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Evening star., 1939-06-12
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Keith's-"The Mikado," picturiza-
ton of the beloved Gilbert and
Sullivan classic: 11:40 am. LAO,
$40, $40, TAO and $40 pm.
Capitol-"Lucky Night" romance
and comedy that happened one
night: 100 am. l so, 4:40, 7:30 and
1920 pm. Stage shows: 12:40, $3.50,
$40 and 9:10 pm.
Earle-"Juarez," historical drama
with Paul MUM and Bette Davis:
1000 am, 1880, $50, 6:45 and 9:45
pm. Stage shows: 1915, $40, 6:l0
and 9:05 pm.
Observation-Disclosures of a
Nazi Spy" espionage expose that
names names: 11:45 am, 2:15, 4:40,
ITO and 9:40 pm.
Columbia "The Hardys Ride
High" sixth edition of the popular
Hardy family: 1880 am, 1885, $40,
5:45, 7:50 and 9:55 pm.
Palace Rose of Washington
Square" romance with nostalgia
music: 1920, 2:40, 4:55, tbs and
9:35 pm.
Little-"Victoria the Great" his
toric drama with Anna Neagle:
11:00 am, LOS, 3:15, 5:25, 1880 and
$40 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts:
Continuous from 10 am.
Open-Air-"Youre a Sweetheart, .
musical with Alice Faye's songs
$40 and 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Alice Hunter Pupils
10 Stage Recital

The Alice Louise Hunter dancers,
assisted by Ray Williams, will pre-
sent a dance recital featuring three
new ballets Saturday night at 8:15
o'clock at Woodrow Wilson High
School.
The dances have been arranged
to music by notable composers,
including selections from Wagner's
"Lohengrin," Chopin prelude,
Grieg's "Humoresque," Tschaikows-
ky's "Waltze of the Flowers" and
Sweet Dreams
: The program will include solo and
group numbers by Marjorie Nc
Gam, Gertrude Elmedorf, Gloria
Gone, Kathleen Davis, Jeanne
Graver, Wilma Scheaffer, Betty
Isreal, Josephine Davis and Claire
French. Mr.. Williams will appear
in solo and in a duet with Miss
Hunter.
Evening star., 1939-06-12

age changes to deal with in that
one.
Jerry Marenghi, the midget who
works with the Marx brothers in
"A Day At the Circus" thinks
Groucho the author of the most
humiliating remark of his little
career IF you want to clean
up," Groucho observed, there's a
birdbath in the back yard" =.
The thousands who waited for
hours to see the King and Queen
last week can see 26 minutes of
high lights of their visit in the news
reel now at the Metropolitan {.
1t was a sensation last year when
Clark Gable had to fall plop on
his face in a quagmire for the sake
of his art in Too Hot to Handle"
Gable minimized it, however,
by making the scene in one take"
. Not so, Laura Hope Crews {.
Miss Crews had to hit the mud in
her latest picture and it took IA
shots to get the one Director Clar-
ence Brown wanted That's a
new high in such things, but Miss
Crews did not mind Not even
when one extra shot was required
because Myrna 10y laughed at the
wrong time and spoiled an otherwise
perfect bit Of mud puddle falling.
Evening star., 1939-06-12


Die at Dawn" Among the Moon
sinners and some others.
1t has heroine who is young and
beautiful, but. being a pioneers
daughter, she is strong and fearless,
too, and none of your shrinking
violets like some melodrama hero
ines. And it has hero who is even
stronger and sturdier than usual,
being one of those brave gents who
guide wagon trains across the dan
gerous plains of the West. Also, the
Roadside reports, villains bred in
that hardy atmosphere turn out to
be mighty evil citizens.
Director Ralph Fowler has en-
bellished THE Pioneers Daughter"
with considerable music. His new
comedienne, Natalie Core, confessed
that her past has included singing
in night clubs in Montreal and New
York so she sings some more now
in the Roadside's seasonal opener.
Principally she is singing some
thing which should be very very
touching-a ballad entitled. Who
Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's S
ChoWder?"
This being drama of the old
West there had to be a cowboy bal
lad, too, so that is supplied by Geof
Creyke. He's the lad who sang so
we'll in the Civic Theater's Johnny
johnson" last year and this time he
does something known as The
Ballad of Peter Gray" Betty Gray
(no relation to Peter will be at
the piano for the songs and to in
spire both hero and villain to their
various deeds.
The Cross Roads Theater tonight
starts it's second and final week of
"Abies Irish Rose" at its barn
theater down at Bailey's Cross
Roads. If you've seen "Abie" be-
fore you don't have to listen any
further, but if you have not you
should know now that it is def
nitely part of your education. You
really owe it to yourself to see that
play which confounded its critics
(who were legion, to coin cliche)
by setting Broadway endurance
record which will last until TO
bacco Road" breaks it in November.
You may be assured that the Cross
Roads people serve "Abie's Irish
Rose" to YOU in the fastest, most
attractive style. Peggy Johnston has
the good sense to use a bit of a
brogue only on those few occasions
when it is really needed and gives
you Rose Mary Murphy you like
very much. Don Sisters Abraham
Levy is always sincere. Edmund j.
Evans does top-notch character
job as Abie's father, Solomon Levy.
And the others-especially Ruth
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Kennedy Theater
Opening Set for
Thursday Night

Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen
and D. w. Gabelein, president of
the Chillum Heights Citizens Asso-
citation, will be guest speakers
Thursday night at the dedication of
the new Kennedy Theater. Cere-
monies will start at $50 pm, for the
opening of the newest addition to
the Warner Bros. chain. located at
Fourth and Kennedy streets NV
Constructed by the Mohler Con-
struction Co. of Washington for
Harris Shapero, owner, the Ken
nedy will be operated by Warner
Bros. under a long-term lease
Claude Land, formerly manager of
the Colony, will fill the managerial
post at the new theater.
Designed by John Eberson, the
Kennedy provides 1000 seats on one
floor. An important feature of the
design is the return to the Colonial
motif, direct departure from the
streamllne effects of many other
recent designs.
Blue and silver are the dominant
colors In the decoration scheme
Latest type air conditioning will
provide comfort in summer and
winter. For the added comfort of
patrons the chairs will be spaced
unusually far apart.
"Juarez," Warner Bros. picture,
starring Paul MUM and Bette Davis
will be the inaugural attraction
presented Thursday evening only
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
will be the Friday attraction
"Stagecoach" will be offered on
Saturday, and Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, June 18, 10 and 20, the
feature will be Bette Davis in Dark
Victory"
The theater will be open daily
from ! to II pm, on Sundays from
2 to II pm.
Evening star., 1939-06-12


actress on the screen. Tiny Joan
Albin is the 342d child named for
Miss Crawford in the last two years"
1t is the sort of announcement that
sets the mind working like a hub
cap stamper, or whatever they are
called, in the Ford factory. How
does the author of the paragraph
know that Miss Crawford holds the
national open championship in CIV
ing her name to babies? Who keeps
such statistics? Are they based upon
the mail received by the stars from
their fans? If so, what's to keep
any one from cheating? Not that
Miss Crawford would, mind you. but
some one else might. Suppose Sadie
Smith of PiXilated Pictures came
along tomorrow and boasted that
she had 343 babies named after her?
Who could prove that her records
were inaccurate, those of Miss Craw-
ford accurate?
Competition of the kind intimated
in the announcement may not be
good thing. BY making fabricators
out of actresses anxious to rob Miss
Crawford of her distinction, it might
actually undermine the morals of
cinema people. The thought of
them learning to tell little fibs out
of sheer jealousy of Miss Craw-
ford's position is completely repug-
nant. Better might it be that peo-
pie should stop having babies than
anything like that should happen.
Might be, we said.
X X X
Another Hollywood item, which
was kind of bore to us, too, had to
do with $4,000 worth of damage
which three light-hearted mocking-
birds did to the bank account of
Daryl Zanuck.
The mockingbirds, it seems, were
on their way to the Worlds Fair
and thought they would drop in on
Hollywood to see how pictures are
made. 1t is an idea that is pretty
widely current these days, so widely
current in fact that Hollywood will
end up by liking the New York fair
oSlISA cllull ally Ill Vic
try. But to get back to the birds;
they flew right into the sound stage
where Sonia Henie and 50 other
girls on skates were gliding off on
the first few strokes of a rumba
on ice. The script Gid not call for
birds and their futtering around in
front of the camera played veritable
heck with the picture. There was
nothing to 60 but stop everything
and get the birds out of there and
on their way to San Francisco.
1t took 40 workmen an hour to
shoe the darned things out of the
studios life, an hour in which Miss
Henie and lot Of other high
priced talent just sat around and
gnawed their way into the COM
pany's profits.
Robert Donat, the handsome
young English actor who is the
star of Goodbye Mr.. Chips" is
not handicapped as so many Amer
lean players of the same age are
by the reluctance of his employers
to let him grow old in a picture.
He goes all the way from "a to SO
in Mr.. Chips" with long, pleas
ant stopovers at 40 and so. The
aging process is accomplished very
convincingly and adds greatly to
the forcefulness of the Donat per-
torrance, one, incidentally, which
made Paul MUM say of him that
Donat is the finest actor in pic
lures.
The point of all this which has
been so reluctant to make an ap-
pearance is that Donat ages even
more sweepingly in his next pic
ture, Ruined City" He has seven
Evening star., 1939-06-12

