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Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-05-04
Nay 4th, 1888

Last week We endeavored to discuss
the true function Of the dividend in the
Cooperative system. We discovered that the
dividend is nothing more than rather
practiua1 and simple method for returning
to the consumer owner the profits Of his
business.
However, towards the end Of last
weeks column (if anyone got that far)
a mi stake made which mi ght lead
to believe that the Cooperative dealt in ga
bege when Of course the exact opposite
was intended.
The writer was dis turbed by this
error until he discovered in a column
not far distant from his own another mis-
take viii CHI may we'll cause some little
irritati on in the War Department. For, in
a item enti tied Civil Servi CO Exams
we learn that there is now position
open tn the Government which will pay
$4,000 year for some individual whs has
the necessary training and expert ence to
inspect medals. Just think Of it, To be
sure, Americans are famed for their
age and heroi SIN, etc., but seriously I
wonder if there is q great need for
special inspector Of medals at $4,000
year. Perhaps, after the coming war but
why now? How possibly estimate the
numer Of people who wi II be in line for
medals? Now, we can we'll understand such =
q government position in some Of the
European states where we have been told
q broad chest for the wearing Of medals
is q first line qualification for public
service.
There has recently to our atten-
ton question Of business policy in
Cooperative stores viii Oh is inter esting
in that it bears directly on one Of the
basic principles Of all Cooperatives.
tn b,,ci cd
vately for profit to an individual or
group advertising, solesmanship, end
selling are principle items Of expense.
Now as Cooperatives are founded on servi &C
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-05-04

Of q cooperative store should pay out
any more in this direction than is alb
solutely necessary to give them adequate
knowledge Of the choices before them in
buying? Surely there is no need to pay
for the praise or mjustified and mis-
leading setting up Of product or
brand over another.
Likewise "high-pressure" or for that
matter, "1ow-pressure" "se1ling" on the
1r- part Of the clerks or management is
equally unjustified.
1t is doub1y unfortunate that
have to pay for being told.
Assistant Communi ty Manager O..
Kline Fulmer is making co11ecti on Of
Leica camera "shots" Of Hreenbe1t sub
jeots. Using q protector at the close
Of the last Council meeting, he placed
a series Of Greenbelt vi ews on q screen
for the instruction and entertai nment
Of those attending the Council session.
Many Of the attractive pictures are in
color.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1938-05-04
GIRL SCOUT ACTIVITIES

April has been very busy month for
the Girl Scouts Of Greenbelt, Troop IT.
During this month they conducted cake
sale which swelled their reasury by
$15.73.
Regular meetings were held the 5th
and 18th Of April and plans were discussed.
Mrs. Carroll, Sout Leader, invited
the mothers Of the Girl Scouts to
meeting ct her home, LA Eastway, Wednes-
day evening Apria Is. Some very inter-
esting plans were made for the future.
On April 10th the Girl Scouts went
hike taking their lunch with them.
In the afternoon Of the same day they
taught how to build "1og cabin
fire.,
The last meeting held April 26th
in the Social Room Of the school. The.
Girl Scouts working their
Second Class test.
Troop IT boa:ts membership Of ct.
Jacqueline Freeman
Troop Scribe
Evening star., 1938-02-26
"Snow White" Enters
Third Local Week.

"CNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN
DWARFs." which two weeks ago
consumed the last superlative in the
stock OF this department, entered its
third week at Keith's yesterday OBJ
avious OF the fact that there is no
new way Of saying that it is Holly
woods finest achievement.
It is the old fairy tale, changed very
little, but endowed with . reality, live
liness and spirit that Indicate the
amazing scope Of Walt Disney's genius.
real players could not have an
preached the realism of the drawings.
which proves that Disney is the prince
whose kiss can awaken the sleeping
beauty OF folk tales down to the small
est OF wood creatures. His princess,
prince, dwarfs, beasts and birds are
ofawn with not merely impressive
technical skill, but with more ina9ina-
eioh tnan you ever have found before
In . motion picture.
To miss it Is to cheat onese,f ~
an entertainment experience which.
70 date, at least, has come but once
IN lifetime.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing.

