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Evening star., 1939-02-08
Where and When
Current TheaterA Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Of Mice and Men"
John Steinbeck's stirring play: 2:30
and $3.50 pm.
Wardman Park - washington
Merry y-Go-Round," the Civic Thea
ter in new play by Leon Pearson:
$3.50 pm.
Keith's-"Gunga Din," heroic ad-
venture film inspired by the Kipling
poem: 11:15 am, lis, 3:20, 5:25,
7:30 and 9:35 pm.
Earle-"Wings of the Navy" gobs
of thrills in the air: II am, 1:40,
4:20, tbs and 10 pm. Stage shows:
1885, 800, 6:15 and 9pm.
CapitOl-"Honolulu," Eleanor Pow
ellis new musical dance fest: II am,
1:50, 4:35, 7:25 and 10:15 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, 3:45, 6:25 and 9:15
pm.
Little-"Ballerina," poignant story
of young ballet student who meets
up with life: II am, 12:45, 2:25,
AIS, 6:05, 7:55 and $50 pm.
Metropolitan-"They Made Me a
Criminal" John Garfield in some
vigorous drama: II am, LOS, 3:15,
5:25, 7:35 and GAS pm.
Columbia-"Stand Up and Fight"
r. Taylor wallops w. Beery and vice
versa: 11:15 am, 1:20. 1925, $50,
TAO and GAS pm.
Palace--"Jesse James," new action
drama inspired by the life of the
famed outlaw: 11:55 am, 2:20, 4:45,
7:10 and 9:35 pm.
Belasco-'Dark Rapture" exciting
saga of adventure in Africa's in
terror: 4:30. $40, 8 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
| tinuous from 10 am.
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is still looking at "The Wizard Of
o."
/. after this I'm going away where
no one can find me-not even, me, "
he says solemnly. An echo that
sounds surprisingly like Louise B.
Mayer says "Oh, yeah?"
"JuareZ." It is absolutely
impossible to find Paul Mum be-
meath his weird and wonderful
makeup as the Mexican patriot.
am told that workers on the set
who have not seen him without
makeup do not recognize him In
private life. Personally, I think it
a mistake to obliterate MUM so
completely. His stand-in wears q
hideous mask-to save him hours
Of tedious toll. To get himself
into the acting mood NUM- PAGES
up and down-or rather sinks
stealthily. Tell me when I've
walked a mile" he says unsmil-
ingly to Director Dieterle. A
prop man combs Muni's long black
hair. Ditto his bushy eyebrows and
his eyelashes. =. After the take"
NUM- relaxes and links arms with
his stand-in. They perform hor-
ror dance-a la Karloff and Lugosi.
OTIS funnier than anything you will
see in the picture)
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bers for this combination of 16 in
struments are cleverly, designed.
In yesterdays program were sew
eral little-known works, such as the
overture to Mehul's opera, Joseph; !;
Lekeu's adagio, Op. 3, Lies Fleurs
PaleS du Souvenir; Tansman's set
of pieces, For the Children" the
last two numbers having been tram
scribed for the symphony by Mr..
Johnson, and "Interlude in an An
cient Mode, Op. 15," by Glazounov.
These compositions demonstrated
more clearly than the remainder of
the program the sense of style and
the ability for colorful effects which
the Little Symphony possesses. The
program further included the Haydn
symphony No. IL in E Major"
Liadov's "a Musical Snuffbox," De-
bussy's "The Girl With the Flaxen
Hair" and Cesar Franck's Suite in
F Major"
The concert was sponsored by the
resident alumni of the university
and the hall was filled with a thor
oughly appreciative audience which
took every occasion to applaud Mr..
Johnson and the artist members of
the Little Symphony.
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Dance Prize Winner
To Be Given Here

