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Evening star., 1939-03-20
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Candida," Cornelia Otis
Skinner deserts her monodramas for
the leading role in the Shaw play:
$3.50 pm.
Palace-"Mede for Each Other" "
Carole Lombard and James Stewart
find drama in wedlock: II am, LOS,
3:15, $40, 7:30 and $40 pm.
Earle-"Spring Madness" comedy
and romance in campus setting:
10:45 am, /, 3:15, 5:35. 7:55 and
19:15. Stage shows, with Benny
Goodman: II, 2:20, 4:35, 6:55 and
9:15 pm.
Capitol-"Three Musketeers," as
done by the Ritz Brothers.: II am,
las, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 12:40, 1925, 6:15 and pm.
Keith's-"You Can't Cheat an
Honest Man." new w. c. Fields
comedy: 11:l5 am, l, 2:45, 4:35,
$40, $40 and 9:55 pm.
Columbia - "Huckleberry Finn"
with Mickey Rooney in the leading
role: 1l:25 am, 1:25, $3.50, 5:35, 1885
and 9:40 pm.
Metropolitan-r"Yes, My Darling
Daughter" screen version of the
popular stage comedy: 11:20 am,
1:25, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and 9:45 pm.
Little-"Lost Horizon" James Hill
tons beguiling fantasy: II am, los,
BIO, $40, 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuouS from 10 am.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Fay Banter Wins
New Contract

Fay Banter, the only Hollywood
player to receive nominations for
two Academy awards, cashed in on
this distinction when she was signed
to a long term contract by Pro-
ducer Charles r. Rogers at Para
mount. The first of several important
assignments planned for her by
Rogers will be the leading role In
his forthcoming picture, "Our Neigh
bors-The Carters," which he will
produce after completing Bing
Crosby's next starring fllm, "The
Star Maker"
Miss Banter signed the contract
on the eve of the annual Academy
banquet at which she was nomin-
ated for the BEST Performance of
an Actress" award for her work in
white Banners" and for the BEST
Supporting Performance of an
Actress" for her Characterization in
"Jezebel."
The new contract means that
for several years Miss Banter will
divide her time between assign
ments from Rogers and Warner
Bros. where she already is under
commitment. Rogers is under con-
tract to Paramount for independent
productions of both THE Star
Maker" and Our Neighbors-The
Carters,"
Evening star., 1939-03-20

ment by two lads from the school,
grew to such proportion that last
year 1t had the S. r. O. sign out at
Wardman Park Theater.
Two one-act comedies, The Won
der Hat" and The Florist Shop"
will be staged Friday evening at the
Cleveland Park Club by students of
the Maret School. Casts will in
clude Carolee Arnold, Gene Cox,
Cathalene Crane. Bobette Stack
house, Anne Putnam, Mary Ann
Newman, Anne Moore. Betty Nor
rison, Lucille Camalier and Ignacia
Arcaya. Mrs. Charles Putnam is
the director.
The Troupers of East Washington
Community Center want local play
ers interested to know they are hold
ing tryouts this week for Oscar
Wilde's The Importance of Being
Ernest The nights are tomorrow
and Thursday, the time is 8 o'clock
and the place is Eastern High School.
X 4 x X
The r. E. A. Play Guild will stage
This Thing Called Love-" which the
r. E. A. Play Guild reports is a
wise, witty. sophisticated" comedy,
Friday. March 81. at Powell Junior
High School auditorium. The cast
includes Margaret Sarle, Jeannette
Andring. Ruth Schendel. Gertrude
Blank, Ted Field, Paul Woodbridge,
Harold Sarle, Lambeth Gibbs and
Paul Carroll.
The comedy is being directed by
Jack Wilson, whom we last saw bat
ting Catherine Ryan about the Cross
Roads Theater stage and doing a
fine job of it, in Null Cahrd's "Pri-
vate Lives"
This Thing Called Love-" unless
we have been misled, first had its
day on Broadway. with Violet Hem
Ing in the leading role. later became
a film starring Constance Bennett
and Edmund Lowe, the picture be-
ing notable as the origin of Cole
Porter's tune about What Is This
Thing Called Love?"
Evening star., 1939-03-20
candida Opens
Here Tonight

