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Evening star., 1939-07-31
William Powell and Studio
Achieve an Armistice
Star Signs New Five.Year Contract;
Craze for Action Films Leads
To Some Trouble
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD.
Their not-too- private affairs:

not-too- private affairs:
Bill Powell the MGM tvove
disagreement, signing fveyear whereby
pictures The
mao
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Returns to Screen
After 2l Years

Henry Give will do his future
illustrating and painting in Holly
wood and will combine his art work
with screen acting. The illustrator,
whose likenesses of beautiful women
have been cover features of maga-
zines for the last 81 years, re-
entered the acting field recently as
member of the cast of Frontier
Marshal"
Gives director in this. goth Gen.
tury-Fox picture is Allan Dwan, the
man under whose direction he made
his first picture, "As a Man Sows," "
opposite Maxine Elliott in 1908.
William Randolph Hearst saw the
young artists work on the cover of
a "Ziegfeld Follies" program and
next day placed him under contract.
Gives friend, the late Bert Levy,
had sent some of the amateur art
lists sketches to Ziegfeld several
weeks before, and at the time Hearst
contacted him he was unaware that
one of the pictures had been used
as the program cover.
In his role in Frontier Marshal
Give is utilizing a third talent,
which he also used professionally
that OF card manipulation.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Another Robson
Looks to Screen

Virginia May Robson Gore, 4-year-
old greatgranddaughter of May
Robson, veteran Warner Bros. ac-
tress. is accompanying her famous
relative to Hollywood with a screen
career in view.
The star, the only member of her
family in the theatrical profession,
is anxious for another generation to
forward the Robson show-goes-o on
tradition.
The veteran began the training in
New York when she took her great
granddaughter to the Strand Thea
ter for the world premiere OF
Daughters Courageous"
Evening star., 1939-07-31
By ALICE EVERSMAN.

The hard, quick rain of last eve
ming caught the audience of the
National Symptoms concert at the
Water Gate just at the conclusion of
the Cesar Franck symphony. With
the best of good humor, it scrambled
to the shelter of the overpaSs and
bridge. many of the canoes that a
few minutes earlier had added color
to the scene being dragged out OF
the water and overturned on the
grass to provide covering for their
soaked occupants There was no
thought of going home and as soon
as the storm abated somewhat, and
it was found that the orchestra con-
tinued its program with part OF the
curtain hiding the stage, the valiant
music lovers went back to their
seats and, wet and chilled, stayed
on to the end.
From the first two numbers. the
overture to Gomez's III Guarany''
and the Franck symphony, played
with the moon having game of
hide and seek in the clouds, it was
evident that this program would be
we'll worth hearing The guest con-
ductor was the well-known Brazilian
orchestra leader, Burle Marx, who in
directing the famous overture by
his compatriot. impressed his per-
sonality Immediately on his listen
ers. The warm. pulsing music, so
we'll constructed and infused with
the glow of real inspiration, was
set forth with a fine sympathy and
effect.
Gives Spiritual Reading.
Mr. Marx, who is positive and
highly sensitive director, holding
the orchestra in complete control
has also a keen intuitive sense for
the spiritual quality of music. 1t
was from this angle that he read
the Franck Symphony in D Minor,
the introduction being especially
reverent in its noble, hesitating
questioning. Again, in the second
movement, this same deep feeling
flowed through the lovely themes
with marked effect. Where other
Interpreters have balanced this with
a passionate utterance in the main
theme, MIR Marx exercised restraint
so his fundamental idea could never
be lost sight of. In his reading the
composer was revealed in a new
light, a man whose essential spir-
ituality could be uppermost even in
moments of passionate questing.
Although much of the pleasure OF
Smetana's Die Moldau' as Mr.
Marx directed it was lost by reason
of the storm, the two other orches-
trail numbers programmed, the
''Trenzinho do Caipira," from Bach
lana Brasiliera," by Villa-Lobos, and
the Strauss Blue Danube Waltz.
brought volumes of applause for the
greatly gifted conductor with sew
eral hearty cheers and "bravos'
mixed with it. The Villa-Lobos work
was repeated at the end of the pro-
gram and the overture to Strauss
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"The Magnificent Fraud" ="
an actor doubles for a dictator: II
am, 1:40, 4:3O, 7:15 and 10 pm
Stage shows: l2:45, $3.50, 6:l5 and
9pm.
Palace-"Andy Hardy Gets Spring
Fever" the seventh in the popular
Hardy family series: 1l:l5 am, 1:20,
1925, $50, 7:35 and $40 pm.
Keith's - Bachelor Mother"
comedy, starring Ginger Rogers:
11:15 am, l, 2:45, 4:3o, 6:15; sos
and $50 pm.
CapitoI-"S Second Fiddle" story of
Hollywood publicity romance:
10:45 am, :35, 4:25, 7:2O and 1910
pm. Stage shows: 1920, $40, 6
and 8:55 pm.
Metropolitan-"M Man About Town" !"
the man is Jack Benny and it's
funny: 11:10 am, is, 1925, $50,
7:35 and $40 pm.
Columbia ia-"Undercover Doctor"
the G-men get him, too: 1905, 2:O5,
4, 6, 7:55 and 9:55 pm.
Little-"Alexander Nevsky," Eisen-
stein does another majestic Job:
II am, l:30, $3.50, 5:35, TAO and
$40 pm.
Open Aria Mans Castle" with
Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young:
8:35 and 1926 pm.
Olney-"It's Wise Child with
Mitzi Green as the wise one: $40
pm.
Roadside - "Spooks," mystery,
murder, thrills: 8:40pm.
Cross ROads-''The Curtain Rises"
comedy, with Izetta Jewel, jr.: $40
pm.
Evening star., 1939-07-31

