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The Washington times., 1938-07-08

Wilhelm, has been the pride of the
royalists' stalWarts because of his
steady, reliable character and
poise." These friends Of the
family considered the princes shy
ness an asset.
1T will keep him out of en-
barrassing situations" they
said.
These old stalwarts might for.
give a woman, especially an heir.
eSS to millions, whose marriages
have been failures, but the seek.
ing of titled husbands, which they
attribute to Barbara, and the
dropping of her nationality to
avoid paying taxes, have made
them Shudder at the thought OF
a Hohenzollern alliance with her
Prince Frederick, who although
wealthy has been working with a
chemical firm in London, is due
back in Germany at the end OF
the month to serve a two.montt
term as q reserve officer in the
The Washington times., 1938-07-08
Wanted Son An American

way Sic pUL 4Is
Wanted Son An American
But I want my son to be an
American" she said. II want
him brought up like an Ameri-
can boy. I would like to bring
him up so that he can be rich
or poor. and still be a man.
II should like to educate him
so that if he carries the burden
of great wealth he will know
how to do it wisely. Or, if he
should be poor, he could face
life unafraid.
My husband has some sound
ideas on education, but he under
stands that I want Lance
brought up as an American,
and he agrees with me. Soon,
I hope, we will be able to spend
part of the year in America,
and I hope they will be glad to
see me-"
It seemed to me she was com
pletely sincere.
Yet, today, it is over the educa
ton and upbringing of their so1
that these two have separated
Barbara no longer calls Americs
home; all these dreams are dust
The dignity I saw has beer
smashed and splattered with accu
sations and charges, with scene
and threats,
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the seed Of that fear which has
haunted her always was planted.
For when she was in her teens,
a fat, shy, funny little thing, with
those vast millions waiting for
her, someone said to her, ooh,
well-you may be the richest girl
in the world-but all that means is
that somebody will marry you for
your money. You're fat and not
very pretty, and if anybody does
The Washington times., 1938-07-08
Can't Buy Happiness

1t is hard to make most people
believe that $4,000. .00O-the sum
Barbara inherited when she was
21-won't buy happiness. But
BabS Hutton had proved it to her
self.
No one knew better than she
did that there we're many things
you can't buy with money, simple
things any American girl could
have which the richest girl in the
world couldn't buy.
Her life sometimes ro-
mantle, sometimes silly, sometimes
headStrong, had been written in
headlines from the daY of her
The Washington times., 1938-07-08

is trying to buy" favor and af-
lection.
Her generosity is fabulous. But
it must BE generosity. She has
a deep and dreadful fear of bc-
ing "used'-of being deceived by
those who say they love her for
herself and perhaps care only for
her money.
That would be, in her eyes, the
unforgivable sin.
That, you see. came to her
when she was a little girl. Then
The Washington times., 1938-07-08
Roy Andrews
Praises Her
Culture,
Mind

marry you, you'll know it's for
your money"
AS she grew up, that was re-
peated. Not with the utter bru-
tality Of youth. Sometimes care
lessly, sometimes with affection,
as a real warning for the future,
when this girl would hold COM
mand over a fortune so big it
might tempt many.
But as you follow with me the
story of Barbara Hutton's life, you
will see how that seed of fear bios
somed, how it grew in her life, and
the probable part it played in her
separation from Count Haugwitz-
Reventlow.
For the beginnings of this pres
'ent disaster lie far, far back in
the inside story of the girl who
had $50 100000 The story behind
the headlines.
(FollOw this intensely inter-
eSting and authentic story Of
the fight for happiness by the
former Barbara Hutton in to-
mOrrOw's Times. The story,
Behind the Headlines" as told
to Miss St. Johns by the
cOunteSs.)
The Washington times., 1938-07-08
Riches Her Tragedy

