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Evening star., 1939-05-15
Mrs. Cagney
Proves She
Can Take 1t
Jimmy's Mother
Sees Some Rough
Goings.On
HOLLYWOOD.

l1oLL WOoO.
Mrs. Carolyn Cagney can take
1t" as well as can Jimmy
She proved that recently when
she dropped in on the Each Dawn
I Die" set at Warner Bros. for
one of her infrequent glimpses of
her boy in action before cameras.
Stone walls and a heavy oaken
door hid him from view when his
mother came on the set and quietly
took a chair little way back Of
the cameras. Technicians and play
ers who watched the scene rehearsed
glanced uneasily at the erect little
lady. They knew what was coming.
William Keighley, the director
called, "Action!' From beyond the
main door came sounds Of a terrific
scuffle A voice was raised in half
snarled, half sobbed imprecations.
Mother Cagney sat up straight in
her chair. Tortured as it was, she
knew that voice.
A second later and the door was
thrown open. His arms pinioned
to his sides by towering, blue coated
guards, Cagney was half dragged,
half thrown into the room. He
fought like nothing human, squirm-
ing, twisting, kicking and all the
while gasping out savage defiance: ::
I'll get my hooks in your throats
you dirty rats"
Mother Cagney half rose from her
chair. Then she sat down abruptly
Not until the still photographer
was making his pictures and in
terest was centered on plans for
the next "set-up' did Mrs. Cagney
remove her nose glasses. Then, very
unobtrusively, she wiped her eyes
and put her glasses back on.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Variety Luncheon
HOnOrS Mothers

Variety Clubs luncheon today at
the Willard was a Mothers Day cel-
ebration, with John j. Payette and
Carter Barron the kings for a day
who arranged the special program
holloring mothers. ~.
The Washington Tent of Variety
was selected at the recent national
convention of Variety Clubs as the
one contributing the most note
worthy charity during the past year.
A silver plaque will be awarded in
tribute of the work.
The Variety Clubs most notable
charitable contribution of the year
was the Inauguration of premature
birth station at Sibley Hospital,
which has been credited with re-
ducing the infant death rate from
go to 80 per cent during the space
of a few months and with saving
the lives of some 200 infants. The
installation of the incubator units
was attended by Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1939-05-15

prOQuCJlOl UcpdTIIucIlL Oh q majors
studio to its casting Office.
The clipped words and phrases set
down above formed part of the re-
quirements for one days shooting at
Warner Bros, and, when the mimeo-
graphed sheet arrived on his desk,
the man in the casting Office never
batted an eye.
The "six boys who can milk a
cow" it was explained, were needed
for a scene in Pat O'Brien picture,
Dust Be My Destiny" The part
Of Harriet" was call for a charac-
ter actress to fit that particular role
in "Not Wanted" The people with
cars" referred to extras who were
to be hired-and paid-for furnish
ing their own automobiles, to be
used in q certain scene of "The
Hobby Family"
The gentlemen and falcons"
expressed the production Offices
hope that men could be found in
Hollywood-where almost every
thing can be rounded up on an
hours notice-who owned and could
fly falcons. They were needed for
tests being made with Enrol Flynn
and Bette Davis for "The Knight
and the Lady" The casting clerk
gazed of into space for just a mo-
ment as he studied that notation.
1t might mean a couple of extra
phone calls.
Three used children" was the
quaint way the production workers
explained that three of the same
children who had originally ap-
peared in scene in Bette Davis
nursery in THE Old Maid" should
be recalled for additional sequences.
There was no cheapness connect
ed with the next request for two
bit girls. The call sheet didn't
refer to the rate of pay, but merely
ordered two young feminine play
ers capable of playing bit roles in
another picture.
Seven boards" was a cinch for
the casting Office employees. 1t
meant that seven men, with boards
of their own, were wanted for tests
in 'The Knight and the Lady"
To the uninitiated the call sheets
are amazingly incongruous and
ridiculous things to behold. But
the casting Office man never gets a
smile out of one. He scans the
paper in deadly seriousness and at
once goes about his task of pro-
ducing-on time. He always does,
too-almost always, anyway. The
other day he was still telephoning
To the uninitiated the call sheets
around, looking for the gentlemen
with falcons
One Of the best, if not actually
the best educated man in movies,
plays heavy roles in Westerns.
He is Willard Robertson, college
bred, who at one time was chief at
torney for the United States Inter-
state Commerce Commission and
later served as manager and super
visor Of the Federal railway police
Evening star., 1939-05-15
City of Washington
Starts Thursday

