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Evening star., 1938-09-05
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and TINE of Showing.

Earle-"Four's a Crowd" two boys
get their girl friends mixed: 9:45 am,
1915. 2:45, $40, 7:35 and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 1880 am, 1:55, 4:20,
6:45 and 9:10 pm.
Capitol-"Three Loves Has Nancy"
Janet Gaynor is Nancy. Montgomery,
Tone and surprise third are the
loves: 11:10 am, 1853, 4:36, 7:19 and
1902 pm. Stage shows: 1886, 3::39,
6:22 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan-"King Kong" the
thriller, Is revived: II am, /, sos,
$40, 7:25 and s:4o pm.
Palace -" "Alexander's Ragtim
Band" quarter-century-long love story
to accompaniment OF Irving Berlin's
hit tunes: 1855 am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:1O
and 9:35 pm.
Columbia-"The Crowd Roars," Bob
Taylor is a prize fighter: 11:15 am,
1:2l, 1927, 5:33. 7:39 and 9:45 pm.
Keith'-"Carefree," Rogers and AS
taire together again: 1884 am, 1:17,
3. 4:43. 6:26. 800 and 1852 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con-
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight.
Attle-"Mayerling." well-told aim
story Of the famed tragedy: II am,
1:20. 3:25, $50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Evening star., 1938-09-05
Local Drama Groups
Roadside Winds Up Season
With a Melodrama.
By HARRY MacARTHIJR.

>IE Roadside Theater
has been known for long
point in trying to think cliche
from all advance Indications
enthusiastic
ram" which begins its two-week tonight.
For thing, Eugene Aram"
Evening star., 1938-09-05
BOnita's Pop.
John LITEL has been

John L1TEL has been selected by
Warner Bros. to appear as Bonita
Granville's father in the forthcoming
series OF Nancy Drew, Girl Detective, :"
stories to be filmed during the next
year.
The first Of the series, Password to
Larkspur Lane" enters production this
week. Frankie Thomas. young Broad
way actor, Is scheduled to be Bonita S
boy-friend for the next year.
Evening star., 1938-09-05

what would happen If she ad lbbed
very often in straight dramatic
part.
Twentieth Century Fox. however,
undoubtedly knows best.
X X X X
WARNER BROS. are at it again.
w Racket Busters" which comes
to the Earle on Friday, is one more
picture they have taken straight from
the front page. What's more, they
have it ready for the public just at
the time when the front-page writers
are bringing the New York rackets
trial story to its climax-the 'front.'
page writer's plus Mr.. Dewey and
great many other official and un-
official persons.
just how entertaining a picture
Racket Busters" is remains until Fri
day to be seen.
If it is up to the standards of BLACK
Legion" Marked Woman" and sew
eral other topical terrifiers which the
company has turned out Gncluding
They Won't Forget"), it ought to
stir citizens to lot of thinking.
"HOLD THAT COED" coming to
the Capitol, sounds topical raised
to the second power. or whatever it
is mathematician say when (and if)
they write movie columns. At any
rate, it not only is about college and
football, which is timely sort of stuff,
you must admit; it also has one of
the swing-time politicians whom the
voters are finding irresistible these
days. The Governor, a man with a
hurdy-gurdy and vast interest in
the State university, is played by not
less person than John Barrymore.
That's the old Hamlet, remember?
Mr.. Barrymore, who rents himself out
to the highest bidding studio these
days, seems to be doing a lot of that
sort of thing. The picture incidental
ly is having its world premiere here.
X X X X
MOTE to the doughnut industry:
Red Shelton is returning to the
Capitol Theater next Friday.
Evening star., 1938-09-05

81. RODerCS cave J, brings Cne ROAD
sides original villain to the stage Of
the barn theater on the Rockville pike
for the only time this season. Eugene
Kressin playing the title role. For
another thing, Margaret "Bibi" Oster-
wald will be on hand to sing in her
usual eloquent and soulful manner a
ditty titled And Her Golden Hair
Was Hanging Down Her Back"
Another reason the Roadsiders are
excited about tonight's opening is that
they feel they have a play which is a
second Murder in the Red Barn." and
If they have, you know they really
have something. Eugene Aram" is
one Of the most famed Of the old
English melodramas, of the same
period as Murder" and, like it, based
upon actual criminal records.
The cast Director Tony Hardt has
assembled to romp through all the
grandiloquent excitement includes a
Evening star., 1938-09-05
Scenes Rushed.

