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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-07-27

CLOCK

CAPITOL-Wallace Berry, Maui
reen O'Sullivan, Port of
Seven Seas" 11:O5 a. M, 1:45,
4:25, 7:10, 10 p. m. Stage,
Paul Haakon. 1910. 800,
sos. 8:55 p. m.
PALACE - Shirley Temple and
George Murphy, Little Miss
Broadway" 11:45 a. M, 1:45,
S:45, 5:45. 1850. $50 p. m.
COLUMBIA-Freddie Bartholo-
NEW, Mickey Rooney, Lord
jeff" 11:25 q. m, 1880, 3:25,
5:35, 7:40, 9:45 p. m.
RKO-KEITH'S-Helen Parrish,
Robert Wilcox, Little Tough
Guy" II q. M, 1850, $3.50,
$50. 1850, $50 p. m.
EA r L e Dick Powell, Pat
OBrien, Cowboy from Brook
lyn," II a. m, 1:45, 4:3O. 7:2O.
10 p. m. Stage, Nowal Baptie,
Gladys Lamb, 1910, $50.
6:15, 1855 p. m.
METROPOLTTAN-ElisSa Ian
d. Robert Donot, Count OF
Monte Cristo." 10:45 q. m,
1850. 3, $40, 7:20. 9:35 p. m.
LITTLE-Errol Flynn, Diva De
Havilland, "The Charge Of
the Light Brigade" 1l:OO,
ITO. $40, $40, 1880 and 9:4O
p. m.
TRANS.LUX-News and shorts.
10 u m, to midnight, shows
rs minutes.
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Anqry at Criticism Of Films,
Movie MoeuIs Shut Studios
New Program
At Keith's

Kate Douglas Virgins "a
nous novel, Mother Carey'S
Chickens" which has been
brought to the screen by Radio
Pictures, is to be given q special
opening tomorrow at RKO
Keith'S.
The cast protraying the IA.
nous Virgins characters in
cludes Anne Shirley, who dis
closed her dramatic ability in
the recent "Stella Dallas; Ruby
Keller, who after a years alb
Sence from the screen, returns
in this production in her first
dramatic role; Fay Banter.
whose success on the screen
following a year as q stage star,
is bringing her star billing;
Walter Brennan, and James
Ellison, who is shortly destined
for Stardom by Radio Pictures.
Others prominently cast are
Frank Albertson, Alma Kruger.
Jackie Moran, Margaret Hamil-
ton and little Virginia Weidler.
Bubbling with humor and
naturalneSs that made the Kate
Douglas Wiggin story one Of the
best sellers Of its day, the screen
adaptation Of Mother Carey's
Chickens" closely follows the
book setting forth the careers
Of the Careys.
The locales Of the story, es-
pecially the ramshackle colonial
home where the final half Of
the action takes place, have
been faithfully reproduced on
the screen, and they add the
final touch of authenticity to
the picture.
AS an added attraction RKO
Keith's is presenting q new
Walt Disney Silly Symphony,
"Wynken. Blynken and Nod"
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If You re a Hardy
Just Listen to This

