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Evening star., 1940-02-21
Citizens Forum 10 Study
Reorganization Plans

Various District reorganization
plans will be studied for the Citi-
zens' Forum OF Columbia Heights by
. special committee Of three, with
one Of their number to represent
the forum at the forthcoming hear
ings, 1t was decided at q meeting
last night. The forum already has
gone on record insisting that any
reorganization Of the District gov
ernment include . provision for
suffrage.
Lester T. Walter, vice president Of
the forum and principal of the
Powell Junior High School, was rec
commended by the group to fill the
position Of principal Of the new
Calvin Coolidge Senior High School.
Mrs. G. J. Fernald, chairman of the
Committee on Education, declared
that Mr.. Walters record and educa-
tional background make him an able
candidate.
E. c. Macdonald. representing the
Kalorana Citizens Association,
urged the forum to protest the
amount Of parking space reserved
for the Italian Embassy as unneces-
sary. The suggestion was turned
over to the Committee on Streets
and Traffic for study and report.
A sound film entitled "You Can't
Get Away With It," explaining the
activities and organization of the
Evening star., 1940-02-21
Mrs. Morrill, to Speuk

Mrs. Frank GillinghAm Morrill,
will present reading on Job. ORA
matte Poem Of the Bible" at 8
O'Clock tonight In Universalist Ma
ttonal Memorial Church. Mrs. Nor
rin has been associated with the
Shakespeare Memorial Theater In
England and with George Bernard
Shaw.
An organ program will precede
the reading, with H. Jerome Gra-
ham playing at 7:45 pm.
Evening star., 1940-02-21
American on Commission
To Probe Red Bombinos
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey The AsSoctated preSs.
GENEVA, Feb. 21.-Prof. william
Thomas Of Charleston, w. Va, to-
day was named as the American
member Of q neutral commission Of
five men which Will leave shortly
to investigate air bcmbardments Of
civilian populations in Finland.
Prof. Thomas has been studying
at the Geneva Institute of Higher
International Studies. The other
commission members are Swiss.
Evening star., 1940-02-21

Federal Bureau Of Investigation,
was shown. w. A. Murphy Of the.
r. B. I. spoke briefly and answered
the questions Of the members.
Evening star., 1940-02-21

Hand signals cost nothing. Use
them freely.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Information Please
On Trans.Lux Bill

Information Please" the screen
version of that literate radio pro-
gram, takes the spotlight again this
week at the Trans-Lux Theater
This one is No. S in the series, with
the regular question facers, F. P. A.,
Oscar Levant and John Herman,
being joined by Arthur Christopher
Morley in the attempt to answer
Clifton Fadiman's poserS. Other
short features on the bill are "Fly-
ing Targets" sports reel devoted to
game birds of Virginia; Getting
Your Moneys WORTH" which is
about the tricks of the used car
business, and Sea Scouts" the Dis
ney cartoon.
Sea travel is much in the news
this week, the cameras being puz-
zled as they inspect the Maure-
tania's departure and the Queen
Mary's preparations to leave New
York; the British blockade stopping
the Manhattan, the trans Atlantic
clippers skipping Bermuda. The war
is reviewed by Raymond Gram
Swing, an apartment house is blast
ed in Washington, the New York
Worlds Fair prepares for an early
opening, daffodils bloom, planes for
the allied are towed, not flown,
across the Canadian border. There
are fashions, too, and some more
ski championships for those not
weary of ski championships.
H. M
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Roxyettes Stars
Of Stage Show
/ At the Earle

The weeks stage show at the
Earle finds the Roxyettes, who are
the ideal young ladies for the task,
doing much to provide the satisfy
ing moments of the presentation
They appear first with bustles and
parasols. make pretty pictures again
a bit later when placed about the
stage and in boxes for the odd
Fashioned Girl" number with Lester
Cole, and climax the show as beaute-
GUS farmers daughters in the Hay
Ride" finale, which features a big
hay wagon and horses prop"
Mr.. Cole and his six singing girl
friends also are pleasing. Their
principal offerings are treatment
of "Oh, Johnny, Etc" which differs
somewhat from that favored by Mr.
fuckers Bonnie Baker and a Victor
Herbert medley.
Park and Clifford and the Three
Diamond Brothers are the other
acts. The former pair open with
burlesque of an acrobatic turn OF
the COS or thereabouts and then
present a fluent gymnastic exhibi-
ton in which one of the performers
gives demonstration of leg muscle
control which is of the amazing sort.
The Diamond brothers rely IN un-
impressive song-and-dance tries,
falls and decrepit gag material and
contribute few laughs.
The orchestra marks Easter with
an overture arranged by Freddie
Clark, which comprises Schubert's
ave Maria with vocal by Lester
Cole; Angel Chorus" from Gounod' s
Faust" and the intermezzo from
Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana'
c. A. M.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

