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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
REDDEN

The regular church services will
begin the frst Sunday in September.
The junior choir will commence
practice Wednesday evening. August
80.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Penuel enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Legates of
Wilmington last Wednesday. How
ard Legates returned home with
them after spending some time here.
On Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. Roland
Veasey entertained Mr.. and Mrs. H.
E. PeIuel and daughter Betty Louise.
After dinner the group motored to
Rehoboth to enjoy the shore breezes
MILTON FIREMEN'S CARNIVAL.
August "a to September 2. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
West Second Street Between
North and Church Streets
Clifford c. Greiner, Pastor

Sunday. August q
= 10 90 A. M-Bible School. Lesson
"A King Who Forgot God"
11:OO A. M.-Morning Worship Ser
vice.
7:3O P. M.-Evening Worship Ser
:ice.
Monday. August rs
An evening of fun and fellowship
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. T. E.
Founders. All the members and
friends of Church and School are
cordially invited.
Wednesday. August 80
7:3O P. Midweek Prayer meet
ing.
WELCOME
Every man that exalteth himself
shall be abased. and he that hum
bleth himself shall be exalted"
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
m call a avardstick-,

ism call "yardstick"!
How would you like 1t IL the gov
ernment established a similar yard
stick" with which to measure the
profits or losses in your business
Il supported tax-subsidized insur-
ance agencies, grocery stores or any
thing else, paying the losses with
public money. and then said you
should be able to charge the same
prices? That's just what politics has
been doing in the case Of utilities
and IT'S the primary reason why the
great private electric industry. has
not been able to make its potential
contribution to economic recovery
and unemployment.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
BRIDGEVILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. William Conway had
as their guests last week Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Sunplee of Wilmington.
Over the weekend their guests were
Mrs. Martin Short and Mr.. Morris
Short of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Harry e. Darby and son FL
lott returned on Tuesday from
visit with Miss Margaret Sherwood
at Delmar. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Morgan are
visiting friends at Ithaca, My.
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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

Every retail store has an inter
esting story TO tell of the goods it is
Offering the public. II should be able
to double its business if il will con-
stantly tell that story to the public
by advertising.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

WHEN YOU SPEND money in a
home store. you not merely get the
moneys worth of your goods, but
you make a contribution to the pro-
gress of your home town.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
Branch of The First Church OF
Christ. Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
Services every Sunday at Ii a. m.
Sunday School at same hour.
Wednesday evening meeting, frsI
Wednesday in each month at s p. m
In Grange Hall. Milford. Del.
Swat the flies!
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
II u R CHE s.
PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH
East Front Street
Rev. Charles Baker, Pastor
IN MILFORD D

Sunday. August %
$3.50 A. MmSunday School,. a.
11:O0 A. M.-Preaching.
700 P. M.-Evening Service.
1880 P. M.-Wednesday Service.
A hearty welcome extended to all.
THE CHURCH OF GOD
Second and Pear Sts., North Milford
]. n. Evans, Pastor
Sunday. August q
1000 A. M.-Sunday School.
Hoo A. M.-Morning Worship.
7:45 p. M.-Evening Worship.
Thursday
7:45 P. M.-Mid-week Prayer SER
vice.
Everyone welcome.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

