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Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-11-23

CooPERATOR, YOU HAVE KEPT FAITH
The contributor Of this article, Nary E. Van
Pioneers. article written for the first issue Of
the CooPERAToR reprinted in the Baltimore SUM.
To the Editor:
One year has passed since Volume /, Number l. Of
the Greenbe1t COOPERATOR released The first
edition issued and Autographed paper Of
bright green co1ors It contained sixteen pages Of
news. announcements, editorials. and letters. all
instakingly prepared by few willing workers OBJ
There need Of medium by which the news Of
citizens GOULD be given to citizens; for this
newspaper belongs to all and 1t is you and yous
and you who make the
For me. personally. the past year has been one Of
sunshine and fresh air; Of trees and hills; Of
health and happiness; Of life fulfilled. The Cow
eminent gods have been kinds
For the Community itself. the year has been one
Of remarkable growth. activity. and development.
from the opening Of the grocery store and gas sta
tion to the recent selling Of shares.
For the COOPERATR. It has been year to look
back upon with pridee There have been es yet
there has been progress. It has been year full Of
the sort Of experience it takes to build real
newspaper. Fundamentally. the cooPEATW has
The successfully achieved point In this policy
the most Important one; "to create Good Neigh
Dor spirit. promote friendship advance the common
good. and develop Greenbe1t philosophy Of 1ife."
The COoPEATOR has accomplished just that Tt has
kept civic duty before US. it has helped build
up great pride in community and it has placed
Greenbelt, things concerning Greenbelt, next
to hearte
cooperator, you have kept faith.
E. Van Cleave
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-11-23

against the indiscr1m1nate persuasions now being
widely used. But hoped. hero again. for
vision, In the youth Of coming years. of the signi
fioance Of genuinely creative living that should
contribute to better fut,re."
May the Cooperator live long to share in the
reality Of that visionI
Louis Bessemer
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Where and When
Current 'Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Earle-"Tropic Holiday" musical
with Bob Burns, Martha Raye: IL
am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 pm.
Stage shows: 12:45, $3.50, 6:15 and
pm.
Capitol-"Always Goodbye" Bar
bara Stanwyck III drama of the mother
love pattern: IL an, las, 4:35, 7:25
and 1918 pm. Stage shows: I2:45,
3:35, 6:25 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan-"When Were You
Born?" astrology is employed in solv-
ing q crime: 1850 am, 1850, $50
$50, 7:50 and $50 pm.
Palace-"The Shopworn Angel
daughter of luxury finds love with son
Of toll: 1920, 2:40, 4:55, tbs and
9:35 pm.
Columbia-"The sheik," Rudolph
Valentino: 1905, 2:O5, 4:o5, sos, q
and 10 pm.
Keith's-'Having Wonderful Time,
Ginger Rogers meets Douglas Fair
banks, jr, on her vacation: 1924
am, Ill, 1858, 4:45, 6:32, 8:19 and
1906 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight.
Little-"Storm in a Teacup," Eng
lish comedy dealing with the fair
fresh subject of dog and municipal
politics: II, 12:45, 2:35, 4:20, 6:10,
and GAS.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Astrology Is Basis
For Film at Met.

HERE is novelty about when Were
You Born?" at any rate. 1t is,
SO far as we can remember, the first
picture wherein the business Of as
trology has been employed to bring
whodunit to its solution. But II
Walter Wanger met up with difficulties
for his production Of Blockade" there
is no telling what will happen to the
Warner Bros. for having made this
new picture at the Metropolitan.
For When Were You Born?" is
more propaganda than anything the
Hollywood cinema makers have turned
out In a long, long time. It is
propaganda designed to prove that
astrology is sure-f1re, that it never
misses. According to the script there
Is an astrologer who foretellsr the
death OF some fellow, then finds her
self in the clutches of the law when
the chap suddenly is found dead.
There are the usual number of sus-
poets, all of whom could and would
have done the lad in, but the formula
Is here varied by this business of hay
ing the astrologer look at people and
tell them what month they were born.
She also casts horoscopes all over the
detective inspectors office. And final
~, through neither astrology nor de-
tective work, We still maintain, but
through sheer luck, the villain is un-
covered. r' 80 --'
Furthermore you cannot say you
knew all the time who it was, be-
cause we will wager even the script
writer's did not know who they would
hang 1t on until the last day of shoot
ing. The astrologer is Anna May
Wong and other people about are
Margaret Lindsay and Lola Lane, both
of whom have had more important
tasks to handle. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
World Flight Tops
News Program.

