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Evening star., 1939-05-20

started haunting early America for
its most striking material.
Man of Conquest" is screen
drama of numerous distinctions.
One is the high quality of convic-
ton 1t carries. The major thesis
of the film, of course, is that Hous-
ton was great character. No ef-
fort Is made to conceal the fact,
however, that he had his weak
nesses. The plot even permits him
the luxurious weakness of a four
month drunk, kind of foolish re-
prisal on circumstance which makes
him look surprisingly human.
On the stage is Wayne King. He
and his band also are links with the
past in that their outpourings of
melody carry one nostalgically
across the wasteland of swing back
to the old sweet mood in music. It's
q pleasant journey.
The hero who was Houston takes
the form of Richard Dix in Man
OF Conquest" and, with a sincerely
fine performance, Dix returns the
compliment. Other players, the
whole lot of them recruited from a
group which knows how to act re-
gardleSs of boX-office stature, in
clude Gail Patrick, Robert Barratt,
Edward Ellis and slews of similar
gentry. They play a miscellany of
such stalwarts as Davy Crockett,
Andrew Jackson and other his
toric figures.
In seizing upon Houston as biog-
Evening star., 1939-05-20
Hyattsville Theater
Ready by Autumn

With ground broken and work 60
ing ahead at full steam Hyatts-
ville's new motion picture theater
will be rushed to completion for
opening early in the fall, according
to Sidney Lust.
d. The Hyattsville, which will seat
1000 patrons, has been designed by
John Eberson, the New York thea
ter architect who already has a
number of local neighborhood houses
to his credit.
Located on the west side of the
heavily-traveled Washington -Balti-
more boulevard the new theater will
be set back IS feet from the high
way, with wide sidewalks flanked
by terraced lawns.
The front of the Hyattsville will
be semi circular and the lobby, foyer
and interior appointments will be
in the modern, streamlined style for
which Mr.. Eberson is noted. Seat
rows will be SO inches apart to
afford plenty of leg room. A park
ing lot in the rear of the theater
will provide accommodations for 500
cars.
The tentative opening date for
the Hyattsville has been set at Oc-
tober !.
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nous for their brand of swing. For
the Barnet lads need room-room
for saxophones to howl with aban-
don, for trumpets to wall a full
throated blast. It's the first Is
piece orchestra we've heard in a
long time that had a 15-piece
rhythm section half the time and
the first we ever heard that was
playing its third selection before
we realized it had played three diff
ferent tunes and wasn't just playing
the same one over and over.
Still there is something subtle
about the Barnet swing, for all its
abandon df you can figure that
out and musicians, jitterbugs, hep
cats, rug-cutters and other connois-
seurs of lie jazz hot of the day will
find it very much to their liking.
And any one ought to find very
much to his liking the songs of
Miss Judy Ellington, the almost
local lass who spent three years at
a cabaret here before going on to
conquer bigger fields, who now has
returned to conquer Capitol au-
diences. She conquers them, too.
Others on the bill are Don Rice
capable enough clown; Nora Will
liams, who sings, but loudly, and the
Robbins brothers and Margie, who
dance.
Evening star., 1939-05-20

new film at Loew's Capitol.
Miss Macdonald sings often and
at length in this one-at her best
when doing couple of new tunes
couple of times each and an aria
from Madame Butterfly" Finally
she devotes some 10 minutes to a
fantastic and gargantuan produc-
ton number based upon Mr.. Tschai-
kowsky's None but the Lonely
Heart" wherein she repeats and re-
peats and repeats none by the lone
ly heart" until one almost believes it.
Or maybe by that time one is just
tired of any repetition, even If it is
jeanette Macdonald doing the re-
peating. Anyhow this one was tired.
For Broadway Serenade" is a
sad example indicating sad tidings
Recently the boys out in Hollywood
have limited they were through with
these trite filmusicals, especially the
especially trite fllmusicals about the
little girl who suddenly became a
great big gorgeous star, thus COM
plicating her life no end. So now
they send us Broadway Serenade."
1t is all slightly familiar, in story
and characters and everything else
about as slightly familiar as the
face you see in the mirror and half
as attractive.
Broadway Serenade" is big all
right, overpoweringly so, and it is
shinny and glossy. Too, the people
in it-LeW Ayres, Al Shean, Ian
Hunter, Frank Morgan and Rita
johnson, particularly-do not give
in without struggle, each of them
tinting cardboard people with a sug-
gestion of life. And Miss Mac
Donald, if you don't mind us re-
peating it (We're either learning to
like her or feeling chivalrous over
this thing that's been done to herr,
sings very nicely indeed. But hard
working people, nice songs, sepia-
tinted film and stupendous, colossal
production numbers, purportedly
performed on a theater stage, but
so big they couldn't be done in
Radio City Music Hall with the
audience across the street in the
Center Theater, cannot hide a frayed
yarn. And this one ought to be
hidden-by burial preferably.
Charlie Barnet's crew of hard
riding swingsters sounds much bet
ter from the Capitol's loges than
it did in that telephone booth-size
Famous Door in New York recently
when the boys were becoming IA
Evening star., 1939-05-20
King, Queen, Harlan
On Trans.Lux Bill

