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The Washington times., 1938-08-17
Arouse Interest

0rousing the interest OF the
children of Rockville and vicin-
1ty, who organized a Junior gar
den club under their Supervi-
sion.
Mrs. Emmett Dove is chair
man of the Junior Club. Serv-
ing with her are Mrs. Randolph
Talbot and Mrs. Eugene Casey.
Foundation for the club was
laid on the evening of March
z. 1917, when 10 people met at
the residence of DR.. E. L. Bull
lard of Rockville for the purpose
Of banding together civic mind
ed residents of that community
Mrs. A. Holmes was elected as
the first president of the organi-
cation. Serving during her ad-
ministration were DR.. Bullard,
vice president; Miss Martha
Poole, and Miss Laura Higgins.
Present officers include Mrs.
George Ninas, president; Mrs. ].
Harry Gormley, first vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Walter H. Young,
second vice president; Mrs. Will
bur Yocum, recording secretary;
Mrs. John Redpath, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. William
Ward, treasurer, and Mrs. j.
Frank Wilson, parliamentarian.
Evening star., 1938-07-01
FAY BANTER Demands
Bad Woman Role
Stage Star Tires of Noble Parts,
And Has Her Eye on One
Particular Characterization.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

r OILYWOOD NANA).-I to be q bad
I'm tired of being
nuters her hopely Dye
to nobenes for the
look At ths attractive red white and blue proom Monica
Beach look at its charming mistress
NO don't that" pleads
Evening star., 1938-07-01
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time Of Showing.

Earle-"Cocoanut Grove" musical
set in Hollywood's popular night spot:
IL am, l:40, 4:25. 7:l0 and $50 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, $50, Sis and
. pm.
CAPITOL "Josette," Simone Simon
returns with Don Ameche and Robert
Young as rival suitors: IL am, AS,
1880, 7:20 and 1905 pm. Stage shows:
l2:45. $50, Sis and s:o5 pm.
Metropolitan-"Crime School," the
Dead End" boys show how kids be-
come killers: ll:l5 am, 1:20, 3:2S,
$50, 7:35 and 9:45 pm:
Palace-"Lord JEFF" Youngsters
Bartholomew and Rooney are the stars
1l:l5 am, 1:20, 3:26, $50, 7:25 and
$40 pm.
Columbia-"Three Comrades" an
adaptation of the Remarque story with
Taylor. SULLIVAN: IL. 2:25, 4:5o, 7:20
and s:45 pm.
Keith'-"The Divorce Of Lady X"
Merle Oberon now turns to comedy,
In technicolor: 1l:43 am, 1:43, 3:43,
5:43, 7:43 and ga pm.
Tfam-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight.
Httle-"storm in Teacup." Eng
lish comedy dealing with the fair,
fresh subject Of q dog and municipal
politics: II, l2:45, 2:35, 4:20, $40. 3
and 9:45.
Evening star., 1938-07-01
Barrymore>Indian's Curse
Lead Waif and Stray News
Mail Carrier Produces Column Composed
Of Bits of This.and. That News.
Mickey Rooney Smart Boy.
By JAY CARMODY,

reason for signing todays column with the usual by-ne that
don't the mail But responsible
around there would nothing jot
with the following results:
publicity
Evening star., 1938-07-01

recruits to the movies who admits nk-
ing Hollywood ut flrst contact. Maybe
It's because until this year she has
used It as . place for work only
half an hour after each picture I've
been on . plane for New York"
Or maybe its because she has one
Of the best contracts ever given q
newcomer to the picture business. II
have to make three pictures q year
for warmers, but only II I okay the
scripts. can make any outside pic
lures I like. provided Warmers don't
want me At the same time, and I can
return to the stage when and II !
like"
FAy's story Of how and why she
came to Hollywood makes motion
picture all by itself. when they
couldn't get any one for that role in
Quality Street. they wired me to come
right away. It was Sunday. had
no money. My husband was miles away
on some property We own in New York
State. I wired him to be at the air
port with 500. In the excitement,
he forgot to give 1t to me. I arrived
in Hollywood with exactly 2 cents!"
Young Reg. aged IA. and the spit
ting image Of his father, wanders In
from the beach, complaining Of ear
ache. The interview comes to an
abrupt end. Il guess I'm Just q
mother after ALL" says Miss Banter
fiuttering anxiously around her chick
Copyright, 1889
Evening star., 1938-07-01
Exercises in Water
Keep Weight Down.

