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Evening star., 1938-06-25
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Earie-"White Banners" Bonita
Granville. Claude Rains in the film
version Of Lloyd Douglas book: II
am. 1:40, 4:25. 7:05 and $50 pm.
Stage shows: l2:45, $3.50, 6:l5 and
pm.
Capitol-"Three Blind Mice" trio
Of beauties in search of rich hus-
bands: IL am. las, 4:30. 7:15 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 1885, $40,
e:25 and $40 pm.
Little Miss Thor
oughbred," introducing a new child
star. Janet Chapman. in a race track
picture: 1850 am, l:50, $50, $50,
7:50 and $50 pm.
Palace-"The Toy Wife" Luise
Rainer makes love in old New Or
leans: 1905, 2:25, 4:50, tbs and
$40 pm.
Columbia-"Yellow Jack" the con-
quest Of yellow fever plus love interest ::
ll:15 am. 1:2o. $50. 5:35, TAO and
$50 pm.
Keith's-"The Rage of Paris" Mile.
Darrieux makes her American film
debut with Douglas Fairbanks, jr.:
n:l5 am. 1:02, 2:49, 4:36, 6:23, $40
and s:57 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 10 am to midnight.
Little - "Horsefeathers, Marx
brothers hit revived: 1l:1O am, l:35,
1855, $40 and S:45 pm. If Had a
Million" the hardy perennial again
1915, 2:40, sos, 7:25 and $50 pm,
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Of Miss Rainer and the girl Douglas
should have married In the first place
and by the usually faithful Alma
Kruger. Miss Kruger, as a Southern
dowager gives the Southern woman
hood virtually as much glory as Miss
Rainer takes from it.
The editing of The Toy Wife" is
one of the most startling things to
come out of Hollywood in a long time
1t is Of the order that leaves the au-
dience constantly confused by refer
ences to things which. If they went
before, obviously must have gone on
the cutting room floor for no good rea-
son at ALL
Maybe the editor, after a big earful
Of the dialogue with which Miss At
kins graced the picture, just decided
to go snip, snip and let the pieces fall
where they might. J.C.
Evening star., 1938-06-25
New Moppet
AWinner in
First Film
Nets Attraction
Is Little Miss
Thoroughbred

IF YOU are stony-hearted enough
to sit by calm and unperturbed
while q little orphan lass tries to
L adopt daddy, you can stop listen
ing right now. But if you are sucker
for enchanting 6-year-old blonds,
sucker enough, that is, to realize that
hokum is hokum and still be affected
by it, there is a good chance that
Little Miss Thoroughbred" the Met
ropolitan's new picture, will suit your
taste. The point is that this little
newcomer. Janet Chapman; John Lii
tel and Director John Farrow have
plucked a run of mine item from the
B schedule and made it into a satisfy
ing entertainment.
1t is satisfying, that is, if you are
the kind Of sucker mentioned up
there, content to let hokum fall where
1t may and subject to a bit of senti-
mental feeling when a little girl has
troubles much too big for her, even if
they are only cinematic troubles. For
Little Miss Thoroughbred" is GER
tainly no outstanding film. but then
one Of its good points is that it pre-
tends to no degree of greatness.
There is certainly nothing novel
about the story of little girl adopt
ed by gambler. This time, of G1;lrse,
the little girl adopts the boy who plays
the ponies, much against his will,
until she brings him so much luck he
decides he must keep her around as
a good-luck piece. There is then the
business of being caught up and all
the playing upon the heartstrings in
volved in the courtroom sequence
where the law tries to take little girl
away from the daddy she has adopted.
The two people mostly responsible
.or making Little Miss Thorough
bred" acceptable are Miss Chapman
and Mr.. Litel. Janet. In her first film,
turns out to be not one of your "cute"
child star pretty-pretties, but rather
Is the sort of a youngster you would
greet with grin and a Hi, Monkey"
She has lot Of charm and no little
ability in the fllmoppet acting busi-
ness. Mr. Litel, Of course. is the actor
OF the piece, still sticking at the task
which seems to have become his-the
task Of making B pictures look better
by honest Characterization. Others
are Frank McHugh and Ann Sheridan.
H. NJ.
Evening star., 1938-06-25

