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Evening star., 1941-08-11


up the whipping post scene, which
is one Of the more raucouS points
in the old meller, the telephone rang.
1t had been good rehearsal and
Director Ralph Fowler thought he
was about to be ordered to cut out
the racket. But it wasn't that at
all. The people upstairs had just
called to ask the boys and girls to
rehearse the entr'act a ditty called
Your Place Is in the Meadow"
somewhere else. Seems they could
never sleep after hearing it several
times: the words just kept bounc-
ing around in their minds until
dawn.
The entr'acte with ITO Die at
Dawn" (which opens at Roadside to-
night, incidentally is another Of
those featuring Margaret "Bibi"
Osterwald. The three others in the
usual quartet will be Betty Brun-
stetter, James McKechnie and Ted
Tiller, all of the cast Of the melo-
drama. And others in leading roles
in the play will be Harold Stepler,
the villain Of the groups original
1885 production of ITO Die at
Dawn; Dick Sykes and Edna Evans.
From the Cross Roads Theater
comes a message advising that Le-
roy Gaintner did not copy Elliott
Nugents Interpretation of the lead
ing figure in The Male Animal" as
we seem to have hinted in Wednes-
days review of the hit comedy.
And that can only mean that Cross
Roads has turned up better actor
than anv it has shown us in some
time and probably that Mr.. CANT
ner is better than he has ever been
out there. For his performance as
the mild professor of the James
Thurber-Nugent play. who dis
covers the male animal dwells with
in him, too, is a top-notch bit of
work. a deft piece of understatement
that keeps the comedy ever in the
proper mood. The only time he
misses is in that well-known
schnapps- tossing scene. when he
must compete with Gordon Grays
emphatic grimacing and even that
moment may have been toned down
to the right KEY by now. Anyhow
this is altogether about the best
thing the Cross Roads folk have
done this season, brightener upper
for any sultry night. Betty Honicon
fans, who seem to be many here
abouts since she did what she could
to make "Goodby Again" look like
very funny play, should be re-
minded that she is in THE Male
Animal" too. This continues
through Saturday night. the regular
Sunday performance at Cross Roads
having been Cancelled for next week
Addenda:
Thursday night the National City
Players. will stage Seven Keys to
Baldpate" at their auditorium, 1903
Vermont avenue NV. The cast in
cludes Malcolm Clough. Pauline
Jones, Delbert Collins. Paul Lippolt.
| Jewel Moore. Louise Murray, Laban
Thompson. Coralee Barnes, Ernie
Johnson, Herbert Chandler, Edward
PEBBLES, Paul Hoffman and Eldon
Floyd. Earle Hague is directing.
Noel Cowards Private Lives" is
this weeks attraction at the Hill
top Theater in Ellicott City, OPEN
ing tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

MR.. GIELGUD FACES THE CAMERAS-John Gielgud may
represent Hamlet" number OF the heaters toloper
but he has been busy th other things in England lately
he DisraeH NTH Diana Wynydrd in The
Prime Minister British made film iohch is being released IN
this country by Warner Bros
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Debut Postponed

With the start of Out of the
Frying Pan" Paramount's forth
coming film version of the Francis
Swami comedy, deferred until Octo-
Der Is, Florence MacMichael, the
young actress who appeared in the
stage play and was signed by Para
mount for the same role in the
film, will not report for work on
the Coast until then. The play
deals with young people trying to
crash show business.
Evening star., 1941-08-11

the customers and the occupants Of
the stage look early Clare Boothe
and to drive up in anything less
Evening star., 1941-08-11

than an eight
cylinder con
vertible with
the top down
Is to have a new
q n d d e e p e r
m e a n i n G Of
"gauche," if you
are susceptible
to feelings of
guacherie. 1t is
better not to be,
of course, but it
is difficult if
you are a tour
ing scribe who
was dope enough
~~k - x1aly
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Perhaps Victor Mature
Is That Matinee Idol
There Hasn't Been One Since Valentino,
But This Lad Broadway Discovered
For Hollywood Fills the Bill
Nv MAYME OBER PEAK.

Valentino matinee idol
to Taylor almost wrecked him.
fill the void
of Wesmuler physique
While making debut
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Local Drama Groups
The Entr'acte, Not the Screams,
Bothers the Neishbors
By HARRY MACARTHUR.

