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Evening star., 1939-09-29
Police Chief in Traffic Accident
To Avoid Hitting Bicyc|ist

Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown was
involved IN an automobile accident
Wednesday morning, it was revealed
today after a hearing in the corpo-
ration counsel's office at Police
Court which resulted in no charges
being preferred against any Of the
parties.
The mishap occurred on Thir-
teenth street between Iowa avenue
and Buchanan street NV. when
Maj. Brown stopped suddenly to
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Womon's Throut Cut:
Suspect Arrested

A 26-year-old woman was treated
at Casualty Hospital early today for
a throat wound which she said was
inflicted by a man who attacked her
with razor blade at Sixth street
Sc near North Carolina avenue.
The victim was Helen Smith, 2O3
Sixth street Sc, who said she was
walking with Eula Martin, %. of
the same address, when the attack
occurred. Fourteen stitches were
required to sew up the wound.
Police later arrested a 29-year- -old
white man in connection with the
incident and said he would be
charged with assault with q dan
gerous weapon.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Anti-Aircruft Unit
Ordered to Porris Island

The Navy yesterday ordered the
only anti-aircraft marine unit on
the Atlantic Coast from Quantico,
Va, to Paris Island, S. c.
While the transfer was regarded
in some quarters as connected with
possible defense needs of United
States naval bases in the Caribbean,
Marine Corps ofncials said it was
merely for training purposes. The
anti-aircraft unit has been training
at Paris Island every year, it was
said.
The unit numbers 271 men and is
commanded by 1t. Col. Robert H.
Pepper. Another unit is on the
West Coast.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

avoid striking a 15-year-old youth
riding a bicycle. Another car
crashed into the rear of the majors.
Maj. Brown said his sedan was
damaged in the rear, the bumper
and body being badly dented. The
other vehicle, driven by James Sher-
wood Of Takoma Park, Md, was
damaged In front to the extent of
S38, the police superintendent added.
Mr.. Norman said no charges would
be dled against any one.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Band Concert

BY the United States Army Band
tomorrow morning at 1880 o'clock
IN the Army Band Auditorium.
Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl
Hubner, assistant.
Program.
Professional, Festival March
Modern rhapsody, Cypress
Silhouettes" - Rennett
March-song, God Bless America"
Berlin
Trio, La ci Darem la Mano"
Beethoven
Emil Krochmal, flute; George Deitz
clarinet, and Ralph Burge. bas-
soon.
Characteristic, "Aragonaise,"
Massenet
From the opera ballet, lie Cid"
Waltz, "Desdemona" King
March, eel Coronel" Guznoan
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1939-09-29

tne montgomery county Police
couldn't find out. But one of them
did and the first thing Robby knew,
he was hanging on almost by his
fingernails.
The older boys stood around with
out offering any help and Robby,
with visions of dropping into the
water below and coming out in the
Atlantic Ocean. naturally yelled
with all the power of his lungs.
Lloyd came to his rescue and af-
ter much putting and hauling man.
aged to get his friend out above
terra firma again. Bee" gave moral
encouragement to both Lloyd and
Robby.
In appreciation for Lloyd's pres
ence of mind, Mrs. Macy had q party
for the three boys, including Bee" !"
who claimed an invitation for his
cheering.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Traffic Ticket
Fixing Halted
|nPo|iceCourt
Seal Sends Orders
To Assistants to
Push All Cases

