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Evening star., 1942-02-18
Historical Society
Hears Of Virginia
GIebe in Arlington
Dr.. PuulIin Tells Of
Truct Thut Now Serves
As Homesites

DR.. Charles o. Psullin, noted his
torian and former member of the
research staff of the Carnegie Insti-
tuition, last night traced the in
teresting history of the Virginia
| glebe in Arlington County from the
time it was a Colonial church land
to the present day, when it has been
cut into many subdivisions and
small land plots.
He told the Columbia Historical
Society during its meeting last night
in the Mayflower Hotel that the
word ''glebe" was brought over from
England and was designation for
a church land grant to posters in
lieu of cash payments for services.
Originally the glebe spread north
ward to the Washington vicinity
from the James River sector, as the
church expanded its parishes. He
noted that before the Episcopal
Church glebe was established in
nearby Arlington territory, the Fair
fax pastor was granted compensa-
ton of 1880 pounds of tobacco, with
an added $500 pounds because there
was no land grant available at the
time
Church Records Tell Story.
Later in the 1600s the Daniel Jen-
nings plantation of more than 500
acres was acquired by the church
and included the region spreading
southwark from Chain Bridge DR..
Paullin, through research in records
of Christ Church in Alexandria. re-
called the trials and difficulties
which beset the property while in
church hands. One interesting note
he injected as gathered from vestry
records was provision made for the
new pastor of the parish, in that
besides the land there was made
available his home, hen house, q
corncrib and a dairy house along
with other improvements to place
the minister on an equal with the
landed gentry of those times.
The main mansion, DR.. Paullin re-
ported, was known for many years
as Glebe House.
In 1902, according to the report,
the church was forced to fight con-
flscation through the courts and
finally lost on an appeal. Then,
Evening star., 1942-02-18
K. Of {. Group TO Honor
Father 0'Leary Sunday

Nearly 100 members Of the Wash
ington General Assembly, Fourth
Degree, Knights of Columbus will
receive the honors of the fourth de-
gree in q class known as the Father
OLeary class at 2 pm. in the May
flower Hotel Sunday. The Rev.
Arthur A. OLeary, S. j.. will be sig
nally honored at this time.
The Rev. Father OLeary will be
guest of honor at the evening ban
quet and will be the principal
speaker. william H. Collins will be
POSTMASTER. Entertainment will be
under the direction of Anthony j.
Scullen and George H. OConnor.
Evening star., 1942-02-18

ing the q. 8. 8. Lexington's search
for Amelia Earhart in 1887. He
made his home at ASIA California
street NV.
Capt. Redman is . native Of Cali
fornia and has been assistant direc-
tor Of communications since jan
uary, 1941. His home Is in Reno,
New.
Evening star., 1942-05-10
HOLLYWOOD.


Comes today another Mothers
Day. Madcap town on the Gold
Coast will celebrate the occasion
along with the rest Of the world
and Is proud Of It.
It took Hollywood q long time to
bestow a Hays Office seal on moth
erhood. But it finally learned that
an institution accepted elsewhere
as fine and normal was also quite
o. K. for movie queens.
Now, OF course, the hand that
rocks the cradle virtually rules the
screen world. Such charmers as
Jane Wyman, Joan Crawford, We
ronica Lake, Constance Bennett,
Loretta Young, Joan Bennett and
Geraldine Fitzgerald find that
neither the am. bottle nor the
parent-teacher association interfere
with screen glamour.
Proud as it Is of the mothers,
Hollywood could and should 60 even
better. The town is actually .
mecca for grandmothers! And
what's wrong with grandmothers?
Why not grandmOthers day?
Certainly this is the only spot IN
the world where woman old
enough to be grandmother can
make more than 81 900 a week doing
anything-but on the sound stages
of Hollywood they get sums like
that merely for being elderly ladies.
And usually they are grandmothers.
Fact is, come to look over the movie
crop, there are few pictures in which
the plot jells without grandma
in the kitchen to stir It briskly.
And in "Grapes Of Wrath"
Review some of the recent big
pictures and see how grandma mo-
tivated the plot. Sergeant York"
for all its gripping story and
academy award winning perform
ance. by Gary Cooper would have
proved . lot less potent without Q
character actress of kA1ga1st Wych-
Evening star., 1942-05-10
By Russell Landsfrom
Wide World News.