For the first time Washing
ton will see Cornelia Otis Skim
ner with other players on the
stage when the star comes to
the National Theater tonight in
a new production of George
Bernard Shaw's Candida"
Dorothy Sands has the role Of
Prossy, the unbending secretary
of Shaw's great comedy and
Onslow Stevens plays the Rev.
James Mavor Morell, Candida's
husband.
John Cromwell impersonates
Eugene Marchbanks, the youth
full poet who comes into the
London parsons home and all
but takes his beautiful wife
away from him. Other players
are A. P. Kaye as Mr.. Burgess,
Candida's father, and Philip
Faversham as Lexy Mill.
Donald Oenslager designed
the settings and Helene Pons
contributed the costumes. 1t
was Mr.. Oenslager who was
responsible for the scenery Tor
Edna His Wife," Miss Skin
ner's own adaptation OF the
Margaret Aver Barnes novel.
George Somnes OF the pro.
arc;no firm of BonfilS and
Somnes and noted director,
staged candida"
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Cabaret
News
OF the Day
Topical Revue
Has Some Deft
Satire

They've got something here, these
local people who have given WASH
ington its new Political Cabaret,
with its fun-poking Topical Re-
vue." The capacity crowd which
thronged 1923 Pennsylvania ave
nue. (Where used to be the. Cling
ham Club Saturday night to sip
lemonade or ale or what-have-you
and look upon the premiere was a
bit of an elegant gathering which
found much to wax enthusiastic
over. There are some moments, of
course, when the doings on the stage
wane toward the dull side, some
skitS that are not exactly scintil-
latlng. But there are other skits
whose satire is sharp and deft.
Freda Berla has contrived some
skipping music. Nicholas Ray has
staged it all at a merry pace and
the result is an evening of fine fun
The Topical Revue" is not. as
some Csle on our left remarked early
she was afraid 1t was going to De,
slightly left" nor is it the prop
aganda" the lady feared was to be
thrust upon her. If it takes any
stand 1t is the stand that it is fun
to jab pointed satire at people and
institutions the producers feel need
bit OF the wind taken out of them
Its most serious moment is a thrust
at the dictator nations, in Jean
Evans Message From a Refugee -
punch-packing story of the plight
Of Jew in Austria, told dramatic
ally and marked by some fine acting
by Gene Kressin.
The one other serious moment.
Mister Lincoln" seemed one of the
favorites of the first-night audience,
too. In this, Lawrence Whisonant,
Howard University student, sings
to the statue of the Emancipator in
the Lincoln Memorial; sings his song
telling Mister Lincoln" just how
much freedom his race has. Ber-
nard c. Schoenfeld has written some
intelligent lyrics, for it, among them
the lines: Sure we've got a song,
but there's no place to sing in"
That, now, may or may not be a
pointed jibe, but at any rate one
of the brightest skits of Topical
Revue" is "A Public Apology" which
has Helen Sinott in truly splendid
impersonation of a woman apologize
ing because her organization sisters
would not let Mary Anders sing
in their auditorium. It's blackout is
hilarious, a point to remember when
the revue is staged next Saturday
evening.
Other satire is aimed at the Amer
lean Medical Association for its
group health attitude, at govern
mental red tape, at Washington traf-
tic and few other things. One of
the other things. incidentally, is girls
who chew gum sand yearn for
Tyrone Power instead of knowing
what goes on in the worlds who get
spoofsd in ."Girl Meets Boycott"
sung in top-notch style by Eugene
Kressin to Ethel Davis. Mimi Nor
ton sings, too, which is another point
in the shows favor, especially good
beiag Whats My Civil Service Rat
ing With You," a duet she does with
Mr.$KreSsin. H. M.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
The Third Cross
In Second Week

"The Third Cross" Lenten drama
by James j. Glade, played by the
Catholic Players Guild, under Paul
Messink's direction, continues now
in the second week of It's two-week
run at the Holy Name auditorium,
West Virginia avenue and Neal
street NE
A cast of 40 local players, headed
, 'oy John Van Sikken, J. Edmond
Veitch, Norman Rose, Carl Chris
tiansen, George harrington, Grace
E. Hanley, Eileen Stella Davis, Jen-
ME Peluso and Bessie Smurak pre-
sents the Bible narrative. which de-
picts the last earthly days of the
Saviour, leading up to the Cruel
fixion. Incidental music by men,
bers of st. Matthews Church Choir,
directed by Nation Boyce, adds to
the impressive drama.
Tickets are at the American Auto
mobile Association, Willard Hotel
Ticket Bureau. Mrs. Dorsey and the
William J. Gallery Co.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Children's Theater
To Close Season

