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ed the program with spirited item
by FreScobaldi. 1t maintained
straight to the end when the 5000
guest stars. musicians and plain and
fancy citizens sang THE Star
Spangled Banner" Each of those
who participated in the mighty
chorus is entitled properly to say
when the name of Mrs. Roosevelt
Charlie Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore,
Rise Stevens, Nelson Eddy, Irving
Berlin, ETC., is mentioned, sure,
we've sung together"
The first loss to the brilliant pro-
gram took the lanky form of Robert
E. Sherwood Sherwood, who was
to have acted as master of cere-
monies. was laid low by that most
democratic of maladies, influenza.
Up in box 2. however, turned out
to be the perfect understudy, Doug
las Fairbanks, jr. With the poise of
a man who has been handling in
augural galaS since Andrew Jackson,
Fairbanks took over to do an easy,
graceful, informal and dignified job
perfectly in the spirit of the pro-
gram. He maintained the easy,
grace, informality and dignity of
it even through the introduction
of Eddie Cantor, who turned out rot
to be there because of bad weather
between here and CantorS plane.
The show which Fairbanks cere-
moniously mastered comprised per-
haps the ultimately brilliant casting
OF a vaudeville program.
Never before have such diverse
personalities as Ethel Barrymore
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by the students of Rose Robson
Cohens Children's Studio of the
Drama, this set for next Saturday
evening. One skit on the program
takes up again the matter of the
famous Brontes-Emily, Charlotte,
Ann and Branwell-they being i'm
personated by jeanne Taishoff
Claire Ann Droney, Marjorie Ann
Rothenberg and Franklin SartWell,
Jr., in a short piece entitled, aptly
enough, The Young Brontes." A
play called Mullins" will employ
the talents of the nursery group.
children between the ages of 3 and
8. Among these will be Patricia
Quinter, Sherry McCutcheon, David
Povich, Frank Kimball. Joan Fay
Macaboy, Margery Cherner, Bar
bara Jean Wright. Doree-Diane
Lapidus, Diane O'Neal. Barbara
Naiman, Frances Shapiro, Lorita
Shields and Barbara Jean Wright
Other children taking part in the
program will be Suzanne Elman,
Dierdre Droney. Sheila Harvey,
Roberta Cherner and Eugene Cof-
fey.
The Blackfriars Guild still is
castlng-and very carefully-"Fog
Over Mars" to be staged next
month. Very carefully it is. be-
cause the guild is proud of the play
and wants it presented to best ad-
vantage. Dotty and Larry Freund
are already set for leading roles.
She is. or was, Dorothy ODonneu.
They met during the guilds produc-
ton of outward Bound"
Evening star., 1941-01-20
One Canine Actor
Is Too Natural

