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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-14
Producer Max Gordon, After Two Unsuccess-
full Ventures, Still Thrives on "The Women"
Bio Easter Show at CopitoI

stars Of every kind win con-
tribute to the huge Easter
parade which will march across
the Loew's Capitol stage start
ing Friday.
Sylvia Froos, diminutive sing
ing star of stage, screen and
radio; Paul GerritS, the amiable
wit whom Washington remem-
bers as the capable master of
ceremonies Of the Presidents
Birthday Ball midnite shows
here recently; Frank Libuse,
colonel Of American Nuts, are
billed as headliners Of this new
show.
Added attraction Is prima
ballerina, Patricia Bowman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-14

broken financier was on his
death bed from q monster tu-
NOR, weighing Sc pounds 1t
was Financier Kings hope that
he could die a free man
King began his spectacular Ca
reer as a newspaper columnist.
Into his writing he would drop
a paragraph urging the advis-
ability of acquiring a certain
stock When its commercial
purpose was exposed, he bought
newspaper space, ran his column
plainly marked, advertising"
The Chief Inspector of the
Continued On Page 20, Col. p
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-14

IRISH HIT WANTED
Audience comment on Judge
Hardy'S Children which winds
up at Loew's Capitol Theater
today is SO per cent favorable
An ideal family picture,
made on a very modest budget,
it has the certain something
that strikes the right chord in
almost every human heart &.
Indeed it has made Mickey
Rooney a more valuable asset
for M-G-M than some others,
more important on the contract
roll However, the purpose of
this paragraph is to call Barrett
KieSling's attention to the fact
that Leo-the-Lion owns the movie
rights to Lennox RobinSon'S
Ear Off Hills" q darling of an
Irish play, with a sweetheart
beat in almost every line
Mr.. KieSling is coming to Wash
ington on a facts finding tour
for his company next week
I hope he tells Culver City that
here is one editor who would
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-14

like to see Mr.. Mayer get busy
with Far Off Hills" 1t has
been the box office salvation this
season for the Abbey Players,
and they will present the drama
in Washington next month {.
It is not a new play, the Irish
Players did it on their last visit
M-G-M once. started to pro
duce this Celtic gem but never
got closer to shooting than
assigning Maureen O'Sullivan to
the leading ingenue role Now
they have a chance to get Barry
Fitzgerald, a Hollywood free
lance, who created the lead male
role with the Irish thespianS
j.. 1t strikes me M-G-M should
require no coaxing to produce
more celluloid as wholesome,
and as profitable, as Judge
Hardy'S Children" will eventually
prove Therefore I vote again
for Far Off Hills" adding it
to my 1885 ballot.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-14
Cleaning
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

Thursday roundup of fact and opinion: Producer Max
Gordon has been in Washington with his only gold mine of
the present season. "Th Women Usually the Gordon luck
has produced least hit for the past several
But for $685. the Gordon record strikes and hits
Fopperoos Save Me the Waltz and Roland Youngs
"Spring Thaw" "The Women" is a holdover from the
1861 1t opened December g. 1885, and closes
its continuous New o with the original company week
from Saturday On Glare Booths play he has tidy
profit including the sale to MetroGoldwynMayer which
company will have to several of Spoo before they
dare present the script the Will Hays office for
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-14
AkAEgSCkAEkIT 81 EAkIAHC Producer
OOVE HIVOSEIVtENI OAEFAINlINOS = full Vent
Shirley Goes
ToCoIumbio

You'd never know the old
farm now, it's a Streamlined
radio center, with Shirley Tenn
pie on a happiness hook-up in
the title role of "Rebecca Of
Sunnybrook Farm" which opens
Friday at the Columbia for q
repeat engagement.
The first star Of the screen Is
supported by her StarrieSt cast,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-14
A Picture Frame

A political frame-up that re-
suits in an unforeseen killing and
plenty Of excitement in q small
town features This Marriage
Business" new starring vehicle
for Victor Moore,
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Bedtime Stories
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Who looks ahead need seldom fret
Ger things behind to cause reget.
Mothcr Nature