There comes along today further note incidents born out OF
Monday,
shouldn't
group working Well
Evening star., 1941-08-11
The Play Is Not the Thing
To Westport Audiences
They Much Prefer Their Own Badinage,
Which in Some Cases, Such as This One,
May Not Be Bad Idea After All
BY JAY. CARMODY.
WESTPORT, CONN.


have happens society
Westpo probably You find it in all its suntan
supplements excellent health
Country which
rural for dramatic properties
Of the Theater Guild fanc thing the circuit Both
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Chest Aides Plan Visit
To Friendship House

Volunteer speakers for the Com
munity Chest will make the third
of a series Of weekly study visits
tomorrow night to Friendship House
at 619 D street Sc. They will be
guests at a dinner at $50 o'clock at
which Miss Lydia Burklin, eXecu-
tive of the settlement, will explain
the scope and purpose Of the well
fare work conducted there.
Prior to the dinner the Chest vol
unteers will visit Demonstration
House at TIA Sixth street Sc, a
unit of the Ellen Wilson dwellings
erected by the Alley Dwelling Au
thority to provide housing for fam
lilies of low income.
Through efforts of the Friendship
House staff. neighbors and volun-
teers, Demonstration House was
furnished at total cost of S158 as
a comfortable and attractive home
for a hypothetical family Of five
father, mother, pre-school boy, a
boy of school age and grandmother.
The demonstration home was
opened early in December and in
spected a few weeks later by Mrs,
Roosevelt. Because of the number
of visitors, the home will be kept
open each afternoon until the first
of March or later.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
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Evening star., 1941-02-23

quarters troops, wandered about
with a perpleXed expression.
TITS no use" he said, Il can't
recognize anything. I can't find
a landmark I couldn't tell you
to save me where our barracks
were located or where anything
was in those days. There were miles
of barracks then, just as you see
now, and they were new, and these
temporary wooden barracks look
pretty much alike on the outside
and yet nothing seems the same
Pokes About Wistfully.
Inside the barracks, Col. Roy found
changes-the hot-air conduits along
the ceilings which have replaced the
old stoves; shower baths inside liv-
ing quarters instead of in separate
buildings, as in World War days:
real mattresses in place of the straw
ticks his outfit used; other innoVa-
tions, such as sheets and pillowcaSes.
He pronounced the Meade of to-
day "a great improvement over the
war camp" But he still poked about
a little wistfully. as if reaching for
elusive memories.
The barracks city is still in the
building, which is not the fault of
the 29th Division, and thus, newt
ably, there is some doubling up,
housing and hardship that
will be eased later.
While advance detachmentS came
days ahead of every regiment to pre-
pare quarters, kitchens and supplies
for the main bodies of troops, there
were, sometimes, unexpected delays
in procurement. Some units waited
for red tape in the quartermaSter
to be wound up or un-
wound, whichever red tape does
One detachment drew mattresses
Evening star., 1941-02-23

| and blankets for its regiment, but
found no place to put them. Car
penterS were still at work on the
barracks assigned this outfit. When
| the regiment arrived, most of the
men slept in a couple of mess halls
the first few nights.
But, generally speaking, the move
ment of the 10000 officers and men
into camp. stretched over 10 days
and completed only last night. was
accomplished smoothly and with a
minimum of discomfort and diff
Guilty.
The division, concentrated for a
long period of service for the first
time since the war, occupied a crude,
emerging city largely independent of
the rest of the spacious reservation.
Division Hill is a good 8 miles
from the big stone and brick build
lngs and the well-groomed parade
ground that form the permanent
garrison manned by the Regular
Army. Beyond supplying the di'i-
sior. with food, clothing and other
equipment, through the post quar-
termaster, the post commander has
little contact with the 29th Division,
which, during the preliminary train
ing period, is tactical unit within
itself.
Boys Get the Week End Off.
About 80 per cent of the Guards
| mon from thn iot
Virginia and Pennsylvania, making
up the division, we're given leave
from last night over the week end,
WaShlngtons Birthday was a camp
holiday, with only guard duty and
other necessary work performed.
There were special excursion rates
Tor soldiers on all the railroads and
many men went home over Sunday.
Monday the commanding general
Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord. will
launch six months of intensive divi-
Slonal training prescribed by the
War Department.
The training will start with indi-
vidual squad and company COR bat
tery) instruction, with schooling in
battalions and regiments to follow
Several schools for officers and
picked enlisted men in specialties of
the combat division were announced
today. These include courses for
motor mechanics, chemical warfare.
communications, pioneers, non-com-
mlSsioned officer, armorers and in
telligence units.
The pioneer course for infantry
regiments will be taught by the l2lst
Engineers. The officers section of
the school will open March 10 and
the section for non-coms a week
later. Col. John w. Oehmann. COM
manding the regiment. will be in
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Modified Fort Meade
BustIes With the Air
OF a Frontier Town
Veteran of the Areonne
Returns and Finds Little
But Memories of 1917
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Star Staff Correspondent

