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Evening star., 1938-05-01
D.C.Runners all
In Penn Carnival
By the Associated Press.

6y Tue ASStCl2Veo TIeoS.
PHILADELPHIA. April 30.-Col-
legiate entrants from the District
Of Columbia failed to win one Of
their races In the Penn relays here
today, although Maryland got a
second place and Catholic .Univer-
sity . third.
The Old Liners mile relay team
Of Evans. Thies, Miller and Cronin
was runner-up in the class B mile
relay team.
G. U. ran third to Washington
College In the Chesapeake Con-
ference mile in which Gallaudet
finished fourth and American Uni
versity sixth.
Georgetown came In eighth In
the mile title rela1.
Evening star., 1938-05-01
Society to See
WarrentOn Race

Washington diplomatic and So
cial circles will be represented in
the record-breaking crowd expect
ed to attend the seventeenth an
nual renewal OF the Virginia Gold
Cup races next Saturday at War
renton, Va.
A heavy calendar of social events
has been announced for the gala
week end in the Virginia horse
country, built around the event
which annually draws one of the
biggest and most colorful crowds
Of spectators Of any Virginia sports
affair.
The race meet itself will be held
Saturday afternoon and includes a
card Of six events, climaxed by the
feature Virginia Gold Cup, a f.
mile race over timber.
The program will open at O'Clock.
Evening star., 1938-05-01
PLEBES BEAT WESTERN
Capture Two Of Three Doubles to
Win Match, S to 4.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 80 R.-
Navy Plebes team today defeated the
Western High team, S to 4.
Sinsles-Blair tPlebes) defeated Nunez.
s sse.ted McPheT.on sMs. 5o' sMs -Gs''fsah bonhsm
(Western) defeated OMalley. So. e3:
Batcheller !Plebes) defeated Tansey. 81
Kirk. Ga. 81: Seedlock (Plebes) de-
feated Donaldson. 81. 6-4.
defeated Blair and Mcpherson. g.. 81:
Q'Malley and Betcheller (Plebes} defeated
Gillespie and Madden. 7-5. 60; See
son and Tansey. 7-5. 6-3.
Evening star., 1938-05-01
SOFTBALL LEAGUE FORMED.

Congress Heights softball team is
interested in forming league for
play this summer. Three teams al
ready have taken franchises, and there
Is room for three or four more. In
terested managers should call Lincoln
0852 after 8 pm.
Evening star., 1938-06-18
Picturesque Program
At Trans.Lux.

"P1cTUREsQUE" is the word for the
short subject program being
shown at the Trans-Lux this week in
connection with the usual compilation
Of news shots. Popular Science" be-
ing the latest release in that popular
series, presents scenes Of fruit groves
with heat waves being directed over
the trees to prevent damage by frost
and X-rays serving the function Of
detectives in the matter of unhealthy
specimens in the crop.
"A Fascinating Adventure" offers q
pictorial chronicle of the travels of
two adventurers along the streams Of
Central Florida with views of the
many wild animals that they find
friendly. "The Road to Mexico" pre-
sents the scenery and native life along
the highway that leads from Texas
across the border to our neighbor to
the south. Completing the lineup is
"Donald's Nephews," introducing Huey,
Dewey and Louie, miniatures Of the
amusing Donald.
Included in the clips caught by
newsreel photographers are shots Of
Congress as it winds up business Of the
session, arraignment of the Cash kid
naper. Winthrop Rockefeller being
initiated into the Saints and Sinners
Club. graduation at West Point, the
French air forces in . bombing drill,
the United States Mint making coins
for China, 02-year-old parachute
Jumper, the latest styles for nilady on
tho hoAeh. q. 4 n
Evening star., 1938-06-18
Doctor Rhythm Now
Moves to Columbia.