oil field story. which ought to be laid
in Oklahoma. is right down my alley.
Id be playing pretty much myself
because lived that life in my early
years and know there's lot of he
man drama among those fellows.
What about my future? I want
to keep right on as an actor, but
only so long as 1 can get fine stories
and direction. More than once a
single bad picture has put a good
actor on the shelf. I know because
had close shave myself two
years ago.
When my usefulness as a star
wanes, would like to be a director
It's the most fascinating angle of
this whole business to me-making
the other fellow dance while you
pull the strings. If 1 should make
a bum director, then the character
actor field wouldn't be so bad. Fell
lows like Lionel Barrymore, Lewis
Stone and Wally Beery aren t
exactly on relief.
But, If the industry decided to
have no part of me, Id still get
along I've saved a little money.
My only extravaganza is automo-
biles. In that event, just give me
a little cabin in the mountains, a
horse, a dog, gun and a fishing
rod, and the world would be mine. "
Lew Seller (director)-"I see
where John M. Stahl is telling peo-
pie that weepy pictures are the best
box office bet. I dispute that. For
my part. I'll try to make 'em laugh
every time.
How many actors have cried
their way to success? None. But
there's a flock that have gone far
on laughter. It's one of the most
effective mediums of expression. 1t
can interpret everything from sorrow
too bitter for tears to wild hilarity,
or soft, bubbling happiness. 1t can
also express more menace than the
most vicious snarl.
"A lot of actors have laughed their
way right up the ladder. Remember
how George Bancroft used to
chuckle and roar his way through
such thrilling melodramas as I'm
derworld' and 'Thunderbolt' Ed
ward Arnold is another whose BOOM
ing laugh took him straight into the
big money. John Garfield has one
of the screens most effective laughs.
"Ill stick by the laugh, any time.
It's lot more flexible and service
able than the teardrop."
Mrs. Mary West Universal Studio
resident school teacher)-"I have no
patience with people who thought
lessly declare movie children are a
pack of brats. I've been teaching
in studios for l8 years, and as a
whole I've found them not only bet
ter behaved, but much smarter than
the average group of youngsters.
II would say 80 per cent of the
children who attend school on the
studio lots Of Hollywood have a
Evening star., 1939-06-12

May and Charles Hohein-are
capable.
There are lot of laughs in 'Abies
Irish Rose and it is something not
to be ignored. even if you later find
that you agree with Robert Bench
ley. Two years after it opened on
Broadway he was still claiming he
would run this thing out of town
yet"
Room Service" that mad comedy
about those daft people on the
fringe of Broadway success, will be
the final production of the season
of the Greenbelt Players. Directed
by Ellen Quinn Krebs. it is sched-
uled for June 20 and 81 at the
Greenbelt Theater. Gts air condi-
tioned)
The Troupers of East Washington
Community Center will hold try
outs for their forthcoming Sylvan
Theater production of Hail Nero!"
tomorrow night at o'clock at
Eastern High School and Friday
night at Thompson School. Direc-
tor L. zaff Rogers says he needs
men especially.
The Hilltop Theater. which is
almost local, being only 90 far away
as Ellicott City, Md. starts its sec
ond season tomorrow night with
Fly Away Home" Gregory S.
Mooney, last summer with the Bar
ter Theater, is directing and the
cast includes Ferrol Moore Pyle,
Arthur Unger, Eddie Leonard, Helen
Mason, Edgar Smith, Allan Dale,
jr., Clara Cedrone, Jean Price, Jack
Kirkwood and Virginia Carter.
Maurice Greet, director of the
Greet Dramatic Academy, reports
his evening classes are so popular
he is inaugurating morning classes
for the summer term. Opening day
is June 10.
"Candlelight," due to open at the
Cross Roads Theater next Monday
night, is being directed by c. Adolph
Glassgold. The players will be
Charles Grunwell, Austin Gattis,
Buel Patch, Marjorie Harrison, Ann
Moran, Doris Edwards, Benton Hen
derson and Charles McClendon.
Howard Wentworth, who will di-
rect Seven Keys to Baldpate" at
the Cross Roads, is holding tryouts
all this week.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Moppets Really Work
In Ice Cream Scene

