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Evening star., 1939-02-04
lanes Film
Remains at
Palace
Bandit Presented
AS Righteous
Missourian

Jesse James, whatever else he may
have been, comes to the movies as a
man of action. And as a man of
action his story makes exciting
screen drama at the Palace, where
Jesse James has been held over
for second week. 1t will be found
to be an elaborate affair of Tyrone
Power, Nancy Kelly, Henry Fonda,
Henry Hull and lot of other Twen-
tieth Century FoXs more handsome
or capable performers.
To avoid the glorifcation of crime,
a worthy end, the studio has seen fit
to make notifications in what his
tory has to say CT the Midwest ban
dit. AS he is interpreted by Mr..
Power, who has been allowed to look
pretty tough about it, he is nothing
mere than a misunderstood fellow;
chap who turned to violence to
avenge the hurts Of the villainous
railroads which were being mean to
MiSsourians. 1t is an interesting
character, however, in spite of any
challenge which the record may Of
fer to it.
The studio has dealt lavishly with
the theme. Pictorially the film is
one of the most impressive thrill
Numbers ever photographed
Acting honors, ard we mean act
ing honors. belong to subordinate
members of the cast. Henry Fonda
as Frank James, .eS5e's brother,
may very easily turn out to be the
member of the band whom you will
remember longest. The dark, for
bidding character is cUt to the
Fonda pattern and the principals
get just bit too stern competition
as result. Another character bit
that comes to the fore as a result
of adroit playing is that of Mr..
Hull's editor.
The picture introduces Miss Kelly,
the studios new find and its next
feminine star, as the wife of the
redoubtable Jesse. Miss Kelly gives
it an Interpretation that is quite up
to the writing of the part, quite all
any young actress could be expected
to do.
Jesse James" is good in spite of
any challenge it may make to his
tory. j. C.
Evening star., 1939-02-04

comedy of situation, there is a sub
stantial offering in the same vein
by Oracle Allen. Miss Allen as the
companion of Miss Powell on the
ocean journey to Hawaii, not to
mention after arrival, is her usual
screWball self. Her banality, dealing
to some extent with her usual favor
ite subject, the family, is better
than it has been in some time. Not
the same may be said of husband
George Burns, who is more or less
handicapped in the role of movie
stars press agent. The plot keeps
Miss Allen and Mr.. Burns an ocean
apart through most of the picture
and he misses her more than she
misses him.
AS the harassed movie star, seek
ing to get away from it all, and
the pineapple grower who also seeks
to get away from it all once he dis
covers how hard it is to be public
idol, MI. Young has one of the most
agreeable roles that has come his
way in a long time. Usually the
loser at love. the current plot finds
him involved with two girls, both
of whom are anxious to marry him
1t imparts fresh note, somehow or
other.
Miss Powell is given an oppor-
tunity to do three dances. One of
them, an impressively acrobatic
affair, is rope-skipping tap. 1t
looks extremely difficult, although
Miss Powell executes it with con-
siderable hnesse. The second item
of her speciality is best of all. 1t
is an imitation of Bill Robinsons
stairstep tap routine Miss Powell
wears blackface for the number, but
the really impressive thing is that
she gives really fine imitation of
the master tap dancer Of them all.
Her final number is the big pro-
duction item of the piece, a COM
bination hula and tap affair which
has the distinction of running a bit
overlong, involving tco much and
too contrasting forms CT the dance.
X X X X
Gene Ford has staged a neatly bal
anced stage snow to go with Homo
lulu" It's major feature is Blue
Barron and his orchestra. The
maestro and his band are assisted in
their program of today's ard yester-
days music by group of capable
artists whose names will recall what
they do. They are Bobby Pincus,
Tiny Wolf, Vivian Newell and Russ
Carlysle.
Another significant feature of the
program is Jerry Mann. star of the
Hammerstein Music Hall of the Air.
The three Drews take care of the
usual swing item. harmonizing very
nicely on some of the compositions
of which they make specially.
The adagio dancing of the Knight
sisters effectively takes care of this
aspect of the program.
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Robert Taylor Film
Now at Columbia

