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Evening star., 1938-03-20

knowledge available, and in . more
thorough way than it is possible to
do now"
The Senator spoke at a meeting Of
the Political Study Club OF Wash
lngton, at the Washington Club, Sew
enteenth and r streets NV. He said:
Il have been giving the various
questions involved in establishment
OF such a council the most careful
consideration for some months, and
l have become satisfied that its estab-
lishment is the one step which we
must take if we wish to modernize our
democratic processes and make them
adequate.
Evening star., 1938-03-20
RADIO GUILD BROADCAST
Will Be Second Microphone Try
for Central Students.

Members of the Radio Guild of
Central High School will broadcast
an educational dramatization, Boots,
Boots, Boots" over Station VOL Tues
day from 7:45 to 8 pm.
This will be the second broadcast
for the Central youngsters, who or
ganized the Radio Guild to give the
students an opportunity to gain poise
and experience before the microphone
There are so members of the Guild
who will take turns in future programs
Evening star., 1938-03-20
OLD GRANT HOME
|SL|STED0NT TOUR
Several New Residences in
Georgetown Are on
1888 Route.

The fine old home occupied by Pres
ident Grant as the summer White
House will be opened during the
Georgetown house tour April and 9,
it was announced yesterday.
Now the home of 1t. Col. and Mrs
Howard G. Davidson, at 1898 r street
NV, near the Georgetown Library,
this historic mansion has just been
restored and redecorated and is ex-
pected to prove one of the attractions
of the tour.
Several houses not opened before
to the public will replace several that
nave been visited in previous years,
according to Mrs. Louis JeffrieS, jr.,
chairman of the committee in charge.
Smaller Homes Included.
Some of the smaller homes have
been included this spring, as well as
recently restored large houses
Georgetown, like Williamsburg, Va,
Mrs. Jetfrles said. furnishes wide
variety of Colonial houses that have
been spared from progress and change.
Early Georgetown" she explained.
housed not only the shippers and ship
owners, but the carpenters, artisans
and merchants who repaired and
stocked the ships, before the Capital
was moved from Philadelphia to
Washington"
Among the smaller houses to be
open this year is the home of Mr., and
Mrs. Harold H. Tittman. i:., at 3OlO
O street NV, built before 1900 and
saved in its original state by Elsie
Cobb Wilson Mrs. Louis Little, who
acquired it several years ago. A draw
Ing room with two beautiful fireplaces
and paneled library are distinctive
features, as is small walled garden
in the rear.
List of Residences.
Nine homes will be open on Friday.
April from 2 pm. to 6 pm. and
nine on Saturday, April 9, during the
same hours. This annual spring
event is conducted as a benefit for
st. Johns Church, Georgetown.
Tickets at 81 each will be on sale
April l at the American Automobile
Association and the Mayflower, Will
lard and Dodge Hotels.
In addition to the Davidson and
Tlttman homes. the list includes the
residences of Representative and Mrs.
James w. WadsWorth, 1868 N street
NV; Mr.. and Mrs. Walter J. Harri-
son. 1880 Thirty-third street NV;
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Thoron, 1900
N street NV; Mr.. and Mrs. G. How
land Chase, 3257 N street NV; Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence M. c. Smith.
$3.50 Reservoir road NV; Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Burling, jr., 1889 Twen-
ty-ninth street NV; Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter G. Peter, 3O27 N street NV;
Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Vance, 1928
@ street NV; Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Connor, 1400 Thirty-fourth street
NV; Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Lowrey,
$3.50 Prospect avenue NV, and Miss
Katherine Dougal, 5000 P street NV.
Evening star., 1938-03-20
EAST SHORE FERRY
PROJECT IS REVIVED
Citizens Boost Proposed Line From
Crisfeld to Open Up New
Field of Trade.