D'Oyly Carte Company has pre-
vailed against dolor and adversely to
continue regaling wartime British
audiences with Gilbert and Sulli-
van.
Neither blitzkrieg nor bad weather,
the dislocation of travel facilities
nor enlistment, costume rationing
nor food shortage has put any real
crimp in the show. And after COM
pleting another swing around the
provinces the company returns to
London in June for long summer
stay.
1t will be no ordinary revisiting
OF the capital this time, for the
troupe is going into Princes Thea
ter, seat of its great, glowing con-
quest soon after the end of the last
war. Many Londoners are now call
ing to remembrance September of
1919. when the city witnessed what
amounted to the rebirth of the
DOyly Carte Company here.
Twas New to London.
Except for occasional suburban
performances there hadn't been a
London season of Gilbert and Sui
livan's airy mimicries since the 90s.
1t was a step into jeopardy made
more hazardous BY ths circum-
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Gallaudet Players Invade New York
To Present Their Version of Arsenic and Old Lace,
Reminding That the Theater Is Alive
By John Ferris,
Wide World News.

another season, so long as writer's
can be found to turn their talents
to deviltry OF this kind and pro-
ducers like Howard LindsayR and
Russell Mckinley (BuckA Grouse
are on hand to earn anothet million.
The presentation by the deaf
players, all members Of the Dra-
matte Club Of Gallaudet College,
will be limited to one performance
tonight at the Fulton Theater.
The college, the only institution
Of higher education for the deaf in
the world, was founded in 1864 by
act of Congress. 1t Is co-educa-
tional, has a student body OF 155
and faculty of 18. It awards de-
grees in the arts and sciences.
Offered Play and Theater.
The dramatic club, according to
Richard Nancy, the eminent publi-
cist, has already presented Jour
ney's End" "Cyrano de Bergerac"
and The Boor," minor Chekhov
play, in its hall at the college. This
is to be its first public performance.
The players were looking around
this season for a good play when
Grouse and Lindsay heard Of their
search and promptly offered them
Arsenic and Old Lace" Grouse and
Lindsay are that way when it comes
to sharing their fun with the public.
They also offered the students the
theater itself and the regular stage
crew. and then capped their generos-
ity by lending Bretaigne Windust,
the director. WinduSt, OF course,
has had to direct through an in
terpreter.
Certain technical difficulties pre-
sent themselves as might be ex-
pected. The actor who plays the
part Of Teddy Brewster (he's the
.one who fancies he is Theodore
Roosevelt and is digging the Pana-
ma Canal won't bother to blow q
bugle and yell "Charge!" as he
dashes up the stairs (San Juan Hill,
to him). And the ringing of the
telephone will likewise be eliminated.
No Victims to Bow.
In the dark scenes-when Teddy
slips downstairs to carry his aunties'
latest victim from the window box
to the cellar, and when his mad
brother Jonathan and his accom-
plice slip another body into the box
from outside-the actors will wear
luminous paint on their fingers.
The role Of Jonathan, played here
by Boris Karlof and on the road by
Eric Won Stroheim, will be played
in Sundays performance by Eric
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Coming Attractions

NAT1oNAThe Ballet Russo de Monte Carlo presented by g.
stand starting evening
CAPTTOLA Gentleman After Dark" with Brian Donley Miriam
Hopkins Foster starting Thursday Avino Reys
orchestra e King Sisters headlines the stage
Islands" CRADLE Mature
returning Thursday for second week.
EARLEReap the Wind With Ray Mland Pauee Goddard
technicoor starting Friday Stage head
liners will be Lynn. Royce and Vanya
Spoilers" with Dietrich
that
of the French comedy star
ring Francoise Rosay and Jean Murat.
METROPOLTTANKings with Ann Sheridan Robert Cum
mngs and Betty Field returning for their third downtown week
PALACE-"Rio Rita" a Abbott and Costello number.
Sonata with Daybreak starring Jean
GabirEfor a four-day
Evening star., 1942-05-10
It's Fun to Be Bad Girl -on the Stage
Thus Discovers Mary Anderson, Another Who Was
Neglected by Fimdom Before Stage Success
By SheiIah Graham.

Studio Club for Girls, where she
practically starved through lack of
what she calls capital"
Wouldn't Go Home.
Then Warmers signed her. 1t was
in this studio that I first saw her
She was hanging around an Ed
mund Goulding set, hoping that
some one would notice her long
enough to put her in a film. After
a year of this she was fired and
naturally felt badly-or as she puts
it. I'D liked to have died"
She might have gone home to Ala
bama at this ebb in her fortune, but
she did not want to return there ex-
cept as star There had been much
you know how it is, you feel shy at
not making good"
Tay Garnett was looking for a
meanie as contrast from Martha
Scott in Cheers for Miss Bishop"
He took chance on Mary, and it
was good hunch. Paramount
signed her to a seven-year contract
and for this company she has ap-
peared In Henry for President"
and Bahama Passage" She also
figured in Aim for Columbia, "Un-
der Age" which. says Mary. was
so sexy that everyone agrees that
this Is the picture that made VIII
Hays ban sweaters!"
Now Movies Want Her.
Most girls would have been salts
ned to jog along in this way in
Hollywood, earning $500 a week But
for all her baby face and figure,
Miss Anderson Is . girl who looks
to the future. She wanted to earn
. reputatlon has q dramatic actress,
Evening star., 1942-05-10
How About Mothers Mothers Dav?
Hollywood Notes That 1t Has Plenty of Active
Grandmothers Among Ranks of the Stars
By Harold Hsfsrxan.

