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Evening star., 1939-10-11

Three years ago.-Tazio Nuvo-
lari, 47-year-old Italian ace, easi-
ly won 100000 Vanderbilt Cup
automobile race, averaging IS
miles per hour over 3O0-mile
course at Roosevelt RaceWav.
Evening star., 1939-10-11

Today a year ago.-Mme. Rene
Matthew, France, won Pacific
Coast women's tennis champion
ship, defeating Nancye Wynne,
Australia, 81. 60.
Evening star., 1939-10-11

Wasn't be the kindly doetor; who ushered
you into the world7 Then came others. par
ents who taught you love, ethics and honesty
90. youngsters who showed you how to play
with teamwork and sportsmanship i. =. and
teachers who guided you to work with a
purpose. AS you journey through life, you
learn to appreciate the value of friends. To-
day, when you count your assets, experience
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Where and When
Current TheaterA Attractions
and Time of Showing

NationAE"Margin for Error" q
new note on dictators by the out
spoken Claire Boothe: $50 pm.
Keith's-"Nurse Edith Cavell,
dramatic biography of the Belgian
heroine: 11:35 am, 1885, 3:35, 5:35
7:35 and 9:35 pm.
Palace-"The Rains Came" screen
version of the Louis Bromfield novel:
1905, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 and $50 pm
Earle-"On Your Toes" Zorins
dances in gay musical: II am.
1:40, 4:25, 7:05 and $50 pm. Stage
shows: 100, 3:45, $50 and 9:10 p m
Capitol-'They Shall Have Music,
with Jascha Heifetz playing it:
10:45 am, 1:35, 4:25, 7:15 and 1905
pm. Stage shows: 1910, $3.50, 6:2C
and 9:10 pm.
Metropolitan-"All Quiet on the
Western Front" revival of the great
war drama: HOS am, ITO, 800,
5:25, 7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Columbia-"The Women" with
claws unfurled and fangs dripping
acid: 11:10 am, las, 4:20, 6:55 and
$50 pm.
Little-'The Old Dark House,
Laughton. Karlof ct al. in a mys-
terry thriller: II am, 1880, 2:35
4:20, 6:10, 7:55 and 9:45 pm.
Belasco-"The Unashamed," life In
nature camp: 1880 am, 1:30
$3.50, $50, 7:30 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Open Air-'"The Sun Never Sets,
on the you-know-what empire: 7:45
and 10:15 pm.
Evening star., 1939-10-16

lusion possessed by that medium Of
entertainment.
Miss Rutherford's engagement be-
gins Friday, and If the one-day ap-
pearance of Mickey Rooney and
Judy Garland here several weeks
ago Is criterion, Mr.. Barron has
every justification for looking for
ward to 1t happily.
History has a brilliant dramatic
sheen in those technicolor short sub
jects which Warner Bros. have been
making. And the current exhibit
on the screen of the Earle, The
Monroe Doctrine" easily is one of
the best of the lot. So far as pos
sible producers of the scripts for the
series stick to the exact words of
the founding fathers and their gall
liant sons. The effect is extraordi-
narily fine, especially when the cast
includes such characters as Clay
and Webster, as this one does.
In these harassing times the past
has a heightened charm As
many times as they have heard it,
for instance, Troika audiences still
will applaud loudest and longest for
"Bublitchski" And Gene Archer,
who closed Saturday night, got his
biggest acclaim at the Shoreham's S
Blue Room for the more veteran of
his offerings In one of which.
believe 1t or not, Barnee's band
turned into choir to provide a spe-
cial background Quick, Maxim
Lowe, a surplice for the maestro e..
Hearts Of Paris" Little's next at
traction, will be screened today for
critics who will be very busy tomor-
row with the world premiere Of
Mr.. Smith Goes to Washington"
The National Press Club is
handling that, and lavishly.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Music and Dances
On Program Planned
By Outdoor Group