able in its demands upon the credulity
Of the audience. Right of 1t intro
duces Miss Rainer as Louisiana belle
Of the 1850s, but instead of soft
drawl, she startles you with a prac-
tically frenzied French accent.
Don't she talk foreign?" asks one
Of the more discerning slaves.
Doesn't she?" you mentally reply
settling back with the feeling the man
who invented air-cooling for theateri
was smart fellow at any rate
The stuff of which The Toy Wife"
is made has been compounded into
good pictures. But the formula by
which it has been done must have been
mislaid for not even faithless and
faithful love. kisses snatched in the
moonlight under the magnolia trees
tousle headed child, honor and dis
honor, and the various other elements
that go with triangles make good sense
in this instance. Maybe they never
make good sense, but the same time
make good pictures.
X
THE screenplay by Zoe Atkins pre-
sents Miss Rainer as a frivolous
belle, female so f1ighty that Melvyn
Douglas certainly should have known
what he was acquiring when he led
her to the altar. Evidently love was
superblind on that occasion. however
for when the scales dropped from his
eyes. he stepped out of Miss Atkins
original character so far as to become
virtually unrecognizable
For the cool cruelty he showed Miss
Rainer after his discovery that she was
mere child mentally and emotionally
a thing which we knew all the time.
Mr.. Douglas was paid off by her elope-
ment with Robert Young. Mr.. Young,
a devil-may-care sort of duck, is ig-
nobly but deeply in love with Miss
Raiaer during their years together in
New York. but the thing is a failure
because he realizes she still is in love
with her husband.
To summarize the rest of the story
which does have its emotional mo-
ments, they are forced to return to
Louisiana. Young and Douglas fight a
duel in which the latter wins because
Young chooses pistols (probably as
the quickest way to get out of the pic
ture), Miss Rainer develops pneumonia
and dies.
1t is not until the picture reaches
its climax that Miss Rainer begins to
resemble the actress who for the last
two years has won the academy award.
Her death scene is acted in a fashion
reminiscent of her Anna Held por-
trayal and her subsequent impersona-
ton OF O-Lan in The Good Earth. "
BY the time the picture has proceeded
that far, however, Miss Rainer has
been too thoroughly a martyr to a
lost cause to revive your interest.
Better performances are given by
Douglas, by Young. by Barbara
O'Neill, the latter cast as the sister
Evening star., 1938-06-25

10). boy, Is this
t GU 6 h today!"
means Eddie
Martha Raye, at
the new Beverly
Hills Terra c e
Beauty s q ! o n,
10 a t ing, I'm
having s u c h a
wonderful time, ]
mustn't forge e t
my mother" And
Martha promptly
buys her mater
an e xpe n siv e
handbag -. Fred
Astaire and his
uife q sNrio1Is.
Evening star., 1938-06-25

reads the funnies with his son Bill,
jr. Pat O'Brien in q green suit
30. Bing Crosby wears the only straw
hat David Selznick hurries to the
bar. with Joan Bennett right behind,
initiating the Wy he walks.
Extra girl Virginia Dawes, crying
on the set of Breaking the Ice" be-
cause she is so happy at landing q
job after being on q bread and coffee
diet for the past IL months. Virginia
was cast adrift when the Central
Casting Agency cut the extra and
chorus list from 5000 to 1000 girls
Luckily for her, she could skate-and,
when the call came for the Bobby
Breen picture. she landed the job
THE moment realized I was going
back to work, I became violently
SICK" Virginia explains, and then
tells me about those 6,999 others who
are still without work.
Some of them have gone home
but there are others who are still
hanging on hopefully. and those are
the girls I pity most. I did that, and
how I suffered! A lot of the girls
have married. and are making the
best Of . second choice career. But
most film extras put OF marriage in
the hope of making something OF
themselves. When they reach the age
Of rs and are no longer in demand,
q girl has to decide in hurry on
taking q husband. She might not be
able to get the man she rejected years
before and really wants, but must take
a substitute, or spend the rest of her
life Wishing she had not been such
an an-around sap"
Cppyright, 1898. BY the North Amseican
i Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1938-06-25