When Love Finds Andy
Hardy" opens Friday At
LOeW's Palace Theater the
first ten Hardys or Hardies to
identify themselves will be ad-
mitted free as guests of the
Palace management. Drivers
license, social security card or
any such form Of Identified
ton will suffice.
The Palace also wants to
find the largest Hardy family
and the smallest, the tallest
Hardy and the smallest, the
prettieSt and the most tai
ented.
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A0Qy hcIlcy 1C4uCSL " PAhN
he was on vacation.
That hot dog proved its pro
pensity to provoke dreams OF the
niRhtmariSh variety. And, as
most columns are made up OF
dreams, I'll make this a super
column with a nightmare!
1 dreamed that Louis B.
Mayer, at M-G-M, getting a lit
tie provoked at a supercritical
criticism Of a nice, new M-G-M
picture, said: whats the use;
they don't appreciate us: we
quit" And he closed down the
M-G-M studio completely. Even
Leo, the lion, was farmed out to
a zoo. Culver City in darkness!
Before ] could turn over in
bed, Sam Goldwyn proclaimed
that Mr.. Mayer was right. Tn
clude me out of it," said Sam,
and stopped all production.
MOVEMENT SPREADS
Walter Wanger, perplexed by
the hubbub over Blockade"
closed his studio before I could
roll off my back! And in four
Enores the movement spread and
the entire motion picture indus
try was shut down tight. Not q
camera blinked!
The papers thought it was q
publicity stunt Of some kind and
Snickered. The anti-RooSevelt
press declared it just another
curb-production scheme to ploW-
under the movies. But the stu
dies remained closed.
Then that hot dog turned over
and I dreamed on: A big chain
of theaters on the West Coast
decided that since no new pic
lures were coming through they
might as well close. Might
make the public more picture
conscious" they said. The Loew
circuit, the Warner circuit, the
RKO circuit soon had to follow
suit and before I could wake up
all movie theaterS were closed
tight! Can you imagine that?
MANY LOSE JOBS
Then things really began to
happen! I was out Of a job.
So were all the movie critics,
not to mention the thousands
and thousands Of studio and
theater workers and artists. A
flock Of radio commentators
suddenly found themselves with
cut program material. They
tried giving the inside" facts
about other industries but that
didn't seem to work; too many
libel suits were filed.
Giving four bells to a bar Of
soap or two Kisses to gingham
dress seemed to lack glamour!
SO things went from bad to
worse. Jimmy Elders sponsor
reported a big decrease in
shampoo sales! Henry Ford got
into the mess by insisting the
movies must reopen; otherwise
discomfort would spread through
labor. you can't keep labor
happy without cheap entertain
ment." Even the pickets pro-
tested; it would be silly to picket
dark theaterS!
TAXES TAKE DROP
President Roosevelt took q
hand: how could he balance any
budgets If the movies stopped
paying income taxes, property
taxes, profit taxes, reel tax, ad-
mission tax, ct al? And there
also was the matter Of the news
reels that carry so many vital
messages from the White House!
Merchants called meetings;
how were they to lure shop
perS downtown If there were no
movie matinees to add enter
tainment to shopping? The real
estate people shivered as rentals
near dark movies went down
ward.
But loudest of all came the
roar from the movieleSS movie
goerS. Parents objected that
their children were being need
leSSly endangered; they always
feel safer whev1 tho hide ora II,
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the movies instead of the streets,
the dark auto roads, etc., etc.
The tired husbands COM
planned because they were
robbed Of any easy way to show
the wife a good time. Sweet
hearts found hand-holding OPP
portunitieS and Clark Cables
inspiration sadly missing. Doc
tors declared closing Of thea
tiers a health menace. Millions
got most of their cool, fresh air
in the air-condStioned summer
theaterS.
I'm only giving you the high
lights Of the nightmare. Such
chaos! The whole country
seemed at loose ends. The poll
ticianS couldn't get anybody'S at
tention ecauSe everybody's
mind was on the movies that
were gone.
One senatorial candidate ap-
pealed direct to the moviegoerS'
votes. He'd bring back the
movies" he promised.
It would take a long time to
readjuSt public habits not to in
clude q movie. Attending the
movies was just one thing they
missed; they missed, almost as
much, the chance to criticize the
movies! It seems everybody had
two busineSSeS-their own and
the movies!
GIVE US ANY MOVIE
I tossed in my sleep: I saw a
huge crowd in front Of Loew's
Capitol begging Carter Barron to
open the house and show q
movie. "Give us the worst one
you can find, we'll love It'll" they
pleaded. Same demonstrations
were taking place everywhere.
Finally, q little independent
theater on q side street in New
York bootlegged an old print Of
"Shopworn Angel" and opened
up at twice his usual admis-
sion. The. place was mobbed!
Two New York critics who
gave "Shopworn Angel bad
reviews, having dug deep to find
the weaknesses Of the picture,
decided to see the picture again.
They had nothing else to do,
anyway.
They rushed back to their
newspapers and wrote glow.
ing reviews of the good things
they found in the picture. They
had overlooked them In their
first criticisms!
STUDIOS REOPEN
That seemed to break the ice.
Editorials lauding the movies,
the high average excellence Of
pictures, the noble purpose the
movies fill in our national and
civic life, the educational val
ues, the social inspiration, etc.,
etc. suddenly q movie.hun-
cry country found the screen
sweet and necessary. At the
request Of President Roosevelt
and petition signed by l0O, OOO,.
900 movie fans, the studios re-
opened.
I woke up as I got a phone call
from Nicholas Schenck to come
back to work.
So, Andy, write something
about the really swell movies
coming along in August. And,
later on, Ego to town" on the
great nationwide celebration be-
ing planned for the fall movie
season. Things look mighty
promising for the new season.
I'll lay off Of hot dogs and night
mares!
P. S.-Tll lay of the night
mares and hot dogs.
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OSCAR DOOB'S NIGHTMARE :
Loew's Official Dreams That
Chaos EneuIfs Country
AS Movies Are Closed
By OSCAR A. DooB

