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Evening star., 1940-09-07


There is Corunna, sailing along
smoothly toward matrimony, when
along come the British, catching
Capt. Dorman with the second pot
shot And when her boy friend
does not share Corunna's disdain
for Britannia's rule of the waves,
when he refuses to battle man-o-
war with a lightly armed freighter
named the Olive Branch, the lass
VOWS trouble at the first opportunity.
The opportunity arrives simultane-
ously with Capt. Stephen Decatur
of the United States Navy CHEERS,
applause, huzzahs and alarums).
who rescues the Olive Branch and
her crew from the British.
So now Corunna decides to be her
own captain, making Bruce Cabot
her first mate. There being no
movies in 1912, there was no way
for Corunna to know that Bruce
Cabot was villain and a cad, sir,
so perhaps she must not be blamed
too much. Anyhow, she finds her
self in his power before long. with
her beloved Olive Branch turned
into a privateer. And you're crazy
if you think we're going to ruin the
suspense by telling you that the boy
friend arrives in the nick of time
and that love triumphs. We're
going to leave you sitting there
wondering if he really does escape
from that British prison ship, steal
yacht. and win back the Olive
Branch 1n a wild battle in which
hundreds of extras drop like flies,
sometimes even starting to fall be-
fore being hit.
Besides it might not work out
the same way, if you, lass whose
father was captain of a sturdy sail
ing vessel until shot by the British
Evening star., 1940-09-07

in the War of 1912, try it. Your
boy friend might not be Victor
Mature. certainly dependable, hav-
ing been strong and silent hero
since "One Million. BIC. Then,
too, you might not be Louise Platt.
For that matter the Capt. Stephen
Decatur mentioned above is not the
Capt. Stephen Decatur you have
heard of in the history books, or
any one else, for. the film bears the
fimiliar warning that any resem-
blence of its characters to people is
strange coincidence.
~
1t is no coincidence, of course, that
variety Hall-1910" resembles the
ghost of vaudeville. brought back to
walk the Capitol stage. There S
Fritze Scheff, star of another day,
the gay blades favorite singer, long
before Alice Faye. And there are
the Primrose -Four, who've known
more vaudeville theaters than there
are seats in the Capitol; Joe E. How
ard. the Watson Sisters, Emma
Francis. Marshall Montgomery, Ed
die Horan, all famed on the old two
a-day routes.
It's a nostalgia moment, even If
your memory doesn't 60 back far
enough for all of them. when these
folk get together for "a night at
Tony Pastors" to do their old rou-
tines, go into their old dances, tell
their old jokes. And it reaches a
nostalgia climax with FRITZ Scheff
again singing kiss Me Again" Or
ganist Art Brown even goes back a
few years, embellishing his organ
logue and community sing with
some slides the youngsters never saw
before. HIM
Evening star., 1940-09-07

Kaye says, $50 you want to lead a
band" and invites would-be baton
swingers up to make his music swing
and sway the amateur way. 1t
might make you realize that that
fellow waving the stick does, after
all, have something to do with the
way the music sounds, but it's a
lot of fun, both for the participants
and the onlookers. Besides, you
might win a prize-if a participant,
and not an onlooker, that is.
The Kaye music, to give Sammy
credit, is also fine before he turns
the conducting of it over to the
local folk. 1t still swings and sways
with tilt in its lilt. And every
now and then it fades into the
background to let talented speciality
performers take the center of the
stage. One of these is Chris Cross,
an especially able ventriloquist;
three of these are the Nonchalants,
the best of the athletic slapstick
artists, and three more are the
Three Debs, nimble tap dancers.
Evening star., 1940-09-07
ILove You Again
At Columbia

T Love You Again." that deftly
turned piece of merriment which
restores every ones faith in Myrna
10y, william Powell and Director
w. S. Van Dyke II, is back on F
street again. 1t is the tenant, this
time, of the Columbia, which can
count itself singularly fortunate
theater.
Most of the fun of 81 Love You
Again is provided by Powell, who
has the time of his artistic life as
a confidence man who wakes out
of nine years of amnesia to dis
cover that he has been unspeakably
dull and moralistic. Even more OF
a shock is his discovery that he is
married to Miss 10y, who is about
to divorce him on grounds of utter
boredom.
It's sonsthing 10 ~. ). @.
Evening star., 1940-09-07
Nets New Picture
Muscular Tale

