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Evening star., 1939-10-23


That is why he is appearing in per-
son, with his radio revue, at the
Capitol Theater on Thursday. Yes,
Thursdays right. The house is in
augurating a new opening policy,
which will last at least until Thanks
giving, whenever that is.
His yearly tours, however brief
they may be, teach Cantor one
thing: 1t is not true that one of
the surest ways to kill comedian
is to give him too much air, the
radio kind. Like every other funny
fellow he once worried about what
would happen to his reputation for
being funny doing new show every
week. Thirty mine shows year is
great many and no one knew better
than Cantor how much material,
good and bad, could be consumed in
the creation of them. Naturally, he
worried and so would you.
These journeys in quest of actors
music reassured him, gradually di-
minished his dread of becoming a
former star comedian instead of a
currently popular one. He found
living audiences still ready to pound
their palms for him, not politely as
for an institution, but sincerely In
admiration.
That is why he keeps travelling.
Speaking of travelling, the Earle's
Roxyettes are about to begin. The
end of their journey, six weeks
hence, will be the Earle's stage, how
ever, so no one need drag out the
sack cloth and ashes. AS reward
for the one year of steady service
as the most intrepid, energetic, and
highly skilled ballet ever to become
permanent fixture here, the val
liant 16 will be given a six weeks
vacation.
In that interval, they will not
have to worry about mastering such
menacing routines as ladder or bail
walking, ice skating, bicycle riding,
etc. If necessary, they can sit by
and watch old bruises heal. If not,
they can do as they jolly well feel,
for the Earle management jolly we'll
feels they have earned rest.
Were tact not such carefully
nurtured trait in young movie play
ers, Washington might wake up
Wednesday morning to the knowl-
edge of which local university has
the most glamorous glamor boy.
Five representatives of the five local
schools, Georgetown, Catholic u,
George Washington, American U
and Maryland, are scheduled to
Evening star., 1939-10-23

Truitt Miller (the SHOW off, Ellen
G. Scholze and Carolyn Rogers. The
Pierce Hall Players announce, some
what sadly one feels, that Miss
Scholze may forsake them some day
in the not too distant future. She is
one of the towns accomplished con-
cert pianists, a former student at
the Washington Musical Institute.
1t has been hinted that she may
soon show a preference for music
over acting.
More anent Pierce Hall activities:
Constance Kramer, daughter of the
late DR.. Stephen E. Kramer, former
assistant superintendent of schools,
has Joined the group. Her first
chore is that of acting as assistant
to Director Howard F. Wentworth
on the production of THE Show
Off,"
\ X X X
Members of the Players Club of
Central Community Center met in
solemn (more or less) conclave last
week for their first business meeting
of the season, succeeded in electing
new officers and selecting a director
for their first play.
Mrs. Edith Evers is the groups
new president; Fred Cole, vice presi-
dent; Libby Taylor, secretary, and
Cecilia Carney, treasurer And Will
liam Baker assumes the directorial
mantle for the first play.
This will be Owen Davis mystery
Evening star., 1939-10-23
Dick Wilmington
Children's First

"Dick Wilmington and His Cat"
is the choice of the Children's Thea
ter of New York for its opening
presentation at the National next
Saturday morning at 10:30 o'clock.
The legend of Dick Wilmington"
is one of the popular English Christ
mas plays-the story of the little
country boy who thought London's
streets were paved with gold, and
who, through the aid of his cat,
rose from poverty to wealth and
high honor, but who never forgot
to remember London's poor. The
spirit of Dick Wilmington will in
still in the youngsters who see the
play something of the beneficence
of London's favorite lord mayor,
and at the same time it is a comedy
possessing genuine humor of line
situation and character.
This is the first in a series of six
plays which the Children's Theater
is presenting in Washington for the
eighth season under the sponsorship
of the Women's International.
League. Tickets are now on sale
at the Washington ONCE of the
ChildreuS Theates. 1874 + street
NV.
Evening star., 1939-10-23