Pretty we'll tagged by weeks of
laboring with shoals of small chill
dren and various animals, Director
Norman z. Mcleod, filming Little
Men" for Gene Towne and Graham
Baker at R-K-O Radio, finally came
to scene with Corky, and grinned.
Corky, a mongrel pooch, is an
actor with whom Director Mcleod
has worked in the past.
"Corky and I have worked to-
gether so many times" said he,
that We understand each other.
How about it. old boy?"
Trick expected of Corky was a
cavernous yawn. This Is said by
movie animal trainers to be Just
about the most difficult task to get
a dog to perform for the camera.
But when Mcleod spoke to Corky,
the latter yawned without any
trouble at all.
wonderful" chorused everybody
on the set. All but Mcleod. He said
wryly:
But don't believe he was acting"
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and Mickey Rooney appeared on
single program. Nor Charlie Chap
lin, Irving Berlin, Raymond Massey
and Rise Stevens. Nor Nelson Eddy
and the Golden Gate Quartet. But
they all had the common denom-
inator of being brilliant entertain
ers entertaining brilliantly and be-
ing rewarded with all the warmth a
capacity audience could muster.
X X \
If it would be fair to single out
an individual whom the audience
seemed most happy to see the dis
tinction must be conferred upon
Chaplin. The little man who per-
soniies the definition of art as
man added to nature" recited the
concluding speech from THE Great
Dictator" When he was forced to
pause for a drink of water in the
middle of the speech he received
an ovation. He received another at
the end, making three in all, count
ing that which greeted the mention
of his name
Master Rooney, superb Snowman
that he is, was another whose
uniqueness gave the bill special
flavor. Bowling to the artistic es-
sence of the evening Mickey started
his part of the program with an ex-
cerpt from symphonic compost
ton by Mickey Rooney. While the
orchestra on the stage joined the
audience in sitting forward to cape
he ran through number indicative
of small worship of the old masters,
but fetching in its modernity. He
really stopped the show, however,
when he got into those impersona-
tions which are one of his brightest
stocks in trade.
Another specialist who completely
charmed the audience turned up in
the slight form of Irving Berlin. In
a voice that is no menace to even an
singing waiter, Mr.. Ber-
lin scored a triumph with his God
Bless America" 1t was a happy bit
Of trickery to which he resorted in
getting the audience to sing it with
him, a trick which trapped the sing
er-composer right into an encore
the only one of the evening.
Miss Stevens and Eddy. Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer's two other brilliant |
gifts to the evening, gave the pro-
gram its most artistic music. The |
,inemas most popular baritone, in
deed, undertook program of almost |
proportions; participating in
both the first and post-intermission
portions of the bill. He sang first
he difficult and varied arias from
3ach's Peasant Cantata" and. in |
he broadcast portion of the pro-
gram, The Crown of the Year"
The Blind Ploughman' and How
Do I Love Thee?" The Blind
Ploughman' was the only superb
)ne in the opinion of one who is not
music critic, but knows vaguely
What he likes. The same person also
liked Miss Stevens "Habanera" and
Vas delighted with the original ar
'angements of Noah" and "The
Gospel Train" sung superbly by the
Golden Gate Quartet.
Miss Barrymore and Massey con-
two excellent readings to
he program, the former a poem of
Walt Whitman's, the latter the clos
ng speech from ABE Lincoln in
illinois, in which he starred.
And so, the gala was gala.
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The original manuscript of H.
Rider Haggard's Alan Quarter
main" was auctioned recently in
London for $500.
Evening star., 1941-01-20
Lucille Meusel Scores
In San Carlo Opening
Prima Donna Is Called
Greatest TraViata' on
American Stage Today

of a French aristocrat who came to
demand Violettas sacrifice for the
sake of his family traditions and of
his younger daughter. His severity
in the beginning gave way to tender
ness in his scene with Violetta as
we'll as in that with his son. The
natural beauty of his baritone voice
under perfect control and the vi
brancy of its even registers earned
him well deserved ovation.
Smooth Running Performance.
Flora Sherman, Charlotte Bruno
Francesca Curxi, Fausto Bozza,
Louis de Cesare and Richard Went
worth helped toward the smooth
running of the performance by their
splendid singing and acting. There
was a great deal of atmosphere In
the quality of tone which Maestro
Carlo Peroni, artist-conductor, drew
from the violinS in the overture anC
in the response he received from the
chorus in the first and third acts.
1t was his magic touch also that
lent raison d'etre to every little
measure in the opera, often lost or
meaningless through individual dis
tortions by those intent upon per-
sonal glory only.
Moving within bounds, the beauty
of Verdi's music was resplendant
throughout, accented by the sin
cerity and the truly superlative
team work of the company.
The San Carlo Ballet deserved
the success it scored with inciden-
tai dances in the second act. Beau
tiful costuming, stage settings
scenary lighting, all bespoke the
excellent stage direction of Louis
Raybaut.
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Diplomat Likes
Los Angeles Post
For Film Work
By the Associated Press

