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Evening star., 1939-05-30

too It all probably serves us
right for reading the mail.
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Local Notes:
We're Going to Be Rich" the
robust comedy starring Britain S
Oracle Fields, comes to the Little
Theater next, opening with a spe-
cial preview after the last showing
OF THE Moonlight Sonata" tonight
and starting its regular run tomor-
row.
Tomorrow night will be "'Gator
Night" at Loew's Capitol, the Glee
Club of the University of Florida
appearing at the o'clock and
o'clock stage shows. The singers
are on their way to that affair Of
the best-dressed Mr.. Whalen's, on
the plains of Flushing.
The State Theater, out in Be-
thesda, goes completely Topper
Thursday night, with a special
double bill combining Topper and
Topper Takes Trip" There will
be two showings only, at $50 and
$3.50 pm.
Aside to Jay Carmody: Next time
you 60 to Springfield. ILL.,, to see a
motion picture named Young Mr..
Lincoln" do it on day when there s
more news, will you? You may take
it from here, as OF tomorrow, via
telegraph.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
William Powell's Recovery
Permits Return to Screen
Doctor Says It's Okay for Him to Work
Now, So Another Thin Man
Is in the Ofina
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD

William Powell coming back the mov Which wonderful
day. and not than
will
recolec, they will be
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I'm Crazy, Too

Jascha Heifetz appears on the
set, accompanied by his wife, the
former Florence Vidor, and Alfred
Newman, the musical director
Archie Mayo Is directing Gene
Reynolds, the juvenile player, in a
solo scene. Directly, he joins the
Heifetz party for a conference.
They discuss the master violinist S
part in the picture.
II do lot Of odd things on the
set," Mayo explains. Don't mind
me-"
II won't" Heifetz replies gravely,
but with twinkle in his eyes. I'm
odd myself"
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Deaths Reported

John Davis. 81 Gallinger Hospital
Charles g. Robinson. 81. 2310 Nicholson
st. Sc.
Anne Belle Meadows so. Gallinser Hos
pital
Mary Hanley. 76. 1888 Oates st. ne.
James A. Freer Is Emersency Hospital.
Catherine E. Riecks. 20. Is 5th ST. ne
John P. Neal, SO. 216 Gallatin st. NV.
Nora Flavin. IS, Sibley Hospital
Dodge Tavenner. "a, Sibley Hospital.
William Canter. So 12S ST. Sc
Oliver B. Clevenger, 81 Georgetown Hos
ptal
Gilbert R. cribbs. SO. 372o Upton st. NV.
Harvey P. Hicks. 81 Providence Hospital.
Leonard Oates, 80. Emergency Hospital.
Infant Mcdonald. Garfield Hospital.
John Trammell. 6S. 453 ST. NV
Oscar w. Walker. 40, 1919 South Carolina
ave. Sc
Brent Summers. 2 Children's Hospital
Infant johnson. Children's Hospital
Infant Slower Freedmen's Hospital
Evening star., 1939-05-30

IHeIlt. 1OQdy tne QepaT aTCmenC is
merely concerned. and only mildly
so, with a piece of cinema publicity
in which Hollywood. with its en-
chanting naivete, seems to have
openly admitted to some of its rea-
sons for tampering with authors
plots
ITO build up Tyrone Powers role
in The Rains Came, Louis Brom-
fields best seller, which will shortly
become one of the costliest films
OF the year in Hollywood" says
this item, "scenarists on the Twen-
tieth Century-Fox lot are rewriting
the movie script" The studio says
it is doing this on account of
movie fans acquainted with the
book have written by the hundreds
objecting to casting Mr.. Power in
a secondary role.
1t is nice to know that Mr..
Powers fans will find him the all
important when The Rains Came"
reaches the screen, but we can't
help brooding about what this must
mean to the poor author. In writ
ing novel. Mr.. Bromfield pre-
sumably created a set of definite
characters who would do what he
wanted them to do. Now suddenly
he sees it all change, all because
he neglected to cut one of his
characters to the pattern of a
cinema glamour boy, whose fans
would not have him in a secondary
role" let the pages of the book fall
where they may.
Now from Hardie Meakin comes
the message the Gilbert and Sulli-
van devotees have been awaiting
The screen version of The Mikado"
comes Thursday at R-K-O Keiths.
This is the one. you know, which
marks the first film appearance of
the D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. in one
of their versions of a Gilbert and
Sullivan favorite, which also has
Kenny Baker to give audiences a
nice tenor voice and managers a
name to hang on theater marques.
The remainder of the items culled
from the Hollywood mailbag this
fine day do not seem to be overly
exciting Samuel Goldwyn, it
seems, has all the housewives in
Bagdad on the Pacific angry with
him. He sent out a call for 500
Filipinos for a film scene, got all
the houseboys in town . Adolphe
Menjou, who retains his best
dressed title even though he has
gone in for character roles. has
picked the worlds best-dressed men
again. They are the Duke of Wind
sor, Lucius Beebe (hope you didn't
read those in the same BREATH ;.
Grover Whalen, Fred Perry, Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt, Anthony Eden
and the Aga Khan. You can't say
he didn't cover lot of territory i.
One director went back to the world
of yesterday to employ the old
fashioned megaphone to guide play
ers on the other side of a 500-foot
lagoon; another director charged
into the world of tomorrow to en-
ploy short-wave radio to guide his
players Barbara Stanwyck,
"Hollywood's newest bride, revealed
this week how she secretly as
sembled her trousseau preparatory
TO her marriage to Robert Taylor"
Evening star., 1939-05-30