CHORUS girls working for Bobby
Connolly, dance director, can ex-
pect to pass part Of their training
time under water.
Connolly, now directing the dances
for Honolulu" Eleanor Powelrs lat
est musical, claims that the best way
to keep 4 persons weight normal is
to take underwater exercises at least
three times q week.
Connolly learned of this when he
was directing one Of Cole Porter's
shows In Paris and found that most
Partisan women were advocates Of the
idea.
Three times q week, he takes his
entire Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer chorus
to the swimming pool at the back lot.
where they dunk" for 10 minutes.
Evening star., 1938-07-01

Which makes him . smart lad even
If he did barely earn his high school
diploma when Hollywood's high
schools turned out their senior classes
few days ago.
IRON Ray Bell: "Accoladed" aS q
= verb in connection with Margaret
Sullavan's performance which you can
see at the Columbia starting today.
The amazing 1iexibility of the Eng
lish language! But it is not the spirit
with the Greek who kept their
verbs from becoming so irregular as
to confuse posterity. and to funk 70
many members of it.
" ~
IRON every one: Ernie johnson
= offers the statistic that there are
81 varieties Of fun and recreation at
Glen Echo. He is going to be asked
to provide list Of them just to prove
he is right :. THE Spring Cow and
the Moon," which could be only an
Irish comedy Tin one act) will be re-
peated tonight by the Blackfriars
Guild in the gym Of Catholic Univer-
sity Good Medicine" by Jack
Arnold and Twilight Saint the
latter by Stark Young will be the
other items on the program The
new George Bernard Shaw play. pre-
sented yearly by the Hedgerow Thea
ter. Moylan-Rose Valley. Pa, on the
playwright's birthday this year will be
"The Simpleton Of the Unexpected
Isles" It was written in 1894, when
Mr.. Shaw was . youngster OF only 7S.
And = very headstrong youngster.
There will be six plays in the Shaw
festival series which will run from
July 18 to August IS. It is q date to
jot down in case you know the quality
Of Jasper Deeter presentations. Or
even in case you do not >. The Terry
Ray, who appears in "Cocoanut
Grove" which opens ut the Earle to-
day had her name changed to Ellen
Drew" then back to Terry Ray, so
many times during the making of the
picture that her fellow players. in be-
wilderment. ended up by calling her
Ellen Terry. For your information,
her name finally ended up as it began,
Terry Ray :. Tardily reported is the
Shoreham's Barnees suggestion for
Max Schmeling theme song: you
Leave Me Breathless."
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A ND after SO many "froms" Just one
to-: Harry somerville, manag-
ing director Of the willard: Did We
slip? Sorry.
Evening star., 1938-07-01

ish fran. wife Of Walter Huston, in
"Dodsworth," to which Miss Banter
gave two and a half of the best years
OF her life. But the movie moguls de-
cided that Fay personifies the best in
womanhood. But only from a photo
graphic angle" Miss BANTER insists.
She was the gentle, old maid sister
to Katharine Hepburn in Quality
Street." the suffering mother in "The
Soldier and the Lady" (nee Michael
Strogof): another suffering mother
in Make Way for Tomorrow" q
kindly aunt to Bette Davis in "Jeze-
bell" the sanity stranger in white
Banners" Her performance as Han
nah in this picture put Fay in the
halo" class. Since "Whits Banners
Miss BANTER has played yet another
mother in Mother Carey's Chickens, "
and yet another in her current
Arkansas Traveller"
Evening star., 1938-07-01

Rumania Is replacing foreigners by
Rumanians in commerce and indus
try.
Evening star., 1938-07-01
Peace Conference
HOnors Blockade

THE National Peace Conference,
comprised Of 40 national groups with
membership exceeding 10000, 900
people, has awarded Walter Wanger 4
special citation for producing Block
ade," the Aim which co-stars Madeleine
Carroll and Henry Fonda. The cita-
ton. authorized by the governing board
Of the conference and presented by
Director Walter Van Kirk, acknowl-
edges the tineliness Of the picture and
its influences in the interests Of peace
by showing the futility of war and its
effects upon civilian, non-combatant
populations.
Among the groups afdliated with the
National Peace Conference are the
general Federation Of Women's Clubs,
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation and the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace.
william Dieterle directed Block
ade" from the screenplay written by
John Howard Lawson.
Evening star., 1938-07-01
But I'm going to play . bad woman

