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conditioned to withstand the on.
slaughts of Mickey's violent reac-
tions to life will fnd much fun
here.
Troubles into which Mickey's
Andy Hardy gets this time are both
feminine and financial, a logical
enough combination. Polly (Ann
Rutherford) settles the feminine
problems (the major one of which
Is June Preisser) and one of those
man-to-man talks with pop Lewis
Stone) solves most Of the financial
difficulties. And getting in and out
of trouble Andy is a funny guy.
Only, please, don't anybody ever
yell Louder and funnier" to Mickey
Rooney. \
Headliner of the Capitol's stage
show is quite a surprise. At any
rate she will be a surprise if you
have been wondering what in the
world Beverly Roberts could do to
brighten a vaudeville revue. Miss
Roberts, never having given a hint
of it in her pictures, turns out to be
a singer of competence and some
excitement as well as a capable
cinema leading lady. She is, in fact,
practically a WOW as she expertly
tosses of some special, very special,
arrangements by AL Siegal.
The Capitol's stage show has by
this time new master of cere-
monies. lad named Dean Murphy,
who also has some reputation as a
mimic. When yesterdays first show
went on Mr.. Murphy was grounded
in Pittsburgh by non-f1yable wealth
er, so we do not know yet if he is
as good as Capitol Manager Gene
Ford says he is. Other diversions
include that drumstick turn of Jack
Powell's, midshow overture" con-
Quoted by Sam Jack Kaufman
Fredericks and Lane (she is really
Washington's La nellie Avery in
some nimble dances and the Five
Elgins.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

minded Dan Crawford and his pert,
smart girl friend, and the villain
GUS Harley Harrington. The authors
have not bothered much with story.
Instead they have added baby, a
comic butler in the form of Arthur
Treacher, and from that point on
have concentrated upon stringing
together series of sequences each
OF which Is supposed to be funny
regardless of how vague its con-
nection with the others. The gen.
eral idea is to get poor, dumb Bing
coaching job at the alma mater,
an intention that is frustrated in
ways that are as wild as they some-
times are forced.
The baby introduced in the new
chapter of the saga is an infant
with penchant for swallowing
small articles, one of them a dia-
mond ring. When that loses it's
humor, before it happens as a
matter of truth. the cute child pops
up with a talent for destroying
valuable property that is diaboli-
cally inspired.
The baby. Peter B. Good, exhibits
enough talent to indicate that he
has permanent place in any series
which eventuates from the two
chapters of the Brother Rat story.
He is not quite in nthe same class
as a player, however, as either Eddie
Albert, IN the role of the gentle,
stumblebum, Bing, or Jane Bryan
as the sweet, harrassed Mrs. Ed
wards. Both of these younger
Warner stars acquit themselves
nobly in the new Monks -Finkle-
hoffe drama. The one exception to
the rule of good performance is
Wayne Morris in the role of the
wacky Billy Randolph The glib
ness of Billy comes poorly through
that mushy enunciation which
Morris seems to be cultivating and
the implied mental agility of the
character is belied by the actors
every move.
Brother Rat and the Baby" has
been given lush production, and
Sidney Lanier's direction PAGES it
so fast that performers break into
run on the slightest provocation.
1t gives fine sense of action to the
film until one becomes too aware
of it.
Finished performance. probably
not to be expected at first show,
should make THE Desert Song"
more worthy of the care with which
it has been cast and produced.
Vocally its stars, Ray Hcatherton
in the title role, and Ethel Taylor
as the feminine lead, are quite up
to Rombergs requirements, although
they fail chiefly, and at times con-
spicuously, to move the drama along
with necessary expertness. In the
comedy roles, the comedy being
physical as it was in the halcyon
days when "The Desert Song" was
a WOW, Red Lightner and June
Havoc inject passably merry flavor
into the production. 's...le
Producer Harry Anger proved
himself wise fellow in turning
the dancing chore of his streamlined
musical comedy over to the Roxy
cites. They are fine, at their best
in that complicated opening rou-
tine. and so are the Virginians. who
serve as the shows vocal chorus.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Rainbow Veterans
To See War Film

