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Evening star., 1940-01-15

$500 Oregon avenue NV. Mrs.
Gerstenfeld Is the wife Of Rabbi
Norman Gerstenfeld Of the WASH
ington Hebrew Congregation.
Mrs. Gerstenfeld kept the jewelry
In closet on the second floor OF
her home and last saw it there on
Friday. She discovered the loss
last night. Included were several
antique pieces and necklace valued
at $4,000.
A purse vas snatched from Edythe
Hepener, 902 I street Sc, police
reported, as she walked in the 1900
block OF F street NV. last night.
The purse, which contained S37, was
Seized by a colored man. -
A Capital Transit Co. conductor
reported the theft of SIPS worth of
streetcar passes from a streetcar
last night while on a run from
Calvert Street Bridge to the Navy
Yard.
Two men were held by police to-
day IN connection with the rob-
berry on Saturday night of a gro
cery store at 1922 Florida avenue
NE. In which $500 was obtained.
One of the men was arrested a
few hours after the holdup. The
other was picked up last night In a
raid on a rooming house in the 900
block Of New York Avenue NV. In
the course of this raid. police came
upon two narcotics addicts and a
quantity Of narcotics. The two
were arrested and the narcotics
seized.
Evening star., 1940-01-15
Court voids Decision
In Store Debt Case

A District Court decision, under
which efforts made to collect
$2,196.25 which a local department
store claimed was owed by q WASH
ington woman were upheld, was re-
versed today by the Court Of Ap-
peals.
The appellate court held that the
statute Of limitations had outlawed
the debt and ruled that a paper
acknowledging the debt, which the
defendant claimed had been OBJ
tained by fraudulent representa-
tions," was of no effect.
In its action the court upheld con-
tentions Of La Verne Moore, who was
represented by Attorneys Alfons B.
Landa and Seth w. Richardson. The
plaintiff was Jennings A. Snider,
who sought the money on behalf Of
Julius Garfinckel g. Co.
Mr.. Snider brought the original
action, claiming that the debt had
been acknowledged a year before the
suit was filed. The defendant, how
ever, claimed the creditor had false
ly stated" tn obtaining the acknowl-
edgment that 1t was for the pur-
pose Of verifying its accounts"
The District Court held this ac-
acknowledgement to be sufficient, but
Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner
of the Court of Appeals, who heard
the case with Associate Justices JUS
tin Miller and Fred M. Vinson. sent
the case back to the trial court on
the ground that the woman would
not have signed the acknowledge
ment had she known the use to be
made of IT..
Evening star., 1940-01-15
Toft Pencils Out

Employees In the ofIice of Senator
Taft, Republican, OF Ohio are using
new red. white and blue pencils
bearing the words: Taft for Presi-
dent"
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Algebra Problem
Stops Film Work

A hot dog salesman came to the
rescue of battery of highs -salaried
motion picture makers on the Sol
Lesser Our Town" set the other
day.
It happened this way. Director
Sam Wood was filming a school,
room scene which involved an al
zebra problem. Thornton Wilder,
the author, had neglected to put a
problem in the script.
Wood appealed to Producer
Lesser. II don't know algebra" he
confessed. "Give me an easy
problem"
+ Lesser blushed. Neither do I.
Maybe Bill Menzies does"
Menzies, the production designer,
couldn't help. Neither could Frank
Craven, who plays the narrator
Neither could Edward Goodnow
the technical adviser, nor Bert
Glennon, the cinematographer. Pro-
duction costs mounted. Assistant
Director Johnny Sherwood started
using the telephone, trying to find
a mathematics expert.
Then Morris Resnick, who sells
hot dogs and soda pop on the stage,
stepped up. IT just finished high
school," he said. II remember some
algebra"
So the algebra problem you'll see
in "Our Town" should be credited
to Mr.. ReSnick.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Wesleyan Choir
Here Sunday