its first presentation, but gradually
disappeared from playbills as its
timelineSs wore off"
But there is no confusion cat least
not much) in the groups reproof to
certain groups in the theater. I'm
presenting this timeless tthere it is)
play" says this said reproof, "the
Glen Echo Players have felt it ap-
propriate TO provide it with mod
ern background of setting and cos
tune. The Glen Echo Players do
not wish it to be understood as yeah,
words will get away from you some
times indulging in the current ten
dency to modern dress simply as
matter of display and artif1ce, but
only as employing means whereby
the theme of the play may be ex-
pressed in the best fashion" So no
misconceptions, please.
People involved in Cato's fight
with Caesar will be Edward A. Fin
layson, Ted Smith, Jane Fletcher
and Hugh Crandall.
The production of the tabloid fes-
tival of Shakespeare Twelfth
Night tomorrow night at the out
door Sylvan Theater will be palyed
Producer Bess Davis Schreiner re-
ports. in the four zones usual to the
Elizabethan theater. The action will
take place in Orsino's Palace, the
home of Olivia and the garden be-
tween the two residences.
Romance and comedy. the Com
munity Center Department further
reports, will vie in the production.
Comedy will be contributed by j..
Edmond Veitch, Paul Whippeau,
Maurice Jarvis, Hugh C. Smith,
Wade Robinson and Elinor Evans
and romance by John Van Sikken,
Adele Whiteside McNaughton, Yerby
Pannill Rowzie, William Milton and
Thomas M. Cahill.
Evening star., 1939-07-31

speak freely and pointedly concern
ing the dispositions. the tempera-
ments, the morals and the physi-
cal characteristics of women they
dislike without resort to any of the
raw verbalisms of their mothers and
grandmothers.
For the new vocabulary of scorn,
contempt, horror, anger, hate, ETC.,
the women may thank the movies.
In connection with the production
of the film, The Women" an en-
tirely fresh list of words that fe-
males may call other females has
been created. Unlike most word
coiners, the creators of the new vo-
cabulary are not defining their Of
ferings. They are just throwing
them to the ears of the world, to let
the owners of those ears come to
their own conclusions as to mean
ings and to make such use of the
conclusions as time and events may
dictate.
Among the words which women
may begin calling each other right
now without waiting for the release
of the film are-why put them in
uuotes?-beezle, micklish, slooper
chotSie, trech and kronker. There
are others. but these are the prize
creations and should be sufficient
for pretty big bender of catfish
ness.
There is absolutely no limit on the
right to use them. Metro Goldwyn-
Mayer has not copyrighted them, nor
suggested they be held for release
coincidentally with the film.
Any woman who desires can start
today telling the beezle next door to
keep her little beetles where they
belong.
X
The origin of these additions to
Evening star., 1939-07-31

