater devoid Of
propaganda, but to those who
can stand a little tub-thumping
for the cause with their drama
the play as presented last night
at the Wardman Park by the
Washington Civic group should
prove satisfying.
LETTUCE" ORATORY
Wordy, vigorous, and at times
blatantly forceful, the piece con-
Germs itself with the deplorable
housing conditions existing in
most large American cities.
Scenes showing the drama be-
hind poor housing are depicted
in graphic fashion with actual
names of persons used.
With the slums of New York
as background, an attempt is
made to probe into the reasons
and causes Of poor housing by
describing the early land grabs
of the original John Jacob Aston
and tracing the chain of I'M
happy events down to the point
where Fiorello views with alarm.
Borrowing from the tech
nique of the musical revue, pro-
life use is made of the black
out in an effort to overcome
scenic requirements imposed by
a script which moves rapidly
from the East Side to West Side
and from Harlem to Washing.
ton.
Mrs. ROOSEVELT, Nathan
Straus, Senator Wagner, Vice
President Garner, Langdon
Post, and Senator Borah are
portrayed in their more quot
able and articulate moments
and a great deal of lettuce ora
tory is heard. Lettuce oratory
is the type given over to the
Let us do this! Let us do
that" form of public speaking.
SHEEHAN is TOPS
Statistics are supplied, facts
shouted, and actual incidents
and episodes demonstrated
showing the sorry mess Of
crime, disease, etc., bound up
with the existence of. urban
slum areas. The result is a
series of sharp tableaus from
whence the plays subtitle THE
Living Newspaper" is derived.
Chief protagonist of the drama
is a little man, a meek rent
payer, who wanderS in and out
Of the scenes asking endless
questions of a Radio Voice and
disporting himself generally in
an Ernest Treux manner. On
Actor Murray Sheehan's capa-
BILE shoulders fall the task Of
asking all the questions and
keeping things moving.
Direction was Skillful and the
stage grouping. in particular, ef-
fectively handled. Best perform
ances of the large cast were
those contributed by Harry
Westcott, Ed Stevlingson, George
Buchan, Elinor Cox Karsten,
George Finger and Selma Klein.
~ r. ON.
The Washington times., 1938-05-23

MYRNA-GABLE TOPS
''TEST PILOT" comes back to
the Columbia Theater Friday,
Just in case you missed it.
Best performance by a sup
porting actor award went to
Basil Rathbone for his Guy of
Osborne in Adventures Of
Robin Hood"
Best performance by a sup
porting actress to Beulah Bondi,
who plays a professors wife in
the new Ginger Rogers picture,
"Vivacious L a d y" due at
RKO Keith's Theater Friday.
Victor Fleming for TEST
Pilot" was singled out for the
best direction honor, and Erich
Wolfgang Korngold (exile from
the Hitler Austria) was the
unanimous choice for the award
given for composing the best
background score, that for "Ad-
ventures of Robin Hood"
Robin Hood" which is break
ing some records at the Earle
Theater, is also helping out some
Of the neighboring cinemas,
which are catching the nightly
overflow.
Warner Bros. also COPIED the
first monthly award Of the
Hollywood critics, when the
Bette Davis "Jezebel" was voted
the best production for March.
THE BELL RINGERS
Business for the hit pictures
In the first three months Of
1888 was Okay, the mediocre, as
usual, being Stunned at the box
office.
If the industry kept the aver
The Washington times., 1938-05-23
MOVIE
CLOCK

CAPITOL-Maureen o'sullivan,
Dennis O'Keefe, Hold That
Kiss" II a. M, 1880, 1920,
7:10, 10 p. m. Stage: Sammy
Kaye, 12:40, $3.50, $40, 9:10
p. m.
PALACE-Gary Cooper, Sigrid
Gurie, Binnie Barnes, "Adven-
lures Of Marco Polo" II noon,
2::25, 1850, 7:10, 9:35 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Ray Milland, Dor.
Othy LamOur, "Her Jungle
Lover" II a. M, 1:1O, $3.50,
5:25, 1888, $3.50, Lone
Ranger" 1890, 2:4O, 4:4O'
6:55, 9:O5 p. m.
EARLE-Errol Flynn, Olivia De
Havilland, Ian Hunter, robin
Hood" 10 a. M, 1920, 2:40,
sos, TIPS, $50 p. m. Stage:
11:45 a. M, 2:10, 4:30, 6:55,
9:15 p. m.
WE NOG I'LL L kAEN - VI q 6V
rick, Akin Tamiroff, Anna
May Wong, Dangerous To
Know" 1920 a. m, 1:25,
$3.50, 5:35, TAO. 9:45 p. m.
RKO KEITH'S-Deanna Durbin,
Herbert Marshall, Mad About
Music" 11:15 a. m, 1:20, 1925,
$50, 7:35, $40 p. m.
BELASCO-Anna Maggie, Tullio
Carminati, Look Out For
Love-" 4:39, 6:27, 8:15, 1908
pm.
LITTLE-Sabu, Elephant Boy"
1905, 2::30, ASS, 1920, 9:45
D. m. 1.-THE Wave" 11:05 a.
M, 1870, 1855. $40, $40 p. m.
TRANS-LUX-Newsreels and
Shorts. 10. 11:45 a. M, 1880,
1:45, 8, 4:15, $50, 6:45, 8.
OILS. 10:45 p. m.
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Ginger Next
At Keith's