RetakeS are routine in Hollywood,
but this one was different.
Archie Mayo. directing As kids
Of the California Junior Symphony
Association, in Samuel Goldwyns
Music School," ordered them to raid
an East Side ice cream stand in
New York street scene. He had pro-
vided ice cream cones in advance.
The kids went to work in earnest
and blew their lines. This is their
first picture, as it is also the initial
screen vehicle for Jascha Heifetz.
worlds premier violinist.
"All right, let's do it again." yelled
Mayo.
The ice cream vendor sold him As
more cones and Mayo dug down.
How many more times can we
make it?" inquired 9-year-old Jac-
queline Nash, who was discovered
in tourist camp and is rated as a
singing prodigy.
This" declared Mayo, "is a take"
1t Was-for 80 cones.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Kipling Film Role
To Thomas Mitchell

Thomas Mitchell has been cast in
the role of Torpenhow in The Light
That Failed" Producer-Director
William A. Wellmans production
for Paramount of the great novel by
Rudyard Kipling. Torpenhow will
be remembered as the newspaper
correspondent who takes Ronald
Colman, portraying Dick Heldar,
under his wing.
Mitchell has just completed work
in the role of Gerald O'Hara, father
of Scarlet, in Gone With the
Wind"
Evening star., 1939-06-12

higher I. @. than do non-profes-
sional youngsters. This is not sur
prising by any means because they
must be more intelligent if they are
to fulfill the requirements of acting
1t often amazes me to see how much
they can learn in a short time. !
see children before the cameras do
ing and saying things I couldn't
learn in a hundred years"
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Clark Has a Pair of Pet Roles
He'dLike to Do Some Dav
One of Them Would Find Mr.. Gable
AS Real News Reporter;
A Vote for Laughter
HOLLYWOOD.
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

Pointed remarks by the and
Clark Gable
couple myef-a oil field worker
The a
depicted really
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Local Drama GROUPS
Roadside Opens Tonight;
Able Goes On
BY HARRY MACARTHUR,

And now This evening the Roadside Theater
becomes of Washlngon
two-week of The Pioneers Daughter
Rockville
The Pioneers Daughter
reported to such items
Evening star., 1939-06-12
EVENING WASHINGTON, c, MONDAY,
loan Crawford Back at Top
In Inspiring Baby Names
Then There's the Mocking Bird Tale
Among Notes From Hollywood;
Donat Ages Even Better
By JAY CARMODY.

the box-ofhce umnary
her something
Crawford satisfying
of
Fan Club is found in the only ang paragraph steen dozen
paragraphs in the morning mail from Hollywood
geuuy Miss
Evening star., 1939-02-16

y M
for a small
mo sold a prices like in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-24

charges SO per cent.
|. Taxes are enormous. No relief
from this score is in sight as spend
ing mounts day by day. Social Sc
curity is terrific burden, growing
each year.
2. History shows that as soon as
some cream, in the form Of better
earnings, rises to the surface labor
grabs it.
8. Politicians are putting every OBJ
stacle in the way of looping of los
ing branch lines. Pooling and con-
solidation of competing systems, with
resultant economies, seems as far off
as ever.
4. Some roads have been neglect
ing maintenance of way for IS
months or more. AS revenues grow
this deferred maintenance will have
to be met.
5. Debts must be pared down.
Many roads are only half a dozen
skips ahead of the sheriff or Jesse
Jones.
:. Tremendous Savings Possible.
How do these obstacles balance ont
against the favorable items? Tenn
ROA al AAJ, IlAS 1QVOl dOlc ldCIOIS OllQht
to win. Over the longer term, I am
not sure. l have seen many an old
business modernize and make money
It is the potential economies in on
Grating costs that interest me in the
railroad outlook. But, do the posi-
bilities of operating economies war
rant overlooking the threatening tax
labor, and political difficulties in the
long-term outlook? That is the real
question and l doubt if any one could
give more than a guess as an answer
at the present time.
Railroad Securities Over-SOId?
Right now I think railroad Sc
curltles are being neglected by inves-
tors. Look at the following figures.
They compare freight carloadings-
the best yardstick of railroad bust
ness-Wlth the average price of 20
railroad common stocks at mid-Feb-
ruary for the past nine years:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-24
u. S. Colony In Brazil
is Impractical
Continued From Page One)

