Evening star., 1939-08-10
shrugged their shoulders and de-
cided it wasn't worth trying to
figure.

X X X Il
The mite Mickey, who is sensitive
about his size and face that makes
him look about Ia, was as much
impressed by Washington as Wash
ington was in its turn. Accustomed
as he Is to curious throngs, he had
the notion that the National Capt.
tai, full of its own kind of celebrities,
was pretty well fed up on all kinds.
ITS terrific" he said, glancing
up from plate of ham toward the
faces pressed against the doors of
the Wizards crystal room.
Its terrific" said Carter Barron,
host to the visiting pair, to a score
of public officials, several dozen
Loew executives from the Eastern
division, to the press of half dozen
cities, to radio representatives and
miscellaneous others.
Miss Garland, a couple of inches
taller than Mickey, thought it was
terrific, too.
So did every one else.
X X X X
Charles Edison, Acting Secretary
of the Navy, whose father Gas boy
Mickey is to play in the Aim biog-
raphy of the inventor, gets credit
for the brightest remark of the
luncheon.
Brought over to the table to be
introduced, Mickey was asked to sit
at the acting Secretary's table. The
awed youngster hesitated just a
moment.
Il hope I'm not intruding," he
finally remarked.
after all, why should you be?"
countered the Navy's head man,
you're my father"
Mickey felt right at home.
Perhaps that wasn't the brightest
remark of the day, after all. Very
early in the morning the busy Mr..
Barron received call from the
Earle which got an even louder and
longer laugh.
Hey" said the Earle voice, "how
about lending us a couple of ushers
to handle your overflow"
X \ X X
The fact that they were hungry
counted not bit in behalf of Mick
ey and Judy at luncheon Be-
tween bites, they had to meet a
constant succession of co-guests
After luncheon, and after re-
ceiving the keys to the city from
Commissioner Melvin G.. HaZen, they
were taken to each table in the
room for introductions. And
autographs. And between intro
ductions and autographs, both
youngsters posed for pictures with
the offspring of local notables
whose invitations obviously read
come and bring the kids"
Almost as proud of the reception
given him by the public was Mickey
of the reception given his act with
Judy at the Capitol. . 1--WE were
supposed to do only 20 minutes" he
said, land they kept us 40. Whew.'
-. Excerpts from Babes In Arms,
the musical which stars the two
constituted the major portion OF
the stage performance at the Capt.
tol. :. . Beyond the excerpts, Mickey
proved himself to be as clever a
master of ceremonies as the oldest
Snowman in town can remember
.. Which covers lot of masters
of ceremonies, including Art Brown
OF VOL who proved to be the best
darned waiter a crippled critic ever
met at buffet luncheon.
And now to let Louise Noonar
Miller of the Little theater take
over:
Ny dear Jay: It's pretty well ad.
mitted now that something wen
wrong in 1884 when they were pass.
ing out awards for motion pictur,
excellence. The controversy kickee
up by the plot of OF Human Bond
lage.' its establishment of Lesli,
Howard and its discovery of Bett,
Davis as one of the greatest-if no
fthe greatest-dramatic actresses O
the screen, has since marked it a.
easily the most important picture O
the year. Yet it won neither tn,
best picture of the year award, no
did the Academy of Motion Pictur,
Arts and Sciences name Bette Davi
the outstanding actress of 1884.
True, the following year the
academy bowed to the storms O
protest and gave Miss Davis a gold
plated Oscar Officially, it was TO
her performance in something callet
Dangerous but everybody toda,
agrees it was actually belated rec
ognition of her startling work in o
Human Bondage
Now here's our idea. OF Human
Bondage was overlooked in 1884.
still stands-on the records-as tn
forgotten picture. And now, thi
week, it is being reissued-not re
vived, but reissued. In other words
it's taking its place as 1899 release
Since OF Human Bondage got
raw deal in 1934Ea fact that's ad
mitted in and out of the industry
isn't this chance to rectify tha
oversight?
I'm short, we want to place o
Human Bondage which had it
Washington premiere as a reissue a
the Little on Saturday, in competi
ton for the best motion picture O
1882 It is strange goings-on, bu
so were those in 1884.
will anybody back us up?
Sincerely, LOUISE"