THE Fighting Sixty Ninth" !"
Warner Bros. Aim saga OF the ac-
tivities of the Rainbow Division in
World War I, will have a pre-
showing in Washington under the
auspices OF the District of Columbia
Chapter, Rainbow Division Veterans.
The picture will be screened in the
Cabinet Room of the Willard Hotel
Wednesday evening, January "a.
The evenings program will be
opened by remarks by James E.
Witherite. president of the local
chapter. Guest speaker will be
Brig. Gen. Charles R. Rowland,
U. S A., retired, who was in
command of New York's famous
165th Infantry Regiment formerly
the 69th) when it returned from
France in May, 1919. Master of
ceremonies for the evenings
program will be M. Manning
Marcus, former national president
of the Rainbow Division veterans.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
New Mechunized Troop
Slated for Fort Knox

One hundred and thirteen enlist
ed men will be transferred from
Fort Belvoir, Va, to Fort Knox,
KY, to form a new mechanical
engineer troop, Secretary of War
Woodring announced today.
The new troop, to be known as
the 47th, will be stationed perma-
nently at Fort Knox and will serve
with the 7th Mechanized Cavalry
Brigade.
Mr.. Woodring also announced the
formation of the 64th Engineer
Topographic Company by the trans
fer of IS enlisted men from the
29th Engineer Battalion, Portland,
Greg. The topographic company
will be transferred to Fort Ben
ming, Ga.
Both new units will be formed by
February l, in time to participate
in the spding maneuvers in the
South.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Trans.Lux Covers
Domestic Scene

The domestic scene still is on the
front page" at the Trans-Lux
Theater. Headlined on the nev
program of newsreels is Presi-
dent Roosevelt's address at the
jackson Day dinner. Other items
OF interest are shots of Thomas E.
Dewey playing with a large dog and
taking his family sleigh riding, of
Lawson Little winning that golf
tourney, of Connie Mack marking
his 77th birthday, of the flying
fortress" plant rushing planes out
at the rate of one every four days.
From farther away come views of
the crew of the British cruiser Ajax
being welcomed at Montevideo, of
Russia observing the anniversary
OF the revolution.
Short subjects include two travel
tours. one a camera visit to Peru,
showing the contrasts between its
coastline and the Andes, its modern
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Pat O'Brien
Is Star of
Met Film
Night of Nights
Story of a Mans
Regeneration

1t may be that Pat O'Brien's role
in Night of Nights" is not exactly
down his alley. 1t may be that no
amount of contemplation here be-
fore the typewriter will make Donald
Ogden Stewards screen play seem
any less static than it seemed on
first encountering it at the Metro
polltan last night. Or it may be a
combination of both of these things.
Whatever it is, Night of Nights"
somehow does not ring true.
1t perhaps is unfair to start off
this report on this disgruntled note,
for Director Lewis Milestone, an ex-
pert cinema craftsman, has con-
triyed to infuse a deal of drama into
the film and he has made it some
thing which is for the most part
interesting. 1t still doesn't quite
come off, however.
Night of Nights" is the story of
an author actor who meets a bottle
of Scotch the eve his play is to open
in 1919, botches up the first per-
formance, is deserted by his wife.
He spends the next 20 years sitting
soberly in the Lambs Club, Just
brooding and brooding, until his
daughter turns up. Then he gets
the play staged again and, instead
of taking his curtain calls, goes
quietly to his dressing room and dies.
Granting that a man will prob
ably be remorseful at having driven
his wife off to her death, there still
is something decidedly false about
this lad sitting around the club in
his well-pressed suit for 20 years.
That perhaps is the main trouble
with Might of Nights; man of
this wild temperament would have
gone to one extreme or another.
Still Mr.. Milestone has made it all
palatable, even if it does sit down
and talk and talk time after time,
going nowhere fast. In addition to
OBrien (who does try the people
principally involved are Olympic
Bradna, Reginald Gardiner, Roland
Young and George E. Stone.
H. M.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