\CENES using AL Shean in The
Great Waltz" at Metro Goldwyn-
Mayer are being rushed. Shean is
required Immediately to start road
tours of Father Malachi's Miracle, u
the stage success which was the nov-
city hit OF the last New York season.
The remaining partner of the old
Gallagher and Shean vaudeville team
joined the Great Waltz" cast in sup
port OF Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravel
and Miliza Korjus.
Evening star., 1938-09-05

the one.
It is fitting correction Of one of
the most vivid impressions of last
years show season at the National
The impression in question was that
Miss Holman had lost her old spirit.
1t was created for a great many OBJ
servant customers on the opening night
here of the musical, You Never
Know"
Miss Holman was late coming on
stage; not that she missed cue, or
anything like that, but because the
action did not call for her appearance
earlier. We have forgotten the name
OF the Cole Porter song she was sing
ing, but no one can forget the appall-
Ing nervousness with which she sang
1t. Her hands f1uttered The express
sion OF her face was strained. So was
the voice that once was a torch
capable Of melting the emotions of
tuna fish. She shivered like some
one with chill, and as she started
to walk offstage it seemed that she
would break down completely Before
she could reach the wings.
1t did not look that night as If
Miss Holman ever would have the
spirit to turn temperamental again.
And it did look that night as if Miss
Velez were the last person in the
world upon whom she might try what
was left of her fiery disposition. But
the appearances obviously were very
dece;ying, if the current story is cor
rect. Miss Holman seems to have
come back. And very, very far!
y X
SPEAKING of torch singers, men,
bers of the Alice Faye fans club,
and, even more so, those who are not
members of the Alice Faye fans club,
should be interested to learn that she
Is going to do straight dramatic
role. Not a note will Miss Faye sing
In by the Dawn's Early Light"
There has been q lot of untyping In
Hollywood lately. but there are nasty
people who are ready Immediately to
view this case as something like turn
ing Shirley Temple loose on a May
Robson part. Nor is that because
Miss Faye's vocal efforts represent an
rreparable loss, although she does
Sell her songs very nicely. Rather it
Is because without her songs, Miss
Faye may be more lost than her audi
ences. The type of thing she has
played Is not precisely eligible for
academy awards, but even if it were,
Miss Faye's talents as an actress prob
ably would not cause Luise Rainer
any sleepless nights. She has a hard
time with great many of the emo
tions which she must work through
to get to her next song. And some
times she seems to have an even harder
time with dialogue.
To a great many persons who have
not yet mastered the art of admirine
Miss Fayes ability 70 read a line.
the funniest moment in "Alexander,s
Ragtime Band" is her supposedly
poignant declaration:
Il cannot continue on"
1t does not mar the picture. in
which Miss Faye is a very bright
songstress, but it makes one wonder
Evening star., 1938-09-05
Crosby on 18th Feature,
Retirement Seen Near
Film Also to Mark Debut of Ellen
Drew and Donald O'Connor.
Bing's First Serious Role.
Bv HAROLD HErErRNAN

HEFFERNAN
OLLYWOOD Sept 5NANA)-Behind scenes with some of the
i films: ~ N ~
Sing You Sinners'-Fve years Crooner Harry l. fBing
Crosby was standard second act attraction vaudeville circuits
bookings
night club showcase lights of TODAY
Evening star., 1938-09-05

