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Evening star., 1939-09-29
Miss Mcpherson
Returns to Durham

Miss Mary Bank Mcpherson
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. S. D.
Mcpherson of Durham, N. c., re-
turned to her home last night after
a visit with Miss Caroline Ihrie Pou
Walden at the home of Miss Wad-
den's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Walden. While here Miss McPher-
son was entertained at a number OF
the festivities centering around the
Presidents Cup Regatta and she was
honored at many luncheons, dinner
parties and teas.
Miss Mcpherson, who is graduate
of Sweet Briar College, has many
friends here among the younger
set. She returned to Durham to
take part In the activities of the
Junior League of Durham.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
1t. and Mrs. Pope
Return Home
After Visit Here

1t. Phillip Pope, U. S. A., Mrs.
Pope and their daughter Lesah
Sayre have returned to their
home in Fort Des Moines, Iowa,
after a fortnight's visit with 1t.
Pope's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George S. Pope.
The daughter of 1t. and Mrs.
Pope was christened Sunday aft
ernoon in All Souls Episcopal
Church, the Rev. DR.. H. H. D.
Sterrett officiating.
Mrs. Albert Whisnant Of New
York, cousin of the infants
mother, and Mrs. Richard T.
Kreuzburg, aunt of the baby,
were the godmothers. Ensign
David H. Pope, U. S. NJ, of the
U. S. S. Helena, was godfather
for his niece.
1t. Pope was graduated from
Western High School and from
West Point in the class of 1888.
Mrs. Pope before her marriage
was Miss Jane Stevens of Seattle.
She spent the summer with her
grandmother at West Dennis,
Cape Cod, Mass.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Holdreges Honor
Engaged Couple

Mr.. and Mrs. Carleton Holdrege
were hosts yesterday in honor of
Miss Florence Harris and Mr..
Donald Downs. whose marriage
will take place October II. The
cocktail party was held in the
Holdreges' attractive studio house
on Decatur place.
Mrs. Holdrege wore a gray
chiffon gown, and Miss Harris
wore mustard color suit with a
cross fox cape.
Mr.. and Mrs. Holdrege left to-
day for a visit with their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Alexander Lawton, in
Savannah, Ga.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Luncheon Hostess

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney
have closed their place at Bar
Harbor and Mrs. Sweeney is in New
York for short stay before joining
Mr.. Sweeney in Washington. Yes
terday Mrs. Sweeney was hostess at
luncheon, entertaining at the Ritz
Carlton and having as her guests
Mrs. Edward Pierce Hamilton, Mrs.
John T. Dorrance, Mrs. Tristram c.
Colket and Mrs. George Strawbridge.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Miss Rands Hostess
At Informal PARTY

Miss Frances Eleanor Rands,
daughter OF DR.. and Mrs. Robert D.
Rands OF 1880 Floral street, who is
visiting her parents here, enter
tanned last evening at an informal
buffet supper party.
Miss Rands will spend the week
end at West Point and at the end
of next week will leave for a stay in
Cuba.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Memphis Visitors

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A. Ramsay,
jr., of Memphis are visiting Mrs.
Ramsays parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert o. Saunders, in Washington
for two weeks.
Mr.. Robert o. Saunders, jr., has
returned to the University of Roch-
ester at Rochester, N. Y, to begin
his second year there.
Evening star., 1939-09-29

Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Hood were
hosts at picnic supper party yester-
day evening in the garden of their
home in South Woodside Park, Silver
Spring. Nd, in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs George w. Pryor of South
Woodside Park, who, with their small
daughter Carolyn. will leave this
week end to make their home In
New York.
Evening star., 1939-09-29
Laudicks Open
Their Apartment

Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Laudick have
opened their apartment at Ward
man Park after spending the sum-
mer in Vermont and Connecticut.
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Better Greeting Is Given
Olsen and johnson Now
AS Producers, Their New Revue Rates
More Critical Enthusiasm
Than Did 'Hellzapoppin'
BY MARK BARRON,
Associated Press 6taf Writer.
NEW YORK.