As the opening number for her
dance concert under the auspices OF
the Washington Dance Association
Doris Humphrey has chosen, ITO the
Dance" with music by Claire Leon
ard. 1t is this composition to which
Dance Magazine has awarded their
second annual prize for the seasons
best group composition in the mod
ern vein.
In commenting on its selection
Dance Magazine declared: ITO the
Dance" composed as curtain
raiser, contains truer dance quality
and much finer choreography than
any other work of it's kind seen
this season. 1t is conceived in
terms of dance, without philosophy
or theology, and can be readily ap-
preciated by any audience"
Evening star., 1939-02-08

that way too, and no one minded
just as no one seemed to stay away
from the theater on the ground that
Frank Crummit and Julia Sander
son were a man-and-wife arrange
ment in the musical comedy field.
X X X X
Radio is rather more productive
of the frank pairing of ladies and
gentlemen who have faced the same
minister at the same time. Off,
hand, there come to mind the names
of Jack Benny and Mary Living
stone, George Burns and Oracle
Allen, Fred Allen and Portland
Hoffa. All of them are happily
married, according to the latest as
well as the earliest reports, and
radio audiences are quite satisfied
that they should be.
The movies have had another
theory about such things, namely
that audiences could not believe the
fervor of leading men and women
when they happened to have the
same name in private life. Wells
Fargo" for example. was picture
about which there was tremendous
publicity because it happened to star
Joel McCrea and Frances Doe. The
studio got excited about it first, and
quite naturally. Movie commenta-
tors found the excitement COM
municable and followed suit, just as
naturally perhaps in view OF the
paucity of column material at times.
The picture was success, artis-
tically, commercially and from the
standpoint of getting mentioned in
the public prints. But it took Holly
wood a long time to get around to
repeating the business of letting a
married team take the leads in a
single picture.
1t was not done, in fact, until
Ride Crooked Mile" was made
with Frances Farmer and Left
Erikson in the principal romantic
roles. That has been doing very
we'll, but not so we'll as ''The Beach
comber' is expected to do.
incidentally, speaking of THE
Beachcomber," the stage show with
which it will play at the Earle start
ing Friday will be headed by Russ
Morgan's band One-third of
a Nation" which the Civic Theater
did last spring has been made into
a movie by Paramount 1t is
scheduled for release before the end
of February For all his years,
w. C. Fields still is no actor to con-
sent to the use of a double in Sc
quences which involve danger
Mr.. Fields got rather indignant at
the suggestion when it was made in
connection with the production Of
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man"
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Michigan Symphony
Delights in Concert
By ALICE EVERSMAN.

Youthful artists from the Univer-
sity of Michigan, forming its Little
Symphony, gave a delightful concert
last evening at the Raleigh Hotel
under the leadership of Thor john
son. This group of student instru-
mental assistants of the School Of
Music of the university was organ
lied five years ago by its present
conductor and during it's first sea-
son toured extensively in the South.
More than 60 concerts were given
the next year, but the public work
of the Little Symphony was sus-
pended for the year following while
Mr.. johnson spent the time in Eu-
rope studying with Bruno Walter
and Felix Weingartner. On his re-
turn he again took the symphony
on tour of which the present ap-
pearance is the first in this section
of the country.
The performance of the Little
Symphony is reflection of the
splendid preparation given the stu
dents and on the quality of talent
to be found at the university. When
individual voices are heard there is
a finish in the presentation that is
of superior caliber. The tonal quail
ity of the group is fine, pure and
we'll rounded, flexible in infection
and warmly colored, and musical
feeling pervades all that is played.
There is, in addition, the surge of a
youthful reaction to music which
gives a freshness and bloom to the
performance.
Mr.. johnson has excellent COM
mand of his players and they are
responsive to the careful indica-
tions that he gives them. His choice
of program showed the serious in
tentions of the conductor and his
arrangements of some of the num-
Evening star., 1939-02-08

veloped into three weeks OF retakes
for Fleming.
He was just getting ready to go
away again when Jack Conway,
who was directing TOO Hot to Han
de-" got sick, and Fleming good
naturedly completed the picture for
him. After this he sWore a great
oath. He would have his vacation
or else. "Oh, VIC" said Mr.. Mayer
at this time. II want you to have
look at The Great Waltz" This
look developed into eight weeks
of remaking the picture. Mr.. Flem-
ing then sneaked quietly out of the
studio, noiselessly gathered together
his fishing tackle and left town.
He had just cast his first rod when
he received a message from Mr..
Mayer that he wanted him to look
at The Wizard of o." which had
been shooting two weeks. That was
three months ago, and Mr.. Fleming
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Chinese Players
To Come Here