BY the Associated Press.
CR1SFIELD. Md. March l9-Re-
vival of project for ferry line be-
tween Crisfield and the Western Shore
of Maryland and Virginia was begun
today by prominent citizens and on
GERS of the Maryland Bay Co.
The projected line would operate to
Point Lookout and from there across
the Potomac to LeWisetta. Va. The
route would not only shorten the dis
tance to Washington and Baltimore
Evening star., 1938-03-20
Foreign Trade
Hit by Mexico's
Exchange Bans
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex. March 19.-Mexi-
can import and export business on the
international border here was In a
state of confusion tonight as result
of suspension OF foreign exchange by
the Banco Nacional de Mexico today.
Brokers here and in Juarez, across
the Rio Grande. had no guidance in
exchange and expected only to COM
plete spot shipments.
American money. however, was being
circulated prominently in Juarez late
today, and the Juarez branch Of the
Banco Nacional de Mexico said it had
not received official notice OF exchange
suspension.
Evening star., 1938-03-20
BULKLEY ASKS COUNCIL
|TO STUDY US. PROBL EMS
Senator Urges Body That Could
Examine Them in Light of
All Known Facts.

. Senator Bulkley. Democrat, of Ohio
yesterday reiterated the need for es-
tablishment of a national council
that could examine our more i'm
portant problems in scientific, non
partisan spirit in the light of all the
Evening star., 1938-03-20
Skating Champ Withdraws.

Miss Megan Taylor, the new world
figure skating champion, has with
drawn from the women's champion
ship contests in Berlin and will give
exhibitions.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

In a rescue off the coast of England
football referee and three players
were members of the lifeboat crew,
The Washington times., 1938-08-17
Stamp Business Up
Since Dionnes' Birth

Among other industries that
have prospered in Callander,
Ontario, since the arrival of the
Dionne quintuplets is the stamp
business.
Before the quints came the
Callander post office sold about
81 worth Of stamps a day. Now
it is not unusual to sell 5000
worth, or enough to mail S. 900
post cards.
Jean Hersholt, now in Callan-
der for the third time to appear
again with the quints in their
third goth Century-Fox starring
picture, Five of a Kind" has
made extensive purchases Of
stamps from the Callander post
office for his own collection.
The Washington times., 1938-08-17

Ameche infuses it with such a
tender and touching nobility,
you begin to figure Alice's heart
is leading hei astray. For act
ing, nothing in the smoothly
told picture, matches this for
honest, pulse-Warming wallop.
Getting back to Composer
Berlin's triumph. On his trick
piano he has been turning out
hit tunes since Spanish War
days, and "Alexander's Rag
time Band" swept the country
first in 1911.
To show that there are hits in
the old box yet, Berlin turned
out two new ones for this pic
ture, Now It Can Be Told" and
my Walking Stick" both high
In today's popularity ratings.
AS you hear the old favorites,
a realization. dawns that this
tune wizard and lyrical genius
expressed the moods and man.
ners OF a peGple while tickling
their ear and stirring their
emotions.
Here are some of the songs
that pass in review, many backed
up with preteDtious production:
The Washington times., 1938-08-17
New Program
AtTrons-Lux

Can you imagine a "necking
party" with Charlie Mccarthy?
Well, here is just that at the
Trans-Lux Theater for the week
commencing August 10, as one
of the very special short sub
jects. In fact, the entire bill
looks to be replete with every
angle of screen amusement.
With the engroSsing spectacle
located in the Far East, the color
travelogue for the week will be
more than simply a travelogue.
1t is a Screen Traveller" cover
ing the far-famed ancient city Of
Hongkong, gateway to China,
and one of Great Britain's most
important colonies, and its
neighboring countryside.
Google fishing is the chief
topic in the underwater" reel
where novices are taught how to
shoot fish with spear. And,
of all things, tobacco is put on
the goggles to keep them from
clouding.
Then there is water polo, an
extremely exciting game, de-
pending on an ability to hold
ones breath under water.
No TranS-Lux bill would be
complete without a cartoon, and
it is a Disney Silly Symphony
this time; and it is entitled MI
sic Land" and it contributes
eight solid minutes of laughs.
The Newsreel Digest will bring
the usual 35 minutes of world
coverage as photographed by
all the newsreel companies,
The Washington times., 1938-08-17
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
HOLD WOOD
BY ED SULLIVAN
The RsUissOinR Stand
HOLLYWOOD. Aug. II.