Making notable use of a set
ting rarely used in films, much
of the action in "Vivacious
Lady" Ginger Rogers next
RKO Radio picture for Keith'Ss
takes place in a quiet little col
lege town a short distance from
New Yorw city, but a million
miles from Broadway.
The traditional dignity and
academic atmosphere of the
campus is brought out in many
sequences laid in the class rooms
and laboratories of the college
and in the presidents office, and
these contrast uniquely with the
gay night club setting where the
story begins and ends.
Ginger Rogers and James
Stewart are co-starred in this
romantic comedy, which traces
the marital problems of young
botany professor and a night
club entertainer. When they re-
turn to the groom's home town,
a staid college community, and
endeavor to keep their marriage
secret by living apart, hilarious
complications develop with the
husbands former fiancee, and
his playboy cousin who has de-
signs on the pretty singer, doing
their share to further entangle
matters.
James Ellison, Charles Coburn,
Beulah Bondi, Frances Mercer
and Phyllis Kennedy essay
prominent roles in support Of
the two stars. George Stevens
directed
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KELLEYGRAMS
ried a weak piece Of screen Gel
lulOid to great glory.
FLYING OUT WEST

ried a weak piece Of screen Gel
lulOid to great glory.
FLYING OUT WEST
That was Betty Gray, the
Winchell Washington T IN s.
q. S. beauty winner, shopping
with Bill HOyle on Friday and
buying household furniture 80.
Ray Bell will take a real flying
trip to Hollywood. Planes next
month for a quick lOOk-See Of
LeO-the-LiOn's Culver City studio
Gene Ford, formerly the Capt.
tolls managing director, now
program manager for LOew's
Station WHN,' with his Kay, are
shopping for q fancy baby per-
ambulatOr Henry Hiser Is
wooing fight fans this week. He
went back IL years to get the
Tunney-Dempsey tlOng count
Chicago fight pictures, also will
rerun the Schmeling-L Louis bat
tie, the one in which Joe took
the X, o. from the Dutchman
Shows 'em at the State Thea
ter in Bethesda on Wednesday
and Thursday If you can't
get in, walk half . block up the
street and see the new Sidney
Lust BOrO Theater.
BARS "THE WOMEN"
England's Lord Chamberlain
has refused to pass The
Women" thereby causing much
embarrassment to Jack Blu.
chanan, the Between the Devil"
star, who closed in the Ameri"
can musical to present the Max
Gordon production in London
=. Lord Chamberlain objects to
the attitude Of one Of the char
acters towards motherhood :.
Playwright Clare Luce, on the
scene, refuses to make any
changes, with the chances that
official will not yield on what
it considers q matter Of good
taste.
OKAY FOR STOOGES
Zone Manager Johnny Pay.
cite must have lifted the ban
on StOOges for "The Three
StOOges" are listed as coming
attractions ON Thirteent h
Street After Garner, Wolf
and HakinS made one Friday
appearance at the Earle, with
comedy that was all wet and
sour, the rule went forth no
more of this bladder and kick
in.the-face rough house {.
But comedy acts are hard to
find and Production Manager
Harry Anger probably guaran-
teed the Three StOOges." fresh
from the Hollywood studios,
will be snow white in their
nOnsenSical didOeS.
CINDERELLA" OUT
Universal Pictures had
dropped the plan Of having
Deanna Durbin do Cinderella, "
which seems like a wise decis-
ion The original Para
mount cinderella" with Char.
lotte Henry as the kitchen
slavey of the golden slipper,
was not among the zukor sue
cesses Failed to appeal
with grown-ups, and little Char
lotte Henry's dreams Of star
dom faded out with the failure
The Washington times., 1938-05-23

Swing and sway with Sammy
Kaye and his sweet band is one
Of the May Day surprises on r
Street . Arthur Godfrey, Sun
Dial babbIer, has long insisted
that the Ohio maestro was INT
on the radio, has plugged him
steadily ON the breakfast broad
casts Kaye lived up to the
billing, piled 'em in at the Cap
itOI Theater over the week end
There is q claim that he
beat robin Hood for Friday
receipts, but not yet attested as
official He has q nice act
and here's one vote for the veto
which killed the plan Of having
The Washington times., 1938-05-23
Gleanings
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