Fixing" OF traffic tickets in Police
Court before motorists are called
before the Judge has been halted
abruptly, it was learned today.
The practice was stopped when
stringent orders were issued by Cor
poration Counsel Elwood H. Seal
to his assistants. Not even a Con-
gresham or a newspap perman had
a chance to get ticket forgotten"
today.
At the same time, Mr.. Seal an
nounced that if the Commissioners
approve, whenever tickets aN
quashed because of an adjustment"
between the driver and the police
or the corporations counsels Office,
the names of all concerned and the
reason for dismissing the charge
will be made public.
The corporation counsel explained
that there sometimes were valid rea-
sons for dropping traffic charge,
such as when some one was being
rushed to a hospital, but he would
ask the Commissioners to make pub
lie all such instances, whether the
tickets were adjusted" in his Office
or In the police department.
Lets stop the practice Of fixing
tickets through influence once and
for ALL" Mr.. Seal added.
Would Name All Involved.
In cases where tickets are quashed
he plans to turn over to the news
papers the name of the persons
given the ticket, the one requesting
the quash action and the reason for
1t. Mr.. Seal added: ..
Il am tired of the Corporation
Counsels office being made a FOOT
ball on this thing. Now and then,
when policemen can't get tickets
against their friends fixed at the
precincts they bring them to my
assistants at Police Court. have
issued strict orders that absolutely
none is to be adjusted"
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superin-
tendent of police. asked for COM
ment on Mr.. Seals step, declared
that the Police Department had
fixed no tickets in the past two years
since precinct captains had been
made to send a weekly report to
him. The police head said, however,
that adjustments" are made when
there is reasonable" cause, such as
a mistake by the officer, or when
an out-of-town person unfamiliar
with local regulations commits a
violat ton.
1t is known. however, that the Do
lice department frequently issues
what are called warnings" to vio-
lators.
Number Declared Large.
Mr.. Seal, asked to make an esti-
mate of the number of tickets fixed
each year, said he had no idea of
the exact number. but 1T probably
runs into the thousands"
In the past it has been relatively
simple to fix tickets for minor
of1enses such as parking, but more
serious violations such as speeding
were rarely adjusted" Now and
then recommendations would be
made to the judge sitting in Traffic
Court to impose a minimum fine.
usually SIS, for a speeding offense.
Parking tickets were fixed by simply
making contact with the policeman
who issued the ticket or waiting
until warrants were obtained, which
were promptly torn up.
1t was recalled that several years
ago a congressional investigation
barred the fact that more than 5000
tickets were adjusted" This num-
ber probably has risen more in re-
cent years, however, those familiar
with the situation said.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

When q fellow is in q hole, an,
needs q lift to get out, he really
needs . friend. Nobody knows that
now better than 5-year-old Robert
Macy, 1904 Draper lane, Silver
Spring, Md.
Robby should know, because he
just got out of a bad hole a few
days ago through the valiant pulling
Of his friend, Lloyd Smoot, Sd, who is
one year his senior and lives at
1862 East-West highway. Three
year-old Berdon Bell, who lives next
door to Lloyd, also participated in
the affair.
The hole was q storm sewer and
half full of water when Robby got
in it. He was playing with Lloyd,
Bee" Bell and some older boys,
who managed to get the heavy cover
OF. Which one Of the older boys
pushed him Robby isn't sure and
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Troffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for a.
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, Is.
Motorists injured, s.
Motorists arrested, 296.
Pedestrians injured, 5.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lAtion Of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 10.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Tension on Ship.

Even after the reunion in Glas-
gov with her son. the tension wasn't
lifted for the young mother. Com
Ing back, even though they were on
the neutral U. S. S. Orizaba, the
passengers were in deadly fear of q
repetition Of the Athena disaster.
One night fire alarm accident
ally went of. Women tainted or
screamed, rushing around with the
panic of nerves overwrought.
III there had been a fire." Mrs.
Macleod smiled, II couldn't have
gotten out. My legs refused to
move"
Then, almost a month after thev
sailed on the Athena, the MacLeods
sighted the Statue of Liberty.
"She looked better to us than she
could have looked to anybody else"
Mrs. MaccLe cod declared. I'VE need.
ed her more"
Evening star., 1939-08-29

The senior Arnold is an enthusiastic
operagoer and prefers a singing
son to an acting one Harry
Tugend will write a different story
for the remake of Little Old New
York" AS he puts 1t, You cannot
disguise Alice Faye as boy"
Which is what they did to Marion
Davies in the first edition.
Did you know that ELISA
Landi, former cinema favorite, gives
lectures in her spare time at the
rate of three a week at $1,000 per
CAB and says, Even If I do no more
stage or film work, can still make
$4,000 a year, and who wants more
than that?' George Raft, &C
cording to Mack Grey, puts his
money into annuities-"and gives
away lot" .. Jinx Falkenburg's
name has lived up to the first part
of it. After three years Of posing
in swimming suits, ETC., she only
succeeded In landing a serial for
Republic.
Did you know that Lew Ayres
is up to 81 on the list of 100 books
recommended by Will Durant to
round out literary education. 1t
has taken Lew two years to get
near the winning tape.
Released by the North American
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Evening star., 1939-08-29
Mary Brian
Heads Cast
At Olney
Star Gives Rebound
Its Real Appeal
ToPublic