sules me. But women who are
worthwhile are so few"
Mr.. Ayres has been married twice
the first time to Lola Lane; the
second marriage-Which has been
in state of suspended animation
for three years-with Ginger Rogers.
I doubt whether there will be
third marriage for the 30-year-old
actor. "Once in every great while, a
man and woman are perfectly
mated, but you take great chance
when you get married. Very rarely
does it end in happiness. Each person
is usually alone in the end One must
learn when young how to rely on
oneself without leaning for mental
comfort on another
Lew tells me he has lived alone
and liked it-"sirce I was Is years
old" with two brief intervals out
for his marriages) Nowadays he
occupies house on top of Beverly
Hills canyon, with one male servant,
Joe, a Czecho-Slovak, who is even
more Of a misogynist than his mas
ter. On the rare occasions that a
woman is asked to dine. Joe's first
question to Mr.. Ayes is-"Is she mar
ried?" If she is not Joe is positively
rude to her all evening
How Lew came to build his lonely
mansion is typical of him. When
he first settled in Hollywood II years
ago the site of his present home
was lonely mountain cafe. Sew
eral times week Lew Used to dine
there, look down over Hollywood and
wish he could afford to build house
on similar canyon peak. A few
years ago, the cafe burned down.
Lew put in an offer of IS 900 for the
land. He finally got it for $4,000.
The only house in the neighborhood,
which is about as high and about
Evening star., 1939-10-23
Robert VirOvai Proves
To Be a Poet of the Violin
A Feeling for the Music Flows From
His Playing in His First
Recital at Constitution Hall

reaches the heart with a beautifully
spun song of deep and lovely things.
One heard 1t in the exquisitely
turned out phrases of the Corelli-
Leonard La Folia," SO pure in style
yet warm in feeling, in the Vieux-
temps Concerto in D Minor, Op. 81,
in the tender mood of Mrs. Town
sends "Berceuse" and the evanes-
cent delicacy of Hubay's "Zephir."
Virovai is master Of the pianis-
simo and of the small effects that
register so Importantly in interpre-
tation. However, in spite of the
beauty which he distills from his
violin, with tone not overly large,
one wishes for the contrast which
more dramatic delivery would give.
Not Yet Completely Rounded.
The Andante Religioso of the con-
certo lacked the profoundly that a
more significant and less romantic
reading would have given it and in
the Bach prelude in E" from the
Sonata No. g. for violin alone and
II Palpiti," Rossini-Paganini, one
missed that verve and brilliancy
which brings out the high lights.
The young artist has something
definite to give and it is of richly
poetic nature. His knowledge of
style, accent and phrasing and sense
of mood is highly cultivated and
fiexibly employed yet this tends to
one-sidedness that is not dispersed
IN more technical passages. While
fingers and bow arm make light of
their duties, there were a few slips
IN lntonation in yesterdays per-
formance. If the art of Mr.. Virovai
is not yet completely rounded out,
Evening star., 1939-10-23
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

A young poet of the violin, Robert
Virovai, was presented to the public
here yesterday afternoon at Con-
stitution Hall. 1t is pleasure to
refer to him as such, for in this re-
spect he stands unique among the
virtuosi and the interpreters on that
instrument. Mr.. Virovai has been
heard here before, making his debut
at Mrs. Lawrence Townsends musi-
Gales, but this was his first appear
ance in recital in the hall reserved
for those who present their artistry
in every phase. The concert was
part of Dorothy Hodgkin Dorsey's
series.
Mr.. Virovai is 18 years old, but in
his playing of his program yester-
day he showed q maturity far be-
yond his years. Besides his tech
nical proficiency, which goes with
out saying, the maturity lies in his
tremendous insight into the mean
ing of the music and his ability to
give 1t out in quite an individual
way. On a foundation of excel
lent musicianship, he has placed
his rare poetic feeling and an ex-
traordinary appreciation of the
subtle means by which it can be
expressed.
Feeling for Music Flows From Him.
There are many violinists who are
dazzling performers and few who
are great artists by virtue of their
profound knowledge and keenness
of perception in both musical and
emotional Interpretation. But those
in whom the feeling for the music
predominates and from whom it
flows through the printed form, so
as to superpose itself on all the
mechanics of performance are rare
indeed. To these belongs young
Virovai.
He is not a dramatic player nor
one who can stir the blood with
pyrotechnics, but he is one who
Evening star., 1939-10-23
Lew Ayres Airs His Views
On The Average Girl
Boyish.Looking Actor Discusses
Marriage, Life and His
Cinema Career
HOLLYWOOD.
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.