NationaI-"Lady in Waiting" new
comedy starring Gladys George:
2:30 pm.
Keith's - "Pinocchio," the new
full-length Disney: 8:15, 10, 11:35
am, lis, ESQ, 4:25. 6:15, and
9:45 pm.
Capitol-"The Bluebird," Shirley
Temple in the Maeterlinck fantasy:
10:45 am, 1:35, 4:30, 7:2O and
1905 pm. Stage shows: 1885, $3.50,
6:25 and 9:15 pm.
Earle - Virginia City," Enrol
Flynn rides again: 10 am, 1880,
$50, $50 and 9:45 pm. Stage
shows: 1905. 3, 6 and pm.
Metropolitan "Chump at Ok
ford" two, in fact, namely Laurel
and Hardy: 11:55 am, 1:55, 1856,
5:55, 7:55 and 9:55 pm.
Columbia-"Gone With the Wind"
with Vivien Leigh and Clark Ga
BILE: 10 am, 2:45 and 8 pm.
Palace - Northwest Passage"
Spencer Tracy meets adventure In
technicolor; l0:45 am, Las, 4:l0,
6:55 and 9:40 pm.
Belasco-"Birth Of Nation" the
silver Jubilee showing: li:i0 am.
i:i5. $40, s:25. 7;30 and a35 pm.
Littie-"0ood-by, Mr. Chips"; II
am, l.i0. 3;ib. b;25. 7:30, e;<o pm.
Tvans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Laurel>Hardy
Duo at Met
In Comedy
'Chunp at Oxford
Latest Offering
To Their Fans
By CHRIS MATHIsEN.

Those who find the studies in
fantastic Illustration of Laurel and
Hardy refreshing tonic may obtain
their cure for spring fever this week
at the Metropolitan Theater, where
the latest session Of the teams time
tested hokum is being offered under
the title, "A Chump at Oxford"
Devotees of the pair will have a
hilarious time. for the film is good
Laurel and Hardy, but cinema
patrons who maintain a neutral at
titude will wish. after the picture
has been unwound, that the
"chumps" were permitted to reach
oxford earlier in the footage, for
not until they do is there much ap-
peal for non-addicts. Many minutes
are consumed while the fat man and
his comrade of pathetic countenance
run through series of stock-model
slapstick antics as temporary butler
and maid, respectively. This provides
only a few morsels for unconverted
fun seekers-Laurel, in wig and
maids garb, cheming gum as he
hands guests tid-bits from a tray,
Hardy summoning the diners to the
table, Laurel, inebriated, tossing
lettuce leaves on the plates.
The boys are discharged, of course,
and become street cleaners, which
makes possible their unwilling as
sistance in the capture of a bank
robber and their drawing of Ap Ok
ford education as reward. A student
reception committee inducts the new
scholars into the lockwood maze, and
the doings there, including the
familiar business of ghost" hands
reaching from behind to perplex
doing men, are strictly for Laurel
and Hardy fans. Finally, however
come the lolling luxury scenes
when pranksters usher them into the
deans residence, informing them it
constitutes their quarters. There is
some genuinely amusing nonsense
here.
Moving with the briskness of "T
r." himself, short subject in color
presents the story of Theodore
Roosevelt's career in manner which
holds interest throughout. A Buster
Keaton comedy on the bill would
prove amusing if one just thought
of something funny, and the same
can be said for Max Fleischer Stone
Age cartoon.
Evening star., 1940-03-23