1t is truism that so much Of
the residue OF 1929 was not worth
the paper it was written on that
one has an impulse to apply 1t to
Rebound" which opened at the
Olney hast night. To do so, how
ever, would ignore the fact that
the drama brings pretty, vivacious
Mary Brian to that theater. More
over, it would imply that the puffy
playboys of prosperity and their
girl friends were complete bores.
They did not achieve completion
even in that respect, for the way
they romp from house party to
Paris and from marriage to di-
vorce arouses some curiosity, a few
memories and a feeling that the
depression which wiped them out
was not an unmitigated curse.
AS period piece, Rebound" has
the additional virtue that it shows
people were not very demanding
in those days. It was their money,
at least, which made the thing
Broadway success despite the fact
that Donald Ogden Stewart OBJ
viously did not have his mind on
his work. His second act, comic in
spots, looks like something that was
written as an avocation by a chap
whose vocation was Tel. and Tel. 1t
was not helped in appearance by
dashing playing, but one assumes
that cyclonic performances by Miss
Brian and her associates could not
have saved it.
Miss Brian works valiantly to re-
suscitate the only attractive char
acter in Rebound" The part is
that of Sara Jaffery, a pretty bit
Of salt and sweetness, who is too
blankety, blankety good for the
dopes eligible men seem to have been
at the time Failing to marry the
one she loves, she marries the one
who loves some one else: a double
rebound proposition, as any one can
see.
Apart from some limitations of
voice, Miss Brian makes Sara an
interesting, If overemotional, girl
Major assistance in the process
comes from Fred Sherman, a poor
but realist artist: Lex Lindsay as
an overstuffed COON, William Bish-
op as stuffy patrician and Rich
ard Midgley, whose few lines had
the touch lacking in the many
lines of some others We won't name.
Fans of Miss Brian will find her
and prosperity just around the cor
ner that leads to Olney. J.C.
Evening star., 1939-08-29
Gross Roads Season
In Last Fortnight
With Post Road

After Charlotte Greenwoods
Leaning on Lefty" manifestation
OF Post Road" any other version
OF the play seems somewhat pallid.
One look at Post Road in any
form, as matter of fact, is enough.
And that must be why the Cross
Roads Theater's production of
Post Road" did not seem last night
to be exactly a bright fireworks
display to close the season in a
blaze of glory.
Wltnout a previous version Of
the play among your experiences
with which to make one of those
odious things called comparisons,
however, the Cross Roads finale
should prove tolerably amusing
evening. Certainly all the people
on hand. last night seemed to be
enjoying themselves. And GER
talnly most of the members of the
cast do quite a capable job of in
terpreting comedy which is not
much better than just all right to
begin with. It's amusing, interest,"
ing, but that's all. (What do you
want, boy, custard pies?)
Ruth May is very fine indeed as
tho spinster who harbors in her
Post Road tourist home kidnapped
baby and an odd assortment of
other people and has quite a time
with them, even unto admitting
maternity before the eyes of her
nelghbors. George Hall is mighty
swell, too, as her brother-in-law
poor doubly henpecked lad. And
Mimi Norton, Ted Field, Charles
Grunwell and Peggy Mansfield
render noble service to the excite
ment OF Post Road" All in all Il
isn't so bad. n M
Evening star., 1939-08-29
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of'Showina

Capitol-"Winter Carnival" the
'oomph' girl at the Dartmouth fes-
tival: II am, 1:40, 4:25, ITO and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 12:4O, 1928.
Clio and 8:55 pm.
Earle-"The Old Maid" starring
Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins:
II am, l:40, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:45 pm.
Stage shows: 1880, 3:35, 6:l5 and
pm.
Palace-"Four Feathers" adven-
ture on Britain's frontiers: II an.
1:4o, 4:20, 7 and $40 pm.
Keith's - when Tomorrow
Comes" with Irene Dunno and
Charles Boyer: 11:45 am, LAS, 3:45,
5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 pm.
Columbia-"Hotel for Women, !"
inside dope on the female sex: 1925
am, 1:30, 3:35, $40, TAO and 9:45
pm.
Metropolitan - Coast Guard !"
drama Of the sea: 11:45 am, 1:45.
3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and $50 pm.
httIe-"stolen Life" Elisabeth
Bergner at her best: II am, 1:25,
$3.50, 5::35, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Trans-Lux-N News and shorts:
continuous from 10 am.
-Air-"Life of Henry VIII"
with Charles Laughton: 8 and 1925
pm.
IN THE COUNTRY:
Olney-"Rebound comedy hit
with Mary Brian: $40 pm.
Cross ROads-"Post Road" COM
edy about a spinster and a kidnap-
ing: $40 pm.
Roadside-"The Still Alarm" COM
edy melodrama about a brave fire
laddie: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1939-08-29

