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Evening star., 1943-01-16

first show on the Earle Theater
stage yesterday, but, with the Capt.
tolls current funnyman Johnny
Burke nobly stepping into the
breach, Harry Anger's production
panned out as snappy as it was
short.
Principal reason for this is the
presence of the Christians, six
tumblers Including one girD who
turn the most rapid somersaults you
ever saw, and vino also leap daring
ly onto each others shoulders. AS
If this weren't enough, the Roxyettes
turn to the sensational and diff
cult, too. In their best routine
they appear on stills of varying
heights up to 10 feet, and they
march constantly for at least five
minutes. 1t looks like pretty risky
work, not the kind the average citi-
zen would care to indulge in four
times daily, six on Saturdays.
Mr.. Burke's sometimes warty
sense of humor made favorable i'm
preston on yesterdays truant stu
dent guild. His jokes dealt mostly
with the military. The arrival of
Mr.. Davis is awaited.
X
Amos m Andy OFF Air.
Amos n Andy are the latest to
be hit by rationing. They 90 off
the air February 10 unless somebody
picks up their services at $500
weekly. They've been on the air
continuously for Is years but their
sponsor, rationed on production,
doesn't need their salesmanship
now. They began in 1920 as Sam
n Henry" and on their various
public activities have amassed
enough to be called the wealthiest
comics in show business.
Sam Wheeler, Variety Clubs
chief barker, reported Yesterday
that War bond sales for the OPEN
ing performance of Tce-Capades"
had passed the $500 900 mark. Club
is sponsoring the premiere in asso-
citation with Radio Station WRC. 1--WE
have every reason to be proud of
this mark, but we're shooting for a
million before the gates at Uline's
Arena open on Tuesday night" Mr..
Wheeler adds.
On Tolling the. Bell.
This department has a wire from
Paramount's West Coast offices indi-
eating they are much disturbed over
the rumors For Whom the Bell
Tolls" will be banned because of war
politics. George E. Brown wires:
Buddy De Sylvia states that if this
picture is held up American public
Will have missed one of the greatest
pictures of all time. Dudley Nichols.
who saw the picture yesterday.
states that this is by far the out
standing of the $4,000 pictures pro-
duced in Hollywood. 1t seems to me
that the issue is bigger than whether
one picture is to be banned or not.
Isn't that what the four freedoms
are intended to guarantee? Isn't
this what this war is all about? Is
American industry to be sacrificed
to whims of groups and isms? As
far as Paramount is concerned we
have received no official word from
Washington or other sources con-
corning possible banning of picture
and studio having completed first
editing of For Whom the Bell Tolls"
is proceeding with plans for initial
sneak preview at some distant point
in Pacific Southwest"
More about this picture and some
of its problems in The Sunday Star
drama section. (Adv)
"
The Favorite Shorts.
Evening star., 1943-01-16
Road to Morocco RiotOus
Fun With Bing and Bob
Unorthodox Madcap Film
Finds Melody and Laughs
In North African Scene
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY.

North Africa may be with politics
snd Bob Hope
IhE is the third in the popular definitely
Ih
Tor musical interruptions and witty asides
oegn with Bng
Africa. They on a
Evening star., 1943-01-16

ROAD TO ROCCO''-Paramount re-
lease of Paul Jones production, starring
Blne Crosby and Bob Hope AT the Earle
Iheater Directed by David Butler Screen
play by Frank Butler and Don Hartman
Music by Victor Young
The Cast.
Jim Peters - Bing Crosby
Turkey Jackson - Bob Hope
Princess Shalmar Dorothy Lamour
Mullay kaSim Anthony Quinn
Mlhlrmah ---------- Dona Drake
Hyder han---'--V Vladimir Sokoloff
Ahmed Fay -- Mikail Rasumny
Aides to Mullay.
Jamiel Hasson, Monte Blue
Louise La Plante, Theo De Voc Brooke
Evans, suzanne Ridgway, Patsy Mace,
IVonne De Carlo, Poppy Wilde.
Arabian Waiter---------R Ralph Penney
Arabian Buyer Dan Seymour
Evening star., 1943-01-16

some schooling. Vickie has had an
eventful life. She's rich to begin
with, war born in Ireland, lived in
New York, Mexico City, San Fran
cisco and now with her lawyer
father in Beverly Hills. She smokes,
wears her nails red and long, rides
show horses, plays tennis and swims.
Watch out for her. She'll be
star" Tn cautioned. To be that
she'll have to lose a little of her
sef-assurance and lot of her
sophistication. She's too young for
so much of both.
Evening star., 1943-01-16
The Favorite Shorts.

