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their independence for themselves
alone.
The romance between Fonda and
Miss Colbert, she wealthy, carefully
reared city girl. he a high powered
pioneer, is treated as personal
affair, but not to the exclusion of
an inference that it was generally
representative of young loves cruel
difficulties in the wilderness. It is
effectively developed for both values,
with Miss Colbert and Fonda being
highly convincing in their respec-
tive roles.
Mr.. Ford's flair for battle scenes,
expressed in two expansive Sc
quences, enhances the value of
Drums Along the Mohawk" consid-
erably. 1t lets the audience down
upon only one occasion, that near
the end when Fonda stages a cross
country race with some Indians
which makes somewhat incredible
prelude to the climactic battle
which is to come.
In addition to the principals,
other performers who stand out
among the pictorial beauty of the
picture are Edna May Oliver as
frontier widow, Eddie Collins as
a frontier buffoon, John Carradine
as a villain, and Roger Imhof as a
stalwart old farmer-general-J. c.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Copy Cats Cause
Sli6ht ImpasSe

Tendency of Hollywood extra
girls to copy coiffures Of stars
caused temporary impasse on
Paramount's Road to Singapore"
company.
When Director Victor Schert-
Finger arrived to fl mscenes aboard
a yacht with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
and Judith Barrett he found IA
Judiths on the set.
A dozen extra girls had been
ordered for atmosphere.
Then in walked, Judith and her
stand-in.
Schertzinger looked at the collec-
ton. Every one was a blond and
each had her hair just like Miss
Barrett's.
The director ordered the hair
dresses Of the extras changed.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Dogs Life Is the One
Director Leads

Because Smitty doesn't like Rancy
and vice versa, and Duke is jealous
of both, Director Archie Mayo Is
coping with three distinct types o1
artistic temperament on the set OF
Walter Wanger's House Across the
Bay" George Raft-Joan Bennett
starring picture.
Smitty, 160-pound Great Dane
evidently can see no excuse for
Rancy, a Chihuahua that weighs
pounds soaking wet. On the other
hand, Rancy has Smitty figured as
conceited, dull ignoramus, and
would like nothing better than to
tear off his head.
Duke is Miss BENEFITS cocker
spaniel. He doesn't understand that
motion pictures are only make be-
lieve and resents the fact that his
mistress must fondle and pet two
strange dogs.
It's Director Mayo's task to keep
the three dogs apart. So far he has
done pretty well, but he's keeping his
fingers crossed.
Evening star., 1939-12-02