Thursday night the Wilson Lines
steamer, City of Washington, ups
anchor, unties herself and makes
her first moonlight dance cruise of
the new season. For the fourth year
the first moonlight will be sponsored
by the Junior Board of Commerce.
Dance music on the City of Wash
ington this year will be supplied
by Dave McWilliams' orchestra,
under the direction of Davy Crocker.
There will be a moonlight cruise
nightly, at $3.50 o'clock.
Also starting Thursday the City
of Washington will make two round
trips daily to Mt. Vernon, leaving
her dock here at 10 a m. and 2 pm.
Marshall Hall Park, another
southern destination of the boat,
will open for the season Saturday,
May q.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Prizes Are Awarded
At Amateur Show

Students of the sixth grade won
the cup for the outstanding group
number in the fourth annual anna
teur show Of the Blessed Sacrament
School, staged Saturday night in
the ballroom of the Willard Hotel.
Their contribution to the revue was
"Wee Bit O. Sotch," precision
drill number by killed girls and boys.
Prize for the outstanding solo
number went to young Jean Connors
for her pantomimic Interpretation
and singing of Little Lady Make
Believe" Frances Ugast's singing
Of Mother" won her the award for
the best artistic number, and Helen
Carmody, tiny red-headed tot,
was voted the performer with the
most popular appeal, for her singing
of Three Little Fishes"
Honorable mention awards we're
made to Lorraine Gatti, Rosemary
Gass, Ann Devereux, Patsy Dunigan,
Jane Short, Jerry Manning, Billy
Ewers, Billy Ralston, Eddie Beacon
and Charles Chambers.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
MelOdrama to Start
Roadside Season

Four weeks from tonight, Monday,
June II, is the date with the ring
around 1t on the Roadside Theater's
calendar, for that's the opening
night of the sixth summer season.
"The Pioneers Daughter, or Perils
Of the Prairie" starts things off al
the red barn playhouse on the
Rockville pike in the proper tradi-
ton of stark melodrama.
Three other typical melodramas
Of the type Roadside audiences howl
for are on the books for the season.
They are "The Fatal Brand" "Au-
rora Floyd, or the Dark Deed in the
Wood" and 'The Drunkard," revived
by the Roadside for the first time
since its presentation on the barn
theater stage in 1884.
The Roadside playbill also in
cludes two ancient comedies. One
is Still Waters Deep" by Tom
Taylor, author of "Our American
Cousin" and the other is Joseph
Arthur's classic about the heroic fire
laddie, "The Still Alarm" There
also is to be mystery thriller, with
sliding panels, mysterious voices,
sudden death and all those things.
It's titled "Spooks."
Evening star., 1939-05-15

arrangement might be an implica-
ton that the Republican group was
Leftist.
Mr.. Preston assured them that 1t
didn't mean a thing and wouldn't
mean thing. They finally assumed
he must know after those decades
he spent in charge of the Senate
press gallery.
&C. b." who, with his first letter
to this department becomes one of
our favorite correspondents, writes:
Il read your column every night.
am sending you this letter In hopes
that you will see fit to use it. The
topic, Tradition One tradition, in
particular, The Show Must Go On
That tradition was carried out in the
very best manner by the greatest
star in Hollywood. In yours truly's
opinion the star was none other than
Eleanor Powell. who played the
Capitol Theater this past week.
ITO the autograph hounds, please
excuse the term, Miss Eleanor Powell
was under doctors care while play
ing our fair city. She had to stay
in her dressing room between acts
so as to conserve her strength. I
think all her fans will agree that
Miss Powell put on a wonderful show
to the delight of hundreds of Wash
ingtonians. This letter was written
by a secret, ardent admirer of Miss
Powell's."
Critics could almost take Friday
of this week, what with four SCREEN
ings scheduled for three days :.
Hardie Meakin starts it today with
East Side of Heaven" =. The Little
tomorrow morning will screen "Cour-
ier of Lyons" with LoeW's turning it
into double feature by following
Immediately with broadway Sere-
made . That's jeanette MacDon-
AIDS latest On Wednesday the
Earle lets the drama press have an
advance peek at Man of Conquest"
-. On Thursday, if it adheres to it's
usual opening schedule, the Palace
will offer the latest in Hardy family
affairs, THE Hardys Ride High" ..
Playing a small part in the picture
is Marsha Hunt, former Washington
girl, who will return pretty soon for
a week or so of stock playing with
Steve Cochran's Olney troupe.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Bette Davis Winner
Of French Award