without her. So, like a good trouper
Bette came back to work.
Wayne Morris tells me, "All that
blab about my wife having a baby
amuses me. If she were, I should
know about it, shouldn't ~" Yes
I think so =. Adolphe Menjou en-
ploys two dressers on the set-but
not to keep him we'll dressed. The
boys are there to perfect Menjou's
languages-one of them speaks per-
feet Spanish, the other French. It's
quite funny to hear Adolphe ask for
his pants in Spanish and his vest
in French When Robert Taylor
kisses Hedy Lamar in Lady OF
the Tropics" he stands on a wooden
block-Hedy is tall girl.
(Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Lewis Story Bought

"The Willow Walk" Sinclair
Lewis story of dual personality.
has been purchased by M-G-M.
Dealing with the plans of a re-
spectacle banker to commit the per-
feet crime and then to become an
entirely different personality, the
story suggests the strange atmos-
phere of Night Must Fall" The
story first appeared in Saturday
Evening Post and was one of the
O'Brien collection of best short
stories.
Evening star., 1939-05-30

baby boy or girl
decided. Produc-
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Dance Recital

The Lisa Gardiner Dancers will
stage a dance program at Woodrow
Wilson High School Friday night at
$50 pm. The program will include
the children's ballet, The Two But
terf1ies," with music by Edward
Grieg, and 10 advertisements, among
them Sibelius' "Valse Triste," ""Dance
Of the Hours" and Blue Danube"
Evening star., 1939-05-30

ton starts with
in three weeks.
Lew Ayres is
back in town
after his Euro
pean adventures.
He tells me that
he was Missed
and booed in the
streets of Danzig
THE place reeks
W ith you n &
storm troopers
and He'll Hit
lers.' he ex-
plains. Il guess
they didn't like
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Dean BrutenuhI

Those familiar with the traditions
OF ecclesiastical architecture are
aware that it is no uncommon
custom among masons working on a
sacred fame to leave their symbols
upon the stones they set. Similarly,
the Very Reverend G. c. F. Bratenahl,
during twenty years of service as
dean, impressed himself upon Wash
ington Cathedral. His labors now
completed, he leaves his mark in
delibly inscribed upon the beautiful
witness to Christ" he so profoundly
loved.
Religion to the dean was personal
experience. His faith was passionate
and militant. The sound of holy
music heard by night converted him
to the church, and he gave himself
completely to his clerical profession.
When the step had been taken, his
heart never again looked back. It
is not too much to say that he made
himself anew. At the end. of the
ordeal he was man apart. Into the
rising fabric on Mount Saint Alban
he built his spirit.
Necessarily, he went 20 school to
his task. Gradually he became an
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Opposes Suggestion to
DepOrt Bund Members,
By Thomas r. Henri.