With mission that is double
both cultural and charitable-the
Chinese Cultural Theater Group
presents "An Evening in Cathay"
next Sunday and Monday nights
at tie Pythian Temple, 1912 Ninth
street NV.
The group Of young players, who
have been engaged in undermining
China's ancient classical theater in
Shanghai, are touring the United
States to get funds for food and
medical supplies for their country.
They will be presented here under
the auspices of the Chinese Saliva
ton Association of Washington.
AN Evening in Cathay" has been
highly praised in New York, where
1t has just played a week at the
Mercury Theater and where 1t was
Evening star., 1939-02-08

ASlll,
The role which "the Hamlet OF
1910" Che will have to- hurry plays
in the Sherwood drama, which comes
to the Palace, is that Of the passion
ate pacifist-the young man who
screams his hatred of war into the
faces of those who are ready to shoot
him for screaming and hating. 1t
is the sort of thing which Mr..
Meredith does best. Sherwood S
eloquent dislike of conflict is so
worded that it fits perfectly into the
Meredith category of anathemas.
He gives it the works." which is
much more than he has managed to
do In his last two pictures, both of
which reduced him to banalities
which no one could make con-
vincing.
If Idiots Delight" did nothing
more than restore Mr.. Meredith to
his own, and the public's. good
graces, it would be significant
picture. It does more than that. but
that is a subject for a later bit of
comment here. To be specific about
it, on Friday, the day after the pic
ture has had its formal opening.
Today's the day on which 1.-THE
Beachcomber" is to be screened.
And that. among other things,
brings up the fact that there is one
more "Mr. and Mrs" team in pic
lures which manages to do some
thing more than get by with the
public.
The team, of course, is that COM
posed of Charles Laughton and Elsa
Manchester. Missing from Mr..
Laughtons virtues as screen hero
are such qualities as tallness, dark
ness and handsomeness. That
should be terrific handicap, but
not to Mr.. Laughton. Through an
ability to act, meaning act, he has
convinced motion picture audiences
that the supposedly absolutely nee
essary virtues of leading man are
not definitely indispensable. The
Laughtons have way with them
which is liked by audiences.
X
Man-and-wife romance teams are
not new, except to the movies. One
need merely hop back to Idiots De-
light" to recall that the original
stage version was played by no less
a romantic pair than the Lunts.
Long before the Lunts, while one
is being reminiscent about such
things, there were E. H. Southern
and Julia MarloWe. And before the
Sotherns (even though no one ever
referred to them that way) there
was a pair known as Mr. and Mrs.
Sidney Drew. They were billed just
Evening star., 1939-02-08

Mr.. Taylor looks little pale be-
meath his makeup, and tells me he
has just recovered from flu. Con-
trary to report, Bob has not sold his
place in the valley. It'll do me all
right until I buy a really big ranch,
about 5000 acres, to raise cattle, for
when I retire from the movies. I've
just signed another straight seven
Evening star., 1939-02-08

called by one critic a sort OF charm
ing Chinese vaudeville show.
The program includes dramatic
scenes Zone from Lady Precious
StreamD, songs, dances and or
chestral numbers, all in the tradi-
ton of the Chinese theater.
The cast of players in "An Eve
ming in Cathay" vii, include Vir-
ginia Chang, described as Shang-
hai's most beautiful girl; 4 tthel
Chun, the modern girl" Of new
China; Hung-ping Kwan, Peipings
outstanding theatrical star for
number of years, and Laura Jee, a
Vassar graduate, who speaks Eng
llsh, French and German as we'll as
Chinese and who introduces the
numbers on the program.
Evening star., 1939-02-08

Ieduy IUI dIUIOIT. 11dI1 )" dy
through the scene Myrna blows up"
She mutters "Oh, dear" They start
again. This time an electrician ruins
Evening star., 1939-02-08

the take Dy
coughing. Next
time T a y l o r
blows up'-and
shows his an
n oy a nee by
whistling. Then
it's the turn of
the cou G h i n 6
electrician. Tau
rog sits through
it all placidly
chewing G u m.
The fifth take"
Is unmarried by
ID ! ow u p" or
coughing Its
a lily-a dilly,"
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year contract" Bob adds, with
large boost in pay
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Myrna 10y Goes Musical
With Crawford Records
She Even Prefers Melancholy
Baby Joan's Favorite, on
Lucky Night Set
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.
r.,1ckv Njpht"

