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The Washington times., 1938-06-27
BY ED SULLIVAN
They're the Tops
Hollywood, June 27.

Hollywood June 27
Louis because he very schmel
ng right hand and proved that he real champion by flat
shattered confidence to him Rudolph Valentino who back
Simon game enough to brave un-
o 4 h R tine THING bo and
from the Olympic board after stating his opinion Of Japans
out her Warner contract in chain of B pictures
President Edouard Benes of Czechosovaka have
Benes opposition change the entire European picture
so r his spa pu 9m @
Fay Banter WHO refused to believe that she couldn't click in
discussed little girl in pictures Terry Kburn because his Lord
Paul MUM because he is more interested in mantain
ing the level OF his performances than in getting big dough for
Glenn Gunningham Cha who wins college degrees mashes
brought to the American Danee Daeux charm
she she has ADDED add M to the ceod paee Goddard because
business She leaves for the East after her Young Heart
document afflicted sight
E Ms m modest oDe W in n m~od eT tho ebanFs S
pace exhibited in Night Must Fall and yellow JACK maySe
the Irish brogue prejudiced this reporter).
Edgar Hoover for his 1Men They're sensational Fannie
comebacks the current to Aaniey Stat,
med 5 don't @ h OK B e s2e nd aDs
nell for the national missionary they
give performance Gudahl who is at his best on
Eo Hen n eas s e nd the & I
that she can take it. in other words
Of Jean Bette Davis because she $66 in the Warner
on LoulSSclnelng fight turned
TaWaggerS to buy food for homeless
seen her. dressed 1904 costume up the
1888 radio Ethel Norman because she's
now than before Mary AStor
marriage conounded the Hollywood hecker Alice
her @ performance in Aexandes Ragtme Band easily
Doris Nolan because OF her Holiday
Norma Sheare because in her return to the
Antomette something to cheer Gloria West
who refused to have publicity spree wedding
Basil Rathbone for his of veteran
for his portrait of the bartender Aexande
Fritz Fed for his unfangy with any role as
signed ~ ~ ~
Leon c. Trrou, formerly uncoverng of the
at work this country chapter from Sher
lock Holmes novel Tamara for coming Angeles with
Roberta and adding allure to the W. Fields be.
cause on the night that Ann Pennington Seznicks
he acted M C. for Auld Barnes
comedy antics Three made the town sit i'm md
take notice. Margaret Sulavan emotng in Three Com
rade And curtsy MankeWicz produced that nc
ture, and Frank Borzage who directed it ~ N
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
Merle Ober0n
For Keith's

Merle Oberon, who makes her
debut in comedy and Techni-
color in Alexander Korda's,
THE Divorce of Lady X" COM
ing to RKO Keith's Wednesday
as that theaters next attraction,
made her first appearance in
this world on the Island of TaS-
mania, near Australia. She grew
up in Calcutta E. had expert
ence with the Calcutta Amateur
Theatrical Society, better known
as the CATS, decided upon a
stage career at 16 went to
England with an army officer
uncle on leave, and insisted upon
being left there to make her
way in the theater.
Her small capital faded fast
she took job as a hostess
and then went in for film extra
work worked obscurely in
British films for two years be-
fore Alexander Korda discov-
cred her eating in the studio
commlSSary put her in
wedding Rehearsal" and Men
of Tomorrow" but it was her
portrayal of Anne Boleyn in
THE Private Life of Henry VIII"
that made the world sit up and
take notice.
Thunder in the East" 'The
Private Life of Don Juan" and
THE Scarlet Pimpernel" added
to her fame. She came to Hol-
lywood to appear in "Folies
Bergere" Samuel Goldwyn
starred her in The Dark An
GEL" These Three" and BE
loved Enemy. Now divides
her time between Goldwyn's Hol-
lywood studios and Korda's Brit
ish ones. Both producers re-
lease their production through
United Artists.
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
Wild Steers Force
Movie Set CIOsinc