This the second chapter
for pair OF boys
"Helzapoppn" nc Johnson
they rouped the
and then they came in last with ezapopp
immediately dismissed by Of
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Where and When
Current Theater Attraction.
and Time of Showing

Earle-"Naughty but Nice" Dick
Powell VS.. swing and Ann Sheridan:
10:15 am, los, 4, Z and 9:55 pm
Stage shows: 1910, sos, sos and
9pm.
Invitation to Happiness,
the prize fighter Erred MacMurray)
and the lady Urene Dunne): 1910
2:30, 4:55, tbs and 9:35 pm.
Keith's-"The Sun Never Sets,
the far-flung British empire is saved
again: IL, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10 and 9:35
pm. March Of Time: 11:40 an,
2:o5, 4:3o, $50 and 9:15 pm.
Capitol-"Susannah Of the Noun
ties," redskins bite the dust for Shir-
ley Temple: II am, las, 4:30, tbs
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1880,
1886, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan - Blind Alley
through the criminal mind with gun
and camera: 11:20 am, las, $3.50
$40, 7:45 and $50 pm.
Columbia of Washington
Square," romance with nostalgia
music: 1t:15 a.m.,. 1:20, $3.50, 5:35
TAO and $50 pm.
Little-'~The Great Waltz" Strauss
cavalcade: IL am, los, 3:15, $40
7:30 and $40 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Open-Air-"The Hoosier School
boy" with Mickey Rooney: S:4s
and l0:45 pm.
Evening star., 1939-06-26

ment, sparkling dialogue and truth
full picture. And nothing can be
smoother or easier than the current
in which the incidents run into each
other. John Mildmay, the leading
character, is one of those, when
found, purest ingots in the mine of
humanity, a fine English gentleman,
of vigorous physique, strong COM
mon sense and manner, of CHEEKY
blunt heart, all chastened by deep
refined feeling of which he never
makes display, but always acts on"
That last sentence proves, no
doubt, that there were times in
1855, too, when headlines breathing
down their necks chased drama re-
porters into labyrinths of words
from which there was no escape
except remorse the next day, If
that's an escape, and somebody had
better come get us out of this SEN
tence.
You probably know about Mr..
Mildmay, however, better than you
will know about the william of Still
Waters Run Deep" when we tell you
what the man said in the New York
Tribune that crisp morning many
years ago. This gent, he is reported
to have described as "one of those
gay Williams whom the bubble COM
pany mania threw up to the sur
face"
The Roadside people will throw
him to the surface tonight and
every night hereafter for two weeks
in the person of Charles E. Corker,
who comes to the barn theater on
the Rockville pike from the STAN
ford University Drama Club. That
pure ingot in the mine of human
ity, John Mildmay, will be played
by George harrington; Lansing
Hall, one of the Roadside's most
popular players, will be his flighty
young wife, and Anne Ives is in
volved as bossy aunt Of somebody.
The Columbia Light Opera Co. is
the local group taking over the Syl-
van Theater stage this week, pre-
senting "The Geisha" tomorrow
night as the second entertainment
of the summer festival season. More
than so singers are cast in the pro-
duction of the Sidney Jones musi-
cal play, among them Edith Hof1-
man Jones, Frances j. jackson,
Mildred Gleeson, Leila Stanley,
Clarke Paulsen, william Brewer,
Charles Moran and Florenz Hinz.
An orchestra of local musicians will
provide the accompaniment.
"Candle-Light," the second play
Of the Cross Roads Theater's sea-
son, goes into its second week to-
night at the barn playhouse down at
Baileys Cross Roads, Va, with the
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Local Drama GROUPS
Roadside Revives a Play
OF Century Ago
Century Ago
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Lest consider lightly
Roadside Tom Taos "S
lightly these following words following
Of the debut the middle that
before this
Still Waters he declared
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Anna May Wong
Saws NO Sarond'