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can be but one first" Except, per-
haps, in the case of the chicken and
the egg.
But if "Pinocchio" comes along
now after we all know what Mr.. Dis
ney can do in this field and thus
lacks the element of pleasantly ex-
citing surprise that he could turn
from short cartoons to full-length
features with such outstanding sue
cess, it is small matter. "Pinocchio"
Is Disney at his merriest as to the
story he is telling and at his most
skillful as to his manner of the tell
ing. And Disney, even when notch
below his merriest and most skillful,
can spin a fairy tale to make this
world seem much less dreary place.
You can take the kiddies to
"Pinocchio," only hoping, perhaps,
that the moral of Mr.. Disney's fan
tasy will make an impression, but
certain that they will have spank
ing good time and that you will en-
JOY it fully as much as they. You
also may be sure that there is Moth
ing in "Pinocchio" to frighten the
children out of their wits, as some
are reported to have been frightened
out of their wits by the witch OF
Snow White" The climactic Sc
quenceS, when Pinocchio and COM
pany are being chased about a wildly
tossing Disney ocean by Monstro the
Whale, are too exciting and fast and
furious even to hint of horror.
The characters Disney has as
sembled to bring to the screen the
story of the wood carver's little
puppet who came to life are as en-
gaging a lot as ever he conjured out
of his paint-pots. Already there is
talk of a longer cinema life for one
of them, Jimmy Cricket. Jimmy 1t
is who becomes Pinocchio's con-
science when the Blue Fairy brings
the puppet to life and tells him he
can be a real boy when he learns to
be good and brave and honest.
The part about being good gives
Jimmy Cricket the very daisy of a
time as he tries to keep Pinocchio
out of trouble For the first person
Pinocchio comes across when he
steps out into the world is j. Worth
ington Foulfellow, an oily-tongued
fox in actors clothing, who lures this
puppet which needs no strings to a
career on the stage. The career Is
short lived, but Pinocchio's troubles
are not.
Before long he finds himself bound
for Pleasure Island" a spot where
little boys are allowed to eat too
much, to smoke cigars, to break up
furniture, then are shipped to the
salt mines as donkeys, after they
have both figuratively and literally
made jackasses Of themselves.
Which is another job for Jimmy
Cricket. And then there is word that
Geppetto, the wood carver; Figaro.
the cat, and Cleo, the goldfish, are
prisoners inside of Monstro the
Whale.
So finally when the Blue Fairy de-
cides Pinocchio is valiant and good
you will agree that he has seen
enough Of trouble, has met it with
Evening star., 1940-03-23

a will to any fate, and fully deserves
the reward of life (By this point
you will be so much in the Disney
mood you will not even doubt that is
a reward0 Happier on this latter
occasion than you ever will be, how
ever, is Figaro. who leaps into the
goldfish bowl to plant a luscious kiss
on Cleo's tempting lips.
These, by the way, are two Of Mr..
Disney's little people you will take to
your hearts and love, honor and
cherish. Figaro is one of Disney's
great comedy characters, a knowing
fellow, made bitter by many things
by being told every evening to kiss
Cleo good night through the glass of
her home, for instance. or by being
forced to get up and open the window
because Geppetto forgot it before he
climbed into bed And Cleo the coy,
Cleo the goldfish with sex-appeal, is
going to capture more hearts than
ever did any new glamour girl flash
ing across the Hollywood heavens.
Don't think we're not jealous of
Figaro.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Tracy's Film
At Palace
Drama Is Stirring
In Northwest
Passage

From Book One of Kenneth
Roberts stirring work of historical
fiction has come vivid screen epic
of adventure in Northwest Passage, /"
now staying on at Loew's Palace for
a second week. With Spencer Tracy's
portrait of Maj. Rogers lending it
color of one sort, the technicolor
cameras lending it splashing color of
the visual kind. Northwest Passage"
is dramatic tale of continuous
action. It is always on the move.
Laurence Stallings and Talbot
Jennings, In adapting the story to
the screen for Director King vidor,
have let the vigorous doings of
Rogers Rangers speak for them
selves without attempting to rewrite
history into more dramatic terms.
This is just as we'll, for the chase of
the cruel Abenaki Indians to their
destruction by Maj. Rogers and his
200 men is something which has
enough drama in itself without being
pointed up for cinematic purposes.
Through it all Mr.. Tracy is the
guiding force, the living entity of the
rigorous drama. His portrait of Maj
Rogers is another of those which
mark him as one of Hollywood S
major assets. He can be the heart
less Maj. Rogers who drives his men
on a forced march with apparent
ruthlessness, still underlying can
Sh0w ir, d0zonS of move tho aeeao{;
ally kindly man who is not heart
less. not ruthless of his own will.
There are other people who bring
the exciting and vivid tale to life
on the screen. among them Robert
Young and Walter Brennan. The
color photography heightens even
more the drama of Northwest Pas
sage" and makes it's battle scenes the
more fierce. H. M.
Evening star., 1940-03-23