Rampaging steers, running
wild on the back lot of Para
mount studio today, neceSsitated
especially close enforcement Of
the mo Visitors" rule.
The entire area was barri-
caded and patrolled by special
guards while Director James
Hogan filmed stampede scenes
for The Texans" with Joan
Bennett, Randolph Scott, May
Robson, Walter Brennan and
others.
A herd of Mexican steers, con.
siderably wilder than local stock,
was stampeded through a set
reproducing the main street of
Abilene, Kan. as it appeared in
Chisholm Trail days following
the Civil War.
Despite the fact that the cattle
charged into saloon and store
doorWays, scattering players
right and left, only damage re-
ported was a broken mike"
boom. 1t was upset when some
Of the steers plunged unexpect-
edly through an opening directly
beside the camera Setup.
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
"Possion" Next
At Roadside

Now that Sweeney Todd" has
safely launched the Roadside'S
1888 season, Director Anton
Hardt has turned his attention
to the No. 2 offering of the
Barn Theater, plot and Pas
sion," opening tonight.
Although by the same Tom
Taylor, author of last seasons
comedy hit, Our American
Cousin" pilot and Passion" is
as different as one could
imagine. 1t is high" drama,
typical of the mid-nineteenth
century.
Picture a beautiful high
spirited noblewoman, caught
through her passion for gam
bling in the tolls of that arch
villain of history, Fouche, head
of Napoleon's secret police!
Then add to that, one Desmaret,
second only to Fouche, whose
policy of intrigue is to play both
ends against the middle.
And if that weren't enough,
there is a courageous young
man, bent on exposing the trait
orous Vaccinations of the two
plotters, but enamored of the
nobleWoman. Mr.. Tom Taylor
was evidently blessed with a
magnificent imagination, and,
furthermore, with a dramatic
ability of the first water. He
pulled all the stops" in "Plot
and Passion"
The Washington times., 1938-06-27

tary, and they prepared this
statement: "We were particular
Iy struck with the Presidents
close knowledge of our indus
try's problems and 1 believe the
President, in turn, received an
encouraging picture of prOduc-
ton activities and in continued
progress in Self-regulatiOn of the
motion picture industry"
Though it was a warm day, Mr..
Hays in stiff white collar, read
his statement to the White
House correspondents, who
cOrnered him in the lobby {.
What the correspondents Sus-
pect, regardless of the state
ment, is that the big men of
the movies came here to discuss
with the Nations head man the
.xact status of the industry in
the present anti-mOnOpOly drive
Of the Government.
FIGHT PICTURES SLOW
Pictures of the Joe LouiS-Max
Schmeling fight are no gold mine
for exhibitors, for ring war
that ends in less than three min
utes is a short screen attraction
E. .Theaters lengthen the foot
age by running it at normal
speed and then in slow motion
...Others have made it an extra
length short by adding the first
Louis-Schmeling scrap of two
years ago Radio was a real
loser by the quick finish since
the sponsor had bought the at
traction in 15-minute periods
So N. B. C. received $4,000
instead of the 100000 a full
length Is round fight would have
paid. Another disappointed
man is the exchange manager
selling Mrs. Max Schmeltng'S
German made picture, "Gross
Reinemeachen," General House
cleaning"D D.. 1T is a comedy in
which Amy Ondra, Mrs. S.,
plays the lead role.
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
MOVIE
CLOCK