desperate; when 1t seems certain
that double exposure, or whatever
1t is, is going to prove foolhardy.
1t never does, however, and one has
to admit the director knew what he
was about.
Other than the two sisters played
by Miss Bergner, the characters for
the most part are merely sketched.
The young explorer, played with
winning difidence by Michael Red
grave, and the girls diplomatic
father are the only exceptions. All,
however, are nicely italicized by an
English cast whose names you
might not know even If we remem-
bered them.
\ \ X X
I'm Name Only" with Cary
Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis
and Washington's own Peggy Ann
Garner, will open tomorrow eve
ming at Keith's The time is
5:45 Golden Boy" Earle's
next attraction, was screened yes
terday Today, Loew's will
preview Lady of the Tropics" .
which means that on Friday critics
will have nothing to occupy them
except vaudeville and writing re-
views Between gay laughs at
the success of Glenn Miller's band,
Carter Barron is making plans for
a big announcement of Loews pro-
gram for the movies 5Oth year
Europe's preparations for war are
the subject Of last-minute news
reels at the Earle and Metropolitan
Theaters =. Only 80 hours elapsed
between the departure of the pic
lures from London and their ar
rival in New York Paramount,s
memo says they cover every aspect
OF the tense situation, from emer-
gency defense programs to photo
graphs OF Hitlers private airplane
This departments expert on BARI
tones reports that the one who
stopped the show at the Lounge
Riviera on Saturday night was Gar
neld Swift j.. He is the same one
who did so handsomely by Jour
neys End as guest artist on Mai.
BoWes' Capitol Theater family show
Sunday before last This de-
partments expert on baritones is
very expert, especially when she
writes memos telling this depart
ment what 1t missed.
Evening star., 1939-08-29
Star a Bit Player
At Own Request

Akin Tamiroff, who rates a star
over his dressing room door in the
Paramount studio, is voluntarily
playing a "bit" part in the new
Madeleine Carroll-Fred MacMurray
feature, my Love for Yours" In
fact, he asked for the job, that Of
portraying window washer. Evil
dently he sees in this role a diver
sion from the big parts which he
usually plays, since he observes:
For once I play myself. I have
no DISCUSSES. I have no accent but
my Russian one. And I play comedy.
That Is what want. This is a fine
part. That it is small, means Moth
ing"
Evening star., 1939-08-29

All llloU OCouNS Va law anu iiSal
which she has spotted other cinema
actresses is no handicap to Miss
Bergner once her eyes take on that
transfiguring light and that brave
little suffering smile plays across her
lips. All other actresses are licked
then, and so are audiences.
Stolen Life" is notable offering
to Bergner fans primarily because
it gives her an opportunity to play
two parts, the heads and tails of a
leprechaun, if the figure is not too
fanciful. She is twin sisters-even
If it sounds silly, which 1t is not
In love with one man. AS one of the
sisters, she is a gay, capricious,
faithless, flirtatious hoyden. That's
Sylvina. The other one, Martina, is
tender, faithful, understanding and
unsettled to whom love, one love, is
all.
That is large number of things
for one actress to be in the space
of IS minutes, but Miss Bergner
manages every facet of it with an
expertness that seems completely
casual.
1t is a neat idea that IS in
volved in the whole thing. 1t re-
quires that Miss Bergner, as Mar
tina, shall love and lose the man to
the capricious. selfish Sylvina. Then,
when Sylvina dies in a sailboat
mishap. Martina commits the folly
of pretending it was she who was
the victim. The object, of course,
is to spare the man the hurt of
Sylvina's loss 1t does not seem
especially reasonable on the part
of any one concerned, including the
script writer, for what the husband
needed all his life was some one
like Martina. They were certain
to have got together anyway, but
the subsequent complications, psy-
Geological and otherwise, are in
teresting in spite of their ques-
tionable logic. And, more impor-
family, they do give Miss Bergner a
larger opportunity to demonstrate
her virtuosity as a lady in love.
Nice qualities of suspense have
been worked into the story. Many
of them are to be found in those
passages where Miss Bergner is being
the two girls at one time. There
are moments when the chances
against the trick of the camera
coming of correctly seem absolutely
Evening star., 1939-08-29

