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Evening star., 1939-01-28

funniest sequence that's been seen
in long time.
Mr.. Menjou and Mr.. Oakie man
age to confine their average Ameri-
can TO a sick bed. There they pun
mel his morale daily with fake
newspapers telling of Americans be-
ing attacked abroad, of an embassy
being stoned, Of the flag being in
suited; finally, of war and troops
embarking. Mr.. Average American
sits through it all calmly and says
Let 'em go; like it here" Then
you will have to see the picture to
find out hoW-the conspirators con-
vince him that New York is being
bombed, that innocent women and
children are dying. With roar, he
dashes into the street, screaming
"Murderers!' and looking for an
army to join to defend democracy.
1t is a combination of telling
drama and hilarious comedy that is
very fine. 1t is so fine, in fact, that
we are beginning to think this re-
view has been written backwards,
because you should have been told
long ago that this latter sequence is
something truly worth seeing, even
if you have to see Arleen Whelan,
too.
X X X X
The Capitol's stage show is not
something you have to see to make
your life complete, however, despite
all the handsome production fixings
with which Gene Ford has dressed
it up. You will, of course. enjoy
the doings of the Juvelys, who are
billed as the wonders of two worlds"
and who, We are sure, are the Won
ders of any other worlds lying about.
We don't know how to describe the
tricks they do, but even after seeing
them We maintain they are impos-
Sible.
In various other spots on the bill
you will find Art Brown and Frank
Young, who make some of the nim-
BILE music they make for their VOL
audience; the Eight Men of Man.
haitian and their song arrange
ments, the 16 Rhythm Rockets and
a couple of youngsters who shag.
There is a hula dancer in the middle
of Phil Lampkin's overture.
Evening star., 1939-01-28
Mr.. Average American Hero
Of Capitol's New Comedy
Film, Better Than Standard Runs
Into Dull, Repetitious Moments
On Way to Smart Climax
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

hrd 10 know Just how to start report on motion picture
OF
frequent moments to be haousy Perhaps
that be said of Thanks Everything
without its dull
probably little qbbng
Evening star., 1939-01-28
Hollywood's S
Again in the
City Room
of the Record
Newspaper Yarn,
At the Met

"Oh the Record" the new picture
at the Metropolitan, is another
Warner Bros. film about life in a
newspaper Office, but If you think
we are going to take chance on
our blood pressure by getting riled
by the Hollywood conception of a
newspaper Office you're wrong. Suf-
flee it to say that the Hollywood
conception of a newspaper office is
a veritable heaven where a lot of
reporters who are allergic to city
editors would like to hang their
hats.
And this city room in "Of the
Record" Is one of the wilder and less
believable ones, even if it does have
one little sop thrown to the pro-
fession. This Is a scene where
copy boy dashes up to Reporter Pat
O'Brien, shoves the proof of a ban
ner head at him and says, Boss
wants to know if you can write a
line in your lead to cover this"
Hail." growls Mr.. O'Brien, "a fine
sheet this. Now they write the
headlines first, then write stories to
fit them" If Hollywood is just try
ing to prove it does know the wrong
procedure in a newspaper office, it
Is no use, because every other move
in "Off the Record" disproves it.
But withal this is pleasant
enough entertainment, one that will
suffice to pass away spare time. In
addition to Mr.. O'Brien it has Joan
Blondell and Bobby Jordan. Miss
Blondell is the girl Mr.. OBrien
wants to quit the newspaper business
and marry him. Young Mr.. Jordan
is lad who goes from the wrong
environment to reform school. Miss
Blondell wants to get married and
adopt him. Mr.. O'Brien wants to
get married and not adopt him.
They get married and adopt him.
H. M.
Evening star., 1939-01-28