director Of Publicity and Advertising Tor All LoeW's
ThedterS.
was out at my home in the country, biting the sufngs
out of hot dog sandwich, when the mail brought
ANDY Keeys request pinchh for him for day while
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IWrite q Funny Lost Line
For This Rooney Limerick

One time our own Mickey and
Judy
Became terrifically moody;
cts true we can sing
t"Or do most anything,
Evening star., 1938-05-26
WEIGHT VIOLATORS
WARNED BY JUDGE
Hobart Newman Declares Those
Brought Before Him Would
Receive 500 Fine.

Refusing to accept recommendations
from the corporation counsel,s office
in two or three short-weight cases,
Judge Hobart Newman in Police Court
today issued warning that violators
of the weights and measures law ap-
pearing in his court in the future
would be fined a minimum Of 500 on
each count against them. Two of the
defendants had agreed to plead guilty
providing the court would accept
recommendations Of $25 on each OF
the charges against them, but were
permitted to withdraw their pleas and
demand jury trials.
In making this announcement Judge
Newman stated there had been too
many merchants and meat market
operators brought into court recently
and that he would henceforth refuse
any recommendation Of less than 500.
The defendants, each of whom was
released under $500 bond for jury
trial, were:
Melvin L. Karsh, 300 Massachusetts
avenue NV, charged with three sales
Of chickens weighing less than the
amount which was paid for them;
Louis Miller. 1904 First street NV,
three sales of meat, and Jacob Teitel-
baum, 1914 First street NV, three
sales of meat. The alleged shortages,
according to Chief Inspector c. F..
Applegate. approximated half pound
to each sale.
In setting q $500 bond, Judge New
man announced that in the future he
would set bonds Of $1,000 for each
defendant demanding jury trials in
short-Heisht eases, a >
Evening star., 1938-05-26
LICENSE DEAD[|NE
FIXED AT JUNE IS
Late Applicants for Business
Privilege Permits Face
Penalty Of $5.

