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next mate Of the widow Fal-
coner.
This is a conventional triangu-
lar formula, and you will find
the more dramatic sequences in
the episode reminders Of avia-
tion's aerial milestones. They
tell graphically about mans
strides in the air, contrive to
convey some of the spirit Of
adventure and dauntlesS cour.
age that marked progress.
Fred MacMurray plays Pat, q
little too pat for me, and no pun
intended. There is q glamorouS
newcomer, Louise Campbell,
who takes exquisitely to the
color cameras, is a competent
actress in a not too exacting
role. Ray Milland is handsome
enough to get by nicely.
Comedy is provided by the
whining Andy Devine as q plane
mechanic, and Lynne Overman
as a grumbling news editor. Por.
ter Hall, Walter Abel and Kitty
Kelly serve competently, and
three juveniles, Donald O'Con-
nor, Virginia Weidler and Billy
Cook, help to make the early Be-
quences interesting.
ROLLER SKATE CHORUS
Director Wellman has made
some magnificent shots of flying
and from q spectacular point Of
view Men With Wings" is
strictly Grade A.
George Lyons plucks out est.
Louis Blues" on q harp, gets
more melody out of the instru-
ment than anybody since Harpo
Marx, to open up Harry Anger's
stage show.
Then comes the condo.
brothers in fast rhythmic step
ping, Dick and Leota Nash In
comedy rope spinning and dane
ing, Ross Wyse, jr. and June
Mann in riotouS knockabout,
and the Gauchos, on the spring
board.
The Is Earle Roxyettes are on
roller skates this week and
wheel to glory on the steel
wheels.
Program closes with excellent
shots Of the Seabiscuit-War Ad.
miral race at Pimlico.
ANDREW r. KELLEY.
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The Lunts in
The SeoGuII'

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon-
tame will drop the Grecian for
the Russian at the National
Theater for the week of Novem-
Der 7 in their production OF
Chekhov's THE Sea Gull"
Richard Whorf, Sydney Green
street, John Barclay, Edith
King, Uta Hagen, Jacqueline
Paige and Margaret Waller are
among those in important roles.
The Sea Gull" incidentally,
was the fourth play produced by
the Moscow Art Theater. open
ing in 1895 and meeting with
unexpected success. During the
last Is years it has been pre-
sented by professional players
in New York only infrequently.
In 1916 the Washington
Square players offered it as their
first full-length play and in 1925
Eva LeGallienne presented it at
her Civic Repertory Theater.
Miss LeGallienne revived her
production in 1929 and in April
of the same year Leo Bulgakov
staged a production at the
Comedy Theater.
The play is the story of a
young Russian on whom life is
particularly severe. The tragedy,
in the eyes of several critics, is
"unalloyed expression. Given
his Characters vain actress,
an impreSSionable country girl,
an aspiring playwright, a sue
cesSful novelist, the inevitable
doctor, and full quota Of old
men, school teachers and Serv-
ants-given these characters,
Chekhov shows them reStlessly,
impulsively, Intellectually in con-
flict with life.
He does not blame them. nor
preach to them, nor subordinate
them to a philosophers vanity.
He pities them from the bottom
of his heart. Mr.. Lunt will be
seen as the literary man, Boris
Trigorin, and Miss Fontanne as
Trina, an actress. MatineeS are
Wednesday and Saturday.
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MEN WITH WINGS AT EARLE
MEN With Wings" at EorIe,
Is CoIorfuI Movie Story,
New Revue on Stage

William Wellman's cavalcade Of aviation is beautiful
strip of celuoid as has issued from 1888 Hollywood
Indeed the story of flying from the pioneer days Of the
Wrghts Kitty Hawk to the epic flight of Howard Hughes
around the world, is a monumental subject
"Men With Wings" which opened at the Earle Theater
yesterday picture in which Paramount had
attempted too much and the result some times is sketchy
They have mixed little into the narrative in
telling the story Pat Faconer Scott Barnes and Peggy
Ransom These three the birth of aviation and they
never got the thrill of flying out of their systems
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|Suez' Is Held
Second Week