much Tor a BABY says Maureen-a
trifle wistfully.
X X X X
Spirit of Culver" Jackie
Cooper dresses in full view of every
one on the set. Us this Culver
custom?) Freddie Bartholomew
pauses in his studies with an Eng
lish tutor (hired to repolish Fred
dies English accenD to tell me he
has purchased a new trailer in which
he will take Aunt Cis to the desert
for sample of simple life don't
worry, Aunt CisSy-the trailer is the
last thing in luxury. A few years
ago, Freddie ousted Cooper for top
juvenile spot at M-G-M. The Gull
yer epic-manufactured by Uni
versal-has Jackie in the starring
spot. Tim Holt, jr., also in the
picture, is a bona fide graduate of
the Culver Military Academy in
Indiana
Director Joseph Santley is for
mer child star of the stage. Later
dancing was his speciality and when
Fred Astaire left the Broadway Gay
Divorce" Santley took his place.
How did you become director?" I
ask. "I found myself getting puffy,
so I had to get another occupation"
says Santley, adding: And what
a relief it is to forget my figure and
eat everything like"
EAST Side of Heaven" Joan
Blondell explains why she did not
go to New York with Husband Dick
Powell Universal had been after
me long time to play the lead with
Bing Crosby in this picture, but I
was determined that nothing should
spoil my New York vacation with
Dick. So I named what thought
was an impossibly high price and
said, That's that-they'N never pay
I bought lots of lovely new clothes,
had one foot on the train, when I
received word that not only would
Universal pay, but that had to re-
port Immediately for work. Well, I
suppose I should have said NO But
I couldn't-it was too much money
to turn down. I go to New York
when I finish the picture-but Dick
will then be back in Hollywood"
X X X
Fast and Loose" >. Swell" says
the director after take" "Aw-
full" says Rosalind Russell, and in
sists on another RoSalind is
still full of her trip to Europe (where
she made the prize winning "Cita-
delD. Il had the best time of my
life there-but still love America
and had the greatest kick in the
world when saw that Statue of
Liberty again. One thing that Brit
ish junket did for Miss Russell was
to make her studio realize she is a
natural peg on which to hang BEAU
tiful clothes. II brought back some
lovely Chanel numbers-and now at
last I'm being allowed to dress we'll
for a picture" -. Co-Star Robert
Montgomery remarks on the fact
Evening star., 1939-01-28

| climax that has oodles of dramtic
power. The bitter brute is up
against the tough proposition of
doing a decent thing by his bene-
factors and the girl he loves or re-
tanning the anonymity which will
keep him out of the hands of the
law. A lesser actor than the star
of "They Made Me a Criminal
would find it a very terrible spot
in two ways, but Garfield comes
through with a performance that
hits the top of top-notch charac-
terization.
That trick of Warmers of pulling
no punches, plus the realism which
Garfield gets into his acting, turns
the big fight scene of the film into
one of the most savage affairs ever
photographed. The aggregate of
punishment which Garfield imposes
and receives must about equal that
of, say, 10 rounds of Dempsey and
Firpo. Joe Turner, Goldie Ahearn
and even Mike Jacobs might send
their talent scouts around to see
Garfield and Frank Riggi, the latter
the hairiest, toughest ape since
Eugene O'Neill investigated the sub
| ject
Mixed up in the affairs of the
poor prize fighter are a number of
Warmers more capably grim peo-
pie. The Dead End" kids are
present in a body-under their old
Dead End" names, incidentally
and so is Claude Rains as kindly,
frustrated detective, May Robson
as a tough, kindly old lady and
Gloria Dickson as realistic gal
with lot of goodness about her.
Ann Sheridan, the bad, beautiful
blond of such pictures, lends this
one some highly tough moments
before she literally goes up in flames
in an automobile crash.
1t is, however, Mr.. Garfield's pic
ture. And yours if you want to
see some real playing.
The stage show which Mr.. Anger
has concocted revolves with a pleas
ant balance around Mr.. Stander,
whose movie work has made him
quite a popular gent with vaudeville
audiences, too. His act, a high-class
affair, is supplemented by the COM
edy of Emmett Oldfeld and COM
pany, the singing of the Randall
sisters, the acrobatics of Phillips
and Kohl and the usual handsome
dance routines of the Roxyettes.
Evening star., 1939-01-28

lldS lCso SIldlC.
1t has, for instance, that send
off parade sequence lifted right out
of Mr.. Deeds Goes to Town 1t is
very irritating. even if Jack Haley
does play clarinet in his own honor
instead of tuba. 1t has couple
Of musical numbers that are strictly
in the dragged-in- by the heels cate
CORY and do not amount to hoot
up the rainspout even if Tony Mar
tin does sing very prettily. And it
calls upon that great dramatic
actress, Arleen Whelan, for a couple
of emotional workouts and you know
how much conviction that would
lend anything. What's more it is
slow getting started and it does not
have sense enough. by few minutes
at least, to stop when it is finished.
Now with that vitriol out of the
system it becomes our solemn duty
to report that Thanks for Every
thing" despite its shortcomings, still
manages to have enough of breezy
entertainment in it to add up to a
good time. 1t may even be a film
better than the recent average and
fie on the first citizen to claim
that isn't saying much. That it does
turn out amusing enough to make
its faults not so painful is due no
doubt to the fact that its story gives
it a foundation of solid bedrock
Thanks for Everything is the
daft saga of the adventures that
pop up in the life of a fellow who
is selected as the average American
man. This, of course, is Mr.. Haley.
The advertising agency promoting
the contest for one of its clients de-
cides then that it will have a gold
mine of information on the likes and
dislikes of the average American if
it can keep its average man average
and watch his performances in all
things. So Mr.. Haley is tricked out
of first prize because with SIS 900
he would not be average.
There is a lot of fun as Binnie
Barnes, Jack Oakie and Adolphe
Menjou make money on their guinea
pig. There is lot of fun, too,
when a foreign ambassador appar-
emily stymies the agency by asking
if the average American wants to
60 to war. And this brings on the
Evening star., 1939-01-28
Brilliant New Warner Star
Illumines Earle Film
John Garfield Performance Makes
Picture Fine Entertainment;
Lionel Stander on Stage
By JAY CARMODY.