. The 55soice q. capella choir Of
Ohio Wesleyan University will pre-
sent a concert of sacred music Sum-
dayday morning at IL o'clock in the
Francis Asbury Methodist Church,
according to plans announced today
by Maj. Frank A. Frost, 1923 Jonquil
street NV, who is ID charge of local
arrangements. Jean fybst, his daugh-
ter, is central High School grad
uate, a senior at Ohio Wesleyan this
year and a prominent member of
the group, which is composed Of
both men and women students.
Dorothy Benfield of Long Island,
N. Y, soprano, and Robert Decker,
New Kensington, Pa, baritone, are
soloists.
This Is the third time that WASH
ington has been included on the
clubs annual Eastern trip taken
during the colleges spring vacation.
In 1885, the choir sang a special pro-
gram for Vice President John Nance
Garner while here. 1t has been
the feature of several Nationwide
broadcasts and is under the direc-
ton of Prof. Rexford Keller, head of
Ohio Wesleyan's music department.
The program for the concert
follows:
''Evenine Cantata' Whitlock
90 Magnum Mysterium' Vittoria
The Shepherds Song Dickinson
1.-The Day He Rode as King" Booth
He Never Said a Mumblin' Word" Krone
Regina Coeli'' - Aichinger
30 Praise Ye God" ---- Tch aikowsky
Dark Water" - James
Ride On. King Jesus" Smith
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Two Share
In Organ
Concert
McCrary and
Jean Phillips Play;
Series Ends Tonight
BY ALICE EvERsMAN.


Lyman McCrary and Jean Phillips
shared the program of organ selec-
tions given last evening at the
Chapel OF the Church of Latter Day
Saints in the fourth recital Of the
series presented by the District Of
Columbia Chapter of the American
Guild OF Organists. This festival Of
organ music has drawn a large audi
ence each evening to the beautiful
chapel so ideally suited by its archi-
lecture to create the proper atmo-
sphere for such music. The object
OF this week of recitals has been to
acquaint the public with the organ
literature, both classic and modern.
1t has made also known the really
outstanding talent that form the
organists of this city.
Introducing his program with
Bach's prelude and Fugue in B
Minor" Mr.. McCrary preceded to
works of less well known composers,
Dallier's stella Matutina'' and
Jongens Sonata Eroica." The lat
ter works were of decided contrast,
the first having a lovely ethereal
quality and the second what its
name implies. Mr.. McCrary, organ
ist Of Hamline Methodist Church.
gave finely balanced readings in
which the character of his nu-
steamship and his feeling for the
content of the music was to be ap-
preciated. A sound technique equal
to all demands came to the fore in
the Jongen work, with its inter-
weaving of the ponderous pedal
tones and the keyboard brilliancy.
Rather harsh in its outlines and
containing little of the broad tonal
effects of the earlier masters, 1t re-
quires a sturdy and at the same
time dashing delivery which Mr..
McCrary supplied with distinction.
The softly hued Dallier work was
etched with great delicacy and was
striking interlude between the
Bach and the Jongen.
A suave touch gave beauty to Miss
Phillips playing of the Priest Pre-
lude" and the two. Bach chorale
preludes From God Shall Nothing
Turn Me" and Now Come, Re
deemer of Our Race" She infused
the chorals with a truly religious
sentiment and the Priest prelude"
with a significant poetry. Her final
number Karg- -Elert's symphonic
Ramona" was given spirited per-
formance. the contrasting moods of
the "Phantasie." which are so
sharply stated in this movement,
being animated with deep meaning
as Miss Phillips conceived them
The power and clean cut style of her
playing of this number vas i'm
pressive after the smooth, effortless
performance of the preceding ones.
The series finishes tonight with a
program by Robert Ruckman,
organist of Epworth Methodist
Church, and Jean Slater Appel,
organist Of Western Presbyterian
Church.
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National Margin for Error"
Glare Boothe chides the Nazis:
$3.50 pm.
Capitol Young Tom Edison -
portrayed by Mickey Rooney: II
am, 1:45, 4:3O, tbs. and 10 pm.
Stage shows: 12:45, $3.50. 6:15 and
8 pm
Earle-"It All Came True" Ann
Sheridan in the Louis Bromfield
story: II am, 1:40, 4;25. 7:10 and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 12:45, $3.50,
6:15 and 9 pm.
Keith's-"Pinocchio," the new full
length Disney: 11:35 am, 1885. $40,
$40. 7:45 and $50 pm. March Of
Time: 11:l5 am, Ills, 500, $40,
TBS and $50 pm.
Palace-"Grapes of Wrath" hon.
est and dramatic film version of the
novel: 1926 am, 1:25, 4:l0, 6:55
and $40 pm.
Little-"The Human Beast" with
Jean Cabin and Simone Simon:
II am. 1850, 2:35, sos, 7:25 and
$40 pm.
Belasc0 - Louise" with Grace
Moore singing the leading role:
$40 pm.
Metropolitan-'Virginia City," Err
rol Flynn rides again: 11::30 am, 2,
4:35, 7:05 and 9:40 pm.
Columbia -" Northwest Passage" /"
Spencer Tracy VS.. the Indians: HIS
am, 1850, 4:25, 7 and $40 pm.
Open-Air-"I Stole a Million" I"
with George Raft: 7:50 and 1910
pm.
Trans-Lux-Newsa and shorts, con-
tinuous from 10 am,
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Iron Hat Passes