National-"Edna, His Wife," Cor
nelia Otis SINNERS new one-woman
drama: 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Earle-"The Big Broadcast of 1888,
w. c. Fields, singing by Martha Raye
Tito Guizar, Kristen Flagstad; music
by Shep Fields: 9:45 am, 1910, 2:35
sos, 1880 and 9:55 pm. Stage shows
11:20 am, 1:50, AIS, 6:45 and ell
pm.
CapitoH"Arsene Lupin Returns,
villainy and a love triangle: II am.
1885, 4:3o, 7:26 and 1905 pm.
Metropolitan-"Tarzan's Revenge,
that super-man is at 1t again: II am.
los, 3:15, 5:25, 1885 and Gas pm.
Columbia-'The Buccaneer," Fred
ric March In the story Of q pirate
who helped to save the nation: 11:2'
am, 2, 4:30, 7:05 and $40 pm.
Palace-"A Yank at Oxford" Rob
ert Taylor at the English school: l:
noon, 2:25, 4:45, 7:1o and $50 pm.
Keith's-"Snow White and tn
Seven Dwarfs," aim history's creates
sensation-that's all: $50, 1915 am
1902, 2:4s, 4:34. $40, s:o6 and s:5
pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Cen
tinuous from 10 an. to midnight.
Little-"Naushty Marietta, anothel
revival Of the famed dlmusical: Il
AM. lis. $40, SIS, 1850 and 9:4l
pm.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
News and Mouse
Top Trans.Lux.
CINCE there have been no imports

S1NCE there have been no important
bombings, machine-gunnings or
Fascist handshakes within range Of
the several newsreel companies this
week, Trans-Lux Theater must con-
tent itself with events q trifie diluted
such ss British maneuvers in singa-
pore and Egypt, Edgewood Arsenal gas
warfare demonstrations and the clean
ing Of the Coliseum in Rome prepara-
tory to an Adolf Hitler return engage
ment.
Delving more thoroughly into the
Trans-Lux bill the patron hears q
selected group Of prominent Ameri-
can citizens urge. plea and demand
that this country keep out of war;
T-men demonstrate how drugs are
smuggled about with such deception
and the results of that departments
latest drive; Paul v. McNutt says
something about mot choosing" Ice
storms, floods, tornado and . train
wreck represent the disaster list for
the week. The United States air mail
celebrates its 17th anniversary while
Australia runs wild in commemoration
Of its 150th.
The sports world reveals Golden
Gloves suggests, a Santa Anita derby
Canadian dog racing and California
yacht race. Models and model hats
evoke the customary response of &C.
ceptance and rejection in their turn
Another best" Of the Disney ''bests'
headlines the features, being Mickey
and his pals in Lonesome Ghosts
guaranteed frown-proof. The apes and
Iggy are back in a new one. not as
funny as the first; the volcano E.
Salvador erupts to the delight of 9
color camerman, and q travel piece or
Lapland unfolds peacefully. j. S.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
Music Lecturer
Speaks Friday.

JULIA E. scHELL1NG, distinguished
music lecturer, will be the principal
speaker at an opera appreciation
forum to be held next Friday evening
at the Rialto Theater. Miss Schelling
Is the sister of Ernest Schelling, noted
symphony conductor. Prof. Will
Hutchins will preside at the forum,
which has been arranged to provide
an opportunity for those interested
to learn more about opera in general
or about specific works. Music critics
Of the five Washington newspapers
will form discussion panel. and men,
bers of the audience are to be invited
to ask questions from the floor.
The forum will precede an eight
day engagement of the Chicago Opera
Co. at the Rialto, during which Frank
Parker. well-known radio tenor, will
make his operate debut. Mr.. Parker
is to sing the leading male part in
"Traviata" on Wednesday night of
the following week.
Evening star., 1938-02-26

ocean anything can happen, and
usually does.
Aboard The Gigantic the most pleas
ing events are the singing of Thanks
for the Memory" by Comedian Bob
Hope and Chanteuse Shirley Ross, who
wears q hat about 3 feet too tall;
Dorothy Lamour's grooming of "You
Took the Words Right Out of My
Heart" two short antics by Ben Blue,
the first number sung by Tito Guizar.
Biggest disappointments, the film
debut Of Kristen Fagstad, whose voice
comes through decently, but not well
enough to Offset the fact the producers
decided she should sing and enact
Brunnhildes Battle Cry; the rather
pointless handling of shep Fields Or
chestra.
1t Is almost against the law for q
screen actor to be really amusing while
making a personal appearance, but
Billy Gilbert, the dialect comedian,
gives the rules an awful thrashing in
his appearance on the Earle stage this
week. He works with the type of ma
terial that has been most successful in
his screen career. and the result is
one long, grand howl of delight from
the audience.
There might be some bowling about
the remainder Of the stage bill, too,
but not any low means Of joy. unless
they are prompted by Paul Gordon's
stunt bicycle riding The program Is
filled out by Carole Manners songs,
hoofing by the Sinclair Sisters ana
waltz and adagio number by Bryant,
Rains and Young.
Evening star., 1938-02-26