Swat the flies!
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

WILTUN FIREMEN'S CARNIV
August "a to September 2.
Evening star., 1939-02-06

valley of the Giants" where tribe
of 7-footers, descendants of the an
cient Egyptians, stage for the visi-
tors one of the most ecstatic, aban-
doned dances ever photographed. 1t
is intensely dramatic, but no more
so than the f1agellation ceremonies
of still another tribe. This group,
also friends of the Denises, per-
mitted them to photograph those
rites in which warriors are lashed
with long, savage whips to prove
their manhood. The audience might
vince if the beating victims did. but
the latter take it with such straight
faces that it seems a more curious
than cruel custom.
The climax of Dark Rapture" is
one of those unbelievably dramatic
things, also a product of natures
own script. 1t takes the form of a
grass fire which threatens to de-
stroy the expedition and its work.
1t is a final thrill to which the many
others form a natural progression,
the sum total Of them all proving
that Africa is far more glamorous
than you imagined 1t to be.
4 4 4
Hollywood may be a place from
which authors always are going away
in high dudgeon, but not Denham
and PineWood, where English pic
lures are made. Over there it seems,
the shoe is on the other foot; the
studios are aWed virtually to death
by the man who wrote the story.
One author who is such a great
man. of course, is Bernard Shaw
whose "Pygmalion" will be coming
along one OF these days to Loews
Palace, or maybe the Capitol. An
other is Somerset Vaughan. On
Friday, Earle patrons will see THE
Beachcomber, whose characters
will be authentic Vaughan because
the author sat right through the
picture to see that no one changed
them in the slightest. Mr.. Vaughan
did consent to the change in the
title, but that was because he
thought the current one better than
The Vessel of Wrath" for motion
picture purposes.
The picture stars Charles Laugh
ton and his wife. Elsa Manchester.
idiots Delight the sensational
Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne vehicle,
which MetroGoldwyn- Mayer has
made with Clark Gable and Norma
Shearer in the principal roles, will
be screened tomorrow An ad-
vance glimpse of The Beachcomber
also has been promised during the
week.
Evening star., 1939-02-06

ter, Margaret Wolfe, Robert Barton,
Jackson Waldron, Phoebe Robinson,
Jane Sattler, Whiteford Cheston,
Raymond Swami, Robert Black,
Anita Roos and Margaret Swami.
Proceeds from the ticket sale will
be divided between the Women's
Home Missionary Society, the Wom-
ems Foreign Missionary Society and
the Calvary Dramatic Club.
Clemence Danes four-act play,
Granite" will be the second major
production of the Falls Church
Community Theater's current sea-
son. There will be tryouts tonight
and tomorrow night at Madison
School auditorium in Falls Church
for the play, a tragedy requiring a
cast of two women and three men
Granite" is to be directed by
Mrs. Alex Nordholm, whose expert
ence includes six years with the
Ballet Russo, work with a profess
sional stock company in Mount
Vernon, N. Y, studying here with
Constance Connor Brown, and play
ing with the Civic Theater and the
Roadside.
4 X X
The Pierce Hall Players wish you
to know, too, that this is The week
their production of Ceiling Zero
sees the light Of, not day, but Mr.
Kleig. The nights are Wednesday
and Thursday and the place is
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Local Drama Groups
Georgetown Students Stage
1ntramural Tourney
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Members of Georgetown Unlversy Mask and Bauble Club
engaged and buaions OF for their
na ntramua staged February CASTOR
Hall There will the and second place winners
and for the student the best single performance
The freshmen will honors with mystery drama The
Perfect Crime class will farce called 1he Bank
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Dark Rapture at Belasco
Vivid Adventure Story
Denis Film of African Tribal Life
Proves Camera Makes Anthropology
Absolutely Electrifying
BY JAY CARMODY.

Out of the dark heart OF Africa has come one o the most hnns
its local showing producers
his Leila Roosevelt charming gracious
with the unique gift OF making
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Nets Screen
Offers Sock
Picture
Bright New Star
Shines In Grim
Narrative

What the movies can do with an
actor, and vice versa. is on display
this week at the Metropolitan. The
actor is young John Garfield, an
unglamorouS recruit from Broad
way. whose performance in They
Made Me a Criminal makes 1t a
picture of unusual potency. Like
Spencer Tracy, Garfield was en-
dowed with no hope Of looking
handsome in the matinee idol sense.
Also like Tracy. Garfield seized the
opportunity thus offered to win
audiences by the more commendable
method of driving at the emotions
with bang.
His role in They Made Me a Grim
inal' is no new one. 1t is the way
it is played that makes you think
you never saw it before. The char
acter is that of thick headed, be-
fuddled innocent who is bounded
into exile and bitterness by circum-
stances which link him directly with
murder. The long plunge into
|. darkness starts right after the
youth has become lightweight
champion of the world, thing that
makes it a doubly bitter dose for
he had notions of fame, fortune and
lots of feminine, companionship.
Flight and oblivion as substitutes for
the original dream are things hard
to take. but the acting ability with
which Garfield takes them makes
them very easy on audiences. He
blends bitterness, terror, anger, hurt,
kindliness and courage into por-
trait away beyond the capabilities
of most screen performers. 1t is
grim and good every foot Of the
way.
The detail of They Made Me a
Criminal" which supports some other
good players in the cast is laudably
artful. Its climax, fight in which
the hero takes an awful beating and
gives one in return. has double the
usual amount of ferocity and hon.
esty in it.
Dame May Witty, Claude Rains,
Gloria Dickson, Ann Sheridan and
the Dead End" kids, the latter
toughly comic this time, help Gar
field to make the picture one you
should see if you like acting in your
movies now and then. j. c.
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Ann Corio Is Star
Of Gayety Show