Even while she explained their
romance to me for the first time,
it was plain that it hurt and con-
fused her to speak of him.
That was why it was so pleas
ant to see the confidence and af-
fection with which she looked at
Kurt Haugitz-Reventlow. AS much
as to say, I was hurt, betrayed,
disillusioned-but now I am safe
and sure. Now I am loved for
myself alone and not for my many
millions.
In that, as you will see, we come
to the real tragedy of Barbara
Hutton.
They were planning, she and
Kurt, an evening at the movies
with another young couple, the
Drogo Mantagus. They were to
dine quietly at home and then go
to see Ronald Colman in "A Tale
of Two Cities" They were ap-
parently very friendly, these two
young couples. But their plans
we're simple and unpretentiouS; an
evening at the movies, a week end
in the country, a dinner with some
American friends. You got the
feeling of a rather orderly exist
ence.
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Riches Curse
TOGenerOuS
WOOlUOrth
HeireSS
(Ccntinued from Page y

(JC1Llnued from rage ~
has been mentioned in the case,
denied to the International News
Service correspondent that he Is
"the gentleman in London"
He has gone to visit his sister
in Wales and the countess and her
son are together in Winfield House,
the stately Georgian mansion
owned by the Woolworth heiress.
The count is somewhere in Lon
don, bound by $4,000 bond to
keep the peace.
In those two years the happi-
ness of which Barbara Hutton
was so sure has exploded all over
the place and the dollar princess
is the center of a spectacular scan
dal and front-page publicity she
so deeply breads.
Today she is a woman without
a country. She has given up her
American citizenship. she is sep
arated from the husband who
bound her by marriage to Den
mark, and her little boy is a
ward of the English courts.
It is not easy for us to forgive
Barbara Hutton for renounclng
her American citizenship and tax
ing her vast fortune to foreign
lands
The Washington times., 1938-07-08
Two-sided Story

Yet, I am sure Barbara would
say America renounced me first"
For two years ago she said to
me, "I want to go home to Amer
lea, I would like to bring my son
I'D as an American, but they do
not like me III America. They
misunderstood everything do.
They hold things against me that
are not my fault. They hold
things against me that I did when
I was very. young.
IT want to go home, but
don't think they want me, so
perhaps it will be better for me
to stay here, where can build
a saner life for myself"
But know that then she had
no idea of giving up her right to
be called an American. know
it because she was making elab-
crate plans for a return, consult
ing with experts as to how she
could win the friendship and at,
fection of her own people.
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Ou sdne House Wilhelm debating
npeia family and
The Washington times., 1938-07-08
Severe, Formal Man

A tall, rather severe, formal
man, I thought. Immediately
groomed. Handsome in a stiff
way. Much older than his wife.
Perhaps a little hard and domi-
mating, but it was easy to see why
her hand rested upon his arm with
confidence, as though she liked to
have it there.
Her eyes were turned up to him
with a trust and contentment it
was pleasant to see.
Only a few moments before he
came in we had been speaking of
her first husband, Prince Alexis
Mdivani. She had spoken of him,
his tragic death, their romance,
with kindness, with pity and with
a little bewilderment. But in spite
Of that you could see that she
The Washington times., 1938-07-08
Very Happy Then

I believe that her change Of
mind, her remuneration of Amer.
lea, and her separation from
Haugwitz-Reventlow come from
the same cause.-The inner story
of this woman's heart, which has
not yet been told.
I have engraved upon my mem
ory an unforgettable picture OF
the Count and Countess Haug-
witz-Reventlow.
Barbara and I had been having
tea and he came in late. I re-
member how eagerly she greeted
him, how glad they seemed to be
over that little reunion after a
few hours separation. You could
almost hear a little sigh of salts
faction - "there-everything's all
right now"
They stood together before the
coal fire in her bedroom, a room
elegant and luxurious and feni-
nine, done ia ivory satin and white
fur rugs and priceless lace.
The Washington times., 1938-07-08

shuddered away from the mention
Of his name, with that inward
shudder women show only when
they have hidden memories too
dreadful to bring into the light.
The Washington times., 1938-07-08

ginnings of things"-that was tt
way she put it.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

