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getting the use of the harbor and the
proper supplies. Does he, now blind
ed in one eye and his early glamour
gone, need inspired nursing to pull
him through a desperate illness OF
body and spirit, then she finds that
answer, too, in her love for the man.
These would seem to be situations
devised to reveal the political
sagacity of the girl born Emma
Hart. They are, but with Miss Leigh
threading her way through them
sort of hand in hand with the lion
hearted Nelson, their overtones are
always the music of romance. Love
is always her motivation and Miss
Leigh is ever the ideal actress to
make that point clear. She is what
ever a given passage in the film re-
qulres; the lady of fire, of defiance,
of cupidity, of tenderness, Wom-
an who came to her moments of
triumph the hard way, but one she
managed to make instructive. 1t
is fine playing every step of the way.
1t is good thing, indeed, for
Kordas love for gold braid and
palatial settings is the sort of thing
that it might have submerged any
one so small as Miss Leigh were
she not so brilliant.
Oivier's role as Lord Nelson pre-
SentS him more as lover than as
naval genius, more as foil for Miss
Leigh than as the man whose
statue now feels the force of Ger
man barbarity. Within those out
lines, he does his usual skilled Job,
most especially in those passages
where his wounds have defaced his
normally handsome facade and
which require the supplement of
acting.
1t is not alone in its principal
roles that Korda's picture reflects
its producers skill in casting. Sara
Allgood, long, brilliantly and late
of the legitimate theater, makes her
Hollywood bow in the role of Lady
Hamilton's mother. She plays her
perfectly as woman with an eye
to the main chance, the main
chance being what her Emma is
able to realize on her beauty. She
is at her best, than which there is
none better, in alcoholic sequence
near the end of the film in which
her tavern matron's etiquette shocks
the prim Lady Nelson and the rep
resentatives of SNUG politicaldom.
Good, too, are such others as Alan
MoWbray, as the stuffy Lord Hamil-
ton; Henry Wilcoxon, as Nelson's
conventional naval aide, and Gladys
Cooper, as Lady Nelson.
Miss Leigh is as lavishly framed
by Korda's picture as Lady Hamil-
ton was maliciously framed by fate.
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them thin in spots. The captain
probably is doing well in the
Marines. But the motion picture
he made, Pot O. Gold" which
opened yesterday at Loew's Capitol,
may safely be removed at this mo-
ment from your list of possible
Academy Award winners.
Pot O. Gold" inspired by the
radio program of the same name.
has Horace Heidt's orchestra busily
playing its rather tuneful score,
James Stewart playing harmonica
and Paulette Goddard playing
boarding housekeeper's daughter
named Molly McCorkle. 1t also
has a drab and uncomfortable plot
that not even musical comedy, not
self-respecting musical comedy
that is, would be seen with in public.
POT O. Gold" tells us how a radio
program by that name might have
been born, and a fanciful tale it is.
There Is a young man (Stewart, ,
who comes to the big city and hits
his uncle, a C. j. Haskell (Charles
Winninger) in the face with a
tomato. This endears him to Miss
McCorkle and the boys of Mr..
Heidt's orchestra, who live at the
McCorkle boarding house, so the
young man gets his uncle out of the
way, puts the orchestra and Miss
McCorkle on the uncle's radio pro-
gram. Well, Miss NJ. discovers who
this handsome chap really is, a foul
Haskell, and blats something into
the microphone about the program
giving away 81 900 weekly, starting
next week. So it has to be done,
and, after several sleepless nights
Of trying to think of way to give
away $1,000 that isn't a lottery,
Stewart, telephone book in hand,
collapses against grandfather's
clock, making its hands spin madly.
Eurekal and bingo! Pot O Gold"
is born.
The people involved do play all
of this with a light-hearted sort of
gayety, rather desperate gayety,
even. Miss Goddard and Mr.. VIM
ninger are the ones to feel sorry
for Mr.. Stewart is in the Army
and has year to forget.
X *x
The best, and perhaps the worst.
that can be said of the Capitols
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Taylor Gives
Artistic
Concert
Symphony Aide
Shows Eloquent
Gift for STYLE
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

