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Representation
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gate suffrage to the District in order
to avoid potential conflict between
the national representation and To-
cal suffrage issues, Mr.. Summers
said he regretted he had ever men,
toned that proposition.
He said he had observed no indi-
cation at today's special meeting
that any members of the committee
present desired to have that pro-
vision stricken from the resolution.
Too Broad" Some Feel.
One member of the committee,
who talked "off the record" to
Star representative, however. said it
appeared to him that several of his
colleagues believed the resolution to
be too broad" in one respect.
There is some fear, among these
members, he said, that the present
language of the resolution which
declares that the Congress shall
have power to provide for the people
of the District constituting the seat
oS Government of the United States
representation in Congress and
among the electors of President and
>Vice President no greater than that
OF the people Of the States" would
allow the District to have two Sena-
tors. He expressed the belief that
some move might be made to change
the word Congress" to House of
representatives, so that the District
would be represented only in the
House and not in the Senate.
Several ether members of the
committee who left the meeting be-
fore it adjourned indicated they had
been impressed by Mr.. Lesh's argu-
ments.
Representative Massingale, DEM
ocrat, of Oklahoma was one of them.
He said: Mr.. Lesh is damn smart
man."
In view of the announcement yes
terday of Mr.. Summers that the
meeting would be held behind
closed doors, only a few spectators
showed up and wandered the corri-
dors of the House Office Building
awaiting news of developments in
the committee room.
Mrs. Ottenburg Appears.
Aside from Mr.. Suter and Mr.
Lesh, among those who called to
see Chairman Summers before the
meeting convened was Mrs. Louis
former president Of
the District League of Voteless
Women Voters and veteran leader
in the fight to remove the shackles
of disfranchisement from the peo-
pie of the District
Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee, one of the
strongest supporters in Congress for
local suffrage, joined newspaper
men in the corridor of the House
Office Building waiting for the
meeting to adjourn. AS some men,
bers left the meeting in advance of
adjournment he questioned them
just as eagerly as did the news
papermen.
1t had been Mr.. Randolph's in
tention if the resolution had been
favorably reported out of the COM
mittee today to appear before men,
bers of the committee and make a
brief speech of appreciation for
their prompt action on the local
suffrage plank incorporated in the
Democratic party platform at the
Chicago convention.
Prompt action" he told report
ers, would be applauded not only
by the voteleSs residents of the
Evening star., 1940-07-30

Council of the C. I. O.. said the
c. I. o. in its organization meeting
in Pittsburgh in 1888 adopted a
resolution he himself presented de-
claring for both national repre-
sentation and local suffrage for the
District, that this was reaffirmed
last october in the convention in
San Francisco, and emphasized that
the start toward getting the Dis
trict plank in the Democratic plat-
form at Chicago was when District
National Committeeman Malcolm
McConihe asked Philip Murray, vice
president of the c. I. O., before the
Platform Committee if he favored
suffrage for the District and re-
ceived an emphatic approval.
Other speakers at the conference
last night were William A. Roberts,
former peoples COUNSEL Russell
Balderson, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee for
Evening star., 1940-07-30

the District; Albert w. Lee, presi-
dent of the Randle Highlands and
vice president of the Southeast Con-
ference of Citizens Associations
Henry l.. Coleman, president of the
Northwest Council of Citizens AS
sociations; Harry S. Wender, vice
president and acting president of
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions. which has been advocating
suffrage for 80 years and which
has 66 member bodies; William L.
Evening star., 1940-07-30
Hawaii Also Wants Vote
II D. {. Gets Franchise

By tie Associated Press.
Delegate King of Honolulu urged
Chairman Summers or the House
Judiciary Committee today to in
clude Hawaii in any legislation to
exte1u the national franchise to the
District of Columbia.
Mr.. Summers is sponsoring an
amendment te the Constitution to
allow residents of the District to
vote.
Hawaii and the other Territories
also are deprived of national fran
chise, although they likewise are
equally under the American flag"
Mr.. King declared.
Evening star., 1940-07-30


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IN the -Wid WordC
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WASHINGTON G., TUESDAY, 80 1910

District have fought for 80 many
years"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-27
There's an Empty Throne Awaiting
For the First Time Since Jackie Coogan, Fmdom
Is Without Top. Ranking Child Star