or the mustache?" asked Ann.
Both" said Keighley. II didn't
notice the mustache," replied Ann
dreamy t. . This reminds me, Mrs.
Gary Cooper was recently on the
set Of Northwest Mounted Police"
watching Gary emoting with Made
leine Carroll. Mr.. Cooper didn't
seem to mind it a bit, but Made
leine blew" her lines-until Mrs.
Cooper left the set.
Mickey Rooney grins at his grim
ming likeness on national weekly
news-magazine and says, Gee, but
I needed shave!" He is so excited
over the publicity that he puts his
arm around the waist of this writer
and tries to lift her off the ground.
Q'm still trying to recover my
equilibrium) . On the set next
door, Lana Turner is being fitted
into an all-revealing dress, and
seems apprehensive of something.
She explains, Il have to do a dance
with George Murphy, and it's ter
rible-me. not the dance" I wait
to see her do it. Neither the dance
nor Aana-is terrible. But at the
conclusion, Lana makes a terrific
grimace into the camera-and has
to do the number again.
George Brent returned from Homo
lulu full of enthusiasm for the
islands and tells me, I'm going to
retire in two and half years, buy
house in Honolulu and live there
for the rest of my life" Lew Ayres
is the latest actor to say he is going
to vacation in South America.
seem to have heard this speech from
almost everyone in Hollywood, but
very few of them actually take the
trip. Exceptions are Tyrone Power
and Clark Gable Anyway, Enrol
Flynn is also among those currently
wanting to take flying trip to South
America. He wants to go alone. But
Mrs. Flynn says that Enrol can't 20
without her. Looks like Enrol will
give up the trip.
This should be good! Both Clark
Gable and Spencer Tracy appear in
full-length union suits in Boom
TOWN." Spotted at Palm
Springs-William Powell, Artie Shaw
and Ronald Reagan playing shuttle
board, the while their brides look on
from the sidelines. Every time I
pass Deanna Durbin's house in the
evening see Vaughn Paul's car in
front of it.
Binnie Barnes has taken Mike
Frankovitch to a nose -straightener.
Fritz Field has worked u con-
secutive weeks and made 10 pictures.
I think this is Hollywood record.
Field is a free lancer, and tells me
that The reason for his continual en-
ployment is that each studio wants
him for different type of part. "At
Fox" says Field, TN wanted for
dumb roles. At Paramount, they see
me only as butler. Universal uses
me as an excitable Frenchman. At
Metro I get dramatic parts" {.
Robert Taylor and Barbara STAN
wyck soon will appear on the Screen
Guild radio program. It will be their
first acting appearance together
since their marriage. Their sketch
is titled "Allergic to Love-"
(Rsleased By the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Wind Blows Again
Down F Street

The perturbation of Margaret
Mitchell's big book, Gone With the
Wind" now is being shown at Loew's
Columbia Theater on the same basis
as that which obtained during its
extended stay at the Palace-two
daytime performances with unre-
served seats and one reserved-seat
performance each day. The film
runs 3 hours and As minutes.
This information should be of in
terest to those who have not seen
"the big one" and the others who
are ready for a second or third
look. If any one in the former
classification avoids the Columbia
he will be in danger of being set
apart from normal, healthy people
and branded just plain ornery. The
Academy of Motion Picture Art and
Sciences withheld from the produc-
ton only enough of its coveted "Os-
cars" to forestall mutterings to the
effect Producer Selznick must have
bought out the organization, and
that should serve as the ultimate
imprimatur. G. A. M.
Evening star., 1940-03-23