Mlllard Taylor. as concertmaster
of the National Symphony, is known
and his work appreciated by the
patrons of the orchestra'S concerts.
But of Millard Taylor, the concert
viollnlst, there has been little op-
portunity to become acquainted,
except in some isolated passages
where he might shine as a solo
artist or in sonata recital such
as he gave last season. Last evening
the young Violinist gave a full
length program at the Arts Club, the
first he has presented in this city.
and won personal success quite
of the same order as greets him
when he takes his place in the
first chair OF the orchestra en-
semble.
Mr., Taylor has a gift for style
which is made eloquent by we'll
grounded technique in the many de-
tails. The most prominent example
OF his command in this direction
was his playing of the Debussy
Sonata which was finely ex-
pressed and in which the purity of
his tone registered with full effect.
His grasp Of the work and the poetry
OF his Interpretation made a de-
cided impression.
He maintained the same stand
ard in the group of shorter num-
bers which followed. his reading of
Sibelius' "Ballade" being especially
beautiful. lie Fontaine d'Arethuse," !"
by SzymanoWski, was another work
in which the combination of de-
veloped musicianship and poetic
feeling was happily expressed.
Iberts THE Little White Donkey"
and the De Falla-Kreisler "Danse
Espagnole" from La Vida Breve"
again emphasized the personal
qualities OF his playing,
Corelli's Sonata in D" and the
Mendelssohn Concerto in E Minor"
represented the standard repertoire
of the concert violinist and were
placed first on the program. While
both numbers were smoothly played
in the traditional manner and with
a certain amount of brilliancy, they
did not awaken the individuality OF
thought evident in the numbers
later programmed. Mr.. Taylor is
lyric player, and in the Mendelssohn
concerto this characteristic embel-
lished the second and third move
ment considerably.
Winifred Lakeman was at the
piano for Mr.. Taylor, playing an
accompaniment we'll modulated to
his Interpretation and receiving her
own measure of success, particularly
in the fineness of her cooperation
in the Debussy Sonata" The au-
dience responded with mounting
enthusiasm to Mr.. Taylor's perform
ance, and encores followed as a
matter of course.
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Radio Program Inspires
A New Musical Film
Pot O. Gold Has Heidi Orchestra,
Plus Stewart and Miss Goddard;
Nonchalants on Stage
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

Not SO long ago the HOLLYWOOD columns were tens wna o
captain Marine night he examing the days ushe
planning shooting of motion picture he
but dispensing widespread likely
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POT o. GOLD" a United Artists release
with James Stewart, Paulette Goddard and
Horace Heidt's orchestra: produced by
James Roosevelt: directed by George Mar
shall: screenplay by Walter DeLeon:
original story by Andrew Bennison and
Monte Brice. Al the Capitol.
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

