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The Washington times., 1938-10-05
ROllin' Along
BIZ W. A. s. Douglas

WAS astounded yesterday to learn in the public prints
that had, in manner of speaking been nurturng a
viper to bosom for decade and more in the Of
Honest Joe Ball of the alligator farm San Antonio Joe
to his aligators.
Of many of us are agreed that there are
women who should-wel let's skip that and on with
what knew about Honest joe stout drinking companion
chef exceenceas luscious Lucius Beebe would put
ita skilled mixologist and who had way with the
ladies. His fnshand that apparently of untold and un
counted girl friends reads like those French paperback
tales of horror out of which we used make the boodnd
thunder movie serials of early picture days.
first met joe the alligator county Accord
man. during the progress of the ing reports from
Democratic national convention Cne lhuoer lain
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have ample time to prepare.
We can probably see signs as a
warning that we should In
crease our Army and Navy. It
took us three years to get into
the last war, and there is ample
reason to assume that we would
not be drawn into another war
suddenly"
Miss Eleanor Sullivan, 1908
Rhode Island Ave. N. E., Secre-
tary:
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Adn1ires Germany

Replying to Live and Let Live.
who takes exceptions to my
recent remarks in The Times:
To clear up the question.
what part did I play in the
war;" wonder if friend Live
and Let Live ever heard of the
Forty-second Division, known
as the Rainbow Division? Now,
as for going back again-no.
not me. But if the United
States is invaded, I would join
the ranks, and I deny friend
Live and Let Live the right to
call me unpatriotic for this
stand.
1t so happens this is the
United States and I reserve the
right to have an open and indie
pendent mind. am not Swayed
in my judgment or opinions
without first ascertaining the
causes and effects and, without
Stinting words, the Hon. Adolf
Hitler deserves the praises of
the entire world, for the budget
of Germany is balanced; there
is no unemployment there; she
has thrown off the interna-
tionalist gold masters, while we
are more deeply enslaved.
NOU a Leader
Germany demands equal eco
nomic liberty with the rest Of
the world and in spite Of the
hatreds Of the misguided people
in America and elsewhere she
will attain it. The boycottS will
not destroy Germany or Italy,
for gold has no attraction for
them.
I plead guilty to admiring the
spirit of the German people
under the Hon. Adolf Hitler,
who has brought Germany from
a defeated nation to q leader
among nations.
I say we should take a lesson
from Germany, whether you or I
like it or not.
I haven't spent the years since
the war hating Germany and
condemning her in her trials
and struggles. Nor did I en-
courage the boycotts against
Germany: but, on the other
hand, I did all could to de-
stroy the boycott, and my rea-
sons for this attitude was sim
ply that whatever measures Ger
many was taking against the
traitors who had brought the
red cloud over Germany while
they were in power was abso-
lutely no business Of ours.
! ! go one step farther and say
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Traffic Offenders

Pertaining to the case wherein
Officer Roy M. KeSserling, Of the
Second precinct, received only
a warning for parking in a mo
parking between such and such
a time" zone, aren't you sorry
you didn't wear a uniform with
brass buttons on it?
This story appeared in the
paper on October /. Did that
officer get away with 1t? I ask
you.
On the radio broadcast Of
Traffic Court on Tuesday, Sep
tember 27, there was a twin to
this case. The lawbreaker who
had parked in a restricted area
and had his car impounded
was a special officer, a colored
man, and he got away with the
advice of the Judge mot to re-
peat the offense."
Isn't it possible for me to get
an appointment as special Off
Ger or deputy or something?
If not, I'll just ride taxis and let
the taxi driver worry about the
traffic laws which none except
officers can break without pay
ing fines.
Not being a privileged charac-
ter, I don't have and don't want
a permit to drive; because they
broadcast proudly what Off
Ger, will arrest you for but be
excused from themselves.
The broadcaSts are, in my
opinion, educational, as they at
least let us know what fines we
citizens must pay for the same
law infraction that the officer
will get away with.
JUST A CITIZEN.
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"At the present
time, no. I don't
think there is any
d a n ger Of the
United States be-
ing plunged into
any war in the
near future. If at
a later time this
should happen, we
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haps you got mixed up in bad
company, no better than your
self. Your type should be
booted out Of the country.
wonder what the German
Bund is paying you for your mis-
informed propaganda. If you
believe in the efficacy Of prayer.
it might do you some good, don't
you think, or don't you? hope
I have answered your problem.
LIVE AND LET LIVE.
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Working Wives