Chico to Banff and the New York;
Fair -. Eddie Buzzell, the director,
is staggering around trying to de-
eide on rest cure Ben Lyon and
Bebe Daniels allowed R-K-O to test
their young son Richard for role
with Carole Lombard in Vigil OH
the Night'-but lust for fun" i
They had no idea he might prove
acceptable, and now that the studiol
is enthusiastic to the extent of want
ing no other child. Ben and Bebe
demur Both know the movie
ropes better than most screen par
ents and can't decide whether theI
young man should follow an actingI
career.
Red-headed Nancy CAROLS featj
of lifting Broadway show, Il Must
Love Some One" out of the red and
establishing it on a long-run basis,
before leaving the cast few weeks
ago, has renewed Hollywood pro-
ducers' interest in her screen possi-
bilities . She's here now talking
deals with two major lots and
searching for another story with at
least the earmarks of a "ShopWorn
Angel outstanding boy-girl vehicle
that skyrocketed her to fame in
1929 i. Because "Susannah of the
Mounties," black-and- white, stum-
bled at the public altar, all Shirley
Temple pictures hereafter will be
filmed in color :. Maybe the screens
perennial leading men aren't age
less after all: Here's Richard Dix
playing 20-year-old Richard Greene's
father in Here I Am a Stranger
and playing it straight, without gray
hair or makeup,
(Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncD
Evening star., 1939-07-31

stated lengtn OF Clme Illus
M-G-M blasts the canards in de-
cisive fashion, for a thorough phy-
sical checkup was essential to the
deals completion When Bill
came back a week ago to co-star
with Myrna 10y in another Thin
Man" film, it was under verbal
agreement only.
Financial terms of the new ar
rangement were not revealed-fol-
lowing brand-new policy adopted
by the industry to soft-pedal money
matters as much as possible But
you can gamble that Bill, even
though on layoff nearly two years,
is not yet small-change artist and
undoubtedly will gross close to
million dollars on the l0-picture deal.
Current craze for action films
about TO per cent of those now being
produced come under that cate
gory-is upping studio liability in
surance . Staging an added scene
for Geronimo" veteran Monte Blue
was thrown and trampled by a
horse, five stunt men were injured
in a George O'Brien Western at
R-K-O and at another studio an
extra lost two fingers and suffered
a broken arm when a horse stepped
on his hand Nor is the hazard
confined to the outdoor operas
several dancers working in "Bala
laika' suffered bruises and fractures
when a platform collapsed :. Even
so, considering the cluttered condl-
ton of sound stages and the transi-
tory nature of sets and big light fix
lures, the movies have been for
tunate that their accident toll isn't
much longer.
X
In order to help exhibitors get
the most from limited marquee bill
ing space. title of the Marx Brothers
comedy, "A Day at the Circus" has
been changed to Marx Brothers at
the Circus" Tossing their final
gags into the film, the zany come
dians have cattered-Groucho to
Europe, for his fourth overseas trip;
Harpo to Bomoseen Lake, Vt,
where he'll join nine other Broad
way literati (who own the place and
Evening star., 1939-07-31

the vocabulary of wrath, etc., is in
tereSting.
They were born of the Hays office
limitation on the language that may
be used in motion pictures. Any
one who saw the stage version of
The Women" will have no difficulty
recalling a number of words that
would seem strange and startling on
a movie sound track. The fact of
their good old Anglo-Saxon stand
ing could get them nowhere in
Hollywood. They were banned and
that was that.
The studio, of course, was not sur
prised, but when it started looking
for synonyms that would convey the
same meaning, it discovered there
was no such thing. The synonyms
were just as bad as the words Miss
Claire Boothe did not try to avoid
when she wrote her walloping drama
about the heretofore more or less
protected sex.
There was nothing for the studio
to do but to coin an entirely new
set of words to fit those frank, spade
calling situations.
The Shoppers, treches, micklishes,
chotsies and kronkers may not like
it, but what else was there to do
under the circumstances?
When MitZi Green opens tonight
at the Olney Theater in ITS Wise
Child" it will be the first time she
has been here in years except as a
special attraction at the Presidents
Birthday Ball Miss Green has
missed fewer of those festive occa-
sions than any one else in show
| business The farce in which
she appears. incidentally, is one of
those that had the special produc-
ton auspices of David Belasco a
few years back If you get a
chance to play bridge with Jane
Winton, star of Irene" at the Cap
itol, be mighty careful . In pri-
vate life Miss Winton is Mrs. Michael
Gottlleb. an expert of experts
One of the funny things about being
the wife of champion bridge player
is that you have to watch him con-
stantly trying to master some SIM
pie little game like piquet =. Ham
let, it seems. wants to play the clown
in every field With respect to
the family's bridge, Miss Winton
rates Mr.. Gottlieb as the perfect
husband for playing bridge with
He never criticizes, never tries to
dominate the play And if that
starts any family rows about the
difference between champions and
dub bridge playing husbands, for
get we reported it 1t is only
until Friday that those who missed
"Good-by Mr. Chips" during it's
Palace engagement will have to
wait :. 1t returns to the Columbia
on that date E. If the Beau Geste"
of 1899, which this department has
not seen, is as good as the Beau
Geste" of 1926. it will be something.
. . The latter was shown at the
Earle screening room to an audience
OF critics that still is marveling at
the excellence of the early ver-
sion . William Powell was a viii
liam in those days . And Ralph
Forbes looked like a junior at Yale.
And seeing silent picture of
such merit is thrill lot of people
would like to enjoy if Paramount
could only be induced to release the
old picture . But it can't be in
duced, of course.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Symphony Audience Braves
Rain and Is Well Rewarded
Burle Marx Gives New Interpretation
To Cesar Franck; Soloists Score