Before it settles down into con-
ventional triangle tale, They Drive
by Night" is a snappish, wise-crack-
ing, muscular story of truck drivers
and their danes. Those who would
like to learn about conditions and
personal affairs in that industry
will find the picture at the Metro
politan. In it, they will find such
of Warmers tougher people as Ann
Sheridan, George Raft, Humphrey
Bogart and the up-and-coming Ida
Lupino. Some of the conversation
they exchange is on the racy side,
but, of course, it's rough world in
which they live. j. c.
Evening star., 1940-09-07

side the Warner Theater in Holly
wood, looks at some photographs of
John Garfield and screams with
laughter He doesn't photograph
very we'll, does hep" gasps Olivia.
Hes really better looking than
that" John Carroll bounces a
ping-pong ball outside Schwab's
Drugstore to the amusement of sew
eral small boys. But he looks sheep
ish and walks away at the sight of
this reporter. John, by the way, Is
excellent as the phoney count in
Hired Wife" the picture for which
he made Universal buy him COM
plete wardrobe. AS for Rosalind
Russell, she gets better with each
picture. She's grand in this one
And wait til you hear Robert
Benchley snore. He's terrific!
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1940-09-07

costume is exceedingly strange
baggy blue slackS, blue blouse and
straw bonnet that completely hides
her profile in the same way that
the blinkers on horse completely
cover its eyes. OF course, far from
hiding Greta, this weird getup draws
all the stares. Maybe that's what
she wanted.
Pretty little Helen Gilbert supplies
the missing link to my query, What
has happened to you these past
months?"
There just hasn't been a suitable
picture for me cher last was with
Robert Young in "Florian'D. But
I've been practicing hard on my
cello because the studio has promised
me a special musical picture, titled
The Girl With a Cello"
This will be the first time Helen
plays the instrument for screen
audiences. If you remember, she
played the cello in the Metro Or
chestra before her discovery by
Woody Van Dyke. She gets Melvyn
Douglas and Frank Hogan in the
new picture.
Olivia de Havilland pauses out
Evening star., 1940-09-07
Boom Town
looms Along
At Palace
Star.Studded Tale
Goes All Out
For Action
sople with instruments for meas

People with instruments for meas
uring the excitement in motion pic
lures probably will get the seasons
Boom Town" at the Palace. This
four-Star CLARK Gable, Spencer
Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy La
marD boisterous account of life
among the oil wild-catters is built
around one of those teeming, rest
less stories that moves wildly all over
the map. Before it is through, it
covers everything from barroom
brawls to the advantage of having
the love of good woman, and its
correlative, the disadvantage of get
ting into the clutches of a bad one
. For all its breath taking speed,
which is the best quality of Boom
Town. its starry-faced cast never
has any trouble keeping up with
it. They obviously are people hav-
ing fine time whether the i'm
mediate chore is slugging the day
lights out of each other, staging a
duel of wits for high stakes, making
love or crltlclZlng the moral stand
ards of certain of the people in
volved.
What it all means, of course, is
that the authors of the story were
out to create nothing more subtle
than vehicle ideally suited to the
abilities of each of the principal
players. Gable is just Gable, a fell
low alternating between a laugh
and leer; Tracy is the laconic,
soft-spoken, acid-tongued realist:
Miss Colbert, a quick -witted girl
who can give the Colbert lilt to
a comedy line, and Miss Lamar
the kind of siren that YOU don't
find on fire engines.
1t is an elaborately produced
thing, directed with sure touch
by Jack Conway, and eminently
capable of enchanting every one
who likes boisterous action. j. C.
Evening star., 1940-09-07

which sketches
Americas job of
defending this
precious bit of
engineering.
In its unin-
spired account
of their careers,
Universal clearly
does not want
any one to get
the notion the
Daltons W er e
bad boys. True,
1t comedies they
were hot-headed
and high spirit
e6 hI1t thau
Evening star., 1940-09-07

He S a Y S they
usually are good
dancers. George
played baseball
and football at
Yale. And Fred
Astaire was a
r a b i d baseball
enthusiast as a
kid.
Greta Garbo at
a Beverly Hills
out = of = tow n
n e W S p a p e r
S t a n d, turning
over the pages
of a S W e d i S h
Hnr
Evening star., 1940-09-07

Michael Curtiz, the director who
speaks English backwards, has one
of the finest libraries of classics,
biographies and world histories in
Hollywood-and has read every sin
gle volume.
Evening star., 1940-09-07
He Stayed for Breakfast
Joshes Communism
Loretta Young and Melvyn Douglas
Star in Gay Farce at the Earle;
Sammy Kaye Band on Stage
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Many the other s the world become dangerous
to be but Communism still joke itself
abo laugh Now Loretta Young Mn Douglas other glib
wicism entitled He Stayed Breakfast"
Evening star., 1940-09-07
COrunna Believes a Cad
In Captain Caution
But Right Man Wins in Capitol Film;
FRITZ Scheff, Other Old.timers
On Nostalgia Stage Bill