Mountain music and mountain
square dances will feature the
variety show to be staged by the
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club at
Barker Hall OF the Young Women's
Christian Association tomorrow
night.
Members Of this group Of cut-of-
doors men and women have drawn
on the music, customs and costumes
Of the mountain people encountered
In hikes along the Appalachian Trail
in nearby Maryland and Virginia
for the entertainment. 1t is to be
presented as q benefit for the fund
to build more "lean-tos" along the
trail, to be used by all mixers.
The P. A. T. G. Hillbillies will
open the program with Songs From
the Hollows," featuring Bob Beach
with his fiddle, Johnny Oakley and
guitarist.
"A Musical Travesty on Life in
the Out of Doors" will be presented
by Joe Winn, chairman of the En-
tertainment Committee: E. F. Os-
born and Orville Crowder in elab-
crate mountain costumes. Cartoons
by Tom Culverwell will be shown in
program called See Yourself as
Others See You" And there will be
an exhibition of "Mentalism," in
troduced by George Clendaniel, and
a program by harpist.
For the rousing old-fashioned
square dance, which is to climax
the show, Jimmy Lamb will be the
caller. The entertainment is open
to the public.
Evening star., 1939-10-16

Community Theater, have been Sc
lected by Mrs. j. H. Chambliss, di-
rector. and are now engaged in re-
hearsals.
Those who will provide screams
and shots in the dark, or be alarmed
by same, include: Mines. Loren
Pope, Paul Brown, Dillon Myer,
Lawrence Proctor, Edward Rowan
and Grover Hill: Mile. Sarah Nc
Clure and Messrs. Hardee Cham
bliss, jr.; Paul w. Ferris, J. o. Mar
tin, Charles Pendleton, Edward
Forsyth, Rutherford Sadtler and
Frank Lynn.
"The entire action of the play, a
mystery farce by James Reach.
takes place in one mad night"
4 X X X
The Drama Committee of the Arts
Club Is promising a varied season,
starting with the comedy by Clare
Hummer, Her Masters Voice"
This, in rehearsal now under the
direction of Mrs. Caroline Mckinley
Ashbrook, will be played by Maude
Howell Smith, Dorothy Winchcote,
Elizabeth Clarke, Maurice Jarvis,
William Jarvis, Walter Studdiford
and Wilmer Flood.
On the schedule following the
comedy are a Christmas play and
a Shakespearean production, with
informal lectures on the theater
between plays.
Evening star., 1939-10-16

Brian Aherne nearly tainted the
other day while pretending to per-
form an operation in his role of
doctor for Vigil in the Night" /"
1t seems that Brian is allergic to
operations Melvyn Douglas
wears q corset! But don't ret him
wrong-it's for his picture-"The
Incredible Mr.. Williams" From
what Melvyn had to say on the
subject, I don't think the corset
will ever be popular garment for
men.
BY one Of those condolences, the
picture titled Street Of Missing
Women" features three women who
have been missing from worth
while movies for = long time-Peggy
Shannon, Betty Compson and
Wynne Gibson. -. Edward Everett
Horton recently bought two pigs.
They were hardly installed in the
Horton farm when one got loose,
wandered over to the adjacent
R-K-O Ranch and held up produc-
ton on 'The Hunchback of Notre
Dame" and "Abe Lincoln Of 1li-
nois." 1t was quite funny to see
Hunchback Laughton and President
Massey drop everything to catch the
pig.
Sight Of the week. .s, Basil Rath-
bone playing with . dolls house on
The Tower Of London" set.
-. Ann Sheridan b 4 Dir personal
success on her current +in- the flesh"
tour. Not 30 her act, which Variety
describes q . ~sti6, unfunny, ques-
tion.and-ansWer peEied.s
Evening star., 1939-10-16