/ in under her own steam-navigated
by her mother, Ohio put her to train
ing in Los Angeles dancing school
where she was spotted by talent
scout.
Came Up the Hard Way.
Larry Simms found studio atten-
ton from the cover of a national
magazine (this method, by the way.
is even better for pretty models
who want to be in movies .
Carolyn Lee owes her screen ca
reer to Mr.. Tracy Barham, theater
executive in Ohio and a friend of
the Mopper'S parents. He sent a
picture of Carolyn to Frank Free
man, Paramount big sho0 And
she was signed up. 1t was as SIM
pie as that.
James Withers came to films the
hard way. She has worked most
of her life-from the age of 8
starting with stage and radio work
in Georgia, coming to Hollywood
at the age Of to crash" pictures
via agents and casting offices. 1t
took her two years to land a real
break-the brat in Bright Eyes"
=. You all know how Deanna
Durbin crashed the film gates; she
sang into the long distance tele-'
phone to Louis B. Mayer in New
York, who signed her to imper-
senate Schumann-H eink as a young
girl But the film biography was
shelyed because of the singers ILL
ness. And Deanna was allowed to
90 to Universal and Joe Pasternak,
who pointed her toward stardom.
Every big-shot in Hollywood
claims to have discovered Mickey
Rooney. But 1 guess credit must
be given (doublyl to Mickey's moth
er, who landed him in 70 film
shorts between the ages of and
II. At II. Mickey started again in
pictures, doing extra and bit work,
and was noticed by directors Z.
Baby Sandys father, milkman,
showed a photograph of his daugh-
ter to one of his customers-Charles
Pyevin, musical director at Univer-
sal. And Sandy was off! ;. Baby
Leroy owed his brief film career
to his smile and an under-lp that
resembled Maurice Chevalier's.
Freddie Bartholomew can thank
the perseverance of his aunt, who
brought him to the attention Of
David Selznick when he was search
ing for q David Copperfield." :.
II your daughter has q voice as
(see GRAHAM, Page F-30
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-27
Hollywood's
Small Talk
Changes
Topics of Gossip
Are Different, but
It's Still Gossip

By Harold Hefernax.
HOLLYWOOD

You can't expect to walk out on
Hollywood for a couple of weeks and
then return to find the village in
mates discussing the same old items
Try to pick up the conversation
where you left off and you're hailed
as Old Rip himself. Nothing, we
learned after our 1910 vacation, is so
thoroughly dead and buried to the
movie capital and its people as yes
terday's news item.
We came back to find practically
the same set of movies in produc-
ton, the same butterfly crowds
being seen" at Ciro's and we walked
into an Indian summer" heat wave
that wasn't so unusual as the local
headlines hinted-but back of all
this Hollywood routine was an en-
tirely new trend of conversation.
When we fled eastward for our
52-weeks' restorative, the big vital
topic of conversation was Charlie
Chaplin's The Great Dictator" 1t
hadn't been previewed. Only few
Chaplin cronies had been permitted
to see it. But Hollywood was al
ready hailing The Great Dictator"
as the biggest thing ever. We re-
turned the night of the press pre-
view. Hollywood isn't talking about
the Chaplin comedy any more
except in hushed wonderment How
much can Charlie salvage? They
whisper.
What is Hollywood talking about
these late October days? Into stu
dio Offices and odd corners, out on
the stages. into the commisSaries
and around the boulevards we 60
trying to get reacquainted, re-estab-
lished with a Hollywood that has
shifted its tongue.
For one thing-getting back to the
Chaplin situation-we discover Hol-
lywood giving Paulette Goddard a
tidy raking over the night club
tables for failure to keep out Of
scandals way at the most crucial
moment in Chaplin's career. On
the eve of Charles dual premiere
in New York. an event Paulette was
scheduled to attend along with
Charlie. she disappeared under ques-
tionable circumstances. She did turn
up in time for the New York pre-
miere, but if there is ole spicy item
getting more lip and ear play than
any other here right now it is the
one about the shapely Miss Goddard
Practically the only hold-over
news item about the stars is their
(See HEFFFRNAN, Page F-2D
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Coming Attractions