"The King of the Golden River"
John Ruskin's famous fairy tale,
will be dramatized at the National
for one performance only Saturday
morning, April 8. by the Children's
Theater of New York.
Although 1.-THE King of the Golden
River" lacks only five years of the
century mark, its popularity is as
great today as it was during the
authors lifetime. Ruskin was only
% when he wrote it, but even then
he was a mature writer and a
recognized genius.
Philip Harmon will have fea-
tured role in the production to be
presented here.
This is the final play in the cur
rent season of Clare Tree Majors
Children's Theater of New York.
Tickets are now on sale at the WASH
ington Office of the Children 5
Theater, 1874 F. street NV.
The Children's Theater has al
ready announced an eighth WASH
ington season starting Saturday
morning, October %, with Dick
Wilmington and His Cat"
Evening star., 1939-03-20

the enterprise which returns him to
the stage-to the National Theater
March 27-are not in the slightest
concerned about the fact that Mr..
Barrymore has his movie dialogue
writ large on a blackboard off TIE
set. 1t is not matter of memory
at all, their story Is, that the old
Hamlet of the 20s resorts to the
blackboard practice. He does 1t, they
say, because he can see no reason
for memorizing lines which he needs
to know but for the few seconds 1t
takes to shoot a brief movie Sc
quence.
Mr.. Barrymore is not at all sensi-
tive on the subject of the black
board. He discusses it very frankly.
The Barrymore memory, he points
out, is heavily stocked with unfor-
gettable lines from past plays and
films. He simply can see no reason
for cluttering it further.
An anecdote, one of Hollywood's
favoriteS, has to do with his lack Of
SensitivenesS on the subject. Fairly
recently, during the shooting of a
certain scene, the camera was placed
in such a position that the board
was brought into focus. The actor
, alone of all the persons Involved
noticed it.
Don't you think" he asked, point
ing to the board, that that is
pretty obvious?"
Another thing about which Mr..
Barrymore Is not concerned is that
his new play, MY Dear Children"
is strangely photographed. That
is quite all right with him and he
hopes 1t will be the same to thea
tefgoers.
1t is statistically demonstrable
that there Is nothing like Benny
Goodman so far rs Washington's
youngsters are concerned The
first of them began to form in line
at the Earle Saturday morning as
early as o'clock That was three
hours and half before the house
opened BY opening time, $500
were waiting for the 1900 seats {.
Shirley Temples debut in techni-
color will be previeWed by critics
tomorrow when "The Little Princess
is screened at the Fox Film Ex-
change :. The picture will be the
next attraction at the Palace :.
Speaking of singing. as We seem to
have been doing a few hundred
words ago, Irene Dunno reverts to
it in Love Affair" which is being
screened this afternoon as prelude
to its showing at Keith's If
Dorothy Sands had been an obedi-
ent little girl, the National audience
would not be seeing her tonight as
Prossy in Candida" :. . Her parents
were determined that she should
not 60 on the stage . Miss Sands
was more determined, however, that
she would 1t all came out just
fine, as it usually does, and no one
is prouder OF a daughter than the
Sands family of Dorothy.
Evening star., 1939-03-20

JOhn BOleS. Next week 1T is the
Earles turn. The vocalist will be
blond Shirley Ross, who used to sing
in vaudeville until she successfully
serenaded Paramount and went
West. 1t is beginning to look like
q grand march
There are other reflections of the
fact that singers have come upon
lean days in pictures.
One is that Alan Jones, the most
personable tenor in the sunshine
belt, has not made a picture in a
year and one-half; maybe longer if
one had held watch on him. Not
only has Mr.. Jones not been work.
Ing, he even lost his job with M-G-M,
whose singing department is stated
by Mr.. Eddy. There was a brief
time when Jones was just being a
horse breeder but Paramount put
an end to that by signing him to a
contract even though it has since
scribbled no script into which the
singer fits.
Paramount, of course, is the studio
which had to convert Gladys
Swarthout into straight dramatic
actress in Ambush" her last pic
ture. Neither Of them liked the idea
and, very emphatically, neither did
the. public, which made it impress
sively unanimous. Paramount re-
Gently has been singing to the hearts
CT the republic through Miss Ross.
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. It's
cutest accomplishment in that coz
nection, although not the most sue
cessful, was turning the song
THANKS for the Memory" into a
full-length sequel to the picture in
which Miss Ross and Hope sang the
original.
The pubies sales resistance to
the singing cinema does not carry
over to cinema singers. Their per-
sonal appearances are highly popu-
lar ventures. AS vocalists unham-
pered by that ancient, unchanging
story, they draw multitudes to
vaudeville houses. More of them
probably will be doing it in the next
few months while script writer's are
wearying their brains trying to find
way not to weary the public with
that sad old script.
X *
Associates of John Barrymore in
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Film Songbirds Fly East
AS Musicals Languish
Shirley Ross, Coming to Earle, Third
Vocalist to Make Personal Appearance
On Local Vaudeville Program
BY JAY CARMODY.