That skimpy little thing Dorothy
Lamour wears from time to time lust
doesn't appeal to Anna May Wong
Paramount tried to sell her on wear
ing one in Island of Lost Men" but
Miss Wong steadfastly refused to
swing in a sarong. Not for me-"
said Miss Wong. I'll stick to the
Chinese styles. No Oriental girl
would 60 wandering around in front
OF camera in that get-up."
Anent the incident and refusal
the Paramount studio reports: "Di-
rector Kurt Newman rushed to the
front Office and came back with
a waiver. Miss Wong will now wear
Chinese pantalettes and silk coat
from the atelier of Edith Head,
Paramount designer
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Here's That Fellow
Who Just Doesn't
Like Music

They sing long songs about the
captain who hated the sea.
Samuel Goldwyn has a musician
who can't abide music. This con-
Trajectory person is Alex Schonberg,
d player in the picture Music
School," which stars Jascha Heifetz,
world renowned violinist.
Now. Schonberg came to American
in 1912 from Poland where, he says,
the din of nine musical brothers and
sisters was slowly but surely driving
him mad.
He was an actor then. He is one
now. But casting directors who
select men for work by their appear
ance, are putting musical instru-
ments into his hands and placing
him before cameras as-of all
things-a maestro of this or that.
His life as a result is one of con-
tinual torment. He doesn't under
stand music: can't read a note of
it and doesn't want it around.
He is the prototype of all musi-
clans. Street car conductors always
look behind him for a violin case
and call him maestro"
He is cast in Music School"
as an assistant of Walter Brennon.
He plays-you guessed it-a music
teacher.
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Warner Decorated
For Patriotism

Harry M. Warner, president OF
Warner Bros, Inc, has received
the Gold Cross of Malta, highest
honor which the Veterans of Foreign
Wars can confer, for his "distin-
guished patriotic services during q
perilous period"
The award was made by William
L. Wilson, California department
commander, at impressive war dead
memorial services in Hollywood
Bowl.
Mr.. Warner was given his decora-
ton, Comdr. Wilson said, "in recog-
milton OF his Nationwide motor
picture and radio campaign against
un-American activities and hi
efforts to promote a greater appre-
citation Of the blessings of American
citizenship"
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Just a Mattress
To Arabella

All those people who scurry about
movie sets when something is miss
ing were busily scurrying about the
winter Carnival" set at the Walter
Wanger studio. They were trying
to scurry up valuable silver fox
fur that Cecil Cunningham had
worn in the preceding scene. It
had vanished completely as though
the vixen had come to life and run
under a barn. Things were in a
bad way and Director Charles Ries-
ner was far from happy about the
delay. Ann Sheridan and Richard
Carlson, and half their supporting
cast Joined in the hunt. Carlson
walked behind locker and there
In innocent pleasure lay "Arabella," :"
Robert Aliens hard-of -hearing Eng
lish bulldog. She was lying on the
fur. She had borrowed it to make it
into bed. "A silver fox mattress"
Carlson said, picking up the fur.
'The dog has more expensive ideas
than movie star"
Evening star., 1939-06-26

