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Evening star., 1939-02-26

q PAVING travelled nearly 100000
miles around this country in
the last five years, my wife and
l have repeatedly marveled at the
dramatic evidences of development in
school construction. But it was not
until we visited town of 18, 900 pop
ulation in northern Minnesota that
we actually saw just where this
progress is leading us.
Having seen only recently the first
schoolhouse in America at Saint
Augustine, we were indeed ripe for the
treat of visiting what has been aptly
called the School of Tomorrow. For
in the town of Hibbing. some ninety
miles northwest of Duluth, there has
been completed a one-story grade
school which is a veritable gem of
modern efficiency.
Hibbing, incidentally. boasts the
second largest high school in the
Evening star., 1939-02-26

"A washday miracle WASHES white
clothes far whittier than dreamed possible
before" "It's almost unbelievable how
such fast-washing soap can be so SAFE for
washable colors and hands"
So say three of the thousands Of women
who have switched to this latest, imbroped
mo scrub" SOAP For new Higb-TeH OXY-
DOL contains an amazing new ingredient
that Proctor & Gamble scientists have been
working with for years.
Compared TO old fashioned bar and pack
age soaps tested, new High Test Oxydol has
been found to do these things
Q) Washes white clothes up to ls%
whiter, as shown by scientific Tintometer
records. (2) Gives up to tWiee the ssds even
in hard water. Thick, hard-working suds that
Evening star., 1939-02-26
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
LITTLE GLASS SC8OO18OUSE
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dren had previously been in old-type
schools and they, as might be expected, y
were most enthusiastic of all.
All four of those who had reserva-
tions were in the sixth grade, and they
felt that it would be nice to be able to
see out of the windows - viewpoint
which might we'll indicate that they
are suffering from "far-sightedness"
and need eye attention. This desire to
look off into the distance is common
symptom of eye strain from short
ened eyeball's being forced to do too
much close work unaided.
As an average taxpayer, your natu-
raj reaction to all this is. Its cer-
tainly nice to have If you can
afford it," At least. that was my
reaction. To which Architect Taylor
smiled quietly and said:
Most of the other schools in this
territory cost anywhere from As cents
to 65 cents per cubic foot. The unit
cost of this one was rs cents per cubic
foot"
The thing which makes it look
expensive is the high ratio of glass
block, yet Mr.. Taylor's cost figures
show that this is really an economy
These units are hollow" he explains.
averaging 65 per cent vacuum. which
serves as an insulator to heat. cold and
sound. In fact, the insulation value is
equal to that of a sixteen-inch masonry
wall. 1t also has the advantage of low
maintenance cost. better temperature
control, lower heating cost, and in
creased natural-lighting area. And the
glass construction permitted cheaper
installation than equivalent areas Of
wood sash and weather-stripping, not
to mention a substantial saving in
painting.
Being the first school of its kind.
we naturally had some bugs - the
worst being the problem of sealing the
glass-block areas against our terrific
temperature range But we've elimi~
mated them and now, think we have
something to be proud Of"
May l rise to say that think Mr..
Taylor is jolly we'll right?
Evening star., 1939-02-26
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That You Hear So Much About These Days

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But that's not all. Higb-Tesf Oxydol soaks
dirt loose in as little as 10 minutes. No boil
ing, no scrubbing Even ground in" dirt floats
free with a few quick rubs between the fn-
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Oxydol way last to times as long from the
standpoint of washday wear and tear.
New High Test Oxydol is easy on house.
hold budgets. too. For each cup goes up. to 4
again as far-does up to 2s% more work-as
the same amount Of old fashioned soaps.
So don't fail to try new High Test OXYDOL
without delay. See If it doesn't give you an
utterly new conception of easier washdays
and whittier clothes! Proctor & Gamble.
JEsTED ~ AsPseNS Sy eoeo uousEkHnMs n6nJUU
Evening star., 1939-02-26
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