Ano ther "history-in-the-mak-
ing" picture-play stays over at
Loew's Palace for a second week
so that those who have passed
it by may stop now and see
"Suez."
This is the story of a ditch!
The young DeLesSeps when told
by a fortune teller that he would
dig a great ditch and the world
would do him homage, laughed
with the carelessneSs OF youth
and promptly forgot the quiet
statement of the old man. His
life was before him. he was a
clever young diplomat. of dis
tinguished family, in leve with
the exquisite Countess Eugene;
it was good to be alive.
AN HISTORICAL TALE
Trouble stepped in with a
game in which Louis Napoleon,
ambitious as was that other Ma
poleon, was the pawn. and for
this faux pas the young diplo-
mat was sent to Egypt where
his father represented French
affairs. Riding over the desert
one lovely day he stood atop a
sand dune and that vision of a
commercial shortcut to the great
trade centerS became clear to
him; this was his job he was
not born for the subtlety of di-
plomacy.
Action followed by strife, a
changing empire in which Louis
Napoleon ascended the throne
of France, in which the lovely
Eugene became the empress,
hostility of the British, until the
far-sighted Disraeli gave him
support. these things hampered
the construction of one of the
most MAGNIFICENT engineering
feats of all time.
Telling the story is a little
drawn out, but Daryl Zanuck
evidently intended that no de-
tail should be overlooked, and so
the magnificence. the pathos,
the grandeur of this undertak-
ing makes movie history.
COLORFUL COSTUMES
Tyrone Power is wholly mad
equate in the role of young
DeLesSeps: it should have been
a much stronger type of hero,
with the romantic sequences left
to Mr.. Power if he was consid-
cred necessary to the cast; An
rabella. gay, energetic young
Frenchwoman. is amusing: the
lovely Loretta Young is a grace
full E''oenie: Henry Stevens. Sid
nev Blackmer. Odette Myrtil,
joseph Schildkraut and a vast
Sunportiug cast.
Added features include an.
other Of the priceless Robert
RonrhleV ESSAYS. an equally
funny "Popeye" cartoon, and q
newsreel in which we see the
race classic of the year.
X "
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cLJID IN r
Adh h
Arny-NoWFur
InNeW Movie
At the Met"

Touchdown Army" a Movie
Quiz contest picture Is now
showing at the Metropolitan
Theater, where the glory Of the
Army is sung through the sue
cesSes of the football squad.
John Howard, Robert Cum
mings and Mary Carlisle and q
frolicSome crowd of plebes and
upper-classmen set about to pre-
sent a regulation football film
in q regulation way.
FOOTBALL EXCITEMENT
True the hero is q bright and
ambitious lad from the wrong
part of New York, a chap who
sees the girl he wants and de-
termines to get her If it does
mean going through West Point
to do it. Fortified with brains
enough to pass the entrance
exams, he still finds the social
aspects difficult but not un-
surmountable.
Since he is so versatile he
manages to make the script
sound reasonably convincing as
we'll as the part he plays. How
ard and Cummings are both in
love with an officers daughter
and both are tops on the foot
ball eleven, but one is backed
by all the family tradition he
can use and the other is sadly
lacking.
The love note, the exciting
game with the hero put in just
in time to save the day and the
fanfare, pomp. and ceremony
of the nations great Army train
ing school make this enjoyable
film fare. AS inevitable as the
fall itself, these football pic
lures bring good, clean, whole
some entertainment.
SHORTS PROGRAM
Concurrently motion picture
houses are showing a special
short, a resume of the progress
and improvement Of the movies
since the days of Bertha, the
Sewing Machine Girl" and
others of similar ilk. Through
this medium shots of the great
studios are brought to the pub
lie. A news broadcast and the
Three StoogeS" for those who
like their brand of crude
comedy, complete the program.
H. K.
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Lee at
The Howard