The crime course which is prescribed work tor all Warner studio
John Garfield Not the Supreme Court
brilliant
yesterday the Earle
promise given Daughters
Evening star., 1939-01-28

and Tuesday, then be followed by
"Ballerina," the hit French film
starring Mia Slavenska. "Ballerina'
inaugurates a new Wednesday open
ing policy at the Little. 1t inau-
gurates a new preview policy, too
new pictures opening Wednesdays
from now on being shown also at a
Tuesday night preview following the
last show.
Evening star., 1939-01-28
Power Is Sundays
Attraction at Little

Power" with Conrad Veidt in the
leading role of the story of a Jews
persecution, opens at the Little The
ater Sunday. 1t replaces "The
House of Rothschild," which has
been announced as Sundays at
traction but which is not now avail
able.
Power" will run Sunday, Monday
Evening star., 1939-01-28

boy-but Mau-
reen will be glad
to take what she
gets. But if it
is a boy, his sec
ond name is Da-
mien - a f t e r
Father Damien
of j oh n n y S
book" Maureen
is currently try
ing to sell her
close friend, the
new Mrs. Ronald
Colman, on the
idea of mother
h ood. "T h e y
coul d do SO
Evening star., 1939-01-28
Maureen O'Sullivan Says
This Is Her Last 'Tarzan'
BY SHELIAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.


"Tarzan Exile"
Wessmuler
this will
motherhood giving sleep
late in the mornings" Maureen:
ecsatay Husband Johnny Far that he has been in Hollywood 10
hoping baby o
Evening star., 1939-01-28

tIldt 4c lldS UetIl Ill l1Olly WOOu ~
years and is still unused to the
climate. Il hate the sunshine-I
only like it when it rains-it washes
out some of the smugness from the
place"
Copyright. 1889 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Federation May Act
On Seal Plan Report

The Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations will be called upon at its
meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the
District Building to ratify the report
Of its Executive Committee on the
proposed Seal reorganization setup
for the District.
Secretary David Babp said the
report generally embodied the testi-
mony of Harry N. Stull, president:
Harry S. Wender, first vice presi-
dent, ard Wilbur Finch at the
Commissioners hearings. The group
stood for city manager under an
elective city council
The group is to consider among
other items on the calendar the
applications of the Hampshire
Heights and First Ward Citizens
Associations for admission to the
Federation. The applications have
been held up hitherto because of
boundary disputes between the ap-
plicants and several member groups.
Mr.. Babp said a resolution from
the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association protesting the noise
made by livestock in trucks parked
on the streets in the middle of the
night might be reached for action
tonight. The association has pro-
tested the feeding of carloads Of
cattle and chickens while parked at
curb service stands along the ave-
nue.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Chest Still S127,359
Short Of lis Goal

With its closing audit looming
only four days away, the Community
Chest campaign today was still
s127. 7.359-or about per cent-short
of it's s2,o00oo0 goal for human
needs in Washington during the
coming year.
In the three days since official
closing of the drive, 1.543 District
residents have contributed S6603,
increasing total pledges to date to
S1.67284
There were no pledges reported in
the Advance Gifts Units big givers'
classification, the totals remaining:
514 pledges, s455,0O3, or 1888 per
cent of the unit quota. Business
firms and their employees turned in
419 new pledges for total of S2,552,
through the Group Solicitation
Unit, boosting the units figures to
S429, ,452, or 94.8l per cent of quota.
Pledging through the Metropolitan
Unit, 81 householders added S994.50
for total unit pleges of S192, 1928, or
956 per cent of quota.
Government workers have re-
sponded with 1927 additional pledges
for s3,OO1, bringing the Government
Units total to S751,419, or 1922 per
cent of quota. Suburban area resi-
dents have made three additional
pledges for $13, raising the Suburban
Unit total to s37.780. or 1888 per
cent of quota. The Capital Unit
(coloreO reported seven additional
pledges for S43, bringing the unit
total to $6,662, or 1928 per cent of
quota.
Evening star., 1939-12-02