number Of the groups more expert
enced and more talented melodrama-
lists. Mr.. Kressin will be aided in
gaining the knowledge that life of
remorse is not sufficient punishment
for brutal murder by Betty Gray,
Milton Freeman, Howard Wierum
Leslie Crawford, Dick Walsh Harry
Wescott. Ed Stevlingson, Lois Alex
ander, Hugh Smythe, Milton Hirsh-
field, Larry Lawrence, Catherine
Knockey and Ted Freter.
THE Cross Roads Theater, down at
Baileys Cross Roads, Va, winds
up its season this week, and a mighty
successful season it has been, too
Two S. r. o. signs have been worn
out In the past three weeks and the
boys are closing down to hibernate
until next spring upon pile of plans
for adding 100 new seats to the
theater.
The play which ends the season
here is, as you probably know, Don
Marquis The Old Soak" with Arch
Mcdonald in the title role, which
goes into its second week tonight.
It's q lot Of fun as it is played by
Mr.. Mcdonald. Don Sisler, Peggy
Mansfield, Janice Norton and the
others. including James Spain, who
joins the cast tonight.
Mr.. Mcdonald probably takes to the
stage with such aplomb because he has
learned to be taken aback at nothing
He was not taken aback, for instance,
by that barber shop affair the other
day. Arch was having his eyebrows
trimmed. or something, meanwhile dis
cussing this and that of baseball with
his favorite barber, who was calling
him by his first name When Arch
got up to leave. fellow who had been
waiting stood up.
Say" he said, II heard the barber
call you Arch. Aren't you Arch Nc
Donald?"
Yep" replied Mr.. NJ, bravely ad-
mitting all.
We'll, I just wanted to tell you," the
fellow went on, Il listen to you every
day and like you. can't stand these
educated announcers.'
A ND so it might be well to close the
season at the Cross Roads with
the tale brought in awhile back by the
groups public relations counsel, Mr..
George ("I'm Wonderfully Finger.
Seems early in the season George gave
a friend couple of passes to one Of
the plays. Chap returned enthused.
That's the best show I ever saw"
he announced.
"Yeh," asked the skeptical Mr.. F.,
"and how many plays have you seen"
That's the FIRST" was the answer.
Evening star., 1938-09-05
More on History.

A BRAHAM LINCOLN and Theo-
dore Roosevelt will be the SUBJ
jects Of two Vitaphone short subjects
to be produced at Warner Bros. in
technicolor. The Lincoln story con-
Germs the Civil War President and
his son. Tad. The Roosevelt short
will deal with the Rough Riders and
the Battle Of San Juan Hill.
Evening star., 1938-09-05
Velez>Holman War Zone
News Happier Than Most
Two, Rehearsing Same Show in Different
Theaters, Sound Very Spirited.
Miss Faye Turns Dramatic.
By JAY CARMODY.

oEHow other the that 1upe velez and Libby Holman
reheaing the show in different ast
worked out by the paceong shue good Not good
- Miss Velez who recently divorce
probably would
Evening star., 1938-09-05
In Shining Hour

DAY BANTER has been cast for
an important character role in
"The Shining Hour" with Joan
Crawford, Margaret SULLIVAN, Robert
Young and Melvyn Douglas heading
the cast,
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Evening star., 1938-05-17

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Evening star., 1938-05-17
BROWN WILL STUDY
EVIDENCE ON WISE
Police Head Will Determine if
Ex.Officer Will Appear
Before Trial Board.

Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent of police. said today he would
study the evidence before determin-
ing whether Precinct Detective Luther
c. Wise would be reinstated with back
pay or ordered before the Police Trial
Board.
Mr.. Wise was acquitted by a District
Court jury yesterday on a charge of
attempting to extort $40 from Fred
Kosma. proprietor of a restaurant in
the 1400 block of Irving street NV on
May 2. 1887. A not guilty verdict was
returned by the jurors in less than
three hours.
The detective at first was indicted
for extortion, but the charge later was
reduced by Justice Jesse c. Adkins,
who presided at the trial. He was sus-
pended from the force shortly after
his arrest.
Placed on the stand by Defense At
torney Charles E. Ford, Mr.. Wise as
serted the money he received from Mr..
Kosma was a loan. explaining that he
was in financial difficulties because of
a reduction in pay In his summation
to the jury, Mr.. Ford declared the
detective had lost the home he had
occupied for 10 years and that he
wanted to pay his debts.
Defense counsel brought out also
that Mr.. Kosma formerly had been
convicted of housebreaking and grand
larceny of an automobile.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
SU|TLAND HOLD-UP
SUSPECT IS HELD
Waters, Wanted Here in
$3.50 Robbery, Jailed in
West Virginia.