If strong-wled girl whose father was the captain
British Of
1872 don't take the advice of the first scoundre who steps and
spears you with don't have take word for it, just
happens Captain
Capitol version of
Evening star., 1940-09-07

JENE'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT. 1907 ID.
Sales St., opposite Mayflower Hotel. Spe-
Sterling 9S9S.
DEAUvILLE FOOD SHOP, 1929 Conn. Ave.
Delicious soft-shell crabs, excellent sea food
dinners, fancy drinks Air conditioned.
Open am. to 3 am. Home atmosphere
SHOREHAM TERRACE Cenn. at Calvert.
Dining and dancing. Two shows, $50 and
IL 30. Dinner Saturday, 1928, including
cover. Supper cover 81, plus tax. AID O70O
THE NIGHTINGALE, Richmond Hgwy..
314 Mi south Of Alex. Dancing $50 to l
nightly including Sunday. Sweet swing by
Radd RaffePs Orchestra. Temple 464O.
HAY-ADAMS HOUSE-OverIookinE white
House at 18th and H SITS. Dining in an
atmosphere of charm dignity and gen.
tility. Luncheon. S5c; dinner from S1.25
Organ music nightly during dinner.
RAINBOW ROOM, Hamilton Hotel. I4th
at X. Cocktail and dinner dancing. So:
supper dancing to Milt Davis Orchestra.
10-1. Min. Saturday only 81. DI. 1850.
MADRILLON RESTAURANT, washington
Building, 18th and New York Ave. The
favorite place to dine, the popular place
to dance.
MARYLAND CLUB GARDENS, on Marl-
boro Pike. Featuring Nadine and her coed
band. De luxe dinner, S1.25. Dancing
until 2 O'Clock. Phone Hillside 060o.
LOG TAVERN INN, Richmond HWY, -31z
miles south Alexandria. Dancing nightly
and Sun. to rhythm of Tempo. Inc, Dar-
denella a. keyboard. Refined patrons.
Evening star., 1940-09-07
Kay Francis Buggy Ride
High Lights Daltons' Film
Melodrama,at Keiths Is Loud Affair
With Expensive, Energetic Cast;
March of Time Is Excellent
BY JAY CARMODY.

Some things when the Dalons Rode" inud
ing the noest battle heard but the rangest of the
the sight of Francis driving Miss
Francis hardest
but that she perhaps the thing
mind
that's not quite true, for March
Times "Gateways to Panama" Ill, =, ~, ~,
Evening star., 1940-09-07
George Murphy Reduces
For Judy Garland Film
That's While Playing Her Lover,
But He Eats When Role Changes
And He's Cast as Her Father
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.


In town Robert Taylor and talk of home T don't want
back Robert "The last time Nebraska
felt old Bob is now 2s1 Every knew married
Murphy Metro street His hair white
playing her father.
Evening star., 1940-09-07

I Gail eau all I WdIII. GtUTgt has
an interesting theory about athletes.
Evening star., 1940-09-07

e'S "GateWays to Panama" IS a
of highly dramatic journalism
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
Easter Concert

You are invited to spend Easter
Sunday evening, March "a, 1880
p. M, at the First Presbyterian
Church, where the young people
will present an Easter Chorus con-
cert, featuring a Young Peoples
Choir, Primary Choir, Girls and
Boys Choirs, and an A Cappella
Choir
Conductor Margaret Weyer Kip
per, assisted by E. Lyle McMullen,
pianist, and guest conductor; Mar
garet Mclean Williams, pianist;
Ethel Forbes Harding, organist;
Mary Louise McNeill, harpist; Ann
Solberg, French horn; Maxine
Boyker Fosnough, contralto; Mrs.
Douglas Martin and Clare Stew
art, sopranos; Warren West, ten
or; Hadyn Morgan, bass.
This concert of sacred music
will include selections from Han
del, Brahms, and Tschaikowsky,
and the joyous uplifting voices of
these young choirs will be an in
spring climax to this Easter sea-
son.
You are welcome. Comet Adj
mission free.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
The Last Night
BY DORIS JONES