A LII you who missed Doctor
= Rhythm" at the Palace and who
appreciate the better things in life
are urged to get down to the Colum-
bia, where the film has moved for
its second F street week. Not be-
cause the new Bing Crosby picture is
one of the better things in life, are
you urged to do this, because it prob
ably is not, but it has Bea Lille. 1t
has generous amount of Miss Lilies
foolishment and her beautifully zany
tomfoolery is something not to be
missed. Here you will find her re-
peating that hilarious dozen double
damask dinner napkins" skit she did
in musical show, singing the great
est swing song of all time, tender
ditty about Rhythm in My Heart"
and contributing her wit to any num-
Der of other moments. Lady Peel is
terrific and that is all there is to that.
Otherwise, in those moments when
Miss Lille is not about, Doctor
Rhythm is just Bing Crosby pic
ture, which means it's light and
pleasant and has Bing Crosby singing
songs to pretty girl, whose name
this time is Mary Carlisle. Musically.
Doctor Rhythm" rates a high score.
the songs Bing sings including "On
the Sentimental Side" This Is NV
Night to Dream" and my Heart Is
Taking Lessons" a trio of hit tunes.
H. M,
Evening star., 1938-06-18

is in time for the beginning Of Horse
feathers" one of the Marx Brothers
early successes. Beautiful Ariane
Borg all by herself at the Beverly
Brown Derby What's wrong with the
Hollywood men? Robert Young
and Jack Dunn being terribly polite to
each other as they are bombarded by
autographists. you first" says Bob
NO, you first" counters Jack. Thanks
for nothing" replies Bob Mischa
Auer. describing his recent personal
appearance tour, Il rolled my eyes,
gave 'em the old hokum, and exited
ike monkey" A swarm of flies
settles on the classic features of Will
liam Boyd. who is supposed to be
wounded in a Hopalong Cassidy pic
ture. They like the chocolate syrup
movie substitute for blood.
Patsy Kelly in a large open car at a
drive-m on the Sunset strip telling
her girl friend, II tell you, despise
the woman-I'm going t. tell her the
truth" She signals the waitress with
loud Woo, WOO. Don't tell anybody
but we want two more beef on rye.
Hey! And two more cups Of coffee.
tell you despise the woman.
l despise the woman!"
(Copyrisht 1888 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1938-06-18
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Earle-"Crime School," Humphrey
Bogart and the Dead End" gang
show how kids become killers: GAS
am, 1910. 2:35, sos, 7:30 and 10
pm. Stage shows: 11:15 am, 1:45,
4:lo, $40 and s:05 pm.
Capitol-"Blockade," war and love
in Spain with Madeleine Carroll,
Henry Fonda: 10:45 am, l:30, 4:20.
7:1o and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1875,
3:25, 6:l5 and 9 pm.
Metropolitan - Holiday" Hepburn
and Grant in the Phillip Barry play:
II am, los. 3:15, 5:25, 7:35 and
9:45 pm.
Palace-"Three Comrades" Taylor
and Sullivan in the Remarque story:
12:10, 2:30, 4:55, tbs and 9:35 pm.
Columbia-"Doctor Rhythm" Bing
Crosby, Bea Lille in a swingfest:
11:15 am, 1:20, $3.50, $40, 7:45 and
9:35 pm.
Keith's-"The Rage of Paris" Mile.
Darrieux makes her American film
debut with Douglas Fairbanks, jr.:
HIS am, 1:02, 2:49, 4:36, 6:23, $40
and 9:57 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
tnuous from 10 am. to midnight.
Little - Shanghai Express" Mar
lene Dietrich hit revived: IL am,
12:45, 2:30, AIS, sos, 7:5o and e:40
pm. Every Inch a Man." ripe old
timer with Bill Hart: 1925, 2:10. 4.
5:45, 1880 and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1938-06-18