die Fledermaus" was also given as
encore.
The concert was noteworthy also
as introducing to the local public
Virginia Johnson, soprano, who was
heard in the aria from Villa-Lobos'
"Bachiana Brasiliera" and The
Jewel Song" from Faust" Not in
many moons has SO fine singer
been presented here or one who COM
bines so thoroughly the artistic and
the natural. Her voice pours from
her throat with no suspicion of ex-
haustibility and it is rich and finely
toned in quality. She was an ideal
interpreter of the brilliant and mas
terful music by Villa-Lobos, whose
direct and robust style is colored
with the unique character of his
imagination and dramatic sense.
Howard Mitchell a Success.
Miss Johnson's splendid singing of
the difficult aria from "Bachiana
Brasiliera" and the contrasting
Jewel Song" of Gounod's Mar
guerite" was received with enthusi-
asm and the gifted singer gave the
aria from 'Manon" as encore.
The second soloist of the evening
was Howard Mitchell, first cellist of
the National Symphony, whose per-
formance of Lalos Concerto in D
Minor" was a triumphant success
His large, vibrant tone was rich and
expressive. while the authority with
which he gave the more taxing tech
nical passages proved his virtuosity
His playing is thoroughly rounded
out, the fleet runs clear and dashing
in whatever register and the more
legato phrases given in smooth
broad style. He kept the interest
keenly alive against Mr.. Marks un-
derstanding orchestral accompani-
ment and at the conclusion, he also
was greeted with cheers and thun-
derous applause.
In spite of the storms Interrupt
tion the concert was outstanding in
every respect. especially so for the
first opportunity to hear the music
of Brazil's most famous composers
played by symphony orchestra and
conducted by the most noted musical
interpreter of that country The
large audience thought it we'll worth
braving the weather to enjoy.
The government of Egypt may
establish a jute manufacturing in
Evening star., 1939-07-31

The government of Egypt may
establish jute manufacturing in
duStry.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Local Drama Groups
Miss Izetta Jewel, Jr., Returns;
Victorian MAYHEM
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Tonight the night the dramatic talent of Miss 1zeta Jewel r
tonight
Cross Roads Theater
The Rises"
Biography" playhouse must
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20

NY oauRntefs-in-iaW are not
good enough for my SONS.
brought my boys up TO be industri-
Gus and thrifty. yet they both
married girls who insisted upon
having 4 car, belonging to clubs
and spending money as though IL
came in like water. II irritates me
every time 60 to their homes and
see how smug these young wives
are.
When ! was young had to get
in and work. They won't do IL.
Both have jobs outside their homes
and have other women working
for them-doing the things they
should be doing. think 1t In dis
gusting and think that some
thing should be done to make a
married woman get in and do the
work that was intended for her.
The modern young wife, Bah,
she makes me sick! MRS. +.
She probably doesn't make you
half ~ sick ~ your kind OF
mother-in-law makes her. / am not
saying this to be cruel. l am mere
" stating . truth for you and your
bitter kind are your worst enemies.
Why don't you face the fact that
we are living In a modern day and
age and especially, why don't you
face the fact that your sons chose
these girls and elected to live with
them. 30 long n you don = have to,
why should you worry about the
way they live?
Advises Wife
Dear Miss Grey: ! was glad to
read the letter from the woman
signed wife" the other night and
to note that she has had sense
enough to ignore . cheap flint
who thinks only Of her own van
ity. A woman makes q mistake
when she displays jealousy. for
she cheapens herself in the eyes
of her husband and only spurs the
flirty types TO go on hurting her
A flirt loves 10 humiliate an hon.
est and decent woman.
EXPERIENCED.
Waiting
Dear Miss Grey: How can I get
man to pay some attention to
me? I love this man talthough
he informed me that nobody loves
fat man, but ! dob He seems
to think no woman could care for
him but would be glad to marry
him. Should i tell him so?
WAITING
/ don't think IL would be wise.
Men like to do the counting. II
he cares for you, eventually he will
tell you. In the meantime make |
II special effort to be attractive
and pleasant In his eyes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
Good 7 aste 7 oday
BY EMILY POST