By the ASSOclated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.
Carlos Barbee, Los Angeles Uru-
guayan Vice Consul, thinks there's
no better place to be stationed than
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we'll NllIllH llS ItdCl. lllSGcdu Vi
the spectacular or the "arty" the
Civic Theater looks now toward a
future which will see it presenting
in its own words. "a good show
first last and always" The new
attitude bodies well for the local
group.
First item on the new agenda
will pe Irwin Shaw's Gentle
People" in preparation now against
January 81 opening date at the
Wardman Park Theater. A number
of those able veterans of previous
years of the Civic Theater's exist
ence have been cast in this play by
the author of Bury the Dead
which first was produced by New
York's Group Theater. Mr.. Askin
thinks Washington will like Mr..
ShaW's story Of two of the world S
gentle people who become so in
volved with a gangster, through no
fault of their own, that they ulti-
mately must do away with him.
Gentle People" is scheduled for six
dl lllc w Nllldll I al n,
running through February 5, and
tickets now are on sale at the
theaters headquarters. 2020 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV.
The Civic Theater, in this revival,
and one hopes healthily permanent
revival, is guided by new group
Of officers The president of the
Board of Directors is A. z. Foster
Wood Serving with him are Elinor
Lord, first vice president; Marvin
Beers. second vice president; James
DeValse Mann. secretary: Donald B.
Cooper. treasurer, and Oliver Gasch,
counsel. Other members of the
board are Minor Hudson, Robert
Langley. Lee D. Butler, j. G. Pollard,
jr.: Malcolm Ross. B. K. SchWarz.
L. Metcalfe Walling, w. Hayes
Yeager and William Zuckert.
William Girvan. even though you
might not think any one could put
off mentioning it until this point, is
still on the Civic Theater's staff as
its scenic designer. This, of course,
means that whatever happens, it
will be happening in the handsomest
setting possible.
Wednesday-that's the Wednes-
day coming up this WEEKS the
deadline for registration for the
1941 edition of the annual District
of Columbia One-Act Play Tourna-
ment. Any established theater group
in Washington and nearby Vir-
ginia and Maryland which has pre-
sented a public performance within
the last eight months is eligible. but
only 20 groups will be allowed to
participate. They will be accepted
in the order of application as long
as the rolls are open.
Application blanks and a copy of
the rules for 1941 will be mailed
upon request or may be obtained at
the Office Of the Journeys yearly
sponsor, the Community Center and
Fairgrounds Department, 1740 Mass
achusetts avenue NV. The tele-
phone number is Michigan 1855.
This years tournament will take
place, as has become customary, at
Roosevelt High School Auditorium.
Preliminaries are scheduled for Feb
ruary "a to March 6, inclusive, with
the finals to take place Saturday,
March s.
There's another recital scheduled
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

and Time of Showing
Stage.
National-San Carlo Opera Co. In
Carmen: $3.50 pm.
CapitOl-"Hudson's Bay" Paul
MUM fights for his king in the north
countree: 1O:15 am, 1, 3:45, $50,
9:15 and 11:55 pm. Stage shows:
1905, $50, 5:35, 800 and 11:05 pm.
Earle Northwest Mounted
Police" De Mile adventure in the
Far North: 10:45 am, 1:20, 4, $40,
$40 and u pm. Stage shows:
1880, $3.50, 6:10, $50 and 11:3O pm
Palace-"Gone With the Wind"
first anniversary showing: $50 am,
1:2o, Sis and 9:10pm.
Keith's-"Kitty Foyle." Ginger
Rogers as the white collar girl of
Christopher Morley's novel: 11:4O
am, 1:5O, 4:O5, 6:15, 8:25 and 1O:4O
pm.
MetrOpOlitan-"Escape to Glory"
wartime adventure on shipboard:
11:50 am, 1:50. 3:55, 6, 8, 1905 pm.
and 1915 am.
Little-"Pastor Hail." hero of
the church, resists Nazi paganism:
II am, 12:45, 2:35, 4:20, sos, 7:55
and GAS pm.
Columbia - Flight Command" I"
Robert Taylor with the Navy's Hell
Divers: 1890 am, 12:40, 2::55, sos,
7:20 and 9:35 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
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Inaugural Gala Serenades
Democracy With Spirit
From Start to the National Anthem,
The Star.Studded Celebration
Lived Up to Its Name
BY JAY CARMODY.

the d en you can show ga probably surprising the life out Of
nouns is more it,
a nght at Constitution Hall where the inaugural
u 70 oe no END gala The the diverse galaxy
1or Washington
mum OF misapsand when
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Stavs Outdoors

William Holden is not so old In
the Hollywood acting lists, but al
ready he is winning a lions share
of the film colony's choice starring
roles. The 22-year-old actor, hav-
ing scored sensationally with Jean
Arthur in Columbia's Arizona" has
been selected to play a starring role
in another outdoor drama, Texas" !"
formerly titled "Vigilantes," which
is scheduled for early production by
the same studio.
Stuart Heisler has been announced
as director of the new pioneer pic
ture. 1t will be produced by Sam
Bischoff.
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nearest E l g n =
teen street was
in a peri e C t
mood for giving
democracy one
of those lusty,
spirited sere-
nades W h c h
bellies the die
tator's ch arge
that democracy
Is an a n a e s.
thetic. DR.. Hans
Kinder set it in
that mood when
h e a n d h e
w a S h i n G t on
symphony Open-
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here. For here he's on his way TO
becoming an actor.
A role in They Met in Argentina"
is his third in recent months. But
he had nice income from pictures
even before he began acting.
Barbee's pride is a sleek, under
slung, gray automobile of expensive
make. Because it is an exclusive
and highly photogenic model, it has
been much in demand by movie
studios for three years. Once, three
companies used it in a single day.
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CARLTON HOTEL, New Cosmos Room, 18th
and X SITS. ME. 1926. Music by Carmen
Cavallaro's Orchestra Dancing 81 and 10
to 2. Min. ST 80 after 10 pm. except Sat. So.
HAY-ADAMS HOUSE-Overlooking 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.
DUDE RANCH HOTEL, Washington-Ba -Balti-
more Boulevard. Berwyn Md. Floor shows
10. 12 and l 80. Clyde Martins orchestra.
Francis Renault; slave of Fashion,"
RAINBOW ROOM Hamilton Hotel, 14th
supper dancing to MiIt Davis Orchestra,
lO-1. Min, Saturday only. 81. DI. $3.50.
SHoREHAM BLUEROOM, Connecticut at
Calvert. Dining and dancing. TWO floor
shows $50 and IL 30. Dinner 81, in
cluding cover. Supper cover. SOC. AID: 07O0.
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IiC, IIIUttU, IIUIlI UIIV
Edwin M. WatSon's
lest spectator sitting
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Local Drama Groups
From the Ashes Rises That Phoenix,
The Washington Civic Theater
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