Hoywoods movie critics. who pass the product for
newspaper syndcate magazines and network radio broad
casts take monthly poll the bes" pictures and acting
performances.
Chosen the best production for April Adventures
Of Robin Hood which Test Pilot by ballot in
the count-up recorded by the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
But GodwynMayer took down the honors for the
choicest acting shown the screen with Clark Gable and
Myrns 10y picked for the laurel in the casscations Bes
performances by actor and actress respectively Sort of
leaves Spencer Tracy standing the porch
The Washington times., 1938-05-23
PeriIed By Acid

Sulphuric acid thrown BY
racketeers to destroy garden
produce in scenes for Racket
Busters" drenched Humphrey
Bogart's clothes. The prop men
wiped off the clothing before
the acid reached Bogart's skin
and he was unframed, but the
apparel fell to pieces before his
eyes. The sulphuric acid was
used because, combined with the
water with which the vegetables
were drenched, it caused great
clouds of smoke for the benefit
of the camera.
The Washington times., 1938-05-23
Sarch For Plane

Search is In progress for
1927 airplane Of amphibian de-
sign for use in Paramount's
technicolor cavalcade Of the air,
Men With Wings" which is BE-
ing directed and produced by
William A. Wellman. The
plane sought is an amphihian
capable Of carrying three pas
sengers and manufactured not
later than 1927. Only six were
made originally.
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DOOrs 0psn at s:4S an. Feature Presented d
1000 an, 1870, z:40, SOS, 7:25, ESQ ON
The Washington times., 1938-05-23

Robin Hood and Test Pilot Are the Top
Selections of the Hollywood Scrbes
The Washington times., 1938-05-23

ages as baseball does, then the
eight pictures at the top Of the
hit list for January, February
and March with their total
crosses from key city dates
would be:
The Washington times., 1938-05-23
Wins Beauty Honor

Artist Francis AmundSen,
visiting Hollywood for the third
time in six years, selected for
the third successive time Mar.
garet Lindsay as the most beau
tiful brunette in films, and the
absent Carlo CHS friend and
countrywoman) as the most
beautiful blonde.
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RUMAN|A SENDS
Filler AS ENVOY

Radu IrimeScu, World War
pilot, will take up his duties as
Rumanian minister to the United
States this week, the legation an
nounced today.
The 48-year-old diplomat, hold
ing his first foreign post, will ar
rive in New York Thursday and
come Immediately to Washington
to present his credentials.
Mr.. Irimescu is a graduate of
the school Of engineering, mining
and chemistry, Columbia Univer.
sity, and has served n the United
States as manager Of the Bank
Chrissoveloni, New York agency
His posts in the Rumanian gov
eminent include those of first un-
derSecretary of state for air and
minister for air and navy and
heading the air department un-
til February, when he was ap-
pointed envoy to the United States.
At one time he cerved in the
German navy. and in 1885 he was
manager Of Rumania'S greatest in
dustrial enterprise. the ResiSta
Iron and Steel Works. A member
of no political party, he has de-
voted the greater part of his life
to a business career, entering
government service because of his
experience in aeronauticS.
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SARA ROOSEVELT
AWARDED MEDAL

NEW YORK, April 4 GN.S0.
Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of
the President, today holds the
1888 Albert Einstein medal for
humanitarianism.
The award, made by the Jewish
Forum, was in appreciation of
lifetime of devoted service to
every communal cause in the
country"
Among those in Mrs. Roose-
velt's party were: Col. James
Roosevelt, her grandson; former
Ambassador to Germany James
w. Gerard; Mrs. EStelle Stern.
berger, general director OF World
Peaceways. the 1886 winner of the
Einstein medal; and Secretary
and Mrs. Morgenthau.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-04

Lnat FRANKLIN D. Roosevelt
should have found it necessary
to make such an official state
ment. There is an old saying:
'MethinkS the lady doth pro
test her virtue too much"
It is obvious from the start
that the cause Of the statement
was baSically political. 1t was
aimed and timed to hit the
morning papers to be read by
Congressman who were to de-
bate the reorganization bill.
But there is another matter
far more significant, and in its
significance far more sinister,
revealed in this almost unique
Presidential statement. It gave
an open clue to the trend of Mr..
Roosevelt's thinking. It re.
vealed he is thinking In q frame
Of mind identical to those of all
the modern-day dictators. We
think Of dictators as people who
destroy liberty. Dictators think
Of themselves always as givers
Of liberty to the people.
Mr.. Roosevelt's indignation
over the fact that any one
should intimate he desires to be
a dictator is not entirely manu-.
featured. Much of his indigna.
ton Is genuine.
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COUGHLIN HITS
'REORGAN|z|NG'

