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Evening star., 1939-04-03

Ing OF the cherry blossoms, means
that the time has come when drama
takes to the barns of the adjacent
countryside, that the time has come
to speak of the Roadside Theater.
For the news borne in on this
first breath of spring is the an
nouncement OF the Roadside's try
outs. These will be held Wednesday
and Thursday, April 10 and 20, and
Director Anton Hardt is expected
to pop down from New York to
join the other members of the
Roadside's board-Richard Creyke.
Ralph Fowler. Catherine Romney
and Eldred Wilson-in the inspec-
ton of prospective melodrama VIII
lains and heroines.
AS in the past, the board makes
the same request of players who
attend the auditions-that each
have a scene or dramatic reading
already prepared. Two or more a0-
tors, of course, may do scene to-
gether. The time each night is 7:30
o'clock and the place will be room
20l in the new School of Govern
ment Building of George Washing
ton University. That, according to
reliable authorities, is to be found on
the northwest corner of Twenty first
and G streets NV.
The opening date of the Roadside
season has not yet been set, but it
will be sometime early in June,
after the cool spring breezes of
Montgomery County nights have
become a bit more gentle and less
cool. Constant play reading through
the winter has resulted in tenta-
tive lineup of plays which could not
be completed in three times the
groups usual 14-week season, but
the winnowing process is under way
now. The near future should bring
the list of the seven which will COM
prise the summers fare.
One thing is sure, according to the
Roadside, and that is that there will
be melodramas "as narrowing as
Among the Moonshiners,' as blood
curdling as Sweeney Todd and as
exciting as Murder in the Red
Barn."
+ X + 4
From Herbert B. Corley comes a
note on the history of THE Ter
rible Meek" peace drama to be
presented Friday night by the
Mount Vernon Players at Mount
Vernon Place M. E. Church. The
play was written by Charles Ram
Kennedy three and a half years
before that war to end wars, during
Passion Week in 1911. Nearly a
year later, during Lent in 1912, 1t
had Its premiere at the Little The
Evening star., 1939-04-03
Dancers to Appear
For Chinese Relief

Miss Si-lan Chen and Lily Mehl-
man, choreographer and teacher of
modern dancing. will present group
of modern and folk dances at Pierce
Hall at $3.50 o'clock the evening of
April II. The program is being
sponsored by the Washington Com
mittee for Aid to China, which will
send the proceeds to the Chinese
Red Cross.
Miss Chen, daughter of Eugene
Chen, former Chinese Foreign Min
lister, studied the ballet in Moscow
from pupil of Fokine. She has
just given recitals in New York, De-
troit, Chicago and Cincinnati, among
other places. on a tour of benefit
performances for Chinese relief.
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ater in New York, under the man
agement of Winthrop Ames.
Mr.. Corley goes on with the his
tory of The Terrible Meek:
"On the day of production copies
OF the play were sent by the author
to the various monarchs and presi-
dents, war lords, leading statesmen.
judges and other prominent men of
all countries. Several of the royal
copies were returned, and the play
banned in London, Berlin and St.
Petersburg.
For the next couple of years the
churches, colleges, lyceums. little
theaters took hold of the play. It's
significance. intention. began to be
noted; some people mentioned its
timeliness, others discovered its
form. Actors found that it would
act. 1t moved audiences, compelled
them to think, with the result that
it was presented some thousands of
times. Despite the London ban it
was done in England under aus
pices beyond the jurisdiction of the
Lord Chamberlain. Despite the Ber-
lin ban negotiations were afoot for
production, due in September, 1914,
under the aegis of the Grand Duke
Of SAKE Meiningen. Then came the
war"
That, of course, was whimsical
move on the part of fate that the
Mount Vernon Players hope will
not be repeated in the case of their
production of the peace play. The
group, incidentally, is trying some
thing novel in staging 'The Terrible
Meek" Names of the players will
not be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the play
is to be staged in semi darkness and
none of the performers will be dis
tinguishable. Edward P. Mangum is
directing.
Addenda The Players Club
of Central Community Center has
selected THE Saturday Evening
Ghost" as its next play and will
present it May 18 at Roosevelt High
School. Eileen Fowler is directing
and it's comedy, adapted by Tom
Taggard from Oscar Wilde's Cen
terville Ghost" The course of
true love being what you we'll know
it is, the R. E. A. Play Guild had
to postpone This Thing Called
Love-" which was scheduled for last
Friday night. April II Is now the
date The Agriculture Players
want audiences to vote for the best
of the three one-act plays they will
stage in the early part of May. The
three came out ahead in the groups
recent one-act play-writing contest.
Evening star., 1939-04-03
Adolphe Menjou Cast
In Golden Bow