CAPITOL-Loretta Young, Joel
McCrea, Three Blind Mice"
IL a. M, LAS, 4:3O, 7:15, 9:55
p. m. Stage, 1855, $40, 6:25,
9:10 p. m.
PALACE-Luise Rainer, Robert
Young, TOY Wife," 1905,
2::30, ASS, 7:20, 9:45 p. m.
COLUMBIA Robert Mont
gomery. Virginia Bruce, "Yel-
low Jack" 11:15 a. M, 1:20.
$3.50, 5:35, TAO, $50 p. m.
R-K-O-KEITHS Danielle Dar-
rieux, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr,
1.-The Rage of Paris" 11:15
a. M. l, 2:45, 4:35, $40, $40.
9:55 p. m.
EARLE-Fay BANTER, Claude
Rains, Kay johnson, white
Banners" II a. m, 1:40, 4:25,
7:05, $50 p. m. Stage,
"Adriana Caseloth, Harry
Stockwell," 12:45, $3.50, 6:15,
9 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - John Litel,
Ann Sheridan, Little Miss
Thoroughbred" 1850 a. m,
1:50, $50, $50, 7:50 $50
p. m.
LITTLE-Ursula Jeans, Rex
Harrison, Storm in a Tea.
cup" II a. M, 12:45, 2:35,
4:20, 6:10, 8, GAS p. m.
TRANS-LUX - Newsreels and
Shorts, 10. 11:45 a. M, 1890
las, 8, Ais, $50, 6:45, 8,
9:15, 10:45 p. m.
The Washington times., 1938-06-27

hibit when compared with to-
days Hollywood.
The lamented Rudolph Valen-
tino-as handsome a Romeo as
any 1888 studio male-does
quite a bit of eye-rolling, but he
plays his romantic scenes with
great fervor, and if there is any
amusement in his screen pres
ence, it comes more from the
over-written screen titles, which
he tranSposeS into vivid action.
Adolphe Menjou is really the
Punchinello of the picture. I
found it difficult to realize that
the assured SophiSticate of the
modern pictures, the skilled
farceur of the late releases, one
of the most accomplished ac-
tors of the industry, was show
ing us his primary school days
on the screen.
Actor Menjou poses, he strikes
an attitude and holds it, his
whole manner is stiff, his move
ments jerky. Dressed UP in the
long coated suits of the period
with one pair of trousers
that are high water-Adolphe
looks anything but like the
slick we'll dressed exponent Of
the natural school of acting we
have come to know, and admire.
STRIKES SOME POSES
Agnes Ayres is just a cutie"
She registers emotions with all
the extravagant gesture aSso-
ciated with the screens pioneer
days. The studio makeup de-
partment didn't exist in 1922,
and if it did, it probably would
have fixed the AyreS teeth,
might have applied cosmetics
that would have accented her
allure. AS it is, she is a very
pretty girl.
The story of "The Sheik" ex-
alts primitive emotions, has lit
tie of subtlety. But it does have
excitement, and its romantic
cliches are of the kind that al
ways will inspire heart flutters.
Before you thumb out "The
Sheik" as a picture with creaky
hinges and a moth-eaten story,
compare it with 1885 Jungle
Princess" in Technicolor, with
Dorothy Lamour, of the sarong,
and her tom-tom love. Then de-
bate how much the screen has
really progressed in conviction
and story.
You probably will be seeing
1.-THE Sheik" on F Street soon.
For the Sunday morning audi
ence felt a good old-timer is bet
ter entertainment than a medi-
ocre new model.
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
Scotch Fun in
NeWComedy
At Little

storm in a Teacup," currently
being unreeled at regular inter-
walls in the Little Theater's
projection booth, is one of the
brighter items to be sent across
the Atlantic by Alexander
Korda. Although following the
plot of Storm Over Patsy" the
stage play from which it was
adapted, the film gets a bit
more out of the situation, prin-
cipally through a better spread
of the story's humor. The pic
ture has attractive romance, an
intelligently-injected strain of
pathos and comedy of the spar
king sort; it is eminently &C.
ceptably light entertainment
throughout.
The tale recounted is that of
an impoverished old widow in a
little Scottish town, her dog, a
town official with high political
ambitions and a newspaper re-
porter. The reporter as assigned
to write a favorable account of
the politicians speech, but learns
that Widow Hegarty is about to
lose her beloved pet because she
is unable to buy a license. He
has published, in the absence of
the papers owner, a Scathing
denunciation of the officials Of
ficiouSneSs. The affair rocks the
country and the climactic trial
scene develops into one of the
funnier sequences to be placed
on celluloid.
Rex Harrison and Vivien
Leigh, as the reporter and the
daughter of the bombastic poll
tician, perform their acting
tasks with skill; but the show
StealerS are the dog, a shaggy
beast known as Scruffy, and
that grand old character actress,
Sara Allgood, who does a superb
job as Mrs. Hegarty.
The Washington times., 1938-06-27