erly's ability IN the mother role. It
was her deeply lined delineation that
seemed to make the whole story
right.
Same sort Of thing happened in
Grapes Of Wrath" in which Henry
Fonda starred-but where would
that story have been without Jane
Darwell as Ma Joad?
The number of movies May Rob-
son has both saved and made can't
be counted on the fingers of a regi-
ment. Wry and gentle at the same
time, "Muzzle May" has taken the
plot Of many picture in her expert
hands and made it spin-and as
attractive as the Lane girls were
in the -Four Daughters" series,
they'd have been rather high and
dry without their old lady.
Plot Depends on Mama.
Currently, the elderly ladies are
doing smartly by themselves, and
getting q lot more steady work than
many Of their younger sisters
Evening star., 1942-05-10

uncommon experience for the COM
pany to arrive in town and find not
scrap of food obtainable.
At Savoy Last Year.
Apart from brief vacations at
summers end, the company has
carried on since the outbreak of
the war. Only once, in 1910, was
the London season omitted from
the schedule. Last years two
month engagement at the Savoy
Theater was one of the city's fore
most theatrical adventures.
BY official request the itinerary
has included all the badly blitzed
areas. Visits were intended espe-
cially to counteract war nerves. The
company has been in these regions
when they were under heavy fire,
performing amidst death and
destruction in bomb damaged
theaters.
The company expects to remain in
London until late in August, and
after short rest strike out into
the provinces again. Beyond that
the ensemble has one great banker
ing-to revisit the United States
after the war. The last D'Oyly
Carte appearance in the States was
IA 1888.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

stances that Princes Theater is
unusually large and that only pro-
vincial and suburban audiences
really knew the company.
The response, however, was as
unexpected as 1t was welcome. The
opening was akin to a Hollywood
dream. Just like the fair" re-
marked one who saw the lines of
people hopeful day after day of
getting seats The company played
at Princes until the following spring
Schedule Nearly Intact.
This time the D'Oyly Carte Com
pany is bringing all but four of the
Gilbert and Sullivan repertory-
"Ruddigore." "Pinafore." Princess
Ida" and The Sorcerer'-because
of currently irreplaceable materials
lost in air raids and in spite Of the
loss of 20 to rs persons to the armed
services.
Prompt to appreciate the morale
value in the company's contribu-
tions. governmental agencies have
lent hand in smoothing it's war
time way. Thus at least partly
relieved of worry, the company has
been able to prevent q lowering of
artistic standards. Before omcial
assistanos vas given It va not an
Evening star., 1942-05-10
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
When Mary Anderson's mother
attended a performance Of Guest
in the House" and saw her baby
faced daughter at work in the play,
it was all she could do to restrain
herself from rushing backstage.
"She wanted to wash my mouth
out with SOAP" says Mary, the
cutest bad girl in the theater Of
this or any other season. To look
at the girl with her soft brown eyes
raised at you in innocent wonder, it
is impossible to believe her capable
of the mean, vicious little 50 and so
she portrays with such excellence
in the Broadway hit.
MY mother is afraid the part will
affect my character" the brunei
actress tells me. MY brother says
that the part quits me perfectly.
What I say is that 1t is a good out
let for me- I get rid of all my bad
complexes in the play and it's a
relief to be a normal, decent person
when I leave the theater."
Mary's first contact with the
naughty side of feminine nature
came five years ago when she was
Is years old and when George Cukor
was beginning his mammoth search
for q Scarlet O'Hara in Gone
With the Wind" At that time she
was a native Of Birmingham, Ala.
Some one had taken a snapshot Of
her in the cheering section of .
football game. It was this photo
graph that sent her to Hollywood
for q screen test, the role of an
extra in the picture where she had
hoped to be the star and few
heart-breaking months during which
time she lived at the Hollywood
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Today's Film Schedule