With Europe fairly quiet at the
moment war possibility has given
over the news spotlight and the
Trans-Lux spotlight at the moment,
to other items. Principal of these
are the arrival of Britain's King
and Queen in England and the hot
bed of strife at Harlan as coal
miners strike.
Elsewhere the news cameras have
looked upon the usual things-a tank
for fighting fires, pursuit planes, a
cricket plague, the Worlds Fair. the
Atlantic fleet leaving New York, a
six-day bike race, an Irish football
match and fashions.
The weeks travelogue at the
Trans-Lux visits Bolivia and Peru.
to bring back technicolor views of
Inca ruins. A new Paramount Pic
torial inspects the Coast Guard
Academy at New London and a new
camera for photographing birds and
animals in the dark; Screen Snap
shots" catches a host of stars ice
skating, and Mickey Mouse and
Donald Duck build a boat in Walt
Dlsney's Boat Builders"
H. M.
Evening star., 1939-05-20
MelOdrana
Nets Meat
Once More
You Can't Get
Away With Murder
Is Its Name

Titling a motion picture "You
Can't Get Away With Murder" GER
tainly is leading with the chin if
anything ever was. Especially when
that motion picture is You Can't
Get Away With Murder" which
opened yesterday at the Metropoli-
tan. But we won't say a word, ex-
cept that the Warner Bros, who
pulled this job, have not proved the
thesis of their title very we'll; at
any rate we haven't heard anything
about the studio being hauled bodily
to Sing-Sing
Then maybe "You Can't Get
Away With Murder" isn't so bad
after all. These cliches of which
it is composed have stood the test
of time certainly, so perhaps this
is no time to start grousing about
seeing them once more.
This time the cliches are used
again to make life miserable for
Gale Page. Poor Gale has another
brother who would be a good kid
if he could escape the influence of
the neighborhood in which they
live. But this brother, who is Billy
Halop runs around with a small
time crook, whose initials are H. B
but who is too tough for us to rat
on by giving his right name. Well
the kid cops gat which belongs to
Gales boy friend, who has got a
right to have it because he is a
special dick so don't go jumping at
conclusions. And there is murder
done, with the boy friends gat,
by H-ph-y B-g-t-. There are
all sorts of melodramatics by those
people still doing time in the War
ner Bros. prison set, before a faint
scent of orange blossoms blots out
the memory of harsh voices and
screaming sirens.
Mr.. B-g-t is very good, as usual,
and so is Billy Halop, the old tough
les. And before you say more, re-
member to treat the script with the
reverence due its age.
II M
Evening star., 1939-05-20
'Stagecoach' Back
At Columbia