Warning that a IS penalty will be
assessed against all persons who fail
to apply on time for business privilege
licenses came today from District Tax
Assessor Fred Allen, as he made known
that the Commissioners had extended
the deadline from May 81 to midnight
June 16.
Many additional persons are ex-
pected to be required to obtain licenses
under the revision of the business
privilege tax as it is to be continued
to another year. Oficials estimate
that no less than $4,000 licenses must
be obtained. To date, less than $500
have been filed, according to a check
made this morning by A. F. BROOKE,
business privilege tax administrator.
Oficials warned that II business
houses and professional operators oe-
lay too long there will be an abnormal
last-minute crush with the result that
some will have to pay the penalty.
Application forms may be secured from
any police precinct station and should
be mailed to the Business Privilege Tax
Division, Room Is, District Building,
unless they are carried there by hand.
Property owners were warned that
the revised business privilege tax Is
applicable to the gross receipts OF per-
sons who rent property. There will be
no tax If the gross receipts are less
than $4,000 q year. but all involved
must obtain a license, which Will be
given free unless the person is taxable.
10 v. Morgan. special assistant cor
poration counsel, who is to become a
one-man board of tax appeals July l.
ruled today that license must be OBJ
tanned by q householder, not otherwise
in business, If he rents out garage on
his own residential property.
Evening star., 1938-05-26

announce the glad news. Asked what
her mother had said. she replied:
She said, I think that's lovely
honey that's all"
Hopes to Live Up to Title.
Miss Curry, burdened with hel
glory for f,tl half hour of congratu.
lations from students and faculty
alike, told questioners "the hardest
part Of being a beauty queen Is living
up to it,
Everywhere a beauty winner goes
she said, people are always ready to
say Is that the beauty queen-well, ]
don't think she's so pretty"
This is the first recognition she has
ever had in a beauty contest. she said
always having been selected as the
best all-around girl" and 1.-The most
efficient girl" in the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School where she was
graduated.
The new Miss Maryland likes to
swim and dance; likes to be a spectator
in more strenuous sports. She is q
Kappa Gamma Kappa and lives in
the sorority house in College Park.
Other winners in the beauty con-
test, judged by Arthur William Brown,
New York artist, were Miss Frances
Kercher, Paoli. Pa. second; Miss Eliza
beth Narrower, Manassas, Va. third;
Miss Ann Carver. Perryville. Md,
fourth; Miss Hildreth Kempton. Lam
ham, Md, fifth, and Miss Betty Barker,
2907 Thirty-fourth street NV. Wash
ington, sixth. All were given positions
of honor in the year book.
"Just Past" 19 Years.
Miss Curry, auburn-haired and pc
tite, is lust past" 10 years of age.
Her father is a former judge of the
Montgomery County Juvenile Court.
Her parents, she says, have been
sure she would win in the contest, but
I have tried to discourage the idea. "
she added. 1T just didn't seem pos
sible."
But it was possible, and students
were lined up more than 200 strong all
afternoon waiting to get their copies Of
the yearbook so they could see the new
queen.
How does it feel to be beautiful?'
was the question most frequently called
across the campus to Miss Curry, and
the invariable reply was:
Gosh. I don't know"
Evening star., 1938-05-26
BODY OF CAN0EIST, %,
IS FOUND IN POTOMAC
Henry J. Kanczuga Was Drowned
Sunday When His Craft
Capsized in River.

The body Of Henry J. Kanczuga. %,
State Department clerk, who was
drowned Sunday when q canoe in
which he was riding capsized In
Potomac River Just below Chain
Bridge, was recovered today.
Harbor police, who had dragged for
the body without success, found it
floating about 100 feet below Memorial
Bridge. It was taken to the morgue
and later identified by Erwin Dehn
and Albert Hansen, who had worked
with Mr.. Kanczuga at the State De-
partment and were canoeing with him
Sunday.
Mr.. Kanczuga, who came here from
Chicago about year ago, lived at
22O1 Massachusetts, avenue NV. He
had attended night classes at the
George Washington University.
Evening star., 1938-05-26
EXAMPLES CITED
IN HOUSING WAR
Row of Four Frame Houses
Shows Needs of City,
Meeting Told.