1 believe that there should be
a campaign to stop these mar
ried women from working and
taking jobs from people who
really need them. I say, down
with married women who work!
They are robbing single girls OF
Jobs. ANN NJ
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Neither should we stand ready
to be drawn into war to assist
any other nation. The Situa-
ton now is actually not serious
enough to really affect this
country's safety. I am grateful
that we have oceans between
us and Europe and the Far
East"
X X X
Charles Vanderbilt, til H
st. S. W., waiter:
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that the past histories OF these
so-called refugees from Ger
many and Austria should be
carefully examined and exposed.
An official who has proved dis
loyal to his own country should
be refused entry into ours,
where the traitor escapes the
punishment so justly deserved.
have heard the cries of per-
secutions of these traitors from
public platforms, and they were
all Communists, who had taken
out citizenship papers in our
country and we're using this
protection to foment a revolu-
ton here, likewise spreading
their hates among our people.
DONALD SHEA.
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to see this country In a war, but
I firmly believe one way to keep
peace is to have a military
force that must be respected.
The settlement of the European
situation showed tactful diplo-
macy and wise Judgment, and
if the last peace proffer had
been refused, I am certain that
there would have been war"
X X X
B. BeIlmOre, 921 Florida Ave.
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die at 81; she was just getting
into her stride at age 81.
If ruler is great" who causes
the slaughter of large numbers of
soldiers and thereby makes large
grabs of other nations territory,
then Catherine was indeed great.
She wasn't Russian. She was
German; daughter of the ruler of
shabby little German kingdom
called Anhalt t-Zerbst. Germany was
split up into dozens of these busted
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United States should lnGerIere
with the problems of other
countries, or that we should
take a hand in fighting the bat
ties for other nations except, OF
course, if our own rights were
violated"
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number of these hoSteSSes had
disappeared over the years and
presumably we're killed by Joe
and fed to the beasts.
7 REMEMBER we all went out
l. of the roadhouSe to take a
look at the pit and the alliga-
tors. It was a moonlight night
and we could just discern the
brutes on the edge Of the pool,
half in and half out Of the
water - great, Shiny, inert
masses. threw an apple and
it hit one of them on the snout.
The jaws opened quickly,
snapped tight again.
They're horrible" said Q
girl near me. II wonder why
Joe keeps them"
All this put down, until yes
terday, as just an ordinary in
cident in a life which made
such an evening a very trivial
series of happenings. And then
I read that Joe Ball has been
killing women for an unknown
number of years and disposing
of them in this horrible fash
ion. And he stamps his guilt
by shooting himself to death
when he learns that the law is
on the heels of his awful secret.
T PAID a second visit to Joe
l. Balls alligator farm and
roadhouse about three years ago.
He had built a new place and
now, with prohibition gone. was
operating a legitimate business.
I had a couple Of cocktails, q
dinner Of fried chicken and corn
as before, and more hard liquor
afterwards. I talked at length
with the genial host, I met a
couple Of the girls who still
swarmed round the place as Of
old. Those others had talked
to six years before had gone
away or had settled down or
and I didn't think of that
until yesterday-been fed to the
alligators.
I went out again that night
to the alligator pit-with the
two girls this time. And both
Of them, like the one who had
voiced her disgust years before,
took occasion to speak just as
she had done. I'm actually
Shivering as I think that in all
possibility those three young and
pretty women
It's horrible, isn't it? But
there it Is.
Copyright, 1898, Washington
m,
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st. S. W., waiter:

Yes. I believe
in prep a redness
and alertnesS at
all times. I am a
member of the Ma
tional Guard and
we would be the
first to be recruited
in case of war. I
would never want
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Il can't see any
reason why the
Unite d S t a t es
should increase its
armed forces at
the present time.
The United States
has an adequate
peace-time Arm y
and N Wy. Al
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in Houston,
Texas, in 1928
the one at
W hich the
Governor Of
N e W York,
F a nklin D.
Roosevelt, put
in nomination
for the preSi-
dency hiS-at
t h a t time
loved friend,
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mo. If t h e
United States in
creases its armed
forces it would
only invite war.
which is one thing
that I do not want
to see. We should
keep ourselves out
of foreign affairs.
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Were we as eloquent as angels,
yet should we please some men,
some women, and some children
much more by listening than by
Naturalization,
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"I don't think so.
The stu a ton in
Europe was han
died in such a
manner as to in
sure the peace Of
the world for sew
eral years at least.
There is no real
reason now for
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If we give way to our passions
we do but crafty ourselves for
the present in order to our
future disquiet.-Tillotson.
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Answering w. Cloud, who is
defending Donald Shea (why' 1
don't know. Space does not
permit me to say what I think.
For your benefit, Mr.. Cloud:
I loathe Communism
I abhor Fascism
I detest NaziiSm
I love Americanism.
Now that should let me out OF
the category of bad company
It is plain to see, Mr.. Cloud
that you, too, are a Fascist. No
man can be a true American
and yet be Fascist or a Fascist
sympathizer. I am an Amer-
can, and proud of it. What are
you?
1 don't profess to be an au-
thority on foreign affairs, but
the World War taught me lots
of things that might interest
you. You say you spent u years
on the Continent and that you
know everything. Well. per-
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though conditions in other
parts of the world may be Sc
rious, we need have no worries
about our own welfare. Besides,
increasing our forces would
mean increasing taxation"
X
John w. Thacker, 4001 Davis
Pl. N. w., accountant:
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Catherine the Great--1729-96