the valleys vaunted sleepiness oc-
casionally intrudes upon the story,
which otherwise has many finely
realized dramatic moments, some of
violence and taut suspense, others
OF tenderness, and still others of
sturdy bucolic comedy.
In granting Mr.. Ford the right
OF eminent domain over this mar
velously photogenic area of Amer
lea, Goth Century-Fox manifested its
usual bounty. 1t permitted him all
the sweep he thought his cameras
should have, and that, every Ford
ian knows, is great deal of sweep.
1t enables him to treat Edmonds'
fine piece of historical fiction with
high fidelity.
The picture has the incidental
quality of representing Miss Col
bert's first venture into technicolor,
tardy union some may think in
view OF the fact that they obviously
were made for each other.
In his treatment of Edmonds'
story, Mr.. Ford shows his aware
ness that the material is not new,
that one piece of Colonial life es-
sentially is like another. He has
tried, therefore, to find the fullest
dramatic meaning in the various
lives, individual and community,
with which his script deals. Drums
Along the Mohawk" thus acquires
some brilliant passages, best when
they are tinctured with comedy, as
Is the scene in the village church
when Providence's attention Is
called specifically to the needs of
the community. Arthur Shields,
once of the Abbey players, and Mr..
Ford collaborate to make that Sc
quence a humorously Illuminating
revelation of frontier directness and
simplicity. It is a case of Heaven
getting talking to, yet it never
takes on the color of irreverence.
Many similar bits of lusty come
dy find their way into the pattern
of the picture, but its main theme is
that life was challenging, melo-
dramatic affair for those who took
such valleys as the Mohawk from
the wilderness, the Indians and the
Tories, none of which liked the in
dependent spirit of the white set
tiers.
In its serious moments, however,
the film sometimes misses the ex-
cellence of its lighter ones. The
return Of the farmer army from
its desperate victorious struggle with
the Tory-inspired Indians, for ex-
ample, misses some of the luster 1t
Should have. The story of that
victory Is told primarily in Fonda's
account to his wife miss Colbert)
as she dresses his wounds, but 50
much time is consumed in the telling
that its drama thins out almost to
the vanishing point.
1t is an interesting revelation of
the film in its more somber and
violent phases that the Mohawk
farmers were not bothered much
by the basic considerations of the
Revolution. They were land lovers
and they did not want to be
bothered by anyone, Indian, British
or even the Continental Congress.
They were fighting. indeed, to keep
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decency is Dashed with maniacal
fury every time 1t rears its pretty
head. Through all these happenings,
lumbers the mad squire, discoursing
philosophically upon the beauty Of
life even as his cunning, diseased
brain broods upon bigger and better
brigandage and more sanguinary
slaughter.
Next to Laughton's performance,
the best thing about Jamaica Inn"
Is the contrast between its lofty
dialogue and the lowness of its
moral tone. 1t is a contrast that Is
retained to the very end when the
finally cornered, completely insane
squire jumps to his death with the
admonition to onlookers that they
tell your children you saw the end
Of the great age" 1t gives the pic
ture an entertaining flavor that it
lacks in some long, tedious exposi-
tory passages. and in some In which
dramatic effects are spoiled by the
obvious trickery of the photography.
A sterling cast. headed by freshly
pretty Maureen OHara and includ-
ing Emlyn Williams, Leslie Banks,
Robert Newton, Wylie Watson and
others gives Laughton competent
assistance in bringing Jamaica Inn"
to the screen.
Cooks Laugh Factory" domi-
mated so completely by the old
maestro himself, is not SO exclusively
a funny affair that 1t is altogether
lacking in beauty. The 20 Chester
Hale girls who are In charge Of the
beauty department do highly COM
petent job, most especially in fan
dance (well, in manner of speak
ing) which is downright brilliant in
form and coloring.
The ultimately wacky note in the
Cook ceremonies is reached in a
Rube Goldberg-like arrangement of
a recording band In which an elab-
crate mechanism involving a trip
hammer, q seltzer bottle, q cream
pie, a huge press and the personnel
to operate them combine to produce
two faint, discordant notes. On the
way to that climax, Cook has not
bothered to create entirely new ma
terial, and well he might have
avoided that in view of the happy
reception Of the old familiar rou-
tines. Stooge Charlie Senna, dane
ers Sager and Sherman. the juggling
Deweys, and several others partici-
pate in the lunacy of it all.
Evening star., 1939-12-02

SIlOulucIS, dIlO 1uSl III Del SlildIl, Ola
exciting newcomer from Sweden,
breathe life into the unwanted, un-
expected, but inevitable romance
which intrudes upon a home
They breathe life into 1t; it is an
intelligently woven and sensitively
developed story of a love which
famed an intermezzo-an interlude
to be thrust aside but to be never
forgotten. They breathe life into
it and then along comes Hollywood
to breathe melodrama into a
trumped up ending and you feel
cheated.
The picture (Which is the new
attraction at Loew's CapitoD deals
with a concert violinist approach
ing middle age comfortably, pleas
antly, with a wife, children and
home to which he always returns
zestfully from his tours. and with
the young pianist he can't resist
loving. Conventional triangle stuff,
you may say. But it Is not treated
conventionally; it becomes a tender
and hterate inspection of the pas
sions and problems involved, under
the ministrations of some talented
players and the director, Gregory
Ratoff.
Mr.. Ratoff has made the most of
every scene (still speaking of only
the first seven-eighths Of Inter
mezzo'). One suspects. to be sure,
the romantic touch of Mr. Howard,
who also was the films associate
producer, in some of the more tender
moments-the moment of loves
dawning between the two, for in
stance, and the final farewell,
when the violinist goes happily off
to mountain picnic, unaware that
the young pianist has meant it
when she has said "good-by' in
answer to his "au revoir."
This is where "Intermezzo" stops
being an extraordinary photoplay
and becomes just another strip of
celluloid which has been exposed to
a script writer caught. in a guam
Diary and reaching for the easiest
way out. The violinist has loved,
against his will at first; has left
his home, has had his intermezzo.
The girl has loved, against her will
at first; has had her intermezzo,
has come to know she never can
mean what home can mean to the
man she loves. You know full well
the musician will find his way back
to his wife some way, some time,
and you don't need the ordinary
melodramatics of screeching brakes
and an injured little girl to tell
you how and when.
But for this, which certainly
would not seem so out of place If
the rest OF the film were not so
expertly done. there could hardly
be a complaint against "Intermezzo.' y
And it can boast a new person.
ality as thrilling as any introduced
by the screen in long time, this
Ingrid Bergman. She is far from
being a pretty girl, by the usual
Hollywood standards, which, OF
course, is something to be thank
full for If we have another Thanks
Evening star., 1939-12-02