ONE Howard Hughes is accorded
more than a few feet OF film on
the newsreel program now at the
Trans-Lux 1t seems that Mr.. Hughes
went around the world very quickly in
an airplane, and the cameramen
were present at Floyd Bennett Field
when he took off and again when he
landed. Other items in the thrill de-
partment include the crash that ended
an auto race in Australia, shooting
rapids in Switzerland and horse race
held at night in France.
Moving across the national scene the
lenses have caught President Roose-
welt on his swing through the West;
Shirley Temple visiting New York
City; beginning of the T. v. A. investi-
CATION; Capt. George Eyston arriving
in Utah for his assault on the auto
speed record; tests of the worlds larg-
est land plane. Abroad. floods halt the
Japanese advance in China: Mussolini
assists in wheat harvest; Czecho-
slovakia salutes its President.
The short subjects are varied and
interesting. THAT Mothers Might
Live" tells the story of DR.. Semmel-
weiss research that brought about a
lower childbirth mortality rate; Grey
hounds of the Deep" shows the right
way to catch q tuna, demonstrated by
professionals: Going Places" treats
Of the manufacture of synthetic rubber
and that Pacific isle where the makins'
OF sealskin coats dwell. window
Shopping" Is a routine color cartoon.
c. A. M
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Monologues Given
At Catholic u.

1NDER the auspices of the Black
friars Institute at Catholic Uni
versity. Madeline McNamara presented
one of her distinctive one-woman
shows in the Gymnasium Theater. It
is most enjoyable experience to
watch Miss Mcnamara. Equally adept
at exciting the risibilities or flicking
the heartstrings, she has delicately
modulated voice which, nevertheless,
can fill huge man-made caverns such
as the c. U. gym.
Principal item on the program was
"Paolo and Francesca" the lovers
immortalized by Dante in the fifth
canto of his Inferno" the story of
whom has been expanded to a poetic
drama by Stephen Phillips. Miss Nc
Namara demonstrated superb fluency
in transition from one character to
another She was able to surmount
almost completely the definite handi-
cap of very short episodes and frequent
interludes of narration; presenta-
ton of marked effectiveness resulted.
Preceding the piece de resistance
were four selections from the artist s
repertoire of character studies Ranch
Owners Wife" was bit on the pallid
side, but the others proved. to be
outstanding examples of monologue.
"Debutante at . Dress Rehearsal"
and Mother Sending Her Son to
Camp" are self-explanatory. ''Mavour-
neen" was touching treatment Of an
old Irish Woman's simple manifesto.
ton OF piety. c. A. M.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
'Shopworn Angel
STAYS at Palace.