Others who succumb to Miss Balm
ter's determined effort to inculcate
happiness by eradicating flaws in
character are Jackie Cooper, a rich
and wayward lad. Kay johnson, the
sloppy wife of Rains, Bonita Gran
vile. the headstrong daughter, and
James Stephenson, whose betrayal Of
her early in life was the thing which
turned Miss Banter into such a girl
going around doing good
Miss Granville gives her usual good
performance and Is getting much pref
tier. Young Mr.. Cooper is very earn
est in his work and definitely is not
getting any handsomer. The rest are
adequate.
Edmund Goulding, who directed
White Banners" keeps it always in
the Douglas groove, gives it here and
there some practically inspired touches.
nUT of four separate acts, Mr. Anger
has arranged a unit stage show
which. in spite of several bitches in
the opening performance. gave def
mite promise of coming off as very
pleasant thing without ever becoming
sensational. Miss Castelotti, who
really looks like Snow White in the
same kind of costume, is pleasing to
the ear as well as the eye. She sings,
naturally. her songs from the Disney
picture and If she would get just a
bit more voice into the microphone
one would not be so conscious of the
difference between her appearances
on the stage and screen.
Rufe Davis came closer to stopping
the show than any other Of its per-
formers. His limitations, lifted bodily
from his various films. included every
thing from Donald Duck to g train
trying to get rapidly out of Arkansas
They were popular enough for three
curtain calls
Mr.. Schlepperman, sounding very
much as he does on Jack Bennys pro-
grams, does a philosophic dissertation
not quite like that of Mr.. Douglas
but humorous in its fashion and pleas
ing to lovers Of Schleppermania.
Mr. Stockwell's voice lent color to
a number of the nicely dressed, hand
somely staged moments of the stage
show. The is dancing sub-debs, who
next week will be the Is dancing
divorces. also contribute pleasantly to
the composition which Mr. Anger
has whipped out for the week.
Evening star., 1938-06-25

Prop department at Warner Bros.
studios went to considerable pains to
make mold for use IN making a sand
castle in a beach scene for Three
Girls on Broadway" Between scenes
little 6-year-old Janet Chapman
amused herself making her conception
of sand castle. The studio-made
castle didn't look real, but hers did,
so they discarded the phoney for the
real.
Evening star., 1938-06-25
Simpler Music Is Devised
lge space as the old method.

page space As the old method.
This new system, ~ said Boris
Morros, Paramount's music director,
lis so simple that you wonder why
no one has thought Of 1t before. From
now on-as soon as the form is prop
erly protected by copyright-transpo-
sition will be unnecessary and will
be regarded as old-fashioned.
There is no reason why We should
continue to use the five-bar music
system which was invented by 4 monk
In the 5th century"
Antheil, who Is well known q q
magazine writer. composed the mu-
steal scores for The Plainsman" and
''The, BuccaneeY," both Of which were
pgodueed tor Paramount By d 1filjs.
Evening star., 1938-06-25
Daring Age to Be
HeifetZ Picture.