and her chestnut hair glistening
prettily in technicolor, discovers
that home Is where the happiness
is after all. The account Of her
discovering this after many strange
wanderings In a handsomely pastel
tinted dream is, we should say, for
the young, just the young, and not
the young in heart. For, young in
heart though you may be, 1t is
possible. yea even probable, that
you will find the Maeterlinck tale
making you believe you are the
towns leading cynic.
Children's story though 1t is,
there are some facets OF 'The Blue
bird" however, which should prove
of interest to those who escort the
kiddies. For one thing, little Miss
Temples Mytyl calls upon her for
a forsaking Of that saccharine
mood one has had every right to
believe was eternal, in favor of
more understandable emotions. As
matter Of fact Mytyl is a nasty
little snippet who ought to have
her ears boxed on several occasions.
1t is fun to find Miss Temple in
this guise, not because we ever
wanted to box Shirley's ears, but
because it is further proof of her
uncanny ability as an actress.
"The Bluebird" also proves inter-
esting by being considerably superior
to ''T'he Wizard of or" as an example
of cinema fantasy with human
actors, this being, by the way, the
opinion of one who thought "The
Wizard of OF" not one of the best
pictures Of 1899. THE Bluebird"
really has charm about it, as Mytyl
journeys with Miss Temples ac-
customed assurances and aplomb
through the land of the past and
the land of the future, accompanied
by young Johnnie Russell's forth
right Tyltyl. Eddie Collins doglike
Tylo, the bulldog, and Gale Sender
gaard's catlike Tylette, the cat.
The kiddies will have great fun
with Shirley in this one, even if it
does have spectacular forest fire
sequence as terrifying as anything
ever dished up for the children. We
are sure that any child you have not
kept hidden in the attic will have
faith in Shirley even as flaming
trees miss her by inches; that any
child will relax in the knowledge that
the Temple can win through against
any odds, from 8-to-5 to 100-to-1.
In Jimmy Fidler's Hollywood
Parade" on the Capitol stage 1t is
Peter Lind Hayes who corresponds
most closely to the elephants in the
circus parade. We do not mean that
Mr.. Hayes looks like an elephant or
anything like that, or even that he
has long memory. but he is the lad
in this parade who stops the show.
1t is vaudeville and night club ex-
perience. quite evidently, which has
taught Mr.. Hayes how to act when
faced by large numbers of people
daring him to be good and having
been taught this he presents a bang
up performance of his group of vocal
limitations of the Hollywood and
radio stars.
The program in the Fidler show
is sufficiently varied one, including
skits, songs, some jokes that are
funny and some that are not, and
even a dance or two. The young
Hollywood people make a nice i'm
preston, too, and Mr.. Fidler makes a
much better impression when he is
impersonating columnist than
when he is impersonating an actor,
and we do mean Jimmy Fidler.
But he gets by gracefully enough
as he presents Helen Mack, who
goes both dramatic and comic; Mary
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Diana the Deb

Diana Lewis has been selected to
play Americas Glamour Girl No. l
in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante. 4"
The young actress, who has just
completed lead in Forty Little
Mothers" with Eddie Cantor, gets
the role for which numerous tests
were made. With Judy Garland as
guest star" in the film, the regu-
lar members of the series carry on.
These include Mickey Rooney, Lewis
Stone, Cecilia Parker, Sara Haden,
Fay Holden and Ann Rutherford.
Tom Neal and George Breakston
also join the cast. George Seitz
directs.
Evening star., 1940-03-23

four and a half
years ago, in
F. o ! ! o W
Through"
Jimmy Cagney,
who wears a
p h on e y m u S.
tache in "Torrid
Zone had to
kiss Ann Sheri-
dan for the first
time. The hush
was broken by
Director William
Ke | g h ley, who
INQUIRED of Ann.
80 H ow did it
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Growing Pains

Groucho Marx has at last be-
come reconciled that his daughter.
Miriam. Is growing Up. On her 18th
birthday anniversary he bought her
a pair OF roller skates. She left
them unused for three days, then
asked her father. Can YOU take
them back and set the money and
buy me . bottle Of perfume. In
stead7"
Evening star., 1940-03-23

Healy, who sings; Edith Fellows, who
sings and does bit of acting with
Michael Whalen, who in turn does a
bit Of acting in skits with several
other people. among them Olympic
Bradna, who must confine herself to
vocal activity without dancing on
account of back injury. M.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Walt Disney Does 1t Again,
Scores With 'Pinocchio'
His Genius at Its Merriest Makes
A Genuine Treat of His Newest
Fantasy. Now at Keith's
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

Realizing that 1t pretty dissection Of the obvious
must be repeated that Mr. Walt Disney Pnocch
at RKO Keiths and completely charming in worthy
the White" with which
awhile probably
Evening star., 1940-03-23

Shirley Finds Happiness!
At Home in 'Bluebird'
Technicolored Miss Temple Stars
In Film Fantasy at Capitol;
Jimmy Fidler's Show on Stage

Variety what the Capitol this
attraction Shirley
Jimmy Fdlers Hollywood
religious music in honor
conducting his community That
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Dixie Lee May Come Back
In Bing Crosby Picture
Opportunity to Boss Her Husband,
AtLeast on Screen, Lures Her;
Madeleine Gets Nervous
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM.
HOLLYWOOD.

Bng Crosby telling Wife Dixie the Follow
which scheduled with
Miss
Bng Suddenly Dixie Bng
she said Il can't
picture Bng currently interviewing