Baron Lee, veteran OF sepia
maestro leaders, and his Harlem
Syncopators, are in the featured
spot of Varieties on Parade"
a Step-lively music revue which
opened at the Howard yes
terday.
His first appearance here for
soma time, the baron, debonair
demon of swing, still has his
old-time style, PAGES his boys
through several hot tunes. Ada
Brown, the buxom Sepia Sophie
Tucker, sings a round of tunes
and gets big hand. Her type
of blues Interpretation always
hits with the local audience.
Irene Cort, a little acrobatic
dancer, is well-received; also
Chuck and Chuckles, dispensers
of mirth, and the Four Step
Brothers, tap dancers of the
first rank. Jesse Scott, SOU
brette, leads the fast-Stepping
chorus, while John Mason,
blackface, and Johnny Vigel
handle the comedy end of the
revue. Midnight show tonight.
w. r.
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mechanical soaring. They all be-
come fliers with a homemade
kite as q beginning.
Pats experience in the war
changes his whole attitude on
life, and. though he marries
Peggy, he is unable to settle
down. Even parenthood doesn't
imbue him with a sense of do
mestic responsibility, and he is
off to fly in Morocco, later in
China, where he falls to his
death.
Scott is always around to
comfort Peggy, and to assume
q guardianship over the Fal-
coner family. Scott's interest in
aviation is devoted to designing
faster and better planes, keep
ing pace with the scientific end
of the industry. He becomes a
hero Of peace, presumably the
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performance by the screens
most amazing genius.
Shirley not only knows how
to speak lines, out she knows
exactly how to pay attention
when other CHI racterS are
speaking, the last an art in it.
Gelf. Her expressions, as usual,
fit the words, her timing is per
lection, and when she moves
into the dance you have a tiny
Miss Rhythm, and a graceful
one.
There are three dancing num-
bers. First is a recitatiVe lyric,
"A Happy Little Ditty," in
which Joan Davis and Bert Lahr
Join with the star. Second, and
best, is Il Love to Walk in the
Rain" with Bill Robinson help
ing out. Uncle Bill also does
one of his own, Brass Buttons
and Epaulets.
Good-looking Charlie Farrell
Is Shirley'S dad, and after this
tuning,up performance, he may
get some warmth into his act
ing. Bert Lahr and Joan Davis
make much of brief comedy op-
portunities, with Franklin Pang-
born getting most of the laughs,
as a haraSSed hotel manager.
Amanda Duff, Claude Gilling-
water, Cora Witherspoon and
Bennie Bartlett are others who
respond nicely to Irving Cum
mings direction.
GOOD BOWES UNIT
If you like Shirley Temple
and who doeSn't-"JuSt Around
the Corner" can't fail to please.
Major Bowes' Amateurs are
growing up. This Third Ami
Versary unit bears little re-
Semblance to the faltering pro-
grams the early beginners
were accustomed to offer, and
they have stopped referring to
radios No. l tycoon as the
great American benefactor.
I credit the protest. on a |
veneer to the smooth and ex-
perienced direction of TIE d
Mack, who serves as Emcee and
does an excellent job of intro
ducing well balanced and peppy
entertainment.
Strawberry Russell with a
cigarbox violin and SWaying
hips, was the bell ringer at the
twilight show. Next in applause
Importance was Roy Richards
whose impressions range from
Charlie Mccarthy to Fannie
Brice, from Joe Penner to a ia
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SHIRLEY is TOPS
Shirley holds benefit show
for Uncle Sam, crosses a bag
full Of nickels, melts the finan-
eier's heart, wins his consent to
the engagement of her daddy
and the millionaire's niece, gets
the Go Ahead sign for new
construction.
You night say, "Oh, this is a
Sugarplum story, as routine as
q crowded bus in the rush
hour" In a way this is true,
but there is always the chance
to watch remarkable acting
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/ CLOCK

