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Evening star., 1938-03-15
Stage Headlines
Set for Capitol.
THERE'S much in store on the Ca

THERE'S much in store on the Capt.
= tol stage for the remainder of
March. April and May.
First comes Jimmy Scribner in a
personal appearance. There may be
those among you who do not know
who Jimmy Scribner is, but there also
are $4,000 fans Of his one-man radio
show, the johnson Family. who have
written to him in recent weeks. The
fans may see him in the new show
which begins Friday.
Fred Waring and his Pennsylva-
mans, always one of the towns most
popular stage attractions. return, too.
Fred presents his new stage show the
week of April 8.
Also due to make an appearance or
the Capitol stage some time next
month is Allan Jones, the tenor who
was snatched up by Hollywood, and
whom you last saw with Jeanette Mac
Donald in The Firefly."
Others slated to appear here within
the next couple of months are George
Jessel and his talented wife, Norma
Talmadge, with the other performers
on their radio show; Clyde Mccoy
and his Sugar Blues Orchestra, Patri-
eia Bowman, Leah Ray and Paula
Gerritts, the skating fellow who was
last here to help the Presidents BIRTH
day ball festivities.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Observation-Disclosures" Ethel Bar
rymore returns to star in the Mazo de
la Roche drama: $50 pm.
Earle-"A Slight Case Of Murder"
Gangster Robinson attempts to go
straight: II am, 1885. 4:20, TOE and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 12:40, $3.50.
6:15 and 8 pm.
Capitol-"Merrily We Live" Connie
Bennett, Brian Aherne, comedy Of q
tramp-collecting family: II am. l:4S.
4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage shows:
1855, 3:45, $50 and 9:15 pm.
Metropolitan - Big Broadcast OF
1885," principally Mr.. w. G. Fields:
11:15 am, 1:20, 3:25, $50. 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Columbia-"A Yank at Oxford" the
new" Robert Taylor: 1870, 2:40. D..
7:25 and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Happy Landing" skating
Sonia returns: IL m, 2:25, 4:45, 7:l0
and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs," aim history's greatest
sensation-thats all: 1851 an, ISL,
1851, 5:5l. 7:5l ana s:5l pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts. Con.
tinuous from 10 am. to midnight.
Little-"Peter the First" Soviet
screen biography Of q vigorous czar,
with subtitles in English: II am,
1:07, 3:14, sal, 7:28 and 9:35 pm.
Belasco-"Mayerling," Charles Boyer
and Danielle Darrieux in the much
acclaimed French perturbation Of .
tragic royal romance: $50 pm.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Awards Made by
Play Bureau.

EIRST prize in the second Nation
wide play competition of the Bu-
reau of New Plays, which is directed
by Theresa Helburn. has been awarded
to Helene Hanff of Philadelphia, for
her play, These Your Children" and
other work.
The Bureau of New Plays is spon-
sored by seven of the country's lead
ing film producers-Columbia, Metro
Goldwyn-M Mayer, Paramount, R-K-O
Radio, Twentieth Century-Fox. Uni
versal and Warners-and was formed
to encourage young playwrights with
financial aid and professional criti-
cism.
Others awarded fellowships to ena-
BILE them to continue their work we're
Philip Freund Of New York and Dan
iel Taradash of Hollywood Those
awarded honorable mention in the
competition were John M. Caldwell,
New York: Nicholas Beal jacobson,
Norwich, VT: Rosalie Moore, Berkeley.
Calf: Thomas r. Moore, New York,
and DR.. Winn F. Zeller, Whittier,
Calf.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Wynn tosses of with reckless abandon
may be the lowest form Of wit and
all that. but they also reach down to
those regions of the human being that
produce the deepest, loudest and long
est laughter. "Hooray for What"
proves that Ed Wynn cannot be un-
funny. a very important thing since it
effaces a sad impression that was
created when he remained too long
out of contact with the stage.
The Winter Gardens lavish musical,
the most uproarious show in this town,
is not precisely perfect in all of its
details. The music of E. Y. Harburg
and Harold Arlen. one suspects, is bet
ter than it sounds as sung by Charles
Collins and Dorothy Stone, and by
Vivian Vance. To be sure, it takes
a lot of dancing in the Collins and
Stone roles and maybe it is too much
to expect them to be as good in the
vocal department. And the statuesque
Miss Vance does take excellent care
of her comedy burden with nice
touch even if her voice. disappoint-
ingly is not as big as she is. Such
complaints, of course, are minor to the
point of negligibility for nearly always
there is Mr.. Wynn as zany inventor
of gases which may turn out to destroy
or civilize mankind. 1t is crazy, but
what fun.
THE intervals of vigorous beauty
which are much more important
than merely giving Ed Wynn chance
to put on another grotesque hat and
coat are provided by Paul Haakon.
The Danish lad who first sprang into
the limeiight by stealing show,
"Anina," from under Nine. Jeritza up
tilted chin in Washington several years
ago, is better dancer than ever
before. His two numbers. "Life's a
Dance" and Hero Ballet" are more
on the order of his famous Death in
the Afternoon" than were the pair he
danced in Washington last year in
The Show Is On" The ballet, as
Mr.. Haakon leads it through the mus
ical comedy field. will never have
to worry about its understandability
to audiences.
The flavor of mad drollery in Hoo
ray for What" is savored with almost
the first nibble, for into its second
episode marches its star. He is cor
respondence school chemist who, in
looking for gas that will make apples
unattractive to worms. stumbles upon
all the other important kinds of gases
in the world-gases that will kill men.
others that will intoxicate them with
enduring affection for one another.
After Mr. Wynn's identity has been
established by the authors of the book,
every one gets together for a fine
ribbing of such established human
institutions as war Offices. peace con-
ferences, international spies. munitions
manufacturers, the art of diplomacy
and others. The peace conference
sketch is close enough to marvellous"
to breathe on the back of its neck. 1t
begins with the angry, suspicious dele
gates selection of Mr.. Wynn as chair
man merely because he happens to
stray into the conference room by
mistake. From there on, things get
pretty delirious, with each delegate
screaming incoherently, pounding on
tables. snarling at the others, and
making unveiled threats of war. If
Evening star., 1938-03-15
January 16' Next
By Footlight Club.
BY Staf1 Correspondent of The Star.