HOLLYWOOD.
dull nothing
ed politics. religion intelligent
talks about clothes, the parties"
his preference for masculine society," society
THE interesting
nues Mr. Ares The rest have only valueas
ornamental
Evening star., 1939-10-23

have date with Ann Rutherford
on Tuesday night.
If Miss Rutherford would consti-
tute herself a judge, which she
won't, the intercollegiate glamor
championship might be decided.
Athletes predominant among the
schools own selections of their ablest
representatives in dating Mickey
Rooney's screen girl friend. John
Smith, baseball captain, would wear
the colors of Georgetown, if one
wore college colors in the Carlton S
Shar-Zad Room. Gerry Strange,
football, hockey and boxing man,
carries the hopes of Catholic U.
Wayne Kniffen, a law student but
not plain, is G.. WIS knight; Whitley
Miller. football, and Archie Norford,
also football. are the representatives
of Maryland and American u, re-
spectively.
Like a politician, Miss Rutherford
is in no position to ALLEVIATE the other
four groups by favoring any par
ticular one, but it might be fun If
she did. Say, for instance, the
American U. man. A. U. wins so
few championships.
X X X X
First loves are not always the
least tickle, viz Franchot Tone @.
A year ago, Mr.. Tone was leaving
his second love, the movies, to return
to his earlier one, the stage .
East he came to play the lead in
THE Gentle People" under the
auspices of the Group theater ..
East he stayed for rather indiffer-
ent reception. then an illness, later
establishment and finally back to
Hollywood The first picture of
his second movie career, Fast and
Furious" comes next to the Capitol
which is what focuses attention upon
Mr.. Tone again VI. .. Today's statistic,
courtesy Hardie Meaking: Twenty
five million men have lived through
the adventures described in The
Road Back opening at Keith's fol-
lowing Rio Ten million more
now in Europes current war are
destined to relieve them in future
years." Not since Music in the
Air" seven years ago, have Jerome
Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, I'd,
collaborated on a musical until they
got together in Very Warm for
May" which opens tonight at the
National 1t will also be Max
Gordon's first musical since THE
Great Waltz" If it is equally
successful, Mr.. G. will be a mighty
happy man >. Ecstatic, in fact.
Evening star., 1939-10-23
p. A. Tours Enable Cantor
To Check His Standing
Applause Is His Favorite Music;
Roxyettes Earn Vacation;
Quintuple Date for Ann
BY JAY CARMODY,

Actors music, that's what Eddie Cantor likes.
him
Canorese for applause and there
like it, he lying misanthrope difference
Others however
do few weeks
Evening star., 1939-10-23

as alone, is that of Ginger Rogers
on an adjoining peak.
At the moment, Lew is obsessed
with wanting to find what he calls
"a platform'-not for oratorical pur-
poses-"I want platform on which
to base my life. I want to find
something to believe in, to die for
if necessary. I envy people who be-
lieve in something, whether it's re-
ligion, politics, or love- I want to
find out what it's all about, to grasp
some form of stability. And, when
l do, III follow it through to the
end"
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Evening star., 1939-10-23
A M U s E M ENT s.

1t bears a distinctive stamp and 1t il
from the technical angle that the
addition must come. =
Wolfgang- Rebner was the ve.y
fine accompanist fully in accord with
the artist in every respect. Mr..
Virovai gave no encores during the
program, although the enthusiasm
he aroused was great, except to re-
peat "Zephir," but at the end the
modest and serious young man was
finally persuaded to give the eagerly
awaited extra numbers.
Evening star., 1939-10-23
Keep America Out Of Var!
Defend Civil Riqhts

MASS MEETING
Masonic Temple Auditorium
New York Ave. and 18th st. NV.
TONIGHT AT S:l5 PM.
DR.. HARRY F. WARD
President American LEAGUE Peace
and Democracy
MRS. CHARLES PUTNAM
Chairman, Wash. Branch Descendants
American Revolution
Admission 25c
Auspices, American League for Peace
and Democracy
Evening star., 1939-10-23

dice against the
mental side of a
female to rave
over her physi-
cal a t tri ! butes.
For all of "a
hours, he has
been known to
be e n thusiastic
about the beauty
of this or that
girl. At the end
of that period,
she does not eX-
ist for him. He
insists he is not
a woman -hater.
ooh mo- bo oc.
Evening star., 1939-10-23

Every once in awhile, Lew has
been known to overcome his preju-
Evening star., 1939-10-23
Returns