Mrs. H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld, wife
of the American Minister to Fin
land, has turned to Christmas shop
ping to forget.
AS veteran of nearly a quarter
century as wife in the foreign
service, the attractive. gray-haired
mother of six children has learned
how not to dwell too much on the
dangers that confront her husband
in the line of duty
English born, Mrs. Schoenfeld,
who is now living here, hasn't heard
directly from her husband since the
Russian invasion of Finland and his
letters have been long delayed in
reaching her.
But she keeps in touch with the
State Department and relays the
news to her mother-in-law, Mrs. H.
Schoenfeld, who has two sons in
the war zone. Her younger son
Rudolf is first secretary in the Amer
lean Embassy in Great Britain. Her
third son is DR.. Herbert Schoenfeld,
the surgeon Their father was Ger
man professor at George Washing
ton University for 35 years.
News for Others.
News also must go to the Minis
ter's 21-year-old son Douglas at
Princeton University and to Marion,
the 16-year- -o!d daughter, attending
Dwight School in EngleWood, N. j.
Il guess there are many lots worse
of than We are" Mrs. Schoenfeld
smiled, when a reporter caught her
between shopping expeditions.
Evening star., 1939-12-02

Uusually in the past she has been
at her husbands side during critical
periods and she'd like to be with
him now. But the children COM
pIcate matters, you know"
She hasn't seen her husband since
August when he came home on a
visit and stayed here two days before
he was called back to his post. She
had left Finland in June to spend
the summer here and see the two
children who weren't with her
abroad but the war prevented her
going back.
In Finland Three Years.
Her husband has been Minister to
Finland for three years. Previously
he was in Santo Domingo and before
that-"oh, there were dozen other
places all over the world" She
met and was married to him when
he was stationed in Uruguay.
Living now at the Wardman Park
Hotel, she has two sons, Derek, 10,
and John, II. attending st. Adams,
while 10-year-old Aida goes to
Oyster School and Scott, 8, spends
most of his time on his red scooter
bike.
Although as a wife in the foreign
service, she absolutely refuses to
volunteer any opinions on the situa-
ton abroad, she did say she hopes
the rumors of a truce. as she read
of it in the newspapers, are true.
Meanwhile, she goes Christmas
shopping.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Artillery Crushed Warsaw,
Not Bombs, Bryan Says

Artillery bombardment. not aerial
attacks, forced surrender Of War
saw, according to Julien Bryan
photographer who was in the Polish
capital during the siege by the
German Army last September.
In an illustrated lecture last night
at Constitution Hall, under spon-
sorship of the National Geographic
Society, NAr. Bryan declared that
the assault on Warsaw proved that
there is little possibility of destroy
ing a great city by aerial bonn
bardment alone. or even crippling
its public utilities.
Two to three hundred German
planes dropped bombs on Warsaw
daily. he said, yet telephones, elec-
trio lights, water supply, radio and
newspapers remained in operation
until near the end of the siege
when artillery fire was intensified.
Artillery shells falling in the city
outnumbered aerial bombs 50-to-10O
fold, he explained, with fire being
concentrated on main streets in an
effort to break up supply lines and
communications.
Telephones and other public utili-
ties were suspended temporarily, at
times, after bombardment, but re-
pairs were made as quickly as pos
sible. The central telephone eX-
changes, special targets of aerial
and artillery fire, were not hit, Mr..
Bryan asserted.
Mr.. Bryan exhibited still photo
graphs and several motion picture
reels of activities during the siege.
The scenes of destruction were pre-
ceded, however, by Photographic
depletion of industrial and rural life
in Poland before the German in
vasion. The motion pictures were
supplemented with reels from Ger
man sources, showing Nazi military
operations.
AS attendants of the lecture de-
parted from the hall many noted
a sign in the lobby 1t read: Next
Week, Enlightened Finland
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Three New Detectives
On Precinct Rolls