Adolphe Menjou Is the second
prominent player to join the cast
now being assembled by Columbia
for the perturbation of Clifford
Odets' successful Broadway stage
play, Golden Boy"
Menjou will portray the role of
Tom Moody, the dynamic sports
world figure and prize fight manager.
He is one of the key figures in the
turbulent career of Golden Boy, an
artistic young man who moulds his
hands into battering rams in his
frenzy to attain quick fame and
fortune.
Evening star., 1939-04-03
Screens u. S. Grant
Does It Again

For the 42d time Joseph Crehan,
veteran character actor, has donned
whiskers, stuck cigar in his mouth
and assumed the role Of Ulysses S.
Grant. ...
This time he Is playing the Presi-
dent of the United States in Para
mounts Geronimo story of the
war against the Apache Indian chief
who terrorized the Southwest for 10
years q generation ago and cost the
Government 81 900 600.
Two weeks ago Crehan finished
playing Grant, the general, In Cecil
B. De Miles Union Pacific" I"
Evening star., 1939-04-03
Nick Carter Now
A Screen Hero

Nick Carter, famous dime novel
detective which was created 40 years
ago and progressed through weekly
adventures for some 30 years, will
become screen hero. M-G-M has
purchased the screen rights to all
Of the novels to be used as the basis
Of q film with Nick Carter % the
central figure.
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Neither Is Band Leaders
Lot Always Happy One
Kay Kyser's Success Is. Terrific,
But So Is the Amount of Work;
Waring to Offer Novelty
By JAY CARMODY.

Five times today academic looking gent will walk
the of the and supeave
unruhed will
being Nations musical
world
impressive that a good month,
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Local Drama Groups
Spring Rears Its Lovely Head
AS Roadside Is Heard From
Bx HARRY MACARTHUR.

Spring here 1t most certainly Is This DEPARTMENTS harbnger
robin
This departments habnger Kitty Prchard Romne
of her winter hiding being
Kiys temperance yearly
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DANCING.
The Edward F. Miller Studio
Ga 17th IT NATIONAL ooo3
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ADJUSTMENTS.

25c to I PM. . 1900 Scots Every Niqht 4
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Liberal rudition Re-exumined
In Books at Public Library

1t has been said that we are living
today in an age when ideas go
forth to battle" Men range them
selves on either side of what they
feel are mutually antagonistic ma
tional PHILOSOPHERS and rush to the
defense of their beliefs either with
arms or with the pen. Much Of the
discussion in the books which have
poured from the presses in recent
years has been emotional, but, never
theless, there has been taking place
a real re-examination OF the liberal
tradition.
AS people we are cropping for
the answer to the question, Can
the United States escape the trend
toward dictatorship" And in this
search we are looking with critical
eyes at ourselves as well as others
and asking many questions of which
the following, which have come to
the central branch of the Public
Library, Eighth and K streets NV,
and its various branches, are typical:
What has caused the rise of the
totalitarian state? Is democracy in
America more vital than it was
abroad? What is the relationship
between political and economic
democracy?
Whether the Treaty of Versailles
Evening star., 1939-06-25

is the villain in the piece or not,
few will deny that postwar condi-
tions in Europe provided fertile soil
for the rise of Fascism. For good
understanding of this period, Edward
H. Cars international Relations
Since the Peace Treaties" and Will
liam A. Orton's Twenty Years
Armistice, 191S-l938," will prove
useful. Briefer, but very informa-
tive, is From Versailles to Munich.
1885, a Public Policy pamphlet
written by Bernadotte E. Schmitt.
Excellent analyses of conflicting
modern ideologies are contained in
"Dictators and Democracies,' by
Calvin B. Hoover; Communism
Fascism or Democracy" by Eduard
Heimann; Which Way American"
by Lyman Bryson; Case for De-
mocracy," by Ordway Tead; why
Democracy" by Jay w. Hudson,
and Democracy as Way Of Life, >
by Boyd H. Bode.
The development and operation
of the totalitarian state are well
described in New Governments in
Europe edited by Raymond L.
Buell.; "Fascism for Whom?" by
Max Ascoli and Arthur Feiler, and
THE Fascist, His State and His
Mind" by E. B. Ashton.
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Weeks Best
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WASHINGTON.