r OMANCE and the poetic life and
stars and moonbeams do have
their place in this world of the cyni-
cal and the smart, it seems, for here
is "Shopworn Angel staying on for
a second week at Loew's Palace. The
new screen version of Dana Burnett S
tale of soldier and the glamorous
actress who came to love him is none
theless fresh for being a remake oi
an earlier picture. And it gains much
OF credibility and force and poignance
from a couple OF people who play the
leading roles as though those roles
were something in which they be-
lieved.
James Stewart makes you forget
and forgive some of the slips he may
have made and Margaret Sullivan
makes you happy that M-G-M has had
the wisdom to WOO her back to the
cinema fold. She mixes the hard
ness Of q sophisticated, worldly wise
actress and the wistfulness Of woman
truly in dove into combination which
clutches the heartstrings and leaves
its mark there. The two of them, and
Director H. C. Potter, have contrived
a romantic yarn which never wakes
toward the mawkishness it might have
become, but stays always a love story
full Of warmth and feeling.
1t Is an unpretentious yarn. but 1t
Is done with an understanding which
has made it one of the better cinema
entertainments of the day. In addi-
ton to the two leading players you
will remember Walter Pidgeon and
Sam Levene, both of whom endow
supporting roles with an honesty
which helps keep "Shopworn Angel
something to be believed and appre-
ciated. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-07-16

fate worse than death which seems
to have been prescribed for Mr.. Mil
land by Paramount) and there are
complications when the writer's movie
star love life (Binnie Barnes) arrives.
Miss Raye is there because she is the
writer's secretary, and Bob Burns
turns up because he would WOO Miss
Raye. Mr.. Burns, portraying a fel-
low running for the Senate with the
backing OF 10000 Indians who want
representative in Washington be-
cause they have heard the Govern
ment wants to give the country back
to them, also accounts for some fun.
He has a gag take of the end Of
"A Star Is Born" that is a honey. But
II you are none too enthusiastic over
the people involved, ''Tropic Holiday"
is strictly for sleeping through.
EVERYTHING about the new stage
show, contrived by Harry Anger,
gets mark on the credit side of the
ledger. It's gay and sprightly min
iature revue. spiced up by three ap-
pearances Of the 16 co-eds (the is
sub-deb-dehs went to school last
week., the girls contributing an airy
ballet and pair of bright novelty
numbers to the proceedings.
Featured, according to billing, are
Minnevitch's Original Harmonica Ras-
Gals, but it would be something Of a
task to choose any one on the bill more
adept at his chosen specially than any
Of the others. The Harmonica Ras-
Gals, Of course, are top-notch, devoting
most Of their time to comedy. but
getting across some neat musical ar
rangements when they set their minds
to it.
Larry Blake is on hand, too He is
the Larry Blake who impersonates
famed people and just types with such
skill that you do not moan COCOON;
another one" when he comes out on
the stage, but welcome him. There is
some exceptionally fine dancing by
Marion Daniels, whose extraordinary
acrobatics are marked by considerable
grace and control, and Maysy and
Brach do some amazing things on high
unicycles.
Evening star., 1938-07-16

I've just left Bobby Jordan cDead-
End kidd" Judy tells me. He said
he had a tennis engagement"
Monday i. :. The preview of PRO
fessor Beware"-Harold Lloyd's first
f1lm In two years-the first half bad,
the second excellent. I'm told that,
when Harold makes a picture, he runs
off his old films to remind himself
OF successful gags. He apparently
did not see enough former successes.
Tuesday The opening of the
Hollywood Bowl-a disappointment
few stars (the human variety)-and
performances marred by a mediocre
microphone-or maybe I was too far
back. Spotted in the mass of milling
humans. Edward Arnold and Gene
We've Tobin, Miss Tobin verbally fu-
rious at being caught in the traffic
jam.
Wednesday =. With Joanny Benny,
watching Father Jack emote in
Artists and Models Abroad" Jack
has already performed the scene
three times and Joanny chirps,
Wasn't that one all right, for heavens 5
sake, daddy" Joanny is told politely
but f1rmly-to leave.
Thursday A woman pedestrian
gazes with unbelieving wonder at the
man in the long. shiny auto on Sunset
boulevard. CLARK Gable" she whis-
pers ecstatically. Mr. Gable frowns,
grimaces, honks his admirer out of
the way and speeds on.
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Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-07-16