Overlong as it is, Stand Up and
Fight" still has Robert Taylor scam
pering about, making love to Flor
ence Rice and battling with Wallace
Beery, so it is no surprise to find
it now at Loew's Columbia for an
other downtown week. And over
long as it, it must be admitted that
Stand Up and Fight is a vigorous
and somewhat imposing film for all
its length.
1t is not so important as you
might be led to believe if you be-
Heved its sense of its own impor-
tance, but it does have some action
and occasionally becomes downright
entertaining. And even if Stand
Up and Fight" does wax mighty
lackadaisical for an action film on
more than one occasion, there can
be no doubt that this is just the
dish for Robert Taylor fans.
Mr.. Taylor is cast as young blood
of Southern aristocracy, who loses
his home and his foXhounds and
then becomes involved in the battle
between stage coaches and the early
railroads. This gets him involved
in other battles-fstic ones with
Mr.. Beery and vocal, though no less
vigorous ones, with Miss Rice, and
the Taylor devotees will love it all.
H. M.
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Recital Debut
Of Pianist
Miss CharnstrOm
Shows Convincing
Artistry
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

Adding several encores to a taxing
program because the audience
showed no inclination to leave,
Christine Charnstrom, youthful
pianist, made an auspicious re-
cital debut last evening at the
Washington Hotel. Presented by
James Waldo FaWcett, the young
girl played numbers that grace the
repertoire of the most celebrated
artists of the instrument and dem
onstrated the fine extent of her
talent and the finish of her exc
cution
There were many distinguishing
features of her playing that can
spring only from a true gift such as
her feeling for style, the pearly
quality of her tone and her appre-
citation of degrees in shading.
Already mistress of brilliant tech
nique that needs only time to give
it a background of greater strength,
the young pianist made a deep i'm
preston with the sincerity of her
attitude and the virtuosa quality
of her performance. Excellently
schooled and already possessing a
true artistic flair, she can look for
ward to future that should find
her among the ranking pianists.
Each number on her program was
a test of the character of her talent
and the advancement of her under
standing. 1t comprised the Bach
Fantasia in c Minor" Beethoven's S
"Sonate Pathetique," Schumann's S
"Papillons. Opus g." Chopin's
"Scherzo in B Flat Minor, Opus 81"
Debussy's La Cathedrale Engloutie, "
Listz's Les Jeux d'eau la Vile
dEste" and the Paganini-Listz La
Campanella."
AS examples of her musical tenn
perament vitalized by intelligent
proportioning of brilliant effect, her
playing of the Chopin "Scherzo'
and the Liszt Lies Jeux d'eau"
were the most outstanding, the ring
ing quality of her tone being re-
markable in its purity. For mature
and sensitive feeling were the Sec
ond movement of the "Sonate
Pathetique" and the Bach Fan
tasia," both of which held a marked
sense of style.
The variety of shading which she
brought into the Bach number,
and her command of the pedal gave
additional color while the first
movement of the Beethoven was
played with breadth and fire form
ing a distinct contrast to her lyric
reading of the lovely adagio The
program concluded with La Campa-
nella," which Miss Charnstrom
played with sorority of tone that
presages what she will be capable
of a few years hence.
A good sized audience gave the
young artist an enthusiastic re-
ception and at the end found the
program too short. AS encores, Miss
Charnstrom played works by De
Falla and Bainbridge Crist.
Evening star., 1939-02-04

"Wines OF the Navy" the new pic
ture at the Earle.
This is not really an important
photoplay, though among the service
films it must rank as one OF the
more authentic, but it does have air.
planes and action. Only when it
comes down to earth to become in
volved in a plot that is straight OH
the shelf and ages older than any
one involved in it does "Wings of
the Navy" slack it's pace. Fortu-
nately it spends most of its time
on the wing.
Fortunately also Olivia de Havil-
land is about to lend considerable
life to a stock character by playing
with an intelligence, vivacity and
an integrity that too many OF our
cinema ingenues would not bother
to waste on a role. She almost
keeps the let-downs when wings Of
the Navy" folds it's wings from being
let-doWns.
The plot, you may as well know
now as later, is the one about two
sons of famed Navy man who fol-
low in pops footsteps. Elder son
George Brent) is flying big-shot,
young son John Payne transfers
from the submarine service to Per -
sacola to show that he, too, can ny.
A few more cliches and what have
you got? You certainly have.
But all of this is incidental to big
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Winner Is Called
To HOLLYWOOD

John Mcknight, the Silver Spring
boy who was one of the two local
winners in R-K-O Radios Gate
way to Hollywood" contest, was
notified last night that the gate is
open and he should leave immedi-
ately for the cinema capital.
This means, according to Hardie
Meakin, manager of R-K-O Keith S
Theater, through whom the contest
was arranged in Washington, that
young Mr.. Mcknight will appear
soon on Sunday night broadcast
from Hollywood and that he is one
step nearer a leading role in the
forthcoming picture, Career"
Edna F. Evans, Mr.. Meningitis
co-winner in the regional selection,
is still being considered for the
Hollywood jaunt, according to Mr..
Meakin's telegram.
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Follies' introduced
BY Junior League