area ordinarily used in schools. The
east and west walls are practically all
glass, the vacuum block continuing
around each corner for about eight
feet.
The natural result is something
more than merely bright interior: it
is an airy lightness which makes you
feel as if the sides of the rooms we're
wide open.
This is purely mental reaction, for
there are no windos0s in this building
which can be opened. In short, no dust
from outside; no breezes blowing
things helter-skelter; no distractions
from outside.
As indicated by this radical de-
parture, the building is completely air
conditioned, the temperature, humid
ity and purity of the air being under
accurate control. Thirty cubic feet of
fresh air per minute per pupil is cir
culated throughout the classrooms.
And this, plus the food of daylight,
accentuates the feeling of refreshment
which is so striking to the visitor.
One might assume that so much
glass area would result in rooms too
brilliant on a sunny day; but this is
controlled, first. by the use of Venetian
blinds inside and, second, by clever
use of color in the interior decoration.
The walls are decorated in "hori-
zontal color scheme: that is. there
are four distinct shades between the
ceiling and the floor, each separated
by thin silver line. In the south
rooms green has been used, the top
most thirty inches being the lightest
tint and each succeeding band being
slightly wider and slightly darker as
they reach the floor. In the north
rooms buff is used for the wall color,
similarly graduated. Thus. the light
intensities in those different exposures
are neatly balanced by the wall colors.
The artificial illumination provided
is of the semi-indirect type. 80 per cent
of the light output being upward.
Each room is equipped with six 300
watt fixtures. And the most startling
thing about them to the lay visitor is
Evening star., 1939-02-26
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that they 60 on by themselves when
needed, without anybody's bothering
to press switch! They are controlled
by an electric eye" which turns them
on automatically when daylight begins
to fail, when the sun goes behind
cloud, or when somebody closes the
blinds. BY the same token. they 60 off
automatically whenever the natural
light intensity returns to par.
Far from being just another gadget,
the element of automatic light control
has been proven valuable preventive
of needless eye strain. According to
the Society for the Prevention of
Blindness, tests indicate that the eyes
ability to accommodate itself to IL
Elimination changes is so good that
people are not reliably able to detect
serious drops in light value. Hence.
when the illumination level is left to
manual control, the eyes of both
pupils and teachers are frequently
working under stress for some time
before anybody notices it.
In this school four vital physical
conditions are always under sensitive
automatic control: the ventilation. the
temperature, the humidity and the
illumination.
Of course, some people object to air
conditioning because, through poor
management, many buildings so
equipped are kept too cool for COM
fort. Consequently there is mistaken
feeling that air conditioning, per Sc.
has bad effect on health. In Hibbing,
however. Mr.. Taylor recently had a
check-up made in all the schools on
the prevalence of colds. coughs. sniff.
fles, sore throats and such minor all
ments - and it showed that there was
far less complaint on this score in the
new school than in any of the Others in
the same district.
One important question. naturally.
is, how do the children like it? For my
information, therefore. Miss Eileen
Boylan, principal. took a poll of the
1Ol pupils. 1t showed 81 to be whole
heartedly of the opinion that the new
building is Swell. Sixty of these chill
Evening star., 1939-07-20
Car Track Abandonment
Studied by Commission

Experts of the Public Utilities
Commission staf1 today began a
study Of a proposal by the Cspital
Transit Co. for abandonment Of its
street car service on Butternut
street from Georgia avenue to the
Takoma terminal
The company yesterday filed a pc
tition to this end. suggesting that
bus service would be substituted
through an extension of the routes
of the J-1, J-2. J-3 and J-6 express
busses, now serving territories to
the south.
One phase of the question to be
studied is whether the plan would
cause an overlooking of the exist
ing north and south bus lines or the
creation Of 'bottle-neck" difficulties
in passage of the buses through in
tersections in and near the down.
town section.
The commission also planned for
its annual public hearings on ad-
justment of the rates of the WASH
ington Gas Light Co. under its slid
ing scale plan. August II was set
tentatively as the date for the exam
ination of the company's financial
condition and accounts. Consum-
ers received some reduction in rates
last year. but there was none the
year previous.
Evening star., 1939-07-20
DC. Contributions
To National Parks
Cited by |ckes
Letter to King Asserts q,
Residents Pay Major Part
Of Maintenance MoDev