CAP1ToLFingers at the Window" by remote control
40 7:2o and 10 Stage shows: and s:55 nm
the Shores of Tipo marines action and in
love: las. 3:45, $50, 7:55 - -
me invaders the Nazis
13O and 9:55 pm Stage shows 205 430 80 pm
KEITH S-Ihe Iuttes of Tahiti, Mr.. Laughton
beach: las, $50, 5:55, 7:55 and 10 pm
L1TTIEPride Prejudice English lavender with Olivier and
Carson: 2 430 7:05 m. "
METROPOLITAN of Eden"
don's novel: 2, 1855, $50, M pm
PAACEJngle Book" in which Sabu prefers people,
430 7 and 9:35
Phe Men in Her Life hers being that Of Loretta Young
2:S0 420 SIS pm
1RANs-LUx-News and shorts: Continuous PM
Evening star., 1942-05-10

and the best place for that Is the
legitimate theater.
Il read the part In Guest IN the
House but was told that either Ger
aldine Fitzgerald, or Betty Field
would get 1t. Reginald Denham.
the producer, was very kind about
me, but was afraid to give me the
part. Flora Robson persuaded him
I could do 1t. And here I am"
Now, Of course, every studio In
Hollywood wants to sign her for
starring roles, but she Is still under
contract to Paramount. who has
given her leave of absence until the
end of the plays run.
The height of Mary's current bliss
is when people hiss and boo her on
the stage, or on the street.
1T gives me wonderful feeling
of exaltation," she says.
Groucho Finds a Play.
Notes and news of the theater:
The Life of Reilly" dreary lit
tie piece about the Brooklyn
Dodgers, expired few days after
the optimistic producers gave it to
New York. . AS far as the eye
can see at this time, Candida"
which was put on for few matinees
for Army and Navy relief, is going
on and on with every performance
sold out to date. Best Foot
Forward" in which 24-year -old
Rosemary Lane is starred as fad
ing film star, has been purchased
by Columbia Pictures for q price
somewhere between 100000 and
$3.50 900. Miss Lane Is wanted to
repeat her role for the movies.
Groucho Marx, who came to New
York early last fall for a try at Q
play in which he would wear neither
(see GRAHAM, page ESD
Evening star., 1942-05-10

Malzkuhn, vice president and busi-
ness manager Of the dramatic club.
There are IA in the cast, but the
students will eliminate the last
humorous touch Of the regular New
York version-the 13 victims who
run upstairs from the cellar to take
a curtain bow.
Arsenic and Old Lace" Is also
playing in Gothenburg, Sweden, at
present, while another company is
presenting it in Spanish at Buenos
Aires and still another company is
preparing to produce 1t in Mexico.
1t opened here in January, 1941.
If the Pulitzer Committee boys
need cheering, they could not do
better than to drop down to see the
show.
Evening star., 1942-05-10

(see GRAHAM, Rage Esd
Evening star., 1942-05-10

who sign Endorsements for beauty
creams.
Bette Davis Now voyager,s q
tensely interesting psychological
drama, depends entirely for plot
development upon the character
and acting ability of the actress
who'll play Bette's mother. In this
instance she is Gladys Cooper, who'll
have to do 1t with a bit of make
up in order to acquire years. Her
part is so strong that it could
easily steal the show against any
actress of less ability than Bette.
THE Constant Nymph" is a story
about young people and a free kind
OF love in the Alps, but 1t couldn't
be told without the assistance of
Dame May Witty. Her part Is a
natural, that of q British lady of
rank who brings things quickly to
a boiling point with cutting drawing
room manners.
Enrol Flynn usually provides
enough excitement in all his pic
(See HETTERNAN, Page E-35
Evening star., 1942-05-10
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
The exasperating dullness which
has characterized the Broadway
season through fall, winter and
spring was underscored in the past
week by three happenings. .singly
Of no great import, but collectively
Of some value since they offer an
interesting commentary on the cur
rent state of the theater in New
York.
First, a group Of Harlem enter
tainers and veteran Negro show
people, apparently encouraged by
the hearty critical approval Of
"Priorities of 1912" and the wide
spread belief that vaudeville is on
its way back. presented a piece of
business called Harlem Cavalcade"
Second, the Pulitzer Prize Com
mittee announced it's awards and
pointedly omitted the one for drama
on the grounds that no play worthy
of the $1,000 prize had been pre-
sented.
Third. a group Of deaf college
students arrived in town from
Washington, D. c., to do Arsenic
and Old Lace" in the sign language.
In a normally successful season 1t
is to be doubted that there would
be much talk of the return Of vaude-
vile, and even should vaudeville re-
turn Harlem Cavalcade" would, in
all likelihood, get the cold shoulder
Not that it is precisely bad. On the
| contrary, it is full of skill and zest
some fair singing and excellent
dancing and amusing comedy. But
it tries too obviously to please and
there is too much of the same thing
In arsenic" There's Hope.
Again, in a moderately good sea-
son, the gentlemen of the Pulitzer
Committee would have found some
thing for their laurels. Perhaps
not the best play of the season, but
one with some claim to merit. This
year there simply wasn't one. The
committee. therefore, did what the
drama critics circle had done sew
eral weeks before. 1t hardly would
have dared do otherwise.
Finally, there is the matter OF
arsenic and Old Lace" because
this mad whimsy on homicide is
full of hope that all is not lost ir
the theater. There will always be
Evening star., 1942-05-10
D'Oyly Carte Troupe Carries On in Spite of War
LONDON.