"Stagecoach," Walter Wanger's
entry in the all-American sweep
stakes which is now firing Holly
wood to such patriotic zeal and
such appealing films, yesterday took
up its second downtown stand at
the Columbia. The picture, directed
by John Ford, who is beginning to
look positively inhuman in his in
ability to do anything wrong, makes
up in dramatic force what it lacks
in big-name stars.
Mr.. Ford, singularly honest man
as well as one of sterling talent,
has made the admission of Stage
coach" that it makes use of every
standard situation in building-of-
the-West films. Whether he meant
1t that way or not, and one suspects
he did, the remark is a challenge to
find the picture weakened thereby.
II 1t is hokum, it is one of the most
artistic expressions of it that audi
ences ever have encountered.
]. C..
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take the plunge into matrimony.
Norma Shearer asks George Cukor
to join her in publicity picture
with Prince Olav and Princess
Martha of Norway. But who wants
to see me?" George protests well,
if they don't, we can always cut you
out-as you do with u.s." consoles
Norma e. Says Mickey Rooney on
the Metro lot, Sure" I'm consider
ing matrimony-in about 10 years
time" jeanette Macdonald will
refurnish her house with the
antiques purchased on her recent
concert tour Ann "Oomph"
Sheridan tells me that her first film
job was doubling for the hands, arms
and legs of famous film stars-writ-
ing closeup letters, exhibiting neither
limbs to juries, etc.
X X X X
What will they do for romance
when Enrol Flynn plays the title role
in the story based on the first Rajah
of Sarawak? The latter was a
woman-hater, unmarried, without
children, and succeeded by his
brother. But don't worry, an Enrol
Flynn movie without love is un-
thinkable. He will get girl
probably Olivia de Havilland.
How Clark Gable became a
farmer. Carole Lombard gave him
mule, so he bought a plough.
Andy Devine gave him five chickens,
so Clark said, Il might as we'll
have a chicken farm" and bought
500 more. Bob Cobb gave him a
milk pail, so Gable bought COW.
I wonder what will happen if some
one gave him a horse. Will he buy
a racetrack?
+ X X X
To lunch with Alfred Hitchcock,
the roly-poly $50 pounds worth of
directorial genius I'm not very
hungry" says Hitchcock, ordering
light snack of asparagus soup,
double lamb chops, fried potatoes
and pineapple ice cream. IT mustn't
eat much today-I've got to go back
to work." he explains when was
the last time you tasted stewed
steak?" he demands tensely. I
can't remember. Come to dinner
next week." he commands Mr..
Hitchcock brought over his Eng
lish cook, and we discuss steak and
kidney pudding, roast beef and
Yorkshire pudding with ecstatic rev.
erence I'm expecting a side
of English bacon on the Queen
Mary" he tells me. Also expected
is a consignment of English fish
packed in ice at Grimsby We
finally tear ourselves away from
the fascination of food and talk Of
the directors method of picture
making. OHis last, 'The Lady VAN
ishes," won the New York critics
award for the best picture of the
year, =. II believe in letting the
audience into the mystery right at
the beginning. Let them have the
delightful agony of trying to save
the hero and heroine" Hitch
cock rarely goes to the movies-"I
don't like EN-" he says
Bob Burns is having neighbor
trouble anent the burro that played
with him in I'm From Missouri
and that now lives with the Burnses.
A deputation of neighbors recently
called on Bob to ask for the re-
moval of Missouri" (the burro)
on the grounds that he was noisy,
dirty and an all-round eyesore.
Maybe you're right" said Bob, "but,
personally, like him. And I don't
see where one more jackass in Bel
Air will make any difference!"
(Released By the North American
Newspaper Alliance,)
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Jeanette Macdonald Sings
In Capitol's New Film
broadway Serenade' Arrives;
Judy Ellington Tops Stage
Doings by Charlie Barnet
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

since Jeanette MaeDonads concert tour touched only such
with
Aberdeen and others Of that M there probably
There audience
vast one at that which will
Donad golden
Evening star., 1939-05-20
Houston Story Among Best
OF American Saga Films
Earle Gets Rare Gem From Studio
Which Has Led Simple Life;
Wayne King on Stage
By JAY CARMODY.

Hsory turbulent pages have given the movies another fascinating
and the two hours takes for the film story his life to unron the
remarkably
Republic Studios heretofore specialists
taking
Evening star., 1939-05-20
Wayne Morris Asks Raise
From His $500 Salary
Fred Astaire Says Another Film
With Ginger Rogers Depends
On Finding First.Class Story
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Wayne Morris asking for salary raise His
$500 week which is fe Hollywood
Fred states in Ireland where he visiting sister Lady
Cvendsh that he and Ginger will
ogether-unlesS find
refusing all dates until Conrad
be there
Evening star., 1939-05-20
Raft Moves

George Raft moves to Universal
for his next starring production,
having been signed for the title role
in Il Stole Million" a colorful
chronicle Of young American 60
getter.
Evening star., 1939-05-20

took most of his
spare cash, and
the c h e f OBJ
S t acle to hi S
marriage wit h
Joan is a low
bank balance
0 v e r heard on
the GoldWyn lot
C ary Cooper
advising David
N iv en- to get
married. David
will probably be
the next of the
f e W remaining
b a C h elors in
Holly wood to
Evening star., 1939-05-20
Students to Dance

The Hoffman School of Dancing
presents its annual Kiddie Revue
May rs at 8 o'clock at the Hall of
Nations of the Washington Hotel
The theme this year is Golden
Steps of Childhood" the dances in
the revue telling story in song
and dance from babyhood to sweet
16.
Evening star., 1939-05-20

is erroneous to regard Conrad as
His divorce settlement
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Broun Rallies Slightly
From Pneumonia Attack
By tie Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Columnist
Haywood Broun rallied slightly
early today from a serious attack
of pneumonia which took him to a
hospital and an oxygen tent Thurs
day.
The 51-year-old president of the
American Newspaper Guild had
been suffering a cold for some
time and it was thought he had
grippe when he was taken, uncon-
scious, to the Hardness Pavilion of
the Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center.
Once there, however, pneumonia
was discovered. A heart attack in
duced by his illness weakened him
shortly after his admittance, but by
last midnight he had shown con-
siderable improvement. Hospital
physicians said he had no func-
tional heart ailment.
His condition, however, remained
serious and early today there was
no reported change.
At 7 am. E. S. T.) one of the
hospitals resident doctors said
Broun was very sick man and q
lucky guy to be getting along as
well as he is"
His syndicated column, 1T Seems
to Me-" appeared in the New York
Post yesterday for the first time.
For the last II years it had been
featured daily in the New York
World Telegram.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Reds Reported Driven
Toward Swomps