Jimmy Lake has a bill Of goods
this week that needs no selling TO
any of the Gayety regulars. 1t
shouldn't need much selling to any
one, as matter of fact, for the stars
of this new Gayety revue are Ann
Corio, the shapely brunette lass who
is beyond compare in her field, and
Mike Sachs and Alice Kennedy, who
are beyond compare in the bur-
lesque comedy field. There are some
other specially turns which rate and
get their share Of applause and
there are some tastefully staged
production numbers, but really
nothing matters about this show ex-
cept the fact that it has Ann Corlo
and Mike Sachs and Alice Kennedy.
So much has already been said
of Miss Corio in the public prints
that it is difficult to think OF new
songs of praise to sing. From an
entertainment standpoint you know
that she is very lovely to look upon
and that she has made something
of an art of a specially done clum-
sily by many and Enthusiastically
by most of it's practitioners. From
an educational standpoint you know,
or should know, that legend has it
that one cannot graduate from Har-
ward without having seen Miss
Corio.
Mr.. Sachs and Miss Kennedy are
not so well known generally, per-
haps, but we almost believe they
should be. Mike has been mugging
comedy scenes on all sorts of stages
all over the world for many years
and he knows how to get every
laugh out of any scene, then make
you laugh three more times when
you're not expecting it. He is no
more subtle than a cuStard pie in
the schnozzle, of course, but he is
one of the funniest fellows there is
and Miss Kennedy is one OF the
ablest foils a comic ever had, and
there it is said. H. M.
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Comedy Festival

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
have completed their plans for the
Festival of Comedy" which will be
presented in New York this spring.
The Lunts will open May Is with
a repertoire of five plays and a COM
panv of 40. The five plays will be
idiots Delight" Reunion in vi
emma" The Tanning of the Shrew,' y
"Amphitryon 3S' and The Sea
Gull The company will include
Richard Whorf. Sydney Greenstreet,
Edith King, Barry Thomson, John
Barclay, George Meader and Jacque-
line Paige.
The Tanning of the Shrew' will
inaugurate the engagement Monday
evening May Is. The following eve
ming Reunion in Vienna" will be
presented. These two plays will
alternate for the remainder OF the
week.
Idiots Delight" will open the
second week, followed by "Amphit-
ryon 38' Tuesday evening. They,
too, will alternate. The third Mon
day will see The Sea Gull" and
during this week the entire five pro-
ductions will be presented, The plan
of alternating the five productions
will be carried out for the remainder
of the engagement.
The Lunts are now on tour with
"Amphitryon 38,' idiots Delight
and The Sea Gull"
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Film 'Bests'
Nominated
For Awards
Annual Academy
Honors to Hinge
On Balloting
By the Associated Press.

oy liiC hooOSldtcO lCSS
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 6.-Official
nominations were announced yes
terday for the eleventh annual
awards of the academy of motion
picture arts and sciences.
Approximately 10000 members of
the industry will take part in voting
for the winners, ballots to go out
February 10.
The annual awards banquet, at
which the winners will be announced
and at which the now famous
Oscars will be presented, will be
held the night of February %.
The nominations:
Best performance by an actor
Charles Boyer in "Algiers,' Walter
Wagner United Artists: James
Cagney in Angels With Dirty
Faces" Warmers; Robert Donat in
THE Citadel" Metro -Goldwyn-
Mayer; Leslie Howard in "Pygmal-
ion Metro Goldwyr Mayer;
Spencer Tracy in Boys Town."
Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer.
Best performance by an actress
Fay Banter in White Banners" "
Warmers; Bette Davis in "Jezebel," )"
Warmers; Wendy Hitler in "Pyg-
malion,' Metro Goldwyn Mayer;
Norma Shearer in Marie Antoi-
nette," Metro Goldwyn Mayer;
Margaret Sullivan in Three Com
rades," Metro Goldwyn- Mayer.
Outstanding picture of the year
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
Twentieth Century Fox; Boys
Town." M-G-M; "The Citadel
M-G-M; -Four Daughters" Warn
ers; Grand Illusion" World Pic
lures; "Jezebel,' Warmers; "Pyg-
malion," M-G-M; "The Adventures
of Robinhood," Warmers; TEST
Pilot" M-G-M; "You Can't Take
1t With You" Columbia.
Best performance by an actor in
supporting role-Walter Brennan in
Kentucky" John Garfield in -Four
Daughters, Gene Lockhart in "Al-
giers," Robert Morley in Marie
Antoinette," Basil Rathbone in IF
1 Were King
Best performance by actress in
supporting role-Fay Banter in
"Jezebel," Beulah Bondi in "Of HUI
man Hearts," Spring Byington in
You Can't Take 1t With YOU" Billie
Burke in "Merrily We Live" Miliza
Korjus in THE Great Waltz"
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