Hollywood Aug. IT,
THERE Is other the wide world that is quite like
Hollywood respect suffrage colony
been extended to unhealthy point
where the wives Of movie magnates
least influence them potety the closely social
life Of the colony the movie become
might as hafsmart because thew hear about the
business dinner tables bridge The wives are thrown
into close contact with the with directors with the writ
and with the bankers and they become with the belief
that this had made them From that convc
ton to the next stethat Of becoming nusances
only short maShie pitch.
NOTABLE exception halsmart
vrEn1 zanuck Because Of her position as the wife Of DARYL
who could exert tremendous influence without half trying I've
directed deliberately marveled at
have heard her roast performer director producer
writer.
NOT ALL foAunate their wives.
for his Wes drinks she
similarly handicapped wife who hits brandy
bottle At every opportunity There are other wives who are rs
others equally dangerous their husbands have been
oOhardy people this business because the office boy Of
year is the genius of the
JUST HOW much studio trouble engendered by the wives Of
plenty costly an S star occurred BE-
the wC9Ibe social wife Of the producer of the picture had
residence cost the about in The
people 1n uds iS' %
burned who has not been invited
to big party.
NOW that other Hollywood this
respect The automobile business business
business not influenced by the of the important
those fields Neither department newspapers
firms great surgeon doesn't ask his msss whether he
should overlapping grip Scalpe But Hollywood
wives exert definite and not always fortunate
TWO FINE shows playing the Angeles the
moment with Taluah Bankhead and Gertrude Lawrence heading
this with two this
Currently Victor Moore holding forth in "On Time
at the Federal Theatre Project offering all
cOIOred cast at the Mayan Theatre in "Run Little Chlun
Run LITTLE CLUN it to this
outstanding plays brought the American theatre
respect than Green Pastures and distinguished
individual players that is difficult
player If this had been done by the Moscow Art Theatre
Of foreign actors and actresses 1t would hailed nationally
for its dramatic intensity and integrity its brilliant
simple staging.
NOT SINCE Journeys End" evening
theatre greatly, for Run Little Chun" stage
This the first Federal Theatre Project
uSt all the that has been SubSidze
seats cents The actors and actresses get $50
month all of the Hollywood actor
$SOO00 to $15OOOO Little ChEun"
something Brooks Alfred
Grant, Florence OBren, Ruby Ely
The Washington times., 1938-08-17

WELL TOLD STORY
Forsooth. "AlexandriR's Rag
time Band" has the best love
scene, from a directorial and
acting standpoint, that have
seen in a generation of picture
going. 1 refer to those moments
when Don Ameche relinquiSheS
all rights to Alice Faye, con-
cedes mis- marriage a mistake,
leaves her free to follow the
dictates of her heart. In other
words, to marry Tyrone Power.
This scene, beautifully writ
ten, and exquisitely acted for
power and persuasion, seems to
me to mark the emergence of
Alice Faye from the ranks of
mere song plugger, to that Of
sterling emotional actress. Don
The Washington times., 1938-08-17

CLOCK

r. X. o. KEITH'S-George Muir.
ply, Andrea Leeds, Letter Of
Introduction" 1850 a. M,
2:1O, 4:35, 7:O5, 9:S5 p. m.
March of Time" 1880 a. M,
1:50, AIS, 6:45. 9:15 p. m.
EARLE-Edward G. Robinson.
Claire Trevor, "The Amazing
DR.. Clitterhouse," II a. m,
1:4O, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 p. m.
Stage, Harry Stockwell, 1880,
1855, $40, 9:O5 p. m.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tap
ley, Jane Regan, "Booloo, I"
1855 a. M, 1855. 3:55. 5:55.
1855, 9:55 p. m.
CAPITOL-Robert Young, Lana
Turner, Rich Man, Poor
Man." IL a. M, 1:45, 4::35,
7:25, 1915 p. m. Stage, Vir-
ginia Verrill. 1850. $40. $50,
9:15 p. m.
PALACE-Maureen O'Sullivan,
Robert Taylor, William Gar
gan, "The Crowd Roars," ii
a. M, los. 3:15, 5:25. 1885,
9:45 p. m.
COLUMBIA - Mickey Rooney,
Judy Garland, Love Finds
Andy Hardy" at 11:15 a. m,
1:20, 1925, $50. 7::35, $40 p. m.
LITTLE-Luise Rainer, william
Powell in "Escapade," at 11:35
a. M, 1875, 3:35, 5:S5, 1885,
and 9:40 p. m. La Cuca-
rocha" at 11:15 a. M, 1:15,
3:15, Sis, 7:15, and 9:2O p. m.
TRANS-LUX-News and shorts.
10 u m, to midnight. shows
IS minutes.
The Washington times., 1938-08-17