VOU see. one who looks ahead is
less likely to make mistakes that
later will cause him to look back
with regret. One who looks ahead
is said to be far-sighted, while one
who fails to do this is said to be
short-sighted. The little people of
the Green Meadows know that in
reality short-sightednesS is merely a
matter of heedlessness or pure laZi-
ness. The short-sighted think only
Of the pleasures of the moment. If
safe and we'll fed for the present,
that is enough. There are many
people of this kind in the Great
World.
An unusually warm fall, even up
to the edge of winter, had caused
Filter the Bat a great deal Of un-
certainty. He couldn't make up his
mind whether to go South, to mi
crate, as SO many of his feathered
neighbors did, or to remain and sleep
all winter, after the manner of Johnny
Chuck and some others, including
Grandfather Frog and his relatives
and all of the Snake tribe. He could
do either. He had a choice, some
thing not true of any other people
who wore fur.
The warm weather meant that
some insects We're still flying and
Filter was able to get enough to
eat without too much trouble. This
was why he hated to leave So he
fingered. He was taking a chance in
so doing. That is. he was taking a
chance If he really wanted to go
Evening star., 1938-01-03
wanted to sleep straight through the

wanted to sleep straight through the
winter.
TT will do, unless find some better
place." decided Filter.
Now, so late in the season Filter
had to fly far and wide to get enough
to eat, and as he zigzagged over the
Green Forest he discovered a big tree
that was partly hollow. He spent
night in that hollow. Then he
knew that, if need be, he could spend
the winter there.
Still he kept his eyes open, looking
about, and so it was that, flying over
the lodges far in the Green Forest,
he discovered all opening that led
down deep into the ledge He flew
down, and presently was in a cave.
1t was dark. 1t was warm, but not
too warm. And already hanging
from the roof were several other
Bats. He hung himself up beside
them, and that very night Jack Frost
arrived.
(Copyright, 193S.)
Evening star., 1938-01-03

South. He was taking the chance
that Jack Frost might arrive unex-
pectedly. This would mean no more
flying insects, and so no food. It
would mean that he would have to
remain and, Of course, hibernate.
He would need the right kind of a
place In which to do this, a place
that would give him sufficient shell
ter and be not too cold. There would
be no opportunity to seek such a
place after Jack Frost's arrival.
"I'll be prepared. I'll look about
and find place where 1 can hang
up in safety for the winter" said
Filter to himself. Then. If I do
get caught by Jack Frost, I will
know just where to 60 in a hurry.
1t won't do to hang up in any old
place. In summer I could sleep
under a piece of loose bark or in any
dark place. but not now"
So as Filter flew about In the
dusk of early evening, and sometimes
in the late afternoon of a very dull
day. he had his eyes open for some
thing more than the insects he was
hunting.
What Is that, you asked? Why
do people say blind as q bat? I'm
sure I don't know. I guess it is
because they themselves are more
or less blind. At least. they haven't
used their own eyes. Filter the Bat
has very small eyes, it is true, but
they are good eyes, much better eyes
than yours or mine in the dusk.
Filter was spending his days in
Farmer Browns barn, hanging from
rafter high up above the hay. This
would be a good place to spend the
winter, unless perchance it was too
warm in mild weather. In that case
Filter would be likely to wake up,
and he didn't want to do that. He
Evening star., 1938-01-03
POLLS BUSINESS MEN
Tax Research Institute Seeks
Reactions on Present Issues.

Reactions on Present Issues.
The Tax Research Institute of New
York and Washington announced to-
day that it is conducting a survey
among more than 5000 of its members
in an effort to determine the reaction
of average business and professional
men to current economic and political
issues.
The institute expects the survey to
reveal what the Nations business men
are thinking about the threat of war,
the general state of the Nation. labor
difficulties, impending wage-and-
legislation, and how their decisions in
volving these and other problems are
affecting general business conditions.
Members will be asked their reaction
for third term for President Roose-
velt; whether they think the present
American form of government will
survive: how they think the present
business recession might be alleviated
and numerous other specific questions.
The institute plans to tabulate,
analyze and chart its findings as soon
as returns of the survey are complete.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
END of the Trail"