Frank B Waters, wanted by Wash
ington police for questioning in con-
nection with the robbery about a
month ago of James Stevens of Suit
land, Md, was being held for D. c.
authorities at Parkersburg. w. Va,
last night. where he was arrested Sat-
urday Waters is believed by police to
be the man who escaped during a gun
battle with local officers after robbing
Mr.. Stevens of $3.50.
Acting Police Chief Clarence Hyl-
bert wired police that man booked as
Jack Been, SO, subsequently identified
himself as Waters, wanted here on a
robbery count.
His arrest at Parkersburg for ques-
tioning followed series of more than
two dozen candle light" robberies. ac-
cording to Associated Press. Police
said they found a partly-burned
candle, matches and two pawn tickets
in his possession.
The tickets. police said, we're in the
name of Jack Miller" the name used
by a man who pawned a shotgun stolen
in a local robbery some time ago.
A United States commissioners war;
rant already has been obtained by Dis
trict police, but Waters was not being
sent for Immediately until it was de-
termined what action would be taken
by Virginia authorities. 1t was be-
lieved, however, the prisoner would be
returned here within the next several
days.
Mr.. Stevens was accosted in his
Suitland yard while putting up his
machine for the night, hit on the
head with a gun butt and forced to
drive back toward the liquor shop he
owns on Bladensburg road NE. En-
route, MIR. Stevens noticed two motor
cycle policemen pull up in front of
his machine, and he sWerved the car
off the road, opened the door and
rolled out.
The gunman fed on foot along
Evening star., 1938-05-17
BURLEW, UNION HEADS
IN CAFETERIA PARLEY

Officials Of the c. l. o. Industrial
Council for the District. representing
the United Cafeteria Employees Union,
will meet this afternoon with Ebert K.
Burlew, assistant to Secretary Of In
terror Ickes regarding the dispute be-
tween the union and the Welfare and
Recreation Association, operators Of
Government cafeteriaS.
As a result of meeting between
Mr.. Burlew and the union delegation
last week it was decided to defer union
picketing Of the cafeterias pending to-
days meeting. Mr.. Burlew told the
committee he would confer with Sec
retary Ickes during the interim.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
CONFERENCE URGES
SPREAD OF BUILDING
Interfederation Parley Asks New
Federal Structures Be Built
Outside Triangle.

The Fine Arts Commission and the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission were asked to consider
the distribution of further Federal
buildings elsewhere in the city than
the present Federal Triangle by the
Interfederation Conference at din
ner meeting of the organization last
night at 4728 Fourteenth street NV.
A. F. E. Scheer, representing the
District of Columbia, made the pro-
posal and was appointed chairman
of a committee to draft letters to be
sent to the two commissions stating
the wishes of the association.
On the recommendation Of Fred w.
Cast of Prince Georges County the
House was asked to include in the
deficiency appropriation bill money for
flood control work at Bladensburg, Md.
1t was the last meeting of the con-
ference until the third Monday in
September, E. L. Bennett, secretary,
announced.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
HOTEL FIRE TOLL
INCREASED TO z
Searchers Expect to Find
Several Other Bodies in
Atlanta Building.
Nv Ina ASscciated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, May 17.-Weary fire.
men searched charred ruins OF the
five-story Terminal Hotel for addi-
tional dead today, while others sought
the cause of the "deadliest fire" in
Atlanta's history.
Twenty-Seven were known dead,
with several bodies still unidentified.
Fire Chief O. J. Parker said he ex-
pected several more bodies would be
found
The blaze, described by Chief Parker
as the deadliest in the history OF
Atlanta broke out shortly after 3
am. yesterday, and within a half
hour the flames ragged from top to
bottom of the hotel Guests, esti-
mated by f5semen and hotel employees
at go to rs, had little chance to es-
cape. The register was burned.
Card Players Escape.
Only the gaunt brick walls of the
3O-year-old building remained intact.
The potential death list was re-
duced considerably with the discovery
that IA men believed to have perished
had escaped by sliding down a rope
dangling from a painters scaffold
The men were playing cards in a
third-fioor room when the fire broke
out.
Seven injured, three in critical con-
dition, remained in hospitals today.
Nine were discharged after treatment
yesterday, including three firemen.
Cook Is Located.
Henry Jackson, Negro cook in the
hotel restaurant, appeared unex-
pectedly today to tell police his ver-
sion of the fire.
jackson had been listed for "a
hours as missing. He said he was
50 scared after escaping from the
blazing restaurant kitchen that he
ran home and stayed there until this
morning.
About o'clock yesterday morn
Ing" he said, Il left the kitchen Tin
the basement of the hoteD for few
minutes to go into the storeroom for
some oatmeal and grits.
Blower Fan Red Hot.
"When 1 got back I saw that the
big exhaust pipe leading to the blower
fan was red hot. Then it suddenly
blazed up with a big flash"
The cook said he was cut off in
one direction and broke down door
into an alley to escape.
jackson said he heard no explosion
and knew of no attempts to start a
fire in the main heating boiler He
added, however. that he would not
have been called upon to start a
heater fire.
Heard Muff1ed Blast.
Chief Parker said he had been in
formed by Southern Railway employees
in the Terminal Station that they
heard q muff1ed sound as the fire
broke out.
we will be able to tell more about
the cause after we dig into the base
ment," he said.
He said he would investigate a
theory that explosion of a heating
system boiler might have caused the
fire.
City authorities planned to officially
consider the tragedy at meeting OF
council tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star., 1938-05-17