DETROIT, April 4 G.N.SO.
Calling on modern Paul Reveres
to ride to Washington" in a battle
against President Roosevelt's gov
ernmental reorganization bill, the
Rev. Father Charles e. Coughlin
today continued his attacks on
the bill.
In his third radio attack on the
bill in eight days, the radio priest
yesterday urged opponents to
form committees in every congress
sional district to conduct a per
sonalized fight on the bill.
He proposed the committees
travel to Washington to person
ally urge their Congressman and
Senators to vote against the bill.
II propose that these COM ,
mittees shall ask their Congress
man this one question:" the
radio priest said, land receive
from him a definite answer:
do you intend to be a Con-
gresham to represent your
people under the Constitution
or do you prefer to be a rubber
stamp to pass any bill, includ-
ing a reorganization bill, simply
because our President requests
it: and do you plan to vote in.
dependent of patronage on all
bills for the welfare Of all the
people instead Of for the welfare
Of an individual party?"
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Merging Air Bureaus

A hint of what lies in reorgan-
ization may be found in the OBJ
Scure House hearings on a bill
to create a civil aeronauticS au-
thority. The idea is to promote
efficiency by, consolidating the
air bureaus in the ICC, Com
MERGE. Post Office and other
Government departments. It
sounds off-hand like a necessary
move, but evidence shows it will
cost 100000 a year more than
the existing set-up.
More 4-to-3 trouble is develop
ing within the Federal Com
munications Commission. Chair.
man McNinch seems to have lost
control. The 4-to-3 majority is
being run by Commissioner
Craven. 1t appears to be per-
Sonality row rather than the
usual conServative-liber- split.
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Messiah Complex

EOR, as time goes on and one
= reviews the Roosevelt state
ments and his deeds Of the last
five years, it is more impossible
to escape from the conviction
that he is gripped with a ines
siah" complex that he has been
chosen specially to liberate the
"ill-housed, ill-fed and the Ill.
CLAD; that it is not he who is
selfish but rather all who thwart
him; that he is the best inter.
prefer of what the people want;
that he is merely expressing
their will, and that the public
actually wants him to do the
very things that he wants to do
himself.
Messrs. Hitler, MuSsolini and
Stain (the latter is virtually
a Fascist dictator now that
communism is eating it's own
children) have repeatedly stated
that they head the finest form
of democracy" in the world;
that they are not dictators but
merely mouthpieces of the peo-
pie and that their peoples are
back of them 100 per cent; that
all they did was cut red tape
in the peoples welfare.
Many famous men have
started out in just that frame
of mind-the frame of mind in
which Mr.. Roosevelt shows him.
self so clearly to be. They are
utterly sincere in their indigna-
ton when accused of dictator
ship leanings. They think Of
the word dictator" in its super
fetal accepted sense, destroyer
of liberty. It is not their par.
ticular intention to destroy lib
erty. On the contrary, they
are convinced they are LIB
GRATING the people. The
others may be dictators, but
they are different. They KNOW
that the people want what they
want, and they will be the last
people on earth to realize, if
ever, that they are infringing
on the peoples liberty-that
they are destroying the very
thing they actually believe they
are saving.
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Some who know the President
most intimately are inclined to
blame his lack Of close friendly
counselorS. He has few capable
men around to try his ideas out
on first. He does not now see
as many different kinds of peo-
pie in whom he can place his
trust, as he did at first.
His leftwing counselors have
proved themselves deficient fer
his present purposes because of
their limited eyeSight. The
rightwingers have stayed away
for one reason and another.
Apparently he does not wholly
seek or accept the advice of his
congressional leaders. Harry
Hopkins has been away i'll. The
man is pretty much alone.
Recent manifestations show
he is striking out wholly on his
own now. While he is far more
capable than any dozen men
around him, this system is not
apt to produce the best pos
Sible decisions.
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rest will give you the certain
knowledge that my loyalty to
you has never wavered."
Within few days after he had
sent the letter, Mcmahon received
a sympathetic and grateful reply
from the Duke of Windsor in
which was inclosed a check for a
substantial sum of money. AS
the result of further correspond
ence, he had personal friends visit
Mcmahon and make arrangements
for him to establish himself in the
advertising business in London.
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but here they
are a g ain
with a new
a ppr opria-
ton for an
o t h e r crash,
this time a
100000 Gu
bic foot col
aapsible ship
for expert
mental pur-
poses" It al
re a d y has
b e e n ap-
prov We d by
the House as
mart. Of the
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seen enough
Of other die
tators not to
W a MT that
form Of gov
eminent in
the United
States.
TIL a t is
probably one
Va bAlC ulOSJ
a S t ounding
S t a t ements
ever made by
a President
of the United
States. It Is
Astounding in