NOBODY except exhibitors pays
much attention to the short SUBJ
jects on the average movie program.
Critics give them a condescending
line, but as rule they are over
looked or regarded as mere cellu-
loid incidental. But Fame, the Mar
tin Quigley publication, annually
polls motion picture exhibitors on
their favorite short subjects-the ia
vorites with this branch of the pro-
fession being those which make the
most money. Result of the 1912 poll
follows.
The Winners.
l. Walt Disney Cartoons CRKO),
2. March of Time Goth Century,
Fox.
3, Merrie Melodies (W. b..
4. Pete Smith Specialties (MGM)
5. All Star Comedies (Columbia).
6. Passing Parade (MGM).
7. Crime Does Not Pay (MGM).
8. Popeye Cartoons (Paramount)
9. Superman Cartoons para
mount.
10. Our Gang Comedies (MGM.
The Next Fifteen.
| II. Looney Tunes.
IL. MGM Miniatures.
13. MGM Technicolor Cartoons.
IA. Information Please.
Is. Popular Science.
16. w. B. Technicolor Specials.
II. Universal Name Band Musicals
18, Fitzpatrick Travel Talks.
10. Melody Master Bands.
20. World in Action.
/ 81. Speaking of Animals.
%. Leon Enrol Comedies.
%. Grantland Rice Sportslights.
"a. Universal Color Cartoons.
25. Edgar Kennedy Comedies.
Y \ 4
American SavOyards Prosper.
Washington likes Gilbert and Sui
livan, proved it to the extent of SIG
500 at the National Theater thi
week. Phenomenal business at th
So top scale 'Ruddigore," the new
comic opera in the repertoire
hasn't been done in America sine,
l922-proved somewhat of a disap
pointment. 1t is neither as tunefu
or bright as some of the other musi.
cal satires.
R. H. Burnside will take this Bos
ton Comic Opera to the West Coas
and the American Savoyards vii
not appear here again until mex
season. All night performances wer'
sellouts, only the matinees had va.
cant seats,
Evening star., 1943-01-16

mantle mystery drama of espionage
In Europe and America.
Producer Robert Fellows has not
yet announced his selection for the
male lead in the timely thriller.
slated for an important spot on
RKO-Radio's 1943-44 production
schedule.
Miss Lees previous RKO-Radio
assignment was opposite Ronald
Colman in MY Life With Caroline"
Maureen O'Hara Is currently star
ring opposite Charles Laughton in
the Jean Renoir-Dudley Nichols
production, This Land Is Mine"
Evening star., 1943-01-16
New Stripteuse

Joan Davis, comedienne, will play
featured role in Queens of Bur-
lesque" as the first of two-picture
deal just signed with RKO Radio.
Noted for her cratic acrobatics as
well as her hair-trigger timing, Miss
Davis is the first member of nota-
BILE comedy cast promised by Pro-
ducer Herman Schlom for this pic
tlre
Evening star., 1943-01-16

Morocco bound
(like Webster S
Dictionary, will
u n d o u b t e d ly
confront Dor
othy Lamour be-
fore the journey
Is over. They do.
She is a sultry
princess living in
a sultan's palace
and surrounded
b Y curvaceous
beauties, includ-
ing Dona Drake.
To raise money,
B in g sells his
nnnnrnnin,, Il
Evening star., 1943-01-16
Mickey Rooney Opines That
Andy Hardy Needs Aging
Star Says He's Moronic,
With Future of Series
Based on New Formula
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM,
North American Newspaper Alliance)

HOLLYWOODI
says to Mickey Rooney the set of Girl
wouldn't know about that replies the of
of hint I'm still
From which gather that the forces
will not include Mr. Rooney little time
I'm anything they
Evening star., 1943-01-16

jangle- Jingle: IL. 2:25, 4:50, TAO
and 9:45 pm.
Pix-"Stage Door" the screen hit
revived: l. 8, 4:40, $50, 9 and ii:10
pm, am.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-01-16

Il and as they go singing across
desert remark that they are
Evening star., 1943-01-16
Joins Spy Chaser

Anna Lee wins a top feminine
role in RKO-Radio's THE Fallen
Sparrow" Maureen OHara starrer
based on Dorothy B. Hughes ro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Insurinq Trouble