Dancers in Recital
Tomorrow Might

Erika Thimey and Hans Wiener,
noted modern dancers, will be
presented in . recital tomorrow
night at $50 O'Clock at the Ward
man Park Theater by the King
Smith Studio School.
Miss Thimey is q talented young
artist who has appeared in both
Europe and America. Her manner is
marked by humor, expert technique
and rhythm and . unique style. She
has had q European background
but her work is noted for q dis
tinct individuansm.
Mr.. Wiener was born in Vienna
and became well known in the
principal cities of Europe before
coming to America to dance. For
the last eight years he and his dance
group have appeared with the Bos-
ton Symphony Orchestra.
Ruth Culbertson of Boston will
accompany the dancers at the
piano and percussion instruments
will be played by Adele Hooper
also Of Boston. .
Evening star., 1939-12-02

which has been crowded out Of top
billing and sundry other affairs.
Football games are the battles be-
tween Missouri and Kansas, Prince
ton and Rutgers, Southern Califor-
MIA and Notre Dame, Yale and
Harvard and Cornell and Pennsyl-
vania.
There's quite variety among the
short subjects on the weeks pro-
gram at the Trans-Lux. One Of
Evening star., 1939-12-02

them, titled Millions of Fish," goes
out with the fishing fleet and re-
turns to tell you of all the amazing
uses to which sardine oil can be put,
from making lipstick stay on to
washing dishes to painting a house.
Another is that daft Disney master-
piece, Mother Goose Goes Holly.
wood; the travelogue visits his
toric cities in India and there's an
Our Gang comedy. H. NJ
Evening star., 1939-12-02
In Play Tonight

The Montgomery Players Of
Chevy Chase and Bethesda will
stage Philip Barry's "1he Joyous
Season" tonight at $3.50 o'clock in
the auditorium of Leland Junior
High School The play is under
direction of Jane Plummer Rice.
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Romance Brought to Life
In Capitol's '1ntermezzo'
Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard
In Film With Few Faults;
Larry Adler on Stage
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Maybe would be best for to Just the first Of
"Inemezo Story and let point about
minutes before its end ntermez (Which probably the
distinguish comedy with
compelling Leslie
a his
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Lunacy Has a Field Day
In Earle's Program
Joe Cook Mad on the Stage Bill
While Laughton Makes Lusty Thing
OF Insanity in Jamaica Inn
BY JAY CARMODY.