That's 5,4O4 chances to get
in the money in game of skill.
The contest, which is re.
garded as the most direct means
of bringing new patrons to par.
ticipating theaters during the
campaign, will open September
J. and continue to December
81.
During this period theater
patrons will have opportunities
to see "a new season pictures
which will be released from Au-
gust l to October 81. The
Movie Quiz" contest consists of
questions concerning the con-
tents of these "a pictures.
Theater patrons will be obliged
to see the contest films in order
to answer the questions and be-
come eligible for prizes. A con-
testant will qualify for a prize
by answering 80 Of the "a ques-
ton comprising the contest.
The complete list of contest
questions, together with rules,
instructions to entrants, titles,
casts, illustrations and descrip-
tive matter on each of the "a
contest pictures, have been COM
piled in a 32-page booklet pre-
pared by the contest committee.
These books will be available
at all Washington theaters be-
fore September /. They will be
distributed free to patrons.
Committees have been named
The Washington times., 1938-08-17

"Ragtime Violin" "InternatiOnal
Rag" when the Midnight ChOO
ChOO Leaves for Alabam',"
"EverybOdy's DOin' It," "When
l Lost YOu," IN My Harem,"
This Is the Life" For Your
Country and My Country" I'm
the Y.M.C.A." "Oh, How 1 Hate
to Get Up in the Morning."
"We're On Our Way to France"
"A Pretty Girl Is Like Melody"
"Say It With Music" Everybody
Step" Some Sunny Day." Pack
Up Your Sins" "What'l DO?'
Lazy" "AN Alone" "Remem-
ber," "Blue Skies" Marie"
Heat Wave" Easter Parade"
and "Cheek to Cheek"
Strange to say, the romantic
story contriveS to burst through
this musical panorama, provid-
ing real sequences of tenseness
and excitement. It's modern
Horatio Alger, superbly directed
by Henry King.
REMINISCENT HITS
Tyrone is a promising Cali
fornia musician with the violin,
who makes his first hit as a
struggling band leader, playing
Berlin's "Alexander'S Ragtime
Band" Alice Faye's singing is
the thing that places his feet
on the first rung of the career
ladder.
Alice and Tyrone fight from
the start, with their careers at
the bottom of the difficulties.
Dillingham; wants her for Broad
way, but not the band. Result
of these quarrels is that Alice
becomes a musical comedy star,
marries Don Ameche, ana Ty-
rome goes to war.
Through the cafes of Europe
and America Alice and Tyrone
carry the torch. Don Ameche
generously bows out of the
heart stakes. but it takes a long
time for the sweethearts to
reach the clinch on the Carnegie
Hall stage.
Favored WITH FUN
The Berlin songs are sung for
every ounce of t h cir tuneful
value by Alice Faye. Don
Ameche, Ethel Norman, quar-
tets and choruseS. Best of the
production numbers is a stirring
soldier show finale that inspires
a real patriotic tingle.
Full of grand acting, choice
bits are contributed by Paul
Hurst and John Carradine, with
Jack Haley and Eddie Collins
big aids in providing the COM
edy flavor.
There's nothing like singing
Berlin songs for beating Old
Father Time. None of the main
characters in "Alexander'S Rag
time Band" age by as much as
a gray hair.
If you don't like "Alexander's
Ragtime Band" you just amt
got rhythm. I expect to see it
at least a couple of times when
it comes Loew's Palace Theater
within a fortnight. It's tn a t
good. A reminiscent picnic.
The Washington times., 1938-08-17
$250,000, in T, ,404 Prizes, Are
Offered in Quiz Contest