NationaH"Of Mice and Men,
John Steinbeck's stirring play: 8:3C
pm.
Wardman Park - washington
Merry Co. Round" the Civic Thea
ter in a new play by Leon Pearson
$50 pm.
Keith's-"Gunga Din" heroic ad-
venture film inspired by the Kipling
poem: 11:l5 am, lbs, 800, 5:25
7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Wings of the Navy" gobs
of thrills in the air: II am, 1:4O
4:20, 7:15 and 10 pm. Stage shows:
1926, 3:20, 6:15 and 9p.m.
Capitol-"Honolulu," Eleanor Pow
ellis new musical dance fest: liam.
1:50, 4:35. 7:25 and 1915 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, 3:45, 6:25 and 9:15
pm.
Little-"Ballerina," poignant story
OF young ballet student who meets
up with life: II am, 12:45, 2:25
AIS, sos, 7:55 and $50 pm.
Metr0politan-"They Made Me g
Criminal John Garfield in some
vigorous drama: II am, 1:O5, 3:15
5:25, 7:35 and Gas pm.
Columbia-"Stand Up and Fight,
R. Taylor wallops w. Beery and vice
versa: HIS am, 1:20, 3:25, $50
TAO and 9:45 pm.
Palace-"Jesse James, new actor
drama inspired by the life of the
famed outlaw: 11:55 am, 2::20, 4:45
ITO and 9:35 pm.
BelascO-"Dark Rapture" exciting
saga of adventure in Africas in.
terror: 4:40, 6:25 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
| tinuouS from 10 am.
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Melvyn Works

With a Universal picture Just
completed and with commitments
for future films at both M-G-M and
Columbia, Melvyn Douglas clinched
his position among Hollywood's cur
rently most sought-after luminaries
when he signed contract with Par
amount Studio for the male starring
role in "Air Raid"
jeff Lazarus draws the producer
assignment on "Air Raid" A director
has not yet been set.
The picture. an original story by
Kurt Siodmak and Franz Schulz
deals with the experiences of a con-
tlnental adventurer who becomes
involved in a murder case just as q
European capital is plunged in
darkness. He must clear himself o1
the murder charge and at the same
time save his country from a for.
eign conspiracy.
Evening star., 1939-02-06

in Wild Cargo. But on neither
occasion did they do it with such
unqualified success as in their latest
film, which catches the strange and
mysterious life of the Belgian Congo
in more fascinating aspects than
usually are found in dozen screen
adventure pieces.
Previous African films have given
the impression that the continent
was largely inhabited by bowling,
hungry animals. The Denises have
not tried to prove there are no
animals, but they have concentrated
upon the human values. 1t makes
an amazing difference in the excite
ment, the sense of adventure which
is communicated by the film, one,
which. incidentally, achieves its
sense of realism by avoiding any
attempt to be spectacular. Nature
wrote the script from which the
Denises worked and they had the
excellent judgment to admit that she
knew best.
They have taken what she offered
in the way Of strange, mysterious
tribes together with their varied
ways of life and woven it into a
film that could be called startling
document, if document" would not
frighten customers away. Please,
customers, don't be frightened.
The professional moviegoer who
has sat in on a great many man.
made thrills, ingeniously and i'm
pressively wrought, would have to
think pretty long (maybe forever
and in vain) to find anything more
dramatic than the Sandstorm which
nearly rubbed out the Denis party
The same may be said of the cap
ture of thunderously terrified and
murderous elephant by a group of
natives armed only with ropes. Yet
these have been incidental to the
main theme of the Denis picture,
which was to get film of tribal
life, queer rites, customs and the
amazing skill which the natives de-
velop in making the jungle give them
food, shelter and safety.
If you think these subjects sound
dull just take a look at the manner
in which the pygmy tribe builds a
suspension bridge. The chaps you
have seen walking narrow girders
high above the water of the Golden
Gate are prosaic as compared with
the pygmy who must swing across
a river on 170-foot vine to open
a new country for his tribe.
The Denises made much of their
friends, the pygmies, but they spent
weeks with other tribes also. They
take one right to the primitive home
of swing music on a visit to the
Evening star., 1939-02-06