Acknowledgment that the Dis
trict has contributed substantially"
to the acquisition Of National Capital
parks here and that the major por-
ton Of park maintenance money
comes through District appropria-
tions h as been made by Secretary of
Interior 1ckes, In a second letter to
Chairman King Of the Senate Dis
trict Committee. clarifying the In
terror Department report against the
Overton fiscal relations formula.
In this subsequent letter, sent
shortly after the first, the Secretary
said his attention had been called to
an inaccurate statement in the de-
partment's report, which read as
follows:
Moreover. the greater portion of
the Federal lands within the Dis
trlct OF Columbia is utilized BY the
citizens of the District for recrea-
tional and general welfare purposes.
These lands are maintained and de-
veloped with Federal funds, thereby
relieving the District government Of
the necessity for substantial ex-
penditures for these purposes"
In correcting the statement, the
Secretary wrote:
THE quoted paragraph conveys
the impression that the National
Capital parks are developed and
maintained solely with Federal
funds. This is not the fact. The
major portion Of the funds used for
this purpose, mounting for the fiscal
year 1938-1939 to the sum of $685.
280. is provided for in the District
Of Columbia Appropriation Act. The
remainder Of the maintenance funds
Is provided for In the appropriation
Of Federal funds for the National
Park Service in an annual item for
the maintenance of certain areas
within the National Capital park
system. For the fiscal year 1885,
1899 this item was $227 900, part of
which was available for the main
tenance of areas outside the District
Of Columbia. The District has also
contributed substantially to the in
itial cost of the acquisition and de-
velopment of many of the National
Capital parks within its limits.
although the inaccuracy of the
report on this point is regrettable.
the erroneous statement was made
In connection with a subordinate ar
gument and in no way affects the
validity Of the principal arguments
or Of the recommendation made in
the report. The objection Of this
department to the bill was not di-
rected to the question Of whether
or not the Federal financial contri-
button to the District government
should be increased, but rather to
the adequacy and expediency of the
particular formula proposed for de-
termining the amount of such con-
tribution."
Evening star., 1939-09-17
TUESDAY

The StorJ-of Vernon
and Irene-Castle" and
They Asked for tt"
Evening star., 1939-09-17

"the Jew is completely absorbed (as
he is in China by kind treatment;
it is by persecution that he survives
as an individual of his particular
race" She dramatizes here the sug-
gestion that, perhaps, the Jew can
find peace when he is absorbed by
the race of the nation into which he
goes for refuge.
The play shows flashbacks to
earlier years when Jewish family
had fed from Persia to China. and
there they prosper as most OF the
family becomes more and more
Chinese.
Only the mother refuses to be
absorbed, and she struggles to keep
the crumbling synagogue from COM
pletely collapsing; insists that her
son marry Jewish girl and not the
Chinese girl he really loves.
In the end, the son marries the
Chinese girl, seeks happiness and
pleasure rather than try to live "in
the atmosphere of a wailing wall"
with the Jewish girl his mother had
chosen for him.
Too, the father has drifted more
and more into the way of Chinese
living, gone into business partner
ship with Chinese and found his
greatest pleasure in ignoring Jewish
dietry laws and enjoying the for
hidden food of the Chinese.
'It always amaZes me- he re-
marked to his Chineses partner,
''how the Chinese, no matter how
much prosecuted by the japanese,
are always trying to get pleasure
out of life"
The Chinese mulled over this
moment.
when faced with calamity" he
said, "is not a time for weeping. OF
the 36 methods of escape the wisest
one is to run away"
1t is a colorful, Oriental produc-
ton that the play has at Millburn
and the cast is mostly excellent.
Evening star., 1939-09-17

if she wishes. carry a pair Of canary
birds in each sleeve.
Shoup hopes to persuade. Jane
Wyman, one of the screen ladies
for whom he designs clothes, to
wear it in a picture.
1--WE do have fun In HollywoodD
This Happy Ending
Is Also the Tragic One.
/ Hanging. as the fellow said, is too
| good for him. And so, movie di-
rector decided, death was too good
for Joe Bonaparte. In other words,
Golden Boy" lives to struggle
through life as best he can.
Clifford Odets' stage play, given
the usual whitewashing before
screening, brought death to the
hero for betraying his artistic self
by seeking short cut to success
through the prize ring.
| Reuben Mamoulian, directing the
Hollywood version, had other views,
views which he pressed on Odets
until the latter consented to the
alterations. Here Is Mamoulian's ex-
planation:
Motion pictures always have been
accused of maliciously replacing
tragic endings with happy ones, but
in the case of Joe Bonaparte the
| logical end-and no less a tragic
one-is for him to go on living.
In life today death is sometimes
too pat solution. The greater
tragedies are those of persons who
force themselves to live. In our
world we cannot accept death as
solution for our difficulties or be-
| lieve that men should mend their
errors by elf-destruction."
A bow to Mr.. Mamoulian.
Mae Marsh Returns
With a Memento of the Past.
Twenty-seven years ago Mae
Marsh bought a mirror.
For most of two decades the one
time star of silent days was off the
screen. Now she's back, carving her
self a niche as character actress.
And back with her is the mirror,
peeled and Clipped, but her most
priced possession.
She is not the elfin beauty you
may recall from THE Birth of
Nation" Intolerance" or Polly of
the Circus" She is middle-aged, the
mother of three children. But she
still is an excellent actress. So good,
in fact, that her bit in Drums Along
the Mohawk" brought her contract
and assurance of steady work.
The mirror is the one link between
the old and the new Mae Marsh. It's
not hard to read her mind when
one sees the dreamy look in her
eyes as she glances in it, then pats
Evening star., 1939-09-17
Auto.Suggestion
Dogs His Days
With Wreckage
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
This story is all about auto-sug-
gestion.
Anthony Ugrin worked as still
cameraman on a picture in which
an automobile is wrecked. Then
he went to Detroit to drive back
new car of his own, a friend cau-
tioning him meanwhile to "remem-
Der that picture and drive care
fully"
II got almost all the way back
from Detroit-clear to Utah, In
fact" said Ugrin, dolefully, before
I smashed up the car
Now Ugrin is doing camera work
on "A Simple Life" in which Stuart
Erwin makes down payment on a
fine new automobile-and wrecks it..
Evening star., 1939-09-17
WEDNESDAY