The 1899 edition of "The Junior
League Follies' was placed on exhi-
bition last light at the Belasco
Theater and, once again, IL large
and enthusiastic audience was on
hand to greet the song, dance and
skit entertainment rotpourri, pre-
sented for the benefit of Children's
Hospital Social Service Department
and other charitable activities of
the league. The cast OF members
and male friends drafted for the
cause offered those out front an
evening of melody and humor in
return for their support.
Harland Dixon and Ray Walsh,
two Broadway dabblers in things
theatrical, were responsible for pro-
duction and direction of the Fol
lies" and they succeeded in whip
ping together a show of reasonable
cohesiveness. Naturally, there were
slipups frequently as the succession
of numbers were run off, but audi
ence and cast enjoyed the unex-
pected developments almost as much
as the programmed proceedings.
Best of the skits were "a Famous
Lawyer at Home" featuring Norvell
Mutually and William Byrd, jr, and
IF Men Played Cards as Women
Do" a hilarious item in which
Julien Greene, James March, How
ard Huen and Carl Hanson, jr., per-
formed. Among the other offerings
which drew merited applause from
the first-nighters were "Geometrical
Rhythm" eccentric dance turn by
Kathleen Knox, Judson Bowles and
Michael Clement; Jim Dandy"
with Charles D. Hayes and en-
semble; Tamil" with Irwin Camp
and Sterling Boiling playing a horse
and Helen Macondray as the ring
master; Dorothy Parker, Nancie
Ravenal and Lawrence Baker, jr.,
as the Trio Eccentrico";; Grace
Sloan's Catherine of Russia" and
Anne Simpsons mazurka. c. A. M.
Evening star., 1939-02-04

DO with MISS POWell Cnree Dig QanCe
numbers, it might have gone in for
those magnificent settings which
usually conceal the fact that Miss
Powell really is good dancer, if not
a good actress. Specifically, we are
thinking of 'Rosalie" in which she,
and audiences, both were lost in the
architecture.
The detail of Honolulu is simple
and sincere enough to divert any one
from awareness that its story is not
new.
1t is concerned with the old story
of mistaken identity, utilizing the
camera device of double exposure.
The chap whose identity is mistaken
Is Robert Young. One-half of the
double exposure reveals Mr.. Young
as movie actor who is sick of it all
("sick of it all meaning the expert
ence of being mobbed by his fans.
The other side is young pineapple
grower from Honolulu. They meet
and exchange places on the assump-
ton that such an experience is pre-
cisely what is needed by both. You
can guess the complications, at least
broadly and generally, but unless
you actually see them, you will miss
something that really is amusing
In spite of lack of novelty.
In addition to the comedy con-
tributed by the principals, which is
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Do You Remember?

Warner Bros. have instituted a
national search for those surviving
members of the Grand Army OF
the Republic who fought for and
knew Abraham Lincoln
The company seeks the veterans
cooperation in connection with the
production of Lincoln in the White
House" latest in its series of his
torical short subjects in Techni-
color.
Evening star., 1939-02-04

is m ore eStab-
lished in Ameri-
can movies, it
would be better
if she does not
have to act too
much. Bear this
in mind, Metro,
if you put her in
1T h e y C a ii 1t
Glamour" with
Robert Taylor
y u S [ l e I n e !
q o k'-as she
did in "Algiers''
at Charles Boy
er. Hedy has the
most sex appeal
Evening star., 1939-02-04
Wings of the Navy Thrills
When 1t Stays in the Air
Spectacular Aerial Doings Mark
New Picture at the Earle;
Roxyettes Swing Out
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

There's something about apane that gets sleek transport
high
roll ngle
frontier it is knowing
the
whatever
Evening star., 1939-02-04
New Powell Young Picture
At Capitol Is Amusing
Honolulu Gives Its Leading Lady
A Chance to Dance and Adds
Comedy to Good Measure
By JAY CARMODY.

has been very nice about current
attraction at LoeWs Capitol 1t out to make reasonably
Powell Robert the result
precisely Honolulu ageeabl entertaining Moreover
which quality film The studio might
especially those
Evening star., 1939-02-04
4 Take This Woman Being
Completely Made Over
Only Thing Left Will Be the Title;
Leslie Howard Reports He Has
Not Read C. w. 7. W.
By SHEILAH GRAHAM.

rehot. the only thing left in from
900 the epic before
would kill Hedy
the good for Spencer Tracy either
falling Lamar
make her
animated when great charm.
frost
f cnatinn inaranh Hedu- -career
Evening star., 1939-02-04

in the business since and including
Clara Bow. 1t will be too bad if
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
High School Closing
Schedule
Program OF Events And Mem
beers Of Graduating Class