f1elQS ana q lOC OF Otner OlQ vouQe.
vile graduates who are merely playing
hockey. not taking postgraduate work.
This years Big Broadcast" has no
more plot than the telephone book, but
1t is usually funnier. While Mr.. Fields
Is in sight. indeed, the proceedings
are at pitch Just short Of the siggling
screamies, Mr.. Fields being one Of
those gifted comedians who can get
along tine and dandy without any ma
terial whatsoever. The gentleman
with the dubious nose presents modi-
fed versions Of his famous golf and
billiard routines here, but the re-
mainder Of the time he Is serenely
comfortable In the exercise of a thou
sand old tricks Of his trade that no
modern gag writer could duplicate.
Joining the ranks of immortal char
acter actors, Mr.. r. plays the role of
T. Frothingill Bellows. for about three
minutes. The rest of the trip he is
8. B. Bellows. brother Of old T. Froth-
ingill, and his mission in life is rather
indeterminate as he embarks on a liner
he happens to own. The Gigantic is
racing the Colossal on q trans s-Atlan-
tic voyage, and during that epic of
the sea we are given relentless proof
Of the old mariners adage that on the
Evening star., 1938-02-26
|Cagney Tops List
OF Film "Puss."

HoLLYwooD's 10 hardest hitters
among the male players have
been named in order of their pugilistic
prowess by Harvey Parry, veteran
boxer and film stunt man, who now
is acting as technical adviser to "Mr.
Moto's Gamble" the Peter LORE
starrer at Twentieth Century-Fox.
Parry IS working with Dick Baldwin,
former amateur boxing star. who is
rated third on his list on the basis
Of several sparring sessions.
First name on the list is James
Cagney, who weighs 155 pounds and,
according to Parry. is the fastest and
hardest puncher in pictures for his
size. Oddly, Parry fought Cagney in
three films. each time losing world
championship boxing title.
Parry, who has trained nearly all
of Hollywood's leading men for movie
fights, rates the 10 best as follows:
James Cagney, Clark Gable, Dick
Baldwin, Johnny Weismuller. Wayne
Morris. Buster Crabbe, Spencer Tracy,
Buck Jones. Charles Bickford and
Enrol Flynn.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
"Buccaneer" Back
At Columbia.

"RUCCANEER" is an imaginative
semi-historical yarn based on the
life Of Jean La Ttte, and related with
what IS known around Hollywood as
the De Mile splash Just how good
the story and how big the splash Is
attested by the fact that the picture
reappeared at the Columbia Theater
yesterday to begin third week on T
street.
Starred In 1t are Fredric March
Ffanciska Gaal and, whether the bill
boards say SO or not, a character actor
named Akin Tamiroff. The cast list
reads like a minor honor roll Of film-
dom, the action is bold, plentiful and
expensive, and Mr.. De Miles sophisti-
cations Of historical fact should bother
no one, since no one expects to find
history tn films or school books any
how. '
This is positively one Of the years
better pictures. r. B. p, Jr.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
Jooss Troupe
Pulling in
mirror"
"In Old Vienna"
Proves Real
Delight.
By ROBERT B. PHILLIPS. Jr.