To the Editor Of The Star:
In a letter printed in The Star of
February 81, B. L. Ward states that
Americans belonging to the Nazi bunds
should be imprisoned or deported. I
disagree.
The writer says that such citizens are
biting the hand that feeds Them by
which he means the hand of the Gov
ernment. Now, theoretically at least, in
a democracy the people are the govern
ment, which is to large extent an out
growth of the economic structure. The
Government is not an alma mater giving
gifts to her children; it is rather a CO.
operative organization under which citi-
zenS secure for themselves schools, sew
ers, and the general public welfare.
These bund members are part of the
Government, and hence they are not
"ungrateful" when they act in an un-
orthodox manner.
A majority has no right to chastise
minority for political dissension, al
though 1t has perfect right to deport
alien organizers. These bunds may stir
up bit of discord, but they do the most
harm to those who belong to them by
Warping their minds. And if our fellow
citizens wish to hang themselves and
tear down the Government they have
helped to build, what right have we to
deny them their own rope and wreck
Ing tools?
February ~. J. c.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Debate Is Necessary

1t would be regrettable if Repre-
sentative Kennedy resigned from the
District Committee, for his service
there has been marked by friendly
interest in the welfare of the District.
1t would be doubly unfortunate if Mr..
Kennedy decided to resign because
of dissatisfaction with the public re-
ception of the Griffenhagen recon-
mendations on reorganization of the
municipal government.
Mr.. Kennedy's efforts, more than
those of any other legislator, led to
the Griffenhagen study. The objec-
tives of that study, in so far as they
relate to more efficient and more
economical administration of mu-
nicipal affairs, are popular, While
there is difference of opinion over
details and specific recommended
tions, the ironing out of such differ
ences in an effort to reach a common
basis for understanding is the
normal process of legislation. This
requires patience and it requires lot
of work. The present municipal
government is an involved organiza-
tion-a characteristic which, while
representing in itself one of the
reasons prompting the desire for
reorganization at the same time
complicates the reorganizing process.
MIR. Kennedy, an experienced legis-
lator and politician, would be the last
to claim that any plan is perfect or
that any proposal for change should
be accepted on its face merely be-
cause it promises a change. The
plan must meet the test of debate
on its meritS-a debate which Mr..
Kennedy as a principal sponsor of
the Griffenhagen study, should
welcome.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

The crippled dove at our feeding sta
ton scarcely can walk, but he manages
to get his full share of the food.
When it comes to flying, he is. Of
course, not lame at all, but wings away
as prettily as any Of his friends, of which
there are three.
These four doves are perhaps the same
which have been at the feeder from time
to time during the last four years. ="
The lame one we are sure of. He Is
an old friend, with his high back, and
his low set to the ground, and his mark
ings, and his affliction.
He asks no pity, however, just seed.
It is painful to watch him hobble alohg
These large birds are low slung, anyway,
but this fellow practically creeps. When
one first sees him, one is likely to think
the wound new, but further observation,
as past, proves it an old malady.
Whether caught, someway, or the
victim of a shot, is unknown.
He seems to be fearless, but any danger
sends him winging, with the rest, and
AlC lIldlAdSCS W SCL lIlCO tllC OIL do "Cn
as the others, with that creaky, wbistling
sound so characteristic of the species.
Few birds are more interesting at a
feeder.
Some people call it the turtledove,
others the mourning dove, others the
Carolina dove.
Just dove is enough around here. It's
about the only kind we see.
1t does look remarkably like turtle
in the yard. This is not SO much be-
cause of the markings on back and wings,
although those are really tortoise-like.
1t is mostly due to the way the tail
and wings come together at the rear,
combined with the shortness of legs.
Especially during cold weather this
dove has very humpbacked appear
ance.
Its gliding motion through the grass
reminds one irresistibly of a common
tortoise making its slow way across the
yard.
Which reminds us that there is an old
tortoise which has been vending its
way across grass blades for eight years,
to our personal knowledge
Once or twice year we see him, Old
Humpy, with his yellow and brown
markings.
Each time we see him he is just a
little larger than before, so we feel sure
he is the same one.
How interesting it would be to know
where he goes!
Is his range just garden or two or
does he wander around for block, and
in all directions?
1t is difficult to picture him more
than that distance away. Our private
opinion is that his range is not more
than thousand feet in any direction,
Evening star., 1939-03-02
acknowledged authority in iconog-

acknowledged authority in iconog-
raphy, the science of religious de-
sign. Few other characters of his
generation could claim to equal his
knowledge of the art dedicated to
God. The magnificent reredos of
the Cathedral, the noble chapels of
its crypt, the bosses intricately
carved in its lofty vaulting, the
opalescent parallels of its stained
glass windoWs-all these express the
deans learning, devotion and zeal.
One value added to another, he
achieved the approximation of a
century of construction and decora-
ton. In brief, he lifted up a monu-
ment to his Master and, unintended,
to himself.
His successors will follow where he
led. Decade by decade the glorious
temple is certain to grow in beauty
and in practical utility to the Cause
to which from the first it was
pledged. Civilization comes into
existence by such processes. This
was the deans belief; and he is not
alone.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Test of Sincerity