Come, journey with me to the
beautiful garden of Gethsemane.
Let us witness the agony of our
Lord and share with him His suf-
fering. 1t is such a lonesome spot.
Just the place where one would be
alone to commune with God. What
an attractive spot for later day
Christians to share their Savior's
passion.
Perhaps the angels shared with
Him that lonely spot, and if they
did they also shared His agony.
How He pleaded with His Father.
Tomorrow He must suffer cruciH
fixion. AS though it is not en-
ough to suffer one death, He gave
His Life there in the garden while
His beloved disciples slept; on to-
morrow He would die again on the
cross, while the heavens closed it's
eyes on the most pitiful scene ever
witnessed by man. Emerging from
His prayer of agony, He was i'm
pressed by the betrayal kiss of
His Own loved one. That kiss led
Him to the cross.
And the cross gave to Him
crown.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
EDITORIAL
New Deal Democrats
Have Failed The Negro

It reported from authentic that the trend OF
the Negro voters back to the Republican party which they
deserted in 1882 and 1886 for the New Deal.
The most significant indication that Negroes are dissat-
isfied with the New the statement made by Walter
White Secretary National Association for the Ad-
of Coored people, when he sad speaking OF the
passage of AntLynchng Bill "a ibuster can be brok-
en- by the back home If Southern Senators want TO
play politics with this BILL all right. We can play politics.
too The New Deal and Democratic Party will be fighting
for their lives in election year. The Negro voters in the east
ern and middle western hold the Negroes
will answer buster by turning from the party OF the I'LL
buster"
The Democratic administration has not only failed to
pass the Anynchng Bill but has conducted successful
fbusters keep from coming to vote in the Senate
President Roosevelt has put the Bill his must
program or spoken openly for the
John Nance consistently opposed the
No credit rating bureau will recommend a WPA worker
for credit regardless his standing before losing his job
Labor passed under the New Deal seem to be
used as license for the Labor Unions to get
troll and replace Negroes who have been employed
for years.
The 81 per rule for collective bargaining provided
in the Wagner Labor Law which has forced closed shop
agreements with employers responsible for the whole
sale replacement of Negroes worthwhile jobs railroads.
in cotton industries, building trades, hotels etc.
the Government jobs that held by Negroes in
Washington other fast slipping
to other workers.
The Negro no longer satisfied with the Gov
Negroes strategic positions travel the country and
picture Utopias to the working classes.
What Negro Americans need really steady
jobs with decent pay these fail them practically every
thing else fails The Negro resentng acceptance of tenn
porary relief for unemployment.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
A.P. Randolph
Is Honored

Continued from Page One)
national Brotherhood of Shoe
Workers and Local 1888 of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America.
Other organizations to be repre-
scented include the National Com
mittee to Aid Agricultural Work
ers, the National Council of Moth
ers and Babies, the Playground
Departmental the District of Col
umbia, the Eastland Gardens, the
Southwest and Rock Creek Civic
Associations, the Robert T. Free
man Dental Society, the Medico-
Chirurgical Society of the District
of Colubia, the Plymouth Congre-
gational Church, the Interndenom-
national Ministers Alliance, the
Washington Youth Federation and
the Tuesday Evening Club.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
No Support For
NLRB --NAACP

Continued from Page One)
than to hamper labor organization
and to give employers additional
legalistic excuses for refusing to
bargain fairly and fully.
1.-THE amendments also would
abolish the present board and SUBJ
stitute less effective machinery.
In view of the success of the pre-
sent board in settling more than
900 of its cases without any for
NAL action, and it's phenomenal
record of only two reversals in "a
cases in the United States Sup
RENE Court, there is no justifica-
ton for the present effort to abo-
lish the Board of to destroy its
effectiveness.
1--WE are forced to believe that
much of the support for the
amendments proposed in H. r..
1913 grows out of dissatisfaction
with the success of the Board in
facilitating labor organization and
not out of any sincere belief that
it has failed to promote industrial
peace through fair and effective
bargaining.
However, our objection to the
proposed amendments does not
mean that we believe the present
Act to be perfect.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
CLIO In Drive For
Negro Labor
CONTINUED from Page one)

Continued from Page One)
More than ever, Cayton said, the
new CLIO organizational drive will
come as boon to the Negro peo-
pie. He saw Negroes as the "keen-
est sufferers" from the war pre-
parations which have resulted in
higher living costs and lower re-
lief expenditures.
Thousands of Negros in Cali
fornia have been deprived of a
livelihood because of President
Roosevelt's budget CUTS" he de-
clared, while the increased indus
trial activity which was supposed
to follow the so-called war boom
has failed to materialize. In addi-
ton, living costs have been in
creasing by leaps and bounds, and
unless strong unions are able to
fight for and win increased wages
to equalize the rise in living costs,
thousands of Negro families will
have to go without the necessaries
of life"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
US. Supreme Court Decision Prevents
Execution of Alabama Torture Victim