A row Of four frame houses on
Foggy Bottoms Twenty-third street,
built soon after the Civil War. was
cited yesterday as the horrible example
Of Washington housing by group of
men and women out to stir Congress
to action that would eliminate over
crowding in the Capitals dwellings.
The houses were the subject of a
report made yesterday to the First
Ward Neighborhood Council. whose
general purpose Is the social improve
ment of the area west of the White
House and Connecticut avenue, north
of Connecticut avenue, north of the
Potomac River and east of Rock Creek.
Crowded Conditions.
The buildings, the groups Housing
Committee reported to the council
during a meeting at the Goodwill
Industries, Inc, 1918 New Hampshire
avenue NV, were built as single
family dwellings, but they have been
divided by cardboard partitions to
accommodate several families. In one
of the five-room houses live four fam
lilies.
The houses lack kitchen sinks, the
committee stated. They are lit by oil
lamps. Cooking Is done over a wood
"pot-bellied" stove. They have outside
toilets and an outside water tap. The
inside stairway leading to the rooms
above the front floor is unlighted.
There are windows only in the front
and back.
Assessments Same.
Although the assessments on the
houses are the same today that they
were in 1878. the rent has risen from
$40 a house to $38 a house month,
the report continued, as result Of di-
viding up each house to provide for
more than one family. The high
assessment, it was said. results from
the buildings nearness to Washington
Circle and the Lincoln Memorial.
These houses violate all standards
Of decency, but they don't violate any
law" Mrs. Eleanor Hoffman of the
Washington Housing Council said.
She urged the members of the Neigh
borhood Council to work for an i'm
proved health code, better building
code, establishment of a housing code
and amendment of the zoning laws in
order to do away with such conditions,
which she attributed primarily to the
Districts housing shortage.
Evening star., 1938-05-26
PLANNERS CONFER
ON PARK TRACTS
Tour of Proposed Sites
With View to Purchase
Scheduled Today.

Purchase of a number Of small tracts
for local park and playground develop
ment was being considered by the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission today at the opening Of .
two-day session during which 1t will
consider development Of East WASH
ington and other important local prof.
ectS.
Thomas S. Settle, commission secre-
tary, announced that commission
members this afternoon will inspect
the proposed viaduct site at K street
and the Rock Creek-Potomac Parkway
as one of the chief features of an auto
mobile trip which probably will be
curtailed somewhat because of the rain.
The commission will inspect several
proposed gasoline filling station sites
along Wisconsin avenue and will visit
the Rock Creek Potomac Parkway to
consider the purchase of several small
tracts Of land along the edge Of the
park boundary "for protective pur-
poses"
The commission was notified by its
chairman, Frederick A. Delano, that
President Roosevelt has reappointed
Henry v. Hubbard of Boston as q COM
mission member for second term OF
six years.
Among the projects scheduled for
consideration at tomorrow's session,
in addition to the East Washington
development, will be the construction
ofsa railroad tunnel and highway
bridge between the District and Vir-
ginia; extension of the Anacostia
Parkway into Prince Georges County
Md; possible modification ! of the
vehicular tunnel under Thomas Circle;
the current Federal and District build
ing programs; park developments in
Montgomery County, Md, including
the proposed Bethesda Chevy Chase
recreational area, and highway con-
struction around the south Of Airing
ton National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-05-26

By staf Correspondent of The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, May 90
Movies and marriage have no lure
for lovely Tempe Curry, announced
yesterday in the Terrapin, yearbook
of the University of Maryland, as
Miss Maryland of 1888"
At least, she admitted. marriage Is
in the offng-far off. And as for the
movie bug biting her, she claims with
considerable conviction that she would
much prefer making a sensational new
gown to wearing the finery Of the
films.
Miss Curry, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. Granville Curry, 405 Battery
Lane, Bethesda, Md. is a freshman
at the university and is majoring in
home economics. She wants to be a
designer.
Although she can make passable
pies, edible cake and somewhat better
than brides biscuits" iron a shirt
or an evening gown. sew on buttons
and darn socks, she denies she is pre-
parIng to become the worlds best
housekeeper
Goal Is to Be a Designer.
"As soon as a girl enters the home
economics department, she is imme-
diately looked upon as having ambi-
tions OF becoming good housekeeper." !"
she explained. This is not true in
all cases-at least not In mine want
to be designer, and a good one, too"
Picked from among % of the uni
versity's prettiest, Miss Curry ad-
mitted she has heart interest" and
proved it by parading over the campus
holding the hand Of a tall young
junior.
But, she VOWS. she is much more
at home in the dressmaking room Of
the home economics building
Before the Terrapin was released
yesterday, Miss Maryland was inter-
viewed in the university library. She
was found poring over home
economics textbook and making notes.
How do you think 1t would feel to
be chosen as Miss Maryland?" she was
asked
Il would be the most surprised per-
son in the world"
We'll, you have just been an
nounced as Miss Maryland"
When she could politely break away
from the interview she hurried to a
telephone and called her mother to
Evening star., 1938-05-26
Files Suit in Reno.