With the selection of committees
for both factions, the decks appar-
emily have been cleared for a new
effort to effect peace within the
American labor movement. Presum-
ably the next step will be a call by
President Roosevelt, or Secretary of
Labor Perkins, fc- a meeting of the
two groups on specified date.
From there on, the fate of this
latest attempt at turning the ener-
gies of labor from bitter and costly
internal strife into directions of
unity will become primarily the re-
sponsibility of the negotiators. That
it is neither a light responsibility
nor a simple task is acknowledged
by all who have even slight acquaint-
ance with the problem.
And yet, as President Roosevelt
said in his letter proposing the new
negotiations, there are no insuper-
able obstacles to harmony in labor.
Both factions, for instance, agree
that their first objective is to organ
ize the unorganized workers. Tradi-
tionally, the A. F. of L. has placed it's
first faith in organization by crafts,
the joining together of all carpenters
into one union, all bricklayers into
another, and so forth.
At the same time, the A. F. of L.
recognized in the past and in in
creasing degree in recent years that
in certain of our great industries it
would be more effective to recruit
all kinds of workers into a single
union within each industry; in other
words, employees of the steel COM
panies, whether they be carpenters,
bricklayers or just laborers, should
belong to the steel union. Because
the A. F. of L. was not pressing this
type of organization, industrial
unionization, with sufficient effec-
tiveness the C. I. o. was formed.
Today the two groups claim almost
100000 members each. In many
industries both have strong repre-
sentation, the c. I. o. in the form of
industrial unions, the A. F. of L. hav-
ing industrial unions in some cases
and craft unions in others.
1t is reconciliation of these COM
ponent parts that is the fundamental
difficulty of the negotiators, for with
the reaching of some compromise
as to who is to prevail or how union
ism is to continue in each industry
the obstacle of personal bitterness
at the top of the c. I. o. and the
A. F. of L. could not of itself block
agreement.
If the leaders of labor, not only at
the top but in the case of the indi-
vidual unions, are sincere In the
cause of labor these compromises
can be reached.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

few weeks ago destroyed everything
within quarter Of a mile radius and
knocked everybody down within a
half mile radius. The United States
Army has been able to get very little
information concerning it.
The rumors seem consistent on one
point--that the explosive agent is
liquid oxygen. This substance, ac-
cording to experts of the United
States Bureau OF Standards, poten-
TALLY is probably the most powerful
explosive known to man. It has been
used very little and chiefly in expert
ments. The method is to soak a
charcoal briquette in this liquid and
then detonate 1t with a powder cap.
The result is an extremely rapid and
powerful chemical reaction-prob-
ably the ultimate in quick combus-
ton possible. The whole mass of
oxygen-soaked carbon is transformed
into carbon dioxide gas with the gen.
GRAFTON of very high temperatures.
The charcoal-liquid oxygen explo-
sive has not been adapted to indus
trial work. For one thing, such a
saturated briquette would be Short
lived. Liquid oxygen evaporates very
rapidly. Hence it would be altogether
too expensive for industrial work.
Secondly, it would be very dangerous
for use in mines, the chief utilizers
of explosives, because of the possible
presence of hydrogen gas. This
would almost certainly result in de-
structive accidents.
Offhand, because of its short life,
it would seem unsuited to military
purposes. If German chemists have
developed bomb such as is described
they have overcome great technical
difflcultieS-but not necessarily in
surmountable ones.
The rumorS, whether true or not,
serve to focus attention on what may
prove the decisive factor in a future
War-neW weapons. 1t will be con-
f1ict not alone of men and money but
of brainS-and of brains in the Sc
clusion of laboratories as well as at
staff headquarters.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrdceWell.