By Staff Correspondent of The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, March IS
~ ''The Night of January 16," by
Ayn Rand. will be the next presenta-
ton of the University of Maryland
Footlight Club. The play will be pre-
sented during the last week of March.
Having been performed more than
$50 times by professional companies,
the play is regarded as one of the
best available college vehicles of the
present season. It has gained much
interest through the fact that at the
beginning of each performance jury
is selected from the audience to decide
the fate of the character put on trial
in the play.
The unique construction OF the plot
is such that if the unbiased judgment
of the jury convicts the characte
under indictment, there is one ending
for the play, while If the character is
acquitted, an equally dramatic ending
is provided.
The initial readings have already
been held and speeding up of re-
hearsals is expected to get the play
ready for the stage within the next
week, it is said.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Barrymore sank her teeth IN with
relish.
Gran" Whiteoak is pretty grand
person. She has a level head on her
shoulders as she rules that amazing
Whiteoak clan, and she's human and
has vitality-intestinal fortitude, she
calls 1t. in one short word-which be-
lies her age. And Miss Barrymore
makes her real and lovable as she
sits there and laughs at her two sep
tagenarian sons and the rest of the
tribe, whose chief worry is which of
them will get Grams" money.
"Whiteoaks," perhaps, is not great
play, but it is a completely satisfying
evening in the theater and 1t has some
poignant moments you will not soon
forget. There's the moment, for in
stance, when Finch, the misunderstood
grandson whose talents turn toward
music instead of toward horses and
dogs, aWakens Gran" while sneaking
into the house one night and has his
dreams and the fire within him
brought out by her. Then there is the
scene when understanding finally
dawns on Kenny and he tells Finch
to be the man Gran" knew he would
be; to throw back his shoulders and
tell us all to 60 to hell" These are
moments which will stay with you.
And there are others.
The effectiveness of "Whiteoaks" is
due considerably to its quiet sincerity,
to its completely natural counterpOint-
ing of the laughter and tears of real
Evening star., 1938-03-15

life. It is a drama OF character more
than anything else and the characters
come to life both in the writing and
in the playing. Miss de la Roche's
dialogue has about it a naturalness
which makes it fall easily from the
lips of her people and easily upon
your ear. About the entire play there
is that real quality which marks Miss
Barrymore's performance
The two other highly important
roles-Renny and Finch Whiteoaks-
are played considerably more than
passing we'll by Robert Shayne and
Stephen Haggard. Mr.. Haggard, who
also directed "Whiteoaks," repeats the
triumph he is reported to have scored
in the London production of the play.
His playing at least makes Finch so
real that you want to get up on the
stage and buck him up at the same
time you're aching to rail at the rest
Of the Whiteoak clan for not under
standing him. And Mr.. Shayne makes
Kenny the vigorous and likable head
OF the house he is supposed to be.
There are others, too, who lend
much life to Miss de la Roche's stage
version OF her story of this loyal, quar-
reling and fantastic group of Cana
dians who sat about awaiting an in
heritance only one of them possibly
could receive. There are Richard
Carlson as Piers Whiteoaks and Ethel
Barrymore Colt as Pheasant, his wife,
and there are Lenore Chippendale,
Reynolds Denniston and Wyrley Birch
as Grams" daughter and two sons,
the septagenarians who also-ran when
the will was read, and nobly all of
them do.
But really it is Miss Barrymore's
show. To her own talents and tricks
of the trade she has added a couple of
Brother Lionel's sturdiest devices for
growing very old, and she becomes a
centenarian who might easily be a
centenarian, and one you will love.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