outside the Carthay Circle and the
Troc are for Clark Gable and Carole
Lombard. Carole Is much plumper,
but the beautifying effect of the extra
poundage Is negatived by her new
hairdress-a short sausage roll .
Ugly coiffures seem to be the fashion
tonight. Anita Louise wears hers la
l904-pompadour with wispy hair
fragments on her neck :. jeanette
Macdonald hides her locks beneath
q peasant-like silk shawl-but makes
no attempt to hide her emotions
exclaiming to Joan Crawford, Are
you weak-are you weak-I'm just
dissolved in my own tears" .
Jeanettes smile rates few words.
With consummate artistry, She
switches 1t on when addressing an
acquaintance and with equal skill
switches it off almost before she has
turned away.
Jimmy Stewart and Norma Shearer
look quaint dancing together-Jimmy
80 tall-Norma somewhere below his
shoulders. Shortly after 2 am.
Joan Crawford and husband have a
few words-Joan marches angrily
from the ballroom-with Franchot
running after, calling, Joan, JOAN"
But Joan continues marching.
X y X
Saturday After losing my usual
$5 at Hollywood Park, stroll around
the race track to see what is happen
ing to the other big" bettors . {.
Some one asks Stuart Erwin, Where's
June?" Il don't know" replies Stu,
IT lost her (his wife) an hour ago"
I find horse-loving Mrs. Jock
Whitney in the cocktail lounge. "See
that?" she demands. Its my slip.
1t shows" 1t certainly does-at least
2 inches all the way round.
Sunday .. AL Jolson rehearses for
his weekly broadcast A member
of the orchestra invites AL to night
club. Cant afford it," says AL. Il
went to the races yesterday" +.
Enter Judy Garland and mother. Il
Just had a banana split" says Judy.
"Dye suppose can sing?" You
can If you take off your hat" replies
Mrs. Garland (real name, Gumm :.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Newcomer Signs
For Screen Lead.

CLAUDIA BONNIE SMITH recently
arrived in Hollywood from Seattle
Wash, to begin career in films Miss
Smith won beauty. personality and
voice contest in Seattle a year age
while Harry Sherman was in the city
producing "The Barrier" for Para
mount.
Sherman promised the girl chance
in films and is keeping the promise by
giving her q role in. "Silver Trail
Patrol" one Of the Hopalong Cassidy
series.
The cast of silver Trail Patrol" /.
headed by William Boyd, Russell
Hayden, George Hayes, Charlotte
Wynters, Robert Fiske, Antony Mace
Catherine Sheldon, Alphonse Either
Glenn Strange and Miss Smith.
The picture will be directed by Les.
ley Selander from a screen play BY
Norman Houston.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Grant Withers Back
To Screen Career.

A FTER an absence of more than q
year, Grant Withers. screen hero
of silent days, returned to pictures in
a role in Paramount's Touchdown,
Army" featuring John Howard, Mary
Carlisle and Robert Cummings, under
direction of Kurt Neumann.
Withers has been assigned the part
Of q West Point football coach.
Formerly under contract to Para
mount. Withers left the Aims to play
In California stass productions.
Evening star., 1938-07-16

sequences, especially those in which
he interferes with the course Of what
Mr.. Romero seems about to make
true love. One is SO impressed that 1t
is easy to suspect that young John and
Mr.. Romero will be remembered after
the big names in Always Goodbye"
are associated in the memory with
other pictures.
CUPPLEMENTING the screen at
- traction, Capitol audiences will find
one of Washington's favorite vaude-
vile figures, the gent who travels (not
lighD under the name of Johnny
Perkins. As master of ceremonies,
and one who manages to stay more
than week every time he comes to
Washington, Mr.. Perkins exhibits a
thorough understanding of Washing
ton audiences. II his jokes are not
the newest in the world, they are
chosen with marked sense of the
fitness Of things locally.
Also playing return engagement
are jeanette Hacketts IL delovlies, a
delovely being dancing girl tutored
in the intricacies of being graceful by
Miss Hackett, who has a definite flair
for such things. Best Of the numbers
in lighting and other qualities is a
topical bit symbolic of the place which
aviation has rewon in the public's es-
timation by the recent performance
of Howard Hughes. 1t will be better
with further rehearsal, but so perhaps
would MIR. Hughes fight.
Vocally, the weeks stage show is
high lighted by Ruth Petty, who does
very nicely by a number of popular
tidbits, and by Diane Christenberry,
who makes the overture by Phil
Lamkin more enjoyable, especially
with a musicians Interpretation of
"Estrellita."
Bob King brings to the bill a di-
verting bit billed as ventrlloquial
novelty and the Titan trio are three
acrobats dt would be funny If there
were FOUR who do much to keep
this traditional feature of vaudeville
from losing its grip in slippery world.
Evening star., 1938-07-16