CAPITOL - Charles Farrell,
Shirley Temple, Just Around
the Corner" 11:10 a. M, 1850
435, 7:2O, 1905 p. m. Stage,
1855, $40, $40, 9:O5 p. m.
PALACE-Tyrone Power, Anna
bella, Loretta Young, "Suez,"
11:1O a. m, las, 4:20, 6:55,
$50 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Clark Gable, Myr-
ma 10y, Walter Pidgeon, "Too
Hot to Handle" 11:40 a. m.
2:10, 4:40, tbs, 9:05 p. m.
R-K-O-KEITH'S - Bella LugoSi,
"Dracula," Boris Karloff, Moe
Clark, "Frankenstein," 11:15
a. M, 1:50, 4:25, 7, 9:35 p. m.
EARLE-Fred MacMurray, Ray
Millond, Louise Campbell,
Men With Wings" 10:30
a. M, 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:55 p. m.
Stage, 1925, 3:15, sos, 9
p. m.
INSTRUMENTATION How
ard, Mary Carlisle, Touch
down Army" II a. m, ITO,
3:20; $50, TAO, $50 p. m.
TRANS LUX - Newsreel and
Shorts, 10, 11:45 a. m. 1890,
las, 3, Ais, $50, Gas, 8,
9:15, 10:45 p. m.
LTTTLE-Robert Donat in '"The
Ghost Goes West" At 11:15,
l, 2:45, 4:25, 6:10, 7:55 and
$40 p. m.
MOUNT VERNON-Drive In
Ginger Rogers. Douglas Fair
banks, jr., Having Wonder
full Time" 8, 1915 p. m.
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nous fireside chatter. The Three
Hackett sisters in military tap,
Bert and Betty with rhythmic
drums, the Three Dees of the
harmonica, Neva Ames on the
xylophone, Four Serenaders in
classic song, Adele Miller, aero
batic dancer, and the Byron
brothers. fast steppers. make up
a revue that can challenge the
best, aided of course, by Phil
Lampkin'S band on the stage.
The Movietone News with
good shots of the Sea Biscuit
War Admiral race, completes a
show above par for clean fun.
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CORNER, at the Capitol Iheater.
They have surrounded Hollywood's jul
venIe Bernhardt with tiptop cast, and a
wholesome sentimental story, with the sum
total of entertainment highest Shirley has
rated in some months
You may detect note of social signifi-
cance in the story, for our young heroine's
is expressed in the belief that if
everybody would stop pushing Uncle Sam
around, and trying to get all they can out of
the old boy, better times might be fastened.
This Uncle Sam, whom Shirley mistakes
for the cartnnnist,s s imnreSSiNn of Mr. Amer
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Grandson Makes Good

Cary Grant, now costarring
with Victor McLaglen and Doug.
las Fairbanks, jr., in RKO Ra-
dos "Gunga Din," inherited
his histrionic bent from his
grandfather, Percival Leach,
noted English actor who spent
his lifetime in the theater.
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The LaWIess KohIers

For the first time in t h cir
screen careers. Fred Kohler and
his son, Fred, jr., appear to-
gether in the am e picture,
"LawleSS Valley" George
O'Brien's latest RKO Radio
starring vehicle. The KohlerS
play villains in the film.
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Merry Marital Mix-up

When a man kidnaps his wife
in order to divorce her before
she can file her own suit, the
result gives rise to hilarious
complications in RKO Radios
Trailer Romance" featuring
Lucille Ball and James Ellison.
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Sister SaIIy EiIers