THE Story Of Vernon
and Irene Castle" and
MI,hAu kskAd for II -
Evening star., 1939-09-17
Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week
SATURDAY

Anne Shirley in so
rority House" Also
Frontiers of 40"
Evening star., 1939-09-17
Mvrna's Holiday

This might answer what a CLAM
orous film star does on a day of.
Seeking to locate Myrna 10y, w. S.
Van Dykes secretary got only
She's out" as an answer. On the
phone got Van Dyke with a de-
mand for definite information. The
maid replied: Miss 10y didn't want
to be disturbed, but if you have
to reach her, she's over at Walt
Disney's, watching him make pic
tures."
Evening star., 1939-09-17
Coming Attractions

PALACE-"The Women, screen
version of Clare Booths stage
play with 135 women instead
of a mere 40) is the next
attraction here, following
THE Star-Maker." Important
women are Joan Crawford,
Rosalind Russell, Virginia
Grey. Paulette Goddard and
Norma Shearer.
EARLE-"A Child Is Born"
with Geraldine Fitzgerald
emerging as a ull-f1edged
star, is slated to open Friday.
Other people in the film,
which finds considerable of
its drama about a maternity
ward, are Gladys George and
Jeffrey Lynn. There will be
a new variety bill on the
stage, too.
CAP1TOL-"The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes" with the
master detective meeting up
with the man who boasts he
can commit a perfect crime,
opens Friday. Basil Rathbone
is Holmes, Nigel Bruce his
DR.. Watson and Alan Marshal
and Ida Lupino other people
involved. Accompanying the
film will be a new stage show.
KEITH'S-"Fifth Avenue Girl"
with Ginger Rogers as not
working working girl who sets
a millionaire's household
right. is next after The
Under-Pup." Walter Connolly
is the millionaire, Verree
Teasdale and James Ellison
others about.
METROPOLITAN &C olden
Boy" film version of Clifford
Odets' play, moves in here to
continue it's downtown run,
following the current engage
ment of THE Old Maid"
William Holden is the Golden
Boy" Adolphe Menjou and
Barbara Stanwyck people he
meets while breaking his
heart and hands.
L I T T L E-"The Old Dark
House" a super horror
thriller of 1882, is set to
follow "Cavalcade." It's cast
includes Charles Laughton,
Raymond Massey, Boris Kar-
loft and Melvyn Douglas.
Evening star., 1939-09-17
Graham
Continued From First Page.)