The French Academy has no
titled Bette Davis, Warner Bros
star, that she has won the or
ganization's award for the best film
performance of 1898 with her por-
trayal of Julie in "Jezebel."
The French Academy's honor to
Miss Davis has been signalized by
scroll now en- route to Hollywood
from Paris to join the two Oscars"
the star won for her performances
In 1896 and 1898.
Evening star., 1939-05-15

the day-the day the circus, the
greatest show on earth, opens its
local engagement.
The Edmund Rostand play will be
staged tomorrow, Wednesday and
Thursday nights at 8:15 o'clock at
st. Paul's auditorium, under the di-
rection of the Rev. G. v. Hartke,
o. P, director of the School of
Drama at Catholic University. Pass
ing through the Office in a hurry
last week, Father Hartke stopped
long enough to wax enthusiastic
about Denis Connell's playing of the
title role. Then he went away in
that same hurry, but if he had had
time Father Hartke no doubt would
have been enthusiastic, too, over his
Roxane, who is Evelyn Meade.
He probably would have had good
words, also, for Charles Grunwell,
the handsome but inarticulate SOL
dier who loved Roxane, and for the
others-Gertrude Heagney. Marga-
ret Frawley, Edna Evans, Wilma
Stacy, Lorraine jain, Teresa Karns,
Helen johnson, Richard Boulger,
Carlton Ayres, Frank McDevitt, Will
liam Legett, George Hayes. Austin
Grady, Jack Sherry, Edward Baggs,
Gerald Marion, Raymond Maryman,
Francis Nolan, William Flynn, Jack
Wilson, Leo Meyer, Robert Hoff,
James Parker, Edward Stacy and
Joseph Peacon.
Lillian Smiths costuming and
Charles Ford's sets are other con-
tributing elements to the whirl Of
glittering color and romance.
X X X
Tonight the King Smith. Play
house extends another invitation for
all those interested to attend an
open rehearsal of the groups next
play. This is the English adapta-
ton of Martinez Sierra's sophisti-
Gated comedy, Take Two From
One" which will be staged at the
playhouse Thursday and Friday
nights. Take Two From One" has
to do with a widoWer who remarries,
then discovers he wasn't widower
at all when his first wife turns up
to prove she is not dead and embar-
rass him on the first anniversary
of his second marriage. The cast
will include Evelyn Crump, Pauline
LIE Vogue, Ellen Moore, Margery
Benson and Gregory Crawley.
X
May Pollack, the young artist who
won an award for her painting at
the Pen Women's Exhibit, has a
prominent role in THE Saturday
Evening Ghost" which the Players
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Glen Echo Dancers
Get Music bY Golly

"She shall have music" says the
song and music, by Golly, is what
she will get at Glen Echos Spanish
garden ballroom tonight. That
means, of course, that Cecil Golly
and his youthful sweet-swing music
makers bring their music by Golly'
to the parks dance rendezvous to-
night to begin a limited engagement.
Among the featured entertainers
with the orchestra is Nancy Gay,
who is reported to be streamlined
and charming and a dynamic bum
die of pep and personality" who
sings a la Martha Raye and tap
dances. Another of the bands spe-
cialty artists is Gene Eyman, "scat"
singer.
The Spanish garden ballroom is
open nightly, except Sundays, from
8 to IL.
Evening star., 1939-05-15

Club Of Central Community Center
stages Thursday night at Roosevelt
High School auditorium. Eileen
Fowler is directing and it is the final
play of the groups season.
The Dramatics Club of Hyattsville
High School plays entertainment
host to the College Park branch of
the American Association of Univer-
sity Women tonight at the school
auditorium. The evenings program
will include makeup demonstrations
and backstage inspection and will
feature scenes from two plays the
club has produced-one from the
February production of Elmer Rice's
THE Adding Machine" and another
from Shakespeare's Tanning of the
Shrew."
The Troupers of East Washington
Community Center are at work on
Oscar Wilde's THE Importance of
Being Earnest" and will stage it
June 6 at Eastern High School. L.
Zaff Rogers is directing and the
cast includes Ted Freter, Al Muehl-
haus, Lucill Carson, Mildred Muehl-
haus, Ruth Learn, Patricia Davis,
Gus Wildt and Ernest johnson.
The Cross Roads Theater's first
production had better be good. For
there are lot Of reviewers of the
drama in the country and in Wash
ington, too, no doubt, who would
welcome an opportunity to laugh at
a production of "Abies Irish Rose"
At, not with, we said, for "Abie's
Irish Rose" as you probably know,
is the play which survived being
roundly damned with not even faint
praise to 60 on and on for years
and make millions laugh or some
thing.
The Ann Nichols play is very
funny indeed, of course, even if no
one but the public did like 1t. And
the Cross Roads people have taken
one step in the right direction by
casting two of the towns more
capable young players in the lead
ing roles-Peggy Johnston as Rose
Mary Murphy and Don Sisler as
Able. Howard Wentworth is direct
ing and the comedy will open June 5
to run through June IT.
The Cross Roads also would like
you to note that all seats are re-
served this year and there is now a
downtown ticket Office, at the Earle
Florist Shop, 1921 E street NV.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
S. S. Potomac Makes
First MOONLIGHT