serial which will go on so long as
writer's John Monks, jr, and Fred
Finklehoffe become no less inventive
than on this occasion. And, of
course, so long as they have the
services of such bright people as
Priscilla Lane, Jane Bryan and
Jane Wyman from the Warner
junior misses department, plus
Eddie Albert, Ronald Reagan and
Wayne Morris for romantic and
comedy relief.
No conventional addenda to the
picture is this weeks stage aJtrac-
tion, a streamlined version of The
Desert Song" That is dimensional
affair, nicely sung and vigorously
danced. It's most worthy features.
Sigmund Romberg's enduring music
and its slick production, are suffi-
ciently meritorious to conceal in
some degree that its drama is dated
and inexpertly handled and that
its comedy is more fusty than
funny.
Brother Rat and a Baby takes
oP Principal Vial oStClo ilSllt
where its predecessor left them.
Now alumni of " M. l., the three
boys with their three girl friends,
substitute New York as the locale
for their madnesses instead of the
old campus at Lexington. With full
awareness of the fact that the shift
is not to the advantage of the pic
ture, everybody concerned works
doubly hard to invest the slightly
too pat antics with the same old
college spirit. AS anyone who ever
got out of college knows. it can't be
done but the effort in this case is
worthy of respect.
None of the characters has
changed. The irrepressible Billy
Randolph still is playing Mr. Fixit
with dire results to the other five,
the still dumb Bing Edwards and
his pretty young wife, serious
Evening star., 1940-01-13

Ale VI oIepIlen roster IN spite OF
the fact that the picture at the
Palace finds melodic merit in its
free use of Fosters music. Starring
Don Ameche and Andrea Leeds, and
bringing back Al Jolson very much
alive, the handsome technicolor
account of Fosters ecstacies and
torments is worthy when it sings,
indifferent to dull when it does not.
The that-isnt-t e-story-I- heard
reaction to Goth Century Fox S
biography of Foster is the result of
feeling that the film overidealizes
him. AS if his music were not a
sufficient compensation for any
eccentricities which may have
marred his record as a citizen and
husband, he is ennobled almost
beyond belief in Ameche's portrait,
based upon a script by John Taintor
Foote and Phillip Dunno. The
exultation and pathos of the music
which he created find only the
shallowest wellsprings in the life
he lived, and the Ameche imper-
sonation does practically nothing to
deepen them. AS the fair flower
of his life, the inspiration which he
failed so often even though she
never failed him, Miss Leeds does
very little to endvance the picture
beyond looking highly alluring in
crinoline and technicolor.
The most spirited sequences of
"Swanee River" are those which are
hallowed by the presence of Jolson.
The old king of blackface naturally
would be entirely at home in the
album of Stephen Foster music AS
E. P. Christy, leading minstrel man
of the period, he demonstrates it
with those characteristic Jolson
fourishes which have been long
absent from the screen. First of the
Foster compositions which Jolson
uses to show how he can go to town
on that sort of thing is "Oh. Su-
sanna." With a colored band and
colored dancing and singing choruses
to assist him, he runs through
great many others with the same
irrepresslble spirit.
AS becomes the use of technicolor,
elaborateness marks the pictures
general background, most especially
the production of some of the COM
poser's best-known numbers. Best
of the lot is the cemetery scene which
serves as the setting for the singing
of "Ol' Black Joe" by the Hall john
son Choir, which incidentally is a
singing group that adds greatly
to whatever appeal the picture
possesses. "Swanee River" appropri-
ately, gets the big production en-
phasis as the song which tops all
others in the library of the young
Northerner whose fascination for the
South begot Americas greatest folk
music. AS the pinnacle of his ro-
mantle melodic accomplishment,
JEANNE With the Light Brown
Hair" also rates, and is given hand
some setting and, of course, finely
sentimental Interpretation by Don
Ameche in the title role.
As is the case with so many musi-
cal biographies, even the most casual
of them, "Swanee River" does ample
justice in every respect to the results
of Fosters creative genius. 1t could
have been a finer picture by, doing
as much justice to the genius itself.
This is not a quibble based upon
the disposal of Foster at the end
through a heart attack, although the
story you may have heard said
alcohol, but for the general impress
sion that the worst thing about him
was his gentle whimsicality. JIG
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Overman's New Role
Calls for Knitting