the other lads in that rough-riding
crew. and by Humphrey Bogart Mr..
Bogart Is on the right side of the
law this time, but so capable a per-
former is he that he can play any
thing from a killer to a priest with
equal conviction, honesty and be-
levability. And, strictly as an after
thought to all the rough doings, it
might be added that Gale Page, who
comes from radio to make her screen
debut, Is q young lady the films no
doubt can use.
A ND with house of correction on
its screen, the Earle this week
becomes q madhouse for each and
every stage show. Gene Krupa is
either the chief keeper or the No. l
inmate, we don't know which, though
after yesterdays matinee we were
ready for a straight jacket along with
the rest Of the jitterbugs. Point Is
we did not like that mad swing of
Mr.. Krupas band at the beginning
and we wished he would take his brass
section on on some island and some
island far away at that. From the
back row Of the theater 1t sounded
as though the trumpets and trom-
bones IN the Krupa crew must be
drowning out traffic noises at Four
teenth and F. Then by the time the
affair was finished we were almost
ready to moan strange jungle chants
and clap hands with the other in
fants. But we still don't like it.
The young Of the town like It.
though, and like 1t plenty. When Mr.,
Krupa beats out savage rhythms the
young people moan and beat out
savage rhythms with their own little
hands, and when a trumpet walls
wierd cry the little lads and little
lassies wall wierd cries of their own.
1t Is all very impressive or something.
And even If We do not like his power
house brass section, We do admit to
liking, and liking very much, Mr..
krupa's doings with those cymbals
and tom-toms and things, an opinion
probably shared with the Madrillon's
AL Spiel and Barnee, the Shoreham's
big apple expert.
The specially artists Mr.. Krupa
has brought with him cause all these
aforementioned young people to cheer
Justify, too. There's a team called
Nichols and Roberts, who do the
shag well. If there is such a thing;
there's Tommy Trent with his pup
pets, who Is good even If he seems
out Of place amidst all this; there is
fellow named Leo Watson who
chants mad double talk, and there is
Irene Daye. who sings in the manner
expected Of girl who sings with
Gene Krupa's Orchestra.
Evening star., 1938-06-18

X
Carole Lombard making one of
her few public appearances without
Clark Gable, at the new terrace beauty
salon atop the Saks-Fifth Avenue Bev-
erly Hills store, in which her favorite
hairdresser, Miss Porter. is a popular
operator Glimpsed on the ad-
joining cocktail terrace, slipping tea
of all things-Phylhs Brooks with
Cary Grant In the crowded club
house at Hollywood Park (the new
Inglewood Race Track Make Rosen-
bloom is saying to the girl who is
practically in his lap, Il gotta see
James, I gotta see James, gotta see
James" Best dressed star at
the track-Joan Crawford in a lug
gage tan wool suit, shoes, gloves, hat
and bag in same color; hat with
pale yellow veil across ner throat and
Harry Losee, her skating director. IVY
don't you tell me vat you want me
to do?"
Clark Gable and Myrna 10y yawn-
ing as they listened to Leo Carrillo's
lengthy dissertation on how to cook
enchiladas. Wendy Barrie, who
plays Edward G. Robinson's daughter
in Outside the Law" sitting on his
lap between takes. "It's wonderful
having a grown-up daughter" says
Eddie blissfully. Binnie Barnes
telling journalist (male) every one
is amazed at her beautiful legs. ..
Jack Benny in his Paramount dressing
room, knee-deep in radio gag writers
and buying pair of shoes at the same
time. Ruby Keeler at the Holly
wood Brown Derby struggles into her
sables while Husband Al Jolson nom
chalantly lights large cigar.
Mike Curtiz showing Jeffrey Lynn
how to kiss Lola Lane for a closeup
That's one thing can do without
demonstration" says Mr.. Lynn.
X X X X
Ginger Rogers washing her own
silk stockings "a hangover from her
early stage days.. Chico Marx out
side the Filmarte asking whether he
Evening star., 1938-06-18

at
The Palace
Remarque Film
A Poignant Story
OfPost.War Love.