The towns most example OF like characteristics
ashes.
plans
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them all, but you just can't keep up with her
You feel pretty low. You stop going to
club meetings and stop having people IN Tor
a visit in the evening. You retire into your
shell and you go through all the agonies OF
feeling inferior.
If you are j man, maybe the fellow down
the street always takes you over at the
country club, gives you a stroke hole and
still beats the pants off of you at golf
or maybe he has those green hands" Of
a true gardener so that his flowers bloom
all Summer, come dry spells beetles or what,
while your own garden withers and dies.
or perhaps he is able TO practically tear
his family chariot apart and fix it, while you
have to spend hard-earned dollars to garage
man who doesn't do the job half as well.
Secretly you have tried all these things
that the fellow down the street can seem
10 do off one elbow. as it were You have
tried and failed. Your neighbor has you
feeling lower than the last man on totem
pole You start to avoid him.
He may wonder why, and you may even
wonder a bit yourself. But you will not admit
Il publicly. You will just crawl inside nice
hard-surfaced veneer of a first-rate inferiority
complex and suffer and get madden and
madden, mostly at yourself If you keep this
I'D YOU may in an extreme case, wind up IN
a padded cell.
II you are troubled in this fashion, the
pictures on this page are a not-too-fattering
picture of YOU, for they show how scientists
produce inferiority completes in white rodents
to learn about this hidden psychological be-
havior which wrecks many lives.
See the picture of the mice climbing the
great towering and complicated maze. One
mouse chats the man down the street or the
lady next door runs sure-footedy round and
round and higher and higher and gets the
food first That's the reward.
The other mouse chats you) works fran
tcally, rushing hither and yon, and gets into
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

mouse doesn't even bother to start the race
but just crouches in the corner Of the starting
box and never tries to race A first class in
feriorfy complex is thus developed just as
you will get a complex II the man down the
street always keeps on the pressure and al
ways beats you at golf or tennis
What to do about It, you ask?
Take look at the other pictures showing
the animals and the complicated arrangement
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mt Photos

you hate his fur, everything about him.
But in this new situation you soon find
that you have Joe Mouse. or whatever his
name is Just where you want him To good
Old Joe the strings mean nothing while you
know all the time that by pulling on the string
you can get the food.
So you start pulling on the string and
slowly the food comes down 10 you. Boy.
does il taste good? And does Joe-the heel
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

of strings and the turn
ing wheel. That device
is no RUDE Goldberg
creation. 1t is only a
Rat-O-Mat, a way to get
something to eat.
The scientists start
this test by taking the
mouse or rat with the
bad inferiority complex
and putting it, alone,
into the glass vessel with
the strings. This mouse
Chats you, if you have
a complex of inferiority)
sees the food hanging
Just a few inches above
its head.
What to do? One
easy pull on the string
and see what happens.
And 10, as you pull down
on one string the food
is slowly lowered by the
other string.
1t takes a few trials
TO learn this trick, but
the mouse quickly learns
that he can get his food
by pulling on the string.
It's not too hard a feat
but it can't be figured
out right off the bat.
1t takes a bit of learn
ing.
Thankfully for you
(pardon, for the mouse
with the inferiority COM
plex) the scientists let
him practice this trick
until he is a postmaster
in the art of string
pulling.
Then comes the pay
off. They put the other
mouse in the glass YES
sci, too. He is your
neig hbor down the
street, remember, who
gave you the inferiority
complex In the first
place. You hate him,
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try 10 get to the food first.
II knows II is licked before
il starts.
And this is just what hap
pens TO you, when you get an
inferiority complex.
Another picture shows an
other way that scientists pro-
duce inferiority completes in
their subjects by having them
race down a straight track
TO a food chamber. On this
chamber is a trap door which
falls when the first mouse
enters and shuts the other
mouse outside. Such a test
is not intricate like the maze
for it simply depends on the
speed Of running, physical
skill and initiative.
Maybe it doesn't look like
1t, but this test is comparable
49, in scientific research - to
the case of two men playing
tennis or golf, or any other
sport involving physical
ability.
What happens with the rats
or mice in this case, is just
about what happens with hu-
man beings.
When two Of the rodents
are first raced against each
other both rush madly down
the track to get the food. One
Of them Chats the tennis
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