National-"Fantasia," the much
discussed Disney, with music con-
Quoted by Stokowski: 2:20 and $3.50
pm.
Keith's-"Citizen Kane" the ini-
tial Orson Welles fllm venture: 2:3o,
5 and $50 pm.
Earle-"Meet John Doe" Frank
Capra examines today: 1880 am,
l:l5, 4:o5, 6:55 and Gas pm. Stage
shows: 1875. 3:25, els and sos
pm, -.
Palace-"That Hamilton Woman!
and her affair with Lord Nelson
lo:45 am. l:25, 4;lo, $50 and s35
pm.
Capitol-"Pot O. Gold" how a
radio show might begin: II am,
las, 4:3o, tbs and 10 pm. Stage
shows: 1880, S:35, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan - They Dare Not
Love-" refugees have their trials:
ll:25 am, 1880, $50, 5:35, TAO and
$40 pm.
Little-"The Girl in the News"
another of those deft and daft Brit
ish thrillers: ll:25 am, l;40, $40,
$40, TAO and 945 pm.
Columbia-"Ziegfeld Girl" musi-
cal story of three of them: 10:45
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is dramatic one even when history
has to be scuttled to make it so. As
acted by Miss Leigh and Olivier, it
Is thing finely eontrasted of ecstasy
and torment. 1t might have been
even finer had Korda been able to
resist his impulse for pomp and
pageantry.
The accent of THAT Hamilton
Woman" naturally is on that Ham,
ilton woman. While the picture
grants her greater worth to the
British Empire than does history,
it is not an overidealized portrait in
certain other basic aspects Korda's
retrospective method of telling her
story introduces her as crone fallen
to shoplifting in liquor shop. and
even as he presents her for the first
time in younger guise. she clearly is
a pretty thing heavily in debt to the
conventions. 1t is not until these
honest admissions that she was more
a pretty girl than a good one, that
Lord Nelson comes into the picture.
What happens thereafter is bet
ter drama than history, which un-
doubtedly is what Korda had in
mind. The subsequent events depict
Lady Hamilton not merely as the
incarnation Of Lord Nelson's dream,
and not merely as the inspiration of
his greatness, but as a woman of
such political craft that she provides
him with the actual materials of
victory. Does he need 10000 troops?
She knows what to whisper into the
ear of the Neapolitan Queen-the
King being busy in the nursery-to
get them. Does he, years later. need
the harbor of Naples to restock and
restore his crippled fleet? He does
and she knows again the trick of
Evening star., 1941-05-23
The Cast.

stage show is that it certainly is
long. 1t goes on and on. There's
an overture with several solos dn-
strumental and vocal, the latter by
Lew Davie), plus song by Capitol
Porter Skyles, plus Art Browns
community sing, plus numerous spe-
cialty acts.
Best of those involved are the
Three Nonchalants. Their aero
batic and comedy turn is familiar,
certainly, but it's always agreeably
different from other acts of its kind.
The others are Bert Frohman, who
sings couple of popular tunes and
a medley Of George Gershwin ia.
vorites; Johnny Mack, an expert
tap dancer; Carroll and Howe, in
their well-known comedy patter
and dancing business, and the
Rhythm Rockets, in several of those
Rhythm Rocket routines.
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Fantasia Cheaper
For Service Men

Men in service uniforms will be
admitted at half price to all per-
formances of Walt Disney's Fan
tasia" at the National Theater. This
is in keeping with the Disney policy
at all theaters where Fantasia" is
currently playing.
incidentally, for the past few
months Disney has received requests
from different branches of the Gov
ernment service to design original
emblems for various units. Ir be-
tween working on new feature pro-
ductions, such as "Bambi," The Life
and Fairy Tales of Hans Christian
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Play Will Benefit
Bundles for Britain

Students Of Rose Robson Cohen's
Children's Studio OF Speech and
Drama will present Little Women"
tomorrow night at the Women's
Club OF Chevy Chase, Md, as a
benefit for Bundles for Britain.
Among the students taking part
will be Doralyn Cartwright. Daphne
Mahon, Mollie Belt, Bonny Butts,
Evelyn Cohen, Martha Slender.
Sonia Katz. Olga Dossett, Rita
Johnson, Raymond McCutcheon.
Sydney Jones and Raymond Wei
pand.
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Leigh and Oliv-
Ter. Korda dealt
kindly by them
and his poten-
tial customers.
Britain's great
est naval hero
and the lovely,
impulSive trull
he stole from
Lord Hamilton
were two of the
most spectacular
persons who ever
c o u n t e d the
world we'll lost
for love. Their
CfnrNr nnna fnnnn.e
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haustive study of Miss Leigh as mis-
tresS of her dark, WayWard art.
In his choice of love story for Miss
Evening star., 1941-05-23

THAT HAMILTON WOMAN" Alex
ander Korda production starring Vivien
Leigh and Laurence Olivier, directed by
Vincent Korda. At the Palace.
Evening star., 1941-05-23