(AMUEL GOODWIN has announced
that "The Daring Age" will be
the production in which he will, this
summer, introduce Jascha Heifetz,
world-famous violinist, to the screen.
In addition. the film will introduce
a new romantic starring team in Joel
McCrea and Sigrid Gurie. Adolph
Menjou will also play leading role.
The Daring Age" a story deal
ing with the problems of present.
day youth. will be picturized from an
original script by I. A. r. Wylie,
noted novelist and short-story writer.
Evening star., 1938-06-25

sings; lie Paul, who does clever things
with cards. and Buster West and
Lucille Page. Miss Page is an accom-
plished dancer, at her best in q tap
and acrobatic routine, and Mr.. West
is supposed to be a comedian, only
his doings at yesterdays first show
would have been far more at home
in . burlesque house. Whether or not
he now shines as the comedian he is
supposed to be is something We do
not know, but we do know that the
Capitol's manager, Mr.. Charles Kurtz-
man. was on the way backstase i'm
mediately after that first show to turn
the act into something palatable to
the family trade.
Evening star., 1938-06-25

niflcent Obsession" and Green Light,
all Of them from the pen of Lloyd
Douglas. Simple. unpretentious, hon.
estly acted and intelligently directed,
White Banners" is good entertain
ment of its kind; kind, incidentally,
for which there seems to be a con-
siderable demand in these, our times.
In the same mood of unaffected
nominees Harry Anger has cast his
music and comedy. the former pro-
vided by Adriana Castelotti, the voice
of Snow White, and Harry Stockwell,
the voice Of Prince Charming. Rufe
Davis, screen comedian, and Sam
Hearn, the "Schlepperman" Of the
radio. are the mirth creators.
White Banners" profits greatly by
some sincere performing Of its major
roles by the unfailing Fay BANTER and
Claude Rains. Mr.. Douglas script
asks them to give reasonability to at
titudes and circumstances for which
some bitter critics have devised the
word "hokum" To the credit of the
two, they do it in fashion that might
easily make any one forget there is
such thing as hokum.
White Banners" represents Mr..
Douglas effort to sell the golden rule
through its successful practice by Miss
Banter. Life has reduced her to the
position of maid Of all work in the
harassed home headed by Rains, a
high school teacher with a yearning
to invent something that will make
him rich. But while her position in
the world is a lowly one, and one
reached by successfully cruel twists
Of fate. she is able to preach happi-
ness because she knows what it is.
The household is transformed even
tually. but not without some tumultu-
GUS moments, and some genuinely
moving ones.
Rains. a cynical eccentric inventor,
Is the hardest one to sell. His in
clination is to fight, to turn bitter in
defeat, but Miss BANTER keeps right
after him until he has learned her
lesson so we'll that he is able to teach
1t to her during her one moment of
forgetfullness just before white Ban
ners" ends. The exchanges between
the two manage to be sufficiently en-
crossing to take ones mind of the fact
that Mr.. Douglas tends to challenge
belief too far when he has Rains in
vent two mechanical refrigerators, one
electric, the other gas.
Evening star., 1938-06-25
HOLLYWOOD.

~ EORGE ANTHEIL, one Of
4 Americas most famous young
composers, has devised a new
method Of writing music
which is expected to greatly simplify
the reading and understanding Of
music by the layman.
Antheil, who is writing the musical
score for Cecil B. De Miles next
Paramount production, Union Pa
cific," says that his new system elm
mates the use of cleffs and is read
like column of figures-from top
to bottom instead Of from left to
right.
One feature Of the system u that
It requires only ens-tenth % nauch
Evening star., 1938-06-25

One Of Priscilla Lanes pet cats is
mothering nest of motherless cat
birds, q phenomenon Priscilla can't
EXPLAIN but she thinks the cat is
fooled by the feline-likc cries made ty
the little birds.
Evening star., 1938-06-25
Freddie Bartholomew Revels
In Drivers License at ID
Aunt Turns to Hope and Prayer
AS Juvenile Star Commands
Machine Age Death Dealer.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

oYWo0D June IS (NANAo-"1snt wonderful"
old Freddie Bartholomew Of
Limousine Isn't awful?" sgs
given driving license
do Is hope
Eddie Robinson mildly rehearsal
Evening star., 1938-06-25
Loretta Loves Once More
In Three Blind Mice
This Time Miss Young Hunts Rich
Man in Capitol's New Film.
Texas Comets Stage Stars.
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

addest days OF n reviewers life those days when he finds
himself face to face with motion
particularly praseworthy
does the soul good protest Three Capitols
nema of those things
entertainment
Evening star., 1938-06-25
The Toy Wife, at Palace,
Is Confused Film Plav
Talents of Luise Rainer and Others
Little Used in Drama of Love
In the Old South.