sonality in motion pictures. In the
same year Norma Talmadge emerged
as a star in THE Battle Cry OF
Peace" And a young producer
Hal Roach-started his first pic
tures-the Lonesome Luke comedies.
Shrieking louder than the shells
of 1916 Europe was the unprece-
dented making in movieland.
Chaplin's salary was now $4,000
week, with a bonus of S150,000-
a total of s670,O00 for the years
work. To earn this Chaplin made
THE Floorwalker" and Easy
Street" MARY Pickford went Chap
lin one better-sl0000 a week and
$500 900 bonus)
In June of 1916 the Famous Play
ers-Lasky Corp. was formed, with
Adolph Zukor president, Lasky in
control of production. Three months
later this company acquired Para
mount Pictures, a S25,000,000 con-
Germ.
In 1916 Goldwyn Pictures Corp.
was born. (The name was COM
bination of Goldfish, Goldwyn's real
name, and Edgar Selwyn The first
name-combination considered was
Selfish Pictures'D. Mary Garden,
Madge Kennedy and Mae Marsh
we're signed and Goldwyn innovated
a drive for well-known authors to
write scenarios. He brought to Hol-
lywood Rupert Hughes, Elinor Glyn,
Rex Beach and Mary Roberts Rine-
hart.
Before the end of 1916 "Intoler-
ance," the most gigantic film to
date, started production with D. w.
Griffith at the helm. The pay roll
was $4,000 day for actors and ex-
tras. The banquet hall scene alone
cost $25o,000 Lillian Gish was the
star, Eric Won Stroheim played
Pharisee. Constance Talmadge
emerged as the mountain girl
Funniest event of 1917 was the
offer of the elder Selznick Gather
of David and Myron to the over
thrown Gar of Russia to appear in
a picture, at his own price. The
In 1917, when the United States
declared war on Germany, there
were few propaganda pictures
"Pershings Crusaders" Americas
Answer" "Patria" (starring Irene
Castle. but Hollywood was still more
interested in the battle of dollars
centering around Charlie Chaplin
and Mary Pickford. Charlie grabbed
SLOTS, 900 for eight 2-reelers. Mary
made $750,O00 for three pictures, plus
$50,O00 to her mother-"for good Of
fees and good wishes!"
In 1918 the first color picture saw
the light of the scientific Glo-
rious Adventure" starring Lady
Diana Manners i. . Fatty Arbuckle
was a big shot (in the true mean
ing of the wor6 Douglas Fair
banks caught up in popularity with
Mary Pickford And Chaplin E.
Caruso made his first picture-his
second was still-born in the studio
>. Warmers filmed MY Four Years
in Germany" by ex-Ambassador
Gerard Victor McLaglen ap-
peared on the Hollywood scene. And
Chaplin's Shoulder Arms"
When the armistice was declared,
the big war pictures were still to
come-"The Big Parade" "Wing,"
What Price Glory" the first ver-
sions of the story of Nurse Cavell,
i and Dawn Patrol"
The 1914-18 period in Hollywood
history was its period of greatest
progress. Will the second European
conflict provide as glittering an era?
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, 1nc)
Evening star., 1939-09-17
There'll Be More Film Love
AS Nations Fall Out of Love
Directors Say It's Emotional Relief;
Cinema's Copy of the Clermont
Has an Electric Starter
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press Stan Writer,


idea the life of all work and play,
Well illusions shattered
grandpa, this
War probably length
Evening star., 1939-09-17

hlSSCS.
Several directors, specialists in
what's what and why, agree to this
statement. One of them, Edmund
Goulding, says the heavier the war
clouds, the more important the emo
tional relief of love, either in life or
on the screen or the stage, becomes.
when people are weary of the
tragic news, they can best forget
themselves in love story" he ex-
planned. Love scenes in pictures
will, in my opinion, become more
and more important and frequent" "
George Amy, who is filming an
action picture, Gambling on the
High Seas" says his story was
planned for action, but we'll get
in as many clinches as we can. I
think the public wants them-now. y
In his slightly imperfect English,
Michael Curtiz voiced similar opin-
ion:
Kiss scenes are a demonstration
of love. The world needs and wants
more of them in troubled times. I
am making a picture called Four
Wives In that is plenty love and
much kisses If times we're happier
I would say cut sooner"
I thought you'd like to know,
Grandpa.
This Time the Water
Takes to the Ship.
It is more correct to say that the
water will take to the ship Clermont
than vice versa. Chris Christensen S
Clermont, which he says exactly re-
sembles Robert Fultons (only it cost
a heck of a lot more) will be dry
launched tomorrow.
Chris built this Clermont for
Little Old New York; on the
back lot, and he will have it trucked
up to a 10-acre excavation and
propped up. Then the Hudson will
be squirted into the hole, and Chris
will begin plotting it around the
pond.
Chris has it al over Futon. He has
an eeCtric sef-starter on his p-to-
date marine engine, and he doesn't t
have to convince anybody.
War Even Influences
A Dress Designer.
All minds are Influenced by war
In Hollywood Designer Howard
Shoup, his mind temporarily be-
fuddled, perhaps, by reports of gas
warfare in which canaries some
times play part by collapsing be-
fore human beings recognize the
poison, has designed something.
That something is what he chooses
to call the bird cage sleeve"
This new fandangle is a sleeve of
criss-crossed metallic braid. Tight
at the elbow and wrist, with bulge
hanging below the forearm, the
bulge of braid forms a bird cage,
and the lady who wears it can,
Evening star., 1939-09-17

Wesley Eddy. as a poetic Jewish
youth, and Uta Hagen, as modern
Chinese taxi dancer. are especially
good. And so is Thelma Schnee,
as humorous, lovely servant. Only
Zita Johann is uninpressive with
her phlegmatic, unimaginative per-
formance of the Jewish girl who is
spurned by the Jewish boy to return
to his Chinese true love.