BY ROBERT b. PHILLIPS, Jr.
w YHEN Kurt Jooss brought to
M Washington last year a
wv dance drama known as
THE Green Table" he
prompted verbose and intense dis
cussion among those who witnessed it.
Yesterday Mr.. Jooss' European ballet
presented sequel called THE Mir
or" and this time the audience at
the National Theater appeared pro-
voked more to speculation than to
conclusions by the dance groups major
number. They were asking at the end
of the concert rs it really possible
that the ballet will, as the lyricists put
it. Sing Us a Song of Social Signifi-
cancel"
In its pronouncement of intent The
Mirror" is described as ''reflecting the
confusion of postwar mankind strug-
Cling to escape from the moral. social
and political consequences of its own
folly" In Mr.. Jooss' choreography. in
Fritz Cohen's music and the costumes
by Helm Heckroth, the creative ap-
proach to that statement manifests
dignity and intelligence. We doubt,
however, that they, or the dancers
who SO earnestly performed their
works, have achieved the perfect entity
Of idea and expression that was in
tended. This insuhiciency is not to
be attributed to a mere haziness in
the creators minds. They have been
specific In purpose and, in 50 far as
they were able. in deed. The question
still remains after one has witnessed
the drama-can these values be stated
fully in terms of the dance? Do they
belong to soap box, treatise on
sociology or to an art?
If failure to affirm Mr. Jooss' con-
cept in THE Mirror" stems merely
from the deficiencies Of our compre-
hension, let it be said that We retained
the faculties to SAVIOUR. to relish and to
praise his enchanting creation, "A
Ball in Old Vienna" executed in the
semi-classical technique, sparkling in
gayety, gracile without being sac
charine. Here the Jooss group dis
played another phase of a versatility
that bellies definition in these days
when SO many futile efforts are made
to draw cast-iron distinctions between
one type of dancing and the next.
At least this was fine number, full
some to the eye. warming to the
heart-and let the hair-splitters de-
eide how It was done.
According to less acidulous spirits,
the opening number of the program
also was q charmer. It was called
THE Seven Heroes" and its care
free antics seemed to amuse the more
light-hearted customers. some of whom
were not above admitting to obvious
delight in a good old Grimm Brothers
fairy tale. Personally, as We watched
it, We could not help thinking how
much wisdom Miss Trudi Schoop had
exhibited in teaching her dancers
the value of restraint In all comic
pantomine. It was a point Mr.. Jooss
seemed to have overlooked.
Evening star., 1938-02-26

Sunday evening The pre-
view of "Merrily We Live" This
would be more original If my Man
Godfrey" and you Can't Take It
With You" had not already been
written. Billie Burke, as the dithery,
forsetful mother. and Alan Mowbray.
a. q butler, steal the picture from
stars Constance Bennett and Brian
Aherne :. Foyer sights and sounds
Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, ST., gushing,
Constance (Bennett), you were mar
velous.' All the feminine members
OF the party literally drip silver foxes
later to the Alan Mowbrays' to
celebrate. As usual, Alan has not
attended his preview. He refuses to
believe the picture Is success.
Monday .. Randy Scott (whose
separation from his wife seems to
be permanently dances all evening
with Mrs. Liz Whitney at the opening
OF La Conga, the towns latest swing
cafe Marlene Dietrich hot-steps
with Willis Goldbeck douglas Fair
banks, jr.. left today for New York;
Married couples include Alice
Faye-Tony Martin, and the AL Ritzes
(who are always with us).
Tuesday Washington's birth
day anniversary. And the Santa Anita
$4,000 Derby :. La Dietrich wears
horizontally striped pink, purple and
lavender dress, topped with red foxes,
and signs her autograph quicker than
you can ask for it Clark Gable
escorts Carole Lombard Mary
Mcguire is with the right" people
1. e., Boss Joseph Schenck and his ex-
sister-in-law, Constance Talmadge
Netcher William Powell with
Alfred Vanderbilt. the Fred Astaires
and Hal Reaches >. Rudy vallee in
dark glasses with new preferred Girl
Friend Judy Stewart and Adolphe
Menjou at the betting windows.
Here's a 70-to-1 shot," says Menjou
to Rudy. This Is the FIRST time in my
life I've had such . dinicult decision
TO make" murmurs the crooner. Miss
Stewart extracts $40 from her purse.
The less you put down, the less it
Will hurt" says q voice in the crowd
-. When the race Is over, Judy and
Rudy leave, minus winnings, but
loaded with satchelful Of cameras.
+ + + \
Wednesday Gene Towne and
Graham Baker, Hollywood's highest
paid team Of scenario writer's, give q
cocktail party at La Conga for Euro
pean-bound Mr.. and Mrs. Tay Garnett.
Among the mob is Irene Dunno, seldom
seen at cocktail parties-and Husband
DR.. Grifhth, who is still more Of q
recluse. The doctor is stolid, NATTER
of-fact. and seems well able to cope
with his wife's dazzling fame . In
. non-crowded corner, four Cor Is it
hveO times wed Eddie Sutherland is
again bewailing the fact there are no
girls IN Hollywood for q bachelor to
fall in love with. (Maybe he doesn't
look) ..'
Thursday :. &. Norma Shearer steals
the show at the Biltmore Bowl dinner
Of the Motion Picture Producers' Asso-
citation to Louis B. Mayer. From her
pretty lips trips q bad word. It's ali
right She is only quoting Director
Woody Van Dyke Another hish
light Is her apology to Joseph schenck
for praising the rhumba Of his
rhumba rival, Louis b. Mayer.
hollywood has Its funny moments.)
(copyrisht. 1898, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-02-26