CllC llIiCsup lS SUINcGLllIlS ike LfllS /.
Tomorrow, Wednesday and Thurs
day the st. Pauls Players stage the
Glare Hummer comedy, Her Mas
ter's Voice." at St. Paul's Auditor
ium, 1921 v street NV. The cast
includes Eugene Macdonald, Doro-
thy Craig, Hubert O'Boyle, John
Lander. Mary 10 Dunning, Onelia
Caraballo and Leonard Raster. In
the note we have from the group
the name, Onelia Caraballo, is
crossed out and Onelia Carraballo
written in. It's just one of the
minor confusions with which we
have started the week.
Tomorrow, Wednesday and Friday
nights the Mount Vernon Players
will embark upon the new season
with group of three one-act plays,
to be presented at Undercroft Audi
torium of Mount Vernon Place
Church, Ninth street and Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. The plays
and the players are Chekov's "A
Marriage Proposal" with Forest
Burgess, Alice Moore and Carl
Burgett: "Auf Wiedersehn," which
is about Nazis and Jews, with
Martha Boyajian, Virginia Garrett,
Robert Smith, Harold Kenady,
Marion Oliver and Wesley Allen,
and Thornton Wilder's THE Happy
Journey" with William Spencer, jr.,
Frances Harlan Odor, Leonard
Walters, Mary Coe, Everett Bennett
and Vesta Mae Ryman.
Saturday night the Montgomery
Players will present Little Shot
at the Leland Junior High School
in Chevy Chase CMdD. The players,
being guided through their various
PAGES by Director Harrison r.
Evening star., 1939-10-16

ducers, Richard Aldrich and Rich
ard Meyers. The Richards liked it,
much and Immediately, and were
all for instant casting, rehearsal
and production. The only reason
they did not was that Max Gordon,
who produced Miss BQothe's "The
Women" had an option and that
had to be Strengthened out with
Mr.. Gordon who was in Hollywood.
Mr.. Gordon turned out to be busy,
so he said it would be wiser for the
others to go ahead. So they went
ahead and here two months after
Miss Boothe started writing, the
play is ready for Washington and
just a week from Broadway.
Speaking of things happening
suddenly in the entertainment
business, Ann Rutherford is quick
like a flash the Capitol Theater's
next stage headliner. Next weeks
show was all set when Division
Manager Carter Barron heard Of
18-year-old AIMS availability. AS
soon as he could get the right people
on long distance (advt.), Miss
Rutherford was booked as an extra
added attraction; not an ordinary
extra added attraction but the kind
which delights a theater manager
as only a movie personality can.
Miss Rutherford. in whose veins
flows such dramatic blood as that
of Richard Mansfield, will be rec
ognized easily as the sweetheart
of Mickey Rooney in those popular
Hardy family episodes. Three Of
the Hardy pictures have featured
her pretty face and deft acting.
They, together with her performance
in "A Christmas Carol" last year,
constitute her best known screen
vehicles.
For four years Miss Rutherford
has been in the movies, all of them
as one of the most attractive men,
bers of M-G-M's brood of juveniles.
That, however, does not represent
the sum total of her experience. She
has been playing since she was s.,
first with her parents, who were
professionals, later on the radio.
One of the interesting facts of her
radio experience is that she fire.
quently played old women, a reflec-
ton, perhaps, of the power Of IL
Evening star., 1939-10-16

LEND AN EAR-All OF these
people are Darionsly inDolped T.,
tn the business OF making
your music at seperdl OF the
to1Dn's dtter-dark h1unts. Rn-
dolph Friml, jr. (directly
dbove), son OF the famed COM
poser, has brought his orches-
ira and Chdnteuse Arlyne
Chandler upper right) to the
Club Lafayette OF the Latay-
ette Hotel. EUelyn Tyner
upper CENTER contributes her
rare piano doings to the en-
tertainment at the Roger
Smith Hotels Cafe Caprice,
Muriel Sherman I'm the cir
cle) is the neD Songstress at
the MdyfoDer Lounge and
Catherine Hoyt floDer right
sings ,Dith Bill McCune's or
cheStra at the Shar-Znd,
Carlton Hotel supper club.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Doug, Jr., Looks Frightened
Without Great Effort
by SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Dorothy Lamor has Sunday breakfast
four gentlemen Ditto Madeleine
thought there shortage of Hollywood
tries make Cary Grant and
show and wasteful expenditure
ride in Carys coupe-and like Douglas Fairbanks
lin 'front.' of olarpes snakes for thsa -
Evening star., 1939-10-16