one needs any more information on
the spirit in which the Messrs. Lindsay
and Grouse wrote, let it be said that
just across the street from League
headquarters. the script sets up a
munitions show in which is displayed
all the latest fashions in deaths in
struments 1t makes perverted kind
of sense that makes "Hooray for What"
one of the biggest musical hits in
years.
Wynn, the pasty-faced clown in
horn-rimmed glasses, loves it all down
to the smallest gesture it permits him
to make with his eloquent. ugly hands,
which are easily the funniest pair of
hands in show business.
X
MOVE star setting New York agog
at the moment is Deanna Durbin,
who is practically neighbor OF ours,
but who has been so busy with fetes
las we with shows that we have not
seen her. But the promise of meet
ing has been made, which is the prom
Use OF a column on the important sub
Ject OF Deanna Durbin Movie star
exciting the admiration of Broadway,
for her determination if not for her
art, is ELISA Landi. Miss Landi. who
did not make a hit in one play here
earlier in the season, is back in an
other, in which she also has not made
a hit. 1t is Empress of Destiny"
which finds her playing the part of
Catherine the Great Playing it with
somewhat less than the passionate
spirit in which Catherine lived and
left herself perpetual inspiration to
playWrights and actresses Sonny
Kendis, who opened the Raleighs Pail
Mall room last fall. now set up here
at the Belmont Plaza's Glass Hat
room, has established the new stand
as Washingtonian's rendezvous in
Gotham. One can't (well. we couldn't)
sit there two minutes before some one
came up and asked if We knew Bill
Briggs of Eastern Air Lines. Sure"
we said. pulling the proof right out of
an inside pocket. Benay Venuta, who
has toured tropical waters with va
rious Washington families. including
the Bill Shippens to whom she sends
her regards. is singing with the Kendis
floor show.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
With a Stage Underfoot
Ed Wynn Is Funny Again
Much Fun He Has in That Gay and
Tuneful Musical Show,
"Hooray for What"
By JAY CARMODY.

1EW YORK March l5vey fine is the unadornd g1ness Of the
unsashed the with music,
Shuber recognized
Evening star., 1938-03-15

caverns until they found Ed Wynn and'
produced an fashioned musical
comedy called "Hooray for What"
Here is entertainment that is some-
thing ike-something like the color-
full elaborateness of old, something like
the light-hearted satire you expect Of
Howard Lindsay and Russell Grouse,
something like you always hope movie
musicals will be but never are.
1t takes just about 10 minutes to
discover that Ed Wynn actually
achieved the perfect fool when he tried
to become a radio mogul during those
four years he was absent from the
stage. The literally perfect fool that
is. Mr.. Wynn belongs only where he
is, as the ultimate clown achieving the
ultimate in command over the risibil-
tiles Of an audience that can see as
we'll as hear him. Puns, which Mr..
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Ethel Barrymore Stars
In Nationals New Plav
Brings Real and Lovable Quality
To Leading Role of Mazo
De la ROche's "Whiteoaks."
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

ss ETHEL new role one which should keep her
while
wv plans The that Adene Whteoak the olyeorold
matarch Of "Whteoaks
the National Miss
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Anniversary Music
In Church Service.

IN CONNECTION with a series of
special services and programs hon.
oring the 6Oth anniversary Of the
founding Of Grace Lutheran Church.
an organ recital will be given in the
church this evening at o'clock. The
guest organist will be E. William
Bracket, organist and choirmaster
OF st. Johns Church, Georgetown. He
will offer the following program:
'Fugue ALA Gieue' pach
Prelude and Fugue on the Name
Bach" p Idszt
"Adasio and scherzo from Fifth
Sonata - Guilnant
"Cantilena" C McKinlev
Finale from Fifth Symphony L. Vierne
Vocal solos will be sung by Anne
Helene Monson, soprano, and Charter
Heslep. tenor.
There will b. no admission charge and
the general public Is cordially invited.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
PLANS DRAFTED
TO ALTER D. C.
GOLF COURSES