CLOCK

EARLE Kay Francis, Bonita
Granville my Bill" IL a. M,
las, 4:3O. 7:05, 9:55 p. m.
Stage, Zasu Pitts" 1855, $40,
$40, 9:05 p. m.
LITTLE" THE Golem" at II.
1850, 2:30, 4:20, GOT, 1855
and $50 p. m.
METROPOLITAN - c h les
Bickford, Ann Dvorak, Gangs
of New York." 1850 a. m,
1850, $50. $50. 1850. $50
p. m.
R.K.O. KEITH'S-Fay Banter.
Ruby Keller, James Ellison.
Mother Carry'S Chickens"
1850 a. m. 1850, $3.50, $50.
7:50, $50 p. m.
CAPITOL-Warner Baxter, Mar
jorie Weaver, "I'll Give a Mil
lion," II a. m, LAS. 4:3O,
tbs, II p. m. Stage. Andrew
Sisters, 12:45, $3.50, lis. 3
p. m.
PALACE-Mickey Rooney, Judy
Garland, Lewis Stone, Law
Finds Andy Hardy" II a. m,
ITO. 1920. $50. TAO. $50
p. m.
MBIA-Florence Rice,
Claire Dodd," Fast Company"
IL noon, 2, 1855. 5:55. $780,
9 p. m.
TRANS.LUX-NewS and shorts,
10 u m, to midnight. shows
IS minutes
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
Shirley Going
ToCoIumbiu

Little Miss Broadway" Shir-
ley Temples latest starring pic
ture, returns to the Columbia
Friday for repeat engagement.
Already those who have seen
the production say that it demon
strates beyond a shadow of a
doubt why this young lady is
Americas Number One star.
The cast which supports Shir-
ley is headed by George Murphy,
Hollywood'S ace acting hoofer,
Jimmy Durante, who needs no
introduction; PHYLLIS Brooks, the
rapidly rising young blonde
beauty who appeared with Shir-
ley in Rebecca, and Edna May
Oliver, who is known as the
auStere old maid.
The cast also includes such
popular players as George Bar
bier, Edward Ellis, Jane Dalwell,
Donald Meek and others.
Six sparkling tunes by Walter
Bullock 5nd Harold Spina rang
ing from ballads to sizzling
swing lend themselves to Shir.
ley's singing as well as the in
tricate steps which she and
Murphy execute together.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

poise and seif-possession under
beauty contest requirements
must possess a healthy set of
nerves. The finalistS paraded
twice in evening gowns, then
stripped to beach garb for closer
inspection, finally they were
called upon 20 entertain.
WON EARLIER CONTEST
With the cooperation of the
weather man the 1888 finals ran
off smoothly. General Manager
Harry Baker, of the Wilson Line,
acted as emcee, pulled no rabbit
tricks, although he is a real
hocus-pocus magic man. AL
Stern, was overseer of the judy
ing, and the 1887 Miss Washing
ton, Mrs. Mason Peters, re-
vealed her facility at the mike"
by turning in the best speech Of
the evening.
Miss Washington 1888 is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. C.
Albert Parker, of 1928 Shepherd
st. N. w. Previously she had
been accorded the distinction of
being named Miss Columbia
Heights" in the divisional beauty
competitions.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
Trovel Films
Att rons-Lux

"a Pilgrimage Through Pales-
tine" a travelog of the Holy
Land. will be the top short
subject at the Trans-Lux theater,
In the program starting Friday.
The sport featurette will be
about polo; the fine points of
this aristocratic game will be
illustrated and match game
between the crack teams of ia
maica and Kingston shown. A
Screen Snapshots" showing the
reigning celebrities at work and
play is scheduled also, as we'll
as a Disney Mickey Mouse car
toon Thru a Mirror"
The news pictures will cover
current happenings as photo
graphed in different parts Of the
world by all the newsreel pro-
ducers and this section will con-
Stitute the major part Of the
program as usual.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
ll0lI TIzQIQ1IJ
BY ED SULLIVAN!
Passing ShoW