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John Steinbeck: "Wickford
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Captain Horatio Hornblower,"
C. S. Forester; Next to Valour,"
John Jennings; Here Lies"
Dorothy Parker; Adventures
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John Gunther; America in
Midpassage,," Charles and Mary
Beard; "Huntsman What Quar-
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Reaching for the Stars" Nora
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Heiser; Garter Glass" Rixey
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Fiction - 1.-THE Grapes of
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Captain Horatio Hornblower,"
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Elizabeth Page.
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Edna Ferber; you're the Doc
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Reaching for the Stars" "Au-
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America in Midpassage,"
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America in Midpassage," "Ro-
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Hildegarde Hawthorne; "Mein
Kampf," Adolf Hitler; days of
Our Years.
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of the neurosis which derives from
the guilt of father-murder. About
century after Moses death, he
reasons, the Egyptian Jews COM
bined with other Semitic tribes who
had not sojourned in Egypt and
who worshiped Jahve, a primitive
volcano deity local to Western
Arabia. On this occasion the Jews
of the exodus undertook to expiate
their memory Of the crime by Gre
ating the legend of the pursuit by
Pharaoh and the law-giving from
Mount Sinai. Jahve was made the
ruling god, but Moses was declared
to have been his prophet and Moses
religion of monotheism was ac-
cepted, though under the worship
of a new deity. Thus, says DR.
Freud, the old totem feast of expia-
ton for father-murder was re-
enacted.
He reasons from this point that
monotheism among the Jews was
not constant, but suffered lapses
from time to time from which II
was always rescued, however. by
the efforts Of the prophets, men
of great spirituality, in whom
Moses tradition lived strongly
These men laid down. little by little
the customs which have stree been
adopted by the Jewish people and,
in SO doing, they endeavored always
to create the belief that their de-
crees were sanctified by derivation
from Moses. Thus, again, DR.. Freud
sees the perpetuation of the neuro-
sis, for this, he says. represents the
neurotic symptom of regresslon.
The process continues, repeating
in racial history all the symptoms
of the individual case with great
detail, as the doctor draws it. The
elimination comes in the judicial
murder" of Christ, which, as he puts
it, was second re-enactment OF the
murder of the father, which cor
responds to the renewal of child
hood neuroses at the time Of ado
lescence. This, he says, affected a
transferal and changed the worship
of father finally to worship Of son.
All this is fascinating reading but,
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author holds. These, he says, are
discipline, gunpowder and the air
plane.
OF these, the airplane is the most
revolutionary because, for the first
time in the history of human con-
f1ict, it has given the power of strik-
ing directly at the seat and source
of an enemy's power-his citizenry,
his capital city, his industrial, COM
mercial and political centers-with-
out first having to overthrow the
armed forces with which he seeks to
protect them.
Air power, in short, makes of war
an instrumentality for directly
achieving political ends without re-
sorting, in the classical sense, to a
duel between armed forces.
1t is through this direct threat-a
threat personal to every official Of a
government and to every member Of
his family, to every industry and
citizen-that the European dictators
have gained their way so far in in
ternational affairs, he points out. AS
long as the expansionist powers are
accomplishing their objectives by
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analysis of comparable legends OF
the birth and childhood Of other ma
tional heroes to sustain this.
The real story, says DR.. Freud, ad-
mitting frequently that his inter-
pretation is based only on psyche
logical probabilities, could have been
quite otherwise. 1t probably was
that Moses was great noble in the
court of Ikhnaton, Pharaoh of the
18th dynasty, who changed the poly
theistic religion of Egypt TO pure
monotheism in which all magical
practices and ceremonies were strict
ly prohibited. Neither Ikhnaton, nor
his new faith, was popular, and after
18 years polytheism returned to
wreak vengeance on its erstwhile
foes.
Moses, says DR.. Freud, might well
have decided to leave the nation
which had turned on the faith to
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Aerial Defenses Should Be Increased
To Prevent international Blackmail