But I'm going to play bad woman
II 1t kills me-" Fay says desperately.
There Is . ray Of hope on her good
girl horizon. "A part in . Warner
Brothers picture that would suit me
down to the ground" Fay tells me-
She's q completely bad woman, bad
from the day she was born. You know
the type-very rich, very spoiled, very
well dressed. just plain bad. I'm fight-
ing mad for the part. II I don't get
1t. look for me In some picture where
you'll fnd me playing q nice mother
part!"
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Miss BANTER Is one Of the few stage
Evening star., 1938-07-01

removed q totem pole from taboo"
island in Alaska. The Indians, very
angry about the Barrymore party de-
predations, put q curse upon the
quartet, headed by Jack. The third
one died of a lingering illness the
other day, ending his existence with
. little note to the actor recalling the
malediction Of the Indians.
Says Mr.. Barrymore in the face
Of the curse: I've been cursed by ex-
perts, including my Uncle Jack (John
Drew. the actor. He predicted I
would either be shot or hanged. and
my faith in his wisdom still Is un-
shakeable. I have already been on
the verge of both demises several
times"
Who do publicity departments
think they are anyhow? Wilbur
Daniel Steele? Or Somerset Vaughan?
FROM Warner Bros: Dick Foran,
whose name really is Nick. is a
Princeton man. But to Judge by his
dancing, he is a natural-born cowboy.
In his next picture, Mr.. Foran is play
ing the part Of dancing cowboy in
1.-THE Sisters" which stars Bette
Davis and Enrol Flynn. They came
up to the dance sequence the other
day, one in which Mr.. Foran is sup
posed to whirl Miss Davis around
ballroom. He could not talk and
dance at the same time, handicap
devoutly to be wished, no doubt, by
a great many women in this world.
But the picture called for talking and
dancing, so Mr.. Foran tried. He tried
13 times as a matter Of fact, and got
worse with each trial. If his feet did
not stumble, his tongue fumbled the
words.
When the story ended, a thing
about which our city editors would
have turned pretty tough, Mr.. Foran
still was stumbling or fumbling. Pre-
sumably, however, there will be q
picture entitled The Sisters"
And, for whatever help it may be
to the studio, If we were in a picture
10 titled, We should not argue, as Mr..
Flynn is reported to be doing, about
VOp plllHS.
IRON Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer: The
irrepressible Mickey Rooney, who
shows up on the Palace screen today
In Lord JEFF" is working today in
Hollywood in Boys Town Headliner
of the piece is Spencer Tracy. Mr..
Tracy is Mickey's idol. his conception
Of the greatest actor in the world
(Which is downright good judgment). j..
Working with Tracy, Mickey is re-
versing his usual demeanor. Instead
Of requiring the constant attention OF
guard to keep him from interrupt
ing sequences in which he is not work.
Ing, Mickey IS silent, alert to Tracy's
every infection and gesture. Why?
Because he aspires to be fraction OF
the actor that Tracy is. is amazed at
the latters technique, watches it close
ly to learn everything he can.
Evening star., 1938-07-01
Back to Acting.

7 E5LIE FNTON, who quit acting
more than . year ago to become
. shorts subjects director at NON,
is returning to the screen for one role
At the request Of his friend, Director
Norman Taurog. he will play one OF
the dramatic parts in Boys Town
with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Roo
ney.
Evening star., 1938-07-01
Role for Winner.

CAMUM GOODWIN has signed
- Vivian Coe. l9-year-old winner OF
five beauty contests in California, for q
role in THE Lady and the Cowboy, ~
the Gary Cooper-Merle Oberon starring
vehicle now being directed by H. G.
Potter.
Evening star., 1938-07-01

to be-" she con-
tinues denantly.
All this requires
so me explana-
ton. Before Miss
Banter crashed
the door Of Holly
wood fame, she
had played every
type Of female on
stages all over
the United States,
from the little
Chinese girl in
East Is West"
which ran nve
years on Broad
way, to the self
Evening star., 1938-07-01

to her ex-sailor husband, 1t. Comdr.
Reginald Gardiner, tell her I don't
want to be good-and I'm not going
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25

The annual tuberculosis Christ
mas Seal sale begins on Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
tuberculosis is one of the major
health problems. 1t is the leading
cause of death among young people
between the ages of 15 and As, and
is the seventh greatest over the
complete life span.
The work Of the Maryland Tuber-
culosis Association is devoted to er-
adcating this disease. The associa-
ton is dependent on the sale of the
Seals for funds for carrying on its
program.
Everyone of us can cooperate in
this great fight against dread dis
ease by purchasing these little seals
that cost one cent each. You are
urged to do your part, even though
you purchase but few cents worth
of these little seals. No matter how
small the purchase it will help swell
the aggregate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
WHY=
The Old-Time Scarecrow Ii
Now Out of Date.