HOLLYWOOD, 3.
Hidden Valley fertile valleys
Valley you know where look will find four white
the royal brand Of the Austrian Hapsbgs burned into
sheehan They by the Hapsburgs when
she sang at Vienna These horses of the breed equine
tan royalty They service all Europe Napoleon
iSsS6se VINE OF s4 the
cause a horse does not feed upon memories.
oLvERA ST. in Los Angeles has caught and imprisoned the old
Of California All tourists there. lady
wealthy house and curos are worth close
ne nss Tes %Gs % tine pss Of % to
the money to charity.
THAT Norma . has turned down the role Of Scarlet
could do spenddy shearer Not long ago talked to
Ssm o v about the role at &
certain Actresses will tell that the character of Scarlet
the character strays from the line.
CRAMM still alive or was he taken out of his
prison cell and Inundated? He's probably s alive but the
UP check this through Berlin The
colony will appreciate it.
LUCILLE Butte Mont, and Ann Sheridan of Dallas
Tex Photograph skngy younger
are going places The Ball has the high cheekbons
facial the same construction
that almost startling its fotographc effectiveness
almost to leap out the at achieving depth
that Is almost thlrddmenSional
MISS BALL the Montana girl who posed
Broadway fotographs something like Miss Hepburn
ANN Sheridan in Letter of Introduction playing the femme lead
opposite AdOphe MenOu She is
entirely beevable from her pictures When
she stands out Of things
have something country
haps it's the air the accOmpshes Robert
Powers who has all of the country
head Of that girls for all
vertsemen will tell you that the greatest beauties from
CLAUDETTE COLBERT told something which very
true Very few stars could get job in the movies they
the scrutiny of talent scouts According
faces all wrong She's right
high their mouths too wide their aqne
too full You can't regiment personalities. 4 "f>
HEDY gorgeous femme ever seen ON
the with nobody barred This remarkable
beauties of the
Young Madeleine Carroll CarOle Lombard Virginia
Connie Bennett Alice Faye Joan Bennett Ginger ROge-nOt
brunette in carload Miss spirits
brunettes because she really topographic something
TELEPHONE CALL DEPARTMENT.: Hello Ed, this is Paul
MUM There is nothing lower than oksteae may
right right book back him
he's going adopt such a attitude.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

Robert Taylor is not only
hairy-chested, but hairy-legged,
and anybody who is rash enough
to claim he is not all he-man is
invited to see THE Crowd
Roars" and watch Bob roll with
0 punch.
Yes, Bob Taylor is a prize
fighter in his latest picture. Not
a tin-eared desc and dose
swinger of the padded mittens,
but fellow more like Shakes
pearean Gene Tunney. He hates
the fight racket and the tin.
horn gamblers who control it.
Bob Taylor's picture was sub
stituted at Tuesdays screening
tor the glamorous Hedy Lamar
pronounced glamaor-in cal
giers" in the main bout at the
Fox Exchange.
think that THE Crowd
RoarS" is the best fight picture
ever made by Hollywood. I
have in mind, too, Prize Fighter
and the Lady," which had
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

lily Dr ki R
Soucy Charlie
At Keith's
Thursday

Edgar Bergen land, of course,
his Charlie Mccartney, An
drea Leeds, Adolphe Menjou,
and George Murphy head the
cast of Universal's Letter Of
Introduction" which is to be the
next attraction at RKO
Keith's following the currently
showing screen adaptation of
the famous novel, Mother
Carey's Chickens"
Letters of Introduction" pre-
Sents the famous Bergen-Mc-
earthly team in their first stel-
lar roles. Previously they had
been seen in one production,
Goodwin Follies," in what
amounted to a group Of special
ties. In the current offering
Bergen has one of the pivotal
roles of the drama.
Menjou will be seen as an
aging actor, whose vanity and
fear of growing old contribute
the main dramatic theme of the
picture. Miss Leeds appears as
his daughter whose existence he
keeps from the world, and with
whom his relations bring a series
of comic and tragic events.
Murphy is cast as a vaude-
vile dancer, in love with Miss
Leeds, while another stellar
member of the cast, Rita john
son, plays his dancing partner
in love with him.
The story theme centers
around a letter of introduction
that Miss Leeds, as the daugh-
ter, brings to the famous actor
.(her father) Adolphe Menjou.
The complications from that
letter and its effect on every
body concerned creates con-
trasting situations of laughter
and near-tragedy that have al
ready brought glowing reports
on the pictures value.
It will open at RKO Keith's,
Thursday, following the termi-
nation of the run of Mother
Carey's Chickens"
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
Lloyd. Comedy
At Earle