The schedule of Commencement
exercises of Rising Sun High School
Is as follows:
Commencement sermon Sunday,
June IL, at 1880 a. m, by Rev. J.
B. Dickerson, pastor of James M. Il.
Church, Rising Sun.
Thursday, June 10, 500 p. m,
Commencement Exercises in the
high school auditorium. Mr.. J. Mil
lard Tawes, Comptroller of Currency
of Maryland, will be the speaker.
DR.. T. B. Moore will present d.
plomas.
The graduating class numbers
forty-seven, the largest in the his
tory of the school. The graduates
are:
Academic Course-Ruth Louise
Baugher, Julia Ann Carr, Violet
Louise Conner, Dorothy Elizabeth
Drew, Mildred Pauline Garvin, Dor
othy Louise GRAPHICAL, Russell Mar
ion Johnson, Francis Marion Lig-
gett, Jr., Virginia Matilda Richards,
Mary Anne Gather.
General Course-John Wesley
Boyd, Mary Ruth Chapman, Leon
ard Wesley Conrad, Olive Mae
Daughton, Margaret Marie Devon
shire, Virginia Dorsey, Leigh David
Donache, Anna Virginia Dinsmore,
Hazel Virginia Finnefrock, Donald
Stuart Elville, Hazel Marie Ewing,
Anna May Fristoe, Ralph Edwards
Clifford, Mary Elizabeth Hagan,
Dean Harold Harrington, Hale Eu-
gene Harrington, Janet Rosalie
Hutchens, William Hughes Keil-
holtz, Frances Marie Kyle, Helen
Mae Logan, Elizabeth Mae McCar-
dell, Howard Briggs McVey, Mar
guerite Frances Morrison, Josephine
Hannah Raglan, James Rakes, Paul
Freeman Rawlings, Ruth Geraldine
Reed, Mildred Leurette Reynolds,
Texas Olene Rhodes, Ruth Elizabeth
Richie, Mary Harriet Robinson,
Mary Montgomery Ryan, Walter
Schneemeyer, Ruby Isabelle Sprinkle,
Thelma Lurena Stuart, Mildred
Ruth Wallen, Lawrence Dea n
Wigt ms.
There will be no class night
exercises this year, as the class will
hold a farewell assembly on Thurs
day afternoon, June 8, instead.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
Body Found In Como
wingo Lake

The body of an unidentified mid
dle-aged white man was found float
ing in the water near the Como
wingo dam on Thursday. 1t was
sighted near the shore by several
men who notified the police at Con-
owngo Satisfaction. When recovered
from the water the lower portion
of the body was clad in two pairs
of trousers and shoes. 1t was evil
dent the body had been in the wa
ter for several weeks, and it is
thought the man was drowned some
distance up the Susquehanna, the
body finally floating down to Como
wingo.
Coroner DIR. ]. B. Slicer, of Ris-
ing Sun, deemed an inquest un-
necessary, and the body was taken
in charge by undertaken j. Earl
Tyson and inferred at Cherry Hill.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
Stiveley Mill Destroyed

The large three story -four mill
of Edward J. Stiveley, at Liberty
Grove, was totally destroyed by fire
together with contents, consisting
of valuable improved machinery,
grain and finished product, on Sat
urday afternoon.
The fire was apparently caused by
dust explosion, as it seemed to-
spread throughout the structure al
most Immediately.
Rising Sun firemen received the
call about one O'Clock in the after
noon, and responded Immediately
with two engines. The Port Deposit
firemen also came ON the scene with
apparatus, but despite the flood of
water pumped by the three engines
from the near by race, the building
was soon a mass of flames through
out, and was totally destroyed.
The firemen kept. the flames from
spreading to other buildings in close
proximity.
The loss is placed by Mr.. Stiveley
at Sill, 900, with a partial insurance
of $4,000
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
Negroes Beat And Rob
Cripple
Mob Violence Threatened Ac-
cused After Their Arrest

Fears of mob violence led Sheriff
David Randolph on Saturday, to safe
guard two Negroes accused of beat
ing and robbing crippled 60-year-
old farmer and his 35-year-old
companion.
Randolph took the Negroes
through an angry group of citizens
when he moved them from Cecilton
to the county jail.
The Negroes were arrested after
Parker Lusby, crippled farmer, and
Herman Hurd, of near Cecilton,
were found unconscious and tied in
their bungalow.
Two Negroes entered the bunga-
low while the men slept, they told
police, and beat them with clubs.
The injured victims we're confined at
Union Hospital, Elkton, where they
are reported in flair" condition.
The Negroes, arrested as they
walked along road in the vicinity,
identified themselves as Samuel
johnson, 10, from Cleveland, and
James Pearode, %, from Johnson
City, Tenn. They were held on open
charges pending outcome of the
mems injuries.
Randolph said the pair were
identified by Lusby and Hurd as
their assailants.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
Patrons Object To Close
OF School