although how any one would be sure we
do not know: certainly an attempt to
follow tortoise's wandering would be
worse than trying to keep informed on
European politics.
Little wild things keep appearing, dis
appearing-there are the turtles" and
rabbits, in particular.
1t is not so much that they are after
food, in the yard, but because they scent
the wild life, and feel at home.
A yard in which bird feeding regularly
takes place must have about it certain
scent, different from that in a place
where there are just flowers and shrubs.
1t is not asking too much to believe
this. How could it be otherwise?. The
many wings, and the many claws, and
the everyday activities surely result In a
subtle something IN the very air itself.
= Wild creatures must react to this, as
well as to food.
Where others have been, they figure,
they may 60, too. Is it asking too much
to believe that animals figure, calculate,
reckoe. think?
We believe. not. Their thinking, if one
may call it SO, is not thinking in our way
Of thinking, perhaps, but it is very
deep-seated sort of intelligence, down
in the very flbers of their beings.
They think with their ,whiskers, etc.
When some sound galvanizes a wild
rabbit into suddenly folding and unfold
ion hic urif fho oc4o
ishing results, manifest in leap about
Is feet from standing position. We call
that thinking with muscles, no matter
what some one else calls 1t.
The rabbit does not call it anything
he just does it.
It's the same with our crippled turtle
dove
Inching around at the feeder, picking
up seed here, grain there, the dove
makes as sudden and good take e-of as
his fellows, when need be.
It's dove thinking.
These birds have been around all fall
and winter. OF course, it is nothing new
for Carolina doves to winter hereabouts.
They are helped immensely by feeding
stations, now more plentiful than in the
old days, when some persons regarded
bird feeding as mild sort of harmless
lunacy.
Conservation, IN its many forms, has
shown that helping the wild BIRDS COM
monty called songbirds, is helping our
selves, after all
Our Carolina doves are songbirds, of
course, not only because their throat
muscles entitle them to that classifica-
ton, scientifically, but also because they
have notably soft, pleasing voices.
Far from being mournful, the notes
| of the turtledove are cheering, we think,
blending so well with the places in which
they prefer to nest.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Wants Strict Control
OF Turning Motorists.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
One of your best contributions to the
matter of pedestrian safety is your article
in tonight's paper wherein you call at
tention to the fact that the pedestrian
who starts crossing with the green light
has the right of way until he is entirely
across, irrespective of any change of
light during his crossing.
An even better contribution would be
to set up and box resume Of this in
heavy type and repeat prominently in
every issue Of your paper during this
educational period as warning or re-
minder for automobile right-turners.
Some Yeas ago I was told that in
Washington when a pedestrian was given
the green light he could close his eyes
and cross with safety. If he should do
this now he would probably land in the
hospital. Unfortunately the driver knows
that in every such collision it is the
pedestrian and not the driver that gets
the ambulance.
This matter of the pedestrians pro-
lection from right-turners has always
seemed to me to be the neglected point
in the proposed regulations, and with
drivers as callous and careless as they
are, there seems no just remedy but to
give the pedestrian the same protection
at all corners that he has at the walk"
corners. One minutes delay may mean
much to the belated pedestrian, but it is
quite negligible to the driver of car
A 500 mandatory penalty, in addition
to civil suit for hitting pedestrian who
has the right of way, whether he is Sc
riously injured or not, might be a de-
terrent 1t would seem, however, as
though the auto owner has the money
and the influence. FIT.
February 27.
Evening star., 1939-03-02
Passage of Welfare
Act Urged.

40 tue COltol VI Hc oSdI.
The so-called social security requires
the fathers and mothers of this the rich
est country in the world, if they survive
starvation in the midst of plenty to the
age of IS, to sign a pauper's oath to
secure pittance on which 1t would be
necessary to perform miracles in order
to exist.
People who have worked for 40 years
or more are entitled to an honorable
retirement with an adequate annuity.
It is not even civilized to throw people
out of work in the dead of winter merely
because they have reached the age Of
65, on the pretext that the S. S. A. is
supposed to provide assistance when the
rules thereof make it practically impos-
sible to secure even the stipend specified.
These INDECENT applicants are COM
PEELED to 90 through the same humili-
ating ordeal as they experienced before
they were allowed to have part-time
w. P. A. work, from which 1,100 elderly
people and mothers with dependent
children here in the District were re-
Gently dismissed. They are required to
go in person to the public assistance
Office with proof of age-birth certificate,
etc., when even so years ago birth Ger
tif1cates were seldom if ever given, espe-
cially in villages or the country. Names
of relatives must be given-on whom
there should be no claim, and who have
already been badgered by case workers,
for which information taxpayers have
already paid and which should now be
on file.
The politicians who perpetrated the
S. s. A. have suppressed the General
Welfare Act which would retire those
over so on an adequate annuity to give
place to younger workers. This would
put money into circulation and put the
unemployed to work instead OF taking