vided by a pianist in the orches-
ira pit, playing tunes that we're
designed to fit the action.
In most cases the music was
projected to inspire laughter,
the pianist kidding" the pic.
ture with Hearts and Flowers"
for the burning love scenes, "Oh,
You Beautiful Doll' for the Ag-
mes Ayres close-ups, other songs
that indicated the purpose of it
all was a good guffaw at a mu-
scum entry, ridicule for the once
Great Lover of the screen.
The reissue sound track gives
'The Sheik" dignity. The laughs
are still there, for the old FASH
ioned studio technique, and the
chewing the scenery acting is
still present, as an amusing ex-
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
KELLEYGRAMS

It was surprise night on F
Street Saturday .. For Shirley
Temple and her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Temple, slipped
into the Capitol Theater at 8
p. m. for a "sneak preview" of
her latest picture, Little Miss
Broadway . First time it has
been screened anywhere Au-
dience got it as an extra added
attraction The Temple en-
tourage was escorted to seats in
the middle of the orchestra, but
with house lightup, the entire
assemblage soon became aware
of her presence, stood up and
gave the Baby Duse a tremen-
dous round of applause Word
spread like wildfire and when it
came time for the Hollywood Wis
itors to leave, a crowd OF 1000
had gathered outside the theater
Papa put his precious on his
shoulder and let her blow kisses
to her admirers before riding
awav Today Shirley will pre-
sent Variety Clubs life member
shin to Chief G-Man j. Edgar
Hoover-a gold encased card
at the regular Monday luncheon
at the willard Tomorrow
Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau will have the Temples
as dinner guests &. The Cabinet
officer first met the little star
while he was vacationing in Ha-
vail.
big SHOTS" HERE
Will Hays, car of the movies.
headed a delegation of Holly
woods big-wigs who came to
washington for a Roosevelt
conference over the weekend
The tycoOns Of entertain
ment included Albert Warner Of
Warner Bros, Nicholas M.
Schenck of LOew's and M-G-M'
Harry Cohn of Columbia, Sidney
R. Kent of goth Century-FOx,
George ]. Scheafer of United
Artists, Leo SpitZ of RKO-RadlO'
N. J. Blumberg of Universal Pic
lures. The MayflOwer had quite
a time placing them all in de
luxe suites at short notice -.
Following the Saturday morning
talk with the President, Mr..
HAYS went into conference with
Steve Early, presidential secre-
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
Hoording Talk Just Nonsense
Asserts Carter Barron