The life-size statue, END of the
Trail" made by James Earle Fra
ser, and awarded the gold medal at
the Panama-Pacific International
exposition in 1915 has been de-
scribed as follows: "The end of the
trail. The point of the warriors
spear has sunk to the ground. Abb
solute detection, inconceivable
WEAKNESS, complete exhaustion and
hopeless despair are shown in every
line and curve of the sculptured fig
ures of the Indian and his tottering
horse. The sufferings of genera
tons, the hopeless struggles of four
centuries, and the final fate of the
proud race that once claimed con-
tinent for its own, can be read at
glance, and coming generations of
the conquering race will stand be-
fore this remarkable creation of
Fraser's genius and be moved to
pity and compassion"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
One Brave Mouse Put Up Good Battle
With Two Big Cats and Almost Won

A stray gray mouse fought two
large cats to draw Six men,
woman and child will swear to it,
asserts a Dowagiac (Mich.) CORE
spondent in the Detroit Free Press.
The battle, they said, lasted three
hours and then the contestants had
to be separated. The mouse, wind
ed and sorely bruised, was dis
patched with coup de grace. The
cats, one weighing Is pounds and
the other seven, were taken home
to nurse badly bitten muzzles.
Pat, the larger cat, had cornered
the mouse, who is unidentified, and
was toying with it as any supercil-
ious cat would. But the mouse,
who was not the kind sneered at
in the question, "Are we mice or
men," didn't play according to the
rules.
When the cat cuffed him, the
mouse reared on it's hind legs,
barred its fangs, squeaked defiantly
and-eight persons swore to it
charged pell nell into the cats
whiskers.
Each time the cat cuffed him
back, but not before the mouse had
scratched or bitten the cat on the
nose. Bewildered, snarling and
splitting, Pat spared with the
mouse alone for 30 minutes. Then
the marines, in the shape of
Blackie, landed on the mouse from
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
AN INTERESTING letter this

AN INTERESTING letter this
\ morning says, "Our church
bazaar is over and in winding up
the last details and balancing my
accounts I feel that I would be
neglecting something if did not
express my appreciation for your
Sewing Book No. 2, Gifts, Novel
ties and Embroidery. We found
many ideas in it that were real
money makers. Our annual
Christmas sale is now in course of
preparation. Could you publish
some new ideas for toys in the
paper soon?"
Unusually attractive toys may
be made quickly and at little cost
from cheap cotton stockings. This
demure ye1lowish tan kitten with
bright red or blue ribbon is made
from a stocking leg. The secret
of giving toys of this type char
acter is in making the stufing
firm and tight. Cotton or small
pieces of clean, soft rags may be
used. Push the stufing firmly in
place with blunt stick.
Complete directions for cutting
and making the body are given
here. For the tail, cut piece 6
inches long and 2 inches wide.
Stitch the lengthwise edges to-
gether, tapering toward the end,
then turn right side out, stuff
and sew firmly in place. It is
easy to draw the face. Notice in
the sketch how the eyelids curve,
the shape of the mouth and how
the Whiskers slant.
Either wool yarn or mercerized
cotton embroidery thread may be
used-black or brown for the eyes
and whiskers and red for the
mouth. Be sure to save the scraps
of stocking material left from the
kitten. We will make doll out of
them later. If you are not ready
to make Christmas toys now, clip
and save this lesson as it is not
contained in either of the books
offered below.
NOTE: Are you ready for
Christmas? Birthdays? And the
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
CHAPTER IX-Continued

For an instant there was dead
silence.
Then
els that you, Elgar?" he cried
and brought my heart into my
mouth.
I had meant to approach him
forthwith, as Elgar would have APP
preached him, bearing the dressing
case. But now Cigars failure to
answer would tell him, that some
thing was wrong, and, once his sus-
picions were reused, it would be but
a matter of moments before he dis
covered the truth. And my lady
was still within range :.
In a flash had whipped to where
I had laid her down. AS stopped
"Mother of God!" screeched Vir-
GLAND told me he knew we were
gone.
My hands encountered nothing.
Elizabeth was not there. Being
bound, she could not have moved,
yet she was not there. For an in
slant my heart stood still: and then
I saw that, because of the darkness,
I must be foot or so out. felt to
the right to the left. I took a
pace forward, and stepped on a
rotten stick. It's snap declared my
presence and shot glance at the
car. I could, of course, see nothing
except the beam of its lights. Vir-
gil was quiet as death. Death
The man was armed, and Elizabeth
lay hereabouts. Hereabouts, but
where? I fell on my hands and
knees and began to crawl, sweeping
the cobbles before me with one of
my hands. It was just about here
I knew it. More to the right, per-
haps No? Then I must have
passed her made my way
back. AS went, I cast to and fro
frantically. And then my hand
brushed something-the sole of her
shoe. My heart leaped up to heav-
en- &. and then fell down into hell.
1t was not her shoe. 1t was that of
the man I had killed-from whose
side had set out to find her a mo-
ment ago
What that discovery meant took
year from my life: for it meant that
before the darkness I was broken
reed, and when I looked to the head
lights to get my bearings afresh,
their beam was gone.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
HOW d ;. SEW
by Ruth Wyeth Spears oR