blackmail, he reasons, the thing that
matters is the effectiveness of air
power as threat today rather than
what it might actually accomplish
if put to the test.
The United States is the one great
power still free from this immediate
threat and we can maintain our
security by adequate defense meas
ures which will prevent the estab-
lishment of potential enemy air
bases from which we can be threat
ened-or blackmailed. We so far are
immune from direct attack from the
air, he argues.
"If ever the signs and portents
of the times indicated the rising
star of great people, it is today
and the star is ours" he says.
1T is a star of the sea- for all our
foreign contacts are by or over the
sea. BY the sea must danger come
to us, If at all, and on the sea must
it be met and destroyed before 1t
reaches our shores. The control Of
accommodations Is the key to
our national security; while we hold
that key, we are safe. No other
great nation can say as much"
But the control of sea-communi-
cations no longer Is primarily a
matter of fleets and naval bases but
of air power as we'll and our sea
frontiers have widened until today
they are the limits of land-based
aircraft from the Atlantic shores Of
Europe and the Pacific shores of
Asia.
We cannot be subject to air black
mail because our cities and vital in
dustrial centers are out of reach Of
the air weapons of any possible foe,
says the Major. This situation will
endure so long as we keep the whole
Western Hemisphere and its ap-
proaches free of the air bases of such
foes, even though they be in the
guise Of such peaceful air transport
bases as those Of Germany and Italy
in South America.
The book is another vitality i'm
portant contribution from a gifted
military critic-of particular i'm
portance at just this time in view OF
the fact that the Congress now is
considering the broad subject of
military expansion, with particular
emphasis on air power. 1t is book
to be recommended strongly to every
member of Congress and to every
American citizen, for in democracy
national defense is, of course, the
interest and the duty Of every
citizen. J. q. e.
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to one not particularly interested
in the doctors beloved analytical
processes, 1t may seem to be think
ing just for thinking's sake. The
practical conclusion of the book,
however, must not be overlooked.
1t is that out of the profound i'm
preston made upon the early He
brews by the man Moses, and
through the cherishing of this
memory by the subsequent prophets,
the Jewish people rose to higher
spirituality than did other peoples
of their time. And that, by fixing
their minds penitently df neuroti-
cally) on Moses monotheistic
teaching, they acquired the strength
which has made them able to en-
dure through so long period of
history. The book will probably not
please the orthodox, either among
the Jews or the Christians. But Dr.
Freud must be given latitude. He
is unquestionably man who loves
truth and his cropping for it in the
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Moses and Monotheism

Translated from the German 0y hdtH-
crime Jones. Ne1p York: Alfred A. Knopf.
fulength book IN six years 1t IS composed
of three published In the
third longest however has not
and the preceding sections here
translated time The book immensely fas
thinking and be earnestly commenced 70 all toe
words familiar with analytical reasoning
md % appreciate its conclusions
book study into the origins OF the Jewish
leon unique
the persistence Of their racial
customs might have expected application OF
pchoanas the records in which Jewish history
The conclusions somewhat surprising
that Moses the law Of the Jews and
of Hebrew history was not Jew at all but an Egyptian
the Jewish people
religion distinguishes their and implanted in them those
ubbony survived through history OF
His Is somewhat as follows:
Biblical story the finding the infant
Moses Egyptian princess the Jewish people looking back
their wished claim him themselves and
adoption Pharaohs court There is
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which he had given his allegiance,
but as he was tremendously force
full man he went not as a refugee
but as the leader Of new people of
his own. That is to say, he daringly
adopted the Jewish tribes then liv-
ing in Egypt and led them forth to
set up a monotheism in another
country. Or thus reasons DR.. Freud.
He concludes that the exodus was
accomplished quite peacefully, with
no opposition and no pursuit. He
also concludes that the Jews tired
Of Moses high spirituality and mur-
dered their adopted leader. Thus,
he says, they enacted unwittingly
the ancient race drama of father
murder, for Moses, of course, stood
In the relation of father to them.
Their subsequent history, he says,
has been q relving, In racial form,
Evening star., 1939-06-25
Bombs Bursting in Air
By George Fielding Eliot. Ne1o
York. ReunaZ & Hitchcock.