HELSINKI. Dec. 16 (P).-Russian
troops were reported advancing
steadily through Northern Finland
today, but military sources said the
Firms were preparing a counter
attack.
However, just north of Lake La
doga in the middle CT the little
country, the Firms were said to be
driving Russian troops before them
toward dangerous swamps. with the
"spoils of war increasing"
On the diplomatic front, the Finn
ish government awaited reply to
Foreign Minister Vaino Tanners
radio appeal to Russia to stop the
war and resume peaceful negotia-
tions
While the Russian Army in the
north was said to be already south
OF Salmijarvi in their drive toward
the Gulf of Bothnia, continued
Finnish successes were reported in
the middle of Finland.
Finnish ski troops were said to
have not only recaptured Suomus-
salmi, but to have cut roads con-
Meeting the Russian advance guard
with the frontier. Red army forces
were driven back west of Kianta-
jarvi, military reports stated, and
large numbers of, them were sur
rounded In the treacherous lake
area.
The Finnish high command last
night reported Russian destroyer
was sunk by shore batteries in the
outer Tarku Archipelago. Capture
of 40 Russian tanks also was re-
ported.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Commissioners
Back Drive to
Aid Firms

Contributions to aid the Firms
''in their present tragic necessity
were urged by the District Com
missioners in a special proclama-
ton today.
The Star now is receiving and will
acknowledge all such contributions
Officials of local governments at
many places over the country are
taking similar action in response
to the universal feeling of sympa-
thy for the people of the little Bal
tic nation
The Commissioners statement
follows:
Funds are being collected to aid
the people of Finland in their pres
ent tragic necessity. This is a
worthy cause and has the hearty
approval of the Commissioners of
the District of Columbia, and the
citizens of Washington are asked
to contribute according to their abil-
ity to bring relief to Finland"
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Pictures on PAGE abb