Several of Washington's public
golf courses today are slated for
a "face-lifting" as the National
Capital Parks Commission inaugu-
rates plans to provide more recrea.
tional space for the city.
The body has called for bids for
the construction and operation Of
several new units of public golf
courses to be submitted on or be-
fore Thursday, December %.
Under the proposals. East Poto-
mac Park will lose nine of its 36
holes in favor of tennis courts and
softball fields; the nine-hole Lin
coin Memorial course will be
closed and nine new holes will be
laid out in Section G., Anacostia,
for colored linksmen; a new, nine.
hole layout at Fort Dupont will
offset the elimination of nine Of
Anacostia's 18 holes.
The ground now used for golf
at Anacostia is designated for
that purpose only temporarily. It
will eventually be used for more
intensive sports.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
Threatens
FeUer Feared Among
Sun BOWL Gridders

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Dec.
IA Q.N.S.).-ThreatS of a seri-
Gus outbreak of scarlet fever
among members of the Uni
versity of New Mexico football
squad today led to extreme
precautions being taken.
The LObOs are scheduled to
play the University of Utah in
the Sun Bowl game at Ell PasO,
Tex, on January 2.
Two members of the squad,
Pete Sheyda, SecOnd-String
guard, and ]. B. Wilson, reserve
end, were placed under a 49,
hour observation Tuesday after
a fraternity brother became i'll.
Five members of the squad were
similarly exposed several weeks
ago but escaped illness.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
Squash Play in
Se111i-F inQlS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Dec.
Is G.N.SO.-ParticipantS in the
semifinal round of the ninth an
nual Atlantic Coast squash rae
quets championships today were
Miss Margot Lumb, of England;
Miss Anne Page, of Philadelphia;
Miss Eleanora Sears, Of Boston,
and Mrs. Stewart Iglehart, Of
Westbury, L. I.
Miss Lumb scored victories
yesterday over Miss Sue Peterson
and Miss Esther DAILY, both OF
Philadelphia. while Miss Page was
eliminating Miss Katherine Webb,
of Montclair, N. j., and Mrs. FL
wood Beatty, jr., of Philadelphia.
Miss Sears turned back Miss
Muriel Pierpont, of Philadelphia,
and Mrs. A. w. Paine, of New
York. Mrs. Iglehart was triumph
ant over Mrs. John B. Prizer and
Mrs. William Hawks, both Of
Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
Three Games on Tap
In HeuriCh LEAGUE

Three-game warfare continues
in Heurich Amateur Basketball
League play tonight at Heurich
gymnasium, Twenty-sixth and D
Streets Northwest.
The games involve Dapper Dan
VS.. TranS-LuX Hour Glass, 7:30
O'Clock; Hot ShoppeS VS.. United
Clay Products, $3.50 o'clock, and
Little Tavern VS.. w. w. Chambers,
GAO O'Clock
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
Virginia A. {. Eleven
To Battle Mi. Rainier

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. IA.
The Virginia Athletic Club and
the Mt. Rainier Ramblers will
meet in a benefit game at the
municipal stadium here Sunday.
Receipts will go to Winky
Meade, football player who suf-
fered a fractured collar-bone in a
contest several Sundays ago.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
-Four Lettermen Back
For Howard Campaign

Four lettermen are bac to carry
on in the basketball sea; on for
Howard University. Six of last
years stalwarts were lost by grad
uation. Returning monogram win
ners are Capt. Woodrow Gawltney,
Jim Parker, Perry Jones and Maui
rice Jackson.
Tommy Smith is making a
strong bid for a guard position.
Two practice games are scheduled
in the next week.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
C. ". HIGH five
DOWNS ALUMNI

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. IA.
George Washington High cagers
scored a twin victory here last
night at the expense of the "Old
Grads"
In the preliminary, Jean Haynes
registered Is tallies to spark the
girls team to a 1922 victory over
the Alumnae, while the Presi-
dents varsity quint walloped the
Alumni, 1924.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
New Berth
GOsIin Candidate for
Mats Coaching Job
NEW YORK, N. Y, Dec. IL.
Leon Goose" GOslin, whose

d / a m o n d
antics ha We
m a d e him
. vOrit e
with Wash
ington fan S
since the day
he broke in
with the Ma
on ais in
1921, is q
candidate for
a coaching
job with the
team in 1889,
according to
n ( OrmatiOn
released by
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
CAREW BOASTS
new MARKS
IN PIN LEAGUE