Anderson" and the yearly output Of
short subjects. Disney has turned
out many Of these emblems.
Evening star., 1941-05-23

am, 1:25, 4:10, SIS and $40 pm.
Trans-Lux-NeWs and shorts:
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1941-07-04

Russia is increasing its appropria-
tions for scientific research.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Firms Seek 10 Enlist
Sympathy Of British

In an attempt to enlist British
sympathy for Finland in her cur
rent military conflict with Soviet
Russia, which is British ally, the
Social Democratic party of Finland
and the Central Organization of
Finnish Trade Unions has sent a
message to the British Labor party
and the British General Council of
the Trade Union Congress asking
for understanding. the Finnish Le-
cation here disclosed today
The message recalled that the
two British organizations manifest
ed sympathy for Finland in the
war with Russia in 1939-40 and
stated that the same issue is at
the seat of the present conflict
Finlands independence and the
continuation of Finland's free So
cial system.
Finland has been put in a diff
cult position in her relations with
the rest of the world at the present
time. because Germany also is fight
ing Russia and German troops have
been stationed in Finland. The
Finnish government, however, has
repudiated publicly German over
ture to Finland to become an out
right Axis ally in the current cam
paign against Russia.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Department Store
Weekly Sales Up 31%
From Year Ago
RetoiI Sales in Capitol
For 4 Weeks Show
II Pct. Gain
BY EDWARD c. STONE,

by DWAhD u. 81 1oNL.
Continuing other recent sharp
gains, department store sales IN
Washington for the week ended
June % scared 81 per cent above
the corresponding week year ago,
the Federal Reserve Bank of Rich
mond reported today.
Retail sales in the whole Fifth
Reserve District were up 81 per
cent, while Baltimore noted gain
of 35 per cent and group OF other
cities experienced a rise OF 20 per
cent, the report showed.
Retail sales in Washington were
10 per cent under the record for
the previous week this year, which
included the buying power let loose
by a Government pay day.
Sales in the Fifth District were
4 per cent under the previous week,
were down the same percentage in
a group of cities but were up 3 per
cent in Baltimore. :
Retail sales in the Capital in the
four weeks ended June % ran II
per cent ahead of last year in the
like period, the review said.
Sales in the four weeks were up
16 per cent over last year in the
whole Fifth District, gained Is per
cent in Baltimore and moved up
18 per cent in the group OF other
cities, the survey stated.
The volume of trade in Wash
ington stores for the previous week
ended June 81 was % per cent
ahead of the comparative week a
year ago.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
241 Cases in Month
Cleared by Police Court

A total of 241 cases were disposed
of in jury branch of Police Court
during the month which began
June 2 and ended yesterday. In
one additional case mistrial was de.
clared when the jury failed to agree
Verdicts of guilty were returned
by the jury in 35 cases and not
guilty verdicts in 25. Of the other
cases there were IS guilty pleas, 7s
nolle pressed and 20 dismissed TO,
want of prosecution. There was
one lunacy inquisition.
Judge George D. Nelson, who
presided in the branch during the
month, gave farewell talk to the
jurors yesterday after the last case
had been tried.
AS takens of friendship the jury
presented bill folds to Judge Neil.
son, to Charles Driscoll, his clerk
and to Thomas Campbell, bailiff
Mr.. Campbell was unable to bt
present, being on sick leave recov.
ering from being struck by a foot
pad. Mrs. Mark V. Ziegler, one OF
the jurors, made the presentation.
in behalf of the jury.
Evening star., 1941-07-04

Competition for Best
Backyard Playground
Is Begun in District
Objective Of Contest
Is to Keep Young
Children Off Streets