December / has been set as the
date for the end of the present
personal appearance tour of Eddie
Cantor. On that day he will start
work at M-G-M in his next comedy
feature, Forty Little Mothers"
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Soviet Insisting Upon Pact
To Bar Future Appeosement
Wants Treaty Which Will Keep Peace
By Preventing New Concessions

evitable in order to secure the down.
fall of Fascism.
NO" the Russians answer. "It is
concessions to men like Hitler, Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini and the jap
anese generals that makes war in
evitable. When you resist bullies,
as we are doing in Mongolia there
is not any real war. We want a
pact which, by its absolute inflexi-
bility, will guarantee peace. There
fore we demand the right to prevent
Hitler from "decomposing" the Bal
tic states before moving in on in
vitation. and the right to be the
sole judges of our interests. We
demand that you take our word in
the East as we are ready to take
yours in the West. We demand-if
we are to guarantee Holland, Switz-
erland and Luxembourg-that Poland
and Rumania assist us, therefore
making our action in the West pos
sible." So runs the argument.
Now, Britain and France have
threatened to say no. They accuse
the Russians of talking" with the
Germans, which is certainly true,
and talking not only economics, but
politics, which may be true.
French newspapers are beginning
to bluster and enemies of the Soviets
to rejoice. Perhaps there will be
no pact with the Soviets after all.
The situation is further compli-
Gated by certain other factors. In
the first place the French want a
pact with the Soviets-any pact
more than the British. The French
declare that they expect almost
nothing" in the form of military
assistance to the Poles or them
selves, from the Russians. They
wish, they state, to be sure that
Russia, If neutral, will not sell sup
plies to Germany and conversely
will sell them to Poland Therefore
they declare that any pact, even a
simple three-power promise of mu
tual support. mentioning no small
countries, will suffice.
Another factor is the Turkish re-
luctance to support Britain and
France unless Russia enters the
combination. This. unquestionablv
Will render difficult the abandon
ment OF negotiations with Russia by
the democracies.
| FOR several reasons it is difficult tc
believe that the negotiations will
1all. The consequences for the
democracies, and conceivably, for
Russia, would be far too serious, But
unless some new element is intro
duced as, for instance, the visit to
Moscow of a Britisher, high enough
placed to talk to Stain. it is con-
celVable that the negotiations NAV
continue for weeks or even months
winch may be precisely what Hitler
is counting on.
copyright. 1899. by the Chicago Dailv
News. IncD
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Maritime Commission
Gives Sailors UItimatum
By the Associated Press,

SEATTLE. July 8.-The Sailors
Union of the Pacific faces a U. S.
Maritime Commission ultimatum to
weld by Tuesday noon in the hiring
controversy over the projected
Pacific Northwest-O Orient shipping
service.
The price of failure to remove
AL obstacles to hiring OF vessels
personnel in accordance with the
commissions policy" would be can
collation. of the commissions con-
tract for operation of the ship line,
L. l.. Bates, manager of the line.
was notified. The ultimatum came
in a telegram from E. c. Mauss-
hardt of San Francisco. district
representative of the Maritime Com
mission.
The deadlock of several weeks has
held idle at piers here the vessels
Coldbrook and Satartia which ar
rived for launching of the run from
Puget Sound to the Orient. Dis
patch of two other vessels from the
East Coast was held up because of
the controversy.
The commissions demand has
been that crew members be hired
from the United States Shipping
Commission list. The sailors
union has stood firmly for recruiting
through union hiring halls. as for
West Coast private shipping.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
O'Conor Urges Uniform
Criminal Sentences
By the Associated Press,


SAN FRANCISCO, July 8.-Sug-
gestion that judges take action to
insure uniformity of sentences for
similar offenses was made last night
by Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor of Mary
land, speaking before the Interstate
Commission on Crime
In q talk on parole systems and
the factors making for their success
full operation, Gov. O'Conor stressed
Importance of efficient parole sys-
TENS in lessening inequalities of
Judgment on criminals
1T is notorious, he said, "that
there is difference even in the
same jurisdiction in the sentences
passed by different judges-such a
wide difference that it can be ex-
planned only on the theory of tenn
perament or radically different
theories of penalties"
DR.. Willis A. Sutton of Atlanta
Ga, past president of the National
Education Association. earlier told
the commission:
"As long as law enforcement and
crime prevention organizations must
devote seven-eighths Of their time
to things (property and money! and
Vaccinations of operation. and only
one-eighth of their time to people,
you're going to have crime
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Yankee Clipper Wings
Across Northern Route
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y.
July 8.-Nineteen persons, first to
make a commercial trans Atlantic
flight over the so-called northern
route" left here today aboard Pan
American Airways' giant flying boat
Yankee Clipper.
Eleven of the passengers were
newspaper, magazine, radio or news
service executives.
The huge plane left the waters of
Long Island Sound at 8::25 am.
tE. S. TD and headed for Southamp-
ton. First scheduled stop was She
diac, New Brunswick. Other brief
halts were scheduled for Botwood
Newfoundland, and Foynes, Ireland
Capt. Arthur E. La Porte said he
expected to reach Southampton in
24l2 hours.
One round-trip passenger flight to
Marseille, France, over the southern
route, via the Azores and Lisbon.
Portugal, already has been made by
Pan-American.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Flyer Leaves Girl,
FIees in Small Plane
BY the Associated Press.