Like the horse and buggy, plain,
dignified black derby hats are pass
ing from the American scene rap
idly, too rapidly, in fact, to please
the property and wardrobe men on
Walter Wanger's personal History"
which Director Alfred Hitchcock
is Just beginning. For the first
scenes of this timely international
adventure drama the Wanger COM
pany had to make three black
derbies for Joel McCrea, because
none was available in Los Angeles
or Hollywood, and 200 others needed
for Amsterdam and London scenes
had to be purchased from a New
York auctioneer of bankrupt stocks
and sent to the studios air express.
Brown and gray derbies in variety
are available at Hollywood cos
tuners, but plain black derbies are
. rarity.
Evening star., 1940-04-05

ture for the "Say It With Girls
stage show starting today. The
Earle was going to keep her q secret,
that Is, until a couple of the boys
from the papers saw a photograph
of the mystery woman" and I'M
mediately recognized the back of her
neck and the wave in her hair.
Then the truth came out and 1t
developed that waving a baton in
front OF the orchestra is only one
Of Miss Ritter's chores this week.
During the overture she also will
take a turn at singing, playing the
drums and playing the piano. And
then she becomes, as have Audrey
Sleber, Oracle Barrie and Maxine
Doyle before her, the Earle's mistress
OF ceremonies, to introduce the
sundry specialties in the show.
Middletown, Ohio, which used to
be proud Of Its paper bags and its
steel, can now start being proud OF
is paper bags, its steel and It's
Eileen Ritter.
Three new Aims show up on down.
town screens today. Young Tom
Edison with Mickey Rooney as the
inventor in his boyhood days, Is at
LoeW's Capitol, along with a stage
show headlining Wilma and Buddy
Ebsen and Marjorie GainsWorth. At
the Earle Is ut All Came True"
with Ann Sheridan and jeffrey
Lynn impersonating pair of Mr..
Louis Bromf1eld's characters. And
tonight at $3.50 the Belasco has
scheduled the Washington premiere
OF Grace Moore's latest cinema
venture, the motion picture ver-
sion of Gustave Charpentiers opera,
Louise"
Elsewhere you will find "Pinoc-
chic" starting its third week at
Keith's, being joined today by the
new March of Time, Canada at
War;: Grapes of Wrath" staying
on for well-deserved second week
at Loew's Palace, Northwest Pass
age" turning up at the Columbia
and Virginia City" moving into the
Metropolitan. Aa
X X X
Addenda: Monte Woolley, who
currently is busy with The Man
Who Came to Dinner" on Broadway,
will journey to Washington to be
one OF the masters of ceremonies at
the Actors Fund Benefit at the Ma
tional the evening of April % :.
Marc Blitzstein, author-composer of
"The Cradle Will Rock" will be in
town tomorrow night to show parts
OF his new opera, mo for an An
sWer, under the auspices of the
Washington Committee to Aid Agri-
cultural Workers Mr. BlitZstein's
'previeW" will be at the Chantilly
room of the Hamilton Hotel at $3.50
pm. :. In the mail: Roy Roberts,
the young actor now appearing with
Helen Hayes in Ladies and Gentle
men, plans to become an actor-pro-
ducer next season. Mr.. Roberts is
eager to encourage budding drama
lists and says that since this will be
his first venture as producer, he
would like to produce some ones
first play. Manuscripts should be
addressed to him at the Lambs Club,
130 West Forty-fourth street, New
York" Clinical notes: Phil
Lampkln is at Episcopal E., E.
and T. Hospital recovering from
an infected eye; got a cinder or
something in it and scraped off a
hunk of the cornea trying to get it
out. And Nelson Bell hopes to
escape soon from Doctors Hospital,
as so do we all hope he escapes soon
from there.
Evening star., 1940-04-05