next church bazaar? Do you turn
time into money with things to
sell? Mrs. Spears Sewing Book 2
has helped thousands of women.
If your home is your hobby you
will also want Book 1-SEWING,
for the Home Decorator. Order
by number enclosing Is cents for
each book. If you order both
books, quilt leafiet with SO differ
ent stitches will be included free.
Address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des-
PLANES ST., Chicago, Ill.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
CHAPTER x

shook the sweat from my eyes
and tried to think what to do. And
since my thoughts were frenzied and
mostly poisoned by the knowledge
of what l ought to have done, 1 will
not recite them here, but will state
what, upon refection-if, indeed, you
can give it that name-I set out to
do.
set out to find. Percy Virgil, and
began to steal forward to where I
believed the car was.
Now 1 had seen Elgar coming be-
cause he was silhouetted against the
dusk which was keeping the world
without. And since l had no wish
to offer to Virgil the target which
Elgar had offered to me, dropped
to the cobbles and once more be-
gan to crawl.
To say that I watched and prayed
means nothing at all. I moved like
any shadow and listened with all
my might. Elizabeth's life might
depend on my hearing the enemy
move, and made the slowest prog
ress because my own advance was
bound to embarrass my ear. tried
to keep the direction I hoped was
right by glancing up at the ridge
poles from time to time, but the
court was so broad that they gave
me but little help, and after min
ute or two I could be sure of moth
ing except that I was not heading
away from the house.
And then heard Virgil move.
The man was away to my right,
and his foot had touched something
that stirred think, perhaps, fin
der of broken slate.
shall never forget that almost
imperceptible sound that stood up
out of the silence to make me
fnger-post, for it was so slight, vet
commanded the balance of life and
death.
With hammering heart, turned
at once to my right, no longer paus-
ing to listen, but using the utmost
care to deny to Virgil the cue he
had given to me.
Before I had covered six feet, NV
outstretched hand met something
that did not belong to the court. It
might have been a silk tassel !.
p And then I knew I was touching
Elizabeth's hair.
I could have wept for relief ;.
Now had not been sure that Vir-
gil was near, would have picked
her up and run for the woods: but
he must have heard me moving and
almost at once have seen me against
the dusk, and then we should have
been at his mercy, because he
was armed. And so l determined
that we must both stay where we
were, unless and until something
happened to make it less dangerous
to move.
To show her that it was l, I
smoothed her hair and held her
hands tight in mine. Then, very
gently, I eased the knot from her
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
-BANNER SERIAL FICTION
She Painted Her Face
II stony Of loxx and Intrigue BY D0RNF0RD YATES