partner who always beats YOU gets there
first, and the door drops down and the other
Chats your cannot enter to get the reward.
After few trials like this one. the slow
mouse chats you AGAIN. begins TO get the
idea and begins to realize in its tiny mouse
brain that the effort doesn't get anywhere
and says mentally, Whats the use of try
ing?"
After few more such trials the slow
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16
BY ROBERT ID. POTTER,
Science Editor, The American Weekly

UF YOU have an inferiorfty
complex and are afraid Of
y life because other people
seem to do things 80 much
better than you can. take a tip
from the iowly mouse or rat
and learn TO do something
almost anything. for 1t doesn't
matter much what II is--just
a bit better than anyone else
YOU know.
This is the advice Of scien-
lists who know how 10 create
and - more important - cure
inferiority completes that can
ruin human lives.
The way to get out Of the
mental rut OF feeling inferior
is not too hard, unless you are
truly a bit touched in the head.
Which you probably aren't.
You're just human.
II you are a woman. maybe
the lady next door has you
down because she is so clever
at writing. or drawing, or
playing the piano, or sewing.
or club work, or interior deco
ration or any one Of host Of
other things. You have tried
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

Curious Conceptions Of Science to Give
the Rodents Inferiorify Completes Just Like
We Have. and So Discover How We Can Get
Rid of These MenfaI Handicops
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

many a blind alley
or path that leads
nowhere. Pretty
soon this bamed
mouse doesn't even
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

With This Towering Maze Scientists Test Mice to Se
Which Are Smart and Which Are Dumb and to See
How Quickly They Can Learn TO Get Their
Food Just as We Do Some Mice Get -
Lost I'm the Blind Alleys and By sex4z q
paths and Lose Out. %zS><H
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I, Inc Great Britain Rights Reserved.
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the size of a final dividend to be
disbursed to depositors, who so far
have received dividends totalling 10
per cent of the amount they had
in the bank when it closed in Febru-
airy, 1888.
This followed an auction sale
earlier yesterday by Receiver Justus
S. Wardell of the Seventh Street
Savings Bank, who disposed Of all
remaining assets of that institution,
except bank building, for $500,
contingent upon approval by the
controller and the court. DEPOSIT
tors In the Seventh Street Bank will
receive at least 100 cents on the dol
lar, and possibly interest.
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right here" he said. Guess you
wouldn't mind sandwich after that
ride, would you?"
81 could do with bite to eat, at
that" Richard said. And if those
sandwiches we're made by Ling I
know they're good"
He sure can cook" John agreed.
Just tell him what good cook
he Is; that's all he asks. Got his
training in the city-'Frisco, I think
and he likes to fix things UP
fancy. The boys used to kid him
about it until they found out it
really hurt his feelings; then they
quit"
Although John chatted easily
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-10

thing of what you and Miss Carver
have been up against" Mattingly
said. Its pretty tough to try to
keep track of all these cattle on
this size layout. From what I've
seen and what you told me last
night about their use of firearms,
I imagine they won't stop at any
thing"
There won't be any stop to this
until we catch them red-handed
and string them to a tree. Keeps
getting worse instead of better, and
it has to be stopped"
John swung off his horse, SEEM
ing to forget his anger Of a mo-
ment before. Might as we'll eat
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Commercial National Bank
Assets Sold for S2,075

Remaining assets in the CONNER
cial National Bank receivership were
sold to Albert M. Schwartz, attor-
ney of this city, for $2,075 yesterday,
with the provision that the sale must
be approved. by the controller OF
the currency and District Court.
The sale was conducted as an
auction by Frederick J. Young. re-
ceiver, at his Office, 1886 New York
avenue. When proceeds from the
sale are realized they will be added
to other cash on hand to determine