Loew's Divisional Manager
Carter Barron takes with a
microscopic grain of salt the as
Sertions recently banded about
concerning film boarding."
wholesale reissuance of screen
hits of another day and general
talk that falsely imply shortage
of ace screen attractions for the
summer months.
Many years ago the Loew
president, Nicholas Schenck, de-
clared that there was never at
any time anything wrong in the
motion picture industry which
good pictures could not cure"
says high Loewman Barron.
And our company has always
been guided by this sage phil
osophy," he adds. There's no
shortage of good pictures"
Silly indeed is the recent allega-
ton that some movie producers
are practicing film boarding."
saving the better pictures for
the fall.
GOOD ONES COMING
At the Palace on Friday will
be offered Lord jeff" already
acknowledged one of the better
screen dramas of the year. Fred
die Bartholomew and Mickey
Rooney form a very popular
combination in this M-G-M pro-
duction.
The Capitol on Friday pre-
sents "Josette," with Simone
Simon, Don Ameche and Rob-
ert Young forming a gay tri-
umvirate in an invigorating
story of the merry French Quar-
terS of colorful New Orleans.
With those two formidable at
fractions bidding July a sin
cere greeting, here are the at
fractions that will follow
throughout the summer months:
From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
studios the local LoeW screen
will offer in subsequent weeks
"Shopworn Angel" with Mar
garet Sullivan and James
Stewart; Robert Taylor and
Maureen O'Sullivan, sweet
hearts of "Yank at Oxford" are
reunited in THE Crowd Roars".
Edward Arnold heads the fea-
tured players. Mickey Rooney
and Lewis Stone, together with
other members of the Judge
Hardy" series, are happily cast
again in Love Finds Andy
Hardy" the latest of the series
which has won so large and so
enthusiastic a screen following.
Love in this instance is Judy
Garland.
JULY RELEASES
Clark Gable, Myrna 10y and
Walter Pidgeon are starred in
TOO Hot to Handle"
twentieth Century-F OK
further augments the impend-
ing excitement with always
Goodbye" with Barbara Stan
wyck, Herbert Marshall and
Cesar Romero: Tyrone Power
and Alice Faye in "Alexander's
Raytime Band; "I'll Give a
Million" with Warner Baxter,
Marjorie Weaver, Jean Her
shold and Peter Lore; Shirley
Temples finest performance in
Little Miss Broadway; Sonia
Heine in MY Lucky Star;
The Ritz Brothers and an all
star comedy cast in Straight,
Place and Show"
From United Artists will come
"Algiers," with Charles Boyer.
Sigred Curie, and another new
addition to the star armament,
Hedy Lamar. Janet Gaynor fol
lows her recent triumph in "A
Star Is Born" with The Young
in Heart" with Douglas Fair
banks, jr., Billie Burke, and
others.
From Paramount the Loew's
screens here will have The
MVM R~VD THEATRE
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
Plenty of Exercise
For Dionne Ouints

Jean Hersholt has been in mo-
ton pictures 80 years, but he ad-
mits one of the most amazing
sights he has ever seen is that
of five film stars lined up
against a fence taking set-up
exercises at 8 in the morning.
The veteran actor witnessed
this believe it or not" while
paying an early visit to DR.. Al
Ian Roy Dafoe at the Dionne
quintuplets' nursery in Callan-
der, where a goth Century-Fox
company is filming Five Of a
Kind"
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
Miranda in Role

When Isa Miranda, Para
mounts sensational European
star importation, faces the cam
eras for her American screen
debut in "Zaza," she will be
playing the same name role for
the eighty.third time.
The Washington times., 1938-06-27
Gle a min gs
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

They have added sound track to the reissue print of R
doph Valentines picture of 1922 "The Sheik" and this
modern trimming makes marked difference in audience
action for todays screening of venerable antique.
In the early hours of yesterday A NJ, Division Manager
Carter Barron of LoewS theaers and small invited group
Of guests the feature screened at the Columbia.
No attempt has been made to give The Sheik what the
industry calls complete sound effects What from
the sound boxes musical background provided by two
piano in mood Arabesque rich in melody with
tain passages repeated until they leave the ndebe impress
The Washington times., 1938-06-27

OF a theme song.
MUSIC IN MOOD
Now you wouldn't think the
addition of music would make
such great difference. Yet it
does. Perhaps it is because the
appeal is to two senses, that the
ear is Soothed with sweet sound,
while the eye absorbs visible
action spread over the screen.
In the first revival screenings
OF The Sheik," the musical ac-
compartment was generally pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-14
Bruce Carton Says
If Faseism Comes. 1t Won't Be from Afar