bad brilliantly
likely
confused effort spite of
occasionally direction
Wife,
Evening star., 1938-06-25

Dick Powell is still hoping to land
his first swordfish He wants a pic
ture Of himself and the big catch for
display in his "rumpus room."
Evening star., 1938-06-25
white Banners" Hominess
Makes Dramatic Picture
Earle Attraction, One of Douglas Cycle,
Stars Fay BANTER and Rains.
Snow White on Stage.
BY JAY CARMODY

THE world would only listen to Warner Bros would be
emphasize that crime does not not that kind
philosophic
companion piece Mag
Evening star., 1938-06-25

NtIc IIAS UceH SWICCN III SCflpC
at the last moment (this happens,
on the average, nine times out Of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-20
Branch Passenger Lines
Fast Disappearing Here.
Public Protests Little

Lewiston and Boykin, Virginia
mounted to $1.O1 during 1887 droa a.
ping to 80 cents for the first fih
months of 1888. Another instanco i've
the Observation-Disclosures passpn" "s
service, from which receipts for ~
ist five months Of this wear au ,"e
aSfd only twenty cents per dav
No opposition was made to tbe Al,
continuance of these lines (wbo~.
service was being given on "mixod"
trains). This, too, is becoming moro
and more frequent, Commissiona.
Winborne said
1T used to be that there w.s
storm of opposition every time a rail-
road attempted to discontinue nos
senger line, he said, "but nowdo,',
it is not at all uncommon for mott
ton to be heard without any one an
rearing against it,"
An exception, he said, is develonino.
in the matter of the Atlantic Coaot
Line between Kinston and Weldon
notice of the railroads intention -
ask for discontinuance of this limo
having already brought counter.
notice that opposition will be deter.
mined and widespread
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-20
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir WHlfRr HnfAl

Raleigh, June 20-North Carolina
will eventually be left with no pas
senger rail service except upon the
main lines of trunk systems, if tie
present trend continues for any length
of time, Utility Commissioner Stanley
Winborne today told this correspon-
dent
Bus competition is the basic rea-
son for this gradual abandonment Of
branch passenger lines, but the pre-
sent financial plight of the railroads
is the moving cause of the present
flood of applications to discontinue
passenger service, the commissioner
said.
"The railroads are making desper-
ate efforts to cut down all kinds of
expenses" he said, land the savings
effected by abandoning service on
branch lines is often 4 considerable
item"
AS an indication of the almost total
loss of business on the branch line,
Mr. Winbofne cited recent hearings in
which Seaboard Air Line witnesses
testified that the average daily re.
ceipts from passenger service between
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-20
Banquet Tonight at
7 O'Clock at Which
Prizes B e Given;
Dance to Follow

Frank Legg, Jr., won the coveted
championship cup at West End Coun-
try club yesterday afternoon by TAX
ing the 35th and 36th holes from jim
nv Cooper, .Jr, who had come from
behind to even the match, in their
36-hole finals battle for the club title.
Joel T. Cheatham whipped j. c.
Cooper, ST., , and l, for second flight
honors and the large trophy that
goes to the winner of this flight.
Yesterdays championship match
was closely followed by a large gal
lery, although there were threatening
showers.
On the first nine holes Saturday
afternoon, Jimmy Cooper took a one
up lead but went two down on the
second nine when Legg won the 18th,
18th, 18th, 18th and nth. Cooper took
The 18th.
Sundays play saw cooper even the
match at the 22nd hole but Legg
took the next three holes to advance
three-up Cooper then took the 26th,
but Legg took the 9th to go three-up.
Cooper once again evened the mat
oh by firing almost par golf on the
next four holes, winning three of
them. The finalists battled on even
terms to the 35th, where Cooper's shot
to the green got into q drain ditch,
while Legg's came to rest just off
the green. Cooper Clipped too far
from the pin. and Legg took a par
four to win the hole. The new cham
pion took the Both hole with par golf
The large gallery was treated to
some fancy golf shots as the two
youths matched strokes for the cham
pionship. Legg apparently could stand
more pressure than could Cooper. and
this ability likely gave him the title.
In consolation play during last
week, Stewart Finch won first flight
honors from Clyde Finch, drulc bing
him six and five, while D. Boyd Kim
ball whipped Bob Beasley for second
flight honors. E. H. Dixon, ST., won
third flight honors over B. H. Nixon,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-20