George Frederick Hamilton fled
suit for divorce yesterday in Reno,
New, against Florence w. Porter
Hamilton, 801 Silver Spring avenue.
Silver Spring, Md. according to the
Associated Press. He charged cruelty.
The couple was married u Washing
ton, March q, 1S73.
Evening star., 1938-05-26
BURNED IN BLAST
Tailor Shop Employe Injured In
$500 Explosion.

A boiler explosion in q tailor shop
at 1909 u street NV. yesterday slightly
burned an employe on the hand and
caused damage estimated at $4,000.
The injured person was Curtis M.
Logan, 40, of 1929 u street NV, who
was near the boiler when 1t blew up.
A number Of suits and other articles
ol clothing wers damaged by the blast.
Evening star., 1938-05-26
MINERAL RIGHTS
Wide Range Shown in Receipts
of Federal Government.

Federal receipts from bonuses,
royalties and rentals under laws pro-
viding for mineral leasing rights on
the public domain totaled almost S.
100000 in the year ended June 80,
1887. The sums yielded by lands in
individual States ranged from ap-
proximately s3,108,0O0 for California
down to SO cents for Arizona, IA States
contributing Under the law, each
State, including Arizona, will re-
ceive 37l2 per cent of these receipts
from the lands within its borders.
Evening star., 1938-05-26
BAND CONCERT

BY the Soldiers Home Band In the
bandstand at Z o'clock tonight. John
8. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster. An.
ton Hodntner, assistant.
Evening star., 1938-05-26
Fireboat to Be Repaired.

The old Firefighter, the Districts
one and only f1reboat, Is expected to
be back in service within a day OF
two," Fire Chief Charles e sctrom
aid today.
Evening star., 1938-03-20
SHIPS PLY SMOOTH
SEAWAY TO ALASKA
Inside Passage Cruises Pass Great
Fjords-Trips Made in Less
Than Two Weeks.

VANCOUVER. March 19.-Nature
set the stage for what is perhaps the
most scenic short voyage in the world,
the Alaska holiday trip. Scientists
say that millions of years ago wave
OF ice bore down on the mountainous
west coast of North America and
plowed out what is now known as
the Inside Passage, that smooth lane
OF water running from Vancouver,
British Columbia. to Skagway, Alaska
Here is all the romance of the sea with
none of its discomforts. There's land
to port and starboard so close YOU
think you can lean over the rail and
touch 1t sometimes. To the east are
the elacier-studded peaks of the
coastal mountain system. To the west
lies the marvellous chain of green
Islands that were once part of the
mountainous mainland.
Cruise steamers usually make many
calls en- route to SkagWay and knife
up the fiorGs to visit Indian villages.
mining towns and fascinating fishing
centers. Juneau, territorial headduar-
tiers. often is call in both directions.
Eleven-day cruises generally make a
special call at historic sitka, and in
cludes a whole day exploring Gardner
Canal, a spectacular ford. Other
liners make a cruise along this Inside
Passage up to Skagway and return in
nine days, also calling at a variety
OF colorful ports.
Cruises already have been planned
for June.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

Club or In any Of the islands dude
ranches.