pCtltlO1l Will MlSS CldlTC oOOtlle.
Miss Boothe is another rapid writer
Of plays and by way of proof there
is Margin of Error" which opens at
the National. She tipped that out
of her typewriter in less than two
weeks. which is quick production in
any language, including Esperanto.
To write a play in a fortnight,
even if you are a Claire Boothe or a
Noel Coward, which so few people
are, naturally necessitates a gesta-
tory period. Margin for Error" did
not just pop into the authors mind
and right out of the typewriter.
The idea began developing in con-
sciousness last spring, developed
further during the summer when
Miss Boothe was touring Europe
from Brest to Bratislava and back
again.
Never a line did she write on it.,
however, until she returned to this
country on August IA. But after all
she saw in Europe and after all she
had thought on the subject, Miss
Boothe was in no mood to daily.
She went Immediately to her home
In Greenwich, Conn, plunged into
the subject with her whole being,
and two weeks later had the drama
ready for the, then potential, pro-
Evening star., 1939-10-16

necessary, was sheilah Grahan.
recently trying to make up her mind
on the set whether she wanted q
drink. She took . sip of Robert
Cummings orange Juice, then gulp
Of Ray Milland's carrot juice, pond
cred . while, then said firmly
mo, I don't want anything" !.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Join in Welcome

Nan Grey, Vincent Price and
John Sutton have Joined the cast
Of Universars "The Invisible Man
Returns" Sir Cedric Hardwicke
also has an important role in this
film, which Joe May has been as
signed to direct.
Evening star., 1939-10-16

exploded Doug
II am frighten-
ed" Mickey
Rooney = W h o
gets arou n d
these days and
nights - chiefly
nightly - doing
the La Conga
with M arth h q
Raye.
Sonia Henie,
who, like Mr..
Grant, does not
believe In SPEND
ing money un-
less absolutely
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Miss Booth, Like Coward,
Writes With Celebrity
Used Fortnight on New National Play;
Ann Rutherford Booked as Added
Stage Attraction at Capitol
By JAY CARMODY,

is Noel coward name which usually bobs up when the conversation
for ceeriy that probably could of drama
ung between here Chevy Chase Chevy
tackle morning
spirited probably
Evening star., 1939-10-16

Hathaway, are Mrs. Elizabeth
Heatherington, Ed Wilkinson, Lois
Earnest, Dolph Bishop. Reginald
Beard and William Mcintyre.
Director Howard Wentworth of
the Pierce Hall Players has inaugu-
rated a new rehearsal system this
year, as of the groups first play
Of its 10th anniversary season, The
Show-Off," which it is preparing
against the night of October IS.
Instead of holding rehearsals three
nights week over a period of six
weeks to two months, as in former
years, the boys and girls now will
get together to belabor lines and
business every night the two weeks
prior to production.
At the moment members of the
Pierce Hall group are preparing not
only for the successful George Kelly
comedy, but for their 10th anniver-
sary jamboree, to be held in Pierce
Hall October 80.
Since the last communique from
the players there has been one cast
change lin "The Show-Of." George
Sandefer replaces J. Walter Reser,
Mr.. Reser having yielded his role
that he may take advantage of a
scholarship at the King-Smith
Studio.
+ 4
Bulletin Across the Potomac:
"The impersonatOrs of plotters,
prosecutors, prosecutors, lunatics,
ETC., who will comprise the cast for
"One Mad Night" to be staged in
Madison School auditorium Friday,
November 3, by the Falls Church
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Local Drama GROUPS
Three Productions Are Set
On Weeks Schedule
BY HARRY MACARTHUR,

There will be this three productions reaching
start local theater activities
addition to the three which have reached the
their initial efforts this the Montgomery Players the
Players and the Mount Vernon much other activity
afoot, what with rehearsals and the like
This however
Evening star., 1939-10-16

'ture, and told to
Look frightened"
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09
Want Negroes On
Mayors Committees
For 1910 Census