Continues from PaQe Cre-l
expression of the boards opinion that
we Yankees could have kept our own
employment more or less up to Inc
mark if we had kept armament-build-
ing going at the same rate as less
depressed folk have done.
No Economic Use.
This reasoning is plausible, in q
way.
Nevertheless, it generally is recog
nized that international disarmament
or armament limitation is desirable
It makes for peace and all-aroun1
prosperity
:. Armanlents, after all, are of no
basic economic use.
Warships, for example, carry no
promote trade. They are parasi &c,
purely.
"N0 Immediate Value"
Years ago, when | was an Amer
lean newspaper correspondent in To,4-
don, Lord Inchliffe, then one of Bri-
tain's foremost warship-builders vas
Summoned before parliamentary
committee (similar to one of our con-
gressional committees) as a witness.
lie said:
THE money spent on a warship or
in payment of for its maintenance
ana the upkeep of it's personnel
might as we'll be sunk in the ocean,
fer all the immediate value it has.
1T is insurance; that is ALL"
Insurance"
Well. insurance nas its utility.
Still, it IS not productive
In the long run, it is safer to be
safe per Sc" than 30 be insured
The term "-oon-doggling' had not
been invented then, but Lord n
chciiffe's proposition, roughly, was
hat warship-Ouilding was "boon-dog
giiag"in that day. And nc was one OF
its chief Deneficiaries
Disarmament Argument.
A decade ago Congressman Fred
Rritton of Chicago was chairman or
TIE representatives naval affairs
committee.
He was considered a pretty hard
,ioiled :nan-o'war.
Nevertheless he favored armament
imitation.
+, Ills theory was, Nations will be
afraid to fight if they are unarmed.'
Economics are mixed up in the sit
ua.ion now.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-20

BORN, May 13, 1914 on a planta-
tion, lafayette, Ala, Christened Joe
ouis Barrow. Ancestry, Negro,
Cherokee Indian and white.
BEGAN BOXING as an amateur.
winning national tournament in 1884.
Scored 43 knockouts as amateur, won
seven and lost four bouts. Made pro-
fessional start July 4, 1884, under
management of Julian Black and
John Roxborough Knocked out Jack
McKracken in a round. Has had 81
fights as a professional, scoring IS
knockouts, winning eight decisions
and being knocked out once. The man
who knocked him out was Max
Schmeling, in the twelfth round, in
1886.
HAS FIGURED in one million-dol-
lar fight, his engagement with Max
Lar n 1885, The gross receipts were
S932,9i4, and motion picture and radio
sales brought the total past the mil
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-20

lion mark.
BECAME FIRST Negro since Jack
Johnson to win the heavyweight cham
pionship when he knocked out Jim
Braddock last June 81 in the eighth
round in Chicago. Some of his more
important knockout victims were
Harry Thomas, Nathan Mann, Jorge
Brescia, Primo Camera, Max Baer,
Jack Sharkey, Pauline Retzlaff, Matte
Brown. Defeated Tommy Farr in a
recent engagement in Is rounds, and
won 10-round decision over Bob
Foster.
LOUIS IS married, his wife being
the former Marva Trotter of Chicago.
He has no children Makes his home
in Detroit where he has purchased n
homo for his mother. His father is
confined in an Alabama institution
Joes favorite sport is baseball. He
owns a team called the Joe Louis
] Tigers.