OTHREE COMRADES" Erich
Remarque's bitter tale of
wars aftermath in Ger
u many, entered its second
week as the Palaces film attraction
yesterday. Drained of its political i'm
plications to very large extent, it
translates in the words of Metro Gold
wyn-Mayer more as poignant tale of
love-abeit an excellent one-than as a
document of collapse in q defeated
country, helpless to adjust itself and
provide the means Of readjustment to
those individual soldiers not lucky
enough to have died for it.
If there were nothing else notable
about it, Three Comrades" would be q
sufficient piece of film making for its
introduction of Margaret SULLIVAN as
an actress Of engaging skill. As the
fragile. fiery, tuberculous wife of one
of the three comrades, Miss Sullivan
rounds out q quartet of as interesting
mal-adjusted postwar youngsters as
have been met on the screen. She is
ably assisted by Franchot Tone in one
Of the best roles Of his fllm career,
only slightly less ably by Robert
Young, but considerably less by Rob-
ert Taylor, who seems to be travelling
in too fast company.
1t is highly emotional material
which F. Scott Fitzgerald, who did the
film adaptation, retained from the
original Remarque novel and it is
handled in fashion designed to have
a highly emotional effect upon audi
ences. Not only is it designed to do
so, it actually does for it patiently takes
no adding machine to count the num-
Der of dry eyes on the house when the
picture comes to its unhappy end.
One of the happier features of the
film, in manner Of speaking, is that
unhappy ending, and although such
things no longer are as novel as they
used to be, 1t seems worthy of COM
mendation.
For those who read the original,
Three Comrades" is less satisfying
film than it is for those who never
found the time. Undoubtedly there
are q lot Of them. J.C.
Evening star., 1938-06-18
The Prince of Peace
In Premiere Tonieht.

THE PRINCE OF PEACE" the
play which is to have its premiere
at the Sylvan Theater on the Monu-
ment Grounds tonight, is the latest
work of Mrs. Minnie Frost Rands
chairman of the Drama Department
of the District of Columbia Federation
of Women's Clubs, whose other efforts.
"The Slamatan" and THE Pot of
Gold" have taken first places in the
Isabel Anderson play contests held bv
the District of Columbia League of
American Pen Women.
The play, a story-drama in 10 epi-
sodes, has been Endorsed by the Com
mittee on Religious Education of the
Washington Federation of Churches
A program OF Jewish music will pre-
cede presentation OF the first five eni-
sodes tonight, and the cappella choir
of the First Congregational Church
directed by Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl. is
to supply the preliminary singing to-
morrow evening when the second half
OF the drama will be offered.
"The Prince of Peace" is to be nro-
duced by the Riverside Church in New
York City in the fall, and arrange
ments have been made for its publica-
ton in book form.
Evening star., 1938-06-18

singing In jail cells with 1ull SYM
phonic accompaniment and If all the
studios prison melodramas were laid
end to end 1t would be q good idea,
so long as some OF them were laid
out of sight.
This, now, does not include Crime
School," which may be an old story
both to you and to Warmers, but it
this time is an old story told well and
made completely worthwhile by the
presence of the Dead End" kids.
They are. you do not have to be told,
the toughest, toughest sextet known
to man and they bring to Crime
Schoo" a punch and vigor that make
it a fresh experience instead of just
q rehash OF bunch of stock situa-
tions.
They make 1t also a picture that
is not exactly to be recommended for
the tender Of heart. a picture that
gains much Of brutality from their
hard knuckles and tongues, from their
tough skins and chins. Crime
School," Of course, is not without its
humor. for these six lads. particularly
Leo Gorcey, are just so darned hard
boiled they are bound TO be funny
sometimes. But Director Lewis Sellers
has seen to it that what fun there Is
always Is underlain by the basic
severity Of the story. that the humor
Is just a safety valve. a sort Of sugar
coating for the rawness and harsh
ness of all the events.
Crime School, puts the Dead
End lads back in those same slums,
where they learn minor thievery, be-
come finally involved in a matter Of
bashing q fellow over the head, for
which they 60 to q reform school.
And that's where the Crime School,
part comes in, the house of correc-
ton, instead Of being that, being
ruled by cruel warden and q cat
o'-nine- tails. the sort OF a place that
turns minor offenders into potential
murderers. Then comes the fellow
who fires the warden, makes the re-
form school what it should be, wins
the boys confidence and makes them
what they should be.
Sure you've heard it all before, but
this time you can see it done with
some exciting moments, performed
convincingly by Billy Halop, young
Mr.. Gorcey (that Mr.. doesn't fit him
but the style book says use it, and
Evening star., 1938-06-18