In an Insurance Office, as in a law
court, one never can tell what strange
thing will turn up next. From Hart
ford comes one of the oldest tales
OF all. While the Capital of the Ma
ton is shaping a policy, with stag
gerlng premiums on March Is, to
eliminate Adolf Hitler, Hartford, cap
ltal OF the insurance industry, &C
tually has written a policy protect
ing Adolf Hitler, against "blitz, tor
nado, riot, fire, collapse of bridges
and overturned vehicle" in the ex-
act words of the company. The pol
icy applicant played fair. Il admit
that Adolf Hitler is mean cuss," he
said. He is ornery, unreliable and
dangerous to fool with. He has few
lovable characteristics. From time
to time he tortures the air by bray
ing unintelligible sounds like a Jack
ass. Apparently, he is destined for
any one of dozen different possible
violent ends. He is stubborn and
tricky. and thinks he knows it all.
Many people wonder why I bother to
insure him, especially as he doesn't
know what it's all about. Suppose
we call it sentiment"
N. B. He got the policy and will
be $500 richer If anything happens
to Adolf Hitler, his pet mule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
The Seq A Promise

This restless strength shall fotD un-
ce0Sing .. on
Long after mans blind rage is dust
and tears,
Stre1Dtng the smooth white sand OF
each neaD datUn
With iridescent shells OF outqro,un
years.
Though thunders shake the deep
,Uhere fear roDes ,oide,
Some summers peace toiH find this
sun-,Udrmed beach
Where spitt sandpipers race tho
clutching tide,
Their ttUinkling feet still net from
its long reach.
This is a promise that green
,Uaues OF grain
Will yield again; young fruit and
fo,Uerfng tree
Shall drink the brimmino cup OF
springs bright rain,
That lite and death, and Ute, mops
endlesslv.
after the storms great fury, seed piu
gro1p,
Life shall be born dneD 4. after thu
IVY LINDsLEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Steele and Addison

In the midst of present turmoil,
such ordinary citizens as must have
momentary rest from trouble could
do worse than turn to the Taller
and the Spectator of Sir Richard
Steele and Joseph Addison. They,
too, lived In unsettled times yet rose
above them. Something Of their ex-
ample therefore may be worthy OF
emulation by the heirs Of their
genius.
Both were born in 1872. They met
at the famous Charterhouse School
and were at Oxford together. Writ
ing as an art attracted both in boy
hood and continued to be a major
interest in life throughout their re-
spective careers. Steele launched the
Taller on April II, 17O9, and Addison
guessed his identity and became a
contributor to the journal with the
eighteenth number. Amy Cruise in
her history of English letters dis
cusses their relation in these words:
ITO Steele belongs the credit of orig
mating the ideas which Addison de-
veloped so successfully. He had
greater initiative and greater daring
than his friend, and was quicker to
receive impressions. =" In literary
workmanship, however, he could not
approach Addison, whose perfection
Of style becomes more marvellous the
more closely one examines it. His
delicate playful humor is like nothing
else that literature can show, and in
his clear, beautifully turned SEN
fences there is such suggestion of
refinement and finish that the read
er's mind is upiifted by the sound as
well as by the sense of what he writes.
One cannot imagine coarse Senti-
ment expressed in Addisonian Eng
lish."
The final issue of the Taller was
dated January 2, I'LL, and the first
edition of the Spectator was dis
tributed on the following March /.
Mr. Spectator himself, Sir Roger de
Coverley, Sir Andrew Freeport, Cap
tain Sentry, gallant Will Honeycomb
and namelesS resident of the Inner
Temple were the principal associates
of "the club" which the two collab-
orators invented. Through these
characters and their sayings, Steele
and Addison attempted to bring
philosophy ito dwell at tea
tables and in coffee houses" How
great was their achievement may be
judged from the fact that the per-
sonalities they devised have been i'm
mortal for more than two centuries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trace,UeH.