CU WE'D Ga. Ave. 4 Coiesville Pike
DAH AN SHep. $500. Mat. l Pm.
Parking Space Available u Patrons.
LON CHANEY. Jr., and BURGESS
MEREDITH in OF NICE AND MEN"
Also Short Subject.
Evening star., 1940-04-05

SHERIDAN g.. g.. Az: Ass; : rs, shsfis,s. "
LON CHANEY. Jr., and BURGESS
MEREDITH in OF MICE AND MEN"
At ITO. 3:15, $50. 7:25, $50.
Short Subject
Evening star., 1940-04-05

the easy assurance of her stage
presence. Miss Ritter has become
something of a fixture at the Earle,
like its marquee or its electric sign,
and the place wouldn't be the same
without her.
And this is the lass the Earle was
going to shroud in secrecy, the "mys-
terry woman" who steps into Joe
Lombardi's spot to conduct the over
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Visitors From Afor

YANKTON S. Oak. (P)-The
spring snoWstorm which blocked
South Dakota highways made quite
a melting pot of small town near
here where travellers were marooned
overnight. The first cars into town
came from nine States.
Evening star., 1940-04-05

She has become favorite of the
representatives of the press whose
duties take them backstage, she
knows the first names Of most of
the headwaiters in town and she has
been nursed carefully through those
Ills to which one falls prey in this
climate, including a badly wrenched
ankle. You know her too; even if
you never knew her name you have
warmed to her smile and admired
Evening star., 1940-04-05
Earle's Mystery Woman
No Longer a Mystery
Lass Who Now Turns Conductor
And Mistress of Ceremonies Was
Eileen Ritter Ali the Time
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

NOW That the Earle 1hater has decided secret
and blue OF eye Miss Ritter hardly stranger
been an Earle customer during the last and half She
town with the original leading
tender the title photoeenc
Evening star., 1940-04-05

ARLINGTON. VA. RI. ,nfs,n.'ifs *. aiss.
VIII CON Ph. OK. 1870 wilson Blvd
WlLSON 1880. OPP. Colonial Village.
THOMAS MITCHELL in SWISS FAMILY
ROBINSON"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Attorney Elected
National Chief of
American Legion