The bureau of biological survey
announces that the. scarecrow is
practically extinct, that the famil-
lar figure of the cornfield, celebrated
for many years in prose and rhyme,
limned by many an artists brush
and animated at many Halloween
frolic is seldom seen any more.
1t seems that the scarecrow failed
to keep up to date and that increas-
ingly sophisticated generations of
feathered marauders lost all fear
and respect for him, once they
learned that his patched coat, bat
tered hat and stiffly outflung arms
made up only the slightest simili-
tude to flesh and blood, says writ
er in the Columbus Dispatch.
Farmers who still use scarecrows,
it is said, are merely following
tradition without realizing that no
one is fooled.
The scarecrow could possibly
have been saved by spending more
time and patience in making him a
life-like figure, by giving him a
natural posture and stuffed body
from which the tattered garments
hung loosely. But then he wouldn't
have been a scarecrow, at least in
the form in which he has been part
of the American rural scene for so
many years.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
How Trees Are Forcibly
Fed Through Glass Tube

When a criminal goes on hunger
strike, he is forcibly fed through
tube inserted into his throat. Now
agricultural scientists are finding
this technique useful. They are in
jecting nourishment into the stems
of apple trees which, for various
reasons, are unable to obtain enough
food through their roots.
A hole a quarter Of an inch in
diameter is first bored through the
trunk of the tree, states writer in
Pearson's London Weekly. Then a
glass tube is inserted at one end
and made alright by a rubber col
lar fitting close to the bark. The
other end of the hole is blocked by
a rubber stopper.
The glass tube is connected by a
siphon to a container holding the
liquid to be injected. The flood"
used contains phosphate Of potash,
urea, and other chemicals.
The growth of shoots on treated
trees was found to be two or three
times as great as those on untreated
trees among a number "forcibly
fed"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
Why North Is Always at
the Top of Modern Maps

No scientific principle makes it
necessary to have the north of a
map at the top. 1t is probable that
the ancient Greek and Roman map
makers had East at the top, that
being the direction of the rising sun
The medieval map makers as q
rule followed the same custom
However, a map in the British mu-
scum is oriented with South at the
top. 1t was made in 1892. Another
map of the same collection is orient
ed with West at the top. Ptolemy
placed north at the top Of his maps
and this system was followed by the
early map makers of the British
isles. With the revival of Ptolemy's
geography during the Renaissance,
placing North at the top became an
established custom, which was fur
Their confirmed by the increase OF
the use of meridians and parallels.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
THANKSGIVING

The Thanksgiving feast is a SYM
boil of the use of true abundance.
Evidently the fact that true abund-
ance does not consist merely in
things, in houses, or crops, is In
some measure recognized. Thanks
giving Day is Celebrated in the United
States every year-not only in years
of material prosperity but in years
of deep material depression as we'll
There is no irony in this fact.
Lasting thanksgiving must be for
those things the tongue cannot
taste, the eye cannot see, the hand
cannot feel.
II at one time we give thanks for
material prosperity, for merely hui
man friendship or affection, we may
be convincted at another time that
there is nothing to be thankful for.
To give thanks in prosperous times
may seem easy. To give thanks In
difficult times may seem all but i'm
possible. But it is never harder to
give thanks at one time than at
another, If the thanks be given in
an understanding of Gods invariable
goodness.
Mankind is growing more and
more thankful in it's expanding
knowledge that this God7given
abundance does not consist of ma
teriality; that it cannot be fully re-
fected in the most fruitful crop, nor
limited in the sparsest gleanings.
When the first Thanksgiving Day
savored the woodsy New England air
and prompted the hearty New Eng
landers to partake of abundance,
there was slight enough material in
surance of the future, as moderns
would measure it. If the Pilgrim
fathers had demanded, as prere-
quisite to Thanksgiving, guarantees
of perpetual economic security, or
to know how long it would be before
another European war might break
out, the first Thanksgiving Day
would have been definitely post
poned.
What they had to be thankful for
on that day, men have still: the
fact Of the abundance with which
God has endowed His children. This
is always at hand, reflected in I'M
selfish resourcefulness, in courage,
in mutual understanding, in hui
maneness, in love. And analysis OF
world conditions fortifies the con-
clusion that use of this abundance
is necessary to solve problems of ap-
parent material lack. Thanksgiving,
now as in 1921, is best expressed in
use of true abundance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
Why It Is "Keystone stateo