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE. Md.
Feb. 22.-T'hey still smell OF fresh
sawed wood, those hundreds of new
barracks that quarter the 29th Di-
vision. composed of National
Guardsmen from this area just mo-
bilized for year of Federal train
ing.
Everything is new in the divi-
sion area-the rough dirt streets
the signs that proclaim the loca-
tion Of brigades, regiments and
other units. 1t looks like a boom
town on some frontier.
But wander back a way, across
the frozen mud of a valley below
the sharp hill topped by division
headquarters, and you find ghosts
of dead era, weed-strewn founda-
tions of structures that quartered
the eager youths of IT and 10;
cruder tanks of that day rotting in
forgotten obsolescence; stray odds
and ends of machinery rusting away
unnoticed
Here and there one of the old
buildings stands, still staunoh de-
spite the years, and some have been
put to use in the new national
emergency.
Old Soldier "PerpIexed"
But there is little left except
memories of the camp that sent
thousands of boys to France, not
all to return and remember at di-
vision reunions and Legion meet
ings.
Back to Meade at the week end
came an old soldier who jumped off
from this camp for the distant Ar
gonne. He is William T. Roy, as
sistant parliamentarian of the
House of Representatives and for
merly a lieutenant colonel in the
District National Guard.
Col. Roy. stopping now and then
to greet old friends of the 121st
Engineers from Washington or
the Districts special division head
Evening star., 1941-02-23
u. F. W. A. Directors
Discuss Campaign
For Pay Increases
Back Bill Providing
Automatic Boosts for
Government Employees

Plans for major drive to gain
pay increases for Federal workers
by legislation during the current
! session of Congress were discussed
yesterday at the opening session of
a two-day meeting of the Board of
Directors of the United Federal
Workers of America.
The Is board members voted to
support vigorously bill now pend
ing before the House which would
provide automatic salary increases
for Government employees. Allan
Haywood, administrator of the U. F.
w. A. and director of organization
for the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations, declared that organiZ-
ing the unorganized workers of the
Nation and betterment of living
standards represent the safest bull
Wark of democracy"
A concentrated membership drive
was planned by the board for Wash
ington. New York, Philadelphia, Chi
cago and San Francisco
The officers report was given by
Miss Eleanor Nelson, national secre-
tary-treasurer of U. F. w. A.
The meeting was to be resumed at
1870 this morning at the organiza-
tion'S national headquarters. 532
Seventeeth street NV, with the
following issues scheduled for action:
Protest against 10-hour shift in navy
yards, proposal to bring Works
Projects Administration supervision
and administrative workers into civil
service and protest against Ger
tain tendencies" to dismiss en-
ployes without adequate hearings
and on spurious charges"
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Legal Fraternity
Hears Rover Urqe
Aid for Britain
Responsibility for
Maintaining Status Quo
Rests With U. S., He Saws

With the United States rests the
responsibility of maintaining the
democratic form of government in
Europe, Leo S. Rover, former
United States attorney for the
District, told the monthly meeting
of the Alpha Mu Chapter of Sigma
Delta Kappa. legal fraternity, at
the Hay-Adams House yesterday.
To maintain the American posi-
ton, this country must give all
aid to Great Britain in helping her
maintain her stand" against aggres-
sion, Mr.. Rover declared.
Mr. Rover predicted a growth Of
the selective service system and
declared this isn't merely a Euro
pean dog-flght. II is not a change
Of dvnasties. 1t is an attempted
world revolt" If the British EN-
plre falls, some other form of gov
eminent will take its place. he said,
adding it is up to the United
States to maintain the status quo.
When asked about the possibil-
tiles OF a young lawyer going into
practice here for a corporation. Mr..
Rover warned his audience against
being old-fashioned lobbyists" Be
a good lawyer, he said, national
contacts are valuable for building
business. but make your contacts
IN your home State.
The field of the future is one
of specialize ton. he said. but too
much specialization would be detri-
mental. AS a suggestion. he said a
young lawyer might enter the field
Of taxes or practice before the Sc
curities and Exchange Commission.
The speaker was introduced BY
William Crawford vice chancellor,
who was the presiding officer at the
monthly meeting
Mr.. Rover told the more than so
members Of Alpha Mu Chapter that
1t is not the school of training
but the individual that makes q
competent lawyer.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Mary Mcleod Bethune,
College Head, to Retire
BY the Associated Press.


DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb. %.
Mary Mcleod Bethune, founder
and president of Bethune Cookman
College here, said tonight she would
ask the institutions trustees March
5 that she be retired, retaining the
title of president emeritus.
President Bethune, born of slave
parents in South Carolina, also is
national director of Negro activities
of the N Y A, but she declined to
say whether she would retain that
Office, adding she would stick close
oy the college"
The college was established SO
years ago in a small shack after its
founder was graduated from Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago. The
plant today is worth approximately
s1,0OO0OO.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Fraternity Presents
Cardozo Memorial
Award TO Jackson
Freedom Child Of Order,
Attorney General Says,
In Acceptance Speech

Moderate and enlightened Judi
cial statesmen" are necessary for g
Nation to retain a wise balance
between stability and progress" At
torney General Robert H. jackson
told representative of Tau Epsilon
Rho, international legal fraternity
last night.
Mr.. Jackson spoke in receiving the
fraternity's Cardozo Memorial
Award as the individual who dur
ing the year 1910 contributed most
to the furtherance of the social
ideals for which the late Supreme
Court justice, Benjamin N. Car
oozo. stood.
The presentation of plaque and
two books written by Justice Car
dozo was made at dinner at the
Mayflower Hotel by former Judge
ISadore BookStein of Albany, N. Y,
81 former classmate of Attorney Cen
eral Jackson. 1t was the first pres
entation of the award by the law
fraternity.
In praising the liberalism in the
philosophy of Benjamin Cardozo, y
Mr. jackson emphasized that 1T is
the quality of his liberalism
which I would accent as guide to
our own StriWngs'
Liberty Called Part of Law.
There are many" he said. who
talk of protecting our liberties as
though they we're gems in a safe
deposit box. or speak of preserving
our freedom as though it were
pickle to be kept in brine
Liberty, he declared, is a part
of our law and cannot exist apart
from it."
Freedom is never product of
anarchy. but is the child of order.
1t is only possible for men to be
free where there is social order
that sanctions patterns of conduct
which respect freedoms"
Liberalism in the philosophy of
Benjamin Cardozo had no kinship
with lawlessness," he declared.
There are those" he said, who
would stand by the old order so
closely as to stif1e all development;
others would make such haste in
promoting real or imagined develop
ment that they would sacrifice the
continuity of our order. To hold
wise balance between stability and
progress is the task of moderate
and enlightened judicial states
men"
Praises JuStipe CardOzn
Justice CardoZo, Mr. Jackson
said, possessed one of those rare
minds that was emancipated from
the power of the beaten path He
did not shrink from an idea Just
because it could not be traced
hundred years in print
Mr.. Jackson said the jurist's de
parture from the beaten path was
never the wanderings of .one who
was intellectually lost =" and
praised Justice Cardozo as pains
taking scholar" whose Willingness
to help remould the law was coupled
with deep veneration for the older
pattern"
approximately so representatives
% the traternlty'S members attend
ed the dinner. at which Ralph
Schwartzberg of Chicago, president
OF the fraternity, was toastmaster.
Other speakers were Jerome Moss
and Harry Fuerst, both of Cleve-
land. Guests introduced by Mr..
included Justice Wiley
Of the Court of Appeals.
Court Judge Nathan Cay
ton and Lawrence Koenigsberger,
Washington attorney.
Washington members of the fra
ternity attending the dinner in
cluded M. j. Baldinger, Edward
First, Homer Kripke and Joseph
Rosenfarb. Harry Warner was gen.
eral chairman Of the Dinner Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Meade Soldiers Get
Unexpected Pay
For DriIIino
By the Associated Press,

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE.
Md, Feb. 22.-About 1000
soldiers departed from this can
tonment on week end leave
today, many of them with un-
expected pay in their pockets.
A surprise payday came
for the former National
Guardsmen when they were
given checks for "armory drill"
in December and January.
1t was the last "armory drill'
payment the former Guards
men will get. Hereafter they'll
receive the same wages as re-
gular soldiers.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Knox in Jacksonville
On Inspection Tour
BY the Associated Press.

BY UIIG hocUOIdItu IVoo'
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb. o.
Secretary of the Navy Knox in
spected the naval air station here
today after arriving by plane from
Washington.
Secretary Knox will go from here
to Miami aboard the Navy yacht
Sequoia, probably leaving tomor-
row. Navy officials said he would
also inspect the air stations at
Pensacola, Fla, and Corpus Christi
before returning to Washington
about the middle of March.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
Negro College to Hear
Talk by Mrs. Roosevelt
BY the Associated Press

PETERSBURG, Va, Feb. 90
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will come
here tomorrow to address the stu
dent body. faculty and guests of
Virginia State College for Negroes
on The Place of Youth in the De-
fenSe Program"
Her address will be delivered at
3 pm. in the college auditorium and
will be the climax of a brief visit
here.
Evening star., 1941-02-23


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Evening star., 1941-02-23

charge of both schools. Both courses
will be taught by Capt. S. R. Turner
and First Its E. o. Hamilton. H. w.
Leath and William G. Westfall
Church services for those in camp
tomorrow will include three masses
for Catholic soldiers and seven
Protestant services.
Evening star., 1941-02-23
900 Plays in Contest

Nine hundred plays, including
those by housewives, farmers, engi-
neers, Red Army men and even
children, were submitted in a con-
test in Russia.
Evening star., 1941-02-23

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