With a view to keeping young
children off the streets and pro-
tecting them from traffic hazards,
the Backyard Playground Contest
has begun with many entries.
Sponsored by the District of Co.
lumbia Recreation Department,
Traffic Advisory Council, Junior
Board of Commerce and the District
of Columbia Works Projects Admin
istration, the program is being ham
died at Offices in the Force School,
1740 Massachusetts avenue NV.
Prizes are offered by the Junior
Board of Commerce for best home
made equipment, and purchased
equipment, in the backyards of both
white and colored families. Judging
will take place early in August.
The Women's Committee of the
District Automobile Club of the
American Automobile Association
has offered two lawn swings to
backyards doing the most for
safety.
The purpose of the movement is
to encourage development of more
playground equipment in back
yards, SO the smallest youngsters
may play at home.
The Star prints herewith an
entry blank which may be used
for persons entering the contest.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Parks Office Plans
Sunday Trips Over
Old {. go. Canal
40 Persons Cun Be Token
On Each Trip; Advance
Reservations Required

Harking back to the period OF
the canal boat, series OF Sunday
afternoon trips over the old re-
stored C. & o. Canal will open
next Sunday with accommodations
for 40 persons to ride on horse
drawn barge"
Reservations must be made in
advance, it was announced by Irv-
ing C. Root, superintendent of Ma
tional Capital Parks. at 1416 F
street NV, or by calling National
1915. The Welfare and Recreational
Association of Public Buildings and
Grounds, Inc. is cooperating with
the Parks Office in arrangements.
Special buses will take passen-
gers from l4l6 F street to the point
of departure. which Sunday will be
at Chain Bridge. The barge will
proceed through locks and at
Brookmont. Md, to the locks at
Cabin John.
Naturalists to Talk.
Donald Edward McHenry, park
naturalist, and Sutton Jett, histori-
cal technician. will describe the
historical and natural phenomena of
the area. There will be II Sunday
afternoon trips, the last one on.
october 26.
Other out-of door attractions are
scheduled for the near future.
A nature walk from $50 to 1880
am. Sunday is scheduled by the
National Capital Parks along the
Rock Greek Park Nature Trail, with
the group forming at Sixteenth and
Underwood streets NV. Ranger
Naturalist Lewis C. Wheeler will
describe plants used by the Ameri-
can Indians in ceremonials
Hiking Club to Go to Beach.
Members of the Capital Hiking
Club and their friends will spend
the day Sunday at Mayo Beach.
Buses leave 1416 F street NV.
Reservations must be made before
5 pm. Saturday, it was announced
by Helen DinWiddie.
Junior nature mixers will take a
trip along the Rock Creek Nature
Trail from $50 to II am. Tuesday
and Wednesday.
National Capital Parks an
nounced that the camp fire pro-
gram usually held at Rock Creek
Park camp fire site Friday nights
will not be held today. The series
will resume JULY II.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
NaturaIized Nazi Spy
| Eleventh 10 Admit Guilt
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 4.-Erich
Strunck, 81. German-born seaman,
arrested in Milwaukee in the F. B. I.
roundup of SO men and women
suspected of espionage activities,
pleaded guilty yesterday before
United States Commissioner Martin
c. Epstein to charge of conspiring
to engage in espionage activities
against the United States.
Strunck, a naturalized United
States citizen, was the 18th to enter
guilty plea. He was ordered held
under S25, 900 bail for grand jury
action.
A seaman on the liner Siboney
which made frequent stops at Lisbon,
Portugal, Strunck was described by
F. B. I. agents as a courier for the
alleged spy ring.
Inmates of the Women's House OF
Detention made such a fuss when
they learned three women arrested
in Sundays counterespionage were
among them that the trio had to be
moved to other parts of the prison.
Richard A. MCGEE, acting first
deputy commissioner of correction,
said the other prisoners chanted
Hell Hitler" and "Sieg He'll" and
offered the Nazi salute.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Gypsy Chorus Lists
Sylvan Theuter Concert