Pierce Hall. Tom Cahill, long abb
sent from the local dramatic scene,
comes back in the exciting drama Of
commercial aviation, which is being
directed by Howard Wentworth.
\
Those same Wednesday and
Thursday nights Dress Rehearsal"
two-act farce, will be staged by the
Oakton School and Civic League at
the Oakton School auditorium. It's
backstage story, dealing with the
trials of producing Broadway
show, and it is being directed by
Lucille Lundborg of the Amateur
Theater Guild of Boston.
Evening star., 1939-02-06

Bank Robbery" and the junior class
will try with comedy, its entry being
titled "Chin Music" There's q
scarcity Of seniors in Mask and
Bauble this year, so that class will
not take part in the contest, its place
being taken by a group of students
from the School Of Foreign Service.
The embryo diplomats, whatever
meaning it may have, will turn to
fantasy, staging "The Road of Pop
lars"
John Haffen (seen recently in the
groups Abraham Lincoln") is di-
recting the Foreign Service School;
Carl Watson (who was Abraham
Lincoln), the junior class; Thomas
Mullahy (also of the Drinkwater
play, the sophomore class, and
Howard Madigan is guiding the
freshman class. And all of it, of
course, is being done under the gen.
eral guidance of Arthur BehrenS,
director of Mask and Bauble.
Big Hearted Herbert" the COM
edy in which Sophie Kerr and
Anna Steese Richardson maintained
mother knows best, or at least bet
ter than father, in the matter OF
bringing up a family, will be staged
February Is by the Calvary Dramatic
Club. The guild hall of Calvary
M. E. Church is the place and BIS
o'clock the time.
Directed by Gladys Taylor, the
cast of Big Hearted Herbert will
include Herbert Via, Dorothy Pot
Evening star., 1939-02-06
OF Mice and Men
Opens Tonight

John Steinbeck's poignant
play, "Of Mice and Men,"
adapted by the author from his
novel of the same name, opens
at the National Theater tonight
for a one-Week engagement.
Staged by George S. kaufman,
"Of Mice and Men is being
sent on tour under the auspices
of the Theater Guild.
The Cast is the same which
has just finished highly sue
cessful engagement of the play
in Chicago and, with the excep-
ton of a few necessary changes,
the same which presented it in
New York. Leading roles are
played by Claire Luce, Of the
original troupe, and Guy
Robertson, last seen here sing
ing In "The Great Waltz"
Others in "Of Mice and Men"
are Edward Andrews, John
Hamilton, Thomas Findley, Les
ter Damon. Charles Slattery,
Clarence Straight and Leigh
Whipper.
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Too Many Shirleys

Janice Logan is the new name for
Shirley Logan, recently signed by
Paramount and now playing the
leading feminine role opposite Lloyd
Nolan in Federal Offense." The
change, according to Paramount,
was made because of the large num-
Der Of Shirleys, either as given or
surname, now in Hollywood. Miss
Logan came to Hollywood from
Chicago and Greenwich, Conn.
Evening star., 1939-02-06

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1939-02-06
In New Roles

Three of Paramount's popular
stars, Dorothy Lamour, Akin Tam
lroff and Robert Preston, are being
given the opportunity for screen
characterizations off the beaten
paths of their careers to date. They
have been assigned to leading roles
in Paramount's film version of
Lloyd c. Douglas sensational novel
disputed Passage"
Evening star., 1939-02-06

Twizzler Answer
One hour and 48 minutes would
pass by the airship's clock.
The Valley settler., 1939-01-20
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