A somewhat sheepish Lynne Over
man appeared at the women's VIM
dow of the Paramount wardrobe de-
partment and applied for mentor
to help him learn his part in Cecil
B. De Miles rough-and-ready
drama, North West Mounted
Police"
Overman had just received the
script for the first time-and dis
covered that he'd have to learn to
knit!
''De Mile will scream if I even
miss a stitch" he explained glumly.
Berta Linton, wardrobe department
chief, volunteered to teach him her
self.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

cities and ancient Inca ruins; the
other a tour Of the wide-open
spaces Of Nevada. For music lovers
there is "The Blue Danube" as
played by the National Philhar-
monic Orchestra, conducted by
Frederick Feher, and for almost any
one there is Walt Disney's Farm
yard Symphony" HIM.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Standard of Series Is Met
By Judge Hardy and Som
Mickey Rooney Explodes Comedy
In New Film at the Capitol;
Beverly Roberts Stage Star
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Anher crisis has come no the lives Of the Hardys and another
crisis passed In fact Judge Hardy Son.
which is the captols screen attraction is Just one
with that bonbaic expoveness
another before which crisis would half
Evening star., 1940-01-13

OF the 100 principals and bit
players appearing in Emergency
Squad" Paramount's drama of the
police-flre department suicide"
units, three-fourths are formerly
from the Broadway stage. Top-Ine
players are Louise Campbell, Will
liam Henry, Robert Paige and Rich
ard Denning.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Buc Relief Hurler Sions

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13 tR.-Presi-
dent Bill Benswanger announced
today the Pittsburgh Pirates have
received the signed contract of
Pitcher Bill Clemensen Of Santa
Cruz, Calf. He worked last year as
q relief hurler.
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UNCLE RAYS CORNER

If people could grow three sets Of
teeth, q great deal of trouble and
expense would be saved. When the
time came for the third set to ap-
pear in the mouth, most of us
probably. would take the best of care
Of them.
As it is, nature supplies us with
only two sets, the first often called
milk teeth" the others second
teeth"
Now and then, reports have been
made about aged men or women
growing third teeth" Dentists, how
ever, say that no case of this kind
has been proved. They state that
second teeth sometimes are crowded
while in the gums, and stay there
Tor many years. When, at last,
certain teeth are pulled, the hidden
second teeth come into view, and the
report may be made that they are
third teeth"
BY the time a baby is six or eight
months old, he is likely to have at
least one or two teeth. They are
email, and we may see only the
edges, but the family usually be-
comes q bit excited about them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-30

AS child grows older, more and
more teeth appear. BY the time he is
about three years old, he should have
his full number of 20 milk teeth.
At the age of five or six, boy or
girl usually gets one or two of the
second, or permanent, set of teeth.
These keep on coming as the years
go by. They push against the milk
teeth and loosen them. The milk
teeth fall out, and the other teeth
take their place.
AS life goes on, the jaws of boy
or girl grow larger. Second teeth
are larger than the milk teeth, and
there are more of them, the total
number being 80. The last four
permanent teeth are known as
wisdom teeth" Sometimes they do
not appear until a person is from
81 to rs years of age.
To speak of second teeth as "per-
manent" teeth is just q way OF
speaking. They should be permanent
they should last as long as person
lives-but usually they don't.
Most people lose their second teeth,
one or two at q time, over Q stretch
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Don't Take Ny
Word for 1t


Question: What is a ginmick?-
P. C.
Answer: A device used to manipu-
late crooked gambling wheels and
the like. The g" Is hard as in
gamble: GIM-ik.
Question: What is the difference
between climatic and climactic-
w. S. T.
Answer: Climatic is of or per-
tanning to a climate. Climactic is
OF or pertaining to climax.
Question: How should we pro-
nounce pince- nez, the name for eye
glasses that clip to the nose-M.
0. D.
Answer: Pince-nez is French for
pinch the nose" The Anglicized
pronunciation Is PANSS-nay.
Question: In status quo, does
status rhyme with pat us"?-G.
o. M.
Answer: No. Status must always
rhyme with hate u.s." as: STAY
tuss.
Question: In a radio speech Mr..
Willkie said "reoccurring." Is there
such a word?-T. H.
Answer: No. The correct word Is
recurring.
Question: Is the word bombproof
of recent origin?-W. w.
Answer: No. 1t was in common
use in the armies of the North and
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South in the War Between the
States. Quartermasters and supply
officers were nicknamed bomb
proofs" because of their anxiety to
remain beyond the fire of the en-
envy.
Question: What does luftwaffe
mean?-M. L.
Answer: 1t is German for "air
weapon" hence the air force. Pro-
nunciation: LOOFT-vah-fuh.
Capitals indicate syllables to be
accented)
For free Pronouncing Test No.
2. entirely new, send stamped g.
cent. self addressed envelope to
Frank Colby, care The Evening
Star.
Two match factories In Estonia
are being repaired and will turn out
1000 900 boxes of matches a day.
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1~eA Ray