Three new precinct detectives
were on police rolls today following
several promotions and retirements
announced by the department yes
terday.
The detectives are George w.
Cook, AZ, former motor cycle pa
trolman at the 9Th precinct; Mar
vim o. Myers, 80, scout car police
man of the 1st precinct, and John
L. Sprague, special investigator for
1t. Earl Hartman. They were sworn
in by Capt. Harvey G. Callahan,
chief clerk of the Police Depart
ment.
Retirement of three privates was
approved. by the District Commis-
sioners. James Kelley, former lieu
tenant and designer of the local
police radio system, was retired be-
cause of physical disability. The
others were ]. w. Hobbs Of the
18th precinct and B. F. Heard OF
the 9th.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
D. {. Hunter Bags Second
Deer in PENNSYLVANIA

Credit for bringing down the Sec
ond deer bagged as the Pennsylvania
deer hunting season opened today
went to Nick Zemo of Washington,
the Associated Press reported. -Four
men were killed as 10000 hunters
took the field to begin the season.
Mr.. zemo dropped his buck near
Kane, Pa, just seven minutes after
the legal hour for firing-7 am.
First deer was shot by Charles
Wynnkoop of Hamilton, Pa, at 7:01
am.
Raymond Elliott, 16, was the first
person killed, succumbing to bullet
fired by companion near his home
in Chicora. Others fatally wounded
were George Halter, 42-year- -old
Erie garage owner, found near his
parked automobile in Erie County;
Sampel Wintersteen of Danville, Pa,
wounded by stray shot near Lewis
burg, Pa, and Jessie Templeton, 81,
of Hanover Township, killed near
Wilkes-Barre.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Britain and France
Blamed by Nazis for
Finns' Predicament
Support Closed Eyes to
Reds Justification,
Soy Berlin Sources
By LOUIS p. LOCHNER,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BERLIN, Dec. 2.-Britain and
France, informed German sources
said today, are to blame for Fin
lands predicament.
II the western powers had not
stiffened the Finnish governments
back by moral support, Finland
would have seen the historic justifl-
cation for Russia's position, these
sources asserted.
They insisted Germany had proved
q better friend to Finland and to
peace in the Baltic by maintaining
an attitude Of reserve toward the
Finnish Russian crisis.
1--WE don't NEEDLE everywhere as
England does" one authorized com.
mentator observed.
Neither France nor Britain nor
any other power protesting SYM
pathy for Finland intends actually
to help the little country, the in
formed sources asserted.
Germany recognizes that when
ever natural pressures are bottled up
an explosion necessarily follows
these sources continued, and Russia's
natural outlet to the Baltic was
bottled up.
In Nazi opinion had Britain and
France succeeded in concluding an
alliance with Russia against Ger
many the western nations would not
have cared about the fate of the
little Baltic states.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
William Hersche||, 66,
Indiana Poet, Dead
Hy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2.-William
Herschell, Indian poet and mem
ber of the staff of the Indianapolis
News since 1902, died at his home
today after long illness. He was
66 years old.
Mr.. Herschell was close friend
of the late James Whitcomb Riley,
known as "the Hoosier Poet" and
had published four volumes OF his
poems which appeared in the News
each Saturday.
One of his poems, Long Boy"
was set to music and became a
popular tune during the World War,
while his poem, THE Kid Has Gone
to the Colors," also was well known
then.
Mr.. Herschell was born at Spencer,
Ind, Nov. II, 1873. He began his
newspaper career in 1896 at Prince
ton, Ind, and worked on newspa-
pers In Evansville and Terre Haute,
Ind, before coming to Indianapolis.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
New York's New Airport
Officially Opened
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. 2.-The city1
$40 100000 North Beach Municipal
Airport was opened officially to serv-
ice with the arrival of the first plane
at one minute past midnight this
morning.
Mayor La Guardia and other dig
nitaries greeted the arrival of the
Benjamin Franklin" Transcon-
tinental g. Western ship, from Chi
cago.
Six minutes later an American
Airlines plane from Fort Worth,
Tex. landed with the first mail to
arrive at the new port.
The Mayor shook hands with each
OF the II passengers as they left
the first plane. Airline Blackburn,
radio actress, was greeted as the
first passenger, and Andre Kostelan-
etz, orchestra conductor, the second.
The first plane to leave the air.
port in regular flight was the Amer
ican Airlines' Might OWL" on which
Mayor La Guardia dispatched letters
to Mayors OF Buffalo. Chicago and
Detroit, and flowers to the Mayor
OF San Francisco.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Ship Fire Put Out

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 2 R.-
Flames licked precariously close to
fuel tank in the hold of the United
States Army mine layer Gen. John
M. Schofield at the Norfolk Ship
building & Drydock Co. yesterday,
but timely action by firemen pre-
vented the blaze from going beyond
a stock of life preservers and rope.
The origin of the blaze was attrib-
uted to an acetylene torch being
used on the ships steel hull.