BOSTON. Sept. &c (UP)-Milo ].
Warner, Toledo. O.. attorney and
World War captain who was wound
ed in a bombing raid in France,
today was elected national COM
mander of the American Legion.
The post pays $4,000 a year.
Warner was born in 1891 on Nov.
1.-THE date which became Armis-
tice Day.
A native of Lima, O., he attended
Ohio State university where he
joined the cadet corps.
After graduating. Warner joined
the 1st Ohio cavalry. national
guard, and served on the Mexican
border. AT the close of the border
skirmishes in 1917 he married Dor
othy Casad Bennett of FL Paso.
Tex. They have three children.
Two days after the wedding he
was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant
in the U. S. army and rose to the
rank of captain while serving at
training camps in the United
States. When called for duty over
seas, Warner was made commander
of Battery B, 10th artillery.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26. (UP)
Theatrical agents and promoters,
besieged the heroes of the de iris
tan kidnapping case with offers to-
day, seeking to present Cecil Wetsel
and Ellis Wood, Ell Dorado county
lumbermen, on the stage, on the
radio and in motion pictures.
1t was understood the Fanchon
and Marco organization of Holly
wood and Los Angeles was trying
to contact the pair with an offer
of $1,000 week for stage, radio and
motion picture appearances.
Other agencies also sought to To-
cate the woodsmen who were in
seclusion following their visit yes
terday to the home of Count and
Countess Marc de Tristan in Hills
borough, where they were thanked
by the parents of the three year
old Marc de Tristan, whom they
rescued by capturing Wilhelm ia
kob Muhlenbroich, the kidnaper.
The Golden Gate International
Exposition announced plans for
Cecil Wetsel' day at the fair to-
morrow had been dropped.
Fair spokesmen said an inter-
mediary representing the Wood and
Wetsel families had declined the
fair invitation to pay all their ex-
penses during an exposition visit.
The question of the reward the
men might receive from the de
TristanS remained unsettled.
Wetsel told the family he and
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26

Marshall Field III, shown
waiting at New York harbOr for
arrival of British child refugees.
sprawling U. S. Committee for the
Care of European Children. Organ
lied late last June, with branches
in 172 American cities, the COM
mittee is now starting its first real
campaign-to raise $5000,000 to try
to bring to Americas safety the
100000 children registered by their
parents in England for immediate
evacuation.
In the early days of the commit
tees formation, many a midnight
found the lights still burning in
the 18th floor of the Lower Man.
haitian office building where Field
has his desk. HAS his desk" is more
accurate than office, for the large
room. screened from the corridor
only by large panels of beaver-board
holds four desks. Fields is primarily
distinguishable from the secretaries
by the pipe or two constantly in its
ashtrays.
ALL COMFORTS
OF HOME
This desk, from which Field di-
rects the sometimes bit discour-
aging" effort to find ships to evac-
uate British child refugees, is far
cry from the lavish comforts of
Caumsett, his Lloyd Harbor, L. l.,
estate.
From this 2000-acre place, Field
often flies his plane to New York.
1t is the largest estate on Long
Island.
1t includes a pink brick Georgian
56-room house, a 20-car garage, a
private pheasant preserve, ample
kennels, extensive stables polo and
racing are among the foremost Field
hobbies tennis courts, and many
beautiful gardens (which often take
top honors at the nations ranking
flower shows.
The longest will ever written
stands behind this luxurious mode.
The late, cagy Marshall Field I, to
make sure his money stayed in the
Field family, tied up his wealth for
male descendants. Since both his
father and only brother are dead
Marshall Field III is today sole heir
of his grandfather's estate, variously
valued at between S200,000,O 900 and
500,000,000. Part of it has already
come to him in million dollar drib-
lets. He gains full conrtol in 1894
when he becomes So
ENLISTED AS PRIVATE
Quiet, modest, British accented
Marshall Field III has consistently
Stunned the publicity spotlight. He
started his business career, not with |
his grandfather's firm, but as as
sistant to the head bookkeeper of
a brokerage house.
Because he felt he lacked know
ledge of military affairs" he en-
listed as private in the cavalry in
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
BY TOM WOLFE

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. Sept 26-Marshall
Field III, stocky, bronzed, hand
some namesake of the famed Chi
cago Merchant Prince" and heir to
millions, has always had soft spot
in his neart for the English. He
was educated in Britain, sporting
"on the playing fields of Eton" and
graduating from Cambridge Univer-
sity. His second wife (of three) was
the goddaughter of King Edward VII.
So firm was his attachment of
Britain as a youth that he often
had to deny rumors that he would
become an English citizen. 6He never
has,
Today Marshall Fields heart goes
back to Britain. Putting in the
fullest working time I have in a
great many years." he heads the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26

in the presence of newspaper re-
porters, who are the only mortals
outside Barrymore's armed body
guard who can gain admission to
his tower road home. I'm going
through with it, and I'm throwing
myself on the mercy of you re-
porters."
Barrymore appeared so effervesc-
ing that a reporter asked him if he
were "off women forever"
"WhatP" he exclaimed. Not on
your life. Oo you think I'd give up
after Just a couple of punches?"
Then he went into his philosophy of
what a gorgeous gamble" love is.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Citrus Packers
Bow to wage-Hour
Production Rules