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS George Bernard Shaw comedy
starring Ruth Chatterton and with Barry Thompson in the
leading role weeks engagement tomorrow night
There will be matnees Wednesday and Saturday.
PALACE-"Down musical with the South
presenting Betty CRADLE Carmen Miranda Don
Ameche and number of handsome horses in echncoor
Thursday
Bling picture, in
which attractive Mary Martin and
which first feature film role for Oscar Levant the
Information Please" wizard starts Friday There will be
variety bill stage
CAPTOhrd FINGER Left Hand co-starring Myrna 10y and
MELVIN Douglas romantic directed by Robert
Leonard Thursday There will stage show
the day, of course.
METROPOLITAN Conquest" the romantic drama with
undertone involving Sheridan and Jimmy Cagney
in the battle against New York scheduled for its second down.
town week, starting Friday
KEITHSToo Many Girls version of the George Abbott
the Pottowatamie College
girls and not enough ouchdowns will follow the Charles
LaughtonCarole Lombard They Knew What They
Wanted Lucille Ball. Ann Miller Langfod Richard
Carlson Eddie Bracken the big shots the p. O.
campus.
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curtain went up and. ultimately
came down and the critics filed out
and parties began popping all over
midtown and, toward dawn. people
began making their way in leisurely
fashion to the newsstands to find out
just how the critics had managed
to exceed the praise they already
had heaped on all the other Kauf-
man-Hart comedies.
1t was at this point that the ritual
was abandoned and everybody found
himself abruptly in strange, new,
rather stony country. 1t seems the
comedy was not considered very
good.
The line between good and bad
in any Kaufman-Hart comedy has
always seemed invisible to me, as
have pointed out in the past. AL
they have ever written has in
variably seemed to me cheese out of
the same box. So l can't tell you
what's wrong with the play except
in these few words: George WASH
ington Slept Here'-me, too.
It's all about Ernest Truck buying
one of those Revolutionary War
farm houses without roof, floor or
walls, or water or closets or a
kitchen. but with a fine, big fire.
place. Jean Dixon, the best of all
those acidulous female smart
crackers you have been seeing so
much of in the movies, plays Mr..
Trucks wife and has a time of it
making bitter remarks about every
thing.
One Comic Character.
Well, it seems that it cost so much
to make the home a house that by
the time it's done they find they
have no money to pay of the mort
gage. The mortgage, incidentally. is
held by q very nasty man. So, the
day before the foreclosure, every
body gets crooked in a nice way
and starts chopping holes in the
house to return it to its original
condition. In the middle of it, they
learned that. by means of a plot
device, which won't trouble you
with here, there is not going to be
any foreclosure after all.
There is one character in the
play who seems to me actually a
comic invention. This is the grumpy,
rich old uncle, played by Dudley
Diggens. Everybody is very nice to
him, expecting to inherit some
money. But he finally admits that
he's only been making-believe. He
lost all his money in 1929 and all
he has left is his credit among his
relatives.
Why all this isn't as funny, for
instance, as The Man Who Came
to Dinner" which has been running
a year and is still running, or You
Can't Take 1t With YOU" which
won q Pulitzer prize, puzzles me.
(see WOIFERT, Page T-3)
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had just finished "Round-Up' at
Paramount, b picture. Her next
jumps her back to the "A's'-New
York Town again with Fred Mac
Murray. Betty is Is years old-the
age when most child stars fall off in
popularity. But there are no rules
nowadays. Deanna Durbin and Judy
Garland, now young ladies of Is,
both starred at the so-called i'm
possible age of land rise higher
with every picture.
Virginia Weidler has been in pic
lures eight years And they are now
calling her at Metro-"the female
Mickey Rooney" Interesting for
would-be infant stars - and their
mamas-is. the fact that Virginia
Topped in her first picture, After
Tonight She was at the time.
A year elapsed before they took
another chance on her in Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
In Supporting Roles.
Gloria Jean, in current day rat
ing, sits on the right hand side of
that vacant child star throne She
is IL years old, has been in pictures
18 months, made three movies-two
successful-"The Under-Pup" and
"A Little Bit of Heaven; one fail
ure, IF I Had My Way" Gloria
has a sweet voice and a large fol-
lowing, but I think she lacks the
magnetism necessary for super sue
cess.
Children in Hollywood who are
currently doing good work in the
supporting brackets include Bobs
Watson, just completed Doctor
Kildare: Terry Kilburn CHS last
film-"Swiss Family Robinson') /;
Butch and Buddy now to be seen
in Spring Parade" and "A Little
Bit of Heaven" and who look like
they are developing into a comic
counterpart of the Billy and Bobby
Mauch team) and little Richard
Nichols, who almost thefted the film
from Bette Davis and Charles Boyer
in "All This and Heaven Too" Then
there is the unknown youngster who
will play Jody in The Yearling."
Maybe this role will yield an occu-
pant for the child star throne.
Did some one say, but how do
you start about the business of be-
ing child star-or even just be-
ing child performer in pictures?"
Let's see how some of the others
did it. Jackie Cooper had the good
luck to have an uncle who was q
secretary with the Fox Film Co.
tThis is the quickest way to crash
filmsD -. Shirley Temple sailed
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Todoy's Film Schedules