Queens Chapel road N. E. after an
exchange of shots with the policemen.
Scout cars were summoned and the
neighborhood quickly surrounded and
searched, but the bandit escaped.
Mr.. Stevens, who said the man
took $3.50 from his pocketbook, ex-
pressed the belief he could identify the
hold-up man by his voice, though his
face was covered by pulled-down
hat. About S400 was in the liquor
store safe, he said.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
CLERK TO RESIGN
Grant Kirkham to Become Aide
in Small Claims Court.

Grant Kirkham, 1912 N street NV,
announced today he would resign his
position in the probation onice at Po-
lice Court to become clerk for Judge
Nathan Caytcn in the newly created
Small Claims Court.
A native Of Salt Lake City, Utah,
Mr.. Kirkham came to Washington in
1885, was appointed bailiff IN Police
Court in March. 1887, and clerk
stenographer in the probation Office in
July of the same year. He Is third
year law student at George Washing
ton University.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
BUS DRIVER ROBBED

Forced to Drop Change Carrier
Into Bandits Satchel.
A colored bandit wearing a big brown
overcoat and carrying a satchel last
night held up Norman o. Walter,
1924 Seventh street NV, Capital
Transit Co. bus driver, while his bus
was parked at Fifth and w streets NV.
Board the bus, the bandit pointed q
gun at Mr.. Walter. held open the
satchel and said: Drop it there" Mr.
Walter did so with his change carrier
and a number of tokens, amounting
to about SIS in all.
Evening star., 1938-05-17
Maury PIT. A. Luncheon.

The Edmonds Maury Parent-Teach-
er Association will hold luncheon
at noon tomorrow at the Maury
School, Thirteenth and B streets NE.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09

The second group-and in it is con-
tanned the basis of last sessions con-
roversy-includes water works and
systems, sewerage, and (there's the
rub system plants, works, instru-
mentalities and properties used or
useful in connection with the genera
ton, production, transmission and
distribution of gas or electricity for
lighting, heating and power for pub
lie and private uses.''
That last provision according to OPP
ponents of the Ickes bills put the mu-
inequalities directly into competition
with private utilities and that was the
real basis for the fight.
The safeguards in the present meas
ure, which Senators Taylor and Rod
man indicated make the bill satisfac-
tory, are Cd all bonds issued must be
approved by the Local Government
Commission and sold by it and (2) no
bond issue for gas or electric systems
shall be authorized unless and until
there shall first have been obtained
"a certificate of convenience and nee
essity from the public utilities COM
missioner.
Neither of these provisions was in
the 'Ickes'' measures and it was on
that rock they foundered. Opponents
of public competition with private en-
terprise appear to feel that if the Lo-
cal Government Commission approves
a bond issue, there will be no running
"hog Wild by the NUNS; and they al
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-09

GROWER JOHN DURHAM, JR. (aboye)
is enjoying real smoking pleasure. Yes,
it's Camel. As Mr.. Durham states,
II see the tobacco that cigarette
companies buy. Camel buyers pay
more to get the best of my own crops
and of my friends. It's Camels for us!"