WASHINGTON. Sept. 26. (UP)-
Representatives of Packers and Can
ners Of Citrus Fruits agreed today
TO cooperate with the wage and hour
division in obtaining compliance with
new regulations re-defining the ex-
empt area of production" and pro-
viding certain exemptions for over
time pay under the wage hour law.
Trade association representatives
from California, Texas. Arizona and
Florida, after comforting with Act
ing Administrator Baird Snyder
agreed to assist the division in see
ing that the minimum wage is paid
In the industry and that other pro-
visions are observed.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
To MEET MONDAY

Young Democrats will meet at the
court house at pm. next Monday
TO check up on the progress made
IN the presidential campaign. Betty
harris, secretary, said an impor-
tant program was planned for the
evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Big Fortune. Big:
Heart Are His

the World War and came up thru
the ranks to a captaincy.
For a short time after the war he
returned to Chicago to help direct
Marshall Field & Co. But normal
business held comparatively little
interest for young Field, and help
ing manage his grandfather's es-
tate was huge job in itself.
In the mid 1920s he moved to
New York and by 1885 he had given
up his last active business interest
(aside from score of director
ships)-a partnership in a potent
Chicago banking house he helped
form.
HOLDS MANY
DIRECTORSHIPS
In recent years varied social and
philanthropic interests have occu-
pied much of his attention. He is,
or has been, director of the New
York Philharmonic Society, the Field
Museum of Natural History, the
Saratoga Racing Association, Chica-
go University and the Boy Scouts
of America. This variety hints at
the range of his interests.
His consistently winning horses,
his flower gardens, his charities, and
his marriages have kept Marshall
Field III in the spotlight he has
tried to shun. In 1880 he was di-
Vorced from his first wife. settling
on her $1,000, ,0O0-a- year alimony
and a $3,000,OOO house in New York.
His second marriage, to King Ed
ward WIS goddaughter, was short
ived. The third, and present Mrs.
Field was the former Mrs. Ruth
oruyn Phipps. Since their marriage
n 1886, she has borne Marshall
field two children. bringing the
otal to five, who some day will
iivide one of Americas greatest
ortunes.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Stage. Screen, Radio Besiege Heroes
Who Rescued de Tristan Child; Men
|nHidinq, Turn Down Reward Offer

his companion were not interested
in reward, feeling they had done
only their duty in capturing the
kidnaper. The de Tristans, how
ever, were represented as preparing
to reward them.
Wetsels office on the ONO ranch,
where he and Woods overpowered
Muhlenbroich Sunday morning, said
that many offers, some from as far
away as New York, had been re-
ceived. He did not know where
the lumbermen could be found.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Mwomen? Not Ne. Says Barrymore;
Loves Got Roulette Beat Miles
When II Comes to Gamble, He Ayers

HOLLYWOOD, Sept 26. (UP) -
Love, said John Barrymore, is "such
a gorgeous gamble it makes rou-
lette seem like tick-tack- toe" but
as far as his romance with wife
number four, Elaine Barrie, is con-
cerned it is over.
Atop his private mountain in
Beverly Hills, in a barred Swiss
chatlet, the great profile told that
his brunette, full-lipped wife had
filed two divorce suits-and got
no divorce-so he filed the third
one himself two days ago.
And it's going to stick" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
DOPE PEDDLER SHOT
AVOIDING ARREST

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 26. (UP)-
Paul Madden, chief of the state
division of narcotics enforcement,
reported today that William Arson,
about SO, was shot in the chest and
a leg in Emeryville last night when
he attempted to escape from three
officers who arrested him for SELL
ing marihuana.