The fourth summer festival at
the National Sylvan Theater, be-
side the Washington Monument,
will be a concert and stage show
by the Washington Gypsy Chorus
at 8:15 pm Wednesday.
The chorus, directed by Robert
Frederick Freund, has its largest
personnel this season. 1t was Or
ganized in 1888 and has been heard
in eight festival concerts. This
year there are two guest artists
Marion D. Venable. dancer, and
Frederick Farris, accordionist. Edna
Lee Freund is accompanist. The
chorus will feature works by Verdi,
Navin, Romberg, Curran, Friml,
Strauss and Brahms.
The chorus will be preceded by
a concert by the Washington Gas
Light Co. Band, conducted by Otto
Siebensichen.
The festivals are sponsored by the
Community Center and Fairgrounds
Department at the Office of Ma
tional Capital Parks.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Rites for Sam Harris,
Noted Producer,
Set for Sunday
Former Cohun Partner
Once Traded Racing
Stable for Bulldog
BY the Associated Press.

bS tilt hSSOCldteQ PTeSS.
NEW YORK, July 4.-The body
of Sam H. Harris, the little man who
went from the BoWery to Broadway
to become the Nations leading pro-
ducer. lay in state today in a Man
haitian funeral chapel.
Funeral services were to be held al
3 pm. Sunday for Mr. Harris, who
died yesterday of pneumonia.
In his 69-year-span, Mr.. Harris
did things "big'-three of his pro-
ductions won Pulitzer prizes-but
two incidents were etched vividly in
his memory as milestones:
At IL, he got his first theatrical
job, when he was hired to trail a
matinee idol from saloon to saloon
and see that the actor eventually
reached the theater.
At %. he tried the racing business.
He bought six horses and entered
four of them in seven-horse race.
The Harris horses finished fourth,
fifth. sixth and seventh. The pro-
ducer-to-be traded his stable for a
bulldog.
Long COhan Partner.
To list all his productions would
take columns. The Pulitzer prize
winners we're "Icebound. You Can't
Take 1t With You" and "Of Thee I
Sing" His latest hits were The
Man Who Came to Dinner" and
Lady in the Dark" the popular
Gertrude Lawrence vehicle.
Before he ventured on his own,
Mr.. Harris produced great plays
during his l7-year partnership with
George M. Cohan-such as Get
Rich-Quick Wallingford," Seven
Keys to Baldpate," Hello, Broad
way" and Little Johnny Jones"
In 1903 he met Mr.. Cohan in a
pickup baseball game and partner
ship was born, during which hit
after hit was produced. They split
finally over an Equity strike, but to
prove 1t wasn't a lasting argument
they were back together again in
1887 and produced Fulton of Oak
Falls" in which Mr.. Cohan ap-
peared.
Once Fight Promoter.
In his youth Mr.. Harris became
fight fan and promoter of boxing
bouts He met Terry McGovern,
then unknown, took over his con-
tract and managed him into the
featherweight championship.
Mr.. Harris married twice. His
first wife, Alice Nolan, died in 1909.
Two years ago he married Kathleen
N. Watson, sister of George Brent,
the movie actor.
Scrupulously honest, his hand
shake or his 20. K" constituted q
contract.
He wore quiet clothes on a Broad
way where belted-back suits are as
common as neon lights. His favorite
expression, to which he stuck, was:
You can play only one way
straight"
Evening star., 1941-07-04

Single and double breasted
models. Sizes: Reg, "a,
IS. Sc, SO, AZ a., 46;
shorts, AZ; longs, IS. 80.
46; stouts, so.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
Plane Workers Foreqo
Vacation for Bonus
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FARMINGDALE, N. Y. July A.
Bonus checks totaling s70,672 we're
given yesterday 10 1893 employees
of the Republic Aviation Corp. in
lieu of summer vacations which
they voted to forego to speed pro-
duction of Army and Navy planes.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
TOMORROW.

Convention, Amateur Astronomers
Association, Willard Hotel, all day.
Convention. MI Beta Epsilon Fra
ternity, Wardmau Park Hotel, all
day.
Evening star., 1941-07-04
City News in Brief

Convention, Amateur Astronomers
Association, Willard Hotel, all day
Convention, Nu Beta Epsilon Fra
ternity, Wardman Park Hotel, all
day