Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-03

Is COllIdlleu d report lTOIu Miss
Peggy Wood, the American actress,
who has just returned from a two
year stay in Great Britain. 1t
caught our eye with the deathless
prose of this first sentence and then
we couldn't stop.
England is a cauldron of con-
lecture over the eventuality of war"
saws Miss Wood. The country is
divided into two distinct groups of
thought. The parliamentarian or
ruling class discount the probability
of an immediate clash, If at all,
while the man in the street fears
that war is inevitable. Which side
knows whereof it speaks only time
will tell, but in the interim England
is preparing for the worst with quiet
fortitude.
There will be no repetition of the
paralyzing fear and hysteria that
gripped the nation last September"
Miss Wood continues. The con-
slant specter of war evidenced by
the trenches and bombproof shell
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mask drills and air raid precautions
coupled with the growing resent
ment toward the axis powers for
their dictatorial arrogance, has given
way to a reSolute feeling on the
part of nearly every one to face the
inevitable and have it over with.
did you say that all with one
breath, Peggy0 Nerves are becom-
ing frazzled in people who ordi-
narily pride themselves on their
equanimity and sense of justice"
We had to go clear down to there
to get to Miss Woods admirable
analysis of the British character.
Preparing for the worst with quiet
fortitude and frazzled nerves.
So what would you do for a lead
when stranded in the middle of a
holiday week end that is so much of
a vacation even the busiest of peo-
pie, those Earle Roxyettes, no doubt
can find time to slip away to the
beach?
All those people who have been
asking when Goodbye Mr.. Chips
would arrive and practically de-
handing that it be soon. may now
stop asking and demanding and
take up eagerly awaiting. Good
bye Mr.. Chips" is scheduled to open
Thursday at the Palace. And I'M
less "Tarzan Finds Son." granting
it is one of the best yet in the series
and more fun than a barrel of
apemen, packs heftier box office
punch than previous "TarzanS,"
Thursday will surely see ''Mr. Chips
If it will make you feel any better
about it a great big corporation is
no better than you in that business
of confusing the owners of similar
names. The corporation is Para
mount Pictures and one of the con-
fusing things on the lot at the mo-
ment is the presence there of Mary
Martin, Mary Lee Martin and
Marion Martin, three separate and
distinct Martins. Mary is the one
whose heart belongs to daddy,
Marion is the well-known Broadway
showgirl and Mary Lee, as far as we
know right now, is just girl named
Mary Lee Martin who is playing in
a picture called Are Husbands
Necessary?' It's giving the studio
bookkeeperS fits, anyhow.
And just to help confuse you, or
maybe to set the matter straight in
your mind once and for all, Warmers
have cast both Jane Bryan and Jane
Wyman in one picture.
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Tonight ends another item of con-
lecture, this the question: "When's
the Olney Theater going to open?'
The Olney Theater opens tonight,
if you do not mind being reminded
again. And the play, if you don't
mind being reminded of that, will
be Twin Beds" the farce which
first whooped its way onto stage
under the Al Woods banner, now
with Helen Twelvetrees in the lead
ing role.
Department of Publicity Depart
ments reaching Out for an Angle on
Which to Hang a Story: Everything
happens in threes. First Edward
abdicated. Then Lou Gehrig ended
an amazing endurance record. And
now Phil Lampkin, who has waved
an unfaltering left arm over the
Loews Capitol Theater orchestrmen
whatever that isl for 10, these many
years, has decided to put his baton
aside"
And just when his publicity de-
partment put him in fast company.
Shooting From the Cuff The
Hilltop Theater, which is Ellicott
City's summer home of the drama,
opens its production of the Samson
Raphaelson comedy, Accent on
Youth" tomorrow night All
Warner Bros neighborhood theaters
will have special holiday matinees
tomorrow, starting at l pm.
March of Times WAR, Peace and
Propaganda will be the Trans-Lux
feature starting Friday Irene"
is in the lead in the balloting for the
operetta to be staged at the Capitol
1t takes all kinds of people
to make Hollywood, the Hal Roach
casting director found out again the