Woolly has been doing all through
the picture.
M-G-M never lets down q picture
with bad dressing any more and 1t
has not done 50 on this occasion.
There's eye-appeal in every inch Of
"Arsene Lupins Return" even in its
bucolic reaches which show the mas
ter criminal as gentleman farmer.
The dialogue which Is spoken
against this rather lavish background
is bright enough in spots to make
up for the lack Of brightness which
went into contriving some sections
Of the plot. Both Douglas and VIII
liam have capabilities for comedy be-
yond those Of artful dialogue. how
ever, and the picture would have been
better had the advantage thus offered
been seized.
But, really. what the heck? Arsene
Lupin has returned and his fans won't
mind that he is not quite so brilliant
as before he went away.
X X X X
The second anniversary Mai. Ed
ward Bowes revue, which constitutes
the Capitol's stage bill this week,
proves either that the amateurs have
either waxed too fat or worn some
what thin. At any rate. there's some-
thing missing Of the old zip and spirit
which used to characterize his shows.
The variety is there, from harmonica
players to triple-voiced tenors, but
variety no longer Is enough.
Most interesting single item on the
10-part program was the toe tapping
Of Pearl Robbins, with another dance
feature, the precision stepping OF
Louise Boyd, constituting the runner
up number. Weakest element of the
show, which is m. cd by Dave Barry
is its comedy. The Texas Wranglers
quartet tries a minute or so Of II
without much luck and Obrine and
Goldberg, listed as two nutty hill
billies, are not so nutty. Frances
Berke was a lot funnier in her at
tempt to parody or paraphrase Sheila
Barrett.
The stage show which seemed to be
IN the process Of finding itself may yet
achieve that happy end, but it did not
come particularly close at yesterdays
second performance.
Evening star., 1938-02-26

n OBERT TAYLOR, out of the
- drawing room so far that he
wears track pants and dis
closes pair of bowed and
furry legs, continues a second week
to show unsuspected virility to audi
erces at the Palace through the
medium Of "A Yank ut oxford" !"
Metro Goldwyn Mayer in this picture
does a commendable job of atoning
for some of the misdemeanors it has
perpetrated in the past against both
Mr. Taylor and the more discerning
members of his audiences. He is given
something more to work on than
the usual assortment of blonds and
brunettes and he actually adds up to
considerably more than the handsome
lad whom Greta Garbo loved in
Camille"
"A Yank at oxford" introduces Mr..
Taylor as a boastful American athlete
set down upon the civilized scene
of England's Oldest center of higher
education. It shows him through the
process of overcoming not only all
rival athletes but the crudities of
his own muscle-bound background.
For his triumphs on the athletic field,
he pays with humiliations in every
other aspect Of his experience at
Oxford. He appears to relish greatly
his release from the matinee idol
groove, even when it finds him a COM
plete exile as result of his breaches
of traditional Oxford behavior.
The story. narrative of Taylor's
rise from heel to hero, is fresh as
to surface due to the fact that it is
laid at Oxford. Made in England,
If not actually at the famous univer-
sity. it has the good taste to stick to
the dignified traditions of education,
sports and conduct that belong to
scene so ancient and obviously highly
developed
While the majority of the cast is
recruited from English players, MIR.
Taylor Is not without assistance from
such compatriots of M-G-M as
Maureen O'Sullivan and Lionel Barry
more. Better than either, or even Mr..
Taylor for that matter, we liked pretty
Vivien Leigh. who is one of the most
charming college widows that ever
came to the screen. One suspects that
Hollywood will not leave Miss Leigh
much longer TN the environment torn
by the speeches and counter-speeches
OF Anthony Eden and Neville
Chamberlain. Hollywood needs ac-
tresses OF Miss Leigh's talent and
ornamentality. J., C.
Evening star., 1938-02-26
Air Field Assists
Picture Work.

An EMERGENCY landing field has
been constructed by Paramount
on the large La Mota Ranch, 100
miles from San Antonio. Tex, to
facilitate the working of filming ex-
terror scenes for The Texan" which
is being produced by Lucien Hubbard
and directed by James Hogan, with
Randolph Scott, Joan Bennett and
May Robson in the leading roles.
What was a large beet field with
no beets but plenty of burrows a week
ago now is landing field with q
hangar and runways long and smooth
enough for the landing and taking
OH Of big airliners. A cabin plane
takes each days film to connecting
airlines at San Antonio for shipment
to Hollywood.