Fourth district school patrons as
sembled at Providence on Monday
night of last week, to- voice their
protest to the decision Of the Cecil
County Board of Education to close
Kenmore school as high school
and convert 1t into a consolidated
elementary school, for Providence
and Fair Hill pupils, the. schools at
both these places being abandoned.
BY unanimous vote of those pres
emit, committee was instructed to
push the matter of an addition to
the present building, retaining the
high school section and in the adj
ditional portion of the building, a
consolidation of Providence and Fair
Hill elementry schools. The consoli-
dalton together with other pupils
in the vicinity would number, 1t
was brought out at the meeting,
about $50 which in the opinion of
the patrons would be a feeder for
an enlarged high school In the years
to come.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
Sunday School Observes
Children's Day

Sunday, June 4, was Children's
Day at James M. E. church, Rising
Sun, and the morning worship hour,
eleven O'Clock, was given over to the
exercises, which were in charge OF
the Beginners, Primary and Junior
Departments of the school.
A great deal of effort had been
expended by the committee in train
ing those taking part on the pro-
gram, but it was time we'll expended
as the little folks, and the larger
ones too, all did WE'LL
The smaller children gave recita-
tions and songs, while the older
group presented a pageant entitled
1.-THE Unexpected Angel"
The church presented very pref
ty appearance with well arrang-
ed decorations of potted plants and
flowers. In the background was
trellice in white, festooned with
garlands, while the alter rail was
banked with ferns and large baskets
of beautiful flowers.
The choir assisted with the music
while the children sang to the ac-
commitment of the piano. The
congregation was large one.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
Home For The Vacation
Period

Among the young folks who have
returned to their homes In this
community. for the vacation period,
with the close of the school year
are: Misses Ruth and Adeleen Will
son, from Hood College, Frederick,
Md; Miss Hope Reynolds, Univer-
sity OF Maryland, college Park:
Miss Gertrude Buck, Mary Washing
ton College, Fredericksburg, Va:
Miss Ruth Biles, Beaver College,
Jenkintown, Pa: Miss Miriam Will
lians. Teachers College, Towson;
Miss Katherine Keilholtz, Stats
Teachers College. Salisbury, Md:
Robert Fehr, Johns Hopkins Un.4
versity, Baltimore; Auvin Smith.
Washington College. Chestertown:
Paul GRAPHICAL, Yale Uni. New
Haven, Conn; Miss Thelma Todd,
Temple Uni, Philada.; Miss Helen
Clifford, Teachers College, Towson;
Bruce GRAPHICAL. st. John College.
Annapolis; Miss Catherine Etter.
Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-06-09
Dean Of University
Medical School
DR.. J. NJ. H. Rowland To
Retire..Will Leave Post
During Summer

DR.. James Marshall Hanna Ro-
land, dean of the University Of
Maryland Medical School for the
past twenty-four years, will retire
this year.
He will assume the title OF dean
emeritus, according to DR.. H. G.
Byrd, president of the University,
who made the announcement Thurs
day night at the annual banquet of
the Medical Alumni Association OF
the university. held at the Lord
Baltimore Hotel.
No successor to DR.. Roland has
been named as yet, DR.. Byrd said,
and he will serve until such an APP
pointment has been made-some-
time before the fall.
Dean Rowland has been associat..
ed with the Medical School as q
student, professor Of obstetrics and
as dean for more than forty years.
Largely through his efforts, it has
been said, the relation between the
medical schools Of his alma mater
and of the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity have grown continually more
cordial.
During his long association with
Maryland DR.. Rowland has taught
more than 5000 students, who are
now practicing medicine in all parts
of the country.
He was born In 1867 in Liberty
Grove, Cecil county. Due to lack of
finances, his family was unable to
provide him with means for an ed
ucation, but the doctor worked at
many odd jobs, including that of as
sisting as stone mason, to COM
plete his schooling.
He attended West Nottingham
Academy, at Colora, Md, and re-
ceived his medical degree from the
old Baltimore Medical College in
1892.
He practiced in Baltimore until
1900, when he was called to the
Baltimore Medical College IS pro-
lessor of obstetrics.
He remained In that post through
the consolidation of the old Medical
College with the University of Mary
land School of Medicine in 1913,
and only relinquished this duty two
years ago. In 1916 he was appoint
o~ ~s' taAAlMLl