the sponsorship OF the Federal Coun-
Gil of the Churches of Christ in
America and the Washington Com
mittee for Refugee Children.
Hamlet" said Mr.. Meredith when
the subject came up, as it always
does, has been played"
The implication of that well-read
line was that John Gielgud and
Maurice Evans, having done so ably
by the Prince of Denmark in recent
years, Mr.. Meredith is more than
content to have his name no longer
linked with the play.
Although Meredith is not the kind
of person to stress the point, there
are too many other things for an
energetic young actor to do anyway.
At the moment, none of several
proposed radio deals having worked
out, Meredith is on his way to Hol-
lywood. Then, there is television,
with which he is linked as a tech
nical advisor for Columbia with the
assignment to direct three plays.
Beyond the movies and television
lies September and four possible
Broadway plays, one being that
drama of the Illustrate artist which
Paul Vincent Carroll is writing.
(Author of two successes, Shadow
and Substance" and THE White
Steed." in the past two seasons, MIR.
Carroll is dropping the subject of
the church in Ireland to devote his
irrpnrnccih1n yl1cfN tn
other things that make him so en-
tertainingly angry. The Happiest
Man." by Dorothy Parker, IS another
of the dramas with which Meredith
may be concerned and there is
possibility that Maxwell Anderson
may have something ready. So, for
all the fact that he always looks
worried, Meredith hardly has any,
thing to worry about, except the
hair cut he insisted upon having be-
fore the broadcast last night.
X **
On his way to the cinema city,
Meredith carries none of the feeling
of some of his admirers that Holly
wood has not done right by him.
Five years of moving theater critics
to virtual ecstasy have not given
him the notion there are no other
actors in the world, including movie
actors. In fact, he Is so uncertain
about his abilities as a screen player
(although M-G-M, R-K-O, critics
and audiences have not been) that
he can barely bring himself to see
his own pictures. Out of the four he
has made, he has seen only one,
"Winterset."
MY SYSTEM" he says, referring to
his Hollywood adventures, "is all
right for me, but it is not the way
to become a big success in pictures.
With only a few weeks in the sum-
mer for making pictures, who am I
to expect them to 60 berserk over
me? To hit the top in that busi-
ness requires any ones full time and
I happen to want to spend most of
mine in New York"
The picture assignment which
will occupy him this summer is one
on which Meredith gives a magnifi-
cent performance of a man who is
uninformed. 1t is to be made by
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Hamlet Of 194O' Job Open,
And Meredith Opens 1t
Critics Choice for Dark Prince
Says Drama Has Been Played';
That Was Miss Hepburn
BY JAY CARMODY.

The Hamlet OF e4o will not be Burgess Meredith So the
@ young ACTOR concerned that Job wide
their vote him. said
rambling interview incidental to his
Mayhower Hotel under
Evening star., 1939-06-26

Warmers, but that is about all he
knows at the moment-or knew al
the moment when he was about tc
60 into rehearsal with Katharine
Hepburn for last nights perform
ance at the Mayflower for the bene-
fit OF refugee children.
X X X X
That girl in slacks and dark
glasses who got off the $50 plane
from New York and who slid like q
wrath through the hotel lobby q
few minutes later must have been
Miss Hepburn. She used nom de
plane on the hop down, and her dis
guise might have made her anybody
from Garbo to refugee from the
press and public, but it had to be
Miss Hepburn. At any rate, she was
in the play last night and she was
received by the proper committee
a committee which, incidentally
guessed absolutely right on the
plane that would be carrying a girl
with dark glasses, slacks and a beige
coat. Even in country which over
flows with people who can give per-
feet limitations of Miss Hepburn
some of whom actually make lv-
ing at 1t. the real one always Is iden-
tifiable by her aloofness. That Is
one quality in her that the imitators
cannot initiate. The confusion
otherwise would be terrific.
Absolutely undisguised was an
other, If lately lesser, celebrity who
arrived in Washington yesterday
She is Helen Twelvetrees, formerly
OF the movies, who will star In
Twin Beds" which opens the o.
ney Theater's summer season next
Monday. First of the troup to reach
Washington, Miss Twelvetrees with
Manager Steve Cochran met the
others when they arrived late in
the afternoon. The Olney will
start churning with industry today
with John Hayden directing oper-
ations.
In tow when he came to the Capt.
tai yesterday afternoon, Mr.. Hay
den had William Bishop, late of
the Mabel Kings; Dorothy Black
burn, Mabel Paige. Fred Sherman
and Frank McNellis, all of whom
will be members of the permanent
professional company which will
function in Mr.. Cochran's theater
this summer.
Be-amazed note: That cavalcade
OF Roxyette numbers, eight in all
requires eight minutes on the
Earle's stage, but it took the girls
eight and one-half months of re-
hearsals to learn the intricate, yea
hazardous, routines That son
he finds in his latest picture has
given Tarzan a prestige he never
had before The attention OF
skeptics is invited to the fact that
"Tarzan Finds a Son" is going into
the Palace Pictures do not get
in there without standing
Which reminds one that GOODBYE
Mr.. Chips" gets nearer every week
even though its Palace date re-
mains unannounced.
Evening star., 1939-06-26