Lucky Night Robert Taylor breaks cigarette into neat
Come
Taog The wind machine creates
gentle park the cigarette butt swallows
wrigges park
her psand they
Evening star., 1939-02-08
Idiots Delight Provides
Meredith Worthy Role
Films Once More Deal Intelligently
With The Hamlet of 104O.'
LauShtOns Work as Team
By JAY CARMODY.

store for patrons Of the
movies in connection Idiots Delight"
of Burgess Meredith in the first really
he venured novice.
and complete of Wnterse" Since hen
his employers have been making grave mis-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17

Washington areas - especially
Chevy Chase, Richmond Park,
Cleveland Park, Wesley Heights and
Spring Valley-are noted for their
wonderful variety and great abun-
dance of birds. They provide plenty
of cover, food and water. District
laws, restricting the use of firearms,
help to encourage and attract
feathered friends, for the report of
gun or the smell of powder
frightens them.
Berries and Insects.
No section has a greater supply of
wild berries and insects that birds
like than the District. Common
birds seen in the course of a year
are: Bob whites, Knockers, catbirds,
brown thrashers, blue jays, robins.
cardinals, blue birds. towhees,
juncos, starlings, phoebes, sparrows,
doves, sapsuckers. woodpeckers,
flickers, grackles. martins. swallows,
owls. hawks, crows, nuthatches. fly
catchers, warblers, orioles, meadow
larkS, reed BIRDS. hummlng blrdS,
raincrows, fshcrows, nighthawks,
thrushes, cIeepers, kildeers and gulls
and other water birds.
1t is estimated that the birds, in
their drive against noXious insects
and weeds, save the farmers of the
Nation about $l00,000,000 annually.
A casual study of birds in a sec
ton of Washington west of Rock
Creek, between Massachusetts and
Connecticut avenues and outskirts,
has brought interesting revelations.
There desirable birds live and null
tiply despite ravages of cats and
hawks.
An early morning hiker and his
dog hit the trail of a bird-eating
stray cat and undertook to run him
down and stop his depredations. 1t
required weeks to get him while his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17
BY II. E. G.. Bryant.

The United States Government is
trying to educate the public to ap-
preciate the value of birds. School
children are encouraged to provide
nesting places and to protect birds
from the enemies that destroy them.
From a purely practical point of
view. the most important OF the
relations of native birds to man are
economic" a Department of Agrl-
culture bulletin says. The esthetic
value of birds is great-greater, in
deed. than that Of any other group
of animals: and that this is real
and especially treasured value is
not to be denied. But it is in their
relation to insect and other enemies
of crops that birds are most directly
associated with the welfare of man
kind, and their value in this par
ticular should be made as widely
known as possible"
Washington is the center of a
wonderful bird population. Census
reports indicate there are more birds
W lllC dClC al ICl lclll al al VIZ
District of Columbia than any,
where else in the country.
Birds, like people, have enemies.
If the bird kingdom about WASH
ington had a bureau of investiga-
ton, like that of the Department
of Justice, it's chief would list enc
mics as follows: No /, the cat;
No. 2, the sharp-shinned hawk;
No. 3, the blue darter," or Cooper's
hawk. The cat is considered the
worst of the three by experts of
the Biological Survey. That opinion
is concurred in by close observers
in thickly- populated bird sections of
the District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia No other killer OF
birds is so clever, so quick, so ag-
preSSiVe and so cruel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17

The procedure Of preparing lessons
from textbooks and reciting them
in class has been supplanted by
thesis and report work based on IL
brary reading Moreover, the stu
dent is expected to become familiar
not only with one or two books in a
course, but to develop an &C
quaintance with the broad range of
literature in the field. Today the
library is the students textbook.
The extent to which our library
serves students and faculty Of the
university today is indicated by the
total recorded circulation, which for
the last academic year was l49 ,236
volumes"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17

The present librarian is the third
to hold that Office. A graduate of the
Columbia University School of Lii
brary Service, he holds the degrees
of bachelor of arts and master of
arts from George Washington. He
has been librarian since 1888, serv-
ing prior to that time as assistant
librarian from 1923 to 1929. and as
associate librarian from 1929 to 1888
For 81 years, from 1906 to 1888,
the librarian was Prof Alfred Fran
els William Schmidt, now retired.
Miss Harriet Freebey held the post
from 1904 to 1906. Prior to 1904 the
registrar of the university served
also as librarian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17