That musicals are in dsrep in Hollywood these days except those
the time That think suitable
with
Capitol persons Regan
Evening star., 1939-03-20

Mooney in the Sky or Wedding
for Lefty starring Ben Smart and
Elizabeth Sypher; satire on the
loves of an opera star. with the III
imitable Maud Howell Smith playing
a sorceress; Hollywood nightmare,
with Evelyn Werner, Hollis Schrei-
ber, Charles Turner and Nine. Gar
cia playing the leading roles; a
final torch song to end final torch
songs. with glamorous Gertrude
Power carrying the torch; a sac
charic juvenile and ingenue team
in the persons OF Al Gendebien and
Marian Smith; Balkan operetta,
featuring Martha Byrd, Lee Pentz.
Edward Imbrie, Anna Conard and
Edna Smith,
John Hartsfleld Is arranging the
music, William Jarvis and George
Murth are designing the sets and
the production dates are March %,
20 and 30. And saccAaric is word
thought up by the Arts Club, not
by us.
The Players Club OF Central
Community Center this week brings
back to local stage Aurania Rou-
verols "Skidding,' staging it Thurs
day night at Roosevelt High School
auditorium. This is the comedy
which started off the Andy Hardy
film series, being the basis for the
first Cor maybe it was the second)
picture with Mickey Rooney and the
rest of the family. William Sheaf-
fer, who won the acting award in
the recent one-act play tourney,
plays the leading role in the Play
ers' Club production.
X
Forney Reese comes by to an
nounce he. is busy. For one thing
he is busy with the next St. Paul IS
Players production, Lavender and
Old Lace" for which tryouts were
held last week. The second thing he
is busy with is the direction of the
annual amateur show of the stu
dents of Blessed Sacrament School.
This latter is something which was
started of four years ago in base
Evening star., 1939-03-20
No Glue Factory

Bing Crosby, q race horse which
worked in King of the Turf" an
Edward Small production for United
Artists release, starring Adolphe
Menjou, worked out at such a fast
clip for race track sequences in
the picture that his owner now has
him In training and will put him
back on the track for another try
at winning.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Lillian Dixon Stars
In GaYetY Revue

Lillian Dixon, 1avorite with bur-
lesque fans here, headlines the new
revue, High Steppers," which
opened at the Gayety Theater YES
terday. She is supported by three
other lassies who also have their
supporting claques-Joan Marvis,
Doris Weston and Allene Dale.
Dancing is contributed to High
Steppers" by Mile. Alexianne and
the comedy stars are Billy Hagen
and Billy Fields.
New feature of each week at the
Gayety is the jitterbug contest, held
every Saturday in conjunction with
the regular midnight show.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
TwizzIer Answer

The formerly henpecked husband
had SIG. He had one $40, one IS
and one 81.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Margot Stevenson
Signed by Goldwyn

Margot Stevenson, who will be re-
membered as the star in the sue
cessful stage production of You
Can't Take it With You," has been
signed to long-term contract by
Samuel Goldwyn following series
of screen tests. Miss Stevenson's S
first assignment will be the feminine
lead in the forthcoming GoldWyn
production which will star Jascha
Heifetz.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
DANCING.