York: Reynal & Hitchcock.
International blackmail, made
possible by the existence of air pow
er, rules Europe today and can be
prevented from ruling the United
States by sound building up Of our
defenses, chiefly our naval and aerial
defenses, we are assured in this
thought-provoking volume by Maj.
Eliot, whose earlier work, THE RAM
parts We Watch has taken rank
as one of the great national defense
treatiSeS.
Essentially an elaboration of the
sections of that book dealing with
air power, this new work, however,
contains some rather important
notifications which should make 1t
more acceptable to aeronautical
critics.
No other nation is so fortunately
situated geographically as the
United States, Maj. Eliot contends.
It cannot be attacked In force by
aircraft from any other nation even
remotely to be considered as pos
sible enemy under present condi-
tions. Our chief concern must be
to prevent the establishment, under
any guise, of air bases anywhere
within present bombing flight range;
that is, within 1000 miles, as a min
imum.
Bombers Essential.
Maj. Eliot contends that our safety
lies in control of the seas and that
this is primarily a function of naval
power, supplemented by air power.
The backbone of our Army air power,
he argues, is long-range, heavy bonn
bardment aviation, which would be
employed to break up any enemy air
base established within range or
destroy carriers from which air at
tacks might be launched. The pres
ent $500, ,000, 900 national air defense
program contemplates a total of 178
Of these heavy bombers. Maj. Eliot
contends this number should be at
least doubled; in other respects he
agrees that the program is sound
and adequate-if sustained after
present goals in equipment and men
are attained.
There have been only three truly
revolutionary military inventions or
discoveries in the history Of man
kind-inventions> which drastically
changed not only the conduct of
war, but the course Of history, the
Evening star., 1939-06-25
By NC. r.

As to the state Of the world though
in the periodicals. Germany
world war and 50 probably will start it. This delightfully."-
opinion OF number authorities; Maj Eliot Ramparts
Watch said as much last month in the American Mercury Well
repetition help Senator La Foete writing
also speaks Of Germany
teachings of the theology practical
completely eliminated
Communic in puts
it. 'but what there Germany
thorough and efcen Commentator also calls attention
that taxpayers strike" imminent the
those in the higher income brackets the
are heavy that 20 cents the dollar sometimes all that left
the citizen This piece by Cochran
writes coming pen
since has the citizens fault all along
they given for public which
high level He formation
and plainly that the locally
amount to anything This
Bartlett Century joins with
rejecting that
nonces the IN our beloved CITY, Of organization
called The Association Tor the Taking
Elevatoga" - ' - -
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Nebraska Coast

By Claude Brion DaUis. NeU
York: Fdrrdr & Rinehdrt.
This novel by the man who wrote
last year, "The Great American
Novel," one of the best books of the
period, is a severe disappointment.
1t has very little originality, very
little perception. 1t is just a story,
and a cute, bright, sentimental story
at that. 1t is hard to believe that
Mr.. Davis, who has shown that he
can WELD an acid pen when he
chooses, should have brought forth
anything so unrelievedly sweet and
pretty.
It is the story of q New York
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dark recesses of the minds Of men
and peoples has surely added some
what to the sum of human under
standing.
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Fray Mario

By Helen Douglas lruine. NeW
York: Longmans, Green & Co.
Fray Mario is the story of a
Spanish lay brother in the early
days of the South American COL
onization. In addition to the story
interest of a romantic life in a
romantic era of the world, it is a
true and touching psychological
study OF a man. 1t shows how a
persons life may be twisted and
warped through no fault of his own,
how an embittered childhood may
lead to twisted manhood, how the
finest sensibilities and powers may
be perverted and twisted in spite of
themselves from the course they
would naturally assume. That is all
the story of Fray Mario.
OF almost equal importance in this
book is the character of La Peric-
chola, the Spanish dancer who
swayed an empire with her dancing,
and gave Fray Mario's character the
final twist which sent it back on
the path of righteousness, although
on q humber level than his birth,
education and abilities would have
warranted. r. r. T.