Two masterpieces Of madness for those who specialize in that
OF thing this department frankly display
this week One the delightful form which has
laughing jag for the Republic for two decades The other
broad eerg wkedness which Charles Laugon
in the Jamaica
Evening star., 1939-12-02
Colbert and Fonda Bring
Best Seller to Palace
Drums Along the Mohawk at Best
In Its Comedy and Pictorial
Beauty of Its Setting
Beauty of Its Setting

colonial history gives the another turbulent pageant
Aong the Mohawk which opened
with Claudette Colbert starring roles
direction OF John Ford who
Walter
al he beauty his Mohawk Valley
Evening star., 1939-12-02

unMC 1880 c st. NE
NO PLACE TO GO" with DENNIS
MORGAN. GLORIA DICKSON, FRED
STONE. At l. $40. 6:15, s:55.
BOBBY BREFN in WAY DOWN
SOUTH" At 1855. 4:35, 7:15, 9:50.
KENNCOVKennedy, Near 18th NV.
NLlNlNED RA. $500. Mat. PM.
Parking Space Available to Patrons
ANDREA LEEDS, JOEL McCREh in
THEY SHALL HAVE MUSIC At
Evening star., 1939-12-02

KANE RICHMOND in THE Es-
| CAPE" At 40. $50, $40. a:1O.
| LINDA WARE in "EVERYTHING,S
| ON ICE" At 2:20. 5, $50, 10.
| Short Suhiert
Evening star., 1939-12-02
ESQ Pa. Avenue Sc.

UENN tOU "a. avenue S.E.
! LlNlN Ii. 21s9. Mat. PM.
Isl 600 A TOUCHDOWN" At l:20.
3 3::35 $50. $50. 9.45
Evening star., 1939-02-19

Do as millions of other mothers have
done and as many doctors recommend
-. give your child cod liver oil in this
more easily di6ested form
SCOTS EMULSION. Get a bottle
at your druggists today.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

I. Seess's Emulsion - made from Sc
lected cod liver Oils four times
easier to digest than plain cod liver
oil because the cod liver oil is
brokenintotiny, easily digested units
by our exclusive process. Children
are less apt to regurgitate (spit up)
Scott's Emulsion.
z. II 10 pleasant tasting i. easy for
children to take.
,. Il 10 rich in Vitamins A and D. Ba-
bies and children have thrived on it for
so years.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

REGULAR SERVICE
70 EUROPE
Weekly sailings from New York. Ex-
press crossings on the superliners Rex and
Conte di Savoia to Gibfalrar, Naples,
Cannes, Genoa.
Leiurey pe,sges on the Roma, Saturnia
and Vulcania to Gibraltar, Algiers,
Naples and the Adriatic with varying
itineraries including many pors. Ask
Travel Agent for details.
mediterranean CRUISES
Lido cruises of varying duration and
Itinerary are offered BY the Italian Line
during the Summer season. Ask your
Travel Agent for dates, rates and descrip-
tive literature.
Evening star., 1939-02-19

harbors brilliant with color and ageless spendor.
How delightful, too, to find congenial fellow
travellers to share your interests -. types you'll
like instincrvely at sight! On Italian Liners, that
unknown quantity of ocean navel 0he people
you'll meee) is Of k1sDm quality.
Promise yourself these distinctive pleasures on
Southern Route crossing For thrilling, different,
snfergtt,abit itinerary-include Lido in your
European Trip!
Evening star., 1939-05-04

that's different and a crew Of pi-
rates to keep you in line. Cover
charge.
Raleigh Hotel-Dancing nightly
at dinner and supper to music by
Jimmy Santmyer's Orchestra, in the
Pail Mall Room. Dress preferred
but unnecessary. Minimum charge
Saturday night only.
Russian Troika-Russian cuisine
and floor shows, with skits in the
chauve souris manner. Dancing
nightly, including Sundays.
Shar-Zad-Carlton Hotels init
mate cocktail and supper dancing
rendezvous. Dance music by the
Biltmore Boys with songs by Lou
Martel.
Shoreham Hotel-There's a gay
show staged twice nightly in the
Blue Room, dancing music by Bar
nee; cover charge, except for din
ner guests.
Spanish Garden Ballr00m-Glen
Echo Parks dance rendezvous, with
music by Herbie Holmes.
Uptown-Cocktail lounge across
from the Uptown Theater on Con-
necticut avenue. Entertainment.
No cover, no minimum.
Wardman Park Hotel-Paul Kahn
and his orchestra play for dancing
nightly in the Metronome Room
from 10 to 2. Minimum charge.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Mrs. Rubinowitz
To Be Banquet Guest