The Edward F. Miller Studio
9lA 18th ST. NAT1ONAL S0SS
For Discriminating Peeple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-03
WASHINGTON, D. c., MONDAY 1885,
Level Of Business
Is Well Supported,
Bank Review Asserts
Pay Rolls, Incomes
And U. S. Spending
Helpful Factors
Py the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 3.-The Ma
tional City Bank of New York said
today in its monthly economic re-
view the present level of business is
well supported" following the late
spring upturn.
Factory pay rolls and farm in
comes are larger than a year ago
and will buy more due to lower
prices" the bank noted.
1.-THE Government is supporting
construction and relief work, and
spreading purchasing power through
its cash deficit at an average rate
of $250,000,000 or more a month.
"Conservative buying policies have
kept the markets orderly, commit
ments for merchandise and raw
materials are low and inventories
in distributors and manufacturers
hands present no troublesome prob
lens.
Monetary influences are all of
kind of support business, and in
dustrial costs, while high, are not
rising.
THE steady movement of dis
tribution and consumption is shown
by the rise of railway freight car
loadings to new high for the year
and by retail sales that on the
whole are good. Sales of house.
hold equipment are active, which is
reflected in the orders reaching the
electrical companies.
THE mail-order houses are doing
exceptional business"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-03
Hybrid Corn Acreage Sets
Record in Farm Belt
By the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, July "a record
breaking acreage has been planted
to hybrid corn in the farm belt
this year, a Chicago crop expert
reported today in survey.
Giving the first indication of the
expanse of planting of hybrid seed,
the report of James E. Bennett &
Co., grain house, indicated that on
the basis of an analysis in leading
compromising States approximate
ly SO per cent of the corn acreage
had been seeded to the hybrid va
riety.
Hybrid planting in Iowa, the Ben
nett report said, averaged 70 per cent
of total acreage, in Indiana 60 per
cent and in Illinois and Ohio 81 per
cent, with other States considerably
less
Agronomists estimate hybrid corn
produces yields ranging from 10 to
30 per cent or more in excess of the
yields of open-pollenated corn.
c. M. Calvin, who compiled the
Bennett report, said corn was max
ing excellent progress under ia
vorable conditions through practi-
cally all the States He estimated
total production at 2,518OO0, 900
bushels, compared with 2,542 ,OO0, 900
harvested last year.
Acreage was estimated at 91,OO1, :
600 acres, compared with 81 1872 900
harvested last season.
Another crop expert, Mrs. E. H.
Miller, estimated probable corn pro-
duction at 100000 in her re-
port Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-03
New York Produce

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s ssnond firs.s SIS sr to 81 sGoFs u
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Whites: Resale of premium marks, - q
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cifc Coast, Jumbo and premiums, 34 80,
specials, 2S-2Sl2: standards, 26-G6 p
Browns Browns Nearby. extra fancy, 23-es.
Nearby and Midwestern, eXchanSe ,Spe-
Gals, 22lc exchange standards - =.
Ne nhrt s msdiu Ms rb I'' I5-l7
Dressed poultry unsettled; fresh. boxes:
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-03
Wheat Receipts Mount
Sharply at Baltimore
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, July 3.-Wheat re-
ceipts and exports at Baltimore dur
ing the first half of 1889 showed large
increases over the corresponding
periods of last year, according to the
Baltimore Chamber of Commerce,
local grain exchange.
The receipts totaled 1885 ,507 BUSH
els as compared with only 275 ,904
bushels in the first half of 1888. The
exLagts reached 1868 $50 bushels as
e iSt only 269,707 bushels during
Est six months of last year. Corn
feZipts and exports also increased.
Other increases in receipts were re-
corded by oats, soy beans and mill
feed.
Flour receipts and exports and rye,
barley, malt and hay receipts were
lower. The only exports, in addi-
ton to wheat, corn and -four, were
soy beans, the total exports being
25,O58 bushels. There were no ex-
ports Of soy beans during the first
half Of 1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-03
Dollar Is Unchanged
In London TRADING
BY the Associated Press,

BY tne Associated Press,
LONDON, July 3.-The United
States dollar ended unaltered at
4.681s to the pound in foreign ex-
change trading today and compared
with similar rate for sterling in
Boston on Saturday.
French francs were quoted 1872
to the pound against l7675 the pre-
vious close.
PARIS, July 3 LR.-The United
States dollar was quoted 37.755
francs (2.649 cents to the france in
final foreign exchange dealings to-
day and correspondent with a similar
franc rate in Boston on Saturday.
Exchange on London, 1873.
Three per cent rentes in the
Bourse were 7540 francs; AVS "a"
85.25; AIS, 1887, $500.