new quarters, such gifts will increase.
Because of the importance that
university libraries have assumed
in the educational scheme, the
acquisition of new and modern
library facilities is landmark in the
history of an institution of higher
learning.
AS Librarian Mason points out
To-day, because of changes in
teaching methods and the expansion
of knowledge in many fields, the
library is the heart of the university.
Once a collection of books which
students might or might not utilize.
now it is the laboratory in which
much of their work must be done.
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Rice, one Of the founders; the ad-
dress delivered at the opening Of the
college in 1922 by the first president,
William Staughton; an Grafton de-
livered at the college in 1926 by
Baron Stow, who was a member of
the second class to be graduated; a
eulogy of Thomas Jefferson at the
college by John w. James,. men,
Der of the senior class, in 1926.
In addition to some 5000 books
regularly accustomed each year,
many gifts of valuable books and
funds come to the library from
alumni and other friends of the uni
versity. 1t is the hope of university
officials that, with the library in its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17

killings ran into hundreds. He had
no home, but rambled at will, taking
his food where he found it. camping
in unoccupied shacks in bad weather.
1t was easy to track him by the
remains of his victims. Five birds
a day were not too many for him.
When caught redhanded and brought
to justice, he put up a fierce fight,
but was slain.
Later in the year when a pair OF
bob whites and their IS little ones
fed over the range where the cat
had been, a sharp-shinned hawk
spent much of his time reducing the
covey one by one, until all were
gone. The hiker saw that daring,
swiftfying bird of prey bring down
three of the quail on separate days.
He would suddenly break cover, and
go like shot for one and seize it
on the ground or on the wing. In
a drive through the air, in hot
persuit, the hawk struck and knocked
one senseless at the feet of the
walker, but frightened at the sight
of him, flew away without it. The
man took the bird home. hoping it
would recover, but it died.
A few mornings later, the same
hawk, or one just like it. knocked
a robin out of the top of cedar
tree, and tried to bear it away;
but he had not calculated on the
hiker passing beneath the point of
the collision.
The robin fell, apparently lifeless,
but was placed under a nearby bush,
out of sight, where it revived and
flew away. For several minutes after
he struck, the hawk circled around,
reluctant to give up what had
promised to be a splendid meal.
The Skinned hawk is smaller
than a Coopers Hawk (the blue
darteD, but just as active and de-
structive. The bulk of the depreda-
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Some Parts of D. c. Have More Birds Per Acre Than
Any Other Area in u. S., Census Reports Indicate

tons on birds and chickens charge
able to hawks is committed by three
species, the sharp-shinned, blue
darter and goshawh, the first two
being very active around Washing
ton. That trio of darting robbers
thrives where others fail Special
permission to shoot in the District
requires some time and trouble, and
these hawks seem to know it.
Quail Feed.
Two or more coveys of quail feed
in strips of unimproved land be-
tween the Bureau of Standards on
Connecticut avenue and the Mount
Vernon Seminary on Nebraska ave-
nue.. This territory embraces several
large estates, including those of the
late John R. Mclean and Mrs. Cary
T. Grayson, and odds and ends of
the Nourse and Dent farms, which
used to extend from Pierce's Mill to
the Cathedral.
While Woodrow Wilson was Pres
ident, friend gave him a covey of
Bob Whites and he turned them
over to DR.. Grayson, who freed
them on his place on Wisconsin ave-
nue., where they had fine range
of feeding grounds. Descendants of
those birds roam the fields and
woods of the same territory today.
During the season just closed they
Matched about 40 young, some of
which are still living, while others
have been killed by cats, dogs and
hawks.
, The crow seems to be an enemy
of all other creatures: those he
does not destroy, he posters. He is
mischievous, nosey fellow, who
eats the eggs and young of his
neighbors in the forest The fish
crow, known unfavorably to Dis
(See BIRDS, Page CD
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(See BIRDS, Page C-8D
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BulWark i. S. Defense
Bv James Nevin Miller

With the question affecting the world is only natural
public
defense reveals
standard officers
that defense is in safe hands
The United States has the worlds finest officers training schools
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-17
New Library George Washington University Typie Modern Ag
Interior 1mpresses With
Spaciousness andLight
Six.story Building Was Made
Possible by Will of the
Late Abram Lisner
Late Abram Lisner

Completely the spirit of the modern age George Washington
Universiys Lsner Library
the building derives its and disnc
ton adonment, of
placement window
which