Mrs. Simoha Rabinowitz, New
York, vice president Of the Miz-
rachi Women's Organization of
America, will represent the group
at the annual donors banquet Sun
day of the local chapter. While
here she will confer with officers
Of the Washington Juniors.
The senior chapter, at whose BAN
quet Mrs. Rabinowitz will be a
guest speaker, is active in behalf
Of the Palestine projects of the
Mizrachi women. Affiliated with
the orthodox wing of the Zionist
movement, the national organiza-
ton sponsors hostels and training
schools for refugee and native girls
in the Holy Land.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
After Dark
Smart People, Smart Things, Smart Places
By the Spectator


dancing to the Norton music; mini
mum charge.
Brown Derby-A mad spot, out
on Connecticut avenue, where any,
thing is likely to happen. No danc-
ing, for there's no room for 1t, but
there is entertainment by Pianist
George Berg and AL Simmons.
Cafe Caprice-The cocktail lounge
at the Roger Smith Hotel, with en-
tertainment by Peggy Townsend,
dance music nightly by Tiny
Meeker's Orchestra.
CheckerbOard Room - Lafayette
Hotel lounge, entertainment from
to and 10 to l.
Hamilton H0tel-Milton Davis and
the orchestra play for dancing in
the Rainbow Room from S until
and from 10 until l.
Hay-AdamS HOuse-Dinner music
nightly by Larry Hendrick at the
Hammond organ.
Hi-Hat LOunge-At the Ambassa-
dor Hotel, entertainment nightly by
Angie Rodante and the Red Jackets.
Lotus-Shows, featuring several
acts and a chorus, at l, 7::30 and
1870 pm; dancing to Bill Strick-
lands Orchestra; minimum charge
Lounge Riviera-Gay and intimate
spot at 2400 Sixteenth street, with
dancing until 2 by Pete Macias and
his orchestra.
Madrillon-Spanish and American
cuisine; dancing, 7:30 until 1:30, tc
music by Carr Van Sickler, Dor
Shook and their orchestra. Songs
by Mary La Marr.
Mayf1Ower LOunge-Dick Koons
Orchestra plays for dancing from
to 7 and after 10, when there's g
minimum charge.
Pirates Den-Dining and dancing
rendezvous with an atmosphere
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Comp Counselor Courses

The Twelfth Street Branch, Y.
M. C. A., will begin series of
Thursday night camp counselor
courses at 7 pm. today. Senior
and junior counselors for Camp
Lichtman will be selected from stu
dents in the course. Miss Florence
Dunlap, director of Camp Kahlert,
will open the May series tonight
with a talk on the responsibilities
of a counselor.
Other speakers in the series in
clude Stanley M. Hawkins and
Donald S. McHenry of the National
Park Service and Harold Martin
of Miner Teachers College. Meet
ings will be held in Clark Cabin
of the boys department of the
Twelfth Street Branch.
Evening star., 1939-05-04
Washington BoIIet
Proqrum Tomorrow

The Washington National Ballet
will hold its final rehearsal tonight
for the dance program to be present.
ed tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in
the auditorium of Roosevelt High
School. The ballet is being direct
ed by Miss Lisa Gardiner.
DR.. Kurt Hetzel will conduct the
Washington Civic Orchestra in mu-
sic for the program, offered as the
last in the Fridays at Nine" series.
Evening star., 1939-05-04

Anchor Room-Lounge at the
Annapolis Hotel; no dancing but
entertainment by Matt Windsor and
his accordion.
Bamboo Garden-Floor shows ct
/, 7:30 and IL, featuring Al Norton,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-11-09