LONDON.
Like the grief-ridden but even
tually triumphant heroes Of the
comic operas themselves, the durable
Evening star., 1942-02-17
{. !. 0. Council Indorses
Emergency Housing Bill

Endorsement of the House-ap-
proved $4,000, 900 bill for emergency
housing was given last night by the
District c. I. o. Industrial Union
Council as 1t urged the Senate also
to adopt the measure.
This approval was coupled with
censure OF the Washington Home
Builders Association, which opposed
the housing bill on the ground that
1t may result in an over-supply of
low-cost housing after the war.
Public Printer Augustus E. Gle
gengack was criticized in another
resolution for refusing to meet rep
resentatives of Government Print
ing Once laborers to discuss salary
grievances.
Evening star., 1942-02-17
Red Cross Drive Here
Passes HALFWAY Mark

Washington's contribution to the
American Red Cross War Fund has
passed the halfway mark and every
effort will be exerted to raise the
quota Of $75O,OOO assigned the Dis
trict chapter before the current
drive ends on February %, it was
announced today.
AS this vital defense fund drive
continues Red Cross officials en-
phasized an idea put into effect by
Louis Newmeyer, son of Alvin New
meyer, District attorney. who con-
ducts class at Central High School
three nights week for first-aid stu
dents. He has made a life-size
dummy on which he has drawn the
vital pressure points, thus facili-
tating the students progress. He
Is also an instructor for a male
auxiliary motor corps class, his
pupils including a number of Fill
pinos.
Evening star., 1942-02-17
Mrs. Charles J. Train, ",
Widow Of Admiral, Dies

Mrs. Charles Jackson Train, %
widow of one admiral and mother
of another, died yesterday at her
home, 1642 Connecticut avenue
NV, following a short illness.
She was the widow OF Rear
Admiral C. J. Train, commander In
chief of the Asiatic Fleet, who died
in 1906, and mother of Rear Admiral
Charles Russell Train, retired, of
Washington.
Mrs. Train was born in Batavia,
N. Y, the daughter of Daniel Webb
Tomlinson and Susan Everett, she
came to this city during her child
hood. She was married in 1871,
when the Trains home on Connecti-
cut avenue was built.
Besides her son, she leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Augustus N. Hand
of New York City and Mrs. Myron
w. Whitney Of Washington; four
grandchildren, Mrs. William l..
Savage of Morristown, N. j.; Cuth-
erbert r. Train Of this city, 1t.
Middleton G. C. Train, U. s. N. r.,
and 1t. Russell E. Train, U. s. A.,
and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow in st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, Sixteenth and H
streets NV, where Mrs. Train had
been a parishioner for more than
so years. Burial will be at the Naval
Academy Cemetery in Annapolis.
Evening star., 1942-02-17
Communiques
Jops Increase Tempo
Of Botooh Attack

The tert OF War Department com
nunique No. 1l0, issued at $50 q m
follotUs.'
Philippine theater:
Heavy enemy artillery fire from
the Cavite shore bombarded our
harbor Notifications with in
creasing intensity during most
of the day. Damage to our install
lations and casualties were not
great.
In Bataan the enemy is bring
ing up artillery reinforcements
and there Is increased artillery
fire all along the front. Enemy
air activity is increasing.
For several days enemy air.
planes have been dropping poorly
printed leaflets on refugee camps
behind our lines. These pam
phlets, in English, Spanish and
Tagalog. professed great friend
ship for the Filipinos and exhort-
ed them to cooperate with the
invaders and join the greater
Asia co-prosperity sphere.
Yesterday bombs we're substi-
tuted for pamphlets. These
potent messages Of death fell on
the refugee camp at the defense
less village Of Cabcaben. Eight
cen women and five children
were killed in this attack, and 13
women and . children were
wounded.
There is nothing to report from
other areas.