Just why Pennsylvania is called
the keystone state isn't known for
certain. Perhaps it was so called
from the fact that geographically il
occupied the central position among
the Is original states. There is Q
theory advanced that the name was
suggested by bridge over Rock
creek between Georgetown and
Washington, D. c., the arch of (which
was built of stones left over from
the Capitol. On 10 Of the arch
stones the names of the IS original
states were engraved, and Pennsyl
vania's name was engraved on the
keystone, or the center stone. A.
any rate, the name was popularity
applied to the state after a cam.
paign document issued by the Dem
ocratic committee in 1903 advertised
that state as the keystone of the
Democratic Arch"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25

Thousands of automobile drivers
have eyes that fatigue from long
driving, and when fatigued they
tend to turn in or out, instead OF
pointing straight as they normally dc
when not tired. The images on such
over-worked eyes are indistinct and
blurred, and the ability to judge
distances is impaired. If an automo-
bile driver with eyes in this tired
condition takes single drink OF
liquor, he may suffer great impair
ment of vision, frequently to the
extent of seeing blurred, double i'm
ages. While he may be perfectly So
Der in every other respect. and would
pass the ordinary tests for intoxica-
ton given by physicians, still, from
visual standpoint, he would be
cock-eyed, says the Better Vision
institute. In that condition he be-
comes unknowingly menace on the
road.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
OPINIONS

"Silence is virtue which en-
dears man to man. Dean Inge.
"After-dinner spouting is a low
form of acting. Irwin Cobb.
Happiness really is a state Of
mind. It is intangible. Edna Fer
Der.
"No great achievement is possible
without persistent work. - Ber-
trand Russell.
"Youth stands with this axiom:
nothing in the world is impossible"
-Benito Mussolini.
Instead of people thinking of mis-
chief and politics, l say, why not let
them sing?" - Nine. Schumann-
Heink.
"The ill-timed truth we might
have kept-who knows how sharp 1t
pierced and straightforward Row.
land Sill.
Happiness lies not in the mere
possession of money; it lies in the
Joy of achievement" Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
whenever the women Of the
world really make up their minds to
put period to war, they can do it."
John Ruskin.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
OCTOBER TRAFFIC MIsHAps

Thirty-five persons were killed an(
211 injured in traffic accidents il
Maryland counties last month the
State Police Accident Prevention Blu
reau reports.
Sixteen of those persons injured
fatelly were pedestrians an Or:chel
report of the bureau showed. There
were $50 crashes during the month
Baltimore county led in the number
of accidents and deaths, reporting
eightty-six crashes and six fatalities
Prince Georges county was mex
with five dead in nineteen mishaps
Washington, Howard and Frederick
counties trailed Prince Georges with
three deaths each.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
How to Test Binoculars

The comparison of binoculars can
best be made by someone with a
knowledge of lenses, but you can
make some simple tests yourself.
Hang a watch on a nail somewhere
out of doors and see how far away
you can pick out the second hand
with the binoculars. The limit of
the cheaper grades will be about rs
yards. A ten-power glass will keep
it in sight for 100 yards. You can
make a similar test with a news
paper. There should be no distor-
ton of the type whatever the dis
lance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25
HOW.
CARBON MONOXIDE VICTIMS
SHOULD HAVE TREATMENT

CARBON MONOXIDE VICTIMS
SHOULD HAVE TREATMENT
Carbon monoxide, according to a
discovery recently made as the
result of a three-year investiga-
ton by the United States public
health service and the bureau of
mines, produces a poison in the
system of its victims that causes
fatal swelling of the brain.
Both carbon monoxide poison
ing and oxygen deficiency were
found in animal experiments to
produce injuries to the brain cells
and the central nervous system;
hence the action of carbon mon
oxide was found to be suffocation
or asphyxiation and not special
poisoning effect, as has been be-
lieved, as DR.. r. r. Sayers, of
the public health service, reports
to the American Society for the
Prevention of Asphyxial Deaths.
DR.. Savers explains that the
correct treatment for carbon
monoxide poisoning is to avoid
giving all fluids including water,
and to reduce body fluids by such
methods as catharsis, lumbar
puncture or bleeding.
Oxygen, or oxygen mixed with
carbon dioxide, should be prompt
ly administered and further
measures also taken to relieve
swelling and pressure in the
brain. Blood transfusions, some
times resorted to in the past, DR..
Sayer warns, should be avoided
as dangerous.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-11-25

Since Roman gourmets praised its
succulence in poems at their feasts,
the oyster has been held in high re-
gard. Despite its ancient lineage
and the aristocratic company
it keeps, the supreme shel1fish is a
valuable food-and an economical
cne, to boot. It's high in mineral
content-iodine, iron and calcium.
It's comparatively cheap because
it's all food-no waste from trim
ming.