Is allowed 10 90 Sheilah Graham.
outside jobs and keep all the earn
ings. At the time the contract was
drawn up, he was considered in
capable OF doing anything apart
from movie emoting-and not much
OF that.
Did you know that Charles
Boyer began his Hollywood career
as bit player in a Jean Harlow
picture, and that afterwards Boss
Mayer grumbled, Il don't know why
you hired him." and let him 20.
The next time Boyer worked for
Metro-for "Conquest"-he was paid
$780, 900 in salary and overtime :.
Edward Arnold, jr., is bigger and
heavier than his father. The lad
is in New York studying singing. Il
think have a sort of high BARI
Tone" he told me before leaving.
Evening star., 1939-08-29

ight with Warner Bros. hurt her
career. II would act differently next
Evening star., 1939-08-29

time. It is not
wise to fight a
large force. One
should compro-
mise" Walt
Disney's daugh-
ter, aged S, is
not yet up to
reading or writ
ing, but signs
her checks with
a Mickey Mouse.
Make Ro-
senbloom h a S
one of the most
liberal contracts
in Hollywood. He
is allowed tn do
Evening star., 1939-08-29
Boyer's Hollywood Career
Began With a Bit Role
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM,
HOLLYWOOD.


Did know that women
except Claire Trevor whom he regards the better
In the movies James Cagney
Fairbanks G has Whiting looks
Marie Antoinette as some people
Ann Dvorak admits that
fight with Warner her
senior an enthusiastic
Evening star., 1939-08-29
A MU S E M E N r S.
BergnerMakesX X>RayofLove
InLatest at Little
Stolen Life Gives Her Dual Role;
In Name Only Due Tomorrow;
Newsreels Up to Minute
BY JAY CARMODY.

Love may be the mysterious intangible thing it reputed to be- but
we'll blessed Elisabeth
that
kind acting unmporant 1t enough that she
them all Stolen
premiere Theater last night
Evening star., 1939-04-23
Coal
Continued From First Page)

U. M. w. in West Virginia appealed
to the Federal Social Security Board
against an adverse ruling In Ten
nessee. operators appealed to the
State labor department Board of
Review from the labor commission
er's ruling in favor of the miners;
payments were withheld, meanwhile.
Coal supply figures varied widely
from point to point. Byron Canon,
secretary of the Western Pennsyl-
vania Coal Operators Association,
said the total supply above ground
three weeks ago was 100000 tons
and the weekly consumption rate
was 100000 tons.
One Iowa utility reported it had
enough fuel for two or three months,
while Louisville. KY, sources indi-
Gated only weeks supply was
available.
Coal Shipments Drop.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad coal
shipments dropped from 80 .399 cars
in the first three weeks of April,
1898, to 572 for the same period this
year. Columbus, Ohio, had 5000
empty coal cars, 1900 idle railroad
workers.
Large utilities in Ohio industrial
areas were we'll supplied, but sew
eral small plants faced probable
closings. The magazine Steel re-
ported nine blast furnaces and one
coke oven had been closed in the
Pittsburgh and Youngstown dis
tricts.
Millions of tons of coal awaited
shipment at Lake Erie docks. Much
OF it was unloaded from vessels and
sold. Some $4,000 tons brought a
bonus of 81 per ton.
Production of steel in Birming-
ham was expected to drop points
to SIS per cent of production next
week, while several small industrial
plants were threatened with closing
soon.
Evening star., 1939-04-23
England Prepared
fCha||enge Comes,
Baldwin Declares
Sees Civilizations End
II Nozi-ism Spreads
Beyond Germany

TORONTO. April % canadian
Press Civilization would Ger
tainly perish" If Nazi theology spread
beyond Germany. Earl Baldwin. for
mer British prime minister, declared
tonight with the added conviction
that should the challenge come"
England would be ready.
In his third and concluding lee
ture at the University Of Toronto he
defended the British pledge to aid
Poland if attacked. and continued:
"Civilization may perish as the
result Of war. It would certainly
perish as a result of Naziism tri-
umphant beyond the borders of the
country of its birth.
ITO whatever theology a people
may submit itself. that is It's own
concern. But when that theological
system is imposed on other, free
countries, that is the concern of all
free men.
And now we know that should
the challenge come, we shall be
there. In Luther's words, We can
no other - We were on duty
when Napoleon bestrode the world
like demigod and we answered
the roll call as you did in August,
1914. We can no other"
He defined the totalitarian ideal
as "the mechanical solidarity of
the herd under the leadership of a
dictator, omnipotent and infallible,"
and the democratic ideal as "the
moralized solidarity of the group
under the leadership of the citizen
who is deemed wisest and best and
who can be dismissed"
Through the technique of di-
recting mass behavior in obedience
to one mans will, Lord Baldwin
said:
plans can be prepared in secret
and applied overnight for the en-
slavement of a whole nation and
for the swift incarceration of its
leaders by the hundred or by the
thousand as required. All this we
have seen in Europe in 1889"
Evening star., 1939-04-23
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