NEW YORK CTTY-(S N 81
Learning that the mayors Of cities
throughout the United States
have been asked by the Census
Bureau to appoint committees in
their respective cities TO secure
the cooperation Of the residents in
the Decennial Census Of 1910, the
National Urban League urged this
week that Negro leaders see to it
that colored persons are appoint
ed 70 the committee representing
their city.
The principal work of the COM
mittees will be to disseminate pub
licity and educational material
which will make the community
recognize that its interest in a
good and complete Census is as
great as the interest of the Census
Bureau itself. The committees will
direct their efforts toward Great
ing a spirit of cooperation on the
part of ali residents of the city
to the end that individuals and
business concerns viii report free
ly to the enumerators with the
fun assurance that, under the law,
ali the information they give is
confidential.
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09
Mrs. Bethune
Endorses T-B
Seal DriUe

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -
CA N Primary Mcleod Bethune,
president of Bethune-C CDokmafl
college, Tuesday sent an endorse
rnent of the 33rd annual Christ
man Seal campaign Of the Ma
ticnal tuberculosis association to
DR.. Kendall Emerson, managing
director Of the association. The
campaign opened on DecembeY j
and will continue through Christ
mas. '-c',e~t
''Ihe efforts of the tuberculosis
association in their fight against
tuberculosis are to be commend
cd and should be of vital import :.
ance to the entire country" Pres
ident Rethune wrote.
There Is a special need for
health education among the Me-
gro group in order to check and
combat this dreaded disease. The
sale of the Christmas seals and
the nationwide activities of the
National tuberculosis association
will always have my hearty ape
prevails
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09
Chicago Judge
Bars Return OF
Mississippian

CHICAGO - (ANP) - Federal
Judge Michael Igoe last Monday
blocked the attempt of Federal of.
ficials of Mississippi to return a
woman prisoner to that state for
an alleged liquor violation.
The judge ordered release OF
Mrs. Carrie Crystal, Brookhaven,
Mississippi and charges against he
for violating the Internal Revenue
Act in 1897, were continued get
orally. She was represented by At
torneys James A. McLendon aIlo
William Henry Huff of Chicago.
Those appearing to testify against
Mrs. Crystal were u. s. COM
missioner Baron C, Rickett, jack
son, Mississippi; Julian c. Weed,
Internal Revenue officer and u. s.
attorney John A. Loobey, the latter
of Chicago. After being convicted
in 1897 for selling wfiskey, Mrs
Crystal, the following yea was
found guilty of possessing three
gallons liquor, in Lincoln county,
Mississippi. Given a 60-day SEN
tence and fine of 800, she was
unable to pay the fine, worked it
out in County Work House by
washing, scrubbipg arld ironing.
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09
Former "Angel''
Sues DiUine For
Return OF Money

NEW YORK CITY -
{ANP) 49, Set for trlar 0Is
Monday in Supreme Court
was a suit brought by Mrs.
Verinda Brown, former
'sangel'' Of Father Divine,
seeking to compel the cult
list to account for the fl
nances of his peace Mission
movement and to repay to
her the sum of $4,4OO she
says she advanced the cult
leader.
Mrs. Brown also seeks a
court order directing Di'
vine to dissolve the peace
missions and distribute
their assets, pro rata.
among his followers. Attor-
neys declare hearings in
the case will continue for
several weeks. In his de-
fense, Father Divine i'm
sists that the advances
made by Mrs. Brown and
those associated with her
in the suit, have since been
repaid.
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09
Spend Less On
Criminals, More
For Prevention

ATLANTA, Ga.-(SNS)-
More parks and other Necessary
improvements in the environment
Of Colored people living in Atlanta
had been suggested Saturday In
findings and recommendations re-
Sulting from Youth Crusade Week,
conducted ny the senior and young
peoples departments of st. Mark
Methodist church, white.
The white group made an urgent
plea that steps be taken to elilni-
nate the poverty, suffering and lack
of opportunity among colored
persons,
The report pointed out that the
city spsuds more money on colored
criminals, out insisted that this
could be prevented by stopping
crime at its source, by building
more parks and making other ne3'
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09
Had Gun,
Police
Contend
NAACP Head
Was Hunted By
Hooded Order