Bearing beribboned packages,
throngs of young Santa Clauses
marched into The Star Warner
Bros-N. B. c. toy matinees this
morning. to share their Christmas
with children who might otherwise
have a cherries yuletide -
Packages bedecked with Merry
Christmas" and Good Wishes"
were banked across theater lobbies
as the crowd Of youngsters, some of
whom were going to the movies for
the first time, took their seats for a
session with Deanna Durbin, Char
lie Mccarthy or Mickey Rooney.
Mothers loaded down with gifts
led children into the theater. How
ever. some grown-ups were unac-
campanied. One woman at the
Earle Theater, which opened its
show at 9 am, had three packages
each marked by age for the boy or
girl it was to go to.
My husband and haven't any
children" she explained, so we like
to All other children's Christmas
stockings"
Miniature Trucks Among Gifts.
At the other extreme was talka-
tive 3-year-old, who wanted it
known that he was bringing "a
dollie for a little girl that doesn't
have any mama or daddy"
One mother and son bore heavily
wrapped miniature trucks.
Il asked my boy what he wanted
for Christmas" the mother ex-
planned. And he said. An ice
truck So I figured some other
little boy might want one. too"
A delegation of l8 children from
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Dr.. Juan Arosemena,
Panama President,
Dies Suddenly
DR.. Augusta S. Boyd,
Republics Envoy Here,
To Succeed to Office
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PANAMA, Panama, Dec. 16.-Dr.
Juan Demostenes Arosemena, So
year-old President of the Republic
of Panama, died of heart disease to-
day at Penonome, $50 miles in the
interior.
He suffered an attack here Novem-
Der 8, but was reported out of dan
ger the next day, and after six weeks
in hospital apparently was restored
to health. He resumed full activities
at the presidential palace Decem-
ber 4.
Second Vice President Ezequiel
Fernandez Jaen was sworn In as
provisional President.
Cathedral bells tolled as the body
of the late President was trans
ported toward the capital.
Received Peruvian Order.
DR.. Arosemena visited the Peru
Wan Legation yesterday afternoon
and was presented with the Peru
Wan Order of the Sun. Then he
drove by automobile to Penonome
where he had expected to dedicate
a public works program today.
About ! am. he suffered heart
attack and his personal physician,
DR.. Carlson Brin, was called. Death
came an hour later, before DR.. Brin
could reach the President.
The body will be returned here,
but arrangements were not COM
plete.
DR.. Arosemena was elected Presi-
dent in 1895 and began the last year
of his term October /. He will be
succeeded by DR.. Augusta S. Boyd.
First Vice President of the republic
and now Ambassador to Washing
ton.
Member of a family long promi-
(See AROSEMENA, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Charity Santa Claus
Accused Of beatino
Baby 10 Death
Slew Stepson While
Wife Watched PussiveIy,
Police Declare
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PATERSON. N. j., Dec. 16.-Sam-
uel j. Dunning, "a, who a week ago
played Santa Claus for charitable
organization, was held without bail
today on a charge of beating to
death of his 5-month-old stepson
Robert.
His wife, Elsie, also "a, was held
with him, the complaint against
her alleging she displayed an "atti-
tude of passiveness and without
protest witnessed the numbering and
pounding to death" of her son as
he lay in bed. The child died in a
hospital yesterday.
Arraigned in Police Court today,
the Cummings were held without bail
on charges of murder, to await ac-
ton of the grand jury. They plead
ed innocent.
Acting Detective Capt. James J.
Smith said Dunning played the role
of Santa Claus in a downtown street
last week and talked last night of
the necessity OF getting out so he
could keep another engagement.
An autopsy today showed, police
said, that the child suffered two
broken ribs, broken jaw, a broken
neck, a broken arm and a frac-
tured skull.
Capt. Smith said Dunning, an
moved by the infants crying, beat
him Thursday night and again yes
terday morning before leaving for
work. He is a $12-a-week laborer,
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Hungarian Actress
Dies in Leap From
Baron S Apartment
Writer'S Stepdouehter
PIun9es Ten Stories
After Farewell Porty
B! the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec 16-A blond
Hungarian actress whose singing
and dancing had fascinated Buda-
pests's cafe and theater set was
killed early today in a 10-story drop
from the hotel apartment of Baron
Frederick Won Oppenheim, wealthy
German.
The dancer, Lola Laszlo, 81, STEP
daughter of Hungarian play
wright, crashed to her death on the
marquee of the Hotel Gladstone in
the view of Mortified pedestrians
along the Fifty-second street swing
lane"
Police, who listed her death as
due to "a fall or jump" found a
note in woman,s purse in the
baron's apartment. Without re-
vealing its text. they said part Of
1t read: II can't get along with
out you very we'll" Other parts of
the note were written in German
and Hungarian.
Baron Friend Of Step-Father.
The baron, a friend of the girls
step-father, Aladar Laszlo, author
of several comedies which were pro-
duced in Budapest, accompanied de-
tectives to the district attorneys
Office.
Miss Laszlo's death occurred after
farewell party given by Baron Won
Oppenheim, who had planned to
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Your Chance to Give
A Merry Christmas

The Star-Warner Bros.-N.
B. c. Toy Matinees, to provide
the needy children of Wash
.ington with gifts for Christ
mas. were held this morning,
but Christmas is a week away.
In the week remaining you
still have an opportunity to
share your Christmas with a
family whose many needs can
only be met by substantial
cash gifts. If you would like
to make another's Yuletide as
happy as your own, send your
donation to The Star cashier
for the Christmas Heart Fund.
The needs are many. The
days remaining are few. Mail
in your gift today!
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Tomorrow Afternoon
Dead|ine for Spec
To Decide Course
Commander Has Choice
Of Fighting or Facing
Internment
BY the Associated Press.

MONTEV1DEO, Dec. 1e.-T The
alternative of being interned or
forced to fight a steadily growing
allied armada faced Germany's
shot-riddled pocket battleship Ad-
miral Graf Spec today.
The Uruguayan government, ac-
cepting the report of naval board
that the Warship was seaworthy,
gave its commander, Capt. Hans
Langsdorff, until pm. Sunday
$3.50 pm. E. S. t. to sail or let
his ship become a prisoner here for
the duration of the war between
Great Britain and Germany.
(The British Press Association
reported in London that it had
learned from official sources that
the Uruguayan government had
fixed a 72-hour limit for the
German pocket battleship Ad-
miral Graf Spec to remain at
Montevideo, and that presum-
ably this period began at 10 pm.
Wednesday, Montevideo time,
when the German ship entered
the harbor. Therefore, said the
press association, it will expire
at 10 o'clock tonight, $50 pm.
E, S. To,