Wearing a blond wig and
q flowing white gown, Sally Eli
lers makes a striking girl evan
gelist in RKO Radios Tar
nished Angel" screen expose Of
sham faith-healing and revival
ism. Lee Bowman shares act
ing honorS.
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r.
ica is grumpy Sam HenShaw, moneybag who has tight
ened credit and reduced the moppes daddy to living
in the ianitOrs basement, instead Of in penthouse
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Charles Farrell, Joan Davis,
In the Supporting Cast;
Bowes Unit on Stage
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

Flashlights flared Street last night oudspeakerS
doomed welcome invitation audience for the Eastern
premiere of Shirley Temples picture Just Around the
Evening star., 1938-05-23

fertile fronds. A second visit to the
cinnamon lass and you will be sur
prised to see how fast she grows. The
warm sun has coaxed her to shed her
woolly coat, and the fronds begin to
open up to the sun.
The fertile fronds are the first to
appear. Then along come the sterile
ones and overtake the first ones be-
fore the latter mature. In this the
cinnamon fern chooses to be different.
If you find q clump Of these ferns,
investigate the crown when the fronds
are unfurling. The sterile fronds and
the fertile ones are borne in separate
circles. You will also find that the
fertile ones are always on the outer
ring in the beginning, and after the
sterile ones have developed they are
inside the ring. The trick is easily
seen once you know. The sterile
fronds bend outward at the base and
effect the exchange.
One crop each year Is produced un-
less the fern is injured, then another
set is produced. This Is provided for
by the thrifty fern. Should her fer
tile ferns be cut down, as SO often
they are, the fern will use buds at
the crown of the root stock that are
developed and held in reserve for just
such an emergency.
All of the Osmundas have central
portion that Is tender and edible.
Many know about this and remove the
heart. This destroys the lovely fern.
Those who seek it for this purpose
pull up the clump Of beautiful, half
developed fronds and use them In
salads.
A cinnamon fern when fully ma
ture Is beautiful sight. The fronds
spread out in circular form, the sterile
frond often 6 feet long and the stipes
. foot In length. They are oblong-
lanceolate in outline, with 40 Or even
more pairs Of almost opposite lance
olate pinnae cult almost to the rachis
into many oblong rounded lobes. The
fertile fronds are q unlike them q
Evening star., 1938-05-23

tended showings Of pictures by friends
who had home movie cameras. watched
familiar figures move across the
screen, with longing and wistfulness.
Presently the desire took the form OF
an obsession.
Then Aaron had an idea. Tell you
what, Katie. Let's stay home instead
of going of on our vacation this year
We can buy a home movie camera,
take some shots around here, and
next year when vacation time arrives
we'll have our camera to take along" "
"Splendid!" Kate clapped her
hands. why in the world didn't we
think of it before?"
So when Saturday afternoon came
around they went camera shopping.
Aaron had. in his pocket the money
he had drawn from the bank which
was to be used for their vacation.
They visited three shops before
they found what they wanted. A
16-mm. camera Of well known
make, second hand. but in excellent
condition. The camera would cost
together with a used protector, only
$83. A bargain in any mans Ian
guage.
A ARON slapped down the cash, plus
"A an additional $3.50 for a 100
foot roll Of outdoor film. Elated, they
carried their purchase home and
spent the evening deciding on what
to Aim on the morrow.
1t seemed that the morrow would
never arrive. But 1t did. And as
soon as the sun was well up, the Bells
took their camera and went outside
First they took shot of the house,
with Kate walking down the steps.
Then they took one of the street in
front of the house, with Aaron COM
ing home from work. Then they went
around and took a shot Of the back
Of the house. Then they took a shot
of the houses across the way. Then
Aaron looked at the foot indicator
and discovered they'd used the entire
100 feet.
The next day Aaron took the film
down to be developed. They could
scarcely wait till Friday came, when
it would be ready. Aaron got out Of
work early and picked up the film.
At home they set up the protector,
drew the blinds. tackled up a sheet
and started the motor.
Nothing happened The sheet re-
manned blank Aaron couldn't figure
1t out. He tinkered and tinkered. But
still the sheet remained blank The
next morning he called at the camera
Evening star., 1938-05-23
By LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