Harold Lloyd, who was last
seen on local screens over a year
and a half ago in 'The Milky
Way" returns next Friday to
the Earle Theater, in his latest
comedy, Professor Beware"
In this story of a down-and-
out archaeologist in search of a
job, Lloyd has surrounded him.
self with an able supporting
cast that includes Raymond
Walburn, Lionel Stander, Viii
liam Frawley. Cora Witherspoon
and his brand new leading lady,
Phyllis WEIGH.
Hilarious hi-jinx are the order
when Lloyd starts a screwy
cross-country jaunt in search OF
a job. It seems that Lloyd, en-
ployed as an Psychologist in a
museum, loses his pants and
his job, in order to help a
beautiful girl, Miss WEIGH, get
a screen test.
Penniless, with the law at his
heels, and a pretty girl hot-foot-
ing it after him, his adventures
follow in a Whirl. He is forced
to spend a night on the desert
alone with Miss WEIGH, but
wary of love, he sneaks away to
continue his lonesome travels.
Continuing towards New York
via the freight train route, he
teams up with two trampS,
Stander and Walburn, who con-
tribute their goofy share to the
comedy. Adventure follows ad-
venture, and before he knows
what's what, Lloyd finds him
self marrying an heireSS to
escape the wrath of the law.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
George O'Brien Signs
For Six New Westerns

George O'Brien, whose recent
outdoor screen dramas for
RKO Radio have met with
marked popularity, has been
signed by that studio for six
more Westerns, which Bert Gill
roy will produce with David
Howard directing.
Oliver Drake is writing the
story and screen play for the
first of the new series.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03

Make Baer, Jack Dempsey,
Primo Camera, Walter Huston
and Lewis Stone in the cast,
not to mention Myrna 10y.
That was rafting good pic
ture, but it laid a monster box
office egg.
So Bob Taylor is out to prove
that a fight picture can be a
commercial success, that he can
pull the men up to the ticket
windows, while at the same time
giving the fair sex cardiac flut-
terS.
The odds are even money that
MIR. Taylor can deal a Z. O. to
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
SANG AND DANCED

SANG AND DANCED
Miss Parker sang How'd You
Like to Love Me-" in the pop
manner, and came back for a
few tap steps to the rhythm of
"Flat-Foot Floogie." 1t should
permit her to qualify in the
talent test at Atlantic City, for
the contestants must not only
measure up from a beauty
standpoint. but must also regis
ter as entertainers.
Miss Nadine Petrey, Golden
Mirror girl, was runner-up hay
ing the satisfaction of knowing
that one ballot the other way,
would have won her the Miss
Washington ribbon
Two of the entries who pa
raded were ineligible, and these
matters should have been ad-
justed before the finalists
passed in review. One girl re-
Gently went through a marriage
ceremony in nearby Maryland,
another was over the age limit
set for the Atlantic City con-
test. However, the judges were
informed OF the last minute
scratching, and I doubt much
that the result would have been
changed.
Any girl who can retain her
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
KELLEYGRAMS