BY Lne Associated PreSS.
CHARLESTON, Mo-, July ga
will-o' -the-wisp aviator who left his
blond girl companion behind as he
sped off in a small plane to elude
arrest was the object of a widespread
hunt today in Southern Missouri and
Illinois.
Meanwhile Goldie Gehrken, II.
back at her Vernon, ILL.,, home, told
of refusing to marry the barnstorm-
ing young pilot with whom she flew
away last Monday. She knew him
as Larry Thompson, about "a.
The girls mother, Mrs. John
Gehrken, said she and her husband
were reluctant to file charges be-
cause the young man took such good
care of our daughter"
He begged me to marry him" /"
Miss Gehrken related, but would
not do it"
Thompson escaped yesterday in
view of officers who were waiting at
a local landing field to arrest him
He was in the air with load of
passengers when Sheriff Walter Beck
arrived. Instead of returning there,
he landed in another field, dis
charged his passengers and took off
again.
Sheriff Beck, who then took the
girl into custody, said the pilot ZAP
parently sensed trouble"
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Peace Is Leading Issue
Al Endeayor Meetinq
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, July 8.-Delegates
10 the 37th International Conven-
ton of Christian Endeavor resumed
sessions today on the basis of DR.
Daniel A. Poling's keynote message
that The Worlds Only Hope Is in
Christ"
DR.. Polling Of Philadelphia. re-
elected president of the society
singled out world peace as the prime
topic for the convention.
Christ has the only solution for
the worlds problem, DR.. Polling
said There is little to choose be-
tween the violence of Russia and
the prosecutions of the Third Reich
Russia boasts that she has hqui-
dated religion. but she has not
Hitler persecutes Jews, Catholics
Protestants alike-more than 1,40(
clergymen of our own PROTESTANT
faith have been or are in concen-
tration camps or prisons"
He presented the alcohol prob
lem" as another major convention
issue, asserting it is "a problem
more intense and terrifying than
the problem of 80 years ago"
Evening star., 1939-07-08
StanIey's Forced Bail-out
Cuts Glider Meet Field
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELM1RA, N. Y, July 8.-The 10th
national soaring meet went into
the final hours of competition TODAY
with one of its outstanding stars out
OF the running because his shin
cracked up.
naval Aviation Cadet Robert M
STANLEY, who was a close runnerup
Tor national honors until he had to
pail out when his crafts left wing
crumpled yesterday, took a bus
mans holiday to Buffalo, N. Y, air.
plane plants as his rivals prepared
Tor the last tests of the two weeks
meet.
Leading the field with better than
$3.50 points is Chester j. Decker of
Glen Rock, N. j.
until he had to take to his para
chute yesterday, Stanley was Sec
ond with 1920 points and a trio of
brilliant accomplishments to his
eredlt. He may still finish in the
place position.
Stanley. instructor in blind flyine
at the Pensacola Naval Station,
chmaxed his notable showing in the
meet when he struggled out of the
cockpit of his spinning glider and
landed in tall birch within sight
OF several hundreds who had been
watching him stunt.
Previously, he had flown up the
center of a thundercloud to 134OO
feet above point of takeoff, estab-
lished a new American altitude
soaring record by climbing 17,264
feet through the hail-bombarded
nucleus Of cumulus cloud, and be-
come the first American glider
pilot to win the coveted interna-
tional Golden C" rating.
Evening star., 1939-07-08
Third Term Favored
By Bi|bo, Opposed
By Gillette
lowon Takes Firm Stond
But Voices Admiration
For President
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Bilbo, Democrat, of Mis-
sissippi said today he favored a
third term for President Roosevelt.
but Senator Gillette, Democrat, of
Iowa expressed emphatic opposition.
Senator Bilbo told newsmen re-
ports to him indicated a big major
ity of Mississippi voters favored an
other term for the Chief Executive
Senator Gillette, who was opposed
by some administration officials in
his race for denomination last year,
said he was against a third term
"as matter of principle. not as a
matter of opposition to Roosevelt. "
Il have repeatedly said" he added,
that I would not vote for my own
father for third-term nomination
No man in the Nation is so big that
there is not some one else among
l30 1000, 900 people who can't take his
place"
Senator Gillette added that he
had the deepest admiration for the
President and had favored ''prac-
tically all the goals he has sought" !"