GREENVILLE, sc. (ANP)
There may be no connection
between official Greenville and
the Ku Klux Klan, but observers
here are inclined to doubt it fol-
lowing the arrest last week of
James A. Briar, oo-year-old
N. A. A: c. P. branch president,
ON charges of carrying a gun
and confiscation of the weapon.
Mr.. Briar's home has been visited
On several occasions by Klaiasmen
but he was always ''out." The hood
ed order, which began its reign OF
terrorism here several months ago
when Negroes registered for the
city elections, considers the NAACr
leader responsible in large extent
for registrations and the Unrest to
white supremacy"
When Klansmen were unable to
seize Briar on their several night
raids, Detectives Henry Ballard
and r. D. Wood stopped him on
a street Thursday afternoon. After
searching him and finding a 80
ca!ibre pistol on q SO calibre
frame, officers asked:
"Who are you going to shootP"
Nobody
"Then why are you carrying o
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09

WASHINGTON-( (ANF)-Cnarles
S. Johnson of Fisk University was
recently appointed a member OF
Industry committee, No. 9 for tbs
Railroad Carrier Industry oy
Harold D. Jacobs, acting admin
istrator of the wage and hour
division Of the department. of labor.
DR.. johnson is one of the four
members chosen to represent the
public.
Other members # the public
committee are: Frank Porter Gra-
nam. president. University ot North
Carolina, chairman: w. H. Spen-
GER, University OF Chicago; and
Oscar K. Cushing of San Fran
cisco. Eight additional persons COM
prise the group four for lne er1-
ployees, and four for the employ
ers. :. ~.. .t.
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09

CHICAGO-(ANP)-An IL year
old junior ut Wendell Phillips high
school, who is blind, fatherless ana
underprivileged even for Negro,
nevertheless feels so deeply about
this nation that he just won $50
prize for the best essay on Ameri-
canisln written by any high school
pupil in Cook county.
This boy, William King, was
guest of honor Thursday downtown:
at the Kiwanis club where several
hundred clubmen had gathered
The Kiwanians cheered as the
youth was led to the platform ano
introduced by President Herbert 8.
Simpson of the club.
BILLY King represents the true
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09

those found in need.
II. l.. Mitchell of Memphis
(white) and F. r. Betton, STU
president and vice president, re-
spectively, told DR.. Alexander that
approximately 1900 former share
Croppers in Southeastern Missouri
were without employment and in
need, that in a makeshift camp
near Poplar Bluff, MO, 81 displaced
tenant families faced death from
starvation and exposure this win
ter"
Betton told tile administrator
that a shift to machinery was
causing displacement of thousands
OF tenants and sharecroppers from,
cotton plantations not only IN Mis-.
souri, but in other Southern states.
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09
Sues For Right
To Take Civil
Service Exam

NORFOLK, Ea.-(ANP)-ETnest
Wright, well known Norfolhan,
has filed suit in U. S. District
Court to compel the city to grant
Negroes the privilege OF taking
civil service examinations for po-
sitions on the police force. At-
torney F.. j. Thurgood is repre-
senting Wright.
Wright said he fileo an applica-
ton early in October with the
Civil Service Commission, for the
exam set for October 81, but on
October II he was informed that
only white men were eligible for
the test.
The suit was brought, said
Wright: For the benefit Of him.
self and other qualified members
of the Negro race who were and
are denied lawful examinations
for appointment as members OF
the division of police of the city
of Norfolk % Members of the city
Continued oya Rack FaEe1
The Phoenix index., 1939-12-09
Blind Boy Writes Best
AmericaniSm ESSAY

America Simpson said. SIT Is II,
such a struggle as he is making
and in such pride lie takes in his
country that the history of tie
nation has been written. Somehow
I am more stirred than l have been
in years when / contemplate that
among all the rich and poor. the
over, privileged and the undef-
privileged youth of our high
schools, the one to write the best
essay on Americanism Is this boy
who battles sucn handicaps.
Il predict that when those more
fortunate than he are writing
ali!ois for their failures he will be
creating a record of real success
All honor to him."