YESTERDAY through misprint' we gave Catherine
the Greats life dates as 1926. This incorrect,
and the correct dates stated above Catherine didn't
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increasing our forces. The
equipment would be obsolete
when war did come, even as
soon as 10 years from now"
X Il \
Miss Katherine JarOS, 1900
Massachusetts Ave. N. w.
waitress:
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Wise Words

And sweets grown common
lose their dear delight.-Shake-
speare.
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Eyes, I think it
would be wise in
order to protect
ourselves. 1 don't
believe in war, but
I do believe in pre-
parednesS to take
care Of any emer-
gency. I don't be-
lieve tn at the
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

to addresses Of
writer will omit
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Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District of Columbia since
January i, 1888, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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The Inquiring.
Photographer
The Washington Times in
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Is it wise for the United
States to increase its military
and naval forces in view Of the
present international situation?
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THE ANSWERS

Mrs. Eugene w. Greene, 1921
Thirteenth st. N. W., bindery
oil
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All this seems to us to tie in with what
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I first met Joe. the alligator
man, during the progress of the
Democratic national convention
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Pl. N. w., accountant:
The Washington times., 1938-10-26
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
BY ED SULLIVAN
On Your Right Is the -.
HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 26.

Hollywood Oct. g.
readers have California, write In
asking description the clubs the
gate that todays piece will be sort OF guide to the HOLLYWOOD
of New York.
YOU WERE driving from Beverly Hills to Los Angeles at mite
the Clover Club would catch above Sunset Boulevard
number s477 in blue s the white walled
entrance Even when the Clover shut down while Farmer
lifted numbers continued blaze through the mite Turning left off
into gear steep roadway leading up
door You have set brakes to hold the top OF
the roadway where uniformed takes while second
gives check for It,
YOU WALK flight of fifteen twenty capeted to
the iron gates and if you are member the man at the grille ad
Had
been there last mite n would have tanned
Warbng EverythnE Been Done Before with Chic Endo strm
a0 g their fingers sco n G table o1 top in min % 9s Dire Sg
table where party was in progress was Countess Dorothy d
quick trip New YORK The chap taking pictures Of that rngde
table Fink best Hollywood Photographer.
picture they destroy it. the moment he's swapping
tall and blonde Toby Wing and tanned Dick Merrill
AFEw BLOCKS toward Beverly directly Sunset the
YOU now low colonial building with white pillars with no
that everything mite club Attendants
in the The entrance cattcOrner and generally
twenty or thirty Youngsters are standing there hopefully for auto
lounges the left side Of it. you'd continue to the Of this
cushioned bar.
BEFORE ARRIVING steps, you right
look directly into the rocadero 1t exceptionally pretty
b at @ M nS n m bnnd @ 09 e
the windows the e of Wiltshire section
been there last mite with would "A Star Born
come to fleshandblood life
AT table were Muicans of Indianoa Iowa.
You familiar with their radio the Lane
earnr brsds down Ser bac at H~S So S "
stolen which had been prevwed at the Warner
Hollywood Theatre and she slipping fruit Oganade and
laughing something Sister Rosemary had said.
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CLOCK