Washington, d. c. - Without
hearinng oral arguments, the Uni
ted states Supreme Court, on Mon
day, March IL, reversed an Alaba-
ma Supreme Court decision which
had affirmed the conviction and
death sentence of Dave CAVITY, &C.
year-old Negro youth accused of
numbering white nurse in Mont
gomery, Alabama, March 10, 1888.
Basing its order on the now fa-
nous Lincoln Day decision handed
down last February IL in the Flo
rida torture case, the high court
for the second time within a month
specifically denied the validity of
confessions obtained through tor
ture. The Court thus again reaf-
firmed the fourteenth amendment
to the Constitution, which guar
antees to every citizen accused of
crime, the right of fair trial.
CAVITY was sentenced to die July
25, 1888, but the sentence was
stayed pending an appeal. On June
%, 1889, the Supreme Court of
Alabama affirmed the conviction
and death sentence, later denying
q ~ y,ciy,nr Of the aoea
The murder charge against Can
ty grew out of the attack upon
Eunice and Lillian Ward, two white
nurses in Montgomery during
March, 1888. AS a result of the
attack Lillian Ward died. The Gov
ernor of Alabama offered a thou
sand-dollar reward for the killer.
Officials went through the Negro
section of Montgomery ANNOUNCE
ing the reward offer, and arrested
many Negro citizens.
A Negro fortune teller "remem-
bered," on being told by a police
man of the $1,000 reward that
Dave CAVITY had told her that "he
was in trouble" and fled the city
to Mobile, Alabama, sent police
officers after the youth. After
administering a severe beating the
officers brought Canty back to
Montgomery, continued to torture
him, and placed him in the I'M
foreground dungeon of Kilby pri-
son.
Held Without Charge
Here the prisoner remained for
a week without having any charge
preferred against him. Despite the
torture, CAVITY refused to admit
any connection with the crime.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
JUST TO
REMIND YOU
BY L. 1. Robinson

The Bible is still the best seller
in Germany. Last year 100000
more Bibles were sold in Germany
than Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Democrats tell you the country
under the New Deal progressed
further in five years than under
the COP in so years. Sometimes
in someways some Democrats do
hit the truth. We confess our
frailties. During all its existence
the Republican party has never got
around to numbering little pigs,
blowing under cotton, burning the
wheat, oats and corn and trying
to teach sows birth control, label
ling potatoes (thanks to nix by
the Supreme Court, winking at
sit-down strikes, official approval
of waste. Well, you New Dealers
have the Republicans behind the
eight ball, while you laugh in
ghoulish glee. Laugh on, you
naughty devils.
Anyway, you can't name the 4th
of July without asking F.D.R. and
you have to take a back seat for
your Brain Trusters. How do YOU
like that?
1t is whispered about that the
Donkey which has borne the DEM
ocrats faithfully for many years,
wants a New Deal also. You know
what he said to Balaam?
Do you know that Andrew Mel
Ion, one of the richest Republicans,
proposed that tax exemption on
Federal, State and Municipal
bonds be abolished, that only rich
people can buy these bonds and
thus escape taxation, that F.D.R.
and the rest of the Democrats will
not like anything constructive Of
fered by Republican, even if it is
good.
My, how the Democrats squawk-
ed when the Republicans thrust a
Billion Dollar Congress on the
Country. Now the Democrats pass
out ID Million dollars and nobody
utters a word-dummies
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-03-22
We Print The News

Editor of the Northwest Enterprise
Dear Sir: hn
I am writing you concerning the
March Is issue of the Northwest
Enterprise.
am proud of the fact that you
have, as an editor of a paper read
and respected by the citizens of
the Northwest, adopted a method
of putting before the public the
fight of the Negro in the North
west; namely, his affiliation with
the various trade unions as well as
the civic and political enterprises
of this city.
commend you on the editorial,
What Are We Mice or Menu. I
am sure that much good will be
realized from such an honest out
spoken opinion. I also acknowl-
edge tribute to Hutchin r. Hut
chens for the article exposing the
California C.C.C. Jim Grow camps.
I think it is the duty of every Sc
attic Negro citizen to see that the
young people are given fair and
unprecedented representation of
training in the CCC camps.
Surely it is not necessary that
our youths after having been rear
ed and schools in this great North
west, should be shipped to some
remote segregated CCC camp.
for one, denounce it as being
very un-American and that every
Seattle Negro should squawk loud
and long.
Our only hope and boast for the
future lies in the proper guidance
of our youth.
Thank you,
! Jos. Manning
610 21st, City