any summer box office slump
with 1.-THE Crowd Roars."
Man and boy. the way Direc-
tor Richard Thorpe builds up
suspense in this picture will
have you cheering. Mr.. Taylor
is taking rights to the chin,
hitting the floor, hanging on the
ropes, bloody but game, while
Maureen O'Sullivan is speeding
along in taxi to tell him every
thing is Okay and to cut loose
with his Sunday punch.
Glenn Mccarthy as a ringside
narrator gives the whole scene
an air of veriSSimilitude, and
there are genuine sounds of the
fight crazy crowd in Madison
Square Garden to get your pulse
beating little swifter.
Oh, by all means. THE
Crowd Roars,' for love and fish
cuffs. You will find Frank Nor
gan doing a grand job as a
rum-soaked victim of the hand
books, and serving as Bob Tay-
lor's father. jolly Ed Arnold
plays the gambling king and
Lionel Stander, William Gar
gan, Jane Wyman, Nat Pendle-
ton and Charles D. Brown give
tip-top support. Gene Reynolds
as the boy Bob Taylor is a kid
worth tabbing.
Robert Taylor's acting i'm
proves with every picture. Here
he lives up to the high promise
of "A Yank at Oxford" and his
new picture is superlative enter
tainment, due primarily to the
fact that George Bruce gave
him a believable story, besides
providing him with a clever
comedy fade-out.
Yes, Mr.. Taylor is the cham
pion of the fighting actors, and
not even Slapsie Make Rosen-
bloom or Fighting Jimmy Nc
Larnin look better in their ring
toys.
OLNEY DOING OKAY
There are no flys on the
Olney Theater now. Or in it.
For Squire Steve Cochran has
his rustic theater on the road
to rural Maryland completely
screened. So you can park your
fly Swatter with your car, and
no extra charge.
The Olney Theater is the only
summer stage enterprise here
abouts rated professional" by
the unions. Others may have
amateurs juggle the scenery and
! paint the sets, and beginners
may move the furniture. But
( Scene Designer Charles SquireS
and all of his backstage crafts
men at Olney carry AFL cards,
get the regulation scale of
wages.
Squire Cochran is doing right
well for himself. And suspect
SClara May Downey's Olney Inn
is not complaining. A popular
idea is to take dinner at the
nearby country eating houses
and wind up a summers
evening at the Omey playhouse.
This week the Noel Coward
program of one-act plays has
Irene Purcell and Leslie DENIM
son in the leads. Actor DENIM.
son is the Basil Rathbone type
knows his way round back of
those footlights. Miss Purcell
has been star of the Cowardiana
on the straw hat circuit and is
well up on its requirements.
If the August weather has
only a normal quota of summer
showers the new Olney theater
is on the way to a prosperous
season.
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
leaning S
and
Screenings
By Andrew R. Kelley

Pale Potomac moonlight stars and soft breezes aided the
beauty judges picking out Miss Washington of 1898 on the
dance floor of the City of Washington last night
Petite Dorothy Parker by very slender majority when
the official ballots counted by James Councillor Mrs
Mason Peters he Miss Washington of 1880 and others of
the canvasing committee.
She watch-charm brunette and think possibly the
quality that swayed the judges scale slightly in her favor
her vvacousness She has Hollywood figure; that is,
she slender of limb and well curved in the right places
The Washington times., 1938-08-03
Open Air Theater
Nears Completion

With weather conditions IA
vorable, the E. M. Loew Mt. Yer
non Open-Air Theater is nearing
completion and arrangements
are now being made for the
formal opening sometime next
week. The exact date will be
announced within the next few
days.
The Washington times., 1938-03-22
Boy ChOristers
To Give Concerts

The Boy Choristers Of the I'M
maculate Conception Boys School
will give concerts Thursday and
Friday evenings at $3.50 O'Clock
at the Immaculate Conception
Church, Eighth and N Sts. N. W.
Charles A. Benson, choirmaSter,
will direct. Harry Wheaton How
ard, organist, will pray the &C
compartment. The Choristers will
sing, "Glory To God" from Han
dels '"The Messiah: the chorus
from the Mount Of Olives" by
Beethoven; Tosti's Last Song;
selections from the operas Caval-
leria -susticana and Boris Godou-
nof and selections from MendelS-
sohn, Offenbach and J. Barnbv.