LOEW'S CAPT. Bing
Crosby, "Sing, You Sinners" at
II a. M, 1:50, 4:40, 1880 and
1920 p. m. Stage: KidoodlerS,
1880, $40, $50 and 9:20 p. m.
PALACE-Clark Gable, Myrna
10y, TOO Hot to Handle"
1855 a. m, 2::20, 4:45, 7:1O.
and 9:40 p. m.
COLUMBIA-George Raft, Dot
mour, Spawn of the
North" 1883 a. M, 2:20, 4:45.
7:15 and 9:40 p. m.
EARLE-Pat O'Brien, Margaret
Lindsay, Garden of the
Moon," II a. M. 1:45, 4:30,
7:10 and 9:55 p. m. Stage:
Stroud Twins, 1850, 3:35.
$40 and 8 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - Jean Ar
thur, James Steward, "You
Can't Take It With You," 11:25
a. M, 1855, 4::25, 7:05 and 9:4O
p. m.
RKO-KEITH'S - Deanna Dur
bin. "That Certain Age" 1920
a. m, 1:25, $3.50, $50, 7:35,
and 9:35 p. m.
BELASCO-"Grand Illusion" at
4:05. sos, sos and 1905 p.
m.
TRANS L U X-NewSreels and
shorts, at 10 a. m. and every
rs minutes thereafter to 10:45
p. m.
LITTLE-"Life Dances On" II
a. m, 1:05, 3:15. 5:25. 1887
and 9:45 p. m.
MOUNT VERNON-Drive In:
Katherine Hepburn, Cary
Grant. Holiday" 1855, 10:05
D. m.
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since his roles in Love Finds
Andy Hardy" and Boys Town"
So stop painting your kitchen
chair and get busy finishing the
Mickey Rooney jungle above.
You won't have any trouble do
ing so, because "woe" rhymes
with about a thousand words in
the English language, if we can
believe our not-so-bright jingler.
Then mail your last line to the
Contest Editor of the press.
The three best last lines to the
above jingle will win IS, SO and
So cash, respectively.
Five others each will get a
pair of guest tickets to see
"Stablemate" and the Capitol'S
new stage show. Entries must
reach the "Stablemates" edition
at the Times by Friday.
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KELLEYGRAMS