IN THIS family Of the Osmundas,
the cinnamon fern is well known.
It is to be found in the Eastern
L States where there Is low, boggy
ground. and in such places you may
find some of the fronds several feet
long. It also loves swamps and is an
excellent companion to the wild flow
ers that grow so luxuriantly here. In
open woodlands where wet areas are
found the cinnamon fern is at its
best, and miniature jungles of the
wide and lacy fronds spread them
selves.
In the spring the crosiers or fiddle
head" are the first to poke their heads
above the soft earth, and all who know
and love this spring harbinger recog-
nize it by its silvery white woolly coat
and later the cinnamon stick OF the
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Natures Children
Cinnamon Fern
(Osmunda cinnamOmea).

can be. These are bright green at
first, then turn into stiff, clublike
cinnamon -colored sentinels that are
very noticeable. They are covered
with sporangia, or fruit. In the latter
part of May the fronds will shed the
millions of spores on the air. If you
touch the brown clubs pale green
cloud will result.
Placed under a microscope, these
tiny spores are little wee globes. and
they are usually deep green. These
are the unopened ones, and those
that have shed their precious dust
are q rich brown. AS soon as they
touch the ground they begin to germi-
nate. Though the plant develops
myriads of sporlings very few actu-
ally mature. After the fertile fronds
have shed their burden they wither
and die. Frost kills the sterile fronds'
pinnae. The large root stock is shag-
gy and retains the persistent bases Of
the fronds for many years.
(copyrisht. 1e3SJ
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success. They showed the results
eight times when the film was de-
veloped, finding new things to ex-
claim about with each new showing.
THE next night, q camera-crank
friend dropped in. He pointed out
faults in the pictures. He told them
they ought to have tripod to prevent
jerkiness. They bought tripod. Then
they decided they should have q splic-
ing machine to splice their films to-
gether. Then they discovered titling
machine would make the pictures
much more interesting.
The camera crank friend said they
really ought to take some interior
shots, and would need flood lights.
Aaron bought couple Of flood lights.
Still. the interiors weren't 50 good,
which, their friend explained. was be-
cause they needed a beaded screen.
They bought beaded screen.
Before the winter had passed they
had added three filters, a telescope
lens, developer, a carrying case and
a light meter to their equipment.
Came the spring Aaron got busy
with pencil and paper. He figured
and the figures appalled, him. They
had spent $76 on Aim alone and
$237l9 on equipment. But they had
the pictures to show-pictures Of their
house, the street in front Of the house,
the houses across the street, them
selves, their friends and more pictures
Of their house. Aaron chewed his
pencil.
When he arrived home that night he
told Kate how much they had spent
on their hobby during the past win
ter. Kate looked aghast. That means
we can't take vacation this year
either. Oh. Aaron. I'll go mad If We
can't get away for a little while this
summer"
I'VE can" said Aaron. get away for
a long while. stopped in on my way
home today and sold the whole bloom
ing outfit for S16l.52."
"What?" declared Kate. Then we
won't have any camera to take with us
on our vacation?"
"Oh, yes. we will" said Aaron,
reaching into his pocket and producing
a black box about az inches squrea
"See this? It takes IL still pictures on
one 15-cent roll. It costs half dol
lar"
Marvellous" cried Kate, and clapped
her hands.
(Copyright. 1889
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DAILY SHORT STORY
CAMERA HOBBY
TATE and Aaron

KATE and Aaron
~ Bell had al
ways wanted to
own q home movie
camera. They had
wanted to own one
ever since they
were married, four
years ago, but home
movie cameras are
luxuries and the
Bells had to count
their pennies. No
matter how hard
they tried to save
enough to indulge
their whim, some-
thing always CROP
ped up in the line
of necessities that
wiped out their
nest egg.
Naturally, as time
passed, their long
ing became more
HyL a.