Men and boys and girls movegoers all You will
have better chance to win than the Irish Sweepstakes
if you that $25OOOO Movie Quiz due
all the U. S. A September l.
The Washington times., 1938-08-17
KELLEYGRAMS

Eugene LeOntOvic h has
checked in on the Cochran
estate at OIney. is rehearSing
under the trees for her guest
star role in "TOvarich" next
week :. Will Hays office did
q little censOring of Irving
Berlin lyrice in "Alexander's
Ragtime Band" For in
stance, "She's causing a heat
wave, by making her seat
wave" becomes "She's causing
q heat wave. by making her
feet wave" Incidentally
'Walking Stick" one of the new
hit tunes in the picture, was
originally written for a Fred
Astaire- Ginger Rogers feature,
and was thumbed out as not SO
hot william Whitney, who
is Maxine DOyle's bridegroom,
Is cO-directOr of the new Re-
public serial, "Dick Tracy Re
turns" founded on the cartoon
strip that runs in the Wash
ingtOn Herald J. Edgar
Hoover should cheer this 15-epl-
sOde feature which glOrifieS the
G-men Opening sequence,
screened yesterday, is a pip.
DEWEY HELPS MOVIE
New York's District Attorney
Tom Dewey gave the new Co.'S
mopolitan picture, Racket Bus
ters," a great boost while select
ing the jurors at the Hines trial.
He was questioning tales
men as to the possible influence
on their minds of motion pic
lures, mentioning specifically,
"Racket Busters" ... Cosmopol'
The Washington times., 1938-08-17
Laurel to Record
PrevieW Reaction

Stan Laurel has purchased an
entire set of portable recording
equipment that can be carried
around in a suitcase, and the
film comedian will use the set
to record audience reaction at
the sneak preview of his current
feature comedy coStarring
Oliver Hardy, Just a Jiffy."
Microphones will be planted
around the theater, and the au-
dience's laughter and applause
will be recorded. The records
will then be played to accom-.
pany a silent print of the pic
ture, to aid in cutting the final
film.
The Washington times., 1938-08-17

to handle the industry ad cam
paign in this territory. Four
districts have been set up. The
districts and their chairmen are:
Washington - John ]. Payette,
chairman; Robert Folliard and
Samuel CALAMITY; Baltimore
Carter Barron, chairman; Rudy
Berger and Samuel Flax; Vir-
ginia-Robert Smeltzer chair
man; Fred Viersdorf, Samuel
Wheeler, Harry Bachman and
Fred Rohrs; Sidney
Lust, chairman; Edward Fon-
taine, Joseph Kalitzky and Ma
than Sauber.
The Washington times., 1938-08-17

tan feature is a smashing dra-
matte study of a hard-boiled
form of extortion that is ended
by the relentless war of a fight
ing prosecutor In Racket
Busters" Walter Abel is said to
bear a striking resemblance to
the New York district attorney.
The picture, made by War,
ner Bros, is being nationally
released-by timely coinci-
dence-aS the Hines trial makes
it hot celluloid Comes to the
Earle screen within a fortnight.
The Government won't permit
the exhibit planned for both the
New York and Frisco fairs, "See
and feel S1,OOO,0OO for 1Oc," on
the claim currency cannot be
exhibited for an admission price.
LEE IS D. C. "BOWES"
Let's call Lee Everett, the
Potomac's Major Bowes, for an
apt description.
Lee will act as master of cere-
monies of the new Going Ma
tive" revue to be presented at
Loew's Capitol Theater on Fri
day.
During the 1S months that
"Old Sol" has presided over his
popular "PSD Presents" pro-
gram on WMAL, Lee has pre-
Sented more than 300 individu-
ais in his quest for outstand-
ing local talent. Many of Uncle
Lees finds" have stepped
rapidly up the success ladder
since first finding outlet for
their talents on Lees early
morning broadcast.
The Washington times., 1938-08-17
Faces Are Alike

BY q strange coincidence. the
profileS of Louise Campbell,
playing daughter, and Walter
Abel, playing father, in Para
mounts cavalcade Of the air,
Men With Wings" are almost
identical. TechnicianS working
with them on the production
noted the marked resemblance.
The Washington times., 1938-08-17
Al PEDI IA TDIIIAIDu Roam
ande