against the horrors of biockades that
starve helpless babies, of bomb raids
that rain death on school children
and women, and Of the countless out
RACES against human hope and de-
cency. There is variation in the
eloQuence with which the film speaks,
but Director William Dieterle has OBJ
viously tried hard to prevent it and
upon occasion keeps the emphasis
for much longer periods than seem
reasonably possible.
Other than the principals, both of
whom are excellent every step of the
way, one will find suave performance
by John Halliday as the most de-
praved of the non-liberal faction, Leo
Carrillo as a fairly comical peasant.
and several others who are so good
that you would like to know which
side they are on.
Blockade" is a picture with faults
but it also is one which ventures off
the beaten path and as such deserves
the attention especially of those who
demand movies which bounce out of
the groove.
Mr.. WANGER is not the only brave
contributor to the Capitols bill
this week. Just behind him Is Carter
Barron who ventured to bring such
a superlative dancer as Paul Draper
before vaudeville audience. Mr..
Draper, as one can expect him always
to be, Is one of the most literate
dancers in America. If audiences do
no understand him, and his ability
to make music come to graceful life.
1t is perhaps because they have looked
too long upon simple things which
have been made to look difficult by less
talented performers. His technique
is to make difficult things look simple
and he does an amazingly fine thing
of 1t in tap minuet of which Handl
himself should be proud, an even
better one of imparting life to George
Gershwyn's 1T Amt Necessarily So"
The rest of the Capitol's show is
composed OF Wally Ward, billed under
the phrase for no good reason at
all, which amounts to a practically
profound truth, baritone Mark Plant
who Is good enough, and Chester
Hale's "a dancing Texas Comets, who
are very good indeed. Mr. Hales girls
occupy a lot of the time until Mr..
Draper comes along, dancing nicely.
looking very lovely, and being lighted
about as effectively as anything of
its kind you have seen this season.
Evening star., 1938-06-18


to have fully redeemed herself,
n further evidence, If you want
L n further evidence, being the
Jump Of Holiday" from the Earle to
the Metropolitan for a second week
downtown. Miss Hepburn, in this
latest screen version of the Philip
Barry play, has become warm and
almost human. Gone are the artifi-
cialities of some of her costume pic
lures and the dread monotone which
used to be her voice, and in their
stead there emerges a vibrant person.
atty to enhance the Hepburn crafts
manship.
Miss Hepburn plays Linda Seton
with full understanding of what she
is about and slick facility for letting
you and you know what she is about.
She is better than she was in stage
Door" and at least as good as she
was way back in Morning Glory" and
II she keeps on this way she is going
to put an end to that little theory that
you either like Hepburn very much
or you do not like her any at all. If
clic Accpo Oll Sic Will DcCOule HI dCCTeSS
instead of mere personality, if mere
Is the word for hers.
Miss Hepburn, of course, is not all
Of Holiday" by any means. The new
version Of the play about the lad who
thought gold not very worthy god,
and his trials and amours with two
daughters of the rich, one who did not
and one who did feel the same as he,
is bright one. 1t retains the best of
Mr.. Barry's original lines, has been
endowed with some scintillating new
dialogue in Donald Ogden Stewards
screen play, and has been directed
with deft touch and nimbly paced
by George Cukor
1t is played well by the other people
involved, too. Jean Dixon and Edward
Everett Horton being especially good
as q couple of human beings amidst
a lot Of people who are not very hu-
man; Doris Nolan, playing the Seton
who Is true Seton, and Lew Ayres
turning in neat portrayal of the
Seton who hid behind a highball from
oelng Seton. H. M.
Evening star., 1938-06-18
Cruises Will Beain
To Colonial Beach.