that is constantly diverting-just the
thing for hot weather.
Always Goodbye" has the advan-
tase Of being an unpretentious pic
ture. 1t Is designed to give the emo
tions a light workout and achieves
its purpose we'll enough to satisfy a
very considerable number of customers.
Its main feature, which has moth
ing to do with its outstanding name
players, Is the performance of Cesar
Romero Mr.. Romero is all over the
place, the great lover who can switch
allegiance faster than the eye can
follow, the frustrated Romeo (not
Romero) who talks like a bitter older
brother when the child gets in the
way Of his pretty speeches to Miss
stanwyck. Mr.. Romero has a very
good time even when he is losing love
affairs hand over fist and the authors
OF the script used him to give the
audience a much better time than it
would have had otherwise.
The chief criticism of always
Goodbye, which might be criticism
OF life If anyone cared to analyze it,
Is that no one in it behaves logically.
The story is one which finds Miss
Stanwyck cast as despairing woman
who must choose between mother love
and Mr.. Marshall, and Mr.. Marshall,
who has lost so many affairs when
the choice was less pointed comes off
second best once more. That destiny
has shaped such a course for him
Into an approximate inescapability
may rob the thing of some of its
poignance, but If 1t does, it is more
the fault of the script writer's than
of the players or the director. The
cast and Sidney Lanfield, who directed
Always Goodbye" tackle it with a
vim and enthusiasm which conceals
the fact that they, too, have heard
the story before.
Young John Russell, the child of
Margot Weston's mistake, scriptually
Miss Stanwyck's, helps the picture
enormously by not being an actor at
all. He is so natural (no pun in
tended that he practically walks
away with the picture in numerous
Evening star., 1938-07-16


Miss Raye, to be sure, has been
so used by Hollywood that her antics
cause many 1ilmgoers to yawn and
turn the other ear II the other ear
is the deaf one. But you here will
nnd her somewhat subdued vocally,
though she still is no soft cry in the
night on the sound track, and for
the most part there's a lot Of genuine
fun to be had watching her. There
is bull fight sequence, wherein Miss
Raye turns matador, that you should
find truly hilarious unless you are
completely allergic to the bombastic
lass, and the rest Of the time she is
most acceptable, never once letting
out one Of those hog-calling yowls.
Musically 'Tropic Holiday" owes its
grace and novelty to Augustin Lara,
who is the No. l Latin American
song writer, and to the people who
sing and play the music-Tito Guizar,
Elvira Rios and the Dominguez
Brothers, San Cristobal Band. Mr..
Guizar, especially, is impressive, cut
ting fine romantic figure, singing
well Lamp on the Corner" and
"Tropic Night" in this, his first pic
ture role. unless the memory is of
again.
OTHERWISE you will find "Tropic
Holiday" pretty much one OF those
things. The plot, such as 1t is, con-
Germs movie script writer Cray Mil
landD, who goes to Mexico to COM
plete a screenplay, there meets a
lervely native lass Dorothy Lamour) =.
He falls in love with her (Which, Of
course, is just another setting in the
Evening star., 1938-07-16
'Sheik' Proves
Silent Film
Had Merit
Also Demonstrates
Valentino Was an
Arresting Actor.