WAAASAA NAAAA v AVoCAV dANAU4OllhA ~
tention. The public thought an
other way and for months the revue
has been Turing packed houses and
now continue sas BroadWay's most
consistent top box-office hit.
Gilded with this giddy wealth,
Olsen and johnson turned pro-
ducers last week with an almost
equally mad revue. The Streets of
Paris" 1t is a shambles of foreign
and native performers, thin layer
Of not-too-expensive production and
it probably will earn a handsome
profit.
This department, along with other
critics, confidently predicted that
"Hellzapoppin" would not earn q
penny when 1t opened on Broadway
and since we have had those very
bitter words thrust down our criti-
cal throats. Now this department
predicts that Olsen and johnson
should be able to take care of the
whole foreign war debt to the
United States with their profits
from THE Streets Of Paris" Any
way there are enough French and
British and Austrians and other
scattered nationalities in the cast to
call an international conference.
One by one, just as such revue
is staged, the cast is here presented:
Bobby Clark, with his ubiquitous
cigar and irrepressible walking stick,
is the comedian and sort Of master
Of ceremonies. With his bland man
ner he leaps through the legions Of
lovely girls and, contrary to the
policy of most comedians. feeds
them the straight lines so the lasses
can have the laugh gags.
There is another scene where
Clark and a winsome wench dance
the routine romantic song-and-
dance in an Apache saloon. Dozens
of Apache men and women do the
traditional Apache dance and stab
one another to death, but Clark and
his moon-in-her-eyes girl friend
continue their June-moon number,
tripping unobserving over the fall
ing bodies.
AAS AS'aS UAo0 NSoCACo WAC
Broadway debut of Abbott and Co.'S
tello, pair of mad men who, like
Olsen and johnson in the past, have
been trying for years to break the
big time. Their first opportunity
came when they appeared on Kate
Smiths radio hour, and here they
had Broadway impresarios applaud
ing them on opening night. Like
w. c. Fields, like Olsen and john
son, they are difficult to describe.
For, like all good comedians and all
good tragedians, their most effec-
tive art Is in pantomime.
Other newcomers in the show are
three Boston maids-the three sis
ters Margo, Kate and Evelyn Hyl-
ton. Superb dancers they are and
with sense of comedy that adds
elan.
Yvonne Bouvier is a French i'm
portation, but the chic one of the
foreign girls is Carmen Miranda, a
lusty and lovable songstress from
Brazil. In that land she Is a ma
tional heroine and she captivated
her Broadway audience although
she cannot sing in English. Her
words make music understandable
Evening star., 1939-06-26

boys and girls hoping for bright
days, lush nights. The old roman
tic comedy tangle proved a poor
mudder. That rainstorm on open
ing night a week ago gave it a
chill it had trouble shaking of, but
"Candle-Light" is doing "as we'll as
could be expected now, the nurse
reports.
Anyhow we hope the press agent
for the place has more faith in
"Candle-Light" than the slip of his
typewriter indicates. Austin Cat
tbs and Ann Moran are still pleas
ing the audience?" he writes. Just
like that; with a question mark.
Other players are Charles Grunwell,
Buell. Patch, Doris Edwards, Mar
jorie Harrison, Benton Henderson
and Charles McLendon?
Tryouts tonight:
At the Cross Roads Theater at
o'clock for THE Curtain Rises"
forthcoming soon under the direc-
ton OF howard wentworth.
At Central High School at
o'clock for the production OF Shakes
peare's Merry Wives of Windsor
by the Players Club of Central Com
munity Center. This is to be done
at the Sylvan Theater the evening
of August 20.
X II +
Aside to Kitty Prichard Romney:
Who Is the oculist for whom you are
drumming up trade? One more like
that story you sent down here and
you'll be drawn and quartered and
keel-hauled and forced to read aloud
this fifth carbon copy we've been
trying to decipher.
Evening star., 1939-06-26
Let's All Go