fighting with the Indians and
Spanish, Hail. 2, 435 7:25 and 1918 Stage
shows: $780, $40 and $40 pm
Up Band Mickey Rooney the
drums: LAS, APO, and 9:35 pm
highly
by 7:a5 10 Stage shows:
205 4:20, $40 and
KEITHS-They Wanted" dramatic affair with
Carole Lombard and Charles Laughon $685. $50 Z As and
$40 pm March of Time: 335 $50 TBS and 800 pm.
Bakers Wife wy fidelity holiday the
CONSERVATION entire community 355 $50 7:5o and
$50 pm
Observation-Disclosures Rockne-A American" dramatic biog
raphy of footballs dramatic figure 24o 5, 72o and
$40 pm
PALACE-The westernep Gary Cooper Judge
ssss 55 tbs and 9:35 pm. - zza.. ~4.-~ =
TRANS Ux-Nevs and shorts; continuous from pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-27
By Sheilah Graham.
HOLLYWOOD.


Do you realize that Hollywood
Is minus front-ranking child star
for almost the first time since Jackie
Coogan smiled his way to fame in
The KIDD" With the growth and
decline of Shirley Temple. the child
star throne has been empty. Who
will be the next to sit on it-a boy,
q girl, or a baby?
Let's look over the infant phe-
nomena already in Hollywood and
see how they measure up.
There's Baby Sandy. of course.
But it seems to me that Sandy has
already reached the peak of her
cute career. Sandy'S pictures are
in the "B" category, and she will
have to do something more start
ling to squirt away from the rest
Of the field.
Eight-year- Ann Todd was
signed at Twentieth Century-Fox
six months ago to be the successor
of Shirley Temple. Her option ex-
pired a week ago-and it was not
renewed. Ann is a bright young
ster. She appeared first in 'zaza"
about two years ago Then she
was Leslie Towards daughter in
"Intermezzo. Then ditto for Charles
Boyer in "All This and Heaven Too"
She played bits in The Blue
Bird" and Brigham Young" If
Ann had the right part, she might
carve an important place for her
self in pictures.
Betty Starts Well.
Potential child star No. is s.
year-old Carolyn Lee. Carolyn was
the stage age as Shirley Temple
-when she first hit the screen
In Honeymoon in Bali" She
hasn't any of the cute baby tricks
that swept Shirley to the forefront
In her first feature film, Stand Up
and Cheer" But she's an amazing
child with an almost adult mind,
And studio biggies are raving about
her performance in her second film,
"The Southerner.' This was for
merly titled Virginia"
What of Larry Simms? Is he OF
the stuff that dream stars are
made?
don't think so. Larry, like
Shirley and Jackie Coogan, was 4
years old at the time Of his f1rst
screen appearance-Baby Dumping
In the Blonde" series. He is now
6. 1t will be interesting to see how
he fares with the disappearance OF
his baby lisp.
Betty Brewer got off to o fine
start in Rangers of Fortune" She
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guard Ol THOSE WHO l1du Iedu Tie
script began showing up in the cafes
They found themselves very
popular. Yes" each said, bored.
II read it." Yes" each added,
still bored. terrific" When pressed
they described it as, Another You
Can't Take 1t With YOU. only more
sensible" Then they remembered
some of the gags. The one about the
summer theater actress who stood
for everything-leaking roof, falling
swallows started building a nest in
her bra Well, that had every
body laughing with mouth wide open.
After that came the tryout in
various upcountry provinces. The
cognoscenti journeyed thitherward,
coughing by the carload and re-
turned to say marvellous" to any
one who would listen. Actors, lucky
enough to be hired for the show
moved out of hotels and took one
year leases on apartments. Bankers.
automobile, soap perfume and
clothing makers scrambled for adj
vertising space in the program
Ushers began buying things on the
lnstallment plan. And by. opening
night, those without hope of tickets
were standing on tiptoe, and those
with tickets were sitting on edge.
A Strange, New Reaction.
All this has not been new for a
Kaufman-H Hart comedy since "Once
in a Lifetime" of about IL years ago,
In fact, it's become a ritual. So the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-27
Advance Buildup WasSaucy,
More So Than the Play
The New George Kaufman.Moss Hart
George Washington Slept Here
Doesn't Win the Old Plaudits
By Ira WoIferf.
NEW YORK.