The Potomac Rivers moonlight
dancing season is under way. The
s. s. Potomac cast of her hawsers
Saturday night at 8:45 for the first
cruise and there the season was
under way. The Potomac (the boat,
not the river) is redecorated this
season, all shining and resplendent
for the dancers or for the deck
chair admirals who prefer to just sit
and listen to the doings Of the swing
band aboard.
The S. S. Potomac makes the
moonlight dance cruise nightly and
on Sunday there's the daylight
jaunt to Quantico and Colonial
Beach.
Evening star., 1939-05-15


back on studio pay rolls in numbers
that are amazing, as any one can
see just by going to the movies these
days.
Horse employment, of course, like
all other kinds in Hollywood, is
cyclic proposition. The current cycle
will last only so long as the public
likes those three stories in which
horses are such important proper
ties. The three stories are those of
the building of the West, the one
about the race-track racketeers and
the one about the lady's from Ken
lucky. AS every one knows, the
trinity does not mean just three pic
lures. Offhand, any one can think
Of four or five versions of all three
That's Is which Heaven alone knows
means how many horse hours of
work.
There is nothing to indicate that
the horses of Hollywood should start
saving their oats against the COM
ing of another rainy day, which is
mere figure of speech if the L. A..
Chamber of Commerce is caves
dropping. Five times since the first
of the year the studios have re-
leased pictures concerned with the
winning of the West. 1t invariably
is a best.seller theme and so long
as large cities and small towns alike
go for 1t, Hollywood will go for it,
too
1t looks like it might be a long
time, especially in view of the fact
that horse operas almost invariably
are excellent pictures these days.
X
James Preston, the local boy who
Is on leave from the National Ar
chives to make good as technical
director in Hollywood, has run into
some interesting attitudes on the
some interesting attitudes on the
part of his employing studio, Co.
lumbia.
One of the questions which came
up for Mr.. Preston's deliberation
was the seating of the two major
political parties members in the
make-believe Senate in the picture
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
The parties are not called by their
right names, but their respective
PHILOSOPHERS are identifiable. In
other words, the public will have no
difficulty recognizing either Demo-
Gratis or Republicans.
That much was admitted when it
was decided to seat the ones who
1NnkaI Gko nnsronnrofc tho vinbf
the others on the left. Every one
except Mr.. Preston. our informant
tells us, was bit fearful that the
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Convict Again

Edward G.. Robinson has been
signed by M-G-M to star in Black
MAIL" dramatic story of Southern
chain gang. He will play an escaped
convict who settles to a respectable
life, marries and becomes a father.
Because of a feat of heroism in his
business of putting out oil well fires,
his picture gets in the papers. He
then becomes blackmail victim
until he succeeds, in proving the
blackmailer guilty Of his original
crime. Nat Pendleton plays his part
ner In the oil business H. G. Potter
will direct, John w. Considine pro-
duce,
Evening star., 1939-05-15
TwizzIer Answer

The four weights which the dairy
man found were 1a-pound, 1h-
pound, 4h-pound and 131a-pound
The way he would weigh II pounds,
for example, would be to put the
13h-pound weight, the AZ and the
u on one side and the 11z on the
other side with the goods he was
weighing. All the other combina-
tions can be worked out similarly.
Evening star., 1939-05-15

He is the author of several novels
and hit plays and as an analyst and
speaker on economics Is in constant
demand.
Robertson has appeared in Is or
more pictures since coming out from
New York and now is doing a con-
niving bad man in one of the Hop
along Cassidy series, Lawful Out
laws" He likes 'em, too.
mo more indoor pictures for me
II can get on Westerns" he de-
clared. "It's like basket picnic,
and never felt so good in my life"
Released by the North American News
paper Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Local Drama Groups
Blackfriars' Guild Season
Ends With 'Cyrano'
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Out to close its season in manner nothing short OF the spectacular
The Blacka Guild its members overtime make
the outstanding production
group he 18th century cosumng, with flowing plume
bucklers whi
ttering mouhful
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Horse Back, Maybe to Stay,
In Western Film Cycle
Three Currently Popular Screen Plots
Put Horde of Animals to Work;
Mr. Preston Tells Them
Ry LAY CARMQlY.

Technooga unemployment CHATS funny phrase to come creep
ing Hollywood
to be- Moreover it not what probably will be again At the
everything this
picture
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Request for Used Children
Raises Not an Eyebrow
Gentlemen and Falcons Notation,
However, Does Give Casting Office
Some Slight Qualms
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN,
HOLLYWOOD.

Scattered sights and sounds
six boys who milk COW"
gentlemen children
bit girls"
Mumurings madhouse?
Ineligible likely be fred any day from the
Evening star., 1939-05-15

Too many cooks spoil the broth.
Pedestrian safety depends on one
recipe: Watch the lights.
Evening star., 1939-05-15

Pedestrians have the right Of way
when crossing on the green light
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