Groucho Marx was about to dc
a scene for "A Day at the Circus
when up came wardrobe man with
a rubber suit. Groucho was to wear
1t for a rain scene and he was
skeptical. HAS any one ever worn
one Of these things before?" he
asked Director Eddie Buzzeu.
Sure" Buzzell answered. People
wear them all the time to 60 fish
ing in" "All right" said Groucho
I'LL go fishing and you get some
one else to play this scene"
Evening star., 1939-06-26

to all, and she accompanies them
with rhythm Of body and music
that, Is really an intriguing and
heat-wave dance.
THE Streets of Paris" is Just one
Of those delectable hits which will
keep moving Olsen and Johnson
now producers-into those higher
income brackets. They can't say
that the critics didn't warn them
against sudden fame and riches.
They seem to have the golden touch
here again in The Streets of
Paris"
Evening star., 1939-06-26
TwizzIer Answer

It took the other boat the same
length of time, ITO seconds, be-
cause the man on the dock couldn't t
exert any more effort than the man
in the boat or he'd 60 overheard.
Evening star., 1939-08-30

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1939-08-30

1t all will be demonstrated at the
Palace, starting Friday, where the
Wizard of or" will open as q sort
of surprise to those who thought
Washington would have to wait at
least another week.
\
That the Palaces revised booking
was not the only upset of the there
tofore normal looking week is indi-
Gated in the following telegram from
Frank La Falce, Earle publicist:
William Holden, whose first role
in Golden Boy is bringing him
critical acclaim as a new rising star,
will be in Washington Thursday
Please put aside an hour to meet
young Holden at luncheon. Details,
time of arrival, schedule, time of
luncheon will be forthcoming.
X X
And then, turning over the rest
of the column to just "a reader"
who can see the other side of the
Greer Carson Norma Shearer sub
ject:
Dear Mr. Carmody:
Since I did not read your
column in Monday afternoons
Star chat would be August 2D
I do not know what it contained.
I did read it, though. on Wednes-
day afternoon and this note con-
Germs a letter written by v. H.
Kennedy.
I do not see how any one could
have an antipathy for Norma
Shearer. or anything bordering
on it, for she has proved herself
to be an actress of the first
caliber. Remember her exquisite
per fo m ances in "Smilin'<
Through" and The Barretts of
Wimpole Street? I certainly
would not call her "die-hard."
Greer Carson may be more
youthful Cor is she?), but cer-
tainly no more capable than Miss
Shearer. Miss Carson does bring
a refreshing new face to the
screen and after seeing her ster-
ling performance as the under
standing, lovable wife in Good
Evening star., 1939-08-30

SAA oVAA uHOAA oAiy oAASs
"The land of or is pure fantasy,
Q large-sized figment of the imagi-
nation of L. Frank Baum. The
strange people there, as we'll as their
queer land, never have existed and
never will, in reality. Hence, when
nothing ever was, there are no for
mulas. 1t was truly field day for
every one assigned to the produc-
ton. For once. workers did not have
to check with a research depart
ment. There was no research out
side of the illustrations in Baum's
book, illustrations made originally
In 1900, and these were mere
sketches.
But then the fun began. It was
any ones idea what Oz looked liked
There were no tin men or scare
crows running around to corner
and study. No one had ever seen a
lion cry. How would a tree pluck it's
own apples and throw them? Who
had ever been whirling around in
side of a cyclone and lived to tell
what it looked like and how it
sounded in there? And just how
does a straw man sound when he
walks? Or a tin MANI"
Take Mr.. Leroy's word for it, the
fact that no one knew the answer
to any of the above questions is re-
sponsible for the circumstance that
the picture is the most imaginative,
unrestricted product in Hollywood
history.
ANTTTCCNHCNJTC