TINE good old days when women
movie patrons found Rudolph
Valentino worthy of worship,
Il and when pictures had no
vocal chords were revived at Loew's
Columbia yesterday, thus providing
students of what is wrong with the
world with one of the most powerful
talking points in a decade. The
Sheik," one Of Valentines greatest ac-
complishments, is the picture and
from whatever angle one cares to esti-
mates its worth it challenges atten-
ton.
See 1t as curiosity, for instance,
and one will find that in spite Of its
dated quality it possesses virtues that
one had forgotten. There was some
thing about acting in those days when
the voice was useless that looks like
overemphasis today, but this makes it
only the more fun to watch.
As to Mr.. Valentino, whose appeal
has outlived him already by q dozen
years, there are critics who have esti-
mated him as being worth all the
current movie heroes The formula
by which that estimate is derived is
much too complicated for comprehen-
sion by an average mortal, but even
an average mortal is forced to con-
cede that the swarthy make believe
sheik was fellow with an arresting
personality. At least he did a very
imposing job of arresting Wilma Banky
in this postwar tale of romance in
the desert. He probably will do the
same thing for great many persons
OF Miss Banky's sex during the pic
lures stay at the Columbia.
From the standpoint of entertain
ment value, THE Sheik" need not de-
fer to a great many pictures that
come under the heading modern" !"
Vocally the movies may have been
dumb in the period when it was made,
but the gentlemen who made it def
nltely were not dumb when it came to
putting film formula together.
As study and as a movie, and
especially as an examination of the
merit of Mr.. Valentino, The Sheik"
is worth ones time and money. That,
OF course, confirms Hollywoods judg-
ment about the wisdom of reviving
MS pictures. j. c.
Evening star., 1938-07-16

edly sympathetic
Louis, steals every
o n e Of tn e | r
scenes together.
For my part, I
could have dis
pensed with the
] ov e story of
Norma and Ty-
rome P ow e r
Count Fersen) ,
which only holds
up the splendid
sweep of the film.
The lou d e S t
@oh's" and "ah's"
from the thou
sands of fans
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Keith's Holds
Film Story
OF Youth
Miss Rogers Again
Shows Ability in
Dramatic Roles.

"HE accent was on comedy when
Arthur Kober translated his
stage play, Having Wonderful
L Time" into the motion pic
ture which now stays on for q second
week at R-K-O Keith's. On the stage
there was something Of the cry Of
youth lost in todays world found
throughout Mr.. Kober's play; it was
pretty telling story of the tragedy
that affects young love in these times
In the film version 1t becomes more
of gay farce, devoted principally to
the humorous side of a vacation taken
by young typist and the romance
she finds with an educated young
waiter at a summer camp.
Whatever 1t has become, Having
Wonderful Time" has Ginger Rogers
demonstrating very effectively that
she is 4 dramatic actress Of consider.
able talent; q gal who need never
dance again so long as R-K-O can
provide her with roles as dramatic as
that OF the little Bronx girl on q
two-week vacation at Kamp Carefree
Douglas Fairbanks, jr., as the other
half Of the romance at that summer
resort for the poor, has less of an OPP
portunity to demonstrate his abilities,
but that probably Is the fault of the
doctored script.
Another reason for making Keith's
port of call before another picture
moves in Is that this one has Lucille
Ball in one of those hard-boiled comic
roles which she is playing to practical
perfection. If you like Red Skelton,
who was signed for the picture while
playing vaudeville here, he also is in
the picture with those comedy rou-
tines which so many persons found
likeable.
Having Wonderful Time" is not
the stage play Of the same name,
but 1t is nice entertainment in spite
Of that fact. &C.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Drama for Merle.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS" which
" Samuel Goldwyn will produce
this fall, will offer Merle Oberon the
greatest opportunity for dramatic act
ing in her career. The story, from the
Emily Bronte classic, will be directed
by william Wyios.