to come to our gardens. but they are
certainly among the most beautiful and
entertaining.
These Tom Thumb birds are valiant
fighters. too.
1t is said that at nesting time a male
hummer will attack and drive away a
hawk. Surely this would be a sight
worth seeing.
AS our correspondents show. there are
many other flowers which will attract
them, in addition to our own list of
gladiolus, petunia. cardinal climber.
trumpet vine and false dragon head
Red flowers. in particular, are their
favorites.
Best results, in using tubes filled with
sugar water, are secured with the ones
made of red or ruby glass
The formula for the food to put in the
tubes is one part sugar to two parts
water.
Honey would do very nicely, but it
should be watered down, too.
Xxx
The holyhock does not grow as well
hereabouts as in Wyoming, evidently.
Here 1t is subject to a rust, which is
met with bordeaux mixtures, but not
always successfully.
1t is not generally known that if YOU
cut OIL hollyhock plant just below the
lower bloom. and give the plant fertilizer
and water, it will grow and bloom again.
Not, OF course as we'll as the first time,
by any means
Hollyhocks are among the most beau
tiful OF all flowers. They possess an
added something due to memory, we
feel. which not all flowers have. some
way or other.
They should be planted hereabouts
more than they are They may be seen
blooming to perfection in the garden of
the Peter estate in Georgetown.
There Is an annual hollyhock, but
most of them are perennials If planted
indoors very early, they will bloom the
first season. The hollyhock is peren-
NAL, but if you want good blooms it is
best treated as biennial. The tiger
year.
y Il
Usually the ruby-throated hummer,
the only one We have around here, ar
rives in Washington and vicinity about
April Is, and remains until some time
in October
Two broods are raised, but few of us
will ever be fortunate enough to see the
nest, which is no larger than a thimble.
The first brood is in May, and the Sec
ond in August.
Something Of the speed OF growth and
strength of the young birds is realized
when the fall migration to Mexico is
taken into consideration.
A hundred hummingbirds we're seer
In horse chestnut tree in May in the
old Department of Agriculture grounds
This was in 1895.
The writer here saw about 80 hummers
in an albizzia tree in Chevy Chase, Nd.
In the summer Of 1888
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Uniform Bus Fares

Not long before the adjournment
OF the past session of Congress Sen
ator Burton of Ohio, requested by
Chairman McCarran of the Senate
District Committee to handle the
matter, said he anticipated early
agreement among several bus COM
panies on unified fare system be-
tween Washington, the Pentagon
Building and other Federal estab-
lishments in nearby Maryland and
Virginia.
The old Congress died and a new
one is over two months old, but the
competing bus companies are still
charging variety of fares, some of
them manifestly too high. between
the District and these outlying Gov
eminent buildings What happened
to the proposed voluntary agreement
Is not known, but it is welcome news
that Senator McCarran is reviving
the subject and has announced that
he intends to see lower fares put into
effect.
= AS The Star has argued many
times before. the unequal fares and
the relatively high rates now prevail
ing between the District and such
places as the Pentagon Building are
the result, fundamentally, of the alb
sence OF any overall regulation of
the transit lines serving the Metro
politan Area of Washington. Because
the National Government has chosen
to locate some of its principal Of
fees outside the District, it becomes
Its responsibility to see that its en-
ployes, who must travel back and
forth, are adequately served by cheap
and convenient transportation. They
are not being so served now. There
should be uniformity In fares. In
terchangeable transfers and some
Inquiry by competent authority into
the basis for rates charged.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission. in the lack Of any other
established agency, is the logical
source OF regulations to establish and
maintain uniform fares. II volun-
tary agreement is not possible be-
tween the transit companies, Sen
ator McCarran may have in mind re-
questing it to take jurisdiction in
the matter. Certainly the Govern
ment employees, assigned to work
outside the District, should not be
penalized indefinitely by the make
shift scale of fares now prevailing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
ARLINGTON, Va.

Dear Sir:
Il want to add a word of advice to the
bird lover who wants to cater to the
hummingbird.
Il have the same problem-big trees,
shade-no place for victory garden.
But the hummingbirds love it, First
I see them In the wild colmbine. Then
later they love the red bergamot. They
have tried to feed on a sheaf of that in
my arms
"A fine thing is that one can have
buying good plants. They will stand a
lot of shade, too. Later comes the
scarlet sage.
Respectfully, l.. N. NJ"
Il STREET.
Dear Sir:
II have observed hummingbirds all
my life, since boy on 4 Pennsylvania
farm. and among my observations is that
the hummingbird prefers the old-fash-
Toned hollyhock. and the tiger lily, above
other flowers.
This seems to be because these stand
out alone, so that the bird may go to
them in the open from all directions
and not be afraid of ambush.
Also. their deep bells harbor the small
insects upon which the hummingbird
largely feeds, and feeds its young.
THE hollyhock is easily grown along
fence, against the house, we'll, any,
where that the sun shines.
TT requires no care, and is very orna
mental. Unfortunately, do not know
II 1t or the lily blooms from seed the
first year. Perhaps you will inform US.
II am just now a bachelor roomer
in Washington, with my only bird life
the sparrows, starlings both great birds)
and, of course, pigeons, and This and
That.
I'm Wyoming. where l live, there are
more hummingbirds than I have ever
seen anywhere else, and the hollyhock Is
their favorite.
@ Sincerely, 6. G. W."
1t is good to be talking about hum
mingbirds IN winter.
Some people would have all of us talk
about nothing but war.
That would be absurd.
The valiant Russians know better.
These prime opponents Of modern war
go about their ordinary ways Of life as
well as Hitler will permit them.
AS a result, they are the only people
in the world today who have achieved
major art forms in the midst of destruc-
ton.
Shostakovich wrote his now famous
Seventh Symphony" with the enemy
at the very gates.
What was more, several performances
Of 1t were given, attended by persons
who perhaps had just put of their fire
helmets for the occasion.
4 Il
Hummingbirds are well worth keeping
in mind at any season Of the year.
They not only are the smallest songster.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08