ING. Down underneath will be the
meat of the thing. For while IL
gives lip service to democracy ana
democracy-s institutions, it will IN
sist that there is at hand Crisis
which demands stern and drastic
action. 1t will ask for centralized
power IN the hands of one man.
IL will pretend at the same time to
be very radical and left-winglsh,
but its promises to the common
man will be extremely vague and
general.
Some such pattern as that Is
what we may expect a real Fascist
movement in this country to fol-
low.
A few of its characteristics have
already appeared, but they haven't
made much headWay, and there
doesn't seem to be much reason to
expect that things will be much
different in the future.
But we might as we'll remember
what the stigmata are. 1t will at
least keep us from worrying about
the disclosure of the Dies commit
tee.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-14
THE COURT
AND THE PEOPLE
(Wall Street .Iournall

(Wall Street JournaD
Monday the Supreme Court of the
United States opened what promises to
be a highly interesting October term"
seeing that quite a number of unusually
important cases are already before it
and others are likely to come before it
in the next eight months.
In the past 20 months we have gone
through a sharp controversy involving
that august body and we may hope that
that particular controversy has been def
initey settled But many people seem
still to be confused in their thinking con-
cerning the Courts real function in our
Government, and are disposed to be i'm
patient with it, precisely because the very
nature of that function requires the
court so to act as to call forth that impa-
tience.
The existence of written constitu-
tion is itself restraint upon the passing
waves of public opinion as they rise from
time to time in impassioned demand for
immediate legislation to remedy a SEEM
ing immediate need. Such waves are at
all times an inevitable concomitant of
democratic government, and never so
much as nowadays when opinion is so
swiftly mobilized into emotion. AS a
consequence it is inevitable that the Su-
preme Court must, in interpreting the
Constitution, find itself frequently in the
position of tagging behind" the prevail
iEg popular sentiment.
The theory of the fathers in setting up
the federal structure was that these
waves of public sentiment required pro-
cess of refrigeration, filtering and dis
tillation so that the result might repre-
sent the considered will Of the people.
For that reason they wrote a constitution
They know that it would need change
and established a judiciary to guard it.
should not be lightly made, so they
provided the means for its amendment
as they stand today. With these means
available, they expected the judiciary
to interpret the Constitution according
to the principles of judicial interpre-
tation.
So long as the Supreme Court contin-
ues to do this it will encounter the kind
of criticism that it has always encoun-
tered, and there is no way of avoiding
this so long as there is written const-
tuition and Supreme Court to guard it.
If ever it ceases to do it, the Constitution
will become a scrap of paper and the
court worse than nullity.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-14
JOIN THE SAN DIEGO
CARAVAN SUNDAY

Imperial Valley will have a chance
Sunday to return favor to San Diego
county-and to improve its own economic
status at the same time.
A caravan of motorists recruited from
every city in the valley will leave here
Sunday morning to go to the San Diego
county fair at Del Mar In measure
the caravan will return the goodwill
gesture of last March when San Diego
sent a similar caravan to the Imperial
county fair.
This caravan will be more than mere
gesture toward success of the San Diego
fair, however. 1t will be further effort
to cement friendly relations between the
two counties in all lines of endeavor
San Diego is competing for Imperial
county business, true So is Los Angeles.
As part of their program, however, San
Diegans have helped bring about i'm
provement of Mountain Springs grade.
They have sent large groups to the val
ley many times in the last two years.
Now is the time to reciprocate.
San Diego wants our business, it is
true. 1t is equally true, however, that
we want San Diego's business. For six
months of the year San Diegans can be
induced to visit the desert area for busi-
ness or pleasure. L he balance Is on our
side, because San Diego has larger pop
ulation to draw from than we have.
Thus we have most to gain.
There is another, greater reason why
Sundays caravan should be made an
outstanding one.
Too often only few persons can take
active part in civic program. This time,
everyone in the community can do so,
by merely joining the caravan. The rank
and file will have a chance for full par
ticipation Sunday.
Those who do join the caravan will be
the chief benefactors. To them will come
the consciousness of a good act perform
ed out of truly unselfish motives for the
good of the entire community. There
is no greater pleasure. 1t uplifts civic
and Individual morale, it builds pride in
the community.
Imperial Valleys destination Sunday
should be Del Mar and the San Diego
county fair