Roaming Memory Lane With Composer in Alex
ander's Ragtime Band,' Makes Smashing Hit
The Washington times., 1938-02-15

With that statement, uGCered III
a jammed courtroom, Assistant
District Attorney Charles g. Cor,
don today hinted in his opening
address to the jury trying Mary
keenan, O'Connor that the Com
monwealth may ask the death
penalty for the 19-year-old coed,
accused Of killing little Nancy
Glenn "in a fit of rage" last Labor
Day.
LEAVES DEGREE OPEN
In the next breath, the prosecu-
tor declared, with emphasis:
II am not going to say now
what verdict I shall ask. The de-
gree of verdict I will leave
OPEN"
The ker-faced defendant,
known to intimates as "Petey" and
"Tarzan," listened silently. AS on
the opening day of the trial,
"Petey" was dressed in a blue
school uniform and white collar
and appeared to be the calmest
person in tthe dingy, sixth floor
courtroom.
WATCHES MOTHER
Her eyes followed every move.
ment of Mrs. Mary Glenn, the
five-year-old victims mother, when
she walked to the witness stano
as the first State witness. Stead
lily, she looked at the sad-facec
mother and turned her eyes away
only once to whipser to her own
attorney, William A. Gray, noted
Philadelphia trial lawyer.
Gordon opened his address by
describing the various degrees Of
murder and manslaughter.
"I think you will have no
trouble in finding this unlawful
murder" he said.
CLAIMS MALICE
IF self defense does not enter
into this case" the prosecutor
continued, then the girls death
was unlawful and, therefore
done with malice.
I'm other words, it's murder
in the second degree. The Com
monWealth then will show that
it was done with premeditation
and will seek to raise the case
to first degree. If it was done
in hot blood, then the motive
of malice is disproved.
II am going to show you that
she killed this child as she said.
The Commonwealth will show
what the inevitable deduction
must be from the facts of the
= case"
Star witness for the state viii
be the defendants closest friend
Mrs. Marie Kibler Phillips, Is, at
team gymnast, who has said, "I'l
team gymnast, VINO has said "I'l
tell the truth although I do moi
want to testify" She will be
asked to relate how Miss O'Con
nor confessed to her that she wa&
responsible for Nancy's death.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
WOMAN BEATEN,
HUSBAND JAILED

Condition of Mrs. Ola Mae
Blackstock, IS, of 1900 block
Massachusetts, Ave. N. W., beaten
senseless with a hammer yester.
day in a corridor at the Internal
Revenue Building, was reported
slightly improved today at Emer.
gency Hospital. She is suffering
from a possibly fractured skull
and conclusion.
Police are holding the woman's
eStranged husband, Thomas M
Blackstock, AZ, 1900 block M St.
N. W., in connection with the
case. A week ago he was released
from a two-month Jail sentence,
imposed on a charge of threat
ening his wife,.
According to police, Blackstock
accosted his wife as he was wait.
ing for an elevator in a corridor
of the building, where she is EN-
ployed, and began beating her
on the head with the hammer
Two bureau employees, Eugene A.
Ross and James M. Garner, dis
armed BlackStock,
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
TELEGRAPH men
HIT NLRB RULE

Legality and reasoning Of a Ma
tional Labor Relations Boards or
der calling for a ""pie segment
election" IN the Postal Telegraph
system was challenged today BY
Mervyn Rathborne, president ol
the CIO American Radio Telegra
phists Association.
Rathborne said his union will
refuse flatly to obey the election
order, which was handed dowr
yesterday and calls for an elec
ton in the telegraph system ex
cept in the States of washington
Oregon, Montana and northern
Idaho and the cities Of jackson
vile, Fla, Boston, Indianapolis
and Kansas City. In these local
tiles, Rathborne said, two AFI
unions hold contracts with the
company.
In a letter to the board, Rath
borne called upon it to rescind its
decision, which, he claimed, de
stroyed the usefulness of a con
tract the urion has with the tele'
graph company. He requested
new hearings be held on the case.