| hope that, though my plight was Sc
rious, I might in the end be saved.
And then I heard Elizabeth call
| ing my name
For moment I thought very
fast. Then
"Lie down." I yelled. "Lie down
and crawl slowly forward. I'm down
in the well, but lie down. The para
pets gone.'
Perhaps two minutes went by:
and then a fragment Of mortar fell
down by my side.
"Stop!" I screamed. '"Stay still.
You're right on the edge
Elizabeth answered at once.
'I'm quite all right, my darling.
What shall I do?"
wonder how many women, so
placed, would. so have comported
themselves. No Wailing, no useless
inquiries, no bubbling statements of
how she came to be there Only
the eager question-"W What shall I
do?"
And I was ready enough. Whilst
she was approaching, had not been
wasting my time.
''Find the car" / said. "When
you've found her, switch on her
lights. Then back her slowly to-
wards the mouth of the court. Her
lights will show you the cord that I
took from your neck. Take that and
the pieces that bound your ankles
and wrists. Then back the car again
till you see your dressing-case. Put
that into the car, and then drive
slowly forward until your lights are
shining full on the we'll When
you've done that, come back and
I'll tell you some more"
Cali right"
How long she was gone, l cannot
pretend to say, but she must have
been very quick, for though the time
passed slowly, at the moment at
which l pictured her finding the
case, the rim of the we'll above me
grew suddenly bright. Then she
must have clipped the lamps, for
the light came down-to reveal a
ladder of dogs driven into the wall
of the we'll.
Some wells have ladders, like
that, to the waters edge, and at
once I left my handhold and, swim
ming beneath the ladder, stretched
up my hand. But the dogs did not
come so low For all that,
was sure that they could not be far
away, because a ladder is useless,
unless it runs some way down.
AS l returned to my screw-driv-
eyes, Richard?" said Elizabeth,
quietly.
cite all the cord together and add
the strap. Then open the tool-box
and take the tool-kit out If there
are tire-levers there, want them
most. If not, the nearest thing to
them-tools that will bear my
weight. And hammer, too. Put
them into one of your stockings and
let them down. We've got to make
38 feet. If you don't think it's long
enough, you must add what stock
ings you have"
IL CoSI HE d loI llOI W duQ BE as
quick as you can" for my faithful
friend was tiring-bending beneath
the strain; but such a charge would
only have made her frantic, when
all the time she was being as quick
as she could.
At last shadow appeared.
"I'm ready, my darling. Which
side shall let it DOWN."
"D-D'you see the LADDER"
eyes"
L-Let it down just clear of the
ladder. Which side you like. Don't
lean on the parapet, whatever you
do"
"All right. l won't"
(TO BE CONTINUED
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
Heurd Here and There

Weather bureau chief, greet
ing his secretary: ''Nice morn
ing, Miss Smith, followed by
rain in the afternoon
Soapbox orator winding up
his speech: "And that, ladies
and gentlemen, is the whole
kettle of fish in a nutshell"
One lady, taking down ri
val: 81 don't remember your
face, but I never forget a
Dress
Motorist at police court: "I
am always careful to obey the
regulations, even when they
contradict one another
Dead-letter office clerk: "No,
you can't send coincidence
letter from here"
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01

the north while Pat harassed him
from the south.
The cats batted the mouse be-
tween them, but with the agility of
a Tunney he held the cutting to
minimum by nipping two aston
ished noses. After three hours with
out rest period, the mouse, still
valiant, met hero's death under
a club welded by a spectator.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
"POOR TRUST is DEAD
BAD PAY KILLED HIM"

This sign with picture of doggie where doggies
town which plenty
to cash. Some hint while others
good their O. U.S. The the
kids called "OLD MAN CASH. What grown-ups called him.
/ dunno.
1t said that always
able to be at the
sign and him, when and
that sign suffering the
told that utter
him and his sign.
In later after his retirement speaking experience
he said, There time when Santa some
folks seemed to think December and
week had day and month"; first. then /
decided change my possible the habits of
some of my towns peOpe"
After thinking things awhile adver-
tse reasoned it out that general alarm the
only in town. to tell about store the new
shamefacessome might sheepish reading my adver
tisements and have heart.
interested advertising. people, some Of
the best knew how put gngersnap advertise
ments and humor and that's how the idea the
POOR TRUST IS DEAD sign.
also found that goodname repeat sales and that
started concentrating staples with the business
what kind, longer confused
efforts, wasting time and costing money passed out
Customers bought baking POWDER -four and other
articles bearing identification pictures
Products put neat convenient honest weight
cartons boxes bottles and What improvement
and the dispositions improved with
conditions greatly changed for the better.
WE. MOFFETT
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-12-01
NO USS
RELIEVING COLD
DISCOMFORT THIS WAY!
Just Follow Simple Directions Below
and Use Fast Acting Bayer Aspirin

I. To ease pain and
discomfort and re-
duce fever take 2
\ Bayer TabIets-drInk
a glass of water. Re-
peat In 2 hours.