Are German civilians so much more
positively innocent of Nazi satanism
that We would allow 100000 Jews to
be murdered, rather than kill a few
hundred thousand German civilians?
The concentration camps are the only
spots in Germany We should refrain from
bombing.
Just one bombing raid on German
civilians, made in retaliation for Ger
many's atrocities upon the Jews, would
show that we are not entirely without
concern for this supremacy suffering
people. just one warning, short-waved
to Germany, that any further atrocities
will mean hundreds Of thousands Of
Germans killed by bombs after the man
ner in which Germany bombed the help
less civilians OF Warsaw, Rotterdam and
Belgrade-just one such warning would
show that We are beginning to develop
that resoluteness absolutely necessary
in dealing with the most devilish power
this earth has ever known. 1t would
show such change of spirit as would give
the Nazis pause.
Actually, Tar more is at stake than the
fate of the Jews themselves, even though
that alone is thing of vast enormity.
Nazi blood-lust has always grown great
er, from its very beginning, and the pres
ent orgy Of Jewish murders is but a way
OF hardening the German people for an
appalling multiplication of such MUIR
ders-the numbering of millions of nom
German Christians now in Nazi hands.
BOILING SOMERVILLE.
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poration Commission in August, 1910.
Because of repeated extension or
ders, however, it was April, 194l,
before it finally became effective.
With the war, the carrier that had
been killed by the automobile was
revived because of the automobile.
Rationing programs and overcrowded
buses added new group of citizens
to those who already had been
battling to keep the trains running.
While the new group, the Committee
for Emergency Transportation for
Northern Virginia. sought the serv-
ice only as a wartime measure, it
might possibly prove to have given
the line a new lease on life. If the
prewar trend toward small land
ownership continues, it is entirely
possible that growing suburban
area would create need for its
services
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
and currently show no evidence OF

and currently show no evidence Of
fading.
Published daily for SIS days, the
Spectator at last was killed by tax
alton. The enterprise terminated on
December 6, 1712, but bound volumes
OF the original numbers and many
reprints have been circulated not
only in Britain and in America, but
in translated form in such countries
as France, Germany and Russia.
Probably the most popular of the
whole series of essays were those on
Sir Roger at Church, True and False
Wit and Millions paradise Lost"
Steele in the latter years of his pill
grimage was political pamphleteer;
Addison wrote plays, including the
tragedy Cato" which was received
with enthusiasm but has not
sustained its reputation" If they
were to be summed up in single
phrase, it would be this: That they
were gentlemen who devoted them
selves to the cultivation of good man
ners needed in their own times and
still more so in ours
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
New Lease on Life

Limited resumption of passenger
service on the Washington and Old
Dominion Railroad Wednesday, Or
dered last week by the Office of De-
Tense Transportation, will offer some
relief for Northern Virginia COM
muters from Rosslyn to Leesburg.
1t represents victory for a citizens
committee campaign for restoration
OF the service as an emergency
measure. In the longer controversy
over whether the line shall be per-
mltted to expire as transit firm,
however, the decision is just another,
q nd probably not the final, chapter.
For an experimental period of
sixty to ninety days, the line will
make one round trip a day, the
morning run to RosSlyn and the eve
ming run to Leesburg. Further de-
ciSlOnS on continuance of the serv-
ice and schedules, it is understood
will depend on the amount Of
patronage and its needs.
The recent history of the seventy
year-old line not only illustrates the
shift in American transportation
methods, but offers a curious COM
mentary on the change AS the use of
automobiles and trucks increased,
the revenues of the w. and o. D. de-
creased, and in 1888 the line asked
permission to abandon part of it's
route, from Purcellville to Bluemont.
Later, it asked permission to discon-
tinue carrying passengers. request
that was approved by the State Cor