(COntlnued From Page One)
minerals, rubber, tropical woods, cof-
Zee, cotton, cattle, everything you can
think Of" True, all of it.
yet with all this wealth of op-
portunities available" Brother Aran-
ha is alleged to be saying, you Yam
KEGS practically disregard us. We
have German immigrants, but few
'Norte Americanos. Is it surprising
that NaZi influence outWeighs DEM
ocracy?
"Why don't you come down and
hump yourselves"
Why Not. Indeed?
Well, in the first place, there is not
nearly as much mass German i'm
migration into Brazil, or the rest of
Latin America, as is represented.
German business is influential, but
the proportion. of German urban
toilers and farmers is incOnsiderable:
the Germans have not much voting
strength. Latin American bulk is
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and. in
spots, Indian or semi-African. We
"NOrte Americanos" could colonize
until we are black in the face, and
could not make much impression a.
galnSt these LatinS and "mixtos''.
Ditto Germany and Britain. They are
significant only economically; not
as to numbers.
Nevertheless, the argument is adj
vanced that we have, in the u. S. A..
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-24
Graham Bill
Upon Chains
Faces Fight
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
RY HENRY AVERHI.

Raleigh, Feb. 24.-ThiS session of
the legislature has been remarkable
for the number Of cases in which ex-
pected opposition to various meas
ures has collapsed like pricked bal
loon when the time came for de-
ciSive action, but as of today it seems
safe enough TO predict that Sandy
Graham isn't going to be able to
lobby the so-called "fair Cor mavbe
it's unfair) trade" measure through
the House with the same ludicrous
ease with which it was eased thro-
ugh the Senate.
There seem to be an unusually
large number of House members who
don't know anything about it,, but
from others who have taken time out
to look into the bill there now come
distinct rumblings of a brewing
storm.
Durham's Victor Bryant, who a
few days ago took a great deal of
umbrage at Speaker Ward for snat-
ching the bill away from J-2 shifting
it to il, says that the measure is
going to get the closest kind of
scrutiny before getting through the
11OOSC, Willie dC IA1IIlZGy, O1 Id1Sy-
lvania, and Rupert Pickens, of Gull
ford, were frank to say they think,
at this stage, that it's a bad bill and
ought not to pass.
And SO, unless there is another one
of the surprising collapses referred
to in paragraph one of this piece,
there ought to be pretty floor fight
on the measure. Speaker Wards &C
ton appears to have assured the
measure of a favorable report.
The bill has been repeatedly de-
scribed as "aimed at chain stores ,
yet one of the strangest phenomena
is being recorded right now if that
is, in truth and in fact, the case. To
date not one peep or squawk has
been heard from any chain in oppo-
sition. 1t may be, as some contend,
that the bill should really be entitled
can act to increase the profits of
chain stores and to sock the ultimate
consumer right where he usually
gets socked."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-02-24
Tax Planned
On Illegal
Liquor Joke
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
BY G.. LYNN NISRET

Raleigh, Feb. Ex-senator John
Umstead has shown remarkably CO.
operative spirit toward the finance
committees in suggesting ways thro-
ugh which they might raise more
revenue out of taxes or profits on
liquor. His latest offering is a bill
providing for a tax of two dollars q
gallon on all liquor manufactured
sold, kept for purpose of sale or
transported in North Carolina. in
violation of any of the laws of the
State
His bill states that no part of it
is to be construed as modifying or
repeating any of the criminal laws
now on the statute books, but is an
added penalty for getting caught.
The two dollars would be collected
by the Department of Revenue and
would go into the general fund. Sen
ator UmStead offers 40 estimate Of
the amount of revenue to be produce
ed, but thinks that it would be con-
siderable.
The serious difficulty, of course.
will come in collection of the tax.
Peace officers admit that they can't
do a great deal more than they are
doing about bootleg liquor. Convic-
tons in court are not in very large
ratio to the number of arrests, and
without conviction the Umstead tax
could not be collected. Usually when
conviction is obtained it is upon evil
dence of sale or possession of a small
quantity of liquor, so that the tax
would not be very much if collected
in every case.
The bill has one more objection,