941 model comedy George Washington Slept
rolled of the assembly line and into like band
playing
The advance bdup the steam that out Of
charted in all and finally the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-27
Ruth ChattertOn Career
Started Here as Prank
She Just Thought Shed Go on Stage,
And Within Two Days She Did,
With Helen Hayes and Ina Claire
Br Jaw Carm ody.

continue National
prank Washington shall just time At any
The washington m @ Vacation
The Columbia Tsater this weeks feature Mickey Roo
which boasted couple members named Helen Hayes and Ina Claire
MISS onaon ana couple Of 0tner juniors from @
In the way of refined little girls of the period the others o
yea-ed" way yeah-ed" right
them until the thing reached such deadlock that something
the Columbia ask job She could not
faster had she received Aadns lamp Christmas They
had for her the following
spite of thousands wash from Chatter
tons pere ct mere
Stock then being the apprentice school the it
Miss Chatterton continued in for three After her
chatterton scattered points Hollywood
long stop-over, of course on Broadway.
Outbreak o
Found Star in
1t took the
France That where speaking
ran for cover
apus person Chaterton never denies the same
quality to fate If that es choice that
upon caprice what her the
turned out be happy caprice that Miss
had movie that could
Hollywood
nsnr which Miss chan said " HOLLYWOOD during her
heard That naturally would firm mo" In that
people saying with ultra and becoming
in those stopped
saving it was the night of bad performance
and equally suddenly confronted bulk of Emil
Jannings
with mnon OF others asked her would
long enough to play his leading lady Sins
Lure Of State Never Left
Star Though She Left
Miss Chatterton lovet
What is more she did for while become one of
ever Tor she never could learn like Broad
way Even IN the subsequent period
flying with
the Idea OF returning to the
Chatterons Pygmaion
winch she ana Shaws most delightful stopped number
OF the Easts most
was sort OF lark Where all would
either but they felt certain thea
and told her '
So didn't National teshes and
as subsequent bookings the East and
Midwest further testify
Pembertons Newest Comedy.
To Invade Film Stars Life.
Hoywoods life than
the opening Washington
comedy production Glamour Preferred
which precedes all plays declares
HOLLYWOOD inside out through the trick
record and to what they this
department but the authors happen
writer's They are Florence Ryerson Colin
familiar with
of writing out of distance
washington openings Is
beons favorite habits He admits
attachment for the town when his Kiss
bright
ened when Lady Waiting" did
Virginia to Resist Hollywood
Plan to Change Films Title
Hoywoods changing might gone on for
being those things laugh dim
Guilty had not been for Gov Price of
CARMODY, Page %
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16

mond explained that the mail is already carried by air in the Territory. The measure removed any question of the legality of the system.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16
FUNERAL NOTICE

The funeral of Ira M. Rank vii be at the Federated Church, Thursday, October F at 200 pm.
 Kenneth Rank
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-16
Truckers Dis arm Deputy,
 Gross Panama

FAIRBANKS, Oct. Is - Three Richardson Highway truckers with six others standing by yes terday seized Deputy U. s. Mar shal Dennis Doyle at the Big Del ta crossing of Panama River, bore him. to the ground,aforce- fully wrested a shot gun from him and threw it away. They placed the Deputy in a nearby house under guard, while the en tire group of truckers took pos session of the ferry and moved the trucks across the Tanana RiV CT without paying the freight toll but paid the customary dollar toll per rig.
 The truckers arriving here frankly admit the action which was confirmed by other witness es. Doyle was later released.
 District Attorney Ralph Rivers says he may lay the matter be- fore the Grand Jury convening next week. A jury in the Com Court found the truck CTS not guilty on two previous occasions that they commander ed the ferry.
 The CIO won the election over the A F of L and Brotherhood of Alaska Miners and concluded here today by a majority of lO8 votes for determining the U. s. Refining and Mining Company's bargaining agency in the Fairbanks placer mining op- eration. Out of the 812 eligible to vote 512 voted.