One signature for any petit
ton that requests Loretta
Young to cut those long finger
nails. Really Loretta, they're
freakish, even on Empress Eu-
genie, make some mOvie-gOerS
nervous looking at 'em.
Freddy Bartholomew will be
Rhode Islands Governor fora
Day, when he plays Providence,
beginning Friday. Appointment
was secured by WaShington's
Howard Burkhardt, once a
member of Governor Quinn's
staff.
Away back in the dim past,
Helen Hayes, as a child artist,
was a member of the Izetta
Jewell Stock Company at
Polls. June Brown, now in the
Victoria Regina" company
with Helen Hayes, is Izetta
JeWellS daughter.
Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer is dick
ering with radio to put the
Judge Hardy family on the air.
Asking price of the studio is
$4,000 a week, including
Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone
and other characters from the
movie cast. No deal yet, but
agents are pursuing Louis K.
Sidney, who is handling affairs
for Leo-the-Lion.
CAGNEY.OBRIEN HIT
Jimmy Cagney and Pat
OBrien, who struck out, with
out making a bunt, in Boy
Meets Girl" are said to do a
sensational comeback into the
good actor ranks, in Angels
With Dirty Faces"
Hollywood grapevine heralds
it as certain to be a Warner
Bros. top grosSer, with pugna-
ciouS James as a vicious gang
ster, and handsome Pat as the
parish priest. They have plenty
of help with Humphrey Bogart,
George Bancroft, Ann Sheridan
and the Dead End" kids, i'm
portantly cast.
PICKING THE BEST 10
Ballots have gone out to H.
900 Independent movie exhibi-
tors, and they are voting now in
the Motion Picture HeraId's
annual poll to determine the
"Ten Best Money Making Stars
of 1888"
Deanna Durbin is the favOrite
dark horse to get into the honor
list. On last years poll she
ranked %. Mickey Rooney is
also an even money bet to crack
into the coveted circle, through
the success of the Andy Hardy
series.
In 1885, '36 and 81, Shirley
Temple was an easy winner.
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historic characters as Franz
Liszt and Victor Hugo, and pag-
eantry that permits of colorful
CoStuming.
It's impressive final is laid
at Port Said, where Empress
Eugene comes for the canals
opening, to decorate with the
Legion of Honor, the man who
built the famous cut, her one
real love.
"Suez" is not concerned with
the later chapters of de LessepS'
life, and his failure with the
Panama Canal.
Director Alan Dwan has moved
thousands of extras in desert
scenes of spectacular beauty,
many of them tinted in sepia.
From a Photographic stand
point, "Suez" is a magnificent
job.
GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY
I liked Tyrone Powers char
acterization, despite his aversion
to gray hairs and careworn
lines, and his romantic scenes
are endowed with more warmth
that he has shown in recent
appearances.
Loretta Young's task is to
look beautiful, and to be told
often about it, and she does this
nicely. Annabella is sufficiently
coy and hoydenish to make her
role appealing.
Splendid acting comes from
the character names in the cast:
Nigel Bruce as the English Am
bassador, Miles Mander as Dis
raeli, j. Edward Bromberg as
the Viceroy of Egypt, and Maur-
ice Moscovich as Mohammed
Ali.
"Suez" is big league, all the
way. 1t opens at LoeW'S Palace
Theater tomorrow.
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THE WIND, SHE BLOW
For Producer Zanuck has re-
created, with all the art of his
sound effects experts, a desert
simeon that sweeps all before
it, a big wind that leaves death
and devastation in its wake,
and Engineer de Lesseps, bleed
ing and discouraged, amid the
ruins of his dream.
Before tn a t has happened,
devilish Arabs have dynamited
the project, and Hollywood
again proves that for thrills and
excitement the art of the cinema
can compete will h Mother Ma
ture.
Loretta Young it seems, was
the cause of much Of the roman
tic distress, and Illustration, that
punctuated the life of the bril-
liant Frenchman. For he loved
this Eugene de Montijo, was
heartbroken when she chose am
bition and crown, to marry Ma
poleon III, and become the last
Empress of France.
In Egypt, where de Lesseps
went as a diplomat, and con-
ceived the idea of joining the
Mediterranean and the Red Sea,
he met desert Cigarette. a
French imp called Toni" who
gave him loyalty and slavish de-
votion, until the simeon claimed
her as a tragic victim.
"Suez" follows Mons. de Les
seps through all of the troubles
of financing his project, his diff
ficulties with Napoleon and
French politicians, his desperate
plea to England's No. 10 Down
ing Street and DiSraeli's cham
pioning of his cause.
Some of its spectacular scenes
Of regal pomp introduce such
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Last years poll had stars finish
ing in this order: l, Shirley Tenn
pie; 2, Clark Gable; 3, Robert
Taylor; 4, Bing Crosby; 5, Will
liam Powell; 6, Jane Withers; 7,
Fred AStaire and Ginger Rogers;
8, Sonia Henie; 9, Gary Cooper;
10, Myrna 10y. Second 10 were
Bob Burns, Martha Raye, jean
cite Macdonald, Dick Powell,
Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford,
Joe E. Brown, Spencer Tracy,
Claudette Colbert and Eleanor
Powell.
Favored to move up, in early
prOgnOSticating: Bette Davis,
CarOle Lombard, Spencer Tracy,
Alice Faye and Tyrone Power.
Cocktails at 4 today, when
Mark Lachman and Sam
Wheeler gather scribes at Va
riety Club to tell about Sub
marine Patrol" which will be
given an invitation preview for
the National Press Club Thurs
day night. Later it will be
shown at Annapolis, to officers
and midshipmen Of the Naval
Academy.
FRANCES STARR'S SON
William Haskell, who plays
one of the aides of General
Howe in yankee Fable" the
comedy starring Ina Claire,
which comes to the National
Theater, next Monday, is the
son of Frances Starr, famous
stage star, and the distinguished
artist, Haskell Coffin.
Young Haskell has played in
summer stock, but this is his
first appearance in a play des-
tined for Broadway. Both Miss
Starr and Miss Claire were Be
lasco stars, but neither Cheryl
Crawford, the producer, nor
Miss Claire were aware of Has
kell'S relationship to the actress.
He got his part on the basis of
his able reading of the role be-
fore Director Otto L. Preminger.
Out went the "Can-Can" in
Paramount'S "Zaza," with the
observation from Hays office
censors it was the dirtiest and
most vulgar exhibitioniSm, pos
ing as dance. Grandpa used to
like it.
CIVIC THEATER TONIGHT
Civic Theater presents Elmer
Rice's Judgment Day, at the
Rialto tonight, through Satur-
day.
Director F. Cowles Strickland
calls it the young thespians
most ambitious effort.
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for some handsome prizes!
Mickey Rooney and Wallace
Beery are coming to Loew's
Capitol on Friday in the local
premier of "Stablemates." This
new film is said to be more
dramatic and more humorous
than "The Champ" and will
give Beery and Rooney fans to
see their favoriteS in action.
And, believe us, Snub-nosed
Mickey's admirers are legion
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Gle eanings a S
and
Screenings
BY Andrew R. Kelley

Keeping up with the movies keeps brushed his
tory.
change Yesterday matinee interested enough to
anime the record the big ditch and the biography of
Vscomte Ferdinand de Lesseps, who built 1t.
found that Tyrone Power who plays Mons de Lesseps
in the Twentieth Century-Fox magnficence, is much
younger looking than the French diplomat who became
chief construction for the Suez Canal 81 who "a
years old when the great waterway opened ships
August Is, 1869.
Little things like historical naccuracy, and lack of age,
will not however, prevent anybody from enjoying "Suez
and the spectacular history of construction Daryl Zanuc
has placed it upon the screen, cost of $2O0OO00