Roy Carew, captain of the Spe-
cial A dustin ment team, today
boasted two season records for the
Income Tax League by virtue of a
1866 game and a 410 set.
The Special Adjustment team
captain had never rolled 400 set
until he popped up with his record
breaking achievement at the Lucky
Strike last night. Counting weekly
high scores of 597-1,638, Special
Adjustment won two games from
Audit No. l.
Natural Resources gained a tie
for first place with Audit No. 2
by sweeping General Counsel while
the D-2's were dropping a tilt to
Executives. Jimmy Joffliffe and
Skippy Grant were among the
high rollers when the formers
l41-361 coupled with the latter'S
1896 enabled Accounts and
Collections to cop the odd-game
skirmiSh from Mail Room.
Sweeping the pacesetting Mail
ers, the Second-place Route Agents
No. l team pulled up within a
game of first place in the Herald
Times League at the Lucky Strike
last night. Stereotypers, Credit
Union and Pressroom No. went
into a third-place tie when each
won 2-1 decisions from PreSsrooms
No. l, Accounting and Linotype,
respectively. But probably the
Standout feat of the evening was
the three-game trimming the last
place Ludlows handed the strong
Ad Alley. With a string of 1877
Elmer Eckloff, of Stereotype, gar
nered high single string and Red
Finch with 349 set was tops.
Southpaw Buck Harley, of
another bowling era, is still carv-
ing out records. Last night Buck
cracked an all-time record in the
PWA League with brilliant I'll
which was the big poke in Ac-
counts, also chalking up an all
time loop mark of 664. The old
timer of Palace alley days fin
iShed the night with 412, second
high for the season.
Agnes Bayer equaled the sea-
sons record game in the Ladies
Catholic League with a nifty 149
and aided her L. A. A. o. H. club
to sweep Holy Comforter B with
a 334 set. Irene Swami, rocking
the naples for 140-340, was the
star at st. Francis Xavier white
washed Holy Comforter E, with
holding its third-place grip. Mem
berS Of the All Saints team were
pleased over blanking Holy Com
forter D team, their first sweep
Of the season. st. Anthony took
a commanding lead of five games
by winning two from Holy Com
forter A while the runnerup Holy
Comforter c team was losing two
tilts to St. Gabriel despite the
131-325 rolled by Betty Hoffman.
Charlie Turner, of Sanico Cakes,
with IA and Frank OrletSky, of
Bakery, with 399 were the top
maple spillers in the Sanitary
Grocery League at Convention
Hall.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
Would Quit Baseball

DETROIT Mich, Dec. a..
Sent to Seattle in a deal for
Pitcher Freddie Hutchinson, Jo-jo
White, Detroit outfielder, today
has issued a threat to quit base
The Washington times., 1938-12-14

Detroit landed that Seattle
pitcher for $4,000 in ransom
and four husky ball players who
acted as military escort for the
80 grand.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
WOLF, PERCY 81
IN MAT TOURNEY

Chief Little Wolf, colorful
Navajo Indian, and Walter Percy,
popular mailman from England,
rule 81 co-favorites in the one
night elimination wrestling tourna-
ment to be staged tomorrow night
in Turner's Arena for the express
purpose of uncovering an out
standing opponent for Jim Londos,
the undisputed world champion.
Londos has agreed to defend
his title a week from tomorrow
night in the same ring against
the winner for the Washington
Herald Times Christmas Toy
Fund.
Thirteen grapplers, all shapes
and sizes, have filed their entry
blanks, and are rarin' to get going.
OF the list, two are residents Of
Washington-John Hercale, for
mer circus strong man, now work
ing at a Navy Yard basin as an
iron worker, and Frank Brown,
who recently moved here from
Kansas City. Both are long shots
in the one-night affair.
Joe Turner, selecting the names
from a hat, turned up with the
following matches for the first
round. Odds on the contestants
in the tourney are also listed.
col John Heracle VS.. Jack M'Arthur 81
81 Chief L. Wolf VS.. Frank Brown 1O-1
15-1 Frenchy LaRue VS.. Karl Davis 81
81 Dutch Schultz VS.. T. O'Toole. 1O-1
81 Lord A. Mills VS.. Jim Wright. II
81 Walter Percy VS.. Bull Martin. 81
A-ioI- e.. ,r,ofrada Ldra,.. Q hyal.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14

HubbeII's arm is coming
around already. 1t will prob
ably be here in the first mail.
What a manager would like to
get is an assistant manager
who would be satisfied with an
assist.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
Tennessee II Drills
For Orange Bowl Tilt

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. IA.
TennesSee's football team prac-
ticed yesterday in preparation for
the January 2 game with Okla.
homa in Miami's Orange Bowl.
The Washington times., 1938-12-14
Cage Rout

LEXING TON, Va, Dec. IA.
Washington and Lees basketball
team defeated Bridgewater Col
lege, 81 to 16, last night.