ago = friend Of mine broke his
engagement. and after waiting a
week or 81 he had to ask to have
MS ring returned. The girl sent
Il hack with his picture. Now
this man feels that she should also
return other presents that he has
given her. such as a travelling
clock. expensive books, jewelry.
luggage and so on. They were en-
gagged several years and naturally
during that time he gave her many
presents. disagree with him on
all counts except the ring and l
gather that he has become so en-
Uttered by this unfortunate ex-
perience he is losing his good
sense.
Answer: All articles that he
gave 10 her and intended as fur
nishing for their house, as well as
any important jewelry. should be
returned to him now. BY "impor-
tantn I mean expensive lewelry
that a girl should not accept from
man who is not her fisnce. OBJ
jects of small value even though
real" as well as the conspicuous
bracelets and clips and pins that
are commonly known as costume
1ewelry. need not be returned.
Nor should she be expected to
send back any of the other pres
ents that had no lasting value.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN

As he rode his bicycle In the
darkness, slowly following the line
of the metaled road from the mis-
sion by the reflected light of the
burning city, the major knew sud
denly that there was no hope for
Edwina. Why he believed this he
could not say, and he made no
attempt to analyze the feeling. II
was simply that he seemed TO
know IL. as II the trees along the
road had told him, and as If the
wrecked houses and the spirits of
the dead had spoken. Throughout
the day he had wrestled with the
angels Of the spirit. now winning,
now losing, but always divided and
confused in his mind. Most of the
day she had slept. quietly as n
child, the fever consuming her. A
half dozen times he went into the
little room where pudgy Miss
Hodge sat on a stiff uncomfortable
chair. staring for hours on end at
the figure on the bed.
Once when Miss Hodge looked
Up as he came in, he thought
wickedly. "Why could it not have
been her they attacked. 1t would
be better II she died"
At 4 o'clock, when he went in to
see her. she was awake, her eyes
dull with fever, her cheeks burn
ing. The faint pinkish spots had
begun to appear. 80 that ne knew
now what the illness Was. At
sight Of them be thought, "She
must have been Ill for two or three
days. She must have caught the
infection even before the earth
quake happened" She had perhaps
brought II with her from the
north across the burning dusty
plains.
When she saw him she smiled
and said. Il was waiting for you"
and held out her hand. He took it
and sat on the edge of the bed.
Neither Of them took any notice
Of poor Miss Hodge. who rose from
her chair and began fluttering
about the room. changing the po-
sition OF the water-pitcher. giving
the bed cover tug and a pat. The
major did not even see her. The
poor. crazy thing did not matter.
No one msttered now. Nothing
save that she should recover.
She said, y know now what II
came from. II was that glass
What glass;"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-20
I Like the Movies

Dear Mrs. Post: As one Of your
admiring readers. must say that
vas very surprised by your re-
marks in the interview with YOU
n the current Photoplsy. Il does
not sound like you TO be SNUG or
superior. Can II possibly be that
YOU never go TO the movies EXCEPT
10 see one OF the three actresses
or four actors you have named =
In addition TO these you say YOU
like Ronald Colman sometimes.
and Herbert Marshalls voice.
Does this mean that you listen to
the latter only over the radio :?
II is really very hard for me to
think of you as the person you
seem to be in this article, and l
am hoping you can send me an
explanation.
Answer: l am more than glad
TO answer this letter because il
may be that this same impression
Nta AdA4If lpN lAAtliutu either DIV
me or by my interviewer-has
been given TO others OF my read
ers. Il is true that ! do particu-
lsrly like the actresses and ac-
tors named. but couldn't begin
TO count all the others for whom
l have quite as great liking and
go to see regularly. l must have
Jumbled my words to have given
the impression that I liked Rom
aid Colman only sometimes and
liked Herbert Marshall only for
his voice. l have always thought
the latter a charming actor and
have never seen Ronald Colman
when I thought him less than per-
feet in his part.
Items to BE Returned After
Broken Engagement
Dear Mrs. Post: A few weeks