THE Potomac River Line will In
augurate its series OF cruises to
Colonial Beach tomorrow. The 8. s.
Potomac Is scheduled to leave its dock
at Seventh and Water streets SOUTH
west at o'clock in the morning, re-
turning to the Capital at 7:30 in the
evening. A stopover will be made at
the beach as In previous seasons. and
meals and dancing are to be features
aboard.
Evening star., 1938-06-18
Role for Hull.

HENRY HULL, who has had seven
leading screen roles since he quit
the stage role Of Jeeter in Tobacco
Road" to sign an M-G-M contract, has
been cast in Boys Town." starring
Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney.
With Tracy facing a camera for the
first time since winning the Academy
Award, production has started on this
picture, with Norman Taurog direct
ing. Tracy plays Rev. Edward j.
Flanagan, founder Of the Boys Town.
He dons the cloth for the first time
since his work in San Francisco"
Evening star., 1938-06-18

get there are times when the plot has
become almost irretrievably lost and
that something should be done about
1t.
Blockade" is an interesting pic
ture in a number of ways. First among
them Is that it is intended to be q
picture both for people who think and
those who would rather not, thank
you. It is our perverse view that it is
the more successful in its appeal to the
latter class than to the former despite
some narrowing sequences dealing
with the depravity Of modern military
tactics In their effects upon civilian
populations.
A film constructed on such a prem
ise Is bound to have its confusing
moments when the message gets in
the way of the story, and vice versa
But there are not too many such
moments to keep the film out of the
class of exciting spy drama involving
lovely lady, brave lieutenant, be-
wildered peasants. cruel military mis-
creants, and lot Of high (and cor
relatively low principles.
Mr.. Wanger has done two things
about war that will provoke the in
terest of those who care to turn their
minds loose upon his picture. In the
first place, he has attempted to de-
nationalize armed strife, effacing so
far as possible the identity of the COM
batant elements. In the second place
he has scornfully refused to decorate
It as something heroic with the re-
suit that his war is an ugly affair Of
q slaughter of the right and the in
nocent.
THE story, If one can follow its
twistings and turrings, is that of
q simple, peace-loving farmer caught
up in the defense of his land in the
early part of the film. subsequently
diverted from love of the soil to love
Of the beautiful spy. Realistically,
they are on the same side of the strug-
gle, but practically (because Miss Car
roll is the unwilling tool of the, shall
one say, Fascists even if Mr.. Wanger
does not), they find themselves op-
posed. In the course of getting two
romance angles Strengthened out, John
Howard Lawson's story keeps Miss
Carroll more or less constantly in
position in which she can feel the
heat from the muzzle of the firing
squads guns. 1t does more than that.
however, for in between it cries out
Evening star., 1938-06-18

meet you, and
won't you sit
d o W n ?" sa VS.
Enrol. They sit
down - but not
for long. 1t seems
that Mr.. Flynn
has sprayed the
chairs with wa
ter. Roaring with
merrilaent, Enrol
explains to his
damp and family
bewildered guests
that someone had
played the same
g a g on n l m
earlier in the eve
ming. Some fun.
Evening star., 1938-06-18
Crime SCHOOL, Enlivened
By the Dead End Boys
Warmers Again Discuss Criminals
In New Picture at the Earle.
Krupa Swings on Stage.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

association Of the Warner Bros with grim dramas Of crime not
fact that Crime School, the photopay
Warner with the s,rms
cminology marked women tn neone
Evening star., 1938-06-18
Blockade at Loew's Capitol
Shows Seamy Side Of War
Wanger Film, Starring Henry Fonda
And Madeleine Carroll, Has
Faults but Merits Praise.
BY JAY CARMODY.

which opened Yesterday at Loews Capitol Walter
the
thesis as force
fully Sherman,
motion
ne introduces Madeleine Carroll
Evening star., 1938-06-18
Musicale at Church.

THE Mems Usher Board of John
Wesley A. M E. Zion Church pre-
sented Les Williams radio and con-
cert choir in musicale last evening at
John Wesley Church. Fourteenth and
Corcoran streets NV.