Mrs. Anna Wosoba is working foI
Mrs. Ira Evans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Evans and daugh-
ter, Roberta, and Mrs. Kate Roberts
were Spokane shoppers Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. F. Jolly we're Spo.
kane shoppers Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Zundel ano
family were Coulee Dam callers Fri
day.
R. H. Helton and Earl Heathman
left Wednesday for Flint, Mich, tc
drive back new car. r. Fl. Helton
went for Bill Friedrich.
Mrs. R. H. Heton is staying al
the home CT her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
P. Z. Coley.
The Weekly Bridge club was enter
tanned at the home of Mrs. Ton
Martin Friday afternoon. The hostes,
served very appetizing lunch.
Oscar Mccoy of Moses Lake was a
Hartline caller Friday.
Mrs. ODDS Higginbotham and Mrs
George Higginbotham returned home
from Spokane Saturday noon.
We are glad to report Mrs. Jose
phine Volk slowly improving.
Blind Spring Grange met in regu
lar session Saturday night with g
good attendance. Superintendent ant
Mrs T. Martin and Miss Gossett wa<
given the first and second degrees
Following the business session a lit
erary program was presented by Lee
turer Mrs. III. H. H. Hirsehel. Re
freshments were served and dancing
completed the evenings entertain
ment.
Mrs. II. G Kephart is rapidly i'm
proving at the home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Underwood, anc.
will be able to be up by the end OF
the week.
lila Kephart and Clarence Jacobs
of Spokane were married at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J.. i.
Kephart, Saturday Their daughter:
Elinor, was also married about a
month ago to Leo Schubert of Spo'
kane. The Kephart family were form
err Hartline residents.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-11-09
HartIine News

Maritime Especially Kate Rob.
erts left Wednesday for few days
visit at Ephrata before returning
to Winlock. She has been visiting hel
daughter and family, Mr.. and Mrs
Ira Evans and her many Hartline
friends.
Cecil Rose, oldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Rose. and Miss Evelyn San
ford of Republic, were married at
the home of the brides parents We'd
nesday.
Melvie Jess is charging his back
porch and will inclose the same. Thi.
will be great improvement to thei1
ranch home.
Vernon Haase has been busy put
ting a new foundation under theil
residence. He plans to add back
porch also.
Our nights are rather cold, with
heavy frosts but old Sol stays OIL
the job during the day.
Mrs. L. w. Higginootham gave
Halloween party for her SUNDAY
School class at her home Monday
night. The young people came masked
and very enjoyable evening was had
The hostess served a delicious lunch
con, with Halloween favors.
Mrs. William Behne entertained
her Sunday School class of little folks
at the church basement after schoo.
Tuesday evening. The children hao
their usual good time as always when
Mrs. Behne gives them party.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-11-09

Of all automobiles involved in
fatal accidents in 1888, only 1870
were found to have defective
brakes; in fact, only 1879 were
found to have any mechanical de-
fects at all. These astounding
figures are found in an analysis of
the automobile accident expert
ence of 1888 just issued by the
Travellers Insurance Company.
Many drivers, if they will be
honest, can usually trace the
cause of an accident to some fail
ure of their own mental or tenn
peramental equipment rather than
in their mechanical equipment,
the analysis states. They will in
sist that the steering wheel
locked, or that the gas pedal stuck,
or that the brakes failed; but
figures indicate that more than
900 of all vehicles involved in
fatal and non-fatal smashups are
in apparently good mechanical
condition with none of the numer-
Gus defects that drivers claim.
Of a total of 37,250 motor vehi-
cles involved in fatal accidents in
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-11-09
CHRISTMAS SEALS WEAPONS
AGAINST DISEASE OF MANKmp

A striking comparison between
war to save life and one to destroy
1t, was drawn by DR.. John E. Nelson
OF Seattle, chairman Of the Tubercul-
osis Committee Of the Washington
State Medical Association in discuss
Ing the annual nationwide sale Of
Christmas Seals, which opens Deem
Der LIST.
"Today in many parts Of the world
men are drawn up in battle array for
the destruction Of human life," said
pr Nelson, "while in the United States
men, women and children are prepar.
ing to LAUGH an aggressive attack to
save lives. using tiny colorful Christ.
mas Seals as their weapons.
"For thirtythree years." continu
cd Dr.. Nelson, "the Christmas seal
has been one Of the greatest factors
in bringing home to people the vital
importance Of controlling tuberculosis,