If you wish to join the 1910
Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club, send
me . Scent stamped envelope,
carefully addressed to yourself.
You viii receive . membership
certificate, = leafiet telling how to
make . scrapbesk, and printed
design to paste IN the cover.
Address me In care u The
Evening Star.
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Little Saturday Talk

of years. BY the age OF so or so,
sad to say, many men and women
have lost half, or perhaps all, Of
their teeth. Then they must get
along as well as possible with "store
teeth" that is, with teeth In plates
prepared by the dentist.
Qor General Interest section Of your
scrapbook)
Merit Saturday Uncle Ray iDiu
hare another talk on teeth, and
tCiu tell icdys in trhich people
can make their second teeth last
1on6Dr
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North South vulnerable.

Pass
West opened the six of diamonds,
East winning and returning the suit.
South won with the king of dia-
monds and noted that his contract
depended on losing no more than
two club tricks.
He would have no trouble, Of
course, if West held the club ace.
since then dunmy's king would win
q trick. But if East had the club
ace Gas the bidding indicated would
be the case) there was danger of los
ing the club king to East's ace ana
then losing tricks to the club queen
Ind Jack as well. To guard against
this danger, South decided to strip
the hand.
His first step was to draw two
rounds of trumps, followed by the
ace of spades and spade run.
Dummy was entered by means OF a
trump, and South discarded low
club on the jack of diamonds. An
other spade ruff gave South the
lead with the stage set for the de-
eisive club play.
At this point South led a low
club. and when West played low,
dummy finessed the nine. East won
with the jack and was helpless to
defeat the contract. Another club
lead would establish dummy's king
of clubs, while any other lead would
allow declarer to ruff in one hand
and discard from the other.
- ~ IL \
Yesterday you were MerWln
Maier's partner and, with neither
side vulnerable, you held:
"A Q86
jos
o1097
&JS
The bidding:
You Schenken Maier Jacoby
IA Pass INT Pass
%
Answer-Pass. You have q mini
nidm opening bid and your part
ner's response shows a weak hand.
There is no reason, therefore, to
raise the bidding level, especially
since you are as well prepared for
Ho"ti uulP CUllti oet do AoA O hioJoA
suit bid.
Question No. 61S.
Today you are Howard Schenken's
partner and, with neither side vul-
nerable, you hold:
AXIS
NJ9
. A 10 9 5 3
. A 1915
The bidding:
Sacoby You Maier Schenken
INT CD
What do you bid? (Answer Mon
day.
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Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
A Deep Finesse
APPETITE

A deep finesse, preceded by care
full preparation, enabled South to
make his game in the hand shown
below:
East dealer.
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Boys and Girls, Road The Junior sto, Every Sunday
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Washington Is Asked to
Serve on Summer Festival
Committee

Chas. w. Washington, executive
secretary of the Minneapolis Ur-
ban League, has been invited to
serve on the Board of Directors of
the Minneapolis Summer Spectacle,
an organization recently formed for
the purpose of promoting a sum-
mer sports program similar to St.
Paul's winter carnival. The fact
that Mr.. Washington was asked to
serve on the board of this organ
ization indicates that the co-opera-
ton Of all groups in Minneapolis
is desired in the promotion of this
activity.
The Negroes we're overlooked
during the early stages of develop
ment of the Centennial Celebration
last fall. However, the group was
able to secure last minute recog-
milton and made a creditable show
ing. Representation